MASS. SOCIALISTS PROPOSE FOUR BILLS TO AID WORKERS
Mass. Socialists Propose Four Bills To Aid Workers fb^mployment Insurance, Anti-Injunction Act, Inpgring of Picketing Rights and Tax Revision ProI posed — Party Supporting Old Age Pension...
...corattoos at the same rate as dividends >>fl by Mass...
...A "surprise conference" was arranged across the river in Detroit on January 23 at tended by members of the Detroit local af the Sheet Metal Workers, Electrical Workers, Musicians and the Independent Auto Workers Union...
...At this novelty dance, unique prizes will be given to those having the beat kiddy costumes, and proceeds of this affair win be used to cover the expense ol running the Friday night forum and for the purpose of buying literature and The Ne% Leader for the voters in the district who will be canvassed by the district cap...
...The main order of business will be boost the State Banquet...
...Consequently the police officials ail dtj authorities doing the bidding a* da esiployers arrest picketers on all ant of subterfuges, such as charging aat the picketers are obstructing the Snsilt...
...Consequentw sir Ml would not only levy taxes on yaaBWd fty-nmiHi which are best able t bar them, but would also tend to reaas suss on the workers' homes as well, jjgj J need hardly add that taxes or...
...Admission to the ball, including hatcheck, is 50 cents or 5 dimes, a sum that even the tenants of the Hudson County Court House or the Jersey City Hall can pay...
...later he earned $50 a month more by sanding In reports of union meetings and activities, signed by his code number "T-400...
...Rumanian Military Tribunals Continue...
...A few calendars are left...
...Massachusetts has a very bad unemployment record, largely because the tendency has been In recent years for the cotton textile Industry to move South and the shoe industry to move West...
...or parading without a permit ar sans other excuse...
...Although the job was unsuccessful he is reported to have walked off with the $50,000...
...The second bill would broaden the grounds for claim for compensation so as to include occupational diseases "growing jut of...
...W. O, 946 Warren St, Roxbury, St 13::*0 subject, - Imperialism...
...The association's offices are at 420 Lexington Ave., New York, where MacDonald has operated under the name of A. R. MacDonald...
...18, n a. m, Boston Methodist Ministers Conference, subject...
...Pennsylvania Pittsburgh "Forward" Ball The 17th annual "Forward" Civic and Masque Ball will be held Wednesday evening...
...Oar am piugs up both these leaks b> aaskw picketing precisely, providing fat a picket line shall not be interhat sab on any ground whatever so kaj as there Is no actual physical vio •was, aad providing a stiff penalty for WM who does arrest a picketer or bj m break up a peaceful picket line...
...The letter reads as follows: "The undersigned, all members of organized labor and functioning in various capacities within the trade union movement under the jurisdiction of the American Federation of Labor or unions recognized by It, and at the same time loyal graduates of Brookwood Labor College, protest most vigorously against the attitude expressed towards us in rour pamphlet entitled More About Brookwood College when you say that tve ...are loyal Trade Unionists not because of Brookwood but in spite of Brookwood...
...The Annual added feature—the Beauty Contest for young ladles and women— has not been overlooked...
...of Canada...
...17 at the Dorchester Forum...
...The committee has been visiting various organizations in the interests of this affair and have received wonderful cooperation...
...It is particularly wise to put such a burden on employers because there are times today when without such a burden unemployment is actually a benefit to the employing class...
...We will also support the bill to abolish capital punishment...
...Under the circumstances, there is nothing left for us to do but repeat publicly what you have known privately all along...
...Without going into details about what Brookwood training means to us, for we have done that in our personal letters to you...
...In the presence of these union executives the two suspected officials made detailed statements of their services as labor spies for the nationally known espionage agency, the Corporations Auxiliary Ox...
...He has always worked the same racket as MacDonald, but this is not their first known open business partnership...
...He wrote letters to Oelges, head of the union, attempting to link Budenz with extreme radical activities through James Maurer, Pennsy labor head, who had been on a delegation to Russia...
...His associate...
