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Vol. XXIV. No. 20. y Cily, N. J., October 15, 1942 Price 10 O n la War Is Theme of AFL Convention By MAX D. DANISH ITALIAN "ENEMY ALIEN" STIGMA IS LIFTED (S/ierial lo "Justice") IN AS ANTONINI DRIVE BRINGS GOVERNMENT AND ROOSEVELT APPROVAL I | TORONTO, October 13—To those who either it ‘rom half way I discussion or public utterance are inclined to attach spec rid, the garment workers of A long drive to lift the stigma of “enemy alien" from 600,000; Australia have sent an invitation > industrial bolic significance to the fact that the first wartime conve utmaturali«d Italians living in the United States, a drive in' workers ot the United1tnd the the American Federation of Labor is taking place outside the United which First Vice President I.uigi Antonini with the full coopera- I States—in Toronto, Canada's second largest city and its biggest tiott of the 1LGWU played a leading role, came to a glorious he answer is simple and incisive: Toronto was picked as convention city by the Scattlr Convention of the AFL TORONTO...... LOCALS...... “"in 5 October, 1941, two months before Pearl Harbor, aLaTiffle . imbus Day. October i: 2 :! IDLE GARMENT SHOPS rrss broadcast from co GIVE DOMINION prognosticators in r ; SEEN AS BENEFITING the United States still believed r FROM NEW DIRECTIVE BANNER TO ILG that the war was quite a d'ts-

The employees who drew the sen- Ice Goldmine and Herbert Herc- nent Company, a sportswear man­ ufacturing company. They were sentenced by Municipal Judge Ida May Adams after they pleaded gutl- r* ■ j y to charges of failure to pay legal minimum wages and to'keep proper

When the men pleaded for an at- J a w . lemate penalty ot a line. Judge

fendants would best be used to raise the pay of their employees.” It was reported that the firm was iff- making- army Bold Jackets at the time of the violation. fifijeeoK

New Yo rke rs! Odo U IS , 1 9Q JFar Stressed at AFL Convention GARMENT CENTER SCRAP DRIVE SET FOR MONDAY, OCTOBER 19

Dublnaky

JowpS Macalu lory of the Toronto Hatton for the past year* underscoring its UNITY GIVES POWER TO WIN, ROOSEVELT WRITES ANTONINI JUSTICE Octohrr 15, 1912

DRESS NEGOTIATIONS “Little International” Wags Equalisation for Dressmakers Now Before Impartial Chairman--- The Kellburne Co. Lockout— Educational Programs VACATION PAY ______nr HARRY WANDER. XT.------The equalization of wages requested by the Dress Joint IN NEW PACT Board for the workers in the dress industry is still in the process AT BARBI20N Some 1,200 worken at the Barbiron Corp., Paterson, N. J., will receive vacations with pay as the result of a new agreement formally signed two weeks ago. The new agreement also pro­ NEW PACTS PROVIDE vides increased hourly mini- WAGE INCREASES FOR WORKERS IN 3 SHOPS

Unit Supplementary agreen negotiated by the Eastern Out- of-Town Department in the • fortnight provide nc»- wage In-

Eastern Out-of-Town shops rt 17662791 reived pay raises in the past tw TO PARTICIPATE IN weeks, the EOT Department WAR UNITY n^obrr IS, 1™ JUSTICE f a n , r . ~

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FIRMS REACHING NEW HIGH Getting votes 1 IMPARTIAL CHAIRMAN ENTERS IN DRESSLABELPAYMENTS WAGE EQUALIZATION PARLEYS dress manufacturers a/e beginning to toe the Harry Uvillcr, impartial chairman of the New York dress mark in their payments for laliels to the ftfew York Dress Institute; industry, has taken a hand in the controversy brought about by Jacob P. Rosenbaum, assistant general manager of the Dress .the refusal of the dress manufacturers to grant the union's demand Joint Board, said last week. The paymrnLt go to a promoti for an equalization wage adjustment to meet the rising ct fund to build the New York dress market in pursu: In the collective agreement ------'----- Aid China Relief October IS, 16,17

