SOCIALIST CONVENTION OPENS; HILLQUIT KEYNOTE STIRS THRONG
SOCIALIST CONVENTION OPENS; HILLQUIT KEYNOTE STIRS THRONG Chairman Declares Nicaraguan Venture Is "War Or Murder^ Prosperity Bubble Bursting. Workers Are Warned Both Parties Held Equally....
...While the Socialist party plaeds aa much, or probably more, i iniiliasis on its platforms and resolutions, nevertheless interest In the Candida ted who will toad the fight during the cfnpaign is high and is rising daily...
...In them.'^ . The u—wrtatn element in the agreer...
...That is no different from the plan in operation on the Baltimore and Ohio, and other railroads...
...place to turn for 'relief...
...Members of a presidential cabinet have been convicted in the public eye...
...Th* determination of whether the proper amount of efficiency has been reached will, if the parties cannot agree, be submitted to arbitration...
...Personal xinslde ratioaapplue his feeling that Maurer ninny be the candidate prompted thiafttatement...
...It has the character of a "feeler" which is employed to sow suspicion in the ranks of the members...
...Both are eornxpt and reactionary when fat power...
...Speaking of labor banks, he has declared: * "The forces of labor In this country, aggressively led, could within .one generation control the entire financial structure of the country...
...McClelland...
...chairman Of the Socialist Publicity Committose, Mr...
...These are then distributed to the suffering strikers and their families through non-partisan channels...
...The taxi drivers bould belong to the Teamsters' Unon...
...But r do want to urge my readers to buy, beg, borrow or steal copies of "Power OoVitnjI" 'by' my" Ota* leagues...
...Mitten also 'ecognizes jurisdictional divisions imong crafts...
...Will control the Republican Party, nominate a Governor, a United States Senator and, what is far more important to the Chicago racketeers and gangsters, a States Attorney foi Cook County...
...Be has been paternalistic towards labor...
...Let us search own souls and discover why we have lost or rather aovsr won a batter leadership la a .great rnduetrtaJ center like Chicago- And in the light of this soul sssirhhic this careful examination of the facts, let as dedicate ourselves net * atbne In Chicago and Illinois but ta^Ughout the United States to a new conception of the place of political...
...H. 8. P—ifunbush and Batry W. Laldler...
...Aylesworth, at the aw mo time-anaouncir...
...mbf tend only to legitimatize the injunction process whichf we want to abolish altogether in labor cases...
...There ought to be no further tax cuts to the face of the need for unemployment relief and flood control...
...Whereupon, Mr...
...American labor unions and workers no longer enJoy the right to strike...
...Their 'unions are powerless to secure fair terms of employment from the great industrial combines who monopolize the Jobs of the country, unless they axe allowed to refuse collectively to work under unfair conditions—to strike...
...Two other paragraphs are as follows: "The reasons for this idea are many...
...Speaker*: Merr» H IB* ait, Norman Tel mil, Cameron Kiag, Jesse* W. Shafts, leasee H. Manner, Victor L. Berger, Mayer Bean, Slayer Stamp...
...Regular Beeetoa at Finnish Sociattat Hail...
...Mary R. Sanford, Helen Phelps Stokes, Bertha P. Weyl Socialist Convention Program...
...If all parties and factions in Illinois are corrupt— •» they are—it is the business of labor not to bargain like fearful shopkeepers for some little favor from tanagogues but to fight to organize Ms own ranks and public opinion generally in support of a party demoted to the emancipation of the huraers and workers from their economic and political bondage...
...and to employees, in addition to wages sufficient for the necessities of life, comfort and savings, an opportunity to participate n increased earnings made possible by their increased effort and productive efficiencies...
...The adoption of the Industrial method ' of organisation upon which the company unions have been based and because of which to a large extent they have flourished is a useful innovation...
...Lastly, the ximpany will contribute one dollar per nonth per man towards a system of fuacral, disability, old age or other beneats...
...What is coaspdened of grantee* importance, was the SSWirggre, given 1ft Thorn** by »<r...
...is'loW earned""out through the union's taking over the company union...
