29- Kentucky Miners Indicted For Murder; Troops Enter Towns
29 Kentucky Miners Indicted For Murder; Troops Enter Towns Flowers, Sentimental Speeches And Highest Maternal Death Rate Mark Mothers' Day Here MOTHER'S DAY Always means to America...
...CIaossens Report Questioned daessens reported functioning county committees in existence in Bronx and Queens...
...He announced that Budget Director Kohler was ill and besides some unions wanted to go further tato the wage data and that, therefore, it was advisable to put off the prevailing rate Question for another meeting...
...Newton cautiously replied that he would carry their message to the President At Red Cross headquarte.-s they met Chairman John Barton Payne, who has assured the country that the need for relief has largely disappeared in rural areas...
...As a Philadeelphia member rose to query the Socialist leader, the satire gallery bioaeomsd forth with haaasra aad placards...
...Hoopes said he had not laid his plans before the Governor aad scored the reforming millionaire now ia the chair, who appointed an unemployment committee promising to abide by their recommendations but when they recommended unemployment Insurance, ignored their report and recently to the face of frost page stories of privatisa aad wast m capitalist newspapers, declared that "there was ao want or suffering that arsa act being adequately cared for...
...Stato W?mW...
...Other Near L I 1ST boosters ars doing all they can to get new readers...
...This last fact is a testimony to the power *h radio for propaganda and an argument for building up fci Jimmy "stole" the police parade by marching at its head, •pis stunts was to rush up to kiss Cardinal Hayes' ring as Nfcoltary sat in his robes on the steps of St...
...A motion to close debate was lost but to spite of minor skirmishing, the opposition remained silent aatfi the roll was called when unemployment insurance to Pennsylvania was rejected by a voto of 107 to, 35...
...At one of the recent oft-postponed bearings on the prevailing rate before the Board of Estimate Kohler even went so far as to deny that he had reported on the painters...
...and Temple F a s i Co, headed by F . R Wood of Trinidad, former worker for tbe RncksMJMj interests and "feeler" for thsas today...
...The city government has brazenly and persistently ignored the prevailing wage law...
...Irving Wolf Salert...
...24Kart Sea, 85...
...The first companies filiaf notice of pay cuts with the stata industrial commission are the Alamo, Oakdale, Celiente...
...Crimes go undetected and unpunished...
...many months...
...Patrick's catheKjths next day the Mayor and Superintendent O'Shea answered H j « n on the schools—including, we presume, the ComptrolBteck on the Board of Education's method of acquiring BJhas—by denouncing the critics as enemies of their country Hvcity...
...Will Rogers asks how disBSMtean bring prosperity when only soldiers and sailors get Sr as?'envelopes...
...When a hearing was granted and the mayor of the state's fourth largest city, Mayor Stump of Reading, James H. Maurer, former President of the Pennsylvania Federation of Labor, EsteMe Lauder, of' the Consumers' League and member of Governor Pinchot's unemployment committee, Helen Hall, nationally known social worker and student of unemployment conditions and P. J . McGrata, vice-president of the State Federation of Labor, and secretary of the Pittsburgh Central Labor Union, all urged the bills m company with Harry W. Laidler, President of the National Bureau of Economic Research, the committee ' professed itself much impressed but the following week decided to kill the bills...
...Ethel L. AmerUn...
...He .. ' lpoke a oorre1&UOn of the 1lpt tor the UIlemployed wtUl the aldermanic Campaigns...
...8. A. F. Zager...
...and writes that due to sickness in her family she was unable to work as hard ftw the contest as she had' intended, but she premises to do her vary best to gat additional gate, before tbe contest ends...
...If coupon clippers get payments in depression, workers must also be paid aa when working to give the mass of human beings a status equal to that of work animals, of horses and mules...
...He demurred to he description of members of the ommittee as "generals," holding hat membership on tue committee ihould be regarded as an opporunity for service...
...They must at the very Kavor recognition of Russia and no embargoes, the wiping out StU and reparations—let the rich who hold private foreign •Met and profited by the war pay for that in increased income DHHl a general move toward tariff, r?duction, naif let us remember that disarmament means disarmament aasifce reduction here and there...
...however, by less than 200 points, so that next week the situation may be reversed...
...There all the union building tradesmen stand together to enforce union conditions and do not hesitate to hold up the completion of a building if the union rate is not paid...
...The bills which propose the accumulation of an annual unemployment indemnity fund of 380,000,000 to be raised half by state from " Income tax and half from employers of labor were the only measures of unemployment insurance ever proposed in the Pennsylvania General Assembly...
...The list of standing of the contestants published last week undoubtedly acted as quite a stimulus...
...An important change was made in the dues payment system...
...In Canonsburg, in Washington County, daily newspapers are advising the miners and unemployed to wait in front of the American Tin Plate Co...
...SatTn^rmg^haVe been*h?a\"t« which Claessens replied that .open the bnutch** " l a * to^Ajfcnan...
...SOCIAL CONTRAST Hp YORK papers resounded with the praises of the police pften more than a hundred of them captured alive a "twor boy bandit and his "Moll" in a spectacular siege of a room in apartment house...
...Porter asked for a list,of trade union gatherings addressed by party speakers, cuessens promised to supply Port?t* with soci h hat...
