THE CALL TO DUTY
The Call To Duty With The Nation to Organize The Prime Need Is Funds; An Appeal to Readers to Take Lead r£0 our Readers and Friends: We are now entering a phase of the electoral campaign that...
...Clarence Taylor invaded Arkansas at a time when all political interest seemed to be monopolised by the fight on evolution vs...
...This editorial will reach only The New Leader section of this army...
...Thomas in New Bedford Plans for parades and open air meetings squelched by the rain, workers in strike-torn New Bedford, nevertheless attended Labor Day rallies in half a dozen halls, including the largest in the city...
...Reveals Labor's Weakness The constant decline in the membership of the American Federation of Labor and the various State federations is due to no inherent weakness in the principles of trade unionism...
...New York Friday evening or Saturday morning en masse for the beaches and mountains...
...Since the convention in May which nominated our standard bearers, Aorm«ii Thomas and James H. Maurer, the Socialist Party has been engaged in some preliminary work that required first attention...
...Give Us The Opportunity Absurd as some of our national elections have been we do not subscribe to the Menckenite view that we are a nation of fools...
...The country over, labor is in bad repute these days and the sort of politics labor, through it* spokesmen, is playing has a lot to do with its ill repute...
...It says' "We regret that last wees in the editorial columns of this paper there appeared under the caption, "The Reds Still Bore Away", an editorial which in no way reflects the opinion held by the management of this paper...
...With the determination that Thomas and Maurer electors must be on the ballot throughout the country, the campaign committee set about the work...
...must have that opportunity...
...Socialist candidate for president, left New York, his home state, this week for the second of his campaign tours...
...It was an almost insurmountable problem For many years perhaps half of the 48 states had not had regular Socialist state organizations...
...An oligarchy of federated capital is as surely the owners of the two parties as it is master of the industrial life of the nation...
...It has cost a large sum, but in addition to this work hundreds of thousands of excellent leaflets have been printed, Norman Thomas has covered one section of his tour, and a masterly campaign manual of 310 pages, "The Intelligent Voter's Guide," has been published...
...Energetic veteran J. Mahion Barnes did almost impossible work la the Dakota...
...I have previously said that as a citizen I should like to see states that want to create a pubBe authority for the sale of light wines sod beer...
...Some preliminaries had been iccomplished by Julius Gerber and Vational Secretary William H. Henry, when the Campaign Committee took aver the work...
...I should not include toe hard liquor which the Governor adds, partly because I think that it might well be prohibited in modern society for the social good, and partly because the bootlegging difficulty between states which will be considerable in the case of light wines and beers will be enormously greater in the case of hard liquor which is more easily smuggled...
...Invited Smith and Hoover to lay their programs before the textile strikers, whose votes they crave...
...Thursday, PORTLAND, OREGON, at the Labor Temple, 4th and Jefferson streets, 7 p.m...
...The National Campaign Committee must have funds...
...west and the east...
...He urged a vigorous fight on the injunction evil...
...This work was a heavy expense...
...Louis owners...
...The dates of the second Thomas tour, with the halls, follow: September 7th, Friday, SUPERIOR, WISCONSIN...
...This marks a new course in relations between employers and the union...
...On that day, Thomas addressed a meeting in Duiuth, Minnesota...
...If we today had the funds we were compelled to «*e in work of organization and filing tickets we would flood the nation with speakers and literature...
...Hart Bchaffner & Marx of Chicago, biggest men's clothing makers In the world, are fighting David Adler & Sons Co., biggest in Wisconsin...
...Those who remember a bit of political history 'can figure just how much this endorsement may mean when they recall that- in 1924 the New York State Federation first endorsed La Follette...
...We want no less than a hundred thousands dollars...
...This action was taken because of the wide divergence in time between the...
...September 15th, to be announced...
...Defying rain, 6,000 unionists led by a dozen bands marched...
...The same sort of support can yet finance W. E. V. D. adequately and help it obtain a better wave length and more power...
...We have always regarded Brookwood Labor College as an Institution worthy of the support of all progressive men and women and nothing has occurred to change our opinion in this matter...
