THE CLOAKMAKERS' FIGHT
GOTTESMAN, EDMOND
The Cloakmakers'Fight Edmond Gottesman Secretory, Nttk*tar Maker*' Uniitn Th* late Lord Northcliffe, owner of •dm* of the greatest newspapers of England, on his return from a visit to the...
...A main street straggles down hill from ope scab section, through, the little business: district, ¦¦ across the - railroad track, and up the hill to the other drab scab section...
...ISP hkve n**t is worth much move...
...The only thing that*can be said with accuracy is that Russia 1* not es had •ff swoejotiyrsnr as soma paint bar or as healthful ecVscrsieslly as Cantmunlsts Insist...
...1 Weodworth denounces thsj two sases parties as incapable of mooting IMS problems that face- the workers ef Cede...
...This -should make tho cloakmaker* All th* morh determined, for their fight is A Just...
...that they can, hop* tor much more through .th* si-" tivtues of men who know the needs At Labor and who are directly responsible to Leber...
...sorely the time has come torLabon to eeoxae...
...Who wag dropped from the party last year because of bis aOegsd Irregular deals with Julius Banragt the fallen financial "geeUis," has proved has htaocenc* and been festered to ntentbArLABOR MEN FORM GROUP TO TOUR RUSSIA Locomotive Engta**™' Editor Announce* Plan for Invftstigatjiig , Comnxistion . CLKViLANO...
...Do not wait for' the other fellow 1st make the first mare...
...Welfare work," the union men declare, "visiting miners' homes and telling their women to keep- the men away from the union...
...J (Weaver interests of Philadelphia) is where the fight Is on...
...One Protestant minister,, while proclaiming neutrality, complains that union organisers "preach class hate...
...Russia, certainty has net established Communism, which 1* the ah* of tho Bolsheviks...
...resent the ,«nn* |sftfts "tjf this country...
...and win alio make possible *•*#• liable statement on the mueh disputed position of the mass of working people in both Italy and Russia...
...Labor is being given another chance to send representatives to Ottawa...
...Some 7,08° people live in the great circular hollow and up the hillsides forming It...
...poverty and misery...
...editor...
...Would another Northcliffe in th* face of outbreaks of the Passaic textile workers, the Furrjers, Miners, Capmakers, the In terborough subway porkers arid th* Cl*ak Makers, Involving hundred* of thousands of workers, striking for months, call these worker* decile people...
...Bend" us rrraforcrmrat...
...In Saxony the strife between the twenty-three Socialist members of'the Diet, who insisted upon standing by the coalition Cabinet, headed by one of their number, despite the demands of the' big majority of the party membership for the dissolution of the tog* lslature and new elections, and the National executive Committee, baa resulted in an, open break...
...Effects of this minister's efforts te teach' "brotherly love" show in his children.' 6ne son fold tales against union children and echoed his father's denunciations of Catholic Influence...
...In -other words, while this country bag th* most efficient army of workers who produce the greatest income and wealth, they that toll to produce it do not reeelve enough to live in decency, tho result is rebellion and strikes...
...The American press subsidised by the bankers, stockholders, manufacturers and the rest of the category of big business is barking day in and...
...It to tf**y that w* bar* not the finances of th* opt...
...They threaten to run candidates of their own in the next Diet elections, but the eighteen regular Socialists in the SAxon legislature, "hacked by the national cdRce, are working hard te hold the rank and file in Una, with good prospects of success...
...every renew* to betteve that tho oloakmakor of tdday is as conscious of Ms plight as th* ejedkmakers ta th* past have been...
...and Wales, Scenes of Labor Struggles By Esther Lowell NANTY-QLO...
...Through the Labor Party the union is strong politically...
...Their .children run in rata...
...In addition to first-hand* personal ..observation, the commission will also take along a staff of expert economists under the direction of W. Jen Lauek, long regarded as the gbleet labor economist in the country by the railroad brotherhoods, the United Mine Workers and other great International unions...
...ThovW^hdur rweAfc...
