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On the Industrial Front The World of Labor Red Cross Relief Seen Helping Bosses; Union Head Urges Jobless Insurance John Peel of Spartanburg, 8. C, organizer for the United Textile Workers,...
...His father and brother are held on the same charge...
...53, to provide work for unemployed members of the union...
...The" idea, of course, was that the crew could join the strike only in Holland, having signed articles to work until returned to the home port.Severed other liners have been affected by the failure of the companies to come to an agreement with the union or to continue wages and conditions prevailing before thj contract expires PECK TO SPEAK THURSDAY Dr...
...Bratcher will be handicapped because several of the witnesses who testified in his behalf at the former trials have since been indicted on murder charges as alleged participants in the battle...
...Testimony for the prosecution will consist mainly of mine guards and others friendly to the mine operators as in previous trials...
...26 more remain to be tried...
...Frederick M. Bratcher, Evarts miner, whose two previous trials on charges of conspiracy to murder resulted In hung juries, went on trial for the third time here Monday...
...Jones expects his conviction to be reserved...
...On 901 farms, the average deficit was $620, the price levels...
...Thanks are also due to the Hebrew...
...In case of a disagreement, both sides will choose an umpire whose decision will be binding...
...Albert E. Taussig...
...Kentucky Miners On Trial for Lives HARLAN, Ky...
...Morris Felnstone, of the United Hebrew Trades gave yeoman service in assisting to arrange conferences that resulted in shop settlements...
...To the first of next year, overtime will be paid at the rate of time and one-quarter and time and one-half thereafter...
...For 15 months he has been awaiting trial...
...The printers will accept a one-sixth reduction In pay to aid their unemployed brothers...
...Printers on foreign language publications' will work the six days but will contribute one days pay each week to the unemployed, since printers in such plants cannc' be replaced easily...
...The arrests are regarded as frame-ups to prevent an acquittal...
...Louis Police Face Damage Suits in Riot Damage suits against the St...
...Union Head Urges Jobless Insurance John Peel of Spartanburg, 8. C, organizer for the United Textile Workers, declared at the union's biennial convention in New Yor!i that Ked ('roes flour was being distributed In the mill villages of the South in such a manner as to aid employers in their present policy of paying "starvation wages...
...The convention authorized the national officers to begin such 8 campaign at once...
...The proposition was forced down the throats of the Detroit officials under the threat of non-payment of taxes...
...Since 325 printers are unemployed in the three dally newspapers, the new system will give at least one day's employment to that many men of the trade...
...The captain gave the firemen a signed promise to sail for Rotterdam, broke the promise as soon as the fire were lighted and started for Southampton...
...The average pay runs around $9 for fortyfour hours...
...liners Tied Up by Strike ROTTERDAM—(FP) The Holland-American Line had two of Its biggest liners tied up for days when it refused to deal with the seamen's union...
...Hyman Blumberg, union head in that city, announced that pay increases to be demanded in Baltimore would depend upon the conditions in the different shops...
...1 and a 44-hour week thereafter...
...No worker can be discharged after two weeks' service without consent of the union...
...The charges arise from a clash between striking miners and company guards at Evarts, Ky, May 5, 1931, when three mine guards and one striker were killed...
...Stahl plans travelling towards the South, engaging in propaganda work on the way...
...Louis police who on July 11 broke up an unemployed demonstration with tear-gas and revolvers, shooting four demonstrators, will be backed by the American Civil Liberties Union...
...Striking Farmers Cooperate With Burlington Jobless BURLINGTON, Ia...
...Five union miners have been convicted of participation in the battle and sentenced to life imprisonment...
...He suggested that the system of unemployment insurance should be one under which industry would pay a percentage of the payroll into a fund...
...Saw No Abject Want, Says Hoover's Confidant WASHINGTON— (FP) — Secretary of the Interior Wilbur who shares with Secretary of War Hurley the repute of being closest of all cabinet members to the confidence of the President, discloses that in his recent western trip he found "no abject poverty in any of the great centers of population," and that be says he is pleased to see that the relief agencies are "keeping the families together" and doing their job well...
...Walter Edwin Peck, former professor of English at Hunter College, will apeak on "What's the Matter With Education" before the Eugene V, Debs Club at the Rand School...
...Mill workers who attempt to stand up for their rights are discriminated against in the distribution of flour," declared Mr...
...The argument will be made by Captain B. B. Golden of Harlan, attorney for the General Defense Committee of Chicago, and ex-Senator J. M. Robinson of Barbourvllle, retained by the United Mine Workers...
...Our men and women cannot live on theae starvation wages and do not intend to attempt it any longer...
...FP...
...He declared that increases of 10 per cent would be sufficient in some instances, but that in others boosts of 20 per cent or more would be insisted upon...
...Though they were threatened, marched to the bridge and read the ship's articles and sent back to the stokehold under guard of ship's officers, they would not budge until the liner was started for Rotterdam...
...Until recently his morale seemed unbroken, but jail life and the uncertainty of the unequal fight for liberty in court finally undermined his fortitude...
...Peel "Everywhere in the mill areas of the South we find local Red Cross chapters deliberately using the fear of hunger to keep cruelly exploited textile slaves submissive as continued wage cuts are Inflicted on them The typical wage fo...
...Arbitration machinery has been set up, and there are to be no lockouts or strikes until resort is had to arbitration...
...A drive to abolish Sunday work in the textile mills of New Jersey and Pennsylvania will begin shortly...
