WHERE THEY STAND ON PENSIONS FOR THE AGED WORKERS
Where They Stand on Pensions For the Aged workers P o s i t i o n of President Green Contrasted With That of Other Public Figures wjr Increasing measure, public figures a and political,...
...The first thing is to acknowledge what we owe to the one comrade who dared to imagine anything so big and impressive...
...The newspapers had been advised and reported the whole incident tuny...
...But the most sensational publicity was won by Woltman, whose notes on conversations with high officials in the University were published In the Pittsburgh Press...
...acting...
...Sol Rlvkin, Paul Dembltser and the Jewish Socialist Verband...
...The Berlin Riots BARRICADES, rioting, exchange of pistol fire with the police—and finally 24 deaths—marked May Day this year in Berlin...
...Governor Fisher has not denied this either, though he did disclaim any connection with the recent Liberal Club affair and stated that he had not read the Mercery article...
...Woll...
...The great banking firms occupy towers at the top of the whole industrial order...
...Roberts, Maritsky, Hershkowits...
...On Wednesday letters from A H. Armbrustec Dean of Men, apprised the Club's Executive Committee and its faculty advisers that "official permission of the Liberal Club to function as an activity of the University of Pittsburgh has been revoked.'' The Club met nevertheless snd passed a resolution condemning the university authorities for their action snd later met again on University property •ad passed another, taking to task the Pitt Weekly for its inaccurate reporting of the Liberal Club affair...
...The working class of the cities and the farmers alone share...
...Practically all of the Industrialised countries of SBrope, have worked out systems of old age insurance...
...Oooramaaon of State with federal Vtfelatlnri would obvaet the uuumttj of —rTftltig tbe benefits to workers who have n a M la one stats over a long parted at yens, A minimum aBowanee should h* it a day...
...The system of production rensjins atabtazed instead of being prostrated as in the crisis of 36 years ago...
...We venture to predict that the principal result of the rioting will be the further weakening of the German Communist movement,—a movement which with no possible chance of victory sends its followers forth to meet the bullet...
...Tischler...
...lties, and the decision was reached to hold it nevertheless...
...in the sniicnng...
...Woltman, Albertson and MacDoweU were expelled for their connection with the banned meeting and for their opposition to the coal and iron police...
...However, perhaps special mention a due to: The Workmen's Circle Schools, the Workmen's Circle Children's Chorus, the Workmen's Circle Adult Chorus, the Jewish National Workers Alliance Chorus, and Leo Low and Meyer Posner as conductors...
...What did they hope to gain...
...The Sew Leader: n has been a pleasure to me to note tn the oohsnas at the Hew Leader the enthusiastic comments and the reaction to the stressful May pay Madison Square Garden meeting...
...invalidity, old age aaf wo8at*ttwat the^ en oeeg "fa...
...If the police were at fault they should be drastically punished...
...A special piquancy was added to the situation by the fact that Prof...
...To Samuel Schiller for the arrangement of the musical scores played by the orchestra...
...Philip GeUebter and Joseph Weinberg of the Workmen's Circle...
...j The Socialist Party Norman Thomas, Chairman Public ASairs Com mittee: "The Socialist party favors the enactment by" nation and states of legislation which would establish old age pensions as part of a system of social insurance which would include protection against suffering through debnee...
...Three Are -Propped ' Expulsion ~»f two students and the discharge of a faculty-member soon followed...
...We are the onbr.asrge Industrial country with no form of constructive care for the aged...
...private charity or employers' pension schemes...
...Why the commotion...
...We now have very few...
...The picture of that vast gathering ought to remain clear In our mental vision and give us no rest tin we have rehabilitated the Socialist Party organization and also Us auxiliaries, such as the Young People's League, the Rand School...
...The Socialist Party of Massachusetts to its recent convention passed a resolution congratulating The NEW LEADER on Its splendid fighting spirit and Its increasing effectiveness as an organ Of the workers...
