BRIBERY LAID TO U. S. AGENTS IN COLOMBIA
Bribery Laid toU.S.Agents In Colombia Labor Demands Oil Wells Be Developed For Benefit of The People rpHK" working folk of 'th** Republic of *¦ Colombia seem to be playing an Important...
...In 1925 he was arrested In Kaschin and, further, banished to Mtnuswlnk (Siberia), where he is today...
...Was banished by the Bolshevists to the Tobolsk district...
...The Labor Party's administration pR Mexico City under the active gBaJsmfg of Jose Lopez-Cortex who is also genssnl secretary of the Mexican FederattoR'av...
...It contains the dissenting opinions of Justices Brandeis and Holmes on many cases affecting civil liberty...
...The Governnent figures that approximately 500.000 hectares will have been distributed among .be peasants during' 1...
...Netherlands carried out although In the mother country the death penalty has ceased to exist since 1870, by the numerous executions in Russia, Georgia and China, and by the restoration of the death penalty in Italy aimed particularly against political offences...
...Labor V g| 4 Contest* Electrons I In Capital (2*7 ty will appear as the only ccntestaatl municipal offices durtag the oosaasaj jH ections in Mexico On...
...Those who desire to assist this cause in any way may write Mr...
...After the revolution of 1917 he was elected President of the Trade Union Council in Odessa...
...Labor Awaits Independence During recent Sessions of the Colom-* blan Parliament It was 'charged that the country was the bone of contention between American and British oil interests and that while Colonel H. I. P. Yates, said to be of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, was taking advantage of anti-American feeling to try to obtain a big concession, in the Uraba district, agents of American oil companies were active in bribing Deputies to oppose the nationalization bill...
...After the Bolshevist occupation of Georgia he returned to Russia, settled in Moscow and waa elected by the worker...
...Anna Dietzgen, wife of Eugene Dietzgen, f nnerly of Chicago...
...In the same Issue of Claridad is a denunciation of a law to tax gasoline and transportation...
...For a second time he was arrested in Baku In 1924 on account of his participation in the party work, and sentenced to three years' imprisonment...
...As last year, many thousands more will want to join in this affair than the...
...After the 1917 revolution he was elected vice-chairman of the Odessa Trade Union Council, 1923 was together with his son, member of the Social-Democratic League of Youth arrested and confined In Solovetskj...
...Justice Brandeis and nor iwliji isltj Mr...
...While, contending that the fact of 50,000 workers, or almost 1 per cent of the unions' membership, being idle through no fault of their own...
...near tth Avenue...
...In 1920 he was arrested by the Bolshevists In Moscow for his activities in the printers federation...
...Chile, on November 12th...
...In 1925 he was transferred from Solovetskl to the Katorga prison In Tobolsk...
...Many of our comrades are readers of the Leader and they'll be wondering about the report concerning our Federation...
...But soon afterwards she was again arrested and has not been at liberty since that time...
...In his letter to Rykov, Brockway declares: -I know that amidst' >H this triumph, there are haudioes of Socialists Uncertag in ywar pajsasa aad exiled from iililllislwa whose devotion to the working esses, whose love af social jastioe and human *¦ ¦ ¦»¦*""», hea beea proved by courage aad sacHSo* ao lees than yoara...
...After a hunger-strike* of twelve days be was liberated, but In 1923 he was again arrested and condemned to be interned in a concentration camp...
...Socialist Vote Up In Schenectady Schenectady...
...Danish Workers Want No General Strikes Despite the great dissatisfaction with the steps taken by the Conservative Government of Denmark toward reducing State aid to the unemployed workers of that little Kingdom voiced by nearly all the speakers at a recent meeting of representatives of organized labor in Copenhagen, only fifteen of the 6S3 delegates voted in favor of a general strike, or a 24-hour suspension of work, as a means of protest...
...Was for the first time Imprisoned in 1897...
...Brockway then presents a hat of revolutionaries now in Jail or tat exile who had been liopi ¦mind or exiled to Siberia by the CaarMs and cone hides by saying that he cannot close his ears to "the cry af the Socialists in prima aad exile hi Rossis...
...One of the founders of the All-Russian printers' federation...
...was unanimously passed: "The Executive of the Labor and Socialist International Is shocked by the judicial murder committed against Sacco and Vanzettl, victims of a ruthless class justice, by the executions In the colonies of the...
