THE PRICE YOU PAY
O'HARE, KATE R.
THE PRICE YOU PAY The Revolting Conditions That Produce Prison-Made Garments By KATE R. O'HARE T^HE Prison Labor Trust, I A and all of the flock of human vultures who share »spoils,...
...C. Ug, Secrete ry of the Metal Workers' International, and Delegate Dieamann Of Germany discussei the world political aituation in detail, with special reference to China and Morocco...
...MICHIGAN District Organizer Joseph F. Viola has organized a healthy Locat in Pontiac...
...We also held two excellent meetings in Attlehoro, and Comrade Lewis ortwtited a fine local there...
...PENNSYLVANIA T« PENNSYLVANIA READERS Information concerning the Sr...
...A resolution adopted by the meeting called for international action by the workers for peace and free trade and for general improvements in working conditions...
...Speaker, Leo Harkins...
...CONNECTICUT Mr and Mrs...
...But a few people have been made to think in new channels leading toward a clearer view of the forces ui^king for social change...
...Delegate Snleu told of the hard fight being waged by the Belgian metal workers, against their Dosses who were trying to cut wages and pointed out that the.e were no differences between the Belgian and German Socialists...
...Branch New Castle has appointed a committee composed of Comrades Crawford, Strayer and Coates to manage the organization work in that town...
...They were born with this disease of the soul inherited from their fathers...
...NEW JERSEY Lao M. Harkins, District Organizer, reports sincere and energetic activity in New Jersey...
...The idler, the parasite, and the human leech who lives by robbing others, is always undergoing a slow process of death and decay...
...The work prisoner* do in the prison workshops does net give them proper training fur oarav ing a Living outside...
...District Organizer Birch Wilson is down to business in the Scranton and near-by territory...
...grows into real manhood, and achieves genuine happiness to the extent he serves himself, his loved ones and the race...
...Most of these alleged 1. W. W. were in fsct American Federationista...
...The great Chicago rally will take place in Riverview Park, the afternoon of Sunday, August 30...
...William E. White of Local Hamden returned home a few days sgo from' England, where they have bean visiting for the ls«t year...
...Local Hamden will meet at tha home of W. E. Davis, «8 Belmont street...
...and that was a long Urns ago...
...The j congress decided to build a central : office of its own...
...Slavery never made an industrious man, nor brutal exploitation an efficient worker...
...He has taken full charge of the work of preI paring for one of the greatest meetings ever held in eastern Pennsylvania when Comrade Debs speaks I in Scranton, October 16, Every I community for many miles around I will be prepared to contribute in I every way to the success of that i great rally...
...It needs to be moulded and brought together into a fighting, militant movement The high schools, colleges, snd the University present striking contrasts...
...that only through* international solidarity could future world wars be prevented and they cheered the Chinees strikers for their efforts to free themselves from foreign and native capitalist domination...
...News items concerning PennayI; vania Socialist activities should be I sent to that address...
...Last Sunday I spoke from the bandstand on Boston Common to a hupe crowd (estimated by local papers at 2,000, snd the following eveniniy another great audience on the street corBlr near the Common...
...The writer has seen these things at first-hand, having lived among Arizona college students at one of tham...
...WEST NEW YORK—Bergenline and 14th street...
...All of the large properties are now producing at r good rate, and the State, as a whole, is rapidly growing Meay of ths miners are now Socialists of at least have vague tendencies it thst direction...
...They are going to route Alfred Baker Lewis for five days in Westmoreland County, five days in Lawrence County, three days in Fayette County, two days in Butler County and about fifteen days in Allegheny, ' Greene and Washington Counties...
...Snow is neglecting nothing necessary for the success of the contention and rally...
...I INDIANA I District Organizer Wm...
...They hsve practicslly demanded that the State Secretary assign Alfred Baker Lewis to New Castle...
...this Is a part of the price you pay whet you buy a prison-made garment LABOR JOTTINGS FROM ABROAD Workers Massacred in Chile | That the strike of the workers in the nitrate plants of the Provinces of Tarapaca and Antofagasta last June was forced by the bosses, who were looking for a pretext to atamp out the trade unions in the interest of native and foreign capitalists, and that the Chilean Government sent in troops that deliberately shelled the strikers' encampments without warning, killing men, women and children, is the gist of a statement sent to President Ales sandri h, Luis V. Cruz, Secretary General of the Executive Committee of the Chilean Federation of Labor, demanding an official investigation and the liberation, or speedy trial, of the prisoners still in jail...