...We want to raise the largest fund ever raised by a third party in this country...
...If you have not received yours it has gone astray in the mails...
...The Hardest Fight Begins So education has accompanied organization work, but beginning with September the campaign work will bulk larger each week...
...September 14th, Friday...
...On the contrary, there is as much potential intelligence among the masses here as there is in any nation abroad where Labor and Socialist parties have a great measure of power...
...MOVI^ OPERATORS REFUSE CUT 8T...
...Now go to it Don't ask for dimes...
...Since then the percentage has risen...
...The more pressing problems of this work have been solved and we now face other imoortant tasks...
...The Amalgamated has in the past year and more come to the assistance of union clothing manufacturers with technical cooperation and bank credit...
...In that case, write to the address menioned below...
...September 9th, Sunday, FAROO, NO...
...An outstanding example of this is furnished by John L. Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers of America, once the strongest unit in the A. F. of L., who broke his back getting aboard the Coolidge bandwagon in the last election...
...FID your list and get another one...
...KFI—Los Angeles...
...About 3,000 attended...
...Thomas In New Bedford Labor Day Holiday Is Widely Observed in Industrial Centers of Country J ABOR DAY, fought for 40 years ago and won by strikes on the job and uajted action at the polls, gave untold millions in the east their last outing holiday of the year when industrial centers of New York, Boston, Philadelphia and other cities emptied into the surrounding countryside...
...Better paid than most workers, they gave their families a three-day respite from the city's beat and smoke...
...Get dollars and as many of them as you can...
...Make your own contribution as large as possible and set an example to others...
...Labor delegations from all parts of Massachusetts were in the city to encourage the strikers for the hardest part of their struggle, which lies just ahead., Returning home, they will make New Bedford an issue In their cities to speed up relief work...
...The Socialist Party headed Reading's Labor Day celebration with City Councilman James H. Maurer driving home a caustic attack on capitalism...
...Scran ton...
...First the Volstead Act, then the 18th Amendment are to be changed to permit a rather complicated dual national and state control...
...Members of the Executive Board holding office under Tammany Hall shouted down all opposition and jammed over the endorsement which, of course, makes a joke out of the non-partisan policy of the American Federation of Labor Abraham Lefkowitz of the Teachers Union had the guts to stand up and inform the delegates that he would vote for Thomas and the Socialist Party...
...It has a lot to do with the fact that in the opinion of every competent observer of unionism in the United States the organized movement has never been so weak since the Nineties...
...President Ornburn of the Cigarmakers warned organized capitalists that they would "prove the greatest galaxy of destructionfsts in the world" if they fail to meet organized labor half way...
...Field workers had to be sent into the states...
...The county lies immediately north of the metropolis...
...If you are "broke", borrow...
...In a few weeks more than 20 organisers bad been put into the field...
...The Boston Central Labor Union was the guest of the city on the occasion of its 50th anniversary...
...Campaign Manager Gerber has announced that 26 states have already filed, that in all likelihood, 14 mora states will be filed by October Tth, and that there is a fighting chance in all of the remaining eight states...
...Wednesday, SEATTLE, Washington, at the Olympic Theatre, 1417 Eighth avenue...
...A few years ago U. 8. District Attorney Olson publicly stated that SO per cent of the police department were corrupt...
...No "labor Vote" It is all too evident what has been going on behind the scenes...
...The politics and the politicians of the old order of capitalism have reached their lowest depths of degradation...
...Mary McVicker, John Brown, John Thobe, and others worked in the South, Emil Herman, before aad after his serious Illness, in the northwest, Joseph Sharts, Joseph Bernstein, Esther Friedman and others in Dhio, the most difficult state of afi...
...Now the greatest firm in" the Industry regards it as highly important that a large firm nearby shall not disturb the stability of labor relations by breaking its contract with the union as the Adler Co...
...Thomas will broadcast from the studio of Station KGO in San Francisco...
...Our aim, we repeat, is a hundred thousand dollars...
...We have nearly 400,000 names of men and women who have fought the good fight for some phase of human liberation...
