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The Craftsman It the Official Organ of the Farm Labor Union of Dallas County and Is Subscribed for by the Dallas Central Labor Council and Affiliated Unione in a Redy "*d is Fighting for the R ghte of Orgonired L^tror
TWENTY-SEVENTH YEAR No. 18
DALLAS, TEXAS, FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1938
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, RM PER YEAR
A. F. of L Unions Will Help
Woman’s Union Label League
Hold Meeting Thursday Night
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Corp Topping
Waste of Time
200 Witnesses
Guarded for
Harlan Trial
Attempts Being
Made to Obtain
Jobless Benefits
Pennsylvania
Headquarters
Won by AFL
Walter Johnson
Candidate for
State Senate
Dallas Drivers
Warned Against
Illegal Turn
Jobs for Five
Million Visioned
Roy James
Reports Large
Membership Gain
Augustus Finnell
Veteran Painter
Passes Away
British Seamen’s
Head Visits
AF LOf f icials
Frank M. Smith
For Commissioner
District No. 1
Council Organized
By Grain and
Allied Industries
R. L (Bob) Mullins
Announces for
Commissioner
Battle Creek
Cereal Workers
Fight Post Co.
R. L. (Bob) Mullins, who announces
for County Commissioner District No.
1, has lived in the District for the past
relief measure, but that the amounts
appropriated by the House under the
various items may be altered.
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Works Progress Administration and
$1465,000,000 for Publie Works Ad-
ministration.
* Organization Drive Has Already In-
creased to Seventy-Five the Number
of Locals Affiliated With Office Em-
ployes International Council, Presi-
dent Weikel Says.
Judge Hanrest Orders Phillips, State
C, 1. O. Head, to Vacate Harrisburg
Building.
friends feel he is the man for
place.
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government,
thereby reduce our taxes.
BRITISH SPINSTERS ASK
STATE PENSIONS AT 55
A. F. of L Pact
Speeds Federal
Housing Program
THE DALLAS CRAFTSMAN
Co-operation Between the Employer and Employe for Their Mutual Benefit and Progress and Development of Dallas •
FRANK M. SMITH
More than 10,000 of Great Britain’s
unmarried women recently marched
on London to attend a rally of their
National Spinsters' Pensions Associa-
tion. which claims a membership of
125,000. The Association demands gov-
ernment pensions for every unmarried
women at 55 years. The Government
has already appointed a committee to
study the spinsters' pension problem.
Major H. A. Proctor, a member of Par-
liament, who addressed the meeting,
said that "over 1,000,000 men lost their
lives in the World War who otherwise
would have been mates and breadwin-
ners of many of the spinsters of to-
day."
cided not to run until such a time as
he could do so.
This year. In response to the wishes
of those friends, he is retiring from
his dairy business and will devote him-
self solely to the affairs of the office
of Commissioner, an office which his
wide acquaintance with the district as
well as his business experiences qual-
ify him. Mr. Mullins is in the race
to win and will not withdraw and his
United States Government.
The Federal Government
Grain Processors Council.
Acording to Meyer L. Lewis, presi-
dent of the Grain Processors Council,
General Foods Corporation, which it is
alleged has manifested unwillingness
to favor the unionization of its sub-
sidiary, manufactures the following
products: Post Toasties, Bakers Co-
coanut. Bakers Chocolate, Minute Tap-
ioca, Swans Dawn Cake Flour, Calu-
met Baking Powder, Log Cabin Syrup,
Whole Bran Flakes, Grape Nuts, Grape
Nut Flakes, Post's 40 per cent Bran
Flakes, Instant Postum, Sanka, Max-
well House Coffee, Jell-O, Certa, La-
France, Satina, Diamond Salt, Huskies
and other products.
Mr. Lewis pointed out that he prod-
ucts of W. K. Kellogg, General Mills,
and Ralston Purina, covering much
the same field as those of General
Foods Corporation and its subsidiary,
the Post Company, are union made in
accordance with A. F. of L. standards.
