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Pittsburgh, Pa.—Announcement was
made here of the signing of a new
agreement between the Aluminum
Company of America and Aluminum
Workers' Unions of the American
Federation of Labor to replace the
uni-lateral agreement in effect for the
past two years between the company
and this group of unions.
The aluminum workers' unions cov
ered by the agreement are No. 19104,
Alcoa, Tenn. No. 19737, Badin, N .C.
No. 18780, East St. Louis, 111. No.
19256, Massena, N. Y. No. 18332,
Logan's Ferry, Pa., and No. 18356,
New Kensington, Pa. Local Lodge
No. 541 of the International Associa
tion of Machinists of New Kensington,
Pa., is also covered by the agreement.
The important provision of the new
agreement lies in the fact that it is
the first bi-lateral agreement secured
with this company by the unions and
that the agreement provides for the
abolition of all foi*mer NRA code
hours above eight hours per day and
40 hours per week wherever possible
to establish this working schedule
within the plants of the company cov
ered by the agreement.
In a few continuous operations
departments exception to the straight
40 hours a week will be made in order
to provide that where there is rotation
of shifts no employe will have to work
more than eight hours in any one 24
hours when he changes shifts.
Time and a half will be paid for
all time worked beyond eight hours
per day and 40 hours per week as
well as for all work performed on
Sundays and holidays, under the pro
visions of the new agreement.
The agreement also provides a clari
fication of the seniority rule giving
preference to the older employe at
times of reduction of forces as well
as giving preference where new jobs
are created or vacancies occur in the
preferred or higher rated positions.
Arrangements have also been made
in the agreement for protection to the
employes of all provisions under the
Walsh-Healey public contracts act
and also any other federal or state
law that may be created which will
in any way affect the employes of the
Aluminum Company of America.
The agreement is a great advance
in collective bargaining over the for
mer agreement which was in effect, as
well as being the first agreement to be
signed by both the representative of
the company and representatives of
the unions.
The agreement was signed for the
Aluminum Company of America by
Mr. I. W. Wilson, vice pi-esident in
charge of operations. The committee
representing the unions, everyone of
whom also signed the agreement, were
as follows: Fred A. Wetmore and
Carl K. Greene, of Alcoa, Tenn. O. B.
Lackey, Badin, N. C. Eddie R. Stahl,
and Arthur H. Curtis, East St. Louis,
111. Oliver Moyes, Logan's Ferry,
Pa. Frank R. Meyers, Massena,
N. Y. Paul Howlett, John Haser,
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Aluminum Workers'Unions Gain
40-Hour Week in New Agreement
Time and One-Half Paid for Overtime—Seniority Pro
vided—Public Contracts Act Will Be Applied
W. B. Gravatt, William McCall,
George C. Hobaugh, Adolph R. Pres
ken, Clyde T. Holmes and Charles
Wyant, of New Kensington. These
all represented union of aluminum
workers directly affiliated with the
American Federation of Labor.
Local Lodge No. 541, International
Association of Machinists, of New
Kensington, Pa., was represented by
Thaddeus W. Buxton, who signed for
that union. David Williams, presi
dent of the National Council of Alum
inum Workers, acted as chairman
of the negotiating committee during
the conferences with the company and
signed the agreement for the council
and the American Federation of
Labor.
OBSERVERS WONDER
How Much More Hitler Tyr
anny Reich Can Stand
Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—
Ob
servers here are wondering just how
many more pieces of Hitler's freakish
tyranny Germany can stand without
an explosion.
Absolute as government control of
the press in Germany seems to Amer
icans, it doesn't satisfy Hitler. The
older editors of the chief German pa
pers—Tageblatt, Frankfurter Zei
tung, and the like, are scheduled for
dismissal—if not already ousted. The
places of these editors will be taken
by persons nominated by the propa
ganda ministry and their chief job
will be to find new ways ,of saying
"Heil, Hitler."
Taking capital or evidences of cap
ital out of the nation has been made
punishable with death. The perse
cuted Jew who tries to get to a more
civilized land is not allowed to take
any gold, stock, bonds or title deeds
with him. These must stay in Ger
many.
Every German boy or girl is to be
drafted into the Hitler "youth move
ment," and trained according to Hit
ler's ideas. Ominous growls on this
subject are already being heard from
Catholic Germans.
Berlin has lost even the slight de
gree of self-government which it pos
sessed before, and now is ruled by
a state official, named by Hitler, of
course. How long
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Chicago Coopers Gain High
Wage in Union Agreement
Chicago, 111. (AFLNS)—What is
said to be the highest rate of wages
received by coopers anywhere in the
United States has been gained as part
of a new agreement reached with the
Illinois Association of Breweries.
The agreement, won after exten
sive negotiations by Coopers' Union
No. 64, calls for a wage rate of
$1.07^6 per hour, the 40-hour week
and a union shop, the contractural
period extending to April 30,1938.
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American Industry
Economical System.
Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—The In
dustrial Conference sponsored by the
Council for Industrial Progress got
under way on December 10 at the
government auditorium on the Mall,
with Major George L. Berry presid
ing. Hefty delegations both from la
bor and from employers were present.
