Feinstone Tells of 45 Years of Notable Progress in the U.H.T.
Feinstone Tells of 45 Years of Notable Progress in the U.H.T. 1*11 E handsomely bound SouI venir Journal of the United Hebrew Trades, celebrating the 45th anniversary of that organization,...
...The feature article it by Secretary Feinstone, who takes for his subject, "A Few Pages From the History of the United Hebrew Trades...
...The credo was labor, not race...
...The best instrument of knowledge is a newspaper...
...Abraham I. Shiplaeoff, once secretary of the United Hebrew Trades, contributes a spirndid article called, "A Comrade Speaks His Mind," in which he says: "The cause of Labor is u- difficult one...
...Communist Sheet Fined For Labor Leader Libel LONDON.—After a trial lasting five days before Mr...
...He was sent to a concentration camp for two years and disfranchised for ten years for his valiant opposition to militarism...
...The principal educational center, to be located in Lower | Manhattan, will have six classes as well as a monthly forum on labor problems, and smaller lectures | to deal with literature, psychology i and art...
...Internally there have been many disruptive forces at work, but the chief of these ha...
...ATTEMPT ON LIFE OF MAX BRAUN SAARBRUECKEN...
...Webb was expelled from Parliament fifteen years ago following his arrest and imprisonment for opposing conscription...
...Profiting from the large influx of visitors, a handful of Nazis under the leadership of the storm troop commander, Fritz Leber, entered the meeting house and hid themselves in various places...
...exciting and vivid career...
...My heart is with you, my hopes are with you, and my deepest confidence...
...The last extension of our work is into all national and international activities mere or less connected with the cause of labor or freedom, such as political amnesty, or a foreign industrial movement like the Histadruth in Palestine...
...The suit was based on an article which the Daily Worker published j (luring the London busmen's strike \f 1931, which charged that Bevln had in reality sold out the workers and acted in favor of the bus company, "maneuvering here, retreating a little there, but all til* time consciously working to secure the acceptance of worsened conditions to the men," adding: "More clearly than ever Bevln stands revealed as the wagecutting ally of Lord Ashfleld*," chairman of the London General Omnibus Company, the wages of whose employees were In contxm versy...
...However, as the work expanded, the Socialist organizers found workers of other nationalities in the various shops, and these men were included in the unions as a matter of course...
...The original members of the first committee were representatives of the Socialist Labor Party, the United German Trades, a trade union association connected with the growth of trade unionism in America, and representatives of two Jewish unions: the Hebrew Chorists and the Hebrew Typographical Union...
...8chool Book Store...
...threat has greatly subsided...
...Today the United Hebrew Trades bears its old name as a matter of association, but it is in reality an international body in its membership...
...Capitalism stands on shaky legs today...
...The plan was to wait until after Braun had addressed the meeting and left hall, then to block the doors after him and leave Braun to a lynching by those waiting outside...
...A recent membership meeting of the Saar Social-Democratic Party in Puttlingen near Saarbrllcken was marked as the scene of a treacherous assault against the wellknown Socialist and labor leader, Max Braun...
...The union embraces many thousands of Negro workers as well as more than 5,000 Spanish ¦ s) caking dressmakers...
...This forty-fifth anniversary comes at a crucial time in the history of the ( American economy and the Labor | movement...
...been the agitation of the Communist Party...
...It was not until ten jears later, in 1897, with the ioundinj, of the Jewish Daily Forward, that a Jewish newspaper came into being which was not only to help the cause of labor, but was also to be a powerful factor in mrlding the opinions of thousands of Jewish readers...
...Edited by David Shub and Morris C. Feinstone, Secretary of the U. H. T., the journal should prove of interest even to the most casual reader...
...that constitutionally and traditionally he bad certain inalienable rights, and that the only thing keeping him from these rights was his own ignorance...
...Those who dedicate themselves to it must work together...
...I send you my heartiest encouragement to accept the challenge, and my best congratulations on your successful performance in the past...
...Among the other prominent contributors are: Jacob Panken, Matthew Woll, John P. Frey, A. Phillip Randolph, Abraham Lefkowltz, and Pauline M. Ndkman...
...The response was tremendous...
...I Feinstone continues by pointing, out how the NRA has helped the United Hebrew Trades by not only vitalizing "our old u:i<ons, but | within the past few months we have organized eighteen new trades, some of which were never unionized before...