...Give him that one thing, and a new Local is inevitable...
...Whitneyville, Friday evening...
...1 They also expect to have Birch Wilson for ten days, Esther Friedman for two weeks, Ross D. Brown for three weeks snd to arrsnge meetings for Comrades Smith and Henderson, Labor members of the British Parliament...
...Theiperation of three looms, the institution of which was the original ¦ause of the strike, will only he jermitted in cases where tha work>rs receive a "material wage inSOCIALIST OPPORTUNITIES IN ARIZONA Problems and Prospects for Party Work In the State Notorious for Bisbee % COLIN OILS McEWEN NORMALLY, Arizona castt, a comparatively large fete for Socialist candidates, ggftjcularly in the national Satests Previous to the War...
...Metal Workers for Peace In connection with a conference in < Wiesbaden of delegates of metal i workers' unions frcm all over Eu- i rone on the Belgiam strike situ- I atlon, there was held on July 19 » an international demonstration for the maintenance of peace among the nations and the defense of the rights of the workers...
...BAYONNE—Broadway and 23rd street...
...A word about Socialist propaganda in Arizona...
...Russian Textile Strikers Win According to a report from Moscow received by tha Russian Social Democratic Committee in Berlin, the strike of the textile workers in tho Central Russian industrial iistrict has ended with a comparative victory for the men, wages having been raised to about 90 par' cent of tha pre-war figure...
...Thus it was when the 1920 elections were held, when Comrade Debs secured a vote of only 222 This is the low mark in Arizona Socialist activities, amountinj, as it did, to only 38 per cent of the vote cast...
...But there is no organization, no directing force...
...And the I New Castle >ds I are not afflicted | with timidity...
...The National Office would be glad to have any Comrade anywhere in in unorganized locality send to this office the names and addresses of from a dozen to three dozen comrades who might be induced to attend an organization or reorganization meeting, to be held in an ineipensive hall or, preferably, in a srfvste home...
...the second is for mental expansion, which embraces all we call education and culture, and the third is the urge for love, which includes all of our emotional life from the most elemental sex j attraction to the highest religious expression...
...It demanded an outlet...
...However, j Herman, in far-away California, i sets a hot pace when it comes to taking subscriptions...
...That is the kind of activity that counts...
...Weakened by slow starvation, sapped b> confinement and bad air, bent by driven labor, broken by tha lash and the dungeon, contaminated by consumption and venereal diseases, dressed in prison shoddy, pesniless, consumed by hates and social grudges, the convict steps outside the prison gate to faca the struggle for existence...
...District Organizer Alfred Baker Litis has added another Local to Wlcredit...
...The Southwestern District Committee met in Pittsburgh on Sunday, August 9, and decided to put on a genera] organization campaign...
...I have always proposed it as psomised, but those darn legislators killed it...
...His flabby body dies long before the undertaker removes it...
...Recent developments in modern psychology are demonstrating that there are three great urges whose normal expression and gratification makes possible all human progress, and whose unnatural repression and violation causes degeneracy...
...There were i ten wage actions and eleven strikes land lock-outs during the past year...
...Speaking to an audience of miners previous to the last election, when he was holding before them j ' rosy dreams of a home exclusively 1 for old miners...
...Prisoners are not only always hungry, but they are prevented from earning their food by their labor, and they are robbed of the food for which the taxpayers pay by corrupt politicians...
...The local papers estimated the crowd at 2,000...
...Wonderful Mlfonse at the meetings...
...He, with others simiIsrly inclined, attempted to direct the Socialist sentiment, smell and groping as it wss, thst wss found there...
...Henry | has some temperature when it comes I to the American Appeal...
...He was full of his oldtime good cheer, jubilant over the work in California, eager to return there, full of fire and fight, -eady for the Chicago convention and demonstration and for the trip East...
...Ours jdojld be a period of reconstruction, of bailing Is 1916 Comrade Benson polled jn Arizona 3,174 votes, or 6 4 percent Of the total vote cast in this gtate for Presidential nominees...
