As the Paper Goes to Press: Late labor Developments
As the Paper Goes to Press: Late Labor Developments fsj, IN SAN FRANCISCO, the dock workers are returning, but not irfthout hesitation and renewals of local walkouts as the shipping bosses show...
...Membership Raps Malpractices of Union Officials A meeting of the membership of the retail grocery clerks union Tuesday night followed with absoibed interest the report of the investigating committee appointed some time ago to probe charges against officials of the union...
...That's what the more politic mayor is doing...
...The joint labor com¦ niittee' of the heavy construction and railroad workers' unions postponed the taking of a strike vote for a few days...
...Sixty-eight strikers are under arrest, with more coming...
...and Murray Baron, manager of the suit case workers' union...
...Knit Goods and Shipping Clerk Strikes Voted Over 18,000 knit goods worker...
...The new declaration of principles calls for support by the I.W.A...
...When the walkout takes place, thousands of shipping clerks, order clerks, packers, errand boys and other workers recently organised in the Ladies' Garment Shipping Clerks' Union will also go out, for the first time...
...Jerry Johnson, Farmington...
...George E. Brown, international president of the alliance, presided at the meeting, and Vice-President Holmden made the report...
...but scab work isn't, being shipped from factories that look like outhouses...
...When the smoke cleared away, it was ievealed that the" committee hud found three men guilty of malpractices and hud .recommended that Sam Heller, Willie Hochman and Charles Weinberg be nut permitted to hold office or speak at union meetings for a term of years...
...LABOR FIGHTS ORYANS RIFLEMEN pOI.ICE COMMISSIONER O'RYAN, who has been so anxious to make a really efficient MILITARY organization out of the police force, has been facing the fire of labor on a double front...
...IN CHICAGO, 400 butchers went on strike for seniority rights and also in sympathy with the stock handlers' union, which has tied up the world's biggest live sfcrck market...
...The Mayor's withdrawal order came just in time—on the eve of the special meeting called by the Central Trades and Labor Council to consider action against the plan...
...The administration of Sherman and his henchman, which paralleled his predecessor's...
...International Takes Control Of Movie Local IkJIKKTING at the Central Opera House at midnight Tuesday, the members of Local 306, Moving Picture Operators' Union, heard from the representatives of the International union a report of a recently concluded investigation...
...It will be recalled tbjat Kaplan was forced out following attacks upon him by Norman Thomas and the labor committee of the Socialist Party...
...Everybody is wondering what General Johnson, due to speak on the wonders of the NRA at the fair, will do in the next day or so...
...W" IN MINNEAPOLIS, Farmer-Labor Governor Olsen's declaration of Imartial law—ostensibly against capital and labor alike—reaped a natural harvest in the death of two strikers, the raiding of strike head|quarters and the arrest of strike leaders...
...After many of the members had gone home, the report was resubmitted and the individual penalties levoted upon and altered...
...Seventeen shops with 450 workers will be affected, i IN WASHINGTON...
...First his proposal to make union representatives register and obtain identification cards met such a withering barrage from the workers' organizations that Mayor LaGuardid was finally compelled to drop the whole idea...
...With one hundred delegates present, representing approximately 89,000 unemployed and part-time workers in 47 counties, a tremendous drive was launched for the establishment of real relief standards...
...The delegates envisaged a "clear trend toward a peculiar American brand of fascism"* or a new and more devastating world war in the Vinson bill, its appropriation of a billion dollars for battleships, and its gift of 75,000 rifles to the American Legion...
...The program calls for mass demonstrations and strikes where necessary on work relief projects by this rapidly growing organization, which now boasts a chartered and affiliated strength of more than 138 groups...
...and the United Textile Workers...
...Twelve thousand workers are out...
...with the workers holding the tarred end of thje bird...
...Heller, whose punishment was five yean without office and two years' abstention from meetings, wob allowed to attend meetings...
...Harry Sherman,' czaristic successor to Czar Kaplan, had resigned, together with all the other officers of the local...
...Now the military gentleman's previously announced formation of a Police Rifle Regiment to quell riots—usually another name for labor activity in strikes or for a radical demonstration—has encountered severe bombardment from the workers of the city...
