More Big Unions Join Drive for Jobless
More Big Unions Join Drive for Jobless $ocialist Party Joins Union* in Backing Up Jobless Insurance Bill—Neckwear Workers and Amalgamated Endorse February 23 Conference. WITH more big unions,...
...Among the great unions to send endorsements ef the conference were the Amalgamated Clothing Workers and the Neckwear Workers...
...first, however, seeking to secure amendments eliminating its obvious shortcomings...
...DETROIT OFFICIALS TRY TO BREAK AUTO STRIKE Workers Hold Firm, Despite Provocation...
...712, In the Assembly, to amend the Labor Law defining* the prevailing rate of wages, has been approved by the State Federation of Labor...
...Upstate comrades, take notice...
...STILL ON THE AIR BERLIN — German Socialists, denied by the Hitler government of their ordinary pre-election activities, have token advantage of an offer from the Socialists of Holland to use the time reserved for the Dutch party on radio stations across the German border...
...e e Factory wages as low as $1.65 for two weeks' work bar* been ditcoverod by Miss Charlotte Carr, deputy secretary of the Pennsylvania State Department of Labow and Industry...
...The lives and wellbeing of the millions who created those billions must be safe-guarded and preserved...
...Labor Committee Notes THE next meeting of the trade union membership will be held Saturday afternoon, March 4, at 2. A symposium on trade union policy will be participated in by Dr...
...416 in tht Assembly, amending the Labor Law, strikes out the 10 consecutive hour provision and substitutes an 8-hour day for street surface, elevated, and brick yard employets, and also calls for S days' rest In seven...
...While 80ft * of the equipment in the trad* it idle, the average daily and weekly hourt of labor in non-union hosiery mills are increasing rather than decreaeing, President Alexander McKtown of Branch 1, American Federation of Full-Faihionod Hosiery Workers, say* in a letterto members of Congress, asking them, in the name of the 10,000 members of the union, to help secure the 80-hour work week...
...In Philadelphia, a stoppsg* was ordered at ths plants of Asron Liebermsn k Son...
...The bill provides that no person shall be employed for more than 6 hours in a day, and not more than 6 days In any one week, except in an emergency...
...Beardsley...
...Not only that, but we find employers faking advantage of the helplessness of workers In this crisis to institute what it known aa the 2-machine tystem—one mechanic running two machines thus forcing a regular employe out of work...
...The Amendment prohibits Interstate transportation of goods by the labor of boys and git It under the sge of 18...
...The Labor Committee hss decided that the drive for signatures ia to begin Saturday, February 18th, and close March 4th, a data necessary because the signatures are to be submitted to the legislature and the Governor la the ssrly part of March...
...0ETROIT, Mich - While four thousand striking workers of the Hudson Motor Co., out less than a week, won the fourth victory in the wave of Detroit auto strikes, Briggs Co...
...Earl Bailey, chairman of the Highland - Park strike commKteo, said he worked 44 hours in the last two weeks before ths strike, snd received $11 in psy...
...Each day ths Labor Committee" «f ths Socialist Party receives Store and more credentials, indicating that when the conference is Mlled to order it will be able to apeak for a vast section of the labor movement and for hundreds of thousands of voters...
...Scab production of Ford bodies, despite the claims of officials that the Briggs strike is over, lags so far behind that Ford factories remained closed more than a week after Henry Ford had said they would reopen...
...of Philadelphia has ordered a stoppage in'virtually all the men's clothing contract shops in Eastern Pennsylvania...
...Panic-stricken and short-sighted employers have re-established the 12-hour day and the 60- to 90hour week during the depression," he wrote...
...strikers staged a 5-mile parade...
...Louis Hendin and Sam...
...The Amalgamated accuses the contractors of working their people GOajB 70 hours a week, at wages far below ths prevailing rate in New York and Philadelphia...
...tee The last of ths Rochester building trades crafts which were in dispute with the contractors voted to return to work this week...
...Children under ^16 will not b* allowed to work more than 6 days snd 80 hours in sny week...
