BREWERS UNION HITS SNAG IN DRY AMENDMENT; UNION FUNDS ANALYZED
Brewers Union Hits Snag In Dry Ameridmenil: Union Funds-Analyzed The Field of Labor THE twenty-fourth convention of the International Union of United Brewery, Flour, Cereal and' Soft Drink...
...Practically all the old officers were reelected without opposition: General secretary-treasurer...
...The present referendum calls attentldn to a condition that is characteristic of the needle trades' unions...
...The1 farmers are being made to believe that increased taxation win result...
...The unheard of speed cf 2,500 letters per minute, about five times faster than any long distance submarine cable of the old type...
...This is false since the scheme is being financed by a charge of two per cent on the insurance premiums paid by the employers...
...But in general there has been an increase .in the number of agreements covering whole unions, so thst on January 1, 1926, 86.7 per cent of the workers coming under wage agreements were under union agreements...
...Furthermore, there is no indication that deposits are confined to labor banks...
...John Rader...
...and tho Socialist Party formerly had two members of parliament and a certain amount of influence in the municipalities, but since tha establishment of the military government and the dissolution of parliament their position has boon very difficult...
...But emergencies do arise...
...Her chjefreason for refusal is the pressure exerted by Mussolini for the punishment of Italian refugees tn that country...
...The value of financial preparedness was then made clear...
...The Twenty-fourth Convention passed resolutions of condolences and then amended theNfonstltutlon to combine the three secretaryships into two...
...and their families are urged to become active in the ^political field In support of outspoken liberal candidates, irrespective of their political faith...
...We are Just wondering what would happen rf all the manufacturers of union made goods should insist upon the same privilege, even if not all at once, . and why the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, not affiliated with the A. F. of L., can get along without such circularising?—L...
...Vacirca cam* to America from Switzerland, where he had fled to escape assassination at the bands of the Black Shirts...
...Not only are the sums insignificant but they are employed in the wrong direction.—L...
...WAGE AGREEMENTS IN GERMANY DECLINE In comparison with 1922, the number of wage agreements In Germany has declined considerably...
...2,144,002.87 Industrial & other Bonds 3,137,672.75 ¦Bank Deposits...
...In certain other respects Luxemburg Is making decided progress...
...The Swiss are still paying for that farce...
...The law will be administered by a commission of three appointed by the governor, to consist of a lawyer, a representative of labor and another of capital...
...still they do not want any guests whom Mussolini may want to kidnap from their soil...
...The -Department of Labor had decided that it could not cause the deportation of an alien who had committed no offense In this country and who could not safely return to his own country...
...persecution had been successful...
...The vote In the Amalgamated is no exception to the rule...
...L. S. WHERE ARE THE UpNS' FUNIS...
...The "enormous funds" controlled by Organized labor take on deflniteness when a recent- tabulation of them by the American Federation of Labor is studied...
...when the clergyman of Ohio assisted in the escape of runaway slaves, despite the Fugitive Slave Law...
...Machines Throw More Telegraphers Out of Work CHICAGO...
...B. VACIRCAWINS RIGHT TO STAY U. S. Will Not Deport Socialist Into Clutches of Mussolini WASHINGTON...
...And recently, under Allied pressure, the trial of the murderer of the Soviet envoy, Varovsky...
...At the end of 1922 14,300.000 workers were covered by wage agreements, while at the end of 1924 the corresponding number was only 18,100,000...
...Politically, however, ths skies are dark, as a coalition government ramp, senting the reactionary parties has now succeeded tho democratic, gnu.....lent which came Into power tn is...
...general organizer, .Albert Kugler, and nine members of the General Executive Board and their substitutes, for the corresponding number of districts...
...general corresponding-financial secretary...
...In the long years of Massinl's struggle for Italian liberty his hiding places in Switzerland ware continually being raided by'kidnapers for his enemies...
...Special assessments follow...
...The decline in the number of agreements is principally due to (1) concentration In the centres of production, and (2) the trade slump...
...thp question: "Shall a »io keserV^* FuW Assessment be Levied...
