Workers Fight Back at Wage Cuts; Steel and Woolen Mills Tied Up
Workers Fight Back at Wage Cuts; Steel and Woolen Mills Tied Up War on Wage Cuts! Resistance to Efforts to Make Workers Shoulder New Burdens'Requires a Revived Labor Movement With...
...The public powers can be taken from the masters in these cities and under the protection of these public powers the workers can be organized...
...1931, the figure had dropped to 85...
...The crowd loudly cheered JI each speaker as he was arrested \ ( and booed and hissed the cops...
...1 Assn...
...Steel workers in Mansfield...
...U XAT10\AL OFFICE AND ITS NEEDS Cor a word about the Socialist national office...
...Weinberg's score rose considerably, although she still .is second...
...at 8:30 p. e m. Dr...
...7. Charles It...
...With the help of our members and-an aroused nubile opinion, we win pioianl this...
...Technically Hoffman, union organizer, was on trial charged with conspiracy to murderously assault strikebreakers...
...That tests the good faith of all this 3 dumping...
...There are trying struggles ahead for the workers of this country...
...The vote for Socialist candidates follows...
...Professor Daniel rm^^^^amuwaiJJTs leading spirit in one of the finest y^^,, Es of Socialists I have met, arranged, the meetings...
...To look ahead , and anticipate events is the generalship that is'required...
...Better a fight against siow sinking to degradation than to stand ' still and plead with the ruling classes to be merciful...
...While io» creases involving 178 employees, in five establishments in five industries, were recorded, there w«f*| i wage Gits affecting 22,502 employees in 175 establishments ia j 38 industries...
...In New Bedford, Mass., Sol Mutterpearl and the Strand I Hana Bag Co., New York "runs-1 ways," have met the same sort of j difficulties...
...His communist opponent polled 199...
...Bernard Schab...
...The case is j t being appealed...
...Nathan BleseL 18...
...This Is the strongest communist district la the city...
...20, was given six i r months and a 850 fine: Howard i - TomJiruon, 19, two months and (50 • fine...
...He started the union ball to rolling...
...The system was artificially bloated and the collapse had ' to come some time...
...Another Hard Winter Ahead I ttNLESS some intelligent action is taken the next winter is likely > \J to witness food riots in many cities...
...For April thnuyear, the averagu j rate paid per month, .with boatjs«t| ! by divisions of *ihe country, wsirt J North Atlantic States...
...he declares that "work is not a salable commodity", etc., i Good enough...
...Centuries of dry rot and corrupt aants in Spain and now this hatred of the Church G OF TYRANNY G the biography and reading of the riots, my Russia...
...The working class is facing a decline in the | standard of living...
...and questions applicants on , their family condition U In 1929 a sample group erf fasnil- , iea waa found to have a n average j income par parson of n o a week...
...Sentence was not pronounced...
...Each was given an additional i year in prison for carrying a conp cealed weapon, but the year's sen•1 tence was suspended, e , j •' Dr...
...But it is not too late to recover the soul and fighting spirit of ¦ the working masses...
...The old hokum of the United States as a nation of "high wages" ¦ | and continuous employment has been deflated like a bladder emptied ! of wind...
...Mass...
...IS par cant had no income at all...
...The breakdown of industry always brings this tragedy to the workers...
...Ohio revolt against a 15 per cent wage cu?, a total i of 3T-, per cent in eighteen months...
...The workers in these shops have been called to a meeting by the local central labor union which has asked the Pocketbook Workers' Union to send an organizer...
...The strikers hare had a series of daily meetings \in -the Rand School, where they have hean addressed by Wolff, I. Lederman and other leaders of the organisation The success of the union in halting the operations of the "runaways" who are attempting to pay wages less than half those paid in New York City has greatly heartened the workers...
...1 Robert Fechner bore the message...
...Family Incomes Out la Bait The weekly income par person of a sample of New York wotfc#i ing families has,tbee*%it in half in the last- two year*, a MflJM conducted bv'the-dSMJr' Seretoj League of America reveals...
...In New York Citwu survey by the Girls' Service League shows that in the working families investigated the weekly income has been cut in half within two years...
...and in 1951, owing to ! the fact that applicants at the bureau had increased from 40 to 150 ! a day, it was possible to study only 188 families...
...Mil conclusion rebuking Socialism is a direct interference of starch in politics of an intolerable sort...
...sentencing j...
...Steel and Woolen Mills Tied Up War on Wage Cuts...
...a Coavtottoas to Be Affected The first speaksr, Anna-Geising...
...Daniel Rit- j ter, a New York manufacturer, es-1 tablished the Universal Leather j Goods Co...
...5. Fred GeadraL 6. Samuel Richman...
...The Fall River labor J movement immediately went into action and before the plant could 1 begin operation, a strike was' called, in which ever 40 workers struck...
...and I steel are the moat affected...
...In April, 1830, the average was 15.57 a family and in stay...
