BERGER ASKS CONSTITUTION BE REVISED
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...Separate Labor Department For Mexico Proposed sfexico City.—The nest session of the Mexican Parliament, opening on September 1. this year, will discuss the project of< forming three new secretaries of state: those of Labor, Justice and Police...
...These cuts come just at the tea When the Census of Manufacturer...
...Only one-sixth of the people had the rating franchise at the time the Constitution was ratified—and most of them lid not vote...
...Alvaro Obregon...
...Rep...
...in the Debs Auditorium at the People's Bouse...
...We would make the Constitution more Jexlble...
...in recent declarations has pointed out his nonconformity with the idea except in the case of a Secretariat of Labos which* will fill an urgent need In case the Labor Code of the Mexican Constitution is federaliaed by the coming Congress...
...we wenta ieny to the Supreme Court- the power to pass upon the constitutionality "of sets of Congress;' and we wouM make possible the enactment of chfld welfare, nintmum wage, and other social welfare legislation, which is...
...La Ouardbt of New Tork Induced the Bouse to add $10* to the amount of the award, at *<adequete compensation for the humiliation and suffering sustained by these good people, eit&sens of the republic of msaragmx with which we are told we are at peace...
...N. Y. and opened tha Pennsylvania branch about sis Bsassf ago...
...A recent protest among the dym resulted in the firing of 12 mm tfm thig department...
...Warren al North Carolina arose to explain that this was the claim of Jose Franc&co Blvas, of Leon...
...Here they are not bothered by tot 48-hour law for women workers, vs, law in Pennsylvania allows a ladsai day and a 54-hour week...
...They have another og mill in Brooklyn...
...The a—sent Syndicalist Oentro, thus enlarged, causprisss 4.7 per cent, of the Siskais organised to the whole Dutch Trade Union Movenest...
...To this formula...
...In a statement he issued, Ms.^ Berger said: "The necessity of re-writing our eonstt*atkm must appeal to all who oao raaatthn the tremendous absasjea, political, economic, and social, which hart Some over the nation since the present sonstitution was adopted In 1788, sad wbe undemtaad that a osnsOtukkw which was ortiwjuoai to the needs of 1T88 can no more be adequate to the needs oi 11026 than a -garment made to fit a chlk...
...The defenders of the constitution— and they include many who do not even know its contents—always attribute this x>untry*s rise to power to the Constitution...
...Even then, however...
...Tfef number of wage earners increased by aa ly 15 per cent In six years...
...Everything was done to make it easy to iefeat the people's win...
...tie wooden, slate-colored houses,' {— fsanihat to a house...
...almost un possible under ear present CsnstituUsn...
...orsrhml east which played on Broadway last winter...
...how eomfbrtinr to the miners and their famines hi Pennsylvania, the saaoruwt far...
...te 1025 is published, giving figures vttkk show the Immense increase of prodnetta to these Pennsylvania silk mills...
...Dyers in this plant are also Bsasst only $18 for a 52 1-2 hours week...
...I know that nothing offends and antagonises the "vested Interests" more than tiiticsm of the constitution...
...In the event a revision of the Constitution is attempted, the first thing that ought to be done hr to pat teeth into the first amendment, se that the Constitutional rights of free speech, free press, and free assembly may be rerived and really enforced...
...This means a 44 per cent increase h the productivity of each . sflk • worker...
...In addsttoa to an excellent musical program, a one-act musical comedy farce will be presented by the...
...There were no railroads, no telegraphs, no telephones...
...mers'of the West, sad the assBoas of workers who have no Jobs...
...It was not due to the Constitution...
...There were only a lew towns which bad a population of from two to Svo thousand Manufacturing In the United States was then In Its 'childhood, mainly m Philadelphia...
...covered with one vast primeval forest...
...For many years only those who had some wealth could vote...
...But rsM of output...
...The largest city, Philadelphia, had about SO,600 inhabitants...
...Winders to this mill who west oat 8 cents a pound, are now cut to 7 H cents, and cannot make more than m a weak, though they work 52 1-2 ban When they protested against the pay aa, the foreman's answer was: "If you doff Bka it, you can get out...
...sesoiutiom propm iMTan 811111 nili —$ to tM FedossU CosasBtukiDn enabling Congress to call a constitutional com 11 un fog the purpaae of ssVistng the oenstitutioar has bean dn 8i...
...That has ">eccme particularly true since our country embarked upon its imperlaUstte ventures...
...When the present constitution was adopted...
...Jtist now these rights are violated whenever and wherever it suits the convenience of the plutocrats...
...The Arcadia Knitting Mills, owasd % 'the Re in hard Bros., employ several ba» dred workers...
...On the contrary, whenever the Constitution, was subjected to a test, as in 1800 and 1917, It failed...
...But the wisest of men could not have foreseen in 1789, when this was a little frontier country, the political and economic conations of 1088...
...mo less than 18 patches hare been placed on our poB&cal cloak but these patches have failed to make it suitable to modern conditions...
...so that it can be changed by a nsjority vote of aH the people...
...The bfll was for $32.90 hospital charges and $8 for the dress torn from the woman, wnbttr's letter to the Bouse cOwlBittteg had stated that "The draft of the bill has been submitted tc the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, and the Navy Dspartinent- baa bean informed that its enactment will not conflict with the financial program, of the President...
...The use of steam and electricity was unknown...
...They know that the present constitution was designed by the wealthy •lass of that day—the speculators In scrip and big landowners, and their representatives—with a view to preventing- the people from eaerciomg their poIticat influence...
