SOCIALISTS NAME FRANK PERKINS FOR MAYOR OF BUFFALO
Socialists Name Frank Perkins For Mayor oi Buffalo Convention Opens Fight To Capture City — Full Slate Drawn Up - Platform Adopted 'Bt a New Leader Correspondentv DUFFALO. N. Y.,—The...
...Organization and Campaign, was presided over by Joseph Stein, Leonard Bright, Joseph Weinberg, national chairman of the Workmen's Circle...
...some of them here in New York ere another year passes into history...
...Ward Supervisor candidates are...
...He made no attempt to convey the impression that he doubted the Innocence of ths victims of war-time class hysteria...
...It began with hysterical but honest men and women who believed that vast changes were impending in the United States ten years ago...
...weeks...
...Louis Sabloff, Dr...
...Labor Organization in Geneva to announce that British ratification of the Washington eight hours pact will be accomplished "at the earliest possible moment...
...Vernon, White Plains, Yonkers, Brooklyn and* from Nuovo Mondo, 81 East 10th street, at 9 o'clock Sunday morning...
...They may create some confusion which will serve the bosses in the industry...
...Elliott, prominent in the early weeks of the strike, was addressing a strike meeting when his house was literally blown to pieces...
...Young, who has been a member of the Johnson political organization ever since Hiram ran for nomination for governor in 1910...
...The strike balloting Thursday and Friday was supervised by the follow-j ing shop chairmen and local union...
...Dubinsky Sunday addressed a meeting of Bakers' Union Local 500...
...From various parts of the country promises of financial assistance flooded union headquarters...
...A. F. of L. organizers, to the picket line of the 30.000 cloakmakers...
...Music, dancing, sports, refreshments, Socialist speeches and other interesting attractions will be in the program of this outdoor affair...
...All Socialist institutions and the Socialist Party subdivisions that can contribute to a Socialist victory will share in the proceeds of the drive, according to the plans approved by the National Executive Committee...
...Porter was in the rayon city representing the Emergency Committee for Strikers Relief...
...Only vicy the union and its re-establishnew strength can stabilize the unfortunate that dual unionism IS!* ¦* the Communists makes the ^M* aanewhat more difficult...
...A substantial part of that sum has been made appropriated out of the funds raised at the banquet, and the first of weekly reports, copies of which will be mimeographed, will be made available this week...
...The agreement was drafted back in 1919...
...In Buffalo we are presenting a i full ticket of qualified candidates...
...Fickert of San Francisco...
...Cloak Union Votes Strike...
...The principal feature of the drive will be the appeal for a one-day-wage or income from every party member...
...Holderman was hit on the head with a blunt Instrument, bis clothing was torn, and he received a black eye...
...Sweden and elsewhere...
...Enka has refused to make public its wage scale for rayon workers...
...the BvSeaalist Party leader, to J. Ramsay MacJ^g, Socialist Prime Minister ffgJSgt Britain: 1 a*w*t th"1 you may keep __ju»Tn""* of Great Brit• •Bmeimtly long time & fieach Socialism may ^ mi on the road, and with the Socialists of £IFB0wy and their Chancellor w53q Pwe that will jpjaw the celebrated phrase: BStW will make the peace Bjb world.' It is in this - bit dear MacDonald, E wa white your victory...
...M he had never even seen GasMi except briefly four years pre•saljr...
...7 East 15th St Formal invitations to join the committee will be issued within the nsxt X«w days...
...John was better known to to friends as a former police sergeant on to) Metropolitan force who lost his Jos a a police strike and is a Labor memkf of Parliament...
...If these particular Comaajato art convicted no...
...Fully one-half of the amount set as the goal of the drive is expected to come from this part of the financial campaign...
...Frank C. Perkins has earned and should receive promotion from president to mayor...
...The assessment, which will be raised before the strike, is expestod to total $15,000...
...J. Miller, H. Libow...
...TbJV A. F. of L. is not half active enough, h^ its opposition to the war mongers: ao(, the West Point visit will be construed if' a tacit indorsement of the program "4Tthe 'adequate defense' bunch...
...Or any intervention on their part can only be considered an attempt to divide the workers where unity before the bosses is essential...
...FRAZIEK HELPS MOONEY WA6HXNOTON— (FP)—Sen...
...Charles H. Roth and Sanford I. Beach...
...Paul units of t&» American Federation of Labor admlni*ters a stiff rap at Pres...
...i (Continued on Page 2) Hiram Johnson Won't Help Innocent Men...
...the Glasgow Forward says...
...It must be shown without doubt that men taken for a ride out of the state against their will and in the middle of the night were held for ransom Only then will the grand jury indict leading citizens of kidnapping...
...The remainder is to be given up from other contributions from those in sympathy with Socialist aims, contributors to specified party institutions, and individuals who desire to see a minority at work in the National Legislature...
...during the campaign, referred to Wheatley's work on housing as "the crowning achievement of the Labor government...
...sssp...
...As a token of their faith that the political victories are not within the grasp of the Socialist party, the effect of which will be to hearten thousands who have been standing for the last six years on the sidelines unable to work up the confidence necessary to enter victoroualy into the fight, the diners paid and pledged $2,000 to make sure that the campaign opens with a pace that will assure its success...
...At six halls and meeting places in Manhattan...
...G. August Gerber...
...Committee Gets to Work The committee held two sessions, at which it was decided, in view of the readiness of many who are not party members to join in the Socialist campaign, to organize a Committee of One Hundred, chosen from the ranks of all who are with the Socialists in the present fight...
...While she was not elected, she made a good showing...
...Flat refusal to consider arbitration or deal with the union was all the bosses had to say at the conference preceding the attack on Holderman...
...and Harold R. Raitt...
...The j "Socialist Preview...
...This fragment recently called a strike in the whole industry and then attempted to Intimidate the workers into following their lead...
