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In a communication sent this week
to Matthew Woll, American Federa
tion of Labor vice-president and chair
man of the American Labor Commit
tee to Aid British Labor, President
William Gren hailed distribution of
Aid British Labor subscription books
among thirty thousand local unions af
filiated with the American Federation
of Labor. The subscription books are
being circulated among the four and
a half million members of the Amer
ican Federation of Labor as part of
the committee's campaign to raise
funds for the relief of the British
workers who are battling valorously
against the onslaught of the axis
powers.
Expressing confidence that the drive
would attain tremendous success, and
urging every member of the American
Federation of Labor to help attain that
end, President Green, who is honorary
chairman of the committee, said: "I
am sure the loyal American people
who are members of the American
Federation of Labor will welcome this
opportunity to make their individual
contribution, however modest, not only
as concrete evidence of their desire to
MINES BUREAU HEAD
URGES DEFENSES FOR
INDUSTRIAL PLANTS
Nation's Factories Must Be Protected
Against Fire and Explosive Bombs.
Washington, D. C. (ILNS). For
the protection of our arsenals and fac
tories producing defense materials,
the nation's firemen, policemen, plant
guards and industrial workers should
be informed immediately of the known
ways and means of coping with in
cendiary and explosive bombs and
other inflammatory devices which are
the favorite weapons of saboteurs,
Dr. R. R. Sayers, director of the Bu
reau of Mines, United States Depart
ment of the Interior, warned here.
"Defense against fire," said Di
rector Sayers, "has become part of
our national security."
Much Data Gathered
In a personal report to Secretary of
the Interior Harold L. Ickes, Doctor
Sayers pointed out that the bureau has
been studying the explosibility and
inflammability of a wide range of ma
terials used in the construction of in
cendiary bombs.
Much data already have been gath
ered by bureau engineers and chem
ists through their long experience in
the study of metal dusts in plants
producing and processing aluminum,
zinc, magnesium and other minerals.
The bureau also is keeping itself in
formed on measures used abroad to
control and extinguish fires started by
incendiary devices.
The Bureau of Mines, Director Say
ers made clear, is concerning itself
not with policing or protective meas
ures but solely with the technical and
scientific aspects of the problem.
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SUITS, TOPCOATS
Etc.
Your Choice of the
SMARTEST IN PATTERNS
THE NEWEST IN STYLE
All Kinds of Remodeling.
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GEO. KAFPEL
162 North St.
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President Green Urges AFL
Members Aid British Labor,
Buy New Subscription Books
Books Being Circulated Among Four and a Half Million
Members as Part of Campaign to Raise Funds for Relief
of British Workers, Battling Against Axis Powers.
VOL. XLI. No. 10. HAMILTON, OHIO, FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 1941.
give relief and assistance to our
brothers across the sea, but also as a
means of expressing their 'hate and
disgust for the totalitarian powers who
would crucify laboring men and their
unions as the first step in bringing
about their so-called 'new order,'
which is really not new but is merely
a new mask on the old order of the
jungle, respecting neither decency nor
justice, and relying for its existence
merely on brute force in the subjuga
tion of the weak by the strong."
The campaign also has been en
dorsed by President Roosevelt and
Wendell L. Willkie and is now on in
full force. It is receiving the active
co-operation of all state federations of
labor through their presidents who
are acting as state chairmen, and an
overwhelming number' of city central
bodies. Contributions through these
bodies and national, international and
local unions have already commenced
to roll in. From all indications it would
seem as if this campaign will surpass
any previous effort on the part of the
labor movement to relieve suffering
and want, and advance the cause of
labor.
Many Vulnerable Plants
America's experience during the
World War, declared Sayers, proves
that we have many vulnerable targets
for those intent on sabotage. The
objectives of a potential enemy would
include factories producing ordnance,
chemicals, explosives, armor plate and
other essential war materials freight
depots, dock buildings, power plants,
dams and bridges along transportation
lines.
Prior to our entry in the World
War approximately 100 outrages were
perpetrated by saboteurs in munitions
plants, technical factories and ware
houses and explosives and fires oc
curred on a large number of ships
hauling war materials. Considerable
ingenuity was displayed in the design
and making of incendiary bombs then,
but it is likely that the modern sabo
teur will be even more effectively
armed.
It is important, the Bureau of Mines
says, that the information relating to
the nature of incendiary devices, the
suitability of various extinguishing
agents and fire-fighting techniques be
made available to our federal and local
protective agencies and through them
to the general public.
HEALTH DEFECTS IN
NYA YOUNG PEOPLE
Washington, D. C. (ILNS).—Nine
out of every ten young people em
ployed on the National Youth Admin
istration out-of-school work program
appear to be suffering from health
defects most of which can be remedied
by proper care, says a preliminai'y re
port on medical examinations of NYA
youth workers published by the Jour
nal of the American Medical Asso
ciation.
