BIG BUSINESS CONCENTRATES ON THE SOUTH
Shields, Art
Big Business Concentrates On the South Seel, Rayon and Textiles Among Fields of Major Operations. By Art Shields llOnONOHAW—1936 will Me handrnas, mPtt sulhons of dollars pat Into...
...2d and 3d took place the National Assembly of the Socialist Party of France...
...This, it is hoped, will be the means of fitting a large number of comrades to go on the soap box next summer...
...Union arguments are being closed this week by Donald R. Richberg, attorney for the federated shop crafts...
...Socialists Protest Against Militarism In Czechoslovakia PRAGUE.—The German Social-De-1 mocracy in Czechoslovakia decided at its meeting Dec...
...It will occupy itself chiefly with the question of armaments...
...I know the situation, I have been in this district, and belong to those who have the right to declare that, when the population is asked for which country It wiU decide, it will answer with the word Germany...
...Local Victories Scored ZURICH.—According to parliamentary custom in Switzerland there is an order of succession observed in the choice of President of the National Council...
...9,-the Socialists raised their total vote from 24,984 to 40.611 and obtained 10 seats as against the 7 held hitherto...
...Tbe AmericanLaFrance fire engine company, which locked out its union mechanics at Elmira, N. Y. last year...
...Thh big...
...will be operattag its own chain of 10 cotton mills and sUsges by spring...
...Lucien was Town Councillor in Clu] and Rosnovan is County Councillor in Csernowtts...
...on Tuesdays, dealing with the influence of natural conduct on social evolution, as well as his course in Contemporary Sociology, at half past eight on Tuesday evenings...
...Eight thousand five hundred and sixty-four of these are women and 33,180 men...
...These sre comrades Dan (Chotln), Flueras (Schfltel), Oherhan (Resits*), Jumanca (Orsdea), Lucian (Arad't, Mirescu (Bucuresti), Pistiner (Czernowits), Radaceaau (Temesvar) and Raznovan (Storozynetz...
...At a number of recent local elections the Social-Democrats have again made important progress...
...Smaller roads such as the Lackawanna, Erie and Jersey Central—some of them anti-union—also announce, a few weeks after a union victory on the New York Central, a "voluntary" wage increase...
...BERLIN.—At the Municipal elections of Stuttgart...
...In spite of this coalition, however, the Social-Democrats carried on their election campaign quite independently and held all their election meetings sepa, rately...
...By Art Shields llOnONOHAW—1936 will Me handrnas, mPtt sulhons of dollars pat Into indnzBjhf —tn tbe south by the bis asptmed and terni-trustified corporations ^ tpe nartn...
...Pis tiner had already been Deputy for two sessions...
...Bracks made a very sharp attack on Briand's speech in tbe Assembly of the League and declared that if, with Briand, we were to regard tbe Industrial progress of s country ss a danger to peace, then all hope of peace was lost...
...he is Town Councillor in Cssrnowitz...
...Kloti, now president of the Town Council of Zurich, was chosen as vice-president for the rest of the session...
...Blocher (Basle...
...9 Socialists Win Seats In Roumania Amnesty, Police and Electoral Reforms Leading Demands of Party in Parliament ^TJCHAMBT-On Dee...
...German Socialists Will Discuss Armaments ZURICH.—The Party Congress of the Social-Democratic Labor Party of Holland has now been postponed to Feb...
...New plants now going up in the pattern >ijyhi»nrf.^ will bring another U ago mountaineers Into its clock-punch - Sal system by late 1929 or 1930...
...Alabama Power Co...
...The general result of the recruiting campaign undertaken by the Socialist Party during the last week of October is the enrollment of 41.744 new members...
...For one of the two seats which became free in the highest Swiss Court of Justice, the Federal Court, the Social-Democrats proposed Dr...
...Later fha* msy bring total construction casts k> 1125.000,000—all for fertOiser, exptoijkss, snd chemicals...
...Ghermsn, Miners' Secretary, has also been Deputy...
...At Ulm the Socialist vote increased from 3,790 to 5,351, and their three seats remained in their hands...
