Strikers Grip N.Y. Dress Industry
STRIKERS GRIP N.Y. DRESS INDUSTRY Almost 1,000 Joined Party In January Hillquit and Thomas to Speak This Sunday Night in Far Rockaway and the Bronx -KyrOEBXS HTTJiQUIT, national XT A...
...He has a little mite too much sense openly to endorse the theory which he quotes that this tax was responsible for the Wall Street crash...
...T h o m a s : — • I am in receipt cf your letter of .7r.nur.ry 30th i n relation t o the applications pending before the f e d e r a l Power Commission for a p e i m i . to develop the Poisom power sits...
...at least not developed within any • period that can n ow be estimated or for...
...Having denied the open door policy ta the Philippines all these years it win not be fair suddenly to turn them loose with no market for products which under our tariff system tbey have been encouraged to produce...
...Commenting on this lettar, Mr...
...The resolution was defeated by a 5 to i vote after a stormy session participated in by Mrs...
...But that was many years ago...
...Joseph A - Weil presided...
...Thomas Queries Walsh To this M r . Thomas Wrote: "Senator Thomas J. Walsh, ••Washington, D. C. "My dear Senator Walsh: 'Thank you for your letter of February 1st...
...Toward everybody else he has the air of a condescending school master...
...Virginia, that "We were not in Marion, N. C, when six lives wars lost...
...A large number of Socialists are members of that branch, and its officials, who are also Socialists, expect to achieve a 100 per cent enrolment as a result of the meeting with Judge Panken...
...Students Help By Gertrude Weil Klein consequence of the _ can...
...Director Hoopes followed Hofses...
...The Chief of the Division of Employment receives only $4,250 annually...
...In the 18th A. D., Kings County, the canvass la in progress, with new applications being reported by practically all the canvassers...
...Nevertheless I think the questions I hare raised are pertinent in view of the situation and in view of your own argument about ths benefits to the Indians of this lease...
...There were 71,283 less individual returns made compared with the previous year while the sums paid by individuals as income tax Increased by 9 per cent These figures also reveal the drift of Income into the hands of a fewer number at persons...
...New York City with 1200 private employment agencies has only 4 public employment agencies to compete against this tremendous number of private agencies which increase enormously every year...
...Jessie Stephen's First Appearance on Friday Evening...
...The luncheon will be at the Hotel Woodstock, February 8th, 19S0, at 12:45 P. M. Make reservations at the office of the L. I. D., 112 East 19th Street, Algonquin 5865...
...Contractors Fight Jobbers And a little solidarity is what seems" "to be heeded among the manufacturers...
...T h o m a s first w r o t e S e n a t o r W a l s h: " M y Dear Senator W a l s h: "I am addressing this Identical leiter o f enquiry o n the Plathead power situation in your s f t e to you anda Senator Wheeler...
...The dear old Post professes to be worried lest now our speculators write off their losses from the stock market crash on income and so the government will lose in income taxes...
...Worst of all...
...The press' unanimously applauds their efforts to abolish the sweatship...
...To his friends of the public utilities he extends a smiling face...
...The resolution said: "Whereas, the leading statesmen of the world are striving to bring about permanent world peace, and whereas, it is genrally agreed that the success of these efforts depends largely upon our future citizens becoming peace-minded instead of warminded...
...That the manufacturers, on the whole, realize that this is essential is evidenced by the vigorous fight being made by the contractors, led by the Association of Dress Manufacturers, against the jobbers who are the chief source of supply for the sweatshops...
...A. L Shiplacoff, William Karlin, Mrs...
...BRANCH SUPPORTS DeWITT Central Branch of Local Boston, Socialist Party, informs The New Leader that it has adopted a resolution approving the attitude of Comrade DeWitt "i n rejecting the application of air...
...I went before the Secretary of the Interior a n d t h e Secretary of Agriculture, the p—etarv of War b»ing ill at the ttm- snd subsequently dying, and prayed that the hearing be had before the Commission itself...
...Senator Walsh made known his stand in a letter to Norman Thomas, chairman of the Socialist Party Committee on Public Affairs...
...As my correspondent well says: "If a fellow should not be compelled to pay an income tax on money he has 'made' in the stock market because it is 'capital', I don't understand why anybody should be asked to separate himself from his earned income...
...On almost every decision involving the rights of labor, civil liberty, social justice or the regulation of public utilities he was on the wrong side...
...but I should rather see the Montana Power Conv-anv get it than that it s h c i ' ,«' ?nn*r»T remain idle...
...In a long reply President Green says, among- other things, that "the United Textile Workers organization and the American FedI era tion of Labor were doing all | within their power to assist these I workers at Marion...
...Miss Perkins agreed with Mr...
...Loses in School Board By One Vote I CoBtinord fraa Faf* 0»«i resolution, she declared that thl opponents of ths measure sesx«> mgly do not understand it Socialists Vote as One "It was not meant as an attack upon ths flag," ahs declared, "and I do not see how anybody can see anything unpatriotic in an attempt to avert the horrors and suffering which another war will bring...
...Gradual Expansion Planned The plan for enlargement and strengthening of the employment service will be put into effect gradually...
...Is it true that he plans s fuller and mere immediate use of the power...
...The defeat of the coal miners union brought no prosperity to the industry which cannot be saved under any system of private ownership...
...As a lawyer he has always been on the side of big corporations...
...It's about time for our old friend, Charlie Wood, to make his prophesy that the chain stores are going to take a in a high wage policy get to work...
...Individual returns filed up to August 31, 1929, numbered 4.060,959, with 2,484,640 reporting taxable incomes, a decline of 71,283, from 1927...
...Indeed, to all intents and purposes the management of the two comP*Jaes is identical," S e n a t o r W a l s h I •eld...
...The Filipinos ought to have tbeir independence if they want it...
...T h o m a s also c h a r g e d that the E l e c t r i c Eond a n d Share C o m p a n y c o n t r o l s the M o n t a n a P o w e r C o m p a n y a n d e x p r e s s e d g r e a t d c u b t a s t o t h e b e n e f i t s a g r a n t t o the- c o m p a n y w o u ld c o n f e r o a the p e o p l e o f M o n t a na a n d the F l a t h e a d I n d i a n s in part i c u l a r . W a s e l e r Is Silent M r . Thomas' c o r r e s p o n d e n c e ; w i t h S e n a t o r W a l s h is c f p a r t i c - | u l a r i n t e r e s t since it has p l a c e d ! o n r e c o r d , o n the m s t t e r o f p u b - l i e o w n e r s h i p , o n e o f t h e o u t s t a n d - i i n g " p r o r j r e c s i v e s " of the n a t i o n, air...
