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At the same time the pi-esident
indicated that his administration is
definitely aiming at not only higher
wage scales, but to government
supervised control of production and
competition.
Placing emphasis upon the need for
higher wage scales and better paid
workers, the president said:
"It is essential, as a matter of na
tional justice, that the wage scale
should be brought back to meet the
cost of living and that this process
should begin now and not later."
In making three requests to the
business men of the country, he con
tinued:
"Past experience indicates that
when the price level begins to rise
after a long period of declining com
modity prices, wages which have been
previously curtailed lag behind the
riBe in the price level.
"That result has in the past im
posed upon those who labor an unfair
burden has prevented their just and
equitable share in the profits of in
dustry anil has limited the purchasing
power of the overwhelming majority
of our population.
"WOMEN WORKERS"
Employers, For Six-Hour
Workday
Washington, D. C. (INLS—The six
hour working day is favored by the
management of a well-known plant
and the majority of its women work
ers, an investigation by the Women's
Bureau of the U. S. Department of
Labor reveals.
The plant had operated on three
eight-hour shifts until December,
1930. The change to four six-hour
shifts at this time was made as an
attempt to increase employment by
shortening hours and as part of a
reorganizing program. More women
were taken on as a result of the
change, the increase from a short
time before to a short time after be
ing as much as 9 per cent. At the
same time, women's hourly rates
increased 12 per. cent, to be fol
lowed a year later with a like in
crease, so that the total hourly pay
was 25 per cent higher at the time
of the bureau study than it had been
under the eight-hour basis. No lunch
period or rest time was allowed under
the new schedule, although short re
lief periods were given when desired,
Advantages of the change reported
by management include the following:
Increased daily production from the
plant as an operating unit decreased
overhead increased return from cap
ital invested in plant and machin
ery opportunity of reorganizing the
woiking force, and elimination of
cafeteria expense.
A clear indication of how the wom
an workers felt about the six-hour
day was ascertained by Women's
Bureau agents who visited 434 wom
en to inquire about the effect of the
shorter hours on their earnings, their
home life and their leisure activi
ties. Of the women visited, only 265
had worked at this plant under both
hour schedules.
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Boosevelt Calls on Business Chiefs to Increase Employes'
Pay in Conformity with Rise in Commodity Prices.
(ILNS)—Imme­
diate steps to raise wages and sal
aries of workers, increase the num
ber of the employed, and to check
the devastating effects that have re
sulted from the wage slashing epi
demics in business and industry the
last two years, were asked by Presi
dent Roosevelt in addressing the
members of the Chamber of Com
merce of the United States at the
annual dinner in Washington.
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"I, therefore, ask you who represent
in all probability the majority of the
employers of the nation, to refrain
from further reduction in the wages
of your employes, and I ask you also
to increase your wage scales in con
formity with and simultaneous with
the rise of the level of commodity
prices in so ftfr as this lies within
your power."
The president urged the business
leaders to join together within their
own industries in bringing order out
of chaos and not to wait for the urge
of government action to stir them. lie
said the industrial system has de
generated into one of the highest dis
order, and that restoration depends
upon the willingness of industrial
leaders to co-operate with one another
end a willingness also to co-operate
with the government.
He pointed out that in almost every
industry, an overwhelming majority
of employers "are wholly willing to
work together to prevent overproduc
tion, to prevent unfair wages, to elim
inate improper working conditions."
Yet, he said, in the past these ob
jectives have been prevented from at
tainment by a small majority of em
ployers.
The small and largely irresponsi
ble units—the sweatshops, the small
factory owner and the little pro
ducer—who can make the loudest
noise when they feel they are im
pose upon, but who are the first to
slash wages, cut prices, prolong hours
and increase production, he indicated,
are productive of "unfair practices
that are contrary to a sound public
policy."
Despite the fact that the six-hour
shift caused pay cuts in more than
three-fourths of the cases, it still was
preferred to the eight-hour shift by
777 per cent of all the women who
had worked under both schedules.
