Open Letter to President Hoover
Open Letter to President Hoover Do You Know What Your Nation-Wide Doles Mean for the Jobless and the Hungry Masses? npO MR. HERBERT HOOVER, President of the United Stales. "^La7lTHIN a few...
...Fall of Labor Government Brings New Alignment In The British Labor Party Only Four Labor Members in Emergency Ministry Which Faces Opposition by Laborites—Labor Organ Charges Coercion by New York Bankers—Henderson Probably New Labor Party ^Leader—No Split in Labor Party Likely By The Editor r?E fan of the Labor Government of Great Britain is the biggest event in labor history this year although It was not unexpected...
...The elm shaded streets of the old E j|'through which I drove were far lovelier and f lEj?J*** the beauty we Inherit from our ancestors...
...F?d?ration of Labor which is placed at one million...
...Its policy with reference to social legislation became increasingly unsatisfactory to the workers who made their dissatisfaction known...
...They must report from time to time regarding their distress...
...I . L. P. Issues Statement TH3 Independent Labor party has issued a statement to all its branches...
...proved a too el?assl The tunnel mes Msj they also rasisi M mand for their JM thdr opportunity 111 pay and shorts» Ml be ripe...
...For months the Labor government I ~~ has been drifting dangerously to the •?^ I right...
...President, between your degrading - and insufficient private doles and social legislation that guarantees against the hateful charity of your-smellers and smuggers...
...The opinion „ of the trade unions, at any rate, - will be that in resigning office rather than carrying out drastic economies at the expense of the unemployed, which other parties have endeavored to impose, the Ministen who biave resigned have acted as Labor Ministers.would be expected to act by the labor movement...
...When the Labor government came into office the number of the unemployed registered was 1,112.792 and this increased by 500.000 in March, 1930, but the increase was not an actual increase in the number of the jobless...
...He would know that when he had work be had made a small contributie» *JP UnTSfilfnl ' IK*M8H...
...7. No victimisation of any worker who went out on strike...
...Including housing, on a very large scale...
...You appoint sixty citizens to advise Walter S. Gifford, president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, who heads your unemployment relief organization...
...It also emphastres (be estime te of the number of the unemployed to New York State by th...
...Franklin D. Roosevelt, Albany, New York...
...There is the issue, Mr...
...Iati get busy...
...Though comparatively mild in form, this statement is taken as expressing ? condemnation of the d?cision of MacDonald and other Ministers who have chosen to enter th...
...It is a blow to British prestige equalled only in recent history by the terms of the Versailles Treaty...
...states while the state and the employer* would nato' coaoj&fc In some states the employers and the state alone woatt jsajn*ja» the unemployment insurance fund.' * \? Our Program Again* Yimr* l^ fr But, however the fund may be established, t h e w w n WW no smuggers representing charity mongers invading the worker's home and subjecting him to a degrading inquisition...
...On Sundays—this Sunday in particu' ^jlf Workmen's Circle came from miles around to j^KL**Jer*tloa in the Circle even under capitalism they n I ^ - *n*t beauty of the great outdoors which all work- gC M n P impressed me the more because I had driven j ^ ffut...
...In other words, Mr...
...T h e hnmediste need," the report declares, "te for an active, nonpartisan citizens' group in each city to assume responsibility for planning how to meet the unemployment emergency...
...4. Sight hours from camp to camp...
...In a radio address on Tuesday MacDonald put his case before the country...
...The I. L. P. statement says: "With the formation of a national government under the leadership of Ramsay MacDonald, the attack on social services and on wages enten on a new intensified phase...
...The seals of relief in many cities last year was dangerously low...
...Then cassa the report of the economic committee headed by Str George May, which declared the nation's finances to be in a deplorable condition and called for a drastic reduction of expenditures to meet an estimated deficit of $600,000,000 on the next budget...
...In view of the fact that the U ?- Ooverr.m»at vJ^l Six Compta» l s Jl breakers and tlsts jSJ protection (hi gh^H vote the f . r . t t fetek J asc o o r . i f c a > -i ca;:ir.g ov...
...They and their families must be cared for...
...Have you figured it out...
...The demands are as follows...
...An inspired dispatch from Washington calls it your "relief plan for the Winter...
...No private enterprise in sight can fill this role...
...You are class ensweions for your daas...
...President, your methods consign millions of workers to the worst type of degrading pauper relief...
...We urge them to insist on taxing the fat fortunes of the idle rich to help pay for it This is "socialistic" and the Sod*** Party it likjwd tkit program...
