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The injunction was asked by 313
manufacturers, to permit them to
withdraw from the cotton garment
code without prosecution or boycott
by the NRA. The manufacturers as
serted that 20 per cent of cotton gar
ments were made by prison labor and
they were unable to comply with
NRA rules and at the same time
meet this low-priced competition.
They attack the order reducing
hours and increasing pay as made
over the opposition of the industry
and as an attempt to exercise pow
ers not delegated to the president.
The court issued a temporary re
straining order against the attorney
general, recovery administration
Board and cotton garment code
authority.
Announcement that members of the
Amalgamated Clothing Workers
would work only 36 hours in an at
tempt to enforce the president's or
der was made by President Sidney
Hillman, of the union.
Prison Labor Attacked
As the cotton garment manufactur
ers sought the injunction order,
prison labor was attacked by a spe
cial investigating committee of three,
which recommended the complete re
planning of state prison industries to
remove prison-made goods from the
open market and end the long-drawn
controversy on the subject.
The committee also recom
mended that prison-made gar
ments be barred in the public
market by withdrawal of the
NRA label now used or by its
modification to read "prison
ljftade."
President Roosevelt on October 12
ordered the committee created to in
vestigate effects of competition be
tween prison labor and sheltered
workshop products on the one hand
and those of the cotton garment in-
Old Age Pensions in Canada
Ottawa—Seven years ago, in 1927,
the Dominion government of Canada
adopted an old age pensions plan.
Since that time, eight of the eleven
provinces have put the plan into ef
fect. The proportion of the popula
tion receiving pensions varies in the
different provinces all the way from
one ir. 2,000 in the Northwest Terri
tories, down to one in 70 in Prince
Edward Island. The most common
proportion is one in 80. Monthly pen
sionb in the several provinces vary
from $10.68 to $20, with an average of
$16.69.
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Directs Members Not to Work Longer than Limit Set
By Roosevelt—Committee Urges Prison Goods Ban.
(ILNS)—Fol­
lowing injunction proceedings in the
District of Columbia Supreme Court
to stop enforcement of a presidential
order reducing hours and raising
wages in the cotton garment industry,
the Amalgamated Clothing Workers
of America ordered members not to
work more than 36 hours a week. An
order by President Roosevelt, effect
ive December 1, lowered the work
week from 40 hours to 86 and .raised
pay 10 per cent.
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dustry on the other, and also the
operation of NRA's prison labor con
tract.
Prison Labor Problem Unsolved
The committee, composed of Judge
Joseph N. Ulman, of Baltimore, chair
man Frank Tannenbaum, author and
economist, and W. Jett Lauck, statis
tician, found that the prison labor
compact "has not solved the problem
of prison labor, and will not solve it
permanently and constructively," but
"is an indispensable plan for the real
solution of the problem of prison
labor."
LABOR OPPOSES
Wire Merger Resulting In
Loss of Jobs
Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—Oppo
sition to any merger that would in
ctease unemployment was expressed
in strong terms by representative of
organized labor at a hearing before
the federal communications commis
sion on the proposed merger of the
two big telegraph companies.
At the end of the hearing, mem
bers of the commission indicated that
legislation providing for consolida
tion will probably be presented to
congress. Some assurance that efforts
will be made to protcet the interests
of labor was given by Commissioner
Payne, who said:
"Whatever is done, you can be cer
tain that labor will be protected to the
best of our ability."
Frank B. Powers, president of the
Commercial Telegraphers' Union of
North America, told the commission
ies is permitted," Powers said. "A
Postal would result in 15,000 jobs be
ing eliminated in the telegraph field.
"If merger of telegraph compan
ies is permitted," Powers said, "A
monopoly would be inevitable, for
there are but two major telegraph
companies."
President Powers blamed the pres
ent situation of the wire companies
upon the managements. The chief
cause, he said, was an "overdose of
machinery and automatic telegraphy,
which be^an in 1918 and has cost the
jobs of thousands pf capable opera
tors.