...and no union delegate complied with O'Ryan's order, either before or after he made it voluntary...
...The AAA was attacked for its "program of disguised subsidies to large banks, corporations, loan and mortgage companies, for its ruthless policy of large-scale destruction of food and crops," and for its failure to help the working farmer...
...See Gertrude Weil Klein's article...
...As a result, the penalty put on Weisberg—not to accept office for two years and not to appear at union meetings for one year—was removed...
...Phillip Kapp is secretary of the dinner committee and Lulgi An tonini chairman...
...IN ALABAMA, a number of attempts are being made to settle the general walkout of cotton mill operatives, now in its third week...
...James D. Graham, president of the Montana State Federation of Labor...
...A general council of the Alabama State Textile Council is being called...
...The new state executive board is composed of militant and active leaders of the struggles of the Illinois unemployed...
...IN WARREN, OHIO, 500 strikers returned to work at the sheet mills of the Republic Steel Corporation under a tentative agreement with the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers...
...The report backed up to the hilt the charges made by the Progressive Group Committee and printed from time to time in these columns...
...I wish I could print Louis Yagoda's graphic and inspiring story of the York situation...
...Simon Trojar, Chicago...
...In the case of Hochman, for whom the same punishment had been voted, the provision forbidding his attendance at meetings was dropped...
...Demanding the abolition of the capitalist system, the convention unanimously called for the establishment of the cooperative commonwealth, and urged its members to support the candidates of working class parties pledged to end the private profit system...
...Party members and Yipsels have been of considerable help...
...Hochman will be a delegate from the l.L.G.W.U...
...Coming as the climax of eight months' intense organizational efforts, the convention clearly demonstrates the advancing march of America's unemployed...
...Commissioner O'Ryan had better stop, look and listen, with his *»r to the ground and his eye on the horizon all at the same time...
...Franz Daniel, of the A.C.W.A...
...ON NATIONAL LABOR COMMITTEE CHICAGO...
...Illinois Jobless Convention Pushes Fighting Program By Paul Rasmussen STAUNTON, III...
...In the case of the identification cards, the opposition came from as widely separated labor spokesmen as Joseph P. Ryan, chairman of the Central Trade* and Labor Council, and Louis Waldman and Norman Thomas, of the Socialist Party...
...As the Paper Goes to Press: Late Labor Developments fsj, IN SAN FRANCISCO, the dock workers are returning, but not irfthout hesitation and renewals of local walkouts as the shipping bosses show a desire to hedge on the arbitration agreement...
...At a meeting of delegates from seven youth organizations, including the Y.P.S.L., the Student L.I.D., the Young Circle Lengue, and Rebel Arts, as well as others outside the movement, a strike committee and a finance committee wore elected to aid In organization and strike work, Do two things, l.uiI.I the Socialist Party and get subs for The New Leader to help build it...
...Jack Altman, secretary of the Labor Committee of Local New York, has been named to the party's National Labor Committee...
...Paul Rasmussen, Springfield...
...The other members are LeoKrzycki, of the A.C.W.A„ chairman...
...Archie Crab tree, Roodhouse...
...ing vote just polled for a general strike in the knit goods Industry...
...The Socialist League in the union, aided by the Labor Committee, had pushed the charges, which included financial malpractices...
...Ralph Cox, Taylorville...
...Differences between the kosher poultry dealers and the chicken killers' union are being settled...
...The semi-military training of hundreds of thousands of American youngsters in the VX'VC camps was vigorously protested, and a special resolution condemned the Federal Homestead Subsistence Act for its open endorsement of scabbing on both farmer and industrial worker...
...In recent months, the progressives were also instrumental in carrying on a vigorous organization and unionization campaign among movie theatre...
...The convention vigorously condemned the failure of the Roosevelt administration to supply "even the most meager standards of subsistence relief or to supply u permanent solution for our troubles...
...The progressives urged the members to cooperate with the International toward the rehabilitation of the union instead of resorting to court action, as Sherman's followers had threatened...
...Kd Morgan of Staunton, chairman...
...THE EDITOR COMMENTS UNION IDENTIFICATION CARDS "OUT...
...But the report also showed that one objective of the committee had been attained...
