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KK1DAY, AUGUST 22, 1924 Atlantic City, N. J., Aug. 21.— campaign* designed to bring into n approximately 39,000 com mittees of from three to five men each in line for promotion of the . purchase of union-made goods bearing the union label was ap proved by the Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor as one of the last acts be fore final adjournment. The campaign will be under the guidance of the Label Trades De partment of the American Feder ation of Labor, with John J. Man ning, secretary of that depart ' ^ naefitj in active charge. " The officers of the American Federation of Labor were directed • by the Executive Council to re quest a$ international unions to secure the co-operation of their local organisations and to put be hind the campaign the full I strength of the organization. - - AH in Readiness for Drive . Mr. Manning, who presentej>the plans for the campaign to the council here, said that an immense quantity of literature, including posters and graphic charts, was in readiness for distribution through out the country. The placing Of r this literature, as well as the plac ing of advertising, will be iiufhe hands of the aviated internatioh al unions and tkeir local ‘~ zations. Wmt In a formal-communication to the affiliated unions, announcing its indorsement of the' project the executive council says: “At the meetings of the Execu tive Council pf the American Fed eintion of Xal^pr, h<dd at^ Atlantic , City^it u^s decided to ^perate with the officials of the Union J,abel Trades I>eparfcmej$, Amer ican Federation of Labor, in the nation-wide campaign for the Union Label, Shop Card and . Working Button,. which will be inaugurated August 25th and con tinue* for one month. Full Co-operation 'Urged. “With this end in view the offi cials of all affiliated International and National Unions are urged to give publicity to this campaign through their official publications and in such other manner as may seem best to them. “All State Federations of Labor and City Central Bodies are re quested to notify affiliated unions of the great need of active par ticipation in this campaign by ap pointment of Committees to con duct local campaigns and to advise the Secretary of the Union Label Trades Department of the action taken by them on this request. The IJnion Label Trades Depart-, ment will furnish free of cost such literature as will be needed * for this wnrtf ** Speakers' Force Available. It>was, announced further that the Label Trade Department in tends to have an organized force of speakersavailable jfor mass meetings intended to organize the purchasing power of unioiis > _v|n-: each community. : : • “The proposed drive which we: have endorsed will be the ■ biggest movement of its kind in on* his tory,” said MJatthew Woll, speak ing fo^JPtesident Gompers. “It will be a tremendous effort to bring together for support of union label products the full pur chasing power of the 4,000,000 members of the American Federa tion of Labor, their friends and sympathizers and we look for far reaching results.” THE PROBLEM OF HIGH LIVING COST The mounting cost of living^ coupled with increased burden of taxation and the decreased pur. chasing power of the dollar pre sents a problem that not only keeps the trades unionist guess* ing as to how to make both ends meet, bi\t also prompts his wife or mother to earnestly pray for the. adoption of a rubber coinage 1%at can be stretched to meet the de mands of actual needs. < • The cost of living now is about 6b per cent higher than when the war started in 1914. This is the latest estimate by National In dustrial Conference Board, t ar rives at its figure by striking an average for tie whole country. In * some communities, cost of liv ing is higher. Other places; it's lower. Also keep in mind that the €5 per cent figure is for a wage earn er with five in family: In simpler terms, it now costs $1.65 to buy what cost $1 before the war. Also, a man must make $1.65 now to have an Ineome (Continued on Page 13.) of Important Events of Coil of living still ffi-7 per cent above that of 1914, National In dustrial Conference Board reports. JCu Xlu* Klan planned to cover entire nation by spy system al ready organized in Indiana and Ohio* says New York .World. Germany celebrates fifth anni versary of Weimar Constitution. v Representative F. H. LaGuar dia, of New York,, leaves Repub Hcix party and announces support of La Follette. _~. Factory employment in New York continues down warn!" trend, says State Department of Labor. Label Trades Department of American Federation of Labor be2 gins month’s union label campaign August 25. « Great Britain and Soviet Russia reach agreement. i Samuel Gompers declines invir .tation to Davis notification cere monies and gives