Gerber Fights U.S. Ban on Station WEVD
Gerber Fights U.S. Ban on Station WEVD Prospects for Continuing Life of Station Brighten as Brief Is Filed WASHINGTON — ( F P ) — Prospects that Station WEVD, the Debs Memorial...
...Moseley is vicepresident of the U. T. W. local and the first member of the National Executive Board of the United Textile Workers to come from the South The election of Moseley is looked upon as a compliment both to him and to the fighting textile workers who now account for four thousand of the five or six thousand trade unionists in the city...
...It now appears that Green and the U. T. W. leaders were ready to concede all the points at issue except one—the right of the Dan River and Riverside Mills manage| ment to discharge workers because I they Joined the union...
...Great pressure was brought to bear upon Fitzgerald -and upon prominent stockholders...
...Red Cross Gives $1.15 For Family for Month (Continued (rem F&fc Om«) Barton and Copeland, Payne stated that the American Red Cross relief funds might get down to only $1,000,000, but he said he would not worry until that happened...
...Meanwhile the liberal press, ineluding a Scripps-Howard daily in New York, has been taking up the defense of WEVD on the ground that the political and industrial minority groups in this country are entitled to broadcast their views in competition with the continual and overwhelming volume of reactionary opinions sent out over the chain stations...
...Ths^^H L political policy in ocajjH with the Big Four, which « • lot of Democratic poltttnfl work inside the unions, toll obstacle for Socialists t j j coma You will notice by the flH Office report that MonttH eleventh in list of states f3H paying membership...
...However, e|B candidates made some | l The Senator Walsh caznfS^H into us very much...
...Of Governor Roosevelt, Mr...
...Clarence Darrow — Of Chicago and the Civilized World...
...Chairman Smoot of the finance committee, defending Payne, asked about the reports of hunger-rioting at England, Ark...
...Coleman asserted...
...Mooney's movements are now seriously restricted, and petty irritations to interfere with direction of defense vork are numerous, Busick reported...
...J The stipulation that WltaW considering only city hall oOM significant While the Deanta are willing to share with t M publicans what the Socialists g have, they are not willing tog vide the county plume which til still think are theirs...
...Cartoons and high class general articles make up the first issue...
...It is not enough...
...by the state banking department which approved a bank statement which was obviously misleading...
...It had back of it the approval of many prominent Virginians who . dared not come.into the open to challenge the die-hard policy of Fitzgerald...
...Roosevelt Hit For Inaction On Bank Crash Thomas and Waldman Deride Governor's Proposal to Have Own Investigate GOVERNOR ROOSEVELT'S action in the Bank of the United States failure was attacked as "lame," "lacking in vigor" and "a distinct disappointment," Tuesday when Norman Thomas and Louis Waldman, state chairman of the Socialist party, addressed a mass-meeting of bank depositors held in the Brownsville Labor Lyceum, 229 Sackman St., Brooklyn...
...Socialist Papers Issued In Reading, Cleveland (Br s New Leader C*rre«jK>ndent) CLEVELAND—"The Ohio Socialist" has just made its appearance as the organ of the party in that state...
...E. Wilkinson to Speak For Phila...
...Miss Wilkinson to a labor member of Parliament...
...As the commission was unable to reach WEVD on its docket before the end of 1930, a temporary renewal of license to Jan...
...We should b n f l work of assuring us PresMsfl Electors in every state dons afl of time, instead of worrying dfl it after we nominate our VSmJ dates...
...Mooney's helpers would bring reports of work that had been done, and plans of work to be done and would read these to Mooney for suggestions and final approval...
...Its capital and operating expenses, except for seme income from the sale of time, have always been derived from voluntary contributions...
...Now that Green's offer has been definitely rejected, the strike enters a new and more bitter stage...
...But even though the torn is effected in Reading, the M l ists feel certain of their scflttM go before the people and winj| every Democrat or every ti|H lican can be led by the noseuB Socialist party workers fsfH enough inc^pendent-niindedj party voters rejecting foMfl again elect Sodelirfa to city] flees...
...Waldman said...
...Pollard is marked for political downfall...
...The merchants are anxious to see the strike setUed but are too much under the domination of Fitzgerald and the banking fraternity to raise their voices no matter what their personal views...
...For the proposed Crain investigation, Mr...
...Turning to the corrective j steps now being attempted, Mr...
...14 resulted in the making of a report by Pratt, recommending that the license be cancelled...
