Textile Union Leaders Names On Ticket Of Philadelphia Socialists
Stanley, Louis
Textile Union Leaders Names On Ticket Of Philadelphia Socialists N. Y. Typos Renew Threat Of a Walkout Impatience Is Shown a Delay of Strike Authorization by the International By Louis...
...The defeat of t he labor men who conducted their campaign within the Republican party will eliminate the confusion that existed because of the non-partisan policy...
...Every advance t o disarmament helps, but the economic armament of tariff also has something t o d o w i t h a state o f mind which makes war possible...
...The "Left" says that the national income must be redistributed, in order that the consuming power of the people may be increased and the general demand for goods and labor extended...
...try Carpet Workers Union...
...Interdependence, however, does not mean capitalist imperialism...
...There was more—a lot more, aad eventually I spent half m y fortune to buy him coffee and a sandwich...
...TRE FLATHEAD LEASE HANDED OUT THE expected has happened...
...Other judges in other courts in Pennsylvania have enjoined striking miners from church going, have declared the old a g e pension l aw unconstitaooaal, have upheld the power of great corporations and public yBHty companies against the people, and n o t once in a n y outstandjog ease in Pennsylvania involving civil liberties and socal justice, JJUM Owen J. Roberts stood forth against the reactionary tides of judge-made law...
...So Dill >elieved it was best t o wait until December and then hold hearings >n the old age pension bill...
...their opponents polling over 90,000...
...Never was there clearer evidence that both parties belong t o the same interests which usually are powerful enough in an emergency, in one w a y o r another, t o guide or to gag men reputed t o be progressives...
...One is tempted to believe that the v i c t o r y over Judge Parker was after all more a victory for political considerations than on a principle...
...Rissman, making no bones about the demoralization which has set in in the largest clothing market, insisted that the membership Sat large is no different from _ the membership anywhere else, but is conditioned by peculiar circumstances beyond their control and demanded as the slogan for the coming two years "We want New York...
...Some o the interested representatives o labor actually got t o the capito f o r the opening session of thi hearings, and learned that tb question would not be discusset until next December...
...First, many Socialist voters ia the Kensington district did not east a vote in the primaries and will s o p - port the Socialist candidates at the general, election in November...
...No polite denials to the State Department can alter that f a c t < For some sort of United States of Europe there is much to be said in logic and reason...
...Some newspaper men and some lawyers tell us that Judge Roberts may be found lining up with Brandos and Holmes...
...It also proves h ow hopelessly unfit for t he diplomacy of peace are our rampant rear admirals...
...Back home, In Mew Hampshire, he had been a clerk In' a clothing store, at $80 a week...
...I laughed, and then asked him to be serious...
...Norbeck was in South Dakota...
...We •overheard three men, an workers, discussing racial traits...
...President Hillman's address to the convention, the convention's manifest admiration and love f o r him, his jubilantly unanimous re-nomination as President of the organization...
...Why not...
...1 on the Flathead River in Montana t o the Montana Power Company...
...His colleague, Senator B. K. wheeler, so far as I know, has not opened his mouth on t he matter...
...The last time be worked was in August of 1938, when he had been a helper on a steam shovel...
...Senators Are Tired Dill, questioned about this vagu« itate of affairs, .was depressed in lis attitude...
...wishing to evade union control had locked out its workers, who promptly went on strike...
...Frank Crosswaith, Socialist speaker and writer, will be among the speakers...
...His word was law...
...Out of an approximate 27.000 votes cast, over 4,000 was counted for the labor candidates...
...Also, Philadelphia was a notoriously strong open-shop city...
...For the present Briand's rather vague scheme will sot get far...
...Textile Union Leaders Names On Ticket Of Philadelphia Socialists N. Y. Typos Renew Threat Of a Walkout Impatience Is Shown a Delay of Strike Authorization by the International By Louis Stanley npHE members of "Big Six," th JL New York Typographies Union, made it perfectly clear a their last regular meeting tha they were determined to strike i the newspaper publishers did no grant them the five-day week...
...Oh...
...Company records do n o t state whether the 190 iiamiased men have found other jobs, nor how' their families were tble t o eat during the winter...
...Months and months of house to house canvassing, concentrating all its energies on the workers of one factory at a time, until the time was ripe for a strike in that house, then the tieup of that factory...
...The workers, with reason, suspect-its motive as directed to the strengthening of capitalism...
...The London T r e a t y is g o o d f o r something as a check to a naval race...
...My friend had met him before, and he beckoned him to come in...
...We haven't eaten today...
...having got into this mechanical line of life...
...The Philadelphia delegation was the most spirited, non-intoxicating spirits, too (sorry) at the Convention...
