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FRIDAY, JULY 31, 1936
EFFECTIVE STRIKE
PREVENTION
The gains which can be made when
peaceful methods of settling labor
disputes are accepted by employers as
well as by workers are shown by the
experience of the railroads.
There has not been a genuine rail
road strike since the railway labor
act was passed in 1926. The express
drivers of New York struck in 1928
without the authority of the union
representing the employes but the
dispute was settled by mediation
within 48 hours. Another disturbance
affected some employes on the Toledo,
Peoria and Western but it was so
little serious thatno emergency board
was appointed.
"But there has been no lack of labor
disputes in the railroad industry,'
says the National Mediation Board in
its annual report for the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1935. "It differs
from other industries only in that its
disputes are amicably adjusted with
the aid of agencies set up by the act."
First of these agencies is the Na
tional Mediation Board of three mem
bers. The board is the official peace
maker of the transportation indus
tryl It mediates between disputers
It. holds elections to determine the
proper representatives of the workers
in: negotiating with the companies
and the railroads accept the board's
certification.
In the fiscal year ending June 30
1935, the board settled 166 cases in
volving 117 different railroads. In the
fiscal year just closed, it did even
more, but details are not yet avail
able.
if industrial peace can be brought
to the railroads, by government
action, why not to steel, autos, ce
ment?
UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE
IN WISCONSIN
With continued attacks made by
subversives on the principle of un
employment insurance given tangible
form in the federal social security law
enacted by congress last year, it is in
teresting to note that unemployment
insurance legislation went into effect
in -Wisconsin the forepart of July
without any of the disruptive effects
on business in that state which would
have naturally resulted if the lamen
tations of the reactionary Jeremiahs
had any legitimate basis
The Wisconsin law affects approxi
mately 3,000 employers and brings
under its ope 40u,000 workers, who
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are eligible for benefits if they lose
their jobs and earn an average of
$1,500 a year or less.
Other states have placed unemploy
ment insurance laws on their statute
books since the enactment of the
federal law, but none of the benefits
proscribed are payable to the jobless
until next year or later. The benefits
under the Wisconsin law became ef
fective the first of July and gives that
state the honor of being the first one
with unemployment compensation leg
islation in complete operation.
The Wisconsin law was enacted in
1931, but because of the business de
pression the 2 per cent payroll tax lev
ied upon employers did not begin until
1934. These assessments, segregated
in separate reserve accounts, now
total $12,000,000. It is from this fund
that jobless workers will be compen
sated.
The minimum unemployment bene
fit is $5 a week. The minimum is in
creased to $10 for those whose full
time pay is $25 a week to $12.50 for
an average pay of $25 to $30 a week,
and to $15, the highest rate, for work
ers who normally are paid $30 a week.
The duration of the unemployment
compensation depends on how long
an employe has worked for his em
ployer after the probationary service
period prescribed by the law has ex
pired.
Unemployment insurance has been
advocated by the American Federation
of Labor for a number of years. The
operation of the Wisconsin law will be
watched with considerable interest by
organized labor and other progressive
movements.
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MECHANISM AND POPULATION
Increasing mechanization of indus
try in the United States has been
accompanied by an increasing num
ber of workers employed in industry.
But this increase in the number of
workers engaged has not been pro
portionate to the increase in popula
tion, as shown in the following tabu
lation, computed from data given in
the 1935 Statistical Abstract:
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Per cent of workers
Industry to total population
Manufacturing 7.1 7.3
Mining 0.78 0.7
Railways 1.35 1.4*
Farming 7.6 5.1
Totals 16.9 14.7
There has been a continuing shift
from these industries to those en
gaged in personal service, trade, and
the professions, where mechanization
is just beginning to show its effects.
The claim that improved machinery
increases the number of workers does
not hold good, according to labor's
view, in any application of the test
if it is compared with population in
creases during the same period. "La
bor-saving" machinery is intended to
save labor. It does just that. What
happens to the laborer is another mat
ter. Labor insists one necessary cor
rection lies in the shortening of the
work week.
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WHAT NEXT?
