In the World of Labor Struggles
In the World of Labor Struggles Neckwear Workers to Demand Wage Increase A25% wage increase for 7,000 men's neckwear workers of Greater New York, effective July 1, will eb demanded immediately by...
...My observation in the neckwear industry," Miss Schneiderman said, "lead me to conclude that the trade is in a terrible turmoil, a trade, which, heretofore, could boast a decent livelihood for the workers...
...The Finnish seamen and firemen went on strike the last of April, and the sympathetic strike of the I Communists Join Bosses In Fur Union Court Action U/HILE alleged Communist strong-arm men were intimidating, beating and stabbing members of the Fur Workers' Union of the American Federation of Labor, Communist officials filed papers Monday in the Supreme Court seeking to vacate an injunction obtained by the A. F. of L. union against organized fur manufacturers, preventing the latter from violating terms of a collective Ial>or agreement...
...Nevertheless, according to the Communists' own admission in af-fidavits.accompanying their moving papers, the left wing element urged the employer* to, break their agreement with the Fur Workert' Union and to disregard the injunction issued by Justice Ingraham...
...HOSIERY WORKERS'CALL FOR STRIKE POSTPONED A general strike call" has been issued for all the non-union full-fashioned hosiery mills in the I Philadelphia district, effeetive on Thursday morning...
...Families of four, she said, working in hovels under conditions which are a menace to health, are fortunate if they earn 50 cents each for a 16-hour day...
...Joseph M. Richie, organizer for the American Federation of Labor, was chairman of the meeting and explained the provisions of the recovery bill and the opportunities it affords labor organizations...
...The agreement also calls for the strict observance of the closed shop...
...Anticipating the passsge of President Roosevelt's industrial control bill, the national executive committee of the American Federation of Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers appointed President Rieve and a board of five members from Penn-sylvanis, New York and New Jersey as an emergenc;' committee with full authority to negotiate ar< may be necessary under the terms of the act to assure fair wage and work conditions in their industry...
...Following Mrs...
...Within a short time the union ex1 pects to complete its drive to enroll a large percentage of workers un der the banners ot the American Federation of Labor...
...In order to enforce these demands, a general strike in the paper box manufacturing trade will be called at the end of the preliminary organisational period...
...Demands of the union include the 40-hour, five-day week, with decent living wages and union conditions...
...hers, in a country wit!T^s>bout , 3,600,000 people...
...The merger was effected at a meeting sponsored by the Associated Council of Building Trades, with which many of the unions are affiliated, in the council's headquarters in the Fox Building...
...not themselves apply to the court for the vacating of the injunction, and the uniform answer bas been that they were afiaid tiiat, if they did so, they would be marked men...
...The A.F.ofL...
...Economy was the reason for postponement...
...It will be held in Chicago next year...
...Realizing that the government will not deal in this matter with the full-fashioned trade alone, the seamless division of the United Textile Workers of America has been merged with the Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers' Union, which has extended its jurisdiction to include the entire hosiery Industry, seamless as well as full-fashioned...
...In the World of Labor Struggles Neckwear Workers to Demand Wage Increase A25% wage increase for 7,000 men's neckwear workers of Greater New York, effective July 1, will eb demanded immediately by the-United Neckwear Makers' Union to offset rising prices, Louis Fuchs, union manager, declared today...
...The walkout completely tied up the plant, with only department foremen remaining on tha lob...
...The Trades Union Congress contributed ?500 to the relief of the Finnish strikers...
...The demands of the union, the American Federation of Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers, include a wage increase and shorter hours...
...It was stattd by union leaders that the effect produced by the strikes now in progress in Reading, Pa., and in the South must be followed up immediately by an organization drive in Philadelphia and elsewhere...
...The shop whoae employees have returned to work is the E. & E. Paper Box Co...
...Twenty cents for a dozen ties, all hand-made, is the average wage for tenement labor, while even unio.i scales have fallen to 53 cents a dozen ties...
...A hearing on the petition for a temporary Injunction to enjoin the defendants from interfering with the employment of union carpenters will be held soon...
...M. Carey Thomas, president emeritus of Bryn Mawr College, said that a party of the workers is needed in this country...
