Painters Picket Famous Palaces
Painters Picket Famous Palaces 15,000 Men Battle For Shorter Working Weel WITH the strike of 15,000 or more painters and decorators in the New York district being vigorously pushed,...
...In another town, the residence of the U. S. Senator, who is also a capitalist on a large scale, Negro workers are fearfully exploited...
...A. N. Weinberg, union organizer, ia in charge of the Boston situation...
...The strike is Waged for shorter hours, better Wages and union conditions...
...The union also demanded that manufacturers in the Allen Street section cease to work themselves at the machines and hire workers instead, thus taking IP the slack in employment...
...We want the facts...
...Street, has on file dozens of signed affidavits from employees corroborating these facts...
...Chicgo, Reading, Milwaukee and Boston are among the cities where Socialists are taking a leading part in the organization of the workers at the request of the workers and their unions...
...Workers know from long experience that in the Socialist ranks are no mere "friends" of labor, but men and women whose sole interest in life is tho promotion of the organization of the workers...
...Do not rely on gossip and do not exaggerate...
...STORIES of the NRA Do you know of any case* of nibbling at the NKA in a cod* industry...
...We have been patient beyond all measure," Zausner explained, "but the bosses have steadfastly refused to live up to the terms of their pacts, to spread the work, to pay decent wages or to keep down hours to decent standards...
...Membership and Income of The British Labor Party LONDON.—The report of the Labor Party to the next conference to be held in Hastings next month shows the smallest membership since 1914...
...If you do not have a book of sub receipts, use the blank below and say it with subs I Philadelphia Shirt Workers Fight Evil Conditions Testimony given before the magistrates court in Philadelphia regarding shirt workers' conditions at the Eclipse Needles factory here revealed "abominable conditions" against which the workers are rebelling...
...Men like August Claessens, Abe Hi-Inky, James Oneal, Jean J. Coronel, Norman Thomas, Herbert M. Merrill, Charles Solomon, Frank Crosswaith, Gus Gcrber, Robert L. Bobrick, Joe Glass, and countless others in New York, Joe Schwartz, William Becdio and many others in Philadelphia, and other men and women in other cities, are giving so much time at the urgent request of the workers to trade union work that at times it appears as if campaign work is suffering...
...The painters have decided that the only thing they can Co is fight—and they're out fighting...
...of being compelled to scrub AWy floors and windows, to do extra work, without pay, and to buy their own equipment...
...Socialists in Front Line of Drive for Organization rjI'Sl'lTE the frantic efforts of Grover A. Whalen to prevent strikes and picketing under NRA, despite the efforts of employers to prevent workers from estahlishing human living conditions in the various industries, the whole industrial world is being rocked in a series of strikes that reaches every section of the country...
...As we xvere sending the paper to the press last week, a letter was recehed from the Milwaukee County Central Committee of the Socialist Party extending hearty support of the National Edition...
...We're going to stay out till we get a decent living wage, proper work conditions and our own union," the girls declared...
...Yours for Socialism, g Hermsn O. Kent, Secretary, Milwaukee County Central Committee...
...it suggested that "every worker in America deny himself a dollar's worth of sports and invest it in The New Leader National Edition...
...Here are a few reports from the NKA front...
...When the call was issued, union •ad non-union members marched la overalls to twelve union halls to get instructions in the first break in the peace that has enveloped the New York building trades for many years...
...As one who has been in close touch with newspaper work itself as a member of International Typographical Union No...
...In one .own two tomato canneries and a firm that trucks chickens to New York City get away with some camouflage and a small dress shop has been mercilessly exploiting women and children for years...
...Despite the attempt of members of the firm to fhut in their employees to prevent their leaving the factory to register with the union, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America succeeded in signing up and calling out 850 girls, 05% of all employed...
...Workers in general believe that throughout this duPont empire an investigation by a competent man would ieve il a mercileis capitalism irrespective of whether industries are working under codes...
...Here it is: James Oneal, Editor, New Leader, 7 East 15th Street, Now York City...
...of filthy dressing rooms...
...Meanwhile the strikers are picketing the Standard Oil Building, the Woolworth Kuilding and the Singer Building...
...Neckwear Workers in Battle on Sweatshops The United Neckwear Makers' Union has broken with a group of Bast Side manufacturers who, according to Louis Fuchs, union Manager, are seeking to perpetuate the most notorious aspects of the sweatshop evil on Allen Street and fai the surrounding ghetto neighborhood...
...The first need of the working class is organization, both in labor unions and the Socialist Party...
...National Edition Backed By Milwaukee Socialists MOW and then we get a message from workers in the field that is of exceptional interest in our campaign for the National Dollar Edition of The New Leader...
...The strike is one of the biggest and most important now raging in the United States, and victory ia believed certain...
...A State Senator and a U. S. Senator wear the collar of duPont...
...There are 65 employers in the Allen Street association...
...The employers are meeting representatives of District Council Nine, and on Saturday they will meet and discuss proposed Irttlements...
