N.Y. GARMENT INDUSTRY AT STANDSTILL AS STRIKE OF 40,000 EMPTIES SHOPS
SIGMAN, MORRIS
N. Y. Garm entIndustry a t Standstill s Strike of 40.000 Empties Shops CALL OF Wm ANSWERED m Woriu»T«k to M*fc* Jobbers Sboukkr to Labor £. % ;; THE. second «**¦ s* tfr* «Mt at the «,»»*...
...The Haugen BUI even in its greatly amended form was unsound...
...They were tn tb* fight...
...Hugh Fr*j**v New Tork representative of tbe American Federation of Labor...
...This is a great step in ridding the industry of the contracting evil...
...cut-throat competition is the lot' of the cloakmaker,** and that ,4a recent years "the standards and condition* of the cloakmaker* have beast continually reduced, so that the workers are faced with the moat dire fesed and misery, due to tbe eagerness Of the* employers to increase their predts at the expense of the Workers.*' • The speakers were President laorrht Slgman of the international vole*;Louis Hymn, manager of Che Jefng board: Abraham Baroff, eeeretacy* treasurer of the' International hmtonr Ben Gold, head of the Joint hueird.-e** the Furriers' Union...
...We ire instinctively sympathetic with European imperialism oyer "backward" ™ces and accept its justification as our »wn...
...But th* more socialism we can have all arouad the world, tb* better chance we have to end Imperialism aad to preserve paec...
...The convention has adopted resolutions recognizing the principle ot collective bargaining in fixing salary schedules...
...requesting the Executive Committee to Investigate the iniquities of Prof...
...Not even the National Security League can...
...I have found the ***** spirit 4 group* at moa to whom I hxv* spoken en a long Journey I took partly hp ear and partly by train oa my pray t* London tram Scotland this weak...
...manage to work sp a scare about the imminence it s» complete a revolution...
...A greet battle between Capital and Labor!' It was- hard to believe...
...It is stated that the President aud Secretary of the Peruvian Typographical Federation of Labor are going to be deported because they have dared to print and circulate a manifesto containing a strong potest against the so-capped "Conscription of Labor Law...
...The American Federation of Teachers is not different from other unions in having-among its members conservatives, moderates and radlcaja...
...Following singing of the "International," Lester Schulman, of Circle Two, Brooklyn, was elected Chairman...
...at d» |t*u»» ^^a^sft *ss^aCa^fe se^saa s^sfe*^a*ns ^^sbs^sm wusw^wayaug...
...But Just as at all times In the past we have answered our employers with thorough solidarity in our ranks, against their challenges, so shall we meet thetn now...
...rallying to the defence of continuation schools and visiting teachers for the study of delinquent children...
...Jewish Socialist Verbaod branches and Young People's Socialist...
...This waa a marked loss sine* 1M0...
...President Green ot the Pan American Federation of Labor has Just .received ah appeal from the Mexican Federation of Labor officials in behalf of the Peruvian Typographical Federation ot Labor...
...discountenance only compulsory military training and centralised financial control from the army authorities at Washington...
...office .of the united Hebrew Trades to perfect the organisation of a 4arger body to aid the British miners In their heroic struggle...
...To' day we are forced into an open struggle against our employers in order to potect our rights as workers and as human beings...
...With the march of this economic imperialism American Ideals are changing before our eyes...
...They w*r* up against a pottttaai and an economic system which aad to be changed, and they believed ta politic* more than ever...
...The meeting was opened by...
...But a battle it was, nevertheless, and these men and women were fighting'lt hi this wonderfully effective my...
...1) W* oan tn*i*t da th* principle that there ahall be ho public collection by th* armed ftrees of the United State* at the private debts of American investor...
...Among the candidates to be nominated will be nominees for Coiled States Senator and Governor...
...Labor, and Salralore Kinlo, manager ef Local 4> of the Garment Vale*.- ' ¦* -Mr...
...supporting the Punman Porteru and strikers or Passaic, the British eoad industry and the New Tork women** garment industry...
...For us Americans, certain very deftlite things oan be done: «?'8 can clean up immediate ,1,u>es, of which there are many, In our **» relations with our own colonies Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands...
...Tbe ht^sfhrte euro for imperialism : i a dwM-wide social revolution, and even JJgr social revolution would have to be-te wise and brotherly that it would settle the differences -vhlch now exist be*ar*»n tbe economically more ad•sated nations which are predomisssjlj white and tbe tons advanced winch are colored...
...The resolution farther recited that the manufacturers refused to negotiate an agreement "that would Insure the workers a decent wage," that the union framed a set of demands ttso years* ago aiming to de away With "the chaos and 'irresponsibility m ear industry, where constant unempleyment and...
