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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21,1930
WHAT MACHINERY IS DOING
If you don't think machinery is rap
idly displacing man power read the
article, elsewhere in this issue of the
Press, headed "Trusts Envelop Cigar
Industry," and note what is happen
ing the cigarmakers. Improved ma
chinery in this industry has advanced
so rapidly that the number of em
ployes in it has decreased nearly 50
per cent the past ten years, while pro
duction has increased in the same pro
portion (50 per cent) during the past
year over that of 1900, it is pointed
out. But, read the article.
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THOSE OLDER WORKERS
Organized labor's contention that
older workers can prove their value if
given the opportunity, was upheld by
speakers at the personnel conference
of the American Management Asso
ciation at Cleveland recently. Not
only was labor's defense of the older
workers supported but the charge was
made that the alleged unfitness of
workers in middle age was largely
the result of industry's failure to ap
ply proper management methods.
The indictment against industry
was brought by Elliott Dunlap Smltl
of Yale University J. P. Jordan, of
Stevenson, Harrison & Jordan, and
others.
Data of age limits obtained from
firms employing more than 3,000,000
workers were reported by Murray W
Lattimer, Industrial Relations Coun
selors, Inc. In 42 per cent of the com
panies, employing 26 per cent of the
total number of workers, there was
no age limit. In 40 per cent, employ
ing 61 per cent, all persons over, a
certain age were refused employ
ment. In 18 per cent, employing 13
per cent, there was no age limit, but
pensions were not granted to persons
hired after a certain age.
The Business Week, reporting the
conference, apparently considered
there was much basis for the charge
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middle age is dependent upon man
agement policy, a considerable pro
portion of the concerns queried have
apparently failed to recognize their
responsibilities. Despite all theories,
the percentage of middle-aged men
unable to find employment is not
diminishing, and the effect of their
lessening buying power may well be
come a serious menace to commerce
and industry. Management has talk
ed a lot, and many complicated mo
tions, but little of value had
emerged.**
COMMUNISTS MAKING HAY?
Demonstrations of jobless men and
women in Cleveland, Milwaukee and
other cities come as a shock and em
phasize the seriousness of unemploy
ment. Communists are making the
most of the situation and supply an
element of danger. They are doing
all they can to stir up trouble, but
they would not make much headway
if there were only a few idle.
Meanwhile some industrial leaders
and government officials continue to
talk "prosperity" in somewhat overly
optimistic terms. Voicing of optimism
is all very well, but what is needed
is not merely optimistic talk but op
timistic action—action whieh will put
the idle to work with faith in the
future of industry and the nation.
The spirit of the Hoover conferences
with their promise of stabilizing em
ployment and maintaining purchas
ing power seems gradually being for
gotten in certain quarters. Reports
of wage cutting and other demoraliz
ing steps are too frequent.
Industry and government need to
pull together with a will in the pres
ent situation. Unless they do, head
lines heralding unemployment pro
tests and disturbances may become
common, as in years past.
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THE SOUTHERN CAMPAIGN
IS GOING BIG
Word from the South is that a
workmanlike campaign is being con
structed to fit the situation, to stick
to the job and to get results.
Sensationalism, flash-in-the-pan
methods, whoopee proclamations—
these are missing.
This is good news.
The whole campaign rests upon the
fact that great masses of wage earn
ers made known their desire to be
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entirely on the taste, but when it comai to breed, teste ie
pretty good Indication of quality—end quality breed is whet
Ing youngsters need. Energy in vest quantities is bunted aa
•cttve children, end the beet source of such e«wy Is
organized, their willingness to listen
to the message of trade unionism.
Without thftfc feftaic thing little could
be done.
All labof unions are voluntary as
sociations of men and women. In l*g
bor unions nobody can force or com
pel anything.
The Southern campaign is the
right kind of a campaign. Not only
does it embody the spirit of volun
tary action, but it proceeds on reason.
Even the most hard-boiled employers
are finding it difficult to ring their
old-time denunciations.
The Mississippi legislature* over a
silly protest, decides it wants to hear
President Green. That is of tremen
dous significance.
Francis Gorman, able text!!# work
ers' vice president, addresses 1,000
persons and 760 apply for member
ship.
The Southern organizing campaign
is going big because it is going right.
