THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK The anthracite miner* The Strike of are out 100 per cent end The Minera it i» now a struggle to the finish. There does not seem to have been any other course for the...
...Walker, Hylan, Waterman, Lyons, and all the others are saying now what others of their type have said in every campaign for many generations...
...THE Chatter-Box Autumn Those wid* huls greatly, lean against tkt thy...
...Does he pay his respects to Mussolini because that worthy is also accepted as a representative of the Italian1 masses...
...Hylan is being deserted by the lesser brokers day by day as it becomes apparent that the big bosses have prepared the skids for him...
...Back of one is Tammany with the foulest record of any political machine in the world...
...I A BOOTLEG UNION MINE OWNERS in westers Pennsylvania have inspired the organization of a company union among non-union miners...
...Persons familiar with the hounding of Labor organizers by President Gomez's toils naturally smiled at the denials, and time has vindicated their skepticism...
...The party is planning extensive surveys while outlining a program that will serve the masses snd make life more livable for them...
...These actions mean that the German federation is out of' the party...
...Therefore, the company gladly complies...
...The death of La Follette and Ladd may cause "a change in the plan," but the Socialists will come '•slipping in Congress" as Republicans and Democrats if the doors are not guarded by the faithful...
...Trade unions, according to Barr, smother all these virtues...
...Rockefeller, Jr., paid an income-tax twelve times the total fortune possessed by Washington...
...We mske this disti»"* p omise—thst we shall see to it thst the five-cent fere is preserved snd the ten-cent, fare is established...
...The Governor is certainly aware of the character of Mussolini and what his castor oil braves represent...
...and we promise, moreover, that, if elected, all we will do is draw our salary regularly and whatever tips come our way...
...oConfirmation of newsPoliticals Freed paper reports from In Venezuela CaTacas telling of the wholesale liberation of political prisoners by President Gomez on July 23 has been received by Santiago Iglesias, Spanish Secretary of the Pan-American Federation of Labor...
...Judging from reports of their conduct, the "dactyls," as the typewriter pounders are known, are just as good fighters as their sisters who wield scissors and needles...
...Now for the puzzle., Why is this noted enemy of trade unions a bankrupt...
...No, nothing at all...
...Now that the miners are out, for the first time there is talk of stressing their nationalisation program...
...I do not tkink they svsn oars thai I "' fall quietly upon remembering knots Tkete grey-winged birds brush swiftly o. the elif, ' ^ Break into song and then are silent quite...
...4. We believe the L. and the Subway cars should have more straps, more seats, more trains, more rush hours, less passengers—in fact on this question we stand ready to promise* anything and everything...
...At any rate, it is interesting to observe an official of a chamber of commerce proceeding to write a set of by-laws for a union of miners while his wealthy cronies know nothing about this union...
...The Republican campaign is merely staging the usual joke...
...It sppears to us that had it been urged during the period of negotiations the miners would hsve hsd the strategic advantage of having presented the only suggestion for bringing order into an industry that is mismanaged, that is chaotic, snd that functions only spasmodically when it functions at all...
...thst we are as fit, mentally, temperamentally, and physically, for the job of Borough President as Hylan is equipped to be editor of this Column...
...Nor is the Lsbor psrty resting content with mere control of offices...
...It's a merry world ! o e Encouraged by the Bank Strikers support of the postal Firm In France employes, who have refused to continue collecting checks and doing what practically amounted to strike-breaking for the French banks, ths striking bank clerks are stsnding firm and the sixth week of the struggle ssw it extended to nearly every city in France...
...He is the only candidate that represents a program of service to the millions who fester in unsanitary tenements, who are jammed in the subways, forced to risk life in firetrap dwellings, clubbed or injunctioned when on strike, and forced to submit to the exaction of awarms of profiteers...
...Ruthenberg, minority gen ersi, in the fight over seats, spoke of the "deep end dangerous crisis" and "danger of e split in the party...
...It also condemns millions of workers to a precarious and uncertain existence...
...THE INCOME-TAX RETURNS e WHAT interests us in the income-tax returns is not whether this or that member of our dollar nobility has dodged some dues...
...We haven't sighed like this since fl'st she "got med st us" twenty yesrs ego...
...On to Victory, comrades...
...We would like again to see the old comrades Sm...
