Public Utilities Circulate Faked Thomas Interview; Charge Socialist Plot
Public Utilities Circulate Faked Thomas Interview; Charge Socialist Plot National Electric Light Association Alleges Socialist Party Favors Government Ownership! John Spargo, Aiding Power...
...A. E. Kazan of the League B. Rosenbaum of the Cooperative League of Youth, and E. E. Woodcock of the Cooperative Wholesale...
...The interview, which appeared In the Brooklyn Eagle of June 3, 1928...
...She urged the League's support for the bills pendng in Congress to get the facts on inemployment and the public works program...
...is due to the way capitalists carry on industry...
...llJEMwl •stiyttj-T-Bebei House Dictators Thumb Noses at Labor Plea WASHINGTON (F.P...
...rhomas that he "would wipe out be entire constitution of the [Tnited States...
...Thomas Lecture Story Brings Collegian Prize (By a New Leader Cerrereeadent) Lewisburg...
...The first suggestion is not at all revolutionary...
...Of eourse it wasn't roing to happen again and now we would attend to the need of a long range plan...
...It is not an inxiety likely to be shared by the \jnerican people, not even by those vho do not go all the way on the Socialist program but who are levertheless aware of the demonstrated breakdown of regulation as t applies to public utilities in geniral and the power trust in parti:ular...
...This was in lins with the educational function of the League which is not controlled, by any political party and is not a lobbying organization...
...rben followed a good quotation from Owen D. Young that "Unemployment is a major defect in )ur modern capitalist system...
...Chairman Snell of the rules eemmittee told the labor men that he would not rrant them a special rule under which the bill could be considered...
...Andrews of the American Association for Labor Legislation was not so optimistic that the worst is over...
...Comrades...
...What is war...
...And since the bills reported from the committee on post offices and post roads will not be reached on the regular calendar before the House adjourns for the summer, this and all the rest of the labor bills that remain under conrol of Longworth, Majority Leader Tilson and Smell are dead—so far as this year is concerned...
...fke u * »*••« haw not the tdirbtest idea wast it a. Is one .hort aOTteareUSawy aw laaaeai i centra flan cf %M the has m i . atrwei tie*, 'rim*, and en (Terror*" ef waist human nature on this The Socialist Relief Society Asks for Aid Funds are Needed to Keep Home for Aged Comrades in Catskills Going rGoing _ ' THE readers of The New Leadert One of the most beautiful tne nost inspiring manifestations ol ;lass-consciousness and practical solidarity is represent by the 8* sialist Relief Society, Inc...
...It is a measure that has long ago been our written and unwritten law:—That our government, city, state and federal, be the model employer for private employers to emulate: That is, to pay, and order to be paid on all public works, the union-wage-rate...
...Spargo congenital!;, has little use for objective facts...
...If humanism has an increasing Influence," Van Doren holds, "there will be an Increase of dogmatism tn religion, Fascism in government, Exploitation in industry, docility in science and dullness in 'the arts...
...was attached to the right side r he main building...
...She bad such a punch too—at first At the conclusion Lhat pride resembled a pricked jubble...
...ent operation during war Lime...
...Time permits the mention of on}y two measures of relief...
...The remedy Socialists propose for unemployment can be explained in a moment It ts however elementarily just It aims to increase the purchasing power of the service giving class In full proportion to th...
...Since Spring 1920, the time of the purchase the original buildings were remodeled and refurnished, several bung tiows were built and a large win...
...To a Socialist their New York City conference of about 200 women delegates last week was quite impressive...
...Today the Home takes care o' nore than 80 old comrades besidt she required help...
...Curiously enough Smith also had labor indorsement for the nomination...
...Thomas declared that this was" true but that "prth...
...Until then he will not pardon the men, since that is not a matter of politics but a case where one has to act in accordance with his conscience, and no threats of unpopularity are going to sway Mew to pardon the prisoners while he is unable to do so with a clear conscience...
