Are You Out of Work?
Cmeal, James
Are You Out of Work? life Grows Darker Every Day, Bat IllMaa Who Caafted Our Misery Da Nothing to Shoulder Their Responsibility By James Cmeal Life grow* darker for our families each day.,No...
...women, and girls are advertising in the newspapers that they are willing to work without payment of wages...
...SATURDAY—JUNE IS 110th street and Broadway, Manhattan.—Speakers, Samuel Bekhnan, A. RegaldL 189th street and Boston road, Bronx...
...Steinway and Jamaica avenues, Astoria, L. I.—Speakers, Samuel E Beardsley and others...
...Yu never read the Republican platform for 1928, didja...
...We always get a panic...
...Day and night they wait, hoping against hope, but the Jobs cannot be found...
...Why are the gates of industry closed against us...
...Even our misery is made another source of graft for mercenaries...
...But we are always out Ws are now ' down and out Socialist ballots win put us In and put both ruling parties out...
...Yu're a damn fool, Sam...
...It's the damned Republicans...
...Republicans go in and Democrats go out...
...We want security, not an uncertain chance-world So election day approaches and the professional office broken solicit our votes...
...Broome and Clinton streets, Manhattan—Speakers, Max Edclson, H Schachner...
...Ain't Hoover a Republican and wasn't It a Republican sheriff that ordered us out of our shack...
...Junction and 38th avenues, Elm-hurst, L. I.—Speakers, h. O. Wlllard, W. J. Oordiner, E. Brown, 122nd street and 18th avenue, College Point, L. I.—Speakers, Samuel A. DeWltt, Ben Blumehberg...
...Msny have Indicated that they will support the Socialist party program...
...179th street and St...
...They come to us now...
...Jamaica, L. I. (Front of Town Hall).—Speaker, L. Lieberman...
...They Want merely a room and three meals...
...Many thousands of us are In the breadlines...
...The masters of those rusting machines have given' to these campaign funds...
...Here they come with a smirk .Here they come, flat and sleek, pleading with the jobless and the starving...
...Long wood and Prospect avenues, Bronx.—Speakers, A. ! Belskln, Sol Marcus, Henry Fruchter, Louis Hendin, Leon saints, and others...
...Prank Pone, Noah Walters...
...158th street and Broadway, Manhattan.—Speakers, Z. Antonsen, Max Delson, E Koppel, Fred Hodgson...
...he reads...
...They ban accepted the leaflets, not la the camps, but upon the streets...
...Brooklyn.—Speaker, David Kaplan, Avenue J and E. 14th street, Brooklyn.—Speakers, Wm...
...Why should we...
...Nicholas avenue...
...The women and children are hungry...
...Let's move our forces against the powers that have brought us to* ruin...
...They want our hebp...
...Both parted at the door on the way to their "homes...
...The main camp at Anacosila is an amazing display of the ability of workers to care for themselves...
...The sheriff's deputy left some papers with mom and she's crying...
...Without our consent they never can return...
...308th street and Jerome avenue...
...3am waved the campaign book in triumph and Luke stared...
...We are the groat army of Labor...
...Jacob Bernstein, Pete MietUnen, Jack Schulter...
...Nicholas avenue...
...M. Levensteln, T. Wilson...
...Here's our platform for 1930...
...Speakers, S. Hertsberg, A. Leven-stein...
...The financial kings who are rulers of great industrial plants'which .we ran-Hpft enter are on the contribution lists, p Look closely at some of these jj politicians and observe the col-POts they wear...
...A child rushed in before Luke could finish...
...The managment of the hotel informed the conferees that It would be impossible to house such a gathering, and seat them away...
...Shell we give them the votes...
...Protected by their own military police force, there Is no drunkenness, no panhandling, and no disorder...
...THURSDAY—JUNE 13 7th avenue and 11th street, Manhattan...
...139th street and St...
...They want us toreturn them...
...Manhattan.—Speakers, Joseph Lash, Lucille Hade, Maurice Ooldbloom, Walter Dearlng...
...The time is ripe for a political strike for freedom...
...He has spoken at a number of street meetings held in the vicinity of the camp which drew hundreds of ex-soldiers...
...Anns avenue, Bronx.—Speakers, Tyreli Wilson...
...We are drifting we know not where...
...The Socialist party baa been creating a marked sentiment among the men towards Its program of direct relief, unemployment insurance and public works for all unemployed worker...
...pare is a Congressman who wears the collar of a steel corporation...
...Human ghouls have preyed on human misery...
...In addition other speakers were Amicus Moat and Man Lewis...
...We have gone to them for throe years and have received no help...
...On the way to the subway stations the delegates were surrounded by a well organized mob of howling men and women, shrieking insults and physically assaulting some of the delegates...
...How long must this continue before we, the great majority, use our intelligence to end it...
...M. Felgenbaum, Morris Rosenbsurn, Joseph Tuvun...
...137th street and Broadway...
...We want Hfe, not slow death...
...Why do politicians waste their time and do nothing to avert this universal distress...
...133rd street and St...