...Both were intimate frisnds of the late Eugene V. Debs and nMped to organize the Social Democratic Ps.rty in Chicago In 1898...
...What interests as in Colombia is not the question of whe• tfaer the North Americans or the English are to dominate the situation or If the sphere of influence is to be divided, as the diplomats say...
...SERGE J ZKDERBACM-JESCHOW (a brother of the deceased Comrade Mario v i joined the Socialist movement in the nineties of the last century...
...Took an active part in the labor movement up to the 1917 revolution...
...In voicing his view Claridad, the Bogota organ of the syndicalist groups, said, in a recent issue: "North Americans or English...
...Served his sentence in the Central gaol of Alexandravsk (Siberia...
...The 1917 revolution relented him from banishment in Jennlsseisk...
...The date Is drawing near and many friends are preparing for the great eyent...
...In 1924, on the ground of a new sentence be was banished to Kaschin, where he was again arrested in 1925 and banished to Turkestan: .there in 1926 again arrested and banished to Syrjansk district, where he still is today...
...Justice Clarke...
...During the revolutionary period of 1917 he was made Commissioner of the Westefa (front by the Workers' and Soldiers' Council of Petrograd...
...He is there today...
...liiteruational Urges End of Death Penalty At the recent session of the Socialist and Labor International the report on the initial meeting and he plan of work of the Commission if enquiry Into the conditions of political prisoners was given by Crispien...
...It Is said that the Government's move in favor of practically nationalizing the oil lands of the republic, which has stirred up so much excitement In the Chamber of Deputies and has resulted in charges of all sorts of graft" arid bribery, Is largely due to the desire of President Abadia Mendez to head off the rising Socialist sentiment by showing the working people that most of the reforms they advocate may be obtained without any radical poliiical turnover...
...w«»-arrested in Moscow in 1933 after the printers' strike as Sytin's...
...There are still two years remaining of the last sentence so that she win formally only be set free after nine years, and then, as usual, she will be sentenced to three years' banishment...
...to the Wjnikers' Council...
...VICTOR KOBOBKOW, a printer of Odessa, member of the Party since the first years of this century...
...Wilcox for Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals received approximately 100 more votes In Schenectady County than Panken for Governor in 1936...
...For his activities in the trade union movement and Council he was imprisoned in 1920 and then for the second time in 1923 In the concentration camp...
...Dietzgen sent $25 each year to G. A. Hoehn as her subscription to the English and German weeklies which he edits...
...Much educational work remains to be done before the United States catches up with many progressive countries...
...They are Inspired by the expectation of seeing their friends again and spending an evening in sociability and good fellowship amid artistic surroundings...
...Eugene Dietzgen is also 'he son of Joseph Dietzgen, a German laruiT, who became a profound student of philosophy...
...In 192a...
...In October, 1924, he was arrested In Petrograd and, on account of his activities in the party, especially for his participation in the above mentioned conference, sentenced to ten years iml prlsonment...
...Epstein organised local committees to cooperate with the nfti""*1 organization in Milwaukee, Madison, St...
...It was not the Bohemian Federation that reported that they have an ¦sairis.ss membership of 12,000 and that they collected 11.950 for the Debs Radio Fund, i The amount is not quite correct as reported by me: it was $1,593.16...
...At the present time she has received four new sentences: in 1922 —banishment, in 1923—internment in a concentration camp (she was interned In the Solovetskl Islands and in the Tobolsk prison), in 1925—fresh banishment and in 1926—again imprisonment...
...The Republicans elected their candidates for the leading otaoos and the Board of Aldermen will constat of 17 Republicans and 16' DuauuOto.' Among the Democratic Alderman is Mrs...
...WASS1LI JEPIFANOFF—Party member since the nineties of last century...
...He was arrested by the Bolshevists for the first time In Charkow in 1920 and removed to the independent Georgia...
...ALEXANDER BOWSCHOWSKI, printer, member of the Party since 1902...
...Existing concessions, most of which are held by Americans, are to be conllrmed without much difficulty, according to semi-official explanations...
...No great intense was evident...
...Justice Holmes and Mr...
...At the present time he is in banishment...
