Nonpartisan Action Divides Workers In Penn. Primaries
Nonpartisan Action Divides Workers In Penn. Primaries A. F. of L. Endorses Owen J. Roberts For Supreme Court WASHINGTON. — (FP) —The only statement issued as a result - of the sessions of...
...Simpson, "The policy of rewarding friends and punishing enemies, and until the United States gets away from this policy, it will be hard for us to get away from it...
...This resulted in many of the drivers "ghost riding" or "riding their tips," which means that a driver who was afraid of' losing his job would drive the cab with the meter registering and pay for the bookings out of his earnings...
...Tickets just mailed to party members have been apportioned so that the members of each branch will have one or more rows specifically reserved...
...Hundreds of workers — tailors, pressers, operators, cutters, men and women from all over the country—taking possession, temporarily, at least, of the most beautiful hotel in the British Empise, the Royal York of Toronto...
...Demoralization has crept into the trade union movement because of the kind of political policy it follows...
...Besides his contract with the Pennsylvania Railroad, Vare has other jobs with the Bell Telephone Company and other public utility corporations...
...Future mobs are likely to be discouraged by severe punishment...
...It is estimated between 3,000 and 4,000 of the audisnce will be from the ranks of the party, other organizations parti:ipating in the affair supplying the rest...
...Approximately fifty delegates attended...
...One must be blase and cynical indeed, not to become a bit heady and exhilarated with it all...
...The McKibben Street garage, having had trouble of a similar nature, went out on a sympathy strike...
...Labor leaders are feeling the pressure of the growing sentiment...
...is the reluctant confession of the U. S. Employment Serv, ice...
...Three weeks later a schedule containing over 2,000 names was turned in without a single report of unemployment...
...At the nine o'clock open forum...
...Now the cry is that Soviet trade with the United States be put on the defensive before a political committee that dare not acquit the accused...
...Friday morning the men of the Thirteenth Street garage walked out Tuesday morning the men of the 134th Street garage also joined, leaving only two of the eight garages operating...
...eries by the Socialist party...
...Only a person acquainted with the condition of the New York tailors during the last three extremely poor seasons— poorer than at any time since 1915, it is said—can appreciate what this means...
...and they meant it...
...membership...
...told how the Hart Schaffner and Marx workers of Chicago agreed to give up 1500 garments a week for a year to the Milwaukee factory so that the Milwaukee workers might win their struggle, told of the housecleaning that was needed and effectively carried out in one city— a steward giving an account of his office...
...This strike involves 2,000 cars and over 4,000 men...
...Independent Politics Urged They say that this is not the most exciting Amalgamated Convention...
...WHALENS ACCOMPLISHMENTS EIGHT months ago New York's one and only Grover \ . Ualen said that he had gangsters on the run and that there were no '"Hy organized gangs in New York...
...Gandhi and the Congress leaders would have accepted such a conference when it was suggested last November if as an earnest of good faith there had been amnesty for political prisoners and some assurance that the conference could work out a program of Dominion home rule and not merely discuss reform...
...Here was spirit and enthusiasm and inspiration unalloyed, unwearied, with no trace of cynicism or sophistication...
...There may have been more fireworks, more of the spectacular in other conventions, but from one angle this Convention is highly exciting...
...At the Hooper Street garage the police searched all men sitting in a restaurant on the corner, but al30 found nothing...
...He withdrew...
...General Atterbury...
...There certainly seem to be grounds for suspicion that the census is being manipulated for political purposes...
...member of the board of governors of the College Club of Baltimore, and also chairman of the committee on international relations of the College Club...
...On seven it got exactly nothing...
...The tactics employed by the labor lesMers in support of the colorless Brown and the man who receives a stipend for everyone initiated into the Moose order, is clever...
...It will be interesting to see the Philadelphia union ten or fifteen years from now...
...Saint-Saens has praised her con;eption as a great interpretative :reation...
...Thursday the strikers invited Norman* Thomas to speak...
...The men refused the offer...
...The conservative viceroy gave no such assurances and in no degree mitigated the lot of Imprisoned political offenders or lightened repressive rules...
...Gains 15,000;Meets In Toronto Union Records Great Achievements in Many Fields —Phila...
...Broun wrote the following- regarding the Emergency Kitchen: "When public announcement was Bads the other day that breadtines were ending there was much rejoicing...
...She also would have a skilled engineer watch all state power matters, to the end that there would be -no future action such as letting the Conowingo power development go to Pennsylvania, she asserted...
...They said that if he did not...
...On Saturday, representatives of the company asked the men to go back to work promising to arbitrate while the men were at work...
...Reports came also of the marked resurgence of Socialist spirit in San •Francisco which offers ground fully as fertile as Los Angeles for party growth...
...The only 1 country whose trade with the I United States increased was the Soviet Union...
...Pinchot has i large following, Grundy, managed to secure some support...
...Something must be done quickly to divert the people's attention...
...Yet on the basis of these charges I urged the New York Telegram to take up the investigation which led to Grand Jury action...
