BROOKWOOD WILL GO ON WITH ITS WORK
Brookwood Will Go on WithitsWork Haste Charge* "SteamRoller" Deprived College of Hearing at New Orleans KATONAH. K. Y„—On returning to Brook wood Labor College from the fuw Orleans...
...In Kaunas (Kowno...
...We do rot accept the existing state of things *htch Inevitably brings child labor, uneaaployment, injunctions against trade winntorn, militarism and war to its train at a perfect and final system of society...
...Caaaille Huysmans, who had worked with Victor Adler for considerably more than a decade in the International to the closest cooperation and friendship, was asked by the foreign representatives to express their friendly messages and those of the whole International...
...Urges City Bund Homes Present housing conditions in the city are a "public scandal," Mr...
...3 Wast 16th streak -Telephone Chelsea 3148...
...We believe that under ne circumstances should these houses get any kind of legal white washing...
...Under the Dresden system a Municipal Burial Office provides funerals for all citizens at very low rates with three classes of funerals to allow for difference to taste...
...Bond & Share WASHINGTON.—(F...
...that it abandons tbe commission's efforts of last year "to divide the city into two zones based on land values and to aave tbe cheaper and less congested regions from high barrack-like construction...
...From Czechoslovakia came: Xomaschek representing the Csech Party and Czech for the German Party...
...Let me begin by setting forth the general background from which Socialists approach the situation...
...The lives of twenty-three of them were in immediate danger...
...We do not pretend to be conservatives or 101 percent patriots...
...A natural remedy for excessive funeral costs would be the development of - municipal funeral homes or cathedrals ; operated by the city at coat...
...30th a mass meeting was held in Seaham Harbour at which Mac Donald's candidature was rectified...
...from Hungary a large delegation under the leadership of Peyer, At the unveiling ceremony Professor Tandler spoke in the name of the Memorial Committee, Karl Renner for the Austrian workers organizations, and Burgermeister Seitz for the city of Vienna...
...John Burke, International President of the Pulp and Sulphite Workers...
...In Germany the law at present to force provides that a German woman who marries a foreigner automatically loses her nationality and assumes that of her husband...
...roll-call Jurgls had asked the official to cease his abuse of the political prisoners...
...This waa sufficient to cause this true servant of Voldemaras to beat Jurgls In the presence of the other political prisoners confined in the same cell...
...President Green put a motion to close the debate, which was earned...
...Forty political prisoners took part in the struggle...
...An entire building has been equipped with steam heat and other accommodations for the convenience of the guests...
...Music win be provided by the famous Paul White man Piccadilly Players...
...Tmmmm*Ut Btasaaha 3. Far and away the most serious defect of your proposed tow has to do with Its treatment of "old tow" tenements, that Undertaken Accused of Taking Huge Profits Out of Grief of The Poor Blanshard Exhibits $11.50 Casket and Compares It With $400 Coffins — Urges Cities Supply Service casket costing $11.50...
...Burial insurance ' only increases tbe tendency toward exi travagant funerals among the poor...
...We have no wish to deny some of the abatements made about us on the floor of tot convention...
...was exhibited on the platform of the Community Church, fat New Ycrk City last Sundaj night by Paul Blanshard...
...Brookwood set so bearing at this convention, despite earnest testimony on behalf of the icbool and pleas for a hearing and fair pay from such delegates as Tobias Hall, member of the Executive Council of the United Textile Workers of America, and delegate of the Pennsylvania State Federation of Labor...
...It certainly requires decentralisation of Industry...
...Unity House Ready For Winter Season Unity House of the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, at Forest Park, Pa...
...proved, or whether such education Is to be killed...
...A letter from a former student which sounded like an attack on Brookwood was referred to but no bint *» given of the existence of a later letter from the same student explaining Umself and exonerating Brookwood, although this later letter was published •everal months ago to the Illinois Miner and has been spread broadcast throughout the country...
...Four such > wards were selected and by the end of i this week the candidates will be noml•, nated...
...Vice President of the lbasachusetts State Federation of Labor, representing the Salem, Mass...
...At the eve- I nlna...
...Indirectly, however, in planning for housing your commission can recommend legislation which will make it harder or easier to facilitate the transformation of all New York into a city of canyon-like streets surrounded by barracks...