...i The.Socialist Party and ths *ifyeu» trade union centre, which has two secretariats, one ia Lisbon for the south and another in Oporto for the north, find it advisable, therefore, to concentrate chiefly on educational and organizational work...
...Tho only good result of the present misfortunes seems to be a closer co-operation for the purposes of combined action be* tween the national centre Organizing the manual workers and the unions organizing non-manual workers and civil servants...
...The parties concluding the agreements are...
...The apprentice system was regulated in 16.5 per cent of the wage agreements concluded, in 1924...
...The board of review In the Federal Bureau of Immigration notified Vacirca'a counsel, Leo Russell, on September 27 that the ex-deputy's appeal based on his being a victim of Fascist...
...Miners' International Meets To Plan World Assistance To British Coal Strikers Labor Doings Abroad - At a assesses heldnt Lsazdon on J\ Bsgtssahsr 1* the Misers' 2atsnwxkmal passed the xbJkvwxng resolution:, /.'-•"• -That having regard to the reports local red from the various countries upon tha subject of tho - Importation of coal to Britain, the committee resolves to submit to the whole of the International minora* organisations ths consideration of taking intsrnational strike action in support ot the British miners, acid that a further meeting of tho committee bo held oh September 10...
...Is attainable over this circuit," City Superintendent Brown declares...
...They are also to be asked "If they are ready to quit .the Red International of Labor Unions," and reminded that "dissident organizations cannot be admitted into the Miners* International, nor can it permit affiliation to two internationals...
...only about 30,006 workers In ths Syndicalist trade union centre and about 10,000 In the Socialist, while the total number of unorganized workers is about 700,000, not including peasants, handcraftsmen and small tradesmen...
...when, in tho event of, the proposed negotiations for the settlement of the British dispute proving abortive, the committee shall immediately adopt such action, as will bo warranted upon reports.from the affiliated countries...
...He was safe only In -England...
...9,226,008.63 $35,897,727.36 ' It ia gratifyingly surprising to learn that only a small portion of union money goes "to'support big business directly, but than most institutions try to keep their funds In the safe, easily marketable government bonds...
...Mass.—One 'hundred* and fifty workers, union aad non-union, attending a mass meeting called *by Pur Workers Local SO, voted that a general strike be called in the Immediate . future...
...It has failed to reach the large number of unorganised workers in the mills and soft drink establishments because It does not know how to handle ths American, or at least non-German persons involved, who...
...He win not be departed, although he did not come here under the immigrant quota law, and although his permit to come ays a temporary visitor has thrice expired...
...The baWottirig is being carried out under authority granted the General Executive Board at the Seventh Biennial, Convention held at Montreal in May of this year...
...Then there Is also the religious question...
...There has been a corresponding decline In the number of local agreements...
...We have become accustomed to them- as the inevitable accompaniment oft...
...Tho meeting on September 30 te to be held at Ostend...
...Our mall brings us the September number of the "Union Label Advocate," official paper of the Central Union Label Council of Greater New -York...
...In all the larger towns labor schools have been established, which have both day and...
...Thus a reduction of dues in the ladies' garment industry In New York City was only a prelude to a twenty-dollar assessment...
...Tucked away is the business card and a circular letter of -a company manufacturing men's and young men's clothing that bears the label of the United Garment Workers of America...
...Besides Missouri, only six other states, all In the South, and only one of which Is Important industrially, have as yet no such protective legislation for workmen...
...Of the 11.900,000 workers officially registered on January 1. 1925, 10,660,000 (89.6 per cent) were working under district or national wage agreements...
...By its decision, the Federal Bureau of Immigration has shown Mussolini that his scheme of cancellation of citizenship of Italian liberals and radicals abroad cannot deprive them of personal, safety abroad...
...Vincenso Vacirca, former Socialist deputy in the Italian parliament, Whose Italian citizenship has been cancelled and property confiscated by royal decree at the order of Mussolini, had been granted refuge in the United Estates...
...It appears from the announcement of the Chicago division of the Western Union Telegraph Company...
...Joseph obergell...
...Although tho land workers, for instance, have a comparatively strong Syndicalist organization, they do not earn more than from 10 to IS escudds for a working day of le or 12 hours...
...Moreover, the trade unions...
