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...Michigan, June 25 at Battle Creek...

...Missouri, July 3 and 4 at Columbia...

...Minnesota held a prelimlnarj conference June 1 at Minneapolii and arrangements are being mad< through a special secretary at 331 Lumber Exchange Bldg...

...Those signs are not confined to America but are evident in other nations, notably Great Britain...

...dent's power to inflate, has produced a boom in Wall Street in anticipation of inflation and some increase in prices...

...Max Winkler tells us that a woman bought on margin fifty shares of each stock the name of which began with General...

...State Congresses Are Called in Many States BAKERSFIELD, Calif...

...What a weird mess it isl It is because while there is as much or more cotton than there is now an effective demand for, there is not more cotton than would be needed if the cotton farmers of the South and the cotton spinners could wear two clean shirts a week instead of one shirt two weeks...

...To my mind the textile industry and tha needle trades arc the particular industries which beet leal themselves to real improvement under the Industrial Control Act The competing employers are relatively weaker than in some other trades, both politically and economically...

...For two weeks the volume of shares traded in each week baa passed the twenty million mark, that is to say, it haa been higher than at the height of the speculative boom before the crash October 1929...

...The people are really drugged with speeches and festivals, for they do not try to find out what it is all about" There is no liberty or freedom of association for anybody, not even in the field of religion...

...She writes of the terrors, spiritual and physical, through which Germany is living...

...Harry Sherr, Los Angeles branch of the Workmen's Circle, for the southern end of the state, and Samuel S. White, Bakersfield labor editor, for the central valley section...

...An extra* ordinary meeting of the Executive of the Continental Congress of Workers and Farmers will be held here at Knitters' 11 all July 6th...

...A Great Forward Step IN the business of creating effective organization * of workers we should hail with delight thq news of the merger of the Cloth Hat, Cap and Millinery Workers' International Union and the United Hatters of North America...

...3j Stitt Wilson, former mayor of Berkeley, was confirmed as state convenor and will call the congress to order...

...CCF...

...The new banking law does not outlaw the holding companies by which the divorce of banks from affiliates can be defeated...

...A greater factor in the increase in the price of wheat than the fall of the dollar is the fact that the world crop will be the smallest in many years...

...How to enable the Congress to aid the trade union movement and the farmers under the new conditions of state capitalism will occupy the major portion of the Executive Committee's time on July 5th...

...There now only exists forced organizations, the chairman of which are chosen from 'above.' Even the Association of 'Rabbit Breeders' had to disband...

...for i series of county meetings to pre cede the State Congress August I and 6 in Minneapolis...

...Wilson, his three assistant convenors and Cameron King, of San Francisco, who was named treasurer, constitute the provisional executive committee for the congress...

...Before the bill hsd even reached fin si passage, the Hosiery Workers Union in cooperation with the Amalgamated Clothing Workers and the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, whose support had lent so much resl significance to the trade union section of the Continental Congress, had *et up an agreement between seven trade union groups covering the apparel trades, providing for joint sction in organization and in working under the new Federal legislation...

...This is the thing that Socialism must fight to its death...

...The merger is yet to be confirmed by members of the unions, but I have no doubt that the workers of both unions will ratify the reasonable plans which have already been worked out by the national officers...

...What else will be possible when it will be the function of tha administration to keep profit, rent and interest as nearly intact as possible...

...It is most noticeable on Wall Street...

...It may give to a few discredited leaders a chance, if they are sincere, to rehabilitate themselves...

...Beyond that, however, there is a great deal of territory to be won which cannot be won under any form of State Capitalism...

...The California Congress of Farmers and Workers will be the state division of the Continental Congress of Farmers and Workers...

...This scale ia a bad precedent even if the standards are infinitely higher than now exists in that much exploited Industry...

...Other Conferences' CHICAGO.—The call to the Illinois Congress of Workers and Farmers went to all farm and labor organizations in the state...

...The party which they did not honor and which criticised them both in Germany and through the International was the sufferer...

...The Eric Countj Congress for Economic Reconstruc tion, with forty delegates present met recently and elected the following officers: Chairman, Robert A. Hoffman of the Socialist party...

