70,000 Workers In May Day Rally At Polo Grounds
70,000 Workers In May Day Rally At Polo Grounds Huge Throngs Pledge Devotion to Cause of SocialDemand More Action War on Fascism and Building of New Social Oder Are Keynote* of...
...Battistoni in Buffalo May Day was celebrated here at a well-attended meeting in the new Socialist Party's headquarters at 606 Main Street...
...Speeches were made by Bernard Schub, P. F . Bartaeh und August Claessens...
...in Moose Hall...
...James C. Quinn, secretary of the Central Trades snd Labor Council of New York...
...Child labor is again with us while adult men and women are unemployed...
...Labor ,Party "teas' called March...
...The total "overhead" charges of the company through salaries listed by the S.E.C...
...leeefieeery Courts Scored Rose Schneiderflian, president^iri * few extemporary remarks, paid ssr respects to reactionary courts...
...The crumbling of K German republic and the teW&hment of the Nazi dy:tator3tJ* •Preadhig race hatred and fJPjW intolerance which ean 'compared with mediaeval yjjfce Schpeiderman gives in her * rwid picture of the dis.the depression, and gic25...
...The measure requires the Arbitration Court to fix basic wages for both men and women workers in all industries covered by industrial agreements on a basis that must provide a reasonable standard of comfort for a family consisting of a man with a wife and two children and establishes the 40-hour week for all industries except where the court regards this as impracticable...
...JTBtea we adjourned in 1929," BP'ythe...
...The secretary and the plant superintendent got $35,333 each, and two unspecified employees checked out with $67,417...
...Edward E. Thompson, secretary of the New Brunswick Trades Council, presided...
...A bill has also been introduced to remove the Constitutional ban on women in various official posts...
...1936, a garment faetrigHtmnnsyhmnia working on * AlflP'0^ "antract employed tfcesijpfrom 8 a. m. to 6 p. rr...
...Somebody in Congress ought to look into this matter...
...A meeting of Local Scran ton was held before the mass meeting and plans for the coming campaign and organisation work generally were discussed in conference with Comrade Claessens...
...heSjjgst completed its hrst year The...
...Labor Lyceum...
...chorus and orchestra, a ballet presentation and operatic soloists...
...An indirect reference to the militant-communist groups which had failed in the attempt to draw away from the Polo Grounds affair certain local unions was made when Waldraan, at the.opening of his address, said: "This is a united front of the Socialist aad labor forces believing in democracy, peace aad freedom.'* Tfae-^burst of applause which greeted this pointed declaration indicated that the scores of thousands who were present understood its full import...
...relief of unemployment, 10.7 mill, kr...
...Massachusetts Housing Commission Denied Loan Despite Security — Corporations Favored—Congress Probe Sought...
...ftaea, ^waii u workers have ban aaeaWt hit by, ahsmdonrrwmt of side standards...
...Whatever the deficiencies in the relief administration may be, they can be remedied...
...They advocate socalled local relief through the benevolence of charity and local agencies...
...At the 1988 election the Party mustered 40% of the rotas, and it is increasing its hold on popular opinion...
...Bran the expensrrenese of tea is partly axplained by the fact that M. H. Karker drew $106,847 last year in salary and $56,597 for bonus— 8161,444 in all...
...After conveying the greetings of British labor to the American Labor mid Socialist movement and declaring that the aim of all labor and Socialist parties was "the conquest of political power with a, view to achieving the social and economic emancipation of the people," he continued: "It bt a confused aad muddled world we review this May Day...
...Since his arrival in the United States en April 14, Morrison had toured eight states v in the East and Middle West delivering addresses under the auspices of the Rand School of Social Science...
...Organized labor and Socialists are opposed to leaving the great ai-my of unemployed at the mercy of charity or dependent upon the benevolence of the rich...
...Like every one of you, I stand here overwhelmed by this glorious spectacle, by the enthusiasm and inspiration of this great assembly...
...And, of course, the company took it oat of the consumer, with extras...
...presided...
...Daily aad weekly hoars are being lengthened...
...They represented about 6,500 urn hers organized principally in New York City, Chicago, various cities of New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Toronto and Montreal, Canada...
...tjUfcf...
...Powerful interests have organized to curtail financial relief given to the' unemployed by t h e federal government...
...Confident in the righteousness of labor's cause, we meet again to renew oar faith in the principles upon' which our movement was founded and to pledge ourselves to work for their realization...
...less than $6 and $8 a week...
...Eighteen directors got* away with $165,790, and 18 unspecified officials collected $555,070...
...The convention also unanimously decided to levy a tax on all member* of one day's pay for organizational purposes, to be paid during the months of September and October of the fall season...
...industry, tee ea ssss our own minimum IBlk'lW'H of Miss Schneider, tefc h a starring document...
...Those parties add candidates who fail to make those unequivocal pledges should go down to defeat whoever they amy be...
...J Photo by Wireless A portable machine for transmitting pictures by wire was recently demonstrated, a news phots being sent ever tee I •finer' Associated wirephotor network...
...You bet...
...W.U...
...The total expenditure on emergency measures rose to 88 4 rain, as against 42.27 mill., the amount originally proposed by the Liberals the previous year...
...A concert of rlsesiral ——It was presented in which a large orchestra and several outstanding operatic stars participated...
...Ten directors of the company snoggted $383,867...
...We that the tendency has been 2^*faltemployers to move their from large industrial C**^-where unions are in eong^^fmall rural communities, IB...
