NRA Capitalism Creating Serfs in Industry and Mudsills Without Hope
NRA Capitalism Creating Serfs in Industry and Mudsills Without Hope??
Bosses Lock Out Striker Who Starve While NRA Looks On??
A YEAR of the NRA and the clasp antagonism grins at the statesmen who...
...Dorothy Haim, John A. Reeves, Oscar White...
...The industrial codes are today a practical monopoly of the big exploiters of labor...
...It should say: "Gentlemen, you are the most horrible failures in history...
...Connecticut: Murray Ra-toosh, Lillian Zolan, Mary Zolan...
...There is talk of registering them as fixed outcasts...
...It is no accident that the Harriman Hosiery Mills of Tennessee has defied the NRA, that it has locked out 660 workers by closing the plant, and thrown, these workers and thtir families upon the relief rolls...
...You cannot or will not operate...
...Socialism alone is the hope of the miw...
...There are no Socialist leaders in Italy," Valenti declared, "except those who wqfrk underground to overthrow the fascist regime...
...Then they took over the bottle and are now telling the NRA that Labor must be satisfied with a little skim milk while the big shots consume the cream...
...We will bring in an agtx of plenty for all, not riches for a few...
...A YEAR of the NRA and the clasp antagonism grins at the statesmen who believe that the owners of industry and those who sell labor power are members of one happy family...
...The two declarations, the publication asserted, "provide concrct* evidence that at last there in a fundamental recognition that social Insurance mutt be made the lnntiu« ment for security In the United States just as it has already been used effectively In many nation...
...Among them was one who helped to organize and consummate the Institute, Larry Davidow of Detroit, Michigan...
...Hardly...
...and (3) Methods of Organization, with Julius Gerber,' Marx Lewis, G. August Gerber, Leonard Bright, Jack Altman, David Lasser, William M. Feigenbaum and Philip Hochstein as speakers...
...The Young Circle League of America, of which Jack Afros is national director, cooperated with the enterprise and paid for the board of their eight students...
...New Mexico: Leon Cousens: New York: Alex Benedict, Lafayette Boal, Gretl Glogau> Michale Hanrahan, E. L> Hemberg, Ben H. Hill, Ray D. Hill, John Shoemaker...
...Pennsylvania: Yetta Corson...
...Wc will operate industry to serve us and produce things for our needs, not for masters to sell...
...The government takes cars of thessr human by-products of a merciless capitalism that ssts u» wealth as its aim and class rule as Us god...
...Ma masters to rule...
...Then stand aside or we will throw you aside...
...New Jersey: Lillian Bass...
...IF YOU CANNOT OPERATE, WE WILL...
...The Rand School and Camp Tamiment contributed tuition, entertainment and a week-end for these.' For the students who were members of the Socialist Party or the Young People's Socialist League the Rand School and Camp Tamiment provided board and expenses in addition...
...Thursday night was graduation of the Rand School students...
...Big Step Forward Taken in Socialist Education in Rand School Institute...
...Propaganda, with' August Claessens, Larry Davidow, George H. Goebel, and Bela Low in charge...
...we will rule ourselves in the places whir* we work...
...There were 42 students from 13 states — California: Nathaniel...
...The Rand School Institute...
...Each student was called on by Toastmaster Lee to receive the applause of the local comrades...
...l' I ic friendships formed...
...Camp Tamiment voted $100 as a cash contribution and invited the students to spend their last two days as its special guests...
...Monday evening James Oneal and William E. Bohn spoke on early labor history...
...A committee of the strikers appeared in Washington to present their case to the board and on their return to KnoxviJIe they were jailed for violating an injunction...
...J. Hillson...
...The Rand School Institute opened with a welcoming and getting-acquainted banquet...
...Others will have to be fed and clothed by government charity, keeping the cost so low that they will live the life of paupers...
...Many big shots are coming to the conclusion that most of them never again can be employed even if capitalism "recovers...
...Eight of these were members of the Young Circle Leagne, the youth organization of the Workmen's Circle...
...Industry will belong to all, not to a few...
...on a smooth concrete road...
...The Forward Building was among the first of these...
...What is to become of them...
