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Editor's Note—This is the sixth and
last of a series of articles explaining
the provisions of the Fair Labor
Standards Act, written for Potters
Herald by the Information Branch of
the Wane and Hour Division, United
States Department of Labor.
During the first eight months the
Fair Labor Standards Act has been
the law of the land approximately
17,000 complaints of non-compliance
were received.
Most of these had been filed by
workers against their employers. Some
were filed by employers against busi
ness competitors. Most employers
have supported the law and have
wanted it to succeed. The more con
scientious an employer is, the higher
the standards he tries to maintain,
either in cooperation with organized
labor or voluntarily, the more anxious
he is to see that all other employers
approximate the same standards.
Naturally he complains if he believes
that some competitor down the street
is disobeying the law and reaping an
unfair advantage by underpaying his
workers.
Some of the complaints are dupli
cates—two or more persona complain
ing about the same circumstances.
Some mistakenly are filed against
concerns not in interstate commerce
and therefore not subject to the Act.
Any one may lite a complaint. All
complaints are held in strictest confi
dence by the Wage and Hour Divis
ion and its employes. Complaint
blanks may be obtained at any region
al office, or by writing to the Divis
ion in Washington.
All complaints, whether filed in a
district office or not go first to the
Cooperation and Inspection Branch of
the Division in Washington for study.
Complaints have to be disregarded if
the concerns complained against are
obviously not subject to the law. When
the complaint seems to be meritorious
and valid, field inspectors are sent out
to make a searching investigation.
They go over the employer's payroll
records and talk to the employes. Also
they check up to see if the goods pro
duced later move in interstate com
merce.
Thoroughly to investigate a single
establishment may require several
weeks. When this work has been com
pleted, the information obtained is
turned over to the Cooperation and
Inspection Branch for action. Some
times, if the violation has not been
flagrant, it is possible to obtain an
adjustment whereby the employer
pays to his employes back wages that
have been unlawfully withheld and
promises future compliance. Many
thousands of dollars in back wages
have been paid to employes in this
manner.
If the violation is flagrant, and
especially if payroll records have been
falsified, the case is turned over to
the Legal Branch for appropriate
action. Some of the more aggravated
cases are referred to the Department
of
Justice for criminal prosecution.
In
other instances injunctions are
sought
to restrain
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state commerce, and in every case of
this sort the payment of back wages
due has been obtained. So far court
action has been invoked in some 35 or
40 cases, and in every instance in
which action has been completed the
Wage and Hour Division has been
upheld.
Enforcement of the law began Oc
tober 24 with only 23 inspectors in
the field to "police" the entire country
ami with an inadequate appropriation
of $350,000. Yet by the end of the
first six months it had been possible
to place 131 representatives in the
field. For the fiscal year which began
July 1 it seems probable that the Di
vision will have an appropriation
which will make possible an enlarge
ment of the staff and cut down the
delay between the filing of a com
plaint and the completed action. Also
during the coming year it is likely
that the work of the Division will be
still further decentralized, with the
field officers assuming a larger re
sponsibility for acting upon complaints
and the disposition of cases.
Further information about the Wage
and Hour law and its administration
and enforcement may be obtained by
communicating with William J. Ken
nedy, Regional Director in charge of
the Cleveland office at 540 Old Fed
eral Building or by addressing the
Information Branch of the Wage and
Hour Division, United States Depart
ment of Labor, Washington, D. C.
Molders In Cleveland
Strike For Higher Pay
Cleveland, Ohio (AFLWNS).—Two
hundred members of Molders Local
No. 27 of the International Molders
Union of North America, A. F. of L.
affiliate, struck against the Eberhardt
Manufacturing Company here follow
ing the company's refusal to restore
a ten per cent wage cut which the
men took 18 months ago along with
a 5 per cent cut in hourly rates. Short
ly after the wage cut the company
doubled production by installing a
conveyor system in the foundry and
in addition, .slashed piece rates 50 to
GO per cent, union officials said.
Two hundred members of the Ma
chinists Union employed by the com
pany refused to pass through the
picket line.
Besides demanding the restoration
of the wage cuts the union asks for
minimum guarantees. The hourly
minimums demanded by the union and
the company's offered rates follows:
Molders, 82 cents, company offers
76'a cents laborers, 70 cents, com
pany offers 55 cents iron pourers, 75
cents, company offers 56 Ms cents
cupola and furnace tenders, 78 cents
chippers and sand blasters, 75 cents.
WAR PLANES ORDERED
Contracts for more than 1,000
war
planes, to cost $100,000,000—the larg
est in peacetime history—were award
ed this
week by
the War
Department.
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cles are appearing weekly in our
columns.
