S. JOHN BLOCK IS CHOSEN MEMBER OF NEW CITY CHARTER COMMISSION
Besiegers Hold the Fort---II IjL/tf believe that some time and " space should be given to events leading up to the /siege in the Penn-Butler Unit of the relief bureau so that the reader...
...Injunction Denied to Fake 'Proprietor' [Strikebreaker] TTHE application of Jack Feld* stein and Sam Deutch, alleged proprietors of the A. It P. Co., shoe repair shop in the Bronx, to restrain the Boot k Shoe Worker*' Union, I-ocal No, 603 (A, F. of L.), from conducting a strike and from picketing, was denied In the State Supreme Court...
...DRESSMAKERS' hTrlem BALL ON SATURDAY NIGHT THE Dressmakers' International Ball, at Rockland Palace, 155th Street and Eighth Avenue, on Saturday evening, Jan, 19, will be one of the largest affairs ever held by any section of the union...
...pictures simultaneously...
...After numerous meetings, during which time Nell Scott, director of relief, a social worker violently opposed to any lay person meddling in "case work," admitted that "UCL had lived up to the original agreement...
...Novie Actorts Ready to Fight for Conditions JMtjJLLYWOOD.—Most of the cor Jljl'ispondents who cover the j gut ©east movie front flood the Dfignd the wires with hot stuff, Hpty Pun*8' scandal, gossip and vMav jhat for the consumption of da) fans and worshippers of Shir|g» fernpie...
...Fletcher Henderson and his Original (Columbia and Victor Recording Artists, well known to radio audiences) and Gerald Clark's Caribbean Serenade™, popular for their broken rhythms of Cuba and Latin counties...
...We found an inexpensive way to dress tVit cuts down on the silk stock^feW;'' Although the report by fMigjBJs' delegates does not con> lHsV^e observations, they staI mHbV Stigmatize the movie mag| HB|kho draw fabulous salaries MiKpBUses and who vetoed the dsjp|piK of the movie workers at ¦ ¦pious code hearing...
...Tickets' can be obtained in advance at the following places for 35 cents: Dressmakers' Union, 232 West 40th St...
...The union further charged that Deutch was brought Into the shoe repair shop Dec...
...Among the demands and improvements listed by the actors were: Strict observance of the 12hour rest period...
...UCl immediately answered the challenge, and on January 17 some seven hundred members assembled in the Sandusky Street unit to protest the way ACERB had mishandled six glaring emergency complaints involving food and fuel...
...Deioerote Coal Situation BeginniiJK in September, UCL continually warned ACERB of the impending crisis in the coal situation, but no heed was paid until 110,000 coal orders had accumulated...
...unit, The Authors' Guild, New York Press Club, etc...
...A poll is being conducted...
...Expansion in this and in publication and research activity is planned...
...The idea behind the affair is to arrange a general get-together for members and their friends...
...In St...
...Comrade Starr from 1014 to 1028 was actively engaged in workers' education in Britain in connection with the -puw »r>4 the Nitlanal Council of Labor Colleges...
...It sarcastically referred to the disclosure of the recent Senate investigation committee that Louis B. Mayer, Irving- Thalfeerg- a»d- Robert Rubin, M-G-M executives, divided an $2,320,173 "melon" in one year and that Mr, Mayer receives $84,500 salary a year...
...This was after UCL, had gone to city officials anil had made available $100,000 out of a city bond is,sue...
...With his wife, Helen G. Norton, he recently wrote "The Worker as Consumer," published by Brookwood...
...The hostile officer turned apologetic and even jsolicituous toward the committee I | when he learned that his fellow officer who had cut up so much on | Christmas eve had been suspended from duty...
...Policeman left for other parts of the building...
...Further KHnee of the screen actors' and pHps' low economic state is the imer of five-cent hamburger MM' that dot Hollywood BoulejSp...
...Upon the motion of Comrade Levy, i the injunction was Vacated si illegal and invalid...
...When possible on new cases, hold orders until time for the"' regular run...
