Page THE MILITANT Saturday, January 18, 1980 Birmingham Big Open Attempt New Frame Up in Gastonia 60 Hours a week for Shop Center against Saylors. empleating him than the Women in Kentucky Negro Workers the Worst Off Bishop Demands Catholic Unions in Canada Company Union Established in Elizabethton Chicago Opposition Active CHARLOTTE, North Carolina Justice is out for another victim to appease shooting on the night of June when Aderits appetite for revenge in the killing of holt and a crew of drunken police raided Unemployment Rife in South Police Chief Adorholt of Gastonia, the strikers tent colony in Gastonia. SayBy Rawlings Saylors, organizer for the Nati. Textile lors was nabbed when he appeared for Kentucky labor laws are liberal. So Workers Union, has been thrown into trial on a perury charge, brought against Ala (FP. The BIRMINGHAM, states the Louisville Industrial Foundation, city Mecklenburg county jail and is held for him because he swore that former ConInc. in an expensively printed Lrochure selected by the Charlottee of con 10, 000 cash bail, charged with Aderholt gressman Bulwinkle and County Prosecutor aimed to entice manufacturers to the blueference January for campaign headquarmurder, while the state seeks its only wit Carpenter were in the mob that kidnapped grass industrial center. But let not enthusters Is the Pittsburg of the South and its ness against him.
him and two other textile organizers in iasts for southern organization conclude main industrial center. Six million tons of This witness is Robert Allen, a striker, September.
from this optimistic statement that nothing Iron ore were mined near Birmingham in who recently signed an affadavit that he Allen has disappeared. The flimsy remains to be done in labor legislation in 1929 and smelted in its great steel mills.
had been forced to make a confession murder frameup is expected to collapse.
Iron meets coal in this city to assure its Kentucky. The definition of liberal is in the hands of the Chamber of Commerce exindustrial future. The textile industry, abperts whose next sentence reads: Women solutely unimpeded by any laws restricting hours of labor for women and children are permitted to work 60 hours per week.
thrives on the lowest wage scale in the Kentucky 60 hour week working country. One third of Birmingham worBy John Robur signed exclusively for adherents to the women are considered under the head of Roman Catholic Church. In England there Manufacturing Economies.
kers are Negrocs, used extensively in the The manumines and steel mills, OTTAWA (FP) Archbishop Forbes of are Catholic trade unions but they work facturer Eden on the Ohio has none of Among the great industrial plants Ottawa has issued a pastoral letter calling within the larger non sectarian trade the disturbing influence provided by labor which line Jones Valley are Tennessee upon Catholics in the Ottawa diocese to unions.
agitators who might protest that 60 hours Coal and Iron, American Steel and Wire, form national Catholic unions. These una week is too much for mothers, LouisThe membership of the national CathSloss Sheffield, Republic Iron and Steel, ions already exist in the province of Queville is essentially open shop.
olic unions in Canada is not now as great Lehigh Portland Cement and Pullman.
bec but have very little strength elsewhere.
as it was some years ago. In 1919. the Louisville Labor Budget Acute Unemployment In the same pastoral the Archbishop diearliest date for which information is avail Living conditions in Louisville are Acute unemployment prevails throughrects Catholic farmers to form cooperative able, their membership was reported at natural and conducive to contented labor.
out Jones Valley. Of 125, 000 workers in organizations along religious lines.
31, 000. It reached its peak at 45, 000 in Wages cover all family expenses and leave the district, 20 to 60 are jobless, accora surplus. it is stated. What these open Canada, it is officially stated by the 1921. In 1928 the membership reported by ding to various estimates. The Chamber Department of Labor, is the only British the Federation of Catholic Workers of Canshoppers regard as adequate living expenof Commerce estimates 20 out of work; country where there are trade unions de ada was 26, 000.
ses for a family is exactly 1, 268. 24 a year, the Associated Industries, 33. the Builor 1, 000 less than the labor departding Trades Council, 50. and the Central ment minimimum health and decency budTrades and Labor Council, 60. The presget. The Louisvillian industrialişts brag ident of the Birmingham Building Trades that the average family income in their city Council told Federated Press that 90 of is 12 less than the general average for the union builders were idle.
ELIZABETHTON, Tenn. FP. Com introduce speedup. Standard Oil swamps the entire country.
pany unionism is being fastened on the the en ploye representatives under a Unemployment is spreading throughThe Industrial Foundationists mix the rayon workers of the Glantzstoft Bemberg mass of statistics to prove that wage in60 hour week, low wages, contented labor out the south, bringing wage cuts in its plants in this district through a plant creases cannot be granted. At Bethlehem and the chance for high profits in their wake. The Piedmont mill in Gastonia, council plan. Details have been elabor the wage question is bandied about between has reduced wages 20. cutting the paywooing of outside manufceturers. There is ated. Last summer workers, in two strikes committees and usually is smothered unno state, county or city income tax in roll 1, 000 a week. The mill is owned by defeated the Loyal Workers company union, der the same weight of statistics as at Kentucky. new industries are exempt from the Goldberg Bros. operators of several and the big German firm promised to scrap Standard. Unionless, workers lack the city taxes for five years and other taxes mills in Gaston county. Spinners suffered the organization, punch that puts over higher wages, are low, while starved school boards and reductions from 14. 30 to 10. 78; card In the agreement ending the second city welfare department struggle on 28 hands from 14. 40 to 12. Spinners piece strike however was a clause for the formwell as they can with crippled funds.
rates have been cut from 18 cents a hand ation of workers grievance committees in There is money enough in the school to 16 cents. Creelers and spoolers who the various departments. These commitCHICAGO During the past two weeks, fund however to turn out young mechanics formerly got 15 now receive 12.
