A. F. OF L. OPPOSES SOVIET RECOGNITION; FASCISM CONDEMNED
A. F. of L. Opposes Soviet Recognition; Fascism Condemned S^WWUl BMB WO aSWr. ^Sta^ w lasugaiiiuu the most unscrupulous,' the moot l|cis« soctai and the most utttwtag '"WtjMf' tlon & the...
...Ball should be Just enough to secure a defendant's appearance before the court for trial...
...We are adJusting ourselves to the new conditions Of increased production and speeding up...
...The' New Tork...
...As soon as gash a decision is announced...
...Edward P. Lavln and Harry Bark, in commenting on this latest development, said In an exclusive interview with the New Leader: < "This is a lesson for that portion of organised labor which is supporting Tammany Hall...
...To its Influence Is attributed the fact that the Jewish labor movement has to a large extent 'stood firm against Communist disruption and that it is still able to fight for the Interests of the LABOR BACKING PORTERS By a New bender Correspondent Detroit.—A Phillip Randolph, organizer of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, is attending the Detreit convention of the American Federation of Labor, where he will present to the delegates of, America's greatest labor organisation, the strngRle for a living wage and Improved working conditions...
...I, Andrew Fli« rnaativ o# the seamen, and John was* of the moMara...
...woman, who has a vote, to cast his or her ballot in the coming election in such n way that It will prove to Tammany Hall conclusively that it la 'not safe to play around with labor in between elections...
...Is it not a fact that large cloak manufacturers are contributing substantiallyT Is not the favorite return police protection during strikes T We urge all working men and women to shew Tammany Hall that it cannot double-cross them any longer...
...The Indictments on which these then are held were secured on alleged confessions which they were forced to make when third degree methods were used on them...
...Instead of by a national or International union, to which most local unions belong...
...U cents...
...We claim that these men have been badly beaten...
...Amour the stalwarts wtahhj tnc nighty weapons to a*« of war* President Green of the feeaeatton, President John U Lew la oC_$h* miners...
...Hn>at has Mithew Woll'a committee # say about .i <? ; »t...
...4,000 CELEBRATE VERBAND Enthusiastic Meeting at Carnegie Hall Hears of Jewish Socialists' Progress CARNEGIE HALL was Jammed from floor to roof with nearly 4,000 cheering men and women last Sunday, who came to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Jewish Socialist Verband and of the establishment of the Jewish Socialist weekly, the "Wecker.** In addition to a musical program of the highest order there were speeches ' by four representative Socialists, who aroused the greatest enthusiasm...
...government which can sever And anything but opposition in the minds of free people...
...JPS needs campaign contributions and iS* insuranfie companies could stir ap Wh awful row...
...A new trial will result to an acquittal and freedom...
...He also reported on the referendum by which Pullman porters, both within and outside of the union, are riving the Brotherhood a mandate to "represent the whole group before the new Hallway Labor Board...
...Does Governor Alfred E. mfth deserVe labor's endorsement on "He basis of the tests which Ubor itself Jrereeses to apply...
...Hedley and Quackenbush were to come, if they wished to...
...WH* to ne par...
...And thst price ought to Qbsyro than n few kind words, a few *eta for labor leaders snd a Ujfte, very 5h welfare legislation...
...Nathan Chanin...
...UMrSOBs SSbJSSt an this occasion wtS b* -Beadtorn to -the Theatre/* Admission...
...life of the worker be furthered If Ms body is given over to the ceaseless...
...The ten Socialists in the Assembly and the Board at Aldermen did everything in their .power to have cheap ice for the masses in the summer...
...I want to discuss this labor ByiUim for Smith quite soberly, Pptoent calling names, on the basis sMet my own Socialist conviction, but MBps actual record which la before Jmnrktn...
...We cannot consult with these men and defend them properly to the peculiar atmosphere of the Jail in which they are now held...
...Thiols toe nretwe have beard of It...
...He arranged a meeting we were to have with him and the heads of various departments, at which we were to present evidence to prove that the law was being violated on the subway...
...Job E laws on ^flini it the TlMtre" At Bretx Free Fekwdip •mMi.htor.i- and J**mmp*jm diva Abo third inisse at th* **w« rre* Fettowship...
...Organiser Randolph spoke at each meeting, emphasising the growing power of the union, and its whole-hearted support by labor groups...
...October 18...
...We oppose this form of dictatorship, just as we oppose every othsjf'form of oppression, political, economic or spiritual...
...i' : In supporting Judge Wajrner these Bremente anaoance the fact thajt the would-be Senator has supported'Labor and progressive' legislation aU hto life, especially to the Stato Senate...
...Was Walker Interested in the subway strike...
...Two days later Walker's secretary told us over the 'phone that the conference was all off -because Hedley and Quackenbush had refused to come...
...Hughes to his plea, for lower ball...
...President Green summed up the unanimous opinion by hlsjclosing statement...
...EgjpsOBt law, or tho tew which tbe 'Epoer proposed, and say that the Buna**** action haa been adequate Kkjimp terrible emergency...
...Smith switched...
...The Majority Leader of the Senate was Senator Robert F. Werner...
...another part ot ft went tabor by a municipal election hi June...
