Banking Dictators Notify Congress They'll Not Tolerate Union Labor
Banking Dictators Notify Congress They'll Not Tolerate Union Labor CROM the upper reaches of the American financial * throne has come an imperial order to the Senate Finance Committee at...
...WashHpsTto...
...Speakers: Samuel K. Beardsley, Man Danish, Edward F. Cassidy, Ma* /.in it si, j, and others...
...The industry stands positively for the open shop...
...They were given until Fridsy, Msy 26th, to come into the Joint Committee...
...It is part of the series of summer schools and conferences held by the Socialist party in every part of the country...
...New Hampshire became the 12th state to ratify the child labor amendment to the federal constitution, the first 16 ratify in the industrial East...
...Robert P. Lamont, president of the American Iron and Steel Inatitute, told the committee that it will not tolerate legislation favoring union* in the iron and steel industry...
...On May 27 the Senate passed the Emergency Kail Coordination Bill which carries a labor clause and the House committee has also approved this clause...
...ITalloway and Jack Herling...
...But the meeting split on two questions, first of which was the carrying political and organization banners...
...Those seeking reservations should communicate at once with G. August Gcrber, 7 East 15th Street...
...A Shocking Demonstration However, this meeting had just ended when a parade of Communists uiisier the guise of the Provisional United Front Committee provoked an almost unbelievable situation...
...a Socialist Commonwealth would end the impudent reign of these kings...
...For more information apply at the Joint Picnic Committee at 7 East 15th Street, or call Algonquin 4-2u2Qg, Congress Calk for July 4th Celebrations /CHICAGO*—A series of Fourth of July celebrations In thou ssnds of cities and towns of the nation wss urged this week in S call sent out by the Continental Congress of Farmers and Workers...
...John L. Packard and Lilith M. Wilson...
...The steel kings will not tolerate an organized working class...
...The full program follows: Saturday, June 17, 4 p. m., "New Tendencies in the Trade Union Movement and Their Lesson for the Socialist Party...
...The conference will be the first of its kind held by the party in New York, and will be the first of a series of annual events...
...Those voting for it Morris Hillquit, National Chairman...
...Although the Councils' delegates stated at the opening of the conference that they had "full power" to set, at ths end, in a statement, they elsimed thst "only the top leaders'* were represented...
...JOBLESS PRESENT DEMANDS TO MAYOR Hold Demonstration at ¦ Battery — Communists Spit on Speaker...
...Camp Eden, at Cold-Springs on the Hudson, is run by the Socialist party and rates for the two days, including bus or auto transportation, are exceptionally low...
...12 STATES RATIFY CHILD LABOR ACT WASHINGTON...
...Here is the Senate on record in favor of organization of workers on the railways and against any form of coercion in support of company unions...
...G. Becker, Charles Zimmerman, Beatrice Klin, Amicus Most and A. §L Weinfeld...
...The attempt of the Communists to capture the platform at Battery Place marked their final gesture at a "United Front" The Joint Committee will continue its pressure against city authorities for adequate relief allowances until their demands are I met...
...Speakers: James Oneal, Samuel A. DeWitt, Bela Low, William M. Feigenbaum, August Claessens, and others...
...Already more than 50 organizations, among them many Trade Unions, Socialist Party branches, branches of the Workmens' Circle and other labor fraternal bodies, have ordered large blocks of tieknts...
...it is unalterably opposed to the closed shop," said Lamont, spokesman for the Morgan-dominated iron and steel kings...
...There was a spurt •f interest again this year, and •fht more legislatures have al*»ay ratified...
...At one moment they Klled "W« Want a United Front," e nert they would be ipitting poet' the upeakert...
...One section reads as follows : "No Judge or trustee acting under this Art shall deny or in any way question the right of employes on the property under his jurisdiction to join the labor organizations of their choice, and it shall be unlawful for any judge, trustee, or receiver to interfere in any way with the organizations of employes, or to use the funds of the railroad under his jurisdiction, in maintaining so-called company unions, or to influence or coerce employes in an effort to induce them to join or remain members of such company unions...
...The city," answered the Mayor, "will use all available resources for She unemployed...
...As s last effort s delegation of three, David Lasser, Jack Rubenstein and Jack Altman, appeared before the Communist Provisional Committee and urged it to permit the four Unemployed groups to manage the demonstration on a non-political basis...
...When a final question wss asked of each delegation, "Will you sbide hy the decision of the majority In the plans for the demonstration...
...N. E. C. Bars Unauthorized 'United Front' Activities - /CHICAGO.— No subdivision of the Socialist party will be permitted to cooperate or combine with the Communist party or any of its affiliates or camouflaged "innocents' clubs" for any purpose without the specific consent of the National Executive Committee, it is an nounced from national headquarters here...
...The Unemployed Councils alone stood out for them...
...Sunday, June 18, 9 a. m„ "Thi Revolt of the Farmers — What Program Can the Socialist Party Offer to Them'.'" Discussion leader, Algernon Lee...
