NATION WIDE DRIVE TO REBUILD SOCIALIST PARTY OPENS AUGUST 1 WITH CAMPAIGN FOR $50,000 FUND
Nation Wide Drive To Rebuild Socialist Party Opens August 1 With Campaign For $50,000 Fund States And Cities Swing Into Action Marx Lewis Prediets Complete Fund Wffl Be Subscribed Within...
...They will be notified by letter of the drive...
...Reaction was triumphant...
...Within twenty-four hours after the accident telegrams and long distance telephone calls came from all over the country...
...Gardner is to be asked whether he resalved a latter from s striker laasistrTtl details of the first raid on the union hall and tolling of threats against the new strike headquarters erected after the destruction of the hall...
...Textile Women to Talk PHILADELPHIA — (FP) — Women in the textile industry will discuss their problems at Bryn Mawr's summer school July 28 in sn open air conference on the college campus...
...N. C. asking help in the formation of unions...
...Reefs, the mototman of the street ear, said that his car was proceeding slowly along Third street, going south, because there was another street ear about two blocks ahead, About 10 feet south of the north crosswalk the car struck Mr...
...The committee in charge of the drive is not satisfied with seeing to it that you reach every member...
...I hope everybody will read bis letter published elsewhere in thb Issue...
...They had even declared that trade union organisation was "unAmerican," wrapped themselves in the American flag, proclaimed the "open shop," and seriously injured organisation of the working class...
...At the crest of these struggles came the dramatic victory of the British Labor Party, a victory that made a marked impression upon thinking men and women in the labor movement...
...It is a long story and we cannot review its many phases...
...Socialist candidate fef* Comptroller...
...organiser for the United Textile Workers...
...Molly Pises...
...Walsh b placing their evidence before the senate sub-committee dealing with the silk tariff...
...Woonsocket, German town...
...Each branch must arrange to reach every member...
...10.00 Rebecca Silverman...
...Thomas' campaign this fall...
...Against the background of their story Pres...
...James Oneal, a member of the National Executive Committee, will be the principal speaker...
...The sum is less than, you pay for your cigar* or your newspapers in one year...
...From New Bedford...
...Miners Support Silk Strikers WILKES-BARRE Pa...
...Mayor Daniel W. Bonn, of Milwaukee, vine anahmsa of the drive committee, win take the toad ta fining up forty branches of the Socialist party tn Wisconsin...
...We hope so, but Socialists are not going to wait for it to arrive...
...10.00 Miss M. Sander...
...In that tragic period men and women were indicted...
...Guitars, fiddles, banjoes and harmonicas furnished the accompaniment for many proletarian songs, several composed by the strikers...
...Following the talks, tsjeJam-bands wffl provide tunes far darning...
...That b a sound principle if rightly understood...
...They will tell of the speed-up...
...N. C. Danville, Va...
...Former Alderman Abraham L BMgeseaB...
...Cheer after cheer greeted the paraders ss they exuberantly marched through the adjoining mill village of Cllnchfield...
...This ram will more than pay the few annoying debts which are a hangover of the last campaign...
...All witnesses agreed that the car was not running more than from eight to ten miles sn hour, but that after the emergency brakes were applied the car traveled another 15 feet before coming to a stop...
...Comrade Berger now has longer periods of consciousness and is beginning to rest more easily...
...60.00 Local Baltimore, Socialist Party...
...In Maryland and Panaylvania dinners are being arranged, tn accordance with the wiggstttiin made by the managers of the drive...
...Smm fitosdt of confiscation of bourgTamsrig -that they are and preachS^ssVassttan to the Chinese, have gLgssd' acted about this confiscation ZjaattB property rights much as cit2L a* than wicked imperialistic powfcjassa...
...The organized movement declined and with it the trade unions and every political and economic organization of the workers lost influence, membership and power...
...Morris Berman...
...They would gain more self respect, be less afraid to open their eyes to ideas and be able to protect their own tenure of office at the same time...
...Fight TeBow Dog NORTHAMPTON...
...Not since the days of the war when branches were fighting for sheer preservation against the assaults of mercenary forces have Socialists been called to such extensive and united effort...
...It makes* a jaaaga Whose ox is gored...
...Instead, Mayor Hart was told of the conduct of his own police...
...There will be special mass meetings, picnics and dinners arranged...
...Here is what two branches in New York have already set out to do...
...Berger.- Just behind the mo> torman, testified that be, saw Mr...
...It may therefore be necessary for the union to resort to civil suits for damages against Howard McDonald, brother of recently defunct A. J. McDonald, originator of the yellow dog contract...
...5.00 John Flander...
...It will take the Illinois Manufacturers Association a long time to make anybody rich but themselves...
...Ores* Britain and the United Sav aright bsve done...
...The crowd that accompanied Aderholt and those who were terrorising the strikers were men of this low type, drunken hirelings of Manvllle-Jenekes...
