A PAGE OF EXCLUSIVE FEATURES
A PAGE OF EXCLUSIVE FEATURES PROSPERITY, Or Ain't We Got Fun? \gfbo worker* meet on Sixth Avenue, New York 1 cjtT( m"front of an employment Agency.) •g,ao, Jake. You ain't looking so good....
...10,000 were built, 10,000 were under construction and the remaining 10.000 would be built immediately after these are finished...
...Now let me think...
...i • • • •net's funny...
...The union does not care whether a contractor is a member of the Association as long as the contractor signs the agreement, and lives up to the rules of the agreement...
...Where are the mothers of these children—playing bridge...
...And up comes a little guy tits a white collar and horn-rimmed glasses...
...Us, I got something pretty fancy...
...0^ I remember now...
...The New York Building Trades Employers do not believe in the open shop...
...You know in one of them places they set a mark for you to shoot at, so much a day...
...they i* mostly cuckoo...
...30.000 more were planned...
...Brindell knew that in order to control the unions he must have the walking delegates, and he proposed that the unions, to be eligible to representation in the Building, Trades Council, must elect their Business Agents for a term of three years and must pay them a salary of not less than $75.00 a week...
...So I get myself together mentally to dope out soma reason for this contradictory state of affairs...
...To the dumps of hell with the whole of It...
...Let me say this then, that the week of April 27 the Woman's Department was crowded out by the May Day material...
...The union files a copy of the | agreement with the Building Trade* Council, while the employers file a copy with the Board of Governors...
...Conversation fairly rages...
...What do you mean'" "I mean the little white-collar run out to the front smes and said they should fire me, that's what I sets...
...The carpenters had four different organizations, plus the wood-work- j era...
...ay don't you sell your stock...
...Of course I didn't get so more pay for all this...
...Get together at a radical committee meeting, and what have you...
...Rents are much lower...
...What is that there overproduction...
...Well, I ain't feeling so good...
...I hope > that it will be read by our comrades and 1 passed on to a friend and neighbor...
...And ;m 10 gosh-darned tired when the whistle blew I reralarly went to sleep as soon els I hit the flat...
...Did some one say that it should not have been' Speak to the editors, please...
...I am constantly yammering for the youth, the meagre numbers of our youth to step In and handle things awhile...
...The cafes and coffee houses were always thronged at night with groups of discussionists...
...th*t di"h-w**hers is wanted...
...Drudgery at a Minimum I was interested in the central laundry ' containing washers, dryers, mangles of the modern type...
...I inquired in my halting German of one of the women standing at the long lines of tubs, how long it took her...
...That is why...
...things were again unsatisfactory to the Employers Association...
...Sinclair and bubonic plague is merely a symptom of the rotten state beneath...
...On the other hand, the hang-dog vlaaged Carrie Nations who smash saloons, and hound the home-brewers, and pass anU-whiskey lews, are Just sub-consciously sore at themselves for not having the guts ta come out in the open and dosing up their horribly parched lives with sting and solace of alcohol...
...I . set one of these personnel workers once...
...They and their families are to be made to suffer...
...He's ^•pretty good line...
...There is not space here for detail but every detail was thought out with the comfort and welfare of each child constantly in mind...
...TOh, you got to have an education to do that...
...We have ceased to be the old time well-rounded human beings that used to throng about halls, and picnic grounds, bazaars and the like, full of diverse energies, and skilled in the great arts of selfdiscipline and self-denial...
...Come again!—THE EDITOR...
...And these boose'Verbal raeketeasa give me the willies in this case...
...T3R0THER RE SNICK'S sonnet la keyed quits closely to the general feeling among Socialists in America...
...Norman claims that it was agreed to give all trades in the building industry the | five-day week with the present wages ! for five and one-half days beginning . August 24...
...I got hive* and I . job and my wife left me and last week I rsa e'er by a feller in a Rolls-Royce...
...It's caused by overproduction.'' » * * ^Tj that so...
