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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8,1939.
ADMINISTERING LABOR
LEGISLATION
The American Federationist, offi
cial magazine of the American Fed
eration of Labor, points out that per
sons who know labor problems and
the labor movement are essential to
good administration of labor laws
Mere theorists will not do, it shows.
"Necessarily the training, the un
derstanding and the personalities of
those charged with such administra
tion, have much to do with the results
obtained," it says.
Administration of labor laws, the
federationist further points out, "has
suffered seriously" because in many
cases persons appointed as adminis
trators have had no practical experi
ence in labor problems or the conduct
of unions. In other cases they have
been Communists or other radicals
"for whom their jobs are only oppor
tunities to serve their revolutionary
causes," the magazine remarks.
The Federationist has touched on a
serious problem, one which needs to
be called frequently to the attention
of the nation.
RUSSIA'S ULTIMATE GOAL
"Soviet Russia has no intention of
imperiling Finland's independence and
does not want to interfere with her
internal affairs," Molotov, Russian
premier, said.
Well, pin that in your hat. There
may be occasion to refer to it.
Put along with it this from Berlin
"There is an understanding here of
the Russian need to secure an un
menaced route to the Baltic Sea."
The Russian army is not equipped
for any "Blitzkrieg." They have
neither the mechanical traditions nor
the skill, nor the discipline of the
Germans. But they do have what
Russia has always had: an immense
horde, with some modern trappings
and a confused use of modern lan
guage in military and mechanical
connections.
They would make a bloody mess of
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COMMENT ON WORLD EVENTS
Death from the
American workers.
tions at war, the menace is ever pres
ent and precautions against airplane
bombing attacks are in themselves a
serious nuisance and even grave evil
in many cases. What the "black-out,"
one of the chief defenses against suc
cessful bombing attacks at night
means in the way of difficulties for
labor and industry is indicated by a
recent discussion of the subject be
tween representatives of British or
ganized labor and government offi
cials.
sky menaces no
In European na-
Industrial ill-effects of the "black
out," particularly as regards ventila
tion, eyesight and output, were taken
up with the Home Secretary, Sir John
Anderson, by a delegation from the
Trades Union Congress General Coun
cil, headed by Sir Walter Citrine, gen
eral secretary. Representatives of
British industry and commerce were
also present.
The Home Secretary agreed that
the "black-out" was a nuisance, but
was based upon strategic reasons. The
air staff naturally wanted any attack
ing airplanes to be at maximum dis
advantage. The searchlight system
only worked to the fullest advantage
in complete darkness. The principal
argument against switching out light
ing by means of a master switch was
that in most of the towns street light
ing was not on an independent cir
cuit, he said.
From the industrial point of view
some relaxation had to be given to
the switching yards of railways and
in docks where diffused light had been
substituted for direct lighting, he ad-
it, but they could, by persistence, push
across the Scandinavian peninsula to
the Atlantic coast. The mountainous
country would make it difficult and
slow but they are a slow people, and
terribly persistent. They hate Eng
land. Together with Germany, whose
logical drive is through Holland and
Belgium, they may end the era of
modern civilization in Western Eu
rope, by an invasion of the "tight
little isle."
In that case, Canada might become
the new headquarters of the British
Empire. And the foreign policy of
the United States would have to deal
with a brand new set of facts—and
neighbors.
None of this is rational—but neither
is the war which "Finland is making
against Soviet Russia." It is a sort
of Alice in Wonderland, with Satan
handling it as a personally conducted
affair.
WHAT NEXT?
A Diesel-electric locomotive, de
signed for freight service, has been
built by the Electro-Motive Corpora
tion as a "bold challenge in the field
where the steam locomotive is in its
most favored position." The engine
will soon be tested in service.
WISDOM
A proverb is a short sentence based
on long experience.—Cervantes.
Formerly
Archbishop Urges End
To Internal Labor Split
THE C. W. GATH CO.
New Orleans (ILNS). Speaking
before the New Orleans Trades and
Labor Council, Archbishop Joseph F.
