"SWEET LAND OF LIBERTY"
"Sweet Land of Liberty" Report of the American Civil Liberties Union on the Civil Liberties Situation for June, 1929 ' I 'WO new esses of denial of citizenship because of refusal to bear arms...
...The 359 yards spool spells profitably st 10c but not one woman out of two hundred will buy it even after the economy has been explained to her...
...It thrives on intelligent criticism and discussion while here intellectual ferment is actually condemned as treason by some labor men...
...But there is one fact we should keep tn mind...
...5. New Jersey...
...Why it's a Joke...
...Why not welcome ideas and condemn only the intriguer, plotter and adventurer...
...HELENA...
...As a matter of fact there Is not a great'deaf of difference in the glass bottle between a five cent size or a twenty-five cent size...
...But this much we know— that if the Socialist Party in its hunger for power and thirst for votes drifts too far from Its class struggle base, its usefulness as a force for revolutionary progress is .at an end...
...More than 50 pickets in the "leftwtag" furriers' strike were arrested at New York City on June 21, 22, 23, the majority of whom were discharged or given suspended sentences...
...On the contrary, it is the most healthy, vigorous, influential and growing labor movement in the world...
...Attherafflefto New Bedford Cotton Company, of asm MUliam M. Butler is president, tea...
...They pile up but do not own...
...and \.~ 'Whereas, it was alleged repeated...
...John Kinkel, an embroidery knitter, was rejected for citizenship tn the Hudson County Naturalisation Court at Jersey City on June 2d when be said he was a conscientious objector to war...
...Chief of Police AderhoR of Oastonia was killed and four others including a union organizer were wounded in a fight when police invaded the tent colony of the National Textile Workers Union on June 8. Fiftynine strikers were arrested, 15 of whom were held on charges of murder...
...Its achievements have inspired the organized workers in all countries...
...The 14 Communists arrested last April at Minneapolis on disorderly conduct charges for picketing were found guljty In the Municipal Court on June 30 and sentenced to 3 days in the county Jail and fined $5.00...
...i Montana Labor k Wantg 9 Papers Investigate...
...Not a single one of the large national farm organizations has takn a militant stand against"the tariff for manufactures, but have with sublime and unenviable Ignoring of economics demanded that if manufacturing la to enjoy the benefits of protection, then agriculture ram* bo given an equal degree of protection...
...British origan, who had not toT^J since the days when they fast ahaj eaftaVte baSED Wflpt \fj 421 UAstalXflhjBjtojj out and build a strong Labor sham ha as they dad back ta Lsaeaabha^B thirty yean ago, Textile workera of aU *aatoszto_t Engllah...
...Forty-two of the defendants were accused of storming the plant of the Bemberg Mill to bring out workers...
...It is one thing to produce wealth and another to accumulate what is produced...
...k the Montana Free Press that nine ttl newspapers ta this state were owrssMJ the Anaconda Mining Company...
...A transfer ©f~ihe' ownership of industry, transportation and banking fjom the accumulators to the producers win do the job...
...12...
...And they are right...
...In the last six months there have been a positive erase for 5c bottles of ink...
...dresaed a large and enthusiastic asaX tag of upeiaUaea in behalf of aba Mai Bedford Textile Council of tba Tj...
...A mistrial was entered at Knoxrflle on June 18 in the cases of the 100 men and women growing out of the rayon workers strike, and postponement of the cises until October was announced...
...The recent conveahafV the federation held ta Buuhga papal the following resolution: "Whereas, an investigation has ato instituted by the U. 6. Senate fete-to acquisition of several newspapers byjto International Power and Paper 0JB> pany...
...A working class that does not organiae its political power tor itself wil" have this power turned against it by" its enemies...
...The present system is capitalism and the other is Socialism...
...e Talking of "idealism," what do you think of open shop millionaires financing the National Civic Federation while its chore boy, Ralph Eesley, issues long documents tn pretended defense of trade unionism ? Doesn't It thrill you...
...We have a stationery department...
...The Need of Discussion THERE is something unhealthy in a labor movement that is suspicious of any critical discussion of methods, policies and organization...
