All Ranks Unite to Aid In Rand School Drive
H CATIK k .-• WMffttr, a more awful, a more catastrophic pi that of 1914-1918? The fate of huM,$f the world for ages to come, is in the WmLihe workers. Will they throw their ¦ against war,...
...Besides, there are quite a few problems I'd love to see solved...
...In Cuba, where customs are so strict that a chaperon follows every courting pair on the Malecnn, American girls staggered from bar to bar until three and four a. m., until the Cuban people became convinced that American women are all loose, depraved and totally abandoned...
...A few dollars, a little leisure, intellectual and spiritusl poverty— and they're off to Paris and Hendaye, to Taos and Westport, to Majorca and Waikiki, to make far corners of the earth loathe sophisticated Americuns...
...If neither of these measures is secured, a strike is threatenend...
...pHE peacock's screech is heard in Majorca, and the ban* ner of American culture is carried abroad...
...The difficulties of organization work in the South should not be minimized...
...Then the Americans came, just as Americans came in :olonies to Bermuda and to Cuba, to Tahiti and to Greenwich Village, to Paris and to the Itiviera...
...Nevertheless, the present time does seem to offci hope for the development of a labor movement among the million am, a quarter I southern workers in manufacturing industries...
...This great -orkers' benevolent organization warned that unless money is promptly forthcoming so that the school may meet its August obligations, foreclosure is seriously threatened...
...The American people have always solved their problems (oh yeah ?) and will solvo their present ones," says Mrs...
...Five Americans, one of them a descendent of a president of our Republic, are out on bail after being held in jail for six veeks on a grave charge...
...Later the association stated that it called either for these demands or for the adoption of a satisfactory code by the hosiery industry under the Industrial Recovery Act...
...Among the speakers at the convention were Alfred Hoffman, organizer for the American Federation of Full-Fashioned Hosiery Workers...
...e>---At a two-day convention of textile workers from North Carolina and southern Virginia held in High Point, N. C, last month, definite steps were taken to organize the workers in these two areas...
...Roose velt an opportunity to advise Amer-1 ican motherhood, which should have been palpitatingly grateful, but wasn't...
...Unionism is new i to many southern workers...
...C. W. Bolick, Greensboro...
...They invented the clever trick of calling to each other with the hideous screech of the peacock day and night...
...In addition to opposition from the employers, there are other retarding factors...
...They have made fun of those who enthuse over jai-alai games and jeered at those who love cricket and don't like baseball...
...Does it know whatever greatness we have...
...Americans will be Americans, I suppose...
...For two years there has been a steady stream of Americans o that lovely island, once the idyllic hiding place of Jeorge Sand and Frederic Chopin...
...In sending his contribution, Mr...
...Clyde Munn, Charlotte, and J. H. Kestler, Salisbury...
...It is composed almost entirely of seamless hosiery workers, its organization growing out of a strike of 5,000 in High Point last summer...
...In ¦•I woman "tUl power fhren women are *wb/tol*ttsyrefct 1* a »«wklers ;*»*vTious jff1* cor¦?* and not going to give them up without a fierce battle...
...THERE they lived and there they were happy in their * simplicity until the world outside collapsed...
...The public authorities have not been friendly to organizational efforts in the past...
...Everywhere Americans on vacation, or in self-imposed exile, have gone the limit in raising cain, defying and flaunting local customs and traditions...
...As one looks over the history of American workers' education and realizes that for twentyseven years this enterprise has continued to function through storm and stress, one feels a particular eagerness to see its work continued at a time when there is' i greater need than ever before for | ¦nlightenmcnt about the social and 1 'eonomic changes through which ne are passing...
...It seems that its only rat•en d'etre was to give Mrs...
...that I high office ¦Ir because Ifer the job, k that is mat aff on l*y fathers B honesty ¦ that genial ¦bin!., been P»ad honest1 have In soUDtry, too mtable P to their ¦ whs have •11" *tth the WW...
...Oh, well...
...Roosevelt is going to solve the "problems of today...
