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VOL. XXXIII. No. 34
Washington, D." C. (ILNS)—Fire
Works flared up in the hearing on the
laundry industry code when President
William Green, of the American Fed
eration of Labor attacked the "bitter
*nd ruthless competition, complete
lack of regulation, and merciless ex
|0oitation of workers" in the industry.
President Green said a 30-hour
Week must be established for ALL
INDUSTRY and presented recom
mendations for a laundry code calling
lor (1) 35-hour maximum workweek
(2) time and one-half for overtime
{B) waiting time of employes to be
jftunted as working time (4) abolition
itf all wage differentials based on geo
graphical location or sex (5) mini
mum wage of 40 cents per hour for
jUant employes, 65 cents per hour, en
jgineers, firemen and maintenance em
tfSoyes, $15 per week for deliverymen
HOSIERY PLANTS
Accused of Defying Blue
Eagle
Chattanooga, Tenn. (ILNS)—The
crucial situation between hosiery
workers here and the chain of a
dozen 'chisselling" mill managements
Is still hanging in the balance.
Meantime, 600 workers at the Har
riman plant at Harriman, Tenn., (one
of the "chiselling chain") who went
out on strike in October, are hungry.
And the defiant Harriman manage
ment has flung down the gauntlet to
the Blue Eagle.
The board regional compliance sug
gested to Fred G. Held, local repre
sentative of the American Federation
of Hosiery Workers, that a committee
of the striking Harriman workers at
tempt to get the firm to re-employ
the strikers, pending the board's de
cision. Held and a committee of the
strikers carried the board's sugges
tion to the Harriman management.
The management refused to take back
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Exploitation of Laundry
Workers Scored By
Labor Btetfd Bemmrtces Evil Conditions in Industry and
Calls for Code Maximum 35-Hour Week
Edgar K. Wagner
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
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and $16 for office employes.
Referring to wages Green said, "It
is incredible that I have to come here
today to present arguments against
a minimum wage as low as 14 cents
per hour."
The code proposed by the laundry
industry would establish geographical
division of 6 territories with wages
ranging from 14 cents per hour to
50 cents per hour. Objections to this
were made by representatives of Na
tional Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People and by social
agencies who asserted it was im
practical and unjust. A maximum
work week of 45 hours would be set.
Re-employment in the industry since
President's re-employment agreement
has meant addition of 15,000 work
ers, testimony showed.
the strikers as a body they declared
they would take back only such indi
viduals as they desire ... a clear
case of discrimination, hosiery offi
cials declared.
The Regional Compliance Board
was notified of the management's
attitude, and the strikers were in
formed they must await the board's
decision.
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the Richmond Hosiery Mill of Ross
ville, Georgia, run by Harvey Wilson,
who is the mouthpiece of the chain.
Wilson swore he would not "go along
with the NRA" unless he is forced.
The other mills in the chain are
the Nick-A-Jack, in Chattanooga, two
mills in Soddy and Daisy, Tenn., and
one in Greysville, Tenn. four branch
mills of the Harriman outfifit in Rock
wood, Oneida, Monterey and Kings
ton, Tenn., as well as a mill inClin
ton, Tenn., with a branch in Coal
Creek, Tenn.
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Roosevelt Policies.
Washington, D. C. ILNS)—By
unanimous vote, directors of the
United States Chamber of Commerce
have parted company with the admin
istration over its monetary policy and
demanded the immediate return to
some form of gold basis.
The action is the most significant
taken by the chamber in many
months, and indicates it is following
in the wake of the general alarm in
business circles over current monetery
developments, with the possibility of
weakening in government credit and
downward movement of the govern
ment bond market.
The chamber resolution demands
that the government securities not be
driven to lower levels by reason of
monetary actions, and manifestly has
in mind the effect which such a trend
would have on reserves of banks with
present tremendous holdings in gov
ernment securities.
See Recovery Retarded
Chamber directors said national re
covery will be retarded by failure of
the government to give assurances on
its monetery policy, including an an
nouncement to avoid "monetary ex
perimentation, greenbackism and fiat
money," and challengged the presi
dent's effort to raise prices through
measures solely monetary in charac
ter. They said the question of sound
national monetary policy is para
mount, and transcendent because af
fecting the whole economic welfare.
