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FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1927
BATTLE FOR HIGHER WAGES
One of the chief tasks of organized
labor has always been to secure high
er wages for workers. The struggle
for higher wages now enters its third
phase.
In the earliest period organized la
bor struggled for higher money wages
Instead of $10 per week, it tried to
secure $11 per week, and the next
year perhaps $12.
A second period in the wage policy
began as organized labor realized that
the amount of money is no adequate
measure for deciding whether a wage
is high or low, and that it is necessary
to relate money wages to prices. Then
organized labor struggled for higher
real wages—that is, wages that would
buy more.
Very obvious changes in prices in
duced organized labor to realize the
necessity for calculating in real wages
Very obvious changes in productivi
ty of labor today induce organized
labor again to widen its wage policy.
Higher money wages from an eco
nomic point of view do not improve
the situation of the worker if prices
increase more than money wages.
Higher real wages from a social
point of view do not improve the sit
uation of the worker if productivity
increases more than real wages.
For higher productivity without
corresponding increase of real wages
means that the additional product has
to be bought by others than the wage
earner. This means that the social po
sition of the wage earner in relation
to other consumers becomes worse
because his standard of living will not
advance proportionately with those of
other groups.
Deteriorating social position, that
is, declining purchasing power of the
mass of the wage earners in rela
tion to the national product, brings
about industrial instability which will
develop into industrial crisis.
The American Federation of Labor
is the first organization of labor in
the world to realize the importance
of the factor productivity in economic
society. It no longer strives merely
for higher money wages it strive
for higher social wages, for wages
which increase as measured by prices
and productivity.
This modern wage policy lifts the
movement to in absolutely new level
For higher real wages meant only
betterment of the economic position
—while higher social wages mean
betterment of the economic and social
position of the worker. The modern
wage policy guarantees an active but
stable development of industrial so
pety.—William Green, in the Ameri
can Federationist.
CHRIST FOR ALL-ALL FOR CHRIST
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TRUST HIM ALWAYSCommit
thy way unto the Lord trust also in
Him. Psalm 37:5.
PRAYER:—O God, Thou art our
strong salvation! We fear no foe
with Thee at hand to bless, for even
in darkness and temptation Thou
sri our Light and our Deliverance.
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FRUITS OF UNIONISM
In pursuit of ideals, trade unionism
has justified its existence by good
works and high purposes. Slowly and
gradually it has progressed toward the
fulfillment of its mission. It has ele
vated the standard of living of the
American workman and conferred up
on him higher wages and more leisure.
It has increased efficiency, diminished
accidents, averted disease, kept the
children in school and improved the
relations between employer and em
ployed. It has conferred benefits, made
sacrifices, and, unfortunately, com
mitted errors. We believe it not un
reasonable to ask that we be judged
not by our faults, but rather by our
virtues.
To find justification for our exist
ence or for the policies pursued, we
do not rely upon the claims we our
selves make. Abraham Lincoln, in a
speech delivered at Hartford, Conn.,
in 1860, while addressing the shoe
workers, said: "Thank God, we have
a system of labor where there can be
a strike. Whatever the pressure, there
is a point where the workmen may
stop."
Wendell Phillips is quoted as hav
ing said: "I rejoice at every effort
workmen make to organize. I hail the
labor movement it is my only hope
for democracy. Organize and stand
together. Let the nation hear a unit
ed demand from the laboring voice."
William E. Gladstone said: "Trade
unions are the bulwarks of modern
democracies."
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A DANGEROUS PROPHECY
Secretary of Labor Davis says the
era of big strikes has passed because
business men are learning that their
prosperity is a Siamese twin of the
workers' prosperity.
True, some of them do seem to be
learning that lesson, but by no means
all have learned it. And wages are by
no means the only cause of strikes.
Humanity's fiercest battles have
been for principle.
There will be more great strikes if
and when there is sufficiently sharp
division between workers and em
ployers, be it over wages or something
else, with the chances in favor of
something else.
New York has just narrowly es
caped a subway strike. The issue was
not wages it was recognition of the
union.
MORE INVESTIGATION
Big corporations again are on the
grill. The Federal Trade Commission
is investigating. It wants to know
about the relations between Du Pont,
United States Steel and General Mo
tors.
The E. I. Du Pont de Nemours
Company controls the chemical in
dustry.
United States Steel controls the
steel industry.
General motors is the biggest unit
in the motor industry.
Du Pont has bought 114,000 shares
of United States Steel common. Du
Pont also is said to hold a heavy in
terest in General Motors stock. Hence
the Federal inquiry.
To make it more interesting it is
reported that Morgan & Company are
the bankers for all these three giants
now linked in a powerful liason.
Labor men will recall that these
corporations are lenders in fighting
unions.
