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Washington, D. C. (ILNS). The
Supreme Court at its last sitting
granted two appeals for review much
more important to labor than any of
the cases decided at the same sitting.
The Fansteel Metallurgical Corpora
tion, North Chicago, 111., refused to
bargain collectively with its workers.
The result was a strike and mainly
for a time a sit-down strike. The
county court issued an order calling
for eviction of the strikers, and the
sheriff carried out the order. Before
that, however, the company had fired
the strikers.
Board Blamed Company
The N. L. R. B. ruled that while the
sit-down strike was illegal, the com
pany had led the way in illegality. It
had persistently and for months re
fused to bargain collectively with its
employes, and interfered with their
organization—both actions against the
law. The company's action produced
the strike, the board said. The N. L.
R. B. ordered that certain of the dis
charged men be reinstated or com
pensated. The Seventh Circuit Court,
holding that participation in the il
legal sit-down strike gave ground for
discharge of the men, by a two-to-one
INDUSTRIAL DECLINE
IS BIGGEST IN THE U.S.
Geneva (ILNS). Index numbers
compiled by the International Labor
Office and published in the new edi
tion of its Year Book of Labor Sta
tistics, show that in March, 1938, the
latest month for which complete fig
ures are available, industrial produc
tion in 12 countries was from 23.1 to
28.4 per cent higher than in 1929. In
8 other countries, however, it was
from 4.0 to 33.6 per cent lower than
in 1929.
The greatest increase, 82.4 per cent,
occurred in Latvia and the greatest
decline, 33.6 per cent, in the United
States.
Countries, besides Latvia, in which
production exceeded the 1929 figure,
and the percentage of increase given
by the Year book for each, are: Japan,
79.1 Finland, 58.3 Estonia, 50.0
Sweden, 46.0 Chile, 36.4 Denmark,
35.0 Hungary, 32.9 Roumania, 31.4
Great Britain and Northern Ireland,
23.6 Norway, 23.2 Germany, 23.1.
Countries, besides the United States,
in which production was lower than in
1929, and the percentage of decrease
given by the Year Book for each, are:
Austria, 4.0 Poland, 4.5 Canada, 13.5
Czechoslovakia, 18.2 the Netherlands,
18.5 France, 21.3 and Belgium, 32.1.
RADIO STATION GOES UNION
New,Orleans (ILNS) .—Broadcast
ing station WDSU, New Orleans,
joined the two other major stations of
this city in agreeing to employ only
union musicians when a contract was
signed by the station, and Joachin
Pipitone, president of Musicians'
Union, Local No. 174. The contract
runs until January, 1940.
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To Appeals For Review Granted Of Great Importance To
Labor—Judge Appoints Court Of Five Judges To
Hear Case—Decision Is "Without Prejudice."
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Supreme Court Agrees To
Review Decision of Lower
Court On Sit-Down Strike
Miss Perkins said that 248,000 work
ers were placed in positions in October,
with automobiles, body and part plants
alone absorbing 85,000 new employes.
Retail trade establishments, she said,
hired about 44,000 additional workers
in October to handle the increase in
fall business.
Manufacturing as a whole, the sec
retary said, added 156,000 employes to
payrolls, exclusive of a decrease of
103,000 casual workers in canneries.
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Weekly payrolls rose about $5,
100,000 a week, a gain of 3.3 per cent,
the secretary reported.
The secretary said that general
gains also were reported in wholesale
and retail trade establishments, anth
racite and bituminous coal mines and
private building construction, result
ing in a higher payroll index for Oc
tober than any other month in 1938.
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SEES GROWING SENTIMENT
FOR LABOR PEACE
Washington, D. C. (ILNS).—Secre
tary of Labor Perkins told a press con
ference here that she has found a real
desire for reconciliation between the
two opposed labor groups among both
A. F. of L. and C. I. O. members and
that this desire is growing.
Asked about the naming of a peace
committee, she answered that this was
one of many "trial balloons" which
ought to be tried.
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vote squashed the board's order.
Supreme Court will review.