...at the newly acquired Nuovo Mondo field in North New Brunswick, New Jersey...
...The policy appears to be to scab against any union which they cannot control and work for wages lower than the union rate in order to break the union...
...vich...
...last veer...
...DiI aK"..y*'w>"' r»«« •» visions of opinion mutt stop at tsa fail line...
...Of the 56 candidates directly sponsored by the party, 37 were elected...
...This question came from Attorney Flowers and was asked of Adam Hard, acting chief of police of Gastoaia,, "That's right" answered Hard...
...Denmark...
...Ellen Harris, August E. Graff...
...Besides jumping an endless row of legal hurdles, the workers are still waiting to get their jobs back...
...arid drafted a platform which has already received the approval of a group of liberals who have made a Study of it...
...Meanwhile •istote fire marshall has produced % jniat confession of an illiterate, aaas minded striker, whose name ?•forged to the document charging •ad...
...In Tennessee it is difficult to bring a charge of kidnapping...
...At any moPt •» strike for which the Cloakijfc* bare voted may be called...
...Subsidies will continue and salaries will be paid...
...The most spectacular trial of the present term occurred when the state tried to implicate Porter...
...The honest ones will leara...
...Were it not for its foreign subsidies it would collapse physically as it has morally among decent men aad women Btr long E|0 America ^1 Behind...
...Fred Graviua, Felix A. Russo, Julius Meyer...
...The jury refused to entertain the charge and Cole was finally fined $50 for carrying a revolver...
...The Socialist party of America is the party of labor and pending the formation of an all-inclusive American labor party, to which project the Socialist party is committed, we appeal to all Socialist-minded people to vote the straight Socialist ticket...
...When the hearing., was over, 14 members of the union, in-* rluding all the officials, were denied teff* and returned to jail Indicted for mnrte^ Eight other union men were indicted m ¦ charges of assault with intent Co kte* Their bonds were fixed at $750 each...
...Johnscn was recently approached by a representative of the Nationa" MooneyBillings Committee, which is seeking pardons for the two labor leaders framed by Johnson's bitter enemy...
...M. Samson and J. Aversano...
...His family has no moos...
...He was released when it ¦toaanwered that he knew promin¦tysapls in the South...
...The caOapse...
...to arbitrate the issues between Otto Schubert, mill boss, and his 18 striking workers...
...The ticket, which costs 50c only, entitles the holder to a free ride to the picnic grounds and return...
...An illiterate, James E Bice, was brought to trial on the grounds of an alleged confession implicating Porter in the outrage...
...Our candidate for mayor needs no introduction to the people he has so ably represented for the past ten years in the city council...
...The minutes record: "Weenie trades: Discussion oa situation in the industry established fact that rights are preparing for strike In the cloak Industry in answer to the proposed lockout...
...Nuovo Mondo Picnic To Be Held Sunday -The picnic for the benefit of n Nuovo Mondo...
...1.673 cloakmakers voted Friday in favor of the general strike...
...It is service to the exploiters and nothing else...
...Arrangements provide for the opening of a special national headquarters, the exact location of which Is to be made this week...
...This editorial calls attention to an article on the Mooney-Billings case published la the Nation, and to the list of American editors, authors and eminent clergy who have enlisted.in the ¦pvement to securt pardons for these two innocent tlctimi of a class conipiraoja, —- ¦—.— (Continued on P»*e *> ' Labor Govt...
...Ben Turner, secretary to the mines department...
...Such actions can only contribute confusion and weakness and parade the weakness before the bosses...
...This "strike" has proven a ridiculous farce- Although its leaders called in outside dupes, peddlers, real estate agents, salesmen and others to swell their "strike meetings...
...The majority favored smothering the inquiry by referring it to the Tariff and Federal TrasT Commissions...
...Preparations for the drive will be made during the next six...
...The statement declares: "People everywhere are realizing that the Socialist program of industrial democracy through the collective ownership and democratic management of the means of wealth, production and distributions is the only way to usher in the brotherhood of man and solve the pressing problems of unemployment and world peace...
...Bronx and Brooklyn...
...Margaret Bondfield...
...says the Minnesota Unian advocate, organ of the state federstka, "and the finest optimism is notlc-sota et every hand...
...If the Labor government shows signs of willingness to 'deliver the goods,' they will have no warmer backers than the Clyde men...
...John J. Lester...
...Minister of Labor, ordered the announcement...
...Wheatley is considered very able...
...J. Starr...
...It is an unclean thing...
...He was asked to • -id a message to Gov...
...It will be possible to tell of Labor's concrete plans to relieve unemployment after the government states its program when parliament convenes for business on July 2. * • • The long list of ministers appointed by Premier MacDonald contains the names of tried and true Socialists from all walks of life...
...restoration of the unemployment insurance fund, certification of shops and increases in wages...
...N. Margoliea...
...P. Rosenberg, C. Jacobs...
...According to Holderman, two men jumped from the Pennsylvania car, dragging him out on to the roadway, and blackjacked him...
...Marx Lewis, manager of numerous political campaigns on behalf of So. cialist candidates, secretary to the only two Socialists, Meyer London and Victor L Berger, elected to the House of Representatives, and now executive secretary of the New York City Socialist organization, has been selected to manage the drive...
...Workers Union, growing out of the tawon the Loray mill village on June " saaT Chief of Police Aderholt was tilled sat., three other police officers and a unite organiser were wounded...
...In the needle trades unions the policy is to call a strike as in the furriers, although the Communist furriers constitute only a tiny and insignificant group...
...and ¦at conditions is invited to consider Sjawwing sober statement of facts gas the Southern front: 1 Ja South Carolina strikes gakat the stretch-out system, that H ajatost the inhuman number of Ma workers are compelled to tend, (tasking some headway...
...Apparently the stiff fight put up by the labor man alarmed the thugs, for they fled without accomplishing their purpose...
