Bitter Prospects Call On A. F. of L. To Quit Begging
Timely Topics CMMcoed from Fa;« OmI machine is put in. And it takes a Ions; time to reabsorb the displaced worker in other lines if it is ever done. In the Ions; run, machinery may not make...
...Then we must turn to the task of winning public power in the cities, the states and the nation for the working class...
...In recent months It has been discovered that the Eeiuharnols power interests had contributed large sums to the capitalist parties and this has played into the hands of the Labor Party...
...Moreover, all the jobless were not relieved...
...Railroads asking 16% increase in rates virtually confess the need of Unking them up to planned national economy...
...The committee was appointed at the concluding session of the Western Labor Conference, after both labor and agrarian speakers had urged the union of the producers in an effort to improve the present economic system...
...This fight has jmeci to the sweatshops in ¦jtjfuous territory in New r u we;: as the New Tork yew Tork walk-out is to m jo 'ir as about 300 "insat" shops are concerned, liftmst these shops, where aanaards are not observed, K strike was mainly directm HHtman, president of the pasted, declared that the , would remain ' effective t these establishments until ireed to abide by union conI "tad abandon the use of I Sags sod gangsters in their I to escape union control...
...This method is masked and hypocritical corporation "charity...
...Despite the increasing ravages of hunger the so-called "community chests" and similar funds will have less resources this year than last...
...Well, let us analyze, it It is admitted that not less than 6,000,000 workers are jobless...
...run, machinery may not make more but rather less poverty...
...He has sent the following statement to the papers that printed the statement: "In a recent address Before the Summer School for Women Workers at Barnard College, I did not make the fiat assertion that a new working class political organization should be immediately formed in the United States...
...Many of the farmers in this ¦action of Canada have had experience in the British Labor Party and the l L. P. and they favor an alliance with city workers in a Labor Party...
...In some cases money had been sent directly to needy locals...
...One of the meat popular demands of the opponents of the district officials was for a cut in the per capita tax paid to the district office from twenty-five cents to fifteen east...
...The bulk of the funds to war against hunger will have to come from public funds and thousands of cities throughout, the country are on the verge of bankruptcy...
...The very figures contained in the A. F. of L. press service show that you are now accepting the dole in its most degrading, form, the hateful charity of the class that has reduced the working masses to hunger and starvation...
...Join it Work -for it Use it as your political arm to strike a blow for economic freedom...
...You must also admit that a "decent standard of living"' is absolutely . impossible for the hungry by the present methods...
...Again the need of planned production so that the machine should work to lighten labor and increase leisure for the workers or to make possible greater abundance for their use, rather than to pile up profit...
...There will Sssjaes in wages under the -Bjt, it is declared...
...This drive will have back of it President Hoover's Emergency Committee for Employment, $5 for Each Hungry Person All Winter...
...1 of the United Mine Workers, the John Boylan administration gave its opponents no quarter...
...They demand that he resign...
...The committee is composed of ten Labor-Farmer members...
...Representative delegations from every working class organization in this country should be at the doors of the next Congress...
...You are opposed to a "dole...
...But for big and little it needs a decent system of Justice and penology...
...Lanadian Labor Fights To WiB Seat In By.Eleetion The by-election for a parliament seat at Hamilton, Canada, may result in the election of another Labor candidate in the person of Humphrey Mitchell...
...In 1930, with the cost of relief increased, public funds paid out 72 per cent Remember that all of the destitute were not assisted in these years...
...Many of to avoid union standards, hm sending work to out¦ pieces, where it is being ssder conditions recalling •Possible situation of many *ro¦ we are determined to Ro independent sweatshop Mther shop violating union ¦fc will be permitted to op| of Labor M. P.'s Canadian House Is iU to Trade Unions ptfweeks ago the three I ambers at Ottawa sent a Ml til tht trades unions in riving a summary of their m sad urging the necessity [•leal as well as industrial p*i the part of the unions Nats have been many and a an nave shown that the JUrt taking a real interest P*nl action...
...county funds...
...If twice $82,000,000 is raised it will mean only ten dollars for each distressed person and yet it is doubtful whether the original sum will be available...
...The latter was in New York a few years ago and met many Socialist comrades...
...This means that hunger is increasing...
...Socialist and genuine labor policies alone will inspire the laboring millions to march on to the conquest of power...
...Uriburu Jails 4 Socialists, _ In Argentine Dictator Also Suppresses Two Leading PartyNewspapers r[E situation facing the workers and Socialists in the Argentine Republic has been grave since General Uriburu ousted the old government by military force last year...
