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A PAGE OF EXCLUSIVE FEATURES you can't catch us •*N my §o-c»i)e<J "correspondence"—so-called because t ooa't correspond much—I hare noticed the repetition of a trick question designed to throw...
...John Drinkwater's piay at the Morasco...
...And the answer to the one about this inevitable 'civil War and Communists is, that if any such catastrophe id overtake us, the majority of the Communists we've gges in action would be sprinting for the storm-celjars, veiling for the cops to save them...
...Union officials were satisfied with wages, hours, and conditions in the Consumer's services...
...What Is your kind, sir...
...Educational Directors' Conference — The first conference of the Educational Directors, called by our new Educational Director, Comrade Daneia...
...and fear against to-morrow has an insidious way of whispering to the fellow with a job...
...But our cure would lis within the very nature of Socialist philosophy...
...I done '**»«.il' And D*y celebration in the GarWszeh •ometn'ng long to remember...
...The subdivisions of the movement are: 1. Young Gardes...
...f<st Oh, my heart and ah...
...Thus, American dictators of national finance are in control of the budgets of various countries...
...May 5. the first League Hike of the season will take place...
...No sir...
...This is in line with that favorite question hollered w top sergeants and other such uniformed- heroes at ^aaeientious objectors: «If your wife or sister or sweetheart were to be Insulted by a big bully, what would you do...
...and near,the end of the year more than 100.00% copies were gathered in with their full quota of signatures, and placed on the desk of the common house in parliament...
...Members of the committee are Del Buttrey and Wayne White representing the Youth Section of the F. O. R : Julius Umansky of the Y. P. S. .: Abe Wisotsky of the Bronx Free Fellowship...
...There are prizes given for each form of literature that is represented...
...Many tunes when the sportsmen of Belgium see promise in any of the Y. C. athletes, they strive to get them to join their teams, where they would be well-paid for their services...
...he could not...
...and here's hoping you'll be sending us more articles soon...
...th: Governing folks as isn't fit to govern themselves...
...According to this sign "Not a single worker in this cafeteria is on strike...
...ear—though being a Conservative myself...
...for no other reason than that he was a member of a group that strenuously opposed them...
...A PAGE OF EXCLUSIVE FEATURES you can't catch us •*N my §o-c»i)e<J "correspondence"—so-called because t ooa't correspond much—I hare noticed the repetition of a trick question designed to throw me into jtter confusion...
...In the field of finance it is a well known fact that Wall street has lent a considerable amount of money to various European nations...
...la follette hailed as champion of freedom WASHINGTON— (fp) —Jo Davidson's m?.rb!e statue of Robert Marion LaFolictte was unveiled...
...Mrs...
...o.'s...
...75 cents...
...I like nice things, theatres and books and for to be'old the world so wide...
...Every YlpseL should be there...
...I will be only too glad to be corrected and enlightened...
...MY INTERVIEW HTTH GAUALEO...
...2. Cultural Action: 3. Workers' Action: 4. Sport education...
...in Statuary Hall in the Capitol, before a great throng of his friends, with a few of his old enemies from the Senate...
...at, Gwallor...
...a result I've had a number of interesting talks .j~°**the future of the American labor movement, the swh"' 01 th* aver8*e worker, the whereabouts of Jones and how to spell "suffrage...
...has been published by Houghton Mifflin <$1.50.i The printed version lacks the hilarity of the production, of Beverly's blanket on Godolphlns bed...
...Because you see you are politicians trying to control people, and you've had generations of experience...
...Manifestos warning the Soldiers of the army against the Fascists are distributed by the Y. G. near the barracks...
...Brussels, Belgium...
...Salomon goes in for glad rags in regal fashion...
...Asnem., .* s,a.«vmn...
...McAlisler Coleman...
...Lord, a bus franchise will do, or even The power rights to the State's waterways...
...Sherwood Anderson has a piece in The Nation saytag that working class women are better looking on «W whole than our society folk...
...Miss Arnold appeared on the steps and invited the committee inside to talk it over...
...will take place Saturday, May 4, 4 P. M . at the Rand School...
...The four principal organizations of the Belgian Labor Party are entitled to two representatives in this committee—that is...
...The running team has the distinction of winning second place in the National Belgian cross-country races...
...But it's true...
