FIGHT GOESON TO RECOUNT BERGER VOTE
Fight Goeson To Recount Berger Vote Election Official Who Announced False Figures Revealed as Betting Against Socialist nflTLWAUlCEB, Wis.—Was Victor L. Berger, Socialist Congressman,...
...Buer and other members of the election commission voted to place the question of legality before the district attorney...
...16,593 Colorado...
...Train Dispatchers Win Three Wage Raises CHICAGO — (FP) — The American Train Dispatchers Association announces three wage raises...
...The votes In all cases are the official returns as reported to The New Leader by the Secretary of State In each of the 48 states of the country...
...Nothing was agreed upon in the direction of a remedy...
...1,094 1,564 i Pennsylvania...
...Any member who makes a wager on the election immediately acquires a financial interest in the result which makes it Improper for him to count the ballots which may win him money or lose money for him...
...Bner has not been friendly to the Socialists nn~e his expulsion from the party and his continuance on the commission as their representative is absurd...
...339 Florida...
...When we have wage aaTroaVsawAs ^Utt eBwpSJB-afaT tsat oar messbass against dismissal for afjtv Sat ire s|b scarcely osaapel any employer to take on a man whom sja considers too aid...
...124 Idaho...
...209 0 iutah...
...3,434 Nevada...
...The strike is of significance to the New York dress industry which is endeavoring to regain its tost ground...
...936 0 Ohio...
...1,528 381 I Wyoming...
...ante cast 1* the last elsstioo for | the socialist, socialist-Labor and Workera iCommunist) parties' candidates for j president and vice-president...
...The first few paylays show 60o an hour or mors, then In some mysterious manner the bonus disappears...
...Some years ago Bner was expelled from the Socialist Party because of some shady business transactions but while a member of the party he became a member of the election commission...
...The mention of It in my campaign speeches brought a greater response from individual victims than did any other Issue I brought forward...
...The conduct of Buer added to the conflicting reports of the vote in the 5th Congressional District and the fact that he retained his post long after he ceased ] to represent the Socialist Party makes...
...8,683 Oregon...
...10,878 4,211 North Carolina...
...H. H. Conland...
...The present rate Is $260...
...Mississippi...
...722 j Utah...
...As reported In The New Leader, tht Labor Party Joined with the 'Taxpayers' League" In the recent city elections on a fusion ticket...
...i The Milwaukee Leader concludes an...
...There are J many aspects of the New Bedford strike ! which are not generally known...
...While Thomas and Maurer received bat it,595 votes, Lena Morrow Lewis, for V. 8. Senate, received 26,624...
...Since last week...
...2,720 Pennsylvania...
...Green responded that the real problem of old age pensions was for men who were willing to go on working...
...TO* New Bedford Socialist local Is taking an active part in the Labor Party movement...
...1. The Louisiana Se Arkansas Is raising its dispatchers from $243 a month to $250...
...Courant...
...0 0 Maryland...
...Their employers locked them out after breaking the agreement by trying to introduce piece work...
...18,213 Wyoming...
...editorial on the case by saying: "The bets are paid now...
...It Is believed, give Impetus to the movement...
...He is making a study of the other proportional representation systems in other parts of the world, and of the progress that Is being made alone the same lines In various municipalities, tt was pointed out that a eonstitutian*si amendment would be required to accomplish the change...
...Georgia, 134...
...A start will be made on the New York Central with a demand for $385 a month...
...Hartford, Conn...
...Rowe Stewart, Philadelphia Record, and J. L. Sturtevant, Wausau, Wis...
...Demands for a revised constitution, that would provide for a system of proportional, representation, for the direct election of the president and vice-president by direct popular vote of the people, for reduction of the representation in congress of those states where large sections of the citizens are disfranchised by force or fraud, and for limitations upon the powers of the supreme court, were contained In the last national platform of the Socialist party...
...How Problem Can Be Dealt With "by Legislation" _ president of the American Federation of Labor, appearing before the Sonata awnnHMi on adswnssosi and labor, Di 11 sab 11 14...
...20 Maine...
...429 California...
...Would Dteoosnt Frauds In addition to providing a system where every vote cast for a minority would help that minority everywhere In the nation get its representation in congress, many of the frauds now employed In the...
...1.541 4,068 JWest Virginia...
...Smith, Ark., Southwest American and Times-Record...
...It is pointed out, would be the representation It would ; give to minorities, which may have millions of adherents and yet be unpresented i under the present single member district system...
...Sptnnen have been told they may expect a It to 30% cut on January 1 and those In other departments win suffer slashes of $ to 20...
