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Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—The
CIO has taken the first step toward
setting up state, city and local feder
ations of unions, where CIO unions
have been expelled from A. F. of L.
central organizations. A conference
in Washington of representatives of
the 13 CIO unions unanimously adopt
ed the following resolution:
"The executive officers of the
Committee for Industrial Organiza
tion ax'e authorized to issue certificates
of affiliation to national, international,
state, regional, city central bodies and
local groups whenever it is deemed
such action is desirable."
William Green, president of the
American Federation of Labor, stated
that he had predicted such action by
the CIO a year ago, when he and the
executive council of the A. F. of L.
declared that the Lewis Committee
for Industrial Organization aimed to
set itself up as a rival of the feder
ation.
CIO Objective Plain, Says Green
"It was clearly evident from the
beginning that this objective would
be reached," said Green. "By that
I mean that the CIO would reach
the point where they desired to func
tion as a rival to the American Fed
eration of Labor. You recall that the
executive council (of the A. F. of L.)
classified the CIO as a rival organiza
tion a year ago."
The resolution passed by the CIO
union representatives is the latest of
recent moves all tending to sharpen
the conflict between the union headed
by John L. Lewis and the unions
headed by William Green.
First, the Maryland State Federa
tion of Labor, acting on a letter re
ceived from Green, announced that
local unions affiliated with the 10 sus
pended CIO unions were not eligible
for membership in the state federa
tion. Mr. Green's letter had stated
that the A. F. of L. would not tolerate
support of dual or rival organization.
A. F. of L. Pushes Organization
Second, Mr. Green, after an all-day
conference with 50 organizers of A.
F. of L. unions from all parts of the
country, announced that organization
drives in several industries would be
intensified. He stated that the feder
ation had ruled that workers in steel
fabrication plants came under the
jurisdiction of the International As
sociation of Bridge, Structural and
Ornamental Iron Workers. The CIO
has been enrolling them in the ranks
of the Amalgamated Association of
Iron, Steel and Tin Workers.
Third, the meeting of CIO represen
tatives and the passage of the reso
lution quoted earlier.
CIO Drives Planned
The expectation in labor circles
is that the first state federation of
CIO affiliates will be formed in
Maryland, on account of the action
ruling these affiliates out of the A. F.
of L. city central labor bodies are
likely to come first in Cleveland and
Columbus, Ohio. In Cleveland, the
city central labor organization has
ruled the CIO uniions out of affiliation,
and the A. F. of L. has canceled the
charter of the central body of Colum
bus.
Lewis stated in giving out the reso
lution of the CIO unions that his or
ganization will take action only in
cases where the A. F. of L. has acted
first.
Two special committees have been
created by the CIO to make organiza
tion drives in two industries.
Textiles and Oil on List
The Textile Workers Organizing
Committee, aiming to bring into the
United Textile Workers, a CIO un
ion, at least a majority of the more
than a million worke/s in the textile
industry, is headed by Sidney Hillman
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Lewis Committee Acts to
Charter Own Labor Bodies
Officers Authorized to Issue Certificates of Affiliation
Where Deemed Desirable—Move Proves A. F. of L.
Charge, Green Says.
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It is planning to send organizers into
the field to enroll in 24 states woi'kers
in cotton, silk, rayon, wool, hosiery,
dyeing, rugs and upholstery.
The oil and refinery workers' cam
paign will be carried on by a petroleum
organizing committee, composed of
Charles P. Howard, president of the
International Typographical Union
Philip Murray, vice pdesident of the
United Mine Workers, and Harvey C.
Fremming, president of the Oil Field,
Gas Well and Refinery Workers of
America.
The CIO will also give moral and
financial support to the Industrial
Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of
America, a union classified by the
A. F. of L. as the rival of its metal
trades department. There are said to
be 100,000 eligible shipyard workers,
only a fraction of whom are organized.