...I have often worked more than 12 hours and sometimes 14 in the sewing depart merit," declared Mrs...
...Congressman-elect Cat M. Wideman, who wants the Federal government to interfere, sees tit* strike through the eyes of the bosses as doet Governor Wm...
...He said if I didn't want to work it was OK with him, but I would tsks a ride...
...Discontent seethes at other plants, and atrikes are expected at the Dodge, Budd Wheel and Ternstedt plants...
...Efforts of ths contractors to fores a wags reduction of 20 per cent were not successful, although compromises were effected at 10 psr sent with practically all the unions...
...At the same time that most factories are not working at sib too many ethers art working evertime...
...We can make more on relief than on Briggs wages," was one of the slogana borne on banners which draped the 200 cars in the 5-mile parade of Briggs strikers...
...BOSSES SEEKING TO RESTORE SWEATSHOP PHILADELPHIA...
...Since no time limit for ratification la specified in the text of the amendment —such as waa embodied in the text of the 19th and the 20th Amendments—states may take their time about ratifying and rescinding their rejection of the amendment The Amendment was passed by Congress about ten yeara ago, and immediately old party platforms in a number of ststes carried planks pledging immediate ratification...
...If so, there is an opportunity for the Socialist Party to organise and mobilise these suffering victims into an articulate army who shall demand that their human rights and selfrespect shall get the ssms consideration from our legislators aa do property-owners, bankers and investors...
...Males between ths sges of 16 snd 18 will not be allowed to work mora than 80 hours a week between the days of June 15th and October 15th, except in esnning or preserving products establishment...
...It is difficult to deal with an abuse of this kind by law, but regulation of hours would go a long way toward alleviating the effects of auch practices...
...At timea the pay was not more than 20 cents a day...
...They accept these degrading condltiona as a visitation from heaven...
...Introductory No...
...After a few states had ratified the movement struck s snag, and legislatures and governors pledged by their platforms tc ratification — including Governoi Smith of New York—conveniently permitted the matter to slip theli minds...
...Introductory No...
...This It s Job for every member of the Psrty and trade unions, a duty not Kb* shirked...
...e e e The strike by the Amalgamated against Sherman Sons Ac Co., who locked out members of the Amalgamated in Louisville, Kentucky, is progressing...
...Oregon is the seventh State to adopt the amendment The campaign in favor of the amendment was conducted by the Oregon State Federation of Labor under the direction of Ben T. Osborne, secretary of the Federstion...
...Driven to desperation by repeated wage cuts, with five factories on strike and othera trembling on the verge of walkouts, auto workers are Swinging into action on such a broad front that the coming year will probably see them united in a mighty organisation...
...50, also calling for s five day week without ¦ny specified time, has been introduced, sad a hearing will be held m Albany March 2. Introductory No...
...Towns Hkt Sllvtrdala, Springmount and Trumbauersville will be organized sh(#tly, according to Abraham Miller of the Joint Board of the A.C.W.A., who has the cooperation of Charles Weinsteln, Manager of the Philadelphia Joint Board...
...To this end it is urgent that all labor unions send representatives to the conference...
...e * Several bills relative to unemployment insurance and the shorter work week, and amendments to the Compensation Act, have been Introduced in Albany...
...A. Comstock, who sent ths state police into ths striks son*, are also Democrats...
...Scab metal finishers at the Briggs Mack Ave...
...plant have been cut 5% in the first auto wage cut since the strike wsve began...
...At a hearing before the labor subcommittee on Unemployment, Highland Psrk strikers told how state, city and company police smashed picket lines...
...211, introduced by Mr...
...A picket captain told how a deputy slapped him in the face with a pair ef gloves because he wouldn't return to work...
...Introductory ?o- 128, la the Assembly, calls for days' rest In 7, but does not •pacify the hours of labor...
...In the Bcnate, Introductory No...
...It* political and industritl organlration in their rankt...
...Enough billions have been given away to ths Plutocrats to save their profits...
...The Roofers were ths last to agree to terms...
