ARLISS AS "THE IRON DUKE" ON FOX BROOKLYN SCREEN
Indiana Jobless Organize MONTEZUMA, Ind. — Inspired by gains made by unemployed organizations in other states, the unemployed, part-time and relief workers of Indiana have started to build...
...Comrade Karlin pointed out that there was no violence or effort to intimidate or injure Ukor's customers, and that the union had a right to appeal to the public not to buy non-union goods...
...In New York some 12,000 drivers and sweepers alone would lose their civil service protection...
...William Karlin, attorney for the union, found that this firm is also in control of the United Dressed Beef Co., which he said is a subsidiary of Swift ft Co...
...AT the next meeting of Social" 1st teachers at the People's House, 7 East 15th Street, at 8 I...
...About 300 workers are involved...
...Hey wood Broiin also spoke, making a stirring appeal for cooperation in the holding of a mass meeting in Madison Square Garden for the purpose of taking action against the press that is viciously fighting the Newspaper Guild and other organizations of the workers...
...The I.U.U...
...The Indiana Unemployed Union, launched only a few months ago, has already succeeded in' building several powerful locals in different parts of the state until it now represents several thousand jobless workers...
...A new action was begun against the local union through its own officers and it wae alleged that the union was conducting an illegal secondary boycott...
...The program of the union consists of the following demands: (1) Jobs for all at union wages on constructive work projects...
...W.U...
...Meeting...
...Local 151, this Saturday night at the State Armory, biggest hall in the city...
...The Kane bill is an attempt to break down civil service as far as the labor class is concerned...
...the- dott -and- retail--<4earkunions...
...Month's Work of New York Labor Committee Outline /COMRADES both in and out of ^ the unions will be interested in a brief summation of the work idone by the labor committee of Local New York during January: Assistance has been given to the strikers of the National Biscuit | Co., the Willow and Stewart cafeterias...
...The need*"of the time is not to break down the civil service system but rather to strengthen it and to make it more effective," the letter continued...
...Miss Batterson, secretary, New Haven YWCA...
...The committee has been of con...
...Among the Socialist Leagues, meetings have been held with the ssew Haven uarment Union Dance in Huge Hall This Saturday MEW HAVEN, Conn...
...Norman Thomas stated that the Kosevelt unemployment insurance bill was not even a "half loaf ot bread...
...Delegations from Bridgeport, Hartford, Waterbury, Stamford and Norwalk reserved blocks of tickets in advance.' Among well known figures, sympathetic to the labor movement, who will attend are: John J. Egan, secretary of the Connecticut Federation of Labor...
...Kelsey Critton is state *ecretary of the union and the state office is located at Montezuma, Ind...
...When two actions were reached for trial in the New York County Supreme Court, the attorneys for the firm discontinued them, paying costs amounting to $141.50...
...The union is conducting a strike against the Kartagno Hat Co., 719 Broadway...
...As many as three thousand are in front of the Gross shop representing the various organized trades in Cleveland...
...Paul A. Rastnutsen, secretary of the provisional committee for a national conven tion of unemployed, and state organizer of the Illinois Workers Alliance, is a member of the temporary executive committee of the I.U.U...
...August Claessens is secretary of the Labor Committee...
...Work has been started to orgaai ize a New York section of the new national organization for labor and Socialist defense...
...4) old age pensions...
...Herman Woskow, militant trade union leader, vice-president of the Printing Pressmen's Union, Local 51...
...Conferences with Socialist and other unionists and unorganized woikers relative to conditions in the trade and in the unions have been held with the taxicab drivers, motion picture operators, retail clerks, musicians, shoe workers and jewelry workers...
...Bernard Shub, manager of the Connecticut organizations of the I.L.G.W.U., is in charge...
...with all the other leagues will Tj held soon...
...He warned against the low wages in the Roosevelt works program as being destructive to the wage standards of the country and declared that the union movement must energetically fight for a decent standard of wages on all works jobs...
...Labor Leaders Defy Picket Ban in Dress . Strike in Cleveland • CLEVELAND.-The I.L.G.W.U...
...Mrs...
...Local 174 won another victory last week when Supreme Court Justice McGeehan refused to grant a temporary injunction restraining the unien from picketing stores dealing with "Ukor...
...William Lyons Phelps, Yale1 professor...
...M., Thursday, Feb...
...Negotiations are already under way which will probably result in many independent groups, organized on a non-partisan basis, affiliating with the I.U.U...
...Morris Novick of...
...The labor movement here has been going along at a great pace in organizing the unorganized and is determined that no injunction shall break the L. N. Gross strike...
...Celia Rastow, chairman, Socialist Party, New Haven County...
...In the meantime, the provisional committee bi< been raising funds for the Stanley Glasj and Ward Rodgers cases...
...WEVD, New York, is aiding in the arrangements...
...Among other unions whose educational work has been aided were the radio factory workers and the wood carvers...
...14th, the campaign against the Ives Law will be discussed...
...Music will be supplied by Will Osborne and his orchestra and Ward and Berman...
...and members of his staff...
...Assemblyman Kane's bill amending the civil service law to eliminate from its provisions the labor class in cities...
...Comrade Waldman, declaring that this bill would affect tens of thousands of employes in the employ of various departments in the cities of the state, demanded a public * hearing on it...
...And appointments would be made on the basis of personal or political preference...
...The first large <<ttl0£*t* conft'l'l'llc-t- haji III.*-;, ,.alUi for March J6...
...Speaking on behalf of Local 42, Manager Max Goldman pledged "every means at our disposal...
