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Show BEAVER PRESS NEW TIDE IN LABOR GI.O.-T- HE Unions Learn to Use Mass Pn Methods iiiiii .'?S:. 774w- the Current N ews Leaders Meet Big Business On Its Own - Ground rf? mPlifl IABOR Scenes and Persons in jpy WILLIAM C UTIEY ffiHfSi' - MI i WirJ V- ......... 1 iif if II - - iff j i in the mass production industries can protect its in the creation and dissemination of press and moving picture only by adopting the same mass production newsradio, reel propaganda. Their speakits employers use. That is the theory of the ers travel the road, using s Da please, ..-t- or sound-car- Committee for Industrial Organization, headed by bull-do- g jawed, shaggy browed John L. Lewis. The effectiveness of this appeal and the thoroughness of its practice in the recent strikes has all America speculating as to what is the eventual place in the sun for C. I. O. sit-do- where they will be most effective, just as the political orators did during the 1936 election campaign. They tell the worker of the reasons for this new movement which we have covered above. They also tell him that his "economic frontier" has disappeared; he can no longer, if he is dissatisfied, pick up and head west for new ventures, or get himself a job in another industry. Well Armed With Facts. They teach the worker that if he would obtain his social rights he must be concerned with more than wages and hours. C. I. 0. tells him he must be assured some authority in determining the conditions under which he shall work. He must have some safeguard against the speeding up of production to an extent where the pace will hurt him physically and may unreasonably cut down the number of jobs to be had. He must have assurance that his L" Mary , out way Susan f look' ffouw- - In Does John L. Lewis want to be"? President? Does he want to be able Industry needs expert advice and the ouu to name the man who will succeed physical aid in picketing. It can I Susan sett g his labor Will D. R.? F. send experienced men from the lather and movement be content to form a United Mine Workers to organize to insure force in higher member unions other industries. 1 nf rnnada. powerful a wreath an thA tn , shown nuttinff v w x r ui ivmerica'i l,uiu x wttuoiiiuii t euvtiiiwi 6ivwages, better hours, fairer working Make no mistake about it Labor viv-ai"iu wasuinum. ana deai on uuxiuucss receni soicuer vish Unknown noru'6' conditions? Or is it bent on comunder the C. I. O. is big business. v.u uamaa wLjf ym, wtioretutttj as she embarks ior tne uneni on a leciuie iuui. -jh-yu plete social revolution? Initiation fees, special assessments "SweU! to work louowing a Dnei aemoiibuauuu. It is still too early to tell. and dues place millions of dollars 'in the min But it is not difficult to understand at its disposal. This means C. I. O. shield. believe labor students so many why has the wherewithal to expand from MAKES MEDICAL FIND Meet tion undei that C. I. 0. will assume an im- one Industry to another as rapidly tat. to which the unions craft portance as efficiency permits. The part John i "Cecfly and the American Federation of LaL. Lewis played in swaying the laI Mr. Vaug bor have never risen. bor vote in the last election guar( though wi This is not to say that C. I. 0. antees that C. I. O. shall have the sees no place for the craft unions. plenty of friends in federal and state The ca It approves them but only in in- governments. 3 6 ? mirrored dustries which are organized on a C. I. O. leaders are taking full I Susan tol incraft basis. Workers in such of their power. The very I g rubber dustries are scattered over the advantage "I've in small country comparatively J said boll groups. I towel an Employees Regarded Impersonally. f "It's In the largest industries such as Jlr. Va automobiles," steel, textiles, glass, tional ti oil, and a few others workers are 'Mar concentrated in a few large groups. - day." ar Development of the machine and l able the assembly line is eliminating the of adu ; necessity for skilled craft labor and I presen 1 equalizing the importance of all added. J "T t types of workers. In one of these industries workLilliar ' J "Didn are the same conditions ing throughout the entire industry. If JL3 z last t r iif-- V. A? : scores of plants are controlled by "I the same big corporation, as in the ? jeren case of the automobile firms, there Dr. Harry Goldblatt, associate dil and i is usually a general labor policy rector of the institute of pathology a w which is uniform throughout. The of Western Reserve university in next Individual worker feels that he t Id I Cleveland, whose recent discovery count for little under such a polof the cause of high blood pressure ; souicy, especially if the owners of his M: the most significant in ; prove may plant are in another city. If he is modern medical history. High blood I frov when Badminton e made its debut as American a sport regarded so impersonally by his pressure, or hypertension, as medi- players from all parts of the country met in Chicago for the first national employers, he must bargain with cal men call it, is the world's chief championship tournament. The I she of the game among worn them just as impersonally. This can cause of death. He discovered that WaS indicated hv iht lurffo m.rviKiapopularity j eith clfillftt Amnnif faminlnn enfrmt. be accomplished, the C. I. O. tells the it is caused by an insufficiency of competitors were, left to I right: Helen De Peyster, New York city, him, when he and his fellows band I cr.l blood in the kidneys. Patience Seattle. of Zoe Naval Radford, Smith C. O. in Boston, one or I. traders know the wisdom of keeping friendly relations with Hitch, Chicago; big industrial, together J pei the press. Chairman John L. Lewis is shown here making a statement vertical, union. ' t to on are industries ! Va Large organized