MEN'S CLOTHING UNION IN MONTREAL MEETS LOCKOUT WITH STRIKE
Men's Clothing Union in Montreal, Meets Lockout With Strike Montreal. — The strike against the Acme Clothing Co. continues with undaunted spirit on the part of the strikers. This strike Is...
...A Correction Last week announcement was made that Comrades Harry Diamond and Jeanette Watkins were married by Judge Jacob Panken...
...They have failed to raise the staadard of the men employed as detective...
...Relief for Miner* Without any solicitation the following circles and comrades have contributed to the relief of the striking miners through the Ylpsel Office: Circle Two Seniors, $8.00...
...It is no novelty, the message that the bosses are trying to convey to the strikers on the picket line every morn ins...
...Thursday morning and *nteei'noon sessions at Columbia will be devoted to a discussion of "The Liberal Movement in the Colleges," "The Value of Political Action," "The Class Struggle and Labor Unioaism," and "Education as a Road to Freedom," with Robert Morss Lovett, Justine Wise, Felix Cohen, Professor Peter H. Odegard, Louis Waldman, William P. Hapgood, J. S. Potofsky, Benjamin Stolberg, McAlister Coleman, William B. Spofiord, Norman /Thomas, Prof...
...25, 11 a.m...
...The skits are entitled "The Average Man," "Twisting the Lion's Tail," "The Sandwich Men...
...and "Open Shop Summer" (the Brookwood Players), based on the experience of one of the Brookwood students last summer...
...aPPcpaWtttovy woric towKfdsi tbte CtoocfMB* which is to be held In Prague, tennary, has already been Initiated by the executives of the Caech fjankdhfl Party and the German Socialist Party in Czechoslovakia, to snnssjoistiuu wMn Use small parties of the Minutes...
...The proceeds of this dance will go towards educational activities and also to organize a Socialist Sunday School in that vicinity...
...The strikers are digging in and preparing themselves to carry on the fight no matter how long it may take to win...
...Twenty States hove attempted to deal with this evil of private detective aganctee by enacting Ucri»*<v requirement low...
...Circle 6 Steps have been taken to reorganize Circle Six...
...The skits and dance on Friday evening will undoubtedly also attract a large group of students and others...
...this ot different nationality m CaeohoStovalda...
...Manhattan...
...These U|W* are ineffective...
...August Claessens...
...that were married by Comrade Panken...
...14th...
...Vice-Organizer, T. Dolgoff...
...BrownsvnV Labor Lyceum, 219 Sackman street...
...The strikers come back to the union headquarters, have a good laugh at the expense of the employer, and then makes arrangements for the change of pickets for the next turn...
...There will be a meeting Friday, Dec...
...3S, to Friday, Dee...
...The following comrades have contributed: Evelyn Kogan, Israel Bo tic In, Lewis Paul and Isidore Lolterman...
...Hubert Harrison Dies Hubert Harrison, well known to mern^ bers of the Socialist Party some ten years ago, passed away on Saturday, Dec...
...23, 8.30 p.m...
...Circle 4 Circle Four will hold a literary meeting at headquarters, 4215 Third avenue, Bronx...
...All juniors and seniors are asked to come...
...Elinore Lefkow will speak on "Current Events...
...The group meets at 1336 Lincoln place...
...A Lecture On December 25, Dr...
...Some of those among the beginners of the Youth Movement are: Miss MacDonald, president of the Intercollegiate Society...
...One cas.' in point happened with Julius' shop here last wcefc...
...96 Avenue C. Auspices, Socialist Party, 6-8-12tn A.D...
...Speaker, August Claessens...
...Hall surrounded...
...Professor Harry P. Ward will present the case against the profit system...
...9m too test time sine* the foundation of the Ossatnnteoss state*1 ttegw Is to tate place • Joint OnisEsw) of aU the parties in the country sfWHatofl to the Labor and Socialist international...
...Treasurer, Ch...
