NECKWEAR UNION FOR 5-DAY WEEK
NECKWEAR UNION FOR 5-DAY WEEK TRADE UNION TOPICS The Neckwear Makers' Union of Now York has *n«fe sated a as sat St of deaaaeds to ths natJensl Association of M.n's Neckwear Sfana-fscturers,...
...FartW Union ' Mav Hold Convention The F«rrWsr 0 pastel Ex«entf*o Board, et its naif-yearly session a few lays ago in Atlantic City, decided ha favor of a Contssatioa of the International Union te b* held during the week beginning November 9. This will bo a reeyaler Ceaveatioa, aad would have heed* hold in May, 19S8...
...tlvity...
...H. Wentworth...
...It is also hoped thst the unfortunate gap on racial tinea which thus far has prevented harmonious cooperation between the two main Socialist parties, to the corresponding advantage of tha bourgeois groups controlling the Government, may be partly bridged during the campaign and the way paved to eventual federation along the lines now being worked out by the leaders of the Czecho-Slovek and German trade unions...
...Molly Greenwald, Philip Sole, Edmond Got-tesman, Secretary, Louis Fuchs, Business Agent...
...The Young People's Leafnt It making steady headway, as are th* Social Democratic Gymnasts* Uatena, The party life is always full Mae...
...The convention wtll be in session about a week and will plan a vigorous orgsnlzation drive and popularising .the demand for union label cigars...
...Ruth Barman...
...Step by step, aa the working elsss hss risen to hlghohmintelligence, it hat come to discern- that the conflict does not lit between nation and nation...
...Baltimore City Workers Strike Over two thousand city workers, members of the building tredss, struck work in Bsltimore lsst Friday afternoon...
...opening .address of President Perkins, who presided, he pointed out thst "Industrie* justics cen only be schieved when the workers will receive the full value of their labor...
...statements that tsif l« K. etely tak* (tons as eanpisy a»Q aniesj meat vehile, en the ether hand, the ofllciaks of the hnOslnf treses7 do...
...The Social Democratic party has beta vary successful In its extensive Cooperative Movement, which Is tht lergest business corporation in Czecho-Slo-vskls...
...There are Social Deme-cratic mayors ia many important industrial centers, such as Ostrava, Brno, Plzen, center of tht Skoda concern and of brewing industry, where Mayor Ludek Pik haa soe-oeded in forming one great metropolitan district of the several neighboring towns, to the betterment of the socio!, 'industrial aad political conditions of the City...
...In a public ststement he Mid that union labor was only a very smell portion of the popule-tion of th* city, and that th* larger portion ihould not be taxed to pay the higher anion wages._ Czechoslovakia Battle Looms Ready for the Campaign With everything indicating that there will be a general election in Czecho-Slovakia in October, both big Socialist parties—the Czechoslovak Social Democratic Party and the German Social Democratic Party—are buay lining up their forces for a campaign in which they' hope to increase their present strength of (1 and 80, respectively, in the Chamber of 294 Deputies...
...The Convention wss addressed on the opening day by various prominent men snd women in ths Labor movement, among thsm Kale Richards O'ilate, Frank McCarthy of the A. F. of L. ajid John Van Voorwyck, of the Massachusetts Federation of Labor...
...It is no longer confined to one eecrtery •lone, It is of nvery se*Jdt|>It is aa wide aa tht weritV-P...
...ties...
...cksro that tee led* ie is the t-raeh, There are being treated in ahUhV more at the) present time six modern eenodt heaeee at a coot el an* proximately $1,000,000, all oi which wlU bo held tap daring the strtka, aad the fact that these will be needed to heuae over (,600 pupils in September ie being neeel by the city an* thoritlee to prejudice patsne epiaioa agnlast the striker...
...Tha Csecho-Slovak Goya ernment immediately recalled its envoy at the Holy See and the war, was on...
...Edouard Banes, the able Foreign Minister, and nearly all of his fellow members of the Czecho-Slovak Nationalist Socialist Party, are free thinkers and theoretically strong for complete separation of Church and State, the racial political divisions among tht religious Liberals have contributed toward forcing a Government spon the country in which the Clericals and Agrarians play important parts, Now that the Vatican has raised the issue, the Csecho-Slovak end German Liberals are anxious' to see It settled once for all aad there is a possibility that other political ana economic questions may he temporarily shelved until the Church ia driven from Its po»ition of preferment...
...other needle trades...
...great success...
...Most of the minor Soclejnt groups have expressed their willingness to work with the big par...
...If the Czechoslovak, Socialists show a little more vigor in opposing the undue haste with which some of the Cnech 100 percenters are trying to Csechlfy the country it seems probable that Socielist unity will be affected in the comparatively near future...
...Th* workers were represented by Louis Feldheim, President of the Union...
...Cigar Worker...
...The Convention will be held if approved by the membership...
...The Union has presented a request to the Executive Coursyl of ths A. F. of L. through its manager, L. D. Berger...
...In the...
...NECKWEAR UNION FOR 5-DAY WEEK TRADE UNION TOPICS The Neckwear Makers' Union of Now York has *n«fe sated a as sat St of deaaaeds to ths natJensl Association of M.n's Neckwear Sfana-fscturers, Inc...
