Hoover Plea For Parker Is Attacked
Hoover Plea For Parker Is Attacked Goldberg, Socialist Attorney, Says Dept. of Justice Memorandum Is Misleading THE charge that the Hoover administration issued a "misleading statement''...
...Ii a number of instances food wa: taken to the children...
...The whole point of tht Norris bill is the cutting of rates to consumers in the South— possibly cutting them in half...
...Danzig: At the end of January the Labor Exchange of the Free j City of Danzig had 19,282 names ' Dn its books as unemployed citiKeas of Danzig, against 15,773 at the end of January...
...It is overlooked, however, that in American Poundries against Tri-CUy Council...
...in the middle of March there were 13,440 unemployed registered on the books of the Labor Exchanges, igainst 54,417 in the previous veek and 71,000 in the middle of torch...
...Belgium: According to information sent in by 1655 unemployment insurance entres...
...Tilson, who spent two weeks as a guea...
...and must be...
...Upon the second point, it is contended that the Hitchman case required Judge Parker to enjoin any Interference of *yellow dog' contracts...
...He had been looklnj for work since 5 o'clock Tuesday morning and his quest was fruit less...
...The number receiving benefits i rom the Emergency Fund rose, i Lowever...
...That judges are Influenced by their, social philosophy economic views and pol1r)ss1 principles has long been recognised by statesmen, jurists and pnaOesStJ There is no such thing as an Impartial' judge in cases involving important social questions...
...dressed but all without funds ant m need of food...
...For although there is comparison with the corresponding months of the previous year, which shows that there has been a general increase as compared with that time, yet the course of events has not been uniform to all the countries...
...The Socialist women raised tht finances to open the kitchen bj holding a theatre party last wee!at which nearly a thousand dollar...
...A proper knowledge and appreciation of the forces that make for social welfare and general progress are necessary...
...at least, acceptable, and his decisions when occasion arises must be guided by those conceptions...
...The Senate should insist upon the appointment of one...
...Substantial progress has been made for the building Up of a more efficient party organization which will no doubt result in a large increase of membership...
...Labor unions are organised for the purpose of increasing wages, raising the standard of living and improving the working conditions of the laboring masses...
...The index figure of mployment (1926—100) was in anuary 90.2, against 92.9 in Deember and 95.2 in January, 1929...
...Switzerland: The number of regitered unemployed at the end of 'ebruary was 13,462, against 14,46 at the end of January, and 5,979 at the end of February, 929...
...But this trick was too raw for Harrison: he refused to make any move which would cheat Norris and the Senate progressives of the right to hsve s conference lommittee appointed...
...0.523 members (4.4%) were wholf unemployed at the end of Janury, and 10,710 or 4.4% on short - ime...
...Emil Z. Ievitin...
...Jobless Fed At Socialist Food Depot N. Y. WORKERS Open RELIEF STATION ON 25th St...
...R'.se In France, Germany Denmark: According to information sent in by trade unions racordng unemployment, with a total membership of 278,283, the pertentage of unemployment at the :nd of February was 21.3, against !0.2 in the previous month and j 29.8 at the end of February, 1929...
...For Congressman at large, Morris A. Gold and Dr...
...B e s i d es these, there are 33,500 unemployed persons whd are ineligible for benefit...
...April 26 and 27 and nominated Henry Jager for U. S. Senator...
...In Germany there was, it is true, as much unemployment at the end of February, 1929, as at the end of February, 1930, but the spring recovery set in much more rapidly in 1929, no less than 120,000 persons previously in receipt of unemployment benefit finding work during the period March 1-15, 1929, against only 65,000 this year...
...ccording to information given in je March number of the "Amerisn Federationlst" on unemployment in the trade unions, in Februry 22% of the members were unmployed, against 20% in the pretexts month and 15'/ in February, 929...
...in the same period to 1 AO.OOO (by 8,000...
...The convention was well attended and proved to be an enthusiastic gathering of delegates and visitors...
...often...
...268 U. S. 295...
...Harrison of Mississippi, a power trust politician, and suggested that the power senators insist, when the House bill is adopted, that the Senate forthwith accept the House measure as a substitute for lie Norris bill...
...Their lives dra matize th: great human traged...
...In this sense judges are...
...Stafford GetT Orders To Kill Norris Scheme Reactionary Milwaukee Congressman Told to Fight U. S. Operation of Muscle Shoals WASHINGTON.—(FP) .—Rep, Stafford of Milwaukee, facing possible defeat in November at the hands of the Socialists who'as...
