U. S. GAGS CUBAN PRESS; SOCIALIST PAPER BANNED; FORCES HALT PEACE MOVE
U.S. Gags Cuban Press; Socialist Paper Banned; Forces Halt Peace Move Audience That Cheered Coolidge Hand - Picked by Secret Police-Critics Deported Criticism Seeps Through the...
...In addition to the representatives of local union, credentials have been received from Chester, Reading and Allen town, Pa...
...We offered to go to him and to see if some basis of negotiations could not be begun between him and the American authorities...
...The other night over the radio, Charles D. Hulls of the Republican party, and Franklin Roosevelt of the Democrats, told their audience of the respective merits of their parties...
...Nevertheless, some i iltli Ism of our Caribbean policy has leaked through the wall of official linsnr shin...
...The National Council for Preveotlon of War further quotes Its correspondent as follows: "Host of the Cuban press gave Coolidge a rousing storm of praise after his speech...
...Probably Quackenbnsh placed his 2hief reliance upon the decisions of the United States Supreme Court and the' inferior Federal tribunals...
...Hundi court is a . former delegate to the Hague Peace Conference, a member of the American Institute of International Law and Dean of the Haitian Cottage of Law...
...of audiences where the American delegation appears, and deportation from Havana of r—"Tiww known to oppose America's Carribbean policy ware the specific points brought forward in substantiation, cd the Council's statement, The National Council for Prsvsr...
...However, we will not move rashly or with excessive speed...
...Just as the Court of Appeals recognizes the legality of picketing m the absence of a strike because It is consonant With current economic developments, so it should be argued that secret recruiting is essential to successful union ictivity...
...The Unioa BBSetBsg...
...wait for a Messiah or at least a Moses...
...His criticism of the psychological doctrine of behaviorism both by way of praise and blame and his account of the new theories in physics and their bearing on philosophy is both satisfying and stimulating to the nan expert reader...
...was resptaiefi sal a fisbft saaaasdsa hafi set hnportant saa*) Bsasdlaa* an til atidnisht when ¦ifJisiliBBlllt was ssavefi with a Big asjfhts' work asB**B*aaabss1, Several younger- asm were bodece* to take port in the Baasisag as 0 rasplt of this event W1U had formerly token trade ¦nlmilsai as a BsaisBr *f aay. Ing does and hearing a bunch of grey bsaifis orate at oaeh other...
...The nonfatal injury was 245 per thousand employees as against 284 In the preceding year...
...We urged that a strong attempt should be made to reach a peaceful settlement with General Sandino before the Fan American Congress assembled in Havana...
...This was passed unarfftftbusly: 'However, at the plenary session nesit flay, Cuba Vugatestefi aafi put...
...Moreover ths continued intrusion of prohibition *scussion in party politics o be cures other fundamental issues...
...There a Kansas statute making it criminal to require a "yellow dog" contract as a condition of employment was held unconstitutional...
...Moral: Always look for the enemy at home...
...Bennie Smith, Field Organiser...
...They conquer Who believe they can...
...Determined to tackle the question from all angles, the conference, sponsored by the Labor College of Philadelphia with the endorsement of the Central Labor Union of Philadelphia, will start its sessions on Saturday afternoon with a survey of the unorganized field as it exists today...
...MOW the Associated Press, wlttbfagiy <or unwittingly, has Joined in the game of doctoring the news aboat the strike and the arrest of the Yale men in connection with It...
...This decision that in the old Lavin suit is based upon that of the Court of Appeals in the case of Exchange Bakery at Restaurant, Inc...
...A beat "was staged right ta «b> batt fi*tw*$a same «f the knitters p^aent...
...If the United States wishes to have relations of true friendship and trust with the .countries of Latin America, It seems to us of the first Importance that the bombing of Sandino and his followers should be stopped and that a generous peace and amnesty should be made...
...The Associated Press sent this garbled version out all over the country...
...They are vestigial remnants of the days when there really was a conflict of Ideas in this country between the followers of Alexander Hamilton, representing the hanking sad mercantile Interests, and Thomas Jefferson, representing the workers in the cities, and the fanners...
...Stump, Maurer and Snyder, the committee was informed, are studying the property situation and will present their recommendations to Smith and McConnelL their republican and democratic colleagues, in time for a consideration by the full councilmanic body...
...John: Nevin Sayre, a Secretary of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, and aobert Jones of Chicago...
...The students burst into cheers when Troup declared that the prosecution's view could prevent distribution of John Stuart Mills' essay on "Liberty...
...Certainly it is a good thing that power magnates like Insull •bould not buy Senators by wholesale gifts to their campaigns...
...29 covering new organisation methods that could be applied...
