U. S. DEAD IN COOLIDGE'S PRIVATE WAR 18
U. S. Dead in Coolidg e's Private War 18 4 More Die In Warfare In Nicaragua Sympathy For Sandino As Defender of Nicaraguan Freedom Grows (By a N«w 1u4r OmiinlnO Washington.—The death of...
...A meeting of the Executive Committee was held the following Saturday, it which d. August Gerber was elected to manage the drive for funds which, at the start, will occupy the chief attention of the Action Committee...
...The respective responsibilities for state and city have never been properly defined...
...the last week with speed and determination A wave of enthusiasm seems to have swept through the whole party from the Atlantic to the Pacific...
...52,614...
...for 1925 77,325 and 150,000...
...It forces a yellow dog contract on its workers...
...The meeting voted to send a latter to the manufacturers asking for a conference to discuss wages, hours, etc...
...Any worker who has faithfully labored for a meager wage for 20 years or more has created more wealth than any pension in old age can repay...
...Hillqult in opening the meeting jjig the "impotence" of the Democratic and Republican Parties was ta be blamed for "the bursting of the prosperity bubble with resultant widespread unemployment...
...18th the re-election ol the members of the Parialmentary Senate...
...The convention is to form a regular state organization and take up the question of a full state ticket in Oklahoma All party members and all those who expect to Join before the date of the convention, or even at the beginning of the convention, are arranging to be on hand...
...Newllano, La.—Llano Co-operative Colony, which has been in the hands oi a receiver since July 1927, caused by some of the dissatisfied members who brought suit and demanded a receivership In the local court, and got it, has now won its fight in court...
...Untermyer's Plans for operation of a unified transit company as outlined in the press •M an advance on what we have thought they fall short, particularly to respect to workers' representation of what we Socialists have demanded...
...At most of the shops two or three policemen have been stationed at the doors...
...And Mr...
...The first meeting was held In the Peoples' House, Feb...
...All eyes are centered on the approaching national convention in New York City, April 14th, when the delegates from all over the country will name the party's standard bearer* and give the lead to the Socialist campaign of 1928...
...Committee on Fraternal Organizations, Joseph Weinberg...
...There is always danger that the big navy crowd may am•nd the bill upward in Congress...
...t makes the cause of peaceful social progress through legislative action 'ery much harder than it is, for instance, in a country like England vhere the courts have no such dras:1c powers...
...Then they seek to hide behind their company union dummy...
...But on the whole Tammany is more amenable to public pressure from subway riders and taxpayers in New York City than the upstate legislators at Albany...
...Hedley...
...Julius Oehl, the leader for many years of the Danzig Socialists, was elected as deputy President of the Senate...
...Wages were slashd right and left, workers were hired and fired at will, and hours of labor increased till the injustices had become unbearable...
...The bosses had also become so confident of their supremacy after the union defeat that they went to extremes in treatment of workers...
...Declaring that 76,000,000 people in the United States do not get enough in the years they are employed to enable them to lay by anything for old age...
...Since the Polish Group also voted fox the candidates of the Coalition, the latter received 69 votes...
...But we rise to ask the sympathetic Senators and President John Lewis himself how they expect to solve "his tragic situation without touching '¦he private ownership of mines and .their operation for profit Even under private ownership we suppose the coal and Iron police might be better curbed and the despotic power Of judges to grant antl labor injunctions might be taken away...
...By the time the convention is opened, we expect to have a good representation of party members...
...But the fundamental - tragedy of a chaptlcly mismanaged industry would continue...
...It then seeks to enjoin the entire - X...
...At any rate there kas to be someone whom we can hold responsible...
...Repeal of the sspspsage act, so-called —which in spite of its name has nothing to do with espionage enacted shortly after the United States entered the World War to prevent any criticism of the origin or conduct of the war, is proposed in another bill introduced by Representative Berger...
...Practically every worker in the Industry left the shops, the unanimity showing bow widespread was the discontent...
...They act in men matters on no sure and generally accepted principles of justice but on their own .notions of what they think may be confiscatory...
...Meanwhile, all true progressives and Socialists And their sympathy and support for Sandino growing stronger daily as it becomes more and more evident that he is conducting a brave, uphill battle against superior forces which are attempting to deprive his country of its last remaining vestiges of Independence from American financial and governmental domination...
