Building Service Strike Stirs All Organized Labor
Building Service Strike Stirs All Organized Labor Elevator Operators and Other House Employes Dig In for Bitter Struggle as Realty Owners Reject Arbitration. Walkout Big Success City's...
...Tais oligarchy is irreepeatwhlt a*i Jp net subject to constituted authority...
...iniisJmaj plants...
...A Test of Power The strike began two weeks ago i when, after lay-off notices were received by 70 tike builders, the , workers embarked on a "sit-down' strike which rapidly developed inu a complete shut-down of the plant The lay-off notices brought *o e head a controversy which had beer brewing for a long time owing tc grievances of workers about the speed-up and anti-union policy ol the company but became acut< with the announcement issued bj the company hist fall that, beginning January 1, the factories woul( go off the NRA six-hour day...
...Columbia Students Protest Students and faculty members at Columbia University have taken the lead in protesting the acceptance by the Morningside authorities of the Nazi bid...
...In the meantime Secretary Li«H bach has challenged Horry La idler, who is serving as chairman of the rump party organization set up ia New York City, to make available the list of members claimed by tms rump organisation in the city...
...this ' week, with indication...
...While the company remains ada- 1 mant and Sheriff James T. Flower i appeals for troops and Governor ' Dayey hesitates, the situation is extremely tense and is loaded witn ' dynamite...
...The philosophy of courts, the New York MMBt of Appeals believe, should not change...
...The government in England simply says in effect that the landlord has for years collected rents from property unfit for human habitation and he is not entitled to any further revenues, indeed he has had too much already...
...It will probably be held in Chicago...
...Despite the efforts of capitalist newspapers to rouse a mob spirit \gainst the strikers by playing rpon the public's disinclination to be inconvenienced by the crippling ->f normal service operations, the workers of the city, backed by aH iecent residents, revealed their sympathy for the strike in a thousand ways...
...Profits Soar...
...What ia so sacred about a constitution that has been amended 21 times...
...4 " ' Heidelberg University, formerly one of the world's leading centers : of learning, has become "coordinated" since the Nazi coup and forced into line with Nazi teachings...
...The conference will consider the refusal of the N.E.C...
...Soon after the luncheon meeting, presided over by Algernon Lee, the Trade Union Institute of the Rand School arranged two large public meetings under its auspices...
...BaV Arrangements are being^Side for the labor conference at the Hotel Delano on Saturday afternoon, March 21, to be attended by the active workers and leaders of the trade union movement, to complete the organization, to discuss the^cope of its activities, and to laun\h this new institute as a poweMul educational instrument for and by the organized labor movement...
...The right to strike is an empty, meaningless gesture, unless accompanied by the rightito picket and dissuade others from working...
...The Trade Union Institute was informally launched at a luncheon of trade unionists several weeks ago as a coordinating educational instrument and a post-graduate school for those unions which have established their own educational departments...
...Capitalism on Three Fronts Jobless Army Increases By 1,229,000 TH &-*wa#mng oi the Amcrfcan : T'/F*eration of I^bor that employment was lagging faT behind production and, if,continued, would .lead to a crisis during 1937, has received startling confirmation from figures just released by the Federation showing that unemployment increased mere in January, 1936, than it has in any January in the last five years...
...The latest .number of "Workers* | Age," organ of the Lovestone Cemj munists, also published in New York City, confirms the information | of the Trotskyi6e-"e3ilitant'* eeai versations...
...The Trade Union Institute of the Rand School has been organized to meet tins seed and to serve the trade (Continued on Page Four) union movement in the field of labor research, educational courses and lectures, conferences, p'ublic meetings and publicity...
...200.000 women in the mfcol New York have looked »** Minimum Fair Wage Law W Protection from the greed H§** employers...
...While there has been informal activity, it is expected that the Trade Union Institute will be organized on a permanent basis, with an executive committee and chairman including prominent trade union leaders, a research department with a full-time director, and other officers to coordinate the work and direct the promotion and publicity activities...
...who were expected at the luncheon but were detained, endorsed the Trade Union Institute and offered their full cooperation and support...
...That millions of American families continue to be recipients of relief, and that hundreds of thousands of additional families have been added to relief rolls during the past year is abundantly clear...
...concentrated in a few hands...
...It seems to me that the time has come when we must about aloud and demand whatever legal changes are necessary to enable us to protect the vital interests of the nation's toilers...
...Is there no orderly way of attaining decency in working conditions...
...it would seem that those party members who cooperate with Communist elements can find among the §?• groups a place where- they will feel at home...
