BUILDING LABOR WINS BRAVE FIGHT
BUILDING LABOR WINS BRAVE FIGHT Revolt Against Big Cut by Employers Many ('roups Join in Upholding Principle of Ar-|^tr«tloa as Contractors Seek to Force Arbiptrarv Cat {As we §» if prtu...
...Ia another actios brought against William J. McSorely and William J. Murphy, International preeidant aad international vice president, respectively, of the Lathers Union, to the Bronx Supreme Court, for injunctive relief, the plaintiffs, former anion men...
...They are out to kill arbitration...
...Edward V. Mulligan, Enterprise Local...
...From March to May unemployment in industry has continued to increase, as shown both by reports from trade unions and figures of the U. S. Department of Labor...
...Joseph A Mclnerney, Whitestone Association...
...the following statement, in part, was Issued by the general executive board: »The special meeting of the Q. E. B. summoned for the purpose of electing a president of the I. L. G. W. u, baa agreed unanimously on General Secretary - Treasurer David Dubinsky as the successor to the late President Schleshtger...
...The board baa deliberated extensively oa that matter, but decided finally to postpone the election of a general secretary-treasurer until after the grave situation la the New York cloak Industry baa been settled, it was felt that It would be a die-service to the organization to spend more time at the present moment on the question of electing a secretary, when all energy and effort should be concentrated oa the mobilization of all our strength for the coming struggle In the cloak Industry of New York...
...John F. Kent, Plasterers' Local 68, and Louis Mas-sola, Stonemasons' Local 78...
...Mosaic and Teraxso Helpers...
...Outwardly the issue is simple A board of arbitration awarded Ike bricklayers a wage of flS.30 a lay...
...Masons' and Plasterers' Interna (hwal Union of America, have aen In a stirring struggle against the employers far the Maintenance at the principle of collective bar gaining an* especially of the sanctity of arbitration agreements...
...Norman Thomas addressed an enthusiastic group of members and the union is growing by leaps and bounds...
...possibilities la New York City...
...The wage scale of S 13.80 a day Was fixed by a board of arbitration consisting of Professor Joseph ?. Chamberlain of Columbia Unl-.?amity, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise and Milton Mayer...
...Doll Workers launch ' Paper...
...Branches will be requested to allow a representative of the unemployed leagues to make a ten or fifteen-minute appeal for members at every open air meeting held by the branch...
...Daniel P. Collins, Metal Lathers...
...Virgil Graze...
...They are after bigger fish to fry than that...
...pa and children by a stroke of cular was issued, entitled "A Chal- J lenge to Tyrants," pretesting against wage reductions to the building trades, and upholding the method of arbitration employed is the Bricklayers' Union...
...who was reelected president The first Mg task that will confront President Dubinsky will be the renewal of the collect...
...The penalized lathers, it was contended, had violated the day room nils of the union, which has as Its purpose the maintenance of a system of rotation with respect to Jobs...
...Hear Thomas The Don Workers' Industrial Union has pas Hah 11 the first issue af a monthly organ printed in Italian and English called the "Doll Workers Voice...
...At least 200,000 persons were laid off from March to May, and it is probable that unemployment in industry is now higher than ever before in history...
...OMason, "that the whole purpose af (he employers Is to discredit Start i at ion...
...Ia rejecting the 38 per cent reduction la wages, the trade unionists whose names are appended to the circular cite the victory won by the bricklayers la securing a wage only 14 per cent below the 1981 wage...
...Wage dictation in New ¦* Is ended...
...Frank Coleman, Tile Layers...
...Open air meetings have bean held...
...They cars no longer take...
...Flagrant vioistians of the law such aa not paying the employees on time ia pointed oat...
...Organisation work is Is full swing...
...A. C. Weinfeld and Jack Altmas have been assigned to visit meetings of organisers that are being held in the various -boroughs sad to ask for cooperation hi the development of unemployed leagues and to distribute league membership cards and the new leaflet .. Besides planning to give this leaflet a wide distribution among unemployed workers generally the committee hopes to organise a squad of party members who will place the leaflet in the hands of jobless workers...
...It was for the same reason that we decided to request our newly ejected president...
...Unemployed Leagues Plan Strong Drive for Summer -mjO let up in the activity of the i^i Emgergeacy Conference on Unemployment during the summer months but rather a redoubling of efforts to bring the message of organization to the unemployed la the decision arrived at by the committee...
