WORST DEPRESSION IN YEARS STALKS THE SOUTH-WEST
King, Murray E.
Worst Depression In Years Stalks The South-West Entire Families, Homeless, Drift Around in Battered Cars, Searching For Jobs, Homes |And Food-Mounting Tide of Resentment Waits For Mov^jfnent to...
...Tour deliberations and your legislation la of transcendent Importance to the working p septs Of all the countries represented...
...Unlike former migrations of workers, which followed the railroad lines, riding1 when it could and walking when it had to, these new human tides are on wheel...
...never shall we go back to work until our fight is won and a living wage is guaranteed, and be it further "Resolved, That this resolution be sent to our Journal and to the Johnstown and Altoona papers and to THE NEW LEADER for publication...
...Liberty, democracy and justice should triumph over autocracy and unf reedoxn in any form...
...Thousands are ready to Join such a movement now...
...The concluding sections of the resolution read: "Resolved, That we, the membership of Local Union No...
...From the Cotton-Fields Here is another case: a thinly clad mother with a baby in arms' and another shUd about three years old" after spending the cotton season bete passing cot- j ton, found herself at the end of the work season absolutely without means...
...Especially is this true in the South where the pedestrian looking for work is regarded as' a sort of a criminal at war with Society...
...At he last moment some nominal issue HB have to be found about which the wdidates will appear to fight...
...Berger said: "Recent investigations made to determine to what extent, if any, competition still prevails in the telephone business have disclosed that the American Telephone & Telegraph Co...
...The proposal for a municipal machine shop will be considered by the city council at a future meeting., Facts for Farmers The atUiortallon of rani ossassnniUes sesames huguluert/ certain...
...Moreover the same authority admits that San have been no appreciable binges in wage rates for four years in spite of the increase in promotion...
...1066 United Mine Workers of America, 700 strong, and other citizens, have become indignant from this abuse and propaganda, and be'it further "Resolved, That we serve notice on those who have so abused and lied about us, that we shall not falter in this our struggle, and that with our District and National Officers...
...Bto recent isfiswaius to ww whets sreger bisiliisas have hot edded mawtt to mjwry...
...ef the Massachusetts djrrfeattnral CsOesn, to "The Farmer and the Mew Bay...
...Connolly blithely ignores the public clamor...
...The biwennsn .Iwgjan pest has destgJ naiad J. Bobari Oprieo...
...tool of nationalised coal mines...
...This has taken the peculiar course of enJoining judges, investigators and everybody else who has anything to do with the investigation...
...Nevertheless not by the breakdown of the Russian experiment or by bitter attack on It from without but by Ua healthy evolution from within can we expect victory for what Is vital and fine in it And there is much tent is tmeasndowSsy vital and fins in the Russian experiment It has already brought immense gains to the workers which cannot all be measured to money...
...Speeches of Berger Available to Voters 'Readers of The Mew Leader who wish to obtain copies of recent speeches by Representative Victor L. Berger, Socialist, may do so.in writing to their own representative In Congress, to whom ¦they will be furnished by Representative Berger...
...In addition to squeezing the people for all they are worth by imposing a variety of unnecessary charges, the trust exploits the workers, compelling them to work for ridiculously low wages and for long hours at' nerveracking labor...
...SKveTlS...
...They .will ail tell you that something to radically wrong...
...Howard Moore...
...Smith's eel tion on super power can be inerred from his stand on water, power » New York...
...the state square in the nose...
...Connolly, Tammany power in Queens, let more than a million and a half dollars of the tax-payers' money filter into pockets where it doesn't seem to belong—except by the God-given Tammany right of plain and fancy grafting...
...A.F.L Urges U.S...
...She did not have any tools for repairs or tire punctures...
...AcUer The Tremont Educational Forum, conducted under the auspices of the 7th and 8th A. Da, BocWtot Party, Bronx, N. Y. C, presents s series of four consecutive Friday evening lectures, on: "Methods of Psychology," by Dr...
...This is the diffl2~* to »ny genuine reduction of tar2" * ta 611 very well to point out ^hypocrisy of the business and its ¦"•ottal greed...
...Those of us who are convinced of the dangers of dictatorship and who still believe, despite H. L. Mencken, Benito Mussolini and the Third International, that there is something to be said even for our present imperfect and often hypocritical democracy find a good many morals to the fate of Trotsky and his fellow exiles...
