27,000 IN MADISON SQUARE GARDEN JOIN WORLD LABOR IN PEACE DEMAND; DANE SOCIALIST GOVT. TO BAN ARMS
27,000 IN MADISON SQUARE GARDEN JOIN WORLD LABOR IN PEACE DEMAND; DANE SOCIALIST GOVT. TO BAN ARMS Greatest May Day Demonstration i n American History Fills Nation's Biggest Arena THOUSANDS...
...Jessie Wallace Hughan deplored the continuous efforts of the schools to make children conform to rules, many of them unreasonable...
...The worst of it Is last President Hoover who did well in ¦tsjadag actual reduction of naval arm^Jpts abandoned America's historic poggga that in estimating military strength 0, number of trained reserves must be -gmtst This supposedly is a concession B {bj interest of harmony...
...The alliance between public utilities, paper production, and great newspaper organs is in its early stage of development and its continuance win mean the ultimate control of news and editorial output and make of Journalism the most prostituted profession in the United States...
...Woll's case against Socialists is extraordinarily weak to require such distortion of truth...
...William M. Feigenbaum told of Socialist accomplishments in solving the housing problem abroad...
...N. Y. Department of Labor: Rabbi Stephen S. Wise...
...It 1...
...If the Tory Party thini that they can make some political capita ! to the disadvantage of the Labor Part} out of my statement they arc making i ' tremendous mistake...
...Already Tory speakers in the country are slanderously misrepresenting what I said...
...It makes our attack easier...
...McGoldrick said the Socialist's big problem is to solve the problem of providing an honest, trained and responsive public personnel...
...the two parties In the State which believe in tearing up th: constitution when it suits their Interests are the Tories and the Communists...
...The poster, however, will be a God-send to our friends...
...Churchill and not Mr...
...In the first category, the employer bears all the cost: in the second, contributions to the pension funds are divided between employers and employees...
...Murray Counselors...
...The Tory game was to interpret Mr...
...Steincke...
...Snowden's address as an argument for "repudiation...
...I'll offer a prise to anyone who can show any good Noam why if we mean business at an that pmn is not wiser, easier and more practical than President Hoover's suggestion shout the reduction of navies...
...rid of the subsidy system is stdise everybody.^ But to our adstaw^ dent world both prosperity aadPJ,*j| be more truly served by redactBS^g than by raising them and thenstaw*^ them by export bounties for P*°*~^9 protected by the tariffs...
...Albany Knickerbocker Bsess and Albany Evening News, of tha-Frank E. Gannett chain...
...Tribune, although both were purchased by Messrs...
...Courage was displayed by the publishers, however, on another front...
...Powerful capitalist concerns ration our dally news and editorial opinion registers the views of those who own the United States...
...The Socialist leader dismissed the Republican party as a possible rallying point for fusion, declaring that "the Sam Koenlg machine is a "Tammany annex" ] and the Republican party "Tammany's1 jackal...
...Kennedy, Miners9 Secretary, Pledges Old Age Pensions Fight Second Old Age Security Conference Marks Milestone in Progress of Movement rT»HE Second National Conference on Old Age Security, held under the auspices of the American Association for Old Age Security in New York City on April 20th, was a historic event in the progressive march of the movement for adequate security against old age want...
...1—27,000 workers in Madison Square Garden, New York City, cheered speakers demands for disarmament...
...I suppose this Is one way of showing gratitude for de-rating gifts...
...What Is his future...
...Our hearts thrill with the courage of oar bratsers and sisters In the strike areas of the Southern textile region, tf* observe with joy the victory of tat Labor Party in Denmark and Iks strength of the British Labor Parti in yriffianfi We rejoice in the stirring of life and hope among ts* masses of China and India...
...Each of the 16 unions now is sending an organizer Into the South, to deal with the labor problems Involved in new factory construction especially...
...While Mpesjsj ssj Billings ars in jail not one *f a is free...
...He related how several attempts by the miners' unions to provide for this hazard have met with failure and how absolutely essential state legislation was...
...British Communists Oppose MacDonald, 24 Others of Labor Party (By n Ntw L«ae>r CtrrMnonSratl LONDON.—According to an official statement Issued by the Communist Party of Great Britain there will be 25 Communist candidates in the field at tbe General election...
...The following Socialists will have portfolios in the new cabinet: Premier—M...
...4—The Socialist and Labor International laid before the Geneva disarmament conference more than 7,000 petitions from million* of workers demanding immediate effective action to insure peace...
...Snowden's coupling of his criticism of the budget with his attack on the debt settlement shoved Mr...
...interference in strikes...
...When they discovered that he had not the least intention of doing this, it began to dawn on them, that rather than having made a mistake Mr...
...Contrary to reports which have been sent to American Journals, Ramsay MacDonald and the Labor Party stand solidly behind Mr...
...There are also some inferior courts, both of civil and criminal jurisdiction who, in violation of law, use their power to bring about convictions and cruel punishments against worker* and their sympathizers, or in the case of civil suits issue unwarranted injunctions, the effect of which ¦ to crush the aspirations of labor is its strikes or organization campaigns for a better life...
...Lattimer, who has been studying Industrial and trade union pension plans for a number of years, shed considerable new light on the extent to which these plans may be expected to solve the problem of old age dependency...
...When this thought is realized there will be less crime...
...Some 50 million dollars have been wasted on the Bronx terminal market and Staten Island docks, he said...
...Bsmesnbrrr Moose and BUfcegt " "We cannot forget oar uaselrej problems) of Justice to the »gid7>j deliverance from the terrible Trass...
...Bierck opened the conference with comments upon President Hoover's recent speech in regard to the increasing crime wave...
...Neville Chamberlain's policy...
...But when two or ,*fflte pages farther on they had to an•ter questions designed to show whether to*y knew what an equalization fee was ™ great majority were wholly uninformed or Incorrectly informed...
...In the latter case journalism is led into a brothel and becomes a kept woman of capitalism...
