HARVARD SOCIALISTS TURN NEWSBOYS WHEN ATTACK ON PRESIDENT LOWELL BRINGS MOVE TO THROTTLE NEW PAPER
Cohen, Lawrence B. Jr.
Harvard Socialists Turn Newsboys When Attack On President Lowell Brings Move to Throttle New Paper ''Crimason,'' College Daily, Denounces Efforts to Suppress "The Progressive.'' Organ of...
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...newsboys were engaged to sen the paper, of which' two thousand copies were printed, but the, day before the paper was due to appear, they announced that the leading article of our paper was known to be entitled "president lowell should explain,'' and that they had been threatened that if they handled our paper they would lose their jobs...
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...Company houses a? 4 and 9 roans and bath rent for $28 MnVaavmth.- Bent of privately owned haant h even higher in this boom town...
...tucker p. smith of new york is to speak...
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...we therefore asked gardner jackson, chairman of the defense committee, to comment on the matter, and arranged to run his story as our leading article...
...tost they have no uenmuMni wtthaay wanon and have had no cOntoet wnh any snpmtoar...
...J. H. King, treasurer...
...We hare established permaaat taaftsiailiiii her* and a staff is watta- day and night signing up addl^Sfneaaas la them great mills...
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...system,of 'superriston to these .ham anils was largely responsible for .'to strike) Prussianlsm in Tennessee South Carolina's Largest Textile mill Shut Down by Strike VKLXER, S. C.—(FP)—What tat management calls the •'extended system" and the workers hare dabbed toe "stretch out system'" has causec a spontaneous strike of 1490 night and day shift workers In the mills ol the Hew Kngland Southern iff...
...members of the club then applied for newsboy's licenses and found that it took ten days to secure them...
...The decision of the government to hold a general election followed the defeat of the budget, Makes A Strong Debut cIhe Harvard...
...W. J. Lyster, Barold Watts and Frank Slapikas are charged with beating to death John Barfcoski, a coal miner...
...This, with the rows of '-Old B*kory" was one of the governmenta largest powder plants daring the ear...
...Minn.—The Council for the Prevention of War, at a well-attended meeting Saturday evening, March 16, barred "members, sympathisers and supporters of the Communist Workers party from delegateshlp" in the council,' and requests all affiliated organizations to withdraw...
...Paul Council for the Prevention of War aims to bring together all organisations interested in international peace for the purpose of coordinating all lines of acivity...
...Local ^¦¦'155?'"* *ery friendly and hhtnteUndsay of the Women's Trade tahavTragni...
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...Negro piccaninnies crept under the wire fence rurrounding the company town to pick them up...
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...the "minute system," an aggravated speedup recently introduced by the managers, is the issue...
...chris j. golden resigns SHAMOKIN, Pa.—(PP)—With the resignation of Pres...
...who is standing for total abolition of the private police system "It would not have prevented the murder-of John Batkoski...
...Alarmed at the independent nature of the views to be expressed in this projected publication, the higher powers in the newspaper distributing world have threatened their newsboys with the loss of their jobs if they handle the pernicious organ of radicalism...
...The Etoloch mtoe hi four ralha from the Harwick mtoe, when ltt coal diggers were killed in an explosion 26 yean ago...
...H. W. Ubby, vice president...
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...u had beeil interviewed by a reporter from the university daily, the crimson, and had told him about the article...
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...CAMBRTIJOB, lease.—The ; Harvard S"fhJ!tot .Club is an outgrowth of' the Harvard Thomas-for -President Club, ami toetatataftr, is the only survivor of the three political eteta Harvard boasted hat November...
...ij'lHWfcWato he removed, the tolune|sss*> to be "quashed, and grievances are HpggiMlnl ftyMMg*» a atandhig depertp-inejei annum' oonmiittee...
...stumped even here, we decided to sell the papers without licenses even though it meant probable arrest luckily, however, the third set of newsboys appeared this morning, and sold some eight hundred copies...