...A few weeks later Thomas returned to the position of Secretary of State for the Dominions, the post he had held in the first Labor administration...
...By an emergency law on rours of labor imposing an industry generally the five day week and the six hour day which has been endorsed in theory by notable engineers and repeatedly urged by labor bodies...
...Sir Oswald Mosley objected that the Cabinet would not endorse his schemes for dealing with unemployment on a grand scale and resigned his Ministry...
...As though to rub salt into oupwounds you select the chief of one of the most powerful exploiting corporations in this country to head the swarm of smuggcrs who will impose their insolence upon us in the privacy of our homes...
...Hence K-meat financial crisis hit it, the bankers were able to pet scheme of making the poor pay for the follies of l^^Btt economy program with "equality of sacrifice" 'KimA foremost that a family of four.now receiving ST.20 Eatoyment indemnity will get $6.48: And the coalition Kyrfn not and cannot make up for this by any funaaBnet to socialization, planned production and disarmafSfor this that the Mac Donald who opposed the World YjCGRESSlVE LABOR PARTY •Cuaing to the cloud—and it is a very genuine silver B_a that now we can hope to have again a more aggreeKt party in Britain...
...He is-to reorganize relief and coordinate the work of various relief agencies...
...Unemj ployment Insurance ' legislation should, of course, be enacted t-ough It can hardly meet the existing crisis...
...How will their needs be satisfied...
...the WSSHA3 at an opportun, taal mands ar« not secete 1 Most c the datathe living coaslssniZ rected although ^ dared so by ta* g,, Demani number tax living condition...
...This law can be sustained in the courts by the same reasoning which applied to emergency rent legislation, "2...
...Ha declared that the...
...Cold water Is t»al frigidaires, which «31 Department of 1*23 Tb« demand fer i J board was occsskeslfl that many men stoei forced, by tht' bassi their day v u arrisa J meals and a inaia «s M this they were «gessa ceded to, JIJ» a i l rate for all TirnibsgjM the number of asll they must est While tbs Six COsjB] any violation of Stasi t i : workers knew tag was a bald-faced fat time mine jupeetes Nevada and Arises* job conducting ta | The Departnast at I sentative was ghee by strike committal sSJ examples of mhriaf hi which occurred is 8j knowledge sal etpn promised a Uwrs&gBM The streggk te FAI federal lnvadgtoot sfl The wags eat of N » pa forty per oast of ibi toni remains JJNeVst sad g ment as te ateista* of I been reads...
...X^*Vn*ck to these meetings...
...It is Est he win try to raise the paltry sum of 125,000,000 by •Macco (which is the workers' solace) and cosmetics...
...When a workman takes out a book is he the receiver of a dole ? Thousands of hospitals and clinics are maintained in the s a rrm way* hen^a^ jritiMft _ycepts^th_e ^services of theses institvi-..Your attitude on this matter, Mr...
...In your letter to Mr...
...By pushing public works...
...3. Iced or cold water in the bunkhouses and on the job at all times because we have suffered from the warm water and lack of water at several times...
...In the mean that I I back to the Jottjj prepare...
...If, however, be and aia...
...Henderson Viewed as .Vow Leader Arthur Henderson, late Foreign Secretary, who is also national secretary of the Labor party and in that capacity controls the allimportant party machine, la marked out as the new leader of the party...
...Your committee cannot give jobs to the idle...
...Headers of The New Leader will find in the, article on page 5 by Fred Henderson, our London correspondent, an informative interpretation rt events and trends that led to the disintegration of the Labor Oovinrment and the formation of the emergency three-party government which has succeeded it...
...That minimum of $20 per week, probably none, would be guaranteed ltb;eywyjp||| man in the United States...
...Reducing the age for old age pensions to 60...
...A dole means charity...
...That is all that you offer...
...An editorial in the Daily Herald, which is controlled by the trade unions, and a statement by W. M Citrine, general secretary of the Trade Union Congress, show that the Labor party is not likely to support the new government...
...There are no jobs in hiding mat it can bring to the jobless...
...Even if this sum is raised it will be short $36,000,000 of the sum necessary to provide the equivalent of $20 for the family of each jobless worker one week 1 Suppose you raise the extra $36,000,000 through other charity sources...
...They get the K ^ ^ k habit of yielding to the immediate exiBH, asax^ gency and they get a love of office for i which they think themselves indispens• \ ^ ^M able...
...We Want Security, Not Smugger* To be sure, Mr...