...Subject: "Genius—Heredity versus Environment...
...Pole* and, Carpathian Russians...
...23 ,at 8 p.m...
...29, 8.30 p.m...
...agnoeMs in iaterstate commerce ax* outlaws* a* aja> provisions of » Mil iatroVBTawoeisss^tSlu SgsrtSm oko"*' ^0*°' m TSmmSm"1^ °* section with their work would be subject to & prison Sentence, la a statement he Issued explaining Us purpose...
...This strike Is the result of a lockout on the part of the firm which thought it was privileged to send Its work, cut by union cutters, to be made wherever the firm felt like, without registering the contractors necessary to do the surplus work after the Inside shop was provided...
...Denver's Typographical Union No...
...TTyouts for a debating team will be held and all local Yipsels are urged to prepare on some current topic for presentation...
...Berger said: "The recent activities of William J. Bums and ids) associates have again called attention to the menses these private detectives consUtnte...
...He Indicated that he plans the organization of similar youth movements in Washington, Boston, Chicago, Kansas City, St...
...Burns in reported to have said sense years ago that *sanny private detectives are the biggest lot of blackmailing thieve* that ever went mm hipped of Justice.' Boons eotskt to know...
...When representatives of the union were in *he shop, the contractor told them that the new workers were partners, therefore, the union should not Interfere and "make no trouble...
...In this respect the Negro Youth Movement Is leading the youth of America...
...Miss Enid Thorpe was named chairman of the Youth Movement, and Mrs...
...He also wishes it to be known that he will not be responsible for any debts contracted by Jeanette Watkins...
...Subject: "Current Events...
...Admission to the gallery will be at 8.30 p M At tHe opening session of the conference on Wednesday morning, December 28th, at 10 A.M., at Room 301, Philosophy Hall, Columbia University, Ivy Lee, the public relations counsellor for the Rockefeller, the railroad, and other interests, will tell the students why, in his opinion, the capitalist system should be retained...
...Max Eastman, communistic writer, author of "Marx and Lenin," and of the recent novel, "Venture," will develop his thesis on the need for revolutionary politics in the United States, while Norman Thomas, formerly candidate for Governor and for Mayor on the Socialist Party ticket, will represent the Socialist Party position...
...The action of the State Industrial Commission of Colorado in agreeing to undertake mediation between the coal mining operators and the strikers' committee has been followed by arbitrary action on the part of the State National Guard In breaking up meetings held by the strikers...
...But trouble came, The manager and the business agent had a meeting with the workeri the sam...
...Circle One Juniors, $5.00...
...Speaker, Judge Jacob Panken...
...Norman Thomas will give the closing address...
...But private groap* usurp tag the powers of the police, and doing police work, cannot and should net be tolerated...
...Subject: "The Basic Difference of Men and Women...
...The union members will avail themselves of the opportunity they have naw with general organizer, Alex Cohen and Aldo Cursi, in this market to do real work necessary to add several hundred new members and several shops to the union in Montreal...
...Subject: "Incentives and Ambitions...
...Interest on* the part of the Montreal members of the Amalgamated In the work of the organisation continues to be displayed in the manner in which they attend to the local meetings and to the work of the organisation...
...A meeting will be held Friday, Dec...
...declared, are trying to stampede a peace-loving people into violence...
...Every member in Montreal realizes the importance of this strike, and all are willing to chip In a few dollars to carry on the fight successfully...
...Corresponding Secretary...
...Auspices, Socialist Party, 23rd A.D...
...30, 8.30 p.m...
...The strike was settled after the contractor had agreed to rehire the two discharged workers, fire one contractor and hare the other refrain from doing work which properly belongs to the employee...
...On Friday morning and -afternoon there will be reports by the students to the general conference with Paul Blanshard as discussion leader, and Simon Gerson of C. C. N. Y., and William A. Hunt of Dartmouth, chairmen...
...The following telegram has just been received by the Committee for Relief and Defense of Striking Colorado Miners: "Strikers meeting seven hundred attending raided tonight...
