NRA Called Attempt to Bolster "Busted" System
NRA Called Attempt to Bolster "Busted" System "THAT the NRA is an attempt * to maintain and salvage a capitalist system which is busted, shattered, shivered and lost is •nough to condemn it,"...
...A season subscription costs $3, entitling the holder to any orchestra seat...
...One Socialist woman was sleeted...
...I made a little mistake...
...Crosswaith Debate Next Forum Feature This Sunday the forum audience will hear Frank Crosswaith, outstanding Socialist orator, debate Prof...
...In place of ameliorative measures like the NRA, we must have production for use and not for profit, co-operation ina,' »ad of capitalism, friendship and goodwill instead of hatred and war...
...We want the facts...
...We understood that the government would let only those manufacturers who have signed the NRA work on their orders...
...5. He will then leave for a 10-day tour of New England and probably Canada...
...The capitalist system must come to an end, for it can no longer work...
...These discharged union men were replaced by non-union men...
...Jack Fies of Nash-vi'' and Lawrence Hogan...
...It came into being "because financiers and business men paid more attention to private profit than to the public welfare...
...5, Cincinnati...
...Other speakers were Heinrich Bartel, German Socialist and former editor of "Vorvarts," local German Socialist weekly...
...Swiss Fascist National Front In Open Split BERNE.—The "National Front," the Swiss offspring of the Nazi movement, is rapidly disintegrating...
...The secessionist groups of the Cantons of Solothurn, Basle, Berne and Lusern, comprising more than half of the movement, have agreed upon a new organisation called the "Volksbund...
...And it wasn't in real estate, it was in a movie theatre...
...All of which—and about a million other veracious stories about the Socialists from Communist sources—remind one of a story...
...NRA Called Attempt to Bolster "Busted" System "THAT the NRA is an attempt * to maintain and salvage a capitalist system which is busted, shattered, shivered and lost is •nough to condemn it," declared Charles Edward Russell, noted publicist, in a debate on the NRA, with Assistant Secretary of Labor Edward F. McGrady, held by the Brooklyn Forum last Sunday everting at the Brooklyn Academy of Music...
...Parade hike on Thanksgiving Day to Hunters Island...
...Tho official labor movement in a number of cities is joining in the support of local meetings...
...Do not rely on gossip and do not exaggerate...
...Friday night Plettl speaks in Buffalo...
...A New Year's Eve Ball will also be given...
...This army field wire order was sublet to the Whitney Blake Co...
...Norman Thomas, chairman...
...4, Indianapolis...
...All Brooklyn gourds men meet al • a. m. at Nevlns St...
...Russell was Socialist candidate for Mayor of New York in 1913...
...More remedial legislation is not what is needed...
...of New York...
...16, United Hebrew Trades, New York City...
...The Whitney Blake Co...
...We are still out and Whitney Blake is still working on that government order while they sre not flying a Blue Eagle...
...In Milwaukee Plettl will be given an official labor reception and a City Hall reception by Mayor Hoan...
...MARTIN PLETTL, refugee Ger-"* man trade unionist and Socialist, began a month's speaking tour Wednesday night when he addressed a large audience in Rochester at a meeting under the joint auspices of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers and the Workmen's Circle of that city...
...Here are a few reports from the NRA front...
...of New Haven, manufacturers of insulated wire, cords, etc., have discharged about 30 men for joining a Federal Unoin affiliated with the A. F. of L. They are now working on a government order of about fifty million feet of army field wire...
...Mr...
...Roy Clark Hanaway of Wagner College on, "Resolved: That Socialism Is Superior to Capitalism...
...Full hiking outfit, Including cooking utensils...
...26 and 27, Cleveland...
...29 and 30, Chicago...
...Our strike for recognition is now in its seventh week and due to lack of funds in our newly formed union, some of the our men have returned to work...
...14, Newark...
...Plettl, German Labor Chief, Starts Speaking Tour of U.S...
...Bartel was greeted with tremendous cheering when he predicted the early collapse of Fascism, and called upon Americans to join the anti-Nazi boycott...
...Otherwise you're right...
...We were called out on strike by John Egan, secretary of the Connecticut Federation of Labor, after he had failed in an attempt to have these men reinstated...
...Fired for Organizing a Federal Labor Union By S. S. If verification to this story is wanted, I refer you to Carl W. Sickles, vice-president of the Connecticut Federation of Labor...
...We were "fired," organizing was the cause, and have been complsining sines Oct...
...S. H. Friedman, executive secretary), 112 East 19th Street, AT ONCE, to save these valiantly battling workers...
...The three pioneers undertaking .his work are all Southerners: Alton A. Lawrence, State Secretary in North Carolina...