...silence hat ghren consent to the Guy injunotior eiainst the cloakmAert which ..is on« ¦of the moat sweeping on record...
...Any permanent plans that the trade anions involved in the Industry may Work out will have to go farther than thla if they ars over to organise Nth« automobile industry successfully...
...For William Sikora, whom the defense baa understood an along was being bold without bail...
...K possible In Madison Square Garden, immediately after the announcement of Judge Thayer's decision on the pending motions for a new trial, which is expected within the next few weeks...
...Judge Jacob Panken, candidate for Governor, aroused great enthusiasm with his...
...Instead of that measure becoming law, another bill emerged from the Senate...
...A feature of the musical program was the chorus of 300 voices f men and women representing the Workmen's Circle Choruses of the vicinity of New York...
...That group !A a Tammany croup, for Tammany first, and, incidentally, tor tabor...
...President James WUaoa of the gsttst seashore, President John Washer of the BRaots Stato Federation...
...When'the metal trades department of the American Federation ot Labor decided to affiliate with the'metal trades International It showed soar* realisation of ths International aspect ot modern industrial problems...
...It is American money which to financing the Dawes plan and must buy the bonds which figure ao largely in the Briand-Stresemann plan for solving the questions still st Issue between France snd Germany, ta this new international steel trust American capital Invested in Europe is already an immense factor...
...Neville Chamberlain, Minister of Health...
...editor of tha ClwadidB and dolrgato of the totarastliasfj apent many yean weSh^^^B «rau*''«f the two old <>ponUc*l parties •KM* Plead for •» new Labor party...
...He did not even answer us...
...oonferawto rafoash sjl tto dehsxatas and aSTltatsd extotnlaatlong to :he yrppared to rssgsal t...
...4 Wages must rise and.hours must fallfsp that-jkur workers.may adjust themselves to the ¦ new factory conditional...
...Chamberlain gave aattoe a sheet time ago that at the next genome...
...Or are we to build - up our own party, regardless of the crumbs that Tammany throws out in exchange for support that puts them in power and In a position to loot aad exploit the people...
...Thf Whole ghastly atory of thto •%»tacarrtace of Justice" aa...
...MUNICIPAL SUCCESS FOR BRITISH LABOR LONDON—It is not onTy injparllamentary bye-elections that Labor has wen significant victories sines the General Strike, but also to Municipal elections...
...ft was decided to ¦ hold a monster demonstration...
...During the subway strike Walker received us cordially and then 'kidded' us along...
...ST HershkowBS, msrhutor of «e -Ca^makeys...
...The printed complaint is twice'as long as the one served during the strike...
...That group supports every Tammany candidate for iny office regardless of his record—and get* Its reward to the shape of an sccasjoahl Job thrown to a former trade, anion official...
...Ut-»u opposed by John Walker, ssunwul ntHk stats T*am**m ** iM&lli an old advocate of Labor B^sfS bat mv * support* of the mUUalUam policy of rewardta* Jrow J«8* friend* and punishing your POMt&o» enemiesttrse...
...The resolution demands a new trial for the two men...
...Oreen...
...Are they...
...Wednesday srenlng...
...The Speaker of the Assembly at that time was Assemblyman Alfred BSmith, of New York...
...Morris Sigmaa, nrssMnnt af the International Ladies Garment Workers* Pnfen*;t^ato Hyaena, eheirman ot the General Strike Coamaltoss pt' the ctoakmakers...
...tha laboc radieatostat Mi—fc—W who km boa MftfUBft- *W death sentence la prison for Nix yaps for a murder to which another man haa now confessed, wars given, the -unanamous support of the FtWe^utlon when It adopted * revolution .on their ease...
...The A. F. of L. is still officially jhtgmnltted to the National Child Labor Astsndment...
...advocate a referendum...
...International economic agreement may be the forerunner of the United Stages ot Europe of which philosophers dream...
...He postponed the matter in court this morning in order to study the list of Indictments as drawn up by the prosecuting attorney's' office...
...hot we object to be**toe the Kajsatoc phiteeophy ctosmA down our American trade #>'•*) throats...
...were promoting opposition withto Bbn onions and were constantly ptajhtaC for the advancement of philosophy by whatever means...
...th< American Federation Labor must again he toM to the ntorhnrs with UM new detoUs tfatt hnid tha Oeqesaonwealth of htsssschnsstto up to tto shame « deserves...
...It to teat becoming almost, a matter of...
...The Majority Leader of the Assembly was Assemblyman Aaron J. Levy...
...Last week hundreds of strikers were lined }2i in the Magistrates Courts, the alternative betas a five-day Jail sentence...
...James M. Dunn, assistant prosecuting attorney, who-'opposed the motion for lower bail, said that it was the recommendation of the prosecuting attorney's office that the ball be left at $310,000 as it was set tor five of the men by Recorder John C. Barbour to Clifton Police Court...
...Kansas...
...It will be the Ufa and dlsth iftsAgli for these two innocent workers...
...to the masses at a purely nominal cost...
...There .was a war going on in Europe in which American boys were engaged and the people were told to suffer as a means of showing their '•patriotism...
...preclaiming that "tabor".lg back of the Tammany state ticket...
...On the ttth of August Labor won a municipal byeelection in one of the wards of Birmingham, represented in Parliament, hy Mr...