...Contributions are to be mailed to Norman Thomas, chairman, 23 East 16th street, New York City...
...loving cup...
...It is not necessary to hurt anybody physically to be guilty of assault...
...his own in spite of continuous high temperature...
...He would have fallen had not the solicitous sheriff of McDowell County, O. F. Adkins, giabbed him before be hit the ground...
...The minimum set for this drive is $50,000...
...The motorman testified that be did not see Mr...
...Among the victories of which it boasts were the defeat of the old age pension bill, the woman's eighthour bill, an income tax bill, and a number of other welfare bills including even a bill for licensing motor vehicle operators and chauffeurs...
...Who gets the difference...
...It MUST be done in the period from August 1 to September 1 which has been assigned for the drive...
...For mvge restraint under provoca2hi Rasrien government as such deS| onset- Communist* generally...
...to the fins at the Verband branches to raport-Mj was ttoctsd drive manager tor tit* taction, »nd $so, the first tiiiitgnniil of that branch's oontrtbetton to the fund, wag them will be available to the next issue of the New Leader...
...COLUMBIA, Pa...
...Capitalism appeared to be tcithout any affective opposition in the United States...
...Negro athletes particularly are invited to compete...
...Norman Thomas, national chairman of the drive, has Just issued the first installment of the list of contributors...
...After that the strikers left the court house, understood the import of the judge's words, if he himself did not, and then went back to the picket line...
...Labor Initiate Petition BOSTON.—(FP).—Turned down repeatedly by the state legislature, the Mtatarniiiatdi Federation of Labor will now seek a state fund for workmen's KiiiU»siaallisi by initiative, efforts to start an initiative two years ago were foiled by Atty...
...Some of our friends have said that it cannot be done...
...Brooklyn, to pay their respects to Norman Thomas...
...It is just as ridiculous to keep men from their work, as it would be to keep me from my barn...
...50.00 Dr...
...Tract Events wffl fill out the prograw, In which among other sport groans participating will be...
...Help your branch and wour state organisations...
...FP)—Because they asked for a wag* bwrase, 35 iron workers have been locked out by the Columbia Malleable Iron <*, ef Columbia, FA...
...And the dashing Baltimorean was hurt as he dived into a fence...
...Hakoah," the fsratoT soccer team, wffl play the Cseche-Sto vak team...
...We are turning a new page in • party history...
...The Emergency Committee for Strikers' Relief, the chairman of which is Norman Thomas, this week sent $750 to the strikers...
...Fear weeks will be given to complete it...
...What this branch and Us competitor are doing can be done by others...
...We don't...
...JO.OO M. Vasilew...
...To an audience composed largely of men and women striking against a twelve-hour day the learned Judge preached the doctrine of fair play and equality for all...
...The program Includes athletic eesF tests of whteh Socialist district lesdeb win be Judges...
...Flans will unfold from week to week and we want to hear from you...
...to saaiatoay^ef the asmmi Wee and in active charge of the dsn* onstraUon...
...The more funds that are raised the more each receives and this provides an incentive for each to do its best...
...Organise The South, may be obtained from the Philadelphia League at »29 Chestnut St...
...5.00 Mrs...
...One step in the process b removal of fear...
...they asked...
...Eugene V. Debs and others gave their lives...
...Shoo Strike Spreading HAVERHILL, Mass.—(FP)—The strike of 6,000 Haverhill members of the Shoe Workers Protective Union b spreading to Newburyport" and Manchester, N. EL, to which several stratk firms moved...
...Mass.—(FP)—Massachusetts courts will be called on to take the lead in outlawing the yellow dog contract in New England, as a result of the program worked out by the New England District Council of the Full-Fashioned Hosiery Workers at its recent meeting in Northampton...
...Victor Berger Showing Slow Improvement...
...Berger until his car was almost upon him, that be did sound his gong and that he did not know from which direction Mr...
...These songs tell the story of the strike and ridicule the boss and foremen who have bitterly toucht the formation of the union...
...Rock Hill, S. C. and Rutherford ton...
...It will provide a fond for each party division and institution to carry on work...
...Help the National Office, Station WE YD...
...lLTILWAUKEE, Wis.—Thanks to the vigorous constitution of former Socialist Congressman, Victor L. Berger, who was injured in a car accident last week, he has slowly improved...
...100.00 Mrs...
...The same law forbids unions to strike for the closed shop...
...Anybody that talks to them, and as a result of the conversation employees go elsewhere than where they had intended to go, those who have stopped them are guilty of assault...
...Then came a series of incidents within the past two years...
...So intense was indignation in the miners' convention that there was a motion that delegates join the girls on the picket line...
...Miners eondemped the attitude of the Wilkes-Barre press in distorting striker news snd calling for martial law against the silk strikers...
