SixTampaCops Held By Court in High Bail In Shoemaker Killing
SixTampaCops Held By Court in High Bail In Shoemaker Killing In Shoemaker Killing AJ1 Sections of Popusst&oa'' m Aran Against Savage Brutaiky That Led to the Torture and Death of a protest...
...After the girls were discharged, however, he called them before him and read them a lecture upon the meaning of picketing...
...After declaring 'hat there is now pending in ConTress a constitutional amendment •vhich...
...The people of Florida look to Tampa and Hillsborough County for prompt apprehension, and severe punishment of the culprits, no matter how high in public affairs the effect may reach...
...The Magistrate, however, insisted on protecting the rights of the accused and granted the motion bo dismiss on the ground that the prosecution had no more evidence than what was contained in the short affidavits...
...Among the organizations represented were the Bakers' Union...
...It is understood on all hands that the outrages were the direct result of the work of Socialists in exposing and opposing crooked and sarropt politics in Tampa...
...Louis Fuchs, J. S. Goldberg...
...Authorities questioned more than 50 witnesses since the flogging 10 days ago...
...Bat then he naked them aet to exercise their right to exelude him from the school, as they bad threatened...
...especially in utility, steel and oil corporatoin practice...
...After discharging the picket for lack of evidence of disorderly conduct, he turned to the policeman and asked what he had been before joining the force...
...Before Magistrate Solomon was faced with the cases growing out at the strike at May's store he had faced virtually every problem a judge must face in the lower courts, and he had met them in characteristic fashion...
...He believed that the rights of •en are more, sacred than the rights of property...
...1 Abram Herschkowitz, Louis Hollander, Harry Heizjer, Julius Hochman, Sam Herschkowitz, Marx Lewis, Pietro Lucchi, Martin Lawler, Saul Metz, Peter Monat...
...As the lone Socialist representa- ' tive in the City Council the Mayor * has at every opportunity fought 1 for immediate improvements prom- ? ised by his Socialist platform...
...But the number of wellknown Socialists, to say nothing of opposition Communists, Trotskyism*, etc- who have been exposed to aew persecutions, during recent months and weeks runs into hundreds...
...T h e wagescale of low-paid public servants was attacked by old party members of the Reading School Board and vigorously defended by Mrs...
...Labor attorney on the bench in stead of the usual run of i on fervative lawyer...
...Hundreds of Socialists who for years have been in prisons and places of banishment and for that reason alone could not have committed any new crimes, have been arrested in the most differ»"t towns and districts of the 1 Soviet Union for unknown reasons...
...i We demsnd a free, Socialist gov. eminent in Russia, in which all I Socialist parties and revolutionary ! groups will have the right of representation...
...How he has reacted to the sentence and what has happened to him is not yet known...
...2. Federal responsibility for direct relief...
...He seems to think it is all very unreasonable...
...The tide of . that led to the kidnapping of six worker*, the flogging of three and & murder of Joseph Shoemaker, old-time Socialist, is rising throughout the state, and is Htefy to' cause a first-class politiaA unset...
...Considerable support is expected for the measure when it is pre- , sented for public discussion, although strong opposition is natur- , ally anticipated from a group of . towing-car operators and their representatives...
...1 Four candidates oppose Simp- ^ son, and all are receiving favorable j editorial support from the Toronto j dailies...
...The Supreme Court has not yet -poken...
...Julius Gerber is 65 There was considerable excitement in the office of the Socialist Party at 7 East 15th Street Tuesday when Secretary Julias Gerber came to his desk and found a huge bouquet of red flowers reposing thereon...
...Duty of Organised Labor I t also seems to me that organized labor, speaking through the American Federation of Labor, should formulate a constitutional amendment and together with responsible Socialist and other progressive and forward-looking groups and organizations unite in getting this amendment adopted by Congress and ratified by the states...
...For this crime Joseph Shoemaker was stripped of his clothing on the cold night of Nov...
...On Saturday, January 4th, J. Henry Stump will be sworn in for his second term as Mayor, together with a whole Socialist city administration, and a number of cbunty officials and the city wiH be as completely controlled by the Socialists as in Bridgeport...
...An interesting program for th Federal Probers In Terre Haute To Report Unions Confident Investigators Will Find Bosses Wholly Wrong in Events That Led to Big Strike...
...With the exception of two or three too obscure to be looked up, every lawyer in the list is a corporation lawyer, or is connected with firms in corporation practice...
...Gorman in part said: "Our investigation thus far shows that 43 of the 58 lawyers rate as big corporation lawyers...
...And the reason Wt that it was Julius Gerber's Mis birthday, although to see him tea note his energy no one would guess it...
...Socialists Fight Wage Cuts In Reading Old Party Commissioners Slash Salaries Over Socialist Protest—Stump to Be Inaugurated Jan...
...Many thoughtful Americans, including a good many enlightened judges and progressive lawyers better informed on economic and social questions and imbued with broader human sympathies than those of Jndge Otis, differ from the learned judge on the wisdom and the social consequences of the Aet itself...
...An open hearing before Daniel Lyons, trial examiner for the National I^abor Relations Board, and the Enameling and Stamping Employes' Union No...
...A board order is enforced by ! appeal to the U. S. Circuit court of Appeals, in the circuit where I the offense occurred, or to the |U...
...Kartsman objected to the decision and declared that before iaost magistrates he would have secured convictions, to which - Solomon retorted, "If I .did not expect to differ with some magistrates in some cases I would resign tomorrow...
...Em- i' ployment only of relief officiate 1 who are capable of sympathetic 1 administration...
...Starts Drive for New Leader Special to The New'Leader...
...For that purpose...
...Govern* nent machinery was set up to hear •omplaints and make binding orlers to enforce this Act...
...In opposing reductions in the salary schedules, the Socialist directors backed up the demand of Socialist treasurer-elect William C. Hoverter for "more than a mere living wage," for which Hoverter came out several days previous in a conference with city, school and county officials...
...Petersburg (Fla...
...A number of demonstrators had been arrested at a Brownsville relief station, and instantly telegrams and letters began to be sent to the Magistrate "demanding" the freeing of the arrested persons...
...Thus, for instance, the well-known Jewish 'Bund' worker, Joseph Chaikin, the trade union leader, Borissenko, the one time famous Social Democratic leader, Mark Liber, the Social Democrat Georg , Kutshin, the Social Revolutionary, ! Uthof, and many other Socialists, I who, without exception, have all , suffered a number of years of im; prisonment and exile in the years ' between 1923 and 1933, have all i met with such a fate, i "THIS IS NO 'DEFENSE OF ' THE REVOLUTION* BUT A i COLDLY CALCULATED EXs TERMINATION OF DISSENT1 ING OPINION...
