PITTSBURGH VICTORY CHEERS JOURNEYMEN TAILOR'S UNION; NEED FOR ORGANIZERS URGENT
Pittsburgh Victory Cheers Journeymen Tailors' Need for Organizers Urgent The Field of Labor THE Journeyman Tailor** Union or America, badly batterod by the Inroad of machinery, which baa made...
...Besides this work the Rand School has arranged special classes tor TU peels...
...Sweden, Franca, Denmark, Austria, Poland...
...Now after ten years ot labor it is announced that he is finished...
...Max Pine was chairman, and there were three speakers, B. C. Vladeck, Abraham Cahan and Rogoff himself...
...The up-town office of the bank, 154 East 86th street, is open on Mondays to • p. m, and the one at 644 Broadway to 6:30 p. m. Organizations and societies receive special consideration and the bank has also special departments for women where every possible faculty is available...
...Since its organization the bank conducted its business from 644 Broadway, corner Bleecker, and for the last two years tt has added its own magniflcient building at 154 East 8«th street...
...The Increase in memberahip last month was greater than during- any similar period since the palmy days of 1916-20...
...The Mexican Confederation of Labor Is very anxious to have the American delegation in said gathering, which Is not an official labor convention or congress...
...He offered 'to help the former in organising a. union of their own craft...
...This fall the voters will have another chance to retrieve themselves...
...Uoa of Labor and Hie Executive Coono9 a cordial Invitation ta attend a meeting at tha snoot ^inalaaat rap>•Tha Invitation requests Pressdent Green aad his colleagues to aaad a tan delegation representing tha American tabor nauvament to greet tha representatives of tha National Federations of labor from Holland, England...
...J. Weinberg will be chairman...
...Recently progress has been made among the cleaners, pressors, dyers and- bushelmerf...
...Abraham Can an, editor of tha Forward;' Judge Jacob Panken...
...Minimum wages were fixed, hours of work were made definite, satisfactory working conditions were specified...
...It reports more than 124.000,000 In deposits and more than 88,000 depositors, paying a yearly Interest of 4 per cent...
...To what extent Duffy's account will escape the faults of most official histories, elimination or perversion of unpleasant In...
...On the other hand the "bosses'* are knitted into a close organization...
...He has plodded through the office files...
...The closed shop will prevail...
...L. S. HAIL...
...Nothing revolutionary, you see...
...THE carpenters' history It ia good aawa that cornea from Indianapolis, lad, tha headquarters of tha United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners...
...He expressed an earnest desire to see la good citywide and state campaign las well as a local fight...
...An important provision of the agreement «s the discharge of an scabs and the reinstatement of the old help...
...had It for years that General Secretary Prank Duffy waa too busy a person to see through his history ot tha Brotherhood within the vary near future...
...They threatened to strike, but the employers warded off that calamity by granting satisfactory terms...
...Over 75 of the writers, printers aad memfcr-s of the business office of the Forward were in attendance, and after the speeches they backed up their enthusiasm for Roeotfe campaign by contributions to the campaign fund of close to 2250...
...It is hoped that these, advances will continue...
...strike against tha local establishments, and except tor night men still out, the union baa obtained wage gains ranging from five to ten per cent on piece work and a' flat increase tor bAhehnen, who are em-' ployed on a/weekly basis...
...S. The Enormous Growth Of a Savings Bank The "Manhattan Savings Institution," one of the oldest savings banks in the city, is now among the leaders in this line...
...Consequently, the few organisers can only concentrate anywhere at the expense of letting obvious opportunities slip by for permitting urgent calls for help to go unheeded...
...Arthur and Harold Stiles, who are In charge of thla Institution, are experts in the...
...The president of the Hairdressers' Association issued a statement praising the Journeymen Barbers, but voicing the opinion that the diversity of interests between the beauty specialists and barbers argued against amalgamation...
...lents, particularly, for administrations in t'-3 author's favor, and the arrangement of material in the manner ot cut-and-dry annals Is yet to be seen...
...Rogoff was emphatic in asserting that it was his belief that the tide of capitalist "prosperity" had I about spent Itself and that within a short tlmesthe workers win begin to realise that even in times of pseudo-prosperity there is no economic security...
...V mm m""-'' ws Ws^^wwae.^ watlan ^tmmtmmw^^lmmJt^to tjg**tfs»ajjj'*w^sT^^ ^^^^^^' .__" ' ia _ aa ' FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF JEWISH SOCIALIST VERBAND CELEBRATED Tha Fifth Anniversary of the Jewish Socialist Verband will ha satlTtpalid at Carnegie HaS thai SnaAey1 evening...
