A. F. of L. Reports 1,300,000 New Members, Total About 4,000,000; Industrial Unionism an Issue
A. F. of L. Reports 1,300,000 New Members, Total About 4,000,000; Industrial Unionism an Issue THHE A. P. of L. convention, meet* ing in Washington, was informed by President Green that...
...The resolution referred to the "steady drift" towarc hostilities...
...The Communists fell from 6 to 2 seats and their popular vote almost vanished...
...Congressional relief appropriations...
...The heads of the Machinists, Blacksmiths, Metal Polishers, and Plumbers and Steamfitters objected to the Federation giving charters to Federal unions organized in the big industries...
...City Is Swept In Switzerland By Socialists (SOCIALISTS, faced with almost overwhelming difficulties, swept the elections in Zurich, one of the most important cities of Switzerland (population 250,000), according to Swiss papers just received...
...Recognition of their union, $18 mii.irpum for unskilled workers, $36 a week minimum for skilled workers, no discrimination, the 30hour week for all workers arc the leading demands...
...THE BOYCOTT An organisation of importers In Holland brought a legal action last month against the General Committee for Defense Against Terrorism In Germany, asking an injunction to restrain that body from promoting a boycott on goods Mads in Nasiland...
...speeding up of public works...
...enlargement of the Executive Council from 11 to 25 members, supported by the miners...
...Labor Party Votes for Strike Against War and Down With the Lords The British Labor Party Congress, meeting in Hastings, had before it a proposal for a general strike in cooperation with trade anions and cooperatives in the event of war or a threat of war...
...The following fraternal delegates have presented credentials...
...The miners refused...
...Mrs...
...Austrian Chancellor Shot by Nazi Youth, May Involve Hitler The Austrian Chancellor, Engclbert Dollfuss, was shot on Tuesday by a young Nazi, Rudolf Dertil, but not seriously injured...
...There is no code in the silk textile industry, but the strikers demand a single code for all silk and rayon workers under the NRA...
...With the Federation organizing workers in the mass industries into federal unions and over 400 federal charters having been issued, the decision on this problem will be vital in its effect on further organization...
...The Amalgamated would bring 130,000 members to the Federation...
...Workers in Mines and Steel Plants of Three States in Big Strike A dramatic upheaval of workers in the mining and steel industry of Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia, involving about 100,000 men, 75,000 of them miners, has continued several weeks...
...As this action was taken, work had been halted on a ten million dollar Federal building In Washington because carpenters and iron workers could not - agree as to which group should install radiator covers...
...The strike Is still on, although the miners' ranks are somewhat broken...
...O'Connell and Frey are trade unionists of the old school and their conversion to industrial organization Is due to experience and facing of stubborn facta...
...labor representation in every stage of code-making...
...Industrial Unionism an Issue THHE A. P. of L. convention, meet* ing in Washington, was informed by President Green that inflation will be opposed and that success of the NBA depended upon thorough organization of worker* into unions and fixing a 30-hour week...
...Eighty thousand workers left tte shops at noon for a halfholiday in celebration of the repeal...
...With the Nazi menace on the German border and the fierce struggle of three brands of Faecism over the Austrian border seeking to poison public life in the mountain Republic, the Socialists heroically held their lines, waged a magnificent campaign for Socialism, and came out on top with a larger vote than the combined vote of all the bourgeois parties...
...Paterson Silk Strikers Seeking To Build All-Inclusive Union DATERSON, N. J.—The militant ^ struggle being waged by the 70,000 striking silk workers in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania not only is to win their union's demands but to develop one big union of all workers in the*si!k textile industry...
...In every district and for every office the Socialists gained heavily...
...James O'Connell, president, and John P. Frey, secretary-treasurer, of the department recommended industrial organization for the mass industries like steel, automobiles, rubber and oil...
...Eli Keller, organizer for the present Associated Silk Workers' Union, said: "Since the 1931 silk workers' strike the Associated Silk Workers' Union began the present drive to organize all workers in the silk industry into an American Federation of Silks Workers as an autonomous body of the United Textile Workers' Union...
...The vote is considered of national and international importance, considering the position of Switzerland in the midst of Europe's boiling political cauldron, and the feverish efforts of Fascists of various hues to smash the Socialist movement The Socialists first won a slender majority in 1020, and increased it in 1929, from 59 to 63 representatives...
...Important decisions will not be taken by the convention till next week...
...Murder it a specialty of the German Nazis...
...In the local legislature there will be 64 .Socialists (a gain of one), in a total of 125...
...It is reported that this proposal will go over to the conference next year...
...Today over 70% of the nation's silk workers have joined our ranks...
...The majority of the strikers are young women workers whose militant spirit on picket lines daily reflects the new-born aggressiveness of the American workers...
...leading in this non-union policy...
...higher taxation of big incomes and surplus profits...
...The Christian Social organ immediately charged that Dertil was a Socialist, but the Socialists denied It...
...Inquiry hae established that Dertil was employed for three years by the Clerical Property Owners' Association and then enlisted in the army, where he was active In the Austrian Nazi party and a member of the brown shir* Soldiers' Union...
...Adding another million outside the Federation the total is 5,000,000...
...37,000 for all the bourgeois parties together...
...With the exception of Massachusetts and Rhode Island, where the United Textile Workers' Union has up to date not called out silk workers under that union's direct control, the Associated Silk Workers' Union under the leadership ol its secretary, Frank Schweitzer, has effected a bona fide national strike in the silk Industry...
...This year it was increased to 64, and the Socialists scored a gain of over 60 per cent in their popular vote...
...On Wednesday the Congress unanimously voted not to participate in any war and to resist the outbreak of war with the whole force of the labor movement...
