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VOL. XXVIII. No. 6
Washington, D. C. (I. L. N. S.)—
The full text of the protest made by
the International Federation of Trade
Unions against the proposal of the
British government to revise the
Washington convention limiting the
hours of work in industrial undertak
ings to eight in the day and 48 in the
week has been made public by the
Amsterdam office of the federation.
The protest was sent to the thirty
ninth session of the governing body
of the International Labor Organiza
tion, Geneva, Switzerland. It is as
follows:
J'At
Revision to Ruin Convention
"The working class considers the
Washington Eight Hours Convention
the cornerstone of international labor
legislation. Revision, in the sense
proposed by the British government
delegate, would mean the ruin of this
convention.
"Part XIII of the peace treaty im
posed certain specific obligations on
the governments the Washington
Eight Hours Convention is the first
and most important of the measures
taken to meet these obligations.
Twenty-eight governments voted in
favor of the Washington Hours Con
vention, and thereby pledged them
selves morally to apply the eight-hour
day and the forty-eight hour week in
accordance with the provisions of that
convention. The same may be said
mutatis mutandis of the employers,
whose delegates from seventeen coun
tries voted in favor of the convention.
To disavow the moral obligation to
ratify, and to do this by resorting to
sophistry in the interpretation of Part
XIII of the peace treaty would be to
convert the international labor con-
FEDERAL COURT
AIDS INCREASED
FARE MOVE
New York.—The federal district
court has ruled that the Interborough
Rapid Transit Company is entitled to
a 7-cent fare. This corporation oper
ates the subways, built with city
money. A contract between the two
parties provides for a 5-cent fare.
State courts enjoined the company
from increasing rates, but the com
pany carried the case to the federal
court. City officials secured a stay of
the new rate from Associate Justice
Stone, of the United States supreme
court.
The Interborough has been conduct
ing an anti-union campaign among
its employes. It maintains a company
"union" and enforces the yellow dog
contract.
Revision of 8-Hour Treaty
Seen as Blow to Workers'
Confidence in Labor Office
the opening of your thirty-
ninth session, the executive committee
of the International Federation of
Trade Unions, and the national trade
union centers affiliated with it, call
your attention in the name of 14,000,
000 organized workers to the follow
ing considerations in respict of the
proposal made in the governing body
for the revision of the Washington
Eight Hours Convention:
"The workers organized in the In
ternational Federation of Trade Un
ions have given their loyal co-opera
tion to the International Labor Or
ganization, feeling assured that their
collaboration in the establishment of
international social legislation would
not be in vain.
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ferenres into little more than mere
academic display.
Workers Would Lose Faith
"The notice of l'evision given by the
British government, if carried into ef
fect, would undoubtedly diminsh the
confidence of the workers in the In
ternational Labor Office.
"In conclusion, the undersigned ex
press the earnest desire that the gov
erning body will pronounce against
any revision, and devise ways and
means of setting on foot energetic
action in favor of the ratification of
the hours convention by all countries.
By so doing it will deepen the attach
ment of the working class to the In
ternational Labor Organization and
the governments, too, will by this
means, and this means only, be
brought to respect their pledges and
to act in accord with the spirit of
Part XIII of the peace treaty."
Signed by 25 Centers
This protest was signed by the sec
retary of the International Federa
tion of Trade Unions and the general
secretaries of the 25 national centers
affiliated with it.
POVERTY BLAMED
FOR CHILD'S ILLS
Washington.—"Poverty is the prin
cipal cause of sickness and disease
among workers' children," said Wil
liam Green, president A. F. of L., in
a radio address under the auspices of
the American Child Health Associa
tion.
"The child who suffers from poverty
is helpless it is a tragic victim of its
parents' economic distress," said the
trade unionist. "Poverty is due to a
number of causes. Sometimes it is
traceable to illness, old age and de
pendency, but largely to unemploy
ment and low wages. This presents
a problem which must be solved if
children's ill health, resulting from
undernourishment and impoverish
ment, is to be eliminated.
"The workers can not buy the nec
essary food and clothing, nor can they
provide decent housing conditions for
their children unless their income cor
responds with their domestic and fam
ily needs. Health, happiness, home
and home environment for millions of
workers' children depend upon wages
and income.
"Organized labor's position is sus
tained by experts, scientists and gov
ernmental authorities, who show that
infant mortality in the homes of
workers has increased or declined in
direct proportion to the increase and
decline of income. If we are to save
the children we must abolish poverty
resulting from low wages and unem
ployment."
WAITRESS' JOBS
SOLD FOR
$10
New York.—Court proceedings re
veal that waitresses are forced to
pay $10 a week for employment in
the Alice Foote MacDougall restau
rant chain in this city. The girls
must depend upon tips. The owner
of the chain could not be interviewed.
She has been in Europe for several
weeks.
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By International Labor News Service.
Pittsburgh, Pa. Recommending
that both sides abandon "beligerency,"
the Federal Council of Churches of
Christ in America this week made
public its report on coal, branding
practices of mine owners as "bad busi
ness ethics," and indulging in little
more emphatic language at any point.
While condemning mine owner
practices the report also takes its
fling at the union on .one or two points,
alleged violence being one of these.
Insistence on the Jacksonville scale is
another, the claim being made that
this puts Pennsylvania and Ohio oper
ators in an "impossible position" in
view of southern competition.
On housing, the report is apparently
somewhat washed out, while on in
junctions there is relatively strong
condemnation.
The chief emphasis of the report
on the unsatisfactory economic
situation in the industry as a whole,
which it declares must be taken into
account if the human factors are to
be understood.
