EXECUTION NEAR VANZETTI UNAFRAID
Lowell, Esther
EXECUTION NEAR, VANZETTI UNAFRAID Framed Italian Radical Maintains His Interest in Labor at High Pitch By Esther Lowell Beaton. F)R all the walla of Charlestown Prison, Bartholotneo...
...But Vansetti knows better than to .expect the mill owner's agent to say Anything to state authoriUes^jjut "Keep (•im...
...Calvin Coolidge, by '(race of Massachusetts and devious political tricks, climbed to the presidency on the false reputation of quelling the Boston police strike...
...Brooklyn, committed suicide when he threw .himself from the roof of his home and fractured his skull...
...tair ¦< State Kellogg and Secr*tarjtfar * ComnvVrc* Hoover...
...Randolph minced no word*,' but launched into„a vigorous and scholarly address concerning th* problem* oooV fronting the Negro worker* of th* country- His speech appeared to cause no little uneasiness on the 'part of • Hoover and Kellogg...
...The jangle of keys and of doors opening and closing noisily Intrudes on the earnest murmur of those from the outside with thos* from the Inside...
...They proposed to give the 40-hour week if—the fur workers gave up"six of their ten legal holidays...
...To capital, he offers Increased am* ductive efficiency, initiative...
...The action waa taken as a result of the arrest of Sam Bruno and Joseph Klopman, .both of 131 East Houston street, Manhattan...
...Eves with the einietor shadow of Massachusetts punishment that Is creeping up on him...
...a«tek&nq,91S, VasxeUi tell*, )His THendfcrijB *jho-**till works .to i the mat, sQs me atmrage' pay is $20 :* week now...
...To society, he pledges his spirit to work, for industrial peace . with justice, and to supply a high quality of workmanship in the production of commodities for the satisfaction at human want...
...Some of the fresh first green of spring on the few trees outside can be seen through the'barred visiting room windows...
...The union, however, feela»coniWent that.the association will be cpmpeff«&^+3"sflgii" iipTTor:: many- hfrttjelr* individual members are breaking away and asking' for settlements...
...workers, members of Local 1*9 A. C. W. A., walked out of their shops whr-n their employers refused to grant them Lheir demands for...
...He is ag*d to heat what workers are doing everywhere...
...F)R all the walla of Charlestown Prison, Bartholotneo Vanzetti— mentally—is vary much outside, however much hi* body Is held...
...calibration of Amerie*^r*i*C 1 p*»de*xe...
...EVIDENTLY believing that the fur strikers* demand for a 45hour week Is 'a mere slogan instead of the basic point for any settlement of the strike, the fur manu^actursjsr...
...the elimination of unemployment insurance, as well as of the labor bureau...
...WORKERS VOTE ON GARMENT REPORT Garment Union's Joint Proposals — Sends It Out to Referendum THE report of the Governor's Commission on the New York Ladies Garment Industry is now im the hands of the M.000 members of the International Ladies Garment Workera Union...
...Abeloon, impartial arbitrator of th* lhd«*iiir.«|*l"v At th* last conference th* employera presented ax number of counter demands to those that the union made for increases in wages—a 40-hour week, and that the jobbers assume responsibility for their contractors...
...cordage jatrtk* is caught...
...On the other hand, acceptance by the unions may not solve the question either, since the manufacturers' groups are not as yet on ree6rd concerning the report...
...However, If the contractors don't yield their demands shortly, all the manufacturers' Inside shops will- also be called out...
...no contracting, and for an increase In the minimum of the wage •chit...
...In the modern world, no people ran live bo side another and remain a*, separate aa the On gars...
...an increase in wages and other condition* that would better their 'standard a. Louis Posner...
...Spends Night* study mo Vanzetti smiles.and gives.a hearty handshake...
...In a semicircle facing a. large table at which a guard keeps track of time and movements, prisoners and their visitors sit...
...Though the .report goes a long way toward meeting the demands of the union, as reported in The New Leader last "week, the Joint Board has found It wanting on two counts...
...The workers are prepared to strike until the manufacturers concede the just demands of the Union and the fur workers are assured, of a minimum of decent living conditions...
...In no small measure, the Negro's status In the United States has bee** a test of America's democracy,' of America'* Christianity...
...The report was found unacceptable because it does not grant a 40-hour week and because It permits the employers to reorganise the shops to the extent of discharging 10 per Cent, of the workers every year...
...Pincus Zwallnsky, 52 years, old, 1! Vernon avenue...
...The .bosses association is holding out refusing tQ grant the workers demands...
...Washable Children's Clothing Workers on Strike About l.ecio washable children's clothln...
...The joint council, at Us 'last meeting, also voted ft"*, foe th* furriers' strike, although th* cap maker* themselves face a *trike of th*lr own...
...Hostile -editorials in the - Boston Transcript,*' Herald, Traveler, New York Bun arCB other capitalist papers after the State Supreme Court refusal of a new trial fire him with a desire to answer with the truth...
