Power Trust Magnate Call Robinson Off
Power Trust Magnate Call Robinson Off Both Arkansas SenatorSurrender on DroughRelief . After HearinFrom Crouch By Laurence Todd WASHINGTON —(FP) — Sen. Joe Robinson of Arkansas, floor...
...Schultz's essay follows: "Different types of unemployment— seasonal, cyclical and technological— are caused by a variety of oaeraunforces...
...That some parents of high schoolchildren are joining the fightagainst drill was indicated whenthe New York City school boardrecently approved the establishment of a "55-c" military unit inJamaica High School...
...s names appear in the lis...
...To use any other msiagencies which from time Ishall seem expedient to Mtees...
...the purpose of which promote, through the _ tion of information gal biased presentation of . an understanding of hoe l nomic activities of the w_ be so directed and organ, the products so dlrtruntoi, yield to the people cental largest satisfactions that pi and science have made pa to encourage an open-miooj sideration of governmental, and industrial problem*, of | ganized labor movement iproblems of political and la) democracy...
...quit, chairman of fc* Committee of the SocttSsu s B. C. Viadeck, maas|af| Jewish Daily Forward...
...tariff revision to regain international trade equilibrium: economisecurity sought through recognition ofeconomic interdependence, would altend toward permanent relief fromunemployment...
...The de-militarism o d and the ending of a policy of imperialism in Latin America 6. r The restoration of the guarantees t of free speech, press and assembly, and the outlawing of the injuncst tion in labor disputes...
...other production is affected, and the period of depressiowith its terrible and prolonged suffering from cyclical unemployment iprecipitated...
...50.00 23.503 A.D., Kings 150.00 37.00-5 A.D., Bronx...
...Ten Branches Meet Quotas In N. Y. Drive Over $2,000 Raised to Tide N. Y. C. Party Office Ovgfr Emergency THE N. Y. Socialists' $5,000Emergency Drive comes to a close...
...Thimprovement in machinery and thappropriation of power inevitably displace workers...
...Barrow B Victor Foun< o t Memorial Grot t porated — Al_ r l Build Powerful \ , ingclass Press e . e WASHINGTON—j] tides of incorporatsBj Victor L. Berger Natlsqfl tlon, of which Clarreaco J f is president, were fuwi jj_ j t trict of Columbia on j Marx Lewis, director tjf « t ization and secretary to Socialist member of Cwsj...
...The Doherty 'Stork9 By Wisconsin Socialist Insurance Proposed Maternity Aid Measur Among Bills Put For ward by Party Delegation (Br a New Is*St Cerresawndeat) MADISON.—The new session ofthe state legislature sees the Socialists active...
...One of the most interesting deg velopments is the so-called Sos , cialist competition found among tthe factories...
...ll The five-year plan for the advanced forces of America according to Dr...
...Power Trust Magnate Call Robinson Off Both Arkansas SenatorSurrender on DroughRelief . After HearinFrom Crouch By Laurence Todd WASHINGTON —(FP) — Sen...
...These are commendable but may be thought of aemergency measures rather than abringing permanent relief...
...The Winning Essay Mr...
...Underlying air.cTthemhowever, is the private profit motivwhich lets production be determineby the unsocialized struggle for market profit between individuals ogroups oblivious to the paramounsignificance of the economic interdependence of modern life...
...of longts ranged planning of public works...
...100.00 42.00unny Side, Queens 200.00 100.00 Student WinPrize for EssaOn Job Crisis ?. B. ScBuItz Given L I. D. Award—Attack Profit System, Major Parties APRIZE of $300 has beawarded E. B. Schultz, st dent at Union Theological Semiary, as the winner of an essay co test on the cause and cure of u employment...
...The bill is endorsedby the Federation of Labor...
...Senator Thomas Duncan waschosen chairman of the Joint Legislative Committee and introducedbills urging: state legislatureto memorialize Congress to enactlegislation for the public ownership and operation of - MuscleShoals, to pass the proposedamendment to the United Statesconstitution to seat Congresj inthe January following its election, and to establish internationalscholarships from the funds owedthe United States on World Wardebts...