...the whole proceeding suspicious to say the least...
...follows: California, 19,595 votes...
...1,240 488 New Mexico...
...Members of the Cotton Mfrs...
...173 0 New Jersey...
...3,704 0 Georgia...
...Palladium...
...faithfulness...
...When asked to explain the difference, between the two sets of figures regarding' the vote...
...Could another count of the vote be legally obtained...
...Walsh suggested that legislation for relief of men deprived of the right to •'work, because they had been wen out by their employers, might be considered...
...the following evils described as Inevitable under the present single member district system, would be corrected...
...Fuchs Elected Manager, Feldheim Business Agent Neckwear Makers Union Louis Fuchs, former business agent of the United Neckwear Makers Union, was chosen manager of the union, Louis Feldheim was elected business agent, and Edmond Gottesman was elected secretary-treasurer at the election of the union held Tuesday of this week in the Peoples House...
...large cities will become of little use, since the stealing of a few votes, or the use of floaters would not count for as much In the general national balloting as it does where a single seat is at stake...
...47 0 Vermont...
...Norther I the Cosszmvust nor Socialist-Labor press | has been able to present the figures thus far...
...Idaho...
...546 0 j Nebraska...
...Spinners work was doubled in the Beacon blanket mill...
...Cleveland Socialists Urge Rights Restored To Espionage Victims (By a Now Loader Correspondent) CLEVELAND...
...3.516 Minnesota...
...That brings In the question of old ago pensions," said Oreest anxiously...
...275 Girls on Strike Against 7 Dress Shops In Ozone Park, L. I. Two hundred and seventy-five fighting jlrls are holding the picket lines In Ozone Park, L. I., where they have been locked out by the employers of seven dress shops...
...I EDNA HASTINGS, Secretary...
...New Orleans Times-Picayune...
...The de-1 clsion is based on the ground that the election commission lost Jurisdiction when It certified the "final" figures to the sec-, retary of state...
...783 Total ........................263,163 Washington, 3,615...
...New Bedford Labor Party Bans Fusion Alliances In The Future Will Be Made Only Wulj Labor Groups, Is D* cision NEW BEOPOED...
...E. H. Harris, Richmond, j Ind...
...0 340 Montana...
...The New Leader hss received returns from California...
...3.451 722 'Michigan...
...An Illustration of the Inequalities of the present system is disclosed in the fact that while 47,003 Democratic voters in Georgia elected 13 members of congress, 41,000 cast in Congressman Berber's district failed to elect one Socialist, and a half million other votes cast for the Socialists in the nation failed to sleet a single Socialist member...
...18,647 ! j Rhode Island ..................South Carolina .................j South Dakota...
...He Is now on the relief and pub1 llclty staff of the Patersoo silk strikers...
...They are i,«W ton lumber carriers...
...0 0 Missouri...
...The only office contested was that of business agent...
...264 Missouri...
...j Frank Manning Available ; For Lectures in New York I Frank J. Manning, one of the strike ! leaders In the big New Bedford strike, Is I available for lecture dates...
...0 0 ! Kentucky...
...The bill requests the president to proclaim a full pardon and amnesty, with restoration of all civil rights, to all persons who, during the late war, "were convicted of utterances In speech or writing deemed to be prejudicial to the conduct of the war, or of conspiracies to violate war laws in which no acts of vlolenoe were involved...
...837 Louisiana...
...Rue ben Rubenstein 164, and Morris Splnrad 103...
...675 0 Connecticut...
...to testify on possible re me dies lor tin—i|i*»jnn li...
...8,633 Oklahoma...
...730 623 Delaware...
...What Is called a "National Miners' Relief" has merged with the other organization and this miners' affair was also a Communist enterprise...
...2,033* 380 | Rhode Island...
...The affidavits qoote him as saying, "When I saw how hoary the vote was going in White fish Bay I went down right away and put up all I conld get hold of on Stafford...
...435 New Jersey...
...It was a problem of enabling them to continue earning their living...
...Neither the, Communist nor Se~ cialist-Lahor parties appeared on the ballot tat California...
...Robert L. Smith, Charleston, W. Va...
...Other members are Harry Chandler, Los | Angeles Times...
...The Chicago St Northwestern Railway Is the last of the big roads In the western region to boost dispatchers' pay, granting a 59 Increase from 5255 a month to $264, retroactive to Oct...
...Fine," say the men, "it's lake with us...
...8,537 1,813 Indiana...
...It Is illegal under Wisconsin law for an election official to bet on elections...