...Socialists succeeded In making a successful return to power in the 20th A. D., Kings, which for many years was a banner Socialist district...
...I pass t h s implication that I would be participating in a crime in urging, as I am, reaching a speedy disposition...
...If the government expects a loss it is criminal to knock off 1% from the income taxes at this juncture...
...Co., was one of the delegates to President Hoover's recent conference in Washington...
...The results Of the starvation of the public employment service are to be seen clearly In the statistics of placement 1924 to 1928 witnessed a steady decrease in the number of placements by the state employment exchanges...
...Whether the strike will last four weeks or four months Is still a matter of conjecture, but meanwhile picketing will continue at 7 o'clock every morning and mass meetings are held every afternoon in the fifteen meeting halls engaged for strike purposes by the union...
...It seems that wages for girls vary from S^2 in Boston to $18 in Chicago and by states from a median of $8.80 in Maryland to $16 in California which ass a minimum wage law...
...S E N A T O R W A L S H R E P L I ES S e n a t o r W a l s h ' s reply to Mr T h o m a s f o l l o v / r: "My Dear Mr...
...MINOR ANNOYANCES...
...Consequently, we call upon Mayor Walker and the Municipal Assembly to appropriate fund* to help finance a greatly extended free employment service...
...Two Workmen's Circle meetings were held last Saturday night, Branch 54 meeting at 425 Lafayette street and Branch 159, meeting at the Forward Building, 175-East Broadway...
...Those evangelists of the new capitalism, the chain stores, have been taken to task by an unfeeling woman's bureau of the Federal government for paying wages insufficient to secure the necessities of life for their workers...
...Picketing Every Morning In this instance, it is interesting to note that the reputable, solid manufacturers are one with the Union in their desire to rid the market of the sweatshop...
...The latest report, received last Tuesday, showed that ths membership had reached 90, with the probabilities I that before another week elapses it will pass the one hundred mark...
...I do not know enough about it and ray main concern is...
...Hughes as Chief Justice there is every reason to think that great corporations win continue to tnd the Supreme Court their great friend and protector "ALL'S RIGHT WTTH THE BUSINESS WORLD" THESE must be happy days for big capitalists old and new...
...Thomas reiterated his opposition |w having the Federal Power Comm s s i o n g r a n t a n y p e r m i t s w h i l e j t h e e x e c u t i v e s e c r e t a r y c f the C o m m i s s i o n is u n d e r c h a r g e s in t h e S e n a t e f o r h a v i n g d i s r u p t ed t h e accounting- s y s t e m of the C o m r r i s s l o n . Mr...
...Benito Mussolini, Italy's leading Fascist, baa been invited to speak at the American Legion ©anveaOoB^J...
...formerly assistant to the Warden at Sing Sing Prison, and one time director of a training school for prison officials...
...L. I. D. Luncheon Will Discuss Prison Problem, Black, Hart Speakers "Ths Prisoner in Revolt—A Challenge to the Nation...
...THE CALIFORNIA RACE RIOTS ONCE more we must bow our heads in shame for that shocking and violent race feeling in America which has resulted in unprovoked attacks on Filipinos in California and the murder of one of them...
...Fear of Unemployment Holds Workers In Grip Meantime masses of workers face a precarious future...
...Grimly enough these wicked riots sad the greed of beet sugar growers in America have given an impetus to the movement for Philippine sugar...
...Legion Invites Mussolini BOSTON (F.P...
...Friedrick states, "While there has been no reduction in the wages of men employed, the'hiring of new men at a greatly reduced wage level by indirection accomplishes a general wage reduction...
...and Calvin Derrick, superintendent of State Home for Boys at Jamesburg, N. J...
...The government in the long run won't lose anything like it made by the modest tax it puts on the profits in stock sales...
...One of the chief objects of the strike is not only to unionize the workers but to force the manufacturers to unite for the establishment of uniform standards...
...Have the Illinois Miners got it...
...The profit-motive must be taken out of placement work...
...Two Meetings On Saturday Tonight, Saturday evening, Hillquit and Claessens will speak at a banquet given in Hillquit's honor at Lido Lodge, Far Rockaway...
...This luncheon will be broadcast over Station WEAF at 1:45 P. M...
...To the Socialist members of ths Board the result of the vote did not come as a surprise...
...Conditions, *t least in Northern West Virginia, are tragic...
...T V - was done...
...Under Mr...
...Green believes that if such officers had been present and advised the workers and the owners the tragedy might have been averted...
...Senator Walsh agreed with Mr...
...Last year the report of the N. Y. State Industrial Survey Commission stated that they had very grave doubts as to the ability of Richard A. Flinn, the present incumbent of that office...
...Negroes Join...
...Only that reorganization will require a very high quality of devoted and intelligent leadership...
...Very truly yours...
...author of "You Can't Win" CMacmlllian) and various articles in current magazines...
...The reasons are not hard to find...
...Organizations opposing were Reading Council No...
...New York State...
...At soon as ths 9th A, D. is completely canvassed, the committee will begin on the 7 th, and wind up in the n t h A D. at a rally to which all new applicants and sympathisers will be invited, and at which they expect to have Norman Thomas aa the speaker...
...Thomas on Wednesday made Public Senator Walsh's l e t t e r and *hh it a second communication which h e has dispatched to W a l s h . •P ba second l e t t e r , M r . Thomas ••ked if it w e r e not true that t he Montana Power' Company has ttvy undeveloped power recourc" I f EO, what is the...
...On the picket lines, along with the regular strikers, were groups of college girls and boys...
...Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, in his letter inviting the contending parties to a conference at Albany, added his word of commendation for the formation of powerful organizations" both among the manufacturers and among the workers...
...February 7 Jessie Stephen, British Socialist, writer and lecturer, who is here now for a short tour, wtn deliver her first talk on Friday evening, Feb...
...Socialist leader...
