INJUNCTION BILL FIGHT POSTPONED
Injunction Bill Fight Postponed (jbor Tells Senate Committee It Considers The Shipstead Bill Worthless fABHINGTON — (FP) — President Oreen of the American Federation ** Labor has given up...
...The regularly elected delegates of the local branches have automatically become an opposition group...
...But since it is not possible for the government without capital or technical skill to embark on these enterprises, the manifest says, the aid of foreign capital should be sought...
...In connection with education, the manifesto takes a position against the participation of students In public affairs, which activity has been such a great factor in recent years of Chinese struggle with progress...
...The most prominent and intractable of these are in severe solitary confinement, whilst the others enjoy certain privileges...
...Roumanian Government Postpones Promised Amnesty Until 1929 <By a New Leader Correspondent) BUCHAREST.—In connection with the celebration of the Independence of the Independence of Greater Rumania a far-reaching amnesty was planned by the new Manlu Government for Dec...
...19, that the subcom•jtte* substitute measure was worthless, $e last chance of progress in this sesbcd was ended...
...The new government, in conclusion, summarizes its philosophy: "Let the most Intellectually advanced supply the initiative...
...In Albany the 230 locked out union printers continue their struggle through the publication of their daily, the Albany Citizen...
...Bujor, now confined In DofUina, and deliver the unfortunate victims of political oppression and violence from the dungeons in which they are burled...
...His fate recalls the most terrible cruelties of the Czarist regime...
...Amongst the political prisoners there are many workers and peasants...
...He will be equally deemed disqualified to join in movements harmful to society and ruinous to themselves...
...Socialist Unity In Bulgaria 'By a New Leader Correspondent) SOFIA, Bulgaria.—Representatives of the Socialist Party, the Socialist Federation, the Right-wing group which was excluded from the party last year, and the "New Way" group (ex-Communists), have recently been holding conversations with a view to amalgamation...
...Introduction of the Teietypesetter will drive thousands of printers from their trade...
...the straw mats on which they lie and the blankets which cover them are simply crawling with vermin...
...So the three pro-labor senates drafted, with the expert help of Donikl Rlchberg, Chicago counsel for rati libor organizations, a substitute bill...
...The right opposition group consists of 88 members and the national minorities group of 70...
...It Is therefore ear parpose to adhere firmly to the principles of eeuality and reciprocity and of foil respect for the sovereign rights of ear Republic and with these principles in view to seek the aid of foreign capital as far as possible and to utilise men of technical ability so that great results will be achieved with a great economy of energy...
...The plan of revolution stipulates "that the revolution must pass through three phases...
...INDIANAPOLIS—(FP)—Asked for an expression of union policy regarding the Teietypesetter, Secretary Woodruff Randolph of the International Union, said: "The policy of the International Union concerning the Teietypesetter cannot at this time be expressed, inasmuch as no policy would be declared In advance of definite knowledge as to the purpose and effect of the machine...
...Stewart was opposed by Dean Moore of the science department of Purdue University...
...The conference selected a committee to study the question of how "robust" a worker hanmin* radium paint should Jre...
...The period of Military Supremacy" Is passed...
...Bat since it Is not possible to embark on industrial enterprises without incurring heavy frnsnrtal investments which seem prohibitive to the limited financing-power of society and the restricted progress of science in earcountry, success in the near future Is unpromising...
...This declaration was sent to the Finnish Ambassador at Stockholm...
...The new national government must be an all-dominating force, "the pivot of the Political Tutelage campaign...
...The three parliamentary groups have agreed "to set up a permanent conciliation committee for the protection of the Republic and of Democracy...
...Unlike the linotype machine, which cheapened production costs and enlarged the number of jobs for all printers, the Teletypesetter kills the printer's job altogether...
...See Action Long Delayed Instead of bringing this suggestion to ¦mis, Walsh and Blaine Immediately •fter the New Orleans convention, Frey sat Woll did not communicate with the ssteommlttee at all, so far as is now known...
...He is trying to buy a Brooklyn paper...
...BERLIN.—The News Leaflet of the Russian Social-Democracy "PSD" gives the following report of the situation in the prisons of Soviet Russia: The two Moscow prisons which are under the authority of the G. P. U. (the Lubjanka and Butyrki prisma) are filled to overflowing...