Southern business, manufacture and
general industry will be thankful,
along with labor, for every inch of
progress that is made.
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MAN-POWER FATIGUE
Structural steel workers are to be
provided with elevator service on
buildings more than fifteen stories
high. So the trade union movement
has another social achievement to its
credit. As in many other instances,
it came by way of high wages.
Climbing the structure of a 20 or
30-story building takes time and
leaves an iron worker in need of rest.
When structural iron rates are at
$1.92% per hour, contractors are
ready to consider the cost of man
hour fatigue and to provide against
it.
There is a very practical principle
of human welfare involved. However
much contractors might be concerned
for human fatigue and safety, unless
they can afford to put in conveniences
and safety devices it is a business
impossibility. If human labor is the
cheapest factor in production, busi
ness cannot establish more social
practices.
When workers are good enough
business men to take themselves out
of the cheap class, good industrial
managers change their work rules so
that this more expensive item may
be used to good advantage.
Higher wages make for social as
well as industrial progress. They are
a lifting force that enables wage
earners to negotiate work conditions
on a higher level and to secure the
consideration that is given a valuable
service.
Organization is the first move for
getting out of the "cheap" category.
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"PIN-MONEY WORKERS"
In her recent speech, taking issue
with the assertion of Lady Rhonda
Britain's wealthy feminist, that the
pin-money worker is clear gain in
economic life, Miss Francis Perkins
New York's state commissioner of la
bor, says:
"Until we have every woman in
this community earning a living
wage—and by that I mean not less
than $20 for the city of New York—
until we have a firmly established
habit of short working hours and
some kind of old age security, I am
not willing to encourage those who
are under no economic necessity to
compete with their charm and educa
tion, their superior advantages
against the working girl who has only
her two hands."
It is easier to agree with Miss Per
kins than with Lady Rhonda as to
their economic gain from the so-call
ed pin-money workers. But we doubt
that the pin-money worker has over
the working girl the advantage which
Miss Perkins attributes to her. The
American working girl, at least as
one sees her on the street, appears
sufficiently alert to meet the compe
tition of any and all pin-money
workers.
MORE ABOUT HUGHES
To be nominated for high public
office is to face the ghosts of the
past, as Charles Evar.s Huphes we!
found out.
Opponents of the Hughes nomina
tion brought forth the record by
pages and sheafs of pages.
It was charged that while Hughes
as secretary of state opposed the so
viets, he changed his position when
he became Standard Oil counsel.
It was charged that he sat with
Doheny and Sinclair in oil counsels
and that he was co-member with Do
heny on the board of the petroleum
institute.
Borah laid about him, Don Juan
fashion. Other cooler heads lashed
Hughes also.
Hughes has been a corporation
lawyer—a lawyer for corporations. It
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tell the truth
about many things, sometimes pro
foundly, sometimes flippantly,
sometimes recklessly...........
This is a mighty queer world. It
is filled with tricks and dodges. It is
filled with doings that do not seem
consistent.
Some of these doings are the th
ings of the United States govern
ment, whose left hand sometimes
doesn't give a hang what its right
hand does.
The Associated Press informs us
that after Carl Williams, of the fed
eral farm board, had told cotton
growers in Mississippi that a crop in
excess of 40,000,000 acres "crossed
the danger line," the growers agreed
to play safe in their planting.
The government warned the grow
ers not to produce too much. In
other words, it advised them to avoid
producing too much.
To put it still more plainly, the
government advised curtailment of
output!
Carl Williams did,, in the name of
the federal farm board what Secre
tary of Labor Davis would have done
if he had got workmen together and
warned them it was dangerous to lay
i i icks for more than a given number
of houses or stores.
After putting that one in the
book, turn to the first page of last
Sunday's New York newspapers for
a combination of tragedy and hope.
Under the Baumes laws, which
make life sentences mandatory for
"habitual" criminals, a certain Mrs.
Ruth St. Clair was sent up for life
as a confirmed shoplifter.
That shows, some will say, the stu
pidity of having laws like that, with
no exceptions, no room for flexi
bility.
The hope is in the fact that the
governor has interested himself in
the case and may grant clemency.
Michigan has found out that it
doesn't like hard boiled laws that
have no flexibility. Maybe it has dis
covered that it isn't quite sure when
crime repetition becomes "habitual"
and when it is the circumstances, in
stead, that are "habitual," or chronic.
