THE SOUTH'S CHALLENGE TO PROGRESS
The Souths Challenge To Progress Industrialized Workers Of Dixie Must Be Mobilized In Unions And In Own Party ¦«tjj rapid and amanng Transformation of American infatxy in the past decade has...
...A CLARION CALL NEEDED In the North the steel industry was lost in t9t9...
...Sen...
...OooUdge under tbe railway labor act aftsa negotiations presided over by the TJ...
...8 mesas that the average dividend income of these millionaires was vK$9...
...These surveys show that tbe great industries rising in tbe South have all the features of die carry feudalism of New England together with the "welfare features'* of the "company unionism" of the North...
...They are of the purest native American stock and generations of hardships have inured them to a very k)w standard of living...
...Labor organizers have been known to enter them and then to disappear...
...The old type of organization does not square with the organization of the masters...
...Great work, boys...
...424 17 9 il HJ £**»-$2«,0©9...
...We have reached m crisis m labor history...
...Bat, he said...
...Even the mill towns with their servitude probably represent an improvement over the drab conditions which they and their ancestors have endured for two hundred years...
...And now you're done...
...They can never be so long as this industrial feudalism persists...
...The Increase la pay will be retroactive to Stay 1, lSSS which vm give the *xooo amnloyss a fairly sawahla Christinas present In tbe way of bask pay...
...That way leads to complete disintegration of the labor forces still organized in the labor army...
...uhotoenararers and staraotypNorris Challenges Hoover On Big Navyj WASHDrOTOlf—(FP>—As forecast by The Federated Press after the election...
...From the standpoint of law the workers enjoy that abstract "freedom" that is too oftena mockery in the United States...
...The report shows that 44% of the mmbhs of the $5427 mnHonalrea was derived from dividend and Interest payments, while 66% of their incomes came from property or from ajnflstlim hi stocks, bonds and real estate...
...It is notorious that the overlords in the South exercise a tremendous power in shaping the legislation' of this region...
...You may get something out of tbe stenches by Christmas...
...You put both feet in tbe public trough and snuffled up everything in sight...
...3) lack of contractual freedom between masters and workers...
...The perceut1* from wages and salBrtrn correspondingly rises from $2.6% in the 2*e^°t the largest incomes to 56-9% for the incomes under $5,000...
...This is a spirit of solidarity which should be encouraged as Negro labor is a huge factor in the South and any program tint does not consider the Negro is Ekely to be wrecked...
...To be sure, but consider what the task is...
...How are we to wrench from tbe southern masters their power over legislation in that region without building our political power into a party of our own...
...The percentacc distribution of 1927 incomes by sources of income tOt» VnVr4/-»r*ar nsi |,.....— , - - ¦ wanna* <2**'*ta^ distribution Wages* Dividend* Speculative Other " **5oroe» by classes salaries Interest profits sources •Jader $5400 55.0% 11.4% 2.4% $0.8% •M00-$lo^0O ...7...
...Morris has told ths churches that if they want to have ths KeOoaa anti-war pact ratified and ths $374400,000 naval construction ,blTi killed, they must talk to Hoover, who favors the navy bin...
...Nor the Queens sewers...
...S3S 284 10.6 97.7 f^Wft-Wo.OOO...
...It is tbe most valuable and informing number of this publication that has appeared in a quartercentury...
...THE SOUTHERN FEUDALISM The trade unions now turn to tbe South in a flank moveBat and in tbe hope of getting workers organized in that Ktioc Here modern industry is developing like a flower ¦ a hothouse...
...The factory overlords have inherited the spirit of the old slave mastery...
...Vain trying to be as conservative as the masters themselves...
...For most people in New York, we mean decent, honest, working class people, the whole affair is one long earache...
...They fight every attempt to modernize the labor codes of the southern states...
...Professor Evans says that "Their policy is to have and to hold, and one thoughtful economist of the South has said that this philosophy is as definitely embedded in their minds as was the policy of slave-holding in the minds of antebellum southerners, and that it would take a struggle to change their policy.'* What is*to be done...
...For most people in New York the responsible heads of this Tammany administration of ours are no better than a bunch of dressed up bums...
...This brings to an snd a gontraavnap which started with requests for wage increases ranging from 11* to IS* tai tilted by the conductors and trainmen early In 1936...
...Papers Cut In Size ALBANY — (TP) — Onion printers walked out of four newspaper composing moms in Albany after five months of fruitless nerotistioni (or a ware increase, limited editions are being published with typewritten pages phoOnugiaved...
...Only a clarion call based upon a new idealism and statesmanship will avert disaster and lead to the heights of power...
...It could not survive if it were known...