Mr. Johnson does not have a lot of
money to spend on his campaign, but
says that it will be necessary for him
to depend on the personal work of his
friends for election. He believes that
the people should take time to con-
sider the qualifications of each of the
candidates who have indicated that
they will be in the race for State Sen-
ate before deciding for whom they will
cast their vote, for the reason that it
will be impossible for any governor
to reduce the cost of state government
unless he is backed up by a legisla-
ture that has ability and integrity.
Mr. Johnson believes that, more than
ever before, the laboring man is be-
stirring himself concerning his inter-
est and will investigate for himself the
type of candidate he is voting to elect
to the Legislature of the State
Texas.
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Cattle Creek, Mich. (AFLNS).—The I
struggle of A. F. of L. Federal Labor
Union No. 20977 Cereal Workers and
Allied Industries, affiliated with the
National Council of Grain Processors,
against the anti-union policy of the
Post Company here, a subsidinary of
General Foods Corporation, is receiv-
ing such whole-hearted support from
organized labor generally that union )
members are confident of ultimate vic-
tory for justice for the employes of the
company. (
Following long continued opposition j
of the Post Company to enter into an ,
agreement that would safeguard the
rights of the employes, Federal Union
No, 20977 announced on January 27 ,
that it had placed the company on the
unfair list and urged other A. F. of L.
unions to assist them in their fight. .
The action of the Federal Labor Union ]
was endorsed by the Battle Creek Fed- (
eration of Labor and the National
The Farmers Union and the Union
Label
The reciprocal agreement between
the National Farmers' Union and the
Union Label Trades Department is
simply this: The members of the Na-
tional Farmers’ Union agree to patron-
ize only the firms which display the
Union Label. Shop Card and Button;
and in return, the members of the La-
bor Unions "‘kewise agree to purchase
only from merchants who display the
Farmers' Union Card and buy their
products only from farmers who are
members of the National Farmers’ Un-
ion.
There is no financial obligation on
the part of either group. It merely
means that the workers of farm and
factory are going to use this great eco-
nomic weapon—collective buying—to
permanently establish both groups in
the market places.
There is no intention of interfering
College Station, May 16.—"The ques-
tion is often raised as to whether It
pays to top corn for fodder,” says E.
A. Miller, agronomist of the Exten-
sion Service of Texas A. and M. Col-
lege. "My opinion is that most farm-
ers who top their corn are working
for nothing.”
Miller based his statement on tests
conducted by the Texas Agricultural
Experiment Station over a period of
six years at the sub-station at Bee-
ville.
Corn which was allowed to mature
without topping produced an average
of 21.7 bushels an acre. Corn topped
14 days after silking yielded 17.3 bush-
els, a loss of 20.3 per cent Where
corn was topped 26 days after silking,
the yield was 17.6 bushels and the loss
18.9 per cent; 38 days after silking,
19.9 bushels and a loss of 8.3 per cent
When leaves were stripped 26 days
after silking, the yield was 15.3 bush-
els and the loss was 29.5 per cent.
"The test proved that farmers are
usually wasting their time in topping
corn, because what they gain in fod-
der, they lose in grain,” Miller pointed
out “It is.of course possible that in
case of a feed shortage, farmers might
be able to keep from buying feed by
topping corn to carry animals until
the grain is ready, but even then it is
doubtful if the practice pays.”
Following the testimony before the
La Follette Committee an independent
investigation was ordered by Attorney
General Cummings, and special agents
of the Federal Bureau of Investigation,
a department of Justice unit, spent
several months in Harlan County in-
vestigating the origin, development
and circumstances affecting organized
labor among the coal miners and the
actions of mine companies. mine offi-
cials, and Harlan County officers in
connection therewith.
One of the high points in the Gov-
ernment’s indictment is the charge
that former Sheriff Middleton of Har-
lan County, used "the power of his
office to appoint the other said law
officer defendants as deputy sheriffs,
thereby giving them greater authority
and power to threaten, beat and kill,"
and that he used his office to protect
his co-defendants from "legal punish-
ment”
four coal mine executives and twenty-
three former or present law-enforce-
ment officers of Harlan County with
conspiring to deprive coal mine work-
ers of their legal right to join unions
and bargain collectively with mine
operators to determine wages, hours
and work conditions.
