On The International Front
ON THE INTERNATIONAL FRONT Progressive Taxation In Finnish Party The Finnish Social Democratic Party decided at its last conference upon a progressive taxation o f i ts more well-to-do...
...Chambers of Commerce, the capitalist press, etc., is disgusting to anyone who is at grips with the problem of unemployment It is refreshing to read a paper like the " N ew Leader" that presents facts and not Pollyanna propaganda...
...SOPHIA, FA8LV And if y o u think the above p o em applies only to matters of state alone you're a bit t o o narrow...
...One thing is certain, Herrin la striving desperately to live down its reputation as a bad man's -asadtae Three bitter wars Inside of eight years have pretty well exhausted the seemingly infinite capacity of these one hundred per centers for taking human l i f e First there were the strip mine riot with a crowd of more than one thousand men, women and children dragging the captured scabs and their guards through the principal streets of the town to a sanguinary clrmav at the cemetery where they bound barbed wire round the necks o f their victims and s h o t them into open graves...
...S. A. de Witt, . Behavior is a mirror in which every one shows b is image.—Goethe...
...93 22 22 7 Keep up the g o o d work...
...But he is not investigating the bigger issue— whether the United States should cooperate with Mussolini by arresting Borghi to deliver him to Italy for execution...
...Doctor bills, $84...
...How many have joined the party as a result of his t a l k? As an official of the Common Laborers' Union of Denver and state secretary of the party in Colorado, who left the movement for a short time so that I might come East and prepare myself by study for a more useful activi the line of bunding unions and supporting strikes...
...WILLIAM C. STONE...
...And there they were, farmers and coal-miners, joag...
...Today capital is a means o f exploitation...
...It's more economics than any passion f o r l aw a nd order (hat is responsible for this change of h e a r t All the publicity arising from this constant warfare hasn't helped business a bit and Herrin is a logical center for trade in all Southern Illinois...
...Woll some one who would rub it into him a la \ De Leon...
...May I ask, h ow many non-Socialist unionists turned out to hear the thrilling words of Mr...
...It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous t o existing Governments, but the revolts of intelligence.—Lowell...
...Why don't you cry . . . "Tom Mooney...
...The workers being the class that suffers most under...
...Herman Diamond, who founded the Polish Social-Democratic Party in Gallcia and is at president of the Polish Socialist Party of United Poland, n ow completes his seventieth year...
...Our tapering hearts are whetted on The steel that blunts a softer wedge...
...How many have joined the party as a result of his t a l k? As an official of the Common Laborers' Union of Denver and state secretary of the party in Colorado, who left the movement for a short time so that I might come East and prepare myself by study for a more useful activi ty in the Socialist and labor movement, it m a y be granted that I have both the unions and the SociaUst Party close, at heart I am not pleading for isolation...
...He was all man, that Thomas and when he went hunting anybody i t w a s too bad f o r that party, just too bad...
...A tasteless feast without the tang Of tears to flavor bitter bread...
...Hy Fish of the Cleveland Y . P. S. L. sponsors the poetess o f the following excellent poem...
...December, January and February brings no other revenue to many of the workers than one free meal on Christmas given one the Salvation Army...
...grind our axes to an edge...
...Belgian Labour Party Holds Farm Congress An imposing congress of the Belgian Labor Party, dealing exclusively with Socialist agricultural policy, was held in Brussels March 2, A statement was made b y Chainlet on behalf of the agrarian commission of the party, who .repeated the outlines of the program worked out b y Joseph Wauters In 1028...
...When Mussolini had destroyed every possibility of legal political activity, the "Avanti" had to give up itis repeated attempts to continue publication...
...about the three M's, moon, movies and money...
...But don't g o away with the idea that Herrin today is a Y . M. C. A . center...
...Applaud with great ascension, And pass a 'fiery motion To adjourn the famed convention...
