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VOL. XXXIII. No. 16
Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—As the
hearing on the electrical industry code
began before W. L. Allen, deputy ad
ministrator of the national industrial
recovery act, labor sharply assailed
the code and asked higher wages and
shorter hours than proposed by the
manufacturers.
The code proposed 35 cents an hour
and a 36-hour week for workers in
processing products and $14 weekly
and a 40-hour week for other em
ployes.
The International Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers, through Charles
D. Keaveney,, vice president, and
Charles L. Reed, assistant to the
president, asked for 90 cents an hour
for skilled workers, proportionate in
creases for piece work and a 30-hour
week.
The electrical workers' representa
tives declared that the code is badly
confused, being "a legal tangle with
many words such as former Chief
Justice Taft described as 'weasel
words'." They argued that the pro
posed minimum wage was too low,
that the maximum hours were too
high to reabsorb the idle workers and
that omissions from the code were
more important and significant than
the code itself.
The $14 minimum wage in an in
dustry as profitable as the electrical
manufacturing industry was denounc
ed as anti-social, and the union's rep
resentatives added: "If the recovery
administration saw fit to establish a
$12 and $13 minimum wage in the
cotton textile industry, the requested
$14 minimum in the electrical manu
facturing industry must be regarded
as a makeshift, representing no ad
vance at all."
Reed and Keaveney declared that
the reabsorption of the displaced
workers in the electrical industry
could be accomplished only by a 11
houi week but accepted the ?0-hour
WHAT HAPPENS
To Workers
Provisions in Electrical
Code Opposed By Labor
Unions Ask Higher Wages, Shorter Hours Than Proposed
By Manufacturers—Shipbuilding Code Also Opposed.
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Harrisburg, Pa. (ILNS)—The re
sults of a study by the Pennsylvania
department of labor and industry to
find out what happens to 324 women
workers after their dibmissal when
two silk mills closed permanently ap
pear in a recent issue of "Labor and
Industry." At the time the women
were interviewed, 10 months after
they had been laid off, somewhat over
half were employed, considerably
more than a third Were jobless though
hunting for work, and 5 per cent were
not looking for work. Median week's
earnings for the women securing new
jobs in silk factories had dropped
from between $19 and $20 for a full
week in the closed mills to $15.69 for
the full-time workers and $8.50 for
the others. Of the families represent
ed by these women, 106 were obliged
to go into debt or to secure outside
assistance, and 77 drew on savings or
borrowed money on life insurance or
other property.
BRrrisTwORKERS
BOYCOTUERMANY
London (ILNS)—In a manifesto de
nouncing Hitlerism, British labor
strongly urges a boycott of German
goods and services to bring home to
the German government "the human
protest against their betrayal and de
nial of the principles of civilized be
havior.
The manifesto, issued by the Na
tional Joint Council, representing the
Trades Union Congress, the labor
party and the parliamentary labor
party calls upon British workmen and
all who share their detestation of
Hitlerism "to make the bar so effect
ive that the German people will re
pudiate Hitlerism and return to the
ways of freedom and democracy."
STEEL INDUSTRY
UNION CAMPAIGN
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week as a standard. Fred Hewitt, of
the International Association of Ma
chinists, called wages as proposed in
the code "entirely too low to allow a
decent living wage."
Harry Stephenson, of the Interna
tional Molders' Union, asked a $38
wage and six-hour day with not more
than 30 hours a week.
Labor and industry bi'ought out
sharp disagreements in the hearing
on the shipbuilding and ship repair
code which started with Deputy Ad
ministrator Arthur D. Whiteside
presiding.
Homer Ferguson, president, New'
port News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock
Co., said he thought 30 cents would be
a fair minimum wage rate for South
ern yards. He said that if the pro
posed 30 cents minimum wage were
enacted it would almost double the
scale now existing and damage the
small shipyards.
Labor disagreed with a labor pro
visional code and asked for a $25 per
week minimum wage rate and a 30
hour week with not more than six
hours per day and five days per week.
No overtime to be allowed except in
maintenance and repair personnel a:ni
then only in extreme emergency. All
overtime would be paid at double time
rates.
