Dress, Building Service And Fur Workers Await Final Walkout Orders
Dress, Building Service And Fur Workers Await Final Walkout Orders 20,000 Building Service Workers Set for Battle MORE than 20.000 elevator operators and other building service workers, members...
...In an analysis of the union's demands in the dress industry, Julius Hochman...
...ists, oppositionists, flsclanot...
...Not a single prisner was acquitted...
...The croups are to ¦fn convention is Gary, Ind., ^KXngust...
...Here 12 young persons, some of them apprentices, were charged with high treason.' The accused were former members of the Social Democratic Youth Organization ind were charged with continuing he existence of the Social Democratic Party, and, by the distribuion of material, a part of which is aid to have come from abroad, vith having performed treasonable icts...
...centering around com-HKgniona is the opinion of John ^HAteh/nationally known writer ot^thc current issue of "Survey Wgt&c" Mr FHeh...
...In that way the evils of the present jobber-contracting system would be, in » measure, abolished to be succeeded by Job security and a systemvthat would help the enforcement of the agreement...
...seven accused, among them Strader, Otto Dehnke, A. Henke and Lorenz, vere sentenced to 2Vi years im->risonment (all seven of ' them -oung persons...
...Among them was the old Bolshevik Din-glelstadt, a member of the party since 1910...
...I em kept with criminals, who seeking-to improve their own condition try in every way passible to please the administration, squeal on us, heat —, rah ua...
...2 of the Hamm provincial court on a charge of high treason...
...A strike of all three groups has been set for Saturday, although It is not expected to get under way before Monday...
...Julius Willemsen received ive years penal servitude and five rears loss of civil rights...
...Hh>s agreed that a closed meet-Vwouki give the men a better |Hbce to formulate their demands Mfcjfc will eventually be put be-H.the management...
...In addition to discussions of organization problems that may have a bearing upon the whole future of the American labor movement, the convention will have before it problems created by the expiration on March 31st of wage contracts in the anthracite field, and the expiration on March 31st, 1937, of bituminous wage contracts...
...According to information received by the union, the Realty Advisory Board has made arrangements for bringing 15.000 strike breakers into the city...
...Negotiations with the anthracite operators will be held in New York, starting some time in February...
...Only two, were acquitted...
...Lewis from the Executive Council of the Federation, and the resolutions of the Executive Council at its Miami meeting create a situation that makes the present miners' convention of more than usual importance...
...Speaking of Zinoviev, Chiliga says that he manages to keep well and is now engaged in writing a book on problems of fascism and the history of classes in old Russia...
...Tampa Police Chief Indicted For Flogging Suspect in Murderous Outrage Commits Suicide as Law's Net Closes in on •TAMPA, Fla.—Chief of Police Tittsworth has been indicted as an accessory in the murder of Joseph Shoemaker who died as a result of <a heating at the hands of a .masked mob after being...
...The strike machinery is ail set for action...
...Smirnoff, a former commissar, old Bolshevik and hero of the civil war, was among those who participated hi this strike...
...At present, he said, prices are settled separately in the thousands of contracting shops, thus putting those shops into competition with each other...
...The building service employes are among the most abused and most exploited in this city...
...In the first trial on account of "Preparation for the overthrow of tbr ojfieHng ardor" the accused ways 11 years' penal servitude, Otto Goldhahn six years' penal servitude, Otto Weber, Kurt Schubert and Karl Dietrich five years' penal servitude each, Walter Elrich four years' penal servitude, Otto Wit-teborn, Fritz Schwarzer, Fritz Bolm and Alfred Schroder 3]/2 years' penal servitude each...
...These loans will thus be repaid three years earlier than was originally estimated...
...Mpst of this increase is to be spent on improved pensions and insurance schemes...
...I. T. Hull, well known through-oat Western 'Canada as a co-operator, was appointed to the library board...
...All is not Hfeftet in the company union...
...In the second case 16 accused were sentenced to a total of 32 years and 8 months of penal servitude and imprisonment, among them the two chief accused, Wilhelm Voigt and Erich Preschold, to five years'* penal servitude each...
...By George Field THE Manhattan Opera^Hotrse, * 34th Street near 8th Ave., New York City, will be the scene of a great rally in support of a program to save labor and social legislation, Sunday, February 2, at 2 p. m. Three thousand $vorkers wiH hear the answer of readers of the Socialist and labor movement to recent Supreme Court decisions and will join in urging the adoption of a constitutional amendment to protect their rights...
...Sweden's budget provides the effective answer to the scare-J' mongers and prophets of "spendthrift Socialism.'' la a time ef*' extreme economic stress, when rapitrlist governments are msking desperate effort* to weather the storm aad fascist dicUtor-ships are faced with economic collapse, a Social Democratic government produces a ssead and balanced budget which bears witness, not only of social i marina t ion...
