BRITISH TORIES DICTATE ON USE OF GOVT. RADIO FOR CAMPAIGN BROADCASTING
P., J. Ramsay MacDonald, M.
British Tories Dictate On Use Of Govt. Radio For Campaign Broadcasting MacDonald Tells of Tory-Liberal Agreement Reached Without Consulting Labor—Labor Leader Finds Country Districts Leaning...
...Union Sees Defeat Of Allen-A Plant Kenosha Unrest Spreading to Nash Automobile Factory in Wisconsin Gty KENOSHA...
...There are, of course, great subjects, like the League of Nations, which have had to be dealt with as part of ordinary education, and no one speaking on them could be Impartial and accurate in the information given without showing some anttOovernment bias, so bad is the record of the Government at Geneva...
...Where 10.000 union miners were employed in 1927 in this district, 8.000 are now employed under non-union conditions, according to Albasin...
...In September it may be too late...
...Members of unions whov have never shown Interest before are now asking questions...
...The Rand Book store is doing its best to supply the demand and is importing the most important pamphlets with which the Labor Party is waging its campaign...
...Comrade Lewis is the youngest member of the National Executive Committee Socialist and District Secretary of the New England organization...
...Gulf coast station are nearly 100% organized in craft unions...
...For the toughest openshop Wisconsin town this is a great achievement...
...May 3rd, at 7.30 P.M...
...In tads llilsii Qrave" et the ¦¦¦¦tea gectal-TUBMfirstlii smltTsnli taw ashes sd three farther t—raaia Whs Ifkewtae deed to exile (Stoma Wit—trill, Alexis Kabxmn and Lee Etta) win be entombed...
...Newburyport...
...This will be the first educational venture of the Woman's Section...
...It will mark a winning flgh* the Cleveland comrades will make foi council and political power...
...It is not too early to apply for a scholarship right now in April or May...
...Bournemouth is comfortable and respectable, and hides its sores as a patron of Beauty Parlors conceals her age by lifted'up skin and things carried in a hand bag...
...He was active in the fight for Sacco and Vanzetti, arranging meetings and picketing the State House...
...They Hold me that half the village, at least, would vote Labor, and that the other half would be divided between the other two parties...
...Not all the worth while gift are sold in gift shops...
...Dyers and cleaners, mattress workers and auto mechanics are forming secret or open union organizations and even that citadel of acatapery...
...Pittsfleld: Leon Arkin...
...the Nash plant, is feeling the invasion of trade union sentiment...
...MONUMENT TO JAl RES LRECTED (By a New Leaser CerraapeaSeat) PARIS.—On March 25th the Socialist, of Toulouse unveiled a statue of Jaures which will commemorate the fact tha the great apostle of peace, Jean Jaure once worked in the University of Toulouse as a professor...
...Simmons Bed...
...Belden is the gent who directed the grand jury frameup campaigns agains...
...In addition to active Socialists in Chicago and Cook County the committees in charge of the affair expect visitors from other cities and towns in the northern section of the state...
...Buses leave at 9:30 a.m., 11:3( 1:30 p.m...
...mines...
...The slash is stated to average 7% and bring the minimum day wage down to $4.64 for inside day labor and $4 for outside labor...
...We were quite willing to accommodate this poverty of sportsmanlike spirit—more particularly as we knew that the more they talked directly to the crowd, the more would they lose...
...The Women's Section expects you...
...To nothing else will tbe Party be committed...
...Everywhere in the country the AllenA salesmen are finding doors slammed in their faces while merchant* are returning goods as unsalable to the factory in Kenosha...
...Edward J. Kennedy, Illinois...
...The monument t situated near the Capitol and the ru< d'Alsace-Lorraine, the main street of thi town...
...There is a Labor Party in Bournemouth, and it has seats on the Town Council, and on Saturday afternoon it was opening a Labor Hall, built as an offering of love...
...setts held their annual state amm_f tlon on Sunday, April 21st, at tawjJZJI lean House...