...Illinois State Socialists Prepare For Campaign Chicago.—With the old party primaries out of the way the State executive committee of the Socialist Party met in Chicago to plan for an active fight for the Socialist candidates...
...Prospects for the organization of two more branches one in Dover and one in New Brunswick, were also reported...
...The first group served on Tuesday were profuse in their thank...
...Sweden: Of the 328.109 memers of the trade unions recording nemployment, 45,636 or 13.9% r-ere unemployed at the end ofanuary, against 16.9% at the end f December and 14.9% at the end f January, 1929...
...with a total membership of 608,594, on February 1, 22.468 ,or 3.7% of the insured persons were wholly unemployed, and 25~,141 or 4.1% were on short time work...
...The number of unemployed s believed to be a good deal in ex:ess of 800,000...
...Honesty, sincerity and learning are not sufficient...
...the Supreme Court strictly circumscribed and limited the Hitchman opinion, as authority, to such cases in which deception and misrepresentation was employed in inducing a breach of tne 'yellow dog'' contracts, stating at page 211: "The plan thus projected was carried out to the case of the complainant company (the Hitchman Coal Company) by the use of deception and misrepresentation with its non-union employees, by seeking to induce such employees to become members of the union contrary, to the express terms of their contract of employment, that they would not remain in the complainant's employ if union mm, and after enough "such employees had been secretly secured, suddenly to declare a strike against complainant and to leave it m s helpless situation in which it would have to consent to be unionised . . .' The unlawful and deceitful meant used were quite enough to sustain the decision of the co5t without more.' "Peaceful persuasion to induce an employee to leave his employ and Join the union would, under this latter decision, be lawful and not a subject of injunctive relief...
...which has come to millions o workers who are unable to fee< themselves and their families...
...Seven counties and 20 party branches sent a total of 53 delegates to the convention...
...Those who have eaten at thi relief station are self-respectinj workers, men who are neatl...
...George H. Goebel of Essex County was elected chairman of the Sunday session...
...Poverty breeds disease, epidemics, crime, immorality, abnormaUty and other social ills...
...Arrangements for a big state campaign rally at White City in Chicago were also placed in the bands of the state secretary...
...Ethical consfcleamUons cannot be excluded from theadministration of justice, any more than from any other department of government . . . In all civilised countries the judge must in fact possess certain conceptions of what is socially desirable, or...
...At the end of January the 41 most important Labor Exchanges had on their books the names of 61,153 men and 8,005 women as in search 3f employment, Hungary: At the end of January, 21,533 of the members of the 'free" trade unions (or 14.5%) were unemployed, against 13% in the previous month and 10.9% at the end of January, 1929...
...But one disposed to decide In favor of the employers, can conveniently be blind to such distinction...
...Goldberg t "The elements of deception and misrepresentation were entirely lacking, and the Hitchman case was therefore not controlling authority...
...Ireland: In the fourth quarter >f 1929 9.2% of the 280.000 persons insured against unemployment were unemployed, against T.8% in the third quarter and 9.9% n the fourth quarter of 192S...
...were obtained...
...Henry Jager was engaged as state organizer...
...259 U. S. 344...
...Goldberg's letter follows: "My Dear Senator Wagner: "The people of this country have cause for gratification in the refusal of the Senate Judiciary Committee to confirm the nomination of John J. Parker to the United States Supreme Court bench...
...The number of unemployed in eceipt of state benefit was at the nd of January, 1.484, against 817 n the previous month and 1,604 it the end of January, 1929...
...Cheering messages were received from National Secretary Senior Morris Killquit, Norman Thomas and from Workmen's Cicle branches in Camden and other cities...
...Holland: According to information submitted by the state-aided Labor Exchanges, with about 399.900 members, at the end of January 12.7% of these members were unemployed, against 13.3% at the beginning of the month and 16.2% st the end of January, 1929...
...A largi number was expected on Wednesday...
...Czechoslovakia: According to official statistics referring to the 1,308,000 members of the trade union unemployment insurance centres, 30,170 persons, or 2.8%, were in receipt of unemployment benefit, at the end of December, against 17,108 or 1.6% in the previous month and 31,819 or 2.7% in January...
...257 U. S. 184...
...In the Red Jacket case, the elements of deception and misrepresentation were entirely lacking, and the Hitchman case was therefore not controlling authority...
...These jobless men tell tragii stories of women and children a home without anything to eat...
