TAMMANY GRAFTS 50 PER CENT OF APPROPRIATIONS, SEWER, SNOW AND GARBAGE SCANDALS REVEAL
Tammany Grafts 50 Per Cent of Appropriations, Sewer, Snow and Garbage Scandals Reveal $11,000,000 Loot Bared; Total Bigger Annual Budget of Half Billion Dollars Loaded With Thefts, In...
...And here finally we have the constructive suggestons that we develop such water powers as Muscle Shoals and the St...
...A few revisions were made on the Address to the Trade Union* of the United States which was adopted by the' convention and this will be available as an appeal tc the organised workers of the country...
...Members of the committee who attended were George E. Roewer of Boston, Lilith Wilson and James H. Maurer of Pennsylvania, Jasper McLevey of Connecticut, James Oneal and Morris Hillquit of New York, and William H. Henry, National Executive Secretary of Chicago...
...Two Headquarters To Be Opened The committee was convinced that an effective campaign will require two campaign headquarters...
...So they have ease riinpaw aim, tha* the people nay Oh: and Ah...
...Lawrence, whtoh still remain in our ownership, and use them aa scientific measuring-sticks, laid against the m.ichtouted "Service" of private ownership...
...Tn Mather, Pennsylvania one hundred and thirty eight men, dead or dying, are artaabed in a coal mine...
...Joseph A. Warren,-now Police Commissioner and then Commissioner of Accounts, went on the war path...
...They have to do with a financing as frenzied in many respects as anything undertaken by the railroads...
...It meets the American pragmatic test...
...For the first time in the history of the long fight against the steady encroachment of private monopoly upon the public domain, we have between two covers a well-documented and thoroughly readable brief for the Common People of America vs...
...This seems to establish the origin of Tammany Hall...
...But It gives us by no means as comprehensive a picture of one of the moat powerful propaganda machines the world has ever seen, as Raushenbush and Laidler present...
...The fact of industry* coming of age with a vengeance can no longer be blinked by any progressively minded citizen...
...By this time winter was melting into spring...
...The factions composing the Marx Cabinet received, harsh treatment at the polls because the bulk of the electorate considered them guilty of having permitted the Nationalists to enact duties on foodstuffs and other imposts that bore heavily on the masses of the people...
...To the degree that my criticism of Got...
...On the other hand,- we can resolve now before it to toe late not to tot tha electrical industry get the strangle-bold over us which the railroads possess...
...It is ridiculous oonsanss tar the New York World, Norman Hangnod and others to argue that we must praise Smith for everything good In Tammany and not Mages him for any thing bad...
...Maurer will be available for week end meetings and on Friday nights where a meeting is not very far from his home city...
...The increase amounts to about 17 per cent which is considerably more than Braun and the other party leaders counted on the day before...
...John Burke, August Claessens, McAllister Coleman, S. John Block and Anita Block...
...This is the first time in the history of the party that it has undertaken such an ambitious project...
...The bourgeois parties came out relatively as they did in the Reichstag election, all save the Economic Union showed a loss of votes THE ORIGIN OF TAMMANY Archaeological scholars have, established the fact that graft In government administration existed as early as 1500 years before Christ and that sheep were taken as bribes...
...It is a lot of dirty work anyway and "fifty-fifty" explains it all...
...Of course there Will be demands for other speakers and the committee took this into account...
...The Socialists already were the leading party in the old Reichstag and their strength Is further increased by the Sunday elections...
...The Power and The Glory,'— A Bit Dimmed Once in a great while a boot appears that is "newt...
...That is a good motto for all time...
...Norman Thomas will begin his tour with a few intervals of rest beginning August 1 and continuing to November 1. About three weeks will be spent in the western states and the more important cities will be reached with big meetings...
...Some unfinished business of t he recent national convention and urgent consideration of the campaign made an earlier meeting necessary, but some diffiflculties were encountered in selecting a date that was suitable to the members...
...The Catholic Centre lost about 8 per cent, the Populists, who had to yield fourth place to the Communttsts, 12 per cent, and the Democrats 20 per cent...
...The program for the day has been rounded out with entertainment for the children, dancing, music by Rente's Band, and a soccer game by the Meyer London Club and a rival team...
...The passage of the Muscle Shoals bill and the probable passage of the Boulder Dam bill are distinct victories for a gone policy of'public development of hydro-electric power...
...In addition to the campaign demonstration with Norman Thomas as the Mg feature other speakers have been placed on the program...
