FIGHT AGAINST VICIOUS DISCRIMINATION STARTS IN TEXTILE STRIKE AREA
Phillip, Sidney
Fight Against Vicious Discrimination Starts In Textile Strike Area By Sidney Phillip WASHINGTON. — Someone once said that the war ia over and the fighting has juat begun. The great textile...
...Woskow was charged with vk> lating the Lauer order in thet said 'the theatre owners are lading, goading and persecuting tk employees' and that in spite of * court and the injunction he **• going to speak night after nigh* in front of the Ritz and Art The* tre and request patrons not to setropize said theatre until the figs* was won and that he would stssJ with Local 306 until the fight wsi won...
...The employers in various ways violated the agreement, even retaining some of the scabs...
...However, it was finally voted to return with the rest of the textile workers...
...Defense Committee composed of Ben T. Osborne, executive secretary of the Oregon State Federation of Labor...
...A. F. L. Convention to Open in Frisco Monday Faces Grave Problems By Sam S. Whit* CAN FRAN CI SCO.'—Labor leadera of national note began gathering in this city during the last week for the most important national convention of the American Federation of Labor since the early days of the federation...
...Undie Worfceri Organhlnq ST...
...The charges grow out of the strike of the Internationa] Longshoremen's Association last May when the stevedoring companies refused to recognize the I.L.A...
...The union depended upon the president's promise that workers would be taken back without discrimination and With the right to belong to a genuine workers' organization...
...The miployers refused to abide by the leelslhm and appealed \b the aurts, which weald mean probably two years before a final decision would be rendered...
...John P. Frey, secretary-treasurer of the Metal Trades Department, fn his annual report to the metal tradesman made a strong recommendation for continuance of the craft union organization of the A. F. of L. The building tradesmen heard a similar strong defense of craft unionism from their departmental president, Michael J. McDonough...
...The union's general staff reckoned as one of its notable gains the renewed opportunity to organize a real union, well disciplined, well financed and wellheeled...
...This state has a drastic anti-syndicalist act and in addition a statute has been upheld by the Supreme Court providing that when a death occurs as the result of a riot, all persons shown to have "precipitated the riot are guilty of murder...
...Solomon argued that the ce* plaint was inadequate as a matt* of law and cited authorities in tt* appellate courts of the state, I*" eluding the Court of AppeahMJ support of his contention...
...Members of the union voted to strike in spite of the resignation of the manager, three business agents and two organizers of the union...
...Hight Discrimlnovlon The fighting, however, must still go on unabated...
...I. A. Snider, of the Railroad Brotherhoods and three members of the local I.L.A., Charles G. Peabody, secretary, Fred Games and John Beaton...
...David Dubinin, of the International Ladies' Gsi ment Workers' Union...
...San Francisco labor has been preparing a grand welcome for the labor movement...
...One effort to settle the strike broke down on Tuesday when the manufacturers' association flatly rejected an agreement suggested by Ben Golden, executive secretary of the New York Regional Labor Board...
...The district attorney will prosecute the accused union men under this provision and big reactionary interests are determined to railroad the men...
...George L. Berry of the Pressmen's Union...
...Gust Anderson, executive secretary of the Portland Central Labor Council...
...The strikers have been scat back to work by the general strike committee (composed of rank and file unionists) and the executive council of the United Textile Worken, in accordance with authority vested in them by the last convention atHd pursuSnt to President Rooseveft's promise to "see Justice done" to the textile workers...
...it now one t the largest internationals* in tbi federation...
...The Mayer of Portland even "sought to use city funds te break the strike while thugs of the employers were clothed with city authority...
...they agreed because it was the best thing that could be won, and it sent the workers back with their lines intact and with the splendid lessons of mass striking, mass picketing and mass attack to inspire them...
...The war la over...
...In most cases anti-strike and anti-picketing injunctions obtained by the dozens by mill own(Continned en Page S-L) N.Y.Pocketbook Workers Out On Strike IdkOflE than 7,900 poeketboofc *" workers in New York City and elsewhere have responded to the general strike call issued last Thursday by the International Pockethook Workers Union...
...These individual settlements provide for a 36-hour week and a ten per cent increase in wages...