...He suggested that the principle of workmen's compensation laws in the states would admit of the granting of relief to men who were fully worn out, quite as well as those temporarily disabled...
...The men call the newest racket "painless extraction," but the pain oosnea after the extraction...
...1,058 Maryland...
...The striking factor of the post-convention meeting of the party wis a decision that in the future the party win make no election alliances with say groups except those definitely labor in character...
...In the napping and card rooms, each worker must care for four machines instead of three...
...631 j Texas...
...Fight Goeson To Recount Berger Vote Election Official Who Announced False Figures Revealed as Betting Against Socialist nflTLWAUlCEB, Wis.—Was Victor L. Berger, Socialist Congressman, counted out in the November election and would a recount show that he is entitled to the seat that has been awarded to William H. Stafford...
...Walsh persisted...
...L. K. Nicholson...
...New Hampshire...
...Workers International Relief Is Communist Inquiry has come to THE NEW UAOER as to the reliability of the "Workers' International Relief" which Is soliciting funds for a variety of alleged forms of "relief," especially for workers in distress...
...j I Vermont...
...Kentucky, 837...
...Under the system advocated by the Socialists, and to be proposed by Congressman Berger...
...Shipstead Center of Senate Pact Figut WASHINGTON — (FP) — Senator 3hlpstead, of Minnesota, Fanner-Labor, > who has astonished bis progressive backers bp threatening to oppose the KfeOogg wM-rsnunrlstton pact, was called to the White House Dec XI to talk with President Coolldg* about it...
...Under the law he is still the Socialist member of that body, although the party has repeatedly tried to have him recalled but without success...
...J. S. Parks, Ft...
...Tabulaion of votes of Minor Parties Now Completed Socialist Parly Polled 2*36,1-50 in Nation...
...is a disguised Communist affair and it is especially active at present in soliciting contributions...
...44.454 21,187 •Foster also polled 2,687 as "Labor Party" candidate...
...Bays turned the tables by arresting a potto* officer who bad arrested Toohey...
...He thought Congress could recommend to the state the adoption of old age pension laws or other relief measures...
...The company makes the proposition to workers getting 55c an hour that they take 45c and a bonus that win make their pay run to 60-75c...
...Charles A. Webb of the Asheviile Citizen, In the low wage antl-unlon Piedmont district of the Carolinas, heads the committee...
...0 0 Totals...
...2,336 1,515 Ohio...
...1 "They say they're very sorry about it...
...Arizona...
...Gazette...
...In the eastern region the three districts of the Nickel Plate have fallen in line, the Clover Leaf and Lake Erie & Western districts paying $250 a month instead of $225 and the Nickel Plate district $260 Instead of $250...
...Maine...
...The mfus art resorting to "speed-up" methods sod other means of cutting wages further...
...This measure, promoted by he American Federation of Labor, auhorizes any State to bar or regulate the sale of convict-made goods produced In another State, under the same terms It Imposes on such goods made in Its own prisons...
...As these facts became known In Washington, several of Berp~r's colleagues In the House, though differing with him In politics, offered to assist him In getting a fair count of the vote...
...After a number of minor roads In the west have been handled by the union a new cycle of negotiations will commence in the east where standard wages are lower than in the west...
...Now it develops that Bner had inTested considerable money in the election...
...Admitting that he lacked evidence on which to obtain a conviction, Gardiner asked for the dlsTrrhwal of the ease, which was readily granted...
...1.293 jnilr.ols...
...Shipstead's wooing by the big navy social,lobby may i jeopardies too ratification of the...
...treaty as this session of Congress, Greens Refuses to Support Plan To Pension Aged Workers A. F. of L. Hea.4 C*t*t See...
...I Our readers should make a note of all tb»te bogus enterprises by which Communists get their funds...
...250 j Washington...
...8 j ' Virginia...
...or refuse to hire them, when they are past 4* or 50 years...
...Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana and Washington, as...
...It is becoming very serious...
...0 0 Illinois...
...59 0 Florida...
...321 645 Iowa...
...In the congressional elections of two years ago, the states comprising the solid south cast 74 per cent of its total vote for Democratic candidates, and 26 per cent for Republicans...
...all—but perhaps it won't be legal now...
...292 338 Louisiana...
...of Congressman Berger as the tendency j Is for members to favor one of their own | party...
...169 240 I South Carolina...
...Should the contest continue to the stage of be- I lng brought before Congress there would be little likelihood ^of a decision in favor...
...The California vote is disappointing...