...Dividends ranked next, providing this group with Z*ra» °f $949459,726, amounting to S6JS% of their income and giving ¦¦"•a average of about $850,000 apices...
...it goes from year to year and from industry to industry...
...They are not...
...8. Commissiooer of Internal Revenue «a hdhidmU incomes In 1927...
...They are class conscious, if you will Here is as big a challenge to the organized workers of the nation as the basic "company union" industries of the North...
...You've bad a public that were beg gar % for punishment and might have stuck by you for another term if you'd given them half a chance...
...Europe are present in the new southern capitalism...
...How To Get Money: Don't Work For It THE sharp maliea...
...In fact, the latter sjion is witnessing the rise of a mammoth factory industry through tbe migration of northern capital...
...The inter masters of New England, who fattened on the misay of men, women, and children, established much smaller ;faati than those rising in the South...
...Howard control the daDy acwipapif Said...
...The conditions are the result of the eeonmic mastery of the overlords...
...Speed Up In Prison On Auto Plates oesrNTNO...
...It brought these °* malttmimonaircn $284499487, representing 434% of their total tn*»d giving them an average of more than S 1,000,000 apiece from ** oouroe alone...
...To conquer freedom in these great industrial kingdoms means not paper resolutions or a timid approach to tbe oligarchs or assuring them that the mass below and the class above are brothers...
...Other anion prtonag trades, hrhatlng Sanaa.....i...
...These include (1) birth of workers in an economic status difficult to escape...
...They now meet in national conferences and represent an aristocracy of capital and finance that seeks to make this nation a paradise of feudal aristocrats with a laboring class submissive to their domination...
...But your jig will be up next Autumn...
...Xt is enttratr hnpossfbat for them to Snd positions in Denver because Bonlils and...
...And when this mob comes around for votes next Autumn, there's a whole lot of these same people who aren't going to forget about tbe bokus-pokus going on behind the scenes of the Kothstein case...
...4) social and home life of tbe workers under the dictation of the lords...
...between time who moat work for n nvtag and tease who get their living by the work of others ta suggested ta the MeUuiinary report of the TJ...
...heome from other sources includes incomes from private business, ¦^partnerships, rents, royalties and trust funds...
...As will be observed above tbe South presents some difficulties that are not found in the North...
...Here are 289 individuals whose incomes from dividends and from ?*r*clat,0o nt the market value of securities alone averaged about rf*0i*00 apiece...
...i^^Wsges and salaries represent less than half of aO the incomes reigj^^«JM»8> rnaaldefhly short of the total Income derived from THE TAMMANY JIG IS UP A Bit of Advice to New York's Mayor JhjOW ,tbey are beginning to make ar* w rsts in the Arnold Kothstein case...
...How are we to inspire the workers under the northern "company union" or those in the southern feudal baronies unless we scrap old policies, old methods, old views, and release the latent idealism of the mass to save this nation from autocracy and the masses themselves from the servility of a robot life...
...One more winter of wise-cracks at public dinners for you, Jimmy, and then—exit...
...And if there's any chance that these things be forgotten, the Socialists will be right on the job to jog up the public's memory...
...A CHALLENGE TO AMERICAN LABOR Here is the new capitalism whose underlying population tbe American Federation of Labor proposes to organize...
...S, 90* vote of the ¦imHiailiie of ths eon* doctors and tratomana is$siilmttom had given their «>Tken power to *sS S etnhv If they saw at...
...The argument h being made that both President Ooondge and President-elect Hoover- are publicly ta favor of the lag navy* bill—that they both beheve we should have ths biggest navy In civilisation and that we ought to pass tbe present bin as a step In that dkaotton.1* Conductors and Trainmen Accept Rail Wage Award CH7CAOO—Q7P)—PnvaTttng te be a party to any step which would endsBgsr the normal movement of traffic In ths western territory the train service employes of S6 western carriers havs accepted an increase of 6%« tn wages...
...total income reported by an tndrvldaale making Income tax *raa $29479417407...
...Bad cess to you...
...This country is being rapidly divided into the ruling and the ruled, the exploiting and the exploited, the masters and the mastered...
...This waa derived aa follows: $10,046,f^ni wages and salaries, $8428,702,060 from business, 81,748,JTf17 from partnerships...
...Tbe masters of Yankeedom and Dixieland have reached the same philosophy although by different routes...
...We wish that we could say that in w tbe most advanced industrial country in the world we ne more workers in industry organized than any other naig...
...Twenty-two days after tbe shooting of tbe gambler-fixer-racketeer, fat men are running in and out of tbe Grand Jury room in New York City, giving out ridiculous statements, making mysterious references to "tbe woman in tbe case...
