PARADE IS HELD FOR PASSAIC STRIKERS
Lowell, Esther
PARADE IS HELD FOR PASSAIC STRIKERS Huge Demonatration for Workers' Peace Terms By Esther Lowell Mtwifr siM 1)11 people Of Passaic have spoken! I —^We want a' just^ and spssdy termination...
...Fathers held tightly the hands of their small sons, Who still waved their -Hags and sang fragments " of Strike songs...
...Louis...
...When one of the priests ridiculed the ForstmannHuffmann company union, the crowd laughed loudly and applauded...
...at International Ladies Garment Worker's Union headquarters, * West If th street...
...WHkT EATS...
...Whoever has seen that glittering diamond set in a rim of greenest, shadiest banks, knows Its unexcelled beauty...
...for a period of expansion ' and raising...
...Priests for Strikers One by one the priests of the different parishes spoke—each in a different language...
...In addition Mo "the private employes, those engaged In the public service are also exceedingly discontented...
...Vanscek spoke in English "to the scabs, if there are any here...
...References to the cold reception given the Citizens Committee in Washington by New Jersey senators were booed...
...the) Isst of six killed in a tunnel eavoin, have been taken from the es>' cavation where they had been at work, Washington.—Mst*h •Sal mine, deaths total 1«9, according) to tkje .Department of Labor, New York.—A tableman, Will MeInerney, was killed while pressing the subway tracks...
...Police—for the first time since the strike started, without their clubs—controlled Impatient Sunday autoiata and 'gave the strikers right of way...
...The existing funds are maintained by a ltf per cent deduction from wages, and administered by "liberal" professional politicians just as they choose...
...He died almost immediately...
...ot Col...
...He will make bis subJoe*"The Negro Fsoee th* Future...
...Ths^ clearing sway of this factional controversy, leaders on -both sides have declared, would bo of the highest value to the anion, since it would turn lbs energies of the entire membership toward recruiting' new members, recovering eld ones who dropped - out through lack of falth.'and galvanising the...
...But the many row-boats and canoes have been newly painted in reds, blues, and yellows...
...This change, in leadership of tbsj largest of the, shop crafts, coming a£ the moment when railroad labor planning the application of the adjnaU ment machinery authorized by' '^if Watson-f arker rail labor, act, glvss Is the shopmen the Immediate benefit Wharton's knowledge of conditions, and of the history of negotiations affecting their status on all the transportation }iaos...
...On June 18th, Worker's Unity House will open Its rustic gates wide and wflcome all it* thousands of old friends...
...May SI...
...Celebrities will be there—each week a fresh batch—poets, painters, artists sad all sorts...
...When you're up against the...
...The registration begins June 1st...
...forth -before the Committee on...
...They have just formed their own union which will [ federate with the commercial employes...
...They come, thfeae outstanding individualists, because tb*re is something fascinating about workers who have so strong a healthful outlook on lite that they would own their own rest and...
...1 nihil has hold continuously since January 1,1*1...
...In the crowded mill district of Dundee, a detective picked a quarrel with a bystanding worker and-.called' the police patrol after ripping the Man's-cast with bis violent shaking...
...Harry F. Ward, chairman of the Civil Liberties Union, defended the organization in a public statement in which he attacked the Lusk Committee report...
...The application for the meeting was made after Eugene C. Gibneju^lIroctaE of extension activities of tfitf^oWftT Gt Education, had refused to permit Arthur Garfield Hays and- James WeMon Johnson to speak at a meeting in Morris High School schedules for May IT under the auspices of the League of Neighbors and the Union of East and West...
...Twp-Hour Psrsde For oven two hours the long procession of strikers and sympathisers trudged' through Passaic streets, up through the busineu district and over the bill, where the finer residences stand in big gardens...
...Before becoming a labor member of the ftailroad Labor Board . his homo was in St...
...whose own parade had been attacked by police a few weeks before, trotted along singing and shouting in -treble voices the strikers' songs and cries...
...A resolution was passed to try to unite the various organizations on the basis of the program of the International Federation of Trade Unions and it Is thought such a proposition will eventually win through, despite the opposition of the Communist elements...
