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n PROTECTS RIGHTS Insists On Overtime Pay and No Wage Reductions, However Buffalo, N. Y.—Organized labor is ready to sacrifice immediate achieve ment of its 30-hour week goal in the interests? of national defense, Presi dent William Green of the American Federation of Labor declared in an interview here. Mr. Green also pledged that the Federation would do its utmost to avoid strikes wherever possible, espe cially in the defense industries. He emphasized, however, that the Federation would tolerate no reduc tion in wages and would insist on overtime pay for all hours in excess of eight each day. After the national emergency is over, he declared, the AFL will resume its 30-hour week campaign, but the requirement for greatly increased industrial produc tion makes postponement of the cam paign advisable now. "The full cooperation of the work ers of America," Mr. Green said, "is vital to the success of our national defense program and the American Federation of Labor has a tradition to uphold of unfailing loyalty where the welfare of our nation is at stake. "Though every effort is being made in emergency activities to maintain the levels of life and work which have been established by the wage earners of the United States, the rep resentatives of the American Federa tion of Labor were among the first to fjHedge full support to our nation when the call was sounded. Support of this position by every constituent branch of the American Federation of Labor is expected and, I am confi dent, will be forthcoming." The interview followed an address by President Green to the convention here of the American Federation of Teachers. Mr. Green called on the teachers to "make clear to the nation that you are an American institution." "The impression, rightfully or (Continued on Page Two) Profits Nearing Peaks, Wages Lag, AFL Survey Warns Twenty-three Per Cent Hike In Industrial Profits Is Forecast By AFL Washington, D. C.—A 23 per cent increase in industrial profits during 1940, due partly to the Nation's de fense program, was forecast by the American Federation of Labor in its Monthly Survey of Business. The Federation placed prospective profits of 400 leading industrial cor porations at $2,280,000,000, which ap proaches the prosperity peak of 1927 29 and the recovery peak of 1937. These corporations, it was said, re ported profits during the first six months of 1940 were up 59 per cent )over the same period last year. During this period, the Federation said, dividend payments were up 14 per cent while earners' income rose only 4.9 per cent. "Corporations have not increased wages as much as their earnings per mitted," the survey said. "A larger flow of income to workers is vital. We need the flow of their buying power into non-defense consumer goods industries to keep these indus tries growing in a normal way, pre vent top-heavy defense development, and build up our national well-being." The survey said shipments of war materials have more than offset loss es from markets closed to American products by the war. It reported the i jcost of living in June was up nearly 2 per cent from that in June 1939, but said no serious increases are ex pected in the near future. A national income of $75,000,000, 000, an increase of $5,000,000,000 over 1939, was forecast. The Federation said this country rapidly is swinging into a defense economy and warned unless the pre paredness program is carefully guided "it can disrupt our economic life, causing booms in some industries and depressions in others, destroy labor standards, leave mills and men strand ed after the first years of intense activity are over." uriuijc igiiR Labor Will Sacrifice 30-Hour Week For National Defense, Green States Pledges To Avoid Strikes In All Industries When Possible Compliance Drive For 5 Industries Two Hundred Thirty-Seven Wage-Hour Inspectors Go On lob A nation-wide drive for compliance with the wage and hour law in five industries will begin Monday through out the country, with 237 inspectors especially assigned to the job, it was announced by Colonel Philip B. Flem ing, Administrator of the Wage and Hour Division, U. S. Department of Labor. These industries are: Furniture, Leather Goods and Luggage, Boots and Shoes, Hosiery and Woolen Goods. The compliance drive, to be conducted under a special inspection procedure worked out by Deputy Administrator Baird Snyder, is to be completed by October 1. More than 5,000 factories will have been inspected by that time. The concentrated inspection of these industries is the second step in the Wage and Hour Division's drive to obtain compliance with the Fair Labor Standards Act on a national, industry-wide basis. The first move was a compliance drive in the Lum ber Industry, now approaching a suc cessful conclusion. In the future, other industries will be selected for similar concentrated inspections by simultaneous action in all areas. The object is to benefit both employers and employes throughout a given indus try—by protecting an establishment that is in compliance from the lower cost competition of one which is not observing the wage and hour