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No.
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Chicago (ILNS)—The Illinois State
Federation of Labor, R. G. Soder
strom, Streator, president, and Victor
A. Olander Chicago, secretary-treas
urer, made substantial gains with
its legislative program at the recent
session of the Illinois general assem
bly. Outstanding among the bills and
resolutions passed were ratification of
the child labor amendment to the
federal constitution, anti-yellow dog
contract bill and minimum wage law
for women and children.
"The outlook was discouraging up
to ten days prior to adjournment,"
said Secretary Oleander, "but the Illi
nois State Federation of Labor per
sisted in its efforts to secure favor
able action on the various bills in the
interest of the workers of the state,
notwithstanding the fact that most
observers considered the situation to
be virtually hopeless. The result was
most gratifying, and indicated that
the officers of -the federation had
acted wisely in maneuvering a num
ber of bills out of committee, regard
less of the lateness of the session."
The fight for ratification of the
child labor amendment was spec
tacular in the extreme. One resolu
tion for ratification having been voted
down earlier in the session, another
resolution was brought out of com
mittee in the dying hours of the leg
islature and under high pressure was
jammed through despite the wails of
anguish arising from the opposition.
Much of the credit for the success
ful denouement is given to Secretary
UN10NSEEKS
Codes Covering Textile In
dustry Branches
New York City (ILNS)—The emer
gency committee of the United Tex
tile Workers of America, called into
special session at the New York head
quarters to consider the developments
to date in the textile codes, and to
plan the position of the union in the
woolen and worsted, silk and rayon,
knitted, upholstery and carpet and
pile fabrics industries.
Thomas F. McMahon, president of
the union, expressed the gratification
of the United Textile Workers of
America in the establishment of the
cotton code, and the regulation set
forth by President Roosevelt. He said
that the delay in submitting the other
textile codes will prove dangerous to
business employment and the prin
ciples of the N.I.R.A,
The emergency committee announc
ed that Frank Schweitzer, of Pater
son Francis J. Gorman, first vice
president of the United Textile Work
ers, and William F. Kelly, fcecond
vice president, will go to Washington
and assist President McMahon with
the codes on silk, rayon, woolen and
worsted, upholstery, carpet and pile
fabrics.
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Illinois Labor Makes
Big Legislative Gains
Minimum Wage and Anti-Yellow Dog Contracts Bills
Passed, Child Labor Amendment Adopted, Work
men's Compensation Act Improved and Other Impor
tant Laws Enacted—Olander Leads Labor Fight.
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A Special Meeting: will be held MONDAY, JULY 24, at
7:30 P. M. at Labor Temple, South Second St. Purpose—
to discuss the provisions of the National Industrial Recov
ery Act.
INTERNATIONAL MOLDERS* LOCAL UNION No. 68
HAMILTON, OHIO
Olander and his two-fisted methods.
The usually calm and suave Olander
dumfounded state political leaders
when he went into action with his
plain sailor language and table
pounding with his fists, not to men
tion a certain important door which
he crashed.
Among the bills enacted, not al
ready mentioned, were the following:
Improving workmen's compensation
act.
Housing bill and companion meas
ures.
Defining so-called salary or wage
purchases as loans under the small
loan act and thus virtually outlawing
the nefarious loan shark business
which has been conducted by the so
called salary purchasing agencies.
Authorizing municipalities to apply
for grants and make contracts under
the industrial recovery act in accord
with the limitations of that act pro
viding for the thirty-hour week and
adequate wages.
Limiting the working hours of bus
and truck drivers on the state high
ways.
Safeguarding mothers' pensions by
providing for a separate mothers'pen
sion fund.
Re-establishing the Buy Illinois
Products Commission.
Accepting provisions of the federal
act providing for the establishment of
a national employment system.
The egg candlers* bill.
Appreciation of $25,000,000 Ifor
emergency unemployment relief.
Gorman will attend conferences of
woolen and worsted workers in New
England and Pennsylvania before go
ing to Washington. He said that from
all reports in the woolen and worsted
industry, it appears that 30 hours'
work and no more than two shifts
would be the logical work week.
