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New York Moves Ahead for Labor And Socialist Defense Body 'THE New York City provisional * committee for the promotion ol an effective organization for labor and Socialist defense has had...
...Temporary officials of the Socialist Committee for Promotion of Labor Defense are: Morris Feinstone, chairman...
...This case involves far more than the arrest and conviction of Ward Rodgsrs, and in helping him to appeal his case and in defending the other share-croppers held on various charges in the state, we are standing for the rights of a desperate and valiant group of workers to organize...
...In race of the medieval plantation system, which has kept the tenant fanners virtual slaves to the land owners, these destitute workers, Negro and white, have asserted their right to organize to protect their interests...
...first few days of the strike has opened the eyes of the girls to the methods and weapons used by the bosses in their war against labor...
...Ideation-wide defense committee Mil Rodgers is being organized KB^Socialist Party, according ¦Vfni Porter of Chicago, the ¦Ufa national labor secretary, ¦sliai Thomas will head the cm¦ fkejias has already telephoned fcmjilew York that defense funds IsMteer collected for the court ] iBS*£Jhomas later will visit |laalM|pand Arkansas to address |ilWMjap]iers' mass meeting...
...New York Moves Ahead for Labor And Socialist Defense Body 'THE New York City provisional * committee for the promotion ol an effective organization for labor and Socialist defense has had a busy week...
...The arrest, following upon a series of threatening actions against the organizer because of the trust that the tenant farmers had in him for the splendid work he had done, has been characterized by representatives of ours in Arkansas as a "frame-up...
...On January 15, when he acted as chairman of a meeting of tenant farmers to hear a report from the delegation Mhey had sent to Washington to place their desperate situation before the AAA, he was arrested and charged with "anarchy...
...was "only a racketeering organisstion interested only in collecting high dues...
...In order to make their minimum of $13 per week, the girls must press from 60 to 80 dozej dresses a week or 12 to Id dozen dresses a .day...
...On iajrip to Tyronza, Ark., last sis' he helped organize the Mfctrn Tenant Farmers Union, IMJiam since enrolled hundreds I At enslaved Negro and white em-farmers...
...Some of the nsmes on the labels of gar* menu manufactured by this company are Indian Head, Penny Co., Flirts, Diamond Lll, Honey, Avenue Frocks, Grand Stem and Sweet Adeline...
...The case of Stanley Glass, on trial under the criminal syndicalism laws of West Virginia, is that of a young militant organizer whose only I offense was that he dared to offer...
...LaWP*** w" ^e &PPea'e(i to th( ¦in circuit court, C. T. Car Bjw, defense attorney, stated Hi|P*>t Rod gets, unable to fur Be |t,000 bond, is held in the Vipers;, Ark., jail...
...A luncheon meeting was held at 71 Irving Place on Thursday to aid in the setting up of a defense committee for the Stanley Glas« case tii'd the Ward Rodgers case...
...and the J. C. Penny Co., who, we are informed from reliable sources, ars large buyers from this Arm...
...Once the thermometer read six above zero...
...The strikers' spirit has spurred the success of our organisation drive in the ether cotton garment shop* and the whole industry it wall on the wag Uiewloei eomnlstety unionised...
...LadgersVictim of Big Planters' Fight on Union ¦Stttjmei froM Page 1-L) ' l-rf Rodgers, was arrested immeLfajf after his talk and carried Sander guard of 16 deputy KBl...
...The planters felt that arresting Rodgers would mean a death blow at the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union...
...Police on horse* backs rushed into the pickets on the side-walks...
...As we are still conferring and negotiating with these other firms, no other strikes have been called...
...Although the machinery has not as yet been set up for efficient functioning in emergency cases, nevertheless a number of members of the temporary committee have done good work in obtaining funds for the Stanley Glass and Ward Rodgers cases...
...The writer, who is doing every* thing- he- c*n- to-- settle t-fee--strike-, honorably with the demands of the workers granted, was called to Chicago a week ago Saturday and Sunday to confer with President Dubintky...
...This includes the value of the food they raise for their own SOClALISTS ACTIVE IN CLEVELAND STRIKE CLEVELAND...
...Kg faces a hard battle to free Kgtjfj and other union men now Kjjjam Funds are necessary to Em on the defense and should be tttothe Southern Eenant FarmfcCsion, Tyronza, Ark...
...picket 11ns every morning...
...Willism A. Amberson of the University ef Tennessee Medical School, the total income for the average share/ cropper family is less than f300 is year...
...They can't even take time off for a drink or go to the washroom...
...President Dubinsky informed me that the whole International was behind our efforts , ' Plans were made at this meeting in Chicago to call strikes in all the other cotton garment shops which would nut accede to the just demands of the union...
...They HI,sentence to the Arkansas • farm—r-where the treatment ' SaJkr to that in force in the •WoBs Georgia chain gangs...
...P'L OuialMr Plasters Jfs-AAA thereupon wired Hiram Hp» » wealthy planter, that J* payments on his crop reJP"i contract would be withheld 1% charges against him in 3M*4 heen investigated...
...Against him are marshalled the forces of the law as directed by the entrenched interests in West Virginia...
