Behind the Scenes in Washington
Behind the Scenes in Washington Department should declare the strike unjust. Cotton mill workers in Alabama, on strike for several weeks, have been receiving aid from relief agencies...
...897,591 •1,86.1,837 Stand...
...Lester Ruffner, farmer of Page County...
...The bosses did not like it and the threats followed...
...F. A. Shelton, farmer, of Louisa County...
...Meats also will increase much beyond the general level...
...The board made its interpretations perfectly clear when it heard in Pittsburgh last week petitions filed by three Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin workers' Lodges...
...At the De Luxe Theatre in the Bronx the Yipsels were the inspiration of striking workers in the various trades that came out in sympathy with the Local 300 workers...
...11,920,441 8,974,743 Hercules Powder Co...
...2,377,000 2,125,000 lli-tlil...
...Its language was clear and concise...
...It is doubtful if the entire-industry will be called out at once, as a few extra days may be needed before the silk and rayon, and woolen and worsted divisions can be ordered out...
...The Government has been very cagey about giving out drought figures...
...Theythink corn will go to $1 a bushel by November and wheat possibly to $1.15, unless the Government steps in...
...Probably the most dramatic achievement of the Yipsels in the past few weeks was the demonstration organized and led by young girl Socialists...
...4,087,961 :i...67,H0 Stewart Warner .. 372,70.1 •268,824 Un...
...They have shown, too, that by collective bargaining they mean actual bargaining between workers' representatives and employers on problems relating to employees' interests, not merely a benevolent condescension to admit a few workers as individuals into the superintendent's office and talk to them of the weather or something equally innocuous...
...Aug.26, Nrt (lie Workmen's Circle Camp llofnung al PiperavUle...
...But what do they want...
...At the end of this time they all marched downtown, their line growing until they reached the busy section, of 47th Street and Park Avenue, where the demonstration ended...
...Night after night, entire circles and even districts turn out to hold street meetings in support of striking motion picture operators, braving the attacks of hired thugs connected with the company union, and often joining mass picket lines...
...The road to Socialism may pass through a big installment of state capitalism in this country...
...for the House of Representatives— Arthur W. Showalter, farmer, of York County j George Rohlsen, electrical engineer, of Norfolk...
...Also, they know all initial estimates must necessarily be inexact...
...C Al...
...These experts, in their own homes, are preparing to eat more beans and spinach and fewer steaks...
...2,593,369 1,.'132,484 Niag...
...Steel Steel Corp...
...722,1:1(1 *37,546 Nut...
...1,784,032 *3,114,967 Shell In...
...i Milliard Bernstein, radio operator, of Richmond...
...They act dumb when asked how much food prices are going up, or the extent to which farm purchasing power will be affected...
...As hitherto, we shall carry on the fight against fascism with all the resources and all the selfsacrifice our movement can command, in common with the Socialist working class of other countries, and we shall be victorious in that fight...
...Pennsylvania i; Philadelphia.—The Socialist Parly will celehrate Socialist Day Sunday...
...P. Corp...
...Those attending the Socialist Day alialr at Camp llofiniiig will have an opportunity to witness the runcnonin« of the school under the directorship of Sarah Umbnch, State Secretary...
...The day will begin with ii morning session at 10 on "Workers l-'jliimtioii...
...For courage and consistent determination, the work of the Yipsels in the struggles of Local 306 has been the most notable...
...A. R. Glancy, in charge of Compliance, confides to his friends that within a month he will resign from the NRA...
...However, nearly 500,000 cot,ton workers will be instructed to quit before Sept...
...928,555 666,071 Nat...
...Not, you understand, that the sun shines for everybody, because it stands to reason that you can't please everybody...
...Cash Hcg...
...The Congressional ticket placed in the field is as follows: For U. S. Senator, Herman R. An sell...
...The food experts privately guess that the general level of prices will increase less than 9 per cent...
...Muds...
...The demonstration of these young iris drew wide attention and a good deal of sympathy...
...More than fifty Yipsels turned out at five o'clock in the morning to help the knitgoods unions execute the final plans for the calling of their recent general strike...
