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THE DALLAS CRAFTSMAN
Dillon Hits C. I. O.
13 Toledo Unions
THE DALLAS CRAFTSMAN
Sign Merchants Pact For Minority Rule
Issaed Every mday
in its account of the stormy parlia-
mentary career of the measure
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DALLAS, TEXAS, OCT. 22, 1987
A NEW INDUSTRY
HOW MANY ABE A FEW!
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HABDY NEW ANIMALS
clerical help or others having author-
ask. "a
therefore, if anyone should
few" means eight
POLL TAX AND VOTING
FABMEB FAILURES
CAUSES OF CRIME
undergoing a great change adjusting
dential election of 1936.
two professional wrestlers, two bar-
"Without Benefit," says:
A WINTEB DANGER
AN AABON BURR TRICK
A GUAEDED PEOPOSAL
i
Heal bills in excess
paid. The total
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like
their
attained con-
uncommon ability to play
It waa
gress at Des Moines, lowi.
who
for
Housing Shortage
Handicaps Toledo
Printers File
Charges Against
Tract Concern
Ohio Court
Refuses Anti-
Picketing Order
infants in socks, while others whose
legs are shorter than normal, claim
Wanda Natalie, 15.1
siderable prominence
mittee for Industrial Organise
an equally strong defense of t
A collapsible chicken coop was ex-
hiibted at the national invehators con-
i
Among the wild fruits of the middle
west the pawpaw is one of the largest
and most familiar in many sections.
It is not the most tempting fruit in
the world, but it is fit to eat when
ripe, if one likes its peculiar flavor.
Appropriately enough, an editorial
symposium on the pawpaw recently
Ab Billings of Columbus told a po-
liceman he wanted to be kicked for
being drunk, and the cop obliged him.
fighting white corpuscles in the fatal
disease of lukemla has been reported
by the University of Illinois.
ap-
. be
>n and
struc-
There appears to be no limit to the
ambitions of scientists, and the amaz-
ards and Appeals will eventually rule
on the matter.
John Chapman, a farmer living near
Sparta, Ga., paid a traveling "special-
1st" $250 for a pair of ten-cent store
spectacles.
She recently won six straight games
from picked men players in her home
city, Galveston, Tex.
Agreement With Oregon, Illinois, Firm
Provides Minimum Wages, 44-Hour
Week and Paid Vacations.
Carnation Milk Co.
Signs AFL Pact
A "soft voice” for use in hospitals
has been developed by the Bell Tele-
phone laboratories and installed in a
New Jersey hospital.
to determine the exact dimensto
propriate for the various sizes
officially authorised.
e of her
billiards.
Because her husband sprayed her
with hog disinfectant, Mrs. Ann Ben-
nett of St. Louis got a divorce.
There are 114,000 blind persons in
the United States.
I
Delaware derives its 1
Thomas West, Lord de la
governor of Virginia.
a bricklayer, an undertaker, a deep
sea diver, a professional gambler, a
milliner, and six old maids.
All of these failed as farmers, of
course, as might have been foretold,
and their unfavorable experiences il-
lustrate the futility of much of the
ne from
are, once
During the recent meet of the Ama-
teur Athletic Union in Chicago, Ralph
Flannagan, 20. shattered the world’s
record for the mile swim by cutting
15.6 seconds off the old mark of 20
minutes, 57.8 seconds.
BOX COMPANY WORKERS
GAIN PAY BAISE PACT
UNION LABEL TRADES
DEFT. ELECTS CHIEFS
NEW “LABOR FEDERATION”
FOUGHT BY N. Y. UNIONS
ORGANIZED LABOR AND HOUSING
LEGISLATION
WAGE INCREASE ASKED
BY COLUMBUS PRINTERS
PAPEB MILL WORKERS WIN
PAY RAISE CONTRACT
These protests naturally call for
further investigation and research by
the Bureau, including measutements
for instep, heel. toe, ankle and calf.
(By AFLNS).
A strong indictment of the dicta-
torial policies of John L. Lewis' Com-
ity to hire or discharge, extends to De-
cember 31. 1939.
A 44-hour work week, with time and
a half for overtime above nine hours
in any one day is established for gen-
A. F. of L. Regional Organiker Cites
Gompers’ Criticism of These Who
Attack Federation’s Structure and
Traces C. L 0. Brainstorm Back
to Debs.
change in structure or principle; for
those are all adaptable to scircum-
stances as they arise—to condhiens as
they develop."
