SHORTER DAY URGED BY GOV. JOHN TRUMBULL
SHORTER DAY URGED BY GOV. JOHN TRUMBULL Provide Work for Everybody by Shorter Work Day, He Tells Convo SALT LAKE CITY—'The work day should be reduced so that employment can be spread out...
...It has been estimated that employes working four hours per day universally can produce all the necessities, all the luxuries, make additions to surplus capital and still enjoy all the things that we have in the past, and that the work hours per day required will become less and less as mass production and mechanization of industry increases and grows...
...There is not an industry In the East that I know of that is not overcrowded...
...Statistics tell us that one workman produces as much as 32 workmen produced 75 years ago...
...This progress has been more pronounced in the Carolinas, Alabama, and Georgia, where thousands of workers have been enrolled...
...The State Federation of Labor has 110 affiliations...
...This situation is going to become more and more acute...
...Our ability to consume necessities, at least, has not been on the same basis...
...The only immediate answer that is seen is a shortening of the productive hours per day...
...We are going through a transitory period from the old hand method of production in New England into the machine age and we are going still further Into it...
...The list Includes 40 textile unions...
...Activities including membership and general organization work, has more than doubled...
...S. C. — Trade unionIsm in this state has made notable gains since the A. F. of L. launched Its Southern organizing campaign...
...In an address to the recent convention of the South Carolina Federation of Labor, Paul J. Smith, chairman A. F. of L. Southern organizing campaign committee, called attention to gains throughout the South...
...JOHN TRUMBULL Provide Work for Everybody by Shorter Work Day, He Tells Convo SALT LAKE CITY—'The work day should be reduced so that employment can be spread out sufficiently to provide work for everybody.'' said Governor Trumbull of Connecticut, at the closing session of the Governors' Conference in this city...
...Wish you strength to your arm, steel to your sword and the Lord on your side, and I trust the groat mass of people will eventually awaken to the necessity of rallying under your banner In their own defense against, the inroads of greedy monopoly, —J...
...UNIONS IN SOUTH MAYING PROGRESS GREENVILLE...
...P. Jacobson...
...In other words, one man today, working one hour, produces as much as one man working 32 hours did 75 years ago...
...This includes several hundred Negro workers in Alabama and Mississippi who have been chartered in federal trade unions under direct Jurisdiction of the A. F, of L. GREEDY MONOPOLY (Gaslyn, Wis., July 30...
...Mass production is responisble to a great extent for unemployment," said Governor Trumbull...
Vol. 1 • August 1930 • No. 36