...awarded to members of Trade Unions, of the Socialist Party and the Young People's Socialist League, of The Workmen's Circle, and the Young Circle League, residing in this city or near enough to attend evening and Saturday afternoon classes...
...N, Y. Socialist Women Will Hear Mrs...
...Coleman To Speak The energies of all the active comrade: are being concentrated on the big picnic which the party will hold on Sunday May 26...
...ADVT...
...They confessed that It was difficult sometimes to know what to say in reply to what they found in these two papers Fortunately, the one of them that very morning had published one of its good, smacking, thumping lies about myself, and that was a convenient topic for conversation...
...Worcester...
...who says that all mines in the field are now op-rating open shop...
...Our program Is laid down in "Labor and tbe Nation" and win be epitomized in the Election Manifesto which will appear at tbe proper moment...
...The legislative committee reported ttot the Socialist Party's bins for iinni|tn meat insurance, for the further tea-''-1 tion of dividends and to curb the taetaj ' of injunctions in labor disputes had baa turned down by the state legislature, tat: they, together with a bill for a state tfgK versity, would again be introduced bsb> year...
...Wis—tPP>—With the slimy career of circuit judge E. B. Belden, the openshop judicial tool of Nash Motors...
...So let us gird up our loins, and march out to engage tbe enemy...
...About The Rand School 'J'HIS year's classes in the Rand School, at 7 East Fifteenth Street, are about coming to an end...
...Unemployment ¦ Hits Ohio Coal Fields Hard CLEVELAND, O.—(FP).—Greater production with fewer men is reported byOhio coal operators...
...The national convention of the Workmen's Circle will also be meeting in this city at the same time...
...In the eastern Ohio field, according to C. J. Albasin, commissioner of the district operators association, production is now running about 1.200.000 tons a-month, an increase of 200.000 to&feAver the 10W average before the strike...
...Jack Collins and the papic to a friend...
...It's a fine paper you are putting out...
...If you have not already done so, will you call Algonquin 3943 and make your reservations at once...
...New Bettors..-Exeeattae To Meet : rs The Executive Committee will meet a the near future and lay out plane ftBS an intensive program of education *MB\f will include the putting up and supaoteS ing of candidates for mayor and dtal council in Boston...
...It is onlj seven miles from the Square...
...The milk wagon driver*'now have a closed shop...
...Other workers to unionize...
...Alfred Baker Lewis, state secretary, joO ported that tbe election bad shown ,a» increase of approximately so% to Ma votes for governor and senator cocapttw with 1926...
...William K. Reft* Fitchburg: John Wright...
...That isn't the only reason why the locked out hosiery workers, now off the Allen A payroll for 15 months because they refused to surrender their union and submit to vicious speeding up, are confident of victory...
...YVe have dallied in old churches where weather-beaten fishermen say their prayers and sing their Psalms in the grey churchyards within sound of the sea where their dust lies, by their harbours, and on their ferries, with themselves in the' shelter of gutting sheds and of marine stores— even under the Shelter of Tory Clubs with the grizzled heads of die-hards protruding from windows high up in the walls like gargoyles out of place...
...The local candidates will also start their campaigr with short speeches...
...Particularly anxious were we to guard ourselves against an eleventh hour fraudulent stunt of the nature of the Zinovieff letter...
...We hereby extend an invitation to all those who would like to take part in the discussion to be there on time...
...We wish to get the names and addresses of all who are interested, so that we may send them our bulletin when it is ready...
...But the state senate shoved this measure into the wastepapet basket, and Mansfield was prevented from changing his bill by political trickery...
...A plan is being perfected for systematic distribution of literature, both general and specifically about tbe fall campaign...
...We, therefore, agreed to two sets of speeches before the dissolution, each to include four speakers—two Tories, one of us, and a Liberal—and then two sets of three speakers from each of the parties after the dissolution...
...Dorebat ter: A. H. Kalish...
