Is This a System
IS THIS a SYSTEM World-wide Breakdown of Capitalism Shown in News Despatches—Labor, Chief Victim, Must OrganizeHEADLINES in the daily press any day. make a continuous indictment of the...
...Labor Urges A.F.of L. Act on Jobless Central L a b o r Union Wants Federation to Act More Effectively (Br • !•*» L—*f OrrM*«iiirat> PHILADELPHIA...
...Wakefield has been arrested on the same charge...
...If these rumors should be verified the cause win not be with Pennsytvanians, but with agitators from other states...
...Holly Weingar Drivers Vote Strike Against Wage Cut CHICAGO...
...They are Inspired by the Socialist message of liberation from the economic hell into which humanity has been plunged...
...This is our state and we Penney rvanians propose to run It along the tradition of William Penn...
...This ad- ( nlesion coming from Morrow is ( mportaat as the Mellon interests ' pecially installed him at the head 1 if the great coal corporation in 1 927 to attempt to make the cantern pay by breaking with the JMWA and leading in the attack hat drove the miners' union out if the industry in Pennsylvania, 1 )hio...
...Another group clinging to another layer Juj above these consist of the small merchants, ston keepers and others generally classified as th "middle class...
...Evicted Mother, Baby Die in West Virginia...
...Governor Pinchot's only contribution to the solution of the present breakdown in coal has been to send all available members of the state cossacks force into the area, none of whom are Quakers as far as is known...
...She had already been released on 92,000 ball when Sheriff Blair remarked, "she is going to stay in Jail until she rots...
...They all make up an extensive layer...
...Pinchot Says Other News from the Coal Strike Fronts in Three States By ARTHt'B G. MncDOWEIX N*» twhf C » • • « • •» FTTSBURGH, Pa...
...The workers have every interest in organising to abolish it...
...Delegates to the centra...
...A ruling class that cannot ever guarantee to feed the victims that serve it doe* not measure, up to what the slave owners of th< South did for the Negro bondmen.Not that Socialists would be satisfied with tindegrading alms of the exploiting class...
...These cultivators have been the victims of terrible exploitation for decades...
...The owners and ruler possess the newspapers, the radio, and the mage zines...
...The- speakers included leading Socialists and representatives of th* Young People Socialist League which extended its fullest cooperation to the Party...
...On West Virginia Plea New York police have probed the activities of the League of Industrial Democracy and Norman Thomas, its director...
...Chauffeurs and Helpers Union haw voted to strike against a reduction in their pay by the city...
...It is estimated that the increase will bring them from 40 to 60 million dollars extra loot for a year...
...winter of worker starvation...
...China -which has been tbe scene of civil wars is facing famine and pestilence...
...Mayor Cermak has decided to give them only four days work a week as an economy measure...
...Is the L. L D. Communist...
...Major Lynn Adams, bead of the state cossackry,' has dared to come forth with the proposal that the number of men in bis army be increased from around 400 to 2.000 at the annual cost of 16,000.000 per year during the present coal strike...
...called by tfss i pressers and m ed the hall Ing as chairman, i ing...
...make a continuous indictment of the capitalist system and its governing agents all over the world...
...From the Argentine' Republic north to the border of Mexico tbe Latin American republics are involved in the universal distress., We select one Item for this region...
...Because of chaotic conditions in this field, it is requested the funds for relief be mailed to Emergency Committee for Strikers' Relief, 112 East lBth street, New York City, N., Y., designated for the Kentucky area...
...In Harlan, Arnold Johnson, s young Socialist, and Mrs...
...The chairman of the meeting was Herman Woekow...
...Here are th owners of mines and oil fields...
...president of thi union, expresses satisfaction witl the coarse of the strike and seei encouraging signs of success...
...nr>HE Boy*f^?[ JL Blouse Wcxajjj the Shirt HakstsTf with the Worken of a call for a the trade ta The can sera and resorted to in i to continuous tiona of the of most of the _ Hundreds of aafl shops to parUdgS ins...
...P"*t...
