Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-09
NALKOUT BY
WORKERS ON
EAST COAST.
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approximately one-haf the plumb
ers' union scale of Si50. Under the
! old scale the men received a maxi
mum of s6079, but worked only
four to eight days. Common labor
ers, who formerly drew S48 to $50
month for 90 hours work, now
must work "a hours longer for S55.
Hopkins work -starve ultima
tum posed the major problem to
the strikers and to labor opponents
of the subsistence wage principle
throughout the country. The WPA
director took the position that work
was available for men who needed
1t and that refusal to work was the
individuals own responsibility.
ATLANTIC CITY. n. J.. Aug. 9.
UR)-American Federation of La
Dor leaders ordered representatives
in all ajor cities today to main
tain constant contact with the ED
eration's executive council about
7 labor disputes on federal works
progress projects.
President William Green eX-
pressed concern over the condition
displayed in a strike in New York
today of $4,000 WPA employees and
signs of future diScord in Boston,
Chicago. Kansas City. Cleveland
San Francisco and Seattle.
Green said the A. F. of L. had
foreSeen and warned federal au-
thorities of the danger of fixing a
WPA wage scale below prevailing
rates.
Now" he said, "the executive
board is out, the work has begun
and there is nothing we can do
about it"
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 9. U.P)-
Union discomfort over wage scales !
paid on Works Progress Admins |
tration projects in San Francisco i
can be quieted only through declar- i
alton Of national policy to prevail !
in all states, Will j. French, state !
labor director. said today.
After extensive conferences with !
San Francisco union representa-
tives. French was to confer with
State Administrator Frank Y. Nc
Laughlin in an effort to prepare a
wage scale recommendation for
submission to Washington.
He admitted that the scale rang
ing from S55 a month for common
labor to sos for professional and
technical work presented a grave
problem locally.
Unions have protested skilled re-
lief workers being employed on the
same job with privately employed
workers of the same professional
rank. with the former earning
salary considerably below that paid
the latter.
Relief officials pointed out, how
ever, that placing relief workers
on a wage parity with other work
ers might decrease the incentive to
obtain private employment, and
defeat the purpose of the WPA.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 9. UP)-
/ President Roosevelt will back his
work relief organization to the limit
in maintaining the security wages
against which New York relief
workers are striking, it was indi-
Gated today.
The new deal broke a congress
sional strike against the security
wage level during consideration Of
the 1880, 100000 relief appropria-
ton when it defeated the McCar-
ran resolution to pay emergency
workers the wage scales prevailing
in the area of employment
New York S strike raised the is
sue on Capitol Hill again Senator
Pat McCarran (DemJ Nevada, pre-
dicted spread Of the work relief
strike unless wage scales were
raised from the Roosevelt security
levels.
Mr.. Roosevelt has not publicly
expressed an opinion on the New
York strike situation. But in re-
cent "a. S conference he was asked
about unionizatiOn Of work relief
employees. He replied that they did
not have to work at federally-cre-
ated jobs if they did not want to.
The Mission Ranch. Phoenix, has
two Holstein COWS listed in the high
eight list for the entire country.