...Mayor Hart, effusive In welcoming the convention, had boasted of Wilkes-Barre's industrial relations, but delegates sv>n discovered that his police were riding down girl strikers...
...organising campaigns might Why not show your superiority ^•a):toottes of the CPX.A...
...Some went to prison...
...It was against the murderous attacks of inch men that strikers defended themselves and they had a right to do so...
...Some became cynical...
...The answer is, it is being done...
...Lactate Is Given Just as the hearing was about to be continued until this.weak, the judge turned to the people and took the opportunity to utter the following noble words: "Employees of a mill have a right to enter the mill :fvthey so choose...
...They are charged with firing, while drunk, on two Gas to ni an* not connected in any way with the Loray mm strike...
...Arrangements are being made to bold a banquet in New Tork City, at which Senior, former Judge Jacob Panken, and Morris Hlikquit, who is expected to return from Europe early in August, win be the guests of the New Tork City Socialists...
...But this does not exhaust its work...
...the picket line held...
...This can be done...
...It has compiled a list of other Socialists and of sympathisers who are not party members but who contribute to the campaign funds...
...It was declared by those to charge of party work that New Jersey will be able to raise $4,000, If plans that are to be made for the drive are carried Into effect Banes el Is Pis owed Bequests for speakers have come from Georgia and Florid...
...It is not known Just how many of these meetings be will be able to cover during August, but It b now considered certain that be win visit some of the leading cities of the country...
...fc.^B* I am on the subject of the **atosltoaaon I must asam point oat *to*fta forthcoming Oastoato trials afBJStoty worker even though CommunS-** the immediate victims...
...Electricians Win Dispute BOSTON (FP)—With the restoration of a 1 JHc wage cut ordered a few months ago, S threatened strike of union electricians on the Boston Xlevatad has been averted...
...These are the backgrounds of recent economk and political history...
...2.00 Mr...
...Winning the fight against Hess-Goldsmith in Wilkes-Barre, Plymouth and Kingston, Miss Kelleher pointed out, would open the way for the unionization of silk mills throughout the anthracite...
...It is not beyond the ajMtrat the A. F. of L. if the A. F. of M*T» properly organised for this work nltf tkt leaders were as resourceful and fijjrathe task of organizing the unorMM ss they are In crushing all legitoast alls Ian within union* and set*§*• as intolerable dictatorship of offlJte sWfce at Marlon, N. C. could be P*M in at least half a dosen textile •fts-snd the strikes could be won If Jjbntos of oar friends of the United fPtow, Trades I make a suggestion...
...They are not two parties but one, and a second party is essential if any vital economic issues are to be raised...
...mi fcnpertalum generally up"¦afi—inftnn °* P*"*SujhOassts Down m laptrirr** optimism about peace 2-Jtt at shaken by events in MacasS *¦* Z looks now as if war between 2s awl carina over the Chinese EasSjaSWSS1 would be avoided...
...Plans to send a speaker to make a tour of southern cities are being made by those in charge of the drive...
...Evidently enacted by the Bay State solons with tongue in cheek, the statute lacks "teeth"—the usual enforcement clause providing penalties for violation...
...So our duty is to build the party organization...
...At a strikers mass meeting in Marion...
...Walter Cope...
...New Yark Otty...
...Last Friday, the first of the Workmen's Circle branches were canvassed...
...They are competing to make the best record...
...Every sympathetic organization will be urged to help...
...81% am for unlimited support of the flag "for whatsoever cause It may be unfurled...
...TIMLEY TOPICS By Norman Thomas ^SsS" toVhich we lead the world ^ eg srf credit than his camj^Jj^lTutTajmy and Navy Jour-¦SSSr She sations ear good faith 2*js»»*tat **r »*ht "ell conSt as )"t* sjojendltures now being (RgtsfiBtorns aia cMt*m *Dd bigh 2sS...
...Furthermore, people have no right to assemble in great numbers on the highway...
...Patrolman Morris Hutchinson, who was riding hi front of the car which ran down Mr...
...gotham siii Hosiery Co...
...staged a spectacular parade...
...Sen...
...Blm** jt Boy Scouts jtex si ft from us to ten the OommunHht to run their business in America ay if ws...
...It wffl continue to be the' party of the laboring masses till organized labor breaks with its past in the matter of political action...
...This makes the fourth factory which has signed up...
...sports union meet The Labor Sports Union of America will bold its third national track and field meet August 24-25 at Flushing, a suburg of New York...
...Bt% ^f* *** "*» *•>• tmprovwaant of papan our laws should forbid much of ^g*kal criticism that we often hear ^P** concerning the injustice of our W^Md government...
...While the men work in the mines, greedy silk bosses from New York and Peterson set up mills to employ their wives and daughters at negligible wages...
...The same branch wffl hold a meeting on August sth, st whtoh the drive for funds will be continued...
...50.00 Gilbert Blair...
