Tampa Murder Stirs Workers
Tampa Murder Stirs Workers Socialists Leading Fight to End Tenor in Florida City—Public Mass Meetbag Held to Protest Sadist Green*8 Threat Helps City Fears to Lose 1836 A- F. of L....
...They have taken the Workers' Alliance into their counpi, and we hope that this declaration for civil rights is a sign of •wakening...
...All of the city's colleges are attended largely by the sons and daughters of working people...
...Culture, under whose auspices the meeting was held as a dam against the flood of Nazi propaganda and to stand by and help the heroes in Germany who sacrifice freedom and life to carry on the fight against Hitler...
...It was recognized that no Socialist principle was violated or party interest injured by a/-party member's acceptance of suchSm appointment...
...The 'inrfijrp.ipiow of people to their heritage of freedom is the greatest g^a^lgps a rising dictator more than his armed cohorts...
...only liberty allows a people to preserve peace...
...A mixture of mysticism and violence who like his predecessor Wilheln II has only two distinctive quali ties, the power of speech and* of stagecraft...
...The Labor Partywas first to take it up in England...
...The first case to come before him was .that of a deaf and dumb woman, Isabel McCormick, arrested for intoxication...
...A candidate for Lieutenant-Governor, for Controller, for State Senator, United States Senator, for Governor and for Mayor, he won the respect of all who heard him...
...Rosas of Argentine, the two Francias and Lopez of Uruguay...
...After the primary he organised a small group of liberal-progressives which he called the "Modern Democrats," with a quasi-Socialist pro- • form...
...It is a choice between a brio' speculative prosperity which wil end in a worse economic collapF than we have known, and i planned, regulated, and orderly advance toward lasting economic sts bility which would bring a higher standard of living to the masse: of the people...
...These candidates received so many votes that they aroused the fury of the gangsters who had stolen control of the city government, and this was undoubtedly the cause of the kidnapping and flogging...
...We greet the, free delocracies and all heroes who ought for liberty...
...Hiller, a Socialist candidate, appeared to have fallen below the lowest nonSocialist to be elected...
...Young Swanson was an active trade unionist and Socialist and received the fatal wound in a strike at the Motor Products- *ordoration plant...
...That office forms policies for which the Mayor is held responsible and membership in the Socialist Party was held incompatible with holding that office...
...they are to be blamed for everything, for the defeat, the republic and for communism...
...The six points of this program were: 1. Establishment of public markets to eliminate the useless middle man...
...Two tragedies contributed to this:, the war which was lost — not through the fault of the people: and the leniency of the republic towards its destroyers...
...3. Establishment of a city-owned and operated power plant and other utilities to serve the people at coot...
...As the election laws-la Florida do not permit us to bale the names of our candidates on ballot, and the Democratic parly is virtually the only party that can function, the proposal has a stnmr and reasonable appeal, especial...
...The Raided Meeting The meeting which was raids...
...In the Fourth Century, tha^ottp &¦ nroyed the Olympic • stadium in Greece, just aa the present Vanials destroy tbe idea of the Oiymncs...
...In the .courts his battles for the workers have been notable...
...the long war, determined rather?.< continue the life of adventurer' than to return to peaceful occupa tions...
...Expressing the belief that recovery and prosperity unless controlled in the interest of the masse...
...He was told that he might support whom he pleased, but not as a member of the Socialist Party Soon after coming to Tampa he became interested in the municipal election and acted as a checker foi the defeated faction in the primarj of "The White Municipal Party...
...He referred to his recent European trip, and eloquently praised the Socialist housing experiment in Holland...
...Taxes and Rents Housing occupied the attention ef the conference during the seeor.a session on Sunday morning...
...1920, he was permitted to take his seat and he served his term, again winning the admiration of observers for his brilliance and his eloquence...
...The interational ideal will be realised, as t is demanded by our toesmiosJ evelopment and by reason.The orld is divided, not horizontally nto nations, but- vertically into lasses...
...He expressed the view that the interests Of the farmers and the industrial workers were not identical, but tha: these differences could only be bridged by broad social planning and the adoption of the principle of production for use...
...Joe...
...Ai amateur who failed in everything who before the war just aecom ilished the painting of pictur postcards, and during the war re mained the eternal corporal...
...Hiller 27,122, and Work 26,427...
...Citing statistics on payrolls and living easts to show that food prices were not out of line with ether factors measuring the extent of recovery, Mr .Montgomery Tnged the women to transfer their emphasis from the question of price to that of increasing production and bring the products of industry into balance with those of agriculture...
...A Citizens' ? efense Committee of five was elected, with myself as i| If ¦» Each member was instructed to call open personal acquaintances...
...Under our insane and cruel capitalist system of production for profit there literally isn't enough work ia feeding and clothing us all to go around to all those clothed and fed...
...ScMosaber* Appointed to Board of Higher Education— Labor Gratified at Selections...
...The Board is also contemplating establishing a city-operated college in Queens County...
...when she explained that within a few weeks the delegates would be called to another meeting to discuss the situation, determine policy and decide on a course of immediate action...
...Militants" Accept - The only party member who accepted appointment from a nonsocialist administration without atking permission of the party is Jack Karro...
...Deport Aliens, 1s Demand of Reactionaries The» Plan Not OnW Cruel and StmHcL Bert Ecoaorav ically Disastrous — MacfcoMljl Stm0 r*Minwiijjji QONGRESSMAN Martin Dies - of ..Texas.is again pushing his pet measure, a proposed law to deport all aliens...
...Among those present or who sent telegrams were David Dubinsky, president of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union...
...make it an issue until all political parties accept it...
