Protest Meeting Scores Defeat of Child Labor Curb
Protest Meeting Scores Defeat of Child Labor Curb Cooper Union Roily of Socialists and Trade Unionists Assails Rejection of Federal Amendment by the Legislature. Urge Appeal to...
...For both Hitler and his Japanese fascist allies it is beginning to appear that "now or never'' is the moment...
...A special trade union committee has been formed consisting of David Dubinsky, Sydney Hilbnan, Joseph Schkweberg, L Nagler, Louis Hollander...
...The union ^tteves-aiatwlWequaiiration of work and the introduction of the 6-hour day and five-day week this can be accomplished...
...Esthonia has been under semidictatorial rule for some time, which emerged as a result of efforts to avert a purely Nasi regime sought by a group of fascist pkvt! ters in an abortive coup last De! ceruber, preceded by an unsucceesI ful revolt in the spring of 1984...
...To the objection of the mine owners that the bootleg mining was helping to ruin the industry, the miners reply that there is only one way to stop it: equalization of work and operation of the industry in a manner that would put the unemployed to work...
...It is not merely because they are callous because when it comes to understanding the conditions under which workers live, they are as dumb as anybody can be...
...They immediately replied by declaring that public opinion must be aroused at this betrayal of the interests of the children of the state and that pressurev must be brought upon the legislature to compel the bringing of the resolution for the amendment out of the committee where it has been temporarily pigeonholed to the floor of the Assembly...
...And even the mightiest tremble before it...
...Today,' by doubling and tripling the number of Mirhinss and using tungsten ctrbid tool types, also by increasing the number of operations allotted to each operator, the operuer has received a cat to $5.20 for the same operation he performed St* nts mm* and performs two ¦ asm operations in addition, all d which has been incorporated «• hts original operation...
...The discussions this week centered upon a detailed analysis of conditions in the industry, with special emphasis on the problem of the bootleg mining in five counties of Pennsylvania, where 20,000 miners working in abandoned collieries have mined some 4,000,000 tons of anthracite in the past year and sold it in markets as far north as Boston and as far south as Washington...
...Denmark Offers Wider Program For Unemployed By Reginald Spink Our Own Correspondent COPENHAGEN.—The Danish election of last October was made necessary by the refusal of the small reactionary majority in the Upper Chamber (the Landsting) to give its consent to an extension of the exchange control system introduced by the Stahning government...
...And all this is happening in 1936, in the nineteenth year of Soviet rule," says the information bulletin of the Labor and Socialist International after setting forth the revolting details of the treatment accorded her by the Bolsheviks...
...Less than five years ago a wellknown auto manufacturer finished eight cylinder motor blocks on a given line-up with 250 men...
...The system proved eminently successful...
...Trade Unions Support Rand School Concert The trade union movement of New York is lined up in support of the Annual Metropolitan Opera Concert which will he held on Sonday, March 15, and is being sponsored by the Women's Committee of the Rand School...
...Samuel Perlmtttter, Luigi Antonini, Max Zaritsky, Samuel Shore, Francis Gorman, Andrew J. Kennedy, Samuel Beardsley, B. C. Vladeck, and Thomas P. McMahon...
...to rescind the action .aken against New York...
...j "Hitler fears the Secret Police who one day will drag him down into the gutter...
...Samuel Shore, ^gtr of Local «2 of the InterSpssl Indies' Garment Workers' EJ...
...Because of this she has been compelled to spend three years in solitary confinement in' the political prison at Suzdal...
...fAt the same time the voters flgwed a dislike for the nationalist and military elements," sosed Mr...
...Third must be local initiative, cooperation and responsibility in housing construction and management—wherever possible and feasible...
...But the O.G.P.U...
...A.F.of L. Flays Government's Housing Plan Demands Federal Housing Authority and Subsidies —Rejects Administration Proposal to Finance Private Builders as Betrayal TPHE report that the administration plans to scuttle the public housing program by federal grants and loans to municipalities in favor of a prog-ram for slum clearance and private building and financing backed by a government guarantee of mortgages up to 90% of the appraised value with the Federal Housing Administration occupying a central role in the proposed set-up...
...Foremost among the demands of the miners are a reduction in bouT3, equalization of work, a substantial wage increase and the complete check-off...
...By 'independent' we mean that it should not be tied up to or compromised by any connection with such agencies as the FHA...
...The matter was made all the more urgent by a threatened closing of the English market...
...Cutting right across the shibboleths of Free Trade and Protection this scheme set out boldly to introduce some measure of planning into the country's foreign trade...
...Speaking in the same vein as those who preceded them, Algernon Lee, Bertha H. Mailly and Morris Feins tone called upon the Governor to take a firm stand in favor of the measures proposed...
