I. R. T TRIES TO ENJOIN WHOLE A. F. L
I. R. T Tries To Enjoin Whole A. F. L Carpontioa Seek* To TU Band* of Three Mfflio, Workers Thrnngjiiaii Nation WHAT is regarded as die moat amarlag attempt to use JadleJal power la the...
...You can win, you will win, if you have the will to power...
...They want power—and hey generally get it...
...My name shall fashion In your memory, And every word shall stare unmeaningly...
...Departure Now I am gone and never shall return To send tbe shadows from your study door And play tbe wanton when I would discern Your asben brow" had need of something more Than skihful means to pierce Infinities And heavy books to bury tired eyes Within a world of mere hypotheses That In the'light of Truth are brazen lies...
...They are in the labor struggle, not outside looking on...
...The Chatter Box ^*«»«* far kerbs* avisri—t to print here the pram winning peases of OCR eyUTTKBM...
...Two Sonnets Ghosts These measured walls are coloured asben grey And every shadow seems so lean and gaunt, Aa if some spectre from a bygone day Had come to visit bis forgotten haunt Within tbe musty airs of this old room That through tbe lumbering years, shall slowly will The rising spirit of an unseen doom To stalk at night, when all is deathly still 111 walk the leafy promenades 'till morn And sing old bellads from tbe Golden Age Or If you will, I'll chant a dirge at dawn Found on tbe tomb-stone of a morbid sage...
...Drifted across his lips until they formed Blow, muffled words that were identical...
...Apparently the one member of the jury who had been "fixed" was to receive an automobile at his price for hanging the jury...
...The sole question with the voting masses is whether our voting power before election will also « our voting power at Albany and at the City Hall, f it is, the workers win...
...He endured these impositions for centuries, but never willingly...
...They give time and service to combat it...
...wote that these gentlemen enjoy the luxury of wo parties, two parties which they own and finance, wo parties that serve them without fail...
...Thus through prison and fice and struggle he won the right to organise i&teifellows for a better life...
...This power now consists >f our votes...
...about oa a million chorea, etc...
...You've shared the sufferings ot the Cross...
...Bankers, corporaion magnates, profiteers, speculators and rent hogs ivest in these parties...
...when will yea triumph over him...
...Our enemies understand its great nportance...
...That he and his dirty hirelings are caught in this mess is a bit of retribution we can enjoy...
...The Ages still belong to you...
...Years ago Havemeyer of the sugar trust testi•d before a iCongressional committee: "In Reublican states we contribute to the Republicans, nd in Democratic states to the Democrats...
...All the wit and wealth and cunmutg ami malice ami fear of the upper classes could not prevsmt tke onward march of the masses to the acquire...
...Bnt bitter the taste of the wine of life On tbe faltering lip of tbe farmer's wife...
...What tcfOiibtful states ? he was" asked...
...And tbe farmer sold it to the squire...
...A world that angered through your cause Demands revision of Its lows...
...What if tbe base outrank tbe true...
...working, aeairylne...
...They are professionis who make a living out of politics...
...So here is your opportunity...
...Is there an example of arbitrary abuse of power...
...It is a sorry mess, typical of the supremacy of our lords of capital at Washington...
...This is one of the dirtiest scandals involving a piece of thievery that, can only be compared with the stealing of the common lands from British workmen by the aristocracy nearly 200 years ago...
...The Socialist Party is the party of labor and its candidates are labor candidates...
...When in your weariness you bend in pain And find a throb within your aching breast Enshrouded where a fragile dream had Iain To colour and dispel each vague unrest...
...Tbe old cow broods above ber cud Where the farmer spilled ber bullock's blood...
...But this ron're gained, a world aroused Till Justice Is once more espoused...
...So a Mafe barrier of dctiafs, stocks, and Innds had tolm worker could become an enfranchised citizen...
...A. r. of L. orgaahats, and nsanasls of tbe Amalgamated Aaaoesatam of ahrast At Electric Railway lhaalnyim In thanfight against the proposed mjenottoa to be sued out Nov...
...Do they have this capacity ? They do...
...During hat year public power will be in the hands of fficials and iegislators...
...Thanks, thanks to ye all, my worthy poet friends for the leisure you here wrought...
...When tbe gently parted silence Had rolled hack to Its normal place aad lay there...
...To Saceo and Vanzetti ¥N happier years you strove to And A way ot Justice for mankind...
...Is there a strike...
...Legally Dead" Aasust 23...
...Then be was told that education was not for him...