...It ' • Two Allen town Mills Surrender < ALLENTOWN, Pa.—(FP)—The silk strikers have won their first • two victories in the strike of 7,000 , ! workers against wage cutting and , i non-union conditions in the Allen- j3 town mill...
...He was charged with murder in connection with the clash between miners and gunmen which resulted in the calling in of the troops and in which three deputies and one miner were killed...
...j Picketing started in Allentown's [, ! strike of 7,000 silk workers when • I the bosses announced that they ' I would open the mills after a 2-week , shut-down...
...I111 t i p North Central...
...South Dakota, an attractive college town with L^dsstrfes, near the center of a great agricultural state, gave IS earn section of college students, townsfolk, farmers and Egg* which though by no means all eon* jaaesBsa^s^s^^^Bc j to ibciaiism is interested as it has j B g ^ a for assay years...
...Generations Of Adam New Leader Contest Draws Near Closing Gertrude Klein Maintains Lead as Sub-Getters Continue Hard at' Work By .The Contest Editor ' AS THE NEW LEADER cireu- ' J«tton *P*»»t...
...erage reduction ia pay Of 9.4 pes/* Workers MgU Back ""S While giiiiwiisisi>,lisjrwi ia*/port lowered wage standards assf ? scattered reports «f wage easts...
...Wolbar«t at t h e G r o u p I f "Can We Divorce Sin From i t Sex...
...LOUIS— (FT I—In a strictly secret ballot, St...
...Ida Sondeck went up three places aad Abe Be laky, Tipsel secretary, gets,in among the 25 leaders...
...In Fall River...
...Forrest Mervine directly charged that the whole case was a frantic effort to cover the killing of Alberta Bachmann...
...Labor Needs yew Method* ' "J3A^ has arrived for millions of workers who were influenced by the drivel of the buglers of capitalism...
...S. J)r...
...The workais termed it, "The straw which broke the eamel's back...
...Indeed we »-ery offer or every hope of adjustment of trade uia...
...Kentucky, resistance ' to degradation by the miners has taken the form of a dans war, with terror and armed, guards of the company being met by miners with rifles in hand...
...As the case ended j t the chief of police said, "We don't , s like it and we're going to show '•> you we don't Uke i t " Tfie union | h countered his threat by announcing ! 1; another meeting for next week, iv All Lansdale has been stirred by ! c the organizing campaign and the j« arrests...
...The employers had asked for a 25 per cent wage cut and for the right to discharge 10 per cent of their employees annually without stating Or proving any sufficient cause...
...The jailing of these men along with Asa Cusick...
...The executive council calls upon the workers "to resist wage reductions...
...The employers are trying to take advantage of the crisis to make the workers shrmlaar an .the burdens...
...The unions spurned what the i employers termed an...
...As this Is written news comes of 2,400 workers on strike against a wage reduction in the largest woolen plant in one Indiana city...
...1 They disbanded only, after the cops j t sent to the neighboring town of | { Ambler for tear gas...
...Busick Polls Big Vote In Los Angeles Poll...
...Sarah Volovick...
...The union retaliated immediately by authorizing the calling of a general strike...
...This has been futile...
...J. D. Ortiip...
...The union refused to grant this request outright...
...More 'than ever Binstetni way of thn refusal of atnjag (Sight in national wars aad Gandhi's metHods of noa- violent Plpee become important to a race unwilling to face annihilaKSlarge scale war...
...Bail was granted pending application for a new trial...
...Then, under ^ directions from the property owner, the police arrested Mrs...
...Hosiery workers in one Pennsylvania sector face an injunction...
...They did not run say other candidates for council...
...But the Commander of Bsiasriean Legion soon gave that away by saying that he would beUUtprocLs to 7 per cent: What the War Department is after bhfstsolid with business by giving reserve officers commissions Egsf SMn in industry and making their mouths water with mass* eontracts for war supplies...
...Concentration of capital and power proceeds as the intermediats classes are pushed to the wall...
...sol* avenue to avert the walkout is for the company to withdraw its wage slash order, un- 1 ton officers assert •seal Workers Fight Oat MANSFIELD, Ohio — (FP>— ttgktecn hundred steel workers of the MswsneM, Ohio, plant of the Empire •teat Corp., dropped their tools, "pulled" the ares in the furnaces and walked out of -the mill gates this weak in protest to a 15 par cant wage cut announced by the company...
...mLfQ DOING WELL E 5 r Huron, Chicago...
...Atty...
...Dist...
...Later Dorr had < scabbed because the strike "was not exciting enough," they said...
...As a bleak winter is ahead every organization of the workers should in the meantime be formulating policies and programs for consideration at the next convention of the American' Federation of Labor...
...Weisberg in the Brownsville branch of the Party in the cooperative movement to greater efforts than they had made heretofore to get subs for her...