...Wisconsin Legislature Sends Greetings fSpeetol ta Th« ttrw LesSw) MILWAUKEE, Wis., Wednesday, midnight.—Victor I* Berger to still holding...
...The arrangement provides that 40 percent shall remain with your state and local organizations...
...to Of the New York City branches at the Socialist parte, the 33rd A, O, BEmet County, and the Jamaica teamen at fronted by a rimptlgn Whtoh Wffl test their resources to) the limit, and hevhtg raited substantial sums tar caber perky purposes the last three weeks, the 33rd A. O. branch took first pleas among the New York city branches tost Jdktsdtoy nlght, when it pledged SS00 to the drive, and decided to set SsOO as thstr aosL More than alio was ceassgtnted at the meeting, whtoh was heed at the abuses A two day outing win be heed cm August 10 and il sn of the teafite of which wffl go to the drive, About fifty Socialists who own aatomcbOes are being asked In a special appeal that has been sent to them by Norman Thomas to contribute the use of their twitotnobftot The outing wffl be to Camp Bden...
...The serfdom of company unionism expanded through many industries and the fighting spirit of the organized masses was sapped...
...A program cf games, races, music and dancing will be topped off with, an address by Thomas, which win be his first campaign talk since his nomination a month ago...
...A steady stream of tiaihltoiUuaa, ranging from **oo to U, the i umaiillim of Socialists who are unable to ptodas a ensday wage, but who want to as coaatod on the roD...
...More conscientious teachers who think that any discussion of controversial issues is propaganda will simply exclude from the educational process any intelligent treatment of issues that are vital to any education for citizenship...
...Other features of the picnic wffl H» dancing supplied by Billy Arnald's Ba*j dio Orchestra, of Jensen's Boffssee, fame, and a concert in which Jesnes Wolfs, basso Metropolitan Opera BOaw' Company and MoOy Picon, moBtaf comedy star, will participate...
...Berger bad come...
...Prior to the mass meeting, the S50 strikers, augmented to more than 1.000 by sympathizers...
...Ms sen Doraha, well-known dancer, wlB gtve-enumber of interpretative features...
...You have proved your ' snvhh loyalty to the A. F. of L '¦ aathy by obsequiously bowing to I IP *a every possible occasion...
...You are not asked to give either...
...Every party paper is to cooperate with Publicity...
...3.30 Total ................................$2,013.30 The foregoing list does not include the names of subscribers to the fund which came in the last few days, nor those that have pledged a one-day wage...
...David L Walsh against the mountain-high silk tariff asked by silk manufacturers...
...While the union is demanding the old rate of 12c per hour per loom, the struck silk firm Is paying $1 per shift extra for strike-breakers...
...The rest goes to the National Office and the institutions mentioned...
...If you have a local campaign make it dovetail with this national drive...
...another epoch-making drama is staging itself throughout the Piedmont...
...These organizations include 41 trade unions, most of them affiliated with the Amsrican Federation of Labor, M branches of the Workmen's Circle, a labor fraternal society, S3 district organisations of the Socialist party, sad 13 miscellaneous civic and sport groups...
...This sort oi tofijat s> tor more likely to make out oi gstsaa eaoOdatoa Jor psychiatric UssfKdkas than good striates for a wortt ttm.ttnal itinliiltai And it is the last ajrtothe world to make converts tn the fe ——— 5* Word To The JMrwsf Trades tragedy, and an unnecessary tetter, tnat the flaming resentment of stfibsmtoxUto workers has to be dampmi dsn by the vary union they want haste btetnse the union cannot finance •fas...
...The Coney Island branch of the Socialist party will get behind the drive on August 6. at a meeting to be held at the headquarters, 2202 Mermaid Avenue...
...Rankin was arrested on the charge of a Gastonia physician and is free under S3.ooo bonds...
...Nation Wide Drive To Rebuild Socialist Party Opens August 1 With Campaign For $50,000 Fund States And Cities Swing Into Action Marx Lewis Prediets Complete Fund Wffl Be Subscribed Within 30 Dajs LESS than a week before the $50,000 United Socialist Drive, set to begin on August 1, is to gat under way, reports from all parts of the nation indicate that the total amount sought will be subscribed during the thirty days that the drive 1$ to continue...
...Gloucester, Mass...
...metoeSr berger, Puryss, and Skene...
...3.00 D. Tuck...
...The letter will be followed up by members who wffl visit these friends in their homes...
...The next day in court, the still dizzy Baldwin, under examination by D. F. Giles, the strikers' attorney, confessed that be was unable to identify a single one of his alleged assailants Adam Hunt, the superintendent of the null, positively identified John Wykle as the assailant, but the sheriff on the witness stand, said that he dldnt know who did...
...At a special meeting of the New Jersey State Committee held test Monday evening, Jury 22, at 53 8. Orange avenue, Newark...
