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Washington, D. C., (ILNS).—Or
ganized labor again is solidly back
of the Birthday Ball for the Presi
dent.
The Ball, a national event, will be
held on the night of the President's
Birthday, January 30.
President William Green of the
American Federation of Labor, has
telegraphed his acceptance of mem
bership on the national committee.
Col. Henry L. Daugherty, chairman
of the national committee, wired in
vitations to membership to President
Green and a group of others repre
sentative of organized labor.
President Green's wire of accept
ance said:
4I most cheerfully respond to
your request to serve on the na
tional committee for the Birthday
Labor Joins Birthday
Ball For President
Ball for the President. Because
of my sympathy with the noble pur
pose for which this national com
mittee is formed I esteem it a pri
vilege and pleasure to serve.
Harvey C. Fremming, president of
the Oil Field, Gas Well and refin
ery Workers and John P. Frey, pres
ident of the A. F. of L. Metal Trades
Department, also have accepted mem
bership. Others are expected to re
ply shortly.
President Fremming said in wiring
his acceptance:
"I shall be happy to associate my
self in any way which may be con
sidered helpful in connection with
CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATIONS
The United States Civil Service
Commission has announced open com
petitive examinations as follows:
Associate metallurgist (recovery),
$3,200 a year, associate metallurgist
(physical), $3,200 a year, assistant
metallurgist (recovery), $2,600 a
year, assistant metallurgist (physic
al), $2,600 a year. Optional branches
are: Ferrous, nonferrous, and ore
dressing.
Principal medical officer (Bacillin
Calmetto-Guerin), $5,600 a year, In
dian Service at large, Interior Depart
ment.
Director, Division of Maternal and
Child Health, $6,500 a year, Director
Crippled Children's Division, $6,500
a year, Children's Bureau, Depart
ment of Labor.
Farm Agent, $1,800 a year, Indian
Field Service, Interior Department.
Separate registers of eligibles will be
established as follows: General farm
ing, stock raising under range con
ditions, irrigation farming, and dry
farming.
Certain education and experience are
required for these positions.
Full information may be obtained
from Stanley B. Kimble, Secretary of
the U. S. Civil Service Board of Exam
iners, at the post office or custom
house in this city.
Machinists In Dispute
With Printing Press Firm
Washington, D. C. (ILNS).—The
Regional Office of the National Labor
Regulations Board has reported the
satisfactory settlement of all points
at issue between the Duplex Printing
Press Company and Lodge No. 46,
raising of funds in the drive to re
duce the scourges of infantile para
lysis to a minimum. The high pur
poses for which this committee is
organized should command the act
ive and financial support of the peo
ple of this country. You are en
titled to the highest commendation
for your unselfish work on behalf of
those less fortunate ones."
Proceeds of the Ball this year will
be divided as follows:
Thirty pelr cent to the Warm Springs
Foundation for the treatment of in
fantile paralysis victims.
Seventy per cent to the communi
ties in which the money is raised, for
after-care treatment.
The Birthday Ball for the President
originated two years ago, with labor
playing a leading role in its success.
More than a million dollars went to
the Warm Springs Foundation as a
result. The fund was presented to
the President at the White House.
Last year 35 per sent of the pro
ceeds went to finance a national com
mission for research into the causes
of infantile paralysis, in a great ef
fort to find and develop a cure. The
remainder of the money remained in
the various communities, where it has
accomplished tremendously helpful
results in the war against infantile
paralysis.
Both years brought labor participa
tion into action on a national basis.
Similarly enthusiastic participation is
expected this year.
International Association of Machin
ists, with victory for the union.
The union had filed a petition ask
ing that the Board certify it as rep
resenting the majority of the employ
ees. Also the Regional Board had is
sued a formal complaint against the
company charging interference with
the employees' rights to organize and
discrimination against union em
ployees.
The company agreed in the settle
ment to accept a certification of the
union as the representative of the
majority of its employees in the unit
involved, and agreed to reinstate all
employees alleged to be discriminated
against and to pay back pay for the
period of time that they lost as a
result of such discharge.
Women Workers Victimized
By Canadian Wage Board
By A. F. L. New« Service.
SATURDAY SPECIALS
Eoronto, Ontario, Can.—It was an
nounced at the Ontario Parliament
buildings here than an amendment per
mitting employers to pay lower wages
to working women than are paid to
men had been put into the Ontario
cloak and suit wage and hour agree
ment.
Pure Lard 2 lbs. 29c
Spareribs 2 lbs. 35c
Oysters 18c pt. 35c qt. $1.40 gal.
CHICAGO MARKET CO.
Corner Front and High Streets Telephone 4506
Overhaul
that Truck, Tractor, Stationary Engine or
Delco Plant
Now.
PARTS AND PARTS SERVICE at
The new rule, the statement said,
will permit employers to pay skilled
women operators minimum wage rates
20 per cent below the skilled male op
erators. In the semi-skilled grades,
the women's wages can be 10 per cent
less than the men's.
A saving clause declares that equal
wages shall be paid to men and women
when both turn out equal production
It was announced that an identical
wage agreement had been made in the
province of Quebec.
Savage Auto Supply Co.
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Louisville, Ky. (ILNS).—In a
sweeping decision hailed by labor all
over the nation as a big jolt to reac
tionary employing interests, Judge
Elwood Hamilton in the Federal Dis
trict Court held the Guffey coal act
constitutional.
Judge Hamilton's decision was the
first complete ruling on the validity
of the Guffey Act. Nineteen coal com
panies challenged the act, asking court
action to stay the operation of the
measure. The decision said:
1. Congress has power to regulate
wages and prices of any industry
which Congress may conclude bears
on interstate commerce.
