BEHIND KELLOGG'S BULLYING
GOLDSTEIN, E.
BEHIND KELLOGG'S BULLYING! Mexican Trade Rapidly Drifting from U. S. Hands By E. GOLDSTEIN c>rr<aVuBd»iit or TM Ke» Leaser. ,«pHE news of the week in I Mexico is, of course, the 'statement...
...A splendid musical*-program is being prepared and the most prominenUSocialist speakers will address the visitors...
...The Attorney-General of the State a most capable and fair-minded man, appealed the case to the State Supreme Court...
...What a different picture in February, 1925, three months after the election...
...When the Dauphin County Court decision was rendered, it was three months before the November election and, with one or two exceptions, every newspaper in the State condemned or criticized the Court's decision...
...The past year taught us another lesson in the democracy and free Government we have...
...This reserve fund will be devoted to the establishment of a National Bank of Issue, Mexico's present peaceful state, greater thai it hat been for years, gives no justification for Mr...
...Astericaa and European Capital During the first few months of lift, America's decreased percentalt in the foreign trade of Mexico hit been even more marked, while German and British imports have steadily increased...
...in fact, it comes within all the definitions of benevolence . . We are left in no doubt that thii statute offends against Section 18 Article III, of the Constitution and must, therefore be declared void...
...Discussing this new and unexpected attitude on Die part of Washington, one nthers the following interesting facts as a possible explanation: At the end of the World War, Mexican foreign commerce was alavoit entirely monopolized by the United States...
...The feeling has kern that if American participation in the foreign trade of Mexico should continue to decline at the asjga rate that it has been since 1111, by the end of the year 1925 hit control over Mexico's financial ¦nd economical life will equal only that of the pre-war level...
...Military expenditures for the year 1926 have been reduced by 40 per cent, public instruction by 20 per cent, national railways by 26 per cent, etc...
...that the very framers of the Constitution, during the debates of the convention, stated that the restriction provided was nol meant against appropriations to i State agency under a regular syst err of classification...
...The Camp is situated in the mountainous section along the Hudson near Cold Spring...
...But with the conclusion of the f/ar and since thst time, American commercial and financial influence j„ the Mexican Republic has been steadily decreasing, until in the year 1924 the United States controlled only 78 per cent of Mexico's foreign trsde,, while Great Britain and Gerpany have been steadily becoming ttr serious rivals...
...Otto Stinnes, is in Mexico City at the present time, discussing plans for tkt investment of German capital in the Republic...
...Now, you miners, and railroaders, if you have ever thought of your own jobs as hazardous, or that you are rendering public service, the Court has now, definitely, decided that, compared to the dangers of sitting on a judge's bench a few hours a day for a few months a year, you are simply holding down "soft berths...
...Hence these latest intrigues tnd veiled threats against Mexico by the American Government...
...Another significant result of the old-age assistance case which may have some bearing on Labor's political attitude is illustrated by the so-called "moulders of public opinion...
...And, of coarse, say these Mexicans, such tendency, if allowed to continue" much further, would mean the liberation of Mexico from the control of American capital and cannot therefore be looked upon with great favor by the United States...
...And as the importations ,„d exportations of Mexico in the yssr 1920 amounted to no less than (311,000,000, this was quite an Hem for American industry...
...etc., they argued the the law violates Article III, Sectioi 18, of the Constitution of Pennsyl vania, whicn reads: "no appropria tions . . . shall be made for chart table, educational, or benevolen' purposes, to any person vr com munity...
...And all in the name of Justice and Equity...
...Obviously, it was contended, if these grants are not gratuities, prohibited by Section 18 of the Constit1 lion it should not be made to apply exclusively to the old-age assistance law...
...This law aimed to provide assistance up to $1.00 a day to the worthy aged who have spent their lives in toiling in our mines, factories, and shops, whose energies have been used up and who have made possible all our prosperity and welfare...
...On February 2, 1926, Justice Kephart rendered a decision, upholding the ruling of the Dauphin County Court...
...Germany's leading industrialist and capitalist...
...Kellogg's allusions to another revolution...
...When the Supreme^Court decision was rendered, the very newspapers which criticized the county court decision either kept their silence or went out of their way to applaud the defeat of this "Bolshevist" attempt to undermine this Grand and Glorious Republic...
...It is surrounded by hills and valleys, woods and fields...
...In August, 1924, Judge Hargest of the Dauphin County Court, ruler, the law out as unconstitutional Briefly, the court pointed out that "This law manifests a desire to d< good...
...You can also go by boat to Cold Spring...
...The United States is again geekinjf trouble" seems to be the prevailing impression jjnong Mexicans...
...CamfS Ganeden was built on a cooperative basis by the New York branches of the Jewish Socialist Verband and the Harlem Educational Center and is consequently the property of the New York...
...For further information write to Camp Ganeden, 176 East Broadway...
...In addition to this, social gatherings, concerts and lectures will make the evenings enjoyable...
...American Capitalist Claims European capital, it is said, is interested in assisting Mexico to establish a Bank of tssua, which hat been an aim of the Calles Government ever since its inception...
...t indicaies a love toward man kind...
...Meaicen President's Achievements Since assuming the Presidency, General Calles has put into effect the utmost economies in the administration of the Government He has cut down the budget by about 30 per cent...
...It is hardly possible to give a picture of the brightened hopes and renewed ambitions which this law inspired in the ieait i and souls of the thousands of poor aged men and women throughout the State...
...It is the almost universal sentiment among Mexicans that this statement of Kellogg's is merely the first indication of a fight en the part of the United States to keep her control of Latin-American trade, 44 per cent of her production being sold to • Latin-American • sttuntries, of which Mexico is the most important...
...Socialists...
...Kellogg...
...SACRED OLD AGE How Our Courts Deal With Workers Aged In Industry By JAMES H.MAURER President, Pennsylvania State Federation of Labor OUR courts have always and ever been the champions of backwardness and reaction...
...Since the notorious Bielsski affair there has been no claims by American citizens involving the Federal Government...
...In this appeal, il was pointed out that the construction of Article 18, given by the Dauphin County Court, Is entirelj new in the State...
...that the Mothers' Assistance Fund is based on exactly the same principles, and that, at this very moment, the Statt contributes half the teachfrs' pensions, half the State employees' pensions, while our judges, who receive salaries ranging from 18,000 tc $18,000 a year, have been drawing pensions for life, amounting to hall their salaries, from the State...
...or, 62 East 106th street...
...And through the operstion of these economies in the various Government departments, he has succeeded in paying off tome of the floating debts, to the amount of almost $8,000,000 per month, and has created a gold reserve which now amounts to more than $36,000,600...
...The policy of the Calles administration with reference to the 1 agrarian problem hat resulted rather favorably to date, at least for the land-owners...
...While the money allowed that year was not sufficient to pay many pensions, it was the hope of our Commission, of which I had the honor and privilege to be chairman, to be able to spend, at least, part of our funds in the payment of assistance, and we looked forward to the Legislature, just adjourned, for increased appropriations...
...And, while he convinced himself that the .Legislature not only had a right but a duty to provide judges with "adequate" compensation, he could find no constitutional right of the ssme Legislature to diminish their salaries...
...The Camp is especially arranged for the convenience of organizations and excursion groups...
...And our judges still, not satisfied with their present "inadequate salaries, have just succeeded in having the last Legislature give them another salary boost increasing their salaries so that the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court will now receive $19,600 a year, while, in the smallest counties, the judge would receive .not less than $$,000 a year...
...Thus, it is "constitutional" for a "non-constitutional public officer" to retire on a "public" pension of approximately $10,000 a year for "non-constitutional hazards of public employment," but woe befall the miner, the railroader, the street cleaner, and the ditch digger who has ever hoped to stay out of the poorhouse on a pension of less than $1 a day...
...This bill ^vould have enabled a loving old couple to continue to live together and end their days together, instead of breaking their hearts and darkening their last days by separation in wretched poorhouses...
...Camp Ganeden, New Socialist Playground, to Open Saturday, July 4 On Saturday, July 4, 1925, hundreds of people will witness the grand opening of Csmp Ganeden...
...Nor are the Mexicans entirely at a loss for m explanation of this search /or trouble...
...In this connection, it is interesting to note that when, in 1904, the State Treasurer refused to pay the increase in the judges' salaries, because Article III, Section 13, ol the Pennsylvania Constitution prohibits the increasing of salariet for public officers after the term of their election, the present Chief Justice, in a cleverly drafted decision (Commonwealth vs...
...The Camp is equipped with a spacious dining-room, its capacity being 400, to which is adjoined a veranda overlooking the Hudson...
...After several years of study and deliberation, we succeeded, in 1923, by an overwhelming majority vote of the Legislature, in placing on the statute books of Pennsylvania an OldAge Assistance Law...
...Besidei calling it "a piece of outrageoui socialism...
...No less than 92 per Mat of the foreign trade of Mexico ¦m in the hands of American business men...
...Will we workers ever learn...
...But we had hardly gotten started when the champions of the poorhouses in this State—represented by concentrated capital—attacked the law as unconstitutional...
...pHE news of the week in I Mexico is, of course, the 'statement coming out of Wash^ton from Secretary Kellogg...
...Tks Italian market was gone, Germany stripped of her colonies, mf Wtbt-America, particularly Wxico, offered attractive fields for tie sale of merchandise and for li uncial investments...
...Mathues), went out of his way to show that judges are not "public officers" in the sense meant in the Constitution...
...A train leaves every hour...
...Itwat during the war, when European capital had its attention on its own internal troubles, that the United States, undoubtedly owing toh«r proximity to Mexico, was able to obtain control over the financial •nd industrial life of the Mexican With the War over, however, European capital, particularly Germany, began to look for new outlets...
...The picturesque lake on its grounds will be the joy of all lovers of the outdoors— swimming, rowing and fishing to their hearts' content...
...The entire policy of the Calles administration has been such as to make absolutely unjustifiable the accusations of Mr...
...Speaking generally," declared the Court, "there is a distinction between the old-age assistance law and that of the judge's retirement law, inasmuch as the latter is compensation for the hazards of long, continued public employment...
...Both of these offices now open for registration...
...an effort to promote happi ness...
...The appeal showed that the Stati always had been and still is makins ' appropriations to private institu tions and hospitals which go in directly to individuals...
...It is within easy reach of New York, an hour and a half from Grand Central or 126th street...
...Two German skipping companies, the HamburgAmerican and the Stinnes concern, have established regular bi-monthly sailings to Mexico...
Vol. 2 • June 1925 • No. 26