Investigate c

Dublnsky and

ini Board, in a strong statement issued Octo PRESSERS CHEER 85,000 members in the metropolitan area tl rooperation" to the United States Treas Shops Continuing : for a 10 per cent wage allowance to, porch War Relief Drive ALFANGE AT BIG

them. The greater stability sen A LP GATHERING retularlty ot payment- for under the new amtngemc In an address to the active carrying through j members of the Dress Press? rx' grant tor the bene Union, Local 60, October 6, In the New York Dean Allonge, I Gubernatorial nominee, pointed out that things are not altogether well NOTED SPONSORS AT DRESSMAKER EH; ART EXHIBITION FOR CHINESE AID

shington Getting the Low-Down on

Party's preaer pointed out tl

product,

reporter for the N. Ooldberg end Gertrude Weil the offensive against the tr, of Locel 22 s A- n and Judge Matthew Levy, e Art show which tl rman ot the Bronx County ALP tvery pay-day. Buy U. S. George stelnhirdt. executive iihU and stamps regu- October 19 to Nov of United Chins P etary. O rtohrr 15, 19 <2 = = ^ = = = = -1 NATION LIFTS TODAY AND TOMORROW jj ANTONINl i ~ ** ‘ENEMY’ STIGMA FROM ITALIANS

TURN IN THE SCRAP Americans. . lean'Labor Council will/soon wi "22" URGES MEMBERS lt> second round In Ihr rise ol Lull Crlscuolo. \ AS DRIVES PROGRESS pendente of Italy. The drvis The executive board of 1-oral "rute to the flexoblllty of d 22 has issued a powerful appeal as a way of Ilfs and i to its members to cooperate in Pressers Meet Candidate the scrap metal campaigns now At informal gathering before Local 60 s ALP rally on October 6 under way in all parts of New are (standing, left to right): I. Wasilevsky, Councilman L. P. Gold­ York City. , berg, Salvatore Ninfo. Murray Gross, ALP candidate for As­ doubtedly made Uie final dec Significant sections of the ap­ sembly in the 4th A.D. Flunking Dean AHange are Councilwoman Gertrude Weil Klein and Manager Mas Cohen. peal follow: •orlated with the ILOWU »

•n-Amertcan Labor Council • ; lullan-Amerlca i MURRAY GROSS, MAIDA SPRINGER 1! ON LABOR TIC K E T FOR ASSEM BLY a : years have oppressed and robbed ie people of Italy and wtv ...... unhappy country Sportswear Pressers Install Advisory Board EXTRA SATURDAY WORKDAY STRENGTHENS DEFENSE FUND The 30,000 doakmakers in the Greater New York shop* at their machines anil bctirhrs Saturday, October 10, under Board regulations permitting an exfra workday

JudginR by the shop workers at Mutual congratulations were eschangod on the establishment of e vacation fund from employer cor tributions fixed by union contract when the Sportswear Council Advisory Board was installed at Hott Diplomat. September 30. 170 Firms Making SPORT PRESSERS WORKERS TO COMB SHOPS Regular Payments To Vacation Fund SETUP COUNCIL; IN DRIVE FOR TONS OF SCRAP HAIL VACATIONS The Cloak Joint Board presented the rloakmakeis of New York with a concrete plan in which they can contribute gener­ ously to the Scrap Drive, in a message Issued last week by Louis Although E: Linger, the organization's recording secretary. Operators Plan Concert to Open r ports' Ac luting Cultural Season ! payroll ■ contributions

formiil opening ol ! program’of Loco! 1

Brother Reiss stated on Is progressing *l

‘48" Betsy Ross Drapes Old Glory ted that me LOCAL 82 APPROVES awed tp cloak DEFENSE FUND TAX attended In | annger Felnb

ILGWII.

ntorm. d Brook|yn Division Meets ! S At Arion Hall. October 5

Oen. Mgr. Felrtberg 2 Ti»l pro At AFL Convention I Oriahrr 15. 1942 late. Motuf. ‘JUSTICE’

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B.t J. C. ALLEN Sprctal 1« “JumtlM WASHINGTON—F^onomiciJiy, the United States is now j on the toad to total mofiluation lor war. There is Mill a long distance before the goaKis reached, but we are certainly under way. That is the brightest report to eoinc out of the nation.-

