RAYON WORKERS ARE JOINED BY FORCES FROM BEMBERG PLANT
Rayon Workers Are Joined By Forces From Bemberg Plant Almost 3,000 Men and Women Now Out in Elizabethton—U. T. W. On the Job t" LJZABETHTON, Tenn,—Two companics of the Tennessee...
...Holmes' tour through Palestine and the three lectures are expected to draw large audiences anxious to learn what a non-Jew of liberal views has to say about Jewish life and aims in Palestine...
...Wage advances, be says, will be granted to individuals deserving them on the basis of ability, length of service, and other considerations...
...S. workers have declined to enter $hr Auto Workers' Union, they have formed a permanent workers' organization which the company has recegfified...
...The management plans to man it with non-union workers and imported strikebreakers...
...Aid...
...minimum wage law for women, regulation by law of home or sweatshop work, prohibition of night work for women, and for minors...
...Polling 28 more votes than all the nonpartisan candidates for alderman of the 7th ward combined, Alex Ruffing, Socialist incumbent of the office was nominated for alderman of that ward to oppose Rudolph J. Korthals, nonpartisan...
...Agencies are to pay $200 for the license if and when granted, while individual dicks in the employ of agencies will pay $2...
...J. W. Mudroch...
...Workers wlio nocked by the thousands to plead for jobs when the first mill opened, now begin to realize that they can set a better price on their labor power...
...for the actual or apparent purpose of intimidating or Cretans fear in the minds of any emparse* of said receiver.' or persons denting to work for said receiver, or for tto parsoac of coercing any of such empkjjet to cease work for said receiver, at man preventing any person who deans to work for said receiver from doing so at 'the wage scale and upon tat terms and conditions as prescribed kf the orders of this court, or for the nsrpoM of coercing or persuading or awaapttag to coerce or persuade any anon to break or not to make any aaphyaKnt -contract with said reflewMw*1* £ leatrahu Union Members The order prohibits the union memam named from gathering or loitering a poops or crowds not only about or war the Knox company's property, but (hp "npon, along or about any public iwd, railroad, railroad station or mines' train or place of any kind near to awl Brines or said properties in the toads of said receiver's agents or ematojes^ aakt receiver in going to and max work wherever located...
...They have formed a new local of the United Textile Workers...
...The document was sent indirectly to avoid censorship...
...The lands of Porto Rico have passed and are passing in an alarming manner into the possession of outside financiers...
...It should be of stoat interest to all shoe workers to know ** this crew is not only fighting their •to battle, but yours also, and they *•* ssrehr entitled to yorrr moral sup•"t at least, if not financially,'' says Annas Kelly, organizer...
...Haitians must pay unlawful taxes and watch Americans spend the proceeds, it adds...
...Labor leaden _aj attorneys today began a searching aaa> of order, issued against the gagai Vine Workers of America on March ». labor leaders woo have studied injaacojaos exhibited at hearings before a* United States Senate during the afeor Injunction inquiry say that it aadwa a limit of restriction never belae approached...
...He followed this with representation that the mine could not be opaaaed profitably on the union scale, afefch has a basic wage of 36 to $6.50 a Be obtained from Judge Hay an order Mag a wage scale, the basic figure of safcn h $5 a day...
...Highly emotional, quick on the trigger, unused to the monotonous discipline of the mills, these newly industrialized American workers of English, Scotch, and Irish stock are known to be "explosive...
...It was decided that Labor's great eveof-the-election demonstration should be held in the Albert Hall, London, on Saturday evening, April 27...
...With effective picket lines now thrown around both mills, 40% of the 3,500 Bennberg employes have failed to' report for work, and only 250 of the 1,7002,000 Giants toff employes are working...
...Madison Square Garden is one of the largest amphitheatres in the country, seating about 25,000 persons...
...for the past 23 tosts, against a 40 per cent reduction eat open shop conditions...
...Many sympathizers, in addition to the strikers are among the hundreds of pickets who are turning back automobiles and pedestrians bound for the plants...
...At a mass meeting the strikers, mostly women and boys in their teens, pledged loyalty to their newly-formed local union...
...Haitians Ask Freedom From U. S. Marine Rule Asking restoration of self-government to Haiti by 1930...
...In that day the Cup Final will be played at Wembley, and there will consequently be great facilities lor excursions from the provinces...