...Under such conditions even the continuing production gains we hope for this spring will do little to restore the millions of jobs needed...
...Responses to the first pamphlet published arc now coming in from the Pacific Coast and the Rocky Mountain States, and headquarters have been kept busy filling orders for extra copies...
...Any day his wages may be cut, he may be laid off or fired...
...No answer is needed...
...Under Ja uncontrolled competition jP8* *re relentlessly driven TJr* **wer...
...tion, and mere ia no progress" Rand School Will Launch Labor Forum Prominent Trade Union Leaders Back New Institute to Promote Program of Workers' Education...
...Each man has to do more work each hour but his wage per hour is not increased...
...I still believe in a democratic form of government and I believe in giving the judicial system of that government a fair chance, but if they ignore the human right to such minimum protections as the New York State laws give, then believers in democratic government must compel a change in procedure...
...Without the magic touch of labor, there is no civiliza...
...President Green of the A.F.ofL...
...I don't know how I could en- ' force the injunction if I wanted t« ' with six deputies on each shift" ' said the sheriff...
...Liberal and progressive groups have felt that the opportunity sfforded by the Nazi invttatiauljH be taken to rebuke the HHMfW tatorship, to demonstrate tej||H exiled and incarcerated G—a* scholars that they are still rssMK bered and that the ideals for Wtte they and thousands of workers» Germany struggled are still ej|j§j ished and perpetuated...
...pulUUMtlflj the report of the Royal CeuMBWi sion as his star witness aguanlr capitalism...
...The worker labors under a constant burden of fear...
...Indeed," he added, "any representative that Cornell might send to this Heidelberg jamboree would be just ao much dirt...
...The strike, directed by the Building Service Employees' Union, assumed all the aspects of a major battle...
...of spreading from Manhattan and the Bronx to all boroughs...
...it-' nevertheksi was clearly liltnihrtil thaUs** fear of petting added burdens m the wealthy was greater than tbsk concern for removing burdeualaasi the aged...
...There is a IE*11* in jobs and there are, ^P*na of unemployed eager ¦*J**b at any work...
...One of the latest pieces of evidence of this Communist-"militant" coalition is the publication in New York City of "The Fighting Worker," the organ of a group of "left" Trotskyists expelled from the Trotsky organization a few months ago...
...Plans were under way to give this sapTort a form that would eon vines he hard-boiled realty men that orTan;zed labor will not abandon the -trikers...
...To Albany March 11 The Trade Union Institute has initiated a call to all representaives of labor to meet at Albany on the afternoon of March 11 for the Assembly hearings on new labor legislation and particularly the State* Labor Relations Law, paralleling the Wagner Labor Disputes Act...
...A Mid-Western Conference is also being arranged...
...Sujmi^isal: Court has said it is "m':'&& bound to follow the deeafansof the Supreme Court ¦ - .weshould not speculate as to the- changes which have come er are supposed to have eotne to economic conditions in the last decade...
...cient to cover the cost of rent, food, clothing and medical expenses for an average family and far below the level of civilized living...
...The whole situation is fraught with danger of serious violence and bloodshed if the company's insistence that the picket lines be broken by force and the mandate of the court carried out, is acquiesced in by the authorities...
...Other Colleges Act Meanwhile, action was being initiated on other campuses to force reconsideration by administrative officials...
...In short, we want some democratic privileges with regard to jobs which mean almost life and death to us...
...The headquarters of the conference here is hearing from party members all over the country asking for literature and promising support of' its work...
...Now, more than ever before, the progressive forces must organize in the field of workers' education, so that we may be able to intelligently steer clear of j reaction and dictatorship from the right or the left...
...The C.C.F..' he stated, "pleads for democratic control...
...He was simply trying to conserve tin funds of tit government which were not *o?Scient to provide pensions far person.« over sixty...
...Among the leaders of this trade union educational movement, are David Dubinsky, Louis Hollander...
...The leaders of the labor movement in New York City have given their endorsement and have agreed to act on an advisory board to support this cooperative educational movement...
...Workers can strike and use . their economic strength to secure better conditions, the textbooks and side-line-playeTs tell us...
...The answer . of the -i'y's trade unionists must be such is to convince the enemies of labo r mobilized around the Realty Advisory Board that labor will net permit the building service work' ers to go down to defeat* Arbitration or general strike...
...Judges are willing to go far beyond the limit of reason in protecting gigantic corporations against labor by the injunction process" charged Wilmer Tate, president of the Central Labor Union...
...Between December, 1935, and January, 1936, unemployment rose from 11,397,000 to 12,626,000, an increase of 1,229,000," declared the Federation President...
