HOSIERY BODY PLANS DRIVE ON BIG SCALE
siery Body Plans Drive On,Big Scale [Qgwjariim Decides to Pi** $100,000 to OrH^B Entire Industry |i|HlWl----" hundred |f|HPWtdaQan is the measure of the ftJLTsat earnestness of the...
...It is stated that the real estate in question has doubled In value since the present project was started some months ago...
...Is It not time for white unions to stop bluffing and for black laborers to stop cutting off their noses to spite their faces?' "The present condition of colored labor is precarious...
...The delegates of Bakers' Union, Local 500, announced that their organization was conducting a vigorous union label campaign on the East Side, in the Bronx and in Brooklyn...
...It is encouraging to notice the increase of the patronage of Americanized children of members.' All those who wish to know more about Unitey House should get in touch with the New York office...
...Mar* the wage cat nobody talked aWh me Fox mill The machinery lf)M okt and the 65-hour week ¦Item k> effect for three years...
...Immediate action is called for...
...A drive is now being waged to induce trade unions to buy these lots and then sell to their members or other persons...
...1, reported that he was in receipt of a communication from President Edward Flore of the Hotel and Restaurant Employers' International Alliance asking that the four officers of the local, who had been recalled at a membership meeting the preceding Thursday far misconduct in office, be reinstated...
...With all its advance in efficiency and variety of employment, it is meeting severe competition, especially in the south, and the traditional Negro job is disappearing...
...The seals lor drivers and collectors remains iinrhsnged The agreement fiao provides that workers and employers are to co-qpenite In enforcing sanitary regulation...
...11 Medttee consisting of Rieve, SecKjM'maaB Smith and Organizer blatoav of Peterson, N. J., will I* a |*t charge of the new campaign...
...In the Bronx a Women's eague had been organized, which was doing house to bouse canvassing...
...Ifc'msi WIS be announced until the ¦aw aw Si work well under war...
...At a recent meeting of the Federation he also announced that legal steps had been taken to assume to the C.FL...
...Daniel O'Day at Rye, N. Y., July 14...
...A 10 per •at am would be paid for speedup mhttkn, and each worker must make sf»Mrnr reapplying for a job...
...It * sat be voted on by all the FedatMb 4l branches throughout the ftflntf Weavers Pep Up Indiana Town ! UPaOT, Tad.—(FP)—When the Pox MB MBi forced their 138 weavers bate ay announcing a 50 per cent, my 4* flkne months ago, they did not ¦at Bat they were making LaForte t pmat of a real, alive-and-kicking Mr awnaent But that Is what they aw Am Organisation of a textile ¦saw* heal and formation of a * centaVatar anion have been direct rea**m» strike...
...WCFL, Chidag^f^^T'] Radio Station* Venture* Into Real Estate Field Butte Laundry Strike Won By the Union — Other Notes on Labor Doings By Louis Stanley, rpHE Voice of Farmer-Labor, WCFL, the radio station conducted by the Chicago Federation of Labor, is becoming quite % busl i nm institution...
...The minimum wage for girls become* 119 per weak...
...What will come of this experiment in real estate and radio station financing will be watched with keen interest by those who have grown sceptical of labor capitalism as a result of mishaps to labor organizations who have ventured forth boldly to fare but ill...
...Ma leaden got in touch with Inem TXdmlijii of Labor officials, who most them to the United Textile Mam The U. T. W. sent in Harold aahaatwest organizer for the Hosiery baa, who formed the textile local ¦•the central body, and has been guidsft* strike...
...M meat labor conditions were too aval to salt the Arm...
...Much enjoyment is added by the newly constructed Social Hall overlooking the lake...
...Racine is an open shop industrial town and so is Kenosha...
...With scores of other strikers, now out since February, they are facing eviction from their homes...
...And above everything else— the plentiful, delicious, and wholesome food is prepared under the supervision of an expert dietician...
...Justice of the Peace Pout—known to the strikers as Killer Worn was ommbatta in his warning to the strikers that he intended to break up the strike even if he had to •sod an the pickets to Jail...
...They came to work ¦ T A. at anil took only half an hour ir HA...
...The New Leader will describe the situation in the H. G. Waiters' Union with some fulness next week...
