The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-07

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plan further investigation and how
best to secure the cooperation of re-
search agencies to institute helpful
inquiries and investigations.
Employers Insurance.--A number
of national and international unions
authorized committee to organize
Union Labor Life Insurance com
pany to be controlled by trade unions.
Employees ownershlp.-It is posi-
BILE that an agency or agencies, con-
trolled and directed by the trade
union movement may be developed to
gather and supply to the members of
organized labor information regard
ing the value Of investment securities.
Labor Banks.-The A. F. Of L. is
now engaged in making a survey of
labor banks.
Union-Management Cooperation
A demonstration of the practicable
ity and the value of this union func-
ton occurs in the Baltimore and Ohio
(The "B. & o." Plan) developed in
union management cooperation which
has passed the experimental stage.
The development itself must be
carried on in the spirit of an educa.
tional undertaking.
Wages.-We urge upon wage earn
ers everywhere that they oppose
wage reductions.
Union Label and Organizing Cam.
paiqn.-Campaign planned.
Organization of Women Wage
Workers.-Plan being worked out.
The Strike Of Railway shopmen.-
Owes debt of gratitude to strikers on
the Pennsylvania and Long Island
railroads.
Some JurisdIetlonal Disputes
Steam Engineers Extension of
observation-disclosures of the Interna-
tional Union of Steam and Operating
Engineers for extension of jurisdic-
ton over marine engineers granted.
Teamsters-RsiIway Clerks. No
reply from Brotherhood Of Railway
Clerks as to Transfers Union carges
that it has violated the decision of
the Ell Paso convention.
Maehinists and 6Iaeksmiths VS..
Street & Electric Railway Employees.
Efforts still being made to reach set
Element.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES to set
tie disputes among themselves.
Coal River Galleries Company
Mine Workers.-All charges upheld
against the Coal River Galleries COM
pany, 70 per cent OF the stock of
which is owned by members of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engin-
ers. Miners are justified in demand
that Jacksonville scale should be paid.
A. r. Of L. Non-partisan Political
camPaign.-The executive council be-
lieves that as result of its non-par-
tisan political policy the launching of
third party movements has been
proved wasted effort and injurious to
the desire to elect candidates with
favorable records.
And so on ad nauseum, especially
in listing a host Of bills before con-
gress, which it is claimed the A. F.
of L. either carried or defeated. At
least that is the impression given.
The making Of Lincoln's birthday
a legal holiday in the District of Col
umbia is listed as "bill favorable to
labor" that failed to pass.
Other matters touched on are the
Panama Canal Zone, child labor, rail-
road labor legislation, with an
especial attack on the railroad labor
board, Injunction abuses, legal infor-
nation bureau, education, the labor
press, labor's memorial Sunday,
tabor Sunday and Labor Day.
Its international Relations.
Discussion Of international rela-
tions is confined to the Pan-American
Federation of Labor, and China.
There is no mention of either the
Amsterdam or the Red Trade Union
Internationals.
There is no mention OF the ques-
ton OF world trade union unity, re-
cognition OF the Union of Soviet Re-
publics or similar subjects that en-
gage the attention of the workers in
other countries.