BRITISH SOCIALISTS TAKE OFFICE
BRITISH SOCIALISTS TAKE OFFICE Berger Hails Triumph Of British Labor Election Victory Gives New Hope to Socialists of World, U. S. Chairman Says By Victor L. Berger .National...
...Those great jslncal scientists...
...And the chances are that if a new election is called, the English people will give the Socialists the necessary majority...
...They failed to realize that liberal labor iaw« could mean better wages, shorter hours, greater protection of life and health in connection with their daily labor, healthier home surroundings, provision against destitution in old age...
...In that year the new party polled a total of about 63,000 votes in if ccgtotBBenj las spd returned two men* bers to the House of Commons...
...The electoral successes of the party during that time kept pace with the growth of membership as the following table will show: Oentral Labor Lab*- Meeieerc SecUon of Vote CsndMsles Returned 1900 B2.698 IS 2 1906 323,195 SO 29 Jan...
...however, that the financiers fcBfr**1 were not immune to this fi~**- One of the American cx 1^* to the present conference, Mr...
...Morris Hillquist...
...there Is ne reason why they shooM contra we the fwtSe peBcy ef saps w king the parties of the master risesw aad reaping she reward ef their r»UtteeJ writ uses to aeetBe gsiwassento...
...Contributors To British Labor Campaign Fund Ir, addition to the amount* announced last week...
...Labor assumed the task of ruling England...
...And the Liberals, during the election, gave heavy lip-service to such steps...
...The King was farced to can far this SeeJaBst aad ask Mat U farm a satototry...
...The Communists' defeats show they a*> laagrr taut as a force in our poUUea...
...0 M Silver .........................50 R Wolk...
...Theirs KJiBen victory...
...That is why the best elements of the country are rallying to its support...
...That not all of the manufacturers were dead • set against the strikers is shown by the actions of the owner of the Signal Shoe, Mr...
...An Inspiring Moment To his own constituents the Labor leader asked: "DM the laboring people aver live in such an inspiring moment as this...
...While falling short of giving the Labor Party the majority of the House of Commons, the election nevertheless resulted in a landslide which exceeded the hopes of many leading Laborites Here is bow the vote stands, with but four seats missing;: Partv Seats Popular Vote Labor 288 8.2M.000 Conservative 25* S.S06.900 Liberal 58 5.178.000 Independent " 251,000 In doubt 4 Of the remaining four seats, Labor expects to capture at least one...
...Be rusolli...
...Horton had a declaration of martial law signed on Saturday, when the pevs of the settlement came to him...
...It has risen to pelitieal dignity...
...and educating for victory in our own country...
...Here is a ipr cause for redoubling our own efBfc, They will not be in vain...
...In the hands of private capitalists or capitalist government they will be engines of exploitation...
...They did not perceive that their every-day lives, at home and in the shops, were powerfully influenced by politics...
...The new Prime Minister was greeted with rounds of cheers by the crowd which packed this old-world backwater which lies Just off the Thames embankment and a stone's throw front the Houses ef Parliament...
...Hoan and Others Talk At British Labor Rallies (Bj M New Irrirr C<IT—4**tt MILWAUKEE—Mlwaukee celebrated the Labor party election victory in England with four open air mass meetings...
...realising the precarious position of its party, sets up a piteous plea for the Labor Party and Its leaders to act more polite to the Liberals and not subject them to the "indignities" perpetrated in the last few years...
...The break in the ranks of the shoe manufacturers rontinued when the Banner Shoe Company came to terms in the early part of last week...
...50 D. & R...
...Shapiro, who called together the men and offered to loan them money to help pay debts contracted during the eight weeks they had been out on strike...
...T« Raise Victor* Fund "All sections of the movement will bt invited to contribute to this fund, which will be used to carry on the work of the Labor-Party and strengthen its organtsaThis recant Mr.' Mst**MeatM>* seuerbo tenrBhnee* tram the otter parties and that it depended on them whether there twe yean...
...I have said that this elaborate agreement represents progress...
...This meeting will be held on Thursday evening, June 13th in the Labor Institute, 810 Locust street...
...N. J. "The Foundation Co...
...And this may force a new ejection very soon, as it did in 1924...
...Labor began once more to show its irresistibt* strength...
...Talk of Labor party for the United States was current and at the Amalgamated Trust & Savings Bank, the Chicago labor bank, half-joking remarks about becoming the Chicago depository of the new British Labor government, were beard...
...Compressed air holds the caisson about eight feet above the mud and rock at which the men are working, and also keeps the ooze from coming up into the caisson...
...They have been playing a game of bluster...
...There is no reason why the Aosertean workers sneojd conUnae to be the football ef the dtogwsttag game ef oW-party poiiUetans, ever eajoled and despised, deceived and betrayed, impotent aad humiliated...
...volunteer organizer for the American Federation of Labor and member of the Carpenters' Union, was thrown out of the local Presbyterian church because he would no...
...g2* tfli« murt be paid annually ^f"""" what happens...
...Carolina Intensive Work For Unionism is Going Ahead At Elizabethton, Tenn...
