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Local Voice of the
AMERICAN
FEDERATION
OF LABOR
Subscription Price $1.50 Per Year.
GALVESTON, TEXAS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1930.
VOL. 12, No. 18.
REGULAR MEETING OF THE
THE SONG OF MY SOUL
GALVESTON LABOR COUNCIL
Grace Stanton Love in Nautilas.
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WORLD OF LABOR
WHERE TO FIND THE THRONG.
GENERAL LABOR NEWS
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70th Congress.
1930.—Passage of bill to
ADVERSE REPORT ON
GARMENT PAY RAISE
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Working Agreement Turned
Down by Employers.
Place Your Money
With The
Uniform Laws Recommend-
ed by Conference.
But my soul with seer-like vision
(Scorning what men’s eyes may see,
Weakness only, lack and failure )
Sings the unconquerable Me.
Where the going’s smooth and pleasant,
You will always find the throng.
For the many, more’s the pity,
Seem to like to drift along.
But the steps that call for courage,
And the task that’s hard to do,
In the end result in glory
For the never-wavering few.
—The Corn Cob.
STATES URGED TO
CURB CHILD LABOR
As a youth with life-urge vibrant
Spends his strength nor questions why,
So flings the bird its message
Full-throated to the sky.
67th Congress.
June 15, 1921.—Nolan amendment
to Seamen’s bill limiting the hours of
oilers, water-tenders and firemen to
eight out of twenty-four instead of
twelve. Favorable.
May 2, 1922.Extension of 3 per cent
immigration act of May 19, 1921, to
June 30, 1924. Acceptance of confer-
ence report. Favorable.
January 22, 1923.—Passage of work-
men’s compensation bill for District
of Columbia. Favorable.
68th Congress. -
April 12, 1924.—Passage of Immi-
gration Restriction bill. Favorable.
May 19, 1924.— Motion to concur in
obnoxious recommendation of Com-
mittee of the whole to strike out en-
acting clause in Howell-Barkley rail-
road bill. Favorable.
June 6, 1924.—Acceptance of confer-
ence report on postal employes’ wage
increase bill with Cable corrupt prac-
tices amendment. Favorable.
69th Congress.
March 1, 1926.—Passage of bill abol-
ishing railroad labor board and pro-
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BILLION FOR BUILDING
Che LCnion eview
Official Organ of Galveston Labor Council, Dock and Marine Council
and Affiliated Unions
Endorsed by the Texas State Federation of Labor.
protect free labor from the competi-
tion of convict-made goods. Favor-
able.
May 22, 1928.—Passage of bill pro-
viding for differential pay for night
work in postal service over president’s
Deep in the glimmering forest
A bird’s voice sings aglee;
Deep in the place of silence
My soul doth sing of me.
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Why thrills the carol heavenward,
Like prayer of devotee?
Why sings my soul unceasing
A triumph song of me?
LUMBER WORKERS
FACING WAGE CUT
Klamath Falls, Ore.—Organized labor
protests against the proposed 10 and 15
per cent wage cut by lumber mills and
logging corporations.
Those concerns smashed trade unions
during the World War and installed a
company “union,” called the Loyal Le-
gion of Loggers and Lumbermen. The
Four Ls was supposed to be the last
word in solving industrial questions, but
has long since been discredited.
The Ford Motor Company’s Norfolk
(Va.) plant resumed operations on a
four-day week schedule, working 1,900
men.
The average industrial wage in the
middle Atlantic states is $1,410 a year
and exceeds by $110 the average of
the United States as a whole.
The General American Tank Car
corporation has received from William
H. Bremmer, receiver of the Minne-
apolis & St. Louis railway, an order
for 500 box cars.
Members of International Typograph-
Seal Union No. 1, of Indianapolis,
Ind., have filed a protest against re-
moval of international headquarters
from. Indianapolis.
