Textile Workers Launch Sound Truck for Propaganda Campaign
Textile Workers Launch Sound Truck for Propaganda Campaign By Our Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON.—Enlisting in organization* work the most modern forms of transmitting the spoken word,...
...After congratulating the miners on the growth of their organization, Rinne pointed out the advantages secured by the miners through their industrial union and declared that labor today must think in terms of independent political action in order to safeguard and extend their economic achievements...
...Murray Baron of the Suit Case and Bag Makers' Union...
...The amazing spectacle attracted enormous attention, and passersby commenting bitterly on the new wrinkle in picketing against pickets...
...Jones and Laugh* lin have placed with Mcintosh*: Hemphill a contract for an tlsahlij blooming* mill to cost $4,500,000, Bethlehem Steel is spending 12 to 15 millions for new equipment...
...I hope we can make more use of the radio...
...Now the collective ownership of capital is becoming an historical necessity...
...The letter, signed by President Ferdinand A. Hindel, enclosed a generous contribution totheparty'i Organization Fund...
...John L. Lewis, president of the U. M. W., is a member of the Chest committee and has been conspicuous in furthering organized labor's fight agajrist fascism, i A mass protest meeting against the new military policies of fascist Germany will be held on April 10, at the Hippodrome, New York, under the auspices of- the Labor Chest and other anti-fascist organizations...
...the United Hebrew Trades, and other organizations...
...Okrbach has settled with the union...
...The electrical extension of the human voice is a modern marvel...
...Waldman, who appeared at hearings held on these measures before the Legislative Committees, spoke in the name of numerous trade unions and the Socialist Partv of the State, which had endorsed the measures...
...The situation arose out of a 12-weeks' strike of a Communist dual union against Ohrbaeh's, that had been played up by the entire Communist and "innocents'" publicity machinery as though it were the only labor straggle in the United States...
...4,000 workers, producing glass for the automobile industry, wen involved in the recent successful strike against the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, a ninety-five million dollar corporation...
...They claim that 5,900 of the 6,500 employees want their collective bargaining done by the Amalgamated...
...A. Samuels, C. S. Zimmerman, Murray Gross, Frank Crosswaith of the I.L.GW.U...
...Eyes of Steel Workers Are Now Focussed on Washington, D. C By Emil Limbaeh PITTSBURGH, Pa.—For the mo* meat, the eyes of thousands of steel workers are on Washington...
...Communists Picket Against Pickets of A. F. of L. Union (SOMETHING new in labor strug^ gles was revealed last Friday when the Communist Party made a new contribution to the technique of what they call fighting for the welfare of the working class...
...Anna Pandolfo who worked for one firm thirty years...
...the only reward to be gained was by sticking in the fight witl the rest of the workers...
...Such is the trend of time...
...Among the trade urfton organizations demanding' the passage of these bills are the New York Joint Board of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America...
...If I'd robbed or murdered somebody I'd be ashamed, but I'm darn proud of what I'm doing," Millie said...
...The opportunity to exercise a secret ballot in a plant election, as shown by the Weirton experience, say mean nothing...
...We need to make more noise...
...Matthew M. Levy was elected chairman ond August Claessens secretary...
...The hour has struck when we must either go places or go to pieces...
...Toni Battila, District Board member, also spoke...
...Read the Daily Woiksr...
...Considering the tremendous dangers of the illegal struggle against dictatorship, it is generally realized that the Communist offers have no value whatsoever, and are simply designed to split the workers into new warrins factions...
...Nothing is said even in their own announcements of union recognition or about taking strikers back...
...GLASS WORKERSUNION THANK SOCIALISTS FOR AID IN THEIR STRIKE PITTSBURGH.—Creighton Local, Federation of Flat Glass Worners of America, has communicated to the Pittsburgh local their *$fW> elation of the service rendered to them by the party during their recent strike...
...Ordinarily, where the party has from 85 to 90% majority and the question of determining which parry shall be the bargaining agency, one would think that a. test should not only be welcomed, but should be installed upon by the group claiming such a vast preponderance of workers...
...It is a symbol of our determination to fight eternally and a weapon against ignorance...
...Which is it?** In addition to their organization problems made more difficult by the steel industry's improved financial position, chiefly the result of the NRA, labor faces a new threat, increasing mechanization...
...what do yon think about as you walk up and own in front of the snop who a couple of signs h u n g around your neck...
...Labor in steel is beginning to realize the vast important* of political power...
...And then there's the story told by Millie Fiorello who is the last word in chic as the French say When a young man stopped her or the p i c k e 11 i n e and asked hei whether she wasn't ashamed ol what she was doing, she told him plainly, if not too politely, that the only thing she was ashamed of was earning only $10 a week...
