A.C.W. UNION NOW LOOKS WESTWARD
A.C.W. Union Now Looks Westward Philadelphia "In The Bag," A.C.W. Looks for New Markets to Conquer WITH Philadelphia in the union bag, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union is seeking...
...For Public Ownership ST...
...Vice President Munholland, also of the Federation Bank and Trust Company, admitted that Thomas had made a clean-cut campaign but he wanted to know from Healey whether he had sent a letter referring to the "vest pocket" votes of the Central Trades...
...The freedom the miner once had to go home early if he wished to do so Is rapidly giving way to rigid schedules and time clocks...
...Many miners must also work longer than formely to earn this wage...
...Last year, Healey reminded the delegates, he had supported "Al" Smith, even to the extent of going into a Klu Kiux Klan center to fight for bin man...
...Still he wanted to refer to a meeting in the Hotel Cadillac and he proceeded to criticize La Guardla's labor committee, resenting the statement of some of its members about "Joe" Ryan, "Jim" Holland, "Pete" Brady and "Frank" X. . Sullivan "delivering the labor vote" and tbe attack upon him by a delegate from the Printing Pressmen at a Cooper Union rally for La Guardia...
...Cora Hall and Miss Theresa Mackenzie, Marion strikers, told a simple tale...
...Meantime, important companies have put over further wagre cuts, in several states since the federal bureau gathered these wage figures early in 1929...
...and St...
...Last year, the Socialist Sunday School in the 5th-6th A. p. Kings, consisted of four classes, and similar sessions will be conducted this year...
...It so happens that the Italians and native-born sons and daughters of Italian immigrants constitute the majority of the Philadelphia clothing workers, just unionized...
...Hall's husband had been killed by the sheriffs' and scabs' bullets in tbe recent episode...
...They will be signed up as soon as their presence is detected, the Amalgmated promises...
...Qaasttea Up In PhOa...
...Bosh...
...La Guardia...
...These remarks might have been permitted to pass as education or propaganda had not "Joe" Richie, A. F. of L. organizer stationed in Philadelphia, injected1 another Issue...
...His eammlttsi had admitted Harvey's fianirlshl,i for or gnnined kebor but that the kmg term in the panne service of Cox, the Democratic nominee compared with the oae year ia the Borough President's cStce of Harvey, entitled Cos to labor's endorsement Sfiiiiegsn also gave his committee, credit for defeating for reelection Robert Hunt of the 4th Assembly lfcstrtet of Queans...
...In Illinois...
...In April, Pittsburgh Coal and Carnegie Coal both posted reductions of 7 per cent, and a wave of similar cuts swept the Pittsburgh district as other companies followed their example...
...Many Out of Work Miners of the old central competitive field have not only faced the most drastic wage cuts, but they have seen the greatest numbers of men thrown permanently out of the coal industry during the past five years...
...f ¦ In Philadelphia, as in New York, the British Labor Party victory and the visit of Ramsay Mac Donald seem to have made a profound Impression upon workers...
...In union and non-union territory alike, wage cuts have slashed the miners' pay...
...The article, by Grover ^¦fcaTer, called a "World Run B«*aaar, looks forward to an ** vfaen cheap and abundant P*j wfll permit the factory J?**'.Jo finish his day's toil in ^*f*'three hours and return to where heating and eookgPSj...
...Indignantly he asserted that the reporter from the Philadelphia "Record" had just told him that tbe remarks on the labor party were going to "supplant" the Marion strike and the McCrossin tribute to his "story" of the C. L U. meeting...
...And miners still at work there have very irregular employment: Mines in Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio operate on the average less than 200 days in the year, so that even Illinois—which still leads the list with average earnings of $7.04 a day—does not give the miner's family a living wage...
...Waldiiiger Passes Away In New York Socialist Was Active Spirit in Early Days of New York Trade Unionism safest Waldinger, one of the avast Socialists and a veteran Sew York trade unionist has ¦sand away...
