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Employers Pay Back Wages
Beet Sugar Workers
Gain
By Efforts of
Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—Agents
of the AAA are now circulating
through the sugar beet regions, ad
justing disputes between those who
own the lands on which sugar beets
are raised and those who do the rais
ing. Mostly, the matter is one of
getting the beet workers the back
pay which is still owing them from
the season of 1934.
The Costigan-Jones sugar act
championed through congress by
Senator E. P. Costigan, of Coloi-ado,
pays certain benefits to beet growers,
but makes it a condition of these
benefits that child labor shall not be
employed, and that reasonable rates
shall be paid the workers. Workers
and owners had to make their con
tracts before the law was passed,
although it was intended to sover the
season of 1934. The upshot was that
the owners paid a smaller sum than
was contemplated, and are being
asked to make up the deficit. Consid
erable progress is being made in this
direction but the total absence of
labor unions is a handicap, as always.
Two Working Periods
The sugar beet season is something
like that of corn. There is a very
busy time beginning in the spring,
and lasting until July. After the
last hoeing, some time that month,
beet field work ceases until around
the first of October. Only about 120
days are actually spent in the beet
fields, on an average but these days
are divided into two periods, sepa
rated by two months or more of idle
ness.
Beet workers are paid by the acre,
not by the day or hour. The minimum
wage agreed upon, which is consider
ably higher than the wage paid be
fore the AAA intervened, ranges
from $17.50 an acre in southern
Colorado to $21.50 in northern Wy
oming and southern Montana.
A grown worker, with some ex
perience, can care for about 10 acres
of beets. For the season's main work,
therefore, he gets a minimum of from
$175 to $215. As said before, it used
to be even less. This is supposed to
be compensation for four months of
actual work, spread over seven
months of time. In addition, the
worker is supposed to get a "habitable
house" and a "suitable garden plot."
He seldom gets housing that the
owner would think at all habitable
for himself.
Molders' Union Member
Appointed U. S. Judge
San Francisco (ILNS)—Union
molders are elated over appointment
of Superior Court Judge Michael
Roche to a judgeship of the district
federal court of northern California.
Judge Roche is an honorary member
of Local Union No. 164, International
Molders' Union of North America
Born in Ireland in 1878, Judge Roche
came to this country in the late 90's.
While working as a molder in Indiana,
he studied law and was admitted to the
bar. He came here in 1909 to prac
tice law, and was appointed assistant
district attorney. Later he became
judge in the superior court, where he
was serving when appointed to the
federal bench.
AAA
Agents
Obviously, no man can support
a family on such an income for
the year, and the chance to get
odd jobs in the intervals, never
good, vanished with the depres
sion. In Colorado, most of the
beet workers are unskilled Mex
ican laborers and it has come to
be taken for granted that they
shall go on relief almost as soon
as the season is finished. The
ideal labor force, from the own
er's point of view, is a large fam
ily, all those members work in
tha fields. Even with this family
labor, the annual wages ai*e be
low the subsistence level.
Several agents from the Children's
Bureau in the department of labor
are in the field, watching to see that
the anti-child labor provisions of the
contracts are obsreved.
PAYROLLS DP
155,000 More Workers
Found Jobs in August
Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—Manu
facturing industries of the United
States added 180,000 persons to their
payrolls between the middle of July
and the middle of August, Secretary
of Labor Perkins told the press rep
resentatives. The increase in manu
facturing wages in the same time was
$8,900,000 a week. Unfortunately, non
manufacturing industries in the same
time lost 25,000 workers and about
$900,000 in weekly wages leaving the
net i'ain 155,000 more workers and
$8,000,000 extra in the joint and sev
eral pay envelopes.
Out of 90 manufacturing industries
examined, 68 showed gains in employ
ment and 72 in payrolls.
Among the industries which showed
gains are blast furnaces steel works,
rolling mills, electrical machinery,
foundries and machine shops, and
saw mills. So far, the list is calcu
lated to cheer those economists who
think prosperity depends solely on
durable goods. But Secretary Per
kins immediately went on to the list
of industries which have gained in
jobs and pay envelopes knit goods,
silk goods, woolen and worsted goods,
men's clothing, women's clothing,
boots and shoes, book printing and
canning.
The Federal Advisory Council made
an encouraging report from a differ
ent point of view. While the Bureau
of Labor Statistics gives detailed
facts, the business men of the Ad
visory Council content themselves
with generalities. A member of the
Reserve Board who also belongs to
the council said the report is 'the
most optimistic summary of business
conditions since the depressiin be
gan."
There is a general rise in real
qstajte ac|tKvityy in Greases in farm
sales, and in retail trade. The stock
raising country reports satisfactory
prices and good feeding conditions
The grain crops are spotty.
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Generally.
rHE 15 UTLER COUNTY PRESS
Washington, D. C. (ILHS)—Wash
ington is still laughing and swearing
over the blatant announcement of the
so-called Liberty League that its spe
cial committee of 58 lawyers had
found the labor relations act uncon
stitutional. Laughing, because the
newspaper reporters who called to
hear the announcement cross-examin
ed the lawyers into a corner in jig
time. Cussing, because these lawyers
were hand-picked to speak the minds
of corporation mganates who are
fighting every reform* that gives la
bor a fair deal.
