INDIANAPOLIS LOSES I. T. U. HEADQUARTERS
INDIANAPOLIS LOSES I. T. U. HEADQUARTERS Anti-Union Attitude of Big Business and Judiciary Brings Big Loss to Hoosier Capital (Special to The Progressive) INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.—The hostile attitude...
...Limit on Output Is Held Valid by Okla...
...The decision will influence litigation In western and southwestern states where public officials are aiding operators to limit production...
...The International Typographical Union has maintained its headquarters here for nearly 50 years...
...High Court Order of Corporations Commission Limits Production of Oklahoma Oil Companies OKLAHOMA CITY.—The State Supreme court dissolved an injunction against the Oklahoma Corporation commission from enforcing its limitation of oil output in this state...
...Ore., Sept...
...These figures are ignored by persons who point to a few hundred thousand workers who receive wages of $10 a day and over, and who constitute a small percentage of the millions of wage workers, hundreds of thousands who receive $10 a week and less...
...The complainant oil company attacked the order as a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment, which protects property from processes that ignore due process of law...
...The choice of the new location for the union will be in the hands of the many local members located far and wide throughout the country...
...It is reported that Washington, D. C. will be a popular choice in view of the fact that the capital city of the country is rapidly becoming a labor center with many international unior.s maintaining headquarters there...
...A num-tfC- oi other internationals, for example, such as the Miners, the Teamsters, the Carpenters, and the Barbers, maintain their national offices here at the present time...
...At tile 75th annual convention held a short time ago at Houston, Texas, the union delegates voted to move the headquarters, its staff, offices, and a bank account of over $6,000,600 from Indianapolis to some other city, and as soon as their action is approved by the vote of the entire membership of the union, as provided by the union's by-Jaws, and another place chosen for the headquarters, the removal will begin...
...According to reports, other International headquarters in the city may follow the example of the I. T. U. and move their headquarters...
...So send it for another year...
...The move away from this city where big business, the courts, and the chamber of commerce have opposed the organized labor movement has been contemplated by members of the International Typographical Union for two or three years...
...Opposition to the choice of Washington, however, is anticipated, as many locals are believed to favor a location more centrally located in the United States...
...Trade unionists are comparing the court's decision with decisions that affect workers when they insist on less work because of overproduction...
...INDIANAPOLIS LOSES I. T. U. HEADQUARTERS Anti-Union Attitude of Big Business and Judiciary Brings Big Loss to Hoosier Capital (Special to The Progressive) INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.—The hostile attitude of the big industrial and business interests of this city will cost this community the national headquarters of the International Typographical union, it, was announced here recently...
...J- C. Luckel...
...It is considered very unlikely that the members of the I. T. U. in voting upon the removal of their headquarters from Indianapolis will fall to endorse the action of the Houston convention in ordering the location of its national offices in a city more friendly to organized labor...
...The I. T. U. is planning to sell this property when arrangements for Its removal are completed...
...The District of Columbia, the seat of government, stands first among the 12 leading States with an average annual wage of $1,645, Wyoming and Nevada, both non-industrial States, are second and third, with $1,627 and $1,-618...
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...only paper that gives the people what they want to know, the truth...
...Indianapolis, for this reason, was at one time considered an ideal place for national union headquarters...
...It was charged that the state commission insructed pipe lines and railroad companies engaged in interstate commerce to refuse to purchase, carry or run through their lines oil from operators who did not accept the commission's orders...
...In the opinion of many leaders in the labor movement, the situation has become intolerable...
...interference with interstate commerce," and "Interference with property rights...
...Michigan, an industrial State, is fourth with $1,555 and New York is fifth with $1,495...
...wages ARE Down in survey report NEW YORK—The high wage nction that has been overworked in this country is exposed by the business survey department of Worrance, Sullivan & Co...
...The four acres of ground surrounding the building were improved and landscaped until at the present time it is one of the show places of the city and is valued at $400,000...
...About 10 years ago the I. T. V. purchased the residence of a wealthy local man and converted it into a headquarters building with quarters for officers and the union's staff...
...The same hostile attitude toward union)* has been consistently demonstrated by political bosses and by the judiciary, until...
...The chamber of commerce of the Hoosier capital has frequently proclaimed this city as an "open shop" industrial center and has openly invited anti-union and non-union employers to locate their plants here...
...Then, trade unionists point out, the courts discuss "the law of supply' %nd demand," "conspiracy in restraint of trade...
...Its first offices were in the rear rooms of a dingy office building, and following the establishment of its headquarters here, other internationals have located here, bringing an immense amount of business to this city...
...THE TRUTH [Portland...
...The oil company insisted that it should be permitted to operate its property aa it sees- fit...
Vol. 1 • September 1930 • No. 43
