PRESIDENT GREEN AND OLD AGE PENSIONS
Green, William
PRESIDENT GREEN AND OLD AGE PENSIONS Failure Of A. F. Of L. To Support State Aid For Aged Further Emphasised In Leader's Recent Address OLD age for hundreds of thousands of America's workers...
...Harmon went to San Francisco during the 1907 Bisbee strike to recruit scabs for the Phelps-Dodge Company...
...j (From an address delivered before the sixth convention of the Workers Education Bureau...
...He voted against H. B. 7 to increase the salaries of school teachers...
...Whereas the haw had been vicious but unconstitutional it would now be both vicious and constitutional...
...The Resolutions Committee at the A. F. of L. convention approved the Wilson bill and urged that Canada, as well as the United States, create an old age pension system...
...Green might, with some hats* say his attitude is an exact reflection a" the decision of the last A. P. of U tarn vention...
...Woll's leadership, the Executive Council reported "that the problem of old age pensions be made a part of the larger problem of labor insurance.'4 In 1926, the subject of old age pensions did not come up in the A. F. of L. Convention at all...
...Its agent and representative stood true to us but the commission was on the company's side throughout...
...1,658,327.05 Old Age...
...That problem is an old one...
...Below we present the most recent utterance of William Green, president of the A. F. of L., on the subject...
...In 1921 the delegation of the International Association of Machinists proposed in the A. F. of L. convention that the Executive Council draft an old age pension bill and have it Introduced in Congress...
...One of them, John C. Provost, sought appointment to the State Industrial Commission in 1925...
...He voted against H. B. 49 to provide for the establishment of a state miners' hospital...
...The effect of the statement is further nullified when President Oreen goes on to cite "union benefits as an example of the way the A. JFT of L. is attacking the problem of caring for the aged...
...Sanders and the committee of the jarpenters' union who were responsible or killing the law...
...Saunders then consulted the other labor union legislators and found all but Morgan lined up with Donnelly...
...State assistance to the aged it natih an extension of the principle of wars* men's compensation in the batttls nf which Mr...
...We know of course that there are those who believe in a different philosophy than that which has been developed by the A. F. of L. There are those who believe that working men and women should enjoy the largest amount of economic freedom possible under any social order or any governmental regulation...
...The A. F. of L, stood in favor of an old age pension bill, Mr...
...In 1919, Mr...
...The Industrial Agent tried to arrange such a meeting but the company officials flatly refused to attend the the commission did not require them to do so...
...You may find his vote on page 395 of the House Journal for the fourth legislature...
...Failing in this he, in 1926, actively supported for the governorship a man who was Chief Counsel for the Phelps-Dodge Mining Company in 1917 at the time its gunmen were deporting striking union miners from Brisbee...
...Local and state subdivides* of the A. F. of L. were more setfis...
...The A. F. of L. and himself as Its spokesman have contributed to whatever misunderstanding exists...
...In doing this they were aided by the unanimous vote of Arizona's labor union card men, elected on Democratic and Republican tickets through the A. F. of L. nonpartisan political policy...
...In revising the code the labor union men had to pass on the law...
...These overzealous parties alluded to are *Ir...
...The 1908 convention authorized the executive council to have an old age pension bill drawn and introduced in the Federal and state legislatures...
...It is inspiring to know 'that the trade unions affiliated with the A. F. of L. have, in three years, paid out $75,728,742 in bensfits to its needy members...
...Gompers stated...
...They could then introduce a bill for its repeal into the ninth legislature...
...About him •The Arizona Republican" for January 14 says: "Mr...
...In 1927 resolutions favoring old age pensions were introduced by delegates of the International Typographical Union and the San Francisco Labor Council...
...Under this law sponsored by the A. F. of L. two Democrats and one Republican were appointed to the commission and jwe strikers reaped a few of the results j that flow from the A. F. of L. nonpartisan political policy...
