20,000 Truckmen to Strike
20,000 Truckmen to Strike Bakery and Furniture Men Fight for Reduced Hours COMPLETE paralysis of flour, bakery and furniture deliveries, affecting every pier loading point in the...
...And characteristically, the Brownsville comrades will use the money raised at the dinner to buy radio time for the Mayoralty candidate to spread the doctrines of Socialism...
...Building construction in New York is 10% of normal at the present time while 2,000,000 of its citizens live in vile tenements...
...Fusion headquarters have maintained a deep silence on both...
...Housing funds have never been cheaper than under this act...
...When a chauffeur and his helpers unload such a consignment they have done more than a day's work...
...That had been definitely decided although legal formalities such as the drafting of the franchise contract had not yet been complied with...
...Only the Socialist Party dares to speak out on the two issues discussed in this article...
...The threatened strike may extend to include additional thousands of non-union drivers in the grocery, as well as the other trades...
...He declared that both firms are determined to perpetuate "starvation wages...
...A flour trailer, for example, will deliver 45 tons of flour a day, approximately 1800 bags...
...And that was all...
...1st, at 8, with James Oneal, editor of, The New Leader, and Harold Roland Shapiro, co-author of "The National Industrial Recovery Act" and lecturer on Government at Brooklyn College...
...And what is true of Tammany goes for Fusion, backed as it is by bankers and real estate interests...
...The union, according to General Manager William Snyder and Sam Schorr, business agent of Local 138, has made every effort to avert a general strike...
...Sinclair to Defend His Plan Upton Sinclair, who haa evolved what he calls the Epic Plan on which he hopea to secure the Democratic party nomination for Governor of California will defend his plan at a meeting of the Young Circle League at 8 West 10th St., October 8th...
...In the first place, 80% of the cost of construction is an outright federal g{ft while the combined rate of interest and principal on the other 70% will be only 6?4% per annum, an average for the entire capital investment of only 3.8% a year...
...8 To Be Strictly a Family Affair T11K dinner that will be given October 8th by the Brownsville Socialists will not be a formal affair tendered to a distinguished guest, the Party's mayoralty candidate...
...The Socialist standard bearer suggested that no franchise should be awarded unless the Fifth Avenue Coach Company and all its subsidiaries recognized the union...
...138, unless a demand for a shorter work-week is promptly met...
...The Fifth Avenue Coach Company has powerful backing at Tammany Hall...
...Prominent artists and bands are being retained to make the celebration a colorful affair...
...Louis Waldman, his intimate friend and colleague, will be toastmaster, and the speakers have been selected not so much for their, place in the movement as the fact t^at they are his close and intimate friends— Harry W. Laidler, Frank R. Croaswaith and William M. Feigenbaum...
...The union is determined to fix conditions for its members in the metropolitan area, so that they may serve as a basis for teamsters' and chauffeurs' conditions in nationwide NRA codes...
...That is the answer...
...To date all efforts at conciliation have proved fruitless...
...There is a high-tide of enthusiasm running through the 75,000 workers in the industry of the city that calls for such a demonstration as we will hold at the Garden...
...Hochman declared in announcing the demonstration...
...The strike will affect deliveries from Long Island, New Jersey and other out-of-town points...
...near Pitkin, will be their way of showing their pride and their determination to advance the cause of which he is the banner-bearer...
...Of course, the company claimed that these men had been fired for inefficiency.but that's what they all say...
...Coach Company had been dismissed for union activity...
...Rather it will be a family party given by one of the most.active Socialist groups in the "city to their own boy, Charlie, who grew up with them and whom they regard and will always regard as their own regardless of the fact that his field of activity long ago grew to include the entire city and state...
...J'liE workers in the waist and dress industry, organized under the Joint Board of Dress and Waistmakers' Union of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, will hold a "Victory Celebration" next Wednesday afternoon, October 4th...
...Tickets are being distributed by the Joint Board and all seats are being reserved exclusively for dress and waist workers...
...And so we witness this deliberate sabotage of the National Public Works program by Tammany Hall...
...Why the difference between words and acts, Mr...
...The city administration, therefore, will not lift one finger to help the organization of a union that will cut into juicy profits by forcing an agreement that will raise wages and shorten hours—an end sought by the collective bargaining section of the National Recovery Act...
...Without the prompt expenditure of huge sums on capital goods, manufacturers cannot .be expected under capitalism to put men to work producing for a larger market unless the government first creates new purchasing power by a large public construction program...
...Coach Company, the New York City Omnibus Company, was about to get a franchise for bus operation in Manhattan...
...20,000 Truckmen to Strike Bakery and Furniture Men Fight for Reduced Hours COMPLETE paralysis of flour, bakery and furniture deliveries, affecting every pier loading point in the metropolitan area, will be voted Sunday at 1 p. m. at Central Plaza Hall, 111 Second Avenue, by Teamsters' Local Union No...
...Gertner Strike Still On Local 16, Hotel and Restaurant Employes' Union, reports that the strike against Gertner's restaurants at 1380 Broadway and 711 Seventh Ave., is still on...