...However, after various delays Mr...
...For many Latin Americans Sandino and Nicaragua have now become symbols—symbols of American imperialism and of ruthless steamroller methods exercised by a strong nation upon the weak...
...But Mr...
...A.F.L...
...And prohibition...
...We made our campaign on a fair assessment and we will keep our pledges to the people to the letter...
...I gained in Iowa the distinct impression that the most intelligent farmers aren't fooled into believing the bill is a cure-all...
...But that bill with the equalization fee is better than the Coolidge substitute without it and I am becoming reconciled to the political wisdom of lettag the farmers try the remedy for which their strongest organizations cry...
...The war destroyed the Prussian military machine while our militarists are feverishly at work to establish it here by militarising education and bringing about universal military conscription...
...El Pais has printed soffit very caustic things about Coolldgs, among them the following: "This is Coolidge, the man Who employer's expressed wash, tf not address** the most iwkth oreads to us and meanwhile instruct* Ms **-plaaes to bomb Sandino out of NlCMpH' . "Tbe same paper also points out thai while tbe subject* of -Nicaragua will not be discussed at tbe Conference, it will always be ia the wind* of the delegates during the Conference...
...The Socialist councilxnen, who, as a controlling majority, win be responsible for whichever course is taken, are given the greatest possible consideration to both plans...
...from the Baltimore Labor College...
...In the court of Common .Pleas last Saturday, he pleaded not guilty and was found guilty...
...this was a mine cave caused by inrush of water...
...Forces Halt Peace Move Audience That Cheered Coolidge Hand - Picked by Secret Police-Critics Deported Criticism Seeps Through the Press Influential Organ Says Coolidge Deals in "Amiable Words'' and Deadly Airplanes (By a New Leader Correspondent) WASHINGTON.—That the United " United States la forfeiting- an opportunity to Improve relations with the Latin-American countries at the present Havana Conference, toy" prompting Cuban suppression of free speech and a free press, la the statement made by the National Council for Prevention of War, as the result of Information received from its American correspondent in Cuba, Control of the Cuban press to the end that nothing...
...The Hitchman and Red Jacket decisions do not apply in New York because the law of contract In West' Virginia differs from that in New York and the Federal Courts are bound by the law of the jurisdiction where the case originates...
...Well, everywhere He been they talk about it...
...Dana Munroe, American Charge' D*Affairs, and with Colonel Mason Gulick, commanding the marines...
...And certainly we discuss the right to drink ¦ore passionately than the right to -think...
...ahasK ttls to Bast III workasa, that Socialisto are responsible for their bttsJttV JfiVw iout it, Jerfyt" Trade Unions Confer On the Unorganized Philadelphia.—Over one hundred and fifty delegates, representing unions and labor colleges in the surrounding territory, are gathered here for a two-day discussion of the problem: "Bow to Organise the Unorganised...
...A distinguished audience of trade union officials, professors, subway workers and others crowded the court room to "standing room only" capacity...
...people...
...For that reason Stump, Maurer and Snyder are proceeding with their investigations as a body of three...
...Quackenbush pointed out that William Green, as an official of the United Mine Workers, had been a defendant in the Hitcbman case and concluded with the question: "Is there one law in this state court and another one across the square in the Federal court...
...TIMELY TOPICS by Norman Thomas Sn KITING on a train somewhere " near Chicago in a hurried trip to keep speaking dates isn't the best my to fill this column...
...It will then continue with ¦ a dinner, at which H. H. Broach, International VicePresident of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and James H. Maurer, President of the Pennsylvania Federation of Labor, will be the speakers...
...This was certainly demonstrated this morning (January IB), When at Hie raising of the twenty-one Pan-American sags, tbe Nic&rguan 4a*r received more applause than any other...
...L...
...name of every person who was given an invitation to hear Coolidge spesk was first passed upon by the Cuban secret police...
...Tammany Inspector Removed by Board The Board of Elections has caused to be dismissed from future service as Inspectors of elections...
...Then we are doing in Latin-America what Germany wot charyed with wanting to do in the East...
...W. Norton, N. Y...
...There Is no hope in either of them...
...He has not learned the lesson of life who does not each day surmount a fear...
...Sayre waited ten days for an answer, and it was only after they had left that a press dispatch from Managua brought word that General Sandino had declined to meet them...
...sawe ths> saa: -Who hi Ml 9 l**<y w*-' -aaaffifi...
...But the American is himself PoleGerman— English—French—Spanish Italian — Greek—Irish—Scandinavian —Bohemian—Jew and so on.—The late RANDOLPH BOURNE...
...The first proposal calls for a "home made" assessment which will be worked under the direct supervision of Assessor MP ton E. Bortz and local members of his staff...