PAY OF WOMEN IN
N. Y. LAUNDRIES
Dropped After Supreme
Court Ruling
Albany, N. Y. (ILNS)—Slight but
"significant" decreases in wages and
increases in work hours per week took
place in the laundry industry of New
York state within four months of the
invalidation of the minimum wage
law by the United States Supreme
Court, State Industrial Commissioner
Elmer F. Andrews announced here.
He based his statement upon a report
by the labor department's division of
women in industry and minimnum
wage.
The changes in hours and wages
are disclosed in payroll reports for
the week ending October 31, 1936,
made by 1,988 laundries out of a total
of 2,031. Analysis of these payrolls
shows signs of business improve
ment in the laundry industry since
median weekly hours of employes
have increased by approximately one
per cent and the number of employes
has increased 5.2 per cent over No
vember, 1935. According to M. R.
Weiser & Co., certified public ac
countants, the volume of business for
New York laundries for the week end
ing October 31, 1936, inci*eased 7.1
per cent over the same week in 1935,
while retail prices for laundry service
remained stationary.
"Despite these favorable signs,"
the labor department says, "the
payroll survey for October, 193G,
as compared with November,
17935, revealed a decrease in the
median hourly wage rate for
laundries of nearly one per cent.
"In those reports received from fac
tories which separately report pay
rolls for women workers, an increase
of 6.2 per cent is shown in the aver
age weekly earnings of these work
ers. These workers represent women
in all industries, including laundries
Their wage increases are due in part
to increases in hours worked per
week. But in the laundry industry,
while the median work week of
women and minors increased by 18
minutes, the median weekly wage not
only failed to increase pro rata nine
and one-half cents but decreased two
cents—an actual decrease of median
weekly wage rate of 11 and one-half
cents, or not quite one per cent."
TAXI MEN SEEK TO JOIN CIO
Chciago (ILNS)—Striking Chicago
taxi drivers have petitioned the CIO
to accept tfieir newly formed Midwest
Tax cab Drivers' Union. They have
also wired the La Follette senate
committee to investigate the use of
spies and "company-hired thugs" in
attempts to break their strike.
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Federation to Push Intensive Drive in Steel Fabri
cation, President Green Declares—John P.
Frey Confers on Organization With Carnegie-
Illinois Company Uiron Representatives.
Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—Two
dramatic events featured the recent
labor news of Washington. President
William. Green, of the American Fed
eration of Labor, announced that a
drive would be made to enroll men en
gaged in steel fabrication plants in
the International Union of Bridge
Structural and Ornamental Iron
Workers and John P. Frey, head of
the metal trades department, accept
ed an invitation from the grievance
committtee of the Carnegie-Illinois
company union at Pittsburgh to meet
with them in a "conference which may
be of mutual benefit." Frey left for
Pittsburgh on March 9.
Mr. Green's announcement came
after an entire day spent in discuss
ing plants with 50 organizers from all
parts of the country. Green, saying
that he had nothing startling to an
nounce, told of his plan:
"I want to make it clear that the
fabrication plants come under the
jurisdiction of the iron workers
union," he said. "The American Fed
eration of Labor wants to see these
workers organized in bona fide unions
The steel should be fabricated in
union plants as well as erected by
union workmen. We will support all
efforts to organize these fabrication
workers into the iron workers union."
Intensive Campaign Promised
Asked if there had ever before been
a dispute between the iron workers
and the Amalgamated Association of
Iron, Steel & Tin Workers, for which
the Committee for Industrial Organi
zation is pulling, Green answered that
he did not recall any prior to the
protest recently filed by the iron
workers that the CIO had invaded its
jurisdictional rights.
"We shall put a definite and in
tensive organizing campaign in the
fabrication plants of the industry,"
said Mr. Green.
He went on to show that this
was by no means the sole activity
of the A. F. of L. The cement
workers in particular were being
organized rapidly into "bona fide"
unions. He said that much was
being done in other industries.
"Cereals are organized," he re
plied to a question and to other
questions answered that filling
station employes were being rap
idly enrolled.