The reasons most often given by the
women who liked the shorter work
day were the increased time available
for home duties and for leisure, and
the fact that they were less tired at
the close of the day. The principal
reason cited in favor of the longer
day by those who preferred eight
hours was the higher pay possible.
Over one-half of the 46 women who
did not like the shorter schedule were
on the evening and night shifts. Also,
some dissatifaction may be account
ed for by the fact that under the
eight-hour shift the hourly rates in
the evening and at night were a lit
tle higher than those of the day shift,
while under the six-hour system the
rates were made the same, for the
same work, on all the shifts.
Gov. Lehman Signs Three
Prevailing Wage Bills
Albany, N. Y.—Governor Lehman
has signed three bills strengthening
existing laws relating to payment of
prevailing wage rates on public
works.
One provides that municipal and
state contracts shall include a clause
specifying the prevailing rate of
wages to be paid on each job.
Another bill provides that all con
tracts for state, county, town and
village highways must state the
minimum hourly wage to be paid.
The third bill provides that in
sparsely settled areas where there are
no workers of the type for which the
rate is to be established the fiscal
agent may take the rate for the "first
large civil division," which might be
a city or an entire county.
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Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—De
nouncing the Hitler government's
campaign to destroy the German la
bor movement as "destructive, dicta
torial and indefensible," President
William Green, of the American Fed
eration of Labor, declared that Amer
ican workers would protest to the
American government against the
Nazi campaign and would give all
possible support to the German work
ers.
Mr. Green expressed confidence that
the spirit of German trade unionism
would not be crushed and that the
German working people would not
surrender to the autocratic rule of
Hitler. He announced that the
executive council of the A. F. of L.
had received from confidential sources
in Germany information that the Hit
ler regime is suppressing the free
trade unions in the most ruthless way
and went on to say:
"The offifices and the administra
tion of the German trades unions have
been taken over by the Hitler author
ities. Without warning, their offices
were raided, their property confis
cated, the elected officers were ar
rested and representatives of the Hit
ler government placed in full control.
All of this was done without warning
pnd without due pi-ocess of law,
through the exercise of force.
"The last semblance of voluntary,
free, independent trade unionism in
Germany has been brutally wiped
out.
U. S. Workers Indignant
"The people of the United States
can better understand what this ac
tion means when it is explained and
understood that the free, independent
txade unions of Germany, which were
organized many years ago and which
have functioned uninterruptedly both
under the imperial government and
the republic, are similar in charac
ter, in activity, and in their function
ing processes to the American Feder
ation of Labor and to the national and
international unions affiliated with it.
It would seem shocking to even con
template that our free trade unions
in America should be destroyed by
some action of the government. It
is equally shocking to learn of the
destruction of the free trade unions
in Germany.
"Intense feeling has been aroused
among the working people of the
United States against the action of
the Hitler government toward the
trade union movement of Germany.
A very close bond of fraternity and
of sympathy exists between the of
ficers and members of the trade union
organizations in Germany and the of
ficers and members of the American
Federation of Labor. We deeply
sympathize with the officers and mem­
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American Government to Register Protest
Against Ruthless Nazi Drive to Suppress
Trade Union Movement, A. F. of L. Head Says
in Flaying Terroristic Campaign.
The
Community Chest
I THOUSANDS of people in our community would
suffer hunger, disease, and privation if well
organized Community Chest agencies were not at
work, every day, every hour, during this emergency!
"We've Got To Do It"
President Green Denounces
Hitler Blows at German Labor
bers of the German trade unions in
the terrific, destructive and humiliat
ing experience which they are forced
to undergo, and we protest vigor
ously and unitedly against the action
of the Hitler government in the ex
ercise of its dictatorial powers over
the trade unions and the officers of
the trade unions.
U. S. Labor to Protest
"The Hitler government has
aroused a feeling of antagonism
among the masses of the people of
the United States. The American
Federation of Labor will register its
protest with the American govern
ment against the destructive, dicta
torial and indefensible acts of the
Hitler government toward the work
ing men and women identified with
the trade union movement of Ger
many.
