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New Orleans, La. (I. L. N. S.)—Re
electing President Matthew Woll,
Secretary-Treasurer R.E. Woodman
see and Editor-Manager Chester M.
Wright, the International Labor Press
of America, in convention here took
an active and emphatic interest in
the newest agency in the field of
public education and entertainment
radio.
By unanimous vote the organiza
tion will be represented before the
federal radio commission in behalf
of Station WCFL, labor's great sta
tion in Chicago, when the hearing is
held in which WCFL will seek to win
the right to use the air continuously
with high power transmission.
Admittedly the fight will be a hard
on«, and the organization of editors
was glad t.o throw its weight into
the struggle to win for labor its
rights on the air. President Woll will
soon select the representative who
will appear at the Washington hear
ings*
"Labor News Flashes" Approved
The convention approved the ar
rangement by which "labor news
flashes" furnished by International
Labor News Service are broadcast
over WCFL regularly and voted its
^appreciation to the Chicago station
presided over by E. N. Nockels as
general manager, the president's re
port describing him as labor's "gen
ius" of the air-
The meeting marked the nineteenth
anniversary of the association and in
token of its esteem, the convention
voted a purse of $200 to its veteran
secretary, R. E. Woodmansee, who
has edited the Illinois Tradesman at
Springfield, 111., for thirty years. The
action in this respect was pursuant
to a recommendation in President
Woil's report in which the secretary
was highly commended and in which
a substantial presentation was urged.
In addition it was ordered that a gold
medal commerorative of the event be
struck and presented to the secretary.
Monthly Service Commended
The condition of International La
bor News Service was reported upon
at length, and its conduct approved.
The establishment of the monthly
seryice for monthly journals was ap
proved and commended, and interna
tional unions were urged to make
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For Labor's Radio Station
wider use of this new setvice of spe
cial signed articles.
Incorporation of International La
bor News Service, owned by the as
sociation, was ordered, incorporation
to be under a trusteeship.
Valuable papers were read by Wil
liam Riley, editor of the Dallas
Craftsman, and by John C. Say lor,
editor of the Wilmington Labor Her
ald. So impressive were the papers
that the convention voted to hold
two-day conventions hereafter, one
day to be devoted to papers and dis
cussions about newspaper making.
The convention voted unanimously
that the Federated Press does not
rank as a bona fide labor news serv
ice, and labor papers were asked
not to regard it as a labor service.
The part the labor press has played
in the war against communism was
commended by -President Woll and
the question of how best to meet
communist propaganda was discussed
at length by varous editors.
COLD WEATHER
Increases Peril of Coal Min
ing
Washington, D. C. (I. L. N. S.)
With the approach of cold weather,
and the consequent working of coal
mines to full capacity, it is urgent
that bituminous mine operators re
view their safety problems, with spe
cial attention to rock-dusting the
mines as a means of preventing coal
dust explosions, warns Director Scott
Turner, of the United States Bureau
of Mines. At this season, coal-mine
passageways tend to become dry, with
resultant dangerous accumulations of
coal dust. Rockdusting is a proven
method of preventing coal-dust ex-*
plosions, and mine operators who
have not yet adopted rock-dusting
should by all means do so, both as
a moral obligation and as a form of
business insurance in the protection
of life and prevention of destruction
of property in their mines, Mr. Tur
ner continues.
They're pickin' up the pieces,
With a dustpan and a rake,
Because he used his horn
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New Orleans, La. (I. L. N. S.)—
Witli the re-election of President Wil
liam Green and all members of the
execcutive council, the American Fed
eration of Labor closed its conven
tion here after as dramatic a finish
as has been witnessed in a long time.
The officers re-elected in addition
to President Green were: Frank
l)iiffy, first vice president T. A. Rick
«it, second vice president Jacob
Fischer, third vice president Mat
thew Woll, fourth vice president
James Wilson, fifth vice president
.James P. Noonan, sixth vice presi
U-nt John Coefild, seventh vice presi
dt nt Arthur O. Wharton, eighth
vice president Martin F. Ryan,treas
urer, and Frank Morrison, secretary.
W. J. Rooney, sheet metal workers,
and William P. Clarke, president,
flint glass workers, were elected fra
ternal delegates to the British Trade
I'nion Congress John B. Haggerty,
president, Bookbinders' Union, was
elected delegate to the Trades and
Labor Congress of Canada.
Thrown into the arena after a long
list of constructive policies had been
Wfveloped in action on committee re
ports, Brookwood "Labor College'
served as the piece de resistance for
those whose fighting energies had
found no other bones to rein!.
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The Christmas Spirit
"Labor College" Is Revealed
y By Woll and Green as Friend
And Advocate of Communism
Brookwood "Shown Up" As
A. F. of L. Ends Convention
Executive Council Re-elected
loulder Dam and Other Mat
ress Warmly Endorsed.
And Brookwood, to put It all con
cisely, got it in the neck. It was
.socked on the jaw, in the solar plexus,
on the corns, in the small of the back,
in both eyes and, as has been related,
in the region of the esophagus. At
the end it was a dangling wreck of a
thing, its few friends gazing in sor
row at the shadow of what once had
pretended so mightily.
Shea Asks Facts
Vice President P. J. Shea, of the
Street Carmen, arose to a^k what was
all the fuss about Brookwood and
what were the facts- He did this dur
ing a report on a proposal to plan for
a labor college to be guided by the
federation. He said Brookwood had
been condemned, but the evidence had
not come forth and he, for one,
thought it proper to know all baout
the business. The carmen have had
their troubles with the red and pink
ish brethren.
