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The Washington times., 1933-12-14
Vocational School
Gixe Xmas Exhibit

Students of Margaret Murray,
Washington Vocational School, will
give their annual Christmas ex-
hibit tonight at 8 o'clock. Creole
music and Interpretation by Miss
Camille Nickerson, of the Howard
University School Of Music faculty,
will be one of the features of the
program.
Parents and friends of the
school are invited to attend.
The Washington times., 1933-12-14
100 CITIES JOIN
|NPLEA TOEND
U.S.PAY GUT
Signatures to Huge Petition to
Congress Are PiIing
Up Rapidly
By DUNCAN FORsYTHE

Rapid progress is being made
in making up the mass memorial
to be presented to Congress at
the opening of the coming ses-
sion, to urge elimination of the
Federal pay cut, it was learned
at headquarters of the American
Federation Of Government EN-
ployes today.
Already signatures have been
received from more than 100
cities, and it is announced that
every congressional district will
be covered in assembling the vast
petition. Thousands of sigma
lures already are at hand, and
a tremendous total is anticipated
by the time Congress gathers.
Strachan in Charge
Paul Strachan, of the national
headquarters staff, is in charge Of
the campaign, which is being car
ried out with the cooperation Of
all the local lodges of the A. F.
G. E. It is planned to make the
memorial an impressive demon
stration of the strength of Gov
ernment workers demands that
the pay cut be eliminated
through repeal at the earliest
possible date.
Whatever action may be taken
by the President with respect to
the pay cut will have no effect
as far as collecting signatures to
the petition and presenting it are
concerned. 1t is now generally
accepted that the full pay cut
cannot be eliminated by Execu'
tive order because living costs
have not advanced sufficiently
toward the 1928 base, and that
elimination Of only S to 712 per
cent instead of the full Is per
cent cut can be expected.
Fight Cost Basis
Even if the old salaries were
fully restored by executive order,
Federal employees want the princi-
pie of tying in salaries with living
costs ended for all time. That,
they consider, is as important as
ending the economy legislation at.
fecting them.
The smaller the amount of the
pay cut that is restored, they be-
lieve, the greater will be the
chances Of getting repeal legisla-
ton through Congress. A poll OF
Congress by the A. F. G. E. al
ready has revealed strong Senti.
ment among members in favor OF
eliminating the pay cut, and pre-
sentation of a great petition con-
tanning $4,000 or so names OF Fed
eral employees is expected to help
the cause considerably.
Meanwhile plans will be formu'
lated tomorrow night for the mass
meeting under the auspices of the
District Department, A. F. G. E.,
in Central High School, to urge
the end of the pay cut. Men
prominent in Washington busi-
ness, civic, fraternal, and re-
ligious organizations are copoerat'
ing in the meeting, holding that
elimination of the cut will be OF
great Importance to Washington
from every point Of view.
Members of the National Legls
lative Council of Federal Employees
Organizations, composed of groups
not affiliated with the American
Federation of Labor, will meet to
day in the Colorado building to
complete plans for battling the
IS per cent pay cut.
The Washington times., 1933-12-14
A General Strike Is Brewing

odd that the pay Of tobacco seller or theater wash
attendant in Paris should be in any way connected
with prosperity in America but there the thing is The
observers OF French policy that France wishes
again to devaluate its money to the fucua
tons of dollar and the first step is balance the
budget; and the next link in the chain balance the
knowing why balanced budget is so sacred
a little perplexed by the complexities of these ma
neuvers. And more of are convinced that we
needn't give them a thought. We may be wrong
The Washington times., 1933-12-14
A. F. 6. {. POST
ELECTS WEST

Gallinger Hospital Lodge No.
06, American Federation of Gov
ernment Employees. composed of
members of the hospital staff, has
elected officers as follows:
President, Charles C. West: vice
president, Kenneth Orr; secretary,
Rose Heinard; financial officer.
Woodward G. Eicke: sergeant at
arms. James F. Smothers. The
executive committee includes the
officers and William o. Carney,
Helen Roche. and Charles Gay.
D. M. Vance. William o.
Gainey, and Charles Bucey were
chosen for the publicity commit
tee.
The Washington times., 1933-12-14

>have been pursuing special pro.
jects for the last month under
the guidance of Miss Maud
Gunther, L. Diamond and Mrs.
Cornelia YeomanS.
Other prizes were awarded to
Mary Kennedy, Kathleen Belt and
Beverly Emmert. Faculty mem
bers said the students are show.
ing considerably ingenuity in the
studies made in prehistoric an
imals, turtles, leaves, and charts
of plant and animal life.
The Washington times., 1933-12-14
Money for
Newstips