...We cannot think of any political or economic issue, disarmament, tariffs, debts and reparations for ourselves alone but only in terms of the weftbeing of ourselves and our brothers The workers of the world wait for a to catch up...
...The speakers included Thomas Kennedy, Secretary-Treasurer, United Mine Workers of America: Royal Meeker, formerly Commissioner, U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: Miss Frances Perkins, Industrial Commissioner...
...Bishop Francis J. McConnell, president of the Association, presided at the dinner meeting...
...At this moment I know nothing of this case except what has been published...
...and organizations and the Socialist party to dislodge Tammany Hall from power in New York City was issued by Norman Thomas, Socialist party leader, at the closing session of the two-day Municipal Affairs Institute last Sunday night...
...Alexander Fichlandler declared there are three major obstacles to making the N. Y. school system a vehicle which would provide each child with opportunities ^or the fullest development...
...What America does or boss not do because of America's eeosomic power concerns the whole world...
...Interest and amortization on city obligations rose by over 82 million dollars...
...At an earner stage be sternly rebuked Mr...
...MacDonald made an emphatic declaration that there must bo no naiflls tlon of agreements, bat revision by negotiation...
...Sumner camps, Indeed, are good, but the BuUtary training part Is another matter...
...We cannot forget the cor ruption and inefficiency of our cjh government and the lmperUhsm « our nation...
...Snowden on the matter of international debts...
...Instructive papers were presented by experts in various fields...
...Men who deliberately damage the credit of their country, prompted at best by political ignorance and prejudice, cannot be held guiltless...
...What I did say was that we were not to be bound by the principle of the Balfour Note in any negotiations which a Labor Government might open up for the revision of the debt settlements...
...Harry W. Laidler's exposition of municipal transit in Detroit, San Francisco and Seattle, followed by a summary of gains that might accrue to New York as a result of honest municipal operation and ownership, was an excellent supplement I to Mr...
...It was Gannett interests that led the fight to break the Typographical Union In Albany a few months ago...
...A manifesto, signed by some of the leading bankers and financiers, stating that the credit of the country will be seriously damaged if a Labor Government is again in office, and appealing for an anti-Labor support at the Election is being considered, and a financial ramp is being discussed by way of direct action...
...publisher of the Hew York Herald Tribune, is a director in the International Paper and Power Company...
...People who live in a world of chcatery leave false and confused trails behind them, but at election times our country seems to become the prey of those scoundrels, and our electors should keep their beads and their wits...
...Through Bryan-Thomason Itewspapers, Inc., are included the Greensboro, N. C, Record and the Tampa, Fla...
...Mr„ Snowden was to be the victim But at the end of the evening it was Mr...
...These things bring to us a gnat sense of responsibility...
...It is grossly unfair to Oennsny...
...The present chairman of the British Labor party...
...When Gannett took over the Brooklyn Eagle the reading publlo knew nothing of the relation of the power «"wpwiT to the purchase of the paper...
...There were dramatic scenes in the Commons when Mr...
...2) more special classes for special problem children...
...Brief talks were also given by Mrs...
...The sessions opened Saturday morning with a discussion on education...
...could be desired-, the Metropolitan dailies' devoting a column each day to summaries of the addresses...
...Coleman declared Tammany has made "crime and politics synonymous.'* The Police department, he said, is at the mercy of the underworld which is linked with Tammany...
...The President opened the meeting by reading letters and telegrams from Sec'y...
...Every Socialist proposal in England or America includes recognition- of the workers' own unions, the Increase of civil liberties and free suctions...
...I hope that the Incompetents at Tory Headquarters are to go on keeping paper makers, printers and bill-posters busy...
...It Is generally agreed that Labor made a masterful political stroke...
...Mac Donald would repudiate Mr...
...The trade union pension schemes," he said, "are in an even more precarious condition than the schemes of Industrial organizations...
...and refusal to live up to a solemn agree- | ment...
...the nation...
...3—The Danish Socialist party took the reins of government on a program of disarmament...
...Lattimer also declared that nine international tfade unions and sir...
...Brooklyn Daily Bugle, another Gannett paper, $1,954,000 in notes and 400 shares of common in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle Company, which controls the publication through subsidiaries, Ithaca Journal-News, also a Gannett paper, $800,000 in notes...
...The Minister took full advantage of his opportunities, and proved the wisdom of his Party leaders who have done everything they can to keep wireless out of the election, and, as they could not do that, have prevented us from getting anything but a totally inadequate chance of speaking...
...Destitution in New York Worst in 15 Years Destitution in New Tort City is worse now than at any time within the past IS years, if the number of homeless men riven free shelter in the aumiclpsJ lodging bouse is a reliable barometer of hard times...
...I might almost say boyishly exultant, over his success in forcing the Tories on the defensive over their bad bargains...
...We cut uford to be equally dogmatic or ess* Ignorant about the latest proposal to b* the farmers by debentures...
...Conscription Is got the road to peace and to permit other nMons to keep the conscript armies deBfed by treaty to Germany is to make a bypocritical mockery of any chsannajfiTit program...
...The session closed Sunday evening with a session which was attended by 250 despite the heavy downpour or rain...
...And the uefence of freedom comes curiously from Ban who excommunicated Brookwood...
...Henry R. Seagcr of Columbia University, and Mrs...
...The mood of the Leader of the Opposition chimed with that of the members of his Party...
...That a few financiers should use their economic power to thwart the political judgment of the country and .defeat the struggles of our people to obtain selfgovernment as an enfranchised democracy, is intolerable...
...I am not content," he added, "to sea my country Med white for the benefit of other countries far more prosperous than our own...
...With the avowed intention of placing the nation in the lead in the matter of disarmament, the Labor Party, victorious in the last election, has taken office...
...Thomas opened the demonstration with a reference to the statement Issued by President William Green of the American Federation of Labor, which had denounced May Day as "a holiday of foreign workers...
...Journalism Is Ticketed Tbe present era shows the Impact of mass production upon this old and honored profession...
