STORIES of the NRA
STORIES of the NRA Do you know of any cases of nibbling at the NRA in a code industry? We recently asked our readers to report eases of violations. Do not rely on gossip and do not...
...One month ago every body had to buy a ticket to the ball game as charity to the Robert Pocker Hospital, which also is controlling ' the Lehigh Valley R.R., and I j , could not and did not buy and the , boss would not give me any extra , day's work which gave me only six , days for six weeks, and all my money had to go toward saving my parents from being thrown out on the street...
...Anti-Nazi Propaganda In Cigarette Packages HAMBURG.—Underground propaganda against the Nazi regime is steadily increasing...
...The Hitler Government took the latter step after repeated representations of the Labor Front and the Nazi work shop cells, which called attention to the growing unrest of the German working masses...
...By B. W. B. | WORK in a shop here in Sayre * which controls the people's mind and body because it is the only thing you can work at and which is a railroad shop of the Lehigh Valley Railroad...
...Her worl...
...The circular cites that agitators, "for as yet unexplained reasons," have been able to fill tens of thousands of cigarette packages with anti-Nazi propaganda...
...Included in the Chicago activities and results have been the donation of $15 by the Cook County Workmen's Circle District Committee, and election of a committee systematically to canvass their 40 eircles...
...A confidential circular of the Gestapo Secret State Police, the terror instrument of the Prussian Premier Goring, calls attention to the growing activities of the "Socialists, Communists and others" which are greatly helped by the "passive and sometimes frankly sympathetic attitude of the populace...
...Daily new agitation methods are discovered and the police seem unable to make headway against'the smoothly functioning underground work...
...STRONG NAZI OPPOSITION GROUPS _ BERLIN...
...The branches in South Wales, Lancashire, Yorkshire, and Scotland, heretofore the great stronghold of the I.L.P., are bitterly opposed to the "united front* maneuvres which are being practiced by the London group, as well as the talk about "armed resistance" which goes along with it...
...Mailly also notes an intense interest and pleasure at all the towns visited in the action of The New Leader in issuing the dollar National Edition...
...Ills running mates In the wards ran as Independents and denied that they were Communists in this paragraph or their platform: "The politicians, seeing the strength In a United Front of the workers, are trying different ways to break this United Front All the old splitting tricks are brought Into play...
...The newspapers gave us mneh publicity...
...The police arrested Terzani, charged him with murder, and dropped all further inquiry...
...As there are eight living here in one house, you can appreciate the difficulty I had in making $30 to i $35 go for two weeks, and no one •' knows what the working conditions < are here in that shop...
...Ex-Khaki Shirt Demands Release of Terzani ADEMAND for the release of Athos Terzani, young antiFascist accused of killing 1 :s comrade, Anthony Fierro, and the prosecution of the "real and known perpetrators of the crime" has been made upon District Attorney Charles "T>S« Colden of Queens County...
...In this primary, the two receiving the highest votes would participate in the run-off election In November...
...To make this a noieworthy trio, Celia Rotter, that steam engine of the Socialist and Labor forces, in Chicago for a peep at the World's Fair, decided it "more fun to help keep open the doors of The Kami School to the 1,200 students, determined despite of finances, to equip themselves as trained writers, speakers, organizers and workers for tho Labor movement...
...5th, a meeting in Toronto, from which the party will return home to vote for Charles Solomon and the straight ticket Those committees, party locals, unions, or other groups desiring Mrs...
...He was quickly followed by F. W. Jowett, its treasurer, who was one of the founders of the party forty years ago...
...Readers of The New Leader will ask why the Socialist candidate received so small a vote and why the Communist candidate received more...
...The state and Federal emergency employment projects are In the hands of agents of the Chamber of Commerce, and the Governor has said that $12 a week should be the wage paid on government work, NRA codes to the contrary notwithstanding...
...He suspended mayoralty elections this year and the citizens humbly submitted...
...Ford's platform could nnlly be distinguished from Davis...
...Many propaganda and organization meetings are being held and a list of accredited state speakers have filled engagements for many locals...
...Leaders of the Radical Party have directed an urgent appeal to the authorities informing them of the rapid spread of the fascist terror and asking for protection...
...Argentine Workers Form Defense Corps Against Fascism BUENOS AIRES...
...The letter, waa made public through the Terzani Defense Committee, of which Norman Thomas is chairman...
...Mailly or other speakers after election, should write Geo...
...Terzani is accused of killing his friend at a meeting of the Khaki Shirts of America in Astoria, L. I., July 14...
