The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-31
REFORMISTS Give
JOBL.ESS NO AID
AT PHILA. MEET
Plumbers Helper Makes
Only Militant Speech
Especial to The Daily Worker)

L
ference on "How to Organize the I'm
organized" opened here yesterday
afternoon at the Labor Institute,
under the joint auspices of the Labor
College of Philadelphia and the Cen
trail Labor Union. The first session
was opened by Israel Mufson, secre-
tary of the labor college, who dis
cussed briefly the proportions of the
task of organizing the millions of UNI
organized workers, and introduced
the chairman of the session. Joseph
Richie, representative of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor. Richie in
troduced Joseph White, organizer of
the United Textile Workers of Amer
lea, as the first speaker, who was
expected to deliver the keynote adj
dress of the conference.
Worries About Employers.
White, one of the favorites of the
official machine of the United Textile
Workers Union, devoted most Of his
time to lecturing workers on their
duty" to the employers. "No worker
should ever forget that he owes some
thing to the boss; good days work
for his wages" declared White. While
he offered no solution for the organi-
cation of the unorganized problem, he
did mention the fact that wage cuts
in the industry, such as are now of
frequent occurrence, sometimes aided
the organizers in their work. In dis
cussing unemployment he said that
those workers who do good work are
entitled to jobs and that those who
are just holding jobs and not con-
tributing fair days work to indus
try should get out and make room
for other who can do a good days
work.
No one arose to refute such dirty
sermonizing and point to the fact
that such policy aided the employ
ers in their efforts to select only the
most efficient slaves. White offered
no suggestions regarding the future
of the discarded workers in industry.
"Stabilizing Industry"
Louis Fowler, business agent of
Electrical Workers Union No. SO,
warned the workers that they were
spending money too fast, that the
war prosperity had made them ex-
cessively extravagant, and that they
must realize that such conditions can
not continue forever favorable to them
and that henceforth they must prac-
tice thrift and ALLURE extravagant
living. He declared that it was es-
sential for the unions to strive to
bring about sterilization in the in
dustry and boosted of the fact that
q few days ago one of the biggest
electrical contractors in Philadelphia
asserted publicly that the Electrical
Workers Union was the most effec-
tive force for sterilization in the in
dustry. Discussing the introduction
of "giant power" Fowler said that
the international president of the
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers is
a member of the federal giant power
commission and that he is contribut-
ing as best he can to the solution of
the problems arising out of the in
PRODUCTION of super-power systems
throughout the country. He also
boosted of the educational policies of
the union which devotes much time to
teaching it's members how to splice
cables for transmission of high volt
age.
Women in Industry.
women are forced to enter indus
try because mems wages are not high
enough to support their families"
said Edith Christensen, secretary of
the Philadelphia branch of the Wo-
mems Trade Union League. Womer
and girls present special problems to
the trade union organizer that are
not encountered among the men--the
attitude that many take that they are
only temporarily in industry, a false
sense of loyalty to employers for
small real or imaginary favors, pre-
scented certain difficulties. She also
emphasized the fact that in indus
tries employing Negro women work
ers the employers can easily prevent
unionization by fostering racial preju-
dice. In many of the unions that en-
ploy women in industry the gentle
workers think the Jewish women
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