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Boston (ILNS)—A drive is being
sponsored to i-etain in Massachusetts
industries considering removal out
side the state. Directing and orig
inating the campaign is James T.
Moriarty, of Boston, state commis
sioner of labor and industries and a
veteran in the ranks of organized
labor.
Commissioner Moriarity has ordered
all employes of his department to col
lect and report to him data regarding
contemplated or considered transfers
of manufacturing firms and individ
uals. The staff of the department has
been picking up information since this
order was given, and submitting re
ports to Mr. Moriarity. He then, with
other executives of his department,
confer with the executives of the
firms named in the reports, in an ef
fort to change the attitude of the
manufacturers if decision has already
been made in f^vor of a change, or
convincing those "on the fence" that
it would be to their economic advan
tage to stay in the Bay State. Ad
vantages cited by Moriarity in these
conferences are (1) reduced taxation
on industrial plants passed this year
by the Massachusetts house and sen­
Massachusetts Seeks
To Keep Industries
From Leaving State
WIDESPREAD
Labor Aid Pledged to Roose
velt
Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—Work
ers in 92 crafts and trades and offi
cials of 47 international unions have
joined labor's Non-Partisan League to
the league's single objective for 1936,
the re-election of President Roose
velt, George L. Berry .president of
the league, announced here.
Three international unions, the'
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of
America, the International Alliance
of Theatrical Stage Employes and
Motion Picture Machine Operators
and the Cap and Millinery Workers
International Union, have voted pub
lic resolutions as a unit, pledging
their organization memberships to the
league's 1936 plank.
"This response indicates that up to
this time, we have members in 84
per cent of the trade unions of Amer
ica," Major Berry explained.
Every holder of a membership card
in Labor's Non-Partisan League is
pledged to vote for President Roose
velt this November.
Tabulations of the membership
roster show a pronounced spreading
geographically as well as numerically
"Every state in the Union, includ
ing the Canal zone and the Territory
of Hawaii, is represented," Major
Berry pointed out.
Remington Strike Suit
Goes to Federal Court
Middletown, Conn. (ILNS)—On ap
plication of the union's attorney, the
$100,000 damage suit and injunction
proceedings brought by Remington
Rand, Inc., against unions of workers
employed in its plant here was trans
ferred to the United States District
Court in Connecticut superior court
by Judge John F. Booth.
The decision came after an all-day's
hearing, when Attorney Cornelius Dan
aher, representing the workers, filed
a petition contending the action was
beyond jurisdiction of Connecticut
courts because the company was
Delaware corporation and the workers
were Connecticut residents. With the
case now clear of state courts the
temporary injunction granted the com
pany limiting union pickets to ten in
number was nullified. About 1,400 un
ion workers have been on strike for
several weeks.
One hundred cents of every union
earned dollar should be spent for 100
per cent union-made goods.
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ate, (2) efficiency of transportation
facilities claimed for the state, (3)
presence of a large volume of highly
skilled labor.
Before being appointed commis
sioner of labor and industries
Moriarity was very active in the
American Federation of Labor, Mas
sachusetts State Federation of Labor
and the Boston Central Labor Union.
SUPREME COURT
Will Change Attitude, Wal
lace Thinks
Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—Henry
Wallace, secretary of agriculture,
is out with a new book called "Whose
Constitution?" with "An Inquiry into
the General Welfare" as a subtitle.
Mr. Wallace would rather see the su
preme court change its methods of
interpreting the constitution that go
to the trouble of a constitutional
amendment. He believes that the
court will see the light.
"I hold to this belief for two rea
sons," he writes. "First, because the
court has frequently changed its mind
the past second, because there
will be no acceptable alternative be
fore it.
"In at least 60 cases the supreme
court has definitely overruled its own
previous decision or decisions. In
four additional cases the minority
pointed out that the majority opinion
had the effect of overruling previous
decisions.
"In 14 cases the court, while not
definitely overruling a previous de
ision, so qualified the principle of
the prior case that it in fact was overr
uled. And in cases too numerous to
mention the court has handed down
decisions which can be reconciled with
earlier decisions only by the exercise
of a kind of involved legal reasoning
which to the modern scientific mind
seems an echo from the Middle
Ages."