...This response in the short period of sixty days gives the executive of the National Committee of Action and Correspondence the assurance that the Continental Congress idea has taken firm hold on the minds of the aroused workers and farmers...

...The Socialist policies of the Federation have attracted wide attention...

...This is the thing that I think the reorganized German Social Democrats with headquarters at Prague will fight until they win...

...There were 352 delegates...

...She could have done aa much on any principle of picking...

...The plea of the first Congress lsst Msy at Washington for a real unity of organized workers and farmers has been met by the calling of state conventions for permanent organization in fifteen states...

...That increase in prices is most evident in wheat and cotton, of which America is a great exporter, because the prices of wheat and cotton for the world are fixed in Liverpool and not at home...

...vice chairman, John Newton Thurber of the League for Industrial nomocracy...

...They are not as yet directly connected with any of the Roosevelt recovery measures except: (1) that those measures have given the confidence that something at last is being done...

...It must be said that as yet the farmers are getting little benefit of the increased price because most of the present store of what has passed out of their hands...

...It is the old story under capitalism: in a hungry world a shortage in production tends to help the farmer by raising price...

...Moreover, they have lost so much by thir own cut-throat competition that if they can see that that ia eliminated they may well come to the conclusion that they can afford out of the aavings to pay something nearer a decent wage...

...On the day of the boycott," said she, "one felt ashamed to be a German...

...Massachusetts, July 8 and 9 at Springfield...

...Faint Signs of Recovery 'THOUGH millions still walk the streets vainly * looking for jobs, there are some signs ef improvement in economic conditions...

...Other matters are the setting up of an Emergency Committee within a short radius of Chicago, the national headquarters, the organization of a Watch and Signal Tower at the new national capitl of Industry and Commerce at Washington, D. C, a statement of policy for state congresses on independent political action, and selection of a permanent Executive Secretary...

...Arrangements were made for two mass meetings on July 4, at Riverside and Humboldt Parks, at which time the new Declaration of Independence will be read...

...So wags a crazy world...

...The Maryland section of th< Continental Congress was held it Baltimore June 25 and 26...

...Emit Rieve, chairman of the Executive Committee, as President >f the American Federation of Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers, was almost the first trade union leader to realise the immense possibilities for gsin to sn aggressive trade union movement in the Industrial Control Bill...

...and (2) that by going off the gold standard the value of the dollar has fallen in (be world market...

...In a couple of weeks she had doubled her money...

...Chairman Rieve at once urged active preparation by trade unions to take advantage of the measure's provisions...

...Raymond Dow, state convenor, 105 Newland St., Springfield, Mass., reports enthusiastic support from many labor organizations...

...Whether the new price will hold indefinitely is another matter...

...Its president, James S. Wooodsworth, MP., has just completed a speaking tour of Nova Scotia and Cape Breton Island...

...Chester B. Graham wai chairman and Richard Naysmitl was chosen head of the stati executive...

...A. A. Clsrk...

...Not only ia this step generally in the right direction, but in this case it heals old wounds and removes a situation which had already led to serious jurisdictional disputes...

...New York, July, 8 and 9 (tentative...

...The Michigan State Farmer Worker Congress met in Hatlli Creek June 25...

...It is also immensely to the good that labor ia aware of the danger lest a minimum standard become* a maximum wage...

...Ben F. Wilson of Erie, Pa., brother of J. Stitt Wilson, state convenor of California...

...TO MEET OTTAWA.—The first national convention of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation will assemble at Retina, Sask., on July 19...

...If they could give underclothing to their children the question of demand would not exist But to get back to our prosperity...

...But without a processing tax of considerable size the Federal Government cannot reward the farmers next year for keeping some of their land out of cotton cultivation...

...Response from the farm area has been widespread and enthusiastic...

...In the case of cotton, first the Federal Government lent money to the farmers to enable them to plant too much cotton and now it is about to subsidize them for planting much less next yearl In anticipation the price of cotton, of which there is no shortage in terms of effective demand, has already soared so much that it is doubtful how much of a processing tax can be imposed...

