HOUSEWRECKERS N. Y. STRIKE MAKES HISTORY
Glinn, Charles
Housewreckers N. Y Strike Makes History Teamsters and Building Trades Unions Give Fellow Workers Inspiring Support By Charles Glinn Business Agent, Houserwreckers Union, Local 95 STRUCKS...
...Some Tickets Still Available for "Kibiteer," Pioneer Youth Benefit i • ^^^^^^^^ Eleventh hour buyers may still -get gocd seats to "The Kibitzer," on tbe evening of May Day, ««j-_ii»g to announcement from tbe office of pioneer Youth, whose organisation is sponsoring a benefit., .en tbe occasion of its fifth anniversary celebration...
...Oreen...
...He is s graduate of Yale and has been active in labor struggles and the peace movement for many years...
...The voluntary and individualistic features...
...Themill has been organized by the Associated Silk Workers...
...Fannie Fillln, treasurer of tbe benefit...
...Fights Old Age Pensions Hitting straight cut from the shoulder at old age pensions...
...There is no mess action and no whipped up emotion stimulated by passionate appeals to sentiment as is frequently the case in mass strikes where many nationalities are represented...
...Their picked have been attacked and beaten by hired gangsters, some of whom had prisen records...
...The majority of the men on strike are Ukrainian cr Russian...
...He was active in the recent strikes at Paterson...
...Because they refused to desert the teamsters the striking wrecks have been subjected to severe and unscrupulous attacks by the bosses and- their agents...
...Federated Press Celebrates Tenth Anniversary Two hundred and fifty men and women prominent in the eastern labor and progressive movement joined in celebrating the Federated Press tenth anniversary at a dinner held in New York April 19...
...Non-union •workers "are manifesting discontent and indicate a determination to organise," said Mr...
...The head of the oil firm has been sentenced to spend three months in the Washington workhouse for his part in the Fall-SinclairDoheny oil scandals...
...They have become so sane and commonplace that almost one gives up hope since they produce no new tactics in conduct or generalship in direction...
...enormous profits, generously offers to pay the costs on the first S1.0O0 insurance but urges workers to take out higher amounts for which they must pay...
...I am pleased to say that that has been lived up to all over the Greater City...
...Labor editors representing all sections of labor's industrial and political activities struck the keynote of'the celebration in tributes to F.P.'s accurate, enterprising, and impartial reporting of labor news during the past decade...
...Trade unionism seems to be one damned strike after another" with no dent made in the system of exploitation and no strength revealed, some say...
...Striking is not a new and spontaneous event with House Wreckers Union, Local 95 and their organization...
...Big Four Packerf Lockout Scranton Unions SCRANTON, P...
...In 1920 Bishop Jones was elected International Secretary of the Fellowship of Reconciliation and has held the position ever since...
...One cannot help surmising that some of the New York minor officials and petty judges are interested in the building business...
...An effort to foist the 10-hour day on...
...May 27th...
...Brilliant achievement during the next 10 years was prophesied for labor's news service...
...Theirs is to tear down and do it well...
...mills ended in a compromise when workers won the 8-hour day and reduced a threatened three-quarter cent wage cut to one-half cent...
...A few of them belong to the Italian and other nationalities...
...Unlike the latter they arc largely New York born of African...
...the first week of the general stoppage but they refused the tempting- oSer- of the Boss Wreckers Association...
...The_ieamsters in the building industry have had trouble organizing such as does not confront them in other lines of transportation owing, to its being infested with many small capitalists who have trucks of their own or have the assistance of friends in the trucking business...
...Pottstown Mass Meeting Asks Freedom for Mooney POTTSTOWN, Pa.—At a public mass meeting held in Pottstown, Pa., attended by 300 persons, a resolution was unanimously adopted calling up Governor Young of California, to take the necessary action to liberate Tom Mooney and Warren Billings from prison...
...The Slav however predominates...
...Incorporate_d through a fake employment agency organized a company union made up of social riff raff, industrial outcasts and men fooled by advertisements in the foreign language papers...
...The two thousand men cmployed at wrecking old buildings and salvaging the materials for other work are on strike for more pay and hatter conditions...
...If it can be done now it can be .done later oh in other strikes...
...Housewreckers N. Y Strike Makes History Teamsters and Building Trades Unions Give Fellow Workers Inspiring Support By Charles Glinn Business Agent, Houserwreckers Union, Local 95 STRUCKS are so numerous- and of an everyday occurrence that it is not always one can find in them an inspiration or indication that we have reached a milestone or turned the Industrial corner...
...The fallacy of tbe company *unkm' and shop representation is ' more apparent and these workers are turning to the trade unions...
...The houserwreckers could have won their end of the strike or...
...Broadway at 8 p. m. Jones, formerly Bishop of the Utah Diocese of the Episcopal Church, resigned during the war, declaring that "war and Christianity were incompatible...
...organizers are expecting more strikes in Allentown...
...and the young folks of the Paolc Zionists...
...They arc affiliated with the A. F. of L. and the Hod Carriers Union but they do not perform any actual work on building construction...
...Fifty silk workers won their 2-week strike against the Zales mill when wages were increased 1 cent to If cents a yard...
...The situation created by the strike of the House Wreckers Local 95, gives progressives encouragement and hope...
...It seems if one does not obtain in a trade or industry the master class organize one when a dispute is on the boards...
