Pocketbook Workers Win Fight Against "Reorganization"; Other New York Unions Carrying On
Pocketbook Workers Win Fight Against "Reorganization"; Other New York Unions Carrying On fjr * VOt* of 1103 to 163 the ^atbenaip of the Pocketbook ftjakert* Union voted to accept the mpairt...
...Strikes Sweep Berks County READING, Pa.—A strike wave is sweeping this district...
...Gloria Waldron, a YPSL, and Eugene Henschel, a party organizer, were arrested for "inciting to riot" because, (according to police) they did not have signB like the rest of the pickets...
...About 1,000 barbers are employed In 850 shops in the district and the union plans to tie them all up...
...The New York City labor committee at 7 East 15th Street is also anxious to obtain material of this sort in order to help it function more vigorously locally...
...Members of the Y.P.S.L...
...He said the demand for the 40hour week during the months of February, March, June, July, August and September is only a "thin disguise" for overtime work, which the industry now sul fers...
...Otto Jirokowic, business agent of the Machinists' Union, snd J. F. Frledrick, recording secretary of the Federated Trades Council, all Socialists...
...slip-stitchers, $27.50...
...William Karlin, legal adviser of the union...
...This is equivalent to a $10 tax per member, to be pait in five weekly installments...
...4) No readjustment sf the working force during the life ef the agreement...
...On the same dsy an agreement with the Paul Hendel concern on South Third Street provides for a temporary 9-hour day on a 10-hour pay basis, plus a 10 per cent wage increase and full recognition of the Hatters' Union...
...Under terms of settlement, hours are reduced from 54 to 48 and wages increased from as low as $4 per week to minimums ranging from $12 to $16...
...The membership agreed to yield la two points—the unemployment fend and minimum scale for general helpers and packers...
...here are answering calls for aid from the Amalgamated Clothing Workers', Bakers', International Ladies Garment Workers' and Metal Trades' Council...
...The strike is the beginning of a organization campaign against •weatshop conditions and low JUes...
...Wage increases are necessary, therefore, to sustain fur workers for a 52-week period and to combat rising living costs...
...Skilled workers will get wage increases renging up to 33!4 per cent...
...mimeographed hundreds of posters which the newsies posted, declaring: "All Pittsburgh Newsies on Strike...
...Individuals and organizations who have promised aid financially ind foodstuffs will please rememlier that the union is depending upon them to carry on this work...
...According to Charles Goldman, secretary treasurer of the union, this settlement will give greater impetus to the organization drive against out-of-town Sweatshops, many of which have left the city in the last two years...
...An all-time high point in exhibition of labor strength was reached when 25,000 worker' marched in a labor unity pageant through the streets of Reading to the city ball park where they w%re addressed by George M. Rhodes, youthful president of the Federated Trades Council, former Mayor Henry J. Stump, many years president of the council, Jim Maurer and Emll Rieve...
...Strike headquarten are In the Central Opora House, 205 East 07th Street...
...The union is determined to continue the strike against the independent manufacterers, many considered the largest Is the industry...
...The union was successful 'n striking the Good Value Cap Co...
...The fund derived will serve at a war chest to finance the union's campaign for improved working conditions under the code...
...The proposed union code calls for the establishment of an unemployment insurance fund...
...Louis ST...
...1 W.U., has started a vigorous organization drive to unionize the entire industry...
...Over 20,000 men and women are on strike in Berks county in hosiery, shirt factories, hatters, rope makers, men's clothing, shoe and leather, silk mills, laundries, pretzel bakeries, cotton mills, and taxi cabs...
...Roosevelt'Asked Pay Increase, Newspapers Cut Pay 26...
...Neckwear Workers Meet AN overflow meeting of men's neckwear workers, meeting Tuesday night at Beethoven Hall voted unanimously to submit a code for 10,000 workers calling for a 30hour week, 25 and 35 per cent increases in present wage scales and other substantial improvements in working conditions...
...Strikes in Newark and in other tenters which have been going on for two weeks will continue with greater vigor...
...6) Better grievance adjustment machinery, whereby the grievances of the workers will be heard within 48 hours iictead of six weeks, the previous period...
...The great Berkshire mills, largest in the United States, having resisted the attacks of the union successfully for 20 years, has fallen like the walls of Jericho, their 8,000 workers streaming out en strike almost to the last nun...
...boxers, $17.50, and trimmers, $17.50...
...The (6 per cent) re-orgenisstion clause used against the attire workers by the employers is eliminated...
...Reports have bean coming in to the national headquarters at Chicago and to The New Leader in New York from widely scattered areas telling especially of the advance of unionism in centers where the Socialist Party has for years waged an unbroken campaign for working class emancipation...
...Metal Workers Stirring MILWAUKEE.—Metal workers here staged a successful rebellion sgsinst company unionism in the Falk Machinery Mfg...
...In case of a fsrtlit' reduction of hours in acksidance with the Industrial Code, at further reduction of wages shall pear...
...The scales which will be demanded include cutters, $48...