Ethiopian Guerilla Warfare
Harries Italian Conquerors
Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—The
expected guerilla warfare in Abys
sinia was evidently well under way
before the Fascist censorship allowed
any news of it to come out. Marshal
Graziani, viceroy of Ethiopia, under
the Italian regime, had ordered the
demobilization of 100,000 Black Shirts
to show how complete the conquest
was. Within two days, he had to
countermand this order and put his
forces on a war footing again.
Twenty Italian aviators were am
bushed and killed at Jimma, and there
have been disturbances along the line
of the lone railroad leading to Addis
Ababa. This much is shown in the
dispatches which the censorship has
passed. But to bring 100,000 men
back under arms is a sure sign of
far more serious troubles than any
thing yet reported.
Cap and Millinery Workers
Board Supports Roosevelt
Coney Island, N. Y. (AFLNS)—The
general executive board of the Cap
and Millinery Workers' International
Union, in session here, adopted a reso
lution putting the union on record as
supporting President Roosevelt and
urged labor everywhere to back him
in November.
The board paid a high tribute to the
president for his efforts to introduce
new social concepts in government
and give them expression in social and
labor legislation vital to the interest
of the workers. It declared that la
bor owes to President Roosevelt
debt of gratitude for the hopes and
opportunities his administration has
opened to wage earners.
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To pay these people $200 a month
each Would take twenty-four billion
dollars a year. The committee's re
search shows that a 2 per cent sales
tax even in 1929 would have yielded
not more than nine billion dollars and
in 1934 the same tax would have
yielded around four billion dollars—
one-sixth of the sum required to
finance the Townsend pensions. On
the basis of business as in 1934, the
sales tax would have to be raised to
12 per cent to raise the required sum.
Sales Tax Big Burden on Workers
Sales taxes always are passed back
to workers or on to consumers
usually both. In either case, the
laboring man would have 12 per cent
—one-eighth—of his income taken
away from him- by lower wages or
higher prices or both. The commit
tee rightly says that this would spell
tragedy in the majority of American
homes.
That is quite the mildest possible
statement of the case. A "trans
actions tax" levied on groceries, for
instance, would be collected at least
three times—at the transfers from
producer to wholesaler, from whole
saler to retailer, from retailer to con
sumer. This would mean 26 per cent
instead of 12 per cent. The commit
tee holds that such a levy would be
utterly ruinous to business. Assured
ly, it would spell starvation j$-a large
proportion of wage earners-
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Spending. Plan Not Aid to Buying
Power
To the Townsend claim that the
forced spending of the entire pension
each month would speed up business*
the committee replies:
"This forced expenditure would not
increase the speed with which the
money would be spent. The income of
the great majority of people now is
spent almost immediately, under the
compulsion of economic necessity, for
food, clothing and rent. Old people
could not spend it any faster—eveii
under legal compulsion. Even in
the boom year of 1929, families rep
resenting 80 per cent of the non-farm
population saved less thsui 7 per cent
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VOL. XXXVI. No. 17 HAMILTON, OHIO, FRIDAY, JULY 31, 1936 ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR
Watching the Flyer Go Through
Twentieth Century Fund Report
Finds Townsend Flan Imposs
Committee Which Carefully Studied Proposal
Says It Would Place Too Great Burden On
Nation and Would Not Speed Up Business Or
Increase Purchasing Power.
By GEORGE L. KNAPP
Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—The
first objection which the committee on
old age security of the twentieth cen
tury fund, inc., finds to the Townsend
plan is a matter of arithmetic. Dr.
Townsend proposes to finance his pen
sions by a 2 per cent "transactions
tax," which really is just a sales tax.
But there are at least 10,000,000 citi
zens in this country over 60 years of
age and with incomes of less than $200
a month, all of whom would be eligible
for pensions under the Townsend plan.
of what they earned. The remaining
93 per cent was spent for current
necessities."
"Nor would this forced expenditure
increase or decrease purchasing
power," the committee goes on. "It
would merely take a substantial part
of the income now earned by people
under 60 and hand it to those over
60. The result of the plan, on the
basis of the present national income
and price level, would involve a re
distribution of income in which not
more than 10 per cent of the people
(those over 60) would receive one
half of the national income, while the
90 per cent who would have to sup
port the 10 per cent would receive
the other half."
Economic Security Must Be
Given Aged
It is hardly necessary to quote the
committee's analysis of the effect of
even a universal 2 per cent sales tax
on business, on employment, on the
whole national life. It is better to
give the thoughtful, kindly summing
up of the committee, thus:
"In exposing the fallacies of
the Towsend plan, the commit
tee has no intension of implying
that the crying need of the aged
for economic security in the
United States should not be met
as far as is humanly possible
within the limitations of our
economic system.