tees are the framework for the new com December 29 to January 12 comrades Swabto squeeze older men out of jobs and to Sixty Hour Week pany union scheme. The rayon plan has eck and Clotzer addressed three meetings scab on union strikers. The du Pont ManThe 60 hour week, with five 12 hour been widely used, the company sala, by at largely attended forums.
ual Training High School is fully equipped night shifts, and five 11 hour day shifts Bethlehem Steel, International Harvester, On December 29, comrade Swabeck to teach modern shop practices in all lines. plus five hours on Saturday, is the rule Standard Oil and other companies known spoke at the Forum, 1618 Mad che booklet relates. The Theodore Ahrens in the Goldberg mills. Women work the for their anti union stand.
ison street on Wall Street Dominance Trades School accepts pupils, day and night shift, never leaving their machines, The new substitute for unionism, the over the American workers. Over two evening, for commercial training and ineven for lunch.
company candidly admits, was concocted in hundred workers present enthusiastically struction in electricity, cabinet making its own offices.
It provides for a joint engaged in the discussion. Twenty five printing, bookbinding, plumbing, machino Open shop Chambers of Commerce in council in which employes and management copies of the Militant were sold.
shop work, sheet metal work, dressmaking Dallas, Tex. and Oklahoma City have anhave equal voice and vote in considering Comrade Swabock also addressed the and millinery. These trade schools, manLounced that they mean to fight the new wages, hours and other matters. If dead Liberal Science Forum (formerly the Plebned by officials hostile to unionism, implant labor drive to the last ditch. They have locked, they may by mutual consent sub ian Forum) 1118 Madison St. on The Open shop ideals in children minds and reaffirmed, in language as emphatic as was mit the controversy to arbitration.
Platform of the Russian Opposition. This provide a main obstacle to union organused 10 years ago, that the chambers will Cloaked with the appearance of fair meeting was likewise well attended, over ization when the youngsters, their heads actively support and work for non union Dess, such boards in other companies have 150 present, participating in the discussion, conditions. Their statement followed recrammed with prejudice, go into industry.
effectively stemmed demands for better On Thursday, January 9th comrade The Negro lot is not a happy one in tests from contral labor unions within wages and shorter hourg, The company Glotzer took part in a debate that involved Louisville, The town prefers its white, cities that the open shop divisions within usually manages to get foremen or lick the Socialist Club of the University of Nordic, non foreign population. On the the chambers be abolished, spittles elected as workers representatives, Chicago The subject was Can War be other hand he is undeniably a cheap worwhile pressure, more or less subtle, is used Abolished Under Capitalism. The aflirmker, the Foundation admits. It is generto control the actions of the council, ative, upheld by the Socialist Youth, pre ally conceded. says the Foundation in its Intl. Harvester uses its company union sented the usual position of the Pacifists, judicious manner, that the availability of to put over wage cuts, break strikes and as against the Leninist position of our comNegro labor has been a favorable factor in rade. The discussion by those present Industrial develpment. For common labor showed a decided opposition to the affirmand many kinds of semi skilled labor, the ative.
Negro in Louisville is well adapted. He is and bring your friends Other meetings are being scheduled for a tractable, dependable worker who apto the comrades Swabeck and Glotzer at these plies himself to the job and works faithENTERTAINMENT AND DANCE CORRECTION Forums, which should attract hundreds of fully and constantly. He is rewarded by Louisville with a 100 acre park on the class conscious workers.
at the Max Shachtmas, member of the National Militant Hall Committee of the Communist League, will river bank while whites have one 2, 000 Third Avenue (Near 8th St. speak before the Liberal League Forum at FEAR SOVIET INVASION IN ARIZONA acre park and many others in the city 9th and Girard, Philadelphia on Sunday, PHOENIX, Ariz. FP. Capt. James upland section.
on January 26, 1930, at P. Due to a mis Palmer, military training officer of the Saturday, January 18, 1930 understanding, it was previously announced Phoenix Union High School has made a PITTSBURG Officials of the UniverAdmission Free that the meeting would take place on Jan startling discovery that the neighboring sity of Pittsburg, the steel and coal operaSuspices. Communist League of uary 19th. All workers are urged to attend city of Los Angeles is in the throes of the tors cathedral of learning. are subjected America. Opposition. ad brig their friends. The speaker will reds and that Arizona and the rest of to a devastating criticism of their subserNew York Branch discuss The Crisis in the Communist Move the union are in grave danger due to the vience to reaction in a report just rement. Questions and discussion will follow spread of Communism 80 he, together leased by the American Assn. of Univer.
with Supt. Everett Driggs of the Los sity Professors. The university. says Angeles district of Pinkerton national the report, is believed to be subject to MEMORIAL MEETING detective agency, threw a red scare into pressure from interests upon which it is the recent state convention of the Arizona dependent for endowment and appropriaon State Peace Officers Assn. which forthwith tions. The chancellor has been waitSaturday, January 25, 1930 sends a resolution to Congress demanding ing, hat in hand, in the ante rooms of the at the that the Soviet Invasion be stopped.
big coal and steel magnates of Pittsburg for Militant Hall или іонник інша іншісіннісінні папісаll money to finish the cathedral of learning.
25 Third Ave. Near 8th St. The report deals with the dismissal of Prof. Woltman and the expulsion of WELL KNOWN SPEAKERS Arthur McDowell, and william AlbertAdmission Free son, students, last year, The students Auspices: New York Branch, Comwere kicked out for maintaining a Liberal munist League of America Club in defiance of the adminstration and billing Harry Elmer Barnes to speak on the Mooney case.
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