...was a general exodus from the city, due to the heat wave, more than 300 delegates and their guests gathered to rejoice that victory was again in sight, that the Socialist party, first broken By the World War and then split by the 'defections of the Communists, had definitely turned the corner, and that the number of new applications for membership in the party, which are presented each week for the approval of the party committees, is growing by leaps and bounds...
...is not a grim and bitter jgjty to America or that the "new" jagajaaB, American brand, has paid the lesson of high wage...
...They voted to contribute a day's wages for each of their 1.500 members...
...The union is seeking modification of the discharge clauses under which shop chairmen and other loyal union men were discharged, according to the union, "without cause...
...It is a jobholding affair...
...This was the amazing and amusing charge which mill-dominated prosecuting authorities tried to put over in an Elizabethon court as the aftermath of the great strike of rayon workers...
...We trust that the struggle will 1*^2 short one and that the International liJ5' dies' Garment Workers' Union w8 emerge considerably strengthened, to-' vigorated and once more resume tsj vanguard of the progressive and mU.tsft unions in this country...
...The tJM agreement does credit to those rsssav sible for it One wonders why it tad so many months to reach so slmale * conclusion...
...Atty...
...But since this is a dispute between mill owners and mill worker*where justice doesn't matter, the ess...
...Ten blank ballots were cast...
...Green for hfe trafficking with militarists at West Point recently...
...Minn...
...Bronx and Brooklyn...
...In many cases a previously-expressed reluctance to undergo the rigors of what they know will be a more aggressive campaign has given way to a willingness and even an anxiety to make the race...
...Walter Trill...
...Detailed plans as to now the drive will be conducted are now being mapped out by Lewis, and will be announced in the Socialist press next week...
...J. H. Thomas, Lord Privy Seal, and "Minister for the Unemployed," has already put a pile of work behind him...
...Since the article appeared in The New Leader, official organ of the Independent Labor Party, the national council of the I. L. P. made haste to dissociate itself from any responsibility for, the views expressed by Brailsford...
...Instead of permitting nominations in important "districts to go by default, seasoned campaigners are being nominated to make the campaign in winning districts...
...In the past few years many members have dropped out because they realized what we have written is true...
...The Minnesota Union Advocate declares editorially: "It would seem that the disastrwi experience of labor in the last war outfit to serve to make anti-militarism s mtn dominant labor tenet, and it should coO gage persistently in active antiwar effort instead of a mushy passive opposition which may be easily whipped mto aetto* war support when the call arises...
...Committee on their attitude toward' the release of the two California labor men...
...Israel B. Taylor...
...In 45 cases however juries have failed to agree or refused to convict...
...No perspective for struggle has been made...
...S. Shapiro, M Fetnberg...
...Indeed the only sObtttsshl concession the state appears to have toss was the reasonable and proper ptrasv sion to priests to exercise the rtghb # citizens in seeking constitutional 'tiirau The Roman Catholic church is aaw 3 mit ted to designate the priests who cjss register under the state law...
...Edward Kolkmann, Emory F. Younkins...
...however, of the fur oirBte under Communist auspices, B^^tar better calculated to hurt 'toakj unnr ihsn to help the g*« Wtn probably weaken the power g*<^annuuEt dual union for harm...
...Candidates for Councilmen at Large are Mrs...
...Philip Katz...
...S. Student...
...Contlnaed sn Pare *) Socialist Party To Open Campaign For $50,000 Fund All Party Institutions to Share in Proceeds-One Day's Pay Asked of Members rpHE first step to consolidate Socialist strength so as to elect a group to Congress in the Congressional elections of next year has just been taken by the National Executive Committee of the Socialist Party in authorizing a national financial drive, the goal to be $50,000...
...Cases of more than a hundred strikers have been continued until the fall term because juries refuse to convict them now...
...Against Robert Cole, an active striker, the state pressed a charge of attempt to kill...
...The effect of such a mobilization, if it can be brought about and organized so as to function in most of the election districts of the district, and in all election districts if sympathizers belonging to groups whose support the Socialists are sure .to receive, will give a tremendous impetus to the campaign, and at the same time a departure in the methods of Socialist campaigning...
...The spirit which prevailed, the enthusiasm that reached its climax when Louis Waldman placed in nomination the former national standard bearer of the American Socialist movement, the serious consideration and scrutiny that was given to every plank in the platform, and especially to the report of the Committee on Ways and Means.1 Organization and Campaign, which outlined the method of organization for the campaign, all of these phenomena, made all the more remarkable because of the oppressive heat which prevailed while the sessions of the convention were held, created a feel(Continsed on Pafe »» ing of victory, and routed the defeatist psychology which prior to the last national convention teamed to grip Socialist party workers...
...Susan Lawrence, parliamentary secretary to the health department...
...This is expected to total another $16,000...
...Frasisc of North Dakota, Nonpartisan Leaguer, has caused to be reprinted In the Congressional Record an editorial from tha Bowbells (N...
...Union City, Hoboken, Jersey City, New Jersey, New Rochelle, Mt...
...manager of the last national campaign, and members of the Socialist Action Committee...
...organiser «j ' the New York Socialist orgamasteaa^ Claessens placed 55 speakers at the (Ik-1 posal of the union...
...The Enka firm, which will employ thousands of North Carolina workers, is now building H.s factory near Asheville...
...Leon Trotsky must have swallowed much of his pride when he cabled Ramsay MacDonald asking permission to visit England...
...sgsav have fight in them...
...This committee on Ways and Means...
...MacDonald...
...Others remain because they have not yet learned...
...It will be officially opened on August 1, and will continue from August 1 until September 7, when the National Executive Committee will meet In New York...
...C. G. Amman is Secretary to the Admiralty...
...active union carpenter and former member of the Glasgow, Scotland,' Independent Labor party...