...Here to the fun and detailed story of the control of the power Industry passing Into fewer and fewer hands...
...The ¦asae papers tell a nobler tale...
...The men we have got are the ¦mall birds", he announced...
...State Auditor, Ansel M Brooks of Rockford...
...Had It not been for the exorbitant tax assessment* tbat Jamaica residents bad to pay Connolly would still be a reformer, Phillips a tacky friend, and the fifty-fifty graft rule nobody's business...
...i News Trass Washington is worth watching these days...
...cut from 111 to ,3...
...Fifty-fifty Is a simple rule...
...Attorney General, Morris A Gold of Chicago...
...From October 12 to October 29 Maurer will be available for meetings each night in a continuous tour that will take him into quite a number of states...
...Tat ha hhaaPh* would have regarded Ma death as a httla thing Jf it prove* fru«, as be behaved, tbat by his work he found a way to conquer this scourge of Africa's fever stricken Gold Coast...
...By McAlister Coleman rr»HE publication of such a book as * "Power Control"' by H. S. Raushenbush and Harry W. Lai die r, published by the New Republic, Inc., New York, ($1.00) is a news event of prime importance...
...The Communists polled a considerable Increased vote In Berlin and realised gains in Prussia...
...and shut our collective eyes, and pay seven cents and more a kilowatt hour when there is no real .economic excuse for paying more than five cents, as Morris Llewellyn Cook Indicates in a recent pamphlet called "What Price Electricity for Our Homes...
...Aa the authors point out, they would have us open our collective nwmtha...
...Socialists Pick Cunnea As Governor Norman Thomas to Speak at Demonstration in Riverview Park, June 10 pHICAGO—Illinois Socialists met In state convention in the Douglass Park Auditorium, Chicago, Sunday, May IS, and nominated a strong state ticket...
...August Gerber and Louis Waldman of the Socialist Action Committee of New, York also sat with the committee...
...One important piece of work can be done by Socialists in the larger cities and this will be recommended to them...
...Louis Rabinoviss of Boston war appointed to take up tifis work and it is believed that the campaign win heir, in organizing the young Socialists and ay a ij *ath iser...
...The radio has become an important factor in political campaigns and Socialists throughout the country will be urged not to overlook any opportunity to use it...
...Karl Jursek of Connecticut was appointed assistant manager with headquarters at Chicago...
...Here, too, is a story under the significant heading, "The Power and the Glory," of the devious and clever ways with which the power propagandists continually befuddle the public...
...As no date had been set for the contemplated change" it is believed tha' the party member* agree that any radical change during a campaign would take attention away from the immediate tasks before the party...
...Lew Head, William Van Essen, Birch Wilson, J. Henry Stump, Mayor of Reading...
...Immediately fifty per cent—the correct proportion—of the pay checks were not called for in one district...
...His only reported objection to that bill is tbat It squints a little in the direction of public ownership...
...An edition of 100,000 copies of the .platform was ordered immediately and more will be printed as the campaign develop...
...As a matter of fact it would be better for American shipping to be publicly owned and operated together...
...The following: evening-, June 11, a Mg banquet will be held in honor of Norman Thomas who will be the guest of the evening and the principal speaker...
...Last December the Borough President of Queens, Maurice K. Connolly was accused of being a grafter...
...The children were in want and their has been referred to the proper auPMhss...
...The members are Elizabeth Oilman of Connecticut, Lilith Wilson and Mary Windsor of Pennsylvania, Bertha H. Mailly and Jessie Wallace Hughan of New York, Bertha Hale King of Washington, D. C, and Charlotte Bohlin of New Jersey...
...Here again we have .the story of the} successful operation of publicly owned plants from Ontario to California...
...The Controller's office had started this fuss, not he...
...He explained that it was not his doing...
...Campaign funds are of supreme importance in putting across a big Socialist campaign and it is estimated that about $10,000 alone will have to be spent to helping some weak states where unemployment makes it difficult for Socialists to handle the situation in their respective states...
...Mayor Walker, Tammany to the bone, had the temerity to suggest giving Connolly $100,000 of the city's money aa a defense fund...
...The local officers of the Corn Exchange Bank, a city depository, bad become suspicious late in March and had informed city officials...
...The losses of the Centrists and the Populists are attributed to their unpopular governmental collaboration with the Nationalists, and those of the Democrats to their support of Chancellor Marx when he ran against Marshal von HRidenburg for President...