...Don't.Buy...
...strict union supervision of employers' books to prevent farming out to substandard contractors, and cash security in $600 and $1,000 amounts from manufacturers who ' have violated agreements in the past, ft also demands that all pressing, turning and slip-stitching must be done on the "inside" premises of the shop...
...Fur Union Asks 30-Hour Week In Code DEJECTING the code proposed by organized manufacturers as completely inadequate for the fur industry, the International Fur Workers' Union and the New York Furriers' Joint Council of the American Federation of Labor have announced they will submit a substitute code for the industry which does an annual business conservatively estimated at $400,000,000...
...In this and other columns, we are printing reports of tuch encouraging activities...
...Socialist Party members desiring to do industrial work should inform national office of their names, addresses and experience for the purposes of the Labor Committee when requests for aid are made by labor unions...
...The agreement provides, (1) 40-hour week after September 1st instead af the 44-hour week, as worked before the strike...
...finishers, $27.50...
...Forward also information as to pressing local industrial sore spots, sweatshops, long hours, and desire of workers for organization...
...Esrlier la the evening the furriers present listened intently to an examination of the possible dangers and benefits to furriers under the Industrial Recovery Act...
...Arrests in St...
...Within a week, organisers will be sent to Pennsylvania and New Jersey to continue the drive against sweatshops in these states...
...In Milwaukee, Reading and New York, as well as in other districts, Socialists are in the forefront of labor's battlee, carrying on the tradition of Socialist participation in the industrial fight...
...The terms of settlement gives full union recognition and an 8-hour working day with 10-hour pay...
...LOUIS.-The Socialist Party and the YPSL, which have been aiding the needle trades workers by picketing and mass meetings, have undertaken to care for the relief of 120 workers on strike against the Jackes-Evans Metalcrafts ai...
...Other New York Unions Carrying On fjr * VOt* of 1103 to 163 the ^atbenaip of the Pocketbook ftjakert* Union voted to accept the mpairt agreement between the anion nnd the Industrial Council, the employers' organization...
...Hat Workers Win Union Shop In what was described by Hugh Glover, organizer for the United Hatters of North America, as "a clear-cut victory for organization," 180 striking employees of the Mohn hat factory have voted to return to work on Monday...
...Corp., leading industrial interest...
...In Chicago, within a ttone't throw of national headquarters, Cook County Socialists are on the fighting picket line of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, which hat ttruck the sweatshops of the La Mode Dress Co...
...The fur industry is highly seasonal, and workers are fortunate if they obtain 30 week's employment a year...
...J SO Barbers on Strike More than 860 barbers In the area between Thirty-fourth Street and Ninety-sixth Street east of Fifth Avenue went on strike in response to a call front the Journeymen Barbers International Union Local 000...
...Dissatisfied with the 35-hour and 40-hour week, the latter for the busy seasons, proposed by the Associated Fur Coat and Trimming Manufacturers,' Inc., the unions will demand a flat 30-hour week, Peter Lucchi, president of the International Union, and Samuel Shore, manager of the New York union, say...
...Help Ut Winl" Milt Weinberg and Clay Lehman rallied and spoke to the newsies after the owner of an empty building had reconsidered hlj decision to let them meet...
...The union sent a telegram to the Department of Labor protesting 1 against the threatened removal of I a non-union plant, the Climax ' Neckwear Co., from Perkasie, Pa., ! to Bayonne, N. J., in order to evade 1 the effect of union activity under 1 the recovery act...
...Already the union has control of 52 shops, and it is I demanding under the terms of the so-called recovery act, a 35-hour i work week, a dollar per hour mini- j mum wage, $44 weekly for cutters, full pay for legal holidays, no hiring and firing rights and no learners, equal division of work in slack times, full union control and sanitary conditions...
...operators, $40...
...A meeting of active union fur workers, who crowded headquarters at 28 West 31s Street to werftowing Tucscay night, voted unanimously amid the greatest possible enthusiasm to tax themselves a day's pay on behalf of the union...
...Membcri present testified that the Communist opposition union has been approaching bosses with an offer to supply labor at half the rates provided for by the collective AFoL agreement, In an effort to demoralize the bona fide anion membership...
...Cleveland Helping CLEVELAND...
...Distribution of leaflets, help to picket lines and furnishing speakers are all being engaged in...
...label sewers, $27.50...
...M. Feinstone, of the United Hebrew Trades, Bruno Wagner, president of Painters Union Locsl 40, and Glralemo Valente, head of the Italian Socialist Federation...
...An additional stipulation provides for the reinstatement ef employes discharged for union activities prior to the strike...
...The union asked ' for governmental intervention...
...Iron Workers to Meet A general mass meeting of all inside iron and bronze workers in Greater New York will be held Tuesday evening, August 8, at the headquarters of the union, 7 East 15th St Among the speakers will be William H. Pope, vice-president of the International Association of Bridge, Structural and Ornamental Iron Workers (AFoL) with which the local union has just become affiliated...