...Itjs ab• f c ^ v i surd to say that Judge Roberts' personal char- H^&fl W aaer, ability and excellent conduct o f the o i l pi [ ': C | case gives us clear knowledge of his position on IgP hu H I t n e s e o t n e r points- During the war he helped Mpg^l H^H t h c govemment prosecute certain cases which ' l ^ ^ ^ 1 helped to d i g the grave of civil liberties in — America...
...With the bluntness for which he <s noted, Mr...
...Patterson, a n e w mem•er, did n o t want to touch so proTeasive a measure as pensioning he aged workers...
...would be an unjustified burde: ! on .the capital required for ordinary industrial development...
...All o f which makes a sensible man believe that there may be something good in this London Treaty after all...
...Of each applicant he asked three questions—"How old are you...
...The proposition to close the I. T. U.'s books for a period of five years was presented by Dan A. Dooley...
...This factory after a year's operation, is an unqualified success...
...Many resentec President Howard's delay in com ing to New Y o r k City...
...He said he no longer worried...
...Thomas, Miss Bondfield an< ! Mr...
...THE ADMIRALS ON A RAMPAGE BRITISH rear admirals rage against the London Treaty as a b e trayal o f England: a Japanese naval officer commits suicide to protest against the London Treaty because it humiliates Japan...
...Whatever the cause— whether it be the result o f a machine age, a foolhardy tariff .that swells the coffers c f the-few or the inevitable result U the war, ia beside the point...
...Two were representatives of the Albany Typographical Union...
...How he has lived since he himself could hardly tell...
...The discussion showed much feeling in favor of reversing the previous a c tion o f the union or at least moderating the ban in certain cases but because of the lateness of the hour, the question was postponed to the next meeting...
...The | p a r ty is preparing a vigorous campaign for its Candida tee and expects to win over a considerable number of those voting for the labor candidates in the Repubhcea primary...
...so's they'll appreciate It...
...Hoover Won't Fight Trusts, Is Promise WASHINGTON— ( F . P . ) —President Hoover and his attorney-general, William Mitchell, were shocked and alarmed when the Baltimore Sun announced that the suit started by Mitchell against the radio trust Was the beginning of a war against the trusts...
...and that Lansbury s attitude is uncertain...
...tbe telegrams from many sisfer labor organizations, the resolution for a 40-hour week which tops the list of resolutions for the coming t wo years, the promise b y the President of the organization of every unorganized centre by the next bi-ennial convention, even the undercurrents which meant trouble stirring under the surface in New York, the speeches by many prominent and loved friends of the Amalgamated, the s-peeche's of the Impartial Chairmen in the various markets, the lucky children who had been brought along and had a swell time, all helped to make it a full and stimulating convention...
...Timely Topics By Norman Thomas Tbe Progressives and the Supreme Court—Our FireTalking Admirals—Nationalism and European Unity—Tammany True to Form—The ROBERTS AND THE PROBLEMS OF THE PROGRESSIVES OWEN J. ROBERTS, now i member of the Supreme Court, is a man greatly to be preferred to the undistinguished, reacoooxry mediocrity whom the Senate rejected...
...C. P. L. A. Aiding Party The local branch of the Conference for Progressive Labor Action has been waging a campaign for a labor party ia the Kensington area which embraces the textile unionists...
...The N ew Y o rk delegation was obviously a color closely related to indigo...
...One of them, in a dialect that sounded for sil the world as Cf it were lifted from a page in Bobby Burns, defended his race...
...the regular organization > candidate receiving aomewnat over 43,000...
...1 Worst of all is the appointment of J. F. Geraghty as Commissioner of Licenses in spite—or possibly because?—of the f a c t that #> deputy license commissioner under Hylan he was charged by a legislative commission with toleration of petty graft and granting licenses to convicted . f e l o n s for operating cabs...
...H< Said he had never heard that hearings were to be held...
...But the Mayor keeps a stiff upper Hp and appoints magistrates the same old way...
...In Milwaukee a court of justice has acted justly and refused to help the employers break our strike...
...Aside from the political ramifications and manipulations which shift and tack and veer from day to day, and which we have no intention of going into here, the industrial ? uation is peculiar to the city...
...The lad has a face that would inspire an artist—thick blonde hair, blue eyes,'perfect lashes, a baby face that has never felt a razor, and a winning smile that persists despite his adversities...
...N e w York, even though It did not figure largely in the official program of the convention, overshadowed all the other cities in the extra convention sessions and discussions...
...Ethelred Brown, S o cialist, will preside...
...Ryan is connected with the hosiery workers and he w a s one of the first leaders of the hor siery-boarders local...
...It is larder to forgive h im f o r his absolute silence on all cases Involving' i p g B i rights in the c i ty and state in which he is an acknowledged leader of the bar...
...Listen, Scottie...
