WORKERS' UNEMPLOYED UNION FIGHTS FOR MILK FOR JOBLESS
Workers' Unemployed Union Fights for Milk for Jobless ly Saul fmrkw filNCE the rise in price of rati*. which affects all workers in the city, particularly the unemployed, (thje Workers'...
...Although the union failed to win full recognition, in the poll conducted by the Regional Labor Board the majority of the workers supported the industrial union as opposed to the company's fake employees' association...
...PQJJMIf Jf^etfeRj MB^UBfLmB to organit* the workers employed in the metal trades into one big union, according to union officials...
...Rankin, Jr., Sec'y...
...One of the recent actions of tht Central Committee of the Workers' Unemployed Union was the consideration and complete refutation of another slanderous charge of the Communists...
...There has been a stirring spirit of unrest among the workers through the plant...
...He said there would be 50,000 quarts a day to be sold to the workers...
...The Workers' Unemployed Union will oppose^such a way out for Mr...
...To cap it all, however, the city has been selling only some 10,000 quarts a day, not 50,000...
...WAtNER LABOR.MUL 1 SCORED AS WEAPON , AGAINST WORK!AS WASHINGTON, D. C —Defeat of the amended Wagner labor bill on the grounds that "it will inevitably serve as a weapon in the hands of employers to crush organized labor" was urged on all members of the United States Senate in a letter sent by the American Civil Liberties Union and signed by Harry F. Ward, chairman, and Arthur Garfield Hays, general counsel...
...Union, Local No...
...In addition, some of the locals are sending delegations to their aldermen to press on the officials their demand for cheap milk so that workers' children may be kept alive...
...Later they started a rent strike of their own and asked Becker to cooperate...
...The contract protides for a minimum wage that is an increase over the old wage rates, and pay for overtime and legal holidays...
...are beginning to realize that only a new social order can solve the problems of the workers, employed and unemployed...
...These Communists refused the united front that had been offered...
...Upon investigation, it was found that when Becker had tried to start a rent strike in the building, the Communists who lived there refused to cooperate...
...Since the strike ended, there has been another wage increase of eight per cent for the staunchest supporters of the union—the workers in the mechanical departments...
...As a result of the contract, the out-of-town CBS stations have already increased their technical staffs, the local stations having augmented their staffs last September when the local association chapter was formed...
...Willism H. Pope, vice-president ot the union, and Comrade Willism Karlln, attorney for the union,wll) be amqng the speakers...
...MEETING CALLED TO FORM LABORATORY TECHNICIANS' fOQy To the Labor Editor: Very little attention^has been focused on the ,yicious working conditions and poor standard of living under which laboratory workers are compelled to exist...
...Guardia appears to be almost ready to advocate legislation to provide relief for the unemployed through an an increased subway fare which will, of course, fall heavily on tht mass of the workers of the city...
...which affects all workers in the city, particularly the unemployed, (thje Workers' Unemployed Union is taking action to make sure that the starving workers of the city are not to be denied milk for their children...
...Company officials are afraid to try to curb the increased activities, of union members, since they f ea* the outbreak of another and even more effective strike which would b« disastrous to the •' company at | this time, with the busiest season close at hand...
...Do two things...
...Joint Committee of Laboratory Technicians: Edw...
...No self-respecting laboratory worker" should fail to attend...
...The national officers are Harry Spears, of WABC in New York, president...
...Since there are a number of Russianspeaking workers William J. Viliatzer, og the Russian branch of the party, has also spoken at strike meetings in the language...
...1 At a recent meeting of the' socalled joint workers' plant committee, in which there are representatives of the Industrial union and the company's, fake association, the union, having the majority of representatives, forced the company's puppets to agree to make new demands upon the firm for an additional 15% increase for all workers...
...It was shown that some of the people who continued to pay the rent were themselves Coiiimunists who kept strike signs in their windows...
...When the Workers went back some weeks ago, they were not, of course, satisfied with what they had won, but they were resolved to take advantage of the opportunity to dig in In the plant, to organize in season and out, and to take every opportunity that presented itself to strengthen the union so as to be .in a more powerful position to negotiate and> if necessary, to battle for further concessions...
...John Palmquist, of WCCO in Minneapolis, vice-president, arid Harold Forry,«f WJSV in Washington, D. C, secretory-treasurer...
...Yet the Communists claimed that the strike had been won despite the opposition of Comrade Becker t . RADIO TECHNICIANS OBTAIN FAVORABLE COLUMBIA CONTRACT The newly organized Association of Columbia Broadcasting Technicians, taking in all engineering employees of the Columbia Broadcasting System, has signed an agreement with the company establishing better working conditions...