"The great problem before the
American people is to determine how
large a measure of economic security
can be given to the aged without tak
ing too much away from the rest of
us, or placing too great a strain upon
the entire fabric of American eco
nomic life upon which the whole
population—including the aged—de
depends for its existence.
$200 Monthly Pensions Are
Called Impossible
"It is obvious that anything like
$200 a month is utterly impossible
with our present economic machin
ery. On the other hand, it is equally
obvious that pensions which will be
paid under existing legislation are
not adequate, and that it should be
possible to pay larger amounts. To
this problem, the committee is giv
ing its earnest attention."
The report is signed by John
Andrews, chairman Grace Abbott
Frederic Dewhurst, Frank P. Graham
Helen Hall, M. Albert Linton, I.
Ornburn, and Evans Clark, secretary
•. The strongest union labor plank in
any economic platform is: "Demand
the union label, shop card. and but
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Fake Accident Racket
Uncovered in New York
New York, N. Y.(AFLNS)—The
new Accident Frauds Bureau here se
cured indictments against 18 men and
women, one of them an insurance
broker, on the charge of fraudulent
accident claims filed with insurance
companies. The indictments followed
an inquiry which revealed a wide
spread racket to collect insurance
benefits for accidents that either
never occurred or were grossly exag
gerated. Disreputable doctors, law
yers and claim agents, the probers
found, were in a general conspiracy
with fake claimants to frame up re
ports to insurance companies for
claims which were fraudulent.
Communist Hits Roosevelt
New York, N. Y. (AFLNS)—Earl
Browder, nominated by the communist
party of the United States as its can
didate for president, in his accept
ance speech here denounced President
Roosevelt and his administration for
subserviency to "reaction." He also
declared that the republican party
was opposed to the freedom and
prosperity of the American people
The convention nominated James W
Ford, a Negro leader fi-om Harlem-,
as the party's candidate for vice
president.
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CIO REFUSES
To Answer Dual Unionism
Charges
Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—The
committee for industrial organization,
composed of twelve unions, has re
fused to appear before the executive
council of the American Federation of
Labor to answer charges of dual un
ionism made by John P. Frey, presi
dent of the A. F. of L. metal trades
department. The committee was re
cently summoned by the executive
council to appear before it on Au
gust 3.
In a letter to President Green, of
the A. F. of L., John L. Lewis, chair
man of the CIO, said that the CIO
declines to submit to the jurisdiction
of the executive council and charged
that the proposed hearing was "wholly
unwarranted by the constitution of the
A, F. of L."
"The A. F. of L. constitution,"
Chairman Lewis further said, "pro
vides that expulsion of an affiliated
national or internationl labor union
can only take place at a regular A. F.
of L. convention and upon a two-thirds
roll call vote of the delegates. Sus
pension would disqualify the unions
affected from having any delegate
representation in the convention, and
in this case is intended to have the
effect of expulsion. The right to either
expel or suspend is declared in the
constitution to be 'in the American
Federation of Labor, and its action
must be taken in its regular conven
tion.
"The trial you threaten is plainly
intended to forestall action of the con
vention and foreclose its judgment in
a matter over which it alone has juris
diction."
In reply to the letter, President
Green said the statement was accept
ed as a refusal to meet with the ex
ecutive council on August 3 and
added:
"The right and power of the ex
ecutive council to act in the premises
and to deal with an emergency such as
never before existed with the Federa
tion of Labor, will be passed upon and
determined by the executive council
before any official decision is ren
dered."
Steel Campaign Begun
In Schwab's Bailiwick
Bethlehem,• Pa. (ILNS)—The steel
workers' organizing committee has
opened headquarters in this town,
sometimes called "Schwabsburg" and
"Graceville" from Charles M. Schwab
and Eugene G. Grace, heads of the
Bethlehem Steel Corporation. The
organizers have rented a vacant store
only two blocks from the headquarters
of the steel corporation, and put a
big sign over the door:
"Headquarters, Steel Organizing
Committee."
Company officials claim to be con
fident that their 11,000 employes in
this neighborhood will stick to the
company unions, and resist all persua
sion to go elsewhere.
You can't fit non-union round pegs
into union label square holes.
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