...President Cox and Vice President McCafferty, who had come to thank the members of "Big Six" in person for the cancellation of the $45,000 loan to the Albany organization that had ehabled that union to publish the Albany "Citizen" and thus defeat the publishers' lockout...
...Thank God they don't know their daddy has walked the streets for five nights now...
...The presence of Mayor Hoan in the City Hall of Milwaukee and of Mayor Stump in the City Hall of Reading, we take as an indication that the time will come when' labor in the United States will assume political power and responsibility, put in the courts judges who w*U n o t issue " Y e l l ow D o g " contract injunctions, elect public officials who will not send policemen to club strike pickets, send representatives into the legislatures to enact such laws as are so badly needed b y the American labor movement as relief from our industrial system...
...Schlossberg, "our Milwaukee situation would have been different, with the courts and public officials hostile to labor...
...My buddy and me are out of work...
...The line was held there until after 11 'o'clock, when finally a member of the firm's employment office staff stepped from an inner room...
...It discoverec Chairman Arthur Robinson o f th< Senate pensions committee to b< concerned solely with his alibi...
...Roberts' home gij, issued an injunction in support of the y e l l ow dog contract in comparison to which the R e d J a c k e t Injunction was liberal...
...He promised to work for a l aw in the I. T. TJ...
...Wheeler, obviously v e r y tired by nonths of committee hearings on -ailroads, radio, power and Indian iffairs, and just past the crisis •f the dispute over the leasing of he Flathead power site to the electric Bond & Share branch of he power trust, was in n o conlition to take up the old age penion fight...
...BT a N e w L e s S e r C « r r e e e * B S e n t ) London.—A criais in the Labo Party may f o l l ow the absolute re \ I j e c t i on b y the Cabinet Commute ; of the Unemployment Memdran dum prepared by Oswald Mosle...
...Between us, we had 30 cents...
...he asked...
...In contrast with this the Cabinet apparently takes the view, expressed by Mr...
...On the stairs I met another early applicant...
...Foi example, the Cabinet Committe* seems to have held that the expenditure of public money on pensions would be fatal to industria recovery because it would not b« a payment for actual production The Clashing Views This view indicates the difference between the attitude of the Government and of the "Left...
...It went to work quietly, calling no mass meetings, making no moves for a general strike...
...Three speakers addressed the membership...
...And the kids—boy, they used to ran down to meet their daddy every night I wonder what they do at 6:30 now...
...i *e ' A prominent night club recently advertised for an attendant In its men's room, with instructions to apply at 2:30 p.m...
...He said that it was t h ^ business of school histories to teach Americanism rather than fact...
...Dill and the London treaty were h e only measures before the Senite that the members wanted to leal with before going home for h e summer...
...The two years which have passed, and which were reviewed in the convention sessions, brought into focus three cities, each o f which presented problems that were unique, and whose solution in t w o instances at least (the third has not y e t been solved) developed a n ew labor union strategy...
...The end o f the attempt to plaj the non-partisan game came wits the defeat in the primaries of three laborites who sought Republicas nominations...
...Many in that line were married men, with God knows how many dependents .Slowly they filed out of the building, and went their ways, some taking their disappointment cheerfully, others bitterly...
...In the Lobbies it is stated that T om Johnston will not d o so...
...His wife was a college girl, and finally, disgusted With his own failure to give her the sort of life to which she had been accustomed, he left her and their two children, knowing that her father would eagerly take her into his horns...
...The resolution was adopted...
...God...
...It developed that he was absolutely sincere in his plans...
...Whatever information I have about unemployment is first-hand The country is accustomed to seeing middle-aged men, with tattered clothing and battered faces, "bumming" their meagre existence...
...The rest is history...
...The decision against the Mosley Memorandum has been heard with dismay not only by the "Left" but by a very large section of the Parliamentary Party who are profoundly disturbed by the record of the Government on unemployment...
...The loweat vote was about 500 out of a total vote cast of 25,000...
...He was 43 years old, married, and a father of six children...
...That is...
...of Chicago...
...It cannot have a childish faith that a Supreme Court nominee will be satisfactory if he is honest, reasonably able and does not happen to have any g l a r i ng reactionary decision o n h i s record...
...I learned that the successful applicant had been required to pay a $10 fee in advance, and $10 a week for the job, miking his living on tips...
...The boy was born and raised in Sweden...
...What are you to do...
...Tb eliminate the stigma that might be attached to the resolution because o? its NewYork origin, Dooley requested that the resolution be sent to all the locals instead of having it brought up by the delegates from "Big Six" at the convention of the I. T. U. at Houston, Texas, this summer...
...He was o n e of the founders of the Philadelphia Labor College...
...And that was h a t House Less Interested But if the Senate presented a >icture of hopeless futility and un-down indifference toward the uestion of old age security, as the inal weeks of the session arrived, he House was in worse case...
