A. F. L. And Socialists Lead Fight Against Seating of Parker
A. F. L. And Socialists Lead Fight Against Seating of Parker Green Denounces Judge Who Upheld Contract Enslaving West Virginia Miners SOCIALIST PARTY EC FILES ITS PROTEST Thomas For Party,...
...The public funeral services will be in the nature of a protest against the refusal of the American government to grant the right of asylum to political refugees, as illustrated by its attempt to hand Borghi over to the Fascist govSji M**S*jfc Rehearsals On For May Day Pageant In N.Y...
...The full story of the nervy fight put up by Edward Nockels for more time for the station managed by the Chicago Federation of Labor is told in a booklet giving the brief filed by the attorney for the station recently issued by the Federation...
...Yellow dog contract* required by the West Virginia mine owners of their employes and upheld by Judge John J. Parker...
...was his sound and impressive argument against the confirmation of the appointment of Judge Parker to the Supreme Court bench The other was his statement on unemployment before Senator Johnson's committee...
...Walter White flayed Parker's "pandering to base racial prejudice, flaunting two amendments to the federal constitution, to serve his own political advantage," in denying to Negroes the right to take part in Republican primaries in his state...
...Walter White, executive secretary o?.the Natitonal Association for the Advancement of Colored People, explained why the Negro— oppose Parker as an enemy of the civil rights of their race...
...Their representatives out loud talk words of amity and friendship Yet as I write it is doubtful whether there will be any five power treaty at all and practically certain that there will be no reduction of navies...
...Nobody wants a rate war between taxis at the expense of the drivers...
...President Huddell of the Hoisting Engineers then told the subcommittee that Fischer had been driven from the union...
...F.P...
...I understand that the company is opera ting "mm •ilia' and that it is to continue to operate *non-union' while I am in its employ...
...He has rejected the early advice of Chairman Delaney of the Board of Transportation to charge a large part of the cost of new subways upon the property especially benefitted...
...Deeper than our faith in any pact is our faith in the ancient tradition, sea power...
...case, that he not only approved the anti-labor doctrine laid down in the* Hitchman case in 1917 but went far beyond it in order to confirm the death sentence given the United Mine Workers in West Virginia by District Judge McCUntic He said that the Hitchman decision was the "Dred Scott decision of labor...
...The convention will have before it the task of "'"'"g a state ticket, including a candidate for governor, and of drawing up a state platform...
...For this reason any program for dealing with unemployment which leaves out unemployment insurance is a lame and crippled thing...
...F. Barrett, who described himself as ex-president of the North Carolina Federation of Labor...
...No Change Seen According to the April issue of Facts for Workers, a monthly economic news letter^published by The Labor Bureau, Inc., it is still uncretain whether the low point of the depression has been reached, and whether recovery is under way...
...Laidler, Waldman...
...Fully 300,000 trade unionists will quit work on May Day...
...Paperhangers' Union, Local 490...
...And so from false standards of prestige we cHng to the obsolete battleships and are reluctant even to talk about a consultative pact...
...The only use a big navy would be to any of them would be against one of the others...
...For this situation a remedy must be found in limiting the powers of the Court, but in the meanwhile the .nature and extent of these limitations will be determined in part by the character of the court's decisions...
...Green followed this line of argument, that Parker had shown In his decision in the Red Jackct^Consolidated Coal & Coke Co...
...Between them the politicians of the old parties are making a rare mess of the transit situation...
...17, 22, 23, 35, 66, 91, 20...
...Arrange- j ments are in contemplation by which those who are unable to gate access to the main haU will j be addressed at overflow meetings to b e held in the vicinity of the Coliseum...
...Mazzola was a spectator at a meeting in Cooper Union last Sunday where Vicenzo Vac ire a, Socialist, and Armando Borghi, syndicalist, were debating their parties' programs towards Fascist Italy...
...There will be a number of speakers from the Young People's Socialist League on various phases of the Socialist Party's propaganda w o rk Rail Unions Organize Louisville May J Rally (By a New Leader Carre-saondeat) Lc MsviUe, Ky.—A joint May Day celebration will be held May 1st, in the Axton-Fislier Auditorium, sponsored by the Louisville Label League and the Railroad Brotherhoods...
...are in themselves a reason for keeping from the Supreme Court of the United States a man whose conception of democracy is so partial that it would exclude members of a whole race...
...In the confusion that resulted a policeman fired a gun and MSCTOI...
...I will not make any effort while in the employ of the company, or noon its property, to unionize its employes or interfere in any way with their working for the company...
...Therefore, we earnestly oppose his confirmation, in the name of peaceful and constructive progress by democratic methods...
...Hahn...