...Fully 76,000,000 people do not earn enough in this era of "prosperity*, to allow for a saving during unemployment, old age, or sickness...
...He has earned the right to be taken care of * decently when he is thrown upon the industrial scrap heap...
...From the day it made its first contract with the city to operate the city owned subways it has tried with considerable success to get the better of its partner by sharp practices...
...WriliAfl allow none of our boys to raid while they work...
...In New York State he real estate interests are far more 'ocal than the tenants when it comes o the discussion of the new dwellings aw...
...While the spirit of revolt was being stirred by this arrogance of the bosses the latter in turn engaged in cutthroat competition with each other and this contributed to their own undoing...
...The Colony appealed to the Supreme Court of Louisiana and has won a reversal and dismissal of the receivership by a unanimous vote of the seven judges...
...This is the time to demand that the law be repealed...
...When one 'oaks at the actions of the Democratic ''arty in city, state, and nation as exemplified by the Democratic attitude on he super power trust and on housng one realizes what a big Job Messiah Al Smith would have on lis own hands with his own party even f he were as progressive as some of his 'rlends claim when they talk to radicals ir to labor men...
...It did not prevent he Senate by a bi-partisan vote from 'eferring the investigation of the superpower situation to the Federal Trade Commission—a body which lacks the le:al power and as now constituted, the lesire to do a proper Job...
...Anatole France...
...Each Urns these reports have been revealed as false and as attempts to mislead the American people...
...The light In Daraill was the second most serious engagement of the Marines and the Sandteo forces In the seven and half months of American hostilities against the Nlcaraguans...
...Berger said: "The right of those who have rendered service to their country to a pension when they become dependent has been recognized by our country in the case of war veterans...
...The subcommittees formed and the Chairmen elected to head them are: Committee on Trades Unions, Abraham I. Shiplacoff...
...The cutting off of employment possibilities by science, means that the period of dependency must continue to grow longer...
...There i» not a single state among the 48 which has not reported to National Secretary William H. Henry in Chicago a quickening of interest...
...Six marines were killed and twenty wounded early In January...
...Well, this is what the Interborough Rapid Transit Company in New York Is doing with its doll, the company union...
...There you have an object lesson of private "honesty" and "efficiency" in the field of public utilities...
...U. S. Dead in Coolidg e's Private War 18 4 More Die In Warfare In Nicaragua Sympathy For Sandino As Defender of Nicaraguan Freedom Grows (By a N«w 1u4r OmiinlnO Washington.—The death of four more American marine* ta Nicaragua as a result of a battle with the forces of General Baadmo now brings the total of American deaths in this unauthorized war to 18...
...22nd, and laid definite plans for pushing the) campaign...
...and at the same time, a steady Increase in the membership of the latter...
...The response to the strike call was spontaneous...
...There are nineteen states ••kick require some help, some more and some less, but all of them likely to file presidential electors and state tickets...
...Berger Demands Federal Pensions for Aged Poor...
...But Abraham Lincoln waged a . war far more vital to the nation's existence—and with sentiment divided everywhere, Including, the north, and fought out mostly within, 100 miles of Washington—without an espionage act...
...A final demand Is the right of the union to call for arbitration for the purpose of shortening the working hours within six months after an agreement is reached...
...If intervention in some foreign country should ripen into an official declaration of war, » «Wsen we*** find hhnastf silenced under penalty of a 20-year prison term if he expressed sentiments not in accord with those of the administration...
...The tune is now rip* for a revolt against the two old parties...
...There were 14 Snators to be elected The new coalition consisting of Socialists the Centre and Liberals, disposes of 6( seats out of the 120 in the Assembly...
...By the way, they tell a funny story about Connolly...
...The company union means certain prestige and prosperity for aim...
...The law was defended on the ground of war emergency...
...Incidentally the New York City adninistration under cover of loyalty to "Lome rule is very neatly and unexpectedly knifing even the most moderate proTress in the housing field...
...The so-called espionage act is still on the statute books,*' Berger declares...
