Denver labor bulletin., 1918-10-19
IN o ND AY STACKER" is
GIVEN ATTENTION.
Judge Clark's Decision Accepted
AS Vital Blow to Absolute
Control of Industry by
Employers: Democracy
Is Rushing Along.
By LAURENCE TODD
Especial Representative The Denver Labor
Bul1etin.)

Bulletfn-D
WASHINGTON, Oct. 12.-Better
and more sensible industrial law is
being made each week by the ma
tional war labor board. The award
announced on Thursday, in the case of
the International Brotherhood of
Foundry Employees, Local No. Is,
against the American Locomotive
Company at Schenectady, n. Y, deals
with the Monday Stacker" the right
of the steady worker to a steady job
thru the week, and the question of
excessive overtime Like the award
in the case of the Wheeling Mold &
Foundry Company, handed down by
Justice Clark as umpire, this empow-
ers joint committee of bosses and
employees to decide the point as to
when overtime shall be worked.
This Schenectady case is important
gress and in the reactionary press has
been denouncing organized labor.
thruout the period of the war, for the
fact that some of the men in war in
dustries would work Sundays at dou-
BILE rates, and then would lay off on
Mondays. 1t was claimed in defense
of these Monday slackers" at differ
ent times that the bosses had often
failed to provide them with full
weeks work.
War Boards Decision
Here is the substance of the de-
cision:
Il. The regular working time of
each full week shall consist of forty
eight hours, divided into six daily pc
riods of eight hours All time worked
in excess of eight hours within any
one day or forty-eight hours within
any one full week, shall be considered
overtime and shall be paid for at the
rate of time and half, but any time
worked on Sundays or holidays shall
be considered extra time and shall be
paid for at the rate of double time.
by mutual agreement between the
management and the workers the daily
working schedule may be so length
ened as to permit of half-holiday
on one day of each week.
at is further provided that no
worker shall be entitled to payment for
overtime or extra time unless he shall
work forty-eight hours in said full
week (or forty hours when a holiday
intervenes), except in the case of i'll
ness, accident, misfortune, or other
just and necessary cause.
No Excessive Overtime.
''The employer shall grant TO each
worker who shall be employed on the
first day of any week the opportunity
to work at least forty-four hours in
such week, or thirty-siN hours where
holiday interyenes, exclusive of over
time or extra time, and in default of
providing such employment shall pay
the worker full wages for such hours,
exclusive of overtime and extra time.
Excessive overtime shall not be
eNacted or permitted. And. in order
that the same may be kept within
reasonable limits, it is hereby decreed
that where in any one day more than
two hours overtime in excess of eight
hours is required, then, for that day,
overtime shall be paid without regard
to whether or not the worker shall,
during that week, have worked the
weekly schedule provided for.
-. For the purpose of securing
the equitable application of paragraph
l, and adjusting all differences which
may arise between the management
and the workers in regard to its op-
GRAFTON. permanent committee of
four persons is hereby created, two of
whom shall be designated by the man.
agement and two by the workers, the
decisions of any three of whom shall
be binding"
Appeals Provided For.
Appeal from decisions of this local
board to the war labor board is pro-
vided for, and the award itself may
be reviewed, on appeal by either side,
at intervals of six months.
The same terms were given in
awards on the same day involving the
Mason Machinery Company of Taun-
ton, Mass, and the United Engineer
ing Company of Youngstown, Ohio.
On Monday there was handed down
the ruling Of Umpire Clark upon the
petition of the Wheeling Mold &
Foundry Company for a rehearing Of
its case. That award, made by Justice
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