...At the same time the sovereign rights of the Chinese Republic must be closely guarded, guarded...
...The third party, Congress of the Koumintang, the government party, which, after long delays, Is soon to be held, is to be made up of delegates half of whom have been hand-picked by the government...
...The paternalistic, even dictatorial, policies thus announced have the merit, at least, of being frank...
...The object of the Committee is to bring about cooperation between the three parties in regard to all questions affecting the consolidation and "protection of the Republic, of Democracy and of the parliamentary system...
...Ethelbert Stewart, chief of the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, urged a conference of 75 scientists called to Washington to deal with this problem that the commercial use of radium should be discontinued...
...He said radium could still be used in medicine by experts, but that factory workers' lives should not be sacrificed to a mere fad for having luminous watch-dials...
...The educational situation "is so discouraging that the very existence of our race has been imperilled...
...The court recites that the Landis Committee, an Illinois corporation, had up to the time of the declon (Dec...
...Woll nd Berry Silent Gannett talks vaguely of negotiating with the I. T. U. over the changes resulting from the new Invention...
...Enterprises of a monopolistic nature," it Is held, should be inaugurated by the government "instead of entrusted to private hands...
...Twice a month whole troops of prisoners are sent to the Solowetzki Islands and Memj...
...The Period of Political Tutelage" Is now at hand, while "the Period of Constitutional Administration" is an object to be strived for...
...Only the telegraph operator, sending the copy from a distance, perhaps of thousands of miles, Is essential to the production of type...
...let the less intellectually developed do their part tn executing plans...
...Stewart Asks Ban On Commercial Radium Use WASHINGTON (F...
...More than a month after the 330 printers had been locked out of Albany newspapers, neither President Matthew Woll of the Photo.Engravers nor Major Berry of the Pressmen has said a word in support of the Typographical members...
...Editor & Publisher says...
...Those labor unions which exist have the features of the Fascist governmental-controlled associations...
...Now Creen has determined that the Federaawhole attitude on anti-injunction Hon shall be reviewed at the meetBj of the executive'council in March...
...Of course all new machinery Introduced into the printing Industry has been operated jy union men...
...These enterprises for which the Government is responsible will in fatare be given close attention by the Government and will be launched as soon as the details of a comprehensive program are worked out, and the program Itself will present the objectives of the reconstructive activities of the Governaient...
...Hearst owns the other, and it is significant that the two owners of two of the biggest newspaper chains in America are not only acting as a unit in Albany, but have settled long-standing disputes in Rochester...
...Injunction Bill Fight Postponed (jbor Tells Senate Committee It Considers The Shipstead Bill Worthless fABHINGTON — (FP) — President Oreen of the American Federation ** Labor has given up the fight for antljjonction legislation in the present Conas...
...Thereupon, on the borders of the prison authorities, he was forcibly fed, which so much affected his already shaken nervous system, that, at a moment when he was not under observation, he threw himself from the second story of the prison on to the court-yard below...
...Because seven or eight persons, at least, have been killed by handling luminous paint which contains radium, Dr...
...What the executive council can do, then It meets In March, to induce any Senate committee to seriously take up the Shipstead bill, is not evident...
...Whether both organizations will initiate the open shop and Teietypesetter drives simultaneously In their other properties Is another grave problem confronting the national printers union...
...The Assembly demanded, as a proof of the serious Intentions of the new Government which would be widely recognlzzed as such, that a change should be made In the political system, that the political persecutions set on foot by the former obllgarchical government should be stopped as quickly as possible, and that M.Gh...
...Printers would be needed only to set type for advertisements and headlines, to correct errors and mcke up the pages...
...Recounting offers of financial assistance to the Albany publishers by New York State and City publishers...
...If anything internally the vigorous policy of the government is to be against popular movements particularly an independent and aggressive trade unionism and a vigorous participation by students in public affairs...
...By Gannett's device, the whole operation of setting type becomes completely automatic...
...The food is very bad...
...In the Leningrad prison for those undergoing investigation Dubko, a former secretary of Trotzky (a member of the highest Economic Council) was determined...
