Senate Body Takes Up Bill On Injunction
Senate Body Takes Up Bill On Injunction Debate on Treaty Proriding Senators with gandy Alibi for Sidestepping on Issue WASHINGTON. — ( F P ) — Six of the 17 members of the SJBSU judiciary...
...Caraway and Robinson voted against Yellow D o g Injunction Judge Parker, while Stephens, defending Parker, told the Senate that when the injunction bill came up the Senate would ne that a vote for Parker did not BMan support of the yellow d o g Injunction...
...The May issue of the Journal of Electrical Workers and Operators, official organ of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, deals with the 28th annual meeting of the League, held March 13, in the Roosevelt "Hotel, in New York...
...This is true of many textile workers in this state...
...Walshon of Montana, Asb-erf and Dill...
...The A . & P. has practically completed a warehouse at Maspeth, Long Island, with scab labcr from top to bottom...
...N . C — ( F P )— Encouraging reports of organization progress in North Carolina cities were submitted to the Asheville Central Labor Union by Organizer G. W. Marshall of the Intl...
...organizations who...
...The matter was referred to the Executive Committee of the central body, which is expected to place the A. A P. on the unfair lisL In the discussion on this subject the teamsters' delegate supplied the information that Daniel Reeves' was the only chain grocer that employed union drivers at the present time...
...He voted ht committee and in the Senate in scBOSiticr...
...Allan Mark, District Board member, talked with the Lone Star superintendent in an attempt to arrange for a conference of the pit committee and the superintendent to give the two miners a hearing, as required by the constitution...
...The convention voted support for the Norris resolution for g o v ernment operation of the Muscle ShoaU power plant, condemned the Nashville Banner for using non-union labor in its printing department...
...Philadelphia, Fort Smith, Kansas City, St...
...New members art being educated in the trade" unioi movement principles, and the thought is being instilled that a! the evils that have crept into tht industrial system over scores ol years cannot be eliminated ovei night, but must be corrected through time and patience and cooperation...
...The need for a union and the desire for one continues stronger than ever...
...Their views as to the need for abolishing the use of injunctions to break strikes are no longer in demand from the press...
...faced far the first time the challenge o f organized labor that Congress •eke good on campaign pledges to give unionism legal safety in flat country...
...One of the leaflets, entitled "Labor's Politics — Labor Must Have Its Own Political P a r t y" is an appeal to working people to end the division of their p o litical strength, and to adopt the method of the ruling classes of uniting their forces behind an organization suporting a single p o litical philosophy...
...Wednesday evening, June 4. A . J. Muste and Mr...
...Senate Body Takes Up Bill On Injunction Debate on Treaty Proriding Senators with gandy Alibi for Sidestepping on Issue WASHINGTON...
...I have just read The Red Napoleon...
...If he continues his dilatory tactics, he is in fact aiding the National Association of Manufacturers, the fseret League for Industrial Rights tad the other anti-union organizations of employers...
...Six can be counted tafaltely in opposition—King, Wat t n B « » Hebert, Gillett, Overman tad Bastings...
...fraternal dslegate tc the city central for years, made hU usual pleasant add re Secret "Industrial Rights" League Plans to Strengthen "Yellow Dog" Contract Electricians Journal Tells of Gathering of 400 Anti-Union Speakers In New York WASHINGTON...
...Andrew W. Mellon, he said, has been actual president since Harding's administration...
...Cordell Hull was indorsed for the U. S. Senate and Pres...
...Cincinnati, WUmington...
...Five New Unions Started in Asheville...
...The strike does not involve hours, wages, or other union conditions...
...Senators Have Alibi To all senators, inside the committee and out...
...BWasel for the Association of Baflway Executives...
...No one knows who pays for it...
...Merritt asserted in his annual report that legal advice had been given in the past four monthj in disputes i n v o l v i n g Worcester, Bridgeport...
...counsel for the National A s sociation of Manufacturers, and Daniel Davenport, general counM and Walter Gordon Merritt, ••ociate counsel for the League •"or Industrial Rights...