...f ff-*"—M specialist in installing — pslllli will face serious oppo1m lauinc be works as the union fee labor-crippling practice in the ¦bjem'ehewhere...
...M hi spite of everything the attempt tea (he still scab has been a failure, ha aaat revolt against conditions in tffta factory, and the firm has been ¦b-b) anater only a scant 60 strikebaaat They stay on an average only Hater 10 days, necessitating constant ei green hands...
...The guests make use of the library that added scores of the latest publications and the tennis court too, was improved and so was the swimming pool...
...For the sake of convenience Secretary Edward N. Nockels of the Federation received the title and thereby created a situation which made It uncertain as to what claims at law the Chicago Federation of Labor had upon the property...
...He *s hrsed down 100 per cent...
...According to a ruling of the Federal Radio Commission, WCFL is unable to increase its power unless It is situated twenty miles outside of Chicago...
...As Simmons made no attempt to get the 120,000 back when the law permitted, it is thought that he probably got his moneys worth from his kept judge in other ways...
...Delegate Ressler explained that the officers had not been suspended but only recalled and that they themselves had agreed to the method of investigation...
...There is no doubt that a militant organization of women could be of immense assistance to trade ..unionists in their struggles...
...To ¦aft the sew deal would have meant i at St SB to 70 per cent, in the family Mat, vbere a wife or husband lost a M javt me partner remained working...
...Pickets have been ¦Mat beaten up, chased away...
...the ownership and control of the entire property...
...On the other hand, it chalks up a gain in the recent court decisions establishing the illegality of state laws disfranchising Negroes from pranary elections, and it welcomes President Hoover's promise "to clean up southern politics...
...Belden whined disgustingly before the committee pleading that he had to borrow $20,000 from President Z. G. Simmons of the Simmons corporation because he was an underpaid public servant...
...They posted a ¦satthat beginning April 8 each weaver Bat tan two looms, with a 50 per cent sactte to the piece work...
...We hereby repeat our invitation and warning of 1924 to the American Federation of Labor," says the statement...
...The strikers are grateful for the awnerows support they received from the entire labor movement of ********** the members of the Laundry Workers Union throughout the country who assessed themselves to help them, and to International President Brook who took a personal part in the conflict...
...The remainder will be subdivided into home building lots...
...The girls have received the increase of two dollars a week they demanded, while the employees of the washroom and mangles gained $2.50 per week...
...It to suae time the National Woolen atlhi Imw u Association, of which the **bjB is a member, sent in 12 of their •tfVirate dicks...
...HOLD NIWaUUIT ITM1BMI HIW1UBXR, N. H—(TP) — Two Newmarket cotton mill strikers, Albert St...
...While some of the auxiliaries have a tendency to become mere social organizations, most of them have been true labor bodies, mobilizing the support of the women behind the men folk...
...U. T. W. Will Hold Southern Conference President Thomas F. McMahon of the United Textile Workers has called a special conference on the southern textile situation, to meet at the estate of Mrs...
...The major proposal made by those present was the establishment of a Federal Council of Women's Auxiliaries affiliated with the American Federation of Labor...
...Vice-president John F. Kelly of the U. T. W., Alfred Hoffman, southern organizer for the Hosiery Workers, and several southern strike leaders will speak...
...Is it not time that black and white labor got together...
...An injunction mast the strikers has been sought and saw Staamg before the courts...
...Nockels turned over the eighty acres to be subdivided to the People's Trust & Savings Bank of Chicago as trustee...
...C Walkeat Follows YsBX was an immediate walkout...
...A most competent social department is again active In arranging various games and entertainments for the enjoyment of the guests...
...Cooperating with »aml poUee, these thugs have made aaV eSert to break the strike by viola* sad intimidation...
...The beauty of Unity House is that it is for both young and old...
...Labor Federation BILLINGS, Mont.— (FP)—James D. Graham, a Livingston Socialist, is the new president of the Montana State Federation of Labor, elected by the annual convention at Billings...
...Scabs Jab b*m imported...
...President Emil Rieve ESpl em* all current organisation ESSt *¦ kt Kenosha and the smith...