The invitation to Frey to meet with
the company unions in Pittsburgh
came up early in Green's press con
ference. At that time, Frey had not
accepted. Questioners reminded Green
that he had refused to have anything
to do with company unions and asked
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him if Frey were going to accept.
He replied that he supposed the com
pany union had asked Frey on a dif
ferent basis from the invitation to
himself and that Frey would be act
ing entirely within his rights, what
ever he decided to do.
Federation to Fight
The subject kept coming up, and
Green said that he saw no reason
why members of a company union
should not come into a "bona fide"
union if they chose. The CIO had
been taking in company unions, bod
ily, he said, and why should not the
A. F. of L. do it?
While issuing no formal declaration
of war, Mr. Green made it clear that
the federation will fight for a share
in the organization of the mass pro
duction industries.
Frey made it clear that he was go
ing to conference with the company
union men very thoroughly on guard
Frey "To Talk Things Over"
"All I told them was that I would
meet with them,*' Frey said. "I do
not yet know their problems, but 1 do
know our form of organization, and I
shall make it clear to them. I said,
'I will sit down at the table with you,
and talk things over.'
Frey, as head of the metal trades
department, is in a somewhat differ
ent position from that of Green in
dealing with the company unions.
Also, the grievance committee, which
extended the invitation to Frey, has
received authority from a vote in the
council of company unions to form an
American Union of Steel Workers.
Anti-Lynching Bill
Offered in Congress
Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—A fed
eral anti-lynching bill, similar to that
sponsored unsucessfully for several
years by former Senator Costigan, has
been introduced by Senators Wagner
and Van Nuys.
In a joint statement, Wagner and
Van Nuys explained the program
would provide punishment for any
legal officer "whose negligence leads
to his custody." It would levy a fine
of from $2,000 to $10,000 against any
political subdivision "which fails to
protect and give fair trial to those
suspected or accused of crime."
'Sit-Down" Stops
Chrysler Plants
Detroit (ILNS)—Within two hours
jof the refusal of the Chrysler Corpora-
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tion managers to make the United
Automobile Workers of America the
sole agency for collective bargaining,
sit down strikes had closed the Chrys
ler plants in this district, extended
to the Hudson plant, and stopped the
work of about 85,000 men.
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FOR VV0RK1NGMEN
O God, thou mightiest, worker of the
universe, source of all strength and
author of all unity, we pray thee for
our brothers, the industrial workers
of the nation. As their work binds
them together in common toil and
danger, may their hearts be knit
together in a strong sense of their
common interests and destiny. Help
them to realize that the injury of one
is the concern of all, and that the
welfare of all must be the aim of
every one. If any of them is tempted
to sell the birthright of his class for
a mess of pottage for himself, give
him a wider outlook and a nobler sym
pathy with his fellows. Teach them to
keep step in a steady onward march,
and in their own way to fulfill the law
of Christ by bearing the common
burdens.
Grant the organizations of labor
quiet patience and prudence in all dis
putes, and fairness to see the other
side. Save them from malice and bit
terness. Save them from the headlong
folly which ruins a fair cause ,and
give them wisdom' resolutely to put
aside the two-edged sword of vio
lence that turns on those who seize it.
Raise up for them still more leaders
of able mind and large hearts, and
give them grace to follow the wiser
counsel.
When they strive for leisure and
health and a better wage, do '"hou
grant their cause success, but-teach
them not to waste their gain on fleet
ing passions, but to use it in building
fairer homes and a nobler manhood.
Grant all classes of our nation a
larger comprehension for the aspira
tions of labor and for the courage
and worth of these of our brothers,
that we may cheer them in their strug
gles and undex*stand them even in
heir sins. And may the upward climb
of labor, its defeats and its victories,
in the farther reaches bless all classes
of our nation, and build up for the
republic of the future a great body
of workers, strong of limb, clear of
mind, fair in temper, glad to labor,
conscious of their worth, and striving
together for the final brotherhood of
all men.
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