Bonnaz Embroiderers on General Strike
Bonnaz Embroiderers on General Strike Company 'Union' Is Repudiated by President Green , The American Federation of 1 Labor, through President William 1 Green, has issued a statement de-...
...Victor L. Berger and Elmer Bauman, the Socialist minority...
...The strike wai called for Thursday, October 6, at 8 a. m., and thousands of workers marched to their meeting place, Imperial Lyceum 162 East 65th Street, to hear their leaders explain the objectives they are fighting for, and the methods they are to employ in winning Uiem...
...BROOKWOOD ul lNS 12th YEAR KATONAH, N. Y. (FP)— Brookwood Labor College opened for its 12th year with 27 students from a dozer states and 17 occupations, ranging from miners and mechanics to needle trades and textile workers...
...His eldest daughter is a school teacher, who was blacklisted in the Harlan schools because of her father's arrest...
...The university Socialist club sent a number of its most active members, men and girls, to the picket line and their activity received considerable local publicity, resulting in considerable pressure upon the City Council to recind the contract with the wage-cutting firm...
...All the men in charge of fne various headquarters expressed complete confidence yesterday that the majority of workers would be back in the shops within a week...
...Committees have already been formed, including an organization and program committee, which are already actively functioning...
...Ryan said the offer had been submitted to the representatives of the various port locals and had been voted down by them on the ground that they felt the...
...Union Health Center Planning New Work There is hope in the hearts of those who carry on the work of the Union Health Center...
...Union officials awaited word from Mayor Jackson, who has under consideration their reru'-st for the appointment of a com: • .ee to conduct an investigation into reported insanitary conditions and low wages throughout the industry in Baltimore, The Mayor began his study of the problem after two conferences with Miss Mamie Santora snd Mrs...
...Real Solidarity The Argentine railwaymen...
...The uncertainty of our ability to keep going made us fearful not only of the future, but of the present...
...Local 66 established a minimum wage and a shorter week, and ssnitsry working conditions...
...The slogan of the strike is, "We must place our industry on a basis which will enable all the workers in the trade to live and work like human beings," the leaders say...
...1 Local 300 is the organisation 1 that is picketing a number of movie theatres, while the Empire I State "Union" is picketing the I Loew houses and other theatres i that have signed up with the bona j fide union...
...It was at that time that the Bonnaz Embroidery Union took under its jurisdiction the entire stitching, pleating snd tucking industry...
...Other conditions have been introduced with the definite object of breaking down the prestige that the workers have gained in the past...
...CARMEL, Pa...
...4th the workers threw their tools aside snd marched peacefully from all over the garment district to Bryant Hell, where Manager Hattab yesterday declared that main reason for the calling of a general strike was to test the actual strength of the union during this period of industrial chaos...
...Bergcr's resolution opposing pay cuts was defeated three votes to two...
...Bootleg" operations are scattered over the entire anthracite area, where, in spite of the vast mineral wealth, one-third of the miners are without work and many face freezing homes for lack of coal...
...There was no evidence that Reynolds shot any of the three deputies...
...Strike headquarters hsve been established in strategic spots...
...Berger Opposes Teachers' Pay Cuts - -"ft** MILWAUKEE.—Using the argument of superior numbers, the "Non-partisan" members of the finance committee of the Milwaukee school board voted to cut school teachers' pay...
...That is why we are hopeful, and are planning for more adequate services, for special clinics, and for mora education on questions of health among the members of the various unions...
...One of the sidelights of the walkout has been the sabotaging of the strike by the Communists...
...The defense was badly hampered In finding witnesses because of the fear engendered by the indictment en murder conspiracy charges of eight men who testified for the defense in the -previous trials, •JMIKEK thousand workers in the * the bonnaz embroidery, stitching, pleating and tucking industry have answered the call of their union, Local 66 of the I.L.G.W.U., for a general walkout At four o'clock shsrp on Oct...
...Mrs...
...Recent recruits swelled the picket lines to more than 1,000 men and women...