...In the federal field she sets public ownership and democratic control of great industries as a major aim and is strongly opposed to the "grabbing" of power resources by private ownership...
...It succeeded "^i in burning the Negro to death and the courtWmm h o u s c w i t h h u D - h destroyed a considerable j | § . . part of the Negro quarter of the town...
...He has also addressed a radio audence that many believe was paid for by Vare people...
...The obvious implication left is to vote for Davis...
...WKST FRUITS OF THE TARIFF OUR tariff of abominations, even before it is a law, has cost America heavy increases in "countervailing" duties on at **ast $225,000,000 of our exports to Canada which is our best customer...
...While the major industries were in operation, curtailed schedules continued in many, necessarily affecting a large number of workers...
...BRONX FREE FELLOWSHIP "An American's Impression of India" will be the topic of Dr...
...Women's Trade Union League Permits Atterbury Money To Pay For Its Literature 'VICTORY' BUG BITES KENSINGTON MEN One Aids Grundy, An other P i n c h o t, and Third Is For Secretary Davis By Joseph Schwartz PENNSYLVANIA WOMAN3T HOOD MUST D E F E AT GRUNDY...
...EW EXHIBITS ON THE "NEW" TAMMANY TJUDGE VAUSE of Brooklyn is under fire for 5250,000 in illegal P fees, most of it in connection with a pier lease from the city ** the United American Lines...
...Big men with bowed shoulders—pressers...
...During the strike there has been no violence, despite the fac...
...Frank Rosenblum, scholarly and practical, also of Chicago: sensitive, idealistic Joseph Schlossberg...
...It offered thirteen demands...
...Timely Topics By Norman Thomas More Lynch Law in the South—The Way Out In IndiaTbe Future of the Supreme Court—Non-Partisan Politics In New York—Whalen'* Latest Literary Effort—Feeding the Jobless 14 SOURS IN A SOUTHER* "ATHENS" -^HERMAN, Texas, has a population of slightly more than \3 16.000...
...That the leagut is not paying for the printing oi the leaflet or even the postage is obvious...
...4. The right to establish garage stewards to receive complaints in case of unfair treatment 5. All men active in this strike to be taken back to work without descrimination...
...What have Sherman's good citizens to say ? Will they carry gat the proposal of a clergyman that the Negroes be recompensed for the damage done to their property...
...have already been placed on salt in various parts of the city...
...Primaries A. F. of L. Endorses Owen J. Roberts For Supreme Court WASHINGTON...
...The effect on employment, in a depression already serious, can be foreseen...
...The Convention is just beginning...
...Judge Parker was defeated but Mr...
...Such is the price we pay for tariff which at test may help one worker out of fifty...
...95 rc of whom are whites...
...More than 2,800 hackmen are out...
...The prevailing feeling in labor jircles is chaotic...
...girls from Kentucky and Rochester and Toronto—young, for the most part, and thrilled and thrilling...
...It is known at the capitol that manufacturers who are filling orders for machinery to be sold to the Soviet Union are opposed to this interference with trade...
...Later in the afternoon a feraup of policemen led by a captain entered the hall and lined up the men for searching...
...They talk about Boston in 1900 and Chicago in 1924 and Rochester way back in '16...
...Clerk of the Court of Appeals, Mr...
...This created ill-will among the drivers against the company...
...Anyone fa [miliar with the financial difficul i ties of the Women's Trade Uniot League chapters will realize that $5,000 for a year's simple maintenance is more than an ambitiou.' plan to realize...
...Socialist interests dots the entire state and the naming of Mrs...
...Richard J. Beamish, a prominent Philadelphian political writer had the following to say about the selection of Davis in the May 14th issue of the Nation:' "The Vare Construction Company has a large and profitable contract with the Pennsylvania Railroad...
...The company says that they are not opposed to organization, if they can control the organization...
...the tariff-fed manufacturers would defeat him in 1932...
...You must take the lead in the political field...
...Other friends of the Amalgamated are arriving with every train...
...The men refused...
...Curtis W. Reese's address at the 8 o'clock Fellowship Service at the weekly meeting of the Bronx Free Fellowship, Azure Masonic Temple...
...Recently the company cut down the mechanical force to save expenses...
...The real cause of the strike, though, is much deeper than its immediate cause...
...Whether this difference in origin will change the development of the Philadelphia psychology remains to be seen...
...of being the boss of the Brown-Davis candidacy...
...And a program is what is lacking in what puses for progressivism in Washington...
...Again, to defeat Judge Parker is not of itself to curb the dangerous powers of the court to legislate its social and economic prejudices into judge-made law._m.ore unchanging than the laws of Kedes and Persians...
...Just for good measure let me add that not from within but from certain labor unions and the Daily Mirror there is coming a strong and wholesome demand for reform of procedure in the State Bureau of Workmen's Compensation...
...Urges Early Publication "These happenings, coupled with the attempts of the Hoover administration to gloss over the gravity of the unemployment problem,' give rise to a number of questions...
...Grundy or Atterbury-Labor will get It coming or going...
...There is much to be said, much to be done, much to be enjoyed...
