Dental Workers Strike For Union Conditions
Dental Workers Strike For Union Conditions BxTY dental laboratories signed Blip with the union in the first bee days of the general strike of pntal technicians in the metropolian area...
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...Brooklyn, 215, Kanx, 84...
...also providing the weather is always favorable lor work and sickness docH not interfere...
...HE Farmers' Educational and Cooperative Union of America ¦he National Farmers' Union), Bjt powerful nationwide organ¦tion of farmers in America, supBts the McCarran amendment to B Administration's Work Relief ¦ogram, according to a statement Hped by its two authorized legisptive representatives in WashingB» D. C.—E...
...SsSHHHHH Exploited Sharecropperf**1 To Speak in Harlem 'Till Harlem Labor Committee * opened a drive to aid the exploited Southern sharecroppers at a conference at the 137th Street Branch Harlem Y.W.C.A...
...A second meeting of the Joint Committee will be held this week at the 137th Street Harlem YWCA to complete and perfect plans...
...Union Workers Get Pittance on Land Whi e Mu les Are Well Fed A True Tale of a Strike and Its Aftermath, Together With a Moral By Dan Killinqcr Hopewell, Va...
...demands the installation of acid fumigators, suction machines, and ventilating facilities, as well as the transfer of laboratories from basements, back-rooms of private residences, and garages...
...T h e Bwrican farmer, receiving cost ¦production prices for his prodB> is the best potential customer Hml>i>i', and the laborer, who reHjre* a 'living wage,' is the best Bmtial customer of the farmci B*n farmers receive less than ¦t of product inn prices, lal...
...The platform calls for more kdeqnatl relief measures, including public works at union rates, antieviction legwtlutfon, and representation of the unemployed on the relief bureaus...
...These Beratories are divided as follows: Bnhattan, 315...
...The safest course is to refrain from ?.uch purchases until the strike is settled...
...The union asks for a thirty-hour week in place of the present fortyhour standard and an increase of wages in the various classifications that would bring the average earnings to $35 weekly, as opposed to the present average of $22...
...and a notorious openBp exponent...
...These Mi nployed strikers will be paid 26c per hour' for building (toll 81 thereon and 25c per.hour,for farming the land...
...A big barn will house sufficient mules to supply each plot-farmer ^ witf the use of a mule two days per week to work the land...
...One thousand men and women are 'still unemployed because the production departments are still closed...
...A lafga acreage of land will be mapped OUt in 5 arte plots...
...Hpe interests of farmers and Hpers are inseparable...
...The "settlement" to date is that a small knitting department is again operating, re-employing slightly over 300 men and women...
...union affiliation, ! when discovered, resulted in dis-' charges, gradually totalling 500.' The company corporation attorney...
...At the conference there were' represented the Pullman Porters' Union, Building Service, 32-B Harlem Council, Dining Car Employee*' Union, Local 22, ILGWU Harlem Section, Workers' Unemployed Union, Tenants' League, Communist Party (Opposition), Union Mechanics' Association, Socialist Party of the l»th-21«t A.D., Interdenominational Alliance of Harlem, and the Abyssinian Baptist and St...
...The mules will be kepi slick and fat ami healthy, their security guaranteed...
...Dental Workers Strike For Union Conditions BxTY dental laboratories signed Blip with the union in the first bee days of the general strike of pntal technicians in the metropolian area ,*Aarted March 11th unwLg the leadership of the Dental Bnnicianj' Equity, an organizafij comprising ail bat I scattered B of the craft...
...The National Farmers' Union is for the McCarran amendment to the Administration's Work Relief program...
...The knitting depart merit is operating by using material supplied fiom another mill Operated by the same company in Home...
...The Labor League of Passaic, a new organization comprising some forty local union* and workers' fraternal organizations,has adopted a program for the May municipal election...
...HJilli^'il with unemployment and I Wages, because the home marHjJor its products and services is HHM...
...When labor receives FBkan a living wage or ia un-, employed, the home market for agriculture is destroyed and the -farmers are penalized with low "So-called 'parity prices' to the farmers and $50 a month to labor are both in exactly the same category Of 'subsistence wages.' Both proposals provide for inadequate 'wages.' "The National Farmers' Union is opposed to reducing in any manner the standard of living of either farmers or laborers in America...
...Wmt associated Dental Laboratories ¦Etinues its refusal to negotiate...
...Improvement of health conditions is also demanded by the Dental Technicians' Equity...
...housing and slum clearance work with a municipal housing agency, and a moratorium on foreclosure* and tax sales of small homes...
...The emBrers have been represented by ¦Judge Harry Gordon, formerly Btpaign manager for Mayor John ¦"Hylan...
...Churches...
...Kelly is president of the Passaic Building Trades Council, and his work in organizing hitherto unorganized workers into local unions affiliated with the A.F.ofL...
...municipal gas and electric plant...
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...George Taylor ha* a record of thirty years of organ* ization work for the unions in the community, and was for many year* president of the local Trade* and Labor Council...
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...Westchester, 25...
...Pickering and Walter Moskop, white sharecroppers who recently came to New York City, may speak...
