Wage Cuts And Breakdown of Capitalism Bring 9 Per Cent in Earnings In Year
Wage Cuts And Breakdown of Capitalism Bring 9 PerCent Drop in Earnings In Year Employers Trying to Recoup Losses by Slashing Pay Envelopes of Workers ACCORDING to Faces fis* Workers, the'...
...of the Interior Department...
...I am ashamed when I think that more than two million of our Inhabitants live under housing conditions which are ugly and unhealthy and a disgrace to the Imperial City...
...It Is suggested that each me bring aa his guest some friend who may homme a student next rear...
...Sinclair Lewis, Sherwood Ander'• son, Konrad Berkovici, Klmei ' Davis, John Erskine, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Inez Hayn.es Irwin, Albert Bigelow Paine, Felix Riesenberg, Vincent Starrett, Mary Austin, Harry Elmer Barnes, Heywood Broun, Walter Prichard Baton, Edna Ferber...
...But reorganization is a deeper-cutting process than reform...
...We have been told by many wise men that improvements In such matters should be left to private initiative...
...Well, I 'm for that...
...We are governed and we have been governed for years by men who...
...The meeting at BjHJeBght several union JK 8TEIKE TO SPREAD BjBLPHIA.—(FP) —The m* M fashioned hosiery Bk tais district is to be HNjher Pennsylvania dis|2**ag t 0 officers of the M l Rieve...
...This is tree, however, "only for eke comparatively few workers who are fortunate «aeugh t e be fully employed a t their old rates...
...I wasn't there...
...Viewed from a height our parks are pitiful...
...And a t the moment involved I do not question that it was the only way available...
...Those walls we should break down again and capture a way to every river with meadow and trees for an outline...
...aseUry praised the silk Jrihe effectiveness with ^ kg tad closed 33 mills in ast sad never been or, 13m Allentown mills are aS} that left Paterson, • woe the silk workers' there...
...But I might well have applauded myself, for I have never denied the iikability of Mayor Walker...
...The phrase Is fitting, for like other adventures in living, we have built up a metropolis of curious contrasts...
...He cannot, with a wave of his hand, give every man and woman a job and a place in the sun...
...It is to be known officially as the Special American Federation of Labor Committee...
...Central Trades Wary of Probe In New York Council Appointe "Vigilance" Committee— Ryan Attacks Closed Hearings WHAT was characterized by President Joseph P. Ryan as a Vigilance or Alert Committee of Labor was announced at the last meeting of the Central Trades and Labor Council of Greater New York and Vicinity as having been formed...
...But this sanction can, and should be' asked and won...
...His firm has been notably successful in securing government contracts...
...The telegram and the names of the signers follow: » "The undersigned urge upon you the prompt consideration of the pardon application p f T o m ' • Mooney...
...Average per cr|>lta earnings were nine per cent lower in March, 1921, than in March, 1980, in spite of the fact -that there had been monthly gains of six per cent from January to February, and one' per cent from February to March...
...First of ail it wUl be necessary to arrive at the acute realization that we are literally neighobrs m this municipality in which we Uve...
...But reorganization is a deeper-cutting process than reform...
...I don't want to be a propagandist for...
...While so accurate data on the buying power of money wages are available, real wages a r i rising due to lower living costs...
...I t le your responsibility and mine...
...President Ryan explained that conferences were being held with Director o f the Budget KoU'.er and that the matter would come up befote the Board of Estimate ac its next meeting of the Committee oi th...
...Diplomas will be given to .the largest class ever graduated from the school...
...They had jav organization in Al, ffl Arthur McDonnell, Hfflt Workers of America I taps quiet work among • M » a year ago...
...The federal government says that the creation o f relief belongs to local agencies...
...The phrase Is fitting, for like other adventures in living, we have built up a metropolis of curious contrasts...
...We are governed and we have been governed for years by men who...
...are frequently ' challenged as to whether or not they are proud of their city...
...The slum is your business and my business whether we Uve there e r not...
...Heaven defend the City of New York when the fact of reasonable honesty becomes first page news...
...Those walls we should break down again and capture a way to every river with meadow and trees for an outline...
...of Construction, Crowe, admits that he has no wage scale...
