Amalgamated Workers Vote Strike for Wage Increase
Amalgamated Workers Vote Strike for Wage Increase AT the last meeting of the' New York Joint Board of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America it was unanimously decided to demand 15% increase...
...In his report to the Conference, occupying fifteen pages of the official proceedings, Dr...
...This was in effect an impeachment of the figures, used by organized labor...
...BAKERS ENSLAVED BY LABOR-SAYING OVENS DETROIT.—Efforts of Detroit's small bakeries to save themselves from extinction by the chain bakeries brings to light how certain conditions are permanently separating workers form their jobs...
...T. Weir, July 28, 1082.' WHAT THEY DO "The Weirtor...
...In 1929 stealing eases were 40% of ell delinquency charges, in 1981 they were 43...
...has slashed wages fat the tin mills of its Weirton works for the fifth time in the lest 11 months"— newspaper story, Oct...
...In their report they state that the "death rate of artificially fed babies is higher than the death rate of babies whose mothers nurse them," claiming that the present inability of mothers to buy prepared foods has been beneficial...
...Hoover himself first presented these figure* to the public, before one of his own conferences...
...WHAT THEY SAY— AND WHAT THEY DO THE new Steel Notes published * by Labor Research Ass'n carries a comparison of the publicity blurbs about wages ef the steel executives and what they actually do...
...100,000 loaves produced similarly would employ 100 workers...
...Their total sales In 1919 were 11,003.601,600...
...Pres...
...J Wllho KaUlo of Connecticut frnnd five recruits who want The New Leader during the coming year, j...
...Repeated statements that the depression has brought down the total death rate lose their significance in the face of these facts...
...Yon can't feed a child skim milk one year an dthen make R up by feeding her cream the following year," she sold...
...1" —newspaper story, October, 1981...
...subsidiary of Natl...
...If the membership is willing to fight as it did ia the general strike last summer—and there is every evidence that it is—end if the cutters give the whole-hearted cooperation they did during the strike—and nobody doubts that they will—then the fight is already won, union officials say...
...One of your committees reports that out of 45,000,000 children . .. 6,000,000 are improperly nourished " The committee of the Conference referred to by President Hoover was the Committee on Special Classes, whose chairman was Dr...
...The 33 department store chsins reported average operating expenses equal to 24.85 per cent of sales," the Commerce Department stated...
...I am for higher wages—not lower...
...The three largest chains do more than three-fourths of the business.,, They have an expense ratio of 23.05 per cent, compered with 28.68 for the Other chains...
...In the smaller bakery operation," said Supervisor William T. Skrzcki, "five men are required to produce 5,000 loaves of bread in nine hours, in four brick ovens...
...The decrease lb traffic accidents is do* to the reduced amount of pleasure driving and commercial transportation...
...The Ban Is Lifted On Edison Pickets There will be no more police interference with the picketing of the Brooklyn Edison Company's main building In Brooklyn, N. Y., according to an agreement lately reached between Police Inspector Joseph F. Thompson of the 11th Division and a delegation of witnesses who had come to press charges against two patrolmen for the breaking: up of a demonstration at the same point on Nov...
...16, 198L "All the steel companies have cut wages 10%, effective Oct...
...During the presidential campaign the existence of these six million undernourished children was used in literature and discussion criticising the Republican administration...
...The strike last summer, while it brought no immediate gain to the members in the form of wages or decreased hours, was a measure of anion strength and was the lever with which it regained control of the fast-slipping industrial situation...
...Hoover said: "Statistics can well be used to give emphasis to our problems...
...These pickets bad...
...Dairy companies all over the country report reductions in milk consumption...
...active In the cause of labor snd j Socialism for many years, and thej news of his recovery has been received everywhere in the entire movement with profound relief...
...The fact is that Mr...
...Steel Corp., to Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce, October, 1832...
...Infant and maternity mortality cases have declined, but the bureau points out that the birth rate has also declined...
...Louis to meet in Chicago November 19-20...
...Steel Corp...
...We are for free speech," members of the union declared, "regardless of who is doing the speaking, and we feel that an investigation is warranted by the actions of the red squad in numerous cases...
...They included the retail stores of two large mail •*der houses which also operate retail stores...
...Out of this conference, we hope, will come first, a helpful exchange of ideas, aims and tactics...