...We call upon die working masses to storm every legislature and demand unemployment insurance...
...Some of this work now drags unnecessarily...
...B T FOM THE WORKERS • writs ne terms of Governor Roosevelt's unemployment Ob'proposals are not definitely known...
...The unemployed who maintained themselves test Winter through their own resources, credit, savings and assistance from friends, are coming to the end of their resources...
...It Is stated, can not be met with a pitiful public dole for food, amounting, as in one city, to a maximum of $3 a week per family, regardless of sise, and ia another city to SS every other week...
...The stats mast act...
...Wt want security buttressed by low, not fsfr,***^ hateful, and degrading doles...
...MacDonald and those memben of his previous Ministry who joined him," said the Herald...
...Even the fact that any other course by the British Prime Minister would have involved an imma^ata general election and perhaps a dangerous delay does not, in M. Blum's opinion, justify his fellow-Socialist's association with the hereditary enemies of the right What has surprised others is the curious situation of MacDonald and Arthur Henderson...
...And Mr...
...The home is again invaded by local upstarts and the worker is subjected to further humiliation...
...Above all we want to increase individual health and happiness and add to social wealth by abolishing city shims and country ihsntWu...
...The Labor government found that quite a large number of the unemployed who were entitled to be registered had been ignored or i i f used registration sad those neglected workers were given their place la the registration...
...MacDonaids acceptsnee of such a situation...
...President ? As the Great Engineer you are supposed to be an expert in such matters...
...Smugger* Humiliate the Jobless The record is carried back to smug men and women who sit in judgment upon his case...
...Labor party...
...This analysis leaves you, Mr...
...Faced with more and more economic difficulties as the industria] crisis became more and mon acute the Labor Ministry became mon and mora involved...
...Worse ceassttsa riu?kule* There te a general expectation, the report says, that unemployment will be worse neat Winter than laat year, and there la a substantial baste for belief that the number in need will be much larger...
...He will not be dependent upon the decision of smuggers...
...V "Dear Governor Roosevelt: • "In behalf of the Scialisi Fatty we urge you to include emargsncy I legislation for the help of tos) unemployed In the subjects with which by your message the special sanatosi of the Legislatore w?l be eiapunesed to deal...
...Government bureaus carry on experiments to show capitalists how they can sweat more values out of labor...
...Probably-faced with the necessity of making a choice between loyalty to MacDonald and loyalty to the party, an even greater number may decide that the party must come first...
...At the Ashland, Mass., 3 ^JBfUa:1*y 1 found a finely run children's camp as well I yE*"*1 1 1 camp...
...Now it is Henderson who has refused to enter a cooperative government which MacDonald leads...
...Amalgamated co; nouses in New York City and the other in the beauthe Workmen's Circle at Ashland, Mass., reminded ^•swhat things the workers can achieve in the new so^RSto now speak of the spirit of the meetings which was gWat generosity of the listeners who gave nobly for the : p*??ng comrades in the mining regions...
...If to these measures is added emsrgancy legislation raising the age at which children may go to work to eighteen, the desperate need of our people can be relieved...
...Today the Labor party enters a new phase, without ..the leaders who have rendered it 'services which will make ' their names' live with lustre in history...
...My wife is in the business of raising H HE...
...Assume a minimum of $20 a week for these workless millions...
...V •"• '• . "The working classes can and must be rallied unitedly in the great struggle for the Socialist program which alone hold* the solution of problems which ,confront us...
...17.— The strikers of the Boulder Dam project voted in their strike headquarters camp yesterday to carry their strike back to the job...
...It always will be there until America •Mt the influence of a strong Socialist party to counterEe beakers...
...One of the government's weaknesses lay in its inability to rely on the full and loyal support even of Its own followers...
...Capitalism is international and must be ani l International socialism . Impressive as was the Vienna E ef the Second International in many respects, it did Ertatag like as far as circumstances require in making Kteo?uonalism effective...
...Timely Topics By Norman Thomas I , up...
...Rochester and Utlca...
...Nevertheless, the world depression affected British industries and unemployment increased...
...And "the dreadful winter comes on • our rulers fiddle...
...MayEmi no formal American hanking demand but unquestionInsure was there...
...Sta ahead The river J be reocc-jp>ed TTSFFLI are made...
...The lettor to Oevernor Roosevelt, made public last Monday, follows: "The Hon...
...One justification of a HpJatD keep lawyers closer to reality...
...This -was a real I .J service...
...5. A flat rata of SUSO for board...