...State Office Notes All out bills except the one on Unemployment Insurance have come up for hearing...
...Jersey City...
...Laurel Calloway was his fellow spy who also confessed...
...B. & O. Fights Labor Bill In Maryland BALTIMORE — <FP) — Assertion that "labor's pet bills" for improving the chance of recovery from employers by injured workers, under the state law of Maryland, would inflict an undeserved and heavy burden upon the employers and industrial interests of the state, was made by D. K. Brent, counsel for the Baltimore <Se Ohio Railroad, at a protest mass meeting of business executives in Baltimore, Feb...
...Secondly we provide »«aere the court does enjoin a crime 1jfcB'Jaoor dispute, the question of ?**Jhere has been a breach of the j"*taJn must be tried before a Jury ¦sir *** 83 111 ordinary criminal ¦toL This will prevent a man being sentenced to Jail without s Jury trial...
...For if the employers are wideawake and progressive and get together to work out schemes for keeping down unemployment in their industry, they will only have to pay a low premium for their unemployment insurance, just as a builder gets a lower fire insurance premium if he puts up a fireproof building than he does if he puts up a fire trap...
...He protested energetically against the postponement of the amnesty and continued: "Hundreds are pining in the dungeons of Rumania, In Doftana, Jilava and other prisons, because they were involved in plots which were provoked by the Slguranza, or because they stood up in support of their political convictions...
...In other countries there hsve been similar events, but everywhere amnesties have been proclaimed...
...aafl-IaJancUaa But Urged Baa the point of view of the workers ta Mi—i limn tts law regarding injuncap Is particularly vicious...
...This took him to the Corporations Auxiliary, office where his name was taken, and he was told he would be looked up in a day or two...
...No Amnesty as Yet Bucharest—at the time of the ending of the state of siege in Rumania, the authorities, ordered that the military tribunals should retain then* powers for the trial of cases already pending...
...the party paper, will be celebrated with a banquet In New Haven, 8unday...
...So here agcirf we make It directly to the interest of the employers to keep down unemployment...
...Also that a large number of the party members are going to attend the State Banquet...
...He was Instructed to Join the independent union and turn in a full list of its members to the C. A His daily reports followed the usual style of C. A. operatives...
...The Monte Carlo orchestra will play...
...The advantage and purpose of such a provision is to make it even~ more directly to the advantage of the employers to keep un employment in their industry at a minimum...
...Berger*s Tour A tour for Victor L. Berger is being arranged through Comrade Arkin shortly after March 4. Branches that want dates please communicate with the state office...
...LaFollette...
...1623 Centre Ave., and Schiff Music Ehoppe, 1304 Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh...
...Since then we have watched the unfolding of this drama more or less in silence, for having once expressed our views, we felt that it was up to the Executive Council to exercise its wisdom in accepting or rejecting our plea...
...156th and Beck Streets...
...The Social-Democrats are carrying on an ener/ getic campaign for the immediate suppression of the activities of the Military Tribunals...
...So far as that is true, the most foolish thing that could be done from the point of view of society as a whole is to lay men off...
...will contribute to ths ensurement of a general peace...
...Maj...
...Connecticut New Haven Banquet The fourth anniversary ol "The Commonwealth...
...incidental to...
...Feb...
...Industrial Spies Found In Ford And Chrysler Plants Reports of Under-Cover Men in Canadian Plants Are Revealed—Discharge of Fifteen Union Members Leads to Discovery of Doable-Dealing by Two Officials...
...Corporations Auxiliary claims It has never, in its 30 years' history, had lest than 1,000 spies on its rolls...
...For they know that In periods of unemployment there will be few if any demands for higher pay or better conditions...
...16, at Fraternity Hall, 256 Central Ave...
...All arrangements have been made to insure a very enjoyable evening for the large gathering expected...
...They sent him to WalkervUle (one of the border cities) to Chrysler plant No...
...14, at 48 Belmont St...
...Yet he can lay off his workers when business is slack, so that the workers actually have less rights than a horse...
...tit...
...20th, in the Ball Room, of the Wm...
