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VOL. XXXII. No. 20
Harrisburg, Pa. (ILNS) In a blis
lering letter the committee on unem
ployment relief of the Pennsylvania
State Federation of Labor has accus
ed the state legislature of stepping
all around the unemployment issue
providing no program. "Bayonets as
the alternative to bread'" may be the
situation this winter, as the result
of legislative failure, the committee
charges, holding that the attitude of
the legislators has been one of hy
pocrisy.
"Speaking directly for many thou
sands of those affected," says the let
ter, "and indirectly for the great
mass of the victims of this crisis, as
well as for the average citizen of our
state who does not stand in need, we
charge that your course has been
hypocritical throughout.
Hungry Must Be Fed
"We know, and you should know,
that citizens who are hungry must be
fed. We know, and you should know,
that the taking of their little homes
by sheriffs' levies must be stopped.
"We know, and you should know,
that citizens who have any means at
all at their command, and those who
still have jobs, are willing to join
in affording relief. We know, and
you should know, that it is not true
that the citizens of Pennsylvania are
unwilling to pay taxes to have hu
man lives.
"As the elected representatives of
the people it is your plain duty to pro
vide for the people the opportunity
of doing what the people want done,
Thus far you have defiantly thwarted
them.
"Upon your shoulders squarely
rests the responsibility of providing
relief for our citizens who are in dis
tress. You can not evade that respon
sibility by attempting to pass the
buck to Washington or by robbing
Peter to pay Paul.
There is still time in which you can
reclaim the ground which you have
ullowed to slip from under your feet.
This is the solemn obligation that
now confronts you.
"We demand and expect ac
tion. Unless you do act in a way
that is commensurate with the
needs of the people we will go to
them, upon your record of fail
ure, and insist upon such changes
in personnel and in party in our
legislative halls as will restore
courage and responsibility to
government and responsiveness
to the will of its citizens.
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To Bread is
Pennsylvania Labor Accuses Legislature of Hypocrisy
and Failure to Meet Plain Issue—Fear for Conse
quences This Winter Expressed in Blistering Letter
Chicago Market Co.
Corner Front and High Sts. Telephone 4506
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"We are making this last appeal
not as supplicants, but as citizens of
Pennsylvania and as the representa
tives of an harassed and suffering
people, demanding of our servants in
the senate and in the house of repre
sentatives the enactment of adequate
meaures of direct relief, and the
raising of sufficient revenue to
finance them, in order that men, wo
men and children now unable to se
cure the necessaries of life may bf
provided for until the regular legis
lative session convenes.
"The consummation of such a pro
gram will not only relieve mo
mentoxis distress, but will, as well, be
an investment in the security of our
citizenship and of government itself
"Act—before it is too late!"
TENTH MONTH OF
STEADY DROP IN N.Y.
Albany, N. Y. (ILNS)—Factory
employment and factory payrolls
went slithering downhill again in
June and July, official reports show.
Employment registered a net loss
of 5.3 per cent. The payroll net loss
was 7.1 per cent, which means either
that higher paid workers were laid off
or that wages were cut—perhaps
both. Normal July drop in employ
ment is 1 per cent and on payrolls
1.8 per cent.
July is the tenth consecutive month
showing falling employment and fall
ng payroll totals.
The last monthly decline affected
almost all industries, the few excep
tions being in those where there were
slight seasonal increases.
GARAGE WORK NOT
IN "BIG MONEY"
Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—Motor
vehicle repair garage employes in 43
cities in 34 states were found to earn
an average of $29.56 per 51-hour
week in a Bureau of Labor Statistics
survey just announced.
Average full-time hours per week
ranged by occupations from 49.8 for
machinists to 58.5 for the group of
miscellaneous employes. Average
hours actually worked in one week
varied from 43 for wood body work
ers to 58.8 for miscellaneous em
ployes. The per cent of full-time
worked ranged from 83.3 for wood
body workers to 102.1 for inspectors.
