Socialist Lawyers Win Right to Picket Desoite Injunction
Socialist Lawyers Win Right To Picket Despite Injunction JN two recent cases successfully * contested by the Socialist Lawyers' Association, the right of members of the Young...
...They marched up and .down carrying placards inscribed "This Store Sells Non-Union Provisions...
...On three different occasions the case was adjourned for the purpose of supplying him with memoranda of law, so that he "could look further into the question...
...CO., 246 Eldridge Street, City MAJESTIC PROV...
...90 Ea.t 3rd Street he following firms are still on strike: STAHL-MEYER, Third Ave...
...The adjournment was forced by the refusal of the pro-Walinsky forces to allow the meeting to continue, since, in view of the change of sentiment among the membership, they realized that defeat stared them in the face and that their discredited leader would be compelled to withdraw...
...the pickets are public enemies, and the Socialist organizers who are helping in the strike are meant to be slugged and arrested and then charged with felonious assault and "assault with intent to kill" because they get in the way of the deputies' clubs...
...Although these conditions have not been fully lived up to, the employers nevertheless have declared a lockout unless the union agrees to their demands of an eight dollar wage for an eighthour-day...
...At a conference called by the NKA Regional Labor Board, the employers argued that due to the severe competition of the unorganized shops, their survival demands a reduction lor labor expenses...
...Other vitally important issues include that of discrimination by employers against union activity of Brotherhood painters...
...City PREMIER PROV...
...CO., 209 Lewi...
...employees, agents and attorneys of the local and of Local...
...Street, City TILP, RUDOLF, 811 Ea.t 180th Street, City YORKVILLE PACKING HOUSE, 15 30 Second Ave., City PLYMOUTH ROCK PROV...
...and Fir.t Ave., N. Y. City FINK <Y SONS, Newark, N. J. Party Orqanhtn Slugged., Arrested...
...1711 Second Avenue M. HUBER, 1758 Second Avenue BAUMAN BROS...
...Finally, on July HO, the magistrate held that the provisions of the injunction order must he "strictly construed," and since the defendants were not named therein or acting under the control of the defendants in the Supreme Court action, they could not he held for criminal contempt...
...and Third Ave...
...CO., 15 Rivington Street, City ROTHMANN, A., 159 Ea.t 4th Street, City METROPOLITAN PROV., 15 Rivington Street, City PORK AND PRODUCTS MANUFACTURERS ERNST & SON...
...Due to the promise of Ben Golden, chairman of the Regional Labor Board, that he will endeavor to have an early inclusion of the union scale and conditions in the Area Code Agreement, the master painters may withdraw their lockout and again employ union painters under the conditions prior to the strike...
...These recent cases are only a few of those handled by the association in its work of handling the legal end of labor's struggles...
...Inc., 33rd St...
...BUTCHER UNION NO...
...1592 Second Avenue WM...
...Notorious Court Order Reversed The Appellate Division, Brooklyn, has handed down a decision of importance to organized labor in the case of the Laundry Drivers' Union against the Kleen Laundry Service, Inc., a Brooklyn laundry...
...City MAKOVSKY PROV...
...City PAULUS, JOHN...
...Park Avenue, City FISCHER & CO., 2291 Second Avenue, City KAST, HENRY...
...174 informs the public that the following stores are strictly union and deserve the full support of the buying public: STRICTLY KOSHER PROVISION HOUSES BRONX NATIONAL, 13 53 Bo.ton Road, City EUROPEAN PROVISION CO., 130 Attorney Street, City CELL1S, ISAAC, 3 7 E..ex Street, City u GITLIN'S KOSHER PROV...
...74 and 112 Eait 4th Street LIBERTY PROV...
...Buy Only Union Products...
...The sheriff owns the law and the land companies own the sheriff...
...Jerry Raymond, another parly organizer, and at least thirteen strikers...
...Meanwhile the district council is arranging huge demonstrations from the nine strike halls ami is vigorously protesting police attempts to disperse the parades...
...SCHIERLITZ, 1825 Second Avenue "WHOLESALE HAM CONCERNS HOLSCHUH, WM., 686 Ea.t 134th Street, Bronx FISCHER Ac CO...