...To All Socialists: A Call To Duty week the organised Socialists of the 1 ^ nation undertake a big and Important job...
...the Socialist press and the Yipsels...
...wanted to show how anti-imjaaiefe we were we should not stage t~y*tog riot in front of the Chines: Qaablii tn Wew York City...
...Aknost $3,000 of the aso.ooo sat as the goal of the drive have already been contributed...
...In these days of the new capitalism which b going to make everybody rich I wish all you boys and girls, as McAlbter Coleman would say, could read "How Organisation Served Industry at Springfield.'' Thb b a pamphlet in which the Ulinob Manufacturers Association boasts that, thanks to lb efforts, "not a single bill seriously inimical to industry was enacted into law...
...Cheney Bros, antiunion silk barons, had asked increases in the duties on imported silk on the ground that wages have advanced 328%,since the world war...
...Then*1 win award the waning team a §0ve...
...He said, "An examination of the flies of the Gastonia Gazette and many other papers will reveal that there has been a campaign of vilification against the fifteen strikers, an attempt to inflame public opinion against them, to arouse class, racial and religious prejudice...
...Criminal prosecution of professional labor spies who install the yellow dog pacts will be demanded under a section of the Massachusetts penal code which forbids employers to fire workers for joining s union...
...Prepare for the great tasks ahead...
...Those willing to donate the use of their machines are asked to communicate with Max Rosea, manager of the Brownevffle Labor Lyceum...
...It b against thb background that we must Judge the effects of the recent demand of the National Education Association that propaganda be kept out of the schools...
...Numerous requests have come tor meetings with Senior as the speaker...
...Berser He remarked to the moterman: "You are going to hit that man," he said...
...With three of the principal witnesses against the strikers, Gilbert, Roach and Rankin, under such charges, it is Obvious," said Or...
...Addresses win also be made kf Algernon Lee, Socialist candidate br presldent of the Board of Aldermen, as» Charles Solomon...
...Members of the National Executive Committee, and Clsren-.e O. Sentor, newly -elected national secretary of the •octahst party, wffl tour the various States and address the dinners and party conferences Gist will be he'.d...
...N. Y. (FP)—Union plumbers are striking for the 5-day week with the same weekly pay as for 44 hours...
...The best immediate way to remove fear Is for teachers to Join their own union and stand together...
...A fit llminary soccer game wffl be played between the Meyer London Soccer totaV and the Bast New York Soccer Clef...
...As a result northeastern Pennsylvania has become the "silk belt" of America...
...On the other Etfgs Wsttoin Powers, including the Egf smb which has not recognised Igph, sod the capitalist press genergfx bate shown a tendency to support nam to this controversy rather than asms* Chan in breaking agreements art eosfiteattng property...
...900.00 Mr...
...If they do they are liable to punishment...
...If every •^aadsr who ever makes a stirring JPJS'to a Utter labor struggle is to be 2?** conspiracy to murder in the Jfa* «* some unpremeditated and trsgW natortunate killing, who shall be *? Aat to the, issue of the QastonJa J*Mad it matt not be clouded in our ¦¦fcby any mistakes of the Oommung» aaH-Communigt prejudices of our WmThe "* iWT •febsrs Thin* ioD* ttoae have we seen anyaaflsneaohr than the replies 5***» tooo Amsrican eaucatoss to Ksnly H. Harpers' questions dej"Jr**«bow what teachers think about 2^**"tagly they are determined to SWtStJon safe for the young...
...500.00 Abraham bahan...
...Our opportunity has arrived* Your duty is evident...
...A novel feature of the mass meeting was the music furnished by a string band of strikers...
...Oat of town branches will tn reached mainly by a personal apnea...
...A croup of dancers, heeosfby Doraha, Win entertain...
...Men and women all over the world have yielded their liberty for the movement...
...Before the drive begins next tveek the committee *ctH already have independently raised about $3,000...
...Mass...
...S. M. Neistadt...
...In Massachusetts Alfred Baker Lewis to to charge of the drive work...
...Branches were destroyed and many members went into hiding...
...The main sport feature will be a saj^ eer game between the Hakoah "A" team...
...The Wisconsin assembly unanimously adopted resolutions of sympathy and astsaases were received from Socialists by totter and telegrams from many states...
...Philadelphia and Roanoke, will came workers from the cotton, woolen, silk, hosiery and rayon mills...
...For these reasons the National Executive Committee has worked out the most ambitious plans for placing the party organization on a sound basis...
...Where Contributions Should Be Sent Among the first to join the 150.000 United Socialist Drive, the formal opening of which is set for August 1, axe tie following: Helen Phelps Stokes...
...This job is the financial drive to aid the national, •tate, and local offices, the party press, die Yipsels and Radio Station WE VP...
...and the Prague P. C. The gsmt-v' scheduled for" 4 p. M The Hakoah tag* win be augmented by the following omoh hers ot the Hakoah All Star TeatV Greenwaid...