...Tho People's House faces a special crisis with the beginning of August...
...In quiet Connecticut towns and peaceful Mediterranean isles, at Bahama beaches and In European metropolises they have brought their ideas of conduct and flaunted them in the faces of strangers...
...And so they believe today...
...In addition to the I textile industry, unionism is badly . needed in the tobacco industry of North Carolina, Virginia, and Kentucky, *,le coal and iron industry of Alabama, and the furniture in' dustry of North Carolina, to name ; only the more important...
...Does it know American Idealism and altruism...
...Perhaps it is unnecessary for me to point out that in the Socialist Parties of all countries women in large numbers hold high public office, that the Socialist Party was the pioneer in the struggle for women's rights, and that in a Socialist commonwealth men and women will have equal opportunities to find the places they are best fit for...
...In the "Woman's Home Companion" Mrs...
...some of them decent men »nd women, writers seeking quiet for work, some of them New York teschers on Sabbatical leavue, but most of them wasters with an income and a yen to raise hell...
...TRADE UNIONISM is once again an Lssue in the industrial Piedmont region of the South...
...Behind the convention was the Pied-, mont Textile Council, reorganized several months ago by seven local unions in North Carolina and one in Danville, Va...
...men who dwelt juietly and maintained their customs and loved their King »nd drank their whisky and soda and dressed for dinner...
...They have mocked at Frenchmen and ridiculed Cubans...
...on behalf of the Rand •School to all its officers and members...
...Normans and Saracens, Jews and Italians, Spaniards and Germans, Jenoveae and French all had a hand in cultivating and devastating the island, all contributed to its ancient glamor ind toward its mixed population...
...Roosevelt...
...The labor provisions of the National Industrial Recovery Act, by simplifying to some extent tlie difficult organization problem in this section, have given impetus to the union movement...
...A job's a job after all, and you know how those magazines are I They judge your pulling power by the amount of mail yop get...
...She wants you to write to her, and I think we should all do at least that much for .the First Lady of the Land...
...There had long been Englishmen there...
...they made the night lurid with their carousing, they established cocktail bars, they sought to apply the sub-tropical morality they had heard about—but which was no doubt wish-fulfillment for them...
...Will they throw their ¦ against war, or will they allow themi W; be stampeded again as they were ftersago this week...
...Girls on Vacation IN Bermuda I have seen the quiet, reserved British, both * white and Negro, stand aghast at the wild antics of Amciican girls on vacation...
...And then hey were "discovered," just as Greenwich Village had been 'discovered," and the Riviera and Tahiti and Taos and other places of escape for the satiated...
...This is true not alone in politics but in business and even in the social-service and other non-profit making organizations...
...Much of the industry of the section is located in isolated communities...
...Living in Majorca was said to be cheap...
...But it's all right...
...It is absolutely inconceivable that the Workmen's Circle can possibly allow them to die...
...Miller wrote: "I share the concern of many of my other friends in the prospect of closing the Rand School...
...The Industrial Workers' Association is an independent local union unaffiliated as yet with the national labor movement...
...Other resolutions dealt specifically with the southern text'le industry...
...Among quiet, almost Puritanial people they have roistered and uttered peacock screeches, they drink, they employ their leir.ure in debauchery, they swagger through tho streets in costumes thnt shock the Majorcans (and after all, it's their country...
...The Rand School and the score of Socialist and labor institutions in the People's House are our first line of defense af-ainst the forces of reaction and far the ultimate emancipation of the working class...
...What does the world know about us...
...And so the Americans came...
...One boatload of American roisterers armed with lettersof-credit, each equipped with a lusty American thirst, one colony of Americans who show their contempt for anyone who differ from them in tho slightest degree—and all the good-will created by altruism and Idealism melts away like the mists over the hills In the morning as they come wandering home pie-eyed and happy...
...I mention this because my readers seem to he following me too closely for comfort these days, and somebody may pick me up on it, "Babies, Jnst Babies," the magazine which the President's lady edited, has given up its brief existence...
