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labor should be represented "as a
producing partner in industry and
as a major social group."
As to the need for "constructive"
control of the banks, the report
points out that less than 100 banks
control over 60 per cent of the wealth
of the 150,000 financial corporations
in the United States, while they con
trol, in effect, -11 of the non-finan
cial corporations.
"Yet" it remarks,
'while manage
ment of these strongholds of wealth
affects the lives and prosperity of
millions, practically no planning has
been directed toward the prevention
of unemployment, equitable distribu
tion of returns from point production,
the recognition of equities accruing
from the investment of labor in pro
duction, or to secure that balance in
progress necessary to stable pros
perity."
The report says that workers'
wage and salary loss this year has
been $25,000,000,000, and suggests
that in comparison with this sum the
raising of $600,000,000 for hunger
relief, from all sources, seems small
indeed. It makes no definite demand
for federal appropriations, but begs
for generous donations by the rich,
"as a debt due the nation."
Unemployment insurance on a state
by state basis is urged. The report
demands that the funds be raised by
a direct charge on the industries,
and that the workers be exempted
from payments into the insurance
funds. All funds should, it declares,
be held, invested and administered
by the states. Private insurance in
this field would be barred, and trade
unionists
would
be
safeguarded
against being deprived of insurance
when they refused to take jobs under
unfair conditions.
GREEN CONDEMNS
PLAN OF E, L. CORD
[Continuel) from Page One)
him to control the annual meeting
and thus capture the management of
the concern from the Cohu group
which maintains amicable relations
with its employes
Mr. Green pointed out that when
Cord, whose company manufactures
airplanes and airplane equipment,
operated the Century Air Lines, he
reduced the pay of the pilots below
a living wage. He contrasted this
unpatriotic act with the friendliness
for labor shown by the management
of the Aviation Corporation.
Mr. Green's letter to Mr. Cohu
follows:
"The public press within the last
few days has attracted public atten
tion to the attempt which is being
made by Mr. E. L. Cord to dominate
and control the Aviation Corporation.
"Under ordinary circumstances I
would regard such information as a
friendly difference of opinion be
tween certain representatives of the
stockholders in a corporation. In this
instance, however it is different.
Antagonistic to Labor.
"The American Federation of La
bor has for many years been thor
oughly informed regarding the labor
policies of Mr. E. L. Cord in the dif
ferent industries which he dominated,
managed and controlled.
"He has shown a most antagonistic
attitude toward Labor, and particu
larly toward organized Labor. We
are thoroughly convinced that Mr.
Cord is hostile to Union Labor, that
he is opposed to organization among
workers employed in factories and
corporations which he controls. For
this reason, the American Federation
of Labor sincerely hopes that Mr.
Cord will fail in his purpose to gain
control of the Aviation Corporation
of New York City.
Pilots' Pay Below Living Wage.
"We are quite familiar with the
attitude of Mr. Cord in his control
of the Auburn Automobile Company.
"We are also familiar with the
record which he recently made when
he dominated the Century Air Lines,
Incorporated, and the Century-Pacific
Air Lines, Limited. He reduced the
wages of the pilots employed by these
air line companies below a living
wage, nothwithstanding the hazard
of the employment and the great risk
assumed by the air pilots all of
which operated to the great disad
vantage of the stockholders of these
companies.
"His whole labor policy in the
management and control of these
corporations tended to reduce effi
ciency, to lower the high standards
which the air pilots have always
sought to maintain, and actually cre
ated such feeling among the air
pilots as to result in a strike.
Cord Control Would Injure Company.
"The officers and leaders of the
American Federation of Labor firm
ly believe that if Mr. Cord secures
control and through such control
dominates the Aviation Corporation
—which in turn owns American Air
ways, Incorporated, one of the largest
air transportation systems of the
world—it means an attack on Labor
which, of course, Labor will be ready
to resent and resist to the utmost,
"We are certain there can be no
co-operation between Labor, Mr. Cord,
and any company which he dom
inates.
"Surely, the stockholders of the
Aviation Corporation can see from
the picture presented that control of
the corporation by Mr. Cord will
greatly injure the company, cause
constant friction and turmoil between
the management and the employes,
and seriously affect the values of the
properties owned by the stockholders.
Aviation Corporation Friendly
to Labor.