...the nation printed an editorial accusing president lowell of withholding valuable information in w»«wt>g his report on the sacco-vanzetti case to governor fuller...
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...was one of the first textile firms to go South to search of "cheap, docile labor...
...Rayon porker's: Win Strike gsjtt Big Industrial Skiroiigh in New South Won By Labor By Alfred Hoffman utft—~ Organiser, Amer...
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...which Since it was praeUcally donated by the government to DuPont, It has been once deserted houses thrown s» la 1917 are in am again...
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...to organize a Communist movement...
...in other words, we will join with any group seeking to remedy any particular social evil, but we constantly emphasise the roots...
...we have recently had a number of other interesting experiences...
...We wrote letters to a seme of prominent Socialists about a month ago, asking whether they would be wining to write for our paper...
...to teetolt** thw*ato*.w**la mottsia...
...The new publication comes just to time if this move is evidence of the policy capitalism intends to adopt in the future to stamp out its critics...
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...coal police is inadequate Governor's Measure Attacked by liberties Organization—End of System Urged (by a Now i»os»r corrapoadent) HAHRXBURQ, Pa.*-Oovernos Fisher's coal and iron police bill...
...paul peace group expels communists Obstructionist Tactics Lead to Ousting—Laidler Addresses Meeting on Peace Program (Br a New l*a4*r CwiMf—Seat) ST...
...Prevailing wages tM» tor ghis and tl2-»15 for ' ¦ awed tor men in private homea h haa 01 to m a week...
...Beat workers' committee...
...Carolina Mill Workers Strike Against Speed-Up greenville, s. c— (pp)—all workers at the big 70,000-splndle ware shoals textile plant are out on strike...
...had ham given a certificate at safety two weeks before the nsnlnsnB, The value of the certificate was known hp U. 8. mtoe bureau officials to to af when they issued it The mtoe bureau', chief, Scott Turner, to his report tht year branded coal dust srrolnriora as el together avoidable through reek dusttof But not one coal mine to America ma rock dust effectively, he lepuiled...
...nj the workers at a conference with th< plant manager, agreed to held off th< strike until arrival of the president 01 the company, who is rushing slows from Boston to leek into the situa Uon...
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...Introduced into the Pennsylvania House of Representatives by Representative M. A. Musmanno, Is under-Ore from the Constitutional Rights committee of Pittsburgh, the Pittsburgh branch of the American Civil Liberties Union, and various' labor groups- Meanwhile, indictments for murder have been returned by the grand jury against the three coal and iron policemen responsible for the administration's sudden interest in placing some restraint on the private police bodies...
...A mine cage crashed, clouds of coal dust were stirred up, a spark flashed and 46 miners were killed at the eiplotton leapt through the workings of the Valley Camp Coal Co.'a Klnloch mine...
...The administration measure on the coal and iron police is > totally inadequate and an insult to Western Pennsylvania...
...P. of L. organiser, were &paasaa fm-bringing the 'first group strew* hue the U.T.W, and for adtana the strike committee until Pres...
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...The officers are: Howard T. Williams, president...
...More than 4000 workers are employed in the plant, which produces 12,000.000 pounds of layuti yam annually...
...The when the/ heard timtdetomvtion^ahtoh shook the town at tSi am, shortiy after their ninlatiai had ttsetunaad to, work...
...j While New York labor men were inspecting the union barracks at Parnaasua last year, a anion plane soared over the town, dropping hundreds of leaflet...
...eannaaT operatives, did not jet an Infjaonjpt ¦nnaaht to returning to work...
...laddfemedamammeetlngof WSm TeiMiy to defiance of the mPvhaaaai another cemnanr of anhtia amhsbpipl™**^' mmmmr^^m 'i^nnpnn^nwj^e- wan e-w*wsse»^aw» . Sum mam strikers had been working . eahr the most rigid sort of discipBne...