"Regardless of the methods em
ployed, the destruction of the trade
union movement of Germany by sheer
repressive tactics resorted to by the
Hitler government, we are confident,
knowing the German working people
as we do, that they cannot crush the
spirit of trade unionism, nor do we
believe the German workers will sur
render to the decree of an autocrat
whose evident purpose is to maintain
control of the German nation
through the exercise of military
power and autocratic decrees.
"The executive council of the
American Federation of Lafor, which
just concluded its meeting, directed
the officers of the American Federa
tion of Labor to secure full informa
tion regarding the destruction of the
trade union movement in Germany,
and to extend to the German trade
unionists all support possible."
N. Y. Employment
Higher in April
Albany, N. Y. (ILNS)—Employ
ment and payi*olls in New York state
factories showed recovery in April
from the unfavorable effects of the
previous month's banking holiday, In
dustrial Commissioner Elmer F. An
drews reports. The volume of em
ployment increased 2.7 per cent over
Maxch, while total wage payments
were 4.4 per cent higher. Normally,
seasonal declines occur during April
in both employment and payrolls.
As compared with a year ago, the
number of employed factory workers
was 11.3 per cent lower, and the to
tal amount of wages paid out was 2Q
per cent less.
The upward movement was riot gen
eral. Six major industry groups had
increases in employment, while five
showed decreasfes.- Numerous firms
were reporting their normal, seasonal
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Workers Strike
At Pequot Mills
Salem, Mass. (ILNS)—In protest
against the demands of the manage
ment that they operate 24 looms each
instead of 20, nearly 2,000 textile
workers employed by the Pequot Mills
went on strike. The Pequot Mills is
a 100 per cent union mill, manufac
turing the well-known Pequot sheet
and pillow cases. The Pequot em
ployes are members of the United
Textile Workers of America.
If the 24-loom system were adopted
about 10 operators would be thrown
out of work, the workers say.
The Danvers Bleachery at Peabody
was affected by the strike.
STRIKE
Of Columbia River Fisher
men Spreads Out
Astoria, Oregon.—The strike of the
Columbia river fisherman and cannery
workers entered the second week of
the new packing season yesterday
with no signs of settlement, but, on
the contrary, indications that it was
spreading over the coastal area into
the north.
Plants on Columbia river are, of
course, suspended, after packing a
little fish that had been caught in
the first few days of the season up
the river.
The cannery workers are out in
sympathy with the fishermen, and the
compromise offered by the packers
was rejected.
The fishermen have demanded 8
cents a pound for raw stock, as against
6 cents paid last year. The com
promise was believed to have been
7 cents, which would have permitted
an opening of $1.75. Coast on fancy
halves. If the packers are forced to
yield in full, and this is not unlikely,
the opening on fancy halves will be
$2, coast.
Brokers here are being posted about
developments on the river every day,
Reports coming from the northwest
have indicated the spread of the
trouble up to Puget Sound.
Missouri Overall Workers
Strike Against Wage Cut
Lebanon, Mo.—Around 300 em
ployes of the Rice-Stix overall and
shirt factory here struck in protest
against a new production system
which speed-up industrial engineers
were seeking to install. Representa
tives of the strikers claimed the sys
tem would result in a wage cut. E.
R. Freece, manager, said it was des
ignated to "equalize" wages.
If there is no loyalty there can be
no great friendship.-r-Hu«h Black.
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declines. The reopening of plants
which had suffered either partial or
complete shutdowns in March, how
ever, more than offset the seasonal
influences.
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By Government.
By B. C. CLARKE
Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—With
self-regulation in industry as the key
note, the special committee headed by
Senator Wagner, of New York, en
gaged in drafting a "national recov
ery" act that may be a substitute
for the Black 30-hour bill and the
proposals of Secretary of Labor Per
kins for a governmental dictatorship
in industry, is continuing its ses
sions.
Secrecy covers the deliberations of
the committee, although it is known
that one of the objectives which it
hopes to attain with the measure is to
afford employment by next September
to 3,000,000 of the approximately
15,000,000 idle men and women of the
nation.
