AFL AND CIO IN ARMISTICE IN PATTERSON
AFL and CIO In Armistice In Patterson Rival N. J. Labor Groups In Decision For Labor Peace PATERSON, N. J.—A plan often advanced by optimistic advocates of labor peace ha.s been adopted in...
...group policies total $62,-810.784...
...AFL and CIO In Armistice In Patterson Rival N. J. Labor Groups In Decision For Labor Peace PATERSON, N. J.—A plan often advanced by optimistic advocates of labor peace ha.s been adopted in Pat-crson by the AFL and CIO...
...This non-aggression pact is a fine example of labor unity for the entire nation," said Carl Holderman, regional director of the Textile Workers Union (CIO) and a member of the committee...
...History Making Plan The plan, termed "history-making" by Acting Mayor C. Walter Lottc...
...The total admitted assets of the company are $3,316,580.16, which cover all liabilities...
...Our payments to or for the account of policy holders during the year 1939 for death and disability claims, matured endowments, dividends and surrender values amounted to $756,912...
...Both organizations have agreed that industries or commercial establishments which are now organized by either organization shall not be invaded by the other organization for the purpose of changing the affiliation of said organized industries or commercial establishments," a written but unsigned agreement says...
...Union (AFL) at the main plant of Spotless Stores Inc., which employs 250 workers, while the other affected 8 employes at Konner's Clothing Store...
...Jurisdictional raids have occurred mostly when international AFL officials from the outside have appeared on the scene...
...Each has agreed to keep out of all plants where the other has a signed contract or where a strike, lockout or organizing drive is In progress...
...We have been making similar labor peace efforts locally for a long period and have turned over to the AFL a number of plants which the CIO organized...
...One was with the Laundry Workers Intl...
...Both of the jurisdictional disputes which led to the peace plan involved the Amalgamated Clothing Workers (CIOl...
...Carrying out the terms of the new peace plan, the AFL withdrew its pickets from Spotless and the CIO withdrew theirs from Konner's...
...The United Garment Workers (AFL) was the rival union...
...Picket lines were maintained by the locked-out CIO workers...
...Konner's Clothing Store, at the expiration of its ACW agreement, locked out eight tailors, hired eight new men and signed a contract with the UGW...
...Acting Pres...
...Woll in Report On AF Insurance NEW YORK CITY—Matthew Woll, president of the Union Labor Life Insurance co., reported that its income for 1939 was $1,264,607.17, with payments to policy holders totaling $756.-911.67 and all other disbursements $237,154.91...
...Our income for the year was sufficient to meet all our obligations promptly and to permit additional investments in high grade securities...
...The Spotless case will be taken before the NLRB and the Konner case will be arbitrated with the aid of international officers...
...Five-man committees from the AFL and CIO were appointed for the purpose of preventing unintentional violations of the spirit as well as the letter of the agreement...
...whs worked out at a stormy all-day session at city hall In which 4-man committees from the AFL and CIO thrashed out all the issues...
...Picket lines were maintained by the AFL union...
...The chartering ot a local of the United Construction Workers Organizing Committee (CIO) in Detroit shortly before the appointment did not lessen the heat of the AFL protest...
...Sol Maso of the State Building Trades Council (AFL) said that labor unity was a necessary objective but declined to comment on the peace plan until he saw it working out for a period of a week or more...
...aforementioned organizations shall have commenced organization efforts in any of the industries or commercial establishments the ether organization will not interfere or prevent the consummation of said organization efforts...
...The man protesting was Sec...
...The company has individual insurance policies in force amounting to $9,939,048...
...Spotless Stores recently moved here from Edgewater, N, J., retaining an ACW contract, which the workers had won through an 8-month strike, and rehiring all Edgewater workers who ! wished to apply...
...But soon after the new plant opened the LWTU started : organizing and called a strike which shut down the plant...
...A Textile Center Paterson is a big textile center, well organized by the CIO...
...Ed Thai of the Detroit building trades council (AFL...
...If either of th...
...Holderman said that there are about 25,000 CIO workers in the city...
...CIO Appointment Is Flayed by AFL DETROIT, lUlch.—- Appointment of George Edwards as secretary of the city housing commission by Mayor Jeffries of Detroit was condemned by the AFL member of the commission ns a "direct slap at AFL building trades workers" and "payment of a political debt for Ed Jeffries...
...Woll said...
...Edwards is a UAW-CTO organizer with Harvard training and social connections besides an active labor record...
...The original purpose of the conference was to settle jurisdictional disputes at two local establishments, but before the end of the day, the broader peace plan was worked out...
Vol. 10 • March 1940 • No. 13
