Waldman Calls for Unity 0f Whole Labor Movement
Waldman, Louis
Waldman Calls for Unity 0f Whole Labor Movement By Louis Waldman New York State Chairman, Socialist Party from address to the National fSmotntion of the Workmen's ST %cld May 9th on behalf...
...The principle of democracy stood in high esteem...
...Although in countries like Germany and Austria there sat on the throne the cruel czar, the democratic movement in each of those countries as well as in the world at large, was very strong...
...The trade is nearly 100'v unionized...
...The Labor Struggle Today, the Kaiser is gone...
...Hot ls*>ven of greater signififfM« is the fact that you immifftssti a strange land have been Or pacers m the field of hearth jaOpam and other social legislating nbbeuled when you first anMneai your program, America tatay is not only discussing it wapsewc, but much of it is bear, ease ted in Congress and in 3bw Legislatures...
...G. D. O'Neill, 110, and Edwin Smithbuser, 107...
...This nation has nana with its political and social pBanphy of individualism and laatfnitely entered the field of add legislation and social conIns ef industrial relations...
...The Mayor said the city could not establish public markets because the Constitution would not allow the city to do so...
...Friedman told the Mayor...
...The march was organised by the Women's Conference Against the High Cost of Living, representing 39 women's organizations as well as the women's section of the Socialist Party...
...And such a unity we do not only hope for in the United States, but the world over...
...I want to go back to Congress where I can do something...
...The committee called the Mayor's attention to the fact that a big metropolis like London owns its -telephone service...
...1m at immigrants have helped aa*tfee trail...
...How will I get the money...
...which ha* hern chartere.1 to carry 2i4Mi YounK Clreleitea unit their friend* to Indian i'nint...
...was the committee's reply...
...5—To increase appropriations for medical attention and for lunches to children in the public schools...
...Our movement must either stand for one or the other...
...The Socialists Of New York not only work for Socialism and freedom, but they patiently hope and* strive for the unity of the-working class...
...Negotiations with the Merchants' Ladies' Garment Association, the jobbers' group, were terminated on April 8, after the union had refused to consider the proposal made by the jobbers that "limitation of contractors" and1 jobber responsibility for work conditions in contractor shops be stricken out of the agreement...
...representatives of the Joint Board of C loakmakers' Unions and the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union to the leaders of the Industrial Council of Coat, Suit and Skirt Manufacturers, Inc...
...the Mayor asked...
...After circling the Mayor's office several times, a committee, headed by Esther Friedman of the women's division of the Socialist Party, was granted an audience with ' the Mayor...
...Women Demand City Act On Cost of Living By Eli A. Kahn RESPITE an overcast sky and gr occasional showers, more than .300 women inarched to Gty Halt'Tuesday to demand from' Mayor LaGuardia that he use "his good offices to reduce the high cost bi living for" the consuming masses in Greater Jfew York...
...jL-ayest institution which you gptftDt is proof that Socialists at ady can dream, but they can Ws» we...
...It was evident the Mayor did not have -ceady answers for the committee...
...N.Y...
...5—Abolition of the sales tax...
...Boat Ride May 26th The Annual Youn« Circle League Unit Mid.- will take phi...
...abolition of exempt tax on profitbearing incumes...
...Thr- boat Is scheduled to have Wist 42nd St...
...If there be a million women in New York City organized against the high cost of living, we will get what we want...
...at 9:45 a in...
...These figures are admittedly incomplete and the final count will probably show a much larger total...
...Sunday...
...This combine is known as the Pioneer lee Cream Company and it turns out the product* advertised as the Horton, Reid and Borden Ice Creams...
...I 3—Establish city owned and operated power plants and other public utilities "to serve the people at cost...
...The other Socialist candidates polled the following vote: Katherine Avolloni, 117...
...and will start hark front Indian Point at 7 :M< p.m...
...He promised the committee that he will be very glad to see them again and asked them to pray with him so that his program will go over...
...CLOAKMAKERS DEMAND 25 PER CENT WAGE INCREASE A30-HOUR work-week and a mage increase of twenty per cent were among the chief changes in work terms presented by the...
