ARBITRATION EXES UNIONS IN AUSTRALIA
Bills Don't Go Far Enough, Merrill Tells Legislators STATK SECRETARY HERBERT M. MERRILL represented the party at the hearing at the State Capitol last Tuesday on bllli id extend the-...
...Workers Sports Activity Vital TPHE workers' sports movement * send us the following notice which we are glad to print and heartily second: "One of the most important branches of Socialist education is mass sport activity...
...J The school will be housed in thi new Labor Educational Center, 4jj South 19th St...
...Organizations not yet affiliated will also be extended the privilege of attending and affiliatingStrike May Answer Code Raising Hours to 49 IN the face of labor's fight for the * 80-hour week the NRA continues its hunger program by increasing the code hours from 40 to 49 in the celluloid button, buckle and novelty industry, according to Amicus Most, organizer of the Celluloid, Catalin and Galilith Workers Union, Local 19.238, A.F.ofL., who has issued a call for a mass protest meeting of all button workers for 2 p. m. Saturday...
...and Economics of Socialism" bj August Tyler, associate educational director, International La dies' Garment Workers' Union "The History of Labor's Struggles' by Alexander Kendrick of the La bor Record...
...Hall, speaking especially for child labor organizations, exploded the arguments whlclr opponents of more schooling for children commonly advanced and In^ dustrial Commissioner Andrews said that the State Labor Department stood squarely behind the two bills...
...At this meeting a discussion on calling a general strike in the industry to protest 'against this action will take place...
...Bills Don't Go Far Enough, Merrill Tells Legislators STATK SECRETARY HERBERT M. MERRILL represented the party at the hearing at the State Capitol last Tuesday on bllli id extend the- sefeset and to correct the provisions of the Labor Law in connection with the maximum working week of minors, Merrill, who was the last speaker following representatives of organized labor, the Women's Trade Union League, League of Women Voters, Child Welfare and other opponents of child labor, declared that the bills did not go "half far enough...
...war chest funds to help the strikers win...
...One way of achieving this aim is by joining the W. G. S. A. Come one, come all...
...Jesse H. Holmes, president of the American Federation of Teachers and professor of philosophy at Swarthmore College, was 6,000 IN FIVE CITIES PUSH NBC FIGHT WASHINGTON, D. C —Biscuit " workers of five cities, out on strike against the National Biscuit Co., invaded Washington to demand a code providing for a 36hour work-week...
...Join now—more strength the movement 1" Philadelphia Launches Dei School of Social Science PHILADELPHIA.—At the labor * educational conference last Sunday, attended by representatives i of- numerous trade unions, labor and Cratemal organisations and the educational committee of the L Socialist Party, the establishment of a permanent workers' educational institution was unanimously voted...
...The union, in a letter to the NRA, stated: "At a time when hundreds of,workers in the industry are without employment, to increase the work-week is to fly in the very face of the avowed principles of the NRA . The workers in this industry have been underpaid and overworked for .yean...
...It will continue its work on Sunday, Feb...
...wrestling classes for men, soccer divisions all over the city and teams for apparatus exercises...
...Socialists in California, together with other workinr class organizations intereeled , It the freedom of the ttWg...
...elected educational director of ta school...
...ON SACRAMENTO "UNftEB FRONT" THE national office of the * Socialist Party has seat out a detailed statement hj Albert Goldman, the Socialist attorney in the Sacramento criminal syndicalism trial, explaining how the Communist Party has sabotaged and disrupted the three-way united front there...
...to every measure in the interest of organized labor and for the furtherance of social welfare...
...Prominent speakers will address the meeting...
...Mrs...
...fondants...
...Green was also urged to concentrate the nation's attention on the attitude assumed by the National Biscuit Company towards its workers...
...The Element...
...William E. Rodriguez, prominent labor attorney and former Socialist alderman...
...Describing the strikes of over 6,000 in New York, Newark, Philadelphia, York and Atlanta as "spontaneous outbursts of exploited workers," A. A. Myrup, secretary of the Bakery and Confectionery Workers' International Union, insisted the industry can operate profitably under a 36-hour week...
...The bakery worRers went out on strike when collective bargaining attempts were squashed by the firm's refusal to meet with the workers to settle wage rates paid temporary workers, called in at rush times, who did skilled work, but were paid minimum wages...
...The meeting is sponsored by the Socialist Party of Kings County and Y.P.S.L...
