AN OPEN LETTER TO THE MINERS IN THE ANTHRACITE
Debs, Eugene V.
An Open Letter to the Miners in the Anthracite By, Eugene V. Debs AFTER almost six months of idleness in tks anthracite region the mines are to open again and the miners are to return to the...
...Franklin B. Gowan, the suicide, king of the Reading, and his infamous tool, McPartland...
...Chaos continues in wholesaling— chaos and robber...
...TIMELY TOPIC By Norman Thomas OF COURSE was 'ar...
...Watch the decisions of the Third House, beloved freemen...
...Abraham Caban, of tne Jewish Daily Forward, and Norman Thomas, director of the League for Industrial Democracy...
...New Leader dinners, as will readily " be remembered by those who bad the good fortune to attend the previous ones, are something more than the usual Socialist affairs...
...rrom the miners' viewpoint the con.essdons were small and constitute a. Star reward for the heroism and eufMsg of a six months' strike...
...And they lost the strike...
...But there is no particular wisdom or virtue to our ruling class...
...tot terms fairly f8MP$9tttf$fa» assa which do not seem to HkFart«Ccess to cosl dealers for Increased proJ,UsHn| But it would seem Incredible g It had not happened that so great a strike with so much suffering: should awe been fought for no greater Issue gya appears in the truce—we cannot *atf it a settlement—which ends the jQcml chaos still remains...
...THE Socialist Party of France is gathering strength so...
...Most earnestly do I hope for their own sake and for' the sake of their suffering wives, mothers ant children, that the bitter lesson of this terrible lockout (that is what It was In tact, not a strike) will not have been in vain, but that they .will open their eyes to the conditions- Which confront them and marshal their Industrial and political forces for the overthrow of the capitalist system and if or* the establishment of the.Working Class Republic In the United State...
...the strength sUII shown by the CommunUU in Paris and the environs...
...As for the operators and miners we cea't see that either of them won much...
...Despite the heroism of the rank and file, the anion is losing ground...
...In the same resolution the Socialists Teatfirmed their willingness to try their hand at either aa«*dl-Socialits cabinet or one with Socialist* in control...
...Many minor children were working i unlawfully...
...They are the fruits ' of capitalism...
...For Use stance, our country's entry into tSfeS World War waa not only a is'lsiVsst error, but also a mlsfortuue tor tne world and for th» white ^JJgjj^jJfc "What has Debe done...
...Coolidge won because he did nothtsg...
...sycophants attempted to credit him with having brought an end to the struggle...
...By that time everybody will have forgotten who Fall was and with what crime he waa charged...
...President Lewis and his organizers for one reason or another are not making headway...
...On its face the settlement is a true...
...And so powerful is this opposition to national ownership that through, its press, its politicians, its preachers, professors, and its menials and mercenaries in and out of office, these colossal exploiter so intimidate even labor leaders that they dare not suggest this remedy to their benighted followers...
...Here is a tangle of wild profiteering and bankruptcy...
...RESTORE RffiftTS TO DEBS, IS DEMAND ' -• » s'l ¦ : - t i. Berger Introduces Measure fas Return CHizet> ship of Socialist * ARESOLUTION providing thai, Eugene V. Debs, four times Socialist candidate for riSSHsel of the United States, be readmitted to the rights of American ilUssnskto...
...They rule the anthracite region with the mailed flat and tha iron heel...
...The miners on now go bask into the pita to begin over again the weary and hopeless round until the next strike give* them an opportunity to repeat their tragic experience...
...They struck tor a 10 per cent, increase in uPaSes end they received no increase at all...
...Only national ownership with demoeratlo administration can reach these emsWorse chaos remains in the bituminous Hold...
...The operators and strike leaders kneW no bsbh suffering and torment...
...They are the only occasion the Socialists and radicals who read The New Leader get to make an acquaintance with the men and women who are writing the Socialist propaganda of the day...
...Among the speakers will be Roger Baldwin, the director of the •Aiaerlosa <w*ttt TnieUssa Union and til ossMntT Ssrero post-war fight for American liberties...