...prevailing rate hy the Tammany eetleials Seme say it is because they have not affiliated with the Building Trades Council because they object to sesas e f the regulation* establish *i by that seuacn as placing toe much newer t a the hands of officiate...
...No iiscrimination against young msm>ers of the party resulted, he said, tines it applied to .young and old rho have just joined...
...Bribery "^a rife and unblushing...
...Ntwapaper publicity has continued to report COBC1U06Q wixa tv rwvrvnce O&eMenj' report provoked queaman...
...Lee irged the party membership on to luplications of the great May Day rally...
...Company officiala have offered to reduce rent from $12 to $10, but miners on strike since May 1 refused to accept They have been working only two and three days a week for...
...To every contestant who secures at lsast 50 points (5 yearly subs, or 10 six-monthly subs...
...connection...
...Friedrich Adler replied, on behalf of the L. S. I . Painters Fight Tammany for Legal Pay Rate W a l k e r Regime Cuts Wage on City Jobs Below Prevailing Rate By Louis Stanley Not the least of the difficulties besetting the Painters Union in New York City is its attempt to get a square deal from the Tammany administration which poses as a friend of labor...
...The painters, it Wfil he remembered, were active in *^pM | " g "Boss" BrindeO of the old Buildings Trades OetmeQ and having that council reorganised...
...Responsibility for these disgraceful conditions does net rest primarily on the present administration...
...In answer, M f l E. Gross, secretary...
...It win present its program to the legislative investigation committee, to the electorate, and above all, to the working people of the city of New York...
...43 to No...
...He tad seen "old-timers" — referring o the desertion of the party durng the war by many members ef wears' standing—fall by the wayiide as well as the young ones...
...All these, •JJr, armaments, the iniquity of the Versailles Treaty, debts jasBBiaUnn i soaring tariffs, unsound fiscal policies, are the *]m\0i*r*aat the two deities of the Western world: capitalism f^baansm...
...The gallery was silent Delegates of Lancaster Central Body aad Bunding Trades Council bors sighs denoting their organisation...
...Five Issues Stressed The . resolution stressed five issues as typical of the tasks to which a Socialist government would apply itself: housing, schooling transit, unemployment relief, and the police department with special reference to its part in industrial disputes...
...Quite a few who were far down on the list got busy and began sending in their subs...
...Attorney Forrest Mervine and Orrin E. Boyle, counsel for the Union, showed that .the indictment was directly in contravention of the status...
...T h e Socialist organisation of Mew York welcomes the impending city investigation as SB opportunity to expose once again the corruption and subservteaee te business of our city government under Tammany ' aad Republican rule...
...W. B . Jones, secretairi...
...The Republican political machine has never been truly concerned about the purification of the city government...
...Henry Kielzer...
...Dividends are doles,'' "Work or Wages," "NoteCsarity bet Work," "To Hell with Charity by the Boss," read u s s y other of the signs...
...Yes, but they get them for unproductive A Sappose instead of battleships and cruisers at 15 to 30 jBMajfece nations went in for housing at that scale...
...Subsequent investigations have d f d j | fl the coercion and intimidatioa lp which these petitions have %anE obtained...
...at Canonsburg...
...I nciden tally Judge Shull himself during the injunctions hearing suggested to the District Attorney that Hoffman be prosecuted for conspiracy...
...While most branches give copies away free, the Chelsea branch has shown what can be done in the way of selling the paper...
...Painters District Council No...
...While they do not expect to win any of the major prizes, they are confident of getting the sixth prise...
...has its mtnay wages have been eut tt|Ef3^| to S3 a day for inside workers, a n i from $3.20 to $2.10 s day fo> outside workers...
...John D. Rockefeller's Colorado Fuel St Iron Co...
...The Judge, sitting as a magistrate, held Hoffman under bail while the Grand Jury is fixing up the case against the hosiery organizer...
...The Porter amendment carried by a vote of 54 to 39...
...This did not satsty Porter, who said, he wasted such information not for himself but for the use of the convention...
...t*he resolution was defeated...
...Sixteen thousand mothers die every year in the United States —they die bearing- children...
...The Socialist member then discussed the problem of unemployment as created by capitalism...
...I t has little faith, however, in the disinter- ' estedness, integrity and social vision ef the legislative investigating committee made up wholly by representatives of the two eld parties...
...Out of twenty-two civilised nations, we have the highest maternal death rate...
...In Union town, where the South Fayette Coal Co...
...The convention closed with an iddreas by Algernon Lee, chairnan of the city executive...
...open air' campaigning at f ee tory gates...
...Only planned production for use, not profit, ajsaady these tragedies...
...After the southern hearings there will be a general investigation of the entire mina wage question In Denver by request of the State Federation at Labor...
...ergasi as fly opposed te the «sera* aad methods of the old parties, and representing the later eats of the large saasses of workers, will secare •alisi • St Is 1 representation in the sdiiisslsliaMiiii of the city with the opportunity to scrutinize aad power to c?eck its policies and "We point to the honest and efitetosrt administration of Milwaukee aad Beading, under Socialist role and of the thousands of European cities controlled by SoeisHsts -"Corruption aad ineJBc'enctv are, however, not ear sale or principal grievance against the administration of the city...
...Public office and judicial rebea are sold to the highest bidder or awarded to political favorites regardless of qualification or character...
...There is no wtdesSeJMHj strike, but several mines have t S closed by sporadic strikes as conditions became unbearable...
