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CHARLOTTE, N. G, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1940
WAGNER ASKS CREATION OF GROUP
TO RULE ON CASES OUTSIDE OF
THE JURISDICTION OF THE N. L R. B.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.—Sena
tor Wagner, Democrat of New York,
proposed yesterday the creation of a
three-member Federal board for vol
untary mediation of employe-employer
disputes over wages, hours, working
conditions, and other factions not
within the jurisdiction of the National
Labor Relations board.
Looked upon in some quarters as
an administration effort to meet part
of the criticism directed at New Deal
handling of labor problems, the pro
posed bill appeared assured of at
least a measure of bipartisan support.
Wanner explained in a statement
that Ms bill “does not amend or mod
ify the national labor relations act,
nor do the functions of the two
measures merge or conflict in any
way.” He said he would introduce
the legislation tomorrow.
Senator Danaher, Republican of
Connecticut, said he thought the medi
ation principle advocated by Wagner
was “thoroughly sound” and might
prove of great benefit in helping set
tle labor disputes at their source.
Senator Norris, Independent of
Nebraska, said he was favorably im
pressed by Wagner’s proposal, al
though he had not had a chance to
study it fully.
Wagner made it plain that the ma
chinery his bill would set up would
in no way involve compulsory arbi
tration. The board, established with
in the Labor department, would take
over the duties of the meagerly-staff
ed conciliation service which he said
had done "splendid work” in settling
strikes.
“Building upon the work and the
staff of the conciliation service,” he
said, “this bill places the Federal
mediation function on a firmer statu
ation service will give added prestige
to its operations and probably make
unnecessary the creation of make
shift mediation boards to handle par
ticular major strike situations as they
arise, as in the automobile, textile,
and steel industries in recent years.”
“Under the terms of the bill, as
Wagner explained it, it would be the
general duty about mediation board
to bring about agreements on rates
of pay, rules and working conditions,
including wherever possible, provision
for the final adjustment of grievances
or over interpretation of such agree
ments.
Either or both parties to a labor
dispute which threatened to interrupt
the flow of interstate commerce could
invoke the services of the board. The
board itself would be permitted to
ofefr its services if neither party had
requested such action. If mediation
failed, the board could attempt to per
suade the disputants to submit their
cases to arbitration.
“I am unalterably opposed to com
pulsory arbitration in any guise,”
Wagner said, adding that for this
reason the board would not be clothed
with subpoena powers.
SAME AS A TELEGRAM
To ALL Union Men and Women in
Virginia, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Alabama,
Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee and
Kentucky.
Greetings:
A REMINDER THAT YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED
TO ATTEND LABOR’S GREATEST MEETING WHICH
WILL BE HELD IN ATLANTA ON MARgH SECOND AND
THIRD, AT WrtiLli TIME i'HE'E'XECCTTfft OFFICERS
OF THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR AND
AFFILIATED NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL
UNIONS AND NUMEROUS OFFICIALS OF THE RAIL
ROAD ORGANIZATIONS WILL HOLD CONFERENCE
WITH SOUTHERN LABOR AND ADOPT A PROGRAM OF
ORGANIZATION AND STATE LEGISLATION THAT IS
EXPECTED TO DO MUCH FOR OUR ORGANIZED LABOR
MOVEMENT IN THE SOUTH. I AM URGING ALL OR
GANIZATIONS THAT HAVE NOT NAMED DELEGATES
TO DO SO AT ONCE AND ALL WHO HAVE BEEN
NAMED DELEGATES TO DO SO AT ONCE AND ALL
WHO HAVE BEEN NAMED SEND IN THEIR DUPLI
CATE CREDENTIALS SO OUR COMMITTEE MAY KNOW
HOW TO PLAN FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT OF ALL.
THOSE WHO WISH TO ATTEND THE BANQUET ON
SATURDAY NIGHT, MARCH SECOND, ARE URGED TO
GET THEIR TICKETS NOW FROM THEIR STATE FED
ERATION OF LABOR PRESIDENT On SECRETARY.
GOOD LUCK AND I WILL SEE YOU IN ATLANTA ON
MARCH SECOND. THIS MEANS ALL MEMBERS OF
DELEGATES OR NOT, BUT PLEASE SEE TO IT THAT
THE DELEGATES WHO HAVE BEEN NAMED SEND IN
THEIR DUPLICATE CREDENTIALS AT ONCE. GOOD
BYE, GOOD LUCK.
GEORGE L. GOQGE, Southern Representative
American Federation of Labor, Atlanta, Ga.
RELIEF IN SOUTH IS CHEAPER;
NORTH.-EASTERN AVERAGE $100;
DIXIE GETS A $50 AVERAGE
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18.—Sena
tor Bailey, Democrat, of North Car
olina, said yesterday that an analy
sis of Federal relief expenditures
from April 8, 1936, to December 31,
1939, showed that (68 per capita was
spent in the 13 southern states as
against (94 in 12 central states and
(100 in seven eastern states.
