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Officials At
L. U. 6 Party
In Wheeling
Honor Veterans ^4
For War Service th.
Wheeling, W. Va.—One of the
most successful social hffairs in
.the past several years took place
in the Trades and Labor Assembly
w est emergency.
Some three hundred were pres
JBaent and danced to the melodies of
^^pHarry Pace’s orchestra, which fur-. 9
nished the music from 8:30 until 1
-12. Plenty of refreshments and I
‘--by the able committee headed by I
Brother Louis Mountford.
In a spirit of co-operation, the I
Warwick China Co., here in Wheel- I wew York N Y A substantial
fing donated a finely decorated 53 incXYT minium
piece dinner set, and was won by I provision of the Fair Labor Stand
1 Mary Giovinazzo. lards Act—in line with the original
*. tO- our thanks I jntent of the Congress and with
to the firm for it s contribution, I present economic conditions—
Also to the committee on arrange- lstands out as the most important
Tments. These brothers and sisters I prOpOSai to amend this basic wage
certainly worked diligently thatlan(j Rour jaW( which went into ef
the rank and file of our member-1 f^t eight years ago on October
(ship might enjoy a fine evening. I 9a
Local 6’s O. C. is taking this! L,,*. 1 '5t
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Sharpened
Anti-Labor
rU Workers^W^rned
Be On Guard
Chicugo (FP) Visioning an- lduring. the iast 8e8sion of the Con
other stiff ahead against I gross, the 40 cents per hour mini
anti-labor legislation on both na- lmum wage provision under the law
jtional and state fronts, the AFLLg pitifully inadequate today the
convention here Oct. 17 called on I minimum wage must be increased
workers to acquaint themselves to at least 65 cents an hour.”
with all such measures and “exert
ourselves to bring
feat.”
na n
LaDGF Mill ST tla^fe
fl
.. k
about their de-1 e_
Chicago—Without labor’s* free-(peaceful picketing.
■Pickets Trail
recent battles I au
laws, the reso-1Deliverymen
After reviewing
against repressive
lutions committee reported that it
is “most apprehensive of a recent I San Diego, Calif. (FP)
tendency on the part of state I enraged attempt by the owner of
courts to reestablish the evil of I an “unfair” dry cleaning estab
government by injunction. Ilishment to prevent pickets from
I “The Norris-LaGuardia act was I following his drivers right to the
passed to remove that evil and de-1 customers doorstep fell flat here,
prive the federal courts of juris-1 Robert Montgomery, president
diction to issue injunctions in labor I of the San Diego Dry Cleaners’
disputes. However, many states (Association and owner of the
have not enacted similar laws and (American Cleaners, one of the
a number of courts in many states (city’s largest businesses of its
have issued oldtime injunctions (kind, had demanded that pickets
prohibiting workers from striking, (who followed his drivers to inform
peaceful picketing, boycotting and (customers of the company’s “un
from engaging in any other peace- (fair” listing be arrested as “nuis
ful economic pressure. (ances.”
“Your committee is alarmed and His stand was fully supported
(Tun to Page Two) ,|by Councilman G. C. Crary, him
‘----------------------------------------(self a laundry owner. However, the
sj (council was sobered by the advice
Federation of Labor Conven- (questing public support.”
tion by Edgar L. Warren, Director
of the U. S. Conciliation Service,
U. S. Department of Labor.
With praise for the cooperation
Commissioners of Counciliation
are receiving from the AFL and
its affiliated unions, Mr. Warren Washington (FP)—The night of
declared: “Few people are in a (Oct. 15, as 11 top Nazi war con
position to know better than I, (spirators went to death in Nuern
what heroic efforts your officers |berg, American Prosecutor Robert
have made to maintain industrial (H. Jackson warned President Tru
peace during the most trouble-(man that the work of punishing
some period in our economic his-(war criminals was far from com
^^ory.” (plete.
“I am glad” he said, “that you “Although my personal under
^^^are putting your full reliance on a (taking is at an end,” Jackson re
policy of free collective bargain- (ported in resigning his commission
ing. Today I am pledging to you (as prosecutor, “any report would
the full cooperation of our Serv-(be incomplete and misleading
ice to strengthen the freedom to (which failed to take account of the
bargain. I ask you to remember (general war crimes work that re
that the Conciliation Service ex- (mains undone and the heavy bur
ists solely for the purpose of as- (den that falls to successors in this
sisting both employers and unions (work.
to reach agreements without long “A very large number of Ger
and costly strikes. We have no law (mans who have participated in the
to enforce, no authority to dictate (crimes remains unpunished. There
the terms of any settlement. Our |are many industrialists, militar
services are voluntary.