...Documents Barred Out "Mooney asked me to come and see him...
...Hearings conducted in Washington on Oct...
...WEVD is a non-commercial, non-profit enterprise operated exclusively for public benefit and purpose,'* Gerber'B brief said...
...Whatever the outcome of 1 Democratic - Republican alrflH may be, the Socialists of Bstfl are in a better position than ej before to wage a vigorous ,efl paign...
...Glass' family If likewise involved, that, too, will be weighed in the political balance...
...the dispute This was the proposal— in lieu of good news of a settlement— which Green carried to the Danville meeting...
...Socialists of Montana A Small Results Out of H tion to A m o n l Work Put fe| By James D. Grtflfl (State Secretary of taei Party of Montsajfl HELENA MONT.—«• some weeks yet bjjfl official canvass of the vetsfl this state will be knoSB have not enough inforjfjS the vote in the counties t o9 an opinion as to the ttfjJH Socialist votes cast in i f iB We carried on an eng^H fine campaign, put outj literature, lots of catnpejfjH ings...
...OB both sides of us were visitors who had come in long before I had, but they were not told their time was up...
...2, to the report of Examiner E. W. Pratt...
...The New York Chapter of the League for Industrial Democracy has supplied that...
...If they could have secured a non-discrimination pledge from President Fitzgeral of the company, the strikers could have maintained their union after going back to work, and could have prepared for another fight over wages and speedup...
...Those in charge of Mooney's defense have, in the past, brought up letters and held them up so that Mooney 'could read them and then he would tell them what to answer...
...neither can they take notes from his dictation...
...He asserted that no reply was given him...
...Busick said he would ask the national conference of the party, to be held in May, to Instruct the delegates to the Vienna Congress of the Labor and Socialist International to work for a resolution to ask all Socialist and Labor sport organizations to refuse to send teams to California unless Mooney and Billings go free...
...McAltoter Coleman, another speaker at the Labor Lyceum, declared the governor's letter to Mr...
...If Sen...
...This support of WEVD's rights has made an impression on a part of Gerber'g argument confirms the belief of the liberal press that the station can be sufficiently financed to meet all technical requirements as to equipment which win enable it to keep to its own wave length...
...Payne declared his information was that "no such condition exists" as the hunger of great numbers of farmers in that region...
...Esterly means a 1 certed effort on the part ati setter elements of both parttet find available men for ourij hall offices, then, certeiatjta Democratic county commltWi ready at any time...
...These same unions have now expressed themselves as opposed to holding any sport carnival in a state known around the world for its rank injustice' in keeping two innocent men in prison...
...Crime Commission Studies Case WASHINGTON—(FP) — Investigators employed by Judge Kenyon's subcommittee of the President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Observance are now in California, studying the history of the Mooney-Billings case, for the light it will shed on the problem of "lawlessness of the law...
...Tickets for the debate are on sale at the League for Industrial Democracy, 112 East 19th street...
...Miss Wilkinson is to speak before the Labor Institute Forum on Sunday, Jan...
...To celebrate the event a banquet will be held on Saturday, January 10, at 9 o'clock p. m. The arrangement committee to making a big effort to make the celebration one that will long linger in the minds and hearts Of the friends of the Lyceum...
...These funds have bscn contributed by more'than 5,C10 individuals, groups and organizations, in sums ranging upwards from 10 cents...
...It is an attractively printed four-page paper that will appear monthly...
...His action thus far is inadequate...
...50,000 copies of the first issue were distributed last Sunday...
...No one can read notes to Tom...
...As co-chairman of the Public Affairs Committee, Thomas has acted as one of the Socialist spokesmen...
...Author of "Let Freedom Ring" and "Don't Tread on Me...
...What he can and will do m this Danville case remains to be seen, but politicians in the capital realize that he has a golden opportunity to redeem, in part, the anti-labor record given the Hoover administration in 1930, by the attempt to put Yellow Dog Injunction Judge Parker on the Supreme Court Bench Penn...
...Thomas Hits Governor Mr...
...An earlier meeting in the Bronx on Sunday, attended by 2,000 was addressed by Waldman...
...We ss^H tenth behind New York statfl have one field worker ont^H and he win continue at w ^ | winter, and I am going to wflV the Rand School Boek s^H see if they can give me a b^H price on a bunch of Oneef^l "Workers in American HsJ(H for our field worker to seaj Will give you an article fl few weeks on the situstkafl Montana and the West 4 It appears to me that it nfl not be a bad policy to getg^| gressdve organizing cantpaj^H der way at once, the campetffl be kept up until the conftsfl for nominating our presttgB candidates...