...For the whale country* j the average farm wage ia April I last year was 162 per cent of tftf average for the five-year pafJM 1830-14: on April 1 this year B was only 127 per cent of the prewar average: in January this year J it was 129 per cent...
...Ernest Debs, 466...
...While outside factors were trying to bring about a paaoaful sdjustment of the dispute, the employer* on Monday morning refused to take union workers into their shops...
...did not have to prove that Hoffmann said anything which led to violence, it was enough that some shots had been fired by unknown parties in the night, that there had been scuffles between striken aad scabs and that some tacks had bean found in the road near the mill...
...4. Harry Li ch ten berg...
...president, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, as say- - ing, "Industrial' management is now on trial and unless it finds some corrective method for these cycles of unemployment, the present capitalistic system of finance may be wiped off the map by an aroused and long suffering public.'' Street Car Men Beady to Strike ST...
...The law will reign supreme," said Judge D. C. Jones in instructing the special grand jury that returned indictments against union men and leaders...
...Leasts snsaat officers to oaril a strike to desha*' a proposed 10 per east rectosHon, L8M steel workers to t h » ' Mansheld...
...A traffic cop testified he had never seen any disturbance at the mill but did tell of a mad chase after speeding automobiles carrying scabs, bosses, attorneys and the county detective, who had seen a phantom striker's car chasing them...
...Alfred Hoffman, organizer for the Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers Union, has been convicted on three indictments arising'out of the current local strike...
...S. A. F. Zag-er...
...Then so much the worse for the Catholic Church, for the only religion that will save the world from disaster • true Sorts Ham, Ibis same Pope, you remember, thundered gainst oirth control in the name of all the Celibate Fathers of the Bmreh...
...Disclosure that wages as law as 83 a full-time week are being paid to textile workers in If at «achusetts mills by new firms that] have taken over abandoned mill properties, is made in a formal SB" , port by the Women's Bureau ftf the Department of Labor...
...It's in an outBgfto way location but it's humming with a fine group of young Estin...
...Everywhere Socialists and progressive trade unionists should i point out the perils of inactive watchful watting...
...Bitter attempted to pay wages of 84, $5 sad (6 weekly...
...But what else is labor under the capitalist sysI? What is a just proportion of the "commodities of life" beas capital and labor in a society where "the differences in social Battens in the human family which were wisely decreed by the Mar...
...strictly on the job...
...aad 2.400 workers to ttk» Mtohawaha Buhner aad Wea*a»«: Mfg...
...Evarts' chief of police, and Al Benson, his assistant, Floyd Murphy and Jim Reynolds, strong union workers, on murder charges growing out of the Evarts battle between guards and miners, has been a blow to the workers...
...9. Ben SeaJtxer...
...June 1st is the last day of the contest, and while subs delivered to the office up to midnight of June 1st or postmarked before that time win be credited to con-" testants, nevertheless, we would urge that as soon as subs are obtained they should be sent posthaste to the New Leader office, to avoid the last minute rush and to assure the prompt receipt of the j paper by new subscribers who will f be anxiously looking forward to seeing i t The two most welcome visitors to the office these days are Gertrude Weil Klein and Minnie Welsberg...
...the city's largest factory, • are on strike to sympathy with two 1 cutters who were discharged Frir day...
...Louis' union street car men have voted 3,880 to 34 in favor of empowering their officers to call a strike if negotiations fail to induce the traction company to withdraw its demand for a* 10 *per cent wage cut The company says its earnings are insufficient to even pay interest on its notes...
...Within a few days the march of a mighty plutocracy against ' wage standards shows a movement all along the line...
...3,400 Strike in Indiana i MISHAWAKA, Ind .— Twenty- four hundred employes, men and t women, of the Mishawaka Rubber i and Woolen Manufacturing Comf pany...
...I hsstahile the War Department, just to prove how insincere L l j B j t ' s homily to Europe on disarmament, is thrilling t h e - Efc ahh air maneuvers which only prove how complete and hsato is the destruction which can be rained from heavens to •KjjnsB have raised up from times Immemorial their hands for K|g...
...He denounces "an excessive and left disproportion of the commodities of life between capital and sr...
...of Machinists will back up < the efforts of the local lodges in 1 fighting all wsge cuts...
...Timely Topics By Norman Thomas H s W Successful Socialist Towr—Huron and Oaf* ? p T h ' socialist National Office—Speaking of I mt*' Bp*"*—Againat Wage Gau» " - ' • v \ - Ea Boute to Waatongtoa, ©. C. Kj^gT STIRRINGS IN SOUTH DAKOTA f ' S ? r l e d trip of mine ia one of the moat encouraging I hare J a v Huron...
...February and march the trend, was crverwhelrningr> j o* ward wage reductions...
...The college boys and H li^KI E5^arBed in the morning to the back- I usf siy hosts, Br...
...Such bund and irrespon> sible upheavals will make a bad situation worse and lead to reaction against the workers themselves...