...Hamilton ,0...
...since the strike began in January...
...Aymon and Sec...
...There was no such hotel...
...Merritt refused to disclose any names, saying that he did not know, and that anyhow, the members joined with the understanding that their names would not be made public without their consent...
...When Manager Tartamella took the floor, he emphasized the unfairness of Knispel's hasty action because it had been the Barbers that had taken the initiative in seeking s hotel where union waiters could serve at the dinner to the President of the Barbers...
...manager of the Journeymen Barbers' Joint Board of...
...called on international unions to place organizers in the South...
...Their childrens' chances for education and some decent American standards of living had likewise vanished when the coal Industry had collapsed...
...Lockport, Cleveland, Schnectady, New Britain, Grand Rapids, Pittsburgh and Wilkes-Barre...
...It underfasss -to outlaw the yellow dog •"•tract, to forbid Injunctions Math interfere with strikes and MMT labor union activities, and to *fafward the civil liberties of the Makers, whether on strike or not...
...Bernard Harrigan...
...Taxi Drivers Back at Work: To Build Union After a strike o f a week, more than 3.000 New Y o r k taxi drivers have returned to work...
...His course ia committee as to the Norris bill k watched with great interest...
...and hotel and restaurant employes Pittsburgh Taxi Strikers Accept Compromise Settlement PITTSBURGH— ( F P > — A compromise settlement giving drivers 37%% of receipts, open shop with no discrimination against the union and the right to present grievances through representatives has been accepted by taxi strikers by a vote of 471 t o 33S...
...When the wobbly members of the committee receive enough letters and telegrams, bluntly worded, as te>the basic character of this bill u'an instrument of emancipation from yellow dog slavery and f r om dictatorship by prejudiced federal judges, then they will cease to wobble...
...N. Y. Meeting to Protest British Policy in India A mass meeting "to protest against British atrocities in India" will be held in the Rand School auditorium...
...The Lewis men found tbe men there 100 per cent, for the Howat union and were so told by the two miners, Phelps said...
...The Socialist Party, which through Norman Thomas, August Claessens and Edward Levins on, gave as much assistance as possible in the shape of organization talks, funds and publicity, is ready to throw all its resources into a steady campaign for a union...
...As matters are n ow drifting, organ T e l labor in every trade and m every locality in the United States will have to take action...
...The Rev Dr...
...He declares that any a t tempt by a union to order a strike in violation of this contract constitutes law-breaking, and may be enjoined...
...Party Issues Leaflets on Labor, War ( B e a N e w L e a d e r C e r r e a p e n d e n t) CHICAGO.—With t w o n ew leaflets just Issued b y the National Office of the Socialist Party, the program of a continuous supply and distribution of literature throughout tbe country, recently embarked upon, is being carried forward on a scale unprecedented in recent years...
...Emery Also Present Four hundred union • breakers were present at the banquet.- At the head table were, according to the union scout's report, five lawyers who make big fees by fighting unions, one president of an insurance company, two presidents of speculative real estate firms, an anti-union manufacturer, a power magnate and a paid lobbyist for anti-union manufacturers...
...It is a far-fetched story to be sure, hut fraught with a great many possibilities...
...that the contract had not actually been signed, as Knispel had supposed when he had made his announcement at the last meeting of the Central Trades but that only a deposit had been given...
...It does its work in the dark...
...Syracuse...
...The walkout was one o f the most complete in many years, but lack of preparation and support1 from the labor movement kept the spontaneous, unorganized walkout from being fought through to victory...
...This year's convention was devoted largely to a harangue by Merritt directed against the Electrical Workers' Union...
...On the other hand, should the court decide that the injunction which ties his hands in Illinois should not be in force any longer a bitter and probably bloody' fight may result before Lewis exknowledges final defeat...
...Tht drivers originally asked for 40% o f receipts, and union shop...
...commissioner for the operators, issued a statement which sought to shift the blame to the t w o miners fired...
