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VOL. XXVII. No. 30
By International Latoor News Service.
Chicago.—Speeding up of the work
of the western office of the Union La
bor Life Insurance Company has
taken place as a result of the return
to Chicago of George W. Perkins, vice
president-western representative, who
attended the Los Angeles convention
of the Americin Federation of Labor
as a delegate from the Cigar Makers'
International Union.
Mr. Perkins says that substantial
results have been achieved in writing
life insurance in the Western territory
since the opening of the Western
headquarters at 623 South Wabash
avenue, Chicago, last summer. He is
sanguine of a very successful future
for the company.
Why Labor fs in ^teft
Asked to make a statement in
erence
International Labor News Service
New York City.—Organized labor
occasionally has an opportunity to
support a judge who opposes the use
of the injunction in industrial dis
putes. Such is the case here, where
the unions are fightitig for the re
election of Justice Humphrey J. Lynch
as justice of the supreme court for
the Ninth judicial districti
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Judge Lynch won labor's support
when he denied a temporary injunc
tion to restrain union men from pick
eting a Yonkers bakery where a strik^
had been called.
Justice Lynch pointed out that the
place where the alleged offense was
being committed was on one of the
principal business streets within s
short distance of police headquarters
If the union men violated the law,
the employer would experience no dif
ficulty in having them arrested and
punished, said Judge Lynch.
"If such a course were resorted to,"
continued the justice, "the defendant
(the union picket) would be afforded
an opportunity to meet his accuser
and bring witnesses before the court
who, after seeing them, could readily
determine ther credibility and then
definitely determine whether or not
the law had been violated.
"It would seem that this was the
procedure that the founders of our
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Perkins, Back on Job, Sees
Successful Future for Union
Labor Life Insurance Company
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to the plans and purposes of
the Union Labor Life Insurance Com
pany, Mr. Perkins replied as follows:
"One of the outstanding issues that
prompted our trade unions to enter
the field of insurance was to place.on
a sound basis the insurance of the
unions that were paying death bene
fits, which in most cases were deter
mined without insurance experience,
and consequently the income failed to
meet the liabilities (this is particu
larly true in nearly all fraternal or
ganizations supplying fraternal in
surance), and to transfer this impor
tant feature of one of our trade unions
lesser activities to one company
owned and controlled by organized
labor. This is in line with the cen
tralization and federation which has
been and is going on in industrial pro
ductivity and distribution.
"Another factor was that the so
called big interests were applying the
group insurance plan to their em
ployes. Fifteen years ago there was
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ance in force. This insurance covers
about 5,000,000 wage earners, most of
whom are non-unionists. In addition
to this there are individual life poli
cies of more than 80,000,000,000 in
force.
Must Meet Capital's Methods
^Labor finds that it must meet, in
so"far as it can, the methods employed
by capital, which is well organized,
strongly federated, skillfully handled
and has unlimited resources," Mr.
Perkins continued. "Labor does not
propose to relax one iota of its trade
union activities, neither does it intend
to commercialize in any sense of the
term our unions, but we do intend to
adopt and apply all the legitimate and
usual means that will be helpful in
carrying forward our normal activi
ties. Labor does not object to capital
organizing. What we do object to.
and rightfully so, is the application of
the injunction and the efforts in sonic
quarters to prevent labor from organ
izing and carrying forward through
our unions our rightful and justifiable
activities.
"The Union Labor Life Insurance
Company, located in Washington, D.
C., is owned by 1*0 national and inter
national unions, 367 local unions,
state federations and city central bod
ies and 304 individual trade unionists.
It is organized for service rather than
private profit. Any profits which may
accrue, nad they will come through
dividends, go back to the policy hold
ers.
Western Office Established
"The company has established a
Western office in Chicago where the
activities of the company are accen
tuated and carried forward -as rapidly
as possible."
government intended, and it is more
likely to result in a just decision than
the more popular remedy of a tempo
rary injunction, where the court is
called upon to determine controverted
questions on affidavits, without the
advantage of seeing the -witnesses
who make them."
SAILORS' UNION
Wins Agreement For Sand
Boats
By International Labor News Service
Chicago.—A signed agreement has
been entered into for the first time
between five sand boat companies and
£he Sailors' Union of the Great
Lakes, according to C. N. Goshorn,
treasurer and business agent of the
union at Chicago.
The contract is foY three years and
is retroactive to April 16. It provides
for an increase of $5 a month in
wages and for the three-watch system
or eight-hour day on the boats. Sail
ors and marine firemen and oilers are
covered by the contract.
LOW WAGE FOR SERVICE
Chicago.—In a railroad clerks' wage
hearing here it was shown that
freight cashier at Oshkosh, Wis., is
paid $31.20 a week. He handles more
than a million dollars annually.
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By International Labor News Service.
Pittsburgh, Pa.—"Trade unionists
who have lost heart, and those who
have been infected with indifference
and apathy since the close of the
Great War, have a wonderful oppor
tunity," said Organizer William Col
lins, of the American Federation of
Labor, "to renew their faith ^in the
trade union movement, by watching
the wonderful struggle of the strik
ing coal miners in western Pennsyl
vania."
Here are 45,000 men and women
engaged in a lockout which has been
going on for nearly three years with
only a few desertions, and which has
been financed by the United Mine
Workers of America, despite the fact
that more than half of its member
ship in 12 states has been on strike
in the bituminous coal fields for six
months.
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Forced to Quit Companies Houses
a continuous protest against the bru
tality of the coal and iron private
police force, commissioned by the
state of Pennsylvania, and the intimi
dating tactics of the deputy sheriffs
and state constabulary.
