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Thursday, September 28, 1080.
Springfield Chosen
In Food Stamp Plan
Illinois City Is Selected As
Seventh To Operate
New Plan
Washington, D. C. Selection of
Springfield, Illinois, as the seventh
city in which the Food Order
Stamp Plan for distributing surpluses
through normal channels of trade will
be put in operation, was announced to
day by Secretary of Agriculture
Henry A. Wallace.
Springfield is the first city desig
nated since Secretary Wallace's re
cent announcement that the Stamp
Plan would be expanded gradually to
include other cities throughout the
country in addition to the six in which
it has been operating on an experi
mental basis.
Decision to start the plan in Spring
field followed conferences there this
week between Paul H. Jordan, Acting
Regional Director of the F. S. C. C.
for the central part of the United
States, and representatives of local
welfare agencies, public officials, and
members of the wholesale and retail
food trades.
The present population of Spring
field is estimated at 90,000. There
are 6,000 relief cases in the city, rep
resenting a total of about 15,500 in
dividuals.
Two variations of the Food Stamp
Plan, both voluntary, are to be used
in Springfield. Under one, a group of
1,540 cases representing about 5,500
individuals at present receiving direct
relief, part of which is in the form of
grocery orders, will be eligible to re
ceive free blue surplus food order
stamps good for food products desig
nated as surplus. This group will not
be required to buy the orange colored
food stamps which are provided in
some forms of the Stamp Plan. Fami
lies in this group who take part in the
program will receive blue surplus
stamps on the basis of approximately
fifty cent's work per week for each
member of the family.
Under the second variation of the
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Pay Boost For Anaconda
Copper Workers Gained
Raise of Fifty Cents a Day Secured
By A. F. of L. Departments
Washington, D. C.—(AFLWNS).—
John P. Coyne, president of the A. F.
of L. Building and Construction Trades
Department, and John P. Frey, presi
dent of the A. F. of L. Metal Trades
Department, announced that a joint
agreement had been reached with the
Anaconda Copper Company providing
an immediate increase in wages of 50
cents a day paid to certain employes
in the company's plants and mines at
Butte, Anaconda and Grea Falls,
Montana.
All metal trades workers and all
building construction workers, regard
less of whether they are affiliated
with the A. F. of L., are covered by
the increase, it was stated. Further
wage increases, it was said, depend on
higher prices for copper which are
expected to result from the European
Stamp Plan in Springfield, WPA
workers and Social Security public as
sistance cases receiving old age as
sistance, aid to dependent children, and
aid to the blind will be given the op
portunity to buy orange colored
stamps for cash and to receive free
blue surplus stamps in the ratio of
one blue stamp for each two orange
stamps bought. The orange stamps,
which provide for continuance of reg
ular food purchases, are to be bought
on a basis of a minimum of one dol
lar's worth per week for each mem
ber of the family. There are about
1,800 WPA workers and about 2,600
Social Security public assistance cases
in Springfield. These represent a total
of about 10,000 persons.
Actual operation of the plan in
Springfield is expected to start within
about a month.
The six areas in which the Stamp
Plan is in operation at present are
Rochester, New York Dayton, Ohio
Seattle, Washington Birmingham,
Alabama Pottawatomie County, Okla
homa (including the city of Shawnee)_
and Des Moines, Iowa.
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Facing the Facts
With PHILIP PEARL
Comes Earl Browder, official head
of the Communist party in the United
States, and testifies there are some
20,000 party members in the C. I. O.
These Communists, he boasts, are
trained in the techniques of organiza
tion and leadership and consequently
occupy key positions in the C. I. O.
Comes Ben Gitlow, former Commun
ist party leader, before the Dies com
mittee and spills some more beans. Mr.
Gitlow enjoyed doing it. Where Brow
der's memory was vague on details,
Gitlow filled in the blank spaces. The
joint story told by these former asso
ciates, now enemies, paints the C. I. O.
with a double coat of thick, indelible
red.
Take the case of John Brophy, exec
utive director of the C. I. O. In 1924
John Brophy was the bitter enemy of
John L. Lewis. They fought for con
trol of the United Mine Workers.
Brophy, says Gitlow, was backed by
the Communist party. He lost. Then
he organized a dual, rebel movement
within the United Mine Workers.
Lewis denounced him. He denounced
the rebel movement as a Communist
plot to destroy organized labor.
Twelve years later, after he had
formed the C. I. O. as a dual, rebel
movement to the A. F. of L., Lewis
hired Brophy to lead the insurrection.
