Painters Organization Drive Is Big Success
POLSTEIN, I.
Painters Organization Drive Is Big Success By I. POLSTEIN ME organising campaign in. 1 ttisted by Locals Ml, 90S, 1011 gag endorsed by the Organisation Kttee of District Council 9 Brotherhood...
...Speakers will be Samuel E. Beardsley and Dr...
...Speaker, Amicus Most...
...Representative Edward L. Stokes of Pennsylvania was the only member of the Labor Committee to vote against the bill...
...It is believed that a number of the laborers, on their return from exile, emigrated to Canada...
...During extensive hearings on the Connery bill, President William Green of the American Federation of Labor and other spokesmen for oganized labor appeared in behalf of the proposal...
...The vote was taken throughout the International Union...
...strikers bsr all dally newspaper reporter* from their atrlke meeting...
...Thursday, March 8 Brownsville: Conference at Hebrew Ladies' Day Nursery, 621 Hopkinaon Ave., Brooklyn...
...28 South Brooklyn: 157 Montague Street Harlem: Urban League, 206 W. 136th St...
...among these are the Manufacturers' Trust, New York Title and Mortgage Co., Bachrach and Bachrach, and many other minor employers and shops...
...Judge Winfred H. Whiting of the Suffolk superior court, Boston, Mass., fined Morris Levin* of So-merviile and John Winer of Rox-bury, $375 each for violating an injunction last October restraining them from hiring non-union employes for their Boston bakery...
...During 1931 and 1932 the Brooklyn Edison Company discharged 5,000 workers, 40% qf the whole force, although it continued fts;'Ihjrty'-year record of paying dividends at 8...
...A symposium has been arranged on Trade Union policy...
...When the strike wave first broke, Detroit papers Ignored news of it except to mention that car* tain plants wer* hiring men...
...A referendum vot* for a 1 par cent assessment was adopted by Rochester Typographical Union Wednesday...
...The employes of th* Amoskeag Manufacturing Company of Manchester, N. II...
...The House Labor Committee on January 81 approved and ordered favorably reported th* Connery five-day week, six-hour day bill...
...The epidemic of strike* that followed.and the,Ford shutdown forced them to publish the nsws., • ', , The Briggs Mack Ave...
...There was a total vote cast of 6,942, with 4,288 voting "no" on the question of whether or not th* plan should continue in operation, and 1,196 voting to retain the plan...
...Speakers, David Lesser, James Oneal...
...After a six day strike the employers agreed' to recognition of the union, to a six-day week, and to a system of week Work rather than piece work...
...Then, after the work was under way, the sub-contractors acted as a unit and served notice that the wag* was reduced to $8...
...killed by a large vot* the company union, which for a number of years had been the medium of arbitration and contact between mill, officials and worker...
...Th* five-day week which was adopted by the International Union last December has been resisted by publishers In some parts of the country end many other publishers hare arbitrarily cut wages...
...The Unemployment Insurance Bill, drafted by officers of the State Federation of Labor, was introduced in' the Illinois legislature January 81...
...They did not state that th* plants wer* hiring scabs...
...Workers' Unemployment League meetings for week.' Saturday, Feb...
...A souvenir setting forth a connected and authentic account of the historic episode Is to be prepared and inquiries are to be made as to the possibility of holding the 1934 Congress in Weymouth or in some neighboring centre close to Dorchester...
...The Labor Committee calls upon every member to get petitions for Unemployment Insurance and the shorter work week...
...Its purpose la to raise money for a defense fund...
...The new bill, as revised for introduction in the Illinois legislature, conforms in every respect to th* high standards recommended by the recent convention of th* American Federation of Labor...
...WUllamsburgh: Mas* meeting at th* Amalgamated Temple, 11 Arion Place, Brooklyn...
...1 ttisted by Locals Ml, 90S, 1011 gag endorsed by the Organisation Kttee of District Council 9 Brotherhood of Painters for pos* of unionising all painting maintainance and alteration vers, in Greater New York is meet-lag with marked success...
...With this in mind the General Council is communicating with the Trade Union Movements of Australia and Canada to obtain further information and invite their cooperation in the celebration of this event In Trade Union history...
...Included...
...Epstein criticised a number of Governors who in their campaigns made innumerable promises about caring for the destitute aged, but who, he alleged, have repudiated their promises...
...Local 584, Milk Drivers' Union, is campaigning for membership among the Borden and Sheffield drivers...
...Finally, William Beedie, Secretary of th* Brotherhood, hailed upon the Public Committee on Power Utilities and Labor to sponsor the filing ef s complaint against the company with the Public Service Committee...
...The Detroit News said' that "with assurances from th* foremen that wag* difficulties would be ironed out by private negotiations, striking Workers of the Hudson Motor Car Co...