...Secretary of the British Independent Labor Party, and editor of The New Leader of London, has declined an Invitation extended to him by A I. Rykov, Chairman of the Russian Council of the People's Commissaries, to attend the tenth anniversary of the establishment of the Soviet Dictatorship in Moscow...
...During the Tsarist regime he received numerous sentences of Imprisonment on account of his activities in the Party...
...or Anglo-Persian Oil Co- Tropical Oil Co...
...A great attraction will .be the unequalled music _>f the Paul Whlteman Piccadilly Players...
...The voters of all parties showed marked apathy, but the newspaper advertising campaign of the two old parties was more than ordinarily pronounced...
...Up to the 11)17 revolution he had spent six years In prison and had also lived as an emigrant...
...largely in oil lands and mines...
...In this year he crossed the frontier illegally and took part in the conference of the EScecutive of the Labor and Socialist International In Vienna...
...It is asserted that this is aimed at the German-Colombia Company which has an airplane service and aboat "»ne on the Magedelana River and which is said to play a beneficial role in the development of transportation and In mail delivery...
...or Dutch Shell Oi' CoImperial Oil Co...
...He served his sentence In Pertomlnak In the Solovetskl Islands and in the Tobolks prison...
...1, the State grant of 65 per cent of the contributions paid In by trade onion members to their local unemployment Insurance organizations is cut to 45 per cent, and the special emergency government fund for helping local groups that can prove their funds are exhausted because of extraordinary circumstances is abolished...
...After serving his sentence he received another three years' banishment to Turkestan, where he still is today...
...After one year's Imprisonment be was banished to Wjatka, where he was again Imprisoned...
...Civil Liberty" Pamphlet Is Revised The pamphlet "The Supreme Court versus Civil Liberty" which was first issued by the American Civil Liberties Union in April...
...The cost - ^5k^ ^59^^o> r^HK MslLssflggmV fi9(gSgkaX-t - -*V eswjtssl — Pensions for Aged Wins WideSupport Secretary Epstein Organizes Local Supporting Groups In Many Cities YTPON his return from a lecture tour which took him to the Pacific Coast, Abraham Epstein...
...Give credit to those to whom credit Is due...
...Played a prominent part in the Moscow printers' federation...
...In addition to the scattered syndicalist groups in Colombia, there is a Socialist political organization and a central labor union, both of which are affiliated with the Pan Americane'Kecicration of Labor That there was some sort of labor trouble at the ports of BaranquiTla and Buenaventura- recently seems indicated by the publication in Santiago...
...It Is conservatively estimated that at least 1,800,000 aged persons in the United States today are dependent upon relatives, and public support or charitable relief for their support...
...The next day a cablegram from Baranquilla asserted that there was no truth in this story about a fight with the police, but persons in New York familiar with the functioning of the Colombian near-censorship are awaiting further details before concluding that the Santiago report was a lie out of whole cloth...
...Had to pay for his activities during the Tsarist regime with imprisonment and banishment...
...His revolutionary activity under Tsarlam brought him a punishment of prison and banishment...
...ANDREJ KRANICHFOLD—member of the Social-Democratic Youth Federation and one of its founders...
...John L. Meyers, with an independent indorsement designated the Square Deal Party, polled 5,916 votes for City Comptroller, according to newspaper returns...
...Now she is In the Worchne-Uralsk prison...
...Dietzgen also financed the translation of the second and third volumes of "Capital" into English which were published in Chicago...
...In 1927 he received a new sentence, that of three years' banishment...
...State Secretary Merrill reiterates the opinion that the Socialist Party must give more attention to interesting the women of the state, as enrollments continue to give conclusive proof that the average woman is essentially stand-pat and conservative In her attitude...
...Is at the present time In banishment in Minussihsk (Siberia...
...Metal worker from Jekatrinslav...
...Under the terms of the new law, all unexplored oil lands are to be considered State property and may be...
...He died In Chicago many years ago...
...Secretary of the American Association for Old Age Security, moved the national office of the organization to 104 Fifth Ave- New York City...
...Standa-d Oil Co...
...The important, the vital matter is to conserve and develop the natural wealth for the benefit of all Colombians...
...Brockway has been very sympathetic towards the Russians...
...Up to 1920, when the Bolshevists smashed up the printers' federation, he was president of the Central Committee of the federation...
