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Held as Unemployment
Cause in Oklahoma
Oklahoma City, Okla. (ILNS)—
Charges that the oil pro-ration orders
pf the state corporation commission
are increasing unemployment were
made at an unemployment conference
here.
Roy Sanford, of Enid, presented a
resolution to Gov. Holloway, asking
the governor to use his authority
against the continuances of the pro
ration policy of the commission. He
declared that the refineries at Enid
were running at a total loss of $8,000
a day because they could not get oil
under the present regulations. He
said that support for 15,000 persons
depended on the refineries.
President Joe Campbell, of the
State Federation of Labor, advocated
an eight-hour day for all oil-filled
jworkers and said the five-day week
Should be adopted for all types of
labor.
Gov. Holloway announced that he
would not attempt to say what he
would do in response to the resolu
tion. It was agreed that a subcom
mittee should consider the effect of
pro-ration upon the unemployment
situation.
The conference was attended by
about 125 representatives of labor,
industry, cities and civic organiza
tions. A resolution was adopted for
the appointment of a state-wide com
mittee to act as a clearing house in
aiding and directing unemployment
relief.
FACTORY JOBS IN
N. Y. DROP AGAIN
Virtually Every Industry
Shows Slump in
November
Albany, N. Y. (ILNS)—Factory
employment in New York state drop
ped 3 per cent from October to No
vember, Industrial Commissioner
Frances Perkins announced today,
basing her statement on reports from
about 1,700 factories which report
regularly to the New York state de
partment of labor.
A general slackening in activity
was felt throughout the list of re
porting factories, which includes con
cerns in all lines of manufacturing
and located in all parts of the state.
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New York City (ILNS)—Two more
union manufacturers, employing 3000
members of the United Garment
Workers of America, with factories
in principal cities of the United
States, have announced the 40-hour
work week, with no reduction in the
weekly pay of their employes, both to
\go into effect with beginning of the
liew year.
To begin the year 1931 with this
good news to the American labor
movement, there had to be a trinity.
In this case it happened to be the
H. D. Lee Mercantile Company, man
ufacturers of the Lee brand of over
alls, unionalls, play suits and work
jshirts, with factories in Kansas City,
Mo. South Bend, Ind. Trenton, N.
J. Minneapolis, Minn., and San Fran
cisco, Cal., employing 2,500 members
of the United Garment Workers of
America the R. L. McDonald Manu
facturing Company, St. Joseph, Mo.,
manufacturers of the McDonald brand
of high grade dress shirts, pajamas,
underwear, overalls and work shirts,
employing 500 loyal trade unionists,
and the United Garment Workers of
America, ably represented by Presi
dent T. A. Rickert and General Sec
—retary J. L. Wines.
The story would not be" complete if
credit were not given to the 3,000
members of the union and their effi
cient officers who are affected by thi3
agreement. Their loyalty to the
OIL PRO RATION
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ALL WOOL ALL $22.50
Richman's Clothes
Made in Our Own Factory
And Sold Direct to You
No Middleman's Profit
Richman Bros. Co.
Hamilton, Ohio
4 128 High Street
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Not one of the 11 main industrial di
visions. showed a net gain for the
month. The chemical, oil and paint
division was holding up better than
the average, showing a net loss for
the month of less than 1 per cent, and
total employment only 6 per cent be
low that of November, 1929.
The stone, clay and glass group
showed good gains in New York city,
but up-state losses caused a drop in
total employment in these industries.
Silk and cotton mills showed further
recovery from their drastic losses
earlier in the year, but other textiles
continued to lose ground.
Virtually every other industry on
the list showed a downward trend,
which was especially marked in those
industries whose busy seasons close
in November.
PICKETS MAY WALK
BUT NOT TALK
Philadelphia, Pa. (ILNS)—Phila
delphia cops have decided that it's an
offense to tell workers a strike exists
in a given shop if those particular
workers don't happen to be working
in the struck mill and are seeking
work there.
The Jlaster Full Fashioned Hosiery
Shop employes, Third and Somerset
streets, have been out on strike for
several weeks against sweatshop
wages and conditions. This plant is
a small one employing some 50 per
sons, and^is located in a large build
ing in the heart of the Kensington
mill district, in which other firms are
also located.
Mrs. Anna Geisinger, woman or
ganizer of the American Federation
of Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers,
on the picket line the other morning
told everybody going into the mill
building that there was a strike in
the Master shop. The cops announced
that pickets may only walk and not
talk. Mrs. Geisinger insisted upon
speaking to the workers. She was
run in. Magistrate Lindell discharg
ed her, but despite the protests of the
union's attorney, Alexander Haig, re
fused to rebuke the police for making
ing an arrest on such grounds.
The strike at the Master is prac
tically 100 per cent effective. In the
face of the terrible unemployment in
the industry there have been almost
no strikebreakers at all going into
the shop.