...S In dealing with the church tat all can government proved Itself asnv powerful than the almighty Mtsssjat It was forced to concede no control ato education and law to one parueakwwj Hgious body...
...Germany...
...Fortunately his family was visiting a neighbor...
...Busses will leave from 'Philadelphia, Allentown, Pa., Trenton, Paterson...
...now in prison 13 years...
...but until Labor came to power Britain failed to act favorably on it...
...George Hall is civil lord of'the admiralty...
...Sheriff, Irving M. Weiss: District Councilmen...
...Brothers and Sisters...
...Now the cloakmakers, after months of study and preparation, will probably strike and for the first time in years there is a good prospect of not only winning but rebuilding the union on a powerful basis...
...The Communist Party—A Strikebreaking Agency DERHAPS the most shameful *• episode in the history of the labor movement is being written by the Communists...
...6,214, the Conservative winning in a total poll of over 40,000 by a majority of 4,941, a falling-off in the Conservative majority of 9,172 since the 1924 balloting...
...Nearly 9.000 cloakmakers participated in the strike vote which was conducted throughout the city...
...New York City...
...time learn how to share in the esstol cf things necessary for our common as...
...M. Fenster...
...Hugh Dalton, under-secretary for the foreign office...
...Civil war has raged between the two...
...Due to the hostility ef t out of 11 members of the committee ea manufactures, which conducted prelistinary hearings, the resolution was serft back as a minority report...
...Lee Arch...
...Members of Assembly...
...I The present incumbent, Sir Herbert Cayzer, Conservative, received 15,068 votes, Miss Stephen 10,127, F. J. Prioest, Independent Conservative, 9,505, and General C. M. Reidkin, Liberal...
...The editor of Glasgow Forward, Tom Johnson, is a member of the cabinet—secretary for Scotland...
...He also oflertd the use...
...While the total of British workers who will benefit, by ratification is comparatively small, the action of the Labor government will put a stop to movements to increase working hours...
...Ware Shoals Strike Or...
...Frank H. Rott, Nellie Younkina...
...Subcommittees on Finance, Publicity, Literature, Outside Contacts...
...John Meyer...
...though even the slight efforts at strikebreaking which may be expected from them might prove dangerous...
...Herman J. Hahn of Salem Evangelical Synod Church, candidate for Lieut...
...WASHINGTON — (FP) — Sen...
...The 5*o«at union is trying to sign up Jg'—fl shops by vague promises to y 3* deposits Communist misman¦¦Jused in the last strike...
...I. L. P. Counts Gains H. N. Brailsford, well known in the United States, got off to a sort of inglorious start when in his first comment on the Labor government he urged coalition with the Liberal party...
...Wheatley was Minister of Health in the first labor government...
...In the United States the Socialists are willing to be judged by the achievements of the successful Socialist administration in cities like Milwaukee, Wis., and Reading, Pa...
...Is that right...
...M. Konsky, L. Reiff...
...Trotsky but a few years ago heaped scurrilous and bitter phrases on the head of the "yellow renegade, defender of imperialism," etc...
...PAUL...
...The same idea was the cause of the Speakers' Seminar, organized by the Socialist party, which has been meeting every Monday evening at the Rand School to listen to Socialist experts discuss transit, housing, police, health, and public school problems...
...labor leader n.m la the South If he makes 9 ttt ordinary speeches that are W0 fc thne of strikes...
...Judge Vines as well as the jurors were tired out by the unusually large number of trials of workers arrested during the strike...
...Yet when one reflects on hp man nature and the strong paanonifll volved, one should rather rejoice that j settlement has been reached at tB...
...Fred Reinhold...
...The SodsV5 1st Party city office, its 61 branches SSf* its membership as a whole pledge thea.' selves to do any kind of work that mtj be asked of them to further the sucetsf of your strike...
...Morgan Jones, parliamentary secretary to the board of education...
...R. Stoloff, B. Rudin...
...The men are particularly bitter because the grand jury had not entered an indictment against the kidnappers of McGrady aad Hoffman, union organizers...
...Many Offers Of Aid Given Ballot Is Overwhelming for a Walkout—Communists Admit Their Bankruptcy DT an almost unanimous vote, New York cloakmakers have decided upon a walkout in which 30,000 union members in the women's garment industry will participate, tabulated figures revealed this week...
...headed by B. Hines, chairman...
...Campaign In N. Y. Off To Flying Start Socialist Party Begins Actual Work for Waging of Enthusiastic Election Fight By Marx Lewis '¦'HE city-wide interest which has developed in the nominations of Norman Thomas, Charles Solomon, and Algernon Lee to lead the Socialists of New York in the coming municipal campaign, an Interest that is reflected in the numerous offers of assistance that have come both to the candidates and to the Socialist party officials who will direct the campaign, presents the first opportunity the Socialists have had in years, according to political observers, to bring out a general mobilization of the 3,500 men and women who are enrolled as members of the New York City Socialist organization...
...The election of Frank C. Perkins ;as mayor is not sufficient...
...At the huge jsase meeting of cloakmakers Thursday In the 71st Regiment Armory President Green promised the workers every cooperation...
...Full use of all the resources of tssjfl cialist Party was offered the Intsrsev tional Ladies' Garment Workers' OnheJ in the event of a strike in the SlgSfl garment Industry in a letter sent to tit union by August Claessens...
...Drive Opens in August The division of proceeds was based npnn the realization that every arm of the Socialist Party must be strengthened to assure victory next year...
...PP)~The official organ <¦ the Minnesota and St...
...About ten of the candidates are trade unionist...
...The I. L. P. has come out of the election immeasureably strengthened...
...of a settlement are untrue...
...We offer roa all of our speakers for the many meoV" tags at which you may require speakdt** Needless to say the Socialist Party wjp be entirely at your services...