...The labor candidates mnn!n« for nominations for th* officej of state represent nrhjji ssnsaeso ever 2,000 votes each...
...Earnestly be proclaimed the theory that the Scotch are victims of jokesters, and that deep in their hearts, they are the most generous of races...
...The progressive ism that is t o command public respect and public confidence must Save Us own positive standards for j u d g e s as f o r other public officials...
...The Indians who own the site h a / e been cheated b y the l ow rental, 'he public has been defrauded to serve the interest of a subsidiary of the power trust and the sister of the Anaconda Copper Company...
...The aim o f the resolution was to solve the problem of technological unemployment, which was aggravated, because of "the drive to increase the membership regardless of whether or not there are jobs for them" and because "the only benefits derived from small offices that are being organized are dues and assessments, as there are not enough new situations created to take care of even a small percentage of our apprentice members . . . " There was a t first some sentiment for the resolution and an amendment was made to refer it to the delegates to the I. T. TJ...
...A the same time despite the tern porary refusal of traveling card in N e w York City, the membershi] declared itself unmistakably in op position to the policy of closinj ! the books o f the International Ty pographical Union to new mem bers for five years...
...Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for Mayor last year, Heywood Broun, well known journalist, Rev...
...William Lloyd Imes...
...No state has such an appalling record o f antifebor injunctions as Pennsylvania...
...If the progressives of this country, in and out o f the United States Senate, meant business in their fight against Judge Parker sorely there was nothing in Mr...
...The Federal Power Commission, itself under fire and probably about to be reorganised, has awarded Site No...
...His experiences have included every conceivable method of securing money, even to pandering to the sickening tastes of perverts...
...Secondly, for the first time, maay members of the textile n n t " n s who bad been Republican voters refused to participate in the Republican primary, even though they were registered Republican, because of their demand for a labor party...
...Philadelphia but recently became an Amalgamated stronghold...
...Germany suspects the plan as one leading to the perpetuation of French overlordahip in Europe...
...In spite o f all 'these things the ideal will not die...
...Snowden in his Budget speech, that there must be no further extension of social services which are not directly productive until industrial recovery bas taken place...
...And Chairman Kopp of the House labor committee had not ventured to call his committee to consider a report on hearings on old age pensions, conducted last February...
...Vance has been in the vanguard o f the Tapes...
...The resumption • ot the original idea of a party of labor comes with the nomination...
...Yet as decade follows decade, and a s . the marvels of mechanical evolution lift from human shoulders the need for hard toil, the excuse ^for the voters* toleration of this political incompetence shrinks t o a pin-point...
...Meantime, It would be well if official New ? b r k would study the mental reactions of unemployment's victims...
...Certain it is that the remedy lies in some method of wider dissemination of the nation's wealth...
...He knew that Dill had a bill in, and that Dill had wanted a subcommittee named to conduct hearings if necessary...
...H L held the post of the Chancellor c - the Duchy of Lancaster...
...Senator Thomas Walsh, of Montana, has made himself in the Senate the virtual apologist of this deed...
...The administration lost no time in denying that it had ever contemplated making war on the trusts in general...
...I t is probable that, ever since the beginnings of the republic, the great majority of humane and p r o gressive measures introduced in each Congress have been thrust aside at the close of the long session, in much the same way...
...In this connection it is interesting to note the words of Joseph Schlossberg, General Secretary of the Amalgamated...
...While there was some opposition to the resolution, because of the unfavorable economic situation and the inclusion of the Chicago and Boston situations, practically all those present felt with "Ed" Cassidy, whose forty years in the union added weight to his argument, that "Big Six" must show its old militancy if i t expects to win anything from the employers...
...Here's a chance to be generous...
...Thi : Memorandum included proposal for the withdrawal of the old an* : young from industry (includinj k a generous pension for thos above 60 who retire from workj a reconstruction loan for nations i schemes -of ' housing and roai making, the empowering of a: Economic Council to prepar schemes of work and to provid credit for them through a specia ' Financial House, sa>»aded credit for Russia, and the establishmen of an Import Board for agricul ture...
...The Mayor's Dock Commissioner has rendered no report for the year as required by the law...
...And the attitude of the Mayor has been a source of encouragement to us...
...Then, as was explained by Hyman Blum b e rg co-manager of the N e w Y o r k Joint Board who was in c h a r g e of operations in Philadelphia last summer, the organization changed i t s tactics...
...A communication was presented by a number of members who had taken traveling cards to Jersey City, requesting that they be permitted to return to N ew Y o r k City in spite of the six months' rejection of traveling cards authorized by the executive Council at the request of the membership of " B ig Six' at the April 20 meeting...
...and our American rear admirals once more c r y out to high heaven that we have been done b y England and that all is lost without more 8 Inch guns...
