Troops Kill One, Wound Three,in Ohio Strike
Troops Kill One, Wound Three,in Ohio Strike Miners' Ranks Hold Against Militia Rule Two Armed Attack* j Take Place W itliin * Two Days in Cadh District ^-^ADIzTb. Guard officers snout ad...
...Militia casualties began soon after-they were mobilized...
...failure to call elections at the proper time...
...The action of the A. F. of L. is awaited...
...Here is an out and out Socialist approach to the tragic failure of capitalism, the expression of our challenge to the system, the backing of our pledge to stand by the unemployed...
...N. Y. Coastwise Longshoremen Rejoin Union The anxiety of the Clyde-Mailory, Savannah and Morgan steamship lines to cut the wages of the longshoremen employed on their New York piers has led to the reentrance of the longshoremen handling coastwise trade Into the International Longshoremen's Association...
...The insurance company Is conducted by the International union...
...Four thousand miners booed and catcalled as the first detachment of 560 guardsmen went into position, wearing trench helmets, to protect the Goodyear mine...
...Green sent Edward F. McGrady to New York as his representative to take up the master...
...Such leagues have already, been formed In Western Queens, College Point, the Lower West Side, Moraingside Heights, Harlem,) Brownsville and East New York...
...Calls for help in organizing Leagues have come from outside New York as far as Middletown, Ohio...
...This is your way of getting at the fundamentals, of striking a sturdy blow hi our Socialist campaign for adequate relief, unemployment insurance, the aix hour day and the five day week...
...Coal diggers, goaded into industrial rebellion by cuts in poverty wages, have challenged the right of operators to Import strikebreakers, Armed guards and deputies escorted the scabs...
...A striker was shot to death...
...SELL THOSE COUPONS AND WE WILL SET UP UNEMPLOYMENT LEAGUES IN EVERY COMMUNITY...
...guns named, anc three Ohio coal miners fell to tin ground wounded, in the seconc armed attack on strikers wlthii four days...
...This agreement is to last for two years, continues the present wage scales and provides for aa arbitration board...
...When one of the opposition made a motion to order the return of the fifty dollar assessment levied in 1020 on the eve of a lockout that never materialised the meeting broke up to fist-fights...
...Golden in particular had refused to appear before the G. E. B. when summoned to do so, and to turn over the books of the local to the parent bdy...
...Five more are about to be started In Brooklyn, four in The Bronx and-two in Queens...
...preventing members from holding jobs...
...This time It Involves the splitting off of members of the Millinery Workers' Union and the consequent Internal controversy .within that organization...
...The Cap Makers Union remained outside of the A. F. of L. until 1024, when the conclusion of as agreement Dot ween the disputing international unions settled the controversy for the time being...
...tral Trades and Labor Council of Greater New York and vicinity, put an end to this recruiting...
...President Zaritsky has notified the employers in the Women's Headwear Group that only block* era In good standing with the International may be employed...
...The miners defended their jobs...
...DO YOUR PART...
...The present strike broke out when the companies tried to reduce wages from 75 to 07 cents an hour and from $1.10 to $1 an hour for overtime, the working week being id hours...
...They had left the union in 1020 after T. V. O'Connor, then president of the International and since chairman of the United States Shipping Board, had urged them to take a wage reduction...
...Immediately rumors arose that the United Hatters was chagrined because under the new agreement In the millinery trade certain workera employed on felt hats remained under the Jurisdiction of the Millinery Workers' Union...
...Frank Manning, former national director of the Young People's Socialist...
...Walter Kimball, aged miner, was the man who fell dead with a bullet in his chest when deputies and company gunmen opened fire on the miners several days ago...
...Every cent will be used for the establishment of Unemployment Leagues, the practical, feeton-the-gronnd method of organizing the unemployed...
...An Armed Camp Cadiz, dilapidated center of the strip mining region of eastern Ohio, is an armed camp...
...Attempt a Settlement Aa they passed the mine, they looked into the muzzles of machine guns...
...A machine gun outfit, a medical detachment and a gas squad are among the troops guarding the mine...
...At the same tune, a group of employers belonging to the National Association of Ladles' Hatters stated that they were Interested la labor relations but would not deal...
