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...They have won from the administration a degree of recognition which places them in a position of power in lighting company unions...

...TPHE President before the American Legion took * a stand on relief to veterans which, i think, was both wise and bold...

...The most momentous question of the many important questions which will be brought before the A. F. of L. Convention is this: Has labor enough statesmanship, enough Idealism, enough enlightened self-interest to push forward these plant unions into genuine industrial unions 7 The most ominous news 1 have seen for weeks is the report of the bitter opposition of certain craft union even to the steps already taken by the Executive Council...

...H. Goebel, Rand School, New York City...

...Is Socialist The first woman to win a seat In the Parliament of New Zealand is Mrs...

...2-3, Cleveland...

...We shall have company unions, independent unions, or no unions...

...First New Zealand Woman M.P...

...Under no ¦ circumstances shall we be coerced or fooled into in* tervention in Cuba...

...Mailly, should promptly write or telegraph Geo...

...latedly adopted part of a Socialist idea and decided to tax stock transfers for the benefit of the on* employed...

...Cuba DAD news from Cuba must stiffen the backbone of rank and file American citizens...

...16-17-18, Buffalo...

...What did Comrade Governor Moore of New Jersey care for Democratic Comrade Samuel Untermyer or Democratic Comrade Mayor O'Brien of New York, or the unemployed, if New Jersey could get a little business...

...Meyer was arrested and immediately bailed...

...The feature speakers at the New York City meeting on Saturday afternoon, October 7, at Madison Square, will be Norman Thomas and Frank Crosswaith...

...She •erved for a long time on the Christ Church Municipal Council...

...SOCIALISTS ORGANIZE VICTOR MINERS VICTOR, Colo...

...Elizabeth R. McCombs, elected on September 13th at Lyttleton...

...In so far as stock transfers represent what we call honest investment under capitalism they can stand taxation...

...Bertha H. Mailly to lour For Rand School Drive COMRADES everywhere are writing in enthusiastically of the meetings held in their cities under auspices of the Save-thePeople's-House and Rand School Drive Committee, in cooperation with the party branches, Workmen's Circles, Verband, Women's Committees, educational and other groups, with Norman 'nomas, Char'es Solomon, Dr...

...It is just as dangerous to trust NUA to the bosses' parties as to the bosses' unions...

...Neither speaker, how* ever, will dwell upon the tactics of the British labor movement but rather upon Socialism and the great world problems of our own time...

...The tentative route arranged, and for which friends in those places are asked at once to organize a committee of arrangements, is as follows: Oct...

...These things we say as friends and because we are friends...

...Even ground already won on paper will not be held without struggle...

...And already Comrade Farber of West New York reports half the seating capacity sold for the meeting this Friday night at the Labor Lyceum, 17th and Tyler St*., with August Claessens and George H. Goebel as speakers...

...J. T. Landis, organizer for the Socialist Party here, has called together a group to organize the placer miners in this vicinity...

...Faced with the necessity of doing something for the help of a million unemployed m New York City, the Tammany administration be...

...According to that well-informed labor correspondent, Louis Stark, they talked in terms of the "property rights" of existing craft unions, and these property rights, it appears, give them claim to subdivide workers who should be united...

...10 and Dec 16...

...LOUIS, Mo.—Police attempted to break up a big Socialist meeting at Richmond Heights City Hall, a suburb, last week, the police claiming that some one had turned in a riot call...

...Unless this difficulty can be overcome we may as well face the bitter truth that company unions will have a new oppor| tunity and almost a new invitation to enter the field...

...Henderson is being routed through the Lecture Bureau of the* National Office at 549 Randolph Street, Chicago...

...But when he says that veterans suffering from misfortunes not connected with their past service ought to share the common lot...

...More of the same will not cure it...

...F. of L. will not defeat itself by failing to take advantage of this opportunity by dodging the issue of industrial unionism by unwillingness or inability to set up effective central machinery lor organizing the unorganized and aiding strikes or by faltering in its tight against racketeering and the exploitation of rank and file members in its own ranks...

...Chicago will witness a Joint meeting, at which workers' gymnastics, a one-act play on unemployment, mass singing and several speechse will be on the program...

...Louis brothers who club needle trades' workers in the hope of provoking riots...

...To hold them and to gain others will be an achievementment of even greater importance...

...Every labor man knows, however, that it Is one thing to sign up workers under favorable circumstances and another thing to keep them organized...

...munity where it is collected...

...Industrial Unionism IT is precisely those of us who recognize the enor* mous advantages of one strong inclusive federation of labor unions under the banner of the A. f. of L., who have the most right and duty to insist that the A...

...This will be another step on the road to Fascism...

...National Chairman McDowell and Otto Hauser, secretary to Mayor Hoan, will speak at the Milwaukee rally on October 4th...

...That agreement threatens Cuba with further ruin by reducing her quota of sugar and gives to the American beet sugar interests a bigger quota than they can fill without expanding a crop, the production of which uses child labor and is in no way the best use to make of our soil...

...Such basic industries as steel and automobile are not yet organized...

...No good that we may seem to do will compensate the harm to ourselves and in the long run to the Cubans...

...AMERICANS will have a chance to welcome and "to hear two of Britain's leading Socialist thinkers and workers...

...Mrs...

...In a very real sense past intervention has helped to produce the present disease in Cuba...

...21-22-23, Detroit...

...She represents the New Zealand Labor Party and is an old-time Socialist worker...

...In so tar as they represent a form of gambling—incidentally the most dangerous in existence—they should be taxed until an enlightened public can establish a system which will make the stock exchange as useless to society as the appendix to a man's body...

