Firm Pays Union $17,000
Firm Pays Union $17,000 THE Joint Board of the Dress and Westmakers Union (I.L. G.W.U.) announces settlement of a irtrike against the jobbing firm of Kaplan & Elias, 224 West 35th St. ,The...
...May your union keep up its growth in numbers and may it continue its spirit of aggressive battling for the rights of workers in the textile industry and all other industries...
...The W.U.U...
...Other speakers were Louis A. Golden and E. M. Simpson, president of the Battery Workers' Union (AFoL) local...
...Fourth Vice-President, James Wilson (pattern maker...
...B. Fingeret, 131 West 35th St...
...A 15'/* wage increase on all piece work is demanded...
...That it will oppose any plan to extend the power of private industry over the NBA...
...In extending the drive, public mass meetings called by the union have been addressed by Norman Thomas and other Socialist spokesmen...
...The meeting was sponsored by the Socialist Party of Ctiyafioga County and the tPSL...
...Greetings and best wishes to your 28th convention...
...where, as previously noted, Socialist organizers have been active), and on hosiery strikers in Los Angeles...
...Union Dress, 507 17th St., Pnion CUy„N...
...The firm paid the union $17,000, of which $14,000 goes as back pay to union workers of contractors in three different states and the remainder as liquidated damages due the union...
...M. Ornburn...
...Rock Dress Co., 6 Rock St., Brooklyn...
...That it will demand searching ¦Investigations of the charges of cruelty and oppression practiced i'V the authorities on onion strikers in Hardin County, 111...
...Isidore Nagler, manager of the N. Y. Cloak Joint Board, the other delegate, sailed some time ago...
...Sixth Vice-President, Arthur O. Wharton (machinist...
...ger, with having violated the scale of wages set by the agreement between the union and the National Dross Manufacturers Association, Inc., of which it is a member...
...At a bon voyage dinner tendered Julius Hochman, general manager of the dress joint board, at Webster Hall and attended by 1,000, Hochman announced that ho had postponed his trip abroad in order to he on hand in the dress market during a critical situation...
...Bayard Dress Co., 74 Bayard St., Brooklyn...
...A & R Dress Co., 34 West 17th St...
...Third Vice-President, Matthew Woll (photo engraver...
...The telegrams were signed by James Onoal, Editor of The New Leader, and Samuel H. Friedman, Labor Editor...
...Hochman, pointing out that this was the largest lump sum ever collected by the union for back wages, urged all union members to report at once any similar violations or payments below the minimum...
...The struggle against "slow and scientific starvation," lack of clothing and medical facilities, ruthless discharge by autocratic foremen and discrimination is being vigorously pushed despite LaGuardia's slander of W.U.U...
...message of industrial democracy for the workers...
...Disfranchise the Idle Rich ? Answering the proposal of the New York State Economic Council that jobless on relief lists be disfranchised, the Workers Unemployed Union has issued a statement urging that the idle rich be deprived of their voting right instead...
...Hyman & Son, 106 Knickerbocker Ave,, Brooklyn...
...International Molders Onion of North America, Hotel Palmer, Chicago...
...George Wickersham and Merwin K. Hart head the so-balled "economic council...
...BUY UNION POULTRY...
...The New Leader Greets Unions TPHE following telegrams of * greeting were sent last week by The New Leader: United Textile Workers, Hotel Woodstock, N. Y. City...
...Eighth Vice-President, G. M. Bugniazet (electrical worker...
...Gerry Dress Co., 92 Gerry St., Brooklyn...
...C. Blank, 48 School St., Glen Cove, L. I...
...Wyckoff Dress Co., 1377 Gates Ave., Brooklyn...
...Comrade Lasser and the Workers' Unemployed Union nre continuing their militant battle against inhuman and unjust administration of relief in New York...
...Continuing its sessions, the executive council of the American Federation of Labor announced: That it will call on the government to renew and expand the CWA this winter to extend jobmaking provisions...
...Representatives of the National Dress Manufacturers' Association »re conferring with the union on he letter's demund for the introluction of a new time unit system if measuring production...
...Greetings especially to the gallant Southern representatives who are opening up the South to the...
...Hochman was to have sailed Thursday on the Majestic as one of the two I.L.G.W.U...
...proposed through David Lasser, its chairman...
...That it will seek increased appropriations for the Department of .Labor, bo that it can help tako care of 40,000,000 wage earners...
...A collection was taken for the strikers...
...May your sessions be fruitful in laying plans for extensive organization and successful struggle for the rights of the workers...
...Seventh Vice-President, Joseph N. Weber (musician...
...Amend the plan so that all persons unwilling to work be disfranchised, the W.U.U...
...Mem•¦>¦ of organized labor and friends can assist by patronizing only ahopi in which the union emblem Of the union is displayed, . ONION STRIKE PROTEST CLEVELAND.— A demonstration protesting the miserable conditions in the onion fields of McGuffey, O., was held Saturday in the public square here...