...Florence K. 3. Knapp, the first Woman Secretary of State, a Republican who conducted the 1925 State census, brings in a report urging that Mrs...
...Various phases of youth endeavor will be discussed...
...The PopaHsts were called the "Bookless Party" because It was said that Jerry Simpson did not wear seeks...
...Probably Stalin's Bantral policy ts wiser even though it marks a decided swing to the right no matter bow revolutionary the formulas he may employ the better to curse his enemies...
...But this is a I Tondsnttai year...
...They hasp Sp* iisaffcS Jhe t»mt pf rebeB)*n of tswasamotojaVxMsjar .an* weaker, bat they are wnrtouraarlb...
...A number of prominent Socialists are expected to address the convention, including Algernon Lee, Chairman of the Socialist Party Committee on Yipsel Affairs...
...Horrified by the Knapp business, Cornairs and other Republicans arose •nd demanded an investigation of the Workmen's Compensation Department of the State Labor Bureau, the lead of which is a Smith appointee...
...Forty delegates from twelve circles will meet in the Rand School, 7 East 15th, street, Saturday, 2:30 p. m., for the first session...
...These are the inevitable conclusions one forms here in Roswell at the "cross-roads of the Southwest" meeting up with the steady streams of industrial and agricultural derelicts' drifting from the North southward in search of that rare combina...
...On the day of final adjournment the council lifted the suspension of the Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks...
...On the Boulder Canyon Dam hens before the council by order of the Los Angeles convention, the council voted that It Is "in favor of the Boulder Dam project," being constructed "with such safeguards thrown around It as to fully protect the interests of all the people, and we favor the distribution ef the water for domestic...
...Lindsey Rogers, i real economist, to make the investigation, which beyan on Monday/ But this didn't suit the Republicans at all...
...Pledge to Fight on (By a New Leader Correspondent) f ALLITZ1N, Pa.—Local 1056 of * the United Mine Workers has been compelled to take notice of propaganda in the newspapers that local members are going back to work and that others have asked coal operators for jobs...
...One eaa only behave to the Governor's honesty to the terrible SeceoVansrtti affair by beBevtng to hsj complete inability to deal with evidence er the feets ef human nature...
...Parade Attacked...
...We will sure Join such aft organization, wherever we are,* said me of them...
...It seems bat we must trust him like God...
...Jt robs communist criticism of the caution of Western socialists of some qf its stlag...
...It is a survival from the militant ages of the past • • • It is a system of cannibalism...
...TJnfier president Roosevelt, in 1907-8-9 he served as minister to Roumanla, Serbia and Bulgaria...
...Knapp's lawyer, in a complaint to Gove*mar Smith, says that the Commissioner iin't done right by our Florence, and .hat Le Boeuf was really very rude indeed to bring accusations like this against a lady...
...Father Haas bad been informed of the facte by correspondence with a friend...
...August Claes- I sens, Executive Secretary of the Socialist Party and James-Oneal, Editor of the New Leader...
...It fiV unfortunate that the great heart and mind of Labor is not present in your exceedingly Important Conference...
...The resolution is signed by S. A. Nelson, James Brawley, T. B. McCloskey, of the Resolution Committee...
...After the charges were filed Mrs...
...itot that we believe that Trotsky's preesnt policy was better for Russia or the world than Stalin's...
...These doubling crossing streams are composed,, of two elements—jobless wage earners and uprooted farmers...
...Knapp was saving up the crimes of mayhem, arson, and breaking and entering for her old age...
...They were broke...
...Instead of instilling the feeling of brotherhood, it compels us to eat each other.—J...
...Mayor Stump has announced his intention of driving houses of commercialized vice out of the city as rapidly as they are uncovered...
...To these thing* the enthusiastic testimony of shrewd labor leads re Hke Jim Maimer and other workers who have recently visited Russia and the reports ef sesnondste and statisticians hke Professor Baal Douglas and Stuart Obese bears ample proof.' Even if yen l^emfaued m^sertem detaQs by their enhnpoasfbte to amp* the conclusion that there ts nsnillilng In Russta worth the eager and sjmusllisltr study of the wortt^eLwLK*1 of tSBwCtt te^cHoo* . Asaensj she sriafi seOeons wBjsjtk verTops tavectte son candtoatea far the TVwMsfitisl nrsritnattpn •$» fhrtng appears oat bearing toe name ef Ooverner Fuller of Masmrihusatfi...
