Millions of Organized Toilers Backing Program
Millions of Organized Toilers Backing Program Text of Resolution Adopted by National Labor Conference Demanding Enactment of Labor Disputes, 30-Hour Week, Coal Stabilization and NIRA Extension...
...It has become evident since the enactment into law of the NorrisLaGuardia Anti-Injunction Bill, declaring "yellow dog" contracts null and void, that the legal advisers of...
...Labor has met in special conferences in Washington on more than one occasion when questions of paramount interest had arisen...
...t It is not designed to meet the present national emergency only...
...Two years ago the President of the United States prevailed upon Congress to adopt a national recovery program which included the National Industrial Recovery Act as an essential feature...
...So alto with your speakers...
...Federal Union Pre»e»tt The United Automobile Workers' Federal Union declared a strike at the Fisher Body after the management closed the plant and Mat the 9,000 workers home...
...as "fakers," "social fascists," "the third party of capitalism" and "traitors to the working class," Woodsworth reminds them, unity with them would be a mockery...
...i junction bill introduced in the New . York Assembly...
...William B. Mahoney...
...Paper Box Makers The Paper Box Makers' Union is* making steady progress in organizing thousands of workers of this large industry...
...This bill is a copy of the anti-in...
...I: tee where it was buried for ta* . time being...
...From the beginning of NRA, Labor discovered that Section 7A was of little or no protection whenever employers were opposed to the right of their employees to trade union organization, or...
...Under the aggressive leadership of Abraham N. Weinberg, manager of the Paper Box Makers Union, the union has improved in membership and morale...
...A. N...
...A kitchen and a commissary have been established near the plant and the union is preparing for a long siege...
...Your committee further recommends that copies of this statement be sent to the trade union movement throughout the country, with the request that Labor should manifest its desires by communicating with their representatives in Congress...
...the great associations of employers and of corporate interests have found recourse for their anti-union program through the promotion, financing and the building up of company onions...
...To foster this employer organization, the administration, of NRA gave active encouragement and assistance to the organizing of employers, into industrial groups...
...In his reply Woodsworth reminded the Communists that the last national convention of the C.C.F., and the most recent meeting of its executive, both rejected by an almost unanimous vote any cooperation with the Communists...
...With regard to sincerity of purpose—if anyone looks over the files of The Worker and other Communist papers, one finds on almost every page the most scurrilous attacks on the C.C.F...
...There are other legislative measures now before Congress of farreaching importance to Labor, but , of transcending importance to Labor's rights and to national recovery is the Wagner Labor Disputes Bill...
...NRA...
...HaBBBtSv ShoaJn Ca—icas fail to enact tnC legislative measure, it will be an evidence that Labor was misled by Congress when Section 7A was originsfly enacted aad that Labor's right to trad* anion organisation does not aad is not intended to compare with the sssplqfrrSi right to cslle«0ve actio* ffkayfa^rganiution...
...Weinberg, .Fred Caiola and August Cmessens will address the meeting...
...President of the United States, to the presiding officers bl the United States Senate-and th« Rouse of Representatives, and that copies be given to all members, ol Congress...
...l> E PRE SENT ATI VES of *^ National and International Unions, State Federations of Labor and Central Labor Councils have met in Washington to consider the most important crisis affecting Labor which has arisen since the financial and industrial collapse of 1929...
...Harrison, Ltrigi Antonini, Selma Borchardt, Kitty Donelly...
...We hope that it indicates a change from the former tactics of your party...
...Poverty*trh*keri and bedeviled wibh many internal difficulties, the union has been hampered in making p r o g re a e. Some problems have been solved and more progress is being made...
...In addition to legislative meas ores which Congress »ho*ld enaci as necessary .parts to national recovery are the Black-Connery 30 Hour Bill, the bill continuing K&A in modified form and in such manner and form as army meet with th« approval oi the Executive Council of the A. F. of L., the Social Se curity Bill and the Guffey Coal Stabilization Bill...
...is organized to do away with capitalism—with its social injustices and war—and will ' use its every effort to establish in Canada a cooperative commonwealth as a part of a new world '• order, based on Socialism and peace...
...Employers have been exempted from the provisions of the Sherman and the Clayton Acts...
...This measure is intended to give to Labor the effective use of its right to organization...
...Our experience during the last two years has made it imperative that Labor's right to organize, to apply the principle of majority representation, to collective action and collective bargaining, must be definitely declared by Congress instead of being left as it has been to the constructions, interpretations and evasions which we have experienced under the administration of NRA...
...Millions of Organized Toilers Backing Program Text of Resolution Adopted by National Labor Conference Demanding Enactment of Labor Disputes, 30-Hour Week, Coal Stabilization and NIRA Extension Bills Now Before Congress Following is the text of the resolution adopted by the recent Conference of Representatives of National and International Unions, State Federations of Labor, and City Central Bodies, at Washington, demanding the prompt enactment by Congress of the Wagner Labor Disputes Bill, the Black-Connery Thxrty-Hour-Week Bill, the Guffey Coed Stabilization Bill,' and the Extension of the National Recovery Act...
...and the Communist party refrain from naming competing candidates, their letter concluding, "Let us set aside the accumulated prejudices and bitterness...
...Before employer groups could secure codes of fair competition it was necessary, for them to produce evidence of their representative character...
...The provisions of this bill are intended to restate Labor's Bill of Rights and to Make them effective as applied under modern conditions of industry...
...troduced by Mr...
...You cannot have rt both ways...
...P. Howard, John L. Lewis, Michael Colleran, Andrew Myrup, D. W. Tracy, Robert Watt, Matthew Woll, John Phiilfps, Dan Moley, John Possehl, Jdnn P. Frey, Steve Nance, Geo...