Certainly, during the next year, (police officials whose
the most important decisions for (not differ from those
(Tun to Paae Two) i (been convicted except
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Hall following our regular month
ly meeting on Monday evening
Oct. 21st. As special guests, the
members of Local Union No. 6
welcomed President James M.
Duffy, Secretary-Treasurer Chas.
7 Jordon and Vice Presidents Geo.
../(Cotton) Turner and James
77 Slaven. Our national executives all
/spoke briefly and President Duffy
’’•■summed up his address expressing
the Trades sincere thanks to the I ADDRESSED DELEGATES—President George M. Harrison (left) Iturers and merchandisers’who take
potters who served in the armed I of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks and AFL Secretary-Treasurer I great pride in displaying the
forces during Uncle Sam’s great-1 George Meany were among the feature speakers at the recent conven-1 Union Label on their products.”
tion. Harrison, chairman of the education committee, declared that I Practically all manufacturers of
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anti-labor organizations were flooding schools with propaganda aimed
at prejudicing children against labor unions. Pictures).
Wage
Is Out Of Date
ne.mpha™e1{ Vy L? Met7
I calf
e Walling, Administrator of
... I the Wage and Hour and Public
(Contracts Divisions, U. S. Depart-
Iment of Labor, in a statement
I marking the anniversary of the
,, I law.
I “Although only eight years old,
I the Wage and Hour Law already
I has been accepted by labor and in
,/l4M$ry alike as a kind of economic
I charter for the low-paid workers
|Af Ajnariea,” Mr.. Walling ^stated.
4 *l*However, as was so clearly shown
|in testimony from all sources
An
(from City Attorney Jean F. Du-
pi _1_ aaj (Paul that the state and U. S.
GOaOHfj Tv 01*1*011
Eon.Janla
QIIS a eaei aTIOfl
(supreme courts had ruled picketing
manifestation of free speech,”
(giving local authorities little or no
(leeway in clamping restrictions on
dom to write its own contracts Secretary-Treasurer Al Pitts of
^here can be little democracy and (Local 424, International Brother
no labor movement in the United (hood of Teamsters commented that
States. This was the message (the picketing tactic was a “legiti
given the delegates to the Ameri- (mate and peaceful means of re­
War Crimes Trials Far From
Complete, Jackson Tells Truman
and
ists, politicians, diplomats
guilt
who
that
does
have
their
Note To Jeraens
Journal: Strike
n mn na
Enters 9th Month
The fight for a union at Jergdhs (Metal Trades Department read the
began in 1940 when the workers (report of the resolutions commit:
organized a union of their own but (tee, of which he is secretary, in
were denied collective bargaining which the body called on the AFL
rights by management. In 1942 (“to take immediate and positive
they were given a federal charter (steps toward terminating the na
by the AFL and won an NLRB (tional Wage Stabilization Board.”
election hands down. But manage- (This section, along with the others,
ment still refused to bargain. (was adopted unanimously by the
The Jergens workers appealed to (650 delegates.
the WLB and won a derision Coupled with these demands, the
ordering the company to pay in- (report hoisted the signals for an
creases and bargain. Management (immediate wage drive, calling high
appealed the derision and the (wages “the distinctively American
(Tun to Page Three) (policy” and warning that “indus
(tries and business undertakings
UNUSUAL FIRM GETS
UNUSUAL CONTRACT I
It provides a wale »40 to
eve'?r»r^'moaXtfaof
LliStt!!l«l "t of incr“8,1 output," the re-
every three months to adjust wage I _n_a ..
rates to the cost of living. I AFL ^nions it declared, “must
Expressing satisfaction in the
precedent of international judg
ment of war criminals, Jackson
contended, however, that in his
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t®ge otters ilera
A.