...1014 in ths Assembly emends ths Labor Law in relation to hours °* work for woman in factories, *hlch prohibits women from work,n* mors than 10 hours psr dsy, 6 ••wscutlvs days...
...Get your petitions Room 601, 1 East 15th Street, New York City...
...986 to amend the Labor Law In relation to public works...
...Ida M. Bnr* ringer...
...The main cause is the demand for a 16% increase in waget...
...Housed and fed by the company—with the price of meals taken out of their pay—they figure their wages at 18 cento an hour, after deductions...
...A hearing will he held March 1st ia Albany on Assembly Introductory No...
...Abe Miller, Manager of the Now York Joint Board of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, sent oat the following endorsement of the conference: "It Is of ths utmost importance that organized labor make a determined effort at this time to bring Eressur* to bear for unemployment isurance, a shorter work-day and other measures to social relief...
...Out of ths aeries of strikes in what has been the leading* open thop city in America, there is rapidly developing a solidarity among the workers that promises more effect...
...Apparently there Is no depth to which wage rates for Women and Children In Pennsylvania cannot go," she told a meeting of Philadelphia ministers...
...Edward Gottesman, Secretary of the Neckwear Makers' Union, followed with this statement: "We are face to face with the greatset economic calamity tills country ever witnessed In all its history...
...The Amalgamated organizers claim that the United Garment Workers of America are advising the strikabreakera to be satisfied with what they are getting...
...Socialist propsgsnda, therefore, is carried into every German home despite Hitler's illegal would-be suppression of all non-Fascist opinions...
...Th« scabs themselves have begun U strike in'disgust with their conditions...
...Three More States for Child Labor AmeDtJmenl CALEM, ORE__Both houses of the Oregon Legislature approved the Child Labor Amendment to the Federal Constitution...
...The party's action was taken with full realization that the bill Is by no means a perfect measure, that the benefits it proposes are inadequate and that It does not provide for a general State Fund, nevertheless, the bill establishes the principle of compulsory, noncontributory Unemployment Insurance, and the party's spokesmen at legislative haerings will support It without reservations...
...e The Joint Board of the A.C.W.A...
...Twenty-six states have rejected the amendment, and thirteen have not yet taken action...
...These innocent sufferers are helpless, inert and subjects of charity...
...Are they starved to inability to think of what is wrong with our system...
...Petition lists for Unemployment Insurance and the Shorter Work Week are ready for distribution Sad signatures...
...Byrne and supported by the labor movement of the state and to throw all its strength back ef it as part of its work in the conference...
...tee The Amalgamated Clothing Workers bars launched aa organisation drive ia Pennsylvania and Connecticut...
...The Socialist Party, through its gtsts Committee, haa voted to get bask of Senate Bill No...
...Two more states have ratified the proposed Twenty-First Amendment, making the score nine...
...WITH more big unions, fraternal organizations, and Socialist Party branches electing delegates every day, the conference that will be held at the People's House February 23rd, to get behind the demand for unemployment insurance and more adequate relief is assuming significant proportions...
...Detroit workers ars receiving a striking illustration of the manner in which the capitalists use political power as an nstrument cl clan oppression The Democrstie county leader is Judge Connolly, treasurer of the Briggs Co...
...I couldn't pay it, and served nine days in jail," testified Joseph Davidson...
...Mills run for a few weeks at a time and then close down...
...I am heartily in favor of the Conference on Unemployment Insurance called by the Socialist Party to demand that either work be provided or they pass a law to provide Unemployment Insurance...
...We have fifteen million willing workers permanently unemployed and twenty millions more on part-time whoae wages were reduced by almost 60% in the laat two years...
...Union plumbers, offered $2.50 an hour to install plumbing necessary for scabs housed in the Briggs plants, refused to do the work, despite the fact that they have been herd hit by the depression...
...This stoppage will also affect this firm's shop st Vinelsnd, N. J. An increase of 25% snd ths posting of s cssh bond was demsnded by ths union...
Vol. 15 • February 1933 • No. 7