...The rreat cause ef melsHon m Women Hold Institute on Employment Miss Perkins Makes Disappointing Analysis of Situation — Socialist View Is Given By Esther Friedman rf IS MUCH to the credit of the League of Women Voters, few ft whose members see visions of breadlines or old age dependency for themselves, that they pursue their research and legislative activities in working class problems...
...Insull's Man Smith Wins Primary Race Sam Insult, utility grabber, had his own little primary election victory in the nomination of hie man Frank L. Smith for congressman at large in the Republican primary...
...Spargo akso says: 'These paid lecturers did not attempt to present objective facts.' Well, maybe he didn't...
...Such was Dr...
...This Conference of delegates ind members of Labor and Socialist organizations and others in sympathy with the struggle for ecmomlc justice and liberty, respondng to a call issued by the forenost leaders of the International Labor and Socialist Movement, loins in the world-wide protest tgajflgt the j-ejrn of terror fat prevails in Soviet Russia...
...Comrade Gottlieb Mayer, 2702 Balnbridge avenue, N»< York City, and to whom yon wi kindly direct your remittance* . Fellow - workers and friend* There- is nothing nobler, nothisf more inspiring and nothing more necessary than gratitude to tit pioneers of our labor movement Let us show our enemies how the class-conscious proletariat appreciates the work of its veterans, ho» it honors them, how it takes ctn of them...
...Since both man were convicted upon the mmm» evidence and he is doubting ehatjr innocence, he is quite willing to let the supreme court study the case and he will consider their recommendation...
...Other speakers were Sergius Inrerman and J. Weinberg, president rf the Workmen's Circle...
...What Claudius Huston knows about the intrigues with the Klan on the one hand and the Negro machine leaders on the other, during the 1928 presidential campaign which brought Hoover into the White House, is a great deal...
...Cedric Long to the convention, is the launching of the Eastern Wholesale society...
...The convention voted to add milk to the business of the new wholesale...
...auditor, reported the financial condition of all the members to be good except two, an excellent showing considering the present depression...
...Miss Perkins declared...
...News of Karlin's death came as i shock to his numerous friends In he Socialist movement, who share vtth the members of the family he loss they have sustained...
...This is scarcely startling lews and I want to thank the National Electric Light Association 'rom the bottom of my heart for their diligent efforts to make it jublic," the Socialist leader said, deferring to charges Lhat public >wnership advocates are lecturing n colleges, Mr...
...This is scarcely startling news and I want to thank the National Electric Light Association from, the bottom of my heart for their diligent efforts to make It public I also want to thank them for attributing to our modest efforts an influence and power which it greatly heartens us to contemplate...
...All these "imports" and "derecta" were evidently just political palaver that disturbed no great tnipd in or out of office...
...Van Doren Declares Humanism a Menace...
...Nemmer Chairman...
...Please send all suggestions, «* quests for additional lists ins If] •Uberal donations to the fiM*3 secretary, Gottlieb Mayer, *m Balnbridge avenue, New York Faithfully anticipating a natal wide response to our urgent • peal, we greet you...
...I Since the hard times of 1912, Socialists have repeatedly introluced practical bills including long and short range programs to lessen the suffering unemployment iniicts upon workers and their families...
...Lastly It was urged that housePolders attend to their spring cleaning, repairing and gardening at once and give a job wherever possible...
...Thomas said...
...A. Wirkkula, one of the directors of the Easten States League, is the manager...
...The worst effects of the depression were in the central states, where two or three cooperatives went under in regions of long-continued mine unemployment...
...This hover s by no means enough...
...That will do no more than stave off hunger and dispossess...
...Each year the works?*' output increases but he lives almost the same mean, poor life, with added insecurity in his job due to technological progress,, and a nearer ild age dependency, as though his tabors had little or nothing to do with the nation's growing riches...
