Hebrew Butchers Vote On General Strike Call
Hebrew Butchers Vote On General Strike Call THE Hebrew Butcher Workers' Union will meet Friday, Aug. 24, at Webster Hall, 119 East 11th Street, to consider the date of its general strike. This...
...It is extremely urgent that all trade-unionists, particularly Socialists, within the trade unions, should resist such leadership and programs to the utmost...
...Paul, Denver, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Portland, Ore...
...VOTE ON NECKWEAR OFFER A membership meeting of the United Neckwear Makers' Union will be held Tuesday to consider the "compromise offer" of the Men's Neckwear Makers' Association in regard to the renewal of the collective labor pact...
...24) before the NRA Board in Washington to present the demands of the workers...
...is attempting to do for it...
...Six pickets were recently arrested, and one of these was charged by the firm with beini Samuel Bykofsky, a union official and with having tried to extort $20,00...
...Last Friday 20 people were injured and four arrested when 30 squads of police charged a crowd of 5,000 armed with bricks, stones and decayed vegetables...
...Strong support was pledged by the delegates to the Brotherhood's official monthly journal, Pqwermen...
...struck last week in protest against the discharge* of 24 workers for union activity...
...and thi entire labor m6vem«nt to act as a spy agency for the Labor Department and immigration authorities...
...will be subject to expulsion, and if a foreigner, to deportation as well...
...Lewis L. Harvey, Terre Haute, Ind.j Daniel Sullivan, Providence, R, I...
...These preparations are the answer to wage cuts, company unions, and other forms of exploitation and discrimination imposed upon the workers in the industry by the big utility corporations in recent months...
...The union is therefore compelled to take a definite stand against''-such shop owners* The general strike, we hope, will put an end to child labor and the attempts to force out skilled union men by fictitious partnership agreements...
...If the local then decides by a two* thirds Vote to carry out its strike plan, all other locals are called upon to support it to their utmost ability...
...Milton S, Umbenhaucr, Brooklyn...
...As soon as the W.U.U heard of the case (July 28), it asked the Socialist Lawyers' Association to intervene, and Abraham Abramowitz was sent upstate, together with Monroe Swectland...
...Since the 35-hour week has failed to take up the slack in unemployment in the industry, the union program includes the 30-hour week...
...The net result of such n program will be that anybody who will dare to oppose the official policy of the A.F.ofL...
...CAP STRIKERS WIN S. Hershkowitz, manager of Capmakers' Local ,1, announces that the strike against, the uniform ; and matched cap manufacturers ' has been settled on the basis of the ! 36-hour week at the present 146 ' wage scale...
...Autonomy for local unions, with advisory control by the national executive council when the question of a strike comes up, was voted by the convention...
...Announcement of particulars of the proposed strike will be published after ttie general membership meeting Friday night...
...The pickets themselves were all dis charged without having to take the stand...
...Continuation of light and power to essential public services, such as hospitals and fire protection, In the event of possible strikes, are provided for in the permanent con-, stitution adopted by the convention...
...Before Labor Day, organizers for the Brotherhood, which is an industrial union, will be pushing membership campaigns in New England, the South, the Middle West, the Rocky Moutain States, and on the Pacific Coast...
...Drivers who had not struck began turning in their buses as evidence of public sentiment became apparent, and squad cars and motorcycle policement were assigned to the scabs...
...The attempts to employ minors in retail kosher meat markets is causing havoc in the butcher 'trade...
...No individual settlements are being accepted by the union, which insists that Ihtr of the employers must sign up first...
...These attempts consist chiefly in the general employment of minors and the recourse to fake partnerships," says Belsky...
...This strike call will involve 6,000 members employed in the metropolitan district...
...Connally was a member of the Workers' Unemployed Union...
...William Gavigan and Thomas O'Shaughnessy, Providence, R. I., and Theodore G. Leighton, New York...
...With the wave of strikes in the United States in the past few months, when all liberal and progresBive-minded people see n reawakening of consciousness on the part of American labor, with the magnificent struggle, of the San Francisco general, strike, nil our official leaders could learn from 'these lessons' is that they have to clean out any radicnl opinion within their ranks, for fear that some locals and internationals might be imbued with radical opinions...
...The strike call will be issued in an attempt to renew the Hg-reements with the butcher bosses, which expire in October of this year...
...Utility Employees' Union Starts Extensive Drive By Stephen Carleton Intensive organization drives among the 230,000 electric light and power workers in the United States will begin at once along lines laid down at the first national convention of the Brotherhood of Utility Employees of America, which was held here on August 18 and 19...
...The statement Is vicious in its outline and intent...
...Seven and eight dollars a week is considered by these proprietors good salary for the youngsters...
...Meanwhile the city has been in an uproar, as sympathizers—both members of other A. F. of L. unions and just ordinary citizens— demonstrated their resentment against the company and its scabs...
...Jens P. Nielsen of New York, secretary-treasurer?- vicepresidents: Vernon Chamberlain, Fall River, Mass...
...Boys are employed in these stores and work 70 hours weekly for a mere pittance...
...Joseph Belsky, secretary of the ' union, reports that $25,000 has been raised for a defense fund, which will be used exclusively to prepare for and conduct the strike...
...NEWSPAPER GUILD DANCE The Long Island Daily Press Chapter of the Newspaper Guild will run a dance Saturday, August 25, at the Hillcrest Golf and Country Club, Jamaica, for the benefit of the local chapter treasury...
...Boss Attempt to Villify Bakers' Union Scotched pilOMPT and energetic action by * Local 505 of the bakers' union through its attorneys, Comrades Jacob Panken and Matthew M. Levy, succeeded in scotching an especially infamous attempt by a boss baker to get an injunction by false affidavits alleging extortion...
