A PAGE OF EXCLUSIVE FEATURES
A PAGE OF EXCLUSIVE FEATURES SOME KEYS TO THE CITY .^y. BOURSE most of you convention delegates have C/ been in New York before. But even if your last •alt was only five years ago, it will...
...But even if your last •alt was only five years ago, it will still he a strange Sty to you, so rapidly are we all ky-hooting along these days...
...QOINQ SOME...
...We haven't got the time...
...The canines nibbed our legs, the constable pulled them under the false pretenses df speeding and the country boya found Joy in yelling ' "Say Mister, say Mister...
...Every bicycle had to be equipped with bead light and bell announcing its approach so as to give pedestrian, equestrian, buggies and chickens, a chance to seek safety in the ditch or over the fence...
...Is about all that mortal men get out of life...
...If * he cant get to work on a new skyline every season be goes into quite a tantrum...
...He is like a kid with s tot of wooden blocks...
...I personally knew another one who used to' drive hogs from Yankeetown, Ohio, to Baltimore, Maryland, and walk back, and did this over and over again...
...A Victor - wheel with spring fork, cushion tires and an the latest improvements...
...Nor was the murder it Matteotti Instigated by Mussolini ¦ filer crime...
...Housed £ ~e streets and alleys behind the symbols anJh68 &nd P°wer lived the urban masses who "Mned the linen, dug the trenches, served the wheels ¦to watched the forges for Midas and Divas," wrote 2~ B*ard o' an earlier "Gilded Age" than ours...
...The calkwunesa of the Stalin regime, can be shown In no more glaring light than in the fact that the request of the exiles, some of whom are physically ID, to be sent to a salubrious climate, like Caucasus or the Crimea, was brutally rejected...
...Here is the sure enough president of a railroad, the Erie, for instance...
...Recently in Mew York a Supreme Court justice fined several defendants, officers of a labor union (with whose principles and tactics I thoroughly disagree) the enormous sum of ten thou send dollars and disbursements, besides imposing upon them jail sentences...
...that through such proceedings a single iudge often usurped the functions not only of the Jury but of the Police Department...
...So why harry...
...Come on, boys, an to-"" gether now, work twelve hours a day, seven days s week and all of us will be successors to Jay Gould...
...I did it from choice because those were the batter^ paying Jobs...
...the elrcularioetton of customers of a non union employer Inviting tbstr sympathetic cooperation.— these era iiainiilaa of indirect economic praaame that aught be employed by unions against snisspyers...
...Society has long since trekked East to live in fantastic apartments along a filthy river, front where on almost any clear day one can watch the inmates of the poor-house over on Welfare Island dying of disease and despair...
...When the time came for the checks, he would walk over to your table and break out with a Mammy song and through the alcoholic Bust of tears that followed you never noticed how you were being short-changed...
...The wisecrackers are growing mouldy in their box down at City Hall...
...Stella ta guilty of the ssssa crimes...
...Hardships, hard work and all that, but a. proud, free...
...This country was conquered by men traveling in covered wagons, propelled by oxen...
...Corrigan said: "The equitable remedy, although applied In accordance with- established practice, involved incidents which...
...Particularly those of the East Sldte...
...Are we, speed mad because we seek far off places that ts not within us, or to escape the pain hidden in our own hearts...
...he was denied...
...Everything is done by pushing buttons...
...Za brief, decent mat and women, genBine liberals and sans radicals, sincere sad honest Communists, have no right to throw stones at the capitalist glaar .bouses, so long as the House of Liberty from which ao much was hoped, so long as the free and glorious Workers Republic remains one Immense prison, permeated With spies and informers, in which everybody who dans whieper a word of criticism against the govc-nment risks exile, starvation, a filthy dudgeon or—death...
...2. The bringing against the employer, employers, or, in some esses, even against the unorganised worker, of social pressure, which we will call indirect economic pressure...
...God>, speed bis speed, for there Is sense in that, but there is no sense in rushing about the world even at the rate of a thousand miles a second trying to get away, from ourselves...
...This we will call direct cuuuundo pressure...
...financial writer of the Hearst papers who Is an art vocate of the five and a half day weak, said president writes: » "The facts are that human nature has not "changed much since the days when I worked twelve and thirteen hours a night every night of the •year...
...a place where we are all sitting pretty, mrowing around money like drunken Republicans at •jection time, doing our prosperity stuff with a smashtog strut...
...J&hir any strange chance you should desire to talk oyer matters of import with any of Our old-line local labor leaders, it might be well to go straight to the buriesque instead of wasting your time hanging around their official headquarters...
...It The lndlieot economic piuasuia cannot be defined...
...devices by this time to save ourselves labor...
...We no longer walk...
...t McAlister Coleman...
...But we haven't got time for ' anything else but going...
...j.tifc,course you'll want to take one shot at "The Great White Way...
...And my, how the farmers used to cuss us for scaring teams, stampeding contented cows, Jeopardtx- - ing the lives of their chickens, ducks and geese...
...The Issues in litigation arising 'out of trade disputes related largely to questions of fact...
...But of course, granting an Inhiintlon against a labor anion forbidding it to do what the criminal law already forbids does substantial and real barm...
...The house where I first saw lj~ gun metropolitan light of day stood longer than —njt of the others on the block...
...Dogs, constables and freckle-faced country youths i made life miserable for every bicyclist who invaded the sylvan glades...
...Similarly, In addition to persuasion, the exposing of a strike-breaker to the ridicule ot bis group, me church, his etas has 1—r"y is a species of indirect pressure oajsnlatart to keep him away from tasting the peace of the striker...
...Soon we shall go to bed In New York and wake up in Going some ? Sure...
...Later on after the pneumatic tires made their appearance, the Jocose country boys sprinkled carpet tacks on the roads making dismounting compulsory...
...Don't „ let the children break out laughing when they see the funny looking things Bitting in the windows...
...Goehf •• How long ago it seems...
...More often than not both most be employed to be suoooBsfoL But the minute the unions enter the Said of activity, employing indirect eonavTmlc pressure, there is a babel of tongues, a frightful confusion to the law...
...It seems we ought to have enough labor savins...
...t we do mean is that we are glad to have you >~ Us, glad to have as comrades men and women detect5...
...i Brandeis on Injunctions Summarizing the opposition to judicial interference by way of injunction In industrial disputes...
...So far a visitor might be excused for thinking that he had at last arrived at that Utopia where, as one "¦itor seriously put it an official report, "no one ofts, pushes, sweats...
...First of all there's our Mayofi We've had a lot df trick Mayors to oW'time add jimmy Walker is not the least of them...
...There were lady bicycles, of course, just as there were lady saddles, but even these contraptions required somewhat shorter skirts, resulting in the immodest exposure of lady ankles...
...that in prescribing the conditio as under which strikes ware permissible and how they can be carried out, he usurped also the powers of the Legislature...
...In my opinion, to remain silent any longer is to be guilty of moral cowardice...
...There Is nothing at the end of the Journey but the « grave and the faster one travels the sooner he gets there...
...the refusal by an International anion to handle products made m a factory against which a strike Is being conducted by one of its locals...
...devise with us ways and means A hr m5 mteUlEence, courage and happiness more of "•"thing space in these cluttered up cities of ours...
...I might have gone., all of seven miles per hour and that toothless Juatlce of the peace socked me five bucks and gave me a loc...
...To Be CiiillaaaS Next Week) From the NEW LEADER MAILBAQ THE JOFPE LETTEBt Adotoh Jose's letter which ha wrote on the eve of Us suicide is,, a document of the highest Importance and aig> Tdfieance...
...When I went up —ere about five years ago, it had been made over tgto a rooming house, with signs in the window...
...And when the Mister dismounted his bike and inquired as to what it was all about, he received the answer, "Your wheels are going 'round...
...Real estate speculators have something to do with our city's face which changes as amazingly and rapidly as Lon Chaney's...
...Neat O^e I wander up there I suppose 111 find that the -hgj-tment has been torn down and that they're busy putting up a block long theatre or clearing a landjog ground for aeroplanes from Berlin...
...Justice Brandeis indicates the real answeri to those lawyers and judges who say: "what objection Is there to this Injunction...
...j ITALY is constructing an airplane which ia expected to travel more than six hundred miles an hour, Well, that's going some...
...It substitutes trial of labor men for contempt before a judge without a Jury, often on mere affidavits, for trial by a jury with all the safeguards surrounding the defendants which they would have bad were they charged with crime...
...Whether organised labor seeks to extend' Its Influence into hitherto unorganised and untapped fields or is conducting a campaign to compel an employer or a group ot employers to accede a its demands for more wages, shorter hours and union conditions of employ* ment, its activities are generally divided Into two classes: 1. The withholding ef the labor of Its members from the employer or employers directly involved in the oontro1 versy...
...We go to bad In Buffalo and wake up in Chicago...
...In a letter to R C Ynilisa...
...Laboriously he builds up an elaborate structure and then with a whoop of Joy knocks the whole business to smithereens...
...One flotilla of modern Mississippi River steel barges carries mora freight than all the Ohio barges of a century ago could have carried in one year...
...g Then I remember the birth of the bicycle...
...The more we get the more we hustle ethotsX the« faster we go from nowhere to nothing...
...iM • ..'.• t 1. iw,Jn the same building with Tammany appropriately enough is...
...Speed, speed, more speed...
...The Outline of Injunctions Justice Brandeis on Injunctions—How Labor's Hands Are Tied By Judicial Interference By Louis Waldman (Centmoed From Last Weak) Underlying the opposition to Injunctions in labor disputes is the belief entertained by large bodies of men and women, including many lawyers and judges/ that the law of property Is not appropriate or adequate for dealing with the issues arising from social unrest...
...I personally knew one man, the last of...
...This Is a land where everybody la equal...
...Then it plunges into wholesale ladies and misses with a stop for a few Japanese curio •tores owned by Greeks who live in Newark,' until It teaches the Waldorf and the beginning Of the shops...
...In other words, they say: "This Injunction forbids you to do what you are already forbidden, so bow can you be harmed...
...Some speed, some speed, but why, when all the Joy and happiness and all the misery and heartache there is in this world Is right inside of us...
...When Gilbert Chesterton was here he said: "What a wonderful spectacle that would be .for a man who couldn't, read...
...The miration is not as to Whose economic theories are "right" or "wrong" at the present moment...
...It can't be did...
...The acts enjoined were frequently, perhaps usually, acts which were already crimes at common law or had been made so by statutes...
...The effect of the proceeding upon the individual was substantially the same as if he had been successfully psoascuted for a crime...
...No more terrible, no mere convincing indictment of the psaasat regime in Soviet Russia could be imagined, it is heartbreaking...
...The crime of Robespierre In — Dan ton and Camllle and Lucie Desthan the crushing of Trotsky and hie fellow exiles, who will probably be secretly assassinated, starved to death or iriven to suicide...
...It is time and it is our duty to tell the world the truth that Stalin Is a man of low character, a man of the same brutal type as Mussolini, Rivera, Bethlen or Horthy...
...Sweats'"^d grunting to keep moving this picture of New prosperity that has no more flesh and blood ™~jty to it than the shadows on the silver screen...
...The complex problems of modern Industrial civilisation cannot be solved by legal rights and remedies applicable to property...
...Russian Governments I,have, written month after month about the btUtahUea, internments, suppressions of free, speech and free press by Muasoaat...
...Hot so when they employ indirect economic pressure...
...and Doheny to ginoUlr...
...ture besides...
...Of course It isn't quite as simple as that...
...This is no appeal to counter-revolution, which would be criminal...
...Charges of violating an injunction were often heard on affidavits merely, without the opportunity of confronting or cross-examining witnesses...
...ttey are still today, the vast majority of New w-kers, overworked, underfed, underpaid...
...Then you get the oh so exclusive men's clubs...
...But no...
...Independent and hardy people who lived, laughed aad loved...
...For a long time we believed in the idealism of the Bolshevist government, and defended it against the attacks at those who accused It of numerous moral' crimes and atrocities...
...So is the MIt-'—'rH 'barge...
...It is time for all humane and decent-minded men and women to come out oourageously with the truth, and to proclaim to the world that the present Bolshevist government is a low despotism, a vile eelash tyranny, ruthless in its determination to crush, to starve and to drive to suicide Russia's noblest men and women who devoted and sacrificed their Uvea to the cause of freedom...
...It didn't even get lopsided when automobiles and Joy riders with their parking, petting and necking sup-* planted biking followed by sparking under' the old apple tree...
...and Snvfir to Hays, as they distributed the eel loot so that each would have enough and there would be enough for each...
...But don't let them kid you about this being the home Of Society...
...He's a slick, little trim, little article, is jimmy...
...the sermons that were preached, aad the protests that were screeched and the editorials' that were written against the bloomer girls, the fast naming flapper of the bike age...
...for example, I was born on a West Side street in the upper part of town...
...It is an appeal to come out courageously and tell the Huarien government that it cannot go on as it has been, that It must become more liberal and more humane, or it wul lose the support and sympathy of all decent men and women throughout the world...
...shucks, we didn't mean to go serious on you...
...got the fact remains that if you haven't been to New Tork for five or ten years, the scene shifts that have taken place in your absence are a bit confusing...
...It was asserted, endangered the personal liberty of wage earners...
...Last winter I had to look all around to be rare I was on the right block for a twenty-story iBizttaent house was rearing up on the old lot...
...You can tell which shops are swankiest because they have no names on them...
...In addition, a fact not mentioned by Judge Brandeis, the labor man also become liable for so-called damages, Including counsel fee...
...But in equity issues of fact as of law were tried by a single judge sitUng without a Jury...
...You always expect him to come swaying towards you, snapping his fingers and rolling his eyes and clogging a little, what time he sweeps fat your coin with agile fingers . And always in Jimmy's back-ground there's Tammany Hall on Fourteenth Street which you'd better take one last look at, for Tammany's got religion these days and is going to move to more respectable Quarters where a Democratic Presidential candidate |«an, walk around without stumbling over a gross of .hnup cuspidors...
...Even Childs restaurants go into this mystery stuff when they get on the Avenue •ad if it wasn't for the toughness of the flapjacks a •hanger might eat a whole meal in one of them without knowing where he was at...
...For the state to regulate and control the vast and Incessant struggle of capital and labor, legal principles and remedies win have to be developed appropriate to the needs...
...Its weight was 160 pounds and i cost me a dollar per pound...
...Had one myself...
...said Pall to-Dobeny...
...Justice Louis D. Brandeis of the U. S. Supreme Court in his dissenting opinion in the celebrated case of Truax vs...
...Bven the Csara were no more cruel...
...v No, the Avenue ain't what it used to be.'For a ¦ fcw short blocks up .from Washington Square it id given over to apartments housing those former resionts of Keokuk and Pekin, 111., who like to think they are leading a rowdy Bohemian life In Greenwich Village...
...Bush an attitude Is no longer possible...
...Well, that's Jimmy...
...And that, when all is said and done...
...Some of you old-timers may remember back to the dear dead days when every well-equipped saloon bsd a singing waiter...
...8<?e the Passing show eye to eye with us, ' Of eivi 8hams...
...Bums and Hays have solved that prnhlani for us and Tammany is doing its bit bt Mow York Ctty...
...Adnm CaalrfleW...
...The press agents for the New York Edison Company will tell you Just how much electricity is required to inform you in flaming letters that cigarettes improve your singing, voice, chewing gum is indispensable to good digestion and "The Scars of Passion" is the greatest drama since "Hamlet...
...But all the maledictions heaped upon male "hikers" was nothing to what the conservative folks did to the female of the "bike' 'species...
...And now we've got the airplanes rushing one and two hundred miles per hour through space, and uncbaperoned ladies in electrically heated overalls, accompanied by male mechanician and navigator flying over oceans and becorsjng famous or vamoose altogether- And now the Italians promise an airplane traveling six hundred miles per hour, ten miles per minute...
...This attitude has been taken by many courts hi granting injunctions on flimsy grounds...
...We find that the senior men usually bid in the Jobs that permit them to work the most days of the year, so that the propaganda thast Is being carried on does not seem to be so wengrounded...
...And ZT...
...Here is Sucker Street, comrades, a bit more glittering but fully as phoney as when you last visited it...
...What the gentleman Is driving at is that if everybody would work twelve or thirteen hours a day seven ' days a week, everybody could become president of the Erie railroad...
...And then came the divided skirt which was worse still and after that, bloomers which were the worst yet, for they displayed women's legs clear up to the knees and thus belied the ancient doctrine that women were cloth dummies propelled on' castors...
...Men found guilty of contempt were committed m the judge's discretion, without either a statutory limit upon the length of the Imprisonment, or the opportunity of effective review on appeal, or the right to release on ball pending possible revisory proceedings...
...He's begun to pall on us natives a hit...
...Two mars lster it had been torn down to make place for • cafeteria...
...However, 'the world didn't go to wreck and ruin in spite of speed bikes and bloomers...
...In that way asm many non-union workers are driven into the union of their trade...
...But Jimmy still goes big down South and out West and an the sidewalks of Vienna...
...Che snsstkm Is if a revolutionary government may use methods ef the worst ot the Russian Csars to rid Itself of people Whose self-sacrificing ' devotion to the revolution is above question, but who dare to criticise some of Its policies or who are personally distasteful to It...
...Yes, those who sacrificed their liberty under the Caer must now end their lives tn the wastes of Siberia and Turkestan, for the sole crime of entertaining ideas different from those held by tbq powers, 'that be...
...and that incidentally he abridged the constitutional rights of individuals to free speech, to free press and1 to peaceful assembly...
...In the courts of the equity proceedings, those rights which by the constitution are commonly secured to persons charged with a crime...
...the Tsfueal on the part of a union to handle material made tn a non-union or struck shop...
...his tribe, who used to load home-made barges with comaooal and bacon, float down the Ohio River, with the spring tide to the Mississippi, then down the Mississippi to New Orleans where he sold barge aad cargo and then walked—yes walked—back to Plcka-" . way County, Ohio, passing through the well nigh trackless wilderness of the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations...
...This surely is some fast age...
...In this succinct statement...
...The covered wagon is gone...
...Labor's use of direct oeonoasjle pressure is comparatively easy to define...
...Justice Brandeis to . the opinion quoted above Indicates why...
...But why be in such a hurry...
...On a good level road and with favorable wind X* could make twelve miles an hour Just like that, and ~ as a result of such terrific speed, village, town, city and state parliaments passed all sorts of tows and ordinances for the safeguarding of the lives and limbs of pedestrians...
...And, oh...
...If you want to keep this illusion, keep off the side r««ts...
...History records few aruates eaasaas than the exile to the frosen north of such men ss Trotsky, Rakovsky, Radar, etc, etc...
...Ttspi /tasasis ef ,tkm aaoney ,wS^^'yoeij^*Ssan halt a 11 sens If yep |ea"t geg year wen «•*•> first wgyna* of the next wadeh snssBkiBBl might get from eel goes tbtd ¦eeteee holes in the ground ¦sStTaslpsB ttaobers built ap tote tig*\ air.—Upton Sinclair...
...It Just breaks a New Yorker's heart to leave anyr thing standing for more than a couple of days...
...A PAGE OF EXCLUSIVE FEATURES SOME KEYS TO THE CITY .^y...
...I just learned that KxOOnunJsaar Fokln has also oommtttart "suicide...
...go permit me to ,#hvmr ;vou around a hit...
...BUTWHEREANDWHY...
...The lake is getting rather threadbare...
...Comparatively little difficulty ia encountered In the courts when unions employ what V termed direct economic laeeama...
...a burlesque show where festive ladles lighten the lot of the laborer by wriggling down a promenade suspended above the admiring eyes of the audita* .and-.singing,- "jay man's,-got-diabetes, so I call him' Sugar Dad...
...Xt varies with the particular form of labor organisation involved, the kmd of industry that happens to be affected, the ssaka up of the workmen concerned, then- racial, nations and cultural background, the connection and interoonnection of the etnidojFeia etc The best 1 can do la Illustrate what I fMae Sjo^^SB^adoaV m m mmmm a^aa 1 ai Wiaa^Bae«*«^e ¦hwl mJJ lubivvi toodrjausb jtarvswbsuxc...
...I was arrested one* for exceeding the speed limit, driving a baggy andhorse through a little burg in Ohio on the way to an "Uncle Tom's Cabin" tent show...
...It does hot forbid you to do anything that is not already forbidden by the criminal law...
...Ah, a lover flying to his loved one...
...It was asserted that In these proceedings an alleged damage to property always incidental and at times Insignificant, was laid hold of to enable the penalties of the criminal law to be enforced expeditiously without that protection to the liberty of the individual which the bill of rights was designed to afford...
...The r"g~ of a central labor council to indoco Ms luouilmia and friends not to wear a certain article because one ef tbstr affiliated unions producing that article is on striae...
...JMC WJQjUAJK X. BOBTXSOW, Pais* JwsbIob...
...Tell them that they are the fair flowers of the capitalist •Tatem, the great minds of modern industrial enterprise and that the Central Park zoo is fartfier up the line...
...One huge steam locomotive, pulling a hundred cars, does the work formerly performed by thousands of oxen and hundreds of men...
...He did...
...suffered by the employer in the event a breech of the injunction decree Is established...
...All this was bad, very bad, for the morality <| of the nation...
...Particularly does this duty rest on those Individual radicals and Communists as wen as pertodicali whose lota of ass devotion to new Russia is unimpeachable...
...We .have been stirred to our depths by the mnsder of Beeeo and Vansettt Squally .bnrrjhle , ^rhnee are committed by the, present...
...Many years ago our Socialist opponents used to ask us who would do the dirty work under Socialism Fall, Dobeny...
...And then perhaps your New York hosts will inaiit on taking you on a 'bus trip down the Avenue...
Vol. 7 • April 1928 • No. 17