...In a little town near Hamburg, Gernsny eleven people are dead and hundred...
...Thomas To Make 3 Months Tour...
...mad that theirs he the power and the glory forever...
...Of course the Republican Party with Us record in Philadelphia, Chicago and elsewhere fa guilty of abominable hypocrisy in casting the first rton* at Tammany...
...These include George R. Kirkpatrick, vicepresidential candidate for the party In 1916 and author of "War What For," William H. Henry, National Executive Secretary of the party, and William A. Cunnea, candidate for Governor...
...The country's removal of the royalist and militarist contingent from the vat of power augurs well for the preservation of the existing regime...
...Pollto is a widow and f*» sapported her six children by work¦* hi the Grlnnell mill...
...We are Just beginning to see that we cannot develop a single one of ear great national resources ourselves without a vitriolic attack en our pi esiimptnensnnss, We are just beginning to see that not a tight win • burn, not a wheel torn in the whole country, without increasing the Industry's claim npon the national income...
...No wonder Phillips coDected $W O00 from contractor...
...There was a hubub...
...It is true enough that under any system our modern age of machinery tad chemicals involve dangers as well at blessings...
...Public outcry killed that...
...The few pen«hs waa able to save have dwindled **« the strike...
...As it turned out Victor L Berger, Mayor Daniel W. Hoan of Wisconsin and Joseph W. Sharts of Ohio were unable to be present...
...A month ^ater Street Cleaning Commissioner Taylor had come around to the Cromwell avenue garage to investigate...
...It was only later when Lougheed's assistant, had been trapped by Deputy Controller Prlal and the District Attorney, tbat the truth began to come out...
...The great Calvin, whom some of bis party's leaders t>till talk 0/ drafting, baa vetoed a deserved increase to nlgbtworbers in the Post Office Department in the name of economy, but he would like to sign a tax bill to provide further reduction* in the agrtaxes of the rich...
...Norman Thomas, the Socialist candidate for President, win be the principal speaker and it is expected that delegations will be present not only from the surrounding territory of Cook County but that (hey will come from many cities and towns in automobiles and by train...
...the Electrical Trust The publication of "Power Control" more than justifies the setting up of the Committee on Coal and Giant Power, at 70 Fifth avenue, New York City, under the auspices of the League for Industrial Democracy...
...The Governor probed, the Mayor dug, the District Attorney inquired and the Courts hoard...
...Director of the school, reported that the first publication he recommended is a text book on Socialist economic...
...These are only three illustrations takes from one day's news to show tat price we pay for our high powf! mechanical civilization geared to fitihhl^or profits rather than to preservation of life...
...He had had close relations with John M. Phillips, corrupter supreme...
...New Literature Ordered i Of course, a variety of excellent leaflets will be printed in large quantities for distribution...
...Which nriatnde me that according to a special writer in the New York Herald - Tribune, the "new" Tammany /is worried because of the' Socialist attacks on it...
...A. Gerber Made Manager NEW LITERATURE WILL BE RUSHED Maurer and Score of Others Will Also Make Tours—Enthusiastic Dinner in Newark rphb National Executive Committee of the Socialist Party held a fruitful two-days session in Newark last Saturday and Sunday, its sessions being devoted to plans for the national campaign...
...U. 8. Senator, George R. Kirkpatrlck of Chicago...
...How much, then Mr...
...A few years ago Jae Bureau of Mines reported that three of the most horrible disasters could certainly have been prevented au it not been that the competition for profit made the owners begrudge every extra cent...
...Norman Thomas, presidential candidate of the party...
...as the authors suggest, go out "to regain our tost provinces, and to make electricity at reasonable rates- available for the people...
...Using such books as these for factual weaponsr we can...
...Commissioner Higglns says Prlal is still smarting because he had exposed the Deputy Controller's negligence in the Queens sewer investigation...
...George H. Goebel, James Reilly, Harry W. Laidler, Paul Blanchard, John Haynes Holmes, Jessie Holmes, Leo Krzysky, Emil Seidel, Herman O. Kent, John M. Work, Alfred Baker Lewis, Phil Callery, Caroline Lowe, George Clifton Edwards, Oscar Ameringer, Frieda Hog an, Dan Hogan, William Toole, Murray A. King, Emil Herman, William Karlin...
...Lieutenant-Governor, George Koop of Chicago...
...I am not interested in some kinds of personal attack*.' It* none of my business, for instance, bow often Jimmy Walker goes to night dab...