...Comrade Dan...
...The Bourgeois parties, acknowledging in principle the right of the Social-Democrats, to provide the president, refused to accept Grimm because he had been president of the General Strike Committee of Olten in November, 1918, Before the winter session of the National Council, Grimm sent a notification to the chairman of the Social-Democratic Group, Arthur Schmid, saying that he would not wish to be the cause of the further barring of the group from the presidency, and that he therefore declined to stand as a candidate under any conditions...
...The non-union road usually announces its own increase as a "voluntary" grant, not even bothering to go through' the form of negotiating with its dummy company unions...
...THE NEW LEADER is informed that the Rand School, being desirous of serving the party to the limit at this time, is making a special concession in the matter of fees...
...free speech for all parties: the right to bold meetings without giving notice: no stealing of ballot-boxes...
...The executive is submitting to the Congress the draft election program...
...Such a plan, which would outstrip the unhappy military service law of the blackest days of the old Austrian tyranny must be met with the most vigorous opposition by all opponents of the ever-increasing military preparations, and above all by the masses of the workers of the oountry...
...In the last two Parliaments there was no Social-Democratic Deputy, snd in the one preceding that only Comrade Pistiner...
...Supporting him are Pres...
...These figures are public and readily verifiable...
...In December 1921 Kloti took over the Presidency...
...But hardly saber wages or shorter work days...
...business evolution Is along am shop lines and is opposed to social SfliliMim...
...He sdded: "Before taming to soother question I wish to speak of another necessary evacuation, that of tbe Saar District...
...But quite apart from the political and party intentions of the promoters of this Congress, the true character of Bsrbusse's undertaking will be shown by whether or not he is willing to accept as tbe basis of the Congress the fundamental demand: "The restoration «f Democracy in Italy and other Fascist conn tries...
...The school's regular tuition fees are very moderate...
...N. C. for s $10,000,000 Enka am plsnt to employ 5,000...
...As I trite, pt'TntngVium steel mills are shlpifH 35 carloads of structural beams to sjhrriBe...
...In the year 1926 the Social-Democrats again provided the vicepresident of the Council in the person of Comrade Robert Grimm...
...The terms of the attract are expected to govern other en•wersTocals throughout the country...
...With a net* sub zvc give you a choice of 6 splendid bonks...
...7.50 A Day Is Asked Conspicuous in the closing railroad argument was a statistical table purporting to show that railroad mechanics' wages are higher than those in outside shops in cities served by the Central...
...The Supplement appeals for affiliation of American labor with Amsterdam on a basis of mutual autonomy in matters where autonomy is essential...
...The same James |Bwx port town win witness the expan,Sjb of the Tubise Rayon Co., now cmakatng thousands of artificial silk workBaysn Trast Expansive • The rayon trust already employs 30,000 latost the Dixie line, mostly mountain sjk...
...Observing that the city campaign will be under way within a few months, and that we ought to have more numerous and better equipped speakers than ever before, he calls attention to three features of the Rand School program for the term now just beginning1...
...The Pennsylvania, next to the New York Central the biggest railway employer in the country, has In the past followed wage increases won by union men on the Central...
...The Social-Democratic Group therefore unanimously proposed as vice-president the party secretary for French Switzerland, Ernst Paul Graber...
...The Anti-Fascist Combination intends to address itself to the Labor and Socialist International as regards its participation in the Congress for which it is planning...
...However these technical and financial difficulties may be solved, it is perfectly clear already, that ss tar as the Parties of the Labor and Socialist International are concerned, this is the only Congress st which there can be any question of participating, since it may be expected that, in contradistinction to the Communist demonstration under the aegis of Barbusse, it will be prepared and run entirely on the basis of the restoration of democracy...
...In some cases It will mean aster company housing, group insurance, little paternalistic reform...
...The figures covered but §0,000 employes and were compiled from "confidential" information given by big anti-union firms such as the Interborough Rapid Transit, New York's subway firm that enjoined the entire A. F. of L. last summer from attempting to organize its workers...