...He was born n Russia and in 1892 came to the Jnited States where he identified timself with the Socialist movenent, serving it in every effort hiring the pioneering period when he basis for the present Socialist tarty was laid...
...that the much advertised deficit was properly incurred because it was theaper to pay a deficit than to iccelerate rising prices by raising 'reight rates during war years...
...It was refreshing to hear tier slam the sham of those "Forward America" posters that shriek out their lies on our highways...
...Russian Socialists face a reign jf terror and it is a tragedy that IO many people here believe that be terror is directed only against tounter-revolutionists...
...Resolution Adopted R. Abramovitch of the executive rf the La.bc* and Socialist International reported on the situation yt the political prisoners and exles...
...N. Marquer of the Workmen's Furniture Fire Insurance Society told now his organizatioc gives insurance at minimum rates to 55,000 members insured for I total of $60,000,000...
...It is Huston's opinion that If Hoover was thick-skinned enough to use Huston, the water power lobbyist, as his agent in pulling the South away from the Democratic party on a religious issue, he ought not to run away when a Senate lobby committee show operations in connection with his lobbying against public operation at Muscle Shoals...
...X ear book Issued Henry Askeli of the educations committee reported that man] meetings had been held and speakers furnished to other in teres tec groups...
...Charges Defends Utilities "The power trust's bosom friend, the ex-socialist, John Spargo, is quoted to the effect that he was one of various lecturers who discussed public ownership and Socialism under the auspices of the League for Industrial Democracy or of the Socialist Party long before public utilities made any effort to reach these channels...
...This against the -r.iinr.na of the power trust spent n propaganda and in 'good-will' advertising...
...Member] and total insurance have increased steadily for 58 years...
...The deceased, who was a brother rf William Karlin, prominent So•ialist lawyer and speaker, died on ipril 14, at the age of 54, after i prolonged illness...
...I never talked of 'tearing up' or "wiping out' the constitution...
...We send our fraternal greeting to the victims of this persecution and express our firm confidence that the Labor and Socialist International will continue its struggle .against the political terrorism which, while practiced in the name of the proletariat, is in fact the blackest insult to the high ideals of- Socialism...
...Today, when the crisis cries to ligh heaven, the Wagners are beginning to commence, to start, to talk of these "socialistic" and "paternalistic" measures, like public Employment exchanges, p u b l ic works, social insurance and such...
...We hereby appeal to your generosity, to your solidarity, to your humanity' Help US in OUT HOttte undertaking, make the erection st this needed wing possible by your liberal financial and viorai support: Help 'is by spreading a kind west amongst your friends and neiftibors...
...Besides the Constitution of the State of California d^es not permit Mm to pardon Billings, who Is a second time offender, except upon recommendation by the supreme court of the* state...
...and has thrown scores of aged men and women oh the industrial Ktrap-heap, out on the street Amongst these unfortunates are some of the best the most reliable pioneers of the American Labor Movement...
...Miss Perkins quoted Mr...
...Wage working women would do tvell to imitate such sustained will...
...In the fleeting five minutes given to hear the Socialist contribution to the problem the case for the Socialist Rarty was stated somewhat as follows: "The recently reported 40% intrease in million dollar incomes s proof of the fact that low wages, as maintains for example, n the candy and laundry industries we heard of this morning, and the general unemployment Indicated by Miss Perkins, are not due to laziness of the workers, cor to the poverty of the country,' but iue to the grossly unequal distribution of our national wealth...
...He was during nost of that period a member of he JTth Assembly District branch, he Bronx...
...Charge Socialist Plot National Electric Light Association Alleges Socialist Party Favors Government Ownership...
...May we therefore hope tnst t* ery class-conscious man or womtf who reads our urgent appeal w* fall in line with the many th* are already doing their share * collectors or contributors to * Building Fund for the erection I the new wing to the Home, tm committee also appreciates the * ceipt of names and addresses 1 individuals as well as org...
