Conference To Complete Plans For May Day
Conference To Complete Plans For May Day Socialist Mayor Is Elected in Beaver Dam, Wis. (By a New LeaSer C w m n i i iO Beaver Dam, Wis.—The Recent c i ty election last week brought this...
...Among the outstanding features 1 of the program, the details of which are being worked out by a score of subcommittees meeting practically every day at 7 East 15th Street, where the headquarters of the Joint May Day Committee have been established, are ' the following: Great Program Scheduled ' j A huge pageant, in which nuI * merous Socialist and labor , choruses, drawn from the Englishspeaking, German, Jewish, Polish . and Finnish, language groups, will' . combine to portray, in song and . scenes, labor's age-long struggle i towards emancipation from all r forms of economic slavery, will be . presented...
...No experience is required for either the s i n g i n g , o r dancing...
...Prendergast Goes Into Public Utility Business William A. Prendergast, formerly chairman of the Public Service Commission of N e w York State, has taken up his duties as a general partner of the banking and brokerage firm of W. C. Langley 4b Co., in N e w Y o r k City...
...are bankers for the Long Island Lighting...
...This is mistaken tactics I feel sure...
...It i s to be hoped therefore that the former will not drive the wedge too deeply "between themselves and their colleagues, although their censure may be merited in some degree at any rate...
...GRUNDY, DAVIS AND LABOR WHO shall be Senator from the great Industrial state of Pennsylvania is a matter of more than local importance...
...A judge sent to Ponza lias already passed monstrous sentences...
...The officers responsible for these bandit activities continue to parade the streets of the island, and are proud of the approval of their political and miltary chiefs...
...Duties on lace, cutlery, leather, fabric gloves and gas mantles are t o be removed this year, but those on automobiles, clocks, watches, motion picture films and musical instruments remain...
...Most of the voters had nothing to do with casting their ballots...
...We want all those individuals who have not already enlisted to appear for rehearsal in the Debs Auditorium at the Rand School, 7 East 15th Street, Saturday, April 19 at 8 o ' c l o c k sharp...
...In Pittsfield there was a surplus of electrical workers and textile mill hands, while most of the plants were working part-time...
...We Americans can g o farther than the Treaty, if we remember that there is no good reason under the sun why we have to build as many snips as the Treaty allows us...
...Shall we cheer at all...
...The American home market continues to be deprived o f their former buying power, and this handicap to normal economic life is steadily weakening the resistance of the smaller business men to the pressure from hard times on the one baud and big business on the other which forces the little business man into tbe wage-working class...
...There were domiciliary visits which were repeated up to five or six times in a single night, without regard, not only for the exiles, but also for their families...
...Higher Inheritance Taxes Death duties are raised from f o r ty percent to fifty percent and legislation is promised to prevent payment being evaded as it has been of recent years by the transparent dodge of turning estates Into private holding companies...
...The choruses of the Workmen's Circle, the Jewish National Workers' Alliance, members of Pioneer Youth, the League for Industrial Democracy, and individuals of German, Finnish and other choruses throughout the city have volunteered to sing...
...I It will call on the workers t protest against the failure of Federal, State and local official* to take effective measures t o relieve the suffering caused b y t he present unemployment crisis, demand the immediate enactment of unemployment insurance legislation and a reduction of the hours of employment as fundamental measures to meet the unemployment problem, adequate old age pension legislation, and genuine disarmament as a step in the direction of international peace...
...Two thousand workers from labor and antiFascist groups marched in thsrfuneral cortege f r om the offices o f II Nuovo Mondo, and 5,000 heard speakers in Union Sq...
...This is remarkable in face of the expectation on the part of them newspaper that the budget wouk call down upon Snowden's heac the anger of every vested interesl in Britain...
...People were struck and cudgelled at every opportunity...
...Meanwhile, every gain in disarmament helps...
...Portland, Maine, reported that "The volume of unemployment reported in February was still in evidence in March...
...And ws agree witi that paper that logically what government operation of Muscle Shoals ought to lead t o is government operation, under appropriate public authorities, o f public utilities...
...Massachusetts in general boasted a slight improvement, but admitted that part-time schedules continued in many industries, particularly the textile, shoe, machinery, woodenchair and candy factories...
...He called f o r unemployment'' insurance, old age pensions, and the rejection of Ute legal theory that an employer has the right to run his .business as he sees fit...
...It has already appeared in America (Publishers — Putnam, New York, and in France, Libra!rie Valois) and It will soon be published in German...
...Goaded Into Rue sit After t h e flight of Roselll, Luestl and Nitti in July 1929, the exiles suffered the worst humiliations and the worst of ill-treatment...
...Volunteers A r e Needed All labor weeklies published for the various trades will during the next two weeks contain appeals signed by the officials of the trade unions urging all members to take part in the celebration...
...The third is somewhat offset b y her virtual alliance with the Thompson crowd in Chicago, which made a great comeback at the primary, and the fourth may prove t o be a positive misfortune to the country which needs to outgrow its self-righteous isolationism, its international anarchy...
...The work of the L L P . must g o on more intensively than ever to convert the millions of Labor voters to an understanding of Socialism...