...Amalgamated Clothing Workers...
...MacDonald has spent count leFs hours with the btg five of Labor strategy,—Arthur Henderson, J. H Thomas...
...But the agreement does not settle the question of debts and reparations nor is it likely that Germany or any other nation will go on paying at these rates for 59 more years...
...This is so much more remarkable since • he Liberal party evidently acted as a smoke screen for the Tories...
...The sensational election returns, exceeding the pre-election predictions, resulted in s hurried meeting of the Socialist party executive committee, and the arrangement for a series of meetings to be carried on simultaneously, and the rotation of a battery of speakers, lea by Mayor Daniel W Hoan...
...The vast bulk of its members and voters come from the working class, and its activities are frankly directed in support of the producing classes and in determined opposition to the classes thriving on profit and privilege, but Its strpreme and everpresent aim is to do away with all class privileges and class distinctions, and to run the government for the true and equal benefit of the whole people...
...Nor will a rejection of the Anglo-French naval and military pact do this, because that pact died in early infancy...
...The workers are registering for return to work under the new employment system established as a result of the strike—the jfirm had hired broken down politicians and local business men to supervise the hiring ol workers...
...Philadelphia Will Celebrate Labor Victory...
...Behind them is an epic story of Socialist achievement and a mighty lesson for American labor...
...Especially since even Lloyd George now admits that the treaty of Versailles was a terrible blunder...
...5.00 Dr...
...I am afraid Z am only beginning to bear the burden, but I will do it cheerfully and I Biow I shall have your sympathy and support backing me through thick and thin...
...After the thirty seven big annuities come twenty one and a half smaller annuities to cover the amount that the Allies will still be paying to the United States...
...Paul Oauer...
...British laser Is politically eeaanetpated...
...In courage or perseteiante what oar comrades en the other sMe of the ocean have accomplished is net beyond our reach...
...If another election should come soon...
...The Liberal "Daily Mail...
...Such revenues will be taken at the cost of the German workers who will all suffer as consumers and some of whom will likely suffer in low wages which the railroads will try to pay in order to guarantee what they must turn over to the international transfer bank in annuities...
...are but the tail to the Labor dor in the new parliament...
...And now for the second time the Labor Party has formed a government...
...There is...
...Chairman will be Joseph Schwartz...
...McPartlon declared...
...Meanwhile he feels sure that the National Guard will not again be permitted in any state to use federal equipment illegally...
...Towards the end of the last century, the Liberal "Party made it a regular practise to name on its ticket a few men from the ranks of organized labor as candidates for the House of Commons...
...the appeal to world SpfWsnM must bring...
...MacDonald, In an Interview following his reception...
...Foundation...
...At Bologne in 1920 the Allies ar*to at a total of $67,000,000,000 Ska at the Spa Conference th: JP l«ar 'was reduced to $65,000,Separations Commission in *Oi a total of $33,000,000,000...
...00 M Weinroth ......................SO N Sussman...
...The kidnappers had several of their number at the temporary registration headquarters established when the workers began to line up...
...The result of this election may do two things: Firstly, it will revive confidence of people all over the world in the efficiency of democracy and political action...
...A Oreat Educational Feree The Labor Party of Great Britain is vastly more than a mere political party...
...Abraham Cohan and Frank Crosswaith extol the British Labor party's electoral triumph, at a meeting in the New York Coliseum on Sunday...
...Executive Director of the League for Industrial Democracy and George Cadbury...
...The Labor Party baa latum a ¦nrtrmmt under the (agaaeere of Arthur nmrtenm...
...Atty...
...One of the most amazing reports in circulation since the strike was to the effect that Gov...
...The first definite objectives of the New British Labor government, headed by the Socialist leader, 1. Ramsay MacDonald, will be along these Hne^ indicated by MacDonald himself 1—An effective disarmament treaty: 2—Ratification of the.Washington eight hour proposal" drawn tip by the I .abor Office of the League of Nations and repudiated by the late BaMwii government: 3—Passing of the factory reform art fought by Baldwin...
...50 Dr...
...They ignored the fact that the vita* social policies of the government are fashioned by the men in the legislative, judiciary and executive bodies that are determined by the views, sympathies, interests and class ties of these men: that they could elect these men themselves :and that an independent party of labor could break into the political game, exert a direct influence on the government and eventtrstty rurr-ft.-Handicapped By Old Beliefs They were handicapped by the superstitious belief in the "two-party" system of politics...
...But these meager results did not discourage the pioneers of the movement...
...Even before Its assumed the government it had forced such radical labor legislation as eM-sge pensions and unemployment insurance and the full legal recognition of the rights of trade aniens and Use train unity of their treasuries...
...For contrary to reports of Mr...
...If MacDonald and the English Socialists are given a chance to put into practice their rather moderate program for readjustment of the internal affairs of Great Britain, it will be a blessing to England...
...Speedup is the universal cause of the Piedmont strikes...
...He will have a harder jgathaaht thinks to prove that-prindtaa and methods worth congratulabng ha England have no place in jtaaanea...
