The daily worker., 1934-08-13


Assistant Machine BOOkbinders-
so cents per hour-4S cents per
hour.
Job Feeders, Rotary Assistants,
Pamphlet Binders between 80
and IS cents per hour Glass /.
Bindery Workers between 81
and IS cents per hour, Glass III.
Wages SO Per Cent Lower
AS may be seen by a comparison
of these figures with the average
hourly wage shown above, wages in
Glass II are much lower, in some
cases almost 80 per cent lower, than
the wages prevailing in 1882.
Just as in the daily newspaper
code, the employers organizations
are the Code authority set up to
administer the Code In the settle
ment of labor disputes the same
general principles apply as in the
newspaper Code, with the excep-
ton that five instead of four rep
resentatives of employers and five
representatives of labor selected
by the Labor Advisory Board and
one impartial" representative ap-
pointed by President Roosevelt are
set up. Here too, strikes are out
lawed and arbitration is compul-
sorry.
Berry Approves Codes
These Codes were approved by
the representative" of labor. George
L. Berry, one of the leading Fas-
cists in the A. F. of L., President
of the International Printing Press
mems and Assistants Union, was
appointed by Roosevelt on the Ma
tional Labor Advisory Board and as
such, spoke in the name Of the
printing workers.
The workers in the industry were
not consulted by the bureaucrats in
any of the printing crafts. At first
the bureaucrats pretended that they
favored the 32-hour week, but did
nothing about it except at open
hearings at which they presented
mass of figures showing the enorm-
Gus amount of unemployment eX-
isting in the printing industry At
the insistence Of the rank and file
they asked for 1929 weekly wages,
less 10 per cent.
George L. Berry has again sold
out the workers Of the printing in
dustry. He insisted, however, that
fair trade practices be included be-
cause he declared that "cut-throat
competition (among the employers
has been largely the cause of the
trouble of our membership" This
is in line with the entire policy of
the A. F. Of L. leadership whose
conception is based on class-col-
alteration
When General johnson appointed
George L. Berry as Divisional Ad-
miniStrator of the NJ r. A.. he said:
George L. Berry has the con-
fidence of both industry and
labor +. We cannot here appoint
crusaders for any particular point
Of view. But after consultation
with leaders of every faction,
have been advised that Major
Berry's appointment will be well
coined by all groups"
Howard Uses DemagOgy
The other labor bureaucrats In
the printing industry, President
Howard and his Executive Council
of the International Typographical
Union, for instance, are now stating
that we will have to see to it that
the government is not going to in
jure us the force of organiza-
ton of skilled tradesmen is to be
in the future as it has been in the
past, their only protection We
will secure only that which we are
able to take and keep only that
which we are strong enough to hold
We must depend for protection
upon organization and our econo-
mic strength"
But while using these demagogic
phrases, he is acting just the same
as ne did before. The laws of the
International Typographical Union
give him the power to prevent
strikes; and he is still doing it to
the fullest extent.
Only a few days after the sign
ing of the Code, Mr.. Howard broke
the printers strike of Wichita,
Kansas, by threatening to replace
the workers on strike, if they did