PEACE PACT ENDS STRIFE IN TOLEDO
Peaco Pact Ends Strife in Toledo TOLEDO.—Following the threat of a general strike in Toledo that had engaged the attention of labor throughout the country, peace came to this battle-warred...
...we are eepeciafls' a ax tees to get up-te-the-minute accounts of lake* activities...
...vice in the kiilwaukee and Port [Washington harbors was at a [standstill following a strike by I dredge operators in sympathy with affiliated unions in other Great .Lakes ports...
...Build the Socialist Party and get subs for Tke New Leader to help build it...
...By Sunday, the Auto-Lite workers had cracked through with victory on their own account...
...Injunctive relief has been and stilt1 Is used to visit irreparable damaga upon workers...
...item No, 1 enjoins the union from* directly or indirectly continuing oi conducting the strike, by picketing or otherwise, whatever that max mean.....Under No...
...Newman is the fourth person to be discharged by the company for activity in connection with the Telegraph Messengers Union...
...Rumor has it that the manufacturers may consent to a 35-hour week and a Ave per cent pay boost, leaving the hosiery workers nine per cent in the hole...
...suspended service when cpsws complied with a strike ordei tsued by Joseph Noonen of defend, president of the Licensed . Tugmen's Protective Association, STMKIRS' HOMIS HRIP BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—The whole Alabama ore mine area is aflame as attacks on strikers continue and scabs are protected by mine police and the national guard Now the homes of striking miner* are being set fire to In an endeavor to quel) labor militancy...
...Peaco Pact Ends Strife in Toledo TOLEDO.—Following the threat of a general strike in Toledo that had engaged the attention of labor throughout the country, peace came to this battle-warred city when strikers at the Electric Auto-Lite Company's plant approved the agreement arrived at with the company...
...employees, which had ajso threatened, was averted whea the company capitulated...
...An appeal from so-called injunctions pendente lite are rarely, if ever, effective...
...When the Medinah Michigan Avenue Club, housing the sessions, refused to admit Negro delegates (most of them from Local 22, New York),1 the delegates, led- by that local, first forced the hotel to admit their I Negro comrades and then moved out bag .and baggage to the Hotel ¦Morrison, where no such Jim[Crowism was practiced...
...The theory upon which the right to injunctive relief developed Is to prevent irreparable damage...
...The strike was called, when Remington-Rand officials refused to accede to a demand that the word "union" be inserted in a contract in three places, guaranteeing a closed shop...
...Bare iota of apace In next week's Issue for a real summary of what tale 22nd biennial convention derided...
...Panken ahows that the use of the injunction is not to prevent irreparable damage to employers, but to visit injury and damage upon the workers...
...I Newman's discharge is obviously a case of discrimination against him ipr his union activity, it was pointed out by Comrade: Ashe...
...Absorbing as were tat convention proceedings, the possibility of a general strike, the militant participation of over 90 unions in the struggle of the Auto-Lite workers, made the events in Toledo of more significance than any resolutions...
...Since May 10, 1,159 workers have been on strike at the Norwood plant, and workers also are out at plants in Middletown, Conn., and Syracuse...
...An extraordinary meeting had been called to consider | action and final assistance hac 'been planned...
...Tlx strike was scheduled to start ii ¦ three days...
...j f do two things...
...that the plaintiff was unfair to) organized labor—clearly In myj judgment a violation of the con4 stitutional rights of free speech/ and free press...
...The parade became a victory march...
...for the punishment of those whoi are guilty of Infractions...
...In April, Julius Fleishman, a member of the strike committee, was discharged on the pretext that he had failed to deliver a telegram, and the Regional Labor Board has refused to order his reinstatement...
...That Is...
...Newman, who has a record of three years' satisfactory employment with the company as a messenger, was discharged, according to his attorney, David I. Ashe, who carried the case to the board, after Newman had appeared twice at code hearings in Washington, D. C„ to present the case of the employees at such hearings...
...The plant, which had been operated by scabs, was again shut down tight by the 1,100 striking machinists...
...The suppressed excitement, the cheerful singing, the great shouting of slogans by workers who found strength in their common achievement brought to the participating Socialists a renewed understanding of workingclass solidarity in the Middle West...
...Our fight is against HiUprism in America as well as for the union...
...MINE WAGES CUT WASHINGTON.—Effective June 11, wages under the coal code will be reduced in Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas and Oklahoma by order of General Johnson...
...eliminated...
...A strike of Toledo Edison Co...
...The mere threat of general strike had won a partial victory...
...Build the foetet ist Party and get sabs for 'mm now Leaser to bat* bsdhj bV...