A
Union Label
Show Opens
On Tuesday
I Fetters To Have
I /Feature Display
I The vanguard of potters to
I the pottery exhibit at the Union
I Label Exhibition in St. Louis will
■leave East Liverpool thia week en)d
Ito have everything in readiness f4r
I the opening of the show on Tue.9
Iday, Oct. 29. ’J/u
I President James M. Duffy, third
I vice president of the Union Label
I Trades Department of the Ameri
Ican Federation of Labor, sponsors
I of the show, said this week,
“Booth space has been sold to ca
I parity and is being rapidly allo
jcated to qualified union manufac-
ceramic products, employing mem-
--------------(Federated '__________ I bers of the National Brotherhood
I of Operative Potters under a work-
I tion, will display their ware at the
IPortunity enabling visitors at the
cessing of ware from the fmt
Burbank, Calif. (FP) Walter 18toK®s to the finished prododt,
Winchell, the man who knows the I tends to be one of the leading feat
inside story of everything and tells Iure displays at the Exhibition,
all to millions of radio listerners I The salute to America on the
via the Jergens Journal, is keeping Uirst day of the Exhibition—Taes
it. a dead aerret I day, October 29—will be a broad
least from St. Louis over the net
out members or the Interrmtion* it
.1 Brotherhood of Teamsters who fckn tl,€
have been on strike for eiriit I Company» fr0?* 12:00 noon to
nave Ibeen on strike tor eight 112 8( cgT TRe wiU
months at the local plant of his I Governor phn DonneUy of Mis.
Vnnu’ til of1 tKa umv*lrl tomozl 1
know that the world famed liber- St ^Went wi||iBm Gwe„
al” commentator is being backed k
by a company which could give T„a8nrer GMrge Me’any of
even S. L. Avery a few lessons in Di
umonbustmg. Exhibition, I. M. Omburn.
The workers, members of Gen-1
oral Warehousemen’s Local 598,1____ _1 spi
have been fighting for six years I
for union recognition and wage in-1
creases. After the company had I
three times refused to -abide by I
War Labor Board decisions order-
Ask Fair Wage For
Services Rendered i
men walked out in disgust on Feb.
15.
The company’s answer was to
continue its unionbusting, law
breaking tactics by sending a let-( By TRAVIS K. HEDRICK
ter to every worker telling him he Chicago (FP) Wheeling into
was fired. There has been no pro- (action on the heels of President*
duction at the Burbank plant since Truman’s announcement lifting
then and though the company has (price control on meats, the AFL
shipped its products (including the (convention called for removal of
lotion which gives us Winchell’s (all controls but those on rents and
“lotions of love”) from outside |demanded dissolution of the Wage
plants, very few Los Angeles (Stabilization Board as it prepared
drugstores are carrying the scab i for an all-otft wage drive.
product. President John P. Frey of the
ciency and waste. Business enter-
Richmond, Calif. (FP) The|Pri8e« that can pay high wages
Davis Auto Exchange, only firm |ana n°t are ®ther shortsighted
in the country in the business of |as_,J? future prosperity or else un
shipping used auto parts to cus- (willing to shoulder the full costs
tomers, has signed a contract with °f maximum prosperity.”
the United Auto Workers as un-1 After fair rates of pay have
usual as the business itself. |b««n, determined by management
exercise good judgment and dis
cretion to secure our gains at the
least cost to ourselves and the
community. Our unions must be
(courageous, far-sighted and insis­
parts were at lower levels and |teat «pon wa«e that compen*
have been less conspicious.” |8a^u°r 8€rvlcea lriven
Jackson said his deputy, Brig. The *a*e earne«’ of the U' S*
Gen. Telford Taylor, “has assem- are Production partners our
bled a staff and prepared a pro l*1^ an^ prosperous industries
gram of prosecutions against rep- (Tun to Page Six)
resentatives of all the important
segments of the Third Reich in-
AMVETS Urge Raise
eluding a considerable number of |t_ Traininir Pov
industrialists and financiers, lead-|in
ing cabinet ministers, top SS and
police officials and militarists.”
He said they were making a
careful analysis of the Nuernberg
decision “to determine any effects
of the acquital of Schacht and von
Papen upon this plan of prosecu
tion of industrialists and financi
ers who are clearly subject to
prosecution on such specific
charges as the use of slave labor.”
training ray
I Washington (FP) Following
I the lead of the American Legion
I in protesting the hastily-enacted
I $200 monthly income ceiling on
■veterans training on the job un
der the GI bill of Rights, AMVETS
National Commander Jack Hardy
Oct. 8 said the limit is “inadequate
and inequitable.”
