Thomas Appeals for Rand School

...Despite this support, and despite the fact that these groups merged their efforts and called upon the senators in a body to urge the passage of the bill, the old argument of...

...sThe mother end five chu-dren had no chance to escape, bat Comrade Sanders snd • daught* of 11 happened to be away st tss time and escaped the lire...

...But I do want to leave some sort of message about it The Rand School is the oldest end largest labor school in the country...

...If this is class e l a b o r a t i o n mnke the most I of it...

...John Dewey, leading American philosopher and educator, called upon "the friends of enlightenment and sound adult education" to support the school's drive for $17,000 to avert a foreclosure...

...Hoopes and Lilith Wilson havt not let up in their attacks upon the gag rules adopted in the Houat* for the purpose of quelling the ever-imminent Socialist motions to discharge committees which srt pickling bills which would girt some advantage, however slight, to the workers of the state...

...A Battle Won Even if they had been licked, I'm sure they would have been happier than the workers who are licked without even going into the ring...

...of humankind...

...But these girls have learned something that they will never forget;, it's in their bones now...

...It would be a calamity to the civic life of the community, since the headquarters of the school also house a large ¦¦III If at offices of organised labor and ether agencies whose activities reach out into the life of the city, and area* by means of correspondence courses,and extension work and the summer camp, late the life of state aad nation...

...Practicai'y all the shirt workers In the State of Connecticut have been organ ized—about 2,700 o' them- -a.nl their employers navt signed up with -the Amalgamated...

...Founded in the pure spirit of idealism, it has for yesrs been a centre of light in a field of study and research, which has all too long been left in darkness...

...We cannot be saved by any Gabriel over the White House...

...Some of them are...

...and it's cold and rainy...

...Comrade Sanders has oeen sett* in the Socialist movement »T years...

...Which reminds me that a group of the strikers of the Lynbrook' facto'ry oi ganized last winter eel*, brated May Day with the So-cialists of Nassau County and had a perfectly grand time...

...to such a move...

...Holmes declared: John Haynes Holmes "The long and honorable history of the Rand School should be the guarantee of its growing influence and power in the future...

...These are the people who serve as yeast for the new order which is now being fomented m suffering and turmoil...

...There is no cause worthier or bigger...

...Their own hold on an income of any kind is so precarious that their action is doubly admirable...

...A few months ago these girls were just as ignorant of union, just as frightened at the approach of an organizer,, just as stubborn in their determination to have nothing to do with strikes as the girls upstairs...

...Throughout the country graduates of this school are active In labor and politics...

...It wu almost like a reunion of old friends with Winnie Branstetter, her daughter Gertrude Stone, Mrs, Mulforu and a host of others, who had been with them in their strike, on the reception committee, The Shirt Makers The shirt strike is spreading into every coiner and hideaway where a shirt factory exists...

...Dewey's appeal was supported by the Rev...

...Dewey, accepting an honorary chairman of the drive of the Rand School and the People's House, said: "It would be a calamity for the Rand School to be compelled to close its doors...

...They included a theatre party at "Alice in Wonderland," a special Viennese party in the Rand School studio, a lunch party at the home of Mrs...

...By Richard Rohman Thomas Appeals for Rand School DRIOR to his departure on a * speaking tour, Norman Thomas made an appeal to save the Rand School from being forced to close its doors...

...Dear Gertrude: Where Is that new picture you were promising us...

...The' Rand School mast not five Up...

...Rumors in the House are that the old guard Republicans will make a special effort to defeat the Socialist Hoopes for re election...

...Continuing hk frontal attack on the dormancy of the House, Hoopes demanded ac-tion on the 44-hour week for bill for women which had bets passed, and now was postponed by the Committee on Sanitation...

...Theuaanda of young sjtisja have been enlightened and fcv spired by Ha ministration*, |p lata the world to bring liberatha to the downtrodden and oppressi...

...Gentle little Perina even tries to help me argue with the two women we trailed into the bakery shop...

...that Pennsylvania was fast becoming the last refuge of sweat-shop labor, pointing out that is some places wages were as low at 35 cents per week...

...I look at the shabby men marching up and down with their placards, some of them fine old Americans with gray hair, many without overcoats...

...It will, therefore, be nothing short of a tragedy— perhaps something close to calamity—if the educational institutions working with, by and for labor are now compelled by the adversities of this time of depression to close their doors...

...By Gertrude Weil Klein The "Sticks" and Strikes Again Back to the Picket Line;' Strike Spirit in Long...

