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FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1937
NEED FOR HOUSING SPEED
Need for speedy enactment of the
Wagner-Steagall housing bill was
emphasized in telling manner by
William Gx*een, before a senate com
mittee.
"The task before us is so great
the ramifications of the problem are
so many that it clearly becomes the
public duty of this congress to act
now," the American Federation of
Labor president said.
President Green presented many
convincing reasons for action on the
bill, stressing particularly that the
present housing shortage inevitably
means a drastic jump in rents, which
he said are bound to go up faster
than wages, thereby cutting purchase
ing power and threatening the basis
of recovery. He also emphasized the
heavy unemployment in the building
trades and the necessity for relieving
this at the earliest possible moment
The Wagner-Steagall bill is labor'
bill and labor is vitally interested in
its prompt passage, which was re
cently urged at a Washington con
ference of building trades unions. The
bill is No. 1 on labor's attempts to
block or delay its passage.
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ARGUMENT FROM MISSISSIPPI
Mississippi has just given a smash
ing argument for a strong federal
anti-lynching law. Two Negroes ac
cused of murder were taken from the
authorities by a mob, savagely tor
tured with blow torches and burned
to death at the stake. The whole per
formance was worthy of fiends from
hell and calls loudly for action to
stop such disgraces to America.
It has frequently been pointed out
that if a federal anti-lynching law
passed, states which have permitted
lynchings will have no grounds for
complaint. If the states had stopped
lynching, there would be no demand
for federal action. Coming at a time
when anti-lynching bills are before
"Congress, the Mississippi outrage will
undoubtedly have the effect of
strengthening sentiment for federal
legislation and weakening "state'
rights" clamor against it.
Apart from their interest as citi
zens in stopping lynching, members
of organized labor have a direct inter
est in ending this atrocious crime. La
bor organizers and officials have more
than once been the victims of blood
thirsty mobs. The American Federa
tion of Labor is on record for federal
EAT and DRI
anti-lynching legislation, and is sup
porting pending legislation in the
present congress.
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LETS GO!
Long-standing barriers to organiza
tion of the workers have gone as a
result of the supreme court decisions
upholding the national labor relations
act. The act, giving labor the right
to organize and choose its own repre
sentatives for collective bargaining
free of restraint or coercion by em
ployers, opens the way, as never be
fore, to a nation-wide sweep of organ
ization.
The court has spoken and the rest
is up to the workers, especially the
organized workers. They must take
the- lead in organizing all American
labor. The most favorable time for
organization in the history of the
United States is here. There is organ
izing work for every union man or
woman, and the word is, "Let's go!"
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WISDOM
When bad men combine, the good
must associate else they will fall one
by one ,an unpitied sacrifice in a con
temptible struggle.—Edmund Burke
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GOV. APPROVES
SEVEN LABOR BILLS
Five Measures Are Sponsor
ed by Organized Labor
(By Ohio Labor News Service)
Columbus, Ohio.—Gov. Martin
Davey last week signed seven bills of
interest to organized labor, including
five measures which are a part of
the legislative program of the Ohio
State Federation of Labor.
The five measures sponsored by
organized labor ai'e:
House Bill No. 45, defining "injury'
as used in the workmen's compensa
tion law to mean any injury arising
out of or during the course of em
ployment.
House Bill No. 69, establishing pre
sumptive and prospective dependency
of parents in death awards under the
workmen's compensation law.
House Bill No. 79, clarifying the
rehearing and appeals sections of the
workmen's compensation law, requir
ing commission to state specific rea
sons for refusal of claim.
House Bill No. 83, permitting the
industria 1 commission to determine
the degree of incapacity in loss of
more than two fingers in hand in
juries.
Senate Bill No. 54, providing pen
alty for failure of public officials to
determine and require payment^of
prevailing rate of wages on public
works projects.
Also signed by the governor were
House Bill No. 701, providing an
emergency appropriation to the in
dustrial commission to continue re
hearings in the claims department
for two months.