...They van* 1st out without any further notice or pay than that one day...
...Handicraft aitstry is centuries old and in this machine age handicrafts ate and more belong to tbe past...
...Only about 17% of ** taeome of these Individuals receiving annually more than $60,000 has m tbe wages and salaried catenae, the remaining 17% being tejtesnj and partnership income...
...The magnificent fight of the textile workers at New Bedford dragged out to a miserable stalemate So...
...This hi a direct reflection of the extraordinary rise in recent ran ta the market values of industrial securities...
...This la about 49% of the $4,156,167,000 In dikkasa received by all the *,\TZ£.4Z persons included hi the returns...
...17.2 483 19.6 19.4 *jao,ooo-siso,ooa...
...With it has come many of die worst features of te New England factory system of a hundred years ago m native labor again is being crucified at the machine...
...American las gone through profound changes since, the dawn ids* century and instead of the labor organization changing £ tbe new world that has been created it vegetates in the 0 and policies of the last century...
...They do not mobilize by crafts and trades but by whole industries and then fink up with other industries in a fraternal alliance to fight labor organization and labor democracy...
...Then, to quote Professor Evans again, "Through the ownership •f all meeting places, of all residences, of all stores which •sight lend credit, etc, the owners are able to dominate the situation and to prevent unionization.'* Another factor in the situation is the Negro workers...
...Make no mistake about it, gentlemen of the trade anions...
...Nor any of tbe rest of the grafting that has been going on ever since Jimmy danced into tbe City Hall...
...God knows you've had all tbe breaks...
...To them prosperity has been a constantly increas** reality...
...Tbe whole southern region from the Athhc coast to Texas is undergoing a profound industrial revarioa...
...This year after many months of bitter privation the miners, the bravest fighters in America today, staggered on to undeserved defeat...
...These 99497 individuals whose net incomes subject to the tax «*etor ranged above $60,000 received a total of $1,805,978,000 to •rtoesss siooe tam 10Z7...
...The southern industrial revolution has in many ways avoided the intermediate stages of development...
...It is a prejudice which pays tbe overlords, not the underlings of both races...
...What they face now after one hundred years of labor organization is the "company union" mastery of many basic industries of the North and the industrial feudalism of the new capitalism of die South...
...No one will love you next November as once they did in May...
...Nor the Equitable bus Franchise...
...In some towns Negroes have refused to break a strike when it would benefit them economically to do so...
...Machine production in pat plants is tbe typical industry of today...
...They are conscious of their class supremacy...
...Things are getting so bad that tbe squirrels in Central Park are hiding their nuts from the cops up there...
...Yet it is the nt tot shows something of trade union organization while fe nodern industry of the North is feudalistic and its asters have made labor democracy almost an impossibility...
...A fores of 'open shop' printers la being assembled bat the publishers do not eav pact to resume normal publication for several weeks...
...2) economic binding of workers to the factory over lords...
...Albany Printers Strike...
...The task of maattfacturlng 2,000.000 plates is now' 90 per cent oompleted Among organund crafts affected by this oooTlct labor are blacksmiths, foundry employes, iron, steel and tin workers, painters, pi Inters' and dps stantpwa, pat* tern-makers, maebmista, metal engravers, moulders, metal polishers, steel and copper plate engravers and .sheet Inetal Newspaper Consolidations Strands 300 Workers rjKNVTR—(TP)—Three hundred skilled workers and their famines Joined the unemployed army when the Denver Momma Post and ths Denver awsnfng Hews nrddenly snspendsd publics tine by agreement between O. T. Bonn is of the Post and Roy Howard at ths ScrtppsHoward Interests...
...The great masters of capital have adjusted their jftm and policies in handling die human material they ¦ B their plants...
...They are organized in quite a number of occupations...
...The one cotton mill in Georgia is today a secret organization...
...But (his new industrial system of the South presenta one Jrikfqg difference with that of early New England...
...SLAVE-HOLDING MINDS CONTROL Thes conditions of feudal service are not a matter of statute law...
...Karris, pragreesree leader of the nation, has begun a aeries of challenges to President-elect Herbert Hoover that win furnish to the American people, in the coming months, abundant evidence of Hoover's 'T'-i.if* sympathies...
...Moreover, they are fortresses of tiutrial feudalism, of "company unionism" It is a striking thing that the trades related to and decoded from colonial handicrafts, the building trades, are best organized in the United States today...
...H. Y.—(«>)—Oonvksta of the Auburn Stats Prison taming out automobile license pistes for 1029 hare been so speeded up that the work Is four months ahead of last rears record, according to the Onmrnnslnnrr of Correction...
...Vain hope...
...is* *&± 249 164 f^.M0-$8<HX009...