...A r rests were .made for the most trifling reasons...
...This was the signal for scenes December 27th, which it is easier to imagine than t o describe...
...In the farming states the reports deal chiefly with prospects of the beginning of spring work on the land and on highway construction...
...Data Again Belies Hoover On Job Crisis Employment Service Finds "No Improvement" During March—3,000,000 Jobless Estimated By Laurence Todd WASHINGTON—(FP;—President Hoover's confident announcement— it was not even so modest as a prophecy—that the industrial depression would b e over b y the middle of May has not shortened the bread lines, nof has it enabled the U. S. Employment Service t o report that March showed a notable recovery in the job market...
...The Government will have a hard task meeting the criticisms within its own ranks...
...And they feel that Parker's rejection will help their Anti-Fascists Demand Right Of Exile Here A national campaign t o establish the right of asylum in the United States for anti-Faacist refugees f r om Italy was announced b y Giro* lamo Valenti of n Nuovo Mondo, Italian labor daily, at the mass 'funeral for Carlo Maxzola, w h o was shot at an anti-Fascist meeting by a New Y o r k detective...
...Other members of the militia tried to knock Jozzelli down, but some other exiles came to his assistance...
...For months it hai been predicted that he would maki them sit up Every reactionary political organization has beat spreading fear in the hearts of thi business interests, and what an an ti-climax...
...For further information apply to Elizabeth Stuyvesant, Louis Stanley o r Julius Gerber at the Sociolist P a r t y headquarters, 7 East 15th Street...
...It is to be hoped that good sense and the poverty of Italy will avert this misfortune...
...Of course It needed courage to Increase the income tax by sixpence in the pound, equal to 12 cents on five dollars, because this now makes it about one dollar and twelve cents on every five dollars...
...It is learned that at present a number of people received bayonet wounds, and that two of them, whose names were Prino and Pallottino, were very seriously wounded...
...The increase in the vote has been slow and steady over a number of years, thanks to persistent work of agitation in each c i t y campaign...
...In addition they will be performi n g a real service for the movement...
...More than a hundred policemen and a sprinkling of detectives of the radical squad were on hand to hear Judge Jacob Panken call upon Mayor W a l f e r to remove Police Comm...
...People were sentenced to imprisonment for leas than nothing...
...Except in one or two cases, this Is not true by a long way, but see h ow misunderstanding feeds upon itself...
...Members who have not attended the branch meetings, a re asked t o forward their names to the Joint May Day Committee, 7 East 15th Street They will receive instruction when and where to report Timely Topics By Norman Thomas What Gains in London?—The Senatorial Aspirants in I Illinois and Pennsylvania—Class Justice in New York —Prohibition and Changing the Constitution —Socialists Are Guilty THE LONDON BALANCE SHEET HO W hard shall we cheer for the results o f the London Naval Conference...
...These judicial proceedings are aking place, without regard t o justice, after the police commissioner and the captain of militia who were in charge of Ponza at the moment of the attack have been displaced as a result of an enquiry which recognized their responsibility in what had happened...
...So far as prohibition is concerned, reference to a Constitutional Convention might be one way of getting it out of politics...
...Governor Roosevelt has underwritten the election frauds committed each year in New York City by Tammany adherents, and has prevented both the Republican and the Socialist minorities from getting an honest election, Louis Waldman, co-chairman of the Socialist Party's Commitee on Public Affairs, declared this week...
...We w i s h t h e y were...
...And it must be read by ail anti-Fascists...
...They will meet early, and help attend to the details necessary t o insure the o r derliness of the meeting...
...It will be another tragedy of American politics if the best labor can do is to support Secretary Davis because it doesn't like Senator Grundy...
...This is class justice, or rather injustice, of the purest type...
...The news which we are in a position to give proves that sooner or later everything is known of what happens in this Italian hell...
...Unions, Socialist and Other Labor Groups to Be Represented Tuesday Night m j E X T Tuesday, April 22, the 1^1 Socialist and labor movement f New York will officially throw their energies to the support of the Joint May Day Committee at a conference to i>e held at the People's House, 7 East 15th Street...
...This criticism may sound unfair if not actually unjust...
...The criminal savagery of the v.-arders, the miserable conditions of the material erustence of the exthe humiliation of a life witho v . any intellectual interests, are Cnounced for ever...
...Witness his support of compulsory alien registration...
...These are backed up by personal warnings to Republican leader in these states, Neg r o political spokesmen...
...Day by d a y the chorus o f criticism of chain stores and chain banks rises higher, in the' House...
...and 17th Assembly districts, Manhattan, wholesale frauds were committed by Tammany henchmen...
...But having granted all this it still remains tc be said, that from the purely Socialist viewpoint, the budget is a disappointing document...
...With every progressive labor organization in New York City lining up its membership to insure capacity audience at the N e w York Coliseum, 177th Street and Bronx River, on May 1st, when 300,000 workers will Join with millions of workers throughout the world in their annual demonstration of in\ ternatlonal solidarity, final ar1 rangements for a program better ' than any that has been enacted in previous years are being whipped ' into -shape, Julius Gerber, under whose direction this year's event 1 will be staged, announces as the New Leader goes to press...