...Speeches congratulating Local 42 on its enterprise and growth were made by officers in the millinery trades unions...
...The Rebel Arts Puppet Group delighted the audience by its presentation of the puppet show, "The Rent Strike...
...with a house warming Tuesday evening...
...Inspired by gains made by unemployed organizations in other states, the unemployed, part-time and relief workers of Indiana have started to build a powerful, non-partisan mass organization...
...Both in Plainfield and New York, detailed organization plans have been worked out...
...The entire trade union family of New Haven and surrounding towns is expected to turn out...
...Socialists and sympathizers are urged to help...
...Amongs those who delivered addresses were Nathan Spector of Local 24, I. H. Goldberg, A. Mendelwitz and Lucy Oppenheim...
...Help was rendered in the organization drives of the laundryworkers, chain store grocery clerks and cooks...
...The president of the Cleveland Federation of Labor, Thomas Lenahan, and outstanding labor leaders can be seen on the picket line mornings in defiance of the injunction...
...Five thousand people are expected to attend the great annual danco and entertainment to be given by the New Haven Ladies' Garment Workers' Union...
...When the employer applied for an injunction to prohibit picketing...
...Security Bill "Not Half A Loaf But A Poisoned Crust" Fight hundred members of the Workers Unemployed Union jammed the Labor Temple, 14th St and Second Ave., last Saturday night to hear Norman Thomas, Ellen Wilkinson, Herman Woskow Fred Smith ami David Lasser denounce the security and works program of the national administration and demand a real program of security for American workers...
...Applications for injunctions restraining the picketing resulted...
...grocery clerks, teachers, cotters Local 10 and painter...
...Judge Dempsey issued a court order limiting the number of pickets to three—one man and two women or three women...
...haw a olrtw-eeVitortte^lef* est, since "Ukor" employs nonunion men at lower wages to produce kosher provision products...
...The firm operates a factory in Plainfield, N. J. The union also reports that the Adore Hat Co., 598 Broadway, h«.s locked out 100 employes, members of Locals 42 and 24...
...Comrade Karlin contended that the union wis allowed'to persuade shop keepsrs peaceably not to buy "Ukor's" pc^unlon^ gogde and to ask coniirfdn...
...Jerome Davis, Yale professor...
...Waldman Assails Bill Injuring Civil Service lOUIS WALDMAN, attorney for *"* the Joint Council of Drivers and Sweepers of the Department of Sanitation, has written to the chairman of the Judiciary Committee of the New York State Assembly vigorously opposing...
...A story of the Teachers' Union mass meeting against the "poison ivy law" will appear in our next issue...
...In August, 1933, demands were made upon W. ft I. Blumenthal to employ union butchers in its kosher provision factory...
...Other features will include an acount of the rally that unanimously bestowed upon William Randolph Hearst the accolade of "iliulic Enemy- Number One" asda last installment of the diary of the Pittsburgh relief "siegers...
...plans to attain these objectives by sane, militant common sense methods...
...that it wan a "crust ot, bread with poison in it...
...Union houses pay higher wages foi shorter working hours...
...Joseph Menhart, business agent for" the union, announced that riegW tfetiomv for* settlement have been broxeTrofi...
...MILLINERY BLOCKERS CELEBRATE AftlLLINERY Blockers' Union Lo"* cal 42, celebrated the opening of its large and well appointed headquarters nt 102 West 38th St...
...Leo De Feo, and Harry Wander, general manager of the Outof-Town Department of the I.L.G...
...Hoot Rasmussen and Roy Lancaster, militant young leaders of the Illinois Workers Alliance, have been drafted to serve as full-time state organizers and have already started work...
...It is vicious in principle and would be unjust in practice...
...and is aiding with the organizational work...
...When the Blumenthali refused, the union called a strike and picketed retail stores selling Ukor products...
...Ellen Wilkinson, English labor leader, declared that the American scene was so backward politically that we were still fighting foj things that" tmr^BngKeh--workersare now fighting against...
...The first action wae against Patrick E. Gorman, as president, John J. Walsh, as vice-president, and Dennis Lane, as secretary and treasurer of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America (A.F.ofL...
...to aid the movement...
...If the Kane bill is adopted," he said, "the doors would be thrown wide open for the persecution and discrimination of those whose political views are not to the taste of the heads of the departments...
...strike against the L, N. Gross Co., manufacturers of cotton garments, is being vigorously pressed...
...3) Cash relief until jobs at union wages with adequate insurance can be provided...
...siderable assistance to the educational department of the ILGWU and a number of Socialist teachers and lecturers have been sent to locals in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut...
...Butcher Union Battles 'Ukor' THK vigorous struggle conducted ¦ by Local 174 of the Butchers Union against "Ukor" is still being carried on, "Ukor" is the trade name under which W, ft I. Blumenthal manufactures kosher provisions...
...He de- j dared that the Wagner-Lewis bill might even stop states from adopting a better bill...
...2) Unemployment insurance...
...declared that his union was solidly buck of the demands of the Workers Unemployed Union for a wage standard on public works of ' $30 a week and for a 30-hour week...
...The union will send delegates to the National Unemployed Convention to be held in Washington early in March...
...The entire labor movement of Cleveland took up the issue and the i picket line has never been so grest since the strike started three weeks ago...
...The strike called by the Doll and Toy Workers' Union is still on and is being conducted...
...The plea was denied...
...She called for a mighty organization of workers in America...
Vol. 18 • February 1935 • No. 66
