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fflSilPPP Washington, D. C. (ILNS.) Tradition, chiselling, and above all the lack of union protection are the chief reasons why women's wages are much lower than those of men. So says a revealing bulletin issued by the Women's Bureau of the Department of Labor, prepared by Mary Eliza beth Pidgeon. For the most part, women's work in industry differs from that of men —but that, the bulletin shows, is not even a good excuse for the lower wages, let alone being a reason. It says: "While the special skills and apti tudes of women differ somewhat from those of men, in the jobs they per form women are quite as important to industry as men are, and are wor thy of better wage consideration than they now receive. Differences in skill that may exist are far from sufficient to justify a wage to women that fre quently is only 60 to 70 per cent as great as that paid to men." Women's Pay Uniformly Low The bulletin likewise takes sharp issue with the Brookings Institution statement that discrimination against women is not an important factor. "The data," says the bulletin, "show an almost uncanny uniformity in the extent to which women's wages MANY EMPLOYERS Still Fight Labor Act, Mad den Charges Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—J. Warren Madden, chairman of the Na tional Labor Relations Board, in a broadcast recently recalled that the Wagner act did not really come into full force until the supreme court declared it constitutional only 1 3 months before. Then, he said: "Many thousands of employers at once accepted the law. They dispens ed with their industrial spies, recog nized the dignity of their employes, and instructed their supervisors and foreman to keep their hands off union affairs. The consequence has been an unprecedented growth of unions, old and new, and thousands of new col lective bargaining contracts which have given mutual self respect and stability to labor relations." Unfortunately, Madden went on, many employers were determined to evade the law. "There is a discour aging absence of any spirit of good sportsmanship of fair play among these people," he said. Madden pointed out that strikes have dropped off since the supreme court's decision. In March of this year, there were 235 strikes involv ing 52,000 workers, as against 614 strikes involving 290,000 workers in March last year, just before the de cision of the supreme court. The supreme court, Madden noted, has reveiewed the board's work 11 times and upheld the board 11 times, though it was necessary to reverse the circuit court of appeals, 7 times to do this. Hague Rule in Jersey City Under U. S. Inquiry Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—The department of justice has been ivest igating for several weeks to deter mine whether persons coming under the Hague ban in Jersey City have been deprived of civil rights in a way that permits the federal government to act. The law which will be invoked if the evidence is secured is the same law under which the Harlan county trials are now in progress a statute passed in 1870, making it a criminal offense for two or more persons to conspire to deprive a person of the rights guaranteed by the constitution v«' Lack of Union Protection Big Cause of Low Wages Paid Women Workers -I 1 are below men's, in spite of changes in the general wage level, in public sentiment, in business conditions, or in source of labor supply, and re gardless of locality, type of indus try, period of time, method of pay, or other qualifying factor." "Women's lack of organization un doubtedly forms a large factor in keeping their wages at low levels, but in many instances is a hangover from the traditional attitude that assigns a low money value to work thought of as women's work. "lit is obvious that the low wages received by women produce a low standard of living for the women themselves and in many cases for their families, especially in those now very numerous cases in which wage earning women support dependents and even entire families of consider able size. All Pay Lowered "But the effect of this situation is far more widespread than that, since it has a definite tendency to depress wage standards in general for both sexes, extending and perpetuating the ills of poverty and dependency and placing a premium on the displace xnent of men and the hiring of women at reduced rates." Senator La Follete indicates that with proper financing his civil liber ties committee probably will investi gate charges that civil liberties have been violated by Mayor Hague. La Follette told friends this shortly after the senate voted a $60,000 ap propriation to continue the commit tee's work. Union Pays Out $75,000 To Idle Members New York City (ILNS)—Local 117 of the Cloak Operators' Union, affil iated with the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, is paying out about $75,000 to 1,400 of its un employed members who have had less than $300 in wages this year. It is the