...hp tbe Interborougb Rapid Tiaiasl OcSapany, te Its effort te pie wait the union organization of 14,000 I iiuSnjsst The offer was mads ear A aagast 3erber, Secretary of the Debs Peed, by telegraph to President Oresa...
...Old Oold Cigarettes, consumption in every puff...
...While we stood Impotently by And saw you dieSaw you with our spirit's eye...
...you've gained through loss A place to live in hearts ot men: - You've knit the ranks of Truth again...
...If the genius for this work can be found in the toilers oi a nation that was stricken with famine after a terrible war, we can find similar jenius in the ranks of the American working class...
...He recalls Wendell Phillips' lashing of Rufus Choate when on one occasion he said: "Here's to Choate, whose health thieves drink before they proceed to steal...
...While we stood impotently by And saw you die— • Saw you with our spirit's eye...
...So live or die, brave men, in peace,' A world will welcome your release, Or if you die, mankind will say, "Two mnrtyrs' crowns were won today...
...And one could go oa like that with infinitely more nnctlon than the original slogans...
...A young man t met by chance at Oamp Taminmcnt last summer has been sending some of his work fot tbe Column...
...While we stood impotently by And saw you die— Saw you with our spirit's eye...
...The Socialist Party is the party of labor and its candidates have long records of honorable and devoted service to the workers...
...There," said e, "we contribute ta both sides...
...And writhed in agony as each new bone Crumpled and corroded...
...Now the lawmaking bodies and all the governing powers are ours if we want them...
...another year...
...Vote for them and vote for yourselves, vote for labor representation at Albany and at the City Hall...
...Beyond tbe besdVs Wdjusted twilight A rhythm that waa faint, ad| growing less faint, Echoed a single word that was re-echoed And stIU re-echoed la tbe room: "Dead . . . dead . . ." —CLIFTON CUTHBERT...
...Dead . ^. . dead," was what he muttered over and over...
...Time after time he rose in protest aat last forced recognition of himself as a hubeing...
...Underwood Typewriter, the machine you will eventually throw out <;f the window, why not now...
...This is disvdceful, humiliating, and a source of chronic veakness for the working class...
...The bees go roistering through the vale And stagger beck with their heather ale...
...Then there is Martin W. Littleton, attorney for one of the oil yeggs...
...M. SULLIVAN...
...Tbe barn is full...
...They are in the thick of the struggle...
...And pressed his eyes against tbe room's grey shadows That were no darker than tbe grey thoughts that Persisted in his brain...
...Thus far it appears that agents of Burns were in the employ of an associate of Sinclair and that they had reached at least one member of the jury and were stalking others...
...they are always in...
...The aristocrats said that — . 4m ^ —— m n ¦ saaa .. a? eamMai^aW at^aeMBaaa^sssBSBassj ^^aWBh^a -* - & tmmWmVu ui *i mil-itnqmtf* wsm^smmsmmm jo> "virtue" and .those wfau had tne janaaerty ohaeaW vate and rojfc...
...Pressed n brow over toughened parchment flat Against eacb cracked cheek, shakily supporting His shaky arms on twice as shaky knees...
...Then he began to organize for the 6Assertion of his interests and his claims...
...Then I shall bend my head In silent prayer And give your name unto the fragrant air...
...The orchard and tbe arbor vine Bring him purple and amber wine...
...I. R. T Tries To Enjoin Whole A. F. L Carpontioa Seek* To TU Band* of Three Mfflio, Workers Thrnngjiiaii Nation WHAT is regarded as die moat amarlag attempt to use JadleJal power la the Interest of a pow erful corporation la tbe appthwtloa by the Inteeborough Rapid Trsjwtl Company for an injunction to restrain all persons rnnnt*irA —S»fc •»¦- *---: can Federation of Labor from calling a strike or urging employes to join the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employes...
...Burns, the "great d-e>t-e>c-.t-i-v-e," was in the spotlight a few years ago as a patriotic hound running down radicals and using the Bill of Rights as a mat for his muddy shoes...
...The shadows of the room that had been darker Than tbe streaked silver in eld Billings' hair Had jetted wUh a charcoal pigmentation That was more dismal than^lbe sUver darkness Outside...
...We presume that Littleton's connection with the case is in accord with legal ethics and we have no criticism on this score, but lawyers also have the choice of accepting or refusing cases...
...Winter is come...
...The Beast In man has triumphed once again— s Oh Man...
...lftl TTIE Beast has triumphed over man once more And sank Its claws and fangs into your flesh, 8a ceo and Vanaetti...
