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VOL. 18. No. 22.
GALVESTON, TEXAS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1937.
Subscription Price $1.50 Per Year
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NORTH CAROLINA STATE
FAIR GOES UNION SHOP
GOVERNMENT WORKERS
RE-ELECT C. STENGLE
Agreement With A. F. of L. Union in
New York Fixes Minimum Wages
and Grants 40-Hour Week.
Tells Plasterers Convention That Tactics of Lewis’ Dual Or-
ganizations, Based On Minority Rule and Dictatorial Lead-
ership, Have Disrupted Trade Union Movement, But That
the A. F. of L. Is Marching Steadily Forward Despite the
Divisionists.
ED PIN AUD SIGNED UP
BY COSMETIC WORKERS
AMERICAN
FEDERATION
OF LABOR
REGULAR MEETING OF THE
GALVESTON LABOR COUNCIL
Official Organ of the
Galveston Labor
/
Council and Building
Trades
Then let us all, when we begin
To slander friend or foe,
Think of the harm one word may do
To those who little know.
Remember, curses sometimes; like
Our chickens, “roost at home.”
Don’t speak of other’s faults until
We have none of our own.
MORRISON UPHOLDS SUSPENSION
OF TEN C. 1.0. UNIONS BY A. F. L
In speaking of a person’s faults,
Pray, don’t forget your own;
Remember, those with house of glass
Should never throw a stone.
If we have nothing else to do
But talk of those who sin,
’Tis better we commence at home.
And from that point begin.
I’ll tell you of a better plan,
And find it works full well,
To try my own defects to cure
Before of others I tell,
And though I hope sometimes to be
No worse than some I know,
My own shortcomings bid me let
The faults of others go.
NO SETTLEMENT REACHED AS YET
IN LOCAL FLOUR MILL STRIKE
Tells Typographical Union Convention That Lewis’ Minority
Group Sought to Overthrow Both the Constitution of the
American Federation of Labor and Democratic Procedure
in the Organized Labor Movement; Cites Steel Strike of
1919 as Typical Example of Co-operation Among Many
Unions in Conducting Big Industrial Disputes.
Official Organ of Galveston Labor Council, Dock and Marine Council
and Affiliated Unions
Endorsed by the Texas State Federation of Labor
ANDREW FURUSETH
IS NOT DESTITUTE
GREEN RAKES C.LO. FOR DIVIDING
LABOR AT PLASTERERS SESSION
facts and have repeatedly advised inquir-
ing friends that no financial assistance is
needed for the Father of the Seamen’s
Act and the sponsor of many measures
for th benefit of seamen specifically and
the workers generally not only in the
United States but throughout the world.
We have no right to judge a man
Until he’s fairly tried;
Should we not like his company,
We know the world is wide.
Some have their faults—and who has not?
The old as well as young,
Perhaps we may, for aught we know,
Have fifty to their one.
LOCAL VOICE
OF THE
“Is that sound trade unionism or
not? Who suffers when labor is divid-
ed? There would have been no divi-
sion of labor if there had been no
Committee for Industrial Organiza-
tion.”
Supports Unions of Skilled Workers.
The delegates cheered Mr. Green
when he said that the workers in the
printing trades, members of. the typo-
graphical union, the photo-engravers
and the like, many
By AFL News Service.
Washington, D. C.—Totally unfounded
rumors have been circulated that And-
rew Furuseth, grand old man of the sea-
men, is dstitute and in need. Furuseth
was 85 years old last March. He has been
under a doctor’s care for several years
and has been confined to a private home
here with a special full time nurse for
nearly a year.
Until recently all his requirements
have been met by the International Sea-
men’s Union of America and loyal
friends have long ago come to the front,
volunteering to assume any expense to
make carefree and comfortable the last
days of this great leader and liberator.
No one is authorized to collect a penny
for Andrelw Furuseth. All his earthly
wants are fully provided.
President Green and Secretary-Treas-
urer Morrison of the American Federa-
tion of Labor have been aware of these
The Foilwing Donations Have Been
Received Since Last Issue.
Popular Sandwich Shop $2, Fuzzy
Hufft $1, Blue Anchor $2, Stagg News
Stand $2, Cotton Exchange News
Stand $1, Home Plate Cigar Stand $3,
Martin Ohenstein $1, Little Turf $2,
Y Club $1, Uneeda Laundry $2.50,
Leopold Shafer $5, Joe Varnel $2, Kid
Flake $1, Murdoch’s Pier $1, Ed Per-
thius l sack potatoes, Sunseri & Co.
1 sack onions, Magnolia Paper Co.
