GREEN WON'T VISIT ITALY; RAPS FASCISM
GREEN WON'T VISIT ITALY; RAPS FASCISM Head of A. F. of L. Decimes Invitation to Visit Mussolini-Ridden Country (fit » New Leader Cot-re wpoodent) WASHINGTON, D.C.—Scathingly denouncing...
...Cope, who could hardly loughs...
...Green, in his invitation Count dl Revel professed to be surprised at Mr...
...When all of the mines were working here they employed about 5J900 men...
...The condition is now reversed-the laboring man la how too proud to work, and the same decree will have to be issued against them...
...Green's attack on the Fascist regime and asked that he might visit Italy In the hope that he might obtain a different Impression of Premier Mussolini, supreme Fascist "boss...
...The first Settlors of Virginia were gentlemen who tho't themselves too good to work-the decree went out "Those who would eat must work...
...While the Civic Federation is careful not to mention in Its release the actual percentages of dependence it found in the various cities studied, it declares that its findings reflect conditions-similar to those found by the official Massachusetts' Commission on old age pensions...
...call for the union secretary...
...Those that are kept home are not forced to return until helped by charity...
...The statement follows: "No responsible group interested in the securing of justice tor the dependent aged or in the promotion of old age insurance or pensions has ever contended that more than approximately onethird of aged persons were dependent for their support...
...Slee assured the excited guard that he knee nothing of the car, did not own It and therefore refused to remove the offending sign...
...Tou can not say to your employer "I So so auch work, and so much better than such and such a man and so I*should have more pay",which should be the true basis of Increased salary...
...On one occasion he' is quoted as saying, "There can be no such thing as liberty...
...The strikers relief committee of Rossiter and one from the Central Union el Punxsutawney, the nearest large town, is commencing to function with soflH regularity now, and the prospects an that no one will be actually hungry oa New Year's, though many children an still out of school through the lack at shoes and stockings...
...The writer was in a hall where more than three hundred men were ivaillng through noon hour, because the commissary was delayed in opening, without a pretense to return home for dinner...
...He wrote Mr...
...In Italy it is the dictatorship ef Fascism...
...Code asked him If there was anything the matter with the sign...
...Clothes are gathered from the more fortunate and in some cases mended and distributed by the Parent-Teachers Association and the American Legion...
...Green following the Los Angeles convention of the American Federation of Labor, at which the Fascist principle of government was bitterly denounced in resolutions and In a speech by Mr...
...Each of these organizations has abolished free press within its respective Jurisdiction...
...It is a well known fact that but few wage earners can remain gainfully employed after they have passed three score and five years...
...Because you occupy such a position you are, no doubt, in a position to speak with authority for this American Fascist organisation...
...After tempting the guard to arrest her for having the sign on her car, Mrs...
...But according to statistics supplied by the U. 6. Department of Labor only about 4 per cent of wage earners stay with one concern 20 years and more...
...Many are the stories of brave men suffering hunger in order that their little mes might have more to sat 1 Ylnoenaes Is located, bi tksi Casusty and it to hare en taw stte of Mat Saehvine where the Pinlliul urgadt .-A suitable smbmbob* should is erected 4s the memory ef O—gs Ksmin Clark...
...This condition began with the lockout April 1. Those who had savings have spent their all...
...The only differences lie in devising a solution to the problem The Civic Federation seems to accept that as long as there are only 2,000.000 dependents, their destitution constitutes no problem as to Interfere with the comfort of those of us who are complacent and well-to-do...
...Ollleepie, 111...
...Robert fvHon 707 *• Walnut St...
...When caught they are fined...
...Then the Union stopped it's members from agreeing to such terms...
...Stopping before the village church, a com pany "cop" spied the signs on the ear and sent out a S.OJ3...
...she asked...
...Even the Civic Federation admits that real suffering was found and the actual percentage of the aged individuals who had no means was too large eonsldering our country's enormous wealth...
...Robert Slee...
...Instead you get In with a bunch of loafers who are too lazy to Increase their efficiency, and say "We'll lay off for a few months, and then the boss will realize how Important we are...
...She put some groceries In her cor and had signs placed on it to proclaim te the world and the coal and Iron polios that It was "food for the strikers...
...The Federation has merely set up a straw man and delights in knocking him down", declared a statement Issued by the Association...
...9-20-27 . .- k i _ V...
...Maybe what he meant was that Industry has never been more quiet...
...of Its Workiiigclass (Continued from Page 1) have surveyed,..there, , the range is from 13 per cent in Indiana to 68 per cent in Rhode Island...
...MPAIrTMSMT MOMS OPWO 30-3...
...There is no strike nor labor trouble, neither is there much work...
...such a drastic Injunction being issue...
...Invaded that territory ••protected" by the Injunction of Judge lahghkn, o| Indiana counts...
...was the seine oj an amusing incident on Sunday,- 18th, vhen Powers Hapgood and Mrs...
...Most are unable to pay, and are sent to the Penal farm...
