In the World of Labor Struggles
In the World of Labor Struggles Seven Unions Now Join In Needle Trade Bloc J" HE needle trades union's alliance, the formation of which ¦Jras reported in last week's New Leader, will ask for...
...The law calls for $6 a day for laborers...
...Called out less than a week ago by the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, they returned to work, having won the right of union recognition, a 44-hour week and substantial increases in wages, ranging from 10 to 20 per cent, in effect to the end of the season...
...The Swiss Railwaymen's Union has been one of those chiefly instrumental in this popular victory...
...Elizabeth Shirt makers Win Important Battle Two thousand shirtmakers who S»Jre out on strike for over three weeks in Elizabeth, N. J., went back to work with union recognition, increases in wages averaging 16 per cent, and a minimum wage •f $5 a week...
...An appropriation of $8,000,00(1 to localities for relief work, to be raised by a graduated tax on incomes, has been proposed in both houses by this program...
...A surtax on incomes and doubling of the inheritance tax would provide funds for operation of a state unemployment system to which state and employer would con tribute equally under another Socialist proposal...
...The board proposed would include one man named by the governor, one chosen by the public service commission, and one selected by the industrial commission...
...The fight against repeal was led by the unions...
...Zucker is likewise buried in the Workmen's Circle plot at Mount Carmel, In a cemetery devoted almost exclusively to heroes of the Socialist movement...
...Persons receiving during their period of employment more than $3,000 a year would be ineligible...
...He has had a large part in building the strong sentiment against war on American campuses as shown by recent student polls...
...For Pay to Jobless The unemployment compensation would range from 12 weekly to $24 weekly, depending upon the number of dependents...
...April Employment Higher in New York ALBANY.—Employment and payrolls in New York State factories showed recovery in April from the unfavorable effects of the previous month's banking holiday, Industrial Commissioner Elmer F. Andrews reports...
...Macdougall was president of the National Executive Committee of his union until the Sheet Iron Workers amalgamated with the United Society of Shipbuilders in 1918...
...He joined this organization soon after his arrival here in 1923...
...Schlesinger, who was an indefatigable fighter for Socialism as well as for trade unionism, died just about a year ago...
...A. F. of L. Backs Right Of CROM Appointing Delegate to Geneva WASHINGTON...
...Vincent Messina of the Amalgamated national office, ¦Ins Angela of the Dressmakers' Union, Jim Burns, Bennie Gill, wry Beck and Dorothy Bellanca...
...In addition to the declarations sf policy, the group of union leadin decided to institute a nationwide joint organization drive...
...He never ceased opposition to the war...
...Although the workers in Elizabeth, as in most •f the towns now being organized h shirts and wafch suits, were raw material for organization purrw, they were excellent fighters...
...The Swiss workers have swept away the atmosphere of panic and the mood of pessimism artificially fostered by the financiers and industrialists with the view of lowering the working class standard of living and safeguarding profits...
...State Operated Plants Provision for a Wisconsin emergency industries board to register persona wanting to work, to op perate industries, and to arrange for an exchange of labor between industry and agriculture is another suggestion in this program...
...Those who attended made it plain i that in keeping green the memory of London they were re-dedicating themselves to the cause of justice, humanity and Socialism...
...28, of New York...
...MEMORY OF LONDON HONORED TUESDAY Between 75 and 100 friends and admirers of the late Meyer I^ndon journeyed last Tuesday to Mount Carmel Cemetery in Queens for the annual pilgrimage to his grave on the anniversary of his untimely and tragic death six years ago...
...charter during the peace negotiations at Versailles...
...A Socialist program extending from emergency operation of industries by the state to confiscation of individual incomes in excess of $10,000 a year for unemployment relief was placed before the Wisconsin legislature in both Senate and introduced in both Senate and Assembly by Socialist representatives, Senator Walter Polakowski and Assemblymen Arthur Koegel, Herman R. Wegener and Edward Kiefer, as soon as the legislature met...
...Its clever and convincing propaganda work, the display of a suggestive film, succeeded in ranging over 200,000 indifferents on the •Ida of the workers...
...The United Hatters of North America asked for permission to sit in on the work of the alliance and permission was granted...