...Harlem Mass Meeting Sunday to Discuss Unemployment Crisis Unemployed Negro workers, who find themselves oppressed by the general industrial depression and by the special living conditions to which they are subjected in Harlem, will make tttfcir demand for relief known at a mass meeting to be held Sunday afternoon, May 25, at 4 o'clock, at the St...
...He knows that his Dock Department is necessarily involved in the mysterious proceedings in which it was alleged Judge Vause g o t the lease of the C i ty pier for the United American Line in return for a huge fee...
...For this he may perhaps be pardoned on the ground that he but shared the common war hysteria...
...The Washington scene at the end o f May, 1930, indicts American political self-respect...
...Official Labor still thinks that production is the main problem...
...The Federated Press, anxious '.: learn what is still to be done t< bring actual bread and butter, a: well as ease of mind, to the agec workers throughout the nation, followed up the trail of the van lahed hearings...
...Greenwood t rejected t h < scheme is based on the view thai \ the Government must concentrati i upon the export trades, and thai • the diversion of funds to provid* ! pensions and extend public work...
...He said the tariff...
...by the Socialist party of five out standing trade unionists to makt the race for public office in the huge textile workers district...
...New Y o r k is admittedly a sore spot...
...But don't you love her?** I asked...
...A s explained by the co-manager of the N ew York organization, Sidney Passman, this makes for an unwieldly and intricate structure which at best, is impossible to control fully at any time, and which at worst leaves room for chicanery and corruption to creep in...
...But if greater unity of Western Europe ia achieved b y reason o f fear and hate o f the United States on the one hand and Soviet Russia on the other, it will be anything but an agency of peace...
...On the v e r y day i t was made public Mussolini rattled ma sword in a speech in Florence louder than ever did Kaiser Wilaelm in the days before the war...
...For the last ten years the Amalgamated onslaughts were unsuccessful...
...Without warning, I heard my companion interrupt the discussion...
...Finally, the union opened a factory of its own, employing the Adler strikers, in an arrangement to manufacture clothing for the Hart Schaffner * Marx Co...
...The three textile workers who are running on the Socialist ticket are all members o f the Conference for Progressive Labor Action The Socialist Party and the C. P . L. A. have combined their forces to displace the A . F. of L. "reward your friends" policy...
...We bought him "coffee and" and he talked...
...Of some 200 applicants, I think about a dozen were permitted to go into the office, apparently for further consideration...
...Five trade unionists who enterec the Republican primary for state offices at the instigation of the textile unions and under the auspices of the Northeast Progressive League were defeated...
...which would'require merged plants to employ as many employees as formerly...
...The writer of this article has walked the streets, slept in subways and parks, and panhandled to keep from starvation...
...Creech, Vance and Ryan are old time trade unionists, well known to thousands of textile workers...
...Creech is a member of t i e uphoistery weavers...
...Two labor candidates for the state senatorial nominations received a total o f over 21,000 votes...
...I o n t (at a Job—not even dishwashing...
...The N a v y Department is timing the visit of the Heat to N e w York, the review of the Fleet b y the President and all the attendant publicity s o a s t o counteract any possible specific effects of t he London Treaty in t h e poputsj-winn T%e -Navy puts "ST4 good show...
...Control of site No...
...From a packet of Bull Durham, he rolled me a cigaret, and we parted...
...Here he Norris bill providing for g o v - rnment operation o f Muscle ihoals power plants, to * c u t the rice of electricity, was being trangled by the administration •aders...
...Favors "Rationalization" as Againt Redistribution of In come, Is View of Diferences ONDON.—Following rejectic 1 i JLJ by the Labor Cabinet of t | memorandum for unemploymez t j relief presented by Oswald Mo: r ley, Mosley has handed in his rei t ignation from the cabinet...
...We could enjoy a cup of coffee.*' The Scot, let it be recorded to the everlasting glory of his muchmaligned race, hesitated not a moment, but gave us a half-dollar, a • • One day last week, the Hudson at Manhattan Railroad company advertised for trainmen, «e«n-gthat experience was unnecessary and that the only requirement was that applicants must be five feet, eight inches tall...
...Five active trade unionists, three textile workers, one carpenter and oat pocketbook worker, will be the party candidates in the textile district at the general election...
...If there is t o b e any immediate vitality t o Briand's idea of a United States o f Europe it will be t h e vitality of opposition to our unscientific and unwarranted log rollers' tariff...
...Thus an .entire morning was wasted—in fact, a whole day, for with competition for Jobs aa keen as it is, it's useless to apply for a position after noon...
...In the hope that I might develop sufficient acquaintance with the manager to aak him for a meal, I began a conversation with him...
...flowers and gifts and music...
...Pragmatically speaking, we are through...
...The number of unemployed would be substantially reduced along both these lines...
