Prosperity!
PROSPERITY! Three Jobless Take Lives In Day; Fourth Dies Next Day Hugo Oed&rbolro tramped op and dew* Tune* Square in New Yerk Otty U hours a day saMsased fas a sandwich sign which feed, "1...
...Making an outright contribution of $50...
...The gross Income had been over $8,000,000...
...Bonner and Tyler are trying to carry out the program suggested in ths secret memorandum drawn up by a power company spokesman last summer, hostile to the development of a trained accounttag staff under the Commission...
...In order that the opportunities now before the local Socialist organisation need not be neglected...
...The talephone number of the committee Is Seeley 0940, According to Mr...
...Miss Ryan had been unable, after completing ber studies, to obtain employment as a secretary...
...And Alexander Flnkelstein...
...On the seme day, test Friday, Newton Golden, 61, pot a pistol to his head and killed himnnlf because there was a common gossip to sis office that »e was to be displaced by a younger men...
...Edgertoa, testified that army engineers were far more competent to handle power valuation matters than would be a valuation expert from ths Interstate Commerce Commission...
...Only 18.8% was try any stretch of the "imagination earned, while 81.2% or over four-fifths of the total was unearned income...
...Between the two ths battle line was drawn...
...Police reserves were hastily summoned...
...Ever since the big garment workers strike of 1916, this modem, well-equipped clinic, now located at 131 East 17th street, has been developing its services to members of the trade union movement Beginning as a modest one-room clinic with the primary purpose of helping a group of workers whose conditions were known to make them especially liable to tuberculosis, it has grown until its medical services alone occuoy the whole building on East 17th street Here will be found completely equipped X-ray rooms, general examination rooms, rooms for minor sur~erv, an extensive department of rhvsip-therapy...
...The law makes it optional with the counties to enforce it and required a majority vote of the county board...
...California Boosts But Work is Scarce Shipping, Manufacture and Farming Show Uniform Decline But Ballyhoo is Unabated (Br • * • « U O t r C i i r f n i n l ) SAN FRANCISCO...
...In separate quar-ers...
...Organizer A. Klrschnsr, who presided, stressed the Importance of a drug clerks' union and the benefits that could be derived therefrom...
...Pauline Newman Returns To Union Health Center As Publicity Director When over 25,000 worker* are on strike, provisions against sickness in the ranks Is an important matter...
...Panken declares that he had nothing to do with the preparation" of the card, and that if he had he would not have used the prefix that appears on it...
...That's us...
...Is about to be answered by scores of millions of Ajnericans...
...Moreover, it will be an attempt to "graft into a law by interpretation a policy which Congress has deliberately declared shall be no part of that law...
...Allen sharply cross-examined Bonner, who made a definitely unfavorable impression on the sub-committee...
...Los Angeles, of course, forges ever ahead la Chamber of Commerce bulletins...
...Hs cited the Niagara Falls power case, involving an item of $1,500,000 which is illegally in the valuation schedule...
...Fortunately for the striking Waist and Dress Makers, their International Union has made permanent provision for Just such situations in its well-established Union Health Center, of which Dr...
...for the first time disclosed the lines drawn in the battle between Executive Secretary Bonner and Chief Engineer Tyler, on the one aide, and Chief Accountant King and Solicitor Russell, on the other...
...B. F. Langworthy, Harold LassweU, Samuel Levin, Mary E McDowell, Fred A. Moore...
...Mr...
...and only California, bv its ra'ramum wage law, held the med'an for any state on to l ' 6 a week...
...Miss Ryan came to New York from Susquehanna, Psw some years sgo, and Studled to be a secretary...
...Social Democrats,** they write Judge Panken, "should use distinguishing titles only in case of earnest scientific research work, enriching the fund of useful human knowledge...
...Lovett, over six hundred people are expected at the dinner, which will be an event unique .in Chicago's history because of the number of people from all walks of life, and of all shades of political, religious and economic opinions, who h a v e agreed, to Father together to do honor to a man who is outsfand'ng as oh* of the leader* of the Socialist movement and interpreters of the Socialist shllosoDhy...