...The keynote of the evening was struck by Charles Solomon at the beginning of the meeting when SS asserted that the pigeonholing of the amendment by the Assembly Judiciary Committee did not end the matter but that the people had it within their power to resurreet the amendment...
...Jobs Destroyed by Machine Must beRestored,SaysAFL WASHINGTON, D. C—The tremendous destruction of work opportunities by machinery in modern industry was pointedly detailed to the Labor Subcommittee of the House of Representatives by S. P. Meadows, Legislative Representative of the American Federation of Labor, in his testimony favoring the resolution introduced by Representative Vincent L. Palmisano of ^tafyland, authorizing the Labor Department to investigate labor-saving devices and their effect on employment...
...Judge Jacob Panken began his address by a demand that Governor Lehman take to the radio in behalf of the child labor amendment just as he had in the case of his crime program...
...The manifesto concluded by essnhg for support of the Social IjSSsUuatic Party, pledged to a system of parliamentary gnearantent based on the workjSWafbction brought an inSSfioe of 13 seats for the party tjjsy the previous five...
...I The crushing of the fascist sevolt in Tokyo may convince pan diet "never" is the wiser P The assassination of Premier Okada and four other high government officials will not add to the waning strength and prestige of fascism in Japan and elsewhere...
...Among those participating will be Charles Solomon and August Claessens...
...Mr...
...The Esthonian plebiscite adds encouragement to the forces seeking to save world peace and promote true social progress through the traditional methods evolved in the free countries...
...But the federal housing agency will have to be empowered to construct demonstration projects wherever there is a proved need for housing and local authorities are unable or unwilling to act...
...Herrick declared that it was useless to hope for local action by states and that the only way to meet the problem was through the ratification of tht child labor amendment...
...One of these basic standards is thatSprevailing wages must be paid all workers on housing projects...
...The union is now asking for a two-year agreement...
...Stating that he was not entirely dissatisfied with the amendment which merely enables Congress to legislate with regard to the labor of children under 18, he declared that the amendment ought to prohibit the labor of all persons under 18...
...AJ1 of which helps explain mm latest desperate attempt of ^•"•fascist assassins...
...It was finally accomplished at the Philadelphia meeting after ¦aother secret caucus with this comfav nation...
...The number of employment certificates issued to children 14 and 15 years of age in New York City for the four-month period from September through December, 1934, was increased 400% during the corresponding four-month period for 1935...
...Oneal points out that since the meeting of the N.E.C...
...Thus far many local housing authorities have been created, but these are powerless to act without a permanent federal policy and a long-term, clear-cut federal program of assistance...
...another form of slavery— child labor—was the subject of vigorous denunciation by speakers representing trade union, Socialist, progressive and church pinion at a rally held last \Vednesday in support of the ch.ild labor amendment...
...Finally, in return for financial aid the Federal Government must exact adequate standards in all publicly assisted housing projects...
...It is a club over the heads of fathers and mothers seeking employment and lowers the living standards of the workers...
...Among these was a proposal for the granting of special assistance to those unemployed members of recognized trade union unemployment funds who, owing to excessive periods of unemployment, have been unable to fulfill the conditions necessary under the law for the award of unemployment benefit...
...The pamphlet leads with the speech made by M. L. Polin of Maryland at the Interstate Con...
...Bertha H. Mailly, secretary vgj...
...A careful survey," he said, "should be made in an effort to ascertain correctly the amount of labor displaced in the principal industries of our country by the use of machines, the probable increased production by man of their use, the reduced consumption directly attributable to these non-consuming factors and their relative connection With the present low purchasing power of our common people...
...Indeed it last very moment the Assembly1 JiaViiT Committee was rejecting Separation for the adoption of ~x ikild labor amendment by a teaaf 9 to 2, thus barring it from Wat reported out of committee...
...It deprives children of their natural right to get an education...
...Vigorous applause greeted ds» •r.ands that the Governor t**e the issSe directly to the people u aw is statements pledging the cssjdse* rat.neaTvm or tne amenomenc as this session of the legislature...
...It was said that the "j^f*** ¦ °f die proletarians •¦•wed that the public has lost ¦S^ence with the old parties, •suked fascism and was eager far a new political outlook...
...You might as well know," he said, "that you are not going to get a bit of help from the manufacturing classes of this country...
...We are not going to permit a cowardly legislature to get away with a cheap political trick of this kind...
...Graham recalls that he had earned Thomas, Krueger and >thers more than a year ago that :hey were leading the party to a split, that they were "flirting" with the Communists, and that the majority had done nothing since the Detroit convention to build the party...