...metal worker from the Ukraine, member of the Ukraine Party Committee, one of the leaders in the trade union movement...
...3 West 18th Street...
...With the transfer of the national office from HarrisbuTg to New York the organization expects to carry on more effective work throughout the country...
...Today he is still in banishment...
...and Andian National Corporation, all of them Constitute the International Bobbers Corporation...
...Was many times imprisoned by the Bolshevists: In 1918 for participation to the Conference of the Works' Councils In Moscow: in 1920 In Giev, In 1921 in Charkov...
...New York Meeting • BacksrColo, StrBakersf Relief Fund Raised An audience that comfortably filled the Debs Auditorium of the Rand School met Monday night in a protest meeting against the treatment of the Colorado miners now on strike In that state...
...I The following resolution by Kleerekoper, | as recommended by the Commission, with amendment by Longuet, Tseretelll, Modleliani...
...they are workers and Socialists, who earlier fought against the pre-war regime, or else young people who in recent years have attached themselves to the revolutionary movement...
...The Socialist Party somewhat more than held its own in the election Tuesday In comparison with two years ago...
...exploited only by the Government or by mixed companies controlled by the Government through ownership of at least 50 per cent of their stock...
...Arthur Garfield Hays who had been announced to speak was unable to be present but he sent a substantial chuck for the relief-'of the miners...
...In the *meantime, the Government is understood to- be disposed to use the iron hand in repressing any labor agitation calculated to bring about general strike...
...The introduction to the pamphlet says in part: "The Supreme Court—by judicial construction has forged a powerful weapon for those who believe In governmental suppression of ideas deemed to be dangerous...
...Patrick F. O'Meara, President of the State Federation of Labor, John Murphy, President of the New' Haven Trades OiiiiiI , cil, and Samuel Tutor, former Stete chairman of the LaPollette forces m 1924, were also elected aldermen...
...In 1923 he received a new sentence, that of banishment to Kaschin...
...The executive of tht organization has framed a modest budget of $6,000 for the legislative year...
...On the next occasion he was arrested In Moscow in 1923 and banished to the Government Perm for two years...
...Insufficient, and altogether too costly as well as humiliating...
...George A. Hutchinson, member of the Machinists' Union and former member of the Socialist Party, was also elected...
...No other charge has ever been raised against her...
...KONKORDIA SACHABOVA—an old leading woman Socialist...
...This was recognized when Socialists were so ardently campaigning for equal suffrage, but nothing has been done to overcome the handicap to political victories for radicals which the seal of our party for justice In the matter of the franchise has tmpoaed...
...Bribery Laid toU.S.Agents In Colombia Labor Demands Oil Wells Be Developed For Benefit of The People rpHK" working folk of 'th** Republic of *¦ Colombia seem to be playing an Important part in the country's political life, judging from reports found In labor papers printed there and in occasional news dispatches from Bogota...
...Leader of the Party organization In the Ukraine...
...a national trade union leader, and Theodor Stauning, former Socialist Premier...
...At present Is In banishment in the Village of Kolpaschovo district of Narvm...
...The pamphlet can be obtained from the American Civil Liberties Union, 100 Fifth avenue, New York City...
...At the present time he Is in Jaioslav prison...
...the standing of the Federations, you are slightly In error and I wish you would correct the same In the next issue of Use Leader...
...These reports are based on Information gathered by the Socialist and Labor International...
...This is our philosopher...
...This departure from what most accept as the traditional American political philosophy has not been accomplished without the vigorous and able dissent of Mr...
...Member of the Central Committee of the Party...
...Has belonged to the Party since 1910...
...Chicago, m...
...1921...
...This sentence was served first on the Solovetskl Islands and then In the Werchne-Uralsk prison...
...He fled again and was then arrested at the All-Russian Conference of the Youth Federation, not far from Kiev, and sentenced to three years imprisonment...
...BENJAMIN TRACHTENBERG—workman from Odessa, played a part in the revolutionary movement of the eighties...
...i The Copenhagen meeting, at which 312,024 unionists were represented, was addressed by C. Madsen...
...It is cow on the press and will be ready for circulation shortly...
...It was at a German Congress of Socialists which the elder Dietzgen attended that Karl Marx said of him...
...POGORELEO Translator -Secretary...
