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From the NEW LEADER MAILBAGHH SUaOOKWOOO AND COMMUNISM » Editor, The New Leader: Hearten of the financial section of the Hew York Times of task Sunday's lama assy read aa artfcde of great...
...A hopeful phase of their activity is that the trade unions in these states are supporting old age pensions...
...New York wi "Enclosed find $5...
...Frankly, Ralph is worried, but what gives this document special significance is tliat its author speaks with the assumption that he is the high caliph of the trade unions with official authority to speak for them...
...Mayor Walker's Doll 'J'HE Tublic Affairs Committee of the Socialist Party in this city has performed an important service in behalf of civil rights and of the trade unions by its effective exposure of Police Cornrniswooer Whakne alleged "crkn* fetus" which he desired the State Lr^sJatare to pass...
...Mary Donovan Hapgood writes as follows: "As to the Socialist Labor Party permit: On Saturday previous to the scheduled meeting we called up from 2S6 Hanover street Mr...
...A mains km 25 cents, gja pjn., in baniJ'WsWl s-Pivx years saw the chain kaem VaTooaries and etotrdng...
...The organized workers of every modern nation except the United States have their own political party which tells the tale of why we are the tail of the world's labor movement...
...Their opposition was based on the argument that the captain of police in that district told them if they gave us the use of their permit that Sunday, it would be revoked...
...Bronx Free Feilewship The Bronx Free Fellowship, meeting at Asure Masonic Temple, 1591 Boston road, near 172nd street, is planning an Interesting social evening for this Saturday night, March ISth...
...What about other big capitalists and big bankers ? In this document the Civic Federation is on the defensive and the big corporations that have employed Easley as their drug clerk must also share his anxiety...
...While I regret that I am about to sail for Europe to attend the launching of the new steamship Milwaukee, and have so little time to give you more information, in the event that there is any pecific case of prosecution charged, I will be glad to look into it and give you all the facts when I return...
...says the old gentleman, "who do not represent in the slightest degree the American labor movement...
...This wise chap is going to suppress crime...
...ifcg LEADER than sB taw ota* jf THE SAME OLD STORY Its the aaaae story bet aasaas hat tag...
...says Mrs Sej Brown of New York, as she renew...
...Ask the Boston censors and the injunction Judges...
...At the sane tsael orders "Pioneers of Freedom" sad pi ents the paper with a gift of tt Tom Skotak of Pennsylrsnsi ¦ makes s present of $1 and vita it 2 a Leopold Schneider is another as who has adopted.the habit of sns*Bj a new sub with his renewal "A grand, good paper...
...It was so comforting...
...Of course, the proposal was intended to reach criminals but workers would be the real sufferers...
...Louisville dburier-Jaumal...
...Against this total loss in demand for 275,000,000 tons by 1037, Ashley sees a gain in consumption due to Increase In population as 60,000,000 tons, with 78,000,000 to keep pace with the increased need for more energy...
...Their stubbornness is positively vexing...
...Reopened on a Monday, the mfU by Tuesday afternoon bad nrusteaed only three workers...
...Other grafts suffered proportionate reductions.' At the Ouenther mill a girl who protested was told "she ought to be glad to get 25c because down south they are doing the same work for from 12 to 15c...
...What strikes us as humorous in this argument is that it is made by a fat exploiter who ^presents capitalist interests that are suckled by tariff legislation...
...C. H. Dodge, assistant engineer of the H. C. Prick Coal Co...
...S50.ooo.oo0.ooo will then be available if necessary...
...RALPH M. KASLEY of the National Civic Federation has celebrated his 71st birthday in a unique way by issuing a long six-page broadcast as an answer to Professor John Dewey's critical consideration of Mr...
...but what about steel magnates...
...i Insult Company^ GsiV'j Find Man Compti^m To Debate With ThemM Chlcag-e, — Ntmus TbaaaBs ~m elanst candidate far 9 *tm*\um last election, waa to hare esastaJM eeaaUea ef central sf the ^ Wee here last week with s >+^H tattve mt the Insafi tatersesa JM The -Cetaasenwealth Ess— *j paay, the laaaB srgaaasssswS WM screed last Winter ts sapsr/ si m Passent to Mr...
...The rising of generals in Mexico every few years simply shows that they are more of a general nuisance than anything else...
...He adds that the labor movement does not "want ihe Ber...
...Between the nether millstone of speedup and mechanisation, and the upper millstone of lessened demand, the miner's job is being squeesed to bits...
