GARMENT STRIKE HALTS INDUSTRY; 30,000 ARE OUT
Garment Strike Halts Industry; 30,000 Are Out Call of International Ladies' Garment Workers Bringi Men and Women Pouring From Shops in Inspiring Demonstration—Fight On to Rebuild...
...in the past few years the party has made a direct appeal to youth...
...Senior worked in the LaFollette campaign...
...Senior traced the story of Socialist municipal victories in this country, and throughout a number of suggestions which might make Socialist municipal work more realistic and mora effective...
...The pamphlet sells for 25 cents, the book for S2...
...While abroad he worked with Fenner Brockway, M P., then chairman of the British Independent Labor Party...
...The "reorganization" right, which the Communists handed over to the employers, threw thousands of you out of the shops In which you spent the better part of your lives...
...CaB Flood* Otartartct Edward T MeGrady, American Federation of Labor Legislative representative who has been assigned by President William Green to strike duty with the cloekmakers, pointed out that the four men arrested ta th* morning for felonious assault were Communist furriers, booked as such, who had been thrown into the doak district to Intimidate bona fide cloakmakers and to hamper the Internstiosal's strike efforts...
...A haU-dosen place* pay under 35 cents an hour, and a dosen under 40...
...This pessimistic view was not Shared by August CJaeasens, who also op otto...
...Senior at the time organized several LLD...
...Md ultimately in a world organsaaa...
...The new Soialist secretary started work at the age of 12, carrying newspapers for the Kansas City Star...
...He la 37 years old...
...Not since 1921 has there been ruch an imposing and concerted effort on the part of national labor and liberal forces to demand tbe freedom of Tom Mooney and Warren K. Billings...
...We hope % Cs*a» la wrong in believing or mm tsKtug that men sever will May ft* desire or the intelligence a aw thU price for the common paj Til llllilj no municipal program t^warm sjuoh which Ignores or gsjg* the 'MM that Mr...
...Youth At the Helm Senior issued the following statement today: "1 am taking the office of national secretary of the Socialist Party because I firmly believe that it offers the only chance for a young man with a picture of a society controlling its own economic and social forces to work for such a sodety...
...the conference...
...The general strike will restore our beloved union to its high place...
...He also spent several months as a farm laborer...
...During his last three years tn college, Senior took a leading part tn organizing, with the cooperation of the League for Industrial Democracy, the Midwest Student Conference, which consisted of 25 schools and colleges...
...The iniquitous discharge system, the piece work system and the attempts to rescind the five-day, 40-hour week, are doomed to failure...
...Traveled In Europe Mr...
...Another three-tenths pay between 48 and under 55 cents an hour...
...The victory of the British Labor Party has fired the imagination of youth in this and other countries...
...His immediate work as head of the Party will be in connection with forthcoming municipal campaigns in ' which the Socialists will play active parts...
...3. Special committees will operate to obtain a maximum of results from special groups...
...Active conduct of the strike is under the leadership of President Schleslnger, Acting President David Dubinsky...
...Large paper companies in the city sent notices out with aQ their Correspondence saying that the Socialists must be beat The press of the city denounced the Socialists thoroughly...
...former dean of the Episcopal Cathedral of St...
...And the Mooney Molders' Defense Committee has published an excellent summary of evidence of Mooney and Billings' Innocence, together with the appeals of nearly everyone connected with the frameup, asking for the labor men's release...
...Stuyvesant Casino, 142 Second avenue...
...William J. Van Essen, Louis Stanley, Paul Porter, John Heriing and Carl D. Thompson...
...Cynthia Smith Reado and M V. Haluahka of Chicago...
...The announcement shortly after the drive gets under way that some substantial part of tb* sum sought has been raised will ins tin a spirit of victory and success which wfll enable the 'drive to go over without the delay of a full month...
...Again the Socialists of Reading have demonstrated that there is no such a thing as impossibility...
...Our workers, once p.gain, will be the constructive power in the labor movement...
...Well over half of the places pa...
...It was during the sessions of these conferences that Senior decided to become a Socialist...
...addresses being made at Bryant, Webster and Arlington Halls...
...Tbe National Mooney-Bluings Committee has Just prepared a thorough analysis of the legal proceedings on the celebrated case, under the direction of Attorney Henry T. Hunt, former mayor of Cincinnati...
...William W. Buslck, Jr., Socialist orraniser...
...6. During...
...Powers Hapgood of Colorado...
...Some of them even wrote editorials condemning the city administration for taking this building as a city hall...
...nip CHASE'S brilliant paper ETgMv a*fl firs and dsmna-rton | C «f4k* dty...
...105 organizations, representing every phase of the movement and other friendly groups, have already purchased 15,000 tickets for their memberships, and all tnoieatlon* point to an attendance of at least 25,000 on the day of the picnic at rjimer Park, which Is the the largest picnic park In New York City...
...The recently created Municipal Research Bureau and the City Affairs Institute indicate the new approach...
...He attended the conference of the War Reststers International in Vienna, and was one of the seventy-five American delegates to the World Youth Peace Congress held at Eerde, Holland...
...This group Includes larger places In tbe South and • •cattering of small towns throughout tbe rest of the country...
...Other spjakejrj at the conference were Percy R Williams, Kenneth 8pence, Louis Brownlow and B. C VTadeek (who discussed non-partisan versus independent political action in city affairs...
...He lived in Kansas OUy, Missouri, for 25 years...
...Tne socialists carried on a vigorous speaking flampaign and distributed 85,000 pieces of literature...
...A man makes 811 a week at that pay...
...We don't believe tbere are any scientific tariff revisers and we are sure that if there are any Senator Snoot is not the name of one of them...
...Every time a prominent labor leader says that there is no color line In the labor movement it helps to make it more nearly true...
