SOCIALISTS WIN IN BUFFALO AND READING; TAMMANY THUGS STEAL PANKEN'S ELECTION
Socialists Win In Buffalo and Reading; Tammany Thugs Steal Panken's Election [Perkins Is Elected city Council Heap Socialist Candidate t^*^ State New York DefeaW-^ Tammany man, to 51,401...
...This Information should be sent as promptly as possible to the Honest Ballot Association at 120 Broadway...
...For their curious mixture of political apathy, gratitude for small favors and fear of the power of Tammany Hall the working class voters of New York City win pay very dear...
...In 1913 Quicue Morton, a mine owner, commanded a special armored train equipped with machine guns and about twenty professional gunmen...
...in another I polling place a gangster threw tear powder into the eyes of the two Socialist watchers Just as the voting machine was being opened for recording of the votes...
...It has happened in Idaho, in Colorado, in Arizona, in Minnesota, in Michigan and In West Virginia, the latter State being a bloody shambles for more than a generation...
...The speakers will be Norman Thomas, Arthur Garfield Hays, Clarence narrow and, possibly, John Haynes Holmes...
...the Agrarians obtained 26 seats, representing a gain of 4 seats...
...Ball was fixed at $500...
...Forty-five precincts out of fifty-nine show that the Socialists will control the city council and the board of education...
...Perkins is an electrical enginsar and an Invesjtor end holds membership In American, Europe-' ah and international technical societies...
...Tammany Hall confined most of its vote-stealing to the 4th assembly district which, with the 6th, the 8th, the 2nd and part of the 1st, make up the 2nd judicial district...
...Many dally papers carried the details of the »>wHng brutality...
...Karlin asked the man if he could read and write and when the prospective voter said he could Mr...
...He lay prostrate until a police, 'man and others picked him up...
...Pa., Joe Bearak's magnificent run In Boston and the election of Frank Perkins as president of the Council ,in Buffalo were distinctly encouraging...
...Maurer and Slump Win In Reading i Socialist Ticket Makes Clean Sweep In Pennsyl| vania City (By a New Leader Cor respondent) rsBADING...
...The contest was one of the most bitterly waged in years...
...The voters were threatened, browbeaten and flustered...
...Joseph Lanas of 341 Ernst Seventeenth street end Sophie Ordence of the same address were arrested on charges of Illegal voting «n the nineteenth elect Inn district of the Sixth Assembly District in Public School 23, iSS Seventh street, by Patrolman Martin Rouse of the Fifth Street Station...
...While the judicial process to thus degraded to protect vote stealing in New York and Philadelphia and to enjoin labor throughout the country rich criminals are still at large...
...The 1927 figures also show an increase of 4,000 over the vote ror Governor last year...
...Don | Chase, "a Socialist watcher, said he had j seen Cingolo tampering with a machine j three times after voters had just left it...
...I have opposed bun politically simply because of my opposition to all capitalist parties...
...1372 Orand Avenue, the Bronx, temporarily blinding both and compelling Rosen to go to the New York Eye And Ear Inflmary for treatment...
...He was released by Magistrate Ewald at the request of Special Deputy Attorney General Samuel Bier...
...It la bitterly opposed to any organisations of workingmen...
...Now the crooks go personally Into the voting booths and either intimidate the voter to vote their way or actually vote for him...
...Tear Powder Thrown Mr...
...There was a small unofficial paper which contained some notations of what appeared to be voting returns...
...Sinclair and Fall are still out of jail and apparently the former If not the latter has added the crime of jury fixing to his other offences W. J. Bums, labor hater, ex bead of the United States Secret Service, self proclaimed patriot and foe of radicals hires out his men for meddling with the jury...
...They gave their Tammany friends a helping hand during the recording of the resultPour Deputy Attorneys General Joined with Panken and Norman Thomas...
...The RePlMb^eau Inspectors signed the final re' ports and went borne...
...Chairman of the local board, ; formed Justice Panken the voting machines had been read, locked up and > sealed by the Board of Elections...
...The election gives Tammany Hall practically a free hand to mismanage the transit problem, ignore effective housing reform, juggle a thoroughly dishonest budget and prostitute justice, especially in the lower courts, to political puU...
...It has made no difference whether a strike has been led by an independent union, the former Western Federation of Miners, the United Mine Workers or the I. W. W. In each instance the public powers of cities, counties and states have cooperated with | mining companies and their hired mercenaries to destroy the organization...
...344 East 14th Street, which is the polling place of the 38th Election District of the 8th Assembly District, while the vote was being read off from the machine some one threw tear powedr into the eyes of two Socialist watchers, Ben Belsky of No...
...Ik opponent, Daniel J. Sweeney...
...Mining capitalism Is supreme...
...Under the law," he warned, "no markings can be put on these papers after they are signed as correct...
...Large increases, despite the lower registration than that of previous years, was the result wherever Socialists put in any activity...
...Both polling places were In Public School 21 at Elizabeth and Spring streets...
...In one polling place a watcher | had a gen poked into his ribs and I a second later a thug struck him from : behind, laying him oat...
...Karlin carried his point after a lengthy dispute with rival political leaders...
...These signed returns are blank", said Panken and Thomas...
...They are signed by the two Democratic and the two Republican inspectors...
...Nathaniel J. Palzer, Secretary of the Honest Ballot Association, said that one of the first complaints received by his association yesterday had come from an Italian who refused to give his name because of fear of reprisal...
...In this strike the I. W. W. happens to be the leader...
...Police Cept...