...Thomas Clelaad, New York Executive Committee...
...Alexander Booth, Stone Setters...
...Daniel Levlae, Second A. D., Bronx, 33.70...
...Peter J. O'Brien...
...The labor leader did not otter statistics on the number of those who are working only pari tan...
...I Conferences Fail Conferences participated in by saprnsentativei of the employers, ton Building Trades Department M the American Federation of labor, the Building Trades Council fy other interested bodies, Tieid tbesday, did nothing to win over trade unionists to aa accep-•tooe of the wage scale that in-•ndea a repudiation nf the ar-i Jtbe award of the Chamberlain-, Wise-Mayer board was based upon: • test case submitted by the union j i*M the Associated Brick Masons, Ujk en organisation of speculative When the award of the board •to made known the Bricklayers' Won issued a statement entitled gj* Record a Oreat Victory," be-¦palng...
...3. Security on the Job...
...The trade unionists, both the bricklayers who are fighting for the principle involved in the 11-caat issue, and those who reject' the 36 per cent reduction, insist that the whole principle of trade unionism Is at slake, • Eleven Millions Are Out of Work, Declaires Green mmORB than eleven million IVl American- workmen are jobless, according to a statement by William Green, president at the American Federation nf Labor...
...He was 40 years old on Feb...
...t»M, at the international convention to Philadelphia, he was re elected general secretary treasurer together wKh Benjamin Hrbkaiagsr...
...This figure means, he said, that one out of every Ave who ordinarily work cannot now and Joes...
...Samuel Helfgott, Sixth A. D., Kings, $1, and Patrick J. Murphy...
...On May 14...
...He came to the United States in 1011 and Joiaed the union to 1013, after having gone through aa appraai tloeehto aa sxesutive member at the cutters' union of which he was a member...
...Speed up methods an frequently aaad despite the large member af unemployed...
...I organised ia the Bricklayers...
...Since then Us rise was rapid aad ia 1833 ha became the iiaaalaiiat choice of the Cleveland convention, which took piece in December of that year, for general secretary-treasurer...
...Larger hemes involved John Qlesson, secretary of the Bricklayers- Union, insisted that the struggle between the workers and their employers is not over ton ll beets a day hut ever larger This is deer proof,'* said Mr...
...The election of Brother Dubinsky to the peat of president baa left the place of general sec rotary -treasurer vacant...
...The circular ia signed by Leonard KHnek, business agent of the Metal Lathers' Union, and lames P. McCrane, as chairman and secretary, the other signatures being: Owen L. O'Brien, of the United' Derrickmen and Riggers' Association...
...mfr the bread and butter of men...
...It points out the failure of governmental agencies to aid the jobless, presents the demands of the Unemployed Leagues of Greater New York and urges the jobless to organize, a blank being provided for the name and address of the unemployed worker interested...
...4. Sanitary working conditions...
...Organizers seeking information regarding unemployed leagues are referred to Jack AlUnan at 7 East 16th street —i-- »—1—— I a titers' I sien HIon Penalized Meanbei-M Local 344, of the Wood, Wire ami Metal Lathers' International Union, represented by Louis Goldberg and Charles Solomon, have won a victory of importance to the trade union mnvamaat, Aa Injunction action was commenced against the local by nearly 125 penalised members...
...most of the shops have organised a nucleus group...
...C. G. Norman PM bis Building Trades Employ-Uf Association as longer rule ¦¦city...
...Unemployment has increased steadily since January," he said...
...3. Bight hour day...
...Jacques G. Horwitz, Modelers and Sculptors...
...The Mason Builders' Association declined to accept the findings sad •eclsion of the arbitration board and offered instead $is.0fl a day ^aa^ditionaIly,N until the end of tbs current year, after which the Wage scale would be subject-to Anther arbitration...
...Vividly describing the terrible conditions —*^«f for the work-era ia toe Industry, the necessity Of aa industrial union Is shown...
...Composition Roof em...
...Gordon Young, Granite Cut-' ten...
...His decision supports the contention af the local, that If the complaining lathers felt aggrieved they should first have availed themselves of their remedies ia the parent organization before going into the courts...
...5. A living wage...