...Until the properly constituted bodies have considered the matter and reached a decision, it must be understood that our support of the government ceased with the resignation of the .Cabinet...
...the failure of Socialism...
...It votes subsidy doles to nurse capitalist investments in shipping...
...You still regard the problem as primarily one of local responsibility...
...Let us say that there are 6,000,000 jobless so as to allow for a big margin or error...
...In the new Cabinet MacDonald remains Premier, Snowden continues as Chancellor of the Exchequer, J. H. Thomas is Secretary of Colonies, and Sank e y is Lord Chancellor...
...We can do a simple sum in arithmetic which we pass on to your smuggers...
...Problems—A Silver lining-—Intern» W ^LZ—The Dole—Politics and Gangs— mfrZfatn and the Law—Labor' s Martyrs • —-Housing—A Fine Camp w? M THF...
...Is not politics, the lot Tiimseaj Hall, itself a racket allied with the underAnd is set the whole capitalist system which these manWtMssj serve Itself a racket...
...The passaat policies and practices of public relief departments in many cities, the report concludes, must he radically changed to insure relief adequate for the minimum needs of the recipients...
...Making available a state emergency fund provided out of increased Income and inheritance taxes for direct relief...
...President, as deflated as a bladder emptied, of wind...
...He says he doesn't nit" which means that he does not accept the principle •Crowes the workers either work or maintenance...
...t»/renierj*''th»' safeguarding duties and the continued depression in the cotton, iron, tteei and cosi industries m&te Thoma*-s task a stupendous one...
...Usually gh* cry "You don't understand because you aren't a law• tscape pure and simple...
...In France Leon Blum, Socialist leader, Is stupefied at Mr...
...In fifteen cities J7 te the usual maximum food order, SS in nine cities...
...Arthur Henderson B B Foreign Secretary was the finest thing in the Labor E E arsthtays with Labor...
...Moreover, your "coordination" and "reorganization" of nation-wide smelling by impudent smuggers does not have the merit of assuring a minimum of relief even by this hateful method...
...The second Labor government came to an end on Monday...
...No private enterprise or limited dividend company can meet the need for housing which is essential to our wen beng...
...6. Strict enforcement of Nevada and Arizona safety and mining laws and a safety miner in every heading...
...We de not assume that so deep very nature of a capitalist society, cangbe cured by tony legislation, certainly net by any plug lam the press?t legislature Ut New York can constitutionally « e e t or would be wJBtag to consider...
...I expressly : I questioned not the d a y but the political interference, ijersamed De.ru with that desire lawyers sometimes nave Is the rescue of high judges proceeded to make public a e to me ignoring Curry and justifying the granting of Xa the course of his letter he advanced the old gag which pas before from a judicial candidate upholding Injunctions il ss* not a lawyer I am not competent to debate these which to nonsense...
...In this connection we urge: "1...
...Els President Hoover is making a last desperate effort • H Street Committee to rats» from the rich fa* charity • 2m...
...LABOR GOVERNMENT WTu g* MacDonald government in Great Britain is not, r ^ .jjg newspapers say...
...The motion recorded below is indicative of their intentions to carry on the fight Moved and seconded that we transfer the strike back to the job and that our demands stand the same for a federal investigation, that the general strike committee be authorised to appoint or elect a committee on the job to carry on the fight for our demands, and that if we find these methods not successful, we'renew the strike...
...Cities maintain public libraries by taxation, contributions by the cities, and fees collected from those who use library facilities...
...You fav?r doles, charily, and nothing else...
...He w?l know what he is entitled to under the law and he will go to the proper agency and draw it just the same as though he was drawing from his deposits in a savings bank...
...The Staggering Problem We Face This means that throughout the nation the smuggers must have $120,000,000 each week to provide a minimum of $20 relief for each family I From December to and including March there are sixteen , * r ? e d g ^ ; j ? ? ? i e B / ^ $20 per week for ans period the •muggers must have nearly two billion dollars ! The exact figures are $1,920,000,000...
...the dictates of financiers who bava skillfully exploited a financial criais of their own creation for achievement of the political and economic ends they long have been pursuing...
...MacDonald and Snowden obtained their training and experience in the I. L. P. and contributed to building it up...
...Arthur Henderson, Labori te Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, la hailed generally as the new leader of the Labor party, while it is considered doubtful whether, following the breakup of the coalition government — which almost inevitably will be a signal for a general election—MacDonald win even ratura to Parliament...
...Labor will move in the direction of dent Labor Party...
