LIBERTIES UNION GIVES YEAR'S PROGRAM
liberties union gives year's program Restoration of Citizenship to Wartime -Politicals Is a Leading Object RESTORATION of citizenship to 1,560 persons convicted during th» war tor...
...Two hundred and fifty apartments of three, four, five and six rooms win be built on five floors, and there will be fourteen to sixteen entrances, so that there win be no more than three apartments far any staircase...
...1. e., they have not yet succeeded in getting the workers to com* into the unions as a matter of Course" oil workers win concessions Vacuum Company in Bayonne Recedes on Vacations as Unrest Grows By Louis Budenz SAVONNE...
...On Sunday...
...The diner - esoas among the various language sections of the labor movement in Czechoslovakia were forgotten as speakers from all-groups united in extolling the good work of the departed...
...Men who have worked for the company for five years will be eligible for the two weeks layoff...
...6. Roberts' Rules of Order »SM»St*ern, with the exception that watts motion for the previous quesott sis been' carried one on each stts may.' speak for five (S) minutes...
...Notwithstanding the fact that they are to harm an the Improvements of the most modern apartment house, the rental for -the best rooms wall net be ever 114 per room to the.- ce-tumatois, and the> Swesogo rental will be between 912 and 91* per room...
...He returned to Prague to edit too Pravo Lidu, and in 19*7 he was elected to the old Austrian Parliament from Prague, and remained a member until the break-up of the Austro-Hungarian empire In 1»18V When the new republic - of CsechoSlovakia was born, Nemec at once became a member of Its parliament...
...He was a» member of the Executive of the International before the war...
...recosasssto dation of candidates for pubtddeSsfj 12...
...Industrial reorganization plans sponsored by the new union of employers will very directly affect the workers In the cotton industry...
...The Tidewater workers are much more' belligerent than those of the other concerns and have won their demands With much greater ease...
...Ae sstvtous question may he carried'Hf majority vote...
...14, sdjouiusnnj...
...L. D- A. textile bosses pool forces "One Big Union" of Manufacturers Is Formed at Conference in New York City By, Esther Lowell ONE big union of cotton mill owners la the reeult Northern and Southern cotton manufacturers expect from their New York conference on the industry...
...In spite of the fact that those percentages are very high, Tomsky said in this connection: "These facts show that the trade unions are not yet in a position to satisfy the demands of the most progressive categories of workers and to accommodate themeeTvea-to those of the mode lndfnterent groups...
...Aid in carrying to the U. S. Supreme Court the case of William Burns in California, "convicted under the criminal syndicalism Jaw solely for his membershlp/ru7,thaX W. W*~ Carrying/ to the Supreme Court of New Jersey the conviction of Roger N. Baldwin and seven silk...
...to be hahft J*s> aK Mew Y4»k CStyr \W 'tU'A sSstrmsn and 4 vtes-ehsatiM^ shall be elected at the hegnssvW each day's session...
...reporters of committees to' have fifteen minutes to report No delegate hp committee member with votes la 4fjs convention shall speak a second rhae on any motion until git desLrtag ts) speak shall be heard...
...and for instituting another" icst cgse in the Federal courts rf^Mlsetssippr...
...strikers for "unlawful assemblage" in-1924...
...Too recommendation of candidates for public office shall he by majority v»H-asas> ssisTSnsa -thta one candidate haa accepted nniaissXim for such recommendation vtbe' veto shall be by rollcalL When there are three or more candidates In the debt, and when none has received a majority, the candidate receiving the lewStt vote shall be eliminated in eaeh senosssive rollcalL '""' ' 11...
...Even in large-ioale Industry to* wagea have qnfly just reached »t par...
...In order to make the plan accessible to alt of our members, those who cannot immediately advance the fun amount for the apartments desired will be extended loans by either the Amalgamated . Bank or the Amalgamated Credit Union, to be paid back in small Installments...
...7, report of invited gusstt from unorganized counties...
...At the same time that the Vacuum, thus changed front.the Standard likewise announced that the two weeks' vacation period, hitherto merely the "privilege" of workers who had been with the company ten years, would be given to the five-year men...
...According to-Tomsky the percentage of organised workers on January 1. 1926...
...ot the Socialist and Labor TntetnattoosA and there were present delegates from the Socialist parties and trad* unions of many foreign countries...
