A PAGE OF EXCLUSIVE FEATURES
A PAGE OF EXCLUSIVE FEATURES thoughts about •> \ Morals —jgW HAVEN. CONN., June 8.—Mrs. Rone Helfatt I* pierce, former 'Follies' girl, wan accused of takssr s shower bath with one of her...
...What they said was from personal contacts...
...Again I feel the whiplash of a phrase...
...They haven't had each h prosperous time of it nationally for the last eight years, except in New York City,- and a few other local constitutenciea...
...He urged the necessity of subscribing to The New Leader, especially since the establishment of the "Free Youth" section...
...Before it te made it baa ail the shadowy Intel...
...Or, to there a way out without doing violence to establish Onion principles...
...He stressed the need of aiding the N. Y. Youth Conference for the New Bedford Strikers...
...aa| if the mill thralls of New Bedford were not bark tl wall battling against the textile robber barons af New England...
...of your finger tips...
...He adhered to that ruling although Ute xaanufacturers, timing thoniaslres...
...Before you even go for your summer vacation, send something to the Miner's Relief Emergency Committee, 156 Fifth Avenue, bead...
...for her death...
...But I have no doubt that if the thought had occurred to the good people of that tidy little town, they would have attributed Mrs...
...A silly pose in futile travesty While what you are will not die out in ms Out to Kansas City, the knight-errants of Proa* perity have ventured forth to choose a new KbMC Skinny ones, and fat ones, lean ones aad mean ones...
...DO NT TREAD ON ME" is a book which attempts to show tabor might make better use of the legal weapons at hand...
...If you will look up the records of g«j Supreme Court of Connecticut, you will find a cease celebre called, "The State of Connecticut vs...
...This was easy for them because each of them Is a doublefisted fighter in the liberal, labor and Socialist movement...
...the chosen chiefs of American feudalism, gang peur, sans reproche, aad saas platform...
...JACK WASSERMAN EDITOR Published Every Week By The New Leader for the Young Peoples Socialist Lcaurue N. E. C Officially Elects Rabinowitz By GEORGE FIELD The N. E. C. tost Sunday in Fitchburg, Mass., took several Important steps...
...Jesse Holmes, of Swarthmore...
...ua tne Tram Some of the high-lights of the trip to Fitchburg...
...tf life and liberty are worth while here at all...
...aad strikers are fighting for a pound of bread moreT to the null tones of New England...
...how once your lips Had touched my hair and set nay brain abiaas But summer has a way of dragging long Since all her fragrances will be your breath...
...Bat that does not stop such brutality...
...or there wfll be no laughter left .ad *. Aad auVt tbef why we hope aad strive for Seciahsm...
...I can just picture in my mind's screen the whole Keystone Comedy antics of that Kansas City gang, -ih and out of the Convention Hall...
...A committee was appointed to plan for raising of one thousand dollars tor the strikers...
...In its future meetings, the circle plans to incorporate biographies of Socialists as part of its educational program...
...However, in the last analysis, these very people, would no doubt be the first to extend a vote of thanks to Comrade Parker for his unselfish service during the first two' years of his term, and the determined effort in the more recent da vs...
...Let me make this plea to you who are reading th* convention news...
...It bad established a more than local reputation...
...What would Happen to our "reepectoNes" if anyone ever started telling the truth ¦bout them...
...Rone Helfatt I* pierce, former 'Follies' girl, wan accused of takssr s shower bath with one of her husband's Mends 3 of dancing in the nude before another one, in a jrorce acUon filed by Walter H. Pierce, wealthy Mergjgg (Conn...
...The program started according to schedule with an address by Julius Umansky, Executive Secretary...
...the Democratic convention about to take place shortly...
...The law books and court records are full of injunctions permanent, temporary, intermediate against labor unions...
...Prom every page it cries: "Wanted, an aggressive labor policy...
...With a few notable exceptions, labor has till now been painfully on the defensive...
...with anything the tow forbids or seems to forbid...
...Labor leaders vehemently protest against the Interference by the courts in labor disputes by issuing Injunctions...
...Every labor leader and every tabor student should read it...
...It Is always charged with conspiracy and violence...
...This took him from the Yipsel National Office weeks on end...
