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FRIDAY, AUGUST 22,1930
WHY NOT HELP ALL?
Before lack of rainfall began to
concentrate attention again on the
farm situation the Press published
International Labor News Service
dispatches from the South describ
ing the spread of pellagra, a poverty
disease.
Underpaid and unemployed mill
workers were reported falling victims
of the dread malady.
It was not noticed that the country
rose up and offered of its bounty.
Came the terrible piling up of evi
dence as to the suffering of agricul
ture. Came stories, as a consequence
of drought, of the spread of pellagra
among farmers whose crops were
burning up and blowing away on
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dust-laden winds.
The country stirred and offered of
its bounty.
May we not ask that all who axe
stricken be given help?
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UNEMPLOYMENT SITUATION
Millions of men are pounding the
streets, on a well-nigh hopeless
search for work. Millions of fami
lies, right here in "prosperous"
America, are in conditions of dire
want. They haven't enough food,
clothing, or medical attention. Tor
turing worry of the future creases
their brows, and grays their hair, yet
no adequate solution has been evolved.
A blind adherence in the faith ex
pounded by American communists, or
a smug acceptance of President
Hoover's inadequate remedies will
not solve the situation. In all the
delirium, with hungry crowds gather
ing in demonstrations, and with sleek
capitalists rolling out sonorous insin
cerities, there is only one sensible
solution offered. That solution is the
old, old principle of trade unionism,
''higher wages, and shorter hours."
To cut workdays to 35 hours a
week will take up a tremendous slack
in unemployment. To distribute bil
lions of dollars, through higher
wages, will mean an enormous con
sumption, and this will solve unem
ployment, which is basically caused
by our inability to consume the enor
mous volume of goods turned out by
mass production.
Higher wages and shorter hours
can only come about through stronger
trade unions. And in order to have
stronger trade unions we must have
stronger labor publications, and in
order to have stronger labor publica
tions, those existing must have fuller
co-operation from existing trade
unions.
CALIFORNIA AMAZES
Always amazing in one way or
another, California has seldom been
more amazing than she is made to
appear by those prosecutors who
have admitted that in the Mooney
Billings case they were not so much
interested in the direct evidence as
in the general surroundings of the
case. Seemingly they wanted to get
"the right men" on any kind of evi
dence. And, as has been recalled
California, in the days of the original
trials, had the kind of jury system
that encouraged bad verdicts. It
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wasnt so difficult then, it becomes
clear, to get the kind of verdict a
prosecutor wanted.
California is a fine state. It has
about it an atmosphere of largeness,
of heart as well as of material things,
that is totally out of keeping with
what her prosecutors have confessed.
If, as these men indicate, Mooney and
Billings were put away because they
had what looked like unpleasant rec
ords, California now has her chance
to recover sanity. From the begin
ning the rest of the country has felt
that the evidence offered was a tissue
of fakery, but the California courts
went their way and California gov
ernors, amply courageous in other
matters, have been cowardly enough
to shun the simple business of right
ing a great wrong.
Weeks ago this paper declared it
clamoreQ not for a pardon, but for
a new trial for these men. What is
tantamount to a new trial has already
been had. It cannot now be long be
fore Mooney and Billings are free.
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WHAT THEY WILL SEE
A sea captain avers that he tossed
a piece of suet among a crowd of
prison workers in the great land of
the soviets and a near-riot resulted,
so eager were the hungry men for
anything that looked like food.
So it is stated in the sea captain's
interview, wherein are related other
similar incidents.
Simultaneously it is reported that
three United States senators are tour
ing Russia. They will visit Moscow,
it is reported, and—they will see the
crown jewels.
We may remark that it is doubt
less most important to see the crown
jewels!
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EMPLOYER ON FIVE-DAY WEEK
William Joshua Barney, president
of the Barney-Ahlers Construction
Corporation, writing in the much im
proved "General Building Contrac
tor," gives an intelligent employer's
view of the five-day week. He finds
it a "step forward in the equaliza
tion of incomes and of living condi
tions, but not without obligations
imposed upon labor, to see that the
short work week is not something
"forced from a capitalistic society,"
but a way station in orderly progress.
He discusses the particular applica
tion of the five-day week in New
York, and finds that the five-day week
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makes "for increased cost of con
struction, but is hopeful that, as in
the past, concentrated planning, effi
cient supervision, and steady improve
ment in plant and equipment will
gradually absorb this additional cost
at least to a point where it will not
be a marked burden on building proj
ects." Mr. Barney is basing this last
conclusion upon industrial experience.
