POWER LOBBY HALTS SENATE INVESTIGATION
POWER LOBBY HALTS SENATE INVESTIGATION Five Corporations Doraia ate Whole Field—Getf eral Electric, Morgan^ Insul Among Them -J"M5 (By a New Leader Corresponds***) WASHINGTON.—By a vote of...
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...Look, my hand is strong, My heart, she's pretty good, I look some skinny now...
...In this attadk on sHf-government and «eo>MMP freedom, the electric Interest*: fRSBJ the head of the spear...
...Not so bad for one renort...
...Few men in any prison have shown such inexcusable and Hghthearted contempt for the public good as this demagogue, this absentee Mexican landlord, this news- | paper owner who for the sake of circulation plays with passions that might have led to war and destruc- I tion...
...Out of the MJW.OOOy * 0O0 kilowatt hoars of electricity H produced In 1928, these 41 eeavffl porations produced M,71f,M»V M 000...
...So the union and me, we strike...
...All this be did to build up circulation for his papers, some of which, notably the New York American, are not prosperous, As for tbe 'risk to his Mexican estates, they are now subject to laws which he dislikes...
...Scuse I make complaint...
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...It still remains to be proved whether Tammany Hall really wants to get to the bottom of the matter...
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...There is nothing else to do...
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...Therefore no particular virtue belongs to the Governor for 9'>pointir«-- Judge Soudder...
...Chairman, the gentleman from Georgia (Mr...
...All of which is hypocritical nonsense...
...However, all must show they are earnestly trying to make the demanded change in the working hours of employes...
...Titey monopolize all the sources of elactnj power for four-fifths of our peopaaw Eighty-five million seven hundred, thousand Americans must get eleqf tricity from these 41 corporations eg go without...
...In future, De Brouckere and Vandervelde will once more represent Belgium on the Executive, whilst Van Roosbroeck in the capacity of treasurer will be one of the officials of the L. S. I. For the Bureau, the Belgian comrades will propose at the next session of the Executive, Vandervelde, while De Brouckere will be appointed substitute...
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...Now It Is a question of getting control of the trusts or they will "bust" us...
...Those who have been with the company five years or more received the medallion and a silver button...
...But what*, the use for work Just for the love of Mike...
...Destroyer of Families When the enemies of the Socialist movement express their fear that Socialism may destroy the family kindly ask them If they Include the families that were destroyed by the world war...
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...Grant me, Indulgent Heaven, that t may live , To see the miscreants feci the, pain they give...
...They will likely be chartered within two weeks...
...Gertrude Duby r<vuratf that the organisation of women had slowly but steadily Increased since tM reorganization at the end of 192S' tan number of women in the party baJMfl something over 2,000 divided ansangf **" groups...
...That picture of Him in the paper Looks just like my new kid...
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...MR they are tied together, first by common interest In maintaining T 2 I present power to collect extorttj _ h. rates from their customers...
...Walsh's resolution would pass as a matter of course...
...I think on my four kids...
...By a process of elimination we know that no trade union, no farmer organization and certainly not the Socialist Party pays for it...
...Hearst took forgeries which had been vainly hawked about in the market without a buyer...
...I guess they got no blame...
...1 ON THE PIG It is said that Henry Ward Beecner once told of a farmer who bought a $9 pig, fed it $40 worth of corn,, and then sold it for $10...
...and for 0& Italian farmer, 45...
...The truth is that Mr...
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...These majority Senators will not voluntarily investigate the power trust until it is too late...
...Their signaVahgJfl Ip our people not only econocni ;:M rmd industrially, but poUUcnflr^flH in almost beyond exaggeration...
...Connolly which affect the pocketbooks of so many citizens and voters...
...Hoffman, who balls from Milwaukee, Wis., is one of the youngest labor organizers in the American Federation of Labor...
...in mm ¦ ass...
...How Insul will laugh while some of them tell the people what good boys they were in excluding Smith and Vara...
...ssssssB Christmas Carol From The Coal'Mine Country (In this year of our Lord, nineteen hundred and twenty seven, on the day of His Nativity, to the most P*n*P?^ <**££55...