...Governor Smith is now engaged in a crusade to put over a Tammany candidate to represent the "people...
...Gino Baldesi, another prominent Socialist leader, backs this view and ssys thst even on.e sort of collaboration might be arranged between the regular Labor unions and the Fascista Labor organizations in the gelerai interest ofJSabor...
...Thia seems to be the reaon for the controversy now occupying much space in the Italian press regarding the advisability of the Opposition Deputies quitting the Aventine Hill and going back to the Chamber of Deputies to fight there, as best they can, for the liberties of the people...
...We will encoursge birth ineresse by offering a new baby carriage free with every baby born...
...So the "United Fronters" left Chicago, each to sharpen his dirk or meat axe and prepared to Bolshevize erring "comrades" who do not "understand Leninism...
...Among the proponents of this plan, according to Rome dispatches, is Ludovici D'Aragjns, President of the Confederation of LaLor and a Unitarian Socialist Deputy...
...Tha open shop is not an issue...
...snd Lsmplighur JsbL/ owcr waves his pocket-light st tns stsrs and bids them, too, to go to sleep...
...oWhile publicly Mussolini Angling posing at the For Labor Support erecting of memo. rial tablets at the house where he was born, voicing his praise of Julius Caesar, snd carrying on all sorts of diplomatic negotiations, including the swapping of photos with Al Smith, the Fascista dictator of Italy evidently fc-'ls the ground slipping from beneath his feet...
...Or was he just peddling hokum and knew that it was hokum all the time...
...Despite the inconvenience caused to the public, nearly everybody seems to be in sympathy with the strikers, many of whom aro young girls whose appearance in demonstrations has lent a touch of picturesquess to the battle generally associated with the strikes of the Psris midenettes...
...It is across the border where court injunctions against strikers sre unknown...
...but that there could I not be any compromise with the majority...
...Our answer is that his ! judgment is as good in one case as it ; is in the other, and that both are worthless...
...Union treasuries of the Mexican workers are not at the mercy of the employing class...
...31 the Rome Tribuna was suppressed for having editorially attacked Farinacci s extremism, which had already resulted in the expulsion from the Fascista party of Former Minister of Justice Aldo Oviglio and the splitting of the Fascio in bologna...
...o- j IMPORTANT "NEWS" j DUE to the enterprise of the New York Commercial, the interior is kept informed of what's what...
...It is unfortunate thst this comes ss sn sfter-thought...
...Bruckner, is in the soda water business, snd has consequently given the Bronx an ideal soda wete.' business administration...
...9. We believe that Bronx wives suffered entirely too much from wsndering husbands, who find Greenwich Village, the Tenderloin, snd Broadway more attractive than their open-plumbing flats...
...The one sane and intelligent note sounded is by Norman Thomas, Socialist and Labor Fusion candidate...
...THE NEW YORK CAMPAIGN IT APPEARS that the New York City campaign is to be a little more stupid than any we have faced...
...By inferenoe he was to be regarded as a type of what all the above virtues would do for a man...
...6. The present incumbent, Mr...
...The mine ownersf have no desire whatever to wipe out the anarchy of their miserable mastery of cosi, while the miners have every reason to wipe it out snd contribute something towards industrisl democracy...
...Violent • polemics broke out immediately following the publications of the interviews with Baldesi and D'AragOna, the Orthpdox Socialists dedarin that no compromise with Fascismo was possible, and the 100 per cent Fascisti, led by Roberto Farinacci, General Secretary of their organization, vowing that no good Fascista would yield anythi: A to the "subversive elements...
...The Wall Street Journal ia planning a campaign for Use overthrow of capitalism and-* But we will reserve some "news" for another occasion...
...Times Union picks up its statement of the "Socialist theory of the Government owning all property," and the Times Union adds to it a few frills of its own...
...He must know something of the New York Fascisti and their running amuck...
...With the above twelve tenets we deem our candidacy so irresistible to the electorate that nothing short of a Tammany Hall landslide can keep us out of office...
...It all looks like a I..ove...
...Such s reduction at this time can only be regsrded as a Government strike-breaking measure...
...The result is the queerest compound of nonsense and misinformation that has come to our attention for many months...
...3. We think the five cent fare e benefaction to the poor, and the ten-cent fere only right and proper for the Transit Company stockholders...