...Asd yet how can we knowI whatis the sensitivity of beings ••o choose to hold themselves <Hssbf from the affairs of men JMflhey can remain insensible *» the plight of workers today...
...Old Aoe Debate The debate on old sjft JjMpB) was introduced by a CO*, asaeber, A. A. Heaps of Winnipeg, who urged "adequate, retiring allowances to all those over sixty...
...The evidence of attempts to transform the Socialist Party Into another Communist organization is sobering them...
...At Vassar the student newspaper, the Vassar Miscellany News, was leading the protest...
...i Boycott by British universities < of the invitation has become so ] widespread that the Nazi govern- f ment in ah effort to save its face i first threatened international dip- { lomatic pressure upon the univer- , sities and then hastily cancelled J the invitation...
...The conclusion is inevitable that despite talk about recovery, there are millions of American families who have been cast out of normal employment r and find' themselves helplessly caught in the bog of relief and work projects...
...the termination of NRA...
...Abraham Miller, Max Zaritsky...
...We must make this truly a "government for the people and by the people...
...We wonder what his empire would be worth were it not for the 127,000,000 people who inhabit this nation," said President Dairymple...
...for dirt, if I remember my definitions correctly, is 'matter out of place...
...Experts have declared such an amount insuffi...
...Despite the avowed anti-Nazi position of many of its faculty, the administration thus far his refused to act...
...Dividends last^monfh were . the largest for any February since 1932^pnd stock prices continued to rise and reach new high levels, according to compilations made by the New York Times...
...The Realty Advisory Board, claiming to represent 8,000 buildings under agreement with the union which expired last Sunday, the day when the strike went into effect, has set its face bitterly and adamantly against these demands Prolonged conferences at City Hall...
...44 members of the faculty have been dismissed since 1933—for the spurious reason that they did not conform to the new standards of race, religion, and politics established under the swastika...
...It publishes a cable sent by Leon Trotsky to A. J. Muste and James P. Cannon, leaders of the Trotsky Communists in this country...
...He pointed to the lengthening of hours of employment Since the termination of the NRA as being primarily responsible for the set-back in employment...
...Five of the six judges who granted that injunction are up for election this year and the best place to get them is in a primary election" he said...
...An edition of 5,000 copies of "The Socialist Sentinel" has been printed and they are being mailed throughout the country...
...The leaders who have endorsed this Institute look to the organization to "break away from dogma and take the scientific road in workers' education...
...If he can't stand the faster pace, he is fired for a younger man who can...
...From a thorough analysis of social and economic conditions, the report had concluded that '^aiJapN tions prevail which ihettW aat Ml tolerated in any nation that calls itself civilised...
...This was made known by Ernil Limbach, secretary of the conference...
...This was in answer to an inquiry as to whether the Trotskyists should join the Socialist Party...
...Labor utSS**, zations and other groups shs** send protests immediately...
...We want assurance that seniority rights will be respected...
...Other people discuss it in whispers, with bated bream...
...Behind these figures revealed in a W.P.A: report lies the poignant tragedy of unemployment with its appalling human waste...
...In 1918 the Supreme Court declared an earner minimum wage law unconstitutional in the Adkins vs...
...Henry -Linville Fred Umhey, B. C .VTadeck and Louis Waldman...
...We want some security^ We want to feel that we will have some notice before being laid off...
...Moreover, the danger of such a reserve army of unemployed in breaking down wage standards is a vital problem facing the organized labor movement...
...will inaugurate the i Trade Union Institute of the]' Rand School as a vital ednca- 1 tional force...
...and the practical independence of the party effected by the Yipsels, who have rapidly become saturated with Communist ideology...
...have accepted are Columbia, nell, Michigan, Vassar, YtfcJH Western Reserve...
...mg due regard for the maj5H?ef me law and the courts, *jt themselves to the task of *h»Uing state minimum wage gPP' Now we find the Courts jS!8* ^*at tne 8tate has no jSgt to enact and enforce such JpMshon...
...Unemployment always rises in January, but last year the,increase was only 699,000, and the last time there has been an increase approaching that of this year was in January, 1931, I when 1,328,000 were added to the unemployed, "To lose ground to such an extent at this time is nothing short of tragic, "It seems probable that longer hours have been an important factor, for records covering the month...
...In proposing a solution, ha declared that the question was not one of monopoly or no utuauujjfc' but whether the inevitable monopoly will be irresponsible and indifferent, fascist, or democratic...