...The Union also declares that it will light "the arbitrary refusal of 'the Mayor of Boston to allow in licensed halls meetings which he disapproves...
...Important cpurt cases in which the Civil Liberties Union will assist are: Aid in securing the pardon of Charlotte Anita Whitney of California in case the U. 8. Supreme Court sustains her conviction for criminal syndicalism...
...Pacific y. which has plants In Lawrence...
...While the Amalgamated is assuming responsibility for the erection of these buildings, we are doing so for the purpose of trying to create a strong co-operative movement In housing, and thus in a practical way show the members of the Amalgamated, as well as other wage-earners, how to eliminate the element of landlord profit from thjeir housing problem, which is now such a big factor in, their personal budgst...
...Organisation and Propaganda...
...Those who have worked but a year or longer will get one week...
...cant of the [pre-war level...
...will, with other - circumstances, have the effect of ma king the course compulsory, sued thus contrary to the Ideal aen-naUttarlstto character- of secondary edneatfM fn thin country...
...What labor policy the one big union of employers will pursue can easily be guessed...
...July 4, at 3 e'etSaV p. m., all business shall be sunuaadaf for the reading of the Declaration et Independence, and Immediately these* after, if the Order of Business of Be*» ommendatlon of Candidates for FejSMS Office has not been reached, the oojs» vention shall take up that order sad proceed with the recommendation 9jt candidates.' -* *j 12...
...Some new features, such as an assembly hall for recitation purposes, and an inside play hall for the children In inclement weather, and a thoroughly up-to-date laundry to relieve the housewives of much of the drudgery now Involved In the old methods, win be installed In these apartments...
...flection et committees as provided In Section 4 of Rules: 4. report of Bute Executive Committee...
...Carrying: up to the jfm^pisoo Court the right of a state to compel the reading of the Bible dallyin the school, the appeal to be based upon a «ase pending in-South Dakota...
...Sec 7, of the Steal Constitution of the Socialist Party...
...A comparison with the statements mads, by President Tomsky at the list congress of the Russian .'Communist Party shows that there has been a slight decline in the percentage of organized workers (due to the rapid Increase in the number of workers in industry...
...A co-operatiye organisation will be formed of those who ws^h to become their own tenants, and when the building Is completed, the - A. C. W. -Corporation will transfer "the building to them...
...The new apartments will be within about five minutes' walk of the Jerome avenue subway station...
...Sidney Hillman, president of the Amalgamated, commenting upon this new move, said: "It should he remembered that the new buildings, when completed, will be owned, managed and administered by the people who occupy them...
...The Order at Business of the convention shall be as follows: 1, Election of temporary chairman: I. roll call of delegates...
...Not even militaristic Germany eVer had military training In its secondary, schools...
...who has been president of both northern and Southern associations...
...also to the sedition and universal draft bills...
...against Passaic police will be pressed in the courts by the Union, the announcement states...
...Pretedffo'h/ut' the radio against political censorship, with provisions to insure freedom of the air, and to prevent government broadcasting permits from becoming "permanent vested interests...
...9. report et convention committees, as follows...
...The movement of Northern mills Southward already indicates their favoritism for the long hours, low pay and far-frombenevolenty-paternalism of the South...
...President W. B. MacColl of the National Association of Cotton Manufacturers (the Northern group) and President James P. Gossett of the American Cotton Manufacturer*' Association (the Southern employers) are to choose five committeemen each, who need not be members of either association...
...on Sunday) July 4, from 9.20 a. m. to 12.M p. m. and from 2 p. m. to « p. ra...
...The gifted Hindu, who in these earlier autobiographical writings gavs so vivid a picture of a young idealist revolting against the brutalities of civilisation, is now concerned with the telling of a rather common* place detective story...
...Is something of a disappointment when viewed as coming from the author of "Caste and Outcast" and "My Brother's Face...
...In August, 1999, Nemec's severe illness began, and prevented him from taking part in the Marseilles congress...
...new business...
...For over two years th'e men of the Standard have bean asking for a 10 percent raise...
...Low% says the cotton Industry is over-developed...
...Wagea in the first half of 1928 went up 24 percent, remaining stable in the second half of the year...
...C. Discussion shall he limited to ff«9 (t> minutes for each speaker...