...H. Goebel, of the Volunteer Drive Committee, at 7 East 15th St., New York City, who will be glad to cooperate with all friends seeking to effect such openings...
...Indiana is a reactionary state and there have been few strikes except in the mining section...
...The remainder of the tpur includes a luncheon and other events in Cleveland a Hillquit Memorial meeting in Toledo, three days in Pittsburgh and, Sunday afternoon, Nov...
...Here are a .few reports from the NRA front...
...Anxious to clear himself and his followers of the suspicion which naturally fell on them, Smith named Terzani as Fierro's slayer...
...It seems that the former "Marxist" groups, supposedly destroyed by the new masters, have concentrated themselves in left wing formations and are now trying to outdo the Nazis in Nazism...
...No eandldata could have literature without the word "Socialist" on It, and the platform declares that "We are challenging the very basis of the poll I leal power of the capitalist state 1 . . . The Socialist Party represents the working class, am...
...The mayoralty results were as follows: Miller, 74,817...
...Unemployment is general and our dues-paying members are more than a third of the membership...
...Nearly three-fourths of its membership has left it, he reports, and the remnant consists of the wildest extremists, who cannot agree among themseles...
...arrangements by the Women's Committees, for a throe-week drive...
...I. O. Ford, Communist, and O. K. wheeloek, Socialist...
...Colden has made no move to investigate further, not even to the extent of hearing Phillips, who held the rank of "Colonel" in the Khaki Shirts before his resignation...
...Educational and monthly bulletins are sent to the locals, and questionnaires we have sent out have been helpful in educational work...
...Elections of work shop councils have been prohibited ' on account of the appearance of strong Nazi opposition groups against the official Nazi lists...
...The accusation was made by "General" Art Smith, who was head of the organization until he ran off with its funds...
...The police investigated the case," it says, "by asking 'Commander' Smith who did the shooting...
...Ford, 3,476: Wheelock, 1,841...
...We have unemployed councils in a number of cities under Socialist direction and we have rendered help to many of the needy...
...Complaining about the lack of public cooperation, it instructs all officials to proceed brutally against all attempts to undermine the Nazi state...
...We also have Socialist study classes, the Rand School course in scientific Socialism being used by some and the National Office course by others...
...Imagine Communist candidates denying that they are Communists and not mentioning "Defend the Soviet Union and the Chinese People...
...This coincides with an earlier announcement of the Federal Government that elections to the workers' councils will not be held before next year and "possibly much later...
...Imagine a Republican talking about "the greedy capitalists In Wall Street...
...Dlttrlck, 1,020...
...TPlIKItK are 52 party locals func* tioning in Indiana with about a thousand members...
...The party was granted a charter on October 16, 1901, and during all these years it has functioned under this same charter.« Indiana has given the nation some of its most notable men, including Eugene V. Debs and James Whitcomb Riley...
...Do not rely on gossip and do not exaggerate...
...Charles II...
...This w«s a "non-partisan" elect cm and the tine) time that Socialists pnrllslpsted hi a palmary...
...The favorite trick *»f one candidal* Is the favorte trlek of HiUer . . . "The Red Scare," the err of "Communism.* Against this political demogogy the Socialist candidates pursued a straight course...
...Left Goes RightBy Hy Fish CLEVELAND, O.- Political observers In Cleveland are still not sure that they have not lived through a chapter of "Alice in lousy Turvy Land" instead of a municipal primary election...
...Mrs...
...1 "I wonder if the NRA means not ' right away," for us railroad men...
...District Attorney Colden evidently considers "General" Smith's accusation sufficient...
...Anna Weiss, well known in Workmen Circle activities, also a volunteer...
...INDIANA PROGRESS By Emma Henry State Secretary of the Socialist Party of Indiana...
...From tie very outset It was a three-cornered Oght, with Sweeney making the bid for a protest vote against the two old parties...
...There were seven candidates for Mayor: Harry L. Davis, Republican...
...ber of the French chamber of deputies, recently made a visit to Great Britain, in the course of which he talked with spokesmen of all tendencies in the Labor and Socialist movement...
...Davis, who waa Mayor during the war and later Governor, came out for unemployment Insurance, old age pensions, expansion of the municipal light plant and a 5c fare...
...Independent Republican...
...Hubbefi, Independent...
...It Is Important for Socialists to itW the tendencies In the Cleveland election presented above...
...BAN LONGUET, Socialist mem...