...This building had a kindergarten which was our first calling place as the children must not be disturbed during their afternoon rest period...
...There ; was a central bath with modern facilities (in Vienna private baths are almost unknown except for the quite rich) and a great, modern central laundry for the use of the families in this block...
...I don't believe in kindergartens, anyway.' Such are the stumbling blocks to progress...
...All these attempts failed because of the opposition Of the walking delegates...
...It was just there that I began wondering where these Viennese crowding the cafes, sitting for hours over a cup of coffee or a stein of beer, actually lived...
...It was at that time that Charles Eidlitz of the Marc Eidlitz Construction Co...
...Said I, "Oh, here are the mothers of the children in the kindergarten...
...Where and under what conditions do the Viennese people live...
...Norman tried to convey the impression that the union refused to supply union men to the three contractors because they left the Contractors Association, which is not so...
...Now to come to understand the present situation...
...Parks back to her naUve country in Europe...
...r* "* • • • b MM...
...There have been many instances where the Employers Association conceded everything to a union, provided the union would publicly concede that the Board of Governors is all-supreme...
...But this does not explain, does It...
...In spite of all this most of the unions refused to accept the Arbitration plan, and they were promptly locked out...
...Whatever is to-day in the radical world is so stratumed with layers of narrowed individuals, that unity for purpose and act is indeed difficult to attain...
...And after the organizer left, foreman came through and said we could have ^™oa of our own if we wouid pay no attention to outside agitators...
...We Wr" *w,t prosperous country in the world right a* -7.*" gtyxl o'd U. ,S...
...Their writings sell...
...You ** tbey had just let us in on the ground floor at the f*P- They come around and told us that we could 2^J0nM of the stock of the company and then we b* *tock-holder* just like the big boys and it "¦ad be our company...
...The cafes where her lighthearted people cany on their social life are observation posts for the visitor...
...They are so poor, these ; Viennese, so dreadfully poor...
...I asked how many in her family and she answered "Nine...
...They found that man in Robert P. Brindell, who shortly before that had broken the strike of the carpenters in New York...
...Brindell developed the system of holding up builders and contractors who were not members of the Employers Association...
...We have the task of cleaning up the filthiest set of stables since Hercules turned loose the rivers In his Augean task...
...New Hornet Rise This is what I saw and a little of what I heard...
...Thereupon three contractors resigned from the Electrical Contractors Association, and joined the Building Trades Employers Association as individual members...
...The Building Trades Employers Association wants unions but wants unions which will recognize the supremacy of the Employers Association...
...I read a piece in the paper the ether day saying the reason for all this prosperity a* got is because the workers are producing more tats ever before...
...and views of particular interest to the woman of the labor movement...
...Once more the Board of Governors of the Building Trades Employers Association, is trying to enforce its rule on the industry regardless of the consequences...
...She replied four hours...
...In every cafe there is a supply of newspapers and magazines, card tables and sometimes billiard tables...
...But in a fuller deflniteness we are all thinking along our unconsciously specialized alleys...
...So I quit...
...asthmaticany over asinine issues, when there are such Hmialavas of injustice and crime to batter down with the ngntnlng bolt* of reason, and the thunder of our protest...
...In 1928 the Board of Governors of the Building Trades Employers Association In addition to the individual agreements made by each trade with the respective Employers Association, entered into an agreement with the Building Trade* Council, providing that the conditions as to wages (812 per day) and hours (5H days a week) shall not be changed until the first of January, 1930...
...Time was too when our working class In spite of longer hours found time to read and study...
...The custom is that every union in a trade and the employers of the trade meet and work out an agreement regulating hours, wages, and working condi; tlons...
...So they get then- name ta the papers...
...This public bath is so grand that at first the workers were afraid of its very elegence but soon they learned that even the workers may bathe in white tile surroundings with plenty of water and towels, and entering the door when I passed through was what was obviously a very poor, patched group of four little ones with a fagged looking mother carrying a dilapidated bag which undoubtedly contained clean "undies" to be donned after the baths...
