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By International Labor News Service.
New York City.—Bitter internal
warfare has been renewed in the
ranks of the International Ladies'
Garment Workers' Union following
the publication of charges by the in
ternational executive board of com
munist intrigue as the cause of the
disastrous strike in the cloak and suit
industry in which the union spent
niore than $3,000,000.
Twenty thousand locked-out work
ers are clamoring for the internation
al to step in to settle the strike so
they may work after having lost a
season through ill-starred leadership
of their valiant efforts for the 40-hour
week and stabilized employment.
International Takes Charge
As a result the international has
.taken charge of the strike, the board
directing as an emergency measure
that four communist leaders of the
local joint board be ousted. A pro
visional joint board has been organ
ized by President Sigman to take
charge of the affairs of seveh unions
affiliated in the old board.
Factions Come to Blows
The right and left wing factions
of the union have come to blows in
mass meetings, the defeated members
leaving to attend hall meetings of
their own. A thousand cloakmakers
penniless and starving after their long
futile strike under the red banners
of Moscow, have appeared at union
headquarters pleading with interna
tional leaders to assume charge of
the situation.
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New York Local Chiefs Keep Possession of Union Prop
erty and Records, and Long Legal Warfare is Fore
cast as International Acts After $3,000,000 Fiasco.
Early peace in the cloak industry
was forecast 24 hours after the inter
national took charge. Arbitration be
tween the union and contractors was
agreed upon which sent 8,000 locked
out workers back to the shops.
To offset this result, communists
staged a riot in front of the office of
the Jewish Daily Forward, which has
been supporting the international.
Bitter defiance was voiced by the
local leaders who refuse to be re
moved and who remain in possession
-of the $400,000 joint board building
and of the local union's property. Re
quest for books, records, securities,
moneys and all other property has
been refused and a long legal battle
is in prospect while industrial war
continues in the shops.
Anti-Communists were refused ad
mission to the mass meeting of the
Pressers' Union. A battle ensued and
the barred-out union members organ
ized a meeting of their own at which
they carried President Sigman on
their shoulders and pledged loyalty
to the union in its fights against com
munist wreckers.
The strike was begun when negoti
ations with the employers was still
possible "not to win concessions and
better conditions, but to please th*
communist politicians under whose
heel they have been all the time," was
the description given the ousted lead
ers by the international board.
All the Needle Trades Involved
The entire needle trades movement
embracing 150,000 workers in this
city, the garment center of the na
tion, is involved in the upheaval,
committee to protect the trade unions
has been formed of all branches of
the industry to assist the international
win its mortal combat with the com
munists.
Last spring the contest was begun
with an attempt by the international
to oust 30 officials of a local union
that had swung communist. A coun
ter measure adopted by the opposi
tion resulted in all dues paying being
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Garment Workers Cast Out
Communist Strike Leaders
Factions in Bitter Fight
topped by a majority of 35,000 union
members. Since then the fruits of
the communist leadership being evi
dent, it is expected the international
will have better support in its fight.
Red Organization Effective
The communists have an effective
organization. Adherants who belong
to other unions respond to call and
gather for demonstration against any
particular union leader or union.
Such a rally in ffont" of the interna
tional's headquarters saw butchers,
bakers, men's clothing workers, leath
er workers and many others affiliated
with the communists, shouting and
jeering the union's leadership. Acting
oh President Green's advice to rout
out the destructive element, the
union leaders are apparently taking
firm measures.
1ASTCALL
Issued For Those Wanting
Stock in Union Labor
Life
By International Labor News Service.
Washington, D. C.—Union Labor
Life Insurance will be a fact with the
coming of the new year. December
31 has been set as the date for the
closing of the books for the sale of
stock, and it is planned to have in
the bank at that time for the begin
ning of business a clear cash total of
$600,000.
This announcement was made here
by President Matthew Woll today.
'This is the last call for those who
wish to buy stock in the Union Labor
Life Insurance Company," said Pres
ident Woll. "After we begin to write
insurance no more stock will be sold."
Actuaries are hard at work getting
policies prepared and getting an ac
counting system ready for the new
company. The detail work of prepar
ing a life insurance company for op
eration is enormous and President
Woll, his assistants and members of
the board of directors are working al
most night and day to perfect all ar
rangements.
It is officially announced here that
group polteies will be the first ones
written, because of the great demand
for group insurance.
A new member: of the Union Labor
Life Insurance Company's board of
directors is Thomas A. Rickert, pres
ident of the United Garment Workers
of America. Mr. Rickert is also a
member of the executive council of
the American Federation of Labor.
Chief Justice Taft and other men of
prominence and with outstanding suc
cess *in the commercial, manufactur
ing, financial and insurance field have
highly complimented labor on the
soundness and great vision manifested
in the plan outlined for the Union
Labor Life Insurance Company and
the procedure it intends following in
the conduct of this insurance venture.
OPERATION
Fatal to Daughter of Victor
Olander
By International Labor News Service.
Chicago.—Ruth Helen Olander, 19
year-old daughter of Victor A. Olan
der, secretary-treasurer of the In
ternational Seamen's Union of Amer
ica and secretary-treasurer of the Ill
inois State Federation of Labor, died
here December 5 at the result of an
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operation for goitre.