...Unions and Party Cooperating In addition to those who.will be able to witness the demonstration from the inside, 300,000 others represented in the Emergency Conference on Unemployment, which, with the Socialist party, is sponsoring the meeting, will be present in spirit to the demonstration...
...An interested groups and individuals are invitedto attend...
...More Volunteers Needed To Help In Presenting Spectacle at Bronx Coliseum TT^RETTY girls dancing in unison JtT and sonorous choruses of both sexes have been gracing the Rand ; School Studio at 7 East 15th street these Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday evenings after 6. since the May Day Pageant rehearsals began...
...We cannot even say that we are betrayed by our statesmen who in all probability would lose office if they took a line much different from that they are taking...
...He said that if no consideration was given, there was no real contract, sad hence there was basis for Injunction against persuading man to violate the agreement...
...City Plant Gives Jobs HIBBING, Minn.—(FP>—More jobs for the unemployed and an extension of the city-owned public heating system of Hibbing wUl result from the $60,000 appropriation made by the water, light, power and building commissi on.^pWork started immediately and,will continue through the summer on the direct labor plan...
...New York City^s employment figures showed an increase of 1.4 per cent over the month before, according to Frances Perkins, State Industrial Commissioner this w^ek...
...Italy will not consent to sign any treaty which provides less than parity with France...
...It was later learned that Borghi has been hunted by the U. S. government which is intent on | deporting him and turning him over to Fascist Italy where cer| tain imprisonment or worse awaits j him...
...October and March are usually months of high peaks in employment...
...Nationally-known artists, it was announced by the committee, will be engaged for the event...
...He is a brother of J. Stitt, Wilson, former Socialist Mayor of Berkley, Calif...
...The point of view Judge Parker expressed in 1920 cannot but color his opinions as judge on race questions, no matter how great his effort after impartiality...
...He expressed surprise that the question as to whether this so-called contract, which give* to the worker no consideration of value in return for his surrender of the valuable right to belong to a labor union, had not been definitely tested in the courts...
...It cannot change the background of his thinking or his approach to problems of law and life...
...McCormick couldn't have been H O E > * aated over Senator Deneen, no matter what her stand on the World Court...
...The participants in the pageant are members of the Socialist Party, and the trade unions, the Workmen's Circle, various German and German-American sport and educational groups, other foreign language societies of their members, and individuals affiliated with the League for Industrial Democracy...
...It is moreover to be'zobserved that inthe Mayor's brave talk of operating the new subway lines independently he has not said one single thing about his labor policy, or whether he will recognize the union...
...The exact figure for October was 100.5...
...The latest figures throw little light on this question...
...The speakers are to include Norman Thomas and Jacob Panken, Socialist Party leaders...
...Assuming that Judge Parker is of the-same opinion in 1930 as he was when he was a rundldat* for Governor of North Carolina in 1920...
...and that Parker's endorsement of it showed him to be a menace to the liberties of the wage earners of the nation, holding as he had that property rights transcend the rights of humanity...
...But, as Sen...
...Montreal for a period of over six months, and in 1930, when sll enemy forces combined to defeat our Socialist Leader, he was elected with the greatest majority given any alderman in St- Louis Ward...
...The trouble with us is our folly which passes for wisdom, a folly which makes us refuse to talk about naval disarmament which is sensible, and makes us talk about standardization of navies at a ratio which never can be logically worked out...
...He didn't quite dare appoint Tammany's first choice, especially when Al Smith and his friends were urging the selection of Judge Shientag who would have been about the best choice one could expect a Democratic Governor to make...
...The Board of Education is being requested to caU a meeting of all school teachers for Miss Herstein to address...
...In 1924 Schubert was elected as the first Socialist Alderman to sit in the City Council with a maj o r i ty of only 52 votes...
...Representative...
...If these decisions stand it v. ill be* exceedingly difficult to preach to our people the efficacy of political action as a means to social change...
...This chance was lost...
...Employment In New Drop Last Month Figures Show N. Y. State Figures Refute Reports of Business Interests That Conditions Improved During March r.CTORY employment in New York State in March showed another decrease—one-tenth of 1 per cent as compared with February...
...Barrett is an agent of the textile employers...
...Negroes Voice Opposition Senator Overman had subpoenaed E. C. Townsend, former associate counsel for the Mine Workers in the Red Jacket case, but now state tax commissioner of West Virginia, at Townsend's suggestion, to testify that he did not blame Parker for making his yellewdog decision...
...as he declared, in behalf of 5,000.000 members of the American Federatiton of Labor and of the four rail transportation brotherhoods whose representatives had authorised him to be their spokesman...
...300,000 to Quit Work in N.Y.May Day Celebration Great Demonstration to Be Held in Bronx Coliseum — Other Cities Arrange Meetings RESPONDING to a manifesto j which wiU v o i c e the insistent demand o f class conscious workers for unemployment insurance* old age pensions 'and, o n the international field, immediate disarmament, between 20,000 and 25.000 workers will flock to the May Day demonstration to be held on the afternoon of May 1st at the N ew York Coliseum, 177th street and Bronx River Park...