...Waldman answered that all this was hypothetical and riofae dt ft had taian -pfae...
...The true significance of the Lehman opinion has been submerged in a flood of press statements expressing jubilation over the victory for the union...
...Heraldo de Cuba, one of the foremost supporters of Coolidge "s speech is owned In part by a mhwsss^W' Ferrara...
...We do not answer It now...
...Also where relations have been strained and blood spilt iys not often that they can be mended by so impersonal a thing as a letter from persons unknown and unseen...
...Mrs...
...it is not even the best emergency subsidy measure that could be devised...
...French thought up more objections...
...They feel that Smith and McCotmel have already placed themselves on record in favor of the present assessment figures and should not be asked to take any initiative in ""H"g a sweeping change...
...lathe meantime, organization work, aasimg the' I. T...
...from unions in Newark and Patterson, N. J. and New York City...
...Some *olka are more worried one way or the other about when they or their neighbor* drink and what than when •Sd what they eat—if ever...
...Furthermore, the cases involving Federal and state statutes are inapplicable because the laws declared unconstitutional concerned a xriminal, and fib tit as the ¦£2*«a5' fSbab^trJlt thatr briefs but they missed an opportunity to <ebtata publicity on.-*, jpoiul about which there is wide-spread misunderstanding...
...Charles Evans Hughes has made a great impression in Havana...
...Here...
...They have a wouldbe United States Senator by that name here in Illinois who hangs on to his credentials though the Senate •ays his admittance card isn't good with.them...
...One paper...
...As it m Judge Wasservpgel asked that Senator Wagner include in his briefs a discussion of the bearing of the Red Jacket decision upA the present litigation...
...Third, all foreigners won deported...
...r ^B>-jfcp*»ljfM*B*'^ijBB*a*#^~Pri service in abfi aaoatfr...
...We have less democracy that* we had before the war and Germany has more than it had before the war...
...Hon of WarH a dsartagJsouss of thirty waHonal organisation* interested in the promotion of world imaos Its headquarters are 582 nmeiiliiealh street, Northwest, Washington, XX C Police Pick Ileal in i us «* "The Cuban Government,'* the Council's correspondent writes, "took especial pains to prepare the ground for President Coolidge...
...J. T. Patterson, son of a wealthy Bridgeport manufacturer, was selected to make the test case for the group of students...
...The other plan involves engaging a firm of expert appraisers...
...That bridge is campaign contribution, such aa Instill of Illinois made with openhanded generosity to both candidates in the last Senatorial election in his state, contributions for which the successful candidates are expected to return full measure to the corporation* making them...
...Bat enough of these generalization...
...Hetfrqulred why the .student* had not been chacged with any of these offenses which ta* City Atsnrnar «Braaod to ' Justice Bund snook Mb bead in a dssaaproring Caahtoo...
...This district Is located In the judicial district in which it hi alleged, Tammany Hall stole enough votes to deprive him of his seat on the bench during the coming term: The inspectors were removed on complaint of Don Chase, a student at Union Theological Seminary, who had been a Socialist watcher in the polling place...
...But who made us God Almighty to judge these qualities In our neighbors...
...Contlnned On Page Two) Some Figures Explaining American Concern With The Latin-Americans Economic Ties.of the United States with Latin America Year End's June SO Imports From Latin America in Millions Per Cent ofj Total Exports to Latin America in Millions Per Cent ol Total 1913 8 442 24.40 8 fe4 18.18 1914 469 24.77 282 1L8S 1915 557 88.29 251 9.08 1916 760 S4JJ8 411 9.49 1917 968 86.21 582 9.25 1918 1,025 88.44 726 12.24 1919 1,127 S&S9 826 " 11.99 1920 1,774 8450 1,168 15.08 1921 1,184 81.70 1418 20.90 1922 662 25.40 506 18.46 1928- 1,025 27.94 1 608 15.86 1924 987 27.77 688 15.28 1925 1,021 22.69 814 16.74 1926 1,012 22.68 847 17.82 1927 1,001 28.54 882 16.76 Students Fight Conviction in Handbill Case (By a New' Leader Correspondent) VEW HAVEN.—Undaunted by con' viction of one of their number for "illegal" distribution of handbills, the 19 Yale students who set out to tell New Haven about the issues In the Neckwear Union strike, are planning to carry the case forward to the highest courts of the state, and, if necessary, the U. S. Supreme Court...
...Bertrand Russell's recent lecture trip...
...We are judge, jury and executioner and official news reporter, all la one...
...Therefore I again urge that the Socialist Party »hlch can't afford to pussy foot by ¦•ytag nothing should recommend *g*t the issue be left to a properly "•¦on nation-wide advisory referen**> to which all candidates of all parties be pledged to give legal effect...
