Labor Warns of Depression Unless Wages Rise
CARRUTH, OLIVER
Labor Warns of Depression Unless Wages Rise Business Slump Brings Rapid Rise In Unemployment Cause Seen in Decline in Wages During Past Month*—First October Drop Noticed in Years. By OLIVER...
...The typewriter manufacturer's f j g"h t had the backing of the United States Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers...
...All in all, the* complete tabulation shows victories for 40 C.I.O.-supported candidates in nearly a score of Western Pennsylvania cities and towns...
...MONTREAL, Canada.—The sensational seizure by order of- Premier Maurice Dupiessis of the plant of the Montreal weekly "La Cktrte" (The Light), removal of its file* and records and padlocking the premises "to protect this Province against Communist propaganda," is the first overt act of despotism of the clerical-fascist administration of Quebec Province...
...An indictment returned last April accused Rand and Bergoff of- violating the* Act during' the summer of 1936 by transporting fifty-seven "millwrights" from New York to Jtlddletown, where L0&O wprfce+r at the Remington Rand typewriter factory were on strike...
...Labor and C.C.F...
...There were signs of decline in early July, though, the general jphtta was not aware of the fact...
...He U dwrJTfc&tp with William RAnd^afijit^tL United States CnaB^aVaf^j...
...Tn^*uthor$hip of the letter was ,heVer verified, arid Zfncrviev a yeaT ago was executed by his "comrades** in Moscow...
...According to plans ann^nd?p the publisher and Sumner GgraL the committee's treasurer, sa.5...
...forming the National Coalition Government, of which he was Premier, and in turn was repudiated by the Labor Party...
...v Eleven mayors and burgesses from Western Pennsylvania cities and towns, nearly all actual members of C.LO...
...Wuited Afdiait OiwlM This plan is the outgrowth oi t*< successful experience of .the eap-mittee in helping to blejk thetm$t reform bill...
...enlj^lbySnent...
...all' mar.u-ftSfcAjrsnnwed a payroll 'drop by itjfltnmi'index from 103^ to 100.1...
...here were registered in the mill towns of Clairton and Duquesne...
...In cooperating with Alberta fascism and opposing Quebec fascism the Communists are playing the same role their movement played in Germany in the last years of the German Republic...
...But the trend was down-|Md|ajad has remained so...
...Labor Warns of Depression Unless Wages Rise Business Slump Brings Rapid Rise In Unemployment Cause Seen in Decline in Wages During Past Month*—First October Drop Noticed in Years...
...At a^ meeting on November 10th at Chatham, N. Y., seventy-five farmers were present and a strong sentiment in favor of the union was shown...
...Labor, business- and the national administra-eageriy seek an answer...
...These standards are much lower than those won by many trade pmons...
...Modelled after the Ubarty League, the ConstiWtaonsi Pray-men, as Gannett damd ais organization, hopes to Wodt tla> Alf Deal from famcm^i^ntmh 9f group's funds come Iran » unknown, but the ssurc* irs iue»*UT« one since there are heavy ogestb-tures for Big Businsss prop*-ganda...
...Sweeping victories were won by G.I.O...
...Union forces in Aliquippa.'also won a big victory with the election of George L. Keifer as burgess and the winning of the entire C.I.O.-backed ticket, including also three councilraen...
...There is no doubt that' the presence of representatives of the big dealers, who were much in evidence, made many of the audience hesitate to commit themselves...
...Labor's Nominees Win Big Victories In Steel Centers Forty CIO...
...Denounce Promier The Alberta Federation' of Labor has rigorously denounced tKe Legislature for its enactment of .various despotic measures while the Canadian...
...appticatioris for renrn in the centers of these' three Tnfe New England textile industry is at its worst slump since the depression, one survey indicates...
...Mrario enter the field in 193ft uytt, when it is highly liiely gjat | powerful national labor pskfj~-afl challenge the control of the IJMJ) licans and Democrats...
...Alberta Reaction - Alberta has a gag law for the press and the radio and in the recent five-day session of the Legislature two acts were jammed through against the organized working class...
...It was brought out in testimony that Bergoff received $25,850 from Rand, Jr., to do "missionary" work . * i in some of the plants...