More than 500 Rue de la Paix dress-
makers of Paris joined the textile
workers’ strike,, demanding 13 francs
(52 cents) weekly assessment for so-
cial insurance be paid by their em-
ployers'.
Cooks and waiters installed a new
union at Duluth, Minn. A waitresses’
union is being organized in the same
city, and a charter has been asked for
a culinary workers’ union, to be in-
stalled almost immediately.
Hourly earnings of all wage earners
on class 1 railroads in the United
States averaged slightly over 64 cents
in the fourth quarter of 1929, while
average weekly earnings were $31.80,
according to the national industrial
conference board.
The Journeymen Barbers’ Interna-
tional union pays a death benefit rang-
ing from $100 to $500, conditioned on
length of membership. In five years
the organization has paid benefits
totaling $1,491,000. The international
union has more than 50,000 members.
At the annual wage conferences be-
tween the Glass Bottle Blowers’ asso-
ciation of the United States and Can-
ada and the employers, last year’s
wage scale and working rules were
agreed to. Several minor adjustments
in favor of the members of the union
were made.
A bill establishing the 8-hour day
and 48-hour week for British industry
provides for an 8-hour day for all in-
dustrial workers, but also provides
that the 48-hour week may be sub-
stituted in certain industries where a
longer work shift than one of eight
hours is necessary.
Ralph G. Coburn, executive vice-
president of General Foods corpora-
tion, says the company has not con-
sidered any reduction in either wages
or salaries of employees and does not
expect to do so, employment in prac-
tically all of the company’s forty-eight
factories, in forty cities, running ap-
proximately at normal.
Harry Fishwick, president of the Illi-
nois Mine Workers’ union, will not ac-
cept office in his organization at the
expiration of his present term next
March 15, he announced. Mr. Fish-
wick was one of the principal oppo-
nents af John L. Lewis, president of
the United Mine Workers of America,
in the Illinois miners’ insurgent move-
ment.
A model child labor act was adopted
by the national conference of commis-
sioners on uniform state laws and will
be recommended to he legislatures of
the various states and territories for
approval.
The act provides that no person
under fourteen years old shall be em-
ployed for gain except that boys be-
tween nine and fourteen, provided they
fulfill school requirements, may dis-
tribute or sell newspapers or periodi-
cals. Gainful employment is defined
as gainful pursuit of any trade, oc-
cupation or labor except agriculture,
domestic service and athletics. There-
by, subject to school and health reg-
ulations, youngsters could work on a
farm or caddy on a golf course.
In necessary cases boys and girls
between fourteen and eighteen could
get permits to work, except in a list
of prohibited occupations deemed det-
rimental to health, provided they ful-
filled school and health requirements.
Any firm or organization employing
children between these ages would be
required to post conspicuous notice.
A committee representing the In-
, fants. Children’s and Juniors’ Dress
Manufacturers’ association, New York,
announced an adverse report upon a
working agreement submitted by the
Children’s Dress union, which in-
volved a 10 per cent wage increase
for piece workers and an increase of
$2 a week for wage earners.
Other features of the proposed
agreement, believed to be less objec-
tionable to the manufacturers, are col-
lective bargaining, a five-day, forty-
two-hour week; pay for legal holidays
and the appointment of an impartial
chairman of the industry to act as
arbiter in disputes.
There has been talk of a strike in
the industry since February, and it is
probable that one will be called. If
an agreement between union and manu-
facturers is reached it will be directed
only against non-union shops. About
1,500 of the 7,000 workers involved
'are union members.
Aurora, Ill.—Frank H. Pease, for 20
years editor of The Railway Conductor,
official magazine of the Order of Rail-
way Conductors, died in this city. He
lived here with a son since the death of
his wife a year ago. He was 78 and had
been connected with this railroad broth-
erhood for more than a quarter of a cen-
tury.
Australia’s new tax on wages is re-
lieving unemployment distress.