...KryzcM « importance of on the part of ta* I that it is union agrees**** tkt * must be mad* a) I n *»' Artonl reach the ing it lm to play against ously at ready meager Phila...
...become a pocket borough of American bankers and even in normal periods the poverty of tbe Indian workers is revolting...
...The law is theirs The court decisions are theirs...
...The speakers were Henry Pruchter, Jean Jacques Coronet, Louis Handia...
...The layoff came as a surprise to the perplexed mechanics, particularly since only three weeks ago newspapera in Philadelphia carried headlines saying "1,800 Hen Will Get Jobs •! VtitlOIJBmWtllin!^ Workers' Buying Power Is Cut Nine Billions WASHINGTON.—(TP) —Buying power of American workers win be tun* billion dollars less, this year, than in 1980...
...The doctor who attended her at the birth of the child said It had been Injured by the assault...
...At the walked out la per cent wage eft has imported Picket lines are but no* a slngts turned to work, Indiana Fc Old Age TERRE HAUTf, ' Veto of the lads** si on bill by Ooverasf 1 was scathingly " invention of " federation of Wage cuts vera also dea tratlon mapped s rrsm to mstntftH <"* President T. % Haute, led the -*elie...
...What this means fcjr the cot ten tenant farmers cannot be described In words...
...CAPITALISM ROTTEN-RIPE And all this wealth, all this economic and po litlcal power, rests upon the consent of the mil lions living in tbe lower levels of society...
...They own and control two parties an...
...I was denied counsel for hours and was not advised of the framed-up charge against me until I was released on bail after 10 hours in jail...
...The present Governor is known as a particular advocate of the state police...
...Moreover, ten of sixteen trusts show a gain in asset value in the month of June...
...The Bolivian Congress opens amid gloom...
...It will be your victory when this great battl For Strikers...
...charged the Clifton police arranged a vicious frame-up...
...Acting under request of the chief of police of Charleston,- W . Taw headquarters of the strike of the West Virginia Mine Workers Union, one of Tammany's detectives called at L. I. D, headquarters and put Mrs...
...Its most important feature was the appointment of a committee to wait upon the executive commits* of the A . F. of L in session at Atlantic City and urge them to agitate for a special session of Congress for th* purpose of greatly increasing relief and to float an emergency loan of at least three billion dollars to finance a widespread program of public works...
...It Is your causa...
...F P ) — The Sanitary Teamsters...
...With their heels in the faces of these wretched farmers the tobacco kings propose to increase the price of CIGARETTES...
...As a consequence the workers need their own political parly, their own representatives committed to the responsibility of carrying out a Socialist program...
...doing in West Virginia...
...The Governor said: "There are rumors flying on the possibility or disorder during tiM» coming winter...
...New York police have more important tasks in running down the gangsters who recently shot five little children on the streets of the city, he suggested, than Investigating organizations whose policies and leaders are well known in the community...
...A bloodstained payslip found ii ClimoVs pocket showed that f01 his last two weeks' work he* earne< 91AM, loading 46 tons at SO cent a ton...
...The above group of headlines present a study in this chaos and conflict...
...WHEAT and CORN have made such a descent in the price level that any further decrease can add little to the despair of the tillers of the soU...
...Roma, the N M W mlnci whose home was totally destroyed was active In the popular agitatior that recently forced local government officials to recall their action commissioning a former coal and Iron policeman as a special policeman to guard the Pittsburgh coaJ mine...
...1 The Pittsburgh coal company Is 1 low producing coal at the lowest 1 init cost in history but is still 1 inable to pay dividends...
...Tlgnfflnrt by observers that the majority of those who will be asked to bear the burdens of future capitalist wars...
...Chris Devitta's baby Is dead...
...Eighty surety companies have refused to post ball for Johnson...
...IS THIS a SYSTEM World-wide Breakdown of Capitalism Shown in News Despatches—Labor, Chief Victim, Must OrganizeHEADLINES in the daily press any day...