...They must not give any impression that dual organisations will be favored under any circumstances...
...The best paper we em »at 1 staff en ear paper has eeaaarw |j renewal mt ceaTaa...
...A Socialist mass meeting was arranged and every speaker on the program of the convention was allowed to speak at our mass meeting...
...Powers tried to get in to the meeting to speak—but couldn't...
...Such evidence indicate1- tliat we are becoming -laves of machines and it is doubtful whether the ultimate cost to purchasers ,,f commodities is lower than when they were made by the more simple processes...
...a • • Because Hoover was inaugurated at Washington does not mean that the capital of the republic has been moved from Wall Street but that Wall Street is still snug at the capital...
...No combination among them If they want to prosper...
...Bests ¦ sub...
...Trade unions, Socialists, and humanitarians support it: a variety of capitalist interests, including the Civic Federation, oppose it...
...nard Shaws" and their kind...
...Thomas...
...We have afforded every opportunity for open-air raeetmgs and free speech and when several cities refused to entertain the League tor Freedom and Peace la convention, Milwaukee entertained them...
...It was at about 2:30 that they finally told us that we couldn't have the permit...
...More hydroelectric power will cut coal consumption another 35,000,000 tons...
...sal donation of $5...
...Where Is Your Br»«J T» night...
...Lessened demand because of greater efficiency in utilising fuel will account for a drop of 179,000,000 tons of soft coal s year, said Ashley...
...He could be jugged if found in "any place, public, or private, under circumstances indicating" that he was going to commit a crime...
...Lang Beeea...
...UPTON SINCLAIR...
...2a the near future these stores win In r rasas tar thoosaada...
...Yes, Socialism would destroy the family...
...The program will be Oriental in nature, and talent by visitors from other lands is planned...
...In New York City there are, all sins as it may sound, huuakads of little Tillages, each of course, a part of the larger city, but stm quite complete la Itself...
...Thane stores are steal branrhss of many large •MeawassssCaM* ^ The A * P. Co- the First Naftoaaf •tores, Woorwortha, Kresgae and United Cigar atone are the bast known...
...As one who is inside the labor movement I can perhaps speak advisedly...
...TIMELY TOPICS (Cratiseee tnm a*t* 11 , Read This And Do Likewise »p HOBOS Cheat ef IBkwaj' lj*J "paper -eatra kW^Stajfl 'Tfcsusaia of Freedom'* and t "lev 4 Katherine Arthur of •aasaaJ sends hi 2 subs, one of thssy^S the Women's Trade Union TissL—I -I Bad mere trwO...
...a** U, tarn tease...
...The Socialist Labor Party denies the truth of my statement, and I wrote them that I would investigate the matter, and if I found my statement was incorrect I would promptly retract it...
...The wide latitude thus given to the police and the vague language of Whalen's bill show-, the man to be a dangerous amateur not to be entrusted with a public office...
...This was to be followed fey the enactment of a law that would practically strip every unemployed workingman of every right under the law by declaring him a "suspicious person...
...A person without "visible means of support" could be arrested...
...A civilized society would save this enormous waste in distribution and that consideration is a big item in favor of Socialism...
...In many instances worn out, obsolete machinery makes thentask unbearably difficult...
...Two more go to Philadelphia ast by Otto Hellmig" Otto Hellmlg orders "Boston," ** Katherine Hickry...
...O'Rourke and one or two others spent hours trying to secure the permit for us—but they were out-numbered by those opposed...
...The labor saving in production is not disputed and it has been assumed that through the whole range of industry the labor cost has been reduced...
...Socialist* are vitally Interested tn what these chains mean...
...However, in a communication addressed to the Schenectady Trades Assembly, he declares that his position in regard to "company" unions has been made plain in the journal of the International PhotoEngravers' Union, and intimates that it is his intention to reply in full to Prof...
...t Judging from what some A. F. of L. leaders are saying, what is wanted in each trade union is a sedition act to punish members who think it is possible to improve policies and methods...
...This is discouraging news for the drug squad of the Civic Federation...
...Ask the open shop masters...
...N. Y. THE g. L. P. IN BOSTON Editor, The New Leader: I have received from the editor of "The Weekly People," organ of the Socialist Labor Party, several letters denouncing my statement in "Boston," that the Socialist Labor Party In Boston shortly before the execution of Saoco and Vaflsetti first promised the Sacco-VanzetU committee the use of their permit to speak on Boston Common, and then at the last minute refused the permit...
...Beware of parting with your "blessings...