...His body lay in the shaft for two days, crushed to death by the ?levstor...
...Cave-in of a trench killed An...
...and win their union...
...The way you can help this strike Is to stay out of the mills...
...Labor's Dividends . Brockenridge, P...
...and when hungry—OH...
...The bathing and swimming facilities have been put In prime condition...
...Young men and young, women left quietly—and" all went with eyes gleaming and faces lighted with hope renewed in their hearts...
...Instead ot Edwards and Edge," Gustav Koslc, editor of the Polish Catholic paper counselled...
...Hoots of little -children...
...James Lurobio, a messenger boy...
...He accused the board of assuming arbitrary ana unwarranted, censorship rights...
...Wharton, who Urst came Into nntinpsj prominence through his leadership ot the Harriman railroads" shop strifes, by mi, is one ot the best posted and most vigorous executives in the machinists...
...Immigration end Naturalization of the House of Representatives, the statements of Roger Baldwin, a director, recorded in^-ths Lusk Committee report of 19Z0, and the statements of Allen S. Olmstead, Jr., before the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization of the House at bearings' last March and April...
...Thousands of people who had watched the marchers added their numbers to the meeting...
...recreation resort and run it solely for...
...Quinsy, . Calr—Two sedlss...
...Samuel uhtermyer attacked the decision of the board as evading the New York School Board Bans Frati Speech Meeting — Appeal Will Be Taken to State Authorities issue, since neither Mr...
...Much labor and money has been spent to further improve equipment for the comfort and pleasure of Its ever growing stream of guests...
...Unity House Lures Many Workers n^HE Worker's Unity House ComI mittee wishes to advise its many friends who have sought reservations for Decoration Day week-end, that Memorial Day does not mark the opening data ot our season...
...With dags and banners flying and buds booming, tbo parade .marched proudly onward...
...difficulty in their organisation, which Virtually paralysed their organjzjhg activities during the past year...
...The decision of the board, he announced, would be contested to the state educational authorities...
...Fight for your unton and organize yourselves into political clubs so that you can elect men of your own group to represent you In Washington...
...And the" flapper and yonus "sheik" strikers, who had to go into'the mills instead of into high school, cheered tof Weisbord, their strike leader, who was not in the parade...
...thony Amador, a wel'hmaw, in Newark...
...Tbo inritatioe 000000 from Mayor W. Freelahd Kendrick of Philadelphia...
...of wags standards...
...of Safety Commissioner A Oram Preiskel...
...New Tork City has voted unanimously to deny •the application of the American Civil Liberties Union to hold "an old-fashioned free speech meeting" in Stuyvesant High School...
...Their comments grew to boos at the mansions of Julius Forstmann, of Forstms^nn Huffmann Mills...
...THE Board of Education of...
...Olmstead nor Mr...
...When you're down, you're- down...
...Not for workers," said one marcher to another as they passed a grand new house in construction...
...But all spoke to the same effect: that the workers must stick together and they could win...
...stumbled into sn sltvater shaft while carrying s heavy package...
...MACHINISTS GET NEW NATIONAL PRESIDENT Johnston, Ill., Resigne-Wharton, Former Rail Board Member, Succeeds Him uT^U^^^^^!!!' Cooss^of^ Th...
...Charges twere then made that the board maintained a "blacklist" of organizations accused of "un-American- spirit...
...The country, with its institutions, belong* to the poeplf whs inhabit it...
...Sharon, Pa.—Explosion of s quart of nitro-glycerine killed two oil workers near here...
...IfcscgtUsr Ossassii...
...At ni&ht...
...Trade unionism among the civil servants has been greatly stimulated by the fact that the Government tried to put the burden of a. budget deficit .of 300.000.000 million pesos, onto the shoulders of their employes...
...I —^We want a' just^ and spssdy termination of the strike* reed tbo banners carried by citlsens marching in the parade of 2«,s#* men, Women arid"children under flh-eetldn o! tbo Associated Societies and Parishes of Passaic and Vicinity, The -4T organisations in the Associated 'Societies include Greek, Russian, Polish, Slovak and Soman Catholic churches and their organisations—a powerful block of Passaic's population...