...It would be a calamity for the thousand and more students, men and women, old and young, who, laboring through the day, depend upon the services of the school for enlightenment and refreshment...

...It would be a calamity to Intelligent, untrammeled thought and speech everywhere...

...Hoopes successfully opposed Turner's chairmanship of a committee to study the Old Age Pensions question, on the ground that Turner was known to be oppose...

...They know that they fought a good fight, that people respected them for it and they've gained in their own self-respect...

...The Reading Socialists have become thorns in the sides of the corporation serving politicians...

...Is, they make the shirts for manufacturers located in either New York or Philadelphia, and it is one of the delicate jobs of the organization to see that a stable basis is established among the contractors making the same grade of shirts...

...I gather together the girls from another factory in the same town, unionized a short time ago, and we serenade the girls upstairs...

...What must be done with the Rand School is to make it better equipped and ever more aggressive in the service of the great cause of Socialism which is the cause of labor with hand and brain throughout the world...

...Arrived in the town I hurry over to the picket line, and the boss hurries over to me...

...Pinchot's , wife marches with the kids every | ! day and the State Department of ^ a b o r has also been giving the strikers a helping hand...

...For twenty-six years a group of idealists have maintained an institution where a'person rich only in desire for learning and poor otherwise could get a decent education in the social sciences...

...John Dewey Appeals Calling it a calamity if the Rand School were compelled to close its doors, Prof...

...precedent" was used to defeat it...

...The next territory to be invaded is New Jersey and work has begun there this week...

...I just ask whether the jail is a nice one...

...Desperately Needed "Never was there such interest in the problems of the workers as today in the United States...

...The school is making a desperate campaign to raise $17,000 to prevent a foreclosure of the People's House, the home of the school and a score of kindred institutions...

...luring Klias Tartak on modem Russian poetry, with Russian songs, and an outing planned for Saturday, June 10...

...So schools for the study of social sciences are today more important than the office of the League of Nations or the White House...

...Vladeck Joins Thomas was joined yesterday in his plea for the Rand School by B. C. Vladeck, who said: "It is becoming increasingly clear to all who are interested in the present state of the world that it isn't lack of money but lack of knowledge that keeps our civilization in suspense...

...The windows are always closed when I ride by...

...The bulk of the factories in theie | towns are contract shops...

...John Haynes Holmes, pastor of the Community Church, who in a similar statement declared, the Rand School "is one of the institutions of which New York should be most proud, and its citizens should now rally wholeheartedly to its support...

...If the people of the world knew one hundredth part as much about the ills of the social body as they know about the ills of the human body, there wouldn't be so many starving millions...

...We cannot let capitalism in the hour of its doom drive to destruction those forces and institutions in which are the germs of new life for the future...

...The Band School has been among the foremost agendas in the country for the promotion of economic literacy and political understanding...

...In Pennsylvania Gov...

...PNROUTE to the "Sticks"— Beautiful little villages spotted with occasional dingy factor} fuildings...

...The huge Sunshine Biscuit factory with all that young womanhood shut away from" the sunshine...

...Calling it "nothing short of a traged)* if the school shut down in its 27th year of existence, the Socialist leader declared: "I regret that my absence from town makes it impossible for me U» speak to friends, either seen or unseen, at any- meeting or over the radio, in behalf of the Rand School...

...Dr...

...Since it is impossible to do this at one and the same moment, the manufacturer who is organized first must get some protection from the union...

...So far a 10 per cent increase has bc^n , granted...

...This action baa been typical of the Legislature during the session that has Jut been adjourned...

...I know the firm pays as little as $8 a week to its lining cutters (in this factory the cutters responded to the strike call first), and I feel like telling the inquiring employer, "Oh, go roll your hoop...

...Most of the girls won't even come down for lunch, but they watch us out of the windows...

...But this again requires much money and time and people...

...Joining Dr...

...It has fought without fear or favor for, the truth, and taught truth in utter freedom of spirit aad with unfailing eon*.' age...

...Never was there such need for educational work...

...Island—The Shirt Makers...

...The joy that reactionary forces would take in its dosing is a measure of its standing and usefulness...

...Dnrine- the strike shesperftpractically all of her time with the strikers and I also understand that they/ were part of the Peekskill May Day celebration...

...We sing "Organize Unions" to the tune of "Roll 'Em, Girls, Roll 'Em/ sing it with vigor and spirit...

...are his first words...

...Louis SadofT, and a bridge and auction party at the home of Mrs...

...We have shorter hours," she tells them and I feel like hugging her right then and there...

...Do you want to get arrested...

