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...If they get old they become dependent and their only hope Is over the Hill to the Poorhouse...
...Nevertheless, some people both men and women choose to do it voluntarily and get some thrill out of It Just why, or bow, no man can my...
...We are living in an Individualistic capitalistic system in which all the tools and machinery, the raw materials and natural resources with which all necessities are produced for the preservation of life and man, are owned by a few Individuals...
...and when he did so, the union, in order to protect Itself, would naturally refuse to work on his materials wherever found...
...I And now that you have been proven innocent, I will forget as quickly as I can, the inefficient, soft pad* ailing prosecution of the government attorneys...
...It's this Sinclair verdict...
...The majority in this country the-^workers, can change it so that al the wealth shall be distributed amoni those who helped to create it by then labor...
...X really cannot understand you mulU-minionairea, Especially when -all your 100 per cent American statastlcs declare the tough job which any average American workingman baa to spend bis average prosperity wage...
...This applies to the biological and physical life...
...that a Supreme Court decision should hold good only In matters of civil liberties, and strikes...
...These individuals live In luxury and plenty and because they own all the chief means of production, they are independent...
...Thi bast bsghnung would be for every work' er to Join a Union of his industry ant a political party of labor...
...Your emotion, and theirs are so similar...
...J*» been mad before In my life...
...ot Tamm&ny was one of the staunchkasr m~Lr'.0f toe honest ballot and John D. Rockero took a rebate from a railroad in his life...
...For it isn't a real blown-in-the-bottle speech fight that hasn't Arthur somewhere to the r...
...I suppose some of the tears you and your faithful wife wept in court the other day were partly because of the hardships facing you as to your economic*security...
...But as one travels farther on he finds men who have passed these stages and they conceive of the world as something in which man is a unique creature who can master his destiny and not be mastered...
...This was a condition of helplessness and submission...
...If it is, the chips of aid lop may fall where they please...
...West The Bess is After What, after all, does the employer wan' whan he applies for an injunction against a labor union...
...of an employer with the intent of inducing him to employ only union labor...
...Up to the eighteenth century men believed that socially and politically some men were born to be lords and others to be slaves...
...Economically our 20th century is a counterpart of the Dark Middle Ages...
...Battles for emancipation were fought and won, but only on the political field...
...Supposing the Supreme Court waa really correct and tha twelve men and true were just dumb, even, then I might forgive you on the basis that business is business, as long as you can get away with it TMs being a thoroughly American principle, and I being somewhat of a native born American...
...When one is accused) of illegally appropriating millions in money or oil, such a crime is virtually without penalty...
...Pangloss and Pollyanna that all is for the best In this best of sJt possible worlds...
...The court there held that while it waa lawful for the local machinists to continue a strike and a struggle against their employer it was unlawful for the International Association of Machinists to do so...
...whether he be litigant or jwdge...
...Dr°U8-ht into the world by storks, the '•dibaaj ~T* a branch of the Workers' Party, every Dreamt0 aaua comes > down the chimneys r"-mts and Harry Sinclair is innocent...
...Kick ""¦expecting to have me turn the other cheek, as it **e, and you will find me kicking right back, good JjMnl...
...to the stockholders which they take ii interest and dividends...
...Resulting injury is Incidental and must be endured...
...Under It, International unions may not effectively support affiliated locals in then- struggle against employers, ha the vigorous itlssi iiHng opinion by Mr...
...Presldsat CosMage Is Sggsssl fin Seed relief to the Msuesiiisl vases/ sasTsrers...
...Of course, now that twelve matt and true have proven you to be guiltless, I would just up sod ask that bunch for an apology...
...If to some this is only a picture o: the imagination, a Utopia, it is nevertbe less a beautiful dream and a sublhni hope for the attainment of which ever: worker should work and to which hi should dedicate his life...
...Burns is a bit played out...
...Be careful with those officials...
...All of us do get a set-back in Business now and then...
...exist because the great majority of toilers accept this system and believe thai it must continue as it is and permit tlx industrial Lords (owners) to control thi government and to rule...
...In the last line of this harangue, let me just offer this query . . . "Supposing you really were a bit off color on this Teapot Dome business...
...walked out of the Hall of Justice, I could understand what makes a Baumes law fourth offender sigh as tha...