...Ob those rare occasions in which the country club gang of Meriden discuss subjects other than those dealing with business, or the sex aberrations of their neighbors and themselves, there is a great deal of antaal congratulation that those goddamned Socialists wttl never get their feet into this town, with their bit against religion and morals...
...I am wtotebblin whether anybody but just poor people really gmUeve la that buna now-a-days...
...JUNIOR GROUP IN PHILADELPHIA Besides the Ytosels, Philadelphia has an energetic group of very young people, who very efficiently ran a play the other week...
...Oh this same Sabbath morn, not many miles from "J** Park, the riddled body of "Link" Mitchell was Whgbj the hallway of a Sixth Avenue speakeasy...
...spoke on "The Need of Young People to the Socialist Movement...
...And there are reaaomf for an these concrete msaifestations...
...No sir...
...Jim MeAIioler Coleman...
...Barlow, a visiting striker, spoke...
...CIRCLE NOTES Circle Sue, N. Y., meets hereafter en Friday evenings...
...The sentimental senses win arise, Aad I win find hi every teas a trace Of what Z dreamed you were...
...To be effectively used a policy of legal aggression requires deliberate planning...
...The fiery representative of the Communists affirmed the necessity of the reactionary Y. P. S. L affiliating with the Y. W. L. in order to purify the Communists, rank and file...
...Their answer seems to be an emphatic "Yes...
...N. Y„ Vanguard Press), to more than "a study of aggressive legal tactics for Labor.'* It to a can to labor to take the offensive...
...Competent attorneys, loyal to the cause of tabor most be placed on the Job...
...ta the course of the trial, the district attorney intksstsd that not only was I intent on seizing the City Bill by force and violence and overthrowing by bloody revolution the bulwarks of the sovereign Statu of Con...
...The discussion ended when the Janitor, a class-conscious proletarian, refused to work overtime...
...But ever so often, we must recall to ourselves that these tbiamf really exist, right here and now to our toad...
...Against these odds, he continued to do the best he could to maintain the National Office until a new Director was elected...
...In fact, they get so close that only the dignity of his position caused Manny to refuse the proffered drink...
...Their work must be part of the 'permanent organisation work...
...Their conclusions rest on facts...
...J. Organized ¦ An enthusiastic group of young people gathered at the Philadelphia Labor Institute last Thursday and organised Branch 1 of the Y. P. 8. L. in Philadelphia...
...Ask any salesman, business' man, bookkeeper, of other of the white collared gegatry, about graft in sewers, or boodles in oil these days...
...Do you seat any bitter denunciation screwing* up to any of these clean-cut faces...
...Saturday, June 0, they are going to the Woodward Estate...
...AH children between $ and IS who are interested are invited to come down to the Labor Institute...
...If s O. K. no matter how you get xhdr dough, as long ss you get away with it, . ." " In the thee of such impelling logic, what caar WW poor old Honesty blokes really do...
...Bseticut, but I also had designs upon the morals of the inhabitants, and was presumably there to natlonaltej the chaste wives of Meriden...
...The bl nee ran petals...
...They show by actual Illustrations where by taking the offensive hi the use of legal tactics labor has beaten the enemy at its own game...
...Fortunately the authors of the book dM not treat the subject academically...
...Pierce's outbreak to the teachings of Socialism, the destruction of the home, and free love in general...
...ligence of a truck driver's curse,to the cop that ii writing out a ticket for traffic infraction...
...Is this condition to continue...
...It to always the accused...
...The parties, he said, took place in his various homes in Long Island City, New York, Merigsa, ¦ad Miama, Fla...
...Gee, I wish I was in on the divvy...
...Both the Republican and Democratic high binders' during the last decade have just wiped out that HonV esty blah, and set into ltd stead...
...Circle 6 Youth Rally Held June 10 Circle She, N. Y. C. ,held its Youth Rally Sunday evening...
...Mendel Freed gave a report on Free Trade, after which a discussion ensued...
...It would be a wholfc lot funnier, if there were no coal miners on starvation rations in the mining hells of the country...
...Meriden, Conn., the scene of some of these felicitous marital incidents, is a town which I happen to gsow all about...
...He request...