...Hedwig Winching sang ->ngs by Schubert, Strauss aad thers, and Lisah Marks* recited i revolutionary poem...
...Our figures also show that of 11 jobs furnished since March, 933, 4,174,000 were created beween March and September, 1984, uring thex period when NRA codes 'ere put into effect and the President's Re-employment Program had id us try's cooperation...
...A spontaneous ovation at, the id of this speech concluded the irst part of this memorable meetng...
...Abolition of exempt tax on profithearing incomes...
...Two Tragedies The main speaker was Emil Ludwig...
...that the only way to meet the day-today problems that face us is to apply the Socialist program, based upon Socialist principles...
...According to Vladeck, the Federal Housing Administration was a fraud from the standpoint of the consumer...
...In Germany, where"' professors of jurisprudence proclaim that the source of law is to be found in the program of the Nazi,party and in the utterance of the pleader, the executioner's axe ¦has become, together with the swastika, the symbol of the Third Reich...
...Today the American peopk must make a momentous choice,' j Green said in presenting the A. F. of L. program...
...2. Establishment by the city of a city-wide milk distribution sirvice and sell to the people at cost...
...The authors conclude that we have a judicial dictatorship in this country and propose remedies...
...His law studies were often interrupted by his work in the party and in public office, and it was not until 1921 that he received his degree...
...It was my duty to tat editors of newspapers, several sympathetic ministers and liberal lawyers that I knew...
...Only Socialists know that the only permanent solution of all the problems arising out of our economic system is Socialism...
...Gomez was the sole exception to an otherwise invariable rule that those who rule by force will not live out their brutal careers...
...Green said, "indicates hat there were in October, 1986, nearly 11,650,000 American workers •ithout jobs...
...In 1918 he was elected to the Assembly, where he made a profound impression by his eloquence and his sanity in facing public questions...
...If I had not got the party's consent," he said, "I would not have accepted...
...forward, charged that excessive taxes were m part responsible for high rents, and this condition grew out of the fact that "for many years real estate speculation and politics went hand in hand...
...Only Socialists understand the social aid economic forces that create joblessness...
...He early became known as an eloquent speaker, and he was sent into every corner of the city to carry on Socialist agitation, often at the risk of his life facing ugly mobs of hostile hoodlums...
...A bage poster with this slogan faced 5000 German-Americans who fined St...
...If Maefadden and Dies have their way 12,000,000 to 16,000,000 of the people here will be deported...
...Tampa Murder Stirs Workers Socialists Leading Fight to End Tenor in Florida City—Public Mass Meetbag Held to Protest Sadist Green*8 Threat Helps City Fears to Lose 1836 A- F. of L. Convention— Back of Outrage Is Long Story of Terrorism and By ML E. Eds on Special to The Sew Leader »TAMPA...
...the more idiotic a proposal is the better cRance it has of being enacted, American politics being what it is...
...ot tbe oppressors from above, hut he pressmen from below are ng way for a new Germanyl It is not true that glory is to be 'ound in war, and not in peace...
...somewhat like ¦ Stoclatr's BHfc pita, and fciH|i)|k H3ocia$fV to cooperate with him in promoting "Production for use, instead ef profit," and in trying-to get e...
...Unsuccessful creatures iobless clerks, dismissed teacher...
...6. Abolition of present sales tax...
...The labor movement is rejoicing," Belsky wrote, and Hollander added: "Your services on the bench will be an asset to organised labor...
...on a nation-wide basin "6...
...In the light, therefore, of our experience during the recent yeans and mindful of the situation wrhh= which we are immediately confronted...
...1920 to 1930, the rate in ¦ amounting to about 600,00#1 year, compered to an stssa of 720,000 from 1929 ts | * This yearly increase m Pk j workers mast never be f*»aj I when we consider the unessfM meat problem...
...made similar contacts with those Oat they knew, and with the labor anions and several civic organiza The situation was rather ticklish until 'We could see hew public satotoa was going, because during the raids sad kidnapping of the Communists a few years ago pub jfepMppsa was against them and gU|i Peaces were raised in their defease...
...The men in mffg^M^Br many believe that she 'IpSHf trembling...
...Kurt, Rosenfeld, former Socialist Minister of Justice, emphasized that culture without rights is an impossibility...
...Food prices were lower in 1932 than at any time since the War...
...But stac million men of jobs usually mean from twelve to fifteen million people, including women and children...
...Across national boundaries...
...Our foreign charity wards," he shouts in sixty-point type in his magazine Liberty, "Send them home...
...4...
...as it appears that the "militant" iisruptionists seem likely to\destroy our national organization...
...Even in 1929, our revised estiate shows, nearly 2,000,000 perons were without jobs in the 'nited States...
...Fabric Ownership The Socialist view was further —liliiiaw il by Algernon Lee, City Chairman of the party, when he called for the public ownership of ml...
...We kep hammering on that as the instigation ef the outrage until it is Stjs' asbficly recognized as such...
...4. Speedy slum clearance and comprehensive construction of healthful, comfortable low rental houses...
...Marie B. MacDonald, chairman of this session, countered with the remark that it was not up to the women to increase produc6on, but for the captains of industry, those who own the machines ef production, to provide employment for the millions who wish to work and are deprived of the opportunity...
...The government poured hundreds of millions of dollars into making frozen assets liquid for the benefit of the banks, and now the banks refuse to provide liquid assets for housing...
...The Germans here shed their blood in every cause of liberty and partook in the building of American civilisation...
...Over ten million of them are jobless, but even they and their families manage to eat...
...The official count gave Mrs...
...Se Tampa labor unions have been ¦jawing more friendliness towards *» recently...
