25,000 Gas Station Men May Strike for 40 hr.Week
25,000 Gas Station Men May Strike for 40 hr.Week f JNLESS demand* for a 40 hour Uweek, a minimum weekly wage d $•*. anion recognition and senility rights are granted by their employers, 25,000...
...The lectures are as follows: Lecture Topics 1. "The Socialist Analysis of the NRA...
...Columbus, 24-25...
...Lincoln, 24-25...
...In a letter to Grover A. Whalen, Manager Sol Silveratone quoted) President Roosevelt, Senator Wag-ner and General Johnson to the effect.that labor will get a fair deal without striking...
...With the aid if the entire labor movement, and the enthusiastic support of the Socialist Party, tens of thousands of men of all nationalities were held together despite attempts at disruption from the usual Communist sources...
...Nature and Nurtute—Heredity and Environment...
...The association repre-aggt 000 filling stations employ lag 3,000 men...
...UTAH TEACHERS TO BE ORGANIZED The American Federation of Teachers will initiate an organization drive in Utah through the cooperation of the Utah State Federation of Labor and the various local unions affiliated with it...
...The farmers may be getting $400 for what last year they received only $300, as the President pointed out in his radio speech last Sunday, but what he did not mention, and what is bothering he farmr.-s, is that if prices of the things the farmers need continue to rise they will be worse off with the $400 than they were with the $300 of last year...
...Figures show that there has been some improvement also in other countries, without the NRA...
...With prices rising faster than wages, purchasing power is not increasing rapidly enough, in some cases declining...
...V. Kane, president of the Uniformed Firemen's Assn., for the civil service employees...
...Madison, 11-12...
...That leaves 10,000,000...
...F( the discussion of the savage tjMhing in Maryland, the trial (edge, the prosecuting attorney, At sheriff and Governor Ritchie, made out something of a defense...
...Prof, J. McGoldrlck of Columbia...
...Louis, 31, February 1-2-8-4-5...
...And of the 12,000,000 there are, we are told, several million who just won't work...
...Abraham Lefkowitz of the Teachers' Union, for the teachers...
...Paperhangers Refuse to Handle German Goods RADIO CITY in New York, which had its difficulties with Diego Rivera, encountered trouble with members of the Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paper-hangers...
...There has been some improvement...
...But exaggerating the benefits, or Replies to a questionnaire sent to minimizing the seriousness of the problem, will not help...
...Springfield, February 6-7...
...Milwaukee, 8-9-10...
...Through William Karlin, counsel, the Gasoline Station Workers' Union will demand a hearing in Washington, Oct...
...Henry R. Linville, and the speakers will be Mrs...
...Popular fervor is beginning to slacken...
...By imposing a forfeiture •a communities that permit or engage In lynchings, and by trying tljt accused of taking part in bushings in another jurisdiction, where they will be mare likely to 1st justice than if tried by a "jury ef th«ir peers" in their own com-smaity, a genuine effort will have Ms) made to end the barbarous Recognizing Russia In the early days of the Soviet •tuae, when it was poor politics, **d apparently not good business west, to speak in favor of recog-rtba, the Socialist Party was the y to demand that recognition be ****sd...
...Close the campaign with a big sub drivel Picketing Goes On in Silk Strike DICKETING continues in the Paterson silk strike, despite the fact that several thoussnd workers have returned to their jobs because their demands have been met...
...While you are about it, use the blank below...
...Cleveland, 18-19-20...
...TEACHERS' UNION CALLS MEETING ON FALSE "ECONOMY" The Teachers' Union of New York has issued a call for a msss meeting on October 27th at the Haaren High School Auditorium, 59th St...
...Erie, 16-17...
...4. "What Is Socialism...
...Flint, 4-5...
...Detroit, 27-28-29-30-31, January 1. Lansing, January 2-3...
...Business Is Business, So Soviet Russia Is Recognized By Marx Lewis Washington...
...McEnaney charged that filling station attendants are paid today $10 to $22 a week and that their hours range from 48 to 84 a week...
...Not a aingle paperhanger remained at work in Radio City...
...The objections were repeatedly urged, includ-Jt the one that we canot ucal Myjfovemment that suppresses liberties, are readily forgot-?|Slnce both Rusfia and the J* States have found no diffi-*JMn dealing with both Hitler S'Wsolini...
...Most of them suffer from lack of sleep, they inhale the fumes of gasoline and are subject to occupational diseases...