...total relief expenditures rose $350,000,000, and the total number of persons dependent on relief throughout the nation reached 24.000,000 registering an increase of 3.000,000 over the previous year...
...There is no a«ch thing no "freedom of contract" today...
...Although the motion had esrnar been considered ia order, «a* Speaker of the Mease -aaaelW reversed his ruHng...
...This plan means the laying off of 12% of the force, or about one thousand workers...
...Relief cases which numbered 3,566,842 in 1933 rose to 4,324,053 in 1934 and during the year reached a high of 4,681,828...
...A Tri-State Conference of Socialists in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia will also meet in Pittsburgh March 14 at the party headquarters, 122 9th Street...
...Cash payments of lea* than a dollar for a week's work have been reported in one mill village after another where the employer owns the houses, owns the electric light plant and all other necessities for the community...
...Now that is taken from us...
...Sec retary Perkins intervened and sent a special fact-finding board to Akron which condemned the management's poliey and declared thai the return to the eigbt-hour day (Continued on Page Five) would add to unemployment in the city...
...It indicates that industry is making no determined effort to put the unemployed to work and is ; quite" willing to shirk all responsibility for them...
...1,4a not know what these suWSfot- beings may regard as •ontempt of court," but I •Sow that the time has come S^a completely honest and knrless appraisal of the situaHf<We face...
...The United Bobber Workers of America, a federal union affiliated with the A. F. of L., is counteracting the full-page advertisement published in the daily papers by Goodyear, with their own advertisements...
...Butler Dodoes President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia, one of the outstanding reactionary leaders in this country, in the forefront of the fight by business groups to defeat the Child Labor Amendment, has taken advantage of a vacation cruise to Panama to remain silent on the demands showered upon him...
...Prosperity in the upper range of '"civilization" and destitution for millions of workers at its base...
...N" impressive labor conference on "Education and Labor"s , Legislative Program" at the , Hotel Delano...
...The celebrations in the German j university are scheduled for June 27 to 3fr—exactly two years after the Nazi blood purge of 1934-rto ^ commemorate the alleged 550th anniversary of the founding of the . aniyersity...
...400 students signed a petition demanding that the university withdraw from the farce...
...Those present at the luncheon included Louis Hollander, Joseph Tuvim, Morris Finestone, Henry Linville, Leonard Kaye, Samuel Shore, Louis Fuchs, Marx Lewis, Fred Umhey, Phillip Kapp, Edward Gottesman, Pauline Newman, M. J. Ashbes, I. H. Goldberg and Max Rosen...
...The small group of seven members of the Canadian Commonwealth Federation in the House of Commons has, at the very start of the session, already precipitated a debate on socialization of industries, and forced the government to show its true colors on the question of extending the benefits of the old age pension law to old people 60 years of age or over...
...Members Stir Canadian Parliament Seven Spokesmen of Cans ada's Socialist Party Fight for Comprehensive Program of Immediate Relief and Socialization...
...QuWrens Hospital case...
...In the same month of last year dividends amounting to $214,947,240 were distributed by 629 companies...
...asee> bers immediately appealed from ab ruling- The Bouse divided 168 te 88 te favor of die chair...
...definitely indicate that the portion of the nation's population receiving Federal and relief aid increased between January, 1935, and the samemonth of 1936...
...The Democratic View "When the current scene tends to modify our earlier concepts, we must not be afraid to be guided by the signs of our time," declares the Institute...
...The aggressiveness of this small parliamentary group beaded by J. S. Woodsworth has crested a strong impression even among their reactionary opponents...
...Special to The New Leader PITTSBURGH—The Socialist Party Interstate Conference wiH reconvene in New York City March 28 and 29...
...Mindful of the almost feudal views of the courts, friends of labor have hesitated even in the face of known and proved conditions to press the fight for a minimum wage for men, and have relied instead upon the long sustained power of the state to protect the health of women and minors...
...The situation is intolerable...
...I don't know how they live, but I do know that they must be assured of some minimum protection from this kind of exploitation...
...As he gets older and less able to stand the terrific strain of the factory, he will be | discarded...
...The meeting of the conference in New York City March 28 and Jt is expected to be larger than tfc* first one with the prospect of an important western state organisation being represented...
...Denouncing statements issued by the company calling the pickets a "mob," the union contends .they are "a peaceful, disciplined body of workers seeking only peaceful settlement of disputes" and that "if no violence is resorted to by the company, the workers will remain absolutely peaceful...
...108 West 43rd St., New York City, on Saturday...
...ts...
...Wireless messages asking him for his position that were sent by the Columbia Spectator, aggressive undergraduate daily, were unanswered...
