Neckwear Workers Ready For General Strike
Neckwear Workers Ready For General Strike A DEADLOCK over wage in-"* creases is expected to precipitate a general strike of 10,000 men'a neckwear workers when collective agreements expire Sept....
...Local 806 is the only operators' union in New York in the A. F. of L. Citing the great guns made by Local 306 in recent months, President Sherman asks the cooperation of all friends of union labor to the end that all motion picture theatres in New Ycrk may be manned by union members...
...PoUce tiere arrested Forrest Wallace of Veedersburg on Saturday afternoon while trying to speak at Kifth and Wabash Ave...
...Philip Rein-bold mounted the platform and spoke without being molested...
...The mass meeting authorized officials of the union to take all steps, including a strike if necessary, to obtain the union demands...
...1, it was revealed at a mass meeting of the United Neckwear Workers' union...
...THEATRES SIGNING UP WITH LOCAL 306 An appeal for the support of organised labor and its sympathisers to patronise only those theatres that employ members of Local 806, Moving Picture Machine Operators' Union, is made by Harry Sherman, 306 president...
...It waa pointed out that the contractor evil and slum tenement home work are being perpetuated by nonunion employers-Other union demands include the 36-hour week and unemployment insurance...
...Forty-two non-union theatres have been regained by Local 306 during the past few months, and a persistent organizing campaign will be waged to bring all other non-union theatres under .he 306 banner...
...The union, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, is demanding wage increases averaging 86 per cent for all crafts...
...Wallace was released at police headqquarters and will return in two weeks for another meeting...
...The strike if called will be primarily directed against the sweatshop elements in the industry...
...Louis Fuchs, manager of the union, pointed out that union members had taken wage reduction totalling 66 per cent since 1929 and that the wage demand is not actually an increase...
...This corner has been used for twenty years for Socialist meetings...
...The neckwear industry is on a piece-work basis...
...The action was taken following a report of the conference committee that while progress had been made upon other points in negotiations with the Men's Neckwear Manufacturers' Association the question of wage increases had not been surmounted...
...The first hearing on the men'a neckwear code was held in Washington Thursday...
...Socialist Arrested In Terre Haute TERRE HAUTE, Ind...
...Neckwear Workers Ready For General Strike A DEADLOCK over wage in-"* creases is expected to precipitate a general strike of 10,000 men'a neckwear workers when collective agreements expire Sept...
...Continued patronage of either non-union or fake union theatres, Sherman declared, will lend strength to labor's enemies, make more difficult the organising work of Local 806, and possibly, give rise to racketeering in the motion picture field...
Vol. 16 • September 1933 • No. 10