...Vargas resigned his post here some time ago and reported to his foreign office in Mexico City...
...450 HOMELESS SEEK CHARITY UN NEW YORK The number of homeless seeking shelter at the N. Y. Municipal Lodging House, 432 East Twenty-fifth St., was 450 up to 9.30 o'clock Monday night...
...We will give one share in Cootidge prosperity to the wise chap who guesses the origin of this canned goods...
...Warren Brumley, a school teacher who lived with the Millis family, awakened in the night to see the farmer, carrying a bloody axe, enter the room she occupied with one of the children...
...others will be granted more time...
...Oh Jesus Christ...
...MORE GAS AHEAD It is estimated that the output of gas may be doubled within the next five years...
...We also believe that while freedom stands for freedom and liberty stands lor liberty, neither of them stands for license...
...This winter feller's no good...
...In my analysis of the situation,'' Henry continued, "I think we can place a Socialist ticket In 54 states...
...One lapsed member insisted on paying up back dues since 1918, a total of 112 months...
...But Christmas she's Just hell Without enough for to nve...
...And may I Include as well the mine guards who poured lead into the picket line, so.accurately.ana of course, the efficient captain Who ordered the ahcoUng...
...But it's pretty tough on the kids...
...Industry is rapidly coming to the southern states and with it the modern class struggle...
...But the whole episode shows once more the weakness of non-partisan action...
...The Democratic Party In the South is as hopeless for wage workers and farmers as the Republican Party is In the North...
...While we do not intend to neglect the relief of the miner, in Pennsylvania and Ohio, nevertheless, we have found that considerable relief is being sent to that part of the country and the Colorado miners are not getting the support they should get...
...Crisp...
...Tina and Burrell, 13-year-old twins...
...He don't give a damn for us...
...known to be dominated, owned, ejf controlled by five men or corpora II owe...
...So much money with such a lobby can't be wrong...
...To provide funds to keep the case going at all the committee has incurred heavy debts and obligations...
...lan lands, this Carol to dedicated...
...We pay a heavy price for our slavish devotion to the non-partisan action that the A. F. of L. and other agencies sometimes boast about If anything could be more contemptible than Hearst's publication of the Mexican forgeries it is the defense of his conduct which he tries to make in reply to Senator Norris...
...T Big Corporations Allied . Jy "Secondly, they are tied tCfJlHH by common ownership in certain BB-M panies, by common investment terests, by common directors, saW doubtless in many other wags/ £M yet disclosed...
...Christmas come and go, But the winter feller's no good...
...Stl Lewto...
...scuse me that I spit...
...In this land are these verses dedicated...
...Reading Socialists Repeat Invitation To The Celebration READING, PA.—Monday, January : when the Socialist administration take office, will be a day of celebration, feast tag and gayety, under plans now beini arranged by the Executive Committee o Local Berks socialist Party...
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...Not much.' He would have tried to pass the risk off to the sons of farmers and workers with no hope of Mexican estates save such graves as they might acquire on Mexican soil...
...As I say, I think the gentleman from Georgia is one of the most useful legislators we have in the House, and I have for him a personal respect...
...These are the only valuables he possesses...
...Scuse me, I make complaint, But Christmas joy, my friend All right when you feel warm And got some dough to spend...
...5 New Branches 60 New Members Party Reports in New York Local New York of the Socialist Party is responding to the Socialist revival that is evident throughout the country...
...In this crisis we shall, of course, have to depend upon nonpartisan action...
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...Socialist Vote Increases 15,000 In N. Y. State Albany.—The vote of the Socialist Party in New York State last November reached a total of nearly 100,000...
...He says that he never believed that Norris and the other Senators received any Mexican money...
...But it's pretty goddam rotten When it's so hard to live...
...After graduating from the Brookwood Labor College at Katonah...
...Smith has ordered in consequence oi formal charges against Borough President Connolly...
...It certainly was slow enough getting around to the case and with the help of a clever lawyer like Max Steuer it may yet find a way to whitewash him and his political machine...
...Pinchot says in a statement made public by him here: "During the past year a study off this question has been carried on BSq der my direction by an expert la whose ability and Integrity I haw full confidence...
...The cost will also be leas...
