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Job Compensation
Directors Confer
(By Ohio Labor News Service)
Columbus. Ohio's unemployment
compensation commissioners are stud
ying a constitution drafted by a com
mittee appointed for the purpose of
formulating plans for a proposed or
ganization composed of administrators
of unemployment compensation laws
in the United States.
The committee recommended the
formation of such an organization, to
be known as the interstate conference
of unemployed compensation and em
ployment agencies, for the purpose of
studying, discussing and acting upon
any problem, or question pertaining
to the successful progress of the joint
federal-state program for unemploy
ment compensation and employment
service.
Plan Interstate Conference of Unemployment
Insurance Administrators
Under the proposed constitution, the
conference would meet in October to
elect a national executive committee,
composed of a president and seven
vice presidents, one from each of the
seven districts into which the nation
will be divided.
Ohio is placed in District 4, North
Central, comprising Ohio, Michigan,
Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana.
Ohio's commissioners are Charles
S. Leasure, chairman public repre
sentative W. T. Roberts, labor rep
resentative, and Walter J. Mackey,
employer representative. Fred L.
Biechle is executive director for the
commission.
The commission last week made a
FREYWARNS
Of Danger in Hostile Labor
Labor
Denver (ILNS)—The metal trades
department of the American Federa
tion of Labor, in annual convention
here, elected J. P. Frey, president, by
elected John P. Frey, president, by
unanimous vote, and heard Secretary
Frank Morrison, of the A. F. of L.,
predict the end of the CIO.
Frey warned the convention that the
next year would see introdution of
legislative proposals to curb the
rights of workers to organize and
make their own agreements with em
ployer. While he said that some legis
lation was necessary, he advised that
all labor legislation be studied closely,
especially when introduced by the
"friends of labor."
Frey added that even when labor
offered its own legislative proposals
they would, if enacted, be subject to
administrative action and to judicial
interpretation, and this might result
in rulings adverse to labor. In end
ing, he urged more labor represen
tatives on governmental boards.
Secretary Morrison told the dele
gates that the CIO will "pass out and
be forgotten as a dream," like other
dual labor movements in the past
He said that the A. F. of L. now has
3,271,726 dues-paying members, an
increase of 831,000 in the last twelve
months. This represents the largest
gain ever made by the federation, he
said.
The metal trades convention adopt
ed a resolution criticizing the CIO
but omitting reference to expelling
the committee or leaving the doors
open for its return. Delegates were
thus left free to take either side in the
A. F. of L. convention.
Large Franks—
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VOL. XXXVII. No. 27 HAMILTON, OHIO, FRIDAY, OCTOKER
brief trip to Wisconsin and Indiana
to view the administrative set-up in
those two states. Wisconsin is the
only state now paying unemployment
compensation benefits. Benefits be
come payable in Ohio, January 1,
1939.
Contributions to tjie Ohio unemploy
ment compensation fund reached a
new peak September 22, when the
total paid in to that date amounted
to $36,194,932.42. There is now de
posited in the United States treasury
in Washington to the account of the
commission the sum of $35,073,786.64.
The interest earnings for the first
quarter, 1937, totalled $41,000, and for
the second quarter, $103,000.
STATE COURTS
NOT DEPRIVED
Of Jurisdiction in Labor Act
Cases, Judge Declares
Little Rock, Ark. (ILNS)—Chan
cellor C. M. Wafford, of the Sebastian
county, Arkansas, chancery court, has
ruled, in effect, that the Wagner la
bor relations act does not emasculate
the state courts.
In his opinion, wherein he made
permanent the anti-picketing order
previously issued in the case of the
Tucker Duck and Rubber Company,
he said the Wagner act does not de
prive the state courts of their juris
diction.
Counsel for the union has asked
dismissal of the Tucker Company's
complaint on the ground the company
was engaged in interstate business
and was subject to the Wagner labor
relations act.
"That does not deprive the state
courts of their jurisdiction," Chancel
lor Wafford's opinion said. "There ia
nothing in the Wagner labor act which
justifies, condones or upholds coercion,
intimidation, or violence."
Chicago Labor Names
Successor to Nockels
Chicago (ILNS)—For the first time
in thirty-four years, the Chicago Fed
eration of Labor has a new record
ing and corresponding secretary. The
new secretary is Joseph D. Keenan,
one of the youngest and most activ
trade union leaders in the city, who
has held a similar office in Local No.
134 of the International Brotherhood
of Electrical Workers since 1928 and
has been a delegate since 1926.
Keenan succeeds the late Edward N.
Nockels, who was a delegate from the
same local union and was recording
and corresponding secretary of the
federation, almost from the time of
its inception, until his death in Feb
ruary of this year. Founder of WCFL
radio station, he was also its man
ager from the beginning, a position
now held by Maynard Marquardt, also
a delegate from Local No. 134 of the
electrical workers.
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president of the federation. He has
been president, without interruption
for thirty-five years. Mr. Fitzpatrick
is one of the outstanding champions of
organized labor in the country and his
re-election came as a matter of course
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Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—Boris
Shiskin, economist for the American
Federation of Labor, received a com
pliment from the conference of Amer-
Opposition to Law Not Dead, Langdon W. Post
Tells Housing Authorities—A. F. of L. Eco
nomist Points Out Need of Foresight to Avoid
Labor Difficulties on Housing Projects.
Housing Authorities here that
will keep him working overtime for
a week. He made such a clear expo
sition of the Wagner housing law itself
and of the ways that local authorities
avoid labor troubles that after
questioning which lasted for hours,
the conference passed a resolution ask
ing Shiskin to put his information
in a booklet to be distributed to the
housing authorities.