Adjustable to New Conditions
Emphasizing the view of Mr. Gom-
pers that our trade union movement
was so constructed that it could never
be divided because of the nature of its
construction, Mr. Dillon continued:
"It will automatically adjust itself
to changed economic and political con-
ditions. That is what is taking place
today. Our trade union movement is
The Dallas Craftsman represents the
true trade union movement, voicins
the asptrations and achierements e
the American Federation of Labor. ?
does not represent the Bolshevik, L
W. W„ Anarchistic, Radical, or any
other movement injurious to the peace
and stability of American institutions.
It is for America, first and last, and
for the honest, moral, upright, con-
rageous and true trade unions all the
time.
Unions Claim Employes Were Dis-
charged by St. Louis Firm in Viola-
tion of Labor Relations Act.
month in which medic
of $200 wore ordered _
excess paid was $79,171.78, or an aver-
reached, as there appeared to be no
definite authority which might be
cited to establish the answer.
Later a correspondent in Newark
called attention to the fact that a
small Scotch boy had found the an-
swer long ago, according to a story
which may be briefly related thus:
The boy was entitled to a "few ap-
ples" as a prize for memorising more
verses of scripture than any other
member of his Sunday school class,
whereupon the teacher gave him three
apples. The boy demurred, asserting
that he should have eight apples
Pressed for his authority the lad tri-
umphantly produced it from no less a
source than the Holy Writ, quoting
Peter, third chapter, 20th verse, which
says:
"Few, that is, eight souls were saved
by water.”
"His contention being incontrovert-
Only 10 of the 48 states require the
payment of poll tax as a prerequisite
to voting, and of these nine are in the
South. They are Alabama, Arkansas,
Florida. Georgia, Mississippi, South
Carolina, Tennesese, Texas and Vir-
ginia. In these nine Southern States
only 24.1 per cent of citizens of vot-
ing age went to the polls in the presi-
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superintendents, foremen,
by-night kind who turn to farming
Park Watts has a farm near Angola,
Ind., 42 acres of which are in Indiana.
43 in Ohio and 62 in Michigan. He
has to pay taxes at Bryan, 0, Hills-
dale, Mich., and at Angola.
Recently an 18-year-old girl cashier
and a 45-year-old candy man, work-
ing in concessions with a circus, be-
came very close friends. When the
circus reached Cleveland the girl in-
troduced the man to her mother, who
recognised him as a former husband.
He was the girl’s father.
A new "death-ray” machine
Columbus, Ohio (AFLNS)-—Union
printers employed in 30 commercial
printing plants in Columbus demand-
ed a 10 per cent increase in their wage
scale. The demand was formtulated
at a meeting attended by approximate-
ly 200 members of the Columbus Typo-
graphical Union oN. 5.
Spokesman for the union said that
the men were merely seeking equali-
zation of the pay rate for ob shop
printers and that paid typographers
in the newspaper industry.
It was stated that commercial shop
printers in Columbus are paid $42.72
for a 40-hour week on day work and
$45 for the 40-hour night turn week.
The increase demanded would raise
their pay to $47 per week for the day
shift and $51 tor the night shift.
In local daily newspaper plants, un-
der a pay increase rate which became
effective October 1, typographical em-
ployes in daily newspaper plants are
paid $49 for a 37% hour week on day
work and $52.33 for the same number
of hours worked at night.
THOSE BUSY BUREAUS
What those government bureaus in
Washington can't think up to experi-
ment and piddle with must be un-
thinkable. After much research the
Bureau of Standards recently deter-
mined the relative noise-making pos-
sibilities of a saxophone player and
a tap dancer. Now these learned
scientists are investigating women’s
hose and the limbs, shapely or other-
wise, which wear them.
They have decided that a 30-nch
length for ladies’ stockings is about
right, and maybe they will pass a law
about It But again, maybe not for
we read that many women are pro-
testing against this attempt at stand-
In New York is the 71-story build-
ing of the Bank of Manhattan com-
pany, an institution whose history
goes back almost to the foundation of
the government It is recalled by a
recent writer that the institution re-
sulted from the shrewd trick of a law-
yer, who was none other than the no-
torious Aaron Burr.
At the time the bank was projected
the group behind it were "in bad” po-
litically and hence unable to obtain a
bank charter. They organized a water
company instead, but in drawing the
charter Burr added a clause permit-
ting the company to engage also "in
other necessary business.” The other
business was constructed to include
banking and it has been carried on
ever since.
The structure in Wall street adjoins
the lot formerly occupied by Federal
Hall, the first national capitol, where
Washington took the oath of office as
President. That tract is now the site
of the sub-treasury?