...Signs are not laekhf that some sections of the A. P. ef U leadership are beginning to belittle Sat reform...
...This two-thirds vote could not be mustered, thereby covering the tracks of the A. F. of L. nonpartisan legislators and the advocates of that policy among those duly constituted leaders that the Arizona Labor Journal speaks so feelingly of...
...When Mr...
...We do not believe in a strikeless America...
...In accepting, Mr...
...Non-Partisan Politics In Operation The Record of the Arizona Legislators Endorsed by the A. F. of L. By Lawrence McGivern JOMETTME ago I wrote an article on non-partisan politics in Arizona hich appeared in The New Leader, iince then there has been a special sesion of the eighth Arizona legislature and he ninth regular session has...
...And what, it may be asked, was the reward of Mr...
...not base their plea on charity...
...Harmon started mining at Bisbee and at the present time is a lessee of the Arizona Copper Company at Metcalf, Ariz...
...Victory perched on their banner and the law has been stricken from our statute books...
...What The Record Shows By Edward Levinson rpHK policy of state aid to the needy aged—called for short "old age pensions"—has the support of the trade union movement the world over...
...While this situation for a time threatened the success of the effort to secure the aiimipHVffl of the section, it was soon ironed out by an explanation to the puzzled lawmakers by the men duly elected by the referendum vote of the membership of the federation and empowered by the constitution and by laws of the Federation to attend to such matters...
...Some of them stated that they did not know organized labor was opposed to the law...
...Prom then on, unni 1921, the A. F. of L. conventions repeatedly went on record in favor of an old age pension system...
...Unfortunately, President Green's address serves to increase rather than dimmish the mystery...
...That President Green found it necessary to make the remarks quoted above Indicates that there is some doubt in the minds of those in and near the labor movement...
...In case that' failed, the next step would be to attack its constitutionality in the courts, on the ground that the preamble made it selfrepealing upon the cessation of our own war with the Central Powers...
...Having shown the kind of legislative officers they helped to select, let us examine the record of Governor Phillips, to whom, through these officers, they have pledged support...
...Dating the 1914-1915 miners' strike in Morenci the only condition upon which the Phelps-Dodge Mining Company would discuss a settlement was that the strikers renounce the Western Federation of Miners...
...Eight card men elected to that body on Democratic and Republican tickets to vindicate the non partisan policy and they either could not or would not tell them that organized labor had always been opposed to such laws...
...They charge them with either the commission of crimes or . the failure to do the things they should do...
...This time the card-bearing legislative dodgers, produced by the A. F. of L. nonpartisan political policy, faltered under the committee's withering fire...
...Green...
...In the face of this labor opposition he voted for It...
...In fact, none of these duly consulted officers mentioned, except one, would give battle...
...Harmon, a Democrat, was elected, receiving the unanimous vote of the labor union legislators in his party...
...We are opposed to that philosophy...
...His conclusion—an attack on what he terms "state aid" and "paternalism" —is directly contrary to the spirit underljang not alone old age pensions, but all social legislation, workmen's compensation, unemployment insurance, etc...
...It is loose talk, not founded on facts, because the facts do not show that such is the case...
...The record cited above not only justifies a feeling of doubt as to where the A. F. of L. stands...
...He served in the eighth legislature and his actions on labor measures were so satisfactory to that company that although the body held six sessions, he always, upon his return to Morenci, found his old job waiting for him...
...I examined some of our figures in an effort to find out what our great labor movement has been doing in relieving distress and suffering...
...It was accomplished by ward heelers, for these nonpartisan political labor leaders challenged the votes of persons known to favor him on the ground that they voted too late...
...4,348.935.94 Disability...
...in the face of this record it can truthfully be said that the A. F. of L. is not taking an affirmative stand...
...Woll, the matter was referred to the Executive Council...
...But even here the direct endorsement of a government system of aiding the needy is lacking...
...Knowing Mr...
...It is being done...