...Their well-paid researchers seem to have overlooked the fact —possibly intentionally?—that the Brooklyn Eagle a few days later published a letter from me correcting many misstatements in this interview which is the only one in my somewhat long experience in which I had reason to suspect a reporter of deliberately misrepresenting me...
...The League has 24 paid-up member-societies—cooperative groceries, bakeries, bouses, :redit unions, and others—with 14.000 individual members, doing 1 business totalling between eight ind ten million dolars yearly...
...which Socialists think desirable...
...Babbitt will assail the ideas rf Walter Lippmann as advanced In bis "A Preface to Morals" and also the philosophy of experience as expounded by Prof...
...Buffalo, always the worst spot in hard times, still holds first >lace, because, in her opinion, the rreat corporations that operate in Buffalo cannot make rapid changes n management However, somehag has been accomplished...
...declaring that politicals in the Hussion prisons are doomed to extinction...
...His later career has rather increased Socialist suspicion that Mr...
...Men and women that lave all thai- lives toiled and sacrificed for the benefit of the working class are now in dire need of rare and shelter: lack of space lowever, prevents their taking isU the Home which they are so rightfully entitled to...
...It would have been more frank to lave it say 'offered and rejected.' "The title of this document is The Radical Campaign Against American Industry.' Principally it >roves that a number of organisations and individuals, the Social-, st Party, the League for Indusrial Democracy, and I personally being very prominent among them, believe in the public ownership and public operation of public utilities...
...profits and tertain other features of governr...
...Was Active in Party New York City Socialists, and iarticuiarly those who have been nore active in organization afairs, and therefore better acquainted with him, mourn the >assing of Joseph Karlin, for more nan 25 years a member of the Socialist...
...The main platforms of the new party must t>e social insurance to stabilize the 'roller-coaster incomes" of the working class...
...We applaud the work of the Relief Society for Socialist Prisoners and Exiles in Soviet Russia, and resolve on the formation of a permanent Labor Committee to assist this Society...
...Depression Felt Slightly W. E. Regli...
...Public ownership rf power is a vital necessity in our modern world...
...Question Is Put A reporter then put the following question to the Governor: "Governor, speaking again of the Mooney and Billings case, these men wars convicted by a certain Judge and a certain Jury upon certain evidence...
...Douglas' answer to tbose misguided liberals and progressives who believe' they can capture the machinery of the old parties...
...They are shamefully misleading...
...Fraternally, ^ BUILDING FUND COMMIT" OF THE SOCIALIST BaSal SOCIETY, INC...
...He imagines that Hoover does not want the political curtains snatched aside...
...This party will be built by men ind women with moral courage ind vision who are willing to derote their spare time to propaganda work of all sorts—street torner meetings, distribution of literature, etc...
...Legisative agents of the labor movement were informed April i& by Speaker Long-worth that he would lot entertain a motion to suspend be rules, so that the postal workers' 44-hour bill could be Brought to a vote...
...Young Puts Mooney Case Up to Court California Governor Declares He Has No Power and Doubts Prisoners' Innocence (By a Xew Leader CeeTeapeeaVeal) SAN DIEGO...
...Group Formed To Aid Soviet Politicals Committee Will Carry On Relief Work for Socialist Prisoners and Exiles » LABOR committee of fifty L M . members will cooperate with the Relief Society for Socialist Prisoners and Exiles in Soviet Russia...
...Morris Hillquit said that while Socialists have their special tasks lere they cannot be silent regardng the terrible situation in Russia...
...In Gay Bed Binding Mr...
...To provide money for ihese schemes income and tane'e taxes must be greatly intreased...
...We denounce the cruel persecution inflicted by the Soviet Government upon the Russian Socialists and workers who are starving for the establishment of democratic institutions as an indispensable means to the emancipation of Labor and the realization of the Socialist ideal...
