amarements,Economics Chaos,Debts and Bankruptcy,as New Year Dawns
Armaments, Economic Chaos, Debts and Bankruptcy,as New Year Dawns Effects of World War Force Governments to Control And Regulate Decaying System "TTIIE New Yew comet with the nation* loaded *...
...an outlaw one and threatening to revoke the charters of participating unions, whereupon four more withdrew...
...or exceed national assets...
...Street-corner meetings—yes, in the dead of winter—were held despite the stormy weather...
...Model AnfUnfuncfJon till at the Itiisit of Legislator...
...To your tasks, comrades in the army of human liberation The New Year brings both dangers and duties...
...Whatever its form may be, it ind'eates that the ruling capitalists and bankers are unable to direct the gigantic powers to wl i b they have fallen heir...
...In Pennsylvania the two Socialist representatives, Lilith M. Wilson and Darlington Iloopea, took tin lead in defeating the maneuvers of the reactionaries...
...In his assembly work he proclaims himself a Socialist, despite the fact that the (Continued on Cage Six) WORKERS' NRA FAITH SHATTERED AFTER THREE-DAY STRIKE IN PHILA...
...Hitler seeking to bring Austria under the jsciii yoke...
...Repudiation and bankruptcy may bring social uph.-avals in the leading nations of the world...
...The slaves and captives of the ancient world, the feudal serf of the MHdle Ages, the wage worker, tenant, peasant and bondmen of all types spent their laboring power in making possible the industria' civilization of today...
...The workers are increasingly Inclined to rely only upon their own organised strength...
...At the hearing, which was held several months later, Waldman and his colleagues made a profound impression upon the legislators, who asked him to prepare the model bill...
...The view expressed by President Harold V. (ialbraith of the taxi drivers that Tobin had bungled the1 opportunity of a lifetime to organize every driver In the city is widely -bared among the rank and file...
...Comrades from all over the city, but especially from the Bronx, and members of the Younz Peoples' Socialist League, met daily and Sundays, whatever the westher, to distribute tens of thousands of leaflets, to csnvass the voters, to broadcast the message...
...Through inflation in Germany and devaluating the franc in France the governments repudiated most of the internal debts...
...Wilson's resolution for ratification...
...for mayor, president of the Tsmmany truckled and Fusion Notable figures In the Socialist of alderman and comptroller missed fire, when all that was left and labor world have addressed last election...
...The bakery wagon drivers had submitted a wage dispute to the Board for arbitration...
...That is, they are approaching perilously near bankruptcy...
...A "tremendous increase in the number of applications for injunctions against labor unions in the past few months" was cited in Waldman's brief as evidence to support the contention that the rights of labor will not rest on solid foundations unless abuses of labor injunctions are curbed...
...Recovery will give capitalism another 1 ase of life, on'y to again plunge into another crisis as extensive and terrible as this one...
...Instead of controlling these powers, they are trssed into the air New Dangers and Government in" -rvei.es tf Duties May Come check the convulsions...
...But before the question could be submitted to a vote, the National I .•••••I Hoard, with the advice of President Roosevelt, had succeeded in breaking the solidarity of the teamsters...
...The power of the New Deal to soothe by promises has sharply waned...
...posing the problem and presenting the Socialist answer These are the other candidates in the election: At first, with the prospect of internecine warfare within both the Republican and the Democratic on the other a straightforward national leader of the Si parties—with a Flynn and a Curry, Soclaliat battle by Orf, the press Party...
...In Maine, ratification of the Amendment was forced through by Assemblyman Benjamin S. Stern, once a party member, who was elected and re elected on the Democratic ticket...
...It may...
...The others belong to dif farent industries, Including two Ii the field of chemistry...
...n a regular Republican and a Fu- proceeded to forget about the im- elected Socialist Mayor of I! •< ion-Republican candidate — the port ant election which might have port, Conn...
...Though the general strike of all I locals affiliated with the Interna I tional Hrotherhood of Teamsters, I Chauffeurs, Stablemen and Helpers has been called nil', four unions, including the milk-wagon drivers and the laximcn, remain on strike...
...This cannot be endless...
...Armaments, Economic Chaos, Debts and Bankruptcy,as New Year Dawns Effects of World War Force Governments to Control And Regulate Decaying System "TTIIE New Yew comet with the nation* loaded * with more military equipment than before the World War...
...Let us do our best to avert the first and to perform the second well I Lilith Wilson Wins Pa...
...Industry continues stagnant, agriculture is a vast area of misery and the debts, nation.i1 and private, continue to accumulate...
...B. Charney VI on the one hand was a twin fsmily mass meetings In the Broni...
...Wiliiaas M. Leiserson, executive secretary of the Hoard, and Senator Wagner, chairman, could only call its officers "bad citlxens" and threaten to Introduce legislation in the next session of Congress giving the Board more power...