...A paper.sack bearing the name of "Fariss" was found at the scene ef the flogging by officials after the lashings the night of Nov...
...Mass picketing demonstrations will be carried out and a careful watch is to be kept on the movements of strike breakers...
...Among the 86 who were tried for the alleged plot to kill Stalin, says Chiliga, was" Leo Kameneff, world famous Communist leader and close co-worker of Lenin...
...Estimates for 1936-37 balance with a total of 1.167 million kroner as against 1,056 million kroner for the past twelve months...
...Bambrick said...
...The shadow of the industrial union situation in the A. F. of L. being over the delegates as they gathered...
...Here and ^^Kjasceaaipns have been re-^HBP°*a4 were is a feeling that B^H['ifiiaifc>ns between company Wans over a wider area will be ^K??** Castle, Pa., last Sep-Mb*j«|, emploQ-ee representatives mp'sheet and tin plate mills BS( ftee| corporation demanded ¦¦Nirroase and fjastic changes ¦ft Company union plan, which ¦¦refused...
...tel, was sentenced to five years' penal servitude, Walter Sommer and the 22-year old Gerhard Jahn to four years' penal servitude each...
...They may consider'the company nfaioae they themselves created to defeat collective bargaining as ogethai leas of a challenge...
...Chiliga tells of a hunger strike in the Verchne-Uralsk prison which lasted thirteen days...
...them pronounced with firmness and self-possession...
...The indictment, charging* accessory after - the fact in kidnaping follows the same language...
...The remainder were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment...
...Ah epidemic of hunger strikes has swept the concentration camps...
...member of the New York Housing Authority and manager of the Jewish Daily Forward...
...But at a Bcviovs stage m the arrange-¦Ma a suggestion that the man-Hpent be invited was rejected...
...In the indictment if was stated that "a large number of persons had been involved in the machinations of the accused in the Lower Rhine district, and that it had been necessary to arrest them...
...Bur Mr...
...The Swedish budget, introduced January 11, gives a dear picture of the essential soundness of Social Democratic administration in that country...
...Hochman skipped quickly over them to discuss limitation of contractors, settlement on the jobbers' premises and the unH system of piece rate settlement as a ••Program of Stabilization for the Industry...
...President Dubinsky, who* is also a member of the executive council of the A. F. of L., returned to New York from Miami this week, where he attended the meeting of the i council, to take charge of preparations for the general strike of dressmakers...
...foar others to 15 years' penal servitude each and the I—isiliilli to penal servitude from two to eight years or to imprisonment] from nine months to two years...
...The court sentenced the remainder to penal servitude for periods up to 10 years...
...but of businesslike administrative obility...
...The inmates demanding that they be sent back to the prise—, where life is a bit easier...
...Special to The New Leader WASHINGTON, D. C—Approximately 1.700 delegates are in attendance of the 34th convention of the United Mine Workers of America, which opened* art Constitution Hall Tuesday morning...
...The ^ sack was Btrpopsed, te bare contained feathers...
...The maximum penalty under both indictments is 14 years in prison and a fine of $2,000...
...The mass trials of Socialist workers, which are taking place without interruption, show that the illegal agitation in Germany is extremely active, fat the trials for high treason in Harnm, Cologne, Essen and other towns, for instance, groups of 20, 30, 60 or mere persons at a time have been charged...
...Changes in ¦~MsanK&y anion plan will be Mfht as the first plank in the 'Sunday a smaller committee car-H?tM plan to a similar group ^ne Toungstown district mills ^nr sane concern, where 6,200 HPvork...
...the delegates have before them the task of formulating demands to be presented by their officers when the 1 i I time comes for negotiating a new contract...
...Only Soviet justice can figure out the puzzle...
...It is because any agreement without it means warfare every day of the year...
...That we accomplished in 1933...
...He said that the iHMfters m inside ahede n—ili il JPresd ILtfsdSrml tlJOOa year while workers in contte worker co^ie*^^ih*ber through the Jobber-Contracting system," he said...
...And we want to spend our time working and not fighting...
...The demands of these who par...
...Ait sfe SMK'tJIrJsago plant of CamegM-J^Hb ' an independent •men wS»,org*m«d*Jast fall and RfEj^fl^VF$ayhsV membership...
...29 were sentenced ¦ to periods of penal servitude ranging from V/z to 6 years, and 17 to imprisonment for from one year two months to 2'/2 years...
...Among those heavily sentenced were five women...
...Doors will open at 1:30...
...In conclusion, Hochman said: "It was the historic mission of the union to lift the dress industry out of its sweatshop status...