...Rose Schneiderman of the Women's Trade Union League, John Bdclman of the Hosiery Workers, Pres...
...In the political field no normal human being will even argue that any difference remains between the Republican and Democratic parties...
...Branch Jamaica reports that 30 par cent of its membership has gens sn the sabscriptton fist tor a one day* wag* and It is —r—*—* that the scsnoh wd be the first to report s loo par cant rscThe Hariam" Jew**" brsneb, at the Jewish Socialist Varbsnd...
...The time has passed to settle things by force...
...Norman Thomas...
...If a member cannot pay the full amount it may be collected in two, three, or four installments...
...Neal has severely criticized the "campaign of vilification'' in the South against the fifteen defendents...
...The Prague...
...m a statement of the accident, Wilms...
...The attorneys for the strikers are going to digress at every opportunity and seek .to turn the trial into a communist orgy and a trial of the right of strikers to think and act as they please and to berate Industry and the State of North Carolina...
...The attorney referred specifically to an article which appeared in the afternoon Charlotte paper of July 17th, regarding which he stated, "Particularly unfair was the quoted statement of a George P. Fell, who wrote...
...Not long ago I made some comments about the way we poor consumers were imposed upon because we have to buy by advertising instead ot by standards...
...The men and women are jubilant, confident now that they have friends on the outside, and that while they have, there'll be no starvation along the picket line...
...100.00 Mr...
...Union officials here predict 100% organisation in a very short time...
...vaudeville and musical comedy star, sag James Wolf, Metropolitan Opera Boat' basso, win head the Ust of soloists...
...The boss' strategy was pretty bad...
...Ideally it b the business of schools to teach children to think rather than what to think, but you cannot teach them to think in a vacuum from which vital issues are excluded...
...It will place m the hands of our new National Executive Secretary, Clarence Senior, the funds for important educational and organization work...
...A thousand throats in unison voiced in song a spirit, which in their own words means: "We're goin' to fight till bell freezes over or have our union...
...at those who ware relit n sad answered when the av^t^ party began the first united drive m the lssSi.ii j of me Ameslcan Socialist iisiisatoiil has begun to pour Into the office of the drive, at 33 last 16th street...
...Members with automobiles will assign their machines to this work...
...Two hours later, still drunk.' they followed Chief of Police Aderholt in an attack on the tent colony which resulted in Aderholt't death, and the wounding of s union leader...
...50.00 Mason L. Merrill...
...And with the help of every member and friend we are going to do what we set out to do...
...25.00 Dr...
...Sentor To Make Tow Responses have come from every State...
...facts 9 *o eaase students rsdtcally to qnes^« doubt the Justice of oar social that if every other nation was as-goad as the United States there would be no more wars...
...These who cannot leave en Saturday assnsmg August 10, wffl leave on Sunday morning tn such machines as may only be available for the one day...
...It promises to get the remamV ins 10 percent...
...FP) — Six hundred silk workers, striking against the Hess-Goldsmith mills, stand on the threshold of victory as the result of the demand of delegates to the District 1 convention of the United Mine Workers that police violence on the picket line be ended immediately...
...Push Dixie Union Emblem PHILADELPHIA — (PP> —Trade unionists have high hopes of helping materially in ftn»iying the southern organizations drive among textile workers by the sale of the 29c emblems sponsored by the Philadelphia Women's Trade Union League...
...Kenesha Highbinders en Toboggan KENOSHA, Wis.—(FP)—The most influential newspapers in Wisconsin are demanding the resignation from the circuit bench of Judge X. B. Belden, bitter union labor foe, who borrowed $30,000 from hb master Simmons, leading open shopper in hb district, and failed ever to repay it Simmons made no effort to collect...
...One hundred and forty-one civic, trade union, social, athletic and fraternal organisations are participating In the picnic which Is expected to mark the first rallying of the forces which-win stage Mr...
...5.00 23rd A. D., King* County...
...One has already collected the one-day wage fund from 90 percent of its members...
...The Finnish Veto Club, the Workers' Sport Affiance, aejf many others...
...100.00 William F. Cochran...
...He spent s restless night, however, but no appreciable change in general condition resulted...
...But more apjiint than any speculation on life's ah) swat is the necessity of creating s> feadHgent world opinion in favor of gar and peaceful settlement of the laavChineie quarrel...
...I should like to tell you men and women that in the game of life you must play according to rules...
...A. N. Weinberg, SnnitMst candidate for the assembly m the Mb, Manhattan dtotolnl...
...the appeal made by Marx Lewb, director of toe drive, resulted to the appointment of a special committee to conduct the drive...
...Approximately 1,000 work in these mills, both of which are within "hollerin' distance" of the East Marion mill...
...2,013 Received Before Drive Opens...
