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Local Voice of the
PUCE YOUR MONET WITH THE
AMERICAN
FEDERATION
OF LABOR
Endorsed by the Texas State Federation of Labor.
VOL. 11, No. 26.
Subscription Price $1.50 Per Year
GALVESTON, TEXAS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1929.
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THE FRIENDS WHO BACK YOU UP
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GENERAL LABOR NEWS
LABOR NOTES
Enrolls in Red Cross
Worcester, Mass.—Ethelbert Stew- processes, Mr. Stewart said: “Never
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President Green of A. F. of L. Outlines Service of Labor to the Red Cross
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LABOR WILL FIGHT
BAN ON ORGANIZATION
Judge’s Drastic Injunction Will
Be Opposed.
RADIO CENSORSHIP
APPLIED TO MINER
And bank on the assurance that your friends are at your back.
Afraid? Go forward bravely, you don’t have to fight alone,
There are good friends glad to follow and they’ll make their
presence known;
Though the throng grows thick about you and your faith is
sorely tried,
Friends are coming up behind you and they’ll battle at your
side.
The new friends may desert you but the old friends never do,
They’ll share in every danger and they’ll gladly see you
through;
You can face the world undaunted, you can fight when foes
attack.
End of Long Controversy in
Pittsburgh District.
NEW PROCESS BRING
IDLENESS; REVOLUTION
IN EVERY INDUSTRY
MINE STRIKE ORDER
VACATED BY JUDGE
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STREET CAR MEN WIN
humanitys
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Little Rock, Ark.—Price fixing by
dealers in cotton seed can not be
stopped because the State Legislature,
in 1913, repealed the Arkansas anti-
trust statutes, according to Attorney
General Norwood.
Large interests bought independent
cotton oil seed mills and junked them
in order to control prices.
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the secondary charge of manslaughter
against the gunmen.
Lawyers question whether the sec-
ond case ever will be tried. The
thugs were employed by a notorious
anti-union coal mine company. Fol-
lowing the murder, attempts were
made in the State legislature to con-
trol these private gunmen, but the
plan was vetoed by Governor Fisher.
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STATE IS POWERLESS
TO STOP PRICE FIXING
Che LCnion Deview
Official Organ of Galveston Labor Council, Dock and Marine Council
and Affiliated Unions
An end to the bitter legal fight
growing out of the strike of bituminous
coal miners two years ago was seen
with the discharge by Federal Judge
F. P. Schoonmaker at Pittsburgh of a
preliminary injunction restraining the
United Mine Workers of America and
affiliated local unions and individuals
from interfering with operation of the
Pittsburgh Terminal Coal corporation’s
mines.
Vacation of the injunction resulted
from a joint stipulation filed by coun-
sel for the miners and the coal com-
pany, under which the defendants
paid court costs aggregating $368.07
and the court discharged a $50,000
bond posted by the coal corporation
two years ago.
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homeless are cared for, the sick and
aged are given medical attention, com-
missaries are established where food
and clothing can be distributed and
whole communities are aided in the
work of rehabilitation and restora-
tion.
“Because the American Federation
of Labor appreciates these facts, we
have supplemented the appeal of the
American Red Cross at each roll call
period for memberships from the
great mass of working men and their
families. With few exceptions the re-
sponses have been widespread and
generous. The continued service of
the American Federation of Labor in
this most humane and unselfish work
will be most cheerfully rendered.
“I appeal to all groups to respond,
in a most generous way to every ap-
peal of the American Red Cross in
order that this great organization may
be made more efficient in the service
of all the people.”
The annual roll call for membership
of the American Red Cross occurs this
year from Armistice Day to Thanks-
giving Day—November 11 to 28.
•A. when a disaster visits a corn
munity, causing death and destruction
of property,” states William Green,
president of the American Federation
of Labor.
“This fact lias been demonstrated on
many occasions when mine explosions
occur in isolated , mining communities
and hundreds of miners suffer death,
when great sections of our country are
devastated with floods/ carrying death
and destruction into homes and com-
munities, and when violent earth-
quakes and the great resultant fires
exact a heavy human toll and the
homes of hundreds or, perhaps, thou-
sands of people are swept away.
“Invariably it is the masses of the
people which' suffer most when these
disasters occur. Because they suffer
most and because of their helplessness,
the ministrations of the Red Cross or-
ganization take on added significance
and importance. No doubt many lives
among these particular groups are
saved through the prompt service
which this organization gives. The
Des Moines, Iowa.— Aunion-shop
agreement that will continue until
Nov. 1, 1940, has been signed by the
Street Car Men’s Union and the City
Railway Company.
Wages are increased and the com-
pany will set aside $18,700 annually,
out of which retirement pensions and
disability compensation shall be paid
to union members.