...It had prepared no adequate proBJ panas grams of its own for a better fiscal syshsntng money on the military establishment or for rerKnad held by a few landlords...
...Bat to keep office at the price '-''''2?J of power is always dangerous, especially wL^^y to men of the temperament of MacDonJ^mmaff aid and J. H. Thomas...
...You expect the community chests throughout the nation to raise $84,000,000 in October for winter doles...
...we try to be loir ours...
...A five year program could abolish slums, give direct work to thousands, and indirectly stimulate all legitimate business...
...Other articles by the same writer in previous agues set forth the increasing dissatisfaction of Labor Party memjers with certain policies of the Labor Government, our correspondent atpresamg the view that unnecessary concessions were made to the jpposition because of the desire to hold on as long as possible...
...It OSA | y i Ticking power a* a minority governML ment to begin to achieve Socialism in r ^ \ our time, it nevertheless was able to Ir" a^ serve the eause of peace, to administer ' \ social welfare legislation sympathetically Bn...
...He woatd regard the unemployment insurance fund the same as he now regards the publicly maintained clinic, hospital and library...
...We do not put our trust in ! making trifling jobs under existiing departments...
...There were heavy withdrawals ef foreign helsnres and a drain on the Bank of England's gold i ssiiirvee...
...Where is the patriotism, we may aak," says the editorial, 'in allowing the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to dictate the policy to be pursued in relation to the unemployment benefit T This Is not patriotism, but acceptance of a dictatorship—not even of a British bank, but of International finance...
...Long experience has enabled these organisations to forecast the extent of the aid that Is aeeded assi a report this week ef the Joint osa*mit tee on unemployment relief of the^ StoU^Bcafd ^ o f j j | Association, which has investigated forty up-State cities, declares that the situation te disquieting...
...In such cases adequate provision . must be made for the maintenance of those families depending on the earning of those children...
...How the average family of three can manage to live on this sum we do n?jt know, but assume that they can...
...Daru's defence of ^psun which ignores the whole point of my charge...
...And how will the doles be managed throughout the country ? Local smelling committees have been set up and more will be set up...
...for instance in opposition to war...
...Real war against gangs I deeper than resolutions or giving cops (who too often are M allied with gangs) more guns or more encouragement AUGI AGE OF THE LAW bag ago in the plainest sort of English I asked a Bar •datas* inquiry into the action of Justice Sherman of k to listening to a secret plea from Tammany leader Curry •Bung a stay to the notorious Dr...
...Although the revolt was sometimes confined to party meetings, fundamental party differences were often exposed in the House of Commons...
...Task FeB on i. H Thomas When the Ministry was formed X H. Thomas was appointed Lord Privy Seat so that he might devote all his attention to the problem of unemployment...
...i Now assume that the workers of the nation have the benefit of unemployment insurance legislation...
...He will receive a dole and what he receives millions of others will receive in local communities...
...I am think^ptoautifui and comfortable housing that the Amalga^"**fives show that some workers can have now and I r, i** a P e c t when housing Is no longer left to private fXototive landlords and builders., Indeed at no point Is (! VE* *pitalLsm blinder, more selfish, and more stupid than j P"f «11 governmental agencies, federal, state, and muI n lip"*1 bousing projects like these in Vienna and other ji^KJ1*0 wipe out slums and help reduce unemployment...
...only four cities, Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Rochester and XT tics, are such committees now active," the report says...
...In the new Parliament Labor bad 287 seats, the Conservatives 360, and the Liberals 59...
...He did not want to cut down the social legislation but added that "we must cut our coats according to the doth...
...Doyle who was trying tsflbg Judge Sea bury how he split his fees...
...All mdjcarinsis sire that the party is almost wholly opposed to the new, government and its expected poney in relation to sodai legislation...
...Assuming that yon win recommend action on unemployment to the legislature, we shall prepare fuller recommendations" a l o ng these Unes to submit to it...
...not charity...
...The Labor party took over the government but it lived by sufferance of the Liberals who, although a small minority, held the balance of power...
...enter the new government a? individuals, not as accredited representatives of the labor movement...
...colleagues make a fight of it, there is little likelihood of any extensive rift in the...
...Protesting the wage cut, we ask: 1. $5.00 low for surface workers...
...OeraSi Criticizes "Mr...
...Perhaps in December you will summon another body of men and women to "coordinate" and to "reorganise" what has been coordinated and reorganised...
