Silk Workers Are Making Brave Fight for Entire Labor Movement
Glassman, Charlotte
Silk Workers Are Making Brave Fight for Entire Labor Movement By Charlotte Glassman Wfm effort to regulate eonditiona Kk| tht (ilk industry, the Na-Wmi Labor Board baa issued an-|||sr decision...
...The Labor Board, in addition to investigating the issues involved in the strike, will have to consider the problem raised by insistence of the new union that it he recognised...
...Contractors go from shop to shop spreading false rumors that other shops are working under the union scale of wages, say union officials...
...Over 400 were present at its second meeting, and over 350 of those present signed up...
...The strike, which was to force recognition of the workers' union, was won in a week...
...M. Finestone of the United Hebrew Trades sent his greetings...
...It is also holding sn organization campaign to enlist the support of the women and confidently expects to have 10,000 members by the New Year...
...te union independent of the soft coal miners...
...The new decision of tbe National Labor Board that payrolls of all factories are to be sent in to the National Recovery Administration to determine what is really being paid, is not considered a reliable step by Jacob Panken...
...The organisation has about 6,800 members and helps striking workers and farmers fight their battles...
...Thomas Maloney, district president of the new "union, states that he is willing that the miners take a vote to decide which union they want...
...Any decision of either branch of government favorable to the workers may not be accepted by the employers and so the workers must fall back on their own solidarity for improvement of their condition...
...He said: "Workers cannot depend on decisions of the National Recovery Administration nor upon decisions of the National Labor Board...
...Two mass meetings a day were held...
...All shipping clerks are urged to get in touch with the union...
...Labor must come to their help to insure victory...
...A meet-pi of the National Recovery Ad •sinistralion branch in New Jersey in Peterson is taking up the question of enforcing the determination cf the National Labor Board...
...For twelve weeks the strikers have made terrific sacrifices for the cause of labor...
...Frank Crosswslth, who at one time was a shipping clerk himself, stressed the fact that Negroes and whites must unite...
...Thus from this standpoint Mst the wages of the silk weavers fboald be about $25 instead of the $11 or $17 they have been reTh* National Labor Board fixes ftt wage of the silk weaver at $25 ¦amuse of the fact also that the Isyon weaver in the Southern area fgisen receiving $22 per week...
...Due to ths Committee's efforts, the unemployed of Racine get free gas, light, fuel, clothing, and "just enough food to get by...
...These workers receive even under the "New Deal" a wage of $11.42 per week...
...LOCAL 22 WARNS ITS MEMBERS AGAINST BOSSES' PROPAGANDA Dressmakers' Union Local 22 of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union is sending out an appeal to its workers not to he gulled by the insidious propaganda circulated b. the bosses...
...At least half the members are Negroes and a splendid solidarity was shown...
...It has also done good work in securing better relief for the unemployed...
...The miners walked out November 6th to force recognition of the new union, organized in protest against 'he policies of the old organization anl a desire to have an anthr...
...The union is asking all shipping clerks in the dress industry to notify it of violations, to be sent to Amicus Most, Chairman, 1270 Broadway, Room 818, the union's headquarters The union, which is applying this week for a charter from the I.L.G.W.U., is progressing rapidly...
...GAIN IN BUFFALO BUFFALO, N. Y.—Herman 3, Hahn received 4,894 votes for Mayor, compare...
...Art Rohan, formc-ly of the Auto Workers, is the moving spirit...
...Now, however, in the slack season, it is charged, the employers a.e scheming to nullify the gainr of the workers...
...It is charged that at least 90 per cent of the employers in the coat and suit and in the dress industry are violating the code as far aa shipping clerks are concerned...
...The union is planning a dance and entertainment in the near future...
...P » f*in0 TTliaffcHHi^wYxMI •¦^•'¦"¦w aWwBMJrerV j %* wal Aid Striking Farmers News comes front Wisconsin of the active Workers' Committee in Racine...
...Some ahops have accepted in Pennsylvania, but not in Peterson...
...Other miners had been hired by the tw^ eomj niee after pitched battles with the strikers and the companies) decline to discharge these miners...
...Radio Workers Strike The employees of the Corne'i-Dubilier condenser factory, members of the Radio Factory Workers' Union, are on strike for union recognition and a living wage...
...With many workers unemployed and many others working only part-time, the bosses are trying to beat down wages and lengthen hours...
...If they fail it will hurt labor...
...The Workers' Committee now publishes its own paper...
...By doing tats, the executive orders of the President have been overlooked, since the minimum wage of $13 per week applies only to the unskilled labore...
...the electrical factory industry and has aroused the powerful open-shop opposition of the National Electrical Manufacturers' Association...
...40,000 Aoiharite Miners Return to Work CORTY thousand members of the *^ United Anthracite Miners of Pennsylvania returned to work Monday after assurances that th National Labor Board would investigate conditions...
...The silk workers are really making a fight for the entire labor movement What they are trying to do is to rectify wrongs committed against labor in codes approved by the President...
...As a result of their recent strike the dressmakers won minimum wage scales and a 35-hour week...
...On receiving . call for help from striking farmers near Racine, the Workers' Committee offered 500 pickets if the farmers would supply food and transportation...
...Silk Workers Are Making Brave Fight for Entire Labor Movement By Charlotte Glassman Wfm effort to regulate eonditiona Kk| tht (ilk industry, the Na-Wmi Labor Board baa issued an-|||sr decision with the consent and Karation of tbe National Re-atsery Administration, requiring Hfpayrolls of all factories be a<tt to tbe National Recovery Ad ayhttstration to determine what is Mtnr being paid, so that a guar-¦tee to the Northern manufac-Ests may be supported...
...Shipping Clerks to Fight Code Violations TTHE Ladies' Garment Shipping * Clerks' Union is planning a strong fight to enforce the NRA code...
...Two companies declined to employ strikers on the ground that they had contracts with the United Mine Workers...
...Educational work ia also planned...
...The code calls for a maximum of 40 hours per week and a minimum of |J4 per week...
...All union members are requested to come to these jobbers' group meetings and are, above all, asked not to work fcr less than union wages...
...At one strike of 160 Racine radiator workers tbe Committee arranged for a picket line of from 200 to 600 men day and night...
...If they succeed it will help labor as a whole...
...At the neeting, addressed by Frank Cross-waith, Max Delson and Amicus Most, a delegation from the newly chartered Men's Clothing Wholesale Clerks' Union was present and gave their greetings...
...It is common knowledge that shipping clerks work as much as 00 hours per week and receive salaries as low as $10...
...To combat this activity, Local 22 is undertaking a systematic campaign of Jobbers' group meetings...
...Their union it attempting to organise the sweated low paid workers it...
...fbe silk manufacturers argued •Stomal ly that they would pay a Mfawntial of $5 as compared with ••'South, yet these employers re-tWte pay the differential of $3 tm by the National Labor Board...
...The other crafts were to m| an increase proportionate to It increase •* the unskilled jitrar...
...Until now the National Recovery Administration refused to budge al*tBanging the code provision for a Minimum of $13 per week to tbe aft industry workers...
...A vacant lot next to tbe factory was used for a mass meeting and for distributing hot coffee and rolls to the pickets...
...with 4,544 for Waldman for Governor in 1932, and 8,696 polled by the Socialist candidate for City Comptroller in 1981...
Vol. 16 • November 1933 • No. 21