...they are operating with Local 816 of the Teamsters and Chauffeurs, an entirely different craft and affiliated with a different international uniod...
...Company Unions on Scene It would not be a complete strike these days without the company union...
...The old scale was $1.25 and SI.15...
...Tickets can bow be bought at the box office of tbe Rdyale Theatre.at the office of Pioneer Youth, atuyvesant 7865, B. C. Vladeck will speak between the acts on the accomplishments of Pioneer Youth for whose camp and club work the benefit is being conducted A. F. of L. BHLembership Drive Bringing Results President Green Declares WASHINGTON, April 30 —The "Double Our Membersnfb* |k*ah has appealed to tbe trade union movement," says President Oreen in a letter to State Federations of Labor and city central bodies...
...Next to the class spirit and solidarity of the teamsters and the house wreckers the fine spirit and class, consciousness of the men in the buildiMg trades come next...
...The Alientcwn strike of 108 workers against the SMS Silk Co...
...They have had otiicr strikes and nave had contracts with individual bosses and with the Boss Wreckers Association...
...Ecker of Metropolitan Life poinus to the Sinclair Oil Co.'s new group insurance scheme as an effective way to stop the new movement...
...The Wreckers Association...
...The youth groups have been called to meet in the Rand School of Social Sciences Saturday...
...Pres...
...Mot a single man from the strikers enrolled in or assisted in any way the company outfit...
...They, through their council and through the bricklayers organizations and central body issued strict orders to all their men on the jobs not to use any brick or second hand material from the old buildings on strike...
...Being an incorrigible optimist I am always on the lookout for a ray of hope, ifiy search was rewarded the other day when I ran across a strike of the house wrecking industry...
...N. j. He is a member of the Civil Liberties Union, on the Board of Directors of the League for Industrial Democracy and has been active in the colleges in organizing the League...
...Victory in Stroodsberg STROUDSBURG, Pa.— (FP...
...hopeful about I the strike of the House Wreckers is that...
...An old-timer in the textile labor battle, he was active in the 1913 Paterson silk strike, and served two years in prison as a result of anti-labor prosecutions following it...
...It was a blackleg or scab affair from the start and it has not helped the contractors very much...
...Jewish and German and Irish extraction...
...P P) — Butchers, meat cutters and drivers locked out by the Cudahy, Armour, Bwift and Wilson packing firms in Scranton have been pledged the full support of the Central abor Union and Miners District 1. The unionists were locked out to enable the packers to cut wages...
...Youth Groups to Cooperate At May Day Celebration Youth organizations have been called into special conference to help in lining up activities at the big May Day meeting in Madison Square Garden...
...At this meeting the groups will be assigned to committees for service at the May Day meeting and each organization is urged to have its representatives on hand promptly...
...at 2 p. m. They include the college group, the Y. P. S. L„ the Y. C. L...
...A magistrate in one instance suggested their being deported...
...them was balked by the walkout...
...Groups of seats have been sold to unions, and members and friends of the organization by a committee beaded by Harry Sbuster and Mrs...
...Who knows but it may be the turning of the tide from craft unionism to some form of industrial organisation...
...Los Angeles May Day Demonstration Will Hear Bishop Paul Jones (By a New Leader Correpond) LOS ANGELES.—The Socialists of Los Angeles County nave secured Bishop Paul Jones to speak at their May 1st Celebration at Music Art HaU, 233 So...
...The teamsters in their turn are loyal and are fighting hard with the wreckers...
...QUINLAN HEADS SILK WORKERS PATERSON, N. J.—(FP)—Pat Quintan is the new broadsilk organizer of the Associated Silk Workers...
...Italian...
...The Sinclair scheme however covers workers only during their employment, making no provision for those who maybe squeezed out by speedup or slack times...
...There is no preaching of .industrial unionism but that- doctrine in practice is being lived up to-most religiously by all the crafts in the strike and the building trades...
...The firm, cut of its...
...Sinclair Co...
...In renewing his appeal for still greater activity, the A. P. of L executive said substantial progress has been made the last few months...
...he says, "are important factors in cooperative group insurance and have done much to make this form of insurance appreciated by self-respecting, American workers who ask no favors, but are eager to enroll in a protective program having nc strings attached and bearing no trace of paternalism...
...Roger N. Baldwin, director of the American Civil Liberties Union, presided as chairman...
...They are ask_ng for a dollar and thirtyfive for the bar men who ere skilled and a dollar twenty-five for the helpers or laborers...
...In a strike of scarcely 2.000 men "one rarely sees so many races involved and certainly one seldom sees each solidarity...
...Recent revelations are convincing of the innocence of both," said a telegram sent to Governor Young by Branch Pottstown of the Socialist Party...
...Working With Teamsters What makes me fee...
...Efforts of the unions involved and of state and federal mediators to arrange conferences have been spurned by the Big Pour packers, acting in Unison...
...This is a new industry and is a product of the modern specialized condition-, that cb'.ain in the buildtns trade of New York and other large cities...
...The latter promised to accede to all the demands of the Local Union 95—increase in wages and improvement in working conditions—if they would withdraw from and sever connections with the teamsters and chauffeurs...
...A.S.W...
...Police in some cases arrested them and gave them lectures on civic virtue...
Vol. 8 • April 1929 • No. 15