...j> Workers Federation officials anaan tbtwau out at court, hot Wllaatr Wembergw, the tenth «er—ted boctery worker, was held under $1,000 ball cm a charge of asaauit...
...The property is subject to desirable building restrictions and will eventually be worth a half-million dollars...
...Reviewing the year's progress, the association discovers, "one grievous setback" in the recent refusal of the Supreme Court for the second time "to pass on the legality of private compacts to establish segregated districts, notwithstanding the fact that the court has denied this tight to public law-making bodies...
...James D. Graham Heads Mont...
...Sigmund Ressler, vice president of Waiters Union, Local No...
...The official opening was a greater success than many expected...
...Montana, laundry workers, which began on May 14, has terminated with a victory for the union...
...siery Body Plans Drive On,Big Scale [Qgwjariim Decides to Pi** $100,000 to OrH^B Entire Industry |i|HlWl----" hundred |f|HPWtdaQan is the measure of the ftJLTsat earnestness of the American tjjggtk «t roll Fashioned Hosiery glp'fc *s campaign to unionize the BoMr east and west, north and E2F*Bm drive will be on a wider EatSst WT ever attempted in the EgMtiaMiy...
...Kenosha Judge Admits Unpaid Loan From Boss MADISON, WIS.—(FP)—Judge E. B. Belden who presides over the circuit court of Racine and Kenosha, counties, htmrelf on the stand before the judiciary committee of the Wisconsin assembly, admitted many of the damaging charges against his integrity made by trade unionists...
...convention, by a vote of 2 to 1, MaWaW the adoption of the proae| actional agreement for the full tafpri sealery Industry, elaborated in iWh ff recent conferences between aaebeawen and the union...
...Butte Laundry Workers Win The strike of the Butte...
...The Council could also embark upon a legislative program...
...Of the hundred acres twenty will be devoted to the station and what will be known as Voice of Farmer-Labor Park...
...The judiciary committee is considering impeachment proceedings against Belden...
...Unity House Notes The summer season in Unity House, of the I. L. G. W. U., Forest Park, Pa., is in full swing...
...pi Schubert Clears W0 Out of Hackettstotcn MglSBnBTOWN, N. J.—(FP)—Boss flHfcmmtrt, who precipitated a strike HR: JBaekettstown Hosiery Company JWSf-sBstt to eliminate the union, has JH» been eliminated by the firm's Verniers...
...The Butte Wictory will be a great encouragement to laundry workers in other cities who are facing the entrance of large scale capital into an industry which used to be an occupation of the household...
...712, who lent to the Chicago Federation of Labor $47,500...
...It finds that Negroes "still suffer the insult of the Jim Crow car, the discrimination of bus lines and steamships and in places of public instruction, accommodation and amusement...
...There were also representatives of many other unions as well as friends who are interested in the great enterprise of the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union...
...Let us hope that a Federal Council of Women's Auxiliaries be formed and that it sees its way clear to take aggressive and progressive action in support of labor...
...After contracts are let this week, even higher values may be expected...
...Belden has been bitterly hostile to union workers trying to get a living wage in his district, workers who bad no of touching a corporation president for $20,000 with the tacit understanding that they need not pay it back, at least not with their own money...
...Charlie Chaplin Pleads For Mooney (C«mttnae4 fram pare 1) Centralia I. W. W. Plea Into the Waste-Basket Advices have reached New York that a Spokane, Wash., federal judge has turned down the plea of Ray Becker, Centralia lumberjack, for a new trial...
...3 West 16th street or call Chelsea 2148...
...The same* provides an arbitration plan, )a1W|*i)ii>iil service, a national unitmammum wage, and permits manukMB to ran a stated percentage of gataoa* machines as double jobs...
...The new property will make possible the construeton of a large radio station that will meet all the requirements likely to be made upon it in the future...
...8ehubert has left HackettsIfeirlne south, where he will find ffpettso'i industrial feudalism more JWatajH the stockholders ordered al> 4p swept out of the mill with ¦mV the new* manager...
...One minimwm for men $20...
...Caixaa, nmning two looms, would have ¦at- iboot |38 a week, the weavers masted, for no one can put out the am irodsetkm per loom on two looms 8s|hi can on one...
