The Workers of Puerto Rico Build a Great Socialist Party
Iglesias, Santiago
by Santiago Iglesia The Workers of Puerto Rico Build a Great Socialist Party Igletias Tell* of Early Struggles — "Intellectuals" Denounce Socialists as "Conservative." r[E Socialist Party of...
...Southern Methodist University Library, Dallas: Public Library, Dallas: Public Library, Commerce St, Dallas...
...We've even had two ministers deliver good Socialist talks...
...They are out on strike for the second week...
...Pottstown Labor Lyceum Library, Pottstown...
...Allentown Free Library, Allentown Rhode Island Westerly Public Library, Westerly...
...Ohio State University, Columbus: Western Reserve University Library, Cleveland...
...The bill, introduced by Senator Black, of Alabama, being basle thereto...
...Our traditional reactionaries are astonished at the thought that this might happen, and they attack any democratic system which might permit and tolerate it...
...Read it and ict accordingly...
...LuborResearch Library of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh: Logan Square Library, Philadelphia...
...May I please say that while this commuting every day from the Bronx to Lynbrook, on top of the arduous job of organizing, has me pretty well frazzled, still I'm not responsible for the way some of the sentences in these articles have been getting balled up...
...In previous weeks lists of public libraries were printed, in which The New Leader was on file, but in which it will not appear in the forthcoming year unless some friend sends in a subscription for that purpose...
...That means they are practically penniless...
...Cleveland Public Library, Cleveland, Public People's Horns Library, Cleveland...
...Pennsylvania Public Library, Wyomisslng...
...Labor College of Philadelphia, Philadelphia...
...Elwood City Public Library, Corry...
...The nobility of its ideals, the generosity, altruism and enthusiasm of its organizers and orators gave the capitalistic and intellectual people examples of devotion and public spirit in the face of all the oppressive administrations...
...Two-Edged Assaults On the other hand the intellectuals of the bourgeoisie accuse us of being conservative...
...And second to the satisfaction this renewed hope has given me is the > positive joy I've gotten from of the help of the comrades in Nsssau County...
...It always predicated social justice with the example of...
...Free Public Library, Bcottdale: Public Library, Milton...
...After summarizing the criticism if capitalism inherent in Technocracy and in the report of the President's Committee on Social Trends, the resolution calls upon Congress to enact legislation as follows: Enactment of a law establishing the 6-hour day and the 5-day week in basic industries and transportation...
...Texas Electra Public Library, Electra...
...It hopes to establish and consecrate in the country s socially and industrially democratic community...
...In fact, we were about to be locked out of our headquarters because the promised rent money was, not forthcoming...
...Our Victories The first municipality conquered by the orgsnized workingmen was that of Arecibo, won by more than 4,000 votes...
...Keep It in the Libraries...
...It does mean though, that once you have gotten their attention and presented your case simply and clearly, the chances of having them stick are almost 100...
...East Greenwich Public Library, East Greenwich...
...In the Lynbrook factory we even have a couple of "linke...
...When our Socialist Party originated it was denounced as criminal revolutionary madness and as a social peril which was inspired by irresponsible and subversive men...
...Usually, too, they have some sort of union experience and background...
...It was the men in the first days of the strike who constantly wept on my shoulder because they were sure the girls wouldn't stick...
...Santiago Iglesias (the writer) was elected senator of Puerto Rico in the year 1917 by 21,492 votes, in 1920 by 61,231, in 1924 by 55,679 and in 1928 by 67,-990 votes...
...Passage of the Frazler bill, and a moratorium on sales of homes for non-payment of taxes by destitute farmers and unemployed workers...
...Tennessee McGhee Lawson, Knoxville...
...Help from the Socialists And while we don't talk Socialism to the strikers, I do make it no> business every day to mention that the women and men who have been helping us in the strike are all Socialists...
...The Minister of Labor of the Republic of Spain, Mr...
...Kensington Labor Lyceum, Philadelphia...
...By Gertrude Weil Klein A Woman's Point of View The Girl...
...Largo Caballero, defining his ideal with regard to freedom, the country and the sovereignty of the peoples and "Spanish-Americanism," expressed the following thoughts: "We, the authentic liberals, the Spanish republicans and Socialists, place freedom even above the country...
