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JUNE ROOM IIO. 1
Wednesday 1
Thursday 2 Local Union No. 21.......
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Local Union No. !(4
Saturday 4 Local Union No. 58.......
SUNDAY 5 Latter Day Saints
Monday 6 Local Union No. 132
Tuesday 7 Local Union No. 20
Wednesday S
Thursday J)
Friday' 10
Saturday. 11
SUNDAY 12 Latter Day Saints
Monday IS Painters' Local
Tuesday 14 Local Union No. 22
Wednesday in
Thursday it
Friday 17 Local Union No. 94
Saturday 18
SUNDAY 19 Latter Day Saints
Monday 20 Local Union No. 132
Tuesday 21
Wednesday
Thursday l'l! Local Union No. 25
Saturday
SUNDAY 20 Latter Day Saints
Monday 27 Painters' Local...
Tuesday 2S Local Union No. 22
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Tliu i.sday 30
On Capitol Hill
By GEORGE L. KNAPP
Washington, D. C. (TLNS).—The
Senate Appropriations Committee, in
reporting out the recovery bill passed
by the House, has made amendments
which ccie pretty close to being a
declaration of war on labor.
First of these is the amendment
which provides that
"in the event the Congress
shall establish minimum rates of
pay for persons employed by private
employers in any occupation, such
minimum rates of pay shall apply to
persons in similar occupations em
ployed on projects" of the WPA.
The wage-hour bill coming up in
the House fixes a minimum wage for
the first year of 25 cents an hour for
a 44-hour week. This comes to $11
a week. The average WPA wage for
the whole country now is .$15 a week
i liwer in the South, to be sure but
higher in some northern cities. The
Senate committee amendment would
take the minimum wage which almost
everyone agrees is too low and make
it the maximum for relief workers.
tm "'he other amendment put in by
Senate Appropriations Committee
soaks both labor and consumer. It
forbids any funds appropriated for
the PWA to be spent on any project
"which will compete with any exist
ing privately owned or operated pub
lic utility, the rates of which are now
subject to public regulations."
How this amendment gets the con
sumer in the neck is easy to see.
"Public regulation" has been so ham
pered in this country, mainly by Fed
eral courts, that domestic rates for
electricity in most of our land are
twice as high as in a large part of
Canada. Only competition by publicly
owned plants brings them down.
The Public Works Administration
has examined and approved 49 proj
ects for utilities, at an estimated cost
of $50,780,026. It is further estimated
that these projects would furnish, di
rectly and indirectly, 451,752 man
months of work. All those 49 projects
probably would be forbidden by the
amendment, 46 of them certainly
would be forbidden.
When the bill to continue Federal
insurance of bank deposits came be
fore the House, Clyde Williams of
Missouri said:
"Mr. Chairman, this bill is entirely
without controversy so far as I under
stand it. Had the administration pass
ed no other bill than the bank deposit
S
ranee law, it would be entitled to
lasting gratitude of the American
people."
There was applause, and the bill
passed without controversy.
Speaking of tax exemptions, don't
forget the Federal courts. Justices
Black and Rend are the only men on
the Supreme Court who pay income
taxes on their salaries.
NOTICE TO
OUR PATRONS
There Is No Labor
Dispute At The
FAULK BROS. Co.
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OFFICIAL DIRECTORY OF THE NATIONAL BROTHERHOOD
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Washington, D. C.—Representative
James M. Mead of Buffalo, N. Y., in
a statement here, emphasized the im
portance of protecting working stand
ards in New York State against com
petition from low-pay areas in other
parts of the country as one of his ma
jor reasons for favoring the enactment
of the Federal Wages and Hours Bill,
which the House of Representatives
passed by a vote of 314 to 97 and sent
to the Senate.