...21 Building Trade Unions Join Forces PHILADELPHIA...
...Paper Box Makers Show Gain in Battle for Union With workers in one shop in the' paper box industry returning victoriously to work after a desperately fought thirteen-week lockout, the Paper Box Workers' Union, through a committee of 50, is launching an organization drive throughout New York to prepare workers in the trade to take advantage of the provisions of the national Industrial Recovery Bill...
...Chester T. Spriggs and Collier P. Batten, manager and construction superintendent, respectively, for the Otis Elevator Company...
...Dredge workers and dredge operators working on a 30-hour-a-week basis will receive the 1932 wage scale, pro-rated on the number of hours they work...
...Some of the building trade unions had contracts that do not expire until next year, but they found it best for their health to take the slash...
...Local Union 34, International Union of Elevator C/onstructors, and Edw...
...Preparations for the strike were being made when on Wednesday Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins wired asking for a truce pending negotiations under the recovery act...
...20 Year-Old Dispute Revived in Law Suit INDIANAPOLIS.—A 20-year-old dispute involving jurisdiction was revived in Federal Court here with the filing of an injunction suit by the Metal Door and Trim Company of Chicago against Ilocal Union 22, International Association of Bridge, Structural and Ornamental Iron Workers...
...Bryn Mawr President Calls For Party of Labor BRYN MAWR, Pa...
...union and the organized manufacturers does not expire until next JanUary...
...Typos Postpone Convention I _____ Voting 80,832 for and .15,998...
...Bramley...
...J. Spangler, business agent for the local...
...The fur department of the Communist-led Needle Trades Workers' Industrial Union, through Louis B. Boudin, attorney, appearing in the Supreme Court seeks to intervene in the action of the A.F.ofL.union against the Associated Fur Coat Manufacturers, asking to appear with the manufacturers "as parties defendent and defend this action as such parties" against the A.F.ofL...
...against, the membership of the International Typographical Union has decided to postpone this year's convention to have been held in Chicago...
...all or it, too, must perish, and we shall have here in the United States, and in Great Britain and France, dictators, which is a polite name for tyrants such as are ruling in Russia, Italy and Germany...
...union...
...Twenty-one unions, representing more than 30,000 organized building trades workers, have joined to meet conditions that will follow the passage of the national recovery act...
...The party now has 1,158 branches and 180,000 mem...
...Both carpenters and iron workers claim jurisdiction in the matter of door erection...
...We are today in the grip of the sinister tentacles of the great octopus of capitalism, which has brought us to our present miserable state...
...Great Lakes Dredge Workers, Operators Plan 30-Hour Week An ugreement was entered into by the dredge operators on the Great Lakes and the International Brotherhood of Dredging Engineers and Cranemen, International Dredge Workers' Association, Licensed Tugmen's Protective Association, Tugmen, Firemen and Linemen's Protective Association, International Rock Drillers' Association, and International Long-' shoremen's Association...
...The union leader pointed out that his organisation had taken four wage cuts since the depression...
...If organized labor, both politically and industrially, had only been prepared to devote the same enthusiasm and make the same sacrifices to making the world worth living in as it did in the war, it would have brought about | a new world.—Fred...
...A wage and working condition dispute between dredge workers and dredge operators has been settled satisfactorily, with the dredge workers agreeing to a curtailed condition for the balance of the year with the understanding that on January 1,1934, the scale and hours prevailing in 1982 will become effective...
...union, with Samuel Shore as manager, has been working for several months to rehabilitate the working conditions of the 10,000 furriers in the trade...
...Declaring that the capitalist system has failed throughout the world, Dr...
...Hosiery Union Nantes Special Work Committee PHILADELPHIA...
...Franklin D. Roosevelt's denunciation of the neckwear industry as the most degraded "sweatshoppy" industry in the country, during her address at the Fashion Guild Monday, Miss Rose Schneiderman, secretary of the Women's Trade Union League and a member of the Labor Advisory Commission of the Industrial National Recovery Board, joined the warfare today against tenement "home work" and sweatshop production in the trade...
...Organization of the' square box workers, who constitute a majority of operatives, is being particularly aimed at, union spokesmen declare...
...John J. Roney, business agent for the local...