...Proportionately, this was pnly slightly over four times aa much as the State had given Comrade Benson in 1916...
...He is now working ' in Saginaw, with the expectation of orgsnlzing a Local...
...NEW ENGLAND DISTRICT Comrsde Claessens, second to nont is a propagandist, writes of hil ttetnt Boston meetings: "Thsaks to the splendid work of State Secretary Fitzgerald and District drganizer Lewis, the last few dive I have had opportunity to address the largest outdoor crowds held here in years...
...Eight calls made on August 9 resulted in seven new members...
...Del,gate hanjen from Denmark urged tho German workers to cling to tha eight-hour day in spite of everything, aa otherwise it would be endangered in tha smaller countries...
...The field where the best Immediate results will ensue from Socialist propaganda is without question among the miners, of whom there are thousands...
...Unions Gain in Memel At the second congress of the Tftde Union Federation of Memel, tat former German port district BOW in possession of Lithuania wifh jj» permission of the League of Nations,' it was reported tfhat, dtapite terrible economic conditions Mo general uncertainty, the membership was materially higher than •sen the Federation was founded, Ming well over 2,000...
...Tha months of slavish labor presumed to trained him for useful, law-abiding life outside is worse than wasted for tha criminal...
...And don't forget Mr...
...Organizer Leo Harkins canvassed twenty-two former members of the Twelfth Ward in Jersey City this week to attend the branch meeting...
...last year, when Hunt was almost defeated by Dwight B. Heard, newspaper publisher and capitalist, many of them turned i from him...
...From New Castle, at the other end of the State,, two good letters have come to the National Office, ! asking for and offering cooperation Now that is what we like...
...The Federation's income was 54,724 litas (at 10 cents per lita), of which it spent 11,702 supporting strikes, 9,445 for unemployment benefits and 658 for death benefits...
...August 21, and will make plant for the town election which will be held the first Monday in October...
...The membership of the next 1 j strongest of the other six national1 (federations in Holland, the Roman...
...meeting on i Boston Common was such a remark I able success that the Boston comrades are planning other meetings on the Common to be held in the near future...
...Lunches will be served, and the best of music provided by the Philharmonic Band...
...The alleged excessea by the strikers, recounted with great detail to the newspaper men at the time of the massacre as justification for the bloody work of the troops, were of slight importance, not a nitrate plant being put out of commission and not a single soldier being killed...
...They will go in their "Henry" and will alto take along their canoe, guns, and fishing tackle...
...Chicago, III...
...Convicts are always hungry because they are chronically underfed...
...read by every judge before pronouncing the penalty of "hard labor," and by every citizen when he is tempted to »buy a prison-made garment...
...His bugle cell to the comrades throughout the State to rally for the great business of making the movement move again in the old-time fashion is a most effective address to the mem bership...
...There is another vitally important urge, but of which psychologists have said little, possibly because they have not suffered its repression, and that is the desire for freedom of action...
...Noticing that the dis-1 tinguiahed English Comrades Arthur Henderson and Rennie Smith are presently to be in this country and likely to speak in Pittsburgh, the New Castle comrades are on their toes in negotiations for one or both these English omrades...
...All the wild stories about Communists, one actually wearing a "uniform resembling a Russian costume," leading the uprising appear to have been made out of whale cloth, as it is asserted that the few real Communists in Chile are not foolish enough to think they could get away with an armed revolt and that the masses of the workers would not follow them even if they did...
...Comrade Snow reports having more encouraging success in rounding up dues-paying members than at any other time for vearB past...
...Surely the Governor must have known that such would inevitably be the fate of such a proposal, yet he would not champion instead the far more scientific plan for old-age pensions to apply to all workers...
...At that time, the mines were all pro dating The bulk of the vote came from the mining districts, but Maricopa County, almost entirely agricultural and urban, contributed 574...
...Yet the waitjme slump came to us here w u surely as it did to other disej^etiTalthoujrh it was largely due w i »h f ting working-class populat)0)1, But condition* have again cMogt4 the mines are once more prttsfft* and the necessity for SoeiaJttt otsnizatlon work is greater lits it hat been in years...
...Will this branch live, You can't kill it...