...He said many complaints showed the election officials shouldered Into booths while voting was proceeding or else lifted up the curtain to spy...
...William M. rj»* -dboume fo the Honest Ballot AssoNorwegian Labor Gains In Elections Reaches Total of 27 Oslo.—Complete results of the recent parliamentary election show huge gains for the Social-Democratic Labor Party, with a severe loss for the Conservatives and Liberals...
...Kven In New York the events of the day ought to put Iron In our blood and courage In our hearts...
...a guard rail ten feet away...
...An argument developed in the polling place of the Eleventh Election District of the Fourth Assembly District, Broome and Sheriff streets, when William KarUn, Socialist candidate for General Sessions Judge, Insisted that a voter who asked assistance In using the voting machine be forced to work the machine hlmsAlf Mr...
...Almost without exception he evidence has been piled high »n each investigator of the criminal acts of the corporations, their hired thugs and the cooperation of public officials...
...Thomas to Police Capt...
...j— Scab "Unions" Fought This is what has happened in many notable mine strikes in the past thirty 'years and It is evolving In the present strike in Colorado...
...This firing of the tents was preceded by a merciless pouring of bullets Into the tent colonoy...
...It called a strike on Octo -er 16 to enforce a demand for an $8.51 minimum wage in the coal mining areas...
...As he stood still some one came from behind and .struck him on the back of the btad...
...The arrest was in the Nineteenth Election District of the Sixth Assembly District...
...This message indicates a tendency towards solidarity of the two organizations...
...bars...
...We must be on the Job all the year round...
...James H. Maurer, President of the Pennsylvania Federation of Labor, has been elected a member of the City Council...
...The Chicago organ of the I. W. W., "Industrial Solidarity," in its current issue carries a telegram from O. F. Nigro, President of District 15 of the United Mine Workers, which reads: "The reports In Denver papers and rumors circulated that Mr...
...Where are the figures of election returns which are supposed to be on these signed statements...
...Nevertheless he ran on a straight program of municipal socialism...
...It is also true of some other mining states where miners have revolted against intolerable conditions...
...Ostensibly this was done for the purpose of instructing the voters In the use of the machines...
...It subsequently vanished and could not be found...
...This victory is clearly a triumph of workingmen and women...
...Tammany has no official oppostv.erv From gangsters'like "Joe the Wop" up to prosecuting attorneys, yes...
...The printing plant of the Victor Record was completely wrecked by a '"respectable" mob, military rule was declared in Teller County, city and county officials were forced to resign their offices, union headquarters were destroyed, the union itself was crushed and every person in the stricken region was prohibited from giving food and clothing to the famishing women and children of the miners...
...Votes cast by between 2.000 and 3,000 Tammany floaters coupled with open fraudulent casting of votes by Tammany .election officials succeeded in robbing Justice Panken of his election...
...The tally sheet was found and Panken' and Thomas noted It also was blank...
...The second is not quite as strong a Socialist district as the others...
...Never was the corrupt alliance between gangsters, politicians, officials, including some city officials, prosecutors and Judges —or some of them—all financed by business interests which did not want to be disturbed in their enjoyment of special j privilege, better revealed than in the 4ti...
...The police officer» were for the most part ! frightened by fear of politics...
...The vote of each candidate'is...
...The reports are then filed, the criminals are not molested, old conditions continue only to culminate in another bloody debauch...
...Other candidates carried into office are William C. Hoverter, City Treasurer and Walter R. Hollinger, City Controller...
...Falser said, was reported from Public School 174, polling place for the eighteenth nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first election districts of the Fourth Assembly District...
...The Colorado Fuel and Iron Company has called upon the state authorities for soldiers and In Walsenburg, one of the ,bief strike centers, the local papers which Colorado Strike To Be Discussed >at N. Y. Meeting Events fat the strike of the Colorado coiners are repeating the brutal history of the class war in the Rocky Mountain region for the past thirty years...
...the Democratic candidate, srwaaney e»».a_ double-column unsigned siVuiil haWontTiTj Buffalo papers which oonststed of excerpts from speeches by Mayor Roan and other Socialists m order to "prove" that Perkins is a "dangerous Buclalsst...
...Five were held...
...The final figures were: Rahno (Democrat)...........24,587 Harawlts (Democrat) .......21,825 Pan km (Socialist) ..........17,399 Catinetta (Republican...
...This work counts...
...In these poor, miserable districts where the workers are most exploited they are most completely ruled by a terrible fear of opposing Tammany or by hope for some of its little favors...
...When ballots were used, the crooks would have corrupt inspectors change or mutilate the ballpts during the count and make false returns _>f the ballots cast...
...Again, 1 arrested the Chairman of the Election Board at Public School 160, who went twenty-six times into the voting booth against the protest of the voter who was balloting...
...The , candidates do not appear under p—ty designations but the enemies of PstkMia gave a wide publicity to the Socialist affiliations of Perkins while he ffauktj asserted his Socialist views on every ' occasion In this •lection, as be has 1st others...
...S3 110 39 3.841 3,379 40 '804 934 41 1.990 2,313 33 414 451 43 2,558 3411 44 578 867 45 266 418 46 157 331 47 327 686 48 363 463 49 1,089 „. 1,058 50 2.870 S 3,830 51 519 458 53 75I 109 53 544 488 54 240 217 53 723 785 56 1499 1.438 Total 18,975 22.063 QUEENS 57 514 612 58 349 485 59 333 360 60 352 558 61 304 455 62 347 435 Total ' 2,198 2,796 RICHMOND 63 75 148 ,64 56 80 165 52 60 I -- - Total 183 268 RECAPITULATION Manhattan 9,711 11,485 Bronx 15,112 16,376 Brooklyn 18,975 22,062 queens 2.198 2,796 Richmond 183 368 Total 46,179 52,987 Gam SJ8S The fight against private ownership of land and capital, the fight for Socialism, for the nation's control of its own sources...