...Probably due to thirty mj|f|aj^aad olicemen, the few Nazis who wsjm pretent refrained wjsaly JSfS -heir usual attempts at^pnf^ One Socialist Loses, Second Winsrecount Special to The New Leader READING...
...Economic Stability Essential "The American people cannot and will not stand another depression...
...Msfc powerless...
...Abraham C. Weinfeld, counsel for an NRA Board in Washington...
...Pointing out that the number of idle workers now totals 11,650,000, William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, ;n a statement on the unemployment situation, charged those .vho own and control industry with complete responsibility for he existence and persistence of 'his immense army of out-ofvorks...
...some of them are comfortably off, but most of them are not...
...I hope that there will come a real awakening from this dark tragedy, and that we will all move forward towards the happier state of Socialism...
...Without a complete solution of ou» unemployment problem, there earn" be no lasting recovery...
...At Solomon's induction a large number of So'cialists and trade union officials were present to offer personal good wishes as well as the congratulations of their organizations...
...Some of them have boondoggling jobs and others beg and borrow and steal...
...These figures are a clarion call o action...
...those who were expelled by Bismarck transplanted the Socialist movement to the United States...
...Over there, where the desse ai the Reichstag stood aflame, ignited by the destroyers at German freedom, s new unseen dome will arise over the temple of t«4•ranee...
...Those proposals are asinine, but alas...
...Goldberg and Miss Levenson have rendered a real sei vice in challenging our traditional complacency in regard to the judiciary...
...Unemployment ineased during depression until in larch, 1933, 15,470,000 were without work...
...Post called upon the women to "put this thing into politics...
...the city to buy essential foods direct from the producers and sell to the people at cost...
...The Socialists gained two Aldermen, now having 39 to 37 for the Coalition...
...Gertrude Hiller of Hyde Park...
...In the same period, however, he number of persons ¦asking ork has increased by 1,664,000...
...Solomon On Magistrate's Bench in N.Y...
...they came to hear reports" and to bring back findings to their respective organizations...
...A busiqfess rise halfway back to or ma I has re-employed only oneourth of those oat of work...
...With a horus by men and woman, among the songs the "Moor g fttMjfi written and composed anonynwuw -i a concentration camp, the must :ng ended...
...Since September, 1938, emptor* nent gains have rarely lifted the number at work more than 500,000 above the September, 1983, level...
...it would deport them Some Facta And there the supporters of that sort of policy stub their toes on the rock of economic facts...
...Big Socialist Gains Won in Swiss Capital OEIPCE.—This city, capital of ' the Swiss Republic, returned the Socialist Party as 'the largest iu the city at the recent elections and defeated the BourgeoisLiberal alliance that has long been in control of the city government...
...ef-a lata* section of tin ienWay etlii'm*^jmX~:'mi^u r,&it wjfhMt trying to pull off any prestoa^Ar*sna...
...He was admitted hi 1922 without retracting any of his principles or ideals...
...Since no minimum standards can be maintained or prove effective unless they are supplemented by free and unfettered eot» lective bargaining, there must he established aa fnffiineahis jruafaOH tee of the workers' right to wgajj ize and bargain collectivel y through representatives of their earn choice under a majority rale aad without interference on the part at ffhf management, for wage earnerirfc all industries...
...Hiller is therefore declared elected, but Work is defeated...
...The delegates were organized as a fact-finding body...
...and on the^tery day he assumed office Comrade^Solomon was scheduled to appear as counsel in the court over which he now presides to" defend several workingmen arrested for picketing...
...Two years ago, Paul Blanehard, then leader of the "militant" organization in New York and floor leader of the "militant" fight on Morris Hillquit in the 19S2 Milwaukee convention, withdrew from the Socialist Party to become Mayor LaGuardia's Commissioner of Accounts, the "eyes and ears of the Mayor," as his office has been described...
...They supported an independent candidate for Mayor anc also supported the Socialist candidates for Aldermen...
...But maybe fate played a joke, and the Unknown Soldier is a Jew...
...Do usiness executives expect the •ther half of business recovery to rive jobs to the remaining 75 par ent and also to create work far He aew army of job seekers who, ecause of the present increase hi •ur population, n u at b e r aboat 00.000 per year...
...Two governmental bodies were elected, the City Council of seven member.-,, and Board of Aldermen* (Gemeinderat and Stadtrat...
...Gertrude Weil Klein, contributor to The New Leader, was chairman of the Sunday afternoon session...
...The State Executive Committee acted on the precedent created' when consent was given Judge Tacob Panken to accept a place on the bench of the Domestic Relations Court on the ground that the position was non-political and that it left the incumbent free m his -pare time to be politically active in his own party...
...I am a Socialist of over 25 yean' standing, and I would feel lost if our party is disrupted or turned into a cheap imitation of the many Communist groups...
...B. C. Vladeck, member of the Housing Commission, and Ludwig H. Gerber, member of the legal department of the Dress Compliance Board...
...Magistrates have important powers in labor cases, especially when pickets are arrested...
...The Hairdressers' and'Cosmetologists' Union wired: "Organized labor should rejoice in having a true labor representative on the Magistrate's bench...
...German Day Celebration Brings Oat Thousands to Protest Their Devotion to the Real Germany Destroyed by Hitler— Emil Ludwig's Notable Address "IJITLER IS NOT GER* * MANY...
...But now even the Conservative Party has included housing as part of its program," Mr...
...In 1918vhe served as secretary, publicity man and research secretary for the Socialist Aldermanic delegation in City Hall, and later he served as secretary to Meyer London in Washington...
...Either their infuriated people drove them out or they perished in a welter of blood...