...This was particularly noticeable In the case of the Minister of Labor a f ew months ago, who, Instead of being conciliatory, talked to her critical colleagues in the manner of some school marm scolding recalcitrant kiddles...
...Anyway, we have tried t o deserve the Journal of Commerce's attack which is music in our ears...
...Well, let us see...
...Take, for example, the actions of the immigation Inspector who provoked a riot b y trying to arrest the famous Italian political refugee, Borghi, on the platform of Cooper Union...
...capital issue was made clear when Majority Leader Watson went to the White House and told President Hoover that his stubbornness in clinging to Parker was dangerous to the Republican ticket in Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky and other states having a large Negro population, almost wholly in the working class, and having strong unions...
...The cotton textile industry remained unchanged, with a large volume of textile mill laborers, working part-time and many unemployed...
...Such a referendum would give us no panacea for the liquor question...
...Lumber camps absorbed sme o f the jobless in Oregon and Washington, but Seattle reported conditions similar to those in San Francisco...
...d V, - But if you remember that this is a crazy r r ' r LI M world where nations have* not hitherto been >. ? j I j bound by standards o f decent individuals, then H f l you may admit that on the whole some proV I gress has been made...
...This is the man who told the employers they did not have to respect contracts with workers whom they might happen to suspect of being Communists...
...If you believe that this is a sane world where nations show the same good , faith which is expected o f decent individuals M Ij then the results of the London Conference if 15 must seem like a bad and hypocritical joke., ij W I i ] The five Naval powers w h o alone have navies II I J I j big enough t o matter, all o f them signers o f a ! J ' • treaty outlawing war, parted with only a three j : i— . ( V y power treaty on the most vital points, with I In ' WM\ 'e o r n o a c t u a l reduction of the Navies '•- i achieved, and with embittered relations bei - 9f rween France and Italy...
...It voted to meet again in a week to try again to reach a decision for or against the injunction judge...
...There would be no point in a Labor Government attempting to pass Socialist legislation when its aims are but hazily understood by the masses...
...By a New LeaSer C w m n i i iO Beaver Dam, Wis.—The Recent c i ty election last week brought this municipality within the Socialist Party fold by the election of a Socialist Mayor...
...active in the Socialist movement and in the year 1918 he was the party's candidate for Governor o f Wisconsin...
...In return for this service he rushed to the defence of Police Commissioner Whalen when the latter was attacked for his high-handed hypocrisy...
...Why should not all parties agree t o call a Constitutional Convention to give expression to the will of the People, as revealed through a nation-wide referendum...
...Hosiery Union Official Urges Socialized Industry (B7 a New Leaser Cerreaaeaaeai) Philadelphia, — John Edelman, research expert for the American Federation of Full-fashioned Hosiery Workers, declared at the closing session of the All-Philadelphia Conference an Social W o r k that unless industry in the United States is subjected t o an ever increasing social control there can be no prosperity in this country...
...It was perhaps too much to expect that Governor Roosevelt would help put an end to conditions of which he has been the principal beneficiary...
...Recently I have seen a number of letters f r om Socialist M. Pi' s all of whom hold the opinion that the dissident group Is suffering f r om inflated ego...
...Occasionally it is heard in the Senate...
...One had expected a touch of audacity at the least...
...He cited as reasons Whalen's brutal police rio*at Communist demonstrations, and his use o f spies, declaring '• Whalen's administration is a disgrace t o the city...
...A great many protests have been filed by branches of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People...
...Governor Roosevelt has rendered a noble service to his Tammany friends, and has sided his own political ambitions, but E 3 has helped make honest elections i a New...
...At the conference to be held in the People's House, 7 East 15th Street, next Tuesday, April 22, at 6 o'clock, an intensive drive to j am the Coliseum and to make possible the holding of several overflow meetings will be inaugurated by the representatives of the more than 100 organizations that are expected t o participate...
...He is the same man who quite illegally g o t the N e w York police t o help him register the political convictions of certain workers...
...Group c Spanish a Mexican Dance* Mariano Montoro s a d Marie A n to nick d. Finnish Dances Finnish Socialist Group e. Ukranian Dance* Ukrainian National Home, Passaic f. Speaking Chora* (Sprechchor) "Worker* o f toe world, unite, e t c " . . . All Group* 9. Finale: The International U.S...
...It is an open secret that their hostility has been staved off by a "gentleman's agreement" on the question of electoral reform...
...Thirty months of departation are told in this book in a style of penetrating and striking simplicity...
...Many Italians, according t o II Nuovo Mondo, did not dare to take active part for fear they would be reported by detectives of the Italian Embassy and their families persecuted in Italy...
...No wonder the left wing group is beginning to raise criticism...
...Tws *-»i>*e wrpad Filippic and Cames (both from Istriaj were wounded with the butt-ends of rifles, and died f r om their wounds...
...They have everything to gain by deferring an appeal to the electors f o r that period...
...The London "Times" recognizes this in its taunt that these concessions look like a "carefully calculated bid for the support of the "blackcoated" vote at the next election...