out correspond* ence with Democratic nominee. . Allan L. Benson, Socialist pres* idential candidate in 1916, backs La Follette. ' 1 British scientists believe recent chemical discoveries will ri4 Africa of disease; Tornado in Colorado kills nine per^on&" Communists held anti-governr the Week, Here and 4*4*4 on Page 8.) LOW WAGES CAUSE OF CRIME I N THE The veto by President Coolidge of the postal salary bill presages a recurrence of conditions of a few years ago when because of in adequate salaries so many regular employes left the postal service. In an effort to get men into the service examinations were simpli fied and standards lowered. This meant a great lowering of effi ciency and burdening of t% loyal employes who stayed in the serv ice with extra work overtime. Despite, that it was impossible to get a sufficient1 nUmberof civil service employes and the employ-; ment of temporary men was re sorted to in order to keep the mails moving. Temporary em ployes were put to work without examinations/ and in most in stances, without proper character references. The riff-raff of hu manity, especially in the larger cities and industrial centers, were suddenly thrown upon the postal service. V 1 In Chicago there were over 2,000 of these temporary employes .(Continued on Page 13.) POSTAL ^ fi *1 A\ + T* IllJilji ?fk. (wslI1'■•*-.. i 11' I ill ’ 1 II I Uuilil ■1^1 m Yl WEVJ^BimHED OUR BRIDGES A.F.of Lu Secretary Head* Com mittee with janvoi O’Connell aj»d_ Martin FV Ryan to Convey Official Notification of Execil tive Council Action in Support ing Independent Ticket. Washington, % C„ Aug. 21.— Conveying the word of President Gompers that so far as the 1924 platforms and candidates of * the Republican and Democratic candi dates are concerned, “we have burned our bridges,” an American Federation of Labor official com mittee visited Senator La Fol l^ttei and notified him of the en dorsement voted by the Executive Council in-Atlantic City. lne committee, wnreh represent ed the executive committee of the A. F. of L. National Non-Partisan Political Campaign Committee, was composed of Frank Morrison, secretary of the A. F. of L.; James O'Connell, president of the ]\yjetal Trades Department of the A. F. of L., and Martin F. Ryan, president of the Railway Carmen of America. - - v. The committee was instructed, also to call upon Senator Wheeler, but Senator Wheeler is not now in Washington. Secretary Morri son acted as spokesman for the notification committee, t "W© are -instructed by the exec utive committee* of the Non-Par tisan ‘Political Campaign Commit tee of the American Federation of Labor,” said :3®r. bring ^you this personal and ofly cial notification of oujr action as detailed in the report adopted by the A. F. of L. Executive OouneU in Atlantic City. We present to yoti for-yourself and for Senator' Wheeler that document. “We are instructed also to say to you for President Gompers that we are for you and for Senator Wheeler, that we are for you with out restriction and that so far as the 1924 presidential tickets andt platforms of the two old parties are cpncerned, we have burned our bridges. The -light is on. “We have followed; on* custom of examining the, platforms of the political parties and of analyzing the records of those who aspire to office.. We have done this, in no partisan sense and with no de sire in advance to find anything but the actual facts. “Our examination of the plat forms-has shown us beyond ques Democratic platforms are unac ceptable—a word, by the way, tion that both the Republican and that seems not to be clearly un derstood in some quarters.^ We hope to make it better understood as time passes. "Wnat applies to piatiorms ap plies to candidates. We find in either case no hope for the wage earners of the country. We find the candidates of both* parties wholly unacceptable. “As our report makes clear, we havp found that the platform upon which you are a candidate for the presidency and upon which Sena tor Wheeler is a candidate for the vice-presidency, is more accept able to labor, more nearly meets labor's aspirations and more near ly meets the needs of the great masses of the people of our coun try, $nd -in particular those for Whom wrespeak, than, does any Other platform ^now? before the people. We considered1 aJsp r your Jphg record of faithful service—a record, of service JhMhe cause freedom* and humanity .that stands out a® a; beaCon of hope andas surance. In view, of these~ facts it 'is o«r purpose, to' exert every honorable effort to bring about the election of yourself as Presi dent and Senator Wheeler as Vice President. “We are glad to be able to bring your assurance that already our State, city and local organiza ions are active throughout the ♦ country, not onIp|[n behalf of the national tickets, hit in behalf of