The Labor Front
T h e Labor Front pLOQUET, Minnesota, is thr ^ scene of a bitter last-ditch struggle between 800 men am women workers and tht Berst Forstar-Dixftokl Company, affiliate df the Diamond Hatch...
...Waiters' Locals 1, 2 and 16...
...in Chicago, "tie I -ards.*' and so on...
...Although the inion had demanded equal division ~>f work during the entire term of the agreement, it obtained it only for six months...
...called a conference of anions whose members work in places where Hoffman beverages are sold, namely: Delicatessen and Countermen's Union, Local 802...
...Strike la Hudson, N. Y. The employees of the Hudson Dress Co...
...In the new agreement they have given way on all points, according to Abraham Snyder, manager of the onion...
...LLG.W.U...
...Wis Strike Aejalnst Silicosis Conditions...
...were arrested but subsequently acquitted when the court decided that picketing is not disorderly conduct Liqht Breaks in Philadelphia The depressing picture of nationwide official lawlessness in industrial d i s p u t e s is lightened somewhat by an anuoncement made by Philadelphia's mayor, S. D. Wilson, whkh foreshadows the end of the practice of the police in breaking op picket lines and arbitrarily limiting the number of pickets...
...In Kansas City the Re:ter-Levin firm had signed an agreement with the company union, "The Garment Craft Association,'' controlled and •Berated by the Ahner agency...
...In the negotiations the anion was represented by Abraham W. KatoTsky, vice-president of the International and manager of the Cleveland Joint Board...
...Recently the U.H.T...
...tf But it isn't age...
...Probably a majority of the daily r newspapers side with the court— ' -i newspaper* are made by •oung men—some of them tee •rung to have any depth of perspective whatever...
...and a & per cent increase for finishers...
...The thing that ia the M i j with the Supreme Court lea paint ' of view, not calendar yearn, | In other men of ~nnal jaeii Tin - "nest traditions of Hberto win b* found—and also the most potent - tnd matured arguments against C he kind of thing for which tht Supreme Court sow steeds...
...when they gave the unilf |H j thought for which they anepj * membered...
...Reaction is not a necessary product of age...
...j t a Scab Agency Rooted Trie notorious strike-breaking Aimer Detective Agency has suffered an important defeat, accordtag to Meyer Perlstein, Midwest •Heillm for the I.L.G.W.U...
...Organizers Abe Belsky and Joseph Mecca of the Out-ofTown Department of the I.L.G...
...T h e Labor Front pLOQUET, Minnesota, is thr ^ scene of a bitter last-ditch struggle between 800 men am women workers and tht Berst Forstar-Dixftokl Company, affiliate df the Diamond Hatch Corporation Not s wheel has turned in the plant since November 2nd, when the workers were locked out after re losing to accept a reduction ir wages from 40 to 87 cents an hoar, for men workwt and from 80 tr 27& cents an hoar for women, and aa increase from 40 to 44 hoars o«r week The B-F-D employees' anion, organized after the lockout, is being assisted by the A. F. of L., the National Match Makers' Council and *he local labor movement, ir which anion members are donating an hour's pay each week for four weeks to help the strikers...
...The M a y o r announced that hereafter no permits will be required by strikers for peaceful picketing...
...O Y and large, men come out of environment and give ns ophv 'on shaped by the facts of that environment and the interests ef 'hat environment...
...48 of the Internationa* Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers against the General Motors Group gold trust Whkh ended recently when the Union voted to return to work W « receiving material concesSafe working conditions in this naaardous industry with the everpresent danger of silicosis were a 'major demand of the workers...
...It just isn't so...
...Motio Bakery Fights Union At a recent meeting of the United Hebrew Trades, Secretary Feinstone reported that the Goodman Mateo Bakery is placing difficulties in the way of organising the workers time and refused to sign an agreement with the Bakery »nd Confectionery Workers' Union...
...In San Free* 'isco, south of the slot, as it ids T -ailed in older days...
...r Unless we get at and stidt Is f Sasic truths about this bustem, i- vested interests will keep on fssV le ng us...
...If it were, SB we should have unanimous deeV sions always...
...mass meetings will be permitted so long as there is no violation of the law, and the practice of providing police guards to ride on trucks with strikebreakers is abolished ABOUTTHE NINE OLD] M E N j •j'HEV talk about "the nine old men," as if in that phrase dm should find the reason for tw actions of the Supreme CourtTj| Let us stop using that phtaB The fact that these nine t j | of the all-high bench are old hag nothing necessarily to do « JK the case...