...Mario Vallo, of the San Carlo Dpera Company, will sing the riigh Priest...
...We submit Oat this does not meet the requirements of the present situation or the British Labor Party's official promise of cooperation towards •elf-government in its election program...
...In a few days additional agencies will be established to take care of see- i tions not already provided for...
...This resulted in men who pull in for service having to wait hours before they can go to work again, resulting in a great loss of time to the driver...
...The Philadelphia Record, in the May 9th issue, quotes the League secretary as saying that 1,827.114 women voters in the state of Pennsylvania will be mailed a copy oi the leaflet...
...Since the company began business it has used a system whereby the average bookings for the night were computed and all drivers whose bookings were much below the average were "laid off" the next day...
...Panken requests any who do not wish to accept the tickets to return them not later than May 20, . since the party will have to pay for tickets not returned...
...In other words, they want to organize a company union...
...It is held in a city which is part of a country where labor political action is as important as labor industrial action, and the spirit of Ramsay MacDonald and the English Labor Party dominates the imagination...
...When the Brooklyn garages went on strike the men organized a union and are now demanding the elimination of the almost unberable conditions and the recognition of the union, known as the Hackmen's Protective Union...
...There was no real improvement In the iron and steel industry, and the anticipated upward trend in ope rations and employment in these mills .did not materialize...
...This will Mwly still further stimulate American corporations to open branches in Canada which will compete with American labor in the world market...
...Speaking of the policies for which she stood in international, feredal and state affairs, Miss Gilman remarked that although she did overseas work during the World War for two years, her attitude had undergone a change and she is "absolutely for peace in international affairs...
...Millions of dollars were spent in the organization campaign, waged by an organization with prestige and power...
...Urges State Bay Bride" Other resolutions demanded that the state build and operate the Chesapeake Bay bridge, that the United States Government give better treatment to the Indians and petitioning the Governor of California to pardon Thomas Moody and Warren F. Biiiings...
...But the tariff lobbyists laughed, and assured everyone that Hoover would sign any tariff bill that came to him...
...In tiis column on Thursday Mr...
...Thus a newspaper despatch ? T "'A1 1*1 1 5" o f Texas which for SfljF...
...And when one does think of them, it is only for a moment...
...party members, "but you will alts . | have an opportunity to see an unusual presentation of a fzrr.rj opera at popular prices...
...His experience and training have been in a field where he has had wide opportunity to understand the problems which grow out of human relations in industry and those profound economic and social problems which so vitally affect human relationships...
...2. Men to be judged, not by any one night's bookings, but over a longer period, and then a man is not to be dismissed except for a good cause, the organization to be the final judge...
...While the State federation has found it advisable to support the Atterbury candidates, trade-unions and individual members to a considerable extent ire not going along...
...Tomorrow the New Ybrk delegation will present Judge Panken with a boquet of fifty red roses...
...Labor insists that men appointed to such a high and exalted position as the Supreme Court of the United States shall be able, qualified, fair and just...
...Lawreace...
...175 East Broadway: Finnish Socialist Hall...
...In a letter addressed to the members receiving tickets, Jacob Panken has called attention to tit necessity of making this afrair s financial success, if the party's activities are not to be curtailed on the eve of a political campaign...
...The judges did not even hear Mr...
...Panken, Emergency Kitchen, 55 West 25th street You :an convince yourself of the ne:essity of this work by going down -hers, around aooa aox-day...
...The pressure applied to the partially paralyzed former boss of the Quaker City (to withdraw as a senatorial candidate) was too great to be resisted...
...Realizing this, the labor leaders viciously attack Grundy, without attempting to speak favorably for Brown and Davis...
...But the question of mobs, the crowd psychology which Sej behind them, and the special cultural and economical circumstances which make them possible in America, demand investigation...
...If the present drift continues, the Amtorg buying agents may be driven from America...
...Daniel C. Gilman, first president of Johns Hopkins University, Sunday was unanimously chosen' as their candidate for Governor by Maryland Socialists in convention here...
...California, Maryland Socialists Nominate Women for Governor Mrs...
...SALT LAKE CITY — (FP) — I*he Utah State Federation of Labor will convene in Bait Lake Otty September 18...
...Is the census going to serve some real scientific purpose, or is it only a straw vote that can be manipulated for political purposes...
...The returns from the inquiries conducted by the Socialist party an over the country will determine whether or not it has been stopped...
...But the G.O.P...
...Red Flag Floats Over University of Chicago Three Hours May Day 'Be » New Leader Correipondent) CHICAGO.—The news has just leaked out, after attempts at suppression, that the red flag floated for almost two hours from the main flagstaff of the University of Chicago on May Day...
...The Convention itself an amazing recapitulation of achievement, when seen in perspective...
...The large attendance enabled the party to make tickets available to members at popular prices...
...And this tariff is a bipartisan product...
...A third s spending considerable time issur...
...of the extension of unemployment insurance to other cities in the Amalgamated camp...
...More than that, they are winning new garages dally...
...But the breadlines lidn't really end exactly...
...ied suspicion...