LOSING THE
GAME
GRACE ARCHBOLD
A great outcry and the noise of a
scuffle in the children's playroom
reached Mrs. Freeman's ears as she
bustled about her morning's work.
These were no unusual sounds in her
household as usual she hurried to the
rescue.
A scene of disorder greeted her.
In the middle of the floor stood an
angry little boy. Blocks were scat
tered about, and as she entered, he
was kicking them in all directions.
The other two children, frightened and
tearful were huddled in a corner.
"What has happened?" asked their
mother severely.
"We were having a game, Mummy,"
said Sue, "seeing who could make the
tallest house with the blocks. Donald's
house fell down, and he said it was
our fault."
"And it wasn't," protested Mary in
dignantly.
"Yes, it was," declared Donald, ad
vancing threateningly on his two sis
ers. "You shook it down."
More tears and arguments followed.
"Come with me, Donald," said his
mother quietly. She took him to the
living room and soothed him with
words of sympathy.
Weeks and months went by and
Donald's outbursts continued. As he
grew older and beyond the "blocks"
age, there were always scenes when
he lost a game. Then it began to
dawn on his mother that she was not
using the right method. Petting and
sympathy were clearly doing him
very little good.
At heart Donald was a sportsman.
He was deeply interested in games
of skill, and young as he was, he al
ready knew the names of outstand
ing men in the realm of sports and
world championships. Often over the
evening meal he would discuss these
things with his father who was as
eager as his mother to change the
boy's unsportman-like attitude to
ward losing.
The parents discussed the prob
lem together. Donald must be cured
now, while he was still very young.
It would not be so easy later. Both
of them were excellent chess players,
so they decided to arrange an early
game for an evening or two when
Donald should be allowed to sit up
and watch them. The loser was to
be especially careful to show a cheer
ful spirit over the loss. As it hap
pened, the father lost very badly, and
the mother was declared champion.
There was much rejoicing. Donald was
amazed.
"Daddy did not seem to mind losing
a bit, did he, Mummy?"
"Of course not, dear. We all have
to be big and line enough to lose
bravely. In fact all the men and
women who have accomplished the
most in both work and play have be
gun by losing. Every lost game should
make the player more able to win.
If he keeps calm he can often see
where he made his mistakes."
After this, when either of Donald's
parents came across pictures of con
tests in which rivals were shown
shaking hands after a match was
over, the boy's attention was called
to them. "Good-will, Donald," his
father told him, "is always an import
ant part of an enjoyable game."
For a long time Mrs. Freeman su
pervised the children's games. She re
joiced with the winner, pointed out
good moves made by the loser and
drew attention to false ones. Donald
gradually learned to keep cool and
happy whatever the outcome might
be.
Cooperation Urged
(Continued From Page One)
lieve that the talent of our leaders
would fail in this task.
"If this is not done however, we
see no prospect of sufficient incentive
from any other source. We see the
probability of further resort to Fed
eral spendings next year.
"We see at present no suggestion
of Government leadership in such co
operative effort. The Secretary of
Commerce has recently set up a staff
for further study of industrial prob
lems, but he makes no suggestion of
cooperative effort for immediate busi
ness expansion.
Business Expansion Is Necessary
"Important as it is to study defects
in our economic structure, we believe
that business expansion is an immedi
ate necessity that cooperation of
Government and business can and
must put the unemployed to work in
private industry at the earliest pos
sible moment that further studies to
correct abuses in our industrial struc
ture can be carried on without delay
ing industrial expansion and employ
ment to await their completion.
"If business does not expand sub
stantially before next spring, we
shall have a further demand for Gov
ernment spending, with its danger of
inflation and consequent losses to
wage earners. Action for business
expansion on a sound basis is there
fore urgent. Shall we advance on a
cooperative basis, providing for the
needs of all groups, or shall we ac
cept Government domination? This is
today's challenge to America."
THfi POTTFfiS HERALD
Commission Lists
(Continued From Page One)
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unauthorized persons to Commission
files as far as it has been possible to
obtain additional needed space in the
State Office Building.
9. Created and established a Divis
ion of Field Audits under a competent
supervisor. During the time funds
were available, this Department es
tablished a favorable record in that
it produced a ratio of $6 of premium
findings for $1 of expense. The
function of this Department practical
ly ceased due to the expiration of a
special appropriation on December 31,
1938.
The Commission pointed out that
there is an urgent need for the addi
tion of at least fifty competent audi
tors in view of the large number of
employers carrying coverage in. the
Fund.
10. Substantial progress in line
with committee recommendations in
the Actuarial Section. Classifications
have been reduced from approximately
600 to less than 400. The Fund has
been strengthened by an increase in
surplus from $635,000 at the time of
the 1934 report to $5,100,000. The
number of employers carrying cover
age has increased from 39,000 in 1934
to 46,000 in 1939.