Competition Is Equalized
The Wage and Hour Bill, carrying
the approval of the American Federa
tion of Labor, would equalize competi
tion so far as it is affected by wages
and hours. It provides for a universal,
nation-wide minimum rate of pay of
25 cents per hour, with a provision
that it shall be increased to 40 cents
within a period of three years, and a
ceiling for hours which provides for
44 hours per week with a provision
that it shall be reduced to 40 hours
within a period of two years. These
provisions establish a foundation for
wages below which no employer sub
ject to the legislation can go and a
ceiling for hours above which no em
ployer can require his employes to
serve and work.
High Wage Employers Compelled To
Emigrate
Pointing out that substandard
wages paid in some sections of the
United States have made competition
by manufacturers operating their
plants in New York under relatively
high wage scales "difficult, and in
some cases impossible, of accomplish
ment," Representative Mead claimed
that "as a result there has been a
steady departure of factories from our
State to the lower-wage sections of
the country."
He cited Rochester, Utica, Oswego
and Troy as examples of "hundreds
of other smaller communities suffer
ing from unemployment occasioned by
the closing down of manufacturing
plants" because of inability to com
pete with low-wage plants in other
States," and added that New Yoi'k
City has also "suffered from this
economic plague."
"How caii New York industry pay
twice the wage scale paid in some
other States and hope to compete with
those products of cheap labor?" Mr.
Mead asked. "Of course, the answer
is, it cannot be done. If this is true,
then we are badly in need of a uniform
minimum wage law to protect our own
industries. Unless we do so, and do
it quickly, our industrial centers are
doomed.
Wages in Women's Clothing Industry
"Ltet us look at one of New York's
typical industries and see the existing
situation. New York manufacturers
approximately 70 per cent of women's
clothing. Most of the workers in this
industry enjoy a thirty-li
e-hour week.
"In the cloak industry wages aver­
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Local Union No. 138....
Local Union No. 18
U. S. Tile & Cotnp. Workers
Typographical Union
Ijocul I'nion No. 10
Street Car Men
Local Union No. 53
Local Union No. 130
Stage Hands Union.
Local Union No. 148
Barbers' Union 343
Local I'nion No. 138
Local Union No. 18
U. S. Tile & Conip. Workers
Local Union No. 140.
Local Union No. 16..
Local Union No. 53..
Local Union No. 130.
Bricklayers Union.
Plasterers' Union
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Members of Local Union No. 6, Wheeling are all prepared for the huge celebration they will put
month "Buy American" drive. Members^j^ft heFlint Glass Workers' union are cooperating with
Mead Hits Competition oi Sweat Shop
Concerns With High-Wage Employers
age from $1.10 to $1.65 per hour. In
the dress industry wages average
from 75 to 90 cents an hour. These
wages run fully twice as high as
wages in many other States making
the same articles.
"Specifically, in the neckwear, skirt
and underwear industry, New York in
dustries pay an average wage of 56
cents an hour. The same class of
worker in Texas receives 31.8 cents
or 56.8 per cent of the New York
wage. In Maryland that same work
er receives 33.3 cents per hour and in
North Carolina he receives 32 cents
per hour.
"I the knitted underwear industry,
the New York employe receives an
average wage of 42 cents an hour, in
Virginia he gets 31 cents.
"In North Carolina the fastest sew
ing machine operator cannot earn
more than $9 per week, and that in
cludes long hours of work. In New
York State that same operator would
probably make three times that
amount and perhaps more.
Low Pay in New England
"A Mississippi cotton dress factory
pays $10.68 for 105 hours of work and
$15.39 for 137 hours of work. This
means that employes in that factory
work from 50 to 70 hours per week
for a pittance of from $5 to $7 per
week. In New York State the employe
would receive triple that wage for one
half the time.
"It should not be said, however,
that New York and its adjoining in
dustrial States are without offenders
in this direction. A belt factory in
New Jersey pays $10 a week for
forty-eight hours. A Boston curtain
factory pays full-time wages of from
$7 to .$10 a week. In Connecticut
piecework is done in homes at star
vation pay. It seems incredible, but
home workers are being paid as little
as 5 cents an hour for the most exact
ing and tedious type of sewing work.
In Pennsylvania home piecework is be
ing done for less than $5 per week.
