Green Acts To End Stone-Lewis Dispute
Green Acts To End Stone-Lewis Dispute TRADE UNION TOPICS Morriton Head. Committee President William Green of the American Federation of Labor has appointed a committee to meet with Grand...
...The subject will be: "Hesolved—That the welfare of humanity can be best served under Capitalism...
...Miners Appeal To Coolidge Declaring that coal company gunmen surrounded their houses and invaded their homes without a vestige of authority except the authority of high-powered guns, the miners formerly employed by the JamiHon Coal & Coke Co...
...Unionist Jailed Under Injunction Judge Denis E. Sullivan, Democratic injunction judge and pal of Charles G. Dawes, Republican VicePresident-elect of the United States, haa fined Peter S. Shaughnessy, president of the bricklayers' union of Chicago...
...the United Mine Workers of Illinois, and three Illnois operators' associations co-operated with the mining section of the National Safety Council in holding the conference...
...He was recently on the personal staff of John D. Rockefeller, and before that was adviser to the Pennsylvania Railroad Company...
...It is now predicted that the Shoe Workers' Protective Union, a successor to the Amalgamated Shoe Workers' Union in Brooklyn, will follow the example of the Children Shoe Workers' On ion...
...They have not as yet taken any definite stand in reference to amalgamation with the American Shoe Workers' Protective Union, owing to the fact that they , are affiliated with a national organ Ii cation with headquarters in Haver1 hill, Mass...
...the Illinois Mining I.-.otitute...
...second vice-president, Al Towers...
...Concrete achievements of the conference included an invitation to the United States Bureau of Mines to hold its next first,aid competition in Springfield...
...But there is the Liberty protecting guards...
...Officials of the union who took part included Frank Farrington and Harry Fishwick, president and vicepresident of District 12, and George L. Mercer, statistician...
...Opium Behind the Row and Hypocrisy at Geneve Is Old Monopoly Which Controls Government and Poisons India...
...Some years ago, when the Chinese Government stopped the legal importation of opium into China, the British compelled the weak Chinese Government to pay the Sassoons ?5,000,000 for compensation for the loss of their opium trade...
...L. A. W. U., informs us through its manager, Max M. Essenfeld, that the union has reached an agreement with the Bonnaz Embroidery Manufacturers' Association, which goes into effect February 1 and is to last two years...
...In this brief article I shall try to avoid the mistakes of Mr...
...It is a pity Stephen Porter did not know that...
...Max Riesel, secretary treasurer, and Leon Hattab, ' business agent...
...the United States Bureau of Mines...
...fourth vice-president, Robert G. Fitchie...
...Sir Philip Sassoon, head of all the Sassoons, controls the production of opium...
...The reason for this war-like arrangement is the ¦ ¦it n refuse the anti-union basis of employment...
...fifth vice-president, James B. Connors...
...This makes the use of salt among the poor almost prohibitive, hence disease is rampant...
...It has its native rulers, the most gorgeous parasites on earth, and it has superimposed, dominating all—workers, peasants, middle class and aristocracy alike— the British political' and military overlords and dictators...
...secretary-treasurer, Victor A. dander...
...Only the thin canvas of the worn tents stood between the men, women and children snd the fury and cold of...
...No date has yet been announced for the meeting with Grand Chief Stone, but it was said at A. F. of I. headquarters that the committee would lose no time in endeavoring to arrange a date for a conference...
...Committee President William Green of the American Federation of Labor has appointed a committee to meet with Grand Chief Warren S. Stone of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers in regard to tht dispute between the Unitea* Mine Worker* of America and the Engineers at the Coel River Collieries in West Virginia...
...eighth vice-president, M. J. Whalen...
...Max Diesenhaus, | vice-president...
...Miners Suffer From Cold The cold spell this week, bringing below-zero weather in the West Virginia mountains, caused severe suffering to 6,000 minert and their families living in tents in the hills of the Kanawha coal district...
...defendants were charged with violating an injunction issued by Judge Sullivan in favor of the Union Contracting Company last May...
...ninth vice-president, Waldo Cross...