...In Ontario, Canada, the average family uses three times as many kilowatt hours * of electric current as .we do in New York, for approximately the same cost...
...Detroit SocialistSl^iri | in Motor Strike DETROIT.—Shot several weeks ago while engaged in strike activities, Carl Swanson died here this week from his wounds...
...The two Socialists were candidates for the Berks County Prison Board...
...Green Indicts Profit System AJ.ofL...
...Minimum wage standards for women and minors assigned US operate on an industry-wide basts are essential to restore for mm group at least the wags standards destroyed as the result of fife Schechter decision...
...en'fe Conference against the High Cost of Li vingt called to order die first session of a two-day conference last Saturday aftersoon...
...They were also preparing for action, and Esther Friedman answered their query "What Next...
...Is the solution of this grave Condition-" to beat down present food prices," Montgomery asked, "or is it to build up employment and income so that consumers have enough money with which to buy fte food they need ? • You will not fed :He answer to it in requiring farmers to sell their products so cheaply that every one, regardless of income, may buy all the food he needs...
...He worked as a stenographer, as a copy reader and reporter on the old New York Call, the Socialist daily of another generation, and later he undertook to study law...
...We salute all ountries that shelter sad help exel led Germans...
...they came to secure political and religious liberty...
...Our revised unemployment estimate," Mr...
...I believe that toe effect of ;his meeting and our tarries have lone far more to win public opinion ind counfound the enemy than any imported speakers could possibly have done...
...TUs 3,000 pastors who prefer narbsen"ion to preaching what a German professor recently wrote, that 'Jesus Christ was a German,'tan lear Heidelberg"—they ass Ijsfl -eal Germany...
...jfljasl L. Jahncke, former Assissattt Secretary of the Navy" and 'a member of the International Olympic Committee, pointed oat that Hitler Germany is the opposite to the American spirit of fairness, which is' also the essence of sports...
...Re-elected over fusion at a special election in September, 1920, he was again ousted, but not before he delivered a historic speech explaining the philosophy of the Socialist movement...
...The, threat of William Green to ehangi the 1936 convention from Tampa to some other city was What caused consternation in the eaaips of the Ptaillistines and also hroarht things to a climax just before Shoemakers' death from the •fleets of the flogging...
...In industries where the employlent situation has previously been inknown, our estimates are based >n the same methods ased by the United States Department of Commerce in their study of income to he United States and the figures iave been developed after careful consultation with the expsi»jS that Department...
...He accepted an appointment in the NRA administration in Washinerion...
...there were a really free election today, Hitler would find hilmself in a small minority, America must wake up to the danger: fascism means war...
...Jlr650rOdo~StUl Idle Despite Business Recovery No Work Is Found for Millions of Willing Workera—Roil Recovery Lag• for the Workers...
...But somehow food is found for them...
...These two organizations a»ve usually vied with each other hi rapporting the powers that be •aider the guise of 100% Amer^H*he murdered Shoemaker was a Begionnaire, and _ his brother is prominent in their organization...
...The occasion was the celebration of "German Day," the 252nd anniversary of the landing of the first German settlers in America...
...Other Socialists holding city or federal office with the consent of the State Executive Committee in recent years have been Norman Thomas, member of a Charter Revision Commission that was unable to agree upon a plan...
...The nation Is terrorized and in fear> so that no open opposition can be made...
...An* today there is every indicatior that the country that Gomes rulec and exploited so cruelly will fall into chaos and bloodshed...
...We have not yet learned to distribute all that work without leaving millions jobless, and many more millions in misery, uncertainty and distress...
...Recent censuses and statistical esearch work have added to oar n format ion on employment...
...Under fire in the Assembly, be won the admiration of all for his manly courage in facing a savage attack upon his party, his principles, and upon himself personally...
...tke fight against German barbarism must be waged also ffdm those placet where German emigrants have found a temporary abode...
...will result in "greater unemployment, want and privation," Green stressed the importance of the prompt enactment of measures de signed to shorten the work-week without reduction in earnings, give legal solidity to the workers' right to organise and bargain collective ly, permanently abolish the chik labor evil, eliminate night work for women,.end industrial beam work, and establish minimum pa$ standards for minors and women together with a comprehensivi Federal licensing bill requiring rights of labor...
...Shortly thereafter the first, labor case came before him, and he met the situation in a characteristic fashion...
...A new estimate of the seeking gainful work in tha jj^el States was also made postal* f| the research work of the Wm Foundation for Research n\**S lation Problems, of Miami «B versity, Ohio...
...Vladeck was warmly applauded...
...They are, however, tro« specimens of their new Wotar suit: there is the wicked dwarl Albericb, now called Goebbels Thor, the powerful, whose thunde destroys all before -him, is Goring who like his prototype, is a tre mendous eater and drinker...
...He» therefore polled the members of the State Executive Committee and secured agreement that if the appointment came to him he might accept without forfeiting his party membership...
...and the city administration W Mrs...
...Frank Bohn reviewed the role ef the German immigrants during the past 260 years...
...The illustrious statesman's idea is that with the deportation of six milhon employed non-citizens jobs will be automatically created for six million Americans—presumably voters—and thus the problem of unemployment will be solved...
...Aad to that end the Socialists dedicate themselves...
...The First Case Magistrate Solomon's first hours on the bench in the Gates Avenue Court were characterized by' the humanitarian ism for which he it noted...
...Reelected hi November...
...Gannon read an address prepared by William Fellowes Morgan who had been scheduled to speak, was unable to atend...
...St is the Germany if the oldfashioned typesetting nacbines with which newspapers vere printed in dark cellars and ecretly passed from hand to hand...