...Socialist Students Aid in Strike MINNEAPOLIS.—L a r g e 1 y through the aid of a group of Socialist students from the University of Minnesota, a strike of the Building Laborers' Union against s heavy wage-cut on a demolition job was converted from a threatened defeat into an emphatic victory...
...The employers' association has consistently refused te listen to the demands made...
...The economic situation for the past three years have convinced us of the need for labor organizations to adopt a comprehensive plan by which to secure for their members medicsl snd dental care at a minimum cost...
...All these agreements have been violated by the bosses, it is charged...
...The situation has existed, and has become increasingly worse ever since Msrch, 1082...
...Pointing out that it was useless to expect governments to work sincerely for peace when they were bound up in giant international armament sales schemes, he declared that the failure of the peace conference should mean that "working people will cease to delegate their responsibilities for a peaceful world to their class enemies and take back their own responsibility for bringing about the brotherhood of man...
...Court Probes Poverty Story of Young Coal Bootlegger...
...Hardly a day passes without the local press carrying a story—Coal Bootlegger Jailed...
...Longshoremen Reject Proposed Wage Slash NEW YORK.—Rejection cf the offer made by the deepwater steamship lines of 76 cents an hour for day work contingent upon acceptance of SI an hour for night work as the basis for renewal of annual wage agreement with the International Longshoremen's Association, was anno- , ced by Joseph P. Ryan, president of the I. L. A. Mr...
...Most of the testimony used in the trials of six of his co-defendants was brought into play against Reynolds...
...With negotiations for further settlements in progress, the garment workers' strike is marked by minor walkouts in scattered localities...
...J. B. Matthews, secretary of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, who spoke at the opening exercises on his observation of the European situation, laid the farce of the Geneva peace conference and the alarming growth of working class support of Hitler in Germany to the lack of adequate workers' education...
...The students were aided by the cooperation of Amicus Most, who had come to the city to aid in preparing the local Norman Thomas mooting...
...Working conditions in all shops have become so miserable that no other course was left but a general walkout, he said...
...The union officials, representing Local 38, declare that many employers are offering improved conditions as a lure to workers not to walk out...
...And by such methods—three men outside to each miner—these coal "bootleggers" were able to mine a ton of coal apiece a day and so earn a wage of 15— almost as much as they could earn with the up-to-date machinery of the modern colliery...
...Our facilities will henceforth be able te take care of every ailment at a minimum cost 'Bootleg' Goal As Machinery Lies Idle MT...
...At one of the operations visited, a correspondent found two men hauling coal from a rough driven shaft with an improvised derrick of three saplings to hold the pulley...
...Reynolds has been imprisoned since May 7, 1931, two days sfter the Evarts clash...
...The group is composed of young unemployed teachers, journalists, musicians, office workers and unskilled workers...
...These promises," say the union leaders, "are made to last during the strike only...
...Kriegstein, a business agent, has been attending to the association shops...
...In New York City the unions affiliated with the American Federation of Labor have, to some extent, cared for their sick members through an arrangement with the Union Health Center...
...They have attacked the union officials and distributed leaflets...
...Four Men Are Charged with Theft of Coal...
...and 8th Ave...
...The only assurance for fair and decent living conditions is a strong organization— A UNION...
...in charge of Mr...
...The unions, whose members have been the beneficiaries of all that the Union Health Center can, give, have realised the necessity of seeing to it that the doors of the Union Health Center are kept open...
...The thirty-five hundred people that jammed the auditorium were addressed by President Freed man, Manager Hattab, Assistant Manager Riesel of their own union and Edward McGrady, one of the organizers of the American Federation of Labor...
...For the next eight months miners from West Virginia, Illinois and Pennsylvania, textile workers from New England and the south, needle pushers from New York and Cincinnati, and farmers from Illinois and North Carolina will be studying and working together at Brookwood with Pullman porters from Chicago and mechanics from Detroit...
...However, very little attention has been psid to them by the rank and file, it is reported...
...The meetings are held every Sunday at 3 p. m. at 722 Orient Court, Brighton Beach...
...It succeeded in organising a strong union out of a heretofore disorganised and chaotic group of workers...
...Taking advantage of the depressed industrial conditions the employers have repeatedly cut the wage rate...
