STEEL BOSS USES NORRIS ACT TO SANCTIFY COMPANY UNION
Steel Boss Uses Norris Act To Sanctify Company Union WASHINGTON. — Tables were •gain turned against labor in the United States District Court here when the provisions of the NorrisLaGuardia...
...A hearing will be held May 11 to make permanent the injunction, which was granted temporarily because "the NRA bituminous coal code is unconftitutional as applied to local business...
...Leopold mm$*r, 9*r nounces...
...N'orman Thomas was one of the ipeakers...
...Socialist Educators to Run Educational Meeting May 11 The Socialist -Teachers' Committee is ready Tor its first public appearance: a general educational meeting at the Rand School on Fxiday evening, May 11...
...the number now pending is 71...
...He's been a member for a long time...
...It is believed that the case will have .important and far reaching effects on the whole question of collective bargaining guarantees under the NRA...
...And if it did, I cannot escape the conclusion that it exceeded the power granted to it by the people...
...OLD NON-UNION FIRM SIGNS UP The International Ladies Garment Wcrkers Union announces that an agreement has been reached wj.h David Crystal, Inc., sportswear house, whereby the Arm agrees to join the National Dress Manufacturers' Association...
...Inside Bronze Workers Expect Charter at Mass Meeting May 4th •Since the issuance of the announcement of a mass meeting to be held by the Architectural Ornamental Iron, Bronze and Structural Workers' Union at the People's House on Friday evening, May 4, comes news from St...
...The first thing they do is to make you join the Teachers' Union...
...Singerman, and Bruno Wagner, business agent of the Painters' District Council, PULP MILLS TRY TO FRIGHTEN STRIKERS FORT FRANCES, Ontario.-Despite the "ultimatum" by pulp companies here that they will shut down the mills unless, the three thousand men now on strike go back to work the strikers are maintaining...
...couldn't join...
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...This dummy «nto" expressed itself a* willing, to ***iga up" with its creator...
...Furthermore voting was merely "announced," the steel firm's counsel contended with no pressure brought to bear on the girls, who cheered at the announcement...
...This is attributed by Mr...
...The committee has been organizing parent-teacher groups...
...The committee is getting after the parents, too...
...MAY SIGN SOON That the Rogers Peet Co., big chain clothing firm, may soon 'sign a collective agreement with the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America is an interesting though not officially authenticated report in union circles...
...If you are a parent, you'd better go along, especially if you have a car...
...The firm has been non-union for 25 years...
...The company representative didn't deny, however, that J, C. Williams, president of the Weirton Steel Co., had maintained at pre-election meetings that even if his employes vote,d for affiliation with the Amal; am a tad Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, he would- not bargain with the Amalgamated representatives...
...This agieement places tha firm under the minimum* of he dress code and puts its workers jrder the collective labor agreement the association has signed with the ILGWU...
...Further claim is made that 83 strikes in plants employing 41,999 workers were averted by the board, although no Indication is given as to whether the workers won or lost through such prevention of strikes...
...Twenty thousand men will get work directly or indirectly .as, the result of five million dollar contracta let by the Ontario department of...
...The change came when union jontiactois working for the "firm were laid off and Crystal, Inc., with facte ties here and in Lebanon and Rtading, Pa., agreed to become a elostd shop...
...Altman says they are...
...The union has 5,800 dues-paid, working miners in Western Kentucky...
...In a bitter strike only last spring, the Rogers Peet Co...
...Fighting the issjie of collective bargaining under the NRA, Reed contended that the "theory of the plan for an election is to see who is going to represent the men by majority vote...
...Speaking of marching, the Socialist teachers wanted to march on May 1st, but the Board of Education decided that since'May 1st was Health Day, all the teachers and all the children would have to stay indoors...
...The topic for disoussion will be, "Our New Deal for Education...
...Reed defended the company union as a legitimate bargaining agency under the NRA, and denied that employes had been intimidated or coerced, into joining the company union, despite the many affidavits advanced by the government showing both bribery and intimidation...
...When last interviewed, the secretary of the committee denied that the term "new deal" meant a payless furlough...
...Approximately 00 per dent of the cases were closed by agreements, the board states in its report, just forwarded to the National Labor Board by Judge Jeremiah T. Mahoney, recently named chairman...
...ANOTHER MINE EXPLOSION COALDALE, Pa.—Adding to the huge toll of victims of the capitalist system of industry in the mining field, a gas explosion in the Alliance Coal Company's KaskerWilliams mine here injured seven men, two seriously...
...Louis that, the union has been granted a charter by the International Association of Bridge, Structural &hd Ornamental Iron Workers...
...And why not...
...Resident Manager McMurray, in an attempt to break the moral* of the strikers, threati »na transfer of the newsprint and 1 Paper tonnage to other mill...
...Tables were •gain turned against labor in the United States District Court here when the provisions of the NorrisLaGuardia Act, hitherto regarded only as a labor anti-injunction safeguard in industrial relations, were invoked by the notorious Weirton Steel Co...
...Now the parents can do some worrying and fighting...
...The mine operators, claiming that they have $50,000,000 invested in the mines in Hopkins, Muhlenberg, Union, Webster and other counties, shut down their properties on April 2 and incidentally shut out their hands, paying more than the previous $4 a day rate for eight hours' work, despite unemployment and the misery among mineral families...