...The victory is of special interest to Socialists because of the aid given the union by Socialist branches, party members and Yipsels in every borough of the city where Local 306 is pushing its aggressive organizing campaign...
...Local SOS Wins Again in Bronx AN OTHER victory for Local 806 was rung up this week whe;i the De Luxe' moving picture theatre in the Bronx signed with the Moving Picture Operators Union (A.F.ofL...
...The New Leader, Socialist and labor national weekly, extends its heartfelt greeting to you at your 27th convention...
...The result of Local 300's drive is especially welcome to the union because the theatre is a member of the Independent Theatre Owners' Association, which is in contractual relations with the company union and because other unions cooperated 100 per cent...
...in conjunction with the Emergency Workers Union is planning new action to demand that the 15,000 laid off in the past few weeks be reinstated and layoffs cease...
...G. Pardo & Son, 21* West 34th St...
...repudiating the so-called Allied Motion Picture Operators Union, a company union...
...M. Elias, 134 West 20th St...
...May your deliberations presage the extension of fighting union{sm until there is no non-union territory left in the United States...
...T. A. Rickert (garment worker...
...Canhi & Pardo, 260 Weste 36th St...
...Greetings and most heartfelt wishes for the growth and success of the United Textile Workers from The New Leader, Socialist and labor national weekly...
...IN response to numerous re* quests for the personnel of the executive council of the Federation of Labor (now concluding its sessions in Atlantic City), we print the list of council members, with the former trades: President, William ¦ Green (miner...
...Karl Pauli, state organizer for the Socialist Party in Ohio, and just released from the McKuffey jail for activity in the onion weedesa' strike, wns the main speaker...
...More power to you, especially in your endeavor to build one powerful, aggressive organization of all food handlers under American Federation of Labor banners...
...Russo Dress, 151 West 26th St...
...It is this iiroblem which induced Hochman .o postpone his departure till Oc;ober...
...Hotel and Restaurant Workers International Alliance, Hotel Curtis, Minneapolis, Minn...
...Sunry Dregs, 335 West...
...L. Oriel, 316 West 36th St...
...Newspapers printed announcements of the meetings and accounts of the demonstration, minting Comrade PaulUs charge that "strikers are being kept In the Jjail at Kenton, one of the woi st in the state, under heavy bond to be tune of their safe keeping until the onion raising season |s over...
...CAP MAKERS STRIKE fHE Capmakers' Union, Local *,1 (United Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers International Union) called a strike of about 1,500 operators in the cap contractors' shops Tuesday, involving about 1*0 shops...
...representatives and th« mayor's sudden "concern" over works relief conditions and discharges...
...In the forefront of the battle is the Progressive Group Committee in the union, fighting for militant and straightforward activity...
...and will ask that labor sections of NRA be revised to raise minimum wage schedules...
...President David Dubinsky, B. C. Vladeck, and Martin Plettl were among the: speakers who eulogized Hochman I mid lauded his services to the workers in the industry...
...delegates to the International Clothing Workers' Federation Congress in London...
...The firm was charged by Julius Hochman, joint board general man...
...The Salesmen and Poultry Workers' Union Local 662, has started an organizing campaign in Brighton Beach and Coney Island...
...Secretary, Frank Morrison (printer...
...The Socialist press, organ of the Socialist Party, offers you its unstinted cooperation...
...A minimum of $20 weekly on work relief and $15 a week for a family of two on home relief, plus ?3 weekly for each dependent will be demanded...
...Employes of the following firms will share proportionately in the hack pay collected: Arrow Dress Co., 524 Palisade Aive., West New York, N. J...
...Urges Renewal of CWA 'ATLANTIC CITY...
...Second Vice-President...
...Vanity Dress Co, 1 Milton Ave., South River, N. J...
...Capitol Garment So., 180 Windsor St., Hartford,, Conn...
...First Vice-President, Frank Duffy (carpenter...
...Treasurer, Martin F. Ryan (railway carman...
...That it will inaugurate a vigorous drive for the greater use of the union label, With the A. F. of L, label trades department under two new chiefs: Matthew M. Woll and .1...
...That it will extend the activities of the Workers' Educational Bureau in keeping with the need of the times...
...Fifth Vice-President, John Coefield (plumber...
...K & N Dress, 315 West 36th St...
...Royal Frocks, 04 West Front St., Plainfield, N. J...
...May the deliberations of your delegates, representing a time-honored and world-wide union, prove fruitful in battling for a better life for workers in your industry and in all other industries...
...He emphasized the fact that unless these violations are reported at once, the, union is unable to assist the workers in obtaining their proper wages...
...Payment followed settlement of n strike called against the jobbing firm through 21 of its contractors...
Vol. 17 • August 1934 • No. 33