...We join in the demand of ', Le Combat Marxitte, left-wing • French Socialist organ, which I says: • "We must emphasize that the > question at issue is much broader i than mere police persecution, of l which Socialists in Russia are the l victims...
...What , - T t went to Davis is not known...
...Congress, speaking far the American people, enacted the law and the President signed i t Bat that's judge who is so dead se^against the Aet, even though it (Continued on Page Three) wire constitutional, as he himself admits, should sit in judgment on its constitutionality with so wide a latitude in the selection of precedents and legal authority to sustain or not to sustain the Act, is a question of propriety Congress may Jb?U look into for the purpose of ^enacting legislation to prevent such a judge frees entertaining and passing upon the constitutional character of its legislation...
...of the strikers during the la...
...8. Isidor Ramishvili, the grayhaired leader of the Georgian Social Democrats, the organizer of the Red Guards in Tifiis in 1905 and later one of the first Social Democratic members of the Duma, after nearly ten years exile in Siberia was at last allowed, two years ago, to return to the mountains of his home...
...Breslow, Joe Bessly, Morris Blumenreich, H. Begoon, Foseph Catalonotti, William Collins...
...It is clear from the recent judicial trend that social control of the economic life of the country will require an amendment to the Federal Constitution...
...The proceedings grew out of the general strike which resulted in the declaration of martial law last'July which attracted the attention of the entire nation...
...The MagisIrate, on admission that the authorities did not know the money *ah»e of the microscope, had the charge changed from grand to Petit larceny, and then on the plea °f the teachers to leave the disciplining of the boy to them permitted them to w i t h d r a w the charge...
...On behalf of the Socialist Party in New York State, I am a»W working on a State Labor Reiations Act which will be modeled after the National Aet with certain improvements...
...We demand the abolition of the Communist dictatorship...
...The flowers had been pieced there by the cooperation of the members of the office staff, The New Leader, the state office of tae party, and Comrade Fred Spits, the florist...
...Joseph Shoemaker had embraced the faith of Socialism—a political creed as bitterly opposed to Communism as the most reactionary Republican...
...Mayor Simpson rarely breaks into their columns...
...week was 'We can do most ar.j thing because Judge Solomon i coming next week.' " Solomon g the attorney to admit that th< idea of placing a dictaphone i strikers' headquarters had bee hatched in the Chamber of Com meree...
...There were congratulations, cigars and a promise that in 1940 there would be Mayor Simpson In Reelection Battle By Victor Riesel F I G H T I N G the real estate interests of Toronto and the Manufacturers' Association of Canada, Mayor "Jimmy" Simpson, veteran Socialist and trade unionist...
...There are ample precedents showing that matuMfe:turing such as is involved in wke Kansas City flour mill is bushUaa engaged in interstate cosaaajMS...
...A banquet has been arranged for the N.E.C...
...This year Mayor McLevy will have a far greater discretion in selectng the non-Socalist from either the Republican or Democratic primary lists, or from neither...
...4, at 7:80...
...Griffin joined the party about a i decade ago, and has been an active i party worker since...
...A continuation comnuttee of 11 was elected by the 1 conference to work in the Trade 1 Unions and pledged itself to raise i hundreds of dollars and subscrip- 1 tions in the next few months...
...Max Zaritz'jE, president of the Headrear Workers' Union, is chairman, \braham Miller of the Amalgamated is secretary and Henry jreenfield, 175 East Broadway, :reasurer...
...Then upon the bleeding wounds, hot t a r was poured to add a thousand living deaths to his almost unbearable suffering...
...2. Free text-books...
...8 for "disorde...
...All persons desiring to go, should get in touch with the Local Office at once, Kingsley 9373, 415 S. 19th St., as the capacity of the bus is limited...
...The deep human appeal worked, and the complainant Broke down and told the story of Scrap game in which all had participated, a Story quite different from the charge of robbery...
...Charles R. Fowler of Minne Minneapolis has almost as wide a" range of corporate clients...
...I think the conduct of these lawyers is reprehensible beyond words and that their associates of the bar cannot allow the scandalous episode to pass without immediate and drastic action...
...He appealed to intelligence rather than to brute force...
...The Dabs School has just finished a most successful season, With hundreds of enthusiastic students enrolled...
...6, at 8 p. m., at the Hilkroit Auditorium, 415 S. 19th S t Tickets for "Black Pit," which opens at the ErUnger Theatre the week of Dec...
...David Dubinsky, Morris C. Finestone...
...The final advice of the Liberty League committee was to the effect that if a lawyers tells his client a law is unconstitutional, that law ceases to exist for that client from that moment...
...Children to lie taught the folly and not the socalled glory of war...
...It is true that iabor's right has not been fully repected in all parts of the country n the same degree, but the right itself is well-established...
...At the same time he was deprived of the right to be regarded as a "political prisoner" so that in the concentration camp he will be treated as a common criminal...
...The possible rulings by the board range from complete vindication of the company's policy to transmission of a "cease and desist" order against the labor I practices charged with being unj fair...
...The Board of Education platform includes demands for: 1. Cooperation of welfare and health department with the Board of Education in extension of public health, medical and dental services, including adequate nourishment for all children and provision 1 of medical and dental services in ' Secondary Schools...
...The New Leader joins in the de• mand and protest of the Laboi I and Socialist International...
...The plea was ineffective, and Solomon dismissed the cast against the picket with the remarks quoted above, based upon the law, statutes and penal code...
...He was a veteran j party member, having often been i a candidate on the Socialist ticket...
...I favor economy in the adminstration of public affairs, but not it the expense of >he worker, paid ess than he earns or less than he 'an live on...
...and it also means the loss of the business that would come here if over a thousand delegates and visitors spent two weeks in the city...
...Rallying behind Mayor Simpson is the organized labor movement...
...but here again the court cannot so hold without being put in the position of at least seeming to do so in sheer selfdefense...
...His irterpre tntion of the rights of striker and pickets was disconcerting t< the employers...
...Many extensive theoretic studies which he began in prison will have to remain unfinished...
...I urge that salaries le paid these people that will rep-esent a living wage and one that nore nearly approaches the higher ype of service required in the reasurer's office...
...He was buried on Monday, 1 Mayor McLevy and a large delega- • tion of other city officials and I party members attending the fun- 1 eral...