...Is that a reason for endorser Smith...
...He has three Padren bora In America...
...William Sulser was governor of New York...
...So long as there are Socialists in prison in Russia, so will we refuse to treat those who are lighting us In the name of Socialism as Social' tats...
...After the election was ¦k time to...
...thf - convention committee on shorter hmirarof work- launched a new objec* tfvtffor the l«-hour week...
...The Emergency Labor Conference, which has established headquarters at ISO Bast 26th street, telegraphed President William...
...Whether this bail Is to be lowered or not will depend upon the action Judge Delaney takes in the next day or two...
...Interest baa attached to this municipal election as It la to part of the Mlpistor of Health's constituency...
...Sta^ w lasugaiiiuu the most unscrupulous,' the moot l|cis« soctai and the most utttwtag '"WtjMf' tlon & the world todAT MM^W staviataiit at bom* end plotting wajjt revolution abroad," read JTailltia Wei], secretary of the EMiiatbsni Committee, as ha ytopooad :subaB*attax lta report to place of the e^eiqjjeB resolution for r•cognition: -ft tasiskb* lac to undermine . our «reat Jsin'i' movement to the United States^ and though K ha* not yet i a nun 18...
...bn±: It would have meant ice to abuhdanse...
...Tney must have received orders from higher up...
...Serving without pay meant that It was understood that bs was to continue in his private business, whieh was the sale of ice "at a price to be fixed by himself...
...i - The appeal is- made for votes of a^a-Unc people for tM»wpuld^fce Senatefon the ground that he was born a poor boy, that he was a newsboy and that he- has always favored Labor...
...purging and unaealtng her long abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance...
...Smith ,wants deliberately to advocate nulliflcatian of the Blgbteenth...
...That bill,'as it came from the state Senate, was introduced and sponsored by Senator Robert F. Wagner...
...ZZS* ' A terrlne onatanght oa the ohnAi&l «tat aide with eapttal again* tohaj to Detroit and elsewhere waa amS hy Babhi Btapbsn *. wise, of Bgej Tork -City, preitootedrg to hto a*j|5j their famfl^s...
...r*We shall all agree that labor of¦bfclly cannot give "a man endorsement Hk the basis of his personal popularity, feb race or religion, or even his adPMhlstrative achievements...
...So Murphy ordered the governor fired, as if ho were an office boy caught stealing postage stamps...
...Odell...
...John Harding of Chicago Typographical Union 1< and a member of...
...If there to tune for labor after they have done their stint for their political 'masters...
...Walker...
...Joseph Weinberg, chairman of the National Executive of the Verband, delivered a stirring address, giving the basis of the organisation's fight against those who are its bitterest enemies...
...IBM Beeton reed, ta th* tateresttog course oaf Uterntkre and Oram...
...blast to favor if Judge Robert T. Wagner for United . Mates Senator as "a-friend of labor...
...The convention proceeded more cautiously and adopted...
...j It is not deed!** Is ringing In the ears of President Hedley and Lawyer Quackenbush of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company...
...This coarse Of lecture* ta making a treat appeal to college and high school students a* Weil ss others free* all part* at tba Bronx...
...These, six men when they work earn from Bra to seven dollars a day...
...Neville...
...The slogan for a 4-hour day and a 4-day week was rallied at the Saturday session...
...Within reI^Mpnontns- in every important strike 7ft» police have interfered" on the side ;*at tie employers more brutally than f-BBby recent year...
...them anywayV", That wan your friend...
...toil and whir and strain Of the modern factory...
...life and death for the A. F. of X* to show that It can meet and beat tbe company union idea...
...aCtuaUy^Setoc «'k (Russia, coed or had...
...To aohf tttoto on bail from $100 AOS te IWrttO * bub really amounts to hbleV SACCO FORCES ORGANIZE gvwsjonal Iiivtsjliga THE executive committee of tan ¦Secco-Vanietti Defense Conference of New...
...Nor is this all...
...Talk to the contrary is so much fetttlcat hokum...
...Overflow meetings in Chicago, Cleveland and Detroit during tho past week have attested to the enthusiasm and the "Will to Win" of this group of American workers...
...The executive council la further instructed to demand a congressional investigation of the department's activity In the case, if Investigation proves this advisable...
...We feel that it wan...
...It seeks to restrain the leaders from organising right now...
...Who had.^ ei> pected...
...The frozen waters—that is, the Ice—are the property of the people...
...But we will not etomcsffir j attitude on recognition antgr the &K> muatots chance their tact lea af Ubm j toe and stop seeking to deatrpjk^d greet labor movement...
...Labor in Ne v Tork hKoonMnitted •Bcially to taklr - ' ie enormous profits ^workmen's cot, ^nsatlnn insurance ft*t of the hands ot pafvate companies...
...This Is one of the most vital question* before the A. F. of L-," he said, "in*>lvlng every activity of the' working people of our country...
...Kansas, October 1...
...After a few months Sulser balked at doing what Murphy ordered him to do...
...It has called a mess meeting for Thursday at a p. m. at Beethoven Hall, XI* East Sth street ot its entire mesas or ship...
...Speakers will include M. Fetosteln, secretary 6/ the United Hebrew Trades...
