Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1927-01-29 | Page 3 | A. F. L. Pledged to 5-Day Week

Am F L 1 PLEDGED TO DAY 5 WEEK Wm Green Charges cs Coal Operators With Perfidy ByThe I INDIANAPOLIS Jan By 9 The Tho Associated d Press The American Federation of o Labor Is 1 pledged cd to tho th advocacy ot of the day five day week and Increasing wages In president industry William Green dent ot of the fc federation declared speaking at the tho United Mine MineWorkers MineWorkers Workers convention Friday w We have hav reached a IL point In In- In industrial In Industrial development where a IL fur fur fur- further fur f ther hel reduction in working hours can take tako place without a x slump In productivity Mr Sir Green said salol ald Commenting upon wages wage the l president asserted You cannot have prosperity and low wages Show me m the h payroll of ot a com corn community and Ill I'll measure the pros pros- prosperity prosperity prosperity ot or that section lie ho added Pr President Green reen a 3 member o of the miners union and ad ld a Its secre- secre secre treasurer tary before ho became becane the thc A F of or L J president con condemned eon con condemned 1 the repudiation o of the Jacksonville agreement by coal operators of or West Yest Virginia Ken Ien- Kentucky Xen- Xen tucky and Pennsylvania There Ther There never was n a greater creator cx-ampi cx ox- ox example ample of perfidy than that shown by certain soft coal operators Mr Green declared their their dishonor dishonor- dishonorable dishonorable dishonorable able actions brought hunger and to thousands of men and