...2. The United Cloth Hn and Cap Makers was to have full jurisdiction and control over all the factories making men's, women's and children's cloth hats and caps and ladles' headgear made of cloth fabrics, straw, combinations, varieties and novelties...
...Officers of United Mine Workers District 6, headed by President Lee Hall of the Ohio union, will attend a Washington conference called by Secretary of Labor Doak to seek a settlement Operators have not indicated whether they will accept Doak's Invitation to sit in at the conference...
...accounting of strike, organisation and unemployment funds...
...If yon have not received a coupon book, come to or write Leonard Bright at the Party office, 7 East 15th street, New York City...
...The loading and unloading of the vessels of the companies Involved in the atrlke have been seriously affected, . TYLER AT Y. M. H. A. Bob Tyler, Y. P. S. L. debater, will talk this Sunday, April 24th, 6 P. M., on the subject "Socialism, Why Not...
...The leaders have all participated in mlne^relie...
...and the right of the Union Cooperative Insurance Association to do business in NoW York State...
...SsllW agreement at the pros sat Maes and continue at work until eoaelttoas ia the industry improve aad give them aa opportunity to ask for a better contract thaa the employers are now willing to alga...
...It Is claimed that*the insurance fund established through the employers' contributions on the basis of the number of hours worked by the employees is Insured with the Union Cooperative Insurance Association...
...Golden Turns to Hatters This incident would have only taken on the character of a factional dispute had not Golden made arrangements with the United Hatters to have the members of his local who stood by him Join that union as a new local...
...Michael F. Greene, president of the United Hatters, has replied with threats to picket any abopa where blockers are sent Sown...
...The organizations agreed as follows: 1. The United Hatters waa to have full jurisdiction and control over all the factories making men's fur, felt, wool, straw or panama hats—trimmers and operators of same—and over all the factories making entirely and exclusively women's and children's fur, felt, wool, and hand-blocked velvet, panama and body hats...
...Miners are urging the national guard officers to disarm their men for their own protection...
...The soldiers were armed to the teeth with tear gas bombs, sawed off shotguns and automatic rifles...
...Get one, and go ont and sell those coupons...
...Insurgent Electrician May See Books Couri Also Rules 35 Officers of Local 3 Must Answer Queries rE members of New York Local 3 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers who have gone into court to atop their prosecution by local officials and to bring an exposure of alleged autocratic and corrupt methods used by the officers to maintain themselves in power won an important victory when they secured permission from Supreme Court Justice Frankenthaler to examine thirty-five officers of Local 3 preliminary to trial...
...The Building Trades • Employers Association asks thaf the aew agreement extend until the end of loss...
...Ten thousand of bis fellow workers followed Kimball's body to the cemetery after a great mass meeting In Smithfleld...
...The local officers might be questioned as to the following matters: blacklisting, debarring, suspending and fining of members...
...Donald" Thompson, who recently returned from work with the Pennsylvania Socialist Party Miners' Relief Fund, is vice-president...
...Although the plaintiffs did not receive the blanket authority they had asked to inspect all the financial records of the union, the justice allowed the examination of all pertinent books at the time of the questioning of the officials on the specific points permitted by the court order...
...Every New York Socialist in this critical time can be of real service by selling the coupons in the books Issued by the Emergency Conference on Unemployment...
...f*^* Cloth Hat ana Building Bosses Post Pay Cut Notices Effective May 1st Members of the New York Building Trades Employers Association nave begun the postlag Of aotteaa Introducing 20 to SS per east ware reduction* on May L The Building Trades Council has declared a willingBees to accept a 15 par aaa# wage cut but the employers claim that the bootleggiag ef wages la the btdkaag trades josttflea the more severe redooH is reported that the unions WOUi'dl Fefcttla^i* esOt Ml jfe...
...Miners CHICAGO.—Efforts to enlist 5,000 college students, bring truck loads of food and clothing to destitute coal miners of Kentucky, and launch an Investigation into the conditions that exist In the coal mining regions of the south, Is being organized on a nationwide scale by University of Chicago students...
...A few weeks ago a collective agreement was signed with the employers organized into the Women's Headwear Group...
