The World of Labor
The World of Labor Form National Committee to Aid Striking Illinois Miners SPRINGFIELD, 111.—The Midwest Striking Miners Relief Fund of the Socialist Party set up by Local Springfield,...
...The I. T. W. F. decides," it was further resolved, "to carry on the struggle against Fascism with all the means at its disposal, and asks the unions affiliated to the I. T. W. F, to do their utmost to help by all possible means their fellow organisations which have already been overpowered by Fascism or are Immediately threatened in their fight against reaction and terrorism...
...We appeal for food, clothes and money...
...1031 South 11th Street, Springfield, HI...
...How many were killed will never be known, because the miners were not allowed to go back to search the river bottoms where the dead and injured lay...
...Everybody was talking load and having s good tune, but nobody knew what it was all about," The Bitter Bread of Charity "QTBWING the workers in their kj own juice" is the verdict of an unemployed worker who has been a "guest" .of the Salvation Army Industrial Home on W. 48th street In order to partake of the Army's bitter bread of charity, the applicant for relief must first visit the registration bureau at South Ferry...
...State highway police and militia officers led them into the trap...
...The committee has the acceptances of Duncan McDonald of Springfield...
...Winston Dancis, secretary of New York Yipaela, announces that the New York Circles will hold a tag day for miners' relief Sept...
...Several hundred cars were wrecked...
...ceased contributing supplies, the number taken care of is about 1,000 daily...
...dinner—soup, coffee, stale rolls...
...Why, if not for political reasons," the Industrial Worker asks, "have the Communist leaden and press Ignored the Harlan case, Involving 40 I. W. W.'a on trial for their lives, in favor of the ScottSbbro case," which, the weekly contends is not a class struggle case and involves only nine men...
...Vote Old Parties In," }tm Haurer Warns OSHKOSH, Kls.—"If you like to go hungry while farmers are burning their wheat and dumping their milk on the ground because they can't Sell It for what It cost to produce," James H. Maurer, Socialist candidate for vice president, told a huge audience here, "then vote either old party back Into power next November, because as sure as God made little apples, that's what you'll get...
...Regardless of the quality of the supplies given to the Army, when the so-called cooks finish with it the last word in cooking—vile cooking—is the result...
...The Industrial Worker declares that the average young Communist has been misled into a belief that his party has been defending the Kentucky miners...
...In exchange for work performed every other day from 7 a. m. to 5 p. m., the jobless are given three meals a day (the summer schedule calls for two meals), consisting of: Breakfast—oatmeal, coffee, stale rolls...
...However, they cannot do this without the outside help of an their friends...
...Particularly in the ladies' garment field, the work is manufactured by contractors for jobbers...
...The men are put to work cleaning, scrubbing, polishing, and sorting papers, magazines and clothes, which are contributed aad then sold...
...They have been on strike since last April and their funds are exhausted...
...Contributions of food stuffs or clothing should be directed to Midwest Striking Miners Relief Headquarters, 1081 South 11th street, Springfield, 111...
...Suffering is rampant...
...Send checks and relief to Socialist Party Miners Relief, care of Slavonic Hall...
...The sanltarv nrovisions of the stuffy dormitories, which are double deck affairs with 200 men crowded on each floor, are not better than the wont kind of "flop house...
...The World of Labor Form National Committee to Aid Striking Illinois Miners SPRINGFIELD, 111.—The Midwest Striking Miners Relief Fund of the Socialist Party set up by Local Springfield, announces a national committee to sponsor the nation-wide appeal for the striking Illinois miners...
...These questions are raised in the current issue of the Monthly Survey of Business issued by the American Federation of Labor...
...The occasional change in the menu to include beans, frankfurters or macaroni seems to depend on the generosity of storekeepers...
...is not fumigated and the men do not bathe...
...Help...
...They refuse to be reduod to the utter destitution of the miners of West Virginia, Kentucky and Western Pennsylvania...
...When will we workers have the sense to get together and bring about unemployment Insurance instead of the bitter, humiliating dole...
...17 and 18...
...Dozens of men and women were Injured in one of the most brutal attacks on unarmed strikers ever known...
...We ask all Socialists, and sympathisers to send relief immediately...
...amicus MOST...
...as, 1932...
...At present, five or six floors, together with a basement, are filled with goods...
...Mooney Clock Dismantled SAN FRANCISCO.—(FP) —The famous clock which proved Tom Mooney's alibi is no more...
...The courts have now recognized the validity of such agreements...
...They have'been told to believe—and they believe...
...READING, Pa...
...For the- first time, workers Injured on the Job will find advice and assistance through an agency created by the Federated Trades and Labor Council of Berks County...
...It was the time shown on this clock, included in a picture of Tom and Rena Mooney on the Eilers Building roof, which showed that Mooney could not possibly have been at the site of tbe 1916 preparedness day explosion, a mile "way, when Oxman, McDonald and Bdeaus "identified" him there...
...Stand by the miners...
...nationalities are represented, with Americans in the majority...
...Harold Kelso, treasurer of the fund, to whom money should be directed at 549 Randolph Street, Chicago, announces cash contributions of $75 the first week...