December 8.
Miss Olander was a student at Chi
cago Normal College, where she was
taking training to become a kinder
garten teacher. Beside her father and
mother, she leaves a sister, Mrs. Iver
Smedstead, and the latter's husband,
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who is a promising young Chicago
artists.
JOIN OUR CHRIST!" IAS SAVINGS CLUB
Buy Useful Gifts This Christmas
HERE ARE SUGGESTIONS
R-E-B-S
THIRD AND COURT STREETS FOR BETTER MERCHANDISE
Burial was on mittee the poison gas treaty that has
been approved by representatives of
several nations
POISON GAS TREATY
REJECTED BY SENATE
Washington.—The senate recom
mitted to its foreign relations com
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Friends ,of the treaty emphasized
the horrors of poison gas. Opponents
insist that there is no such thing as
"humane war," and that a nation will
break any treaty when it is fighting
for its life.
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By JOSEPH A. WISE
Staff Correspondent, International
Labor News Service
Chicago.—Results which are certain
flow from action taken on various
proposals brought before this year's
convention of the American Farm
Bureau Federation, recently held in
Chicago, are of great interest and
ignifieance to organized labor. This
particularly true in reference to* the
possibilities and probabilities of the
1928 presidential campaign.
The 1,500 delegates from 45 states
made it plain that the farmers are
now no more in harmony with Presi
dent Coolidge's plans for farm relief
legislation than they were a year ago,
when the president came to Chicago
and attempted to tell the representa
tives of the farmers that they were
all wrong in their ideas for disposal
of surplus crops. The chief execu
tive's pronouncements were so coldly
received at that time that the presi
dential party hurried away from Chi
cago as quickly as possible.
Coolidge Ideas Not Approved
President Coolidge sent his mes
sage to congress while the American
Farm Bureau Federation was in ses
sion here early this month. That part
of the president's message referring
to agricultural relief was referred to
by delegates in private discussion as
"a weak alibi."
The convention showed its disagree
ment with the Coolidge ideas by the
character of the resolution adopted
in reference to a national agricultural
policy. The farmers call for a policy
based upon the following two points
1. Provide a federal farm board, ad
ministering an adequate revolving
fund, with whose help surpluses can
actually be handled by co-operative
agencies created by the farmers.
2. Distribute the costs of managing
Surpluses just as broadly as the re
sultant benefits are distributed that
is, over each marketed unit of a par
ticular commodity through an equal
ization fee.
The cotton growers of the South
previously had been opposed to an
equalization fee, but a bumper cotton
Estate Stoves
$43.50
Gunn Sectional
Bookcases
$21.50
Hoover Sweepers
$55 and $75
Englancler Da-Beds
$35.00
Ostermoor Mattresses
$37.00
Hope Chest*
$25.00
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Resident's Latest Ideas
On Agricultural Relief Find
Little Favor Jin Farmers' Eyes
THE SEASON'S GREETINGS
SPIRIT OF
CALLS US TO
APPRECIATION OF OLD AS
SOCIATIONS AND THE VALUE OF
OLD FRIENDSHIPS. MAY THE
NEW YEAR BRING YOU A FULL
QUOTA OF PROSPERITY
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crop and low prices removed tike
tagonism of the Southerners, and they
joined with the farmers of the wheat,
corn and hog belts in adopting j&e
resolution.
Lowden Formulated Plan
The significant thing from a politi
cal standpoint is that this is a solu
tion formulated by Frank O. Lowden,
former governor of Illinois, who is a
Northern farmer and Southern cotton
grower on a large scale. He is a
potential candidate for the republican
nomination for president in 1928.
Lowden addressed this year's con
vention of the American Farm Bu
reau Federation and was the lion of
the occasion. He simply repeated a
speech which he has made before
farmers' organizations in all parts of
the country. He received a tremen
dous ovation as he entered the hall.
During the course of his remarks he
said:
"The American farmer is a large
consumer of coffee. He is interested
in rubber, too, for he uses automo
biles and trucks. When he complains
of the high prices he pays for coffee
and tires, he is told it is due to the
way the Brazilian government and the
British government have interfered
with the law of supply and demand.
Mass Selling Suggested
"I think that just as Australia
found a way to take care of her huge
wool surplus without bankrupting her
farmers and Brazil a way by which
her coffee surplus is no longer a men
ace, and Britain a method by which
her rubber surplus no longer par
alyzes the rubber growing industry,
so we in America may, if we will,
find a means of taking from the back
of the American farmer his surplus.
"The world has long been used to
the advantages of mass production.
It now appears that mass selling is to
be given a trial."
AWNING WORKERS GAIN
THE RALSTON PAINT CO.
St. Louis, Mo.—Awning workers
have secured the eight-hour day, wage
increases of 20 cents an hour im
proved working conditions.
CHRISTMAS
A BETTER
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Whittall Rugs
$105.00
Sellers Kitchen Cabinets
$50.00
Edison Phonographs
$100.00
Kroehler Living
Room Suites
$225.00
Berkey & Gay
Dining and Bed Room
Suites
$369 and $396
Royal Easy Chairs
$29.75
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