...At nine-thirty o'clock a number of young men and women, with a sprinkling of middle-aged and elderly drummers come into the hotel lobby and sit in silence in the large leather chairs arranged in a semi-circle before the desk...
...Against Colonial Slavery A system of so-called "poenale sanctie," which means the protection of contract labor by the Criminal Law, exists in the Dutch East Indies...
...When he hears that you are from New York he feels called on to d o his stuff...
...NEW CITY COLLEGE THEATRE At the new School of Business and Civic Administration of the College of the City of N ew York, last Saturday night, the Paulir^ Edwards Society of the Thcati : opened the theatre with the presentation of three one-act plays...
...Three times t o the movies with f a m i l y , $3.20...
...but it is another matter to work with a trade union leader who is at the head of an organization that has always worked for the destruction of all progressive elements, particularly the SociaUst, in the labor movement...
...I know of board meetings-and committee meetings right in our own p a r ty that could trot sinus...
...5 doten politicians To country life recoil, To rest from the great convention And their fruitful strenuous toil...
...Which is just another gentle reminder that-We ought to be up and doing things . . . f o r t he Party and Socialism...
...Young and a klansman shot through the foreheads b y Thomas and the miner shot in the back by klansmen concealed in the upper room of a building across the street f r om the saloon...
...nor am I ready to be silenced by the indiscriminate accusations of "De Leonism, I. W. W . ' i sm or dual unionism...
...Later on you see her having fried cat-fish with him in the cafeteria and still later she is around his neck as they sit intertwined in his coupe parked in an alley alongside the beauty-parlor...
...This will considerably help the n ew Party in the Free State and also the Northern Ireland Labor Party in their fight for adequate representation in Parliament The Trade in Arms The British Labor Government has asked for the question of the control of the trade in arms to be placed on the agenda of the 59th session of the League Council which wifi open in Geneva on May 13th...
...ON THE INTERNATIONAL FRONT Progressive Taxation In Finnish Party The Finnish Social Democratic Party decided at its last conference upon a progressive taxation o f i ts more well-to-do members...
...Though 72 with m y legs out of commission I must say I believe m y brain is still active, but drinking chocolate without sugar loses its taste...
...I am not afraid that they ! can win me, or any Socialist, | over to their tactics, and if they can they are entitled to it...
...Well folks, the report f r om Herrin is that they are thfniH^o...
...I n very urgent cases (including sickness) the member concerned can be relieved from the income tax for a time...
...the SocialDemocratic member o f the "Volksraad" of the Dutch East ladies, f o r the abolition of the "poenale sanctie" was rejected by 3% votes to 9. Recently to the Dutch Second Chamber a Social - Democratic member (Kupers) who had already opposed the "poenale sanctie" a t a Labor Conference a t Geneva, made a great speech to which he strongly repeated the demand for the abolition of the "poenale sanctie...
...They have been very busy indeed corralling all the radical writers of verse from many lands into some sort of order...
...I did not have the least idea of a paper so fully equipped and intelligently worded so soon after the disorganization of the forces of the Socialist' movement just before or at the opening of the World War...
...How is it possible for Socialists to work with a man who is openly attempting to undermine the ideals and influence of the Socialist P a r t y ? I refer, of course, to Matthew Woll who was invited to speak under the auspices of the Socialist Party in the expectation that his address might serve to establish closer contacts between the Socialist movement and the American Federation of Labor...
...EDWARD B. BARNES...
...Entile Carller made a statement on agricultural taxation, and Depotte on the agricultural crisis...
...The five men who mistook Detective Lilienthal for a Fascist and attempted to throw h im o u t just before he killed Mazzola and wounded VeUucci, were held in $5,000 bond and charged with felonious assault on Lilienthal...
...e • Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.—Montesquieu...
...To those of y o u poets who send in your w o r k and wait so long for inclusion to this precious'y small space, let m e recommend to y o u that h ow numerous organisation "Rebel Poets," o f which Ralph Cheney is president and J a c k Conroy, secretary...
