"Economy" Drive Bars Continuation School To Thousands of Boys
"Economy" Drive Bars Continuation School To Thousands of Boys Cry Wants to Save Money So Boys Over 17 An Out of Luck MEW YORK is to receive a taste lv uf "kusimm" administration and "economy"...
...Became a "Friend of Labor" Oregon Solon's "Endorsement" by Green Fine Illustration of "Reward-YourFriends" Policy J-JOW ludicrous, if not sinister, may be the whitewash offered in a "fricnd-of-labor" certificate secured by a hard-boiled reactionary senator, running for re-election, is illustrated in the case of Frederick Steiwer of Oregon, who is now waving before the astonished gaze of the voters in his State a letter of endorsement signed by William Green, and another from the political committee of the Rail Labor Executives' Association...
...in 1924, J. Ramsay Mac Donald, leader of the party, decided to accept the Invitation of the King te form a ministry although Labor was not even the largest party in the House, and tbe minist-y had to depend upon the tolerance of the Liberals for a majority...
...But a section of tbe lower floor is reserved, and tickets for that section sre being sold at 26 cents...
...Kritzer is in charge of arrangements for the great Madison Square Garden rally, destined to be tbe grest23t political demonstration in the history of the continent...
...The friends of this injunction-relief bill are of the opinion that the action of the Committee was prompted by an obvious desire to delay action on this proposed legislation and thus prevent its passage before the adjournment of Congress...
...Linville's letter reads: Mr...
...Steiwer had begun to trim, by voting against the confirmation of Judge Parker, sponsor of the yellow dog contract...
...Speakers at all street meetings sre disposing of tickets by tbe hundreds, and Kritser asks that all party workers get in touch with him at 7 East 16th Street st east to collect their quota...
...Arthur Henderson opposed this proposal but it was adopted by a large majority...
...In his opening address Render* son declared thst the policy of the party should be more vigorous snd clear-cut thsn ever in the direction of uncompromising Socialism...
...10th, August Claesaens...
...Hie contract when made is a property right...
...About half of these have been placed or have placed themselves in industry.'' The Teachers Union would like te knew whether the Board of Education is prepared te defend its projected elimination of adult education classes in view of their demonstrated »alue...
...Most of the seats art free, and tickets are being distributed far them...
...Siegel ssid, 'More than 85,000 unemployed men snd women have enrolled in the New York City continuation schools in the past two years for re-training courses in seventy or eighty different occupations...
...There are nearly 4100 of these adult students, all presumed te be unemployed...
...In 1929 Mac Donald formed his ministry without a clear majority behind him, and in both cases ho alone selected the members...
...Arthur Henderson, chairman of the Labor Party, holding its annual conference here, «. reported te tbe delegates, The Executive hsd vet* ed...
...884, Senate, 71st Congress, 2nd Session...
...Morris K. Siegel, Director cf Evening and Continuation Schools...
...Kritser himself reports that his youthful son Eddie went out one morning before school and sold a fist full and announced be would sell 100 at a quarter each...
...Green Denounces Views That afternoon William Green issued a sissling statement which began: "To the utter amazement of the officers and members of organized labor a majority of the Senate Judiciary Committee attending a meeting today voted to refer the anti-injunction bill to the Attorney-General of the United States...
...BRITISH LABOR STANDS STRONG FOR SOCIALISM LEICESTER.—'•'here will be «S more Labor governments In Great Britain formed on the sole responsibility of et.e man, no mat* • ter how trusted e leader he may be...
...North Carolina, where Socialist candidates were not en the ballet four years | age, will print the Socialist slate this year...
...On June 20, 1930, Steiwer filed his long-delayed majority report from the Senate Judiciary Committee, attacking the Norris antiinjunction bill, and defending the yellow dog contract...
...Much progress Is now being made in that direction by voluntary cooperation...
...James Emery of the National Association of Manufacturers, who had testified against the Norris bill in committee hearings, was repeatedly in conference with Steiwer before this document saw the light...
...In both cases there was considerable dissatisfaction in the party ranks ever the fact that all decisions were hi the hands of the party leader rather than in the party membership...
...Very truly yours, Henry R. Linviile, President...
...And in the end the deep saffron ef his record was treated with official whitewash...
...Surely, if ever a first-term senator fought organized labor at vital points in its defensive line, and helped to weaken it in the face of the economic collapse, Steiwer is the man...
...11th, Esther Friedman...
...M. E. Edeen, state secretary, believes that this difficulty wiU be straightened out without great difficulty...
...The assertion is asade that by closing this work of the re-education of the unemployed an annual saving of 1260,000 wiU ho made...
...The moment announcement wss made that tickets were available, branch secretaries and party speskers began making demands for them...
...Ia the event that sn election results in a lineup in the House of Commons that calls fee a Labor Party government, he reported, a special conference of ' e party is te be catted immediately to veto on whether or net the party Is te take over the government, and even mere important, en the personnel of the ministry...
...PARTY TICKET ON BALLOT IN MOST STATES CHICAGO.—In state after state it is being made possible for Socialists to stand up and be counted this fall, Clarence Senior, national campaign manager, announces...
...The program of re-education of unemployed men and women wee started by the school system in the existing depression en an appeal made by certain welfare groups...
...Not even sn obscure reason was assigned for this unprecedented action...
...Educationally, it was one of the most Important ventures the New York public school system has under taken in a long time...
...Meanwhile Steiwer had gotten off the Judiciary Committee...
...It will gather over 50,000 people, It is expected, who Will turn out in the most enthusiastic Socialist demonstration in history...
...The custom in that state is te register everybody as a Democrat unless he fights to have his name entered otherwise...