...Magistrate Ewald later granted an adjournment in her case until tomorrow at the request of her attorney, former Judge Isaac Ringle...
...She said she had seen the act from behind...
...The meeting is being arranged Ay the Baltimore Open Forum and the Socialist Party...
...Jn the light of revelations hi the Sinclair trial one wonders what jury fixing there may have been In the Daugberty case...
...U. M. W. Keeps "Hands Off* "The officials of District No...
...An attempt to wreck a train was investigated and it was revealed that two secret agents of the mine owners were involved in this affair, the intention being to incriminate the miners...
...Johanna Thomas, who registered from 283 East Fourth street, was arrested by Patrolman Shannon of the Fifth Street Station...
...For their subservience to both old parties and their failure to build strong their own unions and their own party the workers throughout the country will find themselves without legal power to do one thing necessary for the fogmatlon cedent of the drastic injunction against the mtners m Western Penneyrranie and the Colorado I.WW...
...Judge Panken this year polled 17,399...
...The history of these struggles gives a different answer...
...Joseph Bearak...
...Meantime the mayors of nearly a dozen cities have signed their names to a public statement outlawing the strike because of its leadership...
...The principal beneficiary of this 'reformed" Tammany, Its idol, perhaps In same tense...
...A local organization of the labor Party gave hearty support...
...the labor attorney, representing the Socialist Party...
...On the whole the voting machine makes for an honest count, but in places like the 2nd and 4th district it also makes it easier for Tammany to see that the voters whom they Intimidate or bribe deliver the goods...
...One recalcitrant juror let Harry Daugberty go free...
...Miss Panken charged Mlgnogno with having tampered with the keys of a voting machine just after a voter left the booth without pulling the lever...
...The facts were known...
...What is striking about this Socialist victory is that the Socialist candidates were elected by a clear majority over the candidates of both old parties...
...Nestor when that official appeared to hang fire before ftpoUng the two men...
...In the eighth district, where Norman Thomas ran for Alderman, he polled 2,083 votes, whereas the Socialist candidate for the same office in 193* polled 1,046...
...The Socialist watchers were refused their right to see the totals on the machine...
...He has perfected a number of i In li Hal appliances and electro-chemical prima ses for which he has been granted patents...
...The Socialist watchers who made protests over the procedure were brutalized...
...Similar complaints were recevied from other election districts in that Assembly District and from election districts in the Second Assembly District...
...and 2nd Assembly districts which constitute the southern part of Judge Panken's municipal court district...
...A Bloody History The whole history of these mine strikes is one repetition after the other of brutal and bloody conflicts growing out of absentee ownership of isolated regions...
...Unions Backed Party The Reading victory in a city of 120,000, shows what can be accomplished by working people who are determined to assert their claims to power and representation in public office...
...Karlin told reporters he had seen nothing else complained of while be was there I He said that before his arrival word was received at Socialist headquarters that voters were being forced to accept assistance in runlng the machines and In some cases women were allowed to go into the booths with their husbands...
...All was ready for any desired figures to be entered on the statements...
...No brief statement can be adequate to characterise and denounce, the Tammany frauds in Judge Panken's district...
...This comment by Mr...
...Rachel LinemeuT, also of 156 Attorney street...
...But we cannot fight Tammany Hall on the basis of a splendid election campaign...
...Incidentally these private detectives who are so useful to our lords and masters an the most infamous class In the community, far worse than most of the criminals behind the...
...Socialists made charges and gave substantial proof that there were hundreds of illegal voters in the district, brought in by the Tammany organization which expected a close result...
...The two Chairmen, who were held In $100 ball each by Magistrate Maurice Ootlieb in Tombs Court, said they were George Cingolo, a clerk, of 329 Broome street, who was Chairman of the board in the Twenty-second Election District, and Daniel Mlgnogno, a chauffeur, of 214 Mulberry street...
...In the town of Victor near by the local public officials were deposed because they were not servile to the corporation...
...Voluminous reports have been published...
...Some fifteen years ago FarMM Joined the Socialist Party In Buffalaji In the summer of 1018 the local treat* Hon company attempted to raise the brfee of street car fares and Perkins peraeb- • ally Issued petition blanks caning tor - a referendum election, which Ma pas- . sible under Buffalo's charter...
...It was the first time in ten years that the Socialist Party has nominated any candidate for a city election...
...I In Booth With Voters I Irving Simon of 119 Suffolk street, a Democratic election inspector in the Twenty-second election district of the Fourth Assembly District at Public School 160, Riving ton and Suffolk streets, was arrested by Special Deputy Attorney General Myer Machlls and Patrolman Carew of the Clinton Street Station...
...Panken Aeeases woman Mrs...
...There are those who insist that this organization is provocative of the brutal phases of class wars in the mining regions...
...Gursteln's sister, was said to have signed the enrollment book and to have asked her sister to vote for her...
...Employment of criminals as private armies by coal companies, establishment of "bull pens" for illegal detention of strikers, censorship of the press, deportation of strikers and sympathisers, raiding^ of their halls, confiscating their records, ustr-of the militia as an extra armed force of mining officials and establishment of a dictatorship of absentee owners over these regions...
...There are thousands of former members of the United Mine Workers whose local unions have been destroyed by the "company union" policy of the mine masters and they are involved in the strike...