...Fitzgerald will evict more of the strikers from company houses, and will spend more money on importing strikebreakers...
...He did not vigorously follow up the recommendations made by his commissioner, Robert Moses eighteen months ago...
...Thomas said little confidence could ! be had in the bankers, or in Superintendent Broderick's inquiry...
...Waldman urged the necessity of a thorough investigation by a Moreland Act Commission, not alone of the failure of the bank but of the activities of the State Banking Department in connection with the now defunct institution...
...Henry Pollak...
...A number of other prominent speakers win also be on hand and a big attendance is expected...
...I went to visit Mooney this morning and was kept waiting almost an hour and a half, while those who had come to see other prisoners went right in...
...The first issue contains an attack on the Van Sweringens, traction czars of Cleveland...
...Defender of Sacco and Vanzetti, Mooney and Billings...
...Some Virginia politicians, fearing a growth of industrial discontent in their state, were disappointed, too...
...European labor sports organizations intending to enter the 1932 Olympic games in Los Angeles are writing asking if there to any possibility that Mooney will be freed before the Olympiad takes place...
...Clarence Darrow scoffs and says, "Certainly not," And Arthur Garfield Hays seconds Darrow's motion with vigorous assent...
...This is an effort to discourage those who come to see and help Tom...
...owners of the South, with their political and banking connections, raising the cry that New England mill owners were trying to cheat he South of its new industries by "stirring up labor agitation.'' To meet this Southern prejudice, nanufactured by the mill owners, Jreen and the U. T. W. chiefs hit ipon the idea of offering to let brmer Gov...
...This is good...
...Publication office is at 4732 Broadway, Cleveland...
...Up until this morning Mooney had been able to direct his defense by dictating letters and giving instructions to his visitors, who wrote them down...
...The Socialist Party is the ruling party in many of the European countries, Including England, Sweden, Austria and Denmark, and there are powerful Socialist minorities in the parliaments of all other European countries...
...This gain fully averages 25 per cent...
...At this time, a definite movement is afoot, sponsored by a large number of labor unions, civic and peace organizations, liberal newspapers and publications to raise a substantial fund and to provide - for adequate periodical and continuous contributions to enable WEVD to operate on a plane and scope more adequate to its purposes...
...were brightened when G. August Gerber, executive secretary of the Debs Memorial Radio Fund, filed his bill of exceptions, Jan...
...The State Federation of j H is about to engage the Big M Trust in a franchise fight fl will be worth watching* I appreciated very much I fight that the New York <M rades put up against Rooetifl and believe that you did stucfl remove the halo that the M crats are trying to put around • head of Roosevelt nationally...
...Word has been received from Mayor Henry J. Stump of Reading that he will attend the banquet aad discuss the Socialist administration of that city...
...He Has Nevertheless Filled His With Gallant Fighting...
...Every conceivable meanness is being practiced to irritate Mooney and every effort is being made to interfere with his work of directing his defense...
...Socialists Won 25% Vote Increase (Br • New Letder CmnfnS—1) HARRISBURG, Pa...
...Newspapers addressed to Tom are not given to him...
...31 was granted...
...The union will carry its battle higher...
...The mere suggesttSH fusion has strengthened taej| clalist party's chances In a tJM way fight by proving the on munity of Interest which dfl mates both old (capitalist!*)* ties...
...The funds so raised amount to abort $70,000...
...Tells of Mooney Visit Busick made the following statement after his visit to Mooney: "The powers that are Interested in persecuting Tom Mooney are tightening the screws on their victim and are putting every obstacle in his way in his attempt to get the truth about the case, to the voters of the state...
...Under the law creating the Department of Labor, it to the duty of Secretary Doak to seek to settle this strike, through mediation and conciliation...
...WASHINGTON — (FP)—Officials of the United Textile Workers of America and leaders of the 4,060 strikers at the cotton textile mills in Danville, Va., were deeply disappointed that they were unable to announce a compromise settlement of the great strike, when President Green of the American Federation of Labor addressed the strikers just before the New Year...
...Public opinion should be aroused to force the governor to institute such an inquiry," Mr...
...Instead, he referred them to a commission, one of whose members was counsel for the Bank of U.S...
...and, after January 15th, at the Mecca Temple box office...