...Green Disregards Hoover Plea While Hoover was issuing at the White House an argument prei pared at the Department of Justice, to prove that the Hitchmar decision by the Supreme Court it 1916 made the yellow dog contract a legally binding document, President Green of the A . F. o f L. replied with a direct challenge to Hoover to withdraw the name o f Parker, o r f o r each senator to vote to reject the nomination...
...There is a good deal to be said f o r both sides, but one f a c t emerges' crystal clear...
...but, as he points out, he has too many financial problems to salve t o allow of h im discontinuing these meantime...
...In vetoing the HofstadterLefkowitz bill, which had the endorsement not only of the Republican leaders, .but of the Socialist Party, the Citizens' Union, and other groups interested in protecting the ballot against fraud," Mr...
...She is a woman, a dry, probably somewhat superior mentally and morally to Senator Deneen w h om she defeated, and an opponent of the world court...
...Langley & Co...
...It has been reported that towards the end of 1929, the Isalnd >f Ponza was the scene of a savige attack by the Fascist militia against the deportees, following jpon an incident between an axle and some members of the miitia...
...On the contrary, he has done some things against labor...
...York City Hoover Lines Up Against Labor On Parker Case White House Makes Public Official Defense of Infamous "Yellow Dog" Ruling By Laurence Todd WASHINGTON— ( F P ) —Labor unions all over the United States are writing and telegraphing the senators from their respective states, in protest against confirmation of "Yellow Dog Injunction" Judge Parker as a member of the Supreme Court...
...The nation has been robbed outrageously of late years by such devices...
...But many of these same senators are afraid of organised r a i l labor, which has demanded that the y e l l ow dog injunction judge be kept off" the Supreme Court bench...
...FOSTER IS RAILROADED NO disapproval of Communist tactics, no legal argument on the right of the police t o forbid a parade ought to blind Americans to the significance of the following f a c t s : Foster and his four Communist associates were convicted without benefit of a trial by jury before three judges in New York, who may impose as much as a three year sentence upon them, But no policemen have been tried for the brutality of March 6th...
...In the South, conditions g r ew definitely worse as layoffs became more general in coal, textile and other basic industries...
...A grand rehearsal o f the chorus will take place Saturday evening, April 19 a t 8 o ' c l o c k in the Debs Auditorium at the Rand School, 7 East 15th s t r e e t Everybody is given a cordial invitation to attend and prepare to participate in the program...
...Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin and Ohio echoed the "slight" verdict on industrial recovery...
...He has been a familiar figure in state conventions of the Socialist Party and has been the local candidate for Mayor in a number of c i ty elections...
...The one essential thing is to get prohibition out of partisan politics i f ever we are to bring about a new political alignment in the Interest o f social politics...
...That the fight over Parker has become a labor vs...
...When the Senate judiciary committee met Apr...
...plead for action that will make such shootings and persecution impossible is the future...
...CHEERLESS NEWS FROM ILLINOIS rsnHE more one thinks about it, the less reason one can find for X satisfaction in Mrs...
...FOR SHAME...
...In a three cornered contest Rae Weaver, Socialist and printer, was elected Mayor b y a plurality o f 375 votes out of a total of 3,711 cast...
...Observers o f the situation point out that Edelman's aspirations can only be recognized through the Socialist Party as they call f o r a revision of the economic Order that the old parties would never countenance...
...The same protests and demands will be heard at a score o f meetings throughout the United States, and in all the leading cities of the world other demands, based on the local problems of the workers, will be voiced b y internationally famous Socialist and labor leaders...
...But there isn't much to be said for Secretary Davis except that he is a glad-hand artist, and the biggest Moose in America...
...Beck, Who Knows All About Constitution, H o l d s Chit on Property T a x PHILADELPHIA— ( P P ) — R e p resentative James M Beck of Philadelphia, reactionary Republican known for his advocacy of the property protection clauses of the American constitution, has been fined $100 for failing to make a return of personal property for tax purposes...
...Righteous Mr...
...A more detailed state| ment of this feature of the prog r am is published elsewhere in this I issue...
...Even the brewers si back with a sigh of relief...
...In permitting this assistance to voters, another important section of the election statutes is nullified...
...Seventeen exiles are expecting still more serious sentences...
...Three Hundred Voices Wanted For May Day Pageant...
...If they protested, they would be jostled out of the polling place, and if they became too vociferous in their protest, they would receive a beating in addition...
...McCormick's Senatorial nomination...
...Local Socialists are gratified that Beaver Dam is the third city in the United States where the chief executive office is In the hands of a Socialist...
...By Jessie Stephen NO reasonably-minded person could expect anything very sensational in the Labor Government's first budget since it was returned'to office last May...
...Our own country is certainly not guiltless...
...TpHE esteemed Chicago Journal of Commerce insists on listing X all Senators who voted f o r Senator Norris's bill for government operation of Muscle Shoals as Socialists...
...President Hoover, In full sympathy with and allegiance t o this scheme o f mergers, is not disturbed b y the bread lines...
...Two days later a s—tins...
