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*u 1 V ,-r'' V*v 0j & i&i __ i t'1'- j) •&fc* $*• .'V"'* \^i s£-& V J1 •X' 4 .. v-* THE s. Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—Three bi^ building trades unions have affi liated with, the building trades depart ment of the American Federation of, Labor, making the department solidly representative of all the building trades for the first time in some years. Announcement of the affiliation was made by President M. J. McDonough of the building trades department. The unions which have affiliated are the Bricklayers, Masons and Plasterers' International Union of America, the International Brother hood of Electrical Workers and the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners. President McDonoughr in. pointing out the importance of the affiliation of the bricklayers, electrical workers and carpenters, said that "Naturally Chicago Photo-Engravers Get Back 1929 Pay Scale Chicago (ILNS)—Chicago newspa per publishers and Chicago Photo Engravers' Union No. 5 have signed a. two-year contract, effective to June, 17, 1936, providing for a return to 1929 wage scales and a 40-hour week. The new scale is $57.50 per week for days and $65 per week for nights. The previous weekly wage scale was $52 for days and $57 for nights. The new scale reverts back to the 1929 weekly wage of $57.50 on the day side, but hours have been reduced from 44 to 40. The new night scale is $2.00 more than the 1929 weekly scale of $63, with hours reduced from 42 to 40 hours per week. Catering Industry Union Makes Remarkable Gains Cincinnati, Ohio (ILNS)—The Ho tel and Restaurant Employers' and Beverage Dispensers' International Alliance has issued more than 150 charters in the past year, with more than 25,000 new members. The or ganization has been in the midst of many conflicts in the last six months and has come out victorious in most of them. International: Secretary-Treasur "Bob" Hesketh says: "We are making fine progress, and we thank all those connected with the trades union move ment and the labor press for their splendid support." POSTAL Promises to Quit Anti-Union Policy Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—Organ ized telegraph employes made history when a joint Commercial Telegraph ers' Union and International Brother hood of Electric Workers' committee was relieved by the management of the Postal Telegraph-Cable Co. The conference developed very lit tle in a material way, but a definite understanding was reached that the Postal, second largest telegraph com- START AN ACCOUNT WITH The Home Loan and Building A'ssa Third and Conrt Sta. WE PAY STATE TAXES C. J. PARRISH, Secy. Ambulance Servta* Phone 35 "-*ur '--""T* w *j, J^t £*A\ "f ^r "V $fVv V V*^v ^, "V »CA Three Great Unions Rejoin Building Trades Department Bricklayer^ Carpenters and Eleetrical Workers- Again Affiliate, Solidifying Entire Building Trades Move ment. Rpbert G.Taylor Mortuary Formerly THE C. W. GATH CO., Funeral Directors ^2\&sj "*'A "5 /,-v /V-"^^ u% V JV t?s Y x*" y-f it solidifies the building trades move ment. Every organization engaged in the building trades industry is now in this department and will now oper ate as a unit. "This places tire t!epartmentf1tt sttch a position that jurisdictional disputes can be adjusted within the depart ment. It unifies all crafts nationally and will also have the effect of, unify ing them locally. The move virtually doubles the membership of the building trades de partment, increasing it from about 400,000 to 800,000. All three of the newly affiliated crafts formerly be longed to the department, but have been out of it for several years. They always have been affiliated with the A. F. of L. itself. pany, would live up to the letter as well as the spirit of Section 7-A of the NIRA, even though no code for the industry has been imposed^ International President Frank B. Powers, of the CTUNA, said: "Inasmuch as there appears to be little likehood of a communi cations code, due to the defiant and challenging attitude of the Western Union, the beginning of collective bargaining between Postal and its employes is all the more significant. One telegraph company, at least, is willing to turn its back on the traditional anti-union policy of the industry. "The Western Union, on the con trary, refuses to recognize that an employes has even the meager protec tion given in Section 7-A. Appar ently the NRA has been bluffed out of its declared intention of imposing a code whether the WesternUnion desired one or not." NEW WRINKLE Sprung in Musicians' Strike Against Radio Czars Toronto (ILNS)—A Dominion-wide strike against the Canadian radio commission, to effect recognition of their union and a 30 per cent increase in wages, was launched by the Ca nadian Musicians' Proftecbive Asso ciation on June 17. The musicians are affiliated with the