N.Y. Labor Fights Changes In The Compensation Law
Stanley, Louis
Big Victories Are Scored By N. Y. Milliners Pact Signed With Association — Thugs Are Routed—15,000 Quit r>E N. Y. millinery worker* union has stepped into the vanguard of the New York...
...William Kelley, International Vice-President of the U. T. W. of A., presided and introduced Frank Schweitzer, General Secre- ' tary of the Central Executive Board of the Amalgamated Un- ; Ions of Paterson, N. J., who gave i an outline of the proposed plan of 1 the new organization, and the ben- 1 eflts to all silk workers by the < formation of this organization...
...out of about 125 In the district The striking locals Include some of the most strategically situated unions...
...minimum wage scales are fixed...
...i _;__ » Helen Keller to Be Guest 1 Of Women Trade Unionists s The New York Women's Trade ¦ Union League invites its friends to - attend the Annual Meeting and - Reception Monday, March 21, • 1932, at 7 P. M„ at 247 Lexingr ton avenue...
...Reservations can be made by phoning Robert A. Hoffman at Orescent 8070-R...
...N. Y. Labor Fights Changes In The Compensation Law - "i By Loula Stanley THE impending emasculation of the New York State Workmen's Compensation Law aroused the indignation of the delegates to the Central Trades and Labor Council at the last regular meeting on March 4. They and their organizations were urged to send telegrams of protest to the legislators and to appear at a hearing before Governor Roosevelt...
...Secretary Quinn read a communication from Secretary O'Hanlon of the New York State Federation of Labor, calling attention to the great danger that the Workmen's Compensation Law was facing...
...Pa., will be sent out from temporary headquarters at 201 Market street, Paterson, - in the very near future...
...had determined to push through four bills...
...Monday, International president Max Zarltsky announced the signing of a pact between the union and the newly organised Women's Headwear Group, Inc...
...The strike toot place Monday morning, March 14 as scheduled at a meeting held the previous Friday evening ol representatives of 44 local union...
...Schweitzer was elected tempor- J arv aeer«tarv of the new Federa- , tion...
...We are presenting a pro- 1 gram that we feel will meet a < great need among the silk work- 1 ers and we hope that from today 1 great strides will be made in this < new National Union...
...Quinn thought the measure had an ' excellent chance of being enacted - into law at this session of the Leg! islature...
...Nathaniel Spec tor, head of Local 24 of the union, and others addressed the Mecca Temple rallies...
...1 "We must, therefore, organize < the workers in the entire industry I so that we may present a united 1 front in our efforts to better con- < ditlons...
...An organization committee of 700 fearless and determined men and women, later Increased to 1,000 did the trick...
...Capital has always seized the opportunity to < attack wages and lengthen hours ' by using the workers in one district against the other during ! their struggles...
...Y.—Efforts are belnj made to form a Buffalo chapter o: the League for Industrial Democracj with the object of holding a regulai luncheon or dinner forum...
...Hours Of work are cut from 44 to 40 a week...
...Waldman has acted as volunteer counsel In scores of cases In behalf of the Socialist party, labor unions and Individuals, of tjich his successful prosecution of the Harlem Tammany election board case and the City Affairs Committee suit against the Walker bus franchises are typical...
...J The resolution stated that the 1 objects of the new Union are the ' complete organization of the workers In the Silk Industry and the establishing of uniform wages, hours and conditions of work...
...William Green...
...I A resolution was presented and enthusiastically adopted creating ] the American Federation of Silk Workers, affiliated with the Amer- 3 lean Federation of Labor through 1 the United Textile Workers of ' America...
...Delegate Steine berger of the Bookkeepers, asked that publicity be given to the quea- tion in the daily press...
...An invitation to participate in this conference will be issued to many other interested silk workers...
...Max Zuckarman, former secretary-treasurer, received an ovation when he congratulated the union on carrying through its victories by their own strength and not by "proxies" such as are, unfortunately, occasionally used by other unions...
...The new contract Is probably the most advanced Industsssi agreement in the needle trades...
...There is a new enthusiasm as a result of this conference and a hope that the near future will bring about a national unity among the workers in the silk Industry that could be attained in no other way...
...The lire: meeting will be held Monday evening March 21st, at the Riviera Restaurant, 454 Pearl street, at 6:30 p. m. The speaker will be the Rev...
...i "The Silk Industry has been in 1 a state of chaos and confusion for < many years due to overproduction 1 which has resulted In starvation < wages and long hours for the 1 workers," Schweitzer said...
...In the future they would have to i obtain the approval first of the r State Industrial Board No reasons - are specified for the possible rer jectlon of an application and the - bill if passed may raise important - questions of policy...
...The Republican majority at the behest of the manufacturing interests represented by the Associated Industries, Inc...
...Another Conference is being called in the very near future with delegates representing the various New England Silk organizations with a view of bringing these locals Into the new Union...
...The workers were in high feather...
...Ten thousand of the workers— those employed in the association ahops—returned to work oa Friday, while the others entered on Individual strikes to make the industry 100 per cent unionized...
...The leaders of the strike an those who were prominent in the "Insurgent" movement of last year, particularly Thomas Maloney, whose followers claim he wm elected President of the District over the incumbent, John Boylan, but that the election was stoles from him...
