An Old Tri-Party Regime of Plunder
Social Democrats Plan Nation-Wide Housing Campaign EdppaJ Executive Commit-¦gCafefor $10,000 Fund ;«| Aid Organization of sousing Conferences in Ees gfgtiag to Baltimore last Sun Fgje...
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...sjskttions throughout the coun If St urged to respond by co •saSng with this program upor «Hat at notice from the national teSmrters...
...And it tbe beneficiaries of this blood-soaked system do not like strikes, let them consider for a time whence strikes arise...
...And when the story of the investigation is checked (If it's, an honest investigation) it will be seen that It wee Harcourt Morgan's idea—and the Tennessee political ring's idea—to pay off Berry...
...The rrfw/over theiBerry cikims, of course, has, broken the whole thing open...
...The simpliest way to fight is to attack Arthtur Morgan, the unwilling impersonation of the T. V. A. haters...
...T UNDERSTAND now that after the miners had risen against these 1 conditions of serfdom, and had compelled redress by their great and historic strike, things fa Anthracite Pie*luce underwent great improvement...
...I think back upon what It was ie Say time—the unpalnted slab houses, the joyless lives, the wears, pad faced women, old before' their time with the incessant struggle to maintain a little show of comfort and decency in these Stark surroundings, the children ill-fed and ill-clothed, the tittle boys going In to the mines to work, the hideous towns, the weight of a mute despair on everybody and everything, and I humbly give thanks tar strikes...
...i Tte deaumd for speedy action Csngress declares that while a ggjer depression Is rapidly devel gfty many Congressmen arc nstic...
...The jam In Con cm" the call declares, "creates i fceHag of uncertainty which assert action even under lawn tkt tare already been passed, particularly In the matter of slum durance and low cost housing...
...the violence begin...
...Local S.D.F...
...This he does by charging that the "green-eyed monster" has possessed Arthur Morgan...
...Lilienthal ran the power project...
...Who v always begins -It...
...Minors were secured ¦palest the impositions that had been practiced upon them, wages pare increased, and tbe black blight of poverty that In 1892 appalled and disheartened every visitor had lifted a little...
...WflLY Harcourt Morgan, who knows his Tennessee as well as his .fertilizer, took, advantage of the Intellectual rift between-Arthur Morgan and Lilienthal in order to insinuate htmseif on LUienthaft side...
...A Nation-Wide Drive tt is Ifared that the - confer enas wft do much in breaking *» t*W deadlock in Washing :« Bksvby the welfare of human Map If sacrificed...
...Violence: Whenever there is a strike and the strikers attempt ' to prevent defeat by stopping professional thugs and strike break era, from taking their pbvee, up goes an tndlgnat cry against the "violence" of the labor union...
...LHleothal's animosity tb sortie of Arthur Morgan's ideals made Lilienthal a useful tool for the •Tennessee crowd...
...Violence beget:' violence and in industry, In my SbaSmtiaa...
...Cut the red ape" ud set construction under tij, tie committee urges, as steps to Igat the depression...
...Lilienthal wanted to.knock the privets operators dead...
...Lilienthal, backed up by Hhrcourt in all differences with A**hur Morgan, found himself committed to sthc Berry compromise'before he knew it...
...S'i...
...The New York Herald, f am pleased to recall, helped to smash Mr...
...But it is' no real reflection upon Arthur Morgan that the enemies of T.V.A., such as Utah's Senator King and New Hampshire's Senator Bridges, are using this as the handle of a weapon to batter the whole business...
...time In wrangling for per ssal and partisan ends and are tsrmg action on measures to gsktt unemployment, to increase jstsutng power, and eventually ¦> «sd the need of relief...
...Between them was Harcourt Morgan-—slick pet- "i-cian who managed to get along with the corrupt banker-political gang of Tennessee so well that he was a quiet success as president of the University of Tennessee...
...Indiana to, New York and California as Locai San Francisco was "sated a eharter...
...Ohio...
...From, there on he was forced to stand by the guns or admits terrible "error.;'«, .»/'<•• r- '- . ".''- '¦-[ Thyronine was that, with' Harco&rr' aiding, cofcunufliywith Lilienthal, Arthur was Just naturally forced into I he position « of fighting them both...
...Tht >stuttering .Of*- law js> MJT ¦aialeslaafrl of professional strike breakers and the show, of mttltta ere.acts of violence, are they not...
...h&ti to ^sake a drive among jjaters and sympathizers for a t0l ol $10,000 to organize a cam 'sit...
...Jt eoatd not bring about any They ¦ Is There a TV A Scandal...
...It seems so ts see now...
...Morgan wanted the slow, sure why to public ownership...
...the waotilisting of .workers is* an act of violence, is it not...
...Who begins the violence...
...Injam'' Congress tie call demands that "Congress * Cajsmssed" and special empha ts is laid on maximum hours and sjjfanmi sages...
...If this one wrought any betterment upon Oka perdition I saw and was immersed in, it was enough to glorify every strike that ever was...
...An Old Tri-Party Regime of Plunder I Continued from Page Poor) detectives had concluded-that tie men talked to me and that was enough., Between shooting a man with a revolver and depriving him ot his means of livelihood, what difference in principle, Senator C^pflan...
...It thus becomes so confusing that Senator N'orris scarcely knows whether he's shooting at friend or foe in his efforts to obtain a friendly investigation...
...Social Democrats Plan Nation-Wide Housing Campaign EdppaJ Executive Commit-¦gCafefor $10,000 Fund ;«| Aid Organization of sousing Conferences in Ees gfgtiag to Baltimore last Sun Fgje Natior.ni Executive Cam '. qI the Social Democratic -jpjticr, Of the United Stater L-ged a call to the masses to r~.j ;peedy Congressional ac Li oa Important measures relat Cm Ubsr cad ,Re depression...
...The hell of Aathsaatta had been lightened for the-first time with a ray Of hope...
...As part of the $10,300 fund drive •t speed 19 housing, public con inneei art to be held in at least n states, which reliable and prosthetic organisations will be ianied to attend...
...He came into the Tennessee Valley set-up as part of the same clique that gave us a city with six mayors in one day (Memphis) and a group of bankers who got a newspaper publisher into the cooler f6r -daring to expose the sharp deals of bank ring ruled by the family sf our Ambassador at Large in Europe...
...lattonal Secretary Leo Meltzer "ssted substantial membership flas for the Federation, especial & a Massachusetts...
...The bank ring happened to be close to the Controller of the Currency, and if (he late Huey P.'Long hadn't turned up his toes at Baton Rouge, you'd have heard a lot abodt that...
...on the employer's side, not on the workers...
...in* the .case of the "sit down** strike, the country was told that the strikers' invaded the rlgnV-ot property...
...Tbe denial of the right to organise which uauaBy pref Isltatss^hg strtjt* la an invasion of the primal right of self-defense, a grater act of violence than any sit-downer commits and to that violence the employers resorted first It seemed so to me when t returned from the investigation of tbe anthracite regions...
...McLeod's consolidation and avert for a time the public disaster of an out-and-out coal rnonnajoiy...
...for Federal and local hous \mt szA approved the efforts of L s<»-Partisan Committee tD ob tie liberation of Fred Beal...
Vol. 21 • March 1938 • No. 11
