COMMUNIST RELIEF WORK' IN STRIKE
COMMUNIST RELIEF WORK' IN STRIKE E, With EmIndicates Title jug Boston I WoVX H. Kalish » aSaLA—Shre* conferences wttn vn¦SS^^-^actorfrs during tbe last T ^fliig^tSth* information...
...The American Federation of Labor agreed to grant federal charters to the remaining locals of the United with the promise that the locals would not hereafter be split up at the instance of the international unions...
...He served on the Board of Directors of the Illinois Association for Criminal Justice together with President John H. Walker of the Illinois State Federation of Labor, who was given a vicepresidency in the association...
...Five master barbers were arrested for violating the New York State statute covering desecration of the American flag...
...Fur union denounces Communists "Strike" Talk Called Irresponsible — Declare Workers Will Ignore Call rrnsx International Fur Workers' Union A of the United States and Canada has issued the following statement to explain the situation in the New York fur industry where the Communists operating through the Needle Workers' Industrial Union have been holding meetings In order to stir up interest in the caning of a general strike among the furriers: Tor the last two years the Industry has been in bad shape...
...Four locals, making up the larger portion of the old independent union,- have already been chartered...
...Harry W. Laidler, Carl Larson, Harry Mai lis...
...Helen Sllverr*'""««tel...
...Auto Workert Struggle On The situation among tbe auto workers has taken a new turn...
...L Kaplan...
...And as the workers are deter- j mined to ignore the call they are to be j terrorized in the factory district...
...Charles Schoushan, Theodore Shapiro, Charles Solomon...
...They constitute the more important half of the "Big.Four," aristocratic brotherhoods on tbe railroads, the other two being the Conductors and the Trainmen...
...Katn hoots of the W I. R. were inEpfiiH found that they had alCgTggSjstad the expenses for their Enj |X salaries, and for printing, all faksst Sansg the permission of the EsaVBSBsnhes...
...lkgf, s osaaber of the W. I. R apLmt SSw* the United 8hoe Workers Ksa asi asked-that a contract be jssilliln than all rights in the ralslat at noocy...
...Joseph A. Weil, Simon Wolfe, Minnie Welsberg, Morris Wolfman...
...A. Plsher...
...So far as we know all but Woll publicly repudiated the recommendation of the report...
...The workers are bent upon fighting it out to a finish, though their very town la vanishing from them...
...44 Eltzabethat workers found ouily as Pickets mSk&mS^SSL^S am rf the majestic law is nutmlQuHy stow, hot it Mb struck lt» btow Just ss surely dad as vigorously on the sMs ef the sag rayon rnrntanans as the fsitrr moving pflttfai the strikers have known an along that the dvil and military forces of the state But not even the most pessimistic Bad' Snsgtnod that the supposed court of jusee would render so flagrantly an unjust tecialoo as has teat barn rendered against M of the 52 strikers on trial for picketing...
...QUEENS COCNTT Leonard Bright, Israel Braverman, Wm...
...the second ten years later...
...Secretary Victor A. Olander of tbe Illinois State Federation of Labor must have been right when he commented on labor's failure to prevent the passage of the state constabulary measure: "The legislation was inevitable in the present session...
...Practically nobody in tbe town has bad any employment in all these months...
...Ernest K. ¦SB *ha Klelnberg...
...near future...
...These have been the methods used by the Communists in a deceptive fur strike in 1927, in the recent dress strike and in all their strike-provoking attempts here 1 and in other countries...
...And the revised agreements were hailed by the workers with satisfaction and unanimous approval...
...These unions are the only responsible organisations in the industry, the only ones recognized by the employers as legitimate bona-fide unions, because they represent, as already stated, 05 percent of all the workers and are thus entitled to speak in their name...
...Further, HawVmw* factories, all employing MSaf UerUnued Shoe Workers, are K^amasnal men thus Indicating PfVlr^r getang the business that RliamnerBy come to Boston and iSa^mfUmt unless the manufacl^wfwaaa ciUa sign up their cus_K_-*t«n to Lynn to fill their SSJtesttng side-light of the -dgess the activity of the WorkI5amwSw*l Belief, the Communist F^St^M** ** atrike had been E^oTleT" about four weeks, officers ar T.B...
...John P. Spengler...
...This "union" is composed of cloak and dress makers, cap and millinery workers, clothing workers and even school children of their Young Workers' League...
