The Dallas Craftsman (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 52, Ed. 1 Friday, January 17, 1936 Page: 2 of 4
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TEE DALLAS CRAFTSMAN
THE DALLAS CRAFTSMAN The Union Label
STCCESSFUL FIRE rREYEXTIOS
ll*f
Per
Wor
Every
Telephone
is a
Long Distance
stupendous problem.
But according
to the A.
of L Survey it can be
Telephone
DALLAS, TEX, FBI, JAX. 17, 1936
Thu Mm Kagawa
eleven,"
bear the Union Label, Shop Cara and
Recovery Act and
*
He
2a
certain grodp ot that nation We
ttl advancement through
organ iza-
Hou la th*
It will mean a
six-hour day and a tive-day week.
It
is th* paramoant tssue of the Amer-
I Is hoped
tacts concerning the American Fed-
eration at Labor.
I
what their decision should
It was
kaiser each
made goods. made under
American
The Labor
mt is the only or-
f
3
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t
0
milltons of small
manu-
i
the
encroachment
You Can Buy It On A Shoestring
Very Small Down Payment; and a Price-Saving, Too
I
r
Sibley’9 Reccoery Program
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tory. It
tested
elation teeting laborat
nifles It has been
■in
for
safety, quality and erfi-
ciency.
• SMALL DOWN PAYMENT
‘5-
• LIBERAL TRADE-IN
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• CONVENIENT TERMS
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Southwestern Bell
Telephone Company
lean and years ago a
long distance call had to
be made over a special kind
of telephone. Today there
is no telephone that is not
a long distance telephone.
NUMODE, RUUD, REX and VIKING models can do?
This stock, bought before the 1936 advance, is priced
well below the new listings, so you can save money.
You will like the way Water Heaters have improved
lately. They cost less to start with, and operate for
much less, than those of even a few years ago.
And the Labor
Movement
and
you
cht about with
that *1935 was
boosted living costs 5% par cent, so
that the real earning* were reduced
to such an infimitesimal quantity that
the average worker was required to
Marvin Wallerstedt, 13 year* old.
of Coleridge. Neb. set ha own leg
when it was broken in rough play and
escaped being a eripple doctors say.
beled prodacta
if you want to obtain immediate re-
suits in eecuring greater purchasing
a victory for Jeau Boucaux, who was
declared to have been "free from the
moment he stepped on French soil
ana to be a free man from now on."
Working Button.
Since the Nato
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assist
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toil an hour and a A
week to maintain his
2,006,000 Jobless is 1
6. around 2000,000
sebless army ar* not
la th* “heavy" industi
to describe building.
Child
presit
Amur
Tobit
Team
Amer
Natio
Pott*
Trad
tion
Coegr
Dresc
factui
Thom
ment
in the Bell System, the Ameri-
can Telephone and Telegraph
Company is the parent com-
peny, and operates the long dis-
tance lines connecting the 24
regions I Bell companies. Bell
Laboratorles cartles an the re-
search work; Western Electric
manufactures, purchases, and
distributes. . -
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WALLACK C. XXILLY, xaner -Ma--e-
ditures,
hew Workers Every Year
rance has been
the deflinte asse
store, 1* as capable as any
other of transmitting your
message to Los Angeles or
London, Miami or Mel-
bourne, Boston or Buda-
pest.
Th ft is one exampie at
the Bell System’s constant
effort to increase the qual-
ity and value of telephone
service, and hold down Its
• cost.
60,000,000 BUSHELS SOLD
BY CANADIAN WHEAT BOARD
W
Cam
by tl
CODY
Geor
dust
Jant
Maj
the
proe
Th
nine
mem
Utat
Mi
log
com
cil;
trial
fair
inter
fecti
trusi
try;
E-2e
B T -
avy Industry
e the present
Uly employed
i. a term used
anufacture of
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TERMS OF SUBBcEirTION
ene ....................... $3.0
NUMODE
WATER HEATER
Tin
Will I
for II
ed by
Ind
Greer
tion
presit
of Mi
dent,
of Al
tary-
of la
son.
