The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-01
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the lower buying power Of the dollar
In the light Of these ware cuts, the
few slight concessions in the code arc
totally inadequate. This minimum
wage may result in a slight improve
ment for some workers but for most
now receiving more than the lousy
$50 month provided for in the code
it means wage cut.
In fact, the radio operators Were
given a 25 per cent. wage cut after
the November 10th hearing to bring
their wages down to the leya!
proposed by the revised code.
The workers are alarmed and see
the true wage-cutting nature Of the
N. R. A"
A War Measure
I'VE can clearly see that the
proposed Labor Board is not only an
attack on the rights Of labor but is a
preparation for regimenting marine
workers to insure the profits of the
shtpowning class during war.
The only way we'll get our rights
is to use our ability 30 unite and de-
mand recognition"
WASHINGTON, Jan. s1.-The re-
vised code proposed by the American
Shipowners' Association is still a
shipowrlers' code, strengthened in
secret conferences by strikebreaking
proposals made by Victor Olander Of
the International Seamen's Union,
and Joseph P Ryan Of the Interna-
tional LongShoremen's Association,
both of whom are members of the
Labor Advisory Board of the National
Recovery Administration, Roy Hud-
son, National Secretary Of the Marine
Workers Industrial Union, today
bluntly told several hundred COM
placement shipowners and their law
yers attending open hearings on the
revised code before N. r. A. Deputy
Administrator Weaver.
Two hundred Negro and white M.
w. I. U. delegates, representing 70 900
workers, elected last night at the
Baltimore Federal Relief Station
known peculiarly as the boneyarD
controlled by marine workers, gave
bl1C AOlAl1l1IAIC 6GDcl bAllG4lb EAulAA
forum a labor coloring seldom seen
in q washington dominated by in
dustrialists and their official and
private servants. Six bus loads-not
enough for the number Of marine
workers who wanted to come to
Washington-brought the militant
seamen, longshoremen, towme n
bargemen. ighternen and scowmen
to the Capitol. In addition, two OF
the delegation paid their own way
from Philadelphia.
Though the proposed revised code
provides a sliqht increase in wages
(from $40 to $50 a month for able
bodied seamen) and proposes nc
workaways (those who work only for
board) to the exclusion Of the crew
it still contains outright strikebreak-
ing provisions.
Shipping Labor Boards
The main ideas of the strikebreak-
ing National Marine Board, proposed
by Paul Scharenberg, Secretary OF
the I. S. o., are contained in the
pending code under the name OF
Shipping Labor Boards, to which
labor representatives will be ap-
pointed by the N. r. A. code admin
istrator. These boards, contain
among other provisions, such outright
strike breaking measures as compul-
sorry arbitration. In addition, the
Labor Board will have the authority
to study and apply the decasualiza-
ton plan, which is fundamentally q
program to drive all but company
workers from the industry.
The M w. 7. U. demands Substan-
TALLY the 1929 Shipping Board scale
Of wages, and include the following
l, $3.50 a month for able-bodied
seamen; 2, three watches, with over
time pay for all departments; 3, eight
hours for stewards; 4, SO per cent in
crease in the manning scale, so more
jobs will be provided; 5, the right tc
join any union; 6, the right to strike;
Z, Ship and Dock Committees on
ships and docks; 8, central shipping
offices, with rotary system, controlled
by elected committees Of seamen ano
Iongshorenen.
Shortly before the midday adj
journment, Administrator Weaver
casually announced that well sky
the labor provisions of the code and
come back to them later"
Hudson rose Immediately and said
81 would like to know the reason fol
skipping the labor provisions or al
least to be treasured that labor viii
be heard today. I made this point
several months ago when We had tx
wait all day and part of the night
for a hearing. Therefore, on behalf
OF the Marine Workers Industrial
Union I propose that we either take
up the labor provisions now, or that
we be given assurance that the labor
provisions be concluded today"
Tnereupon, Weaver promised tc
take up the labor provisions "imme'
diately after lunch"
Cancellation and Arbitration"
A delegate Of the marine, cooks anC
stewards division Of the TSU., de
clared: "As g result of our disastrous
experience in 1921, we have adopted
a policy of Cancellation and arbitra
ton which has won the confidence o
conservative ship owners and thu
men" This, despite the fact tina
they haven't any men and are no
recognized by the ship owners.
The delegate from the American
: Radio Telegraphers' Association de
clared that on foreign ships the sizt
Of the SIS. Manhattan and Washing
ton of the U. S. Lines, there are from
six to eight radio operators, wherea!
on U. S. ships, there are only three.
Two-day Layoffs
''The passengers ask, IS tina