...Speaker* In various languages will also adCamden Cannery Worker8 Get Po8t-$trike Gain* ly Nook C Walters CAMPEN, N. J.-The victory of the workers in the Campbell soup cannery plant here, following the settlement of the strike led by the Cannery Canners' IndustrialJUnion, continues to broaden as uninterrupted organizational work brings new gains...
...Becker, who did not pay rent, refused to display a strike sign because the signs did not bear the union label...
...The union attacked the amended bill as weakening established tights of labor and lacking three vital guarantees to workers found in the original draft: 1. "The act will be "used to impose compulsory arbitration, for it does not affirm labor's right to strike.* 2. "It does not outlaw company controlled unions...
...The stUkeri are III food fighting spirit...
...Build the Socialist Party and get subs for The New Loader to help build It...
...Comrade Becker, member of the East Bronx local and of the Socialist Party, and member of the Executive Board of Local 9 of the I.L.G.W.U., was charged in the Communists' daily sheet with having sabotaged a rent atrike conducted by the Communists in the building in which Becker lived...
...The first results gained for the workers a seven per cent wage increase, seniority rights for the workers employed before the strike, and no discrimination against any employee for union membership and activity...
...The unemployed in the' W.U.U...
...of the workers...
...In a dovert'attempY to put a quietus on union activity, the company handed out the eight per cent raise...
...A statement of our program and report of our activities thus far will be given...
...After years of academic training, we find ourselves faced with the oppressive system of volunteering (working without pay for an indefinite period of time) or so low a salary that it is an insult-to refer to it as such We urge all chemists, laboratory technicians, bacteriologists and students who intend to enter this field to Join with us in united action against these conditions...
...The regional labor board, suggested that the strikers return to work pending decision In Washington,, provided, ,np reprisals against striken, wars taken, but the m»nagement refused...
...More* Workers Striking at Lion Plant, Long Island Although the National Labor Board has decided in favor of the workers, the strike still continues against the Lion match factory in Long Island, pending some method of enforcing the decision...
...Since last fall, they have been organized in the Match Workers' Union, affiliated with the A. F. of L.At their meetings they have been addressed by representatives of various labor organizations, Including the Socialist Party...
...The national executive committee •consists of Spears, G. Godfrey, of WPG in Atlantic City, and Forry...
...LaGuardia...
...The national board consists of one representative of each station chapter...
...The .national organization that negotiated the contract was formed last month at a convention held in New York under the chairmanship of L. N. Hatfield...
...He offered a united front with the Workers' Unemployed Union, and was told first that they had never heard of that organization and then that it was a scab organization...
...Mayor LaGuardia, with his characteristic "liberalism," has announced that due to his efforts milk_ will be available for workers' families at 8 cents a quart...
...The union settled with the object of gaining a foothold in hitherto Impregnable territory: of securing a favorable position with prospect of future struggle and as an encouragement to the labor movement in this too-long held stronghold of scab labor...
...When the strike was over, practically nothing was gained by the strikers...
...Fifty thousand quarts is a drop in the bucket of the needs of the fcity's workers...
...The locals of the Workers' Unemployed Union have been distributing leaflets in the neighborhoods to caU the workers together in the locale to arrange demonstrations at the milk distribution stations and the relief stations to demand 8-cent milk for all who need it...
...They are recruiting new members and* actively organizing the unemployed for their fight for adequate living standards, which are no better under the liberal LaGuardia administration than they weri under Tammany's O'Brien...
...Prominent speakers representing various fields will address the audience...
...Many who were intimidated during the strike are joining the union by the score today...
...All the locals of the Workers' Unemployed Union are meeting regularly and receiving regular reports from their hard-working grievance committees, which are kept busy by the delays, red tape, and injustice of the relief system...
...3. "It does not require employers to recognize and deal with representatlijros...
...Becker thereupon refused te take any active part in the strike, ilthough he refrained from paying his rent...
...assa...
...We call your attention to the fact that there are over 250,000 families on relief in New York, in addition to the millions of employed workers who are supporting families on starvation wages...
...The past couple of weeks have seen also the starting of two new, locals of the Workers' Unemployed Union, 65 workers being present at the first meeting of Local 34 on the West Side of Manhattan...
...Iron and Bronze Workers to Meet A mass meeting of iron and .bronze workers has been called for 8 p. m. Friday, 15, In Debs Auditorium, ,7 Bast' IRth .Street, .by the international Association of Bridge Structural Ornamental, Iron and pronsef Workers...
...Attend the mass meeting Friday, June 15, at 8:30 p. m., at Manhattan Industrial High School, 129 East 22nd St., cornor of Lexington Ave...
Vol. 17 • June 1934 • No. 70