...Mrs...
...We look to you as Governor and as leader of your party in State, having majority in both Houses, not to fail the people in these vital measures...
...Harry Lee Franklin, executive secretary...
...Textile Workers Launch Sound Truck for Propaganda Campaign By Our Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON.—Enlisting in organization* work the most modern forms of transmitting the spoken word, the United Textile Workers of America dedicated a sound truck here to be nsed in spreading labor's message in textile centers throughoat the nation...
...Labor Chest committees are being organized in many places...
...Workers shouted at the anti-picket pickets.: "So you . sold out, did you...
...The Flower and Feather Workers' Union started with thirteen members, but thirteen is a lucky number according to the following hardworking officers and staff: Jean Peters who takes care of all the nerve-wracking detail work in the strike headquarters, Ratkoff, generalissjmo of the strike, Sinisgalli his first lieutenant, and "little Ceaser" Polikoff who is the chief outside man...
...Of course, there are picketlines and picketlines...
...How much did Ohrbach pay you to sell out...
...Once operating successfully, it will mean the elimination of ingot-casting, soak* ing-pits, breakdown mills ant blooming mills...
...Employers have too many forms of pressure at their disposal...
...I walked into the strike headquarters of the flower and feather workers who are going organized under the banner of the Ladies' Neckwear Workers' Union, just at the "changing of the guards"—the English girls will know what I mean—and so we got talking about pickets and picketlines...
...The conference closed its discussion with the unanimous adoption of a motion that it agrees with the general plan of the organization of a Labor Defense and that a committee be elected to work out plans, scope and policies, and that its' report should be submitted to the next and larger conference in the near future...
...To the workers it carries the message of the law which guarantees the right to organize their own unions, and to bargain collectively with their employers and arrive at mutual understanding and agreements concerning wages, hours and conI hope we can build our labor papers to greater effectiveness...
...Thomas F. McMahon, president of the United Textile Workers, said, "This truck is a symbol and weapon...
...President Rirntei wrote, "I hereby wish to thank you in behalf of our organization for the splendid aid and advice which you gave us in our recent strike...
...Unless company unions are declared illegal and unionisation protected by law, the steal corporations will not fear "free" elections...
...Socialist Party branch members, who are also members of the U. M. W. of A., took an active part in the parade and the meeting...
...United States Steel is likewise ex* pending millions...
...Her owr daughter received no consideration even though her mother had worked so long and well for the firm...
...There are picketlines of painters who would rather picket than paint, and writers who are about to have books published, and other members of the literati to whom a picketline is a rather special kind of not unplearareable excitation...
...It is still possible to force the Child Labor Bill out of the Rules Committee...
...A number of members of the A. F. of L. union were arrested, including Hyman Netnser, but the Communists' solidarity was with Employer Ohrbacn...
...Rinne Is Principal Speaker at Mitchell Day Celebration RIMERSBURG...
...The Social Democrats as well as the trade union leadership in declining the Commpnist offers, describe the Communist proposal as fundamentally opposed topm interests and necessities of.S genuine German tabor movemafc...
...A delegation of employees from the Jones and Laughlin Steel Works at Aliquippa, members of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers of America, appeared before the Senate Education and Labor Committee, conducting hearings on the Wagner Bill, and declared that employees were forced to vote for the Employees' Representation Plan...
...Intellectuals left their salons and lecture hftlls to rrfarch up and down in front of Ohrbaeh's...
...A general discussion followed in which many suggestions we;i offered...
...For so long as the mill bosses are permitted to do as they please in the fixing of wage rates, stretchout and other working conditions, there can be no peace among the mill owners...
...Now they, got together in the strike headquarters and tell each other their experiences with chiseling bosses...
...To object to such an action would naturally arouse suspicion that there was lacking confidence in those whom they claimed were so happy under the company union plan, or that their claims of 90 rc of the workers would not stand the test...
...people stop and look at you," said quiet Sarah Cohen...
...ON THE LINE ¦•¦ \9f ttavhfJde Weil Klein LJOW does it feel to be a picket **» for the first time in yo«r life...
...Actors from "left" theatre companies deserted their theatres and left audiences vainly waiting for the curtain to rise in order to picket Ohrbaeh's...
...The members of the committee are Morris Feinstone and Sol Polakoff of the United Hebrew Trades...
...There is no strike in Ohrbaeh's...
...I hope the day may not be far distant when we can hare in our service many such instruments...
...Of course, some of the bosses had explained about unions to them...
...They contradicted previous testimony that 90% of the Aliquippa workers were for the company union...
...Since the depression began, the joint researches of the engineers of a group of American steel companies have developed a new and revolutionary process by which steel is made...
...For months the Amalgamated was unable even to obtain a meeting hall...