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WARTIME TEMPO War Tempo Changing Appearance and Spirit of All IN THE SOUTHHBVIi Sections of the Territory Aa Country Seta Ha Men and Machinea to Work for Victory it. MiviR r n tu n m . ' UNION ASAS PENALTY Nobody travelling ihrrmgh the Sonthwrnt U ttrut can

AS FIRM SENDS WORT “ '"i-'b,; I WAACs Win Her TO NON-UNION SHOP

v paling Chairladies who Iteep union conditions at high levels in tha St. topo™ . mut. Jowb!| U ppI l|2. Louis underwear plants. They're officers of Local 203. Vice Pres­ HERE AND THERE ident Meyer Perbtein. regional director, joined the girls tor m m hr *— the picture. * all hour*. Two shift* Is the ordrr [ Tor a WAAC camp soon, the day and night In most of ; ------“•••------‘ havt"i^ “"m ^o Ask Contract at SAN ANTONIO INFANT PLANTS ' “ury „ „nD l t Shane W ar Plant GUARANTEE 47* HOURLY RATE; After many mrJth.1 of negotiation to establish a guaranteed ! iverage hourly rate for the piece workers in San Antonio, Tex., t ' | infant wear shops a mutually satisfactory adjustment was reached ' lrttrJ. t ,,. old love Simula in. con ; under the existing agreement wjth the M anufacture' A ™ - g s U-at uscd to rctu, ^ plant, delayed the dedication of d _ ...... :,_®non. September 24. I gondolas have gfvro way to nvei? uon^wu^^^ building. Fortunately It happe ‘ n the plant ■ s'*.1 a ~ ;«~ys. • > JiSSSSSSS> S^ri7Si, «™< •»■■■. w J ?-.■«- :?..t •» Towna , [or worker* tn every depart- j place everywhere, i America I [me march and the victory dr andrilhg^* Uf' °T CTU j the second plant.______CARAVAN GARMENT SELLING TARING HOLD 15748194" ■ FIRMS START FEELING MILLSTADT INSTALLS ; PINCH OF GASOLINE AND TIRE RATIONING WITH FINE CEREMONY Changes in selling and distribution methods which always have a profound effect on the volume of work available in specific narkets are lakjpg place in the Southwestern District. Gasoline and ! - -

New Branch Organized Negro workers employed at the

method. Coopemtiv highly competitive

Mexican Consul Greets Crowning Of “180” Queen October IS, 1942

SPRINGFIELD THOUGHTS Round of District Meetings Shows Solid Made by Union in Years of Hard Credit Goes to "l ELIAS BKIKBERG, X.T. Director. Cotton Garment Department Any commanding officer worth his salt knows that the fare and efficiency of the mm whom he leads depends on establishment of as strong and intimate liaison between bin SUPER TOGS WALK OUT ENDS and the members of his organisation. A,Qua™ AS FIRM AGREES TO ELECTION Employer? of the Soper TojprCo., childrens' sportwear man- atington, Par. have returned to work after their was terminated by an agreement between the

Pennsylvania Heimetmen

Saturdoy., September Nicholas Kirttman, Hugh Maloney. Harry ^.Johnson, and Sol Greene. Seated. I. Zimmerman, degna, and David Gingold. Front. Flias Reitberg. POWER

: Skirt, Sportwear , Drive in Boston 300 STRIKE IN HORNELL, N .Y. Nets First Pact AFTER PLANT FIRES MEMBERS :

Following a strike vote taken after the dismissal of individu- j al employees. 300 workers of tile Homrll Industries, Inc., Hor-: mil.. N. Y.. went on strike Thursday, October I.