...Most of us will tend to skip discussions of this new settlement Yet to understand it to measure its effects for good and evil properly and to find a way to substitute the internationalism of the workers for the internationalism of finance is an absolute essential to any program of plenty, peace and freedom...
...Labor's am gewrmnsent was enurt-iived...
...When the air pressure is withdrawn, as happened when the faulty joint parted, the caisson sinks, of its own heavy weight, into the oore which in turn creeps up into the bottomless drum...
...Conferences with the executives of the Labor Party and the Parliamentary Labor Party have been held...
...It lewdly cries to American labor: "Go then and de Utewtoe...
...A. Pollack...
...Vicc-Pres...
...1910 606\we 7S 40 Dec...
...On important Joints, on which the safety of these men depended, welding was used, the parts did cot fit, they had been used repeatedly on other jobs, and the part that split under the terrific pressure had actually been in use for 15 years.' The compressed air workers— "sand hogs"—work in a bottomless steel drum...
...I suppose, is dry reading...
...A feature of the elections, he declared, "is the disappointment of the Liberal expectations...
...By unscruputoue saw of this fraudulent dBcuaent...
...M Feinstone...
...V LIZ ABETHTON, Tenn...
...The whole question is who is going to control this bank and these mergers...
...The greeting was the noisiest and liveliest public demonstration of the British election*, the Lsborltes showing none of the traditional gngttsh restraint in expressing their Joy over their triumph at the polls...
...Wisconsin state Federation of Labor...
...Thomas declared the American Socialist party to be the nucleus for a grouping of progressive forces which would eventually duplicate the British Labor party's success in this country...
...With the crying need for pottttoal relief in this country and with the example and ready methods of England back of us we can form a powerful Labor Party in this country today...
...The actual purpose of the meeting was to convene the National Executive Committee of the Labor Party, a body cocapoaed of twentytwo representatives ef the trade unions and sfflltetfd organisations, and tne executives M the Parliamentary Labor Parta...
...The speakers were Norman Thomas...
...2,000 strong, are out in their second strike this spring...
...Yet, ruling as a minority party, its record of ten months in office wae a story of continuous achievement at borne and in the realm of foreign affairs...
...The fact that Moscow, which ordered the, Comnrenh* to oppose Labor eaatdMMaa, financed the Oamcunists is well known...
...These words head a London despatch to one of the Metropolitan dailies...
...At the Anderson mill...
...Operatives at the Ware Shoals mill...
...Bto*>"W...
...Harry W. Laidier...
...The ovations continued through the week and reached a new climax on Wednesday whan Mar Dona Id returned from his interview with the King at Windsor Castle where be had gone in most unaristocraUc dress to go through the formality M taking over the government...
...MsiDsnak* near betas the rates of revernsaaat...
...mi mrnxi, m » iw, :M in IBM Mi MM ttW...
...Think what that means for labor, and for the forward-looking people of the whole world...
...Kellogg Part Won't Do It A complete compliance with the Kellogg pact as indicated in cable messages, will not accomplish this however, since the Kellogg pact is only a gesture and nothing more...
...manager of the Pocketbook Makers' Union: J. Baskin, national secretary, and Joseph Weinberg, chairman of the national executive committee of the Workmen's Circle: David Dubinsky...
...Admission will be free...
...The fact that Moscow, in the BsMet of its praising economic problems, in the midst of so much poverty, found it possible to waste S15.7M (»7M on each unsuccessful candidate) is the subject of much Ironic humor...
...or in periods of unemployment, and better facilities for the education of their children...
...The tendency of the agreement will be to unite Europe against the United States to which the Allies will have to remit a very large part of what they get from Germany...
...William F. Quick, who repress ted the clothing workers' union in the Adler strike court oases, and Al Benson, secretary of the Socialist party...
...For many years men like Keir Hardie...
...This Is the story ef the political achievements of the British workers...
...who pointed out that nothing should be done to make martyrs ou: of the communists He reminded his audience that they had called him a red...
...we can challenge the supremacy of the old parties in a few years...
...4 The La»cr Party fan ^TtStots « saying: made to Mean the detest or flat Labor In tne majority of eases then- pons were ridiculously small...
...The party had a larger representation in Parliament than the two wings of the Liberal Party combined and became the official opposition in the House of Commons...
...Ramsay Mar Donald scored a tactical victory by putting his party first on record against another election for at least two years...
...These annuities, it is thought, will largely bo met out of the prospective profits of the international bank...
...The last electoral platform of the party announced in unmistakable terms that "the Labor Party, unlike other parties, is not concerned with patching the rents in a bad system, but with transforming Capitalism into Socialism...
...resident Hoover's Memorial Day ¦JNeh ea the danger and folly of inenatng armament followed by Secatory Bthnson's statement of the fiaaekl burden of a more than billion ¦Bar Navy gives us some encourage¦tot to hope that Ramsay MacTtoalJ will be met in rather better ¦ha than the talk of our big navy ¦a\ ante of the speeches of Presient Codidge and the campaign uttaaaott of Hoover himself would asaiai.ua to hope...