...The Reading movement has been maintained for more than twenty years by workers In the Industries of the city and their success is due to decades of educational work...
...James Oneal will preside...
...The Socialists are lully conscious of their responsibilities and will give earnest attention to a program ror the city that will meet the hearty approval of those who nave sent then into Office...
...Justice Panken then sent out for Louis Waidman, who on arrival, took over the doenments and warned Eisenberg not to touch them further...
...In Public School 20, Rivlngton and Forsyth streets, where the polling places of the Twelfth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Election Districts of the Second Assembly District were situated, it was charged that pencil marks had been placed below the names of several candidates...
...15, United Mine Workers of America, have stated then- position very clearly before the calling of the strike...
...It is estimated that folly 5,000 votes were stolen from Panken...
...For these reasons one only lands in the arms of reaction by «««nnnH1g that the present mine strike in Colorado would have different aspects if It was led by some organization other than the LW.W...
...I want parenthetically to express right here my deep gratitude to the friends, known and unknown, who worked so gallantly and unselfishly with me in the Eighth Aldermanic district...
...There's nothing new in it...
...The strike of the miners in the Cripple Creek region in 1894 resulted In a civil war...
...This Is an astonishing vote for the Socialist candidate and convinces the members of Local Boston that Intelligent and vigorous educational work even in thai sodden city of reaction will bring results...
...Justice Panken said that "more than a hundred" violations of election laws bad come to his notice during the day...
...Nearly ten years later a still more furious and bloody struggle occurred in the same region which spread to Colorado City and Telluride...
...on the say-so of Justice Panken and sent for Sergt...
...It is an ominous situation and the workers of the nation owe support and en' couragement of the Colorado miners in (their hour of bitter trial..» Terror Rules East Side District Gunmen and Gorillas Intimidate Voters — Tammany Inspectors Ring Up Votes By The Hundreds rT%HE "New Tammany" swung into action on Election day In New York City where Judge Jacob Panken, Socialist, was a candidate for re-election after having served ten years on the Municipal Court bench...
...The former charter proeaMI jggfl a Council of five, the OooncUmed boJj*# also department beads...
...By the time the polls had been closed, the figures indicating a defeat for Judge Panken by 4,426 votes, the city had been treated to a revival of election thievery of, the type which has made the name of Tammany an epithet denoting all that is corrupt and filthy in politics...
...The most conservative estimates of the number of votes stolen by the Tammany officials, with the aid of Republican officials In their pay, are all higher than that figure...
...7Jh referendum made Perkins a potitieej «. - gure of standing and the following rear ' the Socialists endorsed Perkins for City Councilman, one of three to be etoegW...
...The conditions required of a minor party to get on the ballot are almost prohibitive, with the result that Democrats and Republicans have monopolized the ballot and elections have been a contest between two gangs of professionals...
...We should organize by districts and though we cannot offer Tammany favors we can offer better than Tammany friendship...
...Again the armed deputies played a criminal role...
...They enjoy quasi-official position...
...Claessens In the 6th increased the Socialist vote from 846 to 1,515...
...J. Henry Stump, manager of the Labor Advocate and one of the leading trade unionists and Socialists of eastern Pennsylvania,, was elected Mayor...
...To the surprise of many, the strike immediately became 100 per cent effective in the northern part of the state and in the south is also rapidly spreading...
...the Conservatives and Liberals obtained 32 seats, suffering a loss of 22...
...We haven't transferred them yet...
...fOf vote therefore was obtained In spite of a two-party opposition and this adds to . the striking character of his victory...
...In all cases the Tammany election officials were flanked by a collection of gangsters who aided in the Intimidation of voters who were being deprived of their votes...
...The returns which announce the defeat of Sweeney and the election of Perkins are a sourea of chagrin for the up-state outpost oT Tammany HalL , An amusing phase of the campaign Is the fact that the Republicans approved the candidacy of Perkins, posstety ST the hope of weaning him from his Bo-, clallst afflllal.lons When It became apparent that Perkins had recanted mm' of his Socialist .views leading Repwetl-cans organised a fight against him...
...Socialist watchers were refused the right to note the results tabulated on the machines...
...This was provoked by the policy of the corporation employing private deputies who acted like armed bandits vested with state powers...
...Democeet, I received a .vote of 51.401...
...This occurred in the 11th Election District of the 4th Assembly District...
...Complaints of Gunmen Complaints were made to the State Attorney General's office that gunmen were terrorizing voters in the Twentysecond Election District of the Fourth Assembly District at Suffolk and Rivington streets, where it was said, men, not inspectors, were going into the booths with voters...
...Quite a number of the trade unions .supported the Socialist candidates who are also members of the trade unions...
...Nine men and three women were arrested on one charge or another in other dVlashes...
...91, Stanton and Forsyth Streets, when their Socialist watchers, Joseph Karpelowsky and Morris Marksheid, reported they bad been kept from looking at the ballot totals on the voting matgpnM, Justice Panken found the four ^^<>ctors of the election district bad ed in triplicateethe official election 1' i'cts which read that "the foregoing V correct in every detail," but that *lie official reports were still blank...
...Palzer said, came from a voter who said he had not been permitted to vote in the fourth election district of the Fourth Assembly District in Public School 147...
...Baltimore Will Hold Debs Memorial Meeting Sunday Baltimore, Md.—A Debs memorial meeting will take place in Baltimore, Sunday, November 20th, 3 pjn...
