The Tobacco Worker by Tobacco Workers International Union

Author:Tobacco Workers International Union
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: National Tobacco Worker 's Union of America
Published: 1916-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

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tobacco workers in the

trust shops organizing.

The high cost of living has had its effect with the Tobacco Workers cm-ployed in a number of the trust branches in New York, Brooklyn and Jersey City. The pressure had been felt for some months and the employes bore it as long as they could. The question finally culminated in a strike in eight factories, with everything shut down tight in all three cities. President McAndrew went to the scene of the trouble and held a number of meetings with the unorganized Tobacco Workers, and as a result three Local Unions have been organized. With organization established, the cause

of the trouble was taken up. President McAndrew, with the committee appointed, bad intcfrviews with the various managements, and succeeded in getting a substantial increase in wages and a reduction of hours from 60 to 51 per week, with an understanding that when conditions arise in the factories, which give cause for complaint, such complaints will be made as subjects of conferences, looking to adjustment between the management and the committees appointed to take care of such occurrences.

The high cost of living, and the rigid anti-union attitude of the trust management, has, for some time, caused more or less discontent among all the factories operated by the four branches of the tobacco trust. The desire for freedom of action, and the right to organize for their own protection, has been climbing up and up. This feeling is applicable to the East and West more particularly. Those of the South, while possessing the same feeling, have not as yet made it so much of an issue.

Much misconception has been the rule as to organization in the trust shops. The hope has been eternal in the breasts of the Tobacco Workers in the trust shops for organization, and has only been kept in subjection by a line of objection drawn across the border between non-organization and organization, and this born of fear from many causes. However, the pressure has gotten so great at some points that the border line was broken and organization has been ef fected.

The first burst was in the Liggett & Myers' branch, in Toledo, Ohio; the next in the Lorrilard branch in Middle-town, Ohio; the next was in the American Snuff Company, in Memphis, Tenn.; the next in New York, Brooklyn and New Jersey. In all these places unions have been formed.

The pressure for relief through the protection given by organization will yet burst out in other places. Where next« is an open question. The rumblings are being felt, and a response to the desire will manifest itself in a most unexpected place.

The Trade Union is the natural and

THE TOBACCO WORKER

logical pbce for. all those who toil and earn their bread by the sweat of their faces, and those employed in the trust tobacco factories should be no exception to the rule.

A full realization that organization under the banner

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