Child Labor in Sweat Shops Of South Assailed in Report
Child Labor in Sweat Shops Of South Assailed in Report f»itJ ^bor Committee Investigator Declares Shops in Anient and Textile Industry Moved Plants From New York to South to Profit by...
...He pointed to the double problem of qualified dentists "starving because they have no patients" and the "goodly number of persons' who need dental care but who cannot afford to pay for dental services...
...Health Insurance to Proton Workers Is Weld Vital Need Speaker...
...PARTY NEWS NEW YORK CITY KINGS 4th-14th A.D...
...The speaker pointed out that, at best, the recant legislation will become effective «r.Jy in 1988...
...Labour, official organ of the British Trades Union Congress aid Labor party, says that • confidential report issued by the Department of Public Security of Austria estimates that last year there were 300,000 members of the illegal trad* unions, underground organisations of Austrian workers, driven to carry on their work secretly by reason of fas* cist terrorism...
...In others the 'illegals' have their small cells which influence the entire staff...
...Epstein hailed the enactment of the federal Social Secarft} Act as marking the...
...Two Socialists from Elmira looked on...
...Lo#»fciWlfi Groups—Six More States Paid OH-Atfe PettsidM La* Year Making Total Twenty-Nine...
...of the comjljtte's staff after an extended t<wr of investigation througJi that regioflfj>e serious competition which UtHtlHi industries are giving •j0 iwio5;ns.l states in the North, MIS Mr...
...Of course, it makes some efforts at the improvement in the structure of city government, but on the whole, the changes are superficial...
...of evlrf • man-for-himself and our commitment to the mora sods...
...Braaeh 275—Meeting, Saturday...
...There are also lists of thousands of victims in the ensuing years of fascist rule...
...The Consolidated Gas and Electric Company, the bankers, the utility companies, and the large real estate interests have no reason for opposing this proposed charter," Waldman declared...
...May 9, Hunts Point Palace, 163rd St...
...We feel that the...
...Underground Activity of Austrian Workers sfaHjpjl in Report LONDON...
...22nd A.D...
...However, fit criticized the Federal Act for failing to deal intelligently with the problem of old age and unemployment insurance and f<- negtectmtf the problem of the present unemployed and those in need cf health insurance...
...In 1934 prison sentences totalling 1,735 years were meted oat to the opponents...
...Rhode Island, Texas and Vermont...
...iidei, "would not be pos^^.-Cicept for low labor standtT^ in which cheap child labor tegi| most powerful factor...
...Celebration, Friday, May 1, at 8:30 p. m.» in Finnish Socialist Canter, 127th Stand 5th Ave...
...This proposed charter does not fulfill the hopes of those interested in true charter reform...
...will have its regular meeting Monday, May 4th, at 8:30 p. m., at 169 Lott St., between TRden Ave...
...Of 38 countries whose social services have been studied by the Internationa] Labor Office, 22 have made health insurance the "backbone of systems of economic security," and in some countries the scope has been extended to cover about 90 per cent of the employed population...
...Florida, Illinois, Michigan...
...Professor Paul H. Douglas of the University of Chicago warned against the consequences facing the country in the event s decision invalidating the Act should drag down with it the new state laws, the operation cf many at which is contingent «pon the Federal Act...
...Blvd., Bronx...
...k-sc.r.mesl of our traditional pour...
...It would apt have bean possible (to get such Ipj ielm'1 without the competition •i anaKPaid child labor...
...Alfred J. Asgis, secretaryeditor of the American Society of Diseases and Surgery of the Mouth, declared that "although official medicine and official dentistry are still opposed to a change in the direction of compulsory health insurance, headway" was nevertheless being made...
...This is one of the facts revealed in an article by an Austrian correspondent of Labour, The writer says that the total of secretly organised workers is larger than the governmentcontrolled so-called Unified Trade Unions...
...average pay per worker to jtr* been 8500 per year...
...The activities of these illegal, trade unions, of course, are different from the fsmiliar trade union work in the free countries...
...In '1985 the number of trials .against anti-fascists showed a pronounced upward curve which was climaxed early in 1936 by hundreds of new arrests, death and heavy prison sentences...
...approximately ten year* after the start of the Great Depression" "This," he added, "is s somewhat revealing comment, uj« a the economic insight of the political and business rulers ox this country...
...Many were exiled, banned and killed in the dungeons of Mussolini's empire...