American Fed eration of Musicians. Walter Murdoch, president of the Toronto Musicians' Protective Asso ciation, and chairman of the Canadian Musicians' radio committee, said the decision of the union musicians was .unanimous. H. Charlesworth, chairman of the Canadian radio commission, said "We cannot employ members of the American Federation of Musicians exclusively because we are agencies of the crown. We are prepared for the emergency. There are plenty of non-union musicians." Dragging the "crown" into an ar gument against unions is a new wrin kle. The Board of Trustees control ling the national railways is as much an agency of the "crown" as the radio commission. And the "crown" is theoretically neutral even when the government sends troops and tanks to overawe strikers. Charlesworth rudely tears this veil of mysticism. Miss Grace Abbott Resigns As Children's Bureau Head Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—Grace Abbott, chief of the Children's Bu reau of the United States Department of Labor, has resigned to become pro fessor of public welfare at the Uni versity of Chicago. Miss Abbott served under five presidents. She was appointed by President Wilson to ad minister the first federal labor law, later declared unconstitutional. In 1921 she was appointed chief a£ the Children's Bureau. Chain and Table* Rented 17 So. Street 1 ti* ...1 r:. -t .4 j-. •. 1 np, It 1 •*'1' j** '-j .-?. -r. '-f*v9f^-^. i ,y mm- mm% "'"Ty.Lr Washington.—-President Roosevelt, after receiving the demands of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers for the settle ment of the labor dispute in the steel industry without a strike, turned the entire proposal over to Secretary of Labor Perkins with full power to rep resent him and take whatever action she deemed proper. The union's plan, which was pre sented to the special convention of the union at Pittsburgh by William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, and adopted by that body, was given to the president by the International Executive Board of the Association, consisting of M. F. Tighe, president Louis Leonard, sec retary-treasurer Thomas G. Gillis and Edward W. Miller, vice presi dents. The board was accompanied by President Green. Union's Four-Point Plan The four-point plan presented by the union asked that the president appoint an impartial board of three fto receive complaints land mediate disputes in the industry and arrange for collective bargaining conferences with employers. The board would be empowered to hold elections by em ployes to choose collective bargaining representatives. All grievances over wages, hours and conditions of em ployment would be settled by negotia tions between management and duly accredited representatives of the workers, with power in the board to adjust unsettled questions. Finally, if the union's plan is accepted by the steel barons the impending strike would be declared off. Roosevelt's Statement tn announcing that he had selected Miss Perkins to handle the entire con troversy, the president said: "We have discussed with the secre tary of labor every detail of the pro posal that has been made by a com mittee of the Amalgamated Steel, Iron and Tin Workers on behalf of employes in the steel industry. The secretary has described to me also the proposal that the employers in the steel industry made last week to the administrator for NRA. "It is my hope that some method will be found to adjust all the points that are in controversy and to pre serve orderly relations without sac rificing any principle that is involved. "I have referred the proposal to the secretary of labor for careful study and to undertake any negotiatins that seem advisable. The secretary is fully empowered to represent me in taking whatever action seems advisable un der the circumstances and will of course consult and co-operate with all other agencies of cerned." vf^ytc^, ,:\r VOL. XXXIV. No. 12 HAMILTON, OHIO, FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1934 ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR President Authorizes Her to Represent Him in Negotiat ing With Iron and Steel Institute For Acceptance of Organized Labor's Plan to Settle Threatened Strike. government con -lf'v .. Fourth of July, 1934 Miss Perkins Placed in Charge Of Steel Dispute By Roosevelt Green and Tighe Pleased In commenting on Roosevelt's ac tion President Green, of the A. F. of L., said: "The manufacturers can go ahead with our plan either through volun tary acceptance or through the me dium of a board as provided under the Wagner bill. The president treated us very nicely and cordially, and we had a very satisfactory interview." Michael F. Tighe, veteran crief of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, also approved the president's action. He said: "I am going back to Pittsburgh much happier than when I came to