The Dallas Craftsman (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 52, Ed. 1 Friday, January 15, 1937 Page: 3 of 4
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THE DALLAS CRAFTSMAN
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concerning working conditions in fac-
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shops and offices. the restora-
Compulsory arbitration of labor dis-
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News Letter
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“I agree with you; your wife is im-
possible," said Judge Harris of hicago,
in granting Henry Florey a divorce.
are you waiting for some other mem-
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differ but little in essentials from the
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tion of wage reductions, farm wages
and c< nd Itous of labor, pensions, un-
employment relief and workers’ com-
pensation, it‘is evident that New Zea-
land has entered upon a period of so-
cial legislation comparable with that
the extent of co-operation of every
the American Federation of Labor,
which strongly opposes the levying of
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practice of the past.
“The Court’s authority will, how-
ever, be extended, to a greater num-
ber of workers and a wider range of
trades; and there is at least a pos-
sibility that its policy in wage regula-
tion, influenced by the more specific
definition of the content of the basic
wage, may resemble more closely the
practice of Australian Courts.”
“When it is considered that this law
is accompanied or is about to be fol-
Montgomery, Ala. (AFLNS). — A
proposed two per cent general sales
tax, which would hit all consumers,
regardless of ability to pay, and in-
tended to supplant the one and one-
half per cent gross receipts tar which
became effective January 1, is meet-!
ing with stiff opposition by the people
of Alabama.
Mass demonstrations have been held
against the proposal, hundreds of op-
ponents plodding through a drizzling
rain to Alabama’s historic State House
and on into the famous House cham-
ber where, among other demonstra-
tions, advocates of the general sales
tax were roundly booed.
A vast majority of the people of
Alabama appear to favor the view of
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ployed by the corporation on May 6,
1938, by refusing to meet with the
men for the purpose of establishing
contractual relations, the convention
instructed the President and Execu-
tiveCounciLof the American Federa-
tion of Labor “to land every possible
assistance to the employee of the Gen-
eral Household Utilities Corporation
in their efforts to secure recognition
of the right to organize and represen-
tation through the legitimate organ-
ized labor movement, and in the event
of failure to do so, to use the avenues
of publicity available to the American
Federation of Labor by advising the
members of the affiliated organiza-
tions of .the attitude of this corpora-
tion and its president, Wm. Grunow,
as their judgment may deem it advis-
able.”
GOMPERS MEMORIAL FUND.
Inasmuch as the immediate purpose
of the Gompers Memorial Fund has
been accomplished and further ex-
penses on account of the Memorial
will occur only occasionally the con-
vention directed that the balance in
that fund, 316,835.26, be transferred to
the general fund of the American
Federation of Labor and that further
expenses for repair of the monument
be paid out of the general fund.
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HEALTH ISURANCE.
Impressed with statistics presented
by the A. F. of L. Executive Connell
showing that "disease visits the poor
with even greater frequency than
those able to pay the doctor.” that
“medical care is not provided accord-
ing to need but according to capac-
ity to pay," and that "practically no
family with an Income of less than
85,000 could bear the costs of a ma-
jor Illness without undergoing hard-
ships.” the convention declared that
“disease, with the costs of its medical
care, is one of the most frequent
causes of poverty and dependency and
putes, obligatory trade union member- ing of the system
ships and basic minimum wages for1' —
both men and women workers are out-
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In a recent experiment of 60 pa-
tients with crossed eyes, 74 per cent
had histories of left-handedness in
their families, 60 per cent had changed
from preference for the left to the
right hand, and 40 per cent had his-
tories of speech defects.
A perfect specimen of armored liz-
ard, estimated to be 16 million years
old, was discovered in Utah by a Car-
negie expedition.-
than in the demand created for the
Union Label As the demand for the
- marked by the earnest, energetic sup-
port given by each of its members and
Charles Johnson of Hollister,
lowed by far-reaching. enactments
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Organized Labor’s welfare depends
upon how “fair” the merchants are
in your community.
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agreement was reached which was rea-
sonably satisfactory to the American
Federation of Labor upon the disput-
ed provisions of the bill. It has been
stated, the Council said, that the bill,
if enacted into law, “would provide
for the deportation of 20,066 persons
who were classified as state narcotic
addicts and aliens who were convicted
of carrying concealed weapons.”
INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF
TECHNICAL ENGINEERS, AR-
CHITECTS AND DRAPTSMEN'S
UNIONS.