...Under the circumstances, of course, ar is quite necessary then that most win be omitted...
...The police may have overstepped the necessities of the situation, though it is difficult to gauge with nicety the exact method to protect oneself from street-rioting, sniping and guerilla warfare...
...The usurers have governments tied to thtir banks...
...Barnes Chased From Campos Prof...
...Otherwise feudal subjection is the fate of the whole working class...
...In the midst of a city and a nation in which the organized and unorganized masses of the people evidenced no urge toward insurrectionary activity, the Communists in two isolated spots went in for all the trimmings of a revolution...
...The Socialist Party of the United States is raising as many dollars as it can to help swell the Labor Party campaign chest...
...Albertson is an active organizer for the Labor Sports Union of America, while MacDoweU has beena leader In the local activities of the League for Industrial Democracy...
...The Liberal Club, which for several years has kept the campus informed about the progress of liberal and radical thought, had scheduled the MooneyBUlings meeting for Monday afternoon, Anrii 22...
...Rose, Speck tor and the Cloth Hat, Cap and Millinery Workers...
...Whoa industry does not look after workers a their old age, It h the doty of tht state to enforce payment of old an pensions by industry...
...To be logical we shall also demand withdrawal of recognition from the dictatorships that rule Hungary, Spain and Yugoslavia...
...It was the period of marching armies of unemployed workers and . a period of industrial paralysis...
...W« therefore urge the legislatures of Res York and Connecticut to pass an oldage security bul...
...This is sheer waste of human effort Although it pays from the capitalist point of view, but it does not hdp the workers who are discharged because of consolidation of plants, introduction of new machines, and improvement in plant technique...
...Bruno Wagner and the German Socialists...
...This1 is the present phase of modern capitalism and that it presents new problems to the organized working class of all countries goes without saying...
...The University authorities have made no official statement on the Issue of academic freedom, and have replied to all inquirers that the whole matter was an internal affair...
...Mike Harrison finished the list of speakers, and pointed out to the audience that this wss what they must expect if they wanted to do anything for the working-class movement...
...G. AUGUST GERBER, Executive Secretary, Joint May Day Conference...
...Abraham Miller and George Goose and the Amalgamated Joint Boards...
...The Cuban trade unionists especially will rejoice to hear that Mr...
...They wffl get another 5c increase next year...
...Stanley Baldwin is peered...
...P. Poplowski, F. Slekirski and the Polish Socialist Alliance...
...Woll presented to Secretary of State Stimson attacks the Foreign Policy Association for favoring recognition...
...The masters of old party politics are, fat a word, agitated...
...Those who preach force should not complain when force is used against them...
...The Volunteers of America went on record last week in favor of pensioning needy aged workers...
...A Democratic Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, Governor of New York: "1 am certain that better old age security against want Is the most immediate pressing need of our presentday civilization...
...In other words, the chief burdens of the industrial revolution are carried by the workers in industry...
...Organization of the workers to be effective in the coming years rrjust be as extensive as this new system itself...
...To Comrades Louis Schaeffer, L Natkins and theVewish Daily Forward...
...at best, of spasmodic and relatively small enterprise, we have forgotten much that we once knew about the detailed planning and execution of such affairs...
...The United States is responsible for the regime in Cuba under the Piatt Amendment and this provides a test of 'all professional patriots who deny recognition to Russia...
...Peyton of the Socialist Consumers League: Comrades Valenti, Romualdi and the II Nuovo Mundo...
...The expelled students are honor men working their way through school...
...A L Sbiplacoff, Chas...
...L. Siegel and the Jewish National Workers alliance: Philip Cruso, L Hamlin, Samuel Bunchek and the Poale-Zlon City Organisation...
...I would like to take this opportunity to utilise the columns at tout paper to publicly eapress my thanks and the thanks of the* Joint May Day Conference Committee to the men and women, the boys and girls, whose combined and Joint efforts made possible that successful demonstration of the solidarity of the Socialist, Trade Union and Labor Fraternal spirit in this city...
