Gift, Graft And Guarantee
Richberg, Donald G.
GIFT, GRAFT AND GUARANTEE By DONALD G. RICHBERG The New Under herewith eubmite exoerpte from eft important paper read to the delegate* to the Conference for Progreeeive Political Action in...
...Prostitution with its Economic, Psychological and Social Causes...
...Thus the story of the corrupt foundation of this proud house became public property...
...Urban Ledoux...
...As soon as the road was sold a new issue of bonds was made large enough to cover all the expenses of the Hill gang, leaving them tome 115,000,000 of stock which sqpn had a real'value...
...NOVA SCOTIA MINE CHIEF IS RELEASED Halifax.—James B. McLachlan, rugged leader of the Nova Scotia miners, has been released from the Dorchester penitentiary to which he was sentenced during the coal miners' strike lsst year in tha Nova Scotia fields...
...You know, then that yoi represent the Interests and the Idea of the rulers of society...
...The forgetful citizen will profit also by reading the story of the wreckage which the Moore Brothers end their associates made of the Rock Island system, of the Frisco lines and the Chicago and Eastern Illinois...
...Farley complained that he did not get what he was promised, whereas there''lire ample evidences that Mr...
...An appeal to the courts haa resulted in the reversal of the conviction...
...Ever time you trail a teacher whom yo suspect of radicalism, you are fight Ing the class struggle...
...It is no your fault...
...for such purposes I think Congress will try very hard to pass some kind of a bill to make us commence paying on what we owe the government Every year the fight grows more and more expensive...
...Let us turn now for a little consideration of another imperial family...
...Today it has contracts in nearly a score of prisons, and reports an annual profit of nearly $1,000,000...
...But I do no believe it...
...and, as a large percentage of the road was built at a cost of less than $10,000 a mile, it became obvious that the value of the land was sufficient to pay the cost of the road...
...This concern, said Mr...
...There will be three or four inetalimente of thle important brief kilter...
...Urbain Ledoux, well known a year or two ago as Mr...
...of the masters are the interests o slaves...
...Trade unionism ia of recent origin in Egypt, having come into being since the World War along with the development of industry aad the rapid rise in the coat of living...
...when if we sent a man there they would stick him for large amounts," Another letter: . "If we were to hurt this session it will be because we pay too much money to prevent it and you know how hard it is to get it to pay...
...A year ago the number of organised workers in Egypt was estimated st 75,000...
...Parley, that through him as receiver and with the assistance of a few friends they could manage to squeese out the bendholders of this railroad who were innocent investors residing in Holland...
...and thus they could get control of the road...
...Paul and Pacific—was in the hands of a Fedevidences Federa...
...The fight was in the open Be like them, Aaron Isaac Dotey Fight the fight of your masters, noi like a spy, but in the livery of youi masters...
...The trip was made by subway and trolley, to Yonkers, and from there on foot...
...One tabulation of the profits shows that by the year 1906 after payment f operating expenses and interest on borrowed money the insiders had collected approximately $375,000,000 of extra profits...
...days of your masters...
...and Mental Differences Between Men and Women...
...RAND SCHOOL NOTES Classeans to Start New Course...
...This course will not be given anywhere else in Greater New York thia seasea...
...Sand School gymnasium members enjoyed a delightful hike on Sunday last to Ardsley, New York...
...You do not fear the Reds as mucl as you say...
...Hill's methods for controlling public officials did not differ greatly front Mr...
...It may be interesting at this place to point out that Mr...
...The only difference between you and ua Is that you war born in the working class, and noi you give your energies to betray in| your class...
...A. A. Goldenweiser will give the last lecture in his course on "Psychoanalysis," at the Rand School...
...If I thought you believe) that, Aaron, I would start a mov to have you removed from th shools for imbecility...
...but that $15,000,000 of stock, issued for nothing, wss quite a money maker...
...CHILD-WELFARE STUDY HAS PROVEN EFFECTIVE Washington...
...Every tim yon absent yourself from school t appear before a woman's club to tel them untruths about radicals, yo do your share in the class struggli You are ia the class struggli whether you like it or not...
...On the basis of the facts secured, the commission drafted bills providing for modern standards in the laws concerning illegitimate children, mothers' pensions, adoption, the supervision of homes and institutions, the care and treatment of crippled children, child labor, school attendance, abandonment "or neglect of wife and child and the guardianship of children...
...At Ardsley the hikers stopped for several hours, lunching and playing games in which all participated...
...But why not be honest about it...
...You have a right to fight or the side of the masters if you can to...
...might investigate the dust covered reports of the Interstate Commerce Commission and note how in one year the Louisville and Nashville issued 6,578 passes to public offloials, granting them transportation for a total of over 2,000,000 miles with a value exceeding $60,000, while one of the subsidiaries in the same year issued over 16,500 passes to public officials for a total of over 6,500,000 miles with a value of nearly $166,000...