...Now you got the Blue Eagle, now you haven't...
...The executive board at once appointed six field organizers who will carry the militant and common sense program of the I.W.A...
...Meeting in what is believed to be one of the most significant conventions in the history of mid-weKt labor, the Illinois Workers' Alliance held its first annual convention here...
...R. M. Hendrickson, Sandoval...
...One hundred bus drivers of the State Island Coach Company went back to work under an arbitration agreement...
...In Bridgeport, Ala., the sheriff asked the Governor for troops in a stove foundry strike...
...The vote for a general strike followed the refusal by the three bosses' organizations to accede to the demand of the unions for wage increases, reduction in hours and reclassification of workers...
...Representatives of union after union protested...
...IN LYNN, MASS., a learned judge fined three former officials of the National Shoe Workers' Union (now merged into the United Shoe and Leather Workers' Union) $1,300 for contempt of court in connection with strike demonstrations in February, 1933...
...14 4 bon voyage dinner will be tendered to Julius Hochman, general manager of the New York JJoint Board, Dress and Waistmakers' Union, on Tuesday, Aug...
...Reorganization is under way...
...On the immediate program of relief demand* are cash relief, work for all at union wages, unemployment insurance and representation of I.W.A...
...Police are arresting Caldwell pickets who look as though they're going to holler "scab...
...IN YORK, PA., 40 girl workers—members of the Amalgamated— on strike against a shirt factory were attacked and gassed by the police when they tried to stop a scab truck...
...of bonu fide labor and farmer unions and for international solidarity of all workers in their common struggle for emancipation...
...Spokesmen fi>f 'the negligible Communist union distributed leaflets outside the polling places urging support of the strike but attacking the unions which must conduit It...
...When first put to vote, the complete report was accepted without change...
...The contempt persists, only it's worse...
...The battle was being won when all kinds of political tricks were resorted to by the administration...
...IN THE GREAT LAKES AREA, five local unions have voted to end the strike of dredge and tow tugmen...
...will be affected by the overwhelm...
...Striking cigaimakers are clashing with deputy sheriffs doing the bosses' dirty work...
...Then the International Alliance stepped in and took over the local's affairs...
...members on all relief boards...
...into scores of new and unorganized communities...
...IN PHILADELPHIA, the Suitcase, Bag .and Portfolio Makers' Union will call a general strike at the expiration of agreements to enforce union demands of the 35-hour week n!nd $30 minimum for mechanics...
...But in Buffalo, firemen re-fused to return despite orders from the International through President Ryan, who wanted the strike ended so that negotiations with the employers could start...
...Powers Hapgood, organizer for a number of unions and veteran miners' union organizer, secretary...
...Baltimore and Knoxville, Tenn., NRA officials are still shadow-boxing with the Harriman hosiery owners and- the Greif clothing concern...
...It was revealed that assets of over a million' dollars had been dissipated during the past year, and that the union had been losing ground steadily...
...14, at 0:80, at Webster Hall, prior to his leaving for Europe to attend the congress of the International Clothing Workers' Federation...
...Glen Bullock, Kewanee...
...BON VOYAGE DINNER TO JULIUS HOCHMAN AUG...
...Katherine De Rone, fighting leader of southern Illinois coal miners' wives, was elected, ns were Oscar Sturm of Staunton, secretary...
...Labor Is on guard...
...Harold Kennedy, Streator, and Jim Shipley of <'arlinville...
...Returns have been announced from Manhattan, Brooklyn, Newark and Union City, N. J., ehops, where balloting went on under the auspices of the Knit Goods Joint Council of the l.L.G.W.U...
...IN NEW YORK, the International Seamen's Union is considering railing a strike of seamen on American ships operating from Atlantic, . Pacific and Gulf ports...
...In the case of the redoubtable rifle brigade, attacks have been made by Socialists and by conservative unionists—for instance, the suit case makers' union and by a joint labor committee representing 21 . local heavy construction and railroad work unions, which are plan¦ting a v'neral strike on all PWA construction work...
...Was also under fire by the labor committee, which seconded the efforts of the union's own Progressive Group Committee to make the \inion a clean, progressive, fighting workers' organization...
Vol. 17 • August 1934 • No. 31