require ments, and by gaining for workers the wages and overtime to which they are entitled under the Act. "All five of the industries included in the new drive have one thing in common," said Colonel Fleming. "That is, a high percentage of their cost of production is labor cost. They are the type of industries in which manufac turers who pay low wages can quote lower prices than their competitors. The establishments comprising these industries are located throughout the country in a way which enables us if necessary to use simultaneously our entire inspection force, now approach ing our authorized recruitment of 1,000 strong." Three of these five industries &re subject to Wage Orders, issued by the Administrator of the Wage and Hour Division, fixing a minimum rate of pay higher than the 30-cent per hour statutory minimum. These are: Woolen Goods—36 cents Boots and Shoes—35 cents Hosiery, seamless 32!L» cents and full-fashioned 40 cents. Also, action is pending upon a 35-cent recommendation by the Leather and Luggage Industry Committee. Unless and until that recommendation is made effective, the 30-cent minimum will apply, as it does to Furniture, for which no Industry Committee has yet been appointed. A principal part of the drive will be to see that minimum wages fixed by Industry Committees are complied with strictly. The importance of this may be illustrated by the fact that out of a total of about 00,000 work ers employed in the seamless branch of the hosiery industry, some 30,000 Continued on Page Two) Boston, Mass.—Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins scoffed at the pos sibility of strike-disruption of this country's national defense program in an address before the fifty-fifth an nual convention of the Massachusetts Federation of Labor. She told the delegates that "the rights and liberties we enjoy carry certain duties and obligations to pro mote the welfare of others" and that we now realize in the light of the emergency that individual rights must be secondary to the welfare of the entire nation." Commending the cooperation be tween labor and industry on national defense, Miss Perkins predicted that strikes would not hamper the pro gram as they did in 1917, because 'labor now has the rights for which it struck then—recognition and de cent working conditions." At the same time, she declared there was no shortage of skilled la bor, with the exception of copper smiths for work on warships and ex pressed doubt that a long work week would speed up defense on the grounds For a Beach Full Of Fun You Can't Beat Craig's On 2 Salem China Picnic Stacks Up All-Day Riot This Saturday MISS SALEM CHINA ludges Expect a Hard Day Ahead In Selecting Best Looking LU 42 Bather Salem, O.—An exceedingly full day has been planned at Craig's Beach by the committee in charge of the annual picnic which will be held this Satur day, August 24. The selection of Miss Salem China should prove one of the real high lights in an exciting day which all members of the Local are expected to enjoy. The Salem China Co. and Lo cal 42 have cooperated perfectly to make this outing put all previous ef forts to shame. Practically all events on the card are of novelty class and should bring forth a high degree of mirth. In ad dition, the Beach affords plenty of op portunity for swimming, dancing and rides. The committee has purchased the park for the day. You will enjoy the dancing to Benny Jones and his 11-piece band. The ball game between Tyson's Bulldogs and the Welfare Club should be a honey. Get out and cheer your favorites on to victory. You will be expected to fill the basket with enough good things to eat to tide you over from morning until night, but in the evening, ice cream, coffee and orangeade will be on the house so you will not have to worry about dessert or liquids. Most of the contests have three doll ars in prizes to work for. The bathing beauty contest has been added at the request of some of our beauties, but there must be ten girls entered or no contest. Another added feature will be the drill team in full uniform and the drawing for the refrigerator. Three cheers are in order for La Verne McGaffick. She was just idling about the ice cream wagon one night last week when the pony decided to take himself on a whirl. Quick as a flash our heroine streaks after the flying wagon, overtakes it and while holding on for dear life, sets up a barrage of "whoa, whoa." Everything under control once more with no spill ed ice cream, our supergirl calmly walked away. The picnic program follows: 8:45 and 9:45 a. m.—K. of P. Hall, North Broadway. Free buses. Upon eaching the beach, register at the ticket booth for your identification card which entitles you to free ad mission (1 p. m. to 6 p. m.) to the merry-go-round, loop-a-plane, roller coaster, typsy house, boat, swimming pool and dancing (3 p. m. to p. m) This card will also cut the price of the speed boat rides to 20. cents. 10:30 a. m.—Chicken catching con test. (Two chickens in each group). Winners keep their chickens. Three groups, men, women and children. Clothes pin race, open.—Prize, one box chewing gum. Balloon battle, children. Prize, First, $2.00 second, $1.00. 