...Then In •' rapid fire succession t h e police ?• yanked Emil Rieve, International " President of the Union, Edward c Cailaghan, general organizer of t the union, Elizabeth Day Hawes, • Hannah Morris Biemiller, and An- 6 drew J. Biemiller, all prominent c Philadelphia Socialists, from the 1 stand, and placed them under arrest...
...The time for thinking and action has arrived...
...His statement directing attention to the story and assertion that the New Loader's aim is to publish the truth regarding Labor's struggles were received with applause...
...When Hoffmann heard what Dorr was saying, he had stopped him , immediately...
...117.50: South '•'wtiflyj $17.88: Far Western, 843 07...
...They are looking after their oven Interests.- We should look after ours...
...I Joe Cawood has a greater political following than any other man in ; Harlan1 County...
...to each district...
...They challenged the company's right to beat down wages .in order to meet stockholder demands...
...Defense Atty...
...A. L. Wol- 1 s barst, under the auspices of The il Group, in the Auditorium, 150 W. l. 85th street...
...The Price & Price i. Mill and the Emblem Silk Mill, |! employing several hundred work- >, i era, have agreed to sign the union j ' wage scale adopted by the strike |', ; committee at the beginning of, the ( • walkout...
...I pi 1 - i U L y i Pooh Bah, the town hanker, trustee • I m -.'-^ bat caCege, etc., etc, managed, despite a • • | ^Sfceulty, to keep me from addressing fl QB |5?«L| P^gjjgaU ia the college chapel but did |j E ?'i"'r ' ! - » Uw hig general meeting in the col- H Rj f ft n a at sight...
...These copies were distributed by New Leader representatives among members of the various locals at their meetings...
...This air show to thinking men proves the necessity of •hattves to national war and revolutionary street barricades in Kjaggle for jusUce...
...and March was overwhelming...
...Jones, Cawood Cusick...
...President Green declares that unemployment "is being more keenly felt: . . . social unrest is steadily increasing" and we "are facing a third winter of distressing unemployment...
...I fear some comrades forget tot a tatjonal party needs a national office, that none of our local EttcsB be really effective without national planning and organ- Clad pushing of literature...
...Harry Ha worth...
...When several workers ware discharged because they attended a meeting to discuss the situation, the struts followed...
...To this the Pope i give no answer...
...The only sugges- , tion of violence made in a strike : meeting was made by John Dorr, • now a state witness, they swore...
...Many of these governments are simply bureaus of > | local chambers of commerce flying the banner of the open shop and I! anti-union policy...
...Pressed to its logical Iiope it will not be) it ultimately threatens the rar which has flared up in Spain IE CHURCH not justify the orgy of church burning in Spain, bean instituted by the enemies of the republic on and the extreme left to embarrass it...
...2L Pierre de Nto...
...Let's hmOUFTlON IN WAR-TIME KkjOW rm on my way to Washington to appear before the War Laifaancies Commission of the Cabinet and Congress...
...As will be seen, there .re few changes...
...Judge Is Operator's Sea Taffictmerits returned by a spe! cisl grand Jury after the militia arrived have placed behind bars without bond both the chief union leader and the chief political leader of the miners, w. B. Jones came here several months ago in the guise of a coal digger...
...Balk Oat INDIANAPOLIS, Inc.—(FP) — . Building trades unionists have suc, ceSsfully prevented a. wage slash i of 20 per cent through a strike...
...The latter is a member of t the history faculty of the Univer- t sity of Pennsylvania...
...What will barricades avail against these •v...
...The jury dismissed two L indictments charging conspiracy to -i murder...
...Both are in jail Son triple murder charges...
...As a result a member of the union offered the aad of his w sporty t a r the Meeting and en an appeal from the union and t he Civil Liberties Union Pinchot requested the meetlag be not disturbed...
...A day later they requested their employees to see them individually...
...in another sector Socialists are arrested for speaking for the strikers, and at Stroudsburg, Alfred ! Hoffman faces a "conspiracy" trial for leading strikers...
...Very few had rrer applied for charity...
...There are no | signs of recovery this year...
...It never was true except for a small group in the upper section of the skilled trades and now that* group is being reduced | to a common level with workers below them...
...An elemental sweep of resentment should summon them together in every organization and in every city to i take measures against the fate that yawns for them...
...The central labor union of Fan River has charge of the strike...
...The initiative must came from the labor army in their local unions, central, district and state organisations...
...He wants higher wages and betoaadtttoaa for the workers...
...Simultaneously, Barnet Wolff manager of the union, announcsd that "runaway" shops which have attempted to set-up low-standard j factories outside" of New York have run full-force into resistance of the respective out-of-town labor movemeats...
...This happens in every collapse of the system...
...Vlce-pres...
...The Soviet government scores, aad scores in Its disarmament proposals, by offering the at nations an "economic noa aggressive pact" to "sale on the home market at prices no higher n market...
...Hoffman was released on $2,500 bail...