Norwegian paper mills closed fol-
lowing the failure to arbitrate a set-
tlement on the wage dispute.
Approximately 45,606,000 persons
now are gainfully employed in all
lines of endeavor in United States.
Two of the largest Italian shipyards
have been consolidated with a capital
of 100,000,000 lire and three years'
work ahead.
The Italian government announced
road building programs involving ex-
penditure of $10,000,000 and providing
employment for 73,000 men.
The Ford Motor company assembly
plant at Columbus, Ohio, resumed
operations, with 850 men employed. It
had been shut down for three weeks.
On July 1, the bureau of navigation
announced, American shipyards were
building 263 steel vessels of 475,903
gross tons, compared with 251 steel
vessels on June 1.
A total of 234,854 jobless, or 3.4
per cent of New York city’s population
of 6,959,195, was announced for the
nation’s metropolis in the census bu-
reau’s unemployment count.
Next year will see no change in
wage rates for civilian employees of
the United States navy. The navy
has announced that the navy wage
board will not be reconvened this
year.
A new branch assembly plant is
to be constructed in Buffalo and made
ready for operation within a year, the
Ford Motor company announced. The
plant will employ 2,500 men and will
have a capacity of 400 cars and trucks
a day.
Farm wages were 2 per cent lower,
on the average, July 1 this year than
they were April 1, reports the United
States Department of Agriculture. This
decline from April to July is in sharp
contrast to the normal increase of 6
per cent during this period.
The annual convention of the Nova
Scotia district of the United Mine
Workers of America turned down a
resolution to take a referendum on the
question of linking up with the United
Miners of Canada, a national organi-
zation having some branches in west-
Buffalo, N. Y.—A resolution request-
ing President Hoover to call a special
session of Congress for the purpose of
appropriating $1,600,000,000 for public
construction to relieve unemployment
was unanimously passed by the State
Federation of Labor convention.
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Oct. 17, 1919.—Vocational rehabilita-
tion of cripples in industry. Favorable.
March 23, 1920 — Naval appropriation
bill, amendment by Hull of Iowa pro-
hibiting use of appropriation to conduct
stop-watch and bonus systems. Favor-
able. __
April 30, 1920—Retirement bill, ob-
jectionable motion excluding members of
organized labor from its benefits. Fa-
vorable.
April 30, 1920.—Final passage of
Civil Service retirement bill. Favor-
able.
William Green, president of the
American Federation of Labor, an-
nounces unemployment increased by
1 per cent in July over June. A state-
ment issued by Green says reports
from trade unions in 24 cities showed
21 per cent out of work as compared
with 20 per cent last month.
A national council representing
workers and employers, assisted by
technical advisers, is the plan pro-
posed to the home office by the Brit-
ish trades union congress general
council as an effective means of re-
ducing the appalling casualty list due
to industrial and street accidents.
The interstate commerce commission
estimated the average number of rail-
road workers employed during June
was 1,564,269, a decrease of 9.9 per
cent from the number employed dur-
ing the same month last year. It
compared unfavorably also with the
1,572,567 employed in railroad oper-
ations during AprP, one month before.
Employment in Cleveland in July de-
clined 4.8 per cent, bringing the index
to 99.4, compared with 103.0 in June
and 124.2 in July, 1929. This is the
lowest since December, 1927, at 99.8.
One hundred representative firms re-
ported 68,455 workers, compared with
71,575 in June and 85,588 in July,
1929, the Cleveland Chamber of Com-
merce says.
Galveston, Texas, Sept. 8, 1930.
Before going into details of the meet-
ing we have a few matters to take up,
treating on past incidents.
In listing prizes and donations for
Labor Day we mentioned the fact that a
sack of sugar 'had been donated by the
Galveston Import Co. This was a mis-
taek. The sugar was donated by the
G. S. G. Stores, and was simply to be
delivered by the Galveston Import Com-
pany. This was supposed to be a hun-
dred pounds of sugar. We do not know
who won it. But would like our readers
to know that it was' donated by the G.