...While NantyGlo In Wales is struck soUdly With the British, Miners'- Federation's fight for life, Nanty-Glo...
...are allowed the...
...There is...
...Their hardships, are...
...Frank P. Walsh, former Joint chairman with ex-President Tsft...
...And they have embittered the life of Nanty-Glo...
...Tet when another election comes Around the very same politicians dish out the same stuff of their friendship to th* underdog, we forget or are indifferent to hi* record and re-elect him...
...Ousts,* Bauer, one-time Socialist Chancellor of Germany...
...The Cloakmakers'Fight Edmond Gottesman Secretory, Nttk*tar Maker*' Uniitn Th* late Lord Northcliffe, owner of •dm* of the greatest newspapers of England, on his return from a visit to the United States, describing His Impressions of th* American people said that they .are a docile people...
...The combined reactionary groups, labeled "Black-White-Red," managed to hold their thirteen aldermen, the Economic Party rose from two to three, and the Crippled Soldiers* Group won a seat...
...TBS Qpeea.tors, breaking their union contract, promised'the men a year's work it they took the 1917 scale instead Of Jacksonville...
...These figures are unOtniAble...
...Seoute Join Fight "Scabs...
...Sam has a new addition en his company-owned House...
...burn deep...
...Heisley, - No...
...believes that the crostitutiii drawn up sixty years sgo, is xol adapted* to modern times, and sasfit und*rgc marked alteratlona...
...The announcement that a commission of the most reputable and responsible labor executivee-ef this country expects to visit Russia puts completely to rest the fears of the execu...
...i. 8. Weeds* worth, tho Labor mombu from Wsw nipef...
...Plenty of these parasites and company spotters spy on the union men constantly...
...corporation in* «la*s solidarity among th* manufacturers ta d«f«nt sad* break th* ciodfessaa;***- strike...
...There was a long hard strike, though the mine had been shut for months...
...Ton hagjs your union, you arc 4* army ftgming for hum»n rights...
...The eleakmsJcsrs.ar* VaUant raterAna >t ataxy a battle...
...They got the year's work,, itot always full time, and less than half the normal working force...
...The twenty-three recalcitrants bar* been expelled from their local groups aad have organised a dissident body Which they call.the "Old Social Democratic Party of Saxony...
...But Sam goes around with "pussy focts" accompanying him...
...A dosen eshsr men under existing circumsfauioor could fore* through the legtskuton Car which Labor ha* been pleading Sky th* last twenty years...
...points out the necessity of feeV modiste organisation and preparstwk for the coatost...
...He believes the operators' story that there is "plenty of work at #< and 18 a day for nonunion miners...
...and lea* tor a 7-day week, the cloak makers' weekly average is about $22...
...I suspect that Lord Northcliff* got his impression from observing the indifference with which we react to our politicians, who before election shout Of their great love and deep concern fer th* working man and after elseHon vote* against every attempt to pass legislation to restrict our judge* from breaking strikes by injunctions, for tho eight-hour day, to prohibit child labor, for old age pension or for th* relief of the housing problem te bftiid from public funds homes to provide the poor wifh decent rooms for a low rent...
...definite in* us trial organisation FMIS ha* certain definite objects in new...
...GERMAN SOCIALISTS GAIN IN BOCHUM Another proof of the steady advance of the- German Social Democracy is found in the result of the municipal elections of June IS in Greater Bochum, Where the Socialist vote rose, in spite of the fact that only about fS percent, of the electorate went to the polls, and the number of Socialist aldermen jumped from 'seven to fourteen...
...Spa*ping of the need ef warkfeeT class representation at Ottawa, We*e> worth says: "Farmers end Labor men in erefr coXsUteency ought to lose no tisse U) ¦ canvassing the sitaatlen and in ceiling nominating conventions ee that there may be placed la tho field at an early ajAX* m*n who will really rep...
...should be easy to show labor men ran* they have little to expect from either of the two Old parties...
...cries one four-year-old boj[ to another...