...A good sired meeting of the on-employed in Bore Park, Brooklyn, Is expected Monday evening, June' 3S, when Charles Solomon, Samuel A. DeWltt and Robert L. Bobrick will apeak...
...Louis Pas-cultti, Mosaic and Teraxso Work-en...
...The executive committee of the Don Workers Industrial Union have Hated their important demands as follows: 1. Recognition of the union...
...ceiling attention to the fact (bat bricklayers "work only a limited number af daps .a year.'* The Mason Builders* Association offered $13 <w a day...
...33, having been bora in Lodz, Poland, In 1893...
...G. Norman and accepted for 31 unions by John Halkett, president of the Building Trades Council...
...The leaflet is now in the hands of the printer and will be available to branch organizers and officers of unemployed leagues not later than Monday next...
...David Daoahy, Marble Helpers and Riggers...
...the general secretary-treasurer at the nrgssimtiaa sates lam aa toe successor to the late Prisasent Benjamin Schlesinger who died June «. The election of David Dubinsky to the post of president at the ladies' garment workers' organisation climaxes a career at twenty years of service...
...John Crouln, Journeymen StonecuUem' Association...
...At present workers earn from 313 to 330 per week and work from nine to ten hours a day—in some cases more...
...The technical issue to 11 cents actually, they maintain, the issur to the -very existence of trade ml on ism sad all that it implies...
...ve agreements to the New Tork cloak industry, involving 27,000 workers, These agreements expired en June 1 aad negotiations for their renewal are now pending...
...The aew president of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union is comparatively a young man...
...It la regarded as almost certain that a general strike to this industry is inevitable aad President Dubinsky win be the leader of this strike when it occurs...
...In that battle they were joined by ether anions la the building trades,, many of whose members revolted against aa agreement Signed for them for a 25 to 30 per cent reduction in wages by John Haikott, president of the Building Trades Council, and C. C. Herman, chairman of the board of governors of the Building Trades Employers' Association...
...John O'Hagan, Marble Cutters, Carvers and Setters...
...The case came to trial before Supreme Court Justice Riegehmann, In Brooklyn, who decided for the local a few days ago...
...Principle at Stake The circular, signed by representative and prominent members of the various building trades unions, repudiates the offer of a 36 per cent wage cut by the New York Building Trades Employers' Association through Mr.C...
...BUILDING LABOR WINS BRAVE FIGHT Revolt Against Big Cut by Employers Many ('roups Join in Upholding Principle of Ar-|^tr«tloa as Contractors Seek to Force Arbiptrarv Cat {As we §» if prtu the strike m flu builJwi trwiri hai rndri by Ike htutt conceding part of the pro-fisti 25 fer cent wage cull rwsHE bricklayer, of New Tork...
...Thomas O'Leary, Machine Stone Workers...
...Eighth A. D., Bronx, $2.60...
...They are not quibbling ever ll cents a day...
...Tea thousand circulars announcing the meeting are being distributed tat the district, Another unemployed league ia in the pro ossa af formation In the Second Assembly District, Bronx...
...He was elected to 1031 aa manager of his local union and G. E. B. of the International Union...
...Although the response to the appeal fer funds for the work of the emergency conference was small during the past week, It li hoped that branches aad individuals who save collection booklets will make every effort to raise aad send funds to the office shortly The latent receipts follow: Bohemian branch, $6...
...m • ,r David Dubinsky New Garment Union Chief Election of Secretary-• Treasurer is Indefinitely Postponed rw iHE general executive beard at JL the i. L. G. w. U., meeting In special session Wednesday at the Hotel Nsw Yorker, unanimously elected David Oublaaky...
...Brother David Dubinsky, to continue performing ia addition to his duties aa president, also the funcUons of general secretary-treasurer, a task which he has performed with such singular ability for the jjajt Jwo aad a naif years...
...Among other matters, the committee Is studying the...
...Seattle plan of cooperative exchange for the unemployed aad considering its...
...Fred C. Bailey, Slate and Tile Roof era...
...As the first step in this activity a leaflet on unemployment is being issued...
...leaflets have been distributed...
...Charles J. Feitler, Tile Layers' Helpers...
...The plaintiffs were unsuccessful la their application for a temporary Injunction...
Vol. 13 • June 1932 • No. 35
