American Labor Meets in Fighting Mood
American Labor Meets in Fighting Mood In Fighting Mood Organized labor, he said, was impatient with conditions such as those obtaining in the textile and boot and shoe industries. As...
...this to include unemployment compensation, old age pensions and sick benefits based on contributions by the government and the employers...
...This conference, which will meet at Beethoven Hall, Dec...
...The Roxy Theatre has operated under union conditions sines It opened, and there Is no strike on there...
...If these two orgsnizations are now willing to unite there in nothing to stop them from organising their industry completely," President Green declared...
...Dear Editor: Is it right for your dramatic department to give press notices to the Roxy when the operators sre picketing it T I pass it daily snd have i efrained from going in because I don't think a Socialist should...
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...7, at 8:30 p. m., was called by t h e Labor Committee of the party to help the operators in their battle against s company union...
...I have noticed twice since the picketing began you have given them publicity—and each time they didn't even give yon advertising...
...In the administration of present unemployment relief, we support immediate cash payment in such sums ss will insure sn adequate American standard of living necessarily to...
...The two letters below are self-explanatory...
...SOCIALISTS IN UNIONS TO MEET A membership meeting of all trade union members of the Socialist Party will bs held Saturday...
...We have had to fight for our right to suffrage, our right to organize and our right of free speech snd assemblage...
...It will be given to u s in responses to reason or we will secure it through force of some kind...
...No evictions...
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...10, at 2 »o, at the Peoples' House, 7 East U>th Street...
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...Through organization we must act to secure adequate relief for ourselves and our families...
...SPEAK Charles Dukes, fraternal delegate of the Birtish Trtdes Union Congress to the American Federation of Labor cot vention, will speak on "The British and the American Labor Movements" at the East Bronx Socialist Forum at the Bellamy Club, 904 Prospect Avenue, the Bronx, this Sunday morning at 11...
...Fraternally yours, Committee on Labor...
...Organizations in nine other states, stretching from Massachusetts to Washington, had previously indicated a willingness to cooperate, but could not afford to send delegates...
...As soon as the demand for these products increased, instead of putting into effect the shorter week to add more workers to the payroll, these industries, he said, increased hours and put on double shifts...
...This Federation takes a non-partisan political stand...
...Beatrice Nemser...
...They are picketing this theatre in order to have the agreement msde with the bona fide union, Local No...
...III...
...It has become for us a struggle for existence...
...In all these undertakings, we have learned that only through organization can our activity really be successful and effective...
...Conference to Aid Strike Of Movie Operators Credentials haws been received from many Workmen's Circle, •Socialist Party and Young Peoples' Socialist League branches for delegates to the conference to support the locked-out motion picturs operstors In Locsl 309 of ths American Federation of Labor...
...The deadlock between the union and the Printers' League, the employers' organization in the commercial printing division, continuos...
...No farmer to be deprived, because of natural or economic conditions, of the use of the home which he occupies or the land and equipment essential to the earning of his living...
...In Reply Dear Comrsde: Your letter to The New Leader has been referred to the Labor Committee of the Party for reply...
...Miss Sandra weighed six pounds and eleven ounces, ringside, and has a fine contralto...
...He will speak in the Rand School Monday evening...
...Father and daughter are doing fine, and the mother Is likewise in great shape...
...This does not mean that the farmer Is to be protected in his title to this property, but only to its use...
...This action was forwarded to the International uMon's executive council for endorsement...
...Just as the carpenters led the fight for the eight-hour day, so the time has come for some militant union to lead the fight for the shorter work-day and workweek...
...Margaret Gillen...
...The New Leader hss carried stories and statements by the party's Labor Committee, calling attention to the situation...
...This means not only longer hours and less pay, but also the throwing of men out of work...
...Comrade Dukes was formerly a Labor member of Parliament and a leader in the British labor movrV»nt...
...The question of organizing to push the fight for unemployment insurance legislation and other matters affecting the workers of New York will be discussed and acted upon...
...The conference adopted resolutions opposing the "stagger system" of employment, child labor, and the sales tax...
...to provide work for the unemployed, and there is a special 10 per cent assessment on ali earnings of book and job workers...
...If ths employers win the Struggle Other employers will be encouraged to organise so-called unions to break the hold of organized labor, the party eomraittes insists...
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...The following is the "platform of minimum demands" adopted by the delegates: Their Platform "The history of the workers of America, like the history of workers everywhere, has been one of struggle...
...A willingness to merge the two organizations has been expressed by the chiefs of the United Hattcrej of North America and t h e ('loth Hat, Cap snd Millinery Workers International Union, thus ending a fight thst has caused a great deal of damage to the interests of the workers in the hat industry and allied trades...
...The <iir> division* of ths parly wsre asked to elect two delegates each, to meet with delegate* from fraternal organisations and Other bodies affiliated with the labor movement ta make plans t e aid the members of 306 1b their fight For Speakers * Before Unions An educational forum to furnish speakers and lecturers on economic and labor subjects to trade unions has been organiced by the Labor Committee of the party...
