Phila. Socialists Name McKeown To Run For Mayor
Biemiller, A. J .
Phila. Socialists Name McKeown To Run For Mayor Convention Picks Head of 12,000 Textile Workers—Jlany Trade Unionists to Campaign— Platform Demands Aid for Jobless—Resolutions on...
...Many have already announced their determination of refusing to be made "barf and hair' voters and declare they will vote the straight Socialist ticket in the event1 of a coalition between the donkey and the elephant...
...The wage-cutting campaign will soon extend to the railroad workers and the steel workers...
...Resolutions, Joseph Schwartz...
...Committees were elected with the following chairmen: Rules and Credentials, Leo Stern...
...Mrs.- Stanley was started on her M mile Journey ever rough mountain roads to a Charleston hospital where she is in a critical condition...
...The Fusionists hope to capture Reading...
...In some cases increased dividends were paid to holders of stocks and bonds out of surpluses piled up during the fat yean of upper class prosperity...
...Steel and coal are key industries...
...Democrats Sacrificed The line-up gives the nominations for mayor, controller and one school director to the Democrats...
...Between 1923 and 1929, the revenues of the railroads per employee increased over $400, while wages went up but $100...
...This week came a direct incitement from a cabinet minister—Secretary of Commerce Lamont...
...Arraigned in court, Daniel was freed by Magistrate Don!to who gave officer Kane instructions in the elementary fact that no permits are needed for street corner meetings in Philadelphia, Reading G.O.P...
...County attorney Fred Jones charged that Bllotta and Keedy had threatened to dynamite the home of the Bergman boys...
...A wave of unrest has led the textile workers of Pater son, Allenton-and dozens of small towns in Pennsylvania and New England to walk outon strike...
...7th District, Joseph Schwartz, Sol Dennis: 8th District, Andrew Vance, Anna Geisinger, Harry Haines, Paul Brahm...
...Wher...
...One of the first articles which drew attention to the misery and lawlessness in Harlan, was written by Crawford and published in The New Leader...
...The combination of both old parties under such leadership will give the Socialists of Reading a splendid hance to> teach the lesson of class interest which has always been the chief theme of their campaign arguments...
...Today the army of unemployed has swelled to 7,000,000 with a good proportion of them on the border line of starvation onengulfed in poverty and destitution...
...And WAirJ Editor Crawford Shot in Arabusb-^jl cialist Relief Head, Driven frsgl Drunken Gunman Shoots ^Comas 9 —Fagan Shoots Miner in PennsyhJ rat ¦ nw Leaser CswssseaSssI I TTARLaN, Kentucky,—The coal operators Nta.1 JLjL against union miners and their sympath*jta_j Bruce Crawford, outstanding Virginia ed: waia**_| • shot in the leg near Harlan...
...on warrant for threatened breach of the peace...
...Fagati by the police...
...However, then is no law to compel him to put households already evicted back into their houses...
...The convention was marked all through by the keen Interest of the members in projected plans of the party and their enthusiasm for the coming campaign...
...A resolution criticizing the trade unions tor their failure to carry on orgemnag campaigns and damand urging Socialists to give all possible aid in forming industrial unions In fields where no functioning organisation svlstsfl, received unanimous approval, as did another resolution criticizing the A. F. of L. for its stand against unemployment insurance...
...Voters' Revolt Seen While the leaders of both old parties appear able to agree on almost any plan which will enable them to defeat the Socialists, it is freely predicted'that thousands of men and women who never have voted the Socialist ticket win do so this year in protest against the Fusion movement...
...If they lose, the road will be paved for cuts in other industries...
...On top of these years of part-time employment and low wages, Came the industrial breakdown of the last two years...
...It now remains to...
...He told them that the strikes imperilled the efforts of his union to arrange a SsssS of coal operators sj This was Lewis* tsj before Illinois mints lution of the hJ3| him to interfere % worker affairs...
...Fuming, Lewis left the platform...
...The President has given H mmWk m am- mm mm ikftsuW duced...
...Mot companies failed to < despite the recant Hover cabinet neafei telegraph their sum CJM.W...
...These strikers are today in the front line trenches of the war against wage cuts...
...Children went to school hungry and poorlyclad...
...New Hardships in Store Before the present breakdown of capitalism had set in, the soft coal miners, the textile workers and the clothing workers had already suffered for years...
...President Hoover rushed into print to say that his policy of "no wage cuts" still stands...
...The resolution dedares that inasmuch as Hillquit is national chairman of the party, "all actions on his part have political significance...
...This left a net gain to the railroads of $300 per employee annually...