...It is likely to happen in Hardin • k r unless the miners' cases are well supported, it is • a California as long sa Mooney and Billings are still in •Thappen to the Negro boys involved In the Scotta boro plenty to do...
...The requirements of such...
...We reseat your insolent smejlers and smuggers...
...I not tie Conference as much as the nationalism of various • paras* tad the lack of a stronger party in America may Essie...
...Your program is capitalistic Your party giwes tariff doles to the capitalist class...
...The events of the past week have' been charged with dramatic interest for Socialists and others interested in the labor movement of Great Britain...
...In...
...This should be included in the admin' istrative bodies...
...The report also stress in the points that virtually every city has spent nearly as much or more for public home relief in the first half of 1931 as in the entire year of 1930, that equally large expenditures are expected in the second half of 19S1 and that appropriations for the year are nearly or entirely exhausted,* sad many cities will hare substantial deficits at the end of the fiscal year...
...Many of those with part-time employment who have been able to get along heretofore by savings and credit will need Belief...
...A special joint meeting of the Trades Union Congress and the national executive committee of the Labor party and its consultative committee of Parliament was summoned to meet In London Wednesday to consider the situation...
...How many of the 280 Labor members of Parliament win accept his leadership remains to be seen, but a conservative estimate places the number at 200...
...Bp ss permitted Curry to approach him secretly, is em• » exception...
...For those for whom there is no work main-1 tenance must be provided...
...Wo think in terms of the dsspoilog st?jfi?i of workers who ore victims of the industrial breakdown...
...It nati bered that this typ I done by a group sej world over, drtvkgke ing dams and who M be indispensable farti work...
...The Federation at Labor has estimated the number of the unemployed in the State at New York as high as -ens minion hi terms of human Misery or Ito cost to society to sidto)njn, and, crime no man can exaggerate...
...Gifford you declare your purpose to "cooperate with the public authorities and reinforce the national, state and local agencies which will have responsibility for the relief activities arising out of unemployment...
...He had three other Ministers to help huh...
...While a number of cities are considering bond issues for this purpose, there Is no evidence of the advance, planning which te essential for effective expenditures of public funds for this type of relief...
...It is recalled that MacDonald refused to enter a coalition government during the "war, while Henderson accepted...
...No one who knows the national organizations that express Labor opinions can doubt ' that, by overwhelming majorities, they will reject any scheme that involves new privations for the unemployed...
...fce others in that business finds exhibiting shows hot only interesting but very valuable I HE2*m o u t u k outside Newport...
...Louis Waldman, chairman of the State Committee and Norman Thomas, co-chairman of the Public nanna Committee of the Socialist Party, Joined to sending this appeal to Oavernor Roosevelt...
...The Conservatives returned to power with Stanley Baldwin as Premier and in a general election in 1929, which gave no party a majority in Parliament, the Conservative government resigned...
...If workers in periods of employment pay a percentage of their wages into a fund upon which they can draw when unemployed, by what logic do you define this as charity...
...The smug agents of the dole check up on their applications...
...Ef PLENTY TO DO •shave been remembering the nobility of Sacco and Vanj gasa the everlasting shame of their judicial murder need B?that we best honor them by seeing that the same sort ^B*tt happen again...
...These are the only Labor members of the new government and the fact that they have entered the Emergency government without consulting the Labor Party means that they are acting as Individuals without power to commit the Labor party...
...R. I . where I had left soma of my family for r H*** show...
...Completely adequate action may require time...
...Other government fancies at caecMMMat ,expen*e^*earjch out foreign fields of i|»fJ%»Qit Mil I s » j | ?? You think in termi of the upper classes wkot* finlitfinlnf system is diseased...
...The Labor party organ, the Dally Herald, created something of a sensation when it charged that the Labor government had submitted to the pressure of New York bankers who demanded as a price of their financial assistance through loans that drastic cots should be made in the unemployed insurance funds...
...We do not forget the duty of tbaPesVeal government nag local ague* «tos in this cristo...
...The first one took office in January, 1924, and it lasted hardly ten months under the Premiership of J. Ramsay MacDonald...
...The BP^Pprf in London held office but not real power...
...Very few cities," the report says, "have made any definite plans and there is no evidence of advanced planning of work relief projects, except in Poughkeepaie, Rochester and U?ca...
...Specifically we suggest that to a considerable extent work (which is better than any form of relief) can be provided by the following measures: * Suggested Program "1...
...Its general stand has been vindif mutn The unions are waking up...
...Perhaps they will pay the rent or send a supply of foodstuffs...