...Those who wish to see Mooney in regard to his case are first given a third degree by the warden...
...The local party Is getting ready for a victorious fight in the municipal election...
...After a sheet talk witn bun I was notified that I must go...
...A. He said that unemployment fs the problem of the cities and industrial centers, and that the Red Cross leaves to local charities and other agencies the relief of all suffering from unemployment...
...Darrow, Hays To Hold Debate Socialist Party to Be Discussed at L. I. D. Affair in Mecca Temple " wOIN the Socialist Party?*' e l .Heywood Broun and Norman Thomas any, "Of course...
...Boro Park Lyceum To Celebrate Birthday The Boro Park Labor Lyceum of Brooklyn, on its fifth anniversary, is marking another milestone in the field of Socialist educational activities...
...Chief of Counsel in the Tennessee Evolution Trial...
...And If it be true that Sen...
...We need other improvements in the banking law, and further investigation made of the City Trust case, practically all of which were tost to the public...
...Swanson is a considerable stockholder in these mills, his four months' warfare on 4,000 strikers and the 10,000 voters who are their immediate relatives will become an issue when next he runs for office...
...Socialists PHILADELPHIA.—Philadelphia Socialists are looking forward with a good deal of interest to the meeting Saturday afternoon, Jan...
...Byrd or his brother, Admiral Byrd, act as arbitrator of...
...30th, in the Mecca Temple, 55th street between 6th and 7th avenues, Broun and Thomas will line up against Darrow and Hays on the subject, "Resolved that the best political service can be rendered by joining the Socialist Party...
...Fights Ranging from the Mining Camps of Pennsylvania to the Fundamentalist Mountains of Tennessee...
...Waldman also advanced, for the first time, the suggestion that depositors have a good basis for suits against the bank directors as individuals provided it could be proven that they accepted deposits after the bank was insolvent...
...This new ruling applies only to Mooney...
...1 Reading, Pa., Socialist Face Fusion Movement ( C M I I I M I from F»ft D M I that the Republicans may be st ing more than their share of i spoils when he declares: IfJ fusion, Mr...
...He says that since the Socialists control about 90 per cent of all European athletic organizations there is no doubt that there will be strenuous objections to holding meets in a state where justice is dead so far as the working class is concerned...
...Asking Crain to prosecute anything vigorously is like asking Fannie Brice to explain the theory of Einstein," Mr...
...The Unions and Socialists will hold up the sending of any athletes, because even in those sport organizations, not allied with them, they have memberships that would oppose the sending of participants in the Olympic Games held in Los Angeles...
...Gerber told the commission that when he was charged with numerous violations of the rules of operation, he wrote and telephoned the commission in Washington, for a complete statement of these alleged violations...
...The principal point that I wanted to take up with Mooney was the question of the Olympic games to be held in Los Angeles in 1932...
...When asked what the Red Cross is doing to feed the millions of unemployed, Payne answered "Nothing...
...This increase was obtained in spite of the largest expenditures ever made by the capitalist parties in any previous campaign...
...Reading more than held its own, casting a full third of the state vote...
...I brought some letters and papers that I wanted him to see, but was not allowed to show them to him, though other people in the visiting room were showing and reading letters to other prisoners...
...The Four Debaters An announcement of the debate describes Broun as "America's Leading Journalist: Trenchant Critic of Men, Manners and Institutions...
...Politically an independent liberal...
...Doak is a Virginian— the first Virginian to sit in the cabinet since Carter Glass was Secretary of the Treasury...
...The meeting will be at 3:30 P. M. at the Labor Institute...
...Today the powers of reaction decided to clamp down on Mooney and cripple him in his work, and from now on no one will be allowed to show Mooney a piece of paper of any kind, nor will he be allowed to show anything to his visitors...
...Thomas said: "Governor Roosevelt's intentions are good...
...A Veteran of Countless Fights for Freedom...
...Therefore, on Friday evening, Jan...
...and, finally, by the police and the temporary administrators of the bank...
...Labor Athletes' Boycott On Olympics in California Sought as Mooney Protest I Busick, Socialist Leader, Will Appeal to European Movement—Visits San Quentin (BT * N>w 1 — C l l l l l l l l l H l) LOS ANGELES—A new attack in the fight to free Tom Moo| ney was announced by William W. Busick state chairman of the Socialist party upon returning from a vlsft to Mooney at San Quentin...
...Thomas and Mr...
...11th...
...I refer to Mr...