...Thomas, HUlquit and Kobbe were constituted a committee to draft a state platform, and Gerber was made the chairman of a committee to revise the state constitution of the party organization...
...he believes in the exclusion of or non-participation of Negroes in politics," the Socialist Committo* declare...
...Mazzola's body is lying in state in the headquarters of D Nuovo Mondo...
...International Ladies Garment Workers Union, N ew York Joint Board, L o cated 2, 3, 9, 10...
...Great Britain through sheer necessity is willing to concede what she cannot help, namely, parity in navies to America, but toward all other nations she must preserve the two power standard...
...Communists Convicted Of Criminal Syndicalism CADIZ, Ohio ( F P . ) — For | handing out Communist literature at Martin's Ferry last autumn, Betty Gannett and Zorki Yori, young Cleveland women, have been convicted of criminal syndicalism and face sentences of 10 years...
...The AlbanySchenectady-Troy district reported a decrease of 3 per cent, a rd Rochester a decrease of nearly 3 per cent...
...The committee voted to hold the 1930 state convention at Schenectady on July 19 and 20, and adopted a motion requesting ail locals to submit propositions for the convention agenda...
...Far further information or special rehearsals please apply to Elizabeth Stuyvesant, Louis Stanley, Marx Lewis, or Julius Gerber at the Rand Schol, Room 602, Algonquin 4620...
...City Committee, Jewish Socialist Verband...
...With WEVD, WCFL shares the distinction of being the only real voice of labor and the forces working for a new society...
...The story of the fight holds great interest for all Socialists and other workers for a better social order...
...An industrial- status such as this accounts for the perennial condition of prosperity with which Newark is blessed,1* MONTREAL Socialist Vernier Who Wins Aldermumie Semi by Record Majority JOSEPH SCHUBERT Montreal Again Elects Socialist Schubert Wins Aldermanic Seat By Largest Majority Known In His District By a N>» Lr&der C « m s » w i « t) -ja J J T O X T R E A L , — Joseph Schu_LvJL bert, former cloak maker and secretary of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union in Montreal and Socialist Alderman for the last six years, was re-elected April 7th with a majority of over 1,000 over his opponent, P. Freedman, who was supported by ; the Conservative, Liberal and Communist parties...
...This memorandum, when accepted by the company, constitutes a contract of employment between me and said company...
...Furriers International Union, Furriers Joint Council of New York, Locals 101, 105...
...And in answer there appeared an expelled trade unionist, a former lawyer for the United Mine Workers who has been given a state cffice in West Virginia id a series of endorsements froo enemies of the workers...
...By comparison with the rest Japan comes closest to reason...
...High officials of international unions and other trade union and progressive bodies wiU bring their message of support to the demonstration...
...will draw from a membership of over 25.000 trade unionists...
...The price of peace in the long run is the organization of world community resting on the common in-' terests of those whose labor keeps life going in this little interdependent world of ours...
...H. C. Fischer, an expelled member of the Hoisting Engineers' union, endorsed Parker...
...More definite information as to the arrangements regarding the musical program will be made available in the next issue of The New Leader...
...Italian Chamber of Commerce...
...Bill Posters and Ushers Union...
...The Workmen's Circle Chorus, the Young Circle League, the German Sports Union, the Young People's Socialist League, and a large number of individuals not affiliated with any of these groups, but acting in response to an invitation sent to all Socialist party members, are pooling their resources for this part of the program...
...Socialists Will Convene In Schenectady Convention July 19 and 20 Will Name Ticket and Adopt a State Platform TiHE New York State convenJL tion of the Socialist Party wUl be held July 19 and 20, at Schenectady...
...Resolutions were adopted in connection with the decease of Irving M. Weiss of Buffalo, Lewis Golub of Schenectady and Louis Garde of New York...
...Letter Carriers Submit 44-Hour Week Brief Trade unions seeking t h e j shorter work week will find a mine of valuable statistics, opinions and research in a brief just prepared for the National Association of Letter Carriers by the consulting economists of the Labor Bureau, Inc...
...Lewis turned this message over to his chief counsel, who wired Green that the union's lawyers still regarded Parker's decision as an outrage against the miners...
...Grand Lodge of Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen win furnish a grand officer to speak on the six-hour clay...
...It may be that Judge Parker felt that he was bound by precedent to make this decision...
...Judge Parker, so far as the record goes, shows none of those characteristics of greatness as the expounder of l aw as a living thing which our times demand...
...Lillian Herstein of the Federation of Teachers of Chicago, HI win speak under the auspices of « • Label League April 26th...