...but if the Commission found itself unable to approve this broad pol icy the brief urged Ihe enactment of the "model bill" coveting ten points, including declarations that public policy should rest on economic realism, yellow dog contracts should be outlawed, injunction relief must he definite and limited, loose charges must be eliminated, the tempo) ary injunction must i>e abolished and all issues tried by jury, and jury trials and penalties fixed by law must be provided for contempt proceedings...
...Child LaborVictory Hoopei Forces Vote on Rati flcatioa of 22nd Amend a»ent—Twenty States Hove ftotMecf...
...IJNDKR the vigorous leader* ship of I .(mis Waldman, State Chairman, the Socialist Part) of the Ktnpirc State is con^gajSHBB^P^ajHnMMB ^^^1 Haw dfl ¦^*Jsi| Louis Waldman ducting a drive for the outlawing of (he use of injunctions in labor dispute- that bids fair to be crowned with success...
...Now it is in co'lapsel Wthin the shadow of this crumbling structure is the Socialist movement calling us to assert our power and to socialize it...
...In his letter Waldman to Governor Herbert II...
...the practical breakdown of the disarmament conference...
...The drive, In Its present development, came to a climax In a recent hearing at the New York Bar Aasociatlon...
...The bitter resentment against the National Labor Hoard, which now permeates every union in the city, is also directed against Tobin...
...For weeks the Board had done I nothing, hut as soon as the strike was called they were granted an Increase on condition that they return to work at once...
...Seven-tifly-six a Week A 54-HOUR workweek at 2ft cents an hour, which works out to 116.11 *¦ a week—that is part of the proposed NRA code for restaurant workers in New York City...
...defiance...
...campaign...
...A borrowed loudspeaker on a hired truck, manipulated by a patient comrade, went from subway station to station...
...Beneath the paralyzed structure of ill capitalist system are the hundreds of millions useful workers in agriculture and nJistry living the life of outcasts...
...The Regional Labor Board of the NRA has "intervened...
...Governor Lehman, in a ( uirteous reply, acknowledged the importance of the issue and referred the Blatter to that commission...
...The delivery tie-up, which had , threatened to stop trolleys, buses, subways and elevated trains also, is generally considered to he one of the most significant strikes in the history of Philadelphia...
...S|Mi'lnl l«» rin- rV w 1-i.j'M PIIII.ADI.I.I'III A. The three-day strike of r.ine leamsurs' i,lions, called in sympathetic ipjxirt of ibt locked mil members, of the Taxicab Drivers' I Hioit, lias been a body .low t" workers' aith in tin NRA ami die National Labor Hoard...
...Also, they must pay for their meals...
...Hates gather on both sidei of the frontiers once "made safe for democracy...
...France demanding security and Hltlct yelping for equality of arms...
...France and Germany are scowling at each ether across the Rhine...
...the withdrawal of Germany and Japan from the League of Nations...
...sted that die whole matter of Ir.bor (Continued on I'age Bevea) War on Injunctions (Continued from Page One) injunctions be referred to Ihe official State Commission on the Administration of Justice, a legislative committee that happened to be in existence although scarcely functioning at the time...
...AF I ER languishing for nearly ten years, (he 22n<i Amend nienl to the Constitution of ttie United States is on the liii^h road Lilith M. Wilson to ratification...
...It must end either by recovery of capitalism or bring general bankruptcy...
...In the United States the national debt anj internal debts are said by some to equal the total national wealth today...
...Orr appeared at meeting after meeting .asking his Republican and Democratic opponents embarrassing and unans-verab'e .jestions...
...They and their ancestors over many centuries built the mighty structure from which they have been evicted...
...unionists, and cooperators art very active in the field of pro ducers' cooperation, organising eo operative shops, factories, exe eating building contracts on a co operative basis with the element 01 profit eliminated...
...Japan playing banjit in Manchuria...
...manager, and a host of other But we know, whatever the results volunteer workers pressed home (Continued on page Right) The Bronx Campaign (Continued from Page One) the lessons of Socialism: criticism of present-day society and of the parties which uphold the system, the struggle for a workers' world and the fight to present a program of legislative ?"rviee to the working class...
...To of an empty treasury and emp.y hold up publication until the fig- pockets and of impossible weather ures are announced would mean prevented the Socialist message several days' delay in dispatching from being even more widely dis the paper hi those who await it seminated...
...Meanwhile, the State Executive ComBiittee of the Socialist Party undertook to build up a body of labor Opinion to back an anti-injunction kill, which was done under Waldtoan's direction...
...Bronx Socialists*Put Up a Great Fight for Sam Orr '¦•HIS issue of The New Leader that we ean look back on a good, goes to press la-fore the ballots straightforward Socialist camin the special State Senatorial elec- paiKn, where only the limitations tion in the' Bronx are counted...
