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Ousted for Raising Race Issue VINCENZO FAZIO, long a stormy petrel in Local 89, the Italian Waistmakers' Union of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, has been expelled from...

...According to Antonini, Fazio "betrayed the organization of the Italian dressmakers"—at that time organized in Local 25 of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union—in 1913, starting an agitation for a separate Italian local...
...As for Yannerelli, it is not true that he belongs to this famous fascist club, and as for the thousands of workers, granting that it is true that they belong, it still does not place Vigorito in a different light...
...John Coeleld, president of the Plumben and Steamfitters/ International Union, and Ma*' Zaritsky, presU dent of the millinery division of the Irftei'natlonal Ciottr Haratfa Cap Workers' Union...
...Tickets are available at the Rand School Book Store, Mayfair Book Shop, 1 East 47th St., and at the office of the Pharmacists Union, 55 West 42nd St...
...Members of labor unions and ot the Socialist Party are urged to give the fullest cooperation to the efforts of Local 280 in its organizing work...
...For 12 weeks a few stores in the Bronx, with the support of Brooklyn and Manhattan proprietors, held out against the union in the hope of smashing it...
...The editor of the Labor Section has received protests on its original story from the comrade who is editor of the Silk and Dye Worker and from the organiser of the Paterson local of the party...
...PHARMACISTS TO MARK VICTORY BY DANCE FEB...
...push him through the hole...
...32.50 minimum salary for a 54 hour week for registered pharmacists...
...Find out about the place you eat in...
...Editor, Labor Section...
...The victory resulted in establishing the following conditions in the Bronx...
...Anything to prevent unionization...
...We believe (1) that with Vigorito's admission thtt he is a member of the Republican club and the pro-fascist Circolo Nazionale the recklessness and irresponsibility of those who boosted him as a progressive anti-administration candidate is amply proved, and (2) that the pro-fascist nature of the latter organization is undeniable...
...However, with the support of the public, Socialists, Yipsels and other organizations, the few die-hards were compelled to capitulate...
...We shall never hesitate cither to attack where we think attack is necessary, or to make amends where we have been wrong...
...Officers of the Milk Wagon Drivers' UiTiurr point- sat thet- in the long history of the organization it has always- been among the first to extend aid and cooperate with other unions...
...To the credit of many employment agencies it is said that they have promised to send workers to jobs only when the minimum wage is assured...
...Socialists and other workers must cooperate...
...Jack Brandes was elected recording secretary and Joseph Belsky organizer...
...another was to withdraw from the Joint Board until it was two-thirds Italian, a chauvinist appeal to Italians against the Jewish members of the union, Antonini said...
...Joseph P/Ryan, president of the International Longahoremen's Union...
...Brother Vigorito is young in the movement and I believe that he will soon come to realise this...
...John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America...
...The fact admitted by himself that Vigorito, a leader >f revolutionary rank and file trade unionists and a Communist Partysupported candidate, belongs to the reactionary Republican club and to the fascist Circolo Nazionale is not a good recommendation either for his anti-fascism nor for the antifascism of the Communists...
...Warn him of its pitfalls, of the end of unions and the subjugation of workers in a fascist state...
...The Labor Chest was organized at the last annual convention of the American Federetiojw of- Labor at JSsn Franoisco and is headed by William Green, president of the A.F.ofL., as chairman...
...The New Leader's purpose in printing the story was not to reflect upon Vigorito In his peraonal capacity or as the chosen spokesman of several thousand workers, but upon the good faith and Intelligence of the Communists who recklessly support anyone, regardless of their connections and antecedents, with whom they might club Socialists and those trade unionists who will not take orders from them...
...Ousted for Raising Race Issue VINCENZO FAZIO, long a stormy petrel in Local 89, the Italian Waistmakers' Union of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, has been expelled from membership in the union following a series of incidents in which Fazio alternately played belt-with the Communists and the fascists, acwrdfng to Euigi AiTttrnini, first vice-president of the International and manager of Local 80, largest single local union in the county...