Rummel expressed the hope that the
present internal struggle in the ranks
of labor would be brought to an early
end and that labor factions would co
operate to take advantage of their
opportunities. In this age, he said,
there is a great opportunity for unifi
cation of labor which is now being
dissipated by the present lack of unity.
Robert G.Taylor Mortuary
Funeral Directors
SOCIAL and CARD PARTY
Every Friday Night
THE SPOT I OR HEAL ENJOYMENT
MOOSE HOME
At 8:45 P. M.
Chairs and Tables Rented
17 So. Street
Hamilton, Ohio
mitted. He agreed that in some in
dustrial factories the "black-out" in
terfered with ventilation, but thought
that this could be overcome by appro
priate means.
Representatives of docks, ship
building, cotton textiles, the pottery
effect of gasoline rationing upon the
bus services, were mentioned.
In reply Sir John Anderson said at
first glance it did seem as if it were
a reasonable proposition to impose
lighting restrictions half- an- hour
The meeting ended with the inti-|
mation from the Home Secretary that
the matter would be further discussed!
at the next meeting of the National
Joint Advisory Council, on which la
bor is represented.
ONE RULE IGNORED
(Continued from page one)
methods of computing the average]
weekly wage of the worker, had re-1
ported that worker's wage to be I
higher or lower than that arrived atl
under the administrator's determi-|
nation.
his total earnings by the number of
weeks worked, would be used as the
basis of benefits.
Application of this arbitrary and
confusing rule, unfair to both worker
and employer, is without question re
sponsible for appeals of workers who
have found that their "full-time" wage
reported by their employer has been
ignored, resulting in a lower benefit,
and complaint of gioups of workers
in the same wage and hour classifica
tion who have received variable bene
fit amounts.
JOHNS-MANVILLE
SIGNS UNION PACTI
Contract Includes Wage Increases and
Paid Vacations for 1,800 Employes.
(By A. F. of 1.. Weekly News Service)
Chicago, 111,—A. F. of L. Federal
Provision is also made for an
hour day and 40-hour week with timel
and one-half for overtime and recog-|
nition of the union as sole collector
bargaining agency for approximately
1,800 employes.
YOUTH PLACEMENT
FIGURESSHOW GAIN
Washington, D. C. (ILNS).—Place
ments of youth in private industry
during October, 1939, through the
junior placement services operated by
the National Youth Administration in
co-operation with state employment
services, showed a 75 per cent in
crease over the corresponding month
last year, Aubrey Williams, N. Y. A.
administrator, announces.
During October, 11,441 placements I ^at
were made 24,001 new applicants|
registered with junior placement serv
ices 80,589 interviews were held andl
3,420 employers were visited by em
ployment counselors and solicited for|
jobs.
Since the establishment of these I
services in March, 1938, 599,249 new|
young people registered 1,973,288 in
terviews were held 242,016 place
ments in private industry were made,!
and 118,400 employers were solicited]
for jobs.
IMAY TO NOVEMBER
EMPLOYMENT IS UPI
Washington, D. C. (ILNS).—Pre
liminary Department of Labor figures
show a gain in factory employment
of 25,000 in the period from mid
October to mid-November, Secretary
of Labor Perkins reported.
The increase, Miss Perkins said,
and printing industries themselves I was largely in steel, cotton textiles,
pressed the Home Secretary, urging I electric machinery, aircraft construc
that the half-an-hour after sunset Ition and slaughtering. Normally, she
would not result in any glow in the I said, seasonal employment declines in
sky and would enable the working I the canning and apparel industries,
week to be arranged without invoking I resulting in a loss of approximately
Sunday labor. The impossibility of 1135,000 jobs in the period.
weaving colored yarn by artificial I Non- agricultural employment in
light, the effect of working young I the United States, the secretary said, I great deal about
women and girls in the darkness, the I has increased by 1,600,000 from May I torch
I to November. The increase in mid
November, she added, was smaller
than those which occurred between
August and September and Septem
ber-October but was at a greater rate
than in any month during the period
of rising employment of 1936 to 1937
after sunset, but the air staff reported I except in December, 1936.