...Dear Comrade: As Secretary of Milwaukee County Socialist Committee, I was authorized, upon action duly taken, to extend to you the well wishes of the Socialists of Milwaukee and Wisconsin on the launching of the National Dollar Edition of The New Leader...
...23, I speak with some knowledge and observation...
...kit Insufficient toilets, of wages as low as $3 weekly...
...I would suggest that every worker in America deny himself a dollar's worth of sports and Invest it in The New Leader national edition and see to it that this paper gets into every home...
...Our battle for Socialism in Milwaukee has becu considerably lightened by the Milwaukee Lender that has been able to keep the citizena here correctly informed—and what a Milwaukee Leader has been to Milwaukee, a National Dollar Edition of The New Leader will be to the United States...
...Painters Picket Famous Palaces 15,000 Men Battle For Shorter Working Weel WITH the strike of 15,000 or more painters and decorators in the New York district being vigorously pushed, with virtually the entire industry tied tip, the employers are preparing to call the representatives of the workers into conference to settle the strike...
...We recently asked our readers to report cases of violations...
...The break took place in the ofiees of Jacob Panken, counsel for the union...
...The union demands Include the 35-hour week, a 50 per tent increase in wages, elimination of home work and the sweatshop ki_._ . ___ evil...
...In many other cases unions are led by managers taken from tho ranks of the active workers in tho Socialist party, mainly active trade unionists themrelves...
...The Caledonia Painting Company, the largest non-union contracting firm, is seeking an injunction to restrain the workers from picketing...
...of being locked in...
...Shortly after the strike broke out, pickets proceeded by the hundreds in front of the Empire State fluilding, the Chrysler, the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, the Commodore Hotel, the Pennsylvania Hotel and other famous buildings...
...Trades the very existence of which had not even been suspected are becoming rganizvd, and are applying for charters in the A. F. of I. Thousands and tens of thousands of workers in lines never before organized arc spontaneously striking, and are calling for organizers...
...in every line of industry recruits are flocking to the organized labor movement by the hundreds of thousands...
...In every case however, the workers are showing a fighting spirit unknown in this country in many years...
...A general strike, called by the United Neckwear Makers' Union, stopped 18 shops in that •Ky, bringing out 600 workers, msinly girls...
...Dutch Socialitta Gain In the second quarter of this year the membership of the SocialDemocratic Labor party of Holland grow from 01,117 to 93,055—a net gain of almost two thousand members...
...Somewhere in Delaware A Socialist in this feudal barony of the duPont family, whose name and the city where he lives cannot be given, writes of conditions in NRA and other industries...
...The union, with headquarters at 810 Locust...
...The former has a school und ditch contract and is working some men twelve hours a day for 15 cents an hour...
...Fuchs announced a complete tie-up of the neckwear trade in Boston...
...of cruel treat* ment...
...Then they told of rats, roaches and othor vermin...
...In new unions and old, in socalled radical unions and old-line conservative unions Socialists are being called in to help, to take care of organization work, to negotiate with employers, to draw up plans, to inspire and to lead...
...Employees of the Emery and Jablow factories have joined the walkout...
...Union after union is coming to the Socialist party and asking for men and women to take care of their work...
...We here in Milwaukee know the viciousness, especially in years passed, of a capitalist press that has deliberately twisted and distorted news to bias the general public against the working class, which has been so strikingly evident not only here but throughout all America, except for a liberal paper here and there...
...The second greatest need is a Socialist press...
...In Borne cases the workers are' striking to regain losses of the past few years, in others to lift themselves up so that they might participate in the much-talked-of recovery...
...The enthusiastic response of the painters to the strike call was attributed by Philip Zausner, secretary-treasurer of the New York District Council, to the sense of indignation the painters felt against the master painters for their violations of trade agreements...
...The strike call won immediate and enthusiastic response...
...The army of organized labor should take this matter up in every labor union to hare the members read a labor and Socialist press, for without this weapon for their defense, our efforts in building a atrong organized labor and Socialist movement will be nugatory...
...The number of local organizations Increased in the same time from 707 to 719...
...The total, about W00.OOO, ia in contrast with the •oak year of 1920, which showed Marly 4,500,000 members, j-The party's Income has been materially cut by tho Trades Union •et of 1927, jammed through by the Conservatives, which altered the onions' subscriptions to political lories so as to reduce the income of the party by 40 per cent...
...Milwaukee and Wisconsin Socialists bespeak unbounded success for this national New Leader edition...
...One of the most significant elements in the situation is the work being done by the Socialist Party through Labor Committees in various cities, and organising work by leading Socialist...
...We are glad to qwe the Milwaukee comrades' message a place in this department...
...The rift occurred between the anion and the East Side NeckWear Manufacturers' Association When the union demanded sumWry abolition of dingy.unhygienic stores which, for the past thirty years, have bred and fostered the traditional ghetto sweatshop of ill •muling fame...
...Fuchs said the union would sign up individual Allen Street manufacturers on the basis of union terms...
Vol. 16 • September 1933 • No. 13