...He wants the world- to .know the'facts of the frame-up of himself and Nicola Bacco because of their Interest In labor'a cause...
...A committee of twelve strikers took charge of the loan, to which one worker . after ' another voluntarily made contributions, and within twenty-four hours th* total had reached $1(,000...
...He knows, though,' that it will be the labor papers already defending him who will print -his story and not the press which tells (the man in th* street car and the woman at home what its "backers want it jlo, regardless of facts, jj Workers'-** Plymouth Cordage Mill jmadej...
...In the meantime, the union Is preparing all its machinery for a general strike...
...Sat more than that, th* Negro today would bav* hi* suffrage* ho ta* laatai, oC *1aa*\»ja<i 4ha sdopjlnn *| *5H^ia|a)>Uon as will reflect ltoaU ia mor*«*a hotter schools, batter housing, Improved community sanitation, larger and modern recreational opportunities and facilities for th* children of th* community In which they live, as well a* a mora pronounced, .*y*n-h*nd»d justice before th* courts/ -. "In American social relations, th* Negro Insists upon equality—upon being recognised as th* social equals of any, man ragardle** of color, which , will result in th* abolition of djsfrsa-/ chlsement, segregation 'and the abolition of the Jim Crow car...
...a, g**t of trash ah- *M-Bf jected by A. Philip Randorph.vS««jp* • Socialist and organizer of the Brother...
...In {the town that guards the Pilgrim's !*«ck, Vanzetti was railroaded to prison: Whatever freedom of opinion the Pilgrims came to Plymouth...
...Anthony ^Imba found blasphemy ' against God Still possibly a crime and blasphemy against the present government certainly was In Massachusetts shoe centers...
...Mutual understanding which can only come^wlta th* meeting of minds, ta a condition to world progress...
...Mass., to establish, failed to last to Vanzetti's day, (t- it ever was...
...Manhattan...
...Union officials deny this statement...
...From the- Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America came a gift of $25,000 as an advance on the larger amount which the Executive T9*ard expects in response to the appeal made to its members...
...The present understanding between the union and the manufacturers terminates on July 1. EAST SIDE BARBERS CONTINUE OUT ON STRIKE The strike of the East side Barbers is now on for the second week, and is In better condition as more, more open shops are responding to the strike call...
...There are three great outstanding problems...
...The world needs true...
...For two years It was English...
...In politics, th* Negro demands political *quality, the right to be voted for a* well a* to vote, a place in, th* responsible agencies of the nation...
...industry or society a* fret human being...
...This move- fades, however...
...The strikers have so far succeeded In tying up all the struck shops...
...From the United Hebrew Trades has come $4,000...
...i Coolidge* Proud State \ Vanzetti was blacklisted and watched after th* strike...
...wbo were picketing before th* Vassar Shoe Company, 52 Grove street...
...coAerehc* win Uk* pUo* between repraMatativaa of th* oat** and of the employers, which la c*ll«fl by Dr...
...Rather than desert hi* striking companions, he killed him¦elf...
...If they would work on Saturdays during September...
...All strike committees have already been organised, with Jacob Roberts as chairman SI th* general strike committee, and ti'4fc tnidish as sefcretary...
...Although the 1915 strike fn which Vanzetti was a. leader, failed {o bring the cordage workers a lasting organization, Indirectly it did bring the 48-hour week and higher pay...
...The- fur workers' atltude toward the manufacturers' proposals for-a compromise settlement was given further expression by the' launching, at the May 18th meetings, -of a Forty-HourLJberty Loan to he subscribed by th* furriers themselves...
...Vanzetti is brightly, eagerly Interested In the outside world, especially the world of labor...
...Zwalinsky, according to friends, was a striking fitter employed by the Henna Shoe Company, 963 Kent avenue, Brooklyn...
...This, offer was promptly rejected by th* Conference Committee of the strikers, ' and their action was approved by the General Strike Com:mlttee and heartily endorsed by the strikers themselves at two splendid, enthusiastic maas meetings which crowded Webster Hal' and Manhattan Lyceum on Friday...
...In the minimum wage, no overtftne and no contracting...
...The insistent cry for freedom on the part of th* Nearo has kept the American people face to face with the fact that a democracy has not fulfilled its highest mission so long a* there are panda In the country, black or white,' wk* cannot participate In the affairs *l government...
...Ben Gold, in behalf of the Strike Committee, said "we declare emphatically .that the workers will not relinquish any of the conditions conceded by the manufacturers in former years...
...And these sentiments were loudly applauded by the thousands of strikers, who cried out from the...
...With such splendid financial support both within anik without the Fhirriers' Union, and the^splrit of the strikers at the same high pitch of enthusiaam it ha* been tor so many weeks, the strike continue* with anwavering determination and the ,fur striker* are convinced that victory for the 40-hour week in their, trade is not very far away...