...Speaker...
...The firm hopes in this way to fool the strikers...
...Prank Palmer was arrested at Longmont after a speech in which he criticized Chairman Annear of the Industrial Commission and officers Of the National Guard...
...They are recruited from the lowest strata, and nee always at the service of those who have some illegitimate job...
...Operators using most violent means to break strike, but line standing solid...
...Over a hundred Yipsels from all parts of the city gathered to take part In the program...
...Some of the strike leaders are being held in jail without any charge being preferred •gainst them...
...Troops, he...
...A few gallery tickets may also be secured at $1.00...
...Auspices, Socialist Party, 23rd AD...
...Comrade De Nio has volunteered to act as director...
...Circle Three Juniors, $2.00...
...A concert will be held by the circle on Dec...
...Several of the witnesses who were to appear before the State Industrial Commission have been either arrested or kidnaped to make it impossible for them to appear before the Commission...
...The tactics of the police and the National Guard In the Colorado coal strike are now drawing protests from other than union men...
...City Office, $25.00...
...When conversation with the police is not sufficient, the boss runs into the coffee shop in front of the building, sips a cup of tea with the strikers and tells them that they can go back to work, BUT without the union...
...According to A. Philip Randolph, general organiser of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, this movement marks probably the most promising turn in the economic life of the race...
...Brother Alex Cohen, at the last meeting of the pressers, spoke on the general problems of the industry...
...A Speakers' Bureau was organized, whose purpose will be to carry the truth about the fight of the Pullman porters to every group in New York, colored and white, rich and poor...
...This will insure additional financial assistance to the strike, In the near future...
...On Dec...
...For these reasons it was the unanimous opinion that work should be started to unionize several shops in the' city...
...Norman- Hapgood, former editor of Collier's and biographer of Al Smith, will tell why, in his opinion, progressives should support Governor Smith for President...
...Harlem to Have Dance and Reunion A dance is to be given by the Socialist Party branches of Harlem and the Ylpsels...
...The Agenda wflt Be devoted especially to addresses osnceraV ing the eomsJon sJruggle against capitalist rcaotloa and against the retrogression '*Tb* division which has come In | the Protestant onarchas of the work...
...Auspices, Socialist Party, 6-812th AD...
...Negro Youth Band Together to Further Battle of Porters A Youth Movement, comprised of young graduate and undergraduate fraters and sorors, teachers, social workers, doctors and lawyers and the junior society leaders, was formed in the office of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, Friday evening, Dec...
...L.I.D...
...It deals with an occurrence in a non-union clothing shop...
...Circle 12 Circle Twelve, Brooklyn, will meet Friday at 8:30 instead of Saturday due to the Yipsel dance that night...
...The final session will be in the form of a dance and skits held at Earl Hall, Columbia University...
...Wherever there is seme dirty work to be done, a Jury to be influenced, n man** senntetten to stain, or a usMsn'nlfs*a*jr to place in Jeopardy, these gunmen are employed...
...evening and instructed the workers not to return to their jobs the next morning...
...23, at 8 p.m...
...The annual dinner to be held at the Irving Plaza, 17 Irving place, at 630 P.M., on Thursday evening, will be devoted to the important question of "The Political Prospects for 1928...
...Refreshments will be served free...
...This contractor, one fine morning, discovered the idea that two of his workers could be dismissed, their places to be filled by two new partners...
...Yipsels from all sections of the greater city should attend...
...The discussion of "Present Day Capitalism" will be continued at the Wednesday afternoon session with Tom Tippett of Brookwood Labor College, Professor Rexford Tugwell of Columbia, and Paul Blanshard of the L. I. D. as speakers and discussion leaders...
...A good time is assured to all...
...Come and bring your friends along...
...Bergew Moves to End Private Detective Agencies, Calls Them More Criminal Than Their Victims ^ASHT^QTWr.-Oil ssii iu..re> jiftssm deteetKr...