...There- are 35 miles of water and steam pipes for the shower and tub baths, Turkish and medicinal baths, massage, pedicure, shampoo, etc...
...Finally, it occurs that some one condition contributes mostly to the langnidity of our mood aa rebels...
...Prior to 1903, the employer* with few exceptions were not organized, while the unions through the Board of Walking Delegates were all powerful...
...Said he, "Well...
...The administration planned and actually built 30.000 fiats each containing from 3 to 6 rooms renting at cost...
...I mean the old timers of course...
...I've been working in one of tgtte efficiency shops...
...Employers Get an Injunction They first tried to stop the Electrical Contractors from carrying out the agreement with the union, by securing an injunction, and falling in that, suspended the electrical contractors from the Employers Association...
...They have no laurels to lean back upon with grandiose poses...
...A great play room, a rest room with straw mats and cribs, a lunch room, a little wash room lined on one side with low basins and on the other with hooks placed low for little hands to reach to hang coats, hats, aprons...
...Everything was going swell until «2j"t Una here technological disease...
...On, one of these economic shark* told me all about ft as Other day...
...To do that they had to have a man...
...JOSEPH RESMCK...
...Brindell died a rich man...
...a gods use job...
...Or maybe I could get to write about economics...
...The union is not interested in whether he is a member of the Contractors Association or not...
...That » a man tlse job...
...all of them taking the problems of life seriously, and all of tbem earnestly seeking a way out...
...First, remember, was the kindergarten...
...Out of such stuff, a new and intensely effective movement can be reared...
...I was cer-tsssty turning out the stuff...
...75,000 men are to be locked out...
...We all know the Better Day la coming, but a lot of us are Just blundering along in the swamps of doubt, Pretty Inconsistent and hard to explain...
...I want poems of protest against the system that enslaves free men and I want to hear from man and women who have mills and mines and •bop* and the whole crooked political mess clear in sight...
...Yes," said my guide, "the people have had no other place for their homes are crowded beyond comfort or reason, unheated, old and squalid...
...And mass production . . , Tailors who knew the fine points of the entire garment, shunted themselves off into little groups of separate interest . . . buttonhole makers, pants p rest erg vest liners, collar fitters...
...And thanks to those who called me up...
...Miss Leslie was for many years secretary of the New York Women's Trade I Union League, and is now abroad studyi ing workers' education...
...By and by, tkt eely thing they didn't have me hitched on to was a oroom so that I could sweep up the place while I was working everything but my eye-teeth...
...Well, it's like this...
...We ensure practising that at home these days...
...The difference between Sam Parks and Brindell was this: Parks died a poor man and a collection had to be taken up to send Mrs...
...In the meantime one of the unions secured a court injunction enjoining the Employers Association from carrying out the lockout threat...
...Sometimes I think that the new tangled mental research stuff does hit upon the right dope when It suggests that th* things we consciously shout against the most, we unconsciously lack and desire...
...The unions organised by the employers had to, by force of circumstances, amalgamate with the bona-fide organisations...
...And the result flows subtly through every union meeting, every organization for social protest and change...
...but that these men will necessarily have to work under union conditions, which means five days a week...
...health conditions are immeasurably better...
...I shuddered and dared not ask whether she had the ; largest sized flat—six rooms—for her ; family of nine...
...Mayor Hague...
...And this is the reason for my story...
...Vienna has- a Socialist city administration and so I went around to tne beautiful Gothic "Rathaus," the seat of this government, with my query...
...I wish to whatever gods exist that my «wtt in Che open spaces stop pestering this column with poems and tirades about the Volstead Act...
...I "wan • . • 1st th.' thinS we &ot to be thankful for...
...This order was to go in effect Wednesday evening May 15...
...The Building Trades Employers Association having decided not to recognize the agreement of the Electrical Workers Union with their employers...
...The movement for SJodallam would come forth into its glorious own if half the emotion expended by good and true Socialists were employed to get subs for the New Leader, and members into the party...