...have placed the facts before President Coolidge in a resolution adopted by Local Unions 4042 and 4036, U. M. W. of A. at Morgantown, W. Va...
...When Lord Cecil said he stood for humanity and not for the vested opium interests, he was telling the usual sanctimonious lie of British diplomacy—the hypocritical blah-blah that provokes the scorn of Bernard Shaw so often...
...The union is supplying the strikers with food...
...The theatres are the Ampion Theatre I in Williamsburg and the Olympic Theatre on Adams street near Myrtle avenue...
...The basis for co-operation between miners and mine operators to cut down the hazard to life and limb in the occupation was laid at the Illinois Mining Safety Conference at Springfield...
...SOLOMON AND IVY LEE TO DEBATE CAPITALISM A debate between Charles Solomon and Ivy Leo is scheduled to take place Monday night, February 2, ut the Brooklyn Jewish Center, Eastern Parkway and Brooklyn avenue...
...Lee has been intimately associated with banks, railroads and large commercial and industrial enterprises...
...The miners were evicted from j their homes when they went on strike for recognition of their right to join the United Mine Workers...
...Fancy Uncle Sam being forced to compensate the Rum Row plutocrats and the bootleggers for' loss of their business...
...Emit Reinhold...
...seventh vicepresident...
...They bear the same relation to the poppy that Rockefeller does to oil in the United States...
...The Montagues of London have the silver monopoly...
...They were given the'ovcrlordship of Anglo-Indian finance by Gladstone...
...the snow storms...
...the passage of a resolution furthered by George Mercer to have first aid taught in the schools...
...The Joint Council of the latter, at its last meeting, approved the merger and extended their hearty welcome to the brothers of the children shoe trade...
...first vice-president, Thomas Kelly...
...Solomon, who was recently Socialist candidate for Lieutenant Governor, hus been on the Socialist plntform for many yearR and is well known in the Socialist and Labor movement...
...The Children Shoe Workers' Union has officially decided to merge with the American Shoe Workers' Protective Union...
...A few weeks ago the union elected the following officers to serve for the next term: Z. L. Freedman, president...
...By P. L. QU1NLAN Had our delegate to the International Conference on Opium, held at Geneva under the auspices of the League of Nations, been a Socialist instead of being a representative in the Congress of the United States, Stephen Porter would have slashed right and left and torn the veil of hypocrisy that the pro-opium capitalist delegates, led by Lord Cecil of England, wove around the question of the culture of the poppy and its manufacture into the demoralizing drug that is destroying the physique and morals of the East...
...The resolution says: "War has been declared against the old employes of this company, gunmen are stationed around their homes, and arc torturing these people, brilliant searchlights being flashed in their doors and windows from dark until daylight...
...Bank Clerks Win Demands Their repeated individual requests for relief from onerous working conditions having been denied, the employes of the Bank of Athens, New York City, organized, made their requesta collectively and won increases in pay and other improved working conditions...
...The Illinois Department of Mines and Minerals...
...the Joseph A. Holmes Safety Association...
...A lakh is 100,000, and the rupee, at present exchange rates, is worth about 32 cents, or one shilling and fourpence English money...
...I A tremendous sentiment prevails to-day among all the shoe workers of Brooklyn for some action that may bring about a unification of all unions into one, a union that could present one united front against the manufacturers, and it is hoped that this aentiment will bear sueh pressure on the leading elements of the Protective Shoe Workers' Union that they will soon amalgamate with the American Shoe Workers' Protective Union, which is now the strongest organization of shoe workers in Greater New York...
...Sir Alfred Mond and his crowd control that most essential article—salt...
...A statement by Dave Burk, secretary of the union, points out that these are the only unfeir houses in Brooklyn and that a little pressure by organised Labor in patronizing only union theatres would bring these houses under the control of the union...
...He was fraternal delegate from the American Federation of Labor to the British Trade Union Congress...
...President Green's action is pursuant to a resolution ooopted by the convention of the American Federation of Labor in El Paso, Tex...
...Searches are being made without a vestige of authority except the authority that high-powered guns give them...