...It is proposed to attain this object by making it more difficult to obtain licences and more easy to withdraw them...
...Fresh Prison Infamies Against Socialist Prisoners I n Jails o f Lithuania (By a New Leader Cerraewaaeat) PARIS.—The Lithuanian Social-Democratic paper "SosOaiatmokrata" report* fresh acts of violence In the Lithuanian prisons...
...n Chicago Socialists I Prepare Stiff Fight e For Spring Election e (By a New L»-d>r Corre...
...Under the Swiss fun: eral system funerals are absolutely free according to federal law with free graves...
...The Union's battle against what it termed "unfair discrimination'* to the Board's refusal to grant the use of public school forums either to the Union or to other organizations using its speakers was at different times wages before the Commissioner of Education at Albany, carried into the courts and before a special committee...
...The primary is to February and - the two highest chosen in the primary go on the ballot for the April election...
...Sea ham, will therefore have as Its Parliamentary candidate Ramsay MacDonald...
...Such a corporation would save New York people many million dollars a year...
...It shows the busts of three Social-democrats who took a decisive part to the foundation of the Republic—Victor Adler, the founder of the Party, and Minister of Foreign Affairs to the first provisional Government, who died on the day before the official proclamation of the Republic...
...Women win also be Interested to aO the proposals of the Social-Democratic Party for the amendment of the laws which are not yet in accordance with the constitution and more especially fit regard to women's position to the family and tbe legal position of ilVglttmat* children...
...While the casket was smaller than adult size...
...Tn such an atmosphere tbe injunction jnued against Brookwood in October by the Executive Council of the A. P. of L. without any hearing for Brookwood was nrtined by the convention...
...They also refuse to allow the prisoners to leave their cells even fpr a moment...
...J. Bannister, delegate of tbe Brotherhood of Railway Clerks...
...In 1020 the Tenement House Department reported that fourteen of twenty-three buildings condemned as a public menace in 1885 are still occupied wholly or partially for residential purposes...
...A system of city zoning, including decentralization of industry, proper transit and park facilities were urged by Mr...
...Some people suggest cremation, but that is not a solution as cremation is now administered because expensive caskets are usually bought before cremation...
...I We believe that the present housing conditions in New York City are a public scandal and that this is true not only of the "old law" tenements but of the barrack like "new law" tenements and the acres upon acres of flimsy, ugly packing box construction in Queens which constitutes a very serious fire menace...
...The highest priced regular casket to Dresden costs $30 and the best automobile hearse can be rented for $8...
...Discussing The High Cost of Dying," Bumshard also exhibited a burial box foi pauper dead made by the City of New York for $1.73...
...P.).—Announcement of filing its suit to the federal district court to New York City to compel the Electric Bond & Share Co...
...I'm proposed new New York dwelling bouse law, on which the Temporary Commission to Revise the Tenement House Law which began public hearings Tuesday was attacked as "a capitulation of social interest and far vlaioned planning to the demands of landlords and speculative builders," In a memorandum submitted to the commission Monday by Norman Thomas on behalf of the Socialist Party...
...None of the 'old-law' tenements Is or can be made as safe as a tenement house ought to be from the risk of Are...
...On Oct...
...Chicago.—Socialists of Cook County - held one of the best attended and eni thuslastic meetings last Sunday that • members have attended to many years, l National Executive Secretary William H. t Henry made a report of the meeting of - the National Executive Committee meetJ tog to New York and the plans made for - future work...
...Each candidate's name ap. pears on the ballot without a party deslg' nation...
...This demand has caused particular excitement among reactionary middleclass women...
...The social-democrats demand for the extension of legal provision in regard to maternity protection to cover domestic employees and woman agricultural workers will also give rise to considerable agitation and propaganda...
...Collumbarium space is quite as costly as grave space and cremation usually cost about $40...
...New York's municipal' funerals for poor people," he declared, "cost only $12 while the average funeral bin of estates to New York County is $772...
...We differ, and claim the right to differ *th certain officials of the labor moveheat on their policies...
...A. C Bullock of Brown University studied I lOol families to Providence, Rhode Island, who were receiving aid under the Mothers Aid Law and discovered that they spent over 7 percent of their income for burial insurance alone...
...But organized Labor to Austria decided to erect a more lasting memorial to the victory won over the tyranny of the Hapsburgs...
