Something to Think About Armistice Day
Something to Think About Armistice Day IT was fifteen years ago, anc the world swore that it woulc never happen again. President Wilson went to "Europe as th< shining apostle of world...
...As s means of propaganda, this practice will have negative value...
...The Milk...
...None of| the big dairy plants have been touched...
...most popular men in the farm areas today...
...Defeated for both, he was elected Justice of the Peace...
...Hon art a few reports from tho NRA front...
...Furthermore, the sheriff of Outagamie county, about a week before the strike started, issued a statement saying, that the bombs thrown in the previous strike were thrown by one of his deputies in the employ of interests antagonistic to the strikers...
...The farmers are learning that if they have a title deed to their farms they don't own them...
...Socialists and unionists are supporting the strikers, as are the organized unemployed...
...There were no nominations for the office, but 88 Radburn citizens and two from Fairlawn wrote his name on the ballot, and since the only other man whose name was written in received 17 votes, Coleman is sleeted...
...When the corporal came back, he said, 'I felt something I have never felt before—and I have been in Dartmoor, too...
...God...
...Injustice Was Done To the Polish Bund The New Leader has been taken to task for inaccuracies contained In the closing paragraph of an article entitled, "Jean Longuet Notes Decline of I.L.P...
...Milwaukee has not yet felt the full force of the strike and the milk supply| is nearly normal...
...Hence no one places much faith in the Governor's charge...
...Sheriffs are swearing in deputies by the scores...
...Singler is unquestionably the| dominant personality...
...He did...
...They have supported Socialist bills which would give power to cities to set up dairies...
...All of the bombed plants are small cooperatives friendly to the strikers...
...PORT WAYNE, Ind.—The local * Compliance Board of the NRA is lying down and the Fort Wayne Federation of Labor is stepping into the breach by picketing plants of violators...
...When a German says 'Kamerad,' you know that he wants to be put out of his agony...
...to a small army of men and eventually force tho dismissal of the deputies...
...readere to report eases of violations...
...The Farmers' Holiday Association and the Farmers' Union are participating, as well as the Wisconsin Cooperative Milk Pool which staged the two previous ones...
...Then when an officer had advised the training corps not only to bear in mind what had been said, but added the hope that, "You will all try and act up to it," he called for three cheers for the speaker...
...What is the use of a wounded German, anyway T...
...You will certainly know what it feels like to drive that bayonet home, and get it out again...
...agriculture estimates that it costs |1.58 to produce 100 pounds of milk, estimating the farmer's labor at the price of 15 cents an hour...
...They laughed at this...
...Representatives of the various local unions decried the practices of the Board which devotes barely an hour a week to investigation of alleged NRA violations...
...The day after the Milk Pool entered the present strike, the state Holiday president, Arnold Gilberts, called it off...
...in our issue of November 4. Algernon Lee, who prepared copy on this article, takes responsibility and expresses regret for the error, which- did injustice to the Polish Socialist .Bund...
...I hope it will be abandoned Immediately...
...May I Urge that Yipsels as well as Party members abandon this practice...
...So people felt then...
...Roosevelt legislation has not eased the mortgage problem...
...Then the sergeant-major recalled how when a corporal said to him, pointing to some German prisoners, "Can I do these blokes in, sir...
...Laughter'' and "Cheers" Now and then "laughter" is interjected into this long speech, but when the phrase, "Bloody work had got to be done by us, and we did it," it was followed by "cheers...
...In another establishment, he said, an employe is receiving $5 a month for his services...
...THE CLENCHED FIST By Louis Waldman MY attention has been attracted by the clenched fist salute by the Yipsels when they sing the International...
...This strike comes as a result of broken promises of Governor Schmedem after the first two strikes...
...President Wilson went to "Europe as th< shining apostle of world peace and lie was hailed by the tortured millions as the Prince ol Peace...
...Estimating the milk checks is so involved that it takes a person trained in higher mathematics to understand it...
...McAlister Coleman Elected Jersey Justice McAlister Coleman of Radburn, N. J., who ran as Socialist candidate for Assembly and for Borough Councillor for Fairlnwn, Was elected, but not to the offices for which he, hud been nominated...
...They receive less than cost of production...
...They are out to smash the trust and all other middlemen...
...The four-year agony of slaughtei and destruction, the crucifixion ol humanity, had come to an end...
...We want th* fact...
...The Bund joined the Labor and Socialist International in 1930, having for several years before that been affiliated with what is called the Paris Bureau of Revolutionary Socialist Parties...
...Few farmers get that sum today...
...It is the second largest of the Socialist parties of Poland, having a membership approximately one-fourth as large as that of the Polish Socialist Party, and representing the bulk of the Jewish-speaking Socialists of that country...
...We go out to kill...
...The strikers picket.in small bands ¦o that a tremendous number of deputies will have to be sworn in...
...we tremble on the brink of a cataclysm that may well result in the destruction 'of civilization...
...When they ask for a larger milk return, they are told it is impossible without raising the price to the| consumer...
...One definite gain has been the drswing together of farmer and . city worker and in the future we may expect much cJoseP cooperation between - them...
...Many Socialist locals are being built in the farm areas...
...That they do not want, as is 'evi"denced by the fact that the Milk Pool testified against the last setall raise granted by tho department of agriculture...
...The Colonel's call was answered with three resounding cheers," it says...
...So the labor leaders sent a tele* gram to General Johnson, requetsing him to jerk some action out of the Compliance Board...
...It is very similar to the salute of the Fas* eists and not much unlike the Communist salute...
...The strike is being run from Appleton, headquarters of the Pool, by a committee of Pool and Holiday representatives...
...Get sympathy out of your head...
