Montana labor news., 1933-11-23
EASTERN LABOR
NOTES

NEW YORK-(FP) - Dress and
waist makers, embroidery underwear
makers, painters and decorators,
paperhangers, coal truckers, silver
hollow-ware workers, macaroni work
ers, %tailors, mirror workers, dairy
workers, furniture truckers, meat
packers, house wreckers, dress tuck
ers, metal workers.
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Electricians, smoking pipe makers,
garage workers, f%urworkers, knitgoods
workers, butchers, stone settlers, bak-
ers, window cleaners, artificial flow
er makers, wire frame lamp workers,
market clerks, jewelry workers, mo-
ton picture operators, novelties MAX
ers, optical workers, radio workers,
boilermakers, bookbinders, porters,
cleaners and dyers.
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And that is just a partial list of the
crafts involved in strikes in New York
City since the current organization
wave began.
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At Stratford, Conn.,, 100 workers
employed in the Sikorsky plant of the
United Aircraft & Transport Co.
walked out against low wages. When
employers piously maintained that the
average wage was already high, strik-
ers retorted that the company had
been hiring members of old Russian
aristocracy, unfit for any work, and
paid them high wages to keep the av-
erage up.
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The Stratford strike has tied up the
construction Of the worlds largest
amphibian plane which was scheduled
for completion by December.
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When 600 American Radiator Co..
strikers at Bayonne, N. j., heard ru-
mors that the plant was to be operat-
ed by scab labor, they descended up
on the thugs guarding the plant in
a body. A fight was averted, how
ever. More than 1000 are out.
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The strike of 1920 tannery work
ers at Gloversville, N. Y, continues in
full force in its sixth week. The boss
es made much ~hullabaloo about open
ing the plants with scabs but the day
Of the announced opening found the
gates shut.
Striking workers in the textile mills
in Augusta, Ga, and the neighboring
Horse Creek Valley in South Carolina
returned to work under a compromise
reached by the Natl. Cotton-Textile
Industrial Relations Board. Twenty
two strikers were arrested during the
short strike.
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Natl. Labor Board arbitration
didn't mean much to the American
Can Co. strikers in Philadelphia be-
cause the bosses refused to arbitrate
So the workers went back to the pick
ct line.
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Victory seems mean for 8 workers
who were locked out of a Philadel-
phia plush mill two months ago. The
lockout occurred when the workers
protested the firing of two for union
activities.
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Philadelphia l%ongshoremen are on
up hopes Of wide unemployment in
the winter months and is resorting to
a disguised dole in the form of a
S4OO, 100000 Civilian Works fund to
give $12 a week made jobs to 1000, 900
men.
1t is hoped that this will forestall
any wide outburst of discomfort dur
ing the winter while the government
gets ready a new scheme for the
spring months to carry the country
through 1884.
The whole situation was epitomized
in Des Moines when a heckler told
Gen. johnson that NRA wasn't work
ing. "Well, what have you got to
Offer? ?" Johnson is said to have re-
torted.
The plain truth is that no one has
any solution to offer, except the la
Dor demand that the industrial ma
chine be operated for use and not for
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