PITTSBURGH STUDENTS AID MILK DRIVERS
Bsburgh ents Aid Hilk Drivers jgiAade and DistribREj"«« Streets to Aid fpftjpg Workers fJSmMOBr-The Liberty Dairy lj0&t* Co., new local million gapr 'has precipitated # strike ate*...
...Revocation of charters can do as much harm as it did in Kansas and Canada, There it was attempted...
...Quarter Emblem Is Being Sold TsrriTH a miniature emblem to be pinned to the coat lapel or dress i liar, which will sell for 25 cents a piece, the United Textile Workers of America will this week launch a nation-wide campaign, directed especially to the millions of wage earners all over the United States interested in maintaining decent standards ip industry, in an effort to raise funds for a bigger and more forceful drive than has ever been made before, to organize the Southern textile mills...
...It may be that judges will find even this law unconstltu'.ional...
...The emblem of the revolt of the wage slaves of the Southern United States is also a little spinning wheel...
...Louis Sadoff, who has at at Becianrts in splendid fights in *» to»» and whose campaigns have al****seed the old party politicians conjfj...
...The Telegraph Machine Three months have passed since one hundred and fifty members of the Commercial Telegraphers Union struck against the big brokerage firm, Logan and Brown, with offices from coart to coast...
...05, Laundry Workers' Union, Box 962, >Butte...
...The whole incident is particularly unfortunate at this time...
...In Wisconsin the farmers rallied to the legislation, because it was made to apply also to "yellow dog" contracts requiring farmers not to deal with co-operatives...
...Naturally, it fell into jurisdictional quarrels with the United Garment Workers and the International Ladies' Garment Workers...
...The officers in turn have secured a temporary injunction from Circuit Court Judge Kearns restraining this action...
...Then, the two sides settled down to a siege, understanding that the outcome would determine the fate of the union and the highly skilled workers in th^ industry...
...The strike has brought Logan and Brown great losses in business...
...9 is an important field...
...The Yellow Dog Mmtsied Some legal ingenuity was required to draft an antl-"yelk>w dog" contract bill which would have a chance of ruTt'rig the scrutiny of the United States Supreme Court...
...The idea...
...9 In Southern Illinois on the ground of insubordination...
...Mont...
...In the latter State at one time, it was passed by an overwhelming vote In one house and by a parliamentary trick missed Of passage u? the other...
...The little pin carries beneath the spinning wheel design the three words "Organize the South...
...He had then ordered them to come to Indianapolis headquarters for an interview...
...The Communist group which up to this time had stood, idly by, denounced the adjustment as unsatisfactory and circulated their usual scurillous literature calling for a shop meeting...
...Another way in which the Laundry Workers International Union Is reflect-1 ing its awakened spirit is the issuance of a new monthly, "The Laundry Worker," under the auspices of the San Francisco local...
...Whfie we know that trie victory again achieved is but the beginning of tasks of herculean proporttoaa...
...Illinois has managed to maintain an organization and Sub-District No...
...Owing to the growing strength of the unions the council officials have been able to make similar adjustments in several mill departments...
...The Commercial Telegraphers by taking a long view of the situation now will be just as victorious...
...toriai, the IJtlwigrsntiets Journal greets the electoral victory of Use British Later party: * h I f k ~ > "We extend to the British labor move-, ment our heartiest eangratulstions on its magnificent electoral achievements...
...All contributions should be sent to Ouy Sweet, secretary...
...They are showing themselves to be gallant fighters...
...All moneys for the sale of pins will be paid to Miss Christenson, who wttl In turn make all payments to the United Textile Workers, minus the actual cost of the token...
...Louis P. Goldberg atom...
...It is a good beginning and will do much to solidify the ranks of the laundry workers throughout the country, who have up to now depended upon official and private correspondence lor the knowledge of the doings of their fellow-workers in other cities...
...No doubt the paper will be improved as time goes on both in the fulness of its reporting and in journalistic style...
...This opened up a crucial fight...
...We hail thee victor and, facing the -dawn of a new S.3U1 era in which labor shall rule, we rejoice in the big advance forward which your victory makes certain for the workers everywhere...
...The union on its side assessed all its members three dollars per week and paid the strikers their full salaries amounting to seventy and eighty dollars weekly...
...Hence, ' mergers in the laundry industry have been frequent in recent years...
