Big Textile Strike Looms
Big Textile Strike Looms Roosevelt's Friend Cason Cattotoay Tries Same Plain and Fancy' Chiseling, but the U.T.W. Is Ready for the Bosses Ifnt Washingtain Correspondent 18HINGTON, D. C.—A...
...Seventeen officials will come to Washington from all parts~of the country...
...organizing campaign, makes clear that the organization intends to fight to the finish to prevent operation of tlftvCalloway Mills under the Bedeaux ssytem, which the union calls "the stretch-out...
...are on strike against the introduction of the stretch-out and a reduction in wages...
...Dental mechanics and rejHJtore clerks...
...He promises that he B*ry to write a story of his three months in his new job for next HE...
...cents and so down the long line of proposed new misery in what will, if the Calloway plan goes through, be nothing short of a concentration camp operated on a starvation, stretch-out bask...
...together, if you know w ***** ¦ The New Leader goes to press we learn of the gradual strangling Bi the workers in Cuba (with the aid of munitions and gas on JHFprofits are made for American manufacturers who have another jjBs sale of gas'and bombs to industrialists to break strikes...
...Details are important, but...
...We have here the most serious situation since the September strike," said Gorman...
...We have offered every possible kind of co-operation...
...Our board will come here next week to meet the requirements of the situation, whatver they may be...
...while 11,000,000 men are out of H...
...The United lie Workers have declared to a finish on the Bedeaux im in Calloway Mills, Georgia, give a virtual challenge to the te House to repudiate belief "Cason Calloway, head of the I has a pull with the PresiI Calloway is said to be a peril friend of Roosevelt...
...even more Important fejflBi-fact that THAT GOVERNOR, TOO, WAS ELECTRO 1IY •» OF TUB WORR-liW...
...doffers who got SIB will get $12.40 per week...
...Is Ready for the Bosses Ifnt Washingtain Correspondent 18HINGTON, D. C.—A second, and a more furious ile strike looms as an immei possibility...
...biscuit strikers and office workers...
...Strikes in every section of the city and of the ¦Bitry . . . *It is impossible, what with this and that, to try to Ber even a list of the industrial struggles, lei alone do them jus B, . . Anyway, millions of people are thoroughly awake and Bad and righting...
...The New Leader goes to press we learn that a former movie star, Brat of luck since the talkies came in, has been arrested as a jewel lief, and in the same paper we read of the baby actors and actresses Hbg $100 to $1,000 a week...
...trading on White House support in his wage murdering campaign, and operating under the protection of the' governor of Georgia, and his...
...Grievances of Worker* "It is our fixed conviction that the cotton textile industry has selected the Calloway Mills to lead a nation-wide battle to install the stretch-out system...
...slasher tenders who got 37 cents will get 31...
...Preparing for Battle "Every resource of the union will be thrown into this battle," said Vice-President Gorman...
...It must now be equally definite in performance...
...Ths Oklahoma legislature passed a bill appropriating 110,000 to fight an epidemic of babies, the legislators being so dumb that they couldn't even tell a typographical error in the bill before t bein...
...We do not knew Just how close Mr...
...The next logical step is Bpendent political action . . . Speed the day...
...we read the charges and counterHEes of Coughlin, Long and Johnson . . . while the workers despenHt need nothing but organization and the self-respect that comes ¦from a realization of the dignity of their own strength . .. B The New Leader goes to press the President plans to go fishing ¦in Vincent Astor'8 palatial yacht off the Florida waters, while Boo soft-coal miners are planning to strike against intolerable conB...
...We regard the Calloway case as a. test of the validity of the whole strike settlement and as a test, furthermore, of what is to be the future employment policy and employment relation in the industry...
...After Biting everywhere for the Communists it is said for him that he is BVivocatiiiK anything, only lecturing on theoretical questions .. . ¦we read of deportations in California's Imperial Valley, outrages Hma...
...she wanted the thrill of feeling how |t felt to kill a man . . . There's a lot of educating to be done before we can call ourselves civilized • ¦ - Protests properly organized killed the idiotic Nunan "loyalty" bill in Albany, but organized employer pressure may yet kill the unemployment insurance bill there . . . Every day reasons arc piled mountains Jiigh for the workers to enter politics for themselves . . . Troops sent to break a strike in South Dakota, and several towns placed under martial law by a governor elected by workers' votes . . . Details of use of troops by Governor Talmadge (Huey's pal) are piling up on this desk...
...The Calloway Mills are at LaGrange and other points in Georgia...
...These mills are practically closed by a strike of union workers...
...I the New Leader Goes to Press B$ The New Leader goes to press things seem to he popping Hteverywhere...
...It cannot be made too clear that such an executive order is exactly the equivalent of law...
...pickets arrested here, there and everywhere, while the workBemsclves are desperately trying to build up an organization and Krth and influence . . . These things bane...
...Cason Calloway, regarded as close to the White House and as...
...The President set up a series of tribunals to handle just such cases...