...He is a delegate to the federation's convention which meets in Chicago this month...
...All party members must attend...
...It is believed that a more thorough canvass, with better results, will be achieved if this method is followed...
...The addresses of Waldman, Louis P. Goldberg, of New York and Clarence Senior, nsw Socialist party national executive secretary, appear, ed to be the best received...
...Another group of a little over 800 pay 33 cents and under 40...
...The strike can...
...He is now secretary of the Workers' Education Committee of the Cleveland Federation of Labor, secretary-treasurer of the Teachers' Union of Cleveland, local 206, of the American Federation of Teachers...
...recent Socialist candidate for Gtsamr of New York...
...Reading to Open New City Hall Socialists Built READING, Pa.—Reading folks will soon celebrate the official opening of the new city hall...
...Five leading Protestant clergymen havr joined the movement...
...chapters in a number of colleges...
...The national office, be declared, will receive 30 per cent of the proceeds, or about 815.000 if the 860.000 goal is reached, to begin the execution of the plans mapped out by Senior...
...You were forced to seek employment In sweatshops, where you had to submit to piece work, long hours, six days a week —all for a niggardly wage...
...They do show |MlMMathle it is emotionally to Ml the Interests of labor and to Wm to the doctrine that the inJM> Of American labor either In gBhltod States or the Western WMsare are so utterly different Ptatewpean labor that there can ^woddwide amliation of Ubor and no similarity in political ¦PMI Oreen'8 emphatic repudtapat color line In labor affairs jghawaea-m v%qwm».foabion beWm j^BMm^Porters tn Hew York Is—like his earlier repudiation of the American Legion proposal to draft labor and control capital in the event of another war—something to set down to his credit and to the good of the labor movement...
...Sunday afternoon's session wan devoted to a discussion of education...
...2) more flexible curricula so as to permit manual and industrial training for students not adapted to academic studies...
...AH Workers Crgei t* QmH "AB workers in th* cloak trade—en.ters, operators, finishers, nresaers, asmpiemekers, examiners aad - butconbdemaker* are ordered to leave their shops at 10 o'clock this morning and to proceed together, each group a* a gsoup, to the bans assigned to them by the General Strike Committee...
...We hope g^Mfc-Oi specific reference to the •^fet-Mw conference on arma¦b^«rt»-Mr...
...Comrade Grant made a plea for tolerance and said that he thought that the barriers of intolerance were breaking down...
...He urged that wealthy seen be interested m» bnilding bauson which would rent I at low coot but stopped abort at mushdpsl nana tract...
...Be aatd la brief 'bat greet Saw* steadily Womlnjfc "more Eye congested, hectic and biofihV slae to an ordered human Hp** paadbty fundamental city Mg aright be able to deal with ESnl problems of the city "but K§ yet has found a way to SpewtOt the private landlord and *j«Js**l wyramid of values duly ga8jg*«l oa congestion...
...In their appeal to Governor Young they stress the innocence of Mooney and Billings...
...Hail, (I oak makers ! The Cloakmakers came out on the first day of their great strike in force...
...This waa the college paper, which came into conflict with the local Ku Klux KLan and tbe American Legion because of its •ppositlon to military training in the college...
...Mark's place...
...Xest emphatically we need to bar what we are about on conWjfaM of transit, housing, etc BfaB the discussion, even by the aft esthnsUstic devotee of one MfM Mftfm and of son partisan •pats achieve it consciously or aBM*m*rjr made it plain (1) that ^BBaHSal reform would require ftmS^pM ajimiijjilato action by tp*lMa * M federal government fM]i mmjm* the dry hasn't power ¦hVJk^ad or because It lairt a ItMSMji wait to do the Job...
...It will continue to strive, as it has in the past, for social control over the new manifestations of capitalism with renewed vitality and hope...
...farmers, miners, fishermen, transportation and building trades workers can get no possible benefit as producers out of tariff increases that will cost than dear as consumers...
...be circulated through Sodalist branches all over the country...
...End th'- demoralization and chaos...
...George S. Grant, the other Socialist candidate for the Board of Education, was the next speaker...
...Senior is also a delegate to the Cleveland Federation of Labor...
...The future of the big dty did not look too bright to Stuart Chase...
...On with the fight...
...The results of the election are highly gratifying, and ha* thrown a lot of inspiration into the $l,000Given Before Party Drive Opeiis Socialist 'Campaign For $50,000 Fowl On— Thomas is Chairman of Committee By Marx Lewis' A PPBOXQCATELY $L0M of the -™- $50,000 decided upon by the national oateottttvo committee at the Socialist party as the amount that will have to be raised to complete the reorganization of the national office, aid various State and local subdivisions of the party, and assist Socialist institutions and organizations, has already been pledged or paid...
...This makes over half paying under 45 cents an hour...
...that two large groups of young people had been organized and were working with and for the party...
...2. In addition to a representative from each State on the national drive committee, state committees are being organized in each State for the purpose of taking charge of the canvass of Socialist party members...
...30,000 Are Out Call of International Ladies' Garment Workers Bringi Men and Women Pouring From Shops in Inspiring Demonstration—Fight On to Rebuild Union Strength ACOMPLETE stoppage of cloak and suit proxiuctkm in ,the New York market was affected Tuesday by the walkout of 30,000 doakmakers in a general strike which has for its purpose reforms in existing labor standard*' and conditions and the stabilization of the entire garment industry...
...after be had reviewed the promising, but relatively small - development of municipal ownership in this country as compared with foreign lands...
...Pink urged a planful attempt by New York City tc.vrrd housing improvements...
...Long live the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union" Philadelphia...
...The occasion will be the annual picnic of the entire Socialist and Labor movement...