...Blaine to serve an unexpired term of about six months in 1927, is a candidate against Judge Jennings, and will of course have the support of the socialists and of organized labor, who between them will see to it that their voters, both men and women, go to the polls...
...Labor Plans Huge Rallv On April 27 (Br a New Leader Correspondent > LONDON.—The general election may come any day after May 1st...
...Fair Wages or No Wages...
...In the past these organizations have held their own demonstrations in various of the smaller balls of the city...
...Thomas F. McMahna of the U. T. W., -who told Federated Press that his union will "support the strikers to the limit, morally and financially:" A letter with that statement, he said, has been sent out to all Tennessee 'labor bodies, asking their backing for the strike...
...Mothwurth's new wage announcement, which backs now from his former position of "no increase...
...Mothwurth's answer to the strikers, refusing their wage demands as "exorbitant and out of reason...
...A U. T. W. organiser and a representative of the Tennessee Federation of Labor are on the ground...
...Agencies would have to do likewise...
...Three years ago Elizabeth ton was a sleepy little hill town, with a few general merchandise stores and a postoffice...
...It urges the party branches in the districts to set to work...
...4 Court Bans Miners From Meetings ^janapoUs Injunction Cther to Talk Strike j—AWAPOUB—An Injunction which ¦jay prohibits union members from gas in Mil n » meeting to persuade micaa apt to go to work in a non-union ¦few...
...Stricter Injunction Sought...
...Licenses are to be issued for one year only...
...The plant, which announced an indefinite shutdown when the strike became effective a few days ago, has been reopened...
...No attempt has been made to molest the sheriff and 50 deputies who are guarding the mills...
...Some of the miners deserted the union ant vent back to work in the Knox aha...
...Sioe Workers Urged to Aid Locked-out Workers ' the Shoe Workers' Protective Union ¦eaata calls to the attention of all shoe Seekers of Greater New York that a hekoat has been going on against the ¦asm of the Shoe Workers' Pro tec - toe Union, who were employed by MorawavSOver Shoe Co...
...He read the order to the strikes mass meeting, and received assurances that they would carry on strike activities in orderly fashion...
...Holmes Returns From Tour of Palestine...
...About $11 a week is the average wage, officers of the Tennessee Federation of Labor told them...
...and Park Ave...
...Under the auspices of the Socialist Action Committee conferences between these organizations have already progressed to a point where G. August Gerber, secretary of the action committee, was able to announce that Madison Square Garden has been taken for the scene of demonstration...
...laser leaders asserted' that if this ¦tor becomes an established precedent 8 toO be impossible for a union to have a aiming during a strike without being ¦ contempt of court...
...Porto Rico Labor in Plea For Relief Misery of People Told in Manifesto Addressed to New Legislature SAN JOAN—(FF...
...A fiat defy flung at the United Textile Workers and the Tennessee Federation of Labor was the answer of the American Glanzstoff Corp...
...Santiago XgJasBBa, Socialist founder and veteran chief of the labor movement in Porto Rico, is now leader of the opposition in the legislature...
...Buses hired by the employers are being used to convoy strikebreakers through the picket lines...
...We can't live and raise families on what we get now...
...Merchant, If We Don't Get It, You Cant Get It...
...It is an indication of the decline of that party that it is unable to muster its strength for a demonstration of similar size this year...
...Repeating - his refusal to deal with the union, he now invited all old employes to come back to work, with no questions asked about their connection with the strike...
...Porto Rican labor's program for bettering the situation is baaed on ¦ a pro-' posal that Congress be asked to furnish to the island government a credit of $50,000,000...
...As a result of the election, the following candidates will appear on the general election ballot on April 2: Seetahst, Edward H. Kiefer, Anthony J. King, William C. Kroening, Elmer H. Baiiman, Dr...
...William Quick, the Socialist candidate for judge of the civil court has received an •endorsement" which the Milwaukee Leader, Socialist daily, played up on the first page...
...The Executive dealt with other matters and significant among them was a declaration on World Peace...
...On March 8 the receiver petitionee far the restraining order, declaring there aai Imminent danger of injury or less of Hi among his employes...
...He was to have dedicated the Nathan and Lena Straus health center in Jerusalem which Mr...
...Interest on money has reached almost inconceivably usurious rates— from 9 to 100 per cent...
...Linn D. Hay...
...Straus built for Hadessah, the Women's Zionist organization...