...They helped to elect both as president of the Senate and speaker of the House men from Morenci, a Phelps-Dodge mining camp in a county completely dominated by that company...
...elected to it, on Democratic and tepublican tickets in accordance with he federation's nonpartisan political polcy are running so true to past form hat they nave further proven the fuility of such a plan...
...There is another angle to this cry of "paternalism...
...Tap ask this reform as a matter of obvaaj justice to men and women who hut grown old in the service of industry sal the nation- Old age pensions ate fla> manded as a matter of right sod set of charity...
...After making this promise they took advantage of Mr...
...Although Arizona has about five hundred thousand people its legislature selected both the Speaker of its House and President of its Senate from a PhelpsDodge mining camp numbering about five thousand souls whose lives are dominated and politics controlled by that corporation and In whose midst a labor union cannot exist...
...To allez-iate this 'tragedy, most chilbed nations have established one form or other of old age relief system...
...tain and longer...
...Soon after Mr...
...Sanders Fights for Labor Returning to the Labor Temple for reinforcements, he called upon B. P. Carpenter, Secretary Treasurer of the Federation and that worthy official flatly refused to fight his old political side-kicker, Donnelly...
...Senator Walsh suggested that legislation for relief of men deprived of the right to work because they had been worn out by their employers might be considered...
...His vote will be found on page 134 of the House Journal...
...Accompanying it is some comment by our assistant editor...
...Sanders could get no- help from the laws and legislative committee so he made an appeal to the carpenters' union of which he is a member and they selected a committee to aid him in his fight...
...They slipped the preamble back into the law and passed it through the House in its original form without a protest from any of the A. F. of L. nonpartisan political card men...
...He is also the man who introduced H. B. 59, the company gunman bill discussed in my other article...
...We are interested in every condition of the worker and I make this positive statement that the record will show that the A. F. of L. has led in the development of all these humane processes...
...It can be stated east nitely that under the present wagw osai' dttions no trade unionist can aassa> provide for the eld age ef hlssasjf nag his dependents out ef his eaten teas, la* i as try and the community owe fat ts) workers something and shasdd bah) anSf to provide for their future tan ass as*, terns of pensions or insurance...
...In 1921 it began to appear that a change in official A. F. of L. policy was taking place...
...Now we see why the nonpartisan political leaders of the State Federation wanted Mr...
...The K. F. of L. nonpartisan labor union memjers were Senators Donnelly, Joyner and Nelson, and Representatives Francis...
...Qathering his forces again he renewed the fight...
...was elected speaker of the House...
...And that raises the issues of states rights and Federal rights...
...WoD raised the question of "states, rights", and moved successfully to have the matter referred to the Executive Council for investigation...
...Last November Governor Hunt called i special session for the purpose of revising the Civil and Penal Codes...
...Woll, replying to a questionnaire of Will H. Hays on the subject, made an ambiguous reply...
...April 6th, 1929) rpHERE are those who charge the American Federation of Labor with being reactionary: with being self-satisfled...
...2,953,290.01 Disability...
...Everywhere labor movements have been the power that have forced this reform...
...Sanders bolted the committee and started his fight for labor single handed...
...Harmon said that he had made the following statement in caucus and which I quote from "The Arizona Republican": "I will become a candidate if all of you will pledge yourselves if I am chosen, to go with me to the Governor and pledge him our support in every constructive action for the benefit of the state...
...They wanted to let it go on, they said, and have it repealed at the next session...
...Labor" Supports Scab Herder Mr...
...Sisson, who edits the Arizona Labor Journal, and devotes columns to a laudation of labor's non-partisan political policy, also declined to go to the Capitol Building and make a fight...
...Ward Heelers Act Most of the committee's support came from non-union legislators, particularly Senators Colter and Bettwy...
...Green and the A. P. ef 4 made such a gallant fight...
...This has remained the most vicious piece of legislation on the statute books of our state...