...In view of the difficulty of even maintaining wage rates in most trades, the union considers the wage increase a gratifying evidence of the results of its organized campaign...
...Communist leaders infiltrated into the industry political adherents who worked substantially below the wage scales in order to strengthen Communist nuclei in the fur market.' The collective labor agreement between the A.F.ofL...
...In the round box branch of the industry an agreement with the manufacturers was recently arrived at calling for a 2f> per cent Increase and shorter hours, with excellent prospects for further improvements in conditions in the near future, the union states...
...The union's advisory board decided to postpone the .strike and "teat the sincerity of the manufacturers" and holding shops meetings at the factories...
...The thirty-hour week, the elimination of tenement "home work" ia New York and of sweatshops, non-union production from New Jersey and Pennsylvania are in-eluded in the union demands...
...If it weren't for the construction we had during the world's fair erection period there would have been scarcely anything," he continued...
...British Unions Support The Finnish Seamen LONDON.—British dockers' and ' railwaymen's unions have decided not to handle cargos brought to England in Finnish ships if the dispute between Finnish shipowners and seamen is not settled in three weeks...
...Furniture Workers Strike Against Five Cents per Hour Wage EVANSVILLE, Ind.—Sweatshop conditions in Evansville factories, with adult wages In some cases as low as 6 cents an hour, were disclosed by the strike of 700 Globe-Bosse-World furniture factory workers...
...The flan for a geuersi strike was worked out at a meeting of the executive board e.f the union Sunday night...
...The Central Labor Union, as a result, appealed to Washing ton for a federal investigation of industries here whose products go into interstate commerce...
...Wages and hours had gone by the board during the 18 months of the Com-' munist terror reign, it is charged...
...The 20% cut under the contract scale was of the enforced-vomntary kind, like the 10% reduction on the railroads...
...New Deal Hasn't Helped Chicago Building Trades "The new deal hasn't helped the Chicago building trades," declares President Sullivan of the local building trades council in confirming to Federated Press the report that the unions will work another gear at the 20% cut agreed to a gear ago last March...
...British dockers and railwaymen is designed to help them in their fight for higher wages, which are said to be about one-third the pay received by similar labor in England...
...The new deal may help the stock exchange men, but it hasn't done us a bit •f good...
...Fred Lauterwasser, a vice-president of the Central Labor Union of Philadelphia and representative of the textile unions, urged that the building trades workers follow the example of the apparel industry and federate to further their interests, particularly by drawing up a code...
...A conference, at which the demand will be made, will be held later in the week with the Men's Neckwear Manufacturers' Association, representing the bulk of the trade "If prices of silks, cottons and wools, all of which are employed ia the manufacture of ties, have gone up, without resultant wage increases for those workers engaged in these industries, the neckwear workera are determined to receive some of the benefits," Fuohs said...
...The fur workers on May 31 obtained a sweeping preliminary injunction from Supreme Court Justice Phoenix Ingraham preventing the organized manufacturers from violating clauses in the agreement dealing with minimum wage, scales, rates of pay, overtime and the elimination of the contractor-evil...
...Ten thousand workers in the industry, 70 per cent of them girls, are working long hours for starvation wages under miserable conditions, Charles Vonie, general organizer of the union, declares...
...Danish Socialist Party Is Growing Steadily , During 1932 the Danish Socialist Party added 100 new branches and 6,000 new members, and the youth > organization added 2,000 to its i membership...
...Democracy, she said, "must be reconstructed anew and made to work for the good of us...
...A good part of the trade is now in the hands of unscrupulous sweatshop employers, but I hope, through the National Industrial Recovery Act, decent employers will be able to restore it to decent standards again and make it an industry where labor will be proud to work...
...The sweatshop production imported from the neighboring states, Fuchs declared, is machine-made and retails here for as low as nine cents a tie...
...Joseph Winogradsky, manager of the fur department of the Communist dual opposition union, declared in his affidavit filed in the Supreme Court: "I asked them (the manufacturers) why they did...
...As we were betrayed in the great war by our politicians, diplomats, religious teachers, economists and governments, so now we are being betrayed by our great bankers, railway presidents, great industrialists and again by our economists and our governments," she asserted...
Vol. 15 • June 1933 • No. 25