...Herrkk Among Speakers —p JX the historic auditorium of Cooper Union in which Abra» ham Lincoln made his memorable -peech against the extension of slavery about seventy-five years ago...
...Labor-Socialist Program Urged On Governor Waldman Leads Delegation Demanding Ratification of Child Labor Amendment, State Labor Relations Law and City Power Plants A DELEGATION of six-trade union and Socialist leaders representing organizations with a total membership of 300.000...
...Warning Five Years Aaa Five years ago, at the time of the negotiation of the present agreement, the union warned the operators that without equalization of work they would find themselves in a situation like the present, with desperate unemployed miners going out to mine their own coal and competing with the industry...
...The second section presents the irgument of James D. Graham >f Montana in favor of a motion te made by mail to members of :he N.E.C...
...Sand School of Social SciV. ^ Louis Waldman, New State chairman of the Soil* PartyImpressive Conference yfr...
...This meant an extra payment from trade union funds of 6.6 million kroner, and it was proposed that the State should refund % of this amount...
...My answer is, the American people cannot permit the deterioration of our child population at the expense of the future of the country...
...Urges Permanent Program . Galling upon the government to stop "beating about the bush" and to "get down to brass tacks" on a housing program that will benefit low-wage workers, the committee urged a permanent program, stating: "The prime objects of a national policy must be employment of building workers at prevailing wages, decent working conditions, good housing standards and rents within reaeh of low-income families...
...Not only were imports diverted to customer countries, whereby the export trade and a stable currency were assured, but it was also found possible by the exercise of selection (planning) to stimulate home industries, thus providing work for thousands...
...The negotiations begun this week are expected to be prolonged throughout next month...
...At that time the operators turned a deaf ear to the union's warning...
...the 1935 door labor cost is only 15 cents per door, accomplished by machine welding two parts together...
...Fascism stands exposed to the world dripping blood and forever discredited...
...It was inevitable that certain individual importers should suffer some hardship under the act, but on the other hand it was obviously in the interests of the town and farming community as a whole, as far as possible, the import trade should be diverted to countries still willing to purchase Danish agricultural produce...
...lathe Displaces Workers 'last 'recently information has ane to us from Moscow of a new Moto-electic lathe which can work ¦ > complicated design without anmo aid, which has been invent^ by a Russian engineer...
...In one case it is intrastate commerce to which the Wagner Act does not apply...
...The industry is now operated on an 8-hour day, six-day week basis...
...Interest on these loans is to be 1% per cent the first .two years, later 4 per cent...
...This is the weakness inherent in all forms of rule by force, that in the last resort they become dependent on a police which dominates and dishonors them Napoleor trembled before Fouchf...
...director of the Regional Labor Board, Judge Jacob Panken, Magistrate Charles Solomon, Ab-aham Miller, manager of the New York Joint Board of the A maJ related Clothing Workers of Amerca and Gertrude Weil Klein elf he Women's Conference Against he High Cost of Living...
...Demands Firm Stand Speaking on behalf of the clothing workers, Louis Hollander, manager of the New fork Ms* Board, said that although the men's clothing interest wyt organised 96%, "it was worse than disgraceful to contemplate that five, or even two per cent of the industry should tolerate the employment ef young children...
...Samuel Shore, manager of the white goods workers union, affiliated with the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, next ad dressed himself to the Governor...
...New Leader Dinner in Peterson, March 14 PASSAIC, N. J.—In connection with The New Leader dinner which the Socialists of Passaic County are sponsoring, a symposium will be held on "United States Constitution...
...The interesting feature of his loan fund is the method by which the money is to be raised...
...It is proposed to make a grant totalling 36 mill, kroner toward payment of mortgage interests, and: also to set up a fund amounting to 100/mill...
...When Bertha H. Mailly and Celia Rotter visited the United Hebrew Trades on behalf of the concert, they received a cordial reception...
...Committee of the Amffl-ican, rfedetnao^ af_ Xaboc...
...I shal' not cease to demand it...
...the aid of tbe photo•Ktric cell the lathe can see any *»»inrs that are, placed in it...
...In actual fact, however, it may be doubted whether the Farmers' Party is greatly averse to the principle of taking "alms...
...This organisation principle was denounced by Been Luxemburg...
...Dispatches quoted Esthonian newspapers as saying that "the nation in a most vigorous manner manifested its will for a return to parliamentary conditions, and the size of the landslide surpassed the most optimistic forecasts...
...Signs are not lacking that this party, Which began its political history with a melodramatic march to Copenhagen and demagogic tactics which warranted its classification as "semi-fascist," is now in the process of shedding its reactionary leadership...