...of whom he now pleads favor...
...The Cabinet has caused its representative at the conference of the International (League of Nations...
...M. Cohen...
...E. Molisani, J. Le Case...
...As Organizer Carl Holdrman, unarmed and alone, drove home from a deadlocked conference between unionists and bosses, a coupe with a Pennsylvania license crowded his Chevrolet into the ditch...
...McMahon of the United Textile Workers and other union leaders...
...This should inspire every worker in the industry and every sympathizer with a determination to place all possible resources behind the union...
...8. Lefkovitz...
...The old fiery faith has been stored in the garret...
...John H. Powers, Irvine A. Schnabel, Willard J. Dawson and Otto Stilke...
...m Strange doings these in the aoeMst land of aristocrats where the wots* once dearly loved a Lord, and sign*, st hope, of more fundamental change all in ceremonial office but in basic esstrol which the British workers M achieving...
...The king pesstanss following the reorganization of the formerly progressive central body, whSi Samuel Gompers threatened *o lift the charter if more conservative policies WtJ not followed, has largely disappeared...
...I S?-**'8''1*6 are ^n struggles...
...Last week we printed the facts regarding their scabbing on the Hebrew Butchers at Brighton Beach...
...For the first time in years bundle brigades are being organized for the distribution of literature...
...in a Staten Island hospital of sots obscure blood disease called Kilt Apr, His only chance is to live on blood trsajfusions pending the possible BheeSsj of a cure...
...Their policy is to take over the strike for themselves...
...Only 16 opposing votes were cast...
...8ecUmsaU| you say...
...The platform calls for municipal ownership of all public utilities, the city to do its own construction and repair work employing union labor, a state-owned hydro-electric plant, the addition of the initiative and recall to the city charter, the recognition of the right of all city employees to organize industrially and the payment of the union scale of wages to all city employees...
...He has taken a leave of absence from the work of the city organization for three months so as to devote himself, in conjunction with a staff he is organizing, to the drive...
...John Nasuto, Lillian Rowe...
...48 Cajw» Dropped Carter county, of which Elizabethon is the county seat, has for the past two weeks been trying desperately to send more than a hundred members of the United Textile Workers to the penitentiary for long terms...
...They are being tried on a variety of charges arising out of picketing during the strike...
...It is a development of the idea the Socialists started when they conducted last April the Municipal Affairs Institute, which had a record-breaking attendance and which received more public attention than any other Socialist party activity in many years...
...We who Shan profit by **tt»S tory of labor most take our fab paajaj the struggle...
...No response from needle trades comrade...
...The Communists are not likely to play much of a role in the coming strike...
...S. C.—(FP)—Less that half the Ware Shoals operatives art St work as the mill attempted to reopea with the rest on the picket line and R. B j Campbell, head of the strike committee, asserting that the big plant would reopen "only over my dead body...
...Perhaps...
...A theological stusat from Union Seminary...
...This is strike-breaking...
...took a different turn...
...Research Bureau Begins The changed character of the campaign was also foreshadowed by the decision of the Socialist Action Committee and the city executive committee to establish a municipal research bureau, with Louis Stanley as the director...
...jg^"*J*'y there has been less drrtsthe ranks of the pocketbook ^S* and therefore there should be w behind their strike If In ^^¦tooTersy with the bosses it must \ ' »trike...
...Examined in court, the striker asserted he had been confused by police and prosecutors into signing a document with the absurd charges...
...Although the agreement called for all to be back at their jobs by June 10, over half are still jobless...
...At the end of ten years of striving they have definitely emerged in the role of strikebreakers...
...Action Committees to assist in the drive will be formed in every important city in the country...
...Marx Lewis, executive secretary, and August Olaessens, organizer, of the City Socialist organization, and three members of the city executive committee will be on the executive committee for the management of the campaign...
...Lacine Fullington...
...Police Started Gastonia Trouble CHARLOTTE, N. C—(FP)— "There wasn't any trouble until one of the members of your force started to disarm one of the men on private property...
...Mass picketing will be the answer to the hosiery boss's refusal to have any dealing with the uaion...
...Socialist plans are being followed by the general public more closely than ever, according to all reports that come to the Socialist headquarters...
...The grand jury later dismissed the "confession" as fraudulent...
...m A boy named George Mother a dr&a...
...Henry J. Ruppel...
...Enka.-C.lanx-,toff Merge With the merging of Glanzstoff and Enka, huge rayon corporations of Germany and Holland, prospective workers at the big Enka plant bein...
...Ernest E. Hunter has j been chosen to fill the vacancy...
...monthly organ I of the party is to be discontinued, or, I rather, "merged" with "The New Lender...
...By helping bosses they hope to be recognized If they can flaunt a shadow union born in scabbery it may influence Moscow...
...The whole affair was such an obvious frameup to involve strike leaders that as the foolishness of the matter was brought out piece by piece, the court room was swept by gales of laughter from the workers...
...The general view of the Labor party seems to be that Trotsky should be permitted to come to London and enjoy the hospitality of a government and a party which he has often denounced as "hangmen, traitors and frauds...
...It B must be, a strike against th* SJ'ee- It will involve the so-called "tops of the Industrial Council HP eooditlons are admittedly better W » the small bootleg shops but JPjos manufacturers are taking adSP ot the situation to try to force WMia» on the workers...
...men...
...Labor Paper RapC Green on Militarism ST...
...In a law and sa» Bee ting called by the Chamber U Commerce lynch-law was almost aaey advocated...
...They have become adventurers and careerists who are only interested in the salaries they can obtain from the Moscow subsidies...
...Something similar to this is being attempted with the bakers...
...Bice, Illiterate and somewhat backward mentally, had been taken #o Knoxville, more than a hundred miles from Elizabethton, saturated with liquor and drugs until he waa unconscious, and then later forced to slrn his name to a confession...
