Miners Ejected From Own, Property
Miners Ejected From Own, Property TRADE UNION TOPICS Reports from Fairmont, W. Va., say that the mine owners have obtained a court order for the destruction of the lii big barracks in which the...
...The one road not affected by the order is the Pennsylvania, according to Lee...
...A* tha German railroad* are now being run as an j important part Of the' reparation producing machinery the workers j have reason to fear that tbey fill' hava to fight hard to retain the few advantages left to them...
...Steinkellner is a charter member of the union, which was organised Oct...
...The meetintr wss addressed by William Kariia, well-known Lake* a stonier, who acquainted the assembled work* era with their rights, under the law, to organise and win deceit wagea and sanitary working conditions...
...Lee bases his statement on a letter received from B. M. Jewell, president of the Railway Employes' Department of the American Federation of l.alioi...
...franc increase in the daily allowance fer food, bringing it up to tea...
...The Cultural Commission of the Federation ha* organized In the past'year evening classes, club*, libraries, scientific and technics...
...ing plans for carrying on the fight for the eight-hour day and other improvements in the working Conditions of the men in the iron and cteel industry, in the fact of the various international trusts snd commercial treaties being considered in Europe at present...
...H* represented South Africa at tha Washington Conference of the International Labor Office of the League ef Nations in 1818...
...Application for a national bank charter was made in Washing-ton recently...
...8, at Hunts Point Palace, 163rd street and Southern Boulevard, where the Bronx Barbers' Union...
...the General Jewish Federstion of Labor in Palestine asked all Jewish worker* to donate one day's wages for the cultural work ef the Federa-tinn,( reports the Jewish Telegraph Agency...
...tlonal union treasury Important Meeting Of Box Makers The Paper Box Makers' Union at Greater New York will hold a mem-bership meeting Tuesday evening, Feb...
...Hans Luther, head of the new bourgeois reactionary Cabinet in Germany, announced that the eight-hour day would be established In the coke oven and smelters on April 1. lateraatioaals Amalgamate...
...French Sailors Wis Increase...
...The arrangements committee promise* an entertaining program and friends and trade unionists are urged to attend...
...10, at Webster Hall, lit East 11th street...
...Hilda G. Claeuen* and daughter ara well and cheerful...
...The request was backed up with detailed reports of anti-union activities in the countries named...
...German Railroaders' New Schedule...
...Tea meeting is one of a series of similar ones planned to organise the hotel and restaurant workers ia a strong industrial union...
...Local 560, will held its sixth annual ball...
...Important question* confronting the organisation will be taken up...
...Miners Ejected From Own, Property TRADE UNION TOPICS Reports from Fairmont, W. Va., say that the mine owners have obtained a court order for the destruction of the lii big barracks in which the striking miner* of the New England Fuel * Transportation Company and their families have been housed since their ejection from the company houaea...
...No attempt will be made to picket the plants, according to Joseph R. White, representative of the American Federation of Labor, who is looking after the workers' interests...
...ton Company, two ef the largest tax-tile plant* in Central New York, have voted to strike rather than accept a 10 per cent, out in wages...
...retariat of the International Transport Workers' Federation has asked the International Labor Office in Geneva to take this matter up with the Governments concerned with a view of having the railroaders' rights restored...
...Hotel Workera In Maaa Meeting A well-attended mass meeting called by the Hotel and Restaurant and Hotel Workers' Branch of the Amalgamated Food Workers waa held in Bryant Hall last Thursday...
...But Rumania unionist* ; till have to get special permit* to wetr the badges...
...1, according to an official statement given out by V. R. Lee, chairman of the Federated Shop ('rafts of the Wabash Railway Company, with headquarters in Moberly, Mo...
...Shirt Makers In Joint Session Reporting to a Joint meeting of the three shirt makers' locals, A. C. W , in this city, Manager Aldo Cursi urged endorsement and support of the Pioneer Youth Movement as an organisation which will shield the minds of the young from prejudices against the workers and their organizations and ideals...
...Bronx Barbara To Dance Sunday Some of the niftiest haircuts in town will be on exhibit at the sixth annual ball this Sunday, Fab...
...He has always taken an active part in the organization and led for the firemen's pension system which waa enacted by the Legislature in 1923...
...Had it been a *on he would have bean named Eugene ia honor of our beloved comrade, Deb...
...Rumania Releese* Anti-War Material...
...No Calvin In Milwaukee In view of the widespread notoriety President Coolidge obtained a few years ago, when he smashed the policemen's union in Boston, while serving as Governor of Massachusetts, the elevation of Peter Stein-kellner to the chieftancy of the Milwaukee Fire Department by Mayor lioan, .Socialist, will attract nationwide attention, as he is president of City Fire Fighters' Union No...
...Overtime payment per hoar remains it one-eighth ef tne «MUy...
...The Germans pointed to the possibility of direct action by the German workers in favor of their demands if the political mlxup in the Fatherland should so embolden the reaction as to result in an attempt to lower the already too low standard of living and block tha drive for tha eight-hour day...
...Metal Workera fer Eight-Hour Day At a meeting of the Central Committee of the Metal Workers' International, held in Pari* on January 4, after hearing a report by tha German members, Dissmann and Reich-el, on conditions in their country and the fight being made for tha restoration of the eight-hour working day, it was decided to hold a special conference of the Metal Workers' International in Cologne on March 1 for the purpose of lay...
...White stressed the Importance of order and close adherence to union principles at a mass meeting here...