...How could, he asked, an unknown foreigner with no accomplishments to his credit become thf master over 60 million people...
...In the second part, Otto Settlor, ditor of SoHdaritdt, organ Ojf the Vorkmen's Sick and Death Benefit Pund, spoke about the history of German Day...
...Yea, from their criminal acts will arise s saw spirit, like s phoenix oat of the ashes...
...Charles Solomon, one of the bestloved and most eloquent of the party's speakers and debaters, is 46 years bid...
...for the consideration of the labor representatives participating in the recent Industry Conference convened by Major George L. Berry, Coordinator for Industrial Cooperation...
...Some are on the dole, some on the breadline, some live on their families...
...But you wouldn't expect Martin Dies or Bernarr Maefadden or people who support them to know that, for their minds are filled with prejudices and stupid hates when they are not full of ignorance...
...Referring to the utility services, Walamaa pointed out that the only adequate solution would be public ownership...
...Monat said: "Your services will be of great value to the labor movement...
...It m a choice between a fleeting prosperity for the few and an enduring security for the many...
...With his inherent faithlessness, Hitler first Abandoned his program, and then deceived his friends...
...Oar first duty is to educate the misguided foOowms of Hitler hare, our second task is to raise money to support the exiles and the starving opponents of Hitler in Germany, such as the emaciated old workingman whom he had visited in his home and who said to him in parting: "I shall always stand by the Republic and the Social Democratic Party," to which his wife added: "I shall never turronder...
...9. Increase fat appropriations for adequate medical attention and for ample lunches to all children in our public schools...
...the socially necessary services Sad Snsnpa of production...
...Post pointed out...
...Hagen the betrayer of his f rierwfc, ana: Streicher...
...He recognized th« weakness of the Germans, theii obedience to orders...
...ffe§ the Dies-Macfadden statesmanship would not allow them to sit around and live on the dole and private charity...
...Magistrate Solomon released Kitaywitz on parole on his own recognizance, to be tried December 23rd...
...She expressed doubt that "many of them will be in the interest of the consumer and of labor...
...A life-long Socialist, he is a welcome figure at all Socialist conventions...
...Pa.—One Socialist declared elected to county office last month lost bis seat as a result of the official tabulation of votes, to be replaced by another, it is revealed here...
...stitut* the overwhelming majority of the people, accept the choice ef an on controlled lecovery with Me inescapable effect of greater unemployment, want, and privation in the immediate future...
...Modern Housing Mr...
...A Reo I Maw Germany Indignant friends of German ulture...
...The closing session was devoted to "The Utilities and the Consumer...
...The Mudered Worker Joseph A. Shoemaker, the murdered man, came to Tampa last May from Vermont, where he had been a member of the party and s member of the State Executive Committee until in the campaign of 1984 he supported the Democratic candidate for Congress and urged that the party endorse him and Roosevelt's administration...
...Louis Waldman, Socialist State Chairman, in a letter addressed to the conference, urged a determined fight by consumers and government agencies, to reduce the huge spread between prices paid to producers and those charged to consumers...
...Otherwise a few drunken "dopes'" who were in the flogging mot aright have been the -goats" for taw siniiter influences which con trol the city government...
...Blanshard's wife, Mary Hillyer, is to this day an important cog in the "militant" machine in New York...
...Former political enemies are now friends in Paris and Piae.ua...
...Even so, millions of people sad to ~o without adequate diet because they lacked sufficient income...
...and that they misunderstood...
...In October, 1985, total employment exceeded September, 1988, ' by 1,483,000...
...He had hi tons of millions, he had his fabulous palace, he had his vas grounds, his private zoo and pri vate lake, he had us eighty illegitimate children, and his people were shockingly enslaved...
...In return he re mained in power to the end, but tressed by the friendship of for ei«rn capitalist powers...
...No leas a patriot than Bernarr Macfadden, former radical, eminent exponent of the nut diet, proponent of what he calls "sane" sex education (as exemplified in his newspaper, the daily Graphic), entrepreneur of "true confession" magazines, leaps into the breach with ardent support of the nobis idea...
...They are not all farma;- very luxuriously...
...feld, he is a "militant...
...Solomon's appointment to* the Highly important office of Magistrate is justly considered by everyone as a recognition of the importance of the labor movement, and was made at^the request of union leaders...
...Rufus F. Wicker, MethodBt, vere most vigorous and aoatMsg lemands for the restoration of civilization in Tampa...
...While Ra thenau, Stresemann, and also Brfi ning sacrificed health in life in or ier to regain the confidence of th world in Germany, a few hundmv highwaymen for whom the w»' had ended too soon, simply forge' the cause of the defeat, to exploit the tragedy to their advantage...
...There is a lesson here for those who view the European scene...
...The same is true today in the cases of Solomon and Schlossberg...
...A lengthy preface to the book was written by Professor Morris R. Cohen of the City College of the City of New York, in which he says: "If our existence as a free people depends in any way on the free use of our intelligence, Mr...
...The woman pleaded guilty and the Magistrate then suspended sentence...
...Fo twenty-seven years this semi • illiterate has ruled his countr with a ruthless barbarism, an< he reaped his reward in a colos sal fortune...
...A native of New York, he joined the movement in his early manhood in Brownsville...
...Many weeks of hard work by members of the Women's Committee of the Socialist Party who initiated this drive against the mounting cost of food, housing and utility services, brought a ready response from leaders and rank and file members of women's clubs, civic organizations, consumer leagues and trade unions in New York City...
...nembers of the same class have 1 common interest...
...Walter Metcalf CongregattonftHst, and lev...