...Other taxation, including supertaxes and other extra taxos op high incomes and property, is t$ remain unchanged...
...Elaborate i rrangements have been complete...
...Chiliga declares that many hundreds of foreign Communists who have incurred Stalin's displeasure are in Soviet Jails, among them three prominent Hungarian Communists...
...A The proof of the pudding is in the eating...
...hanger strike lasted SS days...
...The group set as its purpose the establishment of a research- department, more courses on labor problems, periodical conferences and an active campaign to support necessary legislation in behalf of labor...
...Hainan hefaaga aae dying Mae flies...
...C"MPHATIC denial of charges by craft unionists that the Committee on Industrial Organization, of which John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, rs chairman...
...Max Zarttsky, president of the Millinery International Union...
...Demands of Dressmakers Among the demands of the union are shorter working hours, week-woiVc for finishers, higher minimum wages to meet increases in the cost of living, an industry employment bureau free of private fees, installation of uniform time-keeping and payroll books, an unemployment insurance fund and other betterments...
...The principal "hero" in what bears all the earmarks of another Ogjja frameup was the painter Rosen-feld, Kameneff's brother, who played the row of "state wttness...
...The next step proposed Mia iato' the...
...When the city council met for the first meeting of the new year, labor mumfciiji Wave elected to the chairmanship of four standing committees, thus giving labor virtual control over civic departments...
...A policy and program for future legislation will also command the attention of the delegates...
...of the nation, is awaiting the launching of one of the biggest industrial conflicts of recent years...
...In Cologne the court of criminal appeal No...
...mmt there is a "bedding revolt ¦jftj (tecl industry on the part HjAfker...
...Whether it will move will depend on last-minute development...
...They came from every bituminous and anthracite coal mining field in the United States and from Nova Scotia and Alberta...
...The United Mine Workers, with a membership of 540,000, is the largest union in America and possibly in the world...
...r Labor tallies For Amendment Here Sunday Trade Union Institute Sponsors Bit Manhattan Opera . House Meeting—Meany, Anton mi, Solomon, Lee, Waldman Will Speak...
...The meeting will be the first activity of the recently organized Trade Union Institute of the Rand School...
...Included among them are also the leaders of the old "workers' opposition" and former members of the Bolshevist Central Committee, Medredieff, Schlapnikoff and Sap-ronoff, leader of the uprising in Moscow in November, 1917, and one of Lenin's favorites...
...The sums of money, which consisted of contributions paid to illegal organizations and had been seised, were confiscated, and the "publications and other equipment" were destroyed...
...Kameneff was sentenced for participating in an alleged plot to kill Stalin while being confined in a prison cell...
...He quotes one of-¦^MCs saying, "it would avail us KJsC^° buck prevailing senti-BS> yhese...
...That was Hpti Saturday night when 60 ¦feentatives — elected under Bompaoy union plan in plants He U. S...
...Ours is not merely tile problem of framing just another contract...
...edited by Theodore Dan and Raphael Abramowitseh, member of the executive bureau of the Labor, and Socialist International...
...The picture, drawn is in a letter from Moscow...
...Canada...
...because the Mmiltf its activities is an open S|f# eaMeetnad in the welfare of tike trade union move* "y^V M aheehi he proven that the Timlin I iii for Industrial Organisation, -which was organized to ^aawhMahMm^m in the ¦hafeleja .ec^putisatkn to the Amer-JByyeaeretit n of Labor or is ob-' <#Be»ti**: the Jsderation's work, WH9 will be no need for a decision If tkt Executive Council to dis-jjfva it, hhrsiuii the International Unions afTRstad with this movement created the Committee for i|ps|al**^^ eetfeetives," buhizuuqr said, **l/ any act or acta oa the part of this Committee should prove contrary to the purposes originally ootlined, they will be promptly corrected or tile Committee will he dissolved without the Executive Council having to make decisions about it...
...there is ¦jHfiOBWide sentiment about the gjjjtt to collective bargaining...
...I* spite of the ¦eveiitg ef fan...
...Be sted industry...
...The second of tee major demands, settlement of prices on the jobbers' premises, wee described by Hochman as another essential in the union program of stabilizing the industry...
...Shoemaker, Eugene Poulnot and S. D. Rogers, the latter two were also beaten and tarred but not fatally, were active workers in the organisation of the unemployed and members of the Socialist Party...
...They spoke for ftproxhuatdy 20,000 workmen jfe the Pittsburgh district mills recently consolidated in the Car-¦Seipe-Illinois Steel Corporation...
...All my teeth have fallen eat frow scurvy...
...Backing the Midtown and Penn Zone Associations is the Realty Advisory Board on Labor Relations, of which Walter Gordon Merrkt, notorious labor hater, is counsel...