If Aaron Burr and his associates
could look upon the scene today they
would marvel at the development
which has resulted from their clever
scheme for obtaining a bank charter.
THE imperative necessity of constant
watchfulness over labor and social
legislation by organized labor to ap-
parent in the report of the Executive
Council of the American Federation of
Labor to the 1987 convention of the
Federation in Denver, Colorado. on
the enactment of the Wagner Housing
Bill.
The importance of Federal legisla-
tion to promote the construction of
low-cost housing for workers upon
whom employers impose small wages
was emphasized by the 1935 A. F. of
L convention which authorised the
appointment of a Committee on Hous-
ing to work co-operatively with other
housing groups in the interest of Fed-
eral housing legislation.
The Wagner Housing Bill, intro-
duced in the Senate on February 24.
1937, had the active support of the A.
F. of L. Housing Committee and all
other A. F. of L forces.
The parliamentary situation delayed
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All of which causes the New York
Sun to pertinently remark that "some
of the ways and means which the gov-
ernment finds for wasting taxpayers'
money would be funny if the deficit
and the problem of finding money for
taxes were not so serious.”
—
Samuel Miller of Elizabeth, N. J.,
was upset when he found that his
brother had sold his overcoat to an
old clothes dealer for a few cents.
Samuel had pinned $190 in the lining
of the coat.
Richard Day, 15, and Edward Rich-
ardson, 14, of South Portland, Me.,
operate a private weather bureau,
make daily predictions, and hoist the
proper signals. Their predictions to
date have averaged 85 per cent cor-
rect.
consideration of the measure until
very late in the session, when it was
finally placed on the legislative cal-
endar as a result of the mobilization
of American Federation of Labor
forces throughout the country in sup-
port of Federal assistance for low-
cost housing.
Nevertheless the measure was vic-
iously attacked in the form of restric-
tive amendments in both houses—
amendments which would have large-
ly nullified the purpose of the bill
to provide low-rent housing. These
amendments, however, were modified
by the conference committee of the
two houses as a result of the forceful
arguments of the American Federation
of Labor. *
Citizens of Belvidere, Ill., unani-
mously shunned an opportunity to
make $5. All they had to do was roll
up a 20-foot python and carry it back
to the carnival from which it escaped.
laws become generally effective this
coming year and the following one,
wage earners will be keenly conscious
of the shortcomings and limitations of
the Social Security Act Of the 48
millions of gainfully employed work-
ers in the United States about 24 mil-
affiliated with the American Federa-
tion of Labor in every state of the Na-
tion that made it possible to overcome
legislative obstacles at crucial times.
As finally enacted by Congress and
signed by President Roosevelt, the
Wagner Housing Bill makes available
to the United States Housing Author-
ity a capital fund of $500,000,000 to be
loaned to local housing authorities to
aid in the construction of low-cost
houses for wage earners afflicted with
low incomes.
It is estimated that this five hun-
dred million dollar fund will finance
the construction of homes for approxi-
mately 140,000 families in the lowest
income group who are unable to af-
ford decent houses because of low
wage conditions. It is believed that
the 140,000 families include over half
a million people.
In addition, the Executive Council
told the A. F. of L. convention that
"over $180,000,000 will be expended
for direct labor on the site for the
termted government and college re-
search experts, by business men and
processors, who risked and sometimes
lost fortunes in buying crops and
selling the converted products.
Processors have kept ahead of the
crops, and mills at key points now
have total crushing capacity double
that so far required, it was said. It
is no doubt true that few products in
history have so quickly attained
scientific handling.
In the laboratories new uses have
been evolved; new markets have been
created, and new sales forces have
been employed to break down the
walls of opposition in highly competi-
tive fields. Thus step by step the soy-
bean industry is expanding to the
great benefit of farmers and users of
its products.
The Carnation Company, producers
and distributors of the well-known
milk “from contented cows," now em-
ploys union labor, as the result of a
contract recently signed with Federal
Labor Union No. 20912 of the Amer-
ican Federation of Labor, covering
employes at the firm's Oregon, Illi-
nois, condensery.
The new contract, which embraces
all workers at that plant except plant
the stockings will approach
ears.”
Speaking before the recent conven-
tion of the American Soybean Asso-
ciation at Urbana, Ill., a leader of the
industry made the interesting state-
ment that ninety per cent of the soy-
beans processed go into livestock feed,
the high merit of which has been
proved repeatedly by experiment sta-
tion tests.