Work Transferred to South Carolina
"As home-work laws have been
tightened in New York State, it is
found that some of our industries are
sending work into North Cai'olina,
where it is being done at a wage so
low that it is shocking.
"It is only the selfish employer in
our State that will be adversely affect
ed by the Hours and Wages Bill now
about to be enacted. Not many con
cerns in New York State pays less
than $11 per week for 44 hours of
work, but in other sections that state
ment cannot truthfully be made.
"Competition with low wage scales
in other sections has caused wholesale
wage reductions, unemployment and
the migration of our industries. Mills,
garment factories and manufacturing
plants of every description are find
ing New York unattractive' for tius
Teason.
THE POTTCTS HERAUJ
OF
O i a i e o y o i e y N a i o n a S e e a y e a s u e o n i i v a y o o a U n i o n a n o e o a n i z a i o n s o E a s i v e o o a w i o u y o o i n e n e w u i i n o e N a i o n a o e o o o O e a i v e
rotters tor the month of June. The Directory indicates at a glance not only the room that each organization will occupy, nut the night or nights also, on which it will nwt It will be found useful, therefore, for preservation on
ine part ot members ot the Brotherhood who want to keep an accurate check on the meeting nights and rooms occupied by their respective Local Unions.
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Trades & Lalmr Council..
Local Union No. 131
liocal Union No. It
Seventh Day Adventists.
Itihlc Students
Seventh Day AdventlatS.
Local Union No. 10.
Local Union No. 12......
Lo-al I'nion No. 131.....
I»cal Union No. J)
Seventh Day Adventists.
Bible Students
Seventh Day Adventists.
I^ocal Union No. 4
Local Union No. 12......
Trades & I^abor Council..
Local Union No. 131
Local Union No. 9
Seventh Day Adventists.
Bible Students./
Seventh Day Adventists.
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Local Union No. 12......
Local Union No. 131
Local Union No. 0
Seventh Day Adventists.
Bible Students
Seventh Day Adventists.
Local Union No. 4.... .4.
Local Union No. 12.. .«.
Local Union No. 131
READY FOR "BUY AMERICAN" DEMONSTRATION
HILPT A Mf RICA
BUY
AMERICAN
Houses Go Up In
Two Cities For
Relief families
Common labor on the buildings was
done by the WPA and local receivers
of welfare. Skilled labor was picked
from the civil service lists.
Detroit fully believes that the city
is saving money by building instead
of renting but doesn't give details.
Los Angeles County puts it in dollars
and cents. It is found that property
acquired by the county at tax sales
and at the county farm will afford
room for 100 houses. The Regional
Planning Commission figures that
houses can be built on this land, with
space sufficient to house a family, and
return full costs in 30 years at from
$10.60 to $12.20 a month each. The
county now spends an average of
$19.23 per family for rent-and utili
ties.
Twenty of these houses yrill start
at once.
TAXES ON FOOD HEAVY
New York City (ILN'S).—Out of
every dollar the average American
family spends, 33 cents goes for food.
Six cents of this portion is taken by
hidden taxes, according to a recent
survey. A loaf of bread carries 53
taxes, a quart of milk is taxed 57
times, and one-sixth of the cost of a
cup of tea represents taxes.
HAGUE DENOUNCED
Massillon, O. (OLNS).—A letter of
protest against the recent actions of
Mayor Frank Hague, Jersey City, N.
J., dictator, was sent Postmaster Gen
eral James- A. Farley by the local
Trades and Labor Assembly at its
regular meeting last week. Farley is
chairman of the Democratic National
Committee, of which Hague is a com
mitteeman.
"The remedy for these evils will be
gin with the passage of the Hours
and Wages Bill, and we cannot afford
to delay in its accomplishment. The
exodus of industry to low-wage areas
destroys purchasing power, retards re
covery, and necessitates huge relief
expenditures.
"New York Stale industries will
profit by the passage of a wages and
hours bill. The nation will enjoy a
more balanced economy when stability
takes the place ofthe restlessness now
existing."