...Scores of Thousands Are Set for Strike Action as Last-Minute Parleys Are Under Way Here...
...Mi the trials take place with the most rigid exclusion of the public In Essen 42 accused have recently been sentenced to Imprisonment and penal servitude for terms Up to 12 years, sad now another trial for high treason involving 50 accused has just come to an end...
...The strike of 20.000 building service employees has been definitely set for Monday...
...He named Joseph Shoemaker, it was said, as one of the "Communists.'* The man refused, ¦saying he knew Shoemaker was not a Communist...
...With limitation of contractors a system of "share the work equally" would become possible for the first time to toe dress industry...
...released f rom jail...
...This we will accomplish in 1989, through limitation of contractors...
...It is proposed to increase expenditure on national defense 5.1 million kronor, while expend-' iture on education is to be ¦ increased by 8.3 million kronor...
...I neve just sees a letter from s young Tmskyist wee wee' for nearly tan' years dragged about from jail to jail and has now again been arrested and sent to forced labor In the copper mines ef Altai He writes: 1 work up to my waist fax water...
...Other prisoners include anarchists, Socialist Revolutionists, Zionists, Social Democrats and about two-score Trotskyites...
...The ^Bsf reason is the More acquies-H^tatitade of some com pa nr.- of-¦•"Ihd the feeling that collec-Ml**'j<m °n the part of workers Bpprftable...
...eeks in any Way to promote a split in the American Federation of I -abor was made in a statement to The New Leader by David Dubinsky...
...Chiliga is a former member of the Pojitbttreau ' of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia...
...I The strike will be against owners i represented in the Midtown Realty and Penn Zone Associations, both of which have refused to meet the union's demands for renewal of existing agreements which have expired...
...PARIS...
...Concentration Camps The worst features of the life of political prisoners in Soviet Russia, Chiliga declares, are to be found not in the jails but in concentration camps, where life is a veritable hell...
...We will give them a fight, if fight is what they want...
...Since the present bituminous wage contracts expire March 81, 1937, the convention will decide upon the wag* policy to be followed in negotiating new agreements...
...Terror in Genmany and Russia Reveals Face of Dictatorship Wholesale Prison Sentences Third Reich Fail to Halt Heroic struggle at worKers — Two Communists Sentenced Many Imprisoned for Alleged 1*HE relentless struggle waged by the Socialist workers of Germany against the Hitler regime with fearless disregard of the fascist terror again appears in clear light from reports received this week from the Labor and Socialist International...
...3 This surplus is to be mainly devoted to aa all-round redaction is the income tax ef 12 per cent...
...I knew eaeea ef arrests ef eti revolutionists, who had served at hard labor ander risriam...
...Among them are Astroff, Sliepkoff and Rutin...
...Union Determined year, under the mediation of Mayor LaGuardia, the two smaller associations agreed to enter into contractual relations with the union, but this year they have permitted themselves to believe, under the prodding of the Realty Advisory Board, that such relations are no longer necessary...
...Such claims or charges as ate being made by the craft organiza-tions must ne oacKeu up oy prooi aad not merely by suspicion .or fears of the growth and influence of the industrial union idea within the Aasarireu labor roovement...
...At present rate of exchange four kroner equal approximately one dollar...
...Since than Chiliga and his comrades were dragged from prison to prison until he finally managed to get out of the country...
...The union also demands wage increases of thirty percent, a 40-hour week and other readjustments of working conditions...
...After receiving permissise to live in Mescsw (upon completing long tanas ef hairm—at and exile under the BeistwvaYa) they found these permissions withdraws suddenly...
...Before being brought there she was kept in solitary confinement in the political prison at Yaroslav, where she lost, in part, her capacity for speech...
...J This rise is chiefly due to the proposal to reduce the national debt by nearly 130 million kronor as against only 46.3 million kronor in the previous year's budget...
...The information is based on a letter reserved from Anton Chiliga, prominent Yugoslav Communist, who recently left Soviet Russia...
...The spirit of Socialism is, indeed, alive in Germany...
...The chief accused, Bertram, was sentenced to penal servitude S^rs^l^S^rn^aKhv another two to 7 years' - penal servitude each...
...TA of the NIRA and the ¦¦T mcner low have stiffened B^Ufpcbonc of workers...
...Louis Waldman, New York State chairman of the Socialist Party...
...Ift was just a dinner...
...It is a stronghold we do not intend to lose...
...Chicago district ^¦k 38,900 men are employed by Hkl oi it is t xpected to come a Ha a coDveutltot of these rep¦M»^*tj ?f the V- s-iMflflBv *im»epende#t v*mm< jUa alresHy been laii...