...There is really no difference of opinion between the Civic Federation and the proponents of old age insurance legislation as to the facts in the case...
...Later they gave the companies twice as much...
...In some cases teachers take pupils for a dinner...
...The greatest asset of Knox county and its 50,000 inhabitants is coal miking...
...tl.7ie.se* Is to be appropriate* By Congress...
...Suffering followed and as the ] Winter came on and the weather grew cold this suffering gained In intensity...
...The advocates -of old age Insurance and pensions, on accounts with coal miners, but does not confine its dealing to that craft The Elmer Richards Company expressed its complimentary views of strikers in a letter to a creditor, which the New Leader reprints above...
...It exists but in the Imagination of philosophers who seek tttelr impracticable philosophy in the skies while mine is drawn from very near £e earth for those on the earth...
...Mine Gttard Ptmxsutawney, Pa.—The Httle minim town of ROBslater, Pa...
...Only from about 1,800,000 to 2,000,000 ' of the approximately 5,500,000 persons 65 years of age and over have been estimated to be destitute in oh) ago...
...Mrs...
...by a judge in an Industrial dispute, mo* tored oyer from Philadetahie with Bap...
...Already KH,IN is aseraeriaied by tails stale and county.- ^. Wealthy QiuAerels ^ihs Tiff With' Perm...
...s And they ate going to sbesal a total of fZ,ls*Vt«t...
...Mr- Green's letter to Count dl Revel follows In part: "I understand you are the chief executive and the Tanking officer of the Fascist organization in the United States...
...This press release lndl^ cates clearly that the National Civic Fed-' eration knew that its findings would live up to its expectations...
...And while you are laying off you live on the products , of the labor of others—parasite on the Nation...
...This was the chorus*: You'll be sorry that you voted wrong, On that November morn, When the sheriff brines his hammer down And your dear old farm is gone., .. , We commend this to the happy farmers of the Northwest...
...Because you are not man enough to bargain with the world on your own merit...
...Strike" is a high toned name for "Plain Orney Laziness...
...Powers Hapgood also refused to remove it, and when the guard —mod doomed to throw a fit, Mrs...
...But when the miners are in distress their only aid comes from the miners wax) are working in neighboring mines...
...The bulk of the women of the Northern group really lies between, 34 per cent and 68 per cent, with Inmttna and Iowa, which have no laws regulating hours, and Oklahoma with, a» nine-hour law bringing the record down...
...Put a IHtle pep In H. Sine* mail order flety surnnry as laxy and buttec of indians emcajoo, izjL IN REPLYING PLEASE USE BACK OF THIS LtmSMI The word " 'strike' is a high-toned name for plain, ornery laziness," and the one who goes en strike does so because he Is "not man enough to bargain with the world on his own merit," according to Robert Earl Belgian Workers Warned of Drive On Their Standards Brussels...
...it cannot .continue to expect that practically all the wakjng .tiijoeyjf the^workers shall 9,000 Counterfeits Nearly 9 .BOO bills bare been Introduced la the tower house of Congress In fifteen days, but so far as workers are concerned most of them are of the counterfeit variet to rise amtd poverty Of Miners in Indiana Vlncennes, Ihd.—In his message to Oongreat, President Coolidge said: "Infrastrial relations have never been more peaceful...
...Yours very truly ELMER RICHARDS COMPANY BER: CMS ^^^ffr^^^' iigr...
...Walter Cope, a wealthy Quaker lady of PhOadeV phia...
...Therefore many are left out of coal...
...Dear 8ir:. • . ¦ So you ate on strike...
...Cope was ailllflei that the Indiana county brand of "liberty" had not been exaggerated and she returned to Philadelphia, leaving thi strike committee In the "civilized" mining town of Rossiter richer by a donation of twenty 10 dollar bills...
...Review Gereachi as follows: 'Fascimo Is not afraid to declare Itself illiberal or anti-liberal...
...For this privilege they first cleaned up the mine and in addition mined the company an equal amount of coal...
...i J, And beoauae you tire on strike you think tnat we who, wcttk eight hours every day In the week should support you while you lay around and do nothing...
...Why are you on strike...
...Ail the Information we are able to obtain regarding Fascism in Italy leads to the inevitable conclusion that it Is Just as autocratic In its operation as is Communism in Russia...
...the other hand, believe that America is humane enough and rich enough to be able to meet the needs of this comparatively small number...
...But their efforts give only feeble help, because of the vast number that are destitute...
...Mertens does not say this because he disapproves of the resignations, but because in his opinion everything goes to shov that the Belgian employer.- have long been preparing for a war to the death to prevent the workers' wages from being at last adjusted to the level of the prevailing cost of living...
...One of their popular songs was directed to farmers...
...Sv-\ ' UsVU...
...If you* creditors all sue you, you will have to pay oash for everything you get—and to de that you will have to work to live...
...Legal Dept...
...At- least quiet is what it is here and in Bleknell...
...In Russia it is the dictatorship of the preletarhu...