...Economically it would be cheaper, and socially it would be more decent, to enable those superannuated workers to spend the last years of their lives in their own hemes, instead of in a poorhouse...
...This upheaval in the industry was all the more surprising considering the tact that the workers were on strike for 10 weeks last year and apparently the union was very hard hit...
...Several working committees for the year's program, inrai^tng »n executive committee with Morns Hillquit as Chairman, were elected to formulate definite plans for an overthrow of the Republican and Democratic Parties...
...Effective — First Victory For Workers Recorded After endurance of intolerable conditions in the industry since the strike of last year, the Paper Box Makers of New York City surprised the bosses by a general walkout Tuesday...
...We are still suspicious of a Tammany transit Plan...
...Membership and Organization, former Municipal Court Justice Jacob Panken...
...27 the workers voted to strike1 the next day...
...During the last few weeks mm rid— from this stats have been ¦*r»»<*tg up until today we have a sufficient number of members to constitute a working organization...
...The committee was formed last week, and comprises representatives of labor organizations In the city...
...in making its application the Interborough is deliberately ignoring the contract which fixes the fare at nve cents and the decision of the Transit Commission...
...The letter was ignored and at another meeting on Feb...
...Though the it&tea that must have help of the National Office are not states where a large Socialist vote has been polled in the past, no effort will be spared to Include as many of them as possible this year...
...The Nicaraguan deaths have totalled into the hundreds...
...Some research worker thinking that he was the head of a tons fide union asked him what he thought of workers' education, He replied: "Workers education...
...Representative Victor L. Berger, Socialist, of Wisconsin, has introduced a bill providing for a Federal system of old age pensions...
...On March 8 three federal judges sitting in what is called a Statutory Court will pass on the application of the Interborough for a seven cent 'are...
...TIIMELY TOPICS by Norman Thomas T|ID YOU ever see a ventriloquist "hold a conference with his doll...
...And the doll in what is really the voice of Quackenbush and Hedley squawks "we'll strike If papa reinstates the 19 naughty members of the Amalgamated Street Car Workers...
...He was as leader of the Hamburg Labor movement August Bebel's successor as member of the Reichstag for Hamburg...
...Special progress has been made in the Seine Department (Paris), where in spite of violent Communist propaganda, there has been a well-maintained rise of membership...
...Throughout the report the sec re tary remarks upon the increasing Socialist activity and interest that has been awakened in many states because of the coming campaign...
...Secretary Henry .in making this report, points out that the 21 states are among those that need no help' In making nominations and filing them...
...Committee and the report shows that Socialist Party tickets are definitely assured now in 21 states, and, in all likelihood, 19 more states...
...And in the old law the truth of a statement was a defense, while under the present law the greater the truth the greater the punishment...
...It means nothing at all to its members who were compelled to join and who never will strike unless the company throws them out...
...Present methods of relief are costly to the community, inefficient, degrading to the recipient, and destructive of the home...
...Arczynski, Trade Union Secrtary...
...Socialist Sentiment Grows Fast Convention Call bp Oklahoma — Henry Reports 40 State Tickets likely — New York Organises rJTHE Socialist national campaign got into motion during...
...This meeting will "*nmt historic proportions for the Socialist Party " Hillqult said...
...The executive committee also elected Harry W. Laidler to be chairman of a Committee on Outside Contacts...
...The most recent deaths are certain to renew the demand that Coolldge act to Hake the marines out of Nicaragua- Charges that he Is prosecuting an unauthorised war e*e betas renewed with great vigor...
...New York Organizes New York Socialists swung into action on Washington's birthday with one of the best attended meetings in years...
...Almost daily after every American loss, the marine officers in Nicaragua have caused reports to be circulated that Sandino la 'through' or has quit...
...Publicity, Norman Thomas...
...A survey of the states by National Executive Secretary Henry, has been sent to the National Executive...
...Former Socialist Head of Hamburg Passes (Bv a l*ew 1—tor Carrnf aaassil Hamburg.—On Jan...
...It is an intolerable situation .that our courts should have this power and should exercise it as they have been inclined to do...
...Still it is hard .to see vhy even $274,000,000 jfor sixteen new hips is imperatively necessary in this ime when the children oi the unemployed go hungry in every city and the hildren of the miners Starve in their tiiserable shacks...