...jPROM President^Algernon Lee, Adolph Held, chairman of the Board of Directors, Bertha H. Mailly, director of Camp Tamiment, to the teachers and outside speakers, and above all, from the students • themselves, there was on unanimous opinion of the Rand School- Institute— it was an unqualified success.-Never in the recent history of the school, since the days of the full-time training class, were there so many out-of-town comrades under its roof...
...The result is a growing serfdom for the workers in industry...
...Ohio: Jack Lifschitz, Ben Scwartz, Lewis Zerlin...
...Maryland: Alvin Meyer...
...By Nathan Fine...
...Massachusetts: Marguerite Bicknell, Tarmo Armos Hannula, Roger Hawkins, Reuben Weiner...
...Assume that it becomes a policy...
...The news that Italy's Socialist leaders have gone over to the fascist camp is denounced as "propaganda bunk for foreign consumption" by Girolamo Valenti...
...A host of speakers, leading Socialists of New York, gave their services...
...As a cooperative enterprise, it moved...
...Artnur E. Kent...
...THE failure cf the 78rd Congress * to pass the important mcutmrca on social legiHlation, including old age and unemployment insurant* laws, was assailed as "intenuelfjr disappointing" in Social Security* monthly publication of the Aim 1-ican Association for Social Security...
...This might well become a general policy of the capitalist owners of industry...
...The heads of the Workmen's Circle and Young Circle League addressed the visitors...
...Those who are tolerated by the fascists and who arrange conferences with the 'Duce' cannot be called Socialists...
...Socialist Party, and two Institute students, Arthur Kent and Jerome Silverman, led the discussion...
...Bertha H. Mailly, who raised a substantial sum herself and saw it through, from its beginning to the end, with practical and helpful ideas and encouragement...
...He is pledged to protect the capitalist system...
...Starting Monday at 9:3<j a. m. and continuing through Friday, there were three morning classes: (1) Our Message to America, with Algernon Lee, William E. Bohn, Nathan Fine and Norman Thomas as discussion leaders...
...The Amalgamated Apartments were seen...
...VALENTI DENIES SOCIALIST DRIFT TO IL DUCE...
...Wednesday there was a symposium on "Youth and Socialism," with Ben' Fischer, Michael Lcvenstein, Joseph Lash, Jack Afros, Noah Walter, and two of the Institute students, Lillian Bass and Paul K. Walk on the program...
...That would be dangerous to the system...
...There' is only one way to meet it...
...The will of the owners of industry is law when their power to hire and fire is challenged...
...Social in...
...Virginia: Bernard Snyder...
...Jobless Becoming Fixed Outcast to be Fed As Idle Paupers...
...Illinois: William A. Zimmerman...
...The speakers discussed the question of "Socialism and the American Working Class...
...Efforts of the Regional Board to get a settlement were futile...
...Are they to be ragged beggars...
...You are t hi majority and your will carf be made law when you decide to end the agony and uncertainty that la now yours...
...By requiring registration of these outcasts and reports from them from time to time, these cast-offs' of industry will become a new class on a large scale...
...Some may be sent to cultivate little patches of land...
...No self-respecting, loyal Socialist," Valenti concluded, "would establish any sort dl relationship with the regime that'has strangled liberty and with liberty the Socialist and labor movement of Italy...
...owners toss more workers out of industry and they be* come "mudsills...
...The report that former leaders of the Italian Socialist Party were reported to have met recently in Modena and voted approval of the fascist regime was branded by Valenti as a clumsy lie...
...The staff of the school planned the program and carried through the educational details from the moment it opened to the hour it closed...
...At the final session Sunday morn ing( Syvia Krouse made a presentation for the jstudents of a little token of appreciation to the Writer for his part in the Institute.j...
...In addition, Bertha H. Mailly and Ben Josephson, directors of Camp Tamiment outlined the history and functions of the camp, while Michael Hanrahan in an informal talk portrayed his life and activities during the civil war in Ireland...
...Human life depends upon the operation of industry...
...All guaranteed jobs at good incomes and working in healthful burroundings...
...They are thinking of a permanent army of jobless workers...
...Now the plant it closed and the corporation intends to starve the workers into submission...
...Michigan: Maurice Goldsmith, Harry T. Holmes...
...Norman Thomas invited the Institute group to have tea at his home...
...The Socialist women of the Amalgamated branch gave a little haiKjiict in' honor of the out-of-towrteVs...
...What of the masses outside of industry, the jobless millions...
