Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-09-02 | Page 1 | American Labor Held Underpaid

MERICAN lABOR LARO HELD UNDERPAiD Am I I Federation Vice resident Issues Labor Day 1 Statement NEW YORK Sept I 1 AP Until merican labor is properly paid and its ho hours rs of labor fittingly reduced reduced re- re American industry will continue continue con con- to ito face conditions puzzling and p in the extreme Matth Matthw w Wall vice president of the American Federation of Labor said in a Labor day statement issued today I The that her bor in to its output is I far und paid Mr statement nt said Valess and until it is properly properly prop prop- erly pal and Its hours ot of labor per w Week ek ar the tragic facts will remain as they are or get more tragic profits Mr said are going a oad In loans that finance to a la foreign manufacturer manu manu- r the products ot of which return return re- re turn to wIth Americas America's out out- put We I got to raise the buying power home market to absorb our induStrial surplus cut down the thet t excess profits eliminate most or the unemployment and so straighten things out the statement state state- ment said It If there Is not in our labor movement the vitality to force Improvement we shall perhaps deserve deserve de- de serve worse than we have There will not be that vitality unless It ItIs itis Is put there by the Individual trade unionists nl ts all through our land