No Wage Cut With Shorter Week, Is A. F. of L. Demand
No Wage Cut With Shorter Week, Is A. F. of L. Demand Spokesmen of Federation Nail Weinitock's Committee as Communist Disrupter* Dunne's Lies Exposed. WASHINGTON—An organization styling itself...
...LABOR COMMITTEE NOTES A meeting last Saturday of the trade union members of the Socialist Party adjourned after a three hour discussion on the subject "What Shall Be the Attitude of the Socialist Party Press Toward Internal Affairs of Trade Unions...
...He pointed out that improved engines and cars, bridges and tracks have thrown thousands of men out of work during the hut decade as well as existing economic conditions...
...1 this yeir than on Dec...
...1 this year as compared with 708,-000,000 bushels on Dec...
...The Pharmacists' Union, which maintains offices at 51 Chambers Street, Manhattan, is headed by Oscar Lerner, and is seeking to enlist the cooperaticn of every1 registered pharmacist in the cc.nmu-nity in a battle against deplorable conditions...
...The jury has not yet reported in his fourth trial ,and the result ia expected to be a hung jury...
...Hence the...
...The principal* demands the labor groups will make are the following...
...The jury's verdict on Brstcher's case will mark the close of a series of Evarts/Vttle trials which resulted in seven life sentences and six sentences ranging from 2 to 6 years...
...Legislation should be enacted to make such provisions without resorting to strikes," he said...
...e e Local 662 of the Poultry Workers' Union, affiliated with the Amalgamated Meat Workers, have won their strike in the Bronx The lock-out still continues on the East Side and in Brooklyn...
...WOKIERS CANT BUY BREAD—HENCE GLUT WASHINGTON.—Restricted do mand for wheat and Soar in importing countries ia responsible for the burdening of the world wheat market by heavy stocks, the Department of Agriculture has an-announced...
...Several days ago the employers on the East Side served notice on the union and broke the agreement...
...HAKLAN INDICTMfcN'IS QUASHED BY STATE HARLAN, Ky.—All but three of more than 20 indictments against miners for the Evsrts battle, May 5, 1831, in which several deputies and a miner were killed, have been dismissed by Commonwealth's Attorney W. A. Brock...
...President Wm...
...Arthur J. Lovell, vice-president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, told the Senate Committee considering the Black 30-hour week bill that his organization, representing 125,000 employes, 40,0000 of whom are out of work, atrongly favored the measure...
...In his remarks Weinstock charged that Green waa a supporter of the Teagle "Share-Work" plan, which is part of the tactics of big business to reduce the standard of living...
...labor representative on county relief boards to be appointed by the State...
...He emphasized "the great decline in human values—health, faith, hope, morale—that will stay with us fora long time...
...Upon notification to' the employers by Samuel Kroner, attorney for the union, they withdrew their lockout order, and the union men are back at work...
...These magnificent results of a membership campaign in a city where four-fifths of all the men and two-fifths of all the women who vote Social Democrat are members of the Party is a testimony to the driving power and organizing ability of Red Vienna...
...The Newark Building Trades Council have begun a campaign against municipal pay cuts, which went into effect recently...
...He said that with present conditions continuing and with the unemployed growing desperate, he was not so sure but what they would resort to strikes If some provision were not made to provide employment...
...Total stocks available for export and carryover from the old crop In the United States, Canada, Australia and Argentina are estimated ot have been about 746,000,000 bushels on Dec...
...This low level of shipments hss left the principal exporting countries with somewhat larger stocks of wheat as of Dec...
...e • e British Labor has just made known its current membership reports...
...Falling off of membership ia about 7 per cent in mining and quarry, 16.9 in steel, lion and tin plate, and 15 per cent in the wool and worsted group...
...80-hour week, 6-day work week for women and children j out* lawing of the "yellow dog" contract...
...resolution was amended to read: "That we instruct our Executive Council to take all necessary steps toward having proper legislation, embracing this suggestion (of a shorter work-week) insofar as possible without reduction In the daily, weekly or monthly wage, and to have same presented to the Incoming session of Congress for their consideration and approval...
...Locomotive Engineers Support 30-Hour Week WASHINGTON...
...Green WASHINGTO N.—Declaring that "nearly half our population are now living below the minimum needed to maintain health and efficiency," William Green, president of the Americsn Federation of Labor, told the Senate Manufactures Committee that the Federation gav eits full support to the LaFollette - Costigan $500,000,000 Federal unemployment relief bilL Green pointed out that private contributions to relief needs made through Community Chests will be 20 per cent less this year than last year...
...Also, the new crop of both Argentina and Australia is estimated to be somewhat larger than last year...
...They also signed an agreement with several employers in Mt...
...In denial that the A. F. of L. has neglected to demand that weekly earnings be maintained when weekly hours of work are cut, Hushing cited the resolution adopted at the recent Cincinnati convention...
...Weinsotck's outfit is nailed in a letter by President Green aa a Communist group seeking to disrupt the labor movement...
...PHARMACISTS' UNION IS ORGANIZING FOR SOCIALIZED MEDICINE The first organized move looking toward propaganda for the establishment of a system of socialized medicine, aa recommended in the recent report of the Wilbur Committee, was taken by the Pharmacists' Union of Great' New York, in a three-point program recently adopted...
...If so, it is believed the Bratcher esse will be dropped, too...