...i Of that number about 700 have 1 been referred to the Socialist party's Committee on Membership, and ths balance are expected to come before the committee at its meeting Saturday, February 8. Boro Park Labor Lyceum To Hold Bazaar in March Ths Boro Park Labor Lyceum In Brooklyn has arranged a Basaar to run from March 32nd to March 80th, Inclusive...
...It would truly be to the benefit of both the workers and the employers paradoxical as this may seem to the orthodox...
...Hoopes and Raymond S. Hofses, two of the Socialist members of the Board, and representatives of militaristic and chauvinistic organizations and individuals who saw in the Hoopes resolution an attack upon the American flag...
...I am further informed that in this Grant ths rights of the Flathead jjiaiaiis are ^jvoivea und thai a mere lavorable offer l o r the pov.-cr has been made to the Lnche.no...
...Application blanks printed in Ths Nsw Leadsr have brought a gratifying response, not only from New York City but from distant cities and states...
...Socialists from Barnard, Columbia, N. Y. U. and City College...
...The matter o f Flathead power seems to me to be so important that I want to be sure that I have the facts correctly and that I make my own position perfectly clear...
...Success to the dressmakers' strike and death to the sweat shop...
...Every morning from two hundred to five hundred men seek employment at the gates of Allis-Chalmers and are offered jobs at from thirty-two to forty cents an hour...
...By resigning Mr...
...so great was his conservatism and so dull his sense of ethics in spite of his rather ostentatious air of rigbteousnes thwt he took for a great fee the I.R.T...
...t^rmi...
...Miss Frances Perkins, State Industrial Commissioner, announced Monday a plat for emergency expansion of the Labor Department's public employment service, by transferring to that service 108 employes from other bureaus whose work can be postponed temporarily...
...General Otto H Falk, president of Allis-Chalmers Mfg...
...This condition is so well recognized, that there has been introduced into the present legislature a bill »•''"»'"?• to make more effective the regulation of the private employment agency...
...Since then as Secretary of State he kept Karolyi out of the country...
...Peace Drills Proposal to Ban tarism From School...
...Alleges Defrauding Is Chronic "There is yet another very important reason for strengthening the public employment service...
...by private interests i on the other, it is quite likeiy that I ohculd be in favcr of the development b y t h e organized p u b l i c : but ycu can not be unaware that that is notj the question, tut whether the site shall be developed by private inter; re t s or not developed at all...
...Be Careful What Von Say...
...They are an unearned increment...
...Mass production, new machines that save labor power, and the mergers going on in industry, are Increasing the work!ess Incomes of* the upper section of the capitalist and banMny classes...
...Hoopes' Resolution to Prohibit Military Demonstrations as Part of School Functions — Motion is Lost, Five to Four HEADING, Pa..—Only two rain' isters, one a Jewish Rabbi and the other a Universal...
...This is particularly true of New York City where 90% of the private employment agency business of the state is transacted...
...Speaking as sponsor of the Socialists of Reading Seek...
...But he does say in the issue of February 1st, to which a correspondent calls my attention, that the tax on capital gains is an wrong, that it is a tax on capital not on Income and that we ought to repeal it because even the British Labor Party decided to abandon its...
...You are quite accurately informed that ths Montana Power Company is closely related to the Anaconda Company...
...My posiiton is this: "1.—So vitally Important does it seem to me to save remaining water power sites for public develepement that only the most overwhelming necessity would justify granting a lease on so immensely valuable a site as the Flathead site...
...NORMAN THOMAS...
...Favors Speedy Disposition " I note what you say about d e ferring r c t i o n until charges p e n d ing against the Executive Secretary o f t h e Commission are disposed of...
...Taking the floor as a -member of the Board in favor of the Hoopes resolution, Raymond S. Hofses said in part: "There are better ways of honoring the flag than flaunting military uniforms and firing military salutes...
...imrmmes Decrease By "1.283 A significant phase of the report la the last Item above...
...If so, what is the hurry about giving the power t o it...
...212, Sons and Daughters of Liberty...
...Such agencies deal with the weakest members of the community who either through lack of understanding of their rights under the law or because of their urgent need of jobs, are no match for the unscrupulous agency manager...
...The royalty will be a God-send to them...
...private employment agencies from the municipality to the State Department of Labor...
...The Debs branch of the Workmen's Circle, where it is expected that a 100 per cent Socialist enrolment can be achieved, setting a standard for other branches to work towards, will have a membership drive meeting on Friday evening, February 14, with Judge Jacob Panken as the speaker...
...Unfortunately the members of the Commission were unable to attend at all times, but in the absence of any of them an assistant sat in his stead...
...The work, she said, will be carried on in cooperation with social agencies and non-fee-taking employment agencies...
...Seek 3,000 in Workmen's Circle The plan of Socialist drive workers to secure at least ten new applications from every Workmen's Circle branch in the city, which would provide the quota of 3,000 expected from that source, is working out according to schedule, according to Marx Lewis, drive director...
...We fail to see why this change in jurisdiction will markedly improve conditions...
...If the abases of the private employment agency are to be eliminated, it must be supplanted by an efficient system of free public employment agencies...
...Therefore, we call upon the Governor and the Legislature of the State of New York to take immediate steps to give us aa effective system of public employment agencies...
...The whole treatment of the power question is so important that I not only want to make Slain my general position but also > assure you that I wlhssss farther light in respect to matters of detail...
...Green Explains Remarks On Killing in Marion President William Green of the A. F. cf L. was widely quoted by the newspapers, north had South, •a saying- in Richmond...
...That's the way to get rich quick...
...Industrialist Delegate to Hoover Conference Cuts Wages in Violation of 'Labor-Capitol Pact' By a, New Leader Cerrespoodent: MILWAUKEE.—That Industrial leaders do not keep their promises o President Hoover to hold wages at the pre-depression level Is the charge of Jac...
...Ku Klux In Opposition A spectator who gave his name as Edward McBride and described himself as a patriot opened the opposition from the floor after a number of letters from a number of organizations for and against the resolution were read by the secretary...
...whereas, leading educators agree that example is much more effective than precept...
...Joseph Sugar, of 1475 Greenport Road, Far Rockaway, is in charge of the arrangements...
...His letter was in response to one from Mr...