...Other sporting events wffl inctedtd* baseban game between the Y. P. SB and the Young Circle League...
...Evidently we have an enormous Job in hand to educate the educators...
...itosrtipg, later tmSouthern Mill Hands Seek Unions Hoffman Gets > Requests For Organizers for Four Towns-Marion Strikers Firm By John Herling MARION, N. C —When seventeen striking textile workers were arraigned before him on an alleged charge of beating up Rignal W. Baldwin, president of the Marion Manufacturing Company, Judge John H. Harwood of the Superior Court thought the time proper for a lecture on Americanism...
...On the invitation sf the Socialist Party, these groups banded together two months ago under the name of the Joint Picnic Oommtttee of the Trade Unions, Soctoltot Party and Labor Fraternal bodies...
...Silk and hardcoal go hand in hand, delegates were told by Mary Kelleher...
...A eomplete list win be made public in all Socialist newspapers as soon as the lists can be compiled...
...When, as recently happened to Boston University, a professor loses hb job primarily because he disagreed with i Dean on the wisdom of a certain money making scheme a strongly organised body jf teachers would not have to content itself merely with a dignified report such as the Association of University Processors has recently drawn up...
...Socialists in those States declare that if speakers can be furnished to address meetings they plan to hold, the Southland will be found as ready to contribute to the United Socialist Drive as are the other sections of the country...
...So a turning point has been reached in the Labor and Socialist movement of the United States...
...The prosecution has attempted to digress and utilize the radical beliefs of the defendants to prejudice the public against them," he declared, "and to create an atmosphere in which a fair trial is impossible...
...Frucht...
...and Mrs...
...It is only by playing square that you go ahead in life...
...Workers are being speeded up from 160 pounds output per week of silk to 360 and 300, with no increase in wages...
...The old scale, $1.50, now restored, was endangered when the United Biiltdlng Trades signed a blanket agreement with the "IT which cut electricians' wages...
...Seligman...
...Meanwhile these fsctories as well ss those of Lynn are putting to work many of the strikers who in turn are being assessed s portion of their wages for relief...
...Adolph Hlrschberg of the Philadelphia Central Labor Union, and Gustave Geigee, personal director for th...
...Boys are working 12 hours a night, 66 hours a week in violation of child labor laws...
...Gov...
...Very ! K At Mast you believe In organization f-Jto have intelligence enough to know * stoto...
...25.00 Harry Teitelman...
...If we Band to show how much superior were a? attteds at bringing up children fat toe nrther militaristic, ultre-peSMte asthods of the Boy Scouts we etaakt and boys and gtris cat to spit SMfcjJP Seseta, fight with poHr<imen ^'tote «s> an unoffending horse hekjghg to » traffic squad...
...Other shakeups to Kenosha are the firing of Allen-A hosiery executives by the absentee management which b coming to life after 18 months of a disastrous lockout that has been turned into an epoch making strike by the American Federation of Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers...
...Socialist candidate for Mayor...
...Fisher, Oreenfeld...
...ClinchfieM Joining Up The musical program ended with a rousing chorus of Solidarity, which they have learned to sing since the strike began a week ago...
...100.00 Alfred Baker Lewis...
...Harry Peldman, who to detotifig hhnsetf to the work ta those branches, ssasstod by others who have agreed to teas wart in the work of vtotttag the wenches, reports that his annonneetasBt of ttoe drive, and the parpasts to which the money was to be applied, was williiietotojSaTI/ received by every ens of the brsstshes vto from each of them were {wentised, and win be forthcoming neat week, steely Workmen* Circle branch ta the otoy wfil be visited...
...No matter how large or small your membership may be or what your plans are, everything should be subordinated to this program for the entire month of August...
...Workers union, to ahaa man of the committee...
...It is supplementing the fund you will raise by contributions in larger amounts and income from other sources...
...f> BMlit Inquire why citlaens' ^Katnps bsve to be military trainAnd while he is pressing tor M 4 trades sad nsrias be ought ^^gStotoy look into the effect* of fcL...
...A more complete list, including the contributions that will come in before the next issue of the fcew Leader arses to press, will be made public next week...
...wage cuts, hostility of mill owners and problems of orgajiising their fellow women workers...
...went to Washington to file protests through Sen...
...and Mrs...
...If you have a suggestion send it in...
...Will there be a Labor Party in the United States...
...R. Frumoff...
...Max Gardner of North Carolina has been subpoenaed to appear in the Gaston county' court July M when the case of the IB Communists and strikers charged with murder comes up for trial...
...The Electric Company to conducting an investigation...
...For nearly thirty yean the Socialist Party has been the labor party and it ttill is the party of labor...
...I still think my comments were right but my friend, H. W. Noren of Pittsburgh, is also right in calling attention to the wastes for which we are responsible for ourselves...
...Berger, throwing him to the pavement...
