After the Shoe Strike
Shulman, Lester M.
After the Shoe Strike By Lester M. Shulman ¦JSW BEDFORD, Mass.—In The PI New Lender of April 8th there as article headed "Shoe Strikes grata Out in Old New England," k which it was reported...
...The accused officers are B. Jackson, H. 8iegle and S. Silverman...
...Members of the party and trade unionists are requested to come to the office, 7 East 15th St., and get their allotment * * * Intensive and all-embracing organizing drives in every dress market in the country were ordered at the recent New Haven meeting of the General Executive Board of the International Ladies Garment Workers' Union...
...More than 2,000,000 doors are imported by Britain each year, and if the carpentry Arms desire any f that business they can't be "open shop...
...The firms which have already signed with the Vancouver, B. C, union have agreed to the five-day week and other union conditions...
...Thousands of workers will march from several parts of the city at 1 P. M...
...McGrady, in his new post, will deal with questions of unemployment, deportation abuses, minimum wage and shorter work-week legislation, ami many other problem" on which he will advise Secretary Perkins...
...The boycott was instituted by the union after the companies had smashed all attempts to unionize their factories...
...This union is threatened with a general strike and lockout, and will appeal to the public for their support...
...Stat* Representative Benjamin Iters of Biddeford, Me.—a Socialist Party member (although set elected as a Socialist)—who lis been cooperating with the ¦arty and the unions, tells me that at had received a letter from one tf the ex-strikers, stating that the tat minister in town who had been lympsthetic to them had been given two months' salary and walking papers...
...It is expected that the Shoe Protective Association of Haverhill and the National Shoe Workers' Association of Lynn, both independent (not Communist) unions, will merge and therefore be able more efficiently to clean up the rotten conditions now existing in the shoe industry, NEW WAGE CUT LOOMS] FOR RAILROAD WORKERS I NEW YORK.—With June 18 .negotiations between railroad employers and unions ahead, preparations are under way for another 1S% slash...
...The International7 Ladies Garment Workers has held two sessions of representatives from their local unions to perfect plans for the demonstration...
...An important meeting of members of all trade unions will be held this Saturday afternoon, April 22, 8 P.M., at 7 East 15th Street, to further the work for May Day among the trade union membership whose unions are not as yet repre8 p. m., at the Amalgamated Building, 81 West 15th Street, to sented...
...They have been supplied with union labels snd are shipping their products to the British market...
...The compsnles, however, carried the matter to the Supreme Court, where the esss wss decided against them...
...McGrady was formerly pron.inent in trade union activities in Boston, was a member of tin Massachusetts legislature, and in recent years has been the moat effective spokesman of the A. F of L. demands before : -mmitteet of the Senate and House, and before public gatherings and rai audiences in the East an'' South His resignation from tl legis lative staff of the federation will it is assumed at headquarters, be followed by appointment of a member of the office staff as his successor...
...the Millinerj locals, Cap Makers, Leather Goods Workers mid Furriers and other trades at streets to be announced uptown...
...President Larry M. Carroll of the Norway Shoe Co., who publicly pledged no .discrimination against striken, shut the plant, in which tie workers are employed, for a few days snd then reopened with tst taking back six or seven of the former strike committee...
...Members of the I.L.G.W.U...
...The executive board reaffirmed its stand for a continuation of the week-work provision in the agreement...
...High spirit prevails »mong the officers and members >f the local...
...Under tha bill unemployed workers would be pild very modest sums for a deflHIe number of weeks to prevent their sinking into destitution...
...Labor Committee Notes May Day Parade DLANS for the May Day Demonstration and Parade arc gathering momentum with each day...
...F. Goff, secretary of the local committee...
...The first campaign for complete unionisation of a market will take place in New York...
...During this final week, every effort is being made t > obtain lie maximum cooperation of all organizations participating and the | raising of finances to make this MAY DAY Socialist and Lahor Demonstration the great- t ev >r . held...
...The firms—three in New Jersey and one in Pennsylvania—sought a Federal injunction against the union...
...White or W. W. Husband, or both has not been disclosed...
...The organization drives in the dress markets will be pointed to a general strike throughout the industry to enforce the demands of the workers, who will be backed up by a $1,000,000 "war chest" to be raised by a tax on the membership...
...The N. Y. State Federation of Labor will hold its 70th Annual Convention at Syracuse, N. Y., this year...
...That Secretary Perkins had invited Mc Grady to take the position, and that he had considered it favorably in view of the prospect that the Labor Department would soon be greatly expanded as to industrial jurisdiction, was already known...