...Tile vie* tory was largely due to the volume of protest the Commission received...
...Then, with labor conditions once more equalized between Chicago and Milwaukee, the civil war will end...
...Every cent will be acknowledged and accounted for...
...Wednesday, CHEYENNE, WYOMING, Cathedral Hall, 21st street and Capital avenue...
...There was C. H. Cantsjsssj and George C. Hi oner in Idaho, William O. Toole in Maryland and Daisware, Ross Magil in Kansas, Joseph 3ernstein in Michigan, Thomas X* Bute in Oklahoma, and up In the New England states Alfred Baker Lewis, Louis M. Clay, and Wendel Warrington...
...Ohio Electors On Campaign Committee Expects To Have Thomas Electors in More Than 40 States rpH*iEE short months ago, the 8o( cialist National Campaign Committee set about accomplishing its hardest job,—the placing of presidential electors on the ballot...
...September 20th...
...One can blame, however, the system and the men who maintain it, that makes an American labor party so long delayed...
...It is not a fight to the death, as the Chicago concern will abandon its temporary Milwaukee factory as soon as the Milwaukee firm restores the status prevailing before it locked out 800 union workers last April...
...Socialists File In 27 States...
...September 10th, Monday, BUTTE, MONTANA, at the High School Auditorium...
...When it is remembered that in 1920, with Debs running, and «ba party still with most of Its old-timestrength, we were only on the ballot In 41 states, it will be seen what a remarkable piece of work ass been done...
...You will never contract a loan for a more noble or more important purpose...
...This last promise and the Governor's opposition to the saloon are, justly or unjustly, taken with many grains of salt by the country at large which remembers Smith's legislative record as a friend of the saloon and wonders why the presidential oath should inspire a zeal for enforcing the 18th amendment which the gubernatorial oath conspicuously did not...
...Collect from organizations where possible...
...Comrades within the area of these stations should watch the radio programs in their local papers for announcement of the time...
...National Campaign Manager O. AuTust Gerber tackled the bard task vith characteristic vigor...
...Thursday, DENVER...
...Seven hundred carpenters in blue shirts and gray caps were the hit of the parade...
...Negotiations continue...
...With ail nations stents* the treaty there is a chance of, progress toward peace provided the treaty-is sssksjaj up by disarmament and those other steps written in our Socialist platform...
...MITTEN WANTS MORE MONEY BUFFALO...
...Hugh A. Drum warned that a small army tempted foreign nations to war on America and bring her labor conditions down to theirs...
...Send the fruit of your work to the Socialist Campaign Fund, The New Leader, 7 East 15th Street, New York'City...
...rhe list is three or four times ss long as that...
...They demand 40 hours to replace the present 44 hours with no reduction in pay...
...If Governor Smith really wants to get prohibition as far as possible out of partisan politics why does he not join me in demanding that all questions of modification be referred from the beginning to a special national, referendum vote...
...Thomas will be accompanied by August Claessens, former Socialist member of the New York state legislature, who will j also speak at the meetings, and by Edward LeVinson, assistant editor of The ! New Leader and publicity director for ' the Socialist National Campaign Comi mittee...
...Milions of leaflets must be printed and distributed...
...So when those who know the true situation read of the endorsement of Smith by the New York State Federation, the activities of a man like Berry of the Pressmen or the formation of "'labor committees" for one or the other of the old-line candidates, they simply shrug their shoulders and turn away in disgust...
...PAUL and MINNEAPOLIS...
...Send In lists as rapidly as you can...
...It all depends upon what YOU do in the next few weeks...
...We may not get it...
...So the important call which we have withheld since our national convention is now before you...
...The fact that the labor movement in all the large cities is tied up so closely with the old-line Republican and Democratic machines is something past the comprehension of real laborites from abroad where labor really votes as a unit...
...Thomas and Maurer and other speakers must be financed...
...Others spoke for repeal of the Volstead act, warned of injunctions and Communism and sought relief for unemployment...
...September 25th, Tuesday, CLEVELAND, OHIO, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Auditorium...