...There are organizations affiliated with the A. F. of L. which provide that no member whether sick or disabled, or old, shall become an object of charity...
...He voted against a bill making $16 a week a minimum wage for women...
...Their effectiveness was weakened, hotever, by the attitude of the parent Is** organization...
...been in till swing...
...We believe that workingmen and women ; should exercise the right to strike wheni ever the pressure reaches the point where they are called on to walk out...
...Connected with it is the policy of physical examination of workers, especially in mass production industries...
...Sanders to refrain from fighting for a repeal of the sabotage law by the eighth legislature telling him that they had arranged with the ninth for its repeal...
...In addition some of our International unions have built splendid homes to care for their aged members...
...It therefore becomes th* eW of the affiliated unions and its meases to make certain that the next coursntka of the A. F. of L. squarely meets tat issue...
...Where docs the American Federation of LaboK^stand...
...The first was to contend that : the preamble denned it as a war-time measure, therefore the law should have no place in the new code since the reason for its enactment, as stated to the pre- I amble, had ceased to exist...
...The president of tat Federation was telling the United Steal Senate that he could not see how tai matter could be dealt with "by legs* lation...
...His vote is written on page 312 of the Houss Journal...
...That brings in the question of old age pensions," said Mr...
...The bsttls OM led by the American Association for <M Age Security and some fraternal cram National A p. of L. support was nowhea in evidence...
...If coapaW sation has helped the workers in Oaf of accidents, why should not the saw principle help them In time of old sav invalidity and unemployment...
...of L. only eight or nine provide any form of old age is an expensive undertaking...
...From the point of view of social needs, admirable as the spirit behind them is concerned, the pension benefits of international unions are insignficant...
...This work has been done by our great organized labor movement...
...950,963.35 Miscellaneous...
...The demand for old age relief is becoming more and more insistent in the United States...
...They argued before the Code Commission, Code Committee, and Agricultural Committee that had charge of the law and wrested from them a promise that it would not be enacted into the revised code...
...In 1924, under Mr...
...Green responded...
...Two courses of action were open to' labor...
...The company finally violated their agreement entirely and certain of its representatives conducted a slanderous whispering campaign against myself and othenstrike leaders...
...Progressive trade unionists sboatt make a declaration in favor of old Sf/ pensions a cardinal demand at the Btst" convention...
...Sanders' absence from the capital...
...Way shot this social harden entirely epea tea wajat ere' shoulders* The cry of ''paternalism'* renal fcf President Green is entirely tuwarrants...
...It is as much as a man's job is worth there to be known as even favorable to unionism...
...He returned in person with a shipment of them and they were put to work at the Lowell mine...
...He was recently defeated for re-election to the Laws and Legislative Committee of the Federation...
...The convention approved the committee's report...
...2,968.163.57 Miscellaneous ............, 1,743.804.70 Total Benefits Paid in 1927: $28,269,790.30 In these three years our great organized labor movement paid out of the pockets, of working men for sick, death, unemployment, old age, disability and miscellaneous benefits to their fellow workers, $75,728,742.88...
...I Mr...
...A vice-president of tat Federation, Matthew Woll, permitted SB organization of which he is the bad, the National Civic Federation, to fight old age pensions...
...Why should the labor movement devote so much time h» to man ding protection and security for ana* ufacturers and so little time In **«!—TfflL ing the same thing for the westaaf ' The battle for old age pensions rttdaf new heights in the state legislative sex sions now recently ended...
...with being indifferent toward the introduction and passage of social - injustice legislation, both in the states and in the nation...
...With the exception of Mr...
...And we do not believe that a governmental political order should be established where any strike could be regarded as a strike against the nation itself...
...Many dismiss men, or refuse to hire them, when they passed 45 or 50 years...
...We shall fight it wherever it presents itself...
...It is a matter to be dealt with by an aroused public opinion...
...It is a tragedy thd\ takes its toll on young workers as well as their aged dependents...
