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THE DALLAS CRAFTSMAN
Interesting Notes
Two, Tilden, Illinois, Defeat United
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Consistency
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Our constant aim is to do our full
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Workers Education ,
Progresses in Ohio
Progressive Miners
Win Coal Mine Vote
McGrady Directs
Labor Radio Work
For Chinese Help
Fish Industry
Council Formed
In California
Federal Prison Labor
Act Safeguarded
By A. F. of L.
California Unions
Plan A F. of L.
Political League
Fakirs figure prominently in foot-
ball matches in India, working their
spells to confound the opposing side.
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The first dental college was started
in Baltimore in 1839.
Better Light
TONIGHT!
* for Better Sight.
TOMORROW
The Great Wall of China has more
bricks in it than all the buildings in
Great Britain.
Government’s Former Ace Strike Con-
ciliator to Pash Aid for ivilian Vic-
tlms of Japanese Army invasion.
Dickens* father was a clerk in the
Navy pay office.
Rome's 1941 exposition
about 988 acres.
Can consistency be said to obtain where a
Union struggling to survive, other Unions solicit
donations or enter into any form of contract
which tends to discourage that struggle or to
place it in a false light?
Common sense, the will to live should
prompt every true Union member not only to
be consistent within himself but to see to it that
every other member as well as the Union to which
he belongs is also consistent. Remember it is you
and always will be you who pays and will pay1
for the mistakes, the lapses from true Unionism.
The public is your judge and it condemns or ap-
proves you in accordance with that part of the
Union movement with which it comes in contact.
No Union is a power to itself. Therefore, to
engage in any act inimical to the body as a whole
is inconsistent, destructive of Unionism. It de-
stroys the morale of other Unions, lets down the
bars to selfish individualism and places a potent
weapon in the hands of the open shopper.
It has been said, and well said, that con-
sistency is a jewel for it connotes standing to-
gether, a harmony of parts, and this is the heart
—the very life of Unionism.
Human beings breathe out enough
carbon every hour to make a 100-carat
diamond.
The motive force of the flying fish
comes solely from the tail.
During the rainy season, bamboo
will grow aa much aa a foot a day.
The first baseball league was formed
in New York in 1857.
Many deep sea fish have phosphores-
cent organs which serve to give light
around them and attract prey.
Where to File Claims
Application for a lump-sum payment
under the old-age insurance program
may be made by a close relative of a
deceased worker, if he worked after
1936 in a covered employment. Claims
should be filed with the Socid Se-
curity Board, Allen Building, Dallas,
Texas.
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Bureau of Efficiency, or their repre-
sentatives. The decision -of said
board shall be final and binding upon
—
If Unionism is to persist each of its mem-
bers must be consistent in every act; nor is the
excuse of temporary monetary gain valid when
that gain is inconsistent with Union principles.
Tilden, Ill. (AFLNS).—Progressive
Miners of America were victors over
During 1937, only one child was
born in Sweden, N. Y. The town has
a population of about 1,100.
Mine Workers In Ballot For Col-
lective Bargaining Agency.
The Ohio State Federation of Labor,
which has been carrying forward a
comprehensive program of workers’
education during the past two years
under the leadership of DeWitt Huff-
man. its Educational Director, has just
concluded two Labor Forums on So-
cial Security and Unemployment Com-
pensation at Lima and Mansfield, in
cooperation with the Central Labor
Bodies of those cities.
In Marlon, Central Labor Union and
Machinists’ Union officials recently
held the first of a series of educa-
tional and organization meetings.
In addition to the Labor Forums,
the Educational Director is conduct-
ing a Radio Educational Program, as
well as lectures in the Central Labor
Unions.
As a recent special meeting of the
Executive Board of the Columbus Fed-
eration of Labor, a proposal was con-
sidered for the establishment of a
speakers’ bureau to acquaint local in-
dustrialists and the general public
with the sound basic principles- on
which the Federation is founded.
