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They are Sec.-Treas. Thomas J.
Donnelly, veteran legislative agent of
the federation who is nationally
known as an authority on labor legis
lation Vice-President John E. Breid
enbach, Dayton, and Vice-President
Albert Dalton, Cleveland. Breiden
bach is also president of the Dayton
Central Labor Union and a member
of the city commission, while Dalton
is business representative of the
Cleveland Building Trades Council.
Industrial Relations Director George
A. Strain will attend the conference
as the personal representative of Gov
ernor Bricker. Fifth delegate desig
nated by the governor is Ralph E.
Ward, director of industrial relations
for the Ohio Chamber of Commerce.
Bricker Names Delegates To
Labor Legislation Meeting—
Banquet Marks Anniversary
Reports of conference committees
on state wage and hour legislation,
federal-state co-operation, and child
labor are on the conference program.
State experience with minimum wage
SOVIET ARRESTS
LABORLEADERS
New York City (ILNS). Labor
and Socialist leaders in Poland have
been arrested by Soviet authorities
and taken to Soviet Russia, it was
disclosed here by Joseph Baskin, gen
eral secretary of the Workmen's
Circle, national labor and fraternal
organization.
Donnelly, Breidenbach, Dalton to Attend Conference at
Washington—Industrial Relations Director George A.
Strain and Ralph E. Ward to be Other Delegates.
Ohio Xabor News Service)
Columbus, Ohio.—Three officials of
the Ohio State Federation of Labor
were among five men named last
week by Governor John W. Bricker
as delegates from Ohio to the sixth
national conference on labor legisla
tion at Washington, called for No
vember 13, 14 and 15 by Secretary of
Labor Frances Perkins.
Baskin announced information on
the arrests had been received by his
organization, the American Federa
tion of Labor and other labor groups.
Among those arrested, Baskin said,
were Henrick Ehrlich, leader of the
Jewish Workers' Federation of Po
land, and Victor Alter, member of the
Warsaw Council, president of the Por
lish National Council of Trade Unions,
member of the executive committee
of the International Federation of
Trade Unions and of the Labor and
Socialist International.
City Officials Arrested
Others reported arrested and taken
to Russia are Hersh Himmelfarb,
member of the Warsaw City Council
and an official of the Needle Trades
Unions of Poland, and other leaders
of the Jewish Workers Federation of
Poland in Vilna, Bialystok and other
cities.
Among those arrested by the Nazis
are M. S. Siegelbaum, an alderman
of the city of Lodz and member of
the central committee of the Jewish
Workers' Federation.
"The news of the arrest of these
leaders and others has given rise to
grave misgivings concerning their
fate among their labor friends in
America," Baskin said.
Held As Hostage
"As regards Mr. Siegelbaum, for
example, we have learned that he is
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law administration will also be dis
cussed.
One of the features of the confer
ence will be a banquet commemorat
ing the twentieth anniversary of the
founding of the Internationa] Labor
Organization at Geneva. Principal
speaker at the banquet will be John
G. Winant, director of the I. L. O.
The ninth minimum wage confer
ence will be held jointly with the la
bor legislation conference. James P.
Walsh, Jr., superintendent of the
Minimum Wage Division of the Ohio
Department of Industrial Relations,
will attend the sessions of that con
ference.
Mary Anderson, director of the
Women's Bureau, U. S. Department
of Labor, will preside over the ses
sions of the minimum wage confer
ence, at which the principal subjects
of discussion will include state mini
mum wage orders and effective pro
visions standards of state minimum
wage laws, enforcement and admin
istration.
Industrial Relations Director Strain
announced that the Ohio department
would have an exhibit describing its
activities at the labor legislation con
ference. The exhibit will be in charge
of Albert Azolino, chief of the Divi
sion of Labor Statistics.
being held by the Nazis as hostage
for the safety of Nazi officials in
Warsaw. He is led daily through the
streets of Warsaw in chains, a living
warning to the population that no dis
obedience will be tolerated.
"The fate of Mr. Ehrlich, like that
of others taken to Soviet Russia, is
unknown. He was a leading political
figure in Poland, with an interna
tional reputation. He visited the
United States in recent years and is
personal friend of such American
labor leaders as David Dubinsky, Sid
ney Hillman and Norman Thomas."
"LIBERATING" THE
PEASANTS
(From New Leader, New York City)
An important aspect of the Russian
loot of Poland is that the Bolsheviks
have taken over a large peasant pop
ulation devoted to individualist agri
culture, and we may expect the same
terror and privations for these peas
ants that destroyed millions of their
kind in Bolshevik Russia, Public
ownership of cows, pigs, chickens,
rakes, hoes, plows and harrows is fan
tastic enough, but when to it is added
forcible seizure of products and ex
termination of "kulaks" who are con
sidered exploiters if they possess a
few cows and work animals, the Bol
sheviks make a caricature of social
ization.
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This ruthless and brutal policy in
Russia ha"S not solved the agricul
tural problem although it has cost
the lives of millions of helpless peas
ants by famine, execution and exile.
The Ukranian and Polish peasants,
now booty of the Communazi con
quest, face the prospect of similar
horrors in the next few years. The
"liberators" will liberate them by
crucifying all who object to "social
ization" and by enslaving the i-est.
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Washington, D. C. (ILNS).—War in
Europe has become a more powerful
"shot in the arm" to American busi
ness than any "pump-priming" tried
by the administration in the last
seven years, the American Federa
tion of Labor says in its current
monthly business survey.
The rise in px'oduction, however,
the survey says, is due almost entirely
to American business firms and con
sumers acting in anticipation of for
eign orders by retooling or expanding
their plants. "Foreign orders have
not yet come to us in any volume,"
it asserts.