Legislative Program.—The conven-
tion recommended for the favorable
consideration of the AFL Executive
Council a resolution declaring that
the 'American Federation of Labor
support, with every possible means at
its disposal, the achievement of the
following legislative program of the
International Federation of Technical
Engineers, Architects and Draftsmen’s
Unions: “I, a minimum wage of 31800
per annum for all time engineering
employes with statutory provisions for
automatic increases in salary; 2, a
reduction of hours of the present
work week without reduction in sal-
aries: -8, extension of the merit sys-
tem in the classified civil service:-4,
30 years optional retirement with
widows’ annuities and a reduction of
the age limit requirements; 6, crea-
tion of a board of appeals with pro-
vision for employee’ representation
for Civil Servite employes; 6. transfer
of classifying authority to the Civil
Service Commission for the allocation
of all field service positions under the
Classification Act; * changes in the
present system of efficiency markings
to remove present opportunity of dis-
crimination; 8, changes in present j
leave law regulations so as to restore 1
previous retroactive privileges for the |
fild service; 9, the preparation of I
plans for all Government built naval I
vessels by the drafting personnel of
the Naval Establishment."
More than a thousand million pas-
sengers have been carried by our-
street cars and buses since one was fa-
tally injured.
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Ride the Street Cars
And Bases for Safety
It has been truly said that you are
safer on a Street Car or Bus than any-
where else on the street
standing features of the new Indus-
trial Conciliation and Arbitration
Amendment Act recently adopted by
New Zealand in reversal of the Act of
1932 by which the Arbitration Court
was shorn of its compulsory powers.
Writing in the current issue of the
International Labor Review, E. J.
Riches, New Zealand member of the
staff.of the International Labor Of-
fice. discusses the new act and the
circumstances leading to its passage.
The Act not merely restores the
compulsory powers possessed by New
Zealand’s Abritration Court from 1894
to 1932, says Mr. Riches, but also re-
quires the Court to fix basic rates of
wages applicable to all workers cov-
ered by awards and agreements. Fur-
ther, the act provides that such work-
ers must become trade union mem-
bers and that wherever practicable a
40-hour, 5-day week shall be adopted.
Mt. Riches points out that the new
law is already widely applied; that
basic wage rates have been fixed for
men and women, numbers and mem-
berships of trade unions have been
greatly increased, and the 40-hour
week is in operation over a large part
of industry. The Increase In trade un-
ion memberships, he says has let to
proposals for a national Trade Union
Congress.
Discussing the future working of
the arbitration system, he holds that
“none of the developments at present
taking place is likely to be more im-
portant than the growth of trade un-
ions.”
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riodicals, for the purpose of extract-
ing money from unsuspecting busi-
ness firms, the convention instructed
the officers of the American Federa-
tion bf Labor to "use their best ef-
forts to protect the central bodies
frm the damage now being done by
those responsible for the publication
of such unauthorized newspapers,
year books,* annuals and other pub-
lications.” urged central labor bodies
to do everything possible to stamp out
these activities and recommended that
local unions and central bodies “sup-
port to the best of thein ability the
> local labor press. provided the same
has the approval of the central body."
FREE PRESS. .
The position of American labor on
freedom of the press came before the
convention in a number of resolutions
condemning William Randolph Hearst
and his publications for their alleged
, anti-labor and pro-fascist policies.
Some of the resolutions demanded a
boycott of the Hearst publications.
The convention non-concurred with
all of the resolutions and adopted the
following report of the Resolutions
Committee:
- "The American Federation of Labor,
from the beginning, has been an ac-
tive champion of freedom of the press,
the right of a newspaper to publish its
-views without censorship. Free insti-
. tutions must vanish the moment that
freedom of the press is restricted or
denied.
- "The policy of a newspaper relative
to labor and other national and in-
ternational questions, involves a news-
paper’s right to express its owner’s
opinion. When a newspaper expresses
views and advocates policies which
“It to the increase in their numbers
and membership is added the estab- ’
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Cal., grafted 1? varieties of peaches
and ope plum to an apricot tree and it
bears peaches ripening every week
from ate spring to middle fall.
satisfactory for • all uses as
lisbment of a unified national organi-
zation,” he says, “the resulting in-
crease in trade union bargaining
power may change the whole charac-
ter of the arbitration system.
"If, on the other hand, small-scale
uncoordinated unions remain the
typicay form of industrial labor or-
SUPREME COURT BACKS FREE
SPEECH
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An American citizen may speak
freely, at any time or any place, in
support of economic or political prin-
ciples which appeal to him, so long
as he does not advocate the use of
force to attain the desired ends. Fur-
thermore, his rights in this particular
will not be curtailed because the
meeting may be held under the au-
spices of an organization which be-
lieves in the use of force or because
he may have indicated at some other
time that he believes in the use of
force. «
That’s the substance of the decision
handed down last Monday by the
United States Supreme Court. The
opinion was of first importance, and
it is significant that it was prepared
by the Chief Justice and approved by
all other- justices. Therefore, it ia
emphatically the law of the land.