"Let us have a trial of fair compe
tition, rather than elimination of all
competition," Powers urged.
He said that nearly $100,000,000
of bonds were floated between 1917
and 1930 to mechanize the industry,
and added that official figures from
the interstate commerce commission
would show that the cost of carrying
telegrams had increased as a result
of "mechanization."
F. C. Burton, president of the
Association of Western Union Em
ployes, a company union, said his
organization was in favor of the pro
posed merger provided that protective
provisions were included in the law.
He virtually repeated the apprehen
sions of a Western Union Company
witness that unemployment would re
sult as a lesult of the merger.
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VOL. XXXIV. No. 36 HAMILTON, OHIO, FRIDAY. DECEMBER 14,1934
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By A. F. of L. News Service.
Akron, Ohio.—Fighting strenuously
against holding an election among em
ployes to designate representatives
for collective bargaining, the B. F.
Goodrich Company and the Firestone
Tire and Rubber Company filed an
action in the U. S. Circuit Court of
Appeals in Cincinnati asking that the
election ordered by the National La
bor Relations Board be set aside. Fil
ing of the petitions automatically
stays the order of the labor board,
which set the election for December
7, pending a hearing by the court.
Meantime, over 2,000 members of
the Goodyear local of the United Rub
ber Workers' Union met and voted to
ask the National Labor Relations
Board to abolish what they term an
"inside union" fostered by the Good
year Tire and Rubber Company,
which the company calls its
"industrial assembly." The action
was taken as an amendment to
the union's plea for a collective bar
gaining election, according to John
House, union president.
At Barberton, Ohio, nearby, union
employes of the Seiberling Rubber
Company voted to refer to the labor
board the management's reported re
fusal to negotiate a wage and hours
agreement. V. E. Atkins, factory
manager, told the union the company
could "see no good in a signed agree
ment at this time."
Companies Breed Social Unrest
William Green, president of the A.
F. of L., issued a statement regarding
the action of the Goodrich and Fire
stone rubber companies.
"Apparently these rubber cor
porations are determined that la
bor shall not under any circum
stances engage in collective bar
gaining in accordance with the
spirit and letter of Section 7-A
of the national recovery act,"
President Green stated.
"Labor won Its fight for collective
bargaining when it prevailed upon
congress to include Section 7-A in the
national recovery act. It won again
when congress responded to its re
quest to enact Resolution No. 44 pro
lective bargaining when the National
Labor Board. It won its fight for col
lective bargaining with the National
Labor Relations Board granted labor's
request for an election for the pur
pose of allowing the rubber workers
to select their own bargaining agency
and representatives of their own
choosing to engage in collective bar
gaining.
"The Goodrich and Firestone cor
porations attempt to deny labor the
exercise of these rights, which it has
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Rubber Companies Fight Election
President Green Denounces Tactics
won in every court set up under our
free democratic institutions.
"The attitude of the Goodrich Tire
and Rubber Company and the Fire
stone Tire and Rubber Company is
contrary to sound public policy.
Their attitude can only be interpret
ed as a challenge to government and
orderly processes in the settlement of
industrial disputes. Certainly they
are not co-operating with labor and
with the government in the promo
tion of industrial peace and national
recovery.
"Such defiant action on the part
of corporations to constituted au
thority and orderly processes
serves to breed social unrest and
industrial discontent.
"Labor will insist, through the util
ization of its full moral and economic
power, upon the decision of the Na
tional Labor Relations Board that an
election be held among the employes
of the Goodrich and Firestone rub
ber companies being carried into
effect."
LABOR ASKS
Thirty-Hour Week Under
Oil Industry Code
Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—-Modi
fication of the petroleum code to pro
vide the 30-hour week with no reduc
tion in pay was demanded by Presi
dent William Green, of the American
Federation of Labor, President Har
vey C. Fremrning, of the International
Association of Oil Field, Gas Well
and Refinery Workers and other labor
representatives at a hearing before
the Petroleum Labor Policy Board,
"The shorter week must be inaug
urated," Green said, "to give re-em
ployment to thousands of jobless oil
workers. The question is a challenge
to the good faith and integrity of the
petroleum industry."