...After sketching the situation of the immigrant worker in 1887, Feinstone writes: "It was in this setting that the United Hebrew Trades was organized...
...He is a native of Australia, and has been president of the New Zealand Federation of Labor...
...Nor ' will sports be neglected...
...After the United Hebrew Trades launched itself, there have been times, especially within the last ten years, when .the dangers threatening seemed about to destroy the work of half a century...
...Dressmakers to Start Labor College f}NE of the most ambitious edu>^ cational projects of any trade union will soon be in full swing under the direction of the Dressmakers' Union, Local 22, of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union...
...26P'e'" <*¦ also be obtained at the...
...ex-political is elected in new zealand The seat left vacant in the New Zealand parliament by the deat'a of H. E. Holland, long leader of Socialism in that far-away Dominion, has been filled by the election of P. C. ("Paddy") Webb, old-time Socialist and labor leader, by a majority of over two to one...
...This paper was made possible by the contributions of workers in the new unions, and by 1 the Socialist comrades who worked so hard to organize the workers...
...It was recognized very early that the greatest task before them (the founders) was to enlighten the worker on the iiture of his surroundings...
...As the number of victims would have been immensely smaller if the train, which was clashed into, had consisted of metal cars, it is worthy of note that, according to the figures of the International Railway Congress Association itself, only 2% of the rolling stock of the Est Company in 1932 was of metal...
...CHENEY NAMED FOR CONGRESS SEAT Prof...
...The future remains still hidden, but the present is full of possibilities...
...The name chosen, the United Hebrew Trades, was a parallel with the United German Trades...
...Today, though the menace is still present, and viligance must constantly be maintained, th...
...Externally, the chief causes of difficulty have been the various severe crisis through which the country passed since tne jear 1888.1 The latest crisis of 1929 was of < such magnitude that it teemed, together -vith the Communist agitation to be the very end of the trade unions...
...c. Support of sccialistic agitation among the workers...
...French Disaster Was Caused by Wooden Cars PARIS—The office of the International Transport Workers' Federation has in the name of its more than a million peilwaymen members conveyed to the French government its feelings of sympathy at the disaster ol Lagny, but at the same time protested against the arrest of the employees concerned...
...The pamphlet Is published by the Labor and Socialist International...
...Eleven Nazis have been arrested...
...His reelection by a vote of 4,696 to 2,229 for his opponent has been widely bailed by New Zealand labor and it is expected thtt he will at once resume his former important role in parliamentary life...
...I The plans contemplate serious 1 attention to social and cultural 1 activities...
...secretariat to make an international inquiry into security in connection with the economies effected on the railways everywhere...
...Congratulatory telegrams were sent by B. C. Vladeck, manager of the Forward, and many others...
...Not only will the classes be brought to the sections where these workers live, but classes will also be con' ducted where necessary In Spanish and Jewish...
...Our membership at that time was predominantly Jewish...
...30th, tc fill the vacancy created by the death of James S. Parker of Washington County...
...Today is a challenge...
...The first is the extension of our activity through dealing directly with new immigrants...
...Whatever happens, a great change in the life of the working class is inevitable...
...Over &00 delegates attended...
...From the beginning of the century to the present the work of the Urfited Hebrew Trades has fallen into three general classes...
...The causes were both Internal and external...
...The platform adopted at the (organizing) conference covered three points: a. Mutual aid among affiliated unions, b. Organization of new unions and support of existing ones...
...The activities at the central school will be supplemented by classes and discussion groups in i Williamsburg, Brownsville, the Lower East Side, Borough Park, . the Bronx, and Harlem...
...The second c< vers the complex internal adjustments brought about by the increased bulk of unions, by industrialization of trades with accompanying technical problems, and by shifts in population...
...Not the staff, constantly reduced in numbers in the course of the years, while the speed and the intensity of work was increasingly increased, is to blame for the disaster...
...Accordingly, in December 1926, the United Hebrew Trades sent out a call to all its affiliated unions and the internationals, for the purpose of organizing within the movement some means of safeguarding and preserving the unions from destruction...
...To remove this fear required education...
...The need for such a body had been vital for several years and the new body was destined to play the leading part in the work of rehabilitation that followed...
...This new disaster gives added significance to a recent decision of the I.T.F...
...to relieve his fears of America, and make him realise that there was an American labor movement...
