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Quick Action Imperative to
Check Recession-Labor Head
Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—Speak
ing for the American Federation of
Labor before the senate unemploy
ment committee, William Green made
a decided impression by his marshal
ling of facts and needs.
"The economic situation the coun
try is facing today," he said, "calls
for action—prompt, immediate and
effective. Since March, 1933, when
the cumulative forces of the last de
pression delivered their final and
most crushing blow to our productive
system, the country has not turned
to congress with greater expectation
of true statesmanship and ability to
act promptly than it does today."
Mr. Green spoke of the increasing
speculation, not only on the stock
market but in price making, in the
first half of 1937. He showed that
the increase of unemployment from
September to December of last year,
estimated at 1, 770,000, was greater
than that of any other year save 1929
and 1931.
Shorter Hours Urged
"Labor maintains that the short
ening of hours of work in industry
is an essefttial prerequisite to the re
duction of unemployment. Legisla
tive action to make effective this
shortening of hours should be Item
No. 1 on the agenda of this con
gress."
Summarizing, Mr. Green said:
"The critical situation we are now
facing presents a real challenge to
our congress, to our federal govern
ment and to our entire nation. The
time has come when the country must
resort without hesitation to legisla
tive means of checking the recession
and re-establish the recovery on a
sounder and firmer basis. In under
taking any such measures, congress
must not lose sight of the great need
—the need to look beyond the exigen
cies of today's emergencies so that
S0F1TS OF DU PONT
Rose in 1937, But Employ
ment Showed Loss
Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—The
senate unemployment committee con
tinues its quiz of big business men,
but gets extremely few suggestions
for lessening unemployment. The
most interesting witness for the week
was Lammot du Pont, president of
E. I. du Pont de Nemours Co. though
it is doubtful if he realized the kind
of interest that would be taken in
some of his remarks.
"At the peak of our employment
last summer," he said, "we had on
our salary and payrolls 42 per cent
more people than in 1929. Our an
nual payroll at the year end was 40
per cent higher, average monthly
wages were 13 per cent higher, aver
age hourly pay rates were 26 per
cent higher than in 1929."
Asks Tax Revision
Which sounds good, although there
the payroll did not rise as fast as the
number of people employed. But he
also said that, comparing 1937 with
1936, there was a 7 per cent decline
in employment at the end of the year,
in spite of the fact that the company
earned, net, $7 a share in 1937 against
$6 a share in 1936.
Like all the rest of big business
advocates, Lammot due Pont said that
the tax on the undistributed income
of corporations "discouraged invest
ment," though the banks are full of
idle money, and what makes the small
investor put up his money is the pros
pect of income that is distributed.
Questioned specifically by Senator
Murray, of Wyoming, Mr. du Pont
admitted that there had been a tre
mendous improvement in business
conditions under President Roose
velt's administration, and immediately
added that the New Deal policies
would be detrimental to business, "in
the long run."
To Expand Plants
He declared, however, that his
company expects to spend $35,000,000
for expansion this year.
we can build for long range economic
and industrial stability in the future.
Labor's Remedies Summarized
"I want to summarize in conclu
sion the remedies I have proposed—
the remedies which must be applied
without delay in order to be fully ef
fective. They are:
"(1) Shortening of the hours of
work through maximum hour regula
tion in industrial employment.
"(2) Maintenance of existing wage
standards.
"(3) Continuation of the public
works program on an extended scale
and establishment of administration
of public works on a permanent basis
for the purpose of long range plan
ning to meet future emergencies.
"(4) Extension of the public low
rent housing and slum clearance pro
gram by additional appropriation of
funds and through the suspension of
the present requirements for local
contributions.
For Broader Security Program
"(5) Further stimulation of home
construction by private enterprise
through remission of local taxes for
a limited period of time.
'6) Revision and broadening of
the social security program: to pro
vide for a nation-wide system of un
employment compensation to extend
coverage in the payment of unem
ployment benefits and old age bene
fits to provide for payment of larger
old age benefits to put in effect a
system of extended benefits for a
limited period beyond the present
limit of employment benefit pay
ments and, to integrate the adminis
tration of unemplyoment compensa
tion and relief.
"7) Resumption of the work relief
program on an extended scale during
the immediate pei'iod of emergency
with increased appropriation for that
purpose."