...The enquiry had even established that the brave captain was an old liberated convict...
...Witness also the unrebuked activities of some of his subordinates...
...Waldman said, "Governor Roosevelt has dealt a blow to honest elections sad has underwritten the frauds Tammany ward heelers commit every Election Day in New York City...
...So much one must admit, even if one does not altogether agree with Professor Irving Risher on the subject, or with Mr...
...He declared that more than the 25,000 votes b y which Roosevelt defeated Albert Ottinger, Ids Republican opponent, were stolen in N ew Y o rk City by Tammany methods...
...Already plana are being laid for the presentation of artistic labor programs in the months t o c o m a Rehearsals o f dancers and singers are taking place at the Rand School auditorium or studio every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday between 6 and 8 o'clock and a t other times by arrangement For other information inquire of Elizabeth Stuyvesant, Louis Stanley o r Julius Gerber at the Socialist Party Headquarters, 7 East 15th s t r e e t Algonquin 4620...
...That loss has to be made good and one Socialist at least expected a recast of legislation on this head...
...On the other hand, it is difficult to see what good can come of carrying revolt into the voting lobbies as a small group o f I.L.P.ers have been doing...
...He ignores every suggestion that relief should be g i v e n the victims o f chronic unemployment just as he turns his back o a suggestions that he withdraw his nomination of a y e l l ow dog injunction judge to a life j o b o a t he Supreme C o u rt H* lives outside tb« workers' eH**W Labor Budget Is Declared Disappointing Income and Inheritances Taxed More, But Land Assessment Is Delayed—Inside Criticism Predicted {The New Leader has asked Jessie Stephen, active worker in the British Socialist and trade union movement, to explain the implications of the budget recently presented to the House of Commons by Philip Snowden, the Labor government's chancellor of the exchequer...
...One of the elements of uncertainty in the battle which organized labor and the organized Negroes are separately making against Parker is the Southern Democratic group in the Senate...
...All very disappointing...
...C u r t a i l ed schedules continued in the boot and shoe industry, particularly in New England, where a large number of workers were employed on a part-time basis, with quite a number Idle...
...The Government Is likely to last for another year or two from all appearances...
...RE-EXAMINING PROHIBITION WHEN the N e w York Assembly endorsed a petition to Congress t o call a Constitutional Convention t o revise the Eighteenth Amendment it started an idea which has merit...
...In the 2nd...
...Or take-the case of Charles Wood, a labor conciliator under Secretary Davis...
...Gerber has issued an appeal t o all w h o can address envelopes and help fold letters to apply to hi™ at the May day headquarters, 7 East 15th Street, during the day o r evening...
...Whalen...
...They see in Parker's words on Neg r o voting the same aristocratic spirit as shown in his decision that the white wage workers have no rights as against the yellow dog contract...
...Fake "Labor" Endorsement v 5ior do the endorsements of Parker from hundreds of business men and from groups of corporation lawyers, largely* in the industrial South and in N ew Y o r k City, tend to obscure the class line...
...but no logical economist or social authority believes business paternalism can come with or prevent a recurrence of the present deplorable unemployment situation...
...When non-partisan groups organised to promote decency ia elections a re also the supporters of a measure, there Is substantial reason for adopting their proposals...
...Among these officers a special place should be given to Lieutenant Delia Cite rna...
...Parker, by his taunting declaration in North Carolina in 1920 that the Negro has not yet reached tfie stage of political responsibility, and hence should not ask for a place in American politics, has aroused the racial pride of the leaders of the 13,000,000 Negroes...
...By dividing the House on their motions and amendments they put their colleagues in the position of seeming reactionary merely because they stand b y their party...
...Representatives of more than 100 organizations, international unions and affiliated bodies, are being invited to attend the conference, which will be held 6 o'clock in the evening...
...In determining what is proper legislation t o protect the sanctity of the ballot, the majority party ought t o defer to the views o f the minority, who are in a f a r better position to k n ow what their difficulties on Election Day are...
...In New Bedford "Curtailed operations continued in the textile mills and a large surplus of these workers existed...
...There isn't any p a n a c e a I think that some modification of the Canadian system would on the whole be better than what we have, but it would be b a d enough a t that...
...The success of the Socialist candidate was not a sudden and large increase in the Socialist vote...
...It is a pity, nevertheless...
...At the very least a Constitutional Convention could give us direct election of the President and should curb the dangerous powers of our judicial oligarchy...
...Meantime, we hope Roosevelt Kills Measure Aimed At Vote-Stealing yN VETOING the HofstadterJL Lefkowitz bill, designed to eliminate from the existing election laws the provision permitting a voter to seek instructions after entering a voting machine booth...
...While there is not actual KKffi^ssiiissEjJ reduction o f navies, at least not o f the American navy, as the result o f the Conference, President Merman .nomas Hoover and Secretary Stimson have n o trouble in showing that the maximum figures fixed in the three power treaty a r e below the lowest discussed at Geneva, and well below the lowest conceivable figures, if instead of a treaty we were t o have a naval race...