The facts of the case are worth re-
viewing. Oregon has a criminal syn-
dicalism law which makes it a crime
for a person- to "preside at, or con-
duct. or assist in conducting" a gath-
ering sponsored by an organization
“which advocates crime. physical vio-
lence, sabotage or any unlawful acts
or methods as a means of accomplish-
ing or effecting industrial or political
change or revolution."
In July, 1934, the Communist party
of Portland, Oregon, called a meeting
to protest against the conduct of the
city police in a maritime strike then
in progress. Among the speakers was
Birk de Jonge, a confessed Commun-
ist
The evidence showed that neither
de Jonge, nor any of the other speak-
ers at this particular meeting, had ad-
vocated violence of any kind. Never-
theless; the police broke up the meet-
ing, arrested de Jonge, and he was
sentenced to seven years in the peni-
tentiary. The state supreme court
sustained the verdict, holding it was
only necessary for the prosecution to
show that the meeting was held under
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medical care, if social security is to -----Jvv . auvyang o
be promoted,” that “health is a social any general sales tax, favoring Instead
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to Create a commission to study and
. recommend plans for coordination
and improvement of our provisions
for social security and their expan-
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Demonstration
Hits Alabama
Sales Tax
label increases your union, as well as
Dallas Railway &Terminal Co.
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sion to include compensation and
medical care for sickness.”
HOUSING.
A. F. of L. Executive Council’s
Housing Efforts.Wagner-Ellenbogen
BiLL.—The convention approved and
directed “a continuation of the vigi-
lant and constructive effort of the Ex-
ecutive Council to promote through
legislation the durable construction
of housing tor wage earners, with par-
ticular emphasis upon the importance
of substantiality of housing to be pur-
chased as homes."
The convention took this action in
adopting the report of the Executive
Council on “housing for wage earn-
ers,” which pointed out that “in Oc-
tober 1935, the Atlantic City conven-
tion of the American Federation of
Labor sounded a call to wage earners
in the labor movement to back with
united strength the demand tor hous-
ing legislation."
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IMMIGRATION,
Kerr-Coolidge BIIL—The convention
approved the action of the AFL Ex-
ecutive Council with regard to the
Kerr-Coolidge Bill and recommended
that the Council “continue its studies
and its activities in connection with
immigration." The Council told the
convention that the Kerr-Coolidge
Bill, which failed to pass the Seventy-
fourth Congress, provided that 2,862
Immigrants who had entered the coun-
try illegally would be given a perma-
nent resident status and that pro-
vision was also made for conferring
upon the Secretary of Labor power
and authority to permit additional
aliens who might come here illegally
to remain as permanent residents.
The Council opposed the bill in tu
original form, the report said, but
added that during conferences an
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ahe auspices of an organization which
advocated violence. ,
An appeal was taken to the United
States Supreme Court, and that tri-
bunal finds that the Oregon statute,
insofar aa it applies to the de Jonge
case, is"”repugnant” to the Constitu-
tion.
? "Freedom of speech and of the
press are fundamental rights,” de-
clared the Chief Justice, and he quoted
the following from a former decision
of the court:
“The very idea of a government,
republican in form, implies a right on
the part of its citizens to meet peace-
ably for consultation in respect to
public affairs, and to petition for a
redress of grievances,” and he added :
“The right is one that cannot be
denied without violating those funda-
mental principles of liberty and jus-
tice which lie at the base of all civil
and political institutions.”
However, he emphasized, that the
right must not be abused by individ-
uals and newspapers and used as a
cloak “to incite to violence and
crime,” but the legislature must con-
fine itself to “dealing with the abuse.
The rights themselves must not be
curtailed.
“Peaceable assembly for lawful dis-
cussion cannot be made a crime. The'
bolding of meetings for peaceable po-
litical action cannot be proscribed.”—
Labor.
meet with public displeasure, this
may affect its circulation, for the right
‘ to freedom of the press is no greater
than the right of citizens to read or
purchase.
. “Sturdily defending the freedom of
) the press, the American Federation of
( Labor has never advocated the boy-
cotting of even those publications
avowedly anti-union who continually
attack the American Federation of
Labor and its policies, and the per-
sonal motives and character of trade
union oficfials. Their right to attack
is only equal to our right to attack
in return, and to freely criticize
through our publications.
"Your committee is of the opinion
that this policy of our trade union
movement should not be changed.”
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GENERAL HOUSEHOLD UTILITIES
CORPORATION.
Anti-Union Policy.—Acting on infor-
mation from the A. F. of L. Metal
Trades Department that the General
Household Utilities Corporation, man-
ufacturers tit Grunow refrigerators
and radios, forced a strike of all ma-
chinists and die and tool makers em-
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