STORIES of the NRA
Barney, E. C.
STORIES of the NRA Do you know of any cases of nibbling at the NRA in a code industry f We recently asked our readers to report eases of violations. Do not rely on gossip and do not exaggerate. We...
...They have reached from Massachusetts to California and from Alberts' to Florida...
...Brighton Beach Branch, Socialist Parly...
...Desultory investigations follow because of local protests, but the C.P.C...
...Messages were received from prominent Clevelanders, among them Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver...
...Edward F. Cassldy, David P. Berenberg, Jasper McLevy, member National Executive Committee, Socialist Party...
...Be championed the cease af labor, consequently aU labor people held him la hl«h esteem...
...some were teachers in high schools, colleges and universities to whom this was all exiting adventure in education...
...Graham, president, Montana federation of Labor...
...The C.P.C, instead of putting on two crews, worked men unloading cars, trucking canned fruit, and so on, from 10 and 12 w 14 hours because canned fruit ia perishable...
...Women's Trade Union League...
...Little money was left here...
...Jean Lonquet, in a letter received by Algernon Lee last week, is equally hopeful...
...Button and Novelty Workers' Union, Joint Board, Dress and Waist Makers' Union, Philadelphia...
...The new Bulletin of the Correspondence Department announces two courses...
...One foreman said within my hearing: "Who the hell can tell us who to employ...
...Bridgeport, Boston...
...Yonkers, N. Y. Halvaaja Finnish Socialist Dally, < Relief Society for Russian Socialist Prisoners and Exiles, Circle », V l'.S.l.., and the Pennsylvania and National organizations of the Y.P.S.L...
...We all share with too year feellase af sorrow...
...Jwlson Ring,, Fannie and Joseph Bearah, Mr...
...Arr investigation followed...
...is closed here for the season, or virtually so, a majority of the workers are leaving Or have, already left the city...
...460 M.P.'s, aad > Socialist majority in the House at Commons...
...The objective is 18,000,000 votes...
...Hanford...
...MESSAGES OF GRIEF CONTINUE TO COME INHERE is no cessation of the * flood of messages that have ¦ome to The New Leader, the Socialist Party and the Hillquit Family on the death of the incomparable leader of American So-sialism...
...There is no job one cannot learn In a few minutes at the C.P.C...
...is a powerful corporation...
...Italian Socialist Feneration, Milwaukee, and Wisconsin Socialist organizations...
...But immediately the cannery opened workers from all over the state were put on, with a handful of local people...
...No French Split Emile Vandervelde, in an interview recently published in the Peuple of Brussels, expresses his confident hope that the divergences of opinion within the French Socialist Party will not lead to a schism...
...Vest Makers' Union, A.C.W., New York...
...E. Roewer, Lillian j...
...in other plants and were no doubt used to slavery and were checked as "safe...
...Julias Hoehmsn, Geo...
...When the C.P.C...
...strict, Socialist Party, New York City...
...With Labor's new spirit and new policy and - iffagiMB, - a Labor l'hrty majority will tfca interpreted a||i saaadate to inaugurate and cany., out a thoreughgoing Socialist, program...
...Under such conditions and management of the NRA it will soon become a burlesque under "locsl" — "technical" — "perishable" — "salesmen without pay," and so on...
...Cloak, Sklrj and Dreas PresserV Union, l^cal 35, New York...
...Hillquit had the patience of Job, the sweetness of Debs, and the stability of Stonewall Jackson...
...Herbert M. Merrill, J. Mahlon Barnes, former National Secretary, Socialist Party...
...Or that's the interpretation...
...crammed to over-lowing with messages, and it is impossible even to begin to list them...
...Emma Henry, State Secretary of Indiana, sent a resolution reading in part: "A man of great talent he gave himself without stint to the Cause of the workers in this and other lands...
...The local papers came out, after the Nit A head had made his first investigation, and declared that "75 per cent were local workers at the C.P.C...
...Henry K. IJuvilli-, president, New York Teach era' Union...
...Theresa Malklel, Marx Lewis, Jacob Bernstein, E. D. Hawkins Tonl Render, former member of German Reichstag...
...Last year's success is leading, naturally to an expansion of the Correspondence work...
...had put on 75 per cent local help...
...Maurice S. Caiman, Morris Novlk, Eugenia and Bel a Low, Adolph Wars how...
...The slogan adopted is: "Brain power— Money power—Man power...
...Hillquit...
...Anita and S. John Block, Em II Srhleslnger, Pallida M. Colin, Darlington Hoopes, Peter lies-man, Dr...
...James H. ?Maurer, Hillquit's long-time friend and party associate, wrote that he was unable to attend the funeral because of illness, and adds: "I can assure you that if my physical condition had permitted I surely would have been there...