...Karl C. Jursak of I,'Mil Hamden expect to start on a ten day vacation in the Maine woods...
...But even the miners, who have considered him I their hero, are tiring of his empty promises...
...Speaker Richard Boyajian...
...mentally starved because they are shut away from all normal human relations and denied opportunities for education or culture...
...The membership on January 1, was 828,088, against 896,763 on January 1, 1924...
...Good campaign material, and that is all...
...but the spirit of 100 per centism in the business men's vigilance committees could hardly be expected to sanctify truth...
...He asks for, i deserves and must have, coopera' tion...
...The first great urge is for food, which includes all physical comforts...
...A Picture By Gorky Maxim Gorky, in his story of Russian working class life, "Mother," draws a vivid picture of the moral effects of slavish* labor and underfeeding which should be...
...For most of them, it was necebsary to leave the State...
...Local Berks Picnic Local Berks is planning a monster picnic in Black Bear Grove on Sunday, August 23...
...The real reason for the repression is no doubt the fear of organized Labor felt by the nitrate bosses, who seem to be powerful enough to use even a supposedly Liberal Executive like Alessandri for their ends...
...This new Local has already purchased a quantity of American Appeal sub cards- has sent a hurried call to the District Office for speakers -has prepared a program I of activity which includes an orjganized and systematic literature I distribution campaign, and has hr.d the foresight to select a live wire, R. C. Fisher, as its secretary...
...When a prisoner has "pulled the task" for five years making garments ha haa not acquired training that is of tha slightest use to him, for men do not make shirts, overalls, nor women • house dresses in free factories...
...Exhausted with toil they drank deeply and swiftly, and in every heart there awoke and grew an incomprehenaible, aickly irritation...
...The Committee unanimously adopted a resolution offered by Willism M. Fetgenbaum tenderLABOR JOTTINGS from ABROAD Amu...
...In opening the meeting, Provincial Councillor Witte laid stress upon the fact that In these times of great economic and political struggles it wss mere necessary than ever for thl workers to forget national boundaries and stand together for their mutual interests...
...this is always women's work...
...In the last Presidential election...
...Hudson County Meetings, Saturday Night HOBOKEN —Washington and Fifth streets...
...riajlat Party of Pennaylvsnis may he obtsined from the State 8eej retary, Darlington Hoopes, 415 I Sweden street, Norristown, Pa...
...il, 1925, and 188,642 on July 1,1 ! 1924...
...It was emphasized that combined action by the mine, metal and transport workers could nip any war in the bud and that this must be the objective of all forward-looking Labor man...
...r ven in Mancops County, agricultural and urban, there is considersbla Socialist strength...
...They will presently have Comrade Esther Friedman for one or more speeches...
...IgeJaJigt strength was inrreas jag yearly, and there was ap parent reason for anticipating farther gaina...
...August Claessens...
...his flaccid mind decays, and his soul is rotten long before the kindly earth hides his carcass away from the sight of men...
...And no decent citizen can escape the responsibility for the fact that 200,000 human beings in the United States are being starved into a state of animal ferocity, while at the same time these hungry, brutalized convicts are driven to inhuman labor as chattel slaves for the private profit of a few prisoner labor contractors and corrupt politicians...
...Then his route will run: Bay City, faint, Jackson, Battle Creek, Kaltmazoo snd Detroit...
...The only thing that Governor Hunt haa ever done for Labor," a Phoenician ssid to me some time ago, "wss to refuse to speak on a platform that had been built by scsb Isbor...
...The man who creates lives physically, mentally and spiritually...
...Camden County has formed an organization committee, has contributed f 15.00 to the Organization Maintenance Fund, and has plans and purposes for real cooperation...
...They present great opportunities for Socialist recesv strucUon work...
...The State Legislature of Missouri appropriated more per day to feed each prisoner than 1 have ever spent to feed my four growing children, now all college students, yet my children have always been well nourished and the convicts in tl.e Missouri State Penitentiary are always in a state of semi-starvation...
...This lurking malice increased, inveterate as the incurable weariness of their bodies...
...Speaker to be announced...
...NEW YORK STATE The meeting of the State Executive Committee, held at Peoples' House, last Sunday, concurred with the arrangements made by the.Nlw York City Committee and the National Office of the Party as to arrangements for holding the Regional Convention, including change of dates from September 19-20 to October 10-11...
