A Woman's Point of View

...The committee is headed by John H. Lonergen, president of the Building Trades Council of Hartford, chairman, and Kenneth Epstein, secretary, and among the members of the Executive Committee are Fred Cedarholm, Jasper McLevy, Samuel Feldman, Francis Henson and others...

...AH over the country girls sit at home night after sight, bored to the point of tears because they have no boy friends...

...The school holds that there must be a guaranteed decent wage for every worker whether employed or out of work, and this wage must have a minimum mark below which it cannot go in the new social order...

...They have mora than their share, and men don't make fortunes honestly...

...In Pennsylvania they've formed a Legislative League and women are not admitted...

...Those who voted Socialist did not throw their votes away...

...In the call for the conference It is stated that during the past few months Connecticut has become the happy hunting grounds for sweat-shoppers, driven out of New York by more stringent labor legislation and labor organizations...

...The go.,.sips do say that the Mm, is the...

...The conference ie called by a Joint Committee Against Sweatshops in Connecticut, and it has the backing of the labor and Socialist movement, many liberal organizations, clergymen and other citizens...

...All over the country groups of girls get together and go through the motions of having a wild time while a terrific amount of pretty fierce skirmishing goes on underneath for the attention of the few available males...

...It invites the co-operation and good will of all Workers and people who are interested in making human justice a reality...

...But an insufficiency of men is a calamity beside which an Insufficiency of bathrooms Is merely a comic Interlude...

...And so we have catty hen parties and a huge crop of potential old maids...

...And that's a lot of boy friends...

...But since the development of the depression into a steady star boarder, an entirely new type of young man is found anfong those "riding the rods...

...The kind- of boys who are swell company on a party and who eventually settle down as good husbands and doting fathers...

...Young men who were put through college at a great sacrifice by their parents and families find after they have finally acquired their degrees that they are in no position even to maintain themselves, much less to help support their families...

...And many of these fellows pose aa humanitarians and give to the Red Cross...

...his Socialist opponent for State Senator polled the largest Socialist veto In tha state...

...Certainly the newspapers are helping along this theory by record ing her every move and thought, There's no denying, the woman has boundless energy...

...The move ia to be combated energetically, and the endeavor Is to be made to strengthen the labor legislation of this state...

...A certain percentage of these are hoboes and tramps, of course, natural and incurable wanderers...

...and who declared in the last election campaign that he had worked hard for a certain piece of legislation and wished his legislative career to be Judged by it...

...They have both studied the various methods of adult education both in America and Europe, especially the folk high schools in Denmark...

...Maybe This Will Explain It 11/E have received a long, four" page mimeographed document, the text of a resolution introduced in the New York State Senate calling for an investigation into the gas and electric companies of the state and looking for a substantial reduction in gas and electric rates...

...They got the mountaineers' timber, hia coal, cattle, much of his land, and well nigh his soul...

...Eleanor or Mrs...

...The co-directors, Myles Horton and Don West, are from the common folk of the southern Highlands and acquainted with the hardships, poverty and abuse which have fallen the lot of these people —miners, farmers, mill workers, lumbermen and others of the laboring class...

...Harlan, Kentucky, ia a good example of the desolation and suffer, ing which comes with a cut-throat, dog eat-dog competitive capitalist system with no other purpose thaa private profit But Harlan is no worse than other ports of Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Tennessee...

...Business sharks have come in from the outside with an eye for exploitation...

...The preamble—or "whereasage" as it is technically known—consists of fifteen Whereases set one after the other, reciting the facts of life of our utilities that hitherto had been treated as though they were secrets, known only to Socialists and other radicals...

...And what is happening to the boys themselves is equally appalling...

...Toward the end it even became hilarious, like an exaggerated Dostoyevsky novel...

...Roosevelt, but who was elected to the Presidency anyway, Mr...

...Thousands of them are crippled and maimed in one way or another in their hazardous efforts to get around the country...

...This school proposes to take students over 18 years of age and offer education leading to a different system from one of graft, exploi...

...It's the aamo every place where selfish business has come in, whether in the mines, timber, or textile industry—where human life is held cheap...

...None of these are given...

...a Senator whose name is known to readers of newspapers principally as the beneficiary of a real estate deal in which he made a substantial sum for himself in the matter of a high school site...

...Because a few have too much, thousands upon thousands have too little...

...These we have always with us...

...I want them to stay away from my chair and let me make up my own feeble mind...

...I'm sick of feminine lobbyists," said one of the Representatives at the organisation of the Legislative League aa a non-partisan, nonpolitical forum...

...The five Resolves, with fifteen sub-divisions, likewise call for the sort of action that thus far has been demanded only by Socialists and other radicals...

...How many of them will be physical anc spiritual wrecks as long as the) live as a result of poor and insuffi cient food and irregular living, anc spiritual misfits because of theii frustration and disappointment at an impressionable age, we itisj never know...

...That is, I left a warm, roomy, quiet apartment to share a bleak room in an over-crowded country house where all the minor accidents which usually accompany a winter week-end in the country, from the giving way of the ice under one of the skaters to a general strike of the bathroom plumbing, duly accurred...