...mighty youth, and kindling her undented eye* ' at the full midday beam...
...They pose as friends of labor...
...Undoubtedly Al Smith's enthusiastic wetness Mhs torn fslands to Jahor cfrclos...
...It Bnseta bahwtoe in siiiniiihatajn to dictatorship and* awtoeracy...
...Then we sent a letter to 'AT Smith, that great champion of labor...
...We appeal to every worker in New York, man and...
...Here Is an Incident that seems to be forgotten that shows h Bob Wagner that hla trade union supporters -aren't boasting about...
...tt was nwU deetaanted at the SS Paso ceervaAtien...
...2. That that 8taie lee Comptroller should he Mr...
...Let Matthew Woll's comjatttee answer...
...It should be based upon a man's financial circumstances," said Mr...
...Egf a few sects 1 welfare tews good Kthemsetves, but s paltry pries to Br for labor's indorsement...
...it — ; Wt is very encouraging to observe the attention given by the A r. ef U convention to problems ot open shop end company anions...
...while the whole noise of timorous and flecking birds, with these alee that leve the twilight, Sutter about, amazed at what ah* means.—Mi Hen...
...The slogan of .the committee is that Saoco and Vaasetti must net suffer the fate of Mooney and RHllngs...
...During this week, workers In other needle trades will help the cloakmakers picket...
...Every one of them has been rewarded for his loyalty to a crooked and thieving politics] machine...
...Later meetings Which will be addressed by Organiser Randolph will be hald frr-Kansas City, Mo., on October 17, Kansas City...
...It was Introduced as a "war bill," and In some mysterious wsy It wss supposed to be patriotic...
...And finally, when summer came, in spite of the abundance of lee during- the winter, which had been harvested under Mr...
...But tasm certain Catholic dignitaries deManeed the amendment, when it waa JWtjcted in the Maaaahbvwetts seferenand proved unpopular Ip the solid gtomcratic South...
...The only merit of that precusal wag that ft would serve the people...
...James Lynch of the prli ters, Andrew Furuseth of the seamei and Edward Galnor of the .letter car lere had voiced "their approval in the r distinctive ways...
...U to preposterous to keep such men on this high ball...
...Odell'i direction and stored and sold to retailers at a prioe he had fixed, lee was higher than ever before that summer —and several dealers were actually stopped by the courts from selling at prices under those fixed...
...T , .. The convention- Jellied the resolutions of;the:ladies' garment workers and of the 'capmakers altering the Immigration,- status...
...Industrial rivalries were a factor In bringing out the World War...
...fOpier resolutions favoring labor interest :In radio broadcasting, workman compensation for longshoremen, oppo¦dtim" to weakening- of;the eeaman'i actnvPf continuing inheritance tax legisfattkm and against fingerprinting and registration of the foreign-born were passed as recommended by the commute* on resolutions...
...The immediate political consequences of this will he good, rather than evil...
...In modern standardised factories tho old trade Uses ars virtually meaningless...
...The story of the fight against that bill Is a stirring one...
...secretary of the Verband from its opening, opened the meeting with a brief address of welcome, and outlined the causes that led to the organisation of the Verband at the time of the Communist "capture" of the old Jewish Socialist Federation...
...Joh«xntalhVeW'-f*sslehtot ef hhs-Siaae Tork State Federation af Laher, Who wired We support against -the tojaacUon, waa invited telegraphJesJhj last night to accept the peat of honorary chairman of the Emergency* Labor QSaference to which he had been unanimously elected at a conference last Friday night at S West 16th street, at which 1S3 tabor union ofltetata were present...
...speech, in which he declare* that it was the Jewish labor and So* cialist movement that is responsible to a very considerable degree for the relatively good wages and working conditions that certain sections of the American labor movement have won for themselves...
...Effective international organisation of tho workers is tbe .only answer to effective International organisation by tbs owners...
...The first injunction atoned: to stop picketing during a strike situation...
...Usta* language tost as strong aa appears In delegate...
...who previously held tha seat won it tost November with a majority of 1,2*4...
...Another -excludes federal unions from strike and-defense benefits unless they levy* local per capita fax of at least H a month, instead of the 75-sent minimum hitherto current A" federal union is one chartered directly by the federation...
...Their are peeps red for the worst sad realise that Judge Thayer's decision In all probability wtQ be unfavorable and a now trlsJ wfS again be denied...
...What price, jrtrhers, for your endorsement T nfesilen to Bo Reported for Losing Ins te TT...
...the summer...
...the candidacy of ] lesale Wallace Hughan, the Socialist nominee...
...But...
...And when that machine wants something...
...Beteuse of his loss of ¦Srm he cannot work at his trade ¦ the immigration authorities are ¦ leg In deport him aerlikely to beBe a public charge...
...I{ would also Rave meant a assail Brent for the stats...
...But X shall admit for -the Bs of my present argument, that tho bee of a labor party may be de...
...Then the GOvyaor and the Republicans agreed' on »to* totally Inadequate to meet thai Japtlrti and the Governor eppotatad {to* commission on housing .which EiLi no member who baa error pubJL shown a realisation of the enorxL»st the problem or the way oat...
...WhfA haa Matthew wWl's committee to day about this...
...summed up the sayon» tattoc- aarrace...