...Striker Wounded in RemingtonRand Walkout CINCINNATI,-A shot from a car driven by a foreman in the Remington-Rand plant wounded a striker here, with the result that an irate crowd of strike sympathizers overturned the machine and set fire to it...
...Hosiery Union Plans 30-Hour-Week Fight READING, Pa.—The American Federation of Hosiery Workers, lighting union in convention here, voted to go to bat for a reduction in working hours from 40 to 30 per week, with a boost in wage rates to offset any loss to workers and with a 50% increase in minimum wage rates under the hosiery code...
...12 the court enjoins the union and any one else): who may desire to aid the union* from making known to the public] in any manner, the fact that the...
...MILWAUKEE...
...The walkout continues also at the Ilion plant of the Remington-Rand firm, with 2,000 strikers refusing to return though the company holds its gates open for them...
...Only a drastic curb on output will cure the sick hosiery industry, Dr...
...sufficient to protect persons and property...
...Moreover, stays pending appeals are exceedingly scarce...
...Emil Rieve, president of the union, charged Nazi influence in the councils of the Association of | Full-Fashioned Hosiery Manufacturers in his address to the union...
...They accompanied Leo Krsycki, as vice-president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, and Al Benson, ex-Sheriff of Milwaukee, the official representatives of the convention to Toledo...
...Wines wa» associate editor of the Garment Worker, official weekly • periodical of the anion...
...A speedy settlement is no* expected...
...George Taylor, code arbitrator, told union delegates, since the mills now turn out more goods in a 40hour week than they used to in a 54-hour week, thanks to double turns...
...Moreover, it violates as In the Faber injunction, the constitutional rights of our people, for, as lp the Faber case, it is not only directed against those* affected by the strike, but others who might be sympathetic and want to aids the workers...
...Sea picture on Page Fetiri Labor Section, of Socialists wool defied injunction...
...fact," Rieve said...
...f mm) bhu si i pans' so ssai v eoarsas of asnoa eeuvwee, ccrthos, esgennnoticn cantoaigee, "ejoiosap o^mj ^o^oj j^js%t4^^s^ft sf^kf a'swv proving tke aerview of tbjs mctie...
...Messengers* Union 1 Fights Discharge The Telegraph Messengers Union has filed a complaint with the Regionel Labor Board, accusing the Western Union Telegraph Company of having discharged its president, David Newman, for activities in connection with the union...
...The struggle in this city had aroused militant workers in every industrial center of the country and messages of cheer and encouragement to the strikers had kept pouring in...
...Rifh+s Noliiftod "The granting of drastic injunctions on affidavits, without trial, nullifies often the rights guaranteed to our people under the constitution and the Bill of Rights...
...That problem, in view of recent injunctions, should receive serious consideration at the special session next month...
...More than 100 unions, includini electrical workers and railwaj men, hafl voted sympathy strikes which would hsve meant the flrsl general strike in the country...
...The AppellatJ Courts look with disfavor upon bag "Yestorday^afr^jrostiot Uandol B. Faber in the Brooklyn Supreme] Court granted an injunction against] the Bakery A Confectionery Work-] ers International Union of Ames* ica, Local No...
...Old Officials Ousted io New Jersey Building Trades ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.—The New Jersey State Building Trades Council, representing 100,000 building trade workers, is under new control as the result of an insurgent drive that ousted all the old officers at the annual convention and replaced them by a complete new slate...
...They have served their purpose by the time the appeal comes up for argument...
...605, affiliated witbj the American Federation of Labor...
...Louis Zucker, another leading member of ths | organization, was discharged on May 2, but-was subsequently reinstated after he had filed charges against the company...
...The parade had just begun when the Socialist group arrived...
...were tied up at their pier...
...The delegates will discuss the introduction of an alternating shift in 80-hour mills, to remedy inequality of working hours between regular and extra shifts...
...I enclose a copy of the injunction order.....You will note thai...
...He was 49...
...Tugs and dredge boats of ths Great' Lakes Dredge A Dock Co, and a tug operated by the E. E, Gillen Co...
...While the march was on, newsboys came running with extras, shouting the news that the electric workers had won a complete victory...
...without a trial, merely upon affM davits...
...Would Ban Use Of Laber Injunction A letter to Governor Lehman urging the submittal to the special session of the Legislature of measures to eliminate the abuses of the injunction in labor disputes has been sent by Jacob Panken, of Panken A Levy, counsel to the bakery workers in N. Y. C. Comrade Panken pointed out that the injunction order issued by Judge Faber violates constitutional rights...
...Another death punctured the fifth week of the longshoremen's strike on the Coast when John Knudsen, 50 years old, died in Los Angeles from wounds sustained when strikers were attacked May IS...