Hardy said the AMVETS “hope
the next Congress will take the
remedial action* of allowing the
Veterans Administration to fix ap
propriate ceilings, as determined
by the economic factors in various
parts of the country.
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EAST LIVERPOOL, OHIO,’THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1946
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ON INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS—AFL
sentative Robert J. Watt (left) and AFL 2nd Vice President Matthew
Woll addressed the convention on international relations. Watt told
delegates that action on the International Labor Organziation’s request
for recognition will come before the United Nations General Assembly
Oct. 24. Woll spoke about efforts to consolidate AFL relations with
South American labor unions. (Fe erated Pictures).
Local Union 124
Favors Renewal
Of School Levy
Local Union 124 at their meeting
Tuesday evening endorsed the re
newal of the 2-mill operating
school levy and urged all members
to see that their immediate fami
lies support the measure at the
polls on Nov. 5th.
Bros. Claire Armstrong and
Harold West, delegates to the re
cent West Virginia State Federa
tion of Labor convention, made a
very good report of the activities
of the state body and what they
have accomplished during the past
year. Bro. Armstrong was honor
ed at the state meeting by being*
chosen district vice president, and
will head a campaign drive in the
tri-state district to have all locals
affiliate with the state group,
whose portion of membership are
employed in the state of West Vir
ginia.
With the social season at hand
the entertainment committee is
ready to start the ball rolling and
would like to have the opinion, uC,
tit! membership asto’Just—what
kind of entertainment they would
like. If you have a suggestion to
offer, come to our next meeting
and discuss it with the committee.
Members holding withdrawal
cards and returning to the trade
must deposit same within thirty
days or the card becomes null and
void and the holder of such card
shall be declared suspended.
President Armstrong urged
every member to give generously
to the fund now being raised to
aid our fellow workers in Man
nington, W. Va. Their fight is our
fight, and it behooves each and
every one of us to support them
one hundred per cent.—O. C. 124.
Open Campaign
To "Unseat Bilbo"
New York (FP)—A campaign
New York (FP) A campaign to
send Sen. Theodore G. Bilbo back
to Mississippi for good was opened
by the National Civil Rights Con
gress Oct. 17 at an “Unseat Bilbo”
dinner here.
Object of the campaign is to
obtain one million signatures on a
petition demanding Bilbo’s expul
sion from the Senate.
Already under investigation by
a congressional committee on
charges that he accepted a $25,000
campaign contribution from a war
contractor, Bilbo was put on the
griddle by Rep. Helen Gahagan
Douglass, singer Paul Robeson and
other speakers. They charged the
polltax senator was intimidating
Negroes to prevent them from vo
ting in the Democratic primary in
his state last July 2.
Hyman Blumberg, state chair
man of the American Labor party,
said of Bilbo: “The record shows
how he has referred to millions of
our citizens of Italian origin as
’dagoes’, that he has reviled our
citizens who stem from the Jewish
race as ’kikes’, that he has called
our citizens of the Negro race
‘niggers.’
The diners were entertained
with a skit The Gentleman from
Mississippi, tracing Bilbo’s career
in Politics. It included the remind
er that in 1910 the Mississippi
state senate passed a resolution
calling its colleague Bilbo “unfit to
sit with honest, upright men in
respectable legislative body.”
a
SUE COMPANY FOR $60,000
’'San Francisco (FP) Leona
Graves and Beulah Gibbons, or
ganizers for the Department Store
Employees Union, have sued
Raphael Weill & Co. for $60,000
damages for “nervous shock, an
guish, humiliation and disgrace”
resulting from eviction from the
■tore while they were
their lawful business’ ’of organ
izing employees.
'pursuing
Trenton, N. J.—All hak been
very quiet on the Trenton Pottery
front for quite some time but
it looks as though we are going to
be awakened for a while at least.
Every once in a while some
small group has a grievance so
they appear at the Local and put
over a motion for their benefit.
Should the motion not meet the
approval of some of the rest of
us who are not present, we im
mediately blame the Local, forget
ting we are to blame for being
absent and not presenting and
maintaining the other side of the
question.