New York seems to be getting jolt
ed along toward similar conclusions.
The International Federation of
Trade Unions has interested itself in
the question of whether the married
woman should work for pin money.
.H. Thomas, labor minister in the
Mac Donald cabinet, sought to shake
the world by proclaiming they should
stay out of industry so others might
cio the work.
The International Federation quotes
President Green and others as saying
sensibly that in most cases it is not
a question of double subsistence. The
added income is needed.
On the whole the business of try
ing to tell any person, man or woman
that he or she must not do some form
of work is dangerous. Of course it
is one,of those cases in which nation
al expediency may seem in conflict
with unquestioned individual rights
But, whether cabinet members ful
minate or keep still, women—and
men—will continue to find work so as
to earn money to buy things they
want that badly. And, on the whole
it is an ambition not too safely
curbed. It is a part of the ambition
that keeps the race climbing upward
It is the same urge that makes a
man hunt a better job so that he can
get a car for the family. And when
a minister has no better remedy to
offer for too much misery he would
seem to be fairly near his wits' end.
STEEL OUTPUT GAINS
Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—A sub
stantial upswing in steel output ap
pears in the first month's production
report for 1390.
The total of ingots produced in
January is reported as 3,780,000 tons
by the American Iron and Steel In
stitute, as compared with 2,896,000
tons in December. This is a gain of
approximately 30 per cent, and con
stitutes the first marked increase not
ed since the long uptrend in steel out
put reached its peak in May of 1929
The improvement in steel is gener
ally looked upon as one of the most
favorable factors in the present busi
ness situation.
is fair to paddle Hughes for things
he has said and done, but it is not
fair to paddle him for having pleaded
the legal cases of corporations.
When we cease to charter corpor«i
tions it will become an offense for
lawyers to represent them and for
tho rest of uS to be seen with their
products. But until then that sort of
lambasting is somewhat hollow.
We would like to see a different
type of mind on the supreme bench
but—oh, what's the use!
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WISDOM
It is time for us to understand
that, for the -civilized world, peace is
not a luxury but a vital necessity
that the organization of peace is a
pressing duty and obligation.—Aris
tide Briand.
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The Suppressed
News
By BEATRICE VANDEGRIFT
(Copyright.)
YOUNG
Sam Davis had been a re­
porter on a New York paper for
three months and stift harbored the
Idea that the one unforgivable sin ln
journalism was to come back without
a story, and that newspapers print all
the scandal they can get, the worse
the better.
One gray, rainy November day. the
city editor summoned Sam to hip desk
and told liin. that, for want of a bet*
ter man, he was sending him to cover
the burial of the famous bandit whq
had been hanged that morning.
"Get all the dope you can," he com
manded gruffly without looking up
from his blue-penciling. "Sob stuff.
And for Pete's sake, realize this Is
news and not shipping notes."
Sam Importantly displayed his pass
at the prison gates and restlessly
waited for the funeral of the notorious
bandit who had confessed to twenty
two robberies and eight killings, y&
who had shuddered when the court at
tendant had swatted a fly. Just be
fore his hanging he had given a cold,
dispassionate speech on the evils of
modern society. He had talked for
one hour, holding his condemners
spellbound, and significantly stroking
his own throat with his delicate white
hand.
And now It was Sam's duty to write
the ending to his grim story. He
shivered a bit with the Importance of
his assignment.
The funeral cortege, consisting of
a group of men who were hired to
bury dishonored men, appeared. Sara
watched as the Interment took place
without drama. He talked a bit with
the chaplain, but the chaplain knew
of no sidelights that might be Inter
estlng. The party at last dispersed
and Sam was the only reporter left
He stood In the shadow of the prison,
defeated and disgruntled. He felt he
simply could not return to his paper
without a story.
As he Was about to go, a taxi dre\v
up and a woman got out. She was
muffled In black with a thick veil over
her face. She walked hurriedly to
the new-made grave and gently laid a
sheaf of pale pink roses on the raw
earth. She stood a moment, her head
bowed, with the cold November wind
stirring her veil, then she entered th"
cab and drove on. Sam followed In hot
haste. Something exciting was break
ing at last!