A development in fast asphalt road
building is now being used success
fully in Ohio. Trucks spread propor
tioned loads of gravel or crushed
stone, sand and asphalt on the road
The "walking pug-mill," a new ma
chine, mixes the aggregate where it
lies instead of requiring mixing in a
distant vessel and then spreading of
the aggregate on the road. The pug
mill levels off the surface, which is
smoothed by heavy rollers immediate
ly following. The road can be used
by heavy rollers immediately follow
ing. The road can be used for traffic
ten minutes after rolling, and it is said
from two to four miles of 20-foot pave
ment can be laid per day.
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WISDOM
Men are never so likely to settle
a question rightly, as when they dis
cuss it freely.—Macauley.
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The Cherry
I'll Wkoro with our
Y&P Uttlo Hatchet
wo toll the trath
about many thing*, sometimes pro
foundly, sometimes iippastly,
sometimes rocklsaalj. .......
What a world. It keeps on being
nothing else but.
Spain has a rebellion. The old re
actionaries can't win with votes or
argument so they start shooting.
Here at home Remington Rand
keeps on thinking thoughts just like
those of the Spanish grandees who
have lost their power.
A judge limits pickets to four at
a time.
And we do not know whether some
who planned to buy Remington Rand
office equipment have changed their
mind, after looking at the company's
policy.
There is strife in the land and a
good dead of it is in the interest of
economic public health.
In many a manufacturing plant the
private guards may right now be in
specting and cleaning the rifles and
stacking the gas bombs.
Shell oil (in California) is trying to
make a company union wear the look
of the real thing. It doesn't work, of
course. At Wood river another mem
ber of the same Shell family is doing
the grandee stunt.
Bourbonism dies hard, whether in
royal family or in another.
And labor sticks to its guns.
There are strikes that have been
on as long as six months and the
picket lines have been maintained
through every day of that time.
One new thing in the world right
now is the increasing militancy of
labor.
And business, more prosperous than
at any time in six years, doesn't know
why it is prosperous and is willing to
wring the neck of the maternal pro
ducer of the golden egg, which has
always been a goose to expect under
standing or any kind of decency from
big business.
And while the world rolls along
in its turmoil the new French gov
ernment nationalizes its munitions
plants, telling the world that muni
tions plants loot the very nations they
are supposed to protect, as if we didn't
know it.
But that's the trouble. WE know it,
but WE don't do anything about it.
And we even suffer the indignity
of a spectacle in which ADMIRALS
go into the halls of congress and
lobby FOR the munitions makers and
the shipbuilders, these two being all
in one family.
There are plenty of Americans
plenty of American workers, sad to
say, who serve reaction, in one guise
or another.
Some go down the river just for
fun, or in ignorance and some sell
themselves down the river for a price
a
What a world.
But it is a world trying to get bet
ter. The agony is terrible. The blun
ders are pretty terrible sometimes.
The battles are fearsome and the
losses are staggering.
But here and there gains are made
Strikes are won. The steel indus
try doesn't want to get too doggoned
swell headed.
Big business is lining up for a great
struggle which it hopes will smash
labor forever. That's fact. America is
in for something dramatic, something
profoundly important—as important
as the War for Independence, or the
War Between the States.
It might be a good Idea for the lords
and masters of Bourbonism to take a
look across the water before they
spend too much money on guns and
too much time in organizing mercen
ary legions.
Something tells us that the world
is going forward and America isn't
going to be at the tail end of the
parade.
N. Y. CONSTRUCTION GAINS
Albany, N. Y. (ILNS)—Employ
mtent in the construction industry
advanced for the fourth consecu
tive month. Industrial Commis
sioner JSlmer F. Andrews re
ports that percentage increases from
May to June amounted to 11 per cent
in employment, 10 per cent in pay
rolls and 12 per cent in man-hours
Highway contractors increased em
ployment by 38.7 per cent, general
building contractors by 7.3 per cent
miscellaneous general contractors by
6.9 per cent, and subcontractors by
2.6 per cent.