...On the side of the defense are innumerable workers who can testify only if they are helped to get to the trial...
...help to workers on strike in a subsidiary of the Welrton Sted Company...
...most pricss run less than that...
...The Ku-KluxWp$» revived to fight the union Keeunties where it is strong...
...in addition to conducting a class among the tenant farmers under the FERA, has been active in the organization of the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union...
...aWKIex-Klcin Revived Its union, however, soon enBBBred bitter resistance from I .plantation owners, who reHNg night raids to terrorize Knembers...
...August Claessens, vicechairman...
...jHplanters convicted him of W^/fUP As proof of "anarchy" ft* preMWtor cited: |Tha|a^|Wgei's had organized Bi]ijHi>ilrrlI as white share-crop¦ ftll.tae had "called Negroes I jplfea had said "relief for the least termers will not come until ¦»,United States government Efiskts the plantation system...
...is unfair to organised labor...
...Hy Fish, active Socialist, is an organiser for the I.L.G.W.U., and bss been in ths forefront of the strike...
...from Socialist News Service) lifMPHIS, Tenn...
...He was taken to an adBLeounty and placed in the it Jonesboro, Ark...
...and one to the Ohio State Federation of Labor asking them to popularise the idea that the L. N. Grosi Co...
...They are morfe loyal than ever to the International...
...In spite of the bitter cold the girls report for picket duty, every day even though some of them are suffering from colds...
...The letter follows in part : Two labor defense cases which are a direct challenge to labor's rights to organize in the South present an emergency situation which must be met by united action of all responsible groups interested in workers' rights...
...Hut If we do not successfully conclude our conferences within the next few days, we are fully prepared—with the aid of the International—to call strikes in all the other shops...
...A lop]-, Held, treasurer, and Murray Baron, secretary PLEA CALLS FOR FUNDS FOR GLASS' AND ROGERS' CASES AN appeal for support and foi fund*, supplementing that o) Comrade Thomas appearing elsevhere, has been sent oat by the provisional Labor and Socialist Committee for the Promotion ol Labor Defense...
...the singing and cheering on the picket line have attracted a great deal of attention...
...Wff% antiquated criminal syndiRL*4aK« of Arkansas mean that tjoothern Tenant Ffinnerr...
...This announcements cheered the girls...
...The second case is that of Ward Rodgers, 24-year-old Socialist who...
...A letter was also sent to President Dubinsky asking him to contact Montgomery Ward Co...
...at picketing, leading.W*m»><, Big Parade, Live Picketing in Cleveland Strike Janusry 25...
...YJpsels era eageaialiv gees...
...ntr union members, two Ne•sjend two white, are awaiting Hen February 4 on charges of '•Waring" with labor...
...This is the highest...
...An excellent lawyer, Harold Houston, has been retained with good additional support...
...Socialists are prominent on the L. N. Gross Co...
...Jttrtsson for the planters' bitter •¦sivs against the union is the jjfjNutcrvention of the U. S. Jjjrteent of Agriculture in their •Wsai of the share-cropper memB| few weeks ago a delegaJ^jWed by Comrade H. L. WM, union secretary, called JfSecretary Wallace in WashPj> sni protested against the •iW&ation...
...x 1 Letters have been or will be sent to the Consumers' League of Ohio, the Women's Trade Union League and the Union Buyers' Club to con* tact department stores selling Grose dresses...
...Several girle were injured—but none very seriously, Ths Cleveland plant is located just one block from frozen Lake Erie...
...Consumers ?© Cooperate • To aid us in our strike against the L. N. Gross Co,, we are calling upon the entire labor movement, consumers' organizations and customers of the firm to refuse to purchase products manufactured under unfair conditions...
...MeanJJrtbe union's injunction suit **¦»'• Norcross to restrain him JfeWcting 25 families was car^jj»«My to the Supreme Court *Jfo-Klux-Klan campaign of j5^*n" prosecution of leaders |W<#e the planter-controlled J: besn the employers' Bj*ecropp«rs are probably m , srptoited workers in WkWmmtm-'W* ¦ study, made in 1934 for the Socialist Party and the League for Industrial Democracy by Prof...
...Ward H. Mlnrs is the latest victim of the WLm -planters in their right to BSp-tfe* rapidly growing union E&ticroppers...
...The call is being sent out to trade union, Socialist and fraternal organisations for a large conference to be held Friday evening, March 15, in the auditorium of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, 3 West 10th St...
...They now know thst the bosses lied to them when they ssld that the I.L.G.W.U...
...Many of the workers suffer from varicose veins and others have been severely injured on the job, only to be cheated out of their compensation, The strikers have found a new interest in life since they joined the union...
...Yet the picket lino was large and enthusiastic...
...jwaHtrs Form Defense...
...The brutality of the polio the...
...At this conference, which will be attended by delegates from hundreds of organizations, a permanent defense body will be established...
...Workers M Iter ably Ixeielteel To give readers of The New Leader an example of what these workers get, the girl pressers tell us that for using s nine-pound li on the highest price they get per dozen garments Is 21 centi...
Vol. 18 • February 1935 • No. 65