Dry <
vice
Co.; 1
icam
Denn
factui
a year of progrees, or business at the
expense of the workers ”
This verdict was based on the fol
lowing data, whomeraccuracy cannot
be questioned:
1. The profits of industrial corpora-
tions were probably 40 per cent larger
in 1935 than in 1934
l "By November. 1935, although in-
to be temporarily blocked But york-
ets' and farmers cam obtain sbstan-
Published By the
REILLY PUNLISHING COMPANY
Ma
meet
trial
anotl
gram
icall
accel
cover
untai
of UI
He
meed
const
tees i
port
mana
er re
be p
will
th* <
Comr
Hous
in ac
his 1
date
"It
Berrj
in th
tativ
met.
find i
adjus
trial
cation
phas
willir
mon
You can’t pry A chtaeier ott of your
back until you put Union Label buy-
ing pressure under hhn
at Fetate at D-ll--,
"*5 M--a m-ir --ttee
inaer ta* am *f Mares i. tava.
Progress of Business
Made at “Expense
Of the Workers”
mhelogy ar even with th* church, but
with foiks, with man, man i trouble
and la wrong doing. with man usinE
others to satisty his own pieasure
gted and lust; with six emaciated
by diseese and tortured by pain, with
man la poverty. Hangar and naked-
ness: with man cold, calcuhting and
cruel. With maz despimed, rejected and
now on Federal work relief the iargeat
element in th* Governmemt. "exee-
sive .pending" win automatically stop.
The Important question is. When
will businens driver the Jeb*?
Barbara Nchol id was eelected to
reign as queen of the Pasadena Rowe
iFestival and ball la that eity on New
Be sure the Water Heater
you select carries the seal
of the American Gas Asso-
THIS man. Kagawa, la evidentiy a
’ ditterent kind at Japenese. .We
cannot think at each a man a* taking
' Korea. Invading China, cteating dis-
trust or fomenting Mrtte He teaches
. Eheinstrumentonyour ,
2 aefk,in yourhome, at your
But th* workers empioyed increased
only 4 per.cegt The number at work-
er* reqired for this-mereased output
was kept down by the extensive in-
troduction of labor-displacing ma-
chiaery and methods and she Imposi-
tion at longer hours.
Hsaro Inereased
Industrtal Profits Boosted 40
Cent Along With Lengthened Hours,
American Federatiqn of Labor Says
Employed Worker’ Imereased
Earnfngs Destroyed by Higher Uv-
lug Caste—13,000,000 hewJobs Nee-
eosary•
buying at products and services that, dustts had recovered more than h«Jf
. " .... — _ . . "its depression loss, oily 29 per emu
ome.: Greuna Mieer at L-ber Tempie
Yeung ana Evergree- Stmeet
Tee will find a wide selection at
moders water heaters at year
plumber’s er water heater dealer**.
Investigate the low prices and
terms that make K praetieal for
yen to modernise your water heat-
tug yystemxoW.
informed about Labor Unionism and
you can greatly help the cause at or-
Eanized labor by buying only from
firms that display the Undon Label.
Shop Card and Button.
If you desire to buy only American-
Hgasadgetersen
-y ene Entted states Supreme oprt,
the road & legisiative retorms seems
week at employed industrial workers
was MS hours PSI law lag the de-
cision at the United States Supreme
Court declaring the National Indus-
trial Recovery Act and NRA eodea un-
constitution*!, employers began a sys-
tematic ettort to lengthen hours, with
the result that by November the aver-
sge work week was 40% hours.
5. Because at the longer work week
The Dalia* lraftsman represents the
tree trade union movement, volelas
ths asplrations and achieverent. 1
W. W, anarenistis, Radical, er any
olher movesment injurlous to thereace
and stabllity el Ameriean Iustitatione:
It Is (er America, lint and last, and
tar the honest, meruL upright, coun:
ageous and true trades aniens all the
time.