...while Albertson jerks sodas to help his widowed mother make a living...
...Today industry is not paralyzed and the incomes of tht owners continue to pour into their coffers...
...Some of the slack has also been taken up by increasing expenses of sales propaganda which has prbvided employment for all sorts of professional ballyhooers...
...This is a marked contrast between the capitalism of the last decade of the nirtneeerrth century and the capitalism of today...
...Joseph Breslaw, Harry Wander, Chas Jacobson and the New York Joint Board of the Cloak Makers Union...
...We are opposed to that philosophy...
...The forms of organization and the policies formulated to cope with the capitalism of the nineteenth century are no more adapted to this new situation than medieval armor is to the modern soldier in war...
...Goldman and the International Pocketbook Makers Union...
...MoUle Weingart, Mrs...
...The members of unions affiliated with the American Federation of Labor should compare the stand taken by these organisations and individuals with that enunciated by President William Green recently...
...Gottesman and the Neckwear Makers Union: To Mrs...
...The theory of a^demonstration, a "gesture," is supported by reports which told of Comrnunist plans to stage "something spectacular" that might serve to bring together the warring factions which have been weakening German Communism...
...Julius Umansky and the Young People's Socialist League, Walter Ludwlg...
...Meanwhile a humorous twist is given to the whole affair by the discovery that three of Prof...
...The meeting was adjourned to the steps of Thaw Han, on the campus...
...Jix" is muttering about the "reds.'" Perhaps the soon-to-be dismissed Tory Cshfnet is holding a parley on high strategy...
...Jacob Afros and the Young Circle League...
...Thousands of dollars were sent from American labor to help the British miners strike...
...Its masters carry on a high-power propaganda for two care for each purchaser instead of one...
...We are out to repeat...
...The Methodist Church East Conference of the MethodistEpiscopal Church: "One of the outstanding demands of QHf modern civilisation Is that suitable provisions be made for the oM age of the workers...
...There was a time when we had dozens of experienced comrades.to serve on our committees for such occasions and share the work of management, snd when we had hundreds who could be depended upon for ushering, taking the collection, and so forth...
...If they thought the Berlin street fighting might light the flame of a nation-wide revolt, the subsequent indifference displayed by the millions of German workers writes them down as fools...
...The action of the editor of Germany's largest Cotranunist daily in resigning from his post and from the party in urotest against the rioting is significant...
...The recent memorandum Mr...
...Stetsky, Frelman, Subersteln and the Furriers Joint Council: To August Claessens, Marx Lewis and the Socialist Party City Organization...
...Barnes climbed on the running-board of an automobile on a vacant lot near-by, and the meeting was held under the Chairmanship of P. W. Whiting, Professor of Zoology snd Faculty Advisor of the Club...
...The university authorities, anxious to raise more millions for their 39story cathedral of learning, have charged the club's officers with communism...
...New York correspondents of the London press have come to life long enough to track down this new "sensation.'" "American Gold Trying to Swing British Election," is the way the London head* lines probably read...
...American gold is not trying to influence any British election...
...The Socialist party favors old age pensions as part of a system of social insurance...
...We have also fought these, have fought such policies at home and abroad, but if this is to be a reason for refusing1, recognition to Russia it should be applied logically to all nations...
...TVATIONWIDE attention has been attracted to Pittsburgh University's attempt to prevent the discussion of the Mooney-Billlnga case, and further developments are expected hourly...
...from 11 p. m. to 7 a. m...
...It is to be wished that more of us would acquire August Oerber's way of seeing possibilities rather than difficulties and working like a beaver to realize them...
...It is reliably reported that faculty members and their actions in this and other connections are to be discussed at the coming meeting of the Board of Trustees snd that there win be some heresy-hunting...
...N. Y. House workers Win Hard-Fought Strike Six weeks of a hard strike, in which gunmen and a company failed to daunt their morals, have won for members of House Wreckers Local 95 their demands for 5c an hour more, the 8-hour day and 44-hour week, with time and a half for overtime work...