...able amenfit of support...
...Locomotive Engineers journal, releases the following announcement: "To end the dearth of accurate information concerning labor conditions in Fascist Italy and Soviet Russia by securing first-hand facta about labor conditions in those countries as weir as throughout Europe generally, a select group of the leading labor "executives of the United States expect to lea*-e this country the last of August for a two-months' tour covering the chief industrial centers of Europe...
...It Is now a well known fact that the Passaic textile worker* average ill-Ill a week, the subway workers J St...
...aperients ***** tiwt trdyhi** 4h' CANADIAN LABOR FACES NEW ELECTION Labor M. P. Urosjt Prsy aratioo for New Can...
...Nanty-Glo is Welsh' for Coal Brook...
...He does "outside work" at the scab mine, his wife says...
...Rail Heed Chairmen "While further information concerning the detailed plans of the party will not be announced until the middle of Jdly, it was learned that the chairman-of-the group will be the president of on* of the big railroad brotherhoods and that th» remaining members will consist of prominent grand officers of at least two other transports tloa brotherhoods and leading international unions both inside and Outside of the American Federation of Labor...
...He cites the coal operators' figures of what the unktn pays these organisers...
...Sam Chilton, leader of the, scabs, is the most bitterly assailed man here...
...and Springfield (Peale Interests)— are union, working two or three days a week.' Lincoln mine is shut down after vain efforts to operate nonunion...
...The wealth of our country is over 400 billions, our annual profit is over «o billion dollar*, we have more than half of the world's gold and we have been paying out hundreds of millions In dividends and extra dividends to stockholders...
...toilers...
...Her union neighbors' taunts of "Scab...
...Despite his former position as head of the local union, he calls John L. Lewis "an I. W. W.—a Russian communist bolshevik...
...Pa., is cut through with a bitter division—mostly union, but part scab...
...I'm all alone now— my old friends won't sjeak—except to slur n...
...While the labor leaders concerned arc undertaking this important mission personally and riot as an official delegation, their mission to Europe assumes unusual significance because of the fact that it will break down the isolation that has separated the principal labor grcnprnyf the- two cosrthicnie sinos^hA war...
...The present mission, it is pointed out, claims no official American Federation of Labor status, sine* it is composed of labor executives connected both with the railroad brotherhoods and the A F. of L. Moreover, state* the labor leaders conoeraed are max"^ ing the trip on their own private initiative, their plans are not property a 'matter of concern to the A St of I*" ' It is net lately that this dolopnUo* will give any more satisfaction in ft* report on Russia than any of the other numerous dsiegatioas hare given...
...The operators hint that they might give another year's work if the men take' the 1914 scale, which is less than half the .Jacksonville rates...
...Only a docile people could behove thus...
...We tto not need them...
...NANTY-QLO...
...in Pennsylvania, is a town divided...
...A. F. L. Men to Join "Prominent executives of large international unions affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, it was learned today, stats that their plans to secure reliable information concerning conditions in Russia in no Wise conflict with the refusal of the last American Federation of Labor convention to send an official delegation to Russia a£ the expense of the federation...
...He and his sons have new autos and an expensive police pup...
...The odds are not so favorable elsewhere—the union proportion of Nanty-Glo shifting to a non-union balance when the entire industry is surveyed...
...Th* C(**km*kers' Strike The cloahmakers are now engaged la a struggle with a mast unscrupulous vulture class of manufacturer*, that hire gunmen to shoot and stab the strikers...
...day out that ours is the wealthiest, the most prosperous country in the world, which is true...
...They are bitterly disappointed that work in the mines is unsteady, hazardous and poorly paid, despite company promises...
...Welch is the miners' executive . board member and strikeleader...
...There is unanimity - of poTBdsa...
...as great as ever...
...That Implies that we are an easily managed people, accept conditions as they are and acquiesce with a Hindu resignation to our fate...
...Nanty-Glo is one of the largest coal towns in Central Pennsylvania...