...surpasses in numbers, in beauty, in force of expression, any that our labor movement has ever had before...
...What a reflection upon as all...
...Rib knitter—2 weeks' pay— $6.10 ~"l^ss flowers...
...Zion, the Young • M e s Socialist League and the Cleveland Celebration iliLEVELAND.—The Jewish Soeebst Yerband, Workmen's Circle HfeJPaela Zion united in a May at* celebration in the Workmen's •jade building which seats about J|= -^fcei*all was packed and ••ay persons could not get in...
...A reactionary law of 1927, which prescribed heavy fines and imprisonment for picketing and interference with strikebreakers, has been repealed...
...The first act of the newly-formed Labor Government was to increase emergency budget expenditure in an effort to grapple with the economic depression...
...By adopting a policy of freedom and of democracy in their awa country, by releasing the pontics...
...A l s o , Standard Brands paid out $165,862 to divers and sundry law firms...
...and the Amalgamated trotted oat their basketball and soccer players arrayed in smart-looking uniforms...
...Morrison said he had many conversations with labor leaders regarding the Roosevelt administration and although he listened attentively to their views ha could not rid himself of the feeling that it was necessary to build a powerful political organisation of labor which will be based on a solid movement and not on an individual...
...An exhibition of what workers can da in the field of sports was demonstrated when locals of the I.L.G...
...Wages are being lowered while the work load is increasing...
...Edwin Markham, the famous post, road ssvenu stanzas of his poem "Brotherhood" which was the basis of tin dramatic pageant later presented...
...There ii thus every reason to believe that whan the party goes to the election this autumn it will improve on its previous record in the same way as the Danish party improved on its record last October...
...Carroll, "at the next convention of the American Federation of Labor, ask that a formal demand be made that Congress investigate the securities an which the R.F.C...
...It is not enough...
...A large ?**n t 5ty at booklets were sold, ^f*fads of New Leaders dietribp l " sad contacts were made for _ organization of locals in Lackawanna County...
...The demonstration was arranged by the Trade Union May Day Committee...
...In accordance with the policy of the New Zealand organised workers, the government has reestablished the principle of compulsory arbitration abolished by the recant anti-labor government, With the stipulation that all disputes on which no agreement ts reached by the Conciliation Council will ha referred automatically to the Arbitration Court for final decision...
...Standard Brandsi one of the bright ideas of the House of Morgan in that dear 1929, paid Joseph Wilshire, president, $162,690...
...The enemies of democracy are he enemies of organized labor,"1 is'contended...
...and Julius Adler (New York local...
...The previous year's figure for relief of juvenile unemployment waa raised to 2% million kr., subsidies to local authorities ware doubled, a further sum of 6.7 million kt...
...Among...
...persecution of the Jews in Hitlerland...
...We are pledged to support a program of adequate federal relief to the unemployed.- The United States is now paying dearly for the neglect to plan for unemployment insurance which we urged many years ago...
...Samuel Reinlib, 1st •ice-president...
...Milwaukee May Day ^S^AUKEE-t^The strength jaMjtabor was shown in a {SJaawMay Day parade held jsjjgpcity woicn recently reeJe>$ 8 its Socialist Mayor Daniel /KpRSin for the seventh time...
...included the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, the Amalgamated Clothing- Workers, the Capand MUUmtt Wark'wf* riAei fftttlfftmZ...
...Saturday work will be eliminated wherever possible...
...It is the wage with half the group of workers in question getting less and the other half gattiag more...
...The Children's Chorus of the Workmen's Circle gave a most commendable performance...
...These Rockwood pay envelopes tell a tragic story of the degraded conditions under which these workers had to slave...
...relief of juvenile unemployment, 1.6 mill, kr...
...drawn by the workers just prior to the present strike, prove that wages have gone dawn to' below $4 a week in ¦ate seamleas mills...
...this decision to go to a referendum vote of all members...
...So, we are hives bach on the states...
...two vice-presidents $90,88S each, and I f directors—count 'em, 12—received $774,219...
...Additional funds were to be raised by public loans...
...Ovaer Achievemeals Of mora symbolic significance is the act requiring- that flags shall be flown from all public buildings on the first of May, the workers' festival...
...This firm maintained s*week:y code minimum rate of H2 through December, 1935, but raised its daily working hours to 10, and weekly, hours...
...gave the people's' money to banks and railroads and other interests, which the financial interests demanded help for...
...there were about 2000 persons present...
...prisoners now ia Russian jails, they could become the greatest world force for lasting peace and treeless "We also send -our greetings to the workers of France, the Scandinavian countries end to Socialists and trade unionists everywhere...
...The labor government has also introduced a bill making the administration of the State Railway System a direct government responsibility, thus abolishing the Railways Board...
...And elan gas...
...By Reginald Spink ?OPENHAjGE...
...The speakers were James Battistoni, member of the State Committee, Mrs...
...They have power...
...The address be delivered at the banquet was as stirring as the one which he gave in Mecca Temple the day after he arrived here...
...Singing, dramatics and the dance formed a prominent part of the program...
...The locals competed for trophies and scores wars announced through huge microphones...
...and Joseph B. Eastman as Coordinator of Transportation have labored herd to get railroad top salaries reduced...
...The government has already applied this union preference rule in connection with public works by issuing an order that every employee on a public works job must be a member of the New Zealand Workers' Union, with authority given the union to police all jobs in order to see that the men get a square deal...
...The first Norwegian Labor Government lasted only a fortnight...
...The me*t- Bfr^* held in Leonard's Hall B**1a» auspices of the Socialist Comrade Altschuler was jPjJaum...