...Thomas asserted...
...The casket Blanshard exhibited, which was made by the manufacturer of burial boxes for the city poor, consisted of a J velveteen covered box with brass bandies and a white satin lining, presenting the appearance of an ordinary commercial casket...
...These requests are less rather than more than should be asked...
...Election Held Dec...
...The Social-Democrats also propose that divorce should be made easier to case of lunacy...
...is located, assumes to the Winter a charm of its own...
...Tbe real issue la j"fher senntae, critical, free workers' 7*»tion with the union label on it, is *** totouraged and when necessary fin-"v:- . Socialists of Many Nations Join Austrian Party in Unveiling Busts in Vienna (By a New Leader Csrraspendciri) "TyiENNA—The first half of November was devoted to Germany and the Succession States of the Austro-Hungarlan Empire to the celebration of the tenth anniversary of the great revolutionary changes which resulted from the war...
...This, I think, you have notably failed to do...
...Social-democracy stands out as champion \ of humanitarian principles...
...The German Socialist Party was represented by Karl Kautsky, the French Socialist Party had appointed as its delegate Alexander Bracke, who however, owing to the unexpected ministerial crisis was prevented from coming at the moment: the Danish Social-Democrats sent Stanning, the Belgian Socialists Huysmans, tbe Russian Dan and the Italian Pittoni...
...Reducing the number of undertakers to this country would help much to reduce costs because the average small undertaker Is compelled to profiteer in order to exist...
...The mass parade which took place to the Ringstrasse on Nov...
...the political prisoners have started an action of protest...
...Wants Cities to Serve...
...We can meet this problem to a number of ways," Blanshard said...
...I am also aware that no more regulation can build the kind of new housing which the situation imperatively demands...
...MacDanaM's New Constituency (By a New Leader Cemiywlut) London.—It is well known that Sidney Webb has signified that, in view of his advanced age he cannot stand again for the House of Commons...
...The Socialist memorandum, sent to Harold Riegelman, chairman of the Commission, yesterday, follows: Memorandum en the Proposed New Dwelling House Law To the Temporary Commission: I have been asked to appear before you to represent the Socialist Party of New York...
...In this town of over a million inhabitants it has been possible to base the supremacy of the working-class on ever deeper foundations and to create an example of constructive Socialist administration...
...Donens of letters from loyal Brookwood graduates who are she loyal members of A. P. of L. unions, with much better labor records than the Brookwood attackers, were to the possesSon of the Executive Council...
...It is, for example, a monstrous thing that the transit facilities in New York present to private owners, along Eighth avenue, for example, three and four hundred per cent increases to value at the City's expense, which increases in value are due to new construction made possible by the subways...
...It Is fighting not only for the abolition of the death penalty, but It is also to favor to the case of other forms of punishment of \ substituting tbe Idea of educative treatment for that of retaliation...
...Tbe Reichstag met at tbe *T*"T'lr'g of No. vember...
...The . constant policy of suppression reached its high-water mark October 28th, the day of the National Celebration, when the "SoclaJdemokrat" came out with great white patches on its front page...
...The big six are the American Gas «te Electric, the American Power & Light, the Carolina Power Sc Light ,the Electric Power & Light, the Lehigh Power Securities and the National Power & Light Co...
...Another type of successful funeral experiment exists at Frankfort where the Municipal Burial Office charges families according to their Income with a maximum price for a funeral of $57...
...This is true not only of "old law" tenements, he said, "but of tbe barracklike 'new law* tenements and the acres upon acres of flimsy, ugly, packing box construction in Queens which constitutes a very serious fire menace...
...Prof, jobs Dewey of Columbia University had teen referred to to the report of tbe conTeBtion18 Committee on Education as the foremost educator In the United States.' m the debate on Brookwood, Vice Presldest Woll remarked that Professor Dewey lad recently been to Russia and accused him of being a Communist propagandist...
...This began on October 13 when the prisoner, Jurats, was cruelly Ill-treated by one of the prison officials with the help of some of the warders...
...We believe the labor movement wants genuine workers' education...
...Unity House this time of the year is as beautiful as it is to the Spring and Summer...
...For further information apply to the Educational Department of the International Ladles' Garment Workers' Union, S West l*th street...
...The total cost of a first-class Dresden funeral is about $100...