...It is impossible to exaggerate the danger of such decisions to peaceful progress of labor organizations and the invitation that it gives to revolt and to violence...
...The trouble is with our false standards of what constitutes greatness, our forge tfulness that not...
...Ha declared these conditions, and their causes, were a matter of public concern, since they profoundly affected the lives and liberties of the people...
...McCormick"* Nomination—Walker Matches C. O. PPolitics— Roo-evelt Straddles On a Judgeship— National Interests and Navies—Pre*, Green On Parker mad Lne«npioyme*rt whether Mrs...
...The News, in a full page message in Editor and Publisher, addressed to potential advertisers says: "Always plenty of work and money to spend in Newark...
...As a matter of fact, the Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers' Union, perhaps more than any other, in recent years has been forced to devote a great part of its energies to fighting injunctions to uphold anti-union contracts—alb of these cases legally stemming from the precedent whith Judge Parker played so important a role in establishing," Rieve wrote...
...The Briand-Kellogg pact may be all right but France wants that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, absolute military security...
...having a meeting while in LouisviUe undsr the auspices of the League of Women Voters...
...Rountree said the A. F. of L, Negroes and Communists alone seemed to protest Parker's nomination...
...The facts in this case presented by the N . A A . C.P...
...And this applies, by the way, to the taxi situation...
...But the strongest navy might help us perhaps to trade with whatever nation we wanted in the event of war...
...WINNIPEG...
...It is also clear that It win be a powerful stimulus for employers who now are quite indifferent to the sufferings of seasonal unemployment t o mitigate that evil if it costs them more money out o f pocket in insurance premiums...
...Tickets of admission, bearing the names of the various organizations sponsoring the May Day celebration, are now being printed, and will be in circulation early next week...
...McCormick, we suppose, keeps keeps the huge holding-belonging to her h™o«»d TRANSIT AND POLITICS Republican majority of the New York Legislature was playing politics by its refusal to pass the transit unification bill for New York City unless the Mayor >»»n«»t* would strike out clauses designed to save the five cent fare in case the unified Ones could not possibly be operated oc that fare...
...Norris is going to publish the list of Parker's endorsements, which is said to include the big utility and coal interests of West Virginia...
...United Hebrew Trades...
...however, a strong Tammany man...
...In New York City seasonal increases, particularly in the wearing apparel industries, were sufficient to cause a net increase of somewhat more than 1 per cent, "although many industries in this district continued to lower forces," while most of the up-State cities reported fewer workers employed than in February...
...If this measure of justice had been carried out there would have been far less trouble in preserving the five cent fare...
...It is noticeable that the Governor merely "thought" the Bar Association endorsed Mr...
...Coupled with the demands along these three lines, a May D a y manifesto now being drawn up will stress above all the necessity for independent labor political action and trade union organization as instruments for the taking over of power in cities, state and nation by the workers...
...Who is the villain of the play which may yet result in failure...
...The facts in this case presented by the National Association for the Advance meat of Colored People ax* in t h ai selves a reason for keeping from , the Supreme Court of the United . States s man whose conception of democracy is so partial/that is would exclude members o f a whole race...
...Timely Topics By Norman Thomas Mrs...
...Hebrew Butchers Union, Local 234...
...Gerber, Laidler, Kobbe...
...Theatrical Doormen's Union of Greater New York...
...When Borghi had finished speaking, Vincent Piaggio, a Federal immigration inspector, rushed to the platform and attempted to take him into custody...
...The regular rehearsal periods are Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday evenings after 6 o'clock in the Studio at the Rand School, 6th floor...
...Preliminary Conference Called Delegates elected b y the various organizations will attend a citywide conference to be held on . April 22, at which final plans for the demonstration will be taken up...
...It was the sense of the committee that a national committee meeting at Pittsburgh in May would not justify the expense it would involve...
...He has...
...But when a Tammany Police Commissioner and a Tammany Board of Aldermen try to stabilise fares for private companies it is always well to inquire who gets the benefit...
...Backs A. F. U Stand "Our specific reasons are those already made public by labor organizations and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People...
...so that employment since then has dropped 9 percent, she explained...
...2...
...On the other hand, the Mayor hinmetf has been playing at least equally bad pontics with the same issue...
...Many who haven't even 2 cents to buy a paper crowd around their* more fortunate brothers to read over their shoulders...
...There i sa normlJ revival of production and employment in the spring months which will doubtless have some effect this year," it says...
...Shouting his loyalty to the five cent fartjfee has done nothing to make it possible...
...Periodical Hard Times Are Practically Unknown...
...Butchers Union Local 211...
...One of the largest conventions in the history of the state Socialist organization is expected as a result of the growth of the party in New York City and up-state during the last year...
...Green showed that Barrett had been expelled from the United Textile Workers, for cause...