...and when the others would not pay him he sued them...
...The weather was propitious and everyone arrived home safe and sound uftcr having spent an enjoyable and profitable day...
...of the railroade and railroad bandite...
...Then we will all know where we stand...
...It will be noted fhat the idea of borrowing money did not originate with Secretary Fall...
...He might review the stories of the Pere Marquette and the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton to see how well located railroads, capable of furnishing transportation at reasonable rates were loaded and over loaded with capital obligations until they broke under the strain, their servicer disorganised, their efficiency permanently impaired and real public service made impossible in order that the insiders might increase their private fortunes...
...To be continued Egyptian Workers Seize Textile Plant Cairo, Egypt—For the first time in tike adetory of modern Egypt striking wortrhsgaien have taken possession of a factory aad tried to ran it themselves, says a report from Alexandria received hew February 26, It appears that the Filature Nationale, a big textile, plant in Alexandria, had a strike on its hand for three months previous to reaching a sort of a settlement with the man's leaders a fortnight ago...
...for what ha bought...
...If he has forgotten why public clamor demanded the abolition of free passes, he...
...Farley never got his pay...
...There are no letters available like those of Mr...
...According to hie subsequent testimony in court there came to him at that time a humble dealer in batter and eggi whose name was James J. Hill, who had previously been "working on the railroad...
...Farley claimed that he was to have received onefifth of that stock for his betrayal of his trust...
...After tea, Mr...
...Elements of Marital In compatibility, and a study of Sex Conflicts...
...He increased the obligations of thia railroad, according to the report of the Interstate Commerce Commission, by $60,000,000 without adding a dollar of investment to the property...
...Huntington to show the manner in which this control was exercised...
...As an example of successful work by a state child-welfare commission, a summary of the achievements of the North Dakota children's code commission is given...
...Marriage and Economics, and the Fundamentals of Discord...
...A fev Invitations to dinner at Helen Gouli Shepard's, a few lunches at thi Union League Club with Archil were all that waa needed to lint you up with the master class...
...The commission not only discovered needs for children's legislation, but also interested the public...
...It wai not necessary to buy you...
...It is known that real Egyptian Communists are few and far between, although three of the nine members of the Executive Committee of the Nstionsl Ifcyptjan Trade Union Federation organised in Alexandria in 1921, declare themselves to be of that faith...
...Don't misunderstand me, Aaroi Isaac...
...Huntington was not alone in his methods of dealing with public officials...
...believe not...
...We are in the claa struggle, on the side of the workeri You pretcud to represent ideas o universal application...
...Kdward H. Harriman...
...I have heard it murmured tha you are on a payroll, Aaron,—tha you have sold out your class, am your profession for a mess of pot tsge...
...McLachlan was convicted of sedition and was sentenced to two years in jail...
...Not your easy days, Aaron You have not had many-easy dayi Why be so solicitous for the ess...
...Are yo really so stupid, Aarqn Isaac...
...receiver named Parley...
...Hanley, started operations 26 years ago with a capital of $26,000...
...What you fear is tha labor may some day discover its ful power, snd you fear that then th easy days will be over for the mas ters...
...In order that tha forgetful citisen may not imagine that the building of railroad fortunes through corruption wis practiced west of the Mississippi River, or in the earlier days of railroad development, he might be reminded of tha comparatively recent collapse of the New York, New Haven and Hartford...
...You were born in it, a were all of us...
...CONVICTS ARE LASHED Memphis, Tenn.—Convicts in the state penitentiary at Nashville are lashed, according to David Hanley, of* the legislative committee, state federation of labor, in his address before the trades labor council The unionist said that this brutality goes hand in hand with convict labor, which is exploited in Nashville by the Alliance Textile Manufacturing Company...
...Nearing o n England...
...Why pretend there is no cles struggle when yogr every act is i demonstration of the class Strug gle...
...Louie in February...
...More Lettere Another letter: "I think I have written you before about Senator Conover...
...The land grant gave the railroad 6,400 acres of land for every mile of road...
...A deal was made...
...The Chicago and Alton The forgetful citizen might also recall the history of the Chicago and Alton, for a time one of the beat railroads in the middle West which fell into the efficient control Of another railroad genius, . the founder of one of the later aristocracies, Mr...
...He might re-read the shameful, record of how Jay Gould and Daniel Drew looted the Erie and plundered innocent investors who thought that when thieves made money they became honest men...
...Hill throughout the states that have paid tribute to his railroads and in the Congress of the United States is well known...
...They wen the Lord's anointed, and those opposed to them were the children ,ol darkness...
...Why pretend that the interest...
...Hill proposed, according to Mr...