...In concluding your forty-fifth I year, you look back xxron a most...
...Coleman B. Cheney of Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, will be the candidate of the Socialist Party in the special election to be held in the 29th Congressional District on Jan...
...1 Both Zimmerman and Julius Hoch' man, manager of the Dressmakers' Joint Board and himself a grad! uate of Brookwood Labor College, consider the educational program the most vital part of the union's present activities...
...I - Katzenberg Honored I On 50th Birthday I A large group of friends and ! representatives of labor, fraternal and Socialist organizations assembled last Sunday in Beethoven Hall to celebrate the fiftieth birthday of Abraham S. Katzenberg, long-time active member of the Jewish Labor and Socialist movement, i A committee representing the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, of which Comrade Katzenberg was an official many years ago, the Reicher Young Men's Society, Branch 149 of the Workmen's Circle, active members of the Forward Association, the Jewish Socialist Verband, and the Workmen's Circle were the sponsors...
...1*11 E handsomely bound SouI venir Journal of the United Hebrew Trades, celebrating the 45th anniversary of that organization, which has just made its appearance, is a real contribution to the movement...
...The 29th District Includes part of Rensselaer County and the counties af Saratoga, Warren and Washington...
...The French railway unions affiliated to the I.T.F...
...have quite recently repeatedly endeavored to induce the railway companies to improve ,the security and organization of the service...
...i In conclusion, Feinstone says: "The past forty-five years mark a tremendous change in the standing i of the immigrant unions...
...The United Hebrew Trades backed up its assertion of comradeship by waging war upon the Communists, who in their anxiety to impose their own theories upon the world, were attempting to wipe out Socialism...
...However, the late years of our life have not been plain sailing...
...During his exile from politics, however, he never ceased his labor activity...
...Justice- Horridge, a special jury awarded a verdict of ?7,000 damages (about $36,000 at the current rate of exchange) to Ernest Bevin, general secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union, in his suit for libel against the Utopia Press, publisher of the Daily Worker, a Communist paper...
...Copies may be obtained at 80 Swiss centimes (about six cents) each from the Secretariat of the L.S.I., Ottlkerstrasse 24, Zurich «, SwittJrtand, Md from all booksellers...
...Plans approved I by the union's executive board and announced by Charles S. Zimmerman, manager of the r.nion, call for the setting up of seven sections of the Dressmakers' Labor College in different parts of New York...
...The creation of the educational department has been hastened by 1 the growth of the union from a . membership of 6,000 to 27,000...
...The International and the German Catastrophe "After the German Catastrophe" Is the title of a pamphlet containing the full text of the speech made by Otto Bauer at the recent International Conference of the Labor and Socialist International In Paris, In which he summed up the common opinion of the conference on the tasks of the International Labor Movement In the (ght against Fascism...
...Entertainment was provided by Miss Beatrice Katzenber/, Haughter of the guest of "lonor, who rendered several songs in Jewish and English, and by H. Schllsser's orchestra...
...Toastmaster Abe Hershkowlts introduced the speakers, who Included Harry Rogoff of the Forward, A. Miller of the Joint Board of the Amalgamated, N. Chanin of the Jewish Socialist Verband, Henry Frucbter of the Socialist Party, B. Frichwasser of the Forward Association, Comrado Connor of the Medical Department of the Workmen's Circle, Rabbi Shore, Bernard Ostrelch of the Reicher Young Men's Society, I. Ksigel of Branch 148 of the Workmen's Circle, M. J. Stern of Branch 408 of the Workmen's Circle...
...The conspiracy became known after the Nazis had publicly boasted of their intention to kill Braun...
...Education meant the dissemination of knowledge...
...From' small weak bodies af aliens, we have grown to a strong body representing over a quarter of a mil-1 lion workers, in which each individual member is affiliated with the American Federation of Labor...
...He insisted that before men were forced into military service wealth should be conscripted, and together with ther labor members he stumped the country for his ideas...
...The texts f the conference decisions, particulars of the voting, and lists of the delegates and speakers are also included...
...Before the month is out, the Dressmakers' Labor College expects to have its college band, its ' college chorus, and its dramatic | society, Zimmerman said...
...The editor of the first copy was the indefatigable Abraham Cahan, still its editor after 35 years of growing influence...
Vol. 17 • January 1934 • No. 2