...There Is s grave danger that in Our desire to be "good" and pleasant tc everybody we may succeed in pleasing none— that in our anxiety to attract many groups without reference to fundamental beliefs we may wind up by having no belief at all and finally in our attempt to absorb liberal and reform bodies on the basis of an elastic platform we may ourselves be absorbed—and leave room for a Socialist Party in America...
...These same parasites as open shoppers impose corporation paternalism upon wage workers in their plants...
...He was held ta Jatt 24 hours but released when it was found no charges could be placed against him...
...Whereas, after an tavesttoatkagsf said nine newspapers was demanded*!} the Free Press and allied newapajla, the publication of the Clark newspassa was suddenly suspended...
...The aggressiveness of the Chinese Nationalists would indicate a consciousness of their strength at it is rare in Chinese history...
...What's to be done...
...As inany labor men believe "that restriction of iiiiiuigjation and jacking up tariffs will aid in checking the vicious tendencies of modern machine and mass production it is important to consider this program in relation to the new development...
...Cross wink NeTjr Recruits for X^L Party in New lfeSgS and Senthnaul ¦ Snvtoi to FaB Biro* ""5" Sto a Ptor tseaw oateeaaaahealaW -aajBW BEDFORD, Um*-ng»£* l^i of Labor Socialism waa toasaj visit of Frank Orosawatth tolL^i^ and Fafi Rtver...
...Polish...
...Prof...
...We call George F. Baker, aged New York Banker, as a witness in support of these views...
...To these examples may be added the smug gentlemen who take for granted a system of pensions for city employes such as firemen, policemen, and others, but who object to old age pensions for workers in general...
...A wage increase of 85* hour has been negotiated by «»» *** for Its members on the Mtorldtaa al Co...
...7:% As the principal speaker at a pksos # the Fan River U. T. W_ be toad tba to> tile workers of the need for political laaaf action along wtth militant trade tasks' action...
...American capital is international in outlook and'American Labor should be, but it declines affiliation with the International Federation of Trade Unions...
...NOBZN...
...N. C— (FP)—"Th« w* never been a more auspicious start asa** ta a labor rally, than that now tonM place in the south," declared Ina OBJ...
...We have nothing to lose and much to gain...
...South Dakota...
...tt as important to note at thss point that the Seeking after new God* is due primarily to the teftare on the part of Socialists to instill and to'arouse classconsciousness and this has nothing whatever to do with the class struggle as such...
...Has all this injured tKe movement in England...
...We must fight on till justice is done the aged veterans of industry...
...H sa...
...That rule will guide you to the right party...
...Tariff "protection" of American labor becomes arrant nonsense Complete exclusion of imrrngrants will not...
...Crceswaith potatM to that this was due in part to the tot 1 rtste officials elected on a wwiinf-dto ticket, who would enforce the ts-bar and minimum wage laws...
...And there you are...
...The contrast was made in support of a system of.-old age pensions...
...Ideas are not plaster that you can spread with a trowel but a tonic which you can drink or reject aa you like...
...Bjr some magic of the present order the old gentlemen acquired this sum and his experience is not unusual...
...All women want the 10c package...
...For this reason the Communist mass meetings in Russia with speakers talking in terms of war and Russian chauvinism are to be condemned...
...Suits against officials and company agents who attacked an automobile parade of strikers in Hackettstown on June 16 have been started by the Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers in charge of the strike...
...the Mobfie da Ohta dratoastaaW responsible tor the boost...
...These critical discussions have occurred not only in local bodies but in annual conferences and in publications and pamphlets of the trade unions and political organizations...
...The approach of all these smug apologists is one of class consciousness, a willingness to consign the working masses of industry to neglect or private alms because of fear that if legislation is made to help the workers the latter will look for more...
...Mabel Ulrich on the ground of obscenity...
...Louis—(FP)—The ordar dfJW road Telegregkbers enrolled WaewaisK hers ta June...
...Therefore Be It Resolved: That way spectfuDy request Senator T. J. warn to widen the scope of the Senatorial vestigation to include the repeated atoftV tion that the press of his own aaaip...
...James R. Dombrosky, a New York Otty theological student, studying conditions in toe southern cotton mills, was arrested at Elizabeth ton on June 11 following a speech In which he expressed sympathy with the strikers...