...The Women's Trade Unior League is not the only labor organization that is being "taken over'' by the Vare-Atterbury crew...
...1 4 h o u r s was under the dominion of a mob V which resorted to every form of bestial cruelty m in its efforts to lynch a Negro who was already |a9 10 charge or officers of the law...
...Manual C. Parekh will speak on "India in the Throes of a New Birth...
...Other countries are reduc; ing their American purchases...
...That's part of his boaste* progress...
...A mob such as this, while it is raging, can only be met with force and eunmess...
...On May 2, 300 drivers of the Butler Street, Brooklyn, garage of the Motor Cab Transportation System, walked out...
...The Democrats who denounced it all worked for mtes on the things they were interested in...
...President Sidney Hillman...
...The convention adopted resolutions favoring a referendum on the liquor question and the Canadian system of liquor distributive...
...In no W. . part of the civilized world but America would such a thing have been possible...
...Abraham Klein who made the charges...
...May 18...
...7 East 15th street: Jewish Daily Forward...
...Evidence that this is happening in a large Cleveland, Ohio, district, is cited as well as the fact that in another district a census worker has been discharged, but not prosecuted, for having falsified schedules in almost 2,000 instances...
...Working, day by day in the machinery, as the routine of organization work, they cannot always get the viewpoint, the feel of forward movement that the Convention gives...
...Of course we have here," said Mr...
...This is a positive demand and the I most important issue...
...The convention of California Socialists meetings here over the week-end made political history in the state by nominating a woman for governor...
...Miss Elisabeth Gilman, of Baltimore, daughter of the late Dr...
...rges against it were made during the last campaign and have •**a pressed by newspapers, not by the Walker administration...
...But he is a Philadelphia conservative with a corporation point of view...
...The charge is absolutely false...
...But we who are Socialists have a right to plead with our comrades for the sake of a common cause...
...2,800 Taxi Drivers Strike In New York Six of Eight Big Garages Tied Up — Thomas, Claessens Address Men at Meetings By Joe Feiden NEW YORK taxi cab drivers, victimized for many years by a ruthless anti-labor policy, are lifting their heads in determined revolt...
...There is no doubting the increasing enthusiasm for a labor party amongst the rank and file...
...It is part of a labor racket that has been an ulcer in the trade-union movement too many years...
...A certain number of men went iway...
...It was more that they were arbitrarily :ut off...
...of the defeat of the David Adler firm in Milwaukee and the forging of a new weapon as a result of this strike—a union controlled and operated factor...
...That's how New York City is governed and that's the price it pays for re-electing Walker...
...Kate CraneGartz as the party's standard bearer in the state...
...In the course of his talk, wherein he recounted incidentally that in Toronto, the firemen, the street-cleaners and other city employees are labor unionists, Mr...
...But let us see where it leads us...
...The Philly union aint what it used to be, aint what it used to be, the Philly union aint what it used to be," the Philadelphia delegation sang over and over again...
...The Hooper and Middleton Street garages went out shortly after...
...2058 Fifth avenue, corner 127th street: I Brownsville Labor Lyceum, 211 9 Sackman street: Borough Park Labor Lyceum, ltth avenue ass 42nd street Committees have been named bv various branches to visit party members and sympathizers in aa effort to swell the ticket sales...
...Philadelphia practically had the union handed to it on a platter...
...American foreign trade shrank $290,000,000 In the first three | months of this year...
...that six pickets were arrested and charged with threatening to "bump o f f the non-strikers...
...There js a man in Britain, C. F. Andrews by name, who even now has so much confidence in the Indian leaders and people that he might be the negotiator of an honorable peace...
...Complaint was made to the local census office, which scouted the idea that such a thing could happen...
...1591 Boston road, near East 172nd street, on Simday evening...
...If the various elements (including Socialists and labor party folks) ware intelligently organzed the Brown-Davis labor leaders would not be riding so comtortably...
...Participating in the opening of the Convention and offering the delegates the freedom of the city, was James Simpson the Controller of the city of Toronto, elected on the Labor Party ticket...
...Not on jobs, necessarily, but just to try their luck on the 3pen road...
...Locals Asked To Investigate "The executive secretary of the party has asked over 1.000 local Socialist organizations to investigate the taking of the census in their localities and report at once any irregularities such as have been reported from Cleveland, Ohio...
...Philadelphia .despite its conservatism, is gradually moving in the direction of a labor party...
...A.C.W...
...Simpson urged the importance of labor political action...
...Not even a pen-knife was found...
...And honor enough there was in it for all concerned, for the A. F. of L. and other labor bodies, fete the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and other Negro organizations, for the Socialist Party and all progressive eitizens...
...27 churches and a Y. W. C. A. with a b'S...
...The police did this to the men near all the garages...
...Slump, Tariff Parker Beset Hoover's Peace Employment Report On April New Blow-'Red' Probe Seen As Attempt At Red Herring By Laurence Todd WASHINGTON—(F P) — So bad is the outlook for a return to normal industrial activity this year, and so heavy a blow has the Hoover majority in the House dealt industry through its bloated tariff bill which has brought reprisals from abroad, that the Hoover administration now fears that it will lose the House, as well as the Senate, in the November elections...