...One lady went in half an hour before I did and was still there when I was told to leave...
...She has made arrangements to be in Philadelphia the day before to meet the members of the Philadelphia local and to discuss with them some of the problems of International Socialism...
...this is not done to those who visit other prisoners...
...Ban on Station WEVD Prospects for Continuing Life of Station Brighten as Brief Is Filed WASHINGTON — ( F P ) — Prospects that Station WEVD, the Debs Memorial broadcasting station in New York, will retain its license, despite the hostile report made by the inspectors for the Federal Radio CommisJSSBJ...
...Reservations should be made at once The price to two dollars per plate and may be ordered personally or by mail at the Boro Park Lyceum, 1377 42nd Street, Brooklyn...
...The Governor's letter to Mr...
...Governor Roosevelt may insist on legislation to protect thrift accounts...
...Subs are 50 cents...
...but for the work wen made very little gahsi''|^^H our state ticket is concejqH work was the most exteafl twelve years...
...The Socialists and Labor Unions control about 90 per cent of the athletic groups in Europe...
...His Most Effective Sounding-board is the Debating Platform...
...The issue being drawn all that was needed for a first class battle of ideas, wit and oratory was the arena...
...Broun, Thomas...
...But they were unwilling to come forward with advice to the management to meet the strikers halfway...
...It will no longer Ignore the fact that Gov...
...Both Thomas and Waldman warned the depositors that little could be expected from any investigation conducted by District Attorney Crain...
...In a recent book, "Contemporary Social Forces," he to described as "the ablest leader the Socialist Party has ever had...
...He ran for president in 1928 and for Mayor of New York City in 1929 on the Socialist ticket...
...Thomas had the heaviest criticism attacking the record of > the district attorney since his election...
...Crain still leaves the door open to the possibility of a more farreaching, more thorough probe by a Moreland Act commissioner...
...Official returns from the office of the secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania show that the Socialist Party in this state polled a state-wide gain in 1930 over the Socialist vote of 1928...
...It must be remembered that it was the European Unions which forced Woodrow Wilson to interfere in the Mooney case, which changed the sentence from death to life imprisonment The Unions threatened protest strikes, and, quoting from the government report, "The Mooney case is seriously interfering with the progress of the war...
...Rufus Moseley has been elected president of the Danville Central Labor Union...
...Pollard has been deaf to its protests against his using state troops to break the spirit of the strikers...
...But against these influences were arrayed the organized cotton mil...
...The gain varied widely in its distribution, Philadelphia in the East gaining 13 per cent and Pittsburgh in the West 65 per cent...
...Doak has been a professional negotiator in labor disputes, as a high official of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, for more than 20 years...
...10th, with Ellen Wilkinson of England...
...Children of Danville Mill Strikers And State Militia on Strike Duty Southern Mill Workers Watch Danville Strik (Contimed from Tf One) and the drought which has diminished the tobacco crop account for some of the loss an analysis of the clearings by months indicates that the smaller payrolls due to the strike have injured business...
...Crain was evidence of "hopeless optimism...
...Labor and Socialist organizations in Europe are writing to the Cilfornia Socialists asking about the possibilities of Mooney being pardoned before the Olympic games and threatening to stop any European Athletic groups from participating in the games in California as long as Mooney to kept in prison...
...It assumes responsibility for relief work only in the farming regions...
...They are being told the chances are slim unless a worldwide protest is so intense that the Governor will hear it...
...the Rand Book Store, 7 East 15th Street...
...Claims Life Not Worth Living...
...Of Darrow and Hays, the announcement says: "Arthur Garfield Hays—Chief Counsel for the Civil Liberties Union, and the Leader in Many Fights For Free Speech...
...Now a Socialist in Deadly Earnest, With a Major Congressional ight to His Credit in His First Year as a Member of the Socialist Party...
...Thomas declared the 450,000 depositors were victimized by the directors- of the banks who were guilty of unsound practices, "speculating with depositors' money", and "juggling funds with the numerous affiliates they set up...
...READING—A propaganda paper for house to house distribution, similar to the Socialist Campaigner of Milwaukee, is the newly issued "Pioneer...
...Both pointed out that Crain has jurisdiction in fiat one county, while the bank has branches in four...
...Busick recalls that it was the European unions that saved Mooney and Billings by striking and "seriously interfering with the war" to quote a government report...
...The speakers need no introduction To readers of The New Leader...
Vol. 12 • January 1931 • No. 2
