Marcantonio Is Man on Flying Trapeze Says Luigi Antonini
Marcantonio Is Man on Flying Trapeze Says Luigi Antonini The following delightful Utter, written by Luigi Antonini of Load 89 of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union to...
...The real intention behind this plan is ,of course, to enable the government to inspect and search a worker's home at any time without making it appear to be a police search...
...W. Va., in which over four hundred workers perished from the scourge of silicosis...
...It seems that, you and the "American" public (for we Italians know our onions) are not informed that Congressman V5to Marcantonio has been contaminated recently — yes, he too...
...Last Saturday, in the weekly Italian broadcast of Local 89, I enumerated the facts which have compelled me to classify "our" Congressman as just another Italian-American politician...
...in illo tempore Chairman of the Marcantonio- for-Congress Labor Committee...
...In reviewing the case of the trade union leader Friemel, who was sentenced to three years at hsrd labor for his participation in the February fight, the Supreme Court raised Friemel's sentence to seven years...
...Furthermore, when Mr...
...Hitting the High Spots By Siegfried Lipschitz , Jt*a*jun na* Aiougus...
...But perhaps Commissioner Valentine wanted to play a trick on us...
...HH|I1 Bk...
...Their crimes, according to the prosecutors' charges, consisted in organizing workers in unions, collecting contributions in defiance of the government and possessing and distributing trade union literature...
...The Nazis try to justify this by pointing out that the children are only occupied at "easy tasks" in the factories...
...ficial press bitterly complains thai this has been made necessary by the tremendous growth of the illegal underground press and its' extensive distribution in all parts of the .country...
...The abuses have become so great that even the Hitler youth magazine calls for a thorough investigation and control of all child labor...
...The courts of Austria are also used for the suppression of organized labor as proven by recent decisions of the Supreme Court...
...The number of public prosecutors at the Vienna courts whose special functions are to persecute political offenders has been raised from one to four...
...In HifierloHd Despite the frantic attempts of the Nazis to suppress all dissenting opinion, the underground movement is steadily growing...
...Only recently the government gave the Gestapo (state secret police) new sweeping powers, but even this has been found insufficient in the face of growing discontent...
...Five thousand members of the Guild in 80 cities as well as the Wisconsin State Federation of Labor and the Milwaukee Federated Trades Council, are backing the strikers in their struggle against the most powerful publisher in the United States...
...Newspaper Guild Fights Hearst The Milwaukee local of the American Newspaper Guild is conducting a valiant fight for union lecognltinn against the Hearstcontrolled "Wisconsin News," Twenty-nine members of the editorial staff out of a total of 40 are out on strike...
...The new campaign is closely patterned after the movement for beauty in the factories introduced two years ago by the Labor Leisure organization, "Strength Through Joy...
...The of...
...This amount constitutes the extreme limit of Italy's financial reserve and is estimated to last until April 1936...
...The twenty-year-old worker, Ferdinand Steindl, has just been sentenced to five years at hard labor, together with Rudolph Holoway, formerly an official in the unemployment relief administration of Austria, who was sentenced to ten years in prison...
...Generoso Pope, the publisher, launched m his press a campaign against the proposed legislation for American neutrality, the Hon...
...Moreover, 14- to 15-year-old children were found who were living miles away from their working places...
...Ley and Lutze, the commander of the Nazi Storm Troop Army hie agreement provides that storm troop leaders will be in charge of these factory squads and that ter...
...Nor could he plead ignorance to that fact, for he was appraised of it by several friends to whom he made a reply that it would have been "unwise" on his part to object...
...In glaring contradiction to the political amnesty declared by the Austro-fascist regime at Christmas time and mainly destined for foreign consumption stanos the fact that more people have been arrests* during the first four weeks of IMS than were freed under the — rsM ed amnesty...
...The Socialist Joellinger, who was already sentenced by the police to 22 months in jail for distribution of illegal literature has now received an additional sentence cf fifteen months by the court for the same offense...
...Labor regulations are constantly violated and minors under 16 years are forced to work 10 hours* and more...
...Vito...
...War expenses are estimated at approximately 90 million dollars a moats and no funds are forthcoming to finance Mussolini's Ethiopian adventure for another year or longer...
...We feel that our former sponsorship for him now gives us the right to comment freely on his activity...
...These squadf were organized under the pretexi of banding together the most efficient workers in the factory...
...for he promptly released our tribune, who rushed forthwith to that banquet, where he made a speech on the dividing evils of politics and the blessings of art which unites all...
...The United Hebrew Trades, the bakery locals 79, 509, 607 and 605 and the bakery bosses association are united against the bill...
...Peters Local of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union, have failed to break the spirit of the heroic sharecroppers who are fighting for the right to organize...
