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FRIDAY, MARCH 26,1937
DEMOCRACY MAKES FOR
LABOR ORGANIZATION
History for the last hundred years
has been demonstrating that demo
cracy and labor organization .go hand
in hand.
Great Britain, where modern labor
organization began, has been steadily
growing more democratic for a cen
tury. With every increase of demo
cracy, the British unions have gained
in power and influence.
In the United States, a republic
founded on democratic principles, the
unions have attained a numerical
strength second to those of Great
Britain, and an actual strength and
an actual strength and influence sec
ond to none.
Democracies are the best friends of
unionism, which explains why the
American Federation of Labor fights
autocracy, whether it comes from the
"left" of revolutionary radicalism or
the "righ" of reactionary stand
patism. Labor knows that in demo
cracy and its extension lies the hope
of unionism. So it strives for more and
more democracy and encourages every
move to make this government more
responsive to the will of the peoplr.
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TWO SIDE LIGHTS ON
INSURANCE
Two items of recent news, originat
ing five hundred miles apart, point in
much the same direction when
brought together.
The first originated in Washington,
though the material for it came from
all over the United States. Compen
sation and medical care on those mat
ters, bought from private insurance
companies, would have cost $80,000,
000, according ot W. O, Wheary, fed
eral director of safety for WPA
Uncle Sam. saved $70,000,000 by -going
into the insurance business for him
self.
The other item, comes from Albany,
where a determined effort is being
made in the New York state senate
to have a legislative investigation of
of insurance, particularly of industrial
insurance, the weekly payment plan.
While the investigation, if it comes,
will include all companies, the attack
figured chiefly the Metropolitan per
haps because it is the largest of the
lot. The uniforms of the waiters in
the special restaurant where Metro
politan officers get their lunch, the
$150,000 salary of its president, came
in for unsparing comment.
Both those items indicate wide
spread dissatisfaction with insurance
as it is handled now. Since Uncle Sam
is almost the only person in this coun
try who can handle his own insurance,
it would seem that a thorough inves
tigation by some competent agency
is in order. And when it comes, it
should probe industrial insurance, at
least, to the very bottom.
The worst thing about industrial in
surance is not the high cost, though
that is very high but the appalling
number of lapses, especially in hard
times. In 1932, the John Hancock Mu
tual had 1,209,068 lapses the Metro
politan, 3,680,489 the Prudential,
4,372,690. In other words, working
men and women, the only people who
buy industrial insurance, lost every
thing they had put into more than
nine and a quarter million policies in
that one disastrous year. And this,
while the worst year, was not so much
the worst as might be thought.
More than 14,300,000 industrial poli
cies issued by the same companies
lapsed in 1930 and 1931.
An investigation of this branch of
insurance appears long overdue.
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WHAT NEXT?
By the use of a system of treating
freshly poured concrete by a vacuum
process, which eliminates surplus
moisture and causes the concrete to
harden in less than 20 minutes, a house
was recently built in a day near Wash
ington, D. C. Federal officials wit
nessed the demonstration of the quick
construction of the house, complete
with the exception of the plumbing and
other jobs the contractor does not
undertake.
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WISDOM
Nothing has ever been decided by
war that could not be decided without
it and if decided after the war, why
not before?—Gen. Ulyssis S. Grant.
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BILL REGULATING
SHERIFFS OKEHED
Committee Recommends H.
B. No. 203 For Passage
(By Ohio Labor News Service)
Columbus, Ohio.—The house com
mittee on public welfare last week
without a dissenting vote approved
and recommended for passage House
Bill No. 203, restricting the appoint
ment of deputy sheriffs during indus
trial disputes.
Favorable action was taken when
attorneys representing the Ohio Man
ufacturers' Association and other in
dustries and groups were unable to
convince the committeemen that the
bill was not a good o.i- ant' in the
best interests of the public welfare.
The bill specifically provides that a
sheriff cannot appoint deputies for
duty in time of industrial .-trife whose
salaries are to be paid by a private
corporation.
Opposing the bill were fttovneys
W. I. Vorys, Columbus, representing
the Ohio Manufacturers' Association
Chester Nikodym, Cleveland, repre
senting the Associated Industries of
that city, and J. W. Deffenbaugh, Lan
caster, representing the Hocking Glass
Co., the Lancaster Glass Co., ami the
Standard Glass Co., all of Lancaster.
Thomas J. Donnelly, legislative
agent and secretary-treasurer of the
Ohio State Federation of Labor, who
had outlined the necessity for the
proposed legislation at a previous
hearing, refuted objections to the bill
made by opposing attorneys.
Representative Ray Knight, Ak
ron, as a member of the committee and
author of the bill, asserted that he had
personal knowledge that a strike riot
was incited by deputy sheriffs on the
payroll of the company involved in
the labor dispute.