...tion of Labor, said, " I t fend WjjM a common practice for employers to obtain such petitions...
...Revolting methods of violence aad torture are applied to poor prisoners, while men of wealth and Influence are treated with indulgence, if not immunity...
...It had only bread lines and demeaning charity the worker...
...Loots Bab Ion...
...City funds are squandered...
...Plight of jobless "Our city is disfigured by the most disgraceful slums...
...Pa.—"I know that yea are anxious to go to lunch, that you are hungry, but X am going to discuss the plight of hundreds of thousands of Pennyslvanians who are hungrier and have no lunch to go to...
...The convention—169 delegates from sixty-three f u n c t i o n i ng branches — in forceful language stated the Socialist case against Tammany rule...
...Socialist member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, opened ' his attack on House committee machinery in which he attempted to take his bills for unemployment insurance from the committee which has killed them...
...The People's Lobby arranged for their coming to Washington, and emphasized the significance of their errand on the day following Mothers' Day...
...Pearl Shiflet, wife of a miner of the Kelley's Creek Colliery at Ward, W. Vs., said to Walter Newton, patronage secretary to Hoover, when Benjamin C. Marsh, director of the People's Lobby persuaded Newton to face the visitors...
...have more than a disHikt program to get disarmament...
...On new construction work the organized painters have nothing to fear...
...On the other hand, the contention carefully distinguished the Socialist program from that of the "good government" advocates and the respectable Republican machine...
...This they will keep up for a number of weeks, and then they will ask for subs...
...Others saw that it !• because the district council tesi never promised to to*iT*mmayV<*Hsil ^tarough^Ute candidates for office...
...Roger Rush and Hymaa Sheanm, Los Angeles Yl peels, who have been on a barn storming tour for the Party, secured their first sub...
...It vas felt the implication would be in endorsement of I . L. P. policy, tad a slap to the policies of Prime kfinister R a m s a y MacDonald, which have been opposed by the :. L. P. A straight telegram of ?ongratulatloHs to Brockway was Uso defeated, probably because It vas associated by the delegates vita the first motion...
...Uoai in the coal fields near here ^l|Hj have led to the killing of ssesafigl deputy sheriffs and company gun* men by coal miners and the dea» of one miner, the burning of m houses of the Ellis Knob Coal Cw the dynamiting of a mbtt ' nflj Shields, Ky., the looting of etafH for food, and several pttdlwjf battles...
...Hjppeph Walker as its devotee and exemplar, orator extraHJBat Communion breakfasts, that's their business...
...Hereafter the dues will bs 90 beats t month, of which five conta it to ro to the national office, five cents to the State rnmmUtaa, t e a conta to the city office and ten...
...In response to s question...
...Hundreds of thousands of unemployed workers within the gates of the city, innocent victims of oar selfish and anarchistic economic system, aro allowed to suffer aad starve without any serious attempt at relief by tats, the richest city of the world...
...He irged that the provision be wiped >ut from the by-laws as a "gesture >f welcome to the new members...
...When the vote carnet' flTeyVs motion was lost, 64 to 3.0...
...Oneal argued that the two or three years' membership qualification was a universal one in the Solisi 1st party of the nation...
...Although June 1 is approaching there is still time for every comrade who is tn the contest, and even new entrants, to go after the [sixth prize, which is Norman i Thomas' "America's Way Out," as it is within reach' of everybody...
...When the painttog finally bas to be dene it Is an alteration Job and then the "chiselling" contractors hid for the work, anticipatlng the payment si ruh-seal* wag...
...tlcally no union for several yearsV extremely bad conditions duriSV the last few months, with short work, low pay, grafting JB bosses and hangar for tu...
...But these factory workers themselves are suffering...
...It denounced Tammany's role as broker for the business and utility interests in the course of which it has enriched itself by corruption...
...Oar transit system is archaic aad chaotic...
...The JonesCooper hill to continue this appropriation to the Children's Bureau failed to pass the 71st Congress...
...Julius Gerber, executive secretary of the party called the convention to order in the Debs' Auditorium on Saturday afternoon...
...Socialist Minister in New Spanish Regime Greets International MADR&X—Francisco?argo1* Gabeller?, Socialist Minister of Labor in the Provisional Government ta Spain, has sent the following telegram to the Labor and Socialist International: "On taking over the office of Minister of Labor, I most send you and the wen ratios of the international my fraternal greetings and express my complete faith in the success of our cause...
...City Organiser August Claessens then submitted a report on the activity of the past year...
...burden of debts and reparations," say vanWEm J ous European savants in various accents...
...Elections are stolen...
...Ne mere change of the personnel of the city administration and no superficial administratton reform will core these deepseated defects ef ear city government...
...J S Hearings will be held by 4M| state industrial commission, the first, set for May 11...
...Gertrude Klein Takes Contest Lead As Entries Speed Up Sub Getting PBy The Contest Editor UTTING on a decided spurt during the past week, Gertrude Weil Klein forged ahead into first place m The New Leader circulation contest...
...He made this suggestion siter a couple of strikebreakers testified that some one they thought was Hoffman, et a union meeting, made some statements about ditching the cars oi out of town scabs if any should be brought in...
...No on expressed opposition at the hearing...