...Those picketing the theatre are members ef a "company anion," ths Empire State Motion Picture Operators' Union, Inc...
...Union locals and committees anxious to obtain -.uch speakers are urged to get in touch with the Labor Committee, 7 East 15th Street...
...Adequate representation of unemployed organizations on all relief dispensing bodies...
...As unemployed workers, we are the ones who suffer most from the consequences of the present situation, although we are in the main the least responsible for its existence...
...Tuvim, secretary, takes Its stand with the local in Its bsttle sgainst the so-called Empire State Motion Picture Operators' Union, which It characterizes as s company organisation...
...Joffre at the Maine, said: 'My tight is crushed, my left is rolled up, but I am going te strike with my centre.' "We say that we are going to strike for this great economic reform...
...Down through the years we have had to strive and sacrifice to better our condition of life, as well as to ward off encroachments on our living standards...
...Unemployed Workers' Leagues Organize New Federation ^jHICAGO.—Temporary organization of a Federation of Unemployed Workers' l.eagues of America was set up last week by representatives of thirty midwestern groups of unemployed representing seven states...
...Sandra Makes Her Bow Miss Sandra Nemser, a young debutante of Brooklyn, made her bow to the world Thanksgiving Eve at Israel /ion Hospital, to the great joy of Hyman Nemser and Mrs...
...Headgear Unions Ready to Unite The long standing jurisdictional dispute between the two international unions in the hat trade has been settled by conference between the leaders of the unions, President Green announced to the delegates at the A. F. of L convention in Cincinnati...
...DUKES TO...
...It is our fight to make the possessing class shoulder this responsibility...
...Karl Borders was elected temporary chairman and Robert E. Asher, temporary secretary...
...The union scale of wages for all unemployed workers who are put to work upon public or private projects...
...The boss printers insist that not only hours and wages, but vital union laws safeguarding the rights of union members, be submitted to arbitration...
...306, of the Motion Picture Operators' Union, broken by the movie house owners...
...I t has been charged that the picketing of union theatres by the so-called Empire State union has been undertaken solely to cause labor sympathizers to believe there is a bona fide strike on, and thus to throw the entire situation into confusion...
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...The committee, through Samuel E. Beardsloy, chairman, and Jos...
...The maintenance of health and hygienic conditions among the unemployed in accordance with the best accepted standards, this to include medical, dental, and hospital care provided by governmental agencies...
...National headquarters of the new federation will be maintained at 20 W. Jackson Street, Chicago...
...The fact that a Socialist Party member has actually been deceived indicates that they have succeeded, at least to an extent, In muddling the situation...
...include provision for water, fuel and light...
...We must also realise that such a critical state of unemployment as we are experiencing at the present time is a constantly recurring factor in the present industrial order, and we must, therefore, work toward a planned economic order in which social security snd the right to work bs plsced above the rights of private profit In industry and agriculture...
...For ths Immediate fatui«\ a system of socisl insurance instead of the present debasing plan of pauper relief on the basis of need...
...In replying to the Printers' League proposals, the Union Scale Committee Insisted upon an immediate restorstion of the terms of the expired scale contract until arbitration or other adjustment Is a r rived at...
...1 The Movie Operators' Strike The fact that two sets of pickets are patrolling the streets In front of two sets of movie theatres in New York has caused some confusion...
...DEADLOCK CONTINUES IN PRINTING TRADE THE members of ths New York Typographical Union (Big 6) passed by an overwhelming vote the referendum calling for a continuation for four weeks of ths present unemployment relief plan...
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...We are not going to stand for this any longer," he continued...
...I and my associates on the executive council are going to find a way out even though we may be compelled to resort to forcible methods to compel industry to yield...
...It demanded "a governmental plan of social relief, to be financed by taxes on large incomes and levies on capital...
...Under this plsn, printers take one day off a week on newspaper...
...Today, in the midst of the worst depression the world has ever experienced, we are faced with the greatest battle of our history...
...Bix Six looks upon this move as a cloak to evade arbitration of the wage and hours proposals, since union laws have never been submitted to such adjudication...
...It Is for ths purpose of aiding the- labor movement in keeping its gains intact and to prevent the Inroads of a company "union" that the party Is doing sll in Its power to aid the locked-out operstors of Locsl soe...
...American Labor Meets in Fighting Mood In Fighting Mood Organized labor, he said, was impatient with conditions such as those obtaining in the textile and boot and shoe industries...
...All red card holders who are members ef labor unions are urged to attend early...
...As unemployed workers we must strive to place the responsibility for relief on the owning class in accordance with its ability to share...
...We will not be denied the realization of this great reform...
...Social I n s u r a n ce I "Our program IS...
...They are willing to work 7 days a week for half the union scale, snd without the two shifts of operators...
...You are evidently under the wrong Impression as to ths strike...
Vol. 14 • December 1932 • No. 23