...Writing of warnings reminds me of the most recent of the Scotland Yard sensations...
...Yet tab statement which we have quoted appeared not in the Communist press, Bot In the capitalist press, but in the A. F. of L. News Service largely controlled by Matthew Woll...
...Today a man of forty odd years, capable and in full health, is not wanted for employment...
...My boys," said one of them exultantly, "we've found our second 'Zinoviev' letter...
...has a place in the new corpora to hjerarchy...
...Among those an chiefs of police in many cities, who in violation of law, deny freedom of speech, freedom of assembly sad Ot right of workers to organize foa collective bargaining and mutual aid...
...Coleman and Julius Umansky, secretary of the Young Peoples Socialist League spoke, while Algernon Lee presided...
...It was arranged by the Socialist party and the Rand School of Social Science to help produce a body of facts on which municipal issues might be developed...
...Churchill said, 'The hunt was up...
...Bierck, "is a demonstration of dissatisfaction...
...Snow- | den's original remarks,—that Labor would i seek to revise the agreement by all leg!-] timate means...
...Henry Linvllle...
...Give us the police department and the District Attorney's office' says the underworld, 'and you have the wholesale graft from contracts and the rest,' " was the situation in the city as Coleman saw it...
...Our R.O.T.C.'s and Queens' Military Training Camps don't gnks real soldiers...
...All who came in between 2 o'clock and the time the doors were closed, had to find standing room...
...the Department of Correction budget has increased about 35 per cent Police costs, however, have gone up by 130 per cent and the cost of debt service rose from a little less than $78,000,000 to a little more than $159,000,000...
...Snowden Attack on Balfour Note Backed by Party-Churchill Budget Comes To Grief T ONDON,—Two major skirmishes in British general elections have been fought and the Labor party emerges with flying colon from both...
...It was complacent, soothing, dishonest...
...development of a party of producers and consumers for all time and throughout...
...The great majority of the stud•» agreed that they favored the Mc**ry-Haugen bill for farm relief without toe equalization fee...
...The platform, on the matter of arms, indicates the cabinet will take steps to revoke concessions accorded munition factories, which are supported by foreign capital...
...The Torts* confidently expected Mr...
...During February sad March more Jobless workers were sheltered than at any time sines the winter of 191*-1«, according to the Welfare Council...
...Hauge...
...It is well and good to respect law but we must have respectable laws...
...trade unions, progressive individuals...
...Crime, among other things," continued Mr...
...charitable enterprises are receiving less than 30 per cent increase...
...Munch...
...C.) Herald and Spartanburg Journal, with $855,000 in notes covering all of these...
...We, who are more fortunate, must have more regard for those who are less fortunate, and the state by law should in its sovereign right decree that those who have reached an age when their labor is impossible, shall be cared for...
...But a congeeloe to whom...
...These statements, which were received with great applause by the large gathering, appear in other columns of this bulletin...
...Another reform to be sought by the new Socialist government will be a constitutional change which will call for the abolition of the upper chamber of parliament and institute the one-chamber system of government...
...Kennedy declared that "when it ! comes to human legislation...
...Fichandler declared...
...TO BAN ARMS Greatest May Day Demonstration i n American History Fills Nation's Biggest Arena THOUSANDS FAIL TO ENTER HALL Thomas, Waldman, Panken and Others Sound Peace Demands — Greeting Sent/British Labor J^J ORE than 27,000 workers jammed Madison Square Garden in New York City Wednesday in what was undoubtedly the mightiest May Day demonstration any American city has ever seen...
...In a tense atmosphere Mr...
...Records of railroad companies having pensions plans show that the number of pensioners is from 3 to 6 per cent of the number of employees 25 years ago...
...Churchill's budget out of the picture...
...Two sessions were held during the day at the Community Church...
...The French, moreover, know that the} can respect an independent neighbor, cordially friendly, far more than a subservient one...
...He described the Republican party leaders "as a bunch of old men dying of diabetes in the front window of the Union League Club...
...Between them, he declared, they managed to divert public attention from great problems for which they had no solution...
...He also possesses sixteen other publications which may be regarded as satellites of the big combination...
...president of the Teachers Union, declared that "so long as the members of the Boards of Superintendents are elected for reasons of politics and church connections, they are not likely to be heavily endowed with social Intelligence...
...Newspaper correspondents jrtust however, that the debenture plan •** brought up again in connection »*»*• tariff bill and that If the wheat, ea** and corn growers can't get this *«• ¦ subsidy they win not only luuposi SSS" crease of tariff to manufactarsD tat *¦ mand a reduction...
...Hi Mooney-Billings Case Issue at U. of Pittsburgh ' PITTSBURGH—(FP).—Imprisonment JTom Mooney and Warren K. Billings * California penitentiaries has become I* hot issue on the campus of the Uniof Pittsburgh, the steel trust col"**• A Liberal club permit for a Moo*T-Billings meeting to hear Prof...
...H. Morrison, will be opposed by the Communist, J. T. Murphy...
...Ministers rubbed their hands with gleeful anticipation...
...The A. F. of L., Thomas said, had started May Day back in 1886...
...Churchill...
...If our opponents care to make this a test election on whether the masses can continue to trust the democratic method of elections, they can do so, but the consequences will not be what they expect...
...How, a new poster, this time on the terrible things which Socialism will bring in its train, has displaced some more advertisements of drink on the brewers' | hoarding...
...Girl Colonels and Six appeal far military education and the general prettification of drill on high school fields and college campuses exist ftmpiy to keep alive the old notion that «a cant do without wars and armies, also, as one Rear Admiral frankly said ma debate with me," this sort of military training Is useful in dealing with labor...
...Borgbjerg...
...We are to give the country a chance to vote soberly, on great sober issues, and I believe that the result wui give us fan esqee tor rsjotetng...
...Is he to be relegated to the almshouse, an Institution which in the future will be looked upon as a relic of a barbaric, economic past...