...We have one objective and one rendezvous—to gain an absolute majority, and, until tbe ballot bases close, we shall think of nothing _ . ' / P. 8.—Since this letter was posted Z bare seen a further statement issued from tbe Liberal Headquarters, contradicting what had been said at tbe week-end on their behalf, upon which one of tbe statements in the letter has been based Apparently tbe Liberal Headquarters were consulted, and did approve of tbe modifled scheme...
...Give us your address and also those of one or two friends...
...Cleveland Socialist Wanning Up Meetings Improve —- New Yipsel Group Formed— Picnic Announced for May 26th (By a Naw leader Correspondent) fLEVBLAND.—Increased attendance at meetings, new members, new hope in tbe members marks tbe socialist movement today in Cleveland...
...For instance, we found ourselves surrounded in one little village by a crowd of the finest salts I have ever met anywhere—sturdy, bronzed men...
...New sah | ford Amesbury, Newburyport, Ondaiiiii and a few other cities and towns...
...Churchill should explain his Budget over the wireless, we put ,in a claim that the ex-Chancellor should also explain the attitude of the Opposition...
...We wanted an opportunity to put our ideas with reasonable fullness so that the electorate might be possessed of the issues as we see them and understand them, and, whilst tbe fight is at its height, after the dissolution, to have an opening and a closing speech, so as to keep the contest fixed upon realities...
...May 4th...
...Announcement of the nam* of the full-time organizer who has beer hired will be made in the next issue...
...These art to be...
...Tha Bteia be* arthHciBy baprese*ve na»esto— bears aver the a—ata at these wha have bee*, laid to rest the Imsrtattan (us Bsnaaaa), "The R. S. D. I...
...Representatives of the Civil Liberties Union say that the Mansfield measure as it now becomes Pennsylvania law is "worse than nothing," and announce that they will center their energies on a fight for complete abolition of the coal and iron police...
...It had tea parties and other ceremonies, and" the place was filled with honest, happy faces, and babies who used their lungs lustily in glee at every winged flight of oratory and in support cf every banging blow of argument...
...Radio For Campaign Broadcasting MacDonald Tells of Tory-Liberal Agreement Reached Without Consulting Labor—Labor Leader Finds Country Districts Leaning Strongly to Socialists as Election Approaches By J. Ramsay MacDonald, M.P...
...flfiwwi Hf fa Erected Over Grown of Mfrtpv* Axelrad, 'Other Exile* ^ Caemmaadaat im'mmtimmrZ ta* *mtT* rasa ¦hue nnhl iTbBjmiiIIi Laker Party •rested ever the Jatat graves ef rani Axesrad and Jaltas Marts*, was vested ta the n—Hiry attaibid to tin...
...What I say about the Labor Party is true...
...Mayor Hoan of Milwaukee, who recently returned from Europe, will give bis Impressions of the labor and Socialist movements abroad...
...A political triumph of great magnitude was the election of Maceo Kueny, strike leader and member of the American Federation of Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers, to the Kenosha county board of supervisors...
...Rand Book Store Offers Special Books on England Due to the enormous interest displayed in the coming general election in Great Britain, the demand for Labor Party literature is great...
...Mrs...
...Not only has the basic wage been slashed from $7.50 to the present $5 a day...
...It is a simple case of where ignorance is advantageous, it is folly to permit wisdom to appear...
...Thus the rest ended, and in the dark with a glorious "lift" glittering with stars overhead we raced back to London and bustle...
...It is now clear that neither the Liberals nor ourselves have agreed to the official plans for election broadcasting, and that, in consequence, the plan adopted has been dictated by the Government...
...All along, the Government has obstructed the use of broadcasting, except in its own interests, and this is as true as regards what is known as non-political speeches as in frankly political ones...
...The Chicago Socialists expect quite a number of delegates to this convention to attend the dinner...
...Tor next season, the Rand School will again offer one hundred scholarships for Its Workers' .Training Course...
...The convention aba] voted a resolution of enccoirsgemtnrh* the shoe strikers of Boston and CtotaJ especially for their success in brinrJnj out the open shops...