...White still on the subject of morals, public and pritete, I am relieved to note that according to "The Mlette of the New York Sabbath Committee" a sudor menace to the good conduct of the community aw been nipped in the bud...
...THE CHATTER BOX More Sonnets to a t>ark Lady i. Oh, spring has bean a grievous ¦¦agon through...
...Some one gets up aad makes a sweet stirring...
...For we are all good moralists together, •aw Wfll 8tand "houlder to shoulder under our BOM?!* ot crossed carving-knives, whiskey-bottles, and JJ™*»ted boot-black boxes, fighting valorouely J—** the subversive teachings of those two deWgj^ 01 "*mfly life, Norman Thomas and...
...Aarne has spent 13 years of his 36 in the movement...
...I had tBtsnded to go on to urge the candidacy of Gene Debs, but so shocked were the local constabulary over gaum ring what their own constitution permitted that I was summarily haled to the pretty little lockas is bock of the Mertden City Hall...
...Pretests Net Enough Kxpeihttce has amply shown that mere protests against these practices am net sufficient The result of the policy adopted by labor leaders generally has been the building' up of a one sided body of labor tew, to the serious detriment of the future development of labor...
...Because of this prevailing view among labor leaders, the authors suggest In their preface that— Tmssiillj tee, R (tosot's fight) has been tost not solely because ef the strength ef the opposition, bat atoe because labor has not availed hersesf ef every pesstete legal weapon...
...Aad change they must...
...i I know this isn't a very provoking intellectual hart angue, this calling our old ills to view...
...Aad things are so ripe for change...
...The Union is always the defendant...
...The book under review to rich in instances and practical illustrations showing where labor might have successfully used the very legal weapons invoked against them, but tailed and refused to do so supposedly on the ground that it interfered with sound Union principles With that contention the authors take issue and it seems to me very convincingly...
...The Bulletin gloatingly •¦bounces that "Fifteen boys, with bootblack boxes, ¦we arrested in Bryant Park recently, and taken to *> West Thirtieth police station...
...Union lea dsn protest against the me of armed thugs by private oampunaw...
...letters...
...190 (1921)" which has to do with my being hurled into the calaboose of that Igrgic open-shop Utopia for reading aloud to a congderahle crowd the provision in the constitution of the Wooden Nutmeg State guaranteeing...
...For Information write to Louis J. Summan, Director, Labor Institute, SOS Locust street, or drop in to see him any day between > p. m. and 0 p. m. BRONX PUBLICATION SUSPENDS After having successfully published the Bronx, N. Y...
...That this book fulfills an actual need in shaping labor public opinion on the questions it deals with will be illustrated by an experience I bad a couple of years sen...
...She succeeds Roba Puahkoff, also af Chute Bto...
...in nice big round...
...Labor's field of aggressive legal activity to inexhaustible...
...And since your voice wfll be her thrumming song While I keep weakly waiting...
...However, a year later, when he felt that his term in office had expired he accepted a similar offer...
...tkm^ WhUe ^ flfteen boy" were being lugged to Police station, all over New York, Tanupany poanrt «?Wctor8' captains, lieutenants, and sergeants, 2\J»Bcial collectors from the Hall were taking their ^"•ucal tribute from the proprietors of speakeasies, Su1*8...
...The committee also decided to call a national convention to New York during the winter of this tear...
...Luke's Place,' Mayor Jim™T Walker was catching his beauty sleep, exhausted Mo public services during the week/ The Mayor ¦***d all the sleep he could get, for he had been r*"derably upset by the reception accorded his speech s Catholic College, in which he had said that " be a good thing for the country if the Pope sui* 8110111(1 Tun Jt- There had come to him strong ¦^nations from Albany that this was not exactly the I?J *° enhance Al Smith's popularity with the Prot"*¦« corn-belt, and that if Jimmy couldn't think up better argument than that, be had best stick to Welcoming stuff, and leave politics to grown-sips...
...Granted the legal weapons at band are not as favorable as might be desired, can labor nevertheless make more effective use of them...
...First in the Sunday School at Fitchburg, and during the tost eight years as an active Yipsel...
...It mikfiy suggests that labor stop whining and do something affirmative...
...Each large labor' organisation - should have its competent legal department...