...Ley, the Labor Front leader, has just announced his intention to appoint "house wardens" for each street block for the purpose of "instructing the tenants to do away with their old-fashioned furniture and making their apartments as light and as gay as possible...
...b) publication and distribution of a pamphlet written by a certain Mr...
...Now however, their real character a-c Nazi strong arm squads used foi the purpose of intimidating workers is revealed through the conclusion of an agreement between Dr...
...Having spent so much time and energy, as Chairman of his Labor Campaign Committee, in order to bring about his election, I ought to be proud of him, inasmuch as he is known among the Italians, as "Local 89 Congressman...
...jy|Y dear friend: I enjoyed very much your column in the "World-Telegram" of Monday, February 17, in which you express so much enthusiasm and admiration for our fighting Congressman Vito, also Marco and Antonio...
...It forgets to add that child labor had been abolished under the democratic regime of the Weimar Republic...
...George M. Price, head of the Center, will deal v.ith methods used by nnions to combat industrial diseases...
...Educational Department...
...Fortunately the sticks of dynamite thrown on the tents housing 108 people and built with funds of the Church Emergency Relief Committee, did not explode...
...New Masses" banquet, where he will join Spivak, Browder, Mother Bloor and others in praise of the Anti-Fascist United Front...
...The new trial of Ward Rogers, the young Methodist Minister and F2.uA teacher who was framed last year following a union meeting and sentenced by a jury of planters to a year in jail on the charge of "anarchy" is scheduled for March 2nd...
...Jacob A. Goldberg will deal with "The Peril of Silicosis," and Dr...
...Accordingly, the Nazis are trying to improve their spy system by utilizing the German Labor Front, the Nazi labor' organization...
...Peril of Silicosis" Lecture at Health Center How the worker can gain, protect and retain his health will be treated at the Union Health Center, lib Seventh Ave...
...pfennig will be deducted from the monthly pay of each worker for the purchase of weapons and munitions for the .factory squad...
...26th St...
...To what extent the working masses are affected by the spirit of opposition to Nazism is also shown by recent instructions to the factory workers squad...
...pointed or elongated form canot be wrapped in cellophane by machine process because machines for such types of bread have not even been invented...
...permitted a complete industrial set-up with local autonomy, low dues and initiation fees, and that the craft union had amended its constitution to take in mass production workers organized on a vertical basis...
...In Fascist Austria The Fascist regime of Austria is taking bitter vengeance on all these arrested for their participation in secret trade union activities...
...These small bakeries manufacture Jewish, Italian and French Bread, which because of their round...
...But the true fact is that while he did not go to the meeting (possibly for the sole reason that Mayor La Guardia was going to attend) he, nevertheless, allowed himself to be on the honorary committee, whose list was published several times in the Italian-American press...
...The - action of the New York radio workers is obviously directed toward remaining within the A. F. of L. William Beedie, New York representative of the radio worken, has decared that the proposals of the I.B.E.W...
...New Yorfc Radio Workers to Join Electrical Union The Radio Workers Union of New York, Local 18,609, has unanimously decided to authorize its executive board to conduct negotiation to merge with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers on the basis of proposals submitted by the Brotherhood...
...You bum with holy indignation for the treatment our Vito got m Madison Square Park that Saturday afternoon when he landed on the floor of a "Black • Maria...
...on Saturday, February 29, at 2 p. m., in a conference to bo run by the I.L.GW.U...
...In addition to union recognition, the strikers are demanding the five-day week, minimum wages and dismisal bonuses...
...You, my dear friend Heywood, sing with admiration for the sterling character that has made him desert with scorn the Madison Square Garden fascist rally, organized to raise money for the Italian Red Cross...
...ciiiia •abui ladt.te GMomr...
...Grocery Clerks Aid Utility Workers The utility workers of the Greenpoint Coke plant of the Brooklyn Gas Company are now picketing the Brooklyn union's offices at 176 Remsen Street, Brooklyn, and urging the public not to buy the company's gas appliances on refrigerators...
...Under the guise of being a health measure, this bill is in reality an attempt by the big bread trusts to ruin the small bakeries which are unionized by subjecting them to requirements which cannot possibly be met...
...Of course, to this daring young man on a flying trapecc such acrobatic feats* come easily...
...also Marco and Antonio, hastened to dispatch to that publisher a strong statement in which he assured him and the readers of his newspapers, of his firm stand for complete isolation of the United States from »gt>ji lEuropean entanglement—meaning in actuality no aid or comfort to the sanctionist policy of the League of Nations against Italy...
...In fact, only a couple of days later he announced his forthcoming participation at the annua...
...Examples of the artistic activities of the "Leonardo da Vinci Art School," (a) a series of lectures for young Italian-American intellectuals dealing with social and historical justifications for Mussolini's war against Ethiopia...
