| Show E NO GUT IN WAGES t 1 i Labors Labor's Big Convention Plans Plan to Fight Ficht Corporations' Corporations Wage Reduction Scheme By MAX HAYES HAVES PHILADELPHIA Pa la Nov roiO 13 o No NoWa 0 Wa Wage Vae e Reductions That will bo be the uncompromising uncompromising un un- compromising Glo slogan an adopted by the A. A F F. of ot L L. convention which began its two t weeks weeks' session here Monday The shibboleth leth may ho bo considered in inthe tho the nature of ot n a defiance to tho the Announced d i Intention of the tho steel trust to abro abrogate It HH Its agre agreement with Its nonunion employees on January January- 1 next and which declaration I has been Interpreted tho the country over asa as asa asa a notification that wu wages es are aro to bo be slashed in tho the hope of ot Increasing orders The Wt houe o compan company the Pittsburg Pills Pitts- burg Coal nn and Coak company and sc several other bus big corporations have e al also o declared their Intention of ot decreasing wages und and other combines combine are ure understood to be contemplating con cou- Ung moves mo It Is III feared that once tho the attack upon tho pay envelope begins and andt t is s not ic- ic Sa thc the wa wage o cutting poll policy C will rn e sweep R p over o the tho country countr like n a prairie fire and consequently tho the officials of or tho thin organized ed workers are preparing to combat Jt every c scheme that m may ty be attempted l b by Big Ill Business to ro raid l tho the of Ir American American cupboards in iN lIs greed for more moro plunder In III the tho of or cumins profits I on watered stock lock I have o talked with nearlY neaily all the th labor chief on this bas Ims become a matter of ot v very r r deep concern among themore the moro more serious J find and farseeing men und oHm and summarized their attitude Is this y nc know that exports nt or manufactured lured goods I o I decreased e and aid the Iapu I r can an war Is hi partly u for fol MI u M of trade The also Knon Inow v that this situation situa situa- situation I tion Lion would bu ho less leIs acute acuto If the till leading bankers hanker railway magnates ani and other lh privileged cd personages SI did hl not seize the opportunity to smash Values to La gobble ip p more Kilt gilt e edged l' l securities for a SOll song OI rind raid oJ odd moro millions to their c ing piles On tho ho other h hand the union people likewise mow know that drat never er In the history of or America have 1110 the prices of or of or tits lIfo been as high as us thc they are aro right now now never vcr civilization began haS labor or been ns IS productive and ami turned out as no much now new wealth as in thin year lr of our Ix Lord rd 1911 1111 Thon Then why tho the gathering clouds of wage waro cutting on tho the Industrial horizon That Tint Is la what the representatives s of over o organized workers n at t IhU con- con mUon want wan t to know kno and other millions million of or people will bo bu O asking the tho sums sum question boon Reducing WU wages CH will not only not restore I healthy Industrial conditions say eay th the tho labor officials but will greatly n aggravate S1 mat at t ers It is une uneconomic as everybody o but butan un an plutocrat can see Reduce wages lg 10 per cent sa say and the worl workers ens will purchase 10 P per r cent cont less lees goods soo Thus Thua the tho surplus of unconsumed products products products prod prod- grows proportionately more workers are arc laid off ort and misery Increases In same ratio Hence wage i reductions will bo ho fought to a finish wherever attempted Building Trades lu in Throes of or War A bitter is brewing In n th the A. A 1 1 F of or 1 L I. convention and will JIl burst forth with considerable fury nc next l week unless some somo compromise can cum be patched up In the meanwhile mo which Is extremely doubtful The building trades are arc In the throes throe of ot otan an Internal war that hag ha been en In hi progress for over it u year ear an and about men almost equally divided l are aro battling for tor forthe tho the mastery An enormous amount of or official corre cone correspondence reports leports etc has been placed un record recoil relating to the struggle and this is tho the substance After the lust last last A r P. of r. r L L. convention the carpenters withdrew members from front the building trades detriment department although still Mill holding membership in the A A. F II of or L L. L because the they were denied jurisdiction over metal trim trine In modern building con can construction which wa was also claimed Ir y 1 and awarded to the tho sheet metal workers Then tho the carpenters nr entered Into an alliance with the lie bricklayers who are not nol off affiliated Milled l with the A. A F F. of I L. L UlI und and who were r re regarded fit ps hostile o they Uley are attempting to absorb orb the marble marble- v I kers The Tho stonecutters Urs plasterers plasterer la la- la borer boreri and awl hoisting engineers also 1 J tho the now alliance but hut still d in the tho A A. F f. of 1 L. L building department t. t Lined up on the tho other side are cro ro the this plumbers plumbers electrical 1 workers lath lathers granite cutters fwd arid a numb number r of or other crafts Tho Thu litter latter demand that all organizations or or- withdraw from fromn their alliance with lute tho bricklayers rs and that the carpenters car cal penters bo forced to I with the Ule building trades department nt and give up their claims to metal trim work or be ousted from the federation Tho struggle lc Ien the two ta factions has been a 1 one ono In a LL number of cities clUes and Indications s point to 10 a n serious or split t some compromise arrangement arrange arrange- ment can lan 1 bo be 0 entered into which seems hopeless at present lre President Compere nt and other A A. A I P. of ot r. r L I. officials breve labored la la- la bored in wain to settle the trouble the th bomb has bas ii in rolled Into tho the convention con with the tho fuse lit Ill |