...Congress must declare that the wage earners' right to self-organization is in every wsy equal to and as necessary as the same Tight so widely applied by employers with governmental approval...
...the workers were- insufficiently organized to 'compel employers to recognize their right to organize...
...The offer of the Communists was that the C.C.F...
...In tactics at least, there is no .agreement whatever between the (Communist Party and the C.C.F...
...The position in which American Labor now finds itself requires definite decision and action by Congress, for class distinctions are being created...
...It is intended for all tuner...
...This Act provided for the codification of industry, but made it dependent upon industry's willingness to organize into industrial associations...
...But we feel that we are in no way ' responsible for the accumulated : prejudices and bitterness.' "The C.C.F...
...Circumstances require immediate and determined action...
...And since the Communists have consistently referred to the C.C.F...
...It did declare Labor's right to organize through the provisions of Section 7A, which, in part, provides: "That labor shall be free from, the interference, restraint, or coercion of employers of labor, or their agents, in the designation of such representatives, or in self-organization, or in other concerted activities, for the purpose of collective bargaining, or other mutual aid or protection...
...In many factories throughout the city workers are being driven at high speed sad are working under abominable conditions...
...These are the demands U> be emphasized at the great mass meeting called by New York labor in Madison Square Garden for next Thursday...
...Labor's experience during the last two years has...
...Tour committee recommends thai the Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor be instructed to present a copy of thit statement adopted by this conference, to the...
...If we are indeed Labor 'fakirs,' 'yellow doge,' traitors to the working class,' 'social fascists,' the third party of capitalism,' why should you seek to cooperate with ws...
...The administration of NRA actively assisted employers to organize and to strengthen their position through organization...
...This bill may ha passed at this session...
...This bill, even thongs . the officials thought that h ¦ would have a chance to pass, hap • been sent to the cemetery commit...
...and its leaders, distortion and misrepresentation of facts, with personal abuse the stock in trade...
...We have a program and policy which we believe fits in with the conditions, traditions and psychology of the people of Canada, and we intend to carry on in our own way, giving as little ffense as possible to those who do not agree with us...
...We hold that the right of Labor to organization, to majority representation, and to collective action and collective bargaining, can no longer be made dependent upon the provisions of any code of fair competition...
...Officials of thl Ohio Federation of Labor all sponsoring the Hunter-He*«« bU, ¦ which calls for only 16 weeks us; employment indemnity and ez> ¦ eludes domestic service, farm aad - casual labor...
...All Chrysler, De Soto, Plymouth and Dodge ears aad trucks axe said to here very defective bodies, dae to bad workmanship of scabs...
...We very much appreciate the sentiment expressed *n' the last paragraph of your letter...
...None of these conferences were called upon to consider questions more vitally affecting Labor's rights than the one in which we are now participating...
...OHIO LABOR CHIEFS SPQNSWJQl^BIU •y Siaaay T^ajfaa • CLEVELAND...
...1 Another bill of great importance is the anti-injunction measure jty...
...Then he added, "A real united front involves an agreement en fundamentals, and a belief, on the part of each cooperating group, in the sincerity of the other group...
...This week a well planned attack is being made In the Brooklyn field where the largest number of unorganized shops are located): "A' splendid leaflet is being distributed, a mass meeting will be held at the Brooklyn Labor Lyceum, 949 Willoughby Avenue, On Tuesday, May 28, at 6 p.m...
...The overthrow of the CCS., rather than of capitalism, jeould seem to be the main object of the Communist Party of Canada...
...J. S. Woodsworth, M. P., leader of the C.C.F., replied to the current Communist bid for a united front, couched in the usual Communist terms, by insisting that unity must have as its first requisite common faith and confidence...
...Schisstar, a man . her of Bakers' Union Local It...
...Labor's representatives in national conference assembled, call anon the Congress of tie United States to enact the Wagner Labor .Disputes Bill so that validity and effectiveness may be given to Section 7A...
...Signed by: A. O. Wharton, Chas...
...The National Industrial Recovery Act made no such provision for Federal assistance to labor in its efforts to organise...
...Unjty of the Canadian toilers in the struggle against war, fascism sad poverty most be achieved...
...CCF Rejects Bid Of Communists For United Front No Unity of Action Possible With Those Who Denounce Socialists and Unions ss "Social Fascists," Woodsworth Says /yiTAWA.—The Canadian Social"V ists, organized workers aad farmers, united in the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation, are seeking the unity of all workers in the forthcoming general elections, but that unity most emphatically does not include the participation of the Communist party...
...The strike committee ordered pickets at each gate and even the office force cannot come in withovt a special permit from the president of the union...
...Cartelized industry has oome into being, while Labor has been divided under the absurd and Inconsistent plan of so-called proportionate representation and dependency upon codes of fair competition, which, in most instances, denied effective Labor re preservation...
...compelled it to oppose the existence of so-called company unions more vigorously and determinedly than at any time in the past and with less effect...
...Wages are shamefully low and vicious competition among the many factory owners has demoralized the trade and the workers...
...By L. S. D A V1DQW Uk<M m Tk, tfrif t ittir) DETROIT, Thursday.—Dingman strikers are stHl opt at Ijm^jaVyster Corporation Divisions, now in third wee* of the struggle, and lines are holding well...
...The time is net for words...
...The unioa is demanding a 30-hour week) a minimum of an annual wage of $1,560 to be paid every week, seniority right for employment sat recognition of the union...
...Because of the vital importance to national recovery of equality of righto aad si opportunities among wage earners, as well as among employers and other citizens...
Vol. 18 • May 1935 • No. 20