2. The courts are powerless to re
view such a conclusion if any facts
support it.
3. The Federal government can act
whenever the states fail or are help
less to act Federal authority under
the interstate commerce and general
welfare clauses of the Constitution
will sustain the legislation.
Under the ruling, soft coal compan
ies must submit to the act or pay a
tax of 12 1-2 per cent on output. An
appeal was noted. Judge Hamilton
left the 19 companies in the case free
Individual Agreements
Increase In Silk Strike
By A. P. of L. Newa Service.
Patterson, N. J.—The American
Federation of Silk Workers announced
that it would continue negotiations for
individual settlements with several
manufacturing concerns here, where a
strike of 8,000 broad silk workers has
been in effect for some time.
Twenty-five large shops out of the
600 whose employes are on strike have
signed agreements since the strike be
gan, union officials said.
Employers as a group have so far
tenaciously refused to settle the dif
ferences with their workers, although
it is said that a number of manufac
turers have expressed a willingness to
negotiate. The union is seeking a rate
of $1.94 per 100,000 picks, which is re
garded as reasonable.
Union officials state that any em
ployer wishing to settle strikes at
their respective plants will be given
opportunity to do so. However, picket
lines will not be withdrawn from any
shop until a contract is signed.
Farmers Paid $71,612,000
In Two Months By AAA
By A. P. of L. News Service.
Washington, D. C.—Farmers in the
United States received $71,612,285 in
benefit payments from the Agricultur
al Adjustment Administration during
July and August, according to an of
ficial announcement here.
For the first two months of the fis
cal yfear total AAA expenditures
reached $89,111,906. It was estimated
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[J On the Right Side of the Ledger
Act Ruled Valid
In Federal Court
to operate without penalty on equal
terms with submissive companies un
til the constitutional issue is settled.
Judge Hamilton said: "Things
standing alone do not affect the hap
piness or welfare of the people, but
when combined produce political
and social disaster. Keeping this
principle in mind, the mining of coal
may not affect interstate commerce,
but combined with the work of the
miner, the transportation and mar
keting thereof may become inter
state commerce in its entirety."
The court declared further that to
say coal mining "is not affected with
the public interest is simply to ignore
the facts."
The court blamed disordered condi
tions for poverty in the coal fields,
which placed a relief burden on the
taxpayers, and added:
"Not only the economic, but the po
litical future of the United States is
greatly concerned with the condition
of the mining industry. No people
ever feel the want of work or the
pinch of poverty for a long time with
out reaching out violent hands against
their political institutions,"
that processing tax collections, from
which the benefits are paid, would total
$12,820,863, compared to $39,906,447
collected in August, 1934.
Benefits and rental payments in the
two months of July and August were
divided as follows: Coin-hogs, $35,
399,954 wheat, $13,247,251 sugar,
$10,033,078 cotton,$8,351,244 tobacco,
$2,134,065 rice, $2,446,689.
Swope Wants Job Insurance
Cost Collected From Labor
By A. F. of L. News Service.
New York, N. Y.—Gerard Swope,
president of the General Electric Com
pany, criticized the social security
legislation enacted by the first session
of the Seventy-fourth Congress at a
reunion luncheon of the War Indus
tries Board here.
Mr. Swope was especially severe in
his attack on the unemployment in
surance section of the Social Security
Act because the tax to finance it "is
levied entirely upon the employer."
Although it is generally admitted
that the millions of unemployed in
America are in their helpless position
because employers have substituted
machinery for the labor of men and
women, Mr. Swope insisted that the
workers, who are in no way responsible
for the anti-social employment policy
to those who own and control business,
should be assessed to pay a portion of
the cost of their insurance, which pol
icy, he said, has been adopted in every
other country in the world except the
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Today's short story: Hogs soar
housewives sore.
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Why bargain collectively and buy
separately These two great forces
should act together.
A Union worker's first duty is to
buy Union-made goods. His second
duty is to urge, his friends to buy them.
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AUXILIARY HAS
2 UNION LABELS
Bjr A. P. of L. Newa Service.
Washington, D. C.—The Christmas
Seal authorized by the recent conven
tion of Woman's International Aux
iliary to the International Typograph
ical Union to provide funds for the
establishment of a home for aged
members of the Woman's International
Auxiliaries throughout the United
States and Canada has the honor of
carrying two union labels.
The seal is the size of a postage
stamp, with the name of the organiza
tion across the top. The words Christ
mas Greeting" appear in the center,
and the Allied and Printcraft union
labels are in the lower corners.
The home for the aged women will
be located in Denver Colo.
Mrs. Mary Ball, chairman of the
Home Fund Christmas Seals, said the
•great value of the seals is the fact that
they are made under union conditions.
They should be bought, she declared,
by "union members and union-earned
money."
The seals are sold like the tubercu
losis and Red Cross seals and at the
same rate, $1 per sheet. They may be
obtained from the Washington head
quarteds of the Home Fund Christmas
Seals, 114 Street S. E.
When an article has the union la
bel, you may be sure that it is "just
as advertised."
Wouldn't it be glorious and grand if
the 100 per cent Americans bought
only American-made goods!
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Buying articles with Union Labels
on them is the best guarantee that the
money spent for them will return to
the American Workers pay envelope.
Stop the pocket-picking racket of
chiselers by adopting the pay-envelope
filling process of buying under the
Union Label, Shop Card and Button.
Workers will receive the full share
of what they produce when they or
ganize and buy their own Union-made
products.
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