...It is the business of the labor movement and all forward looking people to continue the struggle until we are successful in making this proposed amendment a part of the constitution...
...24 States Ratify Pointing out that only three states have a minimum age requirement of 16 years and that the usual age minimum is 14 years, and not every state has even this requirement, Mrs...
...Representing the miners on the committee is Thomas J. Kennedy, secretary-treasurer of the U.M.W...
...The joint conference of miners and operators conducting the negotiations for a new agreement appointed a committee this week to consider the problem and make recommendations...
...The FHA was sharply condemned as having systematically undermined wage scales by employing labor at less than prevailing wages on practically all of its construction projects...
...kroner from which loans may\be made toward liquidation and reduction of debts...
...It is unfair to our workers to protect part of them and to leave the others unprotected for lack of a state law...
...On this occasion the Conservative group in the Lands ting were wise enough to abstain from voting...
...t Oneal then traces the history of the idea of an executive dictatorship in the Socialist movement and shows that it had its origin in Lenin in 1908...
...bat now it is showing •sjpe.ot decay, along with the '-^aMteSft?oi ;* nj?a«4«e*ry asJgtsajMr w« can be certain Sjssyfsjsjs long it will have _|8HP established parties saSpP|F<dteir prestige tramnswgJst'the mud...
...Today the same line-up finished 250 motor blocks With 20 per cent more operations pssMT only 19 men...
...in Buffalo last March, the Thomas machine had been trying to "get" NewYork, and that machine members had even met in secret caucuses with the "militanf-Communist combination in New York City to accomplish this purpose...
...Fascists Overwhelmed In Esthonian Election Plebiscite on Restoration of Democracy Proves Crushing Blow to Nans — Result FwgaS^riws Waning of Reactionary Forces—Press Halls Outcome Another blow at fascism and dictatorship was struck this week —this time in Esthonia, where the democratic and parliamentary system has been abolished last September...
...This notion was defeated by the sama nembers who voted to disfran:hise the majority in New York State...
...With regard to other government proposals the two reactionary parties have not been quite so amenable, and have exploited their majority in the Lands ting to hold up and reject several measures...
...Elinore M. Herrick, chairman of the Regional Labor Board, pointed to the ominous increase in child labor since the NRA was declared unconstitutional and warned that the existence of a large reserve army of cheap child labor was undermining wage scales all over the country...
...These thousands of children who have been allowed to flood an already glutted market mean that in every community a large group of employers have been able to depress a wage scale already below a minimum of subsistence by whatever standard you may choose...
...Although definite proof is IncaJBg it is not unlikely that behind the latest fascist outburst in Japan stands Hitler...
...I know that the whole of international Socialism is with me in this demand...
...Louis Hollander, manager J4| jjt* York Jo...
...has inflicted another five-year sentence of banishment upon this veteran revolutionist, who spent long years of penal servitude under the czar for fighting for the liberation of Russia...
...After this she was banished for five years to Turkestan, despite completion of her sentence, and now the G.P.U...
...Algernon Lee, New York j»- chairman of the Socialist 2L...
...The revised bill provides for a State refund amounting to one-half of a total sum of 4.2 million kroner instead of the original % of 6.6 million...
...Sanctity of the Home" Abraham Miller of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers said: "Child labor is a disgrace to our civilization...
...The delegation left a memorandum covering the three progressive measures with the Governor which he promised to study...
...The same issue of the bulletin carries also Comrade de Brouckere's aspesX "Why this incredible cruelty...
...The rise of the Serial Masses (Social Demo*«***:,) Party was dwelt on by ¦a Japanese newspapers as in•Jlifii* that the public is tired ef fascism...
...Speaker after speaker bitterly scored the rejection of the resolution for the ratification of the amendment by the Assembly Judiciary Committee and charred that the killing of the resolution was deliberately intended to spare the legislators the embarrassment of being placed on record either ir...
...In the past ten years the number of available jobs declined by some 40,000...
...These loans are to be repaid within 50 years...
...Labor Relations Proposal The Socialist State Chairman then outlined the reasons for labor's support of the State labor relations law introduced in the Assembly by Assemblyman Neuitein which guarantees workers jngaged in intrastate industries freedom from employer interference with their right to organize and bargain collectively and provides for majority rule in selecting the representatives of their own choosing...
...ference in New York City on January 18-19 in which he analyzed the proceedings of the N.E.C...
...in Philadelphia...
...and now alitinpbcredited in the eyes e/tMfaople...
...Meadows cited 'a number ef recent developments, in which employers hem install new -suctiass -aa* pable of displacing thousands of workers...
...favor of or against the *msae» ment...