See Your
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duced by prison labor would be to de-
press prices and in reducing prices to
meet prison labor costa outside indus-
try would be compelled to reduce the
wages of free labor.
Controlled by Federal Prison
Industries
"3. Federal Prison Industries, Inc.,
a government-owned corporation, has
charge of the manufacture and sale
to other government departments and
agencies of all goods made in the Fed-
eral prisons. Its board of directors is
composed of five persons appointed by
the President One director represents
the Government, one represents agri-
culture, one represents labor, one rep-
resents consumers and retailers and
• one represents industry. The Ameri-
can Federation of Labor believes that
this board of directors offers an im-
partial forum to which any complaints
as to undue competition or burden up-
on outside Industry may be presented.
A member cof the Executive Council
of the American Federation of Labor
is a member of this Board.
"Before presenting legislation of
Employes of Eureka Mine Number
Negotiations for Agreement With Sar-
dine Products Institute Started-
Pacific Coast Couneil Planned; C. L
0. Opposed.
Bill Whieh Would Have Abolished
State-Use System in C. S. Peniten-
tiaries Shelved by House Judiclary
Committee. ,
“We now have general chairmen in
approximately 500 cities,” said Na-
tional Chairman Woll. "We are driv-
ing ahead to bring this number up to
a minimum of 2,000. Shortly we
shall announce plans for a nation-
wide operation to bring relief to the
stricken Chinese civilian population.
Practically all of the large cities now
have their general chairman, but we
must include every town in the coun-
try, if possible.
this kind, the proponents should have
submitted their grievances to the Fed-
eral Prison Industries, Inc., which
provides:
" ’It shall be the duty of the board
of directors to diversify so far as prac-
ticable prison industrial operations
and so operate the prison shops that
no single private industry shall be
forced to bear an undue burden of
competition from the products of the
prison workshops."
"The American Federation of Labor
therefore believes that a terrible in-
jury will be done free labor if Section
7 is repealed. While the object of the
bill is in the interest of one industry
It would affect all industries in the
Federal prisons.
"For these reasons the Executive
Council directed the American Federa-
tion of Labor Legislative Committee
to oppose the bill.”
At the conclusion of the hearing
Judiciary Committee members indi-
cated that the bill would not be
pressed for consideration by the House
of Representatives— in other words, it
was shelved.
For more than 60 years this com-
pany, through the expenditure of mil-
lions of dollars in developing its trans-
portation system, and through the
constant training of its employees in
* the art of furnishing high-class pub-
lic transportation service, has aided
greatly in the building and progress
of the city it is privileged to serve.'
The first hotel elevator waa in-
stalled in the Fifth Avenue hotel. New
York City, in 1854.
Washiagior, D. C. (AFLNS i—Back
in 1930, the American Federation of
Labor sponsored the enactment of a
Federal law to provide for the diver-
sification of employment of Federal
prisoners and for thei- training in
trades and occupations. One purpose
of the measure was to limit the sale
of goods manufactured in Federal
penitentiaries to the various depart-
ments of the Fele: Government.
This we accomplished by Section 7
c- the act. wb ch reads as follows:
"The several Federal departments
and Independent establishments and
all other Government institutions of
the United States shall purchase at
not to exceed current market prices,
such products of the industries here-
in authorized to be carried on as meet
their requirements and as may be
available and are authorized by the
appropriations from which such pur-
chases are made. Any disputes as to
desired to retain their affiliation with
the Progressive Miners. Out of the
150 votes cast, 77 were registered for
the Progressive Miners and 69 for the
United Mine Workers. Three ballots
were contested and one was void.
According to "The Progressive Min-
er," the official organ of the Progress
slve Miners of America. "Eureka Mine
No? 2 closed down in March, 1937, due
to a defaulted payroll, and Local Un-
ion No. 13, P. M. of A., acting for its
members, secured a judgment against
the company for approximately $10,-
000 in overdue wages. The judgment
Is still unsettled.