...Anna Aronovich, Josepn Baas, Bessie Blackman, Abraham Caban...
...The next day Lucille M, Ryan...
...Glsen Plumb, Donald R. Richberg, T. V. Smith...
...Resolutions were unanimously adopted calling on the Stats Board of Pharmacy to reneal the seventy hour working law for the drug clerks and enact a forty-eight hour law in its place...
...These gambling houses—the law cloees Its eyes to them and all the other cheap vices of the town— are the home and protector of these seasonal workers...
...Swing of California, in an open letter to Secretary of the Interior Wilbur, has protested the opinon Just rendered to Wilbur by his solicitor, E. C. Finney, former aid to Albert Fall, whereby Wilbur was assured that he eculd turn over to the Southern California Edison Company the entire power output from Boulder Dam when that structure is built...
...Each reservation is $2...
...Half of Factories Closed Here is ths heart of Industrial California...
...A M. Zametkin, for many years, possibly since the birth of the Socialist party, lndefatlguable workers tor the Socialist movement The suggestion is made that the reference to Honorable appearing before the name of Judge Panken be eliminated...
...Thomas will talk on I "Has Liberalism Collapsed...
...This vear...
...Tou know, the boys are afraid of the banks...
...The pencilcisrtos Included foreign-born persons who have become naturalised...
...Delivery of Loot Held Up "As one of the authors of this bin...
...That memorandum suggested that these two officials favor the giving of the accounting work to men In ths Interior, War and Agriculture departments...
...The OnmMevs Teetfr But listen to what the gamblers hav> to sav: "Worst year we've bad since *zl...
...The memorandum declared that such men would, presumably, not be very familiar with ths Job of finding the actual investment—as contrasted with the claim of investment— made by a power company when seeking a federal power development license...
...He will continue with meetings and debates at Macon, Atlanta, Birmingham, Montgomery, New Orleans, Jackson...
...oreh«rds arid m'"** of the er"«t northern va'lev...
...A battle that has been staged behind the locked doors of a subcommittee of ths House appropriations committee is to be brought into the open before the Senate commute on interstate commerce, and perhaps also before fhe Caraway committee on lobby Investigation...
...Rumors draw the greet crowds to the Ford gates...
...Of the 8 081 women employed In 179 establ'shments, whose wages were reported In this study, only 7 percent earned as mac* as $18 a week, 70.2 percent earned less than $15, 25.8 percent lees than 810...
...Caban responds to every appeal...
...The old age pension law was put through the legislature by a combination of Socialists end LaFoUette Republicans...
...Along with the American Federation of Labor organization emphasis, the League will stress political action...
...Sacramento, the cental city and "heart of C^forr'a...
...As a prelude to this phase of the probe of the power monopoly, members of the Senate committee on Interstate commerce are readng the file of memoranda and letters secured, under duress, from the offices of the Federal Power Commission, showing how Executive Secretary Bonner of that commission has-been trying to get rid of the legal and accounting divisions of the Power Commission staff, thereby covering up stockwatering schemes of ths power corporations to whom valuable sower sites are being granted...
...The Boulder Dam Act says plainly that, in allotting the power produced at the dam, the Secretary of the Interior shall give preference to cities applying for pc «-er...
...Isidore Mufson...
...Political lines have been broken and the Southern states have evidences of progressivlsm that must be captured...
...Fanny Dembo, Jacob Axelrad, Nathan Efros, M. Engelman...
...An announcement was made by the theatre that a few had been hired at $2 and the cope broke up the big crowd...
...Responsibility for the grab will be put up to Hoover, who has insisted that the Federal government must stay out of the power business, but who dodged the question of granting this Boulder Dam power to the city of Los Angeles, when questioned on it during his Presidential campaign...
...Bonner has for months past refused to permit Russell's adverse opinion to become effective...
...18, Oswald Garrison Villard, treasurer of the National Committee, will speak over WEVD on "Why the Tariff Situation Needs a New Political Alignment," also from the viewpoint of the South...
...The show company advertised for "extras" to fill in Its cast, although it needed none Philadelphia got an unintentional Insight Into the gravity of Its unemployment problem when the Shubert Theatre was literally besieged by thousands of the Jobless...