...In general, families with incomes under $1,200 to $1,500 cannot be housed without some form of outright grant or subsidy...
...Letters were read from Rose Schneidermaa, President of the New York Wosa»n*s Trade Union League, who was inable to attend, and from Homer Folks, chairman of the National Child Labor Committee...
...in the other case it is interstate commerce to which the federal law does apply...
...As the delegation began to leave, Morris Feinstone, the Secretary of the United Hebrew Trades, suggested in a spirit of mock seriousness, that the workers are sensitive to promises that are unfulfilled and will insist upon action and not merely lip service...
...Shock Troops of Labor Bishop McConnell told the audience made up largely of trade unionists and Socialists that they were the "shock troops" in the fight for the child labor ¦mend ment...
...The crime program of the Governor," said Panken, "seeks the punishment of crime...
...We mast make every affert to 1 see that at this session the rsSlletion for the amendment is brought on the floor of the legislature and the members placed on record as to where they stand on this question...
...President Constant in Pacts, of Esthonia was quoted as saying that "Esthonia is determined to cling to democracy and willingly accepts the projected legislative system...
...We, and other representatives of organized labor, are ready to carry on an aggressive campaign at mass meetings, over the radio and through the press, to fight the forces that have thus far blocked the ratification of the child labor amendment in the State...
...Importers .were required to register and imports were subjected to official control through the issuing of import licenses or currency tickes...
...Asto Workers' Jobs Destroyed "The 1018 Isbor cost per door for automobiles is estimated at $4.00...
...In New York State," she said, "for the months from September to December, 1935, inclusive, the work permits granted to children allowing them to work in our factories and shops increased 174 per cent over the permits granted in 1934 during the lifetime-of the NRA under which child labor was banned, tn New York City alone this increase in the number of permits amounts to 272 per cent for the corresponding period, according to reports of the New York Child Labor Committee...
...This is how these miners have been able to keep body and soul together...
...The only agency which can .supply such grants today is the Federal Government...
...Among the speakers were Bishop Francis J. McConnell, Elinors M. Herrick...
...Referring to the proposed state labor relations law, Feinstone said: "We like the Federal Labor Relations Law and the pending state law because it gives labor an opportunity to negotiate around the table with the bosses, meet them eye to eye and thrash out differences...
...Lobar Policy The policy of the labor movement with respect to housing is clearly outlined in a statement issued by leaders of the building trades unions and the Labor Housing Conference in which they declare that "as representatives of unemployed building workers and of millions of families unable to find decent quarters in which to bring up their Children," they insist upon the following essentials of a building program: "First ^there must be a permanent federal housing agency, with the responsibility, the power and the means to see that adequate low-rental housing is constructed...
...asks de Brouckere, continuing: "Will anyone maintain that it is necessary 'in the interest of the Revolution?' I have never believed snd never shall, that the spy, the jailer and the hangman are the rtght workmen for the building of Socialism...
...Bat even these who pat their trust in 'unavoidable' force will admit that 18 years after the October Revolution at a time when the regime has been consolidated —irrespective ef whether the people agree with it er merely pot up wits it the nslssarlfc steer seats' not be disturbed by a veteran revolutionary being able to live with her grandchildren in London...
...I demand her release...
...and lieutenant-governor of Pennsylvania...
...But they will not have completed their Revolution, until they have got rid of what is still left over of the Tsarist spirit, until they have abolished the worst of all the institutions the old regime has bequethed to then: that Okhrana of terror and abomination which continues to exist under another name...
...It desires to demonstrate its power and spread terror...
...She declared that "we ought to do everything in our power to blot this terrible thing from the face of our country.'* The chairman of the meeting, Alexander Kahn, urged the audience to write to their assemblyman, the chairman of the Assembly Judiciary Committee and to the Governor protesting against the action of the Judiciary Committee of the Assembly and to obtain such action by organizations of whi«h , they, are members...
...is not willing' It is not willing that anyone who has passed through the system of the political prisons should be able to speak freely...
...The bill was promptly revised and reintroduced in the Folketing...
...These proposals are meeting with the usual opposition of the Conservative and Farmers' Parties...
...Urge Appeal to People Governor Called Upon to Take Issue Direct to Voters—Bishop McConneil and Mrs...
...The steel mills," be said, "are introducing a machine which permits 1,000 workmen to do the work which new requires 32,000 workmen to do...
...The total tonnage mined during the past year was approximately 50,000,000, exclusive of the bootleg output...
...met with Governor Lehman at the Executive Mansion in Albany: Tuesday and urged him to un-j dertake an aggressive campaign tor the ratification of the child labor amendment, the enactment of a state labor relations act supplementing the National Labor Relations Law...