...I It Is note-worthy that after elgbt~pny , in the City Council that no crttMssa?' 1 Perkins' official acta, hat voeea -ffj Council or bis administrative jflL~ > Commissioner of Public Affairs, mv* been made by any Socialist, CkW^ ^ or unauached radical...
...New York State, failed of election on Tuesday...
...There to more to be said for him as a champion of the right of Catholic* and Jews to seek the presidency...
...I think the City Committee should now decide on certain district In the great city where we have the best chance of building up some organization...
...In It: } ! ran for re-election and was high * | in the elimination primaries...
...Palzer, the election captain walked into the booth, cast a ballot for him, walked out, slapped him on the back and said: "Everything's O. K." A similar occurrence, Mr...
...The part played by the Republicans In the 4th district was particularly reprehensible...
...They's on the tally sheet...
...Cell* Ourstetn of 166 Attorney street was arrested at the polling place of the Twentieth Election District of the Fourth Assembly District, In Public School 174, 139 Attorney street, when she was said to have admitted that fhe had voted twice...
...David P. 8 leg el...
...Felix Pogliono or myself have attended meetings at Agullku- or other places since the beginning of the Industrial Workers of the World strike, to Influence the miners one way or another in this controversy, are absolutely false...
...N. Y. Socialist Vote Takes A Big Jump...
...Sweeney Trick Falls An amusing Incident of the -r-'!**>kfil was a stunt pulled off by Bweenej...
...Boro* of the more striking events an told elsewhere in this paper...
...Harold Frank of 765 Kosciusko street, Brooklyn, arrested at the polls in the Fifteenth Election District of the Sixth Assembly District, Brooklyn, was released when he proved to the satisfaction of Magistrate Folwell In Gates Avenue Court, Brooklyn, that he had lived for the last eight months at that address...
...This is true not only of leoor organizations regardless of their name and affiliation...
...v j What Is significant regarding tilt vote • for Perkins la that snti-Socialist prejndioe has counted for little In the election...
...Panken and Thomas hurried to Public School No...
...He is a poor cowardly sheep, beyond redemption by any political Messiah who...
...said for Gov...
...Is a slave master that rules much of Colorado...
...No man was tried and convicted of the cowardly murders...
...On one machine, it was said, one of the strips of cardboard had been ripped out up to and including the name of Justice Panken...
...The largest number of these complaints came from polling places in the First, Second and Fourth Assembly Districts in Manhattan, where a close contest was being waged between Justice Jacob Panken, Socialist candidate for reelection to the Municipal Court, and Joseph Raimo, his Democratic opponent...
...The Labor Advocate, an eight-page weekly representing the trade unions and Socialist ideals, did yeoman service in the campaign...
...Uncer our bi-partisan scheme the Republican organization in these districts simply lives as a necessary annex to Tammany Hall...
...Gurstein said, the police reported, that she bad voted for her mother, Mrs...
...The Intention is plain here...
...It Is evident from the foregoing that the changefrom ballot to voting machine has not checked the activities of the election crooks...
...The speakers will be Norman Thomas, Robert Morss Lovett and comrade William A. Toole of Baltimore...
...Smith's personal qualities and administrative gifts...
...Panken swept the 6th district by some 4,000 votes...
...PA.—The Socialist Party _has qiftde a clean sweep in the city election...
...Chad bourne, on behalf of the Honest Ballot Association, said: "Many complaints have been made of violations of the law In connection with the use of voting machines...
...Whether it be a strike of an independent union, of the United Mine Workers, or, as in this case, a strike led by the I. W. W., It la met by ruthless methods and with the servile cooperation of public officials...
...At the Instance of Justice Panken, the complaint was made by Philip Hansel, a Socialist watcher...
...Later reports indicate a oetter feeling between the two organizations...
...The train proceeded down the valley in the dead of night and fired into tents on the hillside where women and children of the miners were sleeping...
...Vote Cast For Him Another complaint, Mr...
...It is a leader in a policy of "company unionism" which has been carried into the mining areas...
...When he appeared, the man told Mr...
...The grisly facta were revealed in this inquiry but Morton and his accomplices were never arrested...
...Judge a«w 8. Levine of General Sessions appeared and fixed Immediate bail, which was furnished at once, so that Eisenberg and Engel were not detained...
...Republican election board officials aided and connived at the wholesale false voting by the Tammany officials...
...James Nestor acne to nook the two inspectorse...
...I caused the arrest of a woman inspector who voted twice and was going •to vote a third time—for her sister, she said," Justice Panken asserted...
...I_ W. W. Gains FoothoM As this or anization became weak in the state, the L 'W, W. gained a foothold but It by no means controls the field...
...asked Justice I taken...
...Thomas 1 Tuesday, November 8 was an encouraging day for^the Socialist cause...
...This tenderness for the wealthy classes presented a glaring contrast with the gouging of the working class and when it was explained to working class voters they understood its significance and the vital need of winning the public powers for themselves...
...The response of the miners is evidence of their deep resentment of the mining oligarchy led by the Rockefeller concern in the policy of crushing all forms of labor organization in the Industry...
...Assembly- j man Frank P. Galgano, Tammany candidate for re-election to that district, j who appeared as attorney for the accused Chairmen, said the guard rail was j twenty feet away from .the booth...
...With one candidate to be elected In Ward 14, four candidates were entered In the race...
...I think the committee should at once try to get local candidates who will consent to run in those districts next year and who will begin to work without delay...
...Election Day, November 1927, not only I but every henest believer in an honest election must oppose Gov...
...All the elements of a bloody storm are present in Colorado...
...The proceeds of the meeting win be donated to the Debs Memorial Radio Fund...