...The implication was that the gradual perfection of the "printer" could be attained if the union was given the opportunity to co-operate...
...The farmerlabor alliance could not be resisted even by Kohler...
...Serious efforts have been made in recent years to have this bill enacted into law in California, Illinois and Ohio...
...The idea of selling pins was suggested to us by Miss Edith Christenson, Secretary of the Womens Trade Union League of Pennsylvania...
...It has hast tat strike with injunctions and laSsM...
...It had nothing to do with the home...
...Apparently this meeting was unsuccessful as nothing further has been heard from them...
...Violation of the law would only be a civil offense...
...Brothers and eenuades of Great Britain, we salotc taee...
...The U. T. W. officials have not been boasting of this victory, as they regard it as part of their days work...
...Since 1009 it has limited itself to what has come to be known as laundry work...
...Attempts to establish local joint organising committees and councils have not always been successful...
...This wave of sentiment for trade unionism in the Southern mill country means the possibility of the restoration of our great textile industry to prosperity and it means the pos*>ibility of holding up the standards ot living for millions of Northern workers menaced by long hours and starvation wages paid to the white workers of the great Southland says President McMahon...
...The International Typographical Union fought a similar fight more than a generation ago and was successful...
...mill-village strikes continue to break out and where there has been a sensational' landslide towards organization in recent weeks, that the opportunity, for securing real returns on money spent in organization work in the South, in his opinion, was never better...
...The recently organized local of Drawing-in Girls is rapidly gaining membership and expects soon to receive its charter...
...The company tried to create the impression that the workers were in blind revolt against progress, because the immediate cause of the strike was the introduction of the automatic telegraph machine known as the "printer...
...What the exact charges of President Lewis are is not clear at this writing...
...The United Mine Workers is pretty badly shattered...
...In India a few years ago, Ghandhi swept that vast Empire with a spinning wheel as an emblem of the revolt of millions of poor wage slaves...
...Edith Christenson In Charge "No matter how economically this campaign is conducted, it will take far greater sums than the United Textile Workers can raise by merely assessing its own membership, which has contributed splendidly to this cause for months peat...
...The organized strength of the farmers and workers will determine how far their enemies will be able to enforce the contract without the aid of the courts...
...It has been restricted by lack of jurisdiction over laundry drivers and engineers and in many localities has neglected the girls and inside workers in the big steam laundries for better paid and more highly skilled shirt ironers in custom laundries...
...The Southern textile worker is coming to Lhe American Federation of Labor 'for keeps' this time, I sincerely 'belie vc," seya Tuomai F. McMahon, who also announces the formation of some 60 odd new local usiona ia nrkm parts of the Southland since March...
...60 New Locals Seea Thomas F. McMahon, President of the United Textile Workers of America, stated before leaving for South Caroiina wter...
...lht flrst mt*enipt of ^KaaManil to invade the field hare raajan*fh fcr some time and I ana ^ast to tofirr* that there is a formal um employers interested, -ae** department stores, to make Jgat Rumors of this float back -flSii end «jnchronixed meetings of JLp,) Mt and private detective and ^*ajaV«a1tical fixing agencies' acyjaj asav a> support these reports, j pup at ssUege students has made B atssoganon of the main facts in * am The newspapers ignored the ^ There being no alternative, the £00$ aad a thousand copies of the a«t at the group and their resolution gj0L a corporals guard of stadents aat sss ttt 'street last Wednesday and aatBV 40d "7 speech and placard agn jossk attention...
...The entire labor movement of Montana is aroused in support of the strikers...
...The contribution represented by the sale of the pin is so modest that almost any worker can spare this amount for so important a cause...
...Mill Unions Growing In New Bedford Organization Spurt Produces Two New LocalsWage Cut is Halted By DONALD A. THOMPSON V'EW BEDFORD, Mass.Union aci~ tlvity is again in the air...
...The American Association tor' Labor legislation in conjunction with trade union officials wrote a model bill which simply declared "yellow dog" contracts to be against public policy and unlawful and, therefore, unenforceable at law...
...All the textile locals report substantial gains In membership: Besides the seven unions which conducted the strike last year, there are two flourishing unions formed since then: the Beamers & Quillers and the Knotting Machine Operators and Helpers...
...The workers are planning to withdraw their former demands, in case the four struck companies do not submit Immediately and substitute terms calling for higher wages and better working conditions than in the original proposals...