...Polin showed that he Thomas national machine, be¦ause of the decline of the membership in the "militant" states, faced the prospect of defeat in :he next national convention so hat it was necessary for the machine to arbitrarily disfranchise \"ew York State in the convention...
...Its only completed large scale project calls for rents at $12.50 a room, in spite of the fact that building labor received about half of the prevailing rate in its construction...
...Meadows concluded, 2* resolution, but would fj** * thorough investigation by 2*^** °^ the number of work* *«placed by the use of main industry...
...Alexanier Kahn presided...
...Dther sidelights are thrown upon he proceedings which show a des>erate minority casting aside decency to gain an unworthy end...
...and for legislation enabling cities to own and operate electric power plants without pledging their credit in the raising of funds to finance suclf* municipal enterprise^ The meeting occurred as the result of a letter sent to the Governor by Louis Waldman, State Chairman of the Socialist Party, requesting such a conference which resulted in the sending of an invitation by the Governor to Waldman who had written at the cer qasst mm the -trade unions and the j Socialist Party...
...it is claimed, the shaping in*Xs«uls are automatically adj**sL Vichman's lathe has been by the Institute, which is *• Bnurufaeturing others of sim* smign for use in industry...
...In emphasizing the importance of the proposed survey, Mr...
...Ten days before the election the Social Democratic Party declared in a manifesto: 'Toltowing the Manchurian indent, fascism swept the aasalry...
...Flanked on the right -Tjeft of the Governor were his jgftnal attorney, Charles P. PoEj4 ind hfa secretary, Walter ypo...
...There has been a steady decline of employment in the anthracite industry...
...Flisher, one of the ISStran American correspondsjtfin Japan...
...Free the Revolution from the O.GJ».U.l Set Eva Broido free...
...Contending that the FHA cannot provide housing for low-income families, the committee said: "It has insured mortgages throughout the whole country on about 640 houses available to families with incomes of $1500 or less...
...They are simply interested in piling up dividends...
...The unions are subscribing generously for tickets, AH unions ate urged to send their orders for tica> ets to headquarters, 7 East 16th St., New York City...
...On Wednesday the Esthonian people went to the polls in a plebiscite field on the question of restoration of democratic government and by a vote of 472,416 to 148*78 expressed themselves in the affirmative...
...The administration has apparently "placed upon the shelf a detailed report of Evans Clark, counsel to the New York City Housing Authority, which scheduled, after an exhaustive investigation, that rents would haver to be cut one-half if low-wage workers were to benefit by decent housing, that private capital cannot do this, and that the only way to rehouse one-third of American families who live in hovels was by a broad public housing program initiated by local communities and subsidized by federal grants or loans...
...The reason why the CoauttsMe i has killed the amendment is clears/ ! to save the Democratic and Repobi lican legislators the cimhin a— | ment of having the amendment reported out on the floor of the Assembly and then being pat in tiki position where they would he , placed on record for or *gr*nrt it," I Solomon contended...
...This evening I call upon the Governor to go direct to the people to obtain the ratification of -an amendment which seeks to prevent crime...
...Wilfrid Fhsher, correspondent of the Herald-Tribane...
...feinting out that since the outlawing of the National Industrial Recovery Act child labor was on the increase throughout the State, he specifically directed the Governor's attention to the startling figures on the growth of child exploitation in New York City...
...JThe old agreement, which was for five years, does not expire before March 31...
...j Specifically, Comrade de Brouckere deals with the case of Eva Broido, veteran Social Democrat and member o? the Central Committee of the Russian Democratic Party, who after eight years of imprisonment and exile without trial has again been exiled to another five years of banishment...
...This condition," the committee declared, "results from the fact that the FHA play primarily with these subdivisions and small speculative builders who have always tended to be chiselers of labor...
...Meadow also cited Phillip "ami, vice-president of the Unit"ins Workers of America, as *j»g testified before the Senate y*fcry Subcommittee, January *>aHt, that 100,000 miners have Z* «selaoed by technological imJ?^smts and the increased use "Jjsehjaery...
...Assailed By Socialist In Pamphlet *T*HE Socialist Party Interstate * Conference with headquarters at Pittsburgh has issued a neat : oamphlet entitled "The N.E.C...
...Miners Press For Jobs by Equalization Open Conference With Anthracite Operators for New Agreement—Wage Increases and Shorter Hours Demanded Negotiations for a new agreement were begun in New York this week between a committee representing anthracite mine operators and the United Mine Workers, headed by John L. Lewis...
...Copies of the pamphlet are available in the Band Book Store, and they can also be obtained from the secretary of the Socialist Party Interstate Conference, Cmfl Limbeeh, TOO Waldorf St, Pittsburgh...