...She is a member of the State Committee of the Socialist party, director of the Open Forum, of Baltimore...
...Music and flowers and a long Btretch of greenswarded lake fronting the hotel...
...Starring with her will be For:una de Angelis, well known dramatic tenor, who will sing Samson...
...stocky men who have sat long hours at the machine...
...The employment situation exj isting throughout the country in : April cannot be described as satin! factorj...
...Charles L. Meyers, sf Cumberland...
...A local weekly newspaper that boasts of being the only labor paper endorsed by the Central Labor Union, is wrapped up in an anti-Grundy crusade...
...They pointed to the certainty of deepening the business slump if this billion-dollar burden is heaped on the existing load which the consumers must carry...
...The candidates have been bitten by the rictory bug and are using the available forces for their own purpose...
...None has acted by instruction of the League meetng3...
...Another visitor this week was Heywood Broun, noted columnist Df the New York Telegram...
...Former Chief Probation Officer Cooley, a man who enjoyed K excellent reputation in his field, U under indictment and his ^•Pejrtment under investigation...
...That isn't good enough...
...This is true of most important measures as its injunction bill, and its genuinely Socialistic demand for "State ownership and development of public waters and energy therefrom and distribution of procured electric light, heat,' and power to homes, farms and workshops at cost...
...il colleges...
...For the first time since 1900, the American people stand a chance oi knowing the basic facts about unemployment and thus be better able to deal with the problem...
...They pointed to the need for better trade relations with all countries, in order that American export trade may improve...
...They assume that Russian orders will be shifted to England...
...It is the result of conditions existing at all the garages since the company came into existence...
...Branches will receive a ahare of the proceeds...
...Long Active In Party Miss Gilman long has been identified with the party and was actively engaged in social relief work during the miners' strike in West Virginia and at the time of the Western Maryland Railway strike some years ago...
...The total may soon be 4,000...
...Woll has frequently been quoted by antiunion spokesmen like Sen...
...The gain to the party will come from the advance sale of tickets at stations established by the party, and all p»rty members are requested to purchase at the places named...
...FP) —The only statement issued as a result - of the sessions of the executive s conucil of the American Federa- tion of Labor which have just bees • concluded in Washington, was one • from President Green, announcing t that no opposition would be raised - against Owen Roberts, nominated ; to the Supreme Court, from Fed: eration sources...
...However, it is rather unreasoniblc to measure a convsntion hylic excitement it engenders...
...Well, it's something that some citizens are awake...
...He is an able lawyer who did a good job on the oil cases...
...Wednesday evening, August 7, August Claessens spoke to the men and was very favorably received...
...The Board of Standards and Appeals is at last under investitstion charged with selling permits for garages and the like...
...The strike was brought about by the company replacing the regular manager with a man said to have come from Chicago, who treated the men oppressively...
...Toole, of Baltimore...
...Herbert N. Merrtil, Socialist state secretary and a good labor man, has made a summary of this situation which is worth reading in full...
...If to u3e him or to try to apply his spirit meant the downfall of the Labor Government, it might at least mean the salvation of the Socialist ideal which is worth many months of power or seeming power in office for a party whose main preoccupation must be to pull Tory chestnuts out of the Indian fire...
...Telegrams from Norman Thomas and Clarence Senior, national secretary, were received...
...Roberts is eminently fitted to serve i as a member of the Supreme I Court...
...Branches have just been organized in Long Branch and San Bernardino...
...The textile unions in Kensington have placed trade union candidates for legislative office in the Republican primary...
...Hoover, worried sick by the rejection of his injunction judge, Parker, for the Supreme Court, was finally persuaded to abandon his plan of denouncing the Senate and organized labor and the Negro organizations for their showing-up of Parker...
...Information Wanted Readers of The New Leader and their friends are urged to write to the National Office of the Socialist Party giving their experience with the census-takers on dhe employment questions...
...Reports have reached the national headquarters of the Socialist party, however, that would in dicate that either through purposeful neglect of the questions on the unemployment schedule or through gross negligence, the ends that might be served by the census are being endangered...
...Actually whalen has regulated traffic, uniformed his department and made *tot of noise...
...Philadelphia Is High-Spot Philadelphia, of course, was the high-light of the Convention...
...New York alone raised $100,000.00 for Philadelphia...
...Employment is in a desperate plight...
...Non-partisan action in general is better at defeating bad laws than passing good laws...
...The college has an active Socialist club...
...The enumerator has been discharged, although a prison term is the legal penalty for falsifying census returns...
...chairman of the finance committee of the Women's City Club, Baltimore...
...The convention enthusiastically put forward Mrs...
...Anyone acquainted witb political labor in this state car see the Vare money-bags behinc this move...
...Considerable inquiry developed the fact that many of the paper's readers and the members of the South Side community in Cleveland had also been asked only this one question...
...There were many other abuses, such as making the men pay for equipment damaged or stolen while they were at work...