. Winnipeg. Man. (AFLNS). — omn-
elate of the Canadian Wheel Board
announced the mile at sixty million
bushehs at wheat during November
and December The board wan estab-
lished last year by the Canadian Par-
liament to protect the wheat farmers
from cut-prices resulting from wo-
called free competition.
hoping that it will be only four mor*
years instead of seven. No. we can't
and Americans won't wait! W*. maat
solve this unemployment problem and
the only practical solutiom is th* on*
which is ottered by th* Americe
F.lerathnm ce. r-hF F» km - _ > -1H
satialactory enough to persuade them
to make long-term investmenta. "Comn-
sequenuy more than 3,000,000 workers
must wait for employment ana the
Government must continue large re-
economic field. Great
It. In 1936 Senator Black's 30-hour
week bill had been passed by Con-
grow* and signed by th* Frenident. it
would have dome mor* to sole* the
problem than all the ether jobs tor th*
eleven miNiom idle workers than all
th* other legislation with its uncer-
tainty owing to tmetTicient adminis-
tration and th* interpretation at the
courts.
Senator Black’s thirty-hour week
bill is the most eonstructive measure
that has been advanced for the solu-
Here’s a chance to get rich on
a shoestring-—to get rich in
PLENTY of hot water on tap
,—because these modern Water
Heaters are marked with a very
small down payment. Won’t
you come in and see what these
rwuemg hours more wofkers can ob
tain jobs. By maintaining th# pre-
vailing weekly wags seal*, and with
more men at work, w* shanl b* able
to increase purchasing power. It is
e‛m January. 1938, m avyqe took, effect ten yeara later. Bus the
- - - . " legal case of John-Boucaux. who-was
Government la trying to solve. If Mr.
Sibley and his business associates
throughout th* United States will
agrte to provide employment at rea-
Ml
man
chali
chali
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that everyone who ts interested in a to better your own conditions
those of your ellow workers.
The first air-conditioned automobile
and plans for air-conditioning buseee
to compete with cooler railroad
coaches wars recently announced.
trust that when the tacts are known
w* shall rind many more. Japantse
like him Somehow he appear* to as amee
tp bs e real Chrstian. At least, he atmpie arithmecic '
seems to be trying to say to e that
the Christian's chief concern is noE
with doctrine, denomination creed.
who mumbles “seven
tbs average weekly income at the
workers rose * par cent during the
year. Of course k would not be prop
possibilities may ba-found in th* re-
ciprocal agreement which the Undon
Label Trades Department recently
negotiated with the National Farmers
Union. These two oreaniztioms have
agreed to buy each"other‛s products.
Tims will not permit my giving In de-
tail the provisione at this agreement,
but if anyone is intsrasted he can ob-
tain th* facts by writing to the Union
Label Trades Department. The first
requirement in this plan to that city
workers joim a labor union affiliated
with to* American Federation of La-
bor. and that farmers join a Farmers'
Union
If you are a city worker and desire
Senators and also their representa-
live* and ack them to vote for the
Black-Coamery thirty-hour week bill
Do not delay Writ* today These
members at Coe grass are row repre-
sentatives in the National Capitol and
are at your service They win be glad
to bear from you and know what you
desire in legislative reforms. Every-
one should know th* mame at ch* two
acquainted with sorrow; with man
toiling, tending in factory and Qeld; ton ot unempioyment
— . ______ - W___ ei«-he- a-x --a - Mm
The unemployment problem is the fsonable wages for th* 3,500,000 sobless
most expenstve problem which lb*------ '----
program will
nided States
standard.
When hoars are shortened machin-
ery wig be-a biessing instead of a
curse. There will be more time for
educaticn and seir-development. Mor*
time for spending tee increased pur
chasing power which will accrue from
•barter hours with the same pay This
is the path aad the only path on which
America will work It* -way back to
better times for the average ettizen.
If is true that a few may prosper now
and the newspapers may display this
limited prosperity of the few as if it
were the end of this depression for
all of as. but Mie fact femaine that
iron, steel and other metals, lumber,
stone, and related mine industries.
Production In the heavy industries la
at a low point because financiers
claim the prospects for profits is not
shorter work week
write to both their
7. Our working population in 1929
was 48,000,000. It is now 52,000,000.
Theretore in 1*3* employers must
provide 4,000,000 more jobs than in
1929 unless It La their plan to bave th*
Government continue to support mil
lion* of out-of-works on relief rolls.