...Semi-Fascist Premier Raids Montreal Paper Qliebee Communists Fall Victim to Same Suppress-l ive Law* They Endorse i in Alberta...
...reflect the downward trend...
...Qdtifeer Wrled Schedule [^WKSSWIt^Bpn...
...Tfc'all Street is pessimistic and C&rjesee an early end to the slump, j^oaye- brpkerage house delicately jH...
...WlliHtKGTOSr, D. C—Declining tpasfasess is bringing more unemLabor warned months ago that unless there were further substantial wage increases, the ranks of .Um Jdjfr would increase...
...lodge in Clairton, was elected Mayor, and Elmer J. Maloy, president of the S.W.O.C...
...The outstanding feature, of the farmers' strike and the whole union a?tivity-is the changed attitude of t^e farmers toward the idea of doing something for themselves...
...are idle or on IPgam unemployment in the steetj tertile and shoe industries is resetted in » W.P.A...
...well...
...The A. F. of L. reports a* trade union increase in unem-WSVkMll for the first time in q^ra(|eP sinee the depression year •©'WtigHted' nghrea,' which flpwed no gain in employment W# July...
...were won in Pennssylvania's recent elections...
...Heading the Communist International, Zrhoviev's alleged letter advised* armed insurrection ht Great Britain, and the Tories used it against the Laborites...
...in store unless wages were raised W a|B rrii i >.....r taft r»n The™ ^ae iadleattMi that there has been SMMfef wages aparammat"^BBM^Pyiffi «Qmws Dedine ^Bfhe contrary, the evidence in-dfeates that wages have fallen, if anything, and that total wage pay-rtUeiltR are "failing even more, due WT jncnasmg unemployment arid ^Ej^R%njRs...
...Quebec has a similar law...
...Keifer, who ran against the Republican incumbent, Morgan Sohn, received 4,069 votes...
...During the regime of Premier Du pleas is legislation was passed to practically incorporate: the unions as organs of a corporative state similar to fascist Italy's setup...
...jflUVhain "the most serious eonse> When did the slump begin and he*rl«tig.wiU it last...
...Twice he became Premier of a Labor Government, first in 1924...
...A similar picture can be found ,ii> a score of other industrial towns throughout Western Peimsylvienia...
...Upstate Farmers Favor Tit With N. Y. City Unions By PIERRE DE NIO Special to The New Leacbm% HILLSDALE, N. Y.—The Dairy Farmers' Union has begun its drive against the domination of the big Sealers, Sheffield Farms and the Dairymen's League, in this section of the dairy lands of New York State, the upper Harlem Valley...
...As usual in this type of organ.-zation, an appeal is raada in W name of the "workers,'' s/bft «K asked to enlist arid seed qnstrfts-tions...
...In that dciaa, GsaagJ recruited several thousand patdt and had them hombaad GejjS with letter, telegrams and persay...
...The breifk was irreparable...
...but an encouraging start was made...
...Workers' representatives, headed by Lucien Rodier of Montreal and Raoul Trepanier, vice-president of the Canadian Trades and Labor Congress, have protested against the raid, but it is doubtful whether it will have much effect...
...New the wfBwp§ is coming true...
...how1- show an actual IfcBbfc The figure was 9.JL per evrt during the summer aria has ttpftP iJtjUi'io- 9.4 per cent...
...and then he left it, giving his entire time to the Labor Party...
...tempt will' be made to eru-d* if 000,000 men'and women to vijfXt "deciding influence" during ^jj&m-ture sessions of Congress and St 1938 and 1940' elections...
...In Cleveland, where the labor, movement united behind local candidate's in the Union for Political Action, all nominees for the City Council, Board of Education and Municipal Court were successful...
...The C. C. F. points out that the Premier tries to identify all of his opponents with " financial barons," an old trick of Hitler's, and declares that the C. C. F. opposed Aberhart and his "economic nostrums cloaked with a religious unction" long before he came to power...
...unions, were elected, in addition to some 30 others who won places for city or town councils, school directors, auditors, and the like...
...The bitter struggle which Rand, * Jr., waged against his employees' attempt to unionize aroused the labor movement -in the East...
...and the Central Labor Union, sweeping out the' Republican administration for the ..first time in 23" years...