This report is based on the results
of medical examinations of 10,000
young men and women employed on
the NYA out-of-school program in 21
states. These examinations were made
by local practicing physicians and den
tists as part of the nation-wide health
program of the NYA which is de
signed to improve the health and build
up the physical fitness of the youth
workers.
One of the most significant results
of these examinations is the revela
tion that one out of every four of the
youth examined reported they had
never been to a dentist and 18% re
ported they had never been to a phy
sician.
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New York City (ILNS).—Under the
present homework system neither fac
tory nor homeworkers in the glove
industry of New York State earn a
decent living, State Industrial Com
missioner Frieda S. Miller declared in
announcing public hearings on a pro
posed order to regulate industrial
homework in glove manufacture.
At the same time, Miss Miller made
public the findings of a study of
working conditions in the glove indus
try made by the Division of Women
in Industry and Minimum Wage, State
Department of Labor under the di
rection of Miss Kate Papert, director.
"In the glove industry in New York
City the facts speak for themselves,"
said Miss Miller. "When wages of
workers are found to be as low and
in many cases lower than relief
budgets which provide for a 'minimum
of subsistence,' then it is obvious
something needs to be done.
Meager Earnings Revealed
Reviewing briefly the highlights of
the study, made in 1938 and 1940,
Miss Papert pointed out that New
York State was the largest glove pro
ducing state in the country and that
it was the only state which used home
work to any extent. Concentrated in
Fulton County where citizens are said
to have been "born with gloves in
their hands," Gloversville and Johns
town, New York, have become famous
for the production of gloves. Home
work thrives there but the homework
ers themselves do not thrive on their
low earnings which often have to be
supplemented by relief.
One-half of the homeworkers mak
ing leather gloves earned less than
$169 a year in 1937-38 and in the
knit glove industry, where annual
earnings were highest, half of the
homeworkers goi less than $277 a year.
In 1938 a fourth of all homeworkers
in the industry earned less than $200
a year and only one per cent got $80C
a year or more. These figures wero
slightly higher in 1939-40. To make
matters worse, homeworkers have ex
penses for purchase and repair of
iriachines and other minor items.
Pay Falls as Homework Gains
Although most of the work on
gloves requires skill, wages were found
to be lower than in industries where
work is unskilled, Miss Papert said.
In some cases, the wages were as low
or lower than in service industries
such as hotels and restaurants where
workers get meals and lodging to
supplement their wages.
Annual earnings in the glove in
dustry declined as homework in
creased. For the year ending March,
1940, factory workers averaged $631
and homeworkers $328 a year. Miss
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Low Pay in N. Y. Glove Industry
Forces Workers to Go on Relief,
In Homework System, Neither Factory Nor Homeworkers
Earn a Decent Living, Says Industrial Commissioner—
Glove Work Requires Skill, but Wages Not in Class.
Papert emphasized that those figures
are a far cry from the amounts which
the Department of Labor considers
necessary for adequate living. These
figures are $1,172.43 for a woman liv
ing alone and $1,044.36 for one living
in a
family
group.
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Twenty per cent of the homework
ers who had no other employment
visited throughout the state by Labor
Department investigators were on re
lief at the time or had been.
Fair City Visitor: "What's that I
smell?"
Farmer: "That's fertilizer, Miss."
Fair City Visitor: "For land's sake!''
Farmer: "Yes, ma'am."
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UNIONS IN ATLANTA
MAKING HUGE GAINS
Atlanta, Ga. (ILNS). American
Federation of Labor unions are mak
ing rapid progress here and Atlanta
has become a stronghold of union la
bor in the South, reports E. L. Aber
crombie, chairman of the Atlanta Fed*
eration of Trades organizing com
mittee.
The central body now has almost
100 affiliated local unions with a com
bined membership of approximately
35,000.
In the last few weeks charters have
been installed for a local of (No. 859)
Laundry Truck Drivers the drivers
of the WofFord Oil Company have
gotten a contract with the company
and have become a part of Taxi Driv
ers' Local 450 Millinery Workers' Lo
cal 95 has renewed its contract with
M. Kutz Company and obtained a
union shop agreement with American
Hat United Garment Workers' Local
29 has obtained a blanket increase of
5 per cent for its members employed
by the E. R. Partridge Company.
International Ladies' Garment
Workers' Local 122 has every dress
manufacturer in Atlanta under con
tract Electrical Workers' Local 84
and Street Railway Employes' Divi
sion 732 receiving signed contracts
with the Georgia Power Company,
making them the highest paid work
ers of their two respective crafts in
the Southeast.
Several other contracts have been
signed by local unions and others are
in process of negotiation, Abercrombie
announced.
Workers Strike Only
As A Last Resort!
The average American worker is
unwilling to go on strike if he can
possibly help it. Strikes mean loss
of income they mean suffering and
privation for the worker and his fam
ily. Strikes bring a threat of violence
and a threat to the whole economic
security of the worker. But when
workers are subjected to intolerable
conditions, when they meet with stub
born resistance on the part of em
ployers, they know concerted action
is the most effective means available
to them for mutual aid and protection.
-—William Green.
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