...So it is that the comedy or tragedy at London has no villain and no hero...
...Borah Raps Decision Senator Borah, by question and comment, soon indicated that he believed the yellow dog contract, which Parker had so eagerly protected by the Red Jacket injunction, to be invalid and in violation of the constitutional rights of workers...
...Other endorsements came from Gov^ Gardner, who sent the troops to Gastonia and Marion, N. C. against Textile strikers, and from Plummer Stewart and George Rountree, ( lawyers...
...The program promises to be one which will be long remembered Most important of all it will lead to the reestablishment of the dancing, singing and other artistic groups which used to play such an important role in the labor and Socialist movement in this country...
...Unless Great Britain will give her a more certain pledge of support that Britain can or should offer, she must have a bigger navy th»n Italy and cannot afford to give up submarines which a n especially useful in the Mediterranean...
...Borah quickly showed that Townsend was a poor lawyer...
...Well, Mussolini's prestige is at stake and his chance later on if and when Italy gets the money to make the Mediterranean an Italian lake is involved...
...If at any time while in the employ of the company I want to become a member of, or affiliate with, any such organization...
...Sen...
...It is equally certain that his decision as a judge in the Red Jacket injunction case practically makes it impossible legally to organize workers who under stress of hunger or misinformation have signed a yellow dog contract...
...But unles^ activity increases more than it usually does at this season, it cannot be said that the depression is wearing off...
...It is perfectly clear that our present day society, no matter how many pub' Be works it tries to carry out in duU times, cannot and will not provide jobs for all willing workers...
...Ben Wilson May Day Speaker in Buffalo (Br a Bow Loader Correspondent) Buffalo, N. Y.—Local Buffalo, Socialist Party, will celebrate International Labor Day with a mass meeting Thursday, M a y 1, at Elmwood Music Hail...
...The dead hand of precedent and ' t h e live hand of a judicial oligarch will be upon us with such weight that no majority by peaceful means can work its will...
...In every part of the civilized world, and in every large city of the United States, Socialists and progressive trade unionists will devote the day on which labor in all countries hail the coming o f a new social system to making effective their protest against the intoler- i able wrongs of which the workers are the victims...
...Green forcefully described the misery created In the coal camp* of West Virginia by the judgemade laws which Parker had set up by his decision...
...1. Three others convicted on the same charges have been sentenced to five years...
...Sincerely yours, "NORMAN THOMAS...
...Ben F. Wilson, pastor of the First Unitarian Church of Erie, Pa...
...The first clause, for instance, presumes that the worker will lose his job if the union succeeds in organising the plant-" The News commends the name labor has for these contracts because ''the man who signs one has no more rights than a yellow dog...
...Laundry Drivers, Chauffeurs and Helpers' Union Local 810...
...N.Y...
...We regret, however, that Mr...
...Finally, it is clear that unemployment insurance is almost a necessity for effective organization work in order t o take from employers ' the bribes of doles they give to the workers who are "good," that is to say, docile...
...Based on surveys conducted b y employers' organizations, by health specialists, industrial engineers and humaniI tarians, the brief lays before \ Congress unimpeachable evidence in' favor of the 44-hour week...
...Shortly before noon, when the first paper* are carried from the building and offered for sale, the mob presses in and fights for papers...
...It may yet be that the chief and only good we can hope from London wUl be a new insight into these fundamental realities...
...Nevertheless, when society cannot provide work insurance benefits are not acts of charity but of justice...
...So he compromised by appointing a dark horse who is...
...The letter, which was signed by Norman Thomas, chairman of the Public Affairs Committee, is as follows: "By formal action of the National Executive Committee o f the Socialist Party, I, as Chairman of the Committee of the party on Public Affairs, was instructed to communicate to your committee our opposition to the confirmation of the nomination of Judge John J. Parker to the bench of the United States Supreme Court and our reasons therefor...
...Those decisions, of course, will be determined by the character of men appointed to the court...
...United Neckwear Makers Union...
...Amalgamated Clothing Workers o f America, New York Joint Board, Vest Makers' Trade Board, Pantnnakers' Trade Board, Journeymen Tailors, Locals 2, 3, 5, 19, 83, 11, 161, 103, 158...
...Suit Case and Bag Makers Union, o f New York, Local 22...
...v Summarizes 1,700 Reports The decrease in November was 2.3 per cent, December 3.9 per cent, January 2.2 per cent, and February 0.5 per cent...
...Morris Berman, G. A. Gerber...
...Morris Berman was made chairman of the session...
...The Label League has called upon the Board of Education for the use of all Public School buUdings for label league educational meetings in the city wide campaign being put on by.the league and the Railroad Brotherhoods...
...The New York State executive committee met at People'* House, New York, last Sunday, with Berman, Feigenbaum...
