In View of Widespread Rumors About Local New York
In View of Widespread Rumors About Local New York IN view of rumors spread all over the country by the So-called militants about what is going on in Hew Tork, and the motion of Professor...
...Thsf3 don't see the tearing down of Bastille, nor the setting up of ttjfl guillotine...
...j! Look how they captured and (fl vested with their own outlook 9 proletarian revolution known j the world as Christianity...
...As the roll was called, they objected to almost every nonmilitant delegate...
...Through their parallel organization and by secret caucuses they hoped to elect a majority to the Central Committee...
...Local 142 held an election on February 11, and over 1,700 members took part in the election...
...A basketball team, as well as an indoor baseball team for women, is now being organized under the leader-hip of Sister Coll...
...Financial Secretary and Business Agent, Max K. Polikoff...
...m u n i s t s , splinter communists, R.P.C.'s, and anyone who had an axe to grind...
...strains of the Marseillaise...
...Saturday, March 28th 2:00 p.m...
...The members are looking forward to this affair with enthusiasm...
...Educational work is progressing satisfactorily...
...The March Ball...
...At this convention, held early In 1030, the militants came with a prepared program covering everything from cheers for Russia to a declaration that the A. F. of L. had arrived at the end of its era, and that it in incumbent upon the S.P...
...At the meeting of the Central Committee on March 6. a militant delegate stated that an armed gang was assembled in a union office adjoining the rodeting room of the Central Committee...
...Therefore this meeting has been called to voice a protest against the loss of the elementary rights of workers...
...Samuel H. Friedman, Jack Altman and William Gomberg, will challenge injunctions as an attack on the basic rights of working people...
...What is said here of the Cotillo injunction can be said with equal force of the injunction against the Wise shoe strikers...
...The installation took place on March 5, at Webster Hall...
...LOCAL 142 has made considerable advance during the past nlonth in organization and educational fields...
...The Cotillo injunction was designed to deprive white collar workers of the right to join a union...
...To understand the situation, one must have the background...
...Says Dean Inge: "I have offl smiled t6 see a congregation' 9 devout and honorable women loadefl with furs and jewels singing 9 Magnificat, which is more revoh*^ tionary than ;The Red Flag.' I ¦ One frequently witnesses gatW eringg of fat reactionaries reehflj of stolen wealth not infrequent...
...Aftojf...an eleven-months' struggle, with consistent picketing daily, rain or shine, the union signed an agreement with the Nadler Nockwear Corp., which employs over one hundred people...
...The fact that this firm was non-union used to be a handy alibi to many signed up Arms when caught with agreement violations...
...Recording Secretary, Ana Wenger...
...All he could find when appointed on a committee to investigate was one comrade put there bv the house manager to prevent anyone from entering through the fire escape and upsetting the office of the union...
...It is time to have a care that the nabobs don't grab OUR Revolution, which mankind knows as the Labor Movement...
...VicePresident...
...They would not permit the organization of new branches, and in every way sabotaged the work of the party...
...So accustomed are they to grab*' bing things and making them COM tribute to their comfort, that they even grab the revolutions of the poor and turn them into instrumentalities for the further aggrandizement of the sleek tribes of wealth...
...of A., Local 25...
...The outdoor baseball team and other athletic activities for men are under the direction of Brother Woolf...
...Finance Committee, Lillie Siemering, Lyra Cixto, Ben Danciger...
...Meetings of Trade Union Socialists Saturday, March Mth 1:30 p.m.—Local 17, I.L.G.W.U., 7 East 15th St...
...President, William F. Newman...
...Thursday, March 21st 8:00 p. m—Building Service Employees' Union, Room 408, 7 E. 16th St...
...Monday, March 18th 6:30 p.m.—Button Makers, Local 132, I.L.G.W.U., Room 408, 7 E. 15th St...
...There being no holdover officers, and the executive secretary having resigned, Algernon Lee, chairman of the Executive, which holds office until May, opened the meeting of the new Central Committee on March 6th, its regular meeting date...
...As to the branches dissolved by the City Executive...
...1:30 p.m.—A.C.W...
...Them in the best places in the IB churches and listen with affeelH and pious serenity to the eafM] which the Bible heaps upon 9 rich and the promises o* heliJH for them...
...The rich may not M exactly clever, but they are exceedingly adaptable...
...In View of Widespread Rumors About Local New York IN view of rumors spread all over the country by the So-called militants about what is going on in Hew Tork, and the motion of Professor Coolidge to cite the New York State Executive before the N.E.C...
...Manager, Joseph Tin on...
...When they found themselves in a minority, they spread all kinds of rumors...
...Neckwear Workers Advance ly Joseph Tuvim Manager, Local 143, I.L.O.W.U...
...Joseph Glass, promi-nent labor attorney...
...They too have been arrested in their fight for a better wage and decent working conditions...
...Classes On March 15, at Webster Hall, the local will also have its second annual Victory Ball and Show...
