Demonstration At El Paso Is Inspiring
WORD FROM CAL N E E D E D IN M A S S Campaign for Amendment t o be Re-Doubled Despite President's Coldness. By DONALD RAMSEY For two weeks before the election, tke friends' of the child...
...Another reason why Massachusetts voted as it did is because the •fassachusetts mill owners controlled jjje greater part of the press of that •tote, soma of the clergy and some of the politicians of Massachusetts...
...Because Massachusetts manufactoaers who cannot employ chajdrejn for eleven hours a day within the borders of their own State want to De able to do so in Georgia and the Carolinas...
...Opponents of the Amendment The outstanding opponents of.the amendment, it was revealed during the Massachusetts contest, are: The National Association of Manufacturers, whose president, John ti...
...There la No Competition There was a time when the Massachusetts manufacturers feared the competition of Southern mills...
...and they have unlimited means for spreading the lies and propaganda with which they have found it possible to tonfuss the minds and appeal to the f e a r s and prejudices of the uninformed masses of Massachusetts...
...Here we find the names of the principal open-shoppars of Amer lea serving as directors...
...Answer Plain But Painful Incidentally, they are undertaking to answer the question: "Why did Massachusetts, which his the most advanced child Labor Jaw in the Union, refuse to vote to emancipate the child slaves of the 8outh...
...The Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association, whose president is Joseph Grundy, H>e man who testified before the Borah investigating committee that he had raised $600,000 in Pennsylvania outside of Pittsburgh for the Coolidge campaign fund...
...Spread False Propaganda In addition to the daily news papers, the combine maintains a number of propaganda sheets, including Industrial Progress and The Woman Patriot...
...und the "Citizens' Committee for Protection of our Homes and Children" (imagine a committee under this name fighting to keep children in mills and under ground) of which Herbert Parker, an attorney of Boston, is chairman and whose directors includes the names of the wealthiest manufac hirers in Massachusetts, and the records show that these same manu facturers have millions invested in Southern plants...
...WORD FROM CAL N E E D E D IN M A S S Campaign for Amendment t o be Re-Doubled Despite President's Coldness...
...From now o n the enemies of the amendment will be compelled to fight fn the open...
...These papers have no legitimate circulation but from time to time eprlnt enormous editions which they circulate among business men, farmers and even members of organized Labor...
...They fear that competition no longer because the most powerful of them tare their money in the Southern mills...
...By DONALD RAMSEY For two weeks before the election, tke friends' of the child Labor Amendment to the Federal Constitution besieged the White House Urging President Coolidge to issue a statement asking the voters of Massachusetts to ratify the amendment at the polls on November 4. He refused to say a word, although the right appeal from him might have turned the tide, and if Massachusetts had ratitied, the friends of the . amendment would have been strtngthened in the appeal which they will make to the legislatures which will meet this winter...
...The supporters of the child Labor amendment were stunned by the defeat they sustained in Massachusetts, but they have rallied and will not again be caught asleep at the switch...
...Edgerton, a textile manufacturer of Tennessee, is reported to have,, said the other day in n speech that the child labor amendment was "meant to restrict production and to compel uneconomic advances in wages...
...When an attempt is made to orfenize the mills of the South, the «T is railed that the "Yankees" are tiring to dictate to the Southern workers, but "Yankee" money actu- •Hjr controls the Southern mill situation and ia dictating the Labor policies of the South as well as of the Nsrth...
...Must fight In the Open They realize this, Bnd during the past week a conference whs held i n WaahipsjUtn attended by the.repreted of the American Labor movement, the Federated Council of Churthca, nfore than a score of women's organizations and other troups interested in the emancipation of the children...
...The fs?t that the interesfs which are exploiting children in industry were powerful enough to seal the Hps or the President and to make k i r n -leaf to the appeals of the organized women of the country, demonstrates that i f the amendment is to be made a part of the Constitution its friends must prepare for > r.-tl fight...
...the "National Committee for Rejection of the Twcn tieth Amendment," which has offices in the Union Trust Building in Wash ington, next door to the offices of the National Association of Manufac turers...
...The Southern mill owners, who for a time were almost alone in their opposition to child labor legislation...
...The answer i s painful but very dear...
...Their vicious propaganda will be met with a truthful presentation of the facts...
...The combination finances a number of organizations, including the "Sentinels of the Republic," led by Irfiuis A. Coolidge, president of the United Shoe Muchinery Corporation of Massachusetts...
...That is the combination that is out to beat the child labor amendment and which has succeeded in ini vading the church and enlistinnr the support of at least a few of the most distinguished dicciples of tho lowly Nazarcne...
...Because Massachusetts money i Invested in the mills in Georgia, the Carolinas, Alabama and other States Where the restrictions upon child labor are less than in Massachusetts...
...Because Massachusetts mil) owners, knowing that child labor means low wages for children's parents as well as for children, want to pull down the wages and lengthen the hours- of men and women i n Lawrence, Lowell, New Bedford and Fall River and the other great mill districts of Massachusetts where these manufacturers have been fighting Wt only Labor laws but Labor Miena all their lives...
...Every legislature which meets this Winter will be asked to ratify the (intendment and in those States where the proposition i s defeated plans will be made to carry the contest to the polls i n 1026 when the legislators must again face thfeir constituents...
Vol. 1 • November 1924 • No. 45
