TEACHERS' UNION RALLY TO PROTEST SCHOOL AUTOCRACY
Teachers' Union Rally to Protest School Autocracy In defense of academic freedom for teachers and their rights as citizens, and in protest against autocratic control of the schools, teachers,...
...UNION ACTORS WHEN STAGING A flHQW...
...S. 27), 214 East 42nd St...
...a lumber worker picks up and carries Wesley- Everest, IWW logger who was lynched in Centralia, Wash...
...One additional feature of interest to Socialists was a movie shown of Eugene Victor Debs in various periods of his life, as agitator, as campaigner, as prisoner of the United States government for opposing the war, and finally Of the glorious speaking tour which wound up his active Socialist life...
...Events of the past year on every campus and utterances of officials and administrators point clearly to a drawing of the issue between those who docilely conform and those who wish actively to share the responsibility with other workers for planning the new economic order," says Henry Linville, president of the union...
...Radio cars and finally police emergency cars were called in to crush the demonstration...
...Work has become scarcer than ever and the averagefcfor salaries has decreased steajily, despite the misleading publicity on four-figure salaries for a few stars...
...I.W.W...
...station (7 centa fare...
...Union to Sue In an endeavor to break up a demonstration of over 250 striking bakery salesmen of Dugan Bros., Inc., out since May 12, police arrested 85 workers and rushed them to court, charging them with overturning a delivery wagon run by a scab and stoning the company's plant in Brooklyn...
...In my country and J dare say in yours," declared Comrade Woodsworth, "the middle class is rapidly becoming a proletarian class...
...All the faces are tense...
...The front-Ilka marchers face Mussolini, Hitler, and their ilk, who are flanked by soldiers with drawn bayonets...
...The board's secretary replies that Dugan Brothers has declined to abide by the arbitration board's decision and refused to confer to prevent the .strike...
...She and others are singing Joe Hill's song, "You'll get pie in the sky when you die...
...A program of entertainment is being arranged...
...PICNIC The joint branches of the I.W.W...
...Speakers will be Norman Thomas and Arthur Garfield Hays...
...Although not generally known, the actor appearing in vaudeville, cafes or in outdoor shows has suffered intensely the last few years...
...The Socialist Party in Queens was active in supporting the striking drivers, ' ^ >r„ t kv > f. TUBIZE STRIKE LIKELY WASHINGTON, D. C—The case brought before tho National Labor Beard by the United Textile Workers regarding the Tubize Chatillon Corporation at Hopweli, Va., has been "taken under advisement," and a strike looms as a not unlikely prospect as the resdlt of the firm's coercive tactics in laying off active unionists...
...And farther on, at Nassau and Wall Streets, frock-coated bankers are using the Statue of Liberty as a stock-ticker...
...In the rear ranks is a girl in red, recalling barricades in Parisian streets...
...And three sculptors subsequently added a large square bas-relief portrayal of iron-kelmeted skeletons of dead soldiers thumbing their noses at Mammon, the War-Maker...
...The emphasis on the international aspects of the Socialist and labor movement was accompanied by a consideration of the importance of the psychology of national groupings in establishing s powerful working class moverneni-The labor movements In vsdpuMbuntries, Woodsworth mainuiaed, have great lessons to teach but the task of building a movement in America is the problem of workers in this country...
...Richard J. Power, business agent of Local 188 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, said that Dugan Brothers had refused to accept the arbitration agreement of the New York Regional Labor Board and that the union had been compelled to strike...
...Williana Burroughs, will cite cases of infringement of academic freedom and time will be allowed for discussion from the floor...
...Norman Thomas and Chairman Xrsycki were the leading speakers who were heard on a national radio hookup...
...The company has refused to deal with the Regional Labor Board because its vice-chairman is "prejudiced...
...A giant Negro in a blue sweater indicates the solidarity of the races achieved through industrial unionism...
...The first resolution urged the restoration of full school activity by enactment of the PorterHewitt Bill, which provides for the full grant of state aid...
...subway to East 180th Street, change to local train' of New York, Westchester and Boston Railway...
...Our organization, affiliated with the AFoL, has been struggling to make badly needed reforms, to set up a death benefit fund, to drive out chiseling agents and to persuade the government to grant relief...
...They were painted in a single evening by Six volunteer artists...
...This meeting will also mark the publication of a pamphlet entitled "You May Be Next," which is a study of teachers' rights as citizens, and a program of action which the union will follow...
...B. Charney Vladeck was toastmaster and due to his earnest plea over $700 was contributed by the diners...
...In addition, a comprehensive reorganization and extension of vocational education facilities are urged...
...To reach Edenwald Park, take the I.RT...
...The league also upposed all efforts at false economy in the schools of the city and state._ i j Big Mass Meeting Precedes Party Convention DETROIT.—The convention proceedings were informally begun Thursday night at a mass meeting at the Cass Technical High School...
...The mass meeting will discuss how teachers have been treated by supervisors who would regiment teachers' and the union's program for achieving for teachers the recognition of their status as citizens and as constructive forces in the most important civil work of the state—education...
...Teachers' Union Rally to Protest School Autocracy In defense of academic freedom for teachers and their rights as citizens, and in protest against autocratic control of the schools, teachers, parents and citizens will rally at a mass meeting called by the Teachers' Union for Friday evening, June 8, at the Central School of Business and Arts (P...
...William F. Kelly, vice-president of the United Textile Workers, told the board that "these wholesale layoffs are simply a part of the determined effort of the company to destroy the union...
...What we thought was quite impossible to do or say five years ago and win a sympathetic hearing, is entirely possible today...
...In the past two weeks, 410 were laid off, 90% of them union men...
...Two union members, Ben Davidson and Mrs...
...WE APPEAL TO YOUR READERS TO SUPPORT US BY INSISTING THAT ORGANIZATIONS OF WHICH THEY ARE MEMBERS USE A.F.A...
...I class struggle Murals on iww walls By jtohn Nicholas Beffd Vivid murals symbolizing the class struggle now stretch across 45 feet of wall space in the new enlarged IWW headquarters at 94 Fifth Ave...
...Other speakers were Mayor Daniel W. Hoan, Mayor Jasper McLevy, Frank Croaswaitb, Lllith Wilson, Jamas D. Graham •ad James Oneal, . ., , . Police Arrest 85 Dugan Strikers...
...in New York City will hold their first picnic of the season at Edenwald Park, the Bronx, on Sunday...
...American Federation or Actors, Ralph Whitehead, Executive Secretary...
...Aroused workers press forward beneath crimson banners in the murals, with smoking factories in the background...
...The New York Women's Trade Union League has passed three resolutions advocating the restoration of former standards in teaching staff and funds to the public schools...
...Make Sura Showman Art Union Acton...
...The government is not helping us...
...He added that the union had started court action to compel the Arm to abide by the agreement...
...Detroit comrades did a fine job in •very phase -of the arrangements...
...Get off at Dyre Ave...
...loo Uno Promises to (teiasrore Strikers The Bee Line Bus Company, Jamaica, L. I., facing action for renewal of its franchise before the Board of Estimate, finally declared that it would comply with the National Labor Board decision that it reinstate its striking employees "except those guilty of violence...
...Resolutions will be presented...
...Beneath their feet is the fallen Czar...
...e * The convention banquet Sunday night was attended by eight or nine hundred people with many standing in the large entrance and the opacious hall leading to it...
...NRA codes have not helped...
...Joseph Jablonower, chairman of the Academic Freedom Committee, I under whose auspices this meeting j is held, will be chairman...
...All but one were paroled...
...Labor Editor: We want to bring to the attention of your readers the plight of the professional actor...
...The pace and -temper of Canadian workers and farmers'1 have been quickened by the facts of hunger and unemployment and the prevailing insecurity of a capitalism which has failed to function...
...Over twenty-five hundred workers, Socialists, and plain Detroit citizens heard speeches by James S. Woodsworth, M. D., of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation of Canada, Max Winter, Martin Plettl, Daniel W. Hoan, Leo Krzycki, national chairman of the Socialist Party, Al Benson and Norman Thomas...
...Thirty such workers were discharged in two months...
...at their head is a huge proletarian, sledgehammer in hand, typifying the One Big Union...
Vol. 17 • June 1934 • No. 69
