National S. D. F. Leaders Head for Pittsburgh
National S. D. F. Leaders Head for Pittsburgh A.L.P. Accuses Tammany Sabotage on Court Plan fofo Upon Membership to Redouble Fight for President's Reform by Word of Mouth Campaign- . TV...
...Being cut off from the dole means starvation to them...
...The President's return to Wash-ingtoa has intensified the efforts (rf the enemies of his program, and the issue* will soon be placed before the Senate...
...Already half of this urn has been raised with the balance assured when the convention meets...
...If you ARE in a union, then | your union has a standing and a j very valuable and important stand-j ing...
...The delegates will be welcomed when they ^convene at 10 o'clock Saturday morning by Sarah Lhn-baeh, state secretary of the Socialist PSrty of Pennsylvania and chairman of the arrangements committee...
...He will begin work at once to enlist in the army as soldiers under army discipline the tens of thousands of volunteer members of the Socialist and Anarcho-Syndicalist labor unions, and put them behind the men now in action on the frontHopkins Plans to DropHalfMillion FromReliefRolls (Continued from Page One) labor market and would tend to depress wages, effacing entirely the gains secured by labor during the past four years...
...Just before the war broke out, Prieto had decided to resign from the party in order to work With the Republican forces in the government The majority in the party, dominated by Caballero, had refused him permission to collaborate with the other groups...
...Your employer has to bargain with your union...
...New agreements in the past week brought over 9,000 workers under T.W.O.C...
...The law, clearly, was made for UNIONS OP WORKERS...
...themselves...
...Remember how it was de-oeai by the thousands of voters lit talked their problem...
...Besides the important state organizations of New York, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut, which will be represented by full delegation*, representation of numerous- other states will demonstrate the earnest drive to Socialists everywhere to contribute to the building ef a new national movement dedicated to the principles adhered to by Debs, Berger, Hiilquit...
...Louis Waldman, chairman of the S, D. F. of New York, will make the keynote address...
...Rose not only called w a. renewed drive for petitions Bfinff support for the President's aart program and wires to Rep-¦¦eiitatives in Washington carry-af the same message, but also for met of mouth campaign to crys-liiiie sentiment among the voters...
...Conferences are going on with many large firms, and negotiations now in process will bring three or four thousand more workers under T.W.O.C...
...Virginia and West Virginia, and 1 each in Missouri, Kentucky and New Jersey...
...They are shown at private gatherings of the high-placed Nazis,, who get a great thrill out of them...
...Think of all the employers who have refused to recognise unions...
...Maty Rnool Millis will represent Georgia.' Lester C. Coy sad Oscar EdeJ-man are delegates from Dayton, Ohio...
...Utica, N. Y., was signed by the Textile Workers' Organizing Committee, Sidney Hillman, chairman of the T.W.O.C, announced...
...collective security Unless you join a union you have no standing with a Labor Board...
...The films are not hidden away in the court archives...
...Retaliating against the suppression of its constitutional rights by the state of Maine, organized labor has put in motion a nation-wide campaign against use of the industrial products and recreational facilities of that rock-ribbed land...
...Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan,' Missouri...
...You'll take what you get and like it...
...Debs' State on Deck Indiana, the first of the state organizations split by the "militant" N.E.C...
...Special to The Xew Leader LONDON.—The shadow hovering over the British coalfields— threatening England with one of its worst industrial conflicts in years—lifted slightly this past week when the miners agreed to give the owners two weeks grace before they called out 750,000 union members in a national coal strike...
...One of the big problems confronting the national headquarters of the Textile Workers' Organizing Committee is trying to keep up with the constant stream of signed union contracts flowing into the office from textile centers all over the country, as the number of workers covered by these agreements rapidly nears the 100,000 mark...
...The Sght to liberalize the Supreme Court is now approaching a crisis...
...The dispute between the operators and the miners, arose when members of the Notts Miners' Association, affiliated* with the Mine Workers Federation, were locked out because they refused to sign yellow dog contracts in which they would have had to agree to join the company union...
...The Cabinet was called in during the week to seek to effect a settlement and to prevent a national coal stoppage which would have a disastrous effect on British industry and the production of armaments which has been speeded ? p. Mr...