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Sons of Italy.
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Washington, D. C.' (ILNSJ.—The
National Association of Housing Of
ficials reports that Detroit is already
well launched on a project of building
"relief houses," and that Los Angeles
is clearing the ground for a start.
Detroit has completed 10 houses,
the first installment of a project of
175. They are on city-owned land,
separate dwellings, each on a lot 35
feet by 110. Each has a hot air heat
ing system, full basement, gas re
frigeration and stationary laundry
tubs, and each is fitted for a family
of four.
Local Union No. 155.
Local Union No. 124.
Local Union No. 141.
Bakers Local No. 61.
Masons (Colored) ....
Local Union No. 124..
Local Union No. 17i.,
Local Union No. 16&,
Local Union Mo. 124.
Local Union No. 141.
Bakers Local No. 61.
Eastern Star Chapter 68.
Local Union No. 124
oi', Friday, June 17 a s a ciirnai of a Ihxee
the potters.
IFTU Turns Down
Russian Unions
JkF
of Wins Fight Against
Admission of Communists
Oslo, Norway (ILNS).—The Amer
ican Federation of Labor won its
fight against admission of the Rus
sian labor unions to the Internationa!
Federation of Trade Unions when th
executive council of the I. F. T. U.
voted 16 to 4 to adopt a recommenda
tion rejecting a Russian application
for membership.
Matthew Woll, vice president of the
A. F. of L., presented American la
bor's opposition to admission of the
Russian unions, which he charged were
creatures of the Russian Communist
dictatorship and were no more free
than the official labor organizations
of Germany and Italy.
Woll acted in accordance with a de
cision taken by the A. F. of L. Exec
utive Council at its meeting in Feb
ruary.
Twenty-six European and other
national labor organizations, with a
membership estimated at nearly 20,
000,000 were represented at the meet
ing of the I. F. T. U. executives here.
The meeting adopted a unanimous
declaration expressing sympathy for
the Mexican workers in "their fight
to regain control of the oil fields."
CASES HANDLED BY BOARD
The big volume of business trans
acted by the National Labor Relations
Board in administering the National
Labor Relations Act is revealed by
the fact that since the Act went int
effect in October, 1935, to May 1, 1938,
the board has handled 14,207 cases
involving 3,578,688 workers. Of these,
10,477 cases involving 2,116,388 work
ers have been closed. On May 1,
there were 3,760 cases pending before
the board.
Look for the Union Label when you
purchase clothing.
Demand the Union Label.
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OPERATIVE POTTERS' BUTTING, EAST LIVERPOOL, OHIO
ROOM NO. 4
Local Union No. 17..
Local Union No. 163.
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Local Union No. 86.
Local Union No. 86.
Local Union No. 86.
Local Union No. 86.
WHAT WE NEED
When Tom Marshall was Vice Pres
ident of the United States he uttered
a now famous remark: "What this
country needs is a good five-cent
cigar." And he was right. But to
day there is something else that this
country needs, and we are going to
put in this way: "What this country
needs is more jobs." There should be
a job for every man and woman who
is willing and able to work. Pros
perity would return overnight if
everyone had a job. It seems strange
that big business and big industry con
tinue to ignore that fact. If they
really want a business revival they
can get it by putting people to work.
—United Mine Workers Journal.
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DI LI TH NEWSPAPER
SETTLED
?TRIKE
Duluth, Miss. (ILNS).—The News
paper Guild strike here against the
Duluth Herald and the Duluth News
Tribune has been settled by agree
ment, ratified by a referendum vote.
The settlement is based on proposals
offered fry the Allied Printing Trades
committee, representing A. F. of L.
unions, though the Guild belongs to
the CIO. About 100 go back to work.
The settlement brings a 5-day, 40-hour
week to employes of the commercial
department and a 5'y day, 40-hour
week to advertising solicitors. Wage
demands are submitted to arbitration.
The editorial department employes had
the short week already.
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by the Picnic Committee not later than Monday,
June 6, 1938.
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