...The need for replenishing the Reserve Fund is, therefore, urgent...
...The last Reserve Fund Assessment was voted in 1922 as a sequel to the famous lockout of 1920-21, which ate into the treasury to the extent of two million dollars...
...Besides tho British miners' strike, the London meeting also discussed the question of the admission of the Russian union and decided to remind the Russians to answer the questions addressed to them when they sent in their former application for admission...
...Thus, because the Swiss are embarrassed and because Vacirca has clearly asserted his right as a civilized human being to a refuge until he can return to his own country without fear of being murdered Tor his political views, the right of political asylum in America has been re-established—in this one case...
...The officers all urged the continuance of their political activities against prohibition...
...laid a heavy hand upon the union...
...A former international secretary of the union for nineteen years, but now a special representative of the United, States Brewers* Association in the "wet" campaign addressed the convention and promised to give his advice to the general .executive'board...
...And yet it has...
...The Missouri law has the support of labor and capital in the state and would have been placed on the statute books by the legislature in the first place, had not the lobbyists of the "damage suit" Jawyers and the short-sighted, reactionary employers interposed their objections...
...16,552,391.04 City, County and State Bonds ..............., 4,201.506.38 Canadian Bonds...
...8) the dismissal of many non-manual workers who were needed only during the inflation period, etc...
...f*S) the technical reconstruction of factories...
...To what extent do unions have a stake in the established order...
...The non-union men sgreed to coma Info the union...
...L. 8. LOW DUES AND HIGH ASSESSMENTS The membership or the Amalgamated Clothinf Workers will, before October 15, 1928, have completed their referendum vote on...
...In spite of Its .all inclusive title this organisation thrives only on beer...
...At the end of 1922 there were 10,768 agreements covering 890.237 concerns, and on January 1. 1925, only 7,999 agreements, covering 786,945 concerns...
...The decline In the number of workers covered by wage agreements is due to (1) large discharges of manual and non-manual workers In consequence of the use ot labor-saving machinery...
...the union label doctrines and practices of the official American labor movement...
...BOSTON PUR WORKERS r VOTE GHeAL STRIKE BOSTON...
...We find that close to thirtysix million dollars are in the hands of these unions, one quarter in trie form of real estate, somewhat more than a third In general funds and the remainder tied up almost entirely^ In benefit systems...
...Two-thirds oT~The national and international unions are included in the summary but none of their thirty thousand affiliated local unions, which would add - considerably to the total...
...Brewers Union Hits Snag In Dry Ameridmenil: Union Funds-Analyzed The Field of Labor THE twenty-fourth convention of the International Union of United Brewery, Flour, Cereal and' Soft Drink Worker* of America, Just concluded at Cincinnati, O., was one ions diatribe against the Eighteenth Amendment...
...But much hard work wrll have to be done before the- Portuguese worker is educated to labor polities and trade unionism...
...L. S. CIRCULARIZING FOR UNION LABELS We have heard of fair lists and unfair lists set up by organlspd labor...
...The minutes of the Council show that six local unions of as many crafts and the city central body have promised to forward these circulars...
...A comprehensive system of social insurance, covering an branches, ha* just come into operation, and there has b«m considerable success in tha sjootkm a| labor man'on many at tzm'htstarexaj fund centres sat up under tha spade...
...We have even seeYi editorial notices asking union members to patronize the goods of such and such a firm that has entered the columns of those friendly to trade unions...
...The writer's observation is that they are not...
...The following-table supplies the answer: United States Bonds...
...John P. Frey, President of the Ohio State Federation of Labor, for example, diplomatically related the" story of the "Underground railway...
...The' new Permalloy cable between New York and I^ondon Is smother triumph in eliminating human operators from the telegraph and cable service...
...An effective part of the campaign now being waged is the distribution far and wide of a map of the United States indicating in black the states that still do not have workmen's compensation laws...
...The Syndicalist unions are not greatly Interested in practical results, bat prefer to devote themselves to propaganda for revolution...
...Louts Napoleon on the one hand and the Austrian emperor on the other bullied the Swiss authorities to surrender him...