...Other publishers caught in this exposure are offering similar assurances that are simply amusing to those who know the newspaper game...
...The cabinet will also strive to bring about ratification arid application of the Geneva conventions concerning chemical war and manufacture of private firearms...
...arm Relief Possibilities h» one of our best colleges a political VMUunnaire was circulated among some *tee hundred students prior to the last ' •action...
...2—Millions of workers in Berlin, Paris, Vienna, London, Tokio and hundreds of other cities also gathered in parades, and mass demonstrations which stressed above all demands for lasting peace...
...Clynes, V. Hartshorn, W. Adamson and Margaret Bondfleld...
...Zahle...
...The morning session was presided over by vice-president Dr...
...His was a patheUe case, , out not nearly so pathetic aa that of a nation which goes to the polls In a drunken mentality, and, at Its own fireside next morning, finds that it has been fooled and robbed...
...invasions of constitutional rights: Illegal and unconstitutional rights...
...France knows perfectly well...
...This week I have come across several Canadians, some holding high office...
...An hour later not a seat was empty...
...We are turning out young peapie eager with lip-service to Washington and Lincoln, but to whom the honesty of Lincoln and the rebelliousness of Washington are absolutely unknown ideals...
...Some of the internaUonals will send more than one man...
...On one side of it is a colossal beer glass, and, on the other, the face of a man who looks like an ancient valet advertising "Worthingtons," with a vacant and stupid grin...
...Yet labor, more's the pity, has endorsed CtUsen*' Military Training Camps...
...Hoover's ten points sods' the debenture plan all have scaas Sa> The argument that it would overproduction has so much ***** Senator Norris himm»if has propo** * amendment to scale down the stadSf* case of overproduction...
...The conference concluded with a dmner given at the Town Hall Club...
...Pennsylvania I Is as rigid as the rock of Gibraltar...
...Though the size of the budget has risen 100 per cent, in ten years, he said, average wage raises for public employees have risen less than 50 per cent...
...But the question Is: Is Labor to have fair play at the election...
...It was no manly argument, no honest study in fact no intelligent examination of national interests, no sincere statement of arresting differences...
...Snowden who had suffered the twelve-foot drop...
...sick and maternity insurance...
...not for me to answer...
...Ttfe-audiences were made up largely of Socialist party w^kcrs and members of the Young Peoples Socialist League...
...who will be opposed by H. Point...
...Florence Kelley, Secretary of the National Consumers" League: Prof...
...and (3) schools for industrial education for children who are unfitted for purely academic training...
...He stressed...
...Referring to the ambitions of Congressman F. H. La Ouardia, Mr...
...The doors were opened at 12 noon and by 1 a. m. half of the arena, was filled...
...They have got that victory feeling and they are deeply grateful to Mr...
...The meeting moved to the of Thaw Hall, but driven away, **Baabled on a vacant lot where Barnes, f *tdstick^w<dtman of the University of...
...Tories called upon him to "apologise" sad "withdraw," but in deliberate terms the ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer declared, "I make no apology and I do not Intend to withdraw a single word...
...It may sound absurd, but it is sober truth, and history proves it...
...Labor refused to be led Into this trap and stuck to the tenor of Mr...
...the fact that the Socialist Party is not interested in a "reform" campaign for one year, but rather In a campaign which would take into consideration the...
...Thomas said, might mean i running the city "for the benefit of real estate interests and public , utility cor...
...Finance Commissioner Peck, *ho under the peculiar laws ot Rhode Island has veto powers over appropriations crossed out this item as a wasteful "Pease...
...B n a concession justly resented by such fiene groups as Germany, the British jjt0C Party and Russia...
...But neither can we overlook ts* signs of an awakening...
...it gives an argument into the bjads of British and American mill tarne> who want compulsory military training and service In our country...
...Oraustein's testimony...
...I have no objection at all," Mr...
...The wiping out of the iluna in our great cities...
...Proper political, social and economic organization of the city's public-minded citizens could bring these changes about, Dr...
...Crimson banners of Socialist party branches, trade unions and 'Workmen's Circle branches swung- from the balconies...
...A friend in the city warns me that another bomb-shell is being prepared...
...N. T. Tribune Used Up Another interesting item In Mr...
...There !s one further point I would like to make...
...The publicity received by the party was all that...
...Some of the leading financial papers have shown a better political sense...
...Insecurity Breeds Crime Mr...
...Power Trust BuyingPress...
...Finance—M...
...They decided to oppose the five-day week for the workers in their industry...
...A moment's consideration should show that that would be a silly thing to do, because repudiation of the agreements, unless they were replaced by other agreements, would mean that cur foreign debtors would be released from making any payments at an...
...Labor is elated at M. Churchill's discomfiture over his efforts to make electioneering capital out of Mr...
...Now Mr...
...NeterflSw* every single one of President Hoo+Sf*^ jecUons can by the same lei* tost*** to the whole tariff system—how sasaw fully the New Republic has shoe* ¦» issue of May 1st...
...Thomas...
...Socialists have fought hTtuonltnl's state to the point of exile and death...
...porations...
...If a panic is engineered from the city, any Government worth its salt .Will take drastic steps, whatever they may be, to confine the immediate damage to the city itself, and put every penny of national resources required behind Industry, so that it will not suffer by the City plot...
...Snowden intervened after Sir Laming had seemed him, in his Budget speech, of favoring the repudiation of the Balfour Note...
...Dahi...
...A party Bke that If it gets a chance and any decent encouragement from the United States might go farther and propose the skOtttiOB of navies and the demilitarifr atM of narrow waterways...
...Chicago Daily News, $350,000 preferred stock and 5,000 shares of common...
...The Minister for War has done us a great service, and our candidates should be deeply grateful to him...
...Three hundred of these children, In a well-drilled chorus, led the huge audience in singing of "The International," song of international Labor and Socialism...