...The operators have triumphed and there is no use of the miners trying to deceive themselves or allowing themselves to be deceived by the capitalist press or their own leaders...
...On the other hand the mine owners began face bitter critic...
...have seised upon the discontent of a large section of the people over economic hardships to agitate agalnaf-the government and shout for a dictatorship...
...luck and stupidity, with a deplorable leek of gray matter...
...S were brought to the surf see...
...International Secretary of tne Socialist Party...
...Even the Times becomes weary of the farce and observes that for two years the case has been "knocking a round the courts...
...Cm the whole we think the miners won tkt mere...
...Another feature of the situation for miners to understand is that voting for capitalism will Insure the perpetuation of capitalism and all its consequences, including long and hopeless strikes, poverty, hunger, dirt and slavery...
...William B. Ward says: "The United States Steel Corporation, through its policy of eorvtos to its employee and to the public, became known as a 'good trust' and in that way pet out its defenses and outposts against attacks by radicals...
...The total loss in wages was estimated at S^peOxtroately $190,000,000...
...Meantime some members of the United States Senate are organising a drive against the mergers...
...Following on the heels of the suit >.gainst the Ward bread interests last week another suit was filed against the National Food 'Products Corporation which proposes to gather in the chain stores and small retail business throughout the country...
...The second list Law Limps After of indictments of Oil Offenders If1' Boh*** and Sinclair, of oil fame, haye been sustained by a Federal Court In Washington, D. C, and another chapter has been opened in the serial that has been running for two years...
...Of course, it would be foolish to look for the Third House in the State Constitution...
...The three demands of the workers whses) the employers" association refused tS grant are: 40-hour work weak...
...Jt was...
...Many time* have I covered the principal points In this field and as many times have I had occasion to know how the mining pirates rule in the anthracite., To my own personal knowledge the miners in the anthracite have been striking against this monstrous monopoly for half a century, and after all these years of toll and agony, of slavery and martyrdom, nothing has been settled...
...Toilets are all outside and "their condition was universally^.bed...
...that the material welfare of the "best people" is taken care of, if you get what we mean...
...Our notion of a boob wnssmer is a man who gets robbed for substitutes which are only second or third best...
...Its actions are often more Important and decisive than the deUberaUens eg the stsrn—m downstairs...
...Unintimidated Belgium Reduces by threats of reeignations on the Army Service part of a number of high army officers, said to include the Chief of the General Staff, and near-Fascist militarist demonstrations in the streets, the Socialist-Catholic combination governing Belgium has put the plan reducing ^ compulsWy army service from one "year to W» months through the Chamber of Deputies, and It is expected to go into effect in time to cut military expenses about 34.SO0.OOO this year...
...When the semi-monthly Pnpulatr* disappear* with the...
...This growth of Socialist sentiment helps explain why at the special national convention held Jan...
...The union needs new energy...
...To be sure that the Third Chamber itself would not neglect this duty it is reported that a number of manufacturers personally attended its asesion and urged the "investigation" as a substitute for the Fort>•-eightHour Bill...
...An organization whose publications continually denounce all nonCommunists as scourdrels, fakers, and betrayers of the working class and that can contribute nothing but personal billingsgate and factional sHrife to the organised working class has only itself to thank when it meets retaliation...
...In fact It has often been said that these is a special angel protecting Snf children, the . feeble-minded and the United States of America...
...I have rff7 "sTed every Socialist, every f£BE eT9rT Progressive, in short, g^sltelllgent cltlaen, actively .to RJ22*^enat°r Norris in hie light tor »oate...
...It again emphasizes the fact tha/ "equality before the law" is a fraad and will remain a fraud so long as' thhj class remains the master of society...
...10-11 the delegates (as reported at the time in The New Leader) voted by a good-sised majority against entering any government aa a minority, preferring to preserve the right to support or oppose whatever cabinet might be in power, according to circumstances...
...Juet Call Stuyvesant 6885...
...editor of The New Leader and historian of American labor, will deliver a lecture this Friday evening, under the auspices of the Tremont Educational Forum, at its headquarters, 4215 Third avenue, corner ot Tremont avenue...