...Turning to foreign policies, Hillquit denounced the invasion of Nicaragua and demanded the recognition of Soviet Russia...
...Admtorlnn tl.ee...
...ITH a scathing arraignment of Republican policies at home an* abroad and a plea for creation of a political opposition e>f labor and Socialism, the Socialist party of the United States opened its...
...Sam Insult's creatures do sot and cannot stand for one of the fundamental demands that labor ought to be making...
...Executive Directors*Gorman Thomas and Harry La Idler Held Secretary—Paul Blanshard...
...At frequent periods during the convention, WEVD will teg of has happenings at the convention...
...The Socialist party demands the complete abolition of injunctions to disputes...
...sfr...
...The denniteiaad final elimination of Tames H. Mairer of Pennsylvania aa \ candidate, fcr his own wishes and those of the Beading Socialists, has again focused attention on Norman rhomaa, of Ntw York, as the possible candidate...
...The story appears to be another attempt to undermine confidence in some of top leading men in the union...
...aWsawmrt* that, during Vfcc epanin* csjrngmlsjp, eanp*a>« el the...
...Federal Judge Oelger has felt obliged under the law to grant a Jury trial...
...Tickets for dance and dinner obtainable at Socialist neadanartere, 7 East 15th street, New York City...
...offldaHy endorsed him and by implication the rest of his crew: Boasttog BUI Thompson, Frank Smith— Sam InsuU's man' whom the United States Senate would not seat—States Attorney Crow, the friend of the gangsters, and the rest...
...A vital national elm Won is proved to have boon secretly Snanasd by aaotoriss of the crooked deal are allowed to maintain a mnullnnaitol air of poBttoal Integrity and dlgtty...
...Saturday, it a .an...
...A strike can never succeed unless the union and the workers are permitted to conduct it by legitimate but effective methods...
...Te The Greater Olary Of all places, in the Electrical World, organ of the power interests, we find one of the plainest exposures of the havoc worked by sheer greed under the profit motive that I have ever seen...
...This provides for government development of hydro electric power with the stipulation that any profits accruing to the government are te be used In developing fertilisers...
...It Is Believed by some of the friends of the movement that arbitration will lever come about through Mr...
...Aylesworth conferred with the Socialist leader and offered to give the party 2° minutes each convention night over WEAF...
...This Is probably the meaaing of Mitten's altruism...
...AU, we suppose, to the greater glory of the god...
...I With those arguments there can be found no objection, all Socialists readBy recognising Mrs...
...40,000 In Coal Fields Aided This Year By Emergency Committee More than forty-thousand persons in the itriklna coal mine regions of Pennsylvania, Ohio aad West Virginia have received aid during the past year through relief work carried on by the emergency Committee for Strikers' Reuef, 16S Fifth avenue...
...Randolph to any extent Whatever...
...Ohvtouely your long delay In aaawfirlng my first Inquiry has made, It impracticable to arrange for broadcasting this session...
...They often break the strike before the workers have a chance to submit their side of the controversy to the court...
...The dispatch bears a New York date line with a four column streamer in large capitals which reads: "Is Randolph to Resign...
...Other candidates being mentioned for the vice-presidential nomination are Mayor Daniel W. Hoan of Milwaukee, Freda Hogan of Oklahoma...
...The hasty and never-explained retreat of, Mahon early this year gives basal to the speculation that the union was tor formed of the coming of the Mittens...
...Socialist Party Sentinel in Political Watchtower "With this convention", Hfllqult declared, "the Socialist Party opens the presidential campaign and re-enters the political arena of the United States...
...Jf the representatives of the Amalgmated and of Jbe Mitten Management cannot agree, .hen each side shall chose thei arbitrator and'these two a third...
...In its struggle for ~* Uttle favors that corrupt poli2**as Slve, in its blindness to issues •f^ocency and to fundamental con*trn for true democracy, of course **hss lost courage and vision and The friends of Len Small •nd Prank Smith and Bill Thompson •'•never the men who can make the that labor in its moments of "¦"¦n has always desired...