...With almost mechanical precision, 25 of these shops were brought into the union fold...
...2. Adherence to the present five-year agreement by the discontinuance of wage cutting and the restoration oi wages where they have been reduced...
...A bill Intended to curb dual 1 unions was reported by Secretary e Quinn as having been introduced 3 with the backing of the New York • State Federation of Labor by Sen- ator Cosmo A. Gilano of Rochester - and Assemblyman William F. Con1 don of Yonkers, both Republicans...
...They had been Introduced by Republicans...
...A call for a second conference to be held on April 10th at Allen town...
...Fully 7,000 jammed two iiuge halls In Mecca Temple...
...The affair had the air at a gala celebration...
...The committee ignored the operations of "Tough Jake" Kuremann, king of the racketters In the millinery trade, and drew one set of workers after another out in successful strikes...
...Silk centers of New Jersey enthusiastically organized themselves Into the American Federation of Silk Workers within the United Textile Workers International...
...The bill amended the genr eral corporation law and the mem...
...A second bill prohibits the industrial board from reopening or continuing any claim for compen- , satlon or acting on any claim after three years had elapsed from the date of accident or from the date , of payment of the last award...
...Plan L. I. D. in Buffalo BUFFALO, it...
...Edward F. McOrady, representing Pres...
...1 bership corporations law so that f labor organizations seeking certi' flcates of Incorporation could no ' longer secure them by merely ap5 plying to the Secretary of State...
...It Is 1 time that the workers attack this < problem intelligently...
...The full strength of the union was shown in the open Thursday morning when fully 15,000 workin quit their machines and work tables...
...Dr David Kliys Williams of Rochester an annual visitor to Russia, whow subject will be, "The Religious Significance of Soviet Russia...
...Culminating in a oneday strike of some 15,000 men and women, the ¦ union went through a week of notable achievements...
...Belle Waldman is to be associated with her husband in his law practice at his new offices at 802 ¦roadway...
...One removes from the State Industrial Board the power , to determine questions of fact in awarding compensation in cases of death claims and permanent total disability claims and throws all such cases into the courts in the same manner as in negligence cases...
...Waldman Dissolves ¦> Law Partnership Louis Waldman, state chairman of the Socialist party in New York, and Ellas Liber man have dissolved the partnership under which they have practiced law In New York City for the last eight years...
...The problem of unemployment insurance must be considered on request of the union...
...Miners Strike For 3rd Time In Anthracite Walkout Takes Place in District 1 Despite Of f .rials"1 Attitude (Br a New Leader CerreeaeadeBt) WILKES-BARRE, Pa.—F o 1 the third time within one year the miners of the northern anthracite coal field comprising District 1 of the United Mine Workers of America have gone out on "outlaw" strike...
...Under the new agreement, which will operate for two years, contracting shops, long the source of debasing standards of work and wages, are to be eliminated...
...There were 60 delegates present, representing more than 8,000 workers of Allentown, Eaatori, Bethlehem, Northampton, Stroudsburg, Wllkesbarre and other silk centers of Pennsylvania, and Paterson, West New York, Pompton Lakes, Summit, PhuUpsburg...
...For the first time in ten years the union agreed to recognize an employers' association and deal with it collectively...
...This time the movement has spread from the Glen Alden Coal Company to other companies...
...Big Victories Are Scored By N. Y. Milliners Pact Signed With Association — Thugs Are Routed—15,000 Quit r>E N. Y. millinery worker* union has stepped into the vanguard of the New York labor movement...
...The strikers demand: 1. Equalization of work and the reopening of abandoned collieries on ar equalization basis...
...A third bill deprives a surviving wife of widow's compensation if she did not live with her husband at the time of the injury resulting in death, unless she proves actual dependency upon the deceased or de- ] sertion...
...3. Abolition of the individual contracts with the company to do a section of a mine and then employ miners on their own ternu to do the work...
...President Zaritsky, Norman Thomas and Heywood Broun, Socialist leaders...
...Silk Workers Organize New Federation Easton Conference Results in New Grouping Within U. T. W. (Bjr a New Leader Corrrapondrnt) EASTON, Pa.~A harbinger of hope for the silk workers was seen at the conference here Sunday, March 13th, when a Paterson delegation was enthusiastically received by a Pennsylvania silk workers' delegation...
...no worker may be discharged until charges against him are proven...
...This will be 1 followed by demands being made 1 upon the employers for a uniform i standard, based upon the results i of this study...
...Helen Keller will be t guest of honor...
...Co-lncldentally with its signing Of the pact with the association, the union launched a campaign against the gangster-protected shops which have hitherto resisted the union's organization efforts...
...A fourth bill strikes at de- : pendents of deceased workers by i reducing in some cases to almost i ML <J>- , nothing the amounts received by >t dependent parents, grandparents, t- brothers, sisters and grandchildren, d Delegate Gaa of the Paint0 ers, reported that the Building >r Trades Compensation Bureau had g instructed its affiliated organizaI- Hons to appoint standing commlti- tees in readiness for any hearings a that might be held...
...As a first step toward this end , a complete and detailed study of i the wages and hours will be made i by the new Union...
Vol. 13 • April 1932 • No. 12