...Henry also declared that conditions of employment in the western states are very bad...
...3 "These facts are evidence af tWkj prodigiously rapid growth of 3 JMH tionwide electric monopoly and JlfcWj justify abundantly such wandBfjttflH are quoted above...
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...It is nfefJW most urgent importance that tntatacf should be understood...
...Why he was a patriot who wanted to force a Congressional investigation of documents in which he believed there was no truth...
...The L W. W. are not so well organized nor as large or efficient an organisation as the A F. of L- and Its numerous subsidiaries...
...It means that a majority of the Senators do not want to press any inquiry into the activities of enterprises representing $17,500,000 capital...
...The vote for Judge Jacob Panken in 1926 for Governor was 83,481, which shows an increase of nearly 15,000 over Panken's vote...
...Let the Senate Committee not | rest until it goea clear to the bottom of this unsavory mess...
...Governor Smith become, suddenly active and orders Supreme Court Justice Scuddtr to make an immediate investigation...
...OUR tent and the wind ain't friend...
...I will say that it is reciprocated...
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...The political organization which stole Judge Panken's election with the aid of gangsters and high officials won't go any farther in this sewer matter than it has to...
...If the groups fighting the utility interests succeed in making this the important question that it should be in the next campaign, some of the Senators may discover that they reckoned without their host...
...Minnie Mlllis, 35...
...New York, Just over a year ago, Hoffman was appointed to the organisation staff of the hosiery workers' union...
...And get not enough to live...
...EDGERTON'S CALL TO ARMS John E. Edgerton of the National Association of Manufacturers recently declared against all "socialistic encroachments...
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...On one issue count me among Gov...
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...The threat of the steel industry to lock out 250,000 men on Jan...
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...Some of Ihese results were: WILCOX fob ASSOCIATE fankkn STOCK roa coitst or ooruwoi county ATTKALS ISM Albany...
...That Insull, of Chicago, wan unable to get his own Senator, Smith, sworn in when he presented himself to the Senate, did not affect the control Insull and his utility group have of the Senate...
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...That charity dollar, friend...
...The mountain capitalism of this Rockefeller region thus reproduces the stark misery of the serfs of the bituminous mines of Pennsylvania...
...This estimate is probably in anticipation of the presidential campaign next year...
...D. C. — Canute A. Vargas, formerly Spanish language secretary of the Pan-American Federation of Labor and later labor attache at the Mexican embassy here, has just passed through this city enroute to New York where he will sail for Berlin...
...This motion would delete any penalty Of imprisonment for early abortion apst would reduce the sentence in other cases*.' E. Stelger dealt with the quest*, n ofmaternity Insurance and urged that propaganda should at once be started for the adoption of the Washington Convention on this matter...
...There are good opportunities for doing even better than this if we can raise funds to place workers In the field...
...He could hardly have done less...
...j Senator George H. Moses, flit $M Hampshire, and Senator JSfi%j£ & Watson, of Indiana, stalwart 'WM Ucaaa, led the fight far tfeaSH power yty, the lattar ajg the right of the Senate to investigate public, utilities that do not do an interstate business...
...Vargas, through lis long labor connection here beoame well known to American trade anionisu throughout the country...
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...er, and six times that of tke /*•*• ian.—Kenvon L. Butterfield, President of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, in "The Farmer ami the New Day.'' Swiss Women's Conferees* _ w On the 8th November tbe wosassl members of the Swiss Socialist POTtf, held their annual conference in OM Volksbaus, Olten There were 91 6sto* gates present...
...He was one of the pioneer, in the formation Of the Pan American Federation of Labor...
...And also to Hto Excellency, the President, and to aU of Hto Cabinet MUUsters, and to the August Senate, and to the hardly less dignified House of Representatives...
...This Jumble of documents Mr...
...For the past year Hoffman has been stationed in the South with headquarters in Durham...
...Without official investigation, the Senators who know their master's voice seek to bury the Walsh resolution...
...This Christmas cheer's O. K. When you got the things to give...
...Crisp) for whom I have not only the highest respect, but who is one of the most useful legislators in the House, I think has unwittingly conveyen a wrong impression with reference to this situation...