1000 bags, C. & C. Co. 1 sack corn-
meal, Bock’s Place $2.50, I. L. A. No.
851 $10, Baroni 50c, Tom Dodson $10,
Electrical Workers No. 527 $10, I. L.
A. No. 307 $28, May Clothing Store
$1, Machinists No. 6 $10, Cross Road
Tavern $1, Pop’s Place $1, Palms $1,
Spot $2, Sam J. Williams, groceries,
Denver convention, which will con-
vene on Oct. 4 of this .year, will show
a membership of over three million,
three hundred thousand, as of the
month of August, 1937. This does not
include the membership of the ten na-
tional and international organizations
automatically suspended Sept. 5, 1936,
for refusal to withdraw from their af-
filiation with the Committee for In-
dustrial Organization.
Since the suspension of the ten or-
ganization with a membership of 982,-
316, over 830,000 paid members have
been added to the American Federa-
tion of Labor.
Organizing Mass Production
Workers.
In 1934 the question of organization-
al policies was decided by a unanimous
vote upon the question of organizing
mass production workers. The conven-
tion instructed that international un-
ions be chartered of “automobile work-
ers, cement workers, aluminum work-
ers and mass production and such mis-
cellaneous industries as in the judg-
ment of the executive council may be
necessary to meet the situation.”
The council reported to the 1935 At-
lantic City convention that they had
complied with the instructions of the
San Francisco convention and had is-
sued international charters to auto-
mobile workers and rubber workers.
Industrial Unionists Wanted A. F.
of L. Constitution Violated.
Notwithstanding the report made by
the executive council, the adherents of
industrial organization, on the resolu-
tions committee, submitted a minority
report calling upon the executive coun-
cil to issue charters “without restric-
tion” to all workers in mass produc-
tion and other industries upon indus-
trial and plant lines, regardless of the
claims based upon the question of jur-
isdiction.
To take the action recommended by
the minority report would be in viola-
tion of a provision of the constitution,
of the American Federation of Labor
adopted in 1900 which became a law in
1901.
The constitution instructs the execu-
tive council that no charters shall be
issued to any national or international
union or local union that infringe on
the jurisdiction of any existing affili-
ated organization without the written
consent of the organization or organ-
izations whose jurisdiction is being in-
terferred with.
Majority Report Adopted.
This minority report was discussed
at great length and with unusual feel-
ing by the delegates to the 1935 con-
vention and was defeated by a vote of
18,024 against the minority report and
10,933 for the minority report.
The council of the American Feder-
ation of Labor was therefore under in-
structions to carry out the action of
the San Francisco convention which
was adopted by a unanimous vote of
that convention. The delegates of the
ten suspended unions voted for the
San Francisco report, which was re-
affirmed by the Atlantic City conven-
tion in 1935.
George iReyder Produce Co., half sack
cabbage, A. B. C. Stores, groceries,
Fair Maid Baking Co. is giving 80
loaves of bread every day.
The Galveston Labor Council is
sponsoring the commissary, and its of-
ficers report they are prepared to fur-
nish groceries for the strikers twice a
week for an indefinite period. They
state if the strike lasts a year they will
still be one hundred per cent behind
these men. It’s up to the Star Flour
Mills to ask for "a conference. Union
labor has done all it can. If the mills
want to remain idle and prolong the
strike they will find the two cereal
unions on the picket line 24 hours a
day just as long as it lasts. The Union
Review extends congratulations to
these two unions for their high spirits
and peaceful picketing.
The strike at the Flour Mills is in its third week and the two
unions are receiving- encouraging aid from all the organizations
visited so far. All of the men are in high spirits and say they would
rather remain out forever than go back under the same conditions
they had 'before the strike was called. At the regular meeting of the
Brewery Workers Union No. 130 last Sunday morning, the commis-
sary committee of the Galveston Labor Council made its appeal to
the union. Three of the cereal members were with the committee
and told of some of the conditions that prevail at the mill. Even
the trucks were in such bad condition that they were slave killing.
It is almost impossible for the mill to get bran packers because
the work is so hard. Packers who came here for a while from other
mills had to leave because they could not stand up to the work, one
of the members stated. At times the men have to run to keep up
with the machinery and when such conditions prevail the manage-
ment will not place more men to help.
The Brewery Workers donated $100 worth of groceries to the
strikers.
It was stated at the Labor Council meeting Monday night that
the management asked for a conference and stated they would like
for the men to come back to work and that negotiations could go
on while they were working. Thereupon the representatives of the
unions asked if the points that could not be agreed upon would be
settled by arbitration and the management of the mills flatly re-
fused. The mill management.ask for the men to return last Monday.
