PHILA. MART COMPLETELY WON BY ACW
Phila. Mart Completely WonbyACW Union Signs Up Large Contracting Firm — Trade Paper Admits Workers' Victory PHILADELPHIA—(FP) — With the signing up cf Nicholas D'Alonzo, one of the...
...Dooley, Democratic candidate, did not participate, declaring he refused to mix with Socialists...
...Muste Praises Textile Action Of the A. F. of L. Progressive Leader Calls Convention Action Most Important Since the War J7KDRESEEING new power, dignity and influence for labor in the decision of the American Federation of Labor to back the United Textile Workers of America in its Southern organization campaign, Mr...
...They remembered his kid-glove cross-examination of the defendants, and how it ceased with suspicious suddenness when Lyster contradicted himself and seemed about to break down on the stand...
...Alabama, at the time of the farmer-labor movement in 1887, enacted a law limiting the working hours of women In any manufacturing or mechanical industry to 8 per days...
...31, 1927 32 8.282,500 3.747,176 103.290.219 119.818,416 June 30, 1928 28 7,437,500 3,606,915 98,183.830 114.748,059 Dec...
...In St...
...Four States Have No Hour Limitation Laws WASHINGTON—(FP) — Iowa/ West Virginia and Alabama have no laws limiting the hours of employment of women in industry, says a news bulletin issued by the U. S. Women's Bureau...
...The i Pennsylvania court has just granted them indefinite postponement j of trial for the same killing on charges of involuntary manslaughter...
...If one big industry employing masses of unskilled and semi-skilled workers organize it is certain that Others will follow...
...Thirteen textile workers, now studying at Brookwood Labor College at Katonah, N. Y., among whom are four members of the Martyrs Local No...
...The principal instances are those of the Producers and Consumers Bank in Philadelphia, the Brotherhood Trust and Savings Bank in Pittsburgh, and more recently the City National Bank in Spokane...
...The possible results of this proposed forward movement are beyond calculation...
...In a note appended to a reader's letter bitterly attacking the verdict, it commented that :t had received many such letters, indicating "a widespread disgust with the verdict...
...When the jury had brought in its verdict of "not guilty" Roy T. Clunk, the obscure assistant district attorney who for some unexplained reason was put in sole charge of prosecuting this important case, expressed surprise...
...The problems faced by the Engineers in developing their nationwide system of banks and holding companies as well as the growth and success of other labor banks are discussed at length in the new study...
...But rn 1894 this pioneer social legislation was repealed, as the State went back to political eonservativtsm...
...29, 1922 10 2.050.473 742,689 21.901,641 26.506,723 June 30, 1023 14 3,214,890 1,055.788 32.930.541 39,253,339 Dec...
...The P:ttsburgh Press, a Scripps-Howard newspaper, published a front page editorial in which it said: "The state which so freely commissioned armed guards for private authority cannot escape responsibility for the death of Barkoski, even though a jury says he was net murdered...
...and a condemnation of the entire vicious coal and iron police system.' "A miserable travesty on justice" was the Pittsburgh PostGazette's description of the verdict, and it too stated the real issue behind public anger as "the unsound and unjustifiable practice of delegating public authority to private hands...
...He appeared before Judge Gray, the trial judge, and again passed the buck—this time to the jury, moving that they be discharged from further service as "incompetent and without moral stamina...
...The introduction of smal' personal or "character" loan into commercial banking is shown to be a contribution of the labor bank...
...chairman for the Conference for Progressive Labor Action in a statement to the press, points to it as "the most important and encouraging event in the history of American labor since the great war...
...The problems faced in the attempt to aid the cause of organized labor through its banks are discussed...
...The report is a counterpart of one on employee stock ownership completed some time ago and is Intended to be of service to labor leaders just as the stock owners5ip study has been of service to industrial executives...
...He said: "Your suggestion is altogether proper...
...The imposing plan of Stone to put labor representatives on the directorates of the leading corporations of the country through mobilization of labor's saving and investment power is described, and the elaborate financial structure of the Brotherhood's enterprises is analyzed...
...31, 1926 35 8,914,508 3.837.377 108.743.550 126.533.542 June 30, 1927 33 8.555.000 3.807.4S1 108,548,389 125.640.521 Dec...
...According to the report, over $125,000,000 in resources were possessed by labor banks during the peak years of the movement when thirty-six institutions were in operation...
...Prosecution Criticized Now that the three coal cops are safely acquitted of the murder they committed, the judge and prosecutor boldly concur that the evidence made conviction mandatory...
...1926 36 9.316.600 3,782.210 108,899,264 126.356.944 Dec...
...The thugs' attorneys contend , that public feeling about the bra- ' tal murder of Barkoski is still so hot as to make a fair trial impossible...
...31, 1928 2" 7,537,500 3,821.205 98.784.469 116.307,256 June 29...
...In his opinion, the organization of the South will mean the beginning of unionization in all large scale industry and he urges all progressives and liberals to give that decision their financial and moral support...