...We must do better...
...It would cost money, tt would ne?e?sltate raising the t ax rate...
...But only one project of that sort has been carried through...
...And I see by the papers that the Mayor led Urn 6,000 bluecoats and was rapturously applauded all along the Une...
...NOT A CITY TO BE PROUD OF WE need an entirely new dispensation, if we are to achieve a city for which all of us must hope and dream...
...James Rolph, of California, urging him t o . give prompt consideration to the new pardon application of Tom Mooney...
...And- they took my advice...
...While only Mooney s application is before the governor, favorable action upon it would pave the way to freeing Billings, since both were convicted on practically the same evidence...
...I have been fond of saying—and I imagine I've said it over the air before—that a nation which m war could break the Hindenburg Line, ought to be ashamed to say that it cannot break the breadlines...
...THE SPECTACULAR AND THE GREAT ^ . •wW Mayor Walker says that, the criticism directed against, him methods of municipal government, I will readily admit that as far as I am concerned that is true...
...Not charity, of course...
...The slum is your business and my business whether we Uve there e r not...
...And I say it without any feeling that it is merely a speaker's phrase, though thousands of speakers have said it...
...8—Crowe, superintendent of construction, is a former employ...
...And if it is for you and for you good enough, I can hardly command your attention...
...A NEW DEAL, NOT A FEW REFORMS -w-N some respects .we might be better off if we bad been less J . energetic From the top o f the Empire State the rivers which make Manhattan borough a long lead-pencil island, might be silver threads...
...And a t the moment the ponce have accomplished a good and spectacular piece of work in the capture of Two-Gun Crowley and bit associates...
...John Palmer Gavit, H. L. Mencken, Cornelia S tratte c Parker, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Mary Heaton Vorse, William Allen White, Fannie Hurst, Stephen Vincent Benet, Howard Brubaker, George Allan England, Lewis Gannett, Rupert Hughes, Edna S t Vincent Millay, Elmer Rice, Carl Sandburg, Joshua Wanhope...
...But i f you want to ask the questui, "Are you proud of the City of New York...
...up to the sun, and below them vast acres in which men and women burrow into the darkness of our city canyons- And from the top o f the Empire State—or, make it the Chrysler...
...Some of you probably saw the police parade On Saturday...
...But i f you want to ask the questui, "Are you proud of the City of New York...
...Of course, James Joseph Walker did not bring these slums into being...
...Nor is It sufficient to set up * free municipal employment agency with 6,000 men standing in line outside the doors of the cramped quarters waiting in t h e desperate hope that something may turn up...
...Some make the point that it is graft i f you give it before the appointment, and natural generosity if the present comes later...
...I t seems to me utterly fantastic that a few should have so much and so many nothing...
...We have been told by many wise men that improvements In such matters should be left to private initiative...
...You don't have to swallow i t whole...
...union presiIMsst the union is makcarry the fight to Br.** tne Berks County [BSMlBar future...
...In almost every case you will find the killer type produced by bad housing, lack of proper recreation, undernourishment, underpay, lack, indeed, of all the chances which make life worth living...
...8— Excessive board bilia are charged workers by tee company that holds the concession...
...Only a few pinpricks of green here and there among the cell blocks in which we Uve...
...He defended charges against the longshoremen, asbestos workers, and fish handlers' unions...
...Thus prices'remain low and farmers' incomes suffer...
...When the Dutch struck their bargain with the Indians they inherited a garden spot, a rocky, wooded estate, filled with brooks and lakes and running green down to the water's edge on every side...
...January cuts amounted to 341 in all, but there were seventy-two advances...
...But when only one year old I said to my parents, " l e t ' s move across the river...
...We confront an emergency now...
...And these things aren't really motion pictures or newspaper stories or dime novels...
...Affiliated with it are representatives of the Central Trades, the Building Trades Council, Allied* Printing Trades, the Carpenters* District Council, the Machinists...
...But that will hardly serve to prevent the creation of other Crowleys...
...Wage Cuts And Breakdown of Capitalism Bring 9 PerCent Drop in Earnings In Year Employers Trying to Recoup Losses by Slashing Pay Envelopes of Workers ACCORDING to Faces fis* Workers, the' monthly publication of the Labor Bureau, I n e , New York City, "revised figures for February, 1*31, show a total of 231 wage r?ductions as against only eight gains...
