Hoover Dam Called Nest Of Anti-Union Exploiters
Todd, Laurence
By Laurence Todd Hoover Dam Called Nest Of Anti-Union Exploiters WASHINGTON. — Charges " that labor is being ruthlessly exploited, and that the lives, safety and health of workers at Hoover Dam...
...THE SOCIALIST STATE By John Panser August C|aessens in his pamphlet, "Essentials of Socialism", says: "Socialists believe that political and social democracy can only mature on the basis of Industrial Democracy...
...That period was one of much more frankness in political and economic discussions than today, as gentlemen could bare their most innermost thoughts in those days when property qualifications excluded masses of farmers' and workers from the franchise...
...This is'not neglected but it is not as fully treated as it should be...
...and an excellent discussion by the editor—"Backward March: The Liberal Command"—tracing, through the history of the cc.ntry, the way in which the so-called liberals have invariably been a force for reaction...
...Write at once to Room 6*7, 7 Bast 15th Street...
...in the struggle for power...
...My explanation is that Socialism is an agricultural and industrial democracy, that there will be ho dictatorship over them by the city workers of the Socialist political state, and that all questions about the transition from individual farming to collect* ive farming will have to be settled by the farmers themselves...
...Perhaps the situation in Reading maybe somewhat different than in other places, but we find in some of our branches more then hslf our members are unemployed, and are unable to pay dues, snd this condition is stesdlty growing worse...
...Green wrote Oddie that "Payment in scrip redeemable only in merchandise at company stores means coercion of a most vicious kind...
...The State Committee at its recent meeting adopted, resolutions against a Sales Tax and the abolishment of the Workmens' Compensation, Law...
...HARX CELEBRATIONS IN GREAT BRITAIN | ONDON—Aa exhibition to cess-*** memorate the fiftieth anniversary of the death ef Karl Marx is to be held at Transport House, London, headquarters ef the British Labor Party, March 11 and 12...
...The many locals, which functioned brilliantly during the campaign, are carrying on...
...Like 'Jefferson, he was a well-to-do planter but opposed to that section of the planting aristocracy which for is time was the ally of the Washington-Hamilton Federalists...
...the Norwegian Labor Party, a powerful party once the largest in that country, but now second to the Social Democratic Party...
...Several other articles maintain the tone of sharp challenge to accepted ideas, and make the new 'Monthly worth watching, for...
...so, this change in the Constitution would take care of the difficulty, and we feel that when the Comrades can agsfn psy dues they wilt he Only too glad to do so.' ' ' Ths previous method of Issuing exempt stamps was working out satisfactorily, and we feel that the National Sec...
...A State conference will be called possibly the iattar part of May to outline plans for campaign work...
...Detroit, Mich...
...and the Party ef Proletarian Unity, the so-called Communist-Socialists of France...
...Taylor's first work mentioned above was intended as an answer to a notable book of John Adams, who also .frankly discussed the differing interests associated with differing forms of property, but who ranged himself with the upper class groups...
...photographs of his various places of residence and activities, and historical and literary features of ths development of Marxism...
...the translation by E. E. Cuminings of « revolutionary poem by Louis Aragon, and for the discussion of "I.'Affaire Afagon"-<the arrest of the post by the French authorities, and his ultimate discharge without trial...
...OF JOHN TAYLOR...
...it gathers power until ths USSR that Is repeated through It seems s treat trail sweeping across the continents...
...There is also an interesting article, "Will Teachers Learn," by 8. Spero, analyzing the causes.of ths buffetings to which teachers submit...
...Yet the Six Companies, Inc., has escaped payment of taxes due Clark County and the State of Nevada, largely through the subterfuge of the Secretary of the Interior in attempting without adequate constitutional and legal authority to create a reservation at Hoover Dam of exclusive federal Jurisdiction...
...In the words of Charles A. Beard, "he was, pert haps, the most systematic thinker that his party produced within the two decades which followed: the adoption of the Constitution...
...The poem is one of the strongest the Soviet government has yet inspired...
...Much interest in manifested in the coming municipal campaigns in Indiana...
...You may say, "Oh, we don't want to compromise with the fsrmers, we don't need them...
...Then there are some that dismiss it on the ground that it is an I. W. W. or S. L. P. idea...
...The parties that cooperated In the call are the British I. L. P. (which recently withdrew from the Labor Party and ran candidates in opposition to the Labor Party in the November municipal elections...
...Ralph O. Blgonjr, Organiser and Chas...
...LEFT PARTIES APPEAL FOR UNITY OF ACTION AN sppesl to the Communist In ternational and the Labor and Socialist International for unity of action in the face Of world-wide reaction and danger of Fascism has been made by a conference of seven "left" parties and factions that met recently in Paris...