...The parade and demonstration marked the first united front of three of the four city-wide unemployed organizations and was led by Jack Altinan, Leonard Kaye, A. G. Becker, David Lasser, Mrs...
...A vote was also token on the attitude toward the two political conferences already alluded to...
...Those who voted in the negative were Norman Thomas, Powers Hapgood, Albert Sprsgus Coolidge u4 Leo M. KriyckL Record-Breaking Picnic Forecast for July 29th MF.W YORK Socialists and sym pathetic organizations will open the municipal campaign with the greatest record attendance at their annual picnic in Ulmer Park, Brooklyn, on Saturday, July 29, it is expected...
...Morgan was in Washington unfolding the methods by which his empire avoided paying income tax returns...
...The Workers' Unemployed Leagues, not having been a party to united front negotiations previously, had called for support for a demonstration by the Socialist and Labor Conference...
...Mil i,,if.in will hold its convention nt H.itile ('reek, June 25th, it i announced hy Walter Bergman, oi\eiiiji Illinois, through W. B. Wiiitmire, convenor, announces a reinvention at Springfield July 22nd and 5!3rd, while Ohio announces its convention at Columbus Aug...
...the Unemployed Councils again alone refused...
...The New Jersey convention will I).' held ul Trenton June 11th, with Norman Thomas and Rev...
...They are maintained to weed out any workers who try to organize...
...The Unemployed Councils, although nominally sn orgsnizstion of the unemployed, slone refused to exclude political questions from the demonstration...
...It provides that Congress "shall h»ve power to limit, regulate and prohibit the labor of persons under eighteen years of age...
...Since the bloody Homestead struggle of some forty years ago organization of workers has been outlawed in all but some independent plants, but the company union fraud has been cultivated...
...Norman Thomas, speaking for the Socialists, made a strong appeal for a new deal for the jobless facing starvation and eviction by the thousands...
...Maryland announces a convention and mass meeting nl llngcrstown on July 12th...
...On this bssis s conference wss called by the Workers' Committee for Msy 23rd, st which five representatives of each of the four organizations, including the Unemployed Councils, participated...
...The negotiations began'with sn offer, early in May, from the Unemployed Councils to the Workers' Committee on Unemployment for a united front, who agreed, provided no political banners would be displayed and the demonstration were msde a purely unemployed affair...
...This request wss grsnted, snd support for the demonstration was voted by the Socialist and Labor Conference...
...The lirst order of business st every meeting Is to be the reading of the new economic Declaration of Independence adopted at the Washington Congress on May tith and 7th...
...3 p.m., "The Unrest of the Youth How Can We Appeal to Them...
...For United Action For hours, the four unemployed grpups explored the basis for united action...
...nir ul' the Printing and Die Simtipei"' Union, convenor for that ui.i...
...This answer to the drive of the Communists for what they call a "united front from below"—that is, an appeal to the membership and subdivisions of the party over the heads of the organization—is in the form of a National Executive Committee resolution, reading, "No state committee, local or other subdivision of the Socialist party may cooperate or combine with the Communist party or any part or affiliate of It without the consent of the National Executive Committee...
...Fran...
...Kiiigdon as principal speakers, it Is announced by Herman K. si...
...The workers have strong unions on the railroads but practically none in the steel industry...
...The steel industry in many ways is the dominating industry of the nation...
...The Nationad Executive Committee of the German Social Democracy has moved its headquarters from Berlin to tie city, whence it will conduct illegal revolutionary activities in Germany...
...Although an open clash wss karely averted, the situation repealed the end of nes lv four weeks of negotiations with the Unemployed Councils for a united demonstration...
...The number of orders thus far exceeds previous years...
...The roster of states that have JMified the amendment is as folI »we: Arizona, Arkansas, CaliforI Ms, Colorado, Montana, Wisconsin, tf'rth Dakota, Ohio, Oregon...
...Speakers: Gus Tyler, Irving Barshop, Ethel Schachner, Juliufl Umansky, and others...
...Indeed, states that had fledged ratification suddenly fort«t all about it...
...In no industry are spies so thick as in the steel empire of the Morgans...
...It remains to be seen whether the imperial taxdodgers, those" who order wage slashes in industry, dictate policies to local governments and take care of high politicians with stocks offered far below the market rate, will get away with this latest exhibition of ruling class insolence...
...The three unemployed organizations that finally put on Tuesday's demonstration voted that a committee should approach both the Socialist and Labor Conference and the Provisional Committee, and urge both to permit the demonstration to be held under the rules of the unemployed groups...
...The fl5,000,000 asked for, considered necessary for a minimum of subsistence, met only •Wised smiles from the Board of Estimate members...
...One spokesman of the Morgan oligarchy serves notice that no such clause shall become a part of the larger bill that takes in industry in general...
...German Party Moves Executive to Prague (Special Cable) DRAG UK, Czechoslovakia...
...The New York conference will offer a series of discussions on "Opportunities for Socialism and How to Make Use of Them," with brief prepared talks on various sub-divisions and participation by the audience...