...But the person who was to have gotten me the facts took sick, and so the whole article was left out— waiting for the necessary data before It can be completed...
...The unions in the Building Trades Council were preparing to ask for the five-day~>eek at the termination of the present agreement...
...i guess tbt old woman and I are the best edonomizet% there ¦ these days...
...Employers Organize The result was the formation of the BuUding Trades Employers Association...
...BUILDING TRADES IN TURMOIL Arrogance of Contractor's Group Threatens To Tie-Up Industry By Julius Gerber to understand th* situation in the Building Industry of Mew York, one must go back to 1903...
...Well that's what I couldn't figure out...
...When leaving I saw two women arriving In a taxi also carrying the telltale bags of "undies...
...The "Marienbad," a large and beautiful building containing facilities for 2,000 baths with an average daily business of 15.000 patrons...
...They prefer to have the trades organized, provided the* unions will "cooperate" with the employers...
...And since we of the old guard are so woefully specialized to our tasks for living, it might bo wise to stand back and help our own iiray^ng as leaders in a movement that require* more in all around ability that we can possibly summon up in ourselves...
...But I never seen what it got me and u* old woman got sore about taking out the dues "¦T month...
...And then again, these same' pests who howl about pro and con on the hootch question find that they get an easy publicity in the press because the subject is so inconsequential a social matter...
...conceived the idea of starting the Building Trades Employers Association in which the employers of every branch in the building industry were organized either through their associations or as individuals...
...Literally a people's bath for all the people...
...No cafes are allowed or needed on the premises...
...3 and 4 rooms, small, spotlessly clean, , light: running water, central heat, elecI trie light, gas stoves, semi-private enI trance halls, that is, only two apartments I to a floor opening into each hall...
...It got this here technological ***«»toyment.'' • . . / -Goad that's fierce...
...The hundreds of literary and artistic forums that existed ail over the east side in New York for instance, sent forth into the arena of the industrial struggle a whole army of enthusiastic and well-informed propagandists...
...I*t the Brouns and the Hsflins guzzle and buss away at thasr pat piffling We a* SeclalWts ought to be ashamed of whe«tes...
...That's what they write in the paper., But aey also write that Tex Guinan never took a'drink of hootch and that you can keep thin by smoking cigirets and that John D. Rockefeller is a great philisthropist" "What you going to do about this technological ****tyoucaUit...
...Charles Eidlitz said: "What makes these men go on strike, suffer privations, often go hungry, Just to help their fellow craftsmen...
...My foreman told me they was all Rooshians and that ¦Si*** out to grab off the government so they saat^ toe good looking dames and nationalize them...
...I was prompt...
...All our arguments, all our plans, all our proposals show up with the clear taint of our narrowed interests...
...Consumption of intoxicants has fallen greatly according to recent statistics...
...Said he gazing on the children...
...Tou said something about unions...
...This mixed with persistent egoism and petty pride makes for the usual conference whose result is a sub-committee to bring in recommendations that are either never brought in, or discussed again with tepid enthusiasm into dull futility...
...Tne first Socialist administration was faced with the fact that there was an unparalleled housing shortage, rents were soaring, workers were unemployed, everyone was poor...
...The Building Trades Council then ordered strikes of all other trades on buildings where non-union electricians were employed...
...Meet of the unions were broken and dual organizations were organized by the employers...
...It was impossible for a contractor on a building to employ non-union men, or use nonunion made material where the union demanded material made by union men.' There existed a large number of" dual unions...
...I doubt me if the passions that have stirred The sons of Altruism will do so still...
...Be ready at one tomorrow afternoon and we will show you...
...S. A. «U Witt...
...He never ;**a the inside of a factory before he got the job, tat he bad written a book telling all about the psy•Wogy of the American worker and how different it *u from the European boys who have their unions «*1 don't play around with the bosses...