...One of the moving spirits of this Survey is a politician named Cornairs, who is the fair-haired boy of the power trust in the state, and of the ipen shop manufacturers...
...Worst Depression In Years Stalks The South-West Entire Families, Homeless, Drift Around in Battered Cars, Searching For Jobs, Homes |And Food-Mounting Tide of Resentment Waits For Mov^jfnent to Crystalize Unrest By Murray E. King j^OgyVELL, New Mexico,—The worst unemployment condition in years has gripped the: agricultural West and South...
...Itta good that the Senate passed Pj McMaster resolution favoring a •Suction in the tariff, even if the ReWMtcan House which must initiate P such legislation will have none of ~ Nevertheless, Senator Smoot was "tht in pointing out that most of his "*toruT colleagues when the present •*»T law was under consideration al¦Jjs voted for the highest possible .T~ °* the particular products of "W own district...
...With prostitute journals, thugs and magistrates apparently united in a crusade to crush the fighting spirit of the miners, Local 1056 has adopted resolutions which recite these Incidents in the struggle...
...Francis J. Haas of St...
...Now we have not a oent left to buy food or gasoline and can't go any further, but we are not going to Tie down tamely end die...
...They are paid for calling names...
...In panning through the states of Nebraska, Kansas...
...Thousands of worker families now have no homes except the old road-worn auto eternally in pursuit of the elusive job, br the still more elusive "chance"-for little patch of land and a fixed habitation that will afford a tolerable living...
...They'win be greatly affected by the application of such policies as may be determined Upon and in many ways wifl be called nupon to assist in giving vitality and force to these policies...
...Will the next adliaistration enforce its payment by jarlnes...
...Commissioner LeBoeuf, appointed by Governor Smith to look into The activities of Mrs...
...We deeply regret that the Government of the United States failed to designate a responsible representative of Labor to serve either upon your Delegation or in an advisory capacity...
...Graft Trail WorriesGOP And Al Smith Census Report Force* Mrs...
...The workers could get a living wage...
...A rare opportunity to sound these very vocal streams is at-" forded at this yard...
...Thoughtess citizens of Queens borough, in Sfcw 5fork City, produced charge* and Bgures indicating that Mr...
...Without any provocation men, women and children were clubbed in the streets...
...The dispute, according to Walter Duranty, the wafl informed correspondent of the New York Times, has not shaken the administration politically but has produced or heightened a difficult economic situation...
...The letter says: ~I have no first hand acquaintance wttb the conditions prevailing in your mills, but sesame that Mr...
...Knapp to Resign College Job — Sewer Scandal Stench Grows A LEANT—The Empire State of ^ * New York has been having plenty at alarums and excursions...
...of them here at an automobile wrecking and junk ¦ yard operated by a Socialist comrade...
...What forms of octal insurance, if any, shall we dopt against unemployment and old ge...
...Had arrived the night before in an old car to company with the mother of pne and the wtfe and son Of the other...
...Young Socialists Of New York Meet Ih City Convention The senior section of the Young People's Socialist League of Greater New York will meet in convention on Feb...
...A good majority have reached the point where they are convinced that political action and control of the government by ¦¥i Basawm wtpTbe^one^ttsssj^5 SITstifl*stancefk> the Z^hSfi...
...Hordes of hungry unemployed were ahead of them everywhere...
...Green's letter to Chairman Hughes of the American delegation In Havana says, In part: "The working people of the United States an firmly convinced that cordial and friendly reletoaae eaa he established and - a perfect iiedisslsiaflag that (he Government ef the United States will not, at any time, Interfere In the affairs of any Letto-American Nation and will not, either directly or indirectly, encroach upon their sovereign or territorial rights, Such a guarantee should be absolute, without reservations, and should be made In such a way aa to remove all doubt in the minds of all people who reside within all countries represented In the PanAmerican Union...
...What do Smith, owden and Hoover think...
...In some tend Is slowly bat sorely passing Sato the hands of ahanajes landlsris est merely farmers who eaa afford to retire to the Tillage or BanwAj seat, bet to aa increasing extent men whose main hestness is banking, or the tow, and whose luiintoumd hi fans land is pareiy ¦pocuUtire.—Kenyan I* BatterfieM, nasi dsn...
