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FRIDAY, MARCH 28,1930
TRADE UNIONS CREATE
NEW PUBLIC OPINION
Does the Brookwood College presi
dent understand the trade union
movement
In a recent speech he was quoted
"The trade unions should be subject
to public opinion, the same as any
other social agency."
This can be interpreted in various
ways, but on its face it is acceptable
to anti-union employers. It is a more
crafty suggestion than court control
through incorporation of trade unions
labor injunctions and anti-strike
laws, as in Kansas and Colorado.
Our trade unions are not "social
agencies" in the accepted sense. We
are ever in advance of public opinion
We set new intellectual standards
We are path blazers in every struggle
for a better life.
We must be subject to law, but
how can we be subject to public
opinion that may—and often does—
ignore that law If we were subject to
such "public opinion," where would
we be today?
In these struggles we were within
our lawful rights, but we defied pub
lie opinion of that time. This is the
history of shorter workday move
ments, higher wages, abolition of
child labor, free school books, protec
tion of workers' lives and limbs, com
pensation laws and every other gain.
Social agencies often approved
these battles after success was as
sured, but the unions initiated these
movements.
Social agencies accept the status
quo. Our unions are based on a pro
test against the status quo. If our
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UNEMPLOYMENT WHERE it BELONGS
Unemployment continues. United States figures register a trifling drop
for February. Not much. Meanwhile it is announced that states and coun
ties will spend this year $225,000,000 more than they spent last year on roads.
That is better news than all the talk.
unions cease to be true to their his
toric mission they will pass into obliv
ion—and rightfully so.
Meanwhile, however, we have the talk. Hearings open on Senator Wag
ner's bill which provides for better government statistics on employment.
That is stepping in the right direction.
The government has a function regarding employment Getting the
facts is one. Providing a shock absorber through funds to be loosed for
public Ajvork is another. Not funds to be spent after unemployment comes,
but to be spent when unemployment is approaching. Figures will show that.
To class trade unions with frater
nal organizations, welfare societies
and general uplift work is to ignore
our bedrock philosophy.
But all this leads away from the main point of responsibility. Let us
not make government the scape-goat or the cure-all. The main responsibility
is with industry.
Our trade unions have everything
that other organizations have. But
we have something that no other
group possesses.
Normal employment is in industry. When normal employment fails it is
because industry has slipped. Nail the thing right where it belongs.
When we force the government to step in we are forcing the govern
ment to fix a break caused by maladministration in industry. Make industry
know its responsibility!
What is wanted is continuous normal employment, with as little fixing
by government as possible.
If industry, using high speed mass production machinery and paying
low wages with long work-days, piles up more commodities than we can get
purchasing power to buy, then we must expect a crash—crash after crash.
Industry—and the men who make decisions in industry—must get it into
their heads that it is THEIR job to keep prosperity going. Somehow it ought
to be possible to penalize them when they fail, instead of rushing the gov
ernment to fix what they smash. But that doesn't seem possible and gov
ernment must do the fixing. It ought to do it as expertly as possible, with no
loss of time. That's why the Wagner truth-hunting idea is good.
Bat fix the blame for the crashes where it belongs—on industry and
the individual men who make the decisions therein. There is where the blame
terrible burden of blame for thousands of hungry men and women
and for thousands of children that cry for food when there is no food.
All through industry, fight for the remedy—higher wages, fewer hours
of work, bigger purchasing power. And no workingman can fight for that
all by himself. He must do it in co-operation with his fellows, in a union.
Fix the responsibility where it belongs apply the remedy through the
only possible channel—the union—in a tremendous campaign against injus
tice, maladministration and human misery.
We deny that public opinion at any
given time is the last word. We do
more—we challenge every attempt of
individual and governmental absolut
ism that is approved by those who
ignore the American ideal and who
class wage earners as inferior per
sons, who must be "protected."
This theory can not be befogged
by phrases and pseudo-scientific slan
DOLLAR "WAGE" GUARDED
An anti-union textile corporation
of Danville, Va. (Dan River and
Riverside Cotton Mills) paid a 10 per
cent dividend to stockholders last year
out of its surplus, and has recently
cut wages 10 per cent.
It is not unusual for companies
to reach into their strong box and
pay dividends to stockholders when
profits temporarily lag.