...I declared myself guilty of the first two accusations throughout '"is Island...
...Dept...
...It's made me more hopeful than I have been at any other time during these past dark years...
...Here we have a group of 65 women and girls, some of them only 15 years old, most of them not over 21, who have never heard anything about unions before...
...Federal appropriations for public works and roads, reforestation, slum clearance and homes for workers, by the federal government, states and cities...
...Bryn Mawr College Library, Hrvn Mawr...
...Slovania National Library, Cleveland...
...Corsicana Library, Corslcana...
...It considers this disgraceful and not compatible with the civil dignity of the Nation when proclaiming the union of Puerto Rico with the people of the United States...
...Ohio Wesleyan Library,.Delaware...
...It seems wall to remember that •race the beginning of the prop-•*»nda of social ideals and the or-S*«i*ation of the workingmen in l897...
...Ask Gertrude Stone and Florence Mulfordl How can the Socialist Party come closer to the exploited workers...
...What can you do with a bunch of girls...
...of Eco., Marietta...
...McClymonds Public Library, Mas-si Ion...
...Ohio Marietta College...
...South Dakota Vermillion Public Library, Vermillion...
...There is a whole lot more, then, than meets the eye, when I say that the men are sticking with the girls, because, draw what .conclusions you will, that is the way the situation has swung around...
...I had no responsibility in the third accusation...
...Senator Devoid aaid that there s nothing new in Technocracy, l-t i ipular interest in the word gave lim an opportunity to propose his esolution...
...Philosophy Dept., Granville...
...The spirits of the person and parties dominating the direction of the people, in their official, industrial and political character, were blind, ignorant, oppressive, selfish and unjust...
...Birth of the Socialist Party The Socialist Party supported by the organised labor movement as represented by the American Federation of Labor, surged vigorously after many years of sacrifices, conquering a position of responsibility in the public life of Puerto Rico...
...Ask Comrade Winnie Branstetter, who delivered a beautiful talk...
...Most of them are getting "hail Columbia" at home from parents, husbands or brothers for doing such a crazy thing as going ~on strike when millions are unemployed and thousands are starving...
...Franklin and I'arshal' Library, Lancaster...
...A compulsory system of unemployment insurance and old age pensions for men and women sixty years of age and over...
...Whenever there is a strike in a country town, the union organizers look to the men to be its backbone...
...South Carolina Carnegie Free Library, Gaffnoy...
...I'm getting a great deal of satisfaction just knowing some of these girls and women...
...The first meeting of protest organized by the Socialist Party to defend the people of Puerto Rico was held in 1899 at Cooper Union in New York where Morris Hill-quit and others spoke...
...My prominent opponents accuse me of being a "social per-turber" and a "socialist revolutionist" and of having been born in Galicia, Spain...
...The authorities, the financiers, the employers and political leaders of Puerto Rico would not tolerate an independent political and economic organisation of the workingmen to raise their citizenship and standard of living...
...In November, 1932, he was elected Resident Commissioner in Washington by nearly lfO.OOO votes of the Social' ' Party only and 110,000 votea of the Union Republicans, about 210,000 votes against 170,000 votes of his opponents...
...IN every mail The New Leader * receives letters from friends urging that this paper be placed in every library in the country, especially at this time when so many workers are unable to afford to renew their subscription...
...Herewith is printed another installment of the list of such libraries...
...Carnegie Library, Abilene...
...PAUL.—Sana tor A. O. Devoid, for many years Socialist member of the upper house of the Minnesota legislature, brought the popular interest in Technocracy into public life by introducing a resolution reciting the criticism of capitalist economics inherent .herein, and memorialising Con-grsae to pass a program of thoroughgoing labor legislation...
...The Socialist Party of Puerto Rico rejects all formulas of a colonial government...
...Carnegie Free Library, Swiss vale...
...Ask Comrades Patten and Christtanson and the Sten-holms/ There have been other comrades, whose names I don't knew, helping quietly on the sidelines...
...Which motion prevailed...
...SEN...
...They advise this in order to overturn as soon as possible the present social and political system, destroying the "American political and eapitalittie system" and establishing another eomplett system of the native patriotic and American capitalist proclaiming political IndeGndence and separation from the sited States...