...Ike employee, Mr**- association B S g ^ " that no more Would be employed B x ' t K ^ ! ? 1 o m c i a l s re*t*r less than a sssKsR*** to 'arm to pay the !*_ demand that CATCH THE CROWLEY...
...And so when it falls Short we cannot content ourselves simply by finding a culprit here, or a culprit there...
...Secretary Q'iinn stated that the union representatives did not claim the rates were not correct but they wanted to check up ori the Director's data The meeting adjourned after one of the shortest sessions in many months...
...Jobs W. B*> editor of the Hosiery m fot than together and BjPI both the admission • R taking orders from • men and scab hosiery Bo—- lB4fknan and his MM the crowd which was Bt away from Lansdale •tosseeting in a hall at R$P> whole police force • P t o see they did not B b»U and the excitement BjWd crowd and the offer B^H ground for am open H^?bsre...
...I cannot see even the preliminary windup of such a start...
...All that is gone...
...Atty...
...insist that the City as it stands is good enough...
...AU unions are urged 'to send delegates to the committee...
...Mills by Strike Shut Down Workers Join Union jw^^Sain^SS silk mills lewf^^* at * mass meetto rally force» ^EKTts win their st™*""yB^^TL vice President S»««BT United Textile WrjTgr^*- spoke with B?Lssd local labor lesdM - efcrt has been made jtnxebreakers: the 'jBf^Ojaueerce is declarj B * , latrai—'3 r 1 1 1 6 flr8t M^Tafc- although there E ? e f the mills have ^ B ? ^ B ? y and that some Kfam ai truly locked Mff^QuiBlan, organizer, EL % Mathews, national wCf tie Associated Silk E «• at Allentown from E* decide what effect this Visse on the situation Eip- of the striking silk E^B that New York ~n tie backbone of the Hn?nion activity, b jiew York houses that Cr&om a mill unless it St to hire union labor," ^E^IlcDonnel...
...I am not talking from hearsay...
...We called that an emergency...
...But I might well have applauded myself, for I have never denied the iikability of Mayor Walker...
...NOT A CITY TO BE PROUD OF WE need an entirely new dispensation, if we are to achieve a city for which all of us must hope and dream...
...up to the sun, and below them vast acres in which men and women burrow into the darkness of our city canyons- And from the top o f the Empire State—or, make it the Chrysler...
...9—Police of l e e Vegas, » v . , are deporting workers...
...Wouldn't it be better to reach down a t the roots of things which cause crune...
...But those were done by my subordinates...
...It belongs to us...
...I am not 'talking about what has been done in any quarter of America...
...I want to see an honest government We have had ample evidence that not every judge or magistrate Is beyond suspicion...
...Only a few pinpricks of green here and there among the cell blocks in which we Uve...
...That's one way of handling a city problem...
...And I suppose he will be duly convictd and electrocuted...
...The Six Companies, Inc., to whom the contract was let by Wilbur with Hoover's approval, do not deal with labor unions...
...And in the case of housing reform private initiative has failed...
...It would cost money, tt would ne?e?sltate raising the t ax rate...
...Ess rife industry here is "•jtysl| standstill, with 33 BfflissfidcwT...
...But that will hardly serve to prevent the creation of other Crowleys...
...31 Writers Urge Rolph Free Mooney TH I R T Y - O N E weU-knowB American authors headed by Sinclair Lewis have joined in s telegraphic appeal to Gov...
...World production of agricultural staples Uke wheat and cotton is a s large as ever, while the demand has shrunk or a t least has not increased...
...any one single skyscraper—from the top o f any of our great turrets, you can look down and for the most part you will see a drab and an ugly smudge ?f red and brown brick...
...And these things aren't really motion pictures or newspaper stories or dime novels...
...Nor am I moved when some executive says, "Well, maybe here and there wrong acts have been committed...
...any one single skyscraper—from the top o f any of our great turrets, you can look down and for the most part you will see a drab and an ugly smudge ?f red and brown brick...