...Ladies Garment Workers...
...LOUIS <F...
...The Nash workers plan to raise a $50,000 fund all by themselves, to make Cincinnati 100 per cent union "Workers can't be organized...
...Byaa Wte La Qaarate Joseph P. Ryan, President of the Central Trades, la nsennianting on this report, stated that there was no use of gloating...
...Mrs...
...Press Is OrtUc&ed Under "Good aha- "Welfare" Frank Morris resumed his remarks on the need for a labor party...
...Theyused to say the Jewish tailors could never be organized, but look at them now...
...Judge Meek held that Mr...
...For a time it seemed that the press because of this incident would be summarily ousted from sessions of the Central Labor Union...
...Cleveland, long a thorn in the side of both the Amalgmated and the Int'l...
...The case is the first of its kind on record here in which a defendant charged with this offense has been convicted...
...At the test gathering of the Central Ti ados aad Labor Council of Oreatar New York, aaat Vleteity on Movamber 7. the nan partisan poBttcal poUcy of tba , anaartcaa ^abor wa^tahen up Charts* finnagan lapfiileil for the Central Trades' Men Partisan Comsnittat on Queens County...
...Swearing that never would they submit to 'union typranny,' these shops are now bragging of union conditions...
...Comrade Samuel H. Friedman, principal of the school, has gathered about him a staff of energetic and earnest young people who are eager to start the ball a-rolling in all the boroughs of the city...
...Manning testified that he and two Negroes, Talbert White and Frank Crosswaith, were humiliated and insulted by Ernest Taylor, defendant in the case, in the letter's restaurant...
...2 as complainant in a Police Court case in which a Cleveland restaurant proprietor waa charged with violation of the civil rights statute...
...Harry Emerson Fosdick will speak on the general subject: "Is Birth Control Immoral and Unsocial...
...After another tin', involving Healey, Quinn and Holland, the discussion came to an end...
...During October the Amalgmated sold 10,800 dues stamps to Philadelphia members where last years less than 1,000 were sold...
...Average Days Pay of Miners and Loaders...
...Restaurateur Fined For Insults To Crosswaith Manning Arrests Cleveland Proprietor Under Civil Rights Law —S50 Fine Imposed (B» A New L-«der Corrr«»oodeiit> CLEVELAND, Ohio.—Frank J. Manning, formerly of New Bedford, Mass., now engaged in organizing work for the Socialist party here, appeared Nov...
...a Banking Committee telling of a conference in Brooklyn at the Labor Lyceum on December J to establish a branch of the Federation Bank and Trust Company, the labor bank, and ""^g for tbe conperatlon with the Labor Committee of depositors of the defunct Clarke Bros, bank in securing the enactment of a law permitting the depositors to file claims for losses with the Court of Claims...
...Coal Age, organ of operators and technicians, reported in August that a group of Ohio companies had just cut wages 10 per cent...
...Runaway Shops Aimed At Runaway shops from Rochester, long a union center, will now center A. C. W. attention...
...White and Mr...
...Buffalo, an open shop town...
...Healey did not get a chance to reply, because John P. Holland, now a member of the Board of Standards and Appeals, formerly President of the central body and of the State Federation of Labor, and a member of Henley's local, declared that he questioned whether Henley's organization would «t«nrt fnr what he bad done...
...Two other important matters came up: the Marion situation and a tribute to State Senator "Larry" IdcCrossm, a Democrat and trade union leader, who had died the preceding day...
...He said they were forced do ait in a secluded section of the dining room And had to pay an exorbitant check which carried a service charge of Jl...
...He commanded: the recent editorials by Delegate Jtodgers fax the Philadelphia "Union Labor Record*' on the subjfect...
...HEALEY: Yon only represent Tammany Hall...
...The Nash workers, untried in unionism, have shown their loyalty by assessing themselves 10% of their wages for the benefit of the R-B strikers...
