Amalgamated Joins A. R of L.
Amalgamated Joins A. F of L. White Goods Strike Ends In Great Victory for 25,000 rENTY-FIVE thousand striking underwear workers, mostly young girls, in the third week of their general strike...
...The action was taken following protests by Hillman against signing of contracts by the U.G.W...
...Twelve thousand track drivers and helpers had itruck for recognition of the Brotherhood of Transportation Workers, tad for wage increases partially to compensate them for the sharp riss ia living costs...
...Heilman Is about fifty years of age, and was badly wounded In the war...
...There are many calls for organisation aid from bus drivers and jrolley, subway and elevated men...
...Amalgamated Joins A. F of L. White Goods Strike Ends In Great Victory for 25,000 rENTY-FIVE thousand striking underwear workers, mostly young girls, in the third week of their general strike won an overwhelming victory when three employers' associations settled with the White Goods Workers1 Uniort of New York, ending the strike...
...I won't feel satisfied until it is in the hands of all workers of my acquaintance...
...Both new and renovation work in private homes, business offices, skyscrapers and millionaires' mansions was completely tied up, so that the NRA wjts compelled to step in and offer its mediation services in order to give the employers a chance to save their faces and get their workers back, The strike was conducted by Philip Zausner, secretary-treasurer of the New York District Council, and Eugene McNamara, president of the council...
...UNION DRIVE PHILADELPHIA.—The Chamber of Commerce, delegated by General Johnson to create a local labor medialion board, has revealed itself in its true colors...
...Samuel Shore, executive supervisor of the White Goods Workers' Union, pointed out that the terms represent a wage increase averaging from 20 to 35 per cent for week workers and a 25 per cent reduction in hours...
...Try it...
...Both Hillman and President Green are members of the Labor Advisory Board of the NRA, and their common work brought to a head the desultory attempts that had been under way for some time for the closing of the breach...
...The workers say they are having difficulty with private detectives employed by the bosses, who interfere with legitimate strike activities...
...Thus victoriously ended t he most remarkable outbreak of young girl workers in the United States since the waist and dressmakers' strike of 1909...
...with employers whose workers had been organized and led by Amalgamated organizers...
...Charles Pogorelec, Translator-Secretary of the Jugoslav Federation, sends four subs for the New York edition and asks for a book of sub blanks and receipts...
...He adds: "/ shall endeavor to get as many subs for The New Leader as possible as it is the only Socialist weekly in English that's worth while boosting...
...It will be effected at an early session of the convention...
...The application for affiliation, it can be now confidently reported, has been approved by the A. F. of L. Executive Council and nothing remains but that approval...
...The New Leader National Edition is making a "hit" with party organizations and members, but we still have a big job to get that bigger circulation that will make up for the cheaper rate...
...The C. of C. secretary attempted to brand the union a a racketeer group and threatwed "drastic" action—by which he meant that National Guardsmen ihoulu man scab trucks...
...years ago, is in the thick of the fight to organize the automobile plants...
...If you want a slogan, here It is: "Every party member get a sub...
...After merciless beatings, he is now being kept in solitary confinement in a dark and Ill-ventilated cell...
...Let's strive to make The New Leader a journal of wide circulation...
...More Work for the Brave "Reawakeners" The Neue Tagebueh, published in Paris, reports that Frits Heilmann, former Social-Democratic member of the Prussian legislature, hat been so frightfully maltreated in the concentration camp at Oranienburg that his life is in grave dan* ger...
...Sidney Hillman, president of the Amalgamated from its organization in Nashville in February, 1914, is slated for a seat on the Executive Council as a vice-president of the A. F. of L. There have even been some published reports that he is a candidate for President In place of Wiliam Green, but little credence is given such rumors...
...Here are a few letters: George W. Read, State Secretary of Colorado, writes: "Best good wishes for the National Edition...
...A strike of milk wagon drivers, who have promised to support the farmers of the Philadelphia Milkshed, is also in the offing...
...These are samples of a mass of letters we are receiving...
...Following several weeks of negotiations, all plans have been virtually perfected, and nothing remains but formal approval by the delegate body of the Federation...
...Some headway is being made in organizing workers in the automobile plants of this city and In Flint...
...Walter Norbury, Secretary of Branch 2, Wayne County, Mich.: "Our branch is very much interested in The New Leader...
...After mediation by Assistant Secretary of Labor Edward F. McOrady the union Was recognised lad wage increases were promised, to be determined by negotiation after the men return to work...
...It will also be extended to out-oftown centers in order to bring them within the fold...
...Union Growth Bringing New Spirit to Industrial Town READING, Pa.—Union organization is making gains in Pennsylvania not thought possible a few years ago and is rapidly changing the atmosphere of the smaller Industrial cities and towns...
...It is a wonderful paper...
...John J. Mlske of Pennsylvania received a copy from a comrade and then sent us this: "Send me the necessary blanks to get subscribers for The New Leader...
...The union has been especially eager to cut down unemployment in the trade, and it looks upon the prohibition of overtime as one of the best ways to obtain that end...
...This breaking of economic barriers must spell a new sort of social and political Ufa for millions of wage workers hitherto held down to a status which was virtually feudal In all important respects...
...The most important fact, however, is recognition on all aides that the Amalgamated dominates its field and is in no sense a dual union...
...There are more than 2,000 belt makers in New York, Schouschan says, and their wages and hours are pitiful...