...It Is to be regretted that after almost four decades of Its existence the position of the American Federation of Labor on this problem should still be a matter of doubt...
...Many of our organizations have provided definitely and beyond peradventure of doubt that no member of their organisations shall suffer in old age...
...One of the laws the legislature was called on to re-codify, repeal or change was a "sabotage" law enacted In 1918 when Arizona's lawmaking body was (afflicted with the prevalent war-time anti-labor hysteria...
...15th, 1923, the United Press circulated a report to the effect that the A. F. of L. was at time linking the matter with insurance "quietly organizing opposition to old age pensions...
...He went before the Code Committee of which card man Donnelly was chairman...
...The papers tell us that he also received the vote of every Republican, which of course would include that of card man McQuillan...
...The history of the A. F. of L. nonpartisan political policy in the youngest state of the union could be compiled in a volume that would satisfy the literary tastes of the most fastidious lover of political scandal...
...The Order of Eagles called this story to the attention of the late President Gompers, who immediately denounced the United Press report as unwarranted...
...Hfcr should laws along these lines be- esv sidered any more paternalistic than work* men's compensation...
...President Green further contributed to the ambiguity of the official position of the A. F. of L. when he appeared before the Senate Committee on Labor and Education on December 14th last year...
...J. C. Sanders, the Laws,and Legislative Committee of the State Federation of Labor showed no disposition to do either...
...Sanders personally, I am reminded of Shakespeare's arords—"A heart unspotted is not easily daunted...
...The A. F. of L. union cardnen...
...In 1907 the convention of the A. F. of L. adopted a resolution favoring the principle of an old age pension system...
...He found that they had taken out the preamble which defined it as a war-time measure and were presenting the rest of the law with all Its vicious anti-labor features for enactment into the new code...
...Furthermore, trade union pension plans must not only be limited in their very nature but are economically questionable since the funds to pay these pensions must come out entirelj- from the pocket* of the workers...
...To show how much difference there is ; between the two old parties, the seventeen Republican members of the lower house 1 voted for a Democratic Speaker and the remaining thirty-seven Democratic mem- ' bers pledged support to a Republican ' Governor...
...It is surprising indeed, that any man or woman would attempt to mislead the working people and the public by making such unfounded accusations...
...Woll began organization of the Union Labor Life Insurance Company...
...The council took no action...
...i In view of this change of policy on the part of the A. P. of L. conventions, .followed as tt has been by President Green's negative attitude before the Senate Committee on Labor and Education, President Green's complaint that the position of the A. F. of L. is misunderstood seems hardly Justified...
...J JJ...
...They finally wiped out that organization and ever since have paid from fifty cents to a dollar per day less than the prevailing miners' wage scale for Arizona...
...Jones, Kennedy and Morgan, Democrats, md McQuillan, Republican...
...In the 1916 A. F. of L. Convention, Mr...
...It is becoming very serious...
...President Green's address continues the confusion...
...When he was nominated, card man Donnelly made a speech recording the nomination...
...Of the five members on the State Federation's Laws and Legislative Committee four are ardent champions of the nonpartisan political policy...
...2,220,932.05 Total Benefits Paid in 1925: $20,516,312.93 1926 Sick ......................$2,572,113.29 Death.....................15,609,234.81 Unemployment...
...From this recital of facts we observe that from a clear-cut position supporting some old age pension system, the American Federation of Labor has swerved to at times linking the matter with insurance companies, at other times ignoring the matter (as in 1926) and finally to proposing that Congress investigate "old age Income...
...2,823,145.45 Disability...
...To achieve this pu™* there must Immediately begin an loan* sive campaign of education...
...There is a growing tendency among employers," said Senator Walsh, "to dismiss an, increasing number of workers each year at ages just passed fifty...
...One of the charges that I have noticed made in some quarters refers to the indifference of the A. F. of L. toward the care of the working men and women when they reach the point of superannuation...
...On Feb...