...MacAulay reviewed the history of* his organization, now with 30.0C0 members, and, he said, "increasing rapidly," and forecast that SO farmer members would be j it turned- at the next provincial election in Saskatchewan...
...The amalgamation baa ham brought about largely through the efforts of the Conference for Progressive Labor Action after months of negotiations between the two unions...
...They are clearly linked in Important respects...
...Multiply that figure to include the women and children and we have a total of 18,000,000 human beings facing hunger...
...A second resolution aimed to take away from the district executive board thf control over the distribution of assessment funds collected for relief purposes...
...You have rejected unemployment insurance legislation...
...We want to own the power trust before it completely owns us...
...Valuables are being pawned by workers in many cities to avoid being evicted for nonpayment of rent What is being done to meet the problems involved in this working class tragedy...
...What I said was, that in view of the fact that there are many individuals who find it impossible to function enthusiastically in existing parties, such as the Socialist and Communist, and because of criticisms which may legitimately be made of those parties as at present constituted, the question of the formation of a mtataat, peogreasive labor political organization should have serious consideration...
...Many "homes" will bt cheerless and cold for lack of heat...
...Then remember this fact: The cosf of relief the coming winter will exceed either of the two preceding years...
...I stated: The outlook is dark indeed unless revolutionary changes occur m existing labor organizations or new instrumentalities, political or otherwise, are speedily planned and built*" Hard Coal Fight May Go To the Courts Opposition to Boylan in District One May Contest Election By LOUIS STANLEY CRANTON, Pa.—Having demonstrated its overwhelming control of the biennial convention of Anthracite District No...
...More money must be on hand with less funds available from municipal and...
...At the time of going to press the long awaited report of the tellers covering the district election of June 11 baa not yet been reached...
...Coal is so sick an industry that nothing but socialization can cure it...
...Meantime in the neighboring nation of Chile the dictator, Ibanez, has been overthrown and this rev...
...i THE INFAMY OF OVR PRISON SYSTEM r?E Wlckersham tale of our penal system is a tale of infamy...
...They even suggested that the needed relief to the locals should be obtained at the next convention of the . International union...
...They charge that he has broken his early pre-revolution promise to hold early elections...
...He has closed the Radical Party's headquarters, ordered the deportation of some leading political opponents, and has barred all Irigoyenists (the former president's supporters) from running for office...
...In the last few months locals had failed to levy or turn into the district headquarters a relief assessment authorized by the executive board on the ground Hhat they did not have confidence that the board would hand out the money justly...
...How far win that $82,000,000 go if the full amount is raised...
...Great interest is manifested here in the movement in the lower anthracite led by John Dougherty of Bhamoktri for a trtdiatriet conference or convention which may launch a new anthracite union district from the United Mine Work era headed by John L. Lewis...
...Charles W. Erwin, Aumssens and others, b strike was called to enbst new agreement with the York Clothing Manufacturtxch&nre sad even more so mpel the independent sweatto sbaadon their sabotage -on itassards,'' said Mr...
...The Socialists had not been satisfied with the former regime, but Uriburu, whose main support has been in the capital of Buenos Aires, is apparently trying to establish a dictatorship...
...bay Meettegs Are Held ti the etflng of the strike, vrten ssaanbled in Webster Beethoven Hall, Stuyvesant :. Irrtng Plaxa and other a tst east side and listened tresses...
...According to it, so bad are our prisons that we may not truly apeak of punishment for crime but the crime of punishment...
...One resolution sought to strike from the present district constitution a paragraph giving the executive board "power from time to time to draft such rules and regulations for the government of the district and the carrying out of the agreement that are got provided in the constitution...
...The strike called by the Communist-dominated National Textile Workers Union has about 700 workers out The A. F. of L. unions "pulled" the workers of several Jaoquard shops on Wednesday...
...Now the masses must accept the hated charity of the rich, stinted and inadequate as it is, but the hour has struck for working class statesmanship...
...With knowledge of the revolution In Chile and most of the Argentine provinces against him, Uriburu is sitting on a volcano that may blow up at any moment Muste Denies Urging Forming of New Party A. J. Muste, chairman of the Coherence for Progressive L&iwr Action, was quoted in a number of papers tbJe week as calling for the formation of a new political party of labor, Muste was misquoted...
...In a leaflet distributed Tuesday, the C. P. L. A. condemned the interference of the Communist union in Paterson and called for a militant strike, It warned against "bogus settlements...
...They pointed out that looking to the international for help was evading the issue...
...or the Workers to Act * unemployment insurance in this country...