...They had been so confident that their workers would be immune to organization because the Philadelphia clothing market worked under a padrone system...
...The progressives have made severe inroads on the noapartisan policy among the rank and file...
...Again, I repeat, that I hope Judge Roberts will come up to the expectations of his friends and use his great ability to the public service...
...The Mayor had in his office a request that his Commissioner of Accounts examine the finances of Probation Officer Cooley now under Indictment weeks before the matter aroused public attention...
...Oonse quently at the May 18 meeting I resolution was presented callinj upon the Executive Council to take immediate action upon the reques' of the N ew York printers...
...I didn't ask for the meal...
...What I have said is not so much an attack on a im a s a plea for a more forceful and intelligent stand b y progressives...
...We had spent a dime each, when we saw at the window a blonde youth of perhaps 18 years...
...It occurred to me that a night club that charges 45 cents for ginger ale, and no doubt proportionate prices for other beverages, could well afford to forego the income from tips in the men's room...
...He couldn't keep track of the bills he owes, but said they were in the neighborhood of $1,200, besides the help- given him by relatives and friends who are working...
...Although other advertisements in the same paper offered work as dishwashers, truckmen's helpers, and soda dispensers, two companions and L after consultation, decided to make a bid for the trainmen's job as the most hopeful...
...The other night, I sat in a coffee shop with a friend...
...Yet, both of them have talked of power as an issue between the R e publican and Democratic Party...
...TAMMANY TRIE TO FORM 'TPHE Walker administration, which is to say t b * Tammany-MciMCooey machine, runs true to form...
...AH » « * comparatively recent converts t » the Socialist Party...
...Nicholas avenue and 141st street...
...the warmth of the reception to our own J a c o b Panken, the unbroken silence and attention given to Mayor Hoan's long address...
...because "the Publishers have clearly showi by their attitude the futility 01 continuing negotiations by then refusal even to consider the fiveday week and b y their arbitrary demand for the annulment of con ditions for which we have struggled for many decades...
...The trade unionists running on the Socialist ticket will be the only candidates in the Kensington district who will have the endorsement of the textile workers...
...You mast persevere in it, aad do the best you eaa far the present, bat resolve to get out of it a s i o «n as Mar he...
...Against the Nazareth hosiery strikers Judge Stewart, not v e r y far away from Mr...
...One of the most thrilling sessions of the convention was that in which Mayor Hoan of Milwaukee, in a truly brilliant and moving speech, pictured a Socialist administration at work in the time of strike...
...The economics of an interdependent world must find expression in the politics of interdependence...
...The on* essential point is to know thoroughly that ii is wrong: how to get ant of It TOW can ae-tde afterward Senate Puts Pension Bill On the Shell Hearing Mysteriously Called Off—House Is Even Less Interestec in Aiding Aged By Laurence Todd WASHINGTON...
...I wondered what they would have said had they seen their only son, still a mere boy, planning the life of a gigolo...
...e a I stood one evening in Times Square with another down-andouter, envying the Salvation Army members who sat in Childs' window eating a chicken dinner...
...How long have you lived in New York...
...Before 8 S S t , we were in the line at the company's offices at 90 Church street...
...P a r ^ « was rejected because of an t\ K ^ ^ X I illiberal artitude on labor and race questions, \ I H ' E n o efton « «JI was made to ascertain Mr...
...But the sight of literally thousands of able young men, with adequate training, unable to find work for their willing hands, is something else...
...I asked hi™ what he intended to do...
...He was educated in the public schools there, and at 15 could speak English, French and German as .fluently as his native tongue...
...It is impossible to record the complete deliberation of the delegation, but not to be omitted however, are the greetings sent to the British Labor Party and the endorsement of the Labor Party idea for this country...
...The interdependence which we want stands over against a romantic nationalism on the one hand and imperialism on the other, AN EDUCATOR TALKS SPEAKING of nationalism, and false nationalism at that, did you notice the remark attributed to District Superintendent Campbell ef Staten Island...
...Hard, predatory politicians have always elbowed their way to the front, waved the flag of "national defense" or "radical menace t o our institutions" or some other fraudulent symbol of their*greed, and smothered the hopes o f the -underprivileged...
...McCooey on one o f those free trips to Europe with which it is charged he was favored b y the United American Line...
...in association with George Lans bury and Tom Johnston...
...Having been rid o f t w o o f the worst magistrates | a the city, through no merit of his own, Mayor Walker promptly Proceeds to fill their places by two purely political appointments without consulting the Bar Association o r without giving the public tune to consider his nominess or t o make complaints...
...A great movement of political consciousness which swept the worki ing class Kensington district only - to be diverted by an attempt tc ! play the old futile game on non! partisan politics may n ow resume its natural expression through independent political labor action...
...When I answered that I was 24, had lived in New York a year and bad worked ia restaurants aad at soda fount fount a i n s (only the first answer was true, but how did he know...