"It will be the purpose of the
American Federation of Labor to
call the attention of members of
Congress and the authorities at
Washington to the fact that Labor
is strongly opposed to Mr. Cord's
labor policies.
"We have been highly pleased over
the development of a co-operative
relationship between the present
management of the Aviation Corpora
tion and its employes; the air pilots
employed by your company have con
fidence in the present management
and for that reason the said
ployes are anxious, willing and eager
to render the highest and most effi
cient service of which they are ca
pable. I do not mean by this that
we regard the wages paid the air
pilots employed as excessive.
Stockholders Should Fight Cord.
"For this reason I can not help
but believe that the highest and bast
interests of all those connected with
the Aviation Corporation, as well
as the highest and best interests of
the public, will be served through a
continuation of the present manage
ment of the Aviation Corporation.
"In behalf of Labor and in the
name of Labor I express the hope
that Mr. Cord will be defeated in his
attempt and purpose to secure con
trol of the Aviation Corporation."
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ROYSTER HURLS DEFY
AT RAIL LABOR HEADS
[Continued from Page One)
and destructive in character." He
heatedly denies the dualism charge.
The executive council resolution,
which will be reported to the con
vention of the American Federation
of Labor at Cincinnati, Nov. 21, also
directs President William Green to
fight the Hatfield-Keller industrial
retirement pension bill, now pending
in Congress, and to support instead
the Wagner-Crosser bill, subsequent
ly introduced and which Royster
characterizes as "infamous" and "a
nefarious, galling insurance mon
strosity."
Royster Hurls Defy.
Defying the chiefs of the 21 stand
ard railroad labor organizations and
the executive council of the A. F. of
L. to do their worst, Chairman Roys
ter advises the members of his or
ganization to "take up the notches
in your belts and fight on!" The
full text of his circular letter fol
lows:
"Our labor chiefs of the 21 stand
ard railroad labor organizations, re
alizing their loss of prestige with
their membership for espousing the
infamous Wagner-Crosser retirement
annuity insurance bill, frantically ap
peal to the executive council of the
American Federation of Labor for
help to saddle their nefarious, galling
insurance monstrosity on the backs
of the transportation workers.
"Like a well co-ordinated machine,
the executive council of the A. F. of
L. throws a sop to the 21 railroad
labor chiefs by indorsing the Wag
ner-Crosser bill and then grandilo
quently and with a great show of
understanding presumes to advise
Senator Hatfield and Congressman
Keller who we are and the purpose
of the Railroad Employes' National
Pension Association.
Not a Dual Organization.
"The membership of our associa
tion is composed of members of the
21 standard railroad labor organi
zations who recognize the incompe
teney of our labor chiefs to handle
legislation providing a retirement
[tension for transportation workers.
That it may be handled competently
by themselves is the one purpose of
the Railroad Employes' National
Pension Association's existence, and
we have no other purpose. Will the
members of the executive council tell
the members of Congress this? No!
They are labor chiefs themselves
and cannot conceive that, after their
own election as heads of their respec
tive organizations, there is enough
intelligence left in the rank and file
to promote anything.
"The executive council of the A. F.
of L. further salves the labor chiefs'
hatred of the Railway Employes' Na
tional Pension Association by de
nouncing us as dual to and destruc
tive of the 21 standard railroad la
bor organizations. Again we deny
the charge and repeat that, by reason
of the purblindness and incompetency
of our railroad labor chiefs in hand
ling the social question of retirement
pensions for the transportation work
ers, the Railroad Employes' National
Pension Association has been estab
lished for the purpose of promoting
that work and none other.
Steamroller Tactics.
"We are sorry that the executive
council of the A. F. of L. yielded
to the wailing importunities of the
railroad labor chiefs, yet it has done
just what we had expected it to do.
The American Federation of Labor
is machined like our own craft or
ganizations, but is farther removed
from the rank and file to such an
extent that your voice is scarcely
heard.
Notwithstanding its faulty
structure, there are some noble, high
minded, well-intentioned men on its
official staff, dependent on their jobs
for a living, who are coerced and
driven to act contrary to their better
judgment.
L L. N. S. Criticized.
