Aptitude Tests Successful
b Indicating Latent
Skills b Apprentices
WASHINGTON (LPA)—Use of
aptitude teats in selecting appli
cants for apprenticeship in the
skilled traders has expanded rapid*
ly in recent years, a survey con
ducted recently by the Labor De
partment’* Bureau of Employ
ment Security shows.
The survey, which covered half
the States, show that an increas
ing number of candidates for ap
prenticeship are being given apti
tude tests at public employment
offices to measure their oportuni
jties for success in specific occupa
tions.
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“The Black Hole Of Ludlow”
A great procession of bitter, grieving coal miners accompanied this and ether horse-drawn hearses
which carried the caskets of the 19 victims of the April 29. 1*14, Ludlow (Cele.) Massacre to their
Inal resting place. Fire men and a boy were shot when state troopers, many of them professional
strikebreakers and company thugs. made an unprovoked attack on the tent homes of evicted miners on
strike arainst the feudal working conditions of the Rockefeller interests. Two women and 11 children
were burned to death so suffocated when the troop rs set fire to the tents. (LPA).
Reign Or Terror At Ludlow, Colo.,
Only Helped Strengthen Miners
LUDLOW, Colo., (LPA.)—The
charred remnants of a tent colony
that had been the home of 1200
people presented a ghastly sight
in the morning sun of April 21,
1914.
In a hole under one of the tents
—“The Black Hole of Ludlow”—
were 13 bodies, two of women, 11!
of children, the youngest a three-'
month-old baby.
The fire had been no accident.
It had been set deliberately the
Bight before by the Colorado state
militia—the climax of a day of
slaughter and terror inflicted upon
striking United Mine Workers and
their families.
. The strike, against the Colorado
Fuel and Iron Company, a Rocke
feller property, had been going on
intermittently for about three
years. The tent colony had replac
ed the homes from which the
miners had been evicted.
The issues which had brought
on the strike were many and had
become increasingly unbearable.
In violation of the laws, the min
ers were denied the eight-hour day,
paid in scrip, forced to trade at
company stores, cheated in their
pay and refused safety devices in
the mines. Hundreds met death in
mine accidents, but nothing ever
was done about It because the mine
owners controlled the legal and
political machinery of the state,
as well as the militia.
wn me morning vi April <v,
1914, the militia, swollen with im
ported gnn thugs and adventurers,
was camped all around the Ludlow
tent colony. The miners had cnly a
few guns because they had been
compelled to surrender the rest of
them to the officers in charge' of
the militia.
Rumors had been circulating that
the militia intended to destroy the
Ludlow colony and dawn had
scarcely broken on April 20 when
the strikers’ families were awaken
ed by the roar of machine guns
and the ripping of canvas as bul
lets tore through the temporary
shelters.
In expectancy of the sneak at
tack, holes had been dug under the
tents and some of the women and
children hastily jumped into these.
Hundreds of others fled into the
hills or to nearby ranch houses.
The miners returned the fire
with gdns they had, staying away
from the tents to draw the gunfire
away from their families. But the
bullets continued to pour into the
encampment anyway and the wom
en and children were forced to Ik
in the holes all day without food
or water. An 11-year-old boy, Wil
liam Snyder, who tried to climb out
of his hole to get water, had his
head blown off.
One miner’s wife, Mrs. Pearl
Jolly, was shot in the arm whik
moving through the encampment
to care for the wounded. The mili
tia ignored the Mg red cross on
her white dress.
In the evening, a freight train
pulled into a siding between the
Ludlow colony and the miners and
aoa« of the women and children
tried to use it as a shield while
escaping. But a dozen armed mili
tiamen threatened to shoot the en
gineer unless he moved the train
“damn quick.”
When the militia swarmed down
to set fire to the tents, the people
still left in the encampment man
aged to flee—all except the 13 in
the MBlack Hole.”
One entire family was wiped out
in the mason ere. Mrs. Padelina
Costa and her two children died in
the fire and her husband was one
of fin miners killed in the militia
attack. Three other miners were
s)iot to death white under the guard
of militiamen who had taken them
prisoners. One of them was Louis
Tilcas, a strike leader. He was
standing defenseless when the mili
tia leader, Lt. E. K. Linderfelt,
broke a rifle butt even his head
and then walked away while mili
tiamen riddled Tikes’ body with
bullets. James Fyfer, secretary
treasurer of the union, also was
shot by his guards.
The militia added to its crimes
by stealing from the dead and loot
ing the encampment white setting
fire to the tents, but the only pun
ishment imposed for the thievery
or the killings was a slight demo
tion for Lt. Linderfelt.