The development of the soybean in-
dustry was brought abou,t the speaker
declared, not by promoters, but by
farmers with visions of the new cash
Marlon. Ind. (AFLNS).—With the
assistance of Hal Denman. A. F. of L.
organizer, employees of the Lindley
Box Company’s Marlon plant recently
negotiated a union contract, through
which they won a ten per cent in-
crease in wages.
The agreement, which establishes
the closed shop, also provides for se-
niority rights and resulted in adjust-
ment by the company of employees in
departments heretofore regarded as
underpaid.
The local is now also affiliated with
the Marlon central body and function-
ing smoothly as an Integral part of
the organized labor movement in this
community.
SkS.'SlJSKS sat m other pursutts.
Two years ago Judge Cornelius
Shea of Hartford, Conn., imposed a
10-day sentence on a thief who stole
one of his suits. Recently he gave
the same thief the same penalty for
the same crime.
Several robins flew in the open
window of a North Side hospital in
Chicago and upset the patients for an
hour before being evicted.
promotion of institutions foreign to
its character. Those who would
change it, aim at its disintegration.
— ------ - .. But it can be safely said our trade un-
ible, the boy got his eight apples. And, ionism is to witness no integral
anced individual feels that he is op-
pressed and will seek unlawful means
of expressing his personality.”
Through the operation of Innu-
merable laws and the activities of
government agencies employed there-
under we are restricted, inspected,
spied upon, investigated and caused
many unnecessary annoyances which
are resented by a people who love
freedom.
If more attention were paid to ap-
prehending and punishing real crim-
inals. while allowing greater freedom
from harassment to respectable citi-
zens, we should doubtless have a more
law-abiding and happier citizenship.
ing thing is that their ambitions are
fieldmen, generally fulfilled by actual results.
An instance is the development of a
When unemployment'compensation haassetn tengar"uproPaganda that
Even under the stress of. untavor-
bers, a cigarmaker, a race horse man, and harass human freedom to such
an extent that even the normally bal-
superior type of cow, able to with-
stand the rigors of far northern cli-
mates such as that of Alaska.
Concerning this development. Dr.
Evans of the Department of Agricul-
ture recently gave an interesting state-
ment Under the supervision of the
department, experimental crossing of
Galloway cows with the hardy Asiatic
yak has produced an animal capable
of subsisting on the scanty vegetation
of the far north, while preserving de-
sirable meat and milk preserving
qualities.
Another venture was the crossing
of American cows with the Brahman
zebu of the Far East, which produced
an animal especially fitted to thrive
in the hot, dry climates of the South-
western states. This animal to also
able to resist tick infection which is
very detrimental to ordinary cattle in
those regions.
All this may not be exactly evolu-
tion. but it to something closely akin
to it.
able conditions such as are now be-
ing experienced, farmers may be
found who have not only held their
own, but who have made material
progress. But they are not the fly-
constant efforts of the American Fed-
eration of Labor to protect and im-
prove it, the A. F. of L. Executive
Council in its report to the Denver
convention of the Federation said:
The Wagner Housing Act would
never have successfully weathered the
recurrent stormy attacks of a disor-
ganized Congress bent on economy, if
organized labor throughout the coun-
try had not strongly asserted its de-
mand for a permanent housing pro-
gram. It was a concerted and unani-
construction of low-rent housing,” crop, aided by bright-minded and de-
which ft to estimated "will provide
Toledo, Ohio, like many other cities
in the United States has a housing
shortage the remedying of which is
expected to bring about good times
for building trades workers in that
city.
At the recent convention of the Ohio
State Council of Carpenters, held in
Toledo, Fred Watson, president of the
Toledo Central Labor Union, said
there was a shortage of 6,000 residen-
tial units in that city, but that there
was under way a building program
amountipg to $2,500,000, He said To-
in their efforts to find an explana-
tion tor the increasing prevalence of
crime, many thoughtful persons have
concluded that the tendency to burden
the public with a multiplicity of laws
may account for much of the lawless-
ness which now prevaila.
Speaking before an international
convention of police chiefs. Dr. Carl-
ton Simon said: "We cannot limit
St. Louis, Mo. (AFNS). — The
Christian Board of Publications, oper-
ating a printing plant employing
about 120 members of the various
printing trades, has been charged with
unfair labor practices by the Allied
Printing Trades Council of St Louis.
The Regional Labor Relations Board
here was asked to set a hearing on the
charge.