Calls Industry Overdeveloped
The conclusions are prefaced with
the statement:
"Here is a seriously overdeveloped
industry, with more mines and more
labor than the demand justifies, di-
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HAMILTON, OHIO, FRIDAY, MAY 18,1928
Presidential Stew
Church Council Condemns
Policy of Coal Mine Ownen
Abrogation of Agreement Is
Branded as Wrong Eviction
Denounced, Police Denounced
Federal Council Makes Public Report on Bituminous
Strike, Holding Industry Over-Developed and Declar
ing Ethics Ignored by Employers.
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vided into sharply competitive fields,
and subject to influences that tend to
limit its market. Until the funda
mental ills of the industry, treated as
a whole, are grappled with success
fully either by the industry itself or
by the government, or both, preoccu
pation with the humanitarian phases
of the problem can accomplish little
of a constructive nature.
"At the same time the economic
ills of the industry do not constitute
an excuse for the failure to consider
the demands of social ethics."
The report declai-es that the use of
njunctions in labor disputes has been
carried to absurd lengths.
It says: "When a corporation seeks
and a court grants an injunction re
straining a union not only from acts
which are illegal and wrong in them
selves, but from ordinary routine ac
tivities, such as the peaceful recruit
ing of members or the disbursing of
relief funds in time of strike, the so
cial effects are bound to be injurious.
"The same is true when the injunc
tion is used to protect an individual
contract that is contrary to the work
er's legitimate interest. The bitter
ness and the sense of oppression and
injustice which these practices entail
not only foster industrial strife but
furnish a powerful incentive to the
violation of court orders."
Right to Organize
Regarding the right to organize, the
report says:
It is now well recognized that la
bor unionism rests upon valid claims
o security of status and that con
tractual relations between employers
ind unions offer definite possibilities
for improved industrial relations and
for incresaed stability.
"These results, it is true, are not
always realized. Any system of hu
man relations may be vitiated by a
lack of good will or if practical wis
dom. But failures in spirit or per
formance do not indict the principle
of collective bargaining, and the ban
ishment of contractural relatioh from
an industry in which it has become an
established institution must be i
garded as a step backward.
Affirms Collective Right
"The employes should have the right
to organize and bargain collectively
in every coal district, and the employ
ers should be brought to a realiza
tion of the need of conceding that
right as a means of eliminating cut
throat competition.
Under the head of "Constructive
Action to Prevent a Recurrence of
Industrial War," the report recom
mends:
"(1) Abandonment by both opera
tors and mine workers of belligerent
and oppressive tactics.
"(2) Reconsideration by the former
union operators of their stand on the
principle of collective bargaining
which they have abandoned.
"(3) A frank presentation by the
operators of the financial data upon
which they base their contention that
the union scale is prohibitive.
Wants Joint Responsibility
"(4) Acceptance by the mine work
ers of a larger measure of responsi
bility for the prosperity of the indus
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Washington, D. C. (I. L. N. S.)—
"Picture if you can," says the Amer
ican Federation "of Labor executive
council in a new and forceful appeal
for help for the striking miners, "the
thousands of under-fed, ill-clad and
emaciated children dependent upon
the help which organized labor and its
friends extend them for daily suste
nance and life. When contemplating
such a picture, listen to the echoes of
the cries of these children for bread
and clothing. Even though your own
income may be inadequate to meet all
your needs and even though your dif
ficulties may be very great, bear in
mind your lives are not in danger and
bad as your condition may be it does
not compare in misery and suffering
to the deplorable conditions prevailing
in the striking bituminuos coal fields.
"We urge that where national and
international unions either levy an
assessment upon their membership
equal to one day's pay or where na
tional and international unions appeal
to their membership to make contri
butions amounting to one day's pay
that the membership conform to this
action. Make, if necessary, an imme
diate sacrifice by sending in a day's
pay as recommended or called for by
national and international unions.
"We make this urgent pressing ap
peal to organized labor and its friends
to give as you have never given be
fore. Give to the full extent of your
financial limitations. May this appeal
touch your heart and your emotions.
The miners and their families need
help and they need it now. Their fu
ture and lives are involved in this
struggle, and your contribution may
mean the preservation of life itself.
'Send all contributions of money to
Frank Morrison, secretary, American
Federation of Labor, A. F. of L. build
ing, Washington, D. C.
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Furniture and Rugs
BRIDE comes to shop here for her new furniture and rugs just as sister and
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DINING ROOM SUITES
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ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR
Urgent Call For Relief
Of Miners Warns Against
Giving Through Red Foes
This amount would be apportioned
as follows: $75,000,000 for rural post
roads, $50,000,000 for river and harbor
work, $10,400,000 for flood control
work, and $15,000,000 for public
buildings. No appropriations would
be made until the president finds that
construction work has fallen 10 per
cent in a three months' period below
the average of the corresponding
three months in the preceding three
years.
"With the advance of civilization,"
said Mr. Rathbone, "we have come
more and more to recognize the value
of each human being and the right of
every man and woman to earn a liv
ing. Unemployment can no longer be
looked upon as a matter of indiffer
ence to the state, but should claim
our interest ami sympathetic consid
eration."
BRIDES
For The New
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and sup­
plies to William Hargest, 408 Colum
bia Bank building, Pittsburgh, Pa.
"THE PRESSING NEED IS FOR
MONEY AND FOOD.
"Do not make your contributions to
either the so-called national miners'
relief committee, or to the Ohio-Penn
sylvania miners' relief committee.
"If solicitors call upon you require
them to show credentials issued by the
American Federation of Labor before
you make any contributions to them."
"PROSPERITY RE
SERVE" SOUGHT FOR
EMPLOYMENT
Washington.—A prosperity reserve
of $150,000,000 to stabilize industry
and employment by the expansion of
public works during periods of indus
trial depression would be created by
a bill introduced by Congressman
Rathbone.
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