...The contention adopted resolutions endorsing the American Federation of Labor stand on the thirty-hour week, the FraxierLundeen Bill on Social Insurance, and favoring the organization of a Labor Party...
...leave the welfare of our nation to chance...
...got 810449...
...The parade was sponsored by thr Federated Trades Council, the Sodaiist Party, the Wisconsin •Shes*i<4«uance, the Workmen's gaps, the Peak...
...The convention was addressed by William Collins, representative of the A F.ofL...
...Let this combined voice of the tens of thousands assembled here in the Polo Grounds bring them a renewal of courage and hope and let it sound as a protest and a warning to the oppressors and exploiters everywhere...
...bat Lorse still holds out, though.no other railroad salary is now above the $60,000 mark...
...Miiton Peters of the jOWssra* Alliance...
...Capitalist governments—including years and mine—have failed to be continuously and constructively active in promoting the positive, organized peace of the world...
...This despite a guarantee in the Federal provisions...
...Bridgeport Celebration BRIDGEPORT, Conn.—May Day was celebrated here in -the afternoon by more than a thousand members of the I.L.G.W.U...
...in this corporation is $1,247,180...
...Those who rejsaiaed in employment have had their hours lengthened and their wag** eat "I will give you a few illustra|haa from establishments which Jbnished their products to the tlMer&: Government under conttact: .- f A large knit underwear mill in ftaaessee employs 1,200 women sal 600 men...
...May Day in Stamford STAMFORD, Conn...
...They have earned the admiration set only of labor, but of civilized mankind...
...Deductions presumably are not always for services, but are in the nature of fines or penalties enforced by the employer for "bad" Work...
...Poverty in the midst of plenty...
...When Americans move, they can move with speed...
...Man is the victim, the slave, the mere instrument of the vast technique of productive power his brain has evolved...
...meeting...
...Together with the I.LG.W.U...
...Your government—very imperfectly you will say—now concerns itself to some extent with social and economic questions...
...i "If we can organise the four •duett women .hi...
...To Workers of Other Lands "We send our greetings today to the victims of Italian fascism and dictatorship, and we pledge to them' and the thousands of brave Italians now in exile our wholehearted support and express solidarity with their cause...
...They were addressed by Judge Charles Solomon of New York...
...The meeting was held under the'joint auspices of the I.L.G.W...
...Every mention of democracy was warmly received by an audience on whom the lessons of dictatorship had apparently made a deep impression Herbert Morrison Spooks Morrison was given a rousing: ovation by the audience Wee rose as one person and sang the Internationale...
...Report Exposes Coolie Pay of Hosiery Workers Wages Fall Below $4, Pay Envelopes of Rockwood Mills Reveal — Fines and Penalties Imposed for "Bad" Work...
...There were 63 delegates at the convention, held on/Friday, Saturday and Sunday,' April 24th, 26th and 26th, at the Hotel Capitol, New York CHy...
...A random collection of pay envelopes from the employees of Rockwood Hosiery Mills of Sackwood, Tenn...
...A picture 4x5 inches transmitted by the new marhwia la automatically enlarged and is istarted -as aa 8x10 picture by stetiswa, ea the network...
...The pageant was directed by Mark ^^T...
...We denounce and eondemn the cruel and barbaric Hitler and his fascist regime...
...NBA Gains far Women "There is no doubt that the women wage earners of the count ry were greatly helped by the NRA," says the report...
...aasat both ends meet, the price A*?** for their milk u »o knr...
...HP*—ten-Meet a Success BCBANTON...
...Against Dictatorship "Organized labor and the pro-: gressive forces of the country," he declared, "should demand that every political party asking for the suffrage of the American people should, in its platform, pledge itself and its candidates unequivocally against fascist and all other forms of dictatorship, and commit itself to the preservation of democracy and peace...
...QHIOAGO...
...There were short addresses of greeting by representatives of' the Workmen's Circle, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, the Painters, Musicians, Bakers and other unions...
...They had no plan during the darkest period of the depression...
...Dubinsky then read a program of immediate demands which included the thirty-hour week, the abolition of child labor, security for the aged, the full and unabridged right of labor to organize without judicial interference, the abolition of the power of the'courts to nullify social and labor legislation, the release of Tom Mooney aad other victims of political and racial persecution, the reduction of armaments and the promotion of international understanding...
...Big May Day Meetings in Many Cities Chicago, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Bridgeport, Buffalo and Other Places Join In Celebrating International Labor Holiday...
...Over the tea cup...
...Clear skies, tranquil weather and a brilliant son combined to stimulate the feeding of rejoicing...
...International Solidarity Turning his attention to the fascist dictatorships -in Europe, the garment union president indicted the destruction of democracy and of the labor movements in Germany, Italy, Austria and Hungary and particularly- tkl...
...We pledge our loyal support to those brave men and women in and outside of Germany who are now working for the regeneration of their country and for the reestablishment of democracy and freedom there...
...A Workers* Program "To minimize in She future the destitution due to unemployment, sickness, old age and death, we urge an adequate program of social insurance on a national scale and in the various states...
...The Diamond Match Co...
...In addressing the1 sixteenth annual convention of the Massachusetts State Building Trades Council here, John J. Carroll, labor representative on the Massachusetts State Housing Commission, declared the Reconstruction Finance Corporation is not being operated for the benefit of the people, and that it is controlled by bankers...