...PITTSBURGH, Pa.—Smashing victories for the C.I.O...
...MacDonald was a fine educational and spiritual force in organizing the Independent Labor Party and the Labor Party as...
...committeeman, were among those elected to the Council...
...Burgesses Elected Two of the most satisfying victories for the C.I.O...
...Si|c years ago MacDonald de...
...By OLIVER CARRUTH JSm<o T%B N<& Leader...
...40 C.I.O...
...Ill health fitduced him to resign in 1986 and die was succeeded by the Baldwin Government...
...Candidates Wen In New Kensington, home of thousands of workers in the big 3fe lion-control led aluminum works along the Allegheny River, Dick Reeser was elected Mayor with the support of the C.I.O...
...The information came from Earl Bergoff, son of the strikebreaker king...
...serted the movement' by...
...Burgess John (^jgvanaugh, notorious anti-labor politician, was defeated by the progressive candidate, John J. McLean...
...Cotton textile production there was rejlortedr as having dropped 40 per eea^fepjB the spring high...
...The Labor Government returned to office in 1929, but increasing economic difficulties growing out of the world depression induced MacDonald to make his fatal mistake, of forming a coalition with the 'Conservatives and Liberals, which was almost unanimously rejected by the Labor Party...
...The defendants were also charged in court with attempts to suppress evidence by bribing six witnesses...
...wn^d^m/^tn3 the fflBT bWWeen AtigttjJt %6 and ' 8JfttAbe*IS...
...Already the price situation has been improved, as on November 7 a new priee was set by the dealers of $2.68 a hundred for 3.5 milk, a considerable advance...
...Ramsay Mac Donald, Once British Labor Leader, Dies Tlie death of J. Ramsay MacDonald at *ea Tuesday removes from British life one who rendered notable services in building the modern Labor Movement in Great Britain, but had tragically outlived his glory...
...mere* 'and the ^ftlpff JKjftnj tier, <^^W^J^T2 Gannett.is bow it^njnf atop to organise what would gbjgkt equivalent of a politic...
...lodge in Duquesne, Mayor -of that city...
...A Communist-Fascist Alliance Premier Duplessis represents a Catholic fascism which differs little from the Protestant fascism in the Province of Alberta under Premier Aberhart...
...Times Reveals Slump ^HgF:*aeteriorat»oh*' is shown by 3§L3j& "l^T'^t ^mee weekly index of .Mfijfesi activity, recognized as oSLdtpe most authoritatlvei The M^hi decline for the 11th ,^fta^ gndhctibn is at less than jg^ggs cent of capacity, as compared' to more than 90 in the gjTJBfc Thousands of workers ot-P^KfiJby the CT.O...
...union Unemployment fig-m^SS ir* liter and are even more significant...
...Commonwealth Federation, a political organization similar to the Social Democratic Federation of the Wnited States, has 'publicly attacked Premier Aberhart in a manifesto citing the measures that are destroying the freedom of the masses- and citizens in general...
...The law prohibits interstate transportation of scabs...
...Bend Acts a Felony TbVWW is on despite the pressure which...
...This government was later defeated when the notorious Zinoviev letter was given but on the eve of a national ejection...
...report show-fo...
...sonje Wall Streeters jgfMg the slump was on the way aaj^phf itorki, Selling spread, and upmarket slump began...
...The C. C. F. manifesto also denounces Aberhart's Social Creditites for passing legislation "which deprives citizens of their civH liberties and denies the long cherished freedom of the individual to engage in whatever calling may be open to him without Nazi regimentation...
...Another interesting phase of these two forms of fascist trends is that the Communists vigorously oppose the action of Premier Duplessis while in Alberta they have actually merged wkh the Social Credit Party of Premier Aberhart whose provincial legislature has enacted laws similar to those enacted in Quebec Province...
...Enrolled voters lifts ase use4 for circularization and the soliciting of funds...
...candidates in Arnold, Brack-enridge, Donora, Farrell, Glassport and numerous other industrial centers...
...Rand's high-priced at-tomeys put on Federal Judge Car-' roll C. Hincks to have the Byrries Act declared unconstitutional...