...At ¦est a straight referendum might encourage an educational discussion and 0» formation of constructive opinion which would help toward a better solution than my recent travels and observations encourage me to expect in •ny near future...
...TIMELY TOPICS By Norman Thomas Socialist Candidate for President It is rather amusing to see the joy with which wets who talk of the Inalienable right of a man to drink nail Smith's prooosal which entails a rait amount of sociai wntrol, affirms the rights of states to enforce prohibition and promises rigid enforcement of the present law while it stands...
...There is still some of this work to be done but the big job now is the educational campaign...
...Ite appearance was due to the failure of a •Member of the staff to follow instructions...
...September 13th...
...labor without a political party of its own, is "'tied hand and foot...
...LOUIS, MISSOURI, Jaffia Hall, Jeff and Lafayette streets...
...COLORADO, at the Women's Club, 1437 Gienarm street...
...On th^f day Thomas will speak over a network of the six largest stations on the Pacific Coast...
...8 pjn...
...I wish Us or any other remedy would be a practicable cure but I confess to inCWiring doubts...
...Thomas Leaves On Western Campaign Tour Presidential Candidate in Twin Cities This Saturday-Will Go to Pacific |yORMAN THOMAS...
...KOMO—Seattle...
...The Governor in spite of himself, would drag his party into at least a generation long fight that Mould obscure all other issues on which parties should divide...
...There is no such thing as a labor vote...
...KGW—Portand, Oregon...
...He will be on the air for a half an hour...
...P.)—The police department of Chicago, noted for its eagerness to arrest strike pickets and its tinwilingness to pull in real crooks and criminals, is denounced in a grand Jury report in these words: "From the testimony heard and the evidence presented, the utter disregard for the fulfilment of their duties by the police department is appalling and there is no question in the minds of the members of this Jury that the police department is rotten to the core...
...Police Force of Chicago Gets Another Knock CHICAGO (F...
...This plan may be no panacea but it's the best that I can •*e in a situation where avowed nullification, real enforcement, or the Governor's program or modification •11 seem in the present state of the public's mind to be impossible...
...Otherwise it will be wotse than useless...
...We had to nominate in many states by petition...
...Hart Schaffner & Marx will employ the locked out unionists under union conditions until Adler is willing to take them back again on a union basis...
...Do your work as one of the 400,000...
...SAM PRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, at Eagles Hall, 273 Golden Gate avenue...
...September nth, Tuesday, SPOKANE, WASHINGTON, at Masonic Temple, Riverside and Madison...
...The contributions will be divided beween the party divisions mentioned above...
...says national organiser Leo Krsyckl of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers...
...The situation he wants to clear up is as bad as he says it is...
...This is no tune to pinch a dollar if you can spare it...
...If he does he will •bangle his administration's own ttuld and give the Russians whom he btaUkes and laars a magnttotat weapon against our national sincerity...
...A. F. L. Control of "Labor Vote" Called A Myth Leaders9 Inability to Deliver Voters Is Notorious —Non-partisan Policy Key To Impotence By Backstairs Spokesman rpHE endorsement of Al Smith by the New York State Federation of Labor was to be expected...
...You fight not only your own battles", said Thomas, "bat the battles of the working class...
...It is inevitable that old-party politicians should feel contempt for labor leaders who fawn upon them with promises of support which..they are incapable of giving and that when the opportunity affords, should turn viciously upon these "labor" endorsers...
...The company, which boasts company unions in Philadelphia and Buffalo, has threatened to have the state public service commission boost fares to higher levels...
...According to his speech he would only resort to the referendum in states at the very end of his program to decide on state prohibition...
...Fully 18,000 signatures were required...
...Norman Thomas, Socialist presidential candidate...
...His first stop was Superior, Wisconsin, on Friday...
...Mill Workers Seek Five Day Week MOUNT VERNON, N. Y.—While President Oreen was urging on the state labor federation convention the importance of the five day week as labor's next demand, 300 mill workers of Westchester county downed tools to gain the shorter work week...