Cash Prizes Each Week.
Phone News Tip Editor,
Washington Times, District
$3.50. Keep Your Eyes Open
for Unusual Events-Don't
Write - Phone Between
6:3O A. M. and 6 P. M.
The Washington times., 1933-12-14
BlOOnaingddLe Civic
Group Hears Reports

Reports from committees on the
CWA work in connection with the
employment of colored people and
the recent meeting the Negro
Alliance in Baltimore were the
highlights of the Bloomingdale
Civic Association meeting last
night at Tabor Presbyterian
Church.
Mrs. ]. C. Cuney, president of
the body, presided.
The Washington times., 1933-12-14
Allen Seeks Lou License Fee in District
Student Wins Prize for Sklllfu1
Mounting of Dog Skeleton

HERE IS David Seidel, of the
biology class at Roosevelt High
School, who won first prize
for his careful study and skill
full mounting of the skeleton Of
a dog. Other prize winners
were Mary Kennedy, Kathleen
Belt and Beverly Emmrrt.
Picture by Times Staff Pho
tographer.
The Washington times., 1933-12-14
True to Type
Pickford's Modesty in Laws Terms
Refreshing
Bv GILBERT SELDES

There wa for me, touch of pathetic dignity in the
wording of part of Mary Pckfords suit against Doug
las Fairbanks the passage in which is stated that the
defendant Fairbank) is motion picture actor of great
prominence throughout the world that the plaintiff is
The Washington times., 1933-12-14
Stamped Paper

If you want to write offcalooking letter in France
you buy piece of paper with seal it, you buy
at tobacco shop and the who sells to you gov
ernment official in small but important way He is i'm
portant because he of millions and because these
millions have in the past made it impossible for the gov
ernment cut their salaries The has at last and
the government has, for the moment survived Whether
France will survive not you guess for yourself To
cut the pay Of civil servant is joke over there.
Montana labor news., 1933-10-12
UNION BARRIERS
PROTEST THEIR
HOTEL CODE

WASHINGTON - (FP) - w. C,
Birthright, stalwart secretary of the
Journeymen BARRIERS init. Union, who
is one of the delegates to the A. F,
of l.. convention, is demanding that
the NRA code on barber and beauty
shops include minimum prices as well
as minimum wages and maximum
hours. The union successfully OPP
posed the attempt of the American
Hotel Assn. to apply its own code to
hotel barber shops. The union show
ed that most hotels lease out their
shops and do not control them, and
also that the hotel association is by
no means representative of the hotels
in the United States.
A feature of the union code is that
it makes no distinction between scales
in the north and in the south, per-
mits no differential as between women
and men workers and none between
white and colored. "Workers are
competitors of other workers, whether
VI JiiG SaiiIt oGA VI NOlDE VI llG up
posite and we want them all in the UNI
ion and under the same minimum
scales so that they will help one an
other and not hurt" Birthright de-
clares.
The minimum wage would be a
weekly guarantee of $25 for a Sc 1-2-
hour week. The unusually long week
is due to the fact that much of the
workers time is idle time when there
are no customers in the shop and no
duties to be performed for the boss.
Hours throughout the nation would be
8 a. m. to Z p. m. except Saturdays
to 9 p. m. and closed all day Sunday,
with a half day off each week. Work
ers r to get go per cent of all TAX
ings above S37 a week. Minimum
prices under the union code would be
25c for a shave and SOC for a hair
cut. Hearings on the code are pro-
ceeding.
Birthright reports organization of
two new colored locals in Virginia and
n of women beauty workers, though
most of the locals are mixed, includ-
ing white and colored and men and
women. The union has added to its
membership especially in the south, he
said.
Montana labor news., 1933-10-12
A. f. OF L. METAL
TRADES DEPT. is
@ A

WASHINGTON-(FP)- Contrary
to reports in the capitalist press the
Metal Trades Department of the
American Federation of Labor, meet
ing in 25th annual convention, did not
hear its officers recommend that So
called vertical unions be organized.
Therefore the convention did not turn
down such a proposal, because it was
not made. Vertical unions are unions
taking in every worker in an industry
from the procuring of the raw mater
ial to the distribution of the finished
product.
What the metal trades convention
did do was to endorse Secretary John
+. Frey's recommendation to consider
entering into joint agreements by our
affiliated international unions with an
industrial association" because under
the NRA codes sit may prove imprac-
teal and perhaps impossible to take
up the question of minimum wage
rates piecemeal, each international
union acting Individually"
All the officers were unanimously
reelected. They include Pres. James
O'Connell (machinists); Vice-Presi-
dents ]. A. Franklin (boilermakers),
Montana labor news., 1933-10-12
Social Meeting Is Held