...Different groups of them, no less than th* consumers, would have been dissatisfied with ths prices fixed by the Board, and there might have- been considerable trouble collecting tb* equalisation fee whlcb waa supposed to cover th* difference between th* foreign aad dSre.eetie price of staple commodities- At beat only a sharp rise la th* domestic aria* at th* expense *f consumers would bay* made taa farmers pay any •fiualiaatten fee...
...Inefficient management of their pit had made it oh* of the "uneconomical** one*, but it had been bought by an efficient combination...
...SOCIALISTS OF N.Y...
...The fact la that teachers haver not had the intelligence and, in many cases, the courage to heed the call of unionism...
...MEET IN CONVENTION SATURDAY AND SUNDAY The Socialist party of New Tork ¦hit* will meet this Saturday and •*hday, July afd and 4th...
...Bet that cabs determination to stand torn** right which otkjsmr* hun...
...The appeal contains an eanest request to the Pan-Amerlr can Federation of Labor asking that a strong protest be formulated to the Government of Peru against a so-, called Conscription of Labor Law now in force, by which workmen are compelled to work twelve days each year without any remuneration or wages whatsoever...
...Hammersmith was like a sign i* thd heavens tor them, aad thay knew haw Hammersmith had been won...
...The Utty-odi' delegates to the convention represented only about four thousand teachers...
...Is urgent...
...n ta New Tork elty dnds workers in *great solid phalanx «f solidarity...
...The conference sent out* a call to all allied and sympathetic labor organisations for a large conference to be held, at the Forward Hall...
...Socialism la any .one nation la not an automatic guarantee against imperiautm...
...problem is not simple...
...paper and speaker haa pulled th* deadly paralial on Mr...
...Motion by substituting "tJumlnum" far "farm products" and -custom duty" tor "equalization tee'' la hi* new famous letter...
...Tbr business will be resumed SunAy, wnen candidates will he aomiM*ad...
...A demand has also arisen for new blood among the officials...
...League circles and ether bona Ade lapor organisations are invited to send two delegates...
...Wber# question tint* • came there were none about "th* betrayal," "the treachery," and so on...
...They might have .een scurrying hither and thither...
...That ertnelplA ha* been embodied ha a formal resolution by Senator gbipstead watch ought to be paobAd a* a live political issue, it will not solve *a problem*, it wm sat heap *U American capital at horn* it will simply mean that American capital takea it* awn risks instead of p*ssing them on ta th* shoulder* of ***** tn farm dad factory who bar* had ad interest in or reopoatiMlrty for the hvveetmeate...
...they discussed tb* futur* of their anions with *ppreh**ai*n:, Put tb*y thawed th* aame fin* tpirit...
...The federation has been taking serious stock of its accomplishments after a decade of existence...
...reiterating its stand for equal pay for' equal work, preparation and experience...
...f aplty which thay shewed whan thay e*mf oat: they w*r* pandering "over their experienc**: thay war* Jooktng mot* than ever to politico nod -tha Parti** maaury Party- I dajiet hnnw it that to the enpeneaceaf atbara...
...Artttro Ofbvapttti of the Ita**aa Chamber of...
...Socialist Party, Workmen's Circle...
...They were told the story- of th* negotiations and th* ¦trlke...
...while with tes other she erects a tariff wall taaJnst those goods...
...ho have d***^ ments made for them by sub-manu4ar* turers or contractors employing union operatives...
...International Ladies' Garment Worker*' Union BROTHERS and Sisters, Cloakmakers: Today is a holy day for- us as well as the entire labor movement...
...We must, therefore, go on to work for socialism at horn* la order to aid the maintenance of peace abroad...
...It was a beautiful, sunny day, and the land slept iij^peece...
...e e . In the** places there are few-*todoo4 there la no—eigne of dl*treat" It bidet itself in the heart* of the people, and only come* out when th* outer door la closed...
...CONFERENCE TO AID MINERS Socialist Party and Unions Call Meeting for Monday, July 12 APROVISIONAL conference of representatives of the United Hebrew Trades, Socialist Party, Workmen's Circle and Jewish Socialist Yerband was held last Monday...
...imperialism, for example...
...A lock-out...
...It is atither possible nor Indeed desirable !or > nation to keep all It's capital at k"B«- Shall we, therefore, say noth•hg can be done...
...Our employers must assume the responsibility of our earning a living...
...women, resting- from their Household work, chatted at their .dears, and.waved a. teutdkertsrfcf w an aprtw at tt* as-s-e* passed...
...The world *J economically interdependent...