...Commenting on the release of McLachlan, the Halifax Citir.cn says: "We congratulate the Government upon a decision which indicates that there is at least a little larger element of freedom i in this country even thsn in the United States* TO MR DOTEY By PAUL DAVIDSON Aaron Isaac Dotey thinks tha Socialists are evil because "the carry on the class struggle," W do, Aaron, and so do you...
...You know as well a I do, that the ideas you represent ar the ideas of the masters of society I should not like to think you ar aa atupid, Aaron Isaac, as is Ml Marvin, who thinks that the presen investigstion in Washington is I Red plot...
...This agreement did not auit the strikers, so they repudiated it last Friday aad took control of the factory...
...Your ancestors, Aaroi Isaac, were better fighters than yon When they hanged a Quaker ii Massachusetts they did not pretent that there was no struggle betweei them and the Quakers...
...In another letter regarding a Senator from Nevada he wrote: "I have paid him the 125,000 as he told me he needed it very much.'' Another letter: ""Matters do not look well in Washington, but I think we shall not be hurt much although the boys are very hungry and it will cost considerably to be saved...
...August Claessens is beginning a six-lecture course on "Sex and Society...
...On Wednesday evening, March 19, at 8:40 p. m., Prof...
...The strike was called in sympathy with the steel strikers fight against "Beaco," the steel trust's popular name...
...He refers in another letter to his competition with Jay* Gould, the founder of another railroad dynasty, in the following language: Competition^ in Bribery "Jay Gould went to Washington about two weeks since and I know saw Mitchell, Senator from Oregon, since .which time money had been used very freely in Washington and some parties have been hard at work at the T. ft P. & N. P. that never work except for ready cash, and Senator Mitchell is not for us as he was, although he says he is, but I know he la not...
...In the year 1876 a government endowed railroad—the St...
...Paul and Pacific is to be believed it might appear that Mr...
...Scott Nearing will discuss the question "Has There Been a Revolution in England...
...The Home, Present and Future, and Emancipation of the Household Drudge...
...The time and place of the next hike will be announced in due time...
...The political control exercised by Mr...
...Goldenwciser's Last Lecture...
...You know —who in theae days does not?—tha wars are fought in the interests o capital...
...On Thursday evening, March 20, Mr...
...The course will include a discussion of "Women and Modern Industry...
...You know it was oil am coal that caused the War, and no the wickedness of any individua man...
...Magnificent Loot Mr...
...He might be asked to read the government reports showing how the capitalisation of that, railroad waa increased over 240 per cent in 7 years while the property was neglected and horrible wrecks occurred with such outrageous frequency that eventually the public was aroused and the whole rotten mess waa exposed with a smash of many fine reputations and a loss to Investors of two to three hundred million dollars...
...Huntington paid...
...GIFT, GRAFT AND GUARANTEE By DONALD G. RICHBERG The New Under herewith eubmite exoerpte from eft important paper read to the delegate* to the Conference for Progreeeive Political Action in St...
...Toe Dutch bondholders were persuaded by the corrupt receiver to accept a small portion of cash for their large amount of defaulted bonds which they held...
...Furthermore, the reorganised road was prosperous from the start...
...Huntington's —except that Mr...
...But when tha factory bosses appealed to the Government the nest day aad a detachemeat of troops, in charge of the Under Secretary of State, arrived on the scene, tha men's leaders yielded to such ferceable persuasion and got tha strikers to Have the stmt, The example of these "direct actwnists" was followed by trie workers of the Compagnie d>a Toiles Egyptiennes, another big textile plant la Alexandria, who took possession of the factory snd barricaded themselves inside...
...A child-welfare commission to study all laws concerning children, is essential for any state that would bring this legislation to twentieth-century standards, according to the United States children's bureau...
...in his Current Events Class st the Rand School, 7 East 16 street, Ssturday, March 15, at 1:80 p. m. Tha regular aession of the Saturday Afternoon Cameraderie will be held at 3:16 in the Dobs Auditorium...
...When the) burned witches in Salem, the] boasted openly that they fought or the side of the Lord...
...The road was sold...
...Prof...
...Gould has large amounts of cash and he pays it without stint to carry his points...
...The Cairo newspapers attribute the incidents in Alexandria to Communist propaganda...
...But if the story of the aggrieved receiver of the St...
...Zero, when he championed the cause of the unemployed by a public auction of unenipreryod'men nrst in the Boston Common, and later in other cities, will apeak on "The Needed devolution...
...I do not believe it...
...The registration fee for all six lectures is $1.00...
...He may want to borrow tome money, but we are go short this Summer I' do not see how we can let him have any in California...
...Another tetter: "I saw Axtel, Governor of New Meiico, and he said he thought if we would send to him such a bill as we wanted to have passed into a law he could get it passed with very little or no money...
Vol. 1 • March 1924 • No. 9