...The workers of J^w .York deeJ«r**ly demand a solution of thai BMsing problem...
...Miter on a brutal police attack wan made upon us.- It was ilka a bolt from a clear aky...
...The ordinary Una of two dollars tor pickets that snsse arrested was increased to twenty-five, ft was a political means of* breaking the union financially...
...8." Bo a hcadllao in the bhaM-Tribune accurately sums up Quvannl Micell of Philadelphia...
...alleging that he haa been held on ! 31.000 so far...
...He-had been nominated by the notorlOBSf Charles F. Murphy, and for a while he did Murphy's bidding...
...the report as adopted readj...
...4. That the state would get not one penny from the sale of the ice...
...N. J.—Claiming that it W~ is illegal, improper and unconstitutioaal to hold the group of strikers how in Jail in Peterson under bail so preposterously high that they can never possibly secure it, John Larkto Hughes, attorney for the strikers, presented arguments before Judge Joseph A. Delaney in the Passaic Court of Common Pleas for the lowertag ot this ball, now standing at «ST6,000 for six men...
...Abraham Shtpla'COfTs resolution, the resolutions committee roundly - condemned the faeist rule ^n Italy and the convention unanimously concurred...
...This was done in the adasniatration of Jinuny Walker, Smith's haa*.picked Mayor, who as Mayor haa *Vha best wahrtUne in America.'* It ?aadone, more directly, under the ad-totolstration of Police Commissioner StoLmughlin, whom Smith made Walker MlkH...
...Hto failure, to do so is e repreach to hto political sincerity...
...If.il stands, it will be a precedent which will hurt all workers...
...TIMELY TOPICS By Norman Thomas ^Krefuaing "at turn time" <-> ~M- Al Smith for Prealden 3r -Batthew Wolfa committee at the Kf..of L. Convention nevertheless ¦to) him a, great boost in the state Bsjpaton...
...October M, at t:«* sctock...
...mathinks I see her aa an eagle mewing her...
...The industry will have to be organised ss an industry or not at all Imagine having separate craft organisations for blacksmiths, machinists, molder*, upholsterers, and God knows bow many other trades in ths Ford* plant...
...The latter nave been busily engaged In organizing the men on the "L's" and subways into the new local of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employees of America...
...Tork City met on Tuesday, October Sth, to consider agitation plans to crystaAtse toe, local Interest and supprrt Jn toe struggto for the two Imprisoned workers...
...If ever there was a graft bill that was it First of all, never in the history of the' state has a bill named a public official to he appointed under Its provisions Second...
...The rivers and lakes Of the state were frozen Solid tor many more wee'-s than usual...
...A assy, sad ¦* loy*4,«n<i take j3aV ^^^o^^to^^h^^ah^^ ¦weowr'to'the effectthat w% dtf fr^ reJuas rotations wtth ether aftaBSg dte» Utetohtpa, and above all, that it esaui d-> nothing hat seed to too over enut •aa what was...
...The A F. ot It...
...Are we to sell our political self respect for a few grudging favors...
...It is proposed by some that the automobile workers, if they should become unionized, would avoid many difficulties If they were put into federal unions...
...This action wds the occasion for eatttend¥d and' enmhatlo reaffirmation of fhe/^edsratlon ffcl1cy for-higher wages and shorter hours as productivity and efflgiency of labor increased...
...Irl racism...
...the Interborough thru Tammany Hall that was responsible...
...state of vast yroflts...
...Among the first tabor organisations to respond' to the emergency ¦gpssl .for funds and to fight the Injunction Is «Se Joint council of the Capmakers' Unions, representing seven- locals...
...Their latest proclamation tea...
...JUDGE WAGNER FATHER OF ICE GRAB T^nBfSt'a ¦ ? • fcariasBBBsBB ^^SJ^^s^sJS jPBpae s^pp ^^pn^ennBBBBB^nHnnr^^nwsnn^n^^r • Stiinf ill t iHfliliUn u isf ¦¦¦¦ TRUE to tbeto osmtoto of lining up .with Tanumurx Hall apoaj and and all ooenatojas, certain, elements in the lathee-sjovesaent eg New Tork are nhnln...
...The fc# or the bureaucracy enforcing the Hr, or both, show In a case like- this a almost unimaginable degree of Set stupidity...
...The Chicago crowd will, net forget the complete "trimming" that Organiser Randolph gave this labor-betrayer on that occasion...
...the understanding that the union [Bast be punished for rejecting the reBort of the Governor's commiaaior Which it had never promised to- accept ¦Shat has Matthew Woll's eommitte* % say about this...
...In the event that the dsotoloh to a favorable one, which all the facts would warrant hut which the knows) prejudice of Judge Thayer makes unlikely, the meeting wUl be a celebration of victory and a pledge to SaeeC and Vantettl that New Tork labor wUl not cease its' work set their behalf until they are vindicated and liberated...
...Tbe International European steel trust ia an accomplished fact...
...f The police have taken It upon themMils (o enforce the Guy Injunction »BB«8ly...
...long time ago Smith said gome, good fyords on this therna...
...That is not true...
...Green, ot the American Federation of Labor, its gratitude over the federation's decision at the Detroit convention to give .prompt financial aid again* Chaws, ,Fer tha t«Met anion men of qssjjfaf.Xear Tork, the, emey-, teunedaatojy^ financial rnpgarV...
