"THE WANDERING JEW" HAS FILM PREMIERE AT CRITERION
BUILDING WALKOUT LOOMS WITH the Real Estate Board " doing its best to prevent a real agreement and to chisel in every possible way, negotiations for continued peace.among building service...
...Also, there will be a surprise srticle of great interest...
...The purpose of the meeting is to inform organised labor and the general public of the plans made by . the Municipal Housing Authority with regard to the need of a low-cost housing program for New York...
...Her trip brought her into special contact with workers' unemployed organisation units...
...All our twelve units, will be involved through the greater New York Council, of which I am president and which represents 140,000 members...
...W. Jett Lauck, famous Washington economist, testified before the arbitration board that the workers here are most emphatically underpaid...
...The Richmond...
...LABOR TO MOLD MASS MEETING ON PUBLIC HOUSING The Labor Conference for Public Housing and Slum Clearance will hold a mass meeting on Wednesday, January S3, at 8 p.m., at Beethoven Hall, 110 East 5th St., New York...
...The strike was called against a wage cut and discrimination...
...A conciliation committee meets Saturday to make a fij^L^Uempt to settle the dispute without open warfare...
...These men aro working under pauper standards of living," he declared...
...Five workers were arrested as a result of the militia order to clear the streets, as 350 guardsmen under Adjutant General Lindley Camp mobilized in Rossville...
...If he insists, well break off negotiations with him and deal directly with the building owners...
...We regret being forced to postpone the story on workers' sports until next weekINTERNMENT AGAIN FACES STRIKERS nOSSVILLE, Ga.—The National *v Guard, which performed so capably for the textile bosses during the general strike in tho Fall, is again on the warpath—in the interests of the hosiery barons this time...
...It looks as though a fight must be made," was the last word of James J. Bambrick, president of Local 32B, Building Service Employees' International Union, as he emerged from conference...
...We aren't going to allow Walter Gordon Merritt, realty advisory board counsel, to continue to obstruct negotiations and interpret the garment district contracts we signed during the first strike...
...When troops began to make arrests, many pickets in front of the mill moved across the state line into Tennessee, a hundred yards away There they continued to demonstrate and protest against the use of scabs and their militiaallies...
...Another unit of the company, the Arrowhead plant, is in Tennessee, but no attempt is being made to operate it...
...If another strike is called, all five boroughs will be tied up...
...If necessary, I^'tall take 'unruly' persons there...
...Recent developments hr the Blouse snd Wsistmakera* Union, Local 25 ef the I.L.G.W.U., will be described in a feature article...
...Hosiery Mill, which is being picketed by the strikers, plans to attempt to reopen Monday with scabs...
...They should be placed on a minimum standard of at least $1,500 a year to enjoy the ordinary decent standard of living and health...
...True to his name and training, General Camp warned the strikers that the Atlanta concentraion camp, where he infsrned strikers during the last fight, "is still ready for use...
...21 to adjudicate wages and hours in the building trade ana" headed by Henry Curran, seems in a deadlock...
...At this moment the situation looks thirty tirrjes worse than it did before the last strike...
...B. Charney Viadeck, Socialist on the Housing AuCOMING FEATURES A MONO the interesting foe...
...The original arbitration committee, named after the original strike settlement Nov...
...tares in next week's Labor Section will be sa aeeaawt ef a trip through the South and Baft by V. Bthelwyn Venderveer, well-known music critic snd social student...
...An invitation has bean extended to William Green, president of the A. F. of L., to be tho principal spesker...
...Merritt is the notorious open-shop lawyer...
...Other prominent speakers ,will be George Meany, president of ths Now York State Fedtration of Labor...
...Pickets are out in full force...
...BUILDING WALKOUT LOOMS WITH the Real Estate Board " doing its best to prevent a real agreement and to chisel in every possible way, negotiations for continued peace.among building service workers are almost at a standstill...
...Much as we dislike entering another strike, we must guard the interests of the union and the thou' sands of workers who look to us for decent living standards...
Vol. 18 • January 1935 • No. 62