...K» f?ivir 'g a leraR lease cr> c - " 1 the nation's •—est r a t " ^ l r e c c r r —. D—r»n*s W a l s h e n d W h e a l * A-t " / f t e r the 1*~.r"t has b°~n Tra*1*-t>-\ t h ° r e will be nothing the Federal rovemment can rto about r a t ' s . The State Convniss'on...
...You may not have been i n formed that in accordance with the alleged practice of ths Commission, the Secretary directed that a hearing would take place before himself, the notice indicating that he had tentatively .determined to award the permit to the subsidiary of the Montana Dower Comoany...
...Norman Thomas's attack on the state employment service was based on a survey prepared by Henry J. Rosner, Director of the Municipal Research Bureau of the Socialist Party...
...Then our great and good capitalists must be annoyed by the re1 of Congress to consider the repeal of the tax on profits of stock sates...
...The incident serves to give point to the criticisms made Senator Walsh Favors Big Power Grant to Anaconda Copper Dummy Thomas Urges "Progressive" to Seek Delay — Reminds Him of Public Ownership Commitments — Montanan Insists on "Speedy Disposition" of Flathead Site SENATOR THOMAS J. WALSH of Montana, has refused to take any action to delay the granting of the Flathead Indian power site in Montana to the Montana Power Company...
...Unfortunately In taking the case at all he showed himself at the opposite pole from the new jurisprudence of a Holmes or a Brandeis...
...Am I Tlvi or wrong in understanding that the Montana Power Com-' pany has now many undeveloped power resources...
...What flag do you mean...
...former presidant of the American Prison Association...
...Ina——n-eiv valusJ>> ^ater m w e r rteY-s on the / F l a t h e ad P l v e r . c a p a b l e o f gsn-mtinfi more r-jm«ry power than Muscle Shoals...
...Editor Do rimer's worries are part of the general propaganda plan to bamboozle American workers into believing that the less the rich are taxed the better off the poor are...
...I understand, were p-.-csent 'ess thsn half the time '"—-inrj th^ hrarr'r.j on the c o - e . i-r—, j , ' ^ e o l u t e ' y no reason for hoste which requires that this lease be made before a proper c c T n i s s i c n has been set UTJ...
...hurry BjPt g i v i n g additional power to B the Socialist leader asked...
...Many of them save not received a raise of salary in years...
...The victory of the Baltimore Traction Co...
...Even if you believe that President Hoover and a Republi"Dn majority in Congress will f o r c e some hind of loaee I should h'n'z you wou2d b? obliged to oppose this leaso et th's time to the Montana Power Company for the following reasons: "1.—President Kcover himself is on record c o n o c m i n j the inaderuaoy of a p">v;c:- cnmlssi<">n made up cf busy Cabinet efflc f r s who...
...Thomas h a d r e m i n d e d S e n ator W a l s h t h a t he h a s o f t e n e s poused public ownership and oesaiopment o f power a n d a s k e d : *hy he and other progressive Senators should not seel: p u b l ic development of the Flathead site rtther then permit it3 csploita- 5* °y * private c o m p a n y . In 'epiy t o thin S e n a t o r W a l s h said he did not favor w a i t i n g for an ••definite period until t h e g e n e r al government or the S t a t e e n t e ro •«UB) a policy of public p o w er development hit...
...Her topic is "A Message to American Youth...
...Auxiliary No...
...who are in charge of ths drive for those districts, aided by a committee of twenty, each supplied with cards containing the names and addresses of enrolled Socialist voters, have begun a can vans of the 8ta Assembly district, the purpose of which is to got them to join the party, if they are ready, and to attend a series of lectures that ate being planned for that district...
...7, at 8:30 p. m, under the auspices of the Bronx Young Circle League, at their center, 2075 Osmtsts Ave., Bronx near 180th Street...
...Here are a few facts which indicate the situation...
...Is it true that he has offered a better royalty to the Indians...
...Five meetings have been scheduled, beginning with one in the Savoy Mansion, 64th street and 20th avenue, on Friday evening, February 7, at which Shiplacoff and Feigenbaum will be the speakers...
...Incidentally the defeat of the coal miners in West Virginia, according to stories that seem to me well authenticated, was in no small degree due to the tactics and possibly the corruption of the Lewis machine...
...Green merely meant that when bosses have the sense to recognize a union there is no masacre and that It Is better for union officials to be on the ground in times of emergency than to have them away...
...Negro Workers Join Fight Strike leaders who were jubilant over the unparalleled success of the strike call, were particularly elated over the Negro dressmakers who now -comprise almost 10 per cent of the industry and who came out on the /strike call as enthusiastic and spirited as their white fellow-workers...
...The Socialist party branch in Far Rockaway, organized s e v e r al months ago, has rapidly come to the fore as one of the most active branches in the city...
...24 Made $5,000,000 or More l a Year The outstanding features of the report are: Recipients of incomes of $1,000,000 or more numbered 496, an increase of 206, or more than 40 per cent, over the previous year...
...We await the «port of that committee with eagerness...
...The Radio Corporation of America held Morgan & Co...
...The most thoroughgoing plan of campaign mapped out so far has been worked out by the 7th-9thllth Assembly district's branch...
...Miss Perkins declared that she had not intended to announce the move yet but did so because of the criticisms made by Mr...
...Be careful what you say...
...It costume a number of very important provisions, same of which are to be Indorsed...
...I write not only as a citizen ' but es Executive Director of the League for Industrial Democracy and Chc.irrr.an of the Public Aft fairs Committee cf the Socialist Party, both of which organizations are in different ways deepl y interested in the matter...
...9, Union Veterans' Legion...
...While Hillquit and Claessens are in Far Rockaway, Norman Thomas will address a membership drive meeting arranged by the 2nd Assembly District, Bronx, at 105 Clarke street...
...206 New Millionaires Created As 71,000 Drop Out Of Taxable Class qpHE class character of the "prosperity" being enjoyed In the JL United States is made evident in a preliminary report of the Internal Revenue Bureau on incomes for 1938, the report beingcompiled from returns made to August SI last year...
...Wheeler of Minneapolis...
...But the case for independence ought not to rest on the conflicting interests of those who want to •xploit the Islands under the American flag and those who want to keep out Philippine competition...
...There is not even the poor excuse that these Filipinos were taking **ay jobs that white men wanted...
...ss I bare tola you...