...A fourth candidate has arranged for a Brown-Davis speaker...
...Do the Mitchell Palmer trick...
...N. Y. LABOR'S DEMANDS JUST what happens to labor programs under a non-partisan scheme is illustrated by the failure of the excellent program ofvthe New York State Federation of Labor...
...and Mrs...
...He Issued an announcement that prosperity was coming back—and next day Canada's government began the tariff war, and the stock market went to smash again...
...Hyman Blumberg comanager of New York, witty, incisive, always mentally a jump or wo ahead of everybody...
...First, it was a negative rather than a positive thing...
...I've seen this line, and I can testify that the men, and the women too, who come to the kitchen are desperately in x-ant...
...Eleonore xde Cisneros, whose 'ame on the stage extends over two continents, and who has just -eturned to the United States after i four years' sojourn in Europe...
...Copelsnd, of New Tork, worked for more increases in rates than Reed or Sir • himWf...
...In analysing the result of so puerile a policy one finds that the interests of labor are best served by voting for a Hoover in Pennsylvania, a Smith in New York, or a Cox in California...
...This shift eliminated progressive3 from possible interference with the net projects of the dominant group...
...The mailing and print ing of the flier will cost betweei $20,000 and $30,000...
...Clarence Senior, executive secretary of the Socialist party of America, in a statement issued here Monday, asks the question in view of recent discov...
...It was not born at such terrific personal suffering and sacrifice es were some of the older locals...
...Crane-Gartz Heads Ticket In Western State — Upton Sinclair For Lieutenant Governor LOS ANGELES...
...This situation was largely true in the automobile industry, which continued on a curtailed basis in a number of instances " Hoover In Bad Wav More than a thousand econom- | ists joined in a plea to Hoover to ' veto the Grundy tariff, if Congress dared pass it...
...This transaction was not discovby any city authority but by the Federal district attorney...
...The labor office seekers are pledged to participate in the primary with the object of developing labor party sentiment for the general election, they have completely forgotten their pledge and the purpose of the League...
...is a beautiful leaflet drawn up by the Women's Trade Union League of Pennsylvania The newspapers throughout the state quoted liberally from the text...
...This paper is receiving free distribution in working class districts...
...What we seed is a program which includes a curb on the power of the Supreme Court...
...The Socialist leader addressed the strikers again Monday...
...Smiley...
...Snell's resolution, based on the Fish resolution of Mar...
...The women deserve not only the thanks but support from jT/gressive citizens...
...For a while we held the balance of power,'"* said Mr...
...During the first few days of the strike men from the Communist "Trade Union Unity League" attempted to speak to the men, but were all but "kicked out...
...The clues that led to this action Kpe in the hands of, or available to, the Mayor and judges of General Sessions, who did nothing...
...An inspiration...
...5 which gave Woll, as the authority for charges that Moscow had sent $1,000,000 to be used to overthrow the American government, proposes a dragnet investigation of the Soviet trade organization in this country as well as all other Soviet and 'Communist enterprises and groups in the United States...
...Reed of Pennsylvania as demanding the Grundy tariff, on behalf of "labor...
...One of the most important projects now under way is the taking of a federal census «f the unemployed," Mr...
...1. Recognition of the union...
...Comptroller...
...W. W. Atterbury, President of the Pennsylvanian, is the Pennsylvania member of the Republican National Committee and is overlord of the Philadelphia War Board...
...They are held in $200 bail each...
...All the rest reduced their contribution to employment in American factories and mills...
...Anyone deeply concerned about the election of the reactionary Grundy has little to hope for in Davis...
...Let the House order an investigation of Communist activities: Well, Easley Urged Probe Chairman Snell of the House Rules Committee told The Federated Press, May 13, that Matthew Woll and Ralph Easley of the National Civic Federation had asked him to bring about such an investigation...
...Joseph Martiaek, editor of a local labor paper, has reported that he was asked only one question in regard to employment, 'What is your occupation?' Obviously this does not cover the situation, since a man may be a machinist, carpenter, or blacksmith and not be at work...
...Brown was slated . . . and James J. Davis was selected for senator...
...The Woman's Section of the Socialist Party Is maintaining a kitchen now it 55 West 25th street There is 3. lack of supplies and no lack of hungry mouths...
...This has resulted in considerable iistcntion and confusion and has iro...
...drafted from the Chicago organization, jovial and hearty, always...
...Canada, threatened by the Grundy tariff, has struck back at American steel mills...
...I suggest to people who helped in the Give a Job campaign .hat they send money, milk, foodstuffs to Mrs...
...Others nominated on the ticket were: For Attorney - General, William A...
...Are the enumerators influenced directly or indirectly, or are they committing these queer mistakes on their own responsibility ? "Since the enumerator gets two cents extra for filling out the unemployment schedule, it scarcely seems likely that a man will voluntarily cheat hrnrr—lf unless instructed to do so, either definitely or by suggestions given by superiors, either on the census force or in the Republican machine...