...Admission to this meeting will be -free and the public in invited.Party and Yipsels To Hold Boston Rally (By a New Leader Correspondent) Boston.—The May Day meeting arranged .ointly by the Young People's Socialist League and the Socialist Party will be held at Tremont Temple at 8 p. m...
...Waiters Unlun, Local 1; Iron and Bronze Workers Union...
...A speakers' list is being compiled Norman Thomas and Morris Hillquit, will be among the speakers representing the Socialist Party at the demonstration...
...The statement summarized the reports of about 1,700 manufacturing concerns which report monthly to the Department of Labor...
...Socialist* File Protest The record of Judge Parker •hows him unfit to be entrusted with the exercise of the tremendous power which judge* of that court have taken to themselves, the National Executive Committee of the Socialist Party, through Its Public Affairs Committee, said in a lette.- which the committee of senators mad* public...
...International Laundry Workers Union, Local 230...
...Their arrest took place at an anti-war demonstration Aug...
...FOR MORE IMPRESSIVE MAY DAYS LOUIS STANLEY and his committee who are working to organize a pageant in N e w York City for May Day are doing a fine and necessary j o b which ought to be copied in other cities...
...Bertha Weyl and B. C. Vladeck were constituted a committee on convention and propaganda finance...
...At a meeting of the Committee on Labor of the Socialist Party, which has been instructed to proceed with the arrangements...
...Socialist Consumers League, Branch 6; Socialist Consumers League, Branch 8: Jewish Socialist Labor Party...
...Crater...
...They will be given out at the shops in which members of these organizations are employed...
...tLOOSEFELTS TAMMANY APPOINTMENT GOVERNOR ROOSEVELT'S appointment of Joseph F. Crater to the Supreme Court is another evidence of the cowardice which his political ambition forces on him...
...Later, Green again wired Lewis for help in showing that the union had contested the validity of the yellow dog contract...
...And America...
...In 1926 he was elected with a majority of 552 votes...
...And be has given no sound evidence at all that under the present law the City can operate the new Eighth Avenue line as an independent self supporting unit at a five cent fare...
...I * t > begin...
...Those who wish to volunteer are asked to apply at the Socialist headquarters, 7 Bast 15th street...
...The court in the decision awarding the injunction against the union took the same position that Judge Parker took in the Red Jacket case...
...J. L. Stark, chairman of the Labor Day Association of the Big Four Brotherhoods, is TianriH-^g the program in the campaign for new awakening among trade unionists in LouisvUle, Thomas, Panken to Speak at UnionSq...
...The groups which showed declines in March were pulp and paper, metal* and machinery, textiles, water, light and power, furs, leather and rubber goods, printing and paper goods and tobacco...
...He has steadfastly refused to follow the advice of his own expert, Samuel Untermyer and give notice of the recapture of the old lines...
...THE FIGHT ON PARKER WE congratulate President Green of the A. F. of L. on two public statements of great importance...
...Let us see what is happening behind the fair words...
...John L. Lewis Silent Repeated efforts by President Green to arouse John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers recognized by Green, to enter personally into the fight against confirming Judge Parker, had failed up to April 7. Green first wired Lewis for information as to the Red Jacket case, in which Parker upheld Judge McClintic'i injunction against the union and its members, forbidding them to attempt t o persuade miners who had signed the yellow dog contract to join the union...
...The Label League is planning to have Mrs...
...WHATS WRONG IN LONDON...
...In 192S he was elected ! by acclamation and was given the honor of being the first Socialist to be Acting Mayor of the* City of...
...This very week, in the case of the Kraemer Hosiery Mills in Nazareth, Pa., in the Northampton County court, an injunction was upheld which had been issued to sustain a yellow dog contract...
...April 15, at 8 P. M. in the Rand School Studio...
...Everybody is welcome to take part in the pageant...
...Nexnser and State Secretary Merrill present...
...They are working hard—but having lots of fun at it—in staging a spectacle of dance and music at the Coliseum in the Bronx, which win stir the audience of fifteen thousand with the history of labor's struggles and the message of labor's aspirations...
...Despite a chorus from employers' organizations telling of a turn for the better, reports from all over the country coin ceded with Miss Perkins' facts indicating a further drop in employment...
...Hebrew American Typographical Union No...
...Rieve Makes Protest One of the most effective of the scores of formal protests against confirmation of Judge Parker came from Emil Rieve, president of the American Federation of Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers...
...Organizations Taking Part Among the organizations that have agreed to take an active part in making the demonstration successful are the foJJieWiogWorkmen's Circle "Branches of Gre ter New York, Poale Zion of Greater New York, Cloth Hat and Capmakers Union, Joint Council of New York, Locals 2 and 42: Jewelry Workers' International Union...