Major Berry read a greeting from
President Roosevelt and a radiogram
was received from Edward F. Mc
Grady, assistant secretary of labor,
saying in part:
"The activities in which I have been
engaged particularly for the past
three years have made me more cer
tain that the only effective procedure
to be followed in order to reconcile
and cure the maladjustments of our
industrial order is through co-opera
tion and joint effort. It seems to me
that your conference comprised as it
is of bonafide representatives of all
elements in industry has an unpar
alleled opportunity to suggest those
measures which are best calculated
to bring about endui-ing prosperity,
peefce and progress in our rapidly ex
panding industrial development."
Matthew Woll also sent, through
Major Berry, his regrets and regards
from the hospital where he is recov
ering.
Must Look to Home Market
Edward A. Filene, of Boston, point
ing out that while labor and manage
ment might be wide apart on some
matters, could certainly agree on oth
ers, said:
"We can agree, to begin with,
that business is at last reviving, We
can agree that we want it to do still
better and we can agree, I think, that
we don't want business to get out of
hand once more—that we don't want
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Held Best Method to Enlarge Market
Edward A. Filene Tells Industrial Conference
Social Insurance and Giving American Work
ers Incomes to Buy
Capacity Production of
Will Bring Dependable
another big boom followed by another
big collapse.
"In other words, we want a larger
market, but we want it a market upon
which we can depend."
There is no use, the speaker said,
of looking for such a market in Eur
ope. It would be too largely a market
for war goods.
Increasing Buying Power Vital
"American workers are different.
They want money, too but they want
it mostly because they want to buy
more things. They want about all the
things that we business men want
to sell them—things which we must
sell if business is to continue profit
able. If they had higher incomes, we
know that the money would not be
hoarded to any great extent nor
would it be used for the building of
war machines. It would be used for
the expansion of our market.
"If they had enough money to en
able them to buy the capacity output
of our American industries—and if,
meantime, there were such an ade
quate system of social insurance that
they would feel free to spend—we
would have not only a capacity mar
ket, but a dependable one.
"Building up our home market is
now our one big chance and the big
gest part of that problem is the build
ing up of mass buying power, through
removing wages from competition,
and basing wages, by fact-finding
methods, upon actual productivity."
Labor Legislative Program
President Green, of the American
Federation of Labor, outlined a four
point legislative program which he de
clared labor would insist upon at the
next session of congress.
The program:
Establishment of a pei*manent ad
visory economic council with equal
representation for labor, industry and
the public.
Full freedom of collective bargain
ing.
New minimum wage legislation for
women, elimination of child labor and
•general minimum standards for wage
earners.
30-hour work week providing five
ti-hour days to eliminate unemploy
ment.
JOB INSURANCE
LAWS APPROVED
Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—The
Social Security Board has approved
state unemployment insurance laws
of Pennsylvania and Connecticut,
wringing the number of states with
approval laws under the social secur
ity set-up to 19, including the
trict of Columbia.
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Win 8-Hour Day Agreement
Houston, Texas AFLNS—Furniture
Workers' Union (Federal) No. 19766,
chartered by the American Federation
of Labor, has secured a closed shop
agreement with the Texas Table
Company, which is regarded as a dis
tinct gain for the union.
Provisions of the contract include
the eight-hour day, 45-hour week and
wage adjustments, together with rec
ognition of seniority rights and other
advantages. The new agreement ex
tends to July 1, 1937.
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SIX STATES
Acting to Approve Unem
ployment Insurance Bills
Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—Six
states have called their legislatures
together in special session to pass a
security bill conforming to the fed
eral bill, so as to provide the work
ers of the state with unemployment
insurance.
The legislature of Connecticut pass
ed the i-equired bill the last night of
November, and Governor Wilbur L.
Cross signed it almost at once.
The Pennsylvania legislature was
called in special session on December
1. The bill may become a law by the
time this article is in type, and it may
hang on for a few days. That it will
be passed is certain.
The Oklahoma legislature has been
in session for some days on this sub
ject, and little doubt is expressed that
a suitable bill will be passed.
The Ohio legislature has met, con
sidered the subject, and recessed to
December 8. The Ohio law can be
looked for shortly after.
The Maryland legislature is called
to meet December 8 to consider this
kind of law.
New Jersey has held hearings. If
the commission named to draw up the
law agrees, it probably will pass the
legislature without much debate. If
a majority and minority report are
made, Governor Hoffman will send
both to the legislature, which meets
December 21.
People who claim to know what is
going on in the Old Dominion say that
the Virginia salons will meet in time
to get a law passed before the end
the year. No official statement has
Ix-en made.
Shoe Worker
Elected Mayor
Concord, N. H. (ILNS)—John F.
Conrad, who was recently elected
mayor of Rochester, N. H., is a vet
eran shoe worker. He was born 64
years ago at Calais, Me., on the in
ternational border. At the age of 10,
he went to work in the Calais shoe
factory. He was elected five times and
defeated once for the city council of
Rochester, his recent successful bid
for the mayoralty being his first for
that chair. He is employed as a heeler
in a Rochester shoe plant. Mr. Con
rad was the democratic candidate.
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