...Safety first for me, as I said to Mr...
...a committee was "appointed which met yesterday with the board of directors to endeavor to establish good relations between the cooperatives and the union...
...Their budgets are submitted to banking interests for approval and correction...
...Meanwhile word was passed in to Mary E. Arnold, treasurer and general manager of the Consumers' Board of Directors that a committee representing the Youth Section of the F. O. R., Young People's Socialist League, Bronx Free Fellowship, and Pioneer Youth, would like the management's side of the story...
...Wkenas the moondrift and the star Perennially comrades are...
...Besides the elections and the events in parliament, they also work for the Socialist newspapers...
...Recognition of the union proved to be the real demand which tbe union is making on the Consumers...
...jjtgr the writer has denounced me as "yellow," -Jj asked when I expect to get a job with Tammany |f!n or The Herald Tribune, he utterly demolishes me j^geking, (with the air of one who would say, "Now 1 VqfbOL the inevitable Civil War occurs in this counm will you be on the side of the workers headed jjtjie Communists or will you fight for your masters, 2, capitalist Class...
...There we will dissipate via baseball, tennis, boating, eating, swimming, horse-back riding and other natural activities...
...The politicians den't...
...Much of this work is done through articles in newspapers, magazines, pamphlets, and posting bills...
...I think it is a small greeng0ct?undel that comes out in the Spring around New e^Z~* and feeds its young on gin fizzes...
...For second chefs, the Consumers' pay $35.00 and tbe union asks $40.00...
...5. Socialist students...
...Government in this country has been built up on promises, and tell me the country that has stood more shocks...
...elsewhere in this issue, shows hew the radical is pictured as an ass who proves himself truly the hero by coming to his senses as a good little conservative...
...The newspapers during the past month have given quite a bit of publicity to General Electrics acquired control of English electrical industries...
...Bl: 'Ear...
...I can't give you any more than a hint here as to tbe nature of that next installment because, you see, I haven't written it yet...
...and 'the people of this country will net tolerate' things that the people of this country don't care a hoot about either way...
...I hope to sell the picture to the rotogravure lection of "The New York Times...
...the two meeting on $50.00 for chefs...
...Politicians arc all right for the jolly old newspapers and public dinners and hands across the sea, but you can't ask us to respect them...
...We fear You and are ignored ' We have worked and sweated and fumed, and isustiej Starvation for our pain...
...These nations consult Wan street in tbe matters that pertain to their affairs...
...And every black favor that the rulers Of a city have to offer to an underworld...
...But most of all, the Y. P. of Belgium have the spirit of service, the almost religious devotion to their cause which makes possible their work...
...you know—vote-catching and ail that...
...Salomon SfcLnwood Menken, the wife of the boy who gets up National Security Leagues and such tripe...
...AiKstatistics...
...Lord, give us this day the mantle of Rotbstela, So that we might go forth into the world < Secure against police and judges to sell The powder of hell to snivelling fools, And bail bonds to homicides...
...ALL I CAN GIVE YOU IS LOVEHOW I WROTE "THE STAR SPANGLED BANHER"—AND HOW TO SING IT...
...We have been meek And we were robbed . . . Wa have been decent sad were spat upon . . . Forgive us this day for the sin of our desire...
...Industry would be completely paralyzed, if not destroyed, in the event of another war suchas the World War or even one of less degre...
...The military question Is the most important of all those which confront the Belgian Y. P. The service is nominally eight or ten months, but in many cases is lengthened to eleven, twelve, or thirteen months...
...No thank you...
...But it's going to be pretty hot, so trail along boys and girls...
...FROM THE MAIL-BAG The Secretary...
...care about real things, do thty...
...Jimmy, Jr...
...This section prints practically nothing but pictures of society people...
...Miss Arnold said, or $2.00 less than the union minimum...
...Miss Arnold asserted, but in a twenty-four hour ultimatum presented a week ago Thursday, they demanded recognition of the union...
...May 3, Helen Giants spoke on war an dpeace, at Circle 10, Jrs., which meets every Friday...
...The minimum wage for a 48 hour week in a Consumers Coop is $20.00...
...Miss Arnold pointed out, axe based on profit5...
...Honest, you could take her ball dress to a bank and get a couple of grand in cash for it...
...Bl: I told you so...
...The result la always the same...