House Bill No. 217, providing a
state-wide retirement system for c-us
todians and other school board em
ployes not covered by the provisions
of any other retirement system.
Broadcast Topic
Is Announced
Columbus, Ohio (OLNS)—Profes
sor John Younger, chairman of the
department of industrial engineering
at Ohio State University, will speak
on the Ohio State Federation of La
bor broadcast Monday evening, April
26, at 8 p. m., over Radio Station
WHKC (640 kilocycles), Columbus.
The title of Professor Younger's
talk will be "The Worker and the
Machine," a subject of vital" economic
interest to labor.
The highest stage of labor union
development is the union label.
INCREASE IN JOBS
SHOWN BY REPORT
Columbus, Ohio (OLNS)—Evidence
of the marked rise in business and
industrial activity, shown by contin
ued incr-ease in the number of per
sons returning to private employ
ment, is again noted in the report of
the activities of the Ohio State Em
ployment Service's 19 offices for the
month of March,
The report, made to Ora B. Chap
man, director of the department of
industrial relations, disclosed a total
of 10,601 placements in private in
dustry for the past month. This is
an increase of 72.3 per cent over
March a year ago.
Persons registering for work the
first time aggregated 11,268 during
March, showing a decrease of 22.2
per cent from March, 1926, and provid
ing a bright contrast to only 2 per
cent decline of new applications in
February from the total registered
in January.
The Ohio State Employment Serv
ice, not a relief agency, is free to both
employe and employer, and seeks to
co-operate with business concerns
not only to reduce the ranks of the
unemployed, but to see that persons
referred to employers are properly
fitted for their work.
The Hamilton office reported it had
received 213 new applications, made
total placements of 287, of which 228
were in private industry.
The Middletown office reported it
had received 123 new applications,
made total placements of 300, of
which 251 were in private industry,
Judiciary Group Con
siders H. B. 16
Columbus, Ohio (OLNS)—More
than 50 representatives of organized
labor in Ohio appeared before the
senate judiciary committee last week
and presented a petition bearing their
name in support of House Bill No. 16
regulating the issuance of injunctions
in labor disputes.
Representative Lody Huml, Cleve
land, explained the provisions and
purpose of the bill, and Thomas
Donnelly, legislative agent and secre
tary-treasurer of the Ohio State Fed
eration of Labor informed the com
mittee that the bill was sponsored by
organized labor.
Speaking briefly for the bill were
Stanley Denlinger, Akron, general
counsel for the United Rubber Work
ers' Union T. F. Silvey, Columbus
director of Labor's Non-Partisan
League of Ohio, and G. George De
Nucci, representing the Columbus
Federation of Labor.
Appearing in opposition as usual
were attorneys representing the
American Steel and Wire Co., the
Midland Steel Co., the Ohio Chamber
of Commerce, and an attorney who
has obtained an unusual number of
labor injunctions in Cleveland.
Professor R. E. Mathews, of the
Ohio State University Law College
appeared for the bill in rebuttal to
the arguments and opinions advanced
by the opposition.
Senator Bernard J. McCluskey
Cleveland, chairman of the judiciary
committee, announced that the com
mittee would consider amendments
agreed upon by opponents and propon
ents before taking final action on
the bill.
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Where with our
I*#*#* Little Hatchet
A I O
we tell the truth
about many things, sometimes pro
foundly, sometimes flippantly,
s o e i e s e k e s s y
And so, in a twinkilng, the whole
face of the country was changed, so
that, even today, but few comprehend
the bigness of what has happened.
The nine old men, dividing them
selves, five into the one camp, and
four into the* other, did a right gor
geous job of nation-moving, all in
one portentous day.
Between suns, this thing happened
The five, who made up a ma
jority, left the four gasping for
air, pawing the big book for con
fusing words, clinging with all the
symptoms of desperation to a past
that is now wiped out, even as a
wet cloth wipes out the scrawl
ing marks on a child's slate at
school.