...And there isn't much organization of our forces either in the industrial or political field...
...So with these Brland—Kellogg outlawry of war negotiations...
...Using the moat question able methods when engaged in relief work abroad, he did all la his power to suppress the revolutions of workers and peasants in Hungary and other countries...
...Four patrolmen, following the lead of the dignified Judge Dunn, restored order...
...Those composing the Mission were Prof...
...But I have nothing but gratitude and praise for him these days when I am reading his most recent book, Philosophy (W...
...Sayre were allowed to penetrate as far as San Rafael del Norte, 170 miles north of Managua but three days journey on horseback this aide of where Sandino's headquarters were supposed to be...
...The farmer* save a right to demand relief legislation which will admit them to the tariff table—or trough—or its equivalent The McNary-Haugen bill won't solve the farm problem...
...From the I. R. T. side the important thing was the advantage taken by Quackenbush, genius of the company of the recent decision of the Court of Appeals in the old I. R. T. injunction suit...
...The latter I course will leave the city assessor in full control of all values, but will give the city the benefit of assistance from experts who have given similar services to many other municipalities...
...In IB08 the highest court in the land decided in tbe Adair case that the lection of the Erdman Railway Act of 1898 -declaring the exaction of '"yellow dag:" oonxtfiebj on railroads n interstate commerce a criminal offense was unconstitutional...
...His reception was a most enthusiastic one and most of the people were not only curious to see him, but sari mad to like him...
...v. Rifkin, where it was held, as Supreme Court Judge Waaservogel had ruled In the first instance that persuasion was permissible if the "yellow dog" contract was for no definite period of employment...
...Waldman politely reminded him that horses are a sort of a rarity in the streets these days...
...We shall always regret that the representatives of our country, on this occasion, could not have seen their way clear to withholding military operations, at least for a little, and to giving ns, or some others, a real chance of trying conciliation with Sandino...
...A policy committee was appointed by the General Organizer, whose duty it will be to serve the movement with a view of shaping programs...
...It is written with a delightful humanism, keen wit and as lucid a style as one could bring to some difficult abstract problems...
...Now I recommend it to you all who first acquired a little taste for philosophy or philosophers from Will Durante Prize Big turr Meetings of thi Union ?lS Stat *w&EZ£rfmLiL flgm W«fi'«#* pa**e4 ai*a9 the3 ¦saa) that a saAto null fee set fist ta at* ban find aasaf His) «*sfiU be ia—easts' when the fight was «n the air...
...The first refutation will *fcali forth the ingenuity of Quackenbush m discovering an implication of concealment in his original complaint but the second is, of course, a silly gesture, which begs the whole question at issue...
...i Miss Carolina Wood, Rev...
...Roosevelt nag-' lected to expiafai Just what Una difference waa...
...I hope I'm not so busy travelling and tailing myself that I haven't learned some things of value...
...He is not American plus Pole or German...
...That ..will take Abulia, if not years...
...Finally, the I. ft...
...ihy he eefrfed through to the Coart of Appearand perhaps to the United States Supreme Court...
...10, 1928, Jn the Lavin case arising out of the 1926 strike and the decisions of the Federal courts in suits involving the "yellow dog" contract...
...The local press emasculated the editorial beyond recognition blaxenIhg on Its page* a "denunciation" of the arrested students...
...This dees net mean that he is part American and that same foreign ingredient is then added...
...Porters' Brotherhood Chiefs Confer in Chicago Chicago.—In the Vincennes Hotel January 12th and 13th the Pullman Porters Brotherhood chiefs, consisting of M. P. Webster, Chicago Division Organiser, Roy Lancaster, Secretary-Treasurer...
...Roosevelt eaid that It made Ms blood boil when people said that there waa sa difference between the two old parties...
...And how much cooperation has there been in our methods...
...of this country shall be print* ed, hand-picking...
...There is a lack of hope, of faith and hence of courageous effort...
...Why didn't Mr...
...The philosopher, Morris R Cohen, introduced the English Labor publicist, H. N. Brailaford, to the politician and counsel for defense, Democratic Senator Robert F. Wagner of New York, it was, indeed, an historic occasion The significant contribution of the proceedings was the address of Senator Wagner to his newspaper audience...
...On the one hand they tell as that he la a great liberal, and the supposedly progressive Scripps-Howard newspapers announce that they will support him in the campaign...
...Hence,/either party could terminate relationships at .will...
...Bu,t there Is reason to fear that stupidly or on purpose they will be bo handled by our Administration and the French cabinet that their failure win be another argument lor big armamenus...
...In theory they are good...