...The ever growing strength of the unions, the spirit of enthusiasm aroused by the British elections and the activities of the Labor Party, including its six City Councihnen, point to the notlar distant day when New Bedford will stand foremost as a Labor city industrially and politically...
...Wage Cat and' Speed-Up During the past week a cut of from 4 to 20 per cent in wages was announced at the Potomska Mill, together with an increase in the amount of looms per operative: 10 instead of 8. The militant action of the U. T. W. effected a complete restoration of former conditions and wages...
...JWnjet by the strength of their J^1 the result of many weeks ^**"**ag for the three men whose **eeg - ia the community and whose ^jMni devotion to the Socialist S*o» would be best able to rally ***e*a0Bt forces of the district in an drive to victory, a motion made SBPJJ ¦on, manager of the Browns2 **** I<rceum, that a campaign y2**_i*orted Immediately, brought an SMMJa* response from every one Making the first contribution was immediately joined by 1** BWent, and in less than ten S^WI had been raised as the Molkumt of a fund which it is ^**» eflt grow by leaps and bounds 5*J*£od labor, the Workmen's Cir_^**e*S» of Brownsville, and other ^**,*s» groups joyi--lrr~^n^ all-lnclu[yjJhiajlhit Bahipaign to recapture pHPI"- » Socialism...
...John T. Jones who has been appointed by Lewis to head the new provisional sub-district organization was dcieatea for office last December by D. B. Cobb, the nresent»President...
...Flans for cooperative laundry on the model of the Seattle Cooperative Laundry are well under way...
...On the ether band, it has not been able to keep up with all the tremendous developments...
...This too they refused to do...
...Various adjustments here have been made at mills, which reduced the number of looms per section for loomftxers, thus providing work for more loomfixers...
...tat Socialist assemblymen from ** OstikL Or...
...Now comes the news that the efforts of State Senator Duncan, the Socialist, has led the Wisconsin legislature to pass an anti-"yellow dog" contract law and that the anti-labor but politically chrewd employer, Governor Walter Kohler, has signed It...
...An interesting feature is the large number of girls involved...
...The Laundry Workers Union started out with its membership confined to workers in shirt, collar and ladles' shirt and waist factories...
...Soon after the reaafaf »¦ itl rj of the newly organised kat *« ficsd, though he had been em¦taatofyflse osmpany for seven years.' ^ .tanjeny refuses to concede the aaaa'tat right to organise...
...In Butte...
...At the apat.af the driver., it ia related, the aawkn hrternationai sent an organare mUUsnh...
...And thereby lungs a tale...
...The firm has declared the machines a failure and thus lost the subsidy from the A. T. * T. It is willing to reinstate the men but is still holding out against union recognition...
...If the United Textile Workers can succeed in permanently improving conditions in the principal textile districts of the South, all wage earners, all business and industry, will benefit to some extent...
...thtaaaenw' report declares that the ¦atajsM at the Liberty dairy company ¦at if is II hours a day (inside men) all* II hours a day for drivers, map lor the inside men are $31 to start anon day week, and for drivers, HH adttaiiim for seven days...
...Laundry Workers l£nionf*Y taking Spurt Fonvardf Strike On In Montana By Louis Steariey * I'm Laundry Workers International Union has recenUy sparted Jorward...
...Illinois Miner* President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers has revoked the charter and suspended the officers of Sub-District No...
...The United Textile Workers of' America have set out on the task of building up a 100 per cent organization of the 36,000 textile workers of New Bedford...
...The organization is weakened...
...The home is being industrialized...
...Jacob ***»», Sodahat lawyer, and one of the aeiasasaeiii the Socialist party has, to eannmted to fill the seat in the *a» aatatnty formerly occupied by 'Man L Shiplacof f and Charles Soloen...
...The highest court of the land had already made it antte clear that legislation making it criminal for an employer to exact a "yellow dog" contract was unconstitutional...
...It is also circulated among broken a scientific analysis prepared by its Broker Telegraphers' Printer Policy Committee pointing out the inefficiency of the machine at its present stage of development...
...JarisdieUon Problems The future of the Laundry Workers International Union depends on the extent to which it grasps its historical role and forges the instruments which will enable it to fight Its way to victory...