...To Ratify 8 Hour Pact Miss Bondfield Instructs Geneva Representative to State Cabinet's Position | ONDON.—Less than a month in office, the Labor government has already given the nation an appreciable instalment of progress...
...Porter of the League for Indus*# Democracy with the principal Pr* hi dynamiting the house oi jjft Ehott...
...The New Leader learns from a confidential copy of the minutes of the executive of the Trade Union Educational League, meeting June 6th that the few remaining Communists fa the needle trades unions are floundering...
...Claessens' letter to the union sayt: *! "We wish to place at your disposr,* the following halls and elubrooms Vt$c£ in most Instances you may use withosj' any question of charge...
...Holderman announces...
...To those familiar with the position of the I. L. P. this explanation was superfluous...
...It points to Wilwaukee and Reading, Pa., as examples of successful Socialist administrations...
...Philadelphia cloak and dressmakers have also rushed to the support of the New York cloakmakers...
...Young of California or to the committee their stand on the applications pending befor* the governor for pardon (Continued on Pate 2) Frame-up Of Paul Porter In Tennessee BreaksDown Elizabethton Grand Jury Dismisses "Confession" Inspired by Mill Owners By Jack Herling pLIZABETHON, Tenn—Paul Porter, field representative of the League for Industrial Democracy, dynamited the home of Mack Elliott, strike leader...
...Louis Sadoff...
...Since the convention, party branches have been carried forward by the optimism which is heard and felt m all Socialist circles...
...There is now manifest a new awakening of the economic and political &ro» of labor...
...POLL CONGRESS ON MOONEY ——— U. 8. Senators and representatives are being canvassed by the Mooney-Billings Natl...
...The new treasurer is or was a taxi cab drtor and is a Labor member of Parliament likewise meet Comrade John HsfaV rice chamberlain to his same Royal Jg> jesty...
...But the human toture capable of this sort of sentiment tal this sort of service is not hopeless, lac willing to share their blood ma...
...The cabinet and ministry, with a single exception, has been well received in all sections of the movement...
...In the meantime Socialists who wish bo become members of the national drive committee are requested to send in their names to Marx Lewis, st Room 505...
...The court was about ready to adjourn for the summer...
...and Emmanuel Shinwell...
...Thb ato is a reasonable stipulation...
...Our congratasv tions to rum and to our comrades...
...an an the labor struggle is on the ^•¦11 front Here in New York our y**a of other years and other batJ ¦ tte needle trades are engaged 9 *»»>enue struggle to hold what thought was won...
...He has gone over the railway situation, with which he has been intimate, with a view of placing jobless workers...
...J. Rabmnoff...
...TIMEL Y TOPICS it Norman Thomas jjTOrnS who believes that class A¦WB*ift...
...Prominent business men of the town are said to have been among the kidnappers...
...Irving M. Weiss...
...Councilmen at Large, Elisabeth C. Roth, Harold R. Raitt, Herman J. Hahn...
...That admission on the part of the law should have dismissed the case SBttest the members of the National Textte...
...J. Leventhal...
...to put* their halls at the disposal of the eaJ ion, during the strike...
...Alfred F. Borschel...
...Dubinsky expressed his gratification at the wholesale support the union is getting in its impending struggle with the employers...
...Meanaas the local papers play on every atf at prejudice, economic, religious at axial, against the prisoners, and ** Rat* has retained some seventeen aaatocat lawyers...
...The Cloakmakers' Jofnt Board of Cleveland wired assurances of financial assistance, which is estimated at $25,000 The Jewish Daily Forward of Chicago asked authorization, which well granted, to raise a strike fukfl |p the New York cloakmakers amsssn the labor unions and -fraternal aaajB nizations of Chicago...
...Lefts are doing nothing to meet situation...
...In such a situation there is only one supreme issue and that ia to win the atrika This is not the view of the Comunists who brought fearful ruin to the union some years ago...
...Elliott had been warned repeatedly of violence as the result of his activity...
...The Press need not worry...
...The story of his need has brought fc§ ward more than eight hundred votav teers to give their blood...
...Councilmen and other officials must be electI ed who are pledged to support the program of municipal betterment...
...George F. Weick, William Voelker, Robert H. Lydon, Herman F. Kohn...
...How far tiasaUMia Chambers of Commerce al p> Is dear from what is happen¦{st Bsabethton where the U. T. i. a in charge...
...For that reason detailed reports will be submitted to the regularly constituted party committees, while publicity matter receiving general circulation will refer only to the issues of the campaign and the broader methods to be •pursued in conducting it...
...itBJS.—Pierre Renaudel...
...A pamphlet reviewing the case is being seat each congressman, with an appeal asking that "In view of the national issue involved in this case," that they make known to Gov...
...They stand aside waiting for the struggle to Ijtgin, prepared to inject themselves into it as a third party...
...The election of a new national secretary of the Socialist Party, upon which the national executive committee is now voting, a survey of the political situation throughout the country and the study that has been made to determine what the prospects are of electing Socialists to several State Legislatures and a group of Socialists to Congress If the National organization should concentrate in certain districts, and an inventory of Socialist resources that could be mobilized to accomplish the results sought to be achieved were among the considerations that, prompted the conferees and later the national executive committee in approving the drive...
...If more concrete evidenee of the win to...
...Glanzstoff-Enka is closely affiliated with Bern berg, Snia Viscosa and Courtauld which control 80^ of the world's rayon output...
...Strikebreaking itself is a virtu...
...New ¦nt aamed James Dombrowsky, saaaT of Southern birth and educates, who mildly protested against to*spirit of the meeting, was first ¦tntsned with physical violence and ¦to the next morning arrested for jafjiattty in the Gastonia murder...
...He is a leader of the "left" elements of the Labor Party and the conservative press is attempting to use his exclusion from the cabinet to stir up dissension in Labor ranks...