...At the morning session, Leo Krzycki, Milwaukee, organiser for the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, temporarily in Philadelphia for the Hosiery Workers Union, brought greetings from the Socialist cities of the West and emphasised the gains made by the workers who were wise enough to put Socialists into office...
...He drove awij rested later...
...Recorder of Deeds, Rose Margolin...
...The Hypocrisy of Hoover The Hoover administration is playing the ' part of the hypocrisy arid sycophancy that might have been expected from a party owned and financed by capitalism...
...Allan Keedy, one of the sal the Socialist Relief Committee, has been released rssja County Jail only to he driven from town, HsjZS a bouts are unascertained...
...3rd District, Leon Stern...
...S tanlay, s> white of her pain...
...Ed Fraley, associated with Crawford on his publication, was with the editor when he was shot Norton, Virginia, is about SO miles from Harlan Keedy's absence is beginning to cause much concern...
...Receiver of Taxes, Edward Wannemacber...
...Wint Victory in Court ________ • Br a New Leader Correspondent * TjHILADELPHIA, — One arJL rest a week seems to be the destined fate of Frans Daniel, Socialist party organizer here...
...McAlistsr Coleman lauded the success of Local Philadelphia in working with the trade unions and warned of the dangers of a radical movement which, allowed Itself to become separated from the workers and to overemphasise orthodoxy without action...
...These spasmodic strikes center about one leading demand...
...It is the issue of starvation...
...This motion was defeated by a vote of 27-17...
...All indications point to that development in a short period...
...Boss Bill Bitting, president of the Rosedale knitting mills, and similar labor and Socialist haters, many of whom are not residents of the city but who nevertheless profit from the labor of their fellow men sufficiently to cause them to fear the rising tide of Socialist' sentiment which had its start in Reading in 1927 and has since been sweeping through the county...
...Wednesday of last week Policeman Kane approached Daniel who was speaking at a Socialist street corner rally, demanded his permit, and, when Daniel insisted he did not need a permit, placed the Socialist organiser under arrest...
...lief that the attack' suit of the satatSM Murphy, possibly esi drawn out deer*rail I the coal fields watokl blamed on union sfl...
...Instead, they are likely to pay for their tactics with the *J"Bab** °* Im^ortaii^ Strikers Fight Your Battle * ' _____________ iff liters and Textile Workers in Front Trenches ef War Against Pay Cuts and Starvation in.....¦¦ ¦ ¦¦ ¦ ii...
...of Jersey bridge construction workers quitting their posts in a concerted effort to halt pay cuts...
...0 th District, Alexander Black, Elizabeth Hawes...
...Council — John 1L Ssasholtz, president and treasurer of an enamelling works, and George M Tocum, foreman of a cigar factory...
...fo lowing...
...be seen whether the choice of the Fusion committee will be ratified by the executive committees of both parties...
...mM w^fh &mk tea tkm tmekk* Company Thrjl Shoot Two in...
...If independent Republicans and Democrats decide upon such a course, the fight will be four-cornered Instead of the two-cornered contest for which the anti-Socialists are hoping...
...District Attorney, John Landburg...
...Ky waft...
...Controller—Charles F. Coplay, a car repairer at the Reading shops and former football player...
...Platform, Maynard Krueger...
...Men and women set themselves into the wracking routine of scanty meals...
...By HELEN O. NORTON (New LcaSer Cerreaoeiident) CHARLESTON, W. Vs., — A drunken company gunman shot Mrs...
...I'm SjSad SSkty get me instead of the yossag man...
...Join the Socialist Party ! Relief work is needed...
...DAVID MOKOL IN PARIS We have received through the mail a copy of the June issue of "Plus Loin...
...Sheriff, Franz E. Daniel...
...In New York City, thousands of men's clothing workers have begun a campaign to end the degradation of insecurity...
...The Platform Committee presented for adoption a platform which ompnesisod in its preamble that most of the problems of government could only be met by state and national action, and urged a complete system - of social insurance, high Income and Inheritance taxes, and socialisation of industry...
...Finally it urged the public ownership and operation of all public utilities with democratic representation of workers on the boards of dirrectorrs...
...that the suit instituted by Hillquit in behalf of former owners of Russian oil attacks the right of socialization of natural resources, which is "one of the recognized aims of Socialism...
...Three more miners have sesj_ charged with murder and two with triple mum** w Crawford la the editor of Cr»w-< ford's Weekly, publishes) in Norton, Virginia Re has consistently defended the Harlan miners...
...On the final vote the resolution carried 34-7...