...Relief is imperatively needed without delay...
...This is a luxury enjoyed only by the capitalist class...
...This caused an uproar and the Oxford Union adopted a motion censuring the vicechancellor by a vote of 215 to 92...
...The report says It seemed likely that the number of children actually working was considerably larger than reported, as investigators repeatedly saw little figures fleeing from the canneries and disappearing into the woods...
...in the anthracite field...
...Beraug said: "Our country evidently Is being goto erned by a queer mixture of pet...
...The new monthly was started near tha end of IMS...
...f In a statement he Issued...
...Some •{.the terms of peace are...
...Make Your Reservation* Today for the New Leader Dinner, Thursday Evening, Feb...
...From West Virginia, Central Pennsylvania and Oklahoma come tragic appeals for help for thousands of dispossessed miners and their families now housed, in midwinter, in rude shacks or barracks...
...tSpiaOon of these interests will or Jgr» etecUvsw...
...It will be remesafaereg fb*t *t*kw tens jot thesapiit great daliy fouSded by^Jee^Jaurss^mnwMMrtto wAa...
...In making this statement I speak from my own personal observation and experience...
...While conceding the good intentions of these Senators we cannot agree that industrial and financial consolidation can .be materially checked...
...J To Start Daily Paper While the party membership is rising fast, being close to the 126,000 mark, the lack of & daily' paper is greatly handicapping the Socialists* work of education and agitation...
...The daily loss in wages was estimated at $2*1*4,000...
...All of The New Leader's special writers will fee/ present at the dinner <aad there will he ample time given for a generous Stall lire of criticism with the approbation...
...equal division of work and no discharge without proper cause...
...Tho owners and operators have steadily grown richer and more powerful...
...At th* greet banouel held here Oct, St t« celebrate th* twentieth *P' nlversary of tha founding of the Unl> fled Socialist Party and the attainment Of a dues-paying membership of 100,000 by th* Present Boslallst Party, when Hocr»i»ry y»u) Feure announeed that since the banquet plans wets mad* tha membership had poached about 101,000, the applause of Hie l.MO guest* was punctuated by many cries of "Now we must have our own daily again '¦" So a drive has been begun te rales E,090,9oe francs (about |7»,oeo at proses, t exchange rates) and gat 38,000 subscriptions pledged la order to start the new daily under sondlticns favorable for its success...
...Let us see for a moment what the strike consisted of and what the miners got out of it...
...V The Third Meeting of the House is meeting Third House in Albtny !" usual...
...As long as the miners and the worker* in general aupport the political party of their masters, whether it be the Republican wing or the Democratic wing, they will get what they are getting now, the right to collective starvation, provided they starve in a peaceable and law-abiding way, for if they dare toTn&ke any fuss about it •they will promptly receive bullets in exchange for the ballots they gave to the candidates of their masters...
...The end of the...
...The problem of the high cost mine, the Betaken of private monopoly and of estsrttBnate profits are untouched...
...And even if there is a trial and conviction, it may be years before tne Bupreme Court of the United States gives a final decision...
...The speakers will hsctade non-Boclaliee* sad lea Is...
...The move against the Nickel Plate merger of five railroads is in the hands of Senator Wheeler while LaFollette expresses the opinion, that the Government suit against Ward will prove "abortive...
...and i* adited by J*aw l<on^ s-uet and Im...
...And there the matter rests...
...They still bold it, and its prestige is largely responsible fes...
...L Oxford UniOxford University veraity, London, Escapes Peril has been notable cor its tolerance of all views...
...ii ii ¦ , i i MEET THE MEN WHO WRITE FOR THE NEW LEADER AT THE DINNER WITH the New Leader successfully launched .on Its third year, the coming annual dinner to be held Thursday...
...The arrangement committee reports an unusually heavy list of early reservations...
...it appears, won...
...They struck for the check-off and it was Ssfsjad them...
...Henry G. Alsberg, brllliajnY*journalist, translator of "The Dybbuk" which is making ouch a sensational run at a local theatre...