...la the ButtenweUer Lounge of the Y. M. H. A., Capmakers Reorganizing Blockers Local —i f Jurisdictional Fight Breaks Out Between Capmakers and United Hatters By Louis Stanley The old jurisdictional dispute between the Cloth Hat Cap and Millinery Workers International Union and the United Hatters of North America, both affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, baa broken out In a more disturbing form than ever...
...Sheriff Wooster of Harrison county rushed to the aid of his coal operator friends with deputies and a sheriffs proclamation forbidding meetings of any kind within a mile of the six principal mines...
...The union used its Influence In having some union truCkmen not deliver goods to the piers Involved In the strike but it made its greatest achievement when the possibility of withdrawing the longshoremen from the piers of the ocean liners led the railroads to announce that they would not serve the affected piers with lighters...
...This waa followed by the signing of s collective agreement between the Hatters and an employers' association Jhat had defied the Millinery Workers' Union...
...with the Millinery Workera' Union,* The two developments remained unconnected until the expulsion of the officials of Blockers' Local 42 led to the chartering of a blockers' local in the United Hatters with Golden as manager and the signing of an agreement between the United Hatters of America and the ns> tlonai Association of Ladles' Hatters...
...For a time strikebreakers were obtained from among the unemployed at two Salvation Army stations but protests from Joseph P. Ryah, president of the International Longshoremen's Association and president of the Cen...
...The Hatters asked that these workera, some newly organised, be turned over to itself...
...Guard officers snout ad "Fire...
...Among the militia companies it an Akron outfit, composed in pari of Goodyear minor executives anc clerks...
...Truck and wagon mines In the Hocking valley field may settle with the union...
...The United Cloth Hat and Cap Makers of North America, as the Milliners used to be known, was suspended from the American Federation of Labor in 1018 by order of the A. F. of L. convention until it stopped Interfering with the trade jurisdiction of the United Hatters...
...The reasons given for this drastic action were that the officials of Local 42 had been sabotaging the organization work of .the International, even to the extent of not participating In the last general strike, and that they had disobeyed the orders of the International...
...These mines an small operations employing fron A Real Job For Jobless NOW You can tackle a real Job far the jobless...
...This settlement brought about such cordial relations between the two headwear unions that the 1924 convention of the A. F. of L. per."""^O...
...Examination of H. H. Broach, president of the International, would be permitted only if the Interrogation of the local officials did not bring forth all the desired information...
...Chicago Students ' Lead National Move To Aid Ky...
...The familiar story of miners' strikes is being retold here...
...work...
...May.iard Van Dyke, a student of the Divinity School, is president...
...It la also alleged that the International and the large contractors have conspired to give the latter control of the industry...
...Four hundred strikers, deter mined to picket the Homers mint of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co near Adena, marched in orderij formation, unarmed, down the roax to the mine...
...President Max Zaritsky of the Capmakers appealed to President William Green of the American Federation of Labor, protesting the action of the Hatters...
...Sheriffs in two neighboring counties also posted proclamations...
...On April IS the General Executive Board of the Capmakers' Union expelled Max Golden, secretary-treasurer of Blockers' Local 42, and the entire executive board of the local, revoked Its charter and ordered reorganization through registration of loyal members...
...But the miners kept marching Then the guns blazed...
...Then the troops swarmed in...
...At a special meeting of Local 3, a motion made by Emlle Priess, business manager of the union, and one of the accused officials, waa adopted whereby members of the union need no longer apply to the union for joba but might aeek employment wherever they pleased...
...An Akron guardsman was shot through the leg by another guardsman who waa reloading his pistol...
...V 1 1 1 1 ............* Cap Makers to change Its title to the present one recognizing the jurisdiction of the union over mhV linery workers...
...The blockers are employed on felt hats...
...The road by the Somers mine was choked by five miles of marching miners, headed by an - American flag...
...On the road was i notice: "Warning—Keep Out "This Road Under Machine Qui Rifle Fire...
...With the jurisdictional question out of the way the Capmakers proceeded to organise the millinery workers In New York City...
Vol. 13 • April 1932 • No. 17