...Saxby El wood, secretary, and Mrs...
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...New elections were fixed fir April 34...
...Jacprodoction of the first page of the sew Socialist Poblfcatioii, "The Harvard Proyrrawlf fl** $10 for 60 Hour Week Average Wage Paul In DuPont Rayon Plant NASHVTLE, Tenn.—(PP)—Wages In the huge DuPont rayon nulla nan average $10 a week of 80 hour...
...The administration's bill, which the Civil Liberties Union and other organisations are opposing as not bring drastic enough, provides for placing every private policeman under $2,000 bond and limits his activity to' within 1000 feet of the property of the company by which be is employed...
...we are planning to send copies and bundle orders of the paper to other college groups connected with the socialist party or the league for industrial democracy, with the hope that next year the paper can develop into a new intercollegiate socialist such as waa published before the war...
...bill aimed at pa...
...the sate of the "Old Hickory powder plant" it miles from Nuaitsi...
...Parnassus Itself Is a dreary, bannwdgt coal town which was fortified by the valley Oamp coal co...
...The patience of the other delegates became exhausted and they finally took drastic action...
...Bat the workers ignored th< committee and walked oat...
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...46 Miners Killed In Mine Blast Scab Pit, Got Certificate o£ Safety from U. S. Two Weeks Before Accident pARNASSUS, p*.—(PP)—Death came again to the shabby, non-union mine town of Parnassus, the second time within IS months...
...Mtoe to Nan TJnton The Klnloch colliery, owned by the Valley Camp Ooel Co, a Pahuey cwanern...
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...thmmWBtmg of 5,000 .totters ratimwa agreement later ht the day...
...4 buss meeting of 5,000 strikers rati, gai the agreement later in the day...
...it does not impose any special line of peace propaganda, but encourages all kinds...
...General Election Called For APril 24 in Denmark COPENHAGEN, Denmark, March.—A royal decree has sanctioned the dlssotu1 'an of the Danish Bolkething, effective as of April 23...
...declares Frederick E. Woltman...
...This Is lower than the scale pain before tiki recent strike In the Olansstoff plant at Eixabethion...
...forbidding all strike actafto...
...It is also pointed out by those objecting to the proposed measure that the provision limiting the police to within 1000 feet of company property would not have met the conditions existing during the recent big coal strike...
...asking the strikebreakers to quit work...
...Co The 136,000 spindles now idle m tm company's four mills here make Pet ser, advertised as a model mill town the largest textile village in the state If they submit to the speedup plan workers who have been running 24 tc 26 looms and earning $30 a week wil have to operate about 72 looms I01 $21.80 a week...
...a second set of newsboys was then engaged, and they too, withdrew because of intimidation...
...and plasterers, headed aj • aan^ejgrA...
...the capitalist press of course ignored this, and we felt that it was an item of interest to college men...
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...It was then decided by the other elements in the council that the time had come for decisive action—either to withdraw or to expel the disturbers...
...The this were asking »15-*1» a nwk> Mea hdsxem asked 45c an hour...
...In many instances the striking miners, evicted from company bouses, erected barracks close to the company property although not on company land...
...about the time we -cere ready, to go to press...
...during the miners' strike to lsarr...
...ander which ghls are not alhanVto hem their machines without aaa aamtoion...
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...hat gas was so dense within the Xtntash wcnVtoJB that reacwe activity waa knpioaltile...
...that militarism is a product of imperialism, and that imperialism grows directly out of capitalism...
...Harry W. Laidler had outlined the many ways in which international peace could be promoted...
...the aaeaavhtoa,** he eta toe to that totter...
...Br » New LcaSer Corrempcndent) Cambridge, Mass.—The effort to suppress The Harvard Progressive, new Socialist publication, .through intimidation of the newsboys, brought the following editorial comment from The Harvard Crimson (issue of March 31st): THE MARK OF THE BEA8T "The forces of capitalism are being driven to more and' more dastardly lengths to their efforts to keep the public in ignorance of the trtttti about their nefarious schemes of oppression...