...Would Shelter Jobless Assemblyman John Ermenc inroduced a resolution to open allhe buildings of the State Fairrounds in West A Ills for the use f the unemployed...
...2, Kings...
...In order to speed up production, workers in all parts of Russia are now challengingother groups of workers in othertextile factories, steel mills, etc., to a competition for increasedproductivity and great is the rejoicing when a factory finds iromthe drawings on the production charts that it has won out...
...The numberof students enrolled in collegeR...
...Assemblyman Rubin also introduced a bill providing a minimumwage of 60 cents an hour for statehighway and bridge constructionwork, with a working day not exceeding eight hours...
...forcor discontinuing altogether durinother seasons...
...College students who have beeforced to turn out twice a week iuniform and do "squads right" othe campus are meanwhile hittinback at compulsory training anever before, says Paul Porterfield secretary, League for Industrial Democracy...
...Propaganda Used " The government, of course," continued Dr...
...ther Branches who did well in he drive but have not as yet raised their quotas are the folowing: ColQuota lectedorningside .....$125.00 $110.00erman 100.00 48.00idwood, Kings...
...Provide effective, oslopposition to any attempt...
...There are alsovoluntary units, bringing the total number of schools and colleges so subsidized to 313, said Collins...
...O. T. C. units, compulsory andvoluntary, is about 88,000 according to Nathaniel Weyle, Columbiasenior in charge of the L. I. D. campaign for signatures...
...putting " the plan through...
...Probably never before in the n history of the world," declared the n k speaker, "has any governmente been able to stir a people so pro...
...Neibuhr, chairman the Commission on Social Servi of the Federal Council of ChurcheJohn B. Andrews, secretary of thAmerican Association for Lab Legislation...
...The following branches succeeded in raising the full quota or more: < ColQuota lected Upper West Side $200 $236Yorkville 100 110Chelsea 100 10018-2, Kings 100 100Williamsburg, Kings .. 100 10013-19 A.D., Kings 75 84Jamaica Br., Queens...
...Couch came as a White House emissary...
...seasonal, cyclical and technologic—are caused by a variety of forceMr...
...The government has effective five-year plans exhibits in its parks of culture, in s its houses of culture and its houses e of rest...
...Many youngCommunists are developing a new code of personal ethics as a means of making them more effective intheir work of increasing productivity...
...There probably were some mistakes made in the quota assigned to some branches, but each branch did its best regardless...
...iOpposes One-Man Cars Rubin is introducing a bill alsoto abolish one-man street cars inWisconsin cities...
...Joe Robinson of Arkansas, floor leader of the Democrats inthe Senate, suddenly abandonedhis fight for adequate federal foodrelief for the 500,000 starvingdrought victims in his state, whenHarvey C. Couch, banker and power trust magnate, was brought toWashington to talk with him...
...Second, Morris H. Moxx, 31College Avenue, Ithacan ThirdCharles Conkin Cohen, 310 Eas25th Street, Bklyn...
...The drive has shown that the branches are alive to party responsibilities...
...Sidney Z. Mitchell, chairman of Electric Bond & Shareis likewise chairman of ElectricPower a Light Mitchell and the Electric Bond a Share have beenthe rulers of the Alabama PowerCo., which for many years has been trying to grab Muscle Shoals...
...At this writing over $2,000 has been received at the party office...
...Laidler criticizedse the government for many of the repressive measures adopted in...
...It is the result ounsocialized competition for privatgain...
...The cause of technological unemployment Is easily apprehended...
...While declaring that the thr major types of unemployment...
...In spite of the advantages, there are tragic results fromthe unemployment of able and willinworkmen which ensues...
...2. The amendment of the conn stitution, giving Congress thed power to pass social insurance,al child labor and similar legislation1 in behalf of the workers...
...Issue Up in Congress Compulsory military training isfederally subsidized not only in 90 colleges but in 25 city public highschool systems...
...A recent compilation by the National Council for the Preventionof War shows the wastefulness ofthe compulsory system...