...James H. Maurer, •resident of the Pennsylvania Federaion of Labor and Rev...
...A dm ha ton Free to Manhattan Opera House and Finnish Socialist Hah arsalons...
...Organization Still First' Need AN AGREEMENT of the greatest significance for the organised labor movement has just been concluded between the Mitten Management and the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employees of America...
...Park raleee, lltth street and Fifth avonae...
...Saturday, 8 pjn...
...A second proposition calls for private management of this expensive government plant on lease...
...There are a half-dozen trade inions^ln the needle trades that were organized by Socialists and officered ->y Umax from their very beginning, rbsy nave not only obtained agreenents for the workers in the lndusry for many years but these unions lave raised a sweated industry from he abominations that infested it for nany years...
...But then, what about this much vaunted prosperity itself...
...t > ¦ "If it is war, it is smeiifhorsisii ami ssiissiy niiH by the people or Congress...
...Labor's Unsavory Part To all lovers of labor's cause the saddest and most disheartening aspect of the Illinois situation is the ignoble role played by many of the Official labor leaders in this political fight In spite of Governor Small'r unsavory personal record labor ha...
...It does not at all bid well for organised labor, unless the Ar"°igrr"*tfi Association first organises the men Itself...
...But even If, as we expect, the Jury acquits the strikers brought before it, it wul not follow that a jury trial is a remedy for the Injunction evs...
...Afternoon at—Up...
...Norman Thomas will make the summary on Friday evening, April 13th, and Saturday evening, April 14th...
...McAlister Coleman, well known to New Leader readers, will make the summaries at 11 p. to...
...It is not true ihat American capital has rarely recognized organizations led by Sodalsts...
...This power lssue^wUl be one of our biggest hi the next campaign...
...Peamersti...
...Dance and entertainment...
...They are arguing in favor of nominating a man who will be able to devote full time and energy to the campaign, making scores of speeches all over the country...
...A movement towards more effective organisation is of necessity preceded by more oomprefasnstve views of social utility and of moral right aad wrong...
...regular oeeelOHl, Finnish Socialist Hall...
...Through the L. I. D. a score of more of Wisconsin .University students were interested In the case, made some 1 study of It and' helped hi the picketing of the Kenosha mfJto...
...Aylesworth was out of town and would take up the matter on his return...
...It ts the persistent report ia Philadelphia that Mitten is to take over the operation of the New York City lines, certainly these about to be completed and In aU probability these to be recaptured eeen from the I. K. T. and the B.-M...
...In the issue of the magazine for March 17, 1928, Its own commercial editor shows up the cut throat war between sellers and purchasers of electrical machinery-There isn't any trick that the buying and selling agents dont practice...
...April 11th...
...Within recent years the practice of our courts, state and federal, to issue injunctions in labor disputes has become so general that there hardly has been a strike of any Importance in which the hands of the workers have not...
...The country needs a party - has ours, a party devoted solely and singlesmntodhT to the Interests of the tailing masses end to the souse of sostol Justios...
...This was only for reuef upon the gift of the ruSag fight far tt...
...WEAF will broadcast a summary of each day's proceegtags la the convention hall at 11 p. m. each night...
...As if a full stomach was the limit of social and political ideals of the American workers...
...Randolph is known to have Socialistic tendencies...
...To the iwners this will mean a fair return an their property...
...In the United States the ruling classes have a political monopoly of the country, although they cover their rale vdth hypocritical disguise of a two-party system...
...Why should it...
...A Suspicious Story The whole story is cautiously written and Is vague...
...It is obvious that the Mltten-Mahon agreement will give a tremendous impetus to union-management schemes, lartlcularly because the Am.ipm.tj^ Association of Street and Electric Railray employees has been notably a progressive and-aggressive union...
...of the...
...Public opinion in Wisconsin seems to be on the side of the Kenosha strikers...
...T. This prediction is eon,-, firmed by three events...
...Bridle it may he toe ie*e eyen to consider arrangemeatf tor thfe convention fls&mesa of the opttcy of the aja...