The charge to based on alleged dis-
charge of six employees for union ae-
tivities, but W. J. Gibbons, chairman
of the Council's drive to organize non-
union shops, also states that the com-
pany management had refused to en-
ter into a union agreement with the
printing trades, had offered Its em-
ployees less than the union scale dur-
ing attempts at negotiations and had
discharged the men, who were mem-
bers of the pressmen's and press feed-
ers’ unions.
One official of the Christian Board
of Publications denied that the men
were discharged for union activities.
ardization, saying that “in the arbi-
trary length some of them look
workers with small firms employing
less than 8, or less than 4, etc., in
some states; those in domestic serv-
ice: government employes; employes
of charitable institutions; seasonal in-
dustries; officers and members of
crews of vessels; casual labor. Work-
ers in insured industries who have
acquired rights in one state but who
find work in another state and move
will have to acquire rights in the new
state. If unemployment to due to sick-
ness or physical disablity, the worker
though doubly unfortunate has no
compensation for his enforced idle-
ness. Also, workers in insured indus-
tries may be deprived of economic se-
curity by a leasing or contracting by
which some companies hope to relieve
themselves of financial obligations.
It to to correct this injustice that
the Council urged the convention of
the American Federation of Labor to
mobilize the organized labor move-
ment to persuade Congress to extend
the benefits of unemployment compen-
sation not only to “agricultural work-
ers” but also to "all employes in work-
shops, mills, mines and factories."
This reasonable extension would
undoubtedly provide unemployment
compensation for a large portion of
the twenty-four millions of workers
now excluded from protection against
unemployment
The recommendation of the Execu-
tive Council should be incorporated in
one of the first must bills for the next
session of Congress.
nix wnuam m. RKILLX, Pabiisher
B. L. MenLWAINE.
Aavertiatng nnd Busimess Mamace
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Man adarens, Postethiee Bex SSI,
Telephene, 2-1205
- .. -n -niitone (.convention that an attempted raid of
mous response from all organizations the building trades by the Committee
Lorenzo Dow, an American evange-
list who went to Ireland in 1799 to
endeavor to convert the Catholics of
that country to Protestantism, was a
old spirit in many respects, but it ap-
pears that he was extremely cautious
in which which women were con-
cerned.
His tentative proposal of marriage,
written to a young woman of his ac-
quaintance, to a masterpiece of con-
servatism. He wrote as follows:
“If I am preserved, about a year
and a half from now I am in hopes
of seeing this northern country again;
and if during that time you live and
remain single, and find no one that
you like better than you do me, and
would be willing to give me up .three
years out of every four for travel in
foreign lands (for if you should stand
in the way I would pray God to re-
move you, which I believe He would
answer) and if I find no one I like
better than I do you, perhaps some-
thing further may be said upon the
subject"
It is safe to say that the young lady
could hardly have gotten a breach of
promise verdict on the strength of a
letter like that
Mrs. Willard Hinz of Kenosha. Wis.,
married 29 years ago, just can't get
along with her husband, but somehow
hasn’t been able to get rid of him, al-
though her fifth suit for divorce to
now pending. She withdrew her first
three complaints, the fourth resulted
in a decree which was annulled, but
this time she avers she will have a
divorce that will stick. Her charge,
cruelty, should be easy to prove
against almost any husband after liv-
ing with him 29 years.
Andte ledo has only 100 proper dwelling
15 units and apartments available. which
The 1937 annual convention of the
Union Label Trades Department of the
American Federation of Labor, held
in Denver, Colorado, re-elected all of
its officials. The officers are:
Matthew Wol, president; Joseph
Obergfell, first vice president; A. A.
Myrup, second vice president; Chas.
P. Howard, third vice president; John
J. Mara, fourth vice president; T. A.
Rickert, fifth vice president; L M.
Ornburn, secretary-treasurer.
The headquarters of the Union
Label Trades Department are in the
American Federation of Labor Build-
ing in Washington, D. C. ।
Marion. Ind. (AFLNS). — Federal
Labor Union No. 21009, recently or-
ganized here by Hal Denman, A. F. of
L representative, composed of em-
ployees of the Osborne Paper Com-
pany, are now. working under a closed
shop union agreement.
The contract signed with the com-
pany provided for a ten per cent in-
crease in wages, the 8-hour day and 5-
day week, seniority rights and other
established union conditions.
employment for 159,000 building me-
chanics for the next three years.”
Furthermore, according to the Ex-
ecutive Council, the production of ma-
terial required in the construction of
the low-rent housing will provide em-
ployment for "between 200,000 and
250,000 persons in the next three
years."
All of which beneficial results, it
may be added, have been secured by
the persistent and unflinching efforts
of the American Federation of Labor
to make Federal assistance for low-
cost bousing a fact instead of a the-
ory.
