Spasmodic Textile Strikes Meet Wage Cuts
Spasmodic Textile Strikes Meet Wage Cuts TRADE UNION TOPICS NEW BEDFORD, Mae*.—8*. eial hundred worker* in various Mow iteaiord cotton mill* are so •trikc aa a result af the recently announced...
...The new Executive Committee is made up of Et-tore Reina, Arturo Bellelli, Giovanni Bensi, Alberto Simonini, Mario Corio, Giuseppe Bentivoglio, Domen-ico Viotto, Bruno Buozzi, Ales-sandro Galli, Felice Quaglino, Enea Alberti, Gino Baldesi, Mario Suppini and Giuseppe Sardelli...
...LABOR JOTTINGS FROM ABROAD ITALIANS IN CONVENTION — GERMAN CZECHS STAGING COMEBACK — SLOVAK FEDERATION REVIVING — TOKIO UNIONS WIN — U. S. SHOE WORKERS JOIN INTERNATIONAL...
...Nearly all the delegates reported progress In reorganization and good prospects for the future...
...drapers, $31...
...An address will be made by former Assemblyman Charles Solomon...
...Tayerle's speech in the name of the Czecho-Slovak the delegates concluded that the Confederation had better maintain its independence of all political parFederation was heartily cheered and a resolution passed urging the continuation of careful negotiations, toward unity and affirming the German-speaking unionists' intention to stick to the International Federation of Trade Unions' program and work with it, oven although it was not possible for the International to admit two central bodies from the nam* country...
...Sixteen ballots were handed in blank...
...Tha birth of the organisation of clothing workers, which came to life ten years ago a* a reault of the intolerable conditions under which tailors in those years were forced to toil and suffer for a mere pittance, is being commemorated by the 160,000 men and women clothing workers whose working stand, ards have been humanised, whose wages have been improved, and the right to work under decent conditions guaranteed under the banner of tli* Amalgamated...
...V. Balis-treri, Vice-president...
...The statement ol principles and summary of the Confederation's program, which wn adopted by a vote of 163,316, against 54,792 for a Maximalist motion and 32,596 for a Communist program voices the Confederation's determination to fight the class struggla against the capitalists on the economic field, to do everything in iti power to improve the conditions ol the workers, while aiming at thi eventual substitution of the cooperative commonwealth for the capltalisl system, rejects the theory of bringing about the social revolution by a minority, approves continued affiliation with the International Federation of Trade Unions, reaffirms the Confederation's political independence and demands the restoration of civic rights in Italy...
...The company also promised tha union, which is 9,600 strong, that joint committees of managers and workers are to be formed to discun all points at issue and that union .leaders may visit the shop...
...An unemployment insurance arrangement is agreed to by the association, the association members to pay weekly a sum equal to three per cent of the payroll of their workers, one per cent of this to be taken out of the workers' pay...
...David Yaros-low sky, baritone...
...In 1924 the drop in membership was brought to a standstill and a gradual recovery begun, showing that disruption and crises had done their worst and the bottom had been touched...
...Bronx Baurbera Will Have Ball The Barbers' Union, Local 660, of the Bronx will have it's sixth annual ball on Sunday evening, February 8, at the Hunts Point Palace, the largest hall in the Bronx...
...Admission will be free to all members of the Furriers' Union...
...The recant election held in tha union elected the following officers: Harry Quinto, President...
...quested all international presidents to assign an organizer in Houston, Texas, not later than September 14, 1925, for an intensive organizing campaign in that city...
...The union attaches most importance to this clause because former agreement* carried no guarantees for the piece workers...
...There will be a concert by Helen Marsh, loprano...
...It was decided that a meeting of the international presidents of all the building trade unions would be called in San Francisco on February 12 for the purpose of considering the status or the movement in the State of California...
...Czecho-Slovek Federation Recovering According to a report on organization recently published by the central office of the Czecho-Slovak Fed-nation of Trade Unions, the membership of the affiliated bodies waa 324,189 on December 31, 1923, a loss of 64,205 during the year, or 16 per cent, compared with forty per cent in 1922...