...The industrial crisis which began in 1893 and continued for several years was one accompanied with the dosing of industrial plants all over the country...
...and to see clearly why this was so...
...The outpouring of the masses on May Day shows what can be done, if we have the win and the confidence in our collective ability...
...L. Puchs, Ed...
...During the week Mike Harrison of the International Labor Defense was added to the list of speakers...
...Seig snd Gow did not deny having made such statements...
...To single out one arbitrary regime for condemnation and to ignore others is • simply to play the game of the politidans and imperialists, not to represent the best interests of workingmen and women dther here or abroad...
...and Secretary of the local branch of the American CtvU Liberties Union...
...The New Capitalism f JOUHAUX, vice-president of the International Federation of Trade Unions, recently wrote in Le Pejtple, the Paris Socialist daily, of the wide concentration of industry abroad and of the problems it brings to the working class of all nations...
...The New Leader will cheerfully accept, acknowledge and forward through the Socialist Party any contribution, large or small, its readen may wish to make...
...Barnes's texts are at«, present in use at the University...
...Lloyd George, alone, mope* I j appreciative of the difficulties and devious methods of raising campaign funds, seems to be silent...
...Free Speech a Stranger The papers have taken the occasion to dig up a long list of previous cases in which faculty members have been prevented from expressing themselves freely ' outside of the classroom...
...For years we have been letting I dare not wait upon I would...
...We approve of the elimination of poison gas m war and we are Just as much opposed to- the poison gas that places pro-war politicians in office...
...Roosevelt of New York has caused an investigating commission to be appointed and hopes for favorable action next year...
...The London Times is losing its dignity...
...Another charge made by Woltman was that Chancellor Bowman and J. Steele Gow had made a hurry trip to Harrisburg to appease Governor Fisher following the appearance of the Mercury article...
...Morris Feins tone and the United Hebrew Trades...
...There really should be a political reckoning for Brookhart and his kind who talked themselves hoarse for Hoover last year...
...e e Senator Brookhart of Iowa warns President Hoover that there wul be a political reckoning because of Hoover's attitude towards farm legislation...
...Workers are being weeded out by machines and mote work is being heaped upon those who remain at Work...
...As for unwillingness to perform international obligations, it may be said that the government that has not sinned in some respect on this score is a rare bird...
...Baron, Bless...
...The automobile industry has set the pace in saturation...
...Cuba has a merciless dictatorship and even trade unions have been either destroyed or driven underground...
...Joseph Belsky and the Butchers...
...Their professors refused point-blank to give them "withdrawal because of failure" records, as their grades were all A and B. MacDoweU, studying for the ministry, sells gas tor the Gulf Oil Co...
...We favor old age psoas* generally as a social policy aad particularly at this time to defeat ta* attempts of employers of labor to pwmote pmtta old age •pension' setae** as a means of keeping their workm docile and retarding the growth of trade unionism" A Catholic Leader Father John A. Ryan: Tar society to have perfected as industrial atoOSlttO that OMtoot keay people employed an the tins a a great confession of failure...
...The root cause is to be found in the fact that, through years of marking time or...
...I know that the limits of space that you cah give me makes it impossible to name in detail each man and each organisation involved...
...Ooldstone and the Bakers...
...The night lights may be ablaze in the cabinet room at Downing street at this very nsssnsesst...
...Hugo Bauer...
...There Is no excuse whatever for failure to provide care for these sged men and women, when simple and scientific systems of insurance would relieve their distress...
...In the first place, most of the nations of the world have extended recognition to Russia and this no more means approval of the Soviet system or its polides than it means approval of the government of Turkey...
...If we fau, tho fault win not be anywhere but to ourselves...
...If, as seems more likely, they were willing to sacrifice the lives of men and women as a momentary gesture of defiance, they deserve to be regarded as dangerous irresponsibles...