...At the beginning of this week the Public Works Administration in Washington announced it contemplated going into cities to build model homes for the workers because the municipal governments of the United States had failed to apply for the hundreds of millions of dollars of federal funds appropriated for this purpose...
...Dinner to Charles Solomon Oct...
...A. I. Bhiplacoff, beloved friend, inspired teacher and long the revered leader of Charles Solomon, insisted upon being chairman of the committee in charge, and in spite of-his illness he will make .every effort to be present...
...At present, he stated, the union seeks for flour teamsters and bakery drivers a reduction from unlimited hours to a 45-hour week and for furniture drivers from 5C hours to a 48-hour week...
...Despite the NRA, class government is still the rule in New York...
...ONLYM Don't forget 1! Time is growing short...
...But meanwhile his administration sabotages those good features of NRA which even Socialists endorse...
...Normally, housing funds cost between 13% and 15% annually of the entire construction cost...
...On these liberal credit terms the city can build beautiful modern dwellings to rent at $20 to $25 for a four room apartment Without any added expense to the New York City tax payer...
...Pending that, the least the city administration can do is to insist upon union recognition...
...The "Victory Rally" has been called by the union to celebrate the great gains scored as a result of its recent strike and the code subsequently agreed on under the National Recovery Act The central point of the celebration will be at Madison Square -GaTden at 1 p. m. where David Dubinski, president of the International, Julius Hochman, manager of the Joint Board, and Norman Thomas, Socialist leader, will head a list of speakers which is expected to include governmental leaders identified with the National Recovery Act...
...Snyder charged these companies with paying drivers $12 a week, in sharp contrast to the $28 weekly minimum and 5 per cent commissions paid to union drivers...
...Next Wednesday will oe the holiday of the dress and waist makers," Mr...
...New York can use this money...
...Mayor...
...The Amalgamated Street Railway and Motor Coach Operators announce 11 of its members now empioyea Dy the Fifth Ave...
...Hochman predicted yesterday that the demonstration would be the largest and most impressive trade union demonstration the city has ever seen...
...It will be a heart-warming affair, a respite from the reigns of the campaign...
...At this rally it will be our great joj to welcome many thousands jf new members as well as the many thousands who have stood by theii union through the struggles oi recent years...
...What was the administration's response...
...Wage demands are not included in the present situation...
...At the same time the Young Circle League, the youth section of the Workmen's Circle, announces that all Circles named after Upton Sinclair will change to names of Socialist heroes, like Ferdinand Lassalle, Karl Marx, Eugene V. Debs and others...
...Of course, the Socialist Party has advocated and will continue to advocate municipal operation...
...A week later Socialist headquarters received a letter from the Mayor's secretary stating that the matter had bocn called to the Mayor's attention...
...The union, he said, as part of its campaign for shorter hours, will call a strike against Dugan Brothers and the Ward Baking Company...
...The Public Works Section is one of the basic factors in the NRA program...
...The union effort to reduce hours," Snyder said, "is intended to relieve the back-breaking toil of our men...
...Labor Under NRA The Bronx Free Felowship, meeting at Azure <Masonic Temple, 1591 Boston Road, will conduct a symposium on "Labor Under the NRA" Sunday evening, Oct...
...The workers will leave their shops at 12.30 noon promptly...
...Involved are 10,000 bakery driven, 500 flour drivers and 10,000 furniture drivers...
...The union, Snyder says, ,t determined to reduce the number of arduous hours of labor for its members...
...We believe that, in line with the national recovery program, it is not too much to ask that these workers have their hours reduced to 45, giving them some leisure to live like human beings and to recover from fatigue...
...The celebration will cement all workers, men and vomer of many races and religions in a stronger union than this city has yet seen...
...For them there is only one enemy, Tammany, although these manifestations of capitalist tyranny and exploitation make the present economic system Public Enemy Number One...
...The walkout of 20,000 truckmen and helpers would take effect next Tuesday...
...Today their hours are unlimited...
...Charles Solomon, Socialist candidate for Mayor, promptly wrote Mayor O'Brien to point out that a subsidiary of the Fifth Ave...
...Reservations must be sent in at once...
...Here was a grand opportunity for the Mayor to practice what he preaches and demand that the principle of collective bargaining —an integral part of the National Recovery Act—be observed...
...The Brownsville Socialists are proud of their own Charlie Solomon, and the dinner an October 8th at the Empire Manor, Thatford Ave...
...Dressmakers Celebrate Victory at Garden Wed...
...Address the party office, 7 East 16th Street, or the Brownsville Labor Lyceum, 229 Sackman St, B'klyn...
...But the real estate interests identified with Tammany Hall fear the competition of municipal housing...
...Tammany Sabotages NRA .By Hen/7 J. Rosner MAYOR O'BRIEN urges the citizens to sup|x>rt NRA as a patriotic duty...
Vol. 16 • September 1933 • No. 14