...the United Hatters^ Cap and Millinery Workers' International Union: the International Upholsterers' Union...
...But all the girls agreed that after the first few days they didn't mind at all...
...Frank Morrison, secretary of the American Federation of Labor, delegated by President Green to act as spokesman for him and the Federation, dedicated the truck in behalf of the A. F. of L. ?'The addition of modern mechanical equipment to the work of labor organization programs and methods, seems to mark a beginning of ansouthern textile workers, saying, "Until there is placed under the textile industry a solid floor of decent living conditions for its workers, there can be no peace for the industry...
...I think we have been too slow to seize opportunities...
...Matthew M. Levy, Robert Delson, A. C. WeinfWd and August Claessens qf the Socialist Party...
...Unions and Party Join in Defense Organization A CONFERENCE for the organization of a Labor Defense, held March 15th in the I.L.G.W.U...
...August Claessens opened the conference, stating the history and aims of the provisional Socialist Committee for the Promotion of a Labor Defense, and read the credentials for 70 delegates representing 30 labor organizations...
...We shall use it as much...
...Ger* man Communists are trying to use the coming workers' councils elections in Germany as a maneuver to split the ranks of the workers stoutly resisting fascist suppression- According to a report forwarded by the trade union and Socialist underground representatives in Germany to the Executive Committee of the German Social Democratic Party in Prague, the Communists propose the establishment of factory committees composed of an equal number of Socialists and Communists, united delegate lists, a united call to action, and united factory meetings...
...S. Wolchock of the Retail Clerks' Union, Local 338...
...Every local of the A. F. of L., the railway unions, and sympathetic labor fraternal Chicago labor is being appealed to to give support for a genuine mass demonstration for the 30-hour week and against the rising tide of reaction which is headed up in the Hearst red-scare campaign and at least eight reactionary amendments to the present election laws, which would bar, radical parties, in the opinion of the present election officers from the ballot...
...It will lead to thai elimination of thousands of man now necessary for the steel industry expects to produce a muck cheaper product with greatly reduced manpower...
...I realize there still remains a lot of work that must be done, as* pecialiy along the lines of workers' education, without which the trad* union movement is hopelessly last, and, no doubt, we will have to call on ycur organization for help in this respect...
...They are only minimums of a Labor Legislative Program...
...Dedication of the truck took other era in trade union-history," be said...
...Pa.—David Rinne of Pittsburgh, member of the State Executive Committee of the Socialist Party, was the main speaker at the Mitchell Day mass meeting, held by three locals of the United Mine Workers of America...
...Our own Joe Tuvim is the manager...
...This sound truck carries this message to the textile industry...
...one shop had been working overtime right along, but had never been paid overtime rates, in spite of the NRA rules...
...The "settlement" was made just in time to permit them to engage in the counterpicketing...
...While pickets bearing banners announcing that Orbach's a large low-priced women's clothing store on 14th Street, New York, refused to employ members of the American Federation of Labor were parading up and down in front of the store, three leather-lunged Communists stood at the curbstone shouting: "There is no strike in Ohrbaeh's...
...Another was shouting: "This is a racketeer picket line...
...But to an honest-to-goodness picket, especially the girl picket, walking up and down for hours in front of the shop where she used to slave, fs hardly a pleasure...
...And the cop who came over to see what it was all about told her she was right...
...Waldman Urges Lehman to Force Child Labor Action WITH the State Legislature get" ting ready to adjourn, an appeal was adressed to Governor Lehman on Wednesday by Louis Waldman, State Chairman of the Socialist Party, in which the Governor was urged to make a final appeal to the State Legislature to ratify the Child Labor Amendment and pass the Quinn Anti-Injunction Bill and the Byrne Unemployment Insurance Bill...
...I look upon this truck with much affection," he said "I could look with a great deal more affection upon fifty more like it...
...Considerable impetus to the Labor Chest drive under the chairmanship of Matthew Woll had been given by the $5,000 contribution of the United Mine Workers of America...
...Abraham Miller of the Join Board, A. C. W. of A...
...In all the spotted career of the Communists in the New York labor movement nothing like that had ever been seen...
...The mass meeting was preceded by a parade in which several thousand miners, their wives and children participated...
...Paul R. Christopher, United Textile Workers' organizer and president of the North Carolina State Federation of Labor, spoke for the dttions of work.** Vice-President Gorman brought' the ceremonies to a close with formal dedication for.the United Textile Workers...
...Novack and Rorty of the Non-Partisan Labor Defense appeared in behalf of their organization and were given a hearing...
...Mary Fox of the L.I.D...
...These girls had never been in a strike before and it was all strange to them...