What was back of this strange al
iance? How could these bitter ene
mies find a common ground?.. On what
basis was Brophy, who had been
branded as a Communist tool by Lewis,
reconciled to becoming Lewis' part
ner?
More Queer Alliances
The Communist party itself sup
plied the answer to these questions. It
adopted John L. Lewis, once its most
bitter foe. It embraced the C. I. O.
and gave the rebel movement the of
ficial stamp of approval of the Com
munist party.
If you think it strange that the
Communist party, which year after
year denounced Lewis as the arch
labor faker of America, could swallow
its words if you think it amazing
that Lewis could erase from his mem
ory the vicious attacks made upon him
by Brophy and by the Communists
if you think it impossible that people
could so far sacrifice principle to ex
pediency, then let us recall to your
mind the recent alliance between
Stalin and Hitler.
Certainly, if the Stalinites in -their
fanatical subjugation to dictatorship
could make common cause with the
apostle of fascism, the instigator of
anti-semitism and the most cruel op
pressor in modern times Adolf Hit
ler then they could swallow a tiny
bitter pill like John L. Lewis.
The evidence shows they have not
only swallowed Lewis but they've di
gested him. Listen to Gitlow read off
the roll-call of the C. I. O. executive
board. More than half of these execu
tives testifies Gitlow, are either mem
bers of the Communist party or follow
the party line.
These facts make a lot of things
clear. They account, in the first place,
for the formation of the C. I. O. and
the attempt to destroy the American
Federation of Labor. There could be
no other valid reason. No issue ad
vanced by the C. I. O. as the cause
for the rebellion could justify the
tearing and splitting of the labor
movement which was bound to ensue.
Only the Communists could profit
from that.
The Deal
The whole thing clearly was a deal
—one of the vilest in the history of
American labor. John L. Lewis made
a deal with the Communists who
hitherto had failed to effect a breach
in labor's ranks. The Communists
made a deal with him. They were to
help him in organizing dual unions, in
supplying cash and volunteer workers
and in a campaigning against the A.
F. of L. The C. I. O. was to give the
Communists a foothold in organized
labor. That was all they wanted. It
was just the same kind of defensive
and offensive alliance that Stalin
signed with Hitler and, like that vici
ous pact, the purpose was to give
democracy a stab in the back.
Since the C. I. O. was formed, war
has prevailed in labor. The American
Federation of Labor has made every
effort to effect a reconciliation and
lasting peace. Public officials, from
President Roosevelt down, have taken
every occasion to further peace ef
forts. Public opinion has demanded
peace. Business has pleaded for it.
But the war in labor still is going on
just as strong as ever. Why? What
are the mysterious and secret forces
that have blocked peace and thwarted
every opportunity for reunion?
Again the answer becomes clear
with the factual revelation of the ex
tent to which the Communist have
dominated and. determined C. I. O
policies with the cooperation of John
L. Lewis. Neither Lewis nor the Com
munists want peace. The return of
the C. I. O. unions to the A. F. of L.
would end Lewis' dictatorship. Natur
ally, a dictator doesn't give up his
domain easily. Peace would also
mean disaster to the Communists. It
would end their participation in and
their control over any and all labor
groups, for there is no room for Com
munists in the American Federation
of Labor. There is the answer. We
hope that the sincere and progressive
forces in the C. I. O. who have been
misled by their leadership will now
understand how they have been in
veigled into playing some one else's
game to their own ruin and to the
dertiment of organized labor as a
whole.
Finally, we can now understand why
the leaders ©f the C. I O. opyo«^4 the
Dies committee investigation.
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Syracuse Company Signs
Pocketbook Union Pact
Forty-Hour Week and Wage Increases
Included In Agreement Negotiated
By A. F. of L. Affiliate
Newark, N. J.—(AFLWNS). —The
officers of the International Ladies'
Handbag, Pocketbook and Novelty
Workers Union were elated over the
success of Samuel Reinlib, president of
the union, in signing an agreement
with Julius Resnick, Inc., Syracuse,
N. Y. The company is the largest firm
in the pocketbook industry, employing
over 600 workers in its Syracuse fac
tory.
President Reinlib announced that
the main provisions of the agreement
are:
A forty hour week with time and a
quarter for overtime above forty
hours.
All workers receive a wage increase
of between ten and twenty per cent.
The shop is to be operated as a
closed union ship where all workers
employed by the firm must be mem
bers in good standing of the Interna
tional Ladies' Handbag, Pocketbook
and Novelty Workers' Union.
The firm is not to remove its fac
tory from its'-ppceent location and is
not to give out work to any outside
shops unless its own workers are
fully employed, and then only to union
hops which are in contractual rela
tions with the international.
