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VOL. XXIV. No. 51
By International Labor News Service.
Washington, D. C. "A nation
which lets incapables teach it while
capable men and women only feed,
clothe and amuse it is committing in
tellectual suicide," says the Research
Bulletin of the National Educational
Association for March, 1925. The
Bulletin deals with the salaries of
public school teachers during 1924
25. It says, "Salaries determine to
a great extent:
1. The caliber of the -people at
tracted to the teaching profession.
2. The preparation and training of
teachers.
3. The kind of teachers retained.
4. The morale of the teaching
Staff.
5. The place of teachers in the life
of the community."
Report is Comprehensive
This is the most comprehensive in
quiry on public school salaries yet
issued. It gives salary facts for over
a half a million teachers and school
employes. What is more, it gives this
comprehensive data for this year for
the use of school boards that are actu
ally facing the problem of higher
salaries for better teachers. The data
is so presented that school officers
Can compare the salaries paid in their
local school systems with those paid
in 1,448 other cities.
The studies of the research division
show that during the past two years
teachers' salaries have increased much
faster in city than in country district?
and that superior teachers will be
drawn from the one-teacher country
schools where the median salary is
only $755 a year, unless some means
can be found for paying better sal
aries in those schools.
Wages Determine Teachers' Caliber
Commenting on the report, the
Journal of the National Educational
Association says editorially:
"School boards look to the National
Educational Association for reliable
figures upon which to base advanced
salary schedules. For years the as
sociation's work in this field has been
outstanding.
"The research division of the Asso
Qiation has just published a bulletin
on Public School Salaries in 1924-25,
which is the most comprehensive re
port yet issued. It gives salary facts
*4$or over half a million teachers and
gives this comprehensive data in time
for the use of school boards now actu
ally facing the salary problem.
"A study of this report shows plain
ly that the schools seek their teachers
ill a competitive market. Salaries de
termine largely the caliber of the peo
pie attracted to the profession, the
quality |of their training, the kind of
teachers retained, the morale of the
teaching staff, and the place of teach
ers in the community.
Low Salaries For Teachers
Mean Intellectual Suicide
For Nation, Educators Say
Teachers Deal With Big Problem
"Teachers deal with the greatest
lommon problem of the community—
that of training its young. They
should exercise large influence in de
termining public policies. Much of
their work is rendered futile by con
ditions over which they have no im
mediate control but which they should
greatly influence through their active
performance of the duties of citizen
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ship with the needs of children in
mind.
'Teaching is sacred business. No
true teacher thinks primarily of sal
ary, but every teacher covets for him
self and his fellows an income which
will make possible a life rich and full
in order that there may be abundant
energy for the challenging opportun
ities of the school room. Let us all
stand shoulder to shoulder in a con
tinued demand for higher salaries for
better teachers until every teacher is
enabled to live the kind of life that
we wish the best people in our com
munities to live."
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BOB" IS PUNISHED
BY OLD GUARD
La Follette Losses Offices
in Capitol as Mark of
Foes' Wrath
By International Labor News Service.
Washington, D. C.—Because he has
espoused progressive ideas and be
cause he dared oppose the republican
candidates in the last election, Sena
tor La Follette, of Wisconsin, has
been thrown out of offices he has oc
cupied in the United States capitol
for many years. He also loses the
charrmanship of the committee on
manufactures and ranking position on
other important committees.
The senator has been in the senate
20 years, and stands fifth in the mat
ter of continuous service. He takes
his punishment smilingly, declaring
committee assignments mean little to
him, and that he has more than
enough work in the interest of the
people of Wisconsin to keep him busy
The senator sayg he is watching the
steps being taken to form a new lib
eral party, but has no statement to
make as to his course in the future
except that he will continue to fight
for progressive measures.
Senator La Follette regards his
treatment by the old guard republi
cans as merely another phase of his
training. He laughingly recalls that
when he first came to the senate and
delivered a speech all but one senator
left, and that one was on hand for
the purpose of raising points of order
to embarrass the new senator. Mr
La Follette does not look with favor
upon the plan of Vice President
Dawes to reform the senate rules to
prevent filibustering. The filibuster,
he insists, has been often used to the
advantage of the country.
WANT BETTER COMPENSATION
Des Moines, Iowa—Trade unionists
and sympathizers are urged by Presi
dent Lewis of the State Federation of
Labor to support pending legislation
that will strengthen the Iowa work
men's compensation act.
Master hands built an unusual amount
of hand work into this
$8.00
This means more style, more weat,
more of everything you expect
from fine shoemaking. Tan leather
fashioned over your footshape
with snap and speed—look it over
carefully.
HOME OF BETTER SHOES
109 S.THIRD ST.
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Under the present law an injured
workman is given compensation only
for the injury received. He receives
no compensation for the time he is
incapaciated during the healing period
The proposed law would allow compen
sation during that period.