...But all that is an evasion and a low sort of enterprise against the basic injustice that manifests itself In swollen profits for the few, and barely a living lor the multitudes...
...In 1905, most of the unions had reorganized...
...So they cat a* down like I was a skunk cabbage in a rosesel Me and a lot of other guys...
...Prohibition, like the subways...
...For several years attempts were made to organize a Building Trades Council in New York...
...Last week, well, there just was not enough time to do anything else—except that which absolutely had to be done...
...I "tOB * * " ; wto -B*?ld lt- This country is good enough for me...
...I mean he said I was turning out too much staff and that our production was running ahead of av sales and they would have to cut down...
...Wading pools, swimming pools, parks, playgrounds were built also...
...Unconsciously, this specialization squeezed the vision, the energy and the will of each worker into narrower and more selfish limits of interest...
...a blue lake and other attractive pictures...
...Many of the walking delegates on whom the employers "had" something, fearing they might follow Sam Parks to Sing Sing, were made to favor the plan...
...Brindell Emerge* Things drifted on with intermittent strikes and lockouts until 1911 or '13, when the employers conceived a new idea,—that in order to have peace with the unions they must control the unions from inside...
...And the mare people talk about prohibition, the more newspapers are sold and so the vicious circle of cheap press notice and cheap talk is encouraged...
...What did he say give It to me ? fj, ye...
...Helklt, president of the Building Trades Council, on the other hand states that he never made such a promise, but agreed to use his good offices with the Electrical Workers Union to straighten out the trouble, and thereby make sympathetic strikes unnecessary...
...In the meantime the agitation for the five-day week started...
...It was encouraging to find that there really exists an Interest in this department, i Mr...
...They feared that the other unions would follow suit and ask for the five-day week before January, 1930...
...Why can't we, who have thousands of dollars at stake, we, who are more intelligent and more educated than the workers do the same...
...I was wonaKtog how you get a job in this efficiency racket...
...In other words that [ the Building Trades Council sell out the electricians for the consideration of getting the five-day week at the end of August, this year, instead of January next year...
...Inside the partitions were of glass, the sunshine bathing everything and everyone...
...Outside there was a play garden...
...it ought to rouse your pride to attempt it Tbto booaa business is a starved flea in consequence against It...
...I think the Heywooi Brouns are sore at the prohibitionists because m scene sort of unconscious sanctum, a puritan Haywood ha tat the slow poison that wracks the Intestines and plays merry hall with the joy of living a natural and healthy life...
...Every member had to deposit a large sum of money or a bond to guarantee observance of the decisions of an all powerful Board of Governors...
...It was not enough...
...Americans at home are friendly enough, but Americans abroad enjoy a special sense of friendliness toward compatriots and so, when outside the pretty kindergarten, an American doctor hailed me, I readily agreed to his accompanying us on our tour of city buildings...
...Then we visited some of the flats...
...three contractors are refused union men is because under orders of the Building Trades Employers Association they are not permitted to comply with the agreement of the union...
...As to what transpired at this conference opinions differ...
...A. Just think if we was in C W tbem European countries...
...And none of them has as yet become a specialist in any one line...
...In a definite measure we are all rebels against the existing order...
...A Skeptical American And now I must tell you a story...
...Every woman can do her washing in two hours...
...That is the background to the present situation in the building industry of New York...
...The Building' Trades Employers Association then promulgated the "Plan of Arbitration" by which all strikes and particularly sympathetic strikes were outlawed...
...Beautiful art collections, the music of her many justly famous composers, a very fine opera, beautiful avenues and parks, the wonderful Danube, and lastly, the gayety of her people...
...Their new homes are places in which to five as well as to sleep and eat...
...This appealed to the Business Agents, because it secured them their position for three years (whereas they were previously elected for terms of six months to a year) and gave them a minimum salary of $75 a week, which was considerably more than the unions then paid...
...He says there's more than to go around providing the workers organize "** they can get shorter hours and higher pay...
...Jake, you ain't had nothing happen to you at alL W-E& on til you hear what I got...
