I. R. T.'S DESPERATE MOVE BELIES CLAIM STRIKE IS OVER
I. . R. T.'s Desperate Move Belies Claim Strike Is Over MOVE TO TRICK MEN TO PARLEY FAILS Inter borought Vice-Pre ident Waits Until I A. M. to See Union Leaders In spite of toe protestations...
...Sat then...
...CHICAOO—All the latest chemical devices for dispersing strike meetings, making labor and other halls eaftor habitable and putting police departments and state troopers at the service of the employers were enthusiastically- demonstrated at the exhibitions of the **d annual, convention...
...hsM to Chicago July It to x...
...The spirit of the men is admirably high, and all are most devoutly and enthuaiastlcally supporting their chosen leader...
...It offers its Exlle-X chemical to make "sore that the same den will not be used for meeting or living quarters for1 n long time, probably one month.1*' This company uses an ex-army officer to train state constabularies and pejtM forces In the use of the gases...
...Much time was devoted to traffic regulation, much to crime, detection and much to Having a general good time during the four days...
...Sig man Declares Mors *, mdeagndent ' manufacfnx«jg§| have capitulated to the terms of tfcjfl srrthtog cjoakmakers and made oeenfl teeing a forty-honr week, a itmmfH of thirty-six weeks work per year, M: 10 per cent increase in wages and angS Hation of contractors...
...D, will address what is expected to be the largest turnout, of Pullman porters and maids over seen in New York...
...They are as dates -. mined as the wariest ¦ to make **> strike 100 per cent effective, rsiHsssg, they deetore, that unless the wirbssa are assured decent conditions in «fcs> j industry they thimsitoes oannet mm vivo...
...The organisation is more firmly entrenched and mightier today than at any time during its history...
...a small Negro newspaper, published . weekly In Chicago, the city in which the Pullman Company %as Us headquarters and from whence its workers are "paid off...
...had- called up the I.R.T...
...A Isweenal Bmu» Xor Harry Bark...
...headquarters at 185 Broadway t* hold * WU— with Keegan...
...in Its many forma is used also against bandits, lynchers (sometimes) end the like, but each exhibitor'- specifically' mentioned its antl-labor uses, either In bis talk or in his literature...
...general manager...
...Loader,, August Paude...
...International Asaooiatian -of Chiefs of Pol toe...
...In receptacles that break automatically when a vault or room is broken into, in autos for carrying money, etc...
...To use the ointment you simply SQueese out a little from the tube, thoroughly rub in to cover the entire eyeball and after a minute you can enter any tear gas without exereme pain or effect, the Lake Erieltes guarantee...
...JjfcjLfcen" —ml leiiim 1.....i > fcon' fereice...
...Bring your pup tents and bathing suits along...
...The Federal people,' however, refuse to cheapen the effectiveness of their output and claim that no antidots can be found for it...
...The propoallliiH lima imi fcji to the ¦trUter* who weco In oaaitnii Should the leaden jbe awpuwated to go .down to the T.R.T...
...Today the oontractors ace esgv...
...The medium being used in this instance Is the EnterpAae...
...Sis address wag well received and big aearers showed their keen interest in the subject by asking numerous questions fct the close of the address...
...Leule Borne, properly upon the' letter's arrival in New York harbor...
...Thus the Lane Brie Chemical Co...
...offleee denied any knowledge of such a conference So that was the trick...
...However, In this, as in all...
...He brings with him the good wishes of thousands of'his New York friends, who have missed his counsel owing to his Chicago activities, during the'last three years, and who have been delighted to learn that he has consented to come to the International Union Bank, where he can render such valuable service...
...1. The group will meet at tn% 129th street pier (on the Hud* son) at 9:15 a. m., and take the steamer Benjamin ' Odell to Sunset Park...
...Then came the version of the story from the Interborough...
...Within the test sixty days the Brotherhood has grown stronger by over MO new members...
...Meeting.place (tor those living In New York), Municipal building arch at entrance to Jamaica elevated trains...
...Benjamin Behleetnger, for many years president-of the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, has recently been elected first vine pi setdent of the International Union-BanX and win henceforth devote bis entire time developing its business, with the view of making it the...
