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VOL. XXIII. No. 16
By International Labor Uews Service.
Washington, D. C.—Indication that
the International Federation of Trade
Unions, with headquarters at Amster
dam, Holland, is becoming at least
suspicious of the tactics of the Red
(Russian) Trade Union International
is given in the press service of the
International Federation.
The federation's press department
reports that the organization's bu
reau, meeting recently at Amsterdam,
repudiated all responsibility for the
decision taken at the Berlin confer
ence of transport workers, when the
International Transport Workers'
Federation and the soviet organiza
tion of transport workers agreed to
work in alliance.
The action of the bureau was taken
in answer to a communication from
the All-Russian Central Council of
Trade Unions protesting against
propaganda within the Amsterdam In
ternational directed at the results of
the Berlin conference. The Red cen
tral council declared that "All the
Russian trade unions protest
energetically against any attempt to
destroy the agreement concluded at
the international conference in Ber
lin."
In addition to reporting the stand
taken on the Berlin conference, the
press service of the Amsterdam In
ternational complains of a discussion
held by the executive committee of
the Red Trade Union International
held June 25 in Moscow. The sub
ject of the discussion was "What shall
be the form of organization of the
opposition within the trade unions of
the Amsterdam International?"
The press service apparently takes
the view that the question just quoted
was a strange subject for discussion
by an organization that has repeat
edly emphasized the necessity for a
"united front" on the part of organ
ized labor the world over. It says
that although the program had been
decided on some time before the
meeting, an addition was made of
the question, which the "Pravda,"
soviet organ, "explained" was "nec
essary on account of the dissatisfac-
tion expressed by minorities on the
side of the Red International with
the inadequate form of organization."
Amsterdam Questions Red
Sincerity While Moscow
Continues 'Boring Within'
After pointing out that there is
much talk in Russia at present about
the "collapse of the Amsterdam In
ternational" and telling of Soviet at
tacks on the Amsterdam organization,
the press service concludes its com
ment on the subject with the follow
ing scathing statement:
"Their (the Red leaders') object
evidently was to make political capi
tal of the incident and to show that
all the world" is at their fee. Noth
ing was heard about the interests of
the workers: the really important
thing was that the Amsterdam In
ternational should collapse, and that
all Europe should hasten to range it
self behind the standard of the Red
International."
NEW HOSPITAL
At Union Printers' Home
Old Age Pensions
Are Many
Indianapolis, Ind.—Removal of the
hospital of the Union Printers' Home
at Colorado Springs, Colo., to make
way for a ne\y hospital unit has been
undertaken, and for a period of two
months the institution will be press
ed for facilities for caring for in
mates, it has been announced at head
quarters of the International Typo
gi*aphical Union here.
Delay in acceptance of applicants
for admission will be unavoidable
until early fall, it was said.
The old hospital building will be
reconstructed on another site near
the main building, and a new modern
hospital building will be erected on
its present site. The home will then
be prepared to care for a greater
number of inmates than ever before,
including victims of locomotor ataxia
and other ailments, for whom there
has not been a suitable place in the
past.
More than G5 applications for old
age pensions within the International
Union were made in the month end
ing in July, according to Secretary
Treasurer J. W. Hays. Nearly all the
applications will be acted on favor
ably. In order to obtain the union
pension it is required that a member
shall have been a card holder for
twenty years and that he shall be
more than sixty years old.
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Gary Hands Out More Bunk
on Eight-Hour Day
Washington.—"Tainted with bluff
and insincerity" is one of President
Gompers' pointed comments on the
promise of Judge Gary to President
Harding that the eight-hour day in the
steel industry will be established
"when there is a surplus of labor
available."
I advise steel workers not to ex
pect too much as a result of the ex
change of cordialities between the
president and Judge Gary," said Pres
ident Gompers. "The president sug
gested to Mr. Gary that the 12-hour
day might be abolished 'when there is
a surplus of labor available,' and Mr.
Gary puts those words in quotation
marks in his response, and agrees
with the grace and tact of a born dip
lomat that, of course, it will be as the
president wishes.
'When there is a surplus of labor
available' the judge, doubtless, thinks
wages can be cut, and he, doubtless,
hopes this 'surplus' may be hastened
by wide-open immigration.
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"The whole thing is tainted with
bluff and insincerity. The steel trust
will cater first to profits, and it will
not do anything that will even hold
the possibility of jeopardizing profits
until driven to it either by irresistible
public opinion or the force of organi
zation among the steel workers.
"The one sure way of ending the 12
hour day in the steel mills is for the
steel workers, through organization,
to refuse to remain slaves to the steel
trust. The Gary 'when' letter is a
travesty and a particularly cruel one.