...Prieto was also the strong man in Madrid when Franco expected to walk down the Gran Via a few days after the rebel armies reached University City...
...Major C. R. Attlee, parliamentary Labor leader, painted a vivid picture of the company-owned towns in which the miners lived...
...Franco is still waiting for that waft...
...The drive is making very rapid progress...
...The Government's Labor department is attempting to break the strike by forcing the strikers to take jobs elsewhere or be cut off from the pittance received as a dole...
...It is inclined to balk at the (1,500,000 figure but administration floor leaders have promised the President that it would come through...
...Sidney Grant of Boston...
...The convention dinner will be held on Sunday at 6 P. M. Mayor Jasper McLevy of Bridgeport, Conn., Mayor J. Henry Stomp of Reading, Penn., Charles Edward Russell of Washington, and Abraham Cahan of New York have promised to speak...
...workers must organize What is to be done about all this "employer trouble...
...Kenneth W. Tharlow, and aba-sett...
...Officers Report Big Gains In Textile Drive Offices Flooded by Stream of Union Contracts With Mill-owners — Nearly 100,000 Workers Signed...
...and which has played a glorious role in Socialist history, win be represented by Emma Henry...
...Millions of dollars in wages are lost to American workers as a result of the purchases of unfair and foreign-made goods...
...Signatures Needed "Although we have collected awe than 100,000 signatures for the court plan and have inspired Aousands of telegrams to Con-ftes&men, the American Labor Party must spur its efforts to incases both the petition signatures lad wires...
...Paul Grossenbacher...
...A good proportion of those in the House, and twenty-seven senators, are coming up for reelection...
...Since the new jobs are all in mine pits in new districts and the families of the miners are already impoverished' and have been on breadlines since the strike began in November, it is impossible for the miners to accept...
...utica knitting MILLS signed A union agreement with the Utica Knitting Mills...
...Accuses Tammany Sabotage on Court Plan fofo Upon Membership to Redouble Fight for President's Reform by Word of Mouth Campaign- . TV American Labor Party,, hi •Baring that Tammany Democrats 0 pboUging the President's jorve Court program, this week T^ti jpor...
...Forty local charters have been issued by the T.W.O.C...
...They have their special use...
...Negrin— i CabaJlero and Del Vayo Out ¦ - ¦•(Continued from Page One) , ians on the Guadalajara and Cordoba fronts...
...That's how employers are...
...Prieto Plans Wide Offensives...
...Firms that display the union label, shop card and button must be patronized if yon desire to have them remain unionized...
...new life sal direction to the...
...Stanley Baldwin, in what he described as his last appeal to the House of Commons, pleaded for peace...
...Many States to Participate In Social iThmocjraiic Meet Representation of Whole East and Middle West Assured With Some from South and Far West—Mora Expected ------»--¦-A- ¦ - ¦ <+\___ » Labor Puts Maine On "Unfair List" For Union Attacks Charges That Brutal Efforts to Crush Unions Makes State Unsafe to Enter...
...and we must do more than this...
...Present at the meeting were representatives from the State Federation of Labor, the Committee for Industrial Organization, the American Federation of Teachers, the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Lawyers' Guild, the typographical union, the marine and shipbuilding unions, consumers' groups and various influential individuals...
...The best way to cure "employer trouble" is to hurry up and organize...
...ai indeed, all progressive meas-im before the Federal and State lehiatures...
...You're sunk, as far as curing "employer trouble" is concerned...
...The campaign is in protest of the injunction handed down by Judge Harry Manser ef the Maine Supreme Court, denying labor's right to strike, and the imprisonment of six organisers for the shoe workers in Lewiston and Auburn, and their attorney...
...Let every American Labor Party member frrj the message of the need for *» blood in the Supreme Court 'A his neighbor and co-worker in ; '¦fcshop...
...The horse, of course, not being used to that, raises a row...
...4 in New York, 2 each in Ohio, Minnesota...
...Letters are being sent, signed by a joint committee, to all C.I.O...
...and A. F. of L. unions in New England, and to all civic and liberal groups...
...A committee of 30, representing organizations or present as individuals, meeting in the offices of the Textile Workers' Organizing Committee, began the coordination of the scattered efforts in behalf of the shoe organizers...
