Four Negro Miners Go On Trial in Kentucky
Four Negro Miners Go On Trial in Kentucky Nine Workers To Face Court This Monday Lack of Adequate Defense Funds Endangers Lives of Defendants (By » New l*»drr Correspond*...
...CedarwoU of the National General Defense Committee will address the audience...
...Four Negro Miners Go On Trial in Kentucky Nine Workers To Face Court This Monday Lack of Adequate Defense Funds Endangers Lives of Defendants (By » New l*»drr Correspond* nl) WINCHESTER, Ky.—Are the four colored heroes of the Harlan coal mine war to be aent to the electric chair...
...Sub-manufacturers shall only work for a single jobber...
...How an armistice could help children who were underfed before the 25 per cent cut Feb...
...Cleveland General Defense Arranges Concert for Miners A concert to raise money for the defense of the Kenutcky miners will be held under the auspices of the Cleyeland General Defense Committee at the Women's City Club, 1826 East 13th street, April 22...
...4. The Unemployment Insurance Fund shall be re-established with this difference - from the former fund, that the contributions shall be paid by the employers, including the jobbers, at the rate of 3 per cent of the total weekly payroll in each establishment...
...Witnesses must be brought from Harlan to Winchester...
...Ohio Strikers Weigh Plea for General Strike 8,000 Miners Now Out in Fight for Better Wages COLUMBUS, Ohio...
...The men have been confined, since the battle of Evarts, either in the filthy Jail at Harlan, or In this place, to which they were brought on the notorious change of venue procedure granted by Judge D. C. Jones at Harlan...
...Possehl narrowly escaped death last May when a gunman opened fire on htm, International President Arthur M. Huddel and Frank E. Langdon, editor of the union's paper...
...In making the present agreement last fall the longshoremen had already conceded a cut in the overtime rate from $1.30 to $1.20 per hour...
...Connelly did not suggest terms but said differences were "petty" in view of the "thousands of underfed and underclothed children" of the striking miners...
...8. f | Phil Lynch and his "Pennsylvanlans" supply the music for the dancing...
...To Have White Jury Bitter race prejudice exists among the middle class white men of this Blue Grass section, who will undoubtedly be on the Jury to try these colored men...
...The first victim was to have been C. E. Haury, International representative...
...Some of our prominent Jewish stars appear as well as kiddles...
...Previously they had summarily rejected all such proposals...
...This was the first case which came before Adolph Feldblum who was reelected as Impartial Chairman by the four parties to the new collective agreement just as It appeared that the absence of an Impartial chairman would bring about a difficult situation...
...The union contended that in the Goldy Ann Dress Co...
...Meanwhile Brig...
...Sunday night will be Socialist night, and all party members are Invited for...
...No such situation as has appeared here could have arisen had the trials been condcuted in Harlan...
...N. Y. Dress Union Wins First Disputed Case The dispute which was the immediate cause for the severance of contractual relations between the International Ladies G a r m e nt Workers' Union and the Association of Dress Manufacturers has been settled In favor of the union...
...The union replied that the depression had hit the workers too and that a wage reduction coming upon the already diminished earnings due to partial and total unemployment would only make their lot worse...
...In the meantime these complaining members and some thirty others had already obtained an order by a unanimous decision of the Appellate Division granting them the right to carry out an audit of all the union's records...
...Wholes* will - m a on "Heaven...
...Cloak makers Put 8 Demands To the Jobbers Conferences of Union Will Soon Be Held With Contractors FLLOWING the lines laid down in the demands to the cloak manufacturers set forth in The New Leader last week, the International Ladies Garment Workers Union asked the jobbers organized in the Merchants Ladles Garment Association to comply with eight requests in formulating the new agreement to replace that expiring June 1. Among the chief demands are the following: 1. Jobbers shall only employ as many sub-manufacturers as they can supply with full time work...
...The Brooklyn contractors have Intimated that they will want a separate agreement...
...The indictment was upheld by the Appellate Division last summer and Cbmmerford must now stand trial...
...that eve Milliners Join Issue With Hatters' Union The insistence of the Cloth Hat, Cap and Millinery Workers Union that it will only deal with one employers' association, the Women's Headwear Group, with whom it recently signed an agreement has been put to*the test by the declaration of the National Association of Ladles Hatters, claiming to represent 75 of the manufacturers of the better grade millinery, that it would not deal with the union...
...Among the workers in the Harlan field race prejudice is unknown, they are splendidly loyal to each other in their common struggle...
...Admission will be 85c...
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...After the strike he had reemployed them without their former privileges and when the union had protested he had dismissed all the employees and hired new ones This the union declared was a lockout...
...2. The impartial chairman shall prescribe a uniform set of books for the industry...
...shop the employer had forced resignations from four workers just before the general strike by withholding their pay...
...Karth and Hell...
...Ludwig C. Connelly, commanding the National Guard observers in the Hocking Valley strike zone, is pushing a proposal for a six months truce, with a government umpire to see that both sides observe armistice terms...
...Their request had previously been denied by Supreme Court Justice Isidore Wasservogel...
...The men involved are the Harlan union coal miners who were aent here by the coal barons of that field on the framed-up charges of slaving Jim Daniels, a Black Mountain Coal Corporation mine guard thug, in the fatal clash between striking miners and gunmen at Evarts on May 5. Those who are now destined to feel the heavy hand of the Harlan coal company prosecution (which may send some of them to the death chair) are Andrew Hench, Henry Oliver, Ganzie Banks, and Elsie Phillips, colored, and Chester Poore, Elbert Shadrick, Charles Shadrick, Pleas Thomas and Roscoe Dameron...