...This request was refused...
...A committee is nt work rounding up o'g.uils • i i.l i to send delegates and a highly ."U'cessful convention is anticipated...
...N DARAD1NG several thousand ¦ strong, unemployed workers united as the Joint Committee of the Association of the Unemployed, the Workers' Committee on Unemployment and the Workers' Unemployed Leagues, passed through New York's lower Kast Side Tuesday, and marching past City Hall shouting demands for increased relief, invaded the Wall Street district to a mass meeting at the Battery...
...Michigan, and New Hamp. The Amendment will he number|JJ( *!" 2iM- unless the repeal of iffohihltion )r,.|, ratifications PJ in that case it will be the EDEN CONFERENCE TO CLARIFY ISSUES ¦RESERVATIONS arc beginning to come in fast for the twoday outing and conference at Camp Eden June 17 and 18, it is announced by August Claessens, Socialist party organizer...
...By Msy 27th they hsd not been heard from, and s committee of three visited the Socialist snd Lsbor Conference to urge it to permit the three groups to msnage the demonstration on its own terms...
...Welsh, Chairman, Norman Thomas, C. B. Jenkins, Noah Walters, Jack Walsh, 'A...
...9 p.m., entertainment, social and dance, music and fun, Circle 8 symphony orchestra, Socialist minstrel show, Rebel-Art follies...
...Joint Committee Plena Meanwhile, the Joint Committee, composed of the three groups, went on with its plans with David Lesser ss temporary chsirmsn, snd sgain offered ths Unemployed Councils participation on a basis of equality...
...The statement was made even while J. 1...
...After four states had ratified Interest in the amendment on the Part of the two old parties sud*«">ly died...
...The July 4th rallies are to be made the occasion for voicing the militant demands for unemployment relief and industrial reform as drawn up at the Washington Congress...
...All organizations can utilize this festival as a means of realizing substantial profits for their own treasuries or special funds by purchasing blocks of tickets at very reduced rates...
...At City Hall, a committee including Mary Fox, David Lasser, Alfred Moss, A. C. Weinfeld, Frank Crosswaith and A. G. Becker, presented to Mayor O'Brien and the Board of Estimate a demand for an appropriation of $15,000,000 for relief for the month of June...
...Discussion leader, Emil Rieve, President, Full Fashion Hosiery Workers...
...The Unemployed Councils, meanwhile, had apparently turned aside from the original proposals and had called into' being the Provisional Committee, which included the Communist Party officially, the Trade Union Unity League, and other Communist organizations...
...James D. Graham, Daniel W. Hoan, Darlington Hoopes, Jasper Mi Levy...
...Should the clause in the bill providing for genuine unions remain there is little doubt that these powerful kings will resort to the courts to prevent their wage slaves taking advantage of it...
...The state executive committee of the Socialist party, ut a meeting lust week, voted to accept the Invitation to participate in the state Congress and to certify ill dolegates from the party and its subdivisions to the Washington congress as delegates to the New York confess...
...At the Battery Place meeting, thousands cheered Ed...
...Alternating cries of "We want a United Front" with boos Snd catcalls directed at our speakers, attempting to force their speakers on to the platform, and hi most wrecking th« loudspeaker epparatus, the Communists displayed a temperament verging on the lunatic...
...This was Ignored...
...Discussion leader, William E. Bonn...
...It was psised by both houses of Congress hy more than the requisite twothirds majority and submitted to the state legislatures...
...The motion was made by Morris Hillquit...
...A large number of features will be provided for the amusement of the great turnout on this occasion...
...Banking Dictators Notify Congress They'll Not Tolerate Union Labor CROM the upper reaches of the American financial * throne has come an imperial order to the Senate Finance Committee at Washington...
...It protects the right of the workers to organize...
...Upon basic demands, 1 to be presented to the city, and a proposal for a demonstration by the four unemployed organizations there was a unanimous agreement...
...What Lamont calls the "open shop" Is the shop closed against genuine unions of the workers...
...The plans for the congress are in the hands of Louis Watdman, state chairman of the Socialist parly and state convenor elected by the New York State delegates at the Continental Congress...
...The amendment has been before the states since 1924...
...Discussion leader, Charles Solomon...
...NEW YORK CONGRESS TO BE HELD JULY 8-9 A NEW YORK Htuto Congresa **• for Economic Iteconstruction, i the stale offshoot of the Continental Congress held last month in I Washington, will he held in New York City July 8th and 9th...
...Speakers: Pierre De Nio of Delaware County, and Socialist farmers from the several counties in the Hudson River Valley...
...The vote on the motion was seven to four...
...11 a.m., "The Crisis and the Universal Demand for Action— What Remedies Do We Propose...
...Frank Crosswaith stressed the misery of the thou-' sands of Negro jobless in Harlem who face racial discrimination from the Home Relief authorities as well as extortion from Harlem landlords...
...If the idea is embodied in the National Industrial Recovery bill the steel magnates will block this program...
Vol. 15 • June 1933 • No. 23
