A FALLEN WAR HERO
A FALLEN WAR HERO POLLINS is dead. Never heard of him, Harry C. Collins, the ,^ first American to enlist in the World War? Well, your memory is very poor. In 1917 his name made the headlines as...
...he was wounded twice and gassed once...
...That is, he lost his job...
...The Bureau will make surveys of industrial conditions, collate statistical materials and draw up charts needed for negotiations with employers and government agencies, make investigations and prepare reports for official hearings before commissions, and do routine research and publicity work for unions...
...The people of my district will see to it that I am renominated and reelected, and that, for the time being, is all that I am concerned about...
...But the LaFpllette movement gained momentum, and it appeared that the 6,000 Socialist votes in the district were more important than the Re* publican endorsement...
...He was decorated by the French and Serbian governments for bravery...
...So he was elected to Congress by Socialist vrjtes, pledged to oppose both old parties...
...Socialist and trade union leaders demanded the withdrawal of the police, which was refused, and the organized workingmen of all trades responded by laying down their tools in protest...
...The ship may get unloaded, but the cost and delay will eat up the profits of the voyage...
...Ten German brown-shirts were found who were willing to act as scabs, and the local authorities detailed fifty policemen to protect them...
...He there* upon wrote County Chairman Sam Koenig, repudiating the Republican party and its local and national leadership, saying (August 11th) "The platform of the Republican party makes no appeal to the hope of the people whom I represent," and he continued with, an attack upon the "Small group which now controls the party locally...
...The research department will work hand in hand with the research department of the recently formed Needle Trades Alliance, whose office adjoins that of the new bureau...
...He joined another army, the army of the unemployed...
...On November 20th he wrote the Clerk of the House of Representatives to record him as a Progressive," not as s Socialist...
...He had won renown and returned to sell Liberty Bonds...
...He was in the "big push" on the Somne...
...The weeks passed into months and the months into years...
...In that year the Socialists elected Meyer London from an adjoining district: while Morris Hillquit came close to election (in the face of Tammny-counted returns) in a Harlem district In 1917 LaGuardia's district was swept for Assemblymen, Aldermen and Municipal Court Judge by the Socialists...
...He raised thousands of dollars before the war ended and God-fearing patriots praised his noble work...
...Danish longshoremen refused to unload the cargo...
...On September 9th he spoke at a dinner, denouncing "the corruption* ists and the grafters in Washington," who, he declared, were "The inevitable result of the 50-60 policy of government control in Washing* ton whether Republicans are in power or the Democrats control the administration...
...The Yiddish publicity division will be in charge of Simon Farber, for years on the labor staff of the Jewish Daily Forward...
...He was found dead in the bare room...
...The Alliance research department is under the direction of Maximilian Hurwitz...
...We are all in a ditch...
...Norte Socialists Act The Norwegian Labor Party has prohibited its members from belonging to the Friends of Soviet Russia, the International Labor Defense, the so-called Revolutionary Trade-Union Opposition, or other avowed or camouflaged auxiliaries of the Communist movement...
...Ho got the Unemployed Relief Association of 17,000 members in Maricopa County at Phoenix to Indorse Sumpter...
...And that is all that I am concerned about...
...His only opponent will be Mrs...
...while in Harlem a similar fusion was counted upon to defeat Hillquit...
...The enemy he now fought was privation...
...The Washington office will be directed by Marx Lewis...
...In 1926 he was again a It •publican, and reelected as such...
...He declined to reply categorically, and added: "I expect to go back to Congress...
...He lost part of a hand in an industrial accident, and since then has been an employing electrician, the mainstay of union conditions in an open-shop desert...
...Harry lived in a 1tare room with his son...
...Defeated for Congress by Tammany in 1014, he was elected as a Republican in 1916...
...and a year later there was Tammany-Republican fusion on the East Side and in Harlem to defeat them for reelection, and also to prevent the -election of Socialists to Congress...
...In 1917 his name made the headlines as a volunteer in the struggle to make the world safe for democracy...
...And that appears to be all that he has been concerned about fox a long time...
...Four years ago the nation fit for heroes" collapsed and Harry could find no place in it...
...UNION PAINTERS WIN At least 1,000 painters on maintenance and renovating jobs will be put to work during the next eight weeks under union conditions as the result of an agreement reached between the New York District Council, Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paperhangers, and the United Painters' and General Contractors' Association, Philip Zausner, secretarytreasurer of the District Council, announces...
...And That Is All, Says He, I Am Concerned About rYN July 26th, 1924, Republican ^ Congressman Fiorello H. La Guardia was asked whether or not he would run for relection on the ticket of the oil-smudged Republican party...
...Harry returned to a country fit for heroes to live in, to the "good old U.S.A...
...Alva H. Shewey, state secretary of the party, Box 818 Winslow, is appealing to all Socialists everywhere for financial aid in the campaign...
...The Socialists promised to name LaGuardia on their ticket if he woidd permanently and definitely repudiate the Koenig-Coolidge-Daugherty party...
...He hesitated for a while, and replied as above quoted...
...He returned to the obscurity out of which he had emerged in 1917, a clod of wayward marl used by capitalism and then cast aside to die, neglected and unsung...
...Greenway, running as both Republican and Democrat The Socialist candidate, an electrician, has a long and honorable trade union record...
...The Order of Railroad Conductors have indorsed him, as well as L. Grass, editor of a state labor paper at Tucson...
...In the 12th and 18th Congressional District Republicans supported Tammany candidates, and in the 14th LaGuardia appeared as the Tammany candidate as well as Sam Koenig's candidate to defeat 'cott Nearing, running as a Socialist...
...Friedman Heads Labor Research Bureau A Labor Research and Publicity Bureau has been established by a number of unions operating through the United Hebrew Trades to pool resources in carrying on organization and other work under the NRA codes...
...A few diaries and some clippings, mostly war stories, were all that linked him to his heroic past...
...Harry fell in this war...
...The Bureau has opened an office at 41 Union Square, New York, with Samuel H. Friedman in charge, and will shortly open a branch office in Washington...
...He fought with courage against tremendous odds, but there were no governments to decorate him for his heroism...
...THE SWASTIKA CURSE A German freighter flying the swastika flag entered the harbor of Aabenraa in Denmark early in August...
...ARIZONA WAGING FINE CAMPAIGN WINSLOW, Ariz.—With no funds and with hundreds of party members unable because of "New Deal" economic conitions to pay their dues, and with practically all party work conducted by enthusiastic volunteers, the Socialists of this state are waging a splendid campaign for Comrade Sumpter, candidate for congress to succeed Lewis Douglas, new budget director...
...In 1924 the Republican party was so discredited and the LaFollette movement so promising that LaGuardia supported the Wisconsin fighter for President...
...I "This is the union's first victory tn its current organizing campaign," Zausner declared...
...We arc \vaging the campaign for the purpose of bringing about the 100% closed shop with union conditions, n 30-hour work week and a decent uniform wage scale in the entire painting and decorating industry, through a fair competition , code under the NRA...
...H. M. Sinclair, former state secretary of Oklahoma, is touring the state and depending upon collections for living expenses...
...The association is an organization of contracting painters specializing in alteration and renoval ion work...
...The:only • ;«r«>rence is that some of us are looking at the stars.—Oscar Wilde...
Vol. 16 • August 1933 • No. 9