Dr. Claudius T. Murchison, presi
dent of the Cotton Textile Institute,
said that something should be done
to the laws to permit 'industry to
co-operate for productive purposes
without fear of running afoul of the
anti-trust laws." He also demanded
that if a wage and hour law were
enacted, it should be enforced through
the courts, not by any administrator
or board.
Whitewash" of Police
In Massacre Assailed
New York City (ILNS)—Imposing
of fines on 61 pickets not killed by
Chicago police in the Memorial Day
massacre at the Republic Steel plant
was branded by the Civil Liberties
Union as a "scandalous reflection upon
the collusion between the courts and
police in what was the most unjusti
fied police massacre in years."
After whitewashing the police who
shot and killed ten workers, Judge
Joseph A. Graber found the 61 pick
ets guilty of "unlawful assembly,"
fined six persons $10 and assesed
None of the policemen responsible for
the killings has been punished.
1400 CAMDEN MUNICIPAL
WORKERS GET PAY BOOST
Camden, N. J. (AFLNS)—Over
1,400 municipal employes have won
their long fight for restoration of one
of the per cent pay cuts inflicted
upon them in previous years.
The city commissioner finally passed
an ordinance authorizing restoration
of five per cent of the workers' wages,
which it is estimated will bring them
an additional $175,000 per year.
CIO UNION VOTED DOWN BY
DOVER STEEL WORKERS
Calling All Truck, Tractor & Auto Owners
Dover (AFLNS)—The CIO receiv
ed another jolt here when employes
of the Greer Steel Company voted,
under supervision of a field represen
tative of the National Labor Relations
Board, against naming the Amalga
mated Association of Iron, Steel and
Tin Workers, CIO affiliate, as sole
collective bargaining agent.
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But Warns Leader "No One
Man Has a Mortgage on the
Labor Movement"
David Dubinsky, president of the
International Ladies' Garment Work
ers' Union, third largest CIO affil
iate, with a membership of more than
'250,000, assailed last night policies of
the CIO and demanded resumption of
peace negotiations with the American
Federation of Labor.
Mr. Dubinsky held the CIO respon
sible for the failure of peace negotia
tions last month, and disagreed sharp
ly with the position taken by John
L. Lewis, chairman of the CIO, and
other CIO spokesmen, in refusing to
accept what Mr. Dubinsky character
ized as the acceptable basis for peace
agreed upon when the negotiations
were suddenly terminated.
"No one man has a mortgage on
the labor movement," Mr. Dubinsky
said. "The labor movement is not
the property of any individual
•group.
He also assailed the role played by
the communists in the CIO and charg
ed that while doing lip service to the
idea of peace in the labor movement
they were cheering the failure to
make it a reality.
Mr. Dubinsky spoke at a special
meeting of 1,200 members of execu
tive heads of his local unions at the
Manhattan Opera House, Thirty
fourth street and Eighth avenue, call
ed to hear his report on the status of
the conflict between the A. F. of
and CIO.
After an analysis of the situation
he characterized as unfounded state
ments by the CIO as to the reasons
for the breakdown of the peace nego
tiations, and declared that the CIO
bore the responsibility for the break
down.
Vital Concessions Cited
The American Federation of Labor
Mr. Dubinsky declared, had made vi
tal concessions on the issue of indus
trial unionism and the curbing of the
power of the executive council to sus
pend affiliated organizations, the two
crucial issues in question.
He also denied assertions, made by
Mr. Lewis and others, that the A. F.
of L. wanted the ten original CIO
affiliates as a condition of peace. On
the contrary, Mr. Dubinsky declared,
the peace basis agreed upon before
the sudden termination of -the nego-
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Position of Lewis Challenged
Mr. Dubinsky also took sharp issue
with the position of the CIO as ex
pressed by Mr. Lewis that the A. F.
of L. admit all CIO unions without
any conditions or preliminary under
standing.
"Such a peae? would be a patch
work peace and would mean contin
uing the fight in the A. F. of L.,'
Mr. Dubinsky declared. "This is not
the way to unity."
At the same time, however, Mr.
Dubinsky announced that "although
we have not been consulted and have
had no say as to its administration
and policies," the International Lad
ies' Garment Workers' Union would
not withdraw from the CIO but would
continue to press for peace.