...This statement was made in answer to a question put to him at a lecture he delivered at the open forum erf the Unitarian Church by who asked him why he had not pardoned Mooney and Billings...
...It was decided to use the Eastern Wholesale Society as a connecting link Among other speakers wen Pres...
...is reproduced in photo-static form in the book, is is a cartoon which appeared arlth the interview picturing the Socialist leader tearing up the Federal Constitution and consignng it to a waste basket Underscored in the book are statements illeged to have been made by Mr...
...It will now be letter...
...The State Labor Department has suc:eeded in making contacts with he various personal managements vho have agreed to confer with iach other w i t h a view to stabilizng the industry...
...The unscrupulous intensifies^ rf modern manufacturing in cos Unction with the ruthless and our tiless exploitation of labor by oar present capitalistic system, hai nade the elderly worker undesirable as an object of further exploitation and producer of profit...
...Professors in colleges were not privately subsidized under cover until the power trust found a way...
...Constructive work was already >eing done, said Miss Perkins...
...The worst is over...
...editor of the Saturday Review of Literature, also win take part in the controversy on the new humanistic movement Harry Hansen, literary editor of the World, will preside...
...The poorest countries of Europe can afford it Why can't we...
...They have worked out a scheme for taking all funds away from the chairman, thereby possibly ending his dinners and private cars for chorus girls, and cramping his style at the poker table But Huston has spent so much money in his carefree fashion that he cannot he expected to take placidly the sudden divorce of Himself from the payroll and the expense account of the natienal committee...
...has been around $30,000 annually...
...Henry Seidel Canby...
...Hoover's lramatic statement in 1921: "There s no economic, failure so terrible n its import as that of a country possessing a surplus of every netessity of life, In which members willing and anxious to work are leprived of these necessities...
...WhereaJi the fact is that this wealth is produced not om the stock market but in the mines, mills and workshops of the land...
...that if the managers of the railroads sabotaged government operation— they, who were the same nen who had managed the rail-oads under private ownership, were guilty of virtual treason in war time...
...The conference adopted the following resriution...
...Algernon Lee presided...
...The second recommendation we offer is based on the fact now disputed by no informed person that unemployment is not the fault of the worker but is "a major defect of modern capitalism...
...He shrinks from the sort of brawl that Huston promises to start if the administration pretends that Huston is the family black sheep...
...He jaid that it is the duty of Ameri:an workers and Socialists to protest against political terror in Ruslia and to help the relief society :o carry on its work...
...Smith was the obliging politician who took large cash presents for his campaign fund for the Senate from Sam while Frank was still chairman of the state utilities commission from which Sam was constantly getting favors...
...The cooperative institute held for the first time US...
...Thomas' statement follows: "The National Electric Light Association, which for certain purposes is the organ of the five holdng corporations which dominate the whole power industry in the United States, has issued in a gay red binding- the set of exhibits and the brief it unsuccessfully offered be Federal Trade Commission, rhe title page says the brief was offered' to the Commission...
...Therefore Industry should stand this cost of relief...
...think they have a great deal to lope from the Socialist program...
...Will Debate May 9 Carl Van Doren...
...At the time of his tenth he resided at 448 Central *ark West, with his wife, Amelia, ind his daughter, Margaret...
...Thomas said, be book sets out to prove that the Socialist Party favors public ownership...
...The governor did not get ruffled, but said that he had spent two Tfi/rptha studying the court literature of their case and even though some of the testimony is discredited, there is sufficient evidence left, that was not discredited, to make ariwi doubt the Innocence of the prisoners...
...Spargo that at present we are deeply interested in objective facts and proud of whatever we have done directly or indirectly to help discover them...
...3ut then, Rochester wasn't quite io badly hit as Buffalo...
...Irvtag Babbitt, of Harvard University, on Friday evening...
...I discussed in answer to questions changes in the constitution, such as the direct election of President, etc...
...Mrs...