reporters. a mass production basis. Their polHEADS WEST PODiT icies toward labor are determined potentialities of the C. I. O. modus grievances will be adjusted fairly. pi; and administered from a central operandi continue to attract brilThere must be a definite underPi point. C. I. O. even contends that liant, effective young leaders who standing as to the operations of the su are a far cry from the traditional H C! a few wealthy interests have conrules of seniority. All these things centrated control of all large indus- labor leaders of the past. They are C. I. 0. promises to accomplish for I tries in Wall Street and present a not toughs and They him. U . . can read and write. Many of them C. I. 0. leaders seldom can be united front against labor. Thereii ; some are ac- bulldozed by the representatives of fore it is necessary for the workers are h to present a united front against intually "career men." They do not industry. They are well enough inoperate in grimy little offices with formed to recognize any tricks or dustry. Acting on this premise, the C. I. battered cuspidors and nothing but misstatements at once. Their re0. has built up a closely integrated the cobwebs to keep the plaster search departments arm them with from falling oft the ceiling. When statistics fully as network of industrial unions. Polconvincing as icies for nil of them are directed they meet with industrialists they those of the companies with whom are ready to talk the industrialists' from C. I. O. headquarters in Washthey are dealing. C. I. 0. knows a ington. Whenever there is trouble language. Their offices are just as corporation's financial statement in one industry, the C. I. O. is thus modern as those of their opponents. from A to Z, and its research deable to bring the full measure of its And frequently they know more partment has read between the strength and wealth to bear in the abou the enemy's business than the lines. situation. enemy does. The corporations have clever lawn strikes cost money, but These new leaders know that yers who can tell their executives C. I. O. has it. In these, the early modern methods command the re- - how to get around certain legal difficulties, and are ever at hand to advise in negotiations. So has the C. I. O. Its lawyers in New York, Washington, Detroit, Chicago, Pittsburgh and other cities are a match Lieut. Col. Charles W. Ryr; 2 Mountain scenery is recorded at its most for the corporation lawyers. Legal impressive throuch stage now on duty with the army general advice is important in keeping the the lenses of an infra-recamera. i the center may cowho has been a r pointed V 1 staff, 1 thC nCW Rcd Ldge (Montana) central organization Yellowstone mmandant of cadets at the Umiea clear of CUfVH "n highways monument to a comely movie charges which might be pressed EUtes Military academy. against it in the conduct of which strikes ilhave been . 1 held Knk jUft-4rt legal by most authorities. AY-l Even the propagan da and public relations corps of ? .... IF. industry has not been able to outdo the C. I. O. Newspaper men of wide experience handle the press relations of the C. I. O., and they have done a good job in much the same way that the industrial press agents have wooed public opinion by inducing corporation executives to with the press. The C. I. 0. press agents have been careful to cultivate the most favorable relations with all newsThis Flint (Mich.) striker has all the comforts of home. papers, whether they are friendly, . hostile or They give reof its program, the United spect not only of the leaders of the porters dayi " when it is likely Mine Workers, John L. Lewis' first industries in which they are active, some big news will break. They love, have borne the brunt of the but of their own following. They send out mimeographed "releases" expense. They contributed most of use airplanes to speed from council of stories citing the union's side of the half million dollars needed to to council. They engage the best a controversy. What is probably hunsteel the the suites in the best hotels. Their of- most workers, organize of all, they make important dreds of thousands to conduct the fices are located in the finest buildsure that individuals in the union General Motors strike and the fings. behave themselves in the presence inancial support for the Chrysler Leaders are chosen from diversiof the press, never prever.ing a strike. fied fields in which there are C. I. O. photographer from getting n is picMillions at C. I. O. Disposal. member unions. They form a board ture or giving a reporter 1 discourof strategy not unlike the boards of teous reply. The advantage of the central orThey encourage the ganization is further emphasized by directors of the firms with which leaders to sit down with the press the speed with which it is able to they are dealing. and discuss problems "frankly." assist member unions in emergenWorking together harmoniously, There are few tricks of psycholcies. It trains squads of organizers these leaders ars using the methogy C. I. O. overlooks. C. I. O. is I'.'linT riv .....1 in one industry and is able to send ods of the big industries to sell determined to tuilenis a get somewhere. But nitArt ,nstL,, them in a hurry to any point where their ideas to the workers and to how far? after institute work their wav thr :V .U"' .Tse yulhs y.u" , . turtrlC in lilt: hhitnf Ule sludcnl a member union in that or another the public. They have hired experts Weitern Nttvaper Union. h their day ,n ri, seize mops and pails and clean corridors up rooms and left-win- . - bi uuyvu c s Badminton Stars in Title ( . - "f ' "' ' y I ! - big-tim- "Mae West Curve" on Mountain Road t v t loud-mouth- X:1.: 10',:' college-educated- d 7Jyy Irt rS viit n d Art htlH IpiiIg Pnv TiiW To.iitnr L f 'BvJ a ic V luke-warm- . "tip-offs- fnn UgrrA ij uW Fvl r' y y I - ? ' fow' ( |