"We do not believe that out with
drawal from th-? CIO would b2iiefit the
cause of unity and peace," he said
"We do not believe that withdrawal
of any one union either from the A.
of L. or CIO would promote the cause
of peace. But it is our definite con
viction that peace will ultimately have
to be established in the-labor move
ment. We want to make our contri
bution to such a solution, confident
that history will appreciate and justify
our contribution."
With the statement that the A. F.
of L., through its negotiating com
mitee of three, had met substantially
the vital demands of the CIO., Mr.
Dubinsky warned that "the grave cri
sis of the labor movement, accentu
ated by the business recession and
the growth of unemployment," re
quired that the factional war in or
ganized labor be speedily ended.
Urges CIO to Stop Raids
He warned also that "the CIO has
passed its honeymoon period" and
that further advance by organized la
bor under the Wagner act was posi
ble only through peace in the labor
movement. As a first move toward
resumption of peace negotiations Mr,
Dubinsky pleaded that the CIO "stop
raiding and dividing existing unions
of the A. F. of L. and confine itself
to organizing of the unorganized."
Directing some of his sharpest
darts at the communists and their
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Is True Talk About the CIO
By One of Its Important Chiefs
tions provided that all CIO unions
were to return to the A. F. of L. after
existing technical and jurisdictional
differences had been adjusted by joint
subcommittees of the respective or
ganizations.
"I say emphatically it is not true,"
Mr. Dubinsky said referring to the
claim- of the CIO that the A. F. of L.
had sought to prevail upon its orig
inal organizations to desert the CIO
affiliates. "The basis of agreement
reached was that none of the CIO
unions come back until all matters in
dispute had been adjusted through
subcommittees, and that the CIO
unions return as a unified group."
press, who have accused the Interna
tional Ladies' Garment Workers' Un
ion of misrepresenting the facts of
the situation affecting the factional
labor conflict, Mr. Dubinsky said:
"We have not forgotten the de
structive role of the communists in
the past, but more recently, we have
been told, they have adopted a new
line. The new line seems to be the
old line. The communists and their
official organs have been among those
who have ventured to criticize us for
our position. They have charged us
with betraying the labor movement,
Since when has expression of opinion,
an honest revelation of facts, con
stiuted a betrayal of the labor move
ment
(Continued on page three)
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Demand for Birthday Greet
ing Blanks
Washington, D. C.—In support of
the campaign against infantile paral
ysis, the state of Georgia has made
President Roosevelt's birthday a state
holiday. A resolution passed by both
houses of the Georgia legislature
reads in part as follows:
"It is the desire of these bodies
to assist the president of the United
States in his humanitarian program,
and particularly in the fight against
infantile paralysis."
Governor Rivers, of Geogia, has is
sued a proclamation putting the
resolution into effect.
This is the most spectacular hap
pening of the present campaign but
the response in itself has become spec
tacular.
Greeting Blanks Popular
Fifty thousand birthday greeting
blanks have been sent to all parts of
the country. These are blanks with
spaces for 100 names on each, and
each signer gives 25 cents. A full
blank, therefore, means $25 for the
cause.
The unions are calling for these in
surprising numbers and what is yet
more surprising is the speed with
which they ai-e coming back, signed*
sealed and delivered with the cash.
Very few blanks from any but the
near-by states were expected back by
this time. Actually, blanks have come
back from Texas, Oregon, Nebraska,
Minnesota, Wisconsin and Louisiana.
Labor Chairmen Active
It is clear that no particular time
had to be spent in securing signatures.
The Post Office Clerks, being the first
unions workers to receive the cards,
are usually the first to turn them in.
But the first one to get back from
Texas came from the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen.
Local labor chairmen are getting
a splendid response. They are getting
up dances and other celebrations, by
themselves or in co-operation with
other groups. In one town, the Central
Labor Union has secured the co-opera
tion of the Junior Chamber of Com
merce in putting on a dance. That is
certainly a triumph of diplomacy in a
good cause.
AUTO DEATH TOLL UP IN 1937
Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—The
American Automobile Association
tentatively places the nation's 1937
death toll from motor vehicle acci
dents at 39,243, five per cent higher
than in 1936.
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