HAITIANS DEMAND ELECTION
Haitians Demand Election 50,000 Citizens of Inland Demand Kellogg Intervene To End U. S. Military Rule rpHE Patriotic Union of Haiti, which has a membership of fifty thousand and...
...Even now there is ceaseless complaint because of the heavy increases in taxes levied in the past few years...
...Meanwhile, ironically enough, the conservative interests are calling upon Labor to help bring about peace in industry, increase production and consume British made goods only, so that the material (and spiritual) prestige of the Union Jack may increase over "the seven seas...
...Accordingly the true value of the exjorts of the first eight months of 1926 -eaches the figures .of 13.218 million Lire (instead of 11.494), and in consequence ;he deficit in the -"commercial balance if the first eight months of 1926 falls x> 5,249 million Lire...
...The Chambers should have been reestablished In 1030, the first even year after this Constitution was voted...
...18, 88 registered forShe Workers' Training Course...
...But the Haitian Government, supported by the Government of the United States, has constantly refitted the legitimate demands of the nation...
...The activity of the school is indicated by the amount of its earned income...
...In August 1926 589, and in August 1927 roughly 354...
...Fascists Kill 2 Workers in Mill Strike All Is Not Well In Mussolini's Heaven, Industrial Conflict Reveals "Prosperity" Figures False (By a New fastis Certsayeaaewt) Paris—The fall of wages in Italy u having the consequences that might have been expected...
...It is true that Italian exports are falling irresistibly...
...Boards of Farmers whose business it is to stimulate in their capacity of public Institutions the development of agriculture...
...and even in coming out "red" songs were heard...
...In England politics is taken much more seriously than in the states...
...II 3oIe", the great Milanese paper for economic infoBmation, likewise reproduces (September 18th, 1927) the official Figures, taking good care not to correct ihem according to the Instructions published in the official publications themselves (page 380) of the Central Statistical .Institute of the Kingdom of Italy...
...Wages have not kept pace with the cost of living which is over sixty per cent higher than the prewar level...
...The sixty union members represent thirty locals of seventeen different organizations...
...Farmers of Japan Make Rapid Progress In Political Arena (By a New Leader Correspondent) Tokio—There now exists In Japan, ' both in town and country...
...At least a quarter of a million are not included in the above named figures by reason of their not being eligible for the dole and hence their names do not appear on the registry lists...
...Balance Is Destroyed Now the Central- Statistical Institute lid not fail to observe that the export Igures only begin to be more or less ac:urate from 1927 onwards, and that in comparing with 1926, it is essentia) to idd at least 15 per cent to the figures, n order to rectify the declarations on .lie low side then made, for reasons en.lrely connected with taxation, by the •xporters...
...This resolution was passed unanimously...
...In the textile, shipbuilding, coal mining, and engineering, (metal trades) industries, the situation is especially scute...
...Out of 4204 candidates who stood, 3826 or 91 per cent were elected...
...Regularly, every month, the Fascist press sends out the same statistical sophistry...
...Today the cost of living in London is about as high as it is in the United States...
...Figaros Are Falsified Even If the figures adduced in support were accurate, this reasoning would not hold, for the fall In Italian Import is not in the least an advantage which would compensate the disadvantage ol the fall In export...
...Unemployment Growsin England As Winter Comes (By a New Leader Correspondent) London.—With the coming of Winter, the unemployed-capitalism's army of surplus labor will be greatly increased...
...The Fascist militia did not act because It was staffed by local men...
...We hope that a declaration on your part will recognize our rights and your error...
...Is chairman of the Committee, Arturo Giovanni tU it vice-chairman and PlUppo Greco, brother of one of the prisoners is treasurer...
...The electoral period Is here...
...A worker fell dead, and there were several wounded...
...but Imports are falling still more, and In this way .the commercial balance tends to Improve...
...But the figures of this statistical formula, repeated month by month in the Fascist press, about the Italian economic situation, are no more than the result 3l a manoeuvre constantly renewed...
...Haitians Demand Election 50,000 Citizens of Inland Demand Kellogg Intervene To End U. S. Military Rule rpHE Patriotic Union of Haiti, which has a membership of fifty thousand and Includes practically all educated Haitians except the few now on the payroll of the United states Government has appealed in vain to the American High Commissioner in Haiti for the right to hold an election...
