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...The President of the Chamber of Deputies of Puerto Rico...
...wWho Will Make the Peace...
...Silpol L. de Hostos...
...Please enclose postage...
...NATIONAL Algernon Lee, member of the National Executive Committee, speaks in Pittsburgh, Pa., Sunday, Feb...
...Roosevelt Visit •y HERBERT TRACEY LONDON (By Mat...
...Holland's contribution is not known, but it will certainly not be smaller than Belgium's...
...Miss Loughlin explained that the married women with children now working in British industry are volunteers...
...An unskilled worker gets one rouble per hour, or, at the rate of exchange fixed by the occupation authorities...
...Sarah Volovick, organizer of our branch and life-long active Social Democrat, will be honored on her 70th birthday at a dinner arranged by the branch, Febr...
...Denmark must contribute 225 millions, and the occupation costs which have to be raised by the Czechs, Poles...
...Education is necessary to bring about that interested awareness and cooperation of the common people in securing a lasting basis for the four freedoms...
...SephH Turbew has teen elected chair ¦ man of the Concert Committee...
...Algernon Lee Souvenir Book...
...Some employers had been reluctant either to introduce part-time workers or to make the necessary change-over in workshop arrangements...
...The territories occupied by German troops have to pay heavy occupation costs, viz...
...Mass.—A great crowd of Finnish Social Democrats and members of the cooperative movement assembled here to do honor to the memory of Adolf E. Usenius who died at the age of 70 on February' *• Well known "as editor of "Raivaajes," important Finnish daily which be had served steadily for more than 35 years, the departed leader was mourned by great numbers of people in all parts of the country The funeral oration was delivered by Oskari Tokoi...
...Two remarkable women, both of them leaders in their own spheres of work, met in London for...
...with probably a public meeting preceding it * * * Flatbush-Central Branch...
...Roosevelt was much impressed by Anne Lough-lin's statement that output is as high and in some cases higher where women are employed part-time...
...Roosevelt said that this would interest the American employers...
...His profile of Marcel Peyronton in a recent issue of The New Leader was widely consulted by American commentators...
...His latest Study, a two-volume history of Art and Freedom, has just been published...
...August Claessens speaks on "Winning the War and the Peace," Sunday, Feb...
...New York City...
...Admission is free...
...March 7, for the benefit of the Rand School...
...Friday, Feb...
...The workshop for the manufacture of clothing for the relief services of the American Red Cross, the British War Relief Society which aids allied nations, is now located in Room 505, People's House, 7 E. 15th St., New York City...
...It contains articles by William M. Feigenbaum, James Oneal, Vera Hillquit, Herman Kobbe, Judge Jacob Panken, and Dr...
...What this means for the workers appears from the wage rates fixed by the German authorities in the occupied regions...
...Such were the questions Mrs...
...Sunday, Feb...
...He is new on the faculty of Harvard...
...19, 9:30 p. m., Workmen's Circle Br...
...Club Room, 145 Delancey St., New York City...
...Mon-is C. Feinstone, Executi i Secretary of the United Hebrew Trades, as the head of a committee of leading trade unionists, addressed an appeal to all labor unions for support of the Metropolitan Opera Concert, Sunday evening...
...Reservations are $1.50 per plate and checks should be sent to Wm...
...Eleanor Roosevelt, wffe of the President of the United States...
...Women's Committee...
...15, B:30 p. m., in their Club Room...
...GAETANO SALVEMINI is a celebrated Italian historian who in the...
...28, for the S.D.F...
...Topic: "The Jew and the World Crisis...
...21, 9 p. m., The Group, 150 W. 85th St...
...It is of sril...
...Not all the women who are in war industry today will want to stay in wage-earning employment when the war is over...
...Send questions to the S.D.F...
...Topic: "Abraham Lincoln—His Life and Humor...
...That is why we ask you to stand by the School dui-ing these tryyjg times...
...are estimated at one and a half billions...
...At the reunion of the old-timers of the 6th Assembly District, New York, held last December in the Hotel Biltmore, and at which a large number of socialists gathered who were actjve in the East Side twenty-five years ago, it was decided to organize a permanent social organization to"-meet once a month...
...de Hostos that the "virtual blockade of Puerto Rico had lost for some 133,000 persons their means of livelihood...
...One sixth of this sum has to be raised by the conquered peoples of Europe...
...Mo—A five-year program of cooperative research calling for an expenditure of $10,000 a year was voted unanimously by directors of Consumers Cooperative Association at a meeting in Scottsbluff...
...17, 8:30 p. m. These fifteen members elected by the City Central Committee will nominate 7 additional members and on the next meeting, Feb...
...August Claessens, acting National Secretary, will be on tour in May...
...One of them was Mrs...
...former Mayor, Altona, Germany...
...Limited supplements for efficiency are permitted, but family allowances, allowances for working away from borne, supplements for overtime and night arid Sunday work, may not be paid...
...Senator Truman said that Puerto Rico had not been investigated before by the committee because it had considered it primarily a military' problem...
...As the ol.'est and most valued educational institution of the Labor Movement...