...fhesrds bearinir the slogans, •JM|*IS of the World, Unite," "Bows with Dictators" and "Fasd i P t l the Menace to Youth" were fHafly -kerne by trade unionists sad Socialists...
...In these small ^P*Jied villages, it was not ma...
...Nasal ass to say, thia compromise was not wholly satisfactory to the Labor Government...
...Tee aboli-, turn of child labor meant the aad of competition wttt a particularly low paid and helpless group...
...Green Reveals Exploitation of Women Toilers Cjjrc* Startling Wage Cuts flowing Nullification of IpA—Rose Schneider-:easn Calk fog Umeenxa#00 as Way Oat Washington, d. c—vvfljHptaaf Green, -president of ¦ the jhafrinn Federation of Labor...
...That is the question...
...housing, 1 mill...
...These are the preposterous outstanding phenomena of the modern" industrial world...
...Hundreds were unable to get into the hall which was jammed to capacity by people who had paid an admission fee to get in...
...Capitalism and capitalist governments are failing miserably to promote the security and wellbeing of the nations...
...Taken as a whole, however, the revised budget waa a considerable advance on the Liberal budget...
...At both meetings Solomon declared that only the philosophy and program of labor and Socialism could bring peace, security and freedom to the world...
...TOCKETBOOK WORKERS FORM INTERNATIONAL A T a convention of representatives of eleven pocketbook locals lcated in various parts of the United States and Canada, a constitution was adopted which established an International called the International Ladies' Handbag, Pocketbook and Novelty Workers' Union...
...Deductions for Flowers The deductions for flowers evidently'indicate that a fellow employee died and the worker was obliged to show his or her sympathy by contributing to the cost of a wreath...
...Of this amount 17.5 million waa to be met by the proponed trading tax, and 18 million' by direct taxation...
...They called for the abolition of child labor, the thirty-hour week, social insurance, the release of Mooney and Billings and far a new social order...
...subsidies to local authorities, 4.4 mill, kr...
...Carroll stated that the State Housing Board had the beat of security for such a mortgage, but the application was rejected by the R.F.C., yet the banks and railroads were able to get loans of millions of dollars without security of any kind...
...Despite the hurried and crowded lecture tour which had taken him through a spin aver the Bast and the Middle West, he spoke with his characteristic vigor...
...Virit of Fascism Rife J©** *tn remember that we met ¦teJae'iSay peak of our so-called , FWperity.'' and none of us had BBPJWBg of the desolate and •at-moding years that were beH as...
...BOSTON...
...One of his most cherished memories, he said, will be the fact that Socialists and trade unionists in this country are developing closer ties and moving rapidly toward a Labor Parity...
...wtiCS fere the standard hours, bat sooetff the time kept them as The girls were paid as low as ff aw|Mc for this time and refassl to work until 8 p. m. meant km «f the job...
...Declaring that he felt himself a comrade • among ether comrades here, he urged bis audience not to be discouraged by the factional fight in the Socialist Party and to go right on building a great political movement of labor in the United States...
...He urged and predicted the early formation of an American Labor Party...
...report, "none of us Bjalai that it would be seven MgMetbnt we were able to hold •* aert convention...
...and Workmen's Circle choruses rmrihinsd forces under the directorship of Lease Werner and gees a demonstration of choral singing of sxlraur dinar ily high musical quality...
...Goebel in New Brunswick to NEW BRUNSWICK...
...They were, however, reliant on the support of the Farmers' Party...
...This was their day...
...and electric light, aaaVtaV one af the billions of tm ozasfw the same kind of tribute...
...In the name of justice we demand their immediate release...
...for "•J* vision and general *eirJeaf"f*aV 886 frftm the Montana PewB •» for the same: $96441 f t * ** New Orleans Pubtte Sarvii, aj, for the tame: and 998J$l M * TJtah Power and Light Ca, «• the same blind explanation Taw trie Band and Share Co haw a in several other place...
...They shared the gains of all workers by the abolishment of child labor and homework, reduction of working hours and the guarantee of collective bargaining...
...A holiday spirit prevailed amonr the great throngs as thaw through the scans of entrances of the Polo Grounds...
...A •root Festival The great stadium was decorated on all sides with hug* banners, many in bright red symbolixing the spirit of human brotherhood...
...The Xorwegiao Labor Government, under die leadership of Prime Minister Johan Nygaardsvold...
...That makes $316,417 to one man...
...Nay more, poverty b e c a a s a of plenty...
...The predominantly working-class audience responded with enthusiasm to the music of Bizet, Rossini, Verdi, Meyerbeer and Moussgorsky...
...This budget provided for considerably increased expenditure on public works and social legislation...
...The Farmers' Party had proditure amounting/ to 80 million kroner, one-third of which was to be devoted to /subsidizing local authorities and'one-third to subsidies to agriculture and ftaheriea, together wfth abnormal expenditure on Stake railways, while the remaining one-third waa to ha spent in reducing the national debt...
...As president of the Delaware A Hudson he receives $90,000, and as chairman of the hoard of the K. C. Southern he gets $45,000...
...The gathering was a festival a* well as a demonstration...
...A rich and varied program included addresses on the significance of May Day, the I.L...
...New Zealand's Labor Cabinet Pushes Plans Sweeping Bill Affecting Wages, Hours and Working Conditions Pressed in Parliament — Subversive Tory Policy Repudiated...
...American labor is embarking upon the gigantic task of organizing the huge mass-production industries with its millions of ahderpaid aad insecure workers...
...The total cost of the higher-ops listed by the S.E.C...