James Starr, secretary-treasurer of
the organization, reported that new
members are coming into the union
from all parts of the country and the
union is finding it extremely difficult
to provide organizers.
STRIKE TIES UP
STUDIOS
Hollywood, Calif. (ILNS)—Produc
tion of three pictures was halted at
the Columbia studios by a strike of
union workers.
A sympathetic walkout of electri
cians, cameramen, propertymen and
other craftsmen followed a strike of
sound technicians.
The dispute involved classification
of the studio as "independent" or a
member of the Motion Picture Pro
ducers and Distributors of America,
Inc., of which Will H. Hays is presi
dent. Different wage scales prevail
in the two classifications.
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Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—Pres
ent industrial gains are largely spec
ulative and carry a threat to recov
ery unless wages rise rapidly, the
American Federation of Labor warns
in its monthly survey of business.
"Industrial activity has made a
spectacular increase in the last three
months but when the figures are
analyzed it is clear that much of the
present feverish activity is specu
lative," the federation says. It con
tinues:
"That is, wholesalers and retail
ers know that when the agricultural
processing taxes go into effect and
industrial codes begin operating un
der the recovery act, prices will rise
and they want to get in ahead of
price increases.
"Thus in cotton goods, shoes, to
bacco, activity has jumped up to the
1929 level cotton shipments have
tripled in the last three months.
Steel Orders Soar
"Similarly, in steel, there has been
a sudden hurrying up of orders, and
steel operations have increased 253
per cent from March 4 to June 24,
from 15 to 53 per cent of capacity.
"Yet the industry's largest cus
tomers—building and railroads—
are not undertaking any expan
sion programs which could up
hold this increase.
"Thus industry and trade are buy
ing against the future stores are
stocking up their empty shelves
plants are ordering raw materials
-ometimes for as far ahead as the
Inst of next year and are laying in
-applies of steel for repairs."
Consumers Stock Up
'Hie federation adds that consum
ers likewise are getting ready for
price increases, as shown by gains in
automobile sales and department store
business. "Even the building indus
try at last began to show signs of
life in the first of June, and contracts
increased more than the seasonal
amount. Industrial production as a
whole increased, 34.6 per cent from
March to June."
The federation goes on to point
out that these gains have far out
stripped buying power. Workers' in
comes increased only 7 per cent from
March to May, its statistics showed,
while factory production jumped 56.7
per cent.
"Production in many of the con
sumer industries is at 1929 levels, but
workers' buying power is still 56.7
per cent below 1929," it is declared.
"It may be justifiable at the start of
the recovery to stock up shelves at
this amazing rate, but unless workers'
income catches up quickly when in
dustrial codes go in force, we shall
find ourselves driven to inflation to
keep up prices."
Observers Declared Skeptical
"Business observers are skeptical
about the future because they do not
yet see a foundation of buying power
and are unceratin whether the present
improvement can last beyond a few
months," the statement said. "There
is only one way to assure this found-
American Federation of Labor Warns Wages
Must Keep Pace With Rising Prices to Assure
Stable Foundation For Continued Improve
ment in Business andi Industry.
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HAMILTON, OHIO. FRIDAY. JULY 21, 1933
The Trail of Missing Men
Gains Made Held Speculative
New Buying Power Also Urged
tion: for industry voluntarily to limit
profits until workers are back at work
at a living wage. This is the corner
stone of the administration's recovery
program. Will industry support the
president?"
The survey lays greatatf&is on the
necessity of wage increases to keep
pace with rising prices. It declares
the codes set up under the recovery
act must provide for a "constant re
adjustment of wages."
Unless wages rise in proportion as
prices and productivity increase, the
minimum "will soon become a poverty
wage," the survey says. "Already
from March to May, prices of food
have increased 3 per cent while wages
gained only 2 per cent. If an indus
try is permitted to fix wages, its price
increases should also bear a direct re
lation to wage increases."