...India suffers from a double dose of exploitation...
...W. Va...
...5,000 W. Va...
...The...
...Those men have a right to work, this ia a free country,' eay the guards...
...The Controllers Tho Rothschilds are the biggest factors in Indian banking...
...The Bookkeepers, Stenographers | and Accountants' Union's advocacy of the idea of organization won a ready response among the clerks employed by the Bank of Athens, who deserve the honor of being the first group since the unionization campaign beg n in the financial district which organized and asserted its right to a living wage...
...The minimum wage scale of spooners and stampers has been increased from $2.50 to $5 a week above the previous scale...
...they cannot even take a pail of water from the sea to obtain salt...
...sixth vice-president, Mary McEnerney...
...Labor The Illinois State Federation of Labor has, by a referendum vote, elected the following as its officers: President, John H. Walker...
...This agreement is hailed with sincere satisfaction by all the workers in the trade, as it represents a distinct advantage over the old pact, and brings a number of distinct improvements in the trade conditions...
...So if we translate the Indian terms into British, we have, roughly speaking, over ?2,500,000 collected from the opium tax...
...Bonnaz Embroiderers Renew Agreement The Bonnaz Embroiderers' Union, Local 66,1...
...Mine Safety Conference In III...
...Porter...
...Strikebreakers now occupy the company-owned homes they formerly lived in...
...As the British officials are the highest paid in the world (the Governor-General alone drawing $500,000 a year) and as the native rulers are the most gorgeous and most extravagant, the burden of taxation is most crushing, and, as happens everywhere, is heaviest on the weakest and poorest of the population...
...the guards tell them to keep their mouths shut...
...500 and costs, and sentenced John J. Stretch, business agent, to thirty days in jaili John Campbell, another business agent, was fined $300 and costs, and Charles L. Wilde, assistant financial secretary of the union, was fined $50 and costs...
...Instead of abusing the British or displaying heat over points of honor and international etiquette such as the well-meaning American delegate did, I shall present a few important facts taken from the British Government official reports and let the readers judge for themselves...
...friends and sympathizers from the outside are sending in clothes...
...The revenue from the home-consumed drug is 398.1 lakhs of rupees...
...Shoe Workers' Unions Merge Several months of negotiation between representatives of the various shoe workers' unions in Greater New York have borne '.he first good results...
...Lord Cecil spoke only for the opium magnates who are all powerful in the British Government and for no other interest...
...The committee consists of: Secretary Frank Mcrrison, VicePresident Martin F. Ryan and VicePresident James P. Noonan...
...Stage Hands Appeal To Public The Theatrical Stage Employees' Union, Local 4 of Brooklyn, appeals to the public to help them in their campaign to unionise two movie houses which are unfsir to them...
...Men and boys are beaten for trying peaceful persuasion...
...With the above facts in mind the readers can see and understand the Ethiopean in the woodpile, the nickel under the foot...
...therefore be it "Resolved, That we protest and condemn the action of this absentee landlord, and employer And be it further "Resolved, That thesj conditions be presented to the knowledge of the public...
...and reappointment of the old committee to arrange another such conference in the near future...
...Peter S. Shaughnessy is well known among trade union officers throughout the United States and Canada...
...Despite the terrific hardship wrought by the zero weather, there is not a thought but that the fight for the union will go on...
...So that the Monds and the salt monopolists can make millions, the people of India are forbidden to use their own natural resources...
...About 300 miners, mine operators, superintendents, managers, officials of the union, and other interested persons attended the sessions...
...But you fellows keep your mouth shut' Some of the men that .¦are working have been deceived or irltimidated, and a knowledge of the facts would bring several of them out...
...In 1924 the Sassoons exported $8,160,000 worth of opium...
...When the readers see in the papers the Words Indian Opium they must change the terms and call it the Sassoons...
...The representatives of the Shoe Workers' Protective Union have also participated in the conferences of the Shoe Trades Union...
...hird vice-president, Joseph W. Morton...
...Walker Again Heads III...
Vol. 2 • January 1925 • No. 5