...When these stores are developed on the super scale it will then become necessary for the people ss a whole to own them collectively, at wen as the means of production and the means of transportation...
...With his riaawal aa asaa* H. Sch warts of Tessas sash sM asba...
...Keep the cbasnl for THE NEW LEADER...
...Ask the Harry Thaws...
...On top of this the stocking bosses are trying to bring in the multiple machine system, which requires each worker to tend two or more knitting machines Instead of one as at present...
...Linked into the whole fabric of our present aadstanea' is tits asieetlraTs of value, pries and profit...
...In each state the line-up is clear on this measure...
...It would destroy civil rights...
...Why does the owning class oppose the Socialist program...
...He makes only one reference to its finances by denying that the steel trust has contributed...
...If we estimate 5,000 as the population of the average viHage, either in New York City or in the country, we find that for each village there are many stores, many selling the same class at goods, others operating naaeMsnfly and SB eostty aaf lliiiliiisii ij A few yearn ahead we wm find to the jtoast* ay jass^etogs And when there are enough small retail chain.stares In thai country the different aaaaawsP will converge into one arigtssy astofl n baaia, and Shea conatracBBn win begin an then super stores capable of supplying a vfflege of 5.000 people or more...
...It weakens "independence'' and without "a constant effort at self-help the individual caunot hope to attain an independent future...
...Every time I hang it out some eosarade assembles and attempts to speak...
...Socialists are taking a leading part in this drive in New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut and a few other states...
...S The easiest way to secure ss» *t have subscription cards always «*¦* Why not send for a few today...
...Thomas Flynn of Brooklyn, desiring a statement from Mayor Daniel W. Hoan...
...It would endanger human life...
...But his "selling costs doubled in the same period, leaving hint worse off than lie tore...
...John J. Kinlsey...
...Socialists or revolutionists were wantonly persecuted and arrested by the police of your city, acting under instructions from the Socialist administration...
...The paper it tat k of all," he writes...
...At the present rate of development of mass production and transformation of workers into robots, managers of plants will have increasing difficulty to define the difference between a "hand" and a lever...
...I am quite as amenable to what he says about the menace of company unionism in the official Journal of his international union aa I am to the specific charge made against him in the New Republic by Prof...
...HERBERT M. MERRILL...
...Thus a speaker representing exploiting interests before a legislative hearing in Connecticut said that it penalizes "thrift"' as it taxes the "thrifty" to provide for those who are not...
...As a matter of fact Milwaukee was one city where free speech was not molested...
...The girls at the Iris plant are not showing great haste to come back at the lowered wages...
...We suggest a change in the method of calling the roll in the United States Senate...
...MassschaaSk THE OLD G.UARD RKSPOSU A sub and $2 to the Sustains* Ps of THE NEW LEADER from Mat W llch of Ohio...
...A shrinkage of mine "employment in 1937 to half of the peak during the war time expansion Is expected by experts...
...Matthew Wolfs trade union views...
...That may be so...
...How the proposed measure would have affected workers on strike is told in the story on another page...
...George M. Ashley, at the Coal Mining Institute, saw coal markets suffering a net loss of 137,000.000 tons in 10S7, ss compared with present consumption of 600,000,000 tons...
...of PMJ JSpsk * boy will not depend entires...
...t Oh...
...Many girls have to quit work In these mills after a few years, with health broken by the speedup...
...And this leads me to say that the Socialists who participate In conferences for reforming the A F. of L. will have to "watch their steps...
...Here is a case where a polish ad doll is taken out of a depart merit store and placed at the head of the Police Department...
...school books for his knowledft«] heroes of history...
...No city in this country durign the war or since has enforced the constitutional safeguards as weU as Milwaukee...
...Even though they refused us the use of the permit, they did not nave another meeting on the Common that year, as an public meetings at least political ones were barred...
...I submit, herewith, paragraphs from a letter just received from Mary Donovan Hapgood whose titimate connection with the case is known to everyone, and whose word I accept, and I, therefore, see no reason for changing my statement in "Boston...
...Dewey and other critics...
...Now will the Europeans please be reasonable about this...
...81 up to the active members tt set t»i that all the Party members ere a* sfribers ef THE SEW LEADU Tuo \ears rub to the paper,$1 ft a years dues to THE SEWLEA ER PUBLISH!SG ASS0...
...Assembly Dtsl...
...Rarely have we enjoyed a document as we have this one...
...Kruekkoiu of tkr9ti* lbth...
