THE LABORER YEAR No. 13 PANAMA, SEPTEMBER 29, 1945 a copy Colon Labor News Labor Helping Win The Peace, Says Wagner In Holiday Greeting The Lighthouse Cabaret Employees of the Lighthouse Cabaret are made to work more than the legal eight hours, and for a salary far out of proporBy ROBERT WAGNER that will guarantee to all na tion for the work assigned them, Senator from New York tions freedom from aggression to repay them for the energy in a world of wood neighbors, lost as a result of working, it We celebrate Labor Day this building toward greater goals of was asserted. This night club year with the happy knowledge social justice, security and hu appears to enjoy certain special that complete victory over the man rights. To help assure that consideration from the local enemies of freedom has been kind of world, the voice and Authorities, as up to now, the achieved.
aspirations of labor should be proprietor, Mr. Basilio Lakas, American labor may well be heard at the peace table, as has disregarded our indications full well as in planning for to him to live up to the Labor proud of the role it has playLaws post war employment and prosed in the smashing successes of the road to victory. It escrifice in war implies and deAs he has now convinced us mands a people peace, one tablished a record of producof his utter disregard for the perity at home.
tion that has never been equallabor laws of Panama, we now ed in human history. From the The compelling demands of find ourselves under the obligathe war effort opened our eyes factories and workshops of Amtion to act in a more effective to the enormous capacity of our erica there poured forth an resources and our manpower.
manner in behalf of our comever mounting stream of planes, We have seen what America rades working in his establishships, tanks, guns and all the can accomplish when other supplies and implements it orments.
of war without which victory ganizes its resources effectively.
would have been impossible. InWe know that if we mobilize The Labor Laws Are Violated the strength of our nation in dustrial disputes were adjusted with the loss of only a fracpeace as we have in war we Pablo, the Ruso, keeps on tion of one percent of the total can eliminate poverty and violating the Labor Laws, beworking time, and this is a maintain higher standards of cause he holds down two jobs at unique war record. The working living than ever before. To the Lighthouse Cabaret, thus men and women of America translate these potentialities inmaking it impossible for another have demonstrated that free to a living reality, we must have working man to have a chance labor can out produce slave comprehensive postwar planof making a living in an honest labor and that democracy can ning and an effective realistic manner.
be more productive and effiprogram to achieve our purposes. Organized labor, which Pablo, the Ruso, is the recient that dictatorship. By these stood in the forefront of the gular floor walker of the estaachievements, American labor fight for an efective war problishment, and also works anhas earned the respect and graother shift as a bartender. The gram, stands equally in the titude not only of the American forefront of the fight for full Labor Laws only permit a workpeople but of our allies all over er to do an extra three hours employment, adequate housing the world.
for all American famiiles, imper day if the exigencies of the Now that victory has been proved social security and work require his service, but it achieved on the production line health insurance and for all does not mean to allow one perand on the field of battle, we other measures required for an son to hold down two jobs as must move forward with equal effective postwar program. We the Ruso, Pablo, is doing.
vigor and singleness of purpose must unite in our determina We are also made to underto win the peace at home and tion to continue the fight un stand that Pablo also holds a abroad. America, which served til victory has been won, until third job with the establishment, so well the arsenal of demo the foundations for the post that of being a kind of spy or cratic arms, has an equally vi war security, health and wel stooge among the other worktal role as the arsenal of de fare of our people have been ers. We do not wish to interfere mocratic ideals. The people sa firmly established.
in this part of his work, as we consider this a kind of secret service. and as we are of the opinion that a manager of an establishment has the right to watch his business, even through with two workers doing two jobs a third person.
than with one doing two jobs, because in the long run the Hawaii Cabaret worker that is doubling up is sure to weaken, and will not be The Hawaii Cabaret is owned able to serve the interest of the by Mr. ANDRES ROTHBARD, a establishment or himself.
person well known ac the We sincerely ask the manageIsthmus because of his personal ment of the Montecarlo Cabaret resentment to the Commercial not to encourage the hoarding Laws of Panama, in his efforts to have our laws meet his perof jobs because it is against the best interesest of the Union of sonal interests; and as a result Bartendenders, Walters ind has been practisin gthe exploitation of the worker with much other workers.
