Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-02-10
Hear VICTOR A. OANDERS TALK ON THE STATE CONSTABLA
LOCAL SPEAKERS ADDRESS
SUNDAYS MASS Meeting

a living wage--~he wants saving
wage. Three meals day and
drink Of water L. living wage Tor q
horse. said the speaker. and that IN
Just what living wage would be for
human being. Why should Il be
that n man should have only living
wage The working man has right
10 eaiay the good things Of life a.
we'll as the rich man. Was all the
pefterhoase steak make for the rich
and the ham shanks for the poor
The working man has right TO edu-
cate his children at the state insti.
tutiens of learning just the same as
has the rich man. but he VIII never
have thai right under open shop"
ssndltions.
Speaking directly TO members Of
the building trades organizations, Mr..
Garman advised against accepting
under any guise the proposed 20 per
cent reduction advocated by contrac-
tors and others. Keep the weak
kneed ones at home wnen the union
votes on this proposition" said Mr..
! Garman.
They are asking Us To take low
wages while we have the union shop.
They'll not ask us 10 take low wages
| II We have the ''open shop" they'll
force IL upon W..
John d. i.onergan. union machin-
list, advised the workers TO stand pat
on the proposition to reduce wages.
Reduction In commodities, and the
present upward trend do not warrant
any reduction OF wages 1T thls time,
he said.
". r. Courtney, postal employe Of
4 f.i.. "A. H..
what organization has done for the
mail carriers. Time was, aaid Mr..
| Courtney. In his entertaining way,
when the letter carrier was not let
ter carrier at all, but was q pack
mule. Under the Burleaon regime.
letter carriers were forced to carry
automobile tires, harness, and all the
| junk sent through the mails. and, he
said, he believed the men were then
entitled TO be classed as laborcrs, for
II certainly demanded q great doal Of
labor TO pack the loads they were sup
posed to carry. Organization Of tho
postal employees, however. had
brough about certain relief, and now
the letter carrier iE letter carrier In
reality AZ we'll as In name.
When he started carrying letters
1 twenty years ago. the salary Won 1900
| . year Now Il u 1850, po1111 3ort.
lily heeAuse the Qrx,nl
iiuahsfno1d IN
j postal et1nloyp NJ j I'M
and AZ such. neesled {hol - = z
order to living AZ human beiH
| should live.
Conditions In the postal service are
now a thousand per cent better than
they were twenty years ago, said Mr.
Courtney.
G.. u. Jenkins. the last speaker,
spoke at length upon tho suggestion
made by one Of the speakers at the
Employers Association meeting, that
tho unions should be used to educate
the members. There are two kinds
of education. said Mr.. Jenkins, but
what was meant by the speaker from
Chicago was that we should educate
the worker to accept less pay and
work longer hours.
Suppose, said Mr.. Jenkins, we try
another kind Of education, and edu-
cate the workers to the belief that
the workers could paralyze indus
TRY In short time II each would
withdraw from circulation the $60.67
that Is In circulation for him. How
would the bankers and employers AS
HuNihhoha hhe shas hthu VI Suuc1~
tlon7
Labor organizations have done
more good for the community than
any other element, said the speaker.
They have made IL possible for the
workers TO live In some degree Of
comfort. and In doing this has made
better conditions In business lines
than would have been the case under
open shop" conditions.
The Landis differential wage
award, which would make all crafts
men work for the same yearly wage,
by fixing the daily wage so that at
the end OF the year all would re-
ceive the same amount Of money, re-
gardless Of the number of days he
had worked, didn't apply TO the con-
tractors, said Mr.. Jenkins. II this
rule of Judge Landis should be put
into effect, II would be fair then TO
apply II To contractors, merchants,
doctors, lawyers. and all other trades
and professions.