...Actions of the Queens authorities on the night of the tragedy arouse the Philadelphia Record, which paper refers to Smith as a "cheap racketeer," to ironic comment...
...Right Goes Left...
...The raging fascist terror which found its climax in the murder of the Socialist deputy Guevara at Cordoba, organized attacks on other labor deputies, several killings and the ssytematic breaking up of labor protest meetings, is also directed against the left bourgeois parties...
...Some may attribute the email Socialist vote to a poor campaign...
...This intensive study will act as a stabilizer, especially in these days when a liberalism is popular in our ranks...
...We face too many realities to engage in spectacular methods...
...Following closely upon the heels of the Hungarian government's prohibition of the Swastika as a party emblem, Magyar Nazidom has given itself an appropriate new design—a blood-stained sword...
...In an article widely reprinted ia oar European press he indicates that in his judgment the Independent Labor Party, which last year seceded from the British Labor Party and later withdrew from the Labor and Socialist International, is rapidly losing all significance...
...several Rand School Correspondence Courses, etc...
...JEAN L0NGUET NOTES DECLINE OF IIP...
...The speakers serve the movement for their expenses, and this work has helped very much...
...Moilly and Weiss proved invaluable...
...Indianapolis has the distinction of being the hot bed of the open shop movement of the country and the various employers' associations point with pride to the fact that the city is 95 per cent open shop...
...We also have speaking classes and requests for the extension of our educational work...
...In securing additional hearings for Mrs...
...A. R. Dlttrick...
...la the only party with a constructive municipal platform which Is a concrete part of a program for a complete social change...
...Organized labor, led by the powerful railway unions, is threatening a general srtike and drastic reprisals if speedy steps for the disarming and the prosecution of the unruly elements are not taken...
...Twenty-five meetings were held In three weeks...
...The formation of labor defense guards has already begun...
...Hubbell, 369...
...We also have a Governor whoso dictatorial powers exceed the powers of any other state executive...
...APPROPRIATE VIENNA...
...Systematic provocation by heavily armed fascist bands and the resulting unrest of the workers have created an extremely tense situation throughout Argentina...
...Ray T. Miller, incumbent, Democrats Martin L. Sweeney, Independent Democrat...
...Davis, 74.or.7f Sweeney, 59863...
...The demand for Terzani's release came from Edmund J. Phillips of Philadelphia, Spanish-American war veteran and former organizer for the Khaki Shirts...
...Imagine a Roosevelt Democrat basing his campaign aghlnat "bosslsm" and using at his slogan "Back Roosevelt...
...the only > word I can apply is raw-hiding, 1 speed!, speed 1 They find you can 1 do twice as much in a day as the 1 day before, they add on all the 1 more...
...a donation of $25 from .the Federation o,f Jewish Unions, donations of $20 at the Workmen's Cicrle Anniversary Banquet, a fine meeting under combined auspices of the Chicago Yipsels and Youth Circles, through arrangements by Winston Dancis and National Educational Director, Halushka...
...Miller capitalized radical thinking by using relief agencies as vote Retting machines...
...Imagine the Republican and Democratic candidates trying to outvie each other In support of unemployment insurance, municipal ownership, and old age pensions...
...A few weeks ago its secretary, John Paton, quit in despair...
...According to an announcemr :.t, recruiting will only be stopped if the government gives ample guarantees for the unhampered exercise of constitutional rights...
...These are only some of the things that confused the voters...
...In these mining struggles our party members have been in the front line leading the fight against the mine owners...
...Mrs...
...The Socialist Party was the only organised group that made, a protest...
...a reception by tho Verband, donations by the Amalgamated and International Joint Boards...
...In spite of our small organisation, over 150,000 pieces of literature were distributed...
...Sayre, I'enna...
...We want the facts...
...Dramatized Socialism may be accepted as a diversion hut its place in the education of the working class is questionable...
...It is this remnant of a once vigorous working-class party, now dominated.by the London romanticists, which, together with the similarly decimated Polish Bund, the two splinter parties in Holland, and one or two other such tiny dissident groups, is coquetting with some elements in this country and talking more or less openly of the launching of a new international...
...This is not true...
...Mailly's Tour Wins Support for Rand School «| ET the women do it," is the latest happy inspiration of The Save the People's House and Rand School Drive Committee in accepting the offer of Bertha H. Ma illy to spend her "vacation" in a short automobile tour of the nearby states, accompanied as companion speaker-driver, by Mrs...
Vol. 16 • November 1933 • No. 19