...Hoover Prosperity Robs 190 of Jobs CLEVELAND.— (FP)—Over 190 men have been dropped f r om the Cleveland Railway Co...
...I t is expected that Oswald Mosl ey may resign from the Government...
...He did nothing about it...
...It sees in the proposal to pension' the aged a method of withdrawing the old f r om industry (and thus giving the younger workers a greater opportunity), and at the same time increasing the purchasing power of a large section of the people...
...Perhaps in some other city," said Mr...
...the head of a section engaged and directed the operations o f t he other workers, usually his relatives and friends, in his section...
...This robbers' tariff which is about to pass Congress, to the great cost o f A m e r i c a n farmers and workers, and to t h e hurt o f oar foreign trade, is producing far m o r e irritation and f a r more protest abroad,than the London Conference assuaged...
...Roberts' record to entitle h im to exemption f r om questions designed to bring forth his point of v i ew so the oligarchic power of our Supreme Court...
...If America can't give me work she must give me something...
...In this cas ual manner the issue of federa aid to t w o million aged and indi gent persons in the United State was brushed aside, due to the in difference of the chosen represent stives of 40,000,000 voters...
...Hunting A Job Despair and Cynicism Grip Jobless, Unemployed Writes By Job-Seeker WHEN young men, skilled in trades which pay f r om $40 to $60 a week, are walking the streets in hopeless desperation, the unemployment problem is something more tangible than mere economic theories...
...Wit l ! J. H. Thomas and George Lans > i bury be constituted a special cat - ; inet committee on unemploymen ; Whan his resignation was turne - in, Mosley was offered anothe • post...
...I hope I so' ^ K manner of his confirmation shows BH t n c w ^ t w l weakness of what is called Pro- I iii^F^H S1 6 5 5^*'5"1 , n a n c ^ o u c of the Senate...
...If it is to be achieved as a way o f peace it must be on the basis of w o r l d wide cooperation of free peoples...
...He worked on merchant ships for a time, and eventually succumbed t o shipmates' tales of prosperous America...
...Indictments and possible indictments pile u p on McCooey's man Judge Vause of Brooklyn, who took Mrs...
...Dil telegraphed to prospective witness es that the hearings scheduled fo May 20-21 o n his old a g e pensioi bill had been cancelled...
...In view "of Hoover's long record as an expert assistant in business mergers and trade association designed to get around the anti-trust laws, this story had only the shakiest of foundations—the fact that Mitchell had been forced into a position where he either had to sue the radio trust or be denounced by a Senate resolution for failure to do so...
...I tii^Pfl Roberts' stand on these and other great issues 1 i,--,Bpfe| on which the Supreme Court has such vast J ^Bpfei P ° w c r s v'rtuaily to legislate fot us...
...Unless the attitude of the Government changes, its policy will continue to be restricted by the encouragement of rationalization, supplemented by public works which, however good, are felt to be utterly inadequate...
...The anti-injunction legisition, ready for favorable report rom committee in the Senate, ad not even been given a day's earing In the House committee, "he postal workers' 44-hour bill .-as denied a chance to come to vote...
...There's tragedy on every corner— on every park bench, and cold, hard New York goes blithely • ^ . P a y i n g to ticket-scalpers enough money for a night's entertainment to Defeat of Labor Men in Republican Parties Paves Way for Clearcut Battle By Joseph Schwartz ( N a w L — 4 e g P W W B J W S SM j - * H I L A D E L P H I A . — The result i -aT_ o f the primary elections ia the huge Philadelphia textile district has brought sudden death to the policy of boring from within the old political parties b y labor...
...He was their countryman, their wise man, their little father...
...I learned that he had a mother and father back home who dream of their boy- making good in America...
...But the Mayor doesn't worry...
...payroll since January 1. The company saved $74,66...
...Senators Patterson >f Missouri, Norbeck of South Dacota and Wheeler had been chossn as a subcommittee, but none if the three was willing to conluct a hearing at this late date, rhey were tired out—all the senators were tired out—with nearly L year of labor on the tariff and >ther matters...
...Scores o f other bills af fecting the workers ft minor d e gree, were shelved in committee or on the calendar...
...T h r e e months a g o he landed in N e w Y o r k with leas than $10...
...On borrowed money, he planned to secure a hackman's license, having heard there were openings with several taxi companies...
...Now they were Lbout ready to adjourn...
...The highest vote polled was a little over 12.000...
...convention...
...The DaK-id Adler Co...
...The strike lasted for months with neither side showing any sign of conceding defeat...
...Yet it is increasingly realized that rationalization will only create more unemployment unless massed production is a c companied by massed consumption...
...With it all, he is fairly happy...
...The only party representing the interests of the workers, is the Socialist Party...