...but the sentiment seems to be supported by the belief that Mr...
...What s picture this, of the second city of that great moral nation now engaged to the collective homicide of war in Nicaragua in order to obtain in that little country an honest election...
...flee...
...Raniolph because of his identity with the Socialistic school...
...On the new lines a similar democratic procedure is to be fol'owed...
...Victor I* Berger.- On the other hand, there ie quote esatnite opposition to ".his...
...Bergec'B noraanatlon cite her record in Wisconsin and the universal estseta for her character aad abilities...
...The former radio law and, if I am correctly informed, the law which recently passed Congress, provides for the equality of treatment of political parties...
...The highlight of the address came in his words on the Nicaraguan adventure...
...To the conservative old She banker such a possibility smacks 3f Socialism...
...on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday evenings, April 15th, 16th and 17th...
...to the public an adequate and efficient system of transportation...
...The Democrats are pure when the Republicans are in ofnee...
...Berger*s sterUns...
...A third ¦ calls for the public management of the plant primarily to make nitrates for fertiliser rather than electric' power...
...States Attorney Crowe...
...To make the picture complete it is reliably reported that Oeorge Brsnnan the Democratic boss, for reasons of his own,will probably . deliver enough Democratic votes in the Republican primaries to save his mend...
...that the delay k» making arxanjreiaentA for broadcastiag over W9Ag...
...ru "Only a party Ska oast, a Soetanst party consistently and eespreeafvely osv posed to an spaniel pUi floss and predatory totorests...
...W Bree*csWg C**«-«y sprang tfc...
...Whan twovtbjros of the men decide, the check-off system of collecting dues in vogue In mining reg.ons, shall be introduced...
...fOf all the moBrtrtMttiea perpetrated by mar aa iga Hillquit said, *thfc is the moat revolting...
...The Masele Shoals Ban The House of Representatives has before It three proposals for Muscle Shoals...
...They belong elsewhere In The New Leader...
...The Allen-A mats are fighting their workers with- the usual weapons of lockouts, labor spies and an Injunction...
...No doubt the contract le .net Intended for the scrap-heap...
...Morris Hillquit, for decades one of Jhe outstanding leaders of American Socialism, delivered the "Keynote" address in which he tore the masks from the Democratic and Republican parties, exposing their corruption and their failure to serve the great masses of the American people...
...JWo labor organization sold to Den ••all and Bill Thompson can expect to capture the imagination and al"•tfnnce of the great masses of the *"*ers...
...The Committee acta as a clearing house tor contributions of money and slothing received from private sources...
...Monday, IS a.m...
...Per behaving Itself and not embarrassing Tammany, particularly in an n Smith presidential year, the union win be rewarded...
...Carmen Sign Pact With The Mittens Agreement Holds Doubtful Advantages For Union...
...The second is that he has rented a large apartment In New York City...
...Barnaul Flddls Trust the Democrats to give themselves away...
...Dinner and Dance Scheduled Friday...
...This idea gained ground when it was pointed out that the Pullman Company flatly refuses to recognize Mr...
...In a letter jL The New Deader two veeks ago, asanas stated that he raid not be I candidate...
...can be robed on_*e eel txaiupUuu...
...3 p.m...
...Speculation Is Rife OnCandidates Support Jo* Thomas To Head Ticket Is Strong— Mrs...
...Taking a leaf from the company union experience, it is stated that "collective consideration" is to be upon the basis of {roup representation through branch, departmental and general eommttteea, with recourse to arbitration in case of failure of agreement...
...Corrupt—Thomas, Maurer, Sharts Also Speak at Manhattan Opera House Session 'Z (Quotations from the addresses at the opening session of the Socialist ' national convention are based on advance copies of the speeches' supplied _ The New Leaoek by ike speakers...
...three part** v*utt seVtifce ttNaV trje^egt \» - tha...
...j^ (ihtfctog la fhjg easT**"last and oorwbtoh had laaa wsa sgMorganised labor tbrongh a saner atton of umeaaltttng paopagenda and lobbying have been qntothy eat aotde by Judfctel flat...