...in practice he seams more loyal to dictatorship than to other principles of pure leninism...
...The universal tale they tall to that of job-hungry bardes eoerywbere in the big agricultural region -in -the Malagas, in the towns, in the -cities...
...They found it in the Industrial Survey, a collection of up-State egialators who have been going wound for a year or more looking for some excuse for hitting he labor legislation of...
...We have had our lesson ind are ready to go Just as far as the working class will go...
...Hoover's conervative position on some of them I pretty well known from his past iterances.' Possibly Gov...
...The wife of one of the mere, he told me, was within two months of becoming a mother...
...The representative of the public on the Survey s none other than that great statesnan, Jimmy Gerard, who rose to dipomatic fame by first teaching Boss iturphy df Tammany Hall not to eat vith his knife in Delmonico's...
...We hare reached a point in sasssjessi sgrleattere where It Is worth whSe to hold land for Its operalaUio rather than iU tree eranosnlr vatoe...
...Men will have to be J""*6* to see beyond the apparent ad**"»*e to them of high rates on ""M Products in which they are InJrj"«d aa employers or workers to ZT~r Greater interest as consumers SUP**** lovers...
...Recently the miners arranged a parade and thugs of the mine masters appeared on the scene...
...Knapp resigned as Dean of Home Economics at Syracuse University...
...He was...
...Toe wffl reeesVe the mod of the enemy...
...The convention win prepare work for the year...
...And this Is the tragedy of American ¦Cities: that nobody knows and noMy cares where the parties or the audi dates stand on vital issues...
...One of the matters In dispute between Stalin and Trotsky bad to do with the policy toward the peasonts...
...Who shall own the super power ( the nation...
...And the people, instead of remaining at the mercy of an irresponsible clique which now runs these lines to suit themselves, could own and operate them for the benefit of all the people through its legally constituted government, very much as the people now run the postal department...
...but they have Ss*rpet lost ^h» Jsrmer psychoiogy, ior most of ehem stOl aeeas a distent vision beyond the bmnedjate Job the favored patch of land somewhere where they wis pet end a Vie Shatter** altogether intolerable...
...To the idea of a greet hne-up of worksrs and farmers thto year ihey responded enthusiastically...
...They are on the way to degenerating to the tramp class—from the hunter of work,to the fugitive from work...
...In abort the tack of harmony between agricultural economy and industrial eoanesgf which Is at present so acute to naprtamt Amerira has not been solved ta Soviet Russia...
...Freight Handlers, Bsmrsss and Station Employees, readmitting that organisation with its close to 100,000 memtiers...
...February 4th, at 9:10 P.M.' The debate Baa been arranged by O. August Oprbsr, manager of WxTVD at the sugt pesiion ^»f the M. Rankin Drew Post of the American Legion...
...Catholic Priest Raps Company Unions Washington, D. C.—Rev...
...He is convinced that the city can- save thousands of dollars by establishing its own shop...
...Child labor, military training and imperialism will be considered...
...Another cotton picker with five children ranging to age from 10 to three, traded an old horse for a broken-down auto and left for Oklahoma during the coldest season...
...important witnesses vanish across the Canadian border...
...lot mat we have seen...
...Knowles was transferred to 1910 to Santo Domingo and from there to Bofivia where he remained until 1913...
...Francis Seminary and Marquette University has written to a prominent manufacturer in protest against a "yellow dog" contract which the manufacturer, a Catholic, has enforced on bis employees...
...Two Bitter Derensas Bare to a typical example: Twp unshaven men hi soiled and worn overalls stopped the writer and asked where they might .find some place in Bogwell .where they could shave and make themselveti sufficiently presentable to ask .for a Job...
...Conditions that have filled Amer^ tea with used atttos that can be had at almost any price and junk yards in every town where auto Sits can be traded in and out for almost a song s made the cheaper used auto accessible to the itinerant workers...
...Nut shall we do with the tragedy I the coal industry...
...Pretty rough on Coolidge meperlty isn't it...
...Make year movement loved by the messes and do not expect to saaspe the snails of the kept men of the rating Blesses...
...We shall not get far on denunciation...
...But he has made no leclaraUon at all on the other ques'ons...
...The big majority of them will agree that' widespread farmer organization to necessary...