...Brookwood Labor College has given us such an understanding of organized labor as to make it utterly impossible for us to be otherwise than loyal to it...
...the state legislature this year...
...Next day he was called back to the same building to an office with three different entrances and three different names on the door—the usual Corporations Auxiliary practice...
...The banquet will be held at Taifs Coffee Shop, 518 South Broadway, at 6:30 p. m. Los Angeles does not often have an opportunity to hear Dr...
...This is true particularly of the old age pension bill, the bills Introduced by the Massachusetts Federation of Labor to make unenforceable the yellow-dog contracts and to provide a state fund-for workmen's compensation, and a bill introduced by Comrade George EL Roewer as chairman of one of the committees appointed by the Boston Central Labor Union to consider the injunction situation, which requires a hearing before an Injunction can be issued in a labor dla pute...
...The bill to protect peaceful picketing and the anti-injunction bill received considerable labor support...
...Most of us individually pleaded against such untoward and what we considered and still consider unjustifiable procedures which were bound to be of harm to the movement...
...Finally he was accepted and sent over to Canada to the McCord Radiator Co., a large auto parts manufacturing concern, with instructions to Join the A. F. of L. auto workers' union...
...The problem in this state has become vital enough to prompt the legislature to appoint a committee to investigate this matter and make a report That report urges serious consideration of the old man and woman in industry...
...34, 7:30, St Marks Congregational Church, Roxbury, subject, "Socialism and Brotherhood.'' Feb...
...The excuse given for laying off men is generally that there are no orders coming in...
...He is a professional detective and a for mer Burns man...
...Providence...
...March 3. Webster Organisation meeting at 130 Lake St...
...He urged Oelges to "start a war on radicals" and claimed to "know of organization activities before you do...
...Dodge and Chrysler were both numbered among its clients to 1927 and helped to stop agitation then carried on by the Auto Workers Union...
...Bridgeport Fred Schwartzkoph reports that he is still securing more new members for the local...
...He hired a group of minor crooks to "get something on" the senator...
...Extension of its work into Canadian auto plants follows union efforts to penetrate that industry which Is entirely controlled by American auto corporations...
...But i thas ajsswtous defects from the point of view s! the workers...
...The new bosses' association will confine itself to the tex tile and hosiery Industry...
...We also provide for a separate fund for each major industry...
...March 31...
...39, Revere W. C. Branch T37, subject, "Unemployment and Unemployment Insurance...
...Later he went into labor espionage on his own...
...All an emjj*8, who is threatened with an or aaaassai campaign has to do is, either ¦ Bake bis employees sign the yellow as enratracts, by which they sign away ¦a...
...known In New York as the International Auxiliary Co., the Eastern Engineering Co, and by a half dozen other aliases...
...He was instructed to Join the independent Auto Workers Industrial Union, to "cultivate" Murphy, became active in its affairs and nominated another spy, Calloway, to be its vice president Still, he was disgusted with his job and wanted to quit The C. A. came across with s raise of $35 a month making $75 over and above his wages in the plant He was told in letters from the C. A. whom to vote for in union elections...
...In 1920 Russell was assistant general man ager of the New York central district for Sherman...
...Socialists Support Other Bins Those four bills are the only ones actually drawn up by and introduced at the request of the Socialist Party...
...The accused were condemned to periods of imprisonment varying from 8 years to 15 days...
...He landed spy contracts for them from the Hearst publications and from an association of Brooklyn shoe manufacturers...
...21 Los Angeles—Dr...
...at 8:30 p. m. Tickets are only 75 cents...
...Fifteen men, all members of the Border Cities Local of the Automobile Workers' Industrial Union of Canada were discharged from the plant of the Ford Motor Co...
...Baltimore labor, backed by the Maryland and District of Columbia State Federaf-hi of Labor, is determined to press these bills to passage...