...8. Aid Announcement of the Mellon Pittsburgh Coal Company and the United States Carnegie Coal, two largest concerns in the district, that these two Bourbon operators seek Federal aid through regulation of the coal industry, is the :oal news of the week...
...Governor Pinchot is caned on for a special session of th* State Legislature and the State Federation of Labor is urged to do all within its power to brirg pressure on the Governor to can 0 special session...
...A little above them are the wage workers who have been able to bold on to a Job, the small farm owners who still have a stake in the land sx can raise foodstuffs for themselves...
...It will not work...
...The low price of cotton literally reduces him to a mudsill and how he and his family can live at all is a mystery...
...H Go on Others (Br a New Lata* PHILADELPHIA, * ] against wage cuts • tbe ranks of Phllae* The local union of 1 Hatters of strike in one development of tlmsnt in the two the city...
...Wages in the tobacco factories are notoriously low and the cost of tobacco to the kings has declined from 17.0 to 12.2 cents a pound...
...Many workers Joined the parade, asking for the privilege of carrying the placards which expressed the demands of the working class...
...Over 200 more evictions havi been granted the coal company, effective in ten days...
...Thousands of them live a pr< carious existence and they .fight a losing battl to prevent being hurled into the layer below...
...This little republic has...
...Irate citizens of the Elizabeth township forced the supervisors to revoke all special officers commissions...
...their politicians, Republican and Democratic Through these parties they control the municipal state and federal governments...
...t While sporadic bombings that imaged never to do any barm or a eriouaiy injure any one and bore t tl the marks of the "agent prove- f itsur" have been constantly taking n lace in such a way as to cast p tspidlen on the strike leadership * remained for unknown forces to tl mjpleteH- wreck the house of a n ationaj Miners Union leader near a w Warden mine of the Pittsburgh o >al Company and Injure seriously may die...
...President J. D. A. Mor•ow of the Pittsburgh Coal, has < stated that it is useless to discuss ' rages until the fundamental evil 1 rl overproduction Is cured...
...They own: they rule...
...Vincent Bilotta, another member of tbe relief committee, has been booked on a charge of "criminal syndicalism,'' but is at liberty pending trial, and is continuing relief activities...
...The cases of Budenz and the 14 others arrested with him were transferred to a Peterson court and Recorder John F. Schmidt changed the charge from disturbing tbe peace te loitering, at the same time raising th* bail from 125 to tIM each A group of prominent New York' and New Jersey writers, churchmen and others win form a picket line at tbe Doherty mills in Clifton in protest against the police terror...
...AB has been watches and turkajs, vicious speed-Bp duced...
...the fact of utter starvation to which hit own.investi gators attributed the present strike, and loaded tbe responsibility on the hoary ecapc coat, of "outside agitators...
...Upon their backs rest the weight of exploitation...
...Included In the group of 15 A. F. of L. strikers who were arrested when Clifton police tried to forbid strikers the right to enter that suburb, were Louis F. Budenz, executive director of the A. F. of L. forces in the strike, and W. C. Montross, Socialist, who...
...STEEL has been always considered tbe "barometer of industry" and tbe ingot output was on tbe toboggan in July...
...body concurred unanimously with a resolution introduced by Harry Haines...
...Navy Yard PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—(TP)— I*r*e hundred men were furioughed indefinitely end many others were forced off for from three to six days in a sudden mystery layoff at the League Island Navy Yard...
...All over the world the working masses aire obtaining more sad more power as the shadow* dose around this decaying system...
...I t is under the direction of Mary Fox, executive secretary of the L. I. D. 'It has of course worked closely with the union and is enthusiastically on its side in its struggle against serfdom and starvation," Thomas told the cops...
...Wages for bavs fallen to frs_ week...
...The Emergency Com mlttee for Strikers' Relief has transmitted $8,000 during the last month for men, women and chil dren who would be foodless and homeless save for the inadequate help their friends have been able to send," A copy of the letter was sent the curious chief of police of Charleston...
...What is the L. I. D...
...The Socialist Party calls to the workers of this country to join it and fight for this liberation...