...If we only had the money and the people to do the work...
...Enactment of legislation permitting agricultural, industrlsl and transportation groups, through cooperative efforts, to plan production and regulate employment under governmental control, by repeal of the Sherman Anti-Trust Law, if necessary, and Senator Devoid also moved that the Secretary of the Senate be Instructed to ascertain which members of the Senate desire the union label placed upon their stationery and to place the union label on the stationery of those members who so desire...
...What can Socialists do in a labor struggle...
...Hanover Public Library, Hanover...
...Carnegie Free Library, Madison...
...And yet' these girls are holding on, determined to see the strike through...
...There isn't much money in these times to begin with...
...I'm not really batty yet It must be the printer...
...Adequate minimum wage laws, and the abolition of child labor...
...Ohio University, Athens...
...Higher Income and inheritance taxes...
...I have ecn labor ir in Puerto Rico for 82 years, I was in Cuba ten years lending my assistance in their struggle for freedom and human justice, as well as in the United States, Mexico and everywhere...
...The Socialist Party frankly declared itself against secession and maintains in its program that "The influence of the people of the United States in the destiny of Puerto Rico, has been, is and will be civilizing, and that the extension of the Constitution bt Puerto Rico represents a positive guarantee of the public and political liberties convenient and favorable to the enjoyment of the Individual rights...
...Houston Public Library, Houston...
...Usually the men are from the city...
...Bala Cynwyd Library, Bala Cynwyd...
...Yes, the people who came around found that there was plenty for them to do...
...Dead wood Public Library, Deadwood...
...the manumission of the peasant and the worker and proclaimed the civil, economic and social emancipation of the chained and enslaved masses Professionals from the capitalist world entered the ranks of th Socialist Party now, some of them as convinced and sincere defenders of the generosity and justice of the sew ideas...
...DEYOLD URGES SOCIALIST PROGRAM ST...
...I YN BROOK, L. I.—I've never been a feminist and I've never gotten excited about man's inhumanity to women, and of course I'm not a man-hater, but if there's one thing that was knocked into a cocked hat by our little strike in Lynbrook it is the notion that women are inferior to men in quickness of understanding, in loyalty and in spirit...
...State Sanatorium, Hamburg...
...can be answered by a decisive "yes" or "no...
...More thst that: we believe that a country without freedom, a country which denies freedom to the sons of her soil, and to the brothers of other lands, cannot be the country of any free man...
...The Socialist Party and their leaders are accused of having aroused and misled the proletarian conscience because we think and act with the idea that all the people should have an opportunity of living honorably and decently and of complying with their duties and enjoying the full human and civil rights...
...I really do believe that it is possible to bring about a great change in the outlook and disposition of the workers...
...For many reasons the union Is very slow in helping with relief money...
...The Men The men—there are about a dozen of them-*-are sticking with the girls, of course...
...Carnegie Public Library, uron...
...This week...
...Are Sticking Nobly —And the Men Are Helping, Too—And the Socialists...
...They advise us, with sinister political ends, to stimulate a more revolutionary-Social, radical and racial spirit within the Socialist Party...
...Union College Library, Alliance...
...Carnegie Library, Bryan...
...Ent and Eden Home Library, Library...
...Auburn Public Library, Providence...
...Public Library, Tarentum...
...At the outset of the career of our party the organized labor movement of human freedom in public life in the Island it was rudely and harshly opposed...
...and others perhaps with the malicious education of the reigning social political reaction...
...This does not mean that the much debated question in union circles, "Can Women Be Organized...
...r[E Socialist Party of Puerto Rico has just elected seven lenators and fourteen representatives to the Insular Legislature and the Resident Commissioner to Washington...
...Free Library, Indiana...
...It has also elected various mayors and other in-tular and municipal officials...
...the fields of Puerto Rico are •8wn with struggles and continuous personal and collective sacrifices, imprisonments, deaths and sufferings...
...Oklahoma City Library, Comanche...
...And then the practical difficulties of sparing someone to travel the distances from the city to take care of financial obligations create all sorts of trouble...
Vol. 15 • January 1933 • No. 3
