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PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF WORKERS ON THE ISTHMUS YEAR II No. 15 PANAMA, NOVEMBER 20, 1945 a copy LABORERS UNION CAN REINFORCE THE LAW, AS BARTENDERS SYNDICATE IS DOING TODAY Flore, AFL Vice President, Dies THE LABORER RIGHTS IN MEXICO AND PANAMA Panama, Oct. 23, 1945 The Manager or Proprietor, Balboa Beer Garden, City.
Dear Sir: The Board of Directors of this Syndicate has resolved to send you this letter to remind you that the Legislative Decree which regulates labor in the Republic, has made the following rights sacred to the laborer: a. The termination of an employee must be lor Just cause. The employee shall have right to one month vacation after working consecutively for eleven months. The employee has the right to one day off each week.
week. To work on National holidays is not an obligation, and if an employee work on an holiday he must receive double pay.
e. The legal daily working shift shall be eight hours. Every extra hour worked must be paid for plus twentyfive per cent surcharge.
From now on, in any violation on your part of the labor laws, especially after it is found useless negotiate with you in a friendly manner or with the intervention of the authorities, this Syndicate will proceed to sanction your establishment with a boycott or a local strike during the lapse of time that you may refuse to comply with the law.
Yours truly, President.
Secretary BUFFALO, Edward Frank Flore, 67, a vice presiman feel secure in his employ dent of the American Federa It is sure, as something un same time to both the officials ment, by granting him the tion of Labor and general preavoidable, that the Honorable and laborers, is motivated by right to one months paid va sid the Hotel Res Constituent assembly, following the defficiency of the law which cation, one rest day each week, taurant Employes International the footsteps of the Mexican does not stop, but stir up more limiting his working time to Aliance and Bartenders Inter Legislature, make constitutional differences.
eight hours daily, and forcing national League, died at his laws to benefit the laborer, but all managers and owners of home here Sept. 27.
brings him which only preThe employer complies with establishment to pay a twenty One of America well known judices, brought about by the the law when he feels to do so, five per cent surcharge for all labor leaders, Mr. Flore also differences and conflicts beand generally refuses to carry extra hours worked.
was a member of the AFL tween Capital and labor. Any out the decisions of the Labor However, all these guarantees Executive Council.
legislation of this nature would Office, and keeps appealing the At He was born in Buffalo.
as established by Law, have be a miracle that would armmatter to higher courts, against been constantly violated by a the age of he was washing onize the pre occupation now the interests of the worker, for beer glasses in his father great many of the employers reigning among our workers, from one to years. If he lose in in the country, who has consaloon. In 1890 he joined Local caused by the systematic restantly defy the authorities by 175 of the Hotel and Restaua suit he loses nothing, because sistances of the employers, forrant failing to live up to the laws.
Employes union, and he should have complied at eigners in the majority, against thereafter he devoted his life The head of the department the decrees that fix gua antees first. But, instead of forcing which of Government to the growth and development deals for the employed.
him to pay the amount he reof organized låbor.
with labor matters, has become fused to pay at first, he is made His life was the subject of The Mexican law which we perplexed in many cases, and a book entitled Growth of a invoke is the following: to pay to the employee the handed down decisions in faequivalent of three months salUnion, the Life and Times of Art. 123, Para. XXI. If the vor of the employers. Most of Edward Flore, by Jay Rubin these decisions, to ary, the present conflicts beemployer refuses to put his difcertain and, Obermeier, two of ferences before an arbitration tween capital and labor will be extent, helped to make the LaMr. Flores association.
board, or to accept the decision reduced by ninety per cent.
bor Laws deficient. These LaAt the age of 33, Mr. Flore handed down by the board, the bor Laws created rights, but was elected president of the In the section Informacion failed to fix sanctions for their contract of labor will be taken Hotel and Restaurant Employes Obrera Local in the Spanish as terminated, and he shall be violations, thus making it ridi Union.
Section of this issue, are several At that time the union in the obligation to indemnify culous for us to demand our had 43, 000 members. Today the worker with three months cases of abuses which the emrights.
the group claims a membership salary also with the responsibil ployers have committed against Our experience has now dir of more than a quarter of a ity that results from the con Julio Filos, Eduardo Guevara ected us, and all the other la million, a growth credited to flict. If the negative is against and the employees of the owner borers of the country should Mr. Flore leadership and orof the Cantina America. If in also be so directed, that only the worker, the labor contract ganizing ability.
will also be considered term these arbitrary cases of termby applying timely sanctions Last year, at a dinner held inated.
against the violators, we will here in his honor, Mr. Flore ination the employees could be able to get the respect due told of his trials after becom If our Constituents have an have claimed indemnity, as in to the workers, who contribute ing international president at interest to reduce labor conthe terms of the Constitution greatly the enrichment of a weekly salary of 50, which flicts to a minimum, they should of Mexico, who knows, but that the employers, and who only prohibitive.