...Socialists f Wq Name Ticket mm k •_ SS>3...
...COMMUNIST RELIEF WORK' IN STRIKE E, With EmIndicates Title jug Boston I WoVX H. Kalish » aSaLA—Shre* conferences wttn vn¦SS^^-^actorfrs during tbe last T ^fliig^tSth* information that W*tZ^m beginning to press the *» ^7iIM^ «— money...
...Louis Stanley, Miss Bertha Berg...
...70, signed almost identical collective agreements with the three manufacturers' associations in the Industry providing and guaranteeing fair and satisfactory conditions of labor...
...ssaaaa> Is Attempted 'aWat?*ny theT hxA been told th4t E...
...Coming as this defeat did at the annx time aa British labor took over His Majesty's government, ft has arouse...
...Ever since Herrin the employers have been trying hard to put over a system of state troops and organized labor of Illinois has resisted their efforts furiously...
...Pennsylvania Laborites Cast Envious Eyes At The British Labpr Party Defeat of Mrs...
...I OmSaB* apeakers a? such, bed been VsTtsa SBeakmg at the strikers' meetVMst wan tbe W. I. R in charge of •"Oay aajne Into meetings ostensibly •sSshot the progress of their work...
...Voters will be enthusiastic Republicans, or Intense Democrats, set at best they wUI be only lukewarm non-partisans...
...They blind the public with their mixed crowds, followed by curious spectators...
...There is something pathetic, however, in the spectacle of a basic industry like automobiles organized into a handful of federal locals...
...Finding nothing more dangerous than a camping outfit, the police finally directed us out of Gaston County...
...It was also found that Hi sat aoQactsd from shoe strikers...
...They were glad at the peace- j ful adjustment because of the bitter ex- j perience of the wasteful Communist-led I strike of 1S26, from the consequences of which a great many workers are still suffering...
...They are thereby concealing their aim to cause industrial disturbances | and rule by force and violence as they ) did in 1926 and 1027...
...A. N. Weln¦snse/WaiMart, Max Weren...
...The case indicated the favor in which the barbers' union has come to be held by the general community because of persistent follow-up work in a trade characterized by small and scattered shops...
...A Friedman, •^^¦kod, J. l. Afros...
...The anion la determined to extend control over hitherto unorganised hand laundries before it tackles allied fields...
...Four months ago the Furriers' Joint Council of New York compromising Local Unions Nos...
...awnaged, to br composed of Caggen, five to be members of the C l a Bsatlnp were to be held once ¦ BgaSjat ten days $1500 was raised L_s)slay the lingers themselves from toon...
...Dora Wat¦^'^¦JhWarshow...
...When President Henry Egoi sooner, if the W. I. R. decided Ejpgf Resly 30% and keep 70...
...The usual evictions from company-owned houses have taken place and these will have to be challenged in the courts...
...Max ¦ajy-^JS Goldsmith...
...Whatever the number of its members, it is an insignificant percentage—the rag-tag and bobtail of the workers in these industries, while the leaders are utterly discredited and carry no weight and no responsibility in the shops and the strike is intended, they openly declare, to break the power of our | International Union and force the Comj munist dual organization upon the fur workers against their will, j "The public and the reliable press win ! be well advised to take this new Comi munist gesture in the fur industry as a ' fresh attempt on the part of the Communist group to throw up a smoke-screen...
...Certain it is, that the aea-sarUaan parley of the Assertean Federation ef Laser has failed to predeee resaRs, and the eeavtetiea is increasing among the rank and ale, that User eeuM be no worse off ander any ether peltry, or no policy at afl...
...We were both instantly forced back into the car at the point of deputies' guns and taken to police headquarters, accompanied by two armed deputies standing on the running boards...
...J. Mogil, Hyman Nemser, Rufus L. Perry, Saul Rlrkin...
...S. H. Friedman, Louis P. Goldberg, I. Oarflnk, Jacob Handler, William Halpern, Solomon Karasek...
...Hired i thugs and so-called pickets recruited j from other trades are to parade up and j down the streets in a deceiving makebelieve that fur workers are on a strike...
...On the contrary there has been universal jubilation...
...L^* *Slfca aimed to cause dissension V"****midst of a strike are in this Sana disgusting than dangerJ*""** the strikers having too great Jk**' **L «* tbe actual facte of the S-J** *MMJn hy Communist misVY...