Recounting these and other facts,
The U. 8. Commission on Indus
trial Relations appointed by Pres
ident Woodrow Wilson to investi
gate the massacre, concluded that
there was ample evidence to sup
port the charge that the militia
was “an instrument of suppression
maintained for the purpose of in
timidating and crushing workmen
who go oi> strike in an effort to im
prove the conditions of life for
themselves, their women and chil
dren, and to secure for tfcemeslves
■ a larger measure of freedom from
' arbitrary power."
But the miners were not to be
intimidated by the April 20 reign
of terror. Edward Keating, who
only recently retired after 88 years
as editor of Labor, weekly newspa
per of the rail brotherhoods, was
then a Colorado Congressman.
I He got a Congressional investi
gation of the Ludlow Massacre by
persuading Democratic members of
the House to override the powerful
j Rules Committee, which opposed
the probe. It was the only time the
House ever took such action. The
J widespread publicity on the battle
'helped in the strong organisation
of the southern Colorado miners
which followed.
L. L. P. E supports candidates
on the basis of their record . . .
pot their party label.
L. L. P. E. conducts a year
round educational program to ac
quaint AFL members and the
public with the political issues
and the record of public office
holders.
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CHARLOTTI, N. C.
Safety how-law Faaled
Tkrosgh Tbe Ratkeil
State CaafeRRce
More worker* and their fami
lies will enjoy Labor Day thia
year because of the President'*
Conference on Occupational Safe
ty, recently ordered by President
Eisenhower to intensify its work.
There top leaders of labor, man
agement, insurance companies.
State and Federal agencies, edu
cators and private safety organi
sations meet in conference and
committee to alert the Nation to
changing job hazards and to pro
mote the use of tested safety
techniques at the workplaces of
America.
Organized in 1M8 by President
Truman, the Conference gave a
I needed shot in the arm to a na
tional safety movement which,
despite earlier spectacular gains,
had settled doom to a stubborn
annua] toll of some 16,000 job
fatalities and 2 million work in
juries. Greater attention to safe
ty by all concerned has brought
manufacturing injury frequency
rates to the lowest on record for
the first quarter of 1963, according
to the latest report of the Buearo
of Labor Statistics. But the Bu
reau warns that the trend may be
moving to higher levels already.
When President Eisenhower
asked the Secretary of Labor,
Martin P. Durkin, to intensify
the work of the Conference he
said: “Management, labor, and
public and private agencies share
an obligation to safeguard their
fellow workers employed in the
work places of the Nation. It is
sppropriate.that the Federal Gov
ernment provide a means of bring
ing together these vast resources
to curb accidents to workers."
Immediately upon this request
flora the President the new labor
members of the Co-ordinating
Committee of the Conference
joined with others to plan the
next big annual Conference.
The new labor members are
George Meany, President of A. F.
of L. and Walter Reuther, Presi
dent of the CIO. Mr. Meany’s
alternates are Boris Shishkin, Di
rector of Social Insurance Activi
ties and James Brownlow, Presi
dent of the Metal Trades .Depart
ment. Mr. Reuther’s alternates
are Michael Quill, Transport
Workers, and Harry Read. Exe
cutive Assistant to the Secretary
Treasurer, CIO.
The main purpose of the Presi
dent’s Conference on Occupational
Safety is to pool the best safety
knowledge available in the Nation
and art it out to the workbenches
where accidents occur, to quicken
snd stimulate the States to treat
er safety activity, snd to provide
a non-partisan forum for all in
terests in the Held of accident
prevention and control.
The aim to offer aid and assist
ance to the States when requested
has borne fruit in 22 Governor's
Conferences and the full eo-opar
ation of States with safety con
ferences already in existence
Most of the Governor’s Confer
ences have held one or more an
nual mss thus and have, threat*
their technical committees, pro
dueed recommendations to redum
and control accidents. Many oi
these recomssendntiou call foi
strengthening of safety laws am
| cedes. In the last four years
[ twenty-six States and Territories
have strengthened their safety
lews. A' total of 111 safety codes
having the force and effect of law
have been issued, amended or re
vised.
The teaching of safety in ele
mentary, secondary schools and
colleges and universities is another
activity encouraged by the Con
ference with special emphasis
placed on training tomorrow’s
engineers in safe design of ma
chinery. The Research Committee
oi the Conference has prepared
a technical report on the role of
human behavior in accident pre
vention and is carrying out other
special research projects. The
Engineering Committee has rec
ommended many safety efforts of
consequence and the Coramittea
on Labor - Management adopted
and publicized a series' of prin
ciples for better safety co-opera
tion between management and la
bor. Other Conference Committees
are active in every field which
will contribute to better accident
prevention in the work places of
the Nation.
Labor’s League for Political
Education was formed by the
American Federation of Labor to
carry out the non-partisan politi
cal program of the AFL.
L. L. P. E. membership is vol
untary and open to all AFL mem
bers upon whose individual con
tributions all of the L. L. P. E.
election activities depend.
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