...Sir Oswald Mosley, George Lansbury and Tom Johnston...
...we are aware of the danger of putting the unemployed to doing jobs that regular workers should be doing at regular wages...
...The worksa attaf t struggle for **—i hssat a thing that iitssMMj and then i "gettA td less uphlU b a t t l H I and try to maki^H They also knowflH work is expected M vicinity in a fee ss] will create a fissiti their labor...
...Perhaps one time H i t there is a valid and important point, not technical, HjMleh may be misunderstood by the layman...
...g»?f and to go farther toward a comparativeWPL ^ > Y j ly peaceful (but not wholly satisfactory) [* r j settlement of the Indian revolution than K Ski ? any other government...
...Practically no comment has come to the United States from Socialists abroad except from England...
...Whenever in a social or a political •Y profession takes refuge in some professional hocus •ph toymen can't understand and under which plain EngHpBMsn what it says, watch out...
...Cabinet on the issue of a 10 per cent reduction in the unemployment benefit Insistence of the Bank of England on the need for credits—even on these terms—heightened the clash within the late Cabinet.'* In its editorial comment the Herald refuses the criticism of lack of patriotism made against the trade union by a reference to this story...
...La7lTHIN a few months of winter you make your final preparations for the jobless million...
...The report recommends, •"»^««g other things, closer cooperation of all rehef-giving, publie and privato, in order to conserve the available funds, to span the applicants the demoralising expeiteoue of appealing to many agencies, and to avoid the dependency frequently resulting from duplication of reliefgiving...
...Ha did his best to encourage relief works by local authorities and private undertakings, but the unemployment figures continued to soar...
...he will not be compelled to accept a private dole He will know that he has established m law ? stake in the industry in which he works...
...All that you do is to create another organization to "coordinate" and to "reorganize...
...And you want to "coordinate" and to "reorganize" this hateful thing...
...You suggest nothing in addition to what has already been done and your own Labor Bureau reports an increase of unemployment for July...
...In that cast you meet the situation for only one week in sixteen weeks of winter...
...2. The continuation of the improvement of living conditions in the camps as rapidly as possible...
...He must answer humiliating questions...
...It is something that be helps to eresie H ir a social institution and as a citisen it is.as much his as it is any other citizens...
...He stressed the financial difficulties which the government faced, saying that the situation is A e a man suffering an attack of appendicitis, which "cannot be trifled with but must have immediate treatment...
...We face the most mise rests winter to America's peace tone history...
...PC ON GANGSTERS pr is the we in New York or any other city of getting ?Bticians at mass meetings to declare war on the gangs , pot down our children in the streets...
...You know, and we all know, that there are at least 7,000,000 workers out of work...
...President, is all the more hypocritical considering the fact that all your "coordination" and "reorganization" is mainly concerned with the distribution of charity...
...The OSMI paration continosi Sa portune time cessa t j open warfare wfls If panie...
...When it became known that Mac Don aid, Snowden and Thomas had decided to form the Emergency government the rift between the leaders and the Labor party became evident...
...It has avaWH successfully bef on till with inexperience...
...Low cost housing is one of the state's crying needs...
...c a n iPs are the first promise of the wider shar."^•SP WU1 be one of the glories of the cooperativ Boulder Dam Strikers Win Concessions Some Intolerable Conditions Modified and Workers Continue Determined Pressure to Wipe Out Other Abuses (Br » n«w lesse» Ostiessssees*) LAS VEGAS, Nev., Aug...
...E g BY AMERICAN BANKERS • American bankers and officials deny that they exerted Een on the British government to cut unemployment inEtbe price of further loans, British bankers and news-' Est the Daily Herald's story as a matter of course...
...Newport has great I Rsso?ed and not Increased by the pretentious castles I y Plutocrats...
...national government...
...MeanwhUe Citrine said last Monday: "It is obvious that nobody can commit the trade union and labor movement to participation in, or support of, the 'nationaj government* without its consent, which has not been asked for and has not been given...
...A beginning can be made in the emergency, Provide Maintenance "These ' measures that we have urged, useful as they will prove, win not Immediately meet the i fun emergency need...
...MUITE HOUSING ; p a meetings, one at the hall of the...
...He must fill out a questionnaire giving intimate details of his family life...
...Watch flatfj project...
...15.50 low for underground workers...
...Of this the Herald says: The Price of Che Bankers "This virtual ultimatum of the New York banken played a vital part in DIVIDING- the...
...Eleven cities pay no rent for the unemployed and five pay it only in cases of eviction...
