Yes, There Are No Slums in New York
Yes, There Are No Slums in New York The Tammany administration it said to be considering- the adoption of a municipal song, entitled, "Yes. We Have No Slums." The real estate interests...
...He bid's me return his warmest thanks for your invitation, a high honor which he would be happy to accept if the condition of his health did not make it impossible at this time...
...that only one ten-thousandth of the population ia living under congested conditions, that rents are remarkably low in comparison to income, and that few insanitary conditions of a serious nature were discovered...
...A statement iatuad by the Union describing the casea maintains that "none of thaae men should be deported," regarding "their original convictions during the war for mere beliefs and expressions of opinion as contrary to American,tradition and sound public policy...
...Tha Dogs af War Through all tne furor of the fray can be heard the savage snsrlings •f the Christian "dogs of war" asthey fiercely glare about them, and with jealous fury threaten to fly at one another's throats to settle the question of supremacy and the spoil and plunder of conquest...
...Most of the men were, released' from Leavenworth prison through orders of executive clemency by both President Harding and President Coelidge...
...I None of the 17 men were convicted for an act of violence against person or property, according to tha Civil Liberties Union...
...It is also designed as a rebuke to the newspapers that have been hoetile to Mr...
...The Minister of the...
...The report is one of the most amusing and at the same time insolent whitewashes made in recent municipal history...
...Cleveland Unions Are In Organization Drive Cleveland—Tha trade unions ef Cleveland are making a drive for mere thorough organisation of the industries of ' the city through the Promotional League, specially created to carry on this work...
...It gives a full list of the national Trade Unions affiliated to the I. F. T. T.I., and of the national Trade Union centres, with a list of their affiliations, of the organizations affiliated to the international trade- secretariats, and a mass of membership and financial tables...
...They reported that New York has no slums...
...Socialist Bank Open Writing from Vienna on February 26, Bertha H. Mailiy of the Rand School reports that for ten days all but one of the banks in thst city had been almost completely tied up by a strike of bank clerks...
...James I. Southard, the third member, attended the anniversary...
...International Issues Statistical Year Book Amsterdam, March 10...
...Tha Vienna administration hat gent into productive business on s large seals and thereby pat the city trances on a solid foundation withagt gelling the people into slavery to jtr"tetin or foreign money lenders...
...The strike of the clerks ia reported to have ended in u compromise...
...An appeal te Secretary of Labor Davis to set aside the deportation orders against 17 alien ex-political prisoners will be made this week, following a decision of tha Supreme Court last week sustaining the Secretary's right to deport them...
...The output of these two enterprises Is utilised largely in the municipal electric works...
...This gradual socialization of rnvate or state enterprises in Vienna means a great deal for the sowhiation 0 f a l l Austria, because •a Austrian territory bas been cut •7 the Versailles treaty to such.a •en size that the policies of Vien8 4 Practically enforce themselves JPen the whole nation and the na•ysl government Injured OTTO BRANSTETTER BRANSTETTER SUFFERS INJURIES FROM FALL Chicago, March 14.—Otto Branstettor, former national secrets ry oi the Socialist Party, is In a local hospital as a result of serious injuries ha suffered last week when he slipped on an icy street Branstetter want to a hospital immediately where it wat found, by x-ray, that ha had suffered a broken leg which had brought en unusually serious complications Branstetter is now in a platter east from head to foot and there is no likelihood of his being able to walk for a few months...
...Having made the amazing discovery that there are no alums, the Committee reports to the people who have e choice of either slum hovels or inadequate high priced places that maybe everything isn't all right, after all, and nays gome rents are too high...
...Tha municipality alto Its s power contract with a private firm, tha Upper Austrian Water Fewer Ce...
...The picture, lurid es a chamber ef horrors, becomes complete in its gruesome ghattliness when robed ministers of Christ solemnly declare that it ia all for the glory of God and tha advancement ef Chriatlan civilization—Eugene V. Debs...
...In a letter to the State Housing Commission on December 5, 1923...
...Tha headwaters at Klenberg are alto being used for the production of additional 5,000 serge power...