Assistant Attorney General Brien
McMahon is the chief prosecutor for
the Government
Charles L. Dawson, a former Fed-
eral judge in this area, is chief coun-
sel for the defense.
Following reports of attempts to in-
timidate Government witnesses, main-
ly miners in Harlan County, received
at Mr. McMahon's headquarters, eight
deputy marshals were sworn in to pro-
tect the men who will swear that the
coal operators waged a determined
war to prevent unionization in Harlan
County.
In addition, two Federal Bureau of
Investigation men have been assigned
to Harlan County, where most of the
witnesses live, and ten F. I. B. men are
on duty in and around London.
In preparing its indictment the Gov-
ernment made use of the testimony
given in Washington a year ago before
Senator La Follette’s Civil Liberties
Committee, when several witnesses
testified that they had been discharged,
threatened or intimidated because of
Austin, May 14.—A statewide crack
down on fraudulent attempts to ob-
tain jobless benefits has been ordered
by Orville S. Carpenter, chairman-di-
rector of the Texas Unemployment
Compensation Commission, in an an-
nouncement today.
"The commission feels that there
has been a sufficient period of educa-
tion during which we have instructed
people that can't draw full compensa-
tion while they are working. Now we
are going to crack down and prose-
cute to the limit of the law any at-
tempts to obtain unemployment bene-
fits by making false statements on in-
come and employment,” Carpenter
said.
Four convictions have been obtained
already in the first charges to be
brqught Into court for violations of
the unemployment compensation law.
The maximum penalty for filing a
claim is a fine of fifty dollars or thir-
ty days in jail, or both.
"These cases on which we have ob-
tained convictions," Carpenter said,
"are the first evidences of attempted
fraud to happen but we intend to stop
promptly these practices wherever
they occur.”
“These efforts of persons who are
employed and representing themselves
to be unemployed, or persons partially
employed and failing to report their
earnings in order to get jobless bene-
fits, are going to be stopped. Employ-
ers are footing the bill for unemploy-
ment compensation and the commis-
sion is going to protect that invest-
ment.
"Employees will not be allowed to
collect money to which they are not
entitled and they should realize that
the complete records of the commis-
sion on each claim will prevent the
success of such fraudulent attempts.”
Building and Construction Trades De-
partment Signs Jurisdictional and
Wage Agreement With U. S. How
ing Authority.
WPA Project
Approved for
Dallas County
San Antonio, May 18.—Approval of
thirty-three Works Progress Adminis-
tration projects, involving Federal ex-
penditures of 8275,867 by local govern-
mental agencies, was anonunced today
by Stearns S. Tucker, deputy state ad-
ministrator.
Project approved in Dallas County
with amount of Federal funds, spon-
sors’ funds and number of workers to
be employed, are:
University Park: Construct 2,100
feet of storm sewer from Hanover
Street to Intersection of Stanford and
Thackeray Streets; Federal funds,
822,154; sponsors funds, 810,504; work-
ers, 205.
Construct 2,415 feet of storm sewer
from Preston Road to Lomo Alto
Drive; Federal funds, 821,486; spon-
sors’ funds, 89,208; workers, 219.
London, Ky. (AFLNS).—The first
criminal prosecution under the Nation-
al Labor Relations Act began in the
Federal District Court here this week
with 200 witnesses called by the
GOVERNMENT COLLECTS
BIG GASOLINE TAX
Washington, D. C. (AFLNS).—The
Feedral Bureau of Public Roads re-
ports that operators of motor vehicles
paid 8761,998,000 in gasoline taxes and
inspection fees to the U. S. Govern-
ment in 1937. The taxes and fees col-
lected in 1936 amounted to $691,420,-
000. Evidently the gasoline tax is one
of the most capacious sources of reve
/ nue the Federal Government can tap.
Eight Deputy Marshals Sworn to Pro-
tect Miners From Violence in Ken-
tucky Town—Twenty Coal Execs,
fives Named in Indictment Charging
Intimidation Against Union Mem-
bers.