...They are immediately dissipated by the knowledge that such things cannot be wholly avoided in any organization so large and powerful as the Amalgamated, and that in the Amalgamated they are at an almost irreducible minimum and that they are not countenanced by the overwhelming rank and file nor by the men at the helm of the organization...
...so with Davis...
...A union has been set up, called the Hackmen's Protective Union, which seeks affiliation with the American Federation of Labor through the teamsters' international...
...rhig may not be as exciting as a revolution, or it may be much nore exciting, as you look at it Certainly the potentialities are exciting enough...
...There must be others, but these, at the present moment give the impression of being everyat once, looking after the comfort of the delegates and friends of the Convention...
...If, in the first place persons are not asked whether or not they are unemployed, and in the second place if, as the director of the census has Indicated, the statistics are not to be released for many months, it would seem as if this much-heralded unemployment census would be worse than useless...
...It is somewhat | M to the credit of Texas that the Governor has • put the town under martial law and that there V have been actually arrests of the alleged leadIP^ e r s of the mob...
...Claudius Huston, power trust lobbyist and manipulator of j trust funds, refused to resign as national chairman of the Republican party...
...Unemployment and old-age insurance and mothers' pensions were numbered among state aims, and she said she believed them proper subjects for federal action...
...He has no specific bad decisions to his discredit, for he has not been a judge...
...The phenomenal growth of the party in Los Angeles and nearby territory was the most inspiring of a series of events that made the convention an encouraging one...
...Thus are the energies of a Labor Government diverted from it3 proper functions into a preservation of imperialism...
...here she sang in the principal jpera houses, including the famous Teatro Alia Scala" at Milan, will play the leading role of Delilah...
...Owen Roberts will probably be confirmed...
...Believing that voting for t h e lesser evil or endorsing friends is a vise business, labor divides both its confidence and votes...
...The same thing is going to happen on the unemsloyment question, which will be a prime issue in the coming election...
...Nor was party progress reported only from these two cities...
...CONGRATULATIONS TO THE SOCIALIST WOMEN MY congratulations to the Women's Section of the Socialist Party who are doing an intelligent and devoted job at their 25th Street restaurant for the unemployed where they are feeding over six hundred unemployed workers a day in surroundings where posters and leaflets give them food for thought as well as for the body...
...The mechanics are overworked, especially when in the summer they will have to work over hot motors...
...Voodsworth, and we said tc the two parties—" What are you gong to do about old age pensions' " md by throwing our votes to the Mrty which promised its support to the old a g e pension measure, we pushed it through...
...s "Such information as we have < been able to secure," said Green, • "leads to the conclusion that Mr...
...When examined, it was discovered that no questions on this and other subjects were asked at all...
...Just how a poor struggling labor paper can be freely distributed by the thousands is no mystery...
...One of the most imperative duties of labor and all progressive citizens is to abridge the power of the Supreme Court...
...Ticket...
...Garden Opera To Be Big Party Get-together 'Samson and Delilah' to Be Heard Saturday Evening, May 24th— Tickets Out MEMBERS of the Socialist Party in New York City will have a city-wide reunion as a remit of the seating arrangements party officials are rnairing for the performance of "Samson and Delilah" to be given at Madison Square Garden, May 24, part of the profits of which will go to the Socialist Party treasury...
...Crane-Gartz and Sinclair promise a campaign which will mean much for Socialism in California...
...Now he says gangs are a "ational menace...
...Other financial aid has come from sympathizers who read stories in the daily papers of what the Socialist women are doing...
...One must think very hard and determinedly of the dark spots,—of severe unemployment which has gripped the whole industry, of internecine warfare that occasionally threatens to rock certain sections of the organization, of dishonest men and corrupt men and self-seeking men who are willing to wreck the union, built at such tremendous cost, in order to satisfy their -own ambitions or their own grudge—I say, one must think of these dark spots to keep from going shamelessly and hopelessly, sentimental...
...Another admirable negotiator would be Fenner Brockway, whose clear-cut statement in the N. Y. Evening Post of May 14 ought to command the respecX of American Socialists...
...o rangement the party ha3 raich should insure a handsome1 rt'.un to the party if all party number* will help make this event successMl...
...We ask that in decisions affecting the lives, well-being and liberties of the people righteousness and jusj tice shall characterize all de: cisions...
...slender men with long fingers —tailors...
...Census Job Data False, Senior Says Employment Questions Not Asked of 2,000 in Cleveland, Socialist Secretary Declares — Begins Investigation WASHINGTON.—Are the Republicans in control of th« census machinery trying to conceal the extent of unemployment in this country by having enumerators neglect the unemployment schedules...
...Whether they will be convicted remains to be seen...
...One of the candidates has lined up with the Pinchot-Grundy forces ,n the hope of securing bis victory* Another has arranged to have Pinchot speak at an open air rally under the auspices of the Northeast Progressive League...
...The i other garages are expected to I walk out within a day or two...
...On six it got somewhere from 1 to possibly 50 per cent of what it asked...
...The United States has no jjghtful place in any civilized community of nations unless it can jtop this sort of thing...