Judge McCabe, of Toledo. Denies
Fence Company’s Petition; Declares
No Violence Was Proven Against
Patrols of Iron Workers' Union.
(By AFLNS).
Employers who come before the
courts demanding injunctions re-
straining their employees from picket-
ing must back up their demand with
something more than mere statements
which have no foundation in fact
This is the substance of an opinion
given recently by Judge John Mc-
Cabe in common pleas court, Toledo,
Ohio.
The Toledo local of the Bridge,
Structural A Ornamental Iron-Work-
ers Union protested the discharge of
two of its members for union activity
by the Marleau-Hercules Fence Com-
pany and claimed that the company
pa hi less than the union scale for the
structural Iron industry.
As a persuasive measure to bring
the management of the company to
their senses the union picketed the
company’s plant.
The company, in turn, rushed into
court with the demand for an injunc-
tion against further picketing. The
company contended there was no labor
dispute in its factory and that its em-
ployees were members of an indepen-
dent association which bargained for
them.
Judge McCabe denied the injunction.
Declaring that an Injunction is a
harsh measure to be used only with
discretion, he said that no evidence
of violence had been proven against
the Bridge A Structural Iron Workers
Union. Therefore, there was no legal
basis on which an injunction restrain-
ing picketing could rest
was forcing many families to move to
the suburbs.
Pointing out the failure of the pri-
vate building industry to meet the
emergency, Mr. Watson declared that
despite the rapid growth of the city
due to the return of industrial pros-
perity, there are only 67,000 proper
residential units there now as com-
pared with 70,000 in 1929.
Oliver Meyers, secretary of the To-
ledo Building Trades Council, told the
spelled as two words (perhaps we
should say as a double word) like
Sing Sing and Walla Walla.
The Times quotes the Dayton, Ohio,
Journal as saying that the pawpaw
presents an issue too definite for the
most adroit politician to straddle,
namely: “It to either a delicacy or
an abomination to the palate. There
to no middle ground. Even among
its friends this cantankerous fruit to
provocative of more argument than
adulation. Many and bitter have been
the disputes as to whether frost to re-
quired before the pawpaw becomes
thoroughly ripe."
William Allen White, the noted Kan-
sas editor, once wrote: “It is a great
fruit, a kind of atavistic throwback
to a custard pie on its mother’s side
and a bullhead catfish on its father’s
side, carrying the aroma and consis-
tency of the one and the bones and
fins of the other.”
Anyway, it is pawpaw time in Paw
Paw, Illinois, and presumably also in
Paw Paw, Kentucky; Paw Paw, Mich-
igan, and Paw Paw, West Virginia.
age of $52.71 per case. The largest
single claim wag for $660.
Most of the claims for accidents and
occupational disease compensation
would have been unnecessary if em-
ployers had applied and enforced up-
to-date methods for preventing acci-
dents and occupational hazards.
PAWPAW^ME IN PAW PAW
MIDDLETON TRUCKING
FIRMS SIGN UNION PACTS
appeared in the, Times of Paw Paw, counsel. The State Board of Stand-
ll., a town obviously named for it, but
Albany, N. Y. (AFLNS).—Applica-
tion for a charter of incorporation
here for a so-called “National Federa-
tion of Labor" is being vigorously con-
tested by the New York State Federa-
tion of Labor and affiliates, through
Middleton, Ohio (AFLNS).—Union
agreements signed by the major
trucking companies of Middleton
carried wage increases from a few
cents an hour up to 20 cents.
The contracts which were negotiat-
ed by Gus Miles, A. F. of L. organizer,
also called for the closed shop.
Mrs. Harry C Yeiser of Cincinnati,
holding a life insurance policy for
$3,250,000, to said to be the most heav-
ily insured woman in the world.
might also be poultry fanciers.
Mrs. Margaret Droope of Hazel
Park, Mich., won the title of champion
husband caller at the state fair held
recently in Detroit
for Industrial Organization in 1936
had failed and that the 21 locals in
the building trades are working in
perfect harmony.
William Grubb was re-elected presi-
dent of-the State Council for his twen-
tieth term and Arnold Bill was re-
elected to the position of secretary for
his twenty-first consecutive year.
In a somewhat light vein the Chris-
tian Science Monitor once asked and
discussed the question, “How many
Are a Few?” No conclusion was
One of the leading bankers of the
Northwest attributes many of the
farm failures in his section to lack of
experience, lack of working capital,
or both, on the part of those who have
failed.