...la addition to these public enterprises, the eity of Vienna also owns »s own building department, a farm w the production of high grades of trot, a market for ell kinds of seeds, and a publishing business...
...Heslth Commissioner Monaghan gave tha remits of surveys made by his department indicating that while overcrowding was waning and vacancies existed in high-priced apartments the number of families still in one ana two-family apartments at that time was "afpalling...
...Employ Water Power llw shortage of fuel induced the Socialist administration of Vienna, under the leadership of Dr...
...They are perfectly satisfled, and they don't see why the state housing commission should contribute to the Bolshevik idea that there is something wrong...
...It will be road with glee by inhabitants of Williamsburg, San Juan Hill, tha elder streets of the East Side and Harlem rabbit warrens...
...Labor International Suggested as Nobel Peace Prize Winner The International Federation of Trade Unions, with headquarters at Amsterdam, has been recommended from various quarters as the organization most worthy of receiving the Nobel Peace Prize this year...
...At the annual demonstration to celebrate the martyrs of the Commune at "The Wall," in tha Pore Lachaisa Cemetery, where Hosier's ashes now remain, he made, in 1887, eo eloquent a speech that, though but Seventeen years old, he at onca became one of tha leading French Socialist speakers...
...Hylan and that at the game time have been unable to Ignore the horrible housing conditions la many sections of the eity, that the Hylan administration had done nothing to remedy...
...Branstetter a few months ago completed an extensive speaking tour which'he made with Eugene V. Debs and the hard work aapped a great deal of hie energy...
...The only exception was the Socialist workers' bank, which had of course promptly conceded the clerks' demands...
...The warks have been moulded over into btngel factories, producing also tar gad coke, and incidentally distilling Ike bentol factory began production in 1920...
...The resolution states thst evidence before the house invettigating committee shows that the state is losing more than $70,000.through the contract...
...Whatever waa prodsced in the way of by-products, fag incidental to the distillation of ft...
...I Ifajerctlk in The Vorwaerta...
...In reading your letter and recalling the event that inspired your invitation my brother was deeply touched aa he thought of tha majority of the charter members, then in the flush of youth and vigor and now passed on to the silent majority thst sooner or later all must join in the march of the race to the unknown land...
...Practically all the orders have been contested in tha courts...
...He wan only thirteen years old when he lost both hie parents arm had to earn his own living...
...Yes, There Are No Slums in New York The Tammany administration it said to be considering- the adoption of a municipal song, entitled, "Yes...
...There are now "only three charter members living, and of these, Eugene V. Debs and William C. Davis were unable to attend because of illness...
...Something had to be done, and so a committee was appointed consisting of Tenement House Commissioner Frank Mann, Health Commissioner Frank J. Monaghan, and Bird S. Coler, Commissioner of Public Welfare, all good Tsmmany men, to whitewash the landlords...
...Arthur Rozier, French Socialist Deputy, Is Dead Paris.—Arthur Rosier, veteran French Socialist and member of the Parit Municipal Council and the French Parliament, has just died et the ege of fifty-four...
...Thlt program is one of the largest undertakings that has ever been attempted by the workers of Cleveland...
...PRISON CONTRACTORS WOULD CORRUPT STATE Oklahoma City.—The Reliance Manufacturing Company, prison labor contractors in this state, are charged by four legislators with contributing money to primary campaigns to debauch public officials...
...As for the publicity given to housing conditions by the press—well, they are "hirelings of the interests" and that's thst...
...This committee reported the other day that a great injustice had bean dona New York City by the publication in the newspapers of "irresponsible statements" concerning the housing situation...
...This pleasant whitewash of the city is probably for the benefit of the real estate interests that have been friendly to the Hylan and Hearst combination that has run the city for over six yean...
...At that time, Commissioner Mann said that there wat a mora serious housing condition in moderate priced apartments in Manhattan in 1923 than in 1920...
...Secretary Davis is urged to permit, the 17 men to remain in this country on probation, since that is the only means left to prevent the execution of tha deportation orders...