...Conditions in Belgium are such that it is rather hard work to stick to colors when, for instance, as in a recent case, a group of Fascists seized a member of the Y. p. and...
...drinkwaler...
...But then I never could follow the Conservative argument...
...WIXSTOX DAS'CIS EDITOR published every week by tbe new leader for the Young peoples socialist league the belgian young socialists The Belgian Y. P. Is managed by a Central Committse...
...v WHAT PRESIDENT BUCHANAN 7 OLD ML ABOUT HIS SEN LIFE...
...She says that the union rejected her request for time to present the matter to the board of directors which has been meeting this week following'an election of tbe board...
...Be: I'm sure it Isn't...
...i just wrote it to fill up space...
...I've got no nerves...
...A sight too clever far sense...
...4) O K to eat at the Consumers' Co-op cafeterias— for the present at least...
...the military problem The gymnastic section was set up before the great war, and is very strong...
...Note: The above article was written by a young Belgian comrade, who is corresponding with Comrade "Jimmy Oneal, Jr.," who, in turn, translated the article for us...
...bui you know, if you hadn't believed that, there would never have been a labor party...
...Peter gold instead of pence...
...Be*a'* you see, I made the bad mistake of coming over office to write this on a typewriter instead of ¦rang as usual in my ivory tower on Third Avenue, "¦osg it out on parchment with a gold pen...
...None of them, however, knew of discrimination in the Pood Workers Union...
...radical in our own...
...But I'm afraid he's ktting his sympathies run away with him in this respect One thing, it takes so much time for a woman teget herself good-looking these days that I don't see "ow anybody who has to work for a living can possibly •Sit sty statistician has figured out that if a woman did ¦B the beautifying things suggested in a single issue of • magazine like "The New Yorker" or "Vogue" if would take her four and one-half hours a day, with a little •vertime for the eye-brow plucking thrown in...
...Sniffen-Snoots (right) enjoying the native dances of the Wambats...
...Socialist Workers' School, compulsory education, and for the reduction of the term of military service...
...SEYMOUR GOODMAN...
...NEW YORK CITY EVENTS On Sunday...
...So that we may be safe Against the enfeebling years...
...SHOOTING MY FIRST MAN-EATING TIGER...
...HOW I WON THE RUSSIAN REFOIA "I ION...
...I*—for the next installment of the world's most r^aag biography...
...The German Opel automobile plant has been purchased by General Motors who are still looking for other plants in Europe...
...It isn't keeping a promise that inspires confidence, it's making it...
...These self evident facts have brought me to the point of doubting the probability of another war...
...We will not hog it all . . . ¦< We'll play square with our pala . . . * Oh, Lord, give us a hunk of Sinclair's pile...
...What I say is, give me a party that don't depend on argument...
...i think we should get the low-down from her before we boycott this place...
...Somehow, the old proverbs and definitions work their way into prophetic fulfilment...
...So k*ja**» it's a pretty good poem and I'm going to send * to ifce Dial...
...which are limited to She said that in nine years of cafeteria operation.- »th?y have had no wage decrease and that wages increase automatically when profits exceed 6cc Hours and working conditions were reported to meet the union demand...
...and the conservative, solid, man-who-knows-his-place Thomas: Be: The governor and I hardly ever get on each other's nerves...
...Specially the ens The New York Evening Post gets out every Saturday night in a secretive sort of manner, this being a privately published paper as far as its circulation is concerned...
...That's why I joined Labor...
...I ask you, could any private citizen ever tell from the way his life goes on whether the Conservatives or the Liberals or Labor was in power...
...But the priest speaks in a lower register VT...
...With uncompromising impartiality, they resisted this appetizing invitation and asked that the meeting be held outdoors...
...That the union has made little effort to reach co-op workers and started to picket the day before the Maynard conference is construed by ofBcers of the Cooperatives to make the union's activity largely political...
...oh Lord, And grant us this day our share of Graft...
...We :4*anghty fine Municipal Affairs Conference...
...There are also two delegates from the General Committee for workers' education...
...The member was congratulated on his astute observation and the committee went into a sidewalk huddle over the question of "to eat or not to eat...
...or not to eat...
...The work of the Young Gardes is to spread propaganda in offices, factories, and In the streets...
...We promise to have learned the error of t, Rothstein's ways...