...BbstMf's" -J^tetriad reading of the first con4pal acoaont of the king's speech WlrWafpent written for him by the Mir fovemment shows nothing MjjMag or unexpected...
...though interesting, wgmfcafi**** the points Mr Chase 2C...
...The School Beard Race The Socialist* of Los Angeles County have just finished a vigorous campaign for their two candidates for the Board of Education...
...Many needed improvements in the school systems are blocked because of opposition of business and real estate interests to increased taxation, Dr...
...Resolutions demanding their pardon are being showered on Governor Young of California...
...Nevertheless unless the Senate hears from the country the log rollers will have their way and the interests of the few who know or think they know what they want will outweigh the interests of the many...
...Issued is English, Yiddish and Italian, flooded the garment aoae at seven o'clock in the morning...
...The solidarity of our workers has never before been so amply demonstrated...
...presented at the Spl rjsjft.....1 " °* the League SaMMai Democracy, has draws ^KSm SJQstorJal comment...
...Hennihgton Ball...
...The plans were drawn up by Alexander F. Smith, architect...
...Labor Lycelm, 219 Sackman st-eet, Brooklyn...
...Gases from the clouds, and gases from the increasingly imprisoned depths, carbon monoxide in between," was the way he summarized the threat to the big dty from the bombers of the next war, from the problem of leaking sewzr and gas (CallaacS *a rum t) mains nimJ by hisej trmtfie...
...James Oneal, member of the national executive committ**, on whose motion th* drive was authorised, has lust announced the arrangement that has been mad* for a division of the proceeds...
...In addition to these > paid contributions, pledges from individuals and groups bring the total paid or pledged up to $1,000...
...Busick reported that a library of nearly a thousand volumes had been opened...
...Two were to be elected...
...A telegram of support was received from the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, signed by Sidney Billman, president, and Joseph Scbloseberg, general secretary-treasurer...
...He is an executive committee...
...Workmen's Circle branch 500 mailed In a contribution of $50...
...Among trade union orTtrlaJs who participated in the Eagles' Hall meeting were E. W. Gray, chairman of the civic affairs committee, and John J. Vander Bosch, secretary of the Central Labor union...
...To pro¦K 'Mace, to deal with unemployHtMd the particular problems of fltttnmg Industry will be the first gtot of the government...
...Marx Lewis will be drive director...
...The new' Sodalist national secretary, is regarded as an authority on municipal government...
...and Isidore Nagler, manager of the New York Cloakmakers' Joint Board...
...Addresses will be delivered by Norman Thorn**, Algernon Lee, Oharie* aokarawi, and others...
...Astoria Hall, 62 East 4th street: Lenox Assembly, 254 East 2nd street...
...Young is en route to his summer home In southern California, where he states he will spend bis vacation In going over tbe testimony In the MooneyBlHlngs case...
...The union has received $10,000 toward its strike fund from the Jewish Dally Forward, which purchased union bonds to aid the strike...
...He said that It meant as much for the rest of tbe world as it did for England...
...In 1924...
...Three Bad Tears "These three years were the, worst ever experienced by you...
...You were at the mercy of every irresponsible contractor in the trade...
...It has proved that the Socialists can appeal to the mass of people with a concrete program of social change...
...Frank C. Perkins, the present head of the city council of Buffalo, will probably be elected Sodalist Mayor of the dty...
...Another town pays 38 cents for a ten-hour day, or 21 a week, and another 35 for an eight-hour day, or about 817 a week...
...D. Conference Laidler Find* Municipal Ownership Here Logs Behind Other Nations——Chase and Claessent Discuss Future Cities—Goldberg Hits Police and Courts— Waldman on Transit . pOREST PARK, Pa,—Experts m municipal planning, Socialist administrators and members of the League for Industrial Democracy joined at Camp Tamlment in thrashing out plane for better dty government in the United States, In the 4-day annual conference of the LID...
...He was assigned to work with the young peoples' discussion groups and the task of promoting workers' education...
...The Sork in the dties, It is hoped, will y the groundwork for Socialist campaigns in a score or more of specially selected congressional districts from which Socialist candidates win make attempts in 1930 once again to give the party a voice in the House of Representatives...
...Study had to be suspended for the next three and a half years, during which young Senior worked as a mechanic, shipping clerk, in a soap factory and In a packing house...
...Busick unrolled fifteen feet of newspaper publicity that be bad succeeded in slipping into the papers...
...Even the Reading Times concedes that it was a good move...
...The reactionary candldstes potted 1X>,»00 votes each...
...On to victory...
...The municipal campaign in New York this fall with Norman Thomas leading the Socialist ticket will be an example'of the campaigns that the Socialists are putting on in all large dties, in many of them with the aid of the Central Labor bodies...
...was good to see explicit gyil recognition of Russia, *}tMUen of the Rhineland and sig•(aw* *f the optional clause permitf^WbMt to judicial settlement of JEkteaaOonal disputes...
...Below are Mooneys unterrified words: "I AM INNOCENT...
...Senior went to work for the organization in C^veland in the fall of 1927...
...which we must plan for...
...No professional contractors were employed to accomplish this work, as the work was done under the personal direction of Maurer...
...But Bpsjgsjag...
...Two hundred eighty-seven pay under 25 cents and 882 pay under 30 cents...
...The general strike, beginning today, is the dawn of a new era and a better life for you...
...The dark night has ended...
...Their struggle against the sweatshop, against long hours, low wages and the Iocs of their own self respect which means a struggle for their own union is of significance to the whole labor movement...
...The New York Socialists have shown the way in this...
...and, fln*afsst ta the next war cities, Spi ssd unplanned, will be the jEgavsad shining mark for aviators afjftA wttk "a few Judicious ton...
...Still for every step In "attaining s solidarity of labor which crosses racial lines we are duly grateful...