...lessors in colleges were not •privately subsidized under cover until the power trust found a way...
...Power Trust's Anxiety "In certain respects, the whole tone of this brief of the Electric Light Association is Indicated by the entirely unsubstantiated statement in the summary which refers itterly without evidence of "the :olosaal and expensive failure of government operation of the railroads during and after the war.' the facts are that government operation of the railroads during ind "after the war succeeded when private operation was failing...
...Douglas Praises Work Of the Socialist Party PHILADELPHIA.—Speaking at i dinner given in his honor by the Philadelphia chapter of The League for Industrial Democracy, Professor Paul Douglas of Chicago University stressed the absolute lecessity for a political party based upon the Socialist philosophy, to tope with the ever Increasing problems of our economic and social irder...
...Started last March, it now has 10 stockholder member societies and 33 cooperatives »mnmg its customers...
...Hence his resistance to that move would probably be as bitter as though he had been removed from office...
...If Huston skated on thin ice by diverting to his marginal account In a brokerage office the rood advanced to him in trust by the Duke power interests, he remembers that he skated on much thinner ice during his Hoover campaign...
...They are committed to an outw o r n Individualist philosophy which cannot cope with modem mdustrial problems...
...Finally, it should be said bat no Socialist es-er recommended the guarantee of...
...If American industry means the srofit takers, I hope they have same reason to fesr both the immediate and the...
...Thai being the case the governor was going to act in accordance with his own conscience regardless of popularity...
...If American industry neans the great masses of workers as producers and consumers...
...Both old parties are dominated by capitalst interests and unscrupulous politicians who will countenance no tampering with the economic order...
...workers' increasing output at wealth...
...Now both the judge and the jury have stated that if they had known then what they know now about some of the evidence, they would not have convicted the men...
...This false interview furnishes the text for the National Elecrtic Light Association's argument...
...At the same meeting the undersigned Building Fund Committee wis elected and instructed to rant without delay, the necessary funk Fellow-workers...
...Unhappily, unemployment is not being dramatized though its consequences are tragic...
...Miss Perkins didnt say so in just those words but she did say so in the tonfession that "this crisis (1929$0) found us unprepared...
...editor of the Literary Guild, will attack "Humanism" as reactionary, unscientiBc, unrealistic and as "A Class Doctrine" in his debate with Prof...
...a relief established in most of the European countries...
...Rice, soups, flour, coffee, macaroni and other products are now put up specially, with the cooperative label and -high quality guaranteed...
...The Socialist Party, for its national office, has had even leas to spend...
...ultimate program rf Socialism in its effect on their irofits...
...Also he has been Informed that juries always say that the prisoner should be pardoned when the responsibility is no longer theirs and another man has to shoulder the responsibility...
...The depression has delayed collections slightly in some cases but the members appear to be strong enough to pull through...
...This was the result of a con'erence held in the Rand School on \.pril 21 which was attended by L50 delegates and about 200 guests...
...We recognize the duty of all workers and friends of freedom to come to the aid of the victims of this persecution...
...Nutt is a big business mam...
...Total sales for the 10-months period exceeded $200,000, and showed a slight profit $147,561 was sales in groceries, and the rest coal, which was handled cheaply for cooperatives...
...I do not know the budgets of all the organizations mentioned in this brief but I venture to guess they do not total in any year the met of preparing and circulating this brief...
...Lions to whom collection lists n«$* successfully be sent...
...I wondered as I listened where Miss Perkins was when Berger and LondorT* In Congress and Shiplacoff and Waldman in Legislature^ had time and again introduced just that kind of preparedless measures...
...Calif.—Governor C. C. Young has definitely passed the Mooney case on to the supreme court of California, claiming that he has not the power to pass upon it...
...A wholesale society was essential to aelp coopers tors compete in mass buying with large store groups...
...l a l s l l s a i h • t l i e u i . easawgiI al ??fJi5...
