All Set for the Biggest Picnic of the Year!
All Set for the Biggest Picnic of the Year! fJPWARD of 25,000 Socialists and sympathizers are expected to attend the annual Picnic of New York's Socialist and Labor movement Saturday...
...REGINA, Sask—After J. S. Woodworth, Labor M.P...
...Wisconsin Labor Scores Old Parties...
...Italy is notably absent Any paper that Mussolini permits to exist is welcomed by the brown-shirt censors...
...V. Education Despite the expenditure of $160,000/100 a year, New York City's educational system has failed to meet its obligation to the children...
...i In contrasting the two old parties with the Socislist Party, the report cites the action of the Federation's 1981 convention in order* ing a referendum of its affiliated unions on the question of organizing a new political party...
...Prominent was the demand for "sozialization of all financial machinery'* as well as of all essential Industries and services, and real relief for the farmer...
...scholarship allow-1 anccs to enable boys and girls of proved ability to continue in school...
...High school students are on part time...
...The great pacifist talking picture "The Man I Killed" with Lionel Barrymore will be the feature at the open air movie show...
...Complete abolition of private profit-making employ1 ment agencies...
...Ws favor j immediate action to transfer all 'utilities from private to pablie ownership ami democrat it operation...
...more and better continuation schools...
...Five free vacations are offered as prises among those who arrive at the park by 6 p. m., at Camp Tamiment, Unity House, Camp Eden, the W. C. Camp, and Unser Camp...
...the elimination of military | training in our schools...
...and for a war on crime and racketeering by going to the roots of those evils rather than fighting effects...
...The Socialist Party favors: The adoption of a comprehensive program for the replacement of old buildings and the erection of new buildings...
...This occasion will mark the opening of the New York municipal campaign, and with a tremendous turn-out will give the Socialists a flying start for a big campaign...
...VIL laJsMftiosji and Picketing We demand again, and pledge our elected representatives to work for the complete abolition of the practice of Issuing injunctions In labor disputes and pending the realization of this object, the modi, fication of the law, 1. To provide against issuance of injunctions In labor disputes before full and complete trial of the issue...
...program calk for a nstional planning ci mmission to guide the nation in its transition, boards of management for control of public utilities and other social enterprises and finally the eradication of capitalism...
...Increases in pay of from $2 to $10 per week have been won, together with the 44-hour week until November 1 snd the 40-hour week thereafter, and the five-day week...
...The Executive Board's report condemned the Democratic governor of the state for using the militia against the strikers and taking up cudgels for the enemies of the farmers...
...the development, in connection with all schools, of wellequipped and up-to-date playgrounds...
...la line with this, the Socialist Party is opposed to the institution of fees in the city colleges...
...Public Utilities The people of New York City are still paying "prosperity" electricity, gas and telephone rates...
...that the Democratic Party's best service has been to those in control of the Republican Party, with whom it made common cause ¦ whenever capital and labor clinched...
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...drastic changes in the city's tax system, relieving the masses of unbearable burdens, and raising rates for larger incomes...
...Many attractions have been provided, including an all-star show featuring Fred Keating, aa well as Jennie Goldstein, P. Levanda, favorites of the Yiddish stage...
...Recognition of the union is also provided for...
...Fifteen thou - sand silk workers in Paterson are effected by the strike vote of the general membership in accordance with the recommendation it the central executive board of the United Textile Worke-s with which the silk union is affiliated...
...It devotes its space largely to venomous attacks on the Social Democratic Party and to nationalistic denunciation of the Versailles treaty—the latter, at least, in s tone hardly distinguishable from that of the Fascist press...
...Other planks call for charter reform in the interest of the masses, including proportional representation...
...Tho shops in which these victories have been won are known as key shops because of their strategic importance...
...The Socialist Party and its candidates ore pledged to the foregoing program and to the building of a militant political party as aa effective instrument for emancipation from political chicanery and economic and social injustice...
...Teachers are unable to provide individual attention...