Officials of the National Council of
Grain Processors and Allied Indus-
tries. A. F. of L. affiliate, report that
the Tri-State Joint Council, recently
formed by a delegate meeting at De-
catur, Illinois, is achieving consider-
able success.
The States represented at the De-
catur meeting were Iowa, Illinois and
Eastern Missouri. Union delegates
were present from Chicago, East St.
Louis, Mascoutah, Springfield, Deca-
tur. Pekin, Alton and Granite City, all
in Illinois, Clinton and Keokuk, Iowa
and St. Louis, Missouri.
their affiliation with the United Mine will not change the principles or the
Workers of America - *
Washington, D. C. (AFLNS).—The
Building and Construction Trades De-
partment of the American Federation
of Labor and the United States Hous-
ing Authority finalized a plan to speed
up the billion dollar low-rent housing
and slum clearance program which the
Housing Authority is administering
with the signing of an agreement de-
signed to prevent work stoppages and
pay reductions on the projects.
The Executive Council of the A. F.
of L. department approved two reso-
lutions providing that there shall be
no cessation of work in jurisdictional
disputes until the unions involved and
the Federal and local housing authori-
ties have full opportunity to adjust
the differences; and second, wage
rates established when a project is
begun shall remain effective until it
is completed.
The finalizing of the agreement was
announced by Walter Price, acting di-
rector of the labor relations division
of the United States Housing Au-
thority, and Herbert Rivers, secretary-
treasurer of the A. F. of L. Building
and Construction Trades Department.
Business and civic leader in Dallas
for many years and now residing on
his farm near Richardson in the north
part of the county, Frank M. Smith
this week announced his candidacy for
County Commissioner, District No. 1,
basing his candidacy on a platform of
"100 cents worth of value for every
dollar spent."
A former mayor of Highland Park
and active in the business and civic af-
fairs of Greater Dallas for 35 years,
Mr. Smith says he believes the office
of County Commissioner is one that
should be conducted in a business-like
manner with the idea always in mind
of getting the greatest return on the
tax dollars spent.
"I believe I can be of good service
to the county," Mr. Smith said. “I be-
lieve my experience in business af-
fairs in the city and county has fitted
me for the work. If I am elected Com-
missioner the county will get 100 cents
worth of value for every dollar spent.
My association in state and govern-
ment affairs and. with their officials
has made me qualified for business-
like contacts with our state and fed-
eral government departments which
will bring about needed improvement
by county, state and federal agencies
in the fastest growing section of the
country.”
During the war Mr. Smith had
charge of the country precincts in the
third and fourth Liberty Loan drives,
and Secretary Carter Glass made him
federal district director of the Victory
Loan and the war savings stamps cam-
paign.
“As County Commissioner it would
be my dutz to employ hundreds of
workers in the building and mainten-
ance of roads and bridges, and I would
see to it that the highest standard of
wages. in keeping with tax limitations
and budget uppropriations, be paid
these laborers.
“Every worker is entitled to a fair
wage tor his labor, so that his fam-
ily may enjoy decent and comfortable
living standards, and that his children
shall have an opportunity to obtain an
education and develop into intelligent
and useful citizens."
8500,000,000 for the P. W. A. revolving
fund, the major items in the bill .are:
National Youth Administration, $75,-
charges 1000,000; Farm Security Administration,
--- 8175,000,000; Puerto Rico Reconstruc-
Organize White Collar Workers Bzivecoyerysis .
sentatives Inclades $1250,000,000 for
What many local curbstone critics
once said was “just a temporary
drive,” in referring to the strict pol-
icy of arresting traffic violators has
turned out to be a permanent fixture
with the Dallas Police Department.
Having realized that all drivers
caught breaking traffic laws must
face prosecution, Dallas people have
shown by their attitude their approval
of strict enforcement of traffic regu-
lations.
There have been numerous times
lately when drivers have been arrest-
ed for violating certain laws which
they admitted they did not know ex-
isted. Typical of these few laws is the
one regarding backing.
