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No. 5
By International Labor News Service.
New York City.—The Queens
plumbers' local has obtained an in
junction against the Building Trades
Employers' Association and the Mas
ter Plumbers' Association to halt the
city-wide lockout that has been de
clared because one plumbers' local is
on strike for increase in wages from
$12 to $14 a day.
If the temporary restraining order
is sustained the plumbers are likely
to sue for the wages they lost when
the employers broke the contract,
which has until 1931 to run. The
local contends the employers have
entered into an unlawful conspiracy to
Brooklyn men who are on strike.
Lost Wages Reach Big Sum
Wages at $66 a week which the
7,000 men are losing will run up to
nearly half a million dollars the mas
ter plumbers might have to pay if
they do not back water. Hasty con
ferences have been held between offi
cials of the United Association of
Plumbers and Steamfitters and the
master plumbers to adjust the situa
tion. Secretary Thomas E. Burke is
in charge of the plumbers' side of the
controversy.
The plumbers are taking the lead
off position for the five-day week. It
is a logical time for such action be
cause in New York as elsewhere there
has been a marked let down in the
building trades. Unemployment has
LONGSHOREMEN'S
COMPENSATION NIL
Washington. Longshoremen and
other harbor workers ai*e placed in
an unfortunate position by the failure
of the recent congress to appropriate
money for the administration of the
longshoremen's compensation act.
The law becomes effective July 1.
After that date suits for damages for
injuries are abrogated, and no steve
doring company may make a contract
to render service for loading or un
loading a vessel without a certificate
from the deputy commissioner of the
district. The United States employ
es' compensation is charged with the
general administration of the act, but
without funds it is placed in an em
barrassing condition.
Althuogh applying'' primarily to
lingshoremen engaged in loading and
unloading vessels, the act includes
also more than a score of crafts or
trades—such as plumbers, painters
and upholsterers—whose work is
called for on an extensive scale in
modern vessels.
Until the enactment of the present
law longshoremen and other harbor
workers, numbering several hundred
thousand, have been in a peculiar po
sition. If injured on a dock, a long
shoreman deceived the benefits of the
state workmen's compensation law,
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Plumbers Get Injunction
To Halt Lockout Declared
By New York City Employers
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from. The season's new leathers fashioned into straps, pumps
and oxfords comprise the showing. And in addition to being
style-right they are price-right at—
$4.50 $5.00 $5.85
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been noted in many branches, carpen
ters, plumbers and bricklayers being
out of work in considerable numbers
until recently. With not enough work
to go around, the five-day week should
be encouraged. However, the employ
ers will fight this to the last. Their
determination is shown by the lock
out of plumbers' locals that have noth
ing to do with the Brooklyn contro
versy involving 3,000 men.
The S. W. Straus & Co., reports a
sharp decline in building. According
to the company's national survey
every American city shows a falling
off in building permits. The national
loss for Mai*ch was 8 per cent com
pared to the same loss last year, and
a 9% per cent decline in 25 leading
cities. In Pennsylvania the drop is
surprising, 18 per cent for the first
quarter of this year compared with
the same period in 1926.
Too Many Small Houses
Building continues fairly brisk in
New England. New York operations
have revived in the last month of
good weather and there is a seasonal
demand for bricklayers, lathers and
plasterers. However, here as else
where, there is a sharp decline in the
number of small houses started. There
are acres of flimsy frame houses that
are a drug on the market and many
contractors are facing bankruptcy be
cause there is an over supply of this
type of cheap house that will not
stand the weather.
but if injured on a boat or in connec
tion therewith, his only redress was
to sue under the admiralty law or the
common law.
PRISON LABOR COSTLY
Oklahoma City.—The broom corn
industry of this state is affected by
the state's operation of one of the
largest broom factories in the woi£d
at the McAlester penitentiary.
These brooms are sold at cut-throat
prices throughout the United States in
competition with free labor employed
by manufacturers who buy Oklahoma
broom corn. To retailiate against
this unfair competition free labor
manufacturers are buying their broom
corn elsewhere. As a result broom
corn growers in this state lost $1,166-,
000 last year.
PLUMBERS LOCKED
OUT
New York.—Contracting plumbers
ignored a wage contract and locked
out 10,000 employes to involve them
in a strike of Brooklyn plumbers. The
New York contract provides that if
plumbers in another borough of
Greater New York secure a wage in
crease, this shall apply to Manhattan
Borough. In an attempt to block as
sistance to the Brooklyn strikers, the
lockout was enforced.
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By JOSEPH A. WISE
Staff Correspondent, International
Labor News Service
Chicago.—Fearing that the federal
radio commission may be influenced
to curtail the power and latitude of
Station WCFL, owned and operated
by the Chicago Federation of Labor,
President John Fitzpatrick and Sec
retary E. N. Nockels have sent an
appeal for moral suppoi-t to labor or
ganizations and leaders of organized
labor, as well as to farmers' unions,
co-operative organizations and friends
and sympathizers throughout the
country.
'Unless we can convince the radio
commission that labor and its allied
intei'ests are interested in this station,
and that it is rendering a real public
service of national significance, the
commission may so limit it in power
and time as to almost destroy its use
fulness," says President Fitzpatrick
and Secretary Nockels in their circu
lar letter.