...Labor goes on vcoting for leaders of the Open Shop drive, for injunction judges, for labor-baiting Congressmen because the rank and file forget their interests when they get to the polls...
...The cost of reaching these 400,000 is alone great...
...15 Six Large Stations Will Broadcast Talk of Socialist Candidate For President 'J'HE first of two large radio hook-ups for Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for president, will be used on Saturday evening, September 15th...
...four meetings scheduled, one near the state fair grounds, another at the Oarrick Theatre, 40 South 7th street, st 8 p.m...
...Collect from your friends...
...Union House Aids A. C. W. Fight in Milwaukee MILWAUKEE.—Civil war between clothing manufacturers has broken out with Milwaukee as the battlefield...
...An appeal for funds is being mailed to hundreds of thousands of friends all over the nation and for the purposes stated by the National Campaign Committee...
...In many states the party bad worked to put the La Follette electors on the ballot, at the same time sacrificing the official political standing of the Socialist party...
...By signing, fjen though they were not asked to be among the fifteen principal signatories, the Soviet leaders have put themselves in a position again to r*i»e the disarmament question, "•st is the use of competitive armaments if war is outlawed ? A newsPsper report says that President °oolidge will push the big navy bill "hen Congress meets in spite of and maybe ahead of the ratification of the **Uogg treaty...
...They look with unconcealed scorn upon the boot-licking activities of $8,000 a year "leaders" who snuffle around in any old political trough so as to hang on to the jobs that are thrown at them by the old-line parties...
...Then we lost our official standing in many states because of making way for the LaFollette tickets hi 1924...
...Adler bad satisfactory union relations for the past 10 years when it suddenly decided to go openshop and scrap ite agreement," Krzycki explains...
...KHQ—Spokane, The "Western hook-up is the first of two big radio hook-ups over which Thomas will be heard, according to present plans of the Socialist National Campaign Committee, which has arranged for the radio addresses...
...That he can't carry his party the protestations of Democratic drys makes clear...
...The city referred to la believed to be Baltimore...
...Their struggle is to determine which shall rule the republic in behalf of the great banking and capitalist interests...
...Records have been lost or misplaced...
...Pa., in the heart of the anthracite, witnessed its first Labor Day parade in 14 years...
...The paper, which is the official organ of the Lansing Trades & Labor Council, strongly indorses the school to atone for the mistaken attack of the previous issue...
...Racketeers in Chicago and Detroit, gangsters in New York and Philadelphia—these vermin are part and parcel of the policy of "rewarding your friends and punishing your enemies...
...A national referendum would be extra legal but the parties could if they would •pee to give efficacy to its results specially so far as the Volstead Act •» concerned...
...September 24th, Monday, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS...
...Recreation Hall, 120 North Garfield street...
...Thomas Speaks on Pacific Hook-up Saturday, Sept...
...September 12th...
...My chief objection to the Governor's program is that it will not take prohibition out of partisan politics where as he admits it does not belong, but puts it in with a vengeance...
...As a result of the faithful laboramounting almost to a daily drudgery, ringing doorbells, traveling miles into the country to find out, perchance, whether an old comrade was still with us—the Campaign Committee has been able to announce that in all probability Thomas and Maurer electors will be on the ballot In more than 40 states...
...In one case a loan of (80,000 helped the firm to pull through and thus the Jobs of all the members of our union In that town were saved to them...
...The scale is $9.50...
...But I pass these matters to consider the Governor's modiflflcation proposals...
...The National Campaign Committee and our standard bearers, Norman Thomas and James H. Maurer, eacnesly appeal to you to consecrate yourselves to this work...
...The Endorsement in 1024 This last minute piece of skulldruggery so typical of Tammany in labor pontics got no votes away from La Follette aad served only to sicken the decent members of the Federation's rank and file with the tactics of the so-called '"labor leaders...
...Ohio Socialists File Presidential Electors Just as The New Leader goes to press, It is announced by the Socialist National Campaign Committee that the Thomas and Maurer electors have been filed In Ohio...
...Instead of having a nation-wide hook-up, which would include stations in the east and west, the campaign committee has broken the hook-up into two instalments...