...Biased Interpretation There is nothing in the Constitn•on forbidding the National Labor delations Act...
...1 ' Others ware successful to this ex- i tent, that the sentences were 1 rendered somewhat less severe...
...A few months ago, however, a sudden change fee the worse again took place...
...During the Menshevik Trial (1981) he was again arrested and detained for three years in the penitentiary of Suzdal...
...employers xercising their vast economic ower and freely using their polit:al power have been interfering i th labor's legal rights...
...tip bis campaign for re-election this week...
...Released, Shoemaker and two others were picked up in the shadow of City Hall and flogged, tarred and feathered in a merciless fashion reminiscent of nothing in modern history...
...6th Special to The New Leader R E A D I N G , Pa...
...Prolonqing Sentences After citing these examples the declaration of the Labor and Socialist International adds: "We have only given a few particularly glaring instances of the revengeful justice of the Bolshevists...
...We de• mand the restoration of civil lib• erties in Russia...
...Mr...
...Since the board is now com posed entirely of Socialists, Mayo McLevi will have a far great* choice of selection of non-Social;s members than in the past tw years, when it was neoes«ary t> ; (Continued from Page One) ' select at least one member from the Democratic primary list for each commission...
...By Louis Waldman I X holding the National Labor Relations Act unconstitutional Judge MerriH E. Otis of the Federal District Court of KanCity...
...An example of the sentiment of the people of the entire state is the following editorial from the St...
...Amendment Needed Socialists and Unions Must Unite to Push Constitutional Change as Well as Supplement by S t a te Legislation...
...The action was iropped but this did not save him From banishment anew...
...Employers are forbidden to disriminate against workers for bang members of their own unions, "hey are also forbidden to interfere with this right of free organisation by organizing employeriominated company unions enjoyng privileges and subsidies eon'erred upon them by management...
...ips are nonpaying ones...
...In the spring of this year he was arrested again in Kazan and brought to Moscow...
...Mayor Chtarey has taken over the deahalaual ami Chief Tittsworth has beca given an "indefinite leave of shsesnce ** The Crand Jury will also make j ^ l M M k investigation of the Sbaeataker murder and the lawless condition* that have made Tampa ||MMji|fr' oiighoat the nation...
...In 1933 he was unsuccessful So- j cialist candidate for Alderman 1 from the second district, from j which his wife was elected as a 1 Socialist in 1935...
...6. The ' roundtrip will cost $1.40...
...two assistants, cut from 51,400 to $1,200...
...Get your tickets and help the party raise funds...
...That, .however, did not prevent the Daily worker the next day from prodaJming that Solomon had "carried its anti-labor bias to the bench...
...will be present, A mass meeting with Hoan...
...If you had found a magistrate you were sure would convict you wouldn't ask for a change, would you...
...Many of the arguments on constitutional groaflds raised by conservative lawyers against the National Act iiiulil jail be raised against State Labor Relations Acts...
...I will fight the drive made behind ^ obscure issues to attack wage * Scales and will champion, as al- < ways, the cause of labor in the c city council...
...One, Mr...
...The Port Chester Branch is the strongest in the county and the moat effective in -the educational field, constituting tile majority of members in the county...
...Hunt, a candy < manufacturer, is notorious for the < low wages paid in his factories...
...5. Sergei Jeehov, brother of the dead leader of the Russian Social Democratic Party, Julius Mantov, and himself an old Social Democrat and a labor leader of merit, has been in exile or in prison almost continuously since 1923...
...A picket has legal right to wall up and down at a rapid pace...
...Union ' rates of wages on all civic and ' relief work...
...Joseph Shoemaker sought to enlist for his country in the World War and was turned down for physical deficiencies...
...The reporters to whom they gave this message questioned the lawyers dizzy and brought out in unmistakable fashion that the report was viciously unfair propaganda...
...A picket has a legal right to in (Continued on Page Three form prospective customers that i strike is in progress and .to request them not to buy...
...Some of these acts > of despair ended with death...
...But i | in many cases the authorities < | simply deceived the prisoners by : withdrawing the concessions later [ on and so forcing the comrades to hunger-strike asrain.* Hunger Strikers 1 The L.S.I, declaration gives what ' it terms "a few typical' cases...
...Now the same game is being repeated though this time without a clearly discernible aim...
...A Judicial Economist...
...23, at the Labor Educational Center...
...Times: Political Murder "The death of -Joseph Shoemaker, victim of an atrocious political murder, brings into tragic relief the bitter fruit of corrupt government tolerated too long by neighboring Tampa and Hillsborough County...
...A Labor Martyr The Modern Democrats, now a IfWsrful political force in this city, •jpa made public the following statement, headed: KILLED HIM FOR THIS IN TAMPA...
...The towing car racket, in Bridgeport as in other cities, has become so vicious as well as dangerous to safety that the Socalist administration feels that anything in the way of "reform" on the part of automobile towing operators can at best be only a temporary change in policy, and the best way to eliminate ambulance chasing and the extortion of exorbitant fees from motorists dazed and excited by a mishap is to 'eliminate the profit motive from the business, except in cases where the motorist actually prefers the ' services of a private tawing car...
...i "A large number of the com- radea offered resistance by the ] only means at their disposal, the i • hunger strike...
...The Brass Cheek Boys "James M. Beck, former member of Congress, and Newton D. Baker, former Secretary of War, got a fee of $35,000 from the Edison Electric Institute for writing an opinion that declared TVA unconstitutional...
...Pro- ' tection against eviction...
...The sole basis .odt I selection will be merit...
...The solemn pronouncement of the legal watchdogs of big capital and the answer by Gorman represent the class cleavage in economic opinion that is becoming ever more obvious...
...The conservative 1 forces must not succeed in throw^ i ing out labor's voice in the coun- * cil...
...Oneal and Thomas as the speakers wiH be held Monday evening, Jan...
...Treated as a Criminal 4. The Social Democrat, Ivan Etashkovski, who has suffered vanishment and imprisonment for 12 years (Solovetzki Islands, Polit(Continued on Page Tiro) isolator in Chelyabinsk) was recently sentenced again—to 3 years in a concentration camp...
...The mob attack upon Shoemaker has-been laid at the very door of police headquarters...
...In 1929 he received a milder sentence: confinement in Saratov...
...Now news has come that the old man (Ramishvili is 73) has once again been sent into exile...
...Hazel ette Hoopes, Geo...