...Robert Moras Lovett editor of the New Republic...
...The number of Individuals matriculated in the school and registered for one or more courses is materially larger than in any recent year...
...These results may be viewed as indicative of a deeply-felt Impulse stirring in the masses of the people, and permit of good hopes for the next Parliamentary elections...
...by November 15 this year it had reached 493...
...The Patriotic Union, and with It the whole Haitian people, hopes that you will not fail to recognize the validity of what we are putting forward and that this year there will be no exchange' of views to prevent the exercise of one of the essential rights of the citizens of all countries, the right to choose for themselves their representatives in the legislature...
...However, the police fulfilled its functions...
...Qreated originally as an organ of the large land-holders, these Boards were In . 1182 thrown open, as a result of the revision of the franchise, to tenant farmers also...
...for world peace...
...The Defense Committee in charge ol the case ia a joint body made op ol members of all shades and kinds ol opinions from various Italian and American organisations...
...Socialist League, and four unaffiliated wage-earners, who hold the four scholarships given by the Women's Committee...
...About $16.25...
...on the same date in 1926, It was 420...
...tt is therefore worth while to expose ince again the trick of the falsified statistics...
...This number^ncludes 60 trade unoinlsts, 22 members of the Young (People's...
...But the trick lies in this very comparison between'the deficits of the two analogous periods of 1927 and 1926 as drawn by the Fascist press...
...The greater the activities the greater is the need of a sustaining fund as the Increased income from courses and classes is not sufficient to meet Increased expenses...
...narrow to this ease, as ¦ttotnsy Jar the defease...
...In a great measure the Tories In power are responsible for the industrial slump and the backward social conditions of the masses, the Laborltes charge...
...In his trial, which took place this week in the Bronx County Court, Gllletl asserted that he was forced to sign documents In the office of the Italian counsul in Chicago last October under orders of Leo Luyri, secretary of the Chicago Branch of the Fascist League of North America, implicating various anti-Fasclstl suggested by Luyri and flfcemt Thaon^dt larsst;jtoj that y had sjade l|jtl beiififci m the Bronx Swssjbb^^wm Fascist League-and that IiiaaJoH en* of the...
...Property owners, even the smaller ones, openly ; lament the fact that Britain Is paying the interest on its war debt to the United States while His Majesty's government, which staked Italy and France, is whistling, or rather groaning, for the two erstwhile allies to "come across...
...ka» wtdstt waV cooperate in the meeting are ties Assart* can Association of University Ittoaaa* Council of Women for Home MxSsana, Federation of Women's Boards of x~ .eflafl Missions of North America, OatogjfgtoW eration of Women's Clubs, national Oaujai cU of Jewish Women, National Tug— at Women Voters, National Woman's ClaM tlan Temperance Union, National *Jw<* men's Trade Union League...
...Under this head are included matriculation, registration, and single-admission fees, net proceeds of benefits conducted by the school, and a few minor items, such as rental for class rooms let to other organizations, commission on sale of tickets, library fines and sale of library discards, and Labor Student subscriptions and advertisements...
...The strike and the disturbances lasted two days...
...Men's clothing, leather goods and a few other Items are cheaper than in the states...
...but one-third of that amount is expended for education, old age pensions, ministries of labor and health, roads, law departments, etc...
...The fact is that these two deficits are reckoned in paper Lire, and in order to publish them, one must first of all translate them into gold Lire according to the exchange of the two different periods, which were...
...Seeing that Italy has to Import almost all the raw material which It needs, the fall in imports is nothing but the consequence of the decline of Italian production...
...This year, when for the first time, the elections were held under the new system, the tenants put up their own candidates, and with /the hacking of the Union of Landworkers and of all the workers' parties, they have after a brisk campaign secured a very striking victory...
...works and was joined by the men...
...Arthur Garfield Bays* is aajaclafid wtth Mr...