They also said that unless announce
ment of the intention to make an
early return to the gold basis is made,
"there will be instability of employ
ment, because of inability of anyone
to make forward commitments on a
basis of reasonable business risk in
stead of speculative hazard," and
with "insecurity for all clases of our
people and a severe setback to the
development of healthy recuperative
processes which in the main are based
upon the decisions of individuals and
not of govenment.
Taking up directly the question of
stability of government credit, the
directors said: "The protection of
credit of the government is inseper
able from public confidence in its ob
ligations," and "opon stability of gov
ernment's securities now largely rests
maintenance of our banking, insur
ance and other fiduciary institutions.'
Use of PWA Funds Hit
The second resolution by the direc
tors demanded use of the funds of
the pub.ic works administration to
compete with or duplicate units "now
rendering adequate service" be
stoppesd as 'contrary to sound pub'
lie policy."
The two resolutions marked a re
turn of the "Bourbons" to control of
chamber affairs. While President
Harriman was a principal advocate
of the recovery act and NRA, he has
been taking less and less part lately,
and is recorded now as voting for the
two resolutions. Fred Sargent and
Silas H. Strawn, of Chicago, led the
way In putting over the resolutions
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Demand for Gold Standard, Criticism of Public
Works Fund and Naming of NRA Investigat
ing Committee Held Presaging Open War On
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'ommerce Chamber Attack
On NRA Heralds Return of
Business Bourbons to Power
The chamber lately has been threat
ened with schism and division because
many members thought it not aggres
sive enough in opposing concessions
given to organized labor in the de
velopment of NRA. The revolt re
cently assumed the form of steps to
establish a new national commercial
and industrial organization, with a
more aggressive policy, and possibly
not handicapped and crippled by the
pressure of vociferous and warring
minorities in its membership.
While the schism in the chamber
affairs has arisen primarily over the
failure to oppose the NRA policy of
permitting no qualifying or interpre
tative clauses in codes in connection
with mandatory Section 7(a), the
attack now is not on this sector, but
distinctly on the monetery policy of
the administration. There is strong
indication, however, the two resolu
tions pave the way for more open and
general opposition to administrative
policies, especiallly in connection with
proposed legislation coming before
this winter's session of congress.
To Study NRA Activities
Nine "prominent economists and in
dustrialists" have been named by
President Harriman as a committee
to "make a thorough study of NRA
activities." The study will be prelim
inary to launching an energetic drive
for scrapping NRA and permitting in
dustry, through the medium of trade
associations or constituent commit
tees, to assume control and direction
of industrial codes.
Appointment of this committee
indicated again ittyat the more
conservative group, thrust aside
with the selection of Harriman in
1932 as president,has again as
sumed dominance in chamber af
fairs. The conservatives in the
chamber have been smarting for
months over the failure to vigor
ously oppose the labor policies of
the NRA and join with the Na
tional Manufacturers' Associa
tion in the movement to change or
wreck it.
Harriman resisted this tendency*
insisting the NRA should be given an
opportunity to show how it could pro
duce results. But recent develop
ments, brought to a focus by recog
nition of Soviet Russia, departure of
Secretary Woodin as the treasury
head, the fall of the dollar, and un
certainty incident to monetary policy
have forced Harriman from behind
his duck blind.
Convention Rejects
Proposal For Forma
tion of Labor Party
A proposal for the formation of a
labor party and abandonment of la
bor's non-partisan political policy was
rejected by the 1933 convention of the
American Federation of Labor.
'Experience here and abroad has
demonstrated again and again," the
convention said, "that labor can only
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the permanency and growth of our
economic organizations uninfluenced
by party political considerations and
that the political power of the labor
movement can best be exercised along
traditional lines heretofore followed
by the American Federation of La
bor."
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GIVING WITH GRACE
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HE word sacrifice," says a well
author "should have no
place In marriage, because It breeds
self-pity and is an artificial thing any
way you look at it"
There Is a very big question that
this brings to mind which It seems
to me Is applicable not only to mar
riage, but to all our contacts In life.
And that Is the question of giving with
grace.