...Quackenbush referred to a similar New York law of 1887...
...But in the Senate, depend upon It, he would recognize Insull's not labor's, as his Master's voice...
...Every Shakespeare student wffl understand that the only difference between the two old parties Is the difference with which the common man wean his rue...
...The Geneva Conference on Naval armament was theoretically a good thing but it was so bungled by the politicians both English and American and handled so adroitly by the naval officers who went as experts—on armament, not disarmament—that Its results Were to encourage tihe big navy program in all countries...
...At this distance it begins to look as if some of the delegates would talk freely...
...Bellegarde is a former delsgate to the League of Nations and one of the most <«a««g»i«*»»* lawyers h> the Caribbean," Press Kept Ik Line Favorable press comment SB the American delegation and Americas policies has been secured in two ways, the correspondent Of UM National Council points out: First, by government Influence over —»itn papers...
...Hovering over the proceedings was this opinion of Judge Lehman issued on Jan...
...There is no enthusiasm for war, imperialism or even the prosperity ballyhoo among those who are its victims...
...Atuel, a Socialist weekly, edited by Cuban students educated in the United States, was suppressed because of an article giving instructions to the Latin-American delegates...
...Therefore, organizing activities among I. R. T. employee...
...The Florence local now plans to stage a totally different sort of stent for the next meeting...
...Hillls had Just blamed them on the Democrats...
...First, they wanted to know where in the papers of the case the charge of secrecy and deception appeared, and secondly, they offered to supply a daily list of workers recruited into the union, provided the I. A. T. promised not to discharge the new members...
...Two more sessions will be held on Sunday, Jan...
...At San Rafael they were able to have a conversation with the wife of General Sandino and to put into her hands their letters of introduction, with a letter of their own, stating the purpose of their mission and asking if General Sandino would be willing to confer with them This was on December 27th, three days before the clash between his soldiers and the marines near Quilall which resulted in the death of 6 Americans and an unknown number of Nicaraguans...
...Now, as a matter of fact, there is one law in the Federal and another In the state courts and Quackenbush knows this very well...
...We met numbers at Nicaragua*a who feet that his motives are patriotic and that exactions Of food and supplies for hta soldiers are the usual thing hi war and what the Nicaraguan generals, conservative as weft, as liberal, have been doing straig%t along...
...He begged that the "boring from within" should be restrained or si strike would ensue...
...More I may say when I've finished the book...
...Too many Socialists quit too soon and too easily—a fault which to not eternally incurable...
...At the excellent Chicago forum run by the Workmen's Circle and allied groups a woman who questioned spoke for a vigorous Socialist campaign against prohibition...
...Professor Tugwell of Columbia University, will be one of the speakers on Sunday...
...But that is no solution of Pan Amerlo-.n desires...
...They were delegates to the last PanAmerican Conference at Santiago where they criticised the American occupation of Haiti...
...refrain from unfavorable comment Second, the...
...2 ^^a^V a^^^K ak^BB ^aaaw ^^BBBBBary ^BBawaa ^Pa^Vsnawv year ahflttag...
...As usual too much both of the support and the opposition to him is based on prejudice, not reason...
...A single disaster killed 51 men...
...So far as I' know he has never made a speech on any important issue in which he has not defended, and with some vigor, all the privileges of the special Interests of 'this country opposed to labor and favoring capital...
...Jones and Mr...
...But there is also plenty to challenge the hopeless pessimist or cynical disbeliever in any sort of live social interest In colleges and among the workers, in cities and country districts there is discontent, there is interest...
...A statement by members of ' the Mtsahiu saasterv...
...Fights Wholesale Injunction Organization Activities on N. Y. Traction Lines at a Standstill in Meantime By Louis Stanley THE suit of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company to enjoin all the officers and members of the American Federation of Labor from organizing the I. R. T. employees who have been entrammeled by a "yellow dog" contract, came into court on January 23, after three months of postponements...
...I am not sure Whether" it was his comment about Calvin Coolidge which forced it, but yesterday . (January 17), the editor of El Pais, Aldo Baroni, one of the most brilliant editors in Cuba, realgnedr* "Open meetings", restricted by a conference rifling all owing tb#m to go into executive session, is »<ien by the Council's correspondent as an advance in frankness over past conferences...
...ready-made, when the city takes over the lines...
...It has been reported that Sandino is Just a bandit, the enemy of taw and order...
...the conference en record to the eHect thai a committee ban go into executive session at any time...
...Quackenbush made the most of both...
...Now, the point that has been overlooked is that the Exchange decision was handed down on May 31, 1927, and it was in consequence of this very action of the Court of Appeals that Quackefkbush and Hedley of the I. R. T. admittedly concocted a new contract which purported to cover a definite period of two years and which every employee had to sign individually in addition to being bound by it through the General Committee...