...New'seams have been tapped, and it stood thla afternoon In the shadow of th* hills Ilk* a strong man watting the order to work...
...They must Increase their trade union strength in order to be more than voices crying in the wilderness...
...The dignified and pathetic ap- ' •eel,- for Instance, of the Druse chief - fain leading the rebellion tof the Syrians against the French has fallen » deaf ears...
...YIPSELS RAISE $200 AT GENERAL MEETING TO PROMOTE ACTIVITIES . One of the largest meetings of the greater city organisation of the Toung People's Socialist League was held last Saturday In the Debs Auditorium of the Rand School, 7 East llth Street, New Tork City...
...The organized teachers realise that tbe effectiveness of their numerous protests is' commensurate with their numbers...
...and to be on the skyline" that I might see the land beyond end breathe the air of freedom1...
...Richard T. Bly, ef the InetUuts for Research-i» Land Economics and Public Utilities, who is suspected (of catering- to the business Interests whe support hie organisation ; approving ef school lunch rooms under the control of the educational authorities instead of private con sessions ires...
...Above and bayoad *8 th*** tarings, w* ma*t war* far high wdfi...
...t^lprr .* rs4»l«eatJon*j read Stpart qjjl's admirable article on this Bob...
...The union demands thai the jobbers, controlling 75 per cent ef the annual production, explicitly recognize their responsibility to the'men...
...They knew they had neither appreciation par thank* far th* critics within th* gat...
...Thar* can be ao doubt that tha whole subsidy principle of which this bin was aa expression is saoaapsteaBy unsound...
...At this time of writing, June 10, 192C, the elections have not yet been held, but it Is expected that the field will be contested...
...Jobbers ignored the union's Invitation for a conference to discuss a new contract...
...In 1124-26 the average farm operator...
...youths passed leisurely on bicycles, eatYylug bunches, of bide belts and rhododendrons...
...The wholesale censure of militarism had to be modified...
...The resolution was sent back for rewording to...
...We are the producers In the industry...
...condemning the acceptance by labor educational enterprises ot money from individuals, groups or foundations not in sympathy with the aims and aspirations of the organised labor movement...
...rafood a*w> fiV saoa b*arty aaasma tnag ta* pajaa *c rSdiaPHtstts war*** awJjhJBt M> ***» *jpw*wJ^tt*a^pas* % e*^*4ft*aaw9*S tS^ssamV *^w^^ tBbm what ^Tartaa...
...In scores of mass nreettoSB ihro«*h> oat the city tbe strikers are meeting and cheering addresses by their leaders, urging them to stand last fee victory...
...But th* miner's wife win b* the last to give In...
...and women operating the machines and . cutting the garments, hi tbe contractors' shops...
...With one saad America demands the payment »f debts, public and private, which can ssdjr be paid with goods...
...What is even more significant is that the firm agrees to give up its long-standing practice of having its work done by contractors...
...whtah wtli eat dawn th* excess profit* ed -an...
...iioMias meetings at earners, singing songs ef defiance, tearing up every htiauftous regulation isasaod under the Proclamation • to defy law "¦ and order -shd'ssak* civil strife almost Inevitable...
...a e...
...The objective of this conference is to organise a drive' for funds, etc., to aid the British miners, and to demonstrate in the most effective manner the solidarity -ef Amertoan -Labor with their 3rtUe-rtM««*Bers-^^ —¦—I A Day With the Miners Impressions of a Days Visit Through the" Mining Towns of Britain Now Held in the Grip of the Great Strike By J. Ramsay' Macdonald I1AVE Just returned from a bur^rled visit to a mining, district, where I spent an afternoon with the people...
...With this foreign tssjstiin in goes the struggle for mardies and trade...
...Irrespective of sex of teachers or pupils...
...Over one hundred and fifty members of the Senior organisation attended...
...dreda of def*ate and win In the end waa better dhowa by th* demeanor of that Sabbath calm than by roistering fuss that spent Ittelf In Its Own demonstration...
...Jsly 12, at Sp...
...As the speakers at Eat L. I. D. Conference' pointed out, it at.not a simple struggle...
...ui_ll_L II j ' wisiit * ^^^B7^Jp^^^^^38*j^j^^»1 Htvda ^"^6w^Sn^^srve^|Sfe ploy ere mast in return aeskrewev it a comfortable living for us and] our dependents...
...delermlniUlea- to win.** He urged the- garment workers te» h« loyal to their leaden, susd andsdr "Co'int on me to assist ytm-tn every way possible.'" ' Other Uriteas •»**#»"™ The speaker*, representing the <90*kfng workers and fhe furriers' sislsh gfa sored the rlswrm iters at Ammtim** TIMELY TOPIC *0y Nonnan Thomas fWJpK radical movement as a whole— * If the L. I. D. Conference at Camp' •pTamiment was any sample—can fr be accused of refusing to face plezltles of the problems beTher busk of our dlscgasion was if not realistic...