...B) The New Leader goes to press we learn that the Bronx Tenants' H-Emergency League is back of the elevator operators' strike 100 ¦Leant, and through their counsel, Matthew M. Levy, they announce Hphey are prepared not to pay rent until the strike is settled .. . Barest to see the whole labor movement swing into action against Htoosevelt administration pauperization plan of subsistence as (Est prevailing wages on public works...
...We know it is no easy task to educate the mill owners in a whole industry to new ways...
...BAugust Claessens, who seems to have infinite capacity to undertake Hps any job in the Socialist and labor movement, reports that in his mm months as Labor Secretary of the Socialist Party be has been Bally thrilled by the things he has seen and done . .. Gus is about ¦pest soapboxer we have, and he has spoken to more unions than Est of us even suspected the existence of...
...issue of The New Leader and he says what he has to say will pan eye-opener to many swivel chair theoreticians . .. jHyherever you go you see picket lines...
...weavers who got 4ft cents will get 38...
...fixers who got 41 cents will get 32...
...of the Kr evolflijfg Third Party in Congress (but the Third Party must Hffrom the working class itself, and then it will become the Second B and soon the First Party...
...We have sought to bring about joint action with the industry for the promotion of sales of its prodon We want peace and we have the strength to follow the wayi'ol peace If employers permit us to have peace, "But we have here, in the Calloway Mills, Just such a situation as threatens the whole much sought structure of peace, We have here a Balkan district in which the ill-conaldertd and dictatorial act of an Indostrlal lord may menace the peace of a national Industry...
...To bring that about, complaint was filed today...
...is regarded as closest of ail to the White House proceeds thua in complete disregard and defiance of the White House orders which were intended to promote peace in the induatry with some slight measure of justice to the workers...
...Where Does Roosevelt Stand...
...The United Textile Workers of America have made every effort at restraint, in order to give the new machinery every possible change to get into real operation...
...In addition, the Calloway Mills have ordered a reduction in the earnings of its employees...
...The strike settlement was definite enough in its promises...
...The Calloway Mills have proceeded in utter ruthlessness to defy the work assignment boards and the National Textile Labor Relations Board, crested by the President, proceeding as if then boards did not etitt and proceeding at if there were no executive order...
...loom fixers who got from 62 to M cents will get from 48 to 4f...
...It's a looney world...
...The oway ftrike may lead to an§ general textile walkout for events seem tending that way at present...
...If we have to meet that fight on the national field, we shall do \{ and we shall win...
...The industry has picked the Southern industrialist which it believes closest to the White House and in our opinion it is up to the White House to repudiate that belief, because the Calloway Mills, in our Judgement, are in open defiance of the President's own executive order, which has all the force of law and which provides specifically that there shall be no change in the work load without permission of the board...
...Fiqht to the Finhh Francis J. Gorman, vice-president of the United Textile Workers in charge of Washington headquarters and leader of the union...
...There are the work assignment board, and there is the National Textile Labor Relations Board...
...Calloway has refused to come to Washington, according to VicePresident Gorman, unlaw formally served with an official summons...
...B, if a lot of people who look around them and get into touch with Bpslities of the struggle, and did what they should do there might Bo* so much silly theorizing based on pure metaphysics, and more Btical work done...
...strikebreaking troops, has been picked as the leader of a national union-smashing campaign...
...card'hands who got 37 cents will get 31...
...To decide upon what next steps to take, the United Textile Workers' executive board has been called to meet in Washington next week on Wednesday...
...The Calloway Mills have ordered a change in the work load, installing the stretch-out, which i* technically known as the Bedeaux system, so named after its French author...
...In the same .paper we read, too, that ^Btnerous Jimmie Walker, who made such a grand-stand play for Hpsthy when he went to California to plead for Tom Mooney, piled Kite] bills of $2,079.07, including $55 for a poker set, and now the Hj is trying to collect . . . Labor has no "friends," except it elf, and Bsooner all workers learn that the better . .. iHrAnd while we're on the subject there's the little affair of John Btohey, British dillcttante Communist, held for deportation...
...It is definitely up to the industry and to the Textile Luhor Relations Board whether this strike is to be settled where it is or in a larger field...
...Cason CaHoway thinks he Is to the White House and the New Deal program, bat we know that the induatry re* gards him as standing highly in that respect and we have every reason to believe the industry is prepared to back him on that a< - count as the leader In a nationwide wage-smashing program...
...There is no mistaking the signals when a mill whose head...
...Formal complaint charging specific violations of the cotton textile code was filed byi the union against the Calloway Mills, where in three Georgia communitites, LaGrange, Manchester and Millstead, 3,000 union textile worker...
...neckwear workers Hfruck drivers . . . Conditions are pretty bad, but at least millions Barkers are not taking things lying down, and that's something...
...The wage reductions are so severe that, for example, a spinning department rate that was, 40 cents is cut to 86 cents an hour...
...it took new legislation to change it back to rabies . . . Milwaukee is found to be America's safest city . . Well, it has had 21 years of Socialist mayors in the last 25 years . . . A Negro sings a hymn as a rope is placed about his neck in the latest Mississippi lynching, and a pretty young girl of 20 asked for the privilege of springing the trap when a Negro convict, is hanged...
Vol. 18 • March 1935 • No. 11