...In the course of the discussion Boylan asserted that obedience to the agreement with the operators was paramount Special conventions to call strikes were' undesirable...
...They should demand a higher levy upon inheritance taxes and incomes in the higher brackets to finance is not enough to keep one destitute family for one week...
...Under the agreement for amalgamation, which has been approved by the workers, the silk workers will form an autonomous federation within the N. T. W. A., comparable to the hosiery walkers' federation...
...Moreover, the revenue of the state and federal governments is on the decline...
...Ajnerica needs to catch and punish more of her criminals and crooks, especially the big ones...
...Your advice to the organized The Hour Has Come f We Socialists have been raising a danger signal for years...
...The old order of capitalism is bankrupt and so are- the politicians and parties that' serve it The Socialist Party is here as the agency to win redemption for the hungry millions of workers...
...Their defeat on questions which seemed to them to be clearly beneficial' to the rank and file made them realize that there was no hope of convincing any delegates dominated by Boylan...
...the Civil Service 1 <fct Big Union...
...Former President Alessandri was ousted late in 1924 but as he had strong working class sympathies there has been a powerful undercurent of opposition to Ibanez which culminated in the overthrow of the latter last week...
...In the short run it makes workers insecure and Jobless—we eat in the short run...
...These proposals were voted down by the Boylan delegates...
...W. C. Montrose, New York Socialist, is alao active in aiding the strike...
...Maloney, Kostrella, Davis and others on their side argued that the district office had more than enough to satisfy its reasonable needs, while locals wan suffering from lack of funds in defending the men's grievances and in supplying relief to the needy...
...The provinces are seething with discontent and Uriburu has distributed army detachments to guard against a revolution...
...Alessandrl is returning from exile to Chile...
...Dan' iel has been notably successful in aiding labor in Philadelphia...
...Boylan will probably be declared duly elected by the convention majority in watch cam Maloney, who claims the ejection, wilt bring the whole matter into the courts...
...Now the calamity we foresaw is gathering elemental sweep, and, to repeat, hell is around the corner...
...You have opposed other forms of social legislation except old age pensions...
...f L. Must Shoulder workers is for them to "see to it that the only limit on private charity and the appropriation of public funds for the relief of the jobless shall be the provision of a decent living standard for all unemployed workers and their family dependents...
...It is less than five dollars for each of these 18,000,000 hungry men, women and children...
...Ifeis no exaggeration to say that hell is around the corner...
...Hillman, Norman a J. Sehlossberg, secretarykr of the Amalgamated...
...the bulk of the striking n will return to work wits ptag of the new agreement, WEB represent in most points ml of the old conditions rest wages, hours and working resents, about 10,000 wfll n en strike against the indent shops...
...But the community chests and similar organizations will make a national drive in October for $82,000,000 for winter relief work...
...The proposed financial reform was rejected on roU call by a vote of 460% to Possible Court Action An anti-administration amendment tried to alter the constitution so that the district executive board would "be compelled to call a special convention upon the request of twenty locals...
...A committee of Labor and Farmer representatives had a mandate "to formulate a campaign for the abolition of capitalism and its replacement by a system of production for use and human welfare...
...Olution comes at a time that is embarrassing to the Argentine dictator...
...To Quit Begging Responsibility of Unions to Unemployed Must Bring Powerful Movement to Make Rick Disgorge — Jobless Aid Should Come from Higher Taxes on Wealthy 'KAfINTER is approaching, more of the jobless will be hungry, and men, women and children will be ill-clad...
...Six hundred workers from 29 shops Joined the strike even before the strike was) scheduled...
...Daniel to Paterson At the request Of the Paterson silk strikers, the Socialist party of Philadelphia has loaned its organizer, Franz Daniel, to the strike for a period of three weeks...
...In 1929 about 60 pet cent of the cost of direct family relief in 100 representative cities was paid out of public funds...
...This is tat Ssat effort of the amalgamation of the Associated WO* Workers and the U. T. W. A which is expected to build one union m the silk industry...
...The anti-administration forces led by Thomas Maloney, who claims his election to the district presidency was stolen by Boylan, put up a battle on each of their resolutions, although they have declared that the convention has been packed against them...
...What are you going to do, you labor chieftains, when you meet to face tins situation on August 6? A heavy responsibility faces you...
...W. Wins' jfrt Strike pew York ^pendent" Shops j g] Be Forced to i # Union Standards J UtrJke of the clothing workm » the New Tork district a. leadership of the Amai. QotiilDg Workers of ?S 100% successful, the [ jcciut...