...The w a y tbe Special interests support both old parties, and receive in return the favors upon which they have grown rich, is illustrated b y t a c ts taken from legislative hearings and other public records...
...Emery asserted Bat "We believe the policy proMed win retard the notably proPMsive and improving experi•sats in collective employment "Rations which have been charac*n * t i c of our industries...
...Labor Convention in Fighting Mood Textile Employers Come in for Vigorous Denunciation at Federation Session CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, (F.P...
...Dan Hassett of Plate Printers' Local Union -No...
...Melish...
...Composed of 26 men...
...Organization is also proceeding in the American Tobacco plant...
...After work she returns home with her children to make supper put the chiildren to bed and to her housework...
...The agreement provides that drivers no longer have to p a y f o r articles damaged or stolen on the j o b. Tenn...
...The Federation convention told him so plainly in resolution and the reports of officers...
...In this modern age of new industrial relations based on frankness and cooperation, the League For Industrial Rights prefers to move in the limbo of darkrness, shunned by all honorable men...
...might plan similar affairs in the future...
...that the management of the hotel in question refused to cooperate...
...Thorn's statement declared that "There is no danger that organ| labor will be oppressed or •*rirninated against under our fann of government...
...58 brought up the matter of the union label again...
...Alabama labor will also insist on a l aw forbidding the employment of women and children In the cotton mills at night...
...F.P...
...Bosses Lobby Busy On the desks of committee memMB were laid printed arguments °PP<wing the bill by Alfred Thom...
...F P ) — A t last a trade unionist has, in disguise, attended a gathering of the ultra-secret League For Industrial Rights, once the American Anti - Boycott Association, which has since 1903...
...The bill provides a MeJaration of public policy fav*tag labor union organization nahuut discrimination or restraint • the part of employers...
...We are going to wake up some day and find the fight is on...
...Party in the last elections...
...headed by the late Elbert H. Gary of U. S. Steel, the invisible government gathered around a table in New York after the war, said Smith, and decided upon a deflation of labor and the farmers which shook billions out of the pockets of producers...
...cotton, mill workers are almost 100% organized, the machinists' organizer told Asheville delegates...
...H was informed by a delegate of the United Garment Workers that Hart, Schaffner, Marx clothing was not made b y unionists affiliated with the American Federation of Labor (Amalgamated Clothing Workers) but that clothingsold by the John David and Josejh Hilton stores was...
...The local at the Lone Star mine is No...
...Assn...
...No specific action was taken on the Elizabethton rayon atrike...
...asked Gov...
...Progress Is Reported ASHEVTLLE...
...Doubtful members are Caraway, peaces, Stephens and Robinson of mM/tm who may be persuaded by pitamTT from organized labor in tjjtir respective states to support $e bill, and Steiwer of Oregon •to will probably land in the employers' camp...
...He declared one man was fired on charges of incompetency and that after he had been ordered away from the pit, another man assailed the mine superintendent, and that he, too, was discharged...
...Girthright reelected to their federation positions...
...In callit g for tbe 48-hour law from the aezt legislature...
...A. and P. Stores Under Attack By N. Y e Unions Chain Store Company Has Been Defying Building Unions for Several Weeks rIAT the A. A P., grocery chain has for months been defying the building trades unions o f Greater New York and vicinity was revealed at the last meeting of the New York City Central Trades and L a b * Council by Delegate E. H. Mean of Sleamfltters' Local Union No...
...Mark said the superintendent refused to meet with the pit committee and said he would not retain men in his employ who refused to support Lewis...
...It is a challenge to the coercion of the mine owner who discharged two members of the union because of their activity in support of the reorganized union headed by Alexander Howat...
...The men return to w o r k with none of their grievances met, and with resentment against their mistreatment as high as ever...
...Paul D. Aymon told of the lives of textile mill women: "She gets up a t 4:30 or 5 o'clock in the morning, gets 'breakfast for herself and possibly two or three children and prepares, a lunch f or them all," he said, "Then she places the children in a nursery under the care of people who are not intimately interested in their welfare and goes to the mill to work as long as ten hours...