first time anything quite like this has happened in the union. The fund was raised by contributions from the 10,000 members who are at work. Those who have earned no wages this year get $85 each those earn ing up to $100, $65 those receiving between $100 and $200, $55 and those from $200 to $300 get $45. The sick benefits of the union are $10 a week for not more than 10 weeks. Lfkt oWar .3 ?film8, AOI OIN AOIA SENATE OPPOSITION TO RAILROAD PAY SLASHES GROWS Wasahington, D. C. (ILNS)—Chair man Wagner of the Senate Banking and Currency Committee has joined the opposition to proposed govern ment loans to railroads in the face of a projected 15 per cent wage reduc tion. Wagner's committee had under con sideration a bill which authorizes the RFC to make loans to railroads for equipment and to re-employ workers furloughed since September 1, 1937. Senator McAdoo, a member of the committee, also announced that he would oppose the legislation if the carriers placed into effect the 15 per cent reduction. The same stand was taken by Senator Truman of Mis souri. Senator La Follette and Chairman Wheeler of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee, opened the drive against the proposed wage cuts with a declaration that faulty debt structures were the cause of the car riers' plight. Read The Press. Parts for Tractors-Trucks & Autos INSIST ON GETTING THE BEST You always get the best at the Savage Auto Supply Co. 636 Maple Avenue HAMILTON, OHIO Phone 116 rHE BUTLER COUNT Y PRESS. H/fr*,, L'X( VOL. XXXVIII. No. 8 HAMILTON, OHIO, FRIDAY, MAY 27 1938 ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR FOR PITY WILL ww IP w-y/mm (CopyrlRhr, W. N. IT.) Cincinnati (ILNS.)—The A. F. of L. Union Label and Industrial Exhibition here, first national exhibition of its kind, was a tremendous success. Op ening on May 16, it ran through the week, delighting exhibitors by the size and interest of the audiences which came to see and delighting vis itors by the quality and quantity of the exhibits. I. M. Ornburn, the real daddy of the show, was greatly pleased—though the major part of his mind was al ready occupied with plans to make the next show even better. It*was a cooperative show the members and officers of American Fedei'ation of Labor unions cooperat ing with business firms and corpora tions which employ members of the A. F. of L. unions. As William Green put it: "Members of labor unions are al ways glad to cooperate with business men who recognize the rights of workers to organize and who adhere to the principles of collective bar gaining. Those fair-minded and high est standard manufacturers deserve and should be awarded the billions of union earned dollars which the fami lies of these A. F. of L. type of unions annually spend for their living re quirements. "Organized labor wants to recipro cate." Union Plants Well Represented Union labor employers of Cincin nati were all represented, of course though no one could have guessed that tlfey would be so very well rep resented. But that was just a start. Brown and Williamson were there, and Axton Fisher, both from Louis ville, to show that a union man need not buy non-union tobacco but can always get a union smoke. Carnation of Milwaukee—"milk from con tented cows," made it clear that you do not need to patronize anti-union industries to feed the baby. Outstanding exhibits were present ed by many union groups, including the Bakery and Confectionery Work ers' International Union of America Journeymen Barbers International Union Retail Clerks International o e i v e A s s o i a i o n i n i n Pressmen's and Assistants' Union of North America Associates for Gov ernment Service Allied Printing Trades Association International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauf feurs, Stablemen and Helpers of America Cigar Makers International Trials of a Vet SETTIN' INTO TH' OLD1'BUCK PRIVATE RE&AJUA"(FOR TH' 1EMOR/AL DAY P4RAD&) 5T A MA JO# UNDERTAKING T/-/ESE DAVs/ you THAT BUTTONED I CAN THlB ALU Field of Goods and Services. Union Building Trades Council of Cincinnati International Typograph ical Union.... Glass Bottle Blowers As sociation Amalgamated Meat Cut ters and Butcher Workmen of North America Silk Industry Joint Council, composed of unions and employers in the silk industry. Women In Convention Delegates to the American Federa tion of Women's Auxiliaries of Labor held their convention in Cincinnati the same week, and of course they attended the exhibition. Since in 99 homes out of 100, the woman of the house is the chief purchasing agent of the family, this circumstance has an added value over its natural in terest. It may be added that the In ternational Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, the only organization which joined the CIO and has not been ex pelled from the A. F. of L., was also present. Coming back to local industries, the labor sponsors of the exhibition never will forget the help they got from the Crosley Radio Corporation. On five nights before