Vice President Woll got up and he
stayed up for fully an hour and they
learned about Brookwood from him.
To single out a few of the high
lights of Mr. Woll's address, he said
that Brookwood had three communist
members on its faculty, including A,
J. Muste, its head, and Arthur C. Cal
houn, who taught In the New York
Communist School.
He read a letter signed by Calhoun,
pledging his vote to Foster and Git
low. He said Brookwood celebrated
none of the labor holidays, none of
the national holidays, but did cele
Urate May Day and the anniversary
the soviet assumption of power in
Russia, at which times the main hall
was draped in red, with pictures of
Lenine, Trotsky, Marx and Ruthen
berg gazing down benignly upon the
assembled boys and girls.
Woll's Integrity Questioend
Mr. Woll said the organ of the
American Federation of Teachers had
printed a letter signed by Abraham
Lefkowitz saying the executive coun
cil had "to much confidence in the
integrity of Matthew Woll," who was
delegated by President Green to in
vestigate Brookwood and report- So
cial psychology, as taught at Brook
wood, Woll said, was mainly about
Hex befiavior and similar matters.
Economics, he said, was taught by
Tom Tippett, communist, while for
eign labor history was mainly about
the Red Internationale.
President Green said the revela
tions had "shocked and amazed" the
council. He said that at Brookwood
they "damned Sam Gompers, Bill
Green and John L. Lewis," and that
Muste, in a lecture, had likened the
American Federation of Labor to "a
gigantic company union." John H.
Walker said no more capable confi
dence men have ever operated, adding
that they were experts in the art of
seemipg to be "as wise as serpents
and as harmless as doves."
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The college had its defenders, one
being Charles L. Reed, of Salem,
Mass. another Tobias Hall, of the
Pennsylvania State Federation of
Labor. No action was called for and
none was taken. But Brookwood
would seem to be finished, as far as
trade union support is concerned.
Committee Reports Approval^
The entire day was given over to
committee reports over which there
s no dispute, the actions being
mainly in conformity with recommen
dations contained in the executive
council's report.
The Boulder Dam position re
affirmed and labor demanded repre
sentation on boards of eduaction and
boards of educational institutions.
The constitution was amended to
•reate a finance committee. The
structural iron workers were voted
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Chicago (I. L. N- S.)—Trainmen
ind conductors of the group of 55
Western railroads settled their long
standing wage-controversy by accept
ing
a per cent increase in wages.
About 42-,0^0 employes are affected.
is estimated, and the annual salary
roll increase of the roads involved
vill be about $6,500,000.
According to the terms of the set
clement, brought about following a
series of conferences between repre
sentatives uf the roads and of the
rainmen's and conductors' organiza
tions, the wage increase is made re
troactive to May 1, 1928. Thus, pro
viding the six months' back pay now
lue the men is paid without too much
delay, the employes concerned will, in
'ffect, receive a "Christmas bonus"
aggregating approximately $3,250,
300.
The new agreement, signed in the
ffices of the Western Railway Man
ages' Association, 608 South Dear
born street, is to extend to May 1,
1929.
Conductors and trainmen of the
Chicago & Alton also will benefit by
the settlement, it is expected, though
that road was not a party to the con
troversy. Several months ago the
Alton signed an independent agree
ment with its conductors and train
men to abide by whatever decision
should be reached as a result of the
negotiations which ended the contro
versy.
A. F. Whitney, president of the
trainmen's organization, one of the
three signers of the agreement, did
not express entire satisfaction with
the settlement. He referred to the
wage increase granted as being "dis
criminatory" in comparison to
creases won within the last year by
employes of the Eastern and South
em lines.
Throughout the controversy the
unions •fought to retain a rule which
restricts the number of cars to be
contained in "double-header" trains
The roads fought to eliminate this
unflagging support in their fight
against the National Erectors' Asso
ciation xind steel trust* Freedom of
speech was endorsed, without alli
ances with professional protectors of
that ancient American right. The la
bor press was given the warmest en
dorscment it has ever had.
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but gave the men only a 6% per cent
increase, instead of 7% per cent, as
the unions had asked-
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the fact finding cmomission appointed
by President Coolidge that alleged
hazards of long two-engine trains be
inquired into will be adopted by the
unions.
E. P. Curtis, head of the conduc
tors' organization, and J. W. Wig
gins, of the manager's committee,
were the other two signers of the
agreement.
COURT CANCELS
Order Fixing
Wage
Minimum
Ottawa (I. L. N. S.)—The supreme
court of Canada has cancelled an or
der of the male minimum wage board
in the lumbering industry, on the
gruond that it is ultra vires. A pre
vious board order applying to the
catering industry is rendered inoper
ative.
"The devision creates an extraor
dinary situation," comments Chair
man J. D. McNiven, of the B. C.
board- The court rules that the form
of the board's order is ultra vires.
Apparently there are three courses
open to the board—to make new
wage orders in conformity with the
supreme court decision to ask the
legislature to make changes in the
act to legalize the forms of orders in
stituted originally and now declared
ultra vires, or to take an appeal case
to the privy council of the empire.
STANDARD OIL CUTS
"MELO^N"
New York.—The board of directors
of the Standard Oil Company of Ken
tucky has declalred a 50 per cent
stock dividend estimated to be worth
about $30,000,000. The "melon' is in
addition to the regular quarterlly div
idend of $1 and an extra dividend
of 50 cents. The market for Ken
tucky Standard is $175 a share.