...It is not l a ck of familiarity with the use of voting machines to which the Governor attributes the need f o r assistance, but the necess i ty of piling up a tremendous Tammany majority in N e w York City to overcome the Republican lead up-state which is responsible f o r the readiness of Tammany adherents t o 'assist 'the uninformed voter...
...There is nothing at all to be said for Senator Grundy except that he is a high tariff capitalist with the courage of his convictions...
...Whether you like or dislike prohibition, it most certainly cannot be enforced without popular support, and the people have a right to be heard on the subject in a more effective w a y than through the Literary Digest poll...
...Hoover Plans N o Aid These detailed reports show that between 2,500,000 and 3,000,000 workers who want jobs immediately are still looking in vain for a chance t o earn a livelihood...
...o f conscience and social duty than to permit Industry to operate as It does, continuously exposing the multitude* of workers t o the economic and merciless hazards of our industrial system," was one of his most pointed remarks...
...That would be worth working for...
...The number of other exiles who were wounded is not known...
...In the last Gubernatorial election, when he defeated his Republican opponent by 25,000 votes, anyone acquainted with the way in which elections are conducted in many New York City [districts knows that the result might have been quite different had there been an election law that was "both iron clad and honestly enforced...
...Fascists Kill Two in Revolt On Lipari Isle 25 Wounded as Militia Seeks Revenge for Escape of Nitti and Others — Italy Bars Book (By a New Leaser CerreaaeaAeat) j-jARIS.—Information is arrival ing from Italy on the latest ixploits of the Fascist warders in he islands where the Italian poitlcal exiles live...
...Parker pleased this group b y declaring that Negroes had not y e t reached the stage of development where they were entitled to take part In politics...
...Organizations that will not meet in time to elect representatives will be represented by their regularly-constituted officials...
...They were moreover very slow in giving any assurance that we would consult with other nations in case any nation violated the Kellogg Pact...
...At the same time those middle class and professional people "liable to pay tax will find, owing to various concessions made them, that they will actually pay less under the Increased tax than they were paying previously, which will certainly enlist their sympathy and support for the Government...
...A business-like budget, yes, but absolutely lacking in imagination or daring...
...This is not so clearly recognized as it might be, hence the clash between the left wing group and the loyal supporters of the Government...
...Certainly he has done nothing for labor as Secretary of Labor...
...Indeed, this seems destined to be one of the most unfortunate of the endless procession o f ill-founded assertions with which Hoover has made headlines since taking up his present office...
...Still more serious is the Information which has arrived from Lipari on the events of December...
...I t is true we are to have taxation of land values, but first we must wait for the bill which will enable the Government to set up an appropriate department, which means at least another twelve months wasted...
...In the psst, politicians who paid voters a consideration for their vote* could not definitely ascertain whether the v o t e was delivered in accordance with the terms of t he agreement With the right to assist, the purchaser goes into the b o o t h and casts the ballot...
...An exile named Jozselli, 54 years of age, who was struck in the face by a member of the militia, struck him back...
...Many of the rank and file of the unionists have been asking for s Socialist ticket and it seems they have gained- unexpected support from their leadership...
...Among the senators whose word is set squarely against that of Hoover are Robinson of Indiana, McCulloh of Ohio, Robinson o f Kentucky, and Majority Leader Watson of Indiana, beside VicePresident Curtis...
...One innocent young man is in his grave as the result of that folly which Secretary Davis has not yet condemned...
...Personally, I think it will militate against you to favor the labor people in holding up Judge Parker's confirmation...
...I feel sure that this must have caused Snowden some heartsearching for he is a staunch Free Trader...
...14 to consider the majority report of its sub-committee—Overman and Hebert—favoring Parker, and the minority report of B o rah, it grot nowhere...
...Tho first of the attributes is unimportant...
...Thus far, neither the Mayor nor the Governor has held any hearing on the formal charges against Police Commissioner Whalen who is instead to be the hero of a complimentary dinner...
...Representatives of the leading * labor organizations, including j the Socialist Party, the United Heb r ew Trades, the International j Ladies Garment Workers Union, f the Amalgamated Clothing Work* ers of America, The Furriers Ins ternational Union, the Cloth Hat " and Cap Makers Union, the International Pocket Book Makers, and the Workmen's Circle, will convey the greetings of their organizations during the speaking program...
...Even the late Earl Balfour* of whom better might have been expected, was guilty of this mesa practice...
...I f the Governor has any doubt aa to this, he can very readily obtain the information b y aski n g the district leaders in the districts I have mentioned, o r he cam make a tour of inspection on Election Day, when we shall be glad to point out t o h im the methods by which he is elected...
...A utility investment trust named the Electric Power Associates, Inc., was formed b y the firm last year...
...Drury of Ontario...
...A manifesto appealing to all progressive trade unionists to join in the celebration by laying down their tools on May Day, and at" tending with their families, the Coliseum meeting, is now being drafted, for publication in the So* cialist and labor press, and f o r dis"l tributlon in the number of 200,000 copies the two days preceding the meeting...
...To be sure, the unsettled quarrel between France and Italy may yet upset the apple cart, since Great Britain in some f o rm or other will reserve the right to Increase her navy beyond the present terms of the treaty under pressure cf competition by the European powers...