...Allen A hosiery and other anti-labor interests, about to be unveiled by the Wisconsin legislature, the onion forces of Kenosha see the eventual defeat of their powerful enemies...
...Rep...
...We appointed our speakers, and made our arrangements as to the field which each would cover...
...The Government claimed two speeches for our one, on the ground that there were two oppositions...
...Spalding...
...Wherever we have gone we have heard of the Labor advance, and have been welcomed...
...60 Delegatl AtteiidMaJj Conventidfl Gathering Is One of sM§ Enthusiastic pet Many Yean in State lf§| (Br a New Leader OcerammdmM Wt DOSTON — The Socialists at ktaaej|B...
...It does not restrict their powers, nor does it limit their activities to any specified territory...
...clad in comely rough attire, learned in the sea and the weather, gentlemen in their walk and talk, the strong, robust stems of our day and generation...
...The xleax-cut .platform has excited comment, and everyone is looking forward to the opening of the campaign wher the candidates will explain why then has been so much corruption in the cltj government...
...He stated that the prtoa5j of Socialism had made definite pram**' among textile workers and collage j^;7 dents, citing as proof the election a* tt Socialist to the New Bedford City Odt&U oil and the publication of a WaMfl the already well-known Harvard Pr*.'* gressive...
...But, broadcasting or no broadcasting, we are now going into the thick of the fight, and the platform is to be our chief ground of operations, It must be supported by the limited Press which we have, and between now and tbe end of May the circulation of our papers should be doubled...
...ii**1 The following were chosen memtaat at* the State Executive Committee: teaMc* S. Hutchlns, Greenfield...
...This was rigidly rejected, but we had a pledge that Mr...
...What a tremendous work we have still to do in these places, to lay solid foundations of fact and opinion...
...But one fine day, Minnie Pallister turned up there, and, though Fortune's decrees were hard, she lit a candle of reason and good -sense that no ladylike breath nor gentlemanly puff can blow out...
...Not a copy of the "Daily Herald" found its way there...
...ts onveiling was carried oat throagh a Bote— ceremony imonf the ffatrtan Social - Democratic colony ta Berlin...
...In maneuvering for the first round, the Tory Party has confessed to its tremors...
...McAllister Coleman, well-knowr to all readers of The New Leader and Socialist candidate for the U. S. Senate in New York and Frank J. Manning the young and brilliant leader of the New Bedford textile strike, have beer announced as speakers...
...We shall have to add to our program a pledge that when Labor is returned, we shall have to recast the control of the British Broadcasting Company...
...the workers, who took money from the Simmons, r<-"Y*""> and then sat in a case involving the, company, who stacked grand- jtirtee and permitted prostitutes to make the county payroll in order to lure labor jouth to treachery and betrayal...
...Cleveland readers of The New Leadei who have not participated actively ir Party affairs lately are urged to get ir touch with their branch secretary anc come to the picnic, bringing family ant neighbors...
...Penn Governor Signs Farcical Coal Police Bill HARRISBURG, Pa.—(FP)—Gov...
...Already the several hundred civilians who build and repair the U. s Navy's land and sea planes at this bi...
...The treatment of the young organizer for the Ylpsels who was threatened with expulsion from high schooi after a teacher had rifled his locker ant...
...at the Meyer London Center, 1224 S. Albany Ave., Chicago...
...Alfred Baker Lewis To Speak in Chicago CHICAGO.—Alfred Baker Lewis of Boston will speak on "Socialism and Americanism" at a meeting arranged by the Young People's Socialist eague Friday...
...And we have wandered through the ruined halls of the mighty at Tintagcl...
...There will be musk and other entertainment as well as athletic contests and a craving for prizes Organizations in sympathy with th< Socialists are being requested to get then members out in a body, and they an not planning programs that will conflict The picnic to be held on the farm of B. Milaskey, Box 547, R. F. D. The* driving will take West 25th street to State road, then Short road to the premises, which are easily sighted...
...April 27th, at Town Hall, will far exceed the capacity of the room selected...