...ganizations of railroad men in other countries are said to have already protested to the Dutch Government regarding its attitude toward the East Indian railroaders...
...More than 1.600 persons are affected by the decision, according to Labor officials, who declared determined efforts were made to adjust the question prior to the strike action...
...So the Olae*s*ni mad* the next bast choice and named the new rebel Eugenie...
...If more than fifty-four hour* are worked in tha week the employe I* to be compensated by extra time off...
...Under the regulation* far Ger-' man railroad man, affective Jena- -sry 1, the minimum working Week is fifty-four hour*, with bo extra pay for overtime...
...The meeting will start at 8 p.m...
...An expert banker will take charge and manage it for us, under a board of directors, the majority of whom must be trade unionists...
...Eugenie Claeaaena Arrives A daughter has arrived in the Claesiens family...
...The Federation haa twenty-three schools at Tel-Aviv and various Labor settlements attended by 460 children...
...Het Volk of Amsterdam notes that the Executive of the Netherland Union of Railway and Street Car Workers has already protested to the Governments in quesI tion, via their Ministers in Holland, and has also put the matter of free |dom of organization for the railroad men in the Dutch fust Indies up to the authorities in The Hague...
...New Labor Bank In New Jersey The Labor Co-operative National Bank of Newark is being organized with a $1,000,000 capitalization, to be owned and operated by Labor organisations...
...The wage earners of Newark and vicinity are going to own and control this bank," says a statement given out at Federation headquarters...
...Speaking of organization work, he stated a renewed effort should be made to unionize the few remaining scab shops in Greenpoint, Ridgewood, and other parts of Brooklyn...
...It alio publishes book...
...1, is.j.-, and has just recently been ele< ted president of the union for the Afth consecutive term by unanimous vote...
...Palestine Labor Federation's Birthday...
...It may be a mere coincidence that a few days after the Paris conference Dr...
...Following the publication in many European newspapers of the sharp protest note sent to Premier Brsti-ano of Rumania by the Amsterdam Bureau of the International Federation of Trade Unions over the confiscation by the Rumanian police of the anti-war badge* and cards Mat put by the L F. T. U. in connection with its anti-war demonstrations last fall, the authorities have finally handed the seized material over to tha Rumanian Federation of Labor...
...On the occasion of the celebration of its fourth birthday, December 22...
...He wa* secretary of tha South African Indnlttial Fed-, erstion...
...Dave Cantor has been elected to fill the vacancy left by the resignation of Larry Oshinsky as business agent of the cutters' local, Corsi announced...
...The Amsterdam Secretariat of tha International Transport Workers reports that tha French Seamen's Federation ha* obtained an all around wag* raise of sixty francs (at about Ay* and one-half cents apiece) a' month for seamen, besides a two...
...Crawford represented South Africa at tha Congress of the L F.' T. U. in Vienna last June...
...Weavers Strike In Utica Mills UTICA, N. Y.—Ring spinners, loomfixers, weavers and carders of the Utica Steam Cotton Mill and the Mohawk Valley Mill, both conducted by the Utica Steam and Mohawk Cat...
...The bitter and costly fight to organize the -Wast Virginia non union mine* had else sapped the strength of the Intern...
...The organisation committee of the proposed Labor bank is composed of Arthur A. Quinn, president of the State Federation of Labor...
...Indications ara that the shirt industry Is now on the up-grade, Manager Cursi reported, and that there is a tendency on the part of many manufacturers who left the city to come bark to New York...
...LABOR JOTTINGS FROM ABROAD Demendi Rights For Railroaders, Demanding that the railroad workers in Hungary, Humanis, Yu-sro-Slavia, Greece and the Dutch East Indies enjoy the right* of organization supposed to be guaranteed in countries belonging to the League of Nations and covered by the various peace treaties, the Sec...
...On New Year's Day tha number of international secretariats was reduced from twenty-eight to twenty-six through the amalgamation of the International Secretariat of the Furriers with that of the Clothing Workers, with headquarter, at Am-stel 224, Amsterdam,and of the Carpenters with Building Worker*, located at 1 Wallstrasse, Hamburg, 25...
...t$ Arabia Crawford D*^, The Amsterdam Bureaaef til* I. F. T. U. report* the death */Archie Crawford, the South Africa*, labor leader who we* expelled from the country by General Smuts In 1814 for having lad ¦ general strike, but was allowed to return, although he refused to sign a promise not to call any mora strike* during tha World War...
...wage and there il no increase in the family allowance fixed in lilt...
...courses, concerts and general lectures in tha town* and colonies...
...Despite the fact that the barracks are on ground belonging to the union they are ordered rased under the pretext that they are "forts" and thus constitute a violation of the injunction forbidding the miners from interfering with the operation of the mines...
...francs...
...Roger Baldwin, of the Civil Liberties Union, and Joseph Manley...
...advising him that the Executive Committee has decided "to terminate the strike...
...Henry F. Hilfgers, secretary of the State Federation, and Robert B. Forrest, Eugene McMullin and Henry Carless, counsel...
...i Miner*' Union Raise* Out* far Two Montht In order to meet the emergency created hy the depletion of the Intetv national union traaanry owing to unemployment and other cause* las* ys*r, the executive board ef the United Mine Worker* ha* derided to have their members pay fl per month additional duea during February and March...
...Organiser Lo Brutto la fostering this work...
...Shopmen Strike Ends in Moberly The Railroad Shopmen's strike, two and a half years old, ended on Feb...
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