...Laidier Greets MacDonald For Democracy League The following cable was sent Wednesday to Ramsay Macdonald by the League for Industrial Democracy by Harry W. Laidier...
...agreement just completed 2^rw*nt value of the German anil* "1 estimated at $8,778,630,000...
...Indeed all congratulations, lamer well intended, from our hbeai tad labor friends who persist in sjbnf Republican and Democratic at anal raj hollow and empty...
...the courts, could destroy the usefulness and efficiency of the very trade unions upon which they relied in their struggles...
...BRITISH SOCIALISTS TAKE OFFICE Berger Hails Triumph Of British Labor Election Victory Gives New Hope to Socialists of World, U. S. Chairman Says By Victor L. Berger .National Chairman, Socialist Party "THE British Labor par--y has become the leading party of Great Britain...
...Lloyd Ge<->rge...
...The great British ESnpire governed by labor...
...Philip Bnowden...
...In addition to delegates representing various organizations, individuals residing on the lower East Side, which London represented in Congress, attended in large numbers...
...Intensive missionary work of trade unionism is being maintained in this entire region...
...MacDonald's arrival they chanted Improvised songs of victory...
...Emll setdel...
...But Anally the ice was broken...
...One false move, such as voting with the Tories to tarn Labor oat in the near future, may weD throw the Liberals Into the grave which has been yawning for them for some years now...
...A—Shortening of the miners hour* of work: 5—Repeal of the trade union act passed by the Tones after the genera...
...Laidier to Speak PHILADELPHIA.—A mass meeting has been arranged to celebrate the remarkable victory of the British Labor Party...
...Only then the workers were appeased and returned to register...
...Warwick, where the death of the Labor candidate caused a postponement of the election Liberals Watch Step The prospects of Labor rule are somewhat uncertain...
...arrived and were spreading "sell out" stories...
...There's exactly one tunnel, mine and subway inspector in all New Jersey, to examine all the tunnel and subway work under the Hudson and the Delaware rivers, to inspect all the bridge foundation work, the various quarries and mineral operations in the state...
...and it ought to be taken up again immediately...
...Did you ever think you would live to see that...
...Peace And Employment First Aims MacDonald Warns Opponents Labor Will Not Be Hamstrung (By a New Leader Corespondent) LON DON...
...The other manufacturers seeing this breakup, called a conference for Friday at the United States Hotel which lasted from 1 30 P M to midnight...
...A complete repudiation of the pact of Versailles, which keeps the people of Germany as the slaves of international capitalists and militarists—and keeps the world in turmoil would accomplish it...
...strike ; and 6— L'nemrioitnent relief...
...1910 370,802 96 42 1918 2,244,945 361 57 1923 4,236,733 414 143 1923 4,84«.37» 427 191 1924 5.487.630 514 151 1953 8,400.000 570 267 In 1922 the British Labor Party polled in round numbers 4.250.000 votes is full third of the total vote oast) and returned 142 members to the House of Commons...
...At the Whitmire mill protests against the "stretchout" system and demands for a 15" wage increase feature the strike...
...It required more than half an hour for Mr...
...Raaasay MacDonald was welcomed like a conqueror by about 10,000 Socialists when he arrived at Kings Crass Station, London, Friday night from his constituency at Seaham...
...For generations Tories and Whigs...
...this point of view the now *^ahttt certainly represents prog^* toward sanity and toward pto*- That it was reached at all 5**P«ttttonabiy proof not only jf S*8of the negotiators, especialiv Owen D. Young, but also thi .<a* international high finance flS* to far more realistic than naSSnjsteria...
...50 Jack <fc Jill Bootery...
...The six men were trapped between the sinking steel caisson and the rising ooze and were either crushed or drowned .or both...
...S. walitnan...
...The New Leader received the fallowing sum*, which were forwarded to the British Labor Party: Mrs W P. Ladd...
...While waiting for Mr...
...When labor issues became more acute, the workers rallied to candidates professing friendship for them, and these were mostly found in the ranks of the Liberal Party, just as the workers here were in the habit of locating their "friends" in the Democratic Party...
...Kelly of the United Textile Workers persuaded the sheriff not to arrest Beal...
...Feeling is growing here that a big victory has been won by the rayon strikers and that a new day is dawning for textile labor in this state...
...acting president of the International Ladies Garment Workers" Union, and others...
...Bye-election after bye-election returned Labor men...
...And he doesn't know anything about caisson work," Mr...
...Hundreds of enthusiastic Laborites climbed on top of the train sheds to get a glimpse of their leader...
...John R. Clynes...
...1 00 Dr...
...The organizations which joined in its founding in 1900 repre-' tented a total membership of less than 400,000...
...MacDonald to make his way from the train carriage to a waiting automobile at the station...
...1-0$ L OrleKoff .......................25 S. Fratkin........................J» H Perkis .........................25 F. Pogran........................25 R. Pogran ..........................jjf M. Kurinsky...................«s Mr and Mr5 A. Parker...
...The train pulled In exactly at 10 o'clock and then a tremendous uproar of cheering broke loose, , "It looks as if the new House of Commons will have a very Interesting problem In Democratic government to face," said Mr...
