CAN'T PAY DECENT WAGE BUT PROFITS INCREASE 11%
Can't Pay Decent Wage But Profits Increase 11 % Annual Report of Percy S. Straus, President of Macy, States That Profits and Sales from February 1 to Aprail 25, 1936, Were 11 Per Cent Higher...
...They are therefore unfair to Union labor...
...Can't Pay Decent Wage But Profits Increase 11 % Annual Report of Percy S. Straus, President of Macy, States That Profits and Sales from February 1 to Aprail 25, 1936, Were 11 Per Cent Higher Than Last Year —Company Funds Are Used to Pay Spies But Just Demands of Workers Are Denied DLfEALTHY corporate inter" eats justify their tremendous re&onrces by saying that they bold them "as trustees for the puWic...
...One may look at this statement from any angle possible and its logic is irrefutable...
...Compelled to act as rkraals, each is isolated from (he others and all are at the ty of the anti-union employer, celt of action and common unitandiag are essential to wage ken if" they are to avert decline i lower wage levels and to avoid infliating coercion on the part of Sjioyers...
...Common cash dividends amounted to $3,002,420 and earned surplus is listed ss $15,963,696...
...Very truly yours, Helen Woodward...
...Noted Writer Cancels Order For Goods From Ma cy Store Mrvixg is a Utter tent to Mite fjtrtrnii Klein, a contributor fil*w Lender...
...Every decent human being ought to bear that in mind, particularly the housewives who ought to think of the worker and buy their products in only those places that recognize the principle of collective bargaining and the right of labor to organize...
...Solidly organised at the top, they oppose organisation of the labor force without whose services the business could not continue a single hour...
...Unfortunately, the anti-uaion iployer still survives in a naebn >«n we boast of democracy azM our inheritance of "HirMTatfar traditions...
...Long hours ami km „ mean tired employees...
...The anti-union employers want the modern sge of organization for themselves and seek to impose upon wage workers the ancient idea of "each for himself and the devil take the hindmost...
...Macy's total gross income for the year ending February 1, 1936, was $4,179,204...
...May their efforts be crowned with a glorious victory and lead to organization of other anas...
...Purely from the point of new of good business 1 «U think the storm would reduce «*«*«« «/ work of air people, without cutting wages...
...of Newark, N. 3., Laealle & Koch Co...
...The only agency for averting eh decline and humiliation is or¦isation of the workers into ate unions where they can act (ether for common purposes and ¦ their common welfare...
...By generous and loyal support of this crusade, by enlisting the interest of men and women in the trade unions and sympathetic people everywhere this struggle can be made one of major importance and bring an anti-social and anti-union firm to terms My best wishes go to the active men in the union who are bearing the brunt of the struggle, who are leading in the drive, and who have assumed the big responsibility for conducting it...
...Tired employees cannot sell as Ich goods as fresh employees can sell...
...It is also inhuman and undemocratic...
...From the foregoing it is evident that the Macy Department Store which employ* approximately from 10 to 17,000 employee, si different seasons, is well shis to afford decent onion conditions oi wages and hours...
...We call upon everyone to support the electrical workers...
...Jsn- reads himself out of the company of intelligent and fair-minded citizens...
...Unionization of ley's electrical workers would m encourage other workers in t store to organize and strive for iprovement in their conditio...
...A department store functions by selling articles...
...of Atlanta, Georgia .The remaining 816 shares of the 7% preferred stock of LasaOe * Koch Co...
...They'd more than the it up in astro, sales...
...Wage workers live by selling- their labor power and labor is just as much interested in the price it reeeives for what it sells as the owners of Macy's are in the price they receive for the articles 'they sell...
...jjpr Jfw« Klein:— ' your fatter reached wen just at I wm about to mail an hjr U> Macy'r for some goods...
...have been called for redemption on May IS, 1966, at fllO per share plus accrued dividends.'' On April M last, President Strauss stated that the company's sales sad profits from February 1 to April 25, 1936, were approximately 11% ahead of the similar 1935 period...