...But I want to go much further than any criticism of a single official group o f officials, or even a politicai machine...
...The issue is a concern not only to California, but to those eager for the cause of justice throughout the country...
...I t hi true that legal sanction is lacking for municipal enterprise along these lines a t the present time...
...The delegates came to the meeting anxious to hear what had been done about the prevailing rate of wages before the City Fathers...
...1 am for putting the burdens on the backs which are capable of carrying them...
...Viewed from a height our parks are pitiful...
...But walk to any wharf and look into those dirty waters, and you win realize that we have made them things of baser metal...
...But he or any other Mayor, could make a beginning...
...don't go into the slums and ask it of the people who Uve in the shadow sad the blight of our tall towers...
...I went there last October, and that was what they told me when I registered...
...I t would be an excellent thing to find out where graft lies and root it out...
...don't go into the slums and ask it of the people who Uve in the shadow sad the blight of our tall towers...
...Since 1926 there has been a State law offering 20 years of t ax exemption' to individuals who will put up model tenements upon the agreement that their dividend return shall be limited to 6...
...And a t the moment the ponce have accomplished a good and spectacular piece of work in the capture of Two-Gun Crowley and bit associates...
...k.-;-*» ?->:;•-*>: ,- >, - I f we began a campaign of proper municipal housing, and it we extended our park system so that we hurst iato the crowded areas with spots of green, there would be plenty of work for idle men...
...None of us should be proud of that part of our city life...
...Things are never quite as bed in spring or summer...
...The ponce caught Mr...
...For the rest—th...
...I cannot help t h a t " ' , I think an executive ought to be responsible for his subordinates...
...Cards of admission may bel jbtained at the School office...
...Here are tall towers reaching...
...That isn't as exciting as prying a gunman out of a West End Avenue apartment...
...T. W. R laker's Support h*or o f 1 1 1 6 L*1 1 1 ? 2 •jewel the strike of the L farters and will hack a *m for better hours and E strikers were assured By Clarence J . Mose re Kpntral Body...
...4—Electric linemen are being paid *2 a day lees than the prevailing wage...
...But when only one year old I said to my parents, " l e t ' s move across the river...
...or i t should be...
...You don't have to swallow i t whole...
...And I see by the papers that the Mayor led Urn 6,000 bluecoats and was rapturously applauded all along the Une...
...I cannot see even the preliminary windup of such a start...
...The committee consists of about one hundred members at the present time...
...Brotherhood now and hereafter -true and complete...
...TwoGun Crowley...
...Don't ask rickety children playing in dirty alleys end scampering back to thir burrows at night through dark and filthy hallways...
...People who say anything against New York...
...It is ridiculous to say that the richest city in the world cannot get a move on and t e a r down the pitiful slum areas which afflict us...
...Council and other organizations...
...Reorganization...
...Boulder Dam Work Strictly Anti-Union Government Contractor Won't Deal With Or-, ganization...
...Rand School Will Hold Commencement on May 24 ; Thomas to Speak The Rand School will close its twenty-fifth year with commencement exercises at 8:30 p. m. on the evening of May 24th...
...The sporadic attempts of ' t he Hoover Administration seem to be ineffectual in preventing a weakening of the wage level in spite of all warnings that reduction1 is wages Inevitably means loss oi purchasing power...
...We must have a new dispensation in our attitude to the homeless within our city...
...We must say, T h i s time we have failed, now well get to work...
...YOUNGER »yHE NEW YOJUC ?TY administration has been under severe criticism dating the last few months...
...YOUNGER »yHE NEW YOJUC ?TY administration has been under severe criticism dating the last few months...
...We urge your prompt and favorable ac; tton...
...But I don't think i t necessary for a good, or even a pretty good citizen to Uke his city as he might Uke an oyster on the half shell...
...More than that...
...First of ail it wUl be necessary to arrive at the acute realization that we are literally neighobrs m this municipality in which we Uve...
...He denounced secret preliminary hearings before investigators on the ground that those who find nothing wro»tg with the situation are never asked to appear as witnesses in the open sessions...
...The stock market has recently fallen below the bottom levels of December, 1980, and It is net likely to have a prolonged mai bed rise for some time to come...