...Nadledjda Plevltzkaia, Russian singer ot folk songs...
...The work Is now ready for the printers...
...be the comrades Morris HUlqatt...
...Those Tlpeels who have received them are: Harry Diamond, Philip Paalk, Abe Wisotsky, Sidney Herts berg, Ida Watkins, Abe Krammerman...
...Abraham Zucker announced a special 12th Congressional district issue of the Forward, with u special English page...
...Now Missouri must wait until next year to remedy this technical.- flaw, while the children remain unprotected.—L...
...One prohibited children less than sixteen years of ago from working in dangerous occupations...
...These classes are held every Saturday at 4 p. m. Those Xipsels who...
...L. s. THE BOBBERS AND BARBERS ARE ONE Those great artists, the hair bobbers and beauty parlor specialists, have decided that they are barbers after all— at least economically...
...The keen competition among the beauty establishments has called forth a maximum ot skill and a minimum of monetary returns...
...Significant in this struggle has been the assistance rendered by the Merchant Tailors of New Tork City, who jaoSrdE up the waning hopes of the Pittsburgh merchants not only by giving them moral support, but also by sending them strikebreakers and undertaking to fill orders of the tled-up shops...
...The fee being practically nothing...
...The workers in the trade are scattered thruout the United States, only a few In any one city...
...It Is a visit that has been planned tor three years and Is designed for the purpose of giving European labor the opportunity to get first-hand information about Mexico and her people, and especially about the activities of the Mexican labor movement In connection with the American Federation of Labor...
...The accomplishment of Pittsburgh is being held out to them as a bright example...
...The demand for these scholarships I were so great that fourteen have alreeldy been accepted and many applications are now on the lists of the school...
...Cantor M. Herahmaa, Maurice Schwartz, tha awahthad Workmen's Circle Choruses, and a Symphony Orchestra under the leadership- af Jaacha Fish berg...
...These had only been put on the books in 1921 after three decades of agitation...
...Belgium...
...The attorney general seized the opportunity to crush these acts when he was asked by State Labor Commissioner Hlnkle to express an opinion with regard to the efficacy of the laws in certain cases...
...548 of the Journeymen Barbers' International Union...
...Because of the very cordial relations that through long years of determined effort have been established between the American Federation ot Labor and the Mexican Confederation ot Labor, tt la expected that this contemplated visit of the European labor representatives will not be complete without the presence of representatives o# the American Federation of Labor...
...Now, in Chicago, two thousand hair-dressing and beautyparlor operators organized themselves into prosaic Local No...
...Italy and Spain, who are going to moot ha "Mexico city the latter part ot October...
...We do not have massing of numbers In any one place as In the other needle trades...
...Germany...
...GUATEMALA WORKERS ASK AID OF GREEN The Guatemala Confederation of Labor has sent a cablegram to William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, requesting his mediation with the Government ot the United States in the matter affecting Nicaragua...
...Cahan pledged his own full support for the campaign, as well as that of the Forward, while Pino declared that the Socialist party waa going to show such strength this year that it win surprise every one, especially those who have been pronouncing tha party dead...
...S. MISSOURI'S CHILD LABOR LAW KillLED Missouri certainly takes the prize...
...victory...
...Fourteen Yipsels Receive Rand School Scbolarships This year more than everVbefore the T. P. S. L. has embarked 1 upon extensive educational campaign...
...The added financial burden would soon repay Itself in concrete results...
...The city office of the T. P. 8. L. [takes this opportunity through the columns of The New Leader to thank the Rand School for its very kind assistance...
...He has recorded all the statistics available...
...This smacked too much of company unionism, and his appeal fell flat...
...Although corrective legislation has been enacted several times...
...Tha following artfsta wfS, take part In the concert program...
...Reliance upon the voluntary assistance of busy local officials has proved untrustworthy...
...Besides the debates, lectures and contests that the various circles have been holding and are now enlarging, another educational feature has been added to their program...
...It has a live and representative organisation la very many important cities ot the United States...
...These scholarships entitle the Tipsel three evenings a week (of class work and as much more aa they desire...
...The dignity of -their profession—or Is it craft?—has risen, but their wages have fallen...
...The commanding place taken by this institution is due to the great increase in both the amount of deposits as well as the increase in the number of depositors...
...Local No...
...Ida Tavner, Jack Altman, Samuel Doalk, I Henry Sapkowitz, Frank Sasso, George Berkowitz, Ben Kantor and Wllllank Wolkofsky...
...As If to forestall putting Missouri into the columns of States with progressive labor legislation...