...Despite conditions that have tended to beat down their resistance, Hattnb declared that the response of the members was gratifying...
...The vote was taken over the opposition of School Directors, Mrs...
...i Kentucky Miner Is Found Guilty On Murder Charge HARLAN, Ky.—Jurors from Jessamine county have returned a verdict of gulity in the case of Jim Reynolds, union miner accused of conspiracy to murder Jim Daniels, one of the three deputized gunmen killed in tbe historic Everts bsttle May 6, 1031...
...a union under Socialist leadership, decided to refuse to handle transports of war material destined far Bolivia or Paraguay, and have appealed to the railwaymen in the other parts of South America to take similar action...
...Bratcher was tried by a jury from Owsley county, not far from these coal fields, a jury which had some understanding of the realities of the industrial struggle in the Cumberbind valley...
...One Thousand Workers On Strike in Ball*more BALTIMORE...
...All seven defendants were accused Of taking part in a conspiracy alleged to have been hatched in a public meeting on the night before the clash between miners guarding the town of Evarts and Black Mountain Coal Company deputized gunmen who came in with 'the expressed intention of shooting up the town...
...Settlement headquarters have been set up at the Hotel New Yorker, where Hattab and Freedman have been conferring with the representatives of the association...
...Union leaders awaited a ruling by Jacob M. Moses, former judge of the Juvenile Court, who was chosen as impartial arbiter of disputes arising out of several separate strikes...
...Bonnaz Embroiderers on General Strike Company 'Union' Is Repudiated by President Green , The American Federation of 1 Labor, through President William 1 Green, has issued a statement de- 1 daring that Local 306 of the International Alliance of Theatrical 1 Stage Employes and Moving Pic- 1 ture Operators is the only bona 1 fide union covering its field in 1 New York...
...McGrady extolled the benefits of organisation and pledged the support of the Federation to the strike...
...A third man dumped the .'oal from a bucket onto a meager pile, while below a fourth mined with pick and shovel in a poorly propped room with only such ventilation as filtered down from above...
...It has been asserted that the socalled "union" has accepted a wage scale one-third lower than that paid to union operators, and that the existence of an incorporated union is the entering wedge which, if successful, will result in i iisaster to the labor movement...
...Several attempts have been made Over Three Thousand Pack Bryant Hall in First Strike Meeting by the union to secure better conditions and the agreed wage, but all these have been unsuccessful...
...The situation is made i the more puzzling by virtue of the , fnct that the Schwartz theatres . and others that are being picketed ; by union members who charge they were locked out display signs asserting that they are "100 per cent union...
...An active union member, he has a wife and several children, who have stood by him loyally...
...He was convicted on substantially the same evidence which acquitted Fred M. Bratcher oil September 16...
...one, located in the Rand School in charge of Riesel, has been organizing independent shops...
...Mrs...
...Unemployed Organize A non-partisan group of young unemployed workers organized in Brighton Beach Sunday to devise a means of meeting their unemployment situation...
...J. L. A. had made all the concessions it could reasonably be expected to make When it offered to accept reductions of 10 cents an hour in both day and i.ight rates, bringing the wages to 76 cents for day work and $1.10 for night work...
...Theatrical Costumers Declare General Strike The ladies' tailors, custom dressmakers and theatrical costume and alteration workers, often called the elite of the women's garment industry, have been called out on strike, and the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union has thrown all its resources back of the struggle to make every shop a union shop snd every worker in the trade a union member...
...Judge Moses took testimony in one controversy involving 600 men and women...
...The meeting at Bryant Hall was the official opening of the strike...
...FP).—Mining methods as primitive as those of old Russia and up-to-date colliery machinery, idle—that is the paradox of the anthracite region...
...The statement goes on to repudiate the so-called Empire State I Motion Picture Operators' Union, « Inc., and calls upon the labor ' movement and its friends to dis- < regard it...
...The other located in the Church of Christ, 34th St...
...The financial condition of these unions during the past 3 years, however, has filled us with apprehension for the future of the Union Heslth Center...
...Dorothy Bellsnca, representatives of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America...
Vol. 14 • October 1932 • No. 15