...More ¦J* seventy men and women are WAeting daily in the front of three Cerent places on Broadway and "venth Ave...
...No doubt a pillar of his local church, where the minister dare not inform him of his lack of Christian ethics...
...the Amalgamated Clothing Workers on 15th Street, west of 5th Ave...
...It was he who termed me "City Slicker...
...This would mean a saving to them of more than 210 millions, together with the 160 millions the "railroad cur" they sra asking for would bs empowered to lop off, according to J. F. Harris, director of the Southern Pacific and the New York, New Haven A Hartford R. R. systems...
...Labor plays, songs, and speeches are features of the program which will be given before labor and unemployed organizations as a part of Brook wood's field work...
...from 15th St and ith Ave...
...Fifty thousand leaflets, calling upon the workers to demonstrate on May 1st, are being printed, and will be ready for distribution within a day or so...
...This is seen by the employers' action in circularizing large employers of labor in New York state to determine the extent tf wage reductions in recent years...
...Brook wood Graduates to Continental Congress The newly graduated students of Brook wood Labor College—miners, textile workers, automobile workers—will start on a chautauqua tour that opened In Philadelphia April 16 and finishes in Washington on May 6-7 at the Continental Congress for Economic Reconstruction...
...It wtfUld be interesting to learn what BSf happened since...
...The tentative plans are as follows: All locals of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union will assemble at noon on 1 tith Street, west of 5th Ave...
...L. policy towards Russia...
...The local is engaged today In ¦* most bitter struggles in the Mrtory of the International...
...The Fancy Leathergoods Workers Unions have voted cooperation, and also financial assistance...
...e. . • The Woodworkers' Union in Great Britain has refused to handle doors which do not bear the union label...
...Plans are being made by the Labor Committee to get as many as possible unemployed members of the building trades in line...
...The union sppesled snd the U.S...
...The cell ssys ths conferencs will meet "to counteract the disastrous effects of growing sweat shop production In the garment industry on all legitimate fsctors concerned with It...
...The arrangements are under the direction of Wm...
...James Oneal will speak on the A. F of...
...The agreement between the union and its 30,000 eloakmakers aid the manufacturing association expires in June, when conferences will he held on a new pact...
...May 1st...
...Final details of the exact location of assemblage of all <" isbna, time and route of the parades as \ ell as the list of speakers the mass meeting will be announced in next week's New Leader...
...With As workers footed by » useless company "shop" anion R looks as if the wage eat held back by real militant action some weeks sgo will be given them on top of these other doings of Maine's labor sweater...
...The conference committee will report any counter-proposal to tht membership for a referendum...
...However, as the Shoe Unions keep gathering strength and moving northerly, Norway, Kennebunc, Freeport, Auburn, Sanbom, Gardner and other Maine shoe centers will meet their match on the labor field and will have to introduce decent labor conditions into their overworked, underpaid shops...
...The parade will begin at 1:80 P.M...
...As soon at the measure reached the Senate anti-insurance lobbyists swooped down on Senators like a flock of vultures...
...e e. The American Federation of Labor sends the following comment on defeat of the jobless Insurance hill in tho Maryland state senate: "The unscrupulous methods used by employers and their agents to defeat the compulsory unemployment insurance bill in the Maryland Senate is strongly condemned by thoughtful people...
...He is also head of the Maine State* Fair (don't misunderstand the word "fair") Association...
...and Union Square...
...The minister in question was Konard Rheiner, of tat Vniversalist Church, who hsd lean there for three years...
...Many inquiries have come to the party office for information relative to the demonstration from these unemployed trade unionists...
...Thest are the reasons that make *• workers of the food industry answer the organization call of the local with enthusiasm...
...The branches of the Socialist Party, the Young People's Socialist League, the Poale Zionists, the L. I. D., Workers' Unemployed Leaguese, the Union Label divisii Neckwear Workers, Ilult' Grocery Clerks, and other groups will assemble at 15th Street, ens' of 5th Avenue...
...S local, at a time when more tt«n 25,000 are out of work, has SStn able to organise some of the "sort important places on Broadly such as Hollywood, Paradise •*j a number of smaller places...
...And the Wall Street Journal warns that railroad security holders, such as banks and Insurance companies, "must" be protected from defaults, but that "labor will be asked to sacrifice something, possibly the present 10% deducted or a broadening of It' The roads' strategy seems to be to press for a 10% cut, and, failing this, to slip a 5% reduction...
...The Rand School rushed in the picketing in .he first call...