It is understood that intimations
have been conveyed to the committee
from within cabinet circles that the
functions of labor leaders as a sta
bilizing influence in industry should
for the time being be exercised or
at least directed by the government
itself, and possibly best by the de
partment of labor.
Industry will be asked through this
bill to suppress its own unfair prac
tices and throat-cutting competition,
and to conform to such practices as
will prevent large
over-production,
wage slashing, and the employment
of children. As nearly as can be as
certained, a 30-hour provision for in
dustry will not be included in the new
bill.
DOZEN BIC
Business Chiefs Reported
Facing Indictment
Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—The
"undei-ground" which carries so much
advance information that later be
comes first page news is crackling
with a tremendous sensation in these
Washington days.
Twelve men of tremendous power
in American business and finance are
scheduled to be indicted by the fed
eral government, following testimony
before the senate banking investiga
tors.
The parade of witnesses headed by
J. P. Morgan and his 20 partners is
about to start.
It is reported that 200 leading
financiers and business big shots are
due to sit in the blistering senate
committee seat, and the dozen to be
indicted, "if indictments can possibly
be found" are included in the men
who will form this big parade.
If the talk is true, Teapot Dome
will become a little thing by com
parison.
But there are those who look
at the power of big business and
then whisper gently, "don't count
your indictments until they are
voted."
But the program seems certainly
to call for a sensational lot of indict
ments and for a grand effort to land
some big fish in prison.
Perhaps the test of power between
government in Washington and gov
ernment in Wall street lies in this
impending conflict.
GOVERNOR'S WIFE
Aids Strikers By Joining
Pickets
Allentown, Pa. (ILNS)—Mrs. Gif
ford Pinchot, wife of the governor of
Pennsylvania, gave militant support
to the fight against bad working con
ditions by joining the picket lines of
young workers here and in North
ampton who are striking against
sweatshop wages and hours.
Mrs. Pinchot first visited North
ampton, where she was cheered by
400 strikers, most of whom were
girls between 13 and 18. After greets
ing the strikers' leader, she headed
the pickets in a march seven times
around the D. and D. Shirt Company
factory.
Arriving here, she joined boy and
girl pickets around the Morris
Freezer factory, focal point of the
Allentown strike. Asked how Gov
ernor Pinchot regarded her decision to
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Proposed Legislation Spells
Doom of Old Economic System
National Recovery Act and Other Bills Before Congress
Mean End of "Individualism" and Industry and Set
ting Up of New Order, Supervised and Regulated
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In the meantime, thie house com
mittee on labor has continued its re
port on the Black and Connery 30
hour bills, and is preparing a report
on them for the house. While these
bills do not appear to have the sanc
tion of the white house, there is a
growing indication that the Black bill,
which has already been passed by the
senate, may be passed by the house
and sent to the president for his sig
nature.
Industry is quite insistent that with
reasonable assistance by the govern
ment, it shall be given an opportunity
to undertake its own housecleaning,
and restore order from the chaos of
the last two or three years. Efforts
are being made to have the anti-trust
laws modified by the proposed new
measure that is being drafted to an
extent that will permit a degree of
co-operation, and will serve only to
restrict monopoly and prevent arbi
trary and undue price fixing.
Regardless of what measure is
passed by congress, it is clear that
an old economic order is passing, and
that a new system is rising in its
place—a system that does away in
large measure with rugged individual
ism in industry, with over-production
and peaks and valleys in commerce
and trade, and installs in its place a
system supervised by the government,
and regulated as to practices, hours
of operation and production.
march with the pickets, she said he
thought it was "fine."
Mrs. Pinchot decided to show her
support of the strikers, following a
hearing of the governor's commission
investigating sweatshop conditions in
needlecraft factories in the Lehigh
valley. Girls and boys charger they
received as little as 57 cents a week
for long hours spent in insanitary
factories. Girls testified they were
subjected to improper advances fom
some employes.
STRIKING KNITTERS WIN
DEMANDS
Sherburne, N. Y.—One hundred and
fifty strikers at Sherburne branch of
the Utica Knitting Co., won impor
tant demands from the company and
returned to work.
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