...The sympathetic strike was declared following the refusal of ths Philadelphia Rapid Transit Com* pany to abide by the decision of the Labor Board ordering it to recognise the taxi union and to arbitrate all disputes...
...throughout the country...
...When (Continued on I'age Six) Norman Thomas addressed a joint rally of 6,000 P.R.T., Budd and National Lead strikers at Reyburn Plata, he was lustily cheered as "our next President...
...In- manager of the Jewish Dail fight between the old parties, and eluded have been Norman "nomas, ward, and Jacob I'ankea...
...That there is no necessity for the injunction process in labor disputes, and that peace and ordei ean be naintained in the modem Industrial world without it, is best eSahown by the fact that, although the injunction originate 1 in England, it has long since been discarded there," the brief declared On the basis of experience thi brief urged the complete abolitior of injunit >!.•• in labor disputes 498 Workers Producer Co operatives in France *T*HE French Socialists, trad...
...The constitutionalban upon child labor now lias 20 ratifications, fourteen of them voted within the year drawing to a close...
...Daniel J. Tobin, president of the teamsters, followed this move ny declaring trie strike...
...Thus, according te the lates ¦sHcial report, the number of thosi industrial guilds that the Frencl law recognises as truly cooperatlvi has now reached 498...
...who endeavored to adjourn the legislature without taking action upon a program of social legislation, mid it was their work and theirs alone that forced through Mrs...
...The world massacre that began in I9M cost the people of the nations involved about 200 billion dollars...
...The trend toward Socialist views is evident In many ways...
...the United States and Russia outside the League...
...may be in votes cast and counted, WaldmanMoves To Outlaw Injunctions Socialist State Cfcolrmoe Prepare...
...Knowing that starvation might undermine the strike, as in the Weirton Steel, Budd and Ford cases, the local teamsters' unions voted a general transport strike...
...has been ted by Socialists...
...control of prices and currencies and restricting agricultural output have become normal functions of governments...
...Jack Alttat candidate for State Senator, man, quick thinking and hard-hithave not expected his selection, con- ting Bronx organizer as campaign sidering the circumstances...
...But when the expected power in the upper house of the W. Laidler, Socialist ?anc fireworks failed to develop, when Legislature at Albany...
...In answer, to the P.R.T...
...Frant Daniel, David H. H. Felix, Newman Jeffrey, Philip Van Gelder, President H. F. Galbraith, Secretary-Treasurer C. A. Packer, David Schick and Warren Mullin, all Socialists who have been at the fore in the taxi strike and the sub* sequent general walkout, have a strong following In nearly all the unions of the city...
...Does this i ean insolvency for the capitalist nations of the world...
...Waiters, however, are hi get only 17.50 as wages and take their chance of getting the other half in tips...
...Of Many Nations ,h' '"creasing clans antagonisms in nations and between nations, provide a witch's cauldron out of which anything may come...
...To get decent hours and a living wage for the workers...
...Oh, no—to stop them from striking...
...In many nations some form of government cofrtrol of industry prevails...
...Lehman sugi...
...Fifty pe: cant of these are In the buildini trades...
...Samuel Orr, with his record as We who have been fighting for labor attorney and four times Bothe election of Samuel Orr, Social- cialist Assemblyman...
...Jasper McLevy...
...Mussolini playing a dual role regarding the League and supporting Austr'an , ft i Fascism...
...Alreuily a model anti-injunction hill has been prepared by Louis WuJilman, one that can serve as a model for Socialist legislators everywhere In the present status of the present drive a committee of the New York legislature is In (Missession of the model bill, backed by large sections of the organized workers, and with it forceful arguments in favor of such legislation...
...Charles So press paid some attention to the given a Socialist the balance of Prank Crosswaith, and Dr...
...Tobin was chairman of the House- i velt Labor Committee in the lft.'lUl campaign...
...thai the tnilitJ.nl fijjhi of the taxi (Irivt...
...ReguWlth the New fear lano' oi production and C •'ibU;on...
...All thin, coupled Increasing Debts with the world economic Forecast Insolvency crisis, the war of currencies...
...At one time it seemed probable that the Central Labor Union might call a one-day sympathetic strike of all organized workers in the city...
...The waiters are talking strike...
...Coupled with that disillusionment lias been a sharp increase in Socialist sentiment, due to the lac...
...There Waldman was able to present vigorous statements by a number of the more important unions, and im|H>rtant labor officials The drive began in September when Waldman, who Is attorney for a number of unions as well aa a former Socialist assemblyman, called attention to the wave of anti-labor injunctions being issued by judges in various Jurisdictions...
...Today about forty nations restrict payment of balances in gold, and in some countries it is estimated that debts equa...
Vol. 16 • December 1933 • No. 27