...They come from every part i>f -the world, and from every walk »f life...
...If one doesn't get on this year, maybe next year he will...
...United Hebrew Trades, New York...
...I extras' to yea aad faailly my sincere sympathy...
...Squirrel Hill Branch, Pittsburgh...
...As a starter, the Labor Party ia contesting five bye-elections' that will be decided shortly...
...California Packing Corporation, canners of the famous Del Monte Brand of fruits and vegetables (opened here this fall for a short run, it was agreed that, because this city had reduced taxes on the local plant, they would employ 95 per cent local help...
...Public Libraries and clearly marked, for publicity purposes, "Rand School Class," or "Socialist Study Class...
...James I...
...Bakers' Union No...
...More than oae student made special investigations of labor conditions or of the history of some particular country or party and reported his findings to his group...
...They have carried on in great industrial cities, lumber camps, mining towns, textile towns, and places where there were no towns at all...
...CLEVELAND MOURNS MORRIS HILLQUIT By Hy Fish THE first Hillquit Memorial meeting arranged in the country was reported from Cleveland where several hundred Socialists and trade unionists filled one of the halls of the Public Auditorium, Saturday, October 14th, to mourn the loss and do honor to our great leader...
...Successful Socialist Education By William E. Bona THE Rand School correspondence classes have now been in operation for one year...
...The on: given last year, "An Introduction to Scientific Socialism," will of course, be continued...
...Wald, James H. Maurer, Mr...
...Such success was net achieved without intelligent and devoted effort The leaders.of these forty-two classes deserve distinguished service medals...
...Tat action was taken at a private meeting before the open Tnilnjsjj began, at which detailed plans for the "Victory and Power" rampugn were made...
...Also, Twelfth Assembly Dl...
...Local men and women standing at the C.P.C...
...Classes are to consist of ten or more students...
...Other organizations besides the above who participated were the Poale-Zion Alliance, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, the Workmen's Circle and the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks...
...1 Here follows a small section of the names of those who also sent : messages: I. M. Rubinow, WiUlam A. Cunnea, 1 H. IIi-kooii, Mary E. Dreler, acting aec- 1 retary...
...Under the NRA, canneries are allowed to work truckers, canners, and so on, as many hours as they want...
...From ¦ Luis N. Morones of Mexico: "My deep and heartfelt sympathy for the loas of our greatly beloved comrade, Morris Hillquit...
...It was written by Algernon Lee, and comrades everywhere have agreed that it is the best course of the sort which we have ever had...
...The leaders, too, were alike only in their responsibilities with great misgivings...
...By E. C. Barney ONE sometimes wonders what " local, perishable, technical and such terms mean under the NRA...
...The year's experiences, then, haVe covered a wide enough territory and a sufficiently varied set-up of conditions to justify soma conclusions about the correspondence method of education...
...The new course in "The Elements of Economics" is by Haim Kantorovitch, one of the best thinkers of the Socialist movement and among the most popular teachers at the Rand School...
...For the past week I have been slowly recovering, getting back the use of my limbs, which, however, sre very weak and unsteady, and hope in the next few weeks to have fully recovered...
...This explains why Jim Maurer was not present to say a few words about our dear comrade and to our dear comrade during the last few hours of his stay on earth which he tried so hard to make a better and happier world...
...Seymour and Irene Stedman, I.illili Wilson, National Executive Committee, Socialist Parly...
...The local NRA head came back from the cannery and reported that all was okeh, that the C.P.C...
...Immediately after the privateplan...
...From William Greta, president, A. F. af Li "Very sorry to leans «f the death af Mr...
...Whole families Tfom other cities were put on while many local families were destitute...
...Sunnyslde Branch, Greenwich Village Branch, Central Jewish Branch, Philadelphia t Upper West Side, New York...
...A number of groups met at farm houses...
...Sergei Ingemian, Mai sa-rltsky...
...The trade unions are to be called upon to cooperate with the party organization in ths distribution of literature...
...We ask thst we may help in suitable ways to keep alive his memory and present to posterity the worthy example of his life dedicated fully to Labor...
...and Mr...
...Comrades are asked to write to the Rand School, 7 East 15th St., New York City, for details...
...Twelve other demonstrators were wounded...
...Morris Merman...
...Socialist Party, Pennsylvaniat Socialist Party, Pittsburgh, Pa...
...But "local" here seems to take in the whole state...
...505, International Pocket book Workers' Union, Central Committee...
...The records show, too, that students prepared their lessons, did outside reading, and entered earnestly into discussions...
...and Mrs...
...The record of adult education in general has been a record of failure...
...itself s working library...