...thru the fur dealers, tried llfiAs^'k to on*er th* *0-hour week with or* hand and take it away with the other...
...The sale 'will be administered, by the Loan Committee, and the money from these sales will be loaned to th* General Sti'ike Committee to continue the fight until the fur workers' demands are won...
...May 28...
...October, November and December with pay at the regular rate (not overtime rate): If they relihqulehed th*' demand for no overtime and...
...Tsil* •aturdpr another...
...Rejection of the report's provisions would probably mean a strike...
...Officials of the Vassar factory maintain that the shop is not involved In the strike of 7,000 mem bars of the Bhoe Workers* Union...
...Upon organised labor, the Noam worker* will insist upon the right to work wherever his - ability warrants...
...The employers in turn demanded a 20 per cent, reduction lo . wag...
...And now three young Portuguese cotton mill workers are threatened with deportation because they dared tell some of the indecencies of past and present ruling powers, clerical and otherwise...
...Jt Massachusetts is a funny state...
...He is evofr in quest for the training to fulfill till end...
...He tells how he studies two nights a week: algebra now, and he like* It...
...manager of the union, points out that this strike thus fsr affects only the contrsctors...
...hood of Sleeping Car Porters, who spoke as a representative of the Mf{n* . - . Th* only other speaker* were Baste...
...In every historical opoeh, the prevailing mod* of economic production arid *xch«nBt and th* facial organization following from it form th* basis upon which it built up and from which alone can he explained the political and intellectual history of the epoch.— Engel...
...SHOE STRIKERS PROTEST ON ARRESTS Delegation Demands Police Chief Curb Actions of Cops Against Pickets ADELEGATION of striking shoe workers from Brooklyn, headed by James Grady, president of the American Shoe' Workers' Protective Union, have visited Police Commissioner Edward McLaughlin In protest against the arrest of union pickets...
...4. f A John Doe warrant was sworn out in the Bridge Plaza Court, Brooklyn, against the assailant who beat into unconsciousness last we^k Elick Rafal RANDOLPH TALK IRKS HOOVER, KELLOGG tilt of Se*qui-C»ii£ INTO th* heavy clouds of fls>tiij|" and ttmk that hung ova* the . jWi extfetaes of th* a^rtVOK - tetnaia...
...from Locals .2 and 9 of the L L. G. W. U-, $5,000 each:, from, th* ornce workers of the furriers Joint Board, $30...
...In addition to...
...Bonds, to be sold only to the workers, in denominations of ' |50, ilOO ' and 1500...
...the unconcerned nest-bulldlng of two trilling sparrows just above the bars can only be seen by the outsider before he comes In...
...FUR STRIKERS TURN DOWN A COMPROMISE Bosses' False Offer of a Forty-Hour Week Rejected by Workers...
...floor urging their leaders to keep up the fight until the 40-hour week Is won unconditionally—and with It Is granted an Increase of 10 per cent...
...and .large, sum* from other unions and branches of the Workmen'* Circle...
...Intelligence and responsibility...
...Magistrate Vitale has discharged two strikers who had been arrested on similar charges...
...when a leader of the...
...to be known as Forty'-Hour-Llbcjrty...
...The union flrntly refused the employers' demands, and' if their own are not granted at th* coming conference, a strike wUl surely result...
...this loan, the furriers have been receiving thousands of dol-, lars in gifts during the past week, donations from other unionists who want to help In the fur strikers' great struggle...
...The public Is co-operating by patronizing shops that display the union show card...
...He is sure that {Plymouth Cordage Mill Manager LBrown knows of Vanzetti'* innocence...
...Hundreds of strikers left Plymouth after (he fight against the 54 hour week for |9 and the company, to attract new workers, had to raise wages little by ¦ttle up td the modest (IS demanded ty the strikers...
...He bad been ordered back to work by his employer on the penalty of losing his position, it Is said...
...At on* point, an attempt wag mad* to get Mayor Kendrick, who.- presided, to'halt Randolph's address...
...Yesterday, June 1, when the committee met again, the total was J22.O0O and It was %e3ided to issue bonds to the extent of $100,000...
...He was a member of Wbrknirn's Circle, No...
...but...
...CAP MAKERS PREPARE FOR GENERAL STRIKE $300 GIVEN TO FURRIERS With th* iiiia^t aWttft m th* C«»' Makers' unioh ft-' appear* that a terOp will be nnavoMthte...
...He ordered police not to Interfere with "peaceful and proper" picketing...
...for men are th* agents of th* social forces: and the problem of th* modern world ts th* organisation and direction of th* social - forces into constructive channel* ia order that conflict* between nations, races, creed* and classes may be obviated...
...Bat to achieve those objective*, we head men...
...Randolph declared,' "ta* problem of peace between nations, tk* problem of peace between races and the problem of peace between labor and capital...
Vol. 3 • June 1926 • No. 21