In the other matter, the Civil Liber
ties Union got an injunction from
Judge William Clark in New Jersey,
restraining Mayor Frank Hague of
Jersey City from stopping free speech
in his town and driving out union or
ganizers. He appealed to the United
States Third Circuit Court. This was
his right. But Judge J. Warren Davis
of that court took the unheard-of ac
tion of fixing a court of five judges to
hear the case—and calling back two
retired judges to sit on it.
Decision "Without Prejudice"
These judges are Joseph Buffiington
and J. Whittaker Thompson, two of
the very old men who got the Third
Circuit the name of the "Methusaleh
court who took prominent part in 16
decisions which the Supreme Court re
versed in one session.
The Supreme Court refused the re
quest of the Civil Liberties Union to
disqualify this made-up court—but did
so on matters of form, and expressly
"without prejudice" to future motions
in the matter. Morris Ernst, attor
ney for the Civil Liberties Union, is
jubilant.
ILLION RETURNED
TO JOBS SINCE JULY
Washington, D. C. (ILNS).—About
500,000 non-agricultural workers have
been returned to jobs in the four
month interval since July, bringing the
total number of persons at work to
34,000,000, compared with 38,000,000
in 1929 and 37,000,000 in September,
1937, Secretary of Labor Perkins re
ports.
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President Green said in part:
"Labor is not opposed to principles
involved in profit-sharing but it is op
posed to the way in which it has de
veloped and operated. Profit-sharing
as developed in the United States was
imposed on all existing economic in
justice and discouraging union activity
to secure a fair basic wage. So-called
profit-sharing plans were mainly de
veloped by corporations that at
tempted to substitute for real collect
ive bargaining an arrangement termed
employe representation which for the
most part was the form without the
substance.
Collective Bargaining Vital
"Labor believes all plans affecting
labor must rest on collective bai-gain
ing. Beginning with the basic fact of
our social organization that people
must have incomes to buy the neces
saries and comforts for living, labor
asserts the right of every person to
opportunity to earn that income which
includes the right to payment from
work done.
"The right of labor to the fruits of
its toil has been obscured by the com
plexities flowing from the corporative
form of financing, and mass produc
tion with its standardization of de
signs and machines and sub-division
of work for repetitive processes. Cor
poration financing has altered and ob
scured the responsibility of investors
in a business enterprise. Mass pro
duction or large scale production has
obscured the relation between the
worker and his productiveness.
"What is needed in this situation is
genuine organization of workers in
unions.
No Substitute For Justice
"This union function is indispens
able to justice to workers, to balanced
progress of the industry within the
business structure and to social jus
tice and peace in the community. De
nial of this fundamental justice to
those who carry on the production
processes of industry or maintain our
service institutions, or attempts to
frustrate collective bargaining are
what cause labor disputes and social
discontent. Substitutes for justice
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VOL. XXXVIII. No. 35. HAMILTON, OHIO, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1938. ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR
A. F. of L. Opposed To
Taxing
Power
We're Sure Santa Will Take Care o' This
Labor Is Not Opposed To Principles Involved In Profit
Sharing—Collective Bargaining Is Vital Factor—
Labor Has Right To The Fruits Of Its Toil.
Washington, D. C. (ILNS).—Pro
posals to use the taxing power of the
government to promote profit-sharing
plans are "unalterably opposed" by the
American Federation of Labor, Presi
dent William Green of the federation
told a Senate finance sub-committee
investigating profit-sharing systems.
Senator Clyde L. Herring of Iowa is
chairman of the sub-committee.
may for a time prevent the outbreak
of disputes but they increase and fos
tera spirit of unrest which sooner or
later takes its toll.
"In recognition of these facts our
nation has undertaken to assure to
wage earners the right to organize in
unions and to bargain collectively
through representatives of their own
choosing. This priceless foundation of
economic liberty we intend to main
tain against all invasions whether by
employers or governmental adminis
trators.
"Labor cannot be asked to accept
blindly management's decision on
what constitutes profits. All of the
facts must be available.
"(1). Production and costs records
must be equally available to union and
management.