...Three weeks ago a constable kicked Mrs...
...At the top of the social pyramid is a laye small in numbers but mighty in wealth and pov, er...
...We may be sure that the smaller players arc holding the bag and that the great gamblers at the top of the heap are not losing any sleep...
...This is the second time Mrs...
...A company employs is the Ware postmaster...
...The Penn-Ohio Relief n Jommittee and the Socialist party j liners' fund are the sole agencies s ttempting to aid the miners and e upport for the work of both of n hese funds comes almost exclu- i, tvely from outside of the Pitts- t urgh district and largely from „ utside the state...
...It is announced...
...They were not per mitted to go to the post office foi their mail until they complainec to the postal authorities who ordered the post office moved awaj from company headquarters...
...This should be visualized with poverty-stricken tobacco growers in the background...
...It is rotting and it is shaken al over the world...
...The item regarding the closing of banks is only one out of hundreds of its kind...
...Note the item on TOBACCO...
...They reveal a conflict of forces, trends and contradictions that could not be more chaotic if they were deliberately planned...
...Both Johnson and Wakefield have been told by authorities they would be released if they would leave Kentucky...
...Note the other items that tell the story of power and loot by the ruling class...
...The baby lived six hours...
...It was) considered highly...
...Curai briefly _ ships which the Boys' Blouse Wa du>-« because employers union agreement I a few pennies already low process of ^bundles to union shops...
...Isidose Pfclstem...
...The working people of the nation have in the Socialist movement an agency for taking over the powers that are used against them...
...It is your fight...
...This committee will keep In touch with the situation and see that funds are properly spent by whatever agency in Kentucky can keep out of the clutches of the capitalist authorities of the region...
...The kings wax fat while tobacco growers and tobacco workers vegetate in misery...
...Locally the labor movement demanded the appropriation of more money than the three million now" available to help relieve suffering durirg th* coming winter...
...a speech to officers of the Pennsylvania National Guard at thsir 3ummer encampment ignoreJ...
...recalling rave economy...
...It gained momentum, increasing its sire, as it passed street-corner meetings which adjourned immediately so that the audiences could Join th* ranks of the marchers...
...Turning nla back on all Mi previous utterances of aympathy for striking miners of Western Pennsylvania the "liberal" Governor ir...
...Their arrests followed a raid by sheriffs deputies on the home of Tees Huff, Socialist and correspondent for Federated Press, where it was stated "communistic" literature belonging to Johnson was found...
...Stetson Stetson has...
...Along the line of march, workers thronged the streets or looked from their windows, studying the placards carried by the Socialists...
...In the holy realm of the STOCK MARKET the value of July shares shrunk almost three billions...
...Rags and poverty are normal features of their lives...
...Pittsburgh with the ghastly j alsery at its front door pictured i laily in the public press remains , m responsive to appeals to its sym...
...MO Evictions Ordered A sweeping injunction obtainet by the Kelly's Creek Colliery Com pany at...
...More than a thousand persons extended around the speakers' platform to bear the Socialist massage...
...We merely point out that our ruling class themselves an unable to get their own house in order and thai their system condemns millions of the workers to destitution and hunger...
...The Mellon ihd United States Steel interests intend to present to the Secretary >f Commerce plan for purchase of ilgb cost mines and undeveloped nine lands by the Federal governnent, these to be added to the na- , Jonal domain as a coal reserve, : enabling the present principal op- < srators to again operate at a genline profit That the plan is fairly : :omplete in the minds of the opirators is shown by the fact that he- round sum 'of $25,000,000 is ' ruggested as necessary to meet the leeds of Western Pennsylvania's ndustry...
...The capitalistic system is a shocking failure...
...The adminlstra tion of the police powers is in their hands...
...if wages con,Unue for the remainder of the year at their present level, William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, 'declares two worker., member, of the AmtJ gamated Clothing Worker, o America, ere picketing tndependen •hop* which have been aendinj work to out-of-town sweatshop* Several more shops have Joinei tbe Manufacturers Exchange am thus automatically settled with thi union, while several other shop have settled independently...