...5 dosen politicians Give the world this information, "We've adjourned for It moWtht IVe need time for deliberation...
...8. M'Clure...
...An Internationale of Song" they call It, and are n ow getting out an anthology called "UNREST...
...have a sad past, a miserable present, and a black future...
...Shades of Gene DebsV-Jls this the pass we have come t o ? If so, the party is further from its goal today than it ever was...
...If y o u read about the DeneenRuth McCormick struggle f o r t he Republican nomination for TJ...
...The relief work to my little church to downtown Brooklyn gives a fair sample of the trend in unemployment Month Meal Lsdaing Clothes jebs Tickets Tickets L«Ma Distributed Jan...
...but it is another matter to work with a trade union leader who is at the head of an organization that has always worked for the destruction of all progressive elements, particularly the SociaUst, in the labor movement...
...Shoes and clothing, $98...
...A motion b y Van Roosbroeck, party secretary, was also unanimously passed, according to which all the decisions of the A g rarian Congress are to be published to the f o rm of a manifesto of the General Council o f the Belgian Labor Party...
...The most astonishing thing is that they don't realize i t The only things that are of a ny interest to most of them are ball •games, movies, prize fights and dancing.' To mention Socialism to thfga causes one to be called a traitor to the government and to American institutions...
...22 4 4 6 Feb...
...his interest to throwing into tumult and disorder an assembly of peaceful citizens listening to a debate between cultured gentlem e n ? " Giovannitti sees "the long hand of the Italian embassy" hounding even to this country o p ponents who are condemned to death in Italy, though they have done nothing contrary to the laws of the United States...
...The party executive had proposed a lower income limit of 2 5 - 000 Finnish marks, but the conference reduced this to 20,000 Finnish marks, as a result of which a considerable number of industrial workers and small peasants is brought into the n ew scheme of taxation...
...The system against which we fight has doped the overwhelming portion of the organized labor movement' into a psychological position where it considers the present political and economic system satisfactory on the whole...
...and neither stone nor steel Nor gold nor silver stays its blow...
...Shades of Gene DebsV-Jls this the pass we have come t o ? If so, the party is further from its goal today than it ever was...
...Attending three prize fights, $6...
...You c a n think but damn you don't try i t pubKcly...
...Z. MATTHEW WOLL'S TALK Editor, The N ew Leader: I greatly admire the vigilance of the Sunnyside comrades in their effort to keep the S. P. in sacred isolation...
...When the matter came before the London Trades Council it was reported that circumstances had arisen which made it necessary to reconsider the plans...
...The system against which we fight has doped the overwhelming portion of the organized labor movement' into a psychological position where it considers the present political and economic system satisfactory on the whole...
...3 doten politicians Have gathered once again, The problem's grave, they testify, But there're the camera-men...
...He used to be a school-teacher and is famous f o r his skill at checkers...
...And then the bootleg war started between the Birger gang on one side and the Sheltons on the other and i t wasn't healthy to go down a side street in Herrin on nights when the moon wasn't up...
...Brave Comrade, thtte same stones that grind Can...
...When the smoke cleared, three men were dead...
...The Man Without a Head' is the entry of the School of Business to the City College inter-branch dramatic contest, to be dedicated this week...
...These protestors are dissatisfied because the institute did not put up against Mr...
...The moral would therefore be . . . send your boys and girls to Ypsels meetings, where the best quail* ties and talents within their y o u e g minds and hearts burgeon forth and g i v e such excellent flower...
...This was the •peaker's idea o f appealing t o the local proletariat...
...He clears his throat and s a y s in the high-pitched Kentucky neigh that is the authentic speech of these parts: "Do you happen to k n ow this H. L. Mencken...
...Norman Thomas during the mayoralty contest said "New York's trouble is Landlordism" and the w a y to abolish Landlordism is to socialize the entire land rent of the people for all public needs and not buy out the landlords...