...Teletypesetters And Open Shop Drive Face Printers' Union Editor and Publisher Predict New Machine Will Throw Thousands Out of Jobs A LB ANY, N. Y.—(FP)—In the midst of a lockout against union printers in his Albany newspapers, Frank E. Oannett, publisher of a chain of newspapers in New York State Is'preparing to Install Teletypesetters in his composing rooms with the probability that the majority of all his linotype operators may be thrown out of work...
...The manifesto is emphatic: "No lmmaturely developed student lacking in knowledge and sound development will hereafter be permitted to take part in struggles on the political arena...
...Deputy Ponczak, who was elected Chairman of the municipal council of Lublin as representative of the PP.S., has crossed over to the new Pilsudski group...
...at the Social Democratic Party Congress at Czernovltz, voiced their political demands of the new Government In an unanimously accepted resolution, which Included among other things, that for a comprehensive political amnesty...
...He owns two of the three Albany dailies...
...The manifesto returns a number of times to the necessity for "pacification" of disorderly elements, particularly bandits, military and otherwise, and Communists...
...They decided that the Shipstead bill would not be held constitutional and effective when | got to the federal supreme court...
...Chairman Donnelley said they would make such contractors "feel ostracized the same as were those who during the war did not come through 100 per cent American...
...He said that "If we shut down all Industries involving a health hazard we would shut down every metal mine in the country...
...The manifesto then proceeds to state the views of the government on "economic reconstruction": "To provide the people with the wherewithal for their clothing, food and dwelling as well as facilities tor locomotion, the main essentials of economic reconstruction must be given attention...
...the soup is made of mouldy potatoes and offal...
...New Chinese Government Sounds Dictatorial Note In Special Manifesto Trade Unionism and Student Activity Frowned Upon—Foreign Capital is Sought (By a New Leader Correspond*irt) "VANKDJG, China.—The Internal policies of the new National Government of the Chinese Republic are the subject of a special manifesto approved by the State Council st a meeting Oct...
...If the new Government, which claims to be based on respect for law and liberty, and not to represent a mere change of personnel, but a new system, is to be faithful to the promises which It has made, if it intends to meet the demands of public opinion and consciousness of right of the civilized world, then It must Issue an immediate amnesty, liberate M.Gh...
...Thus it will be seen that vigorous action on the international field against the foreign exploiters of China will have no counterpart as far as internal policies are concerned...
...This ¦bstltut^does not seek to limit the Jur¦Oetkm of equity courts, but does guaraiet to organized labor the rights of free (tpmbation, immunity from federal tosrt after discrimination because of unto membership, and especially outlaws At yellow-dog contract and legalizes mass picketing...
...Eventually, the goal is popular government: I "Before we could witness the development of popular government, we should look to organization and growth of district-self-government...
...in the municipal council and the Lublin local section have severely condemned this betrayal of the Party...
...The Left opposition' group represents over 3 votes as against 2.8 millions for the Government block, and thus as far as votes are concerned is the strongest group...
...He said the supreme court had already killed a law of Arizona, on tat ground that the law sought to protect labor as a special element or interest a the community...
...Court Calls Landis Group Lawless Body Carpenter's Union Wins Injunction Against Chicago Open Shop Corporation...
...New Bin Proposed Senators Norris, Walsh of Montana and jalne of Wisconsin, a subcommittee of ¦it Judiciary committee, held extensive borings on the whole matter...
...At the time of his arrest he was already very ill, being tubercular and suffering from an acute tumour In the stomach...
...It required "the contractors to allow the committee to dictate their labor policies" c i its intervention was "that of intruders upon the rights of strangers...
...Student Activity Opposed The manifesto ends with plans for a far-reaching educational campaign...
...A previous manifesto to labor opposes any form of "class-consciousness" as destructive of the best interests of the nation...
...He asserts that as tne linotype 30 years ago not only failed to put hand printers out of work, but actually added to their numbers through the cheapening of printing, eo the Teietypesetter will have the same effect now...
...The prisoners sleep closely massed together...
...Want People Trained for Government The demobilization of superfluous troops and the stabilization of finance are declared two leading immediate problems...