...Tfiis looked bad for consumer-worker cooperation and the committee had about decided not to eat when one of their number who Is also a member of the Consumers' Cooperative Services hove to |tnd reported a talk with the manager of the cafeteria...
...We'll be content with ten million dollars . . . The Navy can keep the rest of the reserves . . . We even promise not to hold the Senate in oontemp...
...If within its power...
...For the meek must inherit tbe earth, seeing the offal-awfulneas of the world we live in to-day...
...We believe in ideas...
...Besides regular holidays which include Saturday evening and Sunday, one week's vacation with pay is given each worker who has beer, with the organization at least one year...
...Thanking you to advance, Yours, sincerely...
...But for a handful of radicals and middle-class reformers, there is no "We" ready for the task...
...Bring them up for discussion tn these columns and in your circle...
...Mrs sniffen-Snoots (left) surrounded by natives eager to have her explain to them all about the Federal Reservo System...
...Or even the puny pickings of selling Insurance on public jobs to the successful Contractors...
...Where would I have been without promises...
...On Friday...
...or in the constable, like yourself, sir...
...The night so long, and wa have such km of Ufa . . . So, be merciful and just and kind...
...But you either believe in peace at any price, say two hundred and eighty pounds a year, ilkeHhis gentleman h°rc...
...International credit would be demoralized...
...Your Labor party can't see that's philosophy: it only thinks it's immoral...
...Capitol will prevent war, and it can do it...
...Van Cortlandt Park, by 10 A. M...
...Ford has had for quite a few years factories in various parts of the world, notably England and Germany...
...The hearing was conducted by members of a Youth Committee on Industrial Cooperation who having innocently arranged a supper meeting for the cafeteria arrived to find a picket pacing off the concrete and wearing a sign with the legend: AMALGAMATED FOOD workers CNION workers of CONSUMERS COOPERATIVE • on STRIKE "There seems to be some difference of opinion here," ventured one member of the committee pointing to another large poster tacked over the two little Xmas trees (or are they Hawaiian umbrellas) which symbolize the cooperative Idea...
...Be: I'm afraid I don't quite follow that...
...Wages in the Consumers' Cafeterias...
...Therefore I consider it a subject worthy of study and discussion in YPSL and SP circles...
...In return, the Y. P. has two representatives on the General Council of the B. L. P. The Central Committee of the Y. P. has three secretaries—the secretary of the Younp Gardes, the secretary of Physical Education, and the secretary of Activities (propaganda, etc...
...etienn'e bastien...
...One of the events of the year is the literary competition, organized by the Flemish Federation of the Y. O. (Belgium being a bi-linguistlcal country, the movement is divided into two parts, the French and the Flemish...
...They have educational periods, when the members give lectures to their comrades, and receive instruction in games and dances...
...The Amalgamated Food Workers Union is a Communist-led union, a fact which complicates the situation for the Cooperatives since the A. F. of L. has its wraiters union...
...Taking the money out of the public's right pocket and putting it into the left . . . This process we offer in order to ease the people's suf-' fering during the transition from present-day private thievery, into the Socialist era of honest public gsyernment and ownership...
...All the hikers will meet at the 242d street station...
...And my Income averages about two hundred and eighty pounds a year...
...Carole • Dance—Circle 6, Brooklyn, is running its spring carnival and plantation dance at the Debs' Auditorium on May 4 (tonight...
...Central India...
...In talk with the ineffectual salesman, Blanquet...
...Just to show you what I mean, look over sobs of these chapter heads: ^FROif PRESIDENT OF A BIG CORPORATION TO A PARK BENCH...
...Music by the Dixie Plantation Orchestra Admission...
...Dear Sir—Please mail to me the Prospectus and some other literature of your League, and let me know how it would be possible for me to Join it...
...the General Council of the B. L. P., the Trade Unions, the Co-operatives, and the National Federation of Socialist Militia...
...Miss Arnold fetched her coat, principals and spectators foregathered, a chairman was selected, and the hearing proceeded...
...And then pictures from expeditions on the Wambi...
...You simply can't go about with a clear nose...
...I'm writing this after learning about yourself through the January number ol the Newsletter of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, of which I am a member...
...The last-named chapter is illustrated by a picture of nve standing with my foot on the prostrate body of the dead tiger...