...The fact that by request I consented to see Judge Proskauer hi 1934 made not the slightest difference in my campaign...
...Early in 1926, In the first months of the Mayor's' administration, a plot to steal half of the city's $5.000.00C •now fund was exposed...
...They wanted to carry tax reduction to unsound lengths and a majority of the Democratic Senators voted against the retention of the Federal inheritance tax, a point on whtoh the supposedly progressive At Aencth of the "new" Tammany also went wrong...
...In order to work out the schedule of meetings to the utmost advantage for the party these early applications will be welcomed by the campaign committee...
...Every alive American realises today that be stands on the threshold of a new civilisation...
...What has happened...
...Dr...
...He will undoubtedly be opposed by Herbert Hoover, one of the most strenuous adherents of private ownership In the country today, and by 3overnor Smith, who refuses to follow jut the logic ef his own conclusion* in regard to public operation...
...The new Cabinet provided the Socialists agree to enter it, is likely to be dominated by the Socialists headed by Otto Braun who is now Premier of Prussia where the party also realized notable gains in the vote and increased representation in the Diet The outstanding development of the election to the overwhelming success it the Socialists to whom went over 1,000,000 votes of the 30,500,000 polled throughout the whole country...
...Ha was made inspector of supplies for state] hospitals but within a short whflej the State Hospital Board isniuisJ him for compelling hospitals to am cept spoiled or under weighted —ru| Phillips, then, returned to Queens...
...Statistics Beany Vital' There is a general arairniptton that the public will not read statistics...
...The Communists increased their strength from forty-four to fifty-six...
...There may be a few changes In the nominations later on but the candidates named by the convention are as follows: For Governor, William A Cunnea of Chicago...
...The ghastly t*h> of industrial accidents, no less jh»n the chronic misery of the poor ¦nd the unemployed, illustrates this fact...
...Lilith Wilson was made" chairman to can the . committee together...
...The eastern headquarters will be located in New York City with G. August Gerber as manager...
...ind present In convincing manner the jase for the people...
...Trustees of the State University, Anna T. Howe, Mary O'Reilly, and Meyer Halushka of Chicago...
...This is to follow the example of- New York City where a Socialist Action Commitee is doing excellent workw This special organization associates the local Socialist organization, sympathetic trade unions, Workmen's Circles, and other organizations in a central action committee...
...That is an average death rate of 3. 39 per cent, per thousand employed...
...Then there is the consideration that the sooner all the dates for our standard bearers are fixed the local organization will- have a longer period for making thorough preparations for the meetings...
...We Socialists with our record in Milwaukee and Reading are not ad handicapped...
...A world which can produce such martyrs and heroes of humanity nend not resign ttwetf to the enenosa aacttfiee of Ufa on the altars of profit...
...The combination of these two doughty champions of the people's side in the fight for power control makes a book that is keeping the pi ess agents i of the National Electric Light Association working overtime to offset...
...He had succeeded a sensational line of grafting borough presidents in 1911...
...There will be a general solicitation of individual contributions to the campaign fund all over the country and other plans are forming which will be unfolded in the next few week...
...Among those who will be available are Congressman Victor L. Berger, Morris Hillquit, Mayor Daniel W. Hoan of Milwaukee, Mary Windsor, , Esther Friedman...
...We can do this by first demanding tba passage of such ainasmia for the ownership and operation of Muscle Shoals as that successfully put Uircsejn Omuueat by Senator Norris, and then, by day hi uid day out advocacy of public ownership, which, aa Rausbenbu&h and Laidler say: "affords the basis for a mora ar-seeing and lees bureaucratic integra-ion of the power industry in the ser/toe of the people than the best system if regulation tbat can now be devised...
...It was against the leaf to specify patented coramodrti*" ** city contracts without autaoriastioa from the Board of KstimaU *«1 Apportionment hot that was a small matter for Connolly and Ptsatp^,A...
...Fifty for graft and fifty for "legitimate" expenses...
...By the addition of eighteen Deputies elected by regional factions, not .fficially but in practice amalgamated with the Junker Party, however, the Nationalists' Reichstag strength will ;otal ninety-one...
...Thomas On Committee If during the T*»»«Tg esaspalgai the Socialist Party perform* no other faneion then this intelligent agitation for public ownership of power, the —"f-tfi will have' been worth all the money and mergy put Into it Fortunately we have for our candidate, in the person of Norman Thomas, a man unusually wen -quipped for tfie handling of this aB important question...