Commission Has Broad Powers
"Under the new federal law," they
point out, "the radio commission has
power to control and limit all broad
casting stations. The capital-owned
stations are now seeking to monopo
lize the air. They are inducing influ
ential persons and thousands of lis
teners to write to the commission,
urging greater power and latitude to
their stations and the reduction of
power and latitude to laborVone stat
tion, WCFL.
'We believe it of the utmost impor
tance to organized labor that there
be at least one broadcasting station
in the United States owned and oper
ated by and for labor. All other sta
tions are owned by capital, and are
utilized in its interests. Most of our
people do not yet realize the tremen
dous importance of radio in moulding
public opinion, but the time is near
when this new medium of propaganda
will wield an influence of almost un
limited power."
Friends Asked to Write Appeal
All persons interested are asked to
write a strong letter to the federal
radio commission, Washington, D. C.,
urging that Station WCFL be allowed
its own exclusive wave length and a
maximum of power. The station has
been operating on a 491.5-meter wave
length and one and a half kilowatts
power. The management of the sta
tion wants a wave length and power
as great as any other station licensed
by the radio commission. The sta
tion's engineer, Virgil Schoenberg,
says that he would like to use up to
50 kilowatts of power in order to be
able to reach the most distant points
with the excellent programs broad
cast by WCFL.
The Chicago Federation of Labor
celebrated the formal opening of its
very handsome and well equipped new
broadcasting studios on the seventh
floor of the Brunswick building, 623 to
633 South Wabash avenue, May 4
and 5.
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Begin Campaign to Limit
Power and Range of WCFL
Workers Urged to Ask Federal Radio Commission to Per
mit Threatened Station to Use Its Own Exclusive
Wave Length and Broadcast Maximum Distance.
Local Offices Now Centralized
Both the offices of the Chicago Fed­
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The aerial of Station WCFL is
strung between the two towers at the
end of Municipal Pier, which extends
one mile into Lake Michigan at the
foot of Grand avenue. The machin
ery is located in the north tower. The
studios in the Brunswick building are
two miles away.
"there are two studios in the Bruns
wick building, one large and one small.
There are three Charles Frederick
Stein grand pianos and a $25,000 Bar
ton pipe organ, all especially built for
radio broadcasting purposes. The pipe
organ was a free gift. A 12-piece
band is used in the large studio for
recording Brunswick phonopragh rec
ords and to broadcast at the same
time.
Guest Room for Visitors
There is a control room for record
ing, a control room for broadcasting,
a listening-in room for recording, an
artists' room, a battery x*oom and a
beautifully furnished guest room,
where visitors may sit in comfortable
chairs and view through plate glass
windows the artists and employes at
their work and at the same time listen
in.
A microphone in the mayor's office
at the city hall is hooked up with
WCFL, so that the mayor can put his
voice on the air on short notice.
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HAMILTON, OHIO, FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1927
There Is a Reason
FXIVATt
PROPERTY
Foes Menace Usefulness
of Labor's Radio Station
PICMC PARTIES
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eration of Labor and of the Illinois
State Federation of Labor are now lo
cated at that address, where the two
labor organizations and the radio
studios combined occupy 10,000
square feet of floor space. The place
was thoroughly overhauled and redec
orated, and it is safe to say that
there is not a better equipped labor
headquarters in the country.
The broadcasting studios are among
the largest and most modern in the
United States, having at least one
feature of great importance that no
other station has, it is claimed. This
is the control board, which was de
signed and built wholly by members
of Electrical Workers' Local Union
No. 134. Engineers from all parts of
the country have visited the station
for the sole purpose of viewing the
control board to get an idea how to
build one like it.
Station Complete in Every Detail
Eight microphones can be put in
use through this control board at one
time, and there are facilities for han
dling 40 outside pickups, but one at a
time, of course.
A big advantage that this station
has over other stations in the matter
of entertainment is that it is the offi
cial broadcasting medium of Actors'
Equity and that the American Society
of Authors, Composers and Publishers
has granted a free license to broad
cast all copyrighted music controlled
by members of that organization.
Quick Action by Fans Essential
All persons who write to the federal
radio commission in reference to this
matter should notify E. N. Nockels,
secretary of the Chicago Federation
of Labor, 623 South Wabash avenue,
Chicago, of their action. Radio fans
especially should get busy with tele
grams, Jetters and resolutions. Quick
action is essential.
CANTON STRIKE RULES
Hankow, China.—Employers' rights
in strikes are limited by the strike
regulation act of the Republic of Can
ton.
Shopkeepers and owners of factor
ies are permitted to carry on their
business during strikes, but are not
permitted to break strikes by tempo
rarily engaging other workmen.
In setting a wages strike, the em
ployers shall pay wages during the
strike on the new scale agreed be
tween the two parties.
In a strike, employers are not per
mitted to bribe a portion of the strik
ers or employ men of bad character
in order to resist the strikers.