John P. Frey, secretary-treasurer
of metal trades department of the
A. F. of L., submitted a statement
on the wage levels of navy yards,
saying that the navy yards had been
placed in the position of both an em
ployer of labor in competition with
private industry and as a department
of the government "pleading economy
in labor costs of naval vessels." He
requested that there be no differen
tial in wage rates in North and
South, claiming that this would be
equivalent to placing an export tax
on the products of some states, with
an unfair advantage to other states.
Steel and Tin Workers, of which
Michael J. Tighe is president, has be
gun a nation-wide campaign to union
ize the steel industry.
Louis Leonard, secretary-treasurer
of the union, said that his organiza
tion is pushing a battle against the
"company unions," which the steel
companies are striving feverishly to
form before the industry comes un
der the operation of the national in
dustrial recovery act.
Leonard said the battle may be a
determining factor in settling whether
the financial giants of the steel and
coal industries will be permitted to
maintain their traditional open shop
policies.
The Amalgamated is concentrating
the campaign on the United States
Steel Corporation and some of the
larger independents.
Returning from Gary, Ind., Leonard
announced the formation of a large
union in the United States Steel Cor
poration plant here. He said similar
work has been done in the Calumet
district near Chicago, and at the In
diana Harbor (Ind.) works of the
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company.
Jobless Swamp Clinics
New York City (ILNS)—Because
of the great number of unemployed
persons and members of their famil
ies applying for treatment at health
department clinics and health stations
an increase in the department's facil
ities is imperative, Dr. Shirley W.
Wynbe, health commissioner, de
clares. He estimated attendance at
these centers had jumped 44 per cent
in the first six months of this year.
Centralia Prisoner Paroled
Olympia, Wash. (ILNS)—Britt
Smith, former secretary of the Indus
trial Workers of the World in Cen
tralia, sentenced to twenty-five to
forty years for murder on charges
growing out* of the Armistic Day
clash between I. W. W. members and
American Legionnaires in 1919, has
been paroled as promised by Gov.
Clarence D. Martin. Ray Becker, the
last of the eight I. W. W. prisoners,
refuses to accept a parole. He holds
out for a commutation of sentence,
maintaining that a parole implies an
admission of guilt.
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Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—De
spite attempts to intimidate workers
in basic industries from unionizing
under the provisions of the national
industrial recovery act, the American
Federation of Labor and affiliated
unions are enrolling thousands of new
members weekly in a great nation
wide organization campaign.
As organized labor's drive gains
impetus, big "open shop" industries
are using every resource to roll up
large memberships in "company
unions" ar fast as possible. A test of
strength between the bona fide unions
and the "company unions" will come
at public hearings before the recov
ery administratoon officials, who will
be called upon to determine which
represents the workers.
American Federation of Labor
headquarters in Washington are the
center of the great organization cam
paign. Reporting directly to head
quartei's are 1,600 volunteer organ
izers, assisted by paid organizers in
every part of the United States. Or
ganizers for 108 national and inter
national unions are co-operating in
the drive. Each of these organiza
tions has from five to fifty paid or
ganizers and hundreds of volunteer
organizers.
State, Central Bodies Help
Organizers work in co-operation
with committees of the State Federa
tions of Labor and the 1,617 central
bodies in the cities. More than 27,000
local unions ai'e also helping in the
drive.
Discussing the campaign, Frank
Morrison, secretary of the American
Federation of Labor, said that organ
izers are at work in coal, steel, oil,
rubber, electrical manufacturing, au
tomobiles and other basic industries,
as well as in many other industries.
To date, the best results have been
reported in the coal industry where
thousands of new members have en
rolled in the United Mine Workers of
America. But great gains are being
made in other industries, it is known.
Letters Show Progress
An idea of the. progress now being
made was given by Seci'etary Mor
rison, in telling of the reports re
ceived daily at his office. Picking up
letter after letter at ramdom, he read
reports of organizers, requests for in
formation, offers of voluntary assist
ance and applications for charters.
"Here is a report from a union offi
cer who says that 10,000 steel and
plateglass workers have been organ
ized within a radius of ten miles of
New Kensington, Pa.," he said.
"Here is a report of the organizing
of 10,000 workers in the Interna
tional Union of Mine, Afftl and
Smelter Workers.
