Thursday, July 15, 1937
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Washington. July 14. While
the ultimate fate of the bill for
Federal regulation of hours and
wages of labor is still unsettled,
the concentration of attention in
all Government -circles upon the
labor situation, has set Senators
and Congressmen to serious study
of the facts about the American
wage-worker and his steady im
provement in economic condition.
To be sure, the wage-earners of
the whole world are better off
than they were 100 years ago.
There are many times more of
them than there were when agri
culture was the chief, almost the
only productive industry. But a
survey which has been receiving
considerable attention on Capitol
Hill shows that the organization
of industrial workers into trade
unions, and the demands of those
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unions for shorter hours and
higher pay, began 115 years ago,
in 1822.
The prevailing work day in that
year was twelve hours, and the
week was 6 full days, but in 1822
journeymen millwrights and ma
chinests of Philadelphia met at a
tavern and adopted a resolution
to the effect that ten hours was
long enough for a day's labor.
That was the start of the move
ment for the 60-hour week; and
it took about 70 years of untax?
organization and effort to bring
it about in the major industries
of America. Indeed, it was not un
til nearly 100 years after 1822 be
fore some industries abandoned
the twelve-hour day.
Forty-Hour Work Week
By 1890, however, enough busi
nesses were operating on the 60-
hour week schedule to encourage
the American Federation of La
bor to launch a demand for still
shorter hours, the 8-hour day and
the 48-hour week. It was about
thirty years after that agitation
began that the average industrial
worker's week came down to 50
hours; and another ten years be
fore any large proportion of the
wage-earners had got their hours
THE ELKIN TRIBUNE. ELKIN. NORTH CAROLINA
down to below 54 a week. Mean
time, the Federation of Labor had
announced the 40-hour week as
its objective. It looked, before
1933, like another 30-year wait.
But in 1933 the first attempt in
America to regulate hours and
wages of labor was made, in the
National Recovery Act. The codes
set up under NBA were aimed at
the 40-hour week, 8 hours a day
for five days a week, as the aver
age normal for all industries,
I While NRA was being enacted,
the Federation of Labor took a
si?p forward to more advanced
ground the 30-hour week. The
Senate did actually approve a
bill making the 30-hour week
mandatory in interstate industry.
Although NRA and its codes are
dead, the net resut of all of the
agitation and the experience gain
ed under NRA is that the average
working week in the major indus
tries is now about 40 hours. La
bor won that in about 14 years
after it was first set up as the
goal by the Federation in 1919.
There is no maximum number
of hours per week, and no fixed
minimum wage, provided in the
pending wage and hour bill now
before Congress. Determination of
those points is to be left to a Fed
eral Commission, which will set up
rules for each industry and local
ity. While the law and the rulings
under it will apply only to indus
tries engaged in interstate com
merce have been so immensely
broadened by recent Supreme
Court decisions that practically
all important manufacturing bus
inesses would come within the
regulatory scope of the law.
With the trend so definitely to
ward progressive lowering of
working hours and increasing
wages, it is hardly to be doubted
that the commission provided for
under the new law, if enacted,
will follow the trend and the 30-
hour week in industry may be
come a reality sooner than many
persons now seriously dream of it.
The prevailing sentiment on
Capitol Hill is favorable to Feder
al regulation of hours and wages,
but there is rapidly developing an
opposition to enacting any more
laws favoring wage-workers as a
class unless the new legislation is
coupled with provisions to make
Mattie Mae Powell
NOTARY PUBLIC
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Main Street
labor responsible with their em
ployers.
Provisions must be made for
averting strikes and their conse
quent disturbances of the public
peace and economic losses to
workers and business alike, as the
nation has been going through for
several months.
A. F. of L. Influence
Neither Congress nor the Ad
ministration has as yet shown an
inclination to tell organized labor
that it must behave itself or it
won't get the candy which the
pending law would give it. But the
strongest of all the Congressional
lobbies for years has been that of
the American Federation of La
bor.
It is now reported they are
willing to accept union regulation
by law, rather than to see John
Lewis and his rival C. I. O. get
away with their plan to seize
complete control of organized la
bor. How far the Federation's in
fluence in Congress may go to off
set the Administration's apparent
preference for the C. I. O. is still
an open question.
The whole Labor question, how
ever, in all of its tangled phases,
is the biggest and most vital ques
tion calling for solution by the
Federal government. '
PLEASANT HILL
Our pastor, Rev. I. W. Vestal,
preached a special sermon on
"Stewardship" Sunday night at
the church. A male quartet and
a young ladies quartet from Cool
Springs were in chargp of the
singing during the service. They
sang several numbers.
Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Day and
daughter, Miss Irene Day and son
David Day, Jr., attended a birth
day dinner at the home of Mrs.
Molly Ham of the Maple Springs
community Sunday.
Mr. Tommy Stretchlow, of
Winston-Salem, son of Mrs. Lucy
Stretchlow, is visiting in the home
of Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Day.
Mr. C. R. Darnell had a severe
attack of gallstones last Wednes
day afternoon but he is well
enough to be at work.
We are glad to state that the
sick of the community, Mrs. Zora
Couch, Mrs. Bessie Gilliam and
Mr. Colin Couch, are all improv
ing.
Little Miss R. V. Alexander,
spent part of last week at Little
Richmond visiting her grand
parents.
Master Glenn Darnell, son of
Mr. Rastus Darnell; visited in the
home of Rev. C. Simmons last
week.
Master Gilbert Norman re
turned home last Monday after
spending some time visiting his
uncle a few miles up in Wilkes
county.
» Calling Names
Teacher (pointing to a deer at
the zop): "Billy, What is that?"
Billy: "I don't know."
Teacher: "What does your
mother call your- father?"
Billy: "Don't tell me that's a
louse."
NOTICE OF SALE UNDER
EXECUTION
NORTH CAROLINA,
SURRY COUNTY.
John D. Lewis, Assignee, Elkin
National Bank
vs.
John Park and/or Ruth Park.
In the Superior Court
By virtue of an execution di
rected to the undersigned from
the Superior Court of Surry coun
ty in the above-entitled action, I
will, on Monday, 16th day of Au
gust, 1937, at 12 o'clock noon, at
the courthouse door of said coun
ty, sell to the highest bidder for
cash to satisfy said execution, all
the right, title and interest which
the said John Park and/or Ruth
Park, the defendant, has in the
following described real estate,
to-wit:
BEGINNING at an iron in East
margin of Gwyn Avenue; runs
south 21-30 degrees east 58-4 feet
to a point in same; thence north
65-30 degrees east 175 feet to a
point in old line; thence north
21-30 degrees west 58-4 feet to an
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BEGINNING.
The judgment is in the sum of
$1750.00, with interest and costs
of court.
This 13th day of July, 1937.
H.' S. BOYD, Sheriff of Surry
County, N. C.
By W. J. Snow, Deputy
8-5 / Sheriff.
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