...Oraustein admitted that his company had participated in aa offer of approximately $30,000000 for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, that it had bean ready to back an offer for H Progresso, Italian dally of New York City, and that it had pending a deal Involving $750,000...
...Of this we can pile up evidence mountain high, evidence which only malice or gross ignorance can deny...
...Klein found the trouble with the city was the mediocre quality of its public officials...
...Thomas suggested the practical basis of such an alliance might be demands for municipal ownership and operation of transit and municipal promotion of housing facilities...
...Mr...
...MacDonald...
...It was Just an effort to deceive the public which reached its highest points of risky audacity when it stated that the Labor Party may, justly, be suspected of wishing to stop the payments of war and service pensions, and when it implied that all the houses built since 1924 were the results of Mr...
...Walker, he said, is Tammany's "chief comicf* and Police Commissioner its "stage manager...
...I have said in other connection;, sad I repeat it now...
...Snowden had made a deliberate and successful play...
...Chicago Journal—(1,000,000 in debentures and $600,000 in preferred stock in the Bryan-Thorn ason Newspapers, Inc., which own the Journal, and 10,000 shares of common stock in tho Journal itself...
...In all my Parliamentary experience,'' went on Mr...
...The Front Government bench was packed...
...The Hease was packed, and in the end excitement was high...
...British Labor Better* Hoover We must congratulate the British labor Party on its frank and generous stand tor freedom of the seas...
...Snowden stated that bo stood by every word of his speech on Tuesday...
...Truth vary frequently employs the accidents of life for its own, good purposes...
...Theodore Stauning Forms Cabinet With Three Members of Radical Party Included DISARMAMENT TO BE THE FIRST STEP Abolition'of Upper House of Parliament Will Also Be Sought by Labor Party Regime fBr * New Leader Correspondent) (COPENHAGEN...
...Bording...
...5. The weeding out, by removal or Impeachment of sues administrative officers as take tat law into their own hands in denying freedom of speech, freedom of press and freedom to labor to organize...
...The Cabinet had met...
...it gives Soviet Russia an excuse for continuing bar military system...
...I saw one in the country arm in arm with a poster about "The Woman who took the Wrong Turning," and another shadowed by a title: "Do you believe it...
...Every indication of how the Tories are to light the election Is precious at this moment...
...Attendance at the six sessions was fully up to the expectations of the committee in charge...
...Home—M...
...observed Mr...
...M Under these circumstances tt SSSB* me a sound position for lsTS*** _ workers would be about this: M* the House Farm Relief bill and it can do to work out a aysaaa J^JS marketing...
...Order and obedience are the cardinal virtues...
...The average attendance was one hundred and twenty-five for all six sessions...
...He advocated a nonpartisan system of choosing public officials...
...J. H. Campbell, W. Gallagher and W. Harming too respectively...
...The stage had been set...
...B. C. Vladeck discussing public finances with Prof...
...British Labor Enthused By Triumph On Budget And Debt Pact Criticism MacDonald Attacks Tory Campaigning as Unscrupulous—Says It Will Aid Labor By J. Ramsay MacDonald, M.P...
...The feature of this poster, however, is its, omissions...
...Trade—M...
...Delegates from nearly a score of states attended this annual gathering...
...A cablegram greeting the British Labor party and expressing earnest hope for success is the pending election was sent by the throng, a vote put by Thomas bringing & tremendous roar of "ayes...
...L M. Rublnow...
...He then promptly approved an"tter appropriation providing pensions »t fall pay, that is, at $10,000 and $11,000 • Tear for two more or less unsatisfactory judges who were persuaded to re*%a...
...More tana our own future and our children's is dependent upon our strength sad courage...
...I frequently pass one pasted alongside the appeal for charity to feed and clothe miners, and there the bold letters: "See what the Conservatives have done" is not out of place...
...Justice—M...
...It is not nastf, ¦** fore, that the wheat farmen will vlnced that what la sauce for tt» not sauce for the gander...
...They really ought to show some courage, snd having told the lie, they ought to braaen It out...
...Kennedy told of the great fight the United Mine Workers of America have been waging in behalf of state legislation for the aged...
...These old inspiring journals have disappeared and the powerful daily as an investment enterprise succeeded them...
...What is to become of him...
...The curse of lawlessness falls on the workers principally from two sources: One, from organized bonds and lawless groups of so-called respectable citizens of the community, such as carried through the recent outrages against the workers on strike ia South Carolina to establish decent conditions is the mills of that state...
...I hope that a political trial which is to be held in Berlin sooner ?or later may come off before our election...
...The three Radical ministers will be: Foreign Relations—-M...
...Gannett now explains that the International has "no interest" in his publications with eartain "exceptions...
...Bryan and Thomason before they received financial assistance from the International Paper Company, according to Mr...
...Parts ot the history of the Zlnovleff letter still remain obscure, and only this week I have had information from the Continent, extracted from certain secret government archives, which can hardly be susceptible of definite proof, but which tells an extraordinary story of plotting and planning...
...Journalism has traveled far since the days of Greeley...
...The dally average for 1928 was 15 per cent higher than for 1937, and the 1937 rate was 00 per eons bleaker than tor 1930...
...So the old pose Is repeated of the Tories robing their stomachs, and draping their cars with the Union Jack during elections, and tearing it to bits at the same time, so that it may fit their requirements...
...Hopes For Forger's Trial I have in front of me a copy of a private and confidential circular, signed by some of those whom I have in mind...
...Mr...
...Among these was a brilliant summary of the Socialist position on transit...
...Health—M...
...Perhaps the only waf S* ^L...
...As a result the Tories J dropped the question as quickly as they had taken It up...
...Crime and Political Alliances" was discussed by McAlister Coleman and Louis P. Goldberg at the session early Saturday afternoon...
...What Is the thought in that man's head...
...Vladeck concluded...
...Referring to the struggles of the anthracite miners In Pennsylvania, his native state I Mr...
...It is something vitally diSerent when a huge corporation alliance annexes newspapers as a part of Its expanding business...