...The conference, which was to consist of representatives of 96 large unions In Now York, was called for Wednesday at 3 p. m. at the Governor Clinton, 31st street and Seventh avenue...
...I. —Speakers...
...The men who cams here with only an idea of getting their private bonus are beginning to realise that theirs is • problem concerning the whole working clan and not only veterans...
...Every available piece of junk in Washington has been gathered together to build up tents, sheds, bouses, barber shops, kitchens, hosptiala, headquarters, libraries and all the necessary equipment of a military camp...
...138th street and 7th avenue, Man-»tun,~«peakeis...
...Street Meetings (All meetings begin at 0:10 p. ra...
...They are spread all over the city in half a dozen camps and abandoned houses...
...One morning the Jobless man or girl reports to find the ex-change closed...
...More than 30,000 children in New York have been turned over to institutions and boarding houses because the parents cannot house and feed their loved ones...
...Amsterdam avenue and LaSslle street, Manhattan.—Speakers, Joseph Lash, Oora Sluder, Ruth 8hallcrosi, John Oallefiher...
...Prank R. Crosswalth...
...Bhere is one who represents oil...
...Church avenue and & 49th street...
...Democrats go in and Republicans go out...
...Why do we waste away in hunger and misery...
...Yu know very well, Luke Wiggle, that any time Democrats put over somethin' there's hell to pay in this here country...
...now listen," said Luke...
...TUESDAY—JUNE >1 8th avenue and 31st street, Manhattan.—Speakers, Henry Rosner, Ed P. Gottlieb, L. 0. Kaye, John Herltng, Mary Hillyer...
...They have done little for us...
...Commander Waters, assisted by a regular staff la charge of various departments of lobbying, press service, commissary, self police, etc., Is In charge of thia tremendous organization...
...The number of these bereft little ones is increasing...
...The Communists have made absolutely no progress among them...
...Amicus Most has been circulating among the men, and with the aid of local Socialist* and Socialist veterans, particularly from West Virginia, Reading, Wisconsin, Tennessee and Oregon, baa distributed thousands of handbills stating the Socialist party position...
...Dyckman street and Sherman avenue, Manhattan.—Speakers, Max Delson, Morris Miller, E. Koppel...
...Victor Gasper...
...Norman Thomas received a splendid ovation...
...If it weren't fer them I'd still own the little shack...
...John Herllng, Henry Rosner, Judah Altman...
...They want that power and will spend millions to get it We want it and should use it with tremendous fores in behalf of ourselves, our broke* famines, the jobless and the hungry...
...They are compelled to turn the children over to child-welfare agencies...
...Washington presents an air of an invaded city...
...The owners of the idle factories from which We are barred have contributed...
...Why not vote for Norman Thomas and James H. Maurer, the Socialist, candidates for President and Vice-President...
...It ain't the Democrats,'" he answered hotly...
...Wo want our children with us, not broken families...
...A cell hss gone out to all trade unions to prepare to meet the menace of organised rowdyism, 'ss the delegates at the conference felt that the Incident was not an isolated case of ruffianism but rather part of an organized campaign that la, a challenge to the very existence of trade unionism...
...We want Incomes, not starvation...
...By unwavering adherence to sound principle*, through the wisdom of Republican policies and the capacity of Republican administrations, the foundations have been laid and the greatness and prosperity of the country firmly estsMlsbed...
...There will be a meeting of the conference next Tuesday at international Ladies' Garment Workers' Union headquarters, 3 West 10th street...
...Here they come, Republicans and Democrats alike...
...and yu'll learn something...
...Daddy," she cried, "Come quick...
...So desperate Is our plight that men...
...Thousands of families are making a desperate effort to keep themselves together and thousands are giving up this effort in despair...
...The Socialist party, working la the open, has made a good deal of progress...
...Ya voted them Democrats into Congress an" now yu're getthV what yu voted fer...
...Nothing more...
...Harrison and Richmond avenues, Port Richmond, S. I.—Speakers, Walter Dearlng, Z. Antonsen...
...The fee is gone...
...Democrats are liars," he shouted...
...Fred Hodgson...
...304th street and Perry avenue, Bronx.—Speakers, I. Pokteln, Max Oorenberg, p. J. Murphy...
...Capitalism is dying and Socialism is the hope of the world...
...We are down in a social pit and they are on the edge looking in...
...Speakers...
...He reads...
...Can any human being answer why we who are jobless and hungry should again give them oar votes...
...Employment exchanges are crowded to overflowing...
...MONDAY—Jone Ss Annus B and 6th- street, Manhattan.—Speakers, Walter Dearlng...
...Rutland mad and Rockaway avenue, Brooklyn.—Speakers, Joseph Viola, Joseph N. Cohen, Charles sunar-sky, Judah Altaian...
...Rowdies Raid Conference to Aid Fur Union rE organized Communists of New York scored another victory in their campaign for whatever it is that they are working for when they broke up a labor conference called to bring order out of chaos In the furriers' union, and caused the conferees to be evicted from the Governor Clinton hotel, by their wild behavior...