...about homeless, friendless and lonesome are over a million boys and men...

...It ia not a school in the sense of giving credits, diplomas, degrees, examinations and other rewards and measurements found in the conventional school system of today...

...Others succumb to pneumonia and other i illnesses due to exposure...

...Its solo interest is the cause of labor, both industrial and agricultural...

...You can never satisfy the men: They used to complain about the homeliness of women politicians (remember the cartoons of the suffragettes...

...And yet everything would have been quite all right except for one thing...

...Thousands of others who skip out because their presence at home means another mouth to feed and there isn't enough to go round...

...Now, appended to the resolution is the name of a Senator, hitherto know to fame mainly as a loyal henchman of John H. McCooey and of his satrap, Kenneth F. Sutherland (of whom the less said the better...

...tion and pri vate profit as its main motive...

...It recognizes the inevitable struggle of tho classes, and with no reservation, takes tho side of the proletariat...

...And the world doesn't want them...

...While the school is not officially connected with the Socialist Party it sponsors this movement aa one which will bring about a more humane condition of society...

...26th, has been undertaken with the object of influencing the Legislature in favor of anti-sweatshop legislation...

...Why hia suddenly discovered passion for the public welfare...

...There weren't enough men...

...To Honor Dreifuse The Cook County Socialist Party is celebrating the 60th birthday of Comrade Adolph Dreifuss, county secretary, at a banquet at the Cook County party headquarters, 3262 West North Avenue, Sunday, February 19, 1933...

...It is easy for any worker to see that the reason for all this hunger, lack of actual necessities, suffering and unemployment, is due to the greed and selfishness, which are at the center of a capitalist system, enabling too few men to amass too much wealth...

...Is it possible that wi will come through all this with "rugged individualism" still tlx guiding star of Young America, oi will the pressure of events alone serve to bring some social thinking out of their collective misery ? • ? « We don't want to seem to be pickjpg on Mrs...

...one who inhabits the familv trjusers and that the Presidentelect ij rrostly goo and spinach...

...Anxiously they awaited the time when they could get out in the world and make a living...

...The Highlander Folk School sponsors the cause of the worker in whatever line he is found, It educates for a socialized nation— social ownership of production and means of distribution...

...The election returns might give a clue...

...Isolated aa they have been, the southern highlanders have not escaped the enterprising private seeker—grafters, swindlers, speculators, exploitators, and other sons of a capitalist system...

...That is, to make part of the official record those things already known to Socialists...

...that is, a bill to prohibit gas and electric companies from competing with hardware stores in selling waffle irons and tin pots I "Live and let live," he said his motto was In outlining his legislative Ideals, And why his sudden Interest in larger issues...

...I have noticed," he added, "that It takes longer for a good-looking woman to complete an interview than for a woman with half hes teeth...

...By Don Went Exploited Mountain Labor and Highland Folk School The Highlander Folk School at Monteagle, Tenn., ia a school for workers—tho common folk of the Southern Mountains...

...Dreifuss is an old-time Socialist, formerly editor of the Chicago Arbeiter-Zeitung...

...What, then, ia the relation of the Highlander Folk School to such conditions...

...The conference will be called to meet at 10 a. m. at Webster Memorial Hall, 36 Turnbull Street...

...They would have a Legislative Committee inquire into interlocking relations between bankers and utilities, between local utilities and the Power Trust, and so on...

...it is simply this: It proposes to educate leaders from these common people capable of understanding the social and economic forces in our present system and burning with a desire to bring about a new s-#-ial order...

...DRIVE ON SWEAT-SHOPS IN CONNECTICUT |_|ARTFORD—A state-wide drive against sweat-shops, to culminate in a conference to be held in this city Feb...

...Tho Socialist candidates polled more votes in his district than anywhere else...

...As a result of this exploitation, miserable hunger and want stalk down the creeks and hollows, taking their toll from each shabby cabin or boxed house...

...And all over the country wandering Hen-Parties Without Enough Men, and Men Roaming the Country— It's Tough, All Right, for the Gala...

...of lady lawyers, of feminine blue-stockings generally, and now when women who are no eyesore to anybody discover that they have braina and era beating the men at their own games, all they gel ia a "go back where you came from...

...It'a tough...

...There never are enough men- at vacation reaorta winter or Hummer...

...Nobody was really seriously put out, nobody'a fun waa actually apoilcd by the aeriei of mishaps...

...And the toll has been taken in human blood...

...It is a militant crusader for a social order based on human justice, cooperation, a livelihood for every man and fair distribution of wealth...

...Home boys, these—boys who want to establish themselves and do some useful work...

...As the Presidential help-mate s.i?'!l probably find plenty of outlet for her coaching ability right at home, e • • And now the poor harassed men legislators have officially slammed the doors in the faces of the "beautiful lady lobbyists...

...The mountain folk have been cheated and swindled out of their natural resources...

...The only one of her jobs she is going to give up is teaching in her New York school...