The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-19
PLEDGE
TO KILL UNIONS
IN ALL FIELDS
Unions Offer Aid to
Traction Workers
By ESTHER LOWELL
Federated Press)

N7S/"
Spread the open-shop" was theN
watchword Of the National Founders
Association convention in New York.
Coming on the heels of the two sew
crest injunctions ever sought against
labor, the metal manufacturers pro-
nouncement is more than ever chaI-
longing to organized labor.
Pass a trades disputes act like the
British to stop effective trade union
action in the United States, James
A. Emery, National Manufacturers
Association counsel, told the Found
ers' Convention. Emery classed
American trade unionism with Com
munism and derided the American
Federation Of Labor drive on radi-
Gals. There is little difference be-
tween Communism and a labor union
oigarchy," Emery declared.
Aid Traction Union.
President William H. Barr of the
Founders cited labor's fight against
injunctions as his reason for further
extension of the open-shop. He would
ban labor from all active combina-
tons for the obtaining of better
working conditions and higher
standard of living. The Founders
organization is composed of militant
ly anti-union metal manufacturers.
Meanwhile various unions are Of
fering aid for the fight against the
Interborough Rapid Transit Co.'s in
junction which would practically end
free trade unions if granted. Joseph
P. Ryan, president of the Internal
tional Longshoremen's Association,
and of the city central trades coun-
Gil, has declared the support of both
organizations for the Amalgamated
Association of Street & Electric Rail-
way Employees. Big 6 local Of the
Typographical Union, Actors Equity
and the Jewelry Workers Union
promise support, organizer James
Coleman of the Amalgamated an
nounced.
A. F. of l.. Faces Test.
Thanksgiving weekend, when the
subway company's injunction suit
comes up in court, will bring organ
lied labor to the test. The whole
American Federation of Labor is
named in this effort to stop all trade
union organizing among company
unionized I. R. T. workers.
Another attack on section Of or
ganized labor has come from the New
York wholesale cap manufacturers.
This group locked-out nearly 1000
members of the International Cloth
Hat, Cap & Millinery Workers Union.
Hosiery Workers Fight.
Aggressive action against the
open-shop and company-union manu-
facturers is the answer of the Amer
lean Federation of Full Fashioned
Hosiery Workers to attacks on labor.
The big open-shop interests are push
ing the fight against the strong hos
iery workers union as a first wedge
in the battle TO prevent organization
of the textile industry.
Gustave Geiges, hosiery union
president, and John Edelman, the
unions research director, told the
New York Civic Club of their strug-
gle for decent conditions in the in
dustry. They recommended "fair to
labor" brands of hosiery as part Of
their unionization campaign: Best
Knit, Gotham Gold Stripe, Lehigh,
LAKEWOOD Vamp Toe, Blue Heron,
Hollywood, Lincoln, Oliver, Siliko,
Van Raalte, Granite, Medium, Lo-
gan, Esquire and Merit.
Churches Investigate.
Louis Budenz, editor of Labor Age.
who has been directing the organi-
zatior drive in Indianapolis against
the Real Silk Hosiery Mills, stated
that a tri-church group WIS begin
ming to investigate the situation. The
Federal Council of Churches (Protes-
tant), American Association of Rab-
bis and the National Catholic Welfare
Conference will cooperate in making
comparative study of company
unions as compared with trade unions.
The hosiery union and the Real Silk
| Co,,, manu- ITniop will he ctIldiad