...Local people and oil workers themselves attribute the change to the agitation on the Hook, stirred up by the magazine Labor Age...
...In 1MT, Nemec was a delegate from the Czech Socialists to all International congresses...
...Whether this neutral attitude will Be maintained when meetings and pieirttings begin remains to Vegas...
...The Exchange Bakery, a restaurant In the heart of the needle district, has secured a temporary Injunction against the Waiters' Union, Local 1, restraining them from continuing their strike activities...
...His new hook opens with the murder of a British general on a train leaving Calcutta...
...Carrying into the higher courts...
...Among the unions showing big gains are the Building Workers, with a Jump of 70 per cent, and the Land Workers, with one of 40 per cant...
...Mass., dnd In Lyman and Greenville, 8. C. was represented alone with Pepperell Mills of BJddeford...
...Opposition to any further effort in Congress to restrict civil liberty, particularly to the bills proposing the registration of aliens and to extending the grounds for deportation...
...Bills pending before Congress which will be supported or opposed by the Union during the coming session are: Support of a bill to take- away from' the State Department Its present coij*trol over passports under special war .powers in "order to prevent such incidents as the Karolyl and Saklatvala cases...
...The Platform and Rules committee* shall be the committees appointed by the State-Executive Committee, purse, ant to Article II...
...Encouraged-by the weakness shown by the companies, we who are lighting for the workers out on the Hook have written General Manager W. C. Coler of the Standard Oil Company—which is the focal point of attack—demanding an immediate consideration of a 20 percent wage raise...
...Curtailment varies from 20 to SO per cent., and in the Southern yarn spinning mills, particularly, it la done by mutual agreement...
...If necessary, the right of a state' to compel every child to salute the flag, regardless of religious or other scruples...
...Has Shaecye jfjjsjaessT *s^relatng Corps) is scheduled, to be> installed in the New Utrecht sejboet in 4*d union's le^a-Tt ^stbss charges made by teachers that Sidney Brummer, head of the history department, haa sent a notice to teachers under Mas...
...of Independence...
...When In Hay, 1922, the Socialist Labor International was founded at Hamburg, Nemec was one of the representatives of the CseehoSlovak Social Party and was nominated by the party as member of the executive...
...liberties union gives year's program Restoration of Citizenship to Wartime -Politicals Is a Leading Object RESTORATION of citizenship to 1,560 persons convicted during th» war tor expressions of opinion, the Nlttu of <« political prisoners heM under criminal syndicalism lawn in three stat««j and the holding otjifree-speech test meetings in cities Where officials, .have imposed gags are announced as the features of the American Civil Liberties Union's program tor the -coming year...
...U. S. Steel Corporation, or agreements between companies on prices, wnges, etc...
...The attitude of the local authorities wUL also be revealed at that time...
...Louis de Brouckere attended the fuaeral as th* i SnrSOSPtaUVa...
...9. The State Secretary of tWSJasak 1st Party shall be ex-offteto asesasssj et the convention, with power t* 21 point such assistants as be may safcSg" necessary...
...the company giving In on the vacation point for fear larger demands would be pushed...
...CZECHS MOURN PASSING OF NEMEC Teas of ihniisoihns of tb* WMkers ad Prague sad nelcjbawrtag mm tone* out 00 May 29 t* pay tSeir...
...In the meantime, the growing prosperity of the oil company and general conditions nave msec It imperative that the wage raise be tor 20 percent rather than the previous modest demand of 10 percent...
...Only a recognition of what can be sa> compllabed by co-operation is neoSJ» sary for us to be able to place at ttt disposal of all of our members hoo»to that it win be a pleasure for them W hv» In...
...A statement issued by William Lehman, secretary of the union, pointed out that while the union is now preparing tor a strike against the association restaurants, it is still hoped that the workers' demands will be gained peacefully...
...night sag* sions as ordered...
...This places the employes of these two companies on a par In this regard with the employes of the Tidewater Oil Company, also located on the Hook...
...a ' ». Members of the 8tate Executive* sad State committees, who_ are net regularly elected delegates, shall have a voice, but no vote...
...After editing Socialist paper* in Brno ha went1 to'-Vlenna to edit a Czech weekly...
...Sixty manufacturers from Northern and Southern mills attended and decided to allow the head of the Northern employers' group anf the head of the Southern each pick five men to investigate and work out further plans tor the consolidation of forces...