...to rescind its action, work on a draft of a new Declaration of Principles, and take into account the drift towards Communism in the Socialist Party and the open demand of Trotsky Communists in the party that all splinter Communists in this country shall be welcomed into the party...
...Trotsky cabled: "Unanimous Prompt Entry Seems Desirable to Me...
...Strike Lines Hold Firm in Akron Plants Rubber Workers Defy Injunction by Mass Demonstrations — Threat of a General Walkout Continues as Conciliation Moves Proceed...
...The result of these company policies has been that no worker feels secure in his job...
...Before the fact-finding board from the Department of Labor last fall the Goodyear management openly admitted that they had installed a plan which called for a gradual reduction in productive workers...
...universities which are reports...
...Fraoerty rights are well safeguarded, hamaa rights are callously disregarded...
...Akron to be sure to register and vote in the primaries...
...In God's name who 1^*7protect helpless women and *f"dren...
...Under a constitutional monarchy—in England—the government seizes miserable tenements, razes them and builds anew...
...Despite the fact that it rose $5.16 over the average paid , the previous year, it was a far cry from the much-boasted American standard of living...
...The speakers will be Congressman Thomas R. Amlie and Mayor Jasper McLevy...
...By Our Special Correspondent QTTAWA...
...At Cornell, Hendrik Willem Van Loon, outstanding lecturer and historian, issued a letter declaring that participation by Cornell would be "an insufferable insult" to the founder of the institution...
...Labor is the foundation of all civilisation...
...A movement was also mder way to organize hundreds of housands of tenants behind the strike...
...C.C.F...
...These workers are among the most exploited in the city...
...h» v« Failed to move the realty owners, led by the notorious Walter Gordon Merritt, professional labor Hater and life-long counsel for the foes of unionism...
...Why not a 22nd amendment...
...has continued into January i and accounts in part for the pres- < eat...
...The following week, on Friday evening, March 27, at 8:30, the ] first of a series of forum meetings under the auspices of the Trade Union Institute will be held at the Rand School on "Labor and the Government...
...This brings the gain in the average price per share during the last eleven months' to $38.31...
...v^Pahave proved beyond any Sf"* that voluntary standards ;*fP$Proved working condiJp...
...The granting of the injunction against mass-picketing by the judges of the Court of Common Pleas has aroused a storm of indignation...
...Samuel Shore, Morris Finestone, Algernon Lee, Dr...
...It is expected that protests from union groups will join with student indignation to force a change...
...the friends of labor...
...jgg Despite the strategy of tht "Liberal" government and the Ceaold age: uaasteua...
...The will of the people expressed in legislative action can be nullified by a court which it is apparently beyond the power ¦ of the people to influence, curb, j or control in any way...
...The increases included most groups of industries, but particularly the copper, ' mail-order, motor, oil and steel corporations...
...Is this a democracy or a dictatorship" read the full page advertisement of the union in the Akron Beacon Journal...
...There are flee splinter Communist organizations in the United States, and...
...e wholly ineffective...
...An article in this paper I declares that "the Trotskyites are ; now openly negotiating for entry ; into the Socialist Party* in order ! "to escape from their hopeless ias! lation...
...Workers are thus guaranteed only the freedom to choose between a alow starvation or a quick death...
...The union chapter in its resolution asserts that "because as teachers and workers we seek the maintenance of free institutions and abhor everything that Nazism represents, we call upon our university to assume once again that leadership which it is in danger of forfeiting...
...Experiment and research must be a fundamental part of the program of the Trade Union Institute of the Rand School...
...Deny to labor the right to strike and to picket, no matter by what subtle art the act is done, and the spinal cord of human liberty is sundered...
...Although about 14.200,000 persons are receiving a "livelihood" tfrom the work relief program,' there are about 10,000,000 receiving home relief...
...After deductions for rent of company owned hovels have been made, deductions for light, for food purchased at exorbitant prices at company operated stores, the workers have a few cents in cash with which the other needs of their families must be met...
...Strikers1 Broadside "In the face of increased profits in 1935" continues, the "ad," "the company has initiated a program of wagecuts on piecework...
...The politicians seem to fear a 22nd amendment...
...Of this total, the Federal share was $1,360,330,185...
...March 21...
...True, you will say, mere is relief...
...The Board of Student Representatives of Columbia College, self-governing undergraduate authority, passed a resolution in similar vein, stating that Columbia should "definitely refuse to condone the suppression of human rights which is the expressed policy of the Third Reich...
...J President Green placed the responsibility squarely upon private in- , durtry...