...At ninety years of age—In 1921—he was arrested In the Party Club In Moscow and sent Into banishment in 1922...
...He was banished to Turkestan, escaped in 1922 and returned to party work, in which he took part until 1924...
...Under Tsarism was sentenced to banishment, fled, was re-arrested and condemned to a term in gaol...
...The first thing those interested in the Unity Dance should do, is to make sure »hey will be admitted by securing a ticket at once...
...The extent of the Court's departure from the principle of civil liberty Is made clear by the following excerpts from these dissenting opinions...
...Two volumes of 'his essays were translated into English and published in this country some twenty years ago...
...Get your tickets early and reserve Saturday, December 10 for the Unity Reunion Dance...
...Who are these men who are condemned to such tortures...
...At the present time he Is In banishment in Turkestan...
...Since that time she has been hunted from one place of banishment to another by the political authorities" of the State...
...Was already acquainted with prison Ule and banishment during the time of Tsarism...
...Herbert M. Merrill receiving more votes for Mayor than Cole in 1925...
...In 1920 he was arrested by the Bolshevists In Charkow and removed to Georgia...
...This is'dueS the feet that Labor has eontrcOssl A municipality'for the last live years asst has been'so overwhelmingly yictoatejji over all other contestants in the tajB few campaigns that no rivals have • chance to win...
...FRANZ BJALOVSKI...
...James Oneal presided...
...These committees will soon establish state organizations...
...After this sentence had been served he was sentenced again—to banishment In Siberia for three years...
...Moreover, the present method of poor relief represents a system which has been changed little since Its Inauguration by Queen Elizabeth in 1601 The receipt of such relief Is not only repugnant to every self-respecting person but the fear of being forced to apply for it robs the mind of the middle-aged worker of aB contentment and happiness...
...So please do not overlook this, to our Federation It Is a very Important Item...
...Louis Labor and the German weekly, the Arbeiter Zeltung...
...Are they In very truth counter-revolutionaries, as the Bolshevists can them...
...it _calls upon the parliamentary representatives of socialists in the various countries to press in their parliaments for the abolition of the death penalty, and calls upon the masses to range themselves with all their might behind this demand of humanity and true Justice...
...Epstein at the above address...
...On account of her membership of the federation and the SocialDemocratic party she was at 20 years of age arrested In Moscow In 1921 after seven months imprisonment liberated...
...Mexico...
...one-half of Colombia's imports came Irom the United Suites...
...Eugene Dietzgen acquired a comfortable fortune in the tool business in Chicago but some fifteen years ago he and his wife went abroad because of ill health...
...GEORGE KUTSCHIN—Party member since 1905...
...Unity House Dance For December 10 Only four weeks remain before the the Unity House Reunion Dance of the night of Saturday December 10, when r.L.G.w.u...
...Mexico Will Not Change Land Policy Mexico City.—The Mexican Governnent denies officially declarations in the press of the United States that a change .n Its agrarian policy may be expected and on the contrary states that it regards the agrarian policy as one of the most Important conquests of the Revo'.fttion In Mexico and that it is doing and jitends to continue doing everything*possible to carry out the provisions of the Land Laws in accordance with the law regulating its execution...
...The platform of the party was written at the residence of Dietzgen, the committee a Lie including Debs and G. A. Hoehn, now editor or St...
...Further relief work will continue if the strike is prolonged...
...Makes BrncKway spurif Russian Invitation « A. FWmer Brockway...
...Played an Important role in the Party and was elected to the Central Committee...
...Epstein has nearly completed a book which deals comprehensively with the subject and the association is making every effort to sell It at the maximum price of 50 cents...
...The New Leader: In your report In the Leader on the work of the Executive Committee i scent ly in session in Detroit, while reporUna...
...Member of the Central Committee, organised trade unions, cooperatives, etc., took part in the legal labor movement until 1917...
...It te impossible to see by the lives of these persons whom the Bolshevist Government is really keeping under lock and key...
...Altogether he has spent over five years In prison and banishment...
...The speakers were McAllister Coleman and Norman Thomas...
...Is unceasingly persecuted by the Bolshevists...
