Speaking before several thousand painters and paperhangers, members of the striking Brotherhood of Painters, Paperhangers and Decorators of America, last night at Mecca Temple, Louis Waldman, state chairman of the Socialist party, pledged the strikers full support of the Socialist party.
Mr. Waldman declared that “the employers are responsible for the strike and the union is fighting in self-defense. The Socialist party and all its subdivisions will back the strike. New York City is in the vanguard of the movement for the six-hour day, five-day week.”
“No employer in the painting, decorating and paperhanging industry,” Mr. Waldman warned, “will be permitted under the law to obtain a contract on any of the buildings constructed under the control of the New York City Housing Authority if he persists in following the unconscionable policy affecting labor which the employers’ association now pursues.”
The noted Socialist attorney demanded that “not a dollar of the federal government should reach an anti-union labor employer in the painting or other industry.”
Included among other speakers were Joseph P. Ayan, president of the Central Trades and Labor Council, and George Meaney.
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