...He also stated that he had telegraphed to President Flore, asking him to be present at a membership meeting of Local 1 to be held the next evening...
...George jBjl no more favorable to unionism...
...The property was bought with the aid of the late John G. Clay and his organization, the Laundry Drivers Union, local No...
...Negroes Demand Trade Union, Equal Rights CLEVELAND — (FP) — Negro workers still face discrimination and exclusion on the part of trade unions and conditions will force them into scabbing on white unionists unless something is done at once, said the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in a "message to the American people" adopted at its 20th annual conference in Cleveland...
...It has just begun an expansion program which will afford another test of trade union capitalism...
...The convention dealt with improvements in the unsatisfactory state workman compensation law, convict competition with free labor both industrial and rural, and organization...
...Three days a week they «t%1 P. IT, and the other three tsfvcthei on without Intermission untta f. at *"By putting In these Stht average worker managed to HI • week on a piece work basis...
...Delegate Schwartz of Jewelers' Union, Local 1, referred to the existence of a new Independent Jewelry Workers' Union that the Communisti had formed...
...Among groups co-operating in the conference are the Workers Education Bureau, the Women's Trade Union League, the Committee for American Conditions in Textiles, the Church League for Industrial Democracy and the Emergency Committee for Strikers Relief...
...They raise money for ¦aary rebef by giving dances, sales <*baat goods, card parties, and by •aag donations...
...Nash Motors dominate both towns together with A lien A non-union hosiery mills and the Simmons metal bed factory...
...At the Unity House conference, for example, it was suggested that such a Federal Council of Women's Auxiliaries, as was proposed, could create a Labor Red Cross which in time of peace could collect funds and supplies for strike relief...
...Becker, one of the eight I. W. W. now serving twenty-five to forty-year terms In Walla Walla penitentiary for defending their hall against an American Legion mob, contended that Judge Wilson, in the Montesano trial, was in error, and the entire trial was a farce...
...Belden at one time sat in a tax refund case involving thousands of dollars for Simmons stockholders while the loan was still alive...
...Most t te Wtoi were couples—man and mt iao ran one loom each, side by mt% as shea...
...Federal Judge J. Stanley Webster tossed the plea for a writ of habeas corpus and a new trial into his waste-basket...
...The accused officials had appealed on the ground that they had been suspended through a procedure not provided for by the constitution of the International...
...Evil continued and paid for from Pi meBiica, leaving the *100,000 Eri*«Mdat drive...
...Morris Erder of 13 Pitt street, who had fought the union for thirty-nine years, had finally submitted to union control...
...As the a* agfene meant canning half the man, the firm would pick the slaves Imbed to re-hire...
...Hllaire and Fred Tangtois, are under 12.000 bail facing charges of assault with intent to commit manslaughter, because a plugugly mill guard was beaten up...
...At the United Hebrews Trades The meeting of the United Hebrew Trades on Monday,- July 1 was marked by a two week postponement of the debate on the Conference for Progressive Labor Action, which had beffun at the previous session...
...So serious has ttlspaaon become for the bosses that •ant Fes, accompanied by one of his ¦afJNBt among the strikers and told ¦sMs maw back on the old terms— **» wo&W only dump the union...
...This hurts the Negro, but it reacts on the white, for the Negro in retaliation must and will 'scab' and underbid...
...Women** Union Auxiliaries Women's auxiliaries "to trade unions have grown in number and influence so that this year for the second time a conference of these organizations was held at Unity House, Pennsylvania, the recreational center of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union...
...axaaesbel part of the union's camrip «fl at to combat the yellow dog afpjst, In (rowing use among hosiery atMBB throughout the country...
...at though the union has been un• pay strike benefits, the strikers • amdtag P>t...
...His union was going on with its organization work and was preparing for a large mass meeting...
...He also admitted that the loan was made in 1915 and it is now outlawed, which means it cannot be collected by Simmons through legal action any more...
...Despite the fact that the Union was busily occupied in making preparations for the great CI oak makers strike, the locals considered it important to send representatives to the opening of the Eleventh Season of Unity House...
...One hundred acres of land have been acquired by WCFL in DuPage County, near Downers Grove, Illinois, for a combination real estate and radio station venture...
Vol. 8 • July 1929 • No. 25