The Union Review can not see why the Star Flour Mills are so
opposed to arbitration-, unless it is, as we have stated before, that
the conditions are so terrible they know that an arbitrator could not
help but grant the employes better conditions and an increase in
wages.
We have baseball games, tennis matches, and a great many
other games of amusement that have only a few participants and
they require a referee or umpire to settle facts, yet we have here in
Galveston a flour mill that employs over a hundred persons arid the
management is not willing for an outsider to hear of the disagree-
ments of their employees. That is one of the points of unfairness
that exist at this plant.
The Galveston Labor Council has endorsed the strike and is
now receiving encouraging pledges from the 72 unions in Galves-
ton who are backing the strikers.
I. L. A. No. 307 pledged $30 a week to the strikers.
Galveston, Texas,
Sept.-27, 1937.
The Galveston Labor Council held
their regular meeting Sept. 27, Presi-
dent Gritta presiding. Roll call of dele-
gates found the following absent: Bar-
bers No. 100, H. A. Barrow, J. Co-
salas; Boiler Makers No. 132, A. Kos-
ta; Electrical Workers No. 527, C. J.
Pressler, Edward Rayner;.!. L. A- No.
329 and 1219. George Harris, Charles
Gardner and Joe Brown; Machinists
No. 6, J. C. Jerzig, J. F. Farrish;
Painters No. 585, H. M. Huber; Sign
Painters No. 1002, Fred Raphael;
Flour Mill Workers No. 2097, C. L.
Woods, Frank Martinolivich; Laborers
Local No. 1138, J. A. Unbehagen; I.
L. A. No. 1470, Isaac Thompson, D. L.
Shaw, Robert Warren and Dan E.
Randle; Boilermakers Helpers No.
20887, A. Glenn, M. Jackson. Roll call
found the following absent: Trustee,
Robert Gonzales.
Letter read from Mr. Bosl of Shu-
lenberg asking the Council to write to
By AFL News Service.
New York, N. Y.— Cosmetic Soap and
Perfumery Workers Union Local 20646,
in their first organization drive in this
field, have organized the employees of Ed
Pinaud, Inc., hair and tonic perfume
plant, obtaining minimum wage scales
ranging from $20 to $40 per week, two
weeks vacation with pay, holidays with
pay, the 40-hour week, and the closed
shop, according to a statement 'by Ben-
jamin F Pross, organizer for the union.
Mr. Pross declared that the union is
negotiating similar agreements with
Coty’s and several other large cosmetic
and perfume houses in the New York
City area.
*‘-*3
—
By AFL News Service.
Working men and women must
choose between “solidarity in the
ranks of labor” or the “raiding, rip-
ping, tearing” tactics of the Committee
for Industrial Organization, headed by
John L. Lewis, declared William
Green, president of the American Fed-
eration of Labor, in an address at Bal-
timore, Md., before 200 delegates at-
tending the 29th biennial convention of
the Operative Plasterers and Cement
Finishers International Association.
“There would have been no division
of labor if there had been no Com-
mittee for Industrial Organization,”
the A. F. of L. executive said.
“I can not believe that any man or
set of men who would deliberately, be-
cause of personal ambitions, divide the
American labor movement, is a friend
of labor.
“It 'has a powerful foe facing it all
the time, the powerfully financed em-
ployers. They wish to divide and con-
quer.
Minority Started Disruption in 1935.
“There was no division in labor’s
forces until 1935. Until the convention
of that year, the American Federation
of Labor had been united throughout
its entire existence extending over
half a century.
“The 1935 convention registered a
two-to-one vote against the plans of
the Committee for Industrial Organi-
zation, but those advocating that cause
were not good sports. Did they sub-
mit? They did not. They formed
their own organization.
“You workers will have to decide
whether there will be solidarity in the
ranks of labor or whether you will
support that ripping, tearing organiza-
tion. N
“geniuses” in their line, preferred
their present form of organization to
the C. I. O.
“Have we reached the time,” he
asked, “when the unskilled shall deter-
mine what shall be paid to the skilled?
“Shall the janitor -determine the
wages of the man of genius who has
developed his skill over the period of
his employment and who has the right
to force the highest payment he can
during his years of working life from
a reluctant employer?”
Shorter Hours To Aid Jobless.
Turning to the problem of the job-
less army Mr. Green said that the
American Federation of Labor remedy
for unemployment was the establish-
ment of the six-hour day and the five-
day week, or a working day even
shorter if that were necessary to
spread opportunities for work among
those willing to work. He said that in
1932 there were 15,000,000 unemployed
in the nation and that there, were now
8,000,000 unemployed.
