The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-23
NO PAY CUTS WAS.
WEINSTOCK CALL.
That's Why Green
Demands Expulsion

The suspension of nine delegates to
the Painters District Council No. 9,
on charges of having "slandered Off
cials of the Brotherhood of Painters,
Paperhangers and Decorators, and
President William Green of the
American Federation of Labor, "
among the nine being Louis Vein
stock, national secretary of the Rank
and File Committee for Unemploy-
ment Insurance and Relief, which &C.
CURED last Thursday, makes of eX-
ceeding importance the testimony de-
livered before the Senate committee
on the Black 30-hour week bill, en-
dorsed without reservation by Green
and the Executive Council of the A
F. Of L., but which is merely the legal
expression of the Standard Oil Com
pany's share the work" plan.
We publish herewith stenographic
extracts from the statement Of Louis
Weinstock to the Senate sub-com-
mittee, made in the name of the
Rank and File A. F. of L. Committee
whose program has been endorsed by
more than 1000 local unions affli-
ated to various national and inter
national organizations of the A. F.
of L.:
Excerpt from Louis Weinst0ck's Tcs-
timony Before the Senate Judi
eisry Committee on the Black
Bill-3O-Hour Week, on
January 10.
The hearings are held before the
Judiciary Committee Of the Senate
on Senator Blacks bill to make the
5-day week and the 6-hour day man
datory upon industry by means Of
federal statute.
According to a statement by the
American Federation of Labor, this
bill will have the unqualified endorse
ment of organized labor" William
Green, president of the A. F. of L.,
testified before the Senate judiciary
Committee on January 5, 1888, and
gave his unqualified endorsement to
Senator Blacks bill. He went so far
as to threaten a general strike if the
30-hour week is not accepted by in
dustry. He had no criticism whatso-
ever Of the bill itself.
Rank and File Opposed.
The rank and file of the A. F. of L..
is in absolute disagreement with Mr..
Green. Up to the present time, Mr..
Green and the Executive Council of
the A. F. Of L. supported every action
of the bankers and owners of indus
try in their schemes to put the bur-
Den of the crisis upon the shoulders
of the workers.
No Wage Cuts--A Minimum Wage.
The A. F. of L. Trade Union Com
mittee for Unemployment Insurance
and Relief which is carrying on a
fight for Compulsory Federal Unem-
ployment Insurance to be paid by the
government and the employers, and
has the full support Of 100000 mem
bers of the A. F. of L. and Railroad
Brotherhoods, will support any move
ment by organized labor or any bill
before the Senate or Congress for
the shortening Of working hours as
long as the bill provides that with
the enactment Of the bill no wage
cuts in any form shall be imposed
upon the workers, and furthermore,
in the very same bill to include the
establishment Of a minimum wage
scale.
Just Another Share Poverty Plan
Without these important points,
namely, no reduction in pay and the
establishment of a minimum wage
scale, the bill is nothing more than
the legalization of the Hoover Stag
ger Plan and the w. c. Teagle share
the-work" plan Commonly known as
the hare-the-poverty" plan) which
has the endorsement of william
Green and probably some of the
other leaders of the Executive Coun-
Gil, but not of the membership of
the American Federation of Labor.
Green Endorsed Stagger Plan
1t is no accident that william
Green gives his unqualified endorse
ment to the bill 1t is consistent with
his previous policies. In the Sept. 8,
1882, issue of the ALL. Weekly News
Service, the official organ of the A. F..
of L. the following statement by Will
liam Green was printed: "Green En-
dorses the Action of Hoover's Business
Conference to Cut Hours. The A. f.
of L. President says the work sharing
principle to provide jobs accepted by
the conference was adopted by or
ganized labor MANY months ago. In
my judgment the unemployment sit
uation was considered in a definite
and practical way by those in at
tendance at the conference of bust
ness, industrial and banking repre-
sentatives called by the President. An
equitable distribution Of the amount
Of work available, so long advocated
by Labor was approved by the corr
ference as a partial remedy for I'M
employment"
Mr.. w. c. Teagle, who has the full
support of william Green for his
share the work" plan, had an article
in the A. F. of L. Weekly News Ser
vice on Sept. "a, 1892. In the article
he tries to convince organized labor
that if the share -the-work' plan is
adopted the employed workers would
have q drastic cut in earnings i'm
posed upon them, while the employers
would contribute nothing.