...Co., of which it owns 98 per cent of the stock, and from which all telephone companies are obliged to purchase telephone apparatus on a cost-plus basis, the telephone trust exacts tribute from the American people from the time the apparatus is made down to and including the time the telephone user is compelled to pay exorbitant rates for the service he gets...
...We shall to have a genuine education on PS effects of the tariff nationally and J^raationaUy...
...He was appointed Dusted States minister to Nicaragua to iSOS...
...And, so far as to dreadful calamity of unemployMQt is concerned, these figures and be facts we all know make a mighty tea to the labor movement to begin i vigorous campaign for unemployaeat Inwirti***^ I am delighted that the Executive Modi of the A. F. of L. has sent B Charles' E. Hguhes, head of the jnerican delegation at the Havana inference so clear cut a declaration gainst American intervention in Attn American countries...
...Tresnont fornin Gives Caame ip Parejuelncy, JBy Dr...
...Families On The Move These conditions have evolved another new element in hobo life—the hobo family...
...The rnrsangri that many of them have left .to that the down most eiemasSa ace ready for the movement that will unite the wage earners and farmers for the -control of thto country...
...These men were bitter, desperate, rebellious...
...Bs> class to being seoruitad not only fsom w earners, bet Jetgely from ;the enoanous pbpulslkai that has been oprooted from the soil during past sts years...
...The movement that Is net smirched by the enemy is of little use...
...Three of her children had worked with tier picking cotton during the season, but their condition was so desperate that she could not be dissuaded from this perfious venture...
...who ha* tortured eosras ef tanas Js pohtical and social toptos, as -agibskl the course of the CoolMge iibHUsiiwaw m Sealing with the a^sm-Aeswdean aepubUc...
...A young man carried an American flag and he became a target for the thugs...
...They bad travelled in an open car from Xeadvule, South Dakota, through the exceptionally cold weather that swept over the prairie states last December...
...Take Over All Telegraph Lines Washington, D. C.—Declaring that the American Telephone & Telegraph Co...
...Instead regulation is one of the most fruitful sources of corruption.' "There is no reason why the federal government, which runs the postal business of the nation—and runs it efficiently—should not also be able to operate the telegraph and telephone lines...
...The attitude .of ninetenths of the farmess to that of resentment and discouragement...
...A complete report of the work of the past year will-he submitted by the Executive and Financial secretaries...
...Surely any woman who can get her mother, aged eighty, tier butler, and her cousins and her sisters and her aunts on the State payroll is well qualified as an expert in Home Economics, and should be of invaluable assistance in training the rirls of our capitalist system as to low to get theirs...
...When the American labor Party was organised In Chicago in 1919 the press referred to it as "Betaherik...
...Councilman James H. Maurer*s discovery of reckless expenditures in relation to the city's automobiles brought from him the suggestion of a municipal machine shop...
...FORGET ltl Whether you choose to name it Socialist Party, America* Labor Party, Farmer-Labor Party, it Is all the same...
...The American Federation of Labor executive council formally endorsed the 8h1pstead anti-injunction bffl...
...Arkansas and part of Texas in a desperate hunt for work, they had pot been able to find anything to do...
...vital records dissappear...
...Knapp he prosecuted on the criminal charges pt forgery, the making of false claims \n 3ertfiication, the illegal' removal of State records, and grand larceny...
...It is in to ranks of the workers that effechre oppositiod to intervention and aperialism generally must be develped...
...While spooking of nit.lrsnlteattnn, tt seams to me a good thing that the Senate stands by the gjrmsrjssent owned merchant marine...
...directed drafting of a bill to prevent future conspiracy suits against labor under the Sherman act nad laid plans for a conference of representatives of national and international unions hi Washington February 7 to back up the fight In finnii— against the Injunction...
...fsswsttowaiC fear of the pwaWsbSat control thto co#atry, mistrust of ttssr own class...
...The League Invites members of the Socialist Party and kindred organizations to attend this convention...
...Regulation has* failed to deal with the monopoly problem...
...Governor Smith was led by the outcry to appoint an investigator...
...I will give them a reasonable time to settle up their affairs and get out," the mayor declared, "and then the raids will begin...
...A great change is taking place in the life of the "hobo," or wandering job seeker...
...Stomp Fzamlwing Costs "Council will proceed slowly but surely," Mayor Stump said...