...pays $100,741 H» three chief officials...
...The Labor Government survived to present its own budget for 1986-37, details of which hare already appeared in these columns...
...He referred, with particular pleasure, to the fact that in Chicago he was introduced by William Green, the President of the American Federation of Labor, who was also the honorary chairman of the committee sponsoring his tour...
...Leoner F. Lores, prize labor baiter of the railroad world, is drawing $135,000 a year from two railroads...
...In g5m som« places in Georgia the rate was found to be $2.95 ^w^*Sa«3*aa P Thrwa/*"'' Green Reveals Exploitation Of Women Toilers (Continued from Page One) to what amy be called the tmiddle" worker...
...Three plays were presented by the Brookwood Players...
...Outstanding among the issues for which labor demonstrates this year, is the establishment by law of the thirty-hour week in industry, trade and commerce...
...special counsel...
...Sickness and accident insurance and pensions have been expanded...
...They have no plan today...
...The high cost of coreanAp* It explains quite s let tfi farmers have trouble ir...
...In addition to Judge Solomon, those who spoke were M. Bialis, vice-president of the International and manager of the Chicago Joint Board, and M. A. Goldstein, secretary-treasurer of the Board, who also presided...
...The Massachusetts Housing Commission appealed to the R.F.C...
...while Sullivan * Cte> well, special counsel, ares...
...There was plenty of good-natured laughing and shouting and bantering as workers joined in the general spirit of joviality...
...In the evening another meeting was held by the Psrtjr « ?. Workmen's Circle in the W.C...
...All told, the top officials of McKeesport Tin Plate set the company back last year to the t u a e of $1,037,534...
...Standard Oil Salaries Hicjh Standard Oil of New Jersey tops that, though its president get* only $126,000 a year...
...Other Executives Highly - a id Thf McKeesport concern doesn't | g g h i j g « l s r ^ J s t^ prudent, dm dou^ $J4B*» ^ salary and $40,000 bonus...
...Harry Jones (Perth Am boy local...
...Charles Mutter and Joseph Patrick (Jersey City local...
...have given him such a warm reception...
...In concluding his address, Morrison thanked those who were present and those throughout the country who...
...V., the A.C.W...
...Joseph Schlossberg of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, and other prominent labor leaders...
...Louis Waldman, state chairman of the Socialist Party, Luigi Antonini, vice-president of the International, and Abraham / Millar, manager of the Now York Joint Board of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers...
...Jjh» "militants" demonstrated Hp* -he Communist Party and i p i e s s them, a half of those parasipating a year ago...
...With regard to workers who do not come within the jurisdiction of the arbitration court, special measures will be provided to standardize their wages and hours according to the plan provided for other workers...
...A dramatic presentation by the Young Circle League and ballet numbers entitled "Sailor's Dance" and "Hitler's Doom" were warmlyreceived...
...The Workmen's Circle chorus gave a fine performance...
...Z. jorber, Irving Abrahams, charrssn of the Chicago' Youth Comuittee of the Workmen's Circle, tod I. Seigel, manager of the fhicago Jewish Daily Forward, kbo also presided...
...J.0 $6.00 Knitter—2 weeks' pay, February, 1936^_ $9.76 Less' deductions_— 8.55 '¦¦ ,\.__ $1-20 Boarder—2 full weeks_$13.00 Less deductions__ 3.00 V" . - $10.00 Pairer—2 full weeks- $8.45 King Grocery- 8.45 OdM Still owes $2.76 for coal...
...These "crisis" measures alone would be sufficient to justify a minority government, bet the Norwegian Government can point j to a number of other achievements during its short term of office...
...Ssmuel Laderman, manager of the Chicago local, 2nd vice-president, and 11 General Executive Board members aa follows: David Meyer, Meyer Motlin, Lester Diamond, Samuel Gorenstein, Morris BandWay der...
...was set aside for read construction...
...Labor in Bay State Hits Banker Control ofR.F.C...
...He reported against the proposal, but at Washington, where I talked with him, he gave ate enough information unknowingly to prove that the common people have no chance of getting anything unless it is approved by...
...Welter—2 full weeks- $950 Leas store-;- 3.55 Leas store__— 5.00 Boarder—2 weeks-$12.60 Looper—2 weeks, March- $6.30 Finishing Dept.—2 weeks--$9.46 Mender—2 weeks-_ $7.65 Less rent-:- 3.00 $4.55 Clipper—2 full weeks-_ J9-90 Less flowers--.10 , r ! , l».80 Header—2 weeks-$5.40 less groceries,,, 5.40 • ^* 0.00 Boarder—2 weeks -$10.70 Uss rent--- 2.76 ' Leas^eoal —-,- 2-« Less insurance -.60 doctor--- 3.00 $1.60 Looper learner—2 full weeks $2^0 Singer—« full days-*7.<K Leas sent--- MO Less ugh* -.- 1.00 Lass watt*--1M Sj* - ¦ fr...
...on railways and telegraphs...
...Then, after describing something of the work of NRA and giving high praise to General Johnson, the report continues: "Once again (after the death of NRA), we are back where we started...
...Minority Socialist Governmerit Increases Expendi* tures for Public Works and Social Legislation— Lifts Ban on Picketing...
...A united labor movement can accomplish this great task...
...of A., the Workmen's Circle and the Socialist Party...
...We have come here to reaffirm our stand that only shorter work hours and higher wages will provide employment' for the idle millions...
...Tony Sender, exiled former member of the Gorman Reichstag...
...There mm* for Inly part of it...