...George J. Ryan, President Board of Education 600 Park Avenue New York My deer Mr...
...Tickets for Garden Rally Being Widely Distributed "AND now," said Harry Kritxer, "we've got to get the tickets out...
...The sctlon wss taken to correct certain evils of the tost two Labor Party ministries that culminated ia tha debacle of August...
...Agrees With Manufacturer* Rut Steiwer declared that any such assertion of public policy was wrong...
...He argued that "power to control or shape industrial rein t ions is lodged with the States...
...1060, Calendar No...
...To adopt this statement of public policy regardless of its conflict with economic realities in many States might well be resented by the States...
...leas may be in discouragement, ia chances for new Jobs, and in the usefulness of the public schools, the Beard of Education may not have considered...
...At the meetings of the National Education Association Convention in June two members of the official staff of the New York schools spoke in terms of high praise of the work then going ea ia adult education ia this city...
...The first speakers will be as fellows: Oct...
...14th, William M. Feigenbaum...
...Which was exactly the argument made by Emery of the National Association ef Manufacturers...
...Henry Linviile, president of the Teachers' Union, adds his protest to the protest of many other groups...
...Harold G. Campbell, Deputy Superintendent of Schools, sad Dr...
...The title of this printed document is Report No...
...Illinois is on the ballot aftei a heroic fight to get the signatures required by reactionary election laws...
...To provide by legislation that the courts shall not protect this right is unquestionably a deprivation of property without due process of law____" Chairman Norris, in his minority report of the same date, held that these contracts were "contrary to public policy," and that "if men must agree in advance to surrender any real liberty of contract in order to attain employment they are, under coercion of necessity, forced into working under conditions of involuntary servitude...
...Socially, it meant much constructively ia contrast with the coerced collection of two million dollars last year from the teachers for general unemployment relief...
...18th, Willism E. Bonn...
...he said, that there an to be no mors Mac Donald incidents...
...Florida is having a little trouble because Democratic registration officials have entered names of several Socialist candidates as Demo-1 crals...
...The Steiwer majority sidetracked the bill to'Mitchell on May 28, 1930...
...The constitutional right to make such contracts is both a right of liberty and a right of property...
...Ia a letter to President George J. Ryan of the Board of Education, Dr...
...It passed tbe Senate March 1, 1932, nearly two years utter...
...He demanded adoption of the declaration of public policy, written into the hill—and enacted into law in 1932—establishing a charter of labor's rights of organization and free negotiation...
...16th, Gus Tyler...
...The bill was delayed...
...By Laurence Todd How Steiwer, Oregon Labor-Hating Senator...
...17th, J. B. Matthews...
...Economy" Drive Bars Continuation School To Thousands of Boys Cry Wants to Save Money So Boys Over 17 An Out of Luck MEW YORK is to receive a taste lv uf "kusimm" administration and "economy" when the Cemtrei Continuation School, located at 42nd Street, closes its doors te hundreds of beys...
...Socialist Period on WEVD Station WEVD, the Debs memorial radio station, announces that there will be Socialist talks every day from 4:46 p. m. to 6, delivered by noted Socialist speakers and writers...
...12th, Henry Jagex...
...What the...
...They were Or...
...At the back of Steiwer's report am copies of his letter ssklng Attorney-General Mitchell for an opinion on the Norris bill, snd Mitchell's reply, declining to give an opinion...
...The Berel of Education, ea p*pt of the McK.ee "economy" program demanded by wall Street bankers, voted that beginning- October 6th no boys over 17 are te be permit ted to learn trades et city expense...
...elyan moved the leaders of the next Labor Government be Instructed to support definite Socialist measures end that the party should stsnd or fsll in the House of Com* mons on these principles...
...Moreover, there is a serious question of the power of Congress te nuke ¦ valid declaration of policy open any subject which lies outside the realm ef Federal authority...
...The resolution of th...
...It is estimated that this "economy" will throw several hundred jobless youths on the streets, and will throw 76 teachers out of em ploymeet...
...A "progressive" governor had been elected in Oregon...
...It does net lie with Congress, through its control over Federal courts, by indirection te impose one pattern of industrial relationships upon the industries ef the country, regardless ef local conditions...
...Msyor Hoan of Milwaukee spoke Friday, October 6th, and Mr...
...Arizona wilt have a Socialist ticket en the ballet for the first time in sixteen years...
...Confer* ence reads that "ordered prosperity csn only be restored by a bold snd comprehensive policy of national planning and development on Socialist and co-operative lines...
...This decision, in lies with the only alternative the "business" administration of Mayor McKee can find to tin-box statesmanship, is arousing the widest protest...
...Tbe rally is to be held November 3rd, and it will mark the reentry into New York of Norman Thomas after a triumphant tour of the country...
...A. J. Patel...
...Speaking of "anti-union contracts" in this report, Steiwer said: "However distasteful such contracts may be to us, yet the fact remains that the Supreme Court, in three cases, has held that there is no legislative power, State or Federal, to inhibit or outlaw contracts providing against union membership...
...As his own prospects darkened, he trimmed more aad more...
...13th, Harry Kritser...
...Another phase of the situation that is not without its social significance ia the total lack of evidence -of professional pretest against the proposed elimination of the re education program...
...Ryan:— The latest step in the economy program of the New York City Beard of Education is te wipe eat aH classes in continuation schools of students who ere ever seventeen years of age...
...President of the Indian National Congress and Mayor of Bombay, a noted follower of Mahtama Gandhi, will speak Saturday, October 7th, from 7:46 to 8 p. m. on "The East and the West...
...On Wednesday Sir Charles Trev...
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Vol. 14 • October 1932 • No. 15