...Woll...
...Brooklyn, N. Y . Editor, The N e w Leader: I t is one thing for Socialists to work with an honest but conservative trade union leader along the line of bunding unions and supporting strikes...
...rCo to America," t h e y are forever hurling at us »ew ""brkers, "find out w h a t the f o l k s in the sticks are thinking about, you are far t o o sophisticated • your thinking...
...They are virtually using the same force by boycott...
...under Socialism it would lose this quality and become simply the means of production.—W...
...In the beauty-parlor, under the hotel, a blonde in a Russian smock looks out w i t h languishing eyes upon a chicken salesman from Yazoo City...
...I hope the protests of Sunnyside and the group of Brookwood Students will not cause a change of plans...
...Yours in comradeship, D. M. CORY...
...After a very few years he was already to the first ranks of the representatives of the Polish working-class, and repisseuted it at the congresses in Austria and In the International...
...Isiul Brown is a sawmill worker in the Pacific Northwest Most of the mills are in operation only five days a week—no p ay for Saturday—and nine months o f the year...
...The S. P. has often tried to make some contact with the American labor movement, but every time it looked as if we were about to be successful some of our Vigilantes got hysterical and caused the Party to retreat The last time we even succeeded in getting representatives of A . F. of- L. unions to the board of directors of the N. Y. Call and our dally with the Editor Chester Wright began to establish friendly relations between the S. P. and the A . F. o f L. That caused great fear among our "revolutionaries" lest we m ay violate some of our six hundred and thirteen sacred precepts...
...a living banner of Another longer fight...
...There is every prospect that the Maximalists will shortly unite with the Unitary Socialist P a r t y o f the Italian Workers which is affiliated to the Labor and Socialist International, and whose old and tired leaders, Modigliani, Treves and Turati, are heart and soul in favor o f the unification of all the Italian Socialist forces, and that thereby the "Avanti" will b e come what it was for decades, the Italian organ of the Labor and Socialist International...
...It is n o w the chief official organ o f t he Party...
...It was also in e x istence in the Dutch Social Democratic P a r t y f o r a time, but has beeh abolished...
...No paper to represent the working class...
...Socialism is one o f the most elastic and protean phenomena of history, varying according to the time and circumstances to which it appears, and with the character, opinions, and institutions of t he people who adopt it.—T...
...Miscellaneous, $42...
...That's me...
...New Editor for "New Leader" A new Labor Party in Ireland came into being on March 31st...
...The more the ', better...
...You write a postcard in the hotel and s t i ck it in the mail pouch b y the desk...
...Tobacco, $18.25...
...Notes From Herrin TIE Mourn at tie American Revolution," boomed John HIndmarsh at m y aide aa we aat in the window of the, local miners' office o n a soft Spring afternoon last week looking out over the main .tree...
...Brooklyn, N. Y . Editor, The N ew Leader: This reassuring prosperity talk proclaimed by posters...
...5 dosen politician...
...About twenty-five drab, vacant-eyed citizens listened with obvious boredom as t h e l a d y journalist told them that they should be f o r Deneen rather than Ruth because the latter has a lot o f money...
...Fifteen minutes later the clerk fishes it out and with much lip-twisting and finger pointing reads it from start to finish as you look on...
...5 doten politician...
...The Chatter Box Tom Mooney FOURTEEN years ground into sWt Between the prison's scraping stones,-' The monster mill that crushes life And tight and flesh ami brittle bones To meal to mak} the cake with which The Money Moloch must be fed...
...Comrade that is only one w a y o f suppressing liberty and free conscious expressions out here in the middle west...
...Mazzola was killed b y an excited city detective who fired wildly into the audience at the meeting addressed by Borghi and Vlcenso Vacirca, both o f them marked men sought by the Italian government The federal agent is said to have a warrant for Borghi's a r r e s t obtained at the instigatiton of the Fascist embassy in Washington, although witnesses o f the meeting say they saw n o paper to his hand when he attempted the arrest Flowers f r om friends and workers' organizations flU the II Nuovo Mondo editorial office, which la draped to broad bands of black and red...