...to organize real revolutionary industrial unions I The convention adopted a clearcut Socialist urogram, not needing those who wanted a Communist program, nor the Thomasites, who, intoxicated by the 175,000 votes cast for Thomas, wanted to change the party's name...
...Why these branches were dissolved and the members transferred to other branches in the districts in which they reside, is dealt with in ail Other part of this issue...
...Millinery Workers, Local 24, Room 408, 7 E, 15th St...
...When they demanded a roll calf on some technical issue they couldl not muster more than one-third out of a body of over 120 delegates present...
...At this conference they decided to publish a paper in competition with and in opposition to The New Leader, - Under the by-laws of Local New York the term of the City Gentral Committee expires on the last day of February...
...They grabbed the French Revolution, just as they did the Christian Revolution...
...George Badame...
...When this is achieved Local 142 will be in a position to boast that they have the industry completely organized in New York City...
...Nearly 50 members are attending the classes weekly, under the tutorship of Frank Cross, waith of the Educational Department of the I.L.O.W.U...
...Therefore, they resorted to obstructive tactics in both the Central and 'Executive Committees...
...But when these were taken up for consideration their objections were so flimsy that they were compelled to withdram them...
...Following the campaign, Local New York called a City Convention to take stock and lay down a line of policies and principles...
...Branches were colonized, and the whole local wasn to be colon iied by the admission Of Communists, ex com...
...Every Monday evening, many women members of the local meet at P. S. 11, and are taking part in athletic activities...
...They would always point to the Nadler firm as one that was "getting away with it...
...In the athletic and social Celia Coll are doing a good job...
...Hence, they continued to form a parallel organization in the branches, the focal, and the state...
...By these tactics they prevented' the committees from functioning and prolonged the meetings until after midnight to tire and disgust the comrades...
...On the basis of that program, the party carried on, gaining in membership, growing in influence, and increasing its vote...
...But this did not satisfy the so-called militants...
...Another Fort to Be Shelled Now the union will devote its energies towards the unionization of another anti-union fort, the Simpn-Durlacher Corp., employing about 125 workers...
...Stemm-m^SrlMkSt^ 3:30 p. m.—Furriers' Union, 7 E. 15th St...
...They vied with the Communists in besmirching the character of those who disagreed with them...
...Don't let Them Steal It...
...Rumors of dissolution of party branches and wholesale expulsions were spread by them fiom Maine to California, and reports that the police would be called in by the "Old Guard...
...From the Federation News, official organ,of the Chicago Federation of Labor) AGAIN and again, in the course of centuries, the grand dukes of business and industry have taken a proletarian revolt and twisted it to their own mercenary ends, just as tfl have done with the NRA...
...Many comrades were dissatisfied with the conduct of the 1929 municipal campaign, especially by the head of the ticket...
...As to the "wholesale expulsions,'* not a single member of Local New York has been expelled at any time within the last two years...
...This was not to the liking of the militants, and their leaders tried obstruction, but without success...
...But still they had no majority in the Central Committee...
...When a temporary chairman was to be elected, they did not even nominate a candidate...
...Lecture by Nathan Chanin on "The Need of More Militancy, Clarity and Idealism in our Union...
...Yet their hours of work are notoriously longer and wages lower than workers of organized trades, Judge Cotillo feels that because of difference in manners, white collar workers do not need as much clothing, food and the other necessities of life as do other working people...
...Meanwhile, their delegates were seatedj on motion of an "Old Guard" delegate, pending further consideration...
...Brownsville Workers To Protest Injunction A mass meeting protesting injunctions will be held this Sunday at 8 p. m., at the Brownsville Labor Lyceum, 219 Sackman St.eet, Brooklyn, Frank R. Crosswaith, General Organizer of the I.L.G.W...
...On Saturday and Sunday, February 23-24, they held a convention to unify the scattering leftwing forces at which the keynoter y. had hoped tho Old Guard would leave the party, but they did not, so we will have to put them out...
...rolling forth the revolutions...
...to show cause why the charter of the New York State organization should not be revoked, it is necessary to tell readers of The New Leader what the situation is, so that they can judge for themselves...
...U., Local 22...
...Organization Committee, Ethel Jay, Rose Shapiro, Peter Todaro, Kate Wess...
...The following officers and committees were elected...
...This is the plain story of what happened at the Central Committee...
...In the branches where they had a majority or where they happened to have a majority at a particular meeting, delegates who did not vote with the militants were recalled and others elected in their stead...
...Executive Board: Mildred Bailey, Gertrude Grey, Mary McFarlene, Olive Raminex, Marie de Sena, Bella Arons, Jennie Comiter, Nettie in Amico, Thersa De Paolo, Jean Eichengreen, Mary Marino, icnrn* R*««»#rT- Esther Snyder, Ralph Bloom, Charles Filangieri, Emanuel Flax, Max Friedman, Murray Hoffer, Jack Kravitz, Ernest Rathkopf, George Silverman...
...While the older Socialists waited until after the campaign, the new members were impatient and started to organize a "militant" group iriside the party...
...They wanted a semi-Communist program and above all control of the Party...
Vol. 18 • March 1935 • No. 11