"A federal charter has been issued
to the United Rubber Workers' Union
at Cleveland.
Auto Workers Ask Charier
"Here are more applications for
federal charters from automobile and
rubber workers, in Detroit, Flint, Pon-
TOILERS ORGANIZE DESPITE
EFFORTS AT INTIMIDATION
A. F. of L. Headquarters Pushes Nation-wide Campaign
in Large and Small Industries—Thousands of Organ
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tiac. Charters have been issued to
lubber workers and steel fabricators
in Niles and Warren, Ohio.
"Quarry workers in the limestone
quarries of Martinsburg, W. Va., re
port that they are 100 per cent
organized.
"Here is a request for a federal
charter for the rubber workers of
Akron. The aviation fields want us
to help organize the mechanics and
pilots.
"In Niles, Ohio, boilermakers,
leather workers, brickmakers and
pressed steel fabricators announce
large gains in membership."
Federal Charter Issued
In some of the large industries, the
A. F. of L. is enrolling workers in
federal unions chartered directly by
the federation. The federal charters
are issued to those workers not cov
ered by jurisdictions of the national
and international unions. Secretary
Morrison reported that twenty-five
federal charters have been issued in
the last two weeks.
Discussing the intimidation of
workers to prevent them from union
izing, Secretary Morrison said that
threats, coercion and actual discharge
of employes are being used, particu
larly in the large industries.
ASK MINIMUM
Child Labor Rule in All
Recovery Codes
New York City (ILNS)—The na
tional child labor committee has ask
ed Gen. Johnson, administrator of the
national recovery act, to incorporate
a provision barring employment of
children under 16 years of age in any
blanket code that may be adopted.
The committee criticized as unsatis
factory child labor provisions in the
codes proposed for steel and other
hazardous industries.
The following basic principles for
all codes under the recovery act are
recommended by the committee:
A 16-year age minimum should be
included in every industrial code and
should apply to all types of employ
ment in the industry for industries,
or specific processes in industries,
where unemplyoment is especially
acute or where the risks of employ
ment make advisable adult workers,
an 18-year age minimum should be
specified.
The employment of learners or ap
prentices should be regulated strictly
as to the number permitted, wages
and length of thfe "apprenticeship"
period.
Wage rates for junior workers
should be based on the capacity of
the worker relative to adult capacity
and not on an arbitrary age basis.
BoilerMakers Strike
Against 23 Concerns
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Iron Shipbuilders and Helpers of
America has 23 strikes in operation,
according to the official list in the
Boilermakers' Journal.
Nearly half of these anti-union es
tablishments are on the Pacific coast,
and the others are scattered eastward
as far as Washington, D. C., where
two shops are posted as unfair, and
from Minneapolis in the North to
New Orleans in the South. All these
strikes are for the maintenance of
union wages and working conditions.
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New York Unemployed
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New York.—A heavy demand has
been made on the stock of 27,000 wool
en suits being distributed by the
emergency unemployment relief com
mittee, Frank Kidde, chairman of the
food and clothing division of the
committee, announced.
He spoke highly of the quality of
the suits which were produced from
cloth contributed by the Red Cross
and were manufactured in the plants
of manufacturers who donated their
equipment. The workers engaged in
the production were garment workers
who would otherwise have been un
employed.
St. Louis Labor Begins
City-Wide Union Drive
St. Louis, Mo. (ILNS)—A great
city-wide campaign to organize all
wage earners in St. Louis and enable
them to secure the full benefits of
codes drawn up under the provisions
of the national industrial recovery
act has been launched by St. Louis
labor. A general campaign commit
tee representing the organized trades
has been named to direct the cam
paign and is hard at work.
The paramount objects of the cam
paign are set forth in a ten-point pro
gram which outlines hour, wage and
working conditions to be covered in
odes to be prepared by the unions.
One point stressed is that the six
hour day and five-day week must be
adopted in the codes, but wages must
not be reduced below what is now
being paid.
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Indianapolis (ILNS)—Importation
of strikebreakers to a city in which
negotiations with employers are be
ing conducted will henceforth be re
garded as a declaration of war by the
International Typographical Union.