...The union soon made it clear that its sole object was the control of the machine for the purpose of preventing wage reductions and inconsiderate firing of employees...
...A twenty-five cent weekly assessment has been levied on the entire membership in the United States and Panada...
...the 23rd Assembly district ¦o* of the Socialist at the Browns** later Lyeeum...
...The legislation does not destroy the "yellow dog" contract...
...Tne order also prevents employers from refusing to check-off union dues and prohibits banks from rejecting checks drawn by the present officers...
...The committee wants the union members to be given an opportunity to learn the machines, and since greater efficiency is bound to result in the end, it wishes telegraphers to operate the machines at the same instead of half the salaries that they are earning now...
...Many who were discouraged by the long months of struggle last year, have become optimistic...
...Some close form of coordination or straight industrial unionism will be necessary, if the laundry industry with its rising class of large capitalists and miserably exploited workers is going to be organized...
...Fund to Organize SouthAsked...
...Bsburgh ents Aid Hilk Drivers jgiAade and DistribREj"«« Streets to Aid fpftjpg Workers fJSmMOBr-The Liberty Dairy lj0&t* Co., new local million gapr 'has precipitated # strike ate* ssJng taken to organist their ti lasiiiilin union found itself j^sa lineup of employers of ^ jjgaetnr all three of the local ^mmM...
...The officers who were suspended claim that the U. M. W. A. constitution provides the method by which action Is to be taken against them and that method has not been followed...
...oancem, was nominated for 4teaa in a district formerly held by Watt, Socialist...
...It was understood that the American Telephone and Telegraph Company which was behind the machine was helping finance Loean and Brown...
...This is a project in which almost unlimited numbers of wage earners can participate...
...Montana, it has been engaged for several weeks in a big itruggk* with the C. O. D., Taylor, Independent, and New Method Laundrtes...
...It seems that he had asked the Sub-District officers to turn over certain property to him and they had refused...
...J for Municipal Court J uses, sat it k> expected that the other aatati coamrtetng that judicial dull* SB Join in the endorsement, maker sat the Socialist nominee...
...Family washing and ironing is being done more and more in large establishments outside...
...General Organizers Batty and Brown are holding daily meetings at the mill gates while Comrade Ferdinand Sylvia, organizer of the Rlngtwisters, is bringing scores of Portuguese workers into the Textile Council unions of the U. T. W. The mill gate meetings are disturbed by Communist hecklers but are nevertheless very successful...
...In the meantime, the Printer Policy Committee under the efficient chairmanship of John B. Alcorn of Detroit has seized the opportunity to negotiate with brokers and representatives of the New York Stock Exchange for the adoption of a far-sighted policy which will permit the gradual Introduction of the automatic telegraph without hardship to the Morse telegraphers alieady employed...
...President Fishwick of the Illinois District has announced that the state organization has no authority in the case...
...J** then elected a campaign 3a_* °* eleven, and recommenda? appointment of a campaign 2F**» begin work soon, and for a S*** bring the Socialist mes(_* ""T part of the district beJ*** Sod election day will be taken committee meets next week...
...The local unions feel a unity with all American labor and are contributing weekly at the mill gates to the relief of the southern strikers with very fine success...
...Local No...
...Despite employers' charges, no has been proved against the Brownsville Socialists Pick 4 Lpcal Ticket Mis Will I I the flrst of the New ^gUfljIj sections to send Socialists Sat sane legislature, and still in the ¦atari of the districts which SocialaVaws bote to recapture at the comataawha, despite the changing charsja af Jaa district, started its camJfp sat Monday evening under cirSataassi which made many of the stiatnrwho were present feel that the awht wm revert to Socialist control n» toatanlnt was made at a meetataaeoy...
...we feel that the success of the recent general sltetkai will serve to give renewed Impetus and inspiration to the hosts of labor to their struggle* against toryiam wherever found...
...The changes tn the industry made this natural...
...The lesson of farmers and workers uniting successfully on the political field will then be forcibly recalled...
...The Silver Bow Trades and Labor Council, representing the local labor movement, has unanimously recommended to Its affiliated organizations the levying of one dollar per month on their membership for the support of the strikers...
...It is hoped by the end of the year to have strong organizations in every department of the mills...
...The papers tgat swnuort the incident and the .fatal k of courte unaltered...
Vol. 8 • June 1929 • No. 24
