To Hold International Trade Union Congress Next July
To Hold International Trade Union Congress Next July I. F. T. U. Outlines Work for Social Planning and for New Social Policy for the Coming Year. fHE Executive meeting of the * International...
...The Chamber of Labor is the Vienna central body of Austria's largest union group...
...The outstanding declarations were for the 30-hour week and for compulsory unemployment insurance by state legislation...
...Vincent Mannino, Brooklyn lawyer, wa : chairman...
...Hightower is in a serious condition and has no chance of improving in that jail," the Governor was told...
...Then the schilling was established, based on a loan of the League of Nations, and Austria has been in a steadily worsening depression ever since...
...Governor Ruby Laffoon of Kentucky was urged in a telegram to investigate the alleged denial of emergency medical care to William Hightower, seventy-eight year old life prisoner in Fayette County jail in Lexington pending action on his appeal...
...The Executive of the I.F.T.U...
...SOCIALIST UNIONS OF VIENNA HOLD FAST AUSTRIA'S Free Trade Unions are holding their employed membership at the end of a 10-year depression because of their political activity and their fight for social insurance benefits, Dr...
...James A. Dombrowsky, student in Union Teological Seminary...
...On the afternoon of November 18th, all the members of the Executive attended the funeral of Comrade Hermann MOUer-Lichtenberg...
...This is surely a remarkable achievement and is again a manifestation of the manner in which the trade union movement is meeting the present emergencies with which >» U confronted, and is assisting its members during this great period of unemployment...
...Madsen is a former Socialist member of the Illinois legislature...
...Green In Fighting Mood Most amazing of all the spectacular episodes of the convention was probably the strongly militant speech delivered by Pres...
...fHE Executive meeting of the * International Federation of Trade Unions, held at Berlin on the 17th and loth November, was attended by all the members...
...the draft is also to be discussed by the Joint Economic Committee of the International Federation of Trade Unions and the Labor and Social ist International...
...and James Price, of the General Defense Committee of the I.W.W., which has been conducting the legal defense of the miners...
...Asked, whether the Socialists would immediately socialise industry if they won power in the nation as they have in Vienna, he answered that they could not...
...Martin F. Ryan, of the railway carmen, treasurer...
...and G. M. Bugniazet, of the electrical workers, vice-presidents, tanking in the order named...
...FAIRY TALE DUQUOIN, HI.—Have you ever heard the fairy tale of the coal miner who stole coal to keep from freezing because he produced too much coal...
...Our Industry needs foreign capital...
...The closing day saw all the officers re-elected without opposition and Washington chosen as the 1933 convention city...
...The amounts disbursed for the various forms of benefits follow: Sick.............I2,220,974.64 Death...
...Louis made a bid for 1034...
...attended on behalf of the International Federation of Clerical, Commercial and Technical Employees...
...Our movement is much helped by the fact that so large a proportion of the membership live close together...
...A draft of the latter was presented to the Executive, which approved of it in principle: in December there will be a meeting of a Committee of Experts for the further discussion and formulation of labor's demands for the reconstitution of the economic system...
...strongly condemns and holds up to public contempt this parody of an amnesty, which only benefits offenders against common law and allows liberty of opinion to be crushed still further...
...They wanted to achieve it by the power of the unions exercised in the shops and mills and on the railroads...
...The resolutions committee stated that apart from the railroads unionism was not a power in any large corporation...
...Speakers included Mrs...
...The creation of an independent Workers' Educational International has been postponed, since some national centres have not yet sent in their replies to the questionnaire issued on the subject...
...Green for "forcible methods" In combatting unemployment and restoring a decent job at a decent wage to the 12 million unemployed...
...The so-called amnesty promulgated by the government of Mus »ohni deceives no one...
...The Executive also discussed various questions connected with the work at Geneva and made a stern protest against the so-called "amnesty" in Italy...
...In 1930 our affiliated organizations reported a payment of $3,311,279.50 and in 1931 the figures reported showed a payment of $9,146,724.85, an Increase of $6,835,444.85...
...Guiding Principles of Social Policy" and of its "Demands for Economic Planning...
...2. 8hrewd political leadership by the party adjusts the demands snd programs to the mood of the membership, so thst a awing to more radical thought is promptly met by more radical slogans...