...James J. Bambrick, president of the Building Service •Employes' Union, declared that the union is determined to maintain its position...
...If the committee which was organized to promote industrial unionism in the mass production haieatriea, shnnlrt be proved to record of undivided loyalty to its ^^t^ J*JE*** Commit-tee eel MHWrfitl Orgerttsaf ion wel3)0***-the appointment by the ExeaMfM OWItfl of a Oammitteo jj»'J>*Mafeecs {he conduct and action of the C.I.O...
...At a convention of anthracite delegates,- held in Washington last December, new demands were adopted as a basis for negotiation of a new agreement in that branch of the industry, and this international convention will be called upon to ratify the action...
...Upon intervention of Mayor LaGuardia, conferences have been -hi progress most of the week between representatives of employers and employees in the dress industry-Upon the outcome of these eleventh-hour conferences wHl depend j whether or not the amy of dreed-j makers will go into battle...
...Shattered Illusions "I have already told you of the recent new wave of repressions against all dissidents," writes the correspondent of the Socialist Messenger...
...Previously arrested were six members of the police force and two members of the Ku Klux Klan...
...If we have to fight, we win fight one general strike and frame an agreement that will give us conditions, that will assure us enforcement, that will bring us lasting peace...
...Under the unit system workers everywhere will receive the seme amount of wages for the same amount of labor, immensely important when it is considered that three out of four workers in the dress industry are piece workers...
...Before the Berlin People's Court a big trial of a number of Communists who had tried to bring the Communist Party into being again has fust come to an end...
...Chiliga says that hundreds of thousands of workers and peasants now fill the concentration camps, where they are treated worse than criminals...
...After proceedings lasting seven days sight of the accused were acquitted and two women got off with light sentences of imprisonment but a number were sentenced to from 1 to 2]/2 years imprisonment...
...Two Communists have been executed and 34 others were given long prison sentences in Soviet Russia for "participating in an alleged plot to kill Stalin," according to information just published here in the TTOlskyist journal La Veritt...
...We insist on settling prices directly with the jobbers who are our real employers," he...
...Mass Convictions The court of criminal appeal of the Berlin Supreme Court sat in Halle and pronounced severe sentences of penal servitude in a number of political trials...
...movements are ao-¦Uliy' inevitable and we don't propose to stop them...
...Developments in the case indicate that an unholy alliance will be uncovered between the gamblers, politicians and the K.K.K...
...Willi Tiedt was sentenced to one year three months mprisonment...
...as against 193.5 million last year* an increase of 24.3 million...
...The convention opened with fireworks, as President John L. Lewis lost no time in launching an attack upon Al Smith's Liberty League speech...
...In discussing the last three, Hochmaif*Raid: "Our program far hours, wages and conditions is a necessary program and a just program...
...Lada Yenukidze, a nephew of the famous Yenukidze, who was for many years secretary of the Central Committee of the Bolshevist Party and one of Lenin's closest lieutenants, was sent to Ust-Pechersk for his leadership in the hunger strike...
...We must think of these things not in terms of a fight within the labor movement but rather as to how we can best effectuate a stronger organization of the workers...
...Among other prisoners at Verchne-Uralsk is the Socialist Revolutionist Volkenstein...
...The indictment, charging Tittsworth with being an accessory to the murder, charges the men already indicted committed the crime with "whips, straps and tar," and that Tittsworth: "—did with force and arms at and in the county of Hillsborough unlawfully and feloniously, with intent that the said C. A. Brown, John E. Bridges, F. W. Switser, C. W. Carlisle, Sam E. Crosby, Robert Chappell, Edward Spivey, Arlie Gilliam and James - Dean (those already indicted) should avoid and escape detection, arrest, trial and punishment, then and there well knowing that <they) had committed the aforesaid felony, did then and there with intent aforesaid, maintain, assist and otherwise' aid (them...
...Isidore Nagler, manager of the Cloakmakers' Joint Board, I.L.G...
...Steel Corporation— in the Fort Pitt Hotel in a ^Bncte session to outline a pro-Hltil of action...
...Jobber-Contract Evils With 78^00 union BMEflkbsn com* pelled to earn their living^ in eontractors at* will giv^ them* control the workers...
...Revolutionists and Me—he viae will new from scurvy and dying of exhaustion and disease...
...But whatever is written into the new agreements will have very little meaning unless the several important restraints are put on the present jobber-contracting system...
...A similar situation prevail*' in the fur industry, with its 16,000 workers ready to quit today or Monday, depending upon the success or failure of a last-minute conference with the Associated For and Trimming Manufacturers' Association...
...W.U., and Algernon Lee, president of the Band School of Social Science...
...By Emil Limbach ¦LeW to Tin -Vnr fader BpreBURGH...