...4, Bracks, as raprssentattvo of the BocsaMat Group, made an important speech hi which ha rnstuma the most outstanding problems of French foretgu policy...
...and the same offer is made any party member, who, with Secretary Claessens' approval, takes up tbe course in Public Speaking and one other study course in connection therewith...
...The Liberals, who polled 1...
...Socialist Becomes Swiss Vice-President...
...Anti-Fascist Congresses Are Planned "arbusse's Likely to' Be Communist Affair—Socialists Friendly t o Other DARIS—The idea of an international Antl-Fascist congress is at present being put forward from two directions...
...Blocher...
...not represent voters, since the last else-" tions were dominated by cheating and terrorism—have this time probably reI celved about 150,000...
...Among other features of the Rand School program that will appeal to active Socialists are the lectures on Labor and the Law and on Social Legislation, by Louis P. Goldberg, Jacob Panken, William Karlin, Samuel Orr, Louis B. Boudin, Morris Hillquit, Florence Kelley, John B. Andrews, Abraham Epstein, and Bryce M. Stewart...
...13th Psrthu, mentary Ejection*, the first free efeotlonl took place in Rumania...
...of Italy and the Italian League for the Rights cf Man has decided to consider the question of the organization of an International Anti-Fascist ongress...
...The rayon aaapsnies are in the world-wide rayon artel farmed in 1926...
...See ad on another page...
...and Marlus Hansome's illustrated lectures, at 7 pjn...
...Union officers point out that the step is necessary, otherwise the better mechanics would leave for the bettter-paying jobs...
...The Social-Democratic Party of Germany Congress will open in Magdenburg March 10th...
...Such cooperation of labor bodies was rejected on grounds of national autonomy by the recent convention of the American Federation of Labor...
...Comrades Flueras, President of the Trades Union Commission and Jumanca were members of the Regency Council in Transylvania during the revolution...
...General Electric and Pullman were I ier firms aiding the Central with figures which could not be challenged as to their authenticity or relation to the present wage hearings, because they were "confidential...
...Bracke Demands . France Evacuate The Saar Valley |Dra »sw tjssast omiisjailiuo rVUMS, rsiitng fist debate oa the Badynt of the Minister tor Foreign Affairs ta the Ranch Chamber on See...
...Farmers quithi the land outnumber new jobs to be leal Improvement of labor conditions ant depend on tbe workers who are now fhnpting to unite their ranks somewhat sfcr the example set by the employers...
...Graber was then appointed vice-president of the National Council...
...0 Allied Chemical <k Dye Co...
...The Commanists, in spite of tbe large ; sums of money at their disposal, and the extensive propaganda which this enabled ; them to carry on, did not succeed in getting a single candidate returned and polled comparatively fewer votes than at the last elections...
...Large rubber, pas', textile and other factories bring sm industrial construction in Alabama swank the $100,000,000 point...
...The National Zaranists (peasants) wfU probably have some 320 seats...
...as also the Maximalist and the Republican Parties...
...Melvin MacLaury...
...A difficult Sk for big business is setting a stiff pace, Photo Engravers to Get 40-Hour Week MeiulKij, of Photo Engravers Local 1, ihgtsl in the country, will have a fiveay week in T934 as the result of a flvesnr contracW "Pwo months of 1929 will b worked on the 40-hour basis with a ssnth added each succeeding'year until ¦4 when the 40-hour week becomes genSal tbe year around...
...On Tuesdays and Thursdays, at the same hour, beginning February 5, Comrade Claessens himself will conduct a class in Public Speaking...
...note s few of the dsvetopments that gnl sbange tbe southern map in 1979: sjfefle Muscle Shoals Is hamstrung a, the pocket vsto a S35.OO0.0O8 air niaasss plant will be built at Hopewell, Va...
...Tbe Averescu group, | which was in alliance with the Jorglsti, [ will have four seats, as will also the ! Party of the former Minister of Labor, ! Lupu...
...There can therefore be no question' of Socialists participating in this Congress, since there would be great danger that the discussions at such a Congress, not based on the democratic priniciple, would prejudice the struggle against Fascism rather than help it...