A check-up of those who had been
unsuccessful as farmers in one agri-
cultural community illustrates his
contention. Among them were the fol-
lowing:
Two circus musicians, a paper
hanger, a sailor, a seagoing engineer,
—__t... ■■ —
24,691 ACCIDENT CLAIMS
FILED BY OHIO WORKERS
The terrific ' penalty imposed on
workers in the nature of inadequate
protection from accident hazards is
strikingly revealed in a brief report
made by the Ohio Industrial Commis-
sion to the effect that a total of 24,-
691, claims for compensation under the
Ohio Workmen's Compensation Law
were heard by the Commission during
the month of July.
The Commission held hearings on
21 days during the month. The claims
for compensation for accidents aver-
aged 1,170 for each of the hearing
days.
The total of 24,691 claims Include
21,584 State fund and public employee
claims, of which 11,332 were claims
for medical expenses only.
In view of the fact that some States
do not include occupational diseases
in workmen’s compensation laws, it to
interesting to note (hat the Ohio Com-
mission allowed 13 claims for occupa-
tional diseases disability after special
presentation.
The Commission reported that they
had considered 1,385 claims during the
With the approach of winter, it to
timely to again remind motorists of
the danger to which they may be sub-
jected on account of the deadly gas,
carbon monoxide. produced by burn-
ing gasoline and ordinarily carried
into the air by the exhaust pipe.
This danger to greatest when the
motor to permitted to ran while the
car is (larked in a garage, but the
lethal gas may also enter the body of
the car from a leaky manifold or pipe.
Carbon monoxide to odorless, color-
less and tasteless, yet its rapid effect
on the lungs and heart may produce -
death in a few seconds or minutes,
according to the amount inhaled.
Symptoms of this poisoning in the or-
der in which they appear are head-
ache. weakness, dizziness, reddening
of the skin, weakened eyesight, nau-
sea, labored breathing, heart irreg-
ularity, collapse—death.
These symptoms develop so rapidly
that a person to often overcome be-
fore he realizes what is happening,
and then escape unaided to impossible.
The number of motorists who die from
carbon monoxide to relatively small,
compared with those who meet death
through other accidents, but the dan-
ger to nevertheless real, and should
be kept in mind.
ture of the American Federation of
Labor featured the speech of Francis
J. Dillon, general organiser of the A.
F. of L. for the Toledo area. In an ad-
dress before the recent convention of
the Indiana State Federation of Labor
at Terra Haute, Ind.
Speaking as the personal represen-
tative of William Green, president of
the A F. of L, Mr. Dillon said the is-
sue between the American Federation
of Labor and the Committee for In-
dustrial Organization to not a question
of industrial unionism or craft union-
ism. but whether the American Fed-
eration of Labor will permit domina-
tion by a minority group. |
Mr. Dillon described the fight made
by Eugene V. Debs for the workers
and the subsequent destruction of the
union which he set up, which 42 years
ago was heralded as the instrumen-
tality which would bring to all work-
ing people alleviation from the injus-
tices and grievances which they com-
plained of.
Emphasizes Importance of A. F. of L
"Time has passed. Mr. Debs is gone
to meet his Maker. His dreams have
vanished, but the American Federa-
tion of Labor has stood through the
years. It has grown. It has from year
to year embraced the principles of
practical 'advocates as to reform and
progress. It has moved cautiously,
until today it stands as the greatest
movement designed to perpetuate and
protect the welfare of the working
people, on the face of this earth."
Recalling that 25 years ago the late
Samuel Gompers had a clear vision of
the future, Mr. Dillon declared that in
1912 Mr. Gompers said:
Cites Gompers’ Waruing Against
Change in Struckuro
"Our Federation resting on a solid
foundation to erecting a structure
adapted at all times to its purposes
and of a lasting character. Our move-
ment has no schism within. All op-
position to its policies, its procedures,
its form of organisation and its tac-
tics, comes from without. All who
would divert it from its established
principles are enemies working for the
invented for trailer travelers
LEGISLATIVE DISCRIMINATION
AGAINST UNEMPLOYED
WORK^
THE demand made by the Executive
Council of the American Federa-
tion of Labor in its report to the 1937
convention of the Federation at Den-
ver, Colorado. that the Social Security
Act be amended to provide protection
against age and unemployment haz-
ards for “agricultural workers" and
“all employes in workshops, mills,
mines and factories” should and un-
doubtedly will be approved by all
Members of Congress and progressive
citizens generally.