...Kennedy...
...Tho "exceptions" appear to be very importaent and yet Gannett naivety adds that the International has nothing to do with Influencing the policy of his papers...
...S* sumably the farmers will then saB >** certificates at a discount to sapSSS who will use them to pay tariff dlia* To this system President Hooftrto vigorously objected and almost w»aa» the farm relief bill will be pasted ens* it...
...The corporation "bought certain notes sad prsssrrod stock" of tho organisation tbat operates his papers in Ithaca, Albany and Brooklyn...
...Joseph McGoldrick and Henry H. Klein, presented a short but compact analysis of the 1929 budget...
...A friend has sent me a photograph showing one on the boardings rented from brewers...
...Simultaneously with the public announcement of the new Danish cabinet, which will be comprised of nine Socialists and three radicals, the Labor party has made public its program...
...Some billposters have stuck up the big Tory broadsheets with a naughty humor...
...Along both ends of the hall were draped bunting of a rich red hue, the first time in many years the red flag, symbolizing Socialism's international solidarity, has been displayed in a public gathering in New York City...
...Lattimer summarized: "It may be said that there is little to indicate any changes in industrial or trade union schemes which will ten'd to extend their coverage over a much larger percentage of their employees and members...
...Agriculture—M...
...but when he was finished, the hnrrt was very saeeh down...
...local unions have pension plans for their members, covering at present about 11,500 pensioners...
...I found Mr...
...Snowden's position...
...Thomas In CaUforFight on Tammany Waldinan Demands Walker State Transit Plans— Municipal Institute Discusses Issues A CALL for a permanent alliance of...
...First the cry of the workers against injustice and oppression, their demand for deliverance out of the house of their bondage, second the cry of hope, of future triumph which every spring foretells and finally the mighty affirmation of the solidarity of the workers with hand and brain in every land which is the basis of hope for mankind...
...The speech was a revelation of the methods of Tory propaganda...
...Yet the stupendous size of the demonstration over-shadowed all minor annoyances...
...Helen Harming of the N. Y. Community Councils...
...Sunday afternoon, William Karlin discussed housing, denouncing ex-Governor Smith's, Governor Roosevelt's, and Mayor Walker's record...
...Boston Herald and Boston Traveler, 5.124 shares of common stock, for which It paid $535 a share...
...Quite a considerable portion of this huge indebtedness went for public improvements which did not Improve anything...
...The International Paper and Fewer Company is revealed as the leader in this triple alliance...
...Although there has been an increase in contributory plans in recent years, the number of employees covered by them Is probably not more than 4 per cent of those under non-contributory plans...
...The average citizen of our- great city gets less for his money than any other large city outside of the United States," Mr...
...Power Trust Tainted Favors The following is the list of organs in which the big combine has Important holdings according to A. R. Oraustein, its President...
...J. It...
...Not a cent was spent to improve housing...
...Others must do that...
...It will b? something both to ridicule and argue...
...of Labor, James J. Dtivis...
...Thomas declared "Tammany did not change by putting on the Al Smith face, nor can the Republicans reform the city by putting on the La Ouardia face...
...It was addressed by Theodore L. Bierck, Chairman, N. J. Commission on Old Age Insurance and Pensions and former police commissioner of Jersey City...
...Socialists have opposed dictatorship, even Communist dictatorship, largely because it does some, though not all of the things, that Mussolini has done to freedom in Italy...
...C.) Record and Spartanburg (8...
...No one has been more victimized by the disrespect of law than Socialists, radicals and organized labor," Waldman declared...
...A solemn and grandiloquent document had been prepared...
...Over 500 persons attended the meetings, which were pronounced by all Inspiring and historic...
...J. Vaugban...
...The increase of criminals is receiving recruits from those who are desperate...
...Dtbeasa* are meant to provide an export aaaat tor crops like wheat and cotton of wtsa there is a surplus in the United SUM and which In consequence cannot at p* tec ted by a tariff but must bs tost approximately at the world market P* These debentures or certtflcaUs «S ¦> given to farmers or their agents at 8* rate of 21c a bushel for wheat sad St » pound for cotton which is exports...
...Having avoided eonflict with this dangerous menace to an unmuzzled press the Association adopted a ringing resolution of protest against a Minnesota statute which makes criticism of public officials almost impossible...
...Education—M...
...I do not notice, for Instance, I the nationalisation of women...
...I "If the Tory Party are so foolish ir I their own Interests as not to retreat ir | silence from the attack which has failet ! so miserably, they will, as I have said ! be presenting an election asset cf greate: j value to the Labor Party than the *Zino> j viev' letter was to them at the last elec ! tion...
...Looking bronzed and fit, he strode up and down his room behind the Speaker's chair and talked to me as though the smell of electioneering powder was already in his nostrils...
...of unemployment, of the gross osa trast between luxury and want H, cannot' forget how little aawanata there is of Justice in courts wben property is God...
...In the great chorus of the workers in all parts of the world on this May Day as on every May Day three strains are blended," Thomas went on...
...Old age pensions are the right of every human being who has devoted the greater part of his life to industry and are not charity," declared Mr...
...What the United States ought to do is ¦ot to make concessions to militarists but to abandon her own unenviable leadership gj turning schools and colleges and sumbmt camps Into places for Inculcating the BuUtary philosophy...
...Traffic—M...
...Lattimer stated: "The private pension schemes, now In practice, are- of two types...
...The Communists will be challenging several leaders of the Labor party and members of the first Labor Government, namely J. R. Maodonald...
...Bramsnaes...
...Oraustein's testimony is tho statement that Ogden Reid...
...In addition, Mr...
...Those interests are having a chance which may never come to them again, to take wide and deep national views in a fair minded and sympathetic atmosphere...
...It has no trombones by which to raise a fussy din, and send the beads of the electors ajazzlng...
...It was with difficulty that those in charge of the demonstration carried it through...
...It is one thing for a newspaper to own its source of supply...
...Prof...