...2.—If any leases to private companies . are to be made this seems to m e to be the wrong time for making them for the reasons stated in my first letter affecting the nature of the present Commission and the charges against its Executive Secretary...
...Furthermore, no effort has been made to develop a capable personnel for the public employment service...
...The garment centre—the bluecoats stationed at intervals at about six feet notwithstanding—Is a colorful, vivid, almost festive stream of young women and men, joking, laughing and pushing on their way...
...is under...
...ers...
...Issued on Tuesday by the Dressmakers' LoeaH of the International Ladles Garment Workers* Union, was the almost total collapse of production activity SB one of the largest industries SB...
...I prefer to believe that it will, from business reasons, be forced to find a profitable use for the power It produces...
...Members of the branch are active in the dressmakers' strike, and during the period of the strike less canvassers for ths drive will be at work...
...Add these things to the remission of 1% of the income taxes on the rich in order to help the poor and the assurance that everything will be all right in the Supreme Court with a Taft succeeded by a Hughes and you will agree that the new capitalism ought to sing: -God's in his Heaven, all's right with the world...
...As The Nsw Leadsr goes to press, before the five meetings have been held, a check-up of the applications received so far, and | those known to be in ths hands of branch secretaries exceed 800...
...Two workmen's Circle meetings will be held on Saturday to round out the evening's activities...
...The New York State —'-r*s Liability Commission, known as the Wainright Commission, whose recommendations are typical of all, after an exhaustive inquiry here and abroad, urged as one of the first steps to overcome , unemployment, the estabv lishment of 'a system of public employment offices covering all sections of the state.' This recommendation was made in...
...More than fifty branches of the Workmen"* Circle have already requested speakers for special meetings they plan to held is the near future, SocisJUn party brmnahee are join*" ahead with their canvassing, the arranging of large meetings and the distribution of application cards among party sympathisers...
...or indeed, to anybody else...
...case for an increased fare although his client's arguments turned In no small degree on the meaning of a law passed tn bis administration as Governor of New York and at his recommendation...
...Socialist Move to TeachPeace Ban Militarism in the Schools Of Reading Lost by One Vote Ku Klux Klan and American Legion Join in Opposition to Mrs...
...R. Pallay Panken will speak at the same time to the members of Branch 20 and their friends, at a meeting to be held ot the Forward Building, 175 East Broadway...
...Thomas in which the Socialist leader described the power site as fully as valuable as Muscle Shoals...
...and the New York Telephone Company in the Federal courts and the general collapse of regulation mean big times ahead for the public utilities...
...This statement and the sentences immediately folowing it looked to a great many people like a disclaimer of all responsibility (or the Marion strike...
...Rogers...
...The relationship between the agency and the applicant for work is usually not a continuous one and the unscrupulous manager is not to the same degree as in most business compelled to preserve the good will of his customers...
...Thomas said: "In other words, Mr...
...Does that overwhelming necessity exist...
...I rgret that we should differ about this matter, but my attitude is plainly stated shove...
...Only Four Agencies in X. V. C. "Twenty years have elapsed and the present system of public employment offices are notoriously Inadequate...
...There are eleven agencies, with seventy-four employes in the State, of which four agencies and thirty-seven employes are in the city, she said...
...During the same period the private employment agencies increased their number very rapidly, Indicating a growing demand for placement service...
...Hastings Hart, consultant in the Department of Delinquency and Penology, Russell Sags Foundation...
...Now when the prosrert o f Its development is at hand to be told that we must wait for an indefinite period, probably not less t h a n a generation, until the general government or the State ente-s upon the policy of power development ncturallv arouses no very sympathetic r e ' r o n s e . I sr*-u'd...
...EDITOR LORIMER BOTHERED HERE and there are minor annoyances...
...T . J. WALSH...
...He explains j that by his statement he meant | two tkings: first, "It was because ! the United Textile organization . was not permitted to function . . . that the clashing which resulted in I tragedy occurred...
...With even more eagerness * « wait to see whom Governor Roosevelt will appoint as Prendergasts successor...
...His successor, Charles Evans Hughes, will make a very similar record...
...The Socialist movement never in all its history had a more fertile situation In which to grow and the years ahead should make it a power if there is educational work done to make the millions of tollers understand what the economic revolution means...
...The average net income was $6,078.93, the average amount of tax liability $281,97, and the average tax rate 4.64 per cent...
...3.—My next point concerns questions of fact which I think are vital to the Flathead Indiana, to the people of Montana and to American citiaans generally...
...It will be the only membership drive meeting Thomas will address in the Bronx...
...This can only be done If the state provides this service gratis...
...alleging that h- has «'?on~<t'*d t h i r e c o u n t i ng rv.-'em of th^ commission by farming out the work to two separate eove—"c»nt?l departments...
...State Begins Effort to End Walkout 35,000 Workers Give Notable Demonstration of Solidarity...
...Four or five times he has been specifically accused of bias in favor of the public utilities companies, but tbe evidence was not overwhelming enough to make either the reluctsat Smith or Roosevelt conduct an investigation of a sort which should *»ve been conducted...
...The payment will be in stock of the I.T.&T...
...Their interests are b e ing very carefully looked after by C&mmlssioner Rhoads and Assistant Commissioner Scattergood...
...About 40 Socialist party sympathizers were present, and at the close of the meeting twelve of them applied Immediately for membership, and about ten others promised to join as soon as an organization is formed...
...Governor Roosevelt and Lieutenant Governor Lehman are offering their aid to bring about a speedy adjustment The heads of the three Manufacturers' Associations have signified their willingness to submit their case to an impartial arbiter, and—most interesting and impressive of all — the 35,000 workers—mostly girls—engaged in the industry, are giving a notable and stirring illustration of solidarity...
...I u-yi»rst«,nd...
...The whole trend of the report presents a picture of American capitalism and must be read in contrast with the millions of unemployed men to understand Its full significance...
...Twenty-four persons had incomes of $5,000,000 or more, as compared with eleven in the preceding period...
...The manufacturing season is at its height...
...F. Friedrick, business manager of the Machinists Union, In an interview in the Milwaukee Leader, the dally paper of the Socialists...
...Anyway most things are coming their way...
...6, Sons of Veterans...
...Many of them are in a state bordering c n penury, if not destitution...
...Experience all over the world indicates that enforcing the law regulating the profit-seeking employment agency is aa difficult as enforcing the Volstead Act, The cheating of the unemployed seems to be inherent in the commercial agency...
