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Mahon Says.
New York City (ILNS)—Arrange
ments for a special convention of the
United Textile Workers of America
Which may call a nation—wide strike
have been completed by the emer
gency committee of the union. The
convention will meet here beginning
August 13.
President Thomas F. McMahon an
nounced that a most critical situation
exists in the cotton, woolen and wor
sted, silk and rayon industries, that
a number of employers are taking
advantage of the low level of em
ployment by using methods of dis
crimination and reducing the work
ing standard of those employed.
He said that the organization
will most certainly support an
active movement for the 30-hour
work week, and unless the em
ployers in the textile industry
show some inclination to cooper
ate with labor in the adjustment
of grievances, the convention will
vote in favor of strike.
Vice President Francis J. Gorman
was authorized to return to Washing
ton to continue the conferences with
HITLER BARS U.S.
LABORJOURNAL
New York City (ILNS)—Advance,
official monthly journal of the Amal
gamated Clothing Workers of Amer
ica, has been banned from circulation
in Germany by order of the reich min
istry of the interior, dispatches from
Jfunich report. Union officials said
they were surprised that the maga
zine had escaped prohibition in Ger
many so long as it militantly cham
pioned trade union principles and had
co-operated actively in the boycott of
German goods declared by American
labor in protest against Hitler's de
struction of the German trade union
movement.
GROCERY
Chain Ordered to Reinstate
Employes
Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—/The
National Labor Relations Board has
announced its findings of a violation
of Section 7a of the national indus-
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Textile WorkersV Convention
To Call Big Lockout Unless
Employers Change Attitude
Critical Situation Exists in Textile Industries and Only
Co-operation by Managements with Union to Adjust
Grievances Can Avert Nation-wide Strike, Pres. Mc-
HAROLD W. NICHOLS
Batavia, Ohio
For
STATE SENATOR
Subject to the Approval of the
DEMOCRATIC VOTERS of
BROWN, BUTLER, CLERMONT and WARREN COUNTIES
(Political Advertisement)
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administration officials in an endeavor
to secure an adjustment of existing
difficulties on the question of wages,
hours and machine load before the
convention.
Reports from Alabama represen
tatives, according to the leaders of the
United Textile Workers of America,
show an utter disregard for the prin
ciples of NRA and a most shameful
situation caused by extremely low
wages and excessive machine load.
The strike in Alabama is one of the
main reasons for the special conven
tion.
Speakers invited to address the con
vention include Secretary of Labor
Perkins William Green, president of
the American Federation of Labor
David Dubinsky, president of the In
ternational Ladies' Garment Workers
Sidney Hillman, president of the
Amalgamated Clothing Workers, with
officials of the state and city federa
tions of labor.
It is expected that credentials of
over 700 local unions will be turned
in and the attendance will be larger
than any previous convention.
trial recovery act by the C. F. Smith
Company, operator of a chain of gro
cery stores at Detroit, Mich. The
company was informed that unless it
reinstates three men who were dis
charged the violation will be referred
to governmental enforcement agen
cies.
This case involves alleged discrimi
natory discharge of the three men in
March. At the hearing July 26 be
fore the National Labor Relations
Board, testimony was introduced by
the company showing the men were
told their discharge was due to dis
loyalty to the company. The Interna
tional Brotherhood of Teamsters,
Chauffeurs, Stablemen and Helpers
has contended that the men were dis
charged because of their union activ
ity. The National Labor Board ruled
June 21 that the men should be re
instated at once.
MAKES PACT
With Union Republic Re
Opens Mills
Warren, Ohio (ILNS)—The-Repub
lic Steel Corporation reopened 13 tin
plate mills here after a shutdown of
a month, following refusal on June
30 to renew a contract with lodges
of the Amalgamated Association of
Iron, Steel and Tin Workers.
The reopening resulted from a ten
tative agreement between the com
pany and the union lodges. It was un
derstood that both the Trumbull
Lodge here and the Deforest Lorge
of the Amalgamated at Niles, Ohio,
had ratified the agreement, the terms
of which were not made public when
the mills opened.
The accord was effected after the
Amalgamated went before the steel
industry's labor board with a protest
to the decision of Republic in which
Republic refused to renew a work
ing agreement under which the tin
workers had operated for 21 years.
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Washington* D. C. (ILNS)—Declar
ing that the need for a general busi
ness expansion is urgent, the Amer
ican Federation of Labor warns in its
current monthly survey of business
that "When private business is not
able to resume its functions, then so
ciety is forced to take over the means
of production."
Gains in employment and purchas
ing power under the NRA are impor
tant, but they are not enough to re
store business to pre-depression lev
els nor to put the unemployed to work,
the federation says, adding:
'The gains in buying power thus
far have been due to two things:
1. The NRA program to reduce hours
and raise wages 2. Enormous expen
ditures of the government for emer
gency needs. There has yet been no
corresponding increase in creation of
wealth to pay all the cost of these
gains. We cannot go on increasing
buying power in this way, without a
general expansion of production and
consumption. Industry cannot pull
itself up by its own boot straps.
Relief Bill Big Burden
"The urgency of the present need
for a general business expansion is
shown by the statement of govern
ment expenses for the fiscal year end
ing June 30, 1934. The nation's total
bill for federal relief alone to farm
ers, banks, business, unemployed—
was more than $4,000,000,000. The
total income of the government was
$3,116,000,000 or just enough to pay
its current running expenses of $3,
101,000,000, leaving the entire relief
bill to be met by borrowing.