...About the saddest thing...
...You who are afraid that Socialism means "dividing up" should tell us what you think of this division...
...There are 5c silks out, almost useless for hand sewing due to breakage but the sale is increasing and we may be forced to handle it . Cotton thread used to have 300 yards on a spool hut to enable the S and 10c stores to handle thread and sell it for Se the Thread Company took off 100 yards...
...French...
...An article in the current number of the Magazine of Wall Street presents important data regarding this new phase of the export of American capital...
...In the British farlMioan slave owners on one island once worked their slaves ten hours each day and allowed two hours at noon for rest- Southern capitalists have leas mercy than old Caribbean slave drivers...
...We pass the secret on to our readers with the observation that they may look forward to a lifetime of producing for the accumulators...
...The June issue ot Scribners' magazine was barred from the bookstands of Boston on June 20 on order of Superintendent of Police Crowley, who objected to a story by Ernest Hemingway entitled "Farewell to Arms...
...The attack followed a strikers' meeting outside the city, the authorities having banned all meetings in the city...
...Minnesota...
...I asked another grocer here, one who does a very large business, how many brought jugs and bought by the gallon...
...AS are said (pat owned by the Anaconda Mining Coaspt of ill-fame...
...under corporate domination and ***** ship, and to inquire further rots W suspension of the Clark newspapers: am "That we further request saajaO Walsh to have the committee torn* *# poena* for John D. Ryan, C. T. tw and Mr...
...IN A NUTSHELL An advance of $S50 a share in his stock in the First National Bank enriched George F. Baker IT million dollars in one day...
...questioned on his social and political beliefs and released on his own recognisance pending review of his case by the Washington authorities...
...His pay is tba tov est and bis work is the hardest B~ more than any one else, should ba aaaj...
...These include fundamental aims, international relations, trade union policies, political programs and activities of members in Parliament...
...lzer George W. Marshall of the lesatj»»| ists...
...see Xa soma of the southern textile Indus tries man and Women etui work the 12-hour day...
...he declared, "tot black man ta the last to be hires tot the first to be fired...
...They do not really buy vinegar, they buy glassware...
...If as a worker you ask us what party to vote for our answer would he not to vote for one that is fln&nced by millionaires...
...package tor 15c, 3 for 35c...
...The Chinese Nationalists removed the Russian officials operating the road, demanded a new agreement...
...Sweet Land of Liberty" Report of the American Civil Liberties Union on the Civil Liberties Situation for June, 1929 ' I 'WO new esses of denial of citizenship because of refusal to bear arms arose in June, one a New Jersey mill worker and the other a professor at Yale whose case win be carried to the 17...
...15...
...The Fall River unions ara £ gaged ta a fight -gainst a worktsg teat of from fifty to seventy hours...
...We sell a popular dye 1H as...
...Rsee Discrimination 17...
...When I read Mr...
...Fred E. Baal and K. O. Byers...
...and deported others...
...It is eagerly welcomed as an opportunity to vindicate what is believed to be founded on the bedrock of truth...
...It is probable that the Chinese have a grievance in Communist agitation to undermine the Nationalists but this does not justify the arbitrary acts in Manchuria...
...Thomas's quotation about the waste in buying I thought of a sign in a local grocery store that I saw a day or two before...
...D. O—Perhaps nothing is more striking in the present situation to Congress than to note the indecorous haste of many members, particularly of the House of Representatives to recede from the stand on progressive measures for which they were so milltantry enthusiastic as recently as five years ago—in the LaFOUette campaign The explanation in pert at least is not far to seek...
...affect the situation...
...We handle silk thread in 100 yards at 15c and 50 yards spools at 10c both the same brand and grade...
...Of course the first answer of disinterestedness is hardly adequate...
...At the meetings, local asto officials and labor councflmen urge* to workers to aid in the formation af I national labor party...
...Because of the inflamed public opinion against the defendants, many of whom were not in the tent colony at the ttme of the shooting,- postponement of the trial set tor July 39 wul be asked...
...THEODORE SHAPIRO, New Yor kCitv...