...But whatever mistakes may have been made b. the miners in this matter they need and must receive the support of the whole orgsnized worki.ig class...
...As the Finns claim 8,000 members, or one-half the membership of the party, there will not be enough "United Fronters" left to wiggle if the Finns go out...
...A number of other states sre dm>st certain- to be carried by the Labor pgrty, which also has the President of the Republic and three members of the Cabinet...
...Rather interesting, of course, but the company states that the men asked it to give "widest publicity" to this union...
...The Jacksonville (Fla...
...One is as good and as bad as the other and there will be no marked change of policy no matter which one is successful...
...And now, city by city and State by State are falling into the hands of the working class...
...The Finns will either refuse to obey the convention, or if a majority of the Finns carry it out the Finns are certain to be split...
...As rounded out by the Florida daily the situation is as follows : The Socialists would have the Government own "all property," but they are too clever to sail under their own colors...
...The Labor movement less thsn two decades old has won a legal status...
...The Commercial has an affection for trade unions and AlabcunA Democrata have outlawed the Ku Klux Klan We have prosperity under Dr Coolidge and Woodrow Wilson "kept us out of .war...
...ham on Riverside Drive, snd the I. W. W on WestSstreet...
...William H. Barr, noted for years for his anti; union and open-shop propaganda, has filed a petition in bankruptcy in a Federal court at Buffalo...
...To the extent that this program is supported In November will we have a measure of intelligent voting...
...As es?h suggestion comes in, it will be our intention to immediately issue an iron-clad promise for Its performance—if we are elected, of course...
...It is all so dull, stupid and unconvincing, so insincere that normal human beings in possession of their senses would rise in disgust against: the whole crew...
...2. We are always with the K. K. K. on eastern Long Island, with the K. of C. on Fordham road, with the Bnsi Brith Abrs...
...We promise to remedy this evil by inducing all the poets, srtists, and tired business meri of New York to remain in their Bronx neighborhoods through the establishment of a series of Da-da restaurants, Russian isti, and booklegging shops slong Tremont sal Fordhsm main streets—snd turning Bathgate avenue into s real White Way, with cabarets, speak-easies, and dope-dens galore...
...We hsve already opened up branch' offices for suggestions from our citizens ss to what improvements they believe most imperative in the Bronx...
...There are vicious attacks upon rivals...
...0After a week "United Fronters" of strenuous fightEnd Pow-WOW ing the Workers' Party Convention in Chicagd adjourned...
...As the two leading factions had to agree on reports of its sessions, esch...
...Well, it is all a mystery to the Pittsburgh Coal Company...
...Communists will please take notice how closely we stick to strict Socialist tactics, The Daily Worker will please copy...
...We promise, moreover, that every promise we make here will never be kepti that we don't mean a word that we ssy...
...Capital and Labor are brothers even it they do have an occasional family quarrel...
...At any rate, he is a failure, a failure under the rules of an economic system which he was always ready to praise and which he always assured us made room for those who would practice the virtues he expounded...
...They are the price we pay for contenting to the ownership by a class of the powers of production, distribution and exchange...
...A franc now equals about 4 H cents...
...The liberation of the prisoners, some of whom had been in jail for many years and one • f whom is reported to have died from joy when released, was made the occasion of a two-day "Labor" celebration in honor of President Gomes...
...Those who are in the know will tell you how gaseous snd artificially flavored the last four years have been...
...We promise such a public laundry, 8. We think that baby carriages cost en* tirely too much, and so the birth rete hss fallen some...
...Slowly kiss and slowly bond tkeir trass...
...6. We believe the Bronx is the fastest growing Borough above the Harlem River, and is therefore entitled to the wisest, ablest, and most intelligent administration —for which no one will deny we sre the most fitted csndidste...
...Through the Times we learn that Vincent C. Pepe, a real estate dealer, presented to the Fascist dictator a photograph of Smith, together with a letter of greeting from the Governor to Mussolini...
...At one mass meeting Pedro M. Arcays, Minister of the Interior, urged the workers not to follow the policy c workers in other countries, who are "organized to destroy civilization...
...If so, why did he fail at all...
...Now one of the "eternal truths" emphasized by Mr...
...Heigh-ho...