...Finnish Socialist Hah...
...Benefiting by the so-called "60-50" plan of haring in the proceeds, which has >een in operation since 1911, the sale >f stock and benefits of various kinds, he Mitten employees have been mown not only to scab upon other ransit workers but even to give inancial assistance to the company...
...John Hayner iolmes, Pastor of the Community Church...
...and > fuss, regular 8eastern, Finnish Socialist 'BalL Tuesday, IS ajn...
...Finnish 8 acta Hat Han...
...favoring Mrs...
...Thomas wrote M. M. Aylesworth...
...The execution of the union management plan is to be accomplished through ocal working agreements covering standards of work and compensation...
...But there is an adequate safety valve In that labor could- never Acquire such an Influence except by following such a forward policy of cooperation with management, that the resultant good to all concerned would banish forever the possibility that the forces of labor would use their power toward destructive ends...
...Berger argue not against her, but against the idea of nominating a woman...
...Probably nowhere in Um civilized world is there so shamelees and brazen a combination of demagoguery, corruption, violence SStf hyocrisy as is represented in the Ttatnpson-Small-Crowe alliance with thetr well organized bootleggers and and their support from Samuel Insult, the power and traction stagnate, and other holders of- apedel privilege...
...It Is claimed, however that this Is ot no significance, since he* has lived in New York City before...
...Any representative in the House who votes against the'Norris plan win be voting Ibr th*power trust...
...The New Leader offers the above lines not with any thought of influencing the decision of the convention, but merely as a matter of news of prime interest at this moment...
...We is an opportunity for Social"™~ *hd Progressives...
...Turning to labor's political •policies, he urged the trade unions to desert the policy of "rewarding" old party politicians and to substitute in its stead independent political action...
...He demanded a program of social insurance...
...Since, under Democracy, the form of social organisation at directly dependent upon the community's need, we have an increasing security against cataclysmic change, aaaV a greater guarantee against WEAF, WEVD To Broadcast Convention Nightly 20 Minute Sum...
...had haeg dsjg to g raJjauKferej&ajBcUng...
...New York...
...Begalar Session...
...New dnosvertee have made the nltrste extracting prooese for which Che Muscle Sheets development Wei : Intended during the war obsolete snd expensive...
...The fact that we may he ante to use W E V D to a limited extent does not, as you well know, solve the proWem...
...Both Corrupt When la OaSse" "There is no essential tUflSisueo between the Republican Party sad the Democratic Party to principle, alma, composition and methods, and there has been practically none since the days of the Civil War...
...Timely Topics jprntan, TkomaS Chicago Decides rTODAY while I am writing- thesi * paragraphs Chicago will decid< by bombs, bullets or ballots, which at the two crooked political gang...
...Admission 75 eenta...
...The agreement, negotiated and signed by the sons of W. D. Mahon...
...The third and most Important consideration is the subway strike episode this year...
...These revelations In a Pittsburgh court room of the crimes of the K. K. K not only show that It is as vicious ai organisation as its enemies have alwayi claimed but also that it has made iti own members its dupes...
...In the toeantime, Mr...
...inajries QveJ" Nofkmal Broadcasting Station-— Thomas, Coleman To Talk 1*HE doings of the Socialist National Convention in New York City will be carried over the air through two radio sations WEAF, the station owned and operated by the National Broadcasting Company, and WEVD, the Debs Memorial Radio station...
...The Injunction granted by a Federal court to the more sinister because It forbids things expressly permitted by the Wisconsin 'state law...
...I am still waiting for a definite reply to my inquiry of March 12 as to conditions under which the National Broadcasting Company intends to broadcast the party conventions...
...Taocnas Issued a statement thSniHTig Mr...
...The trade union movement in this country is committed to Union-management cooperation...
...have been convicted *n the public eye of the basest forme of bribery and corruption and are allowed to to unwhipped it justice, while poor wretches flfl the Jails because they have been stung by poverty to the ......swain of petty crimes...
...action in the program of the eajgkata ^aseesMaa Stress The strike of She Bnen-A hosiery workers in Kerwsna, Wisconsin, raises banes of importance to the whole country...