...aas> J.-^MV ftodish, jtocrets^qr el HIGH PASSAIC BAIL HIT Hughes Demands Sinn| Totaling |37Sv00»rW Six Men, Be Lowered BTVASSAIC...
...The final struggle wtt begin...
...7 -^J Baseato wHh lta nine-month tffMk Sea tat starvation wagea in the toggjli toffla heM the asashw of the Ante* oa» jrederaOon af Labor r ii Itotogj •toe...
...Give him leisure to renew hie moral and physical strength anrfj look afterMtta sou fa welfare and he will return it to the nation many times in better oitisenahip...
...An especially successful meeting was held in Chicago on October S. Donald R. Richberg, local advisor for, twenty railway brotherhoods, who assisted in the drawing of the Watson-Parker bill which created the new board, addressed the meeting, and Mary Macdowell, well known social service expert was also a speaker...
...It will not soon be ^Bjjntton by'some workers that deBtttvee entered a meeting of the sub"?sV strikers and without any prove* -toHon or excuse whatsoever began Mentally to beat up the unoffending SBHkera...
...Bat P Smith has net yet some forward With a demand for tha modification of the Eighteenth Amendment Itself However difficult this may be to obtain, B is the only honest way tor the conduced wet to tackle tha problem...
...The other Incident referred to' occurred five years earlier...
...Edwaltt p. Lavin, by the way, is on the Executive Committee of the local organisation at trade Waif te Agtrt Injunction...
...The primary reeototfm tWas adoptsertiy the ' con v cht) en-stocco aad Vansetti...
...E«er this commission had done nothC*7 We challenge any labor comEpse carefully to examine tho facta...
...a. the second ww* of t+gZ ttooraflona to Detroit stojgtof...
...rhat proclamation contains at least >ne—if net more—astoss of tabor officials wbo never authorized that san[>ort, who are opposed to Tammany Han and an lta posies, and who are1 tarnestly supporttSe...
...So wan Al Smith...
...Thoda * aa Wntosiif of the I IBS...
...But1 winter Is usually followed hy summer, and a few eccentric people began thinking that the abundance of ice in the winter would* keep the price down in...
...I bave^fetol reapect fwr those who dUker fronv tod on thJa mattor of Russia, tort I Beef «>• eohianttoe's report w» befde...
...Unless...
...After John Frey of the molders, George Hedrj8k__of the painters, James Duncan of the granite cutters...
...These considerations have their place in the fudfjment of voters...
...crooked done, his loyalty to the machine prevails...
...The poor -people suffered acutely for tack of coal...
...vary won...
...thus^*fflrming the net Ion of previous conventions...
...Dunn asked $75,000...
...The constant harden qf their actasnations was that the gonununlsts tat America, whatever C«3M»BPiat» mtati or might not be dome to Shasta, were attacking th* trade union oOtHMsa...
...French metal interests had a . great deal to do with the occupation of the Ruhr, and, when that failed, with tbe changed attitude which succeeded^ it...
...It waa a fearfully hot summer and suffering was acute...
...Neither can Tabor endorse a man pimply because he Is a wet...
...He served notice on the defense, however, that he would depend largly upon the prosecuting attorney's advice in the...
...SsPerernor proposes state develop'Spaf New York water power but jjgtd leave the distribution at elecs*aty mads thereby in tbe bands of pynkb companies...
...The ftoctaUsts pissuoed that the •tats harvest the toe had sell It to the people at a trifle more than east...
...It la how know*, definitely that, the Ttapsrt' meat of Justice of the United States Government- -nldsd to tha treatewp against them...
...Those three men did the job, one of the dirtiest in recent political history...
...4...
...We must show up these pretended allies of organised, labor...
...For their pains they were subjected to a violent drunken outburst by the pet of Tammany Hall, Martin G. McCue, bartender and ex-pugilist, who shrieked that the Socialists for opposing that bill .were "the ten most unpatriotic men1 in fXe state of 'New York...
...W Speakers -deplored the-polttfcel ftps thy of labor...
...Jre are aa much saglaia to a wouid-ha assassin of liberty aa to a ittSM poeitfcmof Awilijtsn r*aiiiiai|i|L oT Labor off' ri iiajfafioa...
...Self respecting people will vote for Jessie Wallace Hug ban and' the whole Socialist ticket as the only way of working for a new deal aad a new civilisation...
...The ten Socialists in the Assembly fought like tigers against that coloesal graft...
...They were hit with injunctions...
...Smith' gave them aa ^vsstlgatlon by a commission which yebvered tragic facts...
...Mbb laying aside these specific ppn...
...Worse than that, l^everoor Smith- by hto...
...Can we afford to have the author of the Ice Grab bill of lilt in the Senate...
...It is an Integral part of the Socialist Party and of the • international Socialist movement...
...hero, a rurtahtf jfjfrftftan exists It Is American money which Is today financing European In general, and German-industry In particular...
...Mathinks .1 see in . my mine) a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a Strang ' man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks...
...The "Wecker" has achieved a large circulation and a very wide Influence, and the influenee of the Verband is far greater than, its numbers would indicate...