...Swiss Workers Reject Wage Cut by Referendum On May 28, by 503,000 votes Sgainst 409,000, the Swiss people la a popular referendum in which more than 90 per cent of the electorate took part, rejected the reduction in wages of the eraSfeyees of the Swiss Civil Service and Swiss Federal Railways planned by Parliament...
...Right of the Mexican Federation of Labor to name Mexican labor representatives on the governing body of the International Labor Office is supported by the American Federation of Labor...
...As compared with a year ago, the number of employed factory workers wss 11.3 per cent lower, and the total amount of wages paid out was 20 per cent leas...
...Open shop" interests consider that rate much too high and figure it sets "a bad example" for the city to pay $5 when It could take advantage of unemployment and cut the wuge far below that figure...
...Don't nr/•"«' «nv affairs to conflict...
...Through his work and another departed comrade his union became politically powerful and was a tower of strength to the Independent Labor Party during parliamentary and municipal elections...
...VETERAN SCOTTISH TRADE UNIONIST DIES WORD comes of the death at his home at 824—Httth St., Brooklyn, of Donald Mardougall, an old member of the British Independent Labor Party and of the Sheet Metal Workers Union, Local No...
...He was responsive to every working class movement from the simplest committee in the shipyards to the National Executive Committee of his trade union, the Sheet Iron Workers' Society...
...i • TUCKER P. SMITH HEADS BROOKWOOD KATONAH, N. Y. — Tucker P. Smith has been appointed director of Brookwood Labor College as was rumored recently he would be...
...the beginning of the new season further increases will he granted, it was agreed, as was a minimum wage of $10 a week...
...The situation was officially laid before President Green by the Mexican labor movement...
...The strike was conducted under the direction of Charles Weinstein, manager of the Philadelphia Joint Board...
...This vote, which shows once more that often the "representatives of the people" are far from represent mi' the popular will, will put a check to wage reductions in private enterprise...
...Two resolutions ask Congress for legislation permitting cities, counties and states to issue currency in exchange for their bonds, and to submit to Wisconsin voters the idea of a proposed constitutional convention to revise the state constitution...
...President William Green has made American lal >r's position clear to Santiago Iglesias, secretary of the Pan-American Federation of Labor, and to representatives of the International Labor Office here...
...And in spite of the fact that the mayor is anti-labor, the amendment was defeated by a majority of 13,056...
...PICNIC, SATURDAY, JULY ». PLMER PARK...
...Prior to the assimilation with the boilermakers, he was a member of the Clyde District Committee of Shipbuilding Trades, and when that body along with the central body of the Federation agreed to suspension oi Trade Union rules and agreements during the war, Macdougall was in the minority, believing the employers were going to use the national emergency for greater plunder, and time proved lie was right...
...The group will now consist of seven unions in all...
...The Amalgamated Clothing Workers, The I nternat ional Ladies' Garment Workers, the Cloth Cap Hat and Millinery Workers, the American Federation of Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers, the International Pocketbook Makers, the Neckwear Workers and the United Hatters...
...It was also agreed that the contract shops in New Jersey and Pennsylvania producing garments for the Philadelphia manufacturers who signed up with the Amalgamated will be organized or the work will be withdrawn and sent Into union shops in New York...
...Reduction of the nge requirement for old age pensions from 70 to 00 years, reduction of the maximum rate of interest from 10 to 6 per rent and of the legal rate from 6 to 4 per cent also is proposed In the Socialist bills...
...Electrical Workers Unien No...
...Denver Electricians Get 30-Hour Week DENVER...
...DeLucca, A. Gabel and others, The girls in the Philadelphia office of the Amalgamated also gave val uable help...
...The union smashed a lockout and signed a new contract with Denver electrical contractors, lowering the working week from 40 hours and abolishing overtime...
...Wisconsin Socialists Have Legislative Program MADISON, Wis...
...The monument will be unveiled at 1 p. m., and brief addresses will be delivered by his co-workers in the Socialist and labor movement...
...The present plan is to set up Joint organization offices, hold joint mass meetings and in general pool all organizational resources so as to attain the greatest possible degree of unionizstion when the recovery bill becomes s law...
...Needle Workers Win Big Victory Over a thousand boys' wash suit and knee pants workers won a short but intensive strike in Philadelphia...