...is the query that the unemployed worker we have quoted Is putting to his fellow unfortunates, it B...
...Children are hungry and naked...
...jLifce to Go Hungry...
...The types of the Jobless to be seen at the relief stations of the Salvation Army give a cross section of the hapless victims of the depression...
...The miners are putting...
...The federation is affiliated with the Labor and Socialist International...
...Clothing...
...Workers' buying power, based on jobs, is the foundation," ''it Is time to Increase wages...
...Norman Thomas, John Dewey of New York, Leo Kryski of Milwaukee, Ralph Chaplin of the General Defense Committee of Chicago, Heywood Broun of New York, Theodore Debs of Terre Haute and Upton Sinclair...
...Comrade Most writes us as follows: •Ulesple, ill, Aug...
...Unions have soughtfor yean to engage in enforceable agreements by which conditions in the shops of contracting jobbers might be stabilised...
...What Is the use of putting prices up if Incomes fail...
...Many of the strike leaders are 8. P. members, and many of the miners are Socialists...
...The Republican aad DemoNeckwear Worken Get Injunction Against Firm Violating Union Pact On the application of Panken k. Levyr attorney for the United Neckwear Makers Union, an injunction waa iaeued against the France Neckwear Co., Inc., New York, by Judge Rosenman in the Supreme Court...
...era tic conventions were like closing tune In the old saloon, he added...
...Transport Workers To Fight Against War and Reaction THE International Transport Workers' Federation, In resolutions adopted at its congress In Fragile recently, called for a' general strike against war and the threat of war, and tor .unceasing struggle against Fascism and reaction...
...Their fight must go on...
...Occasionally clothing beyond the second-hand •ale stage is given to the jobless...
...They were met by several hundred armed and deputised St...
...Business cannot recover from the top down," it declares, "until production increases and workers have jobs, and their buying can bring orders from stores to factories and thence to farms and mines and increase railroad traffic, we shall have no real basis for business recovery...
...The miners are determined to fight police and official brutality If it takes all whiter...
...In discussing the court's determination, Mr...
...supper—soup, coffee, stale rolls...
...I certainly am against the dole, —the kind of dole of which our industrial system makes me a victim...
...These came respectively from the Emergency Committee for Strikers Relief, through Norman Thomas, and from the Strike Relief Fund of the Ylpsels of Greater New York...
...An appeal is made to sympathizers to supply office furniture and equipment, which local Springfield sadly lacks...
...Calls for Showdown On Kentucky Cases Leaden of ttae Communist party are challenged by the Industrial Worker, official organ of the Industrial Workers of the World, to prove that that party's activities In the Kentucky coal war cone have been "anything other than the activities of small-time racketeers...
...All are fighting against wage cuts, police brutality and for clean unionism...
...Louis gangsters...
...up a brave light against wage cuts...
...Free headquarters have been secured in Springfield, where food and clothing, vitally needed, will be gathered...
...Securer Economic Order Urged in AFL Survey of Business WASHINGTON.—What is the value, to the workers, of a bull market in stocks and bonds when the workers remain jobless and unable to purchase food and clothing and shelter...
...Levy said: "The decision is Important In that it definitely establishes for the first time the principle that a jobber or manufacturer who does not directly employ industrial workers will nevertheless be compelled by the courts to comply with a union contract under which he agrees to have his work done in a specified shop or under union conditions...
...In one of the greatest miners' picketing demonstration in history over 18,000 miners attempted to enter Franklin County to picket the mines there...
...I am writing this from the headquarter* of the strike committee of Southern Illinois...
...Thus, the menace of sweatshop contracting and sub-contracting will have a far-reaching effect not only in the neckwear industry but also upon the entire needle industry...
...Only the International proletariat can shve mankind from wars for ever, the congress declared...
...The great majority of the rank and file is utterly opposed to the five-dollar scale...
...The fact that there are no Communists at all in the Kentucky trouble none," says the I. W. W. weekly, "and that no Communists are on trial there— and that not one red cent of International Labor Defense or Communist money has been used either for defense or relief work in connection with the trials of the 40 miners now going on down there—seems to make no difference...
...The ages range from 16 or 17 to 60 and upwards...
...Why should the workers hesitate to move toward a better economic system, under which they shall at least have security...
...It has been dismantled and taken away from its old stand at Turk and Market streets, San Francisco, opposite the site of the former Ellers Buildings...
...Why talk of a return of prosperity when poverty is becoming more widespread...
...Arthur MacDowell and myself are co-operating...
...If the strike is to be successful we must help...
...The Springfield local of the Socialist Party has set up a Socialist miners relief...
...In the face of desertion by their official International leaders they are determined...
...Until a few-weeks ago, the Salvation Army was furnishing two meals of the kind mentioned to about 2,000, but since the Standard Brands Co...
...The neckwear firm waa restrained from violating agreements with the union, "from employing any other than members in good standing of the union, and from furnishing work in the manufacture of men's neckwear to any contractor in contravention of the agreement...
...He then walks or rides, if he has a nickel, to the citadel of salvation...
Vol. 14 • September 1931 • No. 11