People who drive down the right side
of the street and pull into a drive-in
parking space are apt to forget them-
selves, as they are doing every day,
by backing illegally when they leave
from this parked position. What they
do is this: instead of backing out in
the same manner they have come in.
then proceeding in the direction they
were originally headed, they cut the
wheels, back out across the street and
reverse their direction. By doing this
they make a turn-table of the street
and a serious traffic hazard is created.
Continue on the right side of: the
street. even though it is necessary to
go a block or two out of the way, is
the simplest advice traffic authorities
are giving to drivers who want to stay
within the law and avoid accidents.
tion Administration, 86,000,000 Em-
ployes' Co;mpensation Commission,
83,500,000; Rural Electrification Ad-
ministration. 8100,000,000. The W. P.
A. and P. W. A. appropriations were
specifically recommended by the
American Federation of Labor.
A number of amendments designed
to fix flat minimum W. P. A. wages
were defeated on the plea of Repre-
sentative Clinton A. Woodrum of Vir-
ginia, in charge of the bill, that it was
a "relief and recovery” bill, not the
wage-and-hour bill, which the House
would consider later.
The House included in the bill the
amendment offered by Representative
Jones of Texas providing that needy
farmers not on relief rolls may re-
ceive work relief, and the amendment
offered by Representative Boileau of
Wisconsin eliminating the basis of
neediness among farmers to whom the
W. P. A. will distribute lime for soil
improvement
The big relief bill was sent to the
Senate and referred to an appropria-
tions subcommittee headed by Senator
Adams of Colorado. The principle
witnessed summoned by Mr. Adams
were Public Works Administrator
Ickes, Works Progress Administrator
Hopkins and Secretary of Agriculture
Wallace.
35 years. During
the past 15 years
Mr. Mullins has
been earnestly so-
licited by his
friends, to run
for the office, but
because he felt
that until he re-
tired from his
dairy business he
could not devote
the full-time es-
sential to a prop-
er maintenance of
the office, he de-
Washington. D. C. (AFLNS).—The
House of Representatives passed by a
vote of 328 to 70 the President’s spend-
ing-lending relief bill carrying $2,519,-
425.000 in direct expenditures and
8660,000.000 tn loans and authoriza-
tions. making a total of 83,179,425,000.
Friendly observers claim the bill,
which has yet to pass the Senate, will
directly and indirectly provide em-
ployment for five million jobless.
In addition to an appropriation of
$1,250,000,000 for the Works Progress
Administration, 3965,000,000 for the
Public Works Administration and
Harrisburg, Pa. (AFLNS).—A court
order issued here gave the Pennsyl-
vania State Federation of Labor, A. F.
of L. affiliate. possession of the head-
quarters building which the former
State Federation of Labor officials re-
fused to surrender when President
Green of the A. F. of L. revoked the
charter of the State Federation be-
cause of the refusal of its officers to
drop C. I. O. unions from affiliation.
At the conclusion of the case here
brought by the American Federation
of Labor to oust the C. I. O. groups
from the headquarters. President
Judge William M. Hargest, of Dauphin
County Court, restrained John A.
Phillips, former president of the State
Federation of Labor and now presi-
dent of the C. I. O. Pennsylvania In-
dustrial Union Council, from continu-
ing in possession of the building and
withholding possession of it from the
State Federation of Labor "until fur-
ther order of the court.”
In issuing the restraining order
Judge Hargest said that Phillips after
the old State Federation of Labor
charter was revoked because its offi-
cials refused to oust C. I. O. unions,
"organize1 a new and hostile organiza-
tion. of which he became president,
and now attempts to divert the prop-
erty to the uses and purposes of his
new organization.”
Washington, D. C. (AFLNS).—As a
vital part of the work undertaken by
the American Federation of Labor to
bring the many thousands of unorgan-
ized white collar workers into affilia-
tion with the organized labor move-
ment. Frank Weikel, president of the
American Federation of Office Em-
ployes International Council, request-
ed the eight hundred central labor un-
ions affiliated with the American Fed-
eration of Labor to inaugurate office
employes union membership cam-
paigns in every community.