Bailey said the analysis showed that
(11,776,101,669 had been distributed
by 80 governmental agencies in vari
ous forms of relief and work relief
during the period.
The figures were obtained from gov
ernment agencies and tabulated by
Voit Gilmore, formerly head of the
Carolina Political Union of University
of North Carolina, now temporarily
attached ot Bailey’s staff.
Bailey said that during the fiscal
year of 1939, which ended last Jane
30, a $2,617,974,786 expenditure for
relief has provided an average, on the
basis of population, of $10 a person
in Maryland, Virginia, North Caro
lina, South Carolina, Georgia, Flor
ida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisian,
Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Ken
tucky.
During the same period, he said, the
average expenditure in Ohio, In
diana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin,
Minesota, Iowa, Missouri, North Da
kota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and
Kansas was $24 a person.
In Massachusetts, Connecticut,
Rhode Island, New York, New Jer
sey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware, the
average expenditure was $21 a per
son, he said. No comparisons were
made in the tabulation for the west
ern states.
UNION LABEL ACTION
Secretary-Treasurer I. M.
Ornburn of the American Fed
eration of Labor Union Label
Trades Department will speak
on radio station WAPI in
Birmingham, Alabama, o n
March 3, from 1:45 to 2:00
pm. Mr. Ornburn’s subject
will be “Union Label Action."
It is requested that all
American Federation of Labor
Unionists in the south tune in
on this address as it will be of
interest to all workers.
An Executive Of
Journalists Ask
For “Open Shop”
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.—Oliver
Holden, executive director of the
American Press society, urged upon
the House labor committee today an
amendment to the Wagner act which
would prevent closed shop agreements
in newspaper editorial offices. The
society is composed of newspaper edi
torial offices. The society is composed
of newspaper workers.
Kenneth Crawford, president of
the American Newspaper guild, a
union of newspaper employes affili
ated with the C.I.O., requested thi
President Greens’ Speech At Atlanta
Before Southern Labor Conference
To Be Broadcast To the Nation
ATLANTA, Ga^ Feb. 19.—Definite arrangements bare been nude for
a nation-wide broadcast of President Was. Green’s address before the South
ern Labor Conference that is to be held here on March 2 and S, according to
announcement made Sunday by George L. Googe, Southern Representative
of the American Federation of Labor. President Green’s Address will be de
livered Saturday evening, March 2, from 7:to to 8 o’clock. Central Standard
Time, at a banquet to be held in the Ansley Hotel Gov. & D. Rivers will
introduce President Green.
The banqent is to be given by the Atlanta Federation of Trades and the
State Federations of Labor in honor of Frank Morrison, secretary emeritus,
and George Meany, secretory-treasurer, of the American Federation of
Labor. It is expected that 700 people will attend the banquet, including
National and International Union executives, heads of railroad labor or
ganizations, officers of the State Federations of Labor in the tea Southern
States sponsoring the Conference, and many outstanding men and women
industry, business and the professions
President Green will speak on “Uuion-Managaumnt Co-operation.”
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MEMBERS OF THE CITY_
COUNCIL TO BE GUESTS OF
LOCAL NO. 4 AT BANQUET
Members of Atlantis’s City Coun
cil have accepted an invitation from
Local No. 4, American Federation
State, County and Municipal Em
ployes, to be guests of the local union
at the banquet to be given here on
March 2 in connection with the South
ern Labor Conference convening to
Atlanta on that day. Local No. 14
is made up of city employes. Mayor
Hartsfield will be guest of the At
lanta Federation of Trades at the
banquet. , . . ..
Reservations have been made at the
banquet by the Local Union for toe
entire City Council membership. The
banquet is being given for the entire
City Council membership. The ban
quet is being given by toe Atlanta
Federation of Trades and the State
Federation of Labor in the ten South
ern states, honoring former Secretary
Frank Morrison and Secretary-Treas
urer George Meany, of the American
Federation of Labor.
EDITOR KEATING TO SPEAK
AT LABOR CONFER. HERE
Hon. Edward Keating, editor of
“Labor,” a national weekly newspaper
owned and edited by the railroad
workers of America and published
in Washington, D. C., has accepted an
invitation to address the Southern
Labor Conference which convenes hem
Saturday morning, March 2. He will
be on the program Saturday after
noon, and will attend the banqvst tir
be given Saturday evening in honor ot
Frank Morrison, secretary emeritus,
and George Meany, secretary-treas
urer, of toe American Federation of
Labor.