...and we decided recently to edit and publish a small paper written for college men' by men to or sympathetic to the Socialist movement...
...Us sat at bring hi much higher than toantor aufi settlements in Tennessee ' sat Sena' CaroHne, but the wages are a saaB group of local union earpen' tan bnnnanas...
...At the next meeting of the executive board of the council, the Communist group packed the meeting and over the protests of the chairman, reversed the action of the council...
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...we have Jong felt that while The Hew Leader-wwdnabie to men in the Labor toOiMinnt it is of less interest to college •taeents...
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...By maneuvering, Communist speakers were foisted on the council...
...stratjon refused to allow the mit liberal club to discuss military training, and so some of us spent this morning handing out leaflets announcing a protest meeting just oil the campus for to-morrow afternoon...
...a high wire fence was thrown around the company shacks to keep union, pickets from aaaaaaagj strikebreakers from going to work...
...The bill also gives the Governor the power to investigate the conduct of policemen and empowers him to discbarge at will...
...Usees to akee confinement, they do not ntokbaSy to the military type of shop ^-anfcel...
...The' tjssjnnt spfc-tt of them Southern people pup'-hw stttirnifnt was reached coar.eaaaeanaieneed observers that a new opened for the textile workers p.J- wuen.Hes Waa Defied fnt tAna-taff strike started when 550 hpjplmll oat at noon March 13...
...at a mam meeting of workers pgjn% naata, an tojanction was served e»J|aa en., and on their leaders and nnmaaaaa...
...At the meeting March 16, the Communists forced their speaker on the audience to present their views after Dr...
...Chris J. Golden of United Mine Workers' Dht...
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...secretary of the Pittsburgh branch of the American Civil Liberties Union...
...toara la...
...of FoUFashioned Plain J Workers -jiyjABTTHTON, Tenn.—(TP)—At a ** inmaoc meeting in Johnson city, gnsaoethton, which opened late in He evening and lasted until 2:30 a.m., at agreement was reached to settle the jjfcjnsstoff-Bemberg strike...
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...finally a man holding the agency of one of the papers, said that while he dared not handle it openly, for fear of losing his job, he could secretly secure newsboys if there were something to it for him...
...He it secretary of the district...
...Bemberg ¦afrfi, already earning more than QfaP«rtnfT operatives, did not get an ingttat...
...The result has been a temporary victory for the powers of tyranny, for the first appearance of The Progressive has been delayed by this misfortune, but its organisers show the earnestness of their intentions by promising to carry on in the face of every obstacle...
...A statement was read by one of the Communists calling a meeting of the faithful...
...Ottbert Hyatt, and J. B. total the locomotive brotherhood, were to ea the Job a few days after the ig||jjpa started...
...strikers say the new efficiency racket both increased work and reduced wagea...
...Say-ace sratly from Tennessee farms...
...Minions of dollars worth of eeuhwnent and machinery were allowed to go to into there...
...revolution...
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...A committee of three represent...
...For nearly six months persistent and repeated efforts have been made by the Communist dement m the council to get it to adopt a Communist program...
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...After the speaking the council proceeded to repudiate the action of the Communists taken at the executive board meeting and to adopt a resolution barring Communist party supporters from participation ia the activities of the council...
...Only one man mespsd with Ms life...
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...9. to become secretary of the anthracite board of conciliation, James J. McAndrew may become next president...
...Coal and iron police saw the kafie<.g and grabbed them all, chasing the children back into the company town...
...Tenn...
...The youth of our nation at least should be protected from its grasping clutches, even if they must suffer exploitation in later life...
...With headquarters to Boston, it operates nulls at BhganviQe, Oa, IoOrange, Oa., Fctoer, B. C. Tueapau...