...Strikes •a* the lodges will enjoin because they •at Bke the objects of them Include sapsthette strikes, strikes to compel the eeatnje of a non-union man, a strike Waw sDccess would involve the altera•a or breach of an existing contract, ¦ai t strike to compel recognition of the nw tact that the judges will at the aaaat of the employers enjoin the last toejssses of strikes makes it absolutely ¦aaaMe to organize the unorganized ¦ Msanrbluetts if the employers use h tos hill the advantages which the ¦want law gives them...
...34, 11 a. so., W. a. & D. Benefit Fund of South Boston, subject, "Lessons of the New Beatowl Strike...
...Readers of the New Leader are invited...
...Our bill first tries to take care of the unemployed by requiring employers to give out of work pay to people whom they lay off, amounting to $2.00 a day for adults and $1.00 for young workers, with a limit of not over two-thirds of their usual full time weekly pay, and of course for a limited number of weeks in a year only...
...Today there is always a serious danger that any slight Increase in unemployment may develop Into a very serious period of hard times...
...With its nest of under-cover men holding offices tn both unions the C. A could sell Its information not only to Chrysler and McCord but also to Ford, and doubtless also to 8tudebater and other companies with plants over the Canadian line...
...Brookwood Grads Reply To Green 35 Trade Unionists Dispute Statement They Are Loyal in Spite of College Sp RADCATE8 of Brookwood Labor College, described by President Green in his statement of January 2«th as loyal and devoted members of the A. F. of L„ charge that President Oreen knows he was misrepresenting them in that statement when he went on to assert that they were "loyal trade unionists not because of Brookwood but in spite of Brookwood...
...Harry W. Laidler, codirector with Norman Thomas of ,the League for Industrial Democracy, and an outstanding authority on Socialism and social movements, will be the guest of honor at a banquet to be held In Los Anjeles on Thursday night, Feb...
...At the Real Silk Mills he helped the company bind the workers with "yellow dog" contracts...
...Tickets on sale at Hlrsch...
...Branch 37 Ind...
...See details in New Haven story in this issued...
...assss are paid by the people who live 2 {ban whether they own them or pay gat auaa with the rent they pay to the The Picketing Bill aasther Is a bill to prohibit interWance with peaceful picketing...
...Call Incident Tragedy "We have watched with great concern the development of the tragedy which began with the meeting of the Executive Council in August...
...at Sllverberg's Restaurant...
...He became "L-287" on August 4, 1928...
...Union men were dis charged right and left...
...But they would also work indirectly to prevent unemployment in still another way...
...15 th, at the Martinique Mansion...
...18 evening...
...8. Brent announced that representatives of the trunk rail lines in Maryland, the B. & O, the Pennsylvania ind others, would meet to plan resistance to labor's bills at the legislature in Annapolis...
...Common Cause Forum of Boston, debate on Socialism and Americanism April 7. Local 14 of the Brewery Workers, subject, "The Legislative Program of the Socialist Party...
...After some Investigation, Harvey Murphy, secretary of the union, decided that the president and vice-president of the local were responsible for the discharges...
...All monies over and above our expenses will be used to further the propaganda for an Old Age Pension Bill in New Jersey, an Issue behind which can be arrayed every working man and woman...
...Under the Mass...
...or proximately caused by" the conditions of the job...
...residents from cor incorporated in other states Kglld This would very considerably aansie the revenue from the state injgj...
...They may be ordered from Walter E. Davis, 23 Church Bt., New Haven...
...Rhode Island Thomas In Providence Norman Thomas will be the chief speaker at a banquet to be held by the Socialist Party and the Workmen's Circles Jointly at 141 Benefit St., Providence, on Monday, Feb...
...Of course the out of work payments would be a blessing to the unemployed man and his family...
...aaandly, the existing law does not panM any penalty for anyone who ink-dens with peaceful persuasion...
...Thrown out of Sherman Service for incompetence, Russell worked for a time with the dirtiest strikebreaking outfit In New York City, the Eagle Industrial Associates...
...Would Cat Down Unemployment Our bill requires employers to insure against their liability to pay out of work benefit to those whom,«they lay off, Just as under Massachusetts law automobile owners are required to Insure against their liability to pay damages to people whom they injure...