The agreement also provides that
no worker is to be discharged without
sufficient cause that there shall be
equal division of work in the slow
periods, and impartial machinery for
the adjusting of disputes.
The agreement is signed for two
years and four months, to expire De
cember 31, 1941, with the understand
ing that in a year from now the union
and the firm are to negotiate wage ad
justments.
Food Price Study Proposed
Washington, D. C.—The U. S. con
ference of mayors has asked Presi
dent Roosevelt to appoint a commis
sion to study retail food prices and,
if necessary, propose federal legisla
tion to prevent profiteering. The
mayors assured the President of their
"united support and complete confi
dence" in his efforts to keep the
United States out of war during a
recent White House meeting that con
cluded an emergency session of the
conference.
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In spite of President Roosevelt's
"New Deal" legislation, he can't get
the social system decently balanced in
the great country he rules.
Labor-saving machinery has capi
talism beaten badly there.
It is estimated that in the past nine
years mechanical inventions and im
provements coming into the domain
of production in America have elimi
nated two million jobs at least,
though the hours of labor have been
reduced to forty and forty-four.
Under any equitable system of the
distribution of wealth, that couldn't
happen.
The living standards of the masses
would rise, and their working hours
decrease, to a scientific correspond
ence with the increased productivity
resulting from the labor saving de
vices.
But where in the world can capital
ism manage that equalisation
In America, where the capitalist
class are more strongly entrenched
than in any other country, they have
failed so woefully to achieve an ap
preciable approach to social justice
that the discontent of the masses may
burst into open revolt at any time.
Uncle Sam is a shrewd old bird in
many respects.
Why hasn't he sense enough to
realize that ill-distributed wealth is
positively packed with perils?
A country with immense riches and
twelve million unemployed is in the
most dangerous state imaginable.
An upturn in employment has re
duced the anticipated number of un
e o y e n o e n s a i o n e n e i
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With Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford and Rosalind Russell topping one of the most spectacular casts
of film celebrities ever gathered together for one motion picture, "The Women," picturization of Clare
Boothe's groat Broadway success, opens Sunday at the Ceramic Theatre as one of the most distinguished
offerings of the current film year. A total of 135 women comprise the dharacters of the story, with not a
man in the cast—nevertheless, "The Women" is all about men! I
UNCLE SAM'S
BIG BLUNDER
As Others See Us
(From the Australian Worker)
America is marvelously rich.
She can lend vast sums to other
nations and never miss the money
when they fail to repay the loans.
Perhaps there was never such a
wealthy country in the world before
as the Land of the Almighty Dollar.
Yet in that amazingly opulent part
of the earth there are 12,000,000 un
employed!
How do you account for that
Looks as if capitalism is a gro
tesquely lopsided system, don't you
think, brother?
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32V2 Cents Textile Pay
Bate Fixed By Andrews
New Scale Mandatory October 24
Will Affect The Wages Of 175,
000 Textile Workers
Washington, D. C.—(AFLWNS).
Elmer F. Andrews, administrator of
the wage and hour division of the
U. S. Department of Labor, approved
September 13 the controversial 32
cents minimum wage rate recom
mended for the textile industry by a
special committee composed of textile
manufacturers, workers and the pub
lie.
Mr. Andrews said he would issue
a wage order putting the base rate
into effect on October 24, the same
day the wage-hour law statutory
minimum for all industry advances
from to 30 cents an hour.
The 32J2-cent-an-hour rate provoked
sharp conflict between Northern and
Southern manufacturer?.
Both wage-hour officials and manu
facturers' representatives said South
ern manufacturers of cotton textiles
were almost solidly opposed to that
rate. Northern textile interests were
reported solidly in favor of it.
Wage-hour officials estimated es
tablishment of the 32,2-cent rate
would affect the pay of some 175,000
textile workers, although with the
automatic change in the minimum
wage standard October 24, it will give
mill worker- only 2*2 cents an hour
over the statutory base.
Laundry In Cleveland
Signs Union Contract
Cleveland, Ohio. (AFLWNS).
Laundry Workers Local No. 152 of
the International Union of Laundry
Workers, A. F. of L. affiliate, an
nounced the negotiation of a two-year
agreement with the Cuyahoga Laun
dry Company calling for the closed
shop, check-off system of dues col
lection and standard wage and hour
provisions.
Under the agreement the following
minimum wages are established hour
ly workers, 34 cents washmen, 6C
cents loaders and pullers, 55 cents
The work week is 45 hours, eight
hours for five days and five hours on
Saturdays.