...If the union lives up to its traditions of devotion, discipline aad fighting' spirit, there can be no doubt of the outcome," Wolff declared, in a statement to The Now f saner...
...Hoffman was convicted of conspiracy to commit assault and battery on strikebreakers, of "malicious mischief" to throwing stones through strikers' windows, and of "tampering with the automobile" of another "scab...
...Tins report shows that the much tosstSjj "moral pressure," which is the amjm weapon given the state by tflpstj Massachusetts minimum wage htt*j3 Is utterly powerless against tslfj hew type of sweatshop concern...
...LaBar answered that he...
...Not a day passes that the press does not carry similar news...
...Daniel F. Gage...
...At NUes in the same state 10 i per cent is taken from the workers...
...May 26th...
...Unionists, Socialists Jailed in Lonsdale (Br A stow I n S n C*rrws*a4«at> LANSDALE, Pa.—Even a request from Governor Piachot did not prevent the boss-controlled local government officials from breaking up a meeting of the hosiery union held hare today on private property...
...As a result Mrs...
...One group I of 4.500 iron aifB steel workers took a cut of 3 to 30 per cent, «gf, 2.317 lumber and sawmill workers) had their wages slashed B to j | | per cent, while 2,090 hosiery and' knit goods workers suffered an av...
...In the past twenty years they have marched to the headship of the great industries...
...Eric Marschener...
...The upper class of industrial magnates and their banking allies are gathering in the holdings of the smaller fry...
...Several of the 70 contestants who were away down on the list have responded to last week's announcement and having obtained 50 points or more are now entitled to "America's Way Out," Norman Thomas's much discussed new book...
...The labor army is urged to assume its responsibility...
...U. S. Reports Pay Slashed In General But Organized and Unorganized LaborShow* Signs of Resistance 1 WASHINGTON—(F P ) - » f | ports to the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics from manufacturing establishments show that in January...
...They have made up their minds that she shall go to Vienna this summer to attend the Socialist International Congress as the first prize winner, but as the active spirits in the Brownsville branch feel the same way about it so far as their candidate is concerned, no one can be certain of the outcome of the contest until it is over...
...Henry Koeteer...
...It came and found most of the working masses thinking that American capitalism was going to produce a Utopia of happiness...
...appear la the press, there to j some evidence of resistance ! among organized aad unergasV 1 lzed workers...
...ABek Anderson, 426...
...or $7 a week, i | k? in some cases have paid as low as S3 for full time...
...FP) — "The I 1 j public must be protected," said | f; Judge Calvin 8.> Boyer...
...t At the hearing ail were fined " ten dollars sad costs...
...Irving Wolf Salert...
...Abe Belakyf 28...
...Now a fighting note is j sounded...
...As President William Green ' of the IissmIsbb n i l a o f j Labor nrged mlMteat i|i|iiistthUl 1 to all wage onto, St...
...a t mihsTTaha, ledlaan strike la PeaaayrraahvT*"* ^ff i Farm Wages Lowest Beans ltfB Farm wages are the to east atons...
...In St...
...1 Indeed, the situation is such that emergency conventions of the workers might well be held in every state to consider measures of resistance and programs of action...
...In New England the machinists have decided to fight any more proposed wage reductions...
...Not only are wage workers and working farmers being pushed down to lower levels of living...
...Ida Sondeck...
...The outrageous exclusion fas Soeisiist ticket from the ballot has shown once more that Lsanaad for justice must be backed by power...
...Painters Like New Leader Socialist Party organizations are Bet the on*y ones to appreciate The New Leader...
...City elections are con-partisan No party label appears an the ballot...
...IT ON WAGE CUTS <• declaration of war against wage cuts is all to "ill mean little unless backed by better machinery L. used in the Danville textile strike or the PatLi strike and batter organisation work than i t has he best fight is now being made by the West Vireration, outside the A. F. of U because Green's the United Mine Workers, sold out or laid down West Virginia...
...fusal of the workers to confer with | them...
...who is third, is expected to bold his position, For several weeks the Mldwood branch has distributed copies of the New Leader from house to home, and at the request of the branch the office has sent a letter to the first Bat of about 70 names informing them that a member of the Midwood branch would call to see them shortly to solicit their subscriptions...
...This t is the first strike of any consee quence in the history of this manun facturing- city of 30,000 with two y factories, the largest of their kind * in the world...
...Bill Busick polled 1,188 votes...
...They should awaken the masses, revive the crusading spirit, stir up discussion, formulate measures to meet the situation, and then fight 'against ; the measurleas greed that would transform the nation * toiler* into I subservient mudsills of an arrogant exploiting class...
...Un Fall River...
...After the -workers remained out , two weeks, the Associated Con, struction Employers of Indianapo, Us notified the union heads that the • demand foe a wage cut had been abandoned and the former union • scales would be paid...
...Judge Jones married a daughter of the late W. F. Hall, wealthiest coal- miner and operator In these fields...