...is the erent center for the labor whleh mans the f«rm...
...The sges varied from "0 to 83, Several applicants were widows...
...Much of this amount must go for food, because the cotton belt hi far from self-supporting in the matter of foodstuffs...
...The Swing-Johnson (Bolder Dam) bill was framed by its authors in close cooperation with the southwest cades which expected to benefit by its enactment...
...Lydia Schmidt, Graham Taylor...
...Don't p-et on...
...The shipping Is bad because the great Industrial area around the bay is stagnant...
...I know that this language was intended for the express purpose of fortifying the municipalities in the enjoyment of rights accorded them onder the Water Power Act...
...Hence the condition disclosed in 192S is shown to be a continuing rather than a new one...
...The practice of numerous stores doing business under the sypervi- j si on of non-licensed pharmacists was strongly condemned by the union as detrimental to public j health, and a resolution was passed to abolish this evil immediately Among the speakers were William Karlin...
...To me it is the finest appellation in the human tongue...
...Swing's challenge makes more embarrassing the completion of Wilbur's proposed delivery of the loot of Boulder Dam, within the next three or four weeks, to the power trust...
...San Francisco...
...cor "lnglv»lv that business is rood 'n 8scramento...
...the w**ter resorts of the San Joaquin Valley to the south...
...that is, Income derived from profits on the sale of real estate, stocks, bonds, etc, capital net gam from sale of assets held more than two years, rent, royalties, interest on Investments, and dividends on the stock of domestic corporations...
...400 Attend Meeting Of Drug Clerks Union The New York Drug Clerks' Union held a mass meeting Sunday at the Irving Plaza Hall with an attendance of over four handled...
...Settlement of disputes on $187,000,000 worth of power projects is now held up due to the paralysis of actios in the Commission...
...Louis Sabloff and B. Sokoloff...
...60, unemployed for months...
...But from the fields and factories, the docks and desks there comes a murmur from working men and women which to a finely attuned ear sounds distinctly like boloney...
...13 "Cooperate with the South politically," is the February slogan Jt the League for Independent Political Action...
...Steel mills and auto assembly plants, paint factories and box making shops, canneries and hurs oil depots scar the beautiful hills which come down to the bay...
...chairman of ths Socialist party's finance committee...
...ex-Assemblyman, ex-pharmacist and prominent labor - attorney...
...Thousands Besisge Ford Plant In Jersey In Search off Jobs NEWARK, N. i.— i FP;—In the snow, slosh and fog, thousands of men cluster around the gates of the Ford assembly plant at Kearney every morning, hoping they wiU be picked...
...Howard T. Williams, executive secretary, begins at Richmond, Va., this morning a month's speaking and organizing trip through the South...
...8. O. L«vtnson are among those who have agreed to serve on the committee...
...The dinner will be held in the Cameo Room of the Hotel Morrison...
...The Senate committee on interstate commerce is now preparing to take up some time this month an open Inquiry into Bonner's official conduct, in connection with the proposed creation of an independent commission to adminregulate the power Industry, regular the power industry...
...Miss Newman is no stranger to the situation she will be called upon to handle, having been on the staff of the Health Center once before and long connected with the garment workers union in various capacities...
...Dewey Group Plans Concentration on South Leader onWEAFFeb...
...P. Publication...
...J. George Friedman, David Granditer...
...Optimistically, shinning men say it will open up In the spring, but where is the seafarer who has anything left after a week on shore...
...with "due regard to ths public Interest" in such allotment Finney tells Wilbur that "due regard to the public interest" can be pleaded as a pretext for ignoring the command of Congress that the cities be given the first chance to use the power...
...Louis Frier, Henry Fruchter, Barnat Fenstsr...
...the Union Health Center "-sintains one of the largest and best equipped dental clinics In the attar...
...Comrade' covers everything honorable, estimable, and what not...
...Young and old, able-bodied and crippled crowd around the employment agents who pick out 50 to 100 men each morning...