...the paper is issued fortnightly and sells tor five cents a copy...
...The imp...
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...that is why we are not just reformers but socialists...
...Paul J. Aymon of the Tennesm Federation of Labor...
...After many months of aggressive action by the Communists to graft their ideas on the council, the question was put to a vote and their plan was rejected at the February meeting...
...nasaavatag day an injunction was . earns ea the strike committer and ser.eajjnndied" uliltein ' A company: of antonehtia was sworn in...
...haavs wftajajawy an te aft fftftaftaft Ma** 52*4...
...They nm snllsi 50 hours a week at 16e-lsc ¦a hnr...
...all save one replied favorably, and reassured by this, we made plans for our first issue...
...sad organisation efforts in the aahht...
...Meet of them fell on a hillside...
...Organisations and groups are invited tc affiliate, but Communist party supporters are not eligible as delegates...
...Ac* cording to its terms, Olansstoff men work0 get increases of 5% to 15%, while cUt get 11% and upward...
...Stow it is scattered all about the grounds, rested and uetltm, a grim reminder af official "efficiency...
...S. C« and at Lisbon, Me, and Lowell, Mass...
...Every tree upholder of American liberty must hope that The Harvard Progressive will emerge the victor, even if its editors have to carry out their promise to neddle the conies themselves...
...This action was found necessary, to avoid constant turmoils and struggle to prevent Communist intriguers from transforming the council into an agency of the Communist party...
...After the Communist representative bad denounced the labor movement end all elements striving for peace, he did not have the courage to frankly state that-the Communists were interested more in Communism than in mafatataing peace...
...The St...
...Strike meetings |fyaa taht to a local tabernacle...
...A' committee which eaatsa.Dr...
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...Witness now their efforts to keep The Harvard Progressive from seeing the light of day by coercing the newsboys employed to distribute its copies...
...l Until...
...15%, while sfc fit 11% and upward...
...they preached the folly of any other sort of action but...
...Is a ataln awawmmaV totoi nmtofi agatofi the "stoetch eat" The Hew England Southern Co...
...m"n* *s ¦ iii1...
...Of lh» MM who struck, 3,000 are now a** np nombers of the United Textile werinca...
...Mothwurth, head of the nhy am nrnimartly ordered out of bis mum...
...The Monday ipavponi gam Buuhug rayon workers an) la smmathy with the Otensstog nahas...
...many of us belong to pacifist groups and all, of us are willing to cooperate, but we feel that our particular duty is not so much to talk about good-will, as to stress the socialist position...
...Bemberg jjSpK> already earning more than...
...Aw »*» »to..«aca»t»*t -»aard was (vnM *«» 1i twiatti kr Mai Ikatt twa aMar aakki ¦»twaaa»a aftpwaaW Jawi aataft ftanraaa ay M»aTcaam...
...Communist delegates came from some unions and from "odds and ends...
...Harvard Socialists Turn Newsboys When Attack On President Lowell Brings Move to Throttle New Paper ''Crimason,'' College Daily, Denounces Efforts to Suppress "The Progressive.'' Organ of Socialist Club by Lawrence b. Cohen, jr...
...the next morning the entire nfiman strata...
...Present were jut ntt"— of the United Textile ajorhen and of the U. S. Department of jakor, the beads of the rayon companJa^ »' militia captain representing the jaajnor of the state, the county sheriff, gat Pres...
...Twelve others are missing—apparently entombed—though hope is tapi sated that some of them may he found alive...
...coal and iron police were primed into service...
...Under tins bill, the police could still invade the miners' dwellings and employ their lawless tactics in dealing with the strikers...
...The strikers my that they have no connect!-em say...
...No discrimination will be shown against unionists in returning to work, all troops ate to be removed, the injunettn k to be quashed, and grievances are to be fettled through a standing depart...
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Vol. 8 • March 1929 • No. 11