...An indication of the feeling i labor circles was given by the slad ing attacks made at the recent Cat fornia State Federation of Labi convention at Pasadena by Hof Ernst of this city, an internationi vice-president of the Hotel ti Restaurant Employes' Union, as Anne Peterson of the Los Angen United Garment Workers' Unios The convention vigorously as plauded the demand of these r* delegates that Johnson be removal Probable Demands Demands which are expected be made by the A. F. of L. eel vention are: more reemployment I shortening work hours throOJ NRA codes and additional putt works...
...One shot, which appears to have been fired by a strikebreaking gang boss, killed James Connor, a college student and scab...
...more purchasing power I boosting code minimum wages...
...The demands of the strikers are as follows: reduction of the workweek from 40 to 16 house...
...After M days the employers were compelled to accept arbitration by a government board composed of Edward F. McGrady, Archbishop Hanna and O. K. Cushing...
...The labor editor of THE NEW LEADER was among those arrested and held in jail for three days.] Silk Strikers Return In the New Jersey silk area, it was thought for a while that the strike would be continued, and that in addition, the dyers, scheduled to walk out on Monday, would not,be deterred from striking...
...The stevedores refuse to recede from their previously reported demands and the seamen are determined to go ahead with their strike called for October 8. The Internstional Longshoremen's Association, under President Joseph P. Ryan, is asking the 30hour week and higher wages and overtime pay in order to reduce unemployment among the 40,000 dock workers in all ports along the Atlantic seaboard from Portland, Maine, to Hampton Roads, Virginia...
...Sixty-three pickets arrested in a Mass demonstration before the Harry Schwartz Yarn Mills in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn, where an anti-picketing Injunction signed by Justice May obtains, were discharged when they came up for trial...
...The organized workers have organized the I.L.A...
...For Industrial Form These two craft unionists, backed by the large delegations from the metal and building trades Crafts, will make a hard fight to keep the federation as it is...
...The union meanwhile is pressing its countereuit to restrain Passaic police and city officials from interfering with peaceful picketing for organization purposes...
...The union executives didn't agree because they would rather depend on such promises than upon the workers/ might...
...Woskow, who « the Socialist candidate for Stan Senate in the 22nd District, Brow was arrested while addressing I Socialist meeting the night of Sep tember 14, 1934, near the Kiti Theatre, 180th Street and Bryanl AAreniie, one of the theaters againsl which Local 304 is conducting I unionization camuaian...
...The result is that 28 union men are being held for murder...
...The maritime employees, organized in the International Seamen's Union, are determined to go through with their strike on the eighth...
...The dragnet prosecution m part of a program of the employing class to smash union labor along , the Pacific Coast...
...Gulden's agreement provided for a 37^-hour week and a Ave per cent increase in both wages and employment, all to take effect immediately...
...Scores of manufacturers have applied to the union for settlements on this basis...
...Union delegates have returned from their trips to their locals during the past week armed with imperative mandates from their members...
...by Supreme Court Justt Lauer against Local 306 of tb Motion Picture Operators' Union and those sympathizing with il does not apply against "sympathii era" condemning the injunctk provided they are not defendant or acting in collusion, it m contended by Charles Solomon Socialist gubernatorial candidate in the trial of Herman Wosko*, before Magistrate Cross, in the 6u District Magistrates Court, BroMj late Wednesday...
...The week prior to trfe convention has been given over to the annual convention of the Metal Trades and Building Trades Departments...
...In the South, the concentration camps in which strikers have been held have been liquidated, but the National Guard has been active in shooing strikers back to work or forcing them, to "stay home if they aren't satisfied to earn their bread...
...Returning workers are paying 15 per cent of their wages to the strike fund...
...STEVEDORES AND SEAMEN MAY WALK OUT A STRIKE of longshoremen and seamen on interceastal and deep sea ship lines which may develop into s huge maritime workers' strike if the teamsters also go but m sympathy loomed today...
...But the righting, if it hasn't just begun, if continuing all along Use line...
...Flght Expected The two departmental conventions are laying the groundwork of the bitter fight which ia expected over the issue of industrial unionism versus craft unionism...
...The strike is being run by rank and file committees in which Socialists are taking leading parts...
...In the meantime, more than 500 strikers have returned to work on the basis of individual agreements with manufacturers...
...The mill officials are taking advantage of every opportunity to harrasa returning workers...
...The metal and building trades are among the strongest crafts in the federation, and in past years have more or less dictated the policiesof the federation...
...The resignations and the strike call trere overwhelmingly approved by the membership...
...In spite of the agreement of national textile industry spokesemen to abide by the decision of the Winant baud, mill owners are already welching, and rank discrimination is being practiced against the strikers, especially against these active ia the union...