...The Working Men's Party of New York in 182S was called the "Dirty Shirt Party" sad the "Infidel Party...
...The mayor also considers favorably a suggestion offered by a citizen for a vice commission who would undertake the duty of working with the police and with citizens who have Information to divulge regarding houses of prostitution...
...writes is true...
...No one even pretends that the Sherman anti-trust act is enforced or can be enforced...
...Now, in face of the palpable attempt to block the probe, a questioning finger is again being pointed at Governor Smith, who ts being reminded that be has the power, if be win, to "remove Borough President Connolly...
...The idea ought to tie carried to the people we have met...
...The car waa open—without even side-curtains...
...Since 1913 he has been active in his private law firm...
...In sheer desperation she started to walk with these two infants during the cold spell to De- i cember to Clovis, a hundred miles north, where she had relatives...
...WEVD to Broadcast Debate '4m America** Policy wNicarag-Dobs Memorial radio station...
...O'Brien it the liasJsaiin ef the Americantorn Cce> avatae ofvtbe «. Rankin Draw Post and attracted attawsbm -two weeks ego when ¦he Ssnanasa abet the <tovarna>eat deport Socrates asalnn, brother of the seb•el general who to ¦Mining the American forces to .^qswagws...
...His investigation shows that excessive prices were paid to private shops for repairs and the bills were paid without protest by his predecessor...
...He writes that your management has introduced a policy of requiring your employees to sign an agreement making their employment depend on certain conditions, specifically that 'they will not affiliate or retain affiliation with a trade union...
...This is bound to be the case ¦ long as we are controlled by two Arties that belong to the same genset of Interests...
...tion—jobs and warm weather—drifting from east' to wejt and meeting themselves coming back, baf-* fled, beaten, bitter, desperate...
...If this information Is correct, please do not regard It ss Impertinent on my part to point out to yen that a system of this kind makes employment depend on the surrender of a right which no worker should bs asked to forego...
...That is the Job for reformers...
...Mortimer J. Abler, author of "Dialectic'' (now in press), and a member of .the Department of Psychology, at Columbia University, commencing thto Friday, February 3d, at 8:30 sharp, with the subject: "The Mind under the' Microscope—Brass Instrument Timely TOPICs IhoitiA* »PTER what you have heard and - still hear about high American rages it is interesting to read in the eport of the employers' organization, (he National Industrial Conference loud, that the average weekly suitings ill manufacturing industries B October 1937 was $27.01 and in fovember 926.72...
...We hope that it will grow lightily In strength, intelligence and V. V ^^^^^^^ jb^^ar^ of^ex^n^mtlo^^ against sea ruthlessly on...
...O'Brien...
...on the way...
...For Jus noble act he was made Ambassalor to Germany, and had the great uck to be there when the war broke, Ever since then he has been telling is all the sassy things he said to the Kaiser, and has intimated that, '.hanks to him (and undoubtedly the' r. M. C. A.) the hun was finally pushed off-the gate...
...It is cheaper and safer now to cover the long distances between jobs in old and patched up autos than to try to follow die railroad lines...
...Has any one of our lading candidates made a clear out tatement on any of these issues...
...3mith appointed Dr...
...We feel that the highest and best interests of the Pan-American.Union could have been better served if the voice of Labor could have been beard in the Councils of this great organization...
...They bad found bitter, desperate, rebellious men everywhere tbqr had travelled...
...The rates would be cut to a point where business would increase...
...During that period 31,000,000 acres of fend has tone oat of cultivation and the agricultural population has declined more than 2,600,000...
...His supposedly progressive opporters are irritated when they "* asked where he stands...
...This swing to the right goes a considerable distance to Justify those who have claimed that it ts easier tn Truss is to talk revolutionary formulas than to put them In practice...
...Only those who, on account of exceptional advantages ace exceptionally prosperous, attempt to defend present conditions...
...that his name should he suggested ts a sl>er)tflBg performance...
...cracking on the wide, ragged fringes of Coolidge prosperity and the" soil is being prepared for a new planting of Socialist and progressive ideas...
...What Z said was p*wt-gnlltloal sasBBR aC theaa mines...
...Only one member of the union has gone to work and one mine owner is trying to operate a- nonunion mine...
...The long reign of post-war reaction is...
...We have some domestic problems...