12 to 1 p. m.—Lunch. (Your own (Continued on Page Two) Defense Program Without Strikes Is Predicted By Secretary Perkins that experience in the last war had shown it was possible to make more goods, more quickly with a short-hour week. Robert J. Watt, international rep resentative of the American Federa tion of Labor, told the convention that "negotiation must be the process rather than strike if labor unions are to gain the effectiveness and public confidence which are especially essen tial in the defense program." "Many a legitimate strike," he said, "will have to be avoided by the self discipline of labor unions if we are to curb the efforts of our domestic enemies." Mr. Watt called for creation of a "fierce spirit of democracy in Amer ica which will brook no assaults from without and which will tolerate no termites from within." He said that the Sherman anti trust law was "one piece of legisla tion which may have to be aitered to coordinate defense programs, but organized workers would not weep if this cumbersome boomerang piece of legislation were straightened out." Pot e s Official Orcein of the National Brotherhood of Operative Poitnrx VOL. XLIV., NO. 17 EAST LIVERPOOL, OHIO, THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1940 $2.00 PER YEAR PRE-CONFERENCE MEETING CALLED NEXT MONDAY MORNING Brotherhood Night Brings Huge Crowd President Duffy and Kresft Cronin Address 8,000 At Minerva Park With President Jame? M. Duffy of the National Brotherhood of Operative Potters and Kress Cronin, Cronin China head, sharing the speakers' platform spotlight ajid H.OCO people thronging the park io hear the ad dresses of these woYthy ijentlemen, N. B. of O. P. night durirlg the recent an nual homecoming certainly was an outstanding one in the v ek-long cele bration. Members of the Women's Union La bel League of Canton were our guests for the evening and we believe we have proved to the buying public of this district the advantages of buying union-labeled products. Our label was prominently displayed on our ware ex hibit stand and should become better known to those who purchase the din ner ware for the family. With the cooperation of the com pany and the union, as displayed dur ing this celebration, the is no reason why labor cannot go to unprecedented heights. We of Minerva are proud of our accomplishments. The picnic at Minerva Park was an other item of interest ere. We are not boasting when we gay we had the finest outing ever. With 1100 people registered throughout the day, the park was overtaxed at all times. The •election of Miss Cronin China was the climax of the day's activities with Mrs. Martha Mindling walking off (Continued on Page Two) TV A Signs History Making Agreement —aCV Fifteen Unions Given Equal Voice With Management On Labor Issues Washington, D. C.—Fifteen Ameri can Federation of Labor unions and the Tennessee Valley Authority signed a history-making agreement covering 8,000 building and metal trades work ers engaged on the giant power proj ect. This- far-reaching contract gives union representatives a direct and equal voice with management in fix ing labor standards, determining wage rates, promoting safety and health, training apprentices and improving efficiency and economy in operations. Thus the fundamental philosophy of the American Federation of Labor calling for a friendly, cooperative partnership between labor and man agement is written into this highly significant pact with a Government agency. Thousands of additional workers will be covered by the agreement when the proposed $25,000,000 ex pansion of T. V. A. facilities for na tional defense purposes gets under way. David E. Lilienthal, T. V. A. direc tor, said: "I consider this agreement more valuable than any of our dams. It charts the way to labor-management cooperation in the national defense program. It is worth millions to the people of this country." Marion Hedges, research director for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, who served as technical adviser to the T. V. A. unions was similarly enthusiastic. "It is the finest contract ever en tered into with any branch of the Government," he said. "It sets a high standard that both private employers and other agencies of the Government would do well to follow." John P. Frey, president of the Metal Trades Department, joined in praising the agreement. "A labor policy has been worked out within the T. V. A." he declared, "which makes a valuable contribution to employer and employe relations, especially when the employer is a Federal authority." Under the contract, joint machinery is set up through which labor has equal authority with supervisory offi cials over problems affecting both workers and management. Preference in hiring is given to A. F. of L. union men. Methods are pro vided for handling of jurisdictional disputes without any cessation of work, and for quick disposition of employe grievances and other dis putes. Negotiations leading to the contract took nearly a year. It was made pub lic in a joint statement by President Sam E. Roper of the Tennessee Valley Trades and Labor Council and Arthur (Continued on Page Two) Members Firm 4s Lockout Continues At Grafton Plant Local 98 Membership Closer Knit After Three-Week Forced Idleness SETTLEMENT LIKELY Conference Scheduled This Friday Should Iron Out Problems Grafton, W. Va.