...Gould j f l one imagine Samuel Gompen Aiding with Justice Roberts 7 Most of the world's great l i n t ophers were no longer youngster...
...MHrocis played an important role in a 16 months' straggle waged by 600 members of Mother Lode Miners' Union No...
...From San Francisco come the welcome tidings that the onion has obtained a 7% per cent in crease lor •perators, cutters and pressers...
...The widest publicity ia being given to this anti-labor policy among the Jewish workers in order to cut down firm sales and thus bring it to tents...
...Their efforts were severed its connection with the company union and signed up with the International...
...vious condition of longitude aid latitude that makes for what we * * » CAMUEL GOMPERS was whit might be called an old man at the time of his passing...
...The AAA decision was 6 to I, and the three are no youngsters...
...in Milwaukee, , 'he Third Ward...
...of Hudson, N. Y., have been on strike since January 10th, when the firm refused to grant them anion recognition and anion conditions...
...fullest support to the brewery workers in their fight...
...e To lay these decisions to age • c "o give the real culprit the finest e 'tind of alibi and thus befog tht d ssue...
...fc&^Utaeogh the management does not yet recognize the onion it re• tarns all men without discrimination and is obliged to abide by an agreed 8-hour day and an increase to the basic wage scale of 50 cento -per day Ind injew York Fur Strike Averted A membership meeting of fur vorkers at Mecca Temple Tuesday atified an agreement averting a ;trike that involved 12,000 workers, t is reported that the union received a 10% increase in minimum tesles bet failed to obtain a closed hop and the unemployment fond .hat was expected to amount to ?150.000 a year...
...We got this sock in the back ef ,f he neck for reasons that have a* ,r nofe to do with age than a stsat ,. -uarry has to do with the risks} if bread...
...Fmaily a strike was called, daring Which the girl strikers showed exceptional courage in spite of repeated arrests...
...and some ef "hem lacking the energy or the mental integrity to rebel at being "sold down the river...
...of 670 Metropolitan Ave., Brooklyn, which refuses to renew its agreement with the union and has founded a company union...
...Grocery Clerks' Union, Local 888 and Soft Drink Workers' and Seltzer Workers' Union, Local 311...
...W.U...
...And the Cleveland Joint Board has just concluded a , p » fiuv agreement with the emjdeyers providing for the closed shop, a 86-hour week, equal division of work in slack times and s 82 increase for cutters, making the minimum scale for cotters 846 a week...
...Out of the same envirownes#lj would be as easy to pick nine vchF much younger men who wouat write decisions of the same W t 9 In fact, the most liberal of thsal all is the oldest...
...The company distributes milk to about 1,000 stores...
...Motion papers for a temporary injunction have already been served by the company's lawyers on Max Liebler, secretarytreasurer, and Charles Green, business agent of the union...
...I It is background, training, gap...
...And it sn't so...
...S ^very city there is a section test vpifie* the opposite of Broad asd Wall, where the citadel of vestel 'nterests is found...
...aarit1...
...Victory for Corset Workers Corset and Brassiere Workers' 'Jnion, Local 82 of the I.L.G.W.U., has succeeded in obtaining a renewal of its agreement with the employers who, after the expiraion of the old agreement on Dec 1st, demanded longer hoars, overtime at the regular rate and the -ise of stretchers in the cutting -ooms...
...The settlement won for the workers a 800 per cent increase in the volume of pore outside air forced -Hirough the ventilation systems, Individual drinking cops, wash rooms and rest rooms at the mines...
...I If youth were the answer, the) vhat of the men who make tbs i rreat array of newspaper* that '>ave been clamoring for the dealt' r -if the same laws stricken dows • Hy the court...
...The only way to keep fwet retting fooled is to know th« difTerence between fast and fietiOB, ,. between what's so and what's bunk If •r TELL OUR ADVERTISERS r THAT TOU ARB A READER OF THE N EW LEADERS...
...i Broad and Wall has one interest ">elancey Street has another...
...If we are to use age aa tht r vhipping post, then mast we at ook forward to mental atrophy at omewhere between 65 and TO, wttk ill the old ones siding with the six, inly the young and the freakishly ild siding with the three...
...Milk Drivers Fight Dairy Milk Drivers' Union, Local 684, affiliated with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, is carrying on a vigorous strike against the Grand Dairy Co...
...W t o . l t Two Cltie- The International Ladies' Gar • m b * Workers' Union continues to seoee J vtcseries throughout the country...
...Back Brewery Workers' Strike The brewery workers are being actively supported by the United Hebrew Trades in their strike against the Hoffman Beverage Co...
Vol. 19 • February 1936 • No. 6
