25,000 White Goods Workers Strike
25,000 White Goods Workers Strike Young Girls Battle Against Sweatshops ONE of the largest, most important and most significant strikes jo the present wave of labor struggles was declared when...
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...25,000 White Goods Workers Strike Young Girls Battle Against Sweatshops ONE of the largest, most important and most significant strikes jo the present wave of labor struggles was declared when over 25,000 members of the White Goods Workers' Union went out cp general strike early this week...
...We will try to organize the comrades in Idaho towns t o establish paper routes for each week...
...Abolition of the dreaded homeIJU *vil by March 15 next was "JrtBtt important union victory...
...The second case is of a young fellow employed as a filling station attendant in Lebanon, N. II., known as 'Jake's Filling Station.' He has already worked 80 hours this week and is being paid the minimum wage with no extra pay for overtime...
...The stamp shows a farmer, a capitalist, a worker and a housewife marching forward "In a Common Determination...
...More than 2,000 workers were out...
...We want the facts...
...Your name will be withheld if requested...
...Comrade Hubcrmont is the author of a novel published in English in this country several years ago, and he came to New York to supervise a radio sketch based upon it produced by the National Broadcasting Company...
...If so, tell your story to the readers of The New Leader...
...Here are a few reports from the NPA front...
...After a number of conferences between the officials of the company and those of the Central Labor Union the management of the plant agreed on 100 pel cent unionization and tob' their employees they were perfectly free to join the Rubber Workers' Union, which most of them did...
...If you do not have a book of sub receipts, use the blank below and say it with subs...
...Louis Fuchs, strike lead*• sad other union officials ssw In "••sad of home-work the eliminaJJJ of child labor and the curb• t of hours of labor...
...The hours, how•to», are a temporary arrangement H is expected that the week •fflJbs reduced to 35 hours, following s, hearing In Washington...
...There is, said Comrade Hubcrmont, such fear of a |ro-armcd Germany that the armament race is likely to begin again and to plunge Europe back into reaction...
...There's a snake in the grass, a traitor in the camp...
...That is certainly getting close to serfdom for a white collarite...
...Lower Madison Avenue, and Broadway, centers of the under wear trade, were black with exulting, enthusiastic girls promptly at 10 a. m. when the strike call was issued...
...d other out-of-town A general strike of sev*' thousand neckwear workers m « threatened In Boston...
...Complaints against wage levels of $7 and $9 a week in shops where hours have gone by the board were heard from many shop committees...
...He has an interesting story to tell of the NRA, which we will report next week...
...Some days he works as long as 15 hours...
...Belgian Socialist J o u r n a l i st Sees Danger of War The anti-Nazi movement In Europe, through fear of aggression by Germany under the Hitler firebrands, may easily result in the creation of nationalist sentiments so strong as materially to increase the danger of war...
...By Frances Falzarano "Today I learned of two cases of violation of the NKA, one an employe of the Standard Oil Co., a truck driver...
...We arc glad to have them and wc hope to receive more...
...Do you know of code violations or of conditions that the NRA does not reach or improve...
...The strike is aimed at homework and "starvation wages...
...I spoke to him personally...
...He told me he had already worked 60 hours, not including the hours he had worked today, which is Sunday, for the same pay...
...M. Garfinkel, one of the proprietors of the plant ,is president of the Undergarment League...
...The capitalist is out of step...
...Let me state my case which is a rather typical one for this district...
...Facory doors were shut on them and they were held incommunicada during the working day...
...The shop of Garfinkel and Kilter, Paterson, N. J., one of the largest in the industry, employing BOO girls, struck against alleged sweatshop conditions...
...When the strike was called, many workers in non-union shops joined the strike...
...India Tire and Rubber Company Goes Union Shop AKRON, Ohio.—The campaign recently inaugurated by the Summit County Cei.tral Labor Union to organize the workers in the rubber factories has met with pronounced success, The most recent acquisition to the union fold Is the India Tire and Rubber Company, located at Mogadore, a suburb of Akron...
...The strikers* conference committee was empowered by an overwhelming tote to negotiate the peace...
...Without your help we cannot make good...
...Idaho Socialists will hold a state convention next week and the suggestion will come up for conQirlorntinn In (he meantime we continue to receive fine letters supporting our new venture of a National Dollar Edition, but our space it limited and we introduce a comrade who must be nameless because he works in the empire of the duPonts in Delaware...
...STORIES of the NRA Do you know of any eat** of nibbling at the SKA in a code industry...
...There's dirty work afoot under the Blue Eagle...
...In addition the membership of the older local unions has materially increased . 10,000 Neckwear Workers Win Big Victory PINAL settlement of the weekold general strike of 10,000 nen's neckwear workers was reached at a strikers' mass meeting in Cooper Union...
...His economic plight shows that frightful as conditions have been in the textile hells, there are workers in the professions who are not much better off...
...paying for the gas myself, of course...
...It is considered that the strike* It of nstion-wide Importance, be(gase it is the largest and most (MUtosiastic ">*•• uprising of young girl workers since the historic waistmakera' strike of 1909 M t of which grew the great itrenfth of the International La dies' Garment Workers' Union...