...Because of the name of his organisation many Senators and newspaper correspondents believed that Weinstock was speaking for an official committee of the A. F. of L., and his testimony was given considerable weight as representing labor opinion, until the "maneuver" was unmasked by Green as a typical Communist tactic A few days' after Dunne's attacks upon the good faith of Green and other A. F. of L. leaders, W. C. Hushing, legislstive representative of the A. F. of L., nailed Dunne's statements as falsehoods...
...WASHINGTON—An organization styling itself "New York A. F. of L. Trade Union Committee for Unemployment Insurance and Relief," a representative of which appeared before i Senatorial committee a week or two ago and made a bitter attack upon officials of the K F. of L., is nothing but another Communist "Innocents'" club, according to President William Green...
...all relief work to be paid In cash at union rate of wages...
...At the Fox studio, 1,200 children were hired at $1.50 a day and lunch...
...improvement in the anti-injunction legislation...
...He further declared that a shorter work-week means nothing unless wages are kept up, and by implication charged Green with being interested in lowering the standard of living of the workers...
...He declared that data collected by the American Federation of Labor confirmed the statements of other witnesses that actual slow starvation Is widespread in the nation...
...The discussion will be continued...
...The Arbeiter-Zeitung how reports that 13,087 new members were secured...
...The resolutions committee said: "If the shorter work-day and work-week is brought about at the cost of the worker by reducing his wage in proportion to the hours and days of work reduced, we are retrogressing and are accomplishing nothing good...
...Such a system would tend to diminish the injurious practice of self-medication and would Instead simulate and increase the demand for real medical care...
...The report also points out that 10 per cent more trsde unions contracted "in" to pay political dues...
...Ons L. Welnstock, speaking for t»» committee, and William F. Dunne, the latter a prominent Communist but speaking for what Is called the Trade Union Unity (1) -League, appeared at committee hearings on Senator Black's proposed 30-hour week bill and in the guise of supporting- the bill criticised Green...
...1, 1981...
...The Mineral Water Workers' | Union have settled their strike in the Bronx, after four weeks on the picket line...
...The reason for separating these three from the other indictments is that the commonwealth believes them "ringleaders," Brock said...
...The damage," he said, "is terrible, immeasurable...
...Vienna Party Continues Its Onward March *HENNA.—Vienna Social Demo-" crats carried out during November a great membership campaign, the object of which was to get 10,000 new members for the Party...
...Indictments against Garrison Mills and Carl Williams, who hsve forfeited bonds totalling $30,000 by failing to appear in court when their cases were called, were also not dismissed...
...see The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and other trainmen organisations hsve joined forces with the Pennsylvania State Federation of Labor In presenting its legislative program to the Legislature...
...The program of the union is as follows: 1) The establishment of a National Board of Medicine, Pharmacy, and allied professions, which would tend toward a more even distribution of the members of the health professions among the various states...
...Yet," he added, "the demand for relief is rising...
...The employers demanded that the workers received $8 a day on alteration work...
...The Retail Clothing Salesmen held installation of officers on January 12, The union voted an extensive organization drive in the Bronx, Brooklyn and Manhattan...
...Studios which do hiring outside the Central Casting Bureau have been able to obtain workers for less than $8, it Is reported...
...The aggregate membership of all unions is 4,610,768...
...He expressed belief that the United States Supreme Court would declare the bill constitutional...
...Charges against F. M. Bratcher, whose three trials hsve resulted in two hung juries and sn acquittal verdict, were not dismissed...
...Another demand Was for provision for adequate funds to take care of the immediate needs of the unemployed, see Local 8 of the Brotherhood of Electrical Workers at its last meeting voted down a proposal submitted to them by the employers for two wage scales...
...2) The establishment of a system of compulsory health insurance, to be paid for by the State and the employer, which would make medical care available to the entire public, and which would put the medical, pharmaceutical, and allied professions on a more organized basis...
...J. Lyon is in'charge...
...The Cleaners and Dyers Drivers' Union has been successful in a strike against I. Wohl of Brooklyn and Long Island...
...Movie extras have had their wages cut from |7.50 to S3 a day, due to the great number of unemployed vaudeville and stsge employes on the west coast who jump at a job at any price...
...Extras Get Wages Slashed HOLLYWOOD...
...Shipments of wheat and flour from July through mid-December, from the principal exporting countries," it stated, "have totalled 261,-000,000 bushels as compared with 335,000,000 bushels in the corresponding period last season...
...until this Saturday afternoon, at 2 P. M. in the Rand School...
...The union is working at this time without an agreement $500,000,000 Relief Bill Backed by Wm...
...If the nation thoroughly understood the conditions prevailing, he insisted, public opinion would force Congress to adopt the LaFollette-Costigan bill or a similar measure...
...They are still out on strike against the World Cleaning A Dyers' Company...
...1 lsst year...
...8) The calling of a state conference of social, labor, and health organizations, for the purpose of formulating a detailed plan for compulsory health Insurance and a Poetical program of action...
...e ' a e Immediate enactment of legislation embodying the six-hour day, and the five-day week waa demanded of the Wisconsin Legislature by the Wisconsin Federation of Labor...
...This practically ends the Harlan frameup...
...Most of the children came from families where fathers and mothers are unemployed and the money is badly needed...
...Vernon...
...Of the new members 6,182 are men and 6,905 are women...
...Hyman Nemser has been placed in charge...
...Sixty-six per cent of all the citizens in Vienna vote Socialist, and the percentage is constantly increasing...
Vol. 15 • January 1933 • No. 3