...With the cost of living almost six times above the pre-war figure, nobody, not even the bank directors, disputes the justice of the clerks' demands, which include recognition of the unions (there are three unions in the strike—regular, Catholic and Communist), and a wage of 27 francs a day for workers under 21 years of age, rising to a yearly salary of 8,400 francs at 21 and then progressing at the rate of 300 francs a year until 12,000 is reached, when the rate of annual increase is to fall to 200 francs...
...We are in the mechanics' tool business, and we have an office and warehouse downtown thst can adequately house the entire Borough business, without disturbing in the least the general routine of the other departments...
...But of all the public men abroad that Governor Smith chose to pay hia respecta to he picks Mussolini, the man who has nearly destroyed the trade unions of Italy, crippled cooperatives of workers, burnt their halls and public buildings, suppressed their publications, and did all this through armed and brutal mobs of his followers...
...Barr in many a patriotic address is that all that is required for success in this country is brains, initiative, freedom, and a will to win...
...Back of each of them lurks some agent of some capitalist interest or interests...
...Labor control of cities and towns is common...
...Well, it may be true, but we are also entitled to set afloat some news just as interesting...
...With only partie' political power the Mexican Labor party shows the folly of the political policy of the A. F. vt L. It adds to the universal testimony of the Labor movement of the world that supporting "friends" for office on capitalist tickets belongs to the childhood stage of Labor history...
...An incident like this presents a good portrait of the "good man" in the politics of the old parties...
...The majority faction claims to be Leninist, the minority asserts it is Leninist, Loreiets dispute the clsims of both, and a fourth faction claims that all the others do not know what "real Leninism" is...
...of whitel j _ 8. Bert Cooksley...
...but the company statement also affirms that "it is understood E. S. McCullough, industrial aid of the Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce," will be asked to "assist the men in drawing up a constitution and by-laws...
...Barr wanted, more profits, but, modest man that he is, he never stressed this phase of the matter...
...Ruthenberg, for the minority, said that if the majority had not met in secret csucus the day before "to exterminate us" he might consider the plea, but this faction intended to carry on the fight...
...They will enter the campaigns of 1926 and 1928 under the guise of Democrats and Republicans and endeavor to get seats in Congress...
...What the returns reveal are the enormous incomes that are niched out of the toil of the working masses...
...He is even implicated in the murder of Matteotti, the Socialist Deputy...
...The rhymesters have coined some of the worst doggerel that has ever been inflicted on suffering humanity and the bulk of it has been offered as a tribute to the regular Tammany candidate...
...D'Aragona is also quoted ss supporting such collaboration and the eventual creation of a Labor party, en.h cing all shades of unions...
...7. We believe that the Bronx has suffered long enough from the lack of a public laundry for the soiled wrsps of irresponsible babies...
...An interesting sspect of the strike it the charge of President Green of the A. F. of L. thst the Interstate Commerce Commission reduced the freight rates for the West Virginia fields which will sid the anti-union operators...
...His ha ] bilities as reported by him far ex; ceed his assets...
...The Maximalist Socialist» are reported about to expel Deputy Corso Bovio for having attacked t*<e inactive policy of the Aventine Opposition...
...There does not seem to have been any other course for the miners to take short of accepting the conditions of the mine owners...
...Our Platform As candidate for President of the Borough of the Bronx, we deem it only fair to our electorate that they know now or never upon what principles and pretenses we Ism our undeniable^ right to be elected almost unanimously for that office next November...
...Organized Labor is helping the clerks in every wsy, such ss raising funds and going on 24-hour sympathy strikes in several cities...
...In'fact, we are willing to be anything, do anyt'-.ing, say anything the peopls wsnt us to be, do or say, st sny snd all times, without reserve, whstso—and how« some—ever...
...by Mussolini for a compromise >dth the Labor forccn in the hope of thus prolonging hia r?gime...
...S. A. DE WITT...
...They care not what this fool would of or if He might trail with them SoVn a strate...
...We earnestly wish we could go to Camp Tsmiment snd try to horn in on a semi-set of doubles or • five-minute spin in a canoe...
...The birth of the organization was announced by the Pittsburgh Coal Company, which also stated that "no company officials were present...
...So much for e business administra, tion...