...There was even an English newspaper in Palma...
...That paradisical Mediterranean island, however, docs not amy American culture and is up in arms against it...
...All Ranks Unite to Aid In Rand School Drive THE Workers' Education Bureau of America, through its secretary, Spencer Miller Jr, pioneer in workers' education, sent a contribution this week to the $17,000 fund to save the Rand School and the People's House from foreclosure...
...Paul Fuller, educational director of the A. F. of L., and Charles Hughes, president of the Virginia Federation of Labor...
...The national office of the Workmen's Circle this week sent out anjther S.O.S...
...I have seen just that, in many corners of the world...
...A number ot spontaneous textile strikes have recently taken place in both North and South Carolina...
...The Phocnecians landed here,long before the Siege of Troy, and the Carthaginians lettled a colony on the island before the time of Hannibal, I'he Romans made it a province, and there were many Greeks if the great days in its delightful valleys...
...The appeal reads: "We are taking tins occasion to remind you of our obligation to help save the Rand School and the People's House, those great workers' institutions in New York, which face complete disaster unless there is prompt financial aid...
...How many women of superior ability and grasp of their jobs are lost in petty positions subordinate, to mediocre men we'll never know, but there must be plenty...
...By H. M. Douty Despite Obstacles, Unions Get Under Way in the Old South In the Mountain Regions and in the Piedmont, in Virginia and Carolina the Workers Listen to Organization Propaganda—Light in Dark Places...
...Like Alice, she must keep running as hard as she can simply to remain where she is...
...On Canadian river boats I have seen dignified Colonials look on with disapproval as Americans of all ages and both sexes utilized the non-prohibition facilities thereon provided...
...Does it know our thinkors and workers, our dreamers and doers...
...Another resolution called for sharp increases in income, inheritance, and gift 'taxes, and for imposition of taxes on capital wealth...
...and they topped It off by engaging in a brawl in which a Civil Guard was socked in the snoot...
...In Paris I have seen Frenchmen take it for granted that any American girl visiting the cafes and dance halls is—at least temporarily—approachable...
...And there's nothing much to be done about it as long as jobs arts* a sort of reward for having staked out a claim at the right time...
...Discovered...
...As the Screech of the Peacock Is Heard in Streets of Old Palma Samuel A. DeWitt, for nine yeare our eolumniet in tKie ¦pace, is on one of those Socialist vacations, which consist, is you know, of working even harder for Socialism else* vhere...
...I Any Better...
...If this institution and the Rand School can weather the crisis next month, it can proceed toward the collection of the full amount required and we are confident that the goal of f17,000 will be attained...
...The day before, the Industrial Workers' Association of High Point had made demands on all hosiery manufacturers in the city for a 25 per cent wage increase, the eight-hour day, and the reduction of work loads...
...Roistering in Puritania IT seems that in Majorca they have gone the absolute limit...
...Another is being hounded by the ocal population for an article he wrote in an American pubication about them, and he will be permitted to leave if he 'ares to leave...
...And that made it an International Incident...
...The convention urged organization of a farmer-labor party, establishment of a system of social insurance to cover unemployment, sickness, old age, accident, and maternity relief...
...The ambitious woman, .the woman who courts the "bitch success" as Henry James put it, must be five times as able as the ambitious man and must be prepared to eat five times as much dirt...
...Roosevelt has another job...
...The executive committee to direct the work in the field consists of Larry Hogan and W. E. Prestwood, High Point...
...The locals are members of the United Textile Workers or of its affiliated unions...
...and the women roamed the city streets and countryside in garments and with conduct commonplace enough here but scandalous to the Majorcans...
...American dollars went far, hotels were good, servants and chauffeurs did not ask too much, the climate is lovely and it was rumored with many a leer that morals were—let us say—sub-tropical...
...Even if the labor pro-* visions of the National Industrial Recovery Act are administered fairly, the task will be far from easy...
...Miss of Things...
Vol. 16 • July 1933 • No. 5