But why can't this surplus be used
to maintain wages?
Is the so-called "wage" of the dol
lar (interest) more important than
wages that sustain life?
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CHICKEN LIVER TIMBALES
t. salt
Dash white pepper
1 t. chopped parsley
1 tb. bread crumbs
Rub chopped raw livers through a sieve. Place in a pan, add
butter and onion cook 5 minutes and remove from stove. Cool, add
seasoning, 5 egg yolks, bread crumbs, and mix. Fold in stiffly beaten
whites to the mixture. Place in well-greased timbale forms sprinkle
with bread crumbs, and bake in a pan half filled with water for 15
minutes. Serve with mushroom sauce.
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WHAT'S DOING IN CUBA?
From Cuba come reports via Asso
ciated Press that all unions have beon
decreed out of existence, save perhaps
the railroad unions at Camaguey, long
since "reorganized" to suit the Macha
do desires
A large number of arrests have
been made, reports calling the victims
communists. There undoubtedly is
communism in Cuba, as there is in the
United States, but the whole labor
movement is no more red there than
here.
Those arrested have been thrown
into the steaming hulk of the Maxi
mo Gomez, floating iron prison, an
chored out of the roadway in the hot
Havana harbor. Hundreds have gone
through that torture, many never to
return to their homes.
Meetings have been decreed unlaw
ful a general strike has been voted
What is doing in Cuba? Nobody
can know accurately through press
dispatches. There is too much of
curtain over thai causes of thing:
and too much necessary secretiveness
about the actions of workmen.
But the direst happenings have
been foretold by the recent articles
written by William English Walling
who was in Cuba a month ago an
whose writings were published in this
newspaper. They were foretold twe
years ago by the reports written by
Chester M. Wright after investiga
tion in Cuba. Meanwhile the United
States senate dodges its duties under
the Piatt amendment which calls for
guarantee of Cuban liberties, and
which should have long since moved
the senate to an investigation of what
is going on in the despot-ridden, cru
elly exploited Pearl of the Antilles.
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DOHENY—FALL
Last week a jury hearing the
charge that Edward Doheny, rich
oil magnate, bribed Albert Fall,
President Harding's secretary of the
interior, with $100,000, found Doheny
not guilty. Some time back another
jury found Fall guilty of accepting
the bribe. Which jury is right? If
Doheny didn't offer a bribe, how then
can Fall be guilty of accepting one?
On the other hand, if Fall really is
guilty of accepting a bribe in this
instance, isn't it a certainty that Do
heny is guilty of offering one? Which
is which, or who's who? Or is it per
haps, as one United States senator
said, "You can't convict a $100,000,
000." Where does consistency enter
this case?
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A. F. OF L. NOT AN AUTOCRAT
The A. F. of L. charter to the
United Mine Workers of America
contains this pledge:
"The A. F. of L. does hereby bind
itself to support the said United Mine
Workers of America in the exercise
of aP its rights, privileges and
autonomy."
President Green recalled this pledge
when he declared to the Indianapolis
convention of miners that the A. F.
of L. will not countenance any group
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about many things, sometimes pro*
foundly, sometimes flippantly,
sometimes recklessly.
Isn't there a fable somewhere about
a man who, contemplating himself
with eminent satisfaction, puffed and
puffed and puffed until—smithereens!
It isn't difficult to imagine the sen
ate lobby committee, with Senator
Caraway right up in front, puffing
and puffing and puffing.
Immense satisfaction is written all
over everything.
Yet what is it all about What
essential thing has been learned?
The committee has shoveled some
stuff that is nasty. Nasty, but not
new. It has walked around the deep,
black holes—walked around puffing
and puffing and puffing.
Worse than that, citizenship rights
have been confused. To lobby is a
right. To ask a legislator to favor a
given measure is merely the exercise
of the right of petition. The lobby
committee, with its smirking and
puffing, has tended to draw all lobby
ing into disrepute, yet without ever
getting within gunshot of the real rot
of Washington lobbying—the lobby
ing that amounts to something more
than asking.
This lobby committee continues to
pose and to impress some people, but
it impresses nobody quite as much as
it impresses itself.