...and some Magistrates and Judges, there is one protective system behind which Tammany with impunity steals the votes it needs...
...There was not Special Deputy Attorney General at this polling place, but other special deputies in the east side told reporters that they had encountered some difficulty in keeping husbands and wives from going Into the booth together...
...Robert Neuman was arrested on a charge that he did not live at 225 Lewis street, from which place, he had registered...
...Where are the other two inspectors?'' "They've gone home," said Eisenberg...
...Chairman of the board in the Twentieth Election District...
...This is to be expected in the face of a common enemy and a common danger...
...Tbe 'referendum resulted In a five to Me de...
...The cardboards were replaced and no arrest was made...
...Since the beginning of the strike, they have absolutely adopted a policy of 'hands off...
...I shall return to them later...
...strike by law and executive order, ere all to* Skew to be followed to Hew York by an injunction «g—vt the entire American "*Yi*t*Tt1iir of Tabor to prevent any effort to organise the employees of the I. R T who bave signed its yellow dog contract...
...The reports and tally sheets were blank...
...The hoodlums in Brownsville who celebrated by smashing the windows of our Labor Lyceum gave the measure of their party and their cause...
...The police officer on duty at first was afraid to arrest the two...
...Patrolmen Harry Wolfe and John J. Murphy declined to arrest Eisenberg and Stage...
...The meeting is free and its sponsors hope that friends of the striking miners will fill the hall...
...The polling places of the 4th assembly district daring the day and late In the evening, when the official returns were being recorded, were scenes of the meet disgracefol election stealing...
...Many were ejected and threatened...
...That In Itself is to the good...
...This organ lied murder of innocents was the subject of an inquiry by a committee of the United states...
...The new ohsMjgfJl provides for the election of five OaaaattV men at huge, nine district C^xdkGmeai a Mayor...
...Even the United Mine Workers' Journal In a recent editorial declares: "The United Mine Workers, whlsh has the nucleus of an organisation in that state, was not permitted to function...
...Here the Republican organisation placed itself completely at the disposal of Tammany...
...What Is Important to remember at that the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, a Rockefeller corporation...
...The Mine Owners' Association and their tools of the Citizens' Alliance established a dictatorship over the region and ruled it by terror...
...Denial W. Hoan, to Buffalo, for a number* mt meetings and Hoan urged support -el Perkins as a Socialist candidate...
...xsmi Timely Topics Norman...
...Perkins' victory was largely personal...
...Karlin' insisted he could manage the machine...
...Tammany Thugs Steal Panken's Election [Perkins Is Elected city Council Heap Socialist Candidate t^*^ State New York DefeaW-^ Tammany man, to 51,401 ^; (By a New loader Ctrrw>siideafll ' T> UPFALO.—Frank C. Perkins, 0HMlit has been elected President of «be City Council by a vote of 74,847...
...He also charged that Simon had permitted persons not inspectors to accompany voters into the booths, allowing as many as five persons tat a booth at the same time...
...Machlls charged that Simon had turned downjthe keys on voting machines for three voters and had entered the booth ten times while voters were casting their ballots...
...About the same period occurred the horrible massacre of the Innocents at Ludlow, Colorado, where the tents were fired by the private murderers of the mine owners and women and children perished...
...There was much loss of life and years passed before normal life was restored to this region...
...serve as house organs of the corporation 1 are publishing sensational stories of crimes charred to the miners and urging the presence of the militia...
...The total Socialist New York City vote, Dased on the votes cast for aldermen in 1925 and 1927, shows a fine increase of about 7,000 votes...
...All other Socialist city candidates were also swept into office...
...Voorhis was reported in the ISetv York- Herald-Tribune 'and in the Netc York Times...
...The 4th, however, was considered by all to be Panken territory...
...i Moreover, the Socialists brought the ' Socialist Mayor of Milwaukee...
...Although DisBoitfi Attorney Joab Banton called it the On**' election in years...
...Lynch Him...
...A number of persons, some of whom claimed to be watchers and others who made no attempt to explain their presence, surrounded the excited group in the seboolhouse while this was going on...
...Senate...
...Whereas the Socialist candidates in the 2nd judicial district In 1826 polled a total of 3.354 votes...
...Shall the terrible scenes of other struggles be repeated with the usual end of forgetting what occurred...
...6 and utrned down switches indicating how to vote for each proposition named in the referendum and each candidate...
...The two capitalistic parties also materially contributed to' the Socialist .victory...
...Monday night, November 14...
...John D. Rockefeller, Jr., an absentee owner In this region, mocked the dead by evasive explanations...
...The peeper whispered instructions which the Italian said, he followed by voting, because he feared violence if he did not...
...said Mr...
...1 Ernst 15th Street and Theodore Rosen Of No...
...When the result was known they made an assault >n the Brownsville Labor Lyceum, So;ialist headquarters...
...It Is believed that with hard work succeeding campaigns will give even better results as there are many citizens who are tired of the type of ftMttdmm who have ruled Boston for many yearsr Bearak Polls A Big Vote In Boston...
...There was the usual tax-dodging by large business firms and manufacturers which occurs in practically every city where Democrats and Republicans control...
...Final returns gave Labor 59 seats in Parliament, representing a gain of 27 seats...
...Unless he lepudiates such performances as Tammany Hall pulled off on...
...This man complained that he had entered the booth at Public School 130, polling place oi the Seventeenth Election District, when he saw a man peeping through the curtain...
...I refer to them oecaua* I want to pnt myself on record u seainstsng myself to the exposure of Tammany Ball throughout the United State...