...Enrolled voters contacted in the recent canvass will be invited to this meeting...
...21st AJ...
...tte total amount spent jMi pensions in 1985 was SSS.O4S.OO0, mora than twice as muck as was jpesrt in 188s* Movamaat Grewina The following new states vers sdded to pension list during 1986: Alabama, Arkansas...
...Dental Need Cited To illustrate the great need of dental services, Dr...
...May Day celebration...
...Speaker: Esther Friedman...
...Speakers in Finnish and English...
...f2,000 were sentenced to more than 12,000 years' imprisonment...
...Mid wood branch meets Monday, May 4, at 9 p. m., Kingsway Mansion, 1602 Ave...
...The location I of hall will be announced next week...
...Connecticut...
...All pay their fees secretly to the illegal trade unions...
...Speaker...
...Jposg that factories in num|S have moved Sooth to take «4»anta«-e of low wages, Mr...
...Everything was prepared in advance aad the boys were required to sign on the dotted line...
...and Beverly Road...
...An "income tax" will also be proposed for the members to the Thomas convention in June...
...It is chiefly valuable as I front-line trench agalr.y...
...Missouri, Oklahoma...
...The chairman appointed a credentials committee from a prepared list after a motion to elect the committee was defeated...
...Concert, dramatics, dancing...
...Child Labor in Sweat Shops Of South Assailed in Report f»itJ ^bor Committee Investigator Declares Shops in Anient and Textile Industry Moved Plants From New York to South to Profit by Exploitation of Children— Force Wages of Adults Down...
...Jewish, branch meets Saturday, May 2, 9 p. m., 565 Hendrix St...
...At the conference held last Friday and Saturday there was general agreement that the lack of medical attention, the neglect of illness, the loss of income through sickness and other hazards could be eliminated or at least considerably reduced through the application of the insurance principle...
...Of the permanent teeth, 79 per cent of the children had one or more decayed, and 11 per cent had one or more practically destroyed...
...branch meets at 241 South 4th St, Monday, May 4, 9 p. m. Voting On delegates to National Convention...
...at National Conference on Social Secuirite %M| Legislation to Provide Medical Attention for...
...H...
...Whereas twelve states Ilmftetf their aid to persons TO years M age and ever in June 1985, only five states will so limit their grant* by June 1936," the speaker continued, -While the average pension in December, 1935, was ..net higher than in December, 198V-h is significant that the states wins have enacted such laws as a rJNNJgt of waespread pubHc demand a$* all paying aa average pension which is fairly adequate in meat instances...
...In nearly all important trades and industries branches of these illegal trade unions exist...
...Labriola, former minister of labor, announced that from the time Mussolini went into the employ of the employers' associations in 1920, until he entered Rome in 1922, his squadristi murdered 4,100 non-fascists of which full case records exist...
...Branch 6?B—81 St Harks Place, ¦ Saturday, May 2, 9 p. m., May Day | celebration...
...Business men in the past have allowed the government to deal with it by giving work relief at relief wages...
...The work of the Commission is timid and inadequate...
...Due to the blindness of America during the twenties' the present insurance system give* no protection to those who are new unemployed...
...There is too much hero worship and inexperience to guide a democratic organization," writes our correspondent...
...concept of security for *a...
...P. Herbert Merrill will speak on "Labor and the Coming Campaign.'' Prospect Park branch...
...Branch 210 — Meeting4, Friday, J May 1, 9 p. m., Broadway Central i Hotel, 4th St arid Broadway...
...August Claessens will be present...
...It fails to abolish borough government and provides for cumbersome and inadequate legislative machinery...
...It provides for no fundamental changes in the functions of the...
...America can not dodge' this problem...
...the netf depression.** "~* .7 Murders by Fascists Reach a New High i-- ¦• ¦ 1 The black-shitted fascist tor*, ror in Italy during 1927 to 1932 is graphically depicted in the following figures: 3,500 persons were tried by the special fascist tribunal...
...Max Meyer, member of the New York Industrial Council, commented on the report as follows: "With the passing of the NBA, new sweatshops for the textile industries have come into being...
...No one knows how many persons have been killed by the fascists, writes George Seldes in his book, "Sawdust Caesar...
...WORKMEN'S CIRCLE Branch 164 — Meeting, Friday, May 1, at 9 p. m., 1581 Washington Ave., Bronx...