Raid by United Mine Workers
"After a long period of idleness and
privation by the miners and their fam-
ilies, the U. M. W. of A. henchmen
seemed to think the time was ripe to
take advantage of the situation, and a
horde of Lewis’ flunkies appeared on
the scene loaded down with filthy
lucre.”
The United Mine Workers of .Amer-
ica organized a local union in Tilden,
consisting in part of a few miners
who had deserted the P. M. of A. Later
the company signed a contract with
the United Mine Workers Local and
attempted, without success, to operate
the mine. The long controversy was
seemingly ended when an orderly elec-
tion proved conclusively that a major-
ity of the employes of the mine fa-
vored the Progressive Miners of Am-
erica as their collective bargaining
agency.
Three Elections Won
The Eureka Mine No. 2 election was
the third one in which the Progressive
Miners of America defeated the United
Mine Workers. The first instance was
the mine of the Prairie State Coar
Company at Mark, Ill., in January,
1934. Out of the 401 ballots, 264 were
cast for the Progressive Miners of
America and 160 for the United Mine
Workers.
The next election was at Mine "B”
at Springfield. 111., December 15, 1937.
Out of 430 ballots, 404 were cast for
the Progressive Miners of America, 25
for the Uinted Mine Workers, and 2
for neither union.
The third election was the one just
held at Eureka Mine No. 2 of the Jones
Brothers Coal Company, where the
Progressive Miners of America again
rolled up a comfortable majority
against the United Mine Workers.
the price, quality, suitability or char-
acter of tne y oducts manufactured
i» any prison industry and offered to
any Governn.ent Department shall be
arbitrated hy a board consisting of
the Comptroller General of the United ... -----------
Suites the Superintendent of Sup- the United Mine Workers of America
piles of the General Supply Commit- in an election, supervised by the Na-
tee and the chief of the United States tional Labor Relations Board, of the
------ -h-----employes of the Eureka Mine No. 2.
of the Jones Bros. Coal Company here
to determine whether the coal miners
Monterey. Calif. (AFLNS). — The
California State Council of Pish Indus-
try Workers met in Monterey, elected
permanent officers, pledged its full
support to the principles and policies
of the American Federation of Labor
and vigorous opposition to the Com-
mittee for Industrial Organization.
Mra. Andrea Gomez, bustness agent
of Fish Cannery Workers Union No.
20147, Terminal Island. San Pedro,
elected temporary president at the
first meeting in San Francisco, was
named permanent president, and other
temporary officers blanketed in as
permanent ones.
The Councl appointed a committee
to consider uniform wage, hour and
working condiiton agreements in the
sardine branch of the industry and
meet with the California Sardine
Products Institute.
The Council also voted a levy of one
cent per month per member of each
affiliated union to carry on its work,
and to hold its next meeting in Santa
Barbara on Saturday, March 19. The
Council represents more than 11,000
workers in all branches of the indus-
try. Additional units are expected to
affiliate.
Representatives of fish industry
unions in Benecia, Richmond,* Pitts-
burg, San Francisco, Monterey, San
Pedro and San Diego, attended.
Plans are for ultimate formation of
a Tri-State or Pacific Coast Council
of Fish Industry Workers.
of the Executive Council have made
requests for additional credential
blanks for their districts.
President Green recently endorsed
the move for the A. F. of L. political
conference, and approved the plan of
endorsing candidates before the pri-
maries instead of afterwards.
The pre-primary endorsement plan
is one of the aims of the A. F. of L.
Political League,of California.
Applications for credential blanks
and other information may be made
by any A. F. of L. Union in California
to the League, care of the California
State Federation of Labor, 1095 Mar-
ket Street. San Franciseo, or to any
district vice president.
Pre-Primary Endorsement of Candi-,
dates Proposed by Mew Unit Ea-1
domed by President Green.