...Our object is to organize all those who suffer from capitalist mismanagement into a political party which will safeguard the interests of the masses, improve their economic and social conditions in the present, and bring about industrial democracy as soon as possible...
...As fast at they are able...
...Above them is the ornately designed cabinet o f a radio...
...The National Civic Federation has been the chief dispenser of this dope, but in the face of this some comrades would have us take the acting president of the National Civic Federation to our b - s om mere'y because he happens also to be a vice president of the American Federation, of Labor from which position of-advantage he has helped administer the N a tional Civic Federation dope...
...On the motion of a district agricultural congress a resolution was passed containing a detailed program of measures for dealing with the economic crisis...
...Herman Diamond Seventy "Dr...
...That ended the klan domination...
...From The New Leader Mail-bag Editor, the N ew Leader: Today's mail brought me sample copies of The N ew Leader...
...The object of the conference would be to discover ways and means of bringing the international convention into effect as quickly as possible...
...Best wishes for the success of the Socialist movement...
...The object of the Socialist Party is not and should not be merely to show the world that we are right, and refuse to have any dealings with those who do n o t accept all our truths...
...I was much impressed with the frank statement of the Communists...
...Now I want some sugar to mix with the political propaganda of the capitalistic press...
...Paul Brown f o r , the year of prosperity 1929...
...The representatives of the London Labor Party on the Joint May D a y Committee were loth, to the circumstances, to procede with anything which diverted energy f r om that w o r k The Council accepted the recommendation to abandon the demonstration...
...capitalism and has everything to win f r om a change o f the system of ownership of the industries, are, and must be, the foundation of the Socialist movement, and everything must be done—even inviting representatives of the A . F. o f L. to lecture at our forums—in order t o establish contact and friendly relations which will result in cooperation on both the economic and political fields...
...New Irish Labour Party Ernest Hunter has resigned f r om the editorship of the " N ew Leader," org«-n of the British Independent Labor Party, t o join the P a r l i ' - i e n t a r y staff of the n ew "Daily Herald,'' and John Paton, general secretary of the I. L. P., has been appointed supervising editor of the " N ew Leader" in his place...
...Who is Inspector Piaggio," Giovannitti continues,, "and what was...
...I'm f o r this McCormick lady," he announces, "Deneen is mixed up with a bad crowd in Chicago, gunmen and tough babies...
...A nail out of the K e g with nothing to rub against becomes useless and rusty...
...How is it possible for Socialists to work with a man who is openly attempting to undermine the ideals and influence of the Socialist P a r t y ? I refer, of course, to Matthew Woll who was invited to speak under the auspices of the Socialist Party in the expectation that his address might serve to establish closer contacts between the Socialist movement and the American Federation of Labor...
...John Paton will continue to act a s general secretary of the L L P . May Day Plans Abandoned The "Dally Herald" reports that owing to the uncertainty of the political situation, and the possibility o f an early general election, i t has been decided to abandon the plan for a big central May Day Demonstration in London this year...
...Brown is skilled and receives $4.00 per day...
...For their remaining income they pay into the party funds an income tax according to the abovementioned progressive scale...
...Attending baseball games, $4.50...
...Arturo Giovannitti, writing in D Nuovo Mondo, censures Whalen for this declaring that a police officer who wUl shoot wildly amongst a crowd in a closed place is a "social danger of grand and grave importance...
...5 dozen politicians, While spending their vacation, Send IS troops to conquer A little, helpless nation...
...There's an o ld adage which runs something like —rub elbows with society, Industrial and Political trends...
...McAiiater Coleman...
...CW.U...
...If a contract worker fails to keep his contract without a valid reason he can be compelled to do so b y criminal proceedings...