...QHARLES SOLOMON, leading Socialist spokesman, labor attorney and five times elected .Assemblyman on the Socialist ticket, was sworn in as a New: York City Magistrate Monday, and on Wednesday he assumed Charles Solomon Joseph Schloasberg i his duties in the Gates Avenue Court, Brooklyn^ At the same time, Joseph Schloasberg, life-long Socialist and secretary-treasurer of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, was sworn in by the Mayor as a member of the Board of Higher Education...
...Eugene F. Grigat, former member of the Reichsbanner and President of the Friends of German Democracy aa chairman of the meeting declared that "American institutions permit the pursuit ef liberty and happiness regardless of race and creed and that "we are here to reclaim German respectability in tiki eyes of the world.* Peter Ehlen, Chairman of the German Workmen's Sick and Death Benefit Fund, with a membership of 60,000, explained the purpose of the German-American League for...
...The same is true it the Magistrates' Court, except that labor as such is more immeliately concerned with its work...
...probably • disastrous oMSaflraakms we saop had public SMHato Seating oar-way...
...Re-elected over a fusion candidate in 1919, he was one of the central,figures in the ludicrous ouster staged by Speaker Thaddeus C. Sweet...
...We Socialists in Tamp: sere won the respect and syramfa...
...And then his judicial career was definitely under way...
...He graduated from law school in 1921, but his admission to the bar was held up for a year because of his ouster from the Assembly...
...After year^ of starvation, he again showed the hungry republic flags and parades, ind when he yelled the names -o Germany's enemies, everything melted in this theatrical sun, in the drumbeat of the old military' marches...
...Unstinted enforee ment of and unqualified compliance with the collective bargaining provisions of the National Labor Relations Act and of the BHurainesm Coal Conservation Act must pee* of "5- The standards of hour*, wages, and employment discussed in the foregoing piopoaali sauuW be arrived at through direct participation in their formulation at management and labor nrunning...
...There was a great public meetisg 'ast Sunday afternoon under the luspices of the Tampa Ministerial Association, with whom wt have >een working quietly and aarmoBJ>usly...
...halfbrained inventors—all failures, born egoists, brutalized throng...
...His work on the Board" of Higher Education will be invaluable to the sons and daughters of workingmen...
...trol of the Democratic party fa Florida...
...Bertha H. Mailly of tha Rand School was chairman cf the morning' session...
...Although some 31000,000 of these obless workers are- new receiving mergency work under the Public * Vorks Administration, Works ¦-ogress Administration and other nergency Federal agencies, the act remains that, while hnsjfcsss as recovered more than hah* of its -pr~T«ion aecJine, weT still hove lore than 11,600,000 unemployed in this country...
...Unlike virtually every other die tator in history, he lived out hi years and died peacefully whik still in power...
...It looks as though they mesa business, but there has been so much whitewashing done here in the put that we are all very skeptical...
...Not until September, 1986—two years after NRA—did we succeed n adding another million jobs...
...Robert M. Work of Reading was declared elected on the unofficial tabulation, receiving a vote of 26,234 to 25,661 for Mrs...
...FUl — Soon after the * recent murderous outrages here, a conference of active Socialists decided to make a drive to arouse public opinion by appealing peraeaally and quietly but vigorously to sympathetic and influential liberal citizens...
...It is a fortunate circumstance that the political faction which was beaten in the, recent disgraceful municipal primaries is in control of the lav enforcement Offices of Sheriff and* State's Attorney...
...was a committee meeting for thk purpose of trying to craw up * plan by which the Socialist Patty in Florida might cooperate wltt the "Modern Democrats" is educational work pending the outcome if our next national convention uhi he political campaign...
...therefore the assessed valuation of real property bore no relation to actual values...
...Carman" ia 4MMMB lands must fight...
...And those millions are being fed today, and they will continue to be somehow fed even if the (putative) six million are tossed out of their jobs...
...In the stream of words which pours through the radio, only one is forbidden: liberty...
...They seem glad of an opportunity to make things hot for their bitter opponents who control the city government, i Intercessions of Socialists elsewhere were well received upon the groundwork which the local comrades had prepared and added fuel to the flames of public indignation...
...Today, with a half reovery of business, wo still have •ith us 74 per cent of the depresion unemployment...
...Women Battle Hie High Cost Of Living Six Hundred Attend Notable Conference at Penncialists Feature Gathering By George Field piVE hundred women, representing more than sixty organizations, crowded every available earner of the Hotel Pennsylvania ballroom when Esther Friedman, chairman of the Wonf...
...Never Surrender Dr...
...I submit the following^ suggestions with regard to the legislative proposals to be con* sidered by this conference...
...Since then Solomon has been an imposing figure hi the national movement...
...I was net present because I did net thfak nuch of the plan, although I& aot actively oppose it...
...A scab foreman has been arrested and akarged with murder...
...Unlike Ciprian Castro, the predecessor he be trayed, Gomez did not antagonist foreign capitalists but, like Porfirio Diaz, he gave them whatevei they wanted...
...Thirty millions abroad owe help to the sixty millions at home Also in thp issue of the Olympic games the Teutonic past is symbolic of tbe present German...
...only Socialists realize that it is not "furriners" nor spots on the moon but the Profit system — CAPITALISM — that is at the bottom of these evils...
...Otherwise, she predicted, rents would double and slums would get progressively worse...
...While making this imimmediate fight, it should be borne m mind that a real solution to the problem of freeing the city from the grip of food monopolies requiries the setting up of non-profit public authorities with central purchasing agencies to handle the dry's needs in food and fuel...
...VU dictators of today with'tjjSir hirts and flags will be witnesses 0 a passing epoch...