...51, apologized in tbe name of his organization for the kind of delegate it had and intimated that such delegates were unwarranted bv his local...
...Judge D. C. Meek found Taylor guilty and Imposed a fine of 150...
...BRONX FREE FELLOWSHIP "Judaism, Christianity and Humanism" will be the topic of Rev...
...Labor Bodies Discuss Politics Ryan Sarcastically Suggests Per Capita Be CoUeoted From Tammany Hall <T»HX labor party issue wffl not down te labor circles...
...The discussion of a labor party 'arose at the regular meeting oi the Philadelphia Central Labor Union held on November 10...
...In the end second thoughts prevailed and the matter was referred to the Executive Committee with instructions to work out a procedure for dealing with the press...
...repeat Amalgamated organizers incredulously...
...Morris pointed out that the "Record" was the only paper that "covered" the meetings and that no serious objection had ever been raised against the "write-ups" of the same reporter, although they might not always have been satisfactory, until the labor party issue came up...
...So In six of the eleven coal states studied by the federal bureau— and especially In West Virginia, Alabama, and Kansas—the average hours spent at the working face were difinitely longer In 1929 than in 1924...
...Nearly 200,000 mine workers have been frozen out since 1923 and some 150,900 of these men were in these four northern states...
...Thii teak place at the last meetings of York City and Philadelphia...
...Ii addition to his trade union axsnuss, Wal dinger played a anrpicucius part in the building *• af many radical ventures...
...A letter was sent to each voter hi the district, reproducing Hunt's letters promising bis supped t of organized labor and showing the record of his votes on labor's favored measures...
...The Washougal employs 600 and is the largest men's clothing firm in Syracuse...
...And in the center of District 2, at least one important central Pennsylvania company — the Sonman Shaft, near Portage—has brought the inside day rate down from $6 to $5 and is paying outside day labor from 45 to 55 cents an hour...
...Thereupon President J. J. Conway of the Printing Pressmen's Union, Local No...
...In Cincinnati, whose largest shop, the Nash Golden Rule, went union in 1925, a hotly-contested fight is being waged against the R-B Clothing Co...
...Then they said the Italians were unorganizable...
...W. M Brandt of tbe Cigarmakers, who bad been the C. L U.'s delegate to tbe A. F. of L. convention at Toronto, had just completed his report, a bare outline of facts, when Frank Morris, a delegate from the Carpenters, asked him whether the labor party question had come up...
...Morris began to make a speech in favor of a labor party but he was told to wait for "Good and Welfare...
...date he supported waged a clean campaign, an educational one...
...P.) Three Increases of fare in that many years and a harsh beating of the employes in a recent wage arbitration proceeding, caused the St Louis Central Trades and Labor Union to Instruct its executive board to study out the best method of campaign for public ownership of the city's street car system...
...The discussion revealed that the reporter had at first told Richie that the Marion strikers' speeches would be the "lead" but that later he had come to the A. F. of L. organizer and said that he had changed his mind...
...Sianogaa pointed out that the vote In the 4th A. D. was so close that labor must have turned the acelea...
...The Democrats—and labor—were victorious and they could afford to be generous...
...y^ORK—Actors Equity As2**,1-ia considering witbd »v If* °*n on Sunday shows on Labor Party Urged As N. Y. And Phila...
...aad the nomination of officers...
...The delegates made a collection of forty-one dollars and promised that their unions would go further and help with money and clothes...
...Delegate McHugh, Vice President of the Printing Pressmen, offered a resolution signed by all the delegates commemorating the efforts of "Larry" McCrossin of the Typographical Union in behalf of labor, particularly his attempt to secure the passage of the bill requiring a forty-hour work week for women...
...At the Borough Park Labor Lyceum, 42nd street and 14th avenue, Brooklyn, three classes have been arranged for—junior, intermediate and senior...
...A union can organize workers, Jewish, Italians, native-born, if it will mix aggressiveness with Intelligence...