...A few votes, cast by the write-in method, may yet be reported, but the totals*presented here will not be changed more than a few hundred votes at the most Workers- SoeUllstCommn.nist Labor Alabama...
...to go on with the recount...
...0 0 (Nevada...
...Congressman Berger expressed his appreciation for their offers but declined to accept any' contributions...
...6,205 I Kentucky...
...423 , Tennessee...
...3.630 Connecticut...
...Of even greater benefit...
...Continental Motors Full of Wage Tricks Out of the Continental Motors plant at Muskegon, Mich, come stories of new re- > flnoments in wage slicing that put to shame previous efforts of efficiency experts In the auto Industry...
...The men get only 45c with no bonus at an...
...107,332 North Carolina .................North Dakota...
...156 0 New York...
...522 731 Massachusetts...
...Jeannette Pearl, one of the founders of American Communism and still an active Communist, is In Chicago collecting funds for this, "relief...
...Record-Herald...
...They play upon ' the sympathies of working class organizations and enrich the treasury of the Workers' (Communist) Party...
...They are unorganized...
...These are questions that have a pita ted more than 40,000 voters Who supported Berger...
...Republican, by the official returns...
...Many dismiss men...
...This scheme was worked in Dept...
...4,853 1,921 I Mississippi...
...3,929 j Oregon...
...2.88 1 799 1 Minnesota...
...This organisation, like the "Internai tional Labor Defense...
...The Senate foreign relations committee, of which he Is a member, failed again on that day to . agree to report the pact...
...Yet, the Democrats elected the whole 76 congressmen from that section, and the Republicans got no representative, although they had 26 per cent of the vote, and should have been entitled to at least It congressmen...
...Congressman Victor L. Berger has under consideration a proposal for proportional representation...
...m the Interests of "truth and official...
...It la a nutter to be dealt wa» by an aroused pabUe opinion...
...Open Shop Publishers Name Labor Committee Leading enemies of organized labor and retainers of Industrial interests comprise the new open shop committee of the American Newspaper Publishers Assn., now carrying on a war against the printers recently locked out of four Al- j bany, N. Y. newspapers...
...That problem is an old one," responded Green...
...224 0 Tennessee...
...184 Q. Arkansas...
...These ! are Interestingly revealed by Comrade ! Manning In one of his lectures: "InterI estlng side-lights of the New Bedford i strike...
...1,6281 Nebraska...
...was unwilling to discuss old ago pensions far discarded workers, when that angle of the matter was brought up by Senator Walsh, of Massachusetts...
...4,036 Georgia...
...E. Burr, member ef the etectJn commission, began to loom as a prominent figure in the controversy...
...The existence of a solid south, so far as the congressional elections are concerned, would be done away with...
...South Dakota...
...The Federated Press reports that she has received contributions from Chicago local unions, including machinists, painters, lathers, coopers, maintenance of way men, theatre and wardrobe workers, railroad trainmen, barbers and forest preserve workers...
...Convict Labor BUI to Pass WASHINGTON (FP) —Senator Hawes ; ct Missouri has received pledges of enough 1 votes to pass his convict labor bill through the Senate...
...There is a growing tendency among employers," said Walsh, "to dismiss an increasing number of workers each year at ages lust past 50...
...6,774...
...1,5981 Massachusetts...
...Mass—the Labor Party of New Bedford and yidnlty wgC was formed as a result of the taMsj workers' strike at ha flat masting sflsr the municipal election two weeks age voted to keep the organisation Intact sol build It as a permanent Institution...
...Meantime another question arose...
...And that raises the issue of states' rights and federal righto...
...2,960 ! Kansas...
...These unions might Just as won make their contributions direct to the Communist movement for that is where the money will finally go...
...There Is nothing for them to do about It but stay on the Job or ret mad and quit...
...More Wage Cuts In New Bedford NEW BEDFORD, Mass.—(FP)—More wage cuts and more speed-up is the report of the National Textile Workers' union on New Bedford fine cotton goods mills...
...Following, the newspaper report of the vote came a report of the official I returns wh!:h grave Btafford a plurality, of only 739...
...The Socialists have polled in former years a vote which on the basis of proportional representation, would have entitled them to 30 members of congress...
...While the adoption of an amendment changing the system of representation Is not likely In the near future, the movement In direction of the new system Is malting headway, particularly In municipalities, and the attention that would be 3tven to It If proposed for congress would...
...Say He Made Bets...
...828 3*0 Kansas...
...Attorney Quick then declared that the I next step would put the question of man- I damus to order the commission to open i the count, before the circuit court...