...I find that In 1925 the organized labor movement, the unions affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, spent for: Sick.......................$1,842,292.48 Death .....................11,020,652.55 Unemployment...
...Sanders and the committee of the carpenters' union have written one of the finest chapters in that labor history which thrills and inspires a class conscious working man and gives organized labor hope for the future...
...But to cite union benefits when old age pensions are under discussion is to beg the question...
...Senator Hill, who was elected President of the Senate, is chief clerk for the Phelps-Dodge Company in this camp...
...PRESIDENT GREEN AND OLD AGE PENSIONS Failure Of A. F. Of L. To Support State Aid For Aged Further Emphasised In Leader's Recent Address OLD age for hundreds of thousands of America's workers is a tragedy...
...Wsat the 1930 legislatures open their deas> the A. F. of L. should be found In sat** support of adequate pension bills, sttrdaj up public opinion on the outside wh* exerting all its pressure Inside the age* lative bodies...
...I wish to state positively, here and now, that the American Federation ol Labor is not only interested in the development of a wise legislative program covering old age pensions, in the development of social justice legislation that will bring relief to injured workers and the dependents of killed employees, to those suffering from occupational diseases, but we are also interested in the great subject of unemployment, of machine displacement...
...The mention of it in my campaign speeches brought a greater response^ from individual victims than did any other issue I brought forward...
...Woll, as chairman of the Committee on the Report of the Executive Council, opposed an investigation of old age pension systems in Great Britain and Germany by recommending that a. resolution to that effect be referred to the Executive Council...
...The card men present, voted unanimously for him and thus the first act of A. F of L. nonpartisan politics for the session was consummated...
...On the other hand, there are those who believe that the state is supreme, that the individual mast be regarded aa a part of the state, controlled and dominated by the state, and that through this paternalistic philosophy, if you please, the state may confer upon the workers all the blessings and privileges which the state determines they are entitled to...
...His association of anti-strike legtsanai with the movement for state asaataaa) H its working men and women la bsatasar Those who ask for old age pensions fa...
...An excerpt follows: "At one point during the journey of the section there was some confusion arose in the minds of the legislators because of a cross current set in motion by some overzealous individuals who perhaps did not trust the legislators so much as they misunderstood the orderly processes of legislative procedure...
...In this battle against the powers of Mammon...
...It opens with the admirable statement that "the A. T. of L.*is not only interested in the development of a wise legislative program covering old age pensions . . . but we are also interested in the great subject of unemployment, of machine displacement...
...In this last battle only one Legislative card man, Senator Nelson, gave the committee any help...
...President Green's Views By William Green President of the American Federation i of Labor...
...The average trade naaaal bat a hard enough straggle to ante baa ends meet...
...This these are actuarially unsound, financially unguaranteed and liable to become so burdensome to the individual unions as to make the continuation of these plans impossible in another decade...
...Together and with the help , of labor's card men, who represent the nonpartisan political policy these bodies ¦ elected as their presiding officers two of ' the most servile political tools that the ; copper companies of Arizona have ever had to guard their political interests...
...Wherein is a system of old age pensions more paternalistic tan tariff laws, railroad subsidies and shb» ping subsidies...
...How you can deal with it by legislation, I cannot see...
...I believe I was leader of the miners in the first strike settled through this commission...
...In 1909, the Executive Council reported that on its request Congressman W. B. Wilson made an effort to have an old age pension system created...
...This change was associated closely with the views and activities of Matthew Woll, vice-president of the A. F. of L. and acting president of the National Civic Federation...
...They tried to dismade this officer by saying that they o.ad arranged to have the law repealed oy the next legislature...
...H. B. 61, a criminal syndicalist bill, was introduced...
...702,585.36 Old Age...
...If paternalism Is of benefit a manufacturers and business interests, why should it not prove of benefit to wocxea whose need for social protection h m much greater...
...The carpenters union of Flagstaff and the miners' union of Bisbee protested against its passage to the legislature...