...W* recently atked our reader* to report case* of violations...
...The least that any comrade should do in the present is to build the party press...
...Wait till General Johnson gets around to saying what he thinks about it...
...Do not rely on gossip and do not exaggerate...
...On page 2 of this issue we refer to special campaign editions we have in the past printed and of inquiries we received last week regarding these editions...
...I am also expected to use my car for deliveries and carrying merchandise between the two stores...
...This is the opinion of Comrade Pierre Hubcrmont, political editor of L* Peuple, the great Socialist daily of Brussels, who paid a visit to The New Leader and the Socialist party offices in New York the other day...
...Say It With Subs...
...Strike demands include the 16-hour week, abolition of home work and the sweatshop evil and minimum weekly wages of $26 for operators, $23 for pressers and $20 for examiners...
...Sorry we can't reproduce it here to show the foul deed, for it's against the law to print a reproduction of a stamp or of money, but you can buy a stamp and see for yourself what some rascal has put over on us...
...Under the protection of the labor section of the NRA, plus the nilitant organizing campaign conducted by the Florida State Federation of Labor, 50 new local unions have been organized in Florida, according to Wendell C. Heaton, president of the Federation...
...White River Junction, VL An anonymous correspondent in Hammond, Indiana, writes of how the NRA makes no provision for white collar workers in his line...
...J N building the National Dollar Edition of The New Leader we get suggestions regarding changes in material that are often valuable, but another type of suggestions now being received refer to increasing our circulation...
...The danger of war in Central Europe, he said, is very great The Belgian Socialist was deeply interested in the working of NRA, and had read a number of articles in The New Leader and other Socialist publication expressing the Socialist point >i view on the Recovery Act that, he said, would guide him in writing for his paper at home...
...5 0 Unions Organized MIAMI, Fla...
...There js an idea worth while and we are taking it up with Comrade Donahue...
...The code does not set any minimum or maximum number of hours for a pharmacist...
...We remind you that The New Leader hazards much by cutting the sub rate for the National Edition in half...
...Cutters are raised to a minimum of $36 a week, pressers to a minimum of $25, there is to be no overtime and the work week will be 44 hours...
...Settlement will represent an •wrwhelming victory for the workers...
...The workers kid rejected a proposal for a $13 minimum wage for a 40-hour week offered by the organized employers...
...Clothing Workers Win a Big Victory in Montreal MONTREAL, Canada—After a strike of one week that paralyzed the clothing industry, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers have won a fine victory...
...The strikers obtained a WH-hour week, which is a reduce s of 6 % hours from their prese t work-week...
...Now we receive a suggestion from D. P. Donahue of Idaho which will be given special attention...
...Maybe he's putting some one on the spot—how do we know...
...Virtual paralysis of the underwear industry in the metropolitan ares...
...Other gains by the neckwear JWksrs include substantial wage ""sssoi for all classes of workSB...
...Most of the strikers are young girls, and the effect of the Krike upon the whole needle industry was more than electric...
...Joining the general strike move, cutters, who are members of IJOcal 10 of the I. L. G. W. U., walked out in a body...
...lie writes us as follows: "We are cheered by your new offer of subscription rates at a dollar a year...
...They marched in good order to more than a half dozen strike halls in various parts of the efty where they were registered and issued striking cards...
...My contribution to your tale of woe is the Drug Code which takes no cognizance of the registered pharmacist...
...Both men said they were afraid of losing their jobs if it were discovered that they had reported...
...That is, the farmer, the worker and the housewife are...
...This was his first visit to the United States...
...This comrade has been thirty years in the party, was active in the Moycr-HaywoodPettibone trials in Idaho, and was a Jimmie Iliggins in that state helping to finance the Red Special that carried Eugene V. Debs from coa.it to coast in the campaign of 1908...
...Union officials promptly complained to the police, insisting upon observance of civil liberties...
...There are HP minor details still to be out...
...The strike conflagration spread to out-of-town points, including New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Connecticut...
...From Brookrn, as well as from the heart of (anhattan, scores of complaints ran received that girls, seeking I walk out and join the strike, rere barred from doing so...
...His letter follows: "I am a pharmacist...
...J ^ * strike has spread to New 2JJ...
...He writes: "I congratulate you on your decision to make The New Leader a national paper and I will do all in my power to help keep it afloat...
...If I can offer any assistance or further Information, please feel free to call on me...
...Employers have attempted to fix a blanket minimum of $13 a week for a 40-hour week in a code proposed for the industry...
...Following reports received at mien headquarters from girls held virtual prisoners by their employera, those denounced violations of he right to strike...
...I am working on an average of eighty-five hour* a week, frequently more, for twenty dollars a week...
...HELP...
...The wage in* crease is 20 per cent and after December 1st the 40-hour week Will be the rule and the same wni'ivi will be pah', for the shorter weak...
...logan that "homes are made " j[W in, shops to work in" was •"wed...
...Samuel Shore, executive supervisor of White Goods Workers' Local 62, strike leader, declared the response to have exceeded the wildest imagination of union officials...
...Take a look at the new NRA three-cent stamp...
Vol. 16 • September 1933 • No. 12