...IN Milwaukee," said a doctor to ¦* a group of his fellows in the hospital rest room, "Al Benson, the Socialist sheriff, is evicting 12,000 working class families every month...
...And it wasn't in Cleveland, it was in Toledo...
...After great gains, characterized by the usuaj propaganda methods and terror acts against workers, Socialists and Jews, serious dissensions have developed within the ranks which finally led to an open split...
...It wasn't in the Times...
...He cited statistics to show the gains made in business and employment, and declared his confidence in the ultimate success of the NRA...
...Relief Funds Needed Notice is hereby given that despite stories in the newspapers and announcement* by employers, 20,000 strikers are still out in silk centers, which include Paterson, Brooklyn and Astoria, and help is desperately needed for relief purposes...
...Individual admissions are 55 and 25 cents...
...The program includes 14 more events in which Norman Thomas, Scott Ncaring, Samuel Untermeyer, Charles Solomon, Max Eastman, B. C. Vladek, Judge Jacob Panken and many others equally noted will take part...
...Kester requests that any Socialists or sympathizers who have books or pamphlets, files of newspapers, maps, charts, posters, or other material that could be used for educational purposes to send them to him at 1801 20th Avenue, South, Nashville, Tenn...
...On January 14 he will be in Boston...
...10 a, to...
...Thanks for the congratulations," ssid Sol...
...8, Pittsburgh...
...The factory is now operating in full force with strikebreakers and those who left our ranks...
...The NRA is a great adventure in democratic control," insisted the administration spokesman...
...said a colleague, "I'll be here tomorrow at this time...
...The new rival movement la led by the former Swiss army general, Sonderegger, who announces as his main objectives a relentless fight against Jews, Free Masons and all workers and pcistioftl 01*^*s>l"lIJIfttIQFIfla...
...lerism among the workers of German descent in this city...
...In Pittsburgh the CONGRATS WERE I PREMATURE...
...a, at t p. m. You can aUH order shirts...
...His other dates follow: Nov...
...3, St...
...It is a start in industrial democracy and out of it will come a permanent solution for the evils of the old system...
...I'ni sorry," said the doctor next day...
...12 and 13, Philadelphia...
...Will Willetle of the Yip-^s, and Fred Henderson, British Socialist now touring this country...
...Myles reports that the Monteagle Socialists are the organizers of the Cumberland Workers' League, founded among the badly-exploited bug-wood cutters...
...The NRA is a step toward fascism, said Russell, "because capitalism and democracy cannot exist side by aide...
...And it wssn't a million, it was two million...
...Milwaukee Holds Big Anli-FascisI Meeting MILWAUKEE.—An anti-Fascist **¦ meeting, arranged by the kcal Socialists in the heart of the German section, served to prove that there is little sympathy with Hit...
...by the Graybar Co...
...Is that so...
...But here it is, in print...
...Next meeting, Saturday, Dec...
...A large tract of land at Allardt has been donated by Joe Kclley Stockton, State Secretary of the Tennessee party, for the second school...
...Silk Strike Still On...
...Subscriptions may be obtained at the city office, 7 East 15th St., N. Y. C, or at the box office of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Lafayette and Flatbush Avenues, Brooklyn...
...Plans are also being made in Cleveland by M. Weintraub of the Forward in co-operation with Amalgamated and International leaders, who are p'anning the meetings...
...Louis...
...B. Charney Vladek, chairman of the Brooklyn| Forum,| announced that it is still possible to secure season subscriptions at substantial savings...
...Central Labor Council will give him a dinner on the evening of Dec...
...They will spend some time in Western Kentucky and Tennessee, and then concentrate on Arkansas before moving on to Louisiana...
...Bahn Frei Hall was jammed to the limit, with hundre' turned away, when Mayor Daniel W. I .oan I jan the speaking...
...10th, with nothing dons for us to this date...
...Following a party conference at Olten the majority of the delegates asked for the resignation of the national leadership...
...I hear your brother made a million dollars in real estate in Cleveland...
...And he didn't make it, he lost it...
...Because capitalism cannot be continued without scrapping the principles of democracy, it has set up a megaphone in Italy and a manikin in Germany...
...Only it wasn't my brother, it was my cousin...
...1 and 2, Milwaukee...
...Howard Kester, Tennessee State Chairman, is planning a regional organization for aid in this work by making educational opportunities available to the back-woods workers...
...He contended that much of the opposition came from these "industrial wolves" who did not want to give up their ruthless trade practices, and charged that they were attempting to discredit the recovery program...
...Myles Horton, head of the Highlander Folk School, announces another school in Allardt, Tenn...
...10 and 11, Baltimore...
...The entire tour is sponsored by the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, the International Ladies' Garment Workers, and the Workmen's Circle...
...15, Vestmakers' Union, Biooklyn, N. Y...