...Charlie Solomon and Judge Jacob Panken were hot honestly defeated...
...The local and state powers appear to be in the hands of the corporate dictators...
...The outstanding lesson of this election for us In New York is that In time of political apathy organization cannot be beaten without organization...
...The gain of votes in the 2nd Judicial district, where Municipal Court Justice Jacob Panken was robbed of re-election by stolen votes, was little short of phenomenal...
...On j ¦ tlon day he polled 72,000 votes-1*"* ' twelve thousand ahead of the uulUgel » : cesaful candidate...
...This also to part of the "price we pay for our lack of any effective opposition party in the United States...
...Believing that publicity regarding what is happening will help the strikers, a mass meeting will be held In the auditorium of the Rand School, 7 East 15th street...
...It was on that ground that his opponent fought him...
...It must x remembered that registration this year was far below that of 1925 and 1926...
...Bearak ran second, polling a surprising vote foe Boston...
...Moreover, < the general Socialist vote in Buffalo showed an Increase...
...Once union headquarters has been raided and sacked...
...We had more people working during this campaign than for many years past...
...campaign manager for Frank P. Catinella, defeated Republican candidate for Municipal Court Justice in the 2nd District, said: "There wers instances of gross fraud and irregularity in this Judicial district...
...This, we repeat, is evolving In Colorado...
...Frank J Hayes or Mr...
...After a long parley in the Elizabeth Street Station, where Eisenberg and Engel were taken by Deputy Attorney General Matthew It, Levy, di...
...That policy had another angle...
...Winiows In the building were broken by •ocks thrown by the Tammany gangsters...
...Still a third class of complaint had to do with inspectors and election workers who deliberately entered the voting booths, regardless of the wish of the voter, and even over his protests, and set the pointers and pulled the overhead lever, which constituted the act of voting before the voter really knew what was going on...
...There was no charge made against her for that...
...The second way In which the law was violated was through election officials and workers raising the curtain of the booth, while the voter was setting the machine's pointers, and spying on the voter...
...The total vote credited him by the returns was ridiculously small and obviously fraudulent...
...This policy has ousted the United Mine Workers m many mines where the "company uraon" flourishes...
...Smith's presidential aspirations on the same grounds on which we should oppose similar aspirations oy Senator Vare of the Philadelphia Republican machine...
...Honest men are cowed...
...Its master, to none other than Governor Alfred B. Smith who •oak* the presidential nomination as a progressive backed by a "philanthropic" political machine Then to much to be...
...General Session* Judge Max 8. Levine was called to the Clinton street Station, where he fixed ball at $500...
...7,303 Spieler (Republican...
...at No...
...Ginsberg...
...Justice Panken tojd Eisenberg there were erasures en this piece of paper...
...John J. Pallay of the Lawyers' Nonpartisan Committee for the Re-Election of Justice Panken said about thirty Deputy Attorneys General who were on duty in the 2nd and 4th Assembly Districts will file affidavits to the effect that "the election was the worst ever witnessed by them...
...feat for the traction Interests...
...Notorious gangsters, gunmen and pimps were on hand In full force taking orders from the Tammany leaders...
...Unless elections in New York City are to be a far^e, his violation of the law must be checked...
...7.570 The vote stealing, which ran close to the 5,000 mark, the Illegal votes of the floaters Included, was done to elect Abraham Harawlts, the* weaker of the two ' "TWrfflHany cshdMates: wM"" refjun-ea that 2,500 votes be stolen from Panken to elect the Tammany candidate...
...The Social lat vote for other offices is much bmow, the average being 6.142, but this Is * fain of 1,500 vote* over that MOOtede wy j Socialist candidates last year...
...In one instance a gangster put a pistol against the stomach of a Republican watcher named Harry Garber and told him to stand still or be shot...
...can think of what happened in Judge Panken's district without rage in his heart and determination for new effort...
...The results of such effort are .bound to be encouraging educationally and in the lbulldlng up of the movement if not in Immediate political victory...
...at the Hippodrome Theatre...
...Thomas examined the nearest voting machine, which he had been told was locked and sealed, and found the front seal open on it, apparently either Broken or never entirely sealed...
...Blong...
...Kings...
...Eisenberg and Engel charged with attempting to falsify ballot returns, were released in $1,000 ball each...
...Comptroller and OouAQ ftgtsi] sldent...
...Socialist, on Ballot First Time In 10 Years, Runs Second — Gets 2,147 Votes TIOSTON.—After one of the fines* and * * most effective Socialist campaigns that has been waged in Boston for twenty years the results of Tuesday's elecj tion have encouraged the local organiseI tion, s The contset that aroused great interest was that of Joseph Bearak for Coun| oilman In the 14th Ward...
...In precinct after precinct it was the custom, not the ex/option, for a Tammany election official (women were among the worst offenders) to go into the booth and vote with or for the cltlsen under the wholly illegal pretext of explaining the operation of the machine...
...As it appears from the result, the floaters "turned hte trick" for Tammany...
...Naturally, friction developed between the I. W. W. and the United Mine Workers and this found its way into th-_> press...
...Solomon Loses By 300 Increase Over 1925 and 1926 Is Recorded in All Boroughs—Thomas and Clacssens Bring Vote Up 100 Per Cent, Despite Small Registration—Panken Raises Vote from 4,000 to 18,000 % DY the narrow margin of 313 votes, Charles Solomon, Socialist candidate for assembly in the 23rd district...
...Gurstein was approached she crossed out her sister's signature, watchers said...