...v. Bless (Local 500 of Bakers a Confectioners International Union of America) published in the Law Journal or October 3, 1037...
...When will you ever find time to spend tha one hundred million you have gotten away with . . . "honestly...
...If one v of the bunch can tear himself away from the mirror long enough to hurl a few words on paper, the rest put up loud cheers...
...great gates of a prison close on him for life...
...The Outline of Injunctions The judges Translate Their Personal Inclinations Into Judicial Fiat—Confusing The Labor Code by Louis Waldman '¦'Ma recent celebrated decision by the United States Supreme Court in Duplex Printing Press Co...
...Besides, if the meek ever do W to inherit anything it won't be inch great shucks gj" time the old parties are through with it...
...360...
...May Day has no other meaning that to awaken the workers to their economic exploitation, to arouse them to the political misrule and the injustices tha are being perpetuated upon them as i class a their daily struggles for a Mvira -ragt mi better standards...
...And if you send around your copy to us we MH stdarrapb it for one-third af the authors and send I right rpaog back to you...
...And just to keep up with the erocession, we ourselves have broken out with a sappy little volume which Jake Baker of the Vannjtrd press assures us will be on sale ere these lines appear...
...It seems to me **t we've let the other crowd get away with murder s. the line of self-congratulation while we've sat sarod and cheered each other up by saying, "Ain't we •set...
...AranM lot of wholesale pharmacists...
...Stick to tha big shots who know how to pun off bag deals smoothly legally, and with permanent profit I hope you'll have an easy Urns with those) swasssa birds on the contempt charges...
...a sort oi rasas off present for letting you in on the juice pot...
...The Union refused to handle those presses because the firm refused to settle with the local machinists affiliated with the International...
...We can't get anywhere...
...But with the sunset of the Middle Ages, Reason began to assert itself and later proclaimed that all men have the right to Freedom, Life, Happiness and an equal voice In the government...
...A wax dummy of Cal has bean added to Mine, Touesaud's collection of waxworks m *-~**~n With the opening of the Ringling Brmv, Bantam assd Oardsn...
...The most recent theory is the Scientific or Darwinian, that man has developed from lower forms of life or from "baser to higher beings...
...Probably those picketing do not realise that an attack m force against the weak hi nothing to be proud of, nor that it is the privilege ot every American to work in an unmolested manner, and for whom and at such times as he may choose...
...what means am lawful and what am unlawful...
...They take to themselves most of the wealth that is created by the toil of millions of men and women, young and old...
...Some races still cling to cannibalism, primitive sad barbaric customs...
...There are at present In such homes, 50,000 Inmates—all workers...
...And Judges are men...
...which labor tactics am forbidden and which permitted...
...This economic system does not have u continue...
...The only difference being, of course, that when one is accused of stealing a paltry few thousand dollars at a holdup, that crime is punishable by law...
...These who weald rate far Smith far President en the ground that he win have the anien endorsement remind an of the gay who had no ebJeettsn te being hang if the rope bare the asses labeL . Of the vtrtaes af the New Tammany which will be sreadcsited this year we are fairly sate that the big sewer graft and hew te steal ceeetsssni wffl net be Inehided There are tear SUHsn res sens why the taper-power gang la sfmssed te public ownership ef the astssa's great sewer sites...
...They said: "When centralisation in the control of business brought corresponding centralization In the organisation of workmen, new facts had to be appraised...
...Nothing less than tc have the purpose for which the strike was called, the means employed and the tactics Indulged in by the union, passed upon by a judge and given either judicial sanction or veto...
...jj When I heard that you wept great tears Immediately upon the verdict of "Not Guilty," I could understand quite easily what makes a mother or a family weep when a poor man's court sends a petty thief to jail* for a year or so...
...The result to great oonftisinn in legal determinations within each state, vast differences in the law between the vaxioui states and differences between the statea ind the federal government as to what purposes were lawful and what unlawful...
...m-»—which threaten It, the unior was only refusing to aid in destroying itself...
...chatter BOX rgvwELVE men and true have unanimously decided...
...Those on top and those at the bottom of the scale believed that this system must remain...
...Justice Brandeis concurred in by Justices Holmes and Clarke, the minority showed a true appreciation of the facts as they relate to the labor struggle...
...Especially when we are not careful looking up the character of the people we do business with...
...Our presen system and the conditions of Labor mus be changed and will be changed...