...Princeton University Study Commends Amalgamated Bank For Opposing Sharks Surrey of Labor Banking Finds Movement Has Declined From Peak of 1926 ¥ ABOR banking, which developed rapidly in this country following 1920 and which received a serious set-back in 1927 due in part to the unfortunate experiences of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, is the subject of a comprehensive report just published by the Industrial Relations Section of Princeton University...
...The rapid rise of this system and its disintegration in recent years are described in the report...
...Industriral Relations Section, Princeton University...
...I qu:te agree with you that the jurors were not competent and were without moral stamina...
...NonPrnrOwmm Cmmmittem Dinner to Thorn** The Non-Partisan Committee for Norman Thomas will give a dinner for the Socialist candidate for Mayor, Thursday evening, Oct...
...Paper Hits Verdict Judge Gray, whose charge to the jury had stressed not the atrocious and brutal nature of the crime or the clear implications of the evidence, but the important public powers delegated to the coal and iron police, and the wide discretion allowed in their use...
...The effect will be i such not only in America but | among workers throughout the I world who know that only an j American in control of labor will be friendly to them, j "All progressives and militants : in the unions must give their utI most in time, money and moral | support to this southern organizing I compaign...
...The growth and decline of the movement are shown in the following tabulation appearing in the report: Totals of Semi-Annual Statements of Condition...
...Two days after the three Pittsburgh Coal Co...
...Tne changing attitudes of labor, bankers, and the public toward this new form of banking, as well as the question of the financial and economic success of the movement are among the subjects with which the Princeton study is concerned...
...A. J. Muste...
...The Engineers' Cleveland bank, alone, held approximately $25,000,000 in deposits at this time...
...The failures in judgment which brought the Engineers' excursion into Wall Street to an end makes no less important the lessons learned by labor in this ambitious project, it is stated...
...Herbert M. Merrill, Schenectady, presided...
...The police proved to be no problem, but one arrest having been made...
...Mart Completely WonbyACW Union Signs Up Large Contracting Firm — Trade Paper Admits Workers' Victory PHILADELPHIA—(FP) — With the signing up cf Nicholas D'Alonzo, one of the largest contacting firms in the country, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers near* the end of its epochal campaij^p to organize the Philadelphia men's clothing industry...
...29, 1920 2 960.000 192.446 2.258.561 3,628,867 June 30, 1921 3 1,220,000 193,087 6,345,863 9.936.461 Dec...
...now concurred...
...Telephone Algonquin, 7669...
...I was never more surprised in my life...
...31, 1923 18 4,222.230 1.353.022 43.324.820 51,496.524 June 30, 1924 25 5,968,963 1,941,039 60.594.612 71.887.652 Dec...
...Each of these banks now has a million or more capitalization...
...Rochester...
...It seems to me that nothing less than second degree verdicts should have been returned against Lyster and Watts, although the evidence may have justified a verdict of not guilty for Slapikas...
...24th, at the Aldine Club, 200 Fifth avenue, M«nh«tt«« The chief speakers at the dinner will be Professor John Dewey, John Haynes Holmes, Dorothy Kenyan and Norman Thomas...
...The report examines Impartially the movement which brought thirty-nine labor banks into existence from 1920 to 1926 and the important changes which have lately reduced this number to twenty-two...
...Atty, Samuel H. Gardner, the man who passed the buck of prosecuting the Mellon employes to an unknown subordinate...
...The most spectatcular episode in this history of Labor becoming Capital is that in which the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers has played the leading role...
...for the three ex-coal and iron police by their employer, the Mellonowned Pittsburgh Coal Co., was accorded in spite of refusal by Judge Harry H. Howland of the criminal court, who insisted that the trial open as scheduled Oct...
...The Amalgamated victory is spurring other needle trades unions to redoubled efforts especially in view of the International Ladies Garment Workers' recent victories in New York...
...Socialist Candidate Debates Cohoes Mayor COHOES, N. Y.—The Council Chamber of the City Hall, Cohoes, was crowded Wednesday at a debate between Mayor Cosgro, Republican and independent, and Nelson Belanger, Socialist candidate for Mayor, with many in hall outside unable to gain admission...
...Several years before the National City Bank of New York took on this type of banking, the Amalgamated bank of that city had developed this method of combatting the loan shark...
...As a result liberal strike relief funds were instantly available for striking workers...
...In three short months the Amalgamated has jumped in the Quaker City from a weak organization with some thousand members to practical control of thi market with V MK) to 10,000 members, according to the latest estimates of A. C. W. officials...
...He warns the American Federation of Labor, however, not to permit delay, indolence, petty jurisdictional disputes, inefficiency and lack of militancy to dissipate the enthusiasm generated at Toronto as failure to act now would bring down the contempt of the workers on the American Federation of Labor...
...Reprinted from "The Labor Banking Movement in the United States...
...The study is the result of a program of research and investigation which the Industrial Relations Section of Princeton University has been carrying on for some years in the field of labor capitalism...
...Autumn Festival and Dance At Bronx Free Fellowship The Youth Section of the Bronx Free Fellowship announces an Autumn fesitval and dance for the members and friends of the Fellowship, this Saturday evening, October 20...
