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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 1937.

LEADERS OF WARRING U.S. TRADE UNION ment

FACTIONS STATE THEIR CASE

JOHN LEWIS INSISTS COLLECTIVE-BARGAINING IS A NECESSITY

(y John L. Lawls (Written for the United Press)

It is the opinion of the committer They were ou the receiving end of fur Industrial Orgonisation that the act of election. They are the signed contracts are the essence of injured parties, mutual good will between unions and employers expressed in collee- tive-bargaining. No verbal contract has any standing in business outside verbal contracts between individuals who have supreme confidence in cuck other,

Washington

Jahn L. Lewis and Willlum Green informed the 8,000,000 workers Furiontsed Into the committee for

of peace

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OF GENERAL STRIKES

(By William Green)

(Written for the United Press)

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Hdustrial Organisation and the American Federation of Labour that although there was no present pros peet for pence between the two fng- tions. rank-and-file support strikes called by either

group would' be tolerated by the other.

In the following signed statements, Lewis and Green say expressly timi workers in une

organisation who have supported atrikers affiliated will the other have not been dis- Federation of Labour that stability sympathetic to their

It is the opinion of the Amerlenn › of organisation amilation, are ciplined and that friendly relations

fellow work- mong the mass of trades unionisis

of Industrial relations in employment men who engage

in a strike Any talk of peace must come from are expected to continue,

calls for the negotiation of wage The American Federation of Labour

agreements and any stich talk of pence must be prospects

through collective bar-improve conditions of employment. However, both leaders admit that gaining. When said agreements tre They usually live together, predicated upon the acceptance of the C.1.0, and A.F. of L. are dim. Green by the representatives of labour and

between the negotiated they ought to be signed soetate together, and are acquainted principles laid down in the minority said: "There are no immediate pros-of industry. report to the Federation convention prets of peace." Lewis sald: "Any in 1975 demunding the recognition of talk of prace must come from the

communities where strikes occur. Businessmen slp leases and paindustrial unions in certain ladus-American Federation of Labour."

A signed agreement is evidence of The American Federation of Labour pers of incorporation and sales contries.

good faith. Furthermore, an agree has not disciplined or penalised the Green Intimates publicly for the ment and it is regarded as good

properly drawn, covering form to sign marriage contracts. Wills That is

position. Any talk first time that further action against hours, wages and conditions of en-members of the American Federation are frequently signed. Finally, no without this basis is merely futile, CO will be taken at the next payment, will.

Serve to avoid of Labour unions locally beenuse of treaty of pence, whether to end a waste of time.

A.F. of L. convention, In addition, confusion and controversy.

sympathy and cooperation extended war or threatened combat, is finally

Green assailed Of course, If the American Federa-Ceneral strike "revohition."

the facties of

DIFFICULTies realiSED to workers in strike, regardless of confirmed without being set down in

tion of Labour should desire to Join writing. This is usually recognised)

Lewis says for the first time that, The

Federation

organisation affiliation. American the committee for Industrial as common sense procedure.

Or the cloud shop and check-off are Labour realises the difficulties which ganisation, we would be glad to make merely incidental problems in col-are met locally when a strike is In-affiliated Irs 101 employer-employee re-known to them terms upon which lective-bargaining and not essentials, augurated by the C. I. O. organisas Jutionship, assuredly the inest work they could enter.

United PreRS. uble arrangement is one in which a union is recognised as the exclusive

tracts

bargaining mộp nt.

Obviously, no eme ployer could make a different kind

of

a contract with one group employees than with another.

A Galon representing & ina

majority of employees wants tu be recognised exclusively by the management in order to insure its right to live and protect itself from The employer's act of begaising counter-agencies to supplant and displace it.

Again, in

in collective-brgaining. It must be

be remembered that the check- off is not necessarily an essential bui is merely a matter of convenience, It can be entered into by mutual agreement between employer and employees' union.

This is also true of the closed ¦ shop. The closed shop is not fun- damentally new

necessary, For example,

all publishers and printing establish- ments have closed shop ngreements! with the printing trades unions. assume this is because the contract- ing parties have mutually

agreed

upon such procedure.

On the other hand. In the coal mining

industry, contracts contain no closed shop verbiage. We don't quibble over it and yet an eficient union exists in the industry em- bracing all the men who work in the mines.