...Union protection against unjustified discharge, elimination oi preying labor contractors or padrones, the 44-hour week, wage advances, especially for the lowest paid, and a contral employment bureau are among gains won in a few short months...
...Leon Rosser Land's address at the 8 o'clock Fellowship Service at the weekly meeting of the Bronx Free Fellowship, at Azure Masonic Temple, 1591 Boston road, near East 172nd street on Sunday evening, November 17th...
...Two small firms remain unorganized, together with some fly-bynight shops nesting is unknown lofts and side alleys...
...Byaa: Secretary Qsdan la Instructed to collect the per capita tax from Tammany Hall...
...in Syracuse marked a big step in cleaning up that city, with two smaller firms to be organized soon...
...Tbe funeral took ¦net from Cook's Funeral parlor, at Willis avenue, Bronx, on Nownber 12 One of the organizers of the aa" Central Federated Union, the ante essor of the present Central Trass* and Labor Council, and .for assy years the leading spirit of tat progressive faction in that any, Wa dinger, by his fearless esaupksnhip of Socialist ideals *** foe more than a generation te) bailer of the progressives in th* tradejonion movement...
...Charles A. Wagner, America's leading younger poet...
...The other business of the meeting included a request by Rebecca Shapiro of the Teachers' Union that union representatives be sent into the continuation schools to talk to the students...
...Brandt stated that It had but that the old policy of non-partisan political action had been reaffirmed, because the time was not yet ripe for a change...
...Gaa Advises Labor Party "Fred" Gaa of the Painters quietly suggested that the way out was to get together and start a labor party...
...POCTBY FOKTTM Louis Ginsberg, well-known poet teacher, critic...
...Hunt was oamustenUy anti-labor...
...is tbe word, as tbe union of the men's clothing industry turns its attention to St Louis, Cleveland and Buffalo, i Every large shop ia the Quaker City is now organized, as tbe result of the intensive union drive started late last spring and brought to a successful conclusion luring the summer months...
...Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, four out of every ten workers employed in and about bituminous mines in 1923 are no longer in the industry...
...What miners and loaders actually received on the average for each day's work during a pay period in 1924 and a pay period in the first quarter of 1929 is shown by Bureau of Labor Statistics figures for eleven soft coal states...
...Lefkowitz Hits Both At this juncture "Abe" Lefkowitz of the Teachers' Union expressed his satisfaction in seeing the Democrats and Republicans apologizing to one another...
...What the anti-union drive of the operators and the surrender of the Jacksonville scale by the United Mine Workers have meant in the pay envelopes of the workers has just been shown in a report issued by the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, and based on a payroll study made in 1929...
...Crosswaith ia perhaps the best-known Negro propagandist in the Socialist movement Ohio Mine Wages Hit Low Level Once Strongly Unionized Field Now -Near Bottom of the List for Labor a. CINE workers are getting lower wages ia Ohio than in any other important coal state except Alabama, Tennessee, or Virginia...
...Another delegate spoke In a similar veto...
...At the 9 o'clock Open Forum, Bertha Sullivan Papazian will speak on "Youth vs...
...Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, Dr...
...The delegates paid a silent tribute to McCrossin...
...They have fled to Buffalo and Syracuse...
...Manning and his guests did not receive the consideration due them under the civil rights statute...
...Westward Ho...
...And the miners in Ohio, the state where bituminous miners first organized a union, now earn less on the average than the men in the non-union southern fields...
...The signing up of the Washougal Clothing Co...
...Campaigns are:being designed for each center...
...Herman Woskow of the Printing Pressmen denied that be had belittled Ryan and declared that it was unfair for Ryan to intimate to the press that La Guardia was backed by Communists...
...Crosswaith both spoke in New Bedford at the time of the strike there...
...He •a bs remembered by all who J* part to these various activt**** a practical idealist, whose SSjnaai^n many of the daily **¦•» which arose was sought ss his active cooperation...
...The cand...