...The Los Angeles comrades called it "the most enthusiastic banquet we have ever held...
...Laidler found an amazing development of public recreational facilities in Jacksonville, Fla., to boost that dtys tourist claims...
...Senior New Socialist Secretary Young Musourian Elected National Executive Head of the Party—Trend to Youth fay a W«w laaOsr CirnaynalaiO CHICAGO.—The election of Clarence Senior as National Secretary of the Socialist Party la announced here at Socialist Party headquarters...
...One of the largest shows the wearing down to a shadow of the once husky Mooney by two lithographs, one taken before imprisonment and one now...
...Tbe ball was completely filled, the best turn-out in a long time...
...The foreman in charge of the work was Frank Fisher...
...Not only is it pretty, but it is one of the best buildings in Reading, and the cost was far below even the price of the lot, according to James H. Maurer, councilman and supervising director of this new and modern municipal building...
...Contributions and pledges can be addressed to Norman Thomas, national chairman...
...Civil Liberties Union Plans Appeals Against Exclusion of Pacifists Following the denial of citizenship to Prof...
...This chaotic condition has continued for three years...
...A program of music win also be rendered as part of a fine concert...
...late hours of the morning...
...Foreign language federations will receive 30 per cent of the money raised by themselves or their institutions...
...Ukrainian Hall, 217 East 6th street...
...MeGrady were thunderously acclaimed wherever they appeared...
...sen that It I* safe to say that the reactionary candidates spent ever 130,000 in their campaign...
...Lists to be Issued 4. Subscription lists intended for party members who will be asked to contribute an amount equl to one day's wage or income win...
...where Lewis will direct tha drive...
...They are: President Henry Sloan Coffin, of Union Theological Seminary: Harry Emerson Foedick, of the Park Avenue Baptist Church...
...Nearly 800 attended...
...The dawn of a new day is breaking through...
...As a result of an enthusiastic meeting of trade unionists and friends, held in Eagles' Hall on June 28 and presided over by Arthur R Alexander, president of the Central Labor union, it was agreed to bold a convention on July 12 for the indorsement of munldpal candidates...
...To Plan for 1980 "The party, with such excellent prospects of building up militant organisations all over the country, faces the problems of increasing use of labor saving machinery and the displacement of men, the possibilities of war In spite of recent talk, the increasing monopoly of power and light companies and other corporations controlling the basic necessities of life...
...But now they have an changed their tune...
...Another 200 pay between M easts and under M, making an together nearly Me paying under 35 cents...
...The work of the Midwest Student i Conferences having attracted the attention Of the Adult jOOCMUa* Association, Mr...
...Foals Zion groups, as well as other fraternal bodies whose sympathies He with the cause oX Socialism and Labor...
...The election of Senior, who 1a a Missouri an but who has of recent years been engaged in educational work In Cleveland, Ohio, indicates a definite trend within the party toward the plarrng of greater responsibility on its younger elements...
...What •jfWaorlty government can do will wet the utmost consequences to the...
...Sisters and Brothers...
...Three places only pay as much as 80 cents an hour, which nets around 85 a week...
...meeting* to ba specially callad for the purpose, and aatabUah a closer connaction between the aational office send the party membership...
...Thousands of copies of the strike can...
...The local in which the fund la raised, anil receive U per cent, and the State organisation in which, it is raised will receive 10 per cent...
...W. Scott Lewis was chairman...
...Welles A. Gray, H. S. Raushenbush...
...The survey by the Wisconsin University economists shows conclusively bow hollow are the tariff benefits to the fanners...
...Prominent speaker* addressed a series of strikers' meet lags ta the afternoon at the 14 strike halls, the principal...
...Sodalist candidate for mayor, who spoke at Arlington Hall...
...She received a thunder of applause, as did most of the speakers...
...McRoy Heard From A close second among the earliest contributors was John T. McRoy, of Washington, D. C, who made a $200 contribution, half of which went to the national office directly, and $100 to the Sodalist drive...
...and (5) a more enlightened public opinion...
...David George of Virginia...
...It is estimated that the printing and addressing and cost of the cards cost the reactionary candidates close to 110.000...
...Young—Billboards Gurry Appeal CAN FRANCISCO CF...
...That tour will help, It la bouaved, too financial drive...
...Professor Paul H. Douglas and Carl D. Thompson will speak...
...Our Job is now to duplicate their educational and political efforts and successes is this country...
...mm IN KKW BEDFORD RBW BBDVORD, Mass.—(PP)—A J. Musto, head of Btuuewwd Labor College, has been invited to deliver the wmmittM at the Labor Bay eclebrawm at whs mm BiBXiH tabor pactr...
...The two eppoafaaf candidates for the pune 4th final atooaonswsre^ backed by the reactionary group In the city...
...BILLBOARDS PLEAD FOR MOONEY LOS ANGELES (P...
...patronage graft, would provide an economic rather than a political administration and would give a voice on the board of directors to the workers and technicfcL force oClh* subway system...
...MM have os Ignore everything to HtMjnLof municipal operation of ajjt mi' power, and (3) that in aiBy the conduct even of dty hosSjk terns on the question of one's ssanl phfflaaphy of government...
...CoaMnaeS oa Pat* S) Niagara Falls Unions Form Labor Party fBy a New Vr»drr C»iiMfuaS«Bt> NIAGARA FALLS.—There will be an independent Labor Ticket in Niagara Falls this fall...
...Of these an but twenty am to tbe Southern tier of states, from Virginia to Texas, including < Kentucky and Tennessee...
...The work of sprneillng the tidings of the general strike went on unhampered, however...
...When shall we begin consciously to build the dty beautiful in the United States," asked Secretary Harry W. Laidler of the LLP...