San Francisco, Calif. (AFLNS).—
With impetus added-by the endorse-
ment of William Freen, president of
the American Federation of Labor,
plans for the first conference of the
A. F. of L. Political League of Cali-
fornia at Santa Barbara on March 20th
are going forward rapidly It was an-
nounced here.
Check-up of credentials received
from A. F. of L. Unions shows repre-
sentation for a complete cross-section
of the State. Edward D. Vaudeleur,
temporary secretary of the League,
said.
Invitations have been sent to all
building trades unions and any other
A. F. of L. Unions not affiliated with
the California State Federation of La-
bor, to send two delegates.
C. J. Haggerty, Los Angeles, tem-
porary president of the League, re-
ports building trades and other groups
in Southern California are responding
heartily to the conference call. Clar-
ence E. Dowd, Fresno, district vice
president of the California State Fed-
eration of Labor, and other members
Washington, D. C. (ILNS).—Edward
F. McGrady, formerly Assistant Secre-
tary of Labor, has accepted appoint-
ment as chairman of the Radio Di-
vision of Labor’s Committee for Civil-
Ian Relief in China. Announcement
of the appointment and acceptance
was made here by Matthew Woll, na-
tional chairman of the committee, at
1003 K Street, N. W.
Mr. McGrady expects to proceed at
once to complete organization of the
radio broadcasting field as one of the
most powerful divisions of the com-
mittee. according to National Chair-
man Woll. ~
Former act trouble shooter of the
Department of Labor, Mr. McGrady,
now with RCA in New York, form-
erly served as special assistant to
Hugh Johnson in NRA and prior to
that was legislative representative of
the American Federation of Labor .
Division Organization Pushed
Labor’s Committee for Civilian Re-
lief in China, is being organized by
divisions, on a coast-to-coast basis,
with a. chairman at the head of each
division. The national committee it-
self consists of 101 national labor of-
ficials, with Woll as national chair-
man, William Green, as honorary
chairman and Gilbert E. Hyatt as sec-
retary.
In the Radio Division, under Mr.
McGrady’s chairmanship, there al-
ready are eighty radio station officials.
Vigorous steps will be taken at once to
bring into this division representatives
of all the stations in the United States.
all parties.”
Repeal of Section Seven Sought
During the special session of Con-
gress last November, Representative
Frank W. Towey. Jr., of New Jersey,
introduced a bill, H. R. 8339, to re-
peal Section 7 of the Act of 1930. Its
repeal was favored by private con-
cerns who want to break down the
regulations governing convict labor
built up by the organized labor mve-
ment after many years of struggle
for the introduction and extension of
the State-use system.
Opposed by A. F. of I*
William C. Roberts, chairman of the
* Legislative Committee of the American
Federation of Labor, emphatically op-
posed the enactment of the Towey bill
in the bearing held by the Judiciary
Committee of the House of Represen-
tatives.
“The American Federation of Labor
feels that the passage of H. R. 8339 is
unnecessary and would be inimical to
the interest of free labor,” Mr. Roberts
told the committee. "The bill not only
repeals Section 7, but the entire intent
of the tew approved May 37, 1930.
•JU a meeting of the Executive
Counell ia Miami, Florida. February
8, 938. a resolutlon was adopted di-
recting the Legislative Committee of
the American Federation of Labor to
present its views on this measure. The
opposition of the American Federation
of Labor to repealing Section 7, is
based on the following:
State-Use System Menaced
“1. For years the Federation has
been advocating the State-use system
as the best solution of the prison labor
problem. The system is in effect in
the Federal prisons. Under it, all goods
made in such prisons are sold only to
other departments or agencies of the
Federal government. The very heart
of the system is the section this bill
seeks to repeal, which requires other
Federal departments and agencies to
purchase prison-made goods, if avail-
able and suitable.
"2. Should the mandatory provision
as to purchase of prison-made goods
by other government agencies be re-
pealed, the industries in the Federal
institutions will either have to close
down or will be forced to compete
with private industry for government
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