...It is all too evident that such and such an official is worrying about the nice fat job that Tammany in New York or the Small-Thompson outfit in Chicago has doled out and he is going to do bis damndest to "swing the boys into line...
...Workers of New York State and every other state who are thinking at all along political lines know that until labor has its own party in this country it will be impotent politically...
...September 19th...
...September 18th, Tuesday POCATELLO, IDAHO...
...DULUTH, MINNESOTA, at the New Moose Temple, 418 West Superior street...
...The committee wants Thomas' address to go on the air at a time when most listeners will be available...
...Give us an opportunity to flood the distressed farmers and workers with our literature and speakers and we can stage the beginnings of a political revolution...
...had been the sacrifice mad* by the Socialist party during the La Follette campaign of 1924...
...You warn greedy employers everywhere that they cannot afford to cut wages, that they cannot forever take the price of their own wastes and mismanagement out of the mouths of the children of the workers...
...September 16th, Sunday, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, at the Trinity Auditorium, 847 S. Grand avenue, 2 p.m...
...An Appeal to Readers to Take Lead r£0 our Readers and Friends: We are now entering a phase of the electoral campaign that is of especial importance to yon...
...The Brookwood Labor College is the object of the attack In the editorial...
...The party managers have refrained from asking the army in the field to help bear the cost of the preliminary work of organization and filing of tickets...
...We are ambitious...
...FISHERMEN WIN 1-DAY STRUCK VANCOUVER, B. C—isoo salmon fishermen In southern British Columbia waters won a 12 per cent rates ha prices tag their catch after a 1-day strssa KM whites and 600 Japanese struck ¦ per* feet solidarity...
...Too much is a» stake...
...The National Campaign Committee and the National Office had to help weak and unorganized states...
...Organized news writers enjoyed their own celebration...
...You prove that the spirit of the workers Is not dead, that they know how to stand together aad how to fight...
...Then as the campaign went on and the Tammany job-holders inside the Federation began to do their dirty work, a rump meeting was held in some back-room and a few days before election it was suddenly announced that the Federation preferred John W. Davis to La Follette...
...More poorly paid workers spent their nickels for standing room on Conev Island, where nearlv a million persons enjoyed labor's hard won holiday...
...Rain prevented the Boston Common demonstration but the full program was broadcast over W N A C. In New York WE V D gave over the day to labor...
...In Nevada there may be some difficulty, but the campaign committee will make every effort to get on" the ballot there...
...KPO—Oakland...
...September 17th, Monday, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, First Congregational Church, Corner of 4th street, East...
...Into territories where Socialism has not been heard of for years, where old comrades bad been dispersed and new ones bad hesitated to come together, Socialist organisers worked their way...
...Our movement had grown weak because of years of persecution...
...Yon will never know the anxious hours spent, the labor of men in the field, and the financial worries that faced your comrades in completing the preliminary work...
...We must have as much and more for the real campaign...
...A fete sympathetic organisations and group* of devoted individuals bore the bur* dens...
...September 23rd, Sunday, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, Amalgamated Temple, 2.30 p.m...
...September 8th, Saturday, ST...
...It is largely due to the alliance between politics and the business unions who make it their business to go into the lowest sort of politics, all the while hypocritically proclaiming their "non-partisanship...
...September 22nd, Saturday, ST...
...In the shop, on the street, in your homes, everywhere gather contributions...
...Little credit however went to the trade union pioneers of the 80s and 90's who battled for recognition Of the first Monday in September...
...September 7th, Friday...
...President John P. Ryan of the Central Trades and Labor Council rejoiced in fair wages and better working conditions enjoyed by organized workers while Brig...
...South Dakota Tennessee Texas Of the remaining states, the time for filing for all but Nevada has net arrived...
...LOUIS.—Motion picture operators have rejected a 10 per cent cut proposed by St...
...Labor Paper Retracts Attack on Brookwood LANSING, Mich.—"Sorry 1" exclaims the Lansing Industrial News in withdrawing Its attack on Brookwood Labor College...
