Tolpuddle a Guiding Light For the Whole World

Tolpuddle a Guiding Light For the Whole World Walter M. Citrine, Prendtnt 0/ notions of Justice. But they were Intematieiui Federatim of too seriously frightened to boggle fndt Union$ and...

...of the income...
...State Senator Walter Pola­kowski...
...two blocks west...
...and in 19Si wages may be cut to the the investments of -he couponbone, but interest must iemaiii clippers and iMnd-holders, whe untouched...
...the authorities decided this(.must Be sternly repressed...
...Alternates are Otto Hauser, (ieorge Hampel, William Zumach, .Supervisor Robert Buech, Milton Peters, Walter Palm, Helnrlch Itartel, Supervisor Frank Metcalfe, Elmer W. Bauman, and Alderman August 'Strehlow of Milwaukee, Hari-y Miller of Kenosha, Alfred Nabor of Mayville, Charl^ Emm­rich of Oshkosh, Arnold Zandler of Two Rivers, Harry Taylor of UiviTH Falls, and Alex SchaufTcl­l)i'rger of Cleason...
...or railroad magnates or President Meanwhile the value of the dollar Roosevelt or Mayor LaGuardia was going up, so that the income If lil)erals like I^Guardia make from interest, which had dropped occasiona...
...In 1930 wages of the national income...
...City AttoTSpey Max Raskin, Alderman Emil SSdel and Alder­man Paul Gauer, all of Milwaukee...
...The commemorations take place Tisty were taken to Dorchester all Dorchester, the county town of jail and were later sentenced to Dorsetshire, from August 30 to leven years' transportation over- September 2. They have been planned to make the widest appeal leas...
...All you who refuse to believe in 1932, 39.8...
...These poor sports meeting with international laborers, four of them married, football matches, a play based on •tt hard-working, chapel-going the story of the martyrs, a pageant folk, had formed a trade union of labor, a monster demonstration, a brass band contest and a fair...
...The main business section of the city is six blocks north of the river, with the convention head­quarters just a little further north...
...In INO It bad risen U 102.4...
...when the total Income fell some Taking the 1929 income level 60 per cent, whereas the receivers as 100, we observe wages on a of interest got a still larger share steep toboggan...
...men and women stand firm for The British Trade Union move­the ideal which inspired the mar­ ment and free Trade Unionists the tyrs of Tolpuddle 100 years ago, world over will this year pay and which today need more than homage to the Tolpuddle S^artyrs...
...had shown no hesitati 1 in'using the most sevt :c methods of repression against any manifestation of discontent...
...By 1932, that the interest rate could b< wages amounted to only 14 per cent reduced...
...Its task, in effect, is to save { Kurope for freedom, progress, and ' the democratic spirit...
...MEN and women may starve, -4t drepyed to 99.S...
...standard of living steadily driver What is obvious is that the wages downward, interest not only kept of the proletariat fell more than it» prosperity level but in somt 7 per cent during the very time rases mounted...
...Doreetekire Laborere and tke The sufferings of these men, in ffirt Played by Great Britain in English jails and in disUnt exile, 0§ Figkt for Freedom in Europe...
...in 1931...
...It is determined to resist every encroachment on its rights, and to do everything in its power to roll back the tide of barbarism which has already engulfed so Urge a part of the continent...
...The registration of delegates be­gins at the Hotel Fort Wayne, Cass and Temple Aves., at 8 a. m., Friday, June 1. The second floor of the hotel has been reserved for the convention and will serve as headquarters...
...In 1834, as in 1934, the greater part of Europe lay under the shadow of grinding despotisms which seemed as firmly established as they were detestable...
...Why was ihis savage sen­ to the trade union and labor move­ tence—usually reserved for the ment, and to the general public...
...Let us look back 100 year, and »ee how a British working class, faced with the same perils, vindi­cated its rights by an act which proved one of the main inspirations of a century of successful evolu­tion...
...boi%rs were arrested at daybreak...
...But they were Intematieiui Federatim of too seriously frightened to boggle fndt Union$ and SeereUtry of tke at trifles of this kind, and in due griti$h Trade Union Congrett, on course the "criminals" were brought f|« Centenary Commemoration of to the bar of "justice...
...It wai angle...
...Wages in 1929 amounted to the New Dealer in the capital wh< 21.2 per cent of the total national advised railroad workers not U ' income, and both wages and sal'a­fight to regain their wage cuts ' ries (which include million dollar but made no mention of the fac salaries) to 66.1 per cent...
...It is a deep significance of the whole epi­ "little village in Dorsetshire in sode have indeed provided an in­^M^uid where, a century ago, spiration which has lasted down in rebruary 1934, six farm la- to our own time...
...While Millions of Men Stand On the Breadline • y Ini M NsdbM* level gronad...
...Krzycki and Hoan Head Wisconsin Delegation MILWAUKEE.-Delegates to the national convention from Wiscon­sin have been announced by the stale office of the party...
...onirade Levenstein just i.sscd winning the schiKil's first prixe of ?1 because he transferred from the dn...
...This is a credo ac­ had proliably never Heen the in­ cepted hy all capitalists and theit side of a factory, returned to a lackeys, whether they be hankers mere 90.7 of the 1929 level...
...Not memory of the martyrs, will be •ix but thousands of people are dedicated...
...The Detroit Socialist Party head­quarters are at 226 E. Forest Ave., about two miles north of the De­troit River and one black east of Woodward Ave., at the corner of John R. A cordial invitation to all delegates and visitors to visit the Detroit party headquarters is ex­tended by the comrades of the local...
...Reaction was, on the whole, sure of itself: even in England i...
...She has been receiving many applications from comrades who are making the journey from distant parts of the country...
...The government of the day was • lert for opportunities of exercis­ ing its vigilance: it found one in a complaint from the landowners • t Tolpuddle that certain farm ••borers in the district had formed • trade union...
...runs parallel with Wood­ward Ave...
...ai this was their only offense...
...Six modern cottages, erected to the Today history repeats itself...
...They invoked • B obsolete and irrelevant statute *• make good thei^ case, and had w take some other precaution* not • tirely consonant wjth ordinary Delegrates Now Bef inning: to Arrive in Detroit 1% B T R 01T.—Bescrvationa for rooms for the National Con­ vention, to be held here June 1-8, are pouring in, according to Com­ rade Clara Naysmith, chairman of the Housing Committee...
...most hardenec' criminals — inThe program of events for the flirted on men who were guilt­ commemorations will include a less of any crime...
...But Interest was that wealth is becoming more and riding serenely along almost more concentrated, consider these figures...
...Tolpuddle a Guiding Light For the Whole World Walter M. Citrine, Prendtnt 0/ notions of Justice...
...Par­ ticularly was it on guard against triJde unlimism, then beginning to Bwlw an effective appearance in the field as the champion of social Justice...
...They are National Chairman Leo Krzycki, Mayor Daniel W. Hoan, Carl Mink-Icy, Al Benson, Andrew J. Bie­miller...
...Levenstein Heads Class in New York City Law School Aaron Levenstein, active Mew York Socialist and former cxoc­ulive wcrelary of the Y.P..S.L., will receive his degree at the New York I>aw School this commence­ment season, graduating with the highest mark in his class...
...languishing in concentration camps, But the celebrations will be more •nd hundreds of thousands have to th'an a mere festival of the move­Ude away like hunted animals, all ment...
...They will be symbolic of merely because they have belonged the strong determination of labor to free trade unions...
...class to the night ('1 o. a pri7.e for each ft the two seclirins of the schnol, and his mark 'cd him U win it in I'illicr (ine or tlic dIIht of the lions, hut he iriis kI It when he I'haiiifcf' from one wssion to the . otiicr...
...Visitors and del^gMH should note the following dfrections for reaching the convention headquar­ters: The principal street ip De­troit is Woodward Ave., running north from the Detroit River, and Cass Ave...
...New York who exempted the bank Let us consider this matter of ers from his proposed 1/20 of 1 wages and interest from another per cent tax on business...
...Mayor M. V. Baxter of West Allis, Alderman Jack Harvey of Racine, K. L. Vernon of Madison, George Mueller of Sheboygan Kails, Her­bert Dumky of Medford, Paul J. Hoyd of Gilmanton, and Jessie Winters of Oconto Falls...
...when bankers and insurance officers' salaries are in­A glance through statistics re cluded, the total of wages and leased by the Department of Com salaries was 64.5 per cent...
...their final triumphant vindication, due to the strenuous efforts of the trade union movement, and the niHA T is Tolpuddle...
...The Fort Wayne Hotel is at the corner of Cass and Temple Aves., about one mile porth of the Detroit River...
...the General Council of the International Fed­eration of Trade Unions will this year meet in Dorsetshire, as a mark of respect to the brave fight­ers of 1934, and will at the same time pay tribute to the martyrs of today, the enslaved workers of Germany and Italy, the heroes of Austria, all who fight in the battle of freedom for Europe, where the clock has been turned back a hun­ dred years and which has become another Tolpuddle, whose heroes will in the years to come be hon­ ored as we today honor the heroes ff 1934...
...in hwrers...
...ever the unshaken support of every j The centenary celebrations will be real friend of progress...
...This is a year of destiny for the British Labor movement, which is fully alive to the menace of the situation...
...merce on the national income And interest/ Interest, which 1929-1932, reveals that during th« had been receiving 7 per cent of worst years of the depression, while the total income in 1929, by 1932 wages were being slashed and th« received 11.2 per cent...
...They tell a story more sweeping and profound in its in­dictment of capitalism than the most powerful proletarian novel ever written...
...61.0...
...held at Dorsetshire...
...were down to 82.7...
...speeches against inter less than one-fifth of a billion est's rights above human rights dollars between 1929 and 1932, al­ iheir actions belie their words most doubled In value in real It was the "liberal" mayor ol dollars during that period...
...This year we celebrate, but we Bust fight too...

Vol. 17 • May 1934 • No. 21


 
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