...The owners of industry expect tbe government to do this job of caring for these outcasts...
...No Kerfs in industry and no "mudsills" outside...
...The correspondence classes, so ably and efficiently developed by William E. Bohn, and the Institute, during the week of June 17-24, mark a milestone in the forward march of the Rand School...
...They will be at the bottom of society, the "mudsills," as slave owners once called the poor whites of the South...
...At the camp week-end there' was a conference on the subject of "Labor—One Year After the NRA...
...The publication^ .declared that Congress has frustrated the hopea of the American people for a mora secure life...
...as a 1934 model of a superb car...
...It is yours for the takirg...
...editor of the Italian daily newspaper La Stampa Libera...
...Congressional leadership was taken to task for permitting the Wagner-}>ewis bill for unemployment insurance to die "despite the fact that the bill had not only been endorsed earlier in the session by the Chief Executive, but months ago its enactment had been urged by him at the current session...
...The group saw "Stevedore...
...Jesse Holmes, Algernon Lee and Leon Cousens of New Mexico were the speakers...
...During the afternoons visits were made to the interesting spots of the city, but more especially to the labor and Socialist points of attraction...
...of Congress with the declarations of both major parties-through President Roosevelt and the- Republican National Committee—for social legislation...
...The big shots of capitalism, who at first were humble because their system was a wreck, accepted the nursing bottle of the NRA...
...He said that he had received information that some ex-Socialists had met with Premier Mussolini to discuss launching a newspaper but that the project had been dropped...
...Jda is particularly so today when Mussolini's hands still drip with blood of Austrian Socialists Jnose masgacre he engineered and *tasnced...
...The...
...Abraham Cahan, editor of the Jewisji Daily Forward, made a brief talk to the students on journalism...
...Indiana: Carol Goldstein...
...Do you think that Roosevelt will take this course...
...2) Methods of...
...Machines have displaced too many...
...Joseph Drasler, Edward Gallob, Harry Gersh, Violet Kanevsky, Rose Krouse, Sylvia K rouse, Jerome Silverman, Paul K. Walk, Jack B. Zonis...
...The other speakers were Harry W. Laidler, Louis Waldman, Jack Afros, August Claessens and Bertha H. Mailly, who took a special trip from Camp Tamiment to attend the banquet...
...The affair was made a reality by Mrs...
...The Senate was criticized sharply for permitting on* Senator—Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma- to kill the DUl-Connery old age pension meanurc after it had been passed unanimously...
...The rest were members of the Socialist Party and the Young People's Socialist League...
...The monthly contrasted the failure...
...A victorious working class would take over the industries and reduce hours of labor till all had work...
...Section 7A, the "labor section," has become an ambush for the workers...
...Less workers are needed...
...The following night Rebel Arts, with Samuel H. Friedman talking on cultural activities, entertained...
...Last October workers for this corporation went on strike in protest against the discharge of other workers for their union activities...
...A government so challenged should use its police powers to take over the plant and operate it...
...It was helped by the hard work fef Ben Senitzer and Reba Pushkoff, and by Charles Salzman, who painted a beautiful bulletin board sign...
...And never in the last eleven years during which I have been associated with the school was there such a general feeling that the Rand School of Social Science was fulfilling its mission...
...New machine* are introduced in industry...
...the knowledge gained, the relations I between the Rand School and the ,out-of-towners established, and the spirit of the Rand School Institute permeated everywhere the students went, all meant only one thing: a determination, a will, an intelligence, to build better, to build more securely the Socialist cooperative commonwealth...
...So by crushing unionism in industry and creating i a large class of "mudsills" outsideT we are on the 1 road backward to the time when workers were tied 4 to the soil and paupers became the lowest class in 1 old Europe...
...THE CONGRESS DID NOTHING FOR SECURITY...
...The Institute was made possible by the comradeship and generosity of New York Socialist women, who opened their homes to the visitors...
...Julius Hochman and Luigi Antonini of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, Elizabeth Nord of the United Textile Workers, William Karlin of the...
...That is the ideal and the promise of a Socialist World...
...As a leader of the Italian-American Socialists and editor of a labor daily, Valenti asserted he was in close contact with Italian Socialists, both emigres ami those working underground in Italy...
...for over a generation...
Vol. 17 • June 1934 • No. 26
