The Dallas Craftsman (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, March 14, 1947 Page: 3 of 4
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FACTORY PAY AVERAGE >47
Washington. D. C.—Weekly factory
earnings in January continued to
average around 141, despite the half-
hour drop in the average workweek to
40.5 hours, according to the Bureau of
Labor Statistics. Record average
hourly earnings of almost 11.16 were
primarily resitonaible for maintain-
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| Harrison finphaalsed.
He pointer! out also that business
generally "stole a march on the rest
of the community” by raising prices
last year far more than enough to
cover wage increases.
Mr. Harrison's analysis also touched
specifically on the railroad industry.
It cited a serious drop in the "real"
wages of rail workers since price de-
control, and declared a substantial in-
crease is necessary to restore the bal-
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raises.
Members of President Truman's ad-
visory economic council appeared
deeply impreHsed by the view of the
labor spokesmen and were reported to
have urged the Chief Executive to
take steps to haul down excessive
prices if an economic crash is to be
I averted.
George Harrison, president of the
Railway Clerks (AFL). as committee
chairman, presented the main points,
but the other rail union leaders also
participated actively.
All emphasized that a crisis con-
fronts America, betause the cost of
living has far outstripped workers'
earnings. Unless this gap is closed,
they warned, an economic breakdown
is inevitable.
They cited the fact that since June.
1946, when effective price controls
were abandoned, living costs have shot
up 15 to 20 percent, thus wiping out
•'completely'' the 181* cent an hour
wage increase secured by railmen
early last year and similar raises ob-
tained by workers in other major in-'
dustries. • |
What makes matters worse, they!
said, is that both wholesale and retail i
prices: are continuing to rise, and!
meanwhile what little savings workers;
accumulated during the war have!
been depleted.
"There must dither be an immediate
and substantial reduction in prices
which are artificially high, or else
workers will find themselves com-
pelled to demand higher wages to
maintain purchasing power." they de-
clared.
“If parchasing power is not restored
and if more and more consumers con-
tinue to be driven out of the market
by high prices, the result will be a
curtailment of production and sharp
unemployment.”
Mr. Harrison presented a written
analysis which underlined the issue
raised in the dlacussion. For one thing,
it cited official government reports
showing; that savings, which had been
relied upon to., bolster the postwar
small fraction of the nation's high-
income families Buying power of
these families can't maintain “high
production and employment."
Furthermore, his analysis stressed
the fact that such price declines as
have occurred have been largely in
furs, diamonds and jewelry. "That's
scant comfort for the working people,"
Rail Leaders Tell Truman Advisors
Wage and Living Costs Must Balance
Washington, D. ('.—Stern warning
that price climbs must be halted or
that wages must necessarily be raised
proportionately was served on Preel-
! dent Truman's Council on Economic
Welfare by railroad labor leaders lu
a report of what they regarded as the
moment—the matter of bringing
wages and living costs into balance.
This declaration was a reiteration
I of the firm position taken long ago by
the AFL that increasing living costs
can be met only by 'accompanying pay
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NEBRASKA (LOSE 11 SHOP BAN
IN CHALLENGED BY THE AFL
4,MM) MORE ADDED
TO POLISHERS’ UNION
Lincoln. Nebr.—A test suit chal-
lenging the constitutionality of Ne-
braska's anti-clos'ed shop amendment,
approved last Nocember, has been
filed here by the American Federation
of Labor.
The act is centered about the re-
fusal of an employer to discharge an
employe suspended from union mem-
bership for failure to pay his dues.
This refusal, the union alleges, was
in violation of the company's contract
with the AFL and of the First and
Fourteenth Amendments to the Fed-
eral Constitution. It further contends
that Nebraska's anti-closed shop
amendment is void, unenforceable and
unconsUtutional.
The amendment prohibits denial of
employment to any person because of
membership or nonmembership in a
labor organization.*
of the procedure used was repugnant
tp the voluntary pypcess of free col-
lective bargaining. Such procedure
was often regarded as an evil by both
employers and unions. That evil has
been ended with the end of govern-
ment controls on wages and the end of
the wartime regulation over labor dis-
putes. The real target of the propo-
nents of this legislation is now gone.
The high explosive charge they have
readied against that target must not
be belatedly misdirected and allowed
to destroy the very roots of industrial
peace.
“Proposed legislation would strike
at the very areas where harmonious
and peaceful relations have been
achieved after years of building up
mutual confidence and good will be-
tween labor and management.
"Through the free collective bar-
gaining process, unions and employers
mutually determine the form of their
collective agreement and fit it to the
most effective way of solving the
problems both confront In many
cases over the past 50 years, the scope
of these agreements has been en-
larged in response to the growth of
larg-scale enterprises and the in-
creasing interdependence of related
business enterprises. Statutory limi-
tation of labor agreements to a single
locality is a direct attack upon the
process of free collective bargaining.
Any Mich attempt to confine collective
bargaining to a specific area will turn
back the clock of industrial progress."
Washington. D. C.—Day Kelsay,
president of the Metal Polishers. Buf-
fers, Platers and Helpers Interna-
tional Union.AAFL) with headquarters
in Cincinnati, has reported to AFL
President Green and Secretary-Treas-
urer George Meany a new gain of 4.-
000 members.
This was surprising information, in
view of the fact that this Union, last
Spring, reported a gain of 4,000 mem-
bers at that time.