When we make a so-called sacrifice
for one we love, that is, when we give
up something or do something for him
or her, we are doing It. are we not,
because w« want to do It, because we
want that something for the one we
love? Then we are doing It for our
selves.
And yet how many people with the
best of motives, the most unselfish In
tent, spoil such giving and doing by
making It apparent that this Is a
sacrifice, by showing the cost of effort
Involved. In other words, because
they lack the grace In giving.
There la an old European story
about a cow who gave exceptionally
rich milk, and in greater quantity than
moBt cows. But she spoiled It all by
kicking the pall over.
That is exactly what people do who
are always making sacrifices. The
benefit In what they do for others Is
vitiated by th« consciousness on the
part of the latter that It Is a sacri
fice. No one can enjoy anything that
Is the result of pain or labor or sacri
fice on the part of some one else.
Let us never sacrifice. Let us give
and do what It Is In our hearts to
give and do for those we love, with
joy In the doing, with thankfulness
for being able to serve those we care
for—and with grace that enhances the
living.
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Washington.—M. J. McDonough,
the fighting president of the building
trades department of the American
Federation of Labor, did not mince
words in his belligerent attack on the
reactionary provisions of the labor
section of the code for the construc
tion in industry sponsored by the anti
labor Construction League of the
United States, at the reopened hear
ings before the national recovery ad
ministration.
In addition to the Construction
League, the code, with its indecently
low wage of 40 cents an hour and its
equally indecent maximum work week
of 40 hourswith possible extension to
48 hours, was actively supported by
the Associated General Contractors,
the Chamber of Commerce of the
United States, and the American In
stitute of Architects, all of whom
subscribed to the Construction
League's policy of heavy wage cuts
for building trades workers and a
work week so long that none of the
hundreds of thousands of men in that
industry who have been jobless for
three years would be re-employed.
40-Hour Week Is Worthless
Mr. McDonough declared there was
nothing in the labor section of the
code which appealed to him. Eighty
per cent of the country's construction
employes are out of work now, he
said. Under this condition the estab
lishment of even a 20-hour week would
not provide jobs for all the idle build
ing trades workers, and the 40-hour
week proposed in the code was abso
lutely worthless as a remedy for un
employment.
40 Cents Per Hour Denounced
He also vigorously attacked the 40
cents minimum pay per hour which
the low-wage sponsors of the code
had set up as their measure for de
termining the workers' living standa
ards. He pointed out that 80 per cent
of the building trades workers are
skilled, and that the adoption of the
40-cents minimum would tend to be
come the normal wage.'
League Menaces Collective
Bargaining
"The Construction League is pro
ceeding contrary to the provisions of
the national industrial recovery act,
Mr. McDonough said.
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McDonough Attacks Labor Section
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President of A. F. of L. Building Trades Department
Charges Construction League With Attempt to Kill
Collective Bargaining—40-Hour Week Will Provide
No Jobs For Idle—40 Cents Minimum Pay Denounced
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"Its manifest aim is to destroy col
lective bargaining as it now exists and
has existed for many years in the
construction industry.
"It masks its real purpose under
the possible but untenable theory
that a revival in the building industry
is dependent upon a reduction in labor
costs, when as a matter of fact, if the
league were really sincere in its al
leged purpose, its attention would be
concentrated upon costs of materials
and financing charges.
"Its real objective is to destroy the
rights and guarantees which have
been granted to the members of the
building trades labor organizations
under Section 7 of the national indus
trial recovery act."
MANY CHARTERS
ISSUED BY AFL
Washington, November 23.—The
American Federation of Labor has
granted eight hundred and twenty
four charters to national and interna
tional unions, federal labor unions,
and local unions since July 1, Frank
Morrison,secretary of the federation,
announced.
The new unions are located in every
part of the United States and Canada
and include all classes of working
men and women.
Long terrorized and enslaved by
the arrogant practices of anti-labor
employers who forced the notorious
company union down the unwilling
throats of their employes, the work
ers have sensed their freedom under
the national recovery act, which
guarantees the right to organize in
bona fide trade unions without inter
ference from employers, and have
come to the American Federation of
Labor and its affiliated unions by
hundreds of thousands.
"Now for ten million members!" is
the slogan of the A. F. of L., with
good prospects for the realization of
this goal.
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