...We haven't gotten the big ones yet...
...tbat we must thank him for amoving'Hyaul and not criticise him Mother Driven Insane By Children's Plea For Food Sew Bedford.—One of the tragedies of <h» strike came to light today when a attfe child asked the police department to •end an officer to her home.- The patrolBan sent to the home of Mrs...
...Ljlith Wilson, James- Oneal, George R. Kirkpatrick, Cameron King, Upton Sinclair, Lena Morris Lewis, Frank R. Crosswaith, Jessie Wallace Hughan, Jacob Panken, Joseph Bearak, Algernon Lee, Louis Waldman, Charles Solomon, Abraham Shiolacoff...
...Of course, the Commissioner found nothing...
...The Diet's membership remains the same, 450, of which the Socialists have 136, twenty-two more than before polling...
...It is a pity, for the statistics in this book are indeed vital...
...State Treasurer, John T. Whltlock of Chicago...
...The Stocking and "shameful fact is that ¦Oder the profit system men become ae careless of human life in compariaon with financial gain...
...Mayor...
...It has been estimated that $8,000,000 wen* towards graft—just titty-titty...
...In 1934 as in 1939 I called attention to defects in Governor Smith* alleged progresslvaon and I pointed out that he \ cannot escape responsibility for Tammany...
...StBI another fifty-fifty...
...The number of their legislative mandates was...
...Mass Production of a«Hn The testimony before the Federal Trade Commission in regard to the use of this propaganda in our schools and colleges, which has come out since the publication of this book, simply verifies many of the statements of the authors...
...Women's Committee Appointed The convention had also referred tc the committee the election of a committee of five on the propaganda of Socialism among women and organizattor of groups of women for systematic work hi the campaign...
...If this is true...
...In the snow removal scnndal of 1928 It was shown that $2,506,- - 000 out of the $5*000,000 appropriated for the removal of snow was taken by (rafters...
...A far larger total had been expected, but nearly 1,000.000 vote* were scattered among numerous "splinter parties," with the consequence that some sixteen mandates were lost, since none of these minor factions polled in any one district the 60,000 votes required for a candidate's election...
...Smith may be sharper in 1939 than in 1924 the explanation is to be found in no change in tn me or in the Socialist Party but simply in the fact that each new year* record make both the Governor and Tammany more vulnerable...
...We did not foresee their power in the nattesn- Mow we are Just beginning to see the field which the electric Ugh* and power industry has staked east for Itsetf in the national Ufa, We are beginning to see Its somewhat unsporting Intolerance towards the mildest sort of competition...
...At least three member* of tins committee were to be women but the committee decided to make it an all-women committee...
...The glory the ongiaws nave wrung for lhnna*«a> a* to soM It to a working arrmageeneat...
...Unless CooUdge should veto the Muscle Shoals bill the Democrats are la no position at aB to show a more progressiva record against the power trust than the Republican...
...Why should we be taxed to put profits in the pocket* of private ship owners ? There is oven a rumor that the President will veto the Muscle Shoals fattL thereby, perhaps, giving the Democrats an issue...
...Rarely has eold blooded selfishness of capitalistic control been better shown then la the New Jersey case where the employers and the insurance companies are using high priced lawyers sad every device of delay to avoid paying damages to women unnecessarily poisoned in the process of painting watch dials with radium paint i In Germany we have a conspicuous ffluitration of the cost in time of peace in preparing for war...
...therefore, told all...
...Twenty odd years ago whan he wast Under-Sherlff he was indicted far grand larceny involving a hornugto contract, for bribery and for bookmaking...
...Definite arrangements were made for the speaking tours of our standard bearers and the campaign committee will work out the details...
...Everybody rushed to investigate...
...Crashing Defeat of Reaction The defeat of the Nationalists was crushing...
...He is getting ready to veto the McNary-Haugen bill on the ground that it gives a subsidy to the farmers, but he will probably not veto the Jonas bill which gives a far more indefensible subsidy to ship builders...
...Jhe poor woman, who bad been makjbf a disturbance, was locked ap on a tohntcal complaint charting her with "¦fcnMaj the peace, and following ah atamiaatton hy physicians, was oommit<ad to Taunton early this morning...
...Here we have a total amount of graft of $11,500,000 oat of a possible $23,000,000 of three Items alone...
...He Joins the long Una of martyr* to science...