...And that work must be done in a spirit of full co-operation...
...You cannot expect to get 10,000 people to stand around and cheer when an old and ill-conditioned tenement is torn down...
...But i t would be a little smarter for us all to catch our Crowleys at a younger age, and to catch them not with gas or gun, but with parks and playgrounds and decent living conditions...
...I have lived all my life in New York, and I mean Manhattan...
...People who say anything against New York...
...Wouldn't it be better to reach down a t the roots of things which cause crune...
...But let me stress that word "spectacular" because many of the things which should be done for t h e city are not m themselves exciting, i t is easy to get thrilled about a man hunt when 10,000 people line the sidewalks, watch the police cut through the roof and turn on machine guns and drop gas bombs...
...k.-;-*» ?->:;•-*>: ,- >, - I f we began a campaign of proper municipal housing, and it we extended our park system so that we hurst iato the crowded areas with spots of green, there would be plenty of work for idle men...
...The purpose of the committee is to guard the interests of trade unions and trade union leaders during the course of the investigations of the New York city government...
...This fact is due to the reduced profits of most large corporations and to many cuts in dividends...
...I am not talking from hearsay...
...In almost every case you will find the killer type produced by bad housing, lack of proper recreation, undernourishment, underpay, lack, indeed, of all the chances which make life worth living...
...1 am for putting the burdens on the backs which are capable of carrying them...
...A NEW DEAL, NOT A FEW REFORMS -w-N some respects .we might be better off if we bad been less J . energetic From the top o f the Empire State the rivers which make Manhattan borough a long lead-pencil island, might be silver threads...
...After Bad promised a permit if a • > obtained and the hall •Sad promised the hall if a Avere obtained...
...A FULL-LENGTH VIEW OF THE CITY I stood the other afternoon at the top of the Empire State Building, and looked over this town of ours which Mayor Walker has called the Imperial City...
...I Uke New York...
...But last year the waif could find shelter there only three days in a month...
...I wasn't there...
...We've built tracks, freight cars, coal pockets and barricaded ourselves away from these life-giving streams...
...None of us should be proud of that part of our city life...
...I was born in Brooklyn...
...I t seems to me utterly fantastic that a few should have so much and so many nothing...
...Whole...
...That's one way of handling a city problem...
...Ne Sewing Bevival "While it is by now generally admitted that no 'spring revival' has oesae to put an end to the depression, the record shows a number of slightly, encouraging signs...
...The committee was created two weeks ago with Joseph P. Ryan of the Longshoremen as chairman, Edward C ana van of the Stage Hands as vice chairman and Secretary Quinn of the Hatters as secretary...
...Some of you probably saw the police parade On Saturday...
...What is called a respectable businessman's administration means no more to me than a Tammany administration...
...But let me stress that word "spectacular" because many of the things which should be done for t h e city are not m themselves exciting, i t is easy to get thrilled about a man hunt when 10,000 people line the sidewalks, watch the police cut through the roof and turn on machine guns and drop gas bombs...
...In the May issue of the Journal of Electrical Workers and Operators, official organ of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, is published a ?pport by a special investigator sent to the site by the L B . E. W. This report shows that Wilbur looks upon the job as a "cold business proposition," and not as an employment opportunity...
...Of course, James Joseph Walker did not bring these slums into being...
...Now, of course, not every boy who comes from a slum turns into a moronic bloody criminal...
...Now, of course, not every boy who comes from a slum turns into a moronic bloody criminal...
...Because I do think the issue is much broader than that of any one person's conduct...
...Here are tall towers reaching...
...I am not even moved by comparisons between New York • 'and other vast cities of the world...
...But this sanction can, and should be' asked and won...
...And so any comprehensive plan languishes while the responsibility is batted back and forth...
...These lin enfiai facts, which a r e merely a reflection of what has already happened to industry, undoubtedly furslsk a good deal of the impetus for wage cuts, which has become markedly stronger...
...It is ridiculous to say that the richest city in the world cannot get a move on and t e a r down the pitiful slum areas which afflict us...
...Seven million men ont of work constitutes a problem j u s t as acute a s warfare—moredangerous, I think, and mere dreadful...
...I am not talking of reform...