What will investigation accomplish
If it gives facts to the public that will
be valuable.
But, based upon experience, it is
not likely that what cannot, after all
be much more than a political ges
ture, will mean much in the way of
a solution of what used to be called
the trust problem.
These corporations, like General
Electric, are production marvels, the
products of industrial, financial and
engineering evolution.
Twenty years ago men looked at
these giants—as Landis looked at
Standard Oil—and said, "Smash
them." That didn't work to the ad
vantage of anyone, except perhaps to
scare some corporations out of their
political wickedness.
It is time there was a truly en
lightened public policy toward these
great combines—one based on the
American conception of democracy
but without throttling either size or
efficiency for service.
Unless this new move to investigate
fjas back of it some purpose more in
telligent than club swinging it will
be public money wasted and public
hopes falsely aroused.
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LEISURE WELL SPENT
It is found by the Bureau of Labor
Statistics that the shortening hours
of labor in various industries has re
sulted in a very great increase in the
reading of library books, an increased
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interest in adult education and an in
crease in out-of-doors recreation.
This will help to answer the ques
tion as to what the workers will do
when they get it.
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That all of them spend their leisure
to the best advantage no one will con
tend. Furthermore, it is not to be ex
pected, at least not at first. But the
above findings show that they are not
all wasting their time either, but large
numbers of them are spending it to
very excellent advantage.
The question is an important one
because labor time is going to be con
tinually shortened.
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THOSE SOOTHING TERMS
/A speaker at the Institute of Pol
itics, an open forum in Williamstown,
Mass., said the La tin-American Re
publics are becoming a zone of "re
gional understandings" for the United
States, just as China and other Far
East countries are considered "spheres
of influence" by European powers.
Regional understandings" is oily,
bland and seductive. It is the latest
soothing term to drug the public, but
a six-.inch shell to enforce these "un
derstandings" has the same purpose
and the same results in Latin-Amer
ica as in the Far East.
The use of rose water and fair
spoken words is not confined to dip
lomacy and imperialism. They are ef
fective in concealing opposition to
trade unionism. The best known dope
is: Employes' representation, company
"union," American plan and the "open
shop.
All are based on the psychologic
fact that many people can be lured by
catch phrases.
The ability to reason is the most
effective weapon against drugging
the people.
"YELLOWDOG"
Is Doomed In Ohio Labor
To Wage State-Wide
Fight
Middletown, Ohio.—An aggressive
campaign against the "yellow dog
contract was agreed to by the annual
convention of the Ohio Federation of
Labor. Sentiment was unanimous
that this vicious system must be out
lawed in this state.
An anti-"yellow dog" bill was de
feated by a trick in the last General
Assembly.
The workers' case is strengthened
immeasurably by State's Attorney
General Turner's ruling that the state
can annul these one-sided contracts
that are based on the necessities of
workers seeking employment, and who
are forced to agree not to join a trade
union while so employed.
"As I read it," said the attorney
general, "the bill is designed to pre
serve in this state the right of col
lective bargaining. In my opinion this
object is within the police power of the
state and, therefore, is a proper sub
ject of legislative action.
"While the right of contract is a
part of the individual freedom pro
tected by the Fourteenth Amendment
to the Federal Constitution, nothing
is better settled by the repeated de
cisions of the Supreme Court of the
United States than that the right of
contract is not absolute and unyield
ing, but is subject to limits and re
straints in the interests of public
health, safety and welfare, and such
limitation may be declared in the leg
islation of the state."
JAPS
Not Wronged By Alien Bar
rier, Declares Laborite
Honolulu.—Paul Scharrenberg, sec
retary-treasurer of the® California
Federation of Labor, used plain lan
guage before the Institute of Pacific
Relations when he answered state
ments by Japanese representatives
that that country was "treated un
fairly" by the United States when the
present immigration law was passed.
The trade unionist threw aside dip
lomatic terms and defended his coun
try in language that had but one
meaning.
He said the entry of Orientals in
to the United States lowered wages
and that the American attitude is not
due to a feeling that Orientals are in
ferior, but on the contrary they are
superior in such things as industry
and thrift, as exemplified: in their
cheapness of living.
He called attention to United States
laws which debar Orientals from be
coming citizens and said the problem
of assimilation would always be great.
He could see no advantage in talking
of compromise in Oriental immigra
tion, such as a quota ratio, similar to
that for European peoples.
LINE MEN RAISE WAGES
Hamilton, Canada.—Electrical work
ers employed by the Hamilton Hy
dro Electric Commission have raised
wages 3 cents an hour and secured two
extra holidays a year with pay.
Smoke Standard cigar union
niadp.