...But why buy o u t s l um landlords ? Why buy back the land values produced by the people...
...The new party will maintain close contact with the Labor Party (Northern Ireland) which will continue its separate existence...
...The British Government's proposal has been placed on the agenda of the next session of the Council...
...Hove reached the great decision— They must adjourn for 14 days— I ft time for intermission I 5 doten politicians Again resume the meeting, And reach the grave decision, "Ifs really time for eating...
...In addition, an income t ax graded from 10 to 2,000 Finnish marks annually (or 0.5 to 13.3 per thousand) was decided upon f o r the members who have an annual income of at least 20,000 Finnish marks...
...The real science of political economy Is that which teaches nations to desire and labor for the things that lead to life, and which teaches them to scorn and destroy the things hat lead to destruction.—Ruskin...
...I w a # agreeably Surprised at its large field of information...
...Its clear cut denunciation, its scope of e x pression, and its variety of news...
...Now, however, as the majority of the Maximalists desire to establish the unity of Italian Socialism, but the followers of Angelica broke out around the old flag of the Party—the "Avanti...
...Corset are a cake of mud To tet before an idol that t Hat called for richer blood...
...The new party was formed at a special Congress of the Irish Labor Party and Trade Union Congress in Dublin on February 28th and March 1st, which decided that the Party and Congress should be divided into two separate and distinct organizations...
...On the w a y b a c k f r om the cemetery you a re introduced to a dark complexioned man w h om y o u a re informed is one o f the local intelligentsia...
...Hits hard...
...The "Avanti" was kept up by Maximalists in Paris as a small bulletin...
...THE BROWN FAMILY Editor The N e w Leader: This is a correct financial statement of Mr...
...GEORGE LLOYD...
...School money for two children, $25...
...The members of Parliament pay their constituency organization a sum out of their salaries which must be agreed upon with the district committee...
...Arkansas City, Kansas...
...His seventieth birthday is thus at the same time the fiftieth anniversary of his membership of the Labor Movement The history of Polish Socialism, as far as it occurred on the soil of the old Austria, is closely connected from the beginning with his activity...
...An endless procession passes, for a last look at the vict im o f Mussolini's pressure on U . S. immigration officials...
...Born in Lemberg on the 30th of March, 1860, he jointed the Social-Democratic Movement as a young student of twenty...
...The giant hammer that a million Men must move starts late, swings slow...
...The most successful performance was that of Joseph Frascona, as the son of the crazed sea captain, himself going mad...
...Why he sent roses to Dimy's funeral and Dimy was a m an who would shoot y o u f o r nothing...
...The S. P. recognizes them as such, and w e cannot have them I with us t oo often...
...Its editorial and business offices in Milan naturally suffered the fate that the Fascist bands broke in and devastated the premises by fire and destruction...
...The British Government proposes the calling of an international conference of all States signatories of the Convention o f June 1925 concerning the international trade in arms...
...HOUSING IN B R I T A IN Editor, The N ew Leader: In her second article on "British Labors Program on Unemployment" Miss Jessie Stephen in speaking of the Slum Clearance Bill says it will include large grants of money for t he purpose of buying out slum landlords...
...New "Avanti" Printed In Switzerland For three decades the "Avant i" was the glorious central organ of...
...Send to your check and name to J a c k Conroy, Rural Route Four, Toledo, Ohio...
...Directed by Jesse Spark, this piece, despite certain crudities in the play and the acting, was qute effective...
...Woll...
...Then tfje klan came In "to clean up Herrin" through the gentle missionary work of Glen Young and his notched guns...
...5 dozen politicians Remeel, all truly nettled...
...Is it any wonder that honest radicals outside the party (and not Communists, either) and thousands of progressives, some of whom I know, hold us to contempt a s , a weak-kneed and vacillating party...
...5 Dozen Politician* 5 doten politicians, Sitting at a table, Speaking of disarmament...