...Hed by - Mayor LaGCsrdi...
...Undoubt- , edly this' movement to lengthen hours instead of employing men, ' which follow...
...The conference will also consider the diseases that afflict the party...
...This is 74.2% of the total or $300,000,000 greater than * the amount contributed to relief by the Federal government the previous year, which increase accounted largely for the rise in total relief expenditures during 1935...
...This action is in accord wfth the decision of the last conference, which provided that the conference should reassemble if the National Executive Committee fiid not within thirty days rescind its action in suspending the charter of New York State...
...Under the leadership of James T. Bambrick, the strikers redoubled their picketing activities and were holding their positions despite Hie importation of large numbers o! hugs recruited for strike-breaking purposes by the realty iBdWjSlfc The more than 800,000 ingsillmil workers of the city wets rtTTHw*rf by for orders from their oganiaatiens...
...Among A...
...Stockholders in 783 corporations will receive $277,964,942 declared in February of this year...
...This is undertaken in spite of the increased cost of living which is making it harder and harder for us to support our families even with wages staying as they were...
...That the Workers sre grimly determined to stand on their rights and are receiving the full support of the organized labor movement in Akron is evident from the appointment of a committee of twentyfive selected by the Central Labor Union at a meeting behind closed doors which is empowered to call a general strike of all union labor if force is used to break the workers' blockade of the Goodyear plant...
...Not only at Heidelberg, but in all the other branches of German higher learning, education has been reduced to little more than gymnastics and physical education, inculcation of perverted doctrines of race, biology, literature and history, and a violent prejudice against intellectual achievement and the rights of organized labor...
...as $2.10 ¦beek...
...Everywhere where toil ?rs labored it was felt that the miserably underpaid and grossly exploited building service weikeis vcre fighting for a jus* cause...
...The states making this demand included Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Maryland, Rhode Island and New York, Bridgeport, Conn., and the Finnish and Jewish federations...
...Thus at present there ST 24,000,000 persons dependent on relief as compared to 21,000.000 in 1934...
...They demanded i constitutional amendment to validate legislation passed in the interest ef the workers...
...Moreover, "ba MO smell ell tat tMt oligarchy controls government psi* tey...
...To keep up production with fewer workers, the company has been making each department work faster...
...Ail they ask is a flat $2 increase, a 48-hour week, the closed shop and reasonable readjustment of working conditions...
...One mimeograph pamphlet on the issues in the party and the proceedings of "the" ttr Philadelphia last January has had avwide distribution and another one is...
...The average home relief paid during 1935 to a family per month was $28.18...
...from July to December, 1935, show that the work-week in { industry generally has been lengthened by three hours and that as a ¦ consequence more than 1,000,000 . possible jobs were lost...
...situation...
...The average ijm in stocks last month ' ww ' 78 cents...
...At Manhattan Opera House more than two thousand men and women heard leaders of the labor movement denounce the decisions of the Supreme Court affecting social and labor legislation...
...A slight improvement in anticipation' of spring is reflected in trade union figures for the first part of ?'eferuary showing that uru empioyment of union members decreased from lt.2% in January to 16.7% in the first part of February...
...The Litchfields can come and go and society will take its course...
...C.C.F...
...Despite incorrect reports which have been circulated showing a decrease in relief cases, the latest figures supplied by the W.P.A...
...Strikers Determined E. L. Green, secretary of the Central Labor Union, has urged the strikers and all other workers in...
...At Cooper Institute an enhusiastic audience supported the ratification of the Child Labor Amendment...
...The refusal of the owners to arbitrate proved to the general ->ublie where the responsibility for •he hardships and inconveniences, ^a used by the strils, rested...
...Why the employers can call upon the state militia, as- in the southern textile strike last year, to crush the strike, to escort the strike readers out of the state, and to shoot down the workers...
...nearly ready, the second' one brings to the surface the developing relations between the "militants" and splinter Communists in various sections of the country...
...JK^nth the compulsion of a York State since Au(Continued on Page Three) gust 6. )954, has found women and minors paid less trkapOp legal rate in 642 laundries out of the 2500 in the state, land the Department of Labor through the power of the Minimum Wag* Law was able to collect $11,541.04 for 4,041 employees it fliooo...
...There were indications that all organized labor in the city would rally to the support of the building- service workers...
...Walkout Big Success City's Labor Unions and Hundreds of Thousands of Tenants Back Valiant Fight for Better Conditions...
...1 The police chief, Frank Boss, re- 1 fused to send his men into the picker Hue fearinjr fills woLrid tee the striking of a match to a keg of powder...