...This is part of our answer to those who are trying to smash the onion executives in the capital to nothing," said Francis J. Gorman, vice-president of the United Textile Workers, dedicating the truck in behalf of his union...
...Irwii Nussbaum of the Socialist Lawyert1 Association...
...And fiery Clara Scheched, who can't be kept off the line now, took her first walk .with her head turned the other way...
...Since the settlement of the strike the union, led by energetic officers mostly new in trade unioa work, has shown marked growth and influence...
...It means a lot of work and agitation, but it most be done...
...After half an hour or so of such attenton the Communists ceased their counter-picketing and contented themselves with shouting their journalistic wares...
...President Michael F. Tighe of the Amalgamated, said, "Claiming that an overwhelming majority of the 400,000 workers in the steel industry as willing and happy workers under the company union plan, they, the employers, refuse to pot to a test every decision rendered by the National Steel Labor Board, for an election in their plants under the supervision of said board...
...German Labor Rejects Communist Offers DRAGUE, Czechoslovakia...
...And one incident told by Mrs...
...Pandolfo went out with the rest ol the workers because she realizec that there was no such thing as t reward for long and faithful serv ice...
...But the moment the Retail Clothing Salesmen's Union of the A. F. of L. undertook to organize the store and win union conditions, the Communist dual organization hastily "settled...
...Labor ought to have a dozen radio stations, instead of two...
...Ana', especially /if you're a girl...
...The private-ownership of capital was for several hundred years an historical necessity...
...and another boss paid his workers $10 a week and by the time they were raised to $12 he would lay them off and rehire them under different names at $19, again...
...She designed samples for them which over and over again were successful sellers, and for which the than never paid her anything extra, though this was not her regular work...
...We need a bigger voice...
...Ben Fischer of tat Y.P.S.L...
...Practically all the girls I spoke to said the first time they walked out on the "line," they only, prayed that no one came along who knew them...
...It ought to have whole fleets of trucks...
...This is the American Fakeration of Labor...
...10 s week to take home to a" mother and six younger children...
...Building in New York successfully laid the basis for a permanent organization...
...Unions were just a racket, the bosses said, but it's not so easy to sell that line any more, not even to girls who are used to listening to the boss...
...Labor's Anti - Fascist Drive Expanding Its Activities The activities of the Chest -for the Liberation of Workers of Europe are continually expanding, reports Dr...
...Its what a lot of them are unemployed at...
...Answers of Lebor organizations through the country to the calls sent out by the office, William Green, and other officers of the chest have been extremely satisfactory...
...Even the bright-eyed English girl, Betty Goldberg, who has learned after only a few days of striking that a "girl has to have guts" was embarrassed the first time she went out on the line...
...Lodges, City Central Committee of the Workmen's Circle, Chicago Workers' Committee, and Federation of Jewish Trade Unions, Poale Zion, and Chicago Labor Youth Council, have set up a committee and broadcast a call to all Chicago labor for a May Day Confence...
...His telegram to Governor Lehman reads as follows: "His ExcellencyGovernor Herbert H. Lehman -Executive Mansion, Albany, New JTork...
...The implications of these new processes are startling...
...There is no strike in Ohrbaeh's...
...I know and you know that we shall go places...
...Prominent labor speakers will characterize the recent military decisions of Hitler Germany as a threat to world peace Cook County Socialists and Labor Organize for May Day CHICAGO.—Chicago Socialists, in cooperation with the Pocketbook Workers' Unions, Chicago Joint Board of the I.L.G.W.U., Chicago Federation of S.N.PJ...
...The -president of the Rimersburg local presided...
...The proposals offered by them were referred to the new committee for consideration...
...In fact, among the Communists picketing has become a profession...
...The opposition has every kind of modern facility for extending its voice...
...Socialist Party and Allied Progressive Trade Unions urge special message to Legislature urging them to ratify Child Labor Amendment and enact Quinn Anti-Injunction Bill and Byrne Unemployment Insurance Bill as passed by Assembly...
...Thus is labor flanked on both sides and its right to work and ts organize is challenged...
...The steel corporations have reduced Section 7-A to a mere sham by the organization of company fostered "representation" schemes and by continuing their time-honored policy of intimidation...
...place before the Gompers Memorial, with many leading trade union executives in the cipital present...
...The sound truck and the radio and the remote adress system are practical and we ought to use all of them more freely...
...Louis Waldman, "State.Chairman of the Socialist Party...
...The terms they admitted accepting include wage increases Of 7 to 10 per cent on shockingly low wages...
...The least you can do is write year own Assemblyman and Senator urging their support...
...Mesta Machine Company has just completed a continuous hot strip mill . for Youugstowe Sheet and Tube...
...You' feel queer...
Vol. 18 • April 1935 • No. 14