...This Commission reported an average dependency of approximately 38...
...It has always passed and If necessary will again Pass, without the slightest hesitancy over the body, more or less decomposed, of the Goddess of Liberty...
...Let it be remembered how patriotic the miners were during the war when they were asked to donate to the Red Cross...
...And as the situation now is It Is i like dividing the last biscuit...
...Mertens says that the resignation of the four Socialist Ministers from the government will be a godsend to the Belgian employers in their fight against the organized workers...
...Barclay, manager of the legal department of the Elmer Richards Company, mail order installment dealer in clothing for men and women, 951959 West Thirty-fifth street, Chicago...
...South Is Scored For Sweatiris...
...Again, April, 1623, Mussolini was quoted in the Fascist...
...The dictatorship practised by each of these organizations Is offensive to the American working man's conception of freedom and liberty...
...They then responded by donating (2 a month...
...Many school children have not enough clothes to keep them warm...
...Altogether now...
...They do not believe that this represents a -serious problem for our country...
...The Civic Federation's press release admits that 29.5 per cent of the aged persons studied by them have no property whatsoever...
...Even in the case of few scientific and guaranteed pension plans a long term of service with the corporation generally ranging from 20 years and more is required...
...ThejSoiuth In its rapid ,expanalon win have to take into consideration a readjustment^ of these conditions,'' Miss Anderson concluded...
...Under the title "We Must Be Vigilant," the Brussels "Peuple" publishes an article by Mertens, general secretary of the Belgian trade union centre...
...With no propqrty and no work, an aged person can hardly be anything but dependent...
...The statement of the American Association for Old Age Security challenged the Civic Federation's assertions that the problem will be met by industrial pension plans by citing the fact that the overwhelming majority of Industrial pension plans are actually unsound and financially unguaranteed...
...The firm conducts a large national business and carries about 2,000 Civic Federation Pensions Report Piit Uiio1*- ^re (Continued from page 1) - Francis <f...
...of the Episcopal Church of Pittsburgh, and Abraham Epstein, formerly director of the Pennsylvania Commission on Old SAge Pensions, challenged the conclusions drawn by the National Civic Federation «s not at all warranted from the findings of...
...Creditors victimized by lazy strikers can put a stop to this yearly loss by merollessly dosing down on eaoh bad debtor who uses this way of avoiding payment of his Just obligation...
...Charitable milk is being supjlled to those children but in small quantity...
...McConnell...
...Now only about 309 men arc working in the mines and that only 1 and 2 days a week...
...RAPS FASCISM Head of A. F. of L. Decimes Invitation to Visit Mussolini-Ridden Country (fit » New Leader Cot-re wpoodent) WASHINGTON, D.C.—Scathingly denouncing Fascism In the United ft*t« and Italy as utterly foreign to democracy and freedom and as autocracy In Its most offensive form, -President WUUain Green of the American Federation of Labor has emphatically declined an invitation to go to Italy to study conditions there for himself...
...Is not this autocracy in its most offensive form...
...President Green's attack on Fascism was made In reply to the invitation extended by Count Ignazio Thaon dl Revel Of New York City, president of the Fascist League of North America, Inc...
...Soon after these supplies were reduced in quantity and issued only every two weeks, due to the increased number of applicants...
...toal.due #£1.11 ¦ itr...
...As a matter of fact many industries today refuse employment to men past the age of 40...
...per cent...
...the Federation's report...
...At a time when a head of a family received about (4 worth of groceries each week one miner remarked to me: "Wouldn't It be hell now if they should stop this commissary...
...A Song Of Prosperity In the campaign of 1892 the Republicans organised singing clubs...
...Will you please tell me why there is any necessity for such an organization in the United States and what Its real aims and purposes are...
...good...
...The employers' first shct Is the doubt they cast on the accuracy of the official index figures, upon which the workers are basing their just demands for a rise of wages...
...Attention must also be called to the fact that the National Civic Federation more than a year ago before its studies were completed cautioned governors and legislators to take no steps in old age pension legislation and to wait for its findings which would show different conditions than those found by several official state commissions which have studied the subject...
...Sow about 4,600 men with their Jamilles are more or less, some entirely, dependent upon the food that Is Issued through a commissary donated by miners in other communities...
...Many children report lp school that :hey had no breakfast the morning before, and the previous night they had lo supper...
...Few of these receive coal from charity, others steal...
...V "Don't you want anyone to know then is a strike...
...Some of the miners were permitted to mine their own coal...
...The friends of the aged are convinced that America will not continue to neglect this mass of destitution and will endeavor in every way possible to seek a solution which will provide the men and women who have given their lives in constructive toil and in helping to build this nation with at least some measure of copiiort In an honorable manner even as is being done today by the poorest of nations throughout the civilized world...
...Premier Mussolini is very frank about this Question...
...ICaett of these organisations extols the superiority of the state over the Uvea and liberties of the individuals...
Vol. 5 • December 1927 • No. 2