...If we make unemployment sting the pocketbook of the employers they are likely to make a more determined effort to reduce unemployment than they do now...
...In the first place, the aSJag law does not use the word plcBjBBj, nor define picketing nor even saw that it is applicable to labor disaWa...
...He has organized a new flim-flam organization known as the Allied Manufacturers League, Inc., "to combat communism and radicalism and its Inroads into American industry...
...In 1924 Russell attempted to "frame" the late Sen...
...in the afternoon the Water town Forum: in the evening at the Y. M H. A. Feb...
...Feb...
...It will be a proof that a new era baa dawned, when all these benefit by sa amnesty, other countries too are expecting the new Government of Rumania to take this step...
...The first of the proposed changes in :he workmen's compensation law would raise the present compensation rate from 50co of annual wages to 62>a...
...In view of the large number of such eases, sad the complicated character of Rumanian judicial procedure, this permission may result In the military tribunals continuing to function for many years to corns Ths military courts, thus continuing to exercise their powers without restraint have already pronounced sentence In several cases sad condemned 33 workers, most of them young Communists, to 07 year* and 10 months Imprisonment to all The accused persons are said to have been guilty, in 1934, of offences against the so-called Law for the Maintenance of Public Order, and have been confined since that time, that 1$ to say, during a period of four years...
...An open letter to President Oreen sent by 35 trade union graduates, Kni^ng membership in fifteen trade unions in sixteen cities, and Including rice presidents of international unions, heads of labor colleges, editorial workers on labor journals, and officers of state federations of labor, has been made public...
...Many of them oow insure themselves or carry policies tn companies not designated by the State Accident Commission...
...Reactionary business interests were behind the Job and paid out $10,000 to Russell for the prellmln: ary investigation with a promise of $50,000 if the Third International badge could be hung on the senator...
...The influence of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, which is by all odds the most powerful private influence in the state, now threatens to defeat the hopes of the unions' legislative committee., Bronx Socialists Invite All To Party-Dance Friday Reverting back to childhood, all in the Bronx, regardless of age, will attend the Kiddy Party and Dance this Friday evening, Feb...
...In addition a representative of the party spoke for the Old Age Pension bill, the bill for Increased school attendance and the bPl to abolish capital punishment...
...Basbery lien's Club Church of Our Savior...
...We feel deeply that the final disposition of the case was based on sad mistakes, both as to fact and policy...
...An employer will voluntarily take care of idle machinery by keeping the factory in a weatherproof condition, yet he need not make any provision for idle workers...
...19 he debates with Philip Cabot of the Harvard School of Business Administration at Harvard at 2:00 p. m. and speaks that evening at Mt...
...Later he was found operating a bureau for the recovery of Jewels and uncovering business frauds...
...In his press story, announcing the new holdup game, printed in the last issue of the Knit Goods Weekly, MacDonald takes the credit for being the "originator of the contract between employer and employe which is labeled by organized labor as the 'yellow dog" contract...
...Tickets in advance $1.00...
...right to join a union, or, what is •ataaier, call together a few of the ¦aaf Pets, form a company union, and with the company union Just the *j*ai an sgreement which the employer ¦aaa Then any attempt to get a real •¦a ana make the company sign a col**b» bargain with the real union is whose success would involve the ***of an existing contract, namely *. contract with the company union, •a OBMeejuently U\a strike which can ¦^¦Wned no matter how peaceful it Beet that situation our bill prorr* j^at the courts can only issue an ^~*jBP to a labor dispute against *^™ac that Is a crime...
...Price, 12 cents...
...The Party is also continuing its steady fight tor the immediate amnesty of political prisoners...
...This is especially true in the case of the branches of the Workman's Circle, many of them purchasing tickets...
...He co-operated with Easley, head of the National Civic Federation and apparently had the blessing of Matthew Woll In bis campaign to discredit progressive organizers in the hosiery union...
...Msssa{ksacts already has a so called "peaceSi ssi imiInn act," which is supposed a »Bsv peaceful picketing...
...1928, when first Brookwood's integrity was questioned and moves to condemn it were instituted...