The chase led him to a quiet and
respectable street back In the city. In
the window of the house that the
woman had entered was a doctor'tf
sign. After a few moments of hesita
tion In which Sam tried to summon a
blase air, he rang the bell. The wom
an answered it, a numb, frightened
look In her eyes.
"Good afternoon," began Sam briskly.
"May I come in? I represent the Daily
Press and I want to obtain an Inter
view. I saw you at Arnold's grave a
while ago."
The woman pressed a hand to her
white Hps, but motioned Sam to enter,
leading him to a cozy Hying room with
a low fire on the hearth. A little
girl came in once during the Interview
to announce that her daddy had come
in but had gone out again. A doctor
surmised Sara, as the sign In the
window Indicated. Rut what was this
quiet, pretty woman's connection with
the notorious bandit?
He broached the subject bluntly,
as he imagined an experienced report
er would.
"Just what was your Interest In
Arnold, madam?" he Inquired, looking
through his pockets for a pencil.
"I was his sister," she answered
In a low. unsteady tone. "1 hadn't
seen him for years, since he ran away
from home. Even my husband did not
know that I was his sister. But I
couldn't let him be buried alone, even
In dishonor." Tears welled In her
eyes. "I know I risked a great deal
by going to his grave," she added
"My husband's reputation, my chil
dren's future. The press Is a very
powerful thing," she smiled wanly,
"and I beg you not to print this story."
"I'm sorry," refused Sam. "I can't
suppress news that belongs to tlx1
public. It wouldn't be fair."
He left the house, haunted by the
look of despair in the woman's eyes
but elated at the thought that he had
a scoop. No other paper would be car
rylng the story.
He dashed Into the editorial rooms
and made for the city editor's desk
blurting bis tale with youthful en
thusiasm. The city editor tipped back
in his chair and eyed him without
emotion as he talked.
Then when Sam stopped for breath
be spoke.
"Never mind It," he commanded
"Kill It, Davis. Forget it It would
make hot reading all right, but this
pfaper isn't in the business of ruining
respectable women's reputations and
blasting kids' futures. Arnold's sister
you say? Forget It. The dame you
saw wasn't anybody.
Nicely Calculated
It has been figured that the ordi
nary postage stamp weighs .01297324
of an ounce the common pin weighs
.0247i»7r of an ounce, and the average
humun hair one Inch In length weighs
.000007668 of an ounce.
And So Often
Many of us would not mind a wom
an having the last word if she didn't
make it last so long.—Boston Tran
script
PREVAILING WAGES
LAW ON RAILROAD
CROSSING WORK
Albany, N. Y.—A bill to apply the
eight-hour day and prevailing-wages
law to railroad grade crossing work
has been introduced in the state leg
islature at the request of the Stat
Federation of Labor.
Legislation appropriating $300,
000,000 for the elimination of these
crossings has been passed.
WHAT NEXT
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The Delaware & Hudson railroad is
using an automatic machine at
Wilkes-Barre, Pa., which does the
work of eight men and washes a mov
ing locomotive in 30 seconds, instead
of the 25 minutes formerly required.
The locomotive automatically starts
the spray, which stops after it has
passed.
A Cleveland company announces
that hereafter it will erect buildings
by riveting or welding as the owner
desires. This puts welding on the
same practical commercial basis as
riveting in building work.
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Western railroads are testing new
triple-decked steel cars for hogs end
sheep. The cars, with one-third more
capacity than the present double
deck cars for hogs and sheep, will
carry their own "diner." It will not
be necessary to unload the animals
for feed and water, as is usually done
on long trips. Men used in this work
will be deprived of jobs and can get
new ones—if they can find them.
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Dallas, Texas.—Edward T. Moojpf,,
president Midcontinent Oil and Gas
Association, called a meeting of oper
ators to limit output, and the Dallas
Craftsman says:
"Mr. Moore considers it proper* to
cut down the running time per day in
order to maintain prices and conserve
his supply, but it is wrong for em
ployes in oil fields apd refiners to re
duce their 12-hour day and seven-day
week."
INJUNCTION REFUSED
TO DO POLICE WORK
Chicago. Superior Court Judge
William J. Lindsay refused to enjoin
striking millinery workers, who were
charged with violence. The court said
the police, not an equity court, should
enforce law.
The unionists charge that police
are violators of law as several pickets
have been knocked down by "guard
ians" of the law, who seem especially
interested in aiding employers.
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