...They are the fruits of an unsound and corrupt profit system, upheld by the Republican and Tammany machines...
...Although the Neuer VorwUrts, published in Karlsbad, had then been in existence only about a month, the writer asserts that tens of thousands of copies were being circulated in Germany each week...
...The C.C.K...
...The copy for this article had, of course, to be smuggled from Berlin to Amsterdam...
...the reorganization of the training of teachers so as to equip future teachers with a clearer understanding of the industrial problems and the elimination of censor- j ship over the religious, political and economic views of the teach-1 'era...
...The Communist Rote Fahne is secretly printed in Germany...
...8. Abolition of ai child labor below 18 years of age...
...For a period of some years, the report continues, a faction of the Republicans in Wisconsin known as the progressives have worked with the Socialists to hold somewhat in check the reactionary forces "whenever too many of the Progressives did not themselves turn too reactionary...
...The strike is to be in protest against the 44-hour week and $13 minimum wage provision of the proposed cod— Build a City for the Workers...
...Another inhuman act of the Nasi regime is a decrees cutting off unemployment relief for dor mestic servants...
...Austria comes next with 37, France third with 81, Switzerland fourth with 26, and Poland fifth with 24...
...6. The shortening of the working hours to a maximum of 6 koure a day and five days a week, without reduction in pay...
...At the same time, there are thousands of skilled unemployed school teachers whose training is being wasted...
...This antagonism, it appears, from other sources, is gradually being overcome...
...The Rebel Arts dance group will put on revolutionary dances...
...They are subject to a bureaucratic and tyrannical super> vision which cripples initiative and deprives them of freedom...
...A program of Municipal Housing to replace the slums with modern, sanitary dwellings st rentals within reach of the masses, would serve the double purpose of putting) thousands to work and providing I decent, comfortable and artistic homes for the muses of the people...
...and 2. Jury trials in proceedings to punish for contempt for alleged violation of injunction orders, such trials to be presided over by a judge other than the one issuing the injunction...
...The report, analyzing the four years of the depression, points out that it was not brought about by accident nor as an act of God, but that it "germinated from the seeds of ignorance, intolerance and profit greed...
...Suitcase Workers Win Eight more important shops in Philadelphia have been organized by the Suitcase, Bag and Portfolio Workers' Union (affiliated with the AFoL), of which Henry Jager is general manager of the Eastern Division...
...fJPWARD of 25,000 Socialists and sympathizers are expected to attend the annual Picnic of New York's Socialist and Labor movement Saturday at Ulmer Park...
...More than 200 organizations are participating, among them many trade unions, branches of the Workmen's Circle, Socialist Party, the Young People's Socialist League and sympathetic fraternal organizations...
...A million poor women d girls are thus forced into cut-throat competition for jobs, reducing their already miserably low wages, which have been averaging about $6.25 a month...
...Le Peuple of Brussels reports that 264 newspapers published in other countries are barred from Germany under regulations established by the Hitler government...
...I Teachers who protest against conditions sre persecuted and vic| timized...
...The monthly bills for electricity for hundreds of thousands of the domestic consumers have been actually increased' during the depression, while wages have been sub| stantially reduced...
...Speaking before 1,000 people from all over the Dominion, the veteran labor leader predicted that the Federation, combining many workers', farmers' and producers' economic and political organizations, would at least hoH th...
...and that the Socialist Party had the only clear party record in behalf of labor...
...The sports program will feature three soccer games, Queens Soccer Club against the Union City S. C, the Young Circle League against the ScotchAmericans, and at 4 p. m. the Brooklyn All-Stars vs...
...n. Housing With at least three-fourths of the building trades workers idle, more than 2,000,000 New Yorkers are condemned to live in old, insanitary tenements, which, even thirty years ago, were declared unfit for human habitation...
...The evils of our city life which cry for solution cannot be attacked singly...
...in Quebec hss started an intensive program of organization snd propaganda...
...We recommend a continuance of the closest possible relations between labor and the farmers by their economic organisations and to promote political unity in the common interests of both...