...It is quite true that what the unemployed want and should have is work and not insurance benefits...
...However some good people rationalize this stand, it plays directly into the hands of jingoes of the type of the Chicago Tribune in which Mrs...
...Dancers, singer*, artists, gymnasts, and other persons who might be useful, whether experienced or inexperienced, are urged to be present so that we can pool our resources for a big artistic success...
...Cleaning and Dye House Drivers Union, Local 185...
...Button and Novelty Workers Union...
...Overman presented an endorsement of Parker from Jas...
...Katherine Cunningham i Kate Richard O'Harei to speak on t ie label and prison made goods...
...True enough, we cannot have a navy strong enough to guarantee victory and we do not need a navy strong as the strongest for purposes of defense...
...By the majority decisions in many cases involving labor on the one hand and great public utilities and corporations on the other the Supreme Court has virtually legislated a reactionary theory of property rights which it it has read into the Constitution...
...Assuming that Judge Parker is of the same opinion in 1930 as he was when candidate for governor of North Carolina in 1920, he believes in the exclusion of or non-participation of Negroes in politics...
...Green "did not come out openly tor unemployment insurance...
...May the first...
...More and more it is clear that the only way out of the taxi mess will be to operate taxis as a public utility...
...I agree to accept the scale of wages which the company is paying at this time for similar wark, which is satisfactory to me...
...Painters' and Decorators' Union, Local 892...
...June 2. May Day Pageant Conference to Be Held Tuesday, April 15, at Rand School Studio A grand get-together of everybody willing to take part in the May Day Pageant at the Coliseum this year will be held Tuesday, April 16, at 8 P. M. in the Randl School Studio, 7 East 5th Street, 6th floor...
...Newark Jobless Scan The Want Ad Pages NEWARK, N. J.—(FP)—Mobs of ragged and hungry men, sometimes as many as 1,500 of them, crowd the street around the office of the Newark Evening News, day after day...
...These five powers are the only ones which in the next ten years, at least, can possibly have threatening navies...
...on the other hand, in specific cases shown a prejudice or narrowness of view which bedes ill for the wisest exercise of the tremendous power which judges of the Supreme Court have taken to themselves...
...The defendants are at liberty on bail, pending appeals for a new trial...
...The May Day celebration which wUl take place the afternoon of May 1 is being arranged by the Socialist Party, the trade unions, the fraternal societies, the cultural groups and those individuals who recognize International Labor Day as a holiday of the workers...
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...Young People's Socialise League of Greater N e w Y o r k; Jewish Young Socialist League...
...Send twenty-five cents to WCFL, Text of "Yellow Dog" Contract Upheld by Parker, Hoover Supreme Court Nominee CHATTANOOGA, Twin (FP...
...France says she must —a—tafal her Mediterranean communications with her African empire and be able to protect her Atlantic coastlines as well...
...President Green of the Federation told the OvermanBorah-Hebert subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee, why the workers protest the confirmation of John J. Parker of North Carolina to be a justice ot the United States Supreme Court Norman Thomas, for the Socialist National Executive Committee, also led the attack on Parker...
...While no more than 25,000 will be able to take part in the N ew York City demonstration, it is expected that many more will make their way to the Coliseum to take part in the celebration...
...the presence of battleships but the absence of breadlines is the better test of a nation's happiness...
...A. F. L. And Socialists Lead Fight Against Seating of Parker Green Denounces Judge Who Upheld Contract Enslaving West Virginia Miners SOCIALIST PARTY EC FILES ITS PROTEST Thomas For Party, Says Nominee Is Unfit to Sit With Holmes and Brandeis By Laurence Todd SiTAiHLVGTON...
...Well, are we not the mightiest nation In the world and should not the mightiest nation have the strongest navy, a* strong as any other...
...A great judge fit for the bench at this critical time if he could not find a way around precedent would have found a way to dissociate himself from apparent moral approval of it...
...Julius Gerber, director of many of the largest and most eventful demonstrations held in this city by the Socialist Party, was persuaded to take personal charge of the arrangements...
...Such a contract," the News continues, "does not even permit the workman who signs it to remain neutral...
...Nevertheless it is unfortunate that her nomination in Iflrnois will give aid and comfort to the international anarchists who would keep the United State* out of even the moat cautious connection with the World 8Court...
...Elevation to the Supreme bench gives no man infallibility...
...Hebert, supporting Parker, made clear by questions to Green, Lewis had not brought his organization into the fight against Parker...
...The committee also cites his opinion in the Red Jacket Injunction case, which is said to make it impossible legally to organize workers who under stress o f hunger or misinformation have signed a yellow dog contract...
...After waiting impatiently for a reply, Green sent messages to West Virginia to secure this information...
...The index figure for factory employment in New York was 91.5 for March, as compared with 91.6 for February, using last October as roughly 100...