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Gy anty Building &
“on Co.
5% on Anl,,, v $500.00
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HE value of the Red Cross is
understood and appreciated
All organization activities among
employees of the Kraemer Hosiery
company of Nazareth, Pa., are forbid-
den in a sweeping and drastic pre-
liminary restraining order handed
down by the Presiding Judge Stewart
of Northampton county. Even distri-
bution of literature by mail is for-
bidden.
This injunction is described by at-
torneys as one of the most severe and
comprehensive orders of its kind
handed down by any court in Penn-
sylvania. The order restrains the
members of Reading branch 10 of the
Hosiery Workers’ union and men-
tions David Kline, Earl White, Louis
F. Budenz, vice president William
Kelly of the United Textile Workers
and Edith Christenson of the Wom-
ens Trade Union league.
Secretary James E. Kelley of the
Pennsylvania federation of labor, after
causing an independent investigation
of the Nazareth situation to be made
by confidential representatives, stated
that the federation would take up the
fight to secure the right to organize
in Nazareth and elsewhere.
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It’s the friends who are behind you you depend on all the
while.
Not the friends you’ll meet tomorrow or the friends of pomp
and style;
When you're up against a battle for a goal or silver cup,
It’s the old friends who are with you for they always back you
up.
You don’t have to turn to see them, you just know that they
are there,
They follow where you’re going and they’re with you every-
where ;
You can center your attention on the work you have to do,
For you know should danger threaten that your friends are
back of you.
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art, commissioner United States Bu-
reau of Labor (Statistics, speaking at
the New England Labor Congress,
gave no encouragement to unemploy-
ed skilled craftsmen who have been
displaced by the machine and who
hope they may readjust themselves
along lines which will afford them
former wages.
This-position is “absurd,” declared
Mr. Stewart. In most cases, he said,
a complete industrial re-education
will be necessary, and in many in-
stances the men will have to be sepa-
rated entirely from the industry in
which they were employed.
More than 400 delegates attended
the meeting, the purpose of which was
explained by Thomas E. Burke, presi-
dent Workers Education Bureau, and
secretary-treasurer United Association
of Plumbers and Steamfitters.
“We are not making a special plea
on behalf of New England wage earn-
ers, but to discover what resources
there are within New England labor
which will enable it, when guided by
its educational and research policy,
to take a more active part in the
whole plan of New England’s future,”
said Mr. Burke.
John P. 'Frey, secretary-treasurer
Metal Trades Department, A. F. of L.,
brought greetings from Wm. Green,
president A. F. of L., who was unable
to attend.
Referring to the industrial revolu-
tion caused by inventions and new
before did mechanical changes strike
so many industrial processes and oc-
cupations at one and the same time.
“There is hardly an industry in
which there are not either present
hardships or serious threatenings.
Window glass blowing as an occupa-
tion and trade is gone, while some of
the new fields, like the telephone in-
dustry, -installing the automatic sys-
tem will, in a few years, render jobless
95 per cent of its present employes.”
General statements, according to
Mr. Stewart, are of little value. It
does the textile worker no good to
know that the per capital consumption
is increasing every year, for 65 per
cent of the cotton now goes into in-
dustrial manufacture, while all of it
went into fine fabrics 75 years ago.
Commenting on statements that
the new industries—automobile, radio
and phonograph—were absorbing-
workers in numbers equal to those
thrown out of other industries by im-
proved processes, Mr. Stewart said:
“The trouble with this is that we don’t
know whether it is true or not.”
“Certainly in many instances the
new industries are not absorbing the
same men,” he asserted. “The auto-
mobile industry, from the workers’
point of view, is a shrinking one,
owing to the increased production per
mian. YIt is these very industries
themselves that by improvement in
processes are most rapidly decreasing
their number of employes.”
Pittsburgh, Pa. — Radio Station
KQV of this city cancelled a pro-
posed speech by Patrick T. Fagan
president District No. 5, United Mine
Workers, when the management dis-
covered that the trade unionist intend-
ed to denounce the killing of John
Barcoski by company police as “cruel
and wanto murder.”
The president of the radio company
“explained” that two programs had
been booked for the same hour and
that “one of them had to be can-
celled.”
'When the jury announced its ver-
dict, the court declared they lacked
moral stamina. Resentment against
acquittal is general and the gunmen’s
attorney secured a stay from the
State 'Supreme Court until a hearing
can be had for a change of venue for
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For the nine months to September
30, Illinois coal mines produced near-
ly 4,000,000 more tons of coal than
for the same period in 1928.
The Canadian trades and labor con-
gress has gained steadily in member-
ship since 1927, its membership for
1929 being reported at 126,638.
Electrification of the Pennsylvania
railroad line from New York to Wash-
ington will be effected as the result of
an agreement made with the city of
Baltimore.