...Judge Samuel E. Shull declared three counts in the Indictment illegal entirely and only permitted one count to stand at all and that one had to be sent back to the Grand Jury for correction...
...With these words, Darlington Hoopes...
...Court Quashes Four Counts in Hoffman Case One I n d i c t m e n t Remains in Case Arising From S t r o u d s b u rg Strike (By A New Lector CwrnuMwl) STROUDSBURG, Pa.—The antiunion drive of the authorities of Monroe County hit a shag this week when the Judge who issued the most sweeping injunction in recent injunction history was forced to throw out of court four Indictments brought against Organiser Alfred Hoffman of the American Federation of Full Fashioned Hoalery Workers...
...A thunder ef applause from the gallery drew the members of the House's attention to the fact that while the debate was proceeding the gallery had filled...
...General activities included the picnic ef last Summer, the Forward Ball, many mass meetings and debates and the May Day demonstration...
...Bernard Scfaub...
...J . Hotter...
...Daniel F . Gage...
...New Labor War Seen In Colorado Coal Fields DENVER, Colo...
...Judge Shull has, however, indicated by his ready acceptance of legal argument today that the anti-union crowd here will have to act a little more discreetly from now on—at least it will'have to be careful about how it draws indictments...
...Simon Berlin, popular presiding officer of the city central committee was chosen chairman, with Pine and Hymaa Nemser as vicechairmen...
...This was indtcated when 29 indictments fa* murder, "banding and confederai» ing," and other charges, were handed down by the special grand jury...
...Harry I Haworth...
...i. F. Mucker...
...Evidently, in his haste to get Hoffman before the court on some charge— at the bidding of the Bar Association, which has declared the strike itself a conspiracy—the District Attorney slapped together the first charges that suggested themselves to him...
...New entries are still coming in...
...It had police and r gas bombs and notoriety for the dangerous, morally twisted ersized youth sanse gun was the only source of his own self em or his fame...
...N.Y.Socialists Sound Call ForCity Fight Convention A p p o i n ts Committee to Make Plan for Municipal Reconstruction APROGRAM for the reconstruction of New York City government which will bring to the working people of the metropolis the full benefit of the community's organized resources was outlined as tbe Socialist alternative to Tammany misrule at a city-wide Socialist convention last Saturday, held in the Peoples' House...
...pathos...
...No one can appreciate this epoch making book without reading it from "kiver to klver...
...A' reduction of wages allowed to the lesser firms would eertsJahr^ JH taken advantage of by tin Roche* feller company, which baa long contended that wages are too high despite the fact that many « Hi miners earn from 3400 to 31.000 a year...
...In just a little over two weeks Miss Weil obtained enough subscriptions to bring her not only to the head of the list but also beyond the half-way mark in the number of points necessary to qualify for the first prise...
...While there are only about 300 painters employed directly by the city the payment of the prevailing rate of wages to them is also important to those painters who may be employed for contractors doing city work...
...The Hy<i war," answers the President of the United Hi states, "and Europe's increased armaments HI following war...
...It hold* that Kohler* figures at the very be?t apply to only a very small minority of the painters in New York City...
...A Promise Unfilled Since the alteration work on school buildings is an Important element ia painting done for the city the union is particularly anxious that the union wage be established as the prevailing rate before Summer arrives so that its member* can accept employment SB such presets...
...9.Ben Senitzer...
...Arraigns Committee Turning then to a discussion of the history of the bills, Hoopes described how the Committee had originally denied him a public hearing on the bills, granting a hearing only after hundreds of labor and fraternal organization had deluged committee members with resolutions on behalf of the bills and members of the legislatutre had been waited upon by workers' committees m their home cities...
...9, through its secretary, Philip Zausner, has been making an effort to enforce the union scale on work performed for the city but the authorities have managed to evade their obligations...
...Bar* hour and Columbine AnthraaJlp corporations, followed by the Vick> ers Coal Co...
...a t Waisenburg...
...What was expected to te) the first full and perhaps final hearing of the committee of the whole of the Board ef Estimate on the prevailing rate of wages did not come off again...
...The government of New York has been criminal and corrupt ever since it fell under the rule of Tammany Hail and its political allies In the other boroughs...
...No tariffs can truly •EJtnerican workers against Germans forced to pay reparaEpst of their skilled labor at an annual wage averaging for Mj Earners less than $300 a year...
...Examination proved that they were mostly factories, insurance com pantos, real estate enterprises, hotels aad the like who employed a- few painters for repair work but Who did not engage In painting as a business...
...JOB FOR AMERICAN WORKERS rW immediate program for world peace which seeks to preHw particular wars while changing the politico-economic which is the mother of war cannot specialize too much, ygsawt keep great armaments and have true peace and pros| » ant we are wholly unlikely to get or deserve disarmament tfamM bedeviled with rival economic imperialism and debts 5 » who see this most clearly ought to be not business men E s t » capitalist notions of competition and exploitation but Kpasmre that there is no true or lasting peace and prosperity KnJa a system which sets American, British or German competition with one another for the bones that are the •far Share of the great grab game...
...According to Manny Borsook, 33 copies were sold at one open air meeting...
...But New York—take it from the Mayor—is the it governed great city in the world...
...Those who think they know what the book is all about merely because they have read a number of reviews are not fair to themselves...
...It Pp added that this jumble of Father Coughlin's gets a big Mnsving audience...