...Comrade Wilson was the first Socialist elected to the Kansas Legislature, serving in 1914...
...The demonstrations everywhere wiU serve the twofold purpose of protesting against the evils o f cap- j italism, and of renewing the bonds ! of international solidarity of the j workers of all lands...
...Here are five powers, all of them signers of the Kellogg Pact renouncing war...
...Last year a large part of the effect of our magnificent May Day meeting was lost for lack of any sort of pageantry, organized singing or anything of that nature...
...I agree to withdraw from its employment, after giving It three days' notice thereof, and to surrender to the company the pan——I— of any premises of property of the company which I —ay be occupying or using...
...What's the Kellogg pact worth in comparison with that grandiose dream...
...The Special May Day Pageant Conference will take place Tuesday...
...Other speakers will probably be James Battistoni, Walter Stepien and the Rev...
...The labor movement generally and the Socialist Party in America could learn a lot from our European comrades i n the use of pageantry...
...The program win be outlined, portions of the pageant will be presented and arrangements made for the participation of everybody interested...
...Hoover's appointee to the Supreme Court, "are subversive and take away from the workman rights which are inalienable and should be inviolable," the Chattanooga News declares editorially...
...Volunteer workers for addressing and other work in connection with the arrangements are needed, Gerber announces as the New Leader goes to press...
...To go back to Roosevelt, he will have a chance to slap how Courageous liberalism is by the formal demand ntademro bim to investigate the charges against Commissioner Whalen which the Mayor has ignored...
...The principal speaker will be Dr...
...The funeral services will begin at 1 p. m. In addition to Thomas and Panken, the speakers wUl be Leonard D. Abbott, Morris Ernst, Arturo Giovanitti and Clinton J. Golden...
...I am not now a member of the United Mine Workers, the L W. \V_, or any other organization of mine workers, and will not, while I am in the employ ef this company, join er affiliate with any such mine labor organization...
...The biennial convention of the Canadian Shopmen organized in the American Federation of Labor meets in Winnipeg...
...Well organized pageants are effective...
...Borah agreed that the yellow doff contract involve* not merely the employer and the worker who la forced, by economic necessity, to sign it, but because of It* compelling workers to surrender civil rights it is contrary to sound public policy...
...They gather at dawn and wait, clutching pennies in their hands, to purchase the first edition and search the help-wanted columns for possible jobs...
...Anti-Fascist Rally PUBLIC funeral services for Gino Mazzola, young aniiFasrist, wUl be held this Saturday afternoon at 1 p. m., in Union Square, it is announced by II Nuovo Mondo, Italian Socialist and anti-Fascist daily which has charge of the funeral arrangements...
...WCFL Fight Related (Br a New Leader Correspondent) CHICAGO...
...The disappointing part of the report, according to Miss Perkins, was that the factories have shown no general anticipation of a Spring revival...
...Herman*J...
...The trouble with us is our unconscious hypocrisy, our willigness to sign amiable sentiments to which we are afraid to give effect...
...To put matters frankly, speeches are not very effective on May Day when they have to be amplified to reach ten or twelve thousand people...
...WHAT'S wrong at the London Naval Conference...
...Declares Parker Unworthy "Entirely aside from these specific criticisms we are profoundly concerned that a judge should be elevated to the Supreme Court bench at this important juncture who has shown no positive sense of the importance of the restatement of legal principles in terms of human rights and needs, no judge worthy to sit with a Holmes or a Bnwdeis...
...110 and 115...
...Ordinarily what the Bar Association might or might not say would not matter much, but its encouraging and surprising action in condemning Magistrate McAdoo for his denial to bail W. Z. Foster puts a new value an its opinion...
...The occasion and some of Roosevelt's and Tammany's prior choices called now for the . appointment of an outstanding man...
...Miss Perkins pointed out that one-tenth of 1 per cent fluctuation significant, but that at this time in employment was ordinarily not it was significant merely because it came after a period of falling employment since last October...
...The notorious contract, which was signed by hungry and evicted miners after a long and bitter strike, reads: **1...
...a disabled American war veteran, was killed...
...This will include the presentation of an elaborate musical p r o - . gram, the largest individual feature of which will be a pageant, in which labor's struggle through the ages wUl be depicted in a series o f scenes...
...Among those in charge of the pageant are Louis Stanley and Elizabeth Stuyvesant...
...The state executive committee considered at length the matter of summer organization a nd propaganda work...
...iFP^SpeakW ing...
...Hence she says if France goes up in size of navies so must we...
...Certainly it was not the business of an up-state minority of the total sjanaaa . nomas population to dictate to New York City whether it could or could not pay part of the carrying costs of a subway system out of taxation...
Vol. 10 • April 1930 • No. 10