S. G. Stores. One good turn deserves
another. The G. S. G. Stores are a home
concern, and are friendly to labor. We
are sorry the mistake occurred.
The meeting was called to order
promptly at 8 o’clock by President Criss,
and it looked as though we were going
to have a slim crowd. Someone said that
they were all busy at the democratic
convention, but this proved to be a mis-
take, because in a very short time 13
unions were represented and 21 delegates
registered. Two credentials were sub-
mitted, one from the Meat Cutters and
one from the Slate and Tile Roofers.
This is a new union and was not hereto-
fore affiliated. There were also two
visitors. The delegates reported 114 la-
bels on their wearing apparel.
There were a few communications.
One from the Texas State Federation of
Labor and one from the American Fed-
eration of Labor. The first one was ad-
vocating the organization of Woman’s
Label Leagues, and it was left up to the
organization to look after the matter.
The other was from President Green,
referring to Clay Stone Briggs’ record.
Upon motion, this communication was
ordered complied with and published in
the Union Review: It is as follows.
American Federation of Labor Non-Par-
tisan Political Compaign Committee.
To Organized Labor—Greeting:
Upon the outcome -of the congression-
al elections in November will depend the
passage of our anti-injunction bill now
before the United States Senate.
We want to urge every local union, its
officials and individual members to take
an unusual interest in the election. Every
effort should be made to get out-a full
vote. Your organization should exert
itself in urging the members to go to
the polls election day.
Enclosed you will find the legislative
record on measures of interest to labor
of the Representative in Congress from
your Congressional district.
More forward looking members of
Congress should be elected. If such a
happy result is accomplished at the com-
ing election labor will be able to secure
the enactment of legislation for which it
has been striving for many years. To
that end let me urge you to keep lu
mind this slogan:
“No loyal citizen of the United States
should vote for a candidate who will
not support legislation prohibiting the
abuse of the use'of injunctions in labor
disputes.”
As wide publicity as possible should
be given to the legislative records of the
members of Congress. To that end the
Executive Committee of the American
Federation of Labor National Non-Par-
tisan Political Campaign Committee re-
quests the unions which receive the leg-
islative record of the respective repre-
sentatives in Congress to adopt the plan
of reading them at every meeting of their
respective organizations. This course is
recommened so that the members will
be continually informed until election
day of the position on labor measures of
their legislators. Yours fraternally,
WM. GREEN,
Chairman, National Non-Partison Poli-
tical Campaign Committee.
Texas—Seventh Congressional District.
Representative Clay Stone Briggs,
Democrat; residence, Galveston. Leg-
islative Record on Measures of Inter-
ets to Labor.
66th Congress.
July 1, 1919—Appropriation for U. S.
Employment Bureau, Department of La-
bor. Favorable.
July 22, 1919—Final passage of Nolan
$3.00 minimum wage bill. Favorable.
Sept 20, 1919—Motion of Fess to
strike out anti-trust provisions favoring
labor on 1st Deficiency bill. Favorable.
Total ................................................ 17
■Several other communications were
acted upon favorably. A communica-
tion from the co-ordination commit-
tee was acted upon favorably. The
treasurer submitted a report as gate
keeper of the picnic. He reported on
the 'attendance contest. We want to
print this contest. We want to print
this contest; we promised that we
were going to do so, but we haven’t
got the heart to do it in this issue.
Just how this contest originated in
our mind we do not know, but we do
know from this contest why,organized
labor is not making any success or
progress. We are going to give this
contest all the publicity we possibly
can and if the News will run it we
will give it to them. We promised to
do this to show the public that in
union there is strength and united we
stand and divided we fall.
Well of course there will be no 10%.
If the union men themselves think it
is a joke then how can you expect
the public to think differently. The
carpenters purchased 33 tickets to give
to the out-of-works, and there were 27
carpenters out of 350 at the picnic.