...Williams will address students and faculty at the University of Richmond today, speaks to the League of Women Voters and the Duke University Liberal Club tomorrow afternoon at Durham, N. C, and debates Profesor Woodhouse at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill tomorrow evening on "Is There Need for a New Party in This Country...
...Associated and other comnsnles are running on reduced schedules and where five men were working In ths maze of r*r»es tanks and colls where the ras Is "erscked" only three are on the job now Men Afnr to Jobs Men with a job hold on to It no matter how much extra work Is rHl-d on them...
...13, on "Progressives in Politics," with special reference to the Southern situation...
...Among the contributions received during the week were two from Mr...
...Hungry" lines and long runs were shunned...
...cense valuations which various companies set up as ths basis for rates they were going to charge to ths consuming public...
...With ths dues system revised so that the income from dues will be substantially reduced until such time as the membership drive yields a sufficient increase in membership to make up the difference, 'he need of a sustaining fund is more urgent, while the possibilities of providing an ample fund should be better if those who will iay less In dues will make up the difference until such time as the membership dues provides a larger income...
...Power Board Secretary Hid Vital Data Bonner Implicated Before House Committee -Swing Attacks Wilbur —New Revelations Expected Soon By Laurence Todd WASHINGTON (F...
...First Fourteen Receive Pensions in Milwaukee As La w Goes In to Effect MILWAUKEE (F...
...A splendid response to our program has come from liberals all over the South," he declares...
...3, by the House appropriations committee of the hearings recently held behind locked doors by its sub-committes dealing with the Federal Power Commission, has...
...I neither feel myself honorable nor do I deem myself entitled to that prefix...
...On Tuesday evening, Feb...
...Christian M. MadBen, H. A Millis, Agnes Nestor, Edward A Nockles, W. F. Ogburn, Mrs...
...half of the plants hsve shut down eonroletelv...
...Fake Job Ad Causes Near-Riot P H I L A D E L P H I A , Pa.— <FP;— No fewer than 5,000 jobless men and women almost caused a riot, as the result of a publicity gag staged by the Lew Leslie show in Philadelphia...
...Some Unemployed Are In Clover That the unemployed on the upper end of the scale are not suffering and why they are not is shown from the testimony ef the vice-president of the Koister Radio Corporation who admitted that he had made a net profit of $2,021,219, on an original Investment of $1200 in 1912...
...Fourth Dies Next Day Hugo Oed&rbolro tramped op and dew* Tune* Square in New Yerk Otty U hours a day saMsased fas a sandwich sign which feed, "1 Want Work...
...Hs was among the first to aid ths United Socialist Drive when the drive began last August In addition to those whose names were made public in a recent issue of The New Leader, the following are among those who responded since: Louis Antoavllle...
...An intensive effort to raise the remaining $3,000 to complete the total sought will be made by Judge Panken, aided by the finance committee...
...2,000 Given To Sustaining Fund to Date $8,000 More Sought to Clear Financial Burdens of N. Y. Socialists During 1930 OYER 12,000 of the $10,000 •ought by the local Socialist organisation to help It finance an enlarged program of Socialist activities is already assured, Marx Lewis, executive secretary of the Socialist Party, announces as The New Leader goes to press...
...At a meeting held at Panken's offics last week, various plans for raising the balance were ! taken up, each member of ths committee promising to assist in the campaign to raise the balance...
...There thev can find amusement, a flop and a stake for the spring, if they are known...
...The policy Involved Is that of preference to existing private companies In the electric power business...
...34 years old, committed aid* cide by dropping from the window of her room on the nineteenth floor of the building to a garden courtyard on the second floor...
...Of course, the banks will show vou bew^erlnir fls-iirei erevtae...
...Max Delson, Dora Delson, Dr...
...Thursday he will be at Greensboro, speaking to an open forum at Grace Methodist Church and Friday at Columbia, S. C, addressing meetings in the city and at the University of South Carolina...
...Woodrum and Rep...
...executive secretary of" the Railway Clerks' Union, and Mrs, MsatmC Big Dinner to Honor Thomas in Chicago...
...Jobs | are just as precious there as in fhe north and the great port of S»" P»dro Is as sla^k as its sister port...