...Platform Is Adopted Other resolutions passed included a pledge of support to the West Virginia miners union in their courageous fight, a demand that the Governor of California release Mooney and Billings at once, and a demand for a retrial of the nine boys in the Scottsboro case...
...The leaders of the fight against the resolution were Bilder, Rosen and Braginaky...
...BOO LEWIS OFT PLATFORM WEST FRANKFORT EL—(F P)—John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, was booed off the platform when he tried to address a meeting at West Frankfort The miners listened to Lewis for a while...
...which were isclndsi lier invitation...
...unions are represented on the ticket: Amalgamated Clothing Workers, Hosiery Knitters, Hosiery Boarders, Carpenters, Jewelry Workers, Newscarriers, Lace Weavers, Lithographers, U p h olsterers, Teachers, Bookkeepers and Stenographers, and Pocketbook Workers...
...A Big Bnslnsss Venture Socialists welcome the prospect of meeting the Fusion candidates in battle as an opportunity to draw the line* more elosely between the paraes of big business and the working class...
...The platform further advocated more adequate and better administered city relief for the suffering caused by the depression and scored the present discrimination shown against hosiery workers and Negroes...
...upon when a Joint committee meeting of both capitalistic parties agreed upon a slate which they hope will sweep back the rising tide of the worklngclass politics.1 power in Reading...
...Now dividends have begun to drop...
...The .rail workers an giving more work for less wages than in any other period in railroad history...
...Anna Beisinger, organizer, and Harry Haines, delegate to the Central Labor Union from the Hosiery Workers...
...The Democratic politicians have been outgeneraled by their ancient Republican opponents both in the matter of patronage and salary...
...That is why the present wave of coal, textile and garment strikes takes on significance...
...Not only in Reading but throughout the entire county as wen, the economic and political significance of the Fusion movement will be explained Already disgusted with i what they consider bad business ! policies in the court house and I troubled by factional fights within i their own parties, rural and city i Democrats and Republicans an ' expected to turn to the Socialists ' for good government in increasing ' numbers...
...Evan though the party officials agree to the slate, there is still a considerable doubt whether iadrvidual candidates who have been slighted by the FuslonisU will not bolt and enter the lists as Republicans and Democrats...
...But wages tumbled and slashed daily beginning with the moment Hoover announced his policy of "np wage cuts...
...The candidates which the Fusiouists will now ask the voters of Reading their support are: Mayor — Heber Ennentrout, manager of a loan company...
...Gamshei Kutlkoff...
...Vincent Bllotta, 36, miner, and Keedy, 34, Congregational minister, wen arrested after they had been active In relief work and investigation of legal cases...
...A. J. Biemiller...
...miner, Pagan's hasn u t: ma ing to Fagatfassrj to lice...
...The furniture Will be dumped on the roadside and creek bottoms, though then an many vacant houses la every company village...
...The honey-fed barons of industry are looking about to see where they can cut the costs of mining, of textile and clothing manufacture without giving up too much of their, unearned profits...
...He has been arrested a number of times for picketing and other crimes against Philadelphia's bosses...
...The Republicans thus mads good their determination to grab the lion's share of the nominations with two council men, city treasurer and two members of the School Board...
...Despite the myth of high rail wages, there are several hundred thousand rail workers earning less than*$k000 a year...
...Believer, an Illinois miner and a graduate of Brook wood College, had addressed the crowd from a truck on one side of the state highway, and Lewis Williams of East Bank was speaking when Pack darted from the group of company men lined up back of the crowd on the other side of the road and began shooting...
...Be ass nothing.of tht atttet was about The no* announced they it "wholesale murder f officials of the v H, is engaged in s sM trol of the werken burgh coal floida Later development...
...But when he began to denounce the rank and file conventions at Zeigler and Belleville, the 10,000 coal diggers in the audience began to Jeer and called for rank and file leaders...
...Tomorrow M more evictions are due at Ward and a number at Hughes ton and Blakely...
...Clerk of Court, Charles Develin...
...Six strikers have been arrested on the charge of throwing sticks and rocks at him after the shooting...
...Martha Stanley and attempted to kill Cal Bellavsr at * union meeting at Burn well Sunday afternoon...
...Aftst days, Doak has a* names to the lists...
...Greetings wore sent to Reading, with best wishes to otfr comrades tor the coming election, and greetings were also sent to the meeting of the Second International A resolution was passed expressing regret at the death of Morris Slgman Another resolution praised the cooperation shown between the a P. and the newly formed Independent Labor Party of Philadelphia" County...
...They wen .charged with obstructing Justice and held...
...As this sentiment develops the Fusion movement is likely to become a party of leaden with very few followers...