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TPhree Thousand Members of United Garment Workers
of America in Six Cities to Work 40 Hours at No
Reduction in Weekly Pay, Beginning with New Year.
United Garment Workers of America
and their employers, helped greatly
to put into effect the 40-hour work
.week in the various cities in which
the H. D. Lee Mercantile Co. and the
R. L. McDonald Manufacturing Co.
operate plants.
Companies Are Leaders
The H. D. Lee Mercantile Company
and the R. L. McDonald Manufac
turing Company are leaders and not
followers in the garment industry,
and having once convinced them
selves that the 40-hour week was eco
nomically souAd, and humanely just,
they did Wot hesitate to put it into
effect.. %, r.
A statement by General President
Rickert and General Secretary Wines
said:
"We sincerely trust and hope that
manufacturers in the garment indus
try in general will see the economic
necessity for this change and the in
terest of the progress of the industry
itself as well as the happiness and
beneficial results it will bring to their
employes, so that in the very near
future all people working in the gar
ment industry may be the beneficiaries
of the 40-hour work week. We also
hope that the actions of the II. D. Lee
Mercantile Company and the R. L.
McDonald Manufacturing Company
may also be an influencing factor to
wards this end to other employers in
the ftidustry."
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By C. S. GARRISON
Danville, Va. (ILNS)—The second
big "push" to break the strike of the
Danville textile workers by the mill
owners dribbled out to a standstill
this week when, with augmented po
lice protection and some 500 soldiers,
workers remained "static to the invi
tation of the "owners to "come home,
all is forgiven."
Picket count showed reality, a
decrease in the number entering the
mills on Monday as compared with
the previous Monday, and no skilled
workers whatever entered, with the
expection of four loom fixers, two of
whom later came out.
The company, through its strate
gist, Malcolm K. Harris, attorney for
the mill corporation, had the stage all
set. Days before the time fixed for
the Monday "push" a Danville after
noon newspaper carried propaganda
stories designed to break the morale
of the strikers. A full-page adver
tisement said to have been signed and
paid for by "interested bystanders"—
but in reality by the mill corporation
—was addressed to the strikers, and
told them of the "situation" and why
they could not win. Simultaneously
there was a statement by H. R. Fitz
gerald, president of the company,
which said in effect that if the work
ers would return all would be for
given. This is the first statement is
sued by Mr. Fitzgerald.
Company Overture Rejected
That night a rousing unioli meet
ing was held and the hall packed to
suffocation. When asked if they
would accept the Fitzgerald invita
tion to give up the union and come
back under the so-called industrial
democracy scheme there was a shout
of "No" from the workers which
raised the roof. A resolution was
adopted condemning the newspaper
for its strikebreaking activities and
various church pastors who were at
tempting to aid the employers to
strike by advising tfee work
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Union Holds Firm and No
Strikers Go Back to Mills
Invitation of President Fitzgerald to Return Under "In
dustrial Democracy" Plan Is Emphatically Rejected.
HAMILTON, OHIO, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26,1930
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Another Effort to Break
Danville Walkout Fails
ers to return to the mills and "for
get it." The next morning armed
police by the score were at the River
side Mills to "protect" anyone want
ing to go: to work, but nobody went in
except the few roustabouts and the
usual contingent of overseers, second
hands and clerks who are not eligible
to join the union.
At the Dan River Mills, Virginia
soldiers with fixed bayonets acted as
strike deputies and guarded the usual
crowd who enter the mills, but no
strikers entered and few, if any,
skilled workers, either union or non
union, went to work. The coup was a
signal victory for the union and dis
closed that they were out to win and
would stick until the lower regions
were congested.
No Gain in Mill Force
Since that time the police and mili
tary have been on the job as usual,
but the increase in the mills has not
materialized. Mr. Fitzgerald has
iterated and reiterated that he will
have nothing whatever to do with the
union and will not recognize it under
any condition.
A few nights ago the military or
dered an automobile carrying a man
and woman to halt, as it came down
the highway on the outskirts of
Schoolfield. The car did not halt and
a volley followed the speeding car.
Lockwood Pickett, from North Caro
lina, was perhaps fatally shot. Pick
ett was a rum runner and his car con
tained 60 gallons of pre-holiday corn
whiskey
Citizens of Schoolfield in no wise
connected with the operation of the
cotton mills or the textile union are
preparing a protest to Gov. Pollard
against promiscuous shooting by sol
diers who are alleged to endanger the
lives of innocent persons through the
use of high-powered army rifles and
steel jacketed bullets. They also pro
test against the practice of the sol
diera halting citizens and autos and
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searching them without provocation.
According to Richmond advices there
are 485 soldiers on duty in the strike
area at the present time.
