21,323 Toilers to be Toll Of Industry This Year
21,323 Toilers to be Toll Of Industry This Year Los Angeles—.JTwo workers ere killed in thii State each'day and fully 460 will be injured during every 24-hour period, myi Will J. French in...
...each chosen without interference or coercion by either party...
...Occupational ditesset are not included in many of the compensation laws of the United States...
...Morris HlMqult, Mrs...
...Fatigue, long hours and monotony of work ere factors that produce phytical weaknesses...
...FORTY L W. W. JAILED IN PEDRO FREE PRESS FIGHT Los Angeles.—Forty men were In jsil on the evening of February 17, and more arrests were expected, in the fight of the I. W. W. against the law that makes membership in that organization a felony...
...Hockstadt: There will be 1,728 workeri who will suffer permanent total disability in 1024...
...COMMITTEE ORGANIZED TO AID ALIEN WOMEN WIN CITIZENSHIP RIGHT The Naturalization Aid League, realizing that the ('able Law hat deprived hundreds of thousands of married women of foreign birth of citizenthip, haa called a conference of a number of active women to discuss ways and means of meeting the situation...
...We are appealing to you as an enlightened and enthusiastic sympathizer with the objects and ideals of our school and movement to contribute as much at may lie within your power, to enable us to go through with our work for the balance of the term and to l ay plans for the next year," Cohen's appeal statei...
...The executives of the railroad La-' bor organizations have been at work | on the bill for eighteen months, the details being worked out by a com> mtttee headed by President D. H. Robertson of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen afld including W. H. Johnston, president International Association of Machinists...
...of their own choosing, shall confer on the problems of the 'human side' of railroading and through such conferences, first, enter Into collective agreements respecting wages and working conditions snd second, adjust differences of all kinds...
...Fortunately California considers the afflicted from this caute just at much entitled to compensation as tha man who loses a hand in a saw mill...
...Anns Traum, Mrs...
...The women called upon met at the Civic Club and again later at the home of Mrs...
...LABOR PRESENTS NEW RAILROAD ACT IN CONGRESS Rail Unions and A. F. of L. Join in Backing Proposed Measure to Insure Peace on Roads...
...If they want a concession snd ask for it the Council will consider it and our people will pass upon it 'This'resolution* means theft" ere mhst now prepare for battle...
...as follows...
...Yau kaow lets of people that we aever hoard of...
...Frances Mote, Mrs...
...The working dsyi lost will be 227,169,970, and the wage loss, based on |4.50 a day, will total $22,264,866...
...Theresa S. Malkiel, Executive Chairman...
...EQUITY WILL WIN IS GENERAL VIEW Managers Divided While Union Is United—Peeve Still Possible...
...It is also proposed to appeal to the trade unions to help in a campaigp among the trade union women of foreign birth who have failed so far to take out their citizenthip papers...
...Physical and mental health are both necessary to make industrial safety a vital force," said Mr...
...Spectators were reminded of the scene a few, months ago when Upton Sinclair was arrested for reeding the United States Constitution in the same town...
...Contributions should be addressed to the School at 229 Sackman street, Brooklyn...
...Included among those taken up were the secretary of San Pedro Branch Marine Transport Workers, of the I. W. W., and the press committee of three...
...The committee intends to organize a number of classes throughout the city where women will be given instructions in English...
...The girls are selling I. W. W. pspers everywhere on the streets, snd when arretted and relessed go bsck snd sell some more...
...Emphasis is laid on the fact thst under the proposed law "conferences to adjust disputes mutt be held between the representative^, .of the carriers and the employes...
...1— Mrs...
...The support of the Americin Federation of Labor, in case of trouble with the Producing Managers' Association over this proposition, wat pledged freely and without reservation by Mr...
...Adolph Held, Miss Rebecca Silver, Miss Olga Cong, Mrs...
...We earnestly desire pesce, but it mutt be a peace which guarantees to us the life, integrits/ and strength <of our association...
...Miss Helen Stokes, Mrs...
...directly . . . . r - • by the America* i««i*x»Xlt ~ f 1 * o r , the objects of the bill - are eapsait>ed...