...Towns which have during the past decade been absolutely closed to union organizers, which have been "rotten boroughs" in the political sense, and which have been completely fear-dominated in every department of social activity, especially religious and educational, are now almost overnight becoming new and Interesting communities...
...About 5,000 have lined up in Detroit and over 4,000 in Flint, and word has been received from Toledo and St...
...The industry, he added, is now virtually 100 per cent unionised where it was only 25 per cent organised prior to the general strike...
...Auto Workers are Organizing in Ford's State DETROIT, Mich...
...SOCIALISTS LEAD IN PHILA...
...The strike, he said, would be continued against nonunion shops and sweatshops...
...A full delegation from the Amalgamated will be in attendance in Washington, and as a tangible sign of the reunion of the great garment union with the main body of American labor the delegation will be seated nineteen years after a similar delegation was denied seats by President Samuel Gompers in Philadelphia on the ground that they represented a dual union...
...Preliminary negotiations hare delimited the fields to be covered by the Amalgamated and its technical rival, the United Garment Workers, as predicted in this paper several weeks ago...
...Two hundred independent employers not affiliated with the association have already signed up with the union on the same terms, and hundreds more are asking for settlements...
...Thus over 130,000 members will be added to the A. F. of L. in a body...
...The contract calls for a seven-hour day and five-day work week, and a uniform minimum of $9 a day, or $1.28 per hour...
...will have jurisdiction over overalls and other work clothes and will no longer claim jurisdiction over the other sections of the industry...
...Panzer is also an active member of the Socialist Party...
...The Amalgamated will have full jurisdiction over men's clothing, collars and shirts, while the U.G.W...
...A closed shop agreement has been *»n in the SKF plant, and a 100 ** cent walkout is now being led 3 Newman Jeffrey, general orIJfaer for the Ball Bearing Work*t Union, in the Nice works...
...Let's hear more from the rank and file...
...Indications are that an all-embrach* transit union may not be far in *• future...
...With progress in union organization the whole attitude of local police and local authorities is changing...
...If every local and branch would urge each comrade to get one or two subs, making it obligatory, it would mean double the circulation...
...Louis that auto workers are also joining unions in those cities...
...The settlement, ratified at en thasiattic meetings, provides for a J7H-hour week, substantially increased wage scales and automatic increase of 10 per cent for all worker* receiving above the scale...
...More power to you...
...The New York agreement will be used as a basis in promulgating a nationwide code for the entire industry...
...Letters that come to us every day indicate that Socialists are aware of this need...
...The ball-hearing workers are another group organised by Socialists...
...Cutters, members of Local 10, also affiliated with the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, likewise won substantial fains...
...In Detroit the first strike has been won in this industry in the Bower Roling Bearing plant, which gives encouragement to other workers in the industry...
...John Panzer, a veteran in the I.W.W...
...Only Socialist Weekly in English Worthwhile" says LeaderBooster YKS> The New Leader will always be a straight * Socialist Party paper...
...If you do not have a book of sub blanks, use the blank below...
...it hoi been needed for a long time...
...With Louis Waldman in charge of the legal end of the battle a Code has been adopted and the strike is designed to enforce its provisions...
...Painters Win Great Victory fHE walkout of over 15,000 painters and decorators which tied up all work in the five boroughs of New York came to an end Wednesday after a week's strike when the Association of Master Painters signed an agreement which was ratified the same night by a huge membership meeting at Mecca Temple...
...These associations represent the bulk of the industry...
...P. W. Minion, Chairman of Local Lodi, California, after receiving the first issue of the National Edition, sends this: "CongratulationsI We have been in need of a real Socialist weekly for national distribution for some years...
...The union has been accepted into the *. F. of L. Eleven hundred bread wagon drivers struck Tuesday and were joined in a sympathy strike by the bakers' union...
...Belt Makers Organize Under the leadership of Charles Schouschan of the International Pocketbook Workers' Union, affiliated with the A. F. of L„ the bulk of the belt makers of New York have been organized and are on strike to win conditions fit for human beings...
...Washington Convention to Ratify Action by Council — IP1 Amalgamated Clothing Workers, one of the largest, most progressive and possibly the most interesting labor organization in America, will become a section of the American Federation of Labor at the A. F. of L. convention that meets in Washington next week...
...The unanimity with which -the painters responded to the union's call strike was instrumental in winning the victory for the workers...
...It is a very good paper from an educational standpoint and we will help all we can...
...With a few Caspar Milquetoasts and other timid souls who had been over-rated in the party making their exit into the parlors of capitalist parties, and with the snare of the NRA possibly luring half-schooled sympathizers, never has there bem more need for education in basic Socialist principles...
...This union, representing more than 90 per cent of all drivers in ** city, has been organized under Socialist leadership, and an office k maintained in Socialist headWarters, with the party organizer, ""•al Porter, as acting president...
...Later:—About 3,000 workers in the Ford plant walked out on Tuesday in protest against shortening of the work-week which reduced their minimum weekly wage to $16...
...The biggest battle of all miy ewe when the newly formed Taxi«* Drivers' Union approaches a •how-down with the Philadelphia Rapid Transit whose open shop Policy has remained unchallenged •face the bloody and unsuccessful trolley strike of 1909...
...Most important from the union's point of view is the fact that all overtime is forbidden...
Vol. 16 • September 1933 • No. 14