...Wne city official, however, Charles H. Osborne, head of the Bureau of Buildings, has already taken a decided etend in which tht strikers are defied...
...A large local of cutters has already been orgaaised and includes most of the cutters in all the large shops...
...The strike was in protest against the city sdminlstrstion's refusal to grant the union rate of wages to the mechanics in the employ of the city...
...The campaign will now be concentrated on organizing the neckwear makers...
...Mayor Jackson wants to he re* elected, and the question ho is try* ing to solve is, how win tha strike ellfft this election...
...An iaersase in the minimum scale of wares for boxers aad trimmers, from fit to fit a week...
...About $5,000,000 of construction and repairs work will he held up...
...The interests tf the working class are everywhere the atate...
...An organisation drive to round up the few unorganized shops in the city is being msnsged by Louis Fuchi...
...8. A ten per cent Increase for certain branches of work...
...Herry Heisler, Vice-President...
...The party's record in the municipal governments has been on* of...
...Louis Weldman, attorney for the Union, and Louis D. Berger, ths Union's Msnsger, who acted as spokesman...
...to grant the Neckwear Makers' Union the right to uss a union lebel of their own insteed of the standard label of the A. F. of L. The Council is now consstlring the nistter end a decision will tportly be rendered...
...who appeared before the body asking their consee...
...But because of the present diAculti...
...Hold A National Convention The Cigsr Makers' International Union of America opened lte> 25th Convention last Monday, August 10, in the Musicians' Hall, in Boston, Mass...
...David Silverman, who has conducted aa organization campaign in Boston for the last few weeks, rendered a favorable report to the National Organization Committee of the Union at a special meeting held this week*on the progress of the campaign...
...The carpenters end brickleyers heve not joined in the strike...
...He fsel* very confident that the employers will readily accept these demsnds...
...Anos{ the ttemaads which were officially presented to the trot eoafsrenc* hold this last week wore: 1. That for certain periods of the /ear, the five-day week (Mst*r day) he established in the industry...
...that/ the Internationsl Union is having with the N*w York Join/ Board, which body was by the International Union declared illegally elected, the General Executive Board deeided to submit to a referendum of the entire membership the proposition to hold the next Convention ae soon es possible...
...The straggle k df the wtVldjt* t%tC, of aU nation* against V«-4tM~Ing class of all nations...
...The Cooperative Movement hes the fullest participation of the Social Democratic Leber Unions...
...When President Maa-sryk and practically all the high Government officials took a prominent part In the celebration on July 6 of tht national holiday In honor of John Husa, the Bohemian reformer burned alive for heresy at Constance in 141$, Mgr...
...The independent employers will receive the dame demsnds, which the Union will send out by August 161 Asron Fleirher snd Hsrry Heisler will act as the settlement committee for these shops...
...L. D. Berger, Msnsger of the Union, points out thst these new demands faithfully carried out would bring ebout the standardization of the industry which is very much necessary for everybody in it...
...The crisis in ths coalition Government, in which the Czecho-Slovak Socialists have three Ministers, that made It advisable to close the Spring session of the Chamber of Deputies on July 16, with the intimation that it would not be called together again before elections had been held to test the country's sentiment, was largely due to interference by the Vatican in the internal affairs of the republic...
...Meny of the striksrs heve left for other cities where building workers ers in demand...
...While the Communist party is steadily declining in strength snd prestige, its group of D*puti*» having fallen to twenty, due to the deflection of seven members, headed by Joeef Bubnlk, who have formed an Independent Communist party in defiance of orders from Moscow upholding the extremists, the two big Socialist parties are eager for the fray...
...Aaron Flacher, Secretary of the Joint Board...
...Th* city is paying a rate somsa*hee jsaQjt*^ *iar gaton scale end) ^MjnaVlr wlich * •"»•*• sdrtaf *MP"fWls«iires them to t*S}U eWmOJl*]**^ fcd*», however* >enw> jetted the ejswi rate is the teen *»ao||t«^aadojs, jahor at union, ^aC^sf^frti Hamuli* The eoassneteeo kssntesal ani the 4* e**i«e>an ek^maoeahtSeV...
...While Dr...
...A ststement issued by Mr...
...Baltimore will heve a municipal election this coming Spring which will sleet an entire new city edmln-Istrstion, and this may have some effect on the conduct of the strike...
...The Executive Committee of the Czecho-Slovak Democrstlo Party has decided to raise a campaign fund of 6,000,000 crowne (about $150,000) and, according to Nova Dobe, the party's fighting neper in the Industrial center of Pllzen, the comrade* everywhere tre showing enthusiasm and determlns-tion to make the campaign unique in the history of the party...
...Demands hsve also been presented by the Neckwear Cutters' Union asking for sn increase of $5 in ths minimum socle...
...The party is carrying on SB extensive educetlonsl csmpaign among the masses and has all the Important districts covered by Social Democratic dailies, weeklies and other periodicals...
...Msrmsggi, the Papal Nuncio, shook the duet of Prague from his feet and returned to Rome...
...It is also the plan of the organization in this drive to elimi-nets the few xontractors from this industry before this evil sacs ia say farther aad creatoe ae serious s n**a-ace as it has already in the...
...4. A readjustment in prices be made on various operations with a view of standardizing aad levelling the earnings of the workers in the industry...
Vol. 2 • August 1925 • No. 33