The Local Ladies' Auxiliary of Car.
penters' Union No. 222, enjoyed theil
regular social meeting at the home OF
Mrs. J.. M. Davidson, 2128 Utah Ave.
last Thursday evening.
Cards gave diversion after which q
tempting luncheon was served.
Those attending the affair were
Mrs. Chas. McBroom, Mrs. Frank
Richard, Mrs. Thos. Bouley, Mrs. Ada
Davies, Mrs. Anton Jacobsen, Mrs
Art Clark, Mrs. Dave Walsh, Mrs.
Joe Richards, Mrs. j. M. Davidson,
Miss Rowena Gaffney, Miss Grace
Richard, Miss Dorothy McBroom,
members, and Mrs. Roscoe Miller, Mrs
Lillian Brees, Mrs. S. Johnson, Mrs.
j. Lundgren.
The next regular business meeting
is to be held October 10Th at the Car
penter's hall.
Montana labor news., 1933-10-12

? Stating that 100000 workers had
found jobs since March, Green de-
clared that f1,0O0,0 900 still remain I'M
employed. The government and in
dustry will have to act quickly if any
are to find jobs before winter, he
warned. At the same time he pledged
absolute faith and support for the
Roosevelt program, saying:
There can be no turning back. If
NRA wins it will be because the hosts
of labor stood behind the president.
We refused to listen to any strange
philosophy. The workers have re-
NAMED quiet and patient because they
are disciplined, patriotic and devoted
to American institutions. But now
they will nc longer be denied. They
accept the new deal literally-as a
new deal, something new and better
for labor"
Claiming a membership almost if
not actually up to the wartime peak
of 1000, 000-though the report of
percapita payments show as of Aug.
81, 1888, a drop Of 405, 465 from the
year before down to 2,126,79 or the
lowest since war was declared in 1917
Green pointed out that the new
members of between one and two mill
lion in number must be trained as
unionists. This, he said, is one of the
most important A. F. of l.. problems.
Another is to revoke the wage slashes
of government employees, their payless
furloughs and their outright dismissal
by the Roosevelt administration.
Above all, Green emphasized, must
be the complete un%ionization of work.
ers in every industry everywhere in
the country. If business can organ
ize to control prices and markets, then
labor must be permitted to organize
to get decent wages, hours and con-
oitions against employers who would
Cypress the workers. Other aims of
the A. F. of L., he said, would be I'M
employment insurance-though this
bitterly fought achievement of the
Cincinnati convention last year was
not mentioned in the executive coun-
Gil report. Old age pensions, dismiss
sal allowances, abolition of child labor
and of discrimination against workers
over 40 years were also included in
his program.
Labor will not be cheated, he warn
ed, and labor will fight against any
plan of initiation that will result in
wages being paid in cheap dollars
while the prices of what labor must
buy climb ever upward. While labor
will not oppose sound credit expan-
sion, it will demand an honest dollar
for honest work, he said.
In the brief afternoon session a tele-
gram of greetings was read from Com
mander Louis Johnson of the Ameri-
can Legion, now in session in Chicago.
Committees were appointed and rules
of order adopted. The convention is
to be in session through Friday of
this week and then from the following
Monday until final adjournment.
Montana labor news., 1933-10-12
BUILDINGTRADE
WILL REDOUBLE
CODE EFFORTS

WASHINGT0N-(FP)- Principal
attention of the 9th annual conven-
tion of the Building Trades Depart
ment Of the American Federation of
Labor was devoted to the MIRA code
on building construction which is still
under negotiation. The 30-hour week;
the setting of minimum wage rates
identical with those in force under the
Public Works Administration (skilled
81 to $1.20 an hour depending on the
zone; unskilled 40c to 5Oc), except
where higher union rates are already
in force; Is years as the minimum age
for construction workers; and labor
representation on the boards that will
administer the labor provisions of the
building code - these demands were
approved as a conservative platform
for labor" by Solomon Barkin, mem
Der of the NRA labor advisory board,
who addressed the department con-
vention.
All the officers retain their posi-
tlons, including Secy.-Treas. VIM. G..
O'Neill (plumbers) who was appoint
ed to fill the unexpired term of the
late VIM j. Spencer. Other officers
are Pres. M. j. McDonough (plaster-
ers); Vice-P Presidents John j. Hynes
(sheetmetal workers), L. P. Lindel
(painters), P. ]. Morrin (iron work
ers), VIM. j. McSorley (lathers), John
Possehl Operating engineers), Jos.
V. Moreschi (buildinug laborers). The
president was paid a salary of $4,000
last year and the secretary $500. The
vice-presidents are not on salary of
the department.
Montana labor news., 1933-10-12
MAN is A BUTTE
VISITOR