...Kameneff swears that not only had he had no' inkling of the alleged "plot" on Stalin's life, but that he is wholly in agreement with the Stalin "line...
...Lenin Old Guard Victims Chiliga supplies some very interesting information concerning the fate of other members of Lenin's old guard whose political destruction Stalin has accomplished...
...beam sUlhn imasail at political prisoners on a level with criminals...
...It is the historic mission of the union to lift the dress industry out of its present chaos and confusion...
...why have been indicted for second degree murder by the Hillsborough County Grand Jury, will be tried in the February term of Criminal Court before Judge Raleigh W. Petteway, who is an avowed candidate for governor, t Th> Grand Jury has not yet finished its probe, and other and more sensational arrests are' expected shortly...
...thought be was just another policeman, but he has since identified himself to the Socialists aad says he will do everything to help in the aVNlscC ment of the case...
...Funds are still Jispsisrssljf ainliil' to keep pahtte IsdhMT.'Ipl^iewef' beat, and should W^ssjjI^lb^eMtlas Miners Convene To Formulate Wage Demands Momentous Meeting in Washington Considers Vital Problems of Coal Industry — Industrial Unionism Pushed...
...Previous to the flogging, Fanss asked one Tampa man "to go on a ride to take out a group of Communists...
...The reason for the unusually large amount set aside for this purpose is the desire to liquidate the whole of the so-called "crista" loans, which were raised for the financing of public works...
...The anthracite wage contract will expire March 31st...
...TAMPA.—The nine men, including six Tampa policemen and three., Orlando Klansmen...
...We will show these building owners that we mean business and that we have the power and organisation to enforce union recognition...
...Philipp 3orth (apprentice) three years >enal servitude...
...The . joint board of the Dresamateia' Union, backed by *?k> International Ladies' Garment Workers, if f«Uy prepared to meet the situation...
...Robert P. Farrts, Ku Klux Klansman, one of the suspects believed to have had a hand in the murderous outrage, committed suicide...
...Chiliga's letter confirms the picture presented in the "Socialist Messenger" for December 26, 1935...
...A. further four accused were sentenced to about nine years' penal servitude and imprisonment...
...Stollnrte Vengeance Chiliga reveals a mass of other painful details about the life of political prisoners in Soviet jails and concentration camps of Siberia and Central Asia...
...Inasmuch as there will not be another l convention until 1938...
...HuuimilsansU...
...All, including Tittsworth, are ouv on $7,500 bail...
...of all reason and that it has became quite mad, Mensheviks, Social-Bevehv tionist...
...After all factors have been taken into account there is a total 'jatV timated expenditure of 9814 million kroner, \\hi;-h, whan-compares, with the total estimated reVeatts* of 1,020.3 million, gives a surplus of 39 million...
...However general this sentiment may be among the management it seems to be a fact that efforts to reorganize the company unions are not being penalized by die-charge as has marked all previous iHimiiselrli to organize the mills...
...We will show the realty owners of this city, led by a professional union buster, that these exploited workers know how to defend their rights...
...Walter Bonis two /ears penal servitude...
...The chief accused was sentenced to penal servitude for life...
...The dressmakers stand ready for the call...
...Henry Linviie, Leonard C. Kaye, Samuel Shore, Louis Podia, Max Zaritzky, Fred Umhey, Marx Lewis, Saul Meti, A Hershkowitz, Philip Kapp, Edward Gottesman, Haemal E. Beardstey, Pauline j?WrthgA M. J. Ashbes, L H. Goldberg, Abraham Snyder, George Thomas end Men Rosen...
...The county grand jury before which Tittsworth asked exoneration several days ago gave its answer in two...
...This competition, be said, depressed earnings and conditions...
...AS we go to press, the...
...It is estimated that taxation will yield 753.46 million kronor as against 715.34 million kronor in the past financial year, while the revenue from State enterprises is expected to amount to 121.3 million kronor as against 108.53 for the past year...
...Louis Hollander, manager of the New York Joint Board Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America...
...ticipated in this hunger strike were that those whose terms bad expired be liberated, which applied to two-thirds of the prisoners...
...Chiliga calls attention to the fact that Smirnoff had just completed a five-year term in the Suzdal political prison when his term was extended to another five yean— purely as an act of Stalinite vengeance and political sadism...
...TSI latter figure includes an increase" in teachers' salaries...
...Among these is Voio Vnyoxitch, former general secretary ef the Communist Youth International...
...He is now in the political prison at Versche-Uralsk, confined with 12 other men...
...Lnigi Antonini, first vice-president of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union...
...Only those who ' do not know hletory^nxijdpBbt that Us (inevitable...