...If we re. garded death as a legitimate social emer. gency similar to a street accident, we ¦ would insist upon handling funerals on a , non-profit basis under community auspices...
...Tbe law at present to force was drawn up by men for men and pays no attention to the legal equality of men and women In marriage...
...The A. F. of not claim any right to dictate to "¦Mated bodies to these matters...
...We Socialists believe that under no circumstances should these houses get any kind of legal whitewashing...
...The municipality of Vienna placed at their disposal a par« ticularly suitable site in the Ringstrasse close by the Parliament House...
...Women am also Interested to the Public Houses Bin...
...The bust of Adler, executed by Hanak himself, is an extraordinarily good likeness and a real work of art...
...The Government Is submitting to t'JS Reichstag, a bill on public houses fit -he preamble to which it is stated that the bin is intended for tbe protection ot young persons...
...12th, on the anniversary of the proclamation of the Republic, was on a larger scale than any of the previous big demonstrations of the workers of Vienna...
...By the 18th of October at the end of Ave days, the condition of exhaustion of the prisoners who were already in a reduced state, gave ground for anxiety...
...The elections for the provincial and district assemblies have been fixed for Dec...
...Fees amounting to more than $8,000,000, equivalent to over 43% of the Electric Bond & Share Co.'s gross profits during 1927, were paid by controlled and affiliated companies," says the Commission, "under supervision contracts for management, supervision, engineering and construction services...
...from Poland Diamand...
...The United Neighborhood Houses who speak with special authority on the matter of old law tenements made uve requests of you...
...Brookwood win therefore go on with Its work...
...Of the five requests those dealing with the removal of all outside toilets and the prohibition of the occupancy of cellars for dwelling purposes you have dealt with...
...Blanshard explained that this was for...
...In New York City 92 percent of the undertakers have only two ¦ Here you have gone backward even from the mild and unsatisfactory requirements you suggested last year...
...Three types of municipal funerals - have been immensely successful to con: tinental Europe...
...We believe that it Is possible to make New York a city of decent, comfortable and even beautiful homes with many parks, playgrounds and breathing spaces...
...The proposal of the United Neighborhood Houses on this subject was ieasonable in that it would have given six years to bring this most moderate and just requirement into full force...
...What has changed your Judgment fax this matter...
...New York Socialist and associate editor of The Nattoa, as a "proof that the average funeral fit New York City costs at least five times ss much is it ought to cost...
...The exigence of these letters was not even hinted at...
...When a convention can be appealed to...
...More than half of these fees were for general supervision as distinguished from engineering and construction services...
...Socialist Women in Reichstag ' Revision of Divorce Laws \ Sought—Other Socialist i Activities of Women r (By a Naw Laadar Cai i npiaiial) r BERLIN — Comrade Maris Juchacst ' member of tbe Reichstag, has written tat the "Oenosstn" (Woman Comrade...
...When the Brookwood matter was again brought on the floor, Mrs...
...And you have not this year proposed even the minimum standards of fire prevention which you proposed a year age as tbe teat that would satisfy the public conscience...
...The memorial which is the work of the foremost sculptor of Austria, Professor Anton Hanax, in spite of its essentially modem character blends perfectly with the architecture of the town...
...Father Magulre*s Appeal...
...The social-democrats also demand the Introduction of a domestic service bill, which waa promised to November 1918, but has not yet been drawn up...
...Tar aad sway the moat serious defeet fat year prspeeed law," Thomas* memorandum said, "has to da with Ms treatment oC 'old law* tenements...
...3, 193...
...Ninety per cent of the evidence Introduced by the spokesmen of the Executive Council came from letters written r? three or fouc, disgruntled former students of Brookwood...
...and that it falls to correct tbe abuse of "old law" tenements...
...The Socialdemocrats demand the repeal of such reactionary provisions...
...htuste went on to say that The Brookwood matter was dragged into the Ssi I mil hi out of order...
...The German Social-Democratic Party to Czechoslovakia has Issued a manifesto To the working-people" to this connection, summing up the results of the International bourgeois coalition, taking up a definite stand against the communists and laar rtktog the eomtog elections as the dag of reckoning for the I funerals a month...
...It is beautiful, stimulating and the climate is exceptionally healthy...
...Special rates have been arranged for the Winter...