...30 a dance will be held...
...Admission will be 50 cents in advance and 75 cents at the door...
...A successful League social was held in the studio of the Rand School last Saturday...
...There is a big Tammany sewer scan; dal in New York City but as Tammany has been a scandal sewer for so many | years some more filth makes New Yorkers feel at home...
...The feature was a debate between Julius Umansky and Jack Altaian...
...The skits have been prepared by Gertrude Weil Klein, Samuel H. Friedman and Jasper Deeter, and among the actors will be the foregoing, William P. Mangold of Yale, Ambrose Doskow of Columbia, Georgian* Voire and Betty Dublin of Barnard, Edith Kowsky of the Brookwood Players, Harry W. Laidler and Norman Thomas...
...Sessions To Open in N.Y...
...Nobody allowed leave...
...We have no quarrel with these boys," the manufacturer tells the police on duty, "it Is their leaders who are no good...
...Circle 6 Circle Six, Manhattan, Is getting back on its feet and gaining -strength quickly...
...The highlight* of the conference from the standpoint of the general public win be the big annual dinner on Thursday night and the opening session of the conference on Wednesday morning...
...William G. Fennell of Yale, and Ruth Hicks of Vassar will act as chairmen...
...Regulation has failed, and nothing short of outlawing them will solve the problem and remove the menace...
...Meanwhile the strike Is one...
...The Motives in Human Behaviour...
...See your financial secretary at your next meeting and BUY DUES STAMPS...
...Coach Socialist Purtict Of Confer m the common struggle has been token by the Boshdiat par...
...Tickets for sale at the above address...
...The Ctty>~Ofnce takes this opportunity to apologize for the mistake...
...A strike of one day's duration was sufficient to convince this contractor that the union had a very good reason to interfere when the boss wanted to transform his factory into a corporation shop...
...In other countries even the itfcidoilj sonstitnted poUce are chosen with greater care, because of the extreme importance of the ^duties they perform...
...between those, called Fundamentalists and those called Modernists is a clever Socialist-Communist movement......The...
...The season la at an end, and the new season will begin after January...
...There will be no admission charge...
...SO, 1B2T...
...Harry Diamond states that it was Harry's brother, Joseph, and Jeanette's sister...
...to pot over...
...Pinally forced leave through cordon militiamen fixed bayonets...
...Friday, Dec...
...Palmer was arrested by the officers he attacked and is being held without any charge being made, although martial law has not been declared...
...On Wednesday and Eastman to Discuss 1928 at Dinner Friday MEMBERS and friends of the labor, 1 *¦ Socialist and progressive movements and unlvostty students from More* of colleges win attend the swsfcns of the League of Industrial Democracy conference to be heM in New York from Wednesday, Dec...
...Colorado Holds Strike Heads Without Trial No Charges Are Preferred Against Palmer and Others Seized By State Troops By a New Leader Correspondent Denver...
...It was not necessary to explain at the staff meeting both the duty on the part of the union to enroll every clothing worker in the organization, so that they may enjoy working conditions and the amount of freedom that is only possible to union members, and the necessity of doing so in order to maintain what has been already achieved in this field...
...The large factories begin to work now...
...A very interesting program will surely be presented...
...An unusual spirit was manifested...
...Thomas P. Mahoney, one of the best known business men in Northern Colorado, has protested to the Governor against the tactics of the militia on this occasion...
...These agencies cteiii to do police work, which Is naturally the work of the State or municipality...
...BROOKLYN Friday, Dec...
...Senator Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota will give the point of view of the Progressive Republicans...
...This is probably the first Youth Movement in America to place their energy and education, zeal and enthusiasm and surging spirit of romanticism and adventure at the service of a mass of workers engaged in an industrial struggle for bread and manhood lights...
...Organizer...
...The interest and good fellowship in the circle is responsible a great deal for | this change...
...All the schemes used by employers in time of strike are resorted to by this firm as well...