...And it may adopt other methods separately...
...1*4 so on ad nauseam...
...Several fathers of Asserttsa keys killed in CeeUdge's private war la Nicaragua have denesmeed this war...
...TMs, I believe, is what is called "log-rolling" among our Manhattan intelligentsia...
...we am reminded...
...That they may prevail, It may call a strike and • icket the premise...
...m -power Control," which he wrote with Harry Uglier and the other a novel, "Men AtwhUes Are ajar," which he wrote all by his little self...
...Thus he wil learn that the workers have mutual in te rests as a class and if mobilised for thi purpose of wresting the power from the) exploiters, they can usher in a New Social Order that will make an end to thi rule of one man over another, a New Order that shall guarantee Freedom ant Equal Opportunity for the enjoymen of a fuller life and In which human Uf< shall be sacred, not to be exploited to profits, but developed to the most possible perfection...
...What an inferior lot we are, to be sure...
...Of course not, sapao,, rfanciaJ interest in some Crown lands in at defeM...
...254 UjB., 443), shows the extent to which the social and economic views of judges determine what the court will sanation or veto in the labor struggle...
...v. Deering, (1921...
...If the workers get sick and lose their Jobs they become dependent on charity...
...And there's Art Young puffing around with the laat •nob of bis forthcoming, altogether delicious book called "On My Way," that Boni and Liveright are Waring out in May...
...If one travels to the various points of the globe he finds numerous races with varying degrees of civilisation...
...On the shins, too, where it hurts like any...
...New York City, compulse reading for every Socialist and labor speaker who ageing to take the stump this campaign...
...I am glad the rest of the big shots In tha O. O. P. had the sense to wait upon the outcome of your trial, instead of insulting you unnecessarily aa Senator Borah suggested, by a return of the famous $160,000 dollars you once handed out I suppose there were many sighs among the big boys on that account alone when the verdict of "Not Guilty" came out All in all, Harry, I think with Dr...
...Picketing without a strike is no more lawful than a strike without picketing...
...They believe in spirits and demons that interfere in and determine their destinies...
...I give you this advice because I for one can sympathise with you, now that you have only a paltry hundred million dollars between you and . . . starvation...
...Perhaps be thinks that the flood ef sal to safiBeient far reasonable perTbe Taaassaay admliibtosltoei ef New York City aaereaciated «M,»M to entertain the Athvatle tUsrs, The thensands ef sneesjliyid workers ef the eity may entertain sssse views ef the Tammany adssintotrnttoa that may be worth Harassing ay aeeiastot votes...
...Both are based upon a lawful purpose...
...This view as to picketing and union activity is held by the Judge notwithstanding the decision of the highest court of this State In the case of exchange Bakery A Restaurant Inc...
...Fair and gave the G.O.P...
...Our modest effort done in collaboration with Passat Wood and from material supplied by Art Hays a called, "Don't Tread on Me...
...This conflict and the victory that followed expanded all over the world...
...And so throughout life they are dependent because the industries are not theirs, the jobs are not theirs and the wealth accumulated from their toil is not theirs...
...X do not know oi any other way of Illustrating this point than to quote from a very recent opinion written by a Supreme Court judge in Brooklyn In the case of Wmthrop Bakini Co., Inc...
...The workers are also dependent upon slack and dull seasons, periods of depression and crises...
...I go anti-meek right here and now...
...The best thing we can ay about it is that it costs less than the others mentioned above...
...Their members refused to handle printing presses manufactured by the Duplex Printing Press Company located in Battle Creek, Michigan...
...Therefore, it behooves me to offer here to you my abject apology^ for having outraged your pure name so many times In this column...
...ties • • •. "But other courts, with better appreciation of the facts of Industry recognised the unity of interest throughout the union, and that, in refusing to work on Da this view the New York courts art the courts of California, Minnesota sat other statm concurred...
...In granting an injunction, the court there, said: "Picketing may hardly be termed a manly occupation...
...fewer Control" puts a shining blade Into the hands g those few far-sighted folk who fear the onrush of tat electric light and power monopoly...
...They cap asm my tt with geeisbst votes in November if they are net afraid ef harttag CsoWdge's feelings...