The federation warns that the "war
boom" may not last long and may
collapse into business recession.
"We have no way of knowing what
the demand from abroad will be," the
survey points out. "If belligerents
continue the 'war of waiting', de
mands for heavy material will be very
much below expectations.
"We can only count surely on our
own home market, which depends on
the buying power of American wage
earners. Forecasters are now ex
pecting first quarter 1940 business to
be 10 per cent below the last quarter
of 1939."
Pay Increases Urged
The survey urges that labor should
receive its full share of the increased
national income, but that pay raises
be permanent gains, based on re
duced labor costs.
"Rising production means decreas
ing unit labor costs, enabling indus
try to pay higher wages. It is es
sential that labor receive its full share
of the increasing national income if
recovery is to be maintained."
The survey devotes considerable at
tention to the danger of rapid price
increases, pointing out that such in
creases are a serious threat to re
covery. It says the outlook for prices
is vital to union members and that
"unions can be of important help in
preventing undue price increases," by
reporting to the A. F. of L. any un
due increases in the prices of goods
they buy.
Food Supplies Ample
"There is no shortage of food in
the United States and supplies of
practically all important staples are
ample," says the survey, which con
tinues:
"Except in cases where prices are
below production costs, there can be
no excuse for large increases. Union
members now have a special oppor
tunity to act as consumers and help
to make the present business recovery
a steady, balanced revival, preventing
price inflation and its unavoidable
sequel of economic collapse.
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Armistice Day
War Is Big Spur To American
Business
But
War Has Become Powerful "Shot in the Arm" to Ameri-|
can Business—American Business Firms Acting in
Anticipation of Volume of Foreign Orders.
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"Much will depend on constructive
action by unions (1) to raise wages
in proportion as labor costs are re
duced (2) to help prevent undue price
increases. Increased buying power is
essential to make this a permanent
recovery."
The survey reports that probably I
1,250,000 wage earners have returned
Wages Must Go
Up To Assure Lasting Recovery
COMPANY TO PAY FINE
to work since August 1. Growing! ^or the company consented to the sec
payrolls are already bringing impor-l 1'etary's final order.
tant increases in retail trade, it says.
C. OF C. HEAD SCORES
ORGANIZED BUSINESSl
Chicago (ILNS).—Vigorous denun
ciation of the failure of business to
act and improve its own labor rela
tions by O. W. Otto, manager of the
Lansing, Mich., Chamber of Com
merce, featured the twenty-fifth an
nual convention of the National As
sociation of Commercial Organization
Secretaries, held here.
This failure, said Otto, had given
radical labor leaders every oppor
tunity to capitalize upon a bad sit
uation.
"Labor Here to Stay"
If the policies and thinking of
chambers of commerce had been suf
ficiently advanced it would have been
more difficult to incite costly strike:
which have paralyzed business, ere
ated bitter feeling and deprived em
ployes of needed payrolls," Otto told
representatives of more than 400
cities and all of the 48 states wh
attended the convention, adding:
"Labor has the same right to or
ganize as has business. Labor is he
to stay. Yet we find chambers of
commerce that never paid any atten
tion to labor organizations until th
Wagner Labor Relations Act becanv
the law or until a serious threat af
fected one of its prominent member
Paternalism Held Invited
Too many business groups actually
invited government interference am
paternalism by asking the govern
ment for help in a situation which
they could have handled, Otto de
clared. Government, he said, would
not have made so many encroach
ments into the field of agricultur
banking, transportation, education
and even retailing and wholesaling it"
business had kept in step with the
times.
Otto also criticized business' atti
tude on taxation and spending, say
ing:
"Too often chambers of commerce
are inconsistent. They ask for
$1,000,000 W. P. A. project in one let
ter and in the next breath dictate a
fervent appeal to their congressmen
asking that taxes be reduced."
Washington, D. C. (ILNS).—Sec
retary of Labor Perkins has approved
a compromise settlement under which
the Sigmund Eisner Company, Red
Bank, N. J., will pay a $31,958 fine
for violations of the Walsh-Healey
Act. Miss Perkins did not "black
list" the firm. Department officials
had recommended that the company
be barred from receiving government
contracts for three years. Attorneys
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Washington, D. C. (ILNS). The
Washington branch office of the In
ternational Labor Organization an
nounces that the second regional con
ference of American states at Ha
vana, November 21, will consider or
ganizing technical and financial fa
cilities to assist European immigrants
seeking permanent homes in the
western hemisphere.
The conference agenda is headed by
social insurance problems, and regu
lation of working conditions of women
and children.
The government, employer, and
worker delegates will give first at
tention to the results given the rec
ommendations adopted at the first I.
L. O. conference of the Americas held
at Santiago, Chile, in 1936. For ref
erence by delegates, and exhaustive
survey of social legislation enacted
throughout the New World during the
past three years has recently been
published by the I. L. O. secretariat
at Geneva.
A highlight of the Havana proceed
ings will be a report to be delivered
by the I. L. O. director, John G. Wi
nant, three-time governor of New
Hampshire and first chairman of the
Federal Social Security Board.
The following representatives of
the I. L. O. governing body have been
named to attend the Havana sessions:
Carter Goodrich, newly-elected gov
erning body chairman and United
States labor commissioner at Geneva
Paal Berg, retiring chairman, of Nor
way Isadro Fabela, Mexican govern
ment representative at Geneva. Also,
Leon Jouhaux, French labor leader,
and Robert J. Watt, ex-sceretary of
the Massachusetts Federation of La
bor—both worker representatives on
the governing body. And, as em
ployer representatives, Henry I. Har
riman, ex-president of the United
States Chamber of Commerce,
Georges Curcin of Yugoslavia.
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