...With that plea to the teachers the boy left the courtroom...
...Some of these cases have already been mentioned in The New, Leader and many others could be cited, but we will confine ourselves here to citing the examples given by the Labor and Socialist International: • 1. The Social - Revolutionary, Nicolai Muchin, who had been in exile for 9 years on end, was ar- j rested in the epring of 1935 in Kazan where he was finishing his ' third three-year period el exile, and the fourth verdict pronounced I on him was—imprisonment...
...There is ample legal authority aad jdicial precedents for holding the \ational Labor Relations Aet eon-titutional...
...One or more members of the Tampa police department have been accused of the crime...
...Two of , his opponents are well-known re- , actionaries and have made the , issue the reduction of municipal < wages...
...As a former trade unionist you know what organization means, and the need of strikes and picketing to build up the unions...
...AND THEY KILLED HIM FOR THIS IN TAMPA...
...In this little hole the old man is obliged to spend his days, without a home, without any means or any possibility of earning whatever, and what is even more terrible for an old theoretician, without books or library^, without friends or acquaintances...
...For, since the constitutionality of legislation is in most eases dependent upon interpretation of the Constitution and the judicial precedents, it becomes important for orderly government to know who interprets...
...Solomon R e t o rts * The attorney had sought to | have Magistrate Solomon disqualify himself "because his background indicates a sympathetic attitude toward labor in disputes with employers...
...The officer said he had been a printer, a member of Typographical Union No...
...the two major political parties rep resented in the Board of Aide: men...
...It was through < her husband's efforts that Mrs...
...He writes of the employer's offer of an increase in wages to the nonunion employees in the mill in a way that makes the employer appear reasonable and generous when, as a matter of fact, every intelligent student of organized labor knows that every employer hostile to organized labor is readyto offer an increase in wages to non-union employees as a price for not joining the union and for leaving the employer a free hand in the future to dictate conditions of labor, including the rate of wages...
...A martyr to the cause of sopal and economic justice, he died » the cause of liberty...
...He died Monday night after naming at least one of his assailants to authorities...
...But even if the United States Supreme Court reverses J^dce Otis's decision, as we hope it will, there is still the very* vital problem of covering the largest field jf employment—that involvfcT'ln intrastate business and • services...
...Mo., delivered a body blow to organized labor...
...will fight this 1 disguised attempt to lower the standard of living qf those work- * ing in and for the City of Toronto...
...Mrs...
...salaries for wo additional assistants were fixed it $1,500 per annum...
...The prosecution wanted still another postponment, which would have meant still another period in jail...
...3. Extension of municipal franchise to all citizens of twenty-one years...
...In a resolution passed unanim- t ously by the Board of Aldermen Monday night, regret was express- c ed upon the passing of Comrade ] Griffin...
...Abraham Cahan is Honorary Chairman, and the Iantes of the important labor ofScials who have thus far accepted membership on the committee of arrangements follow: Luigi...
...He speaks of union's demands in language that make it appear as if they were unreasonable...
...You tried the case very fairly...
...Four girls, arrested for mass oicketing, were found net guilty in the law and the facts...
...1 The importance of having such a paper as The New Leader, which I was the only paper distributed to the delegates a t the American Fed- < era tion of Labor Convention, was stressed by both speakers and the delegates...
...Judge Otts' decision raises for labor and progressives generally ome profound questions of policy and of the government's reBponsilility for the peaceful settlement of social and labor problems...
...What did, however, very soon become clear i was that fresh sentences of im- • prisonment or of banishment were 1 pronounced on the arrested, and, c in this connection, many comrades who during the past 5 or 6 years J had had relatively mild sentences 1 of banishment are now to be pot ] into prison (penitentiaries, "Polit- i isolator"), in concentration camps, ] or seat to far distant places of ; exile...
...As Comrade Rashkovski's nervous system has for years been severely shattered the worst is to be feared...
...First Picketing Cose Solomon's first picketing case came with the arrest of a striker against a shoe store on Broadway, Brooklyn, charged with disorderly conduct for "talking in a loud voice...
...A reading of the Court's opinion in the Kansas City case shews that fudge Otis translated his reactioniry social philosophy and economic >ias into constitutional law...
...With a lack of comment which eft no doubt that they had sharpened the salary pruning shears in 'dvance...
...The battle of the Socialists for human standards for city workers was the last they waged while in a minority in the city...
...The last is Sam ; McBride, Toronto playboy, owner ] of race tracks and gambling i houses who enjoys a Jimmy Walker j type of reputation and is popular ] among the town's population...
...The arresting officer admitted that the previous day he had conferred with the store owners, who had said, "If we bad a third person' we would have a case...
...Continned on P a n Three) The Cooperative Commonwealth Federation is patterning this election after last year's successful , battle...
...To Abolish a Rocket A municipal car-towing and storage service will be established soon when Socialist administration plans are carried out, fOQowiag a public hearing on the matter to be conducted by the Board of Aldermen in January...
...David ! Braginsky,, Executive Secretary of ] the United Hebrew Trades and ; Chairman of the Labor Committee • of the Socialist Party of Ixjcal ! Philadelphia, made the appeal for funds and subscriptions, which re- i suited in $185.59 in funds, and < many subs...
...Of what use would be the liberation of our Russian comrades if the constant threat of new arrest far dissident opinion is to continue to hsng over them...
...That legal right labor has had for lose to a century...
...Exilinq the Aged 6. Andrei Kranichfeid...
...At least the news which came from Russia gave evidence in many cases of a certain moderation of the 'sentences' pronounced on our comrades for the fearful 'crime' of not being of the same opinion as Stalin...
...He lived with his brother in a village near Tifli...
...was obliged to hunger strike for 22 days in order to aring about the quashing of an ttterly absurd and baseless charge Drought against him in hie old lown of exile...
...two issistants, cut from $1,800, to 51,700...
...The best legal opinion we can get also tells us that the Liberty League lawyers have violated the Bar Association code of ethics, for which they should be expelled from membership in that very tight union of lawyers...
...The responsible Socialist Party organizations in the various states, and organized labor, rhonld assume the leadership in this fight liberty'League Unmasked by Gorman Al Smith Goes Barnstorming for .Tories in Fight on Progressive Legislation— Big Business Jubilant...
...The committee 'reported' that the Labor Relations Act is unconstitutional...
...In the past a large number of the appointees were members of organized labor and all of them sympathetic to labor...
...4-6, at the Labor Educational Center, 416 8 . 1 8 t h St., Saturday, Jan...