...Hosiery Union delegate and candidate for city council on the Socialist and Independent Labor party tickets...
...We propose to handle our own affairs to a peaceful stud orderly manor no matter who attempts to incite diaorder among our people...
...It is decaying...
...The workers , choice, concludes Tbe workers win L til the employers senses and give i dence of their i the union agr Cursi was Krzycki who spot* ft...
...workers, young sad old, marched behind the banners and placards of the Socialist Party...
...Protests Are Made The National Miners Union has denounced the announced plan of the liberal executive...
...i Deputy sheriffs have arreate< Superintendent Irvln Hill of tt» Amelia Coal Quiiifsraj', era tb charge of assault with intent tt kill Andy Climov, a etrtlrfng mine of Blakely...
...The resolution further called upon tbe A. F. of L. officials to work out concrete plans for more militant action against wage cuts...
...That pyramid with its layers of human bemgi is capitalism...
...Her automobile, carrying food and clothing to poverty-stricken miners* famines, was dynamited in Harlan recently...
...The job of wresting power from those, who now have it and using it to make industry serve us Instead of serving fat millionaires is t h e greatest task in all history...
...Of this, $12.40 bad bed checked off by the company foi various items, leaving $1.40...
...Thomas wrote a lettter to Police Commissioner Mulrooney protesting-vigorously against this "espionage and covert intimidation...
...a •thles...
...At the base of the social pyramid are those who have-no Jobs, those who are hungry, and those who are so ill-paid in normal times that life is one of chronic destitution...
...Ward prevents the officers, members and associates o: the West Virginia Mine Worken from trespassing or congregating in the camp, interfering by intiml elation or violence with present oi future employes of the company or "otherwise obstructing or inter fering with the operations oi mines, railroad, tipples or othei property.'* The strikers are now not aiiowet to sing or display placards on tin picket lines...
...M. V. Is Criticized Defense of the National Miners' Union's right to peaceful meetings in the face of attacks by lawless officials is made difficult by the union's act in breaking up a meeting of the United Mine Workers in Canonsburg, Pa., the American Civil Liberties Union points out in a letter to N. M. U. officials In Pittsburgh...
...A WORLD-WIDE BREAKDOWN The informed man and woman know of the terrible privations that face the workers in Europe so we have omitted headlines referring to that part of tbe world...
...West Virginia and Kentucky...
...Those who possess it and wbc dominate it have made the most miserable fail' ure in all history...
...Here are th owners of railroads and great industries...
...A new merger of trusts is just around the corner in the UTILITIES field...
...Join now...
...Haines* resolution Involved tgitation for local, state and national action for th* unemployed...
...mm nliift, wtaflo goo ;lan people were worshippia pasture where the tent colony o jerrlead stTf*Mrsrjfc s ^ •iwlifl U Hugheston is a .and there is no place there fa strikers' babies...
...Devitta and threw her to the floor when she objected to being thrown out of her house at Hugheston with her two little children and all the household furniture at the order of tbe Hugheston Gas Coal Company...
...Huberman of the.staff there through a thorough examination...
...Capitalist society has produced human layers...
...On July 28, the Civil Liberties Union voiced a protest against the breaking up of the Canonsburg meeting on July 19, calling that action a "wholly unjustified attack...
...These and many other things Charleston cops and Tammany cops wanted to know...
...Tbe parade, lad by a brass bend, suited at 908 Prospect Avenue, the headquarters of th* Socialist Party of the Bronx...
...Afore Socialists Jailed For Aiding Ky...
...Wakefield is also held on tbe same charge...
...He stressed workers and union who warned the illegal practice, were followed by { than two months avail...
...Even in periods of normal "prosperity" the cotton grower has been nearest to the low European peasant level than any other rural worker...
...Gioacchino Artoat Italian...
...Bj a Maw l i t l a Corjr»pondent CHARLESTON, W. V a —Mrs...
...With the greatest part of it membership back at work, Um union is assessing its employee members 5 per cent of their week:3 earnings to continue the strike Sidney Hillman...
