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The Journal of ELECTRICAL WORKERS and Operators
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L. U. NO. 1-., NEW YORK, N. Y. week will, Nanli)b six [.m a day, 30 hour, hes even as the horse and buggy for
Editor:
a week, with ii reasonaI, I onlpienisao to conveyancC.
nLiietai
Despite the
purhier Mgm
reports of
power
business
for tin,
being
workr. By this time
up
the readers of this lJOURNAl
to and ill many cases
OnI
exceeliing
ilotlion
the
workers
record
,lloy.ld lit 4ii hours are fi, iair with the Mix-hur day, :30 hour
year of I139, we ate tll in the doldrums
i
of
eek, wonld mean 44,000(,000 work hours. eek canil)alg Ii if local Uiiio No. 1-3. En-
uiemployreant. ihy The answr is
(!Utli"ig
siupl
theel to a mainiuml of 30 hours a eourag ll reports ire comingi in froIt locnals
enough for those
-eek, weulfd
who care
give
and
us
want
14,0(0,000
to
woirk-hours for all over the country that have taken ip the
undiratirid true facts
the
and riot
.ow uenelo
a lot LI
yed.
lame
Divide the six-hour day banner for this most practical solution for
into
excuses.
Il,O,(000 would give us a gri nId total unenploylneInt, Prtilln,,s have been sent to
of 2.:l3,333 more
Each
workdays,
year
I ki g into
in these enited
all oLr
States
si'ter
we
local
bayr
(Ithrugh bout the eiuntry
consilleratin that this figure is
approximtely
only based to be signed by any and all workers
one-half
who
million
are
young men on 1,000,900
and
workers
women
anid
who
an eighlt-hoi,
hve
r
completed
work- citizens of the i ired States andi in favor
their re ing day, it ran readily ie
sleetive
seen how
ectaeatilo,
the six of thils pla lie carly SuccessiI of this
s in
vne,-
our schools adi are, hour
practiiclly
lay would.i
speaking,
solve the
on the
uCnemploymert ture, aml Sucess it nmust
market
lie for the
for
future
jobs
aid pionli.Lis in the business
problem
prosprlity
worlidl.
of oitr nation,
They
dlipnds on each and
start out uill of holpe alId thie keen eCllau-
Another article appiea"bg in a more or every Itn.i.ber of the I. B. i. W. and others
siani of youth, only to meet failure. Their
less popuinr nationwide ilagazin.i states getting its lar]y signatures aa possible so as
requests for employinent ale usually met
'All economists agree that the one principal, to Subh it this plan for Tlegislatlon.
with arygin aiswers, such
if not
,
the
We
principal
are
reason for our continued Thirefore, let us all solemnly resolve, that
layI u uRf. "lNot hiringl'." You mu;t
depression
have
is the dearth of new building." in this New Year of 1940, we will l-ld our
previous experience"*'
tIhen goes
WhaC
on
is
to put
to
the
become
blmenic
of
oi rganized bert efforts to Illiillg the grsat hidp of
them? ilere is one answer
Il.bor,
to th
buidling
at qIuery, i it
trades unions in particular, Ainler: -an Labor out of the doldlruns of un-
can he called an
Preposterous,
answer, or just
of
another
course,
frir
to assume that one employ n ito jien the t rde winds of the
of
gereil
avoidiulg
of
and puttietg
local unions
ofT the
in
issue,
this
that
irgoe
was
nation is six-hoir (lay, 30-hour week andi jobs for Ill,
recently pubished
res onsible
i onI e of New
for
York
the
City's
depression. Yet, they
WaLTER G IASER.
iing dailly newspapers.
woulidi have ynlu
"Cive
helieve
Youth
such
a
rot, No Imlenotilon
Chance, Job Sur.ey risks U.
is
S."
nale of inivestigations bcin nin de of the L. {. N{). 7, SI'I4INGFIELU, MASS.
building
This
material
so culled job survey,
marufacturers,
made by a grou.p
regarding Editor:
the high coLtS of materies. Why
of
is
industrialsts
this ill
and educatiors under the
It sire is great to know how far our
vestigeAtitn going on?
name
Simply
of tile
because
AnieiCriic
it
Youth
has
C orimissiilo, was
JOlURNAL seems t tio trel every month. for ac
been definitly
established
proven
by the
liat
American
the cost
CoIIuncil
Iof libr
of IEd.
eordnlrg to the article in MlIgazlne (ht you
has ilnthiog at all tW l,, with the
cation,
high
a non-government
costs.
os.n.izi [ott.
have
I hey
r r.i.ests ,eceived for the JOUFaNaL from
Still labhor gets the blaie,
have finally
Notwithstin
omIe to the
ding
conrIlusion, after frr
Norway and Italy.