the show opened A. F. of L. speakers were given fif teen minutes, without charge, to boom the coming show over the air. Wil liam Green, president of the A. F. of L., led off. Next, several eve nings later, came Matthew Woll, head of the Union Label Trades Depart ment. Later still, I. M. Ornburn spoke he is, as said before, the real originator of the show. Then came George M. Harrison, president of the Railway Clerks, and then Ornburn, who was director general of the ex hibition as well as secretary-treas urer of the A. F. of L. Union Labed Trades Department, again used the radio shortly before the opening. Radio Programs Popular As if this were not enough, the Crosley people furnished five radio programs at the Music Hall, where the exhibition was held, on the fii'st five days of the show. There was nothing more popular in the exhibi tion than the radio programs and the use of the radio in general. Another popular and educational feature was a complete house and lot, even to the lawn mower, in the north wing. A Union Buying Guide, a catalogue of union fii-ms and companies clear across the United States, was pub lished by the sponsors of the exhibt tion. WURRV v.* VOU'LL MISS TH' PAPADE-- Iti h Wk/n, Cincinnati Union Label Exhibition Is Smashing Unions ancf Fair Employers Co-operate To Dramatize Label Buying Exhibits Make Plain Benefits of Purchasing Union Prod ucts and Show "Buy Uni n Label" Is Easy Rule to Follow in Wide and Varied Success COOPERS IN CONTRACT WITH PEORIA COMPANY Peoria, 111. (ILNS).—A union shop agreement has been signed between the National Cooperage Company of this city and the Coopers International Union. The agreement ends a year old controversy which resulted in a strike last summer. Under the con tract, the lowest wage to be paid will be 00 cents an hour for unskilled labor, ranging up to standard rates for skilled cooperage workers MEAT CUTTERS WIN PACKING PLANT VOTE Chicago, (ILNS).—An overwhelm ing victory for the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America, an affiliate of the American Federation of Labor, was the result of an election called by the National Labor Relations Board, with the consent of all parties involved, to determine whether the A. F. of L. union or the United Parking House Workers, a CIO organization, would represent workers employed in the principal plant of Kingan & Co., at Indianapolis. The Amalgamated received 998, the CIO affiliate, 450, of the votes cast in the labor board poll, and 63 ballots were thrown out. The election was called after an agreement with the company had been signed by the A. F. of L. union. 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"As a result, there has been a steady departure of factories from our state to the lower wage sections of the country. In every industrial commu nity between Buffalo and Albany, we can today view the devastating results of this exodus of industry. Rochester, Utica, Oswego and Troy are but ex amples of the hundreds of smaller communities suffering from unem ployment occasioned by the closing down of manufacturing plants. New York city, likewise, has suffered from this economic plague. Uniform Law Is Vital "How can New York industry pay twice the wage scale paid in some other states and hope to compete with those products of cheap labor? Of course, the answer is—it cannot be done. If this is true then, we are badly in need of a uniform minimum wage law to protect our own industries. Unless we do so, and do it quickly, our industrial centers are doomed. "Let us look at one of New York's typical industries and see the exist ing situaion. New York manufactur ers approximately 70 per cent of women's clothing. Most of the work ers in this industry enjoy a 35-hour week. In the cloak industry, wages uverage from $1.10 to $1.65 per hour. In the dress industry, wages average from 75 cents to 90 cents an hour. These wages run fully twice as high as wages in many other states, mak ing the same articles. Specifically, in the neckwear, skirt and underwear industry, New York industries pay an average wage of 56 cents an hour. The same class of worker in Texas receives 31.8 cents, or 56.8 per cent of the New York wage. In Maryland that some worker receives 33.3 cents per hour and in North Carolina, he receives 32 cents per hour. North Offends, Too "A Mississippi cotton dress factory pays $10.68 for 105 hours of work and $15.39 for 137 hours of work. This means that employes in that fac tory work from 50 to 70 hours per week for a pittance of from $5 to $7 per week. In New York state, the employe would receive triple that wage for one-half the time. PRIEST CHAMPIONS RIGHT TO ORGANIZE New York City (ILNS).—Rev. John P. Monaghan, one of the founders of the Labor College at Fordham Uni versity, declares that the woi'king man of today is "morally bound to organ ize," because only through organiza tion can he keep his individuality and get the necessities which God meant him to have. k BRING YOUR CAR UP TO STANDARD SOHIO