The daily worker., 1929-04-03

in different them of the labor move
ment in France England Scandinavian countries
and Italy did not neglect to mention the effect of A
long time contracts on the Typographical workers of r M
the syndlcaist movement of France and industrial VI T
In early years the Iww had shared the his 20 "a
tory of the Western Federation Miners; it was raA
fight in the excited the imagination of the
worrying class throughout the country The organization was growing
lumber and agricultural workers being organized b
the spirit of industrial unonism organized on the east side in
New York Workers who had been overlooked organizations
found their place under industrial unionism
Joseph Etor of the organizers of the ww
ably assisted by Elizabeth Gurey Flynn Many shoe workers b % @ was
org organized @ in Brooklyn The United Shoe the A. F. of
signed & contract with the manufacturers working for les
pay being THIS va she the duV workers s To their
81 AN amusing incident occurred in this strike member
had lost his leg The ww had paid hospital and ad
o oDasa 6 MN an artificial leg During the strike he v
n y group Of strikers into the office carrying
an artificial leg over his shoulder Some Wha have
We've got that leg bought If he wants to
sea0 ne can nope to it. but he can't do it eg!"
WAS called from New this time to Chicago during the
strike OF the clothing workers The organized about
But before the demands the manufactur Hart
sehafner and Marx the leading the strike granted
even more than the strikers and the strike on that
firm was Immediately settled had looked as though
organized Clothing workers with ou w6 mes
OF the clothing workers later united ~
had planned another the country and was at Allentown
Fennyanla when got telegram telling that was
hoping to her she died But was too
she she @ had passed away the night before got there felt deeply
know again She had always great pal me; as bow
mad m often taken her her the theatre the lake other
with my IDEAS and approved of the work
mine lived He had been the architect vandergrft Steel Mil
he % ake @ m study 10 OF steel plant m and asked cousin
and proceeded tell organizers who
of town and had to swim the escape from the mob led by
county officials But coming vandergrft unannounc
ana no one knew OF my pFesence there except cousin
FROM Vandergrt McKe Rocks where the IWW was
conducting strike Steel Car Company This
strike was handled well that the compelled to give in
the only strike of the lower paid ever been
won against the steel by the Pennsylvania
MOI Mounted Police whom the strikers called the Black
killed they would get three Cossacks When the
Solidarity the official @ f the WW sn at ba %e sda
weekly went see them and contributed the
On this trip went through Tennessee Kentucky, southern
into Louisiana Arkansas and Texas to confer
with the lumber workers The Timber Workers Union having
knew that the umberjacks and mill part
country both black and white the convent
ton hall in Alexandria much surprised Negroes
in the session When inquired to the
was against the law Louisiana for white and black
gether The black meeting in other hail.
sal SAID Y6u You work in a1 the same mills together Sometimes black
meeting in convention to discuss the conditions under
then sending them out to another the black upon
Why not be sensible about this and call the Negroes
ton? If it is against the law this is time when shol
negroes
position from anyone The mixed convention carried
orderly and
IWW convention, black well white NJ
There to be meeting at the
at which to speak said that this meeting
venon would have to make known that
on the terms the white take part
pleased There to be of Negroes the
gallery the law provided This the first
ing had been suggested Alexandria
know what might happen but they meeting
should be held had planned The Opera crowded
from pit to roof While Negroes gallery
ably from habit others sat downstairs white
There interference by the police
they could mngle in meetings they mingled at
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