It is this evil that the bill seeks to
correct, and upon which arguments
in behalf of the measure were based.
EAT and DRINK
FRONT AND COURT STREETS
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In plants where safety is "bunk,"
the accident records are generally
"punk."
Have union label tattooed on your
pocketbook as a gentle reminder.
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about many things, sometimes pro
foundly, sometimes flippantly,
sometimes recklessly.
Printers' Ink, which prints a great
many very sensible things, published
on March 11 an article about advertis
ing used by employers to try and win
public support in time of strikes.
This article is a swell jpb.
The big argument is that no ad
vertising will win people to a poor
product.
You can't write good copy for a bad
argument. y-.
In other words, stupidity can't be
made pretty.
You can't doll up an eighteenth cen
tury product and make it look 1937
streamlined.
The subject smells to heaven and
so does the advertising.
The article cites strikes in which
such fearful copy has been used.
Employers pay plenty big money
for it, just as they have done for gas,
guns and thugs. But, it doesn't pay.
"If the labor policy is essentially
rotten," says the article, "no amount
of advertising can make it smell
sweet."
Boys, how true that is!
It is to hoped that Printers' Ink
has sent copies to the duPonts, to
Morgan, to Mellon, to the rubber bar
ons and to a whole host of other chiefs
of industry.
It ought to be good for what ails
them, which-is an awful lot.
The employer who reads this fine
piece of work will, if he is honest with
himself, admit that he has surely cut
himself a piece of cake.
But the same misformed idea which
leads an employer to buy guns and
•gas leads him to think he can kid the
public if he spends money enough for
advertising. It seems the idea isn't
so hot.
But here's one angle that the article
overlooks. It may be that some em
ployers who have spent fat barrels
of money for big advertising space
didn't do so in the hope of directly
winning public approval.
Maybe what they thought they
would get was the support of the
newspapers with which the money was
spent.
Like billiards: Pay the papers lots
of money let the newspapers write
good stories and editorials to pat the
boss on the back.
But even that old trick is now an
ancient wheeze of less and less effec
tiveness.
Because the people don't believe the
papers as once they did.
The papers said: "Elect Landon"
and the people elected Roosevelt.
Incidentally, the labor papers said:
"Elect Roosevelt"—and they elected
him.
Labor papers don't print employer
advertising against strikes.
No, dear sir and brother, they do
not.
But, for the most part, the labor
movement lets its papers half starve
and often starve 100 per cent—and
that's plain cockeyed.
There's a craving for funnies that
aren't funny, for editorials that are
empty as a last year's bird's nest, for
news that too often is colored, for
sports that have nothing of sport
about them—and advertisements cal
culated to put unions on the bum.
The scintilating radiations from
consistency's glistening facets show
us very clearly that the old adage still
waves.
We are no more consistent than the
bosses who do these vapid things.
But always there is this consolation:
If we don't wake up and get a move
on, there will be someone to come
along and implant a kick in the pants.
So, it seems, many a one just lets
nature take its course.
So, yawn a couple and murmur,
"how interesting."
I U. S. STEEL
Units Sign Union Agree
ment
Pittsburgh (ILNS)—Five of the
biggest units of the United States
Steel Corporation have signed an
agreement with the Steel Workers'
Organization Committee, acting for
the Amaglamated Association of Irin,
Steel & Tin Workers. The agreement
is to run till February 28, 1938, The
companies signing are
Carnegie-Illinois, with plants in sev
eral cities.
National Tube, Pittsburgh.
Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad,
Birmingham.
American Steel & Wire, Cleveland.
Columbia Steel, San Francisco.
Carnegie-Illinois signed because
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this agreement covers more -ground
than the one which it signed before.
This agreement provides for 8-hour
lay and 40-hour week 10 cents an
hour raise in wages with equivalent
boost of piece rates joint adjustment
of grievances one week vacation with
pay for all employes of more than
five years' standing and—
Recognition of the union as bargain
ing agency for all its members. No
discrimination, threats or influence to
be used against unionizing or union
men. Unions in return promise not
to canvass for members on company
plant or time.
Philip Murray, head of the organ
izing committee, said on announcing
the agreement:
"This constitutes the modern meth
od for labor and capital to meet on
equal terms without turmoil."
Louisiana Labor Welcomes
Newspaper Guild Members
Monroe, La. (ILNS)—The two dele
gates of the Newspaper Guild of Mon
roe to the Central Trades and Labor
Council received a warm welcome at
their first meeting. The guild was
welcomed to the ranks of organized
labor by L. Williams, of Shreveport,
president of the Louisiana Federa
tion of Labor.