...The firemen discovered this and stopped work...
...Next March the union and the association will consider a plan to be submitted by the union to eliminate sub-contracting, piece work and home work in the industry and establish a minimum wage in A and B shops...
...Most of the shops have settled and others are rapidly signing the agreement, Attempts have been made a number of times in recent years to establish an effective union in this sweated industry and the object has been finally achieved...
...84 of 100 Farmers End With Deficit EAST LANSING, Mich...
...Jones' case Is the 63rd among 79 cases on the docket...
...MINS) —Detroit city officials will sell the labor of welfare dependents to huge industries in exchange for tax payments, it was revealed here when an industrial commission, composed of representatives of every large industry in Detroit and headed by Frank E. Bogart,' of the Michigan Manufacturers Association, was formed...
...Many Settlements AFTER a short and decisive strike of less than three weeks, the Doll and Toy Workers have established a union in the trade and obtained an agreement with the bosses...
...The agreement continues to July 31, 1933...
...Cot Tools and sm Auto ? Nathan Stahl, one of the old timers in the Socialist movement, wants to get In touch with a comrade who has an auto and tools...
...a spinner working fifty-five hours a week in South Carolina it now $6 a week...
...The check-off system of collecting dues, initiations and assessments has also been written into the agreement...
...Thanks are due to the Labor Committee of the Socialist Party, Joseph Cannon, and Alexander Marks of the A. F. of L. for the establishment of the union...
...That 84 per cent of the 1,012 Michigan farmers who kept business records last year finished with a deficit was the statement of the farm management department of the state department of agriculture...
...Expenses will be met by doing household repair jobs, painting, etc., en route...
...It is disgraceful for many of the employers to continue paying their workers as low as $4 and $5 a week," he declared...
...Suits also were authorized against policemen who beat up prisoners after arrest...
...Clinch the arUAMB I Tnf'iWiir'* Doll and Toy Union Firmly Established...
...The statement also reported continued losses because Of shrinkages in inventory and declining summary showed...
...Welfare relief will be cut down...
...FRANKFORT, Ky...
...Butchers' Union and the Cooperative Bakery of Brooklyn for food, to the Women's Trade Union League, the Socialist Party and the Yipsels for providing speakers...
...The Labor Committee collected financial contributions and the Jewish Dally Forward and the League for Industrial Democracy contributed...
...The shops are divided into three classes—A, B, and C. A minimum wage Is established in C shops and wages paid above the minimum are not to be reduced...
...The offer to the victims to bring such suits, together with offers of aid in appealing convictions for disorderly conduct where the facts warrant appeal, were sent by the national office to the local Civil Liberties Committee, headed by Dr...
...Cecil Shadrlc.k, 25, one of the 26 to be tried, is slowly recovering after an attempt to end his life with a safety razor blade...
...Baltimore Clothing Workers on Strike Almost all of the 7,000 clothing . workers In Baltimore are out od strike, officials of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers report...
...The agreement wipes out the long and uncertain hours of labor by establishing a 46-hour week to Jan...
...Average earnings are lower than this, because few mills can provide fifty-five hours of employment steadily...
...He Is considered the first victim of a brazen .legal trick engineered by the attorneys for the Black Mountain Coal Coaibany...
...Wilbur is the former dean of the medical school at Stanford University, who came near being hooted off the stage at the convention of American social welfare workers, last spring, when he asserted that the depression had been a good thing for workers' children...
...All dependents who object to working payless for the industrialists will be summarily cut off the welfare rolls...
...Detroit Factories to Conscript Labor DETROIT...
...Vote Five-Day Week to Aid Union's Unemployed CLEVELAND.—(FP) — A fiveday week for Cleveland printers was voted by the Cleveland Typographical Union No...
...When the job is fully completed, about 2,000 workers will be in the union and the members will have a treasury to enable them to function...
...and the remainder will be ordered to report to large industries to work there for no pay...
...about 10,000 recipients will be ordered to work out their relief pittance on municipal projects...
...The number reporting deficits compares with only 23.4 per cent In 1929 and 62.5 per cent In 1930...
...He said that since the unemployed worker had little hope for relief other than through charity, it was now necessary for him to demand some better method of alleviation than "haphazard doles...
...Argument on the appeal against the conviction of W. B. Jones, mine union secretary, in the Evarts battle "murder" cases, will be heard by the state court of appeals during the autumn term, which will open Sept...
...The organized unemployed here made arrangements with striking farmers to receive produce at cost of transportation, A. W. Thlelbert, secretary of the Unemployment League, announced recently...
...Admission to the meeting, which takes place Thursday evening at 8:40, is 10 cents...
...One ship, the Rotterdam, was forced by a strike to put intc Rotterdam Instead of carrying out its scheduled voyage...
...Since the employes had no jurisdiction over industry and could not of themselves mitigate unemployment, it was the duty of the employes to make the financial contribution to the insurance fund, he held...
...The open sir meeting* Implre and convince many of thane who hear lbs speeches...
...The league was organized recently under the leadership of Maynard Krueger, professor of economics at the University of Chicago, who visited Burlington as a representative of the Socialist national campaign committee...
...The closed union shop is established with the - bosses' association and equal division of work is to be the rule for slow seasons...
...Thomas F. McMahon, president of the union, urged the delegates to go on record as favoring a system of compulsory unemployment insurance to be established under Federal or State auspices...
Vol. 14 • January 1932 • No. 12
