Company Thug Kills I. W. W. Kentucky Miner
Company Thug Kills I. W. W. Kentucky Miner Jack Vanetter Is Shot Do^n In Evart Road Body of Slain Harlan Worker Found; Trial of Forty Is Begun (BV a Neir Leader Corretpondent) ...
...So far this year, recruiting has been continued with good results...
...and had taken an active part in fighting the wage cuts ordered by the coal operators...
...More than 100 active unionists were rounded up after tho affray and about 86 held for murder of the three deputies who were killed...
...Seven directors represent the A. F. of L. J.rade unions and seven the business men who invested the additional capital needed to reopen the bank under its owp name instead of Its being merged with another bank aa at first proposed...
...Edward W. Canavan, President of the International Association of Musicians...
...Ha If Million in Legal 'Fees9 Paid by Electricians Union Charge Is Made Money Went to Secure Political Protection WINDING up the examination before trial in the suit of fifteen members for an accounting of the funds of Local 3 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Jacob S. Solomon, secretary of the organizing committee of the local, gave a list of activities of James E. Smith, former attorney for the union, to prove that Smith had been worth his hire...
...The murderer drove away leaving his victim where he fell...
...Richard E. Dwlght of the law firm of Hughes, Schurman A Dwlght, and Louis A. Zahn of the General Foods Company...
...American Socialist Society The last quarterly meeting of the season of the American Socialist Society will be held Friday, June 3rd, at 8 p. m. in the Studio of the Rand School...
...Stanley is an Instructor at the Rand School and has written many articles and books on trade union problems...
...Stanley At the nebs Club Louis Stanley will speak on "The Future of Trade Unionism" at the Rand School, 7 East 15th Street, Wednesday evening, 8:40 P. M. The meeting is sponsored by the Debs Club of tho Rand School Fellowship...
...A special term of court, of 10 weeks duration, has been set and the trials will begin May 31...
...Marsh that Attorney Clark would include a comprehensive portion of the testimony of Solomon for certification by Marsh in Clark's effort to have Solomon cited for contempt...
...the Machine Stone Workers...
...Mosaic and / Terrazo Helpers- Journeymen Stone Cutters' Association...
...These fourteen chose as chairman of the board Joseph B., Ennis of the American Locomotive Works, thus giving the majority of the Board of Directors to capital...
...The jobbers have nude similar demands requiring the unlon'a closer collaboration in remedying trade evils...
...It Is Clark's contention that Smith nad been retained to secure political protection and that money paid him by the organizing commltte had been used for such a purpose...
...Smith was replaced by Frank P. Walsh as attorney about two months ago after John Holley Clark, Jr., counsel for the fifteen plaintiffs, had succeeded in obtaining a preliminary injunction against the officials of Local 3 restraining the latter from interfering with the membership rights of the members bringing suit...
...He was noted for his dauntless courage and it was this quality which caused the gun-thugs to seek his life...
...lug twice, both bullets taking ef- j feet...
...Agreement was made before Referee Robert McC...
...Whitestone Association...
...At the union headquarters here I.W.W...
...Owen D. Young, Governor Frank D. Roosevelt, Lieutenant-governor Lehman and others helped to secure the new capital...
...the 40 miners who were indicted for killing Jim Daniels and 8 other gun-thugs in the Battle of Evarta, May 5, 1931...
...Mention was made of an instance when Smith spent a good deal of time preparing data for the Federated Press In order to refute in .labor circles charges made against the union...
...Philip D. Reed of the General Electric Company...
...Plasterers' 60, and Stone Masons 78...
...The secretary of the organizing commltte had failed to produce the books of the organizing committee for examination of the defendants in accordance with the terms of the court order providing for the hearings and had explained this failure by saying he had destroyed all the records, for fear of spies and enemies of the union...
...It asks that the union join tho Trade Council, to which the manufacturers, the jobbers and tho contractors already belong and harp in maintaining price schedules for contractors...
...Van- ( etter was walking down the road , when the gun-thug drove past, fir...
...I _ Labor Bank Control Passes To Capitalists Open Shop Interests Dominate...
...It la understood that his personal plans made him unable to accept as a labor director...
...The employers are making a drive for the establishment of piece work under the guise of scientific production...