...Through Teietypesetter, the telegraph operator In Wall Street can operate the machine which will set type concerning stock prices in 2,500 dally newspapers from the Atlantic to the Pacific, displacing in that one job thousands of union linotype operators in the individual newspaper composing rooms...
...Leon H. Rouse, president of New York Local 6, said: "We will match the publishers dollar for dollar to prove that the day has not yet dawned in this country when big money interests can combine and destroy the Typographical Union...
...In the concentration camp at Kem there are at present 18,000 prisoners, in the concentration camp at Solowetzki Islands 27,000...
...fHICAOO— (FP)—The text of the...
...What the defendants (the committee) did," says the court, "amounted to an indirect illegal boycott against the complainants (the union...
...A stranglehold over bank credit needed by contractors was aimed at by the Landis committee, which, according to the court "conferred with the Mortgage Bankers Association, appealing to it to cooperate and sent letters to the bankers asking them to support the cltlsens' committee and to insist that borrowers in the case of building operations let thencontracts only to those who bad signed up with the committee...
...deprived patentees and other persons rf the right to defend their rights by Inunction...
...E.rperienced printers, however, believe the new machine may kill the machine operators' jobs pretty effectively...
...But in this eventuality the Government should afford encouragement and protection so that private enterprises will prosper and undergo healthy development...
...also...
...A typist in Wall Street, sending out the market quotations by telegraph, can operate automatically thousands of linotype machines in all parts of the country, once the device is perfected...
...Foreign Capital Sought "When after the people have had proper training for the exercise of their powers, the scope of district selfgovernment should be enlarged by granting the privilege of self-government to districts with a record of creditable administration so that the extent of district participation In national affairs will be augmented, and when the day comes when district self-government in the provinces becomes the rule rather than the exception, the Government will surrender all administrative power to the people so that they may, according to the proper methods, frame the organic law of the nation— the Constitution—and recognise the government on the basis of popular election...
...In order to secure transference to the hospital Dubkow began a hunger strike...
...Conditions in the Solowetzki camp are so terrible that amongst those Imprisoned for criminal offences the island goes under the name of "Red Saghallen" (from the notorious penal settlement on Saghallen in the time of the Czars...
...Pursueth waited until the final boor of hearings...
...Many of the Communist opposition, foreigners and Russians, are to be found in the prison...
...The A. N. P. A. open shop division, headed by H. W. Flagg, announces that the Albany lockout is the concern of all publishers, and that once the fight against union printers Is won there, the open-shop drive will be pushed to other centers...
...Amalgamation i« itk-e.hr to be an scccmDlisbed fact...
...Union face to face with the most serious problem it has confronted since the hand-setting of type gave way to machine composition...
...It was Fursueth, with y>ttbrw Woll and John P. Frey, who ¦dnced the resolutions committee and te convention of the Federation, at New lijssrn in November, to declare the Norjfc-Blalne-Walsh bill unworkable...
...Only by limiting the authority of federal d»trict Judged In this way, Pursueth arped, could the use of Injunctions for *rlke-breaklng and union-smashing puruaes be stopped...
...Amongst the political prisoners are to be found the most varied types, Socialists, who live together In a strongly organised association, workers imprisoned for taking part in strikes, and peasants for taking part in agrarian movements or for some other agrarian offence, the so-called "offenders" condemned In the Schachty trial...
...Our first duty Is to ameliorate and pacify the conditions of society and to get rid of all peace-disturbing elements so that the foundation of reconstruction may be made secure...
...The outstanding feature of the manifesto is enunciation of a program of "encouraging" those private industrial enterprises which, it is deemed advisable, should remain in private hands...
...In all other respects the parties maintain full tactical treedem, but will endeavor wholeheartedly to observe mutual consideration.'" The new block of the Left disposes of 12 seats in the Sejm out of 444, and thus forms the second strongest group The Pilsudski block consists, since the crossing over to It of the 9 ex-Socialist deputies, of 135 members...