...He Joined the typographical union in 187S and since, that time was active in the labor movement until some months before bis death...
...President Henry LinviHe of the union declares thats"«Mab]i«hing a military training course in a public high school and fMa¥ it the full credit of a prepared subject...
...which The New Leader recently published, enrtugjginf .gjvy* ing on students...
...Support of measures to determine the eligibility of immigrant Hindus to citizenship and to restore citizenship tq American Women married to Hindu aliens...
...All resolutions offered from #> floor shall b* referred without da*#> sion to the proper committees, sSJr vlded, however, that such t.......sllWjii have not made their final reports, ,i 11 Fifteen (II) delegates may demand a" roUcall on any question, asd When such demand la made by the required number of delegates the chair shan order tne vote taken by roncaJU 14...
...Beginning with the International Socialist Congress in Stuttgart...
...Me., which has a new Southern plant...
...Jure 3 'Sessions SECRETARY lranswir '-"-fU—*SuBfec the following ruicSsBJjjK usefficlai BUte coaverttSsJerK Ssdiaim Parsy...
...Other Hems on the Union's schedule are: ¦ . Caiyylng*lo the United States Supreme Court the right of a state to prohibit the teaching of evolution...
...Each tenant-owner will invest 9200 per room, and this will con-, stltute the equity they will have In the buildings...
...Real wages, however, have not yet reached their pre-war level...
...t** communications...
...There are fine descriptions of weird scenes and of life and customs in semibarbaric countries, but the action of the story passes against a background supplied by the British police department in India, and the book as a whole reflects tne point of view of imperialist Britain...
...If-say...
...Members of the Amalgamated, as well as members of other labor organisations and their friends, are eligible to membership in this organ* Ization...
...On January 1, 1925, there were 600,000 unorganised workers and on January 1, 1926, 870.000...
...rss§rtsxg«Srt*sB\ oettoean...
...The Union is r*gpon»ll^fft>jsjn trying up .the Tennessee everotten, casa...
...8, report St Committee on Platform...
...reading P*"*"** tlotv...
...The "secret listeners" of the book's title are Mohammedan conspirators against British rule, and their leader Abdul R&haman turns out to be the man who Inspired...
...An open letter to the oil workers has been printed in Labor Age, challenging them to test their "fake Republics of Labor" by pushing this demand...
...Then he learned to be a printer...
...It has been decided to use only about If percent of the land for buildings, leaving the balance tor gardens, thus assuring plenty of sunlight and ventilation for all apartments...
...But they .have been referred by Coler to President Walter Teairle and by him to John D. Rockefeller...
...The hero of the story IS a Hindu master of Boy Scouts who dedicates his life to the avenging of this murder, and who travels with an adopted son Into Northern fastnesses...
...a. cw...
...While these pew buildings wiU approximate about a thousand rooms...
...Meetings, of the workers, under "outside" auspices, are scheduled for next month, when the first real teat of strength will be made...
...OUTSIDE agitation haa already accomplished something for the oil Workers out on Constable Hook...
...Political Co-operation sal Coalition...
...Mukerji's First Novel DHAN QOPAL MUKERJrS first venture into the field of adult Action, "The Secret Listeners of the East" <Dutton, N. T., 12.00...
...In addition they will be able to get comforts now lacking where they have to depend upon private enterprise...
...Free speech test meetings will be held In Philadelphia and the "closed mining and steel towns of western Pennsylvania...
...Teachers' Union Hits At Mntary Training Pita* to aatablish mDlUry train - in* in the New Utrecht high school in Brooklyn w« MMMiMd in a letter •tat to the Board of Sdueation by the Teacher*' Union, demanding that the board - recall- Ha decielofi...
...At the last conference hem betweeej the union and the association on June it no-understanding could be reached, because the employers not only refused, the union's modest demands, but In turn insisted upon their counter proposals which . included conditions which the union - had long " ago succeeded in abolishing...
...Only a few days before capitulating to the men's demands, the company had let it be known' that there would be no vacation grant for 1926...
...New York Waiters Are preparing for Strike Several hundred union waiters employed by members of the New York Restaurant Keepers' Association will Strike for conditions that the union has secured from all other employers, unless the association signs up with the uniop by July 1. The union requested an increase of f2.se a week for the night.workers and an 8-hour day instead of the- S-hour day under She ojd agreement...