...If the Government plays Its cards well, it may easily last another three years, therefore, and b y that time, the full results of their unemployment policy will be seen in a remarkable . d r o p In unemployment figures...
...An Italian book- ' seller has been Jailed for selling the book...
...Com- pany and the American Water Works and Electric Company and participated in the formation of the United States Electric Power Corporation, which shares with Byllesby interests in controlling the Standard Gas and Electric System...
...Refuses Whalen Dinner Bid Tendered an invitation to serve on the honorary committee o f Wall Street capitalists who are tendering a dinner to Police Commissioner Whalen, Walter Frank, attorney, and member of the national board of the American Civil Liberties Union, declined...
...The: expected an earthquake, instead o which a f ew pebbles are dislodge* and roll down the mountain side Not a good sided boulder amoni them...
...her export trade and tariffs are no encouragement...
...Actually 25 civilians were wounded, including the very peaceable director of the Savings Bank, who wears an official decoration...
...There is, s o f a r as England, Japan and the United States are concerned, a definite truce to the fear, suspicion and hate which a naval race would have engendered...
...Overman: "I do hope you will not let Green and the Communists interfere with this nomination...
...These colleagues resent the suggestion that they are less sincere In their desire to help the unfortunate masses in Britain...
...There will be about 15,000 t o b e addressed within t he next f ew days...
...There is plenty of evidence that the prohibition issue will n o t down...
...A lot of fun is in store for those who participate...
...I t s title is "Escape...
...San Francisco found a "noticeable oversupply of help" in most lines, including the building trades, in spite o f considerable n ew construction...
...We also wish we could c l a im all the credit the same paper gives the Socialist Party and the L. L D. f o r their part In the power bust fight...
...This was a definite promise made and should have been fulfilled...
...Every Socialist p a r t y branch will have to furnish the names of some if a committee of 300, which Gerber declares will be necessary, is to be recruited...
...It would be fax better s o d humane t o exterminate painlessly the victims o f industry's lack...
...As might have been expected, this explosion o f brutal savagery led to others which were still more serious...
...Report Saturday TtpHREE hundred voices are JL wanted immediately, — voices Of men and voices of women, voices o f boys and voices o f girls, deep voices and Shrill voices, loud voices and soft voices, rich voices and poor voices—all t o merge in a huge WORKERS' CHORUS to sing our labor songs at the May Day Celebration in the Bronx Coliseum...
...I t was imagined that the exiles were g o ing to take their revenge, whereupon a massacre took place...
...Nevertheless the whole episode shows h ow hard it is to advance on the road to disarmament without also advancing on the road toward the community of nations...
...A truly Fascist doctor: NItti's Book Banned In Italy The civil population of Lipari •waas not spared any more than the exiles by the savagery of the militia who were bent on massacre...
...As part of t h e Coliseum meet-' ing arrangements, every enrolled Socialist voter will receive an invitation and t w o tickets for the meetings...
...One 'labor" endorsement ol Parker came from M K. Tyson, signing himself as secretary of the National Association of Negro Tailors, at Burlington, N. C. Frank Morrison, secretary of the American Federation of Labor, said the Federation never knew of the ex: istence of such an organization...
...Unless the rot is stopped, soon there will be open enmity between old comrades, surely an unfortunate state of affairs: the fact that too many members of the Government do not take the trouble to explain in detail why certain lines of action are followed and attempt t o ride the high horse...
...Our representatives rejected British overtures, looking to the complete abolition of battleships...
...Unemployment may be a tragedy to millions of individual American homes, but it Is not w o r t h a moment's serious consideration t o t he men who direct this vast central oligarchy of private capital...
...He thanked Overman and Simmons of North Carolina f o r staying out of the debate against Hughes...
...inadvertently fired a sbec...
...Unfortunately it also means putting off the time when they can Introduce full-blooded Socialist legislation, though, no one will grumble, If in the end, that .much desired eonsummation of all our hopes comes t o pass...
...In the complex rivalry of the Powers it is difficult to apportion guilt for* the partial failure of the Conference, f r om which more was hoped...
...The program at present stands as follows: TENTATIVE M A Y D A Y PROGRAM 1. Address . . . . T o be announced S. Marseilles Band 3. Entrance March All Groups 4. Labor Songs a. Worker*' Singing Club b. Workmen*' Circle Choruaes c National Jewish Workers' Chorus Alliance 5. Labor Sports German Workers' Gymnastic aad Sport Alliance 6. Negro Work Song* Alice Crawford and Group 7. Labor Dances a The Slaves Workers' Dance Club b. The Time Clock Workers' Dance Club c The liberation of the Workers Workmen's Circle Junior Circle S. Towards Internationalism a. Indian Dances Naquayauma, Mortal and Indian Group b. German Dances German...
...Men and women are equally welcome...
...The firm also has participated In utility financing syndicates headed by themselves or other leading firms...
...Most of the leading British newspapers, with the exception ol the extremely reactionary "Morning Post," admit that Snowdei has turned out a workmanlike j ob Nearly all of them recognize thi necessity for the increased income tax, while deploring the fact...