"The American Federation of Labor
is engaged in an intensive organizing
drive among white collar workers em-
ployed in private industry,” Mr. Weikel
said in a letter addressed to the secre-
taries of the central labor unions.
“There are now affiliated with the
A. F. of L. seventy-five local unions of
this class of wage earners,” he con-
tinued.
"If such a local union is in existence
in your city, the purpose of this com-
munication is to request the coopera-
tion and assistance of your Central
Body in endeavoring to bring within
the A. F. of L. those among this vast
army of white collar workers who are
outside the fold. Many Central Bodies,
through their organization committees,
have materially assisted these local
unions in increasing their membership
by cooperation in organizing drives
and collective bargaining negotiations.
This valuable assistance on the part
of Central Bodies affiliated with the
A. F. of I. is deeply appreciated.
"On the other hand, if no such local
union of office employes affiliated
with the A. F. of L. is in existence in
your city, your Central Body can lend
valuable assistance in initiating an or-
ganization drive at the present time.
"Many requests are coming in daily
to A. F. of L. headquarters for infor-
mation and literature that may be used
in conducting a drive for organization
of white collar workers. We have on
hand at headquarters an ample supply
of such literature which will be gladly
sent upon request.
"The assistance of your Central Body
in bringing within the fold of the A. F.
of L the unorganized white collar
workers in your community will be of
tremendous mutual benefit"
Augustus Finnell, who died Friday,
May 13 at 6 p. m. was born in Mis-
souri 63 years, 5 months and 8 days
ago. Brother Finnell, who accidently
fell from a window at 1604 St Louis
Street, was a member of Painters Lo-
cal 53 and had been painting for forty
years. Funeral services were held at
the McKamy-Campbell Funeral Home
on Forest avenue. Interment being in
Restland Cemetery. Surviving are a
son and a daughter residing in Kansas
City, a, daughter at Chicago and a
daughter in Texas. In Dallas he is
survived by his wife and a brother,
James Finnell.
WALTER JOHNSON
The training and experience of Mr.
Walter Johnson, who recently an-
nounced his candidacy, for the State
Senate, eminently qualify him to act
as representative from this District.
Mr. Johnson, a cpllege man, taught
school for a number of years, and for
the past fifteen years has been in
business in Dallas. He has a wide
acquaintance in the County and State
and in his travels has had the oppor-
tunity of making ajstdy of labor and
economic conditions at first-hand. His
age and experience qualify him to pass
judgment on the legislative needs of
this County and State and he will fa-
vor fair and impartial representation
of every group in the County.
From his experience as a teacher,
he is naturally in favor of preserving
the heritage of every child which
comes largely from education and,
therefore, he believes that the State
of Texas should immediately ratify
the national Child Labor Amendment
which has already been done by a ma-
jority of the other states in the union.
Mr. Johnson is acquainted with the
personnel of the hold-over senators
and a number of the members of the
House and will be in a position to se-
cure their influence in the passage of
measures which will affect Dallas and
Dallas County.
Mr. Johnson states that he will
favor better working conditions, less
discrimination, adequate minimum
wage laws, and old age security. He
is definitely opposed to the present
administration of the Old Age Security
Law and will favor reduction in the
overhead cost of this administration,
so that these funds may be distributed
to the needy. He believes that the pen-
sioners should cease to be a political
football and should be the recipients
of the assistance which they so truly
deserve.
He is appalled at the extravagance
which is shown in the manipulation
of our present government set-up In
Austin and believes that, by the enact-
ment of effective civil service legisla-
tion, the numbers of these political
in each other's organization. The
products and services of Union Labor
are definitely designated by a Union
Label, Shop Card or Button and the
products of the Farmers’ Union like-
wise distinguished by a Farmers' Un-
ion Card, displayed by local merchants.
We must urge the ladies to always
ask for the Union Label, Shop Card
and Button. Not only the cereal, meat,
dairy and poultry products of the farm
are incluled in this plan, but there is
an unusual advantage, through its ar-
rangement, for the farm women to sell
canned fruits and vegetables. When
a merchant displays the Farmers’ Un-
ion Card in his window, he will be
only too glad to sell all the products
of the farm as well as Union-made
goods of factories.