...The capitalist system of production had broken down...
...Where They Stand on Pensions For the Aged workers P o s i t i o n of President Green Contrasted With That of Other Public Figures wjr Increasing measure, public figures a and political, social and religious organisations are taking a stand on the matter of state aid for the aged,—-old age pensions Secretary of Labor James J. Davis finds "no excuse" for failure to provide care for the aged, though be does not indicate- whether he approves of state aid...
...When the Volunteers of America, an offshoot of the Salvation Army, can be called more progressive than the labor movement, it is time for trade un- j lonists to do some serious thinking and...
...There are those who believe that the state to soprano . . . and that through tkto paternaAsttc philosophy, tf yea please, the state may confer upon &he we* hi* a gfl the hh apings and prhrttogea which the state detenaiaea they are entitled to...
...But dictatorship and suppression are also dted by Mr...
...It is pathetic when we remember that if industry were serialized all these savings of human labor power would not be reaped by the owning class but go to the workers in increased incomes and decreased hours of labor...
...Insincere Patrioteering JF Mr...
...Pittsburgh University Changes Its Curriculum Suppression, Expulsion and Reaction Added as Students Make Plea For Mooney By Horace B. Davis PITTSBURGH...
...Nathan Chanin...
...These notes quoted J. Steele Gow, executive secretary of the University, as saying that Governor Fisher had;become very angry over an article in the American Mercury by Woltman and Nunn, and also attributed to Dean L. P. Seig the statement that the University was afraid of having its whole appropriation cut off by Governor Fisher...
...The time element is important...
...Until the University authorities take some further action, the only issue before the public is whether an Institution which is supported in part by public funds is Justified in refusing a club for the discussion of current issues the permission to function...
...At the appointed hour the meeting gathered In Alumni Hall, but the door was barred by William Daufenbach, former prison guard, now assistant to the dean of men...
...orkers Pay the Bills QNE significant phase of the present era of capitalism is that the distress due to unemployment of millions of workers is not accompanied with the general prostration of industry...
...ssHdant...
...He was reached there and Invited to address the meeting of the Liberal Club, which he readily agreed to do...
...to Windhelm and Wolfe of the Metropolitan Opera Bouse, Madame Ysaeva and to Victor Cbenkln for the help which each of these gave to the musical program presented...
...Barnes was speaking that Monday at the Hungry Club's regular luncheon forum...
...A Republican Cabinet Member James J. Davis, Secretary of Labor: "I have too much faith in the inherent good sense snd fairness of the American people to believe that once the actual facts in regard to our aged The Ameriean Federation of Labor William Green, President: -Bm* liarlns Psoasadtoa of Labor to tooMtatod to a wtee tagtotettve program eovogasg -eld ago pensions...
...Harry Elmer Barnes had been secured at the last moment ss a speaker and was chased off the campus along with the rest of the meeting...
...Woll has become consistent...
...Vast industries are conspicuous in this change, not crafts and trades, and emerging from the concentration are the powerful financiers who are assuming a commanding position over the industrial captains of two decades ago...
...Albertson and MacDoweU were meanwhile conferring with the Dean: their place on the program was taken by Frederick E. Woltman, graduate assistant in the Philosophy Dept...
...He especially stresses failure of Russia to pay her debts...
...and helpless are mads public, there can be any serious opposition to tho simple and practical insurance measures that wffl protect them in the evening of their Uvea...
...By suppressing the Liberal Club, which held a meeting on the subject in defiance of the University's edict, the authorities have raised In direct form a fundamental Issue of academic freedom...
...How long it will he before the period of saturation arrives and industry itself will be confronted with vast quantities of nmalesNe goods is a matter that cannot be foretold...
...Their fidd Of conquest is not only industry...
...Those who never cease to remind us that there are no classes or class Struggles in the United States might impress us if they did not say it so often...
...I hope that next year will see many states taking definite action...
