The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-01-17
EASTERN LABOR
ATrvITC By
NEW y Harvey O'COnnOr

New York -(FP)-Full fash
toned hosiery workers of Philadel-
phia are making a test to see
whether assurances given Pres.
Hoover by leading industrialists
that there would be no. wage re-
auctions in the current depression,
! are anything more than a scrap of
paper. Fourteen hundred knitters
and girls, locked out by the H. A.
Aberle Hosiery Co., have appealed
to Mayor Mackey against wage
cuts of 1880 imposed by the
firm.
"If the pledges given Pres. Hoo
yer have no moral value whatsoev-
err" reads their appeal to Mackey,
himself a staunch Republican poll
tician and Hoover supporter, cit
might be best if this fact were
generally understood" The wage
cut and resulting lockout, when the
workers refused to accept it, have
deprived 5000 persons of their
livelihood and added to the severe
! unemployment crisis in the north
,, eastern section of the city, tn,
, workers told Mayor Mackey.
The Aberle lockout is the bigges
in point of numbers that has con
cerned the Hosiery Workers Fed
Grafton in years. The company haC
been operating open shop will
wages below standard long befor'
the workers turned to the uniol
for relief.
Tear gas is becoming quite pop
\ ular among sheriffs to dispers
union pickets. Sheriff John ]
Snyder of Northampton county
:, PENNSYLVANIA, testified he used
: tear gas gun of the same type use
: by Sheriff Adkins in Marion, N. {
:, when bystanders insisted on watch
% ing him arrest seven union picket
at the Kramer scab mill at Nazs
i reth. When the unlocking Nazs
r. renes failed to move on at til
- sheriff's order, he fired pointblan
% at them.
:. In all &c pickets have been a
rested for ignoring a court ordt
: that only two pickets are to
- permitted in front of the Kram'
:, mill. Announcing that they consi'
:, cred this a violation of their COZ
II stitutional rights, the strikers pi
"a keted anyway, the sheriff arrestt
- seven, became angry when
found bystanders interested, sh
tear gas at them and proceeded
make more arrests. Josephine Ka
zor, union organizer, has been a
rested so many times she has 10
. count; her face has been mugg
, for the rogue's gallery and her fl
IN gers printed for the bertillion b
III reau.
Are union leaders gastric net
. asthenics The Union Health Ce
" ter is going to find out if and W
re, so many labor leaders are nervo
" wrecks by undertaking medical {
nd aminations of local presidents, 81
retaries and members of executi
A. boards. DR.. George M. Price 81
sat poets that nervous strain, irregu
inc hours, hasty restaurant meals, /;
evening meals and the gene
red strain to which active union lie;
of ers are subjected are well cal
,on lated to produce nervous and dig
md tive disturbances. The result
ut the study is awaited by insural
the companies, among Others, to Diet
a mine what sort of "risks" act
the unionists are. The study may a
point to the need of pension
worn and invalidated union lead
because of old age or sickness.
erS 1t is hard TO put the seriousn
of the unemployment situation
ere the east into words. Pictures wo
ing tell the story better however.
ars. enterprising labor photograp
am: should be on hand in front
err. newspaper offices when the f
5. edition with classified ads COZ
M off the press. In Newark, for
ample, there is a mob of 800 r
ris- in front of the Evening News pl
daily, waiting to snatch the f
copies from the newsboys. Gro
n. of so to 200 building tradesr
OBJ can be seen standing by the f
construction jobs in Newark, h
ma ing they may be called. About
Central market the labor came
man could get shots of men, WI
en- and children digging into /
rels looking for scraps of food.