...Steel Workers Revolt Against Employer Rule Men in Company Unions Rebel Against Organizations Controlled by Employers-Insist on Better Conditions...
...We have succeeded in the past year in improving conditions to a considerable extent, particularly in the garment and fur areas, but now the employers feel themselves strong enough to deprive us of our gains and throw the workers back to their old conditions...
...More than 100.000 dressmaker...
...said...
...Why do we consider that program basic and paramount...
...The garment and fur district must and will be held by the union...
...president of the International Lad i e s* Garment Workers' Union...
...15,000 fur workers, and 20,000 elevator operators and other building service employees are hoi din" g themselves in readiness for strike orders expected to paralize actSv-itie...
...Zero Hour on Monday Garment Area Tense as Eleventh-Hour Conferences Are Held in Efforts To Reach Agreements...
...H^Hprearry to say that the CDBrJMFjtaJeOB may become gen-¦^¦Ahjlf for collective bar-¦¦K"-P<t they are definitely ¦JV a oovrae independent of ¦^KMMoxer-founders...
...Among the speakers will be George Meany, president of the New York State Federation of Labor...
...The majority of the participants were punished by exile to more remote prison camps, while the leaders were sent to Solovetski...
...1 of the Hamm provincial court proceeded against 51 persons "charged with high treason," who had been active on behalf of the Communist Party and its subsidiary organizations...
...The proceedings against one of the accused were quashed and proceedings against another were abandoned and new proceedings instituted...
...Conferences between the union and the two associations broke down last week...
...There are four concentration camps for political prisoners: in Central Siberia, Ust-Pechersk, Kara ks tan and Solovetski Islands...
...Sapronoff is very ill, as is Schlapnikoff...
...If there were optimists before the ansiaataatian of Kiroff who believed they saw evidence* of an amelioration of the regime and hoped that at last if wceJdagaiaba | i Bill has deprived the G.P.U...
...It amy he that the steel companies ate anticipating the launching of a far faeg unionisation campaign by the American Federation of Labor...
...It is known that the Authorities have the entire roster of the flogging crew, which consisted of thirty-six men, and if is said that one or two of the indicted men have broken down asm told the entire story...
...Workers Ready far Call The unit system of price settlement, be said, was a method of eliminating the present system of haggle and bargain by means of a tested system under which all parts of a dress have been studied and timed so that reference to a schedule will establish the amount of time it will take to make a dress...
...Take the question as to which is the most effective form of organization, the industrial or craft unions, litis subject is raising difficulties 'and problems for the labor movement...
...The other two Communists who had accompanied him to Russia as members of a delegation of the Yugoslav Communist Party are still in jail...
...Together with two other Yugoslav Communists...
...arrheae are being arrested wholesale aae sent to prise— aael concentration camps...
...Plans for a city-wide strike are being completed by the union, to go into effect March 1, upon expiration of the agreement with the Realty Advisory Board unless the board changes its mind and agrees to negotiate...
...There are also twenty right wing Communists at Verchne-Uralsk, Chiliga reveals...
...Tittsworth was charged specifically with being an accessory after the fact in the murder of Shoemaker and in the kidnaping of Poulnot and Rogers...
...in the district...
...Wr litet Prospects HKFttch, ascribes the new feel-Jjf of independence manifested in ¦^Hfapaay unions to cwo factors...
...greet garment and fur district of New York City, one of the most important industrial and business center...
...In the same prison with Kameneff are also Zinoviev, former president of the Communist International, and the old Bolsheviks Smilga, Zaiutski, Kuklin, and others...
...manager of the dress joint board, declared that only the more rigid control of work conditions in the industry as insisted upon by the union can save it from chaos...
...In his brief address to the trade union leaders at this luncheon, Lee said: "We are united on the need of educating the workers and awakening them to the interest of their class...
...The board has an agreement with the union expiring March 1. It has flatly declined to epter into negotiations with the union for a new contract and is known to have incited the Midtown and Penn Zone in their intransigeant attitude in an effort to break the union...
...No Split Threat To A. F. L Seen By Dubinsky Says International Will Not Tolerate Any Program Endangering Unity of Labor Movement—Defends Lewis Committee...
...three Were"sentenced to 5 years' penal servitude each and a ninth to 2'/i years' penal servitude...
...B. C. Vladeck...
...S. Dragitsh and M. Deditch, he Was arrested in Russia three years ago, accused of Trotskyism...
...by the union for housing and U editig strjkers during the 4a>y hoi-rs...
...We must not play a sectarian gsaJsl, end we are going into tab without anything up our sleeves...
...An an^le of the flogging situation not hitherto known to the fact thai on the night of the outrage Frank Henderson, A. F. of L. organizer who has been working warn considerable success among the# longshoremen, was arrested M Mf3 hotel room and taken to pejMr-headquarters for Questioning wfajjj Shoemaker, Rogers, Poulnot . and" the others were tr» sail owed They did not knew aha aad...