...ROBERT G. SPIVACK has traveled widely in Europe and has written for many newspapers ami magazines...
...20, 9 p. m., at Webster Hall, 119 E. 11th St...
...As in pit visas years, the concert will feature the ballet, orchestra and mnrntt some of the leading soloists, scenes in costame...
...Karlin Speaks at Tranent ALP Fernet William Karlin will address the Tremont A.LP...
...Roosevelt and Anne Loughlin discussed, and Mrs...
...Finnish Editor Pastes Away FITCHBURG...
...branches...
...402, 2 Bay & 31st Sts., B'klyn...
...Proceeds of this dinner to The New Leader...
...N. I. Stone...
...All welcome...
...ANDRE RAYNAL is a distinguished French journalist now in this country...
...This Standing Joint Committee coordinates the activities of more than a score of working women's organizations, including Women's Cooperative Guilds, teachers' organisations, and the women's guilds' attached to many df the national unions, as well as the women's sections of the Labor Party and the women's group on the T.U.C...
...CLAUDE McKAY is the well-known Negro writer, anther of a study of Harlem and many volumes of poetry...
...Roosevelt displayed a lively concern...
...S.D.F...
...He contributes regular articles on Big Business and the war to these pages...
...The position of women m industry after the was was another question upon which Mrs...
...They are finding it easier and more satisfactory, Anne said, to do part-time work, either in the morning or in the afternoon...
...Roosevelt's visit to Britain has proved to be one of the major events of the year, from the standpoint of Anglo-American relations...
...August Claessens speaks Friday, Feb...
...a frank and intimate talk on the problems and ambitions' of working women...
...HORACE M. KALLEN is professor of social philosophy at the Neb School for Social Research...
...22, Max Brauer...
...NEW YORK CITY A membership drive has been inaugurated by the City Central Committee...
...Bronx...
...These tours are in line with part of the program adopted at the recent National Conference...
...and 23rd St., New York City...
...Lipson, Treasurer, 4010 Saxon Ave., New York City, at once...
...Copies can be had for the asking...
...Fifth Anniversary Banquet, Saturday, Feb...
...Inst two decades has won a new international reputation as a leading anti-Fascist...
...They have received an intensive training for skilled work...
...A handsome 24-page booklet was issued at the recent banquet and celebration in honor of Algernon Lee and his 70th birthday...
...14, 2:30 p. ni., in the Stamford Jewish Center...
...Nebraska, Directors voted at the same meeting to build a plant for making alcohol from farm products, the alcohol to be used in the manufacture of synthetic rubber and for other war purposes...
...sjgned by the island's voters during the past few months, have been collected...
...Norway 1 billion...
...He said that "in Puerto Rico, a part of the nation and one of its bulwarks of defense and offense, the home front is tottering down toward complete collapse...
...at 862 E Tremont Avenue...
...August Claessens will speak on the recent S.D.F...
...Merc* 7th The Women's Committee of the Rand School announce* that the 12th annual Metropolitan Opera Concert far the benelt of the Rand School will be heM em Sunday, rvsating, March 7th...
...the other was Miss Anne Loughlin, this years' Chairman of the' British Trades Union Congress...
...12, 8:30 p. m., at the New Era Club,"274 East Broadway, New York City...
...STAMFORD, Conn...
...he said, "the Rand School richly deserves your continued support...
...Germany's war expenditure is estimated at 94 billion marks a year...
...Roosevelt's keen interest in the activities of the organized movement which Anne Loughlin represents...
...Married women with children under 14 years of age have to register for .national service, but they are not directed to work: they are invited voluntarily to respond to the call for national service if they feel able to undertake some form of war work...
...Meyer London Reefer Makers Branch...
...But she pionted out that women's war work had given them not only the title but the qualification to remain in industry on a footing of equality with men...
...S.D.F...
...Jugo-slavc, Greeks, etc...
...forum on Tuesday evening, February 16, 1943, on "America, the World War and the New Order...
...General Council...
...13, 9:45 * p. m. Algernon Lee presides and answers questions/on international, national and municipal affairs...
...Puerto Ricans Appeal For Economic Relief Special to The New Leader WASHINGTON, D. C—While United States sugar interests fight Puerto Rico's Governor Rexford Tugwell...
...Downtown Branch, J.S.V., meets Saturday, Feb...
...greater importance to extend education among the working masses, to prepare them to meet the post-war problems...
...A shorthand-typist employed in the offices of the occupation army or in the German fortification building service earns 400 roubles (40 mark) monthly, a bookkeeper 500 roubles...
...New York City...
...East Side Reunion Committee...
...A special committee will work out plans for an effii-eient membership drive to be conducted during March and April with a goal of 500 new members before May 1. * * * The newly elected City Executive Committee will meet on Wednesday, Feb...
...that colony's war problems have become pressing indeed...
...Tugwell is in Washington to urge immediate aid in solving Puerto Rico's most critical problems Feinstone Heads Rand School Concert Comm...