...The strikers heartened by assurances of union support, are willing to fight it out...
...The vote in the 20th ward showed that North Milwaukee, recently annexed to the city, has a large percentage of Socialist voters...
...eighthour law...
...W. J. Lyster and special policemen Harold Watts and Frank Slapikas...
...Groups of interests and of individualistic men threaten us," It tells the legislature, "with the crises which have served them as an argument to hinder the progress of the country, and to make it go even further backward, thus making permanent the wretched condition into which misery and physical, social and mental oppression plunged us in times past, and to keep it unchanging...
...FP) — Burns, Plnkerton, Russell, "Yellow Dog" MacDonald and the Corporation Auxiliary Co...
...And in applying, they would have to show their "good character, competency and integrity," a manifestly difficut procedure before a local official not bought and paid for by the corporations or the agencies themselves...
...jftoe worker attorneys are planning a agjaw* protest against the temporary asfer at a bearing by Judge Bay ¦area ». Ceast Fixes Wage scale guar...
...The bill's greatest weakness lies in the corruptibility and class bias of the local police head empowered to grant or withhold the licenses...
...Holmes went to Palestine as the personal representative of Nathan Straus...
...The troops were sent at the request of Pres...
...American Zionists as well as nonZionists have been following with interest Dr...
...Some hundreds were thrown out of the plant when they entered to ask their fellow-workers to join the strike...
...When they go back to work, the strikers say, it will be as an organised body of union workers...
...Bill Requires Licenses for Labor Spies HARRISBURG, Pa...
...Introduction of the Bedaux system, whereby wages were cut 50 per cent, was responsible for the walkout, which involved the entire factory...
...The Glanzstoff plant, which formerly operated on a basis of three 8-hour shifts, now runs two shifts 10 hours a day...
...This is generally interpreted to mean that the mills will cease operating until the millacan assure strikebreakers against an•ance, by beating or intimidating the kets into inactivity...
...It is expected that as soon r- the situation is cleared up the organization will affiliate with the union...
...private cops who beat to death John Barkoski, coal miner, have been returned by the grand jury...
...Glanzstoff and its sister company Bemberg are in the world rayon cartel operating in European countries, Japan and the United States...
...after a three-day strike...
...Whether you stay eut one month or six months, you have nothing to lose...
...Mothwurth of the German syndicate which owns both plants...
...15 a Week or Bust...
...Today concrete roads branch off in every direction from the city, which itself has assumed such importance that Herbert Hoover chose it last fall for his only campaign speech in the South...
...The big rayon mills, controlled in large measure by European capital, have been drawing fast upon the "labor reservoir" of the southern Appalachians...
...his nonpartisan opponent nominated to run in the April 2 election polled 328, while the total nonpartisan vote was 850...
...Strikers Ready For Fight...
...The open shop capitalists, organized as the "Milwaukee Employers Council," have opened fire against Quick in their bulletin entitled "Freedom in Employment" and have endorsed his opponent...
...bad himself appointed receiver fjr hh own company in Judge Hay's wart...
...Garden Socialist Action Committee Arranges for Joint Observance of Labor's Holiday A United May Day demonstration **¦ which will Join the Socialist Party, more than two-score friendly trade unions and branches of the Workmen's Circle is being planned for May Day in New York City...
...Nonpartisan: Waldemar C. Wehe, E. J. Gut, Carl G. Engrlkr, M. H. Traub, John E. WestphaL The total Socialist vote cast was 42,507 scattered throughout the 25 city wards...
...Dedication was delayed because the building was not completed in the time expected...
...The open shop aggregation has helped the Socialist campaign by clearly showing that they want a judge to serve their interests and that the Socialist candidate Is hopeless from their point of view...
...U. T. w. IN* the FIELD "We want more pay...
...During the past few years, the Communist party held May Day demonstrations in Madison Square Garden...
...Mothwurth...
...This credit would be used to build, rural schools, especially agricultural, trade and industrial schooling being desired...
...said: "I have neither enough men to serve injunctions nor to guard thplant...
...Several hundred workers from the neighboring cotton mill of the American Bemberg Co., which employs a force of 3,500 and is owned by the same syndicate as Glanzstoff, attended the meeting...
...Such was the marrhing cry of women strikers who led the first serious revolt in the new rayon Industry of the South...
...They read: $6.50 a Week —Mere Slavery...
...John Haynes Holmes and Mrs...