...Referring to the year in which he served in the Assembly, he said that the following year, 1918, saw more labor legislation enacted than in any other ten years in the history of the state...
...Hilda S. Boyle, chairman of tl\e Schenectady Board of Education, who appeared for the Women's Trade Union League, also showed up the misinformation of opponents of more schooling for children...
...Three were tried this week, following "disturbances" near the plant at Eighth Avenue and 15th Street...
...postpone...
...from aiding the Shoe Salesmen's Union...
...Paying his respects to opponents of the bill, he said that Mark Daly of Associated Industries had been coming to Albany for ten years crying "postpone...
...Ralph Chaplin, editor of "The Industrial,Worker," and Lillian Herstein, member of the executive board of the Chicago Federation of Labor...
...They will stand for no more...
...To commemorate America's foremost beloved labor leader and Socialist, Eugene Victor Debs, the Institute was named the Debs School of Social Science...
...M. V Leof chairman of the board ol directors...
...H. Bergei, treasurer, and Abe Belsky, executive secretary...
...CHICAGO LABOR COLLEGE RUMS LUNCHEON FORUM CHICAGO.—A series of Saturday luncheons on "Historic Struggles of the Chicago Labor Movement" has been arranged by the Chicago Labor College and the League for Industrial Democracy to be held at the YWCA, 59 East Monroe St...
...ANTI-INJUNCTION RALLY IN BROWNSVILLE MAR...
...Holmes will immedi ately proceed to organize an ad visory committee of ouUtaadiaj ] educators and prominent person interested in workers' education...
...Every young persons' spare time belongs to the Socialist move* ment...
...The conference elected Dr...
...The Inside Bakery Workers' Union in New York has asked President Green to use A.F.ofL...
...a class in publii speaking and a lecture course oi "Sex and Society" by Augus Claessens, lecturer at the Raw School of Social Science...
...mlH continue to «fM j] IlirtMr Wfaw*.' J...
...ture courses: "The World We Live In" by Dr Jesse H. Holmes...
...The Workers' Sports Alliance is based on the ideology of training the proletariat so that those who expect to be the future leaders of the nation can set a shining example of physical fitness, endurance and ability jn and out of the movement...
...RAP BOARD RULINGS CHARLOTTE, N. C—Decisions of the National Textile Labor Relations Board were severely condemned by the executive board of the North Carolina State Textile Council meeting here...
...Secretary John M. O'Hanlon of the State Federation of Labor, who introduced the proponents of the two bills, intimated that the publishers who attended the hearing had wasted their time since the conditions of newsboys were covered in a special section of the labor law...
...Labor organizations will cooperate...
...Arrests of striking NBC employees have continued in New York City...
...The next convention of the council will be held in Durham April 6 and 7. Prosecution of mills that have refused to abide by the decisions of the board and have "openly violated Section 7-A" was demanded...
...If the NRA persists in upholding this increase in hours of work, there is no doubt that th« workers will insist upon in immediate strike...
...The company has 36 plants throughout the country...
...These children should be treated the same as all others covered by the labor law...
...The increased hours were granted at the request of the manufacturers...
...Part of this time belongs to each and every individual to build his or her body...
...The union is carrying on an intensive organization drive among button workers in cooperation with other button workers' unions in the A.F.ofL...
...a course in "Marxism' by Simon Libros...
...Among many other things, the Workers' Gymnastic and Sport Alliance conducts classes in gymnastics (for women on Tuesdays from 8 to 10, for men on Thursdays from 8 to 10 at 347 East 72nd St...
...postpone...
...14, when the committee on constitution and by-laws will report...
...Among those listed as speakers are L. P. Straube, editor of "Federation News...
...As for the plea of the publishers who wanted to subject children to « "school of hard knocks'' he hoped that the time would soon come when he would not have occasion to buy a newspaper from a child...
...The luncheons will start 12:30 and the lectures at 1:15...
...Circle 7, 8r...
...A library and elul room will be located in the Center The Debs School of Social Scienci as an outgrowth of the Socialisi Institute and the Labor Educa tional Conference comprised oi numerous trade unions, labor anc fraternal organizations at present offers the following series of 1...
...restraining the Y.P.S.L...
...3 A mass meeting will be held on Sunday, March 3rd, at 8 P. M., in the Brownsville Labor Lyceum, 219 Sackman Street, Brooklyn, to protest against an injunction granted to the Wise Shoe Co...
Vol. 18 • February 1935 • No. 66