...President Doumerguo imitating Xing George and giving tne labor forces a chance to run the government fo» a while as a minority, a la Ramsay Macdonald...
...12,000 FURRIERS ON STRIKE Entire New York Industry Shut Down b United Walkout " s TWELVE thousand New York fur workers are at rutin a;—cutters, squarers, operators, nailers, iron, ers, examiners, finishers, fur cap makers, tall and head makers...
...The same condition obtains in many other places...
...Civil war h| chronic...
...In June, 192S, another convention in the same city chased several out of town...
...Goolldge's manager of the Federal funds, MWlon, is associated in the ownership of 23 aluminum companies and there are holdings in other conntries...
...Continuous Stat* of War Ever since the Molly Maguires, and even before, there has been war in the anthracite...
...The peoW»«*»t develop their owe water ™« f» true in New York State fggPtroe at Muscle Shoals...
...The Socialists were very weak in numbers and .funds immediately after the split, and their attempt to run their orgu, le Populalre...
...The men stood bravely and they and their families suffered with stoic fortitude...
...For fifty years I have had personal contact and knowledge of conditions in the anthracite...
...a pitting of working class stomachs against capitalist class bank-vaults...
...It is significant that many members of two young Tory clubs voted to censure on the ground that freedom1 of speech had received a bloW: The dissent of other conservatives, however, resulted In a decision to poll the membership of the Oxford Union which includes graduate members-as well as undergraduates...
...Bolshevlse" the French Communist Forty by reorganising It en the basis of shop nuclei ¦asms to have worked put 'about as badly a* a similar movs in th* United State* ha*, done...
...Many canners do not pay thenworkers until the end of the season, giving them metal checks which are accepted by storekeepers for supplies but cannot be exchanged for cash until the employer is ready...
...There is small chance, however, of...
...Morris HiUquit...
...Robbing Eugene V. Debe of Isla citizenship is simply a disgrace to the country—not to Debs...
...There has been little change in the anthracite region since those working class executions took place fiftytwo years ago...
...First the original indictment was quashed...
...They ate their ample meals each day and slept each night in c#rofcsm>4e beds...
...In the United States the action would have taken the form of kicking the students out of the university and...
...Usually one water pump for the camp, no bathing facilities, no slop sink, poor drainage, few garbage receptacles and these seldom covered...
...Chancellor Oxsew stlerna, when be penned that fassQISJ sentence about the world being governed by a minimum of wisdosa, west have had a prophetic vision of Ike) 'gem of the ocean.' , % • "It is true there is great proeperttp* for our ruling class owing to the tout that Its forbears received the rtohest continent dp the globe as a gift...
...But nobody knows what will happen on appeal...
...Justice is growing a beard and ere long the beard will turn white and our children may still be reading installments of this exciting story...
...SOCIALIST REVIVAL IS REPORTED IN RUMANIA Revival pf poelallst activities in tho ported pf qulst forced by government oppression, |a reported by tho Berlin Vprwaertp- • At a Socialist Party «pnf*r*nc* hold in January plana for reorganisation wsyp mad* and it wa* d*eidpd to take part in the recant local election*, In most cases m combination with the Dentpcrptlc party- Several speakers said that many Rumanian workers who had been disillusioned regarding the pregpeeis of Communism were returning to the CastaHCt Party...
...Soft coal in New lSase...
...one of th* hla...
...The issue is, shall we take them over as collective property for the good of all...
...One Communist was ousted by the delegates at Scranton...
...No corporation, whether or not it is ;f**»lled by Secretary Mellon or Mr...
...Will some defender ot the present policy oblige me with an answer...
...These gentlemen constitute an upper chamber whose duty it is to see...
...In Pittsburgh the Federal Trad' Commissio - was refused a list of its stockholders by the Aluminum Company but v^i later forced to yield its records...
...Gradual reduction of army service to _c months, as a step toward eventuaF disarmament, is one of the main planks in the Belgian Socialist platform, and Premier Poullet evidently realized that he roust make some material concessions to Foreign Minister Vandervelde and his other Socialist collaborators In the Cabinet if be wished to hold them in line for further co-operation in putting Belgium upon a firm financial basis...