...The vote as usual was non-partisan...
...Of that number five were women and four children...
...Smith's backers...
...Got a whip and a knife in hto hands...
...sj* Cattaraaga...
...We may be guilty, but nobody charged us with that Job yet...
...He never spoke to any of the Senators involved in advance of publication of these documents...
...Instead of Investigating the powerful utility aggregation...
...I guess they not to blame...
...They need outside aid to prevent disease and death from' cold and hunger...
...It's good when you got to give...
...By the end of the month it promises a threefold increase...
...And hto heart she's hard like wood...
...The city office will devote much of its relief to the Colorado strikers, while not neglecting the others...
...Already it has shed its lurid light on Fascist methods in America...
...POWER LOBBY HALTS SENATE INVESTIGATION Five Corporations Doraia ate Whole Field—Getf eral Electric, Morgan^ Insul Among Them -J"M5 (By a New Leader Corresponds***) WASHINGTON.—By a vote of 'St Republicans and 13 Democrat* the proposed investigation into thd activities, financial and political, d* the power interests has been sUuissd in the Senate...
...The number was not as large as in the sleet storm and cold early in December, but it was 40 per cent larger than for the same date of 1926...
...TIMELY TOPICS by Norman Thomas ILVR...
...While much aid cannot be extended by the National Office to the southern tier of states, it is certain that good workers in that section will cooperate In nominating and filing Socialist tickets in 1918...
...He don't think once for us...
...The intermission between the banqueting and the dancing will be occupied by addresses by local and out-of-town Socialists and all citizen, will be privileged to remain and listen in regardless of whether or not they bold banquet tickets...
...Major Interests Spectted > "Of these 41 corporations 29, Cec about three-quarters, are already...
...In Massachusetts we believe In the freedom of the Individual...
...We ain't got much for food...
...His explanation...
...Vargas Goes to Berlin Post as Labor Attache of Mexican Embassy By International Labor New...
...Service...
...Young Labor Leader At Southern Colleges By a New Leader Correspondent Durham...
...It is this spirit of willingness to do important work that has encouraged the National Office staff...
...A final item is the approval of 60 applications for membership by the Executive Committee...
...R. 2, Sinking Spring, Pa...
...I THE LIBERTY OF LIBERTY Wise crack of Governor Fuller ef Massachusetts with special reference to Saces and Vansettt, made within one week after the Judicial Council of the State recommended a change In the law that sent the two Italians .to the chair...
...Those who want no new Sacco-Vanzetti case here in New York owe it to themselves to contribute to the Greco-Carino Defense Committee, 70 Fifth Ave., New York...
...WIPING TAMMANY'S NOSE Governor Smith's famous tight-rope walking act, which consists in assuring the gullible that he is a great" liberal, and assuring Wall Street and the subway interests that he means them no harm, still continues to get a big hand...
...Steel OBRLIN.—The German Oovemmeni '-'will brook no delay in putting thi eight-hour day in force as far a. heavj industry is concerned, declared Hen Brauns, Socialist, Minister of Labor, ic a letter to the United State* Steel Trust As far as technically possible a threeshift day will be put into effect at the first of the year ind arrangement, necessary to Introduce the system must begin immediately...
...Its fate shows how much we need the coordinating activities and discipline of a party with a real power program...
...Judge Thompson Scudder and Emory Buckner between them ought to make a pretty good job of the New York sewer investigation which Gov...
...Ain't got much pep Just now, bo...
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...t "These 41 corporations have a tease capitalization of $ 10,200,000,000...
...Clothing is needed) AU friends must do their best in these dreadful times to assist the victim, of the brutal class war in Colorado, Pennsylvania and Ohio...
...The victims were Mrs...
...Charging that 41 corporations cot**' trol four-fifths of all the electric ergy in the United States and that five men or corporations control Si of these corporations, Gilford Plnchet, former Governor of Pennsylvania, baa returned to the attack' at power combinations, a. Survey iW Made '-Citing the power combine aa the "greatest industrial fact" of the day Gov...
...And It gives his mother craze...
...All canned stuff and ready for printing...