...The paper was one of the producta distributed by the Salubra Wall Cover Company, which handles exclusive German-made wallpapers...
...Pittsburgh, 26-27-28...
...Teachers, parents, flrement and other civil service employees of the city are called upon to attend...
...And 4,000,000, which is a grossly exaggerated number, have gone back to work since the NRA was adopted...
...Utics, 8-9...
...QUILTING WORKERS TO TEST THE NRA The United Quilting Workers' Union, sn A. F. of L. affiliate, has voted to strike unless the NRA board csn satisfy its demsnds for "fair and decent wsges and working hours...
...Some have hesrd him in former years and want him again...
...Cincinnati, 18-19-20...
...Minneapolis, 13-14-15...
...Why, How, When...
...The gasoline station attendants work under miserable conditions...
...Indianapolis, 15-16-17...
...At the same time, Zausner announced thst any attempt te hang the Salubra paper by non-members of the anion would bring a strike of the 250 painters and decorators employed on putting the finishing touches to Radio City's giant office building...
...The dyers, 6,000 of whom arc members of the United Textile Workers and about 9,000 unorganized who are following their leadership, won union recognition, a 40-hour week and a minimum wage of $23...
...The result of this test of the NRA'a efficiency In settling disputes satisfactorily will do much to show whether the strike is a necessary weapon under the NRA regime, union officials say...
...John Dewey hss said: "The Teachers' Union has been a con-atant and aggressive force in combatting the efforts of various organized interests to exploit the school for their own ends...
...As soon as the German wallpaper is discarded, work will be resumed...
...Chicago, 8-9-10-11-12...
...The strike, conducted for six weeks in territory traditionally difficult for union organization, was a marvel of organization, efficiency and enthusiasm...
...He pointed to the cut-throat competition among filling stations in which employers, seeking to maintain shorter work-week and higher wage levels, find themselves at a disadvantage...
...25,000 Gas Station Men May Strike for 40 hr.Week f JNLESS demand* for a 40 hour Uweek, a minimum weekly wage d...
...There are eleven lectures from which locals may select The New Leader will also provide a press story for insertion in local papers of the time and place of the meetings...
...However, as Dr...
...So new tactics are being devised —to minimize as much as possible the seriousness of the problem, and to exaggerate, as much ss possible, the extent to which it has been solved...
...None of this jibes with the information the leaders of organized labor are receiving...
...If any effort is made to hang the German-made paper over the opposition of the painters' union, we will call all of our men en.ployed at Radio City from the job...
...Syracuse, 5-6-7...
...The American Federation of Teachers does not use the strike to obtain its ends...
...Rochester, 10-11-12...
...Akron, 22-23...
...The number of unemployed, at its peak, we now learn, was 12,-000,000— not the 16,000,000 that reliable statisticians pointed to...
...7. "Selfishness, a Study of Human Nature...
...5. "The Essentials of Socialism...
...Gilding the NRA The NRA enters a new stage...
...The decision followed a demand |or conferences which was prenatal to the Gasoline Merchants' Jlgfa of Brooklyn and Queens, the isjfsft group of independent retail gasoline distributors in Greater (few York...
...The principal gain thus far is the entrenchment of trade unionism in the Paterson sector and the entire silk industry...
...The Jaequard workers won union recognition, a 40-hour, five-day week, and piecework rates that guarantee wages for weavers of $28 to $35 a week...
...anion recognition and senility rights are granted by their employers, 25,000 gasoline station porkers employed in the New York tjftropolitan area will walk out in I general strike, it was voted at a beitmf of "key men" at head-aarters of the Gasoline Station Workers' Union, an American Fed-Ration of Labor affiliate, 5S4 At |aatk Avenue, Brooklyn...
...Kansas City, 26-27-28...
...fist union, according to Frederick F. McEnaney, president, will ¦err* notice, also, upon other inde-fssdmt dealers as well as upon the iarf* oil companies, such as Shell, Standard Oil and Sinclair Oil, haying retail outlets in the city...
...Renewed efforts must now be mil by Socialists to secure the enactment of the Socialist anti-bnching measure that Victor L. Berger repeatedly introduced in Congress...
...However, some minor alterations may be made in the tour in cities not far from the main line of his route...
...Omahs, 21-22-23...
...The Republicans promised it in their national platform, and did not make good...
...Social Attitudes Towarda War and Peace...