...Walter P. Chrysler is also caught with the goods...
...Finally the case was heard in December before ths Military Tribunal of Oalada...
...He claims to have done undercover work for large motor concerns and southern textile companies...
...Lai b a bin to modify the state income La a* s» as to tax Income received in . |snn Of dividends from Mass...
...The third bill would compel all employers to take out liability insurance under the State Fund exclusively...
...By Robert W. Dunn rkETROTT—Henry Ford, idol of fibers...
...3 to report on the union men who had pulled a small department strike there last summer...
...Socialists Propose Four Bills To Aid Workers fb^mployment Insurance, Anti-Injunction Act, Inpgring of Picketing Rights and Tax Revision ProI posed — Party Supporting Old Age Pension and Other Legislation Sought by Unions By Alfred Baker Lewis ywgTOW— The Socialist Party ol fala—i hurr**- has introduced foui ^a...
...18 he speaks In the morning at the Universal 1st Ministers Conference: at 1:30 at the B. U. School of Religious Education...
...Pistlner, in an impressive speech delivered in the Chamber In December, strongly condemned the suppression of freedom, and the Inirlnjement of the most element rights of citizens by the late Liberal Government, and demanded the democratization or the country...
...tax system - j^, i^renue from the state income UC ¦ scat back by the state to the cities —I taant- Nearly all of the revenue ajB* thaw snd towns, apart from the --aw thus received from the state, is .gtod ty taxes on real estate, which fsasj in large part, of coarse, taxes on op games of the workers...
...Among the "outstanding members" claimed are Berkshire Knitting Mills of Reading, Apex Hosiery, one of MacDonald's old Philadelphia "clients," Julius Kayser St Co., s notorious scab concern, and a number of smaller firms in Baston and Reading...
...Thomas' Tear Norman Thomas will speak Sunday morning Feb...
...Laidler has been the contributor of many brilliant articles, are particularly invited to be present...
...But even so, we might not have expressed ourselves' publicly if you had not made this attempt to express our minds for us in your latest bulletins...
...is—w...
...Spy Bureau Attacking Unionists "Yellow-Dog" MacDonald Found Doing Espionage Business at New Stand "YTCLLOW DOO" MacDonald, labor spy, "industrial engineer" and frameup artist fc making another assault on the American Federation of Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers...
...Feb...
...In 1927 he was hired by Real 8uk Hosiery Mills of Indianapolis to "get" Louis Budenx, hosiery union organizer and editor of Labor Age...
...26, New Bedford local...
...In this ¦ah the courts will enjoin a strike, no ssttsr how peacefully it may be carried a, saaOy because they don't like the •bat or purpose of the strike...
...A man who is laioVoff through no fault of his own should in simple justice get part of his pay just as a man who Is hurt on the job now gets part of his pay through workman's ccmpensaticn...
...But of course we have already or will support other' bills "and argue for them be fore the legislature committees...
...The State Executive Committee will hold its February meeting at 2 p. m. the day of the banquet Commonwealth Calendar The calendar committee urges those who have not settled for calendars to do so before Feb...
...It is only in Rumania that in addition to the many who hsve been murdered during ths last ten years, hundreds are still being tortured in prison...
...Penn Hotel...
...This, will ?** *e Judges from enjoining strikes ^atre carried on by peaceful methyl**1* because they don't like the 2*w of them...
...The statement also announces that C. E. Russell is vice president of 'the new "trade association...
...Vet no attempt has been made by any other labor group except the Socialist Party to get the state legislature to take action to remedy the unemployment situation...
...So far only a few hosiery manufacturers have fallen for the game...
...Harry Laidler In Los Angeles Thursday, Feb...
...S. P. NEWS Massachussetts Alfred Baser Lewis' dates art as follows: Feb...
...Laidler and the local Socialists are making every effort to get out a large attendance...
...New Jersey Norman Thomas To Speak Hudson County will hold its annual "Victory Ball" on Saturday, Feb...
...Readers of The New Leader, to which Dr...