...Troops are on hand, tSHH ing tbe arrests and ready to smash any resistance...
...Paul Porter, Theodore Shapiro, Norman Thomas and Louis Waldman...
...Our public schools are inadequate and over-crowded...
...factory and get the left-overs for a meal...
...A day or two later the same papers told of honest worker literally starving because he was ashamed to beg...
...Bernard Schub goes from No...
...Troops Enter Towns Flowers, Sentimental Speeches And Highest Maternal Death Rate Mark Mothers' Day Here MOTHER'S DAY Always means to America flowers for mothe n and profita for fioristi...
...S?^^Lr NOW all these answers with their implied PBmm***"' recriminations are true and all of them to^ m Tt,,.- getter are less than the truth...
...In accordance with this resolution, the convention appointed the following committee to make the survey: McAiister Coleman, N a t h an Fine, Donald Henderson, Morris HillquK, Edward Levinson...
...In 1923 some 3,000 men were employed by the American Tin Plata Co...
...Then he comes East to eulogize IjnWalker, that great friend of the peepul who helps unemIpBt principally by keeping "up to date" with his tailor...
...THREE JUDICIAL DECISIONS P**BLY the high point of the fine Socialist demonstration |*»ay Day in New York was the enthusiasm for Tom Mooney FJJby reading his message...
...The police department has time and again used its power te prevent the organisation ef workers aad helped employing corporations to break strikes for fair living conditions, as was glaringly illustrated in the case of the employees of the Interborough Rapid Transit Co...
...He stressed the need for *ork on unemployment and unemployment insurance petitions, sayng that the New York organization had fallen behind In this work, [n conclusion, Lee spoke of the soming municipal campaign in which & new' board of aldermen I and a boroUlb preaidellt for Kaa-' batt&D fa to:be- elected...
...Mrs...
...Bronx IS branches...
...The latter must have three years of experience and must prove they have completed Interior pam ting and decorating oa five Jobs costing not less than $7,000 in each esse...
...If the Board of Estimate does not finally grant the painters their union scale, the union will fight the case through the courts...
...The union maintains that, its member* who receive 818.20 a day constitute far more than the forty per cent of the number of painters ta New York City that the* 1927 l aw requires as the basis for establishing the prevailing rate...
...Not efficient and honest government for the benefit of business, but efficient, honest and Socialist government for the benefit of the masses, this was the program on .which the convention planned to make the Socialist fight of the next few years...
...Kohler apparently had made a deliberate attempt to seek out Information which would discredit the union's contentions...
...14 as a result of his efforts at the Workmen's C i r c l e convention, while Gertrude Green, who was 45, goes to 19 on the list...
...Queens 7 and Richmond 9. T w e n ty branches conduct forums, 34 hold weekly lectures...
...PENNSYLVANIA MINERS HUNGRY PITTSBURGH — f F P ) — I f lM ing conditions in western PenasyW vania present a picture of liallrtt...
...The convention than turned, to i consideration of proposed amendments to the by-laws of Local New Sork...
...Meanwhile an assault c a se against a striker is being heard as a sort of filler-in pending the time when the case for murder against the four strikebreakers will come up...
...A substitute paragraph moved by Paul Porter and supported in debate by Edward Le Vinson, welcomed the investigation as an opportunity to expose once again the corruption and subservience to busmess of Tammany and the Republican machines...
...Judge of Ohio declared the state criminal syndical ism law F*»honal...
...The surprise move of the defense created a sensation in the town but the evening papers play down the fact that the indictments were quashed...
...Hoopes " introduced a massive roll containing the petition of eleven thousand Pennsylvania workers for unemployment indemnity...
...Very carefully all references to experience on aew work has been omitted, thus nullifying most of the good accomplished by the qualifications...
...Director of the Budget Kohler reported that his investigation showed that the prevailing rate for painters in New York City was $9.38 instead of the 313.20, which was the union wage...
...Union Leader, Sheriff Foe of Gunmen Are Thrown Into Jail in Harlan HARLAN...
...They must'be elected >y representative and responsible xxiies, he said...
...They HflHkt to their own opinion and the rest of us to ours...
...Dodging Union Rates In the present controversy over' the prevailing rate question the painters have been among the - worst treated...
...Toward the end of the conveniez, Shapiro moved the sending of k resolution to A. Fenner Brockvay, M. P., congratulating him on us election to the chairmanship of he British Independent Labor Party, and congratulating the r. L. P. on its Socialist programs...
...Let's see...
...Incidentally letteren and stripers or sign painters were listed at $10.60 as compared with the union scale of 114.70...
...On May 10th Americana probably led the world In flower purchases, candy-eating', end fine sentiments of home and mother...
...The good Father hates and denounces « t a d and the treaty of Versailles and the selfishness of pits and the sins of bankers almost in the same breath that *nat Socialists and Communists without understanding what I f group of us stands for...
...A Communion breakfast of the same organiza»was the occasion of an ardent eulogy of the city go verali by District Attorney Geogfaan of Kings County...
...A very large part of New York's population to still housed la dark, filthy aad disease breeding tenements...
...The New Leader sales army recruited by J a c k Altman got all excited about the Party's city convention last Saturday afternoon and did not get started, with one exception: "Larry" Cohen, who in less than an hour sold IS copies in front of the Publie Library a t 4Snd street and Fifth avenue...