...been contesting in the courts the right to picket, the right to call strikes, and the right to boycott...
...F P ) — Six of the 17 members of the SJBSU judiciary committee can I , counted upon, after two days 4 debate in executive session of taat committee to support tbe bill .^icn is designed to outlaw the egjltrw dog contract and to give porkers a guaranty of freedom to grgiaize and function in labor un5? These six are Norris, Borah, gjijae...
...2«53 Washington Boulevard, this city, at the rats of $2.50 per thousand — ^ — „ — There Is no good In argatag with the inevitable...
...Asks More Organizers T h e " invisibje government" came in for a slashing attack from Chairman Paul J. Smith of the A. F . o f L.'s southern organizing committee...
...Mill owners and financiers who felt their ears burning during the sessions of the Tennessee Federation cf Labor convention In Chattanooga can blame it on fiery criticisms uttered from the federation platform...
...to Parker...
...It is not M°sssary to elevate them into a PMferred and privileged class in ***r that their just rights shall j * protected...
...Let us get ready for it and let us organise to Oppose clan legislation, to introduce fair and sound legislation, to see that the proper type of men are put into office and that they function when they are in...
...He explained that John Tartamella...
...In Durham, he said, 60^c o f the Liggett & Myers tobacco workers had been unionized and f r om 90 to 95% ol the highly skilled craftsmen in the big plant had lined up...
...and licensing of barbers...
...w h o fear to confess their hostility to this fundamental trade union safety bill, the grandstand position given by the pews to the discussion of the London naval treaty comes as a godsend...
...The contempt proceedings, according to Lewis' official journal, are "not regarded as of outstanding importance...
...They are 'truck drivers machinists, auto mechanics, clerk...
...James Em•ry...
...Deneen, who for the past two years has offered o b jections to getting the bill before the Senate, is reported by Chicago labor officials to have experienced a change of heart...
...The value of the construction goes into the millions o f dollars...
...The effectiveness of the leaflet is enhanced by a reprint of a poster used by the British Labor...
...Separate locals are being formed for white and colored workers...
...The light had gone out of their lives...
...said Trumbull...
...Two Miners Fired Two days prior to formal calling of the Lone Star strike, the men walked out after the two miners in question had been firad...
...Charity agencies of Chattanooga have been "working under a load that is without precedent," they admit...
...He declared that the former local miner unions were "union graveyards" which, he asserted, were dug by officials of the old organization...
...Continuing Walker said: "Business houses were in bankruptcy, the entire community was a lost hulk...
...Walker in Iowa Meantime John Walker, secretary of the reorganized union, returned from a trip to Iowa where he reports widespread unemployment and destitution in the coal fields...
...Boston, Indianapolis, Chicago...
...At present there is no limit on the number of hours...
...Vice President Lehman of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees deplored the embarrassment caused to the Barbers and asked that hereafter organizations communicate with Fred Cohen, secretary of the Waiters' and Waitresses Joint Board, when they were planning dinners...
...New York, had done his best to have the banquet served by union waiters...
...Membership Concealed It recites the investigation made in 1916 bv Chairman Frank P. Walsh of the Federal Commission on Industrial Relations, when Merritt was on the witness stand, to determine the identity of the membership...
...He had been joined by the sign painters' union, the sheet metal workers and other unions as well as the sign manufacturers...
...Delegates Sinnigen reported for the Union Label League that the Union Label Store in Brooklyn kept but a small supply of union cigarettes, because they were unprofitable to handle and that large quantities, when wanted, have to be ordered from the f a c t o ry in Kentucky...
...of Machinists...
...CHATTANOOGA, Tenn...
...The unionization cf the waiters Irrespective o f labor banquets and the organization of the allied workers were not dic-ussed...
...Horton to prevent a repetition of the Columbus prison holocaust in the firetraps used for prisoners in Tennessee...
