The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-11

Workers Industrial Union is meet
ing with increased response.
DR.. Alice Hamilton, the only woman
on the faculty of Harvard Medical
School, in an exclusive interview
with a representative of the New
England Labor Research Association
on Jan. 5, expressed amazement and
indignation that the liberal" Gov
ernor Ely should reiterate, in his in
augural address, proposals that he
first made Nov. II before the New
England Conference.
These would suspend the 48-hou
law for women workers and the laws
against night work for women and
minors now limited to 6 o'clock clos
ing in the textile mills and 10 o'clock
in other industries.
Not Thinking of General Good.
81 should call all these proposals
short -sighted measures and poorly
thought out, she said. "They would
do more harm than good, if the
Governor, Kendall and the other en-
ployers backing him are thinking of
the general good, which they prob
ably aren't.
Too Great A Burden on Women.
"a woman doing factory work, and
home work both, has far too great
burden and shouldn't be allowed
to carry it. That women should not
be permitted to work at night is the
concensus of opinion Of experts in
all the greatest countries and has
been accepted by governments OF
those countries as fact.
Payments to Murder Judge.
DR.. Alice Hamilton is the first OF
Boston's social workers to denounce
publicly the inaugural address OF
Governor Joseph B. Ely today, in
which he asked the Legislature to
invest him with arbitrary power to
suspend the operation of Massachu-
sets labor laws.
He also recommended the suspen-
sion of the old age assistance law
enacted in 1880 and declared that in
| his second term he would veto all
special legislation requiring payments
to individuals, except In the case OF
Judge Webster Thayer, murderer Of
Sacco and Vanzetti, who is to be re-
imbursed by the state for the loss OF
his home in an explosion last De-
tober, when attempt was made tc
frame the Communists with respon-
sibility for the incident.
Drag Workers Backward.
1T consider Governor Ely's propose
a great mistake and disagree abso.
luteIy with his plan Of permitting
backward southern states who have
not come up to more civilized stan
dards to drag us back to theirs"
The Supreme Court.
at is obvious that industry can
clean itself UP.
Before we can have that we shall
have to have a few deaths in the
Supreme Court. There are four II
the Supreme Court who will have tx
die off. These are Sutherland, Val
Deventer, McReynolds and Pierce
Butler.
| Raps A. r. of L.
Meanwhile labor finds it hard tx
do anything, under the Leadership
of the American Federation of La.
Dor. The trade unions have grown
increasingly wcak since the war
There is much more feudalism II
this country thany anywhere IL
Europe. Here the trade unions hav'
far less to say about wages and con
ditions than in Europe. This is du'
to the mistaken policy Of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor in orga
nizing on craft basis.
Leave Out UnskiIled Workers.
ssThe urskilled workers are LEFT
out altogether and such new indus
tries as the automobile industry, il
which there are no crafts, are abso
1utely unorganized by the A. F. OF L