...Someone has said that the American people cannot stand the 'luxury* of the child labor ban...
...It swells the army of the unemployed...
...It J^shsed that this machine will jyes many employees formerly •¦Ayed in this kind of work...
...She concluded with the following statement: "A civilization that tolerates 7,000,000 children under 16 in families which are already subsisting precariously on relief and then throws these children into the labor market does not merit the description of 'civilization...
...It is an encouraging sign that, while the Farmers' Party more and more neglects the interests of the small farmer and becomes the political instrument of the wealthy farmer and landowner, its offshoot, the "Independent People's Party," is showing an increasing willingness to negotiate with the Government parties...
...facing the State's Chief gBMBtive were the representatives gf labor and the Socialist Party fcsjMffiFT support of legislation jg the welfare of the working pffle of the State...
...Japan Fights Fascist Coup By Officers Savage and Abortive Attempt, Marked by Assassinations, Follows Defeat of Nippon Nazis at Election — Socialism Gaining Ground The abortive attempt* by a fascist group of army officers to seize power in Japan this week comes dose upon the defeat suffered by the fascists in the election of the week previous and is taken aa an indication of their savage determination to force their absolute sale upon the country...
...The bishop, who is a leader ef the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America which he said had a total membership in Protestant churches of over 5,000,000, ridiculed the contention that religion will be hurt by the adoption of the amendment and emphatically declared that "anybody who soya that there is any benefit to a child engaged in industry either doesat know what he is talking about Or is dishonest...
...She objected to any movement of the working class being "turned over, bound hand and foot, to a handful of academic leaders...
...The administration program of subsidizing private industry and private capital by a guarantee of mortgages up to 90% rather than subsidizing municipal authorities indicates that views of reactionaries like Stewart McDonald, head of the FHA, and Peter Grimm, real estate expert of the Treasury Department, have prevailed over the views of the public housing advocates such as Harry L. Hopkins, Federal Relief Administrator, Secretary of the Interior Ickes and the National Public Housing Conference...
...The case of Eva Broido is typical of hundreds and thousands of other Socialists and revolutionists, victims of the Soviet terror...
...Their real objection to the proposals must be sought in the answer to the question "Who pays...
...I The indications are that it is JvPsst effort of a dying clique...
...i The delegation, which endorsed the entfre legislative program of the State Federation of Labor, but ! singled out three measures with 1 which to begin the fight for the adoption of the whole program, consisted of Morris Feinstone, secretary of the United HebrewTrades...
...Although more spectacular she fascist outburst in Tokyo appears to be less important Sin the victory registered at mm polls several days previous by toe Social Democratic Party ijsjssee...
...The Russians hsve freed themselves from the Tsars...
...Another is that every project must meet certain definite standards of physical space and equipment and neighborhood planning and facilities...
...The union now insists that its old demand for equalization of work must finally be put into effect if chaos is not to overwhelm the industry...
...y its death not be far re•Weed...
...Helping the Farmers The Government has also put forward a comprehensive scheme for the assistance of distressed farmers...
...The latter party has registered the unusual objection that the proposed subsidies to farmers amount to almsgiving...
...Little more than 100,000 miners are now employed, as compared with 168,000 during the war period...
...The bill proposed to extend the number of days the funds were entitled to pay benefit...
...Release of Socialist Prisoners In Soviet Russia Demanded by The Socialist International DEMAND for the release of Socialist arid other revolutionary prisoners in Russia is issued by the Labor and Socialist International under the signature of Louis de Brouckere, its president...
...Oneal analyzes the idea in detail to show that it paralyses the will of the members, trimsforms them into sycophants of executive upstarts, and makes impossible a self-governing movement of the members...
...High incomes and property over a fixed minimum value, together with companies paying a dividend of 10 per cent or more, are to be called on to yield, not as taxation, but in the form of loans, the required sum of 100 mill, kroner...
...N.E.C...
...and 1 the Party Crisis" which deals with the action of the National Execu- J tive Committee of the Socialist Party suspending the charter in New York State, disfranchising the big majority of the membership, and recognizing the Thomasite minority as the state organisation...
...After a delay of nearly two months, the Landsting finally rejected the bilL Here, however, the matter was not allowed to rest...
...Gertrude Weil Klein ridiculed arguments made by opponents of the amendment that it will destroy the sanctity of the home and undermine parental authority...
...Emphasizing the need for a state labor relations law, he said: "In one shop we find one set of workers producing garments for a department store in.New York City and another group of workers doing the same job for garments allocated for a department store in New Jersey...
...Next, there must be a clear-cut system of federal subsidies...