...The Wisconsin Federation ofLabor has launched a light for legal eight-hour day and the Federation's bill has been introducedby Assemblyman George HampelMilwaukee Socialist...
...The first contribution reeived in the drive was the $100 onated from the Finnish Branch...
...Moreover, the firm are attorneys forSouthern Power & Light, theSouthern Ice a Utilities Co., the Little Rock Gas a Fuel Co., the Southwestern Telephone...
...In this fight,e every effort should be made in bedhalf of compulsory insurance, sickness and invalidity insurance and s, old age pensions...
...Schultz in his prize-winninessay declared that "underlying aof them is the private profit motive which lets production be determined by the unsocialized strugle for market profit between individuals or groups oblivious tthe paramount significance of theconomic interdependence of moern life...
...A similarbill was introduced in the Senate December 19, by Senator Bookhart...
...Laide ler analyzed the social significanceor of the five-year plan in Russia, f maintaining that it was the most al conspicuous piece of social enginh, eering in the world today...
...AssemblymanOtto Kehrein has aimed a bill athigh pressure salesmanship whichinduces conditional sales of motortrucks with promises of employment...
...The result, says the council's bulletin, is that it costs much moreto create an officer under the compulsory system...
...8. The dee, velopment through the Socialist g party and other labor and farmers' st m'ovements throughout the country l of a powerful 'third party movement based on increasing socialo control...
...a, >„.5...
...75.00 51.15th A.D., Bronx...
...This amendment, whichhad the support of the American Federation of Labor was defeated by 162 to 50, but its sponsors professed to be pleased with the size of the favorable vote...
...If the employment doesnot materialize the Kehrein billprotects the buyer from losing histruck...
...capacity to consume is thereby reduced...
...The particular l which the corporation gjt formed," the certificate "are: "1...
...the thirprize of $50 was won by a totof 5 points, while the remaining 1points were distributed among thfive papers that won fourth prizeof $10 each...
...He spent two days in negotiating between the Hoover andRobinson-Caraway camps...
...The fact that the coof idle workmen is not deducted fromprofits is a major cause of seasonaunemployment...
...Ross Collins ofMississippi, recently pointed outthat in the House of Representatives that the War Departmentspends over $10,000,000 a year onthe R. O. T. C. alone, and for thisoutlay secured in 1920 only 5.870reserve officers, of whim it is estimated that half win very soondrop their interest in the reserves...
...He said therere hundreds of homeless persons in Milwaukee who could find shelter in the state buildings...
...50.00 23.00malgamated Cooperative Br...
...foundly in behalf of an economic f ideal, during times of peace.t While the majority of Russians probably bear their present sacrin fices in behalf of the plan rather stolidly and while among many s others there is distinct resentf ment, in the case of millions, pare ticularly the young, one may find an almost religious enthusiasm for the plan and heroic efforts in bee e half of its successful conclusion...
...Helso submitted a resolution directing the department of agriculturend markets to investigate' and reort to the legislature not laterhan March 15th on the causes forhe high price of bread and meatn view of the lower wholesalerices...
...t ganization committee ra They are Howard T. Vii^ retary of the League Jar] dent Political Action...
...The headlines in the governf ment papers give wide publicity to every advanced step...
...If in large part successful, as it promee ised to be, the speaker maintained— that it would compel the otheral countries of the "world to makes, marked "advances toward a planned g social economy...
...The compulsory course extends over onlytwo years, and in order to becomereserve officers, the students musttake advanced work...
...How, ever, he declared that it was a miss take to believe that its operation e was possible merely as a result of d Suppressive measures...
...Such social conceptwould also produce a planned and coordinated economic order with intelligently devised vocational distribution and training essential to solvintechnological unemployment...
...The contest was he by the League for Industrial D mocracy, 112 East 19th Street, NY...
...Taxation which decreased the desirability of large incomes and estates...
...Typical of thisgroup was the University of Minnesota, with 2,886 in the basic vanced...
...This iapparently unlikely, if not impossibleunder capitalism," s Laidler Urges y <5-Year Plan' s For America...
...Whethe market is overstocked, the breacomes...