...Too much credence is placed upon the cries of negligence and carelessness in contldering accident causes...
...The speaker is a member of the California Industrial Accident Commission...
...i t substitutes a plan which embodies the belt features of the Newlands Act and other laws which, in the past, have helped to preserve peace en tha railroads...
...A continual army stricken by disease, and the primary caute of their ill health can be found in conditions of employment that need remedying...
...The relation ef temperature to humidity hat received but little study...
...His condition may be caused by dust, fumes, gases, bad air, poor lighting, or a temperature in the workshop thst is debilitating...
...He said 21,328 workers throughout the country will be killed this year...
...BROWNSVILLE SUNDAY SCHOOL STARTS DRIVE TO ENLIST SUPPORT The Brownsville Socialist Sunday School .through its treasurer, Joe N. Cohen, haa issued air appeal to its friends in the city for financial aid to' permit the continuation of the Work of the school Without curtailment of its program...
...Washington.—"The Railway Labor Act," embodying legislation ( designed to bring enduring peace to the transportation industry of the United Statet, has been presented to Congress...
...On this point the statement, says: ' "Section 7-a(2) specifically providet that the refusal of a party to submit to arbitration'shall not be considered as s violstion of a legal Obligation, in order to prevent attempts to force parties into arbitration by judical action...
...21,323 Toilers to be Toll Of Industry This Year Los Angeles—.JTwo workers ere killed in thii State each'day and fully 460 will be injured during every 24-hour period, myi Will J. French in an address on "Industrial Safety...
...They mutt now take the Initiative...
...aad who nay aever knew aboat The New Leader u n i t s . YOU giro t h .m the chance...
...Mechanical guarding, shop committees and similar efforts must be continued, bat these do not govern conditions that are beyond the shop...
...It will be vigorously pressed in both houses and it It hoped that early bearings may be arranged and that a final vote may be secured before Congress adjourns for the turn- ( mer holidays...
...Children nine years of age end women were arrested, though later released...
...The speaker suggested that "a place could well be given to a department in the Federal Government that would guide activities to stem the great waste...
...The number of permanent partial disabilities will be 105,629 during this period, and tha temporary total disabilities will be 2,824,829...
...The bill doet not tet up a Labor court or provide compulsory arbitration...
...Lena Morrow Lewis is secretary...
...French recalled other startling predictions by Mr...
...The Board of Education will cooperate...
...and in the Senate by Senatar K. B. Howell of Nebraska (R...
...With only two dissenting votes nut of twelve hundred who more than filled the Forty-Eighth Street Theatre, (Sunday afternoon), the rank and Ale of Equity voted to sustain its Council in demanding Equity Shop, The following resolution which had already been passed by the Council was endorsed by the meeting: "RetolveH thst after June 1, 1924, no member of the Actors' Equity Association shall perform service for any manager in any company unlet...
...In a letter to those sympathetic to the Socialist Sunday School idea, Treasurer Cohen sets forth that, with a registration of 480 children, the faculty of the school hat been forced,.to work under conditions which tend to seriously handicap their efforts...
...The alarming percentages quoted by Government experts during the World War illustrate the connection that mental weakness has with industrial safety...
...It should be obvious that although organisations properly may be bound by their contracts and the members equally bound while rendering voluntary service as long as the Constitution of the United States forbidt involuntary serv-itude...
...In an "explanatory statement" Issued by the Labor organisation...
...Alexander Kahn, Mrs...
...Miller, Finance Committee;' Miss Jessie W. Hughan, Miss Mary Sanford, Mrs...
...To carry out this purpose a duty it imposed on both parties—'to exert every reasonable effort to make and to maintain agreements concerning rates or pay, rules and working conditions.' "Disputes over proposed changes of rules or rates of pay over the application of agreements are to be settled in conferences, if possible, and the machinery of boards of adjustment and a board of mediation and conciliation or reference to arbitration is to be retorted to only when a conference can not produce agreement...
...Theresa Malklel, 113 East 17th street, and organized themselves into "The Women's Citizenship Committee...