that they, the
long
laborlr
years of
g elasses,
study, that
wonlid
ne-thiird
be the
of
All any
our
reader has to do iS look on p,.c 1
first to iinvest in homes if tihe big if ig
atpproxinatoly It,000.000 unemployed,
at "Conntents"
are
ald you know yu" are startineg
busiless woulr
youths,
d illvest
between
its capital
the ages
and
of
coop-
15 and 24 y2lrs.
to real iin interesting JOURitNAL. I have read
erate
they
with
admit
labor
that
in
for
the
years
shortenin rg
there has
of
bIee,
the Itlly blooks and
a
newspapers indi very few of
workday arid workweek,
disq.uietin
thereby
g" ende
reating
iy to
a these
exlude
give
begin,,irs
lus tIe real facts as dos our
demiid
frm
for
emloiyme
both labor and new blliiinIis
t and that sonmething
Is
should
JPUNA, a I nind I an, not sur.Pised oi ho-
be done
it
about
posslile
it. liere
to ibring
is their
bak
plano
pIrosperity by breakmany of my friends outside tile trade have
ing down the standard
A reonimendation
of tie American asked rnite for the ioan
to
of my
the government
Jtual, to
of
Ceald.
a workers, by fienrn g them relief or a possi-
program of
It is
public
pretty hard
work, that
to judge
should
which
be
story or
bility of part-time work for little more than
planned
article
with speciel
is the best
regard
hut I
to its
really
eluca-
got a laugh
one dollar a day? Or is it more feasible to from the Old
tLonal
WirePatcher
qualty, that shoulii
over
provide
the story
opportiiri-
of
ereate a market for labor?
how
ties
"Overtime
to try
Bilossomed
various kinds
in
of
Henry
work. The
the
jobs. The press hits turned a deaf ear to our Eighth's Tay."
they say. need not be full titme, and individ- pleas for publicizing the six hour
ual
day,
expenditures
30- And the article on. the National Electrical
need not exceed $400 a year. hour week. It. millions of readers an only Code, which sure has gone- through plenty of
This. dear readers, is supposed to be liro consume what is of Intorst to its advertisers argulments pro and eon, has at last gone to
ross, in a supposedly enlightened age. Just and supporters (big business). You can rest print and I well know onir liatcrnatioal
think, the mgnificenrt sum of $400 a year, assured that the six-hour day, 30-heur week Office had plenty of representatives to take
exactly thirty-three dollars and thirty-three is not one of their favorite topics. Therefore, . cere of our interests.
and one-third cents a month, to pay rent, this medium of acquainting the entire pub- I would be very much disappointed if my
lothe, anlid feed these individuals Not alone lic with the vital need for a shorter work- JOURNAL was lost and I was unable to get
that. hbut they have been big-lheartedl enogh day is closedt to us. Our only recourse is to another one.
to advatce this plan to the government for thoroughly acqtunitt ourselves with the vir- There is not much news from Springfeld;
financing. A govertnent already with a notuoe of this campaign, discuss it whenever work seems to be at a standstill just low. It
tional deirt of over 40 billion dollars, incurred the opplortunity present, itself, at union seemed the bottom dropped out of verything
since 1931 and still on the increase, due to meetings, clb meeting, social gatheringrs, the last month arid our business manager is
V-ri.uu pJtdets to aid the unemployed! They etc. It is not a radical movement by any quite worried with so manly men coming on
make no attempt to aid the g overnment rian meanls, as some diehards will try to make him at orie time, iat the boys have had a
cialy in this Latter. Neither do they attenlipt you believe. but justifiable by the technologi- good spell for the last six months and it
to solve this problem of oli r unenmployel cale improvemnts in industry that are sure as, a lot better than it was last year
youth and others in a more sane and i.ra.ti- steadily depriving men artid wnin of the at this time. This cold spell we have been
cal nanrter, that of relucFign the wr akday right and ,opportunity to earn a livelihood. It haiviag the whole ,0onth of January has
and weekly hours.
is not our intention that modern i.achinery stoppedr l ui i ri haut we hope for ii good
In 193S, our Seventy-fifth Congress passed andi itll .rove.teerit. shoull be done away with) spring nod saumer. K. MULLARKEy.
the minimum Wage at'd Hour Law. No doubt Oa the eontraiy! We oly isk thilat the work-
it has aided considelirably. lerever, it is day and weekly hours he adjusted to these L. U. NO. 8, TOLEDO, 01110
hardly drastic enourh, as is evidenced by the advancenetnts. that ILthey may e considered Editor:
ever-incresing worklisa pliphlation,. There- a help to mnioklind instead of a detriment Writintg this collrrpo dnce, for this
fore, it does not solve the problem, ilt a The time has lopng since passed that tilhe month is a painful task, for I have the
still shorter hourly workday and work- eight-hour workday has outlived its useful- sad news to imipart to the membership of