...Thomas E. Jones of Fisk University writes: "The unusual fact, however, is the degree of loyalty manifested by the Negro workers for white employees...
...Unlike the workers of tbe company feudalism of the North, large masses of the workers drawn into tbe southern factory mill towns have little education...
...423 404 1L4 at^OO^OO and over .. 94 40.4 409 7.5 Total I. aajcst i(lxi »7.o...
...Quite a percentage of them are illiterate and they are drawn from the pocketed comunities of the hills...
...The trade union faces modem giants at the outset in the South, giants similar to the great industries that have established "company unionism" in the North...
...NOW OUR MILLIONAIRES GET THEIRS " *he largest source of income for individuals who received over «*$04O0 in 1927 wns prodt on the sale of assets held more than two ran...
...You affect to despise our strength...
...We are not Jeremiahs who enjoy tbe task of pointing (fcfects and defeats...
...The percentage of property Income scales down from over 90% esse of incomes of more than $1,000 to about 21% for net in**¦*• of less than $8,— reported to tbe tax collectors...
...We doubt it...
...Professor Mercer G. Evans shows that five features of the old feudal system of...
...The wnrfceni earns to work aa usual Monday morning and war* tohl it was the* last day...
...19.9 424 $14 156 fW,000-$500,o©0...
...Thar* war* 19$ Jobs afloQteatotmtrflorriaTtrs^ aracnakma...
...To win the right of organisation requires something like a religious crusade, an inspiring call to a determined struggle and a facing of facts that will induce the 'masses to do and dare...
...One leader of the Chamber of Commerce recommends this treatment for those who agitate unionism...
...salaries, h nanus sand partnership together provide 8.6% of the "tot incomes acainst T9.lt, of the Incomes in the lowest class...
...At the same time the factory fords and their business and financial allies are thoroughly organized in a unionism of their own...
...They are real rulers of industry and government in this country...
...You steal our votes, you and your %ang, Jimmy...
...For tbe royalties will come in bandy through tbe rainy days ahead...
...jss brought trade union organization to a crisis in its fgg...
...You better start writing some more lovesongs...
...But you and your frowd pigged the works...
...The Souths Challenge To Progress Industrialized Workers Of Dixie Must Be Mobilized In Unions And In Own Party ¦«tjj rapid and amanng Transformation of American infatxy in the past decade has remade oar industrial life...
...5) restriction of freedom to think, discuss and act...
...On the contrary our percentage of tbe ^Aer organized is smaller than in any other modern naig, The leading and basic industries, chiefly in the North, aj not organised at all...
...Can it be done by the old type of organization, old policies, and general conservative approach which has failed in the basic industries of the North...
...They are splendid fighters for a good cause but their poor education makes it difficult for them to learn...
...The train service men, ta aansptteg the wage increase without any change of rules ar* accepting the fast of 8 propositions offered them te the report of tbe *mw$w*y hoard snpnmtod by Pres...
...2S.7 984 154 22* •••"OW-f100,000...
...The trade unions still maintain the pol0 of the last quarter of Ac nineteenth century...
...the workers cannot afford to harbor the old spirit of race prejudice without sacirifidng the aim of trade union organization...
...Here at a total of SS.731,151.000 or about $111,000 apiece re***** ay these muTaamine not an account of what they did hut on P**uel of what they owned...
...Unionism is an outcast in both types of industry...
...7.4 41-9 364 14.4 »f».0OO-Sl,OO0,O0O...
...Tbe November issue of the American Pederationist carries a remarkable series of articles surveying tbe new capitalism of the South...
...The smaller industry of die earlier period had appeared in the Sooth before the Gvil War but it could not develop because the slave system provided unfavorable conditions for its growth...
...We cannot...
...The whole economic, social, recreational, educational and political life of these null towns is controlled by the overlords...
...2311,488400 from pronto on the sale of bonds, real estate, ate* 91497490449 from rents and royalties, £~«>2*l,167 from interest, $4,156,167471 from dividends, and $386,rssizi from trust funds...
...Labor's moralewas' never 'lower'than ilt 'nam.'" Tt~tr a symptom of decay...
...Organize these big industries, you reply...
...b addition they received $335,414,000 in interest and about RMa.759,000 In profits made on the sale of stocks, bonds and real •has...
...Nor the dummies on the Street Cleaning Department pay-roll...
...I In a letter to tbe Methodist and Friends church congregations at Aids, Neb, who had met in joint congregation and petitioned hhn to do all in his power to defeat ths navy bill snd secure prompt ratification of the Kellogg antiwar pact, Harris replied that be would gladly cooperate with them in both matters...
Vol. 7 • December 1928 • No. 50