...Whether It provokes agreement of argument, Contempo always wins our admiration for Its Intelligence and courage...
...But John Tsylor was something more than a leader...
...BOOKS IN BRIEF An Old Agrarian By James Oneal LIFE...
...He urged adoption of his resolution which calls for a Senate inquiry into his charges...
...A cycle of six short poems by Josef Luitpold Stern, entitled "Kleine Musik urn Karl Marx," has Just been published by the Workers' Educational Centre in Vienna (Arbeiteroildungszentrale, Wien V Schonbrunnerstrasse 56...
...Contempo The current issue of the courageous tri-weekly from Chspel Hill, N. C. is notable for...
...It will include exhibits depicting the association of Marx with the various working-class movements in Great Britain...
...M. Larralr,, Powers Hap-good and Emma Henry was selected to make a drive for funds for1 the State work...
...He would range these two groups against manufacturing capitalists and bankers, holding thst the economic interests of the first two were opposed to the interests of the second two groups...
...The Committee is to start a class in public speaking...
...Constitution, says: "Members in arrears for three months are more and who have not asked for exempt stamps shall be considered in arrears, and shall NOT be entitled to the...
...By Laurence Todd Hoover Dam Called Nest Of Anti-Union Exploiters WASHINGTON...
...Exempt stamps as required," hence our appeal for a referendum, and footing around with amendments establishing ratios will not meet the situation in all localities...
...Over 7 times the number of fatal and 8 times the number of non-fatal accidents have taken place," Oddie declared, "since the Six Companies, Inc., baa been able to introduce cheaper methods of construction and thus profit at the expense Of the life, safety and health of -the workers in its employ...
...The first issue of the Monthly, just out, contains a keen reduction of the claims made for T. S. Elion, "Leisure Class Laureate," by E. S. Bates...
...Wo believe however that exempt stamps should be issued "As required" as the referendum states...
...Among the Magazines The Modern Monthly A SIGNIFICANT change in American periodicals is ths growth of V. F. Calverton's "Ths Modern Quarterly" into "The Modern Monthly...
...privileges of membership...
...We could wish, however, that the author had given more attention to an exposition of the fundamentals of Taylor's philosophy in terms of the economic groupings of his time...
...While he was a Jeffcrsonian, he was Independent in his thinking and action...
...tht Independent Socialist Labor Party of Poland...
...INDIANA PARTY BOOMS INDIANAPOLIS—The party organization in InJtiarTa is holding up remarkably well, despite economic conditions that make it difficult for thousands of workers to pay their dues, it Is reported by Emma Henry, state secretary-treasurer...
...but 22 fatal and 756 non-fatal accidents have occurred during the 14 months since the order was issued by the Federal district court forbidding enforcement of state laws by the State Mine Inspector...
...Arator,'* a collection of agricultural essays...
...A speakers' bureau will be established, listing all Socialist speakers in the state, end'locals can secure their services through the State office...
...This would engender so much bitterness that it would be irreparable...
...Bp ' Henry H. Simms, Ph.D...
...A brilliant thinker, somewhat prolix in his writing, some of : his views snticipated the Populism of the last decade of the nineteenth century...
...F. Bands, member of State Executive Committee...
...The William Byrd Press, Inc., Richmond, Va...
...Professor Sims presents a satisfactory account of Taylor's career and his work in the Virginia Legislature, in Congress, before the Virginia bar, and his activities in state and national politics...
...AS the sub-title to this biography states, it relates the story of a "brilliant leader in the early Virginia Btate rights school...
...Local Berks of Reading has always been in the forefront of Party work and Socialist agitation, and never did have "paper locals...
...Oddie, now going out of office, abandoned his support of Secretary* of the Interior Wilbur, and denounced Wilbur's attitude of indifference or actual hostility to criticism of conditions at the big dam...
...The songs have been arranged by Paul Pisk for ons male voice, one female voice, a reciter and a piano, (or a small or...
...Not satisfied with this robbery of the workers—who dare not protest because other men are waiting to take their jobs—the Six Companies, Inc., has deducted $3 from the wsges of every worker for alleged poll tax...
...Those who are acquainted with the work and writings of Taylor will agree that this is not an exaggerated estimate...
...Charges " that labor is being ruthlessly exploited, and that the lives, safety and health of workers at Hoover Dam are deliberately endangered by the anti-union Six Companise, Inc., the general contractors to whom the Hoover administration let the construction job, were made to the Senate, by Senator Oddie, regular Republican, of Nevada...
...There are now '51 locals in the state, and work is booming everywhere...