...Theatrical Unions Consider Cuts for Opera Workers Following a plea of Manager, Gtullo Gattl-Casazza of the Metropolitan Opera House that the members of the staff take wage reductions to cut down expenses and help make the continuation of opera possible next season, representatives of the unions involved have indicated a willingness to consider the matter...
...Commerford has been under Indictment for a year on a charge of criminally conspiring to force a builder to buy material from a company in which he was Interested by threatening the builder with a strike...
...In the Bronx Supreme Court Justice Joseph M. Callahan heard testimony in the suit of eighteen members of Local 125 to restrain union officials from Interfering with their rights as members...
...Only two weeks ago the police of Washington, D. C, arrested four men and a woman on a charge of plotting to assassinate the officials of the International Union of Operating Engineers...
...The supervisor has complete power over the local, supplanting the will of the membership...
...1. Discussions with the leaders of the Grand Opera Choral Alliance are to follow...
...1, he did not indicate...
...The plaintiffs testified that they had been arbitrarily deprived of employment by union officers...
...The cases will be called up next .ionday in the court ,of Circuit Judge D. S. Shackelford...
...The plaintiffs in both suits have been particularly bitter against the International president, John Possehl, and the man whom he has appointed supervisor of the local, Patrick C. Commerford...
...EngineerUnion Fight Is Taken To the Courts Members Level Charges of Corruption Against Officials—Violence Is Reported CHARGES of corruption in the International Union of Operating Engineers were again brought to light by two court actions...
...Huddel was mortally wounded and Langdon was blinded in one eye...
...He shall have the right to examine these books at any time and he shall do so at the request of the union in order to check up on violations...
...The ship lines claimed that the falling off of shipments and the decline of the cost of living Justified some relief in the form of lower labor costs...
...The jobber shall be responsible for labor conditions in the shops of his submanufacturer...
...Which means that the friends everywhere of these poor mountaineer victims of the coal trust must'Immediately come to their rescue, with funds directed to the General Defense Committee at 5S5 West Lake street, Chicago, 111...
...Bosses Seek to Slash Longshoremen's Pay In spite of a one year's contract which the owners of the ship lines signed with the International Longshoremen's Association only six months ago to cover the New York piers, the employers have asked the union for a wage reduction, which has just been decisively rejected by a vote of the membership...
...That is what intensifies the gravity of the situation they face...
...Thomus in Stamford Monday STAMFORD, Conn.—The Stamford Socialists have arranged for a lecture by Norman Thomas in the Burdick High 8chool Auditorium, Monday, April 4, 8 P. M., on "The Breakdown of CapltalTHE FREETHINKERS Jose Miguel Bejarno will speak on "Mexico's Fight for Freethought," under the auspices of the Freethinkers of America, in the Stelnway Building, l i t W. 67th St., Sunday, at 3:30 p. m. At 2:30, Major Jos...
...Now the owners wanted a semi - annual adjustment which would slash the hourly wage of 85 cents...
...The slowness of the association in agreeing to an impartial chairman had made it necessary for the union to take matters into its own hands...
...F P ) — Unless an agreement on wage scales is reached by April 1, miners of Ohio and the West Virginia Panhandle will not only strike, but will ask national officials to call a general strike all over the country, declared President Lee Hall of District 6, United Mine Vvorkers, where 8,000 are already out...
...Just how the attendance Of union coal miners, who can testify to their Innocence, is to be obtained is the problem which confronts the General Defense Committee, which is "defending them...
...One of this year's features Is the restaurant being conducted under the supervision of the Socialist Consumers League, Br...
...It is understood that conferences will next be held with the contractors organized in the American Cloak and Suit Manufacturers Association...
...But one thing is certain...
...Ten booths of attractive merchandise must be sold out in the last few days...
...Sterling trials...
...The association had insisted that the union wait until an Impartial Chairman be appointed...
...3. When a jobber sets up an inside shop he shall cease to be a member of the Merchants Ladies Garment Association and shall sign a new agreement with the union as an inside manufacturer...
...This is the question that is the center of interest in this Blue Grass section as the: time for the trial of the nine defendants, confined in the Clark County Jail here, approaches...
...Concerts are given every evening...
...The accounting order was granted on the basis of accusations that the officials had taken members into the union Illegally, that they had wasted and misused union funds, that they had increased the local dues from $4.25 to $6.50 a week, that they had i blacklisted members making it Impossible for them to obtain work In New York City .and that they had called strikes without good cause and often for their own profit...
...President Max Zaritsky of the Cloth Hat, Cap and Millinery Workers Union has reaffirmed the union's determination to deal with only one organization of employers and stated that if any members of the Women's Headwear Group also belong to the National Association of Ladles Hatters they will be held strictly accountable for their observance of the terms of the collective agreement between the union and the Headwear Group...
...The time Is short, an\( so are the committee's funds, which were mainly used up in the Mt...
...The situation of all nine men is desperate...
...B'sville Bazaar Offers Gala Closing Events The Bazaar of the Brownsville Labor Lyceum will last until Sunday evening, April 3, 1032...
...Conferences have already been held between the management apd Edward Canavan, Chairman of Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians, and James J. Brennan, President of the Theatrical Protective Union No...
Vol. 13 • April 1932 • No. 14