...The total result of this arrangement is that whereas in 1914 the city's electric works derived more than ninety-seven per cent of its fuel from foreign imports, in 1926 •nly fifteen per cent of the fuel will "present foreign imports...
...At this meeting, the society ia to 1 elect nine members to constitute tha 1 Board of Directors for the coming 1 yesr...
...16, B. of h. V. and E., has been received by my brother, who has been ill for some time...
...Eugene V. Debs is confined to his bed, but sent the following letter to the members through his brother, Theodore Debs: "Your letter addressed to the throe living charter members of Vigo Lodge No...
...The Mayor's committee...
...It Is earnestly hoped that there will be a full attendance...
...It exports billions ef Austrian crowns' worth of bengal to foreign countries...
...He (obtained employment hi the book trade, and when sixteen years old he was already organising a society of young Socialists...
...Besides other points agreed upon, the employes have contented to work two and a half hours longer weekly, . making forty-three and...
...a half hours, beginning in the Fall, while the banks have agreed to raise wages five per cent...
...The lesgue is holding special meetings all over the city for the purpose of reaching the organized as well and impressing them with the fact that better human conditions depend upon them snd thst, after having combined for their individual good, tha next ttep is to ensure proper conditions through the purchasing -power of the organised workers and those that are dependent upon them...
...The coke process used glace 1921 ie a new tea, The coke Is sold mainly to the Alpine Montangesellschsft, the greatest Austrian mining enterprise...
...If proper support is given to the drive, the Cleveland trade union movement will stand out is the best organized in the country...
...As a result th* committee found that there was practically no illegal overcrowding In any of the 4,429 apartments investigated...
...Among the new feature* of this volume are tables giving the income, expenditure and assets of the national federations and of the unions affiliated to them...
...Breitssr, to run the electric works at much as possible with water power...
...Mould Industry Over Today gaa ta a by-product of (htte same municipal plants...
...Ha added vacancies were practically BOB* eiistent...
...All of the 17 aliens are members of tha I. W. W., convicted durmg the war "for mere belief and expressions of opinion" and are "residents of many years' standing in the United States, without friends, relatives, or connections elsewhere,",, according to the Civil Liberties Union...
...Paul Brousse, and s i a practical and successful organiser in bringing into existence several prosperous Socialist enterprises, he won the gratitude of hundreds of workers he thus emancipated from capitalist control...
...Reports will be submitted cover' ing the work and plans of the Rand School, tha Rand Book Store and Camp Tamiment, A number of nominations for membership in the society will be taken up for action...
...Their city tells them go...
...Will Run Railroad The municipality is now negotiating with the State Government for the electric railways of the city of Vienna with a view of adding them te the city enterprises and improving them...
...Aa a result of tha shortage people wore living in houses that would ordinarily ja>TO become obsolete, ho told the commission...
...Rozier was often over In England, in close touch with Hyndmtn, Herbert Burrows, and others discussing matters like the Dreyfus affair and the danger it entailed of war between France and England...
...This department it not an exclusively municipal one...
...For thirtyseven years, since the age of seventeen, he had been one of the ablest of the speakers in the French Socialist Party...
...The tar ia distilled in a separate plant since 1922...
...DAVIS IS URGED TO FREE ALIENS Secretary Asked to Halt Deportation of Former Politicals...
...Oae ef tha municipal enterprises rjjujer Socialist controfcis repretentg| by the Vienna gas works...
...Interior, the Minister of Labor, the Minister of Hygiene, the President of the Paris Municipal Council, a large number of Members of Parliament, tome senators, and any number of delegates from branches ef the Party, from the trade unions and progressive societies attended...
...GENE DEBS' OLD RAILROAD LODGE Terre Haute, Ind.—One charter member of Vigo Lodge No...
...It is run by the private Tee rag company, hut tha eity owns forty per tast of its stock...
...r'Aa M Orders for the deportation of the 17 men were issued by the Secretary of Labor in 1921 under the new amendment to the Immigration Act, under which violation of war-time t laws by aliens is a deportable offense...