...The election « held Jan...
...one of the leaders of the Social Democratic Youth Association in Russia, was forced to make a closer acquaintance with the Soviet prisons as early as 1921, a t the age of 21...
...The recent Schechter case CNRA decision) is no authority ajgMMt the National Labor Relatipam^Qt...
...By slashing the salaries in the ax collection office the non-Sodalist members of the Board reverse the position which they took \t a meeting with city and county ifficials on Dec...
...Charter provisions call for th appointment of commissioners oi a bipartisan basis to nearly a! boards, the appointees to represer...
...He opposed the lawless elements in Tampa and Hillsborough County that have staffed ballot boxes, stolen elections by any means necessary and ruled with the profits of gambling and other vices...
...Hypocritical United Front i We demand that the Bolsheviks 1 begin to practice the united front , at home before offering it to Soi eialists in other countries...
...Forney Johnston of Birmingham, Ala., is listed as counsel for banks, insurance companies, utilities, steel companies and oil companies, besides a number of unassorted corporations w h o se names do not tell their story...
...and J. J. Heard of Pittsburgh, starting with jobs from the Mellon interests, ' naturally raked in everything else...
...Antonini, M. Ashbes, Paul ftmoni, Jos...
...He lay in a Tampa hospital almost 24 hours before his wounds could be dressed...
...1st Mayor Simpson has completed a year as chief executive of Toronto, during which time he has fought this city's large industrialists, the Citizens' League and the numerous trade associations, all of which have urged drastic reduction of wages in public jobs...
...Port Chester Protests The Port Chester Branch of the Westchester Local, in its meeting Dec...
...is wjndrru...
...The Liberty League performance has roused protest from all parts of the country at the arrogance of corporation lawyers woking to pass on laws of the land...
...a- ^ * ' , • Despite the Socialist battle for the workers, they were outvoted and went down fighting against salary reductions for assistants in the city treasurer's office in a schedule approved by the votes of sik old party directors...
...It will be necessary to enact State Labor Relations Acts...
...lawyer, sayfeg> "Ton thought I would not have tiie courage to try these eases...
...From 1923 on he was, almost without interruption either in prison (Tobolsk, Soiovetzki Islands) or in exile (in the steppes of Turtkul in Turkestan...
...J*YET THEY KILLED HIM »OR THIS IN TAMPA r -The local newspapers are up in anns and daily carry editorials and articles denouncing the outrages...
...Five hours later help came to him, lying in his agony almost frozen by the cold night air...
...In dismissing them he dictated his opinion to •nake it part of the court records, showing that in every detail it was based upon the law...
...The Magistrate told the attorney, "You don't want impartial justice...
...Georg Meany, John J. Munholland, Isidore Nagler, -Salvatore Ninfo, Samuel Perlmuttar, Alfred Peabody, James C. Quinn, Joseph Schlossberg, Samuel Shore, Charles E. Stnnigen, M. TigeL Joe Tuvine, Fred Umhey, Harry Wande McLevy Choosing Commissioners ForJ936 By Abraham Knepler D R I D G E P O R T .—A p p o i n t m e n t s and reappointment to municipal boards and com missions will be announced b; Mayor Jasper McLevy on Nev Year's Day, and the officials wil be 9worn into office January 2 Practically all present Social if members of Mayor McLevy' ofricial family are expected t< be reappointed., except in cas^ where commissioners may d( cline...
...19694, on the charge that the company officials were gtriity of unfaii trade practices, hats been concluded and a decision is expected soorr.-On the final day of the three-day hearing a rn^tet by the company 'si, counsel to dismiss the motion was denied...
...i Labor Backs Simpson i These are the men who run ] against the Socialist candidate, 1 under whose administration To- ronto has continued payment of ' cash relief—the only Ontario city < to do so—,tbe city's credit has be- I come the most stable in Canada, and has approved special commit- < tees to deal with the problem of ' its economic and socially bankrupt ' youth...
...6. "You are a workingman," he told him, "and you are now working for the city...
...What was Joseph Shoemaker's crime that he should die this horrible death...
...The arrest and ruthleas persecution of the authors of this telegram is, apparently, intended to represent a commentary du the united front in the Soviet Union...
...Reservations at $1 should be made at once at the Party Office All members of the N.E.C...
...This Act, doe* not establish, as .ome people suppose, labor's right o organize, to strike or to picket...
...j * The Socialist Program ' 1 The": Socialist's municipal pro- | gram includes the following planks': j 1. Immediate extension of the t principle of public ownership to include insurance on cityMwnefl , property, a comprehensive plan of , slum clearance, civic housing, re- j duction of interest rates on riviC debt, and the municipal distribution of milk, bread and coal...
...Removal of the convention means the worst kind of advertising, for tre town considering the reasons that would have to be given,'advertising the town ean ill afford...
...they sent him to fresh exile...
...There were the two boys who had been held in jail ten days and four days, after being held on a short a f f i d a v i t . They were charged with malicious mischief, the store accusing them of having smashed a window...
...Nearly all , tiie commissioners...
...Comrade Harry E. Griffin, Socialist commissioner of the Board of Appraisal of Benefits and Damages, and husband of Sadie K. , Griffin, first woman on the Board , of Aldermen in the city's history, . died here Saturday after an ill1 , nesa of several months...
...He believed ha the right of rreryeae to life, liberty, and the saraait of happiness...
...When his sentence there expired a few months ago he was banished to Akmolinsk (Central Asia...
...But" even if he had been a Communist, this nation and this state guaranteed him and every other 'man the right to believe and advocate any peaceful doctrine he might choose...
...Action Committee of the Jewish Socialist Verband B r a n c h e s , the Fruit Clerks' Union, the Grocery and Delicatessen, Cafeteria Workers' Union, Bookkeepers' Union, and many individuals from unions which had not met in the short time that (Continued on Page Three) the meeting was arranged, and so ! were not officially represented...
...He believed in the Constitution of the United States, in the freedom of speech, in freedom of the press, and in the freedom of Peaceful assembly...
...What people wanted of : them and the reason for all this hi i not clear even today...
...Solomon got the arresting officer to admit that the corner where the picketing took place is so noisy that to be heard at all anyone had to talk in a loud voice...
...After 12 days he was sent to Siberia ( to the village of Kamen on the river Ob...
...2, The right-wing Socialist Sabin who had already suffered ;hree years on the Solovetzki Islands and eight years' banishment, and whose wife, the wellcnown Social Democrat, Darja Seitlin, died in exile recently, was Irrested again and was to be put n a concentration camp...