...The circulars advertising the bell li-t also all the varied educational activities provided by the union fre of charge to its members: elates in unionism and other subjects, gym, swimming, music, dancing and dramatic groups, etc, For information, apply to 232 West 40th Street, Room 508...
...ACERB suggestcd to UCL that a central comi mitttee of five, representing eight , groups, meet with them on eom, plaints...
...Sjnce 1928, he has been on the faculty of Brookwood Labor College and for two years its extention director...
...Melon* for Hiqher-Ups the composite motion picture flpr...
...mftamstrung and Lied To At one pretty extra put it...
...In the papers filed by Matthew M. Levy, union attoraey, it was shown that Deutch was not a partner of the business...
...1034, A. K. Oliver chairman of ACERB, attempted tc shove a new plan, which changed the entire procedure of handling complaints, especially emergent';, complaints, down the throats ol the organized unemployed...
...We HK wear these slacks because Osrbo set the style...
...Several of the women, having finished the evening meal, began singing, "Break the News to Mother," and Mr...
...1 l,(*n Independent organization) *W hold a mass meeting Friday P»n...
...Later, through effective work by members of the league on the outside, everything...
...and Hate in Education" exposed the anti-worker bias in the ordinary schools...
...Although Hollywood ^ttV a glamorous and glorious lp for some, there is another Xb-taat is not so refulgent or HiBlendent, as was recently re(gllfd in the <50-page report of the gtteen Actor's Guild submitted to go) Rosenblatt, movie code adminEfiiier- The actors, both the stars .mY.tk* lesser luminaries, caustically «jfticized the producers (sic) in llMSiyiii industry and demanded that th* National Recovery Admin*ifjpsfi|i-help them in their fight foi...
...Bruno Fischer will speak for the Rebel Arts Writers' Group...
...While in Britain, Starr was twice parliamentary candidate for the British Labor Party and he has examined the European labor movements at first hand...
...After tretting this agreement, UCL removed its standing committees from local offices, but warned ACERB that any attempt to abrogate the agreement would mean standing committees in local offices handling any complaints any time and not leaving until satisfactory settled...
...Deutch hes been frequently" used in e number of shoe repair shops to break union control and undermine union standards...
...The Addressograph Department asks that emergency orders be held down as much as possible...
...Many clients, who up to now had been very docile and didn't seem to care much whether "school was kept or not," seemed to come to life, suddenly taking an interest in their family troubles and beginning to' voice their protests louder than before...
...The Citixan's Alliance of Minneapolis has been showing itself again is this strike and making itself felt as the agent of the capitalist groups...
...The plan of the strlk. era is to pick off the garage owners one at a time and sign.them up while presenting their demands to the employers' association...
...Besiegers Hold the Fort---II IjL/tf believe that some time and " space should be given to events leading up to the /siege in the Penn-Butler Unit of the relief bureau so that the reader may have a clearer picture of relief as administered here and the arrogant board with which we have to deal...
...i i.LO.W.U...
...However, PRO is another story, even though involved in this one and opposed by every one of the "siegers...
...The report declared 6a Mr cent of actors and actresses...
...A few minutes later he was relieved for supper duty...
...At midnight, prominent Broad* way and radio stars will entertain...
...ACERB did nothing until UCL took some 1,600 members into the office of the executive director...
...There wasn't much heat in the building, but that copper sure was hot...
...In spite of this the following appeared in the minutes of the supervisors' meeting February 14, 11)34...
...UCL had insisted on this in order to eliminate buck-passing as far as possible...
...runs nearly...
...Four workers had been regularly employed there...
...Banners, posters and decorations ure by Rebel Aits...
...factors must not be loaned to other 'studios, "like chattels," without their written consent...
...freeze to death...
...On January 3, he was convicted and S&V| ordered Imprisoned for three daye or fined...
...Finally he attempted to assault one of the workers with a knife on December 18...
...citeterin, ordei' a cup of I 4p|#t!i an extra pot of hot water, wr-***water into 8 aou|'bow1, ppie an ample helping of tomato l-'lpup from a bottle found on the fmf$t stir and you have a steamH bowl of tomato soup...