...as Mr...
...Issued to two men by the names of Harold Hall and William La Yam...
...I am always glad to see brew-1 ers' advertisements cut down...
...Interviewed him the next day...
...That was a very different thing from saying that we should repudiate the debts...
...It has been good both for trade and for us hitherto...
...The Association will fight this statute but could not record itself in face of an investigation of the power-paper hierarchy...
...I refer to the introduction of the Tory budget by Winston Churchill, Tory chancellor, and to Philip Snowden's scathing attack on the debt settlements...
...I said no such thing...
...The audience was the largest that has attended a Socialist and labor meeting since the memorable meetings of the anti-war days...
...Dahlgaard...
...Mac Donald said, "to the question being made the beginning of the election...
...Raymond and Bryant when the daily paper was a vigorous institution, an agency for the expression of unfettered opinions and owners and editors stamped their publications with their personalities...
...The Party went home last night in great feather, happy and cheering: and they will impart their buoyant spirit to our people in the country...
...Ia the war against crime, we urge upon the President of the United States to us* the energies of ts* Federal Government, its enormous resources and power in support of the following program: "1...
...Foremost is the realization of the party's disarmament program, with which the Radicals are in agreement...
...450,000 in preferred stock and 3,000 shares of common...
...I hope they will think twice before such a step Is taken...
...Every available seat in the giant room was filled when Norman Thomas called the meeting to order at about 2.45 p. m. Ten minutes earlier the fire department had been forced to close the doors to the amphitheatre, as a result of which 7,000 to 10,000 found it impossible to gain admission...
...S. The establishment of a sound system #* unemployment, old age...
...Private Plans Precarious Mt...
...the Hon...
...The big committee of ushers that was needed was not as efficient as it might have been...
...Snowden em! phatieally, "weald salt me better snd nothing, I am sure, won id be of greatei ¦ advantage to the Labor Party at thh election than that this issue should tx ; kept prominent...
...That heavy tragedian Sir Teaming Worthington-Evans fished it out of the recesses of his brief-case with the air of an undertaker's mute...
...The total funds in hand are but little more than enough to pay present pensioners for two years...
...Friis-Skotte...
...Ex-Mayor John F. Hylan's slofan of an "efficient business admlnlstratlon" Mr...
...j Waldman Quizzes Walker The Municipal Affairs Institute was a departure in New York politics...
...For two or three years,'' he told me ' "I have persistently tried to arouse th< | country to the seriousness of these debt ; settlements...
...They are falsely stating that I said that a Labor Government would repudiate tbe existing debt settlements...
...WaMman Scores Hoover Louis WaMman referred to President Hoover his recent address oa crime...
...2. The creation^ of a minimum wage, law...
...The common preachment of the day in the vernacular is 'get it while you can.' It is the thought of crass materialism and is easily translated Into Hake it while you can...
...Snowden's shattering criticisms of the Tory debt settlement by which, he said, Great Britain sacrificed some 1,000,000,000 pounds to the benefit of more prosperous nations...
...The other, is the lawlessness indulged in some official circles...
...The entire group will keep to contact with one another, and will take part in regional conferences looking to formation of strong building trades unions and councils in the textile and other industrial towns...
...The threat of economic insecurity," declared Mr...
...Journalism is being annexed as a department of the power and paper interests...
...Rasmussen...
...The dally publications are being gathered into chains as profitmaking enterprises...
...Mr...
...The pettey of the Labor Party, ho said, was In favor of an an round cancellation of debts, and that poBey was actually enunciated in the Balfour Note itself...
...Building Trades Unions Organizers Go South WASHINGTON—CFP).—Following the quarterly meeting of the Building Trades department of the American Federation of Labor, and a meeting of the executives of the international unions affiliated with that department, announcement was made by Secretary Spencer that a special organizing campaign in the South had been decided upon...
...5—The British Labor Party made public a statement of policy of "freedom of the seas" aimed at maintaining peaceful relations between the United States and Great Britain...
...Harry ¦•ar Barnes was revoked at the last •taute...
...To the swashbuckling Iflssnftni and to the France of Polncare...
...Snowden...
...Also somewhat disappointing was the general nature of some of the addresses, which, it had been hoped, would be factual and offer something of permanent value for ¦ejse In the campaign ahead...
...The latest phase of development is revealed by this investigation...
...that, though a Labor Government would not be subservient as the present one has been, a genuine friendship and a determination to effect harmonious working in the interests of both countries will always inspire the relations between a Labor Government and itself...
...He complimented the Socialists on organizing the institute and hoped the party would soon be a strong force In public affairs...
...The American Newspaper Publishes* Association meeting in Hew York City this week faced this situation but a resolution to Investigate the International was turned down...
...Falsifications On Nationalization The oftener that Tory leaders repeat, as the Minister for War did, that nationalization has, In no instance, been successful, the better ought we to be pleased...
...It was then that Tory enthusiasm began to wane...
...Nothing," continued Mr...
...Frank A. Miller, New York Assemblyman, who sponsored the Association's bill at Albany, and Elmer Spahr, President, Pennsylvania Conference of Bricklayers, York, Pa...
...It was a matter of disappointment that many party speak...
...Crowds Gather Early The crowds began to arrive at the garden about nine a. m. Wednesday morning, so keen was interest In the May Day among the workers of the city...
...His speeches on nationalization have added seriously to that unfortunate conviction of Canadians that our people here know nothing about them, and care as much, and that we are too self-centred to learn anything about them...
...So reads a ynflHr- which is bad news for the milot: workers on May Day who have TZ aemsndlng an end or at least a ggfUc reduction in the terrible burden gnuanons of imperialistic govern-ggs pot upon them...
...Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York, Senator C. C. Dill, and State Senator Seabury C. Mastick, of New York...
...Ecclesiastical—M...
...Bierck, "is a main contributing cause of the crime wave...
...Summarizing Ills findings...
...The President might have gone further and pointed out the Increase In the spirit that is prevalent of the disregard for others' rights...