...The management now says it will shut down both plants "Indefinitely...
...Detroit Rubber Strikers Win Demand in 3 Days DETROIT—(FP...
...As usual, the nonpartisans are claiming that the entire Socialist yote turned out for the primary whereas the nonpartisan strength will not be shown until the general election, but in view of the hot campaign that the opponents of Ruffing put on in the ward, with the most prominent nonpartisan alderman spending long hours "working" the ward, their claim does not appear well substantiated...
...F. Quick, socialist and advocate of the closed urfior^shop," says the employers' organ, "who was appointed by Gov...
...The results of the primary have convinced political observers that residents of the ward are satisfied with the showing Ruffing has made as a state legislator and as alderman since Mayor Daniel W. Hoan appointed him to fill the Unexpired term of Aid...
...Modelled on a Wisconsin law passed some years ago, the bill provides for state licensing of labor spies...
...A musical festival will supplement addresses by leaders in the Socialist and trade union movement...
...to build hydro-electric plants, irrigation works and other works to increase local food-production and local manufactures...
...will have harder sledding in the Keystone state if a bill introduced in the assembly by Representative Clarence Boggs of Philadelphia becomes law...
...It is thought likely that all the Bemberg workers will come out in sympathy with the strike if Glanzstoff continues its refusal to deal with the union...
...Not satisfied with the injunction already granted them, which forbids strikers to approach the plants, the Glanzstoff and Bemberg bosses are now seeking another court order to prohibit strikers from congregating on the streets...
...Food, clothing, furniture, sweets, shoes and numerous other articles of prime necessity which could be produced cheaply and abundantly here are Imported into the country, and we are forced to buy them at the same or higher prices than in the States...
...Minor disorders were reported, jawarits by Logsdon s agents showed antral instances, they charged, where awi iiiimiii miners were threatened...
...Three girl strikers were injured when a strikebreaker drove his automobile into a group of pickets...
...Sheriff Moreland of Carter Co...
...T. W. On the Job t" LJZABETHTON, Tenn,—Two companics of the Tennessee national guard have been rushed hi for strike duty following spreading of the Otonsstoff strike to the nearby -rayon mill of the American Bemberg Corp...
...This would outlaw all picketing...
...The sudden strike of the Qlanzston workers was not unexpected by labor organizers who are familiar with the temperament of the Southern "hillbillies...
...In the mlxup a company guard was manhandled and Mothwurth was hit in the head by a flying stone...
...Strike No Surprise...
...Federated Press correspondents who visited the plants last summer found mountain women working there for as little as 18 a week...
...Top wages for men in the Germancontrolled Glanzstoff plant are 515-S16 a week, said Pres...
...Coal aiid Iron Murderers Are Indicted PITTSBURGH— (FP) —Indictments for murder against the three Pittsburgh Coal Co...
...bw been issued by an Indlacap^ jadge...
...It is backed by the American Federation of Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers...
...The indicted men are Lieut...
...In line with this attitude was Pres...
...Ruffing polled 878 votes...
...Socialists and Unions To Observe May Day In Mad...
...An appeal for support from the townspeople against the big foreign trust was seen in the slogan: Mr...
...In a manifesto delivered by the Ftee Federation of worklngmen of Porto Rico to the new legislature, which contains a strong minority in sympathy with the abas of the Federation, the economic ashes J of the 1,500,000 people of the island is bluntly described, and a series of measures for relief are outlined...
...The truth of his statement was snown by placards carried by striking women and child workers in a parade against the 10-hour day and a wage scale as low as 16c an hour...
...Wm...
...Oar agreement expired on March 1, uto, bat fellow workers, remember this kttoat is still in effect and will con*»» to be fought by this crew under "» Shoe Workers' Protective Union w«u • rtctory is won...
...leading Haitians have signed a declaration and forwarded it to the National Assn...
...Last year but 10,000 attended the Communist demonstration in the Garden...
...universal free education and health care in the schools...
...Any action to recover damages done by agency or spy may be brought directly against the licensee and his sureties...
...At a National Executive Committee meeting at the House of Commons, under the chairmanship of Herbert Morrison, it was reported that candidates had been approved, or were in process of early adoption, for 501 constituencies...
...in part: Tmn gathering or holding meetings la the city of Blcknell or in the city of ¦hwaaaea, Ind...
...Although ^the XT...