...The union is affiliated with and is aided by the United Hebrew Trades...
...By that I do not want yea to understand me to mean that we stand for the fake* moves made by the Communists for the so-called united front...
...We ! come with a program, a practical j program, which • if vigorously pur'sued will bring the cost of our necessities down," said Comrade • Friedman...
...Socialism was inseparable from this ideal...
...Meats have igone up 41 per cent, cereals 37 i per cent, dairy products 29 per i cent and so on...
...We Socialists are now facing still another responsibility...
...The committee made the following demands;' ¦*''' 1—-The establishment of public markets to eliminate the food speculator...
...Otto Levingson, 106...
...A mere glance over recent events should convince us that Socialism . cannot espouse both dictatorship and freedom...
...We won't pray for you because we don't think that will help," Mrs...
...Finally, let me make this thought clear to all the delegates and friends at this convention...
...Y.C.L.A...
...4—Speedy slum clearance and comprehensive construction of houses, hospitals, schools...
...We deeply rejoice ? 1^ accomplishments and in great achievements in the s of practical amelioration of _y 0f the ills ari-ing from our ygdern industrial civilization.saove all, we rejoice in the a* that the youth organizations aatktisg tne »ons and daugh. d the present members are aaf* to take the banner from the ^niaf hands of their aged parfend carry on in the spirit and a Oe tradition of their fathers...
...There are 35,000 work-people in the coat and suit industry in the metropolitan district, employed in i 1,300 factories...
...Democracy and freedom which up to recent years were taken for granted as the foundation Of Socialism, must now receive from us new emphasis and new devotion...
...the Czar has been dethroned, but there is no democracy there...
...2—The city take immediate steps to establish a city milk distribution service and sell to the people at cost...
...on the Hudson River Mint lirnjamin It...
...Philip Nemoff, active Socialist of West New York, N. J., just over the river from New York, headed the Socialist ticket in Tuesday's election with 156 votes for city Commissioner...
...r Comrade Friedman pointed out ! that despite the fact that cost of : living has risen enormously, the city imposed an additional tax on the consumers by passing the sales tax...
...The aspiration and yearning of the masses has been drowned in blood by the tyrants and dictators in those lands...
...From that realization it is only one short step to the realization that labor must control the government...
...The Socialist Party .must do all in its power to come closer to the American Federation of Labor and with them fight labor's battle...
...This has spelled j demoralization for at least the 320,000 families in our city who 1 are kept from starving through [relief...
...Why not tax those who spend I large sums of money on luxuries, higher incomes and inheritance tax...
...Its leaders have been exiled, imprisoned or murdered...
...Every1 noble movement was associated with the ideal of democracy and freedom...
...We do not believe in a move for pretended unity based on falsehoods, sham, and insincerity...
...I do not come/Vo _at jas as a mere sympathizer...
...Ejtel that we are blood of your feat sad flesh of your flesh...
...Ihirll...
...Today when a woman j goes marketing she must pay, aci cording to the Bureau of Statistics, 9-13.31 for food where she paid only I $10 two years ago...
...The Austrian monarch is gone...
...At the time the Workmen's Circle was founded, and for many years afterwards, we lived on a world radically different' from the one wo live in today...
...The great Social Democratic movement of Germany, Austria and Russia, from which we used to draw our inspiration and strength, has a right to look to the Socialist movement in free countries like the United States, and to the movement in free and democratic countries like Great Britain and in the Scandinavian countries to raise aloft the banner of Socialism and democracy...
...Samuel Klein, executive director, and Samuel L. Deitsch, president, acted as spokesmen for the Industrial Council...
...Earlier in -the week, the union held similar conferences with the Infants' Coat Manufacturers' Association and the American Cloak and Suit Manufacturers' Association...
...fats this great organization as founded it declared in its ?p#jte certain important social ^fSm h built this mighty oraoutaw on those truths...