...Manchuria has for decades been a danger spot in the Far East and war between Russia and China might lead to further complications that would be dangerous to the peace of the world...
...we know of is the labor man who is afraid of free discussions in the union on the ground that somebody is seeking to "impose" ideas...
...When American plants are dosed and appear on the other side of the Atlantic it means the displace"Tfient of all workers in these plants...
...Which will serve yoy ? Exporting American Factories df^VNE- of the new phases of American economic development which must be taken into account by the labor movement is the transference of industrial plants to other countries...
...A petition for writ of habeas corpus in behalf of Ray Becker, one of-the Centralis prisoners, was denied by Federal Judge George M. Bourquin at Seattle on June 25th on the grounds that he Is without Jurisdiction and that Becker had failed to show he Is illegally confined...
...many of whom have suffered minor martyrdoms to advance the philosophy baaed on the clam struggle new to discard the source of Socialist etiaugUi fee aa oesportamaat wffl-o-tbe-wisp...
...et al...
...That both powers pledge to abide by the KeHogg Treaty is a hopeful promise of peace although hotheads on either side may precipitate a struggle despite this pledge...
...WASTE IN BUYING Editor, The New Leader...
...He probably did not even come to bis office on that day...
...Strike Areas S. New Jersey...
...The sale of the larger package has practically ceased...
...whose stock-intrade of the now defunct liberals-municipal housing schemes-municipal ownership of transit lines and furtherance of the cause of old age pensions...
...This type of opponent is also fearful of the "independence" of the industrial worker but is strangely silent regarding the "independence" of the city workers...
...The same holds good, in ink...
...The person or movement strong in convictions does not avoid discussion...
...Out on the farms, down in the mines# in the workshops, factories and plants of industry are Bullions who are producing but they will never accumulate...
...The value of his bank stock was enhanced while he dined and slept one day...
...Of course, they have the power to change the rules of the game and get rid of the accumulators...
...I am sure twenty-five cents worth of ink bottled into five oent units would cost at least two dollars retail...
...U. S. Custom nffl rials at Minneapolis seized several Imported sets of the "Decameron of Boccacio" from the bookstore of Dr...
...We have none and I do not know if there are any on the market, but to ink the cost is in the glassware and a five cent container would cost the bottler as much as one to held ten cents worth...
...Workers of the south are onaf> bring by the thousands...
...par*age to retail at 10c...
...It also means that American corporations know that they can meet ejpST to 'tlTSnS...
...Twenty-seven cafeteria strikers sentenced at New York City on June 14 to 60 days imprisonment for violation of antl-plcketlng injunctions were freed on June 22 on writs of habeas corpus...
...The platform of every third party in American History and sometimes one of the major parties contained planks advocating these or similar reforms...
...But to explain that to a woman would be a total waste of breath...
...American labor drifts and disaster is ahead...
...t. Washington...
...Txspresident Frank Gorman of the U. T. % stated that wages were Sower and esae> tions worse in Fall River than la sat other part of the country, even earn than the south...
...99 out of a hundred women customers would buy 6 cents worth at a time...
...The result is we do nothing and accomplish nothing...
...Man and won...
...agj...
...Ctvfl Cases 4. Connecticut...
...The working class in this matter has not yet reached the standard realized by hogs and horses which measures their degradation in American social legislation...
...The difference between capitalism and Socialism ta that the former guarantees corporation ownership of industry and the latter public ownership...
...ft tits!illt seems incongruous to say the toast for Soeislwta...
...All the rest bought their vinegar in the moat expensive way possible...
...Because of a favorable review of Upton Sinclair's novel "Boston," Halldor K. Laxness, Icelandic author, was taken before the immigration authorities at Los Angeles on June 25...
...value of the class struggle is its uniqueness and power as a weapon in the war for social betterment and its revolutionary Implications insure the existence of a Socialist Party that will perform the functions for which it was intended—that is, the liquidation of capitalist society...
...Portogaszs!B Venetian and Negro haw been .aeaali by bis eloquence and stirred to sekh by his forceful and logical esgaaanav The Polish social and Bask aaSB ciety of over a hundred rsambea «¦> brought Into afflriatton with tlk fB Bedford Labor Party as a result «f a, work...