Every wage increase in the past has
been absorbed by the industry as
prices gradually fell.
Mr. Barney's article is a model of
good writing and thinking. It is not
filled with hearsay, snap judgment,
biased knowledge of organized labor,
nor with that most common of faults,
ideas-that-you-wish-to-believe. When
employers in the building trades start
taking the scientific point of view,
and as labor continues to take it more
and more, there will be created a ba
sis for real industrial improvement.—
Electrical Workers' Journal.
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LABOR DAY—WHAT FOR?
A Southern mill owner is reported
to have tried to teach his employes
that Labor Day means harder work—
a day on which to labor more dili
gently for the boss.
Be that as it may, reports show
that cities throughout the South are
preparing for such Labor Day cele
brations as never before have been
witnessed in Dixie.
There are many Northern cities
in which Labor Day celebrations are
a thing of the past. They have ceas
ed, either out of laziness of spirit,
or the competition of shallower but
more bizarre doings.
It isn't too late yet Let there be
Labor Day celebrations! Let there
be celebrations that hold to the trut
meaning of Labor Day!
Dedicate Labor Day to the promo
tion of freedom, justice and demo
cracy .for wage earners.
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MORE UNEMPLOYMENT
"STATISTICS"
The department of commerce is
again offending common sense by put
ting forth alleged figures of unem
ployment which it would be misusing
a good word to call statistics. Pend
ing the tabulation of census informa
tion on the subject, the department
says with all the authority of the
United States government that par
tial returns from "six states" indi
cate that "less than 2 per cent of the
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population is needing work."
"The population" never works for
wages. A certain proportion of the
population normally does. That pro
portion engaged in gainful occupa
tions has probably not changed much
from the 1920 census, when it was
just under 40 per cent. Assume that
percentage now, and the departmntal
2 per cent at once becomes 5 percent
of the gainfully employed. But these,
again, include agricultural labor, pro
fessional work and domestic service,
in which there is little unemployment.
Factory and structural unemploy
ment must rise to a much higher per
centage—how much higher we do not
undertake to say. It is enough that
by general agreement between two
and three million workers are out of
a job.
And what are the six states serv
ing as samples in this computation?
Con the list carefully. They an
Texas, Utah, Montana, Arkansas.
Florida and Kansas! Cold comfoi
for the union labor workers in East
ern and near Middle States whos
percentage of unemployment, accord
ing to President Green's statement
the senate committee on commerce
rose during the winter to a peak of
22. Naturally there has been season
al improvement since then. But tin
value of the department of commern
"statistics" as showing present con
ditions is exactly none at all. It i:
an insult to intelligence to put them
out.—New York World.
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WISDOM
We expect old men to be conserva
tives, but when a nation's young
Germany has just announced thai
her total of unemployed persons i
2,757,000.
This brings Old World unemploy
ment to a new high mark.
Great Britain's unemployment offi
cially passed the 2.000.000 mark laM
month.
In six European nations—Great
Britain, Germany, France, Austr
a.
Hungary and Italy, there are 5,94'.'.
287 persons receiving doles or private
charity.
France is reported least hard In
of all European nations, except pos
sibly Belgium.
STARTLING
COMPANY "UNION"
Decision of High Court
Worries Pullman Co.
Chicago.—The United States su
preme court's decision against the
company "union" in the case of the
Texas & New Orleans Railroad ver
sus Brotherhood of Railway Clerks is
worrying the Pullman Company.
This monopolistic corporation has
set up a company "union" into which
it drives colored porters and maids,
and is now alarmed lest the court'3
decision wrecks their scheme.
The company "explains" the deci
sion in a statement to employes, who
are assured that the court's rule
"does not in any way affect or change
the existing relations between the
company and its employes."
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men
are so, its funeral-bell is already
rung.—Henry Ward Beecher.
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A. Philip Randolph, general organ
izer of the Pullman porters affiliated
to A. F. of L., answers the company's
claim. He shows that these workers
are denied the right to select repre
sentatives, just as did the Texas &
New Orleans railroad. Intimidation
and coercion maintain the Pullman
"union," and the company pays all
expenses of this fake institution.
The manager of the company 'tun
ion" is paid by the company, and
company-picked employes who serve
as representatives of their fellow em
ployes at so-called "wage" con
ferences are paid $2.50 a day by the
company.
POLISHERS ARE'WINNING
St. Louis, Mo.—Organized metal
polishers are winning their strike
against wage inductions. Six large
shops cut rates 10 cents an hour. Five
of them changed their minds.
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