...It is engaged in the vitally necessary work of training the workers to be the effective force for their own emancipation and for the establishment of the cooperative commonwealth from which poverty and war will be banished...

...It mast expand and grow and fulfill its mission...

...It is because of this belief that I am so much interested in the Rand School for Social Science...

...Dewey in his appeal, Dr...

...Thst...

...The exercises will P» held Sunday, May 14, at 1 p. "»•¦ in the burial grounds of Mt Lebanon, the cemetery of the Workmen's Circle...

...Who's talking to you anyway...

...Valenstein, has taken the recently unionised factory ir that town under her wing in just this war...

...Goldsmith's sombre lines: III fare* the land to hastening ills a pre* Where wealth accumulates and men decay . .. more true today than ever...

...I That's why it's virtually imperative to organize a whole industry at one time...

...If some one only had the time to keep in constant contact with such girls, teach them the full significance of the fight they are in, make them feel part of the whole labor movement...

...And the gains are not always visible to the naked eye...

...tey won their strike, but that doesn't mean they have Utopia in their shop now...

...fighting against something so terrifying in its size and spread, so distracting in its mercurial ouality—here today and there tomorrow—that there is a striking element of gallantry in it —a dazzling thread in the whole rather dark weave...

...This is tentative and j subject to developments in the Pennsylvania territory...

...I understand that op in Peekskill one of our active comrades, Mrs...

...Some day, perhaps, we will begin to understand that no real political success is possible without a solid foundation in knowledge, in learning, In idealism...

...The workers, who have agitated for the passage of the old-age pension, were supported by the Taxpayers' Protective League and the Buildings and Trades Council of Reading...

...The Rand Seams) is one of the institutions of what New York should be most proaf, and Ha citizens should now nay wholeheartedly to it* support" • A number of successful events were held this week to advance tat campaign of the Rand School aad the People's House for 117,000 at order to continue their activities...

...Although the bill has been passed by two House sessions and one Senate session, the representatives refused to take need...

...They will determine our future to a greater extent than any election or act of legislation...

...The old guard, however, maintained his ideas and defeated a motion to remove the Pension Bill from the hands of the Committee on Gratuities and Pensions, a group known to be opposed To all progressive and necessary moves...

...SANDERS UNVEILING The comrades and friends of Abe Sanders are again in'imei of the unveiling of the k.ionument to his wife and five children whs lost thoir lives in a tenement Art last April...

...If the factories are unionized in one state which comPstes directly with a neighboring •tate which Is non-unionized, the •Be state may have union but It *ttn't have bundles, while the other *t»te will have bundles and no mnon...

...Your public demands act'on.— E d ] \ —• At Close of Session Hoopes And Lilith Wilson Continue Battle for Worker's Rights | jJARRISBURG, Pa.—In an ef-* * fort to shirk his obvious responsibility, Senator Norton, Berks Republican, ran away from the vote here last week...

...Events scheduled for futurt dates include a theatre party a "Run, Little Chillun'," the Negro folk-play at the Lyric Theatre oi Monday, May 15, a Russian evening at the Rand School studio, Wednesday evening, May 24, fee...

...Be told the old party representative...

...Its friends and the friends of enlightenment and sound adult education must see to it that its great work is not brought to a close for lack of funds...

...That is, the employer would have made a further reduction in the wages of the operators (people who do the sewing are operators) in order to give an Increase to the cutters...

...He's had an awful run of hard luck," the others say, but they feci sure hell come out eventually...

...This in itsel* is amazing...

...Workers with hand and brain must act, act together and act intelligently...

...This the cutters—all except one-refused and walked out One Remained There is no bitterness against the one cutter who remained cutting...

...As soon as the organization drive started the cutters . were offered an increase in pay, at the expense of the operators...

...Any organizer will tell you that after a shop is unionized there is frequently more trouble than before...

...With the General Assembly of Pennsylvania ready to adjourn, the failure of the two houses to do anything of a constructive naturt for the advancement of Labor's interests stands out like a sort thumb," is Darlington Hoopes' description of the state law-making bodies...

...Sophie L. Turbo*, ehairnua of the Women's Committee of tat Rand School...

...Alex Cohen, the manager of the Shirtmakers' Joint Board and leading the strike, isn't exactly dancing in the streets, hut he says that an excellent start has been made...

...It happens to be one of those • things that an honest-to-goodness labor leader—not the picket-line I picnicker—is up against daily...

...But I don't...

...And funds, witl few people, with practically no c oopera-tion from outside the labor unions—in the needle trades, a t any rate— f i ghting eve rlast-ingly, with 1 i mited sources...