...Irrigation and power-generating purposes being placed under the direction, control and authority of the Federal Power Commission created by...
...Senator Knight, leader of the Republican majority, wanted the Industrial Survey to make an investigation on .ts own hook, but Republican McGinaies, of the Assembly, who is selfconfessed candidate for Governor, eared that the wily Al might be setting some of his customary traps for innocent" Republican feet, and he opposed any independent investigation...
...The average into of employment taking June 1920 a a base—that la, 100,—was 79.7 in tetober and 78.3 in November...
...Notice is Given Mayor Stump Orders Disorderly Houses to Get , Out of Town Immediately (By a New leader Correspondent) HEADING, Pa.—The Socialist administration la facing three Important questions, commercialized vice, re-valuation of property for assess menta, and the need of a municipal machine . ghe«fc ^Theze^ J^^jj^i the Homeopathic Hospital clinic last year and this figure, according to one official, "is only a small fraction of the number of treatments given by doctors of Reading in their offices...
...During rspS and 1906, he edited and owned the Wfimtogton (Del...
...does 71 per cent of the telephone business of the United States and dominates the rest...
...Meanwhile, Governor Al is sitting >ack enjoying the spectacle—and tryrig hard to keep the Connolly sewer graft scandal off his mind...
...Many of them drift south in the winter to escape cold weather they can no longer resist except by running away from itMany of these families are getting the incurable road habit' They are becoming permanent dwellers upon the great open road that begins and ends nowhere...
...travelling on wheels without tires—traveling on the rims of bis wheels...
...T . It is not clear to us just why she should do this...
...It has engendered an amount of mass resentment such as the country has not seen for'years...
...It serves notice to the American delegation in Havana that American labor is not In agreement with what has been declared as the official American policy which is...
...Horace O. Snowies, -well known to - recent years as a defender of the rights of the small Central-American countries, and an ardent ann'unpertanst, will oppose Mr...
...Mr...
...has destroyed practically all competition in the telephone business, dominates the field in which it operates,and is piling up tremendous profits by purchasing its apparatus from subsidiaries, Representative Victor L. Berger, Socialist, has introduced a bill providing for national acquisition and for government operation of telegraph and telephone lines...
...The universal note they^souad is deap ssstsrt resentment, disgust, rebellion toward those la power...
...Fraternal delegates from the Socialist Party, the New Jersey and Newark Y. P. S. L., the Junior Y. P. S. L., the Young Poale Zion and the Workmen's Circle Youth Group are expected...
...One of the speeches Is entitled "For the Men and Women who are Not Paying the Income Tax," and Che other is, "Conditions for World Peace,'' Here and there see (Heats the •pinion that we most be careful in choosing the name of a —lenient for heman liberation...
...Win the venom of the enemy and It Is a tribute...
...Hewas too far gone in poverty to bay or trade tires of any description, and too poverty-stricken to stop .moving...
...Jr the eloquent defender of dic-¦""MSlias been banished to one' of the most remote comers of the great realm under the control of the dictatorship which he helped to establish...
...But here will be little or no reality in the onflict and the people will awake, if * sfl, too late to make their ballots jwctive...
...The second session will begin Sunday at 11 a. m. . Our competitive system of industry Is a vestigial institution...
...A charitable irganisation to now touting care of her...
...4th and 5th, the eighth since the League was organized...
...In the words of President Coolidge, that "the person and property of an American citizen are a peirt of the national domain even when abroad," Labor's policy is declared to be one of self determination, self government, democracy and national freedom, with) an absolute guarantee by the United States that It win never encroach upon the sovereignty or the territorial rights of any Latin American nation...
...Nobody news and apparently nobody cares, he Nation in its issue of January 25 ntlined in detail the terms of the tea which Diaz was forced to make 1 order to pay the purchase price of 10 a gun to the soldiers bf General bncado by the terms of the Stimson rttlemspt That loan is the grossest Dim of extortion...
...Among the municipalities whose opinions have been secured on this important proposal are Jamestown, N. Y., Cleveland, O., and Perth Am boy, N. J. Another strong endorsement of the plan has been furnished by the Teachers' Federation of the City of Chicago, where an appraisal was made of the property in the loop district, known as the highest priced property district in the world...
...In the organization work here la the Pecos Valley I have talked with hundreds of farmers...
...Apparently Mrs...
...Nobody knows and pparenUy nobody cares...