...II Sole" notes that during the first sight months of this year, the value >f Italian exports was 10.212 million Liire, whereas during the same period n 1926 it had attained the figure of 11.494 million Lire, and since during tie same period, Italian imports have 'alien to 14.543 million Lire instead of 18.512 million Lire last year (this figure lertalnly Involves an error of 200 million oo much) the Milanese newspaper has«ns to conclude that accordingly the leficit in the international commercial mlance must be considerably lessened: This deficit which during the first eight nonths of' 1926 would have been 6.818 nilllon Lire, was only 4.331 million Lire n the same period of 1927, which would ndicate an Improvement in 1927 of 2487 nilllon Lire...
...f^tomington, D. C. from January %b to flfcV in an effort to trams a daAalto aaaaakg...
...Spanish Socialists Refuse to Take Part In Rivera's "Assembly" Madrid.—In connection with the refusal of the Spanish General Union of Workers to accept delegation to the- Government's National Assembly, a decision confirmed by the Spanish Socialist Party, the following Is the text of the resolution passed by the latter: "The Socialist Party of Spain records a vigorous and unreserved protest against the regime of dictatorship instituted for the last 4 years...
...107 that the primary assemblies meet in the manner prescribed by law without previous convocation, in each Commune, on the tenth of January of even numbered years...
...In these three full months last year our total earned income was $3,877.55...
...The Patriotic Union of Haitians thereAre addressed an appeal to Frank P. Kellogg, Secretary of State of the United States, which says in part: "The Constitution knposed on our unhappy country in 1911 provides in article No...
...The latter confidently expect a victory in the Parliamentary elections which will be held in 1928 or 1929...
...Oilleti is charged with shooting two Fascisti In Brooklyn, January 25th of this year...
...This strike quickly spread to all the Can ton...
...This is apparent from the report recently made to the meeting of the American Socialist Society by Algernon Lee, Educational Director of the School...
...However, while about $52 per capita is spent yearly towards paying for future and past wars, (army, navy, pensions, debt, etc...
...All the workers reputed tc be Socialist or Communist were arrested and accused...
...These publications are at present ilmost unobtainable, especially outside )f Italy, and thus it Is quite possible to ilunge once a month into a campaign >f national and international befoolment...
...It Is certain that an increasing number of the younger voters are being won ever to Labor's program and if the Independent Labor Party is successful in the next Parliamentary election, sweeping industrial and social reforms will be the result...
...Marguerite Tucker, Secretary, James Oneal, Glralomo Valentl, James Cannon, Jacob MargoUs and Norman Thomas The trial of Ctuogero Oreeo and Donate Oariuo, charged with murdering two Fascisti in the Bronx, N. Y. C. last Memorial Day, was scheduled to begin December 5tbt but it was postponed because of the trial of Mario Oilleti, who claimed in his testimony that be wai threatened with being implicated In the Greco-Car lllo case if he did not accuse Carlo Treses head of the Anti-Pane 1st League, of having directed the murder of the two Fascisti...
...It protests equally against the creation of a National Assembly to wljlch the Socialist Party fully agreeing with the decision of the General Union of Workers, will send no delegates...
...mm x Peace Conference To Be Held is W*£y Nine national crganisattoas wMt ap...
...On November 30, J925, the number of matriculated students was 382...
...In the factories...
...Its activities are further evidence of the general Socialist revival throughout the country...
...The tuition income during the period named was 19 per cent larger this year than last...
...Others on the executive committee Include Stuart Chase, auditor...
...Thirteen courses are also scheduled to begin in January, February and March...
...Almost simultaneously and likewise in, consequence of wage-cuts, another passive strike broke out at the De Angelis printing works in Milan, Fascist lying is characterized by it* monotony...
...Accordingly the conclusions if the falsified statistics are absolutely turned upside down...
...Officially there are over a million workers unemployed at the present time in Great Britain.' The figures represent the number receiving the out of work dole...
...In the cotton factories ol Canton...
...Lately the slump is also felt in the building trades...
...It is said that a pregnant woman died in prison in consequence of blows received in the scuffle...
...Of the students whoVmatriculated by Nov...
...Which means that the deficit at the Italian commercial balance reached 898 million gold Lire at the close of the first eight months of last year, and 1308 million gold Lire at the close of the same period In this year...
...The tuition Income for two and a half months exceeds that for three months last year by $695.70...
...3 ¦ Modern wars are the eraeMb* lea of the meek .for aseaavwa* ttoa of the ssis^ty.—VYMra* { Weilock...