...Solicitor Russell, ths printed record reveals, explained to the Bouse sub-committee the meaning of Banner's stubborn resistance, during ths past six months, to all attempts mads by Russell and King to hasten ths accounting work sad to determine the amount ef fraud in the pre...
...She was sttO ahve when discovered by a maid, bat she died shortly after she was carried to the dab's infirmary...
...I see them come with seventyfive and a hundred, and those are the lucky ones...
...John Dewey of Columbia University, national chairman of the League, will speak over WEAF Thursday evening, Feb...
...Lots of 'em are laving...
...up in tittle towns where it's cheap...
...Before these sailor men were choosy...
...A number of army engineers, after getting government information as to power site matters, have been taken into the employ of various units of ths power trust...
...The CeJifernians, lac, high priests of business in San Francisco and ths Bay area, have appropriated even more this year for their tush ballyhoo campaign...
...It is only the sVllled who sticks on at the wsere of an unskilled man of vesterdsv...
...At least those of them who are broke So It's back to lows for a lot of hopefuls there...
...They leave their roll at the bar and when they want dough, thev draw Usually thev come in with three or four hundred bucks for the winter...
...Ruscell called attention to one of Brmsr's most notorious offenses, v.'h!-h was his policy in keeping work and Information sway from the solicitor and chief accountant Army engineers, of whom the chief engineer is one...
...Berkwlev, Oakland and Alameda...
...have been employed by Bonner to give legal and accounting advice...
...California facM the new year with optimism, an optimism which approachss that fins rrensy characteristic of a camp meeting...
...Monthly, quarterly, semi-annual and annual pledges to the sustaining fund are being received daily by former Judge Jacob Panken...
...Wednesday he will address students and faculty at the North Carolina State College at Raleigh and an evening meeting in the city...
...But where there was a black pall over the bay a year ago, today it is or>lv a dine^v srav...
...The tankers which suoplv the ofl depots of the Standard, Union, Shell...
...More significant than even these figures showing the extremely low Income of the person who has to work for a living, were figures which show that there were 11,000 persons who received incomes of over $100,000...
...In his appeals for funds, Judge Panken has made it clear that it is not the amount that is given, provided each one give what he or she can, but that everyone should join the fund that will make for its success...
...Jumped from the fourth door of his heme...
...Because be waa 57, he was "too otd to work," employers ami A. So Cedarhokn turned on three gas Jets In hie room, lay down en kte bed and died, leaving a note reading, "Please don't mistake this for propaganda...
...Bonner Hid Information Rep...
...Hearings before the Federal Trade Commission on the astounding profits, stock-watering and other financial jugglery of the power trust are about to furnish the country with a new series of sensations...
...The fundamental question, "How much am I being robbed by the power company...
...Pledges vary in amount, each one giving in accordance with his or her ability...
...J. Hillman, William Karlin...
...No crisp report from the government tells the story of this stagnation as well as ' a train or motor trip from Martines down through Richmond...
...Sixty new members were enrolled at this meeting, making the total membershlD close to five hundred...
...Robert Morss Lovett, secretary j of the committee, announces that Jane Addams, Edward Scribner Ames, Louis Behsnsohn, Elisabeth Christmas, William A. Cunnea, Paul H. Douglas, Charles W. ankey, Lillian Herstein, Florence Cttrtis Hanson, Paul Hutchinson, Frederick .Knight, Mrs...
...George M. Price Is Director, and which !n the present crisis is making special provisions to meet the calls it knows will be made upon it through the appointment of Miss Pauline Newman as publicity director...
...S. Department of Labor for s week In the last quarter of ' . 9 1 8 . received less than f i t a week to wages...
...Julius Goldberg, Louis P. Goldberg...
...The total Income of these persons was $8,282,957,000...
...The average wage of wage workers was $1,205...
...A committee of eighty prominent Chlcagoana has been formed to promote a dinner for Norman Thomas on February 22...
...RocHjlv...
...says Swing in his letter...
...These municipalities were the principal sup private power corporations were vigorous and outspoken opponents...
...For nearly a year past the accountants and other experts . for the Commission have been looking into such books of the power combine as were not withheld from their Inspection, either through downright defiance or through sleight-of-hand...