...Probe Is Promised As a result of the protests of the Italian Chamber of Labor and the American Civil Liberties Union, Immigration Commissioner Benjamin M Day has announced that he is conducting "a very thorough investigation^ o f the charges that Inspector Piaggio acted unjustifiably to attempting to arrest Borghi at a peaceful publ i c meeting attended by women and children...
...Brooklyn, N. Y . P. S. Our church petitioned the Mayor to set up employment exchanges even before the Socialist Party, to s a y nothing of the K. of C. We are n ow asking h im to open the armories as dormitories for the unemployed...
...If the labor institute can establish contact with the A. F. o f L-—as I believe and hope it will —then it is doing what should have been done years ago...
...the Italian Socialist Party...
...It was just wrong o f course and t he more she went on describing the b i g parties that Ruth throws on her farm, the more votes she made for Old Man Hanna'a g a t For if there is one t h i n g which rouses the p a s - •ions of these hundred per centers it is money and the talk o f i t They g o t o the talkies and watch Hollywood's idea o f what is t h e s t i c k s ' idea o f what New Yorkers d o at night and y o u c a n hear the sighs o f envy all o v e r the house as these poor people Base on highly ungowned ladles wading through Q c e*ns of chanroagne...
...May I ask, h ow many non-Socialist unionists turned out to hear the thrilling words of Mr...
...Total $1,066.45 Mr...
...The change marks a turning point in the history of the Irish Labor Movement, as the new party is determined to make a serious effort to take over the government of the country...
...The ordinary membership contribution for the party was fixed at 9 Finnish marks annuall y , , which is a considerable increase...
...Kirkup...
...Local Labor Parties were devoting themselves to perfecting their machinery to readiness for a possible election...
...lean men in blue overalls, standing in the S 'under the awning of the Egyptian Supply gtcre, ° " e hundred per centers every one of them, taeir forefathers, for the moat party Kentucky mountaineers come over into Williamson County , / t e r the Civil War a n d bringing with them the rule of knife and rifle that has given Williamson Its sinister title of "Bloody...
...I see he's gettin' quite a reputation as a writer...
...After a dedicatory address by President Frederick R Robinson, Lloyd Thanhouser's melodrama, "The Man Without a Head," was shown...
...J. A. WEIL...
...As a matter o f fact, Herrin which is supposed to be a hot-bed o f Republicanism, viewed the campaign with yawning apathy...
...And when Tom Mooney steps from prison Darkness to the light, He comes...
...Brown and Co...
...Until one master-mind speaks up, "This problem must be fettled...
...House rent, fuel, water and light, $240...
...Between the Government...
...When this hilarious period is at an end they arise silently and disappear into the outer darkness...
...The result was that we had to g e t rid of Chester Wright and retreat to our "holy cloister...
...And in a moment they are all listening with imperturbable countenances, slightly distorted' b y diligent g um chewing, to A m o s and Andy...
...The Social-Democratic movement has been carrying on a powerful struggle against this barbarous system for a long time past, so f a r without success...
...Help for Irish Labor The news of the formation of a new Irish Labor P a r t y to the Free State as a separate political party has been followed by the •announcement that the British National Union of Railwaymen, which has 15,000 members in Ireland, has decided to finance five Labor candidates for the Free State Parliament of Northern Ireland...
...Thus, as long ago as August 1927 a proposal by Meddendoro...
...Frank G. Tompkins' weU known satire, "Sham," and Eugene O'Neill'ajjWhere the Cross Is Made,' both directed b y EUiot H Pollnger, complete the program...
...to the fine rhythm of this song r d hardly keep o u t bf step in sound and meaning...
...Though he protests all the while that those days are g o n e forever, you can detect a certain wistful note in the voice of your guide w h o takes y o u o u t to the cemetery to show you the fine monument rising above the grave of Ora Thomas...
...5 doten politicians, With fine, good-natured laughs, Have adjourned the meeting To pose for photographs...