...That the fundamental implications of capitalist society are vividly revealed to workers particularly during the stress otf strike is evident from the answer given by Sherman H. Dairymple, president of the Rubber Workers' International Union, to the contention made by President Litchfield of Goodyear that through rugged and unconquerable individualism the robber empire was built in Akron...
...The entire Faculty of Law (Continued on Page Four) was evacuated...
...The State Minimum %age called for only $12.40 far a 40-hour week or 31 cents I Thssu am thi j tii r ri - -ir and Anas me the wages now legalisnkj^H|fciriitted because of the Itihr'To" three decision of tfteJbts Court of Appeals...
...1 can not work up any hysteria at the thought...
...The total relief expenditures for 1936 were $1,826,806,008 as compared to $1,476,567,941 in 1934...
...The Cornell Sun, student newspaper, demanded that the university reverse its acceptance...
...For instance, the Financial Post, organ of big business, says: "In debating Btrength and general ability, this handful of members outshines any other party---Opening speeches by the C.C.F,'s indicate plainly that the party has made its choice and is now well on the way to be Canada's first outright Socialist Parti^ -----(Continued on Page Six) In the debate on J. S. Weal*, worth's resolution to soeMHa^Hfl industries and requiring that tijay be operated a* cooperative ^| public service, the well-known Socialist leader of C.CJ...
...Joseph Schlossberg, Abraham Miller, James J. Bambrick, Max Zaritsky and Samuel E. Beardsiey...
...The system has failed to provide security and a decent standard of living for a large number of our" people," Woodsworth declared...
...In New York, local and state contributions were increased from $122,436,920 in 1934 to $136,338,032 in 193S...
...The very forces of our economic disaster compel men, women and children to seize any job opening they can find and to accept without argument the wages offered...
...we have been too long in awe ef the courts—afraid of committing "contempt of court...
...The Court now says in effect that for a state to prohibit payment of starvation wages impairs the'freedom of contract" guaranteed in the Constitution of the United States...
...Our demands are simple and reasonable...
...Trotskyism in Party It has become apparent that the "militants" have had a monopoly access to the rank and file of party members for years and party members have been fed with one-sided stories...
...JSM All British universities, by the uncompromising mttitnds * Socialist students, have refese#1| Heidelberg bid...
...Students Urge Colleges Reject, Heidelberg Bid By Andrew Khinoy QPPOSITIOX to participation in the 550th anniversary of i the founding of Heidelberg Uni- 1 versity next June has swelled to 1 mass proportions among shi- ' dents and faculty member...
...courts saesda remain in blissful ignorlate of world shaking economic fwiW which have rendered it ftttinrtrve to enact minimum '•>|S legislation...
...More than 125 members of the Columbia Faculty, led by the local chapter of the Teachers' Union, have urged reconsideration by the university administration...
...The educational work of the trade union movement has been making considerable headway in several of the onions, but there has been no coordination and broadening of the scope of this important work...
...Shall an arrogant management deny to workers the right to have a voice in the management of their own working conditions...
...Our ideal must be based on -the democratic concept...
...to Rescind Charter Suspension...
...It seems incredible," Van Loon asserted, "that Hitler's bright boys would care to associate with representatives of a universtiy founded by that eminently broadminded •Quaker, Ezra Cornell...
...However, "British Nature," the foremost British scien- 1 tific journal, reveals that 1936 is ! not the 560th anniversary of Heidelberg at all, but only the 549th, strengthening the conviction that 1 the festival is being staged only to > glorify the Third Reich during the Olympic- year...
...This can be proved ay laeMag^ at our statute books...
...24,000,000 On Relief Set New High "S't-tE ISumber of families otl relief during 1935 increased by 350,000 as compared to 1934...
...charged that private industry was demonstrating its incapacity to meet the problem of putting the unemployed back to work...
...Ohio.—Defying an 1 injunction against mass pick- i ;ting, 5.000 rubber workers con- ' tinue to form a iron barrier 1 around the plant of the Good- j year Tire and Rubber Company and liave servefi warning that if | force is used to reopen the plant or break the picket lines, a gen- . eral strike will, result which will i tie up every shop and plant in ; the city...
...Bleat-May the Supreme Court ¦gk deathblow at the NRA Mwed that the Federal Govateient has no right to protect jHpfctrs from wage exploitajBfc...
...But take out of the nation the 46,000,000 or more wage-earners and their familes and leave the Litchfields to reside here alone, and to their great amazement, they will soon discover that these glorious United States will decay and become a bleak and barren desert...
...Developments of grave importance to the strength and prestige of trade unionism in N'ew York were in prospect...
