Hoan is Named To Make Seventh Mayoralty Race
Hoan is Named To Make Seventh Mayoralty Race Ten Socialist Aldermen Renominated for Spring Election Em il S e i d e 1 Retires. Special to The Sew Leader MILWAUKEE, Wis.—Mayor . Daniel' \Y....
...The single pants industry today is spread over forty-two states and employs between forty-five and fifty thousand people, about 90'r women...
...Other city-wide, county and district candidates are being selected by party referendum...
...district attorney intended it to be so, the prosecution was an attack upon the labor movement and upon labor organisation practices...
...occasion of his appointment to the bench...
...And it was only after constant postponements secured by the "militants" that the case was finally heard by the Party's Griev*ance Committee...
...Emi] Seidel, alderman from the Ninth Ward, is the only one not seeking reelection...
...The "militants," however, having failed to prove their case, continued their whispering and letterwriting campaign against the 014 Guard for "shielding" Nemser...
...Tan of the tieren Socialist aldermen vili run for reelection, having been named by their party ward branches without opposition...
...have prevented unions from demanding security from employer» that they felt could not be trusted to maintain lateer standards...
...Weinstein reported with satisfaction that not only have the debts been paid off but the local' can boast of a very substantial sum in its treasury and is well provided to face any situation that may arise...
...At the same time they permitted other manufacturers in New York to do the cutting themselves, by which they deprived union members of jobs...
...Weinstein stated that unemployment among cutters is the lowest in all its history...
...When the indictments were found, following the publication of the stories in the three newspapers, the "militants" made an issue of it, insisting «that Nemser and the "Old Guard" that, they said, Was shielding him, were equally guilty...
...It was only after long insistence by the officials of Local New York that a "militant" was found willing to prefer charges against Nemser...
...Then shops began moving out and many large firms established themselves in various parts of the country...
...Many unions and Workmen's Circle branches have taken tables, and Socialist party branches throughout the city are reserving blocs of places...
...It is expected that Webster Hall, 119 E. 112th St., where the dinner -will be held January 24, will be jammed to the doors and the committee in charge has issued a warning that individuals who bav...
...The union pants and knee pants shops in New York are being constantly undermined by outside nonunion shops...
...Nemser CaseThrown Out of Court by Judge Fitzgerald THE famous "Nemser case," * one of the principal items in the "militant" indictment of the "Old Guard" of the Socialist Party, collapsed with a bang when the case against Hyman Nemser and other officials of the Retail Clothing Salesmen's Union Local 1006 and Retail Women's Apparel Salespeople's Union Local 1125 were thrown out of court Wednesday...
...Both the "militant" caucus and District Attorney William F. X. Geoghan of Kings County took notice of the charges, the "militants" making the Nemser case one of their major talking points and the district attorney obtaining indictments against Nemser and his colleagues...
...Norman Thomas was specifically asked to < appear and present whatever evidence he had against Nemser but instead he sent a letter in which he said he had no first-hand information...
...Many cutters who J were compelled to leave the trade and the organization are applying for re-admission because, as they explained, they found out that the present union differs greatly fror...
...Labor and Socialist Dinner Jor Solomon to Break Record 1VITH only a few more days before the testimonial dinner to Magistrate Charles Solomon the indications are that the affair will be one of the largest, if not the largest of its kind ever given by the labor and Socialist movement in New York...
...Hoan, who is pleting 20 years as head of the city government, has been unanimously* renominated for a* seventh tenir by the Socialist party membership here...
...Seidel has again been in the Board of Aldermen for the past six years...
...ttte first of the "'non-partisan" elections...
...Under the present administration about One hundred cutting rooms were brought back to New York, providing a substantial number of cutters with permanent jobs...
...Shows Progress By E. Rabkin '¦¦HE progress and achievements of the New York Clothing Cotters' Union, Local No...
...4, of the Amalgamated, in the past year were reported by its manager, Murray Weinstein, to about 1,000 shop chairmen and shop committees in Webster Hall, which was filled to capacity...
...Most of the cutters were unemployed, not so much as the result of the depression bjrt because between 1925 and 1932 the officers aided manufacturers to move the cutting rooms out of New York...
...Judge John J. Fitzgerald in the County Court after hearing the prosecution granted the motion of the defense and directed a verdict of acquittal...
...A conviction would have made It fanpossible for tbe labor unions to make any distinction between boas fide employers and untrustwrdlay fly-by-night employers It wa...
...In addition, cutters were placed in those cutting rooms where the cutting was previously done by manufacturers.- At the beginning of 1936, more than two thousand cutters have jobs...
