Denver labor bulletin., 1918-09-14
FARMERS LINE UP
WITH UNION LABOR
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war industries under representative
democratic industrial control Steps
are now being taken to bring millions
of additional women into the indus
tries, to release the men for military
duty. These women have no training
in trade unionism. They would be
HELPLESS to defend their industrial
rights against the individual employer
who chose to impose upon them, if
they did not come into a self-govern-
ing organization of the entire plant
force, and if they did not learn at the
outset, from government spokesmen,
that it was their duty to maintain the
industrial decencies-equal pay for
similar work, eight-hour day, the
health and comfort minimum wage,
and safeguards to health in the shop.
Hundreds of thousands of these
women will be voting in the industrial
elections in the munitions plants be-
fore they are gathered into the Amer
ican Federation of Labor.
Manly to Assist Walsh.
Basil NJ Manly has joined the staff
of the national war labor board, and
is assisting in the work of Joint Chair
man Walsh. Manly was chief of in
vestigations under the commission on
industrial relations, of which Walsh
was chairman, and prepared large
part of the famous report made by
that body. He later Joined the staff
of the federal trade commission as
a special examiner in its investiga-
tion of the meat packers, and is un-
derstood to have had great deal to
do with the preparation of its report.
He now returns to the field of indus
trial relations, in which there is no
man in the country more capable as
an investigator.
Director General of Railroads Nc
Adoo has announced wage increase
for nearly half of the 100000 men
in the railroad service, upon recon-
mendation of the board of railway
wages and working conditions. Clerks,
station employees, common laborers in
the shops, roundhouse stations, store
houses and warehouses, stationary
flremen, boiler washers. power trans
fer and turntable operators are COW
cred by supplement z to general order
21 Supplement s covers maintenance
of way employees, including workers
on tracks, bridges and buildings The
increase in pay averages about $25 a
month, but the minimum wage if less
than that set in any award of the
national war labor board for other in
dbHbIAtSs mt tlEHi-nouT uaN is eS-
tablished, but overtime up to ten
hours is paid pro rata, with time and
a half for overtime beyond ten hours
VIII Climb Gradually.
The minimum rates paid for work
in the railroad service are less than
those paid in munition plants because
railroad jobs are permanent. and be-
cause men are willing to take less
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families or going away from home
Gradually the railroad workers antic-
ipate, they will be able to get the
same rate of pay as men in the man
ufacturing plants. They scarcely ex-
pect it while the war lasts.
While Representative Edward Keat-
ing of Colorado is fighting for his po-
litical life, in his home district.
against combination of reactionar-
les, his bill establishing a minimum
wage board for women and minors
in the District of Columbia is to be
taken up and probably passed by the
Senate. The Senate has substituted
the bill as it passed the House for
the original bill offered in the Senate
by Senator Trammell of Florida The
Legislative committee of the American
Federation of Labor is supporting the
measure, which is chiefly promoted by
the Consumers League and the Wom-
ems Trade Union League.
GOmpcrs and Henderson.
Not only has the British Trade
Union Congress, to which Samuel
Gompers and President Bowen of the
Bricklayers international Union were
fraternal delegates, defeated by a
large majority the resolution of J.
Havelock Wilson calling for a five
years boycott against Germany after
the war, but it has voted five to one
against any change in the British pol
icy of free trade with all the world.
According to reports reaching Wash
lngton from the sessions at Derby,
the British labor movement is unan-
imous in denouncing the barbarities
practiced by the Germans in their sub
marine campaigns, but it refuses to
believe that boycott after the over
throw of the imperial system in Ger
many can do anything but harm TO
democracy in Europe.
By big majority, again, the con-