...Such an action would have one good result, it would smoke eat the labor trucklers who are •laying both aides and the middle.-' These sentiments are not isolated...
...Magistrate Farrell dismissed the charges...
...sentences far tbe others range down to fines sf $10 and court oasts...
...In rendering his decision Chancellor Miller bemoans the fact that no indictments were brought against some of the union officials so that he might find them guilty, too...
...The long standing schism between the United Automobile, Vehicle and Aircraft Workers and tbe American Federation of Labor, is on the way to being healed...
...Magistrate Rosenbluth dismissed the case...
...Locomotive Firemen And Engineers The unseemly quarrel between the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and the Brotherhood of T promotive...
...The town of Newmarket draw* Its subsistence from the Newmarket Manufacturing Company, one of the oldest enterprises in the country...
...The first was founded in 1863...
...Anns iKWi Witkowaky, Raineri WalBBVlaC...
...Sail J*0'™ COUNTY •^^sanapole, Ellas Aron...
...Henry Gross, ¦i^-r12j'**tr...
...Casey Causes Reflection—The Unioa Label and The American Flag—A New Hampshire Strike—Other News of The Trades Union Movement' * ' ^ By Louis Stanley r-BpHE defeat of the widow of John J. Casey, who succeeded "Jim" Maurst X aa President of the Pennsylvania Federation of Labor, in her campaign to win her late husband's seat In Congress, has given the advanced work en of Lusexne County food for thought...
...Firemen and Enginemen, is deeply regretted by their friends...
...Patriotism and The Union Label A curious incident occurred in New York City recently involving the union label...
...Jacob EiS«»»ham Bass...
...Investigation by Organizer William Collins of the A. F. of L., and Organiser Anthony Merlino of the Journeymen Barbers, seemed to disclose that the attack had been undertaken by a single Individual, an ex-soldier with a -holy flag" complex...
...These employers had displayed the union shop card, which, ladies and gentlemen will recall, depicts the American eagle perched upon a shield bearing the American colors...
...Attorney Devine announces that he will carry an appeal to tbe United States Supreme Court if necessary...
...We were questioned separately and detained at the jail for more than an hour while our car was ransacked...
...Meanwhile, the A. F. of L. has created one or two auto workers' locals in Canada, The locals that have affiliated themselves with the American Federation of Labor feel that the assistance of other organised crafts like the chauffeurs and machinists will be of assistance to them...
...No doubt relief from sympathizers will be as welcome as it is needed...
...The nominal jurisdiction over aircraft workers was eliminated...
...Three of them are given ten-day lall sentences and-floss of $M each...
...The two organisations are among the oldest of our "»n™«i unions...
...Particularly is this true now that the Locomotive Engineers have fallen into financial difficulties, due to the failure of various v—rjrtng and real estate enterprises of the organization, and members have to be taxed to recoup losses...
...The firm then made application for an injunction...
...1. United Mine Workers of America, was led to remark editorially: "The sweeping victory of the British Labor Party has wen assay teaitaii to the stee ef these favoring the fermatien ef a similar party ha this reentry...
...All money furALgsatH* direct to the strikers...
...The Newmarket Strike Although not in the headlines, the textile strike in Newmarket, N. H., U worthy of the best traditions of the workers in the industry...
...possibility of coming to seme agreement...
...We hope that they will soon settle their differences...
...Family, Jr...
...A strike broke out which is now reaching tbe half-year mark...
...Furthermore, the Communist agents speak in the name of a mixed element— the so-called Needle Workers' Industrial Union...
...In reality these crowds are staged demonstrations for the j purpose of taking photographs...
...P"*a»BJ attributed signed by the aT* Bducational League with ry^*Bsarjr and Meade Refuse .rS-1***'Pontics" and "New MillYZ5TV^ Wm Wln Strike...
...PM Soy began to tell the strikers jgJjwB nsi the strike, advocating mass Wjjfcg SBd mass arrests, so that the Waomast aeon be fighting the police manufacturers., lessor, they began to "insert litersi,*ffc'th» food bags and also to hold f*Ps»*Bgs with members of the r*w_ and individuals from the ' P^PsBB OB how best to cause dis#*o«assg the strikers...
...Isidore Silverman, ¦BSJPfR, Joseph Weinberg, Abra¦fek, "^tJ...