...Injunctions are sometimes issued in violation of the precedent established by the higher courts...
...Over 2,000 tugmen, including captains, linesmen and deck hands, quit in nearly all of the Great Lakes ports in protest against a decision handed down by H. Gilbert Franks, a federal mediator, in Cleveland arbitration proceedings...
...The use of injunctions in labor] disputes should, once for all, be...
...Because you'll need it and *tft worth (bo space...
...Victory followed a vote for a general sympathy strike taken in the majority of A. F. of L. unions in the city, and after tens of thousands of union men and women paraded through the streets Friday night in the biggest demonstration Toledo ever saw...
...The only excuse given for the discbarge was "chronic absence...
...You must realize the importance of that...
...Twelve hundred stevedores are on strike...
...plaintiff in that case had obtained an injunction from the court or...
...Terms of the agreement include: s five per cent wage increase and a guarantee of a minimum of 35 irents an hour to all employees, with virtual recognition of the union, although the agreement is made between the company and the ' union negotiation committee...
...w w w BUFFALO.—A general strike of tugmen holds the Great Lakes area in its grip...
...Remedial legislation is imperative...
...The reduction will be from" the level established in an order of April 22 which fixed wage rates by agreements in most districts and by administrative action in the remainder...
...The occupants escaped...
...One problem concerning the administration of justice that requires immediate attention is the granting of so-called temporary injunctions on affidavits alone in labor disputes," Panken's letter states...
...Abe Dubroff, the first president of the organization, was discharged in January, almost as soon as the organization was formed and became active...
...Provision for arbitration of disputes arising during the life of the contract and for arbitration of wage demands following expiration of the agreement, if both sides are willing...
...When news earns during the afternoon that Friday night was to see a massing of all organized labor in a giant torch-light parade, a bus load of party members and Ytneels was got together for the trip to Toledo...
...The "revolution" removed the last remnant of the control of Czar Theodore M. Brandle J|ACOB L. WINES Jacob.L...
...MANY GENERAL STRIKES OK'd BY ILGVWU (Continued from Page One) in the needle field...
...the now leader, t loot lath mr est...
...Tugs of the Milwaukee Tugboat line, an independent company...
...Socialists at the Detroit convention, sixty miles away, had been following the Toledo strike situation closely, eager to be of help, as was ta« Toledo local of the ' party...
...According to Judge Panken, Faber's injunction is a departure from what the Court of Appeals has laid down as the right of the workers...
...The penal code provides...
...Tugboat ser...
...Sometimes after an injunction has served its purpose, it is found upon the trial that the injuncion should never have been issued, and sometimes on appeal to the higher courts, determinations by the lower courts are upset...
...Joseph P. Ryan, president of the International LongI shoremen's Association, rejected {for the workers the state mediator's i proposal that separate agreements be arranged for each port or each company...
...Frisco business men estimate their losses at three milion dollars in the strike so far, with the workers digging in for further resistance...
...i..;-„v.;» ¦ j*MEXICAN GENERAL J STRIKE AVERTED | Following throats of ail thejj component unions in the National* Labor Chamber of Mexico in sym-jj pathy with the 3,000 workers off the Eagle Oil Co., on strike foi three weeks, it was agreed to allow President Rodriguez to be arbi trator...
...Although he had followed the company's rules and given notice to his office manager each time that he was going to be absent, Newman was summarily discharged on the return from his second trip to Washington on May 7, Comrade Ashe states...
...Wines, general organizer of the United Garment Work!ers fend more recently tys general j secretary-treasurer, bled last week at his home in Elmhurit, Long Island, of pneumonia...
...Arno P. Mowitz, counsel for the manufacturers' association, "the leading spirit and guide of the forces fighting unionism," is also German Consul General at Philadelphia, he pointed out...
...Do two things...
...As they hurried along to their place in the parade, Socialists were encouraged to see the outpouring of1 men and .women, Negro and white alike—tkexpiass expression of sympathy forthe Auto*Lite and electric workers...
...The home ef Ed Sludge, Negro secretary of the ' United Mine Workers' local, wot among those fired...
...A contract for si* months, ending December 1, then to continue indefinitely with thirty days' notice by either side required for abrogation...
...The strike at this plant had been the storm center of the Toledo industrial war which set this city on its ears as workers in all fields joined in the move for a general strike...
...j _ ' Another Striker Dies, But Frisco Stevedores Carry On SAN FRANCISCO...
...The original code idea had ,been to cut output in order to rei duce overproduction, that cancer in the capitalist system of production...
Vol. 17 • June 1934 • No. 69