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...PATERSON AND PASSAIC UNIONS ARE IN POLITICS INDEPENDENT political action in New Jersey is gaining ground with the organization of labor parties by the trade unions in Passaic nnd PaterHon, according to a recent statement in the Printers' Voice, organ of the Paterison Typographical Union...
...The company at the same time formed a company union...
...Plant officials are making statement* they never will open regardless of NRA...
...Frank R.'Crosswaith, chairman of the Harlem Labor Committee, the convening body, opened the conference...
...to raise funds and secure clothing for the starving and dispossessed members of the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union of Arkansas...
...H. Eversons presiBt of the union, and Edward E. Bmhedy, national secretary...
...These tcxtle workers, after months on F:K.R.U...
...the strike was called because of ¦e refusal of the dental laborapry owners to negotiate with the ¦lion on the terms of a new closedpop contract to take the place Of Be former (dosed simp agreement, Blch terminates today...
...organized as Local 2170, United Textile Workers...
...The National Farmers' Union is for the payment of prevailing wages on public works...
...These mules will be well housed and well fed and properly cared for, receiving veterinary attention and other care when needed...
...Croeawaith, and Noah C. A. Walter, Jr., representing the Socialist Party, described the heroic struggle being waged by the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union to smash the plantation owners' . reign of terror against sharecroppers, and its courageous fight to improve the working conditions of Negro and white tenant farmers throughout Arkansas...
...They can buy these plots and have 35 years to,complete purchase...
...A health warning to the public was issued by Henry Posner, manager of the union: "The health of the people of the metropolitan area is endangered through inferior dental work produced in scab shops operating with unskilled labor...
...The NRA General Counsel forgot 'his generalship and advised the company to ignore N'KA code rulings as unconstitutional, A strike resulted...
...Union officials also contend that the thirty-four week would give work, to a greater number of men, stating that about half of the union membership is unemployed at present...
...Fisher by his work before the bar on behalf of onion members has...
...Whkh would you rather be—the man or the mule...
...w( WARMERS JOIN LABOR IN I PREVAILING WAGE STAND Mat Statement by E. H. Everson,1 Bride (if, and E. E. Kennedy, secBVy, National Farmers' Union...
...HthJB strike was given enthusiBic Support Sunday night at a Beting in Irving Plaza Hal], New fork City, attended by the 1,100 Bmbers of the union, which in¦ude in it * territorj Gr< atet pew York, W'e-tehester, Brooklyn, Big Island, Newark, Jersey City, if...
...Company officials made statements that the, mill would close definitely, Months passed...
...The Administration's proposal ¦ pay prevailing rates of interest ¦ the money changers and preHiling prices to manufacturers for Hterial and to pay less than ptepling wages to labor out of the Hpo,0OO,0()O proposed Work Re I program appropriations is as Hrfensilile as it is for I he govei u ¦ HJRt throufh the AAA to require Balers to produce food and fibre ,B less than cost of production ¦Both are destructive of Amer B standard- of living...
...sHpoth will continue to deadlock HlMry...
...They will have a steady job...
...The D.T.E...
...gained widespread support...
...He is a member of the Socialist Party...
...better schools and progressive methods...
...The human worker can try to keep a family fed, clothed, educated and healthy on an income of $10—per week if relief funds can .stand the strain exerted by this miserable income...
...The uitirc 'working force struck...
...abolition of the injunction in labor disputes...
...Frank R. Crosswaith, well known Negro Socialist leader, and general organizer of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, was elected chairman of the Emergency Joint Committee...
...Negotiations are now in progHe with the Dental Laboratory' Bners of the metropolitan area, ¦tth a .favorable agreement in Bght, according to Union officials...
...Candidate* selected Ity the League to carry its banners In, the elections include John F. Kelly, Irving Fisher and George Taylor...
...The strike was I called off on the advice of code' officials, leading-the worker* to | 'lleve that by calling the strike off la settlement by and according to 1 code authority would result...
...They will not be permitted to overwork, as they are government property...
...But faith in NRA by the workers resulted in defeat for the company union...
...Following the stirring and eloquent appeal of the chairman, the conference unanimously voted for the establishment of a Harlom Emergency Committee for the Support of the Arkansas Sharecroppers...
...When code authontiew'werp noti| fled of wholesale union discrimination, ten men of the 50(1 discharged were ordered re-instated...
...New Jersey, 66...
...In Paterson, a call issued by Dyers' Local, 1738, for a series, of meetings to launch a labor party has received enthusiastic response...
...Long Bind, 59...
...relief which pt, nutted tlinn to earn from $2 to $4 per week, are now promised by the city officials a relief plan...
...The, conference further voted to arrange for a theatre party and benefit dance to raise funds, establish a women's auxllary committee to collect clothing, and the staging of a huge mass meeting ir, Hariem at which E. B. McKinney, the 62-ycar old Negro vice-president of the 8TFU and Ed...
...AST April the employees of the | Tubize Chatilion Co...
...Hut the human toilers are expected in tins way to earn 7.r> pat cant of their living expenses and the other 25 per cent, the city 1 fathera hope they can earn by jobs, picked up in the city from linn ' i time...
...dental laboratories in B metropolitan area are being Bketed by the strikers...
...municipallyowned hospital and health insurance...
Vol. 18 • March 1935 • No. 11