...What was known as the Chicago Joint Agreement had governed the relations between the B. of L. E. and the B. of L. F. tc E. until 1927, when the membership and convention of the Engineers abrogated it The Firemen Insist upon maintaining the advantages they had under the agreement...
...Illinois' New Constabulary After all Illinois will have a state constabulary disguised as a highway police force...
...Meyer M. Raphael...
...Ida Greenblstt, IrvIbT^J...
...M. Selubsky...
...RICHMOND COUNTY Walter Dearing, Frances Parr...
...Major Paul E. Devine, the union's then requested national guardsmen to attorney, protested against the gross impropriety of the judge sitting in a case in which be was so personally concerned, but was brusquely overruled...
...Only seven concerns balked and of these only one shop is still on strike...
...ar longer to engage in relief T^^**¦ t R ahowed its real colors...
...Emil Bromberg...
...Terror in Gastonia As Cop Is Killed (CoaUaaei from rat* D license plate...
...But the company-controlled arm of the law reaehes far beyond the company property...
...Samuel Orr Ida ^BSSf^oken, Philip Pasik...
...Rose Brody, Walter Berkowitz, Nathan Chanin, Simon Cohen, A. James Emery, William M. Feigenbaum...
...Max Rosen, Sadie Rlvkin, Herman Rivkin...
...members of the Non-Partisan Labor League of Luzerne County -in favoi of separaat political action by saber C without any entangling alliances with either of the dominant parties.'* The Labor News," official organ of the WllkesBarre Central Labor Union and of District No...
...I produced a Federated Press credential and directed my companion, Jess Slaughter, a student at the University of North Carolina, to take some pictures of the scene...
...Lazarus Kaplan...
...Recently the militancy of the workers' leaders has slackened...
...Alternates: Mrs...
...N. Y. Shirt Ironers Signing Up Employers, The organization drive of New York Shirt Ironers' Union Local No...
...They are found in labor papers in all parts of the country...
...Morris RubinsoD...
...The other locals tinged by Communist influences are playing with the idea of an independent auto workers' union affiliated with the new national trade union center into which the Trade Union Educational League may be transformed at Cleveland this September...
...Norman • Thomas, bE "Bbnachlag, Harry Ulanoff, ¦ ™hu Morris Vavilew, Louis Bf^eaej Bataaa Wolowltz...
...The present temper ef the anion voters of this eeanty is that they have had enough of the policy of endorsing the candidates of ether parties and being completely Ignored after said candidates have been elected, and It would not be surprising if In the future labor will nominate its own candidates en a tabor party platform...
...The locals in Detroit, Pontiac and Flint are still holding out...
...Samuel B^Bsulman...
...I sanssaastt Breaks Down I SjjBCgSi entire five weeks no meetBp d Bt joint qommittee were held...
...This was the pes sod the agreement with the fett got immediately ended...
...These are located in New York, Brooklyn, Milwaukee and St...
...They are the key men in their industry...
...Confident of their craft strength and jealous of their big treasuries devoted to beneficiary work, they have resolutely refused to affiliate with tbe American Federation of Labor, although they have worked closely with the representatives of the A. F. of L. The latter has respected their jurisdiction...
...Edward LeVinson, James Oneai, Louis Stanley, Sadie C. Smith, Bamett Wolff...
...The truth is that a tremendous amount of enthusiasm, energy and boldness will be required to organize the automobile Industry...
...Notwithstanding all these facts the | Communist group threatens to call a j strike...
...cant with a proposition cT-^ststSOt their organisation would ke relief...
...It will be recalled that Matthew WoU was among those who contributed their bit wittingly or unwittingly to foisting the state constabulary on the workers of Illinois...
...H- Wolter, Bruno WagrJ^» Young ¦CS^,B...
...Ben Blumenberg...
...Now a trade revival is in sight and these thousands of workers are eager to get to work or remain at work uninterrupted and undisturbed by agents ef the Communist Party snd their underworld allies...
...Woll was on the Survey Committee of the association which last year issued a report advocating the establishment of a centralized state constabulary force in Illinois and attacked Chicago labor leaders...
...The charge was son tempt of court...
...The said collective agreements retain all previous improvements, such as the 40 hour week, rates of wages, legal holidays and equalization of work in three slow months of the year, plus new provisions of time and one-half for overtime, abolition of fines and other points favorable to the workers...
...President Agnes Nestor of the Women's Trade Union League of Chicago, and former President George W. Perkins of tbe Cigar Makers' Union...