...Asrae Parker Retires Aarne J. Parker turned over the reigns of his office to Comrade Rabinowl U, two years after the expiration of his term...
...Circle elections were held at its torn night's meeting...
...Basse day I would like to -take all ¦ yob boys and girls u> Meriden on a sight-seeing tour of a typical morally impeccable New England town...
...city central organisations should have theirs...
...A few comrades have found occasion to "kick" about his apparent tack of attention to duty...
...the invasion of those thugs of the most Fundamental rights ot the strikers to freedom of assemblage, of speech and ef the prem...
...We were irritated on arrival In Fitchburg: at the tack of swetooratogcommittee, brass band, and "Welcome" sign...
...News Item...
...In the discussion that followed, every conceivable topic, except the one under discussion, was talked of...
...Which brings me to the other end of the political rope...
...Socialist Party office, Saturday, at 1 p. m. Bring with you 15 cents car fare...
...Before my eyes A million forms win mimic with your grace...
...bub the employment of private thugs and the ruthless sunpraadon by them of freedom of assemblage, speech end prem goes on unrelieved...
...We boys and girls used to trace the even chirography of that prov* erb time and time to improve our handwriting aad our business precepts...
...In turn, Tammamf wfll yelp out- . "Oil . . shame . . everybody know* your name...
...But the courts do it Just the same and will continue to do it, as the law assumed Jurisdiction and insists upon win vising it...
...We could take one street, whose inhabitants had voted solidly for CooUdge, prosperity and the Congregational Church, ¦ad give you seriatim the case history of said inhabitants...
...McAIister Ootemen and Arthur Garfield Hayes...
...Again remembering...
...Not on your Sote>> less boots...
...I ask you...
...Instead of the hundreds of thousands of dollars spent anually haphazardly for legal work or so called legal work, much of wblch often goes to "fixers" or glorified "fixers"—labor should...
...ed by our own candidate for the Presidency, Norman Thomas, and then some more to the New Bedford Textile Relief Council, P. O. Box ST...
...They wrote from experience...
...the rights of say dtisen to speak freely on any subject...
...Over in Queens, other *™*B>*ny supporters were similarly occupied with a house on St...
...The Union leaders protest against ponce or military brutality in strikes...
...AT THE LEAGUE HIKE At the second N. Y. League hike to Dun wood ie tost Sunday,, reports en the industrial and tabor condltkxu in Russia, Germany and the United States were beard...
...These youngsters, aged 8 to 13, spoke at various unions and Workmen's Circles, and sold over $70 worth of tickets for the play...
...Circles One and Four win hold an educational meeting tomorrow, at which they wfll discuss "Industrial Democracy in Antortoa," Philadelphia Y. P. S. L. Branch No...
...No application was made to the courts because the International PreaWnt n fused to sanction such a proeosdtog on the ground that ha was opposed to the use of Injunctions to labor disputes saying that be personally made a very strong speech to that effect at the previous convention of that international Union...
...All phrase*, phrases, phrases...
...Now with these tods X have soma sort of doggish sympathy...
...Remember the lads and families in the mines...
...What an echo for the Convention yelp ove a Republican Keynote Speech...
...The remainder of the regular program was to have been composed of entertainment by the members of Circle Six, and addresses by Lester Shnlman and Harry Diamond...
...circles send to a complete Itot of their members, with eomgawte financial and other data...
...He just looks up aad snickers aa tt to say...
...3™*" ho doubt had neglected to attend Sunday *bool while a youth, and his jriolent end Was to » expected...
...Lillian Kaplan has been elected the new Educational Director of the City League...
...And all the ghosts of old experience WU1 flit around before my amorous sight...
...WANTED: A LABOR OFFENSIVE Book Review By Louis Waldman "JVC-NT TRBAD OR MR," (by Clement Wood...
...And now that summer comes, the fearn Meruggesj And all because a more enchanting yon Win play a cruel havoc with my peace...
...I so advised the officers of the Union and Bs International President...
...t the same time, in a smoke-hung hall of a local ?™j»»ny club, certain full-stomached individuals were ¦en*hg together over a table, discussing ways and of whitewashing the threatened scandal in the ~tet-clesjilng department...