...The various radio workers unions, who were denied an internaional charter by the A. F. of L. and requested to affiliate with the Electric Workers Union, recently decided at a convention held in Washington to form a new union of radio workers...
...Knight, dealing with the same subject...
...Meanwhile, homeless and starving strikers are facing the bitterest cold weather in years but planters refuse to permit them to cut wood to keep them from freeling...
...by that political virus so common among the Italian - American politicians, which makes them, in order to remain on good terms with everybody in our distinguished community, so well adapted to every form of compromise and cheap opportunism...
...According to an official state*' ment last October, the total geU reserves of Fascist Italy amounted to about 350 million dollars...
...Among the speakers will be George Robinson, surviving victim, of the industrial tragedy at Gauley Bridge...
...The strikers are being aided by a soup-kitchen the food for which has been donated by various grocery stores in Brooklyn through the cooperation of the Retail Dairy, Grocery and Fruit Workers Union...
...LABOR FRONT COVERED BY JACK BURKE Sharecroppers Fight Terror and Evictions CONTINUED evictions, the throwing of sticks of dynamite on make-shift tents of sharecroppers at Parkin, Arkansas, and the imposition of a sevenyear prison sentence on Jim Ball, Secretary of the St...
...The squads are also regularly called out for military drill and shooting practice...
...You said that he has guts, eh...
...Forty-six employees were locked out on February 8 when they protested against the firing of a.fellow employee for union activities...
...Its exhaustion will mark the real danger point for the Fascist regime which explains the haste of Mussolini and his henchmen to bring the war to a quick conclusion...
...Recently, to be exact last Friday, the Italian patriots of Harlem held a local rally for the Italian Red Cross at the Manhattan Odd Fellows Temple, a fascist demonstration which was no different than the one held last December at the Madison Square Garden...
...Ball's erg— consisted in trying to preserve order at a peaceable meeting' which was raided by deputy sheriffs and a mob of planters...
...Ordinarily, I too would have been quick to join with you in your earnest protest...
...Sure, he must have plenty of guts in order to riijb on two different horses at the same time gvSng in ej>positer directions* 1 / Sinjjcrely, LUIGI ANTONINI...
...New York Sector Bakery Workers Oppose Fake Health Law The bakery unions of New York are waging a strong fight against a bill introduced in the State Senate by Senator A. Spencer Feld which provides that on and after July 1, 1886, every piece of bread shall be wrapped in waxed paper or cellophane...
...Even 13-year-old children have been found working 9 and 10 hours a day...
...Socalled voluntary contributions and gifts in the form of rings and ether gold articles swelled this tctal to about 523 million dollars...
...In Fascist Italy The real situation in Fascist Italy "is thrown into bold relief by a survey of the financial cast of the Itaio-Ethiopian War...
...I did that, because to remain silent would have been for me, a de^nite act of complicity in die doubledealings in which Congressman Marcantonio is at present engaged...
...Who were the speakers ? Generoso Pope, ex-Congressman Lanzetta—¦ and our Vito, also Marco and Antonio, in whom the approach of the Fall campaign has evidently revived the feeling of pride in the military achievements of his distant Fatherland...
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...g cist banquet I l-^TzTja -A I scheduled for I It 1 H that evening I sI { under the aus- ¦¦^¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦sIbssssssssbsssssssbsssssbssI pices of the "Leonardo da Vinci Art School...
...imploring and i |f|| ^k hoping fervidly M / :f_ ^ that Commis- Hffi *3sB I si oner *Vakn- . M^LvvLii" ' I tine would keep ] M .' 1 ' m I him in jail all fl|p9VpP^^ -W night, and so B.v^ m save us from Kgl 1 jj- Jj^a the shame of I m Tsa la»v seeing "our rad- ¦ H RMEiH ical Congress- I Hj K*'!M ^ man" among ^ami ] I the prominent j sr^-..-' y l ¦ guests at a fas- H _ Jfr...
...Similar conditions prevail in stone quarries, transport enterprises and wood-cutting mills...
...Tina is the gist «t an extensive report on factory investigation* which recently appeared in the magazine "Junges Deutschland," the official organ of the Hitler Youth Movement...
...These and similar sentences were described by the presiding judge as "very mild" in view of the youth of the defendants...
...But, on this particular *Jtk ssssW instance,;!-was aft...
...Marcantonio Is Man on Flying Trapeze Says Luigi Antonini The following delightful Utter, written by Luigi Antonini of Load 89 of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union to Heymood Broun, draws a fine portrait of a pompous type of the intelligentsia that is conspicuous for Us confusion.—Editor...
Vol. 19 • February 1936 • No. 9