...1. We stand four-square, and upon all ends of the weather-vane, that this is the best country in the world...
...Was Barr right before he failed...
...Secretary Iglesiss opines that the Venezuelan Government is trying to apply the American company union plan on a big scale...
...By no process of logical reasoning can it be contended that these great incomes ar* earned by their owners...
...The Finns were also ordered to depose Askeli as editor of the Finnish daily organ...
...The Minister of Labor has tried to'bring the banks to tune, but in vain, even though the strike is handicapping the efforts of Finance Minister Caillaux to put over his new "gold basis" bonds...
...the pretty ones—the sgeless pretty ones, to hear the old songs sung and the new ones shimmied, to hear the crackle of logs in the fire-place at Mailly Hall while Jacques Wolfe's ensemble of Folly Fsys and Marlins "vesves a witchery of dsnce snd tune to the time of his tinkling ringers, while thst queer concoction of ?hollie Kaplan snff| George M. Cohan, Julius Goldmount (<¦ berg), Jigs and juggles everyone into gig' gles and genere...
...Here goes...
...A PUZZLE TO VARY the interest in crossword puzzles we submit one of our own...
...Bittelmsn, in a terribly long and dull report, smote the minority hip and thigh, ending it with a plea for unity...
...o Between now and Labor Day we shall he with the masses in our thoughts of pisce» J,o go to for the week-end...
...Harry Daugherty is a Christian gentleman and the Flordia Democrats never favored peonage...
...Here, in the largest city in the new world, vulgar professionals are contesting for the chief office within the gift of its inhabitants...
...It will be remembered that when the A. F. o' L. convention of 1923 passed a resolution calling for the freeing of political prisoners in Venezuela, the Minister of that country at Washington flatly denied thst there were any such, prisoners snd averred that freedom to agitate and organize politically and industrially existed in his home lend...
...I Both factions united to expel Ludwig Lore of the New Yorker Velkstsitung ss representing s "dangerous tendency...
...A Mr...
...Msny of the reforms which the A. F. of L. has been fight'ng for for a generation are laws in Mexico...
...The mobilization of troops aga'nst strikes is unknown...
...The "immediate task" was to Bolshevize Jhe party...
...A Socialist democracy alone will end this contrast between work and wealth, mastery and subjection...
...SMITH TO MUSSOLINI OVERNOR SMITH appears to It be an admirer of Mussolini...
...But even the company admits that 164 of its miners had been on strike and of these 125 decided to returp to work under the guise of this union...
...At least our business is s solid one...
...Certainly no trade unions inI terfered with his control of his business...
...An intelligent man or woman cares not two whoops in Hades which one of these professionals realizes his ambitions...
...If he does not know he is ignorant of what every intelligent reader of newspapers knows...
...In a letter to Smith Mussolini sends his "best regards...
...He is a dismal failure...
...Henry Ford's income-tax alone was more than five times what Washington had accumulated in a lifetime...
...He would not let them get a foothold...
...report in the daily organ was two dsys Iste...
...This dodging is as old as the rule of his class, and as long as capitalism survives members of this class will continue to dodge the payment of taxes...
...The contested election in the State of Mexico has been swarded to the Labor party and a Labor majority4!* expected In Za...
...George Washington was considered the richest man of his time and his wealth was established at about $500,000...
...Incidentally, of course, Mr...
...Perhaps because bootlegging has become an essential industry some of the mighty men of capital have taken up the traffic in bootleg unionism...
...Also public garage storing space for same at free rental...
...Other1 income-taxes paid are just as1 striking when making such comparisons...
...denials, charges, counter-charges, protests, and solemn promises...
...Sometimes we are unable to understand what is in the minds of the thousands of voters who can get interested in the hokum that'is being served to them...
...On Aug...
...Still, the company had nothing to do with it...
...0From across our southMexican Labor em border comes the Goes Forward news that the Mexican workers are slowly winning elections for State Governors and Legislatures through their Labor party...
...He wanted'to save union men from the "slavery" and the "tyranny" of the unions...
...Jocularity, and while over it all the calm graclot-sness of Berths hangs like a summsr hesven...
...our flag the grandest, our institutions the greatest, our Constitution the wisest, and our people— the salt of the earth...
...That ownership permits a few to gather in workless incomes...
...tecas...
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