This procedure m^y cause seri
ous trouble some day and we
would not be surprised to hear of
other locals haring similar trouble.
The noise that awoke us this time
relates to the conveyor system of
casting sanitary. We now have
three of these outfits, two for
tanks and one for lavatories. On
October 14 a night shift was
started. Previous to starting, these
men came to the Local and asked
that they rotate with the day crew
and
was
tion
call
more representative opinion.
after much discussion that
decided on in spite of a mo
te lay it over for one week,
a special meeting and get a
We believe the majority feel
that rotation is the only fair way,
but some of the day crew thought
they were having something pull
ed over on them and others claim
they were promised when taking
conveyor jobs they would not be
asked to work night shifts.
One thing that all have agreed
upon is that the present offer of
five cents an hour extra is not
enough to compensate for all the
inconvenience of working nights.
The Conference Committee will
take this up with the firm and we
sincerely hope something will be
done about it.
At present the rotation is to
take place every four weeks as it
was suggested. This would give
the men a chance to get accustom
ed to sleeping during the day,
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1,621,816 CARS SOLD
FIRST EIGHT MONTHS
Detroit—According to a report
from the Automobile Manufactur
ers’ Association, factory sales of
American-made passenger automo
biles and trucks during the first
eight months of this year number
ed 1,621,816, compared to 2,849,
879 during a
1941. In this
total number
were 1,097,065
and coaches.
t.
International Repre­
Peaceful Period
Threatened Says
Scribe From 45
similar period in
year’s output the
of passenger cars
and 524,751 trucks
Prices Zoom To High Level As
Decontrol Sharpens Inflation
New York (FP) Even before
meat began reappearing on long
empty counters throughout the U.
S. Oct. 15, butchers were posting
notices of price increases ranging
from 25 per cent to 100 per cent.
Although President Truman’s
decontrol order was not expected
to end the overall shortage of
meat obtained from cold storage
and black market dealers. Former
OPA ceilings were left in the saw
dust as many butchers demanded,
and got, a flat “dollar-a-pound for
everything you see.”
In Chicago, cattle, hog and
sheep prices staged the greatest 1
day advances in the meat indus
try’s history, but receipts were be
low those of a week ago, both
locally and nationally.
Top grade hogs jumped in one
day from $16.25 to $27.50 a hun
dred pounds, an all-time record.
Cattle prices reached $28.75 a hun
dred pounds, short of the all-time
Previous to this action George
Gouge, AFL’s southern organiza
tion director, disclosed that the
AFL had gained nearly 200,000
members in the southern states
campaign. President William
Green expressed the hope that the
AFL would come to its 1947 or
1948 convention with 10 million
members. The AFL now claims
more than 7 million members.
The pledge of the AFL to obtain
a six hour work day and five day
work week was embodied in a res
olution that was adopted. It point
ed out that one of the main objects
of every trade union organization
is to obtain shorter working hours
as technological improvements
cause “less and less” workers to be
needed.
Just before the convention ended
the delegates went on record as
“condemning the typrannical, des
potic government” of Marshall
Tito’s regime in Yuooslavia. A
resolution adopted bytne delegates
(Tun to Page Three) /.
Says MacArthur
Wars Against
Japanese Unions
New York (FP)—Gen. Douglas
MacArthur is warring against
Japan’s fast-growing unions in an
attempt to swing Japan to the
right and strengthen the hold of
the Zaibatsu financial interests,
Amerasia charges in its October
issue.
Although Japanese labor has
moved at a remarkable pace with a
total union membership of almost
three million, “quasi-slave labor
conditions continue to exist in
Japan under the nose of the occu
pation forces,” says the magazine
article, fcrsatz Democracy for
Japan. “The boss system, child
labor, and other vicious practices
are still not abolished.
“The reason for this is that al
though our directives commit us to
a policy favoring independent ac
tion on the part of the people, in
the past few months whenever the
people have taken steps to advance
their own interests under the
terms of the Potsdam declaration,
we have not only obstructed these
attempts, but actually intervened
in a spirit hostile to that declara
tion.”
Intervention on labor issues by
the Supreme Command Allied
Powers “has always occurred when
labor attempted either to express
itself politically or when its
tions appeared to embarrass
Yoshida cabinet and Zaibatsu
terests,” it says:
MEMBER
INTERNATIONAL LABOR
NEWSSERVICE
Thirty-Hour Week
Urged By A. F. of
As Convention Ends■
ac
the
in-
record set last August during the
price control holiday, but $8.50
over the former ceiling of $20.25.