...After - Sanaay, f .3* pjn...
...Baottoas to pubtte office tavntve the ear psndSurs of ilosjgnrtng farnanat, Pop...
...Aylesworth had returned to town Tuesday, the day of publication of the letters by Mr...
...One is the Norris Plan which has already passed the Senate...
...Is it real, Is it lasting...
...head of the National^ Broadcasting Company, on March l£fh, i eiiiiwjglng arrangements to broadcast tile "convention...
...It most force it by its cam pothtoal action, n mast preterm * by "The American workers cannot hope to obtain or maintain decent standards of life and work except through the collective action of their unions...
...Nor does the agreement with he Amalgamated mention the Inalienable right of taxi drivers to organize...
...The purpose of the story 1s evident out its character is not new...
...With Mau-er out of the Suestion...
...There Is no reason why the union ' should hot participate...
...wU tf< .jH» Court rulings have deprived labor o{ the right to trnkfc -Hillquit continued, voicing the Socialist demand that injunctions in nabpr disputes be completely" abolished...
...The Story declares that the organization could make no progress "unless some new and drastic changes are made in its leadership...
...aad t pas...
...Under the alternate rule of the marries...
...In the majfer of vtoa-presldeBttal vesoped hi favor Of naming Mrs...
...Tbeae delegate...
...Cameron King of California and Joseph W. Sharts, of Ohio...
...The prosperity "bubble" is bursting, Hillquit said,'"and the , workers, have no...
...Comrade Thonas would ba Inclined to reconsider ds decision, Mto felt...
...Whs* is h that w** i are doing in Nicaragua...
...out of them...
...How, it may work out in particular cases depends upon the strength of the union and the degree of protection that the union can supply, so that speed-up and other injustices can be avoided...
...2tM Fifth a venae t p.m...
...Profit...
...cotnto* cannmira...
...In every other advanced country there is an active and Infliientlsl party of the people...
...Thomas, made public his correspondence with the radio company, and it received wide publicity...
...It advances the union-management cooperation idea tremendously, it establishes a precedent in the dealings of the regular trade union with the company union, and it throws a flood of light upon recent happenings in the New York City subway situation...
...No reply was received...
...age, of the brosdesethxg facUiUcs...
...The union-management cooperaion, which ia the essence of the whole agreement...
...Well, the State Federation claims that Small's opponent, Emmerson, has an anti-labor record whereas Small has befriended labor, prevented the formation of a state constabulary, etc The State Federation ought to know what it is talking about but for what a miserable mess of pottage has it been willing to sell its soul...
...are allowed to go unwhipped of justice, while poor wietutes 6n me jails because they have been stung by poverty to the commission of petty crimes...
...This theme has been used as propaganda jf the Pullman Company very often ind has become rather stale goods...
...With the opening of the Socialist convention only four days away, the party last Monday abandoned its hopes of making arrangements for broadcasting over WEAF or WJZ...
...The continuance of the company union on the present transit system may be explained away but the vicious attack of the Mittens ipon the taxi drivers' union when the Mittens gobbled up the taxi commies of Philadelphia cannot be exused...
...Delegates will also speak over this station, telling of Socialist developments In their home states...
...It definitely exclude* Philadelphia and Buffalo, where the transit lines are now run by the Mittens...
...it seems, with a unionized line...
...Vice-President C. V. McClelland replied that Mr...
...political twins our people have lost faith and interest m politics and bare ahaadoned the dosttotoi of the xwpnfatte to the bi-partlBan political machine with half of the American uaUseni.i care to exercise the franchise, and vary few of those evince any Interest to the doings of thetr chosen representerlvm to public "Unafraid of political opposition and unashamed to the face of the world our administration has sunk to a depth of political corruption which would shock any other country to its very foundataase and canoe Us people to ran la revolt...
...L. S. Lovett Is Re-elected President of L. I. D. Announcement Is made of the reflection of Robert Moras Lovett, PreXes;or of English Literature, University of Chicago and an editor Of the New Republic as president of the League for ndustrlal Democracy for the coming year...