...D. L. and W. Wknmmm End Four-Year Strike After nearly four year* of sirugair, two hundred union shopmen* formerly employed in the BeranLoa shop* of the Delaware, Lackawanna A Western Railroad, have voted te call off their strike They quit their jobs on July I, 1921, the same time that other shop crafts throughout Northeastern FanesyiveMa made a futile effort to get an increase ia wage...
...A sanitary union label goes on all garments and the association agrees that when doing hemstitching, embroidery, pleating, tucking, or when purchsaing of making buttons such work will be done in shops having union agreements and must bear the union sanitary label...
...American Shoe Worker* Te Affiliate Following negotiations between the Secretariat of the International Federation of Boot and Shoe Operatives and Leather Worker* and the Boston headquartern of the American Boot and Shoe Workers'union, participated in by President Poultoti of the British National Union ef Boot and Shoe Operatives, the American organization has decided to affil-iate with the International, reports the Amsterdam Bureau of the I. F. T. U. The membership of the national organizations affiliated with the Leather Workers' International I at the herinnlng of 1028 was 360,8*1...
...Loom nsere and weavers of the Devon Mills, Inc., end the Flak Rubber Company, numbering about seventy, quit work...
...German Czech Unions Coming Back Steady recovery from the effects of Communist splits and economic crises in Czecho-Slovakia was reported to the 123 delegates to the second Congress of the German Federation of Trade Unions held in Karlsbad, December 6-10...
...The new contract Is to expire December 31, 1928...
...This means that the bosses pay two per rent and the workers one per cent towards the relief fund...
...The men will return as vacant places are provided by the company...
...pressers, $60...
...road employes...
...hemstitchers, $30...
...Spasmodic Textile Strikes Meet Wage Cuts TRADE UNION TOPICS NEW BEDFORD, Mae*.—8...
...There was some talk of an Italian Labor party on the British model during the convention, but most of ties, while regarding the Socialists as its actual representatives in the Chamber of Deputies...
...As the German-speaking population of the war-born republic is not much more than 3,000,000, tha percentage strength of the German unions is comparatively high, especially when it is remembered that quite a number of German workers are member* of the Communist Labor group...
...Under the new rules of organization, adopted by a vote of 146,000 to 122,-000, the power of tho local central Labor bodies is considerably curbed and that of the national trade organizations increased...
...The Am-sterdanf Bureau also confirms recent reports from other sources that plans for the organization of a Japanese Labor party are taking definite form, with the Japanese Federation of Labor and the Political Research Society (a new group of students, professors and other ''intellectuals") working together for thi* end...
...Italian Labor In Convention Confidence in the future and a determination to go ahead with the rebuilding of the trade union movement, despite the menace of Fascis-mo, were expressed by the hundred-odd delegates from all parts of Italy who attended the first national convention of the General Confederation of Labor since 1921, held in Milan, December 10-13...
...After having fallen from 403,000 in 1920 to 217,140 members at the end of 1923, the affiliated organizations began to come back, so that the membership was 218,929 on June 30,1924, and 228,974 when the delegates were chosen...
...STERLING, Conn.—Many thousands of operatives in textile plants of Eastern Connecticut have returned to work under reduced scale...
...Ring twisters at the Devon and Fisk mills, numbering i»» will complete a strike ballot soon...
...The convention voted te insist upon moro social legislation and a better application of the Agrarian Reform Law and to assist all attacks upon the eight-bour day...
...The free classes in elementary English will begin January 26, and will continue on Mondays and Thursdays thereafter...
...Operator* $44 instead of $40...
...Furrier*' School Starts New Term The Educational Department ef the International Fur Workers' Union will celebrate the opening of its third season in New York, at the Manhattan Lyceum, 60 East 4th street, Sunday, January 25, at 2 o'clock...
...A fund for special educational work In the unions is to be formed by monthly assessments of nine heller (about one-quarter cent) per mem-, ber, beginning January 1, 1926...
...The new agreement call* for $60 per week minimum for cutter* on the week work-plan, as compared to $44 minimum formerly...