...Th* Detroit Free Press printed nothing about th* victory...
...e A one-day strike has wea the Sewing Machln* Machinists' Lodge 712 of Philadelphia an agreement I with seven firms comprising the larger part of the trad*, In which the machinists are guaranteed the 48-hour week, abolition of overtime, th* closed (hop, division of work during slack periods, seven holidays with pay, and Increased wages bringing a machinist's scale up to from |60 to 1100 a week...
...OM-AfePetnestAre h lsf|«r, Easleia Says ; V. ' t- elf11.mi • ' • CHARGING that e nation-wide campaign ts in full awing to repeal meet of ear labor and social asglslstlea, Abraham Epstein, secretary of the American Association for Old Age Security, issued an appeal to the friends of old-age pensions to organise to fight "the nullification of all that has been built Hp in th* United States through a generation of effort...
...strikers, who won • 10% Increase In wages and other demanda after an 8-day strike, shows again why the workers must support their own pre...
...Speaker, James Oneal...
...These companies have organized their employees in company unions...
...The fines equal the amount stated to have been saved by employing non-union merchants...
...With its passing Louis N. Scherf, who was in charge of the force when the massacre of th* unarmed miners at the Columbine mine took place, loses his Job...
...The lodge was organized a year ago and now has 76 per cent control of the trade...
...Organized labor in Washington, D. C, won a big victory last week when it succeeded in beating off an attempt by contractors to cut wages 83 a day on seven big Federal projects...
...A similar measure, the Black bill, is pending before the Senate Judiciary Committee...
...Previously Public Service Commissions throughout the country had declined to assert any Jurisdiction seer labor matters within public Utilities...
...The bosses had agreed to an $ll-a-day scale for carpenters and had based their labor costs on that fate when they made their bids on the various contracts...
...Declaring that 'the men havs broken up the strike themselves,' Vice-Pies...
...Friday, March 8 Greenwich Village: Meets, at 62 52 W. 8th .St., N. Y. C. LOCAL 22 DANCE A musical entertainment and dance has been arranged by th* Dressmakers' Union, Local 22, In cooperation /with the Educational Department of the I. L. G. W. I J., for Saturday evening, February 26, 1933, at the Central Opera House, 67th Street and Third Avenue...
...After a struggle of two years against the wholesale layoffs by the Brooklyn Edison Company while dividends increased by' almost $3,000,000, employees of the company won ¦the right to be heard before the Public Service Commission on their grievances...
...It has been suggested that, in the week preceding the 1984 Trades Union Congress, a national demonstration should be held at Tolpuddle and that encouragement should be given for demonstrations to be held simultaneously throughout the country...
...The injunction wts Issued at request of Local 46, Bakery and Confectionery Workers, on the claim that the defendants were bound by contract to hire only members of the union in baking bread for th* Jewish trade...
...Following this victory an organization drive In all stores is on In fult swing, Nemser announces...
...We should get one million signatures by March 4. Petitions may be received at 7 East 15th St., Room 601...
...The Toolpuddle Martyrs LONDON — Arrangements ere being mad* by th* British Trades Union Congress for celebrating next year the centenary of th* Tolpuddle Martyrs, whose memory is held in hones throughout th* British Labor Movement...
...The Stat* of Colorado ha* abolished the state police as an unnecessary addition to the expense* of stats government...
...RETAIL CLERKSWIN IMPORTANT ?VICTORY The Retail Clothing Salesmen's Union has won an important victory following a strike of the employe* of the store of Louis Robinson, 670 Broadway, it is announced by Hyman Nemser, counsel to the union...
...Speaker, David Lasser...
...On December 22 the Commission issued an order against the company, directing that ths 6,000 men laid off be reinstated or that the company Justify its labor policies before the Commission within ***nty day...
...Before they were organized they were working as much as sixty hours per week for all sorts of wages...
...Tuesday, Feb...
...Riot squads were called out to suppress picketing...
...Stop In at the office for leaflets and Unemployment Insurance petitions and use them...
...You can help by insisting that the driver show his card from a bona fide trade union...
...Painters Organization Drive Is Big Success By I. POLSTEIN ME organising campaign in...
...Nothing was said sbout the eon* ditlons won...
...K ORDERS EDISON TO JUSTIFY LAYOFFS - PLECTRIC utility workers ** recently won a victory of vital importance in New York City...
...Louis Hendin...
...Monday, Feb...
...In addition, nine other branches have committees working to organize leagues in their localities...
...Chairman William P. Connery, Jr., of Massachusetts, chairman of the committee, said that he would seek an early vote on the measure...
...25 College Point: St...
...Petitions are on hand...
...UNEMPLOYED LEAGUES There are seven leagues meeting regularly arid nine newly formed...