...This is the declaration of William H. Henry, National Executive Secretary of the Socialist Party, at the close of a busy week with corresponcen relating to organization and education work in many states...
...That august body has more than made amends for this gesture of purity by trying to...
...In several states where work must ' be done I know that we can get workers who win do better work than those who may come from a distance...
...Yet this, new giant of a super power trust which seeks mastery over us is not yet so full grown and omnipotent but that Intelligent public opinion could force the government to take steps to curb it and ultimately place it in public bands where it belongs...
...Merry Christmas 'now, And wish the good New Year, But the tent and cold ain't friends...
...FACTS FOR FARMBm The production of the 'Anttr&JM fatmer...
...It is labelled "Industrial News Bureau, The Manufacturer...
...M T»y i^a^iMSj ^ _ ^ n ;JaJSaj Germany Orders 8-Hour Shift For U.S...
...i JOBLESS EX-SOLDIER I WANTS TO SELL MEDALS Lyndhurst, N. J.—Determined that his wife, their twelve-year-old daughter and his blind brother-in-law shall not be entirely deprived of Christmas cheer because he has no money and cannot find work, James B. Burke, former private in Fifteenth Highland Canadian Infantry, has offered to sell two war medals for $15...
...Deal Freedom's sacred lioasuito free as air, Till Slave and Despot be bat things that were...
...The vote came on a motion of OsSf ator Moses, Republican, to refer Wf investigation resolution sponsored Senator Walsh of Montana to tn* Interstate Commerce Committee...
...Later when even he was frightened by the danger of libel suits he resorted to the cowardly expedient of omitting names...
...is several time* MM the German, British, French or Itdr tan farmer.....// «•«¦ call tke issVfr of productivity for each A mil lilat engaged in agriculture 292...
...Wilcox made no state-wide campaign...
...I don't care much for me: My wife she feels the same...
...After private citizens have dug up a nasty sixteen-milllon-douar scandal in connection with the contracts for the Queens sewers...
...I trust that a proper reading and caroling of these humble rhyme, will help usher in the beat return, of the Season...
...She attributed the slownt of «f the work to the lack of the franc**** and to the unresponsiveness toward* nW*& thing new on the part of the Sweat* Elsa Tobler reported on the qaesnest of abortion In relation to tbe penal OBwB and dealt at length with reasons wttf the heavy punishment now inflicted Isp law should be amended...
...Who issues it, who pays for it, and where it comes from we do not know...
...bury Senator Walsh's motion to investigate the power trust in committee...
...An analysis of the Socialist vote last November shows increases in 49 counties and losses In 12...
...TheW^ blned electric lobby now in Wicf - I ton, which represents them \_ proof enough of that...
...He cashed the coal I dig So now he laughs at me...
...In co-operation with the local I. W. W. several caseloads of clothing will be sent this week to Colorado...
...The study is not fully com* pleted but it has gone far enough t» establish these facts: "Forty-one corporations control four-fifths of all the electrta ~ energy produced In the TJattesf 3 States...
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...KILLS FAMILY OF SIX WITH AN AX fc-ff--------uL Hennessey, ©kin.—Fighting a losing game in life, harassed by debts and failing crops, Phillip Millia, a farmer, in a fit of insanity today slew his family of six with an axe while they slept, and then hanged himself...
...For thai reason there will be no reservations made for party member* but the banquet tickets will be sold as rapidly as the general public makes a demand for them...
...Large delegations from Socialists in other cities are assured...
...Somebody pays for it...
...Meanwhile the Greco-Carrillo case is going well...
...It's Just hell," he said, "but our workers are willing to go out in the field for twenty-five and thirty dollars a week and, in some cases, pay their hotel expenses...
...The committee expects to raise funds and give special attention to the more important states...
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...We are all going to "rise up in the majesty of a calmly conscious right" and fight for the right of John's class to own the industries...
...In his talks before the college students, Hoffman discussed the present-day policies of the American Federation of Labor and the possibilities for the growth of trade unionism in the Southern States...
...They Like Dead Revolutions There is one thing which tbe Daughters and the Sons of the American Revolution simply will not tolerate and that Is talk of any revolution that is not at least more than a hundred years old...
...This Jesus Christ...