...Why not call it "employer trouble" instead...
...There's only one things—that's all there ever has been...
...By their inaction they have actually sabotaged the President's program...
...not the ma they wanted...
...Even without the cut now being urged by those Congressmen who have become hysterical over "economy," half a million relief workers will be dropped from the rolls...
...It takes a union of workers...
...Delegates and visitors eh sold report directly to the eanpsuslsn hotel, Webster HaB, Fifth Ave: i ax-executioh films ok political foes thrill nab cmefs The editors of the Never Vorwarts in Czechoslovakia have learned that official sound pictures are made of all executions in Hitler Germany...
...This happened after a closed six-hour session between the mine operators and officials of the Mine Workers Federation, and a long appeal in Parliament by Prime Minister Baldwin...
...fammany Democrats have either been indifferent or hostile to the court reform plan...
...These agreements were negotiated mainly without strikes or strike threats, following the policy of the T.W.O.C...
...Loyalists refer to him as the dynamo of the government cause, and as Minister of National Defense in the new cabinet he becomes the key-man in all loyalist Spain...
...If you're not in a union, you might as well give up...
...Harry Hopkins told the House committee that: "I will not, under this bill, arbitrarily drop people who have no employment...
...Employer trouble" is a very stubborn thing—it resists cure, even though that resistance is expensive and must always lose in the long run...
...He declared that the Government ought not countenance such obsolete despotism...
...The Jewish Socialist Verband and the Finnish Socialist Federation both will be represented...
...Workers must organize...
...The rapidity with which large firms in all branches of the industry are signing agreements with us demonstrates the effectiveness of the drive in textiles," Hillman said...
...If this message is spread , l**rthreiy, it will reach even Wash-¦tftm a-nd help us achieve our lent" Orianized labor is the greatest '**tor m raising working stand-3* Therefore, by patronizing ¦jhs that display the anion label, ¦ *orkers help to maintain Amer-*» sunder...
...Some of them don't believe that yet, but they're finding out fast...
...Rose's call for action folks*: ¦?t* is imperative that the Amer-exL Labor Party membership continue to voice its aggressive support «f President Roosevelt's Supreme Court reform program...
...States whose credentials have already arrived include Arizona, California...
...Your employer must NOT fire | you for joining a union...
...It's a queer world—and a good many times the cart gets hitched up before the horse...
...T.W.O.C...
...Florida will be represented by M. E. Edson, one of the best known Socialists in the southeast and lor many years the state secretary of the party, while Mrs...
...Socialist- movem eftt...
...American Labor Party members and friends must »« promptly...
...John Howard, Jasper McLevy, Israel Miller...
...In view of the Cabinet's iieace efforts, Labor M.P.'s refrained from saying anything that might prejudice the new negotiations...
...Strike of750 000 British Miners Delayed 2 Weeks Attlee Leads Labor Party's Fight for Miners in Parliament—Stoppage Would Affect Armament Program...
...Neither are they exhibited to the general public...
...507 Columbia Building...
...ONE worker doesn't get anywhere, even with the new law...
...If, as sometimes happens, the victim's nervous system has been worn out by misery and abuse and he breaks down at the last moment, begs for mercy or weeps or becomes hysterical the scene is greeted with hyaena laughter...
...Reservations at $1.60 a plate, as well as hotel reservations at Hotel Webster HaB are being handled by the ailinge* meats committee...
...The Cherry Tree I-Chester M, WrigJ* — employer trouble «| ABOR TROUBLE" is a fre-quently used phrase...
...Our plans assume that around 500,060 people now on relief will get employment during the coming year...
...Even with all the new law, nothing happens until workers organize...
...These contracts include some of the biggest firms in various branches of the industry...
...to redouble their efforts aOftire the success of the fight a liberalize the nation's highest abunai, it was announced by Alex Jase, secretary of the party, in a message to the party mem-Mship, Mr...
...They concluded 'Jat Governor Landon was...
...M—per the last election cam-peigs...
...Protest Committee Formed Manufacturers of Lewiston and Auburn, who are accepting aid from capital outside of the state, undoubtedly have a selfish motiv in mind...
...It probably is going to take a lot more ''labor trouble" to cure the "employer trouble" that keeps cropping out all over the country...