...The question naturally arises...
...The whole e*a...
...hit fcjg toVsnto m UeUBU- w...
...It has fairly seethed with critical discusion of issues and principles since the end of the World War...
...S. Supreme Court as a test of this new qualification for naturalization...
...Several decades of increased land values, and swelling prosperity under more efficient methods of production and distribution have checked the desire sad perhaps the ability of many who have rated themselves aa prograaatvoo to grve any weight to basic economic conditions...
...There are no more insistent demand ers for protective tariffs than the dairy interests of the highly progressive stats of Wisconsin, and the wheat growers of bleeding Kansas and the busted land speculators of the great state of Iowa, where Corn is King, which sent Senator Brook hart to the Senate twice...
...I do not remember the price but the difference between what the pint and gallon cost was rather small...
...What have those Socialists who have "passed beyond" the class struggle to offer in its place as s working doctrine for political and economic practices The tendency is definitely in the direction of reformism and the advocacy of the...
...And here we have stagnation...
...Mob Violence 1. Florid...
...The classic piece of hypocrisy in this controversy is found in the kingdom of anthracite, steel, and the Pennsylvania Railroad...
...NEW LEADER MAILBAG with regard ^^^^m^tSS^'ii^ rraaatowf iidliiaMea of tana thiiry wee hehtto 0? ejeat numbers of the American workera the daariiaaton has proclam straggle aa a theory and a act ia discarded entirely...
...Criminal Cases 3. California...
...In one day last week he accumulated 17 million dollars and thus became the third richest man in the world...
...It is a symptom of weakness...
...Producer* and Accumulators TjrOW to get rich is the theme of many wise men and those" who have heaped up millions and billions often market their advice in the Sunday supplements...
...The State Supreme Court on June 27th declared unconstitutional the state law compelling the reading of the Bible in the public schools and ordered the readmlttanee of the Catholic students expelled by the Faith School Board for refusal to attend the exercises...
...Montana, —The Meraajp State Federation of Labor h suapkfeoft the ownership of nine dally papers polished ta the State...
...This unhealthy state is present in the American labor movement...
...Then there are the fat parasites of the National Civic Federation who finance propaganda against state insurance of aged workers on the ground that it is "paternalism" and will interfere with the oH workers' "independence...
...Consider the British labor movement, both its political and economic phases...
...One of the reasons given for the shift in the direction ot reformism is that the workers in this country are not interested to eat involved philosophy like that of the class struggle...
...How did it happen...
...Crosswalth's activities wen apt lata, ed to he political field...
...The shooting of the chief of police at Oastonia tn the fight which accurred when the police invaded the strikers* tent colony and the indictment of 15 strikers and union leaders for his murder is the most important item reported from the strike districts In the south...
...The Russo-Chinese Quarrel ' ¦'HJt Chines* Eastern Railroad in Manchuria has r been * source of friction between China, Japan and Russia since the days of the Czars...
...I IIHIMlAUe FeW Enthused...
...The state primary law which prescribes certain qualifications for voters was held in violation of the 14th and 15th Amendments by Judge D. L. Oroner, U. 6. District Court at Richmond, on June 5. The opinion was rendered in the ease of James O. West Paeudo Progreaeive* Responsible For Much Rampant Reaction WASHINGTON...
...9. Tennessee...
...Recently the manufacturer put out a % oa...
...The others were held on picketing charges...
...While these alms are the necessary equipment of a radical political party they are not to themselves an adequate norm around which a real Socialist party could revolve...
...Waste...
...arrested at Spartanburg, 8. C, in connection with the murder, were saved from a mob by the officers in whose custody they were being taken to Oastonia...
...and eoul in the labor movement...
...During the four days Crceswaith aaah to a total ot over eight thousand tool workers...
...If you are a capitalist owner you are likely to support the second and if a worker you should not support the first...
...New York...
...Imitation of old world junkers in a crisis between two nations is not the way to keep the peace and it is certain that the workers of all nations want no more bleeding of the masses...
...Hogs, Horses and Men A SPEAKER before the Bar Association complains that while aged workers in industry are thrown on the scrap heap to end their days m misery horses are turned into a pasture to spend their last days in peace...