...Farmers from this' vicinity—raisers of 20 to 40 bales of cotton—have vided a year of hard and fruitless work by Joining the procession of the swelling army of job hunting worker-families on WheelsOne farmer family—the farmer had raised 40 bales of cotton as a renter—passed through1 the yard here on the way to the peat open road of the drifters...
...They reached Roswell without a cent and were taken care of overnight by the Salvation Army...
...The AboBttonBrts were called "AiaalgsiMttnelsts", that Is, that they wanted to mix the races...
...Oklahoma...
...It is the richest corporation in the /World...
...We have done everything we could do to get work...
...The Administrajpn is deaf to protest...
...i "Believe me," said one of them, "before we see our women and bey die, we will know what to do...
...Favorable reports from a number of cities which have used the services of real estate appraisal experts to determine property assessments and tax rates have strengthened the sympathies of the Socialist city officials with that method of procedure...
...The right of free speech, free assemblage and free press should not be abridged...
...the Commissioner charges that Of the $1,999,902.80 expended on the taking of the census, which, by the (way, didn't get much further than Cataragus County, $118,707.76 was egally expended, and $79,125.26 was wasted...
...Many of these families are on wheels the year around...
...Max Steuer, on behalf of Connolly, agreed to help "bring out the facts...
...The* a foe the Pemtoiiim is an aarcmt What makes the shame or Che hwstosje waawe is that the Jearnehst who reawrts the FUlhW kyom hi taibsr fghmdiy toshton Purhtoor aetot tos' h> ilnesjet atTlssjjJ to behatfj^Saooo ^J^^fi^* fjg i^T^^J^o^^l^Ltk "i" wweTx tory bnl eaa take trw^ptoee ef a cos> One ooTToctaon I must make to a tsgm8' lehjiej strop wfaieb eppasied 4ft my say that I XavJswd "more bpUUosJ" as...
...Saturday evening...
...H la accepted here as becking up the Latin S/BBerteaa demand In Havana for a policy under which **no state may intervene in the affairs of another state...
...What do Smith, Lowden nd Hoover say...
...As the critical Keynes has BAid it is developing a society with some other religion than the love of moneyIt Is providing an opportunity to show what can be done with an ordered and planned scheme of production and dhvtributipn Instead of the chaps of our profit system...
...Me and My Shadow rewal to by Reading Opens War On Vice...
...We have nearly perished from cold weather...
...In each case the work was done by the Manufacturers' Appraisal Company of Philadelphia, with which the local officials have been in communication...
...The working people in the Pan^merlcan countries should he guaranteed the right to organise and to co-operate within . their respective countries in the furtherance of their legitimate, social, industrial and economic interests...
...Fully two-thirds of the hobo famines I have encountered here are from this new element of upmeduue concern is any kind of a Job...
...Extensive educational and organization work will be the keynote of the convention...
...President Green also announced that Secretary Morrison's report showed (230,000 sent to the miners through the Federation...
...In a statement he issued, Mr...
...j Me delicate seMfbimies^o^Uw*N*ew Fork State Republicans, who imrnaStately went out to look for a red lerring...
...This endless prooession of auto-riding Job-scefcose, csosauig and in riraiotog itself has left with us here a vivid and, 1 Ibrijlsee, aonirate layiiosslnii af widaspsead conditions...
...The pesaaants want more concessions They wffl give grain only for goods, and that pretty much on their own terms...
...Through its control of the Western Electric...
...We will give the people a scientific assessment and we want to do it in the best possible way...
...Drop Its Imperialism Green Writes Hughes Delanding 'Non-intervention Policy Be Adopted at Havana ^ *~UX Service)'I MIAMI, Fla.—In a moat emphatic letter to Charles Evans Hughes, chairman of the American delegation at the Pan American congress hi Havana, President William Green of the A F. of L., has just made one Of the sUuugesl declarations of American labor policy toward Latin America thai he has ever made...
...that something must be done...
...There is a special point of convergence...
...He was cowardly assaulted, his life threatened, and, to the astonishment of the miners, he was arrested and sentenced to pay a heavy fine...
...Knowles has been to the United States diplomatic service, serving as rmlwd States consul to Bordeaux, France,' uyejef1 Fi ustdent Harrison...
...Evening Journal...
Vol. 7 • February 1928 • No. 7