...But if a man was getting out of work payments, at least to that extent he would still be able to spend and pay cash and at least to that extent unemployment would not interfere with his purchasing power...
...Two of the accused were condemned in their absence to 10-years' Imprisonment each ;only one was acquitted...
...and that, on the contrary, they can use periods of unemployment to cut wages or to make thenworkers speed up under fear of being laid off...
...We will also support the bills for state funds for workmen's compensation Insurance for automobile liability insurance...
...economists and "human relations in industry" professors, is again caught using one of the dirtiest weapons in the struggle against unionism—the labor spy...
...An employer could not turn out his horses to starve, just because his team lug business was slack and he had no use for them at the time...
...The society for prevention of cruelty to animals would prosecute him if he did...
...MacDonald himself has quits as shady a record...
...This affair will be held under the auspices of the 3rd A. D. Socialist Party, whose membership consists principally of young people...
...At the McCord plant he found that although a new man he was getting 60 cents an hour while others hired before were receiving only 45...
...Holyoke College...
...They gave him $2 for the initiation fee and instructed him how to Join so that no questions would be asked, by speaking to one Manvllle, president of the local and evidently another spy...
...it would ncrease minimum and maximum weekly payments for injuries respectively from (8 to $15 and from $18 to $25, and maximum total payment from $3,500 to $7,500...
...He was in charge of the western office of Sherman Service, premier labor spy agency, at the time that undercover concern was breaking the steel strike of 1919...
...This to not the first time that Corporations Auxiliary has been retained by Detroit auto companies...
...Night of Ball $1.25...
...tshw...
...We have provided, however, for one exclusive non-profit fund, so as to"save the competitive costs and the profits of the private insurance companies...
...So it Is reasonable to require the employing class to make provision for Idle workers just as they now make provision for idle horses or Idle machinery...
...For the workers ivho are laid off will naturally cut their expenditures to the bone, and as they cut down on what they spend the demand for goods and the orders placed for more goods will be/still further re duced, so that the situation is likely to become worse instead of better, fewer orders will come in to business, still more men will be laid off and so on, a vicious circle...
...You must certainly admit that our private letters to you do not justify the supposition expressed In ,the bulletin quoted above...
...Charles E. Russell is not a textile or hosiery man...
...On Unemployment lasarance Probably the most important of the four bills is the one which provides for a system of unemployment insurance...
...Three prizes will be awarded to the three beauties chosen by a committee of prominent Ptttsburghers...
...Feb...
...He also started with Sherman during the years when Sherman was building up the most efficient strikeliquidation service tn the country...
...The amnesty must not be put off till May 10, but those who hsve been condemned must be liberated immediately, irrespective of whether they ware in fault or not The pesos brought shout at home through the granting of such a general amnesty, which we "¦'»m'»w1 with all our energy...
...we hereby absolutely reject the statement that we are loyal to the movement in spite of Brookwood...
...Economic Baals for Brotherhood," Feb...
...R. V. Phillips, was indicted for inciting to murder in connection with that strike...
...Morris Hlllquit of New York City will be the principal speaker...
...Consequently unemployment would be less likely than now to cause a reduction In the workers' purchasing power as would bring on still further unemployment...
...21st...
...Spy Confesses The first spy to confess was one L J. Scarbury, who came to Detroit in May, 1928, and worked first In a Chevrolet axle plant then at the Graham-Paige plant But finally, on being discharged from this plant, he answered a "blind ad" in a Detroit paper, offering a stock room job, if he would report at 406 Hoffman Bldg...
...Conlantlj the police may break up a jatet she end even If the picketing anon avoid conviction by pleading fat their actions were lawful forms of ¦aneeftd persuasion" the primary object tt ae bosses, to break up the picket line, as ban accomplished and the strikers has BO effective redress...
...Hamdea ^ LocalHamden will hold its February meeting Thurday, Feb...
...Subject, The ¦wavimlr Basks tor Brotherhood...
...4: :30 at Wellesley College, and 8:30 at Providence...
Vol. 8 • February 1929 • No. 5