...Dressmakers of ths Local and other members of the International will attend this concert, after which there will be a dance in honor of the newly created branch of Finishers, Drapers, Examiners, and Cleaners...
...It will be 90 days before th* plan actually dies sn official death, how-aver, in accordance with ths rules and regulations that have governed its use for ths past ton years...
...Don't forget the March 4 meetings...
...Wollering SSid, 'Approximately 2,200 men are at work at th* body plant and we turned away 400 who were seeking jobs,'" the Detroit Times reported...
...This .action by ths Commission oatahUshe* a precedent for which »bor has fought over twenty PearSi It establishes that the State has the power and duty to protect workers from lay-offs, by utilities *hU* swollen dividends continue to be paid and profits accumulated...
...The Public Committee backed th* filing of the complaint which charged the company with unjust and unreasonable lay-offs and inciting violence and civic disturbances by its labor policies...
...Ths defense fund will be used to resist th* efforts of publishers who seek to break down onion condition...
...The martyr* war* six agricultural laborers of Tolpuddle, Dorset, who, in 1884, were transported to Australia for having attempted to form a trade union branch...
...returnedeto work...
...85, at Hunt*' Feint Palace, to hear the reports and further acquaint th* membership with future plans and activities...
...j After the filing of the complaint, the Brotherhood of Edison Employees of 128 East 16th Street continued its fight against the company and the Public Committee on Power Utilities and Labor demanded action by the Commission...
...Beside th* opposition of these monopolistic real estate concerns I the Brotherhood of Painters Is I faced with a minor Communist fac-Uoin within ths union, working hand in hand with a small but disturbing dual organisation of recent origin, who are endeavoring to hamper the efficient work of th* organisers...
...In the Old-Ag* Security Herald, th* organ of hla a*soclstlon, Epstein said the reactionary propaganda has so intimidated our legislators that social legislation now on the statute books is in danger of repeal by th* Legislature* now in session...
...Both bills are supported by organized labor...
...A number of these Communist disturbers have recently been expelled from th* Brotherhood and staged an anti-union demonstration last Saturday at D. C. 0 headquarters, during which some of them were unceremoniously though legally attended to by the proper authorities...
...27 ' Morningside Heights: Mass meeting at 8109 Broadway...
...The story was writ-ton in such a manner as to give th* impression that the strike had been broken...
...The Brotherhood of Edison Employees brought direct pressure against the company through picketing, demonstrations and th% weekly Issuance of a shop pi peY known si the "Live Wire...
...Delroil Papers Suppress and Color Strike News DETROIT — How th* Detroit newspapers suppressed the news or lied about the victory of the Hudson Motor Csr Co...
...The Brotherhood and the Public Committee have announced that it *1U continue the light to fore* an 0P«n public hearing to expos* this •tihty and its labor policies ae a •eteon light to electric light end Power, employee* throughout the Labor Committee Notes 'THE next meeting of th* -Trade * Union membership will be field Saturday, March 4, at 7 E. 15th St...
...In the past few weeks many painting contractors doing work for Isrge real estate office* and title and mortgage companies have keen forced to recognise th* union conditions of an eight hour day tad Art-day week at an 18 wage...
...Pauls Church, 122 East High.St...
...A group of distinguished artists will appear In Russian, Italian, Roumanian and English selections, both vocal and instrumental...
...Th* victory came after a strike of carpenters lasting less than thro* days...
...Another obstacle I* the fact that many uncassUysd ef ether tades and professions, including text driven, seders, coBcfo ejredestsi, etc, hare become "painter helpers" and after e three-month period de dare themselves full-fledged mechanics...
...Organised violence Was used against Brotherhood demonstrators and distributors...
...The Illinois bill is a revision of the carefully prepared measure recommended by the Unemployment Insurance Commission of Ohio, which recently submitted a comprehensive report to the legislature of that state after months of investigation and study...
...The Painters' Union if at present considering the advisability of rmsspjtfctng an employers' group known as ths Heights Association, who control a large part of th* painting ef apartment houses In upper Manhattan, and which may further enhance the organising work...
...There is still time to plan a demonstration...
...Pointing out that the entire cost of the old-age pension system in New York Stste was only $2.50 a year for each owner of $10,000 worth of assessed property, Epstein claimed the support of only half the present pensioners through almshouses' or charity would have cost more than the present expenditures...
...East New York: Mass meeting, Skolnick all, Pennsylvania Are and Lavonla Ave., Brooklyn...
...A Joint mas* meeting ef Locals Ml, 005 and 1011 will .take place Friday evening, Feb...
...Governor Ely of Massachusetts, Governor Cost of Connecticut, Governor Moore of New Jersey, and Governor White of Ohio, all Democrats, were mentioned as having lost much of their campaign sympathy for old-age security measures...
Vol. 15 • February 1933 • No. 8