...Gash relief...
...Basically its , platform calls for the lifting of the tax burden from the small j householder and transferring it to | the large incomes in Toronto...
...When you >lect to picket upon behalf of striking workers you must think, not low much of a thrill you get out of it but what good or harm it does to the workers in whose behalf you are acting...
...30, are on sale at the Party Office...
...In the words of a great legal authority, Dean John Henry Wigmore, "a judge may decide almost any question any way and still be supported by an array of cases...
...I do not desire here to analyse in detail Judge Otia's nnaownd judicial reasoning...
...The situation is summarized in the declaration of the L. S. I. as follows: "For a time it looked hs though the terror mania of the OGPU against the Russian Socialists had abated somewhat...
...T"HE so-called "Liberty League," a collection of big money bags protected by corporation lawyers is the s u b j e c t of caustift criticism by Francis J. Goriftan, Vice-President of the United Textile Workers, when these prosperous lawyers constituted themselves a Supreme Court and declared the National Labor Relations Act "unconstitutional," thus giving a lead to Federal Judge Otis in Kansas City,- Mo...
...Following Tuesday's action, both >tone and George W. Snyder expressed their opposition to salary -uts a a matter of principle...
...Pro- • vision for adequate playground < and recreation facilities both in- door and outdoor Socialists Flay Otis <sF Opinion Against the Labor Relations Act State Chairman Waldman Relations Act State Chairman Waldman Shows Bias ef Judge Otis on the Wagner Law—Supreme Court to Decide Finally...
...With Alvin F. Stone, newlyelected Socialist ' member of the Board, leading in the fight to preserve salary schedules hitherto in sffect, the non-Socialist directors irst votedidown Stone's motion to restore the original schedules and hen approved a wage list which rill make the following reductions n the wages of public employes: Chief deputy city treasurer, reluced from $2,500 to $2,000...
...Solomon took the complaint of the arresting officer and broke i t down into its component parts, holding that what s called mass picketing is no more llegal than picketing by one or :wo...
...He died here a few days later of dysentry...
...He believed in human brotherhood, and strove to make it a reality...
...7. Fedor Cheravanin, prior to the Revolution one of the most eminent Marxist theoreticians, a member of the Central Committee of the Social Democratic Party and a man of nearly 70, was obliged, as late as 1932, after many years of exile to serve a sentence of three years penal servitude in the Isolator of Verehne-Uralsk...
...You must never forget that you, too, are a worker, only wearing a blue coat and a badge...
...M m t* The New Leader J p f i j p A , Fla...
...if adopted, would make a law like the National Labor Rela...
...3e left a wife and three small ihildren...
...Continued oa Page Seven) constitutional and we believe rl will be so held...
...When the cases of 38 picket arrested Dec...
...17, voiced its pTC*est against t h e County Commi'tee foi its unconstitutional action in electing a delegate to the "militant" coafcrenel in Utica, Dec...
...There- .. upon he declared a hanger strike aad fasted for 20 days until he < was promised that instead of im- j prisonment be, was t* be banished again.' A Jew days latsr, k m n r t he learned that he was to ball wnished to the polar town of Jbdorsk (in the Arctic circle* .,500 kilometres from the nearest 'airway station...
...Labor in Phila...
...But the Chekists had mistaken their man and so, after a time, they were obliged to let him "go free," i.e...
...In the re• « •hjetion, following a letter^ting* campaign to the local aspers in which he expounded those ideas, the Modern DemocratMad ifl per cent of the total vote That is what was back of the outrages, in the opinion of most Tampans...
...We will, of course, wel- come gladly the liberation of So. eialists and dissident Communists i now kept in Jails and in exile in i a country covering one-sixth of , the globe...
...He was beaten until his torn and quivering flesh could stand no Wore...
...Where the public will exists, S d the government is ready to tike energetic leadership, an aMttlment to the Constitution is pot so cumbersome and so difficult to obtain as had been heretofore believed...
...Employers ire given the privilege of judicial •eview in the Federal Courts...
...He began to fast igain and on the 27th day was irought to a hospital in Tjumen in t very critical condition...
...He and a little band of honest citizens sought to organize a group—the Modern Democrats— to combat the corruption and graft of government...
...WE DEMAND NOT ONLY THB LIBERATION OF HUMAN BEINGS BUT THE LIBERATION OF THOUGHT, FOB THE LIBERATION OF THOUGHT HICLUDES THE LIBERATION OP HUMAN BEINGS...
...In 1934 he was banished to Astrakhan...
...The National Labor Relations Vet was designed to put an end to he employers' practice of interferng with labor's legal right to or* anize and bargain collectively...
...Rarely has a decision revealed a Judge's ttate of mind as does this one...
...Labor Educational Center Board of Directors, the District Committee of the Workmen's Circle...
...In the summary of his facts Judge Otis shows his economic bias as between the organized workers and the employer...
...If you force me to trial you Will embarass me and might cause ne to lose a client...
...He disapproved of the wisdom and desirability of the Act in language ae 'rone that it might have been written by a manufacturer's polrtcal spell-binder...
...then he held, and proved by the statutues, that if a crowd collects as a result of perfectly lawful actions by pickets the legality of their actions is not affected by the effects of their perfectly legal actions upon others...
...Never did a piece of propaganda backfire with more serious consequences to its promoters than the attempt of the Liberty League and its Lawyers' Committee to usurp the functions of the courts and pass upon the constitutionality of laws...
...5 * throat of President Green of «•« Amenean^Federation of Labor (Continued from Page One) to remove the 1936 convention of the A. F. of L. from this city has had a sobering affect upon the local reactionaries...
...Pickets Freec In Solomon's Court Magistrate Bases Decision Dismissing Charges oi the Law and StatutesDeep Humanity Shown gITTING in the Bay Ridg Court, Magistrate Charle Solomon, hearing an importan ilabor case growing out of tn 'strike against May's Departmen Store on Fulton St., BrooV'yn emphatically demonstrated tb value of having a Socialist an...
...No arrests had been made up to the time of Shoemaker's death...
...TERRE HAUTE, Itid...
...After a lunger strike lasting 20 days he was released from the base prison at Perm and can now go back to sxile...
...He tamed to the four prisoners and referring to the complainant said, "He can fool this judge, but there's another judge he can't fool...
...He was the only one in the Council I who fought and succeeded in preventing the clashing of civic employees' salaries...