Fifty-eight lawyers signed the re
port. Forty-three have been checked.
With the exception of two or three
too obscure to be looked up, every
lawyer in the list is a corporation
lawyer, or is connected with firms in
corporation practice especially in
utility, steel and oil corporation prac
tice.
James M. Beck, former member of
congress, and Newton D. Baker, for
mer secretary of war, got a fee of
$35,000 from the Edison Electric In
stitute for writing an opinion that
declared TVA unconstitutional.
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Davis Utility Defender
John W. Davis, attorney for the
House of Morgan, wrote an opinion
for Cities Service holding the holding
company bill unconstitutional. Cities
Service was shown, in the Black in
vestigation, to have spent $100,000
fighting this bill. What part went to
Davis is not known.
Some of the Liberty League law
yers seem to have got a retainer from
every corporation in sight. Forney
Johnston, of Birmingham', Ala., is
listed as cousel for banks, insurance
companies, utilities, steel companies
and oil companies, besides a number
of unassorted corporations whose
names do not tell their story.
Charles R. Fowler, of Minneapolis,
has almost as wide a range of cor
porate clients and J. J. Heard, of
Pittsburgh, starting with jobs from
the Mellon interests, naturally raked
in everything else.
Lawyers' Arrogance Scored
"The Liberty League performance
has roused protest from all parts of
the country at the arrogance of cor
poration lawyers seeking to pass on
laws of the land," said Francis J. Gor
man, first vice president of the
United Textile Workers of America,
in commenting on the attack.
"The final summing up of the Lib
erty League committee is to the effect
that if a lawyer tells his client a law
is unconstitutional, that law ceases
to exist for that client from that
Keeping Their Eye on the Ball
Check on Lawyers Who Denounced Measure As
Unconstitutional in Report for Liberty League
Shows Beyond Doubt Objectors Spoke Mind
of Corporation Magnates and Big Business
ommittee of 58 Carefully
Picked to Assail Labor Act
moment. The idea that a lawyer can
set aside the law for a client is pre
postei'ous and so arrogant that it
must tear the last shred of suspicion
of genuine public interest and it cer
tainly leads toward the conclusion
that it is high time these gentlemen
were shorn of their status as 'officers
of the court.'
Former Head of Ohio
Labor Movement Dead
Columbus, Ohio (ILNS)—Organiz
ed labor is mourning the death of
William M. Morgan, of Newark, Ohio,
former president of the State Federa
tion of Labor, who recently resigned
to accept appointment as a member
of the Ohio industrial commission. He
died on September 17 while under
going hospital treatment for a heart
ailment. Funeral services were held
at his home in Newark.
Popular as a labor leader, Mr. Mor
gan served many years as a member
of the executive board of the Ohio
State Federation of Labor.
In addition to his service to the
state organization, Mr, Morgan was
at various times president of the New
ark Musicians' Union and president
of the Central Labor Union of that
city. He represented the Seventeenth
Ohio district in congress from. 1921
to 1931 when he was succeeded by
Charles West, of Granville, now as
sistant secretary of the interior.
Holds Business
Favors New Era
Washington, D. C. (ILNS) —Com
menting on the August employment
report of the Bureau of Labor Statis
tics, Secretary of Labor Perkins said
that a "substantial body of business
opinion favors resuscitation of the
NRA."
Miss Perkins said August employ
ment, according to the Bureau of
Labor Statistics, gained 155,000 work
ers. She refused to attribute the gian
however, to any industrial momentum
resulting from the NRA.
"Of course, important effects of a
program of business co-operation are
cumulative. However, you cannot un
scramble all the factors contributing
to employment gains," she said.
"Practically all the industrialists I
meet, regret the passing of the NRA.
They say we've got to have something
to replace it."
Miss Perkins said that naturally
there were many exceptions to this
view.
Take no stock in anything
does not bear the union label.
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MRS. ROOSEVET
Urges Women to Do Utmost
To Prevent War
Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—No
ocean is wide enough and no arma
ments strong enough to keep modern
wai-fare from a nation's door, Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt said at her first
press conference of the fall. She
dwelt at length on the dangers of
war, and urged women to put the full
force of their influence on the side of
peace.
"We have always been accustomed
to thinking that wars are fought
chiefly by young men, in isolated ter
ritories, on fronts, somewhere," Mrs.
Roosevelt said.
"That has come to an end. If you
had seen, as a friend of mine has
seen, children in England being taught
to use gas masks, you would know
that fighting is no longer confined to
any front.
"We think we are isolated by two
large oceans, but these oceans would
n't be a barrier for five minutes. We
are still a little more protected than
other nations, but we are drawing
closer every day.
"I quite agree with women who be
lieve we shouldn't disarm- as long as
other nations are armed. But what we
call defenses would be of little value
in the next war.
"Therefore, I think we should be
gin thinking whether we want to save
our civilization or ai*e willing to see
it destroyed by war.
"War destroys and destroys until
the final point is reached where there
is nothing left to destroy, and we have
to begin trying to build up again.
I cannot see why women, who are the
:al conservers of the race, don't see
this and expert pressure for peace."
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