Increases in aircraft construction
that this particular time was very
dangerous.
On behalf of the Trades Union Con
gress General Council, Sir Walter
Citrine agreed that there was a lim
ited choice in the matter, but he re
minded the Home Secretary that in
dustry could not produce materials
for the prosecution of the war without
some relaxation. Other members of
the General Council stressed the ef
fect of the "black-out" on the venti
lation of factories, sugar beet fac
tories, etc.
and steel, Miss Perkins said, probably
were due to domestic needs and the
national defense program and not war
orders. She said the European war
still too recent to be reflected in
increased industrial orders.
SHELTER FOR MAGNA
CARTA
Continuing to disregard estab
lished procedure, in event no weekly
earnings occurred with sufficient fre
quency during the benefit quarter to I Magna Carta rests, wherever it is ac
establish an average weekly wage bylcepted as the foundation stone of the
his method, Administrator Atkinson I slowly built wall against anarchy and
has ruled that the actual earnings of I despotism alike, is a strong citadel,
the worker, arrived at by dividing I It could not be sheltered in a stouter
(From the New York Times)
For the duration of the war the
Lincoln Cathedral transcript of Magna
Carta, which thrilled so many millions
in the British Pavilion at the World's
Fair, will be guarded in our national
Library of Congress at Washington
This precious relic of the Anglo-Saxon
race, the parent cell through which
our liberties have been transmitted
into the living body of democratic
law, has been placed appropriately
among the archives which hold our
own precious relics, the Constitution
of the United States and the Declara
tion of Independence.
It is a long way from Runnymede| ties,
to the totalitarian assault on the or
dered freedom which Magna Carta
foreshadowed. It has taken many
centuries to establish the represent
ative government of free men now
challenged once again. Wherever
stronghold than on the hill where our
Capitol stands and from which ourl
laws descend. Magna Carta, dated
A. D. 1215, and the latest law which
comes from Congress are of the same|
fabric.
The Cherry
Imagine a country in which there
was no youth. This might not be one
in which there were no people who
I had lived a comparatively short por
tion of their earthy space. It might
be one in which the spirit of youth,
Labor Union No. 19508 announced I which is enthusiasm, daring, idealism I
the signing of a new agreement with land, above all, undisillusioned hope,
the Johns-Manville Company,
asbes-lhad
been killed. It wouldn't be much[
tos supply manufacturers. I of a country.
Under the agreement, the basic I This is so true that the inexorable I
wage rate is increased from 50 to laws of nature unhesitatingly sacri-|
55 cents an hour, the hourly wage
rate is increased by 3 cents, and pro
vision is made for one week's vaca
tion with pay.
fice the old for the new generation.
Things just do not go on, with
dinosaurs or men, unless the
young generation gets the best of
the breaks.
But one of the first flurries of re-1
viving business was a clamor fori
skilled workers.
A quarter of a million youngsters I
coming onto the "labor market" each
year and not enough trained workers
to fill even the preliminary expansions
of industrial activity. At least, sol
some have claimed.
Security upon which to found
family, resources for what is called
the "better life," on $15 per week.
More and more good people are
thinking and talking and working
with this problem. More and more
are coming out courageously, refusing
longer to blink facts.
More and more it is being borne in
on those who feel realization and re
sponsibility that the failures of today
in this field cannot be repaired in the
future. Whatever is done of injustice
to the youngsters now coming up will
leave its traces on the future of this
nation to the end of time.
Each generation, as it achieves ma
turity and begins to see the end of
its own road, is prone to vaporize a
handing on the
In this case, we had better see
that the said torch is not the sooty,
smelly and very dimly lit smudge
we are now carrying.
As is customary, with social prob
lems, the awakening to this grim fact
seems to be belated but there are in
dications that it is at hand.