...But the heart of the town is union...
...Formerly Nimmo held forth in various pulpits when regular pastors were absent...
...Still the operators can't .keep their scab mines going...
...Because the union miners don't favor his own bone-dry taste, because they like Sunday baseball, and because they held their labor chautauqua across the street, the distraught parson can't ate the miners' real .problems...
...A young American woman raking her garden weeps...
...tive council of the American Federation of Labor, expressed at their last meeting, that radicals in the employ of the soviet government might endeavor to stampede American labor and support a 'whitewashing committee' from this country...
...Other non-union men's w^ves are hardened and do not feel the soeial pressure so keenly...
...an ineroAa* in WAge* and a guarantee fof a mmimttm annual l»o**»e exutt ha gr*pt*d and tftt MM*, th* anttrasaqkM mad* reejponatble for thox* -cofsaiueeis...
...The past year has demonstrated the poser which a small Independent group AtCfttawa can exercise...
...the Democrats fell from two td none, and the Centrists front eighteen to fifteen...
...But he is wgfe enough 7net fro recognise a certain say - preacher, named William Nimma, who works around the mines...
...Now they get at best only three days' work a week...
...Nanty-glo, Penna...
...tost — Farmers Join with City Workers * Tr ¦ ~ -± KS dieeeluUpn of the Cene^jasf Parliani*at brings the worknxr and farmers up against another general election soon...
...More guards than scabs—240 company thugs to less than 100 nonunion workers—were, used by Heisley at« first Local union men were arrested and WrerresCeo'/ .The former president of *JM>< local ^riiffl company agent, dragging some union men with hitn...
...Boy Scouts, 'like their fathers' fraternal orders, feel the union fight Organisations become wholly union or all scab...
...Tho cloak manufacturers have accumulated richer from the industry and now are pains...
...It elected a town burgess and other officials, including William Welch, to the schoel board...
...but hew doe* this stupendous production of wealth compare with the glaring figures of low wage* received by the great masses of the toilers...
...of the United States War Labor Board, will also accompany the party as expert adviser ox legal and political affairs...
...ada...
...The New Leader believes, although It* report win be awaited with considerable curiosity by many interested poopie...
...parties...
...and so along*" the line according to reliable statistics the weekly average of the American working men is near th* $20 mark, admitted by an hon**t economists to be below th* n*c***ary standard to support a family...
...Sooner than we expect...
...Churches si* disrupted...
...The American town is a small-scale picture of the whole soft coal Industry of the country...
...Every selfrespecting aad class coxsclotts working man should by organised means compel the manufacturers to guarantee a wage that is compatible with a decent standard of living...
...Southern tenant fanners and backward mountain men as .well as unemployed miners from other sections of Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia wandered In—and out—2,000 scabs coming -and going in one year...
...Ton can change these conditions...
...on*)SiX» oiil JOS-tflo Two .'Wines Unl onffcd Two of the town's fair mines— Webster (Pennsylvania CoVl ds Coke Co...
...The workers of this country cannot remain longer docH...
...She has lived here 12 years...
...ALBERT F. COTLK...
...Thus far they fought with admirable valor and won...
...T/h* osaploylnt class have boarded up rtcnec tyre in comforts and luxury, while tit* producers, th...
...their Ingenuity and business acumen to erode responsibility tor a Bring wage aad sanitary conditions by creating sub-manufacturer* had the sweat Shop...
...crumb* to live in...
...The Communists lost four aldermen, bringing their total down to nine...
...t A War* of Unrest However, in the last few months -w# are witnessing a steady wave of unrest and discontent manifesting Itself in strikes and hitter struggles for higher wages, shorter hours and a guarantee' for a minimum annual income...
...The Labor Party In ypnr district may not bo strongly, organised, but once n candidate is **« lected there would he * very consider...
...It-IS Agr**t object Justice is on your Sid*, th* Labor Movement is with you, and a big success and great victory will be the outcome of your fight...
Vol. 3 • July 1926 • No. 27