...His strength has not returned sufficiently to warranthtl taking part In lengthy conferences, day after day, in the way the head < the : organisation is compelled to da...
...the sheer Joy of living...
...Randolph has accepted...
...it also gives to the machinists a general president who was not a party to ths recent interns...
...Field sports will range from the mildest to the wildest to suit all degrees of -enjoyable endurance...
...Traffic stopped and tourists were educated to the fact that the people of Passaic—a big majority of them— want the strikers to win...
...Vanacek reiterated that he and the Clthtens Committee set up by the Associated Societies are trying to do everything possible to help the strikers win...
...There will bo lots of fun on land—on take— on road...
...and the thousands of -new ones It is bound to make In the summer ahead...
...IlT^L^ Wharton IS expected to mate srf ssi nouncement of policy when Bs takss offlce, July 1. Meanwhile, grand hjdgt headquarters Is getting ready, trader the new rail labor law...
...June 18th is the date...
...Collapse sf a waft in lath ¦each killed a foreman s>t work sn the job...
...When, you're up, you're up...
...And so the weary marchers - turned homeward to meagre suppers after such'a strenuous day...
...the invitation...
...Strikers had never.been up in this part before...
...Every mention of the union was loudly cheered...
...The office urgently requests Its friends ana members to register earty to Insure comfort and efficiency...
...music and dancing for the young of f H ages...
...We have hot touched the lake...
...w% Th*v Council has appointed Arfcbj»> O. Wharton, former president of the Railway Employes department, A<dk of and former member ot t&4 Rsq road Labor Board, to fill the rarsa, j created by Johnston's 1 nslriissssjl Wharton will assume office Jaly 4, Johnston was taken in last September and returned to his office only about a month ago...
...strikers, you're upside -down" Even the . tiniest fouryear-old could pipe: "Solidarity forever, for the union makes us strong...
...Another resolution parsed by the convention called for the formation of an independent Welfare Fund for commercial and clerical employes...
...Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they sen exercise their eoffftHutiirMl right *f smewdirff - H or Jftelr revolutionary right to dlewtswh^ yy simitlNisw fc, febrsYfifltf CUtdCAL WORKERS URGE FORMATION OfNATIONAL FEDERATION A big _ step toward forming a real national federation of labor in Chile was taken at a special convention of the Federation of Commercial and Clerical Workers, held in Santiago on March 6 and ? and reported via Amsterdam...
...Baldwin was to speak...
...A radio will .be Installed to fill a new need...
...A broken cable wire hurled several shoots Of steel on the bsck of Theodore Kendslt, a steel worker...
...Charles F. H- Johnson, of Botany Mills, and of other mill officials...
...good will of ail the members brio a determination to conquer saw ground...
...As for the rich woodland, the many shady inviting enticing nooks, these too have been enhanced by new foliage, larger, shadier, cooler and mora enticing than ever before...
...While on his knees repairing m track, Terrenes Carftyn .'was instantly killed by ¦ subway train...
...RANDOLPH WILL SPEAK AT OPENING CELEBRATION OF SESQUI EXPOSITION A. Philip Bsndotph, WsB feswa SoclaJIs], general ssgenlsgr^ of fM of tbo ft mniTlssjist' tm hssM invited to make — sssVSjSS •* the qge)i Ing of . the Sesqul-Cantenntal Exposition in Philadelphia...
...At first Ward'Rark the great parade merged into the largest mass meeting the town has seen...
...r m The capitalist system pfaccs hjleness on th« threes) and industry in the jeiL—Eugene V. Osbs...
...The momentary whirr of the wagop did not disrupt the parade, although police' massed menacingly In their old way against the crowd...
...Don't go to work tomorrow, but stay outside with these strikers...
...The library shelves are groaning with the weight of the many new books that are feeing added this year...
...William Vanacek, chairman of the CitIxenf Committee, which had come out frankly for the strikers when their mediation efforts were met with slammed doors by mill owners, presided...
...Mothers carried babies on their arms or pushed two or throe in one buggy—their own and their neighbors' babes, tumbled in together...
...Its action, U.e board said, was based upon tbo purposes x>f the JJnkm as set...
Vol. 3 • May 1926 • No. 20