...In Puerto Rico the gasoline shortage has become so acute that until a new supply is received, such vital services n« gar-bag" collection r.'"l ambularci service will have to be suspended To counteract unfounded statements that Governor Tugwell has very little popular support, petitions in favor of Tugwell...
...Lexington Ave...
...Anne Loughlin, British Union Head Tells of Mrs...
...Chy Convention...
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...A kilogramm of coarse rye bread costs in these regions 14 pfennig and a kilogramme of fine rye bread 22 pfennig...
...Higher employees in the army administration 900 roubles, in private enterprises 1.200 to 1.500 roubles a month...
...ex-premier of Finland...
...The Annual City Convention of Local New York will be held on Saturday and Sunday...
...the George Washington Hotel...
...France pays under this head 6.5 billion...
...She asked Anne Loughlin what she thought the women s position would be in post-war industry...
...but the urgent demand for increased produc- i tion had driven employers to it And Mrs...
...National Conference...
...DAVID A. MUNRO is the editor of the crusading advertising newsletter, Space and Time...
...A great many of them are doing men's jobs...
...Roosevelt will have the opportunity of seeing how closely Anne Loughlin's views conform to those of other representatives of organized working women— for the annual meeting of the Standing Joint Committee of Working Women's Organizations soon follows...
...Scorgs of volunteers are busily at work daily from Monday through Thursday, from 10 a. m. to 4 p. m., and on Wednesday evenings...
...Yoar continued aid will enable this extremely valuable Institution to go on with He excellent and indispensable educational services to organised labor.'' Among the members of the Trade Union Concert Committee are David Dubinsky, Wax Za->ritsky, Jacob flotofsky, Abraham Miller, Luigi Antonini, Israel Feinberg, Julius Hochmah, Nathaniel M. Minhoff, Alex Rose, Samuel Wolchok, Gustavc Strebel and Joseph Baskin...
...I have had the advantage of hearing from Anne Loughlin herself something about the questions Mrs...
...Unemployment ;s steadily increasing...
...Branch in the Amalgamated Houses, Bronx...
...24, the City Executive Committee will tie fully organized and will elect a City Chairman and Executive Secretary and wirk will commence for the new term...
...10 pfennig, and a skilled worker 1.7 rouble (17 pfennig...
...Luis Munoz Marin, president of the Senate, cabled President Roosevelt that the majority of the islandese are for Tugwell...
...Question Box, 7 E. 15th St., New York City...
...21, in the Amalgamated Tea Room...
...Program on WEVD., Saturday evening, Feb...
...appealing to the Truman Committee—the special Senate committee investigating the defense program—stated that the island was faced with "complete economic strangulation" unless "heroic measures" were immediately adopted to restore ocean transportation with the United States...
...17, 8:30 p. m., at...
...We call upon you to help us make this year's concert even a greater success than hi previous years...
...12 billion marks a year...
...Auspices, Workmen's Circle Branch 537...
...Three representatives of the committee serve on the Women's Consultative Committee of the Ministry of Labor...
...844 Utka Ave., near Church Ave., BTdyn...
...Roosevelt asked and the points she talked over in a long conversation—the length of it was, indeed, a" measure of Mrs...
...Because of the war the School's financial situation has been difficult...
...BURTON NICHOLS comments on international affairs for various journals...
...N.Y.C: Topic: "Abraham Lincoln — His Life and Humor...
...Stephen Heft, well-known writer and lec-torer, speaks on "Fascism' in Latin America," Monday, Feb...
...Mrs...
...Anne replied that tile answer to this question neces sarily depended to a large extent upon how long the war lasted and how the struggle developed...
...This plan will be put into effect at a meeting of this group, Wednesday, Feb...
...Rand School Opera Concert...
...But it has maintained also an active interest in the activities of other ministries and government departments...
...I. Levine-Shatzkes, National Secretary of the Jewish Socialist Verband, affiliated with the S.D.F has just finished a nation-wide tour visiting Verband branches from coast to coast...
...but a great many of them will have to earn a livelihood as breadwinners of a family, and many others will wish to go* on working as so much of the responsibility of home-keeping and care of children will have passed largely out of the hands of wiwes and mothers through the development of nursery schools, canteens and other welfare arrangements of direct assistance to working women...
...April 24 and 25...
...Belgium 1 billion 3 hundred million...
...PHILADELPHIA, PO.^Tames McDevitt, President of Pennsylvania State Federation of Labor, and John Phillips, President of the Pennsylvania C.I.O., are the •speakers in addition to Dean Alfange, Algernon Lee and August Claessens at the dinner symposium to be held on Sunday, March 14, 6 p. m. Topic: "American Labor and the Threat of Political Reaction...
...Her eager sympathy, quick understanding and tireless interest in the work and welfare of the British people have been manifest in all her activities, but perhaps never so clearly displayed as in her talk with Miss Loughlin...
...Nazis Tax Europe With Huge Occupation Levies The occupied Russian territories are being subjected by the Nazis to colonial exploitation...
...13, 3 p. m., in the A.L.P...
...Co-ops Plan Synthetic Rubber Program KANSAS CITY...
...The committee was i-iformed by Mr...
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