; Fall River Council [ Meeting Stresses Shift to War Work

Children Dress Shops ; Picket Line Solid ■ Sign in Pennsylvania At Tower Rainwear ' As Campaign Continues Plant in Roxbury

k<°rf

he! Pending government action,

■o- coals, are. conducting a vlgc USTICE Ortohrr IS, 1912 BOWLING FANS OUT IN F O P ; LGuutfU POOL AND GYM TIME DOUBLED 7 1 WEST C O * | 6 t Cooler weather has brought a In bowling and crowds ; to the alleys, at 110 t'ni In part, the Increased al GARMENT “STRIKE” AGAINST AXIS STIRS Registration Closes Answering a new kind of strike call, 6,C O C TO B E R 30 members of the International Ladies' Garment recently threw manufacturers into an uproar ILGWU I All Sessions and gave a terrific shot in the arm to the Souther bond campaign. .._i__ ,mM "«nit out! Adams, business

ILOWU.

AFL DELEGATES OKAY ILGWU PROPOSALS AT CALIFORNIA MEETING COAST APPAREL - Three resolutions of vital in- lerjsit to organized, labor -Were % TRADES -PLAN E toted by delegates frofn: . ia:y-otrim.W. d. ■ la 384 and 86. ILOWU to the' PLANT SURVEY mcetings-of -the ■ groups of the ILGWU Cultural ndicate that the dramatic and musical activities >n a wealth of talent far exceed- ubmllted

participate pledged

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W ar Bond “ Picket Line” Stirs Los Angeles possible pin

te a m McNutt Lashes Out at . Discrimination On’Jobs Court States Those Who Cannot Pay FtSA Wages Ought Not Be In Business

Phlladclph

rrying banners reading, W« are striking again st the Aris," ILGWU member! in Lot Angeles deled" olong downtown sidewalls in behalf of the Southern Californie war bond campaign, ten the crowds spilled into the street, as shown above, police obligingly stopped traffic, giving "piclets" froe rein. Attitude of the police in tfiis "strike" was distinctly different, from that y displayed in strikes pest. October IS. 1942

From Far and Near TH BRIGADE SERVICE MEN'S

/ The Fall anil Winter program of the Chicago Fxlucali DANCE SERIES STARTING OCT. 17 department under the guidance of Harry P. Bovshow, our Zuional Director, began on October 5. ity-five ILGWU girls, wearing the official branch of the Women's Health Brigade corsages, fnade in a Local 142 shop, and s classes, in Standard and Advanced First-Aid, Food little white aprons of the Refreshment Committee, will act as Uon and Home Nursing. *" "* * hostesses to an equal number of service men, Saturday, October 17, at the opening night of the Labor Stage Dances, sponsored by the Women's Brigade, according to Anne Ramsay, Director of the Brigade. Dublnsky will wi

Catherine Wedne&da n through Cranford Know Your Lity | non ol her aid In organizing Signal shop. Encouraged by through i enthusiastic response ot the lot

jl completion of their pro- Hostess Brigade Signing Up N.Y. Educational Council membership period, grad- 111 also be presented with

ILGW U Educational Directors Meet Join Your EDUCATIONAL RECREATIONAL Centers

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN HIGH SCHOOL E. 116th 81.. East River

INSTRUCTION

Members of the ILGWU Health Brigade being Interviewed at Labor Stage as they enlisted to servo as hostesses in series of Health Brigade dances for service men. The first dance will be hold Saturday. October 17 at Labor Stage.

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Local 153 Deposits Blood

CUTTERS COLUM N * § ]

LOCAL 10 J p l

By ISIDORE NAGLEB, V r. Manager. Lacal IS Tlicre is one outstanding i'- Special Cutters Meeting soc in the coming election in Monday, October 26, 1942 ' New York Stale: the mainten- Center ancc of New Deal leadership in 34 th ,St. at 8th Ave. the State government. This is the key to the under- 1 hr_critic.il issues confronting the state and the Ration standing, of the three-cornered gubernatorial struggle now en­ DEAN ALFANGE tering its final phase. ALP Cnndidalt for Governor has. wilts obvious reluctance and ab* PRES. DAVID DUBINSKY everybody knows, the President r llie leader of the Democratic Party ■------Doh'T Fail to Attend !-— nationally and was obliged lo ex-'

Headed by Manager Louis Nelson (left) a large number of Init- goods workers contributed blood in the Brooklyn Red Cross drive.