...Swedish Socialists Protest Against the Condemnation Of Communists in Finland _(By a New Leader Corre^Dondent > STOCKHOLM.—On the occasion of the last judgment pronounced against Finnish Communists, the Central Committee of the Executive of the Social-Democratic Party of Sweden has Issued the following declaration: "Social Democracy has always stood for the principle that In a so-'-" iv-c-d en law and right the freedom of the citizen to work on behalf of his po-.u.al and economic views and to organize for this purpose, must be preserved...
...Unless the new administration ibould ask for definite anti-injunction ¦enures—a move now thought quite unttely—the anti-injunction agitation has h*u defeated for an Indefinite period— Perhaps for years...
...A distinction should be made of private enterprises and government enterprises, so that the factors governing the judicious separation of the one from the other will be based on a wise grasp of the facts...
...has formed a parliamentary alliance with the two other important parties of the Left, the People's Party (Wyzwolenle) and the Peasants' Alliance (Stronictwo Chlopskie...
...the bread is not properly cooked and contains indigestible ingredients mixed with it...
...The manifesto opens with the usual acknowledgment of the inspiration of Sun Yat Sen...
...Working With Hearst Thus the I. T. U. faces a double threat —that of an open-shop drive and of automatic typesetting—from one and the same publisher, Gannett...
...The workers of Rumania...
...Not only in the provinces but also in the prisons of Moscow there have of late been a great and Increasing number of cases of cruel treatment of prisoners and, as a consequence, of attempts at suicide amongst these...
...The attitude adopted by" the International Union In the past as to the use of labor-saving machinery has been proven sound...
...Hence the construction of additional railways, the conservancy of rivers aad canals, and the opening of public roads are all enterprises that should not be delayed...
...Mindful of the sufferings of the people the National Government will do Its utmost to bring relief to the suffering masses and to stamp out the curse of banditry and the menace of Communism...
...All this will only be "the spade-work" of reconstruction...
...To foster the growth of private enterprises the National Government can no longer delay the enforcement of tariff autonomy, and hereafter plans will be made and executed to relieve the people of oppressive taxes, the system of taxation will be improved, the currency will be unified, and the financial conditions will be generally developed...
...Polish Socialist Party Enters Opposition Bloc In War On Pilsudski (B* a New Leader Correspondent) WARSAW.-The Polish Socialist Party (PP.S...
...This renders necessary the undertaking of productive enterprises hand In hand with the disbandment of the troops," so that the demobilization of troops may not work additional hardships on the people so long victimized by extortionate demands of mobilized and demobilized soldiery...
...When Andrew Pursueth, president of a* International Seamen's Union of IPerica, and author of the Shipstead uH-taJunction bill, told the Senate Jujjtmrv subcommittee, at the cldse- of its wrings on Dec...
...The Shipstead bill, brief and simple In B terms, limited the Jurisdiction of fedatl district courts, in issuance of injunctions, to dealing with protection of property that is "tangible and transferable...
...The new government has suited Its actions to its words...
...It Is stated that there are no longer any serious obstacles to unity...
...In the cases of enterprises of a monopolistic nature and constituting the cardinal Industrial en • "prises of the Government, these should be Inaugurated by the government instead of belnz entrusted to private hands...
...The recent judgments against Communists show that ten years after the civil war .his fundamental principle of justice is not observed in official circles in Finland, since men are sentenced to severe terms of lmrisonment on no other ground than that of belonging to the Communist Party...
...The Senile Judiciary committee In the next ConHe* will be less liberal than the presort one...
...From the standpoint of the urgent needs of the people, st is of fmmist luupoHsnra is Initiate thous cardinal enterprises which at one* give aew energising pounr to the wisiisssle sens1 titans of society...
...Including the clause against the use of gunmen by the Landis committee...
...I wish," he told the inventor, "there was same way I could tie up all my plants, so that I could set the bulk of the type from one central plant, say Rochester...
...Roughly speaking, the function of the new National Government seems to be to unify the Chinese nation and remove the more distasteful features of foreign interference so as to permit the development and extension of home Industry...
...On local copy, the reporters, according to Gannett, can be trained to write their copy so that it will be set, without further editing or use of any human labor whatsoever, on the linotype machine...
...The group of the PP.S...
...20, 1928), spent more than $3,000,000 in various attempts, many of them Illegal, to destroy the carpenters' union, though the union had in advance refused to become a party to the Landis sward and was legally entitled to follow its own course with the contractors...