Lambs also scored an all-time
high, going up $4 to $25.
Receipts at the 12 leading mar
kets in the U. S. were 29,000 cat
tle, compared with 41,100 the week
before. Agriculture Department
reports showed that the week be
fore Truman yielded to demands
of the big meat packers, meat pro
duction had gone up 29 per cent.
Truman’s action, according to
Agriculture Department experts,
would mean a little more meat
now but a smaller overall supply
during the next few months.
By the time a steady flow of
meat comes into retail markets,
prices will probably level off to at
least 85 per cent more than the
OPA ceilings, observers predicted.
Lifting of meat controls was ex
pected to open the floodgates of.
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$2.00 PER YEAR
Bi 'A 2s
AIMS AT 10 MILLION MEMBERS
IN ADVOCATING MEMBERSHIP
DRIVE TO SUPPORT PETRILLO
The 65th annual convention of the American Federation
of Labor concluded its nine day meeting Oct. 18 in the Mor
rison hotel by urging the membership to conduct an intensive
organization drive thruout the United States, Canada, ahd
Alaska. It also called on AFL unions to strive for the estab
lishment of a 30 hour work week.
Pointing to the “outstanding success” of the AFL’s
sourthern membership drive, the convention committee on
organization, headed by Vice President William C. Doherty,
recommended that the AFL executive council formulate plans
whereby sufficient funds may beO—
raised for an over-all membership
campaign.
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AFL Votes
Boost In Per
Capita Tax
Chairman David Dubinsky of the
law committee offered the execu
tive council’s report and was im
mediately followed by delegate
James Killen of the Pulp Sulphite
& Paper Mill Workers, who offer
ed a minority report.
Killen’s report was an amend
ment to make the differential come
into operation at 300,000 members
rather than 200,000. “Basically we
believe there should be no differ
ential whatever,” he said amid
vigorous applause. He charged
that the original vote in the law
committee was 11 to 4 in favor of
his position but that overnight the
members switched to vote 17 to 2
for the council.
Delegate Peter G. Noll of United
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Massachusetts
Raises Minimum
Wage Standard 7
Boston (ILNS)—A new mini
mum wage order, effective Oct. 15,
benefits thousands of the lowest
paid white collar workers in Mas
sachusetts. The new schedule of
minimum pay will be on a trial
basis for 3 months, until Jan. 15,
1947. At the end of that period,
the Commissioner of the Depart
ment of Labor and Industry may
make permanent his “directory
order.”
Experienced clerical and techni
cal workers in all general business
offices, hospitals and radio broad
casting studios will receive a mini
mum of 60 cents an hour, or $21.60
for a 36-hour week, under this
order. Inexperienced employees
will be paid a minimum of 55 cents
an hour.
The existing wage law in Mas
sachusetts, passed in 1937 and ap
plicable only to women and chil
dren, established a minimum wage
of $16 a week for experienced
clerical employees and $15 for in
experienced clerical workers.
All messengers will now receive
a basic wage rate of 55 cents an
hour, or $19.80 for a 36-hour week.
Exeprienced messengers formerly
were paid a minimum of $13.50 a
week. Beginners were paid a 112
weekly minimum.
Federal wage law calls for a 40
cents an hour minimum,
salaries, however, have been
above the 55-cent an hour
mum ..established ..by ..the LWar
Labor Board.
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Smaller Unions
Oppose Measure
Chicago (FP)—After a
parade of AFL executive council
members had beaten down a vocal
opposition, the 65th convention
Oct. 16 adopted a report of its
law committee increasing per
capita taxes to help carry on a
broadened program of organiza
tion.
Charges from delegates of the
smaller unions that the council’s
recommendation favored the larger
AFL affiliates by granting them
a lower per capita tax after 200,
000 members resounded through
the convention hall.
The council proposed changing
the pMSMit per capita tax of 1%
cents per member per month up
to 300,000 members, 1 cent over
300,000 and 35 cents per member
for federal labor unions and local
unions to 2 cents per member per
month up to 200,000, IV- cents per
member over that, and 36 cents
per member for federal labor
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