It to axiomatic that a Government
established to “promote the general
welfare" cannot permanently bar mil-
lions of citizens from the benefits of
social security legislation. But,
strangely enough, that to exactly what
the present Social Security Act does.
This injustice to clearly indicated
in the Executive Council’s analysis of
the unemployment compensation sec-
tion of the Act
Quite properly, the Act according
to the Executive Council, specifically
declares that unemployment compen-
sation shall not be denied to otherwise
eligible employes for refusing to ac-
cept employment for the following
reasons:
If the position offered to vacant due
directly to a strike, lockout or other
labor dispute; if the wages, hours, or
other conditions of the work offered
are substantially less favorable to the
individual than those prevailing for
similar work in the locality; if as a
condition of being employed the indi-
vidual would be required to join a
company union or to resign from or
refrain from joining any bona fide la-
bor organization.'
But the Executive Council points
out that practically half of our forty-
eight million working men and women
are not only “otherwise eligible" for
unemployment compensation but are
specifically barred from this benefit
by the terms of the Act itself.
With regard to the millions of work-
ers suffering this unwarranted legis-
lative discrimination the Executive
Council, under the significant heading
eral employes, with 49 hours for a few
specified lines and 56 for night watch-
men.
The contract established a minimum
wage rate of 45 cents an hour for men
and 35 cents an hour for women, with
five cents less for the first thirty days
of employment. After one year's con-
tinuous employment, employes are en-
titled to one week's vacation with pay.
A limited senionty rule is established
and an arbitration board set up for
settlement of any disputes. without re-
sort to strike, during the life of the
contract.
This small percentage of actual vot-
ers is due in part to the fact that com-
paratively few Negroes vote in the
South, and the poll tax to retained no
doubt with a view to discouraging
them from voting.
The only Northern state which now
Imposes a poll tax, according to a re-
cent publication, is Rhode Island, and
there a citizen may vote without pay-
ing the tax by taking the "pauper
oath.”
The Constitution of the United
States makes each state the judge of
the qualifications of its own elec-
torate, except that the right to vote
shall not be denied on account of race,
color ot previous condition or servi-
tude.
One of the oddities among state
laws respecting voting to that of South
Carolina, which provides that no
Negro shall vote in a Democratic pri-
mary unless he can produce a state-
ment of 10 reputable white men who
will swear that the applicant voted
for General Wade Hampton tor gov-
ernor of the state in 1876 and has
voted the Democratic ticket continu-
ously since.
Obviously no one can comply with
such a requirement, so there are no
Negro voters in Democratic primaries
in South Carolina.
Pablished By the
shut runusixe comrAXI
orne: arouna Meer et Leber Temple
1727 Yeune Street
itself to the changed economic order.
“It to not unnatural, for under the
liberal administration of a great Presi-
dent. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, we
have had a social revolution. So all the
relationships of different groups have
been basically affected and it to but
natural that our trade union move-
ment should find new alignments and
changes.
"But during the process of change
no men or group of men will ever be
permitted to use these unusual cir-
cumstances as a stepping stone to dic-
tatorship or ownership.
“This shall ever remain a demo-
cratic organisation dedicated to the
service, the advancement and the pro-
tection of the men and women who
toil."
mi the Peatetne. at Dafee
Tw as niirf fir-- meu mattee
undar the Ast of Marek a, 187.
Notable Agreement Is Negotiated
Through Central Agencies Repre-
senting Both Employers and Unions.
Following several weeks of arduous
work thirteen American Federation of
Labor unions recently negotiated an
agreement for one year with the Re-
tail Associates, Ine., of Toledo, Ohio,
whose membership includes represen
tatives of all the large retail stores in
that city. |
A complete understanding was
reached and an agreement signed cov-
ering wages, hours and work condi-
tions for employees.
The unions affected are all affiliated
with the Retail Trades Council of the
Toledo Central Labor Union.
Union officials in Toledo assert that
the agreement is unique because all
negotiations were carried on through
central agencies representing both
groups.
Francis J. Dillon, general represen-
tative of the A. F. of Lin the Toledo
area, and D. J. Marquis, international
organizer for the Retail Clerks, ren-
dered valuable assistance in negotiat-
ing the agreement. Besides Mr. Dil-
lon and Mr. Marquis representatives
of the following local organizations
participated in the negotiations:
Building Trades, Electricians, Retail
Clerks, Carpenters, Painters, Plumb-
ers. Porters, Elevator Operators,
Cabinet Makers, Warehousemen, Elec-
trical Appliance Service Men, Sign
Painters, Office Workers, Kitchen em-
ployees and Waitresses.
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