...coats to the branches...
...One of th« disheartening things about the situation is that painters employed by the city lose the difference between the $11 per day the city graciously pays them and tse $13.20 they should receive as union men unless they sign pretests at the time they receive their checks...
...Some weeks ago, Payne said he "might" send an agent to West Virginia to Investigate whether the hungry coal miners in that state needed help...
...In New York more branches are taking bundle orders for distribution at meetings than ever before except at campaign time...
...Partners With Bustaess «Under the rule of the two old parties, beili of Identical make-op and political philosophy, and both dominated by the employing classra, corporations and pubHe utilities, government is sJmoet always a partaarehlp snd thT^poUticlaas obtain a license to graft...
...It seems that non-union contractors satisfying the requirements technically may win the contracts and not pay the union scale of wages...
...Speak* eosies, gambling dens sad disorderly houses flourish under an infamous partnership of professional law breakers, public officers sworn to enforce the law and manenti al politica* leaders...
...They have not received any...
...Some rank aad filers declared what was ea their minds to the indignation of McKee but the whole question was postponed, nevertheless, for another two week* Penn.Defeats Employment Insurance Jobless Stage , Silent Demonstration as House Votes Down Socialist Bill By Arthur McDowell (Br A Kiev Leader C n T l f P . l l » . !) HARRISBURG...
...Hair Coughlin's eloquence over the radio and otherwise is a g ! » » than mere clerical demagoguery...
...Mothers Find Hoover's Door Barred to Them Wires of Unemployed Make Fatile Attempt to See P i i i d f i it WASHINGTON.— ( F P ) — F l a t refusal by President Hoover to meet a delegation of six women, wives of unemployed workers, with one child from each household, marked the visit of this group to the White House, May 11, when they arrived to appeal for federal unemployment relief through a special session of Congress...
...a ^TiM^t"1"™" *** ealry whoa a party of clean poBttoal aad «octal ideals, such as the Seefcahnt Party...
...4. Harry Lichtenberg...
...The strikers are not permitted to advertise the fact that a strike is in progress or in any way transmit this news to others...
...The beys are going out with copies this week-end without fail...
...Pierre De~Nio...
...On alteration work, however, it is anothsT mattar...
...FP) — The move to unionise Harlan county is to be met by the'aat^H I now that the gunmen have jgjjjg whipped in their battles '"WM hungry miners...
...S. Dr...
...Gangsters and highway robbers terrorise the city...
...While Warren Billings are in jail there is no innocence that is being sacrificed to class interest masquerading as Justice, •"netrast with the Mooney case and many another Judicial BP*» recent judicial decisions are worth mentioning...
...Id the last three years, however, a hew element has complicated the situation...
...1931 finds only 1,800 working part time, la and around Johnstown, mines are working l e u than as average of 2 1-2 days a week...
...He wasn't afraid of anyone "runting away with the party" and pleaded against "knocking new nembers on the head every time hey get up...
...There is but very little of carpentry, electrical, metal or other work...
...She leads Minnie Weisberg...
...Timely Topics By Norman Thomas Divisions of Opinion—A World Bedeviled > y —„„, Means Disarmament—The "Two\ ?taf Bandit—Piety and Patriotism—The ZZLED POLITICIANS AND CAPITALISTS EatH surface courtesies the meeting of the International ftfZZjber of Commerce showed sharp divisions of opinion and [^eee more how difficult it is for the capitalist world to P* _ _ _ _ u n l t e e T e a 0 0 eelres 'or the open sores its mm own inherent follies bava caused...
...In any event, our prediction that the contest would get more and more saaitlng as it came to a close is being borne out The standing of the first 35 contestants as this is being written follows: i . Gertrude Well Klein...
...And Senator Borah I in a radio address adds that the demonetizaH tien of silver in India was a big factor...
...The workers are likely to fail to protest their wages Just as happened in similar cases in recent years...
...Meanwhile the Injunction still prevents all picketing at the Monmouth mill and all strike meetings are under the ban...
...Ida Sondack jumped from 58th place to 15th...
...New York County, he said, has 20 branches, of which nine are taking full advantage of their opportunities for Socialist work...
...7.Charles Bradford...
...Ida Sortdack...
...1. D. Ortiip...
...The move was defeated by a record vote of 35 to 107...
...Sarah Voiovick...
...NOISY PATRIOTS AND CHURCHMEN lOXY WALKER and his Tammany cohorts have recently became both noisy patriots and conspicuous churchmen...
...10.Sol Herman...
...In New Kensington, where there are two United Mine Workers of America locals, wages have been cut from 40c a ton to 80c a ton...
...2. Minnie Weisberg...
...As for the church—well, if its dignitaries like the Hon...
...members into another chamber where he addressed them...
...We wish the i*resident would Spare one week-end from the Rapldan to come down to tbe coal fields In West Virginia," Mrs...
...America's speculation fSM ! boom, tariff increases in the world in genm j era: and especially in the United states, the HP...
...But even without them it is the nature of the - —jtesn to give us both technological unemployment and the ^ n f sard times...
...But we should think that even the DAK f t reject to the Mayor's wholesale additions to their patriotic Hp...
...To substantiate the Socialist case and work it into a detailed program for civic reconstruction, the resolution created a special committee...