...Standards of living sunk lower and lower...
...All three industries were hit by the capitalist maladies of planless production, cut-throat competition, displacement of workers by machinery without reduction of hours, and above all, exploitation of the workers who received but a small share of the great wealth they created...
...A crowd of 300 followed Daniel and Kane to the police station, the meantime telling the policeman what they thought of him in impolite but expressive vernacular...
...David Braginaky, secretary of the United Hebrew Trades...
...The Socialists, on the other hand, are preparing to make the most o f their opportunities...
...In coalfield* of Petuisylvama, West Virginia, Ohio and Kentucky bitter strikes .are in progress...
...Facts presented to the Interstate Commerce Commission show that in 1929 alone the roads made a profit of $250,000,000 out of increased labor efficiency...
...fcra sp door, Murphy sail, tat and pulled a gu& faf with Murphy sadist flight of steps, itrsfl ceeded in get::.** tl gun and, as M-TSJ two shots, one of 4 Murphy in tht team, him instantly...
...City Council, 1st District, Anthone Blondillillo, Dr...
...Wdoiman for Congress The afternoon session was taken up with reports of committees...
...Nominations, Andrew Biemiller...
...The complete list of candidates follows: Congress, 2nd District, John Edelman...
...About 300 party members and their famines assembled at the Morris farm on the outskirts of city...
...Leader Deranged Mil PrrTSBUPUH...
...brought greetings from England...
...Frank Bilder was nominated from the floor but was defeated by McKeown 38 to 8. All other nominees received unanimous endorsement.' Resolution on Hillqnit Considerable discussion ensued on the report of the Resolutions Committee, particularly on a resolution concerning Comrade Hillquit's connection with the Russian oil land case...
...As McKeown pointed out in his speech of acceptance, this was an occasion which marked the beginning of a new era for labor in Philadelphia, and perhaps for the whole country...
...The session was on* of the most significant Pennsylvania labor interests have seen for years...
...On the way, Mrs...
...SJ| by the Plttsburga snj the leadership of thtl miners for tht attack < President Pat Isjts, I Workers of America, t Pagan's killiar of Pat phy, of Littk Rh*t T* to have UM Murphy a on...
...They must work for the reorganization of industry on a basis when the workers will be free of exploitation, when the workers will receive a full share of what they produce, and where industry win be owned by the people and democratically administered...
...These organizations must fight against wage cuts, and against the exploitation of private owners...
...Mark Starr of the LLP...
...He was arrested but is now out on $3,000 bail...
...The best way to aid the present strikers and through them all workers is to join the Social•is...
...Stanley in the abdomen...
...Treasurer—Andrew J. Fink, contractor and at present a member of the School Board...
...Then an several ways to help the strikers...
...Lewis wanted the miners to give up the strikes at the Orient mines...
...And Democrats In Love - Feast w8,>ar ¦ Two Old Parties Join Hands Against Socialist-Labor Administration ojr a Nwr IT Pin ij mm) tqEADING, P^—SHuton of ReAX publican and Democratic forces to defeat the Socialists in the coming city campaign, . an eventually long predicted by local Socialists, was finally decided...
...Philadel¦ phia Socialists convened Sunday, July 26, to nominate a strong ticket of trade unionists and other Socialists, beaded by Alexander McKeown, president of Local 704 of the American Federation of Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers, as candidate for Mayor...
...The common necessities of life ia many cases became luxuries...
...Isolated reports tell of road workers in White Plains striking against wage slashes which would bring their meager wages down to $18 a week...
...mtm i t TN desolate mining villages and povertystricken mill towns, thousands of men and women are fighting the battle of all the workers of America...
...Comrade Mikol follows tie course' of events in the United States closely and relays bis information to reach readers Fran* Daniel Again Arrested in Phila...
...Other eouneilmanic candidates include Paul Brahm, secretary...
...Too only contest that developed on the slate proposed by the Nominating Committee was on the Mayoralty candidate...
...With Murphy whs of Fleming...
...The Nominations Committee brought in a complete city ticket headed by McKeown, president of the iargest local union in the world, Local 706 of the Hosiery Workers, which boasts 12,000 members...
...Magistrates, Joseph Kazjnark, Emanuel Kline, Charles Ross and Edmund Ryan, Sr...
...Joseph Schwartz, local chafknan of the C. P. L. A., and Biemiller, local secretary of the L. L D., are running for council...
...Every strike, every labor battle fought and woo, ia a battle that holds within it the potentialities of gain for all workers...