...Miss Grace Abbott, chief of the bureau, predicts that the present insecurity and constant worry In the home will prevent normal mental development The future will show the physical effects of the present Inadequate feeding...
...Amalgamated Workers Vote Strike for Wage Increase AT the last meeting of the' New York Joint Board of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America it was unanimously decided to demand 15% increase in wages for the coming season...
...J. C. Williams, Weir-ton Steel Co...
...declared a quarterly dividend of 12j4c a share (total, over 130,000,000) on capital stock, payable Sept...
...Ceaferenee Cafcj To Aid Local 306 h conference to support the organised in Local 80$ ef t§» American Federation of Labor In their struggle against a company union has been called by the Labor Committee of the Socialist Party to meet at Beethoven Hall, December 7th...
...second, a unanimous agreement on certain minimum demands to be incorporated in a platform and given due publicity...
...HOOVER DEWB FIGURES HE HIMSELF PRESENTED ,«* ¦ ¦ - I , ON many occasions during 1981 asW 1982 the American Fed eraikffl of Labor has pointed to the existence of six million Children suffering malnutrition as ens of the strongest reasons why Federal, State and local governments and the owners and managers of industry should adopt whatever measures are necessary to provide work for the miUid»* of unemployed and thus enable parents to give their children adequate and proper food...
...in Steel, May 7,1931...
...PROSPERITY" WAGE OF BIG STORES $22.71 WEEKLY WASHINGTON.—Average salary of all employes of the 33 chains of department stores in the United States In 1929—at the height of "prosperity wages"— was $22,71 a week, according to U. S. Census Bureau reports analyzed Nov...
...Printers Score "Red SquaC LOS ANGELES.—Los Angeles Typographical Union No...
...Goldman Recovers From Operation Chas...
...The non-union trucking men carting cut goods to non-union shops in Pennsylvania and Connecticut snd Jersey non-union towns and who were draining the strength from the organised markets, were licked to a standstill...
...This average includes the high salaries of executives and experts in the big stores...
...24, 108L "Workers In the tin mill ef the Weirton Steel Co...
...Today, the manufacturer who will try to bootleg his goods out of town will nnd it practically impossible to hire an expressman...
...The United States Public Health Service was cited as the authority for the figures...
...Even more important In the re-tall selling field than the chains ars ths department stores, numbering 191, held In 14 "ownership groups,'', but separately managed...
...80, 1982"—Standard Corporation Records...
...The comparison follows: WHAT THEY SAY "Wage cuts will only be a boomerang and will retard recovery...
...Steel Corp...
...In this study were included 20 local or regional and 18 national chains, operating 2,560 stores, whose aggregate sales In that year were 9665,172,168...
...For the 83 chains ths total payroll was * which 164.553.442 , went to H658 regular full time workers, and the remainder to 16,489 part-time employes...
...This ia the ttret meeting in aix or seven rears, Secretary-Treasurer Abraham Miller said, in which the question of an increase in wages was discussed...
...About 88 per cent of all the units in these 88 chains, operating at the end of 1929, were established between 1928 and 1928...
...third, a loose federation of jobless leagues in which no group surrenders any of Its local autonomy' but all unite on certain general principles and national demands and set up a basis for larger cooperative enterprises than,-are now possible...
...boas protesting against ths continued laying off of sesapsay construction workers ts large nussbare...
...The Central Labor Union and the Methodist Ministers' Association have also passed similar measures...
...The company is in a strong condition, with ample cash and no bank loans...
...President Hoover declared he had a letter from the Public Health Service denying having made such a statement...
...Steel Co...
...The bureau also points out that in towns where there are one hundred wandering boys arriving dally, the tendency is to make them move on rather than to charge them with any offense...
...In addition to Dr...
...L. Goldman, secretary-treasurer of the Joint Council of the International Pocketbook Workers' Union, ' who has been operated this week at the Mount Sinai Hospital, is now recovering, according to a statement issued by Dr...
...In his Indianapolis speech...
...In the opinion of the Children's Bureau, truancy cases have declined during the depression because unemployment and bad home conditions make school seem a lesser evil...
...In opening the White House Conference on Child Health and Protection, on November 19, 1930, Mr...
...Unemployed Unions Hold Chicago Conference CHICAGO.—A conference of organizations of the unemployed in the Midwest has been called by the Chicago Workers' Committee and the Unemployed Citizens' League of St...