...6. Old age pension at SO years of age...
...At the last moment Hitler's government refused to let the little ones cross the frontier...
...7. An adequate system of unemployment insurance...
...FIRST STRIKE AGAINST "CODE" The fust strike so far against the proposed provisions of a code under the National Industrial Recovery Act has been called for August 2 by the broadsilk division of the Associated Silk Workers of America...
...Czechoslovakia heads the roll of honor with 08 papers which the swsstika gangsters hate and fear...
...the encouragement of new and progressive methods of education...
...To free the transportation system from bureaucracy and partisan politics, we1 1 further advocate the rigid applica-' tion of the merit system to all grades of transit employees, and the operation of the system by a Board thoroughly representative of the transit employees and the general public...
...Organization of the workers both on the economic and industrial field was then urged to change the "miserable conditions now existing...
...So far c ¦>ty nine publications from the United States and nine from Russia have been given this credential...
...VL Hospitals and Health The Socialist Party favors a system of ssstaMssd medicine under which sufficient public hospitals and clinics and adequate medical, dental aad musing ears, will be provided as part of a general system of health insurance...
...Neva Enlightenment Good-hearted folk in Holland had arranged to take 600 Jewish children from Germany aa vacation guests in the month of July, and still larger numbers in August...
...Large numbers of pupils attend in antiquated, insanitary, unsafe school buildings...
...Covering the establishment of a planned, socialised economic order under 13 points, the manifesto urged the establishment of such an order to moke possible the mist I efficient development of national resources and the most equitable distribution of national income...
...the exten-1 sion of free higher education and furnishing of free text-books and apparatus in New York...
...These should be employed to reduce classes to the I proper size...
...balance of power in the neat House of Com-1 mons and was ready to govern the country...
...Calling ^* upon the members of the »rganized labor movement to take the lead in uniting workers of the city, farmers, Socialists and other progressive forces in a political party that will function in the interests of the great masses of producers, the general executive board of the Wisconsin Federation of Labor, in a report to 200 delegates at their annual convention here, denounced the Republican and Democratic parties as being aligned with the capitalist exploiters of labor and as acting against the interests of labor...
...for Winnipeg, had emphasised the necessity for complete economic and social change not only in the Dominion but throughout the world, the first nstional convention of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation adopted a 4,000 word manifesto calling for a Socialist program of action for Canada...
...the "Hakoah...
...Answering the attempts of the capitalist politicians and papers to divide the workers and farmers along racial and religious lines, the French-Canadian affiliate of the C.C.F...
...Continuous dancing from 1 p. m. as well as many other amusements will round out a perfect program for the day...
...Other countries represented on the list are Argentine, Belgium, Canada, Danzig, Denmark, England, Holland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Rumania, Sweden, and Spain, besides the Saar region...
...There are mere than 9,000 classes containing 40 or more pupils...
...Urge Independent Action /*REEN BAY, Wis...
...1 Transit The Socialist Party favors: The establishment of a unified, pub-1 licly-owned and operated system of transportation...
...The circulation waa relatively poorer in Berlin than in other parts of country, evidently because of the antagonism which had existed between the party organization in Berlin and the new executive functioning from abroad...
...It was pointed out at that time that the Republican Party was "a laborcrushing, profit-protecting machine in the hands of monopolistic interests...
...Regulation has utterly failed to protect the con1 sumers snd the workers...
...In conclusion, the labor delegates are urged not only to continue working through unions economically but also through independent political action, "for the consummation of demands for economic ' security snd social betterment" GETTING THE NEWS TO THE GERMAN PEOPLE »PHE July 7th number of the 1 Socialist daily Hit Volk 3f Amsterdam contains a long article from its Berlin correspondent giving an account of tiie distribution of Socialist, Communist, and trade-union papers, some of them secretly printed (or oftener hectographed) in Germany, others smuggled in from abroad...
...SOCIALIST PROGRAM ADOPTED BY C.CJ...
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