...Got a heart of hickory wood...
...The Socialist vote doubled in nine counties, increased threefold in four, fourfold in four and fivefold or more in ten counties...
...1 rather than abide by the agreement they signed last July will not be allowed to materialize, the Government is determined, hence the decision reached without waiting for the industry to carry out the lockout plans...
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...N. C. — Alfred Hoffman, Southern irganizer for the American FederatkW of Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers, spoke before classes studying economics in the University of North Carolina and the North Carolina State College this week...
...He's got a pretty full cup...
...Reception To An CiUxetu The County Executive Committee, in whose charge the program for the inaugural celebration has been placed, it keenly desirous of welcoming as manj visitors as possible during the free houn between 4 and 6 p.m...
...and their associates...
...SAMUEL INSUL, the Chicago power magnate, patron of the arts and collector of treasures, including U. S. Senators,- need not waste any tears because his particular Senator from Illinois was barred by the Senate...
...Green of Iowa Mr...
...fff the French farmer, 90...
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...Denver, Colo.—A hideous mockery of the Christmas season is dramatised in the distress of the families of the 9,000 coal miners on strike in Colorado...
...This signifies not o.nJy a considerable reinforcement of the local Socialist organization but also a transfer of the municipal administration to the hands of the Socialists...
...Smith and fhe "reformed" Tammany just remember that Magistrate Simpson has "indefinitely postponed" a decision on that election case which has been so often described in the columns of the New Leader, Already he has taken more than a month to decide whether or not to hold for the Grand Jury—not, mind you, to pass on the final question of guilt—an election board one or more of whose members is charged with almost every conceivable offense against an honest count...
...fl The Committee on Audit and Co** trol has had the resolution before II for some time, and its reference ts) the Interstate Commerce Committee is openly intended to kill the matter which, once dragged into the light, will become as embarrasing to the Republicans, as well as the Dams*' crata, as the Teapot Dome scandal was...
...The President house she's warm With coal we hunkeys dig...
...A de WITT...
...Dough that you make yourself...
...I think a warm personal feeling exists on the part of both of us...
...IBS DeUwara...
...The shocking thing is that class prejudice would not let the matter be mentioned officially until it had satisfied its lust for the blood of two Italian radicals...
...But if the five major1 interests do in fact control only ther 29 corporations, still their assets nr* capitalized as six thousand rnilliO#[dollars ($5,990,000,000) and they produced In 1926 more than half of a* the electricity used in the UnKeaY "The five controlling Interest* ST* allied, but not bo far as we kno*r actually under any single bead...
...tk* *Of de.x for the British farmer is Ml for each German farmer, 119...
...Towards Socialist Unity in France Harts.—The main Group of the French Socialist-Communist Union which recently went over to the Socialist Party has now been followed by a furthT organization, the Branch in D-ancy (Seine), which has also passed over en bloc...
...jjn have a direct and most impSjM^W bearing on the over-sbadowlns/ wBH in America, which is the conCsawHB government by monopolists tor tM purposes of monopoly...
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...Address LUith M. Wilson...
...He smiles like gold all over...
...He got a whip in his hands...
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...The report shows that the sale of dues stamps to December 21 is double that of a year snjo...
...Even Massachusetts seems to be aware that some improvement is in order...
...Already they have made every user of electricity— and that is or ought soon to be every American citizen—tributary to them...
...For Bush and Country From the press service of the Bosh Terminal Company depleting pathetic scene in loyalty and affection...
...Bush presented to all employes who have been with the company ten years and over a bronze medallion portraiture of Edwin Quinn, inscribed, "To Those Who Have Worked With Me," and a gold button bearing the initials "L T. B." and inscribed "For Loyal Service...
...The Socialist official, realize that their victory Is s people's victory and that the credit for the change in local government cannot be given to any particular group...
...One might think, from reading the papers friendly to Smith, that the boys in Tammany Ball had never heard a word about any Queens contract, and that tills afi came to them as great news...
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...Hearst cheerfully began to print with a multi-millionaire's contempt for libel suits and complete disregard for honest men's reputations...
...Already these power companies successfully defy or evade state regulation...