...Lilienthal himself is free, without so much as the formality of an inquest...
...He was followed by Arthur Wauters, after which there whs a discussion to which representatives from various parts of the country -took part...
...I simply drank down its contents with the eagerness of a school boy...
...Any article that conflicts with this religion, is refused space...
...S. Senator which will be ended by the time you g e t this, you might be pardoned for thinking that the entire state of Illinois has been •gog over this primary fight between Mark Henna's girl and the small-time Chicago lawyer who is just colorless and undistinguished enough t o have received the endorsement o f organized labor...
...Angelica Balabanoff wishes to maintain her little bulletin in Paris under this name, but the majority of the P a r t y is obviously unwilling t o give up the "Avanti" at once...
...Common wage is $3.60 per day, but Mr...
...Katonah, New York...
...To me the leaders of the A. F. - of L. are the representatives of ; the American labor movement...
...Anti-Fascist Rally Called In New York Mazzola's funeral in Union Square is expected to be one of the big labor demonstrations of the year...
...They were able to find a worthy bearer of this glorious name The " L ' A w e n l re del Lavoratori," which has appeared f o r thirty-four years as the weekly organ of the Italian Socialist P a r t y in Switzerland, placed itself gladly at their disposal and appeared an the 22nd o f March f o r the first time as "Avanti...
...To have and to read The N ew Leader is almost looked upon as an insult to the Stars and Stripes...
...Tragic, wistful, naughty children playing at being adults w i t h their b i g boy gun-play and their tough talk...
...Is it any wonder that honest radicals outside the party (and not Communists, either) and thousands of progressives, some of whom I know, hold us to contempt a s , a weak-kneed and vacillating party...
...5 dosen politicians, With no time for recreations, Must hasten to their banquets, To deal their brave orations...
...For months, klan and anti-klan shot it out, until one afternoon Ora Thomas, miner, walked nonchalantly down the main street and into the door of the saloon run b y the t w o g u n klansman...
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...These very comrades I who think it so terrible that we recognize leaders of the A . F. o f L. as representatives of the labor movement in America, and as such invite them to speak—do not hesitate to demand the recognition on the part of the American government of the self imposed dictators over the Russian people...
...In the drug-store the f a t "sody-jerker" is talking politics...
...Borghi, who has been here for t w o years, was given a stay of deportation January 21st, and told t o leave the United States for some country "not contiguous to the United States...
...No society can surely be flourishing and happy of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.—Adam Smith...
...The increase i s steep particularly in the higher income categories, from about 60,000 Finnish marks upwards...
...A similar system Is at present in force in the Swiss Canton of Zurich...
...The National Civic Federation has been the chief dispenser of this dope, but in the face of this some comrades would have us take the acting president of the National Civic Federation to our b - s om mere'y because he happens also to be a vice president of the American Federation, of Labor from which position of-advantage he has helped administer the N a tional Civic Federation dope...
...Social Democratic ministers pay 5 per cent of their ministerial salary into the party funds, in addition t o the above mentioned income tax...
...Charley Birger and three of bis lieutenants were hanged in Benton, the seat o f Franklin County and the Sheltons were started on their way to the penitentiary and n ow Herrin wants to forget all that for awhile and make i t s o that travelling men can come into town without the protection of armored cars...
...Ignorance never settles a question.—Beaconsfield...
...of Herrin, Illinois...
...Gross and total Income received in wages $864.00 Grand total $864.00 Expenses: Groceries f o r a family of five, $545...
...She is fourteen years of age, a member o f the Junior Circle o f the Cleveland Ypeels and received the inspiration at a disarmament discussion held b y that Circle...
...I In the c i t y ban under a dim light a woman Journalist from Chicago is making a speech on hehalf of Deneen...
...The true sons and daughters of the American Revolution, as completely isolated from all the liberating forces that make for freedom and beauty and spacious living as though they were in the heart o f Africa...
Vol. 10 • April 1930 • No. 10