UNION t i l l " CENTER October IS , 19-12 ...FD1TOR1AL NOTES, r s L* r The other day, Admiral Ben Mor- This picture of American lalror, mobilized in “Tho Biggest eeU, chief of the United States countless armament plants, mills, mine* and factories Bureau of Dorks and Yards, speak­ on the home front, found its clearest reflection in the President's concluding words of his message to the ing at Toronto before the Building and Construction j Department of the American Federation of tabor, Federation's convention: “The trade union move­ ment, consecrated to preserve the freedom of human­ exploded with the remark that "although the people ity, can serve today the whole people of this coun­ cannot live without labor, they can live without labor unions.” The admiral, nevertheless, hastened to as­ try, .as well as the loyal memlwrship." sure his audience that while he was not Implying that labor has any exclusive responsibility far the country's history of this terrible war is written '•failure to produce the nlaxinwnn of war imple­ i the dear perspectivr ■ ' , it will be recorded | ments." he felt that- the-working people had "the ...... alra of victory were tipped in la v * of the biggest stake in the war." Just the same, Admiral United Nations because of the outstanding achieve­ Morrell said, labor's wartime record, in many instan­ ment of the working men and women of America, ces, "docs not make the best reading." ft will be recorded for the enlightenment of the future A few days later, the admiral was flatly contradicted that a free labor defeated a slave labor. by no less'an authority than the President of the In a special sense this is labor's war. It is a war United Stales. Fresh from a coast-to-coast journey to determine whether the dignity of labor Is to Ik concerned largely with the vwelfare of the debased to the sub-human status of the medieval serf. which took him to the most important armament majority of the people. production centers of the country. President Roose­ It is to determine whether or not the cherished velt, ill a message to the convention of the American rights of collective bargaining, of decent standards of To labor the ppran Federation of Labor in the Ontario capital, told the wages and hours, of the way of life which labor has ticnl campaign in ‘ delegates to America’s biggest annual labor assem- ugglcd so hard to achieve, ' ------— 1 —the preservationi of the New Deal and of all that ii My that record speaks for itself and . rome fantastic new order of universal slavery. implies...... ring people; if is splendid. Everywhc labor's war in the sense that it is an utterly The validity of this issue is not m the least ol>s, m during my recent inspection of war activities, I found | final test of the strength of free labor. It is a war by the fact that President Roosevelt, who is the litu the workers doing all that was laid out for them and in which it shall be determined if free wage-earners head of the Democratic Party in the nation, has i more. At every turn they gave assurance that they can measure up to the rigors, the toil and sweat with dared John Bennett. Jim Farley's personal candid can take whatever it takes to win this war. They the same grim tenacity as the conscript, the forced, for the governorship of New York, the "best me no/ afraid of hard, continuous, precise and dan­ prison and slave worker of Nazi Germany and semi- the three candidates" Neither John Bennett i gerous u oit. They arc walking up to it as their duty feudal Japan. Thomas Dewey are New Dealers. Both Bennett a and part in the war. They are proud of i t ” In the initial stages of the war. free labor has al­ during this campaigi ready passed the test. This miracle of production that o the f v Deal and ti achieve it inclined to tag Admiral Mqrcrll with has been achieved already on the factory front of promise to preserve them. But every intelligent voter We i America is labor's achievement. The skilled hand, in our State knows better. Bennett was nominated .it spec osity towards labor. Rather afe we ill- listeners, to attribute his parochial the ingenuity, the inexorable drive of the wage-eam- a convention where the names of Roosevelt and toll­ man were hissed and Imocd. Dewey, on the-other outburst to a sea-dog's peeve over a few incidental I eis /A m erica have, by now, combined to make the stoppages on the waterfronts under his jurisdiction | industrial power of America M r in every corner of hand, is getting most of his support from a hidebound conservative machinr which always has Iw-rn hostile caused chiefly by the failure of some men to obey orld. to the progressive political outlook of the New Deal. - -No one would honestly cupect-Jim Farley.to pro­ ~ 1 my price in totl-and sweat and blood for nuTslctoiy mote: of support New Deal policiei. and tliat'ghrs for tieularly against the grc.it trade the Federation convention at Toronto marshalled, day ^ which alone Is the hope,of mankind. The free labor