...It was a third degree assault charge, and the accused is usually held in $100 to $600 bail, raising of which is a hardship upon a worker...
...Hitler may go into history, bnt in a different sense than be thinks, namely as the man who unwittinjfy prepared the road to Socialism...
...The "destroyer of Marxism" is strapped in steel and iron, guarded by gas and baccilli, ready to throw bombs by airplanes at every roSnata...
...President Charges Masters of Industry With Responsibility for Vast Army of Jobless in the United States...
...After the German Working-men's Singing Society's chorus had rendered two of the songs of freedom which are so dear to the heart of German workingmen, the chairman read a massage from President Roosevelt regretting his inability to attend, but sending warm greetings...
...Unless a broad and effective vork-providing policy is promptly \dopted, he declared society would >e compelled to intervene in aa ¦mphatic manner and guarantee to he idle millions the inherent right o work...
...Upon assuming office, Comrade Solomon said: "I have been an active member of the Socialist Party for 26 years, and I will remain an active Socialist as long as I live...
...Joseph Schlossberg has been secretary-treasurer of the Amalgamated since its organization in 1914, and is one of the best known labor leaders in the garment trades...
...The Federal administration was represented by Donald E. Mont'gomery, Consumers' Counsel of the AAA...
...The Board of Higher Education controls the three cityoperated colleges—the College of the City of New York for men, Hunter College for women, and Brooklyn College for both men and women...
...Philip Kitaywitz, a striking picket, was arrested charged with throwing stones at his employer, Max Rein...
...If, indeed, there are six million aliens here who hold jobs it would create six millions jobs for American citizens if they were removed from their jobs...
...In Tompiling its revised estimate, the federation has made thorough aad careful search of available statistical material...
...Business Recovers, iasoNf meat Logs "From March, 1933, to October, 935, industry has created 6,657,000 obs...
...Gerhaxt Soger spoke of the fallacy in sajriw that the mere existence of the Hitler dictatorship proved the consent of the German people...
...Miss Bauer urged careful study of proposed housing legislation, and called for support of such bills as the one being proposed by Senator Wagner...
...Eighty per cent of what it did," he said, "was to pay people to pay banks...
...A Portrait of Hitler And then there is Parsifal, th pure fool, now called Adolf...
...B. Charney Vledeck, member of the New York City Housing Authority ami *SanaMM», Af fiiA if * ii rv«;i...
...no true sportsmanship can exist where tyranny rsm The (Continued from Pare J3ne> waVa^thaTiftT'up' tTu^ to see to it that liberty shall not perish from the face of this earth...
...No summary can give an adequate idea of the impression made by his speech, which in spots rose 4s heights of pathos, of indignation and of hatred of injustice and wrong, and which was as brilliant as it was original in the wit and sarcasm with which he lashed the present rulers of Germany...
...To feed 126,000,000 people...
...The delegates gave tacit approval to the immediate program proposed by The Women's Conference as a basis for future activity...
...Who are the men of the Thirr Reich...
...She warned the delegates of a pending shortage in housing which faces the country unless prompt public aid was forthcoming...
...Nothing did they take from Greece except the love for boys...
...The Socialists elected three out of seven members of the first, the Coalition elected three, aad all parties united upon one candidate who was reelected President of the Council...
...they fought in the War of Independence and in the Civil War...
...We do not worry so much how the Jews will live without Germany, as how Germany will get along without the Jews, who constituted only one percent of the population, but twenty percent of the Nobel Prize winners...
...WASHINGTON...
...Sentiment Turns We were an surprised to see strong denunciations of the outrage issued by the American Legion and the Tampa Trades and Labor Assembly...
...Tie American people must be <Wrf*that Mot nw»„ it the Germany of poet* and thinkers...
...German Workers in New York Declare At Meeting "Hitler Is Not Germany...
...And there will be just that much leas work to be done to feed and clothe and shelter those left behind...
...However, Solomon went considerably beyond this proposal when he urged "outright government ownership and operation of all utilities.'* Program of Conference All three speakers pointed to the importance ef this issue, which they maintained must be judged in terms of the uses which electricity could be put to if rates were low enough...
...The audience jf over 1,000 applauded them '.ustily and it was a cheering sight for us old war horses of ftyrialiam Metcalf and Wicker are both declared Socialists but do hot yet 'eel that it is best for them to lis •ed card members...
...Abraham Miller, Peter Monat, Louis Hollander,- Abram Hersehkowitz and others of the Amalgamated, Louis Sadoff, John Tartamella of the Barbers' International Union, Joseph Belsky of the Hebrew Butcher Workers' Union, Luigi Antonini and Salvatore Ninfo, vice-president of the I.L.G.W.U., Max Zaritsky of the Millinery Workers Union, Abraham Cahan, Louis P. Goldberg, Harry Rappaport, Joseph Tuvim of the Ladies' Neckwear Union, and many others...
...It is there* fore essentia] that the principles embodied in the Black-Connery Bill now pending in Congress be made part of any comprehensive legislative proposal brought out of this conference...
...The statement of Wendell Heaton, president of the Florida Federation of Labor, that because no union man were involved he did not see that the A. F. of L. should be concerned, is resented by the local unions, and a movement has been started to have the Tampa Trades and Labor Assembly issue a statement repudiating Beaton's declaration...
...Establishment of steeply graded tax on luxuries, incomes aad inheritance...
...3. Elimination of child labor, of night work for women, and #f home work, as will as a number of other uniform standards for regelating employment condition* of workers, must be reestablished...
...the comrades of ties rvmnastic Societies disptayafl ffisar kill...
...He praised the Dutch system of taxing income from real estate holdings rather than hypothetical valuations...
