Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-06-07
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With the recently granted increase
IN the pulp end paper industry.
Commissioner Eddy estimated that
the average wage per week for the
workers in these lines would be APP
proximately 1910. These figures are
based upon IS OF the 81 mills in the
State, which employ 1854 Of the
1883 paper workers in Maine.
The following average wages in
the various industries have been
compiled from available figures at
| the Office of Commissioner Eddy and
are based on reports which do not
cover all of the mills in the State:
Boots and shoes, s19.42 per week in
20 factories; wooden workers. ap-
proximately $27.03 in 35 firms; cot
| ton workers, approximately $23.71 In
nine mills.
He then told Of the work Of his de-
partment with regard to labor con-
| ditions, together with his work in
attending hearings of the Industrial
Accident Commission. He also
pointed out some of the principal
features Of the Workmen's Com
| pensation Law.
Others speakers during the day
| were: Charles N. Kimball of Everett
Mass, organizer for the Information
al Brotherhood of Carpenters and
Joiners Of America, who addressed
the Federation on the subject Of or
ganization for campaign Of educa-
ton in regard to the proposed As
hour law; H. p. Chesley of Boston
| representative Of the Union Label
Trades Department of Washington
D. c., who told the Federation that
I laborers are their own employers
and should buy products manufac-
| tured under union conditions; John
| McLavln OF Boston, representing the
International Brotherhood of Paint
crs, Paperhangers, and Decorators OF
America, who spoke on general con-
ditions of the labor movement.
Resolutions Adopted
Three resolutions were adopted by
the convention on Wednesday. The
| first of which expresses disapprova
of immigration of the hordes OF
Southern Europe but extending g
| welcome to the intelligent immi-
grants from Northern Europe reads
as follows:
Wherefore, as there are four
groups of citizens of the immigration
question. One is composed OF en-
ployers of cheap labor who want the
bars let down that. they. may con-
tinue to secure cheap alien help with
the reduction of wages and length
ening hours of labor that their pro-
| fits may be increased. One is COM
posed of inter-nationalists, nearly
all of whom are of alien extraction
| who wish to see the country crowded
| with Europeans whom they could Or
ganize to help secure the changes in
government and in policies which
| they advocate.
Another group consists Of citizens
who recognize the menace of unaS-
simulated aliens having no conception
of American institutions, no SYM
pathy with American ideals and no
pride in American achievements and
who oppose unlimited and restricted
immigration.
"The fourth group, and unfor-
tunately. it may be thel argest, is
, made up of those people, who through
Indifference do not take the trouble
to give this important question any
consideration and who hold them
selves aloof from taking any parti-
cipation in this matter.
Therefore. be it resolved that we,
the members of the Maine State
Branch, American Fedora ton of La
Dor, are not in sympathy with the
group who wish to admit hordes of
uneducated an unskilled laborers to
be exploited by the great employers
of labor and thus turn the lever to
increased hours of labor and to re-
6Icn waoa nv tho fart Of nvar cum
ply OF labor.
BE it further resolved. that we
wish to go on record as belonging to
the group who are actuated by true
patriotism and those that place the
good of their country hoforn nnrSonal