Evening Star Newspaper, October 15, 1926, Page 27

AF.OFLTOSTUDY MEXICAN POLICIES Will Continue Present Plan - Until After Inquiry—Farm Aid Support Pledged. By the Associated Press DETROIT. October 15.—Officers of the An; n. Federation of Labor anticipate important change in re- lations 1 -tween the labor organiza- tions of the United States and Mexico until an inquiry into the program of Mexican organization shall have ‘I,,md onment of the policy in contacts with the n labor movement. tion. which has deter- upon continuing friendiv co- ation wwith the Mexican federa- tion until an inquiry directed by the closing session of the forty-sixth an- convention is completed. has two matters before it involving Mexico for immediate action. Green Invited to Meeting. The first 1s an invitation to Presi- dent Green to attend a labor meeting of leaders from several countrics late in October. The second involves ap- pointment of a joint commission of the American and Mexican federa- tions to seek ways and means of curb- ing immigrant smuggling along the Rio Grande border. Several new departures in policy marked the action of the 10-day con- vention just concluded The executive council for the first time in the history of the federation was given blanket authority to create a special fund by direct a The fund will be used to res opment of local plant union: fillated witM the federation In proving a resolution urging unionization of the antomobile indus try. the federation voted also for the first regard for the period of or t lines classifying workers. The convention went on record as favoring progressive shortening of the hours of labor, with the five-day week mentioned as an ultimate goal. Pledge Aid to Agriculture. Another resolution pledged co operation to agricultural interests in their legislative program. whenever such action may be bossible. With a view to reducing produc tions, the convention pledged co-opera- tion to industrial management in mat- ters of plant detail. The situation will henceforth meas- ure wages in terms of “an economic asuring rod” ruther than in dollars and will seek advances com- mensurate_with the increasing per capita production of workers due to developments in the mechanical arts. Eighty-three resolutions and 157 recommendations from the executive council were acted upon by the con- vention without a minority report from any of the 14 stinding commit- tees. FATHER AND SON GRANTED REPRIEVES Two Were to Have Died in South Carolina Eleetric Chair COLUMBIA. 8. C.. October 15.— Alexander and _Holland Pittman, tather and son, awoke in their cells at the State penit:ntiary today to learn that they had at least two more weeks of life before them. Convicted of murdering an officer of Greenville County nearly two years ago, the two were ntenced to die“today in the electric chair. A last-miaute reprieve of two weeks now has heen granted them by Gov. McLeod. The governor announced 'that the extension of time was given to allow time to complete ‘“certain investiga- tions A petition for clemency with 5,000 signatures was sent the Gover- nor several weeks ago, but also there ‘was received another memorial urging him not to interfere with the sentence. Having lost an appeal to the Su preme Court. the father and son will he executed unless Gov. McLeod com- mutes their sentences. They were undemonstrative when informed of the extension granted them. ot . The phrase “<kin of my teeth” origi- mates in the Book of Job. $3.50 Philadelphia $3.25 Chester $3.00 Wilmington AND RETURN SUNDAY OCTOBER 24 Speciul Train Washington (Union Station) AM_. Chester Tadeiphia._ Broad Returnins TR 740 P Chester Wilmington 8:18 P.M leaves Broad Sf PM. Weat treet Station Philadelphia 7:59 P.M.. A. F. OF L. PLANS as Bacl BY JAMES M. LYNCH. Spacial Dispatch to The Star. DETROIT, Mich., October 15.— Tempering antipathy with open-min edness, the executive council of the American Federation of Labor, in acting upon instructions of the con- vention here t investigate the growth of the *“company-unign” movement, will endeavor not only to find the ob- Jectionable features of the plan, will also seek “any good” there m: be in the plan. Generally speaking, organized labor is bitterly opposed to all company unions and shop representative plans on the theory that they were invented Solely as weapons with which to op- pose growth of trade unionism. It is regarded by labor leaders as utterly unlikely that any employer would ever have organized a union within his plant if trade unions had never existed. Speakers in the convention con- demned company unions hotly, and a resolution was adopted empowering thy executive council of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor to levy an assessment against affiliated unions to oppose company unions and other instruments