...Friday night at St...
...The Lake Erie people very obligingly sell antidotes for their poisons in the shape- of Antl-Blind-X ointment at $2 a tube...
...who lets the Marines take care Of Haiti * OtwMaas«v«wtfQ||| IHM W*afe6P sM^# ThM^eatlag Itrst and freed police discuss gassing of strikers Chicago Convention Wattes Eloquent on Fighting of Labor With Bomb...
...Hsdtoy had reasjvstt him final «bMm«w4«bralra«k They did not M War Mm* tbeur Mtt mor» tnnU be...
...Tourist Club HikeS Sunday, Augt 1, we hike to Long Beach, where we camp among the sand dunea near Point Lookout...
...At the Other end of toe Wire wu TfcUgf Connelly, the lackey of th* Inierbnio'ugh vtho aeti «|nwWnit of the...
...The-strikers left the" hall more determined than ever to bring the company' to - terms...
...The Blind-XOaa fountain pen is the earns else,' shape and weight and looks like an orllnary red-lacquered fountain pen...
...Xh» men howled tU» proportion down...
...for Jebbera, who pley thsan TsbSk each other in orttor to snehsss wgajgal and costs...
...After the meeting, the Xntjarborough waa again reached on the taaapbone by the newspapernjjpr: At gh< (5*elock in the morning Km ueai wao atib at the ULT...
...depending' only upon tips, the Pullman Company,' it seems, has adopted a new manoeuver to achieve its end...
...I. . R. T.'s Desperate Move Belies Claim Strike Is Over MOVE TO TRICK MEN TO PARLEY FAILS Inter borought Vice-Pre ident Waits Until I A. M. to See Union Leaders In spite of toe protestations of «** Intsxborough that the strike Is not worrying It at awttonWaUlhaW belie its Mrt» *>s company ¦tin iaott»jfMWiHtjat .nba »w« •to uh......¦umir |% w*tota It jtnds It—If m*> sfsndoar1mkghV M *rtod to trft* the sa^o asu*^ jrerk by on* of ^to^Jb* night Mgf yg.j»^ Sjtrlfcs...
...v This transparent fraud dW not fool the strikers, -Ones mora did they realise that the company's word could not be relied upon unless a strong.union forced the I.R.T...
...Samuel O. .nirilsek.' president, and Charles M 8-nean—v former president of the tsnarlrsn CSskkjand Suit Manufacture!s* Assni lillagu and Louis Hyman, ehslrman of tkof General Strike Committee, end MasafcK Sigman, president of the IL...
...grab the man' and let the rest recover with leisure...
...Pullmah Co...
...of Cleveland tnetojdes "industrial plants" as proper users...
...Cosnpeny'e "sisterhood.'' Connelly asWanOn* Bark to come down to the MLT...
...They had been told that they would have to come back as individuals not as a 'committee representing the strikers...
...Tlili Tim......hai iinspisi s iiiiai tag of the conference ttouiilttsis e* the union and.of the American CJeahTi...
...Spreads False Stories of Spilt In Rank of New Unions Herring failed to enlist a single white newspaper in the country on its side and after using in vain a few Negro weeklies in its fight to keep 12,000 Pullman porters and maids in a continued condition of starvation wages, inhumanly long hours, and the manhood-sapping custom of...
...July it.—It took- less them five minutes tor brother, army officer* to accept the excuses of CoL James T. Watson in the court-martial for hiS failure to salute Haiti's Negro president...
...His subject waa "The Negro and Labor...
...But there the story does not end...
...Fare...
...This is probably the first time in the history of the country that a Negro leader ho* broadcasted an appeal in the interest of Negro workers...
...It ronow mends its BlindX-Blot gun as an "ideal weapon for defending...
...Walking time, about S hours...
...The conference was all oft...
...other attempts, the PuUmf* Company will fail...
...Interborough except through their united power...
...Word is being orodSpously circulated-in the various "slga out" quarters to the effect that "Randolph's Sleeping Car Porters are wrangling and fighting among themselves,", etc...
...Gas riot guns cost $60, i»ut extra charges for them only M. Tear gas can be thrown, pumped, electrically dlscradged, released by a trigger or with a fuse...