...Deputy Controller Prlal, who is trying to make good in the street cleaning Investigation after having failed to invalidate the Queens contracts involving the Illegal patent lock-joint sewer pipe, denounced the fingerprinting system as high-handed...
...The difficulty will be to distribute the dates satisfactorily to all who apply...
...Thomas, as a member of the Committee on Coal and Giant Power, ha* kept in close touch with aB che facts developed by that committee'* researches He la one of the few men in this country who to able to stand up m a platform, meet the adherents of private ownership on their own guiiiaa...
...N. E. C. Meets Campaign Quarters To Be Opened in New Yorjt and Chicago—G...
...For even if no immediate danger threatens It German democracy obviously is safer in the hands of Otto Braun than in those of Count Westarp and his Junkers...
...In other words, every party directly, or even remotely, affiliated with the exponents of reaction in Germany fared ill at the hands of the voters...
...The convention had also adopted a resolution providing for cooperation with the Rand School of Social Science in getting out text book* and Algernon Lee...
...By bedazzling the public with huge and complex figures, which only the most expert satlstician can analyze, they hope to convince us that we are not paying half enough for our electrical blessings, and that the majority of the companies take their "Service" blah...
...He lay low for a while bad soon bobbed up again In Albany, saf appointee of Governor Sulser...
...Congressmen at Large, Florence H. Kirkpatrlck and John E. Mahoney of ChicagoCommittees on Platform, Resolutions, Constitution, and Ways and Means made reports and any vacancies on the ticket were left to the State Executive Committee...
...Every year the charges of graft come thick and heavy as the snow...
...Tht« was approved and Hillquit and Oneal were made an advisory committee of the party to cooperate with the school in these publications...
...The reasons for this mass production of hokum on the part of utilities are twofold...
...Ha became the sola agent of a patents ad . lock-Joint sewer pipe and than through his influence with OonaofM saw to it that the contract spectM cations were worded in such a mefl ner that only the pipe In which he held the monopoly could meet the requirements...
...Every sympathetic organisation in Chicago will be approached to make this dinner the most notable banquet held by Socialists since the and of the World War...
...Radio To Be Used The campaign committee will also give attention to the possibility of banquets as a campaign feature where the radio is available in reaching larger audiences than can be assembled even in a large hall...
...Straarto-hsM 8 aught And now there are two ways of arriving at that electrical Utopia where Ufa will be more spacious, more leisurely, with the coming of cheap and abundant power...
...He had been under Are in 1931 at the time of the Meyer Legislative Committee's' investigation...
...Hers for the first time this reviewer, at any rata, gets a clear ami close up picture of the operations of holding companies, those semi-mystical organisations which more behind the scenes of every one of tha fast Increasing utility mergers, and whtoh are well beyond the reach of any sort of public regulation...
...Dinner To Thonaaa This 'picnic is also intended as a great mass meeting at which the party will open its campaign in Dubois...
...v Yet the day's news Is not all of the ¦wince of life to selfish greed...
...Spealdag Dates Being Arranged With the announcement of these arrangements it is expected that applications will begin to come in from the larger cities all over the country...
...TIMELY TOPICS By Norman Thomas Socialist Candidate for President rNew Jersey five women face a slow, horrible and inevitable death at tot result of radium poisoning...
...The new national Legislature will lave 152 Socialist members, twentyjne more than were elected in the parliamentary election of four years lgo...
...Owing to his duties as head of the finance department in Reading, "Jim" Maurer will be unable to make as extensive a tour as will be arranged for Thomas and yet he is likely to speak at as many meetings...
...Moscow!ts and Judge Proekauer prevented my doing in 1934...
...Among the most important matters decided was the location of campaign headquarters, election of delegates to the International Socialist and Labor Congress which meets in Brussels August 5, consideration of the national campaign tours of Thomas and Maurer, raising a large campaign fund, literature for use all over the country, and aid to some of the weak states in filing tickets and organizing the party...
...I have really admitted these virtues m the ease of Governor Smith...
...A nupiber of the leaflets have already been written...
...To them it is money from heaven...
...Thatr record on the tax mbb is, ft anything, a little worse...
...But the writer goes on to say that I am now making "personal" attacks oh Governor Smith which Mrs...
...They plan their work, submit reports to the general committee, and thus tie all sympathetic organizations Into a comprehensive working organization tor Socialist campaign work...
...So far vary good...
...It was aft new to Mm, said Taylor...
...The committee in turn subdivides into committees on literature, membership, flflnarice, public meetings, and so on with a chairman of each sub-committee who constitute an executive committee...