...The public is urged to patronise restaurants that employ union waiters...
...Aston Nemec was born In Bran (Bruenn), the son of a weaver who managed to send him to n higher Institution of learning for a while...
...the murder of the British genera...
...N. Y. CONVENTION RULES ARE ISSUED State Secretary Merrill Announces Order of Business for...
...beans on home building Amalgamated Lets Contract for Construction of Model Apartments for Workers T. HE Amalgamated Clothing Workera of America announce thai the A. C. W. Corporation, which was formed for the purpose of erecting co-operative buildings in the City of New York, has let the contract for Its first operation, which Is to be located on 42 «ity lots, with Van Cortland Park on the north, Moahulu Parkway on the east and Jerome Park Reservoir on the south...
...The Industry leads all others in the number of workers employed, the manufacturers say...
...Discontent is increasing among the workers, according to reports which we are receiving from inside the plants...
...stood at 90.1 per cent and on April 1. 89.2 per cent...
...Curtailment of producttonMn cotton mills is on the increase, the manufacturers report, meaning less work for the workers and less pay...
...W5. A permanent sergeant-at-srmsisjg...
...5. Each delegation Shall select, hi the absence of any delegate, the alter* nate to fin the vacancy...
...One thousand copies of this appeal were distributed at the gates of the Standard last week and 1,000 more copies of the magasine will be given out this coming week...
...two assistants shall be appointed fcy the chairman of the first day's asssessv 4, The following committees shall ts elected, each committee to conssrt i( not inore than three, members, no sssr* thsfc one to be from the same county, and no delegate to serve on more tags one committee: \ ' Organisation and Propaganda.' ' - Constitution," •Political Co-operation and CealtoasV Resolutions, • Ways and Means...
...We should have' a controlling Influence in the industry, an influence such as that controlling the steel industry," he remarked, but did not specify what the "controlling Influence" In steel Is, whether Judge Gary...
...Despite the stubborn and persistent refusal of the Vacuum Oil Company for over two years to grant its men a two weeks' vacation with pay...
...8. report et State Executive Committee on RifJsSp 4, election of permanent chairman aaf vice-chairman for day...
...Morgan Butler, • ion of Senator William M. Butler..Republican' boss Of Massachusetts, attended for Butler Mills, New Bcdfcrd...
...RUSSIAN UNIONS CLAIM HUGE MEMBERSHIP GAIN ACCORDING to a report made by Secretary Degadof at a recent meeting of the Central Committee of the All Russian Trade Unions, the membership of the Russian unions has reached 7,800,000, against «,028,000 at the end of 1924...
...That Northern and Southern mill owners are not always rivals—nor even distinct individuals—Is evident from the case of Arthur H. Lowe, attending the conference for Parkhlll Manufacturing Company of Fltchhurg, Mass...
...7. The sessions of the eoevehtfsS Shalt be as follows: On Saturday, Mg J, from 1 p. m. to < p, m...
...The Junior Rockefeller ducked the demand, leaving the men right where they were two years- ago...
...The manufacturers' organizations in other Industries, particularly open shop steel, are to be studied for guidance of the cotton men's merger...
...It la our belief that this exhibit of what t can be accomplished by cooperative housing activity on the part 6/ the workers both in improved conditions and lower rentals wUl result In our going into successive projects until all of our members have been able to avail themselves ef the opportunity for better housing at Was cost...
...CoasS> tutlon...
...which It had promised them as far back as Easter, 1924, the company has receded from its position and announced such vacations for this year...
...last inspects to Anton -KssnSa...
...the WtStH Cseeh labor leader, who had paMsf away three day* hetore at the aga «f M years...
...The defense of convicted Passaic, N. J., textile strikers and charges of brutality...
...Resolutions, Ways *ei Means, special committees...
...Up re the present they haw avoided the companies' demands that arrests of myself and «*Uadgt*e*;he <>Me, beeeeno an election la about' to take place and they do not wish to stir'up the aafanonjty of the oil workers who constitute an impressive percentage of the voting population...
...At the beginning of this year his illness became so much worse that in March he resigned as a member of the Executive...
Vol. 3 • June 1926 • No. 24