...The discontent in the industry had been increasing for months when the workers were called to a meeting on Feb...
...That is not the ease...
...Or think either...
...Oklahoma Convention Palled A sign of the times, bailed with much Joy at National Headquarters, is the call for the state convention of the Oklahoma Socialists to be held March 10th, at 2 p. m., in Musician's Hall, 219 M N. Broadway, Oklahoma City...
...Irrespective of the result of this application which we hope will be favorable to the city, whose lawyers, hy the way, let the company get the frnp on them— we have no hesitancy to saying that it is not or should not be the business of three federal judges to upset the control of city and ¦tat* in transit affairs...
...On the first day of the strike no boxes were delivered and the second and third days a few bosses appeared on wagons with police guards...
...Public opinion which has been fairly effective against a big navy has not been ¦ffective in other vital matters...
...The impression prevails that the draconlc war law which made it a crime punishable by 20 years in the penitentiary to criticise the war policies of the Wilson administration has been repealed along with all other war measures...
...These organizations will support the work by cash contributions and pledges...
...for 1926 90,000 and 164,000, and for the first 9 months of 1927, 90,830 and 191,766...
...Not a. citizen was found guilty of espionage...
...This rate making and /alue fixing power claimed by our ourts ranks with the injunction evil xs an example of judicial tyranny...
...Committee on Individual Contributions, B. C. Vladeck...
...This same morphous public opinion is at present ympathetic with the miners but it has is yet no driving power for any con¦tructive legislation...
...The ight is by no means over and Coolidge's assurances that the navy is only for purposes of peace is worth neither more nor less than similar assurances by all governments...
...It may be that this same Interborough Rapid Transit Company is a blessing to the whole nation in disguise...
...This problem will grow more acute with the years...
...In a statement, Mr...
...And when Justice Wasservogel in a decision that gives us some new hope for the sanity of judges denies the injunction and scores the yellow dog contract the , company coolly and deliberately sets out to fire the union men anyhow even if it means a strike...
...Of coutse, Pat Connolly,,their head, may like to talk big to please Mr...
...A dozen other smaller battles brought the dentil of eight more marines...
...Score one for public opinion in and >ut of Congress for reducing the Acimlals' folly of an $800,000,000 new navy illl to less than $300,000,000 and for -ompelling the insertion of a clause perron ing the President to stop building n the event of an international agreement...
...Economic conditions, even in aocalled periods of prosperity are such that no • amount of thrift will enable a worker to escape the problem in old age...
...Acting on the basis of a precedent which he declares was established in 1868, Mr...
...It is giving an object lesson of how stupidly arrogant a capitalist public utility can be...
...French Trade Union Membership Grows (By a New Leader Correspondent) Paris.—For the past two years there has been a steady tendency for Communist unions to return to the "free" national trade union centre...
...Theology treats of the unknowable with minutest accuracy...
...the Mayors Reek and Ramminger...
...Socialists Enter Danzig Government (By a New Ltader Oamspaataai) Danzig.—The Danzig Assembly completed on Jan...
...Its nearest approach was the alien and sedition act in 1798 which resulted in the wiping out of the Federalist party in the birth of the Democratic party...
...There isn't any American sense of humor...
...But there is this difference: In the alien and sedition act the maximum penalty was a fine of $2,000 and imprisonment for two years, while in the espionage act, the penalty is $10,000 fine and 20 years imprisonment...
...If New York City falls for that Joke it is hopeless...
...There were 8 Socialists, 4 members of the Centre and 2 of the Liberal Group elected...
...As previously reported, a committee of 100, to be known as "The Socialist Action Committee" had been formed to promote the campaign...
...Such pensions are approved by our people because it is realized that soldiers render a duty on the field of battle which is dangerous to life and limb...
...The so-called espionage1 act was the most outrageous measure ever passed in aur country...
...But we have not yet recognized—although most other industrial nations have—that the veteran of industry has performed a service to his country at least as important as that performed by the soldier, and under conditions at times even more dangerous...
...This struggle to hog trade and profits impaired the solidarity of the bosses so that instead of the organisation which they were able to effect last year their ranks were divided when the workers walked out Tuesday...