...Noth withstanding this progress financing the work of the school Is still a problem...
...Their object is to elect, at periods fixed by the Constitution, the Deputies of the people, the Senators of the Republic, the Municipal Councillors and to decide upon the amendments proposed to the Constitution...
...Taxes of all kinds are assessed in a more direct manner than in the United States and are much higher...
...It follows then that this year there is a decline in the Italian commercial balance of 410 million gold Lire, which at the existing exchange (354 per cent) is equivalent to a decline of 1451 minion paper Lire...
...Busto Arsislo and Legnano In the province of Milan, is consequence of the bad quality of the.raw material and of a cut of one third in the wag* of the women, they carried out a passive strike,.!, e. they went to the factory but did no work there...
...It demands from the Spanish Government to take account of the will of the nation, frequently invoked but never consulted, which can attain expression and respect by democratic method alone...
...Among the most poorly paid are those in the railway service...
...Some commodities are higher...
...The Patriotic Union comes once more to Insist that the obstacles which, Mea gaily and in defiance of the Constitution, have been put in the way of reestablishment of the Legislative Chambers, should now be ended for all...
...Finally, the Party emphasises the urgent need of the-country for government according to principles of freedom and honesty, which permit the diffusion of socialist ideas...
...The proposal to tax all unearned incomes of $2,500 a year acid upwards, adopted by the Labor Conference a few weeks ago, will be bitterly fought at the next election...
...New Sacoo Case Of Two Italians Feared in Arrest fpLARZNCB Darrow has arrived hi He* V" York to take charge of the OreooCariilo trial to the Bronx County Oouri befase Judge Albert Osfen...
...Rand School Has 86 Taking Training Course SURVIVING the war terror with its raids and arrests, followed by several years of apathy In the Socialist movement, the Rand School of Social Science has emerged as a busy and thriving Institution...
...The Oreco-OariQo Defense nnmiallisii, nr$nntojd a week or two ago to jabs funds with which to -carry an the extensive Invest las I Ion and legal work necessary, announced Tuesday the receipt of a check tor $500 from Local 63 of the aassjaaeaatofl Cleaning Workers...
...In the smaller sltles he receives almost one third less...
...11 some thirty class sessions and lectures have been held each week and they will continue till the middle of April...
...But the improvement realized in 1927 would amount only m 936 million Lire and not 2487 million Lire as printed by "II Sole...
...In two and a half months this fall it was $5,058.61—an Increase of $1,181.06...
...estimated membership of MjaftifiK women will cooperate In the thxffl aa> tionai conference on the Cause snd-titoja) of War at the Hotel Washmflton...
...The skilled mechanic in London is fortunate if he receives as much as three pounds and seven shillings a week...
...Since Oct...
...The Chesterfield of the: police world, the famous London "bobbie", receives a wage of four pounds and a pension after thirty years of service...
...the leaflet sUntatos afj *|pH for funds wtth wfciafc to east* a»'a|g| flstoasa Sa^B The appeal asks -these «to> 'tflhC filled with) enguhflt M UM dejgl, IB Saceo and Vansettt, who felt tfcsaf **%JL lessness to do anything to ntaoasfl _tjSf horrible thing, who were deeply sssa^gajpT at the reputation which Ajnarxai ML been given -for Injustice and assSjgXSS throughout the world, to tak» 5Efl| port unity now of helping to vt*&*$~mfgi other such case from etereloptaa^'^^8 The headquarters of the <MmmjttJ**f Defense Committee are at ft v. Avenue, room 904...
...Contxibutlgam''' I' Interested individuals and <ssjssdgftv are urgently requested...
...men,' na«tiaro#, **fJL*fjV The story of the Oraap-C^df which has bam flTS»ira» to Mia by the Oreeo-Osrffle Deisnss OsflWflpfi Osese-Carillo ease to tiau of stosflsj 2 Vaasetti...
...According to labor union officials a large number of workers are working but two or three days a week...
...j The national organise...
...Worse than that, the decline of Import trade Is Inevitably paving the way in Italy lor a still sharper decline in the future it the production capacity of that unhappy country...
Vol. 4 • December 1927 • No. 25