...The day had been -wallowed up by the factory...
...This and two others in the last week...
...Labor is neither a curse nor a punishment, it is the very basic law of life...
...He says: "In the evening, when the sun is setting and the red rays languidly glimmered upon the windows of the houses, tha factory ejected its people like burned out ashes...
...The Italian comrades !are especially active and co-operaItive with Comrade Wilson...
...Out of this number, sixteen attended and two sent regrets that they were unable to attend...
...The servitude of hard toil waa over for the day...
...There srs slements of libersliam and rampant 100 per cent, ism...
...They warned the worker...
...He is rejoicing over Viola's husky new Local at Lansing CALIFORNIA Score three for Comrade Emil Herman, District Organizer for California: a new Locsl st Riverside, one at RedUnds and one st Ssn Me i nardina...
...Delegate Brownlie of England declared that tha British workers were in sympathy with their comrades In Germany and that tha workers must combine to prevent the breaking loose of a catastrophe like that of 1914...
...Governor Hunt said, "We'll get something better than the Socialists ever thought of...
...Reading merchants have contributed a large number of prizes which will be distributed...
...snd Mrs...
...It totaled 14,936,214 schillings (at 14 cents apiece), while expenditures were 10,454,795...
...La Vanguardia of Buenos Aires printed a letter from Valparaiso on July 10 in which the Chilean authorities were charged with having taken a number of groups of captured strikers from the nitrate fields in the dead of night and placed them on board two cruisers in the Bay of Iquique, which steamed out to sea where the manacled prisoners were ; dropped overboard...
...Bergenline and Gardner...
...THE PRICE YOU PAY The Revolting Conditions That Produce Prison-Made Garments By KATE R. O'HARE T^HE Prison Labor Trust, I A and all of the flock of human vultures who share »spoils, justify the wrongs buses of prison labor for private profit by declaring that the exploitation of the convict is used to train him in useful labor and establish "habits of industry...
...Tha International has already placed 600,000 francs at the disposal of the Belgian strikers...
...One thing Comrade Herman needs...
...This office will then prepare a letter of invitation urging each person in the list to attend such meeting, and we will mail these letters from this office direct to the periods named in the list...
...How much success has been achieved, he does not venture to ssy...
...Comrades and Mr...
...I Catholic , Federation, on April 1,1 was 94,173, a gain of 35 since January 1. Austrian Unions' Income Gaina In the report of the Austrian Federation of Labor for 1924 it is noted that, despite economic troubles and unemployment on a huge scale, the Federation's income last year was 65 per cent above that of 1923...
...Driven and unpaid work never did, and never will, create self-respect or respect for law or labor...
...The members purchased all the American Appeal cards on hand snd made plsns for reaching ill other former members of this branch...
...The vote for Socialist gubernatorial candidates in Arizona has seldom gone over 3,000, due Isrgely to the unmerited esteem in which the Democratic nominees have been held by working people...
...George W. P Hunt, now serving his fifth term is Governor, though loud in his praise of Labor when spesking to laborers, and profuse in offering his sympathy for them, has in practice rignally failed to bring about much Labor legislation...
...Tho Socialist movement of the whole locality is being roused to the cppoitunity thus presented...
...Senator La Follette polled 17,210 votes, or 23.2 per cent of the total Arizona vote...
...He thinks if we had our American Appeal going now every new Local would be far more easily organized and would surely add to its membership more rapidly and snap into the propaganda business j of a real live Local at once...
...Speaker, Frank Crosswaith...
...And precisely that is what every district organizer needs, deserves— and murt have if our national movement is to get upon its feet again to stride forv trd in the greatest work in the world...
...The number of killed, wounded, exiled and Imprisoned in this episode of the class • war in Chile is estimated at 3,000...
...The charge that the strikers were influenced by Peruvian propaganda against Chile is slso branded as a silly lie...
...UNION CITY—Summit and Cortland street...
...The Price of A Prison-Made Garment Our prison workshops are full of men and women aucked dry by the •vampires of tha "task" and under* feeding, and they cannot be trainee) in useful labor under such condition, nor can they acquire habits of industry...