...More than sixty dttojdnK from various parts of the state attends** and their enthusiasm made this rain-, I tion one of the best in years, a. leW,*: berg was elected chairman...
...The fare is thlrtj cents...
...but the spcrdnri and tbe Introduction of machine aolnzoc without union restrictions for the protection of fa* men, have cut deeply into the number of jobs available, besides driving harder the mm who have found' work at the lower r-fje...
...Back Shoe Strikers M Resolutions were passed coaunenccta)L the work of various unions in conaav ting unemployment by reducing the boat of labor, recommending unemployment h> suranee as an additional means of mjfaj for the unemployed...
...F.—Te these who bare died to exile...
...Roxbury...
...Florence Kelley Is to be the speaker...
...But we did insist upon a sufficient chance to put the whole of our case before the electors...
...I am back more amazed than ever by the mystery of that advance...
...As plans unfold for this May Day celebration it promises to be the most successful that has been held for many years...
...There respectable people go and talk about Moscow and Private Enterprise, and the great class Tory Party flourishes on keeping up appearances and worshipping the genteel...
...He has sent the sun and the wind together, and we have filled our lungs and tanned our faces on the Cornish moors and coasts...
...Do not fail them...
...The two bits is for exchange charges...
...By bus one leaves from 815 Huron road, anc takes the Akron, via Broadview or Brecksvllle bus...
...Mable B. Collins of Wisconsin ders us to send "Pioneers of Freedom her husband...
...By dropping a card to the store at E. 15th street, or better SOU by visiting the store personally, you will get into personal contact with what is happening in England at present...
...It camouflages the company thugs with the new name "industrial police," and places each of them under a mere $2,000 bond...
...An effort will also be made to taw as many Socialist Party meajbea «i« possible visit various towns arel-advaataa the coming of tbe regular Party snadat l either by distributing circulars or terspeaking themselves...
...For instance, last year, when it was proposed that Mr...
...THUS far Providence has been kind...
...The same influence has been evident in the handling of the whole question of political broadcasting...
...Tbe means far erecting the monument ware pteihVd by a special eellection among the exfled Kasstan Social-Democrats ta different European and American towns...
...The hosiery fight has encouraged...
...Months ago, we tried to get an arrangement by which the wireless might be used for political education in preparation for the election...
...Fisher has signed the Mansfield coal and iron police bill, an impotent measure characterized by the Civil Liberties Union as "farcical...
...Cuts in the former union field were followed by further cuts in the non-union fields of West Virginia, and now a further reduction is announced in Pittsburgh Coal and Carnegie Coal Co...
...Pittsburgh Coal Co...
...and heard from our caddies when we wanted to take their minds and their language off our bad plav (which we put down to late hours in tbe House of Commons) how tishine Is decaying and the world is going to the dogs...
...Mansfield himself came to acknowledge the inadequacy of his bill, and sought to insert in it provisions which would make it uniform with the Musmanno bill, which limited the powers of the coal and iron cops to protecting actual property, and restricted their activities.to within 1,000 feet of company ground...
...Lake Constance International To Meet (By a New Leaser Cerrrteendfnt) VIENNA.—A meeting will take plac< in 1929 of the International of the Laki Constance States, that is' to say, the workers organizations in the States border inj on Lake Constance—Germany, Austrii and Switzerland...
...The meeting is called for the 16th June in Lindau (Germany) The preparations for this great Soclalis gathering, in which thousands of work ers will probably participate, are ahead] in hand...
...On that plan we had never even been consulted, but when we were discussing the matter prievioHs.ly, I had...
...Now be fc> about to make the unenviable record of being the first Wisconsin judge to face such charges before the assembly judiciary committee...
...Since the big coal companies, led by Pittsburgh Coal Co., repudiated-their agreement with the United Mine Workers and started on a career of wagecutting, they have continued to lose markets as they were doing previously...