...r vjfffi Chief of Police Asa Custek^B Evarts, who said when the IBIMK came in that the gunmen WH caused the trouble, was the H arrested...
...Her husband has had cnly two and a half months' work since last August, although he has been with the one mine for five years...
...Kings has » branches, of which nine function well...
...United Mine Workers of America local, was arrested for iiuiHlsftT Cawood ran against Sheriff Blair, head of the gunmen, at the last election and won on the face at the returns, but his election wen thrown out by the courts...
...Claessens said no survey has been made of the possibility of extenstv...
...While these fields have had prae...
...In many of the small mining towns wages are being eat/: to an unbearable extent...
...Weyi felt that the membership could be trusted to fix its own qualifications irithout the presence of any arbitrary provision which in the existng case, he held, might act to bar this newcomers from giving the party the full benefit of their activity...
...The committee felt," Hoopes related bitterly, "that unemployment was too acute to agitate the matter by a public hearing...
...Only a radical and organic change ef government In make-up, form, powers and ' functions can avail to transform 1 sor city late a clean and hoaeat community and a home fit to '• live te ay i ts seven militons of inhabitants...
...President of the Board of Aldermen McKee speaking for Mayor Walker stepped out of the Board of Estimate room and invited the large representation of union officials aad...
...The total seems more tragic inasmuch as adequate preventive and remedial measures were close at hand...
...In Avella just recently, starving miners marched to the county seat and demanded relief, but officials gave only promises...
...This would peetlcally^qualtfy only uaioa^emt**^ © Mattia, uperia school buildings, contains a clause containing qualifications required of contractors...
...in the heart of the southern Colorado field...
...Neither does the Hamfisb • IB policy mean anything but disaster for American workers...
...Shiflet was accompanied by her 9-year-old son, Joe...
...Gertrude Green...
...Information assembled by Hoover's Child Conference in February showed the effectiveness of the work of the Children's Bureau...
...a copy of this volume will be awarded...
...F P ) — JUJp other attempt to reduce wageMH the Colorado coal annas kj tjtjB made...
...These changes should encourage others in the contest to emulate the example of these contestants...
...Nathan Pine, Julius Gerber, lames On sal aad Meyer Oillis vigorously opposed Weyl's motion, vaile Morris Hillquit, seconded by N'orman Thomas, supported Weyl's proposal...
...Test of Resolution Here is the resolution as adopted, and which will form the basis of Socialist municipal policy: "Oar city government is grossly inefficient and notoriously tainted with dishonesty sad corruption...
...Its leaders have as a rule connived at and participated la the Democratic pillage and spoliation of the city...
...He continued: ength of membership was not a est of Socialism, necessarily...
...This was done ' in the last big fight when the painters successfully resisted the Tammany administration's efforts to deprive them ef the prevailing rate hy appealing to the stats courts sad finally the United States Supreme Court...
...There would seem to ha a limit to wage cutting, but laSlM disproves it...
...There was but one disagreement on the resolution which had been prepared by a special agenda committee which included Morris Hillquit, James Oneal and Leonard Bright...
...is not amoajhtflK petitioners, but it is well aHtjB that the smaller companies,, >Hj those controlled by Wood, are fai* lowers of C. F. A I. policies...
...Quoting the laws of Pennsylvania, which set out the legal rights of trade unionists, and which nullified the older conspiracy laws...
...Jj*"**i?n'' within the meaning of the income tax law was Tj"*0 complete subservience to the status quo by the decision **s Menton, Swan, and A. N. Hand of the Circuit Court that D. whose obect is "education for a new social order based g*6*» for use not for profit" was as educational as if its more respectably Republican...
...It is an example of •Hj honest but thoroughly muddle headed radicalism which • k m much of America...
...McKee requested" Kohler te cooperate with the unions • In securing all the facts in the • ;as...
...We are even more concerned about Its total fallare as a a agency of social welfare...
...To HM?-I which unnamed American Senators, accord1 mg to the newspapers, reply, "Ho, it is the EH» Treaty of Versailles...
...THE ROAD TO RECOVERY yd moral of all this is that the American lpvers of peace Sgh» are beginning a campaign to interest America in the | M | disarmament conference must...
...Circle 9, Y. P. S. L., distributed 150 back numbers from house to house In • s a t New York last Sunday...
...Gerber felt hat the executive committee, since t was the highest body in the isrty should be composed of rusted "generals,'' seasoned and rained in party organization aad xjliey...
...This committee will bring Its report to the investigating committee appointed by the--legislature and above all, to the workers of the city...
...Speaking on this motion he was agaih halted and the Speaker ruled that he could not speak on the merits of the bills which he desired the House to bring to the floor...
...As a result, contractors have been able to obtain contracts from the city to repair school buildings, hospitals or other structures with the expectation that they could "chisel" down wages below those demanded by the union...
...Zausner had made inquiries on his »wn account and found that em- ] ployerg having dealings with the I union and paying the union wage 1 Bf $13.20 per day were overlooked by Kohler...
...Why do men starve la the midst of plenty...
...Porter aad Jack Altaian...
...Proceeding on a question of personal privilege, Rep...
...Por a time the city painters were give* an additional check occasionally for $1 a day but fhit has been discontinued...
...Through this means, 688,000 expectant mothers w e re reached in the period, 1921-1929...
...The special grand jury had bean' impaneled to investigate cond...