Homer Whitmore, Secretary of the
Cascade Trades and Labor Council at
Great Falls, was a Butte Visitor We'd
nesday and Thursday. Mr.. Whitmore
is also ar executive board member of
the international Union of Mine, Mill
and Smeltermen. In line with the du-
ties of this office, Mr.. Whitmore at
tended the meeting of the Anaconda
Mill and Smeltermen, Tuesday even
ing at Anaconda and attended the
meetings of the Engineers of Butte
and the Miners union of Butte, We'd
nesday evening. The Engineers of
Butte is a member union of the Inter
national Union of Mine, Mill and
Smeltermen. The unions here are al
ways pleased to extend the hospital
ity of the unions and the city to visit
ing trade unionists.
Montana labor news., 1933-10-12
UNIONS NOT FAIR
TO WOMEN SAYS
COW. SPEAKER
(By CARL HAESSLER.)

10y OAhL HAESSLER.J
WASHINGT0N-(FP)- Speaking
from the platform to which Pres.
VIM. Green had invited her, Pres.
Elizabeth Christman of the National
Women's Trade Union League ac-
cused the American Federation of La
Dor Of being unfair to women work.
ers, in the principal address of the
second days session of the 53rd an
nual convention in the Hotel Willard
ballroom.
Miss Christman, who is also dele
gate of the International Glove Work
ers' Union of America, made a spirit
ed plea for the treatment of women
workers as workers and not as women.
She asked for the same treatment of
women as producing units in industry
as is accorded to men and she re-
viewed the objections to such a policy
and answered them. The delegates
applauded her however, more because
she was a good woman speaker than
because they accepted her arguments.
Asked by Federated Press in what
respects trade unions were unfair to
women workers, Miss Christman said
little effort was made in the first
place to organize them. If they should
become organized, she continued, they
are not given adequate recognition in
trade union councils, from local bod
les all the way up to the executive
council of the A. F. of l.. But the
same thing is true, she agreed, Of the
government of the Amalgamated
Clothing Workers, outside the A. F.
of L.
There are 100000 women workers
who car be made members of organ
lied labor, she told the delegates.
There are $4,000 "candy kids"-the
girls in the confectionery trades who
would be enrolled by the bakery work.
ers, 284,000 in the electrical manufac-
turing and service industry, 435, 900
in textiles, 700, 200 women clerks and
huge groups in other lines. In her
own trade, glove making, more women
have Joined in the recent drive than
men.
Women are not hard to organize,
she maintained, but she did not touch
on the point sometimes made that
their wages are so low that it is diff
ficult for them to pay the union dues
customarily collected of male workers.
She explained hat married women in
industry are there not to push out
men or to have a good time but be-
cause their earnings are necessary to
support their families or other de-
pendents.
There is some likelihood that her
plea for women representatives on the
executive council may be granted if
the proposal of John L. Lewis of the
miners that the council be enlarged
by having rs vice-presidents instead
of eight goes through at this conven-
ton. The Lewis resolution was holly
debated at the Cincinnati convention
last year and met defeat through en-
listing the support of a number of big
internationals. Lewis has promised
to revive it here this year. The Cos
sip is that the first woman to go on
the executive council, should it be en-
larged by this convention, will be
Florence Curtis Hanson, secretary OF
the American Federation of Teachers,
and secretary of the convention com
mittee on education.
Montana labor news., 1933-10-12
ADJOURN SHORT
MORNING SESSION
TILL

WASHINGTON-(FP)- The 53rd
annual convention of the A. F. of L.,
after a short morning session Oct. 8,
adjourned to the following day in or
der to permit committees to get to
work and to allow officers to make
urgent appearances before NRA
boards and hearings.
In addition to Elizabeth Christman's
plea for fair treatment of women
workers, the delegates were informed
that Pres. Green had wired return
greetings to the American Legion con-
v%ention in Chicago. They also heard
%telegraphic greetings from the Porto
Rico federation of labor and from var
ious American labor bodies affiliated
with the A. F. of L.
President Green introduced the two
fraternal delegates from the British
Trades Union Congress, James Rowan
who is general secretary of the Elec-
trical Trades, and Joseph A. Hall of
the Yorkshire miners. Fred ]. White,
secretary of the Calgary Trades Coun-
Gil and president Of the Alberta Fed
GRAFTON of Labor, was presented as
the fraternal delegate Of the Canadian
Trades & Labor Congress.
Though the federation may be call
ed on to endorse a boycott on German
goods as a protest against the Hitler
terror against trade unionism in Ger
many, no representative of Geman
labor organizations has been present.
ed to the convention. On the boycott
proposal the executive council has rec
commended to the convention that "the
A. F. Of l.. join with other public
spirited organizations in u own
country in officially adopting a boy
colt against German-made goods and
German service, this boycott to con-
tinue until the German government
recognizes the right of the working
people of Germany to organize into
bonaf~de independent trade unions of
their own choosing, and until Ger
many cease its ~repressive policy of
persecution Of Jewish people,"
The Associated Press is to be Wig
orously condemned for its anti-labor
policy toward its t%elegraphers by the
American Federation of Labor, if the
resolution introduced by the Connie
cial photographers Union is approved
by the convention. The union consid-
ers United Press and init. News Serv-
ice to be fair.
Montana labor news., 1933-10-12
LABEL TRADES
DEPT. STRESSES
UNION LABEL