...IianriiiK and refreshment* on deck, and athletics ice Cream Workers Now Out on Strike A battle is on against another chain of powerful exploiters who have waxed wealthy la recent years m the ¦junurfacture of ice cream...
...Waldman Calls for Unity 0f Whole Labor Movement By Louis Waldman New York State Chairman, Socialist Party from address to the National fSmotntion of the Workmen's ST %cld May 9th on behalf of I^J^"1' Committee of the So• COME to bring you fraternal • ^comradely greetings from to Socialist Party of the State 2$cm York...
...But we will organize and fight...
...The demands are for modest wage increase, an eighthour day and union recognition...
...If the prospect held out by Socialism to these millions is one of the iron ' heel, one of dictatorship, they wrll become ready recruits under the _i_1=----make oar program unmistakeably clear, that we do not stand for Tb't democracy, or 69% democracy, bat that we stand for the full measure of democracy and freedom in a society of equals...
...e that in all corners of the ¦Oary people are ready to listen ¦Jknelist ideas, our responsibil<^Hbmes even greater than beV New York Socialist Party urges that oar policies and tactics must measure up to these opportunities...
...The Socialist and democratic movement in those countries has been broken and smashed...
...There are here in the United States, as there were in Germany, millions who in their own minds belong to the middle class...
...He said, however, that he would fight for it "and the committee promised him its support...
...The strike is now in its second week and the spirit of the strikers is excellent...
...The Labor Committee ot the Socialist Party will give aid...
...I mean a unity based on mutual self-respect, on a common devotion, to a common purpose, and to a great ideal...
...New York Socialists believe we must stand firmly against dictatorship and for freedom and democracy...
...Good Socialist Vote In West New York Dr...
...Establishment of a steeply graded luxury tax, income and inheritance, ' When these demands were presented to Mayor LaGaardia, hi threw up his hands fend said: "I Want to get oat of this job...
...a> Socialists in New York do —j mart ourselves as just a ?aadly organization of the Workaaft Circle...
...Comrade Friedman, spokesman | for the committee, told the Mayor ! that the committee did not come to i see him merely to complain...
...at a conference at the Hotel New Yorker, called for the purpose of discussing renewal of collective agreement in the industry which expires June 1st...
...These workers are organized by Local 263 of the International Bakery and Confectionery Worker* Union, and the local is also known as the Ice Cream Workers Union...
...The organization of the exploited workers in these plants has been gaining and the usual developments such as discharges, intimidation, etc., has forced a strike...
...We do not believe in a pretended unity which really has for its aim the undermining' and the breaking up of the social democratic forces on the economic and political field...
...And the organized labor movement through the American' Fed-i eration of Labor has radically altered its own traditional policies and has come closer to the realization of the need of political action...
...But don't you know what difficulties I encounter...
...Socialists and sympathisers should spread the news that a strike is on in the plants producing Hortoas, Reids, Borden'Breyers and Hydrox Ice Creams...
...But at jaOa* of its birth, the people of Ms action still dominated by the jalaaohy of individualism, denied fas truths and treated you as apariril idealists and dreamers...
...Again the Mayor thr3W up his hands in despair, telling the'comi nrittee he did not know where to get money for relief without imposing the sales tax...
...As to public utilities, the Mayor declared he was doing his best, but could not- promise anything about the telephone utility because it is not a city enterprise...
...Iowa try Becomes Practical Fa rat two' generations we SopHai have urged the fixing of a Msg minimum wage, the estabiaaaatsf a maximum hour-week, tat iaOedaction of a program of aeisl hnarance by law, and we o*m other denounced or treated «Hh oadaaat as visionary and imIPHHHtoay, stern necessity » eaanaVd the American peo» t»-*flow the Socialists' lead...
...The union's committee was headed by David Dubinsky, president, and Isidore Nagler, general manager...
...We moat make it clear that we seek power not for the sake of the privilege* that come from power, bat for the purpose of rebuilding this unjust society into a soeteey that will afford to all economic security, fair play and social justices...
...It recognizes now that the security of labor is the direct concern of government...
Vol. 18 • May 1935 • No. 20