...The plan would become effective July 1, 1938...
...Among those who spoke briefly on the life and work of thp great Socialist were B. C. Vladeck and Bertha H. Mailly, Joseph Weinberg and J. Busk in of the Workmen's Circle, N. Chanin, and spokesmen for a number of the unions with which London had been associated in his long and useful career...
...They will also seek unemployment insur •nee for the needle, trades...
...68 won a victory when it secured the 30-hour week without a reduction in the wage scale...
...An application by the International IVkethook Makers' Union to join the bloc was approved...
...The tax on incomes would amount to 100 per cent above $10,000...
...He succeeds A. J. Music, who left the school In a disagreement over policy during the spring...
...All party ¦"jwhes and friendly organizeare urged to note the date P our annual picnic...
...J. T. Pay Cutters Routed By Denver'* Voters DENVER—Pay cutters received a smashing blow here when the voters rallied behind organized labor and defeated, by a big majority, a city charter amendment which would have repealed the municipal minimum wage law...
...Normally, seasonal declines occur during April in both employment and payrolls...
...Max Michaelson, who will be in charge of the wash suit branch In Philadelphia...
...TO HONOR MEMORY OF BEN SCHLES1NGER The memory of Benjamin Schlesinger, for many years president of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, will be honored Sunday when a monument over his grave at Mount Carmel Cemetery will be dedicated...
...Smith has been director of the Committee on Militarism in Education and has had much experience with college students...
...Applied in full, democracy is at 0M service of the people...
...Sidney Hillman, president of the Amalgamated, was chosen chairman of the group and Max Zaritsky, president of the Cloth Cap ky, president of the Cloth Cap Hat and Millinery Workers, secretary...
...Macdougall fought his ideas through the federation, unwilling to suspend union rules...
...The volume of employment increased 2.7 per cent over March, while total wage payments were 4.4 per cent higher...
...The charter of the International Labor Organization provides that the bona fide, recognized labor movement in each country shall name the labor representative to sit for that country on the governing body at Geneva...
...There were flowers, and expressions of devotion to the ideals to which London had been devoted...
...In the World of Labor Struggles Seven Unions Now Join In Needle Trade Bloc J" HE needle trades union's alliance, the formation of which ¦Jras reported in last week's New Leader, will ask for a 30-hour week when the Industrial Recovery Bill becomes law...
...The measure has been referred to the Committee on Manufactures, snd hearings on it will be held during the next week...
...The Mayor of Elizabeth had made several efforts to negotiate BStween the workers and the manufacturers, but the workers refused )to snter any negotiations without Bm Amalgamted...
...I rom an authoritative source close to the president of the United Hatters., it was learned that this organization will join the group as will the United Neckwear Workers...
...Persons now working and receiving less than the minimum compensation they would receive if unemployed would be paid the difference...
...iweiy iuuy uay ue was to ue 1'ounu uiinci ms union uatiner, tne symool ne loved so wen—iace iuu oi smiles -step ngiu aria noe— swinging along in nue wun hits brotners, singing iue songs iney all loved...
...The late Samuel Gompers was chairman of the commission that drafted the I.L.O...
...The committee working in Elisassth included Joe Lipseky, man•t*r of the cutters' branch of the ¦Mrtmakers...
...Phila...
...At the same time the monument over the grave of Abe Zucker, faithful Socialist Party worker who died in March, 1932, will be unveiled...
...Amoskeag Strikers Win MANCHESTER, N. H.—After a number of days of tumultuous excitement, accentuated by the absolutely unnecssary presence of state troops called to protect what Mayor Demase Caron called the rights of property, the 7,800 employees of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company won their demand for a 15 per cent wage increase, which the company's refusal to grant caused the wholesale walkout...
...Is expected that the nearby town of Perth Amboy-will now be ttikmized with very little effort...
...Under the "Defense of the Realm Act," it was illegal to strike...
...As a trade union official in Scotland, studying the results of the British Shipbuilding Employers' Federation, he found their common interests their only true interests...
...Mill another plan in this outline of state activities would crests a state liquor hoard, allowing only the state government to manufacture liquor in Wisconsin and only the municipalities to sell it...
Vol. 15 • June 1933 • No. 23
