AMERICAN LABOUR

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 105, 27 January 1933, Page 9

AMERICAN LABOUR

End of Patience Reached TO COMPEL REMEDIES President’s Declaration (By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright.) (Received Jan. 26, 7.45 p.m.) Washington, Jan. 25. “Organised labour has reached the end of its patience, and we shall use our might to compel the plain remedies withheld by those whose misfeasance caused our woe,” so Mr. W. Green, president of the American Federation of Labour, declared to-day in an interview published in "The Nation’s Business,” the official magazine of the United States Chamber of Commerce. Pointing out that American labour has not suddenly become revolutionary, Mr. Green declared: “Necessity dic-

tates that now is the time to fight a battle for the restoration of the safeguards confiscated by pillaging bands of exploiters.” Mr. Green has been advocating Congressional measures for a six-hour day and live-day week as a means of stabilising employment. Their passage during the present session is highly doubtful. 1 THIRTY-HOUR WEEK New Demands by A.W.U. Sydney, Jan. 26. The Australian Workers’ Union Conference approved new demands for inclusion in a fresh log to be submitted to the Graziers’ Association. One request is for a basic wage of £9 for a thirty hours’ week of five days. AID FOR FARMERS Warnings to Congress REVOLUTION AHEAD Washington, Jan. 25. Warning of a revolution in the farm belt unless Congress enacts aid for agriculture was served on the Senate Committee to-day as hearings opened on the domestic allotment of the priceboosting measure. “Unless something is done for the American farmer, we will have revolution in the countryside in less than twelve months,” said Mr. Edward O’Neal, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation. “The biggest and finest crop of revolutions you ever saw are sprouting all over this country right now,” said Mr. John Simpson, president of the Farmers’ Union.,