He described how have in the new Constitution the Construction firm of Galinseek justice in accordance with made the expense of an office a article similar to the once do and Company would have the Law.
he and his bride, the former quoted above.
fired Comrade Guevara, or that The contents of the attached Mary Echneider, estableshThe causes at the back of Mr. Coffey and the proprietor documents will show you that ed union headquarters in their He attributed his rise most of the differences of this of the home.
we are in a plan of defense, American Bar would through the ranks to the asnature are well known, yet it and that we will apply the have thought a lot before they boycott or local strike in cases sistance and interest of his is worthwhile to refer to them. proceeded in the manner they where it is necessary to deal wife. He served as a member Claims for vacations and pay have done.
with certain employers.
of the Erie Country Board of for holidays, the working day of The Supervisors for 12 years. He eight hours, the militancy of Honorable Constituents We ask you, Mr. Alcalde, to was member of the Elks and the syndicates, after working can and should put an end to give us your opinion on the the Eagles.
ten months consecutively, etc. this struggle between Capital matter, as our desire is to act Surviving are his wife, Mary are all the current motives on and labor, which is getting according to the just indicaSchneider Flore, brothers, which the employers base their worse every day. It is patriotic tions given by you and the Albert, Arthur, William and action for unjustly firing their and just to do so, and we ask Ministry of Labor.
Eugene Flore and a sister, employers. They do so because with the greatest respect that Respectfully yours, Bertha Flore.
there are no brakes to check it be made a part of our Magna them and have them modify Carta.
SEABEE UNIT WANTS TO COME HOME their decision to the causes which the law points out as just By William HOLLMAN these was an important war for the firing of an employee. THE WORKMAN IS Editor of Aero Mechanic. job to be done, but now the If all the differences which BORN AS THE LABORER OKINAWA. The most un war is over.
go before the offices of Social happy men in the entire Pa James Quackenbush, of DIES IN INFANCY Justice at present to be aired, cificare appealing to the Columbia, expressed the were done by writing, in order American labor moement for general opinion of his buddies With this our 15th issue, the to fully comply with all the help.
when he declared: The 71st Naval Construction The huge majority us felrequisities, it would be necesmangement has decided on a Battalion a unit of the famed lows are former union men, sary to employ twice as many Seabee organization has and we quit our jobs and beemployees in the office, and change of name for our organ brilliant record of accomplish came Seabees when the labor this would mean an heavy exing miracles, many times under of publicity in view of the many movement was asked to help pense for the Government, actual fire, but now it believes form a skilled construction In the office of the Second its mission is accomplished and battalion. We were glad to be requests from numerous readers Secretary of the Ministry of men needed at home to help part of the team that won the Labor, there are now laying, to have the paper called THE in reconversion.
war, but now the only future because of appelation, more More than 70 percent of the we can see is for us to be WORKMAN.
than one hundred and sixty me nwere volunteers, and of stuck out on these islands inthat volumes cases that could not be number more than 60 definitely improving bases. The We trust that they will conpercent would not, under or same work can and should decided on there, because it is dinary tinue to give it their support as circumstances, have be done by private capital with impossible to attend to other been drafted either because civilian employes. We hope obligations, and read each day in the past.
of their age or because of es the unions back home take the one case which is made up of sential occupation. They form same attitude and help us many dozens of pages. This return.
ed the Seabee group because situation, prejudicial at the THE EDITOR Oct. 26, 1945 The Minister of Labor, Panama, Dear Sir: Attached please find two copies of communications sent out by this Syndicate. They are sent to you so that your office will take note of our decision to use effective resistance to check the ever increasing violations of the Labor Laws by a great many business places in Panama City and Colon.
We have no other means of achieving our aim, but to resort to a boycott or local strike.
Sir, please give us your opinion on this matter, since it is our sincere desire to act in consonance with the authority of your department.
Respectfully yours, President Secretary October 26, 1945 To the Mayor of Panama City, Sir: The Government by Legislative Decree No. 38 of 1941, hoped to make the working the seabek Soup because Aretun MAL ERNESTO. situation, preluccio.