In addition to his fund of accurate
information, Mr. Shiskin declared that
there are just two ways for housing
authorities to handle labor difficulties.
One is to let things drift until trouble
comes, and then try to cure it. The
other is to look ahead, and try to fol
low a course that will keep such trou
bles from rising.
Langdon Post, president of the
American Federation of housing au
thorities and head of the New York
city housing authority, made a stirring
opening address.
Housing Authorities Now Powerful
Force
"City Housing authorities have
been in existence over the past three
years," said Mr. Post. "They were
lonely groups, partly because they
were ignored, and second because they
were charged with one of the most re
sponsible jobs ever put on the shoul
ders of any group in this country
the responsibility of undoing the in
humanities and evils that bad been
built up over 150 years in the slums
of our cities."
Mr. Post said that at first, the city
housing authorities worked alone,
"and it wasn't until last April that we
woke up, and found that we were, as a
unit, a powerful force." He described
the work of the united authorities in
smoothing the path for the Wagner
bill and declared:
"If it hadn't been for the Amer
ican Federation of Labor, we
never would have got the bill
through."
He added that the National Public
Housing Conference worked for years
on this matter, and that the National
Association of Housing Officials sup
plied a deal of intelligent thought on
the subject.
Opponents of Law Declared Still
Active
"The opposition to the law is not
dead," Post went on. "The U. S.
Chamber of Commerce hasn't locked
its doors yet, and the real estate in­
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Fight to Amend New Housing
Act to Death, Conference Warned
terests haven't all rolled over and
quit. They are going to try to get
amendments to this bill which will
kill it."
Catherine Bauer, executive secre
tary of the Labor Housing Confer
ence, declaimed that:
"This law was not dictated by the
White House. It is the result of a
national demand.
"Two years from now we will be
facing the biggest housing shortage
in our history."
Co-Operation With Labor Is
Advocated
Miss Bauer urged housing authori
ties to co-operate with and secure the
co-operation of the local organized
labor groups in developing a housing
program.
It was agreed that the requirement
in the present law, that localities con
tribute 10 per cent of the cost of a
housing project, could not be met by
many communities in great need of
such projects.
CIO Accepts Victory of A.
F. of L. in Ambridge Vote
Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—The
fight between A. F. of L. and CIO
unions for representation of the 1,200
workers of the Ambridge, Pa., plant
of the National Electric Products Co.
has been ended by agreement of the
United Electrical and Radio Work
ers' Union, CIO, to recognize the In
terna'tinal Brotherhood of Electri
cal Workers, A. F. of L., as collective
bargaining agency in the case.
The agreement was made in a letter
from James B. Cavey, president of the
CIO union, to J. Warren Madden,
chairman of the NLRB.
"It has been, and still is, our belief
that the company secured the services
of the I. B. E. W. for the purpose of
preventing true collective bargaining,
intending to use the I. B. E. W. as a
company union for the purpose of re
tarding the progress of the United
Electrical and Radio Workers of Am
erica," Carey wrote in part.
"Nevertheless., in the interest of the
labor movement and of true collective
bargaining we waive our right to file
except on in this case even though we
have sufficient ground for doing so."
TEAMSTERS RESUME WORK
ON SAN FRANCISCO DOCKS
San Francisco (ILNS)—The Team
sters' Union lifted its month-old era
bargo from the San Francisco water
front on September 29 and called a
truce in its war against CIO long
shoremen and warehousemen.
Chicago (ILNS)—The National
Safety Council reports that in the first
seven months of this year, automo
biles killed 20,690 people, an increase
of 2,270 over the number killed in the
same period last year. The report
covers 43 states. Auto deaths for
July numbered 3,420.
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BAKERS' UNION SIGNS
Contracts With Many Candy
Making Firms
Chicago (ILNS)—Agreements with
seventeen individual companies, mem
bers of the Candy Manufacturers' As
sociation of Philadelphia, have been
signed by Local No. 350 of the Bak
ery and Confectionery Workers' In
ternational Union. The association
represented the concerns in the nego
tiations for the contract, which pro
vide for, among other things, a five
day, forty-hour week, six holidays,
including Labor Day, with pay, and
time and one-half for overtime.
Wages are to be negotiated.
This same local union secured an
agreement recently with Whitman's
Candy Co., Provisions were made for
a union shop and a 10 per cent in
crease in pay for all of the firms's
1,000 employes.
The Philadelphia candy industry is
now organized 100 per cent. Complete
unionization of this industry was ac
complished largely through the ef
forts of Charles B. McCloskey, repre
sentative of the international in the
Quaker City area, and is, by far, the
union's greatest achievement in its
effort to organize candy workers.
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tion has been received that Local No.
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traetural relations with no less than
twelve candy concerns.
Like success is reported in the cam
paign to organize workers employed in
the cracker and biscuit industry. Lo
cal unions have signed agreements
with the managements of the National
Biscuit and Loose-Wiles companies in
Portland, Ore., and Spokane, Wash.
Also, the Bakers' International was
chosen by a large majority at a recent
election as collective bargaining agent
by workers employed in the Buffalo,
N. Y., plant of the National Biscuit
Company.
CALIFORNIA LABOR BACKS
TEAMSTERS IN CIO FIGHT
San Francisco (ILNS)—The Cali
fornia State Federation of Labor has
thrown its full membership of 350,
000 into the waterfront fight against
the CIO.
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