...Streets and highways leading to the plant, which is outside the-"town, will be picketed...
...Wage inareases of 15% to 30% are demanded...
...The total vote polled for the five nonpartisan nominees was only 37,985, while the total vote for the 13 nonpartisan candidates was only slightly more than the Socialist total...
...McMahon...
...Organizations which have already agreed to take part in the demonstration include the Socialist Party, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Joint board, the Joint board of the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, the United Neckwear Makers...
...An attempt to break the ranks of the strike is seen in Pres...
...Don't worry," S. C. Godsey, executive board member of the Tennessee Federation of Labor, told the strikers...
...Unemployment and destitution, homelessness and lack of hope for future employment, are now the condition of enormous numbers of men and women in Porto Rico, the Federation asserts...
...Restoration of wage cuts and recognition of their union have been won by strikers at the U. S. Fabber Co...
...to establish a system of small farms, in place of the existing big estates and homeless farm laborers, and to reduce the interest rate on loans for small borrowers...
...That is the statement made by the National Executive of the Labor Party...
...The Communist vote was negligible...
...Penn...
...Too rapid development of the rayon industry in the northeastern" Tennessee hills is blamed by textile manufacturers for the revolt of hitherto "docile, AngloSaxon workers' 'at the Glanzstoff plant...
...When be was handed the injunction for service on 498 individual strikers...
...health and safety laws for industries...
...months ago Edward D. Logsasv president of the Knox Consolidated gad Co...
...Licenses may be revoked If six residents of the .state petition the secretary of state to conduct a hearing and the hearing yields facts flowing improper conduct by the spiesr-^'iolation of the statute and conviction would result in fines of $100 to $500 or imprisonment from three to six months...
...Speedup and insulting language toward workers from all grades of Glanzstoff bosses McMahon described as a source of trouble...
...Further legislative demands by the Federation are: old age pensions after 30 years of service...
...Holmes will relate his observations in Palestine in a series of three lectures under the general title, "A Gentile Pilgrim Visits The Jewish Homeland," at the Community Church, 34th St...
...Resentment at long hours and bad working conditions, as well*as low wages, caused the strike, according to Pres...
...This will be the first demonstration in decades at which all forces will Join for a single united effort...
...It points out that this tragedy is doe to absentee ownership and exploitation of the natural resources of the island, which in the past 25 years has produced more than $2,000,000,000...
...for the Advancement of Colored People at New York...
...Comrade Gerber, aided by A. N. Weinberg and in co-operation with the leaders of the New York trade unions are busy preparing an attractive demonstration for the event, which will take place during the afternoon...
...Under no circumstances will Glanzstoff recognize the union, says Pres...
...Milwaukee Socialists Lead in Poll School Board Candidates Poll Big Vote in Primary Election 1UT1LWAUKKE, Wis.—Despite one of * the lightest votes ever recorded in a primary flection in Milwaukee, the Socialist candidates polled an amazing number of votes in the school director primary March 12...
...They keep a man's nose to the grindstone at Elizabeth ton," he said, "a worker can't pause for breath without having a flood of bad language let loose at him by some straw boss...
...John Doerfler, Socialist, who resigned...
...Besides agencies are required to post a bond of $10,000 and' their employed spies $2,000 each...
...Under present Marine rule, says the statement, elections are a "simple fraud...
...Will Lecture on Country Dr...
...Agitation for the abolition of the coal and iron police, stirred up by the brutal murder, continues...
...to its striking rayon workers...
...We do not advocate the ootmssatica of the property of the exploiters of land in Porto Rico," says the Federation, "but we should regulate them for the gocd of the public, and in case of absolute necessity expropriate them, paying a reasonable and fair price in accordance with law...
...All "inside shop operatives" and those who "render reports of activities" in plants whether to independent detective agencies or to the plant management, 'as well as all private detectives, private police, or private guards, would be required to take out licenses...
...A lockout of the rest of the company's 2,000 rayon slaves followed...
...Holmes arrived on the Acquitania last Tuesday after a month's travel in Palestine...
...The principal speaker will be Ramsay MacDondald, M.P., who will expound the Party's policy and fighting program...
...A blanket injunction, gotten out by the company, forbids the strikers to approach the plant...
...jBflge Hay issued the injunction in the form asked by the receiver's atThe order includes a paragraph which nam...
Vol. 8 • March 1929 • No. 10