...Ever since Walinsky's return to the union which he had betrayed, a united front of his opponents, including the Socialist League, has been functioning...
...660 Morri...
...227 Greenwich Street, City TILP...
...The strikers are nothing but dirt...
...In Onion Strike TOLEDO, Ohio.—Ohio is still in the United States and the town of McGuffy is still in Ohio...
...A judgment in favor of the firm was handed down last April by Justice Leander B. Faber...
...The same question will be raised in the case of Henry Fruchter, Morris Salkind, Albert Herling, William Farrell, Harold Luxeilberg and Irving Mitchell, charged with violating the injunction granted against Local 505 of the Bakers' Union by notorious Justice Faber...
...Pass it on to your neighbor...
...The contract with the Kleen laundry was one of a number obtained by the union in a drive launched towards the close of last year to organize drivers throughout the city...
...224 Ea.t 6th Street...
...The harvest must be blocked, and help is needed at once...
...RUDOLF, 811 Ea.t 180th Street, City FRANKFURTER COMPANIES ELLA'S FRANKFURTER, 452 Ea.t 174th Street OLYMPIA FRANKFURTER, 339 Ea.t I 15th Street STAR FRANKFURTER...
...But the painters and decorators belonging to the Brotherhood are showing them up instead...
...His argument was sustained, the complaint was dismissed and the defendants discharged...
...Among those slugged and imprisoned are Karl Pauli, state organizer of the Socialist Party...
...New York Brooklyn Shop, Wyckoff Avenue, Brooklyn HYGRADE FOOD PROD...
...CO., 151 East 4th Street FRANK FIOROR...
...they thought this was a good time for a showdown...
...CO., 167th St...
...227 Greenwich Street, City MAUTHE BROS., 57 7 Tenth Avenue, City MERKEL, AUGUST, 1958 Am.terdam Avenue, City MYRTLE, JOE, 1508 Second Avenue...
...Abraham...
...Their pickets are thronging the streets and all painting work has ceased...
...Four days later, on July ]/>, RIsie Auerbach and Mildred Lietzin, two more Yipsels, were peacefully picketing in front of the same store with the same signs, when they were also arrested and charged with "criminal contempt...
...886 Ea.t 169th...
...The governor and the attorney-general (one a Republican, one a Democrat) murmur sympathy and refuse to interfere...
...Bui the strikers are solid, and public opinion is veering in their direction...
...Officers, members...
...With the hall of the Stuyvesant High School in continuous uproar— what with the shouts and chants of the pro- and anti-Walinsky adherents...
...2291 Second Avenue, City HUGO t\ WIEBKE, 47 7 Willi...
...the strike calf reads...
...The main issue involved is that of stabilizing the painting industry by haiving incorporated in the New York City Regional Painting Code the nine dollar wage for a sevenhour-day...
...134 Rivington Street, City HEBREW NATIONAL, 155 Ea.t Broadway, City LEBANON KOSHER PROV., 222 Eait 6th Street, City VOLK & SUSSMAN, 88 Attorney Street, City ZION NATIONAL, 486 Au.tin Place, Bronx NATIONAL KOSHER MEAT CORP., 1560 Boone Avenue KOSHER STYLE ANDERSON & TARLOW, 482 Austin Place, Bronx CROTONA PROV...
...and 127th Street...
...Avenue, Bronx KAST, HENRY...
...CO., 1353 Bo.ton Road, Bronx GREENEBAUM <V CO., 328 Ea.t 103rd Street, City MANHATTAN PROV...
...Painters in General Strike To Maintain Union Conditions By Isidor Polsteln pACF.D with the ultimatum of * master painters that they Would Impose a dollar cut in dajly wages and an hour increase in the workday, between ten and twelve thousands painters have gone out in a general strike to preserve union conditions and a chance to live a decent life...
...The reversal of union sentiment resulted from their activity, plus the resentment of the members at, the surrender of union demands hi Walinsky...
...The union, represented by Coldberg and Solomon, appealed from the Faber decision to the Appellate Division, which reversed Faber...