"(2). Sales policies must be con
sidered by both parties and be mutu
ally acceptable. All records must be
equally available to both sides.
"(3). Salaries of executives and
officers and returns to investors must
be subject to the same conditions.
"(4). Financial policies and pro
posals must be subjected to the same
review and decision.
Standard Wage Comes First
"(5). The standard wages of pro
ducing workers, which are production
charges should be fixed by collective
bargaining at the highest level indus
try could reasonably be expected to
pay and should provide for customary
standards of living proportionate to
productivity as human labor power is
increased by mechanical power and
machine tools, and reflecting lower
unit production costs. The standard
wage is the cost item which is the first
charge in industry and which is neces
sary to the sustained consuming power
upon which all business depends.
"(6). Profit-sharing or a partner
ship wage is the share which labor
would have in the net income of the
enterprise. In reality labor is a part
ner in production, not from the in
vestment of capital, but from the in
vestment of experience and work
ability. As a partner labor would
have a voice in determining rates of
profit-sharing.
"The American Federation of Labor
is unalterably opposed to using the
tax power of the government to pro
mote profit-sharing plans. We are
squarely opposed to amending the So
cial Security Act to provide tax credits
for funds, allotted to profit-sharing or
any similar purpose, however worthy
they. may. be in themselves.''
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Building To Continue
Active This Winter,
F. II. A. Officials Say
Washington, D. C.
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predict continuation
of hes»v,v c- idon-
tial consina tie:, durinv lm u rate'
They bused t!u for a. (V:-!kt
figures. In that «i:ih, applications
for niortcag*.- insurar on ?rsa!:
homes totaled $:i7,467,l)Oi and mort
gages accepted for insurance $64,
627,000, increases of 117 and 82 per
cent respectively
for
Odohor.
Property improvi mom o?*
which insurance was provided, num
bered 53,A'4 with a value of $22,
367,000—the hitrk- volume
since Housing Act amer.dn.i-:as be
came effective last February,
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Iwaukee, Wis.—Delegates to the
convention of the National As
m: "f Real Estate Boards, rep
iting 50,000 members from 455
ated bodies, which met recently
!Iwaukee. condemned Congress-
Wright Patman's "death sen
chain store tax proposal as a
are which would "bring economic
to all American trade, commerce
i di?«try.'' The association deci
fo :demn the proposed measure
voii-d after the board heard Pat
plea.-.' for his own legislation, and
II. \'ystrom, Professor of Mar
at Columbia University, pre
sd facts in opposition.
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Back Nation-Wide Drive Against In
fantile Paralysis—Pledge Whole
hearted Co-operation.
Washington, D. C. (ILNS).—Sev
enty-three officers of national and in
ternational unions have wired pledges
of wholehearted co-operation of their
unions in the Fight Infantile Paralysis
Campaign of 1939. This was in re
sponse to the invitation of President
William Green of the American Fed
eration of Labor that they join with
him in the formation of the Labor Di
vision of the Committee for the Cele
bration of the President's Birthday.
Wholehearted co-operation and a
deep understanding of the necessity of
this campaign made up the keynote of
every message to President Green.
Tni record support of the leaders of
labor definitely proved that labor is
fully aware that the dread infantile
paralysis knows no boundaries and
that it takes its highest toll within the
families of labor.
Daniel J. Tobin, president of the
Teamsters' Union, clearly voiced this
-enlinient in his acceptance, saying:
•'Only those of us who have had sick
ness of this kind, or a sickness of a
similar nature, can fully appreciate
the necessity of maintaining an in
stitution by public subscription which
will help wipe out the dreadful scourge
of infantile paralysis which has per
-e"ot"d our safety for years."
To Send Greetings
This year every member of -organ
ized h-bor will have the opportunity
of sendi.ir his personal greeting to
the President on his fifty-seventh
birti,lay. With this greeting to the
IV -i 'ent will go the contribution of
lab:-! to the National Foundation for
In!'-..mile Paralysis. Labor's contribu
te v ill be known as Labor's Silver
te and should represent the gen
y of every union member.
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