...Moreover, the one member of Parliament they possessed is the last Perabaroent was turned awt of his essMBBsaney w«h • decisive aaaJority...
...Phenix was one of the leaders of the rayon strike in Elizabethton m its early stages...
...They continued the work of political organisation and education among the workers with unabated faith and increased seal year after year, and year by year the new party grew in width, depth and strength...
...The British Labor Party dM not yet represent a clear majority of the voters or representatives in parliament...
...There were cheers, "Baldwin Is finished, long live MacDonald...
...It has asserted its political strength...
...Milwaukee's first Socialist mayor, was among the others taking part, which toeluded Aid...
...By its constant contact with the millions of organised workers in the affiliated trade unions...
...We have a Sj| to expect definite progress fcesrd the goal they have so clearly jt Owiwl"" We have a right to gastt enormous strides toward world sad an adjustment of AnglojSlcn questions which would have lua insoluble in the hands of die^gf militarists like the Tories, qlHarlain Cushendon and Church*> hi our turn have a definite re^waftihty toward our British com5e Every thinking Englishman aaBats with joy or sorrow, according *M own politics that the conserva(BBt of our country with its enoregni economic and moral power is an jprltshle handicap to the achieveasat of Socialism in England or any «S** European country...
...secretary of the United Hebrew Trades: A I. ShiplacofJ...
...S. C. (FPL—Just as cotton mill owners were declaring the strike wave had completely ended, four strikes affecting 5,700 workers have sprung up in the South Carolina Piedmont...
...At the Ware Shoals mill, where 1,000 of the strikers are said to be enrolled in the U. T. W, th* walkout followed the discharge of two union leaders...
...5,700 Strike In Mills Of So...
...Wednesday afternoon MacDonald attended a meeting of the national executive of the Labor Party, which announced the raMos of a "great victory and thanksgiving fond to cotnmampraiB Labors general election successes and the fersaatioa of the second Labor Government" The announcement contained the following very significant paragraph...
...Par the first thne since 1914, Europe breathed freely, secure in Mat knowledge that a party of Borlsllem and peace ruled the great British aaapsre...
...A musical program will be rendered by the Labor Institute Orchestra...
...A mueh-heraWed L*>eral "revival" proved a fiasco...
...There is no use fighting such a bank yet the name of nationalism...
...Executive Secretary of Local Philadelphia...
...But if the workers with hand and brain can get control of the leading governments of the world they may use this machinery to establish a genuine internationalism on the basis of production for use, rather than profit...
...Hillquit Cables Henderson Greetings of Socialists Morris Hillquit, international secretary of the Socialist party, has cabled Arthur Henderson, secretary of the British Labor Party: "With the workers of the entire world, the Socialists cf America rejoice in your glorious triumph...
...Meanwhile, panic stricken by the presence of real and avowed "reds" in town, the city council and citizen's committee held a special meeting, and sent for Organizer McGrady...
...Socialist leader, is the man of the hour...
...Dtek VThNtinrtea't Mary Is awt aa inspiring...
...30 00 La Fayette Crum...
...Party Shews Steady Growth The beginnings of the new party were very modest...
...Until the end of the last century, the workers of Great Britain had no political organization of their own...
...British Labor Triumph Has Echo in Chicago CHICAGO—'TP)—The May 30 election triumph of the British Labor Party, rekindled the old Tanner-Labor enthusiasm of the Chicago Federation of Labor...
...In 1923 when the first Labor ministry' was formed, the Labor party had only 190 seats in parliament, while the Liberals had 158...
...Secretary: "Heartiest congratulations on your call again to the Premiership and Labor's return to office...
...that Lahat had t •sate-to Hoc as at 1M • Bj i9io, it at ma...
...But what's the use of having labor laws when they're not enforced...
...It is a victory -SaaY eontrades...
...This Is not merely an eclipse of the Conservative party, but it probably foreshadows the-eclipse of Stanley Baldwin as leader of the Conservatives...
...They had not consistent political labor program: they were not accountable to definite Jabor consistencies, they were controlled by the policies of the Liberal Party, and were on the whole quite ineffective for the cause of labor, just as our "Union card' members in Congress and in the various state legislatures of necessity have proved to be...
...A series of intense industrial struggles in which the powers of government were openly and consistently arrayed on the side of the employers and against labor resulted in a heightened political interest in the ranks of the workers...
...1,800 workers have been on strike several weeks: at the Whitmire 1.350 are out, and at the Mills mill 550...
...Among the organizations whose spokesmen addressed the meeting were the Workmen's Circle, the Internationa' Ladies' Garment Workers Union, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, the Socialist Party, the Furriers' Union, the Pockctbook Makers' Union, the United Hebrew Trades and other labor and fraternal organizations in whose creation Meyer London took a leading part...
...over the v.-orld have every reason to rejoice about the outcome...
...Philip Snow - den, and MacDonald...
...SociaLsl car.d.date for president last year...