...Circle Four Seniors, •3.00...
...inception, the dictation, the suggestions for Modernisni, as it is expressed in the Protestant churches today, will be found in the literature of the Socialist-Communist groups...
...HI* visit was timely, and it was made the occasion for a meeting of the entire staff to review the work of the organization and outline the work for the near future...
...Corporation shops, partnerships, stock ownership which does not own anything and other paraphernalia to beat the Union arc not the copyright privilege ot United States manufacturers...
...It also resented the idea that overtime should be paid time and a half...
...George S. Counts, Harry W. Laidler and others, as expert advisers and discussion leaders...
...Longmont lPtnt.ia arrested Frank Palmer, press correspondent, and seven strikers, i Meeting proceeds orderly...
...Circle One Seniors, $3.00...
...Price, Mr...
...Hennington Hall, 214 East 2nd street...
...49, one of the most conservative of labor organizations, has also protested to Governor Adams against Palmer's arrest...
...The power to regulate commerce offers the Federal Government an opportunity to deal with it, just as It has dealt with the menace of white slavery by enacting the Mann Act...
...James Egert Allen, teacher, and Miss Florla Pinckney, graduate of Brookwood Labor College...
...Thursday...
...16, to vigorously back the Pullman porters' fight for living wage and better working conditions...
...Burwell, secretary...
...3ince the war, Harrison dropped out of the Socialist movement and up to the time of his death he affiliated himself with almost every type of Negro movement, and even strayed so far as to speak for the Democratic party...
...This characterization of the deteoHves ia not overdrawn...
...Bendersky...
...Leon Roaser Land will speak on "The Radicalism of Jesus" at the meeting of Circle One, Bronx, at 1167 Boston Road...
...A gshg of thugv and more frequently than not, ordinary giinnifn, or ear-faff birtts, who have imlgmmM sssnnooB us deIsiullius, nsM ondhr she enasnac* of iWeider* of law and order, perpetrating more crimes than the criminals they profess to seek...
...Louis, and other points...
...8. Juniors Elections were held in the Bronx Circle Three with the following results: J. Skarnick...
...His talk was followed by an Interesting discussion on the internal problems of the pressers' organization in this city...
...Make your Christmas gift to the League in this way and help us start the new year right...
...Miss Enid Thorpe of the Young People's Fellowship of St...
...Brownsville Labor Lyceum, ZH Saclcnian street...
...The various phases of the local affairs were discussed in detail...
...General Executive Board Member Hyman Blum berg was In Montreal on Wed., Dee...
...LECTURE CALENDAR NEW YORK Sunday, Dec...
...Emphasis was put on the question of reaching the unorganized...
...Tickets at $2.50 may be obtained from the League for Industrial Democracy, 70 Fifth avenue, Algonquin 5866...
...It applies to Canada as well...
...Disclaiming any sympathy* with Palmer's ideas, the union in its letter denounces hi* arrest as an infringement of the constitutional guarantees of free speech, adding: "If it is a crime to have a poor opinion of the amiable incompetent who heads the Colorado Industrial Commission, please count the members of our union aU as criminals...
...Gadlel Smith, Recording Secretary and Sid Soloman...
...Burwell of the Debutante Club...
...This dance is being given for the purpose of bringing all Socialist and sympathizers of Harlem together In a reunion and dance which will take place on Saturday evening, Dec...
...Yipeeldom Christmas Gift* The spirit of Christmas can best be exemplified by every member making a real substantial purchase of dues stamps before the end of the year...
...Speaker August Claessens...
...Phillip's Church...
...Pasper Deeter and Edith Kowski are the authors...
...Bronx Boro Committee, $1.00...
...24 at the Harlem Socialist Educational Center 62 East 106th street...
...AU Bronx Circles will elect delegates to the new Boro Committee which will hold Its first meeting on Jan...
...In the next issue the City Office hopes to^announce many more donations...
Vol. 5 • December 1927 • No. 1