...And you have not this year proposed even the minimum standards of fire prevention which you proposed a year ago as the least that would satisfy the public conscience...
...On the other hand, we have always ""•ted that we do not indoctrinate stuwith Communism or with the ism * Pay other section of the labor move*y and that we are not controlled by, ™*»ced by or committed to the policies ** fee Communist or any other political We challenge anyone to show a **je shred of evidence brought on the ¦jar of the convention to disprove our *¦» in this regard...
...2 (By a Naw Laadar Carrasaandaat) Prague.—The press of the German Social-Democratic Party in Czechoslovakia is still exposed to repeated persecution at the hands of the censor...
...This new construction in turn fully discounts In advance any benefit those new subways may bring by way of relief to the transit situation...
...The aldermanlc election in off years is i nonpartisan...
...Fourteen of 33 buildings condemned as a public menace in 1885 are still occupied wholly or partially for residential purposes...
...They t discussed candidates for Aldermen to the ; coming spring election and decide to • concentrate their fight in those wards t that are most promising...
...The other two busts, which are the work of other hands, do not unfortunately come up to this high level of perfection, but the general effect of the Monument to the Republic, taken as a whole, is very impressive...
...A wife is therefore placed at a disadvantage at the very time when her need of legal protection Is the greatest, i.e., where she desires to take torsi proceedings against her husband or to sue for divorce...
...Central Union at the convention.'* air...
...His constituency...
...Muste stated, "The *•*• of L. suggests to affiliated bodies ™*ttey withdraw moral and financial Jwrt from Brookwood...
...Here you have gene backward from tbe mild leqahciaenta yea sag rested last year...
...The comrades of the unfortunate man did all they could in his defense, but in spite of their protests and shouts for help Jurgls was bound and dragged out of the cell dressed only In his underclothes...
...An American woman can remain an American even when ahe marries the citizen of another State...
...In spite of all this, however, the strikers are determined rather to die than to yield...
...Owing to my necessary absence because of speaking engagements to Pennsylvania, I cannot appear in person and therefore beg leave to file this memorandum in addition to such representations as may be made in person by other - - -* F-i-i-liat Party...
...The workers in all these countries arranged celebrations and issued manifestoes to commemoration of the introduction of the Republic...
...Blanshard estimated that the people of New York City pay $28,000,000 a year to exI cess funeral costs...
...Exemption from this provision can be obtained...
...transportation purposes and that an adult size could be manufactured for $13 to $15 and retailed for $25...
...The lamentable failure of Governor Smith's housing law and the even more complete failure of Mayor Walker's occasional efforts in this direction give new point to the Socialist contention that New York City requires municipal housing erected and administered by a municipal housing authority...
...Imprisonment for life, the provisions contained in the Bill in regard to s the cure or the rendering innocuous ot drunkards, morphenomania.es, etc, the minimum age for punishment, the whole \ question of the penal law in regard to sex offences (abortion, offences against | public morality) and the reform of con, dittons under which sentences are served...
...She was refused recognition and on the pretext that it seemed to be the sentiment of the convention that there had been sufficient discussion of the matter...
...They should be condemned aad destiujid within a reasonable spaee of time beginning with these which now have the meet violations against them...
...to answer questions and furnish books and papers to its power trust investigation, is made by the Federal Trade Commission...
...The Social-Democratic Party, the Trade Unions, Co-operative Societies and Labor Boards together raised the sum necessary to create a memorial worthy of the Republic...
...None of the old law tenements is or can be made as safe as a tenement house ought to be from the risk of fire...
...That has changed your Judgment to this matter...
...In view' of these facts we cannot but regard the proposed law as a serious surrender of the public interest and tbe safety and well-being of men, women and little children to the interests of private profit makers...
...They demand that Comrade Jurgls should be restored to them and that the whole matter should be inquired into by the public prosecutor...
...of L. ***> by a distinguished Roman Catholic Meat, Father J. W. Maguire, to clean the of labor of 'crooks, grafters, rack**n and murderers' and then go on tor feni without making any further refer•*** to this matter, while repeatedly not 'arJVahunming Communism but trying to Ma Cohuaunism on every progressive proration and individual, we shall shed no **** over having incurred its condemnation...