...And also because the question of unemployment in Great Britain is closely allied with the international situation, and a solution of cne will undoubtedly solve the otherThe election has not given the Labor party a complete majority and a free hand...
...May Labor be permitted to carry out important constructive plans in behalf of international peace and democracy in industry Your every advance in these directions will strengthen the forces of peace and economic justice throughout the world...
...It should not be forPl...
...Death of Workers Under River Called Murder By Union Head "IT WAS plain murder...
...Fred Beal and Vera Busch, Communist leaders from Gastonia...
...The British Communist party is weak, and baa no funds as spaas: of...
...GREENVlLLE...
...through divisional and local groups and numerous women's organizations it carries on an unceasing campaign of political and social enlightenment...
...Herman O. Kent, former Mb ward alderman...
...Boston Shoe Strikers Win New Victories Manufacturers Weak ening, Is Belief—Union Signing Up Many New Members BOSTON...
...It did not occur to them that laws hostile to labor could put heavy obstacles in the strruggles of the workers for human existence, that a hostile government with the aid of the military and police force and, above all...
...It was not until years later that the organization adopted the name of Labor Party...
...In the following year the conference was held in London and a permanent "Labor Representative Committee" was formed...
...the Liberal leader, in his election promises far outbd the Socialist program, especially as to the solution of the unemployment question, in order to divide the w'orkingmen's vote and thus give the Tories a chance to win...
...tne Oeneeivaflw party soared a notary, while Leber's rrpreeentatiou was oat froto 161 to 1*1...
...member of the British Labor Party...
...Thousands Pay Tribute to Late Meyer London Representatives of organizations having a membership of over 300.000 in New York City paid tribute to the memory of the late Meyer London, for many years the leader of the local Socialist and labor movement, and for six years the only Socialist member of Congress, at a memorial meeting to be held Thursday night at the Second Avenue Theatre...
...that in Rugby...
...A country such personal taffy as was ¦anal President Green of the A. F. If L at West Point makes even labor ¦atat swallow War Department prosVada hook, line and sinker has a •to deal to learn about the ways of ttatistical measurements of ¦•growth of sanity: •to the Versailles Peace Conference jjpwt the Allies filed claims against ¦hnaay totaling $125,000,000,000...
...the clear-headed and forward looking Scotch miner...
...Make no misters about it, it is not going to be all beer sad skitUes, especially for ate...
...Though stirred to the depths of enthusiasm by its tremendous victory the Labor Party leaders have put in a busy week of careful planning for their second venture in the field of governing...
...The membership 'of the two organisations affiliated with the Labor Party was doubled to the first two years of its existence, it passed the million mark in 1907, jumped to l.MO,000 m I9ii, grew to 2,000,000 in 1915, and has since increased to more than 3,000,000...
...Subway and Construction Workers Union was bitter over the needless death of union compressed air workers, excavating in caissons for foundations for a new bridge between Jersey City and Kearney...
...Returns give it 287 members of parliament instead of 151 as in the previous parliament...
...Inside half an hour the entire crowd of some thousands of strikers and a great number beside had returned to the tabernacle, madder than the proverbial wet hens...
...The election of last week brought a Labor victory, far beyond anything hoped for...
...We never really worked those backward areas in which the only political peenioo the ordinary person knows Is the conflict between Liberalism and Toryism...
...Leo Krjycki...
...With very few and minor exceptions, every member of the Cabinet was a trade-union leader or a Socialist...
...sasrwtary of the party, saying yonth end women had totes' tor labor became they bad no patience with the TtaJatr ant" saee of the Tories...
...This belief, that the bottom of the rssistance against the strikers' demands has fallen out, is substantiated by the large number of applications for membership in the United Shoe Workers Union which have been made by men who up till now have been sticking up the Boot & Shoe Union...
...It has enlisted the best minds of the country to study all important social problems affecting the nation and the world, and the results of such studies are communicated to the people through the labor press, numerous leaflets and pamphlets and in public meetings regularly held throughout the country...
...It is about all you can expect from thi Allies so long as the United States insists on the payment of debts...
...Not the least interesting feature in the agreement is this new international transfer bank, set up primarily to handle the payment of annuities, but with the expectation that it may loom larger and larger in international finance...
...Lloyd George and his little group of Liberals were so thoroughly threshed by Labor In the election, that the party Is In a chastened mood...
...It is a great educational and progressive force, the greatest in the country...
...FP...
...Do Likewise" Triumph of the British Labor Party Call* on American Workers to Organize Own Political Party—Morris Hillquit Tells Story of Labor Party's Rise to Power By MORRIS HILLQUIT International Secretary of the Socialist Party '"THE tabor Party has been called on to form the new government, and Ramsay MacDonald...
...Born to lowest poierty sf abater* Barents**, a fan* Iskerer at 12, organiser and leader af BBS llSSSIIltllllj recently insig-nffleant Laser Party, outlawed and reviled dartoc the war beeaaae ef his aaclnaas...
...The visitors then disappeared...
...Such a repudiation was part of the platform of the English Labor party after the war...
...BesJttfcs...