...Principal cities in which this work Will center are Boston, Lawrence, Lowell, Haverhill, Worcester and New Bedford in Massachusetts...
...New Orleans, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Chicago, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, St...
...against such reactionary policies as these—policies to which the council would commit the American labor movement...
...A lengthy argument with the Sheriff of Coshen County and threat of legal action resulted in the release of Connally, who had been framed up by the works superintendent...
...The A.F.ofL...
...Within a few days charters will be issued to new local unions in Kansas- City, Mo., and Woonsocket, R. I. Officers of the Brotherhood elected at the convention are: Bernard Lambe of Brooklyn, president...
...Heywood Broun, president of the national guild, will be master of ceremonies...
...and Harry Begoon, secretary of the Furriers' Joint Council of New York, will appear Friday (Aug...
...As soon as the affidavits were submitted by the Abbott Bread Co., 275 West 22nd St., the union's counsel immediately demanded an investigation by -the District Attoifl*y.^»f New York County...
...Fascism could not have done much more for itself than the A.F.ofli...
...Union heads of the elevated and street car employees, numbering 20,000, have applied to the national executive board of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railways Employees in Detroit for authorisation to go out in a sympathy walkout...
...The National Labor Board upheld the men and recommended withdrawal of the Blue Eagle, but General Johnson "delayed the order...
...Portland, Maine...
...Atlanta, Birmingham, Alabama...
...City Tie-up Possible ^HICAGO.—The possibility looms of a general transportation strike in this city which will tie up all the surface and elevated lines in sympathy with striking bus drivers...
...1. The association has been demanding drastic revisions against the workers, but at a meeting Monday offered the following scale, acording to Louis Fuchs, manager of the union: $48 weekly wage Scale for cutters...
...If a local decides by a two-thirds majority to strike, it must submit Its decision to the council, which is bound to pass upon that decision within seven days, giving specific reasons if it disapproves...
...Moe Harris, manager of the local, calls attention to the fact that only a plant in Bethlehem, Pa., and one in Newark are operating, and the pickets will soon pull down the Newark shop...
...Drivers of the Chicago Motor Coach Co...
...The union is Local 234, Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workers of North America...
...leadership does not propose to carry on an Ideological light, against the destructive tactics of the Communists within the unions...
...It will take much more, it seems, to teach our labor movement any progressive ideas...
...It was proved that Bykofs ky was not one of the pickets...
...RABBIT DRESSERS OUT The rabbit dressing Industry has been paralyzed by a strike colled by Local 85 of the International Fur Workers' Union...
...PWA WORKER RELEASED Thomas Connally, unemployed father of five children who was assaulted by a superintendent of works at the PWA project at Bear Mountain and then sentenced on July 16 to 60 days in jail by the justice at Highland Falls, has been released and has returned to New York City...
...It commits the A.F.ofL...
...Let other unions follow in a mighty effort to crystallise an opposition within the A.F.ofL...
...Milton Eisenberg is attorney for the baking firm, which sells its products to restaurants and lunchrooms catering to workers in the garment center district...
...In the event of such disapproval, the question Will be submitted again to the membership of the local, which must weigh carefully the advice of the national board...
...It does not propose to fight their dual-union tactics...
...Golf cap workers will continue their Mrlke aguinst the Contractors...
...The union was completely exonerated by the assistant district attorney, who said he would have moved against the firm's officers if their plea had not been made in another county...
...Let other local unions follow the example o\ Dressmakers' Union Local 22, I.L.G.W.U., which, at its last executive meeting held on Tuesday, August 21st, 1934, vigorously protested the action of the A.F.ofL...
...A 16'/r increase was i won for the matched goods work- ; ers who are on piece work...
...Fur Union Demands 30Hosr Week, Coffer Cede Harold Goldstein, vice-president of the International Fur Workers' Union (A.F.ofL...
...A stop must be put to the practice of employers who make wild and unproved slanderous statements in affidavits in un effort to get temporary injunctions, with no opportunity given for cross-examination of the accusers in open court," Panken insisted...
...Present hours nre 40 per week...
...What it do«» propose Is to exterminate all dissenting opinion within the A. F. of L.—right or wrong...
...Officers of the firm were subpoenaed and were compelled to uJmit that the union's representatives had not asked them for money or attempted to extort money, and that they had not read the papers to which their names wen signed...
...Labor conciliators declared that company officials were obdurate, so the men are prepared to stick it out, and other transportation workers are eager to help...
...Belsky says that the general strike is an absolute necessity because of the attempts of the bosses to defeat the union's right to increase the standard of living for the butcher workmen...
...Other demands are elimination of contracting and setting up of one code for the retail and manufacturing sections of the industry, -since at present workers in the retail manufacturing field are operating under an inferioj^-cade while doing the same work as those under the manufacturers' code...
...It seems that any hopes of the A.F.ofL.'s going progressive, after all these years of depression and oppression, have not come true...
...unions, should make every active worker in the unions sit up and take notice...
...Chicage Car Men Eager to Strike...
...LETTERS TO EDITOR Scores A. F. of L. Council*8 Red Purging Campaign By Murray Gross THE statement issued by the executive council of the American Federation of Labor last week, outlining a program of activity against Communists in the A.F.ofL...
...Let no one think that we are'not affected by it...
...the grading of certain manufacturers of 50-cent ties in Class 2; the elimination of three legal holidays and the requirement that slipstitchers do their own trimming...
...The union has fought for renewal of the present agreement without change when it expires Sept...
Vol. 17 • August 1934 • No. 34