...Station W. E. V. D. "The Voice of Debs.' 10 per cent., and 10 per cent to th< Young People's Socialist League...
...Young, to pardon them . Yet he is reported by four senators to have confided to them that he believ-s Mooney and BUHr-as to be absolutely Innocent men, vho "ought to have been out of prison long ago...
...Its horrible bungling in a few unions brought continuous desertions...
...Elizabeth C. Roth, candidate for State Comptroller last year: Rev...
...The state picked on James M. Bice, a union member, for the charge that Porter had planted the explosive under the Elliot house while Bice pulled the switch...
...President William Green of the American Federation of Labor has assigned Edward F. McGrady and William Collins...
...We do not believe that the Communists have any influence whatever among the union members but a few unscrupulous tools in the industry and outside the union can cause soma confusion, —*—¦-The emergence of Communism as a strikebreaking agency is the culmination of its career...
...t flsrtfr'* North Carolina, is on dm of > trial which may rank aj& tke famous Hay market, case...
...E. T. Willson, personnel manager of the Bemberg-Glanzstoff plants, has very slowly been reemploying the men, women and girls...
...Dist...
...A. Mollin, and Dr...
...acting president of the International Ladies' Garment workers' Union, announced that the International General Executive Board and the general strike committee has met and fixed a strike date...
...A total of 8.761 ballots were cast, including blank and void ballots...
...Walter Stepien, Stanley Gregorczyk...
...What they are doing makes Buffalo a spew, point in the advance of the Sootiat movementMeet...
...This attitude prevented the German government from permitting Trotsky to come to Berlin...
...1 GREENVILLE...
...F. W. Pethick-Lawrence, financial secretary to the treasury...
...Considering their actions in the case of the butchers it ia also possible that they will secretly endeavor to negotiate with a few bosses at old conditions or even worse conditions than the union fights for...
...Louis Panktn -T *tamlr...
...The action of the Labor government, it is held, gives the International Labor Office new strength and makes it a more real instrument for international labor progress...
...Which would look into tat reasons for textile depression...
...Carrie A. Miles, Ernest A. Franks, ; Anthony Provino and Nicholas Mastrolli...
...D.) Tribune, entitled "Set Mooney and Billings Free...
...While there...
...Recognizing the growth of interest In Socialist activity among people outside of the Socialist movement, the municipal convention delegated the most important task before the party, the recommendation of plans for campaign organization, to a select committee especially equipped for the conduct of compaigns...
...Minnie Osborne, Sarah Braunstein...
...The Glasgow Forward," organ of the Scottish Independent Labor Party, though it has not actively associated itself with the previous critical position of the I. L. P., appears dissatisfied with the failure of MacDonald to give John Wheatley a place in the cabinet...
...M. Fabiano, M. Frelman...
...Those wishing to attend should communicate with Comrade O. valenti, 81 East 10th street...
...Morris Gevirtzman, Charles Baumann...
...The Socialist program for municipal government can be summed up in five words— public ownership of public utilities...
...financial secretary to the war office...
...He replied that he had no influence with Young, and would send no word...
...one of whom, Jesse Taylor, is ?. Negro and was a delegate to the last national convention of the Brickla vers' Union...
...Porter's real and •% crime was that he was frankly ggl sWe of the strikers and was Jjhg ia the administration of re9» Bto frame-up has thus far been liy to produce results but it to show how far the earnest ^P***g advocates of religion, the •¦ken Constitution, big profits WM *w wages, will eo...
...Socialist newspapers will shan in 10 per cent, of the proceeds...
...Courtroom Laughs at Charge The state also attempted to show that Elliott was in on thw conspiracy to blow up his own home...
...Boas Thugs Waylay Organiser HACKETTSTOWN, N. J.—(FP)— Criminal violence against a union organizer followed fast on the final refusal of the Hackettstown Hosiery Co...
...Trade Unions, and other spheres of activity will be selected on the basis of their qualifications for service on those committees, and the chairman of those committees will be on the executive campaign committee...
...We therefore appeal to all Perkins supporters to cast a consistent vote this year—vote a straight Socialist ticket...
...At the 71st Regiment Armory, where President Green of the American Federation of Labor spoke Thursday, 6,703 cloakmakers voted in favor of strike with only ' 259 dissenting There were 10 void ballots and 100 blanks...
...We point with pride to the recent political victories of the Socialist parties in Great Britain...
...The total vote in favor of strike was 8.376, against 275...
...What may complicate the matter is the wish of the Soviet government to keep Trotsky in Turkey...
...This is contemporary American Communism, a miserable caricature of the thing born in enthusiasm and hope ten years ago, however mistaken it was...
...built near Asheville, N. C. can expect the same labor policy now in effect in Elizabeth ton at the Glanzs toff-Bernbe rg plants...
...Collins has been assigned i for some time to the New York office of the Federation while McGrady has just returned to New York from Tennessee, which at one time caused bis deportation at the behest of the nonunion mil] owners...
...Then the fierce internal war that was never absent resulted in the recent division and organization of a Trotsky group to fight the old organization...
...Report...
...The admkskm came during the preliminary hearing held in Charlotte...
...Although as strikers axe very religious folk til anw been slow to accept even at L. leadership or affiliation aaittaough they have scrupulously aWasd from violence the state afbtass been called out for the all aerpose of better protecting Don Breakers at the expense of aan Carolina taxpayers...
...Union painters walked off the job in protest against open shop conditions...
...The situation favorable for such intensive organization was evidenced at the two-day convention which nominated Thomas, Sofomon and Lee...
...Executive Committee Statement The Executive Committee of the party issued a statement regarding its candidates and program which appeared In the local papers...
...free of charge, of 14 Soeislfcr Party headquarters and assembly balk* in Manhattan...