"The government cannot go on bor
rowing more than its income for very
long. The funds cannot be raised by
taxation, for already, when state and
local taxes are added to federal, the
country is paying 20 per cent of its
total income in taxation.
"We cannot go on taking one-fifth
of the wealth we produce and in addi
tion borrowing a like amount to sup
port 16,000,000 persons who are cre
ating no wealth. Over 12 per cent
of our entire population are now on
relief rolls. Unless immediate meas
ures are taken to start business go
ing on a nation-wide scale, we shall
probably have to resort to currency
inflation to meet the huge deficits
accumulating.
Situation is Challenge
"Nothing in the business picture at
present gives promise of substantial
business improvement in the near
future. ...
"The present situation is a chal
lenge to the administration to give us
a plan by which industry, labor and
the government may co-operata to re
store business. When private business
is not able to resume ita functions,
than society la farced W take over
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VOL. XXXIV. No. 18 HAMILTON, OHIO, FRIDAY. AUGUST 10,1934 ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR
If Industry Cannot Function, Society is Forced to Take
Over Means of Production, A. F. of L. Survey Declares
—Present Situation Challenge to Administration.
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The federation says that workers'
producing power has continued to in
crease in depression as it did before
1929, and that buying power must in
crease in proportion if industrial bal
ance is to be maintained.
The present effort to control indus
try "cannot succeed unless we make
the constant increase of workers' in
come a foundation stone of all our
planning," it is pointed out.
"At present we are living through
the results of a long period when bal
ance was not kept between producing
and consuming power. For years be
fore the depression, workers' buying
power fell far behind their power to
produce. We see the consequences on
every hand: Farmers ploughing cot
ton under and reducing crops because
industrial wages fell so low, propor
tionally, that farm prices could not
be kept up industry running at
New Orleans (ILNS)—Twelve hun
dred Mobile longshoremen are plan
ning to strike unless Mobile shipping
interests cease alleged violations of
an agreement adopted in June which
ended a previous four-week strike,
Charles Logan, secretary of the Unit
ed States Regional Labor Board, an
nounced on his return from Mobile
where he conferred with the various
groups. The men are charging that
the companies have been discriminat
ing against those who returned to
work, refusing them employment and
favoring strikebreakers, or requiring
them to join a company union before
being given work again.
Garment Workers Vote
90 Per Cent for Strike
Montreal (ILNS)—A 90 per cent
vote for a strike to enforce demands
has been taken by 3,000 local mem
bers of the International Ladies' Gar
ment Workers' Union. The demands
are a 40-hour week, union recognition,
and the following wages: a flat rate
of $32 per week for tailors, $1 per
hoar for cutters and $1.10 per hour
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the means of production. It is essen
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capacity or less because people can
not buy enough to keep mines, mills
and railroads busy.
"Meanwhile, men out of work walk
the streets when they should be creat
ing wealth and buying goods, and mil
lions live in poverty when there could
be enough for all to live in comfort.
We have attempted to restore the
balance by stopping production and
reducing the living standards of all.''
Charging Agreement
Violated, Longshoremen
Threaten Strike
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Creosote Workers Strike
Hattiesburg, Miss. (ILNS)One hun
dred and fifty employes of the Gulf
States Creosoting Co. are on strike
here. The union workers voted unan
imously to walk out. Labor leaders
are negotiating with company offi
cials regarding settlement of the
strike, called in protest against dis
crimination against members of the
local crosoting plant union organized
in June as an affiliate of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor.
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FUNERAL DIRECTOR
Schwenn Coal Company
TROOPS RAID
Union Headquarters, Arrest
Minneapolis Strike
Heads
Minneapolis (ILNS)—Because strik
ing truck drivers and their sympathiz
ers exercised their right of free speech
and assemblage to meet at public
playground, national guardsmen raid
ed strike headquarters and arrested
four of the strike leaders. The lead
es were charged with meeting with
out a permit.
Later, the soldiers raided the head
quarters of the Central Labor Union,
forcing out some 20 men and women
in the offices. Guardsmen in 20
trucks lined the streets before the
central body's offices, dispersed 2,000
spectators and searched and question
ed occupants of the building. Among
them was State Representative Roy
E. Wier, who is active in labor affairs.
Union representatives later were
permitted to use their offices through
guards were maintained over the
building as they were over strike
headquarters.
The drive of the soldiers against
the strikers began just before John
Belor, a picket wounded July 20 when
strikers clashed with police armed
with shotguns,, died in a hospital,
bringing to two the number of men
who have died in the present strike.
Two men were killed and many hurt
in the first strike, in May.
Labor Board Orders
Employes Reinstated
Washington, D. C. (ILNS)-t-The
National Labor Relations Eoard has
announced its decision regarding the
Jersey City (N. J.) and Lyndhurst
Bus Co. in which it directed the com
pany to reinstate two discharged em
ployes or be cited to governmental
enforcement agencies August 6.
The board's decision was stated in
a brief communication sent to the
bus company which said:
"The board having considered the
evidence presented at the show cause
hearing finds no reason to alter the
tentative findings of fact sent you.
It, therefore, has voted to make these
findings final and will transmit them
to governmental agencies on August
6 unless before that date you have
informed us that you have reinstated
Richrd and Cyril Joyce."
W. H. STEPHAN, Prop.
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