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B. Manville Detroit, Mich. Columbia 2870.14 52 Putnam Detroit Musical College (School Center of the Trinity College of Music of London) Offers • thorough instruction in all branches of Music. Faculty Heads are: Mms. Katia Kourtewa Howdren—Vocal. Mr. Arthur Maebe--Violin and Solfeggio Mr. Constantin Komarowsky—Violoncello Dr. Mark Gunzburg—Piano ROGERS BROS 1847 and Theoretical Subj. COlumbia 4474 477 W. Kirby concern • . Labor must become Old Gold's New $250,000 industry conscious." Cartoon Contest Has In his attempt to aid the em- Started ployers Hillman gave his approval out on strike. Immediately after- to speeding up the workers, con- For Full Details Read Page 3, (CONCLI'VED FROM PAGE ONE) doning the profits of the manufac- ward, Ilillman attended the con- turers though wages failed to keep Section I; It Can Make You solidating the union and maintain- vention of the United Garment pace. Rank and file opposition grew. Rich for Life. ing protective standards. More- Workers at Nashville, Tenn. The The quiet, square-chinned presi- over, in the twenties, reactionaries U.G.N. leadership, fearing the dent of the Amalgamated made It makes no difference how and some outright racketeers man- speeches couched in steadily sharp- busy you are, you should enter aged to infiltrate its ranks. There younger and more progressive del- er terms directed against the left- this new, bigger, unusual Old resulted factional fights and oppo- egates, decided to play safe by dis- wing groups within the union. The Gold Cigarette Contest which is sition to the officials' policy of col- franchising a great bloc of mili- The Amalgamated began to lose laboration. Revolt of the rank and tants who they expected would members, and Hillman's denunci- advertised in our newspaper to- file led to mass expulsions of mili- oppose them. The ousted delegates ations, punctuated by quick. sharp day. Read the details on page 3, Section 1. It makes no difference and there tants, the sabotaging of strikes by called a rump convention new union, the gestures, took on a nem bitterness. whether one is poor or rich, young the bureaucracy, and fierce Red- laid the base for a Employers who had slandered the baiting. Local scabbed on local; Amalgamated Clothing Workers of A.C.W. commenced to praise Hill- or old, man or woman—onyone the more progressive workers left America with Sidney Hillman as man: "Ile has never made demands can enter this contest and win a the I. L. G. N. and joined the president. The Amalgamated soon on an industry that it could not fortune in money-5100,000 is the First Prize. Needle Trades Workers Industrial meet economically, and he has been Everyone has again a chance. Union affiliated with the Trade known to make concessions where the opportunity to Union Unity League. By 1932, the the realities of the situation proved Everyone has membership had dropped to 40,000. irresistible." Yet the more Hill- win one of the 1,000 cash prizes. Aside from the fact that you may Throughout the factional strug- man charmed the employers, the gle, David Dubinsky, the present more members the Amalgamated win a prize, enter this contest president of the union, sided with because it is very interesting and lost. In the end, a large portion of the old guard. As a director of the the Amalgamated seceded from the will help sharpen your mind. This employers' organization for the new Old Gold Contest is the most union and joined the progressive garment industry remarked some Needle Trades Workers Industrial interesting contest offered at any time later, "Mr. Dubinsky has been time to the American public, with Union. a Most vigorous and effective op- Hillman was also intrigued by prizes totaling a quarter of a mil- ponent of the Communist or Left lion dollars. what he considered the business Wing element in our industry — The first prize, $100,000 in opportunities open to the A.C.W. Mr. Dubinsky's local was the 'last Like the railroad brotherhood, the cash—a fortune—will make the outpost' in the resistance to the winner rich for lifetime. You can Amalgamated setup banks in Chi- Communist invasion of the indus- cago and New York City, "to ad- win this fortune without labor- try." Yet years before, David vance the class struggle." The ious mental effort. Neither high Dubinsky had been persecuted as banks lent money to employers out education nor specialized talent is a revolutionary. Born in Brest- of their combined resources of 20 at all necessary. This new con- Litovsk, Poland, in 1892, he had million dollars. But banking neces- test will be conducted exactly like been arrested for political activity sitated adoption of big business the previous Old Gold contest with at the age of 15, and only a year methods: when it came to cutting the same faithful attention to later, in 1908, was sentenced to wages of employees, Hillman, like every detail that safeguards the 18 months in prison for the crime any other bank president, reduced interest of each individual con- of participating in a bakers' strike. pay 10 per cent—and neglected to testant. Such cash prizes in a con- Exiled to Siberia, the young So- notify the workers in advance. He test have never been offered in any SIDNEY HILLMAN cial-Democrat served five months and then managed to escape. He succeeded in recruiting a larger began to sympathize with the em- newspaper. You now have the op- ployers' need for cheaper labor; in portunity to get rich for life if came to the United States in 1911 than the U.G.W., but the depression he abandoned strug- you will enter this contest and and immediately joined the I. L. membership opposition from the parent union gle as a means to protest wage win. G. W. But Dubinsky's revolution- You win by supplying the miss- ary zeal faded, particularly after prevented it from affiliating with levels and instead accepted drastic pay cute which he hailed as vie- tog conversation for the blank bal- his election as president of his the A.F. of L. Scarcely less than a year old, the tories, since, he pointed out, each Ions in a group of 45 interesting local in 1921. In its place, Dubin- sky adopted many of the tenets of Amalgamated called a strike of reduction could have been far more cartoons that comprise the con- stringent. Sidney Hillman was 25,000 men's clothing workers in test. To guide you in writing the Gompersisms. As the I.L.G.W. dis- integrated, as employers grew Chicago. The strike was unsuccess- transformed into a labor leader in- missing conversations you will find bolder and began to lower wages ful, but it helped inaugurage a distinguishable, in many respects, suggestions below each cartoon. Besides the first prize of $1 .00,- and repudiate contracts, Dubinsky campaign of organization and edu- from the A. F. of L. executive 000 there are 999 other cash and the other officers feared to re- cation resulting in the successful councilmen. strike of 1919 which finally con- As was the case with the I. L. prizes totaling $150,000. You may sist, lest the union be smashed completely. Their caution only solidated the A.C.W. as a national G. W., the enactment of the NRA win $50,000, or $25,000, or $5,- aided the owners further to weaken union. The Amalgamated had won awakened the smoldering militancy 000, or $2,600, or $600, or $250, the union. In contrast to the offi- major gains for its membership; of the Amalgamated's rank and or $100, or $60, or $25. Read all cials' nervous reluctance to ersist not only did it establish a 44-hour file. The union's large membership the details on page 3, Section 1, the campaign against the I.L.G.W. week, but it also raised wages had dwindled considerably and was and you will learn what you have the Needle Trades Workers Indus- throughout the industry. When the too poor to call a convention in to do to enter the contest in order trial Union conducted strikes union was formed in 1914, only 16 1933. To Hillman, the NRA which to win one of the prizes. throughout the depression and won per cent of the workers in the in- he had been active in framing, The whole family can enter the $1 to $3 weekly wage increases for dustry were earning $20 a week represented "the realization of a contest—father, mother, children, or over in 1920, and some received dream," The Amalgamated re- 8,000 workers in the industry. relatives, friends and neighbors. as high as $65 a week., cruited vigorously, raised member- David Dubinsky was elected without an exception. The Amalgamated, vigorous, ship in a year's time to 125,000. Everyone president of the union in 1932. A No expert knowledge is necessary. year later, when the N.R.A. was militant, class conscious, an advo- A strike involving 50,000 workers Get acquainted with all the de- passed, the I.L.G.W. energetically rate of industrial unionism, donated won new agreements and better tails and rules now on page 3, recruited members, and after the $100,000 to the 1919 steel strike. conditions throughout the industry. Section 1, of today's Jewish Hillman had returned to his old independent Needle Trades Work- Some yearn later, the A.C.W. sub- Chronicle. Fill in the Official En- ers Industrial Union disbanded for scribed $167,000 for foodstuffs, idea that without strong organiza- try Form in English on page 3, clothing, and machinery to be dis- tion in the basic and mass-produc- the sake of greater unity in the Section 1, immediately and send Industry, membership of the inter- tributed by the Russian Red Cross. tion industries, the labor movement it in to Old Gold Contest together national rose to 210,000. The union It advocated recognition of the was doomed and the Amalgamated with your answer and three wrap- won important concessions , Soviet Union, endorsed Eugene along with it. Some of Hillman's pers of Old Gold Cigarettes. This strengthened, too, by the spread of Debs for president, and favored former progressive tendencies re- will immediately enter you in the industrial unionism. David Dubin- labor's independent political action. appeared. The Amalgamated which sky, conscious of the influence of It launched an ambitious educatin- had been admitted to the A.F. of L. Contest. progressives in the rank and file , al program, developed a plan to in 1933, eagerly supported the in- began to show greater willingness give workers in the industry unem- dustrial bloc within the Federation. Sidney Hillman succeeded in or- to cooperate with the militants. He ployment insurance, built coopers- When all attempts to influence the ganizing the textile mills, he re- apartment houses, set up sick s stubborn reactionaries of the ex- alized that he would be delivering supported the C. I. 0. from its in- two ception, though at first hesitantly. benefits for the membership. It I ecutive council failed, Hillman a telling, far-reaching blow against progressive policies enabled it to one of the principal mainstays of He also joined Sidney Hillman, L. Lewis in the open shop. setting John up the C.I.O. and IIis others support, again with some hesitation, in organize over three-quarters of the joined men's clothing workers. In contrast to Dubinsky's, was firm forming the American Labor Par- (Copyright, 1937) Sidney Hillman, in this period, and wholehearted from the first. ty in New York, which though it supported Franklin D. Roosevelt in had more and more tended to be- Active in forming the American the 1936 presidential election, made come what he considered a "sane " Labor Party, he backed it vigorous- ROSH HASHONAH it clear that it did not accept the progressive. So long as the mem- ly. With renewed confidence in the Democratic platform. Rather, it bership of the Amalgamated re- Amalgamated's strength, he pressed GREETINGS stood for independent political ac- mained militant, Hillman was rea- the employers for a revised con- dy enough to allude to his revolu- tract and negotiated a 30 million TO ALL tion by labor and its allies. As it became clear that the A.F. tionary past, to his desire to see dollar wage increase for the work- capitalism displaced eventually by ers in the industry. of L. executive council would pre- fer to kill the labor movement than some sort of socialist order. But as Hillman still refused, however, grant even the smallest concession a false feeling of security and per- to press strenuously for a national to the C.I.O., Dubinsky's support petual prosperity began to influ- Labor Party. He continued to place certain portion of the of the C.I.O. grew increasingly ag- ence a undue confidence in Roosevelt. But gressive. His union, one of the A.C.W. membership, Hillman also his advocacy of industrial union- most progressive in America, voted showed signs of shifting his posi- ism was both understanding and large financial grants to the or- tion. Socialism was saved for eve- progressive. To him was entrusted ganizing campaign in auto, steel, ning discussions, for quiet philo- the campaign to organize textile MOUNT CLEMENS, MICH. and textile. Instituting liberal edu- sophical debates that did not affect workers, probably the most for- cational, cultural, and social pro- union policies. Hillman became con- midable task yet undertaken by the vinced that the Amalgamated jects, the I.L.G.W. membership al- should assist big business by help- C.I.O. He was fortunate in having so revealed a clear understanding ing to reorganize the clothing in- the aid and seasoned advice of of the danger to the working class scientifically in a manner Francis J. Gorman. president of from Fascism. The union contrib- dustry the United Textile Workers. Slow- uted generously to the defense of that would guarantee high profits. ly, carefully, Hillman planned the must act as a unit in each the People's Government in Spain. "Labor industry," he proclaimed. strategy of the campaign: it would Sensitive to pressure, Dubinsky re- given in the process, learn to look require determination, patience, alized he must keep in line with 'and, great financial resources. If the wishes of the rank and file, upon industry as a matter of vital and that he mast take his place in the progressive union movement. LEADERS OF LABOR SINCERE NEW YEAR GREETINGS Berle PAGE ELEVEN PEPErRorrIEwtsn C ROMICTE September 3, 1937 tir•a lint Nat, A NEW PATTERN 'YOU'LL ADORE Delicate openwork . . . exquisite as orange blossoms and lace, made possible only by the master craftsmen of 1847 Roger Bros. See the New 90-Piece Service Set LOWEST PRICES IN DETROIT BILL BOESKY & JOE FREEDMAN OPERATORS OF • WM. BOESKY, INC. DELICATESSEN . RESTAURANT DEXTER Colonial Hotel — and Mineral Baths COLLINGWOOD • THE BRASS RAIL 116 MICHIGAN AVENUE COME. 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OPEN SUNDAYS TILL 6 P. M. MI GREENBERG JEWELRY 8931 Twelfth Street EUclid 3892 pointed. To Hillman, the arbitration com- mittee was a vital victory. In 1914, the union sent Hillman to New York to aid eloakmakers who were 4 41 1 ; : FOIL I2 OZ. bj EXTEND ROSII HASHONAII GREETINGS TO DETROIT JEWRY, WITH BEST WISHES THAT YOU AND YOURS MAY ENJOY GOOD HEALTH AND PROS- PERITY THROUGHOUT THE YEARS TO and Not unlike Dubinsky in back- ground and approach, though a stronger personality, Sidney Hill- man had been president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers s since its formation in 1914. Born in Zagare, Lithuania, he entered while still a child the rabbinical school in Kovno, Russia. At 15, the boy had definitely decided that his sympathies would never permit him to become a rabbi; he left school to work in the revolutionary move- ment. During the 1905-1906 revo- lution, he was among the workers who seized Zagare in the name of the people, and was a member of the proletarian committee that governed the town. When the Czarist police entered Zagare, Sid- ney Hillman was forced to flee. Three times in 1906 he was ar- rested because of his political be- liefs, and on the last occasion served six months in the Dvinsk jail. In 1907, he left Russia, mak- ing his way to England where he remained for a brief time before he took a boat to America. He settled in Chicago, became a clerk for Sears, Roebuck Company, and then a cutter for Hart, Schaffner and Marx, the leading men's cloth- ing manufacturers. The first great strike of men's clothing workers occurred in 1910 as a result of a walkout by 16 girls In protest against a wage cut in a Chicago pants shop. The workers sought aid from the only trade union then existing in the indus- try, the United Garment Workers. Their appeal was received with In- difference. Nevertheless, the strike spread, and pressure on the union grew until the U.G.W. was forced to grant the strikers a limited and grudging assistance. The strike compelled Hart,. Schaffner and Marx to sign an agreement which set up an arbitration committee of three composed of one arbitrator selected by the workers and one by the employers, with the third chosen by the two already ap- Yip BAR AND GRILL • Max Elkin & Albert Grossman at EANDB STEINIE BEER IS ALWAYS Gooa ' DETROIT, MICH. EKHARDT & BECKER BREWING CO., INC. 1011111111.1.1111111111111111111 ■1111111 .11111111.11111h