...g anti-Grundy releases through the Brown-Davis headquarters...
...The labor leaders will then join the band wagon...
...WHAM'S BELATED INDIAN STATEMENT rE British Government has at last announced a date for the publication of the Simon report on .India next month and for some sort of conference supposedly and very vaguely looking to "eventual" home rule, to be held in London in October...
...The town has two dcgBBinauon...
...In accepting the nomination Miss Gilman stated she felt highly honored by her party and that naming her as a candidate for the highest office in the state afforded her an opportunity to render "service to the party...
...His side partner, Sidney Rissman...
...By log-rolling are our tariffs made...
...Victory Inspires Delegates By Gertrude Weil Klein TDRONTO,—The Ninth Biennial Convention of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America...
...While Grundy is not acceptable, the rank and file cannot swallow Davis...
...must have a witch-hunting show, in the hope of warding off that storm of defeat in November...
...No step is left untouched yy these labor leaders in the inter est of the "Band of Brothers" as the Vare gang is generally called...
...Upton Sinclair, world famous Socialist novelist, was nominated lieutenant governor...
...Senior declared...
...When it arrives it will come from the bottom and not from the top...
...The convention was opened by State Chairman Cameron H. King of San Francisco under the most promising set of circumstances enjoyed by California Socialism in a decade...
...An all star cast will ilay the supporting roles, and the >rchestra will include over 200 iieces...
...Laborites and progressives have little to choose from...
...Ihe Labor Party will again be in i strategic position, the two old parties being evenly balanced...
...steady and devoted Abraham Miller...
...That will probably be harder to do by non-partisan action than it was to defeat Judge Parker shortly before election by non-partisan action...
...Also participating in the opening of the Convention was one of the Labor members of Parliament, James Woodsworth, who described graphically the strategic position which their small group held in Forcing through certain labor measures...
...The enthusiasm of the strikers is high and the men are determined to go on to victory...
...Tickets can now be obtained St the following places: Rand Book Store...
...On the very day his report appeared in the papers, Congressman LaGuardia on the basis of some excellent work done a reporter for the Evening Graphic, -showed in Congress that Whalen's precious Russian documents were almost certainly forg•T- He hasn't even these as a poor excuse for what harm he has *a« to civil liberties and for his failure to break up the vicious alliance of politicians, racketeers and gangsters, which are the ene•ies of public decency in New York as in other American cities...
...The events of the past two years, the prospects for the future, the personalities in the foreground of the organization, the color and texture of the rank and file of the organization, these loom large and important...
...Simply and unobtrusively, almost casually, as though it were just part of the job which is precisely how he regards it—he told of the complete unionization of that notorious open-shop market— Philadelphia...
...The Women's Trade Union League was beguiled into acceptng an anti-Grundy leaflet by prominent pro-Brown-Davis labor eaders...
...Is this a policy followed by the census bureau for the purpose of cutting down the number of unemployed reported and thus giving a rosy picture of the American scene, or is it simply the desire on the part of the Republican job holders who comprise most of the census force to help Hoover and his administra-' tion defeat the rising tide of Democratic and Socialist sentiment...
...3. More mechanics...
...Woll and Easley will be quoted by the administration as being the inspiration for this adventure, if it turns out a wild goose chase...
...Grundy has accused the questionably public spirited citizen of the community...
...So precious time was lost Now the cry is, "Anarchy and rioting- must first be put down...
...All labor got on this latter demand was a commission to consider development of power resources on the St...
...Your attendance will not onlv provide the party with the funds it requires to continue its worked Panken states in his appeal to the...
...The sheet in the last few issues has carried very little of labor news and much (much too much) about Grundy...
...gratifyingly devoid of showmanship, gave a clear and workmanlike account of the last two Amalgamated years...
...Meetings of this organization, which were held weekly, have been postponed until after the primary...
...At the same time duties are lowered to Britain...
...Here they are provided with food between periods of search for employment Among the visitors to the kitchen this week was Mrs...
...Plenty remain...
...The administration was being attacked on the one hand for its defense of the power grabbers and on the other for its naval parity treaty...
...The Northeast Progressive League, which is the political organization of the textile groups, is sponsoring the campaign...
...PARKER'S DEFEAT AND THE FUTURE OF THE SUPREME COURT rOROUGHLY satisfactory was the defeat of Judge Parker for the Supreme Court...
...700 Receive Food Daily At N. Y. Socialist Kitchen ABOUT 700 jobless workers each day enter the Emergency kitoMsa set up by the Women's Sectrsn of the Socialist Party at 55 West 25th street...
...Greeting them are the officers of the various city Joint Boards...
...Norman Thomas, who helped in serving the jobless men and also left a substantial contribution...
...Let it be said at once that the America which hangs on to the Philippines, or the America of Sherman, Texas, has BO right to give the British any advice...
...Elizabeth Oilman Will Make Race In Maryland, Hagerstown Convention Decides (Br » New Leader Cerrespondent HAGERSTOWN, Md...
...You may fight with sne arm, but the enemy fights with two...
Vol. 10 • May 1930 • No. 15
