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Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—An
epoch marking event in labor history
has been announced by George M.
Harrison, chairman of the Railway
Labor Executives Association, and J.
J. Pelley, president of the Association
of American Railroads. They issued a
joint statement of which the following
is a part:
"After joint negotiations between
representatives of the 21 standard
railroad labor unions and railway
managements, a complete agreement
has been reached in respect to a re
tirement plan for employes.
"Before the plan becomes effective,
however, it will be necessary for con
gress to pass two acts, one amending
the present railroad retirement act
and the other, a substitute for the
railway tax act which was to have
expired on February 28, last but was
extended recently until the end of the
fiscal year 1938.
Summary of Plan
"The principal points in the plan
follow:
"1. Provides for a total tax of five
per cent of the payroll, not in excess
of $300 for any one month for any
employe, to be paid into the United
States treasury. This tax increases
•gradually, to a maximum of seven
cent after twelve years. One-half of
the tax will be paid by the railroads
and the other half by the employes.
The rate in the existing railway tax
act was seven per cent, equally
divided.
"2. All annuities are to be paid out
out of the United States treasuiy.
"3. Plan is to be administered by
the Railroad Retirement Board as now
provided.
"4. Method of computing amount of
annuity to be paid retired employes
is the same under the plan as now
incorporated in the railroad retirement
act.
"5. An employe -4s eligible to retire
voluntarily upon attaining the age of
65 years, but may retire at 60 years
of age after completing 30 years of
service with a reduction in the annu
ity at the rate of one-fifteenth for
each year he is under 65.
Other Provisions
"6. An employe can continue to
work after attaining 65 years of age
but must continue to pay the tax, al
though he will not be credited with any
service earned by such employment
after July 1, 1937.
"7. Plan permits retirement of em
ployes because of physical or mental
disability after 30 years of service,
with full annuity privileges.
"8. Present pension rolls of the
railroads are taken over under the
plan.
"9. No annuity will be paid to any
employe who retires and engages in
'regular gainful employment' in some
other line of work.
"10. Provides for death benefits
for a deceased employe's estate.
"11. The plan affects approximately
1,500,000 employes of railroads ex
press companies, sleeping car com
panies, and their subsidiaries. Em
ployes of railroad associations, and of
railroad labor organizations, are also
included."
How Amounts Are Set
The amount of the pension is deter
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Railroads and Unions Reach
Full Agreement on Pensions
New Plan Resulting From Joint Negotiations Now Up
To Congress, Which Must Pass Two Acts to Enable
Program to Become Effective.
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Union Head Beaten
Senator LaFollette's handling of the
case was masterly. He put a bunch of
Goodyear officials on the stand, exam
ined them on their labor policies, and
read into the records letters from Vice
President Clifton Slusser and other
officials, praising the "splendid work"
done at Gadsden. The next day he
called two union men, workers in the
Goodyear plant at Akron C. D. Leslie
and Wm. H. Rickets, who told how
the company trained 400 men in mili
tary maneuvers getting ready for an
expected strike in 1935. They were
armed with gas guns and blackjacks,
taught to use a wedge formation so
that a gas attack on a crowd could
be protected till the crowd was help
less. The training was done by an offi
cer of the Ohio National Guard, and
300 of the trained men were sworn
in as deputy sheriffs.
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mined by multiplying the years of
service by the monthly pay, up to a
minimum of $300. This percentage is:
2 per cent of the first $50 of monthly
pay
1% per cent on the next $100
1 per cent on all sums from $150
to $300.
This is identical with the present
law.
The plan provides for a joint and
survivor pension, under which the em
ploye, if he so chooses, will be paid
a part of his normal annuity when he
retires, and the balance will be used
to buy an annuity for his wife, if she
survives him.
SAN FRANCISCO BAG MAKERS
WIN STRIKE FOR HIGHER PAY
The organized bag workers of San
Francisco, on strike for four months,
reached a settlement with four firms
employing 550 workers in an agree
ment providing for increased wages
according to classifications and shorter
hours.
Witnesses Describe Attacks on Rubber Workers'
Organizers, Following Records Read Before
LaFollette Committee Showing How Goodyear
Company Officials Praised "Good Work."
Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—The
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
plan of industrial relations as exem
plified at Gadsden, Alabama, by armed
mobs beating up a single defenseless
man in the willing presence of the
sheriff, was set before the senate civil
liberties committee with dramatic
skill.
Union Head Testifies
Ricketts told Slusser threatened to
move the plant to Gadsden and Rick
etts replied that he would go to Gads
den as an organizer. Slusser offered
to bet $100 that if Ricketts got off the
train at Gadsden, he would come back
on a stretcher.
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While Gadsden Sheriff Looked
On Approvingly, Senators Told
Then President John H. Dalrymple,
of the United Rubber Workers of
America came on, soft-voiced, mild
faced, and yet somehow showing a
touch of obstinacy. He told how ho
went from Akron to Gadsden in June,
1936, to help the local in trying to get
some discharged men taken back. He
found the president of the local union
in jail, and asked the sheriff why.