...ntadanwa pototad to Ike constant giueUi of Labor'* popular *Me in Oreat the IMl'nu...
...The Conservatives were routed...
...national organiser...
...It has ceased to knock at the back dears ef legislative bodies, to lobby and to beg...
...It soon became evident that the next general election would mean a huge turnover which would aid the Labor Party...
...Conservatives and Liberals, had alternated in the control of the British government...
...Honestly I did not, and I thank Ood it has been done...
...But it is not likely that Labor's rule will be limited to a few months...
...The peace and safety of ¦Sfin children, the happiness of ^laH depends upon the success workers in achieving their own |paa<to*tton from exploitation, povatyasd war without that wholesale ^I a tlm of mankind which under ¦dgra condition...
...Fatth to Leber Party Grows The 1939 election was ordered by the Conservative Party in the hope that the people wouM express their confidence in its policies by an increased vote...
...Atty...
...Greed for the almighty dollar on the part of the Foundation Co...
...From information which has leaked out it is believed that plans were marie by the manufacturers to concede the demands of the strikers with as good grace as possible...
...They made practically no In-treiBslBii in the rural constituencies, where, in the absence of a well established Labor movement, they might have been expected to...
...WASHINGTON—iFP) — Secretary of War Good now admits that federal machine guns, rifles, uniforms and other equipment issued to the Tennessee National Guard, when Gov...
...Paul Ayman of the State Federation of Labor, and a local magistrate much loved by the strikers, all had to interview Personnel Director Willson and plant officials, and inspect the methods of registration before quiet could be restored...
...Lamont, was also an.Amg** ttpert on reparations at the g*Be» Conference He himself he finally agreed with PreWilson when 'he latter said: logic" and consented to the gJ*Hon» section of the Versailles ^¦w which in defiance of the plain 2?-*toe Armistice permitted the mEt*^ Pensions to be included in Present agreement calls for "v*n annual pajTnents ava^"Ji about two billion marks or S?^f less man $500,000,000...
...was saving thousands of dollars by using misfit old material on this highly dangerous under-water work...
...It is too bad that so good a teacher as Arthur Calhoun cannot fit In at Brookwood...
...The famous "atoevtel red letter' etotlton took place in 1934...
...Secondly, if the Labor government continues in its former attempt to bring about a lasting basis for world peace, this election will prove a blessing to the world...
...In the general parliamentary elections of Great Britain, held in 1913, both old parties suffered heavy losses while the Labor Party increased its delegation In the House of Conunons to 191 mejnbcra...
...The Signal Shoe Company followed suit a few days later...
...F:>j|W-|»Tt no right to expect mi—4m from our British comrades who _jinll a minority party in a counfct attB faught in the meshes of im¦galain and capitalism...
...There is every indication that Labor will stay in office a year at the least...
...Bi^Mema and difficulties they fsce are our problems and our Unties...
...1 00 3.000 Socialists Celebrate British Victory in N. Y. Five thousand Socialists heard Norman Thomas...
...For strange as it may sound, the Labor Party Is not a class party...
...The agreement clearly seems to throw the principal cost of reparations on the German workers...
...S8.00 C. F...
...One of the communists was struck by a striker with whom he had an argument...
...The aection in which the men were working under the Hackensack river was subjected to a pressure of 25 pounds a square inch...
...This time the Labor party has 287 seats and may gain a few more, and the Liberals have only 51...
...Socialist parties, cooperative societies and other progressive organisations to devise ways and means of securing a better representation of the interests of labor in the House .of Commons...
...A very fine program has been arranged...
...do something...
...Labor will be prepared...
...TIMELY TOPICS By Norman Thomas * thrilling thing to think as jPam alto down 10 write these TimeSfigjol that »! thJS very moment fEEftan of the Labor party in are taking over the govern^-^laeked by th» largest single tSJto the United Kingdom...
...Under the rules and precedents of British Parliamentary procedure, the Conservative Party was forced to surrender the government into the hands of the Labor Party...
...Lloyd George's balance of power, the Liberals, instead of be4ng top-dog...
...2 00 W. D. Berry...
...through the educational activities of the affiliated Socialist parties...
...The sight ol these men was like a spark in a powder magazine...
...is responsible for six of our members being drowned in ooze and slime under the Hackensack river and eight others being in hospitals...
...It has ceased to follow the parties of its westers...
...Kicked Out of Churcn Christianity as praeiiccd in Elizabethton puis kidnappers on a higher plane than union men...
...Not only the leaders of labor unions and organisations of farmers, but men and women prominent in all walks of intellectual and artistic pursuit sit In the councils of the party and on its benches in the House of Commons...
...You nave finished the fight...
...But Labor's popular veto Increasedl by mora than a aMJMSB Then came five years M untoterrupted Tory rule As the inspired excitement over the Zinovief "letter" died down...
...In I8f» the British Trade Union Congress passed a resolution caning for a -conference of trade-unions...
...The British workers had always voted for the one or the other, just as the workers of America always voted the Republican or the Democratic tickets...
...The American workers are not Inferior to their British brothers in natural intellect...