...Louis...
...Henry Kruchkow...
...They cover chiefly custom and repair work...
...But ss a matter of fact the conditions are much better now than under their control in 1028...
...the Bang Bkn Workers Union would be ¦kef B aaeapt the terms of the con¦st-Rs W. L R representative said ¦jOwsy seakl have to accept whatever IbStf R gave them...
...Now the B. of L. E. and the B. of L. F. tt E. have Jurisdictional disputes of their own...
...It was not clear at first whether the charges had been initiated by open shop interests or by some super-patriotic organisations...
...Lawrence Rogln...
...280 has been interrupted by the necessity of renewing the annual agreement which expired on June 1. The five hundred employers with whom tbe union has had contractural relations are signing up rapidly...
...It lacks the sppesl to the voter that is necessary to predeee solidarity and cohesion of all Its elements...
...It is significant, too, that no labor official and no labor organ, except the Communist, has made even the slightest attempt to belittle the vtctoiy of British labor...
...A Cam***** to supervise relief work {-Taw...
...Both the United Flag Association snd the Veterans of Foreign Wars declared that the union shop card of the barbers was respectable...
...The efficiency bee began to buss in the bonnet of the management Mat year, resulting to a wage dispute between the workers and employers...
...thousands of workers being idle all tbe time and thousands of others working only part time...
...When the money had sShetaS an officer from the W. L gasaet apsaar to claim the money...
...We do not pretend to Judge the merits of the controversy, but it does strike us that Engineers and Firemen ought, to be in one organisation even on the basis of craft unionism...
...101, 105, 110, 115 and the Greek Fur Workers' Union Local No...
...Klias Thaw...
...Tbe population of three thousand has declined by a third as a result of migration...
...Members of the younger organisation graduate into the class of locomotive engineers but frequently retain their membership with the Locomotive Firemen for financial or sentimental reasons...
...They said that f* jawsslnrl s dues paying organisaLZ st * snTUoo mtrawrs and thus PL — at erery cent that was col^sSjScet deducting money for aaliTstssBsctats, etc...
...A non-partisan policy Is, after all, a negative policy...
...This is the Devonshire Laundry at 2874 Broadway, which caused the arrest of two pickets', Morris Rosen and Abe Raphelaon, and Organizer Louis Hekelman...
...Nearly all of those found guilty of picketing were five miles from company property when arrested, and most of them were girls under 20 years...
...The former, which has been out of the A. F. of L. for about a decade, because the internationals affiliated with the latter have Insisted upon dividing up the membership among themselves on craft lines, decided at Its convention in New York City last full to enter into negotiations with the A. P. of L. as to the...
...Patrick J. MurSflH Mollln...
...The Communists are trying to mislead the public as to the working conditions...
...So that they consider the present Communist threat of a strike as a sheer, irresponsible attempt to disturb the orderly process of work in the shops ' in which they see great harm being done . to their interests...
...A. I. Shiplacoff, Joseph Stein, Martha Safronoff, Harry Schachner, Jacob F. Schmits, Abraham Sanf, Samuel A Stodel, Louis Sadoff...
...The recent changes are, of course, better than nothing for they bring the auto workers back into the A. F. of L., although in a crippled state...
...Such photographs find their way to Russian papers and delude the workers there into . a belief that the American proletariat is engaged in revolutionary uprisings...
...Chancellor 8. E. Miller, who finds little lS-yeer-ald girls guilty of intimidating ¦trapping national guardsmen who were acting ss convoys for the strike-breakers, is the same Judge who issued the sweeping injunction against the strikers and enforce it with tear gas bombs and bayonets...
...Nevertheless, the enemies of labor had received sustenance...
...If the profound eontempt now felt for the company-bossed court could be Sasasarod in jail terms three-fourths of Carter county would be behind the bars before sundown...
...aU point to a je*"*^r...
...In onr own eeentry years ef nonpartisan effort has failed to bring about any dependable political unity, as Is proven by the defeat ef labor's candidate far congress fat the resent special election...
...Louli E. Well...
...It is the transition from lip-allegiance to nonpartisan political action to participation in a genuine independent labor political movement...
...BBj enmltaae* Irtm past 1) SawT^^7 Komualdi, Cells Rotter, ff* •filill, Sophie Segallff, Louis _5 RBsodmo...
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