...Taxation Policy Attacked Not only were the workers the victims of a vicious taxation policy...
...the Radicals obtained 29 seats, a loss of 9: the Labor Democrats obtained 1 seat and lost 1, and the Communists obtained 3 seats, with a loss of 3. ciation declared the voting machines had done little to remove crookedness from elections...
...Not for years has there been such a thing as an honest election in close districts...
...de»^ New Charter Aaiilia1 In order to rllmmate Perkins from t£e> Council the business Interests and lie?* politicians sponsored and succeedeeH^gU securing the adoption of a new any dntpw ter, the approving vote being given dab summer and the new charter to <flMN effect January next...
...When Mrs...
...for Ruby, 3.773...
...A great number of these are to the effect that Inspectors of election have entered the booths while citizens were voting...
...Two Election Board Chairmen in the 3econd Assembly District were arrested' on complaint of Socialist watchers, one of whom was Hermine Panken, daughter of Justice Panken...
...Thomas said: "At 6:06 p.m...
...Solimon Increased the Socialist vote over 1926 from 2,610 to 3.516...
...In the elimination primaries Perkins ft cured sixth place and on election M polled 52.000 votes, elected as ugh i>i running thousands ahead of the \ " two successful candidates...
...It was in this strike that the rail-1 road depot at Independence was blown up which was followed by wholesale arrests and deportations of miners...
...L. W.W.Battle Coal Barons of Colorado Workers Face Brutal Rockefeller Corporation In Fight For A Decent Wage By James Oneal /COLORADO is again the scene of a brutal struggle in which miners are engaged with the prospect of repeating i all the horrors that have accompanied j these struggles for more than thirty years...
...Election Board Head A dm its Fra udsAga instJudgePa nken When the widespread election frauds practiced against the Socialist party in the Judge Panken contest were reported to the Board of Elections, John R- Voorhis, veteran Tammany head of the Board of Elections* had the following comment to make: "The Socialists have complained that the Republicans and the Democrats were trying tO\.do them, and the Socialists were probably correct...
...The law expressly forbids this except in the case of illiterate or disabled voters...
...Solomon made a great increase in the Socialist vote...
...Socialist Party leaders, in effecting the arrest of Ben Eisenberg and Abe Engel, Democratic election inspectors...
...Yetta Llnemaur...
...Is the last fight In the age-long struggle which can have but one end...
...Only great restraint on'the part )f the Socialists prevented serious riotng and bloodshed...
...The clean-cut Socialist victory in Reading...
...Bearak's vote was partly an expression of the protest aroused by the Sacco—Vanzetti case...
...Investigation after investigation has been made by State and Federal commissions...
...Support the Strikers Scenes similar to these have accompanied strikes of the miners in northern Minnesota and the copper region of upper Michigan In West Virginia they are a periodical occttrrene...
...Accordingly, the Honest Ballot Association requests all citizens who have witnessed such violations to communicate with the association, giving the number of the election and Assembly district, the nature of the occurrence and, if possible, the name of the voter concerned...
...Machines Already Sealed ^^issenberg...
...Bearak, 3,147...
...Frank Miller, who came from the Elizabeth Street Station...
...Here is the comparative vote for aldermen throughout the city: VOTE FOR SOCIALIST CANDIDATES FOB ALDERMAN MAHATTAN District 1925 1827 1 352 452 2 262 605 3 179 221 4 262 824 5 110 175 6 846 1.515 7 187 275 8 1.046 2,083 9 303 524 10 158 300 11 252 252 12 338 271 13 268 202 District 1925 1927 14 454 320 15 552 374 16 458 286 17 961 324 18 647 385 19 341 335 20 466 273 21 182 261 22 314 295 23 525 739 24 328 194 Totals 9,711 11,485 BRONX as . • a.o»4 ;¦ urn 3* 153 • - * 271- ~ 37 488 849 28 , LOOS »- - 833 3S 7,337 6.7M 30 1.590 2.985 31 1,908 1.627 83 231 437 Total 15,112 16476 BROOKLYN 83 148 138 34 701 80S 35 1.052 950 36^ 91 118 37 145 133 38...
...According to the Brooklyn Standard-Union, the hoodlums ;ried "Kill Solomon...
...After being arrested by Patrolman P. J. O'Brien of the Clinton Street Station, Mrs...
...Sweeney apparently thought that this wide publicity regarding Socialist support of Perkins would blast the chances of the latter for election...
...Tammany hoodlums could not conceal iheir relief that their candidate had slipped through into office...
...Mrs...
...The return of Perkins to office means pnosf—inn of a power only second to sjatt of the office of Mayor...
...Thousands of workers own small homes which have required years of saving to obtain and the fiscal gouging policy of the capitalistic administration enabled the Socialists to drive home the message which they carried to the masses week after week at street and hall meetings through leaflets and the Labor Advocate...
...Even the police officials were ousted and the private deputies of the company worked their will In beating miners and deporting them and their I friends...
...1926...
...He carried the 8th by a good margin...
...They had become fat and moribund, loading the city with needless debts which burdened the . workers with exacting tax assessments...
...In Public School 23, polling place of the twenty-sixth election district of the First Assembly District, It was charged that the election captain, demonstrating the model machine, told voters to vote against Amendment No...
...Any statement to the contrary Is the offspring of the imagination of nnscupnlou* persons...
...reprisals into closing their eyes to the ' thievery...
...Nothing would be gained by antagonizing a strike involving these men and which has seen responded to throughout the state...
...The police are afraid either for their lives or their Jobs...
Vol. 4 • November 1927 • No. 21