...The Associated Fur Manufacturers...
...as a daily soon failed, and it was transformed into a semimonthly...
...A national program might help give it...
...PITTSBURGH, Pa<—After a battle of eleven days with Are and poisonous gaa within the south entry af the Homing Mine, the bodies of fefirtaen af the twenty men who lost their lives Feb...
...A large part af the capital has already been paid In or subscribed, and th* paper mir pp»b» nitty b* «md*r way within a short time...
...The Rumanian trade unions also held a wail attended conference recently at which resolutions were adopted rejecting the ideals pf revolutionary syndicalism .and eaiiing far education and organisation along regular trad* union lines...
...The empire of American capital is becoming more extensive than su£b pikers as Caesar and Napoleon ever dreamed...
...au by many rgans c* the capitalist class which contributed to the settlement Coolidge remained in the caverns of the White House and did nothing, yet his...
...As was forecast Miners Ratify lor several days Agreement Trt-Dtatr»ct Convention of tie United Mine Workers at Scranton ratified the strike settlement, of 7Bj» delegates in attendance only two voted in the negative and the miners returned to the pits Thursday morning, although members of the committee who negotiated the agreement defended it as a victory it la certain' that many members regard it as otherwise...
...It appears la about %. Join the Federal government in H»Jrtng Santa Claus at the people's ***•»• to Secretary Melton's Aluml¦B trust That trust is said to contwo of the three water power coangjss—Uie third is a giant power Sfcblnatlon headed by former Speaker g*old—to which the State Water 3^* Commission proposes to give -WJs to state water sufficient to genHPsbout 2,000,000 horse-power...
...On bne occasion I was shown the gallows with vhl:h a number of them were hanged...
...Ste many mines are open...
...The roe boss gets a bonus of 60 cents or $1 a head for...
...But they still strike one section at a time and with the same general result, which can be seen In the wretched, tragic, pitiful conditions which prevail In practically all ot the mining regions ot this country...
...It waa dictated by necessity, the ne -salty of the miners being more compelling than that of the mine owners...
...THE MINERS SUFFERED IN VAIN The number of strikers was estimated at 1*8,000 who, with their families, aggregated threequarters of a million of people...
...This system prevents workers from leaving or rebelling against the very bad conditions under which they are forced to live and work...
...The whole strike from the day it was declared played into the hands of the operators and the strikers were foredoomed to defeat and disaster...
...h I am prompted to address this letter to the miliars in the anthracite for the reason that the capitalist press and some of the strike leaders report and would have the strikers and the people in general believe that the strike was woo...
...Tha January convention voted unanimously to approve th* action of th* Permanent Administration Committee in launching ths campaign for the dally and urged all tha comrade* to fall Into Una- It wa* emphaaiaeu that it really seemed ridiculous for a party with 100 Peputjec, genu) (oo Mayor* and pa fewer than 10,000 members af loaal legtsUtive bodies «o have te gat sJpny without a central daily orgap...
...Condition* remain substantially the same, and in due course the miners will strike again and acain...
...A large audience to expected, and reader* are urged to be at the hell at 8:15 prompt, if they wish to secure seats...
...T.e miners made a gallant fight, certainly one of the most heroic in the history of American labor struggles, but -tear months without- any income had brVnght stack want into many households...
...Why to the name of common sense, for instance, should the contract with the anthracite operators expire at one time and the contract with the bituminous operators at another time...
...Nationaliratlon^, of the bituminous mines Is tsssentlal U»- any real solution...
...Meanwhile a new indictment had been found...
...Inc., locked -But the 4,oet workers esaployed In its members' shops several days before the general strike was declared by the* New York Joint board, International Furriers Union...
...strike will lower prices...
...Torlr State...
...This action will make the Tammany agents all the more active in^defense of tne bill, so...
...A Nsw Policy Nssded , v It is true that until the workers have their eyes opened to this fact they can meanwhile do something through their organization to maintain /some semblance of their rights and a comparatively decent standard of living, but It win require a different policy than that hitherto pursued if the miners are to hold the little they have instead of sink' ; deeper into wage-stovery...