...And power means Lrwvrr« The number of union folks at the banquet and their ffrmtj at the concluding half hour of the LLD.'i "university E^r", generously made possible by the labor station, WCFL...
...Round-lp of Workers...
...The cries of distress that come from the labor front brought the first fighting note from the American Tederation of Labor in years...
...Leaders Follows Swift-1 ly oft Indictments 1 HARLAN...
...But Catholics not too ignorant to know how seem to prack* birth control about as much as Protestants, Jews and free Hasan...
...Benson and Hightower, according to citizens and business men, interviewed here, were seen in | Evarts during the battle which was half a mile away...
...The govrb severely such rioting, and it did its duty...
...Kurt Sell...
...The present depression is the most severe in our history and it promises to be the longest...
...The Cook County banquet packed Eu 360 in and then turned them away...
...No poliI could stir up such extensive riots were there not y intensely bitter against the economic exploitaal enslavement to which the church has been so in the country of the Inquisition, iter of an able biography of the great Conquisteaks of the immense flowering of the national ollowing the final triumph of the Catholic soveand Isabella, and the expulsion of Moors and, mold the fruit...
...Z suspect they will increasingly practice Socialism...
...Sariloff...
...February...
...Many, hundreds of copies are being disposed of at open air meetings, the Chelsea branch still leading in the number of copies actually sold at such meetinfs...
...We have turned a definite point in our industrial history...
...In , 11929, 500 families ware studied, ia 11990...
...land Machinists Conference has 1 received assurance that the Intl...
...0 er, woman organiser for the union had spoken about fifteen rainutea whan a man appeared and told the chief of police > e owned ? most of the neighboring property aad he would like to have the meeting stopped...
...Hell, yes, we shoot to kill: that's what we have ammunition for," said Sheriff Blair according to a newspaper story when questioned about the trouble between his men and the miners...
...A*» cording to the Assistant CosbsjeJN sioner of Labor aad Industries for Massachusetts, who made the Investigation, these new concerns have moved into disused plants and have taken on full-time workers at go, 86...
...The strike was called bes cause the company would not rec- ognlne the union, of which more e than 1,000 of the strikers are mems bars...
...Louis Safeton...
...The union replies j that its members are not oorpora• tion partners, do not share in the ' extra receipts when business is • good, and therefore must not be ' called upon to pay the company's '• debts...
...This was t he culmination of a series of wag* eats which totals over 87%% during the past 18 months...
...UnionHeads J a i l e d in Harlan, Ky...
...He was the j fifth arrested, the secretary of the union, the Evarts chief of police, assistant chief of police and town ! clerk already being in custody...
...The Pope's statement is another illustration of well meaning but fioal interest in social Justice...
...Efforts to indict company guards for intimidating and abusing union miners who entered upon company property for the purpose of calling for mall at post offices In company stores were waived aside by the grand Jury, according to W. A Brock, prosecuting attorney, elected by the miners...
...i Shooting at Girt Admitted j Bago told of shootings in the 1 night near his home, admitted they j had not been reported to the police, that no one had ever been 1 hurt, and that they stopped when 1 the company got the injunction it ] wanted...
...It has already done so in the case of Circle 9, T. P. 6. I*, the members of which Save already begun house to house distribution of the Party Organ...
...before the arrest, which was made as he was arranging bail for the other four, he said that the governor aad the commander of the militia had doublecrossed the striking miners...
...51, not only cooperated in the distribution but insisted that Ben Blumenberg address the well attended meeting...
...We did not pat on a very active campaign for lack of funds...
...Louis street car workers by an almost unanimous vote have decided to strike against a 10 per cent cut«if negotiations fall them...
...He is the "miners' candidate...
...Because of hard times the financial Ctha*t going well, though otherwise the work all over the counEgoss better than since the war...
...Labor Mu$t Act far luelf THE New Leader has been calling attention to this for more-than a year...
...The wage cuts, however, \ averaged 10.3 per cent and cov' cred 81 per cent of ail employee** ' in the plants concerned, Textiles, lumber and steel were the industry groups reporting the most redue» tions in pay...
...There the party is in better shape than I 2^, seeo it for ten years...
...Zeuaner is the secretary, is a labor organisation which recognizes tBa educational value of this publication...
...m * . says a report in the May *» sue of the Monthly Labor Rarteaf of the U. 8. Bureau of Labor Max tistics...
...This will undoubtedly suggest itself aa a good method to pursue by other branches...
...The wage cuts affect 1T6 estabnsh! menu hi 38 industries...
...Representatives of this banking oligarchy for the past six months have been giving orders for wage reductions and their will in industry is law...
...1 He denounced the wage cutting program of the bankers, and quoted Daniel Willard...
...31.28: South AAI lan tic...
...United Mine ; Workers of America, waa arrested by the militia...
...It has brought only a nightmare of disillusion and i despair...