...About 18 per cent, pass tbe 50-eest mark...
...Shop chairmen are ordered to sea that workers of seen shop leave their pi sees ta an orderly tnaiuwi and "proceed to the strike haSs under perfect dlsrijrttae...
...wfU dp veil to provide themselves at the office of the Band School, wber* thaw at* avaflabla atMoaf...
...This Jafta was admirably stated by B. fc-fMech.and Algernon Lee in the iMMtat of partisan versus non parjkJJsctlon at...
...CaaUaacS aa rasa 7) Throngs To Greet Thomas A t Socialist Picnic Ju ly 2 7th jyEW YORK Sodalists and sympathisers will give a rousing reception to Norman Thomas on Saturday, July 27 th, at uimer Park, Brooklyn...
...Thus the New Republic call* attention to the fact that on the most optimistic estimate out of 42,000,000 gainfully employed persons 84.000.000 professional men...
...George S. Grant Is one of the leading colored men in tbe dty...
...Richmond owns its own gas plant, and in San Francisco, Seattle and Detroit, dties are running the transportation systems...
...MactnUeh legal counsel and rands for an appeal to the United Bute* Supreme Court...
...Others active are: Frank J, Meaning, young loader of the New Bedford textile strike...
...The Molders' Defense Committee is raising 850,000 to place a copy of its pamphlet in the hands of each one of California's 2,300,000 voters...
...The campaign was waged under the Socialist banner and on Socialist principles...
...Senior's election was announced following completion of a vote taken by the National Executive Committee of the party...
...Organization for the proper functioning of the canvass will be perfected before August 1st...
...on of hrenee Potofsky Md of the A. C. W.'s experience and plana with model boosing development for fit members in New York City...
...Senior's summer "vacations" from school were spent working as a night watchman, laborer in an ice cream factory and as a truck driver...
...The LID...
...T7te C. O. P. Getting Nervous...
...Public Management, National Municipal Review, The New Leader, Welfare Magazine, Locomotive Engineers' Journal and the Survey...
...Honesty, howover, they have not been taught with equal success," Dr...
...TIMELY TOPICS Mjm^mma Thomas BSE...
...Goldberg's paper was a comprehensive analysis of the attitude of the courts and activities of the polio* in time of strikes in Now York City, Housing and lidn—Hon The session on housing was addrsssed by Louis H. Pink, of the N. Y. State Housing Commission, Jacob S. Potofsky...
...Claremont Hall, 62 East 106th street: Royal Palace, 16 Manhattan avenue, Brooklyn...
...CMnton...
...Confidence that tbe drive will be successful, and that the proceeds will enable the Sodalist party and all Institutions which cooperate with it, was expressed by Cabas In a letter he addressed to Thomas...
...2) MtvrajM reform is big enough to ¦pjuMfljIliliit else for it, as apMrtf-Mff- friend, Carl Thompson...
...The system has* broken down, with pronto crowded without regard for health or comfort into packed trains, with millions owed the city in interest, "despite the $14,000,000 annual profits of the two operating companies, and with a barbarous labor policy which forbids an employe to belong to an A- F. of Lvss>>----t Outlines Socialist Program -» ',' Waldman advanced the Socialist pragrapi of a public transit corporation, managed and operated at cost and without profit by representatives of the voters and employes...
...Arlington Hall, 19 St...
...Membership DoaMed William W. Busick, Jr., the Socialist county organizer, made his report of progress...
...Fichandler contended...
...An industrials-state like Ohio might be taken as an example One dty of over 25,000 pays 25 cents an hour tor an eight-hour day...
...In each of these situations research is being carried on to hdp the campaign...
...Alfred E. Trow ell, local organiser for the A. F. of L., and Charles Harris, president of the Street Railway Employes' Union...
...He is a member of the national council of the League for Industrial Democracy, the American Sociological Society, at whose 1928 sessions he presented a paper, the American Political Sience Association, the National Municipal League, the Conference for Progressive Labor Action and tbe Fabian Society of England...
...P.) — Huge billboards demanding in huge lettering the Immediate release of Tom Mooney and Warren Billings, who are starting their fourteenth year in prison as Innocent men, are in position on a block of Los Angeles land skirted by three great boulevards at tbe entrance to Hollywood, the movie capital...
...U. S. Cities Pay Starvation Wage To Help Street Labor Gets 20 Cents an Hour in 68 Municipalities, Report Shows Vr'ASHTNOTON, D. C—Light on what " the American public thinks of the right to the living wage is revealed in an account Just mads public of wages paid street labor by Americas cities and towns of over 2,500 population The report Is made public by tbe Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics...
...James Cruse and other Hollywood luminaries...
...But in Los Angeles, Seattle, Springfield, HI., Cleveland and Pasadena "municipal dectrie light stations are among the most conspicuous examples of dty electric lighting In the country...
...eooseioualy representing the SJsssts of workers with hand and Mb both as producers and consuawj sr cities, states and nation— J...
...The pamphlet may be obtained from the committee at Box 1475M, San Francisco, while the legal analysis may be had from the Mooney-BilUngs National Committee at 100 Fifth avenue...
...His father, Joseph Senior, carries the oldest membership card in the paperhangers' union in Kansas City...
...Every party member will be canvassed between August 1st and September 1st...
...So worried were the Socialist*' opponents that they sent a 1-cent postal card to each of the 900,000 i eglsweed voters of the city...
...Close ranks...
...A few beet sugar growers might get some advantage from the sugar tariff but the average farm family would pay from 810 to 815 a year more for sugar...
...It was ta an effort to discourage th* distribution of tbe strike call, thf Jnternatlonal declared, that the OunnmiltSU tbrrw strong-arm man late the district, with me resulting arrests...