...The referee declared that "if it is permissible for labor unions to bring into their membership all the workers in ajtrade, for the betterment of their Own conditions and there is no proof of duress, coercion or a malicious Intent to injure anybody, then it is difficult to see Illegality or monopoly In an agreement which binds a combination of manufacturers to employ only union labor and binds the unions to work only for such shops...
...Trial of Forty Is Begun (BV a Neir Leader Corretpondent) I EVARTS, Ky—Jack Vanetter, union coal miner, was shot down by Dillard Middlcton...
...In several of the legal cases Local 3 wss not actually named as a defendant but the union was behind the suits...
...Louis Gebhart, President of the New York Building Trades Council...
...The union also gained a number of new members, bringing the total up to about 85,000, compared with 12,000 In 1927 when unity was affected among tho three then existing building trades unions of liberal tendencies...
...The murdered miner, Jack Vanetter, was a member of Coal Mine Workers Industrial Union No...
...John Sullivan, President of the New York State Federation of Labor...
...The employer will appeal the case...
...The remains have not been identified...
...Ho emphasized that the attorney had been retained by the union despite such a record...
...local officials said the killing was directly chargeable to the Black Mountain Coal Corporation, aa Insull-Peabody concern which has led the attack against unionism In the Harlan fields...
...Tile Layers' Local 32...
...a no- | torious company gunman and died , later in the Harlan hospital...
...Steamfltters' Enterprise Association...
...Rumors have been rife all through the mountain country ever since the battle...
...The labor members of the Board are William Green, President dt the American Federation of Labor...
...Stone Setters/84...
...These men are being defended by the General Defense Committee...
...We have received proof that altogether nine men were killed, but that the miners buried their own dead to prevent officers from knowing their loss," Sheriff Blair declared...
...Company Thug Kills I. W. W. Kentucky Miner Jack Vanetter Is Shot Do^n In Evart Road Body of Slain Harlan Worker Found...
...the Marble Cutters, Carvers and Setters...
...Unable to bring the body from the mountain, and fearful of directing vengeance to himself, the hunter cut off the head, hands and feet, and buried the rest of the body...
...Cloak Pact Ends In New York City...
...Under the terms which will guarantee the reopening of the bank depositors will lose one-third of their deposit...
...In testimony Solomon held the League for Industrial Rlggts responsible for a good many of the suits which the union had had to defend...
...Despite a general Increase in unemployment and economic difficulties in Czechoslovakia last year the Building Workers' Union succeeded in winning a dozen strikes, signing up 65 new collective agreements and prolonging 10, and obtaining 15 favorable awards from the Wage Tribunal, according to a report just given out here...
...It wss a cold-blooded mur- j derous attack, delivered without j warning...
...Slate and Tile Roofers...
...HARLAN, Ky...
...The manufacturer involved, WalcoC brothers had sent work out of town to be made by non-union labor...
...Counsel for the union was Louis Waldman...
...A mountain man, said Surgener, found the body last summer, partly decomposed, on the hillside not far from the battle scene...
...220 of the I.W.W...
...Tile , Layers' Helper Local 53...
...Solomon admitted the correctness of Attorney Clark's analysis and summary of the cases handled by Smith which showed that Smith had lost all those in which Local 3 had been named as defendant except two where the union had received a 50-50 break...
...Preparations are now being made for the trials of...
...In former testimony it had been brought out that the organizing committee had paid Smith more than half a million dollars since the creation of the committee in 1926 by H. H. Broach, now President of the International union and then Vice-president, who had come into New York to institute changes in the conduct of Local 3's affairs...
...Charles J. Hardy of the American Car and Foundry Company...
...The Inside manufacturers organized in the Industrial Council of Cloak, Suit and Skirt Manufacturers has demanded that "the present inflexible week-work system be supplanted by a system guaranteeing a measure of production based upon scientifically determined standards which shall be predicated upon wage scales consistent with current economic conditions...
...It also calls upon tho union to assist In giving publicity to cases where retailers patronize' non-union establishments...
...Stern retorted that unions did not engage lawyers because of the number of their victories but because of their willingness to fight for labor...
...Solomon testified under questioning by Walsh and Harold Stern who substituted towards the close of the final hearing that Smith had been exceedingly busy taking care of Local 3's interests and that in his capacity as counsel he had frequently bad to employ Investigators...