...Recognizing that the Governor was on record in support of the amendment, Waldman indirectly gave expression to the widespread view that the Governor was softpedaling his support because of political reasons, by urging him to assume the leadership in obtaining favorable action on the amendment, which he said "should long since have been ratified by this State...
...The dinner is scheduled to be held on Saturday, March 14, at 6:30 p. m., at the S. and Z. Restaurant, 13 Church St., Paterson...
...wrote: "The outstanding feature of the election was a marked trend against fascism...
...The third section carries the argument made by James Oneal in favor of the Graham motion...
...There are 40,000 unemployed miners in the industry, 90 per cent of which is centered in Pennsylvania, and to find work for them is the chie$ objective of the union...
...The in•wtor is V. S. Vichman, who works e the Moscow Institute of Ma*¦» Tools and Instruments...
...Specifically, this week's plebiscite was on the question of modification of the present regime in the direction of parliamentarism, but the overwhelming majority east in favor of democracy will undoubted• ly force developments much further to the left than at first appeared probable...
...came in for a scathing attack by the Housing...
...taking it all in all., contributed just as much to his downfall as Wellington...
...A situation has now developed which, if unchecked, is bound to assume aggravated form...
...She added that since 24 states had already ratified the amendment, 12 more state ratifications are necessary and New York should not remain among those whose approval is still lacking...
...While cognizant of the decline of the industry in the past ten years, due to competition from other fuels, the union takes the position that more efficient management and coordination of marketing would improve the situation very materially while making it possible for the many thousands of unemployed miners to make a living...
...conference was a most imone...
...As the result of a resoiaSiSS jnanimously adopted by the «.u«tj -nee, a telegram was dispatched S9 the Chairman of the Tu 'IrlalT Committee of the Senate describing the action of the Assembly '7#> iiciary Committee as "a legislative "rime" and demanding a public Tearing in time for action during the present session of the legif lature...
...The nen were paid on an average of H3.20 par 100 blocks per operation five years ago...
...The vote shows again how strong the reaction against fascism is everywhere...
...As the delegation was leaving the state capitol, they learned of the action of the Assembly Judiciary Committee in refusing to report out the resolution for the adoption of the child labor amendment...
...Rent levels and management must also be controlled by the ' housing agency...
...iJ*** American Federation of i^** Mr...
...To accomplish these objects, we believe an "independent federal housing authority should be set up by this Congress...
...The cost of the interest grants and the extension of unemployed benefits mentioned above, together with a proposed subsidy to local authorities in distressed districts, altogether about 50 mill, kroner, is to be met by levying an extra twoyear tax on high incomes and properties...
...The result of the general election in October gave the Government a mandate for continuing the experiment, and a bill extending it for a further period of two years was introduced...
...The statement of the committee, named by the Federation's Executive Council at the last quarterly meeting in Miami, bitterly assailed the administration proposal declaring that it will benefit only money lenders and contractors who have shown that they cannot provide housing for low-income families...
...The law requires a minimum number of working days during a period of three years, and as nearly 5,000 insured members, through no fault ef their own, have been unable to make this minimum, they have automatically ceased to receive unemployment benefit under the insurance scheme...
...Discussing legislation enabling municipalities to raise the capital for local power plants without having to pledge their credit, he referred to the fact that the courts voided a power plant referendum in New York City last fall because the proposed law provided that the plant shall be selfsustaining and did not pledge the credit of the city as security for obligations to be incurred by the Power Authority...
...Coming immediately after-the defeats suffered by reactionaries and fascists in Spain, the Esthonian plebiscite confirms the rising tide of democracy against fascism and the growing feeling everywhere that only through orderly democratic government can humanity find a solution to the problems confronting it...
...She is 80 years old and her only crime is that she has remained true to her Social Democratic principles...
...Board of ? Amalgamated Clothing Work5 of America...
...ft have come here," said ffiktaan, "to urge you to use your gaff as Chief Executive of the Safr to promote three measures rfjawiediate and vital concern to ir people of the entire State and ¦jocularly to labor...
...Cabling from Tokyo on Feb...
...The bill passed...
...Instead of 6S6 sheet and tin and jobbing mills in the country, it would only be necessary to have 12 mills with this machinery...
...The room in Wm they sat had witnessed at jSmut times the signing of bills gjafcal to the interests of labor isi at other times was the scene g which legislative victories were isftotrrr1 when the pressure of laStvi enlightened opinion wrung jfcsj from the old parties...
...The military and mS'SSHii'inli no longer evoke enekeasam in the public, which feels Shot they do not meet popular wishes...
Vol. 19 • February 1936 • No. 9