Washington." PAYROLLS And Jobs Make Slight Gains During May Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—Em ployment and payrolls made slight gains in May as compared with April, contrary to the seasonal trend, the reparunent of labor reports. Based on reports supplied by 80, 072 establishments in ninety manu facturing industries and fifteen non manufacturing industries, it is esti mated that 96,400 workers were re turned to employment in these indus tries during May and that weekly payrolls totaled $318,700,000, exceed ing such disbursements in April by $2,463,000. Factory employment showed a gain of 0.1 per cent from April to May, while payrolls fell off 0.2 per cent, changes so slight as to have but little significance in themselves. It is estimated that employment in creased by 6,500 in the manufacturing industries. During the last fifteen years, according to department rec ords, May has shown increases in fac tory employment in only four in stances. "The increase of one-tenth of I per cent that occurred last month is there fore contrary to the general trend for this time of the year," Secretary of Labor Perkins said, "and the three tenths of 1 per cent falling off in weekly payrolls compares not unfa variably with the usual trend for May. Data available since 1919 show that payrolls have declined in seven in stances between April and May." Los Angeles Police Beat Union Pickets Los Angeles, Cal. (ILNS)—So aroused has public opinion here be come over the brutal beating of Mis sion strikers that well-known minis ters are coming out to picket with the members of Branch 43 of the Amer N ..•V "'vVVv.t/^.Vr-:^ '•/•^•1-:f «... .,Yi' /.'*, C'v, '&"f •'/,?.' ... .,. Wf Cr vJT. JilSSij 4 •Ai.. -'I V -mm w ican Federation of Hosiery Workers. The police of the notorious red squad have hauled the peaceful pick eters into jail in wholesale lots, with no more than "suspicious behavior"' to offer as an excuse, grilled them and beat them and subjected them to the third degree. Three of the dozens hauled in by the police out of the approximately 300 strikers are seriously injured, and the wife of another beaten striker, Mrs. Jean Goodman, is in the hos pital, suffering from shock and a nervous breakdown because of the results of her husband's incarceration and brutal beating by the police. Patronize manufacturers using the union label and keep trade unionists employed. THiM For Truck, Tractor & Auto Parts Motors Rebored Rebuilt AT Savage Auto Supply Co. 636-638 Maple Ave. Phone 116 HAMILTON, OHIO Our Mid-Summer SALE FURNITURE RUGS RADIOS Sat. June 30th Opening Date .--i ~~-r -•{-y w ji S '1^ -i- *t"-_ O" r-r, 1. -s v r'"'-0'•- t*- -v j. i .1 1 .*« 'v j-, ...... jls... ^4 1 r^-s-^rs ••,-••'* »y wjh'X '~-3- Voice in All Codes, NRA Enforcement Official Urges Naw York City (ILNS)—Represen tation of labor in all code authorities was urged by Nathan Straus, Jr., New York state director of the National Emergency Council, before a confer ence with a group of more than 20 labor executives of the state and city. The conference was the first of series with labor representatives. Straus, who is chief NRA enforce ment officer of the state, initiated the conferences to obtain labor's views on the operation of the NRA and sugges tions for improvements. At the end of the conference Straus said that "only the surface has been scratched in this first session" and that future conferences would be held with smaller groups of the labor leaders, representing various indus tries. He said he was anxious to find out just what were the complaints against codes and the NRA by labor. "I assume the NRA isn't perfect— there are very few things that are perfect," Straus said. John Redmond, vice president of Typographical Union No. 6, interrupt ed Straus to say that "labor is in accord with the NRA and only wants to make its administration more ef fective. Other labor leaders present ex pressed the same sentiment. "I believe that if the code author ities are to be effective they must represent not only the interests of the employers but the interests of labor ts well, Straus said in opening the meeting. "The code authorities must not become merely instruments for stabilizing trade practices and for doing those things which, will benefit chiefly the employer. "The code authorities must become, if they are to be effective, in my be lief, an instrument for adjusting la bor difficulties, for promoting the well-being of labor quite as much as promoting the welll-being of the in dustry itself." TOMATO GROWERS IN TEXTS STRIKE FOR PRICE BOOST Jacksonville, Tex.—Rebelling against low prices which threatened them with bankruptcy, tomato growers in East Texas, the world's greatest to mato producing region, stopped a $2,000,000 industry until their de mands for two cents a pound whole sale were met. :1? .£•:, •,,••'• GIVE LABOR 1 ,-i "H* 13 "4 !4: