The Organizer (Minneapolis, Minnesota), 1934-10-17

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UNITED
LABOR
ACTION
Smash the
CITIZENS
ALLIANCE
VOLUME 1, NO. 48
MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 17, 1934.
PRICE TWO CENTS
Stop The Vigilante Raids
All Firms to
Pay New Scale
Back Pay Will Be
Received Shortly
With the completion of.negotiations with the market employers
which brought an agreement from
the market to conform to the wage
scale established for the transfer
industry, the announcement comes
from the Employers' Advisory
Committee that the amendment to
the strike settlement will be signed by all employers involved.
The amendment calling for
42J,2 cents per hour for inside
workers and helpers and 52%
cents per hour for drivers effective to May 31, 1935, will go into
effect as soon as the signatures
are obtained. The back pay to
September 15th will be given to
the employees at that time. The
amendment also calls for an additional increase of 2% cents per
hour to go into effect on June 1,
1935, and continue in force until
May 31, 1936. There shall be no
reduction in the present rate of
pay if it exceeds the above specified   minimums.
Vandals Raid
Book Store
LETS ALL PUSH TOGETHER
Union's Radio Time
Cancelled by Bosses
Fargo - Moorhead   Drivers
Sue Station KGFK
More Unfair Cleaners
The Master Cleaners at 1312
Nicollet are now in violent competition with the unfair Progressive Cleaners for the record in
operating under diverse and sundry names. The Master has added
Bruch Cleaners, Levine Cleaners,
and One Price Cleaners to their
original name in order to confuse
the public with whom they are
dealing. The records now show a
substantial list of laundry and
cleaning concerns which are operated by only two individuals and
which serve as a cloak to conceal
the vicious exploitation of labor in
which the bosses indulge. The
complete list now includes Master
Cleaners, One Price Cleaners,
Bruch Cleaners, Levine Cleaners,
Progressive Cleaners, Economy,
Snow White and Northside Cleaners. Watch these names and remember them for what they represent.
We are informed that the proprietor of the Master Cleaners has
made application to the City
Council for license to open another cleaning establishment. We
call the attention of the City
Council to the infamous record
of this concern and recommend
careful consideration regarding
such license.
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Valhalla Fair to Labor
During the recent strike an article was published in the Organizer stating that the Valhalla cafe,
located at 105 Washington Ave.
S., was opposed to Local 574.
Subsequent investigations have
' disclosed that this' charge was
based on false information. We
are glad to retract this statement
with the announcement that the
Valhalla employs union workers
exclusively and is deserving of
union patronage.
Hardin Caters to Unionists
The Colonial Warehouse is violently opposed to theunion, but
they seem to feel that they can
tolerate the receipt of money garnered through purchases by union
workers.
Let's take a close look at these
Jiquor stores to see who delivers
to them and also to see who is
delivering Wing cigarettes to the
tobacco stores.
On Monday, October 8, Miles
Dunne was scheduled to speak to
the citizens of Fargo and Moorhead over radio station KGFK. In
advance of this date, complete arrangements had been made by
Drivers' Local 173 to purchase the
time and the speech had been written out for examination by the
officials of. the broadcasting company. The union had inserted
paid advertisements in the Sunday
and Monday editions of the Fargo
Forum announcing that a speaker
would be on the air to address the
public on behalf of the workers
employed in the milk industry.
But when the union speaker appeared at the station as per schedule he was told by the manager
that he could not go on the air.
When pressed for a reason, the
manager could give none. He
merely repeated over and over
that the union could not have the
time it had contracted for. He
could find nothing wrong with the
typewritten copy of the speech
presented to him for examination.
He could find nothing wrong but
he continued his refusal.
It is high time that organized
labor began to take definite action
to prevent such ruthless strangulation of the worker's voice in this
"land of the free," and the union
is beginning this action by bringing suit against the Red River
Broadcasting Co. for damages incurred through the loss of funds
expended for the broadcast and
for the immeasurable loss incurred
by the failure to appear on the
air.
In view of the broadcast manager's refusal to give the reason
for stopping the union broadcast,
it is a matter of speculation as to
what the true cause is. In the interest of this speculation as to the
motive for such an outright discrimination against the workers,
we will examine a few facts about
the milk industry in the cities of
Fareo and Moorhead..
The average wage paid to dairy
employees is about $17 per week.
Some of them work as much as
72 hours per week, and most of
them work seven full days per
week. Although the price of milk
has increased twenty per cent, the
employees have received none of
the added profits. Their wages remain the same.
While the price of milk is the
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Building Trades Support
Drivers' Union
The building trades unions have
been instrumental in bringing a
considerable number of drivers
into Local 574. They persistently
refuse to accept delivery from a
non-union driver. It is with such
loyal support as this that the drivers go rapidly forward toward
their goal of complete unionization in the trucking industry. Local 574 appreciates this wholehearted support, brother unionists,
and is anxious to work" closely
with all unions to make Minneapolis a union town.
Retail Clerks Open
Campaign for Wages
Meet  October  22  to  Begin
Formulating Demands
Help Wanted? Call At. 3773
If you require a driver for any
kind of a truck in any. line of
business, if you need a yard man
for your coal yard, if you need a
worker with experience on the
fruit and produce market, if you
need a helper, if you need a furniture packer, if you need ice-, if
you wish to hire a truck and
driver, if you need help of any
kind, call the Drivers, Helpers
and Inside Workers Union, Local
574, at 225 S. 3rd St., phone Atlantic 3773. You .will find the
most efficient help available.
No one has given much thought
to the poorly paid workers who
serve as clerks in the far reaching
retail, industry. That is, no one
except the clerks. They have
scratched along as best they could
on a miserably -low- wage for &
long time. Too long a time they
now believe. With workers all
about them springing into life to
form unions and present a united
front against the employers to obtain a wage increase, it has come
to the minds of the retail clerks
that they too can well afford to
follow the same course.
Go into any retail establishment
and look about you. You will see
on every hand workers, both women and men, who work long
hours and receive little pay.
Workers who spend practically the
entire day on their feet, rushing
here and there at a mad pace in
an effort to please the fickle public which they must serve efficient-
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SUPPORT ORGANIZED LABOR
Accept deliveries from union drivers only. Do not
buy gasoline from non-union station attendants. Insist
that none but union mechanics work on your car.
Make the store clerk show his union card. Eat your
meals in union restaurants. Buy clothes made by
union garment workers and sold by union clerks. Furniture delivered by a union driver looks better and
wears longer. Have your laundering done by union
cleaners. Milk delivered by a union man has more
cream. A sign painted by a union painter gets better
results.  Is your ice man a union man?
. Scab, i&e cream sours your stomach. It is dangerous to ride a, street car operated by a scab motorman~.
Non-union coal won't keep you warm. A Liberty cab
will get you there late. A scab moving man will break
your dishes. A UNION WORKER IS ALWAYS RELIABLE.
Wherever you go, whatever you buy, demand
union service. Demand a paid-up union credential.
Never patronize_a concern which is being picketed
or bannered or is on the unfair list.
BE A MEMBER OF ORGANIZED LABOR.
SUPPORT THE UNION MOVEMENT. BE A REAL
TRADE UNIONIST AT ALL TIMES AND IN ALL
PLACES.      ,
MAKE MINNEAPOLIS A UNION TOWN!
Today Communists,
Tomorrow Unions
Who is it today who mouths
sweet phrases about the glorious
American Constitution, about the
People's Rights, about Law and
Order? Without exception, it is
the clique of reactionary, labor-
hating bosses and owners, and
their bands of thugs and dupes
whom they buy or fool with their
gold and their grotesque hypocrisies.
Early Tuesday morning the
Workers Book Store on Third
Street between Hennepin and
Nicollet was illegally broken into
by vandals, by minions of "Law
and Order." Furniture was overturned and smashed, pamphlets
were torn up and scattered over
the floor. But you will please
note^ in their patriotic ardor,
these robbers were yet not above
stealing the small supply of cash
in the store. Nor were they above
taking with them every book in
the shop. Several score of expen- '
sive volumes were stolen.
When  the proprietors   of   the
book store came down to open up
at 8:30 Tuesday morning a sorry
sight met their gaze.   In the window-was a crude sign:
"modern
Boston Tea Party
NO REDS    •
Wanted in Minneapolis"
Inside the shop all was confusion and disorder.
"Modern   Boston  Tea Party!"
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Country Wide Jobless
Demonstration Called
Unemployed   to   Appear   at
AH Relief Stations Nov. 24
Five years of economic crisis
with its attendant unemployment
have wrecked the lives of'millions
of workers, and the coming sixth
winter promises to be the most
miserable of all. Millions are on
the brink of starvation, forced to
subsist on the deplorable relief
pittances. Unless the unemployed
are well organized to combat the
"welfare" boards, the relief dole
will be slashed even further and
with this action will come an attempt to reduce the wages of
those who 'are working.
As a result of a conference of
representatives from unemployed
organizations throughout the nation, a nation wide relief demonstration has been set for November 24. At this time the jobless
will appear before every relief
station in the land to present demands for better allowances, and
the demands will also be presented
to the authorities in Washington.
The demands call for increased
relief allowances to be paid in
cash, public works on the basis of
the 30 hour week at $30 per week,
unemployment insurance, the
right to organize on public works
jobs, recognition of unemployed
.representatives by relief administrators, disability compensation on
public works projects, and the
turning over of all war funds for
unemployment relief.
To plan the action in Minneapolis, a conference of delegates
from all working class organizations, employed and unemployed,
will be held in the County Commissioner's room at the Court
House on  Saturday,  October 20.
Make Minneapolis a Union Town