...at 11:45 that «W»-J ntng...
...BRONX FREE FELLOWESHIP WILL HOLD OUTING AT SUNSET PARK AUGUST 1 All comrades are cordially mvlte/t to Join the members and friends of the Bronx Free Fellowship in an outing to Sunset Park (on the Hudson> next Sunstey, Aug...
...In the*meantime biveetigatiob had been made of the source of the telephone message.' The I.R.T...
...It is said that In answering them Mr...
...The message j asofcsd too mqeh like a fraud...
...For those living In Brooklyn and On sane lams lea station, Long Intend MORE FIRMS SIGN WITH GARMENT STRIKERS Tieup, Except For Settlements, Con tinse Complete...
...The claim of some of the Jobbers that a considerable amount of> merchandise was being mane up at Brooklyn was definitely refuted by the representatives of both the usfton sxet' the sub-manufaeturera...
...It urges its DlspersersX Irritating gas and smoke against "strike mobs containing women and children...
...Poor Keegan...
...offices losing STeey...
...Wm« to take parkin, a conference.at lli4» that evening...
...Be waa living in false hopes...
...The' strike leaders, the company said...
...Make the leaders of the strikers report at the Inter borough offices...
...A. Philip Randolph, editor of the Messenger and general organiser of the Brotherhood of Sleeping...
...J "The workers of the Wstestsln Cor- j poration, one of the biggest, inside* shops in the New Tors market, which' settled with the onion yesterday, were the first to return to work, after they paraded the clonk district in buses, with a band, of music...
...Luke's Hall, 125 West 180th street, Randolph, together with Dr...
...Mankind are greater gainers by suffering as eh other to live as seems good to themselves than by compelling each to live as seswis good to the rest.—j...
...to live up to its promises...
...leading labor bank in New Torfe...
...and then claim they had come to beg for their Jobs...
...If Hedley was anxious to hear their inner sentiments, he had heard them...
...Round-trip tickets at fl are on sale at the Fellowship...
...and Butt Manufacturers' Association, the sub-manufacturers' body, stoofcf was taken of the present struts sltune^ tlon...
...The men had seen through his duplicity...
...If Hedley waa awif to break the mnrale of'the men, he had hia answer...
...Paul...
...All of which is not only untrue, but is also another evidence of the fact that the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters has jockeyed • the Pullman Company iifto a position where the latter recognizes that its only chance of escape from the ever-tightening stranglehold of the Brotherhood upon the so?-called Employee Representation Plan—company union—lies in spreading false rumors and suspicion, thereby causing dissension, among the members of the Brotherhood...
...It is put up net only in fountain pens and grenades, but inside police billies, in contrivances looking like fire extinguishers...
...time, 8:00 p. m., Saturday afternoon...
...The user," says the demonstrator, "can be handling this device and point it towards its victim without arousing suspicion that it is a weapon at all...
...etoe-presddent...
...They won't be permanently injured, but it hurts a let...
...Irt proof^ ho' let me sniff at a teargas cartridge, ylt had a severe burnIns/ smell like ammonia, intensely irritating to the nose and biting the upper Bp*like add, but the quantity mm small that in a minute or two the effect had disappeared...
...Sigman declares, "save tor the fiiaM, that are settling with the union aanp| continues as" complete ex before, •ere*' oral huge New York ctoax hoosee sxef up by this strike, we are .....smnti have made attempts, to open shops |sv ConneetigssV in* eome of thdad^^^ efforts, which have now bean abas* doned...
...1301 Boston road, and at Socialist Party head'qtiarter's...
...The strike leader wtt told that ITssgan would be waiting Car' Mm an nagM...
...They come in every imaginable form and are cenfparativety cheap...
...The effect of the rases., it says, are to blind and cause to eneese whomever it reaches, putting them in "such Intense pain that they lose all interest in external affairs...
...Local labor leaders, together with, prominent leaders of the Negro race, are elated over the speech...
...W. Qn The tie-up in the cloak toduatrjsK...
...white H, lasts...
...ns7 Boston road...
...Hand grenades cost t< apeice...
...baiiWrn—and to call in President Coolidge...