...Wags cuts ranged from t pa* cent for 58 men's clothing work* | era to 80 per cent for 19 worker* | ' in a fertilizer factory...
...This request has been met and organizing work is going swiftly ahead...
...In the upper range of the system are the ruling bankers...
...Very few workers , • tried to go back to the mills, and ; these were met by 1,000 pickets • who reported at 5:30 a. m. in a ; driving rain at strike headquar- i s t e n . 1 . The union has published its dei mends, which include the right to . join any organization of their own choosing, no discrimination against union workers, and the establishment of grievance committees to | handle complaints in the shops, j i Easton Strikers Jailed EASTON...
...It is not unusual for them I to bring in from 25 to 50 subs at a time...
...Machinists to Fight Cuts BOSTON— (FP)—The New Eng...
...As a result four officials of the union and three prominent Philadelphia Socialists ware arrested and charged with disorderly conduct For some time the union has i CP—ttosil r%4* Tkt— been carrying os an.- <irgaiit»h^ campaign araong the employees of the Dexdele Hosiery MBL Last wees the Burgess refused a re- - quest for a permit on the grounds gj una to have the meeting, held...
...The Joint council of the union then authorised the railing of a general strike at such a moment as the officers deem necesary...
...At first cautious la their statements, in the past few months they have more openly-announced thai * workers must surrender and be content with less rations for themselves and their families...
...Hightower had led the miners* in welcoming the troops to Evarts a few days before, saying that the mine guards would now be disarmed and the miners would be | free to organize and form their union...
...A fantastic trial in which it was difficult to tell who was the de- I fendant and what the crime marked the latest efforts of the court . and the district attorney to smash ' the hosiery workers' strike...
...This Com- was born in a hypocritical pretense of "conscripting wealth Psjsat man power in the next war...
...We would rather die fighting than starve working," was the way they put it at a huge mass meeting: Building Tradesmen...
...Socialists ran four candidates for the- city council There are fifteen counestosaatc districts to the city...
...and Mrs...
...Pocketbook Strike Call Is Authorized "Runaway" Shops Meet Resistance in Mass.— Strike in Fall River DI F F I C U L T I E S between leather goods workers and employers in the New York mar- j ket over the reaching ql a new working agreement reached an open break this week when employers in the Industrial Council of the Associated Leather Goods Manufacturers locked out some 2,000 members of the International Pocketbook Workers* Union...
...e Due to wage cuts, the men are s said to have been averaging 58 a day, three days a week...
...We are paying toi j our folly, paying for our years of neglect to guard against Inevitable | disaster...
...Gel- . singer, handling her very roughly ™ and leaving several bruises on her ° arms...
...More and more the workers have been pressed to the wall...
...2. Minnie Weisberg...
...1 Police appeared on the scene ha- *? for* the meeting started and noti- % fled the reporters present that the meeting would be - dispersed be- " •mm mama ,^»i,lu,^a* mlil • I 11 I • cause neignDonng property owners „ SDjeciaa...
...So that the district attorney was confronted with . ^he fact that the* husband of one t of his witnesses, Nellie Miller, had 1 just been freed by a grand jury's x refusal to Indict when it waa free- 1 ly granted that he had taken part c in the slaying of a girl striker, 1 Alberta Bachmann...
...So that was t h a t As the P S L' J I! U shotograpber wrote on a picture he took I I Etta top of the house: "once more pro- jaf %, rW Ejg didn't prohibit...
...Blair is strongly entrenched wtih the operators...
...August Bago, < father of two of the four who t took part to the killing, was an- i other state witness, calmly con- t feasing that when his boys shot 1 at the girls and killed Miss Bach- l mean no one had been near his i property to give any offense...
...J. Knttor...
...Hartwich and M --R^lKfl II ETai iht grass...
...It passes the hat | to the workers in the form of a , j proposition to hold 10 per cent of ' I all salaries and wages for 90 days use the money to pay interest and ' 1 pro-rate the balance, if any, after ! interest is paid...
...Hoffman Is Convicted On 3 Counts Stroudsburg Jury Con* victa Labor Leader While Striker's Murderers Remain Free (Br A N«w I—S«r C»rr*st»n<trni STROUD6BKRG, Pa...
...The Communists have, EpBj more paid workers in Chicago alone than we have in the juss United States, at any rate, outside New York City...
...the workers of the nation face a slow descent to lower levels in the social order unless they summon the courage to fight all along the line...
...offer of ax1 nitration, realizing that the bosses r would arbitrate only on the basis • of a downward revision of wages, l Several thousands were affected...
...Perhans'the chief reason for Miss KleinT fine showing is the "remarkable support she is re- j ceiving from her co-workers in the headquarters of the New York Joint Board of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers...
...per cent of the employes In thosjfe I plants...
...j The High Wage Hokum Di»ap peart AGENERAL survey by the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics . shows that the trend towards wage reductions tor January...
...The announcement in the last issue that Miss Klein was in the lead spurred the friends of Mrs...