...The financial disturbance following the Wall street crash, the world-wide - economic < stagnation, the d?cisions of Philip Snowden, Chancellor of the Exchequer, to put another increase on the income ' t«;an...
...U in four cities, SS in three cities, SS to one city and $8 every other week in another city...
...6.00 low for miners and carpenters...
...But the Legislature asm enable u* to meet the smsfgtotoj ft privato charity and the infamous «sto of bread Base m nani Th* principle on which It must act is that it is the duty of society to provide men and women willing to work with work or maintenance, not as a matter of charity but of right, the cost of such a program to be met by increased income and inheritance taxes, or if necessary by a capital levy, on thc.e who bare received far more than an equi table share of the social income...
...Unemployment In Up - State Cities Grave No Plans for a Million Jobless Except in Three Cities and Tragedy Approaches with the Coming of Winter rX coming of winter Is causing apprehension on the part of organisations that are devoted to relief of distress in normal periods of Industrial activity...
...It is generally conceded that we have about 7,000,000 unemployed...
...To get a real Labor Party back some present loss and disappointment...
...The declared intention of the new government ruthlessly to cut down on the plea of financial stringency unemployment allowances and other forms of essen tisi social expenditures and the salaries and wages of civil servants and teachers, while leaving the burden of war debt payments and the new war expenditure of ?108,000,000 aterling untouched, win be the signal for a renewed onslaught on the wages of workers by employers in all industries...
...Socialist Party Urges Program of Relief for Jobless in New York State Thomas and Waldman Write Governor Rooeeveh of Gnnre Emergency and Need of Legisiassoa for Relief of One Million Unemployed P ro gram is Suggested-nKALZZZNG the terrible plight which faces the jobless wprl?rs at SX Mtw York Stato the Socialist Party of New teek urged Governor Roosevelt to include emergency f*gtfstitm te nato tss>-insea> ployed in his message to the extraordinary session of the Legislature which met this week...
...Work relief te generally recognized aa the most advantageous form of relief, bat definite plana for work relief projects are being made in only three cities—Poughkeepaie...
...Deplores Complacent Attitude The most disturbing factor, the report paints ouf, te a certain complacent attitude that the emergency can be met when it arrives, and the failure to grasp the fact that it is no longer a case of dealing chiefly with the proverbially poor, but of considering as weD the urgent necessiti— of thousands who have never before known charity...
...This was the situation which faced the Labor party in Parliament aa well as the Labor Ministry...
...Meanwhile Parliament had passed an act making it easier for the unemployed Worker to obtain the unemployed benefits...
...President, it is "socialistic," hot wc art proud of it...
...You hope that it will head off a Federal "dole," a name which you give to Federal unemployment insurance...
...To this you add the dishonest statement that unemployed insurance is a dole...
...In that struggle the Independent Labor party as always will cooperate with renewed vigor and strength...
...We face the most Mtosrsnis winter m America's peace tose hstory," the letter declares...
...What we urge ia that an major public works be pushed, including the aboliticn of grade crossings...
...He does not have to face impudent srOeSer* in the privacy of his home...
...The government's own political troubles were intensified by the financial crisis that followed Germany's crash...
...You hope in this way to avoid a "deluge of socialistic legislation" which may flood the new Congress...
...A jobless man whose family has nothing to eat is compelled to apply for help...
...MacDonald ana memben of the lata government who are associated with him have surrendered to...
...jail to be called to return to work...
...cost of living In two yean had been reduced 11 y% per cent and if cuts were made the workers would still be 1% per cent ahead...
...Hardly a subject came up on which it was not attacked by the Left Wing Laborites...
...The net impression of the address was that MacDonald is committed to a program which the Labor party win oppose...
...Your system degrades and humiliates r ours fives tho worker m sense of security, of immunity from insolent espionage, one enables him to plan because he knows what Ut is entitled to under the law...
...Smelling agents invade the privacy of his home...
...Your Plan Mean* Dole* This fatuous reeling out of more red tape is your method of facing the crisis of 7,000,000 unemployed workers...
...The Secretary for Scot^ELjjrcoalition government owns 100,000 acres...
...He is not subjected to humiliating espionage, t He « not treated as a pauper...
...While there is a general apprehension regarding the widespread distress bound to come with the approach of the Fall and Winter months, the report adda, there ia no full recognition on the part of public officials or private individuals of the Inadequacy of existing relief facilities or of the sinister consequences that may follow continued inaction...
Vol. 13 • August 1931 • No. 9