...Borho came to pay big respects to the real rulscs at his home, land—America...
...Once more was the truth brought home to them, that they could hope to get nothing, from the...
...Editor Randolph spoke on the same subject before the faculty and student body of the University of Minnesota...
...k^oeeond- Vete was taken...
...Industrial plants," etc...
...He had to act immediately 4*fahefbeconsequence*, He bit upon 4>W«ct- . aU glgfct •'dock the Mtflml -rang...
...Where they sometimes look like hand horns that were recently a novelty, in brief cases, valises and many ingenious devices for banks, prisons, factories, etc...
...the .hour crew later second thought began to take precedence...
...but without permanent Injury...
...sTB.T...
...This 'lime the officers were authort od to attend the conference at • 11:45...
...His many years of training as president of the International and manager of The Forward here and tor the last three, years in Chicago, should prove Of advantage, to the institution with which he has now become actively associated...
...Nature-ioviaaCnreleUuians who exp not members «r...
...R. R-, Long Beach, train pJatfornUt time 4:04 p. m...
...Comrade Schlesinger*s experience in the labor movement and commercial world and his wide acquaintance In New York augurs well for the suoeeoe of the work which he has undertaken...
...Saturday afternoon...
...At the ass)M thpe the 44,000 strfksrs gained' smuajffl from an unusual source, the AmeraaTjflj Cloak and Suit Manufacturers' AialSf who Joined forces with then* ¦gajfcssj* sisnnfscturers and Jobbers who refuse : to matfttaln union stands, da...
...Like the engineers, the firemen, the baggagemen, the Pullman conductors, and ike other workers in the transportation system of the nation, the Pullman porters are determined to maintain a union of, for, and by themselves to aid them In their effort to get a living wage, reasonable hours, and decent working conditions, as well as to secure civilised treatment from their employers...
...weteome ajt-fcU times...
...His representative inquired whether the strikers were on their way down...
...Perhaba the offer of^*4onfereftee was genuine...
...When ' you eee a cop handling a fountain pen shut your eyes quick...
...for the Brotherhood has long age established the first requisite to complete victory, via.: THE WILL TO WIN, which la already so deeply planted in the hearts of the porters that no amount of false rumors or lavishly spent money can now break the determination of these men...
...Who are tm% position to know the ratal facts...
...Knock Out a Whole Family" The exhibitor of another gas concern, the Federal Laboratories, Inc., of Pittsburg^", mentioned with pride the use of teas bombs against the textile srlksrs of Passaic He waxed eloquent "Why, ¦ you can knock out a* whole family, from father to baby, with one of our gas grenade*," he said, "then Walk In and...
...Perhaps ^tha Interfcorbngh waa^ready to surrender...
...Can Be Thrown or Pumped The pen costs $1S and extra shells tl each...
...Should fc* or anybody elee *o down to 1*8, the —m would soon be spread that, the •trtke laadara had aurrendered or ¦fcandbnejjtheir fJBowra...
...What a pack of lies...
...There oan be ao true prosperity ua* til the worker en as ordinary commodity een key what he makes-—Henry Ford...
...In ease of rain, tickets will be good for the following1 Sunday...
...Abraham Lefkowlts...
...Randolph proved himself to be one of the beet-eauipped and most-thoroughly informed Negroes In pubUc life to ARMY BTOMES TOLERANT FOR SPECIAL OCCASIONS NSW YOBK...
...and-requested a conference...
...The pen discharges by releasing a trigger with the thumb and instantly renders its victim helpless at a distance of 12 to 15 feet or less...
...Sdatts lsaday...
...Could anything be farther from the truth...
...That «w alL - Bar* conuaunicaUd with th» Grn«NX Strike gocnmlttee...
...Aside from the chemical exhibits, there was little of labor interest at the convention...
...It la fitted with a clip for carrying in the vest pocket...
...Bark went to, the phone...
...At g meeting of a conference niey^ mlttee of contractors and strikers ma*r eentractors voluntarily submitted information to the unionists iiisisTsgr" the few shops still epersting in- tan..' face of the strike...
...Natiafcity the tear gag...
...Car Porters, delivered an address over the radio station in St...
Vol. 3 • July 1926 • No. 29