...referring the study of the feasibility «f the family allowance to the Executive Board...
...East Broadway, on . Monday evening...
...president, of tbe Amalgamated" Clothing Workers...
...New Tork city...
...m. at Finnish Han, J27th street •#1 Fifth avenue...
...or, better yet,* get hold wert Lhinn's book, "American Ferris* investments...
...GREEN GETS APPEAL TO AH) PERU LABOR FACING CONSCRIPTION p, WASHINGTON...
...And this Included the value of food, fn*l sad shelter supplied by Of* farm...
...Children were fashing/ about the roads In the villages...
...anas, aad whan tkaa* little tamf* showed Left tendencies and Interrupted they isnlisd kJwaly ehastl*tm«nt which, Uke ta* ganeran atjare...
...Lower New Tork City presented an inspiring picture Thursday morning, when the 40,000 men and women of a dbsen different nationalities put down their tools or stopped their machines and marched to the halls in icspoDSO to the strike call There was real Joy m a battle for a great and Juat.cause, The strikers formed themselves into orderly fee*' cessions sad paraded to their hnli...
...ss|'*a the New Tork Times of Sun&June 17...
...The Justice is on our Side...
...Capital had bean put, Into it, now plant aad buildings had appeared: there is a hard massive appearance In Its new form...
...n. All trade union locals...
...for it is not primarily one of union labor against employer* for better wages and wbHOBg cimdrttsw* bpc mainly against the Jobber*, whe eniptoy no labor directly, but...
...Brothers and sisters, your struggle 1* greeted by sll tbe members of our International, and the attention of the whole labor movement is now concentrated upon your struggle...
...see J Away up in the last of the villages, perched on a slop* where the side*-of th* valley com* together end the green mountain barrier rises from the and of th* streets, th* d*y*o work ended...
...The need for active organization work, with organisers out in the field, planting new locals and nurturing them during* their period of acquiring experience...
...Benjamin Goodman, Executive Secretary...
...And, lastly, re-afarming its stand for* Federal Department ot Education with guarantees against possible control for purposes of propaganda of leeai education by the central satheriUes The convention has two more days or Ufa...
...They wanted information: thay repeated tbo vtotimiaatton that was going op...
...the woman war* partlaoJaply Spa...
...Behind them all ire the same forces...
...M per cent...
...Paced with fact* like the**,It 1* useless to think that the defeat of the Haugan Bill will end discontent among ths farmer...
...With united forces, wfth courage and enthusiasm, our strike will be crowned with victory...
...v^^^^^^^a^n^*.*-m^^^^j Indulged in c org ecu* vision* of what they would do if thee* "bodies" would com* within reach...
...Meanwhile "tniBjiken dollars now encircle tils, fjhjhf* !><1h>ilfnr the war debts...
...bat that u certainly mine...
...This is not the first time in the history of our union that our employers have forced ns into an open war against them...
...owning «i*a* aad crest* a healthy demand for American good* at homeUnder capitalism thla program cannot go very far...
...thay were sorry that the general strike Old not bring sack th* miner* ta work...
...There were more people on the roads than usual, and they were dressed apparently m their Sunday beat...
...Twenty thousand cloak and suit workers In Madison Square Garden, Tuesday evoniag applauded every declaration by speakers of the necessity tor a general strike to eliminate outstanding evils in the Jndjutry, *nd unanimously adopted- a resolution authorizing the Joint board of the oAoers of the International Ladles' Garment Workers' Union to can a strike...
...up with the : Slow rhythm of sacred melody...
...Thay aat ta thatr aeat sown*, many df them with infant* In tha...
...The most Inspiring Incident of the meeting was when Executive Secretary Goodman made si plea for financial assistance, to the City League...
...Mara than oa...
...Meijoo, to lecture tb* fanners on th* evils of subsidy is fust about the hurt word ta hypocritical at* frantdry...
...The greetings were happy and "genial—even more than usual, we thought...
...The entire tndssdf J of the city and vicinity Is at a standstill, til* strike call having...
...Bolivia, etc., down to'an actual, protectorate in Haiti, to sty nothing of our colonial government In the .Philippines...
...June JC, In the...
...The Issues of this struggle are clear te »iJL of us, -MS wfB eat -far&Jrmrldv <r*«w*^d)emwnehi'frr*g»t igft fciillbsiiB kit...