...The Industrial Control Law in other words, under State Capitalism ought to operate to clean up sweatshop conditions if there ia any degree of labor organisation that is effective...

...It baa been banned anyhow by Hitler, but without some of the glory that a different line on the part of a certain few of its leaders—I do not, of course, apply this criticism to all—might have given it But other years lie ahead...

...Continental Congress Executive Meets in Philadelphia July 5th WJHU.ADEI.PHIA...

...of Visalla, will begin a tour of the San Johquin and Sacramento valleys, to Invite organizations to attend tho congress...

...secretary, Gayne Sullivan of the Young People's Socialist League...

...Maryland, June 25 at Baltimore (tentative...

...Illinois, July 22 and 23 at Springfield...

...The danger will be that the rise in pricea will more than wipe out the gain in wages...

...The Executive Committee elected are Maynard Kreuger, Roy Burt, Louis Elet, Nathan Lerner, A. G. McDowell, C. F. Lowrie, Kath erine H.Pollak, Benjamin Willinger W. B. Waltmire, and Ina White Miss Ina White acts as secretary on arrangements with headquarters in the Moxley Building, Clinton Street, Chicago, 111...

...Massachusetts has called a conference for July 8 and 9 in Springfield Auditorium...

...In a strange sort of way Hitler's outrageous and aweeping ban of the Socialist Party may be a blessing...

...The first of May she felt was "a grand bluff...

...This fact, combined with the Presi...

...Representatives of workers' groups met in Bakersfield June 10 and 11, and elected a provisional executive committee to formulate plans for the congress and to issue the call...

...The gambling game is still on, Morgan's insiders, members of his invisible payroll, still alt in the seats 'of the mighty...

...All Otto Wels' caution and the presence of forty-eight Socialist deputies in Hitler's Reichstag, where they held their peace and by silence gave consent, in the end availed nothing:unless perhaps to make it easier for some of those leaders to themselves flee the*country...

...The preliminary conference elected an executive committee to draw ep detailed plans for the Congress and agreed to hold county meetings to draw as many organizations as possible into the Springfield meet| ing...

...California farmers', workers', unemployed and other working class organizations will, be called to send delegates to the California Congress of Farmers and Workers, which will convene in Sacramento during the session of the legislature, on Saturday, July 22...

...Truly our congratulations go out to all concerned...

...The guest speaker will be Dr...

...Labor Is Fighting IT is good that labor is making a fight against a * 40-hour week and a $10 and $11 minimum wage scale in the textile industry...

...Dates of State Congresses Florida, July 3 and 4 at Orlando...

...George E. Duemler state convenor for Missouri, re ports full cooperation from' Mis 1 souri farm groups and a largi labor delegation at the Congresi to be held July 3 an 1 4 in Colum bia, Missouri...

...Socialism is still the hope and the only hope of the world...

...executive committee, Rose Dicksrt of the Socialist Women's Club, Stanley Chmiell ol the Polish Socialist Alliance, Herman J. Hahn and James W. Moorhouse of the League of the Unemployed...

...Buffalo Meets BUFFALO...

...Our splendid German association for teachers, founded 1889, we had to dissolve by orders from above...

...Three assistant state convenors were named: Miien Dempster, San Francisco Socialist organizer, who will have jurisdiction over the Bay region...

...A widespread campaign against all forms of "company unionism," education on the advantages of true unionization, and organizing millions of the unorganized, has been suggested as a program...

...The Illinois Congress will be held in Springfield July 22 and 23...

...A Sad Germany IUST before a very successful mass meeting in ** the Interests of the Continental Congress for Economic Reconstruction which the Baltimore Federation of Labor had heartily endorsed, I was handed a plain, unadorned letter which had been smuggled out from Germany...

...Ohio, Augusts and 6 at Columbus...

...No elaborate description has given me a more vivid picture of what is happening than this unpretentious tale from a school teacher, not active in politics, who dared not put her letter in the mail...

...Also a militant campaign against the growth of Fascist organization...