...Stern made clear that the defendants would take the necessary legal steps to postpone going to trial...
...the Granite Cutters...
...Mosaic and Terrazo Workers...
...Two severed hands, two feet and a head pierced by a bullet, preserved almost a year in alcohol, have been turned over to Sheriff John Henry Blair of Harlan county by John Surgener, Harlan merchant...
...This prompted Clark to announce that since opposition to immediate trial had arisen that he w ,uld go through with his original intention to cite Solomon for contempt of court...
...The business men on the board besides the chairman are J. Homer Platten of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company...
...Later Middle ton, who bears the title of deputy constable, surrendered saying that Vanetter had threatened his life some months before...
...Visiting correspondents were told another variation—that a whole lot more officers had boon killed but that they did hot want to admit their losses...
...Middleton was one of a mob of gunmen who raided and wrecked the General Defense Committee Relief Station here last January...
...He told Blair the pieces were from a miner who had crawled Into the brush to die after the Evarts battle of May 8, 1981...
...John J. Munholland, Vicepresident of the Central Trades and Labor Council, who was a member of the old board is absent from the reorganized body...
...The union has turned down these demands and insists upon the retention of week work...
...At the time of the shooting, tho first report that reached Harlan aald 12 men were shot to death, but officers who rushed to the spot found only four bodies...
...Jeremiah D. Maguire of the Industries Development Company...
...Edward W. Edv ards, President of the New York State Allied Printing Trades Council...
...Nothing has over been done about the killing of the miner whose body was found, officers claiming as usual that the miners started it all...
...Negotiations On Despite the expiration of the agreements in the cloak and suit industry in New York City on May 31 working conditions will remain unchanged while negotiations are continued...
...All the members of the American Socialist Society are urged to attend this meeting at which reports oh the proposed activities for next year will be submitted...
...New Board of Federation Trust THE PASSING of control of \he Federation Bank and Trust Company from organized labor to open shop capitalist Interests became a certainty with the announcement of the personnel of the new board of directors...
...Witnesses in the examining trials described seeing wounded men carried past their homes with blood pouring from their wounds so fast that they apparently had no hope of life, but the only miner officially reported killed was Richardson...
...The manufacturers have also rejected the union's demand for the limitation of contractors and insists that the remedy Ilea in another direction...
...Captain Ben B. Golden, of PinevUle, Ky., who defended Bill Burnett, W. B. Bones and W. M. Hightower, Kentucky miners, tried previously/will also act as . chief counsel for the defendants, under the direction of the General Defense Committee...
...Surgener refused to disclose his name, saying he feared reprisals...
...Com position Roofers...
...the Metal Lathera...
...Court Rules Bosses Must Abide by Pact Made with A. C. W. Another case where a collective agreement has been upheld by court action occurred last week when Referee John J. O'Connell appointed by Supreme Court Justice Edward P. Oavegan handed down a decision upholding the compact made between the Amalgamated Clothing Workers and the New York Clothing Manufacturers Exchange last July...
...Czech Worker* Advance PRAGUE, (W.L.N...
...The unions will thus lose four-fifths of their...
...The Federation Bank closed Its doors last October when It was called upon to make good its obligations following the death of its President, Peter J. Brady, in an airplane accident Many unions In New York City have been seriously hampered is the last few months because funds have been tied up in the bank...
...An early report last spring mentioned the possibility that more than four had been killed...
...It is probable that the trial of the suit against the officials of Local 8 will not come up until the Fall...
...Oppose Building Pay Cut Opposition to .the Building Trades Council for accepting the 20 to 30 per cent wage cut offered by the Building Trades Employers Association waa declared by a group of unions who formed a temporary organization to resist the wage reductions...
...The jobbers, who belong to the Merchants Ladies' Garment Association, have declared that "it is necessary for the Union to participate with the other groups in the establishment of scientific management procedure in the introduction of labor standards...
...Stockholders, consisting practically entirely of A. F. of L. trade unions and trade unionists, will find their snares of stock reduced under the new arrangements from |100 to |20 a share and will have the right to purchase additional shares of $20 par value for $50 each...
...The unions in the group are the United Derrickmen and Riggers' Association...
...Marble Helpers and Riggers...
Vol. 13 • June 1932 • No. 23