...I fsjk this new realism far more hopeSt than the old romanticism, provided eg remember that, because a problem gpdHBcult and complex and we have SSi patent medicine warranted to cure s>«hree doses, we do not necessarily isnmte sit down with folded hands and s|ttfor inevitable catastrophe...
...It is tbe result ot thirteen years* of persistent organisation work...
...Neckwear Makers' Union ha* captured one of the largest non-union shops In the industry, that of the Altman Neckwear Company, of Broadway and Thirteenth street...
...The 'particular political accompaniments of American ssonomic imperialism .vary from polite sressiire by the bankers on a country like Trance,- through the Dawes Plan in Henaany, the collection of customs by American experts In...
...They had hard time* before the trouble...
...Within fifteen minutes more than $200 were collected in cash and pledges...
...A play will be Tp*en...
...second «**¦ s* tfr* «Mt at the «,»»* ladies' nmtwt work...
...see Th* folk* crowded the hall* to suffocation...
...TEACHERS MEET TO CONSIDER PROBLEMS By Laborite WHEN John P. Coughlln, secretary of the Central Trades and Labor Council of Greater New Tork, told the tenth annual convention ot the American Federation ot Teacher* on June 29, 1928, that "teachers are'as Intelligent as bricklayers or house wreckers," he must have been expressing a pious wish, rather than an observation...
...They are hill folk up there who can dance and etng with lithe limbs and sweet voice* We sat down by their fireside, and they talked to us and gave us tea...
...W* can refuse to let tbe rubber 2^*»t« betray our honor and plighted to grant independence to the Philippines for the sake of rubber concession...
...They are careful folks like tb* best types ef our own Scottish people...
...Personally...
...And then a look of sadness changed their faces, for they know better than anyone what all thl* means...
...aad hew other Hammersmith* were to be won...
...Wit when we come to the question : •sat shall we do about imperialism...
...team answered...
...the' bilhddes were dotted .with wanderers— black spots upon the' green...
...I do not believe thst in operation It would baa* satisfled th* farmers...
...Whatever elae may be necessary far th* farmers, it ta certain fhat they ought to begin a drive against the present tariff law...
...Including tenants with owners, earned $104 by hia labor...
...The feeling has -been'growing that little will be^accomplisbed until more full-time official positions can be established...
...in a regular convention to adopt a platform and hotnlnate candidates for the coming ¦hue elections...
...Speakers at the meeting concentrated their attacks on the Jobbers, who, they asserted, continued to evade their responsibility to the industry generally and to the employe* In particular, it was asserted In the resolution that»the...
...This struggle we are now entering has been forced upon us by the lords of our industry who refuse te carry the responsibility of the condition* that we have to work under...
...That good employers' organisation, the National Conference In^uttriai Board, tells ua that th* farmers, with 19 par Cent of ths population, bad ta Itto only it per cant of th* wealth...
...The address of John Nevln Sayre of the Fellowship of-*eooncillatlon on the subject spurred on the delegates...
...Frays* read avtelegram front President William Green of%m I mm Icaa Federation of Labor, who said that if a peaceful settlement cssjld not be obtained and a" strike was unavoidable he hoped the struggle wo aid be entered hate *w1ththe epfrR: of solidarity and...
...Dancing will follow...
...They put a •peUee* cloth on fh* table, and th* moat comely and cheery of young miners' wives gav* ue hOOprtality...
...Where there were gardens, men were working in them, digging, hoeing, examining, and the smoke of pipes rose leisurely through the still air...
...Rather was it tike those afternoons the dream of which has sustained many a faithful aoul In the fight for Socialism when each peace will be our Inheritance...
...But for nil the subsidised manufacturers, led by Mr...
...The strike is unique in labor aanais...
...c NECKWEAR WORKERS WIN LARGE NON-UNION SHOP The...
...In fact, tbe whole valley had a Sunday feeling about It, and the songs of the birds from the trees that fringed the river far .below us came...
...We talk ho longer * liberty, but of law and order...
...SIGMAN ISSUES STRIKE CALL "The Spirit of 1910 Will Now Lead Us to Victory," says President Sigman By Morris Sigman Pres...
...This was especially evident in the discussion on the resolution condemning military training...
...Sidney H1B>' man...
...About 7S delegates *^» expected.: Saturday nigbt the delePt«s will be tendered a. dinner and relation in Finnish Hall...
...The door* and window* were open *o that thoae"who could not get in might hear...
...The sessions will open Saturday at...
...My feet yearned to mount the' green hfllsidea...
...The workers receive an increase in wages of ten 'per cent...
...Tbe convention is considering these problems...
Vol. 3 • July 1926 • No. 25