...Yes even a job in the State Department of Banking Might do . . We shall quickly learn to give St...
...my my heart.' (.The nan root glistens gray) Ami zihere is she zcfco lore apart my roundelay* j doesn't mean a dam thing, boys and girls...
...A review of "Before You're 25...
...Stupider very often...
...And trampled on...
...you are only organized...
...comedy, with an afterrelish of thought...
...youth groups attempt strike conciliation By Walter Ludwig issues in the cafeteria workers strike were given the air literally last Monday night at an informal hearing held on the steps of the Irving Place cafeteria of the Consumers' Cooperative Services whose cafeterias are being picketed by the Amalgamated Food Workers Union...
...Following this statemerffr a representative of the union presented the Food Workers case against the Cooperative Cafeterias...
...I've never smelt a Welt-smell like our Welt smells today...
...Hear Beverly again...
...GARC...
...FREE YOUTH Organization Education Solidarity Young People's Socialist League 21 Efwtev Street, Boston, Mass...
...All you've got is a Labor party, so you can do as you darn well please...
...We have seen Greece and Persia, and Egypt and Rome go the way of the adage...
...I'm fiftyfive...
...Finance and Industry are becoming ever more international in scope...
...Executive Committee—The League Executive Committee is holding a very important meeting on Saturday, May 4, 6 P. M. Every member of the committee is urged to attend...
...Through observation of the recent course of events In both industry and finance, i have come to doubt the probability of another capitalist war...
...Thefavorite of the Post's roto editor is Mrs...
...Bo all my thundering, all the cataracting outrage rushing from the soul has availed for nothing more than a triumphant Tammany at home, a malignant plutocracy at Washington, and a quinsy soreness in my throat...
...good wine needs no bush by joseph t, shipley 44jjird IN HAND...
...th: Very clever...
...Th: Well, that's not the kind of Conservative that I am...
...And love-nests, and all other civilised joys . . . And Oh, Lord, we are so weary of "Honesty, the best policy , . ." we have been upright, and we were flsjbtssstd out...
...the chatter box rphat "Gave as this day our Daily Bread" prayer never did get a clack out of my calloused palms...
...It makes no odds whether they get kept or not...
...We, in fact are quite sure that private graft and public plunder would die hard...
...I daresay...
...I realize that my knowledge Is based only upon surface observation and that the belief is open to criticism...
...In one night she lugs enough around on her back to keep a coal-miner's family in chow for a year...
...For twenty odd years the street earners and halls have known a harsh voice and smashing gesture calling the meek and the disinherited slaves into a knowledge of their pride and strength...
...The press, molder of public opinion, is in its hands...
...Bronx Juniors—The new Bronx Junior circle, meeting on Fridays, 8:30 P. M at 2096 Daly avenue, was addressed by Bernard Breslaw, of Circle 1, Bronx, on the American Press...
...MY THOI GUTS ON THE FUTURE OF THE PHILIPPINES...
...I've brought up three children...
...We don't want brains, we want promises...
...April 25...
...That's what has made the Conservatives powerful...
...In contrast with most cafeterias, Consumers' workers eat before working and have unlimited quantity and choice, excepting of luxuries (food out of season) which are forbidden managers also...
...It is interesting to observe how thoroughly accepted is the radical in British life, as contrasted with th...
...That's much more difficult, much more dangerous, but it's organic...
...Nine speakers eulogized him as a thinker, fighter, constructive statesman, friend of humanity...
...but we want em large and plentiful...
...Can any of you folks remember a time of plunder and political crime as gloriously rampant In a nation, since Caligula gouged the gizzards out of the Roman Empire and flung the mess out for his hyena henchmen to devour . . .? Presidents and prohibition-agents, cabinet-ministers and census takers, governors and gas-meters, mayors and Main Street sewers, judges and Jury-fixers, alderman and oil-reserves, Congressmen, Assemblymen, Senators, contractors, bootleggers, gunmen, hl-jackers, lawyers...
...Are we to Stand by like resigned observers of history and see our native land crumble to a rotten heap just to satisfy a formula...
...Attentive to the concerns of consumers who take their food seriously...
...Th: Nerves...
...Circle IS, Jrs...
...a commonwealth of co-operative self-plunder, so to speak...