...recognises the difficulty snd officially adopted k resolution recommending "that the question of Jurisdiction be suspended for th* time being...
...Can we bs euro that if something really big comes along and his organisation wants to sit in on It, that he will serve the people—or will he serve his machine T His past record gives the answer...
...There jS, bena.nst nsssjnltal ehaage to Russia...
...What is far more likely is that there will be a clear line-up of the Interests of owners and investors against th* workers...
...wwe^witj|ten to o»e eyee and oa the i onleaahQir of hatred and also*^?!**** cern 'tor American methods at labor progress...
...Essie...
...Wt course I believe in building up labor party sa a sound measure ot tactical pontics...
...Vtoorous ptaaa for a tohep aukj that would put forth the wgjSedjaSsS en the poUttoal Jtotd toat^|to rnp^i thrast before theTii'inmj£t Ihjr^B Bayoa...
...Ask 'AT Smith Who is supplying the Democratic funds...
...Tbe Job wOt take not only th* fund ot money which the Federation oseht to obtain, but a greater fund of Intelligence, courage and organising ability...
...This is not to say that Robert F. Wscner is crooked...
...No one who hai gait believing in Santa Clans can ¦doubt that Tammany judges woOHJ tbever have issued this - injunction ot HMtolnued It Just before an election ex'sept with Smith's tacit approval and :eh...
...Manhattan ana Brooklyn...
...What did be do...
...But if the Republican jM . Democratic platforms in New Bgh' meant anything, the election itHI was a referendum to favor of toe Kendment...
...The waters to the rivers and lakes are the -proptrty of the people ot the state...
...I. the workers are opposed to tbs Ldgs exploitation of water power...
...Benjamin B. OdeiL S. That that Comptroller waa to fix prices for Ice, and that it should be Illegal to sell toe below that figure...
...They, must not .be commuted to Ufa Imprisonment and forgotten...
...We have a good proof of how they really act In the present garment strike...
...Budlsh declared, because appeals to Police Commissioner McLaughlin and other police heada have proved futile...
...There ia already talk ot a Franco-Belgian-German electrical alliance...
...The Conservative, new deceased...
...Every -worker ought to shun "AT Smith, Walker" and the rest of these Democrats...
...save Saoco and Vaasetti have no false' illusions about Justice to .Massachusetts...
...They are not likely to pull up and Co away...
...The winter of 1917-18 was the coldest in a hundred years...
...Cheap ice would have made the summer endurable...
...and Wichita...
...former Republican boss of tbs state aad twice Governor, was one of the biggest wholesale ice dealers in the state...
...Budlsh declared the workers, in .ilmost every particular, are guilty only of peaceful picketing...
...It was not the uniformed police, it was a special group of men—the Industrial Squad...
...The Hudson was -frozen over even below Tonkers, and heavy automobiles and trucks crossed, the Ice only a few miles above New Tork City...
...That would have (deprived the lee dealers off the...
...Was 'AT Smith...
...No Sbse- modincaUon of the Volstead Act ¦SB satisfy Smith or any other genuine Bet...
...The strike leaders...
...Take tho organisation of automobile industry, for example...
...The fatal evil In the bill waa (1) that the good, patriotic tee dealers would lose their profits sad (I) it came from the despised ¦odallste...
...Federal unions are usually organised where the number of locals does not warrant organisation, of a new international or where certain conditions would otherwise 'cause jurisdictional disputes...
...They are not telling the truth...
...etoetfon he would not N. Y. Labor to Protest Brutality of Police In March to City Hall REPRESENTATIVES of M0,0e0 Now Tork trade unionists and thousands of workers to the needle- trades and others sympathetic to the ?O.OOO striking cloakmakers will march to city Hall at 1 p. m. Saturday to' pretest to Mayor Walker whntaiale arreeto of cloak pickets and "other poihse brutalittes," the Emergency Labor Conference formed last Friday announced yesterday, through its secretary, J. M. Bndiah...
...It is doubtful therefore whether there, will he a clear line-up ot .European versus American interests...
...JMM ¦:'<^tofir...
...Hundreds of *h""«viflff ot people lived- through - that fearful winter without one single day of relief from the...
...Resolutions passed earlier In the session indorsed the union label campaign, favored the 44-hour week for army and nary employes and government employes, .^generally and made changes la the federation constitution that raise the per capita assessment of federal trade unions, the maximum initiation fee and the reinstatement fee for them...
...How can the cultural aed.spiritual...
...Organised -Ubor of every tWmbt opinion.Unopposed to fhe^rtoht *n Judge by an Injunction to ato*« Eratest^whjch^tnlto^ tohor Smith has haver even **voc«Aeo Sjore^han a very partial cure for the Injunction evil and he haa never put Ills great political strength behind th< moderate measure to which he is namJhaUy ' commuted...
...He Bfbod' for «, popular referendum In tSh* Tork City as a way to save his In principle a popular Tfferen9hn on a Constitutional amendment is ^good thing...
...Their Innnnsato haf been completely established by aflrdavjEto of a eanvtat who acknowledge* the gultt.ef UmseU and his gang...
...The great hall was decorated with the red Sags of the Verband and of other Socialist organisations...
...All these defendants are married...