...The building trades unions other than the painters have not supported the painters in enforcing the union scale on alterations jobs...
...District Attorney Ira LaBar had attempted to charge Hoffman with conspiracy to throw stones, to assault scabs, slashing auto tires and pushing autos off the highway...
...Racketeering holds whole industrie» la its criminal grip...
...Subsequently m a conference attended by President of the Board of Aldermen McKee, acting for Mayor Walker, and various trade union officials Secretary * Eausner chair lenged Kohter's data and asked that he be given access to the original material upon which the Investigators for the budget director had made their calculations...
...book on Married Love from a prurient censorship...
...The children of workers ars often deprived of air and sunshine aad stunted la their growth aad development by lack of proper parks and playgrounds...
...When he attempted to describe the demand for unemployment insurance he was gagged by the invocation for the first time this session of a rule preventing discussion of the great mass of legislation which is in committee and never reaches the floor...
...All public schools constructed during this period have been completed with the plastered walls unpads ted...
...In concluding his remarks, Hoopes declared "The owners of industry have in past years sst so limit to their gains aad we behold the spectacle in 1930, the deepest depression year in our history, of these same owners gathering higher gains from Interest and dividends than ever before...
...Bat on June 30, 1929, the $1,000,000 annual appropriation for maternity aid ceased...
...Wouldn't B a i a thousand times more for prosperity ? And by the way, Saint an arsenal of facts and arguments on peace, let us Kind to you our fellow socialist, Kirby Page's latest book, Ptetional Defense" (Ferrar & Rhinehart...
...Since alteration painting is chiefly done on school buildings during the Summer months the securing of the redecorating work for union painters would not only give jobs to union members but would also regularize employment...
...The same "society produced the bandit, ?uate of a children's farm, and the worker...
...HT Jimmy and Tammany need the props of piety and patriotHphhiy obvious...
...This has been dene as a measure of economy as well as for the supposed technical reasons that the paint ea fresh Blaster does net last long enough...
...Hillquit pointed out that eliminition of the clause to which Weyl tbjected would not automatically >pen the doors of the committee a any newcomer who desired nembership...
...Rxeooive Committee Debated Much discussion took place on a notion by Nathaniel Wayl to strike from the by-laws the provision foi two ysars membership in the party is a qualification for membership m the executive oommittee...
...It was » Communion breakfast of the police and fire department ksas of the Holy Name Society that Father Coughlan and the br made their now celebrated attacks on the Mayor's critics Senmunists...
...The operators are irsklng to have the basic day rate for miners reduced from its present standard of 36.52 to KM- a day, reductions to go into effect ? 9 | later than June 1. Thirty days' notice of intention to reduce wages is required by Ism but tbe coal companies proposa Immediate reduction because at the claim that their i-npssg, voluntarily signed petitions djJ?B ing to the plan...
...Whenever the Socialists of New York seemed to have a fair chance to wrest office from Tammany in a public election, the Republican organization came snnndlly to ita reacne by uniting with it on candidates...
...ilhlljg have driven the men tn Mgp unions...
...Ville Salmi of Fitchburg, Mass., sent in 13 subs, as the result of a few hours' work among Finnish comrades...
...in Redlands, Cal., and are out for more, while J . W. Thomas, The New Leader's subscription agent i s Indianapolis, is working hard to build up both the party press and the party organisation...
...But the United Slates also led the world, in a more sinister detail...
...The original resolution attacked the forthcoming investigation as engineered by partisan Republicans for partisan reasons...
...Explanations are being ventured as to why the painters have net had their union wage recognised, s* th...
...This is as it should be...
...5. Fred GendraL 6. Samuel Richman...
...After the conference Zausner | round difficulty in obtaining the ] source of the director's calcula- i lions but finally succeeded in se- :uriBg a list of some 200 employers if painters who had supplied wage data...
...The union does not object to computing wages that are below the union scale provided an honest effort Is made to secure all the information oq the subject...
...One 1 ramen?e cloth banner dropped over the front of the gallery and the House dock, reading "Workers Create All Wealth —TAX PROFITS —To Keep Workers from Starving Justice DEMANDS U N E M P L O Y M E N T INSURANCE:" Delegates from Labor Unemployment Conferences 1 s Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Reading, York, Lancaster, Allentown, arata the demonstrators...
...His assistant, A. L. t aH son, and City Clerk Joe CsnsjgB| followed...
...The alteration or impair of buildings consists mostly of painting...
...For instance...
...Nathan RieseL 14...
...To remedy this months ago gained a promise from the uiiiiidMten e a tendings and «tes ef the Board of sVtaeatlort seeded by WBstosa j . Weber that plaster painting would only be jrssitod to ceattratiieus accustasas^ to doing sew work...
...WU1 Make Survey "Therefore, the S o c i a l i s t Party while following the investigation with close attention aad interest will, through a com, mirtee of i ts owe, continue to study the vital problems of city administration and functions endeavor to evolve a plan of far-reaching reform, designed to provide lasting foundations for a government that will be operated honestly, efficiently, and democratically for the benefit, protection and well-being of the people...
...A tow hum of resentment rose from the House...
...Evading this attempt to rule him from the floor, Hoopes introduced a motion to discharge the House Pensions, and Gratuities the unemployment insurance bills...
...Federal Judge Woolsey in New York saved Dr...
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