John Bennett.as well. Thr fart is that the status-quo free today—must be free tomorrow and after day, facts and testimony which were proving be- i of Ann politicians of both thr Republican and Democratic yond peradventure that the working population the future, and it will pave the road to victory. parties have never given up the fight against pro­ gressive legislation for the masses of our people and America was winning the “battle of productioi against the growing power of the trade union*. They Literally, millions of new workcTS^men and worn ir in New York skilled and semi-skilled, were pouring into the i For Dean Alfange have kept on sniping at it at every opportnn ', like labor cvery- treating now and then while trying tclo entrench then plants of the nation, and bars of u And the Labor Party were being lowered for groups hitherto denied mi selves in places of political power in this State and dustil.il States of the nation all through the nation. .beiship. The reaffirmation of the no-strike policy of power. Labor is the po Thc gainfully cm- armament plants, by general admission, has redu It was this same status-quo aggregation that raised ployed elements in this Sta istitutc the prepon- sofmueh hell in 1940 against a third term for Presi­ interruption of employment to mathematical insl dcrant majority of our popuiauon. ficancc. Whatever slackening of war work has dent Roosevelt because they had envisioned in that Out of a population of Vi'/s millions in New^ork, Issue a chance to knock Roosevelt and thr New Deal curred in recent months has been caused by shot more than six million arc wage and salary Sffncrs. i fail out of the political and social frame in one tell swoop of e c industi These .men and women employed in factories, mills, could be 1: for good and for all time. stretch of irnagin: I offices and on farms, support nearly as many more at the doors of labor. persons. When one speaks of labor in New York, Bennett and Dewey a two separate spearheads of Organized labor's acceptance of the new anti it is quite evident, therefore, that one speaks of prac­ labor and to pull down the inflation policy promulgated by the Administration tically 90 per cent of New York's total population. trade unions. including its wage-stabilization feature, has servci For these millions of our citizens who depend foi Make nO mistake almut it: Farley, who i* eager to further to accentuate readiness on the part of tli their livelihood on their wages, salaries or moderate capture New York State for his nominee Bennett, and unions for wider and greater sacrifices in the inter business income, the American Labor Party offers a Dewey who aims at placing himself at the head of gsts of the all-out war effort. wide political base for organization and expression. the parade for-the Republican presidential nomina­ tion in 1944 by becoming tho “V”-But Not for Victory The American Labor Party, organized by the poli­ year, basically arc being pushed ahead by the same tically more alert trade unions and by liberal aqd driving power. The aim of their chief backers is to progressive groups in New York six years ago, was clip labor's wings and to eliminate all lilteral an formed primarily to serve as a bulwark for thr pre­ progressive influences from American political tea i- servation and the expansion of the New .Deal, the tics, not only for thr wartime period but for the post­ new “bill of rights” inaugurated by President Roose­ war days a* well. . . . velt for the American workers, the American farmers The hundreds of thousands of trade unionists a and for the rest of the common people of our countiy. liberals in New York who gave faithful support to the - To the men 'and women who work for a living American Labor Party in the past owe no allegiance the New Deal has meant the difference between 1932 lo Mr. Farley's Democratic Party, just as Vtcy •oaf and 1942. It has meant the difference between the no loyally lo Mr. Dewey's reactionary affiliates. 'c bread lines of Hooverism and the pay envelopes of workers of New York, to whom the ideal* and t ' today; the difference between the period when strike­ practical achievements of the New Deal are of a breaking was a lucrative “profession," and the present greater significance than so-called party allegialt era of legalized collective bargaining. It has meant will rally to the America the difference between the denial of any .measure of standard bearer - Dean Alfange — in evei security for the aged, the unemployed, and the for­ numbers this yea gotten men of our society, and the vast system of so­ By the same token, a great mnany Republic the era cial security now covering millions o( peopli abhor the thought of tlihir party re of o of Hoover. Goolidge and Harding will ti"11 Tlir New Deal, finally, means thi : difference be- from the Dewey • candidacy and will vote ween a stagnant governmental poli : progress, the Amcnca: nnstantly to the past, and a governmental outlooL M i l