...He believes that unionmanagement will bring labor' and capital together and preserve the capital.stlc system...
...He . denounced the two old parties as subservient lackeys of the lAoneyed interests...
...president of the Amalgamated, anC T. E. Mitten, head of the Mitten Management, Inc., representing their fathers, is made to apply specifically, to all future properties to be acquired by the Mittens...
...It is doubtful whether his industry could have been placed ipon a civilized basis without the Socialist idealism and enthusiasm vhich were placed into the work of organization...
...There ought to he an tacreaee of inheritance taxes which alone can collect equitably this fairest of all taxes...
...Thomas...
...quahtiea...
...The reason given for the exclusion of Philadelphia and Buffalo from the terms of this agreement is that these properties are to supply the standard by which to Judge the efficiency developed on future lines...
...It would appear that by the simple expedient of delay the National Broadcasting Company has evaded the latent of the law and denied ns even the opportunity to consider terms on which the Socialist parry might use the faculties of the company...
...been tied by Injunction orders...
...tt is provided in the agreement that Jjese faithful men are to decide by a two-thirds vote whether they desire -o join the union or terminate the contract...
...Sunday, IS a.m...
...Mysterious Move Against Porters...
...Berger May Be Running Mate rspHSS spectacular part of national po* litical Mnjnsntions comes when the time for .....eisatlng the presidential candidates arttve...
...of class i collaboration...
...With modem methods of personnel management plant and department committees are almost Indispensable...
...Already a score or more of strikers and union officials have been arrested for contempt under the Injunction...
...The Bepubllcaas are pi osj saawa whan the Democrat* are in office...
...Dinner aad BteBiptlea to Delegates...
...This to a real victory for the workers...
...Head Recognition by Company j_J{ Socialist ^oes, Rumored by Negro Paper WHAT appears to be ah undercover " move to get A. Philip Randolph out of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters took form in a mysterious news story carried by the Pittsburgh Courier, a Negro weekly, in Its Issue on April 7. Randolph is organiser of the union and has given yeoman service in organising die porters...
...The Convention of the Socialist Party is being held from April 13th to the 17th, the opening session will take place Friday evening, April 13th, at the Manhattan Opera House...
...If it i» not war,—it ie murder.M...
...When the cooperation of the union and the company on the new lines will bring about the efficiency already accomplished an the existing roads, then the matter of union-management agreements on these properties may be discussed and made the basis of further agreement...
...hla offer irw accepted and air...
...The leaders of organized labor In this country have heretofore generally taken a position against independent labor politics and they have pointed to the relative prosperity of the American workers as an argument in favor of their policy...
...Other speakers were Norman Thomas, Cameron H. King, Joseph W. Sharts, James H. Maurer, Jacob Panken, Mayors Daniel W. Hoan and J. Henry Stump and Congressman Victor L. Berger...
...a BoskHa Bare I am not supposed to be witting beck reviews...
...I will resign, if by so doing a bona fide agreement can be reached whereby the men and the company can get together...
...It is even hinted among some of the staunchest "followers that Mr...
...The loyalty pf the employees on the Mitten lines is notorious...
...Opening Session at Manhattan Opera Hsaee, S4th street and tth Ave...
...The words ''rumor" and "hinted" and "it seems to be"' appear in it...
...Labor and Bocialua, to check the rule of capitalist reaction and to force the government along the path of social progress...
...Randolph declared that he la "ready to make any sacrifice for the men...
...Organization Bight Conceded It is stated in so many words "that the right to organize is a fundamental right of labor which should not and cannot be permanently abridged or denied...
...Other officers elected Included: Vlce?residents—Professor Vladmir Karapet}ff, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Cornell University...
...We resume our place among the p^tv-al parties of the nation with the detnatoaUon to stay the expectation to grow and the hope to win...
...Florence Kelley, General Secretary of the National Consumers' League...
...Delegates In New Tork before the contention are practically unanimous In: their desire to have comrade Thoiua be the candidate...