...J Although 72-year-old George H. Lysle was re-elected for his seventh consecutive term as Republican Mayor of McKeesport, U. S. Steel-dominated town,- in Port Vue, across the Monongahela --Hiver from McKeesport, Steve Kiki, the financial secretary of McKeesport Tin Plate lodge of the S.W.O.C., was elected councilman and George Kushner, member of the grievance committee of the same lodge, was elected squire...
...He remained with the I.L.P...
...Gannett Resumes Drive on New Deal To Haft Reforms F»blither pTTrmaa Lm* Rooseveh C jm^^^Mk Defeat CourtCtmtmjfjt P^Jmg'^^r^ins^r^SyJS Deal^adTOnJtifmitirrjn' and P^wm^j reconvenes an November leV , Among the groans read/ % «i-buster any attempt;- drtj tat wage and Mew bill eut of eHamittee, revive the court issuv, ¦jfom other social legislatioc is pawsse, Frank, E. Gannett and hit "Ihv tional Comrhrttee toUpbo1#«bd...
...C.I.O...
...The other act sets a minimum wage rate of 33% cents an hour for adult male workers employed on an hourly basis, and $14 a week for those employed on a weekly basis, while it sanctions a 54-hour week...
...The penalty is two...
...Rand and Bergoff on Trial For Violating Byrnes Act Millionaire Mamifsrturer and Kin* of Strikebreakers • ^pnaecu^ in^Firrt Test of Law Prohibiting Interstate smashing strikes, and Pearl L. JScrjgff, >ing of the strtkW breakers, are being tried here in the ,6rst test caseunder fhej Byrnes Act passed by Congress last .JObt...
...tutional .Gov*rhn»nT.'* \ Anti-New DeoJ •sbttther Gannett is the owner A addB of newspapers in New "fork wS» .which led the attack oo ibc ?ret>-dent and his attempt to a?om tat High Court...
...There John Mullen, president of the S.W.O.C...
...lodge in Aliquippa, and Peter P. Haubrer, S.W.O.C...
...Under die Act it is a felony to transport strikebreaking guards across .state lines, ah industry the Pinkertons and the Bergoff firm had developed on a national scale...
...The ultimate plans of the new union, as soon as it is thoroughly organized and functioning, include contact with organizations in New York City to create a demand there for union milk...
...support, and in Homestead, Republican candidates were defeated after an uninterrupted reign of 45 years...
...The charges were brought by Charles H.' <5*rr, special government prosecutor...
...visits...
...It was all the more painful to bis former colleagues because through forty years of brilliant service to the cause of Labor he had earned their admiration and their love...
...The Aberhart Government .rushed these measures through without giving Labor a chance to be beard and even its requests for 'S hearing were not answered...
...In Ambridge, Burgess P. J. Caul won re-election, 1,915 to 1,243, with strong C.LO...
...a booklet setting- forth- Rand's . tac-ikm wlk* tttae to fce the guide for fdn^^^jjdaieK- warfare...
...Wtwning of need for a definite WMP increase came on September dT Vben-the American Federation of t&kli 'declared that trouble was...
...into the post-war period, until it turned its face toward Communism...
...to date, ^meatr...
...years' imprisonment and $5,000 fine...
...After the- s t r idc e the Chamber of Commerce printed, and distributed to thousatf&fs of em-alojMfs thronghout- the nation...
...In that period...
...small change, attujtdTJrttfe figures are a veey iin-ayaVt'baremeter," the A. P. of L. ilysV pointing out that October is BMpujuTjj the' peak month of the fall season and that employment has always increased from August t^OraelisI 'except during the severe MHffeai> declines of the depression "The unexpected business reces-sion this fall is responsible for this check on re-employment," the A. F. of L. says, adding that to stop the return to work when the number of idle is still dose to 8,000,000...
...ifr "Easiness continues to deteriorate and there is no change TKjjKTIjear market trend sug-gestea...
...Paul Nbrmile, president of a S.W.O.C...
...Candidates Were Successful-—Eleven Mayor* Win in Western Pennsylvania...
...Suck market prices began to fall .'"OX March, though there was a rally ia July...
...One requires workers to obtain licenses as a condition of being eligible for employment...
Vol. 20 • November 1937 • No. 46