...This week Uriburu took strong measures to keep in power as it is evident that a majority- is opposed to him in most of the provinces...
...A picketing organization has been set up and is working smoothly...
...The world Bitter Prospects CailOnA.Ro/t...
...You assert that a "dole" is degrading to workers...
...There is special need to begin socialisation with coal mines, electric power and railroads...
...We submit the following facts drawn from the A. F. of L. news service: Corporation "Charily" Funds Witt Fall Short In the first four months of 1931 the cost of relief for the /obiess was about 75 per cent of the total for 1930...
...From Winnipeg comes the news that A. J. MacAulay, president of the United Farmers, of Canada, addressing the Western Labor Conference, predicts that Saskatchewan Province will have the first Socialist Government in Cawarts...
...They had refused to answer the Communist strike call...
...The , , ureec to that during the fcjTflf the struggle, a, tht employers in the bossEm sign the agreement gj so and 60% of the workI return to the shop...
...At the present time the board may use its own Judgment in calling such a convention warn it is asked for by five locals...
...HEADERS of The New Leader missed something fine, sincere and beautiful if they missed in last week's issue Sam De Witt's tribute to the splendid worker and Socialist, his father...
...The prospects of a rump convention to discuss the possibility of establishing a separate anthracite union loomed larger...
...Hkdeck, manager of The L'Daily forward...
...The advocates of this measure hoped to convince Boylan's supporters of the necessity tar this ensure...
...The anti-adminlstrationists wanted to give the locals wider latitude in acting as they saw fit irrespective of the Wishes of the district offices...
...3,000 Strike In Paterson SilkMills Picket Lines Formed in Jersey-C P. L. A. Denounces Communist Union w-^ATgRSON, N. J.—Three thouJ; sand silk workers responded to the strike call of the Joint action committee representing the Associated Silk Workers and the United Textile Workers of America and 80% of the shops in Paterson will soon be shut down by the strike, strike leaders say...
...Tjece H then begin paying S% g wages as strike Cues to p other strikers in the long jtur struggle expected with agtsbops...
...Hlllla »sAMunciTig that a new ¦est with the organized fsetartrs would bi signed, naion has fought for thirty igtihit the sweatshop and fet maintenance of decent ig condiUoas...
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...On the convention floor Boylan and his associates declared the money was needed to employ doctors and engineers to defend the miners, their wives, end children, their widows and orphans in disputes that arise from time to tuna...
...DViconteat in Provinces Uriburu has answered by closing two leading Socialist papers and has Jailed four leading Socialists, Repetto, Bravo, Ghloldi and Dickman...
...The speakers inI Mr...
...Other resolutions attempted to reform the election machinery by requiring the secretary-treasurer to inform locals when their nomination papers an defective so that these might be corrected, by reducing the number of endorsements for nomination from seven to three in the ease of board members and from fifteen to five in other instances, and by extending the time for filing endorsements from eight weeks prior to an election to twelve weeks...
...Another amendment asks that the request of fifteen locals should make a special convention mandatory...
...Louis fen...
...It A Task the A. F. o. The Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor meets on August 6. We present this analysis of the situation to its members and ask a few questions...
...Answers have !*» unions affiliated with ¦Wtean Federation of Lab•OftwB of Running Trades, j*1**" Brotherhood of RailPrWfeee...
...Looks big, doesrA it...
...Every ¦was represented, except JwwsM Island...
...Last April the Socialist Party increased its representation in province of Buenos Aires from 4 to 8 but Uriburu Illegally postponed the meeting of newly elected bodies till November...
...Controversial Resolutions " The anti-administration group brought in resolutions aiming to reduce the power of the district office and to eliminate corruption...
...Much of the money raised through these chests came from workers who were coerced into making contributions by corporations...
...A third resolution attempted to remove from the constitution a prohibition upon the calling of meetings of representatives of local unions without the permission of the district officials and a fourth forbade local unions to elect representatives to attend meetings of any character except when regularly called by the international or district office...
...Our capitalist politicians and professional charity workers are playing with fire...
...Between 80,000 iaX> sre cot ,050 ssasesUd an agree- , ags the organized bosses <j sous at the end of the Lrf the strike...
...There we are, cap in hand,, in vast numbers asking for the hated dole with the certainty that even from this source the Hunger of millions of men, women, and children will not be appeased...
...Will they wait till the hungry run wild and raid the stores before they understand that hell is around the corner...
...The results'of the District 1 convention have put the miners in the upper anthracite in a mood mere rswei feats than ever to an mdmsfiilinil hard coal miners' union...
Vol. 13 • August 1931 • No. 5