...Jaw ta aaewer this sort of eriti*fV*s the editors do, by saying, iSjafl, the dty isn't so bad and sJJBtfc a war foreign governments allMBt to destroy new York," is Jj^i* |W* more point to Stuart jHjl criticism,, which criticism Wtm the invincible unwillingness Ba t» face the cost of the happy ff^Uaatifal city...
...Abraham Shiplacoff, 8. Htatfo...
...Those who cannot secure tickets from their organisation...
...Herman J. Hahn of Buffalo...
...A committee of professional men will solicit professional and business men for contributions and pledges, foreign language federations will have special committees at work in their own groups, and organizations in sympathy with Socialist alms, like the Workmen's Circle, will have an appeal addressed especially to the members of those organizations...
...iad B si the necessity of a cor{Mat program based on a philiajkr spjBcable to municipal, state tff Stflrsiil government which gaiat to be the main lesson of our...
...under 50 cents: These wages are both a cause and an effect of general low wage rates for ordinary labor hi th* United 8tates...
...At the same time, the Union acted to cany up similar cases Involving denial of cittseaship to s Quakeress in Indiana and a Mennonit* woman in Ohio...
...Chicago Socialists To Hear Douglas at City Convention CHICAGO.—The Cook County Socialist party will hold a mass convention at Douglas Park auditorium, Ogden and Kedzie avenues, Wednesday evening, July 10, to discuss tbe party's attitude on the traction question, and matters pertaining to party organization...
...Robert A. Huffman told of the hopeful prospect that Council President Frank Perkins may be elected mayor of Buffalo on the Socialist ticket...
...Our schools turn out every year thousands of graduates who have been successfully taught order, obedience and respectability...
...Extensive city campaigns wQl be waged this fall in Buffalo, Cleveland, Trenton, Philadelphia, Richmond, Vs., Portland, Oregon, and Los Angeles...
...Another 000 pay between 40 cents and under 48...
...member of the Cleveland branch of the National Association for tbe Advancement of the Colored People and an honorary member of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Proters...
...Mayor Daniel W. Hoan, of Milwaukee, ViceChairman, and B. c. Vladeck, manager of the Jewish Daily Forward, Treasurer...
...If there i* any intelligence in the American people they ought to be scared...
...Gives Bid The striking cloakmakers have been meeting in the following halls: Bryant Hall, 1087 Sixth Avenue...
...He ended with as appeal for funds...
...Hughan asserted...
...Busick reported that membership had more than doubled and many new locals had been started and many more will be started in tbe very near future...
...Dancing wtu be provided for in the huge Casino, where two good Jaas bands will play an afternoon as well as tbe entire evening una...
...Boro Park Lyceum, 1377 42nd street, Brooklyn...
...Qoakmakers downed tools with great enthusiasm promptly at the stroke of 10 o'clock Tuesday morning, in answer to the strike cay issued by Benjamin Schlesinger, President of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, and marched, as shop units, to 14 strike halls in Manhattan, Harlem and Brooklyn where they reported for strike duty to which they will be assigned this morning...
...Socialists can help the drive and in effect give doubly by making their contributions in advance of the official opening of th* drive, Lewis declared...
...MacDonald's visit to gJWttd States does not mean any Mfc of serious consequence, gf-aat the best things about PP aflMater MacDonald's proJjjIjJStt to Amerlra hae been the jMBty with which labor organizaIphave- invited him to be their ¦at The invitation from the ChiIfc'bMiatlon of Labor was parjjWr warm Of course these InjgjfaM do not Imply that American IBM-aia officially ready to work P^Mor party here...
...The only untoward Incidents oT the day, which was otherwise marked thy good order, were scrimmages early in the morning in the garment aoae between Communists and adherents of the International Union...
...Webster Hall, 119 East 11th stsreet...
...Senior, who will take office sometime In August, win be the youngest national executive the party has bad in its history...
...Chase Is Ftaslnilittc The police and regulatory functions of the dty," summed up Laidler, "are becoming relatively less and less Important la comparison with the health, transportation, communlation and lighting...
...The** who do not eompry p-ajajrtli with this strike order wfii be mail—il laasJHss action today will determine your possibility to earn a decent ttvemtood fram the cloak trade for yourself and your families, or whether you will be subject to even greater misery and efmreaeton than in the past three years...
...The new secretary succeeds William H. Henry, of Indiana, who resigned...
...July 3, 1938, the general strike tn tbe cloak Industry begins and win be aealooaly prosecuted until the Associations and the individual manufacturers and Jobbers wQl concede to the Just demands of our International...
...Issued by the International Executive Board aad tbe New Tort Joint Board, signed by President Schteslsger, outlining union grievances against tbe manufacturers, declares: "Promptly at 10 o'clock this sstxatag, Tuesday...
...Both of them were refused ctttosnship in state courts for their religious objections to participating hi war...
...In all, the Socialist candidate...
...He worked his way through the first two years of high shool by this means...
...The pamphlets are particularly appropriate at this time, when the unemployment prob- I lem is so great and when the victory of our British comrades Is so bright before us as an example...
...With the drive scheduled to get under way officially on August 1, and continue until September 1, during which period every Socialist will be called upon "To pay or pledge according to his or her ability," the hearty response to the announcement that a fund is going to be raised is taken by those in charge of the drive to augur well for Its success...
...AGITATION NATIONAL NEW YORK (F...
...At the time the Reading Socialist administration announced that the old Boys' High School would be turned into a city ball, all the real estate agents, landowners and speculators that held land and had hopes of selling some to the city for a new city hall, were in a general uproar...
...The opposing candidates carried on a vigorous and costly campaign, maintaining an office in the Chamber of Commerce building, with a large office force, having paid workers spread literature over the city, putting cards in windows, small signs and billboards...