...He said that Hitler is merely a figurehead for capitalism, thrown upon the defensive and waging a last desperate battle against Socialism...
...Our organiser told us at our first meeting October 8th that our jobs were not jeopardized in any way by joining the A. F. of L., and that if we were "fired" and had proof that organising was the cause of it, we were to fill out an affidavit, send it In and the government would have us reinstated in six hours...
...8. In Newark, H. S. Bern-stein of the Forward, in charge of the meeting, has arranged with a number of Newark unions for a voluntary anti-Hitler assessment All proceeds are to go to help the labor victims of Hitlerism, and to finance anti-Hitler propaganda...
...From O'Brien to Solomon the capitalist candidates have maintained silence on the imminent danger to the five-cent fare...
...At first it appeared that the reactionaries might form a government, but the latest indications are that a republican coalition will be formed...
...Russell predicted the failure of the NRA because it increased commodity prices without first restoring purchasing power, because it increased the debt burden of the national and local governments, many of which are already in default, and because it continued the capitalist system with all its evils...
...Henderson, wno had won great popularity in this cit...
...at Pelham Bay station...
...Last meeting of Vanguard Captains decided to alon the salute...
...We recently asked our readers to report cases of violations...
...And be sure to have the clipping with you...
...The executive committee refused and accused their opponents of being "permeated with the old and superfluous ideas of democracy, parliamentarism and antiquated liberalism...
...The middle parties are practically wiped out and this leaves the Socialists and the combined reactionaries directly facing each other...
...6, Detroit...
...The Highland school at Monteagle, Tenn., was the location of the first Southern summer school for Socialist workers held last June...
...Well, that's about the size of the Communist yarns about the Socialists, which were greatly multiplied during the last cam-Prtam...
...I Women's Vote Causes Shift to Right in Spain ELECTIONS in Spain last Sun-*** day show a big shift to the Right parties, with women voting for the first time...
...Returns from thirty provinces give the Rightists 110 deputies, the Socialists 83, Radical Republic ns 65, Conservatives 11, Communists 1, and a scattering of Independent Socialistic Radicals...
...Hoan called upo . the unions to 1. -ognize the fact tht.' they impotent in the battle upon Fascism unless they join the Socialist Party and were prepared to fight on all fronts...
...The labor movement of New York and vicinity will give Plettl a dinner on Friday, Jan...
...by half a dozen lectures in various sections, was given a great ovation, and he challenged the audience to aid in building up a great Socialist movement in Amer-ica...
...Another blast from the same source was printed on Election Day...
...McGrady maintained that the NRA constituted a "revolution*' inAmerican economic and social thought...
...They have not signed the President's agreements, but are working under maximum hours and minimum wage rates prescribed under the Electrical Code...
...Vanguard Notice All guardsmen must tie present at the Tenant Defense Meeting at Irving Plaxa, Irving Place and 15th St., Sunday at 8 p. m. Wear full uniform...
...We have complained to local and national Compliance Boards, to Miss Frances Perkins, Senator Wagner and William Green, with no action yet taken...
...Democracy is too precious...
...Edward and Martha Johnson are starting their winter's work in the South...
...And he handed his colleague the city platform of the Communist Partyl Then he was told that Al Benson had not been sheriff of the county for a year, that there were hardly more than 120,000 families in all of Milwaukee, and that he would have had to work three shifts a day to get the whole population evicted once a year and then evict one-fifth of them all over again...
...The Catholics return with considerable strength and the total result is a check to revolutionary measures...
...I have a clipping at home from the New York Times that tells all about it...
...Sol Ginsberg met a friend on the street who said, "I congrautlate you...
...BEGIN SOCIALIST DRIVE IN THE SOUTH | The scattered activities of the Socialist Party in the South will )c coordinated through a regional irganization with headquarters in ligh Point, N. C. A Southern ,alx>r Center has been established here, which will house the Caro-ina School for Workers, a labor nuseum, the Tar Heel Literary League, the Farmer-Labor Co->perative Association, the Southern Labor Press, and the Southern Social Planning Commission...
...It is reported that the Communists also polled a heavy increase in their vote...
...STORIES I of the NRA J Do you know of any cases of nibbling at the NRA in a code industry...
...The meeting created a profound sensation in Milwaukee and strengthened the Socialist Party in every way...
...Comrades all over the country are urgently requested to send in whatever funds they can spare, or can collect from sympathizers and friends, to the Joint Silk Strikers' Relief Campaign...
...it has been secured at too high a price to be destroyed because it is inconvenient for capitalism...
...9, Reading...
...It is probable that another ballot will be taken In twenty provinces on December 8, because no candidates obtained the required lumber of votes to be elected...
Vol. 16 • November 1933 • No. 22