...10 per cent Increase fn wages...
...The onion agreed not because ft really fart that • great victory had been achieved Wot because, face to face with threatened disintegration of a msgftihVent HPM and with complete inability to carry the burdteri of court and Strike costs and relief, it was glid to end the strike with the United States government solemnly promising to back op the union...
...There is evidence that employing interests' throughout the nation will help the preaeeajttass by abppiplWg funds to aid in convicting the accused men...
...Former Judge Jacob Panken is adviser to the union's conference committee...
...o age pensions and unemployment ii sura nee...
...LOUIS.—A mass meeting of workers ft the women's underwear industry has been catted here by the I.L.G.W.U...
...Funds for the defense should be sent to Charles G. Peabody, 214 Labor Temple, Portland, Ora SAYS INJUNCTION CAN'T RESTRAIN SYMPATHIZERS *I*HE sweeping injunction issue...
...On the other side there will be such leaders as John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers...
...It may tahe a year or possibly two years before all the cases will bo disposed of, as the defense will insist on separate trials for each defendant...
...By way of answer to the attitude of the bosses, the union has extended the strike to more than 40 previously...
...They opened a new dispatching hall from which the scabs were sent to the docks...
...In addition, in a number of centers, the resentment of the strikers at the treatment to which they are being subjected is so great hat they are proposing to continue the strike until local agreements have been signed...
...No union man had firearms, but some windows in the illegal hiring hall were broken...
...Prior to the resignation of Get eral Hugh Johnson, NRA admirii t rat or, this week, it had been en tain that the convention would pai a resolution asking his removs The recent clash between Gorml and Johnson, during which Johns* attacked Norman Thomas, brouft the matter to the forefront...
...The great textile general strike ia over...
...The complaint against Woske* charged a violation of Subdiviflior 4 of Section 000 of the New Yofl Penal Law dealing with crimiia contempt...
...Franci Gorman of the United Textil Workers, and Sidney Hillraan < the Amalgamated Clothing Work efi...
...all these 'changes to take effect immediately...
...In New Yerk City, the strike in the yarn plants, conducted with the cooperation of the Socialist Party, is still going on, although it is expected to be settled in a few days...
...non-union shops...
...Victor Olander, national secretary, has been conferring with representatives of the United License O..cers' Association, the Masters', Mates' and Pilots' Association and the Marine Engineers Benevolent Association to enlist their aid in the strike...
...Both departments consider that they hare a "vested interest" in their respective craft jurisdictions...
...10 per cent additional employment of workers to relieve unemployment...
...One of the highlights of the coi vent ion will be tile session set ask for the discusion of labor's ant Fascist and anti-Nazi progrsl (Continued on Page 3-1...
...The strikers returned to work pending a decision, with the understanding that the scabs should be discharged...
...Working conditions and Wam» at i Wat Saatatltlai d» ikw sAti aro- sesfaaaay* ¦***¦* m is* same industry in other cities Union Loneshoremen on Trial For Murder in Coast Frame'Up By a New Leader Correspondent PORTLAND, Ore.—What prom* ises to be a labor trial as famous as the Moyer-Haywood-Pettibone trial a quarter century ago will occur when 28 union men of this city go to trial charged with murder...
...the latter onion will vote i the convention for the first tina white the I.L.G.W.U...
...The 54th annual convention of the federation opens Monday...
...Fully 90 per cent of the workers on the waterfronts of coast cities had become members of the union...
...to organite a k...
...The strike lasted M days, daring which time state and city authorities helped the employers ia their attempt to break the strike...
...The recent general strike revitalized the movement and there is a general feeling that no more suitable locale could have been chosen for a convention which may change the entire trend of the labor movement, an important part in which change can be ascribed to the general strike itself, as has been noted in previous articles in the Labor Section...
...A number of scabs in the hall were armed and seme fired...
...The trial of Eil Keller, general manager of the Associated Silk Workers' Union, and Samuel H. Friedman for leading the picket line of workers at the Botany Worsted _ Mills in delanee of a court injunction takes plaee this Friday...
...On August 20 some members of the I.L.A., incensed at the perfidy of the bosses, gathered near the unauthorized hall Ad a disturbance followed...
...In every case of elections held under the supervision of NRA representatives, the workers choie the I.L.A, as their organization...
Vol. 17 • September 1934 • No. 98