...Republican campaign managers are evidently trying to get Hoover Into the class with Caesar's wife...
...However, the Conference has undoubtedly .gained something by having open committee meetings...
...It will pay us to wat^h and not be fooled...
...Elbert Russell of Duke University, North Carolina...
...v *s "We went to Managua and had repeated interviews with Dr...
...for refraining from a walk-out had to he pro—sied «•*> court in order to avoid the jktantiafi...
...Important it certainly is, but outside the logical realm of party politics one *an be a wet and a good socialist or a dry and a good socialist...
...The nswillfnalaas...
...More than 150 Yale students filled the courtroom to capacity, drinking in every word as former N. Y. Assemblyman Louis Waldman and Philip C. Troup, representing the American Civil Liberties Union, argued in defense of what they held to be rights guaranteed in the Federal constitution...
...Labor bow isn't openly proud of Smith and vector dander reminds me that he and others blocked any endorsement •f any senatorial candidate following the primaries but prior to the "action...
...This is the first Pan-American Conference which has ever had them open...
...The present case, therefore, coven essentially different ground...
...employees may be said to have ceased...
...of a temporary injunction m the ftjst place, it look* very nfticfi' as if Sie urilon ip merely marking tihie to obtain it* members On the I. ft...
...The bbbsbbbj iBrnsdsayrUy after e%«' with a afcx-taiuafct *ff saasaWw hear the fa.i.i|aaa«i * m fiftoe nght...
...That Havana party may yet be worth watching...
...By inference the Cbppage case decided 'by the Supreme Dourt in 1915 was also brought in by Quackenbush...
...were* legal...
...But Judge Lehman, who wrote the opinion of the Court of Appeals in the Lavin case was not satisfied with repeating the doctrines laid down in the Exchange case...
...To debar him pending formal action seemed to me a dangerous precedent...
...His father was willing to take us to the vicinity of his stronghold and we had letters of introduction to General Sandino from his brother and from the Nicaragua^ Federation of Labor...
...V...
...The circulars might litter streets, clog up sewers, etc...
...Labor's Dividends The metal-mining industry in the United States experienced a higher death rate hi 1926 than in 1925, according to reports of the Department of Commerce...
...After the arrest...
...In this country there is no doubt that fee waa Instrumental In persuading John L. Lewis of the United Mum Workers to sign the disastrous Jacksonville agreement...
...A. L Totten, Assists tn General Organizer, and a J. OaiiQey, St- Louis Division .Organiser, were called together by General Organiser, A Phillip Randolph, in Chicago, for the purpose of reviewing the struggle of the movement to organise the pulhnan porters, and to map out a program to meet emergency problems that may arise from this stage of the struggle through a completion of the fight...
...The reply of Senator Wagner and Republican ex-Congressman Perlman was two-fold...
...Malaprop said of Caesar's wife that she waa all things to all men...
...Jones and Mr...
...After Ustenlaa t* the radio story at the mateh a iflWwas sprue •» the meeting...
...Will Tammany live up to the Implied pledge ? "Good Will" Mission to Gen...
...We suppose that the advance of the American marines into the Sandino territory and the consequent fighting made a favorable answer almost impossible...
...However, these facta must bo taken into consideration First, the Secretary of State, Ortlx, had asked the press to...
...News For Our Nordics The fact is, the genuine American, the typical American, is himself a hyphenated character...
...Randolph left Chicago after the conference for Kansas City, Missouri, where he will join Assistant General Organizer, A L. Totten, in staging a Negro labor conference for the mid-west...
...City Attorney French seemed to feel that the handing out of union circulars In the streets might scare horses and make them misbehave...
...That's something...
...Sandino said It would require six days to get an answer back to San Rafael but she agreed to forward the letters to her husband immediately by a trusted messenger...
...It Is ail very well to talk about "independence, stability, good will, and cooperation" as the pillars of Pan American relations...
...But we could not persuade the American authorities to let us attempt this mission...
...Hughes and his associates than an expensive occupation...
...To dedge the issue at this Juncture is to Btir up a hornet's nest "or the future...
...Unquestionably the agreement has worked out la favor of the nsa union fields, aa against the organized miners, and la at the root of the present troubles in bituminous coaL Those farmers who oaa remember back to war days will not be likely to forgive Hoover quickly for the part he played la the fixing of the price of whost...
...Certainly none of our imperialists in his senses wants to occupy a Latin American country if he can get what he wants without it...
...Hoover All Things To All Men, Say His Managers (By a New Leader Correspondent) Washington.—The Republicans have been plugging away, boosting the candidacy of Herbert Hoover...