...They will have less P**«r in ironing out the differ-Mwtween themselves than the Joists will have in dealing L ' fa*c,"ts" sake of the new-born friendship, the Communists in this country may be left as high and dry by Russia as have been the Communists under Hitler's regime...
...We welcome this opportunity to have the painters' union show what it thinks of Hitler, and to express our solidarity with the German trade interests and Jews...
...Information regarding the teachers' organization will be given upon request by M. I. Thompson, president of the Utah State Federation of Labor, 24 South 4th East Street, Salt Lake City...
...On the contrary, it is only by looking it straight in the eye that justice can be done to those in need...
...His time is limited and we cannot promise to add to the list that has been announced...
...wi after fifteen years, an ad-¦¦stration discovers that there is ¦ reason why the Russians cannot *Jwhds with us, especially if it help business...
...Zausner notified the contractor In charge of the painting at Sadie City that no members of his union would hang the German made paper...
...The trouble started when paper-hangers, members of District Council 9 of the Brotherhood of Painters, noticed that the paper they were given to hang was marked "Made in Germany...
...The meeting will initiate a campaign against the retrenchment and "economy" of Tammany Hall, modifications, will not be any better now...
...30, at which it will propose a code for labor...
...However, responsibility must rest with the failure of Republicans tad Democrats to enact a Federal inti-lynchiiiK bill...
...Zausner said: "The New York painters unio nis proud to be among the first to enforce the German boycott decision of ths American Federation of Labor...
...Grand Rapids, 6-7...
...South Bend, 18-14...
...Here are the meetings so far arranged: August Claessens' Tour Albany, December 1-2-3...
...9. "Social Attitudes in Race Conflicts...
...8. "Unemployment, Its Causes and Remedies...
...and 10th Ave., to protest against the $20,000,000 cut of the school budget and the curtailment of vital educational services...
...Silveratone "therefore requested" Whslen to arrange a conference between the bosses and workers to settle their differences "within the course of the next four days...
...University, for the public...
...As a result, paper-hanging in directors' rooms and other of the more expensive offices planned for Radio City cama to a halt and a walkout of 250 painters employed on the entire project loomed as a possib lity...
...After all, to Russia, as well as to the United State"?, "business is business...
...The first resolutions re-•jssthf it were introduced by a yy1* member of Congress, and "•taxational platfoim adopted by *» fcdalists since the Bolsheviks control of Russia con-J*ll • plank of t'.ie same nature...
...Lecture Tour of August Claessens Will Be an Extensive Subscription Drive DEQUESTS have come from cities in a number of *x states for dates for August Claessens...
...The observant paperhangers immediately reported the matter to Philip Zasner, secretary of the District Council, and Zausner as quickly informed them to refuse to handle the paper...
...Sioux City, 18-19...
...Toledo, 24-25-26...
...If you do not have a book of sub blanks, then show this issue to prospects and fire in the subs...
...Paul, 16-17...
...The Dsaocrats, when the Republicans ¦tie a feeble attempt to bring the all to a vote, co-dueled a' bitter straggle, absenting themselves so M to prevent s quorum...
...The threatened strike, if called, would completely paralyze the movement of pleasure cars, trucks and taxi csbs in the metropolitan area...
...Write your state secretary and The New Leader and we shall do our best to spare a date from one of the cities that have a number...
...8. "Social Psychology and Social Problems...
...Dayton, 21-22-23...
...ai ""Popular ' those years, *Ws cause, as in so many "¦"st Socialists were the first ¦"Wens, while the others—in ¦» case the Democrats—were just V* weather" friends...
...H. S. Psscal of the United Parents' Assn., for the parents...
...Schenectady, 3-4...
...Jefferson City, 29-30...
...6. "The Love of Money and the Struggle for Existence...
...Teachers will be urged to form locals of seven or more, Which will have the power to decide their own initiation fees and dues...
...So 40% of the problem has been solved...
...Hoover's methods were unavailing, and adopting those methods, even with all parties by the union will be read at the meeting...
...2. "Our Economic Chaos, an Analysis of the Depression...
...The competition, he said, "is solely at the expense of labor...
...These concessions are considered of the greatest importance, especially that guaranteeing union recognition, but the fact that there are still many thousands out is the reason for continued picketing...
...Two units of the strikers, 15,000 dyers and 3,000 Jaequard workers, have gone back to work...
...The chairman will be Dr...
...Buffalo, 13-14-15...
Vol. 16 • October 1933 • No. 18