...Magistrate Charles Solomon, Leland Olds, Secretary of the New York State Power Authority, and Maurice P. Davidson, Commissioner of the Department of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity, were in substantial agreement on the immediate step, that of forcing legislation for a yardstick power plant...
...Shoemaker had drafted a platform for "A national organization g>f Modern Democrats," which was nouncing that he was "going back north, where men are men and rents are reasonable...
...There is no doubt that there will be considerable support for this humanitarian proposal, not only among the black reactionaries like Dies, who are constitutionally prejudiced against "f urriners", but even among people who think there is an economic argument inj^vor of the plan...
...The, case had to .be conducted with written language, there being no interpreter in the deaf and dumb sign language...
...Only in one ooint he remained true to himself, in his hatred for the Jews...
...A broad program of legislation designed to secure fundamental rights for working men and women, farmers and consumers, and to protect children from economic exploitation was set forth by William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor...
...The other...
...Like Wein...
...They show that lmisss idustry, in cooperation with labor, ; willing to face this problem aad rovide work for the unemployed, ociety will be forced to take some 'ther means to give these millions heir rightful chance to earn their vejihood...
...Upon the announcement of Panten's appointment last year, Nornan Thomas sent him a warm etter of congratulation, as did National Secretary Clarence Senior ind Paul Porter, National Labor Secretary...
...The addresses by Rev...
...he employment increase was nough to offset this and also to ut 4,093,000 of the unemployed o work...
...There are in the United States today some 126,000,000 people, and all of them are being fed, housed aad clothed...
...The Party's Consent . Solomon had not been officially appraised in advance of bis impending appointment, but he was aware that important labor men were urging that it be made and that the Mayor had asked the Bar Association for a statement, of his standing at the bar...
...Catherine Bauer, executive secretary of Labor Housing Conference, and author of one of the standard books on this subject entitled "Modern Housing," presented an impressive array of statistics...
...S. John Block, member of the present Charter Revision Commission...
...And joblessness will be proportionally as high as it is now...
...to clothe them and shelter them— many of them with crusts and in rags, it is true—takes a certain amount of labor...
...Legislation iriming spedtt fields and phases -such as govemr mental protection of labor's rtghw to bargain collectively, reeomtrmf* tion of the coal industry, the emergency railway control, protectiow of the investment structure through the regulation of socuet* ties, etc, which has sat up maier machinery for naf|||W| aceaoadc planing must be coordinated infer one comprehensive program da* One Dictator Dies in Bed JUAN VICENTE GOMEZ President and "strong man' of Venezuela, has died in bed and that is real news...
...The strike has keen on for several weeks and the *jard*f of Swanson has argaagdj the organized workers to a high aisah of ladlgnati—¦ Chas...
...In the previous Council the Socialists had two members, the Coalition four, and the President Was the seventh...
...Their estimswSfl population in 1935 indicste thtts| j number of gainful workers frlfjj ably increasing at a •¦•fli smaller rate today than it dia'"j...
...in the first place 'e thank this country, tbe United states, old harbor of exiles, in fact ripinated and developed by dmitisfied Europeans...
...When the "militant" dements in the Central Committee a year ago began to attack the party, alleging a "deal" with Mayor LaGuardia, a reading of those letters promptly shut them up...
...hot is saw...
...Nor will the workers, who con...
...There are no political implications ia the appointment, the Mayor has exacted no pledges from me, and I shall 'continue to be active in party work to the extent my new duties will permit.'' The appoinment was hailed by Socialists and labor officials as a long-delayed recognition of the importance of organized labor...
...Unions Congratulate Dubinsky wired: "1 regard your appointment as complimentary to organized labor...
...In every case jit was held that the positions were purely non-political and that no political obligations were involved...
...Santa Ana, Diaz and Huerta of Mexico, Zelaya of Nicaragua, Leguia and Sanchez Cerro of Peru, Dessalines, Henry Christophe and the cannibal Soulcuque of Haiti, Machado of Cuba, all fell, as did the two Napoleons of France...
...The best way to put through an adequate housing program, according to Langdon W. Post, Chairman of the New York Housing Authority, was "to get on your hind legs and holler...
...Vladeck pointed out that the tax value of real estate determined the borrowing capacity of the city...
...At first tiiere^wasa tendency to ignore the lawless raid of the po bee, which was obviously the firs' atofeto a dastardly plot...
...Monday afternoon's paper carried big headlines saying that toe two circuit court judges vigorously charged the grand jury, which has been called into session for the case, to go to the bottom of the matter and not fail to indict all who are guilty, whoever they may be, whether of high or low station...
...An extended review by a prominent labor leader will appear in an early issue of The New Leader...
...Frances Foley Gannon, Second Deputy Commissioner of the Department of Markets...
...4$ "^^^TFurther shortening of weekly hours of work without reduction nV weekly pay is imperative if the (Trillions of unemployed worker* are to be assured employment...
...Lee praised the Socialist women who took the initiative in launching the irive against the high cost of Bring...
...Labor Planning Broad Program Of Legislation Shorter Work-Week, Enforcible Right to Organize, Economic Stability on the Program of the A. F. of L. WASHINGTON...
...He expressed regret at Ms nbffity to attend the opening session on account of illness...
...I heartily commend this book...
...They did not neglect the Socialist explanation of he great underlying economic injustice and corruption of capitalism...
...Seated on the bench with his former law partner, Louis P. Goldberg, he said he did not want any ceremonies to accompany his induction, and then he plunged into his work...
...Nicholas Palace Sunday afternoon and demonstrated that Germany is not HMer...
Vol. 18 • December 1935 • No. 51