...Couch is president of the Arkansas Power a Light, the Louisiana Power a Light, the Mississippi Powera Light and the Louisiana a Arkansas Railway...
...Assemblyman Edward H. Kieferis the author of another bill, forcing employers to report all accidents to the Industrial Commission, including minor injuries, now often overlooked...
...The subject of thedebate will be "Resolved that communism will lead Russia to ruin...
...e Wants Power Socialized s 3. The enactment of systems of income and inheritance taxes, where no such state taxes exist9 and the progressive increase ink...
...nationalizationwhich removes an appreciable amounof production from private competition...
...Conch's Connections Couch, who melted the defensesof the Democratic opposition toHoover so quickly and mysteriously, is a director, according- toPoor's Manual, of the ElectricPower a Light Co., which was organized in 1925 to acquire certainholdings of the Electric Bond AShare Co...
...Every e one of the thousands of wall newsi papers in the factories catalogue idaily or weekly developments...
...A nationwidcampaign conducted by the leagueagainst the compulsory system ishowing results, Porter claims...
...Director Lewis has ettsloffices in Washington at Isu ranee Building, to begii Ipaign to raise this memorialHe describes it as a moves...
...Twelve colleges having the elective system throughout were alsoanalyzed, and It was found thatfrom SO per cent to 7S.5 per cent of the beginners continued theirtraining in later year...
...Laidler, should includegnine planks: 1. A constructive "programo against insecurity...
...50.00 40.002nd Br...
...the development of non-profit incentives inRussian life, and, the fight in bealf of an economic order whereall may share equitably in the fruits of industry are the mostchallenging developments in Rusia today, developments which are bound to have a powerful effect on the economic life of the wholeorld in the next '"--ide...
...perpetuate the memory sail of Victor L. Berger, whosi geous defense of civil libera the rights of minorities, * the right of a free press, ever and however violsthreatened, and whose I service to the movements I in the social betterment i masses by the advanceaost d us trial democracy, worM| and human brotherhood, • shrined his memory in ft* of millions of his fellow...
...In referring to the five-year plan e -in Russia, Dr...
...group and only 300 in the adRussian Debate at Group A special debate will be held on Feb...
...17th, under the auspices ofThe Group, in the Auditorium, 150W...
...d of the establishment of the fivee day week and a steady reductionlof hours per day and of the wages sof the workers commensurates with the increase in the productive er capacity of the country...
...Goods accumulate but advertising campaigns anhigh pressure salesmanship are employed to stimulate the consumptioof goods no longer demanded...
...Moissaye Olginwill defend the present order...
...By the will of the prize donorthe contest was conducted in thmidst of the last election, campaign and was limited to residenof New York State who were asketo discuss the proposals of thvarious political parties for deaing with the problem of joblesness...
...15 154th A.D 25 25The Finnish Branch which to date has sent in $102, is entitled to special mention for its splendid ooperation with • the drive comittee...
...to educate tot] to a full knowledge of tlx and destructiveneas of vgj by cultivating friendly fees) tv.-een the inhabitants of i countries, and increaiim knowledge and unaerstui each other, further the adopi concrete proposals in tnt alof world peace and bnttiand in particular: a Strengthen and desa ancially and otherwise, • waukee Leader, founded si L Berger, so that it H more effectively to achMtlJects for which this corposjformed...
...We are impoverished byover-production...
...Laidler also briefly described the organization of the Gosplan— the State Planning Commission— which, with its 1400 statisticians and economists, is endeavoring tounify the economic system as awhole and which is now formulating a fifteen-year plan to supplement the five-year plan...
...and Leo Wolman, o the research staff of the Nation Bureau of Economic Researcwere the judges...
...The implication in the manual is that Joint action such as that taken by trade unionists, is contrary to a boys duty as an American...
...There were some splendid examples of party loyalty by the branches who have made good in this drive...
...10,000 Students Protest Altogether it is estimated thatby February 10, about 10,000 ofthis year's college students willhave signed the league's petitioncalling for the abolition of compulsory R. O. T. C. units, andabout as many more will havesigned similar petitions in independent campaigns...