—The lockout im posed upon the members of Local Union No. 98 on August 5 is still in progress, but a settlement allowing the workers to return to their benches the first part of next week is very likely. President James M. Duffy will be present Friday to lead our shop committee in a conference which is ex pected to iron out all remaining diffi culties with the management of the plant. The lockout occured after a con ference, with President Duffy present, attempted to correct several violations of our agreement which had been the subject of much discussion at several local meetings. The general manager showed a reluctance at this time to go along with the agreement, threat ening additional violations of the con tract. The Monday following the confer ence, orders were issued that one of our dippers, also president of the lo cal, would do all the loafing when work was short in his department in spite of the fact that a mutual agreement existed in this department to divide all work equally. The foreman in charge stated that this made no difference since his orders were to lay Off the man in question during all slack1"* periods. When the man was not allowed to perform his just share of the work the violation constituted a lockout and the entire membership left the shop with the exception of those who were permitted to complete all unfinished ware and the kiln fireman who saw all ware through the kiln. Attached to our last pay checks notices informed the members that further violations of the agreement would be carried out in the future em ployment of the workmen. These state ments explained that the company would not employ workmen other than people from Grafton. In other words, the rights of journeymen tradesmen would not be recognized in the future when vacancies occurred. Headquarters under the direction of Tally Lisk were immediately set up on Main street in the heart of the city and business section. These quarters will be maintained until a settlement is reached. They are appropriately decorated in red, white and blue while a new American flag waves gaily and daily in the breeze from the standard in the sidewalk in front of the building. All progress made by the commit tee is immediately reported to head quarters where the members congre gate. The sacrifice in loss of work is not all on the debit side of the ledger, because the lockout has knit the membership closer together than ever before. We are truly getting cquainted with each other and it is a joy to everyone to observe the loy alty of each and every member. President James M. Duffy will call the conferees to order Monday morn ing at the Knickerbocker Hotel. Later he will act as co-chairman of the con ference with Joseph M. Wells of the U. S. P. A. Duffy To Speak At Labor Celebration Potters' Head Scheduled To Address Cambridge Labor Day Rally Cambridge, O.—President James M. Duffy of the National Brotherhood of Operative Potters has been secured the speaker of the day for the giant Labor Day rally here which is spon sored jointly by Local Union No. 122 and the Guernsey County Trades and Labor Council. It is with genuine pleasure that we announce the coming of President Duffy who is exception ally busy at this time. A cordial invitation is extended to all members throughout the district to attend this annual celebration, which is in the form of an all-day picnic to be held at Municipal Park. You are assured of a rousing time the entire day. In addition to the address by the potters' leader, the serious and chief feature of the outirr*, there will be continuous entertainment and amusement. This will include a band (Continued on Page Two) Hillman Spurns Lewis and Refuses To Name CIO Man on Defense Board Washington, D. C.—Sidney Hillman :harply rebuffed his chief, John L. Lewis, over the issue of appointments to the Labor Policy Advisory Com mittee to the National Defense Ad isory Commission, according to an exchange of letters made public by the New York Times. The significant incident arose when James J. Matles, organization director of the CIO United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, protested to Lewis against the fact that this union had been excluded from representation on the committee. Matles wrote to Lewis on July 22 that Hillman had turned down his demands for representation because the U. E. R. M. W. was "tinged with Red" and had not "squared itself po litically." He urged that Assistant Secretary of Labor Dan W. Tracy, former President of the AFL Inter national Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, be removed from the com mittee to make way for an officer of the C. I. O. union. Lewis promptly transmitted Matles' letter to Hillman and backed up his demands. He also sent copies of the Matles letter and his own to ever member of the C. I. O. executive board "It is most disturbing," Lewis wrote, "to read some of the state ments in the letter with respect to your charges of