1. Th* high point at unemployment
was in 1933 when ths joblees army
reached the tremendoue total of 15,-
652,887 adult men and women. Since
then only 5,584,00 sobless have been
reemployed. But th* mumber who
mum work to lfye "is increasing at
th* rats at 600,000 per year." Thia
means that -aa shajl need to create
more than 13,000,000 jota in the next
two years to give work to all who
want it"
Cat Hoars, Kaise Wages.
» Providing this large number of
jobs appears oo the surface to be a
set free by a French court in the time
of Louis XV. earns a hais-century
surlier.
Boucaux had been brought to
France from Martinique. In the West
Indies, by a Monsteur de Verdelin,
whom th* negro served as a cook Re-
marking finally that he was in a tree
country. Boucaux demanded wages.
His master’s reply was to have him
put to the prison at the Chatelet, at
Pari* Boucaux was liberated after
three days, there being no law to fit
his case, and he thereupon sued his
master tor one year's arrears of
wages.
SInos he came from a French col-
ony the suit had to be heard by the
Judge* of the Admirality court, who
were compelled to detain him nearly
three month* while they considered
facturers, business men and profes-
sional mea as well as ■ the Jobless
workers have reached the last of their
savings sad equtties and want a gen-
eral upeurge like a great tidal wav*
across the entire continent instead of
a few ripples in Wall Street stocka.
A* hours ar* adjusted to absorb th*
idle workers, w* must coptinue to buy
our <m products. First, we must
buy all th* American-mad* goods that
w« can to keep tee purchasing power
at home Then we must buy nion-
made good* and Union nervicee to
maintain the high standards of wages,
hour* and working conditions which
hare been establtshed by and only by
the American Labor movement.
The American Federation of La-
bor. and especially those labor un
loos, affiliated with the Union Label
Trades Department are also deeply
interested in the measure before Con-
grass known as th* Walsh Bill which
provides that all persona who sell to
the U. S. Government or enter into
any contractual relatione wich it shall
conform to the conditione contained
in certain specitications, the purpose
of which will be to maintain fair M-
bor standards In connection with pur-
chases. loans or grants where Fed-
eral fund* are involved directly or in-
directly. This measure eceks to con-
firm in law the principle that the first
charge on say industry ie the per-
formance of its duty to society by
paying adequate wages and maintain-
ing decent working codrditions. It will
prevent the purchase by federal offi-
cial* of foreign-made and other un-
fair product* to be used by the Gov-
, E
try increased, thir output 14 per cent
ally manutaeturers
of life and mer-
Professors at English held a cdh-
ventin in Kansas City-sometime ago,
and among other things discussed the
inunce of newspapera la modifying
the, speech of th* people. As .might
have been expected, some felt that
this innuerce was good, while other*
thought It terrible.
la their search for short word*
which win fit in the limited space
available to them, writers of news-
paper headlines have developed a pe-
culiarly ettective. though sometimes
inelegant, form of expreesion.
In the headlines, aa investigation,
of which there are many, is called a
:: probe," because five letters are
easier to handle than U. Similarly,
a collision Is a "crash"; an agree-
ment to a “pact," to denounce I* to
"flay.'' an explosion to a "blast," an
athletic contest is a "tilt," and so on
On the aportpage "journalese" does
Its worst
Deploring what he con* Ider* th*
evil effect* at newspaper English, Dr
Hopkin* of the Univeraity of Kansas
•aid that teachers weer duty-bound to
take a stand against H, but sigman-
cantly added: “In theory that to our
stand, but it does us liue good to
take any stand. We might as well
quit and let tb« language so its way
It will anyway “
And that probably covefs all that to
to be said on th* subject
Semators from his stat* and also th* . . . uuue amerscan
mameok.mhe,Represegtatve of hislstandards, anays ate for unso L-
-oHEressoma- DstricL dimpiy ad, - - -
If you are a woman member of a chants who retell them got basy and
workers family you can atop become ‘
HARRY SIBLEY, president at the
anti-labor Chamber of Commerce
of the United State*, declares that re-
covery is near and the only thing nec-
eatery to make it a tact to for the
Federal Government to eliminate It-
self from those activities which regu-
late or control businees and leave
American Industrial and financial dic-
tatorship free to apply the same rep-
rehensible practices which precipitat-
ed the stock market crash of 1929 and
the business depression.