...Under "limitation" lie said, the 'jobber would be confined to the number of contractors he needs for bis legitimate production...
...Severa.l anarchists died after one such strike in the Mariansk camp...
...He spent five years in Soviet Russia...
...Among those who agreed to est as members of an advisory committee of the Trade Union Institute are J. J. Bambrick, Louis Holl ander, Joseph Tuvim, Abraham Miller, Joseph Bchlossborg, M. Feinstone, Dr...
...Claims...
...Settlement on the jobbers' premises and the unit system of price settlement...
...Each charge, one in connection with the- murder and one in connection with the kidnaping, carries a penalty of from, one to seven years in prison, or a fine of $1,000, or both...
...We must consider the question of the communists' influence on unions and other possibilities of danger...
...None of thehr old Cow-munist comrades ahead to come to without any warm clothing, they have again he— drives —t to the earth, where they ace sewed to S^^Sd^^e^B>^^j?^ Sweden Thrives Under Socialist Government Budget Balanced, Social Services Expanded, Slums Eliminated, Income Taxes Reduced Under Regime Led by Hans son By Reginald Spink Our (hen Corretpondent COPENHAGEN...
...v - The most considerable increase is shown in the estimated expenditure of the Ministry of Social ifcfr fairs, which is 217.8 million kronot...
...In Wuppertal during the naet weeks no less than 364 accused have been tried...
...The outcome of the walkout called for Monday in the garment and fur district will determine the larger issue, it is believed...
...Among the prisoners he mentions scores of prominent Bolsheviks and Socialists...
...Among the important matters that will come up will be a review of the events of the past two years in the industry, including legislation, wage matters, working agreements and the growth of thar'union...
...Help...
...At the trial Kameneff stoutly denied any knowledge of the alleged conspiracy, saying that he did not know personally most of the ac^SPrgEg^Vferm,' whicVne is to higinte serve only after his present term of five years expires...
...The Realty Advisory Board, representing some 6,000 buildings, has likewise refused to mejt the union's demands...
...In the third case the accused, Paul Git...
...HVljflfflP01 be expected to join ^^LjH^^Hf^MHnement...
...Tittsworth charges the indictment is a political "plot...
...The Trade Union Institute at the Rand School was recently organized at a luncheon of twenty-five labor leaders called by Algernon Lee...
...It is the right of every organization within the American labor ¦movement, individually or jointly, to promote fhe advocacy of industrial unionism for the mass production industries...
...The total number of these prisoners at Verchne-Uralsk is about 200...
...His name was on the application for the post office box listed in circulars issued by the Ku Klux Klan...
...Youth Sentenced A further case took place before :he Hamburg provincial court of appeal against former members of the Social Democratic party...
...The last two and a half vears have taught us the bitter lesson that enforcement machinery must be provided to make the agreement more than a scrap of paper, to prevent the jobbers from constant violations and evasions that keep the industry in a constant turmoil...
...There is else an l—rsftsn —political artaaaeri an now being condemned to forced labor, TretSUy...
...who came ¦Maxtor the fanious Pittsburgh ¦fltf,of 1911 and did an inves-|HP« of the 1919 steel strike, ¦Bply made a swing from Chi-¦¦taMt investigating the com-¦r-Union situation, talking with Bptad Wttfc« the management...
...Women Sentenced A number of Communists from Remscheid, among them various women, were brought before court of criminal appeal No...
...Vugo-vitch's wife, Budinskaya, is in another prison in Verchne-Uralsk, where she is confined together with the sister of Unschhcfat, notorious assistant chief of the Ogpu...
...Labor Retains Control in Winnipeg WINNIPEG...
...and who have new he— exiled to devilish places...
...The position of President Lewis as head of the Committee for Industrial Organisation that is poshing the issue of industrial unionism in the A. F. of L., the recent resignation of Mr...
...indictments in which it charged the former chief with "unlawfully and feloniously"* aiding "with force and arms" the other indicted men to avoid and escape detection...
...Dress, Building Service And Fur Workers Await Final Walkout Orders 20,000 Building Service Workers Set for Battle MORE than 20.000 elevator operators and other building service workers, members of the Building Service Employes' Union, will go on strike Monday morning in more than 1,200 loft and office buildings in the garl mem and fur districts of New ; York...
...or charges made by craft union leaders of dual unionism must be backed up by proof and not by mere suspicion or groundless fears," Dubinsky, whose organization is one of the eight unions represented in the Committee en Industrial Oganization, said...
Vol. 19 • February 1936 • No. 5