We are wondering if a single carpen-
ter purchased a ticket. The tickets
were only for the out-of-works. It
certainly doesn’t look so good.
There was quite a lot of picnic dis-
cussion and it was unanimously decid-
ed that the secretary extend to Com-
missioner Butterowe a sincere vote
of thanks for the work he had donated
to the Council. It must be understood
that the commissioner is an expert on
barbecue—particularly on the manufac-
ture of gravy, and he did most of the
preparing of the meat’and all of the
gravy. If you were not there you cer-
tainly missed a treat. We heard a
prominent judge of a high court at
Galveston remark: “You have a good
man in charge. I know him and- have
eaten some of his preparation before.”
It was one hundred per cent good. We
thank you, Mr. Butterowe.
Brother Parr also extended his hear-
ty thangs to those who had assisted
him with the barbecue and prizes, and
he particularly wanted to thank all
of the delegates for their attendance
at the picnic and had a rising vote
taken on the last proposition.
A lengthy discussion ensued about
the engineers. Some time ago their
■charter was removed to Houston, and
a lot of the boys did not care to
change their membership to Houston,
and as a result dropped out. The
claim was put out that since this move
they are losing a great deal of work
and non-union men are getting it. The
organizing committee was instructed
to work with these men and see if it
would not be possible to get a char-
ter back into the city. The present or-
ganization has been very poorly rep-
resented in the (Council, and while they
have paid their tax, they are certainly
not much help to the Council. The
organizing committee will see what it
can do.
The delegate from the roofers’ un-
ion reported that Graugnard’s Bakery
had put on three roofs and that Mr.
Graugnard had said that he did not
want any union man to do his work.
This was not sent in as an official
report. He simply, wanted to notify the
delegates—the same as we are trying
to do with the Labor 'Day attendance.
It’s the old saying—chickens will
come home to roost. It was only a
joke when the colored parson said
these chickens will never come home
to roost. However, we are making a
reality out of it when we handle our
business as we do. Listen to this! One
delegate said that the Council had
placed the auditorium on the unfair
list and had not seen the stage em-
ployes since, and he favored taking it
off of the unfair list. However, a mo-
tion was made that the secretary no-
tify the stage hands to attend meet-
ing and give a reason why this action
should not be taken. Why kick-about
the employer when you are following
the same tactics that he is. just look-
ing out for himself.
If might made right and you had the
might that rule would work, but you
can see for yourself that when it is
handed to you and you have nothing
behind you, you go down. That is
why we advocate U-N-I-O-N.
We had the organizer of the federal
employes to promise us that some of
hiss members would take part in the
picnic, but the report fails to show a
single federal employe present on the
grounds. However, just as soon as
these fellows want some legislation
passed how quickly they know where
to come for aid. A purely one sided
affair and it won’t stand up if put to
the test.
The election of a statistician was
laid over until next meeting. Just why
we were unable to understand. When
we had lots of good material present
at the meeting. Men who are taking
the part of statistician at every meet-
ing and yet are. not willing to be. on
the official staff. The statistician must
be elected like other officers, and while
he has duties assigned it has not been
the case yet where die constitution is
closely followed up, and we are sure
if one of the boys would have accept-
ed the nomination that he would not
have been worked to death trying to
■keep up with it. The metal workers
have no one on the executive board.
The painters, the roofers, the meat
cutters, the engineers, the machinists,
the musicians, hotel and restaurant
employes. We would suggest that we
nominate one from each of these
crafts and have another contest—same
as the attendance contest, probably we
will fare better with it.
We wanted to cover an advertising
matter but feel that it would be out
of place at this time. The editor has
President Green’s letter to publish and
Brigg’s legislative record. We hope
you you will give the suggestion more
recognition than you did the attend-
ance contest.
HENRY W. E. RABE,
Secretary Galveston Labor Council
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