LOW WAGES
Blamed By Shipstead
Business Drop
For
New York.—"Speculation on bor
rowed money and the small share that
labor receives in the form of wages
were classed as major causes of the
present depression by United States
Senator Shipstead, writing his views
for the Magazine of Wall Street, in a
featured article.
This financial publication explains
that Senator Shipstead's views on the
problems relating to business are
"most significant" as the close divi
sion between the two old parties
makes him "the most powerful indi
vidual in congress."
"We are suffering from undercon
sumption rather than overproduc
tion," said Senator Shipstead, in call
ing attention to the need for higher
wages.
"Not enough of the gross income
of the corporations goes back into
immediate and broadly distributed in
dividual income. In other words, the
potential buyers are not adequately
provided with the means of buying.
When the gross amount paid out in
wages decreases as the volume of the
product increases, an impasse is sure
to come.
'It has been recently shown—con
trary to what we have all thought—
that labor is receiving a smaller pro
portion of the value it assists in
creating than it did 90 years ago.
The corporations are accumulating
too much capital from profits and un
wisely holding back dividend disburse
ments. Rich men and corporations
tend to withdraw greater part of their
income from consumptive use than do
average individuals."
IMMIGRANTS BANNED
Washington.—A two-year suspen
sion of all immigration, except rela
tives who may enter until half of the
existing quota is filled, was approved
by the house immigration committee.
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l'Y PRESS.
Over 8 Billion Dividend
While unemployment- mounts, divi
dends and interest also seems to
mount, according to an analysis made
for International Labor News Serv
ice and this newspaper by Ralph
Couch, statistician. Mr. Couch's find
ings follow.
By RALPH F. COUCH
Dividend and interest payments of
1930 will aggregate $8,200,000,000, or
at least 8.3 per cent more than in
1929, according to reports received
by the United States commerce de
partment from private agencies. The
total of such payments' in 1929 was
approximately $7,571,000,000.
These data cover dividends paid by
principal corporations of the country
on stocks plus interest on bonds of
bothjjrivate and governmental issues.
The ^total given for 1930 includes all
announcements thus far made of pay
ments to be made during December,
1930. The December distributions may
be increased by payments yet to be
reported.
The increase in 1930 is believed to
be due to the increasing amount of
SOLID LINE
Presented By Rail Men To
Cut Hours for Workers
Washington.—The Association of
Railroad Labor Executives, at their
meeting in this city, established a
new record when they agreed to take
joint action to secure less working
time. The purpose is to care for un
employed.
The association comprises 21 organ
izations of workers employed on the
nation's roads. The chairman is D. R.
Robertson, president Brotherhood of
Locomotive Firemen. The secretary
is E. J. Manion, president Order of
Railway Telegraphers.
The shorter time plan is intended
to relieve unemplyoment. There are
more than 300,000 employes who are
out of the service and there are sev
eral hundred thousand who are work
ing on part time.
The question of shorter hours is as
involved as all of the nation's indus
tries because of the complex char
acter of railroading, with its manu
facturing, repairing and transporta-
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NOTHING IS TOO GOOD
FOR US TO WISH FOR THOSE WHO
HAVE MADE THIS BUSINESS
WHAT IT IS TODAY
Therefore we pause in the rush of a busy
season to plan this brief message in the hope
that it will reach those who have been so
good to us. Whether it was dimes or dollars
you spent with us we appreciate your busi
ness. We hope to add many new friends
to our list during the coming year.
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Total For Twelve Months
1930 Interest and Dividend Roll May Lead Previous Year's
Total by 8.3 Per Cent, According to Commerce
Department.
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securities outstanding and to the fact
that some corporations have paid divi
dends out of surpluses accumulated
in previous years.
The record of payments by months
in 1930 compared with 1929 is shown
in the following table in millions of
dollars.
Month 1930 1929
January $1,120 |925
February 517 440
March 608 529
April 745 679
May 570 490
June 721 658
July 916 898
August 424 410
September 524 530
October 763 768
November 579 553
December 713 691
Totals .,f8,200 $7,571
From these data it will be seen that
disbursements of 1930 exceeded those
of 1929 in all months except Septem
ber and October.
tion that provides for every imagin
able employment.
The executive committee of the as
sociation will present their views to
the carriers, and will attempt to have
it treated on a national scale, as it is
a national matter.
The workers are asking for the six
hour day in train and yard service
and the five-day week for other em
ployes. Each organization will work
out its especial problems that are in
cidental to the change.
The Association of Railroad Labor
Executives agreed to work with the
railroads on such issues as 'proper
regulation of highway transportation
by busses and trucks and the elim
ination of subsidized and unfair com
petition by busses, trucks, pipe lines
and waterways."
URGE COMPENSATION
CHANGES IN KANSAS
Topeka, Kan.—Organized labor in
this state urges changes in the work
ers' compensation law. These in
clude better medical provisions, the
right of an injured employe to select
his own doctor and higher weekly
compensation.
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