...At the University of Iowa nearlyevery student who has taken thecompulsory training has signed apetition to abolish it, and over1,000 students have signed a similar petition at the University ofNebraska At Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., a campaign againstcompulsory drill is being conducted by the students...
...7. The dee velopment of unofficial and official boards of social planning for cities, h s states ar 1 the nation...
...Socialists shouldnadopt a five-year plan of educantional and political activity in benhalf of social justice was the conld tention of Dr...
...This scheme left the farmerswho had no security to starve onthe pitifully insufficient charity ofthe Red Cross...
...Outlines Program fors Socialist f orkr Praises Effort of Soviet Russia (Br a New Leader C*rr*«aj»ai*lrl) en ttVHILADELPHIA, Pa.—ThatuJtr American...
...85th Street (one block east ofBroadway...
...Roger N. Baldwin will preside and Theodore Dreiser will be honorary chairman...
...An amendment to the military appropriations bill offered by Congressman La Guardia of New York would have cut off war department funds used for compulsory drill in civil colleges andschools...
...taxation on the higher income lev9 elsT/'where "income taxes prevail, , with the aim of increasing the sot cial services in wheh the community might engage, of securing r, a juster distribution of wealth and r, income and of increasing the purchasing power of the mass of consumers...
...The • IminedTate ' tari -m i- .TT .l?15 ^Sfs mavary widely...
...He called attention to the fact that manyhighway contractors are workingtheir men twelve hours a day and longer for as low fis a dollar andboard...
...Militarism Fails to Make New Inroads in Colleges Pershing, Wood Biographies Fail to Stem thfide of Student Protest ABy Horace B. Davis ATTEMPTS try the military textend its influence in thcommunity by means of biggeappropriations and more militartraining units in the schools arfalling- flat, reports indicateNeither the biographies of LeonarWood, "Black Jack" Pershing anFoch featured In the big metropolitan newspapers, nor press releases of the North AmericaNewspaper Alliance describing tharmy's readiness to make immediate war, have served to inducCongress to vote its usual annuaincrease, in the budget for wapurposes, and the forces of militarism are retiring to their tentto prepare for the next battle...
...75 8422nd, 23rd A.D 50 73Polish Br...
...Count llya Tolstoy, who represents the literary period of Turgeneffand of Leo Tolstoy, his illustrious father, will take the affirmative position, while Dr...
...The enactmentof the bill would give employmentto between five and six hundredrailway workers in Milwaukeealone...
...But underlying all of thefactors and making their control difficult is the private profit motiveWhen factors combine to make production of commodities profitableproduction of those commodities iincreased in a frantic struggle for thlargest possible profit...
...The school children are drilled in its main features...
...It left the unemployed in the industrial townswithout any means of feeding theirfamilies, except such doles ascharity might be induced to provide...
...Senator Walter Polakowski introduced a bill for ''stork Insurnce" for working women.* Underit a woman employed under theorkmen's compensation lawould receive fourteen weeks' vaation during the period of childirth with benefits, not exceedinghirty per cent of her regularalary or wage for that time...
...and H. L Doherty a Co...
...Production decreases becausthere is no effective demand for goodsWorkers and salesmen are laid ofbecause they do not produce a neprofit...
...Owners secure the best profit by operating wita full force during certain seasonand operating with a depleted...
...C. Prof...
...That volumeJ the law firm of Robinson, ouse a Moses, of Little Rock, in •.-.nich the Democratic floor leaderis the senior partner, as attorneysfor all four of these companies of which Couch is president...
...To receive, mi dispose of a fund or t_ apply the income and thereof, in part or in r assist in the estab extension of a news...
...Cyclical unemployment is due tless obvious and more complex causes...
...Becausthese relief measures as proposed bythe Socialist Party are undergirded bybasic reforms which tend to socialisour economic order the socialist program is the best...
...The endeavor to unify economic lifethrough the Gosplan and othergovernment bureaus...
...The winners were officially announced as: First, E. B. Shultz, 9Claremont Avenue, New, YorCity...