...It represents Jaures as a speaker AIRPLANE UNION TO BE LAUNCHES PENSACOLA, Fla.—(FP)—Soon the country's first union of licensed airplani mechanics will be chartered In Pensacola, Fla., by the American Federatior of Labor...
...Check for $5.25 enclosed...
...found Socialist leaflets got publicity lr the daily papers, and the colored presi has run notices and reports of youth meetings...
...Bygetting on the list now, you increase your chance of b;ing awarded a scholarship, and if anything should happen to prevent you from taking up ths course when the time comes, you will have lest notftfng by applying early...
...On the way home we looked in upon that Queens of backward and unenlightened areas—Bournemouth — a Socialist city, inhabited by" adherents of the antiSocialist League...
...On Sunday evening a banquet will be given at the Douglas Park Labor Lyceum at which members of the committee will speak...
...Meanwhile, the Rand School Libra ray and the Rand Book Store will be open all summer...
...Besides this training course, many other study and lecture courses will be given...
...on my own account, given full reasons to show why it was too unfair to us, and could net be accepted...
...Tbe Young Peoples' Socialist League has bees making headway and Sunday held a successful meeting and organised a new circle with Negro comrades tbe leading spirits...
...As an assistance to our candidates and friends, one of tbe greatest gramophone producers — the Columbia Company is issuing a set of records containing speeches by four of our leading representatives, some of them, tbe producers tell me, being tbe finest examples of speech recording ever taken...
...Kelley The luncheon, arranged by the New York WomerCs Section of the Socialist Party, for Saturday...
...by tbe Harvard Socialist «oV* Comrade Lewis also recommended ttot I Frank Crosswaith and Esther Prlactam should be kept continually on the real This recommendation was iinsnhaiash'• adopted...
...Morris Hillquit, International Secretary of the party, and Victor L. Berger, former member of Congress, are also on the list of speakers...
...It was communicated to us as a decision, and not as a matter open for further consideration, and a reply at the earliest possible moment was made that we had not considered it, and that our decision would have to await tbe return of Members concerned to London after Easter...
...The opening of an office in a more convenient location will prove helpful...
...Slashes Wages Again PITTSBURGH— (FP).—The futility of union-busting as a way to capture markets is being demonstrated to the Melloncontrolled concerns of the Pittsburgh area...
...Leaoanf...
...They proudlj claim that no plane crash here was eve: laid to faulty civilian workmanship...
...The only way to save the face of the Government when Geneva is talked about would nave been for the Government to prohibit all references to a subject of supreme world importance...
...Albert anmjBjtJ CooUdge...
...Judge of our amazement when we saw an official announcement from the British Broadcasting Company, stating that another plan was to be followed...
...The Ohio miners have paid dearly for the smaiihing of their union...
...Churchill would be non-party in his observations, and purely explanatory How anyone could imagine that such a thing was possible I do not know, and everyone who listened in that night knows how the pledge was broken...
...Whatever responsibility is involved in clearly with the Conservative Party, and what has been done, must rest quite as ths Liberals now say that they were consulted it becomes all the more extraordinary that we did not receive similar opportunities...
...Socialist N. E. C. Will Meet In Chicago (Bf a New Lesser Cerreaeeasent) CHICAGO, Di.—Arrangements by Chicago Socialists for celebrating the May Day season will correlate with the meeting of the National Executive Committee of the party which will hold its sessions in tbe Morrison Hotel beginning Saturday morning...
...Another season will begin tn September...
...and 3:00...
...Another reason is the failure of Allen A to keep* up either quality or., production with scab workers though it has had over a year to break the strikebreakers in...
...They stuck to their Laboi allegiance, because they had confidence in us, and nothing was to shake them...
...But the only papers which came to their place were those two representatives of modern yellow journalism, the "Mail" and the "Dally News...
...No one who belongs to any of these organizations, and who wishes to educate himself in such a way as to be a better comrade in the struggle for economic freedom, social justice, ana world peace, can find anywhere a better opportunity than is offered here by the oldest and largest Socialist and Labor School in America...
Vol. 8 • April 1929 • No. 15