These two Items-the closed shop and the check-off-are only inclden-. tal to the major problems of collec-) tive-bargaining. Unfurtunately, they are too frequently used as Red Her- rings by the employers and are given A degree of consideration above their netual importance.

WORKERS' DEMAND

In many industries the workers will continue to demand continuation i of the check-off arrangement for collecting of dues merely as a mat- ter of business expediency. Just so Jong us the employers operate their own check-off in deducting from the gross wages of workers all items of charges which in many company

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PRESS DEFENDED BY

SIR W. LAYTON

Influence of the Public

Current criticisms of the British Press were discussed by Sir Walter Layton in an address last month to the Conference on the Challenge to Democracy at Ashridge College, Berkhamsted.

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American Federation of Labour be lieves in the observance of contracts and the maintenance of said con- tracts inviolate.

nssets of the

One of the chief American Federation of Labour is the record il made during one-half century of negotiating wage agree- and maintaining them In- ¡ments

violate,

Furthermore, general strikes mean revolutirn, The innocent victims of a general strike in a community will not long tolerate such action, consequently public opinion turns against strikers when they engage

Reneral strike. For these rea- sons, the American Federation of Labour can not extend approval to general strikes,

There are no immediate prospects of peace between the American Federation of Labour and the C.I.O.

The standing committee created more than eight months ago by the executive counell to confer with a committee from the C.LO. has not thus far been discharged.

RIVAL ORGANISATION

crease

There is grave dunger that an in-

In the membership

of or- ganised labour will be offset because

He said the critics commonly complained of discord and hate within the ranks irresponsibility of direction, of a tendency to pander to It is only one more charge-one worked are made in the re- the lowest tastes, of biased news. and to great circulations niore deduction front the pay check.

union.

Some companies now make a prac-port of the Chief Inspector tice of not only deducting fees for of Factories. equipment-such as mining tools-

secured by unworthy means.

dual movement,

of the bitter division which occurred in the ranks of labour. The C.I.O. movement set up us a dual, rival or- ganisation to the American Federa- tion of Labour, has created division,

of inbour.

As a result of the creation of this Inbour hus been ripped and torn into warring fac- tions. No reasonable minded person and Insurance, but also have checked Following a complaint, a

Acance of this division which has off for Liberty Loans Bonds or visit was paid to a small un-

been created within the ranks of church contributions.

But Fleet Street knew that while the Press was a directingbour, through the organisation of You usk me whether members of registered factory in which influence it operated within the limits of the background provided

the C.I.O. "Dyn committee for Industrial Or-

wireless aerials were made. by the thinking of the millions of people who read it. who ganisation

locally support strikes called by the American Federation of Labour or other groups

"It disclosed," says the Re-

ruption was a non-existent will

thing port, "some very serious enses chcouraged or punished or Ignored for their sympathetic acti- of illegal employment, boys off only within these limits.

Newspapers could direct opinion and that editorial policy-at least in any case he could think of-was not vitles. This is my answer:

The C.LO, has never opposed any worked as many as 80 hours a

14 to 17 years of age havingi

influenced by alverlising. on the part of the American

week. of Labour. It has co- everywhere. It

Irresponsibility in the direction of newspapers was frequently can fail to appreciate the full signi hailed as a great danger.

strike

be

our

ABDICATION CRISIS

The Abdication crisis provided an! occasion when the Press felt publie

Sir Walter Layton said that every opinion moving independently and morning 12,000,000 newspapers are policy to be friendly to other labour ment for one boy during the previous

"The normal period of employ-on its own.

bought and read by British popula- organisations and to assist and aid six months had been:

tion of just over 40,000,000. them in obtaining improvements their wage structures and working conditions.

Mondays to Fridays: 7.30 a.m. to i p.m.

Saturdays: 7.30 am, te 5 p.m. Sundays: 8 am. to 5 p.m.

Of the 12 million about 10 milion copies came each day out of London. The Sunday newspapers produced between 14 and 15 million

All reasonable minded men who are members of the American Federa Lion of Labour and who are its friends hope that eventually unity and solidarity will again be esta blished.

The next convention of the Ameri- can Federation of Labour, which ginning October 4, 1937, will decide will be held at Denver, Colo., be what further action will be taken toward organisations which have ac- cepted membership in the committee for Industrial Organisation.