...We have assembled here to proclaim that instead of depending oa the crumbs of relief, labor is determined to reorganize oar economic system so as to enable the workers to enjoy the happiness aad comforts which progress, and civilization have brought within thejreach of all...
...pay* it* scfanat 886,000, and it* vice-preaxst $18,000...
...This wonderful gathering," said David Dubinsky, President of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, as, he looked out over the vast sea of faces tilling the great amphitin-ater...
...Parties to right to apply for a reduction of their hours to 40 weekly...
...May Day was celebrated in this city at two large gatherings attended by a total of- five thousand people...
...In nosing, Dubinsky said: "Faom here our voice will resound to every country in the world wherever men and women struggle for existence, wherever our brothers and comrades are oppressed and persecuted...
...Sad that is organization bate bona lea trade unions...
...The following day, he sailed for England...
...Today," she said, "the Federal wares rate against any law that voeiri give the government power to stabilise industry...
...roadbuildinir, 11.9 mill, kr...
...Beads made up of members...
...tas 4KBSjad Hebrew Trades, the Workman's Circle, the Socialist Party sad other groups affiliated with the Lake* and Socialist movement...
...Others who spoke at the meeting R the Labor Lyceum were Dr...
...Carroll disclosed that the Massachusetts State Housing Commission had been unable to obtain a mortgage for $250,000 on a building project at Chlcopee from any bank in either Massachusetts or New York, or from the R.F.C...
...the speakers, in addition to President Dubiaksy who presided, were Herbert Morrison, the internationally known British Socialist...
...Some 400 dressmakers celebrated May Day in Carpenter's Hall, on Gay Street, during the afternoon on May 1. The meeting was held under the auspices of t he I.L.G.W.U...
...We hare come VMir'^&l for a great purpose, "weTpesvaE sembled ee thtt May Day *<*m* to oar fallow workses e< gjajjlig movement throughout the world, without regard to rase, color, creed or set tonality, the fraternal greetings of the workers of Hew York...
...70,000 Workers In May Day Rally At Polo Grounds Huge Throngs Pledge Devotion to Cause of SocialDemand More Action War on Fascism and Building of New Social Oder Are Keynote* of Addresses at Stirring Demonstration...
...The high cost of gasoline is a mystery no longer...
...The organized labor movement will not permit the manufacturers' associations, the American Liberty League, the Chambers of Commerce and all other plutocratic agencies to destroy the unions which we have built up at the cost of so much toil and sacrifice...
...In the evening, a mass meeting was held in the Labor Lyceum under the auspices of the Workclalist Verbaad...
...He urged Socialists not to adopt an attitude of superiority toward the trade unions or to create an impression...
...We express our greatest sympathy with their struggles and wSve^wBeVraa today t a r e - iterate oar own shame in iMBm*A Ing to keep in the prisons of our own country two innocent men, Tom Mooney and Warren K. Billings...
...School* have been improved, anil expenditure on other educational and cultural activities increased...
...Representatives of the Socialist Party, the Jewish Socialist Verband, the Poale Zion brought greetings from their organizations and urged rededication to the cause of Socialism...
...to underwrite oar Chkopee building project, bat a man named Pendleton was sent to this state to investigate...
...that they have secret aims or are trying to "capture*' them...
...was paying in August, 1935, wwS as !0 cants an hour...
...minating Co...
...Plight of women workers W* bsginning of NRA.^ ] Woete Slashes Cited ^Jjefom discussing the gates earBing women made J™ NRA, I want to cite a few y—» "pointing to the awful ^Ppthst wages had Uken beK*' (during the depression...
...A Compromise The increase finally effected on the accession of the Labor Government was a compromise between these two proposali The expenditure provided for by the original Liberal budget was increased by 30.6 million...
...We must not...
...tWOl Pat Milk Co...
...That, however, is by no means the highest salary in the list...
...Abolishing the former anti-labor government's policy of victimizing unemployed workers on relief with sub-standard wages and part-time work, the bill provides that all awards aad agreements shall be applicable to relief workers, which gives them full-time employment at standard rates...
...organizations have bean crushed and who have been robbed of all human rights...
...Martin Taub (Novelty Mirror local), and Fred Gagliardi (Norwalk local...
...paid W. A Fairbnro, president, $100,000, and two vice-president* 816,000 and 826,000, respee respeetively...
...So only will you end the poverty, insecurity aad unemployment which disgraces oar age...
...Everywhere in the capitalist states we see poverty, unemployment, social insecurity...
...nor the high coat of ginger ale, when we -find that the president of the Anchor Can Corporation got 866388 la»t year, and the proxy of the Crown Cork and Seal Co...
...America, owing to the depression, has had to turn its back on the old thoughtless, anarchic individualism...
...fi (1 dollar—about 4 kroner...
...Inc., paid its president last year 866,190...
...The money waa to be raised by means of a trading tax levied on tradespeople...
...W i s d o m The ballot of united labor expresses the people's will, aad the people's will is the supreme law of List Published by SEC Reveals Greed of Exploiters As Workers and Farmers Struggle for Living...
...By Eliot Harris W A S H I N G T O N , D. C. — T he High Cost of Corporations, one of the biggest' elements of the well known high cost of Hying, is partly explained by t he list of corporation salaries hist given out by t he SEC...
...These p a y m • ate range from two-month coaajOjg tion for those in service knew* a year to 90 per cent of ***wj for Ore years or a lamp aSW* one year's pay for those mjkw" fifteen or —re years...