...The Brooklyn lawyer, distinguishing between the Red Jacket and the Hitchman cases, contends that elements present in the Hitchman case, upon which the United States Supreme Court based its decision, were lacking in the Red Jacket case...
...Norway: On March 15 the num>er of unemployed persons regisred at the public Labor Exchanges n municipalities with over 5.000 nhabitants was 22.533, against S2.974 in February and 23,800 on he 15th March, 1929...
...The corresponding percentages in the previous month were 2.4 and 4.5...
...He had heard from •ome...
...case did not have the effect inttnosd...
...Big Increase in Italy . Italy: The number of unemploy:d registered in the Labor Exthangea as wholly unemployed was 166,231 at the end of January, tfhile the timber of short-time workers was 23,185...
...The estimates for the total umber of unemployed throughout ie whole country at the end of 929 range between 3 and 5 milOA N. J. Socialists Name Jager For U.S...
...A speakers committee was chossn consisting of W. R. Snow...
...George Chant...
...According to information rom 128 unemployment insurance entres, with 240,796 members...
...PHILADELPHIA — (F P)— Efforts of "wets" in union ranks to pump up the booze question as labor's leading issue , are condemned in the Philadelphia Union Labor Record which states that injunctions are a far more serious threat to labor* liberty than prolibition...
...a the White House, convalescing from an illness, has returned to the House to take charge of killing all plans for government competition with the power trust...
...It can do us no good to deplore this situation...
...and on the 1st of February, 1929, 3.5 and 3.9...
...The relief station is decorate...
...France: The number of unem>loyed registered on the books of be public Labor Exchanges at the ind of February was 13,027, igainst 12,709 at the end of Januiry...
...In that case, the Supreme Court held, at page 310: 'We think there was substantial evidence at the second trial in this case tending to show the purpose of the destruction of the mines was to stop the production of non-union coal and prevent its shipment to markets of other states than Arkansas, where it would by competition tend to reduce the price of the commodity and affect injuriously the maintenance of wages for union labor in competing mines . . ." "There Is nothing in the Parker opinion to indicate that there was any such evidence in the Red Jacket case...
...Henry Duel and M. Halushka and a committee on finance includes Meyer iVeinrib, Fred G. Wellman and Andrew Latin...
...For state treasurer-John T. Whitlock is being run and Meyer Halushka is tanctdate for superintendent of public instruction...
...But in most of the above-named countries the state of unemployment has changed but little since last year...
...New Zealand: According to inormation on unemployment sent n by trade unions with a total nembership of about 57.000, 5.6% if the members were unemployed n the fourth quarter, against 9.4% n the third quarter and...
...When the convention adjourned the delegates parted in a united spirit of Socialist solidarity, resolved to carry on the ardent task of building up a strong Socialist organization in the state of New Jersey with greater energy and enthusiasm than ever...
...International Survey Shows Large Number of Jobless In Many Modern Nations Wont Depression Reported in Germany, Poland, Austria, Italy and the United States...
...CHARITY ATMOSPHERE AVOIDED PIOMPTLY at 11.30 a_m...
...For these reasons...
...It seemed that Stafford, after getting himself chosen as one of the subcommittee . of the House military affairs committee to draft a substitute for the Norris bill which passed the Senate, had become wobbly on the issue...
...The most disquieting figures come from Austria, Poland, Italy, the United States and Germany...
...Goldberg dis* cusses the Red Jacket case which has provoked the increasing opposition of organised labor throughout the nation, and contends that the claim of the administration, through the attorney general, that in deciding the Red Jacket Case as he did, Judge Parker was bound by precedent in the United States Supreme Court, embodied in the famous Hitchman case, is without foundation...
...The defenders of Judge Parker fail to understand the basis of labor's opposition...
...the#e were at the end of January 10.721 unemployed or 6.6% among the 143.418 members of that centre covered by the report, against 6.3% in the previous month and 5.2% at the end of January, 1929...
...Unlike thi Bowery Mission, the jobless an screened from public gaze by win dow curtains...
...Rep...
...Florence H. Kirkpatrick and Sarah Blumin are candidates for trustees 5f the University of Illinois...
...1929, 461,J89 and 16,655...
...Small Rise in England Great Britain: Of the over 12,500,000 persons insured against unemployment, 13.1% were unemployed at the end of February, against 12.6% in the previous month and 12.1% at the end of February, 1929...
...Women...