...each and every member in the company in which the actor hi playing is, snd continues to be throughout the engagement of the actor, a member in good standing of the Actors' Equity Association...
...That it the almost universal Mlief in theatrical circles this week, hough a number of managers have idmitted It only grudgingly...
...The bill was fathered in the House by Congressman A. W. Uarklejt of Kentucky (D...
...Carl Hockstadt, a painstaking investigator and statistician, predicted in the November, 1023, issue of the United States Monthly Labor Bulletin, that 21,323 workers will be killed In industry during the present year...
...Police made a spectacular descent on an I. W. W. meeting in Sen Pedro and read the Busick injunction to them...
...The purpose of the proposed railway Labor act is to insure continuity and efficiency in the transportation system of tha country by providing means whereby the management and tha employes, through representative...
...As opposed to this visible split n the ranks of the producers it the inited position pf the actors' union...
...Bella Zllberman, Mrs...
...The fact it that there Isn't perfect coordination botween tha mental, phytical and nervous systems of the human being" The spesker declared that there it need of a new outlook in con-' sidering industrial safety...
...and William S. Brown, National Marine Engineers' Beneficial Association of the U. S. A. The bill abolishes the Railroad Labor Board and wipes out all tha Labor provisions of tha Esch Cummins law...
...Rose Kahn, Education Committee...
...Actor's Equity will win hands lown...
...E. H. Fitzgerald, president of Railway and Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlera, Express snd Station Employes...
...He said that the familiar slogan, ''conservation of natural resources," leads the student to believe it is time to introduce a phrase that will have for its object "the preservation of human life," the real wealth of the nation, "which !« frequently recklessly lost to society...
...John Emerson, President of the Eqnity Association, in presenting (his resolution which declares Equity Shop in operation at to all managers, including the P. M. A., after June X, 1924, said: "The Council in passing this resolution doea not mean to convey1 that all negotiations with the managers are necessarily off, but it doei emphatically mean that any new offer mutt eome from the managers...
...A. Belloff, Miss Anns Dubrowltz, Organization Committee...
...Wil iam A. Brady, a leading producer, itated early this week that, oppoaed ii he is to the Equity demands, he >elievei the union will win the Equiy Shop...
...The dissenting group In tha P. M. A. has ssid that rather than agree to Equity Shop they will declare a lockout and from this position they must recede...
...It is the aim of the committee to enlist at least five hundred individuals and organizations into the work of helping foreign born women to become citizens of the United States...
...It is the aim of the Woman's Citizenship Committee" first to apply to the Government Naturalization Bureau for a list of all newly declared citizens who are married and to get into direct touch with their wives urging them to follow suit...
...Hugh Frayne, organizer in New York of the A. F. of L. ' Mm Help as build up the s u b s c r i p t s , list...
...The, Shuberts, the Selwyns snd a lumber of ether producers of importance, besides a host of smaller iroducers, have tndieattd they are oath to foree a strike...
...The Butick injunction againtt joining the I. W. W. wat served on one boy of thirteen years...
...Mental health it a difficult subject to handle...
...It means that if a war is forced upon ua all chance of any Concession whatsoever for the managers ia gone and gone for good, but it doei not mean that we will refuse to listen to any proposals which the Producing Managers' Association' or any* new association of managers may make to us...
...Jacob Panken, Miss Bells Cohn, Miss Evaline Hughan, Publicity Committee...
...The man in poor health Is prone to accident...
...Safety first' it a slogan that has lost its fores, because it is tainted with selfishness end dost not adequately express the preservation ideal," ssid Mr...
...J. Grienberg, Membership Committee...
...Harriet Stanton Blatch wai elected Chairman of the Committee and Mn...
...Miss Sarah Volovick, Mrs...
...Your personal efforts beat all the letter, we sea Id write...
...T The proposed' legislation was drafted by the executives of the reoognited standard railroad Labor organizations, representing more than 2,000,000 railroad workers, with the assistance of able counsel and it hat been indorsed and will be supported by tha American Labor movement as represented by the j American Federation of Labor...
Vol. 1 • March 1924 • No. 9