of the open-shop move- ment. At the same session, however, a resolution was passed instructing the council to make a full inquiry into the merits as well as the sup- posed iniquities of the plan. Feudalism Plot Charged. Compulsory dues, collected by means of a check-off system—easily ! | manage@ by an employer—said to be | a part of the company union plan, | gave rise to the charge tha! organized | capital is aiming at a.new Kind of feudalism, even more brutal than that of ancient times, when the serf was held to the land in a condition, sometimes worse than actual slavery. “Now,"” said Matthew Woll, a vice president of the A. K. of L., “it is pro- pnsfid to hold the industrial serf to the MEN'’S SUITS Overcoats | $25- The styles--- the values that ROSS has _best and biggest Credit! Topcoats and THE OPEN-MINDED INQUIRY OF COMPANY ‘UNIONS Committee Acting on Conventions’ In- structions to Seek Good as Well mn Plan. Deprivation eof the right to associate freely with his fellows in rhovements to better his condition was held te be _lan assault on the worker's freedom ct. Company unions, directed combined with speciali- ks in standardized plants, | will reduce the worker to utter im- potence and make him literally a serf, chained to the machine, which in turn is owned’ by the employer. ‘speakers ! |agalnst the company umion plan de clared, The serfdom analogy is vividly de- seriptive, hut not entirely accurate. It would be pessimistic in the extreme to imagine that the - educated and en- lighten»4 worker of today ‘could ever be driven into the position of the serf in the eighteenth century, shivering on his bed of straw in a leaky, win- dowless hut of mud, compelled to work from dawn to dark without a hope heyond a hare sustenance wrung from the soil. It is ridiculous to think of a modern worker wedding the woman selected for him by his over- lord or getting out at night to beat the castls moat for bullfrogé so_that the mancrial family might sleep” un- molested by croakings. The miserable estate of the Euro- pean peasant a century and a half ago was due to ignorance and isola- tion. Every modern employer knows that to oppress his enlightened work- ing force too cruelly would bring costly disaster to his business. He will not attempt to tie his workers to machines in the way peasants were once tied to the soil But in some respects a comparison between the state of the feudal la- borer and the prospects of the modern machine hand may be drawn It vexed the peasant to deliver to his lord the fattest of his fowls as “banality,” the choicest of his products as dues “in kind,” and to pay him outrageous fees for the use of his mill, his bridges, his wine-press and his oven. And it will vex the modern mill hand to be compelled to pay high prices for "EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D ths nec fes o( life when he must se]l kis labor at a price and on terms dictated by his employer- It isn’t so much a questlon of wheth- er the members of company tnions are well paid and well treated as it nity as men and women is being as- sailed in the case of the company union. Workers naturally want a fair share of the comfort and luxury that they help to create, but, above all, Americans want to enjoy the sense of freedom and equality. Most spending, be it noted, is influenced chiefly by a desire to appear decently among one's fellows. It is entirely likely, however, that Anferican _industrial life will draw fome benefit from the company union plans .« Life insurance, funds, sick relief and similar welfare innovations brought to many plants by the company union expert will add much to the comfort of the worker. It should not be the aim of organized labor to condemn company unions | without some pains to spare their so- | cially beneficial features. ‘The main purpose o federation leaders is to obtain for workers in all industries the right to organize unions without interference of employers. An army, led by a general intent upon keeping it_in, retreat, even through fruitful country, is not apt to main- tain its morale very long. It is estimated that 2,000,000 Ameri- can workers are members of com- unlons and that 50 per cent of Iroad mileage of the country is operated by company union members, As an attack on trade unionism the scheme is regarded as serious busi- ness by, federation leader 5 Prisoner Ordered Out. MONTREAL, October 15 (#).—In- quiry into the escape of Romo Bedard from the court where he was waiting arraignment for bulgary developed that he had been literally ordered from the building. ~ An attendant found Bedard loitering near the door, and, dissatisfied with his explanation, told him to get out. The prisoner complied and hasn't since been seen by the authorities, i S Says G. 0. P. 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