Part of the inspectors worked over
time in the week covered in the re
port.
Average earnings per hour ranged,
by occupations, from 34.7 cents for
mechanics' helpers to 86.7 cents for
blacksmiths, with full-time earnings
per week fluctuating between $18.46
for mechanics' helpers to $45.50 for
diagnosticians. Actual average earn
ings in the week ranged from $17.63
for mechanics' helpers to $44.3 for
diagnosticians.
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Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—A na
tional conference, generally regarded
is vague in its present outlines, but
containing perhaps enormous possi
bilities, has been called by President
Hoover to take place here August
26. On August 25 a preliminary con
ference of what may be termed an
organizing committee will be held.
The conference as called will bring
together representatives of business
from the 12 federal reserve districts.
The president does not specify re
duction of the work week in his
statement, but he calls for "a concert
ed program of action along the whole
economic front." It is known that he
is and long has been definitely com
mitted to the five-day week and to
the elimination of overtime work as
means of providing increased employ
ment.
Persons in a position to speak with
some authority as to the probabilities
held that the shorter work week must
be a part of the program for the
coming conference.
Labor to Be Included
The 12 federal reserve district
committees now called together were
appointed some time ago. The names
of the members of these committeees,
together with a group of government
officials, are published as being the
names of those summoned to the Au
gust 26 conference. No labor names
are included. However, it is pointed
out that the president announces he
will soon name separate committees
to deal with labor, agriculture and
certain other situations. It is there
ore assumed that labor men will be
drawn into the planning of the gen
eral economic program for the massed
attack on depression.
It is believed that the August 26
conference is only the first of a series
of conferences which will be held. It
is assumed that in each an effort will
be made to secure the assent of a dis
tinct group or set of interests and
that when many groups have been
brought to agree there will be a re
lation created for the uniting of all
groups upon a program to which they
have in advance agreed.
For More Employment
Expansion of employment and
spread of work are set forth as defi
nite subjects to be before the coming
August 26 conference, together with
a program for increased railroad ex
tension and repair work. Outlining
these aims, the president said:
Among the subjects which will be
considered and definitely formulated
are:
"A canvass of the means, methods,
agencies and powers available in the
country for general advancement
wider expansion of the credit facil
ities to business and industry where
consumption of goods is assured co
ordination and expansion of livestock
md agricultural credit facilities co
ordination and expansion of financial
facilities for the movement of com
modities into consumption expansion
of programs for the repairs and main
tenance of the railways and creation
of organization for further spread of
SPEAKING, PA
August 26 Meet Believed First One of Series
Interpretation of Somewhat Vague Summons Holds
Hoover Plan Is to Win Group by Group to Eventual
Unity.
HAMILTON, OHIO, FRIDAY. AUGUST 26, 1932
On the Air
IS THAT" A REPUBLICAN
OH
A DEMOCRAT"
Outlook is Broadened
First blush comment here was
largely to the effect that this might
be a case of "just another confer
ence," the comment being based upon
the published announcement. Later
intimations of the possibility of a
series of conferences, possibly leading
to something like a genuine organiz
ing of the economic forces of the
nation for functional activity tended
to change the outlook.
It is pointed out that the president,
in holding the first conference to a
fairly united group, is perhaps avoid
ing the conflict and deadlock that has
greeted other unemployment under
standing group by group he may
bring into being the first nation-wide
program and the first nation-wide or
ganization for industrial agreeement
that America has known.
May Advance Five-Day Week
Meanwhile there is said to be an
excellent chance that government de
partments not on the five-day week
may adopt the five-day week, perhaps
before the August 26 conference is
held, so as to throw into that confer
ence the example of a government
operating unitedly on the modern
week of five even days.