...For instance, I am indebted to Robert M McLean of Los Angeles for a copy of a statement in which he points out in the first six documents which were published "a grand total of 166 errors of spelling and accentuation" —errors that every Mexican school child is taug-ht to avoid...
...Out of town Socialists and trade unionists may order tickets by mail...
...No effort will be spared by the members of the committee to make the day one to be long remembered and one of interest not only to Socialists but to every man and woman in Heeding...
...These five dsSBM nant electrical Interests are taw 4MB end Electric Company of New Yertta Doherty of New York, Morgan off New York, Ryan of New York, aaef Insult of Chicago...
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...Hearst's guilt...
...An interesting phase of the vote is the increase of the vote in some upstate counties that, are generally conservative...
...Merchants who had extended themTkedit are no longer able to do so...
...The total Socialist vote was 98,228...
...FAMILIES OF 9,000 MINERS FREEZE IN COL...
...Hto goose she's fat and big...
...The Governor's house she's hot With coal my hands bring up...
...Even South Coming Along The only section of the country that letters are being sent the National Office that are encouraging...
...Shot after shot is fired for the power interests, utility corporations, insurance companies, railroads and against Socialism and labor interests...
...A large number of cases of clothing have been shipped by the YP8L and the constant stream of bundles coming into the city office makes the room look like a huge second-hand clothing shop...
...It is altogether probable that most if not all of AM remaining 12 also will be found to has dominated, owned, or controlled &JE the same way...
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...That this cheap, ignoble, demagogic crime against humanity has so far completely failed is on the whole a tribute to American good sense...
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...Vandervelde Again « ^-A«a- ¦ KatearntJy« T Socialist International Brussels.—In accordance with the statutes of the Socialist International, Rmile Vandervelde on becoming a Minister in Belgium, resigned his functions as member of the Executive of the L. 6. I. His place on the Executive was taken by Van Roosbroeck, and on the Bureau by De Brouckere...
...Not only did a Boston jury have the decency to acquit the Sacco-Vanzetti pickets but the courts themselves through an official council have recommended that the Supreme Court of the State be given the power to review evidence in criminal cases now possessed by the New York Court of Appeals...
...Hasn't he got what he reallv wants anyhow ? • But has he...
...However, due to the limitations of the hall, only 1,000 banquet tickets will be issued and no additional tickets will be printed...
...IMS MassgMMty...
...and also to Governor, of Coal Mining State*, and to aU the officer, and stockholders of all coal mine...
...Send whatever you have and send It quickly to the city offles of the Soda** Party and the Y. P, 8. la, 1 last UU> street, mow Jo*, rjs...
...Each charge will be independent of the other and all persom who care to participate In the festivitiet will be welcome...
...Some plants will be allowed a month to make the necessary changes in theii equipment...
...1 Harklmrr...
...Reported by the famous house organ, the Congressional Record "Mr...
...Merry Christimas...
...Ugh...
...Two new branches have been chartered and three more are being organized...
...His proposal to have a commission nf expe ts pass sentence on criminals won't bring any Utopia but it is a long and practical step forward in the business of dealing with crime—a business in which society has heretofore horribly blundered...
...Until, in other words, the power interests have got Muscle Shoals and Boulder Dam and have united In one network privately owned power derived from water and from coal...
...Digging down In the pit...
...Mexico's labor government has Inaugurated a new departure In diplomacy by having a labor attache taitisrt of a of ha asjBbaMtea, C A Varga...
...It was universally assumed that Mr...
...In Berlin he will serve as labor attache st the Mexican embassy...
...The en Or Rajah Temple, consisting of banque engaged for the event and the public will be invited to attend the reception between the hours of 4 p.m...
...To this end he even risked the confiscation of his Mexican estate...
...Washington...
...But I burn like with flame...
...and 6 p.m A charge of $1.50 will be made for th« banquet, which will take place as soor after 6 tfclock as possible, with an additional charge of 00 cents for dancing lr the evening...
...N. Y. Socialists Send Moiitain of Clothes .'o Striking Miners The New York City Office of the Socialist Panty and the YPSEL are busy collecting clothing, food and funds for the striking miners of Pennsylvania, Ohio and Colorado...