...The Social-Democrats provided the President for the period 1920-21, and as Comrade Muller died in May, 1921, another SocialDemocrat, Dr...
...the Friday evening symposium on Socialist Theory and Practice...
...Kaunas*, power companies and other utlllss are spending enormous sums thruout at south...
...On Mondays, 7to 8:20 p. m„ beginning Januarty 21, Algernon Lee will give a course in Socialist Economics.- This, says Claessens, is a subject which every party member ought to study, and he especially urges all recent recruits to join the class...
...It was started by the well-known writer Henri Bsrbusse in his capacity as President of an "International Anti-Fsscist Committee.'* . Bsrbusse, who is a member of tbe Communist Party, and whose name figures in all the organizations which carry out united frost manoeuvres, such as the "International Workers' Relief," cannot complain if bis latest undertaking incurs the suspicion of being a united front manoeuvre in the service of the Communist Party...
...the bearers of n»w life, rcuct energetically refuse to ba drswn into the service oi unman destruction...
...13 to issue the following manifesto: "The Party representation of the German Social-Democratic Labor Party has received with indignation the Information that the government is said to Intend to introduce a bill which would provide for the practical militarisation of the whole civil population...
...And msre especially -jromen...
...They were not in any wsy interfered in their election propaganda...
...no buxgormaaters to order them about...
...The southern cotton industry has far some time been semi-trustified thru aandstlons that regulate production...
...It was an unusual sight—no police to terrorise the electors...
...The Democrats lost 2 out of 6 seats, the German Nationalists 3 out of 7, the German People's Party 1 out of 4, whilst the Centre won a seat and the right of the People's Party and the Christian People's Service Party obtained one seat each...
...The Social-Democrat Guido Muller was re-elected unopposed as mayor with 51,112 votes...
...Mergers are planned esewhere...
...16 and 17...
...Walber, on the arbitration board, is charge of the New York entral's labor relations...
...Only persons who have already a basic knowledge of Socialism and who know how to speak in public will be admitted to this group, which will devote itself to a special study of municipal issues from the Socialist point of view...
...Unfortunately, in view of the well-known attitude of the Communists, It is impossible to count on the laying down of this principle...
...Bsx business forges on in cotton texBhs...
...SOB Workers in Industry indicate more asperation tn the job ahead...
...Amsterdam Answers Woll's Tariff Plea AMSTERDAM—(FP—Answer to the high-tariff declaration of Matthew Woll is made in the Economic Supplement of the Press Reports of the Internationa] Federation of Trade Unions, which points out that the first step toward better conditions for labor here and abroad is international cooperation...
...M,SSt,SM PmOman Plant Pew tf.' S. 'steel building totalling BJOB.OOO will double the corporation's aBBSj and galvanizing capacity in the hrsimghsm area...
...Other nevr ¦fib sre under way in nearby Georgia aad Tennessee highlands...
...The matter will have to be con-^ sidered by the Executive...
...The arbitration hearings, as a result, may determine tbe wage I scales to be paid machinists, boilermakers, sheet metal workers, electrical workers, blacksmiths and railway carmen on important eastern lines...
...IVhile ac are on the subject, don't overlook the other ofcr cf THE XCir LEADER...
...The National Mlniortty Parties j have at their disposal altogether SO seats, {while the extreme Nationalists do not count even one...
...If tbe 12.000 to '16,000 union shopmen of the Central' win a substantial aise, other roads in the east sre ex>ected to follow...
...The chief difficulty in the way of the idea is the technical drawback that it will perhaps not be easy, so soon after the great International Congress of the L.S.I, in Brussels, which was tbe occasion of such a vehement anti-Fascist demonstration, especially in the speeches of Turati and Vandervelde, to get up another international demonstration of equal vigor...
...The SocialDemocrats are therefore now represented in the Federal Court by three comrades—Comrades Zgr adders, Brodtbeck and Dr...
...They will have | about 13 seats...
...It will be held in Nymwegen...