...Administration leaders do not know what to do, to persuade Huston that he should quietly leave the stage...
...The Discussion Guild, which is eponsoring this literary event, directed the debates in New York in which Bertrand Russell appeared last year...
...Joseph Karlin Dies...
...The head lines of the story ran, "Huge Audience Warms to Wit and Personality of Norman Thomas...
...Party and one of its most levoted supporters...
...Intelligence and courage...
...Miss Frances Perkins, State Iniustrial Commissioner, received an ivation...
...Treasurer Nutt is said to be Hoover's preference for the chairmanship, If Huston can be gotten out without too much scandal...
...There are, however, a few corrections and comments that may be in order...
...Frankly, we were utterly disappointed...
...We pledge our own moral and financial support to it tn its task of disseminating information, rousing public opinion, and providing material relief for the Rusian Socialist prisoners and exiles...
...I have in mind Unemployment Insurance...
...The well-paid researchers of' the National Electric Light Association seem to have overlook-* ed the fact—possibly intentionally ?—that the Eagle a few days later published a letter from me correcting many misstatements in this interview which is the only one in my somewhat long experience in which I had reason to suspect a reporter ef deliberately misrepresenting me," Mr...
...John Spargo, Aiding Power Trust, Says He Was Not Objective — Isn't Now Either, Thomas Says A BOOK entitled "The Radical Campaign Against American Industry...
...the only qusN location required is previous aj tlvity...
...Founded In 1909 by ass-conscious worktngmen for the benefit rfold and disabled fellow-wcrkera his organization has conUnuotah endeavored to keep step with thi ever increasing demand for flnas, :ial aid made by the veterans of he political and Industrial Labm Movement of America Probably the most gralifyis* achievement made by this organisation was the acquisition of i arge farm in the foot-hills of tat lealtb-restoring Catskill Moae tains at Catskill, Ulster County Thus a beautiful dream can* true, a permanent home for our iged was established...
...Hoover is so worried by what Huston "has on" him that he has carefully refrained from proposing that Huston get out And Huston, in ill-mannered scorn, has sent a .message to Hoover to the effect that If Hoover dares make the demand of him directly the fireworks will start...
...sad Friends...
...help us by circulating among them collection lists, which npa request will be cheerfully supplied by the financial secretary of th* committee...
...All industry must tome under an everincreasing social control...
...But I can assure Mr...
...I am sure that none of us who helped to pack our largest hall that ervening will ever forget the splendid address which was given by the recent candidate for the presidency of the United States en the Socialist ticket One of our strongest debaters remarked In my class the next morning that it was the finest thing he had heard during his four years at Bucknell University and that seemed to echo ana •eat[Ili^Ml o f o g r sfitde^ jgdy...
...May 9, at Carnegie Hall, under the auspices of the Discussion Guild...
...In due consideration of these rrave facts, the last general meeting of the Socialist Relief Societj las unanimously resolved to esiarge the home by adding a »*• rod wing to the main building...
...One of them is as emphatic about the men's innocence ss the other is about their guilt...
...The National Electric Light Association publishes a photostatic copy of an interview and cartoon of me which appeared in the Brooklyn Eagle for June 3, 1928...
...Hew would you suggest that the states legal procedure be reorganized, that such a declaration by the judge and jury should free the men automaticall y ?" The governor introduced his answer by stating that evidently the questioner was not aware that two judges had sat on the case...
...Immediate relief is at hand In ilanned building of hospitals, prising, (we learn that England is :losing down prisons because of ack of inmates) and roads...
...For instance, the League for Industrial Democracy is proud of the fact that it originally set up the Committee on Coal and Power which is, however, an independent organization...
...We have acted in the >pen...
...A delegate from the floor added be need for a shorter workday md work week...
...Spargo virtually admits that in those days what be did was done openly and without any attempt at deceit...
