The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-04-28
SENATE AGAIN
Approves Bill For Thirty
Hour Week


motion to reconsider the Black 30
hour week bill, the senate for the sec
ond time approved the measure. The
upper house killed motion to recon-
slider the bill, by SO to 81, ending
an attempt to amend the bill by an
embargo clause aimed at goods made
by foreign labor working more than
so hours week.
The fate of the Black bill is now
definitely up to the house, where
leaders have announced they will pass
it only if it has the full support of
the administration. Amendments pro-
posed by Secretary of Labor Frances
Perkins on behalf of the administra-
tion are now being drafted.
The motion to reconsider the bill
was made by Senator Trammell, of
Florida, who sought to incorporate in
the measure an amendment proposed
by Senator Hatfield, of West Virginia,
barring foreign goods unless produced
on 30-hour working week basis.
Sees Danger in Bill
Speaking for the amendment, Sen
ator Hatfield predicted that if the bill
were passed without limitation ON
imports "many millions will be added
to the 100000 now unemployed"
He contended the bill, unless amended
to include an embargo clause, would
destroy the work opportunities to the
advantage of foreign manufacturers.
Senator Vandenberg, of Michigan,
supported Senator Hatfield, saying
that he wished Senator Hatfield had
reiterated to the senate the telegram
from Matthew Woll, vice presiden of
the American Federation of Labor,
submitted April 6.
II propose to read the telegram
again to remind the senate that our
task is only half done when we create
the shorter work week." Senator Van
denberg said. "Along with the shorter
work week, if it is to be in any de-
gree blessing, must go protection
| for the earnings which are possible
by labor under the terms of that
shorter work week program"
Woll Urged Embargo Clause
"This is what Mr. Woll has to say
on the subject:
| "'The pending 30-hour work week
limitation to products of American la
Dor will prove most harmful unless
| the bill is broadened to include those
/ products of labor of foreign nations
which compete in the American mar
ket with the products of American
labor
at seems to me that is an axiom.
".We fear that limiting pending
bill to products of American labor
will result in work being done in Ca
madam and foreign branch fortories
of American concerns as well as prod
ucts of foreign concerns
"One can put his finger right on
| that hazard, and it cannot be escaped.
| One of the baneful things that has
happened in the past decade is ex-
patriation of American capital and
| it's establishment of branch plants
and mass production in Canada and
other foreign nations. Is it not per-
fectly patent that if we put restric-
tions upon hours of labor within the
| United States without at the same
time protecting our markets against
imports not similarly limited we put a
new premium upon the expatriation
of American capital into branch fac
tories ?"
Senator Black, of Alabama, author
of the bill said that it would be
dragged down by the weight of the
Hatfield amendment. The vote
against reconsideration followed. The
bill was originally passed April 6 by
vote of So to 80.