...Herman F. Iftfcbi' ftfaaaary of the trades earno...
...I wflfi^said Mr...
...G.W.U...
...No increase was to be made in taxation, though allowance ten* made for mcreatet due to expanding trade activity created by the Government emergency miasnre...
...James Oneal, editor of The New wiser of New York, was the JSStipal speaker and a fine musietprogram rounded out an in•ajriag meeting...
...comes to $1,570,470...
...Man the master or the slave of material things...
...Timothy McCarthy of the British Labor Party was guest speaker...
...We have assembled to tell them that we are-united with them in spirit and determination, tn a common struggle to hasten the end of exploitation and political tyranny...
...pa.—The first May gjphwataig held here in many BP1 hatt Sunday was very suePjfct Many Scran ton workers present and coal miners came •delegations from Pitts ton and WPP, nearby cities...
...The organizations partici pating...
...He said that on a recent visit to Washington he had been informed at the offices of the Federal Housing Administration that*more than thirty million mortgages insured by the government are distributed through the U.S., but that none of the banks or the R.F.C...
...VigMously championing the cause of iemocracy, ha pointed out that the labor movement was in the forefront of those who were fighting wt only to conserve it, but to hepen and expand it...
...1955, after the debate on the Liberal budget had ended in the passing of a vote of no confidence by the Labor and Farmer Parties^ Though the Norwegians, like the Danish and Swedish parties, do -not command a clear majority in Parliament, they can look back on a year of positive achievement...
...The spectre of fascism and dictatorship- must be removed from the American mind and the American political scene...
...With the death knell of the NRA, there is only one recourse which the worker has to improve his lot...
...The chairman of the board last year got $112,600...
...By the accession of the Labor Government considerable sums of money were expended on public works and emergency social legislation, projects which would not otherwise have been carried through...
...Membership of the party has grown during the year by 16,000 and now stands at 120,000...
...Squire...
...The Electric Bond and StastO* drew 874J64 from the AasMas Power and Light Co...
...It had been its refusal to meet the demands for an increase made by the Labor and Farpier Parties which had brought about the downfall of the Liberal Government...
...I was estiTTTsitccl 1 that...
...Working men and women hi other countries will watch with interest the policies adopted by the New Zealand Goveminent, under direction of the Parliament, to carry out the mendate...
...players' and dancers' groups, they joined in a dramatic presentation of "Brotherhood," an interpretation suggested by the poem of the same name by Edwin Markham...
...But the fate courts are busy upholding a* workers' inalienable right to SSTft...
...The measure also provides for preference for union members in filling jobs, with a definite provision which makes impossible the registration of bogus unions set up to defeat bona fide labor organizations...
...We send ear greetings to the workers of Russia...
...Following are some of the more important measures: Grants to small holders for cultivation of new land, e t c 14.3 mill...
...Celia Rostow and August Claessens spoke between the acts...
...What an indignity...
...m 1i*Wnr at the posUNRA ¦tustioa'as a whole," said Mr...
...The New Zealand Labor Parliament was democratically alerted by the voters with a mandate to secure for New Zealand workers aad the people generally those inherent rights so long denied them by the anti-labor employer interests whose plan, enforced by their control of the government, has been maximum profits for those Who awn and operate industry regardless of the injustice imposed by this subversive policy upon the working industrial and agricultural masses of New Zealand...
...Claessens at New Haven NEW HAVEN, Conn...
...Vs »a™««*^a»' -»*^ -m - - ~ ; ¦ JSIS ^_^|^^9S|l I ^^^fc iit 8 j«a» mter Stirring Speaking Tour More than 1000 Socialists and Trade Unionists Attend Farewell Dinner to British Laborite — He Promises to Return...
...The I.C.C...
...Wa express our solidarity with their cause...
...is an abundant supply g**8** labor...
...They have ' demonstrated to the world indomitable courage, abiding faith and great heroism...
...liq Fees Paid for "Services" And m»tche...
...Socialists and trade unionists said farewell to Herbert Morrison, the British Labor Party leader, at a banquet held at the Hotel Victoria in New .York on Friday evening, May first...
...and the tin plate industry in this country is , protected Jiy a tariff of 1 cent a pound—which is a tax on every housewife in the land...
...We demand .the release of the" nine Scottsboro victims of racial bigotry and persecution...
...Meeting today in a country where labor under the law may organize itself freely, industrially and politically, our hearts go out to the millions of our comrades and fellow workers in Germany, who are denied^jttet right, whose liberties have bdefaestrdyecr,whose...
...He voiced the fraternal greetings of the organized workers of New York to the victims of fascism in concentration camps and in exile and pledged that the work of mobilizing relief and support for them under the leadership of the American "Federation of Labor would continue unabated...
...to 57 for women...
...We hare came together as trade unionists to serve warning on the master class of America that we are ready to defend at all coats the organizations which we have' created for oar protection and advancement...
...They have an unBSralleled opportunity and a gteat responsibility to serve \the 'cause of peace, democracy and labor...
...and aw* American Co., "fiscal tad •$• services," 849,780...
...The budget provided for an additional expenditure of 16.9 million kr...
...The names of those who drew these pays are omitted for obvious reasons...
...To preserve a decent standard of living, and to protect American workers and industry from oppressive exploitation by the payment of a substandard wage, we urge the adoption by law on a national scale and jn the states, of an adequate minimum wage...
...In ana with labor's policy for 0 r d * z e d mborP e*B ?&>e aHstff a federal oswetttutatoela^diatesrt iejgplt-to Congress power to eases' social and labor legislation necessary for the solutionof the passing problems of our times...