...The eld5T Mitten is a kind of "Golden Bale" Nash...
...Where before the '50-50'.' plan was effective as between •management and union...
...vigilant anttnel stoaoaedoath* political watchtower, ever ready to combat abuse and upprumton sad to defend the rights and liberties of the people...
...Let's be informed on it...
...But the Democrats want to play the same of little brother to the rich...
...If "an agreement cannot be reached upon the odd man, the Public Service Commission shall j 'j£t as the third arbitrator...
...ment Is that ne authentic information, la available as to where the new lines, are located...
...16th national convention in the Manhattan Opera House, New York City, Friday night...
...We have repeatedly stated in these columns ttan tiae .'Ti'grinatfKl has failed to keep toy organisation work tn Hew York CSsv seemingly because tt expects to reoetvd • unionised transit system from Tammany Hall en a silver plotter In return for aft tying up the lines with a walk-out...
...basest iorrMJmL.m*tlO*xy mad corranrian and...
...Those who oppose the homtnatton of Mrs...
...Algonquin 4820...
...There have been other organizations of the workers officered by Socialists who have obtained decent and humane conditions for the members and these conditions have been written into agreements...
...Randolph, the leader, should step aside if he is sincere in his desire to see the porters secure some kind of concessions from the Pullman Company...
...Thomas sent the following letter to Mr...
...American capital has seldom, If ever, been known to recognise organizations led by Socialists...
...On the dogmatic ground of class-collaboration it is, of course, indefensible, but then all collective agreements are example...
...No wonder this sort of "•nderahip fails to organize the work«¦ industrially...
...The first is that the elder Mitten baa reUnqalahed the chairmanship of the Philadelphia Sapid Transit Company In the Quaker City and the International Railway Company to Buffalo, aad handed over the reigns of government to hie eon...
...When will met learn that those who are ready to plai on their prejudices, their fears and theli childish desires to be cltisens of an invisible empire instead of a free republk are always ready to make fools or knave...
...If you want to know facts about the power trust and Its #17,060.* 0OO.OO0 lobby, if you want to know 'why our present ''regulatory systems don't regulate, if you are curious to discover why domestic users of electricity pay on the average more than three times as much per kilowatt hour in the United States as they do in the Province of Ontario, Canada, read this book...
...On the other hand...
...This tost plan to supposedly hi'the interest of the farmers who want tertfltoert As a matter ef fact ft to only hi the taSereat of the power trust whldh" wants to* confuse Ore' tosue...
...Prior to the completijp of arrangements with WEAF there was scene misunderstanding...
...The United States is the only country in the world in which the worker* are so oppressed by Judicial tyranny...
...In the face of reduced estimates of the Treasury surplus, even excluding necessary appropriations for flood control, the Democratic Congressmen want to beat the Republicans In tax cutting and are perfectly willing to throw over the Federal estate or inheritance taxes...
...These are issued without notice to the strikers...
...Puthermore, *ach aide shall share to the financing if the spheme...
...Other members of the Board of Directors were: Devere Allen, Forrest Bailey, wuimar Bishop, LeRoy Bowman, Paul Brlasenden, McAllater Coleman, Jerome Davis Solon DeLeon, Robert W. Dunn, Elisabeth Oilman, Timothy Henry, Jessie W Hughan, Frederick C. Hyde, Paul Jones Florence Kelley, Nicholas Kelley, William Pickens, Anna Rochester...
...Nothing their ene' ntes can say about them can beat what members of this alliance have at the past said about each other, •jet there Is nothing particularly honOUSe about the record of" Senator Deneen and his, supporters who at various times have Worked in peace and harmony with' their present enemies...
...Corruption, he said, is typical of both the parties, j Cabinet ministers'and fenate seats have been bought and sold...
...Indeed ir Chicago and Cook County considerable labor support is openly on the side of Thompson and his gang as w«U as Small...
...Treasurer—Stuart Chase, author o* The Tragedy of Waste" and "Your Money's Worth...
...On th/ other important issues, Hillquit was equafiy emphatic...
Vol. 7 • April 1928 • No. 17