...Try to point out to such s man—Brother Vigorito in this esse—the dangers of fascism...
...The campaign they started some time ago is now showing results...
...Other members of the executive committee are: Sidney Hillman, president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America...
...When the shop was organized, Fazio associated himself with the Communist "united front e*.s," Antonini said...
...Fazio had been conducting a campaign against the leadership of the union during which he raised the chauvinist race issue, pitting Italians against Jewr, Antonini says...
...Fazio also attacked the invitation to G. E. Modigliani as an "undesirable" speaker for the union and attacked f.he local and its officers and committees...
...Workers and members of the allied professions of medicine and dentistry are urged to support thi» affair...
...At present there exists the successful Socialist Institute, which is running a series of lecture courses at the Labor Educational Centre, 415 South 19th St...
...Persistent work over a long period of years has brought results and • the membership is lurger than it has ever been in the history of the organization...
...It ii pointed out, however, that indifference and thoughtlessness on the part of some organizations have retarded the grov.th of the Milk Drivers' union...
...The union calls attention particularly to restaurant* and apartment houses that cate;- almost exclusively to union workers, yet buy mi'k that is delivered by nonunion drivers...
...It may be, however, that Vigorito was not aware of that fact, and that since hie election he deeply regrets his association with fascist elements...
...To a story appearing in The New Leader, stating that Vigorito was a fascist and a Republican, he answered that he is not a fascist, at the same time admitting that he belongs to a Republican club and to the Circolo Nazionale Italiano, which is known as a fascist hotbed where Mussolini officials often speak and glorify fascism...
...In the interest of the working class we assuredly wish him a successful idministration, without withdrawing our criticism of the recklessices of supporting a candidate with such connections...
...The editor of the Labor Section is grateful both to Comrade Wolf and to the organizer of the Paterson local of the party for their letters...
...Antonini says that hv thereupon became an open shop contractor and resisted attempts to organize the shop...
...BUTCHER WORKERS BRANCH ORGANIZED On Monday evening, 50 members of the Hebrew Butcher Workers' Union were initiated as members of the Butcher Workers' Branch of the Socialist Party...
...It is pointed out that workers shifting from job to job can greatly improve their conditions if they will keep in touch with the headquarters of the union and not take the "say-so" of some of the employers who have evinced a tendency to chisel...
...CONFER TO FORM LABOR INSTITUTE IN PHILADELPHIA PHILADELPHIA.—-In response to the growing need for workers' education, the educational committee of the Socialist Party here is calling a conference of organizations of the labor and Socialist movement for the establishment of a permanent institution for workers' education...
...Arthur 0, Wharton, president of/ the Inter, national union of Machinists...
...8 T0 celebrate the culmination of a successful strike in the Bronx, the Pharmacists Union of Greater New York will hold a dance and entertainment on Friday, February 8, at Hotel Delano, 108 W. 4tfrd .St...
...At that time, some of the employers were singing their siren song and were making rosy promises...
...Fazio vas thereupon summoned to appear before the grievance committee, iml upon his refusal to appear, he ¦vas expelled from membership...
...He added that even the Organizer Yannerelli and thousands of workers belong to the same Circolo Nazionale...
...The worst that can be said about Brother Vigorito," writes Herman Wolf,, "is that he, along with hundreda) of other Paterson workers, has not yet learned that he cannot be a good unionist in the beat sense of the word unless he is an anti-fascist and deliberately fights fascism...
...At the same time, he wants to point out to them in turn that they seem to have quite a job of education on their hands...
...The dance and entertainment will also inaugurate organizational proceedings in Brooklyn and Manhattan and the union hopes eventually to organize New York City 100 per cent...
...Raymond F. Lowry president of the American Federation of Teachers...
...Meetings of the branch will be held every two weeks until this branch has reached its goal of 500 members...
...Be constructive...