"Excessive public spending" is pre-
eminent among the government poli-
cles which Mr. Sibley insists should
be attenuated. From previous decla-
rations we know that in this connec-
tion Mr. Sibley has hi malicious sys
fixed on the $4,800,000,000 which Con-
ETess appropriated last year for va-
rious forms of relief for the millions
of jobless whom th* business cohorts
threw into the streets without the
leest consideration for their welfare.
There are now over 11,000,000 able-
bodies working men and women la the
jobless army. About 3,500,000 of them
are being temporarily provided for on
WPA works project* by what Mr
Sibley calls “exceseive public ‘spend-
lire"
rights of other nations or industrial
explottation at the poor. He comes
not with pious prating* of pretty
platitudes, but practical. passionate
pleading tor purity We can find few
men who seem to be making a higher
practical application at the principles
of Christian living Hto life should be
an encouragement to all those who
believe teat Christ came to preach the
doctrine of tor* and the abundant life
to ail A missionary from Japan to
America—The Journal of Labor.
ernment Uncle Sam should set an
example by buying American products
which are made under American
standards of living, established by the
American Federation of labor
The biU has passed the U. 8. Senate
and to now before the House of Rep-
resentatives. In behalf of the Unfon
Label Trades Department, I urge all
members of Labor Unions and thbir
friends to write to their concressman
and ask Bim to support the Walsh
Bill.
A review of the progrees made by
power, try collective bargaining
through a Labor Union and collective
buying under the Unfon Label.
amount Co
of the nece
, ---- ----- ---er to let those who produce the wealth
should become acquainted with the raise their lving etandards by tela
don* by the application of organised
labor's program which demands a fur-
ther reduction in th* length at the
work week and an increase in the real
Incom* at the workers to provids tbs
largest market ever known for the
constantly rising industrial output,
coupled with ths resumption by Indus-
try at normal buying of machinery
and equipment
The Survey contends that the con-
stunt recovery of business together
with the tremendous increase in prof-
its make th* hour* reduction and
wag* increases not only possible but
practicable, and conclude* that “es-
tabltohlng labor’s right to orgaqize
and safeguarding worker*' Income are
basic steps in our-progress toward
■
■ AF*ESBLVECASE
Th* French people claim with pride
that their country was the first in Eu-
rope to have human slavery declare
by a court to be unlawful.
Denmark waa th* first European
nation to declare by legislative act
that all human being* on Rs soll were
free That was in 1702, and the law
canned effort to place more money in
. a worker* pocketbook and that prob-
' Gm rarely concerns most of a*. Re-
' suits are what count and they can
i act be obtained by acting alone The
' Big Rusiness interesta may preach
“rugged imdividualism" for the rest
। of us, bat when it comes to action,
' they join their own organizations and
> through them they have obtained at
least so per cent at the Nations
l we*lth.
la th* clamo*of the approachlag
Presidential campaign when so much
' attention is focused on the National
Capital, on account of th* Federal
Governments act i Title* to regain
prosperity, the fact to overlooked that
prvate enterprises, including art m-
dustries, construction and consump-
tion. spent 36 per cent of the total
amount of money, expended la this
country during 1935. More atres
should be placed on these prirate en-
terprises and a method through which
the workers can obtain their equitable
' share of th* wealth produced The
’ only method as yet devised, which has
been successcul, is th* Labor tUnion.
During these trying times, many bare
been compelled to depend upon the
government, and I am making no
criticism at tee efforts of any admin-
tstration to help the idle worker*, but
for s permanent remedy we must ob-
tain greater purchasing power
through higher wages. It will require
collective action to obtain better
wages and that is why the Labor Un-
ion form* the most effective weapon.
Then to maintain the higher stand-
ards of living, we must buy Union-
made goods and Union service*.