...Among the speakers were Max S. Hayes, editor of the Cleveland Citizen, Abraham W. Katovsky, manager of the I.L.G.W.U.k Paul Jones of Antioch College, Noah Mandel-kom, secretary of the Ohio Association for Unemployment Insurance,- Sidney Yellen, secretary of the Socialist Party of Ohio, and Arthur G. McDowell, national chairman of the Young People's Socialist League...
...Conservative lawyers who knew Morris Hillquit's superb legal ability as well as the sweetness and beauty of his character join Socialists of all countries and labor organizations in every part of the country in expressions of sincere and profound grief...
...Itersnse af his passing...
...California...
...Fred Ssnde: of Syracuse wrote: "It is with deep regret thst I learn of the death of our Comrade Morris Hillquit Only those of us who have had the pleasure of ; knowing him personally, working , with him, and listening to his ' logical analysis of the problems we ' had to deal with, can realize the loss the Socialist movement bas ' received...
...He thinks that the situation has improved since August...
...This brought a chorus of hoots from the whole town...
...They could have and -should have been made to work everybody not more than eight hours...
...Nearly a month ago I was ytricken with a serious heart attack which left my right side in a paralyzed condition...
...Pittsburgh Jewish Branch, Socialist Party...
...J, A. C. Meng of Youngstown, Ohio, wrote in part: "He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon hi" like again...
...There is to hen systematic distribution of Socialist literature into every home in the countrj...
...Most of them dwindle away before any worthwhile results have been achieved...
...in many were college professors, high school teachers, librarians and physicians alt-ting beside wOrkingmen and working women...
...Carrie Strauss played the Workers' Funeral March and the International on the piano...
...Workmen's Circle, Pittsburgh...
...Practically every class added to We books seat by the Rand School aad thus provided to...
...What Blum, Deat, Faure, and Renaudel have in common," he says, "far outweighs the questions upon which they differ...
...The Verba nd, Chicago...
...Forty-two groups have studied the fifteen lessons in Socialism...
...Hopes for capturing all five are running high...
...Comrade Hillquit is vividly remembered in Cleveland particularly for his brilliant work in the 1924 convention of the Conference for Progressive Political Action where LaFollettee was nominated for president...
...Here are a few reports from the NRA front...
...As I write three classes are already in operation, and three more are ready to begin...
...Socialist Party...
...SOCIALIST DEPUTY MURDERED BUENOS AYRES!—Jose Guer-vara, a Socialist deputy in the Argentine Chamber, was shot dead in a riot at Cordoba city...
...A drawer of a desk in The New Leader office is...
...The students were of the greatest variety, In one class were soma members who could not read or write...
...Most of them go to sleep...
...the fifth was a Labor seat, but the incumbent was returned in 1931 as a Mac-Donaldite...
...All signs point to a substantial expansion during the coming year...
...only chuckled...
...Now that the C.P.C...
...We want the facts...
...Then "local help employed...
...Technical" covered the truckers, cutters, canners, sweepers, watchman—unskilled labor as well as the legitimate technical...
...Citizens protesting this, the papers changed to "a majority of local help employed...
...and Mrs...
...For a cannery to agree to employ 95 per cent local workers ought to mean that they would employ the workers living in the city and adjacent farm community in which their plant is located...
...The C.P.C...
...Comrade1 Guervara was taking part in an anti-Fascist demonstration...
...At least two classes had eases of books for their use reserved in the...
...The brain power of the Labor Party is to be mobilized at once to state the party's ease in the moil effective way...
...All but one have'been Tory seats for the past three elections...
...Our records show that fn nearly all of the classes the attendance was neat 100 par, cant In fact, in many eases it was wall over 100 per cent, for if thee* wen fifteen or twenty studens in a class there might be that many more listening in...
...British Labor For Victory' And Power THE British Labor Party, at ha recent Conference at Hastings, voted unanimously to raise a fund of «60,000 for a "Victory aad Power" campaign...
...Hhya Oaviea and Morgan Jonea, members of Parliament, England...
...Mexican Labor Parly, David Du-blnaky, president, International Ladles' Garment Workers of America...
...Theodore Dan...
...Most adult classes ire lectured st...
...Leo A. Del Monte, A. S. Coolldge, Clarence Senior, National Secretary, Socialist Parry...
...Workers do not want to be blacklisted, so little protest to any purpose is made...
...Against this background the achievement of >our forty-two Socialist classes has keen A brilliant success...
...gate for days saw outsiders hired right over their heads—outsiders who had worked for the C.P.C...
...Sitting here in the Rand School receiving the reports of the classes has been an exciting and rewarding experience...
...Newspapers get advertising, hence their subserviency to a state-wide corporation...
Vol. 16 • October 1933 • No. 17