candidates for thev House and Sen*? ate who will stand faithfujly by the people and- who will work in the national- Congress for those principles.upon which human free dom, progress and democracy must ever rest. “The hour has come, we feel, for a restoration of government to its sole rightful purpose—the serv ice of the masses of the people. We have come to bring you this word of hope and assurance, to gether with an official copy of the declaration adopted by our execu tive council and w© are confident that thus committed we offer to the great citizenship of our coun try a leadership which will be inspiring and encouraging to all who serve usefully throughout our great Republic.” tirryn r\ /-v n H 1 W lOL^WlVl “My advice to ^odmgmen is this: If ^cw want power in this country; if you - want to make yourselves felt; if you do not want yourcbUdren to wait losg * years hefore they have theVhread on the table they ought to have; the joppor v ^unities m .life they, ought to luTc; if you don't waut to wait ; yourselves, Write'vjffjur .Jtjpujimr so that every political trimmer jean read it, ‘We NeVer Forget r If you launch the arrow of sar casm at labor, we never forget; if there is a. division in Con gress, andyou throw your vote in ,-the wrong scale,' ,we never forget. You may go down on, your knees and eay, Tern sorry I did the act,* and ejeW»tt say, ‘It will aVai) you in Heaven, but on this side of - the grave, never!* **--Wendell Phillips. * Atlantic City* N. J., Aug. 21.—* Congratulations from American to the. Mexican people upon the result of the recent Mexican ejec tion and a solemn pledge by Gen. Plutarco Elias Calles, president elect of Mexico, that he would be true to the cause of the workers, featured a luncheon given here to General Calles by the executive council of the American Federa tion of Labor. In responding to a few words of welcome and congratulation hy President Gompers of the A. F. of L., General Calles said: “I have been elected president of Mexico through the expressed will of the working classes of my country, because ever since I be gan my political campaign I said clearly 'and without any equivo cation speaking of n$y country, that I would look for help only in the working classes and that I de sired that in the political cam paign the reactionary elements remain my enemies and be the ones to fight against my candidacy. And I said this is necessary be cause, I; wanted it known from the very beginning where I stood and that the two candidates remain from the very beginning very defi nite. On the one side the vindi cating program of the working classe^ and qii the other hand the retarding program of the reaction aries. , The fight began. ujri me nrorxen. “I have won through the will of ^he workers and my gdverhmeift - is due to them! and will he helped hy; thodt aiMfeng as*tif|frMfr my obligations. Because the working* * <dasr of. Mexico *s waiting actually .and' looking upon udkit the gov ernors are doing, and give their, help to those authorities th^t know* how to guard the in terests^ the Mexican workers. '‘tm e?n have the absolute as si|Vance that I will, never be a ‘traitor and, my government with the ,pew tendencies will be eminently ' constructive. Ati my. ' actions will be directed towards*, the betterment of the oppressed. 1 have the assurance and the most firm conviction that these ideals that exist are carved in the hearts of not only the officers but also Of all the members of the American Federation of Labor. “It is for me very highly satis factory to make known to you on this occasion that the Working classes of Mexico and its leaders are in contact with the workers of the United States, and it is so to the point that the president of the American Federation of Labor has a very distinct place in the hearts of the workers of Mex ico, and it could not be anything else as long as Mr. Gompers has dedicated his energies and his life in favor of the oppressed not only of his country but also the op pressed classes of the whole world. ^ This visit is for me to embrace fraternally Mr. Gompers, and to salute his honorable collaborators; it is a very happy visit audit fills me with satisfaction and' 1 shall carry within my soul great ideals because I understand that^tfSth the workers of Mexico and the work ers of the United States united, it win be very hard for the capitalist forpes of this country or of any country, to exploit and oppress my ueoole.” — - In ending his. adress, General Calles expressed the wish, on be half of himself and the Mexican people, that "the life of Gompers continue right on for the good of humanity,” and invited Mr. Gom pers and the members of the executive council to attend the in auguration ceremonies , in Mexico City next December i. 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