...Tuesday, the Women's Sectioi of the Socialist Party opened ib relief station for the relief of thi unemployed at 55 West 25th street Manhattan and shortly thereaftei the first group of jobless men en joyed a beef stew, bread an< coffee...
...The administration stated that upon the first point the court was controlled by the second Cornado case...
...The statement set forth two Important points involved in the Red Jacket decision: (1) That the mining of coal did not in itself involve interstate commerce, and <2i That any' interference with so-called •yellow-dog' contracts should be enjoined...
...The present Tilson scheme is that the House shall adopt a bill providing for leasing the Muscle Shoals plant to private interests, sot openly identified as power :ompanies...
...The relief station is neat am clean and so arranged that the un employed who partake of the wo men's hospitality are not subjected to public humiliation...
...One unem ployed man had walked from 210U street, unable to pay his car fan down town...
...1929...
...Last year tne oaximum unemployment figure was also attained in February, : vhen it was 2,620.000 (those in eceipt of ordinary and those in : eceipt of emergency relief...
...No information is available or 1930...
...Arrangements have been made in six counties for a complete ticket of assembly arid local candidates and reports to the convention indicate that congressional candidates will be placed in the field in eight of the 12 congressional districts...
...A well attended meeting was also held at which James H. Maurer was the speaker...
...However, when interpretation is necessary, a broad progressive philosophy should be applied...
...for the assistance given them They proceeded to one of the park: to inform other unemployed mei where they could get relief...
...Unemployment Insurance in Some Nations Provides Measure of Relief IN all countries there are increasing prophecies of a rising curve of unemployment, and signs which seem to point to the truth of these evil prognostications...
...Not a trace of this socialistic Norris scheme must be left in the Muscle Shoals bill that comes out of your subcommittee," was Tilson's word to Stafford...
...I urge you to vote against the confirmation of Judge Parker's nomination when it ccmes before the Senate...
...The .nquiry made by the German national centre into unemployment ind short time work in the affiliated unions showed that at the snd of'February 23.7% of the 4,230,451 persons covered by the inquiry were unemployed, and 12.5% ioing short time work...
...Tilson had to speak sharply...
...As William A. Robson has aptly put it to 'Justice and the Administrative Law:' 'Society demands that its judges shall be biased in certain directions, no less insistently than it demands that they shall be unbiased to others...
...The budget committee reported plans for financing the work of the state organizeij which were adopted and the delegates were enthusiastic in pledging financial support of their organizations for the state organizer fund...
...10% in be fourth quarter of 1928...
...The report of the state secretary showed that two new branches had been organized during the past year and that the membership in every organized county is steadily increasing...
...Needless to say, the figures here given are for the most part official, and therefore far below the true ones, although they do enable us to make some kind of comparison for most of the countries in question...
...It is planned tc obtain foodstuffs wherever possibli as gifts to help keep the kitcher open as long as the need for reliel is apparent...
...Sarah Blumin, active Chicago Socialist worker, was nominated for trustee of the University of Illinois as a substitute for Victor Firontini who 'found it necessary to decline the nomination...
...At the end of February -the number of unemployed registered on the Labor Exchanges was 1,582.000, against 1,534,000 at the end of January and 1,430,000 at the end of February, 1929...
...1929...
...The attorney general contended that Judge Parker and his associates felt bound by the United States Supreme Court decisions and could not exercise any independent judgment...
...with the attractive posters tha were used by the British Labo Party in the elections last year East person who is served receive a party leaflet and also a copy o The New Leader...
...Where tne law it definite and certain, all judges are bound to apply it...
...Mr...
...According to Mr...
...Poland: At the end of January, 49.462 unemployed persons were egistered at the public Labor Exhanges, against 186,427 at the end if December, ana 161.000 at the nd of January, 1929...
...By these criteria, the nomination of Judge Parker is objectionable and should b- rejected...
...Section of the Socialist Party...
...biased.' "Social progress is measured not by the number of new millionaires and huge fortunes created periodically, but by raising the standard cf living of the lowest economic stratum...
...That the absence of such proof is fatal to the plaintiff's cause of action was determined by the United States Supreme Court in the first Coronado appeal...
...1929...
...i?,407 workers are also employed n relief work...
...of Justice Memorandum Is Misleading THE charge that the Hoover administration issued a "misleading statement'' in support of the nomination of Federal Judge Parker is contained in letters sent to United States Senators Wagner and Copeland by Louis P. Goldberg, a Brooklyn attorney...