practical disloyalty and political non-conformity. I sin cerely hope that the administration of the defense program will not be influenced by such considerations." Hillman flatly turned down Lewis' request for reconsideration of his de cision not to appoint a representative of the U. E. R. M. W. to the com mittee. He wrote: "The factors which determined se lections were the degree of contribu tion to the program of national de fense and assistance to this office in the performance of its duties. You may be assured that the foregoing were the sole criteria—and not others —upon which selections were made. Any suggestion, direct or indirect, to the contrary is clearly at variance with the facts." Hillman, who is labor coordinator for the Defense Commission, also de nied he had accused the C. I. O. union (Continued on Page Two) Committee Will Study 125 Propositions To Come Before Conference Opening Tuesday Brotherhood Members Hold First Session Knickerbocker Hotel, Boardwalk, 9 a. m. yUITH the biennial wage conference scheduled to open Tuesday, August 27th at the Chalfonte Hotel on Atlantic City's Board walk, the members of the Executive Board and the conference committee of the Brotherhood will meet at the Knickerbocker Hotel this coming Monday morning to discuss not only the 87 propositions sent to conference by the July convention, but the 38 proposals submitted to the N. B. of O. P. officials late last week by the United States Potters' Association. The joint wage confer ence will formulate a wage and working contract to replace the present pact which expires the last day of next month. President James M. Duffy will be in charge of the pre-con ference meetings and will be co-chairman of the joint sessions with Joseph M. Wells, chairman of the U. S. P. A. Labor Board. Conference Co-Chairman nnat It is expected the Brotherhood force wi!1 have at Ieast three sessions be fore meeting with the manufacturers Tuesday afternoon. The choice of a caucus room at the Knickerbocker :ould not be improved upon since the Boardwalk inn is not more than a \hree-minute walk from the scene of he conference. It is located at the :orner of the Boardwalk and Ten lessee Avenue. The room, as mem oers of the 1938 conference commit tee will femember, is situated on the second floor overlooking the ocean. The opening meeting will be called X) order promptly at nine o'clock At antic City time (one hour faster thaa^ East Liverpool time) Monday morn ng. In contrast to the Brotherhood's re quest for a twenty per cent wage in crease to offset the reduction in hours, -.he U. S. P. A. proposes that there shall be ao change in -•/orkinj. teru ditions in aiffy department that will increa.-e the cost of operations. The manufacturers also ask the right to demand applicants for work to pass a physical examination. Their prop ositions include a request that they be the sole judge of the number of dipping or glaze spraying machines that shall be supervised by one man and that they have the right to sub stitute a 97c per hour day wage rate for the piece work price? for all journeymen male clayworkers when ever they see fit. The entire list of propositions fol low: 1.—That the printing of a new agreement book, as per our under standing in the 1938 Conference, be also understood to be the action of this Conference. 2.—There shall be no change in working conditions that will increase the cost of operations in any depart ment in anv factorv. 3.—That some definite penalty clause shall be written into the new agreement which would place a finan cial penalty on the Brotherhood or its members as a result of illegal strikes and walk-outs causing an in terruption of work and financial loss to the employer. 4.—That journeymen in any recog nized trade in the clay shop be entitled to work at any trade upon the ap proval of the firm. 5.—That all make-up by the firm on piece work jobs be eliminated where the earnings are equal to or greater than the minimum rates. 6.—The firm shall be the sole judge of the number of dipping or glaze spraying machines that shall be su pervised by one journeyman dipper. 7.—That violations of regulations under Paragraph 10 on Page 11 of our Dipping Agreement, shall immediately cease. 8.—Where any firm is paying for boxing cups without the use of starch or other adhesive material, this pay shall be discontinued on and after October 1,1940. 9.—At the option of the firm all ap plicants for work shall be required to pass a physical examination. 10.—The firm shall be the sole judge of the number of tinting machines and stamping machines that shall be oper ated or supervised by one journeyman tinter or stamper. 11.—That it be recognized that cast ing is a two part operation, namely, making and finishing that inasmuch as the finishing of hollowT ware is a much less laborious job than the finish ing of flat ware, which is recognized as a woman's trade, the finishing of hollow ware may be given to female workers with a proper adjustment in casting rates. 12.—That when an item has been protested by either side, and a reason able quantity of the item in question has been made, that the protested item (Continued on Page Two)