...Secretary of State, David McKalg of Gillespie...
...Raushenbush is the able secretary of this committee, and this book is partly the result of, his research work undertaken for that body...
...Gain 21 Seats Party Increases Lead—Is Largest in the Country — Communists Make Good Cains T> ERLIN.—The first returns of the general election in Germany showing big gains for the Socialists have been confirmed by the more complete returns arriving from all parts of the republic on Monday...
...His courageous act is part of * very precious ktoua heritage...
...Allowing for exceptions to the rule, in a half billion dollar annual budget of the city of New York that would mean at least one hundred million, dollars graft every year...
...One way to to watt until tha twenty companies which - have control of fourfifths of the national output of electricity choose to com* around and dump this Utopia into eur laps This would seem to be a long-drawn-out affair...
...Laidler's knowledge of public utilities is wen known to readers of the New Leader, and he brings it to bear in this volume moat effectively...
...Lougheed testified that he had been making $500 to $1800 a week in graft, that be- had been paying $75 to $100 weekly to one of bis superior officers, $130 to another, and $400 to $800 to the highest...
...He gave Ma afe to the ajght on African yellow fever, more deadly than the American variety which bag bean conquered...
...He then stated that a system of street cleaning graft was widespread in the boroughs of Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx, where the Street Cleaning Department had Jurisdiction...
...Eva Pollto, «Und the woman apparently insane...
...Fortunately they tost...
...He ventured no guess as to Queens and Richmond where the borough presidents are in charge...
...If I had my way, I would make this book'compulsory reading for every speaker who wtn take the Socialist platform this fall...
...la but oae street sjsnajtojsj garage la the borough of the Bronx $120,000 la graft was obtained by padding the payrolls for emergency laborers...
...Publicity, advertising and general instructions will go to each city and everything will be done to make each meeting the largest Socialist demonstration during the campaign...
...vance the candidacy of nolly for Justios of the Court seven- yeass . JTmabZ United States- O^^oOmt* ^hatbail...
...How much is "earned" by extortion, bribery and the "honest* graft obtained by being on the inside of things can hardly be measured...
...X repeat tbat Governor Smith's connection with the so-called new Tammany is a matter of legitimate criticism in a national election...
...tt works...
...In spite Of the fact tbat the power trust Was strong enough to shunt Senator Walsh's proposed Investigation from the Senate to the corporation-packed Federal Trade Commission, in spite of the effort of oowayapais directly or indirectly aubaadjawd by power trust advertising to bush the Inquiry, the facts were too raw and the actual Investigating staff too competent to permit victory for a policy of silence...
...The earpoeure of the shocking degree to which the power trust has invaded the public schools and college* and subsidized politicians, professors, and newspapers, has, of course, helped the triumph of government operation at Muscle Shoals...
...The Beautiful Show His Honor may not love New York's snowfall, as Ms winter trips'to Florida seem to indicate, but the grafters do...
...This is true of 'Power Controt', by Harry W. Laidler and H. S. Raushenbush and for that reason The New Leader departs from its usual practice and prints this book review on page one...
...Worry for her children j^jjwad to have resulted In mental Ill...
...Phillips la a political bucaneer...
...and second they are anxious to atop at its outset any determined drive for public control and real regulation...
...That Thomas by the sheer force of facta wtQ oe able to confound spokesmen far both 3ld parties to as sure aa death and taxes, while logic, of course, doe* not whs elections, it nevertheless has a tsrkmlu compulsion over-large sections of the public who may still be unaware of what the Socialists are da*elaa at, Sat who waB xjme over to our stole, once they underhand the significance of the issues htvolved in our nower ulalftaia Socialists Sweep Reich...
...In Prussia they have 56 members as compared with 44 in the former Diet...
...In Mather, Pennsylvania it is not yet clear Whether the terrible disaster (in 'a doc union mine, be it observed) was ana to negligence of the owners in providing safety devices or not...
...Aa important decision made necessary because of the need of giving fall time to the campaign was to postpone any alteration relating to animal dues It was the sense of the committee thai this provision in the new constitution contemplates a change to go into effect at the beginning of next year.: Howevei this does not affect the provision in Section 3 of Article X which provides for affiliated members who belong to labor farmer, cooperative and educational societies...
...Reichstag Will Have 489 Members The new Beichstac will have 489 members, four less than its predecessor...