...174, and all other persons acting under their control, were restrained from doing certain acts in carrying out the present strike...
...The union representatives, after showing the need for shorter hours and a living, sought to have the union scale incorporated in the code...
...Young People's Socialist League...
...with the administration officials, who had first opposed Walinsky and then had been instrumental in foisting him upon the union, again turning against their "adviser"— the meeting was marked by fisticuffs and adjourned finally without any action being taken...
...Street...
...Three memos were prepared...
...Shortly after the contract was signed, the employer disavowed it...
...This right was maintained by the vigorous action of the association, which has won a proud place for itself as a voluntary labor defense organization, and by the willingness of Yipsels to brave arrest and bodily harm in defiance of injunctions...
...A representative of Hygrade had the pickets arrested, charged with criminal contempt for the nlleged willful violation of an order of the court prohibiting picketing of the provision firm's customers...
...also that of eliminating from the present code the clause favoring the banks and other property owners which gives them cheap maintenance painters hired by the year...
...KORDINO PORK CO., 660 Jack.on Avenue E. KEGLER PORK STORE, 1979 Third Avenue PFEIFER & STOFFERS...
...152 Broadway, Brooklyn New York Shop, 143rd Street and Third Avenue CAR MEL SHOPS...
...And that's just what the painters are doing...
...Wein feld, also of the S.L.A., was of counsel on the brief...
...At the trial before Magistrate Alexander (trough, in the Second District Court, Irwin Nussbuum of the Socialist Lawyers' Association contended that the injunction was not binding on third parties not acting under control of the unions...
...He did intimate, however, that there might he some other way of stopping them...
...In the meantime the Painters Union is signing up hundreds of "Adviser" Losing Out In Pocketbook Union A crowded and riotous membership meeting of the International Pocketbook Workers' Union .Tuesday night saw and heard what is probably' the last stand of the cohorts of Ossip Walinsky, recently elected "legal adviser" to the union against the warnings and pleas of the Socialist and other progressive elements in and out of the union...
...He discharged them, adding that they could not be prevented from picketing under the terms of the order...
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...The master painters, in planning their "coup, forgot about collective bargaining and "recovery...
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...The magistrate seemed exceedingly impressed with the seriousness of the charge and the Importance of handing down a correct decision...
...Socialist Lawyers Win Right To Picket Despite Injunction JN two recent cases successfully * contested by the Socialist Lawyers' Association, the right of members of the Young People's Socialist League to picket even where injunctions had been granted ¦against the unions' pickets was established in New York...
...Harry Kavesh, of the Socialist Lawyers' Association, appeared before Magistrate Van Amringe, and presented the same defense as in the former cases...
...Two Yipsels—Ezra Cohen and Helen Rosenberg—volunteered to picket in front of the Grant Grill, 42nd Street near 7th Avenue, a customer of the Hygrade, on July 12...
...Judge Faber held that the contract between the union and the laundry corporation was obtained through durcRs and coercion, was "harsh, unfair and impossible of performance," and that a contract entered into between the employer and the drivers—independent of the union and in violation of its express terms—was valid...
...These cases are particularly important in that they establish the right of third parties to carry on independently the struggle of the workers where they may be barred themselves...
...He took the materialistic position that in these changing times even our legal conceptions change, and he wanted to see how far people could go in their right of free speech and assembly...
...independent employers and union men are returning under" the previous working conditions...
...One such injunction had been granted to the Hygrade Food Products Corporation against the Butchers Union (Local L'll, A. F. of L.) on July 5th by Justice Brennan in the Supreme Court, Kings County...
...The name of the sheriff patrolling the county where the onion strike is going on isn't Hitler, but in all other respects he seems to be a worthy competitor of the Nazi degenerate...
...Hail is jacked up and legul property collateral is refused...
...United, orderly and disciplined, the painters of New York will march on to victory for the preservation of the seven-hour-day and the nine dollar wage and for a strong painters' union...
...Truck loads of deputies roam the countryside and slug strikers...
...with Walinsky offering to resign and then refusing...
...Company officials prosecute for the state...
Vol. 17 • August 1934 • No. 31