...M etal Insurance) Act, Tho »ahsf "SwaM in LujusaibniE has alas ssjpoiidid jp reducing tsessha 'taat cm small .Jgu cornea, and there te a prospect nf jB another victory, aa a bill to insure pels' holidays foe workers baa now passed its first reading...
...Death has...
...1 In the referendum vote at the November elections...
...American citizenship is compulsory upon members of the Brewery Workers' Union...
...The -voters are asked to remove Missouri as a black spot on the face of thlsyfalr country— and they will, if the kind of fallacious propaganda that defeated the child labor amendment does not seep, thru very deep...
...Switzerland will not take him back...
...have tap labor background at all...
...become a platitude to say that the trade unions through their own banks can affect the financial structure of American capitalism...
...Speaker after speaker reached the hearts of the delegates by voicing the hope and even the prediction that the Volstead law would go...
...One escudo is about 2d...
...The Russians must state if they "have decided to end their campaign of defamation against the trade union organizations of the different countries which now make up - the Miners' International...
...In the case of workers, only associations, while In the case of employers there are single firms ss well as organizations...
...Just what would be the language of the formal decision was not disclosed, but Its effect was that Vacirca waa free to remain in New York, where he is connected with the anti-Fascist newspaper, "Nuevo Mundo...
...A remnant of the aid days Is the motto at the head of tha official Journal: "Worklngmen of All Countries...
...8. COMPENSATION FOR MISSOURI WORKERS Missouri, having been *"shown," is to follow the lead of the other industrial states of the Union and will adopt a workmen's compensation law, that is, if propaganda does not Induce the voters to turn down Proposition No...
...The benefits to be paid will be the third highest In the United States...
...Ths strike demands are to ' include a 40hotrr week, equal distribution of work, and elimination of apprenticeship te thp shops...
...In the old denfocratlc style there Is no office of president...
...Efforts have been made In .the, past to raise wages by mesas of strikes, but this has only been successful in the case of quite smsR craft unions, such aa the tramway men's union, for 60 to' 70 percent of the rest of the workers are illiterate and quits indifferent to both politics and trade unionism...
...to the need of greater •ton-partisan political activities of our members...
...The question arises as to what is done with these assets...
...Being so-called "radical," "progressive," "democratic" organizations, they are addicted to low dues...
...Wages are accordingly low and working conditions very bad...
...11,136,150.69 Real Estate...
...Tou must not supply, the officers with big cigars at the expense of the rank and file is the theory...
...Of local Interest is the fact that John Sullivan of New Tork City was elected to represent the Second District...
...Portuguese Trade Unions Making Slow Headway Tha CParlugiisas trade union ssoeer mont, which has -nejt long been te existence, was at first of n syndicalist character, being entirely-guided by the principles of Rekiwiin For- that reason there are not even yet any* really useful arid comprehensive organizations...
...The International Tailoring Company strike of last year practically annihilated this sum...
...The workers of the little country are suffering from the fluctuations in the rate of exchange, with its usual effects in raising tho cost of living far beyond tho rises In wages which It Is possible to secure by hard trade union conflict...
...We cannot ascertain to what extent "other bonds" Includes those of labor banks, it cannot be much "since" the whole total, including "Industrial" amounts to only three millions...
...But seldom have we encountered such close cooperation as the one we are going to relate...
...His permit is renewed...
...MANY LABOR SUCCESSES SCORED IN LUXEMBURG Luxemburg, which is closely connected with Belgium commercially and in respect to currency, is now sharing its misfortunes...
...Most numerous of all are the district agreements...
...The church has so great an influence over the masses of the people that it Is very difficult 'po spread trade union ideas among the workers, whs are both bigoted and indifferent...
...in Switzerland became a farce...
...The 1922 Fund" amounted to more than twothirds of a million dollars...
...evening classes, the expenses being borne Jointly by the party and the trade unions...
...There was something pathetic about this once powerful labor body, formerly officially committed to Socialism, calling "especial attention to our membership...
...Even the best paid workers, the railway men and seamen, only get from 20 to 25 escudps a day...
...The secretary-treasurer, the editor and three members of the General Executive Board died recently...
...In other industries . also wages are very low, for there are...
Vol. 3 • October 1926 • No. 38