...solemn hundred percenters would thank Gawd that the noble republic had been again saved...
...Now what did the miners actually1 get out jm'this vast loss in wages, this enormous waste of time and the unimaginable suffering and wretcaedtaeas to which they were subjected during all those weary and agonizing days...
...That...
...For a period of five years they are now tied to the mines during which they may not strike but have the privilege once each year of asking the bosses for a trifle more than is being allowed them...
...Migratory working families are obtained by a "roe boss," who contracts with the canner to supply labor for the season...
...Industrial cities of the North, the Communist membership is new about to, compared te COO before the reorganisation...
...The Forty-eight-Hour Week Women Bill Is said to have been vetoed by the Third House and the Republican boys downstairs have been ordered to work for another "investigation" of women labor instead...
...jSJejybsdy...
...class' also >nad for centuries a rrniMue nous stream of willing and able wurkjS ers who had been raised and trained at the expense of Europe...
...that they can return to Mew York with aa appeal to the proletariat...
...The censure waa reversed by a vote of 403 to 3C7...
...In short, the millions of dollars at the disposal of powerful offenders enable ' them to wander through, a maze of legal technicalities, pursued' by a limping justice, but generally far enough in the rear to give comfort to the pursued...
...and with the name inevitable result...
...As a columnist put it: That man ekud fall in the river and come out ' The consumers won because they graved they could get along without eathraclte...
...Special occupational disease...
...percent of payroll to fee paid fey.'eeW ployer for unemployment insurance...
...lips of_a strike leader during the entire period of the strike, and yet it is the only remedy that will emancipate the miners in the anthracite from wage-bondage to their brutal masters...
...For the benefit of those not acquainted with this branch of the Legislature, we wish to explain that it consists of the agents of ,the manufacturers, banks, railroads, super-power and other interests...
...It is no more within the reach o^srarkers than a costly painting or a summer residence on the coast of Maine...
...o. Fi uss*in> s * Veung Militants Crspnige Anoth*r addition to tha fighting ability of the party is th* final definite organisation of tha young militants into groups eloaaly linked with th* regular party machinery and devoted cp promoting education and athletlon as well as Boctallst propagandaWhile tha Frenah Sqeialists are thus preparing for further victories, their Communist competitor* for the support of labor are badly divided among them* Salves, and their membership has been reduced from «l,0»9 In J83< to about 15,000 at the beginning of 1*29, according tp a statement mads by Boris Souvarlne, editor of th* S«Het|n eommuniffta, organ of tha di*aant*r* kicked out of tha pld cprpmunist Party early last year for having dared to support Leon Trotsky, then |n temporary eclipse In Russia...
...The strike came at the precise time it was wanted by the operators and they had long been preparing for it, and in the long run the strike not only will have coat them nothing but will have strengthened their position and fortified their mastery in the anthracite...
...It won't solve this prob_ - after the strike oomea the Irian...
...For years I have insisted that these contract* should expire at one and tho same time eo that if the miner* are driven to strike they can strike together solidly from end to end of the country and thereby .tend far greater chances of winning- for all than by stupidly allowing t»*04***voa^^Mv have for years, notably in the strike just closed...
...Miners Vote Bosses'Ticket In the anthracite the miners as a rule vote for the .Republican ticket, and they ought to know at the close it they did not know at the beginning of the strike what the Republican party stands for and what they get under its administration...
...Ghastly waste of life is ssmmon...
...The long strike is over...
...It isn't even provedjyet list the anthracite people won't trun tn» prices, on the consumers...
...The beginnings of a political storm and the fact that substitutes for ssShracite were being used -did force ** operators and their banker backers u) make some concessions...
...Ward la Planams...
...in England there are ne leae Thssj 21 membprs of Parliament who have* served short prison sentences because they were opposed to England's participation in the war...
...bnt the Belgian working class is too well organized ^and educated to allow these imitators of Mussolini to do much more than 1st off steam...