...The controversy grow* out of the fact that Congressman Berger had consented to a recount but when the nswspapers reported that Stafford had a plurality of 2.53* Berger ordered, the recount discontinued...
...In the states where no vote is indicated, the names of the respective candidates did not appear on the ballots...
...0 0 j Virginia...
...3,871 [ Iowa...
...The following resolution has been passed by the Socialist Party of Cleveland: "Whereas, some 1,600 men and women are deprived of their rights of citizenship due to their convictions under espionage act during the war solely for their utterances In speech or print, and "Whereas, it Is unjust that these men and women should continue Indefinitely to be punished, by loss of their rights to vote, hold office, and serve on Juries for offenses during the emergency of war long since passed, and "Whereas, every other country has long since restored citizenship to all such opponents of the war, "Therefore, be It Resolved by the Socialist Party of Cleveland that the president of the United States be requested to , issue a general proclamation restoring ' the rights of citizenship to all such peri sons...
...Hew yon ' east steal with a by tegWettasi I cannot see...
...Connected with tt is the policy of physical examination of workers, especially by managers in mass-production industries...
...179 180 , Washinjrton...
...6,262 < Michigan...
...In those years they either had no representative, or only one...
...Anita Whitney, Communis* candidate for the U. S. Senate, received 154 votes by having her name written on the ballot...
...It passed the House at the ast session...
...New Hampshire...
...1,313 j .Wisconsin...
...2,615, jWest Virginia...
...Fuchs was unopposed for manager, receiving 1,116 votes for him and 113 ballots marked against him, Gottesman was . xe-olected secretarytreasurer without opposition, 1,152 votes being cast for him and 432 against him...
...I made a lot of money on Berber's defeat...
...Worken (Communist) 44,454, and £ocialist:lsibor Party 21,187, Official Reports From States Indicate | rTrHB MEW LEADER presents exeluj si rely this week the first tabulation j of the...
...3,019 Delaware...
...They are the members of Local 107 of the International Ladles' Garment Workers' Union, who, new to organization work, are packing into a brief period of time the experience it takes years to acquire...
...In a few days the commission received a statement from the district attorney which declared that It would be Illegal to continue the count...
...Despite the settlement of the strike, with a flu per cent wage cut, dissatisfaction among the workers is stUl high...
...4.866 New Mexico ...................New York...
...842 Ohio...
...I "But the recount should be continued...
...District Attorney Bans Recount...
...0 0 North Dakota...
...0 0 California _____.........—2- - Colorado...
...Feldheim was given 798 votes, Harry Fuchs 262...
...Although he denies that he ra~.de any wafers on the election in the 6th Congressional District, a number of citizens have made sworn affidavits that he did...
...19,138 Indiana...
...Ill 0 Texas...
...31, j where wages were cut from 65 to 42Vic Pennsylvania Evades Test on Cossack Rule I PITTSBURGH — (PP) — Charges of rioting and inciting to riot, placed against Pat Toohey, Communist, and John Brophy, miners' leaders, blew up when District Attorney Gardiner found himself face to race In court with Arthur Garfield Hays sad Clarence Darrow...
...The discrepancy between the two reports aroused suspicion and attorney William r. Quick, counsel for Berger, filed a petition to reopen the count' of the vote...
...Berger Proposes Citizenship for Espionage Act Victims WTASHTNGTON—A resolution to restore the rights of citizenship to approximately 1500 men and women who were convicted under the war-time espionage act for utterances disapproving the war has been introduced in the House by Representative Victor L. Berger, of Wisconsin...
...In the near future a membership earn, palgn win be gotten under way...
...Buer declared that tt was due to the fact thit in one case, the vote In the first and second wards had been added twice...
...Berger Mny Move For 'P.R.' System Socialist Considers Introducing Proportional Representation Proposal in Congress (By s (tow Lessor correspondent) ww^ASHTNOTON, D. C. — A radical change in the method of representation In the national legislature may be brought to the attention of congress when It takes .up reapportionment in the near future...
...3,739 J Montana...
...SACCO- AND "VANZETTT" SKIPS Leningrad— (pp) —Two big merchantmen, named the Sacco and the VansetO, have just been completed for the Soviet commercial fleet by the Leningrad-BelUc government shipbuilding yard...
...Attn, have not stopped at the 5% cut forced on 37,000 workers after six months'of strike, but are putting- over added reductions and burdening each operative with more work than ever before...
...401 0 Wisconsin...
...Louisiana, 20, and SOCIALIST PARTY VOTE—lOTg Alabama .......................—— i Arizona ........................Arkansas...
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