Unions and laborers, on the other
hand, are prohibited from blockading
shops or factories during the strike
and from obstructing the operations
which are conducted by the employers
themselves. Laborers are also pro
hibited from confiscating goods or
articles from shops or factories during
a strike.
RYE BREAD FAMINE
Follows Jewish Bakers'
Wage Demand
By International Labor News Service.
New York City.—The strongest la
bor union on the East Side is striking
again. Nobody familiar with the
Jewish trade union movement is in
doubt which is the sti'ongest union.
It is that of the Jewish bakers, the
last of the hand workers in a trade
that is rapidly being mechanized.
Jewish rye bread made by machinery
like American white bread has not the
taste or the toughness essential to the
real article.
So the journeyman baker remains in
his glory turning out a product con
noisseurs will pay double for. Because
of the kneading and mixing and the
heat necessary to bake these heavy,
golden brown loaves it develops
brawny workmen.
These bakers stand in the forefront
of the labor movement. They are all
members of the Bakery and Confec
tionary Workers' International Union
and have recently consolidated tht it
five locals into one union, Local 500,
with 3,000 members. They have the
44-hour week and they ask the 40
hour week with an increase in wages
that will even up the loss in working
time. They ask a raise from $66 to
$72 a week.
SWIFT'S SPEED-UP
PLAN BRINGS
SWIFT STRIKE
Portland, Ore.—Swift & Co., meat
packers, attempted to establish a
swift system among unorganized em
ployes at their local plant, but a
strike resulted.
The speed-up scheme in called a
bonus system. Time-keepers with
stop watches would stand over em
ployes for several days and the great
er production would be considered the
bonus basis. By intense application
workers would secure a maximum
daily wage increase of 20 and 30
cents. One employe received a check
for one cent as payment for his bonus.
The check has been photographed and
is published by the strikers.
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By International Labor News Service.
Indianapolis, Ind. The necessity
for some constructive plan for the
stabilizing of the bituminous coal in
dustry, as suggested by the Federal
Council of Churches of Christ in
America, and the reply made thereto
by President John L. Lewis, of the
United Mine Workers of America, has
resulted in considerable favorable
comment, reports show.
President Lewis, at the Miami con
ference in February, suggested that
the joint conference, as then organ
ized, continue in existence during the
life of the agreement which would be
made between the miners and oper
ators the conference to meet from
time to time to confer on various
phases of the industry as they might
come up. The Lewis proposal set out
that both sides should strive for con
ditions in the industry which would
give proper financial returns for capi
tal invested and advance the living
standards of those employed in the
industry.
The proposal met with little re
sponse at Miami, but since that con
ference, the necessity for some con
tinuing body to keep its hands on the
WINS RIGHT TO
PICKET AFTER
3-YEAR FIGHT
New York. Organized garment
workers won a three-years' fight for
the right to picket in several nearby
cities when Supreme Court Justice
Morschauser set aside a temporary in
junction that denied this right.
Garment manufacturers moved to
these cities from New York to avoid
union standards. When the workers
started an organizing campaign they
were enjoined by Supreme Court Jus
tice Taylor. The anti-union manufac
turers competed with local houses
that accept union standards.
PRINTERS ENJOINED
BY FEDERAL JUDGE
Chicago. Federal Judge Wilker
son, who issuued the nation-wide in
junction against shopmen in 1922, has
issued a similar edict against print
ers, pressmen and bookbinders em
ployed by the White Printing House.
This concern declared for the anti
union shop and reinstated the 48
hour week.
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Lewis Plan to Stabilize
Conditions in Bituminous
Industry Meets With Favor
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pulse of the industry has been recog
nized. President Lewis, in his letter
to the Federal Council of Churches,
suggested consideration of this plan
as being one way out of a situation
that menaces the coal industry.
At the present time conditions in the
bituminous coal fields in respect to
the suspension are unchanged. Indi
vidual settlement on the basis of the
Jacksonville agreement are being
made daily in various* districts. The
association of Indiana operators ihas
scheduled a meeting with the miners
to discuss a wage settlement. This is
the first attempt of the miners and
operators of the state to hold a joint
conference. Strip mine owners have
signed an agreement with the miners
and many of their mines are working.
A number of individual shaft opera
tors also have signed agreements.
President Lewis said that the set
tlement for the wage controversy will
be gradual and will be brought about
by the extension of the Jacksonville
agreement rather than by any major
consideration. Both he and the other
international officials expressed gen
eral satisfaction over the bituminous
coal situation.
LABELJLAW
Of Canada Now Includes
Labor
Ottawa, Ontario.—The Dominion
government has included trade union
labels, shop cards and buttons in the
trade mark law after 32 years of agi
tation by organized labor. The bill
unanimously passed both houses of
parliament.
Formerly a representative of a
trade union was compelled to register
the label of his organization in his
name and prosecute any infringement.
The union now has the right to prose
cute.
Opponents of the amendment claim
ed the measure will be used to per
secute employers, but the trade unions
answered this argument by agreeing
that all penalties for violation of the
act shall be ci'edited to public poor
funds.
MOVIE OPERATORS GAIN
Sacramento, Cal.—Governor Young
has approved a bill which provides
sanitary facilities for operators in
moving picture houses.
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