...The victory of the slueUical workers will strike a blow at the economic despotism of the Maty corporation...
...Lf movement—they can refute to buy at storm which do ideal fawiy with Aetr employees...
...Consumers Urged to Aid Strikers ^LootWaldnfn frfiapnf Lo*or attorney E fine effort of the Elecpcal Workers to organize ftacy store deserves the E support of organized laKtDugtoHt the city and with loyal cooperation of other ms, of housewives and confers in general, this organi|t drive should meet with ess...
...the high-headed policy of the management fat proof mat it la determined to persee a ruthless anti-labor policy and is prepared to use its great resources to employ spies rather than grant, the legitimate demands of its workers...
...struggle is now in its fourth ± and as more and more pubf brings it to the attention of aexeasing number of sympsvr people the more is victory pad...
...Great industries, including dopeiLatent stores, .are examples of extensive organization of capital...
...of Toledo, Ohio, and Davison-Paxon Co...
...This firm flatly refuses to deal with the Union or to enter into any contractual relationship or even recgnize the principle of collective bargaining...
...Wage workers make no objection to the employers organizing but they rightly insist on the same right for themselves...
...The picketing activities of Local 3, I.B.F.W., have been costly and figures of sales and profits since April 26 will undoubtedly reveal the effectiveness of the pickets...
...I immediately tore me map...
...Such employers belong to an age whara the hoars of labor ¦sans from son to sun and wages were so low mat human beings could hardly live...
...But R. H. Macy & Co...
...There is another phase of this principle of organisation that is important...
...Let him first dissolve his own highly organized business before he insists that workers shall not organize theirs...
...Refusal to Deal WiththeUnion Called Unfair By Morris Feinstooe Secretary of the United Hebrew Trades The United Hebrew Trades, representing 300.000 organized workers in the city of New York, calls upon all friends of labor to support the strike and struggle of the Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 3i in its effort to organize the workers o{ R. H. Macy & Co...
...Organization Is Essential Organization of labor in great oartment stores isijust as imporat as organization £F mill, faery and mine...
...As for sitting around the table and freely, fairly and democraticayll negotiating a contract with Union representatives of its employees—'that would be beneath the dignity of this department store mat owns assets including teal estate amounting to $90,526,182 as of February 1. 1936...
...The workers look to the fairminded public for uaitinaed support in its struggle for recognition and better conditions...
...toes not even resort to tins fiction but openly proclaims that it has no responsibility to its employees and the public and that it is-the sole judge of what is best for its workers...
...I aWf oaw tobuy anything from Mag^t whilejher're ^People tike myself udTZe not eligible for member...
...of Toledo, Ohio, has been purchased, so that the corporation now owns all of the common stock of the three affiliated stores, L. Bamberger * Co...
...Be said: ' "During the year 1986 the remaining 80% of the stock of LssaQs * Koch Co...
...f Asabu^tHmumoflougexpes^lompuM the attitude of department stores...
...We live in an age of organisation and he who claims it for himself and denies it to others is a despot...
...The men who invest their capital and their agents who manage these enterprises enjoy 100 per cent organization...
...An Absurd Contradiction Such a policy is an absurd contradiction...
...Their ate unions are legislative assemies in which the matters acted ¦n are hours of labor, wages, aitary conditions and other conoons that are vital to the welling of themselves and their fames...
...Net income was 12,753,901...
...The Electrical Workers Is the forefront in the battle betterment of the conditions of r, a battle that is especially ktant in this period of indus! decline and stagnation, t such periods the weight of tajac sasaater falls heavily toe-backs of those who are (poized...
...It may seem fantastic to say that the wage workers have a business to protect but it is true...
...It Ts because labor is compelled to sell in the market the only thing St has to sell that working people i organize...
...Of Major Importance Every effort should be made to focus city-wide attention upon this straggle of the Electrical Workers Union to organize Macy's...
...In his annual report, Percy S. mat control* the Many store also controls three other large stores...
...He said, no store in the system was losing money at present...
Vol. 19 • July 1936 • No. 67