WASHINGTON-(FP)- The 26th
convention of the Union Label Trades
Department of the American Fedora
ton of Labor devoted much time to
the possible effect of the NRA blue
eagle label on the future of the gen.
uine trade union label. Secy. John ].
Manning pointed out that the blue
eagle spreads its sheltering wings
over fair and unfair employers and
their products alike. "Non-union en-
ployers," he said, pay lower wages and
require longer hours of toll than the
union employers, nevertheless they
secure the NRA emblem, which gives
them an equal status with union EN-
ployers in the eyes of the buying pub
lic." He called for more union label
educational work but reported that re-
suits in the past year had not been so
good as had been hoped for. Pres.
G. W. Perkins also was skeptical of
the good to be done by the blue eagle
as a label and emphasized that the
workers will get only what they fight
for, under the new deal just as I'M
der all the old ones.
All the officers were reelected, in
GLIDING Pres. Perkins (cigarmakers) ;
Vice Presidents Matthew Vol (photo-
engravers), Joseph 0bergfell Drew
ers), A. A. Myrup (bakers), Charles
P. Howard typos, and John j.. Mara
(boot and shoe workers.; Secretary
Treasurer John j. Manning (garment
workers.. Perkins was paid $500
salary last year and Manning $1,000.
The vice presidents are not ON SALARY
Montana labor news., 1933-10-12
NRA A FAILURE UNLESS WAGES RISE, HOURS FALL
PRES. GREEN'S KEYNOTE SPEECH is
HIGH-LIGHT OF CONVENTION
(By CARL HAEsSLER.)

WASH~INGTON-(FP)-The governments ambitious recovery program
will fail unless hours are reduced to not more than 80 per week, unless wages
re materially increased both for skilled and unsklled and unless wages rise
step by step with the cost of living under any initiation that may come.
These were the unqualified conditions laid down by President VIM. Green in
his keynote speech to the 53d annual convention of the American Fedora.
ton of Labor, which assembled in the Hotel Willard, Oct. !.
Green's address, which went IN the air to the nations radio audience, was
the high point of the morning session. 1t was thunderousy applauded, while
mention of names like President Roosevelt, Samuel Gompers and others drew
just routine response. First report of the credentials committee showed sos
delegates, from 92 o. the 1Os international unions, 80 state declarations, A
departments, 4 fraternal organizations and the rest from federal and local
trade unions. More will present credentials 81 that Green's prediction of a
record breaking convention will be amply fulfilled.
Montana labor news., 1933-10-12
DISCUSS GENUINE
A. F. OIL. NEWS
SERVICE

dis
satisfaction with the s~emi-official la
boz news agency, the Init. Labor News
Service, was expressed at the annual
convention of the Init. Labor Press of
America, held in Washington, Oct.
2. A proposal to have the American
Federation of Labor conduct its W
bonafide news service was holly dis
cussed and a motion carried to bring
the proposal to the floor of the A.
f. of l.. convention. The committee
was further instructed to push the
proposal before the executive council
of the A. f. of l.. in case the v
ton vas %unfavorable.
The International Press is an organ
ization of editors, owners and man
ayers of trade union papers and mag
azines. Matthew VOL, 3rd vice-pres-
ident of the A. F. of L., was elected
president Of the organization, R. E..
Wcadmansee of Springfield Cll.) sec
treasurer. Nine vice-presi-
dents were also named.
John Coefield (plumbers), j. j. Hynes
of the sheetmetal workers, w. w.
Britton (metal polishers), Roy Horn
(blacksmiths), and James Wilson (pat-
ternmakers); Secy-Treas., John P.
Frey (molders). O'Connell was paid
$671s.75 salary last year and Frey
the same. The vice-presidents are not
on salary.