...These include a fair basic wage minimum for the various classifications of workers, seniority provisions, elimination of flat rate, regulation of hours and overtime clauses as well as general working conditions and complete union recognition...
...Members of the Writers' Group of Rebel Arts'and all other Socialist organizations are urged to attend individually and in groups, according to Mina B. Ross, secretary, 42 Charlton Street, N. Y. Other organizations invited to participate include the Newspaper Guild • and its unemployed...
...Y. M. C. A., 180 West 135th St...
...The employers' association has been slowly giving in on one point after another, but the union is determined to stop at nothing short of complete acceptance of demands...
...Already in New York and neighboring locals the Educational Department of the I.L.G...
...The social workers became ftiore antagonistic than ever, seeming to realise thst perhaps they had better get the committee out in a hurry or they might "spoil" their "model pupils," who hadn't caused them very much concern...
...Workers are coming to the stike headquarters and joining the union at the rate of 15 or 20 a day...
...Harlem Labor Centre, 8006—7th Ave...
...He nailed up the side door | of the reception room (which the social workers had wanted open all > the time during the day), turned off the lights and swore by all that was holy and a lot that waan't that "no g-d eats or anything else was coming in or going out of the building and I am going to see that they have no lights to pound that damned typewriter by...
...18) to demand adequate fedMP relief projects for writers, wwood Broun is listed as prin¦wepokesraan for the writers IMrs...
...written contracts to protect the free lance and day player who is afraid to exercise his right of collective bargaining...
...W.U...
...1, 1934, and immediately began trying to destroy the union in that shop...
...when Deutch came in, one worker waH immediately discharged, and the others were given partial employment...
...Although it Is being held under the auspices of the Harlem Section, the entire union is mobilizing for its support...
...Filling station workers are plan* ning to go out on strike In nympathy with the striking garage workers...
...Jgthat number 28 per cent earned j Jss than |l,00O...
...APPOINTS MJtff STAtft TO HEAD EDUCATION DEPARTMENT WITH a view to co-ordination " and spreading on a nationwide scale its educational activities, the I.L.G.W.U., through President Dubinsky, has appointed Mark Starr as its educational director...
...discontinuance of arbitration by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and iSciences on the ground that it lis producer-controlled and unfair...
...became peaceful again...
...Montserrat Hall, 207 W. 137th St...
...And the popularity of slacks Mam ^o feminine film folk...
...This was almost a year ago, but even today, in many units throughout the county, supervisors will tell you...
...Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, 106 West 1311th St...
...This incident was the lmme;o diate cause of the strike...
...Employers who have met the demands for higher wages and union recognition are allowed to operate with a union placard...
...21 per cent less Wm $2,000 and 10 per cent under no...
...I In the summer of 1933 the Unemployed Citizens' League was successful in securing an agree'ment in writing with the ACERB, i The document fully recognized the I right of committees to handle complaints and specified that "only a person with authority to render a decision would meet with the committee...
...Suddenly the city controller and 'executive director became very busy and coal began to get delivered...
...The purpose of including these figures," stated the report, "is not to show how much executives make, but to give some idea of how ill it becomes these gentlemen to protest that the industry cannot afford fair working conditions for the actors...
...generally regarded as a Wndthrift of fabulous means, was Wkted in a different light in the enament signed by Robert Mont¦Bkry, Claude King, Ralph MorWfL Kenneth Thomson and Rich¦pTucker, the actor representamm of the Guild, headed by Eddie footer...
...Writers' Union Meets Friday #BE Writers' Union, Local No...
...There is no doubt that the ~ presence of- the "siegers" and the encouragement offered by them had some sort of stimulating effect upon these apparently dead people...
...actors must not be required to play in two...
...Twin Cities Garage Man Battle Owners ly Loo Verses ST...
...The arrangements committee has secured two of the most outstanding Negro dance orchestras to furnish the music for the occasion...
