VICTIMS OF NEW JERSEY VIGILANTES ARE AWARDED $9,000 DAMAGES BY JURY
Victims of New Jersey Vigilantes Are Awarded $9,000 Damages by Jury Workers Defense League Aels for Negro Vietims NEWARK, N. J.—Damages totaling $9,000 were awarded last week by a federal grand...
...This Is a great victory for the Workers Defense league in its objective of protecting the rights of all workers, but especially Negroes and migrants," Will, Sec...
...It is unfortunately a familiar device which governmental authority must guard against, to use a technical defection, whirh might otherwise not be seriously considered, as a method for effecting the removal of employes deemer undesirable for reasons totally unconnected with their employment," Jamieson said...
...David L. Clendenin said...
...John Bar-tee of the Indiana Industrial Union council...
...State Sen...
...One such project has been completed, and two more are slated to be started immediately...
...Pres...
...They tried to delay arrests and then to whitewash th...
...possible Democratic presidential candidate, thai he had the support of organized labor brought immediate denial from Sec...
...Prof...
...He urged support of the Norton amendments to the Wagner act...
...The union leader was the first teacher to be fired for this offense since the law was passed...
...New Jersey TRENTON, N. J.—The fight for reinstatement, of Pres...
...He announced that the AFL was sending an expert on workmen's compensation to the state in order to study controversial elgislation up for action by the voters next November...
...Crawford Jamleson, representing Cole, argued that the board had developed "conscious or unconscious antagonism," because of Cole's union activity...
...Indiana Indianapolis, Ind...
...Resolutions demanding a state wage-hour law and civil service in larger cities were passed by 200 dcelgates to the annual convention of the Arkansas Federation of Labor, which met here last week...
...He has agreed to run for governor of West Virginia with the avowed object of cleaning out the Democratic machine in that state and running the state government in the interests of all the people and free from the influence of the "interests" which have dominated both parties in West Virginia for many, many years...
...Thomas J. Lyons of the State Federation of Labor was scheduled to speak, but was detained on business upstate...
...Victims of New Jersey Vigilantes Are Awarded $9,000 Damages by Jury Workers Defense League Aels for Negro Vietims NEWARK, N. J.—Damages totaling $9,000 were awarded last week by a federal grand jury to seven Negro migratory workers who wTre stripped, beaten and covered with white paint by a mob who attacked them in their shack at Cranbury, N. J., last August...
...W. Virginia WHEELING, W. Va.—Sen...
...State Housing Commissioner Edward Weinfeld and Deputy Administrator Leon H. Keyserling of the U. S. Housing Authority opposed the plan, declaring that it was financially unsound...
...The attack by the mob on the...
...Arkansas has "more legislation favorable to labor" than any other southern state...
...Complimenting the guild on its proposal, Adolph Gerner, CIO regional director, said: "Our state and national organization is in favor of more vigorous housing programs...
...At that time Lewis compared McNutt to an» clent kings who sent out soldiers t9 protect strikebreakers...
...Arkansas CAMDEN, Ark...
...11 the migrants said they were awakened by shouts, shots and bricks thrown through the window of their shack...
...The measure, to be introduced in the state legislature, would provide for housing loans by raising the state's constitutional debt limit from the present $300,000,000 to $5,000,000,000...
...I have no illusions about this fight...
...They were ordered to strip, they said, there hands were fastened behind their barks and they were beaten with a rubber hose...
...You can say that we stand 100 per cent behind John L. lewis's statement on McNutt at the United Mine Workers' convention...
...W. R. Williams of San Antonio, regional AFL director, said that Arkansas is expected to enroll between 6,000 and 8,000 new union members during the coming year...
...Herbert Cole of the New Jersey State Federation of Teachers (AFL) was advanced one step when his counsel filed a brief with the state commissioner of education...
...The vigilants then allegedly took two of the Negroes out in the country, poured a bucket of white paint over them and told them to "get out of this state and stay out...
...The AFL Central Labor council...
...Clendenin continued...
...The WDL took up the defense of the migrants immediately after last summer's attack, and posted a $100 reward for information leading lo the arrest and conviction of the defendants...
...New York NEW YORK CITY — A proposal drafted by the National Lawyers guild to rehouse 1,000.000 New York families over a 20-year period was discussed here by 200 representatives of labor, civic and welfare groups...
...The claim made at a Detroit press conference by Paul McNutt...
...Similar actions have been taken by the University of Wisconsin Teachers Union and by the Chicago College Teachers union...
...To provide these students with an educational opportunity to develop their capacities to the fullest would result in a social asset that the nation cannot afford to do without...
...In presenting the proposal Leon J. Lindler, chairman of the guild's committee on social legislation, pointed out that "the federal, state and city governments are at present meeting the housing need at a rate less than the rate of increase in housing shortage...
...gang, but this attempt was defeated by our pressure and publicity...
...M. Van Wagenen, president, In an interview in the Minnesota Daily said, "Several recent surveys have shown that many capable students would have been unable to attend college or the university without the opportunity to earn sufficient funds to partly defray their expenses...
...said Neely, "but it must be made if the Democratic party Is to be purified and West Virginia given the kind of government it has a right to demand...
...California SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.—AFL and CIO have joined hands to fight the attempt of a minority of Mission district businessmen to prevent- esiab-lishment of further U. S. Housing Authority low cost housing projects in this area...
...Township officials expected that the Incident would be forgotten as have similar ones in previous years...
...My friends insist I am the man to lead, and although I still have two years in the senate, I have consented to do so...
...MrKinley advocated a state wage-hour law and also recommended "an act similar to the federal labor relations act...
...If he wins, he will, of course, be forced to contest with the Republican nominee in November...
...Opposition comes for the most part from real estate men...
...potato pickers served to concentrate attention on the whole problem of Negro migratory agricultural workers In New Jersey, who are brought up from the south in trucks by contractors, herded into unsanitary and firetrap barns and chicken coops and deprived of political and civil rights...
...State Labor Commissioner E. I. McKlnley told the convention...
...Treas...
...The briefs must be answered by the Trenton board of education, which fired Colen under an 1867 statute that forbids corporal punishment...
...Labor's Non-Partisan league, and the CIO Industrial Union council are all united in seeing that the projects are carried through...
...The city will lose $10,000,000 in federal funds If the projects are abondoned...
...Minnesota MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.—The University of Minnesota local of the American Federation of Teachers pass-a resolution protesting curtailment of appropriations for NYA and WPA...
...The Jury heard the defendants give a vivid description of the attack...
...Mathew Mansfield Neely, one of the most dependable Progressives from the South has rolled up his sleeves for the battle of his life...
...I will take these proposals back to our people...
...None of the nine mobsters involved appeared in court...
...When they were tried last summer, they offered no defense...
...The first battle will be in this week's primary when Neely will seek the Democratic nomination for governor against Carl Andrews, the machine candidate...
...On the night of Aug...
...Bartee said...
...who camouflage their interest by charging that the projects will create a "slum area...
Vol. 10 • May 1940 • No. 21