...We are back where we started—unable to act as a nation to prevent inhuman exploitation of wages, unable to act as a state so what...
...The board also reported that the adoption of this policy by Goodyear would force other rubber companies to likewise increase hours resulting in more lay-offs and accelerated unemployment...
...The proposal is that this claim be compared with the membership lists of the branches from which the "mflfctants" seceded, and that a committee in which the Socialist Interstate Conference shall be represented investigate the Laidler claims...
...What would our courts think of such a policy with respect to property...
...Other Conferences The first issue of "The Socialist Sentinel" has also appeared, It is a four-page bulletin, the leading article being devoted to the development of a force faction in the party, the dictatorial powers usurped by the N.E.C...
...As evidence of this treachery m ! the Socialist Party accumulates, II J becomes clear that the party eea» ! not live and function as an ini telligent political movement of the working class...
...By Elinore Morehouse Herrick Chairman, Regional Labor Board THE Sew York State Court of Appeals has just seen fit, through some strange concept of social responsibility, to legalize payments of $2.10 up to a top wage of $10 for a 55-hour work week in the Spotlight Laundry of Brooklyn, New York One Tepaldo, the emwwa ^ -«* * »¦ ~ ^e W Bhaere Morehouse Herrick ptoyer in this laundry, was found to have commi tted forgery through false entries on the company's books, and to have faked endorsements on paychecks...
...As we go to press, the real estate interests of New York have brazenly rejected all efforts to arbitrate trie strike of elevator operators and other service employee* in apartment houses, office and loft buildings of New York...
...Must social improvement be secured .by violence and by death...
...part time Work also decreased from 22 to 21 ac of the membership...
...One important development has awakened many members to the serious situation that 'faces the Socialist Party...
...Some 70,000 workers in thousands of buildings are fighting valiantly for demands considered just and moderate...
...Morris Fines tone, secretary of the United Hebrew Trades, will preside...
...m$ Finance Minister Dunning rest putting property rights a bove human needs...
...This dangerous maneuver appears n'ot only in New York City, where secret "conversations" have been going on between the Trotskyists and the "militants," but also in Chicago and California...
...no pretence of recompense to the erstwhile landlord ia made...
...But relief ia so inadequate that there ia much justice to the statement that our relief wages are but another element depressing the existing wage scales...
...Party Meeting Of Six States On March 28th Interstate Conference of Socialists in New York Will Consider Refusal off N.E.C...
...Socialists who have spent many years in the Socialist Party have been the victims of this onesided propaganda with the result that the most absurd stories and rumors have been accepted as solemn facts...
...Employees had keen compelled to sign blank cfcerki and others had been required to kick-back the diflerenceT>ctwcen the legal mink«um and the substandard Sjjjsjaa running as low...
...One of the major engagements in American labor history appeared imminent as the workers faced the rrowd of exploiters bent on break - ing the building service men'* organization...
...Just one , man on a court can thwart the : legislative will of the people...
...But President Green pointed out that "this gain is small indeed compared to the number without' vrstjfc* The . Federation estimates, the total unemployed at 12,626,000 in January of which 3,524,000 had work under the WPA program and : 148,259 were employed by PWA...
...The dismissal of 70 tire builders made the issue a test of economic power between the workers and the management...
...Appeals Court Hits at Women And Children Decision Knocking Out New York Minimum Wage Law Forces issue of Constitutional Amendment to Curb the Judiciary...
...Pickets a "Mob...
...Meanwhile, 14,000 workers involved in the strike are standing solidly together and insisting on then* right to organize and are demanding an end to wage-cutting, lay-off and the speed-up policy of 1 the company...
...And what happens when they strike...
...By Our Special Correspondent 1 A KROX...
...As the strike neared the end of the first week, the battlef ront was being extended, with strong indication...
...And we earnestly and solemnly counsel this action particularly in the light of our high regard for the long sad honorable history of Heidelberg University and our solidarity with its tea eh persed and those who are compelled to suffer the Nazi terror in silence...
...pointing ! to a reversal of numerous ac- < ceptances by university officials , in this country...
...r#-.H>v Woedswerth argued that ecenomic power la Canada was larger...
...Branches and individuals will receive the .invitation to attend from the states of (Continued on Page Two) Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin and I Missouri...
...We want to know that wagecuts will not be made without some negotiation with the workers, not with a company union...
...Bt argued that such a measure would care for 870,428 old pewit *HJ had given their beet te society, at the same time would give At young a chance to contribute their share te the community...
Vol. 19 • March 1936 • No. 10