...Meriden, at all events, will stand fast against the rising tides of Bolshevism, and confine its communism to mixed shower baths, and its revolutionary BBjnlees to carving knives and whiskey bottles, as mid by the better classes...
...The offices of National and International Secretaries were officially turned over to Comrade Louis Rabinowits, whose activity in Boston brought him to the attention of active Party and Yipsel members...
...Their boxes were Wefiscated, and the boys were released after giving their names and addresses...
...Honesty, where hast'thou flown...
...Besides this, they've organized their Junior League, and are having hikes every Saturday...
...I'am not aware that Mrs...
...Central Park West "apartments," East Peddlers, and West Side gang leaders...
...These fellows are all atheistical Jews, and what would happen to fsadh/ fife if the workers should fall for their preachments...
...The Injunction to not the only legal weapon labor may torn on the employer...
...The winds reminding me how warm you were...
...That too wfll be the undertone in the orchestral roal of triumph from the overfed henchmen of Republican plunder...
...After its completion and publication, its has all the solid meanf tog of a boottegger's assurance that the staff he lg handing you at $8.00 per quart .haw just coma in front Canada, and is 18 yean old and 100 per cent uncut, etc., etc...
...They have started a drive with s slogan, "ISO Members by September 1." A membership meeting was held at the Labor Institute, Room A, Saturday evening, June 0, with dancing, refreshments and speakers...
...Organisation Education Solidarity FREE YOUTH Young Peepers Socialist League, Si Bssox Shout, Boston, Mass...
...speech about Prosperity and the Republican Party...
...Circles Six, Bight and Two took part in this miniature League of Nations session, CHANGES IN N. Y. EXECUTIVE Because the Financial Secretary, Morris Dvortssff, win be in Vermont for the rest of the summer, ahfisjunn Swltkes will be the acting Financial Secretary for that period...
...Igfa* j* the New York Sabbath Committee knows it, ^J7, "te sidewalks of New York be darkened by the «jjr"*r "badows of agnostic bootblacks...
...Bulletin, a bi-monthly, for about eighteen months, the Bronx Boro Committee, at its tost meeting, decided to suspend publication of it...
...Not if the jg"** Tammany" can help it shall any breath of tiZfrr Wow across the innocent bloom of Al's *2Bia«y...
...I suppose, the Republicans will gnash their teeth at Al Smith and howl "Tammany" and point to tb# sewer scandal, the paving boodle, and the milk out* rage with righteous indignation...
...These boys must be taught to respect the law **r, or they will swell the list of convicts a little later...
...This platform business is somewhat mkain to the necromantic dicta of Merlin before the anvil in which the magic sword was set...
...Then Louis P. Goldberg, Director ot Circle Two, spoke on the "Importance of Biographies of Socialist Pioneers," stressing the biography of Karl Marx...
...knife and threw a whiskey Ipttle at film...
...These I can be, impervious to a stir Until the thaw begins, and then they hurt...
...I am eguy wondering to what extent the Tammany Hall graft scandals of even recent date win effect a nation that has been so fed op on oil and power and elective graft, that even so email a mite as sewer and milk larcenv wfll Isold no attraction at all, either as news or ^'hpkr Time was when our schooTra^ft Carried the caption...
...Dtoeusston followed after each 10 minute paper...
...Until now tabor was content with a policy of futile negation...
...cold and curt...
...He took up the work of the biggest Job hj the Y. P. S. L. hack to 1824, and for two years gave of himself untiringly to make up tor the failure and secession from duty of the previous Incumbent...
...The police said a man and woman had complained frequently that the boys were probably missing church ¦¦sdhy mornings and' had demanded action...
...declared for the open shop to the heart of the stack period, drew the Union into s^ disastrous strike which It could ill afford to undertake: After a protracted struggle the Union lost and was itself rn-aoticaUy destroyed...
...Aad all the crude mechanics of defense WU1 fail my purpose aa they failed the night When we were real, and all our phrases dumb...
...June 10, with the aid of the Communists, who made the meeting a success...
...Protest was made against the admission of Russia into the League of Nations, while Russia, to tarn, carped at the bourgeois complacency of Germany...