...Do not reiy on gossip and do not exaggerate...
...When the sergeant-major went on, "There is an unfortunate tendency with a Britisher to go for a German belly—I suppose that is to let the lager out," they laughed...
...Today we face a situation more terrible than that of 1914...
...Imitation of either the Fascist or the Communist salute does not enhance our spirit and loyalty to' the Socialist ideal...
...That is the only way...
...He had a belly like iron...
...Foreclosures continue...
...McDonald cited instances of restauranteurs who paid as little as $4 and $6 a week to workers, who forced employes to-endorse checks without seeing the faces of the checks and then paid them $10.50 in cash for two weeks work...
...Our Socialist fervor In singing the International should be in our hearts, not in our hands...
...Ton will feel that you will like to go on killing...
...No matter what the peace brought, the world felt, no matter how foolish a treaty was written, nothing could be worse than the war that had just dragged to a close.' Only—there must be no more war...
...The word "laughter" is used in brackets.after this...
...Some publishers, he said, are refusing to adjust their schedules of pay and hours to conform to NRA codes or proposed codes, apparently feeling that they are entitled to special privileges...
...The present strike was somewhat confused until a huge mass meeting of farmers last week-end in Madison...
...of Great Britain, as a "decimated" organisation...
...In that moment all War Aimi were forgotten, all the high-sounding statements of the statesmen Nothing mattered excepting onl) one thing: THE WAR WAS OVER...
...In desperation the farmers are again striking...
...Singler predicts the strike will last two or three months...
...The inactivity of the Compliance Board has allowed 20 code violet, ors, whoee actions were protested by the Federation of Labor office, to flagrantly continue their "chiselling," labor leaders charged...
...In many areas it is already quite effective...
...Tell our advertisers that you patronise them beeaase you saw their ad in The New Leader...
...Since then, while the Bund has often been sharply critical of the L. S. I., its press has condemned efforts tending to break the affiliation...
...They expect the taxpayers to rebel against paying four dollars a day...
...unit, averaged $170,000 a year during the past few years according to the income tax reports...
...The change was made by a decisive' Tote in a congress held at Lodz...
...Pool held off for ten days to see if the Holiday meant business, as they had been deserted by the Holiday in the strike of last May...
...Besides, they decided to picket the plants of the violators, just as they picket the plants of employers unfair to organised workers...
...Socialism and its organized expression has always believed in the greatest amount of freedom of action and thought...
...Exterminate the vile creatures...
...Several small creameries and cheese plants have been bombed...
...They have learned that they have a common I enemy, the capitalist system, and i most important, they have learned i that the government is in the handa of their enemies, the owners of the system...
...This strike started as part of the national strike called by the Holiday Association...
...Cheer, Boys, Cheer...
...but it's damned hard to get it out...
...In the first place, the Bund should not have been spoken of, together with the I.L.P...
...The Milwaukee Leader is gaining rapidly in circulation while the capitalist sheets lose one farm subscriber after another because of their fierce antagonism to the strike...
...We don't care how, so long as they are killed...
...Wisconsin Farm Strike Draws Workers and Farmers Together By Andrew J. Biemiller i WISCONSIN farmers are ] actively engaged in the , third farm strike in ten months, , the most widespread of the three...
...The state department of...
...We washed sympathy out of the service, years ago...
...He promised an increased price of milk and real relief for heavily mortgaged farmers...
...More laughter," it says, afterwards...
...We feel that the success of the NRA depends on the adjustment of bona fide complaints, especially in cases where workers have been discharged for complaining of the employers' violation," declared Clint McDonald, chairman of the Federation of Labor compliance committee...
...Remember that your job is to kill them...
...I felt what it was like to kill...
...Active unionists recognise the work Of ageats-provaicateur...
...he replied, "Please yourself...
...The Governor has ordered roads kept clear and has the militia ready for action...
...And so, as we pause for a moment to remember, it may not be amiss to read something from booklet printed by the British government—printed, and then suppressed, the stenographic report of an address by a Company Sergeant-Major in the Inns of Court Traning Corps, July, 1918: The sergeant-major is speaking t>n i he Spirit of the Bayonet...
...If you see a wounded German shove him out, and have no nonsense about it," went on the sergeant-major...
...And when he continued, "I saw that one had not only put the bayonet right in, but he had got the nosecap in as well," they laughed again...
...Now, in this hour of crisis, remember things like that...
...Clenched fist salutes have marked the recent curse of Fascist militarisation...
...WHITE PLAINS, N. Y.—President Charles P. Howard of the International Typographical Union told the Empire State Typographical Conference here that some newspapers which are members of the American Newspaper Publishers Association are not living up to either the letter or the spirit of the NRA...
...Kill them, every mother's son of them...
...However, the pickets are just beginning to invade the area and by next week everyone will know the strike is on...
...His membership repudiated and booed him at the mass meeting called in Madison by Walter Singler, president of the Milk Pool, in an effort to clarify the situation...
...know that the real problem lies in the enormous profits made by the dairy trust...
...They know the income of A. G. LeFebre, president of the Urldley Dairy, a National Dairy Products Co...
...It was' a good thing to show To*rmy how to kill a 'Boche' and to get that delightful feeling of putting him out with a bayonet," he said,—"to feel that he had finished off one of those dirty creatures that we call Germans...
...Naturally, the Governor blamea the strikers...
...Many Socialist speakers appear at the farmers' meetings, particularly Al Benson, Socialist state secretary, who is one of the...
...STORIES of the NRA Do yen know of any eases a/ nibbling at the NRA in a code tnduttryt Wt recently atked our...
Vol. 26 • November 1933 • No. 20