...Gilbert and Sulina stated an exiomatic truth when tar declared -•'-fury IMe bey and girl nil- r ¦kborn a UitU Liberal or Conscna1 took the imagination, the courage ¦4 daring of Keir Hardie and bis cawades to arouse the unions and fjsjtatd workers of Britain to prove jjjjat bays and girls were b<-vrn to vote ¦t liberal and Conservative but for laiinsrrra and their class...
...The week steee theltoa day Baa been a saris* at (IBM svaUaua tor ti sassy BiaPoaaul Hie story Is a drama whisk has gTSSWOd Knclaad aad suede htm the asaa af the hear...
...former Labor Chancellor of the Exchequer, also returned to London that night, and he expressed himself aa delighted with tne election figures...
...Socialists and radicals al...
...M Stcinman...
...1 00 Joseph L Suger...
...Evidently he had planned to legalize the use of the militia...
...Morris Hillquit...
...Thir{rysan ago conservatives professed JUS at sure that Socialism could not ¦jgs progress in England as they ¦ai ere that it cannot make proem in America...
...They were decried as vision artea by the conservative leaders of organized labor, who were honestly convinced that the thing "could not be done...
...Horton ordered out the troops to break the rayon strike at Elizabethton, were illegally used...
...Its lesson is inspiring, its moral is slmplt...
...But the statement of the faculty gives plenty of convincing reasons why he cannot No institution can recognize the right to sabotage it as inherent in any reasonable interpretation of academic freedom...
...withdraw a warrant he had sworn out against C. W. Meadows, a real estate dealer, also a member of the church, a-.d accused of being one of the gang that attempted to kidnap Phenix on the night that Organizers McGrady and Hoffman were taken out of the state...
...John B. Phenix...
...Indeed there is a good deal to be said for an international system of money banking and credit just as there is a good deal to be said for industrial mergers that cross national lines in our economically interdependent world...
...Leber's Second Government Labor, a party leas than 10 years old, emerged the tart-eat party to parliament with 28* seats...
...B. C. Vladeck...
...All this...
...The success they gjrssdy won gives us courage |fidm*:— to go on with the S^anramring...
...Speakers will be: Former Assemblyman William Morris Feigenbaum...
...The ovations began at Seaham where the voters elected MacDonald by a majority of almost 30,000 votes, a staggering victory which snowed under Tory, Liberal and Communist alike...
...however, this difference...
...If he is turned out of office before that time by combined Tory and Liberal votes, he will be able to say his party was not responsible for an early election...
...Let us go and do It...
...i oo P. Cohen...
...The Liberals must watch their step...
...To add to the confusion...
...2 00 H Miller...
...like Matthew Woll ejasot ignore it and has to send conpatatatians...
...The mea and women who had been out from these shops went back to work the day after the settlement...
...These were known as Liberal-Labor Representatives...
...part of it may be arranged or postponed through the new international bank which is to be set up...
...There was red fire, resolutions and oratory...
...His admirers were equipped with whistles, rattles and other" TOWt' TaffftfraT accessories with which they were able to keep up A deaf - ening din...
...The strikers are beginning to get back to work, and it is hoped that a large proportion of them will be re-employed In the next week...
...the Labor ministry is likely %o tackle first the matter of unemployment reform and readjustment of international relations in the direction of disarmament and peace...
...The Labor Party of Great Britain is th$ party of social progress and political Idealism...
...besHls tows aad hostile eeurts...
...Joseph A Padway and President Henry Ohl...
...Tne Communists had 25 candidates Moot were elected, whfle 21 of tne 25 forlttted their eesction dcposlB through failure to obtain one-seventh of the total vote...
...The Labor party depends upon the Liberals who have 51 votes, for the efficiency of its program...
...Whan you read the figures this morning you saw that the Labor polls in the country were above the Conservative polls and twice the Liberal polls...
...I was brought up kBat belief in college...
...It was impossible for us to maintain altogether the same strength in the backward areas of the country as we obtained in the industrial sections...
...The people by their vote showed their distrust of the Const- us lives and Liberals alike and their growing faith in the Labor Party...
...They believed that their trade unions were sufficient in their fight for better working conditions...
...That's all...
...Nevertheless our ¦I|mi ialiata and militarists will not l*at am tech without a big fight, rhaYii of peace cannot believe that Ittietery is easily won...
...The members of the kidnapping clique were advised to make themselves scarce...
...J. Ramsay MacDonald and other Socialists urged upon the British workers to form a new and independent political party Of Labor...
...What the Labor Party hag done in GraU Britain for the working class anfest a* appeal to workers in Aman at strong that even a disbeliever IPS miillill...
...Secretary John McPartlon of the Compressed Air...
...This is true because revenues from the German railroads are assigned to meet the irreducible part of the annuities...
...It is necessary for It, therefore, to be clear in its aims, because only in relation to the goal can Immediate steps be either understood or justified...
...He promises that an investigation will be made by him, based on the brief which John R. Weal, counsel for the Tennessee Federation of Labor, is to furnish to the War Department...
...Anna Weinstock, federal mediator, a committee of union workers...
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