...Long, long ago, I sickened with the cow-eyed resignation of the poor...
...We're as wrong-headed as you are, and as stupid...
...Claude bowers, biographer of Jefferson and Jackson, summed up in a brilliant tribute to the work LaFollette did for the American people, his courage to fight alone when deserted and betrayed by fair-weather friends, and for his con-' tempt of the epithet of "radical...
...There they all are...
...The director of the whole works is inside," he announced...
...And yet I've never been a tanner better off for any of 'em...
...As proof of this we have tbe attendance of Deterdlng of the Dutch Shell at a conference of American oil producers for the limitation of production, where he promised the conference the fall support of his organisation...
...Acting on 4. the committee made for the trays inside just an hour and a half after the meeting had been called...
...to eat...
...Football has many adherents, and is a great success...
...I honored my father and my mother...
...Let us for arguments sake admit the possibility of our falling into the evil ways of the old parties...
...Be: Quite...
...Empires die Of luxury . . . republics succumb to the cancer of corruption...
...I've got principles...
...I've lived on promises all my life...
...and like as not get into gaol if no worse...
...and all the rest of Drinkwater's ingenious devising as director: but the solidity of the characters remains, ana the power of the social study...
...going to races, going to gymkhanas, going to pageants, going to the dog-races, going to the dogs...
...6:30 P. M, at 1377 42d street, Brooklyn...
...Several other youth groups participate in the Youth Committee on Industrial Cooperation which last December raised several hundred dollars tagging* for Patterson silk strikers...
...The C. C. receives a subsidy from the B. L. P. for expenses, and' the dues, sales of pins, pamphlets, and receipts from dances make the rest of their budget...
...I get a book now and again, I go to the gallery about once every six weeks, and I collect circulars from different steamship offices...
...Oh...
...It is further pointed out that the Communists have been trying to capture the cooperative movement in Europe and that their representatives were acttve at the Maynard conference...
...Somebody on these rotogravure sections is just nuts about people standing around on dead animals...
...The Young People's Socialist League, New York City...
...The job of preparing the masses for a complete change is beyond computation in time and effort...
...He said that the Issue is not one of money or of conditions but of organization and that Cooperatives owe it to other workers to recognize the union...
...This may seem a small figure to us...
...Match that against the conversation of the intelligent chap in "Eird In Hand": "Of course, you can't treat politics seriously If you are interested in life...
...MY INVENTION OF THE GARBAGE CAN...
...The recipe is to mix ail this up with several billions of boodled pieces of silver, sprinkle a few ninety day Sinclair and Connolly sentences, a suicide, a murder, two bunches of gardenias and the strains of "Will you love me in December as you do in May...
...Lord, give us this day our share of Graft . . . Shake down the Mighty who covet and hold, Who wax fat on what they pilfer . . . Oh teach us the ways of dishonesty So that we may prosper as they have . . . So that we enjoy immunity from punishment, And poverty...
...While we are people trying to control politicians, and we have had none...
...Oh Lord, But these are days when only the sinful siain to tsst Fulfilment of desire . . . And the dag is aw short...
...There could be a way of making the industry of boodle a public monopoly...
...We grow, you only arrange yourselves...
...The chief wage difference Is over counter-workers who are paid $23.10 to $30.00 by the consumers as against the union demand of $35.00 to $50.00 The Consumers' explains these wages in the fact that their counter-workers are college girls in training for managerial jobs and that the counter-girl's work in their cafeterias is regarded as unskilled labor...
...You look at the picture and figure the wrong animal got shot...
...These are the facts Analyze them...
...Comparatively recent developments I consider have shown that Capital and the Press are no longer interested in war...
...One of the most Important things every Belgian Young Garde does is to help in the struggle against Fascism, which movement is very strong tn Belgium, and which constantly seeks to gain admission into the army...
...j*f*3< matters then, the scimitar 'f yon remaxn my avotarT **at means even less, but any poem that has the r~v''avatar" in it, is the stuff...
...ward-heeling, plum-nibbling, job-grovelling horde to which our American body social and politics is heir...
...Mrs...
...Capital is fairly intelligent a.= far as its own interests are concerned and r.o doubt realizes the consequences of another war...
...wnga around here are picking up at any rate...