...Rand School SCudent» To Hold Supper-Dance The annual supper-dance which marks the close of the student year for Rand School students, takes place Sunday, April 20th at 6 p.m...
...It wss considered by many a miserable piece of patohwonk, that had to be amended ten times before the colonies agreed to ratify ft...
...W *t Owners prosper and live on ih**ssl Workers live down near the nmk hi SV...
...chnuVI at an...
...Textile Wage Cuts Spread To Penna A LUDvTOWW, PA.—Textils wwjtom^ am..spreading into Pennsyhoaav...
...Morris Hillquit will speak and there will also be short addresses by members of the staff and of the student body...
...The worst featurn of a monarchy were included in the office of the President, who has more power than two-thirds of both houses of Congress...
...11 or 12 hours a day...
...It seems that two drunken marinas, sent down there on the present expedition of occupation," he said, "brutally assaulted a pregnant HlcaTaguah Woman, her husband, and her child, so that they all had to have medical attention...
...CesaattoUon Out of Date "The Constitution made at that ttan< when the population was 3,800,000—pioneer fanners with a fringe of merchants In the small ooast towns—was suited more or leas to those conditions...
...In terms of the 1919 doDar, a> creased by 65 per cent...
...The negotiations have been successful, which means that the National Labor tornatkmal of Labor unions and smal asiiili with she Syndicalist Costtre, aa iiiisjataqaiim ssajsrity having voted in saver of the fusion...
...Corporations In the present sense were unknown—a corporation then meant a city or a township...
...One wage earner was paV ting out more in six hours than he bat formerly put out in eight hours...
...Whatever there Is a rush of work they ami do 10...
...Three workers were producing Taort thwt four workers produced six years Mn One worker in four could be laid oflVwB the output of the company still be snfhb ly Increased...
...Nicaragua, tor $38.50...
...a great part of the country was...
...They p> miss when they are hired that thty iff do this overtime work whenever nreoj sary...
...The play "Enceisior" by Benjamin Levlne and Oertude Weft Kletn, is acted by Samuel H.| Friedman, who collaborated on the lyrics, Nina Hillquit, Julius Weinberg, Julius Umansky, William Parry, Ann Spero, Oertude Well Klein and Nettie Stern and Viola Levenson' at the piano The Kentuckians will provide music for the dancers before the program...
...Marines' Shameful Crime Paid For Washington.—When Che MB HR...
...0>nimiinists Lose ' Dutch Unionists M0i I tt' »nW wm*k.....of Labar txtfoagb, dhow is admitted even...
...One need only read Um injunctions in the coal fields, and in dozms of other places where strikes have taken place...
...Warren made the reply that the elahn, duly approved by the chairman of the House' committee on claims, was only the precedent for others that would total ndBktns of dollars, doe to the unlawful occupation- of -Nicaragua...
...Few of tht,SjBtv ers' houoeo have running water, dblasj outside privies behind the hotnts asg some have wells in the backyard) fZ water supply...
...J1"* ""wnuawnwa ** *** **** ew* s new bant to bobmujI,, which is not perhaps liiusdjsjrt bk Muusf, but- hi cerBtis9y « slam at thc-tioask: NfgwtaUkmi o»»s~P—nty bean gatag est between the Boaab afemonoaaaS Tiaah Union Centre <asssBaom*bia> s\goa> snatdo* National Labor Secretariat of Holland (the Communist centre affiliated with the R. I. L U.), which has a membership of 14,000...
...About 10.000 a|k w_3 ers depend on the 80 nuiaaba have come here because "smsr stc2to In Allen town...
...Magnanimous U. S. Offers $38.50 To Nicaraguan Families For Injuries By Two Drunken American Marmed Drunken...
...i*7+J "Dwell here and prosper*', raagj aChamber of Commerce sign at the bBT read atattnn There are 72 csswbwawBk the etty, xoo.ooo population, bit aba 28 aubUc sshools...
...He uked that the $100 extra be sent dawn with the apologies of the- government ot the United States...
...Public schools were few...
...A ribbon weaver, working in th* Konor mills, where the Associated Sk Workers have shop control, told the PoV stated Press correspondent that wodan there had compromised on a recent sap cut...
...That that proposal will find sufficient support among the majority bloc of the parliament is doubtful especially since presidential candidate...
...Warren sarcssttcajy eomrrstulated Secretary of the Navy Wtibur -far the splendid and hard bargain he has driven in this case...
...Of course, it tt Obvious that If the marines had not been down there, tins outrage would not have occurred...
...Many have no gas or aW triclty and must depend on oil lamm sr evssUng light...
...a 8 per cent cut has been forcedFan^Mf em in several mills of this sub ¦ftjTT eond largest silk center in the Tfm* States...
...The class of 1028 will be feted and entertained kg the allannt and friends of the School...
...We can m plenty of winders from New York h 24 boprs' time...
...The New Tork World nbmary declares that wrehBMtion is the laffimi Issue of the essapaigu and that Smith shooM net Ignore H. Oh...
...8881 was called up in the House, on the private claims calendar...
...ntod by Bsaprasentative ^Ttsear X* Berger, Socialist, of Wisconsin...
...Piece rates per yard were to It cut by 2 cents, but the workers flossy accepted a cut ot 1 cent a yard...
...They chum it stood the test V our country has prospered, it was due to sur colonial conditions, our va-gta sob, jur Inexhaustible resources, and our immense immigration, which gave to the On!ted States the cheapest and- most intelligent labor of the rest of the world...
Vol. 7 • April 1928 • No. 19