...J"at seams yea have no come-back legally," Roy ventered...
...Writing this week's column has dogged my footsteps with the persistency of a shadow...
...It was for his "betters," the parasites who mde <n his back...
...After the election this power apears as votes in the State Legislature and in the loard of Aldermen...
...of the franchise...
...they'd Come laying their tracks acres* hta eaea aad offered To bay his farm oat, aad I wouldn't da It...
...Tbe mare had a colt by a racing sire...
...An outraged human conscience shrieked aiouo Within us...
...Of course, that's only legally," he added...
...Elect Labor Men Your Opportunity Next Tuesday ^BXT Tuesday hundreds of thousands of voters - wilT go to the polls...
...They get returns in power, power or them and their class...
...rf these workers are not capable of making the ajbs and administering the laws they are not captbie of votinp for those who do...
...It Isn't that she bad to die," tbe other Said, with the slow weight of formed conviction, "Just like as all, but that It should bave been A locomotive sent her to ber grave...
...Now that we have this power, wtftjpOTsI we do with it...
...Si Union Square, were yesterday Biased at the disposal of William Orson, President of the American reparation ef tabor...
...Honestly, I eeaJd not have don* Justice to a grammar school composition on Jlmmie Walker as ear Mayor...
...On buildings, in subways, in facorie* and stores, in the needle trades and every >lace Where labor toils, there will be found knowldgeand experience of the real problems of life...
...The William J. Burns detective agency, a private organization of provocateurs and yeggs, once housed in the Department of Justice when that Republican saint, Harry Daugherty, headed the department, is involved...
...Fruit on the tree, and fruit in tbe womb Of the woman who peers from tbe shuttered room...
...Shall we dissipate this last potential power of the vote by distributing it among professional politicians of twt> parties alike in purpose and aims...
...The beetle's wings Glint In the ana, end the Wild thrush sings...
...So others need not share your fate, Or die through prejudice and hate...
...Unfiltered sounds As Jumbled as bis thoughts that were not words...
...You know It's not the natural thing to bave A railroad running past your very door...
...11, ArmssUee Dap...
...Thus follows the Vint Prise poem...
...Till men shall flame to set men free...
...Moreover, the men who are sent into offices of mblic power know little and care little about the iroblems of working people...
...Tears and groans of no avail, Brute and force bad conquered...
...But Fanner John la worrying more About the sow, and the ribboned boar...
...From out the inner shadows of the room...
...A DIRTY MESS fHE crime wave continues to invade the Re» publican Party, its criminal tendencies having a dramatic setting in charges of jury-fixing in the trial of that noble Roman, Albert B. Fall, exSecretary of the Interior, and Harry F. Sinclair, oil magnate on trial in Washington...
...If it is not, we lose, "here is no sense «jn voting Tuesday unless you aetkvae to vote next year in the state and munipal legislative assemblies...
...Tbe following two sonnets show talent and promise in tbe bud...
...Two bonnets have already been published here over bis modest Initials...
...Plenttaide Summer is come...
...CAROLINE LEONARD GOODENOUGH...
...My reactions are as follows...
...With little putn, than lying on a bed For weeks or months or years In agony...
...No more than it's the natural thing to sell The farm that you were born on and grew up on Tear father wen lent here dene it, Re* ft...
...We want power—and we o not have it...
...Littleton was associated with the grime of expelling Socialists from the New York State Asembly in 1920, an illegal act, but in the hysteria of that period he was able to get away with it...
...You've done your share...
...While we stood Impotently by And saw you die— Saw you with our spirit's eye...
...Hearing your cows and blackening your crops...
...Not if we want the public powers to serve us and the onward march to more and more democracv in all the relations of society...
...The advertising department Is frownlnr at this blasphemy, but after my last course at tbe Peunan School, I can look every man in the eye and tell him he's cross eyed...
...You die as you have Uved, without tbe pale, As symbols of Justice, brave and strong, like men, Saceo and Vansetti...
...Sweet Csporal, don't ask dad...
...And not the woman who counts the weeks With tbe pallor of birth upon ber cheeks...
...We felt the cruel torture you endured...
...Harvest Is come...
...Tbe shivering /crow Clings to tbe cross in tbe mound of snow...
...G.' H. 8. And yet I cannot efface myself altogether from tbe scene...
...You have the power in your hands next Tuesday...
...JOHANNA A. H. BaMMBL...
...TkVut the franchise and office holding were not .upkhirn and another form of upper class tyranny ^ ¦ be combatted...