What was not legal has become le
gal. And therein lies tllaeh HRDLUR
gal. And therein lies all the differ
ence in the world.
Oceans of words have been written
about this momentous decision of the
supreme court.
But to men, it all boils down to
simple thing that can be said In
sentence.
It is lawful to belong to a union,
to bargain collectively, and to take
the part of citizenship in industry.
And so it will be, no doubt.
As a sidelight, it rather shows how
foolish it is to rest the case for re
form of the courts on the question
of age. It is deeper than that. Five
old men gave us the majority de
cision.
The question is one of institutional
soundness—and of the views of men,
not their age.
Five young men—or nine-—could be
'very silly, if they were built that way.
Plenty of young men are silly—and
plenty are even vicious.
But a couple of days ago a miner
testified that mine owners had paid
money to have a union organizer's
residence blown up. They wanted, the
witness said, to have the organizer
"shook up."
Now, presumably, these mine own
ers were not what would be called
old.
It is too bad when great issues get
put on wrong foundations.
The argument for reform of the
court is made stronger by this latest
decision—but surely not on the
ground of age.
If age is the ground, then what
age—and is it to be mental age, or
physical age?
Robert Louis Stevenson was old in
body—wracked in pain,—but oh, how
young in mind.
The examples are endless.
Five old men said workers are free
and the law is the law four old men
said it isn't so.
"Out of the mouths of babes," etc.,
the old saying has it, with a good
deal of warrant.
But the rock bottom truth is the
court system itself is wrong.
Arrogated powers need shearing
back to the original once more.
Past presidents put on the bench
men who have certain views, too and
those views were as solid when the
men were younger as they are now.
How you think means a lot today
Why not be forthright about it?
A nation that intends to keep step
with change needs men who can go
along with change.
We say without hesitation that
Mussolini's way of thinking doesn't
fit the United States at all. Why not
say the same thing with equal candor
about those among us who think the
same way?
We could do with less baloney and
more of the business of putting the
issue on the right basis. We wouldn'
want nine young reactionaries, any
more than nine—or four—old ones
Editor Celebrates
Toledo, Ohio (OLNS)—Editor Wal
ter C. Guntrup, of the Union Leader
official publication of the Toledo Cen
tral Labor Union, last week celebrated
his 50th year as a member of an
organized labor group.
Editor Guntrup enlisted in the ranks
of organized labor at Corning, New
York, in 1887, where he became a
member of the American Flint Glass
Workers' Union at the age of 15.
Coming to Toledo at the turn of the
century, Editor Guntrup has been
active in trades union activities in this
city since that time He declared him
self "still sold on the idea that the
rank and file of lbaor should be
organized."
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JSven the shrewdest of crooks have
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staunchest ally—indifference. He is
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that pair of thugs work! They're real
rough babies and their gory records
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weapons. They maim and murder by
indirection, but compared to them the
worst of public enemies scurrying be
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stake to lose without a struggle.
Think and be careful!
Hershey Strike Ended
After Court Rulings
Hershey, Pa. (ILNS)—The deci
sions of the
U.
S. Supreme Court in
the Wagner act cases have settled the
strike which has been raging in this
chocolate capital of the universe.
Following the decisions, representa
tives of strikers and of the company
signed an agreement of which this is
the heart:
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"That an election shall be held
among the employes of the employer
to determine the sole collective bar
gaining agency under the Wagner
labor relations act of the United
States. And that the parties hereto
agree to abide by the said election."
The non-strikers believe that they
will win, in which case the company
union, "Loyal Workers' Club of Her
shey," will be the bargaining agency.
The United Chocolate Workers Union,
however, think otherwise.
BOARD NAMED IN
RAIL DISPUTE
Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—Presi
dent Roosevelt has appointed a three
man board to investigate and report
on disputes between the Southern Pa
cific and the Northwestern Pacific
railroad companies and their em
ployes. The president acted on word
from the National Mediation Board
that the dispute threatened to inter
rupt interstate commerce.
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