...Socialists Name McKeown To Run For Mayor Convention Picks Head of 12,000 Textile Workers—Jlany Trade Unionists to Campaign— Platform Demands Aid for Jobless—Resolutions on Billing—Mooney and Scottsboro Cases At ¦ I I By A. J. Biemiller Sew Le»d« C«ri— TryHILAOELPHIA...
...4th District, Isaac Moskowlta, David Braginaky, Thomas Jefferson David, Jennie Dornblum, Nat Or kin...
...BUotta and Keedy had probed the testimony of the Bergman boys, which was used against the colored miners, Essley Phillips and Gaines K« hanks, recently indicted for murder...
...a little Anarchist monthly published in Paris, la which the place of honor a given to an article on The Mooney Case and California Justice," by David Mikol, formerly of New York...
...The municipal planks include the abolition of the contract system for city work and the substitution of dirrect city work...
...The union was unable to secure the 130.600 aecartttea which would be required to appeal all the cases and the 10 day statutory period guaranteed by previous injunctions is up...
...Company men hurried Pack from the scene...
...H SKTJB Btt WASHINGTOBUi of the biggest osesjj ies in the bihimiasn try have responds* the letter sent oot| Doak and Lamont, | to make possible a jsj with the United ass stabilize conditions tj coal miners...
...and they had found reasons for suspecting that pressure had been brought to bear on the boys to give false testimony...
...refusal to use the police to enforce Injunctions, and taxation of land to th*> full extent of economic rent...
...6th District, Edmund Ryan, Jr...
...His first bullet struck Mrs...
...But he made no effort to repudiate the approval given to wage slashers by his Secretary of Commerce.' And thm fact is that wage cuts go on, Presidential statements being worth less than a plugged nickel...
...Labor is the goat...
...If they are successful in securing the election of their mayoralty and controller candidates, the Democrats will be left with nothing but the rather doubtful honor which will accrue to them from their abject surrender to the Republicans...
...N The present strikes summon all workers, white collar as well as manual workers, professional men and women as well as unskilled workers, to rally to their support...
...Every strike, free speech fight or unemployment demonstration finds Daniel much in demand as a leader...
...2nd District...
...the sources of borrowing funds from friends or relations were soon exhausted...
...The slight reserves of savings were soon dried up...
...Frans Daniel, Socialist party organizer, is the candidate for sheriff...
...The fight for the resolution was led by Krueger, Bakely and Ryan, Jr...
...Doc" Pack, who did the shooting, had tried to engage Be Haver in a fight before the meeting began...
...The issue, stripped of all technical questions about hours of work, speed-ups, eheck-weighmen, is a simple one...
...The wage conditions in the notorious steel industry continue to be at the starvation level If the Strikers Lose Despite this damning contrast of rich profits on the one hand and low pay on the other, the railroads and steel workers may yet be compelled to take wage cuts...
...David Felix was elected permanent chairman for the session, and Frieda Cohen, permanent secretary...
...John Wrtelman, research and publicity director for the Hosiery Union, is a candidate for Congress in the 2nd District, the only one to be fiaed this fall...
...Long-suffering, silent and docile, the workers are to be made to pay still more for the tins of a system over which they have no control...
...Wage cuts by them will definitely set the trend of wages downward...
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...then he steadied his aim by shooting over his left arm at Bellaver, Who was climbing on the truck to quell trre disturbance, but the shot went wild...
...During the first year of the "depression," dividends went on as usual...
...Joseph Kasmark, veteran Socialist, of the Carpenters' Union, heads the magistrate list,, while Bmil Rieve, international president of the Hosiery Workers, is running for County Commissioner...
...Therefore,'* the resolution concludes, "we the members of Local Philadelphia, Socialist party, declare that Comrade HUlquifs connection with the suit above mentioned is prejudicial to the best interests of the Socialist party, and demand bis Immediate withdrawal from said suit" Bilder moved the resolution be tabled until HUlquifs return...
...While the personnel of the committees which did the slate-making has been altered to give the movement a middle-class coloring, the voters of Reading will not forget that tie Fusion attempt to defeat the Socialists was first advocated by ex-Congressman Esterly, a servant of the big Wyomissing interests...
...Helen Bryan, Charles Kennedy, Claire Felix...
...County Commissioner, Emii Rieve, Dr...
...But of more permanent and greater importance is the mobilization of workers into trade unions and a political party of their own...
...The eouneilmanic and School Board posts will carry the appointive power while the treasurershlp Is the big-money job of the city...
...M V. Leof...
...Charles Mazer, Dr...
...A third injunction Monday morning in term ptad Constable Emory Todd's eviction of 28 families at Ward...
Vol. 13 • August 1931 • No. 5