...Bpjor and all the other victims of the arbitrary administration of Justice now pining in the infamous dungeons of Rumania should be set free...
...His wish thereupon became fact...
...and let the ignorant cooperate in ways they can...
...This means to say that in all cases in which an enterprise may be entrusted to private hands and wisdom suggests its exclusion from Government initiative, such enterprises should be left in private hands...
...28th, presided over by President Chiang Kaishek...
...The militarists have been fishing in troubled water and aggravated the sufferings of the people while the Communists have been active In propagating their seditious doctrines, making the lot of the people more Intolerable...
...Swedish Social-Democracy combats the Commuiust movement in the interest of the workers themselves, but nevertheless protests against the war on Communists being carried on by methods which seriously violate the fundamental democratic principles of Justice and freedom...
...Political prisoners are not separated from the ordinary criminals until after a space of two weeks, and then only on special request...
...followers of Trotsky, foreign Communists and Chinese students, accused of assuming an opposition attitude in the Chinese question as against the Comintern policy...
...The Injunction asked by Attorney Hope Thompson for the union was therefore ordered granted...
...A census must be taken, the land must be surveyed, police forces must be created...
...Wide support has been given them by merchants, new* dealers and the general public...
...Thus telegraph operators in the central offices of press associations, reporters and $20 a week typists may eventually displace the 50.000 or more linotype operators who are members of the International Typographical Union...
...New York Typographical Union, local 6, has given $50,000 to the Albany Union and has pledged $500,000 more...
...He was not killed on the spot, but terribly broken, and died two weeks later, after the most appalling sufferings In the prison hospital...
...This decision, however, means that the political prisoners will have to endure the tortures to which they are subjected in the prisons of Rumania, for another six months at least...
...The subcommittee wa* left with a bill on its hands which was attacked alike by anti-labor and labor ipokesmen, yet which represented the bat judgment of three of the best prohear lawyers in the Senate...
...Any restraining order issued by a court in a labor dispute is limited to he day* duration, so that the workers' ade of the dispute may be heard in open sort and the question of further promMtm be decided on the evidence subBitted by both sides...
...Its hots, they believed, were too vague...
...Now, however, the Jubilee Celebration and with It the amnesty have been postponed to 1G29...
...They are placed in the labor division (Butyrki) and perform certain services In the prison, clean the cells, fetch the food, work in the kitchen, etc...
...Gannett conceived the need for the Teietypesetter after he had finished buying up a chain of big newspapers across upper New York State from Albany to Buffalo...
...The committee attempted to pin the stigma of treason on contractors who continued to deal with the union...
...The amnesty was to be not so much an act of mercy as of removal of the crying injustice suffered by the victims of the Siguranza tribunals...
...Pursueth told the subcommittee that 9ls bill would be declared void by the carts, because it attempts directly to outset labor...
...Peace of society is the first requisite condition to success in reconstruction...
...Such pillars of society as Thomas B. Donnelley of the open shop printers, the late James A. Patten and others are branded by the Supreme Court decision as lawless intruders seeking by unlawful means s dictatorship over the labor policy of the building contractors and setting up an illegal boycott...
...Hearst recently operated his Seattle Post-Intelligencer for more than a year on the open-shop plan...
...In the Butyrki prison is kept in solitary confinement the Trotzkyite Mratschkowski, an old Bolshevist, one of the leaders of the Red Army, formerly Officer in Command of the Defences of the North West district...
...Even in these fields the Monotype and similar machines are succeeding in reducing human labor involved to a cemi-automatic level...
...Trotzky Aide Is A Suicide In Soviet Jail Dubko, Detained For Investigation, Kills Self In Protest Against Cruelties (Bv a New Lerder Correspondent...
...The new Invention, coupled with the open shop drive of the American Newspaper Publisners' Association, now concentrated on all Albany newspapers, places the International Typographica...
...mU nols Supreme Court's denunciation of the conduct of the Cltlsens Committee to enforce the Landis Award of 1B21 against the carpenters' union Is even more damaging to the so-called best citizens of Chicago than were the early reports...
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