...The second she nominally shared with Senator Deneen...
...They were 'assisted.' That is, when they would enter the voting machine booth, someone would pull the lever for them, and they would be told that they voted...
...All of them, or at any rate the majority, have devoted t h e i r lives to working for the uplift of the toile r a The policy of separating the sheep f r om the goats does not persuade them they are in the wrong...
...The answer depends pretty much upon the point o f view...
...Other speakers who denounced Mussolini and Fascist influence in America were William Karlin, Leonard Bright, Arturo Giovannitti and Yppollte Havel...
...Of course, i f there is to be a Constitutional Convention, it should not stop with the Eighteenth Amendment, and it cannot be limited to the Eighteenth Amendment...
...Britain depends so largely on...
...It is only known that the State doctor named | Fenech, refused to sttend to them...
...The supertax is surtax so loudly proclaimed in the Last campaign which w a s to enable us to raise at least 500 million dollars f r om all unearned Incomes of over 2500 dollars a year, representing a capital of 50,000 dollars Invested at five percent, never a word...
...Thus A B. Carter, president of'the Carter textile mills at Gastonia, wrote Sen...
...New York state and city reported only a slight improvement in employment in March, while New Jersey industries "marked time", and in Pennsylvania "a large number of unemployed were reported from many localities, "with little change since February...
...No statement was made as to the enormous sums In relief given by the De-rating Act of 1928, passed by the Conservatives, whereby ail agricultural land was relieved f r om paying rates o r municipal taxes, and productive industry, including breweries, luxury trades, and others making enormous profits even on watered stock, was relieved of the payment of 75 percent of these taxes...
...Weaver has been Ions...
...Prominent artists from the Metropolitan Opera Company, , some of whom have already been . arranged, and others of w h om will . be signed up during the next few r days, will make this phase of the program a treat in itself, a A famous band of f o r t y pieces, and an orchestra, will furnish the music f r om the time the doors, open, at 12 o'clock, until late in ' the afternoon, when the tremen" dous audience begins to leave the " Coliseum...
...Had this change In the election laws been la force before the last Gubernatorial election, Roosevelt would probably not have been elected, Waldman declared...
...But louder than this protest is the voice of the dominant financial groups which interlock the utility corporations, the banks, the chain stores, the manufacturers' associations, the bar associations and organized politics...
...This book has been compared with the books of Pellico and Remarque, and the comparison will not seem strained to those who read it...
...Socialist party branches are receiving copies o f an appeal issued by Gerber asking for names of party members who can volunteer to serve on t he committee o n the day of the meeting...
...Even the more conservative-minded trade union group was provoked at her attitude, and in the end she was compelled to b a c k down...
...A measure of this s o r t will take two or three sessions of Parliament...
...Hoover's Denial Six senators had told' the press correspondents or trade union representatives at the capitol that they had asked President Hoover to withdraw the nomination of Judge Parker, when Hoover announced: that not a senator had made any such request of him...
...Even so, France wanted from Britain a more binding military alliance than Britain had any right to give, so that Secretary Stimson's offer of a consultative pact was not written into the Treaty for die-hard Senators to tilt at...
...These unmistakably Socialist declarations further complicate the situation in the Kensington area where the North East Progressive League, a. non-partisan voters association largely under the domination of Hosiery Union officials has recently declared itself in favor of action within the old parties and is running a ticket in the Republican primaries...
...One of the signs is the undoubted volte face of the Liberal Party...
...First, it is a minority government, dependent from day to day upon the goodwill of a handful of Liberals, ready at the slightest hint of any drastic interference with the rights of property, to combine with their old time political enemies, the Conservatives, to oust Labor from office., There is the stern fact of a blggSeficit left by the previous Chancellor of the Exchequer which must be faced and many other problems too numerous to outline in a short article...
...A s you know if there is anybody in the world to sympathize with labor it is me," etc...
...Stirring Pageant On May Day Program The creation of a Workers' Dance Club and a Workers' Singing Club and the establishment of a united front among various labor cultural and spert groups in New York City and vicinity are some of the by-products of the preparations for the ambitious May Day Pageant which the New York Socialist Party, trade unions, and fraternal and cultural societies are going to stage on the afternoon of May 1 a t the Coliseum, East 177th street, the Bronx...
...Be continued: "Management has improved in the past f ew decades...
...Workers of Pennsylvania who consider these things will find them additional arguments for the need of building their own party, rather than selecting the less bad of old party candidates...
...The bill will be passed...
...Of .that there Is not a shadow of doubt since the Liberals are already pledged to support such a measure...
...So much provocation was asking for revolt And a revolt took place...
...But now there is something better than book by Francesco Nitti, one of the three who escaped from Lipari...
...T h e r e was no great Improvement in industrial activity in March," says the summary of the Industrial Employment Information Bulletin, Issued by the Employment Service . . . The iron and steel industry has not reached normal operations and unemployment continued among these workers...
...Anyway, that Is what we arc a working for...
...When our belated assurance was given, it notably cleared the air, and allayed French suspicions of our purpose...
Vol. 10 • April 1930 • No. 11