MEXICAN OIL WORKERS QUIT
Mexico City (ILNS)—Twelve thou*
sand workers struck at the southern
Vera Cruz camps of the Eagle Oil Co.
a subsidiary of the Royal Dutch Pe
troleum Corp. The strike was called
when the company
300 workers' demands.
WA
YOU'RE ANSWERED
'Darling, you were awfully late last
night. I'm afraid I'm dreadfully old
fashioned, but I should like to know
where you go."
"Certainly, mother, I dined wlflt—
oh, well, you don't know him, and we
went to several places I don't suppose
you've been to, and finished up at a
queer place with a French name—I
forget the name, but It's ou the Phila
delphia pike somewhere. It's all right,
Isn't it, mother?"
Of course, darling. It's only that I
just like to know."—Santa Fe Maga
zine.
SOUNDING
"Fishing?"
"Naw. I'm just trying to find out
Jf the water is deep enough to drown
the man that told me there was fish
ing In here."
First Disagreement
They were on their honeymoon, and
had just had their first disagreement.
Said he: "Perhaps I was a little
cruel."
"Yes, you were," she replied.
"I wasn't!" he said, in a hurt tone.
Then: "Well, look here, I'll say I was
cruel If you'll say I wasn't."
"Very well, peach blossom, you
weren't."
"Then I'm sorry If I was."—Tit-Bits
Magazine.
Something Misaing
Johnny was paying his first visit to
his uncle's farm. Among the animals
on the place was a small colt. As the
boy stood gazing at the animal, his
uncle said:
"Well, what do you think of him,
Johnny?"
"Why—why., he's all right," an
swered Johnny, "but where's his rock
ers?"—Indianapolis News.
More in Keeping
"What happened after you were
thrown out of the back entrance?"
"I told the fellow I belonged to a
very important family."
"So what?"
"He begged my pardon, asked me
In again, and threw me out of the
front door!"—Stray Stories Magazine.
The Right Point
tittle Susie (to her small brother)—
I heard papa calling you a while ago.
Brother—What did he say—Robert
or Bobby?
Susie—He said Robert
Brother—Then I guess I'd better go
and see what he wants.—Pathfinder
Magazine.
LOW TEMPERATURE
"So you went to the wedding. Was
the groom cool?"
"As cool as any man could be In
a dress suit with the mercury register
ing 100 In the shade.
Too MUCH
TO CAT- NO
EXERCISE
THAT'S JUST THE
TIME TO AIKAUZE
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*10 INDIGESTION
He felt a difTrent man next day.
Believed the Alka-Seltzer way.
Why don't you take Alka
Seltzer for Gas on Stomach,
Headache, Sour Stomach, Colds,
Muscular, Rheumatic or Sciatic
Pains?
Alka-Seltser haa a pleasant, refresh
ing, tanty taste. It contains an anal
feslo (Aretvl-Salicylate, a Sodium
alt of Aspirin) which relieves pain
and discomfort, while its vegetable
and mineral alkalizers help to cor
rect the cause of those minor ail
ments associated with hyperacidity
of the sfornach.
Your druggist sells Alka-Seltzer.
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Employment Gains in June
Usual Trend Is Downward
Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—In
stead of showing the usual seasonal
downward trend, employment in
creased during June and -gave jobs to
58,000 more workers in the manufac
turing and non-manufacturing indus
tries, the department of labor recently
announced.
'The increase in payrolls in these
combined industries continues the gain
which has been reported consistently
each month, since January," Commis
sioner Isador Lubin, of the Bureau of
Labor Statistics, reported to Secretary
Perkins.
Lubin's study estimated that ag
gregate weekly wages mounted nearly
1,100,000 in June over May.
Steel Co. Lobbyist
Uncle of Landon
Harrisburg, Pa. (ILNS)—The state
legislature's house journal has iden
tified William Mossman, Pittsburgh,
an uncle of Governor Landon, of Kan
sas, as a lobbyist for the Jones &
Laughlin Steel Co.
Representative Rueben A. Nagle
told the house that the Jones & Laugh
lin Company was a "little political
monarchy" in Beaver county. He said
the company forced its employes and
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The company has been cited by the
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charges of unfair labor practices and
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