...This is merely te point out that his loyalty to bis political machine la the one guiding principle of his political life, and when his machine permits him to favor pro preeaive legislation he favors progressive legislation...
...jj "But 'AI' Smith and Jimmie Walker and all the other politicians in NewYork will not break the cloakmakers' strike...
...To place It so high that It can never be raised is practically the same as holding the man without bail...
...That was the time of open gambling house'* (just after the Rosenthal murder), protected vice, open looting of the public till by Tammany officials...
...Each year the state allows private tee ansa pa i ilea te ewt the lea sad «d0 it...
...Shun Tammany Hall,' Subway Union Heads By Laborite ONO live the subway strike...
...As soon as it became clear that the workers would not, accept the recommendation of the Governor's Commission, what happened...
...deckrivetyaeWfa...
...But It further instructs the executive'council -to look tale the questionable ytae-Ueea of' the Federal r>epftrtnient of Justice In helping- to franje- up the Innocent seen and .hi sent .refusing- to open its flies to aid In clearing them of the payroll murder that, 'Celstlno Medslros admits he cowtfnmed in Massachusetts la ItSO...
...For defying the Interborough the company has attempted toy squash them by obtaining one of the broadest Injunctions ever issued in a labor dispute...
...They are obtaining a second injunction against the old leaders of the subway strike...
...The rise ot snob a Ifty would scare any old party GarBon oven before labor cams to Brer, Into making mors concessions Is} labor than either old party will pre to workers who come to tt cap Kfcsnd...
...we challenge Matthew Wolrs ^Httoe to tell us what great and dScant measure tor tenor Oovernor fib is advocating In this campaign, field ago or unemployment tasurSt, not reform of taxation In the ¦SiBts of the fanners snd workers...
...Before one may call himself a Socialist," he aaid, "there must burn in his heart a love for freedom...
...It provided: 1. That all the Ice In the state ¦hould be turned over to a State lea Comptroller who would serve without pay...
...but at soy rate the state eaa stay la and ass it for itself...
...Now let's get down to real labor i-*%iuncuenf and the w«e of police ^syftotates...
...The 1mm 1Ktion authorities would deport the (bents, but not the children...
...while the Labor majority now to i,«M, which shows a big turn-over for Labor...
...It would be truer to say that Robert T. Wagner bhs-eunoorted Tantotony Hall to whatof his record on labor lectaiat^^t' the request of the headquarters of the American Federation of Labdi'.'' 'It^to safe'to say that that record •rill not toetade two of the most shametal episodes in American political htelory, to bath of which Robert F. Wagnert'.-«Jhs intimately concerned...
...New Tork tabor | will reply with a monster protest meetr 1 tog to reaJBrm their gsilgsTfty WBB | SaccQ and VansatU and their determination to save them from tha electric chair...
...Possibly this new economic understanding In Europe may ho directed against American industrial interests...
...But labor must seek farther...
...iron ooM...
...He was willing to do crooked things but there were sotne thing* that even he couldn't endure...
...However, those who have participated in the lone, bitter struggle of six years to...
...The garment worker* w*s*ed all bar* let down, while th« dhaensker* wanted the right of reUglous.and political asylum guaranteed...
...He has always favored as much Labor legislation as nis Tammany bosses have thought expedient to-support...
...Organiser Randolph received a tremendous ovation from the Chicago crowd, where he is known and loved, especially - since his sensational debate with Perry Howard, negro G. O. P. leader, who Is In the employ of the Department of Justice and the Pullman company...
...The group that issued that proclamation is the same that trench- • eroualy threw over Senator La Follette utd announced "labor's" support of Davis, the Wall Street attorney, three or tour days before election ;two years ago...
...All have children, and all ttoya^tfved to this Passaic, Clifton, Garfield district from four "to ton years...
...I learned Just a few minutes ago from the prosecutor that William Sikora, whom we had understood to he held without bait, haa been placed under HMO...
...matter of setting bail...
...What is not debatable is that Egr should got its price for its eabrsement...
...Amendment by wholesale disobedience to it, he must advoeaCe- the modification of the emendtosat...
...But there Socialists were laughed at-by the "wise guys," who thought It was very tunny to think about ice in the winter...
...Wilson and Lewis, attempted to Bnk Albert F, Chyle, editor Locomotive Engineers' Journal, with the alleged Cetamnolst plana to defeat Lewi* foe re-election to the presidency of the Vnited Mtee Workers, against whom John Branny of th* central Ponnsylav ale miners, to iiumian...
...we find merely another form of dletasornhip and autocracy, a principle of...
...a. resolution to continue the campaign of education for shorter hours and a shorter work week...
...Leaders ef German and British industry in general have bad a conference and are setting up some kind of machinery for an exchange of ideas if nothing more...
...But not lately...
...Nothing less wifl satisfy tabor...
...Mlceli h a\ Italian immigrant who lost his and3!* the 'eonlt of an accident whop tops*Working in the Baldwin LocoIpPvV'Orkd...
...The demonstration has been arranged, Mr...
...The great en•gsni Steinmetx, would have had elecW3m produced and distributed by ths pis its own agencies as In OnEE, Wo challenge any committee of jEjk* to investigate the facts snd say ^Smith's remedy rather than Bteinten*e should be applied...
Vol. 3 • October 1926 • No. 40