efficiency With The Labor Office We have been informed that he has been forcing his em We ask the Chief of the Laployees to work extra hours bor Office to investigate the without any consideration for charges made against the estathe labor laws. The Authorities blishments above, and to have the should investigate the treatment him employees inform given the employees of the Ha whether or not they are getting waii Cabaret, as it is felt that their rest days, vacations, are the notorious MR. ANDRES working only eight hours daily ROTHBARD will not be only sa and that they are being paid tisfied with hi sexploitation of extra for the time worked extra the workers in their daily labor, What we ask of Mr. Agustin but may even go further. Oses is very correct, and if it is attended to, we are sure that The Montecarlo Cabaret his efforts will bring satisfactory results, and the workers in genWe consider that in the Mon eral will be very grateful for te Carlo Cabaret Labor Laws are the interest shown by the Govgenerally complied with. How ernment in their behalf.
ever, recently we have noted that the citizen GERARDO DIAZ Iriportant Meeting is holding down two distinct jobs in the same establishment.
The Union Bartenders.
Waiters, Cooks, Etc. of this city, This is not correct, and he will meet in two turns in the should be made to understand the doctrine of live very spacious hall of the Canand let tina Ben on Monday, October live 1, 1945, at p. and again The hoarders of jobs at p. so that a large turnare enemies of the society in which out of members, whtever their they live, and are traitors to the hours of work may be, will atUnion. Citizen DIAZ works as tend, to deal with important bartender in the day and matters to arrive at definite at night he works in the guise of plan of action to force the whole waiter. With any of these City of Colon to comply fully jobs he should be able to live with the Labor Laws. The sucwell. We believe that Comrade cess of this campaign will deDiaz should chose the job that pend on the full support given suits him and pays him well to the Investigating Committee and dedicate himself to it only.
by the members attending. Bartenders and waiters, let us The manager of the establish have word that you will be at ment would be better benefitted the meeting!
LABOR DAY MESSAGE By HARRY TRUMAN President of the United States with typical American ingenuity.
Reconversion Now Moving Rapidly, Krug Says In Optimistic Report Six years ago the workers of the United States, and of the world, awoke to a Labor Day in a world at war. The democracies of Western Europe had just accepted the challenge of totalitarianism. We in the United States had two years of grace, but the issue was squarely joined at that hour, as we now know.
There was to be no peace until tyranny had been outlawed.
Today we stand on the threshold of a new world. We must do our part in making this world what it should be a world in which the bigotries of race and class and creed shall not be permitted to warp the souls of men.
We enter upon an era of great problems, but to live is to face problems. Our men and women did not falter in the task of saving freedom. They will not falter now in the task of making freedom secure. And high in the ranks of those men and women, as a grateful world will always remember, are the workers of all free nations who produced the vast equipment with which victory was won.
The tasks ahead are great, and the opportunities are equally great. Your government is determined to meet those tasks and fulfill those opportunities, We recognize the importance and dignity of labor, and we recognize the right of every American citizen to a wage which will permit him and his dependents to maintain a decent standard of living.
WASHINGTON, Re war, there will still several milconversion is proceeding much lion unemployed.
more rapidly than expected, Reconversion is going along WPB Chairman Krug an better than we had expected, nounced.
Mr. Krug said. have considOn this basis of a survey of erable confidence that these 42 major industries, he estimat figures are accurate forecasts.
ed that manufacturing produc Mr. Krug admitted that the tion will be 12 percent higher next three of four months will in dollar volume by the end of be a time of economic conthis year than in the prewar cern as millions leave war period between 1939 and 1941. jobs and the armed services.
He also made the optimistic Considerable numbers were unprediction that employment by employed in the prewar years, December will be 94 percent of he noted, and now the job is peacetime normal, to provide work for a greatly By next July, Mr. Krug de enlarged labor force.
clared at a press conference, Manufacturers, he pointed the production rate will be 187 out, were meeting no greater percent of normal and employ difficulties than were to be exment 133 percent. Of course, in pected during the transition the so called normal years period and they already are before America entry in the surmounting such difficulties Mr. Krug gave these production figures as of July this year followed in each case by estimated production next June: Bicycles, 45, 000 and 272, 000; domestic mechanical refrigerators, none and 474, 000; sewing machines, none and 55, 000; vacuum clearners, 14, 000 and 272, 000; electric fans, 46, 000 and 335, 000; watches, 138, 000 and 2, 272, 000; photographic equipment (dollar volume. 1, 066, 000 and 5, 833, 000; wood furniture, 58, 0000 and 90, 0000 farm machinery, 54, 193, 000 and 94, 444, 0000.
Mr. Krug said the 42 industries covered in the report were those with major reconversion problems. The industries reporting are going ahead with ambitious production and expansion plans, Mr. Krugg commented. BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL ERNESTO CASTILLERO