...Militarism will continue to havt a place in the Reading school system by ths narrow vote of 5 to 4 The calling of the names, which began immediately after Director' Hoopes had finished, did not de-" cide the question until Hendricks had cast the last vote as president of the board...
...Placement work is Just as important as any of the local social services which the municipality provides...
...You do net deny that the Montana Power Company is also controlled by the Kleetric Bond and Share Company and is therefore a part of the power trust Is it a matter of indifference whether its application is Preici red to the application made try Mr...
...The emergency expansion of the employment service cannot be maintained for longer than two or three months...
...Now as a matter of fact, the British capital levy whether good or bad, cannot possibly be fairly compared with the tax on the profits of stock sales...
...Reports from all parts of the city are equally encouraging, Lewis declares...
...In about two weeks she expects a final report from an advisory committee which has been studying the development of a consistent plan for permanent improvement of the service...
...Y c u , are correctly informed that the Indians are deeply interested i n the development...
...Possibly he is an abler, somewhat more aggressive lawyer, with an even more varied background of experience and contacts than Mr Tart...
...Thomas's statement, made Sunday, follows: Thomas' Statement "All indications point to increasing unemployment...
...Nor can I consent to delay to await a reorganization of the Commission, not likely to be accomplished during this session of Congress, st least, in view of the tremendous volume of business before us...
...Furthermore, we believe that the municipality should help finance this service...
...This la the first attempt made by thejSccialists to Inaugurate progressive methods in line with their policies in the public schools...
...I a m committed, as I t h o u j h t you were by you;- own r.tr.tcnicnts and the position of y o u : presidential candidate in 1023 to public development of p o : i e r . ct least on- the remom.13 water power sitoo, cf v.hioii the Flathead sites are amons the hoot...
...But Professor John Gray estimated that there was a shift of from 8% to 10% of the real wealth of the country into their hands as a result of the gambling orgy and the consequent crash...
...The latter has, to my knowledge, been giving the most Intensive study to the qeustlon and has made elaborate figures of the amount which the permittee ought to pay for the benefit of the Indians...
...Prendergast doubtless beat a »*ry sharply critical report and possibly a demand for bis removal from the minority if not from the majority of the committee investigating the present system of regulation in New York...
...i : : ? u ^ ; j t Walsh Was C o n u c ' . ' - cd '•3ut I co not write to argue the merits cf one private applic a t i o n for this pov.o.- as against another...
...Eastern Standard Time...
...a complete system of public employment exchanges as opposed to an incomplete one like that of New York State...
...The period covered by the report includes the beginning of the gambling in stocks that wiped out the holdings of hundreds of thousands of investors last year...
...Thomas that the Montana Power Company is closely related to the Anaconda Copper Company...
...You admit that the Rocky Mountain Power Company is a dummy for the Montana Power Company which is closely connected with the Anaconda Copper Company...
...Jack Black, a man who was a criminal for twenty-five years, who served three prison sentences...
...As I undsrstand mrtte-s...
...New Branch In 20th A D., Kings During the past week...
...The present situation reveals the failure of the two old parties to take adequat steps to ameliorate the lot of the unemployed...
...Thomas that the number of free state employment agencies is inadequate...
...William Karlin, well known Socialist and labor attorney, will address a meeting of Branch 40, Workmen's Circle, at Libby Hall on Delancey street, and Mrs...
...cast...
...If the extraordinary profits that have been made not only in the Wall Street boom but in general in the last six or seven years of rising stock values cannot falrly^be taxed, what can be...
...The increase in one year of the number of those who obtain an income of a uniiumi dollars and those who receive five million or more indicates the tremendous riches that are flowing into the hands of a tiny fraction of the population...
...the Federal Power Commission is about to Grant to the Eooky Mountain Power Company, a^ (•uirr-iv cf t h - M o n t a n i Power Comoany, which in U r n Is a~."«iciit.ed with the pawer trust thrcut-h it- c o n n c c t i c s with the R l e c t r i c Ecnd ?nd Share C o m - pr.ny...
...50 W. C. Branches Ask Speakers Next Thursday evening, Jacob Axelrad will address a membership drive meeting of Branch 322, Workmen's Circle,- at 80 Norfolk street...
...a group of League for Industrial Democracy members and a group of Young People's Socialist League members...
...The aggregate net Income of individuals was $24,625,488,175, an increase of $2,053,170,268, or 9.09 per cent, over 1927...
...With Norman Thomas as the speaker, and L M. Chatcuff In charge of the arrangements, a successful meeting was held last Wednesday evening at the Palace Hall, Irving avenue and Bleecker street...
...The scarcity of jobs and the intense desire of the unemployed for a chance to earn a living furnishes a very powerful incentive for obtaining a fee without procuring a job...
...I Lin ms.i-.ing my l c t e r public and r.ssume that ycu will do the same with ycur reply...
...Both old parties know their master's voice...
...To be •ore they may regret the hard times a little and some of them doubtless lost on paper in the Wall Street crash...
...A special Installation program to celebrate the re-establishment of a Socialist organization in that district will be arranged as soon as the date for the installation is set New Branch Near* 100 F r o m Morningside Heights, where one of the new branches, established after the recent municipal campaign, is forging ahead, reports Indicate an increase in membership each week...
...Those who remain at work produce more for the owners of geat industrial enterprises while the competition for the Jobs makes the holders of these Jobs careful of their conduct for fear that they may be ordered to join the army of the unemployed...
...Meanwhile eight Democratic Senators rallied to the help of the dye trust on the tariff schedules and eighteen voted for still higher duties on rayon...
...Superintendents of individual employment offices receive less than 12500 a year...
...T h o m a s c c i t i f h i s first l e t t e r j t o S e n a t o r B u r t o n K . W h e e l e r , as j w e l l as t o S e n a t o r W a l s h . Sen- I a t o r W h e e l e r lias C3 y e t g i v e n n o i i n d i c a t i o n of his p o s i t i o n . The i o p i n i o n is h e l d b y m a n y in M o n - [ | t a n a that the p r o g r e s s i v i s m of i W a l s h and W h e e l e r s t o p s r a t h e r ' | s h o r t w h e n it c o m e s t o i s s u e s c o n - ; ; c e m i u r r the State of M o n t a n a. F r i e n d s h i p of the t w o S e n a t o rs f o r the a n t i - u n i o n A n a c o n d a C o p p e r C o m p a n y has been freely c h a r g e d , p a r t i c u l a r l y in the case o f S e n a t o r W h e e l e r. T h e T h o m a s - W a l s h c o r r e s p o n d e n c e f o l l o w s : Mr...