...just issued by the National Electric Light Association, :ontains as its text a false interview with Norman Thomas, Socialist Party leader...
...In Rochester Miss Perkins has lot found that willingness among personal managements to meet' md strive toward stabilization...
...1 beUsvs thai has...
...Huston Makes Threats of Scandals If He Is Fired Hoover and G. O. P. Forced to Keep Discredited National Chairman WASHINGTON —(TP)— Presence at the White House of Treasurer Nutt and Chief Counsel Burke of the Republican national committee has led to discovery that Chairman Claudius Huston has not only refused to resign, but h as sent word to President HooWrTTbrough Secretary of War Hurley, that If dismissed he may tell what he knows...
...At the beginning our leart swelled with pride, being a sit of a feminist, at Miss Perkins' tharm...
...Thomas pointid out this week that he repudiated be interview soon after it appeared In the Eagle and that the Eagle tarried his correction...
...Pa.—The coming of Norman Thomas to Bucknell University under the auspices of our* Sociological Society a year ago last fall gave the editor of our university paper an opportunity to win second place in the national news contest conducted by Pi Delta Epstlon, honorary journalistic fraternity, carrying a $35 prize...
...Yet this wealth goes in ever greater measure to fatten tbose already fat "The Socialist Party directs your attention to a constructive approach to the problem of unemployment, namely, the need to inincrease the worker's purchasing power...
...They were always referred x> committees and there they died...
...summer at Brookwood under the direction of Edward Cohen and Cedric Long was so successful that it will be repeated this summer, probably for a longer time Weekend conferences will also U held...
...He detlared that it is a tragedy that so nany Russian Socialists and revilutionSjts who bad served in the itruggle against Czarism are now exiled or Imprisoned in Russia...
...That is, they have a great deal to lope from the planned and ordered >peration of basic indutries and lervices for use and not for profit, rhe anxiety of the power trust is easily understood when one reads >f the 105 per cent, profit on its ixpenses of operating subsidiaries, nade in 1927 by the Electric Bond tnd Share Company...
...Quentin Reynolds, of the Eastern States Farmers Exchange ol Springfield, Mass., a society with 30,000 members, addressed the League on the need for closer cooperation between farmers and city workers so that they can save for themselves the benefits assessed by middlemen...
...The outstanding achievement of the League this year, according to the report of Sec...
...The Senate threw Frank out but ha may slip into the lower house in November...
...It will be built by people like Socialists who recognize they have a moral obligatoln to leave the world a better place to live in than they found it Cooperative Societies Hold N.Y.Convention 30 Organizations Represented at Eastern States Session at Amalgamated Houses COOPERATORS from 30 different cooperative societies attended the Eastern States Cooperative League convention held at the comfortable Amalgamated Cooperative Apartments, pioneeer workers' bousing cooperative in New York...
...Let us hope they will not be running like Alice in Wonderland and still staying in the same place till b e next crisis...
...Those who believe salvation can be obtained through a political Moses in either the Democratic jr Republican parties are romanticists who refuse to face the bard realities of the situation...
...For the rest, Mr...
...I know that the budget rf the League for Industrial Democracy for all of its work, much rf it wholly unrelated to public itilities...
...The vested nterests will allow no tampering with the creed of rugged individualism...
...John Dewey, of CMambia University...
...W*e had no\>rogram...
...Douglas believes the Socialist party is preparing the way for am Ajmericam Labor Party...
...they secretly, in their propaganda...
...Within the limitations of capacity our home is open to any dt and needy victim of the clasr struggle without discrtrninati* against any wing or fraction at the political or progressive industrial labor movement...
...Prof...
...We appeal te all Labor and Socialist organizations in America to contribute promptly and liberally to the Relief Fund which is being raised by the Society, and request our committee to give the widest postible publicity to the international call and to this resolution...
...What can be worse, she uks, than a man beating the sidewalks in vain search for work...
Vol. 10 • March 1930 • No. 13