Charges that major oil companies
were violating labor provisions of the
code were made by representatives of
the union, who cited instances of code
violation in the oil fields of Califor
nia, Texas and Oklahoma.
"California oil workers have been
beaten out of some $5,000,000," as
serted Vice President Jvd. Coulter, of'
Los Angeles.
''In the Los Angeles basin, com
panies promote wells with little or no
financial backing. They rent derricks
and tools on a percentage basis, pay
workers $2 a day, and promise them?
another $2 in oil, but the oil money
never is forthcoming. We figure work
ers have about $6,000,000 due them.'*
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Washington.—The Petroleum La
bor Policy Board has been asked to
hear spokesman for 80,000 oil workers
in a demand that labor provisions of
the oil code be re-written.
Harvey C. Fremrning, president of
the International Association of Oil
Field, Gas Well and Refinery Work
ers, insists that there is need for
establishment of a 30-hour work week,
to replace the 36-hour week now in
effect, without reduction of pay.
The union wants establishment also
of 60 cents an hour as the minimum
wage for labor, regardless of geo
graphical areas, and requests setting
up a five-man board in the oil admin
istration to handle labor problems.
LAWYERS STRIKE
Bucharest, Roumania.—Five thou
sand attorneys, comprising practically
the entire Bucharest Bar Association,
went on strike here December 4,
against a recent order of the gov
ernment increasing court fees. Pick
ets were selected to picket the various
courts!
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NEWSPAPER GUILD
Quits Hearing on
Amendments
The amendments before the hearing
would establishe under the code a
work week ranging from 40 hours
in citie3 over 50,000 population to 48
hours in cities and towns of fewer
than 25,000. Additional huors may be
worked in emergencies if compensat
ed by off time. The wage amendment
specifies minimums ranging from $25
a week for news workers in anw city
over 750,000 population to $12 per
week in any city or town of less than
26,000.
"We are withdrawing now," Broun
continued, "because of the extraordi
nary action of NRA in forcing re
opening of the Jennings case. On
Monday the guild had won.
"On Tuesday we learned the case
has been reopened. At whose re
quest? Not at the request of the
guild or Mr. Hearst, the two inter
ested parties, but at the request of the
acting general counsel for the NRA."
"When and If NRA purges itself,"
Broun continued, "we will return.
We will charge definitely that on this
occasion and several former ones,
NRA has allowed itself to be terrified
by the publishers.
"We are going back to the picket
line in Newark, where guild members
called a strike on the Newark, N. J.,
Ledger."
Athens, Ohio.—Credited with hav
ing aided the organization of the
United Mine Workers of America and
remaining a membear until death,
Michael P. Collins died here recently
at the age of 83.
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Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—In pro
test against reopening of the case of
Dean S. Jennings, former San Fran
cisco Call-Bulletin editorial employe,
by the National Labor Relations
Board, representatives of the Amer
ican Newspaper Guild withdrew from
an NRA hearing on amendments to
the newspaper code, fixing maximum
working hours and minimum wages
for editorial workers.
The labor board found that the
Call-Bulletin had violated Section 7-A
of the recovery act, and ordered the
paper to reinstate Jennings, who
charged he was forced to resign his
job because of opposition to his activ
ities in the Newspaper Guild.
Guild representatives at the code
hearing charged that NRA had been
"terrified" by the newspaper pub
lishers.
Heywood Broun, guild president,
obtained recognition when NRA divi
sion administrator, Jack Tait, open
ed the hearing Broun withdrew his
own appearance and that of all other
guild representatives.
"We had come," he said, "prepared
to show you that on the average an
American newspaper man must work
for 20 years before he achieves a sal
ary of $40 a week, and the fictitious
quality of the publishers' proposals
which, when translated into dollars,
mean no contribution to re-employ
mentor additional purchasing power."
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