Million Members Gained by A. F. L.
He declared the membership gains
of the A. F. of L. in the last year have
been among the largest in its history
and said that at the annual convention
in Denver, Oct. 4, reports will show
nearly 1,000,00'0 'workers have been
added to the rolls in the last,year.
By AFL News Service.
A logical and unanswerable justifi-
cation of the action of the executive
council of the American Federation of
Labor and the federation’s 1936 con-
vention in suspending ten national and
international unions for refusing to
withdraw from the Committee for In-
dustrial Organization featured the ad-
dress delivered by Frank Morrison,
secretary-treasurer of the American
Federation of Labor, -before the re-
cent convention of the International
Typographical Union at Louisville,
Ky.
Mr. Morrison traced the develop-
ment of the mass production organiza-
tion policy of the American Federa-
tion of Labor through the 1934 and
1935 conventions. He emphasized the
large majority by which the.delegates
to the 1935 convention endorsed that
policy, and likewise the large majority
by which the delegates to the'1936 con-
vention reaffirmed that policy.
He held that under the constitution
of the American Federation of Labor
it is the duty of the executive council
to protect the jurisdiction .rights of af-
filiated Unions.
“How can an organization survive,”
he asked, “that does not recognize a
tribunal within itself that has authority
to pass on questions of law as they
apply, to relations established within
the organization?”
Emphasizing this point, Mr. Morris-
son said that “national and interna-
tional unions can do as they please
with their own jurisdiction, but they
can not do as they please with the jur-
isdiction of other national and interna-
tional unions.”
He expressed great pleasure in hav-
ing seen -the American .Federation of
Labor grow from a membership of
264,825, when he assumed the office of
secretary in 1897, to over 3,300,000 in
1937, and emphasized the fact that the
membership had increased over 830,000
since the ten C. I. O. unions were sus-
pended.
He praised the legislative achieve-
ments of the American Federation of
Labor under the nonpartisan political
policy, and expressed the belief that
the democratic methods which have al-
ways characterized the federation
would be continued.
The text of Mr. Morrison’s address
follows:
I am privileged to again address the
officers and delegates assembled in the
annual convention of the International
Typographical Union, of which I am
•honored to be a member.
In 1896, I was elected a delegate
from the International Typographical
Union to the convention of the Amer-
ican Federation of Labor and at that
convention I was elected secretary of
the American Federation of Labor, in
which position I have participated in
and witnessed at close range the de-
velopments of the labor movement in
this country and can -claim an intimate
knowledge of the facts.
A. F. of L. Growth Since 1897.
When I took office in the American
Federation of Labor in 1897, the mem-
bership was 264,825, My report to the
By AFL News Service.
Raleigh, N. C.—For the first time in
the history of North Carolina the annual
State Fair will open this year with 100
per cent union labor. For the past four
years the Fair' has been on organized
labor’s “National Unfair List.”
The Fair now has a new secretary Dr.
J. S. Dorton. At his request, C. W.
Hollowbush, national representative of
the American Federation of Musicians
for North Carolina, and Authur Pakula,
representative of the Stage Hands-’
Union, presented details of the union
contracts at a recent meeting here;
By AFL News Service.
Washington, D. C.— Charles Stengle
was re-elected president of the American
Federation of Government Employes at
the Federation’s recent convention in
Philadelphia.
The delegates also re-elected Bernice
Heffner as secretary and Cecil Custer
as treasurer.
Then, as an indication of their approval
of the administration of the affairs of the
Federation the delegates re-elceted all
members of the Executive Council.
The following were elected delegates to
the A. F. of L. Convention at Denver:
Charles I. Stengle, President; Bernice B.
Heffner, Secretary; Cecil E. Custer,
Treasurer; Perry S. Myers, Vice Presi-
dent, Seatile.
Congressman J. J. Mansfield, endors-
ing his son as an appointee to Indian-
apolis Naval Academy. Request was
granted and President Gritta author--
ized to write letter.
The secretary was instructed to
write all local unions whose delegates
do not attend the -council meetings and
ask that they send delegates who will
attend council meetings as their pres-
ence is desired and needed.
An order was issued by the Council
to transfer from the general council
fund to the building fund $1,000.00
Credentials were presented from the
delegates of the A. F. of L. seamen.
Action was deferred until our next reg-
ular meeting.
Approval of their contract form by
the council by the Bartenders Interna-
tional League of America, Local No.
749. The Galveston Labor Council
gave their approval. Motion to adpourn
carried.
T. H. DODSON, Sect’y.
Galveston Labor Council.
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