The opinion. often heard, that; news is distorted in the Press was a very much exaggerated opinión, Finally, this the situation regard-

The American Federation of La- ing the prospects of "pence" between

A recent objective analysis hud

bour has assisted organisations the C.1.0. and the A.F. of L, len of

revealed a small degree of gross or each week. The newspaper industry Labour. We have always main- copies outside the American Federation of the 30 or more international unions

LURE OF EXTRA PAY questionable bins on the part of the employed 80,000 people.. aflated with the C.1.0. were sus-

tained very friendly relationship pended from the American Federa- the distressed areas and appeared to

"The boys had been brought from newspapers.

with the transportation unions. iton of Labour.

have been willing to work the long

We desire the right, however, to hours for the sake of extra pay.

similarly show that there was not "The Press provides the nation's determine what organisations we TWO YEARS FOR THEFT but the criticisms that the Press headed from the point of view of the sealt sistance and help will be refused.

"As dimeulty was experienced in as much truth as was supposed in main reading matter, and considered will help and what appeals for as

OF £10,000

A

study of the facts would

past employment, proceedings were to pander to the lowest tastes. taken for legal employment on;

MISSED THE POINT

INFLUENCE OF THE PRESS

of its operation is streets ahead of any other influences which touch the mind of the public.

"If the Press were monopalised it would be a tremendous danger.

"It must be kept free for argu- ment and discussions. The Press of

Six Men Earn £287,030

Sunday and a fine of £4 10s. (In- The Journalistic profession as such "£5,700 IN THE HANDS cluding costs) was imposed."

does not want to see a Press subject? OF CERTAIN PEOPLE" Mr. Ernest Brown, Minister or to Gresham's law where bad news-

Labour, will be interested to hear of Papers drive out good. Sentence, of two years' hard labour this case. Time and again the.com- was passed by the Recorder (Sir taken from the distressed areas are plaint hus been made that youngsters Holman Gregory, K.C.) at the Old being overworked but so far the aids to circulation frequently missed be more and more in the hands of

"The complaint against newspaper the future and its development will Warner Baxter Leads Bailey recently on James Alfred Ministry of Labour has been able to Leslie Nicol, aged 30, a bank cashier, stave off criticism.

the point that the percentage of two sets of people-one the Journalis- Unfortunately, in these cases the money which newspupėrs spent un tie profession itself, the other the sale pushing was lower than the public. It is the publle in the end other industries-ke patent medi- elnes, for example.

of Emerson-drive, Hornchurch, who

pleaded guilty to stealing £10,071 from the Manor Park branch of vell is often only lifted when a compereensge spent on expansion by which will choose." Barclays Bank,

He was employed plaint is made.

there as first cashler.

Mr. E. J. P. Cuasen (prosecuting) acted upon. I do not propose to say sald that Nicol made a statement in more than that. When he was arrest-

suitcase ed only £43 was found on him."

which he said he loaded

L

New York, July 16. Here are six men, of Holly- wood and the money they earned last year (as revealed Mr. Berbert Sidebotham (Scruta-

here to-day) - conference that more and more Par-Actor Gary Cooper tor of the Sunday Times) told the Actor Warner Baxter

oment was tending to become a Director Roy del Ruth dreck chorus to the Government.

Producer Daryl Zanuck

£47,600 £40,000 "Newspapers have now, far better Producer Wesley Ruggles. £37,000 or for worse, become the real Par- ilament of democracy.

Add those figures up. They come In an estimate of the British Press as we know it is the instrument of fleet of seven Atlantio nying-boata Parliament to £207,030: enough to pay for a should not be forgotten that cor-government.".

It might well be argued that some of the current with £1 and 10s. notes.

The Recorder-He says in the state were wasteful since they merely alds to circulation ment that £5,700 is in the hands of transferred readers from one news- "Nicol," he said, "gave an account, certain people. You do not want that paper to another and back again; but of his movements until he was taken discuated?

they into custody. The matters he refers Mr. Cussen-No.

were not a danger to do-

.

10 have received the close attention A police officer sald that Nicol, who

of the police, and no doubt, auch in had a wife and three children, bud formation as is available will be given way to drink.

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