...Massachusetts...
...The sale of the larger spools is so small that we may as wen not handle that size...
...Mencion had ignored warning of residents of the neighborhood not to sleep In the house he was building for a white man...
...ttoninld be observed that American labor cannot organize or' picket these exported plants...
...New Bedford trade unlontoB-an now trying to start a Labor Party taJa River...
...The accutnulator is hot a producer and the producer is not an accumulator...
...Censorship 14...
...Russia has controlled the road which provides her a direct route to Vladivostock although in theory there has been a Russo-Japanese partnership in the line...
...A group of colored i lilaasall New Bedford hurriedly arranged a asking for htm and now plan to head aha, lar meetings to the Negro hall ~r...
...i ne arrjcte pisatuua ngusea ot mis export *ox American plants, htotanre* where worker* nave sttfferad wholesale dadiarge...
...They work to keen themselves fit to produce while others fit themselves to acaunulate...
...Virginia...
...It can easily be countered that they are equally not Interested in the mild social Issues involved In municipal ownership or the cry of graft and corruption...
...8. North Carolina...
...Academic Freedom 16...
...The black aaail burden is far greater than the otvsafht white man's burden...
...Russia protested against these acts, in * document moderate in tone and she appears* to be justified in her attitude...
...Pennsylvania judges who enjoy retirement pensions handed down learned reasons for denying similar consideration for the broken and aged workers in the private industries of that state...
...Douglas C. Macintosh of the Yale Divinity School was denied citizenship by the Federal District Court at New Haven on June 35 because he refused to agree to engage in war unless his conscience approved the cause...
...The decision will be appealed...
...he said very few, probably not one in sixty...
...and names of corporatrotzs that are foBowmg this peeicy...
...7. Carl Hojderman, organizer for the union, was arrested while walking down the main street, fined $60 and costs on disorderly conduct charges and warned that picketing was forbidden...
...The chief...
...George is too old to do any usefuTwoFk...
...Always forceful and convincing, OteaV walth was at his best when spsestata...
...Dickey, auditor of tba mm chain of Montana, as well as Wffl j» Clark and Chas...
...If the producer can pass into the class of the nonproducer he may become a master of millions...
...This is a fundamental fact of the capitalist system of production and exchange...
...Dixie Machinist Orgpini* Cheery on Union Growtk ASHEVTLLE...
...A court decision of special interest this month is that of the Supreme Court of South Dakota declaring unconstitutional the compulsory Bible reading law which was contested by a group of Catholic students expelled from school for refusal to attend religious exercises...
...That sum is' equal to the wages of 1,700.000 workers for -one day at a wage of $1G per day...
...If it would beat eapitahsui it must change its policies, become progressive in outlook and action...
...A The newly organized Machinists to* tn Asbevtne has 50% uigsiibataM Rail Telegraphers EnroB J 324 New Members in J*£ ST...
...Jim Mencion, a Negro carpenter, was attacked by a mob of white men at Jacksonville on June 20 and severely beaten...
...the Negro problem...
...If this were not true how else can we account for the continued rule of Tammany, Hague In New Jersey or the frigid 'indifference to the activities of Sinclair, Doheny...
...l^Biffiifffl decs tost expect to make any aaprefann tiaf trira in this, awjstry, <jBbjp n» Kn-dtin...
...speaking before the Ashevflle » tral Labor Union...
...He might have added that hogs afflicted with cholera will immediately get the attention of a federal bureau while the veterans of industry are neglected...
...seems to have caught the aphttof JjwFi organization, so much so that orgsaaaaa are unable to keep up with the aluatto Not only ta textiles, but every *«*dP*i trade unionism is clamoring for eft**, izntton...
...Clark of Raw tm so that the committee may be aide* t their knowledge of the control et * press of Montana...
...Minnesota...
...It gave the price of vinegar per gallon and per pint but those who wanted a gallon and brought a Jug to take it in got a better grade than those who bought a pint already bottled in a vinegar factory...
...After **•*] tion between the union saw ana *•*•* had begun a negotleted maw of IJjf-" hour eras olaaatoaaV...
Vol. 8 • July 1929 • No. 28