...Officials of the A. F. of L. have been smnmoned to appear in Special Term, Part 1, of the Supreme Court, to answer why they should not be restrained...
...They are the only labor candidates nominated in this election and the only candidates that present Hie claims of labor to Vkshare of power in the State Assembly and in the Board 4)f Aldermen...
...The railroad had the right to pass by your door...
...Will you also have it Wednesday or tt*B it pass to others to be used for them and not for you...
...One party is sufficient to obtain this power while those who exploit our indifferences and prejudices need two parties to divide us and win...
...dead...
...Maybe it's better she died a sudden deatb...
...AaA at faxfeerty was evidence*, ef 'eke" and «nn0fcss*> vote and to rule...
...PORTRY get enough breathing space fa aa otherwise crowded week at < amneltalin...
...At first he was a slave and his conquerors told him that he had no rights above that of the puck-horse...
...The life, occupations, possessions and beliefs of jury members had been indexed by Burns' agents who in return made reports to a "contact man" intimately associated with Sinclair...
...they killed him...
...Smoking a cigarette as I pick this out on the Underwood keys reminds me of the advertising catchword of each commodity we are tempted to buy by tbe full page ads In tbe big journals...
...Sure...
...Having voted, hey will return home for...
...That power is the most important thing in our ives today...
...Littleton belongs to that aristocratic clique who believes that the world was created for the investment of capital and that any criticism of capitalism is mortal sin...
...The order is returnable November 11...
...who at at Washington, and to Hugh Frayee, A. F. it L. organiser in Mew York, Patrick mg the transit workers' union...
...The I. R. T. Officials apparently Intend to have the company modeled after feudalism with tbe workers bound to the "company union'' with the aid of tbe courts...
...Union awe Pad it almost impossible to believe that a court order tan issue retraining organization of the men...
...Or anybody's door it wanted to, aad If yea stayed It was at year owe risk...
...Mature, drowsing upon the Berth Sighs with the generous pangs of birth...
...These cntlemen invest in nothing that will not give them ood returns...
...IVe provide the votes ut they get the power...
...These bodies represent ower, the power of government to do your will r the will of others...
...As though the sounds with constant repetition Mlgbt re-arrange themselves, and thus explain Their swift, innate finality: "Dead...
...Sack aa order would serve as a precedent which in time would become a general rale, with the result that trade anion» ¦n—iijj be thrust back to the illegal status they occupied in the first half of the nineteenth century...
...Opportunity will enable it to flower and public power will provide the opportunity...
...In national elections the two leadng political parties spend as much as twenty milon.dotlars to get this power...
...The workng masses know life and its problems, its tragedy ind its hopes...
...We who provide the votes re, as a rule, always out, and this is the tragedy if elections in the United States...
...Tour names a bugle-call shall be...
...Tbe bleating ewes have lost their wool...
...Rooted The Bemad Prise ream: Old Billings, leaning forward in bis chair...
...All bore their tribute, except bis bride Who came to travail and quietly died...
...The entire IsnsaV eating faiilMka of Station WaTVD, the labor radio station operated by tbe Debs auenorial Fund...
...One arty may go out of power and the other go in, ut the gentlemen who own them are never out...
...S. A. de Wilt...
...In Vienna i weaver is at the head of the greatest housing program in the.world, a program that has elicited .he admiration of students of many nations of the world...
...Let us conquer the power and go to work...
...I "I guess she bad to go, like other folks," Tbe younger man commented, cautiously...
...The bill charges conspiracy to secretly unionize the lines aad alleges that the Amalgamated is holding meetings in the Brooklyn Labor Lyceum and appealing to I. R. T. worfceit to join the organisation...
...You gained instead a felon's cell, And death perhaps, we cannot tell...
...A vast majority of them rill be working men and women...
...Out of the ages of man's early brtitchood Labor has been fighting its way to a place in the sun...
...Con, piracy," said the upper classes, and judges sent to jail...
...Step by step across the etslUtik* we have conquered some measure of rights and flower that had been withheld from us...
...Out of jail he returned to the struggle to again go to jail...
...Tbe cow gave a calf that sold for a groat, Tbe sow brought a profit in each little sboat...
...He was a half-man and his place was to minister to the ease and comfort of others...
...Now, by your case, all hearts are tried, Tbe friends of Trutb are on yonr side...
...If to organise workers is a "conspiracy, there will be no redress for them short ef organizing for a conquest of all the powers of government aad reconstructing the courts on a civilized basis...
Vol. 4 • November 1927 • No. 20