...Waldman's remarks were delivered carefully, deliberately aad emphatically...
...fkV 417...
...j^OCKWOOD, Term.—Testifying before the House Labor Committee on the Ellenbogen textile control bill recently Earl TSonstantine, executive director of the National Association of Hosiery Manufacturers, stated that he knew of no cases where hosiery workers drew wages of...
...Wa are pledged ta support this movement...
...Organization Labor's Hope "Past experience has taught us that we cannot look to the captains -of industry to solve the problem of the twelve and a half millions of unemployed...
...subsidies to fishermen, 7.5 mill...
...I ask yea to move with all practicable constitutional speed — as British Labor will do on the other side—towards the establishment of a great, hesiaasa hire and successful Socialist Commonwealth...
...to find women working 60 ^f0^ ^ours for $4 a week...
...The two vice-presidents got s little over $60,000 each...
...railways, electrification, etc, 7.9 mill: kr...
...Elizabeth C. Roth and Robert A. Hoffman, executive secretary...
...Neither hi the high cost of ribbon* a mystery when one reads that the Century Ribbon Mill...
...He believed, however, that local state labor parties will moat likely precede any national set-op...
...The I.L.G.W.U...
...The second one has now been in office over a year...
...E. E. Crawford, president of the McKeesport Tin Plate Corporation, draw $225,417 last year a s salary, and, obviously for fear that he couldn't live in fitting splendor on such a sum, the company gave him a bonus of $90,000...
...In addition to this figure there was to be a State g-uarantee to new undertakings of 6 million kroner...
...Fete in Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA.—The Olympic Arena in this city was the scene of ah inspiring May Day celebration attended by about 1,000 people...
...of ^sHuatSans' Union, played the •II Hut international anthems of (Mst 9ha--parade wound up in heat of the courthouse where a aasting was held which was ad*sssed by Mayer Hoan, J. F. Fredrick of the Federated Trades Council sue...
...In the afternoon of May first, 3000 trade unionists assembled in Orchestra Hall under the auspices of the Chicago Joint Board of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union...
...The Labor Party project called for - In additional emergency expenditure of 60 million kroner on a comprehensive scheme of subsidies and public works, to be met by special taxation on high incomes and proper - ties, increased death duties, loan*, and economy in such items as national defense...
...will underwrite them...
...August Claessens deliv• f f * ^ main address...
...This firm handled during ttst time a large order for the OCC and forced its workers to rc at break-neck pace to have order nlled as rapidly and as jfcsapiy as possible...
...The following International officers were elected by the convention: Iiidor Laderman, manager of the New York Local, president...
...eech to the National JliBiiui'' Trade Union League epmKion here, made some star¦B revelations of the plight of women -workers since the outlawing of the NRA by the Supreme Court...
...One of the first measures introduced in Parliament by the Labor Cabinet of .Prime Minister Walter Savage was a sweeping bill affecting'the hours, wages and working conditions of NeW Zealand toilers...
...The report mentions that $8 a weak in soma industries was considered a munificent wage, and: that it was the bottom level for the great numbers of women employed in retail trade...
...Miserly Fay Crred J" A shirt factory in Maryland Staking under 'a government contma...
...THE first session of the New Zealand Parliament under control of the organized workers, following labor's victory in the parliamentary elections,has made a vigorous beginning toward ^carrying out iabor's campaign njedges to scrap the subversive eminent and stimulate recovery by improving the economic conditions of the New Zealand masses...
...Scratch that if J*a4-9Another revealing the* a eVe* lists is the amount paaifsr "lag* service*" and "supervision.'" "ee> agomoiit" and "fiscal" lertte Thus, the Cleveland Electns...
...SEVENTY thousand trade unionists and Socialists animated by one purpose, one wfl and one goal joined together So celebrate May Day at the Polo Grounds in plow York...
...And when some day you want me to come bach to help y_u in your work, I will coma" were ate final words...
...We hail the brave aad courageous Austrian* Socialists and workers in resisting mad reaction and dictatorship in their country...
...Tim backbone of the open-shop employers, the giants of American industry who heretofore have defeated both government aad labor, mast be broken...
...J^ORE than 1,000...
...62,500...
...Neither did we dream of j^tersin and stress which the W*fe world was about to en^**to deadly spirit of fascism is * everywhere...
...Mayor Jasper MaeLevy, Rosen, Eisenstadt, Schub and Claessens addressed the...
...The high east of <aipu - -4^H • y rhe l a l l r s a t 1 Worbsw WASHINGTON, D. C—jg road workers have won s t«aw** agreement, details of wtdeheM* be worked oat, which asaae* • * vision for workers wbe t**_4> placed by econocaiea the managers desire to tasks a* placed workers will be sosO* verance wage*" based on leaa*j service...
...The desired saving in natkmal defense baa had to be temporarily dropped, and there are some misgivings about the trading tax which, like all indirect taxation, is ultimately met by the consumer...
...X. J.— George H. Goebel was guest speaker at a May Day celebration held under, the auspices of various A. P. of L. unions and the Workmen's Circle...
...During the brief stay of three weeks in this country, Morrison made a deep impression upon the many thousands who were privileged to hear him and won the affection and esteem of the entire labor and Socialist movement...
...About TOO men and women attended a May Day meeting in Fraternity Hail...
...Harry Gevertzman, s e c r e t a r y - treasurer of the New York local, general secretary-treasurer...
...Sander* & DeafSt...
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