...And it is asked, "Why don't the newspapers print more about the honest men i s the city government, and the city service...
...great majority—the gain from the decline in prices is mere than counterbalanced by wide' spread part-time employment .and reductions In scasse...
...When the Dutch struck their bargain with the Indians they inherited a garden spot, a rocky, wooded estate, filled with brooks and lakes and running green down to the water's edge on every side...
...And- they took my advice...
...9—The dam Is being used as a "Job" pork barrel...
...Slashes Pay WASHINGTON—(FP) — Secretary of the Interior Wilbur, who insists on nsnuag the Boulder Canyon dam after President Hoover, who blocked the enactment of the bill for its construction until the power trust was granted a big share of the product has made this great enterprise a strictly non-union Job...
...In explaining the aims of the special committee President Ryan complained that in every investigation into racketeering or governmental matters the first attack is made upon the trade uplons...
...And in the case of housing reform private initiative has failed...
...We are a t a loss I to understand why California still Imprisons men of whose innocence such clear proof has been brought 1 out...
...AU ex-stulents, an friends, and especially til members of the Socialist Party and labor unions are invited to attend...
...But I don't think i t necessary for a good, or even a pretty good citizen to Uke his city as he might Uke an oyster on the half shell...
...I have lived all my life in New York, and I mean Manhattan...
...Some of Jm the Reading district ^Bfteot Organizers are •Bjfcer» report that their •psai are having difflcu!Rpa* members during off ^^P«eab complained that • K was hurled through •MP?BI his house, spoiling •BSfe Two scabs at the S B ™ * Mills claim that ^P***811 by strike symB j * striker was arwith assaulting an BPJ**» charged with atr j i m n g ' LocK•MLWt ENDS K ^ P ) - T h e Window Agbktors' Association B' j ^ * lockout against • • f c ? i ? ^ c e a s e d i t s B y * lower wage Bj2"?w"*r*1 lockout was • T ^ ^ a union ordered a BjKr**adow washing '••Ri?1 held out Hp...
...And if it is for you and for you good enough, I can hardly command your attention...
...And I suppose he will be duly convictd and electrocuted...
...Don't ask rickety children playing in dirty alleys end scampering back to thir burrows at night through dark and filthy hallways...
...I t hi true that legal sanction is lacking for municipal enterprise along these lines a t the present time...
...A FULL-LENGTH VIEW OF THE CITY I stood the other afternoon at the top of the Empire State Building, and looked over this town of ours which Mayor Walker has called the Imperial City...
...But he or any other Mayor, could make a beginning...
...This is one' of the important considerations which lead the experts to think that recovery from the depression is likely to be extremely slow," the Labor Bureau says...
...s , . And'I am thinking—and I want you to think—of those changes, those radical changes in'the making of New York which are not first page, which are not spectacular...
...I don't know just now things stand at the Municipal lodging house now...
...I don't know just now things stand at the Municipal lodging house now...
...Things are never quite as bed in spring or summer...
...But I want to go much further than any criticism of a single official group o f officials, or even a politicai machine...
...But when private initiative falla, then surely the community should step in...
...Summing up the case, the Journal says: 1—Very few men In excess of the present working force have been or wUl be tehee on...
...But last year the waif could find shelter there only three days in a month...
...X—The "prevailing wage" law Is being violated...
...One of the elements which has at times furnished a helping hand out of depression—enlarged purchasing power o f the farmers—is found to be conspicuously absent thin time...
...Norman Thomas will be the chief speaker The Rand School Players, under the direction of David Rossi, win present tn' a new dramatic form certain important scenes from the history of the School...
...I am not even moved by comparisons between New York • 'and other vast cities of the world...
...The manuHi ay ttey will not open Siffl the union organizers M ttey claim that the M l satisfied with the Kk till "outside agitaHPjW DESPITE COP EaLE Pa.— <FP1 —-Cop Brand fear on the part of HjiVner kept the Hosiery Wf Union from holding a ft in Lansdale, hut not from • enough workers signed up Ht a local union beie...
...I'm proud of some things we have, and heartily ashamed of others...
...I don't want to be a propagandist for...