Labor Representation Urged
The survey advocates labor repre
sentation on continuing committees
created by industrial codes. "If the
committee represents both the worker
and the management, those who di
rect production and selling, and those
who are the producing workers and
who consume, then it may become an
instrument for balancing production
and consumption. If labor is not pres
ent, there is real danger that the code
might be used to limit production and
consumption and industry would b£
geared downward instead of upward."
TENT MAKERS
Plan For Thirty-six Hour
Week
Chicago.—Representatives of tent
and awning manufacturers at a meet
ing here completed a fair competition
code for the industry on the basis of
minimum wages of from $13.50 to $18
a week, with a 36-hour maximum
work week.
James McGregor, of St. Paul, sec
retary of the associatoin, said the
code had already been presented to
General Hugh S. Johnson, adminis
trator of the national industrial re
covery act. He added that if the in
dustry ratified the 36-hour week it
would employ 15,000 men. Mr. Mc
Gregor made no mention of having
consulted the employes of the tent
and awning manufacturers in deter
mining the minimum weekly wage
rate.
Evidently the manufacturers re
sponsible for the $13.50 to $18 mini
mum weekly wage did not have in
view a very high standard of living
for their employes. Professor Paul H.
Nystrom, of Columbia University, in
his book, "Economics of Consump
tion," made a study to determine the
amount necessary to buy a decent liv
ing for a worker's family of five in
1929. An adjustment of Professors
Nystrom's data wich living costs of
December, 1932, fixes $31 a week as
the minimum necessary to support a
family of five in health and efficiency.
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It is evident that the maximum of
$13.50 to $18 per week proposed by
those who own and control the tent
and awning industry is so far below
the Nystrom standard that many ele
ments of health and decency for fam
ilies compelled to live on it would
have to be sacrificed.
2,000,000th Visitor
A e u i i S i i v u i n u o
Kansas City, was given an elephant
ride and shown honors for being the
two-millionth visitor to A Century of
Progress—the riiicrtgo World's Fair.
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20,000 motion picture thea
tres in America attended
nightly by 15,000,000
movie fans. This is five
times as many movie
Ivxises as there are in the
United Kingdom sot times
fts many a» Germany
and ten times as manv as
there are in France or Italy.
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HOME WAS DIFFERENT
Young Eric was invited to a tea
party.
The following day bit mother
learned that he had been the best be
haved child at the table. He was, In
fact, regarded as a model of good be
havior for other children to follow.
"I was very pleased to hear that you
were a good boy at the party," mother
Informed him.
"Oh, mother," murmured the boy. "I
needn't behave like that at home,
need I?"—Boston Herald.
Doubtful.
Bfnks—Oh, I guess yotir rich aunt
will remember you. You made a big
hit with her by going Into mourning
when her cat died!
Jinks—True, but listen now the
other relatives accuse me of poisoning
the cat to get the opportunity.—Brook
lyn Eagle.
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The administration has been more
worried than it has cared to show
over the failure of such industries as
steel, oil and automobiles, to produce
codes. Reports of progress are defi
nitely known to constitute stalling
tactics.
The National Association of Manu
facturers has largely inspired the
hold-out tactics. It has spread the
alarm of unionism, holding before its
membership the bogey story that
under codes their plants would have
to face unionization.
War Expected Soon
The administration is set to begin
war on these "big fellows" and the
opening gun may be expected at any
moment.
The cotton textile code was signed
and sent forth amid a fanfare of
statements in praise of the industry
and of those who partook in the job
of making the code. It registers tre-
BOOST PRICES AND
New York.—Leading rug manufac
turers sent notice of a 15 per cent
increase in the prices of rugs to deal
ers throughout the country. All rugs
were increased from 2 to 7 per cent
over the spring levels last month.
This new increase will put prices
around 20 per cent above the spring
maximum. The manufacturers gave
no notice of their intention to raise
the wages of their employes.
The boost in rug prices will impose
a very definite burden on more than
one-half million employes of the fed
eral government whose pay, under the
recent executive order issued by Pres
ident Roosevelt cannot be increased
before January 1, 1934.