...The 9 per cent expectation is not alarming when you consider that the general level of food prices increased but 6 per cent from its extreme low of last year...
...They learned from the preceding administration that prophecies are dangerous...
...These are at least the best possible estimates of prospects at this time...
...The determination of the working class to unite all its forces will override your maneuvers...
...The committee also declared for nationalization of the closed Tubize-Chatillon Corporation's plant at Hopewell and its operation for the benefit of the employees, and the public...
...The outlook is not a very cheerful one...
...1,026,879 soii,«78 Phillips Petr...
...Donald R. Richberg, general counsel of the NRA, has received a leave of absence and now refuses to resume his post under present conditions...
...The morale there is at such low ebb that restorative measures are desperately needed...
...In that strike the workers won a decisive victory...
...there will he a muss meeting with Jacob Panken and) August Cluessens as the speakers...
...made nearly twelve million bucks...
...There is a silver lining — mebbe it's platinum—to the clouds that have been lowering so long...
...5,3T>6,241 $8,627,367 \Yes4...
...No wonder there's sunshine in the smiles of those who have sunshine in their SlfiilesfoFthe first time since 1929...
...A VERY SICK BIRD DLANS for reorganization of the * NRA, which General Johnson confidently expected to be announced by President Roosevelt last Monday, seems to have encountered snags...
...Hrands, lite...
...1,714,427 •2,(178,124 • Delicti...
...In 1924 food prices rose 9 per cent without hardships, although the people had more money then than now...
...He and hie class are the most miserable failures in history...
...helming Co...
...But if you look in their inside pocket...
...We are therefore obliged to regard your proposal as a contiuation of the maneuvers carried on for years, by which under the fraudulent pretext of the united front you have Intensified and embittered the divisions within the working class...
...A« 4 p.m...
...The New Dealers prefer to talk in general terms...
...The discussion leaders ire John \V...
...Solvents Corp...
...In the knitgood workers' strike, the painters' strike, the struggles of the moving picture operators, und many minor skirmishes the members of the Greater New York Young People's Socialist League have been active and often are found on the front line...
...4,779,50.1 2,621,745 I'n...
...Now a. difficult and courageous struggle is going on in East Flatbush at the Rugby Theatre at Church and Utlca Avenues, where the Yipsels are helping the party and the union hold nightly street meetings which have attracted widespread attention...
...Two thousand and more of the people in the community came nightly to hear the Socialist speakers, many of whom were Yipsels, while only a handful went into the theatre...
...FARMERS TO BE AIDED 'THE chief White House contri* bution to drought relief will be a proclamation, already signed, temporarily suspending certain import duties so that farmers in drought areas may obtain additional feed for their live stock...
...Klec.AMfg...
...Administration leaders meanwhile are reported to be attempting to draft some compromise plan to be submitted to employers and the union...
...Nearly a hundred painters' daughters paraded from 90th Street to 47th Street along Park Avenue, appealing for support for their striking fathers, by means of sandwich signs...
...W. L. Gibson, printer, of Lynchburg...
...Here and there some Babbitt cries out in protest, but as he cannot operate his own plant his protest amounts to nothing...
...At every other block on each side of the street one of the young comrades dropped out of line and picketed the block for three hours...
...Given -less than twelve hours' notice, these young comrades were on the spot on time and distributed the strike call leaflet at shops throughout the city...
...Even General Johnson now realizes that the Blue Bird must be very sick and that he must submit to a little doctoring...
...Products...
...The past few weeks have found the Yipsels working day and night helping workers in various fields in organizing campaigns...
...But in district nfter district the motion picture operators know that they can depend on the Yipsels to help them carry on their important fight against company unions and for a strong organization of workers...
...Daniel Killinger, potter, of Hopewell...
...Yipsels Aid in Many Union Battles By Ben Fischer NEW YORK'S young Socialists are preparing to organize for intensive industrial work during the coming weeks...
...Uncle Sam in Big Business (Continued from Page Seven) gives way to a policy which, ten years ago, would have made the average Congressman and other illiterates faint with fright...
...The Roosevelt Revolution is delivering the goods...
...especially the efforts of the Ladies' Garment Shipping Clerks' Union to organize previously unorganized workers and win better conditions for them...