It is pointed out, further, that any
announcement for such a conference
would of necessity be couched in
terms not too definite, for there will
be diversity of opinion to be ironed
out among the participants. This
would be none the easier were they
to come with advance prejudices andj
hostilities formed on the basis of a
hard and fast preliminary statement
of purposes. It is held that the white
house announcement opens the door
to almost any proposal for economic
progress, including as a foremost!
method the shorter work week.
President's Views Outlined
The president said:
"I have called a national conference
for August 26 of the business and in
dustrial committees of the 12 federal
reserve districts for the purpose of
organizing a concerted program of
acting along the whole economic
front. The conference will deal with
specified projects where definite ac
complishments in business, agricul
ture and employment can be attained,
and will co-ordinate the mobilization,
of private and governmental instru
mentalities to that end.
Wide Areas Explored
"On July 29 I announced that pre
liminary conversations were in prog
gress between responsible heads of
the government instrumentalities and
private groups in business and indus
try as to such a program, and that
at a later time I would announce the
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Ifie ANNOUNCEMENT
Employment, Object of
New White House Sessions
existing employment and expansion
of employment.
"A number of other possible ques
tions such as the forthcoming world
economic conference protection of
bondholders and mortgage renewals,
co-ordination with these groups and
other subjects will be explored. It is
expected to outline a basis for public,
commercial and trade group co-oper
ation in the expectation of the pur
poses of the conference."
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date of a conference for a more defi
nite development of these ideas. The
areas of positive and definite action
have been further explored by infor
mal discussions between representa
tives of various groups and indus
tries with government officials the
past two weeks.
"Twelve committees representing
the federal reserve districts were es
tablished some weeks ago. I have
asked the chairmen of these commit
tees, together with the government of
ficials sent out, to meet in Washington
the day before the conference for the
purpose of preliminary preparation of
the program of the organization."
Secretary of Labor W. N. Doak, an
ardent advocate of the shorter work
week and of adequate wages, is among
those to be summoned to meet the
day previous to the general confer
ence. Secretaries Mills, Hyde and
Chapin, the chairmen of the 12 dis
tricts and four chairmen of govern
mental boards and commissions, in
cluding the Reconstruction Finance
Commission, complete the personnel
of this group.
RULING OPENS WAY
FOR CONSTRUCTION
Wasington, D. C. (ILNS)—Possi
bility that certain public building
projects might be held up under the
economy act by application of section
320 has been removed by Comptroller
McCarl, though such danger was at
the most slight.
The McCarl decision exempts most
buildings now under way from the 10
per cent provision and clears the way
for new work to proceed.
The danger was slight because most
building work now is being done at,
roughly, 25 per cent less than the ap
propriations. Moreover, the treasury
is allowed let contracts coming with
in an excess of 5 per cent of the ap
propriations, so that even taking off
the economy act 10 per cent cut, con
tracts can be let at a figure around 5
per cent of the appropriations and
still encompass the stipulated 10 per
cent cut.
Opposes James M. Beck
President Green, of the A. F. of L.,
has written Secretary Frank Burch,
of the Philadelphia Central Labor
Union, expressing the hope that Con
gressman James M. Beck will be de
feated. President Green cites Beck's
hostility to the anti-injunction bill.
Potters' Wage Set
Wages of 6,000 or more pottery
workers in the general ware trade
took a wage readjustment through
conferences between employers and
the National Brotherhood of Opera
tive Potters here. Tile cut is 10 per
cent and the manufacturers have
agreed to pass it on to the consumer
to stimulate buying. The union has
agreed, for the same purpose, that
the cut shall be effective at once in
stead of on October 1, when the pres
ent contract expires.
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Eight Months.
Chicago, 111. (ILNS)—-America is
faced with a transient jobless prob
lem such as it has never known.
Hundreds of thousands of unem
ployed and homeless men are roving
the country.
An astounding number of these
nomads of unemployment are boys
and young men.
Joblessness, failure of local relief
work, poverty—these are mainly the
forces driving this great army to the
roads. But they take to the brake
Learns more often than to the roads.