...Later the firm set up cots on the premises and also served lunches to those workers who did not want to brave the picket line...
...I don't believe Congress dreamed that the NRA act would be misread and distorted to mean that Congress had power tj control all activities," the judge said, apologizing for his "unconstitutional" verdict by using the plea that coaldigging couldn't come under the provision of "interstate commerce" which alone Congress is suppused to have power to regulate...
...Previously only the teachers had to worry about closed night schools, closed summer sessions, crowded classes, lack of supplies, lack of progressive leadership...
...William Karlin, attorney for the union, stated that this is the result of five years' efforts on the part of the inside iron and bronze workers to be re-affiliated with the International union...
...This prediction was advanced as a reason for not holding such elections...
...The Weirton Company, rooting for the company union and claiming that a farcical poll recently conducted by it called for this form of organization, maintained in court that the law prevented "summary action against an employer under the labor guarantees of the National Recovery Act...
...Reinstatement was secured for 3,582 persons discharged for uniori activities, the report claims...
...BOARD REPORTS ON SETTLED STRIKES The report by the Regional Labor Board in New York that it has settles 325 strikes out of 437 since its inception in October, 1983, involving a total of 174,692 workers, is significant chiefly because of its failure to note that the workers won out in the settlements' chiefly where they were, strongly organized, labor leaders point out...
...Karlin to the belief of the international officers that the local union was stillMorainated by Communists...
...had an army of private guards around the plant and around the subway entrances near the plant...
...The company's counsel, Earl F.Reed, declared that if the government were allowed to hold an immediate election at Wirton, "labor trouble would certainly be created which would spread rapidly through the many industries now operating under similar company unions...
...Reed kept the auditors in the courtroom in gales of laughter when he told what he called the true story of the country club party given by the company to girl workers as an inducement to vote the company's way...
...In the give and take of questioning by the court, Reed denied that contracts with the men, or with recognized representatives of the employes, needed to be entered into under the law...
...Eleven thousand men were thrown out of work by the operators, who proceeded to set up "a company union the "Independent Miners' Union...
...There's no use arguing with them —they jus"t hand you a blank...
...They handed one to Algernon Lee, but he's one of those bad boys that make teachers the way Dr...
...I don't believe that Congress thought it was voting'itself any power except in the sense that such power alwaya was understood...
...in its defense against a government suit...
...The committee was organized on February 1, 1934, at the People's House despite the fact that February 1st was promotion day and the day of the first blizzard...
...None of the girls "passed out" at the party—one was "sick" from drinking soda— and no evidence showed that the company paid for the party at ar expensive resort not usually attended by mill girls...
...Since they are going to walk in the No More War Parade on May 19th, it's only fair that they should ride on May 20th, the committee insists...
...Always they were bitterly fought by the firm...
...These teachers are very strict," Secretary Lena Tulchin stated...
...a j solid front at the Fort Franeea and International Fall* Pulp and Paper Mills, The men are demanding higher wages and shorter hoars...
...The mimber of disputes handled was 641,;' involving 257,872...
...When the judge asked what kind of cheer it was, Reed recited: "lee cream »«dff, ginger and pop —the company union goes over the top...
...In some cases he offered counter-affidavits, scouting the contention that these were also obtained by the same bull-dozing or bribing tactics...
...Coal Men Get Injunction Against $4.60 Code Wage Louisville, Ky.—Even toe tow government code wage of 440 a day for seven hours' work—en the days when the miner doe* work —is too mueh for the operators in Western Kentucky, who have just been granted an injunction against application of the code by one of their judicial lackeys, Federal District Judge Charles A. Dawson...
...These officials had really been ousted several years before...
...This was not the first strike the Amalgamated conducted against the Rogers Peet Co...
...He waved aside government affidavits showing that $5 was offered one man for his union card and $1 to another to vote, that company police herded men to the polls with clubs and that employes were threatened by their superiors...
...He just kept on saying he...
...It would be quite a feather in the Amalgamated cap—and just before their convention, too—if the report is true...
...highways', Minister...
...Rescue crews brought the men to the surface and took them to the hospital, treating five others at the mine...
...Many of the nonstriking workers were brought to work in busses for a while...
...The United Mine Workers of America, through its district president, E. J. Morgan, and its members, is standing,pat, utilizing the lockout of the employers as a period for organization and strike work...
...Long Island City and other parts of Queen* County, were overjoyed by tbs news that the charter had at last been granted, and a large turnout of Iron and bronze workers it expectedThe speakers' list Friday will bs headed by Karlin, Pope, Samuel H. Beardsley, secretary-treasurer of the International Jewelry Workers' Union...
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...ROGERS PEET CO...
...William H. Pope, international vice-president, will attend the meeting Friday night, when the local's charter should be ready for presentation to those in attendance, Samuel Singerman, secretary of tht union, stated that the workers, including several hundreds anustorcd br the) General ' •»^»»»^ssp^k^^^ ^pp^vjss^w^sy (wa" -^^¦w |^w™stw Brooae Corporation...
...Max Karasik, president of the local Union...
...The government is attempting to force an election among the company's steel workers to decide which type of union they prefer...
...On May 20th they will participate in the Parent - Teacher Conference at Butler, N. J., sponsored by the Women's Committee...
Vol. 17 • May 1934 • No. 60