...Now I know that the Supreme Court' is composed of a lot of nincompoops, that tha Senate is just full of backstairs, gossipy old woman, especially Umbo Progressive boys, aad that your pal Fat}, has a ranch worth at least tan times the measly cjusih tar of a million you paid for a one-third interest...
...These condition...
...You and I and the rest of us down and outers haws so much in common...
...The gang that sits around in slick resttnrasts off Times Square scratching one another's skka...
...In search for an explanation, the earliest theory was that man was created by Divine hands...
...I can thoroughly understand such feelings...
...But now I'm redwith rage...
...Well, just loud aoorh to be sure that when their turn comes, they will get as good a hand...
...Their conception of life is based on supernaturallsm and superstitions...
...By careful investment, and am industrious application to your oil aad race horse interests, I am sunn you win pull out of your present financial difficulties...
...In, * * * - *«e to think of some poor little devil of a default2. °*nk cashier who had to handle thousands of JJ" every day on a salary of fifty per, sitting beta...
...If I had my way I would make this dollar book published by The New Republic at m West Twenty-first street...
...I paused because I was about to say "Jafl" Instead of "Starvation...
...And seeing bow much those lawyer fellows will have takea from your savings account, now that they have put your innocence across, let us hope you find oil on tha ranch, and at least make up what this horrible persecution has cost you...
...But now I'm waxing sarcastic, when X reaSy should end up in decent and apologetic manner, to one whom I have wronged so much of late years tot this aphmm Excuse me then, Harry, and until the next time whan a government deal comes along, remember my advice...
...Regretfully yours, a. a. stow fii...
...Lief would I rouse at morning And lief lie down of nights...
...On the other hand the millions who can only hire out their labor power in return for wages from the owners are dependent In many ways...
...The judge's social and economic opinions and Ideas -very often become translated into law...
...A generous fellow like you, banding out hundreds of thousands to make good deficits, out of your own big heart would easily fall into such error...
...It is the crushSf retort to the Power Lobby's schmier which has paa so successful In averting any real investigation g the mysterious forces that are at work in the utilib* field to keep us all from the blessings of cheap and ibgnsnt electricity...
...that you are fuutleas of corruption, thievery, may bam aad sundry piracy against the state...
...The only difference between you and Bowery Bill is a hundred million dollars...
...You know whom I mean, Jtaauuirer...
...So this must be log-rolling...
...The somewhat depressing title of Steve's novel, pubtsbd by A. and C. Boni, New York City, comes from ipoem by A. E. Cousman which goes: "Could man be-drunk for ever With liquor, love or fights...
...Benjamin N. Cardoso, the chief judge of the Court of Appeals of New York, in his book...
...When such 1 s situation was first presented to the courts, judges concluded that the in) terventlon of the purchaser of the materials established an insulation through which the direct relationship of the employer and the workmen did not penetrate, and the strike against the material was considered a strike against the purchases by unaffected third par...
...At lest Catvm CooUdge has tiisii iMllisjij tssbSBttssssag...
...A single employer might as in this case, threaten the standing of the whole organisation and the standards of all its members...
...Now that you are innocent this Teapot Dome deal was one af the few hum steers you got mixed up in during your otherwise successful career...
...Rlfkin (246 N.Y...
...Unions believe that wages may* be increased, collective bargaining maintained only if union conditions prevail, not in some single factory but generally...
...Aad there's Stephen Raushenbush with two books...
...Of course the employer wants the judicial veto...
...But what X cs""trt...
...The first great effect of this reasoning was the French Revolution, the first colossal attempt to establish Human Rights by law to express their destinies in the political institutions of their country...
...Compared with most Democrats and ¦ Republicans, we are the salt of this rather flat JJa K is said that the meek will inherit the earth eg rat not yearning for the part of heir and I'm get™l off this meek stuff...
...That was your failing in the matter...
...The Nature of the JniHirtsl Proems", avys: "We amy try te sse tbsags as ehjsst'vety as we >!¦¦¦¦, aesae the Ism we •an never sse them with any eyas except ha iredssctieeis and the prajsssase, the isMts, eg ii iilisliMi, wbash asake the •an...
...Supposing you really did buy Mr...
...New as I wrote in this space last week, the smash¦t success of the Socialist Convention did an awful * to bust my inferiority complex clear across the ¦"•a I'm beginning to think we're a mighty fine "•n after all...