...Women comrades especially condemn the clause which provides that a petitioner for divorce must prove to the court "serious Infringement of the duties arising out of marriage or dishonorable or Immoral behavior such as to Involve so profound a disturbance to marital relations that the married parsons cannot be expected to maintain their married state," or to the last resort "brutal ill-treatment," This clause Is responsible for the degraded state to which divorce proceedings to the courts have sunk...
...Hanson stood squarely to front of President Green with her band rtked in order to get attention for her notion that I be given the privilege of the floor...
...Steam TSolJer at Work...
...Walker's Efforts Fail Now I am aware that your commission has nothing directly to do with this phase of the situation...
...The members were pleased with the ; work and plans of the committee...
...Mrs...
...These celebrations were held on the largest scale to Austria and especially in Vienna...
...She was informed by President Green that her motion was out of order at the time but that she would be dowed to make it later...
...Respectfully submitted, NORMAN THOMAS, In behalf of the Socialist Party - German Socialist Press Fights Czech Censors...
...Telephone Chelsea 314a The final arrangements for the Unity Reunion has been made far Saturday evening, February 2nd, 1939, to the Grand Ballroom of Manhattan Opera House...
...The Blue Ridge Mountains, to which Unity Hour...
...N. Y. Dwelling Bill Galled Backward Step Thomas Presents Memorandum On Proposed Law In Behalf of Socialist Party...
...Thomas...
...is open for the winter season...
...The municipal elections to Brunn will also take place on the same day...
...Jacob Reumann, the first Socialist Mayor of Vienna, and Ferdinand Hanusch, Minister for Local Government, under whose administration the social legislation of AustriaGermany came into being...
...The proposals for the amendment of the civil code and particularly for the reform of the marriage law will arouse great interest...
...Mu| nlclpal housing erected by a municipal housing authority was stressed as a prime need...
...Basing his address upon a recent study of funeral costs made by John C. Gebhart under the auspices of a distinguished committee of church and industrial leaders and financed by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, Blanshard charged that the average undertaker marks up his caskets about $400 above costs...
...A large part of the difference between the $12 figure and the $772 figure is taken by the morticians who profiteer upon grief because the city has not developed an adequate method of meeting the problem of funeral costs...
...This Is particularly noticeable to regard to tbe difficulties placed to the way of divorce...
...Tickets can be obtained from tbe Educational Department of tbe International Ladles' Garment Workers' Union...
...In America and France the law has been amended in favor of wives...
...No better place can be found for a Winter vacation or week-end than Unity House...
...That, of course, is not the business of your commission, but It is the business of your commission to recommend regulatory legislation that will fit into the general plan for a better city...
...More specifically we offer the following critcisms: 1. The reasons which led your commission last year to include even single family dwellings in the scope of your law were cogent, and to omit these dwellings, some of which may easily pass into the class of rooming houses, is to lessen the possibility of an ordered and comprehensive program for New York City...
...It represents a capitulation of social interest and far visioned planning to the demands of landlords and speculative builders...
...We hope for and shall appreciate the support of an honest and progressive elements to the future as to the put" Federal Trade Commission Opens Court Fight On Elec...
...Henry declared that the 1 national organization expected Chicago r Socialists to build their important section • of thw'party...
...Thomas y. ItcMabon, International President of the United Textile Workers...
...3. You abandon the attempt you made last year to divide the city into two zones based on land values and to aave the cheaper and less congested regions from high barrack-like construction...
...Brookwood Win Go On...
...In America municipal funerals will be fought by many private Interests but a large limited-dividend corporation for funeral business similar to the City Housing Corporation would be an Immediate success in New York...
...K. Y„—On returning to Brook wood Labor College from the fuw Orleans convention of tbe American ftdera.tion of Labor, A. J. Muste, Chairof the Brook-wood faculty, made the ^Bowing statement: "The New Orleans jonrentlon developed the temper of a vMeB.hnnt and a lynchtog-bee...
...I do not profess technical competence ' to discuss certain details of the bill and _____: l_____i—y re..iar^s to lis more | important social aspects...
...The text of the Commission's application for a court order to compel testimony and the opening of records by the holding company for the General Electric ' group to the rower trust shows that Elec| trie Bond Sc Share controls six main | holding companies, which in turn control about 150 operating electric and gas companies and over 100 other companies, some of which are inactive...
...whether the 'labor movement wants to keep the minds of the workers closed and take the risks which that involves, or open the minds of the workers and take the risks which that involves...