...We know already such agitators have been attempting to make trouble, but we do not believe they will succeed...
...for one of the great capitalist" concei its employes m Profit sharing problems for aB were also gives and the like at helped to keep _ the depression...
...The Immediate cause of the oops' activities apparently was the labor Chautauqua which the L. L D. sent to Charleston...
...Walls the operators are seeking » l subsidy and Federal protection rem the results of their own sins a mismanaging the industry, the 0 triking miners continue their.bit- 1 er struggle against starvation un- a ided...
...However, if they succeed, I shall have bo hesitancy caling out the Pennsylvania National Guard, providing of course, their services shall be required by the scope of tbe emergency...
...i j k mnne™ occupy a central picture la tne headlines with the economic storm raging- about them...
...V . y . Cops Probe LJ.D...
...Onci that consent Is withdrawn the whole pyramid wil crumble sad the kings at the top will come dowi from their places of power...
...Chaos and confusion, prostration and concentre- • tion of capital at one pole of society and general unemployment and hunger at the other pole...
...Their vast numbers make them invincible wheti they display a solidarity of interest sad organization...
...Jesse Wakefield, representative of the Civil Liberties Union, have been arrested on charges of criminal syndicalism...
...BACK TO MUDSILLS Tor eight successive days COTTON declined in price and registered new low levels...
...David Kaplan, Aaron Levenstein, Abe Belsky, A. I. Shiplacoff, James Qneal...
...We were asserting our right to picket peacefully," said Budenz, "and they clubbed us when I protested that we Hesired arrest if we were committing any offense...
...Miners (Br s Naar Leader Cerrespandcst) EVART8, Ky.—For distributing food and clothes to striking miners, W. H . Mahan and Allen Keedy, local Socialists, have been charged with "inciting to riot" and forced to leave Evarts...
...Huff was brought to Jail but not held...
...Bronx Anti War Parade Rallies On Anniversary of World War Outbreak THE Bronx County Socialist Party marked the anniversary of the outbreak of the World W a r last Saturday night by staging an anti-militarist demonstration at Prospect and Longwood AvenuesIt was preceded by a parade in which hundreds of...
...Climoi is a bachelor or he would be ii debt to the company...
...The economic slump is acute in this republic as in others in that part of the world So here is a picture of the capitalist world told in the headlines clipped from the New York Times...
...Phila...
...During the evening, the speakers pointed out that wars were brought about in -the interests of the capitalist class despite the fact that the will and intentions of the people were peaceful...
...Here are the financial masters of the work Here are the trust and merger magnates in all ance with the financial masters...
...China, that vast nation that has been in part looted by the imperialist powers of the world...
...The workers demand that they be employed at least five days a week, pointing out that other etty em500 in Mystery Layoff At Phila...
...To keep their pyrami from crumbling they try to keep the lower layer content in their misery...
...Bin is out on Jl.OO bond until his hearing on tbe 11th A John Doe warrant is also on for the company guard who begai the attack...
...I f the executive committee of the A. F. of L. pays heed to tbe Central Labor Union of Philadelphia and vicinity, organized labor will adopt a new policy on the problem of unemployment...
...However, we select two from other world areas of human misery...
...The PennsylvaniaOhio Relief Committee joined in tbe statement, bitterly attacking the Governor's sudden ignorance of starvation and misery...
...Msr* than est attending fsgulsr meetings sad a pected at any same situation Sohoble plant...
...Operators Want 17...
...Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania, reputed "Progressive," h u announced that be will sail out the state militia to quell any diaorder during com Let...
...52 Strikers Are Arrested In Paferson Budenz and Montrose Alliens Pickets Taken in Silk Walkout -jr^ATERSON, N. J.—Two nonJl labor reporters were beaten up on tbe picket line at the Henry Doherty silk mills in Clifton, N. J., where a reign of terror culminated in two major clashes and the arrest of 52 strikers who attempted to picket the mills...
Vol. 13 • August 1931 • No. 7
