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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Five-Day Week. From 1776 to 1835, the U. S. workday was 12 to 14 hours. Between 1840 and 1870, it was ten hours. By 1918, it had been lowered to eight hours. The next objective of the A. F. of L. is to reduce the U. S. working week to five days...
Communism. In the Passaic (N. J.) textile workers' strike last winter, in the woman's garment industry, and in the Manhattan fur workers' strike, Communist machinations were exposed and defeated by A. F. of L. members...
Motor Workers. As decided last year in Detroit, the A. F. of L.'s next big task is to unionize the automobile industry. This work is well afoot...
What the late Samuel Gompers would have thought of the Executive Council's decision to "rely on facts rather than force" was something that gave oldtime militants in the A. F. of L. much food for reflection. Nor was this food seasoned by anything peppery in the keynote remarks of the leader upon whom the Gompers mantle fell three years ago. He, President William Green, euphemizes strikes as "our economic powers." He is a student of such economic abstractions as "collective bargaining," such legalistic abstractions as "jurisdictional disputes." He does not place the unions above the law. He argues...
Back to Babel. By far the most important topic of the convention was the withdrawal of the A. F. of L.'s Building Trades Department from the National Board of Jurisdictional Awards. The latter, now collapsed, was a board composed of civil engineers, architects, contractors and other employers, and of workers in the building trades, which was formed to settle disputes as to what workmen should do what sorts of work and how. Labor accused the other members of the Board of failing to carry out the Board's decisions. Secretary of Labor Davis deplored Labor...