...If indolence, petty jurisdictional disputes, inefficiency, lack of militancy or any other cause were ta interfere with the making and the execution of adequate plans for the southern campaign it would constitute a betrayal of workers clamoring to be organized and a failure to seize the opportunity of a generation...
...Failures of labor banks have occurred infrequently...
...New York and ether organized clotning- centers poured in between $300,000 and $400,000 for the short campaign, in addition to the funds rpent by the national office...
...gunmen had been safely whitewashed, this harmless little comedy was continued by Dist...
...Such a failure would bring down upon the American Federation of Labor the contempt of the workers and of all friends of social justice In the land.' U. T. W. Offices in Greenville GREENVILLE...
...Muste's statement follows: "The report that the American ! Federation of Labor convention | carried on an enthusiastic session j yesterday on the southern textile j situation, appointed a fine commit- ! tee to raise an Emergency Relief i Fund immediately, and will soon j appoint a committee to plan a j large scale organizing campaign in the South, is the most important and encouraging event in the history of American labor since the great war...
...They remembered his perfunctory speech to the jury, in which he asked first-degree murder conviction, but failed to demand the death penalty for one of the most atrocious murders ever recorded— even in western Pennsylvania...
...They demand change of venue from Allegheny county...
...But spectators were not all willing to concede that Clunk could get the verdict off his conscience so easily...
...Among the unique features of labor banks examined in the report axe the "character" loan, limitations on dividends and stockholdings, profit sharing with depositors, and strategic lending...
...Reservations are $2.50 per plate and may be obtained from the committee at 31 Union Square...
...Louis, Chicago, Washington, Cincinnati, Newark, Paterson, and several smaller cities, successful labor institutions are now operating...
...Other labor banks have been sold to nonlabor interests, however, after experience has shown them to be unprofitable...
...1921 4 1,280.000 255,869 9,970,961 12.782.173 June 30, 1922 7 1,640.000 504.011 15.S01.434 19.879.800 Dec...
...Indiana comes next in the roll of backward legislative areas, with her only hour-limitation a prohibition of employment of women bewteen 10 p. m. and 6 a. m. Indiana also boasts that it does not permit the employment of women in its coal mines...
...The Engineers have sold most of their banks in order to divorce themselve3 from a financial system which proved costly to their organization...
...The postponement, asked by expensive defense counsel retained...
...Among the outstandingly successful labor banks are the Amalgamated and the Federation banks in New York City...
...Thirty-nine banks in cities in every part of the United States have been established by trade unions including those in almost every branch of organized labor...
...31, 1924 26 6,441,267 1,891,757 72,913,180 85.325,884 June 3<», 1925* 29 7,593,070 2,649,148 85,143,783 100,159,713 Dec...
...I am glad the verdict is not on my conscience...
...It is the most shocking miscarriage of justice in the history of this or any other county," he said...
...But clothing unions in Chicago...
...S. C. (FP).— Permanent southern headquarters for the United Textile Workers are to be opened in Greenville about November L Murderers Of Barkoski Win a Delay Trial for Manslaughter, Following Acquittal For Murder, Postponed Indefinitely •PITTSBURGH — (FP) — While blasts of public indignation still resound at their acquittal of first degree murder Coal Cops W. J. Lyster, Harold Watts and Frank Slapikas, who last February beat J to death Coal Miner John Barko- j ski, have received the benefit of j another of the law's delays...
...1925* 36 9,069.072 3,467,829 98.392.592 115.015,273 June SO...
...This should receive the I backing of all liberal elements in j the land...
...A small group of irreconcii-ibles still stands out, but the market as a whole is 'in the bag.' " The union victory is all the mote astonishing in view of Federal Judge Kirkpatrick's injunction which forbade it even to call strikes...
...1920-1929 THE LABOR BANKING MOVEMENT Surplus and Number Undivided Total Date of Banks Capital Profits Deposits Resources June 30, 1920 I $ 160.000 $ 49,695 $ 697,243 $ gyy.471 Dec...
...justifying: the claim of the Daily News Record's economist that "Philadelphia has ceased to be caws...
...Outspoken condemnation visited on the decision by Pittsburgh newspapers is perhaps the main reason for these elaborate gestures...
...All must unite to see ! to it that the martyrs of Marion, < N. C. shall not have died in vain, j "The enthusiasm generated at ! Toronto and the high resolves j made there must, however, be translated into action and without delay...
...Despite the reduction in numbers, a nucleus of growing labor banks remains...
...The American Federation of Labor will achieve power, dignity and influence befitting the labor movement in the most powerful capitalistic nation in the world...
...1659 of Marion, N. C, sent a telegram of commendation to President Thomas McMahon of the United Textile Work- j ers of America, for the enthusiastic response of the convention at Toronto to his appeal for aid in the southern organizing campaign...
...There ari about 13,000 tailors in the Philadelphia mirket...
...1 14...
...1929 22 6.687,500 3.807.579 92,077.098 10S.539.S94 •Amalgamated Bank of Philadelphia not included...
...Under the late Warren Stone, the Engineers developed a system of fifteen banks, eight holding companies, and six securities and insurance companies in addition to a large interest in the Empire Trust Company of New York...
Vol. 9 • October 1929 • No. 11