More than half of the miners are
preparing to spend their third winter
in the hills of Pennsylvania. Vice
President Murray, who is in charge of
District 5, United Mine Workers of
America, which comprises the Pitts
burgh and West Penn region, and his
associates, the district and national
officers, are meeting every legal trick
and police brutality with intelligence
and determination. They contend that
the criminal methods of the coal and
iron police sustained by deputy sher
iffs and state constabulary, can not be
successful if the labor movement and
the American public recognize the jus
tice of the miners' position.
Big Job Ahead
Winter quarters are being built at
six mining villages at present, but if
the courts sustain the coal companies
upon their plea for wholesale evic
tions, the union will have to build bar
racks for some 10,000 families. The
American Federation of Labor at its
convention in Los Angeles, directed
the attention of the delegates to the
conditions of the miners in western
Pennsylvania with the result that a
conference of international and na
tional union representatives will be
held in Pittsburgh, November 14,
take such action as will give
striking miners proper support until
they win their lockout.
The business men's associations in
the Pittsburgh and West Penn dis
tricts, are denouncing the Pittsburgh
Coal Company, which broke its agree
ment with the miners nearly three
years ago. With a vindictiveness that
is almost impossible to believe, this
coal company has compelled other
large coal operators and the steel
trust to join with them in attempting
to break the miners' union. Thousands
of negroes from the south are strike
breaking in the mines, without any
opportunity to get away after finding
out the true conditions of the coal
miners. They are being killed and in
jured by the hundreds, because of
their inexperience with powder, and
when they have tried to get away, are
beaten up by the coal and iron'police.
Coal Becomes a Curse
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sylvania is wealth to provide every
human being connected with the coal
industry, a proper living and reason
able dividends for the investors
Because of the tyrannical and waste
ful management now in control, the
coal industry, one of the greatest
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WAGE CURVE UP
Washington.—Employment in man
ufacturing industries increased one
tenth of 1 per cent fro1n July to Au
gust, 1927, according to the bureau of
labor statistics. In the same period
pay-roll totals increased 2.1 per cent
and per capita earnings increased 2
per cent.
PRESS
By JOSEPH A. WISE
Staff Correspondent, International
Labor News Service
Chicago.—Expressions from trade
union officers here indicate a high de
gree of satisfaction on the part of
organized labor of Illinois over the de
termination of the Los Angeles con
vention of the American Federation of
Labor to make the injunction evil the
leading issue of the 1928 political
campaign. Organized labor of this
city and state is certain to enter the
fight with air of the resources at its
command.
Out here in the Middle West there
is a growing conviction on the part of
the general public outside of the ranks
of organized labor that it is high time
to drive from the bench and into ob
livion the corporation lawyers, politi
cal lame ducks and stuffed shirts who
at present disgrace some of the high
est courts in the land.
Decisions Contradictory
Organized labor hereabouts is fully
cognizant of the disgraceful legal
tangle into which the United States
courts have become enmeshed through
the outrageously contradictory deci
sions issued in injunction cases. The
federal courts are now in the position
of having one brand of law to ladle
out to 'the rich and powerful and a
different and opposite kind to dish
out to the poor.
Edgar Wallace, legislative agent of
the American Federation of Labor,
draws a deadly parallel between two
decisions handed down by the United
States courts. Mr. Wallace, who was
in Chicago a few days ago, said:
"In the Maynard case the federal
trade commission had demanded that
the coal operators in all of the states
report to the commission all of the
costs for labor, material and overhead
that enter into the production of coal.
Coal Company Upheld
*'A coal-producing company in
Maryland petitioned for an injunction
against the federal trade commission
restraining that governmental agency
from in any way interfering with the
business of the producers, on the
ground that production of coal is nec
essarily within the states and there
fore subject only to state laws.
"The decision of the federal dis
trict court to grant the injunction was
sustained by the United States su
preme court on the ground as stated
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by the coal company—that is, that the
production of coal is of intrastate con
cern only, and the fact that the coal
produced may eventually enter into
interstate commerce should not be
considered.
Different Ruling for Miners
"The coal miners are locked out in
Pennsylvania," continued Mr. Wallace.
"The coal operators sued for an in
junction in a federal district court.
The injunction, drastic in the extreme,
is granted on the ground that the coal
to be produced, the production of
which is alleged to be hampered and
impeded by the locked-out coal min
ers, may be transported in interstate
commerce if and when produced."
Mr. Wallace said that he would be
willing to trust the courts to decide
any case fairly involving property
rights only, but that he had no confi
dence in any claims that might be
made as to their fairness and im
partiality in decision involving dis
putes between capital and labor. That
is a far more charitable view than is
entertained by many others who free
ly express themselves on this matter.
WHAT PRICE BEAUTY
Although American women spend
an estimated total of $1,825,000,000 a
year on cosmetics and beauty care,
the beauty trade has so far been un
standardized from the workers' stand
point. The states are only now begin
ning to recognize the need for better
conditions for health reasons. The
Consumers' League of New York has
found, in a recent investigation, that
in 54 New York city establishments,
manicurists averaged $15 weekly,
good marcellers and finger wavers,
$35 to $40 beginners just out of
beauty schools, $20, with tips extra.
Chicago, on the other hand, found its
girls less well paid as a whole, but
with manicurists, usually at the foot,
receiving an average of $18 to $20
weekly. Hours are very long and ir
regular, except in Massachusetts, Ore
gon and California, which have 48
hour laws, and in New York where
the new 48-hour law will operate next
year.—From the Life and Labor Bul
letin, October, 1927, National Wom
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