...Since 1926 there has been a State law offering 20 years of t ax exemption' to individuals who will put up model tenements upon the agreement that their dividend return shall be limited to 6...
...AU the facts in the case • as brought out in the Supreme . Court hearings convince us that Mooney and Billings were convicted on perjured testimony and are, ' as trial Judge Griffin states, inno' cent of the crime with which they were charged...
...It isn't enough to say, "Here tea bowl of soup, and there's a blanket, a place on the floor to sleep, e r if you're lucky, a cot...
...I am ashamed when I think that more than two million of our Inhabitants live under housing conditions which are ugly and unhealthy and a disgrace to the Imperial City...
...It reaches out and corrupts the town...
...I have in my mind the far more difficult problem of what can be done...
...YOUR JOB AND MINE r~"A.N"T we all get the notion that this city government is not something apart...
...insist that the City as it stands is good enough...
...Well, I 'm for that...
...All that is gone...
...And local agencies say R belongs to the federal government...
...i t is us...
...I am not 'talking about what has been done in any quarter of America...
...We've built tracks, freight cars, coal pockets and barricaded ourselves away from these life-giving streams...
...And some of the months have SI days...
...Because I do think the issue is much broader than that of any one person's conduct...
...I t would be an excellent thing to find out where graft lies and root it out...
...But only one project of that sort has been carried through...
...Such excuses I take to be a confession of weakness...
...It has been said a great many times before that we did show a dispensation for team-work under stress of war...
...Nor is It sufficient to set up * free municipal employment agency with 6,000 men standing in line outside the doors of the cramped quarters waiting in t h e desperate hope that something may turn up...
...I was born in Brooklyn...
...I am not talking of reform...
...Rolph some time this month...
...The ponce caught Mr...
...An Executive Board of twelve was elected te carry on the necessary work...
...TwoGun Crowley...
...But walk to any wharf and look into those dirty waters, and you win realize that we have made them things of baser metal...
...I have in my mind the far more difficult problem of what can be done...
...This seems to me too fine a distinction...
...are frequently ' challenged as to whether or not they are proud of their city...
...And a t the moment involved I do not question that it was the only way available...
...Frank P. Walsh will argue in support of Mooney's pardon application before Gov...
...S—Sept...
...Nevertheless, activity in moat industries is not yet within striking distance even of the low levels of met spring...
...It isn't enough to say, "Here tea bowl of soup, and there's a blanket, a place on the floor to sleep, e r if you're lucky, a cot...
...I Uke New York...
...It has been admitted that the practice of making .a present for an appointment is hardly startling...
...More reductions in wage scales went into effect in the first two months of 1931 than there were gains m the entire twelve months of 1930...
...But i t would be a little smarter for us all to catch our Crowleys at a younger age, and to catch them not with gas or gun, but with parks and playgrounds and decent living conditions...
...Stockholders did not care what happened to wages so long as their dividends were ceasing regularly, but now that this is no longer the case, many of them a r e eager to recoup then* fortunes at the expense of the wage-earners...
...Others are sleeping in pool halts on sufferance...
...But when private initiative falla, then surely the community should step in...
...I went there last October, and that was what they told me when I registered...
...But in the long run i t will mean more...
...And some of the months have SI days...
...There will be dancing and refreshments and the spirit of comradely fellowship that always characterizes such occasions at the School...
...It reaches out and corrupts the town...
...We must have a new dispensation in our attitude to the homeless within our city...
...He cannot, with a wave of his hand, give every man and woman a job and a place in the sun...
...He should begin by picking people he can trust rather than in satisfying the demands of district leaders...
...I'm proud of some things we have, and heartily ashamed of others...
...Again, it has been said and will be said that though certain policemen have erred in ugly graft in framing women, many members of the force are above reproach...
...THE SPECTACULAR AND THE GREAT ^ . •wW Mayor Walker says that, the criticism directed against, him CATCH THE CROWLEY...
...I have been fond of saying—and I imagine I've said it over the air before—that a nation which m war could break the Hindenburg Line, ought to be ashamed to say that it cannot break the breadlines...
...Mary of the trades were going to receive the wage t ley claimed was the prevailing rate, assured Ryan...
Vol. 12 • May 1931 • No. 20