"That's why!" said the shefiff,
throwing at Dalrymple two copies of
the United Rubber Workers, the union
paper. "We won't have such literature
distributed here. I'm not going to lose
my vacation this year! I lost it last
year from labor troubles."
Dalrymple Shadowed
"I told him," said Dalrymple, "that
had come to prevent trouble by
seeking justice for the workers who
had been discharged and as for the
paper, it was going through the United
States mails without objection from
anyone. He insisted it could not be
distributed there."
A meeting was called for June 6, in
the evening at the courthouse.
"I was shadowed all the time," said
Dalrymple. 'There were about 50 in
the hall when I got there, and 25 or
30 came in right after. A lot of them
were company officials, members of the
"flying squadron," and foremen from
the steel plant. Someone asked me
'who in hell told you to come here?'
I replied that I came at the call of
Local No. 12 and that I didn't think
it was dangerous.
"Then the eggs began to fly."
Denied Police Protection
He had noticed some men go out
before, and come back with small
sacks in their hands. These were the
eggs. The police came in, paying no
attention to the egg throwers but
searching the union men for arms.
They swarmed around Dalrymple.
"Somebody pulled my glasses off,"
said Dalrymple. "They dropped to the
floor, and when I stooped for them,
someone hit me in the jaw. The sher
iff said, 'You come with me.' He took
me out, men hitting me on the way,
and all the sheriff said to them was
"Never mind, boys we'll take care
of him.' They got me by the hair,
and some of them got my arms and
pushed them up behind my back and
held me, with my head pulled back,
while they pounded me in the face.
The sheriff was right close all the
time. I tried to work to the hotel, and
at last I got in."
Girl Confirms Story
The sheriff told him that the people
were up in arms, and he would have
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to get out of town. He refused to go
without his wife. The sheriff told her
to take him out of town or he—the
sheriff—wouldn't be responsible. They
refused him medical attention, refused
even to give him a guide out of the
town, but his wife brought him
through. He found a doctor about 20
miles out.
Zella Morgan, a union girl who was
viciously threatened and discharged
for "associating with union people."
took the stand and testified that she
had attended the meeting the night
of June 6, and that Dalrymple's story
was true.
BIG MID-WEST
Industries Announce Wage
Increases
Chicago (ILNS)—Big business in
the Middle West is falling into line
in the matter of wage increases, and
hoping and privately admitting that
this will help to stave off drives to
unionize its workers.
The Big Four packers—Swift, Ar
mour Cudahy and Wilson—have
raised the basic wage scale 9 cents an
hour. Piece rates have been raised an
equivalent amount and the average
boost is reported to be about 13 per
cent. It is claimed that 200,000 per
sons will share in this increase, and
that it will add $22,000,000 a year to
the nation's annual payroll.
Some smaller but important inde
pendent packers, such as George A.
Hormel & Co., of Austin, Minnesota,
and Morrell & Co., of Sioux Falls.
South Dakota, have joined in the rise.
This increase is the second in the
packing industry in four months, and
the fifth since the low-water mark
was reached in 1932.
The International Harvester Co. has
announced wage increases which will
mean $5,500,000 a year increase, ac
cording to the company figuring.
They put into effect an increase of 5
cents an hour on November 30, 1936.
The present raise is largest in tin
principal plants.
All the packing arrangements wert
made with the company unions, and
there is nothing to show that the In
ternational Harvester consulted even
them.
The Woman Pays
There "ain't no justice!" In Belfast,
Northern Ireland, a five-dollar-a-week
stenographer was given until 1985
pay off a court judgment.
Damages awarded against her to
another woman whom she knocked
down and injured with her bicycle,
amounted to $2,900.
Upon information that she was un
able to "pay up" the judge ordered
her to pay the fine at the rate of
$1.25 a week.
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Ottawa (ILNS)—As predicted, the
Canadian government has intervened
in the dispute between the railway
companies and their workers over the
restoration of the 10 per cent deduc
tin from the basic wage. Samuel J.
Hungex-ford and Sir Edward Beatty,
respectively presidents of the Canad
ian National and Canadian Pacific
railways, were called to Ottawa to
confer with Transport Minister Howe,
Labor Minister Rogers, and the act-*
ing prime minister.
The position taken by the federal
j'-overament at these conferences is a
guarded secret. But it is known the
government is deeply disturbed by re
ports that the railway workers are
voting practically 100 per cent in
favor of a strike, if necessary, to re
store the 10 per cent wage deduction,
fearing that a railway strike would
start other strikes by workers whose
wages have been struck down to dis
graceful levels.
There are two special reasons why
Canadian railway workers are sore
American railways operating branch
lines in Canada pay American wages
on their Canadian lines Canadian
railways operating branch lines in the
United States pay American wages
on their Canadian lines Canadian
railways operating branch lines in the
United States pay American wages on
~uch lines.
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