...Whisper baa...
...At any rate, the publication of this story of one of the oldest International unions in the A. F. of L. will be looked forward to In all labor circles...
...181 of Pittsburgh baa, with tha financial aid of her sister locals, Juat weathered a six month...
...A sub-committee of the General Executive Board to pass on the history has been appointed by General President William L. Hutcheson, consisting of First Vice-President John T. Cos grove and Board Member J. W. Williams...
...No admission fee win bo charged...
...Attorney General Gentry has .just rendered an opinion declaring the two State child labor laws unconstitutional...
...a faithful picture ot the oaganteed strata of America's worknrU mm it waa earned to order In the roomy Oraystone ballroom at 10*0 attar President Green aad his official noTleaguaa had marched up tha aisle to the red naaoalsd platform to tha W at tha "Sta^ Mexican Labor Invites Workers' Representatives To Joia in 'get-together Labor Doings Abroad t thmea at*tho^nll anhata anaaawe...
...This applies to sums from It to 17.500...
...Among the speakers wTB...
...financial world and by careful and scrupulous Investment of Its funds have* made It the success that it is...
...Of course th* Government af tha United States did not recognise the da facto government' of General "^nsa, orro, and with tha actual peace negotiations that are now In progress Wfltj the end In view of establishing tha constitutional government of Nicaragua, it Is expected and hoped that tt will become an accomplished program of the democratic Uberty-lovtsgJ citizens ot Nicaragua...
...Messrs...
...Since that time the Jewish Socialist Verband membership has grown In leaps and bounds, until now its voice la heard In all matters relating to the worker's cause, Socialism...
...Morris Novlk, campaign manager, waa present and discussed campaign plans with many] of the Comrades present, and scores of them privately pledged themselves \ta do everything in their power for the party this year...
...the other required employment certificates for children less than fourteen...
...requesting him to- intervene with the State Department, in the answering the petition, atataa^ka*^ ready taken ptupar steps ta lash) tha workers aad the people ia general «| Nicaragua ta enake a wise repreaantjr ttaa before tha State Departnaaggg tha proper tune, especially agataaj gag actual dictatorship, aad In favor at tha ueasUtuttunsl government aad gaa ran tone of freedom for tha peseta...
...A. F. OF L REPORT GIVES PHILOSOPHY OF NEW UNIONISM familiar labor naiaas ware read off aa delegates from International, national, state, departmental and local unkina...
...As reported last week, it is practically the only Industrial State in the Union that has no workmen's compensation law...
...An official historian, with a long cherished hope of writing the story of his union, be has worked persistently at his task...
...Associates on Forward Aid RogofF's / Campaign For Seat in Congress The candidacy of Harry Regoff, Socialist candidate for j Congress in the 12th district, waa enthusiastically indorsed Tuesday noon at a luncheon given him by his fellow members of the staff of the Jewish Dally Forward at the East Side Socialist Center, 204 East Broadway...
...Gentry decided they Were not applicable anywhere on the ground that discretionary power was vested in individuals— which has been done before—that are vested only In the legislature...
...Pittsburgh Victory Cheers Journeymen Tailors' Need for Organizers Urgent The Field of Labor THE Journeyman Tailor** Union or America, badly batterod by the Inroad of machinery, which baa made ready-made merit clothing la many reapecta equal to the cuatommade variety, and by tha anti-union attitude of the National Merchant Tailors' Association, has sustained an encouraging...
...What the Journeymen Tailors of America needs more than anything else at present Is an immediate increase In the number of responsible organizers in the field...
...It Is, In short, a "get-acquainted gathering" with none of the formalities or set problems of labor conventions or conference...
...The deposits are now credited monthly, available every three months, if the deposits are left with the bank to the end ot the quarter...
...have not heard about this as yet are invited...
...Tet the national union is hampered by a lack of organisers to carry on effective work...
...The parliament of labor looked like...
...This concent Is to take Place to celebrate the Aye years of intensive activity of the Jewish Socialist Verband since it was organised in September, a?21, when the split took place la the Jewish Federation...
...I The Rand School of Social Science has offered the City League ten scholarships...
...The journeymen tailors of New Tork were helpless, because their absence of organisation placed them under the thumb of the association...
...Ever since Its organization—more than 75 years ago —it took special care to administer its funds by investing them (according to law) in securities that not only yield substantial revenues but are quickly redeemable...
...It has been thwarted by submission of the measures to popular referendum under the auspices of the well-organized propaganda of the damage-suit lawyers...
Vol. 3 • October 1926 • No. 39