...The Work in the Field Murray E. King took up the week in Arizona and in New Mexico where the war-hysteria bad broken it off years ago...
...Naturally the union will use all its resources to defeat such a policy...
...The manner in which the Coolidge administration, dominated by Andrew Mellon and advised by the Hon...
...Moat serious of all...
...Honest wets will not vote for Al Smith, any more than honest drys *U1 vote for Mr...
...Locals and branches must be strengthened and new ones organized...
...At WUkes-Barre, President Casey of the Pennsylvania Federation of Labor called for the 6-hour day and the 9-day week to relieve unemployment...
...A number of organizers were sent into the state by the national campaign committee, who worked with the local comrades...
...Lewis's union is now a matter of tragic history...
...We are conscious of the attitude assumed by the executive council of the American Federation of Labor in this matter but we also realize that the decision of the council was taken ex-parte, a procedure much deplored by all unionists when followed by courts Issuing injunctions In labor disputes...
...Union carpenters already enjoy the five day week They will refuse to use lumber not handled by union mill workers...
...Here are the 26 states in which the Socialist party is already on the ballot: Alabama California Delaware Illinois Iowa Maryland Michigan New Jersey New Mexico North Carolina New York Utah West Virginia Wisconsin Arkansas Connecticut Idaho Indiana Kansas Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania South Carolina (74 counties of IB...
...The National Office at Chicago must have help...
...N. Y—A dime fare isn't enough for the International Railway Co., the Mitten system running street can In Buffalo...
...Herbert Hoover, succeeded in helping the operators break Mr...
...The complete hook-up, which includes all the Pacific Coast stations on the "red network" of the National Broadcasting Company, follows : KGO—San Francisco...
...If for no other reason, and there are reasons aplenty, workers who are alive to their interests and the future of the movement to which they belong will vote this year for Norman Thomas and the party which he heads, the only party which represents a real political organization of the workers...
...Sentiment in the South and Middle West has already crystallizzed against any such proposal...
...That the aforesaid "boys" stubbornly refuse to be swung into line, official endorsement or no, is one encouraging feature of an otherwise almost hopeless situation...
...You out in the field alone can provide it...
...The Chicago union has voted 835,000 for the Milwaukee fight and the temporary Milwaukee shop of Hart Schaffner & Marx Is an important new factor in the struggle...
...Hanson Ely at Fort Hamilton...
...fundamentalism...
...Hoover, who prom•**¦ '"to continue" to enforce prohibition laws which were never at any tune enforced by the administrations <* Harding and Coolidge...
...We may get more...
...This was the most difficult state of all for the filing of Socialist electors...
...New Yolk labor officials and political leaders were the guests of Maj Gen...
...Get your list and then get every contribution that you can...
...Each was armed by Campaign Headquarters with hundreds of names of prospective aides...
...MINNESOTA...
...Organized workers, save for the transportation trades, left...
...The various states must be helped...
...For, said he...
...What the final outcome of the case may be we do not know but we still retain our oDinlon that the executives of Brookwood Labor College are men and women entitled to the utmost respect and possessing a desire to do all that they can to aid the working people of America to secure better standards of living through the trade union movement...
...Kennedy Hits Communists Secretary Thomas Kennedy in a Labor Day statement widely circulated in the anthracite, called for a more vigorous fight against communism...
...Particulars are outlined hi the call which yon have received...
...DAKOTA, at the Fargo Theatre, Broadway, 2 p.m...
...Westchester is engaged in a heavy building program, due to the New York suburban development...
...He denounced the "great combination of capital that is seeking to destroy our movement" and called prosperity a myth...
...The exact time of Thomas' address on Saturday, September 15th, has not been determined...
...F Russia had not signed the military treaty, almost from the start that attack on war would have been * melancholy failure...
...And that is exactly what will happen with this endorsement of Smith...
...W. E. V. D.'s victory before Oh Radio Commission created a precedent of importance in the stpnfgle for freedom of speech and tnissliafri ing of minority opinions...
Vol. 7 • September 1928 • No. 38