...Abolish poverty and your crime committments will be negligible and we will not then have to make comparisons with other countries where crime is less, because those countries do provide and care for their aged and hold out hope that their future will not be as inmates of an almshouse...
...And the Augusta (Ga...
...ers did not put in an appearance...
...The other day I read of a staid but innocent Nonconformist who came up to see London,^pilstook his drinks, end knew of none of his 'exploits till he woke sober the next morning In a police cell...
...A Labor Government would hold to those contracts In the Interests of our country until they could be replaced by agreements which would do a little more justice to our own country," concluded Mr...
...Some Get Old Age Pensions After a hard fight the liberal and laboT *W of Rhode Island got the State Legislature to appropriate a few paltry thousands to investigate a method of old age Pensions...
...That is justice for you under the «apttaHst system...
...MacDonald has issued a statement re-affirming the position taken by the former Labor chancellor, the Socialists' financial genius...
...Snowden in the Lobby, besieged by Pressmen in search of "copy.' The ex-Chancellor was exultant...
...Most Significant Celebrations Since The End Of World War May Day crystallized the growing- world-wide demand of millions of Socialist workers for disarmament and lasting international peace...
...But some time ago I was informed through most reliable channels from the Continent, that some queer transactions involving British services in which it might be found that we would have some interest, bad come to light...
...Judging' by what these horrors are, we must have been living under a Socialist Government for the last four years...
...Churchill for butting into a delicate sitae ties) frith "tab-thusap4n< humbug" aad "iiep sesJOBOd rhetoric...
...For the sake of the community it had better be kept private and confidential...
...Mr ! Kennedy pledgid the hearty support oi the progressive element of the laboi j movement in the work of the Association ] and old age pensions...
...Inside the garden leaden of the Socialist and labor movement raised their voices in loudly cheered demands for effective steps toward disarmament and International peace, for the freeing of Tom Mooney and Warren K. Billings, and for the upbuilding of the trade union and Socialist movement...
...It is significant that Prime Minister Baldwin made no reference to the Churchill gasoonnade in a speech the next day...
...Never during the long period that I have been In intimate touch with them have I known the members of the Parliamentary Labor Party in so buoyant and elated a mood as they were after the budget-debt debates...
...These were: (1) classes larger than single teachers could handle...
...Chronicle, Columbia (S...
...Stauning...
...Of all these things we Americans matt ourselves today...
...4. The enactment of laws limiting the power of the courts to issue injunction decrees !» labor disputes...
...Defence—M...
...Is a Labor Government to have fair play after the election...
...Snowden's unexpected attack on the debt settlement, he came to the House of Commons in the role of Lord High Executioner...
...T ONDON,—I have just been listening to the Tory Secretary of State for War broadcasting a defence of the Government and an attack upon Labor...
...Waldman's address...
...Then let us taks Hoover's argument against debse****1^ use it to bring about a reuutt»a» Increase of tartar for the hensS* at*»J | era...
...Under this head, Louis Waldman presented a devastating analysis of the Tammany transit record, ending with a series of questions to Mayor Walker In an effort to discover what the Tammany Mayor's position is...
...Publishers Are Satisfied Utilities Company Operating Through GannettHerald - Tribune Implicated POWERFUL paper and power Interests are buying newspapers and have acquired an interest in 14 publications extending from Boston and Albany in the north, to Tampa, Florida, in the south and Chicago in the west This is the latest development before the Federal Trad* Commission in Washington...
...Thus the old paper of Horace Greeley that once represented a vague Utopian Socialism, tbat fought for homestead laws and continued for years as a radical exponent of the claims of worklngmen and woman, under his former associate, Reid...
...Other speakers were B. C. VTadscfc Judge Jacob Panken, Joseph Weinberg, president of the Workmen's Circle, David Dubinsky, acting president of the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, Abraham Miller, secretary-treasurer ef .the joint board of the N. Y. Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America...
...TIMELY TOPICS By Norman Thomas By DIMrmament <//-«aKEYA for limitation not reduction a* of land armaments...
...We do not require to wait for Socialism to have wages reduced and industrial unsettlement...
...Goldberg listed four general divisions of police lawlessness: the third degree...
...Mixing The Drinks The Labor Party is to put a plain and straightforward case before the country...
...In New York City the Brooklyn Daily Baste has became a eonquest of this growing oligarchy through Frank E. Gannett who recently became its owner...
...For a man to work faith fully for the best part of his life at a meagre wage, and then to be ruthlessly thrown out of employment due to oncoming age, is a social wrong...
...Mac Dona id, "I have never known a plot which came to such a sudden end, or a sky-rocket which was such a damp squib...
...Surely the Tory Party is not going to drop that prevarication so valuable for keeping the .loyalty of their old ladles steady...
...See what the Conservatives have done" stands in one village I passed through on the side of a burnt house, and another was placed so as to draw the attention of the passerby to an unusually smelly and disorderly refuse heap...
...On Wednesday, the day after Mr...
...If a decision is reached in accord with the warning I have received, it is perhaps too much to expect that that not inconsiderate section in the city which has sound political senre as well as other qualities, will issue a countering action...
...All were not only annoyed but amazed by what the Prime Minister has been saying about Canada...
...Is he to be separated from his dear ones, segregated in different poorhouses...
...And all this to win Sm favor of France, which country shows no ss™ of making any concession on the tnbject of land armaments at any price...
...Perhaps the most colorful aspect of the great demonstration was the part played in it by the presence of perhaps a thousand children, sons and daughters of members of the Workmen's Circle...
...A. F. of L. and Economic Illiteracy* Mot for a long time has any sentence been so false and misleading in its implications about Socialism as the following: "Mussolini has made Italy an ideal Socialistic state that outlaws strikes, suppresses free speech, arranges bow the people shall vote far public law-makerj sad takes charge of working conditions sad production...
...The most of them were Conservatives...
Vol. 8 • May 1929 • No. 16