The Commission stated that there
were other improvements they would
like to make, but lack of funds has
prevented their inauguration.
They pointed out in 1934, an in
vestigating committee appointed by
Governor White and composed of Mr.
Bush as Chairman 0. B. Chapman,
president of the Ohio State Federation
of Labor Thomas J. Donnelly, secre
tary-treasurer of the Ohio State Fed
eration of Labor Charles F. Michael
and Warren F. Perry, president and
secretary, respectively, of the Ohio
Manufacturers' Association, made this
additional statement in its summary
of findings:
'That the administrative budget
has never been adequate from the be
ginning, and of recent years has been
wholly inadequate.'
"Commenting further the commit
tee report states under the subject
of administrative budget:
'On
the average during the past
nine years the appropriations made by
the legislature for the administration
of the Compensation Law have been
less than half of what they should
be, and your committee regards it as
not only impractical but impossible to
successfully operate a great institu
tion with such inadequate administra
tive funds.'
"At that time," the Commission's
statement continues, "Mr. Bush's com
mittee recommended an annual bud
get of $1,750,000 as the minimum
amount it believe^ necessary for prop
er administration^ The average year
ly appropriation for the Commission's
operations from 1935 to 1940, in
clusive, has been less than $1,150,
000.00.
"The Commission has repeatedly en
deavored to secure adequate appro
priations to improve service to claim
ants, employers and public, as its bud
get requests to the succeeding general
assemblies definitely disclose.
"Notwithstanding these limitations
and obstacles the Commission has been
successful over a period of more than
twenty-seven years in maintaining a
solvent fund and the fund has met its
obligations to injured workers and
their dependents.
"During this same period dozens of
insurance companies operating in
other state jurisdictions and managed
by experienced casualty insurance ex
ecutives failed, and left unpaid the
benefits due widows, orphans and in
jured workmen.
"The Commission feels the fore
going statement definitely discloses its
accomplishments, and its constant ef
fort and desire to improve the service
of this department in accordance with
the ever increasing demands placed
upon it."
Of the Commission's listed accomp
lishments, at least three were the di
rect result of efforts of the Ohio State
Federation of Labor, represented on
the "Bush Committee of 1934" by Sec
retary-Treasurer Donnelly and the
president of the Federation at that
time, O. B. Chapman.
The accomplishments were made
possible through legislative enact
ments sponsored by the Ohio State
Federation of Labor, and include es
tablishments of the Regional Claims
Boards inclusion of silicosis (92nd
Assembly all occupational diseases,
93rd Assembly) as a compensable
disease and appointment of a Board
of Silicosis Referees, and the special
appropriation under which an addi
tional force of payroll auditors estab
lished a favorable ratio record of $6
of premium findings for each $1 of ex
pense.
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Jamestown, N. Y. (ILNS).—The
Chamber of Commerce reports that
Jamestown's $1,130,578 industrial pay
roll for July was 27.7 greater than for
the same month a year ago. It was
$884,845 in July, 1938.
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Facing the Facts
With PHILIP PEARL
Communism died in the United
States on Aug.
21, 1939.
It did not
expire from natural causes. It was
murdered by Stalin and Hitler.
We know it is breaking all the rules
of the murder mystery game to dis
close the identity of the culprits be
fore unravelling the crime but in this
case we don't regard the murder as a
crime but as a blessing.
Let's go back a bit, as our famous
detectives do, and assemble the facts
before proceeding to disclose how we
arrived at our deductions.
You will remember that ten years
ago the Communists cut no ice in this
country. The only time anyone ever
heard from them was when they would
stir up a riot and get their heads
bashed in just to make the headlines
and let their comrades in Moscow
know they were alive.
But within the past three years the
Communists have spread themselves
to a considerable extent in numbers
and in influence among these parts.
There were three major factors con
tributing to this development. First,
was the formation of the C. I. O.
which went out and hired Commun
ists, supplied them with cash money
and gave them a free field in which
to operate. Second, was the natural
reaction among all classes of people
in America against Nazism and Fas
cism. Third, was the sudden resolve
on the part of the Communists to go
"respectable."
Let us enlarge on this final angle.
Earl Browder took a trip to Moscow
a couple of years ago and sold Stalin
a bill of goods. We can't get any
where in America, he told his chief,
unless we dye our hair, make up our
faces and go in for a complete out
ward transformation.
The Permanent
Wave ...
Well, Browder returned to: the
United States with Stalin's Blessing
and took the Communist Party to the
beauty parlor.