But, as is again the customary
thing, it will have to be exten
sively vocalized and discussed be
fore action can be had.
Parents, and all others should per
form at least the service of seeing
that there is plenty said about the
present situation and the prospects
of those who will shortly have to take
over the running of affairs.
LABOR DEPARTMENT
INSPECTORS NAMED
Columbus, O. (OLNS). Appoint
ment of two inspectors in the min
imum wage division and one in the
division of factory and building in
spection were announced last week by
George A. Strain, director, Ohio De
partment of Industrial Relations.
Val Kanouse, Dayton, member of
Machinists' Local 225, was appointed
factory and building inspector
Montgomery, Preble and Greene Coun
Kanouse has been prominent in
the organized labor movement for
yeaars, as an official of his union and
the Dayton Central Labor Union and
also as a delegate to conventions of
the Ohio State Federation of Labor
Bliss Frame, Cincinnati, member of
Electrical Workers' Local 212, has
been assigned to the Cincinnati area
as investigator for the minimum wage
division under Superintendent James
P. Walsh, Jr.
Sara B. Underwood, Dayton, was
appointed investigator in that city for
the minimum wage division. The po
sitions pay $1,800 per year.
A. F. of L. Auto Union
Wins In Two Elections
The A. F. of L.-chartered United
Automobile Workers' Union won bar
gaining agent rights for employes of
two companies, one in Cleveland and
the other in Sandusky, in recent elec
tions conducted by representatives of
1 the National Labor Relations Board
V Where with our
Little Hatchet we
tell the truth
about many things, sometimes pro
foundly. Sometimes flippantly,
sometimes recklessly ilware and Forging Company gave the
And other reports say that a big|
percentage of the idle youth are un
employable, from physical by-products I
of undernourished and hopeless un
employment, by lack of training, or|
training in the wrong way or by in
evitable loss of morale.
Light is thrown on the situation by I
a sample in Philadelphia. According
to a survey made there, it appears
a^ou^
graduates of 1936 have succeeded in
the ensuing two years, in getting
some kind of an economic toe-hold.
Of the remainder, 36 per cent are
still seeking jobs. The rest are ap
parently back at school, marking
time. Or they have given up. Or
something else has happened to them.
Of those who had been successful
in getting some kind of job, only 30
per cent of those vocationally, in other
words, specially trained, were receiv
ing more than $15 per week*
Employes of the Cleveland Hard
A. F. of L. union a 3-to-l majority
vote, while workers at the Brightman
Nut Manufacturing Company, San
dusky, favored the A. F. of L. over
the C. I. O. as their representative
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VIETAL TRADES BODY
N ORGANIZING DRIVE
Cleveland, O. (OLN.S) An exten
sive organizing drive and reorganiza
tion of the Cleveland Metal Trades
Council, composed of A. F. of L.
unions with members employed in
metal fabricating shops, is under way
here in charge of a special committee.
Members of the committee are Ray
C. Muehlhofer of the Metal Polishers'
Union George W. Haas of the Mold
ers' Union, and C. D. Madigan of the
Pattern Makers' Union.
James P. McWeeny, former head of
the council, has been transferred to
the East by the A. F. of L. to push an
organization drive among shipyard
workers on the Atlantic coast.
BUILDING PERMIT VALUES UP
Washington, D. C. (ILNS). The
valuation of permits for new residen
tial construction in October gained
five per cent over September and 19
per cent over October, 1938, Secretary
of Labor Perkins reports.
NEW JERSEY JOBS INCREASE
Trenton, N. J. (ILNS).—More than
12,000 workers resumed their jobs in
New Jersey afctories in October, La
bor Commissioner Toohey reports. He
also reports that weekly payrolls have
increased more than $738,000, reach
ing the highest level since 1929.
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NOTICE
Members and Friends
Bartenders' Local 169 wishes to announce that we do not sponsor
Bartenders and Waitresses Dance held at tfie Hayloft, Winter's
Hotel, New Miami, as it is not a union bar.
BARTENDERS' LOCAL 169
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