The question of one week's annual
vacation with pay will be opened for
negotiation one year after the contract
expires.
Wcl,
MOT FIVE
Home Education
"The Child's First School II
Family"—Froebel
Issued by the National Kinder
garten Association, 8 West 40th
Street, New York City. These arti
cles are appearing weekly in our
columns.
THE FUSSY CHILD
LAURA GRAY
"There must be something wrong
with my John!" declared Mrs. Benson
to her neighbor as the two sat knit
ting while they watched their little
ones paddling. "He's so cross, so ir
ritable, I'm just about worn out. And
he's much worse here at the beach
than at home."
"In what way?" asked older
woman.
"He won't eat his meals without be
ing coaxed, whines for what he can't
have and is so nervous he doesn't even
sleep well. I used to think all chil
dren were more or less like that, but
since I've seen your sweet, happy little
Bobby I've begun to wonder."
Every mother likes to hear her child
called sweet and happy. Bobby's
mother smiled appreciatively.
"What do you do to make him so
good-natured? Look at him now!"
They turned toward a group of
small children playing a few yards
off. Five-year-old Bobby chuckled as
his chubby hands piled sand on a com
panion lying face down, waiting to be
"buried." Then Bobby stood up, his
two sturdy legs firm, his chest ex
tended and his back straight. He
faced the sea and laughed, full of the
joy of living.
Mrs. Benson went on, "I've lived for
two weeks in the next camp. I've
never seen Bobby have a tantrum nor
have I even heard him cry. Gracious,
look at my John! He's taken that
little girl's pail and is striking her
with the spade!" Mrs. Benson dropped
her knitting and ran.
After a little shake and many re
monstrances young John was jerked
along to the camp and told to "go in
and tell Katie how naughty he'd been."
The mother came back, looking
weary and exhausted and began to
work. No one spoke.
In a few minutes, young John came
out again and sat and sulked. He
was too thin, too tall, and his joints
seemed too large for his slender limbs.
There was a disagreeable expression
on his face that was unchildlike.
"I wonder if John has inherited an
unpleasant disposition from some an
cestor," remarked his mother, when
John had moved out of hearing. She
was feeling very unhappy.
"No!" laughed the older mother.
"My dear Mrs. Benson, there is noth
ing radically wrong with John's dis
position, I feel sure. Give him a fair
chance and he'll be as sweet as Bob
by."
"Why is he so trying then, so un
friendly, while Bobby looks upon
everyone as a friend?"
"Well, I find that Bobby can be dis
agreeable, too, when overtired or up
set."
"0—yes. You make him rest part
of the day, don't you? And you are
particular about his meals, and you
don't allow him to be exposed to the
sun for too long a time. You don't
let him bathe more than twice a day,
either. You see your Sarah and my
Katie are great friends!"
Bobby's mother nodded and smiled.
"You were accused by one mother
of my acquaintance of being too
'finical' about your boy," Mrs. Benson
went on. "But when I saw what a
charming little fellow he was I
thought I'd like to know the real secret
of it. Thank you and Katie for tell
ing me!"
It is not natural for a little child to
be fussy, nervous or troublesome.
Even disagreeable ancestors will not
account for such a state of mind.
Chief among the causes is being over
tired. It is hard to realize what a lot
of energy a little one uses up each
hour.
Unsuitable food uncomfortable cloth
ing, the effort to adjust to an adult
program, all help to "spoil" a little
one. In all seasons, a young child
needs quiet, regular hours and under
standing care, as well as suitable com
panionship, fresh air and sunshine. It
is all very simple and yet it exacts
much from the mother. But surely
having a happy, friendly, normal child
is reward enough.
Beverage Drivers Union
Strikes For 5-Day Week
(By A. F. of L. Weekly News Service)
Why shouldn't we have the five
day week and one week's vacation
with pay each year?
This was the question that 150 bev
erage drivers affiliated with Local
No. 70, International Brotherhood of
Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Stablemen
and Helpers of America, Oakland,
Calif., A. F. of L. affiliate, asked
themselves.
The vote was unanimous in favor
of the proposition.
But when the union officials pre
sented the matter to the East Bay
Beverage Dealers Association, the as
sociation refused to grant either of
the demands. So the 150 union men
struck.
The result was that 12 firms signed
separate agreements with the drivers
union, while ten persisted in refusing
the union's demands.
Labor observers in Oaklond predict
that the recalcitrant ten wjli ulti
mately ccv.ie 4.cro£i 4iicJ =agr, up for
paid vacations and the five-day week.