...For that reason, tne views, opinions and past conduct of candidates for the judiciary are proper subjects of investigation...
...Goldberg represents professionally may labor unions and is one of the leaders of the Socialist Party in Kings County...
...But one disposed to decide Id favor of the employers, can conveniently be blind to such distinctions...
...is to estimate the numbers, it is however a widely-recognized 'act that unemployment in Japan s increasing in consequence of the )3d trade, and the closing of many works...
...State secretary Andrew P. Wittel called the convention to order and Herman Wiener of Camden was elected rhairman for Saturday...
...10.8% of the members were unemployed at the end of January, against 11.4% in the previous month and 6.3% at the end of January, 1929...
...The state secretary was instructed to have state petitions for the Socialist candidates printed and circulated throughout the state...
...Senate Twenty Branches Represented at Convention Held in City of Camden CAMDEN, N. J.—New JerseySocialists met In state convention here...
...State Secretary Snow reported an increase in the sales of dues stamps and successful meetings for Miss Jessie Stephen of the British Labor Party down state...
...Upon the window ii gold letters is the inscription "Emergency Kitchen for Unem ployed Men and Women...
...Japan: Since there is no regular ifficial registration of unemployment in Japan, all that can be lone there, as in many other counries...
...from his past performances', may be depended upon to protect human rights when they are in conflict with mere property rights...
...At the end of December the or res ponding percentages were .3 and 2.3...
...Apparently the misleading statement issued by the administration in defense of Judge Parker's opinion in the Red jack...
...In the previ)us month the corresponding figires were 408,748 and 21,349 and it the end of January...
...United States: According to the eport issued by the Department f Labor, containing statistics ased on 34,857 enterprises emloying 4,792,669 persons, the deree of employment fell in Janury by 2.6...
...Finland: According to informaion sent in by the public Labor exchanges of the larger towns, the lumber of registered unemployed >n the 15th of March was 10.689, igainst 10,591 at the end of February and 3.190 in March...
...This lasdclauss is expected to break down Southern opposition to private leasing, even though the measure gives no actual guaranty of lower rates to consumers...
...Benefits Paid in Austria The present state of unemployment in the countries specified is as follows: Austria: In the middle of March the total unemployment figure' was 269.723 (about 14,8000 less than at the end of February...
...At the end uf January the corresponding figures were 22.2% and 10.6%, and it the end of February, 1929, 22.3 and 8.5...
...Germany: During the period be- < ween February 28 and March 15, < he number of unemployed in re»ipt of benefit decreased 'from 1.378,521 to 2,313,000, or by 65,000...
...The committee will meet once each month and George ^hant of Elmhurst was reelected state chairman...
...As Information spreads regard ing the Socialist relief station il is expected that the kitchen will be taxed to meet the demands o' jobless men and women...
...1929, there were 225.035 persons in receipt of unemployment benefit...
...William Kane Tall man of Hudson County was elected secretary of the convention...
...Reese of Tennessee and McSwtdrf" it South Carolina, on the Howe subcommittee, are reported as afraid of the Tilson program, which is the Hoover program...
...and that municipalities in the South shall be assured of a right to purchase the power atpreferential rates...
...Cochran of Pennsylvania, the fifth man, is all for Hoover and t-be power trust...
...In the middle of March...
...1929...
...Little Change in Russia Russia: The monthly average of memployment in 1929 was slighty higher than that of 1928, being .490,000 in 1929 and 1,482,600 in 928...
...Canada: According to information sent in by the trade unions recording unemployment, with a total membership of about 200DOO...
...The complete list of Socialist candidates is as follows: For United States Senate the party is running George Koop, well known member of the Typographical Union...
...Judge Parker, upon this point, not only was not bound to decide the way he did but actually failed to follow the Supreme Court...
...In the following survey, however, which refers chiefly to the months of the degree of economic retrogression...
...The sconomic conditions of Danzig are strongly influenced by those of Poland...
...The Japanese govsrnment is said to be planning the ntroduction of unemployment inmrance...
...Anyone who opposes or impedes such organisation is hostile to the best interests of society, and therefore a social menace...
...According to the statistics kept by the German (Reichenberg) trade union centre of Czechoslovakia...
...In his letters, Mr...
...sent Victor Berger to the House, has received direct, personal orders from Majority Leader Tilson as to his action on the Norris bill providing for government operation of the Muscle Shoals power plant, These orders are to kill the Norris measure...
...Douglas of Arizona, ansther member of the subcommittee, had lunch with Sen...
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