...For there exists documentary evidence that the power trust lobby in Washington is highly expensive...
...Tyler and his predecessor, MaJ...
...Swing warned him, he wil be violating the spirit and the letter of the law which Swing spent years in putting on the statute books...
...Cynthia Smith Reade is the treasurer and checks for reservations should be made out to her and sent to 800 S. Halsted St...
...Henry R. Linville, William Lipson, Joseph Malik...
...are hired, and within a day the number Is magnified to hundreds, to even a thousand...
...From all parts of northern New Jersey, and even from Detroit, come men attracted by the rumors...
...Of course, the house takes a good, fat percentage...
...Ship Companies Can Cheese Any sailor or black gang hand will tell you that a year ago ship owners were begging men to take jobs on boats which crowded San Francisco's piers...
...Until the last session of the leg'slature a two-thirds vote had been required...
...Samuel Mailman, Louise Pohle, Marios Severn, Dr...
...Fifty men...
...I* A. Urges Emigration* Thev ten you down in L. A that the Chamber of Commerce is working hard to get folks out of town...
...Halt ot Chain-Store Salesgirls Paid Less Than $12 Week, WASHINGTON.—Qr.e~ar.lf of the women employed In 5-and10 cent stores and llm/ted-price chain department stores, as stnd'ed by tho W omen's Bureau of the TJ...
...Too much red tans for them So when thev blow to here, thev naturally turn to their friends...
...Feb...
...If Wilbur folows this advice...
...and who* z~*i for S ' C T o m e ' ^ o (roes also for Stockton and Fre«no...
...the beach dowr . there, fen«," the ship men win tell j you- Jit's a hell of a hungry...
...Chattanooga, Nashville and Lou'sville, returning to the city on the morning of February 27th...
...Certainly there was not any reason for using the term "Honorable' when the comrades write to me...
...SWING PROTESTS sTNNXT-WTLBI'R TRICK Rep...
...P.)—OM age pensions ranging from S*0 to $M a month wen granted to fourteen of Milwaukee's aged workers by Judge Sheridan after hearings In accordance with the Wisconsin old age pension law...
...and Mrs...
...Though enacted four yeers ago it was put in force la Milwaukee County only recently after efforts of Socialist members of toe county board had rallied some old party support for the measure...
...Mary Anderson, d'rector of the Women's Bureau, In transmitting this report prepared by Mary TETzabeth Pldgeon, points out that the s u r v e y of wares and hours of women In these chain stores in 1928 is added to studies made In 18 states In the past nine years...
...Adolph Held...
...Abraham Cabas, veteran editor of the Jewish Daily Forward, beads the list of contributors who responded during the past week...
...City Leaders Sponsors (By a Now Le*S»r C»rrMp*n4ent) CHICAGO...
...But now even the Dollar Line, "hungriest" of all the West Coast outfits, turns them away...
...Already small boys are indulging in their favorIts snort of bustlne the windows, a snort made safe bv the absence of even a watchman wh'eh undeubt »dlv is too crest an expense for the companies to bear...
...Conditions near the coast, where there are no Industries, Income Per Capita In 1929 Was $749 The National Bureau of Economic Research reports that the average salary of salaried employes In 1927 was 82.084...
...The per capita income in that year was $745...
...Today in the dingy office on Mission Street where the ship owners' association dispenses largess, more than 200 men crowd the smokefilled rooms waiting to sign on at any wage for any port...
...Hundred Thousand Peasants Average Earnings o? $336 A Year GREENVILLE, S. t'.—(FP)—A hundred thousand white families on cotton farms In the Piedmont section of the Carolines, Georgia and Alabama have an average cash income available for family living of $386 a year, says the United States Department of agriculture...
...In Sacramento, business continues good, according to ths Chamber of Commerce...
...There, am'd the traudv luxv^es of the town stW verv much frontier, these 1«borers winter uo and toes awav their spring, summer and faH earn<n«-w In the mnVinf houses, speakeasies and fancy ho"»es of the town...
Vol. 10 • February 1930 • No. 1