...Thomas Stirs Bonus-Seekers At Washington Veterans Flock to Meeting Addressed by Socialist Presidential Candidate (PS S New I.ea4mr Cgrr«s»sns>nf|, WASHINGTON, D. C.-A# • culmination of the activities of the Socialist party among the veterans of the Bonus Expeditionary Forces now in Washington a great man Wednesday night which was pack-ad to overflowing...
...Knickerbocker avenue and Him rod street, Brooklyn.—Speakers, Jos...
...No, a thousand times no...
...We want the government to be ours...
...197th street and Union avenue Student Conventions Endorse Thomas CHICAGO.—The nomination of Norman Thomas for WwMm by student nominating conventions at Syracuse, Ohio, Minnesota, and Chicago universities was announced from Socialist campaign headquarters this week...
...Here's what it says and yu can't say it ain't genu-l-n-e...
...We want bread, not breadlines...
...Yu're prejudiced but here's the answer in black and white In the Democratic platform and yu cant get away from it...
...Thomas for President clubs have been formed at Pennsylvania, Columbia, Princetoa, SWarthmore, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Mount Hoi yoke, North Carolina, Minnesota, Syracuse, Chicago, Pittsburgh, and other schools have such clubs la process of formation...
...Luke shook the campaign book in Sam's face...
...Hare comes a smug Mayor who is the poodle of public utility owners...
...Well, listen, Sam...
...Reaching up to a shelf containing stacks of "Liberty" and the "Saturday Evening Post," Luke brought out the Republican campaign book for 1938...
...Hinsdale street and Sutter avenue, Brooklyn.—Speakers, Prank Rosenfarb, H. Schachner...
...All creatures of this capitalistic jungle and we are their prey ITbey want to go back to their seats of power...
...Bronx.—Speakers, P. J. Murphy, John Davidson, Tyreli Wilson...
...They have listened to Socialist speeches, and flocked to the Norman Thomas meeting...
...For nearly three years they have had their chance...
...unless otherwise Indicated...
...We did not get the jobs and bread...
...Serves ya right," said Sam Stokes...
...A. Weil, I. Grossman, H. Schachner, J. Schulter...
...Morris Miller...
...Our families are breaking up...
...Answer that," said he, "an' tell me that yu Democrats...
...As the delegates were waiting for Samuel E. Beardsley of the International Jewelry Workers' Union, chairman of the conference, to open the meeting, about sixty Communists Invaded the room and began wildly shouting, flinging insults about, yelling "racketeer," "traitor," "grafter," and other epithets...
...Luke pulled a Democratic campaign book of 1930 out of his pocket, turned the pages to the Democratic platform, and looked at Sam with a smile...
...Between that crowd and ours is a gulf...
...Hope is gone...
...Luke looked at Sam and Sam stared at Luke...
...They have thrown out and even beaten up a few of the men vociferous Communists...
...Now they want us to return them to public office...
...These votes an an enormous POWER...
...Other conventions scheduled are expended to take the same action...
...They borrow to pay a registration fee, then wait...
...By the enactment of the Federal Reserve...
...John Davidson, Abe Wlsotaky, D. Oollub...
...SAYS LUKE, SAYS SAM: AREN'T WE THE HAM...
...Act, the eld system, which bred panics was replaced by a new system which Insured confidence...
...Why should they again ask us for our votes...
...Here is) a Sen-|*tor who represents railroads...
...Twenty thousand veterans from all parts of the country are ben and mom an coming at the rate of a thousand each day...
...Back of them are many millions of dollars gathered to obtain our votes...
...Sam could not deny it but be returned to the attack...
...We want industry run for our welfare...
...Students- desiring Information about then clubs should write to Socialist campaign headquarters, 549 Randolph street, Chicago...
...Samuel A DeWltt, Isa-belle Friedman...
...Look at those smug creatures and now turn to our own people...
...Station Plaza, Par Rockaway, t...
...Although the men have been more tolerant of "Reds" than the newspapers have indicated they an very insistent that no leaflets shall be spread about In the camps and that no agitators shall work among them...
...We want employment, not Idleness...
...7th street and 2nd avenue, Manhattan.—Speakers, David Kaplan, Seymour Stain, Ethelred Brown...
...163rd street and Prospect avenue...
...Why not vote for Labor, for all Socialist candidates, for the full Socialist program of industrial democracy and human liberation...
...Luke scowled...
...life Grows Darker Every Day, Bat IllMaa Who Caafted Our Misery Da Nothing to Shoulder Their Responsibility By James Cmeal Life grow* darker for our families each day.,No jobs...
...By Autolycus LUKE WIGGLE came into the store all excited...
...We wanted jobs and bread and they now want votes...
...Speakers, Dave Oollub, Alex Rosenblatt, Max Brownstein, Jules Uman-aky...
...Why do plants decay and machinery >rust...
...There goes a public official with a tin box stuffed with grafting funds...
...WEDNESDAY—JUNE 33 ' Allerton and Cruger avenues, Bronx...
...We want to earn our living, not to accept hateful charity...
...97st street and Brosdwsy, Manhattan—Speakers to be announced...
Vol. 13 • June 1932 • No. 35