...It is* just as necessary to have a political organization of workers as an industrial organization...

...The fact is, that the police attempted to disturb the meeting while Roy Burt, Illinois party secretary, was speaking...

...International Youth Week to Be Observed CHICAGO...

...The second, who comes somewhat later, wilt be Fred Henderson, best known in America as author of "The Case for Socialism," probably the best introductory book on Socialism in English, and more recent and more advanced studies of great value on Power and Money...

...The 12 points which President Green recently enunciated, with most of which Socialists are in hearty accord, cannot be achieved withopt struggle...

...The first to come will be Fenner Brockwey, one of the leaders of the Independent Labor Party, who will speak under the auspices of the League for Industrial Democracy, 112 East 19th St., N. Y. C, for a period between Oct...

...They could net have succeeded in this move except for the open* handed help of New Jersey officials, almost all of them Democrats...

...Originally a teacher, she resigned to marry William Mailly, managing editor of The New York Call, founder and first Executive Secretary of the Rand School, and later of Camp Taminent, greatest of its kind (and whose profits all go to workers' education), member of the Socialist National Executive Committee, the Teachers' Union, delegate abroad to great international gatherings, etc., speaks out of an experience greater than any university could give...

...More than 100,000 leaflets are being issued nationally during International Socialist Youth Week, and dozens of smaller public meetings held to voice the militant determination of young workers, students and unemployed to organize against war, crush Fascist beginnings and struggle onward for Socialism...

...That policy, which is the policy of the Socialist League in England, seems to me greatly preferable to the policy recently followed by the Independent Labor Party...

...Police Attempt to Break Up Party Rally ST...

...Karely has even the national Congress had an opportunity to take action of more far-reaching significance...

...Henderson is one of those con* vinced Socialists who has remained inside the British Labor Party...

...Imagine a Democrat like Garner in the White House, or consider what Democratic rule has meant in New Yorkl A beautiful illustration of the need of a new party has be«a given by the arrogant victory which wag Street has recently won over the masse* of Mew York City...

...19-20, Toronto...

...That's your Democratic Party for you and that is precisely what is going to happen in the old par...

...of those that need help, what has he in mind by way of social insurance or otherwise for the help of those disabled during their struggles as members of the great army of toil...

...Joint arrangements for tremendous meetings have been made in many cities with the Young Circle League, Young Poale Zion Alliance, Intercollegiate League for Industrial Democracy, and Workers' Gymnastic Associations...

...The A. K. of L. Executive Council recognized this when it permitted the formation of plant unions...

...The Redding, Pa., Yipsels have arranged a radio broadcast for October 2nd...

...To have succeeded in getting so large a proportion of organized workers in one general federation is an achievement of genuine importance...

...It appears that some Richmond Heights police officials seek to imitate their St...

...Stock Transfer Taxes f\NE demand which not only the A. F. of L. but the unemployed everywhere, and all men and women of goodwill, should make ia that President Roosevelt should urge upon Congress a tax upon stock transfers such as New York City wanted to levy...

...Forty-three workers signed as charter members in the new organisation formed...

...Labor's great struggles still lie ahead...

...They cannot be organized under the old craft system in which there might be forty different unions—sometimes with jurisdictional quarrels—in one factory or among the workers of one corporation...

...Frank Kingdon, August Claessens and others as speakers Not only have the meetings helped the Drive substantially, but also left nice sums in the local treasuries, in addition to much j)M'..s mention and helpful impression of Socialists and Socialism upon the general public...

...They have made vigorous use of the opportunity which NUA handed them...

...As a further development of this plan, Bertha H. Mailly of the Rand School and Camp Taminent, known and loved by many thousands in the labor and Socialist movements, will make a thirty-day tour beginning at Rochester, N Y.., on Sunday, October 15, and extending as far as Chicago and Milwaukee...

...Or possibly craft unions, unable to succeed by their own strength because of the nature of their organization will be sorely tempted to bargain with employers for rights and recognition that they could scarcely win of themselves...

...They have gained 1,300,000 members in a year...

...This tax should be nationwide so that no bankers and brokers can escape, it should then be rebated for the help of the unemployed in the com...

...Neither will it help Cuba if the agreement proposed by the Sugar Institute is approved by our government...

...4-5-6, Pittsburgh...

...Walter C. Meyer, former state secretary of the party and active party member, entered the police finals in charge cease ringing the 'phone...

...Labor and Politics IS it too much to hope that this great convention * of the A. F. of L. will see clearly the need of a political party to represent the interests of farmers and workers T However enthusiastic some delegates may be about the present national admlniatratton surely they do not have an equal enthusiasm for the Democratic Party...

...The year has seen an almost miraculous change in circumstance for labor unions...

...25 to 31, inclusive, Chicago, Milwaukee and vicinity...

...That's the real question...

...16, Rochester...

...ties until workera have a party to represent themselves...

...Mailly has a fine personality, a pleasing voice, and will be an inspiration to anj group who hear and meet her...

...Women's Committees, Workmen's Circles, party branches, or individuals interested in workers' education and the Rand School, desiring Mrs...

...Thereupon the brokers beat the city into abject submission by threatening to move to New Jersey to escape taxation...

...There will be no fees or transportation charge for her services, as she travels by auto, but opportunity to present the matter of workers' education and the Rand School during or following the meeting will be asked...

...The mayor's office adjoins the assembly room and the mayor's 'phone constantly rang...

...All calls come ¦ through the police switchboard in the same building and the ringing annoyed the audience...

...International Socialist Youth Week, October 1-8, is being used by the Young People's Socialist League for nation-wide demonstrations against war and Fascism, according to Winston Dancis, national secretary...