...The State Secretary hold* fiiat this subject is so important that It Should be given prominent place in the Soviet Russia Jails Socialists and Unionists Active in the Revolution Many Cases of Persecution of Workingclass Leaders Because of Political Belief Listed -Many Exiled by the Czar Now Suffering Similar Fate (By a New Leader Correspondent) y URICH.—Last week I wrote of the persecution and imprisonment of workingclass and Socialist leaders In Russia because of then- opposition to the Soviet government...
...CHAS...
...ROSA ELM AN—member of the Youth Federation...
...Clarence Darrow- wired his regrets at being unable to be present and John Haynes Holmes sent a sympathetic letter...
...Anna Dietzgen, Formerly of Chicago, Dies in Wiesbaden Prom Wiesbaden, Germany, comes news of the death of Mrs...
...The main purpose of the organization Is to wipe out this archaic system of relief by the enactment of old-age pension legislation whereby aged workers will receive aid not in the form of degrading charity but as compensation due them ar veterans of industry...
...Her membership of the Social Democratic party has to be paid for with ten years loss of freedom...
...His sentence was served in the Solovetski Islands and in the Tobolsky prison...
...After the October revolution he went to Kiev, where during the Deniken period, he led a campaign against the White Guards and organized a trade union movement...
...Paul, Portland, Salem, San Francisco, San Jose, Bakersfleld, Los Angeles, San Diego and Louisville...
...Admission is $1.00 including wardrobe...
...or political revolutions, regardless of the nationalistic character they may assume...
...As a result of this tour, Mr...
...He and his wife never lost their interest in the American Socialist movement, arid for many years Mrs...
...During the Tsarist regime he spent about ten years in banishment and prison...
...Was arrested at a legal party meeting In Moscow In 1921...
...The contention of most of the labor organizations is that the Government should spend less money on railroads alleged - to be largely useless and should devote more of the 825.000.000 paid to the country by the United States in settlement of the Panama grab to oil wells, pipe lines and airplane transportation with the object of making the republic independent of foreign capital...
...Under an Act, effective since Oct...
...After serving this sentence he got in 1S26 a further sentence—banishment, for three years...
...Labor (the cromi, h*s bad oatailii lilted success In establishing the city's misuses, in greatly Improving the public adnsmmS tration and In carrying out a epagraStnM public improvements that has tf»» Vyipr*val of all classes of society...
...The Supreme Court Vs...
...of a story telling of a clash between police and troops and workers that had resulted in sixteen persons being killed and many wounded...
...The system- is antiquated...
...Joseph Whitney, head of 4s* League of Women Voters, the first woman ever .elected to the board...
...In 1923 he was arrested by the Bolshevists and sent Into banishment...
...The association points out the significant fact that only six American states have old age pension laws—Colorado, Kentucky, Maryland, Montana, Nevada and Wisconsin—yet there Is a frightful toll on the vitality of workers in American Industries...
...BORIS BER member of the Party since 1903...
...After the expiration of his sentence he was condemned to banishment for three years...
...ball accommodates...
...Tksa was my report and In justice to ear Federation and to those that have contributed towards the establishment of the W-EVD broadcasting station it would be no more than right that such correction appear In the next Issue of The New Leader...
...has been completely revised and brought up to date...
...was an Indictment of the present Government, the speakers insisted upon seeking relief through peaceful means and urged their hearers to do their best to put a Socialist Government into power by use of their ballots...
...It declares that it is a most urgent taak^pf our time to abolish the death penally everywhere from the penal code...
...The school donated the auditorium to the L W. W. for the meeting...
...A CORRECTION rim Editor...
...Was arrested by the Bolshevists In 1921, after some time set free and in 1922 again arrested...
...ILIA BUSKIN—printer from MOSCOW, Party member since 1903...
...American interests are far In the lead In Colombia, their Investments being put at about $200,00*0,000...
...Mrs...
...win be given in the beautiful December 10 in the beautiful ballroom of ballroom of the Manhattan Opera House, it 3th St...
...He escaped, but was again soon arrested in Charkow...
...Socialists Hold Own in New Have* New Haven, Conn.—The vote of the Socialist Party In the city election Tuesday remains about the same as that cast two years ago...
...An appeal for relief for the women and children In the strike zone brought a total of $150 In contributions...
...Chelsea 2148...
...Tickets can be obtained at the Educational Department of the International...
...One of the founders of the social-democratic party of Russia...
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