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Bfy W. C. ROBERTS
Chairman, Legislative Committee,
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Columbus, Ohio.—Exposure of the
un-American "yellow-dog" contracts
before the Ohio legislature has cre
ated consternation among those who
are responsible for them. President
John P. Frey and Secretary Thomas
J. Donnelly, of the Ohio State Federa
tion of Labor, and 250 officials of
labor throughout the state have de
manded that the legislature pass a
bill making these contracts void.
One of the offenders is the Crowell
Publishing Company, of Springfield.
It publishes the Woman's Home Com
panion, The American Magazine,
Farm and Fireside, Colliers' Weekly,
and the Mentor. Every employe of
the concern must sign a contract that
he is not a member of any union and
will not join any union as long as
the Crowell Publishing Company
gives him a job.
Wages Fixed by Contract
Then there is the Shell-Wolfe Com
pany, Mansfield, Ohio. It employs
carpenters. In its "yellow-dog" con
tract it is provided that no employe
may become a member of a union
while working for the company nor
at any time after leaving its employ.
The wages promised is 75 cents per
hour, but the contract contains this
clause:
"Said rate of 75 cents per hour may
be increased or decreased, any such
increase or decrease leaving the re
maining provisions of this agreement
unaffected."
Although the company contracts to
pay 75 cents an hour, it is only tem
porary. At any time it can reduce
wages to any figure desired. The said
contract also contains the following:
"In case of any termination of the
employment or cessation of work by
the employe for any reason, said em
ploye agrees that he will not then or
thereafter in any manner or in any
place attempt to persuade or co
erce others in* refusing to work for
or deal with said employer."
Secretary Donelly charged, in his
address to the joint legislative com
mittee, that no employe of the com
pany who would sign the "yellow-dog"
contract could ever, although he left
the employe of the company, join a
union of carpenters.
Electrical Bosses Join Movement
In Toledo the electrical contractors
have combined to enforce "yellow
dog" contracts. No electrical worker
can secure employment unless he
agrees not to join a union while em
ployed, nor can he join any union
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WITHOUT POWER
(By Courtesy of the American Federationist)
Fight on Anti-Union Tactics
Drives Home Necessity For
Proposed Ohio Legislation
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Exposure of "Yellow Dog" Contracts
Brings Panic to Unfair Employers
after ceasing work. The employers
reserve the right to fix wages and
working conditions at will.
Secretary Donnelly also quoted a
definition of the United States com
mission on industrial relations of the
union and so-called open shops. It
said:
"The union shop is a shop where
wages, the hours of employment and
the general conditions of employment
are fixed by joint agreement between
the employer and the trades union.
The non-union shop is one where no
joint agreement exists and where the
wages, the hours of labor and the gen
eral conditions of employment are
fixed by the employer without co
operation with any trades union."
Contract Right Has Limitations
In his address to the joint commit
tee Attorney Timothy S. Hogan said
that the supreme court of the United
States and also of Ohio had said over
and over again that the right to make
contracts has certain limitations. He
added:
"It is not boundless. It is subject
always to the welfare of the state,
when it is state legislation and sub
ject always to the nation when it is
national legislation."
He quoted many authorities show
ing that the "yellow-dog" contracts
were against public policy.
Frey Makes Scathing Attack
President Frey made a scathing at
tack on "yellow-dog" contracts which
even the representatives of employers
who had appeared had repudiated. He
continued:
"I did not expect that any repre
sentative of employers in Ohio would
appear this evening and argue that
this form of contract was one which
they approved because to argue that
a contract which compels a wage
earner to surrender his trades union,
which pledges him not to belong to
any trade union while in the employ
ment of the firm, is so un-American,
so destructive of our fundamental lib
erties, so contradictory in itself, that
no employers' representative would
be expected to publicly say that as
a representative of organized employ
ers, he believed his organization justi
fied in using ways and means to make
organization among the employes an
impossibility.
"We are Americans. We do not
believe in class distinctions and in
class privileges, and for that reason
I was quite convinced that, at least
so far as a public hearing was con
cerned, no employer would arise to
defend the proposition that employ
ers, because they were such, had an
^•inherent right to privileges and op
portunities which they were justified
in denying to other American citi
zens because they happened to be
wage earners."
Marion Cited as "Horrible Example
President Frey then referred to
Marion, Ohio, which is known as the
"American Plan City." He said the
employers of that place have a 100
per cent organization, and added:
"The merchants, the banks, the
newspapers, are all members of this
same organization. They did not want
to have those frightful conditions de
velop in their city that follow where
organized wage earners receive high-*
er wages than the non-union, and
therefore spend so much more money
over the merchants' counters in the
town. Their plan was to have a card
index of every male and female em
ploye, with their wage rate and the
kind of workers they were. The em
ployers have a secretary and as soon
as an employer puts on a new hand,
his record is sent to the central office.
"These wage earners are not per
mitted to leave one employer and se
cure employment in another plant in
that city unless the previous employer
gives his written consent to the sec
retary of the employers' association.