...Plans and preparations are to be made at the next meeting of the N. E. C* The N. E. C. also voted that the "Free Youth" section tn the national edition of The New Leader be the national organ of the Y. P. S. L. with the present editors responsible to the N E. O. and the National Secretary, who are In turn to work with The New Leader...
...A Case la Feted According to the New York Jaw...
...One year after he took office, Parker was offered a very desirable and important position with his firm...
...And to the meantime, miners are starving in the* hills, millions walk the city streets looking for work...
...What a pretty picture, ladies aad gentlemen...
...If an action were promptly brought against the employer or the agency which supplies the armed thugs to the employer or even against the Police for every false arrest, malicious prosecution or assault and battery of a striker, these malefactors might think twice before they would indulge in those tactics...
...jlcABtter Coleman, 96 Conn...
...Remember the relief work necessary for the New Bedford slaves...
...Honesty is the best "PBifSyT...
...organize and centralise its legal activity: It should follow out a definite legal policy...
...And either one or the other witf be correct, and because of their correctness, elthef one or the other .wfll be voted into four years more of prolonged nattonal burglary aad mayhem...
...resident, -Pierce also charged his wife attempted to cut gts throat with a carving...
...Agar • little airing of them brings us out of oar rvorv towers of abstract contemplation...
...In New Bat ford, thousands of pale, haggard men and women wt keep on their monotone of "No, no, no" against th prosperity ukase of 10% reduction In wages...
...This meeting will be reported more fully in the next issue of "Free Youth...
...No Care Far laJsaiHisif In every strike or contemplated strike the employer to quick to try to set Into motion the ponce or the District Attorney or the Courts or the Militia or any am} all of thaw Governmental agencies against the workers...
...Owing to the fact that the Bronx Bulletin was run on a subscription basis, there to a surplus fund on band- This money is to be turned over to the Yipsel Publishing Association, to aid it to its work of obtaining subscriptions for The New Leader...
...Manny swltkes entertained Facky MacPartand, ex-pugilist, ttpter, Irish and 100 percenter...
...The authors take for tbetr theme the question progressive labor men and women have been asking, namely, "Can the American labor movement success fully assume the offensive te the courts...
...The aistel wave their sectional banners, and the weU fed bodies and Umbo sway and make applause and shrill voios rasp against the steel rafters of the hall...
...New Bedford, Mass.....These are conventions all true lovers of life and liberty must attend to...
...The world liver on, and suffers, sad laughs...
...Civil and criminal suits may be instituted for abuse by labor and its agents by legal process...
...They would soon find that to arrest a striker or to beat him up to not such a cheap luxury...
...Somewhere in Tllinois, or West Virginia, or ii Pennsylvania, a miner and his rickety brood win too out of dingy hovels against the hills, sad sigh di spalr...
...The *"*»' parents will be notified that they may call for tbt shoe-shining boxes, but that the boys must keep «t of Bryant Park on Sundays...
...Morris Novtk, on his ggjM through Boston, was shown the »°ctoHst ttws^ at Boston Commons, by $01 CONTRIBUTED TO AID THE NEW BEDFORD STRIKERS At the second meeting of the N. Y. Youth for the New Bedford strikers, the sum of $01 was contributed by the delegates from their respective organisations...
...Rose Helfatt Pierce was sjgosg the auditors of my short-lived speech, the majority of whom were workers in the open-shop plated diver plants on whose backs the Pierces of Meriden ss smugly sit...
...He refused this in order to give the bulk of his time to Yipsel work, which, from a monetary viewpoint, to not very remunerative...
...Tierce named Henry L. Morehouse, a Lieutenant Bocktns and a man named Scottin in the misconduct sflegations...
...But we can't do this in print, for the sjmple lesson that The New Leader is a family paper, and the report would never get through the mails, as the suthorities very rightly object to the broadcasting of dtomcsl information...
...with this, that or the other thing...
...And love throbbed in us like a pssxpaad drum...
...a local Union was entitled to an Injunction against an sssoetorton of manufacturers who deliberately and ijiiuisliy violated a written contract with the Union...
...and Harry N. Berger, Philadelphia manager of the Forward, spoke on "What Young People Can Do for the Party...
Vol. 7 • June 1928 • No. 26