...The Bakers' Union, which comprises several locals in the greater city, intends to have all members in line...
...The United Hebrew Trades at its last meeting Monday evening instructed all its delegates to report back to their affiliates to bring out the greatest possible number of workers...
...A.C.W...
...An eight-year-old legal battle wa> won by the Structural Iron Workers' International Union this week when the U. S. Supreme Court decided ajrainst four "open shop" steel manufacturing firms which have been trying since 1925 to break down a labor boycott against their products...
...The 1933-34 school terms begins October 2...
...This is expected to be used as an argument to enforce the demand for a cut...
...May Day Demonstration THE Socialist and Labor Conference for Unemployment Insurance has issued s call for sn impressive demonstration and parade on Monday afternoon...
...The convention will open on Tuesday, August 27th, at the Onondoga Hotel...
...Edward F. McGrady, legislative agent for the American Federation of Labor, was announced by Postmaster General Farley April 17 as the choice of the Administration for Assistant Secretary of Labor Whether he will replace Robe Car...
...It passed the Lower House, but was killed in the Upper House by a vote of 17 to 11...
...It may seem ironic, but I have found out since that he came from Massachusetts, where he was a big manufacturer nineteen years ago...
...Jn tha last few months its memhtrihip has been more than tripled...
...The Workmen's Circle btkhches and schools, the Young Circle Leagues, the Bakers' Union and other trades will assemble at a designated place and in halls on the lower East Side, and will constitute the main body tf the vnti division of the parade...
...The McDonald-Spencer Engineering Company of New York City has agreed to employ union men on the new State hospital building* in Rochester, N. Y. The company, a general contracting firm, has hitherto been employing non-union workers...
...Further confirmation of the wage cut proposal comes from a Washington confidential news service which reports that "railroads will probably succeed in reducing wages more than the present 10% after midyear...
...It will be preceded by what is believed will be a successful effort to maintain stabilized conditions in the cloak industry in New York...
...A number of fraternal and labor organizations, such as the labor committee of the Socialist Party, the League for Industrial Democracy, the Community Church Forum »nd Teachers' Union have co-operited with the local...
...The National Women's Trade Union League has Issued a cell for a national conference to plan « determined fight on sweat shop products...
...16 ¦ going on from victory to victory...
...The Amalgamated Clothing Workers' Joint Hoard has issued an appeal to ils members to make this day a day of protest against child labor, sweat-shop conditions, and to demonstrate for the 30-hour week, and unemployment in Ml 1.11 lie...
...and converge their forces at Union Square, where the huge mass meeting will begin at 6 V. M. « Colorful banners and floats, challenging posters and slogans, music and songs will accompany the nuuihers as they parade through the Lust and West sides of Manhattan, and meet with the great crowd before the speakers' platform at the north end of Union Square...
...Those who belong to unions not .officially represented in the parade will fall in line on 15th St., between Fifth Ave...
...The picketed places •¦Ploy more than a hundred men JM women who are working under *** most miserable conditions with **t»s slashed to almost nothing...
...WAITERS SCORE IN DRIVE "T^HE brilliant organization campaign of the waiters', waitresses' snd captains' union Local No...
...McGRADY ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF LABOR WASHINGTON...
...This was distasteful to anti-labor employers...
...Appellate Court ordered the esse dismissed...
...will fall in line at some central location as per plans of the Joint Board: likewise, with the Amalgamated Clothing Workers members, and the other unions...
...The Capmakers' and Millinery Workers' Unions are making extensive plans to get their membership out...
...The man suggested for the place has been opposed to the Black 30-hour bill and is an adherent of the Matthew Woll tariff lobby group...
...After the Shoe Strike By Lester M. Shulman ¦JSW BEDFORD, Mass.—In The PI New Lender of April 8th there as article headed "Shoe Strikes grata Out in Old New England," k which it was reported that the Dowe-Kast Yankee shoe workers U Norway, Maine, had been duped into forming a "shop union...
...Officers Suspended Three officers of the New York Joint Board Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America have been suspended from office, pending their trial on charges of using their offices to further their own interests, and to the injury of the organization...
...All parts of the city will be covered with tens of thousands of circulars issuing the call for the great parade and demonstration, and urging all class-conscious working men and women to join the Socialist and Labor forces for a mighty, impressive and challenging demonstration of International solidarity of New York City labor on this May Day...
...The Federal District Court held that labor was employing illegal methods in utilizing a "secondary boycott" snd should be nejolned...
Vol. 15 • April 1933 • No. 16