THE BUTLER COUNTY PRESS
JLqng Live* Enjoyed
by Men of Intellect
Some famous people who have
lived long lives are: Thomas Edi
son who is seventy-nine years old
Judge Elbert H. Gary, head of the
United States Steel corporation,
who is eighty years old. Elihu Root,
former secretary of state, is eighty
one years old. George H. Putnam,
New York publisher, is eighty-two
years old. The late Joseph McKen
na, former United States Supreme
court justice, was eighty-three years
old when he died. Rev. Charles H.
Park hurst, Presbyterian minister, is
eighty-four years old. Oliver Wen
dell Holmes, Supreme court justice,
is eighty-five years old. Simeon E.
Baldwin, former governor of Con
necticut, is eighty-six years old. Jo
seph G. Cannon, former congress
man from Illinois, was ninety years
old when he died. Chauncey M.
Depew, former United States sena
tor, is ninety-two years old. Prof.
William F. Warren, president of
Boston university, is ninety-three
years old. Ezra Meeker, the Oregon
pioneer, is ninety-six years old.
John R. Voorhis, president of the
board of elections of New York
city, is ninety-seven years old
John A. Stewart, banker, is one
hundred four years old. Cyrus H.
Curtis, editor of the Ladies' Home
Journal is seventy-sue years old.
HIS IDEA OF HER COAT
"What does your husband say to
your new coat?"
"He swears whenever he thinka
how much it cost."
Measuring Volcanic Heat
New methods are being used to
measure the heat of Kilauea, giant
volcano of Hawaii, according to
Popular Science Monthly. Under
the direction of Dr. T. A. Jagger,
director of the Hawaii Volcano ob
servatory, borings ten feet deep do1
the solid rock at the crater at in
tervals of 1,000 feet. As soon as
the temperatures within are taken
and recorded, the holes are capped
with metal rings to preserve them,
so that they can be used for future
observations.
Plow Almost Human
A plow that oan be turned loose
on a field and that will plow the
whole thing without the touch of a
man's hand has been perfected anc
put to work on a Nebraska farm by
F. L. Zibach of Grand Island, Neb
The power is supplied by gasoline
tractor but the control is by an elec
trical device that starts the machine
and runs it around and around a
field in concentric furrows properly
spaced for accurate plowing.
Butterflies for America
Two thousand butterflies whidi
have been collected in tropical East
Africa were recently shipped from
Liverpool to America. Mounting oi
the specimens had taken 333 hours
of spare-time work, according to
the collector, A. Lovering, of Cleve
don, England. The collection, val
ued at $2,500, also includes thou
sands of beetles, grasshoppers anc
other insects gathered by Lovering,
Seek Emperor*s Heart
Former Empress Zita has been
asked by Hungary for the heart oi
the late and last emperor, Charles
IV, says the Pathfinder Magazine
The heart is at Lequeitio, Spain,
and it is proposed to place it in
the cathedral of Stuhlweissenburg
Hungary, so tliat it may rest with
the bodies of the old Magyar rul
ers.
Afraid of Electricity
Back in 1880 "Prof." Ross Hall
who made his living traveling about
the country demonstrating how elec
tricity could produce light, was nol
allowed to show in a building. Own
ers were afraid of fire or explosion
so his demonstrations were all out
of doors.
PETFR COOK IS DEAD
Roselle, N. J.—Peter G. Cook, vice
president of the (Operative Plasterers
International Association of the Unit
ed States and Canada, died here. He
has been in ill health for some time
The funeral and burial was here
and was attended by officials and
members of his union and other trade
union officials, including the A. P. of
L.
Peter Cook was one of the best
known and most popular men in the
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trade union movement. His sunny
disposition and sweet tenor voice that
would render Scotch folk songs as
sured him a welcomfe far every group
of workers.
ARM BLOC STAND
IS SCARING EAST
Washington.—Indications point to
a renewal of the fight for farm relief
when Congress convenes next Decem
ber.
The agricultural group is deter
mined to pass another McNary-Hau
gen bill similar to the one vetoed by
the President. This alarms eastern
Representatives and Senators, who
fear an attack will be made on the
tariff in retaliation.
The solidarity of the farm bloc and
the refusal of these law makers to
yield to the wave of eastern abuse
has about convinced the East that
their tactics are wrong.
The claim is now made that "the
East is beginning to understand the
farmers' position." This is another
way of saying: "We can't scare you,
so let us compromise."
"LEFT MOVEMENT"
GROWING IN WORLD
WiNiamsport, Mass.—"Are we slip
ping into an age of despots, benevo
lent and otherwise?" asked Dr. Hen
ry R. Spencer of Ohio State Univer
sity at the Institute of Politics here
Reviewing political conditions
throughout the world, Dr. Spencer
said that in most cases dictatorship
is grimly accepted by these peoples
He blamed public worship of national
unity as a fetish.