Organized workers in private indus
tries may be able to compel employ
ers to increase their wages enough
to absorb the increased cost of rugs
and similar floor coverings. But Un
cle Sam's faithful employes will either
go without new rugs for the rest of
this year or cut some other essential
of the family budget, already reduced
to the minimum by the 15 per cent
wage i*eduction imposed upon them by
the government's reactionary wage
slashing policy.
PAGAN
Economic System Must Go,
Forum is Told
Charlottesville, Va. (ILNS)—Every
thing in life, even religion, is largely
dependent upon economic conditions,
Dr. John McDowell, moderator of the
general assembly of the Presbyterian
Church in the United States, told the
Institute of Public Affairs at the Uni
versity of Virginia.
"It is idle," Dr. McDowell said,
"to talk of the kingdom of God, of
an ideal social order in which the
Divine Will is realized, while the
present essentially pagan economic
system exists. The time has come
when we must insist that it is im
possible for men and women to be
possessed with Christ's spirit and not
be concerned with the conditions un
der which people live and work.
'We must put our Christianity into
all our human relationships if it is to
be real and effective in modern life.
Economic society may be guided by
intelligence, but it must be founded
upon conscience, which means it must
be founded upon religion.
"It is increasingly evident that if
our individualistic system of owner
ship and control of industry and agri
culture is to continue, those who hold
economic privilege must adopt a new
attitude of inteligent social concern
based on a long view of their own and
their neighbor's interest.
"If the churches have a message
for industry, now is the time to de
clare it. For although it is not the
business of the church to furnish to
the world an economic program, it is
our business to see that no economic
program is permitted to exist under
which injustice and oppression find
shelter."
Rhode Island Regulates
Hours of Truck Drivers
Province, R. I. (ILNS)-—A law
passed by the Rhode Island legisla
ture stipulates that a driver of a
motor truck or public service vehicle
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War Soon on Industries
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Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—On the
heels of presidential approval of the
cotton textile code as first in line,
comes the news that a tremendous
campaign is about to begin to force
hold-out industries to come in under
the tent with codes of fair practice.
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"Hold Outs" Face Decisive Action By Administration
Cotton Textile Code, Marking Big Progress in Back
ward Industry, Only Code Adopted to Date.
mendous advance for that hitherto
cut-throat, low-wage industry., In
many mill towns a new kind of life
and a new kind of freedom will begin
at once.
Wages go up, not only for the low
est paid, but for all. The minimum,
$12 in the South, $13 in the North,
will be applied at once and all wagee
higher up will be stepped up accord
ingly. Maintenance crews will get
time and a half for overtime, a new
thing in the mills. Child labor is
abolished.
Overproduction Checked
Increased productivity can be had
only by special consent. The stretch
out study, under Leslie L. Frey as
technical adviser, will be finished be
fore the code becomes operative, to
further check avaricious motives.
But the textile code is the only
code thus far agreed upon and no
hearing date has been set for any
other. There are plenty of codes on
file, but they are from the smaller
industries which the administration
does not want to handle until the
"big ten" major industries are coded
and operating on a shorter work-week
and higher wages.
shall not remain on continuous duty
for more than twelve hours, and that
a driver who has been on continuous
duty for twelve hours must be allowed
at least eight hours for relaxation
and rest. The law also stipulates that
no driver shall be permitted to remain
on duty for more than sixteen hours
in any twenty-four hour period, and
that a ten-ohur period off duty must
be granted to a driver who has work
ed sixteen hours.
Social .Justice For Labor
Visioned By Untermeyer
New York.—Samuel Untermyer, on
the eve of sailing for London to at
tend an international Jewish confer
ence, hailed the national industrial
recovery act as a "truly noble experi
ment."
Its most promising feature, if prop
erly applied, he said, is higher wages
and a nearer approach to social jus
tice for labor. It will limit the size
of fortunes, stabilize industry, in
crease purchasing power and so help
create real prosperity, he held.
Mr. Untermyer warned, however,
that tariff tinkering would militate
against the successful application of
the recovery act.
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