...Wall Street gamblers, usurious money raters, bankruptcy vultures, landlords, gold-digging ladles, police departments, health and milk and tenement Inspectors, night clubs, subway officials...
...Oh, Lord, give us this day a sewer contract, A subway franchise, an oil lease, a Federal Judgeship...
...Whan the union started to picket Miss Arnold called the workers together at each of the four co-op cafeterias and told them that while she could not apeak for the board she felt sure the board would want to know If they wished to Join the union and also that it would not fire them if they did join She accounts for the workers expressed opposition to joining the union in the fact that most of the workers are colored and have encountered or know at discrimination against Negroes in other unions...
...The answer to that one is, of course, that you wouldn't take your female friends and relative* anyyaere near an army camp...
...No doubt there are other facts which have not been mentioned which may throw another light on the matter...
...But I was going to go on with my autobiography, gver so many cablegrams, 'phone calls and special selivery letters have been received in this office insulting about the appearance of the next installment af this masterpiece called, "Conquest and Success...
...Yet I feel satisfied—I might say I feel powerful in a manner of speaking...
...Cook well and then what have you , . .? The averag* year's news for our delightful land...
...at which time we will proceed to Tibbett's Brook Park...
...Greenleaf...
...About 300,000 tracts have been distributed and about 2,000 biSs have been posted...
...Standard Oil and Dutch-Shell, who have recently been at war, seem to have come to an amicable agreement...
...And to play with the big board in Wall Street, And have yachts and country homes, and boose parties...
...Trade Unions...
...Every Educational Director— or his representative—should be present...
...But if your people promise me things they want me to go out and fight for 'em...
...I have forgotten »4 j™** avatar is, myself...
...These weird dances arc called 'guinans.' As they dance, the natives shout their war-cry 'vo-de-do-do.'" Very educational these rotogravures...
...State Bank Superintendents, presidents of Trust Companies, dope peddlers, bond and bail merchants, insurance companies, real estate boomers, and all the rest of the small-fry...
...In stupid desperation, I wander about to find a mors effective manner for my words, and perhaps a more convincing gesture...
...But I may asusu*' Wont some of you help me, if I have made w"**** ? I just adore getting letters telling me how J?** ¦» about things...
...And if it were only to give our olefactory senses a spell of fragrance, let the Social Revolution coma on...
...but it musi be remembered that there are only about 2 000.000 people in Belgium, about one-third of the population of Greater New York, i In 1927 a petition for the reduction of service time was circulated by the Y. P...
...Be: How delightful of you, but how wicked...
...Three "comrades" standing nearby Informed the group that counter workers in the cafeteria were being paid only $20.00 as against the union demand for $15.00 and that the management of the cafeteria had refused to recognize the union...
...being both clever and giftrd with good sense, gives us in "Bird in hand" swif...
...Anne Goldstein and Walter Ludwig of Pioneer Youth...
...Remember the time and place...
...The Committee's Findings After listening to the evidence the committee found (1) that the directors of the Cooperative Services should enter into negotiations with the union (2) that since recognition of the union is the only issue between the Cooperatives and the union, the union should postpone picketing until after the board has met this week and decided on a policy of recognition (3) inasmuch as the workers In the Cooperative cafeterias are not on strike, the sign on the pickets is incorrect and should be changed...
...another war...
...if the gendarme had not been in calling distance, would have beaten him...
...At a conference of eastern representatives held last week in Maynard, Mass...
...Many thanks...
...Just please give us a part of those stolen Oil welss . . . We'd even find strength to withhold our contempt For the House of Representatives . . . For Oh, Lord, we have many needs . . . We have sons And daughters who want rambly roadsters and money To spend at night-clubs and roadhnusss . . . And we do so want to live in the bast neighborhoods...
...I offer, with no sacrilege, or intent to profane any established custom, the following prayer, and may each worker and farmer and useful member of society learn to repeat its impelling cadences . . .: The Daily Prayer for the Meek...
...It is not to the best interest of International finance and ini ftcstry to nave a war...
...The possibility of a class war is another matter, and I will not discuss it here...
...The age-old howl against Socialist candidates is that if we ever got into political power, we would graft and boodle and steal and plunder the same as the rest Let us waive the obvious reaction that the crooked human manifests when his twisting vision falls upon something clean and straight...
Vol. 8 • May 1929 • No. 16