...HARRY DCANB War-Time Freedom In Milwaukee COMB Communists of Brooklyn have ^ drawn upon their Imagination, a frequent source of information for them, in ascribing to the Socialist administration of Milwaukee a policy of suppression of free discussion during the World War and for some time after...
...That would mean a production of 463,000,000 tons, against 600,000,000 now...
...Paid by the piece and speeded up by a production bonus given the foremen, they can average between 14 and IS dosen a day If they are expert...
...At any rate the mere fact that a big federation of powerful capitalists and bankers assumes to speak for the labor movement is extraordinary and we are glad to pass it on to trade unionists £or their information...
...It is a revolution as profound as the industrial revolution which accompanied the application of steam power and the inventions of Arkwright and others in the textile industry more than a hundred years ago...
...Puzzle...
...The fact is that Mayor Walker's doll has proven to be a dangerous incompetent...
...This in itself is a 100% lenrease over the machine's former efficiency...
...It exhibits anxiety for the future of his national drug store...
...The Iris knitters, called back to work after a 10-week layoff, are offered 22c a dosen where they formerly got 30c...
...Oriental costume Is requested but not required...
...There weren't more than nine members at' the meeting that Sunday—and at least three of these had been sure we could get their permit...
...O'Rourke, and other members of the S. L. P., with whom I spoke, also took this view of it...
...It would simplify matters if, instead of names, steel, copper, banks, railroads, coal, textiles and super-power were called...
...This is now disputed and it may be questioned whether the increased cost of distribution does not enhance the cost...
...Socialism would have the industries publicly owned for the welfare of all...
...Mind you I am not saying that there was sufficiency of evidence to justify the action in regard to Brookwood, but only that there appears to be some evidence of the contamination of Brookwood by Communists...
...All but a few members would respond...
...When they become nameroas enough they win he able to fores the independent store owner out of business on account of tremendous capital aad unlimited purchasing power...
...Belter attended meetings SBSSSS posted membership results fml wider circulation of your paper...
...YIPSELS ON THE JOB Lester Shulmsn has bees esse I work among the Yipsels of Bit ¦ ford...
...James A Smith of Indians S*el he finds it hard to Interest iaw)*M workers he comes in contact w*1 by keeping at It, lands an unset sat Some of those who were sloe * ¦ scribing, are the ones who SSSSI write, "Enclosed find list ot saass* I recently aecured...
...A demonstration of prosperity by the chief stockholder In the Iris concern, who ass just purchased a splendid new home, does not make the girls more anxious to take the pay cut...
...An article by Stuart Chase in the New Republic points out that the enormous distance through which raw materials must be gathered, the advertising required to reach prospective buyers, and the whole system of hiq;!|-powrred salesmanship may conMime the savings made in production...
...As Andy Mellon is still running the nation's finances it isn't necessary for him to place a cut of an aluminum teapot on his official letterheads to advertise whom he is serving...
...They must not do any thing that will lay themselves open to a charge that they are mutating the Communists by starting "cells" and "nuclei" within the existing bona fide unions...
...And furthermore they should not get the impression that the teaching staff of Brookwood has been "illy white," and that high officials ot the A P. of L. condemned that institution without a scintilla of evidence...
...Alfred Baker Lew...
...tells how operators get more coal with fewer men...
...The fuB devstoprnent of these chain concerns are quite necessary to the coming of swCfcllsSsn, tt capital ism dies a natural death...
...It is an example of what a mmority party even' without representation in the legislature can do...
...More power to you...
...It would destroy the freedom of workers...
...As we understand the modern version of the tariff, the United States should shut out all foreign goods and nations abroad should admit all American goods...
...a right to hare Its protest noted, and I, therefore, submit this letter...
...The strategy- of the exploiting classes is to delay action by insisting on more investigation...
...Moreover, the sheer waste of energy of high-powered salesmanship shows thaKthe boasted "efficiency" of Hooverized capitalism really proves to be a matter of saving at the spigot and wasting at the bunghole...
...Schenectady...
...It is incoherent in spots and wanders all the way in its pillorying of men and women who dislike drugs from Dewey to Lenin...
...For example, he points out that one manufacturer in 1926 "required forty minutes of total pay-roll labor to produce" a gurn article in his factorv and two vears later he reduced this to twenty minutes...
...Bach of these stores takes the piece ot several ef the old style country stores...
...The Socialist Labor Party, however, has...
...Hosiery Bosses Raid Girls* Pay Envelopes, Cut Pay 26 Per Cent...