...Green's net, oning is highly dangerous for it sail directly to repudiation not alone of oM age pensions, but of workmen's esa> pensation as well...
...We are charged with being opposed to old age pensions, with the care of the sick and with those who are unemployed...
...The total number of pensioners of A. F. of L. unions is far below 10.000...
...We win carry it on until we find some better way, but in carrying on until we find that better way we are determined that the aged and the sick and the infirm and the out of work so far as we are able to give them relief shall be cared for by the trades union movement of the United States of America...
...The editor of that taper refused to make a fight for its re>eal...
...On motion of Mr...
...All this goes to show the kind of service, the workers get through the Federation's nonpartisan political policy...
...Labor Men Favor Enemies The other two members of the Laws and Legislative Committee are advocates of the nonpartisan political policy as may be seen from the inactivity in the antisabotage fight...
...Old age as aa aaanatf hazard aad the employers shoots sat k» relieved of their reepeSMSbBsty ayam matter...
...I will later prove, from the" record of the incoming Governor, how senseless such a proposition was...
...Influential leaden ef the A. F. of L. are devoting much that and energy to raise the high tariff ties higher, all the while they decry "pstwi naiism...
...For fifteen years prior to 1921 the American Federation of Labor stood clearly in favor of enactment of some system?.of state aid to the ^ed veterans of industry...
...He should net be hnsaaat with the sole responsibility of pse*ja£ tor his old age...
...This would cut labor off from its two main avenues of attack...
...At the start of the ninth general session the nonpartisan policy labor union legislators must have been ashamed of not having afforded the employers better ^protection in the sabotage law fight...
...M. J. Harmon, also of Morenci...
...3,092,317.09 Miscellaneous...
...In 1928, the A. F. of L. convention recommended that Congress investigate "old age income," study the problem and make a report...
...A formal convention e>~ claration would not be sufficient...
...The incoming governor's labor record making veto almost certain, it would require a two-thirds vote of both bouses for its passage...
...For as industry and the state cruelly toss aged workingmen and women on the scrap heap, the problem of their support is thrown into the laps of their sons and daughters, themselves not too well paid...
...Another article in the same paper states that the legislators went to the governor and gave the required assurances...
...The writer called attention to the fact that under section XX of the Industrial Compensation Law the commission had power to call a meeting requiring both sides to attend and present their cases...
...690.206.42 Old Age...
...Sanders, the man who remained loyal to the working class...
...He was a member of the 1919 Iegis- ', lature...
...See House Journal pages 567-568...
...Another, H. S. McCluskey, was formerly a member of the Arizona Industrial Commission...
...As a member of the 1921 Legislature he introduced H. B. 52 amending section 3131 of our state child labor law to permit boys between the ages of thirteen and sixteen to work between the hours of 5 A. M. and 7 A. M. *kLabor"-Copper Alliance So this is the man to whom the A. F. of L. nonpartisan legislators have pledged support...
...Their actions showed that they were going to betray the workers and let it go into the new code...
...2,013,099.09 Total Benefits Paid in 1926: $26,942,639.65 1927 Sick ......................$2,793,858.91 Death .....................15,724,820.76 Unemployment...
...The number of dependent aged in the United States today closely approximates the number of members in the A. F. of L. .Of the over 100 international unions affiliated with the A. F...
...Adequate smttaanafe old age Is an expansive undertaUanvlnb is especially so sine* the parted at sal age is becoming constantly Basra SSMar...
...McCluskey later became a member he took no steps toward forcing the company to compensate us for the damage we had sustained through breach of an agreement to which the commission was a party...
...To cap it all the Arizona Labor Journal comes out with an article claiming the credit for these nonpartisan labor leaders and legislators who tried to betray the workers...
...And that is what some preach, who believe in a philosophy directly opposite to that announced and followed by the American Federation of Labor...
Vol. 8 • April 1929 • No. 14