...But workers have to be convinced the union will help them enough to justify initial sacrifices...
...He btoai lay the basis for the New To* cm, the Socialist daily of *!¦ dty .for years...
...Richie thought this was a violation of the courtesies extended to the press, since Morris' talk was not the official action of the body, while the other two matters were...
...Oeraldlne Hlllaon and other good poets win give a recital at the Labor Temple Poetry Forum, 242 East 14th street...
...Looks for New Markets to Conquer WITH Philadelphia in the union bag, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union is seeking new markets to conquer...
...Tim" Henley of the Stationery Engineers, who had headed La Guardia'a labor committee, then spoke up in defense of the labor men* who had supported the Republican candidate...
...5^*^ Magazine Lauds "•fcrio Power System for Ontario's publicly J*al pjaer system where house"~*tl get current at 1.9c a kllo?*teur occurs in the midst of pending article of the Novemr?keae of Popular Science """ajy...
...Henry V. B. Darlington, and Dr...
...Manning was active in the textile strike in New Bedford last year and was a candidate for Congress on the Socialist ticket from the 16th Massachusetts district Mr...
...Passing is mourned by the J*?*0* of the Socialist and ¦aar«aiuu movement who work¦ akb him when the radical orSHiitlhJn, were first being estab*"**»ad-eontinued to work with *• U they grow in importance ^baoence...
...The demand for a labor party persists...
...They were 'all good labor men, he said, and they were justified in supporting such a friend af labor...
...io'Dt by electricity...
...the announcement by Secretary Quinn that the Board of Superintendents had recommended that a new industrial high school for boys be named after Samuel Gompers...
...He Stated that on October IS the 1^11^ i^tib^'b^tmall"^ llaaus'l'l that "•'Organised Labor Joins Harvey Forces...
...Because of this intention on the part of the reporter, Richie wanted to exclude him or his paper from the C. L. U. meetings in the near future...
...He likewise nek as active part in building up ¦» *sw York Volkaxeitung, a ¦enlist daily for many years...
...Registration starts this Sunday morning not only at the old quarters but also In Borough Park, and plans are in progress for a branch In the East Side...
...New York City, on Tuesday, November lSth, from 8:1S to 10:30 pm...
...And if we count In the traveling time which the miner must spend going from the entrance to the mine to his working place and back again, miners and loaders are averaging nearly 10 hours a day in the mine in Alabama, over 9 hours a day In Pennsylvania, and 8ri hours or longer in Illinois, Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia...
...Norman Thomas stood for something big in the labor movement He did not indulge in personalities...
...BIRTH CONTROL MEETING On Tuesday evening there will be a free mass meeting on Birth Control at 8:15 at the Engineering Auditorium, 25 West 39th street...
...Brooklyn Socialist Sunday School Plans To Expand Its Work The Socialist Sunday School of Brooklyn, which conducted successful classes last year at 167 Tompkins avenue, is expanding this semester...
...1924 1929 Alabama $4.57 $4.03 Colorado 7.23 6 18 Illinois 8.35 7.04 Indiana 8 56 6.83 Kansas 5.92 503 Kentucky 5.63 5.15 Ohio * 7.17 4.87 Perm, (bituminous) 6.40 5.27 Tennessee 4.08 3.86 Virginia 4.65 4 30 West Virginia 6.10 5.35 Illinois and Indiana, in spite of drastic cuts under the 1928 agreements, show a higher wage than Kentucky or West Virginia, but the difference is less than it was five years ago...
...Ha aaeerted that organised labor had given the RepubUean candidate for President break...
...He stated that it was time for some drastic action to be taken...
...an address by A Philip Randolph of the Pullman Porters asking for cooperation in fighting the company anion of the Pullman Company...
...HOLLAND: It's a damn good hail te represent...
...The present evils could only be eradicated by the ballot A labor party was needed...
...Louis are receving union study now...
Vol. 9 • November 1929 • No. 15