...The legal victory of the Illinois Miners, to which The New Leader has called attention, has great promise for the reorganization of the disorganized, unemployed «nd exploited coal miners...
...The Canadian system annually places three times as many people as that of New York State...
...Sincerely yours...
...Once he showed signs of liberalism by his outspoken defense of the Socialist Asemblyman - in New York State...
...I do not think this nead take forever and I certainly do not think water power sites should be leased away before it Is done...
...The speakers will be...
...As chairman of the Emergency Committee on Strikers' Relief which largely financed all the relief, Norman Thomas therefore wrote to President Green reciting the facta and asking for an explanation of the statement...
...Hofses, Hoopes, McDonough and Snyder, the four Socialist mem* bers, voted for the resolution...
...There is, accordingly, no reason for delaying proceedings to await an investigation of the Executive Secretary...
...In an industry composed of so many relatively small producing units, strong and progressive organizations, both of employers and workers, are of the highest importance," said the Governor...
...PRENDERGASrS GOOD-BYE, OVR GOOD LUCK NEW YORK STATE is to be congratulated on the resignation of Chairman Prendergast of the Public Service Commission...
...The recent riot in the Reliable Agency, a private fee-charging employment agency, reveals a situation which is chronic among the feecharging employment agencies —the defraudaig of the unfortunats unemployed...
...tax on capital...
...2.—The sscrcta-y to the p o w - p - commission is' no^7 under "-hcrg-s bv reason of a resolution In r...
...Complimentary and commercial advertisements are accepted...
...The concentration of ownership, . conomic power and income into the hands of an upper dominant class is the lrresistable trend of American capitalism...
...American industry has never been more ripe for socialization...
...All comrades who would like to help make this affair a success are asked to sand in their contributions at once to Bazaar Committee, 1377 42nd street, Brooklyn...
...This is the first time the Negro workers, in the dress trade have been organized...
...The Montana S e n a t o r a l s o i "needed that M r . T h o m a s " m a y j o» right" in his c o n t e n t i o n t h a t ; iss Montana Power C o m p a n y has •Bah undeveloped power s i t e s a t • Present and w o u l d not m a k e i m - j mediate use of t h e F l a t h e a d s i t e , j Senator Walsh wrote that thoufjh I ee would p r e f e r "to s e e s o m e re- | •*ble power comptany other t h a n j the Montana Power Company g e l • •he permit, I should r a t h e r see i « » Montana Power C o m p a n y g e t ', It than that it should longer he Serninded of Public Ownership Mr...
...Miss Perkins also announced the" appointment of Fritz Kaufman, former vice president of Smith & Kaufman, as chief of the Bureau of Public Employment...
...He has *«en a failure on his job...
...a* I r'-.ted publicly in an address ta Montana, prefer to srs s o w ! r e ' i a b l e eomnanv other t h e n the Montana Power OomDany get the osrrnlt...
...chairman of sub-committee on Prison and Paroles of the Hoover Observance Commission...
...Timely Topics By Norman Thomas HIGHES FOR TAFT: LITTLE DIFFERENCE -SiTlLLIAM H. TAFT is personally a genial, loveable sort of a Tv man who brought to the office of Chief Justice an excellent conventional knowledge of the law, skillful administrative ability aod immense respect for property rights...
...the Women of the Ku Klux Klan...
...The best man in the world can't do much on the Public **rvice Commission under present conditions but there are a handful ef men who might do something if one of them could be persuaded to t*ke the job...
...It is expected that many applications will be received at the dinner...
...No wonder the president of the A. T. & T. explained to a Congressional committee how satisfied he was with State regulation...
...These profits are mostly speculative profits...
...In spite of two disastrous bank failures in New York City bankers, big and little, have been able to persuade two investigating commissions to whitewash the present system of supervision and strangle all proposals for more effective state supervision of investment trusts of savings accounts in other than savings banks, sad of private banks like Clarke Brothers, which failed and Morgan and Co., which has not failed...
...This plan will be submitted to the legislature, together with a supplementary appropriation bill to provide funds, she announced...
...August Claessens, city organizer of the Socialist party, appeared at both meetings, and in spite of a miscalculation in the arrangements, he secured seven paid-up applications at Branch 159, with promise from the secretary that there will be at least twice that number at the next meeting, and at Branch 54, where it was^ known that Claessens was scheduled he was assured that there will be at least ten applications by the time the next meeting is held...
...The salaries are not sufficient to attract first rate men to this highly technical profession...
...It is an amazing story of enormous profits derived from stocks, the emergence of more persons In the millionaire Income class, and a rise in the level of net incomes of those who come within the provisions of the income tax...
...thv-rib r* to-* Montana Power C c m i a n v. T h » tim° to act is no—, mi the p e m t r v h'"» n. rifrht to look t o v o u , not onlv b-~^i«se you are Senat o r from Montana hut because y->u hvre been a les'lint BTOBT*"'sive...
...Let me make it plain that I am not writing in the least to back his claim...
...1910...
...Do Too Favor Grant Te Trust...
...Norman Thomas, vice-chairman of the drive committee, will make his third appearance at membership drive meetings since the drive began...
...He will speak again at Branch 325, Workmen's Circle, on Wednesday evening, February 12...
...WEST VIRGINIA AND LABOR LEADERSHIP I WISH those who are smugly content about American prosperity could hear and see what I saw and heard about the condition of fanners and coal miners on a recent trip to West Virginia...
...Profits taken in the stock market and in the sale of capital assets other than stocks and bonds, such as real estate, totailed $4,786,512,771, as against $2,894,581,973 in 1927...
...In the net result he did less than nothing to bring law more in line with justice in the modern world...
...Women's Christian Temperance Union, and the P. O. S. of A., all of whom opposed the resolution...
...will be the subject of the season's seventh Saturday luncheon of the League for Industrial Democracy in New York City...
...with public development...