...At s conference, presided over by David Dubinsky, president of the International, a number of matters were amicably threshed out and a charter was granted to Ix>cal 132 of the Button and Novelty Workers' Union...
...Several miners are in prison for refusing to let their families die of exposure...
...We have been obliged to extend th terms of our unmployment Insurance to meet the need," he said...
...John Coefleld, of the plumbers...
...Both measures were the bitter fruit of the 8-year depression and both provoked bitter debate...
...The enthusiasm and emotion of a religion goes into the movement, aided by the fact that several of the leaders are tremendously popular...
...Frank Duffy, of the carpenters...
...Fritz Rager, secretary of the Vienna Chamber of Labor, said in an interview Dr...
...The opponents of the regime, that is, all the Democrats, Socialists, Trade Unionists and revolutionaries, who have made strong opposition to the dictatorship, are to remain in prison...
...The trade union die-hards, holdovers from the Samuel Gompers school of purely economic pressure for better conditions, objected to the demand on Congress for legislative enactment of the 5-day week and 6-hour day...
...The Executive also decided to send a telegram to C Madsen of Copenhagen, ex-member of the Executive, congratulating him on having attained his 70th year on the 17th November...
...The official family for tho year is: William Green, of the miners, president...
...At the close of the final session, Green took occasion to announce that under no circumstances would he accept a political job or political preferment so long as he remained head of the federation...
...Polls will be open from 10 A. M. to 6 P. M. Most Hopeful Convention Closes Cincinnati Convention Set New Mark for Forward Vision and for Fighting Spirit...
...He confessed without qualification that the post-war policy of conciliation, of smiling hopefully nt the bosses, of pleading with them for favors, had failed utterly...
...it was decided, therefore, to postpone till next meeting the consideration of certain of the measures proposed...
...He described the period from 1918 to 1922, when inflation carried the crown, unit of Austrian currency, to 1/14,400 of Its former value and the crash which followed...
...Rager is enroute home after a lecture tour among many American universities...
...Speakers who attended the trials of those already convicted charged that the legal rights of the defendants were grossly violated in the Kentucky courts, and that the whole prosecution was backed by big coal Interests to crusn unionism in that region...
...People have been gotting benefits for years and the problem has srlsen ss to how long the benefits csn be paid...
...Joseph N. Weber, of the musicians...
...the resolution passed on the subject is as follows: "The Executive of the International Federation of Trade Unions warns the woikera of the world against the sinister farce which has just been played in Italy, to the great prejudice of freedom of opinion and of speech...
...Matthew Woll, of the photo-engravers...
...James Wilson, of the patternmakers...
...It insisted on shorter hours and higher wages to end unemployment...
...1,700 027.88 Total .....,--839,901,873.14 In 1929 the total benefits amounted to $32,242,444.40, and in 1930 reached $36,697,979.56 "It is interesting to note an Increase^ almost $6,000,000 for the year T931 over 1930 in the payment of unemployment benefits," the council said...
...Thomas E. Burke of the plumbers and Christian M. Madsen of the painters were elected fraternal delegates to the British Trades Union Congress to be held next September...
...Railroads penetrating the southern Illinois coal field* are experiencing the heaviest cost theft recorded...
...James C. Quinn of the New York Central Trades and Labor Council, of the hatters, was named fraternal delegate to the Trades and Labor Assembly of Canada...
...On humanitarian grounds we ask you to have him put in a hospital under competent physicians...
...Coming at the time of the change - fat administration in- -the I.L.G.W.U., the breach between the local and the parent body was largely the result of misunderstandings...
...If it were socialised, it could not get that capital," he explained...
...Button Workers Are Back in I.LG.W.U...
...About 60 . of the Industrial workers are organised into the Free Trade Unions and another 10% of the workers are in the smaller groups, the Fascist, Communist snd Christian unions," he said...
...He called for new militancy, for a revival of the fighting spirit of embattled labor against greedy and hostile employers...
...This was in answer to repeated inquiries from correspondents as to whether he would consent to be secretary of labor If President-elect Roosevelt should offer him the post Aid Pledged to Kentucky Miners pVELEGATKS from 53 labor, liberal and civic organizations met December 1st, in the Labor Temple, 242 East 14th Street, and pledged support to the fight to free six union coal miners serving life terms on murder conspiracy charges in Harlan County, Kentucky, and to defend 22 others soon to be tried...