...We now find soma of our OLD snd ACTIVE members who have been out of work a year or more are not able to say and with the present ratio two to five, we will not have stamps to place in their due book, and the result will be that many could not participate in party work...
...Taylor waa born in Virginia about 1758 and died in 1884 when changing economic conditions indicated thst Ms agragrian philosophy could notv make headway against the rise ef the manufacturing and banking Interests, although the latter were to receive a temporary set back four ran later with the triumph of Jack-sonian Democracy...
...the Italian Socialist Party, a small factjon of the Italian Party In exile...
...The Trade Unions are effective weapons in the struggle for economic betterment under present conditions and in the transition from Capitalism to Socialism they are distined to become the principal factors in management of Socialised Industries...
...The group of "left" factions, some of them still within the Labor and Socialist International, have been closely cooperating in the past three years, and rt is believed they are seeking to form a new International, through which they will endeavor to bridge the gap between the Communist International and the Labor and Socialist International...
...The Committee also took a stand against individuals starting publications under the guise of Socialist papers and soliciting money on that premise, because each such venture, doomed to failure before it gets started reflects upon the Party...
...There are some Marxian students among us who seem to fear to say this as it might bo called Utopian...
...but not a dollar of the 334,611 thus far collected by the company has been paid to the county or state Oddie branded this fraud as "highhanded, inhuman and unfair...
...Oddie denounced this system as a vicious type of "sweating" of labor, and bis demand that it be stopped was endorsed by ¦¦_:____ • President Green of the Americsn Federation of Labor...
...In the 1928 Hand Book Paul Blanshard says: "Perhaps the Senate would be abolished and side by side with a political Congress there might be established an Industrial Congress for the control of all the great Socialised Industries...
...Get your petitions for Unem-* ployment Insurance...
...In speaking before some groups of Michigan farmers, if you criticise Capitalism they ssk: What is the remedy...
...Evasion of mine safety laws of Nevada, and creation of a business monopoly at Boulder City, the senator said, were equally flagrant with the mistreatment of labor...
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...They are written in folk song style snd deal with the mother of Marx, Jenny Marx, Karl Marx and Fried-rich Engels...
...The merchandising monopoly of the contractors is worked through the Boulder City Co., a subsidiary of Six Companies, Inc...
...the Socialist Labor Party of Germany, which polled 70,000 votes last November...
...NEW LEADER FORUM THE REARING REFERENDUM Herbert Merrill in The Leader thought it would be well to .amend our referendum to establish a ratio regarding the issuance of exempt stantps of one exempt to two regulars...
...During the period of 8 months of construction prior to November 1* 1931, when the Nevada state mine safety laws were being enforced, Oddie testified, only S fatal and 121 non-fatal accidents occurred on the Job...
...and its activity has extended into an examination of all phases of our life...
...i A Sub-Committee composed of Goo...
...Local Marlon) County is doing splendid work, with 16 active branches and two large classes in scientific Socialism...
...Although its contributors have not always been sure of their social baekgraund, the magazine has been the pioneer in the field of sociological criticism of literature...
...Now Article XI, Nat...
...Between paydays the Six Companies, Inc., issues paper and metal scrip money, redeemable at its store...
...We do not believe it is well to invite people into our organisation and tell them they must now get out because they esnnot psy 35 cents after they have given years of effort to Socialism...
...Then there are some pure and simple Socialists who don't know what it's all about...
...The writer eame in contact with 85 Socialist farmers from Oklahoma Whijo in Leavenworth, and found them very good timber...
...The scrip money is sold at 75 to 80 cents on the dollar for real cash, when the men need cash...
...Clark County, Nevada, has been obliged to Increase its* expenditures, due to influx of workers seeking employment at the Dam and in the employ of the Six Companies, Inc., for additional policing, schooling, road maintenance, etc., up to Aug, 29 last, by $241,522, which is an increase of 31.5 per cent in the tax rate above the legal limit...
...Taylor's philosophy was that of a white agrarian democracy allied with mechanics, to whom he appealed in his smaller volume...
...It's better to influence them with Socialist agitation than to lesve them in the Democratic snd Republican parties, or push them Into a Fascist movement...
...This system injures privste stores licensed by Wilbur to operate in Boulder City...
...should be allowed to continue to give to Stats Secretaries...
...Beard sdds that Taylor's main work, "An Inquiry Into the- Principles and Policy of the Government of the United States," deserves to ''rank among the two or three really historic contributions to political science in the United Btates...
...exploitation of a most reprehensible character and a reduction In wages which is unjust and unfair...
Vol. 15 • February 1933 • No. 8