...On this band of super-industrialists and financiers he blamed America's entry .into the World War...
...As the Journal points out in its leading article, no one knows wtyj belongs to this anti-union league...
...Often she has to do tbe family washing at night after a long day's work—and her mending and other household tasks as well...
...Copies of both leaflets are now being mailed to all branch aad local secretaries of the 'Socialist Party throughout the nation...
...Unlike former years, when the state labor convention went through a routine of regular business, the 1930 sessions were overshadowed by the^ great fight of rayon workers in the eastern Tennessee h i 1 1 3 against the Bemberg-Glanzstoff Corporation...
...Claessens turned out to be the most popular" of the strike orators and had to answer calls for service at all times of the day and night...
...The leaflet is intended primarily for use among trade unionists and Socialists who are members of trade unions can use it to advantage...
...He generally is found cooperating with Merritt in opposition to labor measures before committees of Congress, j ar in the courts...
...Other ' leading labor demands are: a workmen's compensation act to protect widows and orphans: free textbooks: formation of a bureau of labor in the state agriculture department...
...The meeting is being held under the auspices of the India National Conirress of America...
...with t show of weariness, "Why, I have MM so deep in the study of national defense problems in connectkarwlth this Lhndon treaty that I have not had a chance to examl a carefully the details of the Harris bill...
...They can be furnished by the National Office...
...Saiendra N. Ghose...
...The coercion of the mine owners is considered to be pressure brought by them in support of the Indianapolis organization headed by John L. Lewis...
...Court Hearings On Lewis Open In Springfield Reorganised Union Charges Violation of Injunction — Strike On.in Kansas ( B y a N e w L e a d e r C o r r e s p o n d e n t • SPRINGFIELD, ILL.—The first strike in the Kansas district of the n ew miners union has been voted by a local union employed by the Lone Star Coal Company strip mine near Pittsburg...
...1111...
...Newark, Portland, Ore., Dayton, Auburn, Detroit, Albany, Athol...
...Demands are coming not only from unemployed breadwinners, but from dependent and neglected children...
...No one knows who are i ts officers —except that Daniel DavenDort is its general counsel and Walter Gordon Merritt its associate counsel...
...The committee considered the formulation of a policy to meet this coercion and while it has made no public announcement of its program the strip mine strike near Pittsburg was called the next day...
...Is its first executive session on the anti-injunction bill the Senate judiciary committee May 15...
...The local strike followed a meeting last week of a strip mine committee of 15 miners...
...The Greensboro Central Labor Union has placed a paid organizer in the field...
...He denounced the interference of labor in political affairs, and linked unionism with communism in his list of dangerous movements among the workers...
...The other leaflet is entitled "How to End War.'' Reviewing the mounting cost of armaments, the | causes that make for war, and : the failures of the recent World I War to achieve any of the "idealI istic" objectives for which it was supposed to have been fought, this leaflet is particularly timely because of the naval arms conference just held...
...Medford Is Boosted Secretary Quinn announced that he had represented the Central Trades (at a hearing before the Committee on General Welfare ol the Board of Aldermen In opposition to an ordinance prohibiting signs on the side streets along Fifth r venue...
...A l a — ( F P ) — Eight hours a day is enough for women aad child workers in Alabama's cotton mills, declared the Alabama Federation of Labor In convention at Tuscaloosa...
...A shorter workday is needed to cut unemployment and restore busi-' ness prosperity, he said...
...Ftve new unions have been chartered in Asheville in the past few weeks...
...It is said that the non-unionists were brought in from out o f town and that the unemployment situation helped in the s c ab operations...
...Phelps reiterated that neither he nor the other men at the Lone Star mine will return to w o r k until the two men«.are fully reinstated to their jobs...
...The campaign in Danville,"' he said, "is being conducted on conservative lines...
...Horton sacrificed the labor vote in his campaign for reelection when he sent state troops into Elizabeth ton last year to break up the big textile strike which drfew out 5.000 of the "purest Anglo-Saxon Nordic" 3tock in America in a turbulent high-spirited labor revolt...