...It is easier to whitewash than to remove unbearable conditions...
...The appeal is being made by organisations which wore active in the campaign for amneety for political prisoners, working through the Washington office of the American Civil Lib/rtiee Union...
...The present directors of the society are Louis D. Berger, George N. Cohen, Meyer Gillis, Alexander Kahn, Henry R. Linviile, I. M. Sacjin, Max Sherover, Leo Turbow, and Adolph Warshow...
...which made its report March 4 surveyed nine blocks of tenement houses, seven in Manhattan, and two l"g Brooklyn...
...The real estate interests don't like the wide publicity that is being given to the fact that housing conditions in New York are terrible...
...the exceptions were Germany, Hungary, and Poland...
...They were convicted under the Espionage Act In- three casea brought by the Federal Government against I. W. W. members and officials in Chicago, Wichita and Sacramento...
...As member of the Paris Municipal Council, of the French Parliament, delegate to, and assistant organizer of, the Second International, aa one of the most active lieutenants of Dr...
...V1ENNA S0CIALIST POLICY IS MODEL FOR ALL EUROPE Productive Enterprises Save Workers From ExI ploitation of Business Interests...
...The statistics relate for the isost P a r t t 0 1 9 2 2 - b u t the financial data belong mainly to I...
...It is further stated that in the 1922 primary campaign the company fraudulently contributed $10,000 for the:''corrupt purpose of unjustly influencing state officers in its favor in tile management ef its business in the said state prison...
...Vienna Bank Strike Ends in Compromise...
...It ia pointed oat that Tenement Hons* Commissioner Mean testified OB October 16, 1923, before tha Stat* Housing Commission that if his department prosecuted every owner of a converted bouse on which violations existed, between 28,000 and 30,000 would ha homeless and would he camping in tha parks and streets...
...Hit Comrades in the city were shocked to learn of the mishap and we are hoping he will soon be able to take up his work with all hit usual vigor...
...The lawmakers have presented a resolution to the state legislature calling for the abrogation of the company's contract at the state penitentiary...
...Ia order to get away from the necessity ef importing most of the Austrian fuel from abroad, the* city ef Vienna has token over the Zillisgdorfer brown coal works and the coal deposits in the Ybbstal region...
...a '< The survivors of tenement fires will be especially happy to hear that they do not live in slums...
...The report admits that there are "cheaper" apartments — meaning the unspeakably vile kennels and hovels, in many working class sections— but it naively believes that "many mechanics and laborers prefer to live" in them...
...The second statistical Year Book of the International Federation of Trade Unions, which has just been published in English, French and German, is a very useful volume...
...The city began in 1921 to use the tails of the Ybbe river, near Opponitz, for the production of about 12,000 horse power...
...The figures showed, Ira said, 37 per cast vacancies, or four for every 1,000 apartments, aa compared to 5 61 pay cent va eaactee la 1916...
...Hosier wa* bom in 1H70...
...The report of the Committee surprised many who bad been fob) lowing the housing situation with interest for the last five yean...
...SI I • M lerlin.—Tht constructive policy ^ the Socialist administration of Vienna, Austria, is a model, for all faropean municipalities, writes Dr...
...i • i An Interesting ohaptr-r summarizes the position of the Trade Union movement in the several countries,' showing almost without exception a fall in membership during 192S...
...AMERICAN SOCIALIST SOCIETY IS TO MEET THIS FRIDAY NIGHT t *j • i j a -r The annual meeting of the American Socialist Society will be held in the Peoples' House, 7 East 15 street, Friday evening, March 14...
...16, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engineers, was present at the forty-ninth anniversary celebration1 of the founding of the local held in Pythian Temple recently...
...President Mlllerand remembered his old friendship for Rosier dating from tha time they were comrades in the Socialist Barty, and sent a message to the family.* M. Painleve, who Was Prime Minister for a while during the wsr, and is leader of the Radical-Socialist Party, sent a letter, read at tha funeral...
...Up to j|19, these gas plants were mainly •as distilleries...
Vol. 1 • March 1924 • No. 9