...ers suffer front a special furriers* asthma,' bronchitis, nose aad throat catarrhs, skin aad blood poisoning " and various ether afflictions perm liar to the trade: It is a well-known teat that the lit* ......'eessewsstss lews special prjovwaoee tor fur worker...
...To this day the names of those martyrs may only be mentioned In whispers...
...rapidly that in case of a general election being forced In the near future over the nation's financial problem the 100 Socialists in the Chamber of Deputies will come back so heavily reinforced as to make it impossible fcr any,old party combination successfully to resist the Socialist demand for balancing the budget and restoring credit by making the war and post-war profiteers and wealthy bourgeois in general let go of a substantial share of their ill-gotten gains...
...Few people outside of*the striken themselves and their loyal wives and children knew what terrible suffering there was in the anthracite...
...advent of tho daily Saeialiata, wlU be materially enlarged...
...What keen hunger-pangs tormented the victims, what despair there was in their cold shackle, and/jcabins, and what bitter cries went up for bread and relief during that cruel and agonizing Jtteriod...
...Twice...
...aa wen aa the outstanding leaders of the Socialist Party...
...He says that -the employers "arc Just aa much aware ae the union, to of the fact (hat a special medical examination has established that tbe fur ssrfe...
...purposely ngoe and unless we are mistaken will ttn rise to endless oaiarrela...
...In Justifying the union dssnsoda...
...We are simplyt | planning to do similar /things...
...Motions to quash it, in turn, were duly...
...I lesj ueee to subscribe to that doctrine...
...Oneal, to his historical researches and studies, came across some old American publications, not generally known, in which criticism of capitalist industrial society, Tory much analogous te that ait tho literature of modern Socialism is to be friend and discussed...
...Many Brit=1 ish Tories are at least civilised while...
...The Kind of a Trust Mr...
...On the whole, it looks to us as at It were a strike in which everybody (sxcept some soft coal mine owners, tesal wholesalers, the laundrymen, the sand-blast people who clean^ Ike fronts of buildings) lost...
...But now the party is strong again and feels confident of being able to launch a new dally and make it a suecess...
...wiaold should be given thmjich prize...
...Joint board rasa' ager...
...Thia week the Third House took action on an...
...The regulation will fte bands of politicians who have 3r**s>v«rt«inal grants...
...AH BBJSB shops are closed by the strike...
...The workers also ask a 25 percent increase in minimum wage rates...
...Of course, l'Humanlte continues to print big stories of great gains by the Communist organisations, but those on the inside know better, It is r*pert*d in th* Bulletin Communists that 260 leading Communist party members, including II of the is communist Deputies, hav* signed a letter gent to the executive committee of the Communlet International in Moscow complaining . bitterly at the result* ef the tactics adopted by th* French party leaders and demanding a house cleaning...
...Nstionslization Only Solution There is but one way under the sun to break this steel-clad, fiint-faced, stony-hearted monopoly in the anthracite, and that Is by nationalizing the mines, taking them away Zrom their greedy private owners and turning them ove* to the 'people and having them operated for the benefit of the /people...
...It is In Albany, alive, alert, active and functioning very well...
...The handful of Belgian wouldbe Fascist...
...more brutal and autocratic, but there has been no material change In the standard of living or in the general condition of the miners...
...at the Park Palace...
...wrfk which fur workers become afflicted are noted by Ben Gold...
...Oneal on "Cultural Basis for Socialism" In the Bronx Friday James Oneal...
...An Open Letter to the Miners in the Anthracite By, Eugene V. Debs AFTER almost six months of idleness in tks anthracite region the mines are to open again and the miners are to return to the pits...
...important matter...
...It is not true and-it does not seem possible that the strikers can be deceived by such a spuriousjcletm to save certain faces...
...It will be 22?* court decisions wholly to the companies...
...their kind' here belong to the lower-' Silurian period of ^world history...
...1 That is the Socialist program, and every pirate In the anthracite and elsewhere is opposed to it and will fight it to the last -ditch...
...the strikers and their wives atad Uttk£Opes, and they alone, who paid as the rank and file of a strike always pay, in hunger, pH^ticm -sus|| want...