"Hence order is secured by rigor
ous repression of dissenting thought
liberalism becomes abhorrent, the
clash of classes, castes and churches is
avoided by artificial uniformity and
society is strictly regimented," he
said.
Dr. Spencer's remedy for present
tendencies was rule by persuasion, in
stead of rule by force and the "ac
quiescence of the politically supine."
TETLOW LOSES ARM
AUTO WAS WRECKED
Charleston, W. Va.—The left arm
of Percy Tetlow, president of District
No. 17, United Mine Workers, was
amputated just below the shoulder at
Mountain State Hospital, where he
was removed following an automobile
accident near Madison, Boone County.
The accident was caused by defective
steering gear. His arme was broken
in three places and his hand was
mashed. He and several associates
were on their way to address a mass
meeting of miners at the time.
President Tetlow was formerly sta
tistician for the United Mine Work
ers. He has been in charge of Dis
trict No. 17 since the present organ
izing campaign was started.
PICTURE STARS' PAY
WILL NOT HE REDUCED
Los Angeles.—Motion picture pro
ducers postponed their 10 per cent
wage cut on salaries over $50 a week
In return, the producers' company
"union" agrees that its members shall
be less temperamental. They pledge
their fullest co-operation with the
producers. This "union" bears the
high-sounding title "Academy of Mo
tion Picture Arts and Sciences."
It is hinted that the militant atti
tude of other actors, who are joining
the Actors' Equity Association, affil
iated to the A. F. of L., was a factor
in inducing the producers to reverse
their wage-cut position.
SHOES MADE IN PRISON
CAN'T BE STAMPED "U. S.
Washington.—The Federal Trade
Commission has ordered the Common
wealth Manufacturing Company of
Chicago to desist from using the let
ters "U. S." on its shoes.
The commission said the shoes so
marked and put out by the company
were not made to Government speci
fications, the use of the letters "U
S." indicated, but were manufactured
in the Indiana State Prison and "wer
greatly inferior" to Government army
shoes "in quality and workmanship
MOVIE OPERATORS GAIN
New Bedford Mass.—Moving pic
ture operators in this city advance
wages $1 a week in two large house
It is expected other managers will do
likewise.
Truly Remarkable Fish
Mrs. Carveth Wells, the wife of
flritlsh railroad engineer, spent sev
eral months with her husband in th
Jungles of the Malay peninsula, say
the Pathfinder Magazine? She relates
her experience with the funny flsh o
Malay "I saw one flsh_ there," she
says, "#iiich came out of u hole In
the ground, hopped, skipped and
Jumped to a tree, climbed up and
winked Its eye at me. Then it
climbed down, walked to a pool, stood
on the edge, dipped up some water
in one fin and touk a shower bath
It was the famous funny flsi which
is rarely seen In water. It is know
to scientists as Periopthalmus schlos
serli. It sounds like a typical fisher
man's story, but Its habits are exactly
I have stated."
STATE UNIONS TO MEET
East St. Louis, 111—The annual con
vention of the Illinois Federation of
Labor will meet fceve on Monday, Sep
tember 12.
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Then She'll Knots:
First Young Lady—Since 'e took
er to the tennis match she thinks
there's nothing like 'iiti.
Second Young Lady (viciously)—
Walt till 'e takes 'er to the zoo!—
London Opinion.
The Vievbpotht
'Mercy! Here it is the first of the
month. Doesn't rent da} come arouqd
swiftly?"
"That depends on whether $ne Is
the tenant or the landlord."
SHOES NOT COUNTED
She—Few women wear less than a'
oound of clothes.
He—Oh, come now! Ydu shouldn't
Include the shoes.
Hymn of Hate
A guy I hate
Is Hermann
Blair,
Bays: "Baseball eets
One much fresh air."
Measured Blows
"If a man questioned your veracity,
what would you do?"
"Well, If he was careful to use
words of several syllables, as you sug
gest, I should retaliate by impugning
his character."—Boston Transcript.
Purpose
Mae—Why do you light a fire In
the fireplace? It never burns long.
Marlon—Well, It serves as a good
excuse to turn out the light
STYLES FOR MEN
New Coiiyic^&iiian—And I told that
bunch I wear no man's collar.
His Wife—But I think a collar with
a snappy ready-made tie looks real
dressy with your Sunday suit.
Definition
What Is a fossil
In a baseball plaint?
"A fossil's what I think you are
But what I know I ain't."
Scientific
Mrs. Nervely—Oh-hl There's a spl
der on my neck!
Professor Nervely—No, dear, you
are mistaken—it is a species of taran
tula.
OPPOSE INTERVENTION
Wausau, Wis.—Opposition to armed
intervention by the United States in
other countries was expressed by the
Wisconsin Federation of Labor at its
annual convention here.
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are unfair to the Polishers' Union.
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