That the president should consider it
worth giving to the public as a serious
promise is amazing."
SIGN SINGLE CON
TRACTS
Atlantic City, N. J.—The conven
tion of the National Brotherhood of
Operative Potters refused to commit
the organization to the policy of re
fusing to deal with any manufacturer
willing to pay the union's wage rates
or meet other conditions during
general strike until every manufac
turer accepted terms with the organ
ization.
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Phoenix, Ariz.—The local Chamber
of Commerce has declared for the
anti-union shop, and organized work
ers are protesting the action of the
city commission in appropriating sev
eral thousand dollars to the chamber.
The Arizona Labor Journal makes
the point that the business men can
declare for the anti-union shop as they
choose, but trade unionists object to
being taxed for this propaganda.
WIRE MEN GAIN
Deruit, Mich.—A board of arbitra
tion has awarded wage increases to
electrical workers employed on the
city's municipal street car lines, in
its decision the arbitrators made this
interesting reference to the commis
sion that operates the system:
"We do not find it necessary to pass
upon the charter provision making it
mandatory for the city to pay the
highest prevailing wage to skilled
mechanics. The commission contends
this provision is not binding upon it
as they are also directed under the
charter to manage the street rail
ways as a private busings."
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By International Labor News Service.
Washington, D. C.—Great progress
has been made in improving working
conditions in backward Eastern coun
tries as a result of the international
labor conferences of the League of
Nations, says W. A. Appleton, secre
tary of the General Federation of
Trade Unions of Great Britain.
In the annual report of the Federa
tion, just received here, Mr. Appleton
directs attention to a statement in
the treaty of Versailles, which em
phasizes the fact that "the failure of
any nation to adopt humane conditions
of labor is an obstacle in the way
of other nations which desire to im
prove the conditions in their own
countries." He continues:
"It is worthy of notice that great
progress has been made in Eastern
countries, where working conditions
are admittedly much below Western
standards. India has, as a result of
the international labor conferences,
reduced her statutory working hours
in industry from 72 a week to 60,
and in mines to 54. She has also
taken measures to prevent the exploi
tation of women and child labor by
prohibiting the employment of women
and children at night and by raising
the minimum age for employment of
children from 9 to 12.
"Japan, whose hours of labor in
some industries, such as the silk in
dustry, exceed 90 hours a week, has
just passed acts regulating the em
ployment of women and children in
industry, including the prohibition of
the labor of children under 14, and
has in preparation similar measures
for the reduction of hours of labor.
Sweeping reforms in factory condi
tions are also proposed in China."
Mr. Appleton reviews briefly what
has been accomplished by the four
annual conferences held to date, ex
plaining that the decisions of the con
ferences take the form of treaties on
labor conditions to be ratified' by each
state or of recommendations, which
lay down the broad lines that the
legislation of each state should fol
low on a particular question affect
ing labor conditions.
League Labor Conferences
Bring Better Conditions
To Workers of Far East
The latest figures show that 73
ratifications of treaties have been for
mally registered with the League of
Nations. Twelve countries have ad
hered to the Berne convention of 1906
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regarding the prohibition of the use
of white phosphorus in match making.
Ninety-four measures have been
finally adopted by legislative author
ities to give effect partially or wholly
to the provisions of treaties and rec
ommendations, while 96 have been
proposed and are before different par
liaments.
The next conference will open at
Geneva, Switzerland, October 22. The
main subject will be the general prin
ciples for the organization of factory
inspection.
Factory inspection is declared by
the treaty of Versailles to be of spe
cial importance for the regulation of
the conditions of labor, it being held
very important that all countries
should possess organizations which
are approximately equal in effective
ness.
GARYISM SCORED
Church Men Everywhere
Unite in Condemning
Long Work Day
Washington.—Church men of all
creeds are united in opposition to
Judge Gary's letter to the president
that the 1'2-hour day will be abolished
when there is a surplus of labor.
Without exception the clergymen
and laity oppose the steel trust's ex
cuse for perpetuating the long work
day. In not a single instance can the
trust point to one friend among the
church men.
The church men's position is illus
trated by this statement by the de
partment of social action, national
Catholic welfare council:
"This statement (by Judge Gary)
assumes that even if common labor
in the steel mills get good wages, an
eight-hour day and decent working
conditions, the steel industry will still
have to depend on new immigrants
and negroes brought up from the cot
ton fields to do its work.
"It also assumes that men working
an eight-hour day will work at no
higher efficiency than men working a
12-hour day, and that the steel com
panies intend to get the same high
profits, store up the same surpluses
and not increase the efficiency of the
mamjrement."
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