The C. P. entered this "shoppe" as
a red-faced, blowzy, slovenly, wild
haired, disreputable wretch. It came
out looking like a stream-lined, gla
morous Hollywood chorine. The apos
tles of dictatorship suddenly took up
the worship of democracy. The spokes
men for revolution mysteriously dis
covered a deep love for the American
Constitution. The desecrators of God
began making goo-goo eyes at re
ligion. The internationalists of the
world blossomed forth as patriots and
nationalists.
This disguise enabled the Com
munists to get into places which form
erly were shut tight against them.
Once they got their foot -in the door,
they Couldn't be shoved out. The
transformation proved
a
quick And
sensational success.
This was the situation until Aug.
21, 1939. On that day Messrs. Stalin
and Hitler got together. Communism
signed on the dotted line with Nazism.
The dictators shook their hands across
the prostrate form. of Poland. The
Reds kissed Hitler on both cheeks and
made friends with a regime that rep
resents all that is hateful "and ob
noxious to Americans.
Consternation reigned in the office,
of the Daily Worker, official organ
of the Communist Party here. The
editors did not know what to do. They
saw the permanent wave of the proud
beauty whom they had nursed through
a major transformation come all un
done and uncurled in one gust of foul,
air. What could they do? The first
day they did nothing. The Daily
Worker printed not a line of the story.
Then Browder and his buddies cabled
Stalin in Moscow. "Say it ain't so,"
they begged.
The Permanent Aftermath
Comrade Stalin answered nothing'
but "cut me another slice" and the
poor comrades here had to take it.
With what little enthusiasm they
could muster they declared that as a
result of the Stalin-Hitler pact "it is
safe to say that the camp of peace and
democracy will become strengthened."
What do they mean "it is safe to
say." Do they mean "safe" in the
sense that the Moscow hatchet-men
will not be reaching for their scalps.
Perhaps. But certainly it is not safe
for the Communists to utter such hog
wash to an aroused American cit
izenry.
That is why we said in our open
ing paragraph that Communism in
this country was assassinated by the
Moscow-Berlin alliance. This deal has
stripped all the beauty parlor camou
flage from the face of Communism. It
has exposed Communism in its true
light to the people of their country
and the sight is revolting.
Never again will the Communists be
able to extol democracy without be
ing haunted by Hitler's shadow. Never
again will they be able to condemn
Fascism without arousing the mock
ing laughter of the progressive cit
izens of our country. Never again will
the liberal-fakers be able to fool the
true liberals.
Let the workers of the country also
take heed. The Communists are to
day more strongly entrenched in the
C. I. O. than ever before. These hypo
critical, insincere, conscienceless
agents of Moscow are trying to use
the labor movement as a revolutionary
vehicle. They care no more for labor's
welfare than they do for democracy.
If ever the time was ripe for the work
ers of America to repudiate the C. I.
O. and Communism for their own good
and for the welfare of the nation, that
time has now arrived.
Going back to the Old Testament
for a remedy for what is the matter
with the country: "Righteousness ex
alteth
nation."
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4 DAYS
STARTING
SUNDAY
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NEWS of the DAY—Selected
Continuous Show Sunday
Garment Workers Sever
All C. I. O. Connections
Cleveland, O. (OLNS).—Abandon
ment of the policy of local cooperation
adopted by the Cleveland joint board
of the International Ladies Garment
Workers Union following withdrawal
of the parent body from the CIO last
November, was announced last week
by Abraham Katovsky, president of
the local joint board.
By its action, the Cleveland joint
board has severed all relations with
city and state CIO bodies, and cir
cular letters have been sent urging
other state units of the garment work
ers to take similar action.
Katovsky, who is also an internati
onal vice president of his Union, said
the local break came as a result of
invasion of the. garment workers'
jurisdiction by the CIO's Amalgamated
Clothing Workers, and .decision of
John L. Lewis to set,up-a dual build
ing trades organization.
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Indiana Glove Co. Signs
Union Label Contract
Milwaukee, Wis. (AFLWNS).—A
union label agreement with the Wil
son Glove Company, of Upland, In?
diana, has been negotiated by the In
ternational Glove Workers Union o£
America, affiliated with the American
Federation of Labor, according to an
announcement by President Durian ot
the Glove Workers Union.
The Wilson Glove Company mana*
fractures a complete line of cantQiy
flannel union-labeled work glewre, tam
specializes in Hot Mill Gloves. 1
All union members and their friends
are urged to ask for the Glove Work
ers union label when purchasing work
or dress gloves and mittens, and any
support that members of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor can give the
Wilson Glove Company will be ap
preciated, President Durian further
announced. ..
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Valley Motor Transit Co.
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send, them
they're safe.
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Our employes are trained and in
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sonal charges and responsibility the
moment they enter the bus. To see thai?
they get on and off in safety, and at the'
proper destination requested,
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