...If a judge is biased against the legislation itself he renders himself unfit to interpret such legislation, the Constitution and the judicial precedents...
...Within a few days of his induction he had his first taste of Com, aujaiat tactics...
...The idee that a lawyer can set aside the law for a client is so preposterous and so arrogant that it must .tear from our big corporation lawyers the last shred of suspicion of genuine public interest and it certainly leads toward the "conclusion that it is high time these gentle' men were shorn of their status as 'officers of the court...
...Many of them have been taken to ; Moscow...
...Full relief allowances to include rental, food, clothmg, medical and dental services...
...A Trial of Negroes On Sunday morning four Negroes were brought into court charged with robbery from the parson, an offense that would generally mean imposition of heavy kail, and in lieu of that several days in jail before the case could be tried...
...The issue was raised as a result of the law, enacted by the recent session of the state legislature, which makes the city treasurer the collector of taxes for the schools (Continued on Page Seven) end the county as well as for the city...
...When the nation, which the Constitution is supposed to serve, require* for the continued happiness and contentment of its people that changes be made, and such ehaaBbs are not acceptable by the judiciary under present provisions, they can be made acceptable by amendment...
...ShoeBaker, for many years a prominent Sasiahst of Vermont and member at She State Executive Committee there, came to Tampa, a little more thin a year ago and organized what he called the Modern Demo•ssfc...
...Disqualification of a sitting magistrate would mean that the case would be heard before another judge...
...Stalin dictatorship against Socialfsts and dissident Communists...
...The charges of unfair trade practices filed by the union allege that company union officials (1) refused to bargain collective!y with representatives of the workers, (2) solicited individual union workers to return to work, threatened them with loss of jobs for refusal, and "informed employes (Continued on Page Seven) that there never would be a union at the Terre Haute plant...
...In the spring of 1935 comes a new arrest and a banish- ] ment to Siberia (Narymer area) | for a further 3 years...
...Red Flowers in Party Office...
...Judge Otis' decision, in my judgment, is legally unsound and should e reversed by the higher court...
...the non-iSocialist directors irst voted down Stone's motion ind then approved a second motion 'avoring the lower rates...
...Pointing to the responsibilities >f the office as justification for lis motion for the retention of the ligher pay rates, Stone declared he Socialist Party's stand for the irinciple of a living wage for pubic servants...
...Yet this Judge thinks it strange that organized labor should insist upon a collective agreement which calls for the limitation of the employer's right to hire and fire as he "chooses...
...This time Jeshov replied to his arrest with an immediate hunger strike...
...the employers, but in every ca& it was based upon the law am the statutes, as he took care t< indicate in carefully considers opinions, which he dictated t< the Court stenographer to mak part of the records...
...The 'mildest' form in this connection is the prolongation of the period of banishment for a further three years with a worsening of the conditions of exile...
...ons Act constitutional, Judge Otis nevertheless proclaims that— "Then, also, what yet remains of the sovereignty of the states will cease to be and the 'citizen' will have become a subject...
...meeting which is to be held in Philadelphia, Jan...
...he speaks of employers as being asked to "surrender" their right "to employ and discharge their employees as they choose...
...The protest of the Labor and Socialist International followed receipt of information from Russia of a new wave of terror unleashed by the...
...And thus began a i very epidemic of hunger strikes < , which put everything in the past la the shade...
...He believed that social con-1 ditions to Tampa could be improved, and he tried to do something about it...
...Forty-three have been checked...
...Teachers from the school appeared against him, and testified athat the "*ey- had a good record...
...In connection with the strike at May's store there were several cases, in addition to that of the pickets discharged - on the charge of urging people not to buy in the store...
...We demand the release of political prisoners in Russia...
...There was no authority in law for his arrest, and there is no possible justification in humanity's name for his brutal treatment...
...Thousands of Socialists from all over the country will be in Reading for the joyous occasion...
...Some of the Liberty League lawyers seem to have got a retainer from every corporation in sight...
...John W. Davis, attorney for the House of Morgan, wrote an opinion for Cities Service holding the holding company bill unconstitutional...
...His wife, Comrade Konkordia ZacKarova, was arrested and banished with him...
...Dinner t o Solomon J O B . 24 The entire Socialist and Labor movement will tender a testimonial iinner to Magistrate Solomon Janiary 24th at Webster Hall...
...Joseph Gold, Rubin Guskin, Harold Soldstein, J. Goldstein...
...4. The use of available school premises by responsible groups fentile discussion of public questions - and community functions...
...Newscasters' Union, Bakery Drivers' Union, Matzo Bakers' Union...
...Cloakmakers' Union (IX.G.W.U...
...It is following a strict Socialist policy of non-alignment ; with any other political group and , is basing its campaign upon 38 , radio programs, the circulation of < 200,000 copies of the New Com- , monwealth, the party's newspaper, and nightly meetings...
...Special tt The New Leader •VAMPA, Fbu—Six city officers * have been indicted for the mur- , itr of J—pb 3choe maker and ad - siiioael charges of kidnaping were S l W i u t them...
...Hunger strikes last- ] ing 20, 22 or even 27 and 30 days ; were no rarity...
...His* brother fought in that war and now occupies the office of district vice-commander of the American Legion...
...Solomon, however, tried the case at once, appealing to the complainant to tell the truth, not what was alleged in the complaint...
...But in that way you may wreck his life...
...Local Philadelphia is arranging tor a bus to go to the Reading In- : I angulation Monday, Jan...
...Election lairs being what thty are here, it is impossible for the Socialist Party to get on the ballot, and Shoemaker's idea—dissaaroved by most Socialists—was to capture the Democratic nominations for candidates committed to the principle of production for •ss and not for profit...
...AND THE RELEASE OF HI MAN BEINGS WITHOUT THE LIBERATION OF THOUGHT HAS NO VALTJB WHATSOEVER...
...What form that unlet wfll tike, of course, cannot now be predicted...
...Good clients are hard to get," said the department store's attorney, "and this client pays me weU...
...The i continued terror and persecution practiced by the Communist dic- tatorship in Russia is a betrayal - of the Russian Revolution and a i disgrace to Socialism...
...WE REJECT AS^GROSS HYPi OCRISY THE COMMUNIST PROPOSAL OF A UNITED FRONT WHILE OUR COMRADES IN RUSSIA ARE BEING TORTURED TO DEATH IN STALIN'S JAILS • AND CONCENTRATION CAMPS...
...3. Opposition to military training in schools...