...Steel wages down another 16%"—newspaper story, May, 1982...
...Comrade Goldman has been...
...i ^ ¦—~— —JMf'jB,' v ^aa$psnr*ap-- ;¦™ sir™ oasis WASHINGTON.—While eases of general juvenile delinquency have shown an 8% decrease in the last three years, according to reports received by the Children's Bureau from 19 juvenile courts, stealing is on the increase...
...The reduced number of fatal Industrial accidents Is directly dne to unemployment...
...Charles S. Berry...
...Berry, the Committee on Special Classes was composed of ten outstanding authorities, is child welfare.____ Campaign orators may have embellished these figures with colorful pictures of underfed school children "fainting at their desks," but that embellishment does not refute the fact that six million children suffer from lack of food...
...Directors of the Natl...
...thus five persons to a family would mean support ef BOO 'persons...
...A resolution passed by the Board of Supervisors of Wayne County stated that it shall be their policy to buy bread for the county and city of Detroit institutions only from small bakeries, rather than from the chain bakers...
...While conditions are by no means favorable and while the Amalgamated, aionc with all other labor unions, is feeling the effect of the prolonged depression, technological displacement of workers and the growing menace of out-of-town non-union competition, the active members and officers feel thst the drive for an increase will, nevertheless, be successful...
...2. This agreement, which hinged on the dropping of the charges, was made at a hearing in Inspector Thompson's office on a complaint registered with Police Commissioner Mulrooney by the American Civil Liberties Union, which accused Patrolmen Nos...
...Ginsberg, the surgeon who performed the operation...
...The Public Health Service may not have made the original statement...
...have been cut 40% since the first of the year"— newspaper istory, Oct...
...School teachers report their students "in a dazed condition all the time" duS to leek of nourishment...
...Whenever it is possible, child-caring agencies prefer to place children in home surroundings...
...7611 and 14848 of tearing up banners of plcketers and of Intimidating marchers by displaying guns...
...But it was made by responsible authorities of the White House Conference on Child Health and Protection and originally given to the public by President Hoover himself...
...30 to holders on record Sept...
...Although it Is difficult to get any accurate picture of how the depression is affecting children, a New York health center reports an 18-60% increase in cases of malnutrition...
...2 by the Department ef Commerce...
...This winter will no longer find us dependent on local relief funds, but on state and national grants," the call for the conference points out "In order, then, that our demands hsve sny effect, we must be organized not only In more places but upon a broader basis than we now have...
...One of the large chain bakeries recently discontinued the use of 23 brick ovens and is now doing all its baking on a travelling conveyor oven, using only four men, thus eliminating 69 men from its payroll...
...On the other hand, one large bakery, in the production of 100,000 loaves of bread, employs only four men, thus eliminating 96 workers...
...Figures from May 1932 show a 26% increase in the number of children placed in foster homes...
...The sub-divisions of the party are asked to elect two delegates each, to meet with delegates from fraternal organizations and other bodies affiliated with the labor movement to make plans to aid the members of 806 in their fight...
...174, in a vigorous resolution denouncing the unconstitutional activities of the so-called "red squad," has demanded that Mayor John C. Porter appoint a committee to investigate those activities...
...In normal times, therefore, this increase might be explained away, but the Children's Bureau has reports from institutions and agencies for the care of children in 18 metropolitan arena that the number of children under their supervision has also shown a marked increase...
...Berry, under the heading, "Significant Findings," said: "There are in the United SUtes . . . 6.000,000 children (approximately) of school age who are malnourished...
...The organization is in a more favorable position than it has been in a long time...
...I have been opposed to wage reductions over the past three years, and have seen no benefits from them, but harm through decreased buying capacity and breaking down of home standards" —from speech by E. T. Weir, chairman of Natl...
...One teacher did all the janitor work in her school in order to save the money to buy lunches for her pupils...
...More than 33 per cent were established in 1029...
...The committee, through Samuel E. Beardsley, chairman, and Joseph Tuvuni secretary, takes Its stand with the local in its battle against the so-called Empire State Motion Picture Operators' Union, which it characterizes as a company organisation and declares that if the employers win the struggle other employers will be encouraged to organize so-called unions to break the hold of organized labor...
Vol. 14 • November 1932 • No. 22