The union's stand was set forth in
the following resolution adopted by
the executive council, meeting in
headquarters here:
Whereas, The International Typo
praphical Union has made every rea
sonable effort during a most trying
period to maintain harmony in the
printing industry by negotiation and
conciliation of differences, and arbi
tration where conciliation failed and
Whereas, Members haye continued
to perform their duties under status
quo conditions pending settlement of
differences both as regards new con
tracts and,
Whereas, In the face of fullest co
operation publishers in some cities
have engaged the so-called open shop
division of the American Newspape^
Publishers' Association, which trans
ported large crews of professional
strikebreakers from city to city dur
ing negotiations for the purpose of in
timidation and,
Whereas, In some instances these
professional strikebreakers have been
imported to force wage reductions
and changes in conditions where there
are unexpired contracts in existence
READINGLABOR
Hits Discharge of Workers
For Joining Union
Reading, Pa. (ILNS)—Discharges
of workers who have been soliciting
union membership continues to take
place in Reading industries, accord
ing to a telegram which was sent to
U. S. Attorney-General Cummings by
the Reading branch of the American
Federation of Full Fashioned Hosiery
Workers and the Federated Trades
Council today. The wire reads as
follows^ "During the past twenty
four tfwr a new group of employes
have 'I discharged in the most im
portant industrial establishments in
industry for no other reason but that
of attempting to join a union. Will
furnish particulars in form of affi
davits or will produce men on re
quest. This flagrant defiance of na
tional recovery act must be checked
by United States government at once
or further strikes will take place and
bitterness among workers will reach
serious proportions. Urgently request
probe of this situation. (Signed)
Edward F. Callaghan, representative
American Federation of Full Fash
ioned Hosiery Workers George
Rhodes, president of the Federated
Trades Council of Reading."
Magnificently holding their lines
more than ten thousand hosiery work
ers blew sky-high the carefully nur
tured story that after the government
code for hosiery was announced the
employers would run back to their
mills. Not merely did the strikers
lose no one from their ranks but ad
ditions to the ranks were noted. At
I. T. U. Brands Importation
Of Strikebreakers During
Negotiations As Act of War
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and arbitration agreements in effect
and,
Whereas, The presence of profes
sional strikebreaking crews is not con
ducive to harmonious negotiations es
sential to recognition of mutuality of
interest upon which all wage agree
ments should be based now, there
fore, be it
Resolved, That from and after this
date the importation of strikebreak
ers into any jurisdiction where con
tract are being negotiated, or wage
adjustments are under consideration,
will be considered as an unfriendly
act on the part of employers and a
virtual declaration of industrial war,
and that the International Typograph
ical Union will consider importation
of strikebreakers under such condi
tions as justification for immediate
withdrawal, without notice, of the
members of this organization in the
employ of publishers or employers
guilty of such overt act and, be it
further
Resolved, That a publisher or em
ployer operating in more than one
city, who violates an existing contract
cr arbitration agreement and locks
out the members of this union, shall
be considered to have sacrificed his
right to protection under contracts
which may be in effect in other cities
in which he operates.
Wyomissing, the knitting mill strikes
were joined by several hundred me
chanics from the Textile Machine
Works, manufacturers of the machin
ery that makes the stockings.
WAVE OF STRIKES
As Toilers Ask Higher Pay,
Shorter Hours
Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—With
prices rising as business activity in
creases, workers in many parts of the
country are demanding higher wages
to meet the increased cost of living.
In Ilighpoint, N. C., a strike affect
ing 5,000 hosiery and furniture plant
workers was callcd when mill officials
failed to meet demands for a 25 per
cent pay increase and an 8-hour
working shift.
At Martin's Ferry, Ohio, steel
workers struck, demanding a min
imum wage of forty cents an hour,
an 8-hour day and abandonment of
Sunday work.
Frank Morrison, secretary of the
American Federation of Labor, an
nounced a strike of 3,300 radio work
ers in Philadelphia had just been
ended, with wage and working con
cessions won by the strikers.
Organized suit case and portfolio
workers in New York city won a
three-weeks' strike, gaining a closed
shop and better wage and working
conditions.
Walkouts were reported from other
sections, including Pennsylvania
where there are 100 strikes in prog
ress, involving some 30.000 workers.
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