...Oti^ Cox, secretary of the union, : declared that the strike was due to "unbearable conditions," including lack of a regular working schedule, favoritism, inadequate ventilation and heating and "experimental operations carried on to cut down the already s.nall running capacity...
...28-21', in the name of the Socialist Party...
...Each of the niiMrd has been released on btmi ot 97.5M on the murder charge aad each posted additional B l t ( $2,000 on two kidnaping eaaWi A_sJ»akeiin in the police depart•Nt of Tampa has also followed at a resah of the flogging and •steer «f Shoemaker...
...To nullify the Act on constituonal grounds a Court must rely olely on...
...With the all-powerful weapon to "hire and fire" in a glutted labor market, the employer is a virtual dictator...
...Their initial success in laying the groundwork for the Missouri decision has been ^followed by the announcement that Al Smith, renegade "man of the people," now a shining light of the Liberty League, will shortly go on a speaking tour- to seek to destroy all forward-looking legislation...
...a "He did not believe in the destruction of food while little •hildren were starving...
...I am surprised to hear you, as educator*," he declared, "say that you wiH expel the boy from school...
...As a Socialist, I feel that I have served the workers generally in "ighting salary cuts," Stone declared...
...What the highest court will do no one can predict with inality...
...Jnder the Act, the employers are -equired to bargain collectively vith the representatives of their mployees, freely chosen...
...But we confess that this slone will not suffice...
...The meeting was presided over by B. Sherman, Chairman of the < United Hebrew Trades...
...His decision, of course, is not final...
...They will not tolerate a whitewash nor will they be content until outraged public opinion has been completely satisfied and an example furnished to any other lawless, unAmerican elements that may desire to perpetuate a rule of terrorism...
...admitted after questioning fron the bench that a dictaphone ha been placed in strike headquarter and he asserted the ''hue and cr...
...Is is recognized by legal scholars that in interpreting the constitutionality of legislation, judges have the free selection of alternative principles of construction and of alternative lines of precedents...
...SixTampaCops Held By Court in High Bail In Shoemaker Killing In Shoemaker Killing AJ1 Sections of Popusst&oa'' m Aran Against Savage Brutaiky That Led to the Torture and Death of a protest Whitewash Threat to Take A, F, of L. * CoftTentkm from Murder City Hm Sobering Effect r t a i l ill Officials—Indictrrients Forced...
...S. District Court, j The hearings left the union men | very hopeful that the decision I would be in their favor Cry of Protest from Russian Exiles Reaches World Socialist Movement R E L E A S E of *$olitical prisoners in Soviet Russia is demanded in a declaration issued by the Socialist and Labor International, accompanied by emphatic protest a g a i n s t the "revengeful justice of the Bolsheviks" and their policy of "coldly calculated extermination of dissenting opinion...
...Thus, the Judge shows that he was strongly opposed to the Act, whether constitutional or not...
...A Criminal Dictatorship "The entire state is aroused, and repercussions have been heard throughout the nation from men who want the right to think according to their own consciences— who will not tolerate a criminal dictatorship in this free nation...
...These two names became known to European Socialists as a result of the telegram which they sent from Kazan in Tuty, 1934, to the editors of the Populaire and the Humtmite in Paris, a profession -of faith in the united front...
...His death, if it is to go unavenged, will be a bloody warning to* free men in this supposedly free nation that liberal, independent thinking is dangerous and that abject obeisance is the only safe coarse when crooked elections pat crooked men in charge of oar governments...
...In 1931, during the notorious Menshevik trial, he was arrested in a similar fashion while in exile and transported to Moscow where it was sought to extort •confessions" from him...
...H you want to force the boy into Bool rooms and to .evil companions dose the doors of the school to d him...
...The four men walked out free men because a human judge had probed with h u m a n i t y and had thus lsaiutd "the troth...
...interpretation...
...Hell have to face that judge some day, sad if he wants to face him with a lie on his conscience it is up to him...
...P H I L A D E L P H I A .— Abraham Cahan, editor-in-chief of the Jewish Daily Forward, and James Oneal, editor of The New Leader, addressed a TradeUnion Conference caHed by the United Hebrew Trades Monday evening, Dec...
...There was the case of-a colored Student at Manual Training High School, who was charged with grand larceny for stealing a microscope from a school laboratory...
...Snyder and Alvin F. Stone, the three Socialist directors on the Board of nine members, in the first skirmish of that bodysince its reorganization...
...What may oe a lark, a picnic and thrill for' rou," he said, "is a deadly serious natter to the workers...
...In the adoption of the last amendment—the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment — it was shown how an amendment could be put through Congress and ratified by the states in less than one year...
...The company refused the request to show its payrolls and testimony showed that the company's labor policy is one of opposition to trade unions...
...Yes, Judge," he replied...
...Griffin was appointed to the : Board of Appraisal by Mayor Mc- : Levy- in 1934...
...Solomon declared from the bench that the sending of the telegrams was "silly," that they would only antagonize and alienate the average judge, and the generally;, then after hearing the evidence and finding the prisoners not guilty of the charges of disorderly conduct he turned to Ike attorney, an I.L.D...
...Joseph Shoemaker and other equally innocent companions were arrested in a private residence in Tampa, without a search warrant, and questioned at police headquarters about alleged Communist activities...
...conduct," came before the Mag.^ trate, Attorney Abraham Hartman, appearing for the employer...
...Hoopes also expressed ret r e t that the Board had taken aeion against workers' salaries...
...The Constitution has already been amended twentyone times...
...He said that as an old acquaintance of the magistrate he knew that because of his Socialist background he was favorable to the workers' point of view, and that be might therefore lose his case...
...I was agreeable surprised...
...Solomon declared, in freeing or, of the pickets, that: Annoyance to an employer dotnot constitute "disorderly conduct...
...The company's reply held chat the labor relations act is violative of the Fifth Amendment to the U. S. Constitution, and denied that i the union is composed of workers < in the production departmento...
...When interviewed at a recent labor conference Simpson said: "I am opposed to the reduction of any wages and...
...The member of the Social Democratic Youth Organization, Sammel...
...However, the president of the company identified an original agreement .signed . by union and company-representatives with the' Indiana Regional Labor Board on July 14, 1034...
...Fifty-eight lawyers signed the report...
...Cities Service was shown, in the Black investigation, to have spent $100,000 fighting this bill...
...9, when five of he six who voted for cuts at Tuesday's Board meeting indicated 'heir approval of the original salary schedule...
...Hunt was defeated by Mayor Simpson in 1934...
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