...During the six years between 1910 and 1918 seven important studies were made in the United States into the causes of unemployment, and in the reports of these studies, programs of preventive and remedial action were outlined...
...If the state bureaus had been alert, they would have obtained a good portion of this growth in business snd their placement figures would have shown an upward trend rather than a downward one The number of placements of the Canadian Bureaus Illustrate the effectiveness of...
...No one has to pay a tax on capital stock while he holds it but only when he sells it...
...Were the question before us : one of the development of the power site by the public on the i e-.o ' - - a d...
...The chief characteristic of the measure, however, is that it shifts the licensing- and the enforcement of the law regulating...
...That is to say, he helped make the majority in opposition to Holmes and Brandeis...
...In hard times, such ss the present, this situation becomes even worse...
...While th~e char"es are R*ndlmr it i«s r^v^apl f-.at a r c - ' m i s r ' - u of wl-'-h he is the1 native officer Thou...
...Finally I underc ^ i n d that the Mcii-ona Power o o : i - p a i i y ana the A m c o n i a Copper Company, v.iih which the Montana Power Company io c l o s e ly identified, w o n , t-ils power less t o uoe ic themooiveo than to keen it cut of use their cornpeti...
...Hofses then began to repeat the civil salute to the flag and was interrupted by McBride who arose to his feet and pointing a finger at the speaker, cried...
...They lack incentive for performing their tasks well since they receive no material recognition for faithful service...
...When these meetings are over, the quota set for the end of the first month—1,000 —will have been attained...
...A souvenir Journal will be published in connection with the Bazaar...
...When I went to school I was taught a civilian salute to the flag which I still feel is better than firing guns...
...Be it resolved, that for the future it shall be the policy of this Board not only to foster courses and exercises which will advance the cause of peace and international good-will, but also that no military demonstration or exercises be held either as a part of, or in connection with, any school function...
...Miss Perkins declared...
...As Senator LaFolIette pointed out, the Democrats in 1928 got at least $335,000 in campaign contributions from gentlemen interested in the dye industry...
...DRESS INDUSTRY Almost 1,000 Joined Party In January Hillquit and Thomas to Speak This Sunday Night in Far Rockaway and the Bronx -KyrOEBXS HTTJiQUIT, national XT A chairman of the Socialist party, and chairman of the Victory Membership Drive, inaugurated to enroll 10,000 new members in the local Socialist organization, will lead the Socialist campaigners to a successful conclusion of the first month of the drive at a series of meetings to be held in various parts of the city this week-end...
...The establishment of a new branch in that section is now in the hands of Organizer Claessens...
...With these sentiments we are in entire agreement and we sincerely hope that this explanation of President Green's statement will catch up with the widely spread and not unnatural misinterpretation of his meaning which followed open a treading of the newspaper report of what he said...
...5, Ladies of the G. A R ; Auxiliary No...
...For thirty years of my residence in the State of Montana c u - people have looked with hope deferred on the utilization of this rrr~-t natural resource for the upbuilding cf our sparsely settled countrv...
...t o take same vigorous stand in the matter...
...Harlette Hoopes a month ago and brought up for final action of the School board last week...
...R. Pallay Panken, William M. Feigenbaum, August Claessens and others will be among the other speakers at these rallies, to be held in three different counties...
...Second, that ! "No officers of the United Textile | Workers or of the American Fed| eration of Labor were at Marion ] on the morning when the tragedy occurred and when six lives were lost...
...Those which wrote favoring peace were: The Reading branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, the Sisterhood of Temple Oheb Sholom, and others...
...Canada with a population less than that of New York State, provides 69 public employment agencies for its workers while New York only has 11...
...And what are the interests of consumers in comparisan to such funds...
...AdTnits Anaconda Tie-TTti " Y o u epoear to be somewhat better tnf'iTiUP'l than I a**i c o n cerning what the Commission will d o "dtri respect to th*« two rival p-io'ications now under consid' — " " n b y I t I a m entirely unt '—~-caeri as to -wbetbirr it win T will not grant the permit t o the Montana Power Company or to cither of the applicants n ow seeking it...
...indeed, to all intents and purposes the management o f t h e two c o m p a n ies Is Identical, a n d you may be right that It has no purpose to make use o f the power to be generated, but seeing t h a t the enterprise involves an expenditure estimated at eight million dollars, the cost of keping the plant idle will not be inconsiderable...
...The solution for this problem is simple...
...Be-eahed peace is merely aa tmisrval te se spent hi preparation for the eomtar w*r—Arthur Psnssaiy...
...Instead of keeping up the wage scale, according to the conference agreement, the Allis-Chalmers Company is indirectly reducing wages by lowering the salary of the new men it employs...
...Dresses must be made for the Easter holiday trade...
...Reading Circle No...
...We want to teach em children to be peace loving because they will be the citizens of the future and will not declare war a we teach them now that there are better ways of settling disputes than by killing one another...
...Fortunately he lost the case...
...Each recommended as an immediate step the establishment of free public employment agencies...
...and your very expressive assertion that it would be criminal for the Commission to act favorably upon either of the applications while the charges are pending against its secretary...
...The editor of the Saturday Evening Post is all hot and bothered on this subject...
...A few imrvsl for New York Extends Work Of Employment Agencies Following Thomas Attack Commissioner Perkins Finds Criticism of Bureaus Correct—Only 4 Government Bureaus, 1,200 Private Ones in N. Y., Socialist Reveals — Feetaking Agencies Called Unscrupulous IN DIRECT reply to criticism of the N. Y. State free employment agencies by Norman Thomas...
...up to an offer of $90,000,000 in stock of the International Telephone and Telegraph Company with a physical valuation of about (15,000,000...
...Both the union and the employers' associations assert that in the absence of an Inclusive organization of manufacturers, enforcement of a& .-cements on wages and working conditions is impossible...
...if the merger goes through...
...Leon Gilbson and Max Philips on...
...Unemployment is a recurring phenomenon...
...It seems to me that you and Senator Wheeler might st least under the circumstances, push legislation for the organisation of a more adequate commission, a t h i n g which even President Hoover actively favors...
...st preacher, cared enough about teaching peace to the children of Reading to speak in defense of a resolution presented by Mrs...
...They expect the strike to be a short one...
...Which is entirely different from the British plan of a capital levy...
...Tickets are $100 for members and $1.25 for non-members...
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