...Fourth, Sophie B. Keniels, Helen T. ScuddeArthur Warner, Isidore GoldneNathan Goldberg...
...Not the least of the objections to military training from the labor standpoint is the type of citizenship which its instructors teach...
...Seasonal unemployment is moprevalent in industries employing thless expensive equipment...
...Among these ElectricBond a Share subsidiaries takenover were the Arkansas Power & Light, the Louisiana Power & light, the Mississippi Power & Light, Southern Power a Light and Utah Power...
...Thenthe Arkansas senators surrendered, and Hoover permitted the endorsement of a compromise measure which would allow the starving farmers to borrow $20,000,000for general purposes—if they couldgive satisfactory security...
...A new kind of industrial incentive is thus being developed on a hugescale, and the money incentive isbeing subordinated to one of community service...
...Analysis ofthe enrolmentln 12 colleges having the compulsory feature showedthat only from 4.5 per cent to14.6 per cent of those taking theirst two years went ahead to the advanced work...
...The Citizenship Training Mam>-1which the instructors use is, according to Tucker P. Smith of the Committee on Militarism in Education, a brief for "rugged inddvidialism" and a slap at every effort of people to do any collective thinking or planning...
...The United Parents' Associations of GreaterNew York Schools, which withother civic organizations have consistently opposed the creation ofsuch a unit since it was first proposed two years ago, have announced that they will ask Congress to amend the nationaldefense act to bar drill units fromthe public school system, on the ground that military training has no legitimate place there...
...Laidler, "is stimug lating enthusiasm through every known method of propaganda...
...Such factors as movements ogold and resultant price fluctuationinternational trade agreements antariffs, diplomatic relations betweenations, are significant to the intricate machinery which determines threcurrence of prosperity and depres< sion...
...4. The socialization of the power industry and the taking of steps toward social ownership of other g 1 great public utilities, of naturaly resources and of credit facilities ?f America, e K- t...
...Harry W. Laidler,eExecutive Director of the League . for Industrial Democracy, in his of address at a luncheon of the Philace delphia Chapter of the League for s; Industrial Democracy...
...Another resolution by SenatorDuncan memorializes Congress totake immediate steps for the completion of the Great Lakes-St...
...And at this point the mysteryof .Couch's influence on Robinson is illuminated by Martindale's Lawi:ectory for 1930...
...Thomas, director of tat} for Industrial Democracy, | l J. Costello, editor of the ] Leader...
...9. An adoption after careful study of those methods of eduf s, cation and organization bestd fitted to the present Americann scene...
...The most adequate solution to unemployment oSered by any politicaparty is offered by the Socialist PartyIt includes the meagre measures othe other two parties, namely, extension of public works, limited social Insurance, and state labnr aodemployment agencies...
...It is urged that all who have collected money on the subscription lists turn it over to the party office as soon as possible...
...Typicalwas the University of Pittsburgh, where about a third of those in the basic group continued through...
...It l has a powerful talkie-movie on the . plan...
...The Young Pioneers, the Young Comt munists, the Red Army, the Communist party and the trade unions with their millions of members, c are working day and night in its l behalf and are now proudly proclaiming that the plan will be coms pleted in four years instead of ffive...
...Each branch was assigned a quota...
...of comprehene sive and efficient systems of public employment agencies...
...Assemblyman Ben Rubin has introduced a bill to reduce the waiting period in industrial accidentsfrom seven to three days and providing that payment for the threedays be made if the injury lastslonger than ten days...
...50.00 32.00th A.D., Bronx...
...Approximately 350 essaywere received.- The winning papcarried with It an award of $300the second prize of $100 was woby a total of 6 points...
...Under thepresent law, a worker must waittwenty-two days before he receives compensation for the firstseven days...
...lative or otherwise, feds] state, to impose restrictsthe freedom of the pre*] subject the press to lialwhich would interfere wulfull and free discussion flquestions without which • progress is rendered diflical"d...
...When the said MlhLeader shall have been so • ed and developed, it shall the nucleus around which built and maintained an . newspaper press dedicated* advocacy and promotion objects for which this co is formed...
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