...This is Sis* about the modified check-off which sart even mentioned by name and the spfhlaary of arbitration and adjustsasnt...
...made...
...all help furnished...
...Then it was sustained on appeal...
...captured by the seeedera...
...The ftrr industry is one of the rklisst nnflls trade industries, and the fur workers asaskep tain a high standard ec III llgllan> Tbe profits of tbe SaSsejSsetosfSs terse been rarraastng fey taagsj gad sounds while the tor workers are beta* eraA DIGEST OF THE NEWS OF THE WEEK ' Mergers con - Adore Mergers on tlnue in the glare The Program «* tt« and Coolidge as AJaz defies the lightning...
...Overcrowded, fire-trap, flimsy wooden barracks are given the workers to ' live in: ' One family to *. topes' BBS steajsMttket woods* hunk, IsVi aOIit without eereene), thin, and teoosnetote partitions...
...PENN CANNERIES PRACTISING PEONAGE Labor Apartment Finds Virtual Slavery Existing in the Industry Harrisburg Virtual peonage baa been found in many Pennsylvania fruit and vegetable canneries, state department of labor and Industry investigators report...
...Aa the special feature of the dinner, there baa been arranged a symposium on the need for a radical press...
...workers in Greek shops, whose employers were negotiating through another association with the union, are also on strike to prevent SUkjtajsaaf stalling...
...who framed the "Mollies," are recalled as these lines are written...
...Not a person km any country is being punished today for opposition to tbe World slaughter except in the United States of America...
...It was from first to last an unequal struggle and in many of its phases an unspeakably tragic affair...
...Had these three* worthies been petty thieves driven to picking pockets, they would long ere this have been doing time tor the offense...
...The one claim to which they art otrtitled % Hk* right to collective bargaining, and they had And this amounts to practically tlathing,|ssv';afesrijL the right to collective bargaining, is merely the right to ask the bosses f^s<>metltfn#wjach tikey may or may not grant, and not infrequently the right of collective bargasmng ame|s¥)sx;to the tub* of collective starvation...
...i.ot shall we proceed to smash them...
...110th Street and Fifth Avenue, will be in a nature a celebration for deeds accomplished and the planning of bigger things to come...
...And the operators in the anthracite are as greedy and pitiless a lot fef exploiters and slave-drivers aa there is to be found in America...
...Make yours now by calling up Stuyvesant S885 or by writing to The New Leader, at 7 East 15th street...
...By the same token I "r ,ou wh° live in New York I^B^*^*** busy and by letters to ¦B&S*u*tm"s «-"d by resolutions of EffL*^" bark up Governor Smith THKWlt to prevent this monstrous J^~^**^Qyt<> aajf private eprSOCIALIST PARTY OF FRANCE GAINING Organization Holds ItSelf in Readiness to Assume Office Soon Paris...
...It isn't there...
...He was opposed to our csrtrssaae into the war...
...Wa»ve given away oil and iftaL Must ^2cjj*nr bestow our sole/remaining H**-resource upon private) interests...
...Why, thee, ale the employer* juruel to grant a 4S-honr week, which eisss te give' tbe -Jar weiksu two days ej rest and ssjoape from tbe polluted a** mosphere of hteahee...
...Not one word in favor of national ownership tell from the...
...Last week its vice-chancellor compelled two undergraduates torsign a pledge not to propagate Communist ideas under threat of expulsion...
...Caplidge, f8e consumers, the miners add the SfSflstora...
...Forsthe present they have failed...
...which he lost when he was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment for oppoe ing American participation in the war, has been introduced in the Hui—i a* Representatives by Victor L. Bcsgcr Socialist Congressman treat Wisest' sin...
...Another example of welfare work is that dene by seme of the great insurance companies...
...Aa attempt to...
...No body of men in the history of American labor ever endured more grimly the hunger and privation of a prolonged labor strike...
...It was a siege rather than a strike...
...In Kpubaiz...
...8 remains...
Vol. 3 • February 1926 • No. 6