...Consequently, it behooves us to do our best to help not only the strong but especially the weak...
...It shows that the coming nation-wide electric monopoly Is very much further advanced interests has permitted the pubHe a surmise...
...Knowing the favorable opportunities, the National Executive Committee has an important statement to make to the members and Socialist sympathizers in a week or two...
...1M Fataaai...
...Mr...
...nice feller, Good things I know He did...
...Executive Secretary Claessens presented a report to the N. Y. C. Executive Committee last Wednesday night which shows a steady trend In one direction...
...The stockholder's house she's light With fire and song and tree...
...SU Winn...
...Even the credulous old gentleman who presides over our State Department did not believe in them...
...After consanao* able discussion a resolution was unonl* mously adopted endorsing a mottOat drawn up by Socialist judges in ZurieK...
...READ 'EM AND WEEP Twice paid compliments by the gentleman from Iowa to the gentleman from Georgia and returned by the latter to the farmer...
...wnw_ .....,m,M) SM SaMraa...
...That tells the whole story about those who raise the foodstuffs for the nation...
...It does not lighten the burden of Mr...
...Marie, 9; Wayne, 5, and Dale, five months old...
...They bear on the face of them evidence of fraud...
...An arbitrator settled the strike of the lignite miners by decree in October, which both sides accepted...
...Senator Watson declared that he preferred an investigation as to the limits of the authority of the Senate to Investigate a question of this character...
...I If all this sounds unnecessarily I harsh and unmindful of the virtues of Gov...
...That is to sfft the volume of productivity of r*(# American engaged in agriculture '*» about two and -one-half times f*Ot of the English agriculturist, mtljM three times that of the German /**n...
...She fled to a neighbor's house, the only occupant of the home to escape Millis' attack...
...Then one lapsed branch in Brooklyn is being revived...
...7 H»mllt.a...
...Henry Sees 1928 Ticket In 34 States National Socialist Secretary Reports Sharp Renewal of Interest With Presidential Year (By a- New Leader Correspondent) pHICAGO.-"tetters arriving here spell party nieces, in 1928...
...Large numbers of applicants were still asking for shelter and food there, but it was not expected that any records for the number of applicants would be broken...
...Here's a chance to enlist under John's colors and fight for Pelf, Patriotism and Profits...
...1 MAAIasB...
...1M iwtml...
...This is the first time the Ministry of Labor has exercised Its prerogatives at dictator to German Industry regarding the length of the working day, wages, etc...
...Senator Walsh of Montana is a hard fighter and with proper backing from labor and farm organizations this resolution may yet be forced out of committee before it is too late...
...Suppose the Mexican government had confiscated them would he have said: "This I sacrifice for my country's good...
...The wind, he's got no cheer...
...Now that the Coalition Ministry to which the Socialists belonged has broken up, the General Council of the Belgian Labor Party has decided to restore the former division of functions...
...When he gets milk somedays...
...MYSTERIOUS SOURCE From somewhere out of the void comes a sheaf every week of "canned" "news" and editorials for newspapers...
...Money Is needed...
...Neither Tammany Hall nor the Governor, who is also a candidate for the Presidential nomination, could have afforded to ignore these charges against Mr...
...Such a party even while still a minority party could force a proper program upon the attention of Congress and the country as non-partisan action obviously is not doing...
...The farmer said that he lost money on the corn but cleared one dollar on the pig...
...Some of those who voted to keep Smith out, fearing political extinction if they voted any other way, followed their own inclinations or the desires of the power lobby this time, apparently, because they do not think it will be the political issue that the Smith case would have been...
...lJJ Tata...
...Possibly under such a law Sacco and Vanzettl might have been saved even in Massachusetts and in spite of the class prejudice against them...
...147 Cbciun(t...
...The Bunting Trusts Remember the days when the masses were aroused and decided that they were going to "bust the trusts...
...One hundred dollars has been aent this week by the Party and the YP8EL to the Colorado miners...
...This vote was cast for Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals, Hezekiah D. Wilcox...
...His own statement shows that he had no adequate reason for believing in the authenticity of the forgeries which he got...
Vol. 5 • December 1927 • No. 1