Kansas City reports that in May
more that 1,500 men and boys daily
passed through the freight yards
there.
Road Ejects Thousands
In eight months the Southern
Pacific ejected 416,915 members of
this new wandering horde.
Disease is reported running higher
and this will be aggravated by cold
weather.
Dr. A. W. McMillen, associate pro
fessor of the Graduate School of So
cial Service Administration, Univer
sity of Chicago, has just assembled a
vast amount of information on the
roving unemployed, with the assist
ance of staff workers in the U. S.
Children's Bureau.
Communities are adding to the
oving problem by "passing on" all
transients. They have no place to
stop, so they keep going.
The earlier tramp was a seasoned
and seasonal worker. This modern
army is not of the old type. Many
have high school and college educa-
MINERS CITE
Early Short Week Stand
to Hoover
Indianapolis (ILNS)—With the re
quest that it be read by the presi
dent into the record of his shorter
work week conferences, the United
Mine Workers' organization has for
warded to President Hoover a copy
of an editorial appearing in the cur
rent journal of the union.
The editorial sets fort that "It is
now 14 years since the United Mine
Workers of America adopted a reso
lution placing this union on record in
favor of the six-hour day and the
five-day week."
"Stronger and stronger all the time
is becoming the movement for the
shorter work day and the shorter
work week, and there is every indica
tion at this time that the demand for
this reform will continue to grow un
til the principle shall be accepted and
made effective generally in American
industry," says the editorial. "It has
been a slow process to induce many
heads of industries and employers of
labor to admit the virtue of this idea,
but they are rapidly coming to it.
"Even the United States govern
ment recently fell in line for the five
day week. There is a provision in the
building section of the new relief bill,
passed by congress, that says all con
tracts for public works shall be based
upon the 30-hour week, which means
five days of six hours each. This is
the first time that such a policy was
adopted by the government. In ad
dition, the president is having a thor
ough survey made of conditions in
the various departments with a view
to establishing the five-day week
therein. In fact, one or two depart
ments aready are trying out the plan.
"Way up in hard-boiled New Eng
land, where organized labor always
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Homeless, Jobless and Hopeless
"Riding1 the Rods" Grows Beyond Railroad Control—
Disease Takes Growing Toll as Communities Pass
Victims Along—One Line Ejects Half Million in
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rions, and they are not veterans of
the road. They are newcomers.
Tide Flows With Seasons
Last winter the tide flowed south
ward. This spring it flowed north
ward and westward. This fall it will
begin the southward movement again.
No figures are available or known as
to totals, but in many cases railroads
report such numbers of itinerant trav
elers as to leave the roads helpless.
It is a case of a continuous army on
the march in numbers sufficient to
command transportation.
Towns on the route of the Southern
Pacific reported the daily passing of
an average of 200 during last winter
and spring, and they expect greater
numbers this fall. As great numbers
move toward the Southern States so
also great numbers move into Texas
and to California. Yuma, Ariz., on
the S. P. main line, fed approximately
300,000 at its soup kitchens from No
vember 1 to March 15, 1932. Other
towns report varying numbers, all in
dicating that one of the world's great
est roving movements has been under
way and probably will gain in sfee
this winter.
Most communities allow such trav
elers to remain no more than 24
hours, after which they must move
along to burden another town, cease
lessly bumming their way along,
many of them never again to fit back
into useful, industrious society. Cast
out they become outcasts. From be
ing unemployed they become unem
ployable.
has had a fight for its life and where
non-unionism flourishes, a conference
of governors, other public officials
and employers of labor was held re
cently with a view to installing the
shorter work week, and a committee
from that group is to have a confer
ence with President Hoover on the
subject.
"Thus, the shorter work week is
gaining the prestige of governmental
approval and adoption, all of which
will speed the day when the plan will
become practically universal in the
country. Already some of the large
cities have adopted the five-day week
for their employes."
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