PROGRESS OF THE AMERICAN
FEDERATION OF LABOR IN
THE SOUTH TO BE CHARTED
One of the many interesting and
instructive features being planned for
the Southern Labor Conference to be
held here on March 2 and 3 is that
of a large poster, symbolising the
progress made by the American Fed
eration of Labor in the South during
the past several years. This poster
will be placed in the convention hall,
city auditorium, of which many small
size reproductions will be made and
used for window displays. This fea
ture is being arranged by Mr. Boris
Shiskin, of the research department
of toe American Federation of Labor.
CARPENTERS LOCAL UNION
TO HONOR VISITIING
OFFICIALS AND MEMBERS
Local Union No. 225, United
Brotherhood of Carpenters and Join
ers of America, will honor visiting
Union officials, members and friends
attending the Southern Labor Con
ference at a banquet to be held on
the evening preceding the opening of
the conference. The Southern Labor
Conference starts Saturday morning,
March 2. The Carpenters Local
Union is planning its event for Fri
day evening, March 1.
TEAMSTERS TO HAVE LARGE
DELEGATION AT CONFERENCE
J. T. Odum, business agent for one
of the Atlanta Local Unions of the
Teamsters and Chauffeurs Interna
tional Union, reports that several hun
dred members of his Internationsl
Union are planning to be in Atlanta
on March 2 and 3 in attendance upon
the sessions of the Southern Labor
Conference. Reports from C. H. An
derson, Nashville, Tenn., secretary of
the “Over-the Road Area—Commit
tee” of truck drivers, announces that
a meeting of his committee will be
held in Atlanta in, conjunction with
the Southern Labor Conference.
From Charlotte, N. C., comes the
report of H. L. McCrorey, business
agent, that a large number of Team
sters in North and South Carolina
are making arrangements to attend
the conference, whue from Richmond,
Va., Birmingham, New Orleans, and
many other centers in the South sim
ilar reports are being received.
CIRCUS EMPLOYES UNION
CHARTERED IN A. F. OF L.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20. — The
American Federation of Labor issued
a charter yesterday for an interna
tional union of workers employed by
circuses, carnivals, fairs, and rodeos.
Ralph Whitehead, who heads the new
group, said a campaign would be
undertaken to organise some 80,000
workers in the outdoor entertainment
field. He said he hoped to have the
major shows unionised and under con
tract before the spring openings.
committee to hear him in opposition
to Holden’s views. He win appear
i later this week.
400,000 Rail Shop
Workers Agree On
Disputes Plan
CHICAGO, 111., Fob. IB.—New ma
chinery for handling jurisdictional
disputes, intended to eliminate stop
pages and promote peaceful indus
trial relations, went into effect to
day among unions affiliated with the
Railway Employes Department of the
American Federation of Labor. It
was estimated that the unions repre
senting 400,000 shop workers on the
railroads.
THREE SHIFTS FOR TEX. WORKERS;
WOMEN NOT TO WORK AFTER 6 P. M.;
SAYS MASS. LABOR COMMISSIONER
The tendency of competitive condi
tions to reduce employment standards
is revealed in the action of James T.
Moriarity, Labor Commissioner of
Massachusetts, in authorizing textile
mill owners in that State to operate
three shifts to whatever 'extent may
be necessary to meet competition in
other States which have resorted to
the 24-hour plan in the present uptunr
in the market for textile foods.
The action of Commissioner Mori
arty grew out at a conference with
the textile mill operators in which
general opposition to the third shift
had been broached, but it was empha
sized that mills in Massachusetts
would suffer a decrease id profits un
less they were permitted to operate on
the same all-day all-night plant that
was being applied by operators in
other textile manufractaring areas.
Committees were formed representing
both employers and workers to for
mulate a workable hours policy, ac
companied by a reported threat of the
-------------------
commisisoner, in event of disagree
ment, to revoke his suspension of the
s burdock law which forbids employ
ment of women after that hour in the
evening.
Following the recommendations of
the committees, Commissioner Mori
arty promulgated a compromise policy
under which he will not enforce a
regulation preventing mill* from op
erating three shifts where it involves
large contracts which otherwise might
be awarded to mills in other States.
The Massachusetts operators agreed
not to work the third shift except un
der those conditions.
Moriarty that the three-shift plan is
Moriarty that thet hree-shift plan is
a temporary arrangement deemed nec
essary to enable Massachusetts textile
mills to compete under national con
ditions which it is hoped will be
:hanged. He said it . was planned to
liave all New England operators sup
port a movement to put into operation
i national two-shift agreement.
Under the plan, which climaxes
thirteen years of effort, impartial
referees will decide Jurisdictional
questions that cannot be settled
through direct negotiations.
Officials of the Railway Employes’
Department said the plan was design
ed to exclude recourse to manage
ment or government fn the handling
of inter-union disputes and to keep
their settlement “inside the house of
labor.”
The unions include the machinists,
boilermakers, blacksmiths, sheet
metal workers, carmen and firemen,
oilers and shop laborers.
Seventeen million people attend the
movies daily, at a cost in admission
lees of *3,670,000.
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