"Labor is in need of this type of
membership," he said, "and we feel
that, with the entry into our ranks of
Monroe newspaper writers, the state
labor organization will benefit consid
erably. I trust that every newspaper
man in the state will follow the cour
ageous example of Monroe newspaper
employes and that the American
Newspaper Guild will grow quickly
and achieve a strong position in
Louisiana."
U. S. Saves $70,000,000
By Own Insurance Company
Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—Uncle
Sam saved $70,000,000 in the first
18 months of the WPA by insuring
his workers in his own company, in
stead of paying the ruggedly individ
ualistic charges of the regular insur
ance companies.
The nation-wide payroll for WPA
was $2,000,000,000. Accident insur
ance issued by private companies
would have cost $80,000,000. Instead,
the employes of WPA were insured
in the United States Employes' Com
pensation Commission, which insures
the regular government workers. An
appropriation of $25,000,000 was put
to the credit of the commission, but
only $10,000,000 of it has been used.
Old Age Grants
Highest in Ohio
Columbus, Ohio (OLNS)—Ohio led
all states in the country during Janu
ary in total grants paid to the aged
and was second in the number of per
sons who received assistance, accord
ing to the latest statistical report re
leased by the Federal Social Secur
ity Board on old age pension assist
ance.
At the same time, Henry J. Berro
din, chief of the Ohio division of aid
for the aged, disclosed that during
February 101,233 needy aged received
assistance in the state, and were paid
grants totaling $2,405,889. In addi
tion, the division participated in 513
funerals and paid out $50,100 in burial
claims during February.
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INJUNCTION BILL
House Judiciary Group Rec
ommends H. B. 16
(By Ohio Labor News Service)
Columbus, Ohio (Special)—Revers
ing its decision of a week ago, the
house judiciary committee in execu
tive session late Tuesday, March 16,
by a vote of 10 to 4, recommended for
passage House Bill No. 16, regulating
the issuance of injunctions in labor
disputes.
Debate on the bill was heated and
long, lasting until after midnight as
committee members who have either
openly opposed the measure through
out the entire course of hearings or
who were listed as "doubtful" by
sponsors, attempted to inject amend
ments which would emasculate the
purpose of the bill.
Amendments to the bill as origin
ally offered by Representative Lody
Huml, Cleveland, have been made, but
according to the author are of a minor
nature and do not tend to greatly
change the purpose of the bill, which
is to require sworn testimony in open
court and opportunity for defense be
fore an injunction may be issued in a
labor dispute.
An objection raised by a committee
mjember to a clause in the bill which
provides for a jury trial in proceed
ings for contempt allegedly committed
other than in the presence of the court
was removed when Attorney General
Herbert S. Duffy in an opinion held
that the clause was constitutional.
Sponsored by organized labor,
House Bill No. 16 has been the sub
ject of stormy debate by proponents
and opponents since public hearings
were first held on the bill in January.
The bill now goes to the rules com
mittee of the house of representatives
which will determine when and if the
proposed law will be placed on the
calendar for consideration by the en
t.i rfi ^fwhership.
Opposing the committee's recom
mendation for passage were Represen
tatives Wittenmeyer, Adams county
Betts, Hancock county Kellar, Dela
ware county, and Van Ness, Cham
paign county.
Present but not voting were Rep
resental ives Hummell, Fairfield coun
ty, and Mason, Wyondot county. Ab
sent was Representative Williams,
Medina county, who voted against the
•commendation in the test vote last
week.
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Favoring the adoption of the bill
were Representative Conway, Mahon
ing county Feighan, Cuyahoga coun
ty Holmes, Franklin county Hows
are, Preble county Laderman, Lucas
county Ogrin, Cuyahoga county Pet
ri, Crawford county Zablotny, Cuya
hoga county Marshall, Muskingum
county, and Chairman Hesse, Cuya
hoga county.
Hearings on State
Labor Act Closed
(By Ohio Labor News Service)
Columbus, Ohio—Final arguments
urging the recommendation for pass
age of House Bill No. 196, creating
a state labor relations act, were pre
sented to the house committtee on la
bor Tuesday morning, March 23, by
Thomas Donnelly, legislative agent
and secretary-treasurer of the Ohio
State Federation of Labor.
Don K. Martin, secretary of the
Ohio Manufacturers' Association, clos
ed the arguments for the opposition
to the bill. Final action on the bill by
the committee is anticipated without
much delay, as several lengthy hear
ings have been held on the proposed
measure.
LOUISIANA LABOR
BACKS COURT PLAN
Baton Rouge, La. (ILNS)—The ex
ecutive committee of the Louisiana
State Federation of Labor has adopted
resolutions approving President
Roosevelt's judiciary program and
urging ratification of the child labor
amendment. The committee elected
John Howat, of Shreveport, secretary,
to replace C. R. Crale, also of Shreve
port, who resigned.
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