...You will note that there's a silver lining even for the Shell Union Oil Corp., despite its deficit, for there's a four million dollar decrease from the deficit of last year...
...602,73:t 412,2811 duPunt de Neniours...
...Cotton mill workers in Alabama, on strike for several weeks, have been receiving aid from relief agencies there...
...you will find a few unofficial expert guesses which show a ray of hope in all the gloom of widespread misery and desolation...
...Things are *1 picking up...
...Robert Bruere called a meeting of the Cotton Textile Industrial Relations Board to discuss the situation...
...Of course there are a lot of people—some hundred million or so— who haven't any of the benefits of the New Deal as yet...
...They believe any one who wants steaks or pork chops will be able to get them, but at fancy prices...
...IT The strike committee made no claim to complete organization of the more than 750,000 workers who might be affffected by the strike...
...George Buckeley, an assistant administrator of the NRA, has already left the organization...
...Arrests have been made...
...Oil Corp...
...Robert W. Lea, General Johnson's righthand man-, made an official announcement,,, of his intention to leave the staff...
...They contend the familybudget will not have to be enlarged extensively for the careful buyer who wants to keep his table within his means...
...rational Department of the International Ladies1 (iai-iiieiil Workers' Union...
...The battle is not yet won there, but the Yipsels will not let up until the union workers win and the company union is beaten...
...Murk Starr of Brookwood Labor College and Fannin Cohn of the M...
...Edelmau of the Hosiery Worker...
...1,965,88.1 280,463 National Steel Co...
...VIRGINIA PARTY FIGHTS POLL TAX By J. Luther Kibler RICHMOND, Va.—The Socialist State Committee at its recent meeting condemned the poll tax as a prerequisite for...
...Fox, of Shelby, N. ('., recently appointed to the board as a representative of textile workers, is already in Washington, assisting the ' strike committee...
...They have good reasons for such caution...
...Steel War Coming mean bona'fide unions, not company-dominated employees' representation plans...
...Regulations specifying: the commodities which may come in dutyfree—probably hay \nd oats—are now being drafted by officials of the Treasury and Department of Agriculture...
...nist...
...But just cast your glims over these figures, the net earnings of 18 American corporations for the second quarter of 1934 as compared wih the second quarter of 1933: 1934 1933 Air Reduction Co...
...1,472,879 3117,268 At...
...Vegetables, however, should increase but little...
...Steel Corp...
...White House attaches say there is every indication that the whole problem will be studied and discussed further at Hyde Park, where the President is to take up residence for an indefinite period late in the week...
...When the working masses acquire the intelligence and power to control the government, they are likely to fall heir to many enterprises nursed into life by the Federal Government...
...Ira C. Wentz, auto-servitor, of Danville...
...The Kocwjlsl Summer Srhool of Pennsylvania Is bring tonducled Tor the next two weeks W the State Executive Committee nt Csitip Hofiiung...
...voting and adopted the petition plan for a state-wide assualt upon this political monstrosity in an appeal to voters for the necessary amendment to the State Constitution to be launched as soon as the proper preliminaries can be arranged...
...It repeated its stand when it heard August 20 in Portsmouth, Ohio, the case of another Amalgamated Lodge of the Wheeling Steel Company...
...Fights have been part of the nightly events...
...Carb.ACurb...
...It was learned, also, that Administration officials have been in communication with George A. Sloan, chairman of the code authority for the industry...
...the workers are rapidly exhausting their patience...
...Others helped in various phases of this working class fight...
...There's a Silver Lining for Someone LJIP, hip, hip...
...Holing Mill Co...
...G. Louis Millirons, farmer, of Bland County...
...The Workers Abroad (Continued from Fags Six) campaign against the peril of war...
...The time is come for the pulmotor to be applied to the Blue Eagle organization...
...1,216,.1.12 S720.I85 Am...
...Lately Johnson's plans always hit snags...
...The employers remain adamant...
...From all indications the real battle in the steel industry is just about to begin...
...Isn't it enough that duPont de Nemours and Co...
...3,411,642 *:i,:i rimti Com...
Vol. 17 • August 1934 • No. 34