...Thomas's rubber stamps declared that the party had been "saved for democracy," and then they proceeded to inaugurate the new "democracy...
...An educational meeting is being planned for Monday, May 11, with August ; Clsessens as speaker...
...He said that the answer to this problem was an American system of compulsory health insurance...
...California, Massachusetts, . >' Hampshire, New York, P*r.rjv!vanis km Washington paid sr...
...and Sc...
...average pension of over 820 • month, wirire < other important states paid a* average pension of over ft 8 s month...
...The number of old people aided through pension systems was nearly doubled during the last year, rising from 213,000 aged men and women in 1934 to over 404,000 during 1935, said Abraham Epstein, executive secretary of the American Association for Social Security...
...listing of new industries fSaght to sue Southern state beaw of sach inducement showed ai...
...the immediate aims upon which to concentrate...
...If this policy is continued with refusal to face the problem, it will be well to remember that millions of American citizens will not indefinitely submit to enforced poverty and public support in an age when industry is equipped to supply them with a comfort level of living...
...Speaker: I August Claessens...
...While praising the Federal Social Security Act for the recent impetus given to state legislation...
...The 404,000 figure is nearly four times the list of the 114,000 aged who were given assistance two years earlier, in 1938, Epstein reported that auw'lii 23 states paid pensions in 1984, 2f states were providing this astisi sue* last year...
...Speakers in English and Yiddish...
...In some big factories not a single man has joined the government unions...
...Mississippi...
...Terence McCarthy of Great Britain...
...Steven states and the District of Columbia have enacted anemploymest insurance legislation since 198* Mr...
...August Claessens will speak on "The Future of the Socialist Party...
...Asgis cited the results of an investigation by the United States Public Service which showed that 86 per cent of the children examined had one or more decayed teeth, 59 per cent had five or more such teeth, almost 34 per cent had one or more temporary teeth practically destroyed by caries, and 10 per cent had one or more temporary teeth with sinuses...
...It writes no basic labor or social policy respecting prevailing rates of wages, reasonable hours, collective bargaining, the employment of children, or of other conditions of employment followed by those who supply labor and material to the city, or with whom the City makes contracts for the manufacture of products for the city or for the construction, repair or maintenance , of public works or property...
...Sidel ?a...
...MAY DAY CfUtftATtOtiS Piaaish Branch...
...It is not the basic instrument of a truly progressive city, aspiring to abolish political machines and establish a city devoted to public service and social betterment...
...Proposed Charter Is Called Timid by Waldman TTHE proposed city charter, made public by the Charter Revision Commission of New York City, was characterized as "timid and inadequate" by Louis Waldman, State Chairman of the Socialist Party and an actice participant in the movement for charter reform...
...Karl Pribram, of the Brookings Institution in Washington, said that health insurance ranked' "foremost a^pong the risks to which the principleSrf compulsory insurance has been applied" in the majority of countries which have enacted such legislation...
...National Child Labor -Conor.: tlee ha* issued a scathjge report on sweatshops and cSd labor in the South, written \fj James E. Side...
...The runaway shop from New York is not a rarity today...
...It does I not make provision for freeing the city from the strangle-hold of the bankers...
...Ariscr-a...
...Leaflets are circulated from man to man, exposing the fallacies of government premises, bringing to light particularly bad working conditions in certain brandies or factories, statins...
...With $500 the average pay, some of the workers must receive wages so low as hardly enough to provide even for food, with nothing left for clothing, rent or other necessities...
...His statement follows: "To say that the proposed charter is disappointing is to put it mildly...
...fjrHE United States is badly in need of an insurance system which would protect its population against the hazards of illness, officials and students of the problem agreed at the National Conference on Social Security, sponsored By the American Association for Social Security, at the Hotel Actor, New York...
...Mussolini's one reply has been that the Bolsheviki in Russia killed more...
...city...
...new set-up will not last long...
...The State of Mississippi and other backward states in the Union, through live chamber of commerce secretaries have successfully offered inducements to the textile and needle trade industries, such as cotton garment and hosiery, to remove their plants from New York, and with sweatshop labor, which includes the labor of children, have created a state of competition which is reflected- in* balance sheets, as well as in tax rolls in the various communities of New York State.' "Democracy" Is Installed by Rump Committee The "militant" state committee met the day after their "victory" in Buffalo...
Vol. 19 • May 1936 • No. 18