...turners, $27.60...
...MPs 100 per cent...
...No papers were on the streets but the strikers had no organization, war chest or experience...
...A long argument ensued on the merits of the strike, with the result that the police abandoned the pinch...
...Jacob Panken, counsel for the union, warned that employers are ! already attempting to take advantage of the rehabilitation act...
...sd the New Brunswick Csp Co...
...About 11,000 hosiery workers are on strike In the county...
...Not only is this necessary for those on strike, but the kitchen is used to feed the majority of the MO unemployed members . Capmakers on Strike A general strike in the cap manufacturing industry ordered by the Cloth Hat anJ Cap Makers Union, Went into effect Tuesday morning with 1,500 answering the call in ¦asps controlled by the u n i o r. Union officials predict that in a week close to 2,600 workers will ¦Ifn up...
...and the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union, at well at a dozen other urilont, like the pocketbook makers, the neckwear workers and the bakers, to carry on both preliminary propaganda and strike activities...
...Louis Fuchs, manager of the ! union, announced a general strike | of Philadelphia neckwear workers I to eliminate sweatshop conditions...
...He promised intensive union activity in Worcester and other ! non-union centers, as well as in Greater New York against slum working conditions...
...Pittsburgh Yipsels Help PITTSBURGH.—When newsboys were cut 25% by Pittsburgh daily papers, they struck...
...pressors, $40...
...Rag pickers and hardware workers are in process of organisation and new wage cuts in the steel mills make organization the order of the Jay at the Reading Steel Casting Co...
...The kitchen organized by the anion with the aid of the Labor Committee of the Socialist Party, Socialist Consumers' League, Socialist Women's Committee and Women of the Workmen's Circle will continue to feed the 60 per tent of the membership still on strike...
...The Misting was held at Webster HaU •s Tuesday afternoon and the agreement wss reported by A. Stain, msnager of the union...
...The strike was called four weeks ! ago, after the union was locked out by the Industrial Council, which demanded an open shop, reduced wages, piece work and further classification of the workers, which would tend to lower the best paid .wages...
...elimination of non-union, sweatshop competition from Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Connecticut and New Jersey...
...There wss s rush of scores present to make their first payment at the dues window st the close of the meeting...
...The strike was complete and effective...
...Samuel Shore, manager of the union, led the discussion...
...Rope Strikers Win Another labor struggle ended in a victory for Reading workers when the Jackson Rope Walk employes voted to return to work under an agreement which reduces hours, raises wages and grants union recognition...
...The unions will also demand a $10 weekly wage increase for each craft above present union levels which the employers seek to maintain...
...The agreements affects 40 per cent of the membership...
...The hosiery workers' drive to unionize the open shops of Berks County has met with sweeping tuccets...
...The Falk company called for elections for a company union, but the Metal Trades Council had been busy and the results of the election showed that the Falk workers had overwhelmingly elected as their representatives J. J. Handley, secretary treasurer of the Wisconsin Federation of Labor...
...Max Karaslck, president of the local, predicts that st least 1,500 inside iron and brotife workers will be enrolled by September 13, To Socialist Subdivision Socialist locals and branches and YPSL circles are requested by the National Office to inform the national labor committee, Leo Krzycki, chairman, at national headquarters of any activity of an industrial nature in which they participate, sending samples of literature, song sheets, publicity, etc...
...It demands extermination of home work in slum tenements...
...machine tackers, $27.50...
...Socialists and Yipsels Aiding Organisation Drive of Labor Throughout the Country The intensive drive being carried an by labor today for organisation of skilled and, unskilled workers— for details see adjoining columns— means at the same time redoubled efforta by Socialists all over the country in the unionisation campaigns...
...Though the code submitted ay the employers calls for a 86¦onr work week and a minimum •* of wages, the union insists ?T thi' °« inserted In the agree****• Demands are $1 per hour ¦mlmum for operators, blockers ted cutters...
...irfKr8* montn« ¦«* the nnlon "¦"•da strike and was successful ¦raising the standards of the 2»wm, who had worked for wages g» *«'«ged between $2.50 and *wo Per week...
...5) A modification of the contracting system, which tends further to eliminate {as contracting evil...
...He pointed out that certain operation in Philadelphia pay three cents each in contrast to 34 cents | in New York for the same operation...
...Police dispersed the meeting and came to arrest the Yipsels in question...
...Button Workers Push Drive The Button and Novelty Workers Union Local 132, of the I.L.G...
...Shore said that the 35-hour and 40-hour week will not sufficiently take up the slack in employment now prevalent among the 10,000 furriers in Greater New York...
...In New York City, party and YPSL members are aiding both the ILGWU...
...The A. F. of L. union, which represents the bulk of the furriers, throughout the United States, will also demand that the code abolish all overtime, eliminate the contractor-evil, eliminate apprentices, extend the equal division of work period from three months to six months a year and establish an adequate unemployment insurance fund...
...The Socialist Party and the Y.P.S.L...
Vol. 16 • July 1933 • No. 5