Labor to Fight for Human Rights
"That is a condition which we are
anxious should not extend further, be
cause, as trades unionists, we not only
have made our fight to maintain our
form of government, but we are as
determined as any American citizens
ever have been since this became a
free country to protect every guar
anty of human liberty that exists in
our constitution."
HOW CAN FREE
WORKERS MEET
THIS COMPETITION?
Nashville, Tenn.—The effect of con
vict labor competition with free labor
was illustrated in this city when
local department store advertised
Happy Home house dresses at 99
cents each.
These garments are made by the
Sterling Manufacturing Company in
the Tennessee state prison. The com
pany pays the state 70 cents per dozen
for producing these dresses. The fac
tory and power are furnished the
company without cost by the state.
NON-UNIONISTS "RE
SIGN"
Jackson, Mich.—The Michigan elec
trie railway, operating in Battle
Creek, Kalamazo, Lansing and thi
city, failed to break a union shop
contract with the Amalgamated As
sociation of Street Car Men.
The unionists insisted that the em
ployment of non-unionists was a vio
lation of the contract. The company
refused to act until nearly the time
set for a strike, and then accepted
the non-unionists' "resignation."
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HAMILTON, OHIO, FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 1925 ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR
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By International Labor News Service.
Washington, D. C.—r"It will stand
for a long time as a blot upon our
hi story that no better outlook has
!'m afforded for the worthy aged
than the county almshouse," writes
Dr. John A. Lapp, director of the
social action department, National
Catholic Welfare Conference, in ad
vocating old age pensions in the cur
rent American Labor Legislative Re
view.
"The old age pension system," Dr.
Lapp says, "will not take away the
necessity for almshouses for those
who are completely incapacitated, but
it will take out of the almshouses the
worthy aged, and it will provide for
thousands who now live an uncertain
unhappy existence.
"'Old veterans of labor, exhausted
iy many years of ill-requited toil, and
ople of bettei birth and breeding
duced to poverty and old age by
me disaster ought not to be left to
sociate in the almshouse with the
worn-out veterans of dissipation,' the
eble minded, the chronically sick,
iie doddering and demented humans
nd the dregs of social life. As we
ave already taken out of almshouses
the children, the insane, the acutely
ick, and other special classes, so we
hould now take out the one remain
ing class of worthy people who de
rve a better fate than to end worthy
ves in such surroundings."
Problem Grows More Acute
Analyzing the present greater need
for old age uensions, Dr. Lapp writes
as
follows: "The problem of aged de
pendency grows steadily more acute
here are more old people, both actu
ally
and relatively, and the number is
likely to continue to increase. The
-pap of life has increased, and the
improvement seems likely to continue
as one after another of the destroy
ers of middle life is conquered. While
the number of aged people has in
creased, the opportunities for earning
a living for such people have decreas
ed.
"In industry today, with its highly
organized mechanical operations, the
aged worker is not wanted. The dead
line of employment is being pushed
down steadily. It long since passed
below fifty-five. It is in many indui
tries approaching forty-five. Pre
carious employment is already the
lot of millions beyond fifty in indus
trial pursuits. It is common to think
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On Nation, Says Dr. Lapp,
Urging Old-Age Pensions
Established 1856
IMPORTANT EASTER SALE
Dresses, Coats,
Millinery
Sizes 16 to 44
Figured Crepes, Stripes,
Pongee Checks
Most every shade shown. Ensemble Costumes—
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of men in agriculture as being im
mune from this precariousness, but
for the mass of workers on the farm,
whether owners, tenants or laborers,
the condition of the aged grows
steadily worse.
'In industry and in agriculture
there are also increased risks due to
the excessively individualistic organ
ization of business and social life.
Men no longer are able by self-reli
ance to insure themselves against the
calamities which befall. Unemploy
ment is quite beyond the control of
the great mass of men acting indi
vidually. The risks of sickness, acci
dent, unemployment and business
failures are so great that a man is
fortunate indeed who finds his way
safely amidst these shoals to the
haven of economic security in old age.
Stabilization Beginning
"To be sure, we are beginning to
tabilize these conditions somewhat.
But when all of the social means that
are possible are developed to offset
the risks of life, we may expect a
much larger percentage of the people
to reach and pass through the stages
of old age in comparative security.
Pending those social readjustments,
we have the present unhappy out
look."
OPPOSE CONVICT LA
BOR
Kansas City, Mo.—Officers of the
State Federation of Labor urge union
ists and sympathizers to assist in the
fight to abolish prison contract labor
in this state.
The unionists insist that prisoners
should work at productive labor for
the use of the state and its political
subdivisions, rather than compete
with free labor.
Prison administration officials have
expressed a willingness to co-operate
with organized labor and Missouri
manufacturers are in sympathy with
this movement.
EMPLOYMENT BETTER
Albany, N. Y.—Factory employ
ment in this state went up between
1 and 2 per cent from January to
February. This increase, the state
department of labor reports, is larger
than the corresponding one in 1923 or
1924.
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