...Max Scharf, secretary of the union, has notified the members that the new union books are ready and that there will be an election of officers held in the headquarters, 662 Seventh Awe-, Saturday, Dec...
...it was however decided to do everything possible to promote activities which are now on foot for the issue of International Labor Films...
...A. 0. Wharton, of the machinists...
...10th...
...8. The Socialist movement is largely non-religious and takes the place of religion with the workers...
...Corliss Lamont, representing the Socialist Party...
...Take the Prolt Oat of War The convention voted to tales the profit out of war preparations, to condemn Insurance racketeering by favoring state fund workman compensation policies, for repeal of the prohibition amendment and for beer end light wines, for stoppage Of all immigration, for defense of the school systems against the economy attacks of bankers and business men, and for higher taxes on the rich...
...After the meeting, joint discussions were held with representatives of the International Transport Workers' Federation on matters referred by the Conference of International Trade Secrctarie* held at Berne for Settlement by the two executives...
...Frank Morrison, of the printers, secretary...
...G. J. A. Smit Jr...
...The agenda for the Congress will provide, besides the usual reports, for a discussion of the I.F.T.U...
...The Free Trade Unions are closely affiliated with the Socialist Party, much more closely than in other European countries, and the party rather than the union group Is dominant The long depression has served to strengthen the party at the expense of the unions unfortunately, according to some...
...To Hold International Trade Union Congress Next July I. F. T. U. Outlines Work for Social Planning and for New Social Policy for the Coming Year...
...Railroad officials estimate that more than $1,000 worth Is stolen monthly...
...8,671,380.30 Miscellaneous...
...It happens daily around DuQuoin...
...17,132,023.07 Unemployment_____ 8,146,724.35 Old Age......._____ 6,090,742.90 Disability...
...The strength of the lsbor movement In Austria is helped by three main factors: 1. Vienna ia the only important industrial center, so that the differences which arise between Hamburg %ud Berlin in Germany, for instance, do not bother us...
...The Button and Novelty Workers' Union is again an integral part of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union...
...It approvingly heard the share-the-work movement branded as a share-poverty measure...
...J Washington was selected as the next convention city because the Samuel Gompers monument is oxpected to be unveiled there next October...
...It stood out in bold contrast to Ida opening remarks Nov...
...Arnold Johnson of the American Civil Liberties Union...
...Lack of time prevented the Executive from discussing fully the report submitted by the Anti-War Committee...
...Johnson was jailed last year in Harlan, Ky., for having free speech pamphlets in his possession, snd Price was beaten and deported from Pineville by a "law and order committee'' last April...
...T. A. Rlckert, of the United Garment Workers...
...21, that "through the constructive action taken at this convention a valuable contribution toward the restoration of our impaired capitalistic structure" would be made...
...It was more pugnacious within the sessions and committee meetings, more militant on broad questions of labor policy atid markedly to the left of recent years...
...In 1926, following a strike in the covered button Industry, the local organization withdrew from the parent body...
...The date fixed for the International Congress at Brussels is Jury 80-August 8, 1933...
...They were roughly told that this supposed power was largely non-existent...
...The President paid a tribute to the memory of Comrade Hermanu MQUer-Lichttnberg, Vice-President of the German National Trade Union Centre until a year ago...
...Q.NCINNATI.—The most interesting and the most hopeful American Federation of I.abor convention since 1920— that is the verdict of delegates as thi 1932 sessions closed in Cincinnati...
...40,000,000 Benefit* Paid by Trade Unions CINCINNATI - Nearly forty million dollars were paid in benefits by the standard national and international trade unions of the United States and Canada in 1981 an increase of over |3,000,000 over those reported for 1930, according to the report of the Executive Council of the American Federation of labor to the annual convention of the Federation here...
...Rebutted editorially by the New York "Times" for abandoning the handshaker attitude of concession and suppliance, he repeated his challenge and made it stronger...
...The members rose from their seats in honor of the deceased...
Vol. 14 • December 1932 • No. 24