"The International Labor News
Service, a subsidiary of the A. F. of
L., endeavoring to fill a very much
needed and necessary function for all
workers, is to be used as a club to
browbeat, bully and intimidate the
transportation worker to give up the
beneficial provisions of the Hatfield
Keller bill and accept the infamous,
vicious and galling Wagner-Crosser
bill. We are sorry the International
Labor News Service is to assume
the role of a racketeer; we had hoped
it could be used in a more useful
and constructive field. The poten
tialities of such a field are enor
mous, and it should be subsidized by
the A. F. of L. for that high pur
pose.
"The American Federation of La
bor will be in convention at Cin
cinnati the latter part of this month.
Without a doubt it will approve the
action of its executive council regard
ing the Railroad Employes' National
Pension Association. Do not be dis
mayed. We will carry on as we have
heretofore. It is not in the province
of the A. F. of L. to tell you and me
of the transportation workers how
we shall think, act or do, or how we
LABOR COLLEGE
SEEKS STUDENTS
[Continued ,'roni CngeOne]
The tuition fee is $40 for each
quarterly term of 12 weeks, and this
is the only expense to the student
except a few cents a week which
he may wish to spend for tobacco,
candy, etc. His board, room and
laundry service are furnished by
the college in exchange for 20 hours
work per week on the college farm
campus.
Both students and teachers "work
their way" at Commonwealth. The
school is largely self-supporting, rais
ing most of its own food upon its
farm and garden. Work done by
students and teachers includes farm
ing, gardening, cooking, chopping
wood, milking cows, washing dishes,
washing and ironing clothes, roof
ing and building, etc.
The only entrance requirements are
intelligence and an interest in the
labor movement.
PRESIDENT GREEN
OPPOSES SALES TAX
Page One I
tied hardship and suffering. During
all this period it has manifested
qualities of self-possession and self
restraint which have challenged the
admiration of its many friends. It
is inconceivable that Congress would
add to the suffering which Labor
has endured by imposing upon it the
additional burden which it would be
called upon to bear in case Congress
passes sales tax legislation.
"The issue is clearly drawn. The
question is shall the wealth of the
nation bear its proper share of the
tax burden or shall it be transferred
through the enactment of sales tax
legislation to the homes, the fire
sides, the earnings, and the lives of
the poor, the masses of the people,
many of whom are forced to forego
the bare necessities of life?
"As the American Federation of
Labor has always fought for the pro
tection of the average citizen, the
workers of the nation, it will in this
instance fight as never before to
protect Labor against being made
the victims of sales tax legislation.
I Continued fr
METAL TRADES DECRY
RULE OF BANKERS
[Continued from Page One]
Company, and one or two other
super-banking concerns, who control
the labor policy which the commer
cial bankers hand down to the actual
operators of industrial companies.
"It is immaterial," O'Connell and
Frey point out, "whether the con
trol now exercised by bankers over
corporation policy was the result of
careful planning. ... A generation
ago the average wage earner dealt
with his employer directly, through
personal contact or through trade
union organization. . . . Now in
thousands of instances the board of
directors is unable to determine what
its industrial policy will be until it
has secured the permission or ap
proval of a great banking institu
tion.
"This condition, from which we
cannot escape at present, makes col
lective bargaining, so far as the
manufacturing and other large em
ploying corporations are concerned,
a graver problem, a more difficult
one, than any our trade union move
ment faced in connection with col
lective bargaining a generation ago."
Much of the report is devoted to
the economics of the shorter work
day and the economics of overtime
and of wages. It emphasizes the
point that the vast over-capitalization
and the collapse under which the
country is now suffering would have
been impossible had there been a
sane distribution of the profits of
shall use our influence and citizen
ship rights for the promotion of a
retirement pension for our declining
years. The action of the executive
council of the A. F. of L. was to
soothe, calm and relieve the wailing,
moaning and chastized railroad labor
chiefs. Take up the notches in your
belts and fight on!"
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industry through a higher wage scale
and a shorter work day.
As a major step toward restoring
the lost power of the workers to bar
gain effectively for a fair division
of profits, the report urges the en
actment of a federal law requiring
corporations and others engaging in
interstate commerce to operate under
federal licenses. Such licenses would
establish a control somewhat similar
to that under which steam railroads
have been placed. It would include
a clause safeguarding the right of
labor union organization.
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