Guffaws cost no money—let's have
another. Take the senatorial aston
ishment at the discovery that trad
ing was going on. Trading, in this
sense is when one senator says to
another: "I'll vote for your bill if
you'll vote for mine." Old as the
hills.
Sometimes it can be very bad
sometimes not at all harmful. Bu
the point is, it is not new. Senator
Caraway pounced upon it and de
nounced it. He had made a great
discovery.
This palaver about surface things
gets tiresome at times. This busi
ness of being shocked by the obvious
eventually loses its humorous aspect
It gets plain tiresome.
But the senate, in spite of its
vaudeville performers, is a great in
stitution. They don't all go puff
puff!
Unemployment remains present
The government thinks there is a lit
tle less—something like one per cent
Perhaps the man who is one per cent
less unemployed feels one per cent
better than he did last month.
The senate isn't doing much about
that question, either nor will it.
At bottom, most office holders and
most employers simply will not face
the unemployment issue. They will
not see what causes it, nor will they
see that the cure must be radical.
Machine production has given the
thing a new character. And a new
speed.
Wages have got to go up—UP
and HIGH UP. Hours of work mu«t
be cut.
What is all this machinery for?
of miners that is not recognized by
the chartered United Mine Workers
of America^
"Any other policy would result in
chaos," declared Mr. Green. Every
one who had a grievance could start
another union in that craft or calling
The A. F. of L. recognizes but one
union—the chartered one, although
the A. F. of L. "will gladly exercise
its good offices in internal disputes
when the regular union so requests.
It is impossible for the A. F. of
L. to follow any other policy as long
as it remains a voluntary federation
of national and international unions
that retain all power
over
their in­
ternal affairs.
A contrary policy means that the
A .F. of L. would attempt to sit in
judgment over the acts of affiliates
and members. Its affiliates have
given it no such authority.
Well, not for what some people think,
anyway.
And unless we can get to using ma
chinery as it should be used it will
turn around and choke us every now
and then.
We can't laugh this thing off. Nor
can we tolerate the red way of smash
ing our civilization.
Senators are dumb about it—as
dumb as are most big employers.
Well, with all these big problems
on our collective chest, spring is
nevertheless in the air.
On a fine spring day even dark
spots look less bleak. National ideas
grow stronger, day by day. Common
sense in the end must win—and will.
Pessimism is the stock in trade of
the wrecker. The American people
have two characteristics. They are
good repair men and they are quick
to take something better once they
see it. So we'll take the new ma
chinery and fix the structure to suit
the new conditinos.
GAS CAN'T BE
WASTED SAVING
LAW IS UPHELD
Sacramento, Calif.—The state su
preme court upheld a California law
which limits wastage of natural gas
in producing oil. Untold millions of
cubic feet of gas were permitted to
be blown into the air by owners of
oil wells who attacked the law upon
the ground that it infringes upon the
rights of ownership of private prop
erty as guaranteed by the constitu
tion.
Judge Hazlett refused to classify a
natural resource as private property.
"I am finally satisfied," he said, "that
the great natural resources not made
by the hand of man should be and
can be conserved by legislation, and
their taking and use limited for the
general public good and for the good
of those owning or producing. These
general principles are established by
our courts."
SIX-HOUR DAY
For Workers Urged By
Trainmen's Chief
San Francisco.—A universal six
hour work day in this country to cure
unemployment was urged by A.
Whitney, president Brotherhood of
Railway Trainmen, in a speech to the
Commonwealth Club in this city.
The speaker said there were 4,000,
000 unemployed men in the United
States, and that this situation is a
challenge to every thoughtful citizen.
He traced the development of
labor-saving and automatic machin
ery and scientific processes, and ex
plained that these methods have
made it possible for the railroads
alone to dispense with hundrdes of
thousands of workers during the past
ten years, while more passengers and
freight are handled.
He declared that unemployment
and low wages are wrecking the na
tion's homes and that the railroads
should lead in the movement to re
duce working hours.
Child labor laws, he insisted, should
be immediately enacted and no child
under 16 years should be allowed to
work. At the present time 2,000,000
children are taking the places of fam
ily men in industry, he said.
"What prospects are in store for*
America if we allow the mother and
children to work while the father re
mains idle?" asked the trainmen's
executive.
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