NEW BEDFORD BOSSES INSIST ON WAGE CUT
New Bedford Bosses Insist On Wage Cut BEDFORD' Mass.—Due to the Jt( fpjjbornngss of the textile manufacwm« the big strike of men and women 2j continue throughout the coming JzLf. a few...
...But the strike went on just the same and...
...They lie willing to fight to the last ditch and tbey will hold out if sufficient help is extouled to enable families of the strikers to live...
...To thus they t demand that the workers shall also gyjmit to the Dreider Plan, which is the jgme given to a process of speeding up (Bt workers so that more values car*-be gqyftzed out of their labor each day...
...Herb wants reasonable injunctions and Al does not want ' injunctions abused...
...Socialists Of Norway Defy Vicious Law GENEVA.—The Norwegian Compulsory Labor Arbitration act of July 4. 1927...
...All that is required now is for the members of the ! trade unions to form in two lines at the ballot box | next November all over the nation...
...The New Leader declared that the Republican National Committee would soon organize a similar committee as its funds were amplysufficient to afford it while there would be no difficulty in getting labor men to serve it...
...They are -at interested in the strikers and their jjjujUes but only in the fortunes of HooverApparently the leading die-hards of the masters are determined to go jgggd with their original program of a 10 per cent cut in wages...
...It carries the sob stuff one expects and does not differ from the output of the Smith Labor Bureau...
...This award aroused great indignation among the masses of the workers, and in several cities the men in the building trades refused to recognize it and struck late in May...
...All contributions should be sent to tlio Relief Committee, Post Office Box GUI, New Bedlord, Mass...
...Hoover's labor committee does not let Smith's labor committee have any advantage on the question of ln, jffijgffk" tad^^D^^onii^^Dd^eatly observed that ] "abused...
...The Republican National Committee now announces the organization of the "Hoover for President I>abor Council" and the publication of a pamphlet entitled "Hoover and Labor" which advertises Hoover as a "friend of labor...
...Helga Karlsen, the only woman member of Parliament, and M. Olsen-Hagen...
...Moreover, Herb is for a protective tariff and we recall that Al landed with both feet on this "eternal principle...
...Court, the union officials were j compelled ostensibly to warn their mernI bers from striking and to declare they would not participate in such action...
...Herb's labor committee says the same tiling ! in words that differ little from the Democratic version...
...No Danger Of Splitting Into Groups Over Partisan Political Issues" TN a recent issue of The New Leader we called attention to the organization of a Labor-Bureau by John J. Raskob, Democratic National Chairman, to boost Governor Smith as a "friend of labor...
...Hoover American workers will be voting for one of their own kind...
...Banker Mellon and his cronies ' will take cure of the finances for the Hoover committee and Raskob and his cronies will take care of the finances of the Smith committee...
...Having avoided this division into rival groups there is nothing to fear...
...The G. O. P. Labor Council declares that Hoover was "tossed into the world to earn his living" at the age of 12 and his "labor record is an open book...
...Unless a break occurs in A* ranks of the mill owners the strike ^IP continue for weeks to come...
...Secretary of the Norwegian Labor Party: M. Monsen...
...The members of the committee consist of men more or less active in the trade unions...
...To accept these terms would be to render all the sacrifices made by the striken futile and yet it appears that the progum Is to starve the strikers into submission...
...Then collective bargaining is no more a mere theory with Herb than It is with Al...
...was the cause of a struggle this summer which tested it severely...
...After it is all over—well, it will be all over...
...policy intended to break the spirit of the strikers and eventually to deBgoy the union...
...What think you, labor men, in this year of tfie onehundredth anniversary of the organization of the first...
...The G. O. P. committee solemnly affirms that Hoover "does not favor unreasonable use of injunctions...
...a few weeks ago it appeared tatt the Republican politicians would Z&t sufficient pressure to get the strike ^t of the way before Election Day...
...As the i American Federationlst for September declares, "Our ! NON-PARTISAN POLICY ENABLES OUR EOONO| MIC MOVEMENT TO AVOID THE DANGER OF j SPLITTING INTO GROUPS OVER PARTISAN PO: LIT1CAL ISSUES...
...It Zfoewn that they fear the result of the —fc if the strike continues...
...The publicity of the latter is heavy on the poor boy who come "up from the city streets...
...Having made this read so that the laboring populaj tion will know how to vote for Hoover and Smith ' without going wrong or being divided or preventing | labor control at Washington, it only remains for orI ganized labor to ratify the generalship of the "Hoover I for President Labor Council" and the Smith "National Labor Bureau...
...Ibe attitude of the dominant'group in tfce' manufacturers became apparent alien they submitted the terms mentioned above to the Meditation Committee...
...Injjjjtnce on this in addition to the wage eduction shows the measureless greed of jjjg die-hard groups of the textile proprietors Tbe'manufacturers htemselves are diftftd but the die-hards have the upper giad and they are determining policy...
...In an attempt to enforce the law...
...who was Minister of Defense in the short-lived Labor Government last Winter...
...One line of votj ers must vote for the Republican ticket and the other i line for the Democratic ticket...
...2.000 prominent members ol the Nr.: o.caun Labor Party contributed one crown each to the strike fund and had their names printed hi the official organ of the Young Socialists' organization...
...The funds received from sympathetic people and organizations are not yet sufficient to meet the barest needs of the strikers and their families and they are mating another appeal to friends to expand this work of relief...
...When the collective wage agreement of ' a number of Norwvy.iin unionf < xpired last spring their renewai was referred to the Arbitration Court, which ru2ed a reduction of 12 per cent all around, although the labor representatives insisted that the dec-line in the cost of living justified a cut of only 8 per cent...
...They refused to pay and for a time there was talk of their going to jail, but 1 it appears that the Government concludi ed that the sight of four Labor members j of the Chamber of Deputies in prison for | contributing to a strike fund, even though it was an illegal one, would be too good ' propaganda for the Labor Party, so there | has been no report of their going behind 1 the bars...
...in I open defiance of the law against helping an illegal strike...
...fijies of 500 crowns each were inflicted upon M. Obsvik...
...It ended in a compromise, under which the decision of i the Arbitration Court providing for a ¦ general wage cut of 12 per cent will not ] become fully effective until next May...
...The working population need not worry about the expense of this united drive for unionism in politics...
...As the Arbitration law makes it illeI gal to strike against a decision by the Arbitral...
...Very simple and easily - understood...
...In language almost identical with that used by the Smith Labor Bureau the Hoover Labor Council declares: "In supporting Mr...
Vol. 7 • September 1928 • No. 40