...Philadelphia dressmakers have voted one days' pay to the support of the New York strikers...
...He met and talked with Socialist, labor and youth movement leaders, made a number of* addressee and wrote a number of articles on his lmlpreaaiona when he returned to tbe United States...
...I WANT NOTHING BUT A PARDON...
...Expert opinion and plain common sense are both against the House bill...
...Practically all the larger dries now own their own water work*, but less than 5 per cent of the country's dectrie power Is generated in public plants, Laidler said...
...Active for the LLD, Senior was graduated from the University of Kansas in 1927, having worked as the assistant secretary of the League of Kansas Municipalities and editor of the International Municipal Digest In college he served with Paul Porter, now field secretary of tbe League for Industrial Democracy, on the editorial board of "The Dove...
...This plan, he urged, would overcome the danger of turning the subway system over to Tammany for...
...This is expected to reach a total of $15,000...
...We wish thst President Green's speech to the porters had been made at an earlier period when the affairs of their organisation were in s more promising state...
...This group of 200 municipalities consist of a scattering through the Sooth, small towns In the Middle West, and a few places in the Rftst andafJorthwest...
...Arrangements made during the past week, since the first public announcement of tbe drive was made, include the following: L Appointment of a national drive committee, with one representative from each of the 48 States, the committee to be beaded by Norman Thomas, national chairman...
...The plans for the construction and remodeling of the old Boys' High School into a modern city hall were prepared under the personal direction of James H. Maurer, Socialist councilman of Reading and formerly president of the State Federation of Labor, also member of the national executive committee of the Socialist party...
...We wish that In the Introduction given President Green there had been a little less of the note of obsequious flattery which we believe the Negroes themselves call Uncle Tomism...
...With the spirit and enthusiasm of youth and the experience of the older members together, the party will be able rapidly to build up an effective opposition to the "New Capitalism.' Big City Drives Planned "No longer can the Sodalist Party deal' in campaign generalities as it sometimes has done in the pest It must apply the concept of social control to an departments of life...
...Chase has Mat And that is why so called SBfSlflm programs of good gov•jaaater good housekeeping in our MMtoafltiM are not enough...
...TRADE UNION PAMPHLETS Samples of the new trade union pamphlet and of "Labor in England and America" have been mailed to one bun- , dred of the largest locals In the United States with an urgent request that these ' pamphlets be ordered from the national office In large quantities and given, the j widest possible distribution...
...Thomas Addresses Meeting* "Union officers are confident that, with the marvelous spirit of the cloekmakers, they will be able to grapple successfully with "ich important problems as the chain store menace, hygienic certification of shop*, the discharge system, th* restoration of tbe unemployment Insurance fund, and wage terras sea...
...Alexander F1 chandler declared that demoratic education in our public school systems is largely impossible...
...Together they number about a fifth of tbe places...
...3) special classes for sub-normal children...
...Irene Smith, Socialist candidate for the Board of Education, was the first speaker...
...I CANNOT ACCEPT PAROLE...
...The young Socialist secretary has contributed many articles to the American Federationist, Kansas Municipalities...
...Over five hundred members of the general strike committee following an early morning meeting at Bryant Hall, swarmed into the district and distributed the strike call sis doakmakers poured out of the subways on the way to work...
...Is the May 7th primaries two Socialists came victoriously through, leading all other independent candidates from 13,000 to 34,000 votes...
...Professor Lalng, Professor Economics at California Tech and a member of tbe British Labor Party, gave an interpretation of the Socialist victory in England...
...The Virginia Sodalists and labor representatives are meeting in Richmond to map out a program for organizing the south for independent political action...
...The most bitter opponent of the administration admits that It's a mighty pretty building...
...Chase is fibtaat (be cost of such a city is ^aWRkB of private landlordism Sjt*Js> aravantkm of war...
...He said that it bad delayed war for at least ten years, and maybe permanently...
...vised a program which will include as "all star" soccer game In which the world famous soccer team, who are also tbe world champions, the "Hakoab" win play against tbe well known Cbeko-Slovakian team "Tbe Prague.** Other features win include a baseball game between tbe Th> eels and the Young Circle League, (the young peoples' organisation of the Workmen's Circle...
...The dedication celebration will be held during the week of July 8th...
...Other speakers yesterday Included Norman Thomas...
...Senior's work attracted the favorable attention of Norman Thomas and Harry W. Laidler, Socialist leadera, and with James Oneal and Victor L. Berger at Wisconsin, they sponsored his election to the executive secretaryship of th: National SocialProblems Of Cities Are Surveyed At LA...
...Last month he organized the Negro Labor Conference in Cleveland...
...Among the organisation* who purchased these tickets are many trades unions, branches of tbe Workmen's Circle, Sodalist Party branches and groups...
...Whfio this development has been in the right direction, it is pitiful*/ small, however, as compered with tips strides made by munldpal government abroad and in comparison with what it might be if the mass of the people intelligently studied the posatbQttles of expansion along these lines and Intelligently organised politically and Industrially with a view to honest, effident and democratic municipal control of services now in the city's hands, and with a view of municipalizing those great social services now operated by the few for the exploitation of the many...
...4) a voice for teachers in school and teaching matters...
...L- Antonini and A. Be off...
...Returning to high school, he completed his remaining two years of high school and a half year of college work in one year...
...And what an ¦Maaging story, as we have learned JfcjIM Conference, Milwaukee and aMJhghave to tell...
...of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, and by Norman Thomas, who presided at all the sessions...
...coaference on municipal afMh...
...This strike,' Schlesinger declared, "marks the definite revival of our great union and an end to the hateful sweatshop...
...that new and larger headquarters had been opened and that many prominent and influential people were coming into the party...
...U«ward Levisaon, Louis Stanley of New York...