...Bradford...
...It proved this by ordertag 1,500 copies of last week's isaaa which contained an article by Louis Stanley on the front page of the onion's light to enforce the prevailing rate of wages for their members...
...Local organizer Phelps im- " mediately took the platform- He * was at once arrested...
...The local labor movement then took notice...
...Loses by 700 Ballots (By A Haw I — irr C»ii—s«»S>mli LOS ANGELES...
...I. F. Mincher...
...The fruits of a generation of organization are going j into the pockets of the rulers of industry...
...It ought to be, to I EH§I 1 Epjlfl troubles of farmers and workers...
...Those on the hlsdier wage levels are the first to be "Reflated...
...There the Soviet government maintains n and its own propaganda to make the people Immediate results are an immense flowering of yen as in Spain for the half century following the The ends to which the Russian government directs ial salvation of the masses from poverty and the jtrofit system, seems to our generation preferable ble than the Spanish end of saving immortal souls re and torture...
...One local in particular, No...
...The winning candidate in each district polled about 2,000 votes...
...Living in a fool's paradise for ten years after the end of the World War...
...Insisting on some form of protection for its members...
...There were about ton candidate* running...
...will be the subject of a lec- j i- ture to be given by Dr...
...Ethel L. Amerlia...
...He condemns us to perpetual class struggle...
...two hosiery workers to jail terms • for alleged beating of a scab in 3 the Bethayres knitting mill strike...
...POPE ON SOCIALISM r*0 the Pope says: "It is not .possible to be at once a good Catholic j and a frue socialist...
...Dorr and his crowd then became the most bitter scabs...
...Wage increases-tm the first-named group averaged 5.8 per cent and affected only t...
...Tt* < League attempts to secure tobs for ' girls between 13 and 22 years of age...
...Textiles, lumber...
...George Great, 440...
...Ohio, pleat of the Wtm^ plre Steel Corporattoa struck" against a 15 per east out, bafleV lag tradesmen la sadtoaaSMeto prevented a 2* per eeat isdsai Won...
...Of those, it was ' found that 27 per cant ware try- j ing to live on less than fa per parson a week...
...Spain such riots give, food for thought...
...Now of all times we cannot afford HBitse opportunities that are around us...
...The "lock-out" in New York City came unexpectedly Monday morning and broke an unsigned "truce" which was understood to be ia affect pending the signing of an agreement to replace that which expired May 1st...
...must not and cannot ever be abolished...
...His cold-blooded story of i how his boys shot at the girls with i Bachmann as they ran screaming < for help away from the volleys of the eight men again raised the is- j sue as to why the slayers were ] not even brought to trial The strikers testified as long as Judge Shull, who again repeatedly < showed his anti-labor bias, would : allow defense attorneys to put j them on the stand, that Hoffmann : had again and again urged a . peaceful strike...
...We cannot afford to let conditions drift That mean* futility and despair...
...The ranks of the strikers are fast, the employers meeting the stern refusal of the men and woman to deal with them as individuals...
...At the ballot box these usurpers are weaklings, The workers ' are invincible...
...The District Qaaacfl of Painters, of which Philip...
...The winner In this district polled L960...
...Time has been wasted in passing responsibility for acticn to- the employing class...
...In many cit| ies it will be necessary to kick the nonpartisan political policy out of their counsels end organize to take over the powers of the city i j governments...
...Resistance to Efforts to Make Workers Shoulder New Burdens'Requires a Revived Labor Movement With Effective | New Policies FROM every section ftf the United States comes news of »age reductions...
...At Harlan...
...How the Entries Stand The folowing is the standing of the first 25 contestants as we go to press: L Gertrude Well Klein...
...Other mills are expected ( ! tO fOllOW...
...That's the way we like to see them coming in...
...njnjroache* tts close the office is .preparing for U$e happy task of entering hundreds of new subscriptions during the doming week...
...This is a difficult situation requiring all the common sense aad devotion every union member posooasas...
...Sol Berman 12...
...One difficulty was that no scabs had been murdered while one girl striker had been...
...1 The workers are 100 per cent organized and their decisive strike > vote is commanding attention from r | industrial magnates who heretoi | fore have had no consideration for such common things ad labor on-) iens...
...Ky.-(FP)—Within a few hours after' he made ! public a statement in which he i said that the starving miners of 1 Harlan County were fighting with their back to the wall and that they would help themselves- unless they soon got help from others, William M. Hightower, president ,of the Evarts local...
...Efforts by em-1 I ployers to deal with the workers as individuals met the •niform re...
...Wolbarst is the author oi d the frankly written and widely discussed sex book...
...But is there not a very similar irs to come from this method, no matter what tent do I mean this question to suggest a hypololier than thou" refusal to trade with Russia >me conscription of labor in the war against povfor one brief second support capitalist embargoes coercions at home for private profit...
Vol. 12 • May 1931 • No. 21