...They sum up by saying: "We are still tn somewhat the same stage as the people who larked and took a holiday on the first railroad trains, who aneeaed before the shop windows tot Philadelphia and Boston to see the first gas lights bam The claims which the railroads and gas eeaapnaiee were to stake out for tlnsiii Ives on the nation's income were not dreamed of then...
...In the old Batchstag they had 45 members and tn the new Reichstag they will have 54...
...Now as a matter of fact -I don't know just what "personal" attacks may mean...
...As was expected the Socialists topped the returns in the Prussian legislative election and thereby guaranteed a -continuance in power of the big coalition in Prussia...
...in as the result of ah explosion of a poison gas tank...
...la the j1*,000,000 aewer ummiiiiu tton project la Jamaica, a Sateens, of the borough of Qnonns...
...First the electrical press-agent* want to head off any thorough-going investigation into their peculiar methods of financing and rate-fixing...
...With good weather on that day there is little doubt that the picnic and mass meeting will be one of the biggest Socialist affairs held in the state for many years...
...Two special phase* of campaign work and party organization same before the committee in organization of young people and women...
...Connolly's Maa PnilBps Connolly's record was laid bare...
...Some of our ex-comrades like John Spargo and Frank Boon are caught with a pretty shady bunch of lobbyists...
...I am interested in fighting political and economic issues and I am at aD times willing to admit that my opponent on these issues may have character and ability...
...Some accidents as yet era practically, unavoidable...
...Hat* reductions follow only after bitter and unequal battles, in which tiw public an usually inadequately represented, sod the private companies are able to organise armies of "experts,'* to say nothing of what they are abbs to do in the way of political biibety and chicanery...
...Jursek will also do some field work in some of the states west of the Mississippi River which need special attention...
...This winter some more ^now birds were caught—though little ones.- A fingerprinting system was introduced on February 1 of this year by the new Commissioner of Accounts, James A. Htggins...
...80 far as the Democrats and Republicans hi Congress are concerned they are non-partisan victorias with Senator Norria as chief hero...
...Nothing...
...In 1*26 twentytve hundred and fourteen men were killed in anthracite and bituminous mines...
...Berger Warns of Crisis When Dawes Payments Are Due In September Washington.—Predicting that a European economic crisis win be precipitated next September, when the larger of the reparation sums under the Dawes plan will have to be paid by Germany, Representative Victor L. Berger, Socialist, of Wisconsin, has introduced a resolution directing President CaoMSga to call an international conference for the purpose of revising the so-called reparation lermes and the terms of the Versailles past.: i...
...He stated that the city was defrauded of $5,000,000 to $7,000,000 by grafters la the Street Cleaning Department every year When the Mayer was informed of this dreadful news, he declared that the estimate was too high...
...It ¦beds lustre on himself, his party and .mankind To his party and his family we offer our heartfelt sympathy in the loss of a gallant fighter for the right whoa* karate death wpa of « piece with bis Ufa, The same sort of tribute mast 04 paid to the grant Japanese ecfembwt...
...Another fifty-fifty...
...Total Bigger Annual Budget of Half Billion Dollars Loaded With Thefts, In Belief EXTORTION AN - ADDED ITEM •—¦— i Tammany Mayor Offered To Defend Biggest Boodler—Much Investigation, No Action By Louis Stanley FIFTY-FIFTY is the law of graft of the New Tammany, according to the recent exposes...
...He had been padding the emergency workers' payrolls for years with the connivance of those higher up...
...It plans to be able to meet any demands that may be made from any part, of the country fof "capable speakers and a tentative list of speakers was compiled which will be added to later on...
...A strong committee was elected to take charge 'of the big picnic which will be held in Riverview Park on June 10...
...At tab rate tl.OOO.OOS graft la a $2,000,000 appropriating for temporary help would be conservative...
...But we pay the MIL -The anew, wf tba power industry who saans} behind and tn the afaadow ef tike engineer* anew what' they want...
...Hideyo Noguchi...
...Frank gle and tn trying to save a- drowning boy...
...What h clear is the fact that American coal generally is worse stained with stood more than-the coal of any other civilized country...
...In Q»^j°^Z...
...A Grafter Tell* ab When William J. Lougheed was suspended a month ago as foreman of the Cromwell avenue garage of the Street Cleaning Department la the Bronx, his goose was cooked...
...The Young People'* Socialist League has for many months been hi need of a national director but it has been difficult to engage a competent person...
Vol. 7 • May 1928 • No. 23