...This lockout lasted from about June, 1903 well into 1904...
...This plan was submitted to the various unions with the admonition that if they did not accept and adhere to it, they would be locked out...
...Anything ««*uter...
...I heard that there were more than 50 of these modern kindergartens in Vienna built by the city during the last 5 years...
...Ana these were no narrowed experts in any on* subject...
...40.000 new homes for families of small means, laborers, clerks, chemists, skilled artisans, young professional men and women, teachers, etc...
...Or that their trust in man's love-unity Can long endure, although I know it will...
...The week of May 5, I wanted to write something which would have been of much interest to women in general, and to party members In particular...
...I am grateful to all those interested in this department...
...This ended with the Untermyer investigation which sent Brindell to Sing Sing...
...Later, we came to the central laundry...
...We begin again with a most interesting story sent to me by Miss Mabel Leslie...
...All white' with little touches of rose here and there...
...Then came the war...
...As a matter *t fact I was ahead of anyone else on the floor...
...the market had gone to hell and I lost ¦a«r* on it," sJ% 100k- There's one of the Socialist speakers ~*n- I heard him talking the other day...
...Roumanian Premier Promises an Amnesty (By a Stw Leader Correspondent) Bucharest,—To the quesUon of the Social-Democratic Parliamentary Group, if i and when the Government proposes to grant the amnesty, the Prime Minister has indirectly replied that the GovernI ment will grant the amnesty on the 10th | May...
...To make it appear that the Association was not organized against the Unions, a prominent labor man, a former President of the International Typographical Union, was made secretary of the association...
...and for that consideration, i the Building Trades Council was to call ' off all sympathetic strikes in favor ot j the electricians...
...These three electrical contractors refused to grant to their employees the five-day week with five and one-half days wages...
...This culminated in the Sam Parks Scandal, which landed Parks in jail and compelled a number of other delegates to leave New York for a safer clime...
...A lawyer who specializes on civil liberty cases opposed by a lawyer who does labor union work, an advertising man who does commercial work in the English field, as against one who solicits Yiddish ads., a poet who does pretty sonnets against a columnist who rejects loads of them, a business man who sells paper, and one who does printing, an Ironworker union official, and two secretaries of two separate dual unions in one trade...
...If* got a long —-e...
...Vienna" and "Beauty" are synonymous terms...
...Walking along to our first stop my guide told me a little about the city developments for the people...
...That's what I'm trying to figure out...
...Oneal and Mr...
...who could control the unions...
...Sometimes i I think half the sorrow of the war after! math is centered there in that great, beautiful city, almost literally without a j country...
...I doubt me that the dreams that lie interred Jn^hearts of brooding men will ever be...
...We joined up with the company union and to play the slip-horn on the band and when we *** » picnic up to Bear Mountain, my old woman won fcarrted ladies' potato race and the President of company himself come around and shook hands Personally...
...The reason thes...
...These conditions made for sympathetic strikes, which in turn made the openings for a form of graft in which employers or contractors played walking delegates and thereby "insured" against strikes...
...They have not outgrown the humbler and less spectacular tasks of Socialist work...
...My wife didn't know whether to bawl me out or give me t basd for working so hard...
...and two fine swimming pools, one shallow enough for children of school age for svery Viennese boy and girl must learn to swim...
...In a vague broad sense, we all want the Co-operative Commonwealth...
...Those who have come our way, still are blessed with the Jack-of-all trades spirit...
...From the laundry we went on past building after building holding its hundreds of newly and comfortably housed workers to what is one of the great sights Even the tourist guide books mention it...
...Edited by Pauline M. Newman CONCERNING WOMAN A department of new...
...Le Vinson had better take notice of this...
...Although it is therefore now established that an amnesty will be granted, no one yet knows who will be Included in it and for what I offences it will be granted...
...There were 100 children below school age...
...Builders and owners will lose thousands of dollars, aye millions, and all because Usee small contractors who would rather obey the orders of the Board of Governors than have peace in the Industry...
