Evening star., 1935-10-08
CERTAIN RECOVERY
is ASSURED A. FL.
BY MISS PERKINS
Labor Secretary Presents
Bright Picture and Sees
Fewer Strikes.
CONFERENCE is FACING
INDUSTRIAL UNION FIGHT
II Resolutions Presented Urge
Organizing of Company Work
ers Into One Body.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., October
9-Industrial recovery accompanied
by far fewer strikes than have at
tended returning prosperity in years
gore by was predicted today by Sec
retary Perkins of the Labor Depart
ment
Ens sctment of the Wagner labor
disputes act and the creation Of the
various Government labor boards,
Miss Perkins told the American Fed
Grafton of Labor Convention, mean
not merely that strikes will be fewer
but that the fundamental causes Of
such disorders may be intelljgantly
diagnosed and remedies quickly pro-
vided'
Sees Future Benefits.
These agencies will gather au-
thority as the years go on, and as
the spirit Of cooperation between en-
ployers and employees continues to
grow, they become increasingly
aware that it is in their interest and
the interest of the public as well, We
will find the good Offices Of these
boards being sought more and more
as a voluntary substitute for long and
costly strikes and lockouts," she said.
Miss Perkins congratulated labor for
its sober recognition" of its "obliga-
tions" in view of Federal definition of
its rights.
Labor is now imposing upon itself
those rules of discipline and self
government so necessary for the main
tenance of it's improved status in the
community" she said.
Signs of Recovery.
The Labor Department chief found
a number of signs that recovery was
speeding ahead.
The present acceleration Is Ma
tion-wide and industry-wide and is
marked by the highly significant fact
that the durs sble-goods industries are
forging to the 'front.'" she said.
These industries, as a rule, are
the first to suffer from a depression
and the last to recover. The latest
reports to the United States Depart
ment of Labor on construction activ-
ity, steel production, automobiles, ma
chinery and machine tools, in par
ticular, leaves no doubt that these
industries, which are so significant in
the entire picture of any recovery,
have actually made the turn.
Fewer Unemployed.
There are millions of men and
women out of work still. as all of US
who are here this afternoon realize,
but taking private employment as a
whole it is estimated by Department
of Labor statisticians that more than
100000 workers who we're idle in
March, 1888. at the low point of the
depression have found jobs in private
industry
In the same period weekly wage
disbursements in the manufacturing
industries rose from S75,000,000 to
more than S14o.o00,00o.
Certainly that is heartening end
speaks well for the measures instituted
by the President in an effort to bring
about healthy and substantial re-
covery."
Fight on Industrial Unions.
A bitter scrap at the convention on
the industrial union issue was assured
today with introduction of IL resolu-
tions calling on the federation to
keep craft unions out of the mass
production industries.
Typical was the resolution offered
by the International Union of Mine,
Mill and Smelter Workers, which con-
cluded:
That it shall be the policy OF the
American Federation of Labor in the
immediate future to supersede the
present form of organization by crafts
that is, to organize all workers en-
gagged and affecting one particular in
dustry, regardless of craft affiliatIon,
into one body, that the full strength
of labor may be thrown in the rapidly
(See A. F. OF L., Page p