The report of Mr. Kelsay stated:
"About May 17 we informed you
that we had increased our membership
by 4,000. Now we are able to report
that we have a further increase of 4,-
000. which brings us to a total of 18,-
000 members."
Mr. Green highly commended Mr.
Kelsay and his associates for the re-
markable record they have made an
expressed hope that the membership
campaign would continue with in-
creasing success.
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and
Ban On Collective
Bargaining Rapped
By AFL at Hearing
Washington. D. C.—The proposal
that all contracts between employers
and employes be confined to a local
labor market hits at the very heart Of
free collective bargaining process, de-
clared AFL President William Green
in a brief supplementing his discus-
sion of anti-labor legislation in his
appearance before the Senate Labor
Committee.
"It would destroy long established
and mature collective bargaining rela-
tions in many key areas of industry,"
Mr. Green said.
“Industrial peace was unbroken
over a period of ntanv vears in many
-such areas because tW scope of agree-
ment between labor and mauastement
has been extended to cover more than
one plant and more than one employer.
Labor-management relations did not
break down and no work stoppages
occurred at the most critical stages of
industrial conflict in the difficult tran-
sition from war to peace since V-J Day
where effective machinery for direct
and vountary settlement of differ-
ences was developed through area-
wide, association-wide and industry-
wide agreements. That is precisely
the area the proposed legislation
would invade, and that is the proce-
dure this legislation would outlaw.
"The attack against industry-wide
bargaining is aimed at conditions re-
mote from free collective bargaining.
It is'directed at Ute evil which has al-
ready been eradicated by the termina-
tion of wartime controls over wages.
Under the wartime wage stabilization
program, continued until recently,
wage terms and other conditions
agreed to by a few firms dominating
an industry were imposed upon other
firms in the industry, ,In such in-
stances the bargaining process was
confined to a few giant aggregates in
the industry. The smaller firms were
compelled to sign up without even a
pretense at negotiations."
“In the glass bottle manufacturing
industry, in the pottery and china-
ware manufacturing industry, in the
stove .manufacturing industry, in
dress manufacturing, in pulp and
paper manufacturing, and many
others, there have been no strikes or
lockouts, no interruptions in produc-
tion and no cause for government in-
tervention during the crucial 20
months since the end of the war.
“In all these instances, area-wide.
Industry - wide and association - wide
AFL agreements proved to be the
most effective insfi-uments of labor
peace. They have withstood the su-
preme test of inflationary pressures,
dislocation and discord of the most
tryin reconversion period. Y'et these
tested tools of industrial harmony and
accord would be thrown on the scrap
heap by the proposed legislation in
the name of promoting industrial
peace!
"The attack against industry-wide
bargaining is aimed at conditions re-
mote from free collective bargaining,
It is directed at the evil which has al-
ready been eradicated by the termina-
tion of partime controls over wages.
Under the wartime wage stabilization
program, continued in peacetime until
recently, wage terms and other condi-
tions agreed to by a few firms domi-
nating an industry were impose-! upon
other firms in the industry. In such
instances-, the bargaining process was
confined to a few giant aggregates in
the industry. The smaller firms were
compelled to sign up without even a
pretense at negotiations. The 'for-
mula' was a part of a government di-
rective. Neither the employer nor
the union had much choice; they acted
under orders. In all such instances
there waa no collective bargaining.
Industry-wide standards so imposed
were not the subject of real negotia-
tion or real agreement
“None of these instances, therefore,
were instances of industry-wide col-
lective bargaining. The very nature
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We should pledge ourselves here and now to
oppose this development as vigorously as we will
oppose the regimentation of labor through the
conscription of labor.
We have pledged ourselves to contribute all
of our resources and capabilities to the winning
of the war. Let us now solemnly pledge ourselves,
while so doing, to use every energy we possess to
protect the wage-earners of our country from
these twin evils—compulsory control of labor by
the government through discretionary authority.
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It should be the purpose of the American Fed-
eration of Labor to devote its energies to the eli-
mination of unwarranted discretionary authority
wherever and whenever it is transgressing or re-
placing government by law—the law enacted by
the people’s duly elected representatives for the
benefit and protection of the people.
We must insist that the regulation of our ac-
tivities as citizens and as workmen by duly enact-
ed legislation must be protected by the constant
and fearless expose of what is developing under
the insidious operation of government by discre-
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publica-
Journal,
Antonio,
Bricklayer,
El
Messenger, Houston, 21st
Union
year.
Labor
year.
These
publications are re«pon-
sible. Tbeir editors stand high in
the councils of Labor.
Union Banner, Fort Worth, 54th
year.
Farm & Labor, Journal, Waco,
39th year.
To protect the public from im-
posters soliciting donations for
space in bogus labor publications,
year books, time books and various
schemes allegedly for the benefit
of organized labor, the Texas La-
bor Press Association was organ-
ized seven years ago by heads of
the various journals and news-
papers recognized as representa-
tive of the Labor movement in
Texas.
Those bona fide Labor publica-
tions are:
Dallas Craftsman, Dallas, in its
34th year of continuous
tion in Dallas. >
Southwestern Railway
39th year.
Weekly Dispatch, San
58th year
Labor Advocate, El Paso, 37th
year.
Southwestern
Paso, 34 th year.
Review, Galveston, 24th
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Reilly, Wallace. The Dallas Craftsman (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, March 14, 1947, newspaper, March 14, 1947; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1297434/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .