SOCIALIST PARTY ELECTORS PLANNED IN ALL 48 STATES

Socialist Party Electors Planned In All 48 States National Executive Committee Finds It Possible To Have Presidential Candidates on All Ballots Reorganization To Be Proposed At...

...All indications are that no other independent movement will rise in competition with the Socialist Party...
...to Business, Berger Says Tt EPRESENT ATI VE Victor L. ' Berger, National Chairman of the Socialist Party, in an interview this week, took issue with Governor Smith of New fork as to the possibility of aplying the principles of Jeffersonian democracy to the problems of the present...
...In the matter of taxation, he said, the Democratic Party has gone further than the Republican Party in Its efforts to relieve great wealth of taxes...
...A letter from the Progressive Farmers of America, chiefly located in Colorado, suggested that the SoetSfl aft Party cooperate with the Milwaukee convention...
...Back in 1922 the successful strike Of the United Mine Workers was the principal factor in stopping the employers' drive for wage reductions...
...And is Sandino a bandit...
...At the very least labor owes the'm continuing and generous relief...
...To death with Hearst for his ranches...
...it he loses, if he is bombed or otherwise dispersed—as seems likely—he'll be a bandit...
...It believes that the party members share this view and will expect the committee to offer some recommendation to the national convention...
...The committee received the annual invitation from the Communists for a. "united front...
...Learning that the Vesta Coal Company was about to throw out its miners near Denbo, Pa, Miss Ffrrtaltnne Pitt, a commissioner of the Department of Labor, called upon President Anglo th of the company in an effort to secure an extension of time to permit the erection of temporary houses for the miners...
...The National Guard "The National Guard I have mentioned is tT have 92 American members, all of thcia officers and all of them chosen frr.ii the Marine Corps of the United Spates...
...Weak organizations and, lack of organization in a number of states, together with widespread unemployment and bankruptcy of working farmers, made this a difficult problem...
...their misery, and the great importance of gathering funds on the ¥»ts sent out by the National OfHce a,, few weeks ago...
...General James Hamilton said he had a cargo of sugar coming from Havana and that he would resist paying any duties...
...Joseph Bearak, famous labor attorney 3t Boston, related the economic struggle 3f the Jews whose rise from slavery was Built on then- racial unity and coherence, and from whose example the Negro worker might well learn the value of racial solidarity hi the economic field...
...The Bunko Artist In the Congressional debate on the Missouri Compromise in 1821 a Congressman from a North Carolina district which included Buncombe County insisted on making a speech in spite of advice from his friends...
...His grief is one with the grief of Nicarr.iuuva fathets...
...Marx Lewis of Washington will help in a few states south 6T the Potomac...
...Vote Is A Million -It was pointed out that even before the period of the World War when the party reached the maximum in number of dues-paying members this number never exceeded 10 per cent...
...Fund Campaign Pushed National Secretary Henry, Morris Hillquit and James Oneal were elected a sub-committee to cooperate with Local . .ew York in the nationwide drive for party funds and for increase in party membership...
...The details of the 20-year program were not submitted by Secretary Wilbur, as the Navy Department has not yet asked Congress for its authorization...
...Loyal to Nicaragua - "Sandino is a Nicaraguan and not an American citizen...
...Who has It—and why...
...It is fair to add that the worst of the Pennsylvania injunctions aren't being enforced just now...
...Unanimous applause, followed by the cry "to death with Hamilton far his sagar...
...Like all such proposals it wm be based upon party exygrianca over a number of years and a Lsuufid study of Ihs...
...Meeting to Aid Miners Monday In Rand School A mass meeting in behalf of the striking coal miners win be held Monday, Jan...
...Berger compared the Democratic and Republican Parties and declared that they differed only In political contests...
...But, why Isn't he kept In Sis mtb country and gjveri equal trust there...
...Breaking its pledge given to a representative of the United States Department of Labor not to evict miners from its houses until Tuesday, January 10, the Vesta Coal Company, a subsidiary of the big Jones & Laughun Steel Corporation, ruthlesly evicted its miners and their familes - the day after the promise was given...
...National Executive Secretary WD11am H. Henry, in a detailed report covering many items, showed that there had been a decline of memberbe rahip of several hundred during- the past year...
...To Begin Construction It is the omission of this time limit from the biU that had led to the suspicion that the actual building would not be undertaken, and that the proposal was merely a gesture intended to force Great Britain to agree to a limitation of her cruisers...
...Be selects his.staff, makes the appointment^ No authority inJ«eaf«5ua audits His accounts...
...Inhabitants of Nicaragua whether they be natives or foreigners, will have no redress as against felonies committed by those Americans...
...Persistent questioning brought the admission that the General Board's bill had first included a time limit for their construction, but that this had been later eliminated by the Secretary of the Navy after consultation with the President...
...quiet at the Conference or whether the blood of the ¦lain will kindle some passion of protest at Havana...
...oil refining, from 92 per cent, in 1919 to 177.3 per cent, in 1925...
...It is yet to be seen whether these official pleasantries and the aggregated great minds of the American delegates and the inside work with governments in our debts will keep things all...
...Facts For Farmers Fixing at l,ft)0 the productivity of each American dependent on agricul ture, ivhich includes all persons gainfully employed in agriculture as well as those dependent on them, the German index will be 685,, or 68 per cent, as much...
...Maybe well hear of miners' leaders or other A F. of L officials who'll take a chance with the police to test some laws and injunctions that bind them...
...In the year 1(33 a meeting called by South Carolina slave owners was held in Charleston to pretest against the tariff duties...
...Bankruptcies Increase Upstate New York Utica, N. T.—The Coolidge bunk regarding prosperity is rapidly bring deflated by the record of upstate bank* ruptcies...
...Secretary Wilbur in his formal statement tried particularly to prove that the proposed program did not...
...It was tanized as a weapon against the inerof the company union, to establish a living wage in lieu of the tipping system, and to improve working conditions...
...He could add nothing to the discussion and it was tvldent that he could not Influence any votes...
...Coolidge was getting off his pious platitudes at Havana...
...Throughout the nation the Socialist vote is close to a million...
...A small annual fee would give him membership in the club and associated with his neighbors he would give some time to his club and feel some responsibility for carrying on Its work...
...A dispatch from Paris to the Baltimore Sun of January 13, says: "Secretary Wilbur's proposed five-year naval building program Is seen here In semi-official opinion as a definite indication that a new competition in sea armaments has commenced...
...As an open sympathizer with the cause for which Sandino is fighting, I wish to avail myself of this opportunity to express my deepest regret to the parents and relatives of the marines killed in the wilds of Nicaragua...
...Some of those taxes have' been paid into State treasuries of the United States...
...His report was a revelation of what one division of the party can do...
...The average annual appropriation for the five-year program will be about $117,000,0*0, appropriations continuing until the last ships are completed...
...2 1/2 Billions for Warships Is Program Reveals Program is Not "Paper" Scheme - Construction To Be Started (By a New Leader Correspondent) ^ASHINGTON.—The testimony of Secretary of the Navy Wilbur, Assistant Secretary Robinson, and Admiral Hughes, Chief of the Division of Naval Operations, given before the House Naval Affairs Committee on the proposed $725,000 program has brought out several very important points...
...It owns its own publishing house, its own weekly, The Wecker, has two lecturers on the road, and has published numerous pamphlets and leaflets and a number of large books...
...Before the committee ended its labors prospects were bright for Socialist candidates for practically every state in the Union...
...Mr...
...The National Guard is allegedly for the purpose of enforcing Nicaraguan laws...
...War is being waged against the people of Nicaragua by forces of the United States, but the time has hot come, and by the Grace of God, may the time never Come, when hatred between the American people and my people shall be aroused...
...This meeting is being arranged by the Socialist Party, Local New York City and the Jewish Socialist Verband, City Committee...
...The membership was small as compared with the membership before the World War...
...Only so can we hope intelligently to handle the problems of a chaotic, over developed industry...
...His presence was due to a decision of the last convention of the Verband that it should be represented at each meeting of the committee in order to promote closer cooperation in party activities...
...The end would be either unlimited slavery or unlimited anarchy...
...And how hypocritical is most history...
...What can we do and what must we dof The speakers will answer these questions...
...The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Raters...
...The unexn ployed worker or bankrupt farmer who is unable to" pay dues ai a rule Ega not care to continue memberanip even if given an exempt stamp...
...Senor Tijerino likened Sandino to the leaders and men of our own American revolutionary period, who in their time, were likewise called rebels and a rabble horde...
...Secretary Henry had reported before the committee met that he was sure of electors In 36 states...
...Verband Represented Comrade Kantorovich of the Jewish Socialist Verbqpd attended the sessions...
...He particularly pointed out to the colored workers In the audience the economic basis of the civil .war, attributing to Lincoln the role of spokesman for northern industrial capitalists rather than that of an idealist In issuing the Emancipation Proclamation...
...The Investigation of the Interstate Commerce Commission to determine whether a wage of $72.50 a month Is a living wage and other features of the unbearable conditions under which a pulhnan porter works, is the result of the efforts of the Brotherhood...
...IS it banditry or patriotism to appose such a thing...
...What this does to our "parity" with Great Britain is obvious...
...But the result is the same...
...Second, no lingering doubt remains as to whether this is intended to be a real construction program or only a "paper" one...
...constitute competitive building, but it was evident that he did not convince the committee on that point...
...steel, from 100 per cent, in 1919 to 159 per cent, in 1925...
...A letter from August Claessens of New X,or]t 8,80 reported extensive plans of New York Socialists to entertain the delegates to the national convention...
...for the Briton, 425, or 42 per cent...
...There is no doubt that Organizer A Philip Randolph, with his idealism and sincerity evoked an Intense responsiveness from the audience, and his plea for souHarity with all workers, irrespective of color, was specially appropriate for there was a small scattering )f radical white workers in the audience...
...23, 8:SO P. M. at the Debs Auditorium, 7 E. 15th street...
...Possibly two organizations may be proposed, one an organization of general Socialist Party Clubs throughout the country to which admission will be nominal and made more attractive to Socialist Party raters...
...Such Incidents as the banning of a free speech meeting by the officer commanding at Leyden, Colorado, and the shipping of men arrested without warrants from Jail to jail about the state are mentioned in the Social Workers' resolution, a copy of which was sent to governor Adams...
...This was tue decision of the National Executive Committee at its sessions in this city which adjourned Sund=v afternooon...
...Jfasd of a Trade Union These workers, men and women, white and black, feel that they are not receiving a Just share of what they prjpduce...
...He declared that if such principles were adopted the nation would be at the mercy of vast corporations...
...Our destroyer fleet, he said, was far superior now, and our submarine tonnage greater than that of Great Britain, though requiring 34,000 tons to attain the 5:3 ratio with Japan...
...ration and membership...
...On the contrary, a current of common and mutual sympathy has been let loose Nicaraguans cannot hate Mr...
...Besides, the government made a tax refund of $8,000,000 to this company, and this was distributed among the holders of common stock as an extra dividend for Christmas...
...Wages of the employes averaged about 9700 for the year...
...There is no question but that Sandino has been doing things which have highly displeased the International Bankers...
...j The clubs will have especial ad-, rentage in one respect...
...And now there is before the Nicaraguan Congress a suggestion of the American diplomats in Nicaragua to the effect that most of the moneys collected a* taxes be spent In paying American marines under the name of National Guard...
...That program must be built on two foundation principles: 1. Organization in non-union territory...
...To make matters worse, they were recently handed a 20 per cent, cut In their already low pay...
...For these Americans, to case they do wrong, are to be tried only by themselves...
...This ought to command the help Of the whole labor movement...
...At the least let streams of relief be broadened and deepened...
...The records show a gradual Increase in the number of bankruptcies from year to year, owing to the growth of the country, with more people to get Into bankruptcy...
...Colored workers must recognize that all thetr progress must be based on the development of Industrial unity and their consciousness of society's need of them...
...The district includes the counties In the area from the St...
...for the Frenchman, 406, or 40 per cent., and for the Italian 230, or 23 per cent...
...Neither in Colorado nor Pennsylvania and Ohio can the miners win a real victory simply by their courageous endurance...
...is of the type mentioned and it' demonstrates that it has a genuine following...
...Reorganization r of the Socialist Party of the United States on a basis more adapted to American Political experience and practice will be proposed to the national convention of the party when it meets in New York City next April...
...The VerbaaVi has 32 branches and 1,500 members...
...5, United Mine Workers at his office here...
...sugar, from 78.1 per cent, in 1919 to 127J pet cent, in 1925...
...The history of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters from its inception nearly two and a half years ago occupied a stirring portion of his speech...
...This was the most important question before the committee as its solution involves the future progress of the...
...The Nicaraguan worker buying bis fare In Nicaragua to travel within Nicaragua on a railway built by Nicaragua and owned by the Nicaraguan Government, knows perfectly well that a percentage of the money that he pays goes towards the payment of certain taxes in the United States because International Bankers are using and have been using the American flag and American boys in uniform to control the National Railways of Nicaragua...
...By the tune he arrived in Philadelphia they had increased to 38...
...This arrangement would also square with all the experience of party organization in this country which is generally voluntary with no fixed system of dues...
...We must have a program...
...Ticket to 48 States Possible An important problem that has faced the committee for several month's has been' the nomination of presidential electors in quite a number of states...
...Is it banditry or patriotism to insist upon personal and National self respect...
...Admiral Hughes' statement, on the other hand, brought out the fact that 25 new 10,000-ton cruisers would give the United States a tonnage parity in cruisers with Great Britain, and in answer to questions gave his opinion that the strength of our cruiser fleet would then be "equal or a little superior" to Great Britain's...
...The committee itself was not folly agreed on the details of the proposal to be made at the convention, which will be considered further before its report is made, but that a recommendation will be made is certain from the discussions of the members...
...Referring to Governor Smith's Jackson Day letter, Mr...
...Without it non-union coal will continue to swamp the market and deprive the strikers of the weapon of effective economic pressure through shortage Of coal...
...Pile on them the figures of the preceding ISO yean...
...Here is an essential plank for every worker whether he believes in non-partisan political action or a labor party...
...Ever meet one of these bunko artists...
...She saw Mr...
...The evicted men, women and children, many in ill health and Inadequately dressed for winter weather, had no place to go until neighbors in the vicinity of Denbo took the women and) children into their homes and had the furniture put in barns and stables until the mine workers could complete the erection of temporary homes...
...cement, from 101.6 per cent, in 1919 to 157.8 per cent, hi 1925...
...Great quantities of clothing are being collected and every few days shipments are made through the kind cooperation of the Emergency Relief Committee, 1S6 5th avenue...
...Of course, a round about way has been followed...
...In accord with the party's policy to cooperate with any genuine elements of the workers that abandon all support of capitalist parties and candidates, the coratnittee decided to recommend to ¦ the national convention that after oUi nominations are made either a committee of the convention or the National Executive Committee be instructed to cooperate with a third movement if it...
...That process is still going on...
...Is it banditry or patriotism to be opposed to war...
...However, the proposal of the Department now is that all the ships authorized by the bill under consideration sfQQT be appropriated for and laid down during a period of five years and shall be completed within eight years...
...The national budget of Nicaragua calls for the annual expenditure of $1,320,000...
...These figures present the record for less than tea years...
...Instead of being hi danger front the Indians, they now Sad their Uvea regulated from Infancy to the grave by powerful corporations, great aggregations of wealth, which determine for them what they are to get, how they are to live and, In more recent times what they are to read and know...
...William Randolph Hearst has four million dollars Invested in Mexican ranches...
...Much of one day's session was devoted to the problem by the committee and Morris Hillquit was selected to draft a report and recommendations which will again be submitted to the committee...
...How about nearer home...
...in 1825 it was 700...
...The call for the convention is so vague that its sponsors apparently rely upon voters, chiefly in the West, to Spontaneously gather in informal meetings arid choose delegates...
...Socialist Party Electors Planned In All 48 States National Executive Committee Finds It Possible To Have Presidential Candidates on All Ballots Reorganization To Be Proposed At Convention Creation of Auxiliary Son cialist Party Clubs Urged by Hillquit - Resolution Hits Nicaraguan Invasion By James Oneal "PHILADELPHIA...
...The membership is rapidly increasing in Reading since the Socialists took over affairs, bat even this fact does not alter the conclusion of the committee that some fundamental change in party organisation is necessary...
...Paste This in Your Hat Since the Invention of machinery the productive power of the workers has increased decade after decsde, It has doubled, trebled and quadrupled in thousands of occupation...
...The other will be continuance in a modified form of the presj ent organization but cooperation with) the clubs of voters...
...And if to that expenditure you add the really handsome salaries of the American Collector General of Nicaraguan Customs and of his American assistants, the salaries of the American High Commissioner and his aides, the salaries of the American Inspector General of International Revenues, the American Financial Advisors, the American Sanitary experts, the American Electoral experts, and so forth, Including the cost of state dinners and state dances to honor of American diplomats and American officers of the Marine Corps, you will see that the $1,320,000 of the budget Is altogether insufficient and that frequent loans have to be obtained from the International Bankers who in exchange acquire prolonged control over the country, so that the common people of Nicaragua are literally become beasts of burden working long hours for the benefit of those who ride upon them...
...Local EbUadelphia has not been in good ¦bape for a number of years but to the astonishment of the committee TIMELY OPIC by Norman Thomas _ CHICAGO, ILL...
...Their defeat would be a catastrophe even to unorganized labor so wide spread would be its encouragement to wage reductions and further attacks on the liberties of the workers...
...Nicaraguan workers have paid taxes toward the liquidation of war debts of the United States...
...The people now...
...The meeting was a preliminary to a determined campaign to organise pulhnan porters in Boston into a bona fide trade union...
...Tobacco Corporation Make* $2,166 Yearly on Each $700 Employe Winston-Salem, N. C—Cigarette .smokers, pipe users and tobacco 'chewers the world over buy the products of Winston-Salem, the greatest tobacco manufacturing center ia the United States...
...The Socialist vote has declined In some places and Increased in others...
...An increase in the number of bankruptcies trom the Northern District af Jfotfed States Court is shown, by the figures in the office of John W. Bahn, elerk to the court in Utica...
...The gallantry of these striking miners, and their families, their endurance, their restraint from futile but natural violence, are beyond praise...
...In Nicaragua, due to a series of interventions during the last twenty five years, the following situation has come about: Americans instead of Nicaraguans decree and collect the taxes that Nicaraguans pfey...
...And we know what this means in Nicaragua...
...He may be perfectly Sonest...
...Lawrence River to Pennsylvania and from Auburn to Vermont...
...7, throwing their goods into the middle of the public highway...
...What rotten business this imperialism is...
...B"V somewhat gloomy world It cheers me a lot to think of those 19 Tale boys Who really believe enough in civil liberties and the right to organize to do something about it...
...The usual answer in short and uncompromising terms was made.' Another resolution protests against the war beiiig waged by American forces in Nicaraguap The struggle of the miners received consideration in another resolution...
...Suggested Changes Considered While the final proposal to the convention cannot be forecasted it may be said that it will recommend changes in party organization mors in accord with American political parties...
...He has also been Nicaraguan financial agent in the United States...
...First, it is only the first part of a 20-year construction program recommended by the General Board of the Navy to cost approximately two and one-half billion dollars, covering the replacement of practically the entire navy as the ships become obsolete...
...There has been an increase in every year from 1923, when the total was 62% The following year it was 683...
...Of this sum it is proposed to pay over 80% in maintaining a so-called National Guard...
...Despite the covert resistance of the Pullman Company, its intimidations and ferrettlng out of nrifitant workers, and the introduction a* vaflour tsspo of PUllptaos and Chinese to destroy the morale of* workers suspected of membership In the Brotherhood, the union has developed steadily and it Is now only a question of time when the Pullman Company will be forced to recognize it and dissolve the disgracefully impotent company unions...
...Hemphill's cry when lie learned that his dear son, an honorable soldier, had been killed in Nicaragua...
...If he wins Nicaraguan school children will be taught that he was a patriot who like other patriots had to appropriate property to keep up the good fight...
...Smith's 'Democracy' Would Hand U.S...
...It Is further interpreted as a direct result of the failure of the threepower naval conference in Geneva last June and as offering reasonable grounds for European nations to boost their own sea resources In the future without criticism from the United States...
...Nearly every member of the committee put himself on record as wanting "ships", not a "program" for them...
...To Death For Hearst...
...Last year one firm, employing 12,000 workers, made a net profit of $*e,000,000, or $2466 on each worker...
...That depends, of course, on who wins...
...by their collective labor, hate been brought together...
...Miss Pitt advised Secretary David and President Fagan that a delay In the evictons had been granted sufficient to build houses for .the 32 families in danger of eviction...
...In Nicaragua, an American, chosen by the International Bankers and apJrovcd' SF 69 the Stf<* t*paitmeflr of Collector General of Nicaraguan Custom...
...THHESE days find me running around * Iowa and Illinois too fast and ¦peaking too much to be up to date on all things...
...Miss Pitt made the agreement a matter of record by telegraphing a report to Secretary of Labor Davis at Washington and President P. T. Fagan of District No...
...This estimate is based upon the number of dues stamps purchased by members during the year.' Since the elections last November, however, there has been a decided increase in party organ...
...The good citizen responds to .good impulses and civic duty...
...Berger said that "Instead of discussing any of the important political and economic issues with which the country Is confronted, he finds his escape, as so many of his Democratic compatriots do, In Jeflersonlan democracy, which meant something in Jefferson's Day, but which means nothing today, for one thing, and la impossible for another thing...
...To one writing in Chicago it's a bit odd that we have to send Marines all the way to a tropical jungle to hunt bandits...
...Instead of attempting to seek their wisdom in the eighteenth century, the problem of statesmen is to Sad such method* as are required and are possible today...
...The resolution criticizes especially the action of the soldiers in abrogating civil rights and their sympathizehs...
...Frank R. Crosswalth made a convincing portrayal of the relative merits of sompany unions and those unions organized and controlled by the working ;lass themselves...
...A. Philip Randolph, general organiser for the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, wss the principal speaker...
...The fact that before the war not more than 10 per cent of the voters enrolled as dues-paying members and that now not more than 2 per cent, of the voters care to pay dues is convincing to the committee that some* thing is faulty regarding present forms of organization...
...It met the opposition of certain groups of Influential Negroes in contrast to the sympathetic cooperation of liberal whites...
...Indeed, I feel, and it is a Nicaraguan feeling, that they are not responsible for but are wronged together with the Nicaraguan people...
...This national guard Is to be entirely officered by American marines who win get most of that money...
...But those who were killed some fortyeight hours before his speech will furnish the world with an interpretation of the text...
...results of party agitation, organization and methods...
...Colorado Social Workers Oppose Military Regime A resolution protesting against the activities of the state militia against the striking miners of Colorado was passed by the Denver chapter of the American Association of Social Workers at a meeting held last week which was addressed by George L. Collins, special representative of the American Civil Liberties Union in the Colorado- strike area...
...The meeting house ivas filled and marks the beginning of probably the most Important labor campaign among Negroes in this section of the country...
...Coal Company Breaks Promise, Evicts Miners (By International Labor News ' Service) Pittsburgh, Pa...
...But the American members of it are not to be subject to those laws...
...American marines are human, to say the least...
...Your answer to these simple ouestio'ns determine the place of Sindino as Bandit or Patriot...
...These considerations form the basis of what will be a final proposal to American Socialists and it will be published in the press before the convention meets so that the members will be able to study it and their delegates ready to discuss it when ¦ it is before them for action...
...Senor Tijerino said: "Friends, I submit that in order to decide honestly whether General Sandino is a bandit or a patriot it is not only proper but imperative that we consider what be is fighting for...
...Asked for his reason for taking up the time of the House he answered, "I am speaking for Buncombe...
...Socialist movement in this country...
...2. Nationalization of coal miners with more political control and guarantees to the workers...
...Is it banditry or patriotism to prefer death to such a fife as we Nicaraguans are forced to live to our own countrjr...
...This was the origin of "bunk" in politics, the art of talking when useless, talking to one audience with the intention of reaching another, saying what you do not believe and believing what you do not say...
...The New Leader urges every reader to respond to this appeal as much depends upon the generosity of friends who are able to contribute...
...Tijerno was postmaster general of Nicaragua a member of the Nicaraguan Chamber of Deputies, and has sat on the boards of the National Bank of Nicaragua and of the Pacific Railways of Nicaragua...
...They should proclaim it In all its fullness, and should point to Its complete attainment as their goal.—Henry George...
...Thousands of organized coal miners are still in the midst of a • bitter strike...
...After the committee has acted, the final proposal will be placed upon the convention agenda for action...
...not to the behests of foreign dictation...
...Let us see why...
...Saturday night the committee met with Philadelphia Socialists in the Labor Institute at a banquet with about a hundred in attendance...
...Speakers will be Jacob Panken, Me Mister Coleman, William Karlin, S. H. De Witt, Chalm Kantorovich and a representative of the United Mine Workers...
...But no one can see .their dreary camps deep in the mud of a January thaw, their cold board barrack!, their ill shod children, their lack of adequate food without immense pity mingled with immense respect for the price they pay...
...Despite the terms of the agreement between Miss Pitt and Mr...
...SANDINO Bandit or Patriot...
...It was decided to invite a representative of each language federation to attend future sessions of the committee...
...Angloth on Dec...
...The thing may get contagious...
...It is a pity and it is a disgrace that American boys should be sent to Nicaragua to wage a private war against Nicaraguans and frequently to meet with tragic death there...
...Julius Gerber of New York had been making a survey of the election laws of the states which showed that in four or five the law makes it very difficult for a third party to nominate but It is believed that the obstacles will be overcome.' He will continue, his work in cooperation with the National Office in helping the weak states...
...But steam and electricity and other discoveries," he continued, "have worked a tremendous change la our political, social and economic life...
...With the year nearly finished a total Of 777 petitions have been filed from the iS counties of the district, compared sgth a total of 768 filed last year...
...Neither an all-powerful State tike Russia or Italy, which would put an end to all personal liberty, nor an untrammeled Individualism as was possible only in Jefferson's time, Is the solution...
...As soon as the program is authorized by the passage of this bill, the Department will ask for the appropriation of $55,000,000 for the first year to begin the construction...
...Porters Start Fine Drive In No England Randolph and Bearak Address Meeting in Boston PreUDoiasry To Campaign Hf-t (By a New fhsiln Correspondent) jDOSTON.—A labor conference held In the' WiimssT Baptist Church signified another issSjortant step in the economic struggle of New England colored workers...
...I do not wish to cast any aspersions upon them...
...Automobiles, from 196.5 per cent, in 1918 to 310 in 1925...
...Nor an the customs Jhe only revenues dS the" Republic of NicaTagui tinder Amer^^eohtwC Ifceoently there his been appointed an American Inspector Oeneral of Internal Revenues, FOr many years another American has been sitting supreme m the Nicaraguan capital functioning like a sort, of divinity, directing the national budget and ordering what taxes are to be levied and how and when...
...KENYON L. BUT T ERF I ELD, President of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, in "The Farmer and the New Day...
...Hunger, violence and intimidation are being used to crush their union...
...My readers must forgive me if I ignore the latest bouquets or bombs we may bestow on our Latin American brothers...
...Jefferson's Ideas were all based upon extreme individualism, Mr...
...Angloth, the Vesta Coal Company, through Superintendent Edwards, evicted the families on Saturday, Jan...
...He urged members of the audience to go to death with him if necessary for his sugar...
...If we were to apply Jefferson's statement that "those people are governed best who are governed least* to present-day conditions, the entire nation would be at the unregulated, unrestrained and uncontrolled mercies of these vast aggregations, who have acquired everything ht sight...
...The committee also adopted a call to party members, friends and sympathizers, pointing out tlie distressing conditions that fa;-e millions cf workers,, the spawning of millionaires out of...
...TPHE course of General Sandino in * resisting the efforts of the American marines to "pacify" Nicaragua was defended by Senor Toribio TiJerino, former Nicaraguan consul in New York, in an address broadcast by station W E V D, the Debs Memorial Radio Station...
...A national Farmer-Labor convention has been called to meet in Milwaukee in May but so far as can be learned ft practically has no functioning organizations or, at best, only a few...
...He admitted that all navies are relative, but maintained that this program was within the 5:5:3 ratio with Great Britain, and argued that it was therefore not competitive...
...The great need of the organisation is the support of all Negroes irrespective of their occupations, in barking up this vital step in •atablishing the Negro worker in the trade union movement...
...He owes allegiance to Nicaragua We are taught that devotion to one's country and one's people is patriotic...
...Yiaz Hemphill, dead to Nicaragua fell a victim none the less of the same oppression against which Sandino is ready to die...
...It was thoughtful of the marines not to bomb any more Nicaraguans while Mr...
...Here are s few figures of this increase in recent years...
...He said It was safe for Governor Smith to Insist on the adoption of the Jefferson principles since no real issue of importance need be discussed...
...And a hearse for these who da...
...Hemphill...
...In Reading the Socialist Party won on clear labor issues...
...Has your wealth doubled, trebled or quadrupled over that of your- grandfather's...
...Berger said, and extreme Individualism was the condition of the time when those principles were enunciated...
...Congressman Victor L. Berger was selected to draft a national platform for consideration at the national convention, the draft to be ready for publication by the last-of February, Edr ward Levinson, Assistant Editor of 'The New Leader, was added to the publicity committee of the parly to handle publicity up to and during the national convention...
...He traced the history of oppressed classes from primitive forms to the wage-slavery oi the present day, demonstrating with vivid historical r vampire, the economic factors in the development of society...
...The other two members are Hillquit and Oreal...
...but this did not alter the judgment of the committee that old forms and methods must be modified in some way to encourage Socialist voters to participate in the work of building a powerful Socialist movement...
...6 and he agreed to an extension of time until Tuesday, Jan...
...It is the duty of every Socialist and sympathizer to attend this meeting and to bring as many others as they can...
...In Milwaukee the vote in every election for many years has shown an Increase Kt even in that city the membership s declined...
...Now the miners are fighting with their backs to the wall in lonely camps in Pennsylvania and Ohio...
...Senor Tijernino's address was an appeal to the American people for their sympathy, friendship and understanding, and a request for mutual protection against the "International Bankers" who, he charges are causing the present bloodshed in Nicaragua...
...The advocates of a great principle should know no thought of compromise...
...Especialy has my Nicaraguan heart been moved by Mr...

Vol. 7 • January 1928 • No. 5


 
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