...It la expeetet that when the drive Is launched on August 1, oneten* of the total amount will have been subscribed, with the machinery still to perform, during the month, the task of raising the balance...
...It will not be until Friday evening, the doctors say, before they will be able to tell definitely as to the farther danger of infection...
...M% believe _S^a*cty written for elementary or Sasoool use should otntt any...
...The pins, shield-shaped, with the picture of a spinning wheel and the words...
...In other P**»a» as s positive program...
...Gastonia Trial Starts On Monday Community Being Whipped Up Against Communists—3 Cops Arrested GASTONIA, N. C.—(FP)—With the arrest of Patrolman Tom Rankin, three of the Osstonia policemen who raided the strikers' tent colony are now facing trial on charges of assault on citiaens of Gaston county...
...Organisers representing the drive committee will visit Ohio and Michigan next weak .orrsnialrif eommtotoet ta shout s dosen of the leading cities to take charge of the drive...
...The girl strikers took with them samples of silk to illustrate how they were paid and what the product costs in Washington and New Tork stores...
...The changing trends and forces of American industry and politics show that the time is ripe for devoted work...
...Court action is only one of the points of the anti-yellow dog campaign laid out by 20 delegates from six local branches who attended the New England council meeting...
...Striken Pretest Higher Duty PATERSON, N. J.—(FP)—Led by Organiser Patrick L. Qulnlan, a deputation of S. M. S. girl strikers of Allen town...
...Edith Cbristensen, who originated- the idea for the pins, is in charge of the national sale...
...Brother Howard, who has inherited Yellow Dog's incorporated scabbing and spying agency, is busy trying to force a slave pact down the throats of striking workers at the Ipswich Hosiery Co...
...Thomas' address b scheduled for f* o'clock, when ail other activities wsf cease...
...Giant Picnic To Honor Thomas Saturday Ulmer Park To Be Scene Of Festivity 140 Labor and Socialist Groups Taking Part in Big Demonstration Today TTHE old time political picnic wfH bo * revived by the N. Y. Socialists on a grand scale this Saturday, when more than 30.000 voters and their families are expected to rather at Ulmer Park...
...You must use the regular agency of Justice—the courts...
...A $10,000 war chest will be raised, and a canvass of central bodies and locals throughout New England will be undertaken in an effort to enact laws banning the slave pacts...
...Admitting the loan the Judge declared hb $10,500 a year salary was too small to get along on...
...John R. Neal, chief of defense counsel, "that no credibility can be placed In their testimony...
...Pledget and sum seats ttasrsed bring the total assured so far above the (3.000 mark...
...Others indifferent...
...Discontent spread to southern feudalism and strike after strike in this section re-asserted the manhood of the workers...
...Just a week ago, the president of the mill whose 700 employees have been on strike since July 11, led a gallant band of 25 scabs against the picket line...
...The'rebellion of the miners, textile, and other workers against intolerable conditions blew up the paradise of our ruling money bags...
...POUGHKEBPSIE...
...You #JBs are Socialists though you do not \ ton to the Conference for - ProgresI ¦tabor Action...
...What is asked is that you give a one-day wage or income this year...
...He promised to restrain their violence...
...300 00 Joseph W. Sharts...
...and collect PJtotossaton from your masters who ¦'asptnooaly reject almost all the jaa>"y«B ss Socialists hold by at least Saadtng thenv to put into effect an fjjjtja* A. F. of L. plan for strike and strike strategy...
...10.00 Miss Marion Hayes...
...B ¦ true that the financial Job hjasaad the capacity of the United man workers...
...He resigned from the police force...
...will sketch methods of organizing workers...
...and Mrs...
...The Marion fight has aroused the Cllnchfield workers who are being taken into the union by the hundreds...
...It will enable the National Office to print new literature and aid those localities that are promising in local elections...
...Alfred Hoffman, southern textile organizer, said that within three days he had received letters from Charlotte...
...The reactionaries said the Socialist movement was deed...
...MARION, N. C—(FP)—While the Marion textile strikers wage their fight for union recognition and a 10-hour day...
...His attending physicians agreed that his improvement is encouraging and his friends now hope that be will be able to return to his work in a few.weeks...
...The plan provides for assistance to every division and every institution in the Socialist movement...
...There are f onr weeks in which to reach every member and friend in the United States...
...If you do not play the game-according to rules you will never be successful...
...K5 Boston Shoe Strikers Sign Up Fourth Plant Boston,—The Columbia Shoe Factory employing between 1*0 and 150 people came to terms last Wednesday with the United Shoe Workers...
...Trials of Patrolman Tom Gilbert and Arthur Roach have been postponed, as witnesses had been spirited away...
...But teachers who would falsify history to protect patriotism are bound to believe that propaganda is the expression of opinion of minority groups only and they will simply go on with more seal than ever to turn out little Babbitts...
Vol. 8 • July 1929 • No. 28