...Either the National Sacra tary or someone representing the National Organization will be present, and it is fully expected that the Oklahoma Socialist Party will grow rapidly when the reorganization has taken place...
...Has Present Danger "The danger of permitting it to remain In force becomss very real when any administration continues to pursue Its Imperialistic pottde* in Mexico...
...Of course the plain speech of the Senate Committee about the tragedy of the Pennsylvania mine camps is worth something...
...The only purpose in retaining the law on the statute books is to assure the ruling class that they can plunge this nation into war whenever the protection of their investments abroad may require it...
...And that means the spectacle of boarded up houses with miners' families living in sheds across the road...
...It was announced Use eonuntttee*a activities would be carried on in eonJunction with the aakksasj tnaatant tees and with similar organizations of other cities...
...Entertainment, G. August Gerber...
...Kamnltzer, member of Provincial Court...
...As long as the companies own the coal and the houses it is hard to deny them the right to evict striking miners...
...Berger provides that the Federal courts he prohibited from passing upon the constitutionality of the act...
...2,000,000 Aged Dependents "There are now approximately 2,000,000 aged people in the United States dependent upon others for part or entire support...
...The effectiveness of the strike Is shown by the fact that by Thursday morning 25 manufacturers had settled with the workers, including the largest manufacturer in the oity, William Herman, at 69 Wooster street...
...the corresponding figures for 1924 were 60,000 and 121,2S7...
...These judges *re not experts on rates or regulattoh- The fact that some president of the United States made three lawyers federal judges gives them no wisdom in regard to decisions of regulatory authorities...
...The strikers are demanding recognition of the union, time and a half for overtime, work on legal holidays to be overtime, a minimum scale for all workers, those receiving the minimum to get a two dollars per week increase, piece workers to get a fifteen per cent increase in wages, and the present work week to be limited to 49 hours...
...The party will be unable to aie a complete ticket In the Stat* of Washington because of heavy filing fees which operate as a penalty upon any party that cannot have large funds at Its disposal...
...Public Meetings, Louis Waldman...
...atnt, President of the Provincial Court and Rehberg a carpenter...
...These workers have made civilization possible for •verybody, and especially to the comfortable classes...
...The hill has been so much tmwoved that the force at criticism against t is weakened...
...Untermyer from the State Legislature in behalf of the city will be passed...
...21 when nearly all the shops were represnted...
...8th, Otto Stolten died at Hamburg in his 75 th year...
...He was the Socialist representative in the Hamburg Townhall, and when the revolution of 1918 brought universal suffrage he entered the Hamburg Senate and was twice elected by it as Mayor...
...Asks Repeal of Gag Law (By a New LcaSer Crr—p—4—t) WASHINGTON...
...It gives the worst possible service that a complacent law will allow...
...Not only on its labor* policy but in other respects the New York transit tangle has important lessons for the country...
...The other Socialist Senators are: Dr...
...Charity and the poorhouse must do today what is the duty of the government to provide...
...For instance, the politicians have heretofore avoided responsibility for any solution of the problem by playing hide and seek between Albany and the City Hall...
...It is going over the heads of the state courts...
...Any one objecting will be put behind bars immediately...
...Orunhagen, Trade Union Secretary...
...Llano Cooperative Colony Wins In Court...
...Therefore we hope that the enabling legislation sought by Mr...
...A weekly pension of $12 per week would be paid anyone 60 years of age or over...
...F. of L. from trying to organize those workers...
...In 1922 the departmental centre sold 54,314 members' cards, and its income was Frs...
...Under the espionage act 2,000 men and women who dared to speak and write the truth as they saw It—a right guaranteed to them by the constitution—were sentenced to prison terms ranging up to 2$ years...
...It has lot stopped the Administration's shame'ul and so far futile man hunt for Sanlino in Nicaragua...
...Box Makers Tie Up The N.Y.Industry Surprise Walkout 100 Per Cent...
...What do you say, gentlemen of the Senate...
...Imagine the boys who docilely remain as members of a company union threatening to strike on their own initiative...
...Through the movements which we are laitlatfcsg today we will once again make Socialism a political power In the United States...
Vol. 7 • March 1928 • No. 11
