Labor and Socialist Rally For Child Labor Amendment Battle in Albany March 31
Labor and Socialist Rally For Child Labor Amendment Battle in Albany March 31 Conference Under Auspice* Of Rand School'* Trade Union Institute La y sP lam For Invasion of...
...Elinore \ M. Herrick said "the conference could not have been convened at a more auspicious time...
...Although- heavy rains still fall over this city, rubber workers were in a happy mood as they marched post the abandoned picket shacks which had been constructed at every strategic entrance to the Goodyear plant...
...Courts and Labor During the coarse of his address...
...Walotean's concluding remarks that a condition under which twelve millions are permanently unemployed was by no means inevitable, and that "a handful of eld lawyers will not be permitted to defeat the aspirations \af the American people," was vigorously applauded...
...The"rubber *^ workers are back at therr jobs in tiie huge plant of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co...
...The prompt action taken by the Institute indicates that the youngest in the family of labor institutions in New York will not only foster workers' education and research but will also vigorously support labor's legislative program...
...Let us stop pleading and begging for legislation...
...Waldman attacked the American Liberty League aa a 'class of openshop employers and financier* protending to be organized to preaerve democracy, and the Constitution...
...Those who have faith in democracy he said, "know that it cannot function effectively without knowledge and education...
...states, located in a downtowaholL This Law and Order Lear^ntafHr got to first base, and what at eat time seemed to be the begmoflg of an American fascism m H Middle West was nipped in the bet by the common sense tactics of *• strike leaders...
...But whereas the railroad business was held to be interstate commerce within the power of Congress to regulate, many courts were now holding that this does not apply to manufacturing operations, despite the contention of the Labor Board that such operations "affected" interstate commerce...
...Algernon Lee, president of the Rand School of Social Science, presided...
...Pauline Newman said that the Institute could do much "not for, but with labor...
...It is as much a necessary weapon for the workers as any other," he said...
...She contended that the Minimum Wage Act which has been cut down by the courts had not only increased the wages of exploited women workers, bat had stimulated organization among them...
...Attending the conference discussion on "Labor and Government'' were several hundred representatives of the trade union and Socialist movement, who heard leaders of progressive, labor and Socialist opinion call for political education of the American workers...
...Young John TX Souse, president of Goodyear Local No...
...He is aot allowed any sugar...
...Calling attention to the feet that the enforcement of the National Labor Relations Law had "bogged down" as the result of numerous injunctions against the Labor Boards, she declared that the court decisions against labor meant that "democracy was not being given a fair chance to work...
...He hailed the settlement aa a victory for labor, as did the veteran, S. H. Dalrympie...
...Legislative Activity While declaring that organisation work on the industrial field was the first and primary concern*" of .labor, President Meany asserted that legislative activity was second in importance only to such organization work...
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...Labor and Socialist Rally For Child Labor Amendment Battle in Albany March 31 Conference Under Auspice* Of Rand School'* Trade Union Institute La y sP lam For Invasion of State Capital DemandSenateA ction Delegation Will Press for Report by Judiciary Committee to Make Possible Early Vote on the Measure...
...Lobbying by labor was upheld by Abraham Lefkowitz, legislative representative of the Teachers' Guild...
...Joseph Schlossberg, general secretary of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, and Pauline Newman, of the Union Health Center...
...Carmody...
...He said that the act was of great importance to labor, and pointed to the destruction of railroad company unions as the result of the Railroad Labor Act of 1934, which also provided for the holding of elections to determine the collective bargaining agency of the workers...
...2, said that he had no doubt but that the union would prove a constructive force in the social and industrial life of Akron...
...If used intelligently, it can bring results beneficial to labor...
...He urged that labor's answer to the courts should be to abandon the policy of rewarding your friende and punishing your enemies, which has failed, and adopting a program for independent political action...
...Senate Judiciary Committee on March 31...
...here after a settlement ending a five-week strike...
...He has to ^eapjit.em and coffee, sad a few prunes...
...She denounced the 4 to 8 decision of the Court of Appeals nullifying the Minimum Wage Actrecalling that she had lobbied for the act which "had written into lew a reasonable standard for women workers and was an orderly way of handling an economic problem...
...The magazine of the Seigniory Chab says: "Thanks to the distribution of bean and molasses cakes in our forests, the young dear get their proper allowance of vita¦use...
...The hearing before the Senate Committee has been called as the result of widespread indignation and protests against the killing of the Child Labor Amendment by the Assembly Judiciary Committee several weeks ago...
...Special to The New Leader AKRON, Ohio...
...Not only at Goodyear, but also in the ether his...
...Altogether, Akron has writtea another stirring chapter in the history of American labor...
...Abraham Lefkowitz, legislative representative of the Teachers' Guild...
...Lefkowitz appealed for "live labor publicity with a punch behind it, so that even tired legislators would understand it...
...One unusual feature of this unique strike was the visit of union representatives to the office of Mayor Lee D. Schroy upon the conclusion of the settlement...
...She bitterly assailed the Republican-controlled Assemhly, which has cut 125,000 from the traveling expenses of labor inspectors, sentending that this action "threatens the heart of the enforcement of labor standards in New York...
...MEW YORK.—Hardly had the 1 Trade Union Institute of the Rand School been officially launched at a conference held in the grand ballroom of the Hotel Delano when it moved into action with the unanimous adoption of* a resolution authorizing the Pro...
...The conference acted following an impassioned appeal made by Socialist State Chairman Louis Waldm*n that scores of labor's representatives should invade Albany on Mareh 31 and demand that the Judiciary Committee report out the amendment for a vote on the floor of the Senate...
...rubber factories union membership has notably grown as the result of the strike...
...Her appeal for the constant support of the Institute in all its work was warmly received...
...In those windswept shacks thousands of men and women had held the picket lines fast for many long weeks, and now they felt that the outcome of the fthe^hadimade*d - Af a victory celebration in the Akron Armory Sunday night, the strikers cheered the terms of the settlement and their union leaders...
...In addition to Waldman, the conference was addressed by Geo...
...Criticising the views of those who believed that labor must solve 'ite problems exclusively by industrial action, and others who held that political action alone was sufficient as "extremist...
...Labor Relations Act John M. Cannady, of the National Labor Relations Board, echoed Mrs...
...The workers thanked the mayor and the local police for their orderly eonpolice developed and the only Wk of violence came from the besaV quarters of the self -appointedVS...
...He wondered whether the process of legislation for workers was "like raising cattle and then having them slaughtered...
...visional Executive to do everything within its power to promote the ratification of the Child Labor Amendment at a hearing before the...
...DeerJBetter Fed "HMoa^ ™07*d' eare&ef m° Canada, said' of having to live :ak@||j| sec...
...Joseph Schlossberg joined in the attack made by previous speakers on the courts...
...Elinore M. Herrick, chairman of the Regional Labor Board in New York...
...He concluded his address by presenting an interesting picture of the legislative activity of the* State Federation of Labor...
...Meany, president of the New York State Federation of Labor...
...The Labor Relations Act will reach the calendar of the Supreme Court during the next months, said Mr...
...You cannot get...
...president of the United Rubber Workers of America...
...Herrick's statement that enforcemeat of the National Labor Relations Act had been frustrated by court injunctions...
...Waldman declared that the purpose of the Institute was to educate the community in the principles of industrial democracy...
...He asserted that the time would come whan "liberty undjer the Constitution would mean ;not vested rights to stocks and bonds and the right to exploit workers freely, bat the human rights of workers in the factory, the mill, on the railroads and on the farm...
...The Federation President, however, pointed out that legislators were far more sensitive to the opinions of people who live in their districts than to pressure from organized, bodies...
...the full benefit of organization activity," he added, "unless you are protected in the exercise of certain rights...
...John M. Oarmody, member of the National Labor Relations Board...
...let us send our own representatives into the law-making bodies and get what we want directly," he declared...
...The agreement made verbally between representatives of the Rubber Workers of America, the Goodyear local union and spokesmen for the tkm of the union, shop coszSntrees, a division of worVa«it» , return of all strikers without drier irmnan on...
...Waldman declared that labor now realized that "aooal legislation ia indispensable ! to the organized trade union movement and supplemented action on the industrial field...
...The Institute's first conference was > held last Saturday...
Vol. 19 • March 1936 • No. 13