...t a b o r Dc!>ate P o s t p o n ed "fte debate between Joeeph D. 2 * n ° n and L3onard Bright on J*"" and tactics c f the AmerFederation of Labor which . ! ** u n ? - n c c d to ta'.:° place On ^3 has been jJoslponed to Alabama Labor Seeks 48 Hour Law for Women and Children TUSCALOOSA...
...the Charlotte body has now affiliated all crafts in the c i t y: and the Danville, Va...
...The convention declared for the 48-hour law f o r women and children in the mills and for abolition of night work...
...The only argament available with a watt wind ts to pat ' an jour overcoat.—Lerwell...
...Loom fixers in Durham cotton mills have joined the textile workers union, Marshall reported...
...In ac•twauee with this policy...
...John L. Lewis of the old United Mine Workers and 32 o f his followers are in contempt of court for violation of an injunction obtained by the Illinois district of the reorganized United Mine Workers of America...
...Greater...
...Merritt urges development of the anti-union contract — the yellowdog contract upheld1 by Judge Parker...
...Rochester, Elmira, Washington, New Haven, Hartford...
...N J one knows who controls it," says the Journal...
...The threatened picketing of the dinner to General President James C. Shanessy of the Barbers at the New Yorker Hotel because of the absence of union waiters will not come off, according to an announcement made by J. William Knispel, Delegate of Waiters' Union Local No...
...Amer ican Federation of Labor for hii good attendance at the meetings of the Central Trades...
...Gov...
...According to Sam Phelps, president of the mine local, the men wera discharged because they had words with Lewis representatives who ^attempted to organize the mine for the Lewis group...
...These are manufacturers or other employers w h o are banded together to secure injunctions, prosecutions and punishment of labor unionists whenever an industrial conflict arises...
...A c tive spirits among the strikers are determined to begin building a strong union immediately...
...But until these letters tad telegrams arrive, in hundreds and thousands, the London treaty wfll be unctuously quoted as the reason why senators have no time for mere millions of working people and their right to improve their condition...
...That they are in reality the vital issue for Lewis is evident from the fact that If he is found in contempt and the injunction finally sustained he will be c o m p l e t e ly through as a miner leader in Illinois legally as well as practically, which is already the case since all but a few Illinois locals have deserted his standard...
...The 6-hour day and 5-day week can produce all the goods the country can consume, the A . F. of L. representative declared...
...Arguments were begun May 19 in the state circuit court at Springfield on whether Pres...
...Or when asked the pointblank question as to where they stand on the outlawing of t he injunction in labor disputes they can say...
...These men who had once occupied these homes had drifted no one knows where, their chances for a good life had gone with the closing down of these mines...
...Against Night Work Pres...
...that considering the expense to which the Barbers had already gone in preparing for the affair that no pickets would be employed this time but that this was a warning to...
...This League f o r Industrial Rights was alleged in 1921 to have 2,000 members...
...Trumbull of Connecticut, an anti-union manufacturer in the electrical industry, also 3poke...
...of India, will address the meeting...
...but cherished by the thug, the gangster and hold-up man...
...Louis, Minneapolis, Seattle, San Francisco...
...This is the third offer made by the Parmelee Transportatici Co...
...This last was James M. Emery, counsel for the National Association of Manufacturers...
...This action on the part of the coal company in discharging t wo members of our union," Howat said, "should be conclusive proof to mine workers in this district of how Lewis and the coal operators of District 14 are working hand in hand at the present time, and have been for several years in the interest of the coal operators and against the best interests of the United Mine Workers of America...
...President Ryan praised Organizer William Collins of the...
...Father Cox, who has espoused the strikers' cause against opposition from his bishop, warned the company the men would strike again at the first sign of violation of the agreement...
...Ttt big rayon plants would have been unionized had it not been for Horton's strikebreaking at the behest of the mills, it was asserted...
Vol. 10 • May 1930 • No. 16