...Socialist Nomination* The Socialist Party did not participate in the primaries...
...1 means control o f the •ther four sites which the Montana Power Company will not develop...
...He refused the offer an his resignation was accepted...
...That is part of the s t o ry o f h ow N e w Y o r k Is governed, to which Curry and McCooey and Walker in chorus may reply: "Well, don't we make the people like i t ? " Hillman Is Re-elected By Amalgamated Toronto Convention Endorses Labor Party Idea—Socialist Cities Are Praised By Gertrude Weil Klein TI E convention o f the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America which just closed in T o ronto, was the most significant and interesting o f its career...
...in maintenance in April, and $14,900 was cut off o p erating expenses...
...Snowden i Mr...
...No one knows how I love her...
...But what price that kind of g l o r y? ROMANTIC NATIONALISM OF COURSE disarmament isn't going to come b y itself in an imperialist world and i t wouldn't prevent war i f it did come...
...F P ) —A the last moment...
...Never surrender to reformers is its motto...
...if I can only get some better clothes, I'm going to find a rich woman, and after I've lived on her a couple of years, 111 go back to Sweden...
...They were Philadelphia, Milwaukee and N e w York...
...But senators had beer Busy, and he guessed Dill hac round it impossible to get them tc nrve...
...They hold that the reasons underlying the decision would apply to every hopeful scheme that could be produced, and that they amount in practice to a confession that nothing more can be done...
...Mosley Quits Cabinet Post On Job Plans Govt...
...and What work have you done...
...Presented at last with the resignation of Police Commissioner Whalen, who h a d ' c r o w d ed His Honor for the limelight, our Jimmie promptly appoints Police Inspector Mulrooney who seems to have had a g o o d record In the Department, but whose most obvious qualification for the office is the fact that he will not play a stellar role in the administration, to distract attention from his chief, or to d im t he public glory of his predecessor...
...However, after President Leon H. Rouse and Mark Rosenberg, a "left wing" leader had united in opposition to both the resolution and the amendment, the proposals were defeated with ease...
...James Presbyterian Church, St...
...His resolution aimed to add an emergency amendment to the constitution of the International stopping the admission of new members, except those whose applications were pending and apprentices serving under the terms of present contracts...
...The grounds upon which thi Cabinet Committee (Mr...
...The Socialists have two advantages over the defeated candMataa...
...For the rest...
...SupposI JL|JB| edl...
...he simply said, "I can't do anything for you...
...The other was R. G. Soderstrom of Illinois, a candidate for the office of International president...
...the protest against the continued imprisonment of Mooney and Billings, the --.-arm endorsement of Senator LaFollette of Wisconsin for his fight on Judge Kirkpatrick's yellow dog injunction, which was used futilely, to prevent the unionization of the Philadelphia market and praise for Senator LaFoilette s fight on the elevation of Judge Parker to the Supreme Court Bench...
...j At the previous meeting of "Bij ! S i x " on April 20 the membershi] ; had voted overwhelmingly in fa i vor of requesting strike sanctioi f r om the Executive Council of th I. T. U. The International head quarters had not yet taken actioi [ upon this request...
...Nationalism like any •ther religion which is afraid of f a c t s is in a very bad w a y and the rivalries of nations which teach nationalism rather than fact naturally lead to war...
...The organization campaign o f last summer added 15,000 members to the Amalgamated fold and brought into line manufacturers whose boast it had been that their workers were perfectly happy and would be the first to run the union organizers out of the town...
...The Hoover - Tilson - Long-worth - Snell machine was enforcing' a general blockade against labor legislation...
...At th« same time the resolution appealed to the Chicago and Boston locals who had similar situations on theii hands, also to demand action from the Executive Council "in order that simultaneous action may be taken in t h e three cities...
...These manufacturers, as President Hillman said, unlike the N ew Y o r k manufacturers, live up to their agreements once they sign them...
...In Bryant Park I met a youth of 28, who had been In New York three months, hunting work...
...In Milwaukee the Amalgamated was engaged in a battle with one of the oldest and most reputable firms in the industry...
...I went to the place at 2 o'clock and learned that the job was already taken...
...And the friends of the League of Nations with equal reason scarcely see what Briand's type of a United States of Europe can d o which the League cannot do...
...The industry is broken up into nearly 700 manufacturers, fully half cf them fly-by-nights, who in turn employ something like 1,000 sub-manufacturers, or contractors as they are called...
...Here, substantial, reputable manufacturers are conspicuous by their absence...
...It is not g o o d for v e r y much as eliminating the wastes of armament or the perpetual strain o f rival armament upon goodwill between nations...
...The father h r a tl steadfastly refused any assistance to his son-in-law, however, on the ground that "young folks ought to fight for what they get...
Vol. 10 • May 1930 • No. 16