...An excellent program has been arranged for the occasion...
...Workers at the Creenhalgh Cotton Mills, who protested a similar wag* reduction, were at their places thia morning...
...finishers, $26...
...One hundred and sixteen voted te return, while eighty-seven others voted to continue their enforced idlensaa...
...Max Jacob*, violinist, and Herman Epstein, pianliU (Jertrude Weil Klein will read poetry...
...The cut affect* 1,200...
...With the clearing out of the Communist elements harmony now prevails in the organization and the sessions of the Karlsbad congress, while animated, were not marked by bitterness...
...HICOPEE, Mass.—The Dwight Manufacturing Company, manufacturers of cotton sheeting and tubing, have posted notice* of a wage reduction of (en per cent, effective Monday...
...At the Potoaaaka atill 250 weavera left their work and voted later to aeek a conference with the mill officials...
...The strongest union in the Federation is the Metal Workers, with 61,749, followed by the Railroad Men's, with 38,260 and tha Miners,' with 35,624...
...eial hundred worker* in various Mow iteaiord cotton mill* are so •trikc aa a result af the recently announced tea per cent wage reduction...
...PAWTl'CKET, R. I.—The 200 employes of the Pawtncket Hosiery Company have declared a strike as a result of the ten per rent wsge reduction...
...David Mikol, of the Educational Department, announces that registration books are open now in the office of the union, 22 East 22nd street...
...The executive council also has re...
...examiners, $26...
...Prospects for the forming of a permanent union with the Czeeho-Slovsk Federation of Trade Unions have been enhanced by the work of a special committee authorized by the International Federation of Trade Unions and It looks as if language and racial differences are not going to prevent an eventual amalgamation...
...the Building Trades Department of the American Federation of Labor, under the new national officers, President George F. Hedrick and Secretary William J. Tracey, was convened in Washington recently...
...Since then the strike rank* have dwindled until the strike was practically forgotten by the public The vote to end their strike was taken by tha Lackawanna men at a meeting in Seranton...
...Building Trade* Executive Meet* The first meeting of the executive council of...
...Charles Balsam, Secretary-Treasurer, and Frank A He, Business Agent._ A. C. W. Celebrate* 10th Anniversary The tens of thousands of men'* clothing workers throughout tho United States and Canada are celebrating Lhe Tenth Anniversary of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, this month...
...The strength of the Fascista so-called trade unions is on the wane...
...cleaners, $20...
...N* protest meetings of employes have been held so far aa known...
...Tokio Unions Win Recognition For the first time In Japan, a private concern has consented to apply the principle of collective bargaining with its organized workers, says the Amsterdam Bureau of the International Federation of Trade Unions in reporting the recognition by the Kawakita Electric Works of Tokio to the union of municipal electric workers as a Labor union and net merely as a friendly society...
...Drees Makers Win New Agreement Wage increases for week workers in the dressmaking trade* of New York are provided for in the new agreement reached, but not yet signed, by the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union and tha Association of Dress Manufacturers...
...Although Deputy Ludovico D'Aragona, National Secretary, did not give exact data on the present membership of the affiliated unions, this having been made impossible by the frequent Fascista raids on union headquarters, accompanied by the burning of records, etc., it was estimated at 410,000, a material gain since the debacle due to the advent uf Mussolini's dictatorship in the fall of 1922...
...A significant trot* was struck ia the meeting when a letter was received from Bart M. Jewell, national chief of the shop crafts, advising thje men that all railroad strikes, ex-cept one, are to be officially ended February 1. The Ion* exception is believed to mean the strike of New Voi k, New Haven and Hartford Rail...
...In the City of Prague, the Czecho-Slovak unions have 37,237 members, while in the far reaches) of Lower Carpathia (Ruthenia) theie are 3,011 regular union man, despite Communist and anti-Czech propaganda and generally unfavorable conditions...
...The vote on various motions showed the Communists and Maximalists to be in a decided minority...
...Minimum wages for piece workers are written into the new agreement...
Vol. 2 • January 1925 • No. 4