...i ' Dutch Unions in a Come-Back j At last the decline in membership of the unions affiliated with the Netherland Federation of Trade j Unions has been halted and.a real | : increase in numbers is reported in the Dutch union papers On April' 1 the Federation had 187,839 mem-, 'hers, against 188,673 on January...
...snd in his letter is this: "We shall certainly have a new Local right off at Hemet...
...The vieioua "task" to which he has been driven by the molt brutal punishment gives him no skill with which to earn a living...
...I Prisoners Called Underfed Normal, natural labor under sane and decent conditions is not punishment, it is life, but labor under prison conditions is death to the body, decay to the mind and damnation to the soul...
...Then came the war-hysteria, the Bisbee deportations, and other I. W. W. troubles...
...Usually he is not strong enough to stand the test...
...That one thing is just a reasonable amount of cooperation...
...Clutching tenaciously at every pretext for unloading themselves of disquieting emotions, they fell upon each other for trifles with the spiteful ferocity of beasts, breaking into bloody quarrels which often led to serious injury, and even solftetimea to murder...
...Finally, the market for copper having become glutted, the hiines were closed by their owners, the workers themselves finding homes where best they could...
...Ha goes down In the struggle, drifts back into crime, and goes back to prison to be a perpetual expense to decent, law-abiding, taxpaying citizens, and a constant menace to free labor...
...Union Man, that all of...
...f The San Francisco Labor World very properly estimates the two regional conventions and demonstrations as a very great help to the State movement...
...Like a black shadow, it had accompanied them from the cradle to the grave, spurring on their lives to hideous crimes soul sickening in their aimless cruelty and barbarity...
...branch of Boston will hold an out- I injr at Weymouth Landing, Sunday, i AiiRust...
...Henry | has lost his brakes and his low-gear [ combination can't stop him...
...ILLINOIS Comrade William R. Snow has again been elected State Secretary for Illinois, Comrade Florence S. Hall having resigned...
...The Italian branches in conjunction with the English-speaking...
...It is Local Attlehoro in tot Southern part of Massachusetts...
...We should be glad to have such Comrade name the place, the date and the hour of inch meeting...
...It is an open secret among well-informed people in the capital that Hunt again at the helm of the State Democratic ticket would be an unknown quantity—but perhaps of better-understood quality...
...Comrade Herkml has been so successful in this work that he will take it up for ether branches...
...the machines had sucked aa much out of men's muscles, as much vigor, as it needed...
...State Secretsry Charles Robson is tireless in his cooperative efforts with Comrade Viola...
...Our prisons violate all these natuial urges...
...The Reading Italian Branch has arranged a meeting at Spsrtacus Hall, Chestnut street, above Fourth, which will be addressed by Vincenzo Vacirca, a former member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies, who was forced by the Fascists .to flee I from Italy...
...Speaker, Charles Kruse...
...THE SOCIALIST PARTY AT WORK NATIONAL All inquiries regarding orfaniiatioa in nnorgnniaad States, speakers Methods of organization, nation al leaflet* and books, the American Appeal, and other mailers of this kind, should bo addre.ejfcl to the Natnaal Oftce, Socialist Party, 2653 Waskiniton Blvd...
...I - j Southwestern District Items Local Westmoreland is plsnning to hold a picnic on Labor Day but has not yet announced where it is to be...
...His very latest performance is a local al South Bend which has been considered hopeless for a long time...
...The main attraction will be an address sy President James H. Maurer, of the Pennsylvania Federation of Labor on "The Real Facts of the Threatened Coal Strike...
...Comrade Debs, accompanied by his brother Theodore,' was in the National Office last Saturday, on his way home 'rom California...
...Tha day was blotted from life, not a trace waa left The accumulated exhaustion of years robbed them of their appetites, and to be able to eat they drank long and deep, goading on their feeble, jaded stomachs with burning vodka...
...crtaie, As before the war, the wi|*J of the textile workers are •Bong the lowest in Russian industry...
...The whole theory thmt Labor ie • curse end • suitable method of punishment is ¦ falsehood, a vicious attitude of mind, and an insult to* all who do useful and productive work...
...And that, pethapa, ,.- one of the most difficult things in the world to do...
...Comrade Snow is giving attention to preparation for the regional convention and demonstration to be held in Chicago August 29-30...
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