. Not only has the American Feder*-
tion at labor been the single force in
this Nation that has fought for and
gained shoner hours and higher wages
for all working men, but it has been
the pioneer in education, social legis-
lation. workmen's compensation, and
other laws which are not confined in
their benefits to organised workers
alone. Factory inspection laws have
saved the lives of thousands at work-
ers to such an extent that in the past
fifty years together with the advance
of science, they hare doubled the
length of the average life.
No better summary of the benefits
of Labor Unions can be made than the
one expressed by th* late Samuel
Gompers, when he raid:
"The Trade Unfon Movement fosters
education and uproots ignorance;
shortens hour* and lengthens life,
raises wages and lowers usury; in-
creases independence and decreases
dependence; develops manhood and
balky tyranny: dimcourages selfish-
ness and established fraternity; in-
duces liberality and reduces preju-
dice; creates rights and abolishes
wrongs; lighten* toll and brightens
men; makes the workers' shop safer
and brighter; cheers the home and
fireside and makes the world better"
Th* National Board of Fire Under-
■writer* baa tossed a tabulation of ths
work done by cities and towns during
Fire Prevention Week, which was ob-
served last October.
The summary definitely shows that
fir* can be controlled when public
and official interest is at a sufficient
peak Between September 29th and
October 19, for exampl*, which in-
elude* th* week and tee periods imme-
diately preceding and following it, 87
eities bad a weekly fire toes of leas
than 135 A large number of cities
bad no fire loos at all. Throughout
the satire nation, th* summary ob-
eervee, "a very definite improvement
la ths intenaiveness and ettectiveness
of ths campaign was noticeable."
Merit awards have bean given to a
number of ciues for th* quality of th*
work done during the week. Among
the ten leader* were Haltford. Con-
necticut, Honolulu, Jemsey City, Loa
Angel*, and Prescott, Arizona. It wiM
be observed that these are all cities
of varying sdze, in widely separated
areas. Each made a success of the
week because, and only because, of
the Intereat and enthuslasm aroused
to its citizens.
Any city or town can bs succeestul
It it will carry on a constant, unremit-
ting fire prevention campaign. Fire
prevention Week should be followed
by Fir* Prevention Year. First-class
building oodes; an up-to-date, well-
•quipped fire department, grade A
water Md alarm tacilities, active fire
marshals and inspectors, and, finally,
public education—these are th* mate-
rials tor a firs prevention campaign
that will really get results.
Let’s all pitch in—and, during 1333,
do our part to curb th* demon that
destroys thousands of lives and hun-
dreds ot millions of dollars' worth,
of property annually.
Ths following industries establish-
ed new production records in 1334.
though some were not so fortunate in
the matter of profits: Radio*, wash-
ing machines, refjgerators, electric
power, nickel, gasolin*. shoes, avia-
tion, rayon, oil burners.
year of aa economic depression which
has novar had its sqaal la all hdstouy.
While there has been a large degree
of recovery to certaiq business lines,
add stock* are generally oa the up-
grad*, the upturn has not been re-
flected into permanent employment
for workers. It'to true that through
governmental projects and other fed-
eral activities many men and women
are temporarily empioyed, but there
are still over eleven million workers
who are waiting for steady work at a
wage which wiM keep their tamnilies
in comfort according to the American
standard of living
Regular employment means in-
creased purchasng power and only
through work at decent wagea for all
can America pull itself out at this
disastrous economic situation which
still confronts over 40 million souls
when we include th* entire family
with elevon milhou jobteea workers
who are willing to work.
What is the solution of this gigantic
problem of che man who wants a job?
Are we going to continue gambling
with fate for another seven years and
just trust to luck as ths dice-thrower
By A F at L Newe Servion
The determination of American in-
dustry to continue Erubbing increesed
profits from returning prosperity
whfle imposing longer hoars and sta-
tic real earnings om the army at em-
ployed workers ana gontinued unem-
ploymoat oa anomner army at sodtee
workers whoa* only succor in their
distress is government and private
charity, is clearly set forth in U>« an-
nual review and forecast at th*
Monthly Surrey at Buginees, published
by the American Federation at Labor.