...How about politics...
...We won't get it ? Well, neither will we get any other solution—2.75% beer will not satisfy the wets—and this is at least the most logical way out...
...Is abhorrant to this man Hoover...
...At tbe first plenary session tod as: (January 18) the Cuban Secretary of State Ortiz made a brffliSnt speech summarizing the progress of arbitration throughout Pan-American • (inferences...
...These deportees Included two distinguished Haitla* Jurists, Dantea Bellegarde and...
...The I. R T. protected itself by enumerating all the possible reasons that the company might use in dispensing with the services of any of its employees...
...Now I can't see it as a Socialist issue...
...rftii all sWear In this record...
...Sandino Halted by American Authorities, It Reports Finds Popular Resentment of U. S. Cessation ol American Hostilities First Requirement for Settlement, It Is Urged MEMBERS of the "Mission of Good Will" sent to 'Central America test November by The American Friends Service Committee and the Fellowship of Reconciliation have returned to report that they had attemptecfto initiate mediation between General Sandino of Nicaragua and the authorities of the United States but that the American authorities hod not permitted them to make a direct approach in person to General Sandino...
...They do not consider tMa banditry...
...Smith sentiment seems strong among the workers and in the cities —bat I can't see him carrying any Middle Western states...
...No matter how conscious we may be of our own 'rectitude nor how many Nicaraguan politicians may invite us to Intervene, the fact remains that intervention In Nicaragua throughout the past year has been, and continues to be, an act where we play the big boss, refuse ail offers of arbitration, conciliation or joint responsibility with any other nation, and acknowledge no accountability tp anyone except ourselves for what we do in a country that is not our own...
...Wroa* la****, at a* alt, if it* defendants use unlawful means to cajsry <•**) their purpose or perhaps If tiej attempt to Induce the plainttt% sHMcers tocoaoeal facts where pah* i isiiient cefeMltates la feftset Ifceeptton, or to do ©titer arts wbseo ooMMMae express <or satplied M*gatlons to their employer US)— which the employer BBSS legal and equitable right to iaefet,'* t^awfbush punned **Ward fhls new argument baaed upon concealment at union aaambershtp as often as he could...
...He writes : ' ?>lcajSjguaT»e pyn—bud , "Argentina oatoe forward a/ die first organI ssfissp ootutSFenoe la Tssiim of open committee meetings...
...The fflmois Federation of Labor, like the Antl Saloon League, also endorsed this CsL Smith in the primary fight...
...WAR AIMS AND ILLUSIONS The great joke of the World Ww is that Germany got what we said ive were fighting for and we got what Germany was said to be fighting for...
...Morrow's hypnotic spell long enough to propose some drastic structural changes in the Pan American union...
...they pointed out ftnu the action of the students was "undignified...
...won long ago, and now there la simply oaa grand Republican-Democratic party, far removed from the aspirations of the common man, devoted to the protection of privilege and the consequent opposition of the producer...
...Thre* different pairs mixafi H.fie* aboat fiaif an hoar m ail to the great amasessent of She gathering...
...Reading Tackles Readjustment of Assessments (By a New Leader Correapoadeat) READING, PA__"We will give the people of Reading a scientific and Just assessment if it is the only big thing we do in our entire term," declared Mayor J. Henry Stump at a recent meeting of the Socialist Executive Committee in Labor Lyceum...
...Yon will rdrely find him elsewhere...
...unfriendly to the interest...
...An appeal waa immediately taken...
...Mr...
...Critical Editor Out "But most important of all, chiefly because it is one of the foremost papers...
...We doubt if it will gp down at home or abroad...
...It was apparent that be was counting a good deal upon it...
...We will study the situation and proceed just as rapidly as we can safely do so...
...They have begun early, these oldtime politicians, with their propaganda for the 1928 campaign...
...ttaOBg people— "the misguided spirit of youth" was his original way of, putting it—too often take a "too liberal interpretation of liberty under the conatttUUon Of the United States...
...That they are doing se this session Is evidenced by the ¦oeeess with which the lobby for the electrical power tat treats are Mochlng the Walsh Hon of the Power Trusts...
...Democratic members of the board which served in the 22nd election district of the 2nd assembly last November...
...In 'his characteristic loquacious and speculative way he added some thoughts of his own...
...We woasd ha« to see a sat bead politic...
...Bat hs the eou»e eg a km* nasi, rather all the financial panics of the past on the Republicans, whereas Mr...
...To think of Herbte Hoover aa a liberal |a to laugh...
...He is evidently determined to go as far as possible fn meeting the LatinAmericans...
...The Mexicans broke away from Mr...