...Theodore Noss: * To each of these, to each of their organizations, to each of the members and to all those that lack of space makes impossible to Individually mention must go the sincere thanks and all the credit for the remarkable success of the May Day Demonstration...
...New York City Editor, The New Leader: There are three things which I think ought to be said with reference to our May Day demonstration at Madison Square* Garden...
...Word was passed around among the Club members that the meeting would be prevented by the author...
...They should know that they too are included to this list...
...We always suspect the person who is always taUtipg 0f his virtues and We hide our valuables when he is around...
...Certainly the end of this saturation must be reached some time...
...of the police...
...Bloom...
...Woll to insist upon the American Government giving its passports to the Cuban representative and recalling our own from Havana...
...Barnes was introduced, but had got no farther than the first few sentences when Dauf enbach appeared and requested the meeting to move on...
...The pennies and dollars of American workingmen, Socialist and non-Socialist, of American liberals are going into the Labor campaign fund a* an investment in international peaee and social progress...
...The following paragraph presents a sweeping view of this revolution: "The powerful trusts and cartels, the thousands of national and international economic alliances conduded for the sake of advancing common interests, the weaving of a great network of mutually dependent and interdependent threads of economic and financial activity—the rise o.f innumerable financing companies—all these giant .organizations which have sprung up since the war have taken such deep and widespread roots throughout the world that they can now exercise a kind of hegemony and dictatorship, and can use their enormous power to acquire very considerable political influence...
...That I am indeed grateful to them all I should like here to publicly acknowledge...
...Special delivery letters were then sent from Dean Armbruster's office requesting the presence of MacDoweU and Albertson at a conference with the Dean at 3:30 Monday afternoon...
...They are the commanders of world capitalism...
...The second thing is to recognise that, huge as the demonstration was, beautiful and Inspiring as It was, there were many defects...
...And the third thing is to take seriously the truth which Comrade Cahan expressed to his short snd touching speech at the Garden...
...It now appears that not only the men known as "left-wingers" nave been so hampered: conservative professors who ventured to favor Al Smith, or to speak on Upj Pennsylvania Tax Commission at a timte when the University appropriation was hanging fire in the legislature, were advised to go easy, or even found their radio talks cancelled...
...The Hew Leader, and the Debs Memorial Radio, doubled and trebled our membership, cleared off our debts, mobilised afl our human resources, anas again assumed our old position of leadership among the progressive working people and other forward-lcoking citizens of New York sad oJ the country...
...Prof...
...B. Merken, Chas...
...We call upon Mr...
...WUho Hertman and the Finnish Federation of the Socialist Party...
...Cash Across the Sea ^fTOKTON CHURCHILL is angry...
...The barmen wffl get tlJO an hour and their helpers »150...
...On Friday afternoon the University registrar made frantic efforts to get the permit back from the Secretary of the Club, but was unsuccessful...
...At first the only speakers announced were two students, William Albertson, President of the Club, and Arthur MacDoweU, a member of the Club's Executive Commltttee...
...The protests of the Communists, however, sound a bit unreal...
...Capttaham is a system for pearing the wealth you produce into the bauds of .a class that does not produce it and diefruiatng the methods by which the From the NEW LEADER MAILBAQ THAT MAX DAT MEETING Kditar...
...As for debts, the United States has its origin in a repudiation of debts and confiscation of millions of dollars of British property as a result of the American revolution...
...The Methodist church and Father John A Ryan, Catholic leader, urge old age pensions by the state...
...Rubin Guskln and the Hebrew Actors Union...
...Rush your contribution in by cash, - cheek or money order and it will be cabled to the Labor Party without delay...
...The old-time efficiency can be regained only through effort and experience, but it can be regained...
...The Club secured a permit a week hi advance, granting permission to meet tn alumni Hall...
...Woll and some other labor men were to put one-half as much time and energy into organizing the millions of unorganized workers as they do into fighting the recognition of Russia they would be more worthy of the salaries paid them...
Vol. 8 • May 1929 • No. 17