...Senior spent tbe summer of 1928 traveling in Europe studying workers' education for the Adult Education Association...
...We now have young organisers at work in every section of the country...
...tha month of August, Senior will tour ta* principal cities of tb* country, confer with Socialists at...
...The billboards are on property owned by Aline Barnsdall, a sympathiser with the labor victims of the California capitalist frameup system...
...In 1922 Senior entered the Kansas City Junior College at the same time working as assistant secretary of the Citizens' League of Kansas City, a municipal reform group similar to the Citizens' Union tn New York City...
...Tbe list of contributors is headed by Abraham Can an, veteran editor of the Jewish Daily Forward, and for four decades one of the Socialist national leaders...
...The recent Labor victory in Great Britain wan sMaMaad hr most of the 70,000 Votes For Socialists In Los Angeles Dinner Celebrates Re' markable Local Gains and British Labor Victory I (By a Ifaw lesaar CarrMaaaiaat) T OS ANGELES.—The Socialists of Los Angeles County held a victory banquet m the Elite Banquet Hall to celebrate the victory of the British Labor Party and the polling of 70,000 votes locally...
...Can an sailed for Europe yesterday, but pausing in the rush of last minute details at his office he mailed his check for $100 to 'Norman Thomas, chairman of the United Socialist Drive Committee...
...Donald Thompson of Massachusetts...
...214 East 2nd street: Clinton Hall, 151 Clinton -treet...
...You or* hra*kuet*d, upon ssavtag your shops, to take your toots with you...
...d the slow sappy slatlcci of elty crowd* by auto fumes...
...The hour has now struck...
...Hubert C. Herring, of the Congregational Commission of Social Service...
...The eastern headquarter* will ba located at 23 East loth struct, near Union Squar...
...Vice-President Leo Kryxcki of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers recounted Milwaukee's gain in good government through the Socialist administration, of the past 30 years and both be and Councilman James H. Maurer of Reading, Pa, stressed the importance of a friendly city government to unionists and strikers...
...The two Socialist candidates, George 8. Grant and Irene Smith, were backed by every labor organisation and progressive group in the city...
...Sixty-eight pay under 30 cents an hour and four under IS cents...
...with Mr* Barn**, Mting executive gaeraUry of the Socialist party, in chary* uatii Claxenc* Senior, newiy-electad national aacastary aasuin** chart* of the party's affair...
...President Schlesinger, Acting President David DuMnaky, Isidore Nagler of the New York Joint Board and Mr...
...John the Divine...
...Douglas C. Macintosh, of the Yale Divinity School, by a federal judge at New Bares*, because of his refusal tr pledge -uirttapnBfln in all future ears, the American Civil Liberties Union has offered Dr...
...The experts also find that the present tariffs on peanut oil and cottonseed oil are adequate, an advance in the tariff on butter would be ineffectual because of domestic competition, the tariff on wool will be very burdensome to consumers and the tariff on grain a useless and futile gesture...
...Aptinaf poison gas and, shall jtiPBJ-, JaDoar fever cultures...
...Mean¦mJt America as in England SojMjgt or Labor success in municipal 9Wn k jmrnensely valuable educa*»8y nd In winning the confljppaf the electors...
...Private operation of the pubUcry owned Mew York subways has been a dismal failing, asserted Louis Weldnaj...
...spent $104...
...The dty runs the trolley cars on a 5c fare, produces its own gas and electricity for street lighting, own miles of beaches, has organized recreational clubs, and runs e municipal pier with a great assembly hall at Its end...
...Alfred Baker Lewis, member of the national executive committee, is 32...
...The most active members in each State have been asked to go on this committee...
...Royal Casino, 85 East 4th street...
...To sty sot the kind of municipal pro«¦ .we need, requires a disciplined jib...
...Senior's Acatvrtles Senior was born Jn...
...According to the Washington correspondent of the New York Times, the Republican leaders in the Senate have been scared into correcting some of the worst evils In the House tariff...
...Over 5400 was raised, besides a great many monthly pledges...
...23 Bast 16th street, New York City...
...Station WBVD—"The Voice of Debs"—will receive 10 per cent, or 85.000, to enable it to install equipment with which to improve its broadcasting facilities, the Socialist press, 10 percent, and the Young People's Socialist League, 10 percent...
...P)—The Tom Mooney Mold ere' Defense Committee has forwarded to Governor Young a petition for Mooneys release signed by Charlie Chaplin, Krie von Stroheim...
...5. Western headquarters, at 2653 Wastingtoa Boulevard, Ctticasra, Hi, haw* baas artabUanod...
...A. W. Hock, delegate from tbe Central Labor Council, said he was glad that organized labor had at last seen the light and had supported the Socialist candidates, and added that he hoped that the friendly relations and co-operation that had grown up between the local unions and the Sodalist Party would continue and grow stronger...
...The principal needs for achieving "democratic education for all," he said, were (1) smaller classes and more teachers...
...McABstsr Coleman found that the newspapers are practically worthless as an educational force...
...Chaplin Joins In Plea For Tom Mooney Charlie, Von Stroheim, Cruse, Petition Gov...
...Missouri...
...The Socialists are active In the Southern textile situations and are arranging a tour of the south for Norman Thomas, which will be followed by an Intensive campaign to organise local labor parties...
...and Norman Thomas bad a great influence on Senior's course...
...H. W. L. Dana, Jessica Smith, Dr...
...In this way, Oneal declared, the four prime requisites for the success of the Socialists in the congressional' elections of next year, when a delegation of Socialists can be elected—organization, press, and radio, and the young people's movement—will be strengthened ss a result of the drive...
...Bishop Francis J. McConnell, head of the Federal Council of Churches, and Howard Chandler Robbins...
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