...The majority of them are located in the New England area—10 in Massachusetts, 7 in Rhode Island...
...BOSTON...
...Pat on "Unfair List" The joint committee working out of Boston is asking that all labor groups and individuals agree not to patronize any of the products of Maine and to shun its widely advertised recreational facilities...
...The Aaeribii" tabor Party, single-snfaf in New York State, has xathe champion of this measure...
...contracts, Sidney Hillman, eommitttee chairman, announced, making the total about 80,000 so covered...
...its membership and jtfftP.iT...
...Affecting 2.500 workers in the company's seven plants in New York State, the contract provides a 10 per cent wage increase, the 40-hour week, time and a half overtime pay, $14 per week minimum wage, and recognition of the T.W.O.C, an affiliate of the C.I.O...
...M. Rhodin, John Shen-ton...
...Messages have also been sent to Senator Robert LaFoIlette urging him to send an investigator to Maine...
...They have a bad case of "employer trouble...
...He is immensely popular here and is expected to proceed at once with a complete reorganization of the fighting services and as soon as possible to put every ounce of strength he can muster into a general offensive on all fronts...
...The membership and friends of 4* American Labor Party know "hy we need a liberal Supreme "•est...
...They hope that by defeating the C.I.O...
...over •¦on...
...soon as an agreement is signed, a local charter is issued to the workers in the plant, if no local exists in their branch of the industry in the vicinity...
...The fight for increased appropriations by Congressman Maverick in the House and a few Western senators in the Senate has now been abandoned...
...There would be very little trouble started by labor if there were not first a good deal of "employer trouble...
...There isn't any reason to expect any decrease, either...
...Laborites Warn Parliament However, the Laborites warned the House that the Mine Workers Federation would stand for no nonsense...
...contracts within the next few days...
...And they may have to face their districts with the record of having voted either for increased taxation to maintain decent public relief, which will vex the higher-ups, or against status quo in public relief, which will swing the mass of voters against them...
...fight Approaches Crisis Mr...
...Martin F. Phinkett, state secretary of the Socialist party of Connecticut, advises us that the Connecticut's delegation will Include Harry Bowman, Sadie Briffta, J«-eob Coo perms n. C. L. Denis, Spares N. Ganas...
...So, first we get "employer trouble" and then, to cure that we get labor trouble...
...At this moment, strikes are on the increase...
...Congress itself it torn by two fears...
...in Maine they may advertise to the nation that Maine is a good place in which to establish industry because it tolerates no unions...
...New Jersey, Ohio, and the District of Columbia...
...of maintaining peaceful relations with the industry...
...Pre-convention committees have been busy on declaration of principles, organization, and constitution, to facilitate the work of the convention...
...What the representatives and senators are afraid of is the possibility of new taxation...
...If employers had not been so stubborn about recognizing unions, there would never have been any strikes to enforce recognition...
...Maorer, Loudon, and other founders of American Socialism...
...So, after all, the cure for "employer trouble" is through vvions...
...Prieto has for years opposed Caballero in the Spanish Socialist fatty, since he always adhered to his Social Democratic principles, while Caballero swung far to the "left...
...Not with YOU, as a lone worker, but with your UNION as a band of workers...
...They know how important to person discussions are in •oemmg public opinion...
...Hundreds of thousands of dues books, records and stamps are on hand to be shipped out to the new locals...
...since the drive began, and more are being set up every day...
...The finance committee's appeal for a $5,000 convention and organization fund has met with, a fine response...
...scheming continues Right at this moment there is a great deal of "employer trouble," even though the Supreme Court has decided that the Labor Relations Act is sound and constitutional and everything...
...WW Unify All Armies New "Win-the-War" Cabinet b Headed by Or...
...Some employers still think they can "beat the game" and go right on with their old scheming and brow-beating...
...6 in Pennsylvania...
...The official statement issued read: Miners' Statement "After discussions at the Government Mine Department the executive committee of the Mine Workers Federation of Great Britain informed the Secretary for Mines that in response to the Prime Minister's appeal and in hone of securing a settlement of the dispute honorable to all parties, we will meet with the Mine Operators...
Vol. 20 • May 1937 • No. 21