...m. J00*' 1 n°P* y°u e*et » J°b- I se« » sign t*»*2...
...How come you got that...
...What followed Is still in the memory of most of us...
...So we all signed up one of jf** papers saying we wouldn't belong to no outBaioo...
...I'm going |* &*«/¦ over- T^" is, if I can ever get through McAlister Coleman...
...A Word of Explanation QUITE a few comrades called me up —wanting to know what has happened to the Woman's Department...
...These are ceri tain points in this story that are of spe' cial interests to working women...
...We come, first to a great block of concrete flats, "six stories high—one of the older buildings, they are building them lower now—built around a huge inner court so that every little home within has light from two sides and all have sunlight sometime during the day...
...The painters were divided in three groups and many other crafts had two or more organizations...
...The** Contractors Force Lockout When the Building Trades Council refused to call off the sympathetic strikes, Norman Issued the order for a general lockout of all trades...
...Well, this question was exactly to the taste of this administration...
...vast have you got...
...I used to belong * one once...
...H. H. Broach, head of the Electrical Workers Union, states that if the three contractors are willing to employ union men, he will supply them with men...
...THE CHATTER BOX Sonnet When wearied eyes look out upon the m*) Of earthly struggles and perceive the wild, Ungainly onrush of humanity Glutting the greedy ports, unreconciled To each another's need.—When wearied eyes Have scanned the teeming world of petty hates And wars, and seen how man will terrorise* In subtle selfish ways, his meeker mates...
...These city built dwellings form a great city within the greater city of Vienna, i At first a garden city was the ideal, but | too many homes were urgently needed j so that only now is a lovely little garden ! city getting under way in the suburbs...
...Some of the trades where one organisation existed combined and by 1907-8...
...In his opening address at the Organization Meeting...
...Each with its sign for identification—a Tose, a butterfly, a yellow bee...
...Just before I lost the job j*** was a union organizer around telling the boys that "•""y way to protect their jobs was to have a strong ™°a But we just give him the horse laugh...
...101(111 *" "sht but by ^ time 1 got aroun<1 v*™>tT...
...Modern Play Schools Such a pretty kindergarten...
...This Injunction has stayed the lockout until Friday, May 17...
...Madison Square Garden, this May-Day, showed up an out-pouring of comrades and fellow-workers, who seemed to have specialized mainly in country hiking, and were using th* corridors and aisles of the vast place to keep in active practice...
...Sometime* I forget it...
...And i was well over the mark...
...This the Building Trades Employers Association will not permit...
...The Electrical Workers Union, though a part of the Building' Trades Council, meeting with their employers, the Electrical Contractors Association, managed to secure for their members the five-day week with the same wages as for five and one-half days, beginning with April first, 1929, instead of January first, 1930...
...I spoke of the cafes...
...This followed into ovary industry of whatever merchandise and material...
...After a long study, I conclude that the age of specialization has contributed the main wallop on our once pugnacious chins...
...Christian G. Norman, as chairman of j the Board of Governors of the Building | Trades Employers Association, called a j conference with representatives of Build| tag Trades Council...
...I hastened to point out that these were the children of mothers who did their own house work and who helped earn the family livllhood...
...Seen and Heard in Vienna By MABEL LESLIE JOGGING along from country to country I inevitably came to Vienna...
...Sure...
...But I figured that I'd get attention from the Big Boas, if I run around all day with a couple of machines on my back...
...The union was therefore compelled to withdraw their members from these contractors, who then put non-union men to work...
...This made the Board of Governors of the Building Trades Employers Association angry...
...Well, I rot attention all right...
...And be swk* *t my card and begin* to hum and haw (toaad and then he looks-at me and says, 'My man, ¦jc're in a serious condition.' " *« * * •What was the matter with you then...
...t you pay no attention to them fellers...
...It was added that it- will be a political and military amnesty...
Vol. 8 • May 1929 • No. 18