After six months of preparation, the
Old Orchard mine, Marion, Ill., which
has been idle for six years, resumed
operation and will give employment to
150 miners.
A strike of 500 wholesale grocery
teamsters of New York city was set-
tled by an agreement granting the
drivers an average wage increase of
$5 weekly.
Canton (Ohio) industrial plants
have spent approximately $5,000,000
in expansion programs in the last six
months and will spend another $10,-
00,000 in the next twelve months.
Twenty coal mines, employing 10,-
000 workers, have been tied up by a
strike of 3,000 miners in the Mons dis-
trict of Belgium whose demands for
increased wages were not fully met.
Factory employment in Philadelphia
continues steadily upward. The gain
as compared with a year ago is be-
tween 12 and 14 per cent, according
to reports from representative firms.
Four Gastonia (N. C.) cotton mill
employees, accused of kidnaping and
killing three textile workers’ union
organizers, were acquitted by a jury
in Superior court. The jury deliberat-
ed 45 minutes.
James Henry Scullin, fifty-two-year
old leader of labor party, has become
premier of Australia. The first act of
the new prime minister was to cancel
the dismissal of 1,700 telegraph lines-
men.
The twenty-third annual meeting of
the American Association for Labor
Legislation will be held in New Or-
leans December 27 and 28. There will
also be a joint session with the Asso-
ciation of American Law Schools.
Argentine congress has passed an
eight-hour law, applicable to all sal-
aried employees and persons working
for a wage, with the exception of farm
laborers, domestic servants, and sons
and daughters working for their par-
ents.
The entire slate of officers of the
United Shoe Workers’ union resigned
at a convention held at Lynn, Mass.,
as the aftermath of dissensions that
arose in Boston when the slate was
elected at the annual convention of
the union.
Upholsterers employed by seven St.
Louis furniture manufacturers won a
shorter working week and a 20 per
cent wage increase. The working
week in St. Louis has been between
49 and 52 hours, which has been re-
duced to 44.
Organizing work in the South can-
not stop until all industries are
thoroughly organized,” declared the
executive council of the American
Federation of Labor in the report it
submitted to the forty-ninth annual
convention.
John H. Delaney, chairman of the
New York city board of transporta-
tion, announced that a threatened
strike of subway construction workers
had been averted pending efforts to i
mediate between the union and the
subway contractors.
John J. Raskob, in an article in the
North American Review, predicts “the
all but universal adoption of the five-
day week by the major industries
within the next few years to give the
workers additional time to function as
consumers of what they produce.”
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San Francisco metal and building
trades workers will ask for the 5-day
week, following a decision at the A.
F. of L. convention at Toronto.
Thrown out of employment by the
popularity of the automobile, coach
and wagon builders of South Africa
are now becoming automobile body
builders.
Five hundred upholstery workers at
the Soronow Furniture company in
Los Angeles, Calif., went on strike
against a wage cut. They are" de-
manding union recognition.
Coal production in the Illinois field
is increasing with 170 mines produc-
ing 4,755,655 • tons in the last month,
against 4,348,000 a year ago. Strip
production is up rather sharply.
Street sweepers, asphalt workers
and garbage handlers of Chicago re-
turned to work following an accept-
ance on their part of proposals made
by Commissioner of Public Works
Richard W. Wolfe.
Chicago steamfitters obtained an in-
crease in wages of 7% cents an hour, ।
which became effective from October j
l. The terms of the new contract
call for a scale of $1.70 an hour. The
agreement will run until May 31,
1931.
Immediate enactment of a work-
men’s compensation in Mississippi was
urged at the closing session of the
Mississippi Federation of Labor con-
vention. The resolution called atten-
tion to Mississippi being one of the
three states not having such a law.
Negotiations over a cut of a penny
to the shilling in the wages of York-
shire (England) wool workers have
been proceeding for several weeks
without success. The men’s unions,
by a large majority, rejected the cut,
but thus far the employers have taken
no action.
Thirty full-fashioned hosiery manu-
facturers, all of whom have signed
the national agreement recently formu-
lated by the Hosiery Workers’ union,
have organized a national association
to deal collectively with problems
arising in mills employing union
workers.
Union bus drivers, street car motor-
men and conductors of St. Louis have
received another dividend on their
union membership in the form of a
flat wage increase of 1 cent an hour,
benefiting 550 men. Under a retro-
active clause, the men get back pay
from May 1, when old agreements ex-
pired, totaling $6,000.
More than 30 hosiery manufactur-
ers who recently concluded a national
agreement with the American Federa-
tion of Full-Fashioned Hosiery Work-
ers are forming a national association.
A prime purpose will be to stabilize
labor costs. It is expected that the
new association will handle labor nego-
tiations with the national union.
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