...2stall is determined to convict murder of the police chief not ¦say the guard who fired the fatal a* la the brawl which ended traglatf taut all those prominent in the Mi sb the theory that their spaas and their conduct were reaaatota for the tragedy...
...Hiram Johnson of California, who left Mooney and Billings under sentence of death when he stepped out of the governorship of California, has definitely refused to ask his lifelong henchman...
...We desire to remind the voters that the I Socialist party sponsored h:s ftrst ! candidacy in 1919 and was responsible i for his nomination in the elimination primaries...
...Congressional Districts Surveyed The decision to propose a national financial drive was made at a conference attended by various members of the National Executive Committee, prominent Socialist Party officials m this city...
...So cialist foreign language federations and their institutions, will receive 3( per cent, of the money they raist through their own groups...
...Jesse Taylor...
...C. Addison, parliamentary secretary for agriculture...
...The Socialist radio, the Socialist press, the young people's Socialist movement which in many places, is doing the active I campaign work, and the Socialist t organization—the four essential xmit* of Socialist activity—will be improved to meet the requirements of the campaign...
...George Bane, professional gunman, sent to the strike scene by the labor spy outfit camouflaged as the Railway Audit and Inspection Bureau, was one of the assailants, Holderman believes...
...All voters, regardless of party affilia| tions, can vote Socialist...
...G. Kaufman...
...Minneapolis Labor Starts Revival Move MINNEAPOLIS — (FP) — After maOJ years In eclipse since the breakdown • the progressive labor movement in 1*»T the Minneapolis labor forces art h*» ginning to show the old spirit agsia Militancy is returning and the ocss choppers are walking a bit more carefully as the unions show that the...
...The assignment is considered significant because it betokens the whole hearted support promised the cloakmakers by their parent organizations...
...Under the plan adopted by the committee, the national office of the Socialist Party will receive 30 per cent of the money raised, the local raising it 30 per cent of what it raises, the state office in each instance 10 pei cent...
...fight and win were required, it was furnished at' the banquet held at the close of the first clay's sessions...
...CcmrMk Ben Smith, treasurer of the royal noisehold of His Majesty George V., by tat Grace of God, King of Great Broea and Ireland, Emperor of India, etc...
...Approximately 1,000 will be needed to enable the Municipal Research Bureau to function properly during the coming campaign...
...It will interest many of the acquaintances of Miss Jessie Stephen, the Scotch young woman who spoke in the United States so acceptably in the 1928 campaign and who returned to England to take part' in the British Labor Party campaign, to 1 know how her campaign resulted...
...That Committee of One HunI dred Will choose an executive committee which will be in immediate charge of the conduct of the campaign...
...Italian Socialist dally, will take place this Sunday, June 30...
...The Full Slate The complete ticket is as follows: Mayor, Frank C. Perkins...
...Beneath the hierarchy of paid adventurers are the members, still clinging to the old fiery faith and contributing to the pockets of the officials...
...If Frank Perkins, now President of to) Buffalo Common Council campaigns ¦ a Socialist on the admirable plstfore adopted by our Buffalo comrades It *U be a great thing for the party, for Bof> falo and the whole movement for decsst government in the service of warren with hand and brain...
...The new merger is to be capitalised at $30,000,000...
...these meetings proved miserable failures...
...Her constituency i was that of Parkmouth, South, and \ there was a four-cornered contest...
...It would not be surprising to see this sturdy campaigner at the top of the poll is the next election...
...So far aa this III a concerned, it is not a case any sajtr of what one thinks of dual sjaaBB or Communist philosophy ¦1 tnrtfce...
...The nlace had been used as a conference center by Pres...
...N. Y.,—The Socialist u party nominating convention, held in Carpenters' Hall, union labor headquarters, has nominated a full Socialist local ticket, headed by Frank C. Perkins, Socialist President, of the City Council, for Mayor of Buffalo...
...We gave the addresses of the stores where they placed union signs behind whlcn scabs are working...
...N. Y. ^Socialists | Offer Aid tol Cloak Unity...
...Frank P. Sasse, Angelo Cordaro...
...Probe Benelutten Stranded WASHINGTON— (PP) —When the B*J nate recessed, June 19, tor two month*, there was toft stranded on its calendar tss Wheeler resolution for a Senate essj., mittee investigation of the textile strikak demanded by the American Federattei of Labor and favored also by the radical labor elements...
...The Paole ffZ* and the New York branch of the gp* cialist Party offered every anistasjbgr the Socialist Party offering...
...Those who want to participate need not worry about fare expenses...
...In order to cover a public demonstration of their weakness, tbt^Communist elements are reporting to be considering calling a 'strike" simultaneously with the strike of the bonaflde union...
...Arthur Ponsonby, pacifist, parliamentary secretary for the Dominions...
...The bitter physical conflict and decline to a few thousand members have wrought an interesting psychic change in the leaders...
...Strike Date a Secret David Dubinsky...
...Because he had been a foreman, the Blanzstoff-Bemberg bosses were particularly incensed against him...
...Socialist attorney ana former Corporation Counsel of Lackawanna, N. Y., was nominated for Sheriff of Erie County...
...Cross-examination showed that George S. Barger, state fir* marshal, was responsible for the alleged confession...
...Over two hundred of the labor members of parliament are members of the I. L. P., including Premier MacDonald, Fenner Brockawy, editor of The New Leader, has resigned to . take up his work as a member of ¦parliament...
...At the conclusion the bakers adopted a unanimous resolution to impose an assessment upon their membership to aid the striking cloakmakers...
...If, however, the forward march degenerates into the laggard crawl the country can count on Wheatley, Maxton and their friends dutifully doing their best to speed i things up for the credit of the Labor movement...
...1 m Hizabethton the poor agreeBBt sy the rayon mills to take back ¦asm without discrimination ia beat flagrantly ignored...
Vol. 8 • June 1929 • No. 24