...N. Y. Central Wage Scale Considered Rail Shopmen Watching Developments on Demand for Small Pay Increase...
...Town Councillor in Csernowitz, is director of the Consumers Movement in the Bukowina, Radaceanu is Secretary of the Party...
...The following year Grimm should have been appointed president...
...The Social-Democrat Deputies intend to make their first object tbe carrying through of the amnesty: then tbe restoration of autonomy to the sick insurance associations, which during the last eight years have been run by Government officials, and the alteration of the electoral law, which forced the Socialists on this occasion to enter on an election coalition...
...TC" YES of 100.000 railway shopmen— union and non-union—in tbe industrial belt of America extending from New York snd Philadelphia to Chicago -re focuased on the deliberations of the arbitration board which is bearing the demand of tbe New York Central shop rafta unions for an increase of $1.42 a lay...
...million votes at the elections for tbe last Parliament—votes, it is true, which did...
...The Social-Democrats show a return of nine members...
...Blocher was chosen by the Federal Assembly by 117 votes to 101...
...bring pressure to bear on your government...
...Secondly ,the "Concentration* di Azjone antifascists" (Anti-Fascist Ccmblna- j tion in which are united the Partite So- ¦ cialista Unitario del Lavorateri Italiani ¦ i affiliated to the L. S. I.) and the Confederazione Generate del Lavoro oTtaiia (affiliated to the I.F.T.U...
...Unssslorment will continue...
...B. M. Jewell of the A. F. of L. railway employes department, E. K. Hogan of the Railway Carmen and Otto S. Beyer Jr., consulting engineer for the shop crafts on the Baltimore <fc Ohio...
...remind it that it is its duty to work for peace in an atmosphere of complete openness through the establishment of understanding between the people," Stuttgart Socialists Win Striking Victory (By a New Leader Correspondent...
...Th unions, on the other hand, presented statistics covering 1,500,000 non-railway shop workers, 95 % of whom enjoy higher wages than the New York Central pays men in similar trades...
...With regard to the League of Nations, Bracke said: "Tbe League of Nations puts us in s position to ssy to each of the peoples: "Your fate lies in the hands of the governments...
...Walber of the Central, is in charge of the company's case against wage increases, with Jacob Aronson as chief counsel...
...Ssasll factories snd snail jeans-'~ survive, bat ss tiny fiddles in a* orchestra tag business directs...
...The Pullman compsy h erecting a $10,000,000 car buildSi plant in Alabama...
...Rand School Will Help to Build Party August Claessens, executive secretary of the Socialist party in New York City, has this week sent a letter to the officers of all the branches, urging them to see that the party membership takes full advantage of the remarkable educational opportunities offered by the Rand School...
...Chattanooga and Burnsville trade sssn conferences and the* support unions S» fiviiicr to the Summer School for Wo...
...Tbe election results gave about 75% of the votes for tbe National Zaranist-SocialDemocratic coalition...
...The decision of the board is expected about the middle of the month...
...1st Piedmont Organizing Council In bath Carolina has made a promising beaming which Virginia labor is followBf...
...Of special importance was the election success in Biel, where the Social-Democrats are in power, and where they increased the number of their seats on the Council from 31 to 34, whilst the representatives of the bourgeoisie sank from 27 to 23...
...but under the offer now made, any person who has joined the party within the last six months and who registers for the course in Social Economics will, if he completes the course with an eighty per cent attendance record, get a refund of half the fee...
...Duke interests are said to at ceacemed in a proposed $40,000,000 amir of Carolina and Georgia companas...
...Later in the term there will be a Campaign Speakers* Institute, u-der the joint direction of the party end the school...
...assistant to Vice Pres...
...Turn to your government and tell -it what you wish it to do...
...Tbe Communists lost about 600 votes, but retained their 4 seats...
...Bracks Booted m the counw of his speech the election program of the French Bodattst Party, in which the Immediate and unconditional evacuation of the Rhineland is demanded...
...Mirescu, Trade Union Secretary...
Vol. 7 • January 1928 • No. 56