...Hughe* made in justification of our Latin Amei-ican^Iicy...
...The Court of Appeals, the highest tribunal in the state, decided accordingly that the original injunction was too broad in so far as it prohibited peaceful persuasion of I. R T. workers...
...When I wrote "Smith" I meant, of course, Al Smith...
...An examination of the companies' reports showed a death rate of 3.47 per thousand men employed as compared with 2.99 in 1925...
...Many factors must eaifer into Its solution...
...That was a clever speech Mr...
...The lawyers for the defense unfortunately did not meet his contentions squarely...
...To refuse him a seat after discussion on the evidence ¦rams to me wise though not without possible danger as a precedent for unseating some future radical Whose opinions the Senate holds in horror...
...Pierre Himdloourt...
...Be had done them some small favors...
...However, It mast be remembered that the press is subsidized by President Ifarhsdo, of Cuba, who gets $800,000 a month from the national lottery, $100,000 of which goes to the Cuban CVnigrses, $100,000 of which goes to the press, and $100,000 of which he keeps...
...The Tale News, student publication, commented sarcastically on j criticism of IB who had been arrestI ad...
...It means that • • • he is international and interracial in his make-op...
...Moreover, the western farmers could not be worse off now if the German armies had reached their region...
...As one professor whispered facetiously: "Here...
...A strike hi out of taw quests**, even sf ft arete jib—hiki...
...lase the same court decided that interference with a "yellow dog" contract In the codf fields of West Virginia was illegal, although employment was "at will...
...Did not the students know how dignified Yale students had been in other days—when the boys used to hurl bricks through windows, stage freefor-alls r oh the venerable green and -fought firemen who tried to put out fires...
...Tbe attitude of the local press has not served to decrease the resentment which the Students and other public spirited New Havenites hold against It...
...Second, by silencing the dissenters...
...From there he will return to Washington, D. C, for the hearing on the case of the Brotherhood versus the Pullman Company, before the Interstate Commerce Commission, January 21st...
...The decision holds that the "yellow dog" contract that L R. T. employees agreed to through the General -Committed of the company union was invalid in that no definite period of employment was specified...
...So far as I can Warn the farmers' "progresstvism" in Iowa and Minnesota doesn't fly higher than Lowden and that p pretty low...
...Two plans for the assessments have been suggested...
...We merely «Ste the^Msfiioa ttf^op* mmt we are fiVne~\viie fiMasniukthg it...
...There is a disposition to...
...No mamer wfHt the ^seseat'fjBiing will be, tfce case WiH in all ptabubrf...
...In 1917 .n the Eutcbman Coal and Coke Co...
...The most effective reply m harmony with the whole line of argument of the union is based upon a realistic approach...
...If action in the court fails to establish the right to distribute trade union literature In the streets of New Haven, a strong fight will be made to amend the ordinance under which distribution of the literature is now being prevented...
...A more doubtful question Is whether the defendants may not be under a duty to refrain from urging the plaintiff's employees to conceal from their employer that they are acting contrary to their consmaiHL . ytbe <fne«tS^~&ijjft sVj0 remain Ws^eJaber the aVftMsasrta are Justified fi> Org*** taa> I'SiSSnj eea to conceal a (emphasis in ortwouM lead JsairflsWJ fi* sheer esscharge Tasjt Jiufcrtlon ha* not been argued oa teas .aajMal...
...But those things are more likely to show later on than To the enthusiast for any sort of a ¦^-revolution", or for the big aggressive labor movement organized industrially and politically which we Socialists want, there is plenty that is discouraging in a trip like this...
...I was one of those a little disappointed by Mr...
...Hughes discuss the financial background of our Interventions past and present...
...Nat having seen him, we win not undertake to say, but we know this—that be is fightlog on "Nicaraguan soli against the soldiers of a power which Is a foreign power In Nicaragua...
...They have found a way far bridging the aisle which separates these two In the Congress...
...However, it fi believed among press correspondents here that fie will not consent to a discussion of our Nicaraguan policy—the potential dynamite in the offing...
...A nice pro-capitalist government like that In Cuba, Costa Rica or Peru which gives our investors all they want anyhow is cheaper and more edifying to Mr...
...On the other hand they assure us that he is all for big business, and they hint that be will have the support of Uncle Andrew Mellon, the leader 'of the reactionary forces in this country...
...w "Despite this control there has bass an undercurrent of cynicism regarding Coolidge'* visit...
...The collective action of the people In any way, shape or manner...
...T. lawyer pointed to the Red Jacket decision Involving a "yellow dog" contract m West Virginia, which the Supreme Court had affirmed as recently as at its last October session...
Vol. 7 • January 1928 • No. 6