...Our literature has always openly stated that *e believe to a new social order...
...New York is the most prosperous city in the world yet in countenancing these old law tenements it accepts lower standards of safety and decency in housing than today prevail to the great cities of Europe...
...We ** confident that hi this case tbe action convention does not represent the ¦*jWered opinion of the trade union r"»*nt and of the rank and file of the ¦J**"8 °f America...
...The object of the Social-Democrats' proposals Is to relieve the petitioners of the obligation to produce such proof...
...Thomas had the following specific criticism to make of the proposed law: that it omits reference to single family dwellings "some of which may easily pass into the class of rooming houses...
...This requires an integrated program of zoning, transit, park planning, housing construction and regulation...
...The political prisoners throughout the whole prison then demanded to speak to the public prosecutor, and on his refusal to appear and hear their complaint, they all embarked on a hunger strike...
...Among the moat Important sub' Jects down for discussion that of the re1 form of the penal law win arouse special Interest among women comrades as It ln, volves such questions as the death pen. alty...
...The Executive of the German SocialDemocratic Party to Czechoslovakia at a meeting which it held on November 6th considered the persecution of the party organs and of the Socialist Youth organisation, the leaders of which have been proceeded against for anti-militarist propaganda on the basis of the Law for the Protection of the Republic At the same time attention was drawn to the suppression of the Communist press to Czechoslovakia...
...The prison authorities have had all the bedding removed rrom the cells of the prisoners who are on strike, so that th» half starved men are obliged to lie on bare stones...
...It is very difficult to see why you are so tender of property rights in old law tenements which have paid the owners many times over the cost of investment...
...Mayor Daniel W. Hoan of Milwaukee will help to the campaign and a banquet is being arranged with Hoan as the prin! cipal speaker...
...Vice President Won and others attacking Brookwood were given ample tune to make their sktements but each time Brookwood deleaden got into action, the motion to daw debate was quickly made...
...In other words, your proposed law win be a long step forward to the ultimate reduction of an New York City to a city of barracks...
...Florence Hanson, Secretary of tbe convention's Committee on Education, sought to obtain a bearing for me u a Vice President of the American Federation of Teachers and a member of the Brookwood Local, A. F. of T„ which was under attack...
...They should be condemned and destroyed within a reasonable space of time beginning with those which now have the most violations against them...
...In general you permit all over tbe city buildings so high and bulky that the bouses of our people win have lass light and less beauty than they ought to have...
...Hitherto adultery baa constituted an obstacle to re-marriage, where such adultery Is declared to the decree of divorce to have been a ground on which tbe decree was granted...
...New York Board of Education Lifts Ban On Liberties Union Action of the Board of Education of New York City to stating its willingness to grant permission to the American Civil Liberties Union to hold a meeting in the auditorium of Stuyvesant High School to discuss free speech ends a controversy of over two years' standing...
...This flagrant contravention of the freedom of press to the Czech Republic has been duly held up to public obloquy by the Socialist press of other countries...
...The following day a motion to expunge tram the records of the convention all references to this outstanding educator ind philosopher was actually carried...
...Florence H*"*"", International SecretaryTreasurer of the American Federation of Teachers, and Charles L. Reed, a Brook - wood graduate...
...At the unveiling ceremony were present not only the representatives of the workers organisations of Austria, but a large number of our fellow organizations to other countries had sent delegates or messages...
...You have receded In your demands for tire protection, you do not grant the entirely reasonable request that each family must have its own toilet and, finally, you do not prohibit the occupancy of rooms without direct access to the outer air...
...The proposed new wording Is as follows: "A married person may petition for divorce where the marital relationship has been so disturbed or such Incompatibility exists between»the conjugal pair that one or both of the persons cannot be expected to maintain the relationship...
...aa this convention of the AJP...
...Cremation is probably the ultimate civilized method of burial, but in order to make it come within the means of the common family large-scale development must take place with municipal ownership or the check of a nonprofit, competing corporation...
...conclusion, Mr...
...The question of the nationality of wives must be reconsidered...
...Thaw small undertakers pray upon the poor with the result ' that tbe average poor family uses nearly | aU its insurance for burial purposes...
...In every important respect your bill is worse than the inadequate bin which you presented last year...
Vol. 7 • December 1928 • No. 51