...Joseph N. Weber, president of the American Federation of Musicians, us secretary, and David Dubinsky, president of the I.L.G.W.U., as treasurer...
...another was to reduce dues to a point that would mean bankruptcy to the local...
...The new executive secretary n. nounced that the Labor Chest will function/through local Labor Chest Committees and that no effort will be spared to awaken American organized libor and public opinion to the necessity of combatting the mounting dangers of fascism...
...The New Leader also has received several protests on its statement about |iim with demands that we withdraw the charge...
...r For the record, we print herewith a statement by the comrade from whom we received, our first information about Vigorito: "Charles Vigorito, the new president of Local 1788 of the United Textile Workers Union in Paterorito waft recently elected president of the Dyers' Local on a left wing ticket supported by the Communist Party...
...At the conference this Sunday afternoon the foundation will be laid for permanent organization under the joint auspices of trade union, fraternal, Socialist bodies...
...Basing the statement upon sources . of information always found completely reliable in the past, we reported that Vigorito, candidate of the Communists, was a fascist and a member of a Republican club and a fascist organization called the Circolo Nazionale of Peterson...
...Matthew Woll, vicepresident of the A.F.ofL., as vicechairman...
...He was admitted with a very low admission fee...
...THE intensive campaign to en- large and strengthen the organization has brought excellent results to Local 584, Milk Drivers' Union...
...Antonini said that he thereupon again went into opposition" and came out with a 17-point program in opposition to the policies adopted by the union...
...One of the most recent of the laundries to sign up with the new local In the Bronx—No...
...In that job, this paper will be glad to cooperate...
...Charles P. Howard, president of the International Typographical Union...
...From the inception of NRA, Local 280 pointed out that any improvements for the toilers in the industry would result only if the workers strengthened their union...
...290—is the Superfine...
...In December, 1933, he came to Local 89 again, pleading for readmission and asking for leniency in the matter cf dues...
...Isidore Leff acted as chairman of the meeting and introduced Comrade Claessens, who welcomed into the ranks of the Socialist Party, the Butcher Workers' Branch...
...He closes his letter with this advice, with part of which we are jn thorough agreement: "Don't label a man fascist because he might be associating with fascists...
...He was then expelled from the union, and after he had been readmitted to Local 89 upon its organization in 1019, he was again expelled "for neglect of duty...
...Named to DirectlLabor Chest HARRY LEE FRANKLIN, for- mer United States consul at Leipzig, Germany, has been appointed executive secretary .of the Labor Chest for Liberation of the Workers of Europe, it was announced at headquarters, 3 West 16th St., New York...
...Among the "points" was a demand to repudiate the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union...
...Pros and Con on Vigorito IN the Labor Section of January 12, The New Leader carried a story on the election of Charles Vigorito as president of Local 1173, American Federation of Silk Dyers, vigorously supported by the Communists as a "rank and file" candidate against the administration...
...Within two months he applied for the job of business agent, but was found disqualified by the examination committee...
...There will be music, stimulating drinks that are strictly U.S.P., a puppet enow, souvenirs, celebrities and what not...
...Union workers, especially Socialists, should insist that only milk delivered by union drivers be used in .the restaurants they patronize and in workers' cooperative houses they occupy...
...The union has established a minimum standard of $3.10 per day of eight hours and that standard is being raised as the membership of the union grows...
...Don't slander the head of s strong A. F. of L. union with 12,000 members...
...23.50 for junior pharmacists, union recognition and closed shop terms...
...The 17-point program was picked ip by Grido delta Stirpa (Cry of Race), an official Italian fascist veekly, because of the chauvinism tnd opposition to the union officialism implied, Antonini said...
...INSIDE LAUNDRY WORKERS ORGANIZE The membership of Local 280 of the Laundry Workers' International Uuion had the foresight to see that a source of strength to the hand Ironers would be the organization of ali inside workers...
...Vigorito denies he t'» a fascist, although he admits membership in the two organizations...

Vol. 18 • February 1935 • No. 65


 
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