...Good Vote in Hamden HAMDEN, Conn.—Socialist candidates in the local elections Tuesday polled between 124 and 138 votes, as compared with 88 two years ago...
...Later: With 80 per cent of the Tote tabulated, Sumpter is credited with 5,016 votes to 3,527 for the Republican and 20,507 for Mrs...
...This week August Tyler of the New York Yipsels spoke...
...Thev court promptly denied -the application and made the importers' society pay the cost of the suit...
...Isabella Greenwny, intimate friend of the Roosevelt family, was Democratic candidate...
...Speculation is rife over the application of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers for admission...
...With tile Lords out of the way an obstruction to socialization of industry will be removed...
...strengtheneng of immigration laws, and support of the boycott of Hitler's Germany...
...Contracts cohering wage scales and other issues were signed by the Coal Control Association of Western Pennsylvania, effective on Monday, but the miners remained out of th<i pita...
...He estimated that 3,000,000 idle workers have found jobs since March but that 11,000,000 are still jobless...
...The total vote increased from 55,237 to 70,073 in two years...
...Socialist Polls A Large Vote In Arizona THE Socialist Pa.ty scored a sensational gain in the balloting for member of Congress to flll the vacancy created by the resignation of Budget Director Douglas...
...Continuing hit plea, Lewi* was shouted down and left without accomplishing his purpose...
...Late last week 4,000 misers picketed steel plants of the U. S. Steel Corporation and the Frlck Co., a subsidiary, and on Monday of this Week Philip Murray, vicepresident of the Mine Workers, told 75,000 miners that President Roosevelt "commanded" them to return to work...
...making farm surpluses available for the unemployed...
...The convention of the Metal Trades Department last week at first gave hopes of some action in favor of industrial unionism...
...President Lewis appeared th ¦ next day when some 20,000 were reported as working...
...The steel companies, however, signed the scale...
...Membership of the affiliated unions has increased 1,300,000 since the passing of the N. I. R. A., giving the Federation about 4,000,000 members which is within 50,000 of the war time peak...
...The reaction to this recommendation from such a high source is striking...
...Important resolutions before the delegates include one favoring organization of an independent labor party which is sponsored by the Iron, Steel and Tin Workers...
...The speakers included President Dubinsky, Norman Thomas, Abraham Cahan, Grover Whalen, Julius Hochman, Rose SchneiderAdolph Feldblum and Wil g*** Green, who spoke by radio HP the A. F. 0t Ij...
...This immense Mass meeting recalled (he early <fay» of the uprisings against intolerable sweating of garment Workers in New York and other **ge cities...
...convention ¦ Washington...
...Every attempt in the past to organize these Industries on the old basis has failed...
...Garment Workers Pack Madison Square Garden More than 20,000 members of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union gathered in Madilon Square Garden Wednesday evening in a "victory celebration" narking the agreement in the dress industry and the big revival fa organization...
...Greenway...
...The policy was condemned as interference with the "property rights'* and "charter rights" of the established unions...
...Green declared that the next goal is a membership of 10,000,000 and then of 25,000,000...
...In opening the Congress, Joseph Compton, chairman, attacked "all ferma of dictatorship," Communist tad Fascist alike...
...The vote for local executives ran much higher, the top Socialist polling 43,485...
...Federal and State old age pensions and Federal unemployment insurance...
...recognizes the union...
...The vote for the legislature was as follows: Socialists, 37,800, a gain of 12,000 in two years...
...The program submitted by the Executive Council includes the 30hour week...
...from the Canadian Trades and labor Congress, Fred J. White, president of the Alberta Federation of Labor...
...Berlin Nads were quick to deny responsibility for the attack, but if investigation finds a trail leading direct to Hitler's office no one need be surprised...
...British Trade Union Congress, James Rowan of the Electrical Trades Union, and Joseph A. Hall, Miners' Federation...
...Misr Elizabeth Christman, president of the Women's Trade Union League, urges the Federation to give ita full suppart to the organization of 5,000,000 women workers...
...increase of minimum wages under codes and for workers in general...
...The dispute involves a few members of the two unions, but a thousand workers in twenty trades are also idle as a result of the dispute...
...In 1982 Comrade Thomas polled 2,618 votes in the entire state, and the highest previous Socialist vote ever polled in the state was 3,178...
...Another resolution would record the Labor Party taking emergency powers to enable it to immediately proceed to create a Socialist CommonWealth...
...Communists, 3,080...
...Federal and State laws making the 30-hour week compulsory...
...With 101 «ut of 452 precincts heard from the vote is 0,885 for Mrs...
...Another proposal made by Sir Charles P. Trevelyan of the Socialist League demands that the next Labor Government abolish the House of Lords by creating enough Labor peers to carry such a proposal in the upper chamber...
...A resolution including these views was adopted and the issue will come up in the Federation convention next week...
...Steel corporations owning mines, the "captive mines" of the press dispatches, refuse to recognize the union, the H. C. Frlck Coke Co...
...In a very much heavier total vote Norman Thomas received 897 votes last year...
...labor must not suffer from Federal economy measures...
...Urging the remaining strikers to return to the mines, Lewis was greeted with cries: "Not a man returns till the Frlck Co...
...Last Monday afternoon more than 20,000 strikers from the Paterson area demonstrated in a local stadium and listened to speeches by their leaders and Frank R. Crosswaith, Negro labor leader and Socialist Party organizer...
...opposition to cutting of educational budgets...
...It was the Frlck interests that took a course that led to the famous battle between iron and steel workers and Pinkertons at Homestead in 1892...
...Greenway, 3,322 for Dilworth Sumpter, Socialist, and 910 for the Republican choice...
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