...Declaring ttBI\sd exhausted every effort to dWf an agreement with the proiJpars, the actors charged that uK^had been "tricked, hamstrung Hfevery dishonest practice known IBu industry, the code of ethics *f which is the lowest of all indus"Mf> has been resorted to by the ¦¦peers against the actors," the "•sort said...
...The price at the door Is 11.00...
...We never heerd of an emergency order's being issued before investigation...
...Those garages which have not signed the agreement are being picketed by small groups of workers who hand out pamphlets telling the purpose of the strike and listing garages have signed the union agreement...
...When he returned i the committee was busy eating sauerkraut and wieners which had been smuggled in from the outside...
...Arguments arose about the social workers' not being sble to do their work in the reieption room due to the oder of "Java" the siegers had for breakfast...
...Three textbooks written by Starr have been widely used in workers classes and his "Lie...
...He ranted and raved, glared at the "siegers," all the time cussing a blue streak...
...This is mentioned merely to show the stupidity ol those charged with the care ol human beings...
...Executive Directors Mills came to the unit and, in the presence of newspapermen, promised that these complaints would be taken care of by noon of the 18th...
...Paul the strike hH», in ———— general, been quite peaceful, hut la Minneapolis there have sees s number of cases of violence and shooting against the strikers...
...Soncj Routs Cop * After the social workers had left the building the policeman in) charge suddenly discovered he had . "orders" to issue and then the fun began...
...Food and coal should Mow automatically...
...Lately At cstsup bottles have been withiJRm from the tables...
...Can you imagine a relief . board which has never lived up to , any agreement it made with press, ure groups, proposing a united .. front...
...ti Previous to this application for an injunction, Jack Feidstein and Deutch had obtained an injunction against the union without notice...
...On January <i...
...In October, ACERB kept the UCL out of a joint meeting called to discuss the installation of a Public Relations Office (PRO) by not informing us of the meeting...
...J|;*n Harlow and RonZ^elman...
...Urban League, 204 West 130th S...
...PAUL.—Local 459 in this city and Local 882 Minneapolis nf the Auto Mechanics' and Machinists' Union have been cooperating to carry on a strike during the past week...
...isssjioved working conditions.'' ^WtmfK the actors are so hard i Jsfljjf nave invented an ingeni^tjpjlltclpe for making "soup...
...Gossello or some other »I of the Emergency Relief l^'soS'Seen asked to present *Uef organization's point of In addition, each of the «' groups participating, wiH provide a speaker from its ranks...
...For two days and nights deliveries were made to unemployed who had come to the conclusion that they were going to W}EL()W is the second inatali* " mcnt of the interesting narrative about he Pittxhuryh relief besieijeiH and how they held the fort...
...Challenging the producers'claims -jy higher salaries would wreck the industry, the report said that even in the worse year of the depression only one three-fifth cents of each dollar collected at the box office went to the actors' salaries...
...ACERB was glad to meet with UCL the following day and agreed that "the burden of proof as »> whether or not a complaint is an emergency rests upon ACERB and an emergency order should be issued at once and until such time as an aide could investigate the family...
...On Emergency Order* Despite this, only one was cared for and it was weeks before the others were finally settled...
...that whenever a worker feels it is legitimate the family should be asked to wait...
...It in noteworthy that notes were kept by a number of the survivors of the "siege" and that this human document is their composite product...
...ttliwive of extra players, earned 111 than $3,000 per year in 1033...
...80 weekly classes in recreational and economic topics...
...Docile Clients Woke Up To take up the story where we left it last week, on the day after Christmas things began to liven up around the reception room where the siegers arc still living...
...Finally, unable to i break down the stand of UCL, ' ACERB informed the league that "police would be stationed in some : units to direct traffic and maintain order.*' This was interpreted to mean "intimidation" of relief clients...
...Unions have been unable to~ get" hills' for meeting., The union has arranged for members still working to turn is their wages into a general fund from which everybody, striker and worker, shall draw...
...ACERB stands for Alleyheney ('(unity Emergency Relief Hoard...
Vol. 18 • January 1935 • No. 63