Declaring that business is farther
along in the recovery process than at
any time since the depression began,
the Survey spotlighted the reaction-
ary labor policies by which this ad-
drems them: Honorable, fofowed by
his name. Washington. D. C
The oniy certain way in which the
sarkers of America carmeet techno-
logical progress, that is tee use at
machinery and new inventions, is to
Join a Labor Union, and when they
have joined in sufficient numbers,
they will be able, through collective
bargaining, to shorten the hours of
work and maintain the American wage
Aa Address Dellvered Over the Na-
tional Xetwonk of the Columbia
Broadcastimg System from Washing-
tea D. C,January 11th, 1934.
th*' American Federation at Labor
■bow* that at least one million new
members ■ were gained by tee labor
movement is 1935. We feel confident
teat an equal gala will be mad* la
1936. A most coneervative estimate
places the organizet workers at six
mUlloa.
Wag* gains made by ths unions run
into humdreds at miHlou of dollars.
A ninety million dollar wage boost
was mad* by one union affiliated with
the A F. at L Th* Railway labor
unions succeeded in the restoration of
a 10 per ent wage reduction, adding
170 million dollar* to their pay «n-
velopes and at th* same Um* prevent-
•d a 15 per cent cut in wage* which
would bare meant a loaa to the rail-
way worker* of 317 mdlliona of dol-
fan. Numerous other examples could
be given wherein labor unions have
either prevented wage reductiona, os
gained increeses.
Hours at labor have been reduced
by seventy-three out of 100 national
and international uejons. There are
now over two million union workers
on a forty-hour week; half a million
on a 30-hour week and over 13 thou-
■and have already mon a 30-hour
week.
Tbeea tecta are actual proof at the
benefits of labor union* to their
member*. The results giro th* unton
worker greater purchasing power and
more leisure time to spend their earn-
ing* for self-education and advance-
menu Higher wages and shorter
hours are tee only remedies which
have been advanced to cure depmee-
•ion. They bare been gained through
the economic power at organized la-
bor through collective bargaining.
They can be maintained by che Amer-
ican worker* through the collective
at the depression enemployed had
found work," leaving a total of 11,-
with man cast down but trying to took
up; sick but seeking health; poor but
wanting riches: erU but kongine to
be pure; tmprisomed bug paseionate
for freedom; toot but looking for a
According to Kagawa the cnristian
mast took upon di sun as so a cure*,
poverty as a crime, slums sa a biot,
tow wagea aa a disgrace and igmo-
rance a* a deadly mwere. This flam-
ing apostle of Mria! righteousness,
tair dealing and pure living puts many
American Christians to Mm ins We
say "the poor ye have with ye al-
wayws." bat he give aa the example
of th* Good Samarttaa. We JeMiry
tow wages a •unply indicating that,
some are incapable at earning more
He would warn as agatmet prating a
miistone about our brothers neck.
We refuse to be disturbed about pov-
erty and aseribe such to the ahimiess-
mes of human nature He would ware
us against the satisfactiom at th* rich
man Some at us would recogmize
prostitution a* a natural impulse and
seek only to regulate IL He cals it a
social evi and repugnant _ to tbs
theucht at amy Christian.
Ho is not going to be universally
wsdcomsd- We predict few great pa-
rades im his honot. He ties ap rel-
giom too closely to lids to make us
comCortadle His theory of indmstrial
practices does sot fit in with our
idess of rugged individualism. His
etmpie living is out of Hao with our
destre for luxury and ease Hie spirit
of democracy aad patriotism is too
practical, too personal; we preter to
reserve these lofty senttments for ad-
plteation to th* other fellow and for
Feurth of July orations ----
Kagawa makes ten thousand dollars
a year, we are told. Yet be Hives on
forty dollars per mouth. He gives the
rest away. He wsa bore in disgrace
but refused to live ia it. He was
beaten by thugs but turned no to hate
them He is too proud to debase him-
seit by thought, word sr deed He is
intensely loyal to his nation aad to his
face, but unwilling to let that loyalty
m-u *Foatettiee Bra ssi.
telephema, i-l»S*
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