...They happily forgot to mention at the trial what the Supreme Court had said about the oil deal you had with Unci* Sam...
...We call them backward peoples and advanced peoples...
...Would that my friends ski not written books all at once, say I. For they're tB damned good and it's a problem which to read first...
...We're licked before *» atari...
...They are dependent on a Job which they can get only with the consent of the owner and for wages that he pleases to give them...
...If In addition to his own economic strength the employer can throw the weight of the eourt against the cause of the Union, be surely is enormously aided...
...In every country man awoke to the re-, alization that things do not have to be always as they have been...
...Most •Wy all that will be left will be a* lot of mortgages "J3>«ld bills and the humble inheritors will be left "*8°t the bag as usual...
...But men atwhiles are sober They, think with fits and starts And when they think they fasten Their bands upon their hearts...
...The decision was by a majority of the court...
...Translated mte American Jam these reassess am fear MBsaa debars...
...Oreat struggles ensued for the Rights of Man...
...Baku...
...Would that mine enemy had written a book," holkred someone in The Bible...
...It belong...
...In this case an injunction was granted , against the International Association of Machinists, consisting of a membership of sixty thousand throughout the United States...
...This decision was a crushing blow to organised labor...
...bars in some calaboose reading the papers Jr^lng that Sinclair is "Innocent.'' What a laugh get out of that ft it » . • u*j^«7 Sinclair isn't one of the dirtiest,'sneakiest, jjjrry blanks who ever swindled the people of the *s Y™ 01611 Judas Iacariot was the founder of (b-^™*: Men's Christian Association...
...This time take an advice and hire a real detective agency to pun the Jury stuff...
...And if that tSwT™ °f grocers' clerks, who acquitted him, are a t^lwlv« °f the present state of public opinion e^V^untry, we might as well go get ourselves *OwnT* taxicabs and d0 a Httle hijacking on »»^*y Sinclair innocent...
...Take my advice, Harry, and keep among your own kind...
...Oh, yeah...
...in which that court held that— "£oonomic organisation today is not based on a single shop...
...forgive you is—what in thunder could a fallow ilka you do with more millions of dollars than you already have...
...When you sighed huge sighs of relief aa, yon...
...Te Be Cone laded Next Week) THE PRACTICAL DREAMERS The Vision That Spurs The Workers to Action by Edmond Gottesman ra^HE ORIGIN of man has been a mystery that occupied the greatest minds as well as the simplest...
...Bene• am Jr-L!r Kn out Washington...
...The Borgias •a...
...And coming to think of It, all the money you gave and helped others to give to make up the campaign deficit of the Republican Party is clean as a Kansas Sabbath...
...I'm trying to straighten this whole thing out in my mind, you, your acquittal, Teapot Dome, Bowery BUI, One Hundred Million, my apology to you, and my trying to down old prejudices in a sense of fair play...
...Coming to think of it it did take a whole lot of downright low* life nerve for those old ginks to butt in and call a big deal Uke Teapot Dome, and a big operator like you such dirty names...
...Don't Tread on Me," Which deals with the matter of injunctions in labor disputes and other labor topics, win only set you back four bits or fifty cents...
...On investigation and careful study of the history of man as a social being this is confirmed in several ways...
...I don't suppose you intend to do any more business with such a bunch of four flushars as tha Untied states Government any more...
...I am a family man myself, and when bad times coma on us, we too have a well of unsprung tears to pour out as we contemplate the future...
...for honest men may honestly differ as to what is sound public policy and what bait In the economic struggle of labor...
...Except that Bill is in Sing Sing for trying to do a second story job on Avenue A And you are free . . . because . . . because twelve men and true have said you ought to stay out of jail...
...J*^ nr...
...Cenfeslea an the Laser Cede Due largely to the fact that the 'aw applicable to -property is sought to be applied to the-issues arising out of the industrial struggle, > field to which it b not appropriate, tt* justice is to be done, jecame dependent, in a food many cases mon the indhrlduajr- opinions of judges...
...There's Arthur (yield Hays with his, "Let Freedom Ring" (puhyejdby Boni and Liveright), an invaluable book for 0j&e who wants a closeup of the present state of liberties in this country, written by one who can vltb Ulysses, "part of which I was and all of ftjca I ssw...
...But than perhaps they reasoned rightly...
Vol. 7 • April 1928 • No. 19