The Union Label is the best guaran-
tee that the goods upon which it is
displayed are made in America. It is
the same assurance that the workers
receive when he buys Farmers’ Union
products which are locally grown and
not imported. Thus buying under the
symbols of our Labor and Farmers’
Unions guarantees that they are not
foreign products.
Let’s make America safe for Amer-
icans. One billion, five hundred and
seven million dollars worth of foreign-
made goods are flooding this country
today. This is an increase of 800 mil-
lion dollars worth in the past year.
Some of them contain the raw mate-
rials of foreign farms. These mer-
chandise are inferior in quality and
are made under the most unsanitary
conditions by European and Orientals
who receive "coolie" wages and low
farm prices.
I can see a wonderful advancement
for the Nation when farmers are suf-
ficiently organized. I can see a new
and scientific system of cooperative
marketing brewing up in which gam-
blers, chiselers, racketeers and para-
sitical middlemen are eliminated.
When this farmer-owned and con-
trolled system of organized market-
ing is established, you will find or-
ganized labor at he consuming end
with their collective buying power of
over seven billion dollars a year to co-
operate with the farmers. They will
form an economic system that has the
possibilities of the political freedom
our forefathers won for us in 1776
when farmers fired the first shot heard
around the world. Remember the Un-
ion Label/Shop Card.and Button, and
let’s keep’ our own money in this
country. j
• • •
- Dallas W. L U. L. L.
Local N >. 586 Woman's Internation-
al Union Label League met Thursday
evening at the Labor Temple. The
meeting proved an interesting one.
Mrs. Irene Greathouse presided over
the meeting.
While there was a considerable
amount of business transacted the
greater part was a routine nature, but
it was suh as to add to the interest
of the session. Several committees
reported on their work for the Label
League. The Label League is work-
ing very hard on the Union Label,
Shop Card and Button. The Label
League next meeting will be the first
Thursday'evening in June at the La-
bor Temple.
illness
Glad to; see Mrs. Schaefer up from
her recent attack of ptomaine poison.
• • •
Miss Carmen Lucia who arrives in
Dallas today in the interests of the.
Hatters Local, will spend several days
conferring with Arvil Inge as well as
the members of the Union.
Washington, D. C. (AFLNS).—W. R.
Spence, C. B. E„ general secretary of
the British National Union of Seamen,
was a recent visitor at the American
Federation of Labor headquarters here
calling on President William Green,
Secretary-Treasurer Frank Morrison
and other national union officials
whose offices are in the A. F. of L.
Building.
Mr. Spence was in America on busi-
ness of his organization, which he re-
ports to be in a flourishing condition
and not subjected to the reactionary
influences which have recently held
their destructive sway in the Interna-
tional Seamen’s Union of America.
For the first time in his life he also
visited the Congress of the United
Stat, x in session, where the procedure
of American law-making was ex-
plained to him by Paul Scharrenberg,
A. F. of L. Representative.
In addition to being chief of the
British Seamen’s Union, Mr. Spence
is a member of the General Council
of the British Trades Union Congress.
He departed for London after his visit
to Washington.
Roy James returned this week from
Chicago, where he had been attending,
as delegate, the triennial convention
of the Sheet Metal Workers Interna-
tional Association. Brother James re-
ports the convention as being one of
■ the most satisfactory held with great
enthusiasm displayed by all delegates
present and with good cause for the
convention reported the largest gain
in membership, by any organization,
since the winter of 32-33.
A distinctive gold lapel button was
voted to all members in good standing
for twenty-five years or more and all
members sixty-five years and over
were relieved of all dues without any
loss in membership.
Ninety per cent organization, on all
roads, was reported by the Railroad
Sheet Metal Worker, all of which is
extremely gratifying to the member-
ship. In the election of officers
Brother Jones retained the office he
was holding, that of sixth vice presi-
dent of the Association. 4
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