Box 5

Shareholders in RAIC

UGW threatens to withdraw patronage from Leopold Morse Company unless it shifts from ACWA to UGW.

Dispute between the Associated Clothing Manufacturers of Toronto and the ACWA over the installation of a checking system; discussion of a campaign to organize clothing workers throughout Canada; resolutions concerning unemployment and cooperatives; appointment of Miss Gold to organize women shirtmakers; agreement dispute between ACWA and the W.P. Johnston Company (complicated by factionalism in Toronto locals.)

Organizing Polish, Bohemian and Jewish workers; English, Italian, Polish labor newspapers; May Day Parade; trouble with the Journeymen Tailors' Union; discriminatory discharges at Continental Tailoring Company; Gompers' plan for the United Hebrew Trades to re-open negotiations between the ACWA and the UGW; ACWA agreement with the American Clothing Manufacturers Association; strike at Chas Kaufman begun by off pressers and spread to all workers; Chicago on the verge of a general strike.

Strikes in Philadelphia and St. Louis - police violence and worker arrests discussed; reference to the "St. Louis courts of Justice"; plan for restructuring Chicago coatmaker locals; manufacturers' expectation that the union will set standards and systems immediately.

High unemployment in Buffalo