...Nemser, an active and respected Socialist Party worker, and his "ellow officials had been indicted 'or conspiracy following the publication of articles in the New York, Post by Edward Le Vinson, prominent "militant," in the New York World-Telegram and in Hearst's Evening Journal, in which charges against the unions of racketeering, graft and intimidation were made...
...Louis P. Goldberg, counsel fot the trade unionists, said, "It is obvious that whether or not th...
...Seidel, who is 72, was first elected Socialist alderman in 1904, and in 1910 he was elarterl as first Socialist mayor of the city, serving two years...
...Elected City Attorney for four years in 1910, when he was but 29, he Was reelected in 1914, and in 1916 he was elected Mayor in...
...Among the prominent members of the committee are Luigi Antonini, William Collins, David Dubinsky, Louis Fuchs, Julius Hochman...
...About a decade ago this trade gave employment to a few thousand people in New York...
...Those who would avoid disappointment should rush reservations at once to Henry Greenfield, treasurer, at 176 East Broadway...
...At the same time Judge Fitzgerald ordered the arrest for perjury of a witness for the prosecution, who had sworn before the Grand Jury that he knew Nemser and testified in court that he did not...
...He was defeated by a fusion of the two old parties in 1912, and in the fall of tne year ran for vice-president with Eugene V. Debs...
...Max Zaritsky of the Headgear Workers is chairman of the committee, Abraham Miller of the Amalgamated is secretary and Abraham Cahan is honorary chairman...
...Specifically, they were charged with "conspiring" with a merchants' association with which they had a union agreement to favor its members as against non-members of the association...
...not yet secured their places should do so at once if they do not want to be disappointed...
...the union of the past and that the local is doing good work for its membership...
...Weinstein pointed out that the prevailing 36-hour work week in the clothing industry came not only as a result of the NBA, but primarily because" the Amalgamated exerted its power to obtain it...
...He was reelected in that year, however, and again in 1924, 1928 and 19S2...
...John Haynes Holmes, Martin Lawler, Algernon Lee, Pietro Luechi, Thomas Lyons, George Meany, Peter Monat, Salvatore Ninfo, James C. Quinn, Alfred Peabody, Joseph P. Ryan, Joseph Schlossberg, Fred Umhey, B. C. Viadeck and Louis Waldman...
...Assistant General President Jacob S. Potofsky will direct the organization campaign...
...At that time, too, only about 1,000 members were fortunate enough to have jobs...
...The Socialists, however, publicise the party affiliations of their candidates and make the race on the party's principles and platform...
...and after hearing the evidence presented to it by the leading "militants" tbe Grievance Committee cleared Nemser for lack of substantiation of their charges...
...Organizers have already been assigned to the Scranton district in Pennsylvania, to the New England territory and to some other places where important shops are located...
...so that the union 'knows at all times whether or not the manufacturers are sending their work to union tailor shops...
...It was noted at the time that the charges, some of which were taken from legally disproved employer»' iffidavits, ran amazingly parallel in all three papers, the same charges appearing day after day in all three sheets...
...He was reelected in 1918, hut the reactionaries were so certain he would be defeated in 1920 that they caused the term to be increased to four years...
...The city elections since 1916 have been on a non-partisan basis, the two highest candidates in the primaries for each office contesting the run-off election in April...
...When the U. S. Supreme Court abolished the NBA, "the Amalgamated remained the Supreme Court as far as the'clothing industry is concerned and forced the industry to maintain the maximum hours and minimum rates that obtained under the NBA...
...The General Office of the Amalgamated has inaugurated an organization campaign in the single pants and single knee pants branch of the industry...
...Close to 1,500 members of the Knee Pants Makers' Local 19 Ih New York are victims of this situation...
...Weinstein recalled that it was only four years ago that the present administration took over the local, which at that time was in bad shape morally and financially and in every other way, a local which had only $106 in the treasury with $35,000 debts...
...The obstacles for organizing are tremendous...
...Mayor Hoan is one of the few Socialists never defeated for public office...
...Cutters' Local, Big Four...
...The dinner is tendered Solomon upon th...
...This achievement, in addition, made completo control in New York possible...
...It would have placed to the hands ef the court the power to determine when a labor union was acting 'reasonably' and when it was n?t...
...r And now Judge Fitzgerald after hearing the prosecution's case holds that nothing is charged against Nemser that is not recognized and legitimate trade union practice...
...With Hoan, City Attorney Max Raskin has also been renomi nat ec...
...In 1935 there was not one case of a cutter losing his job because of discrimination...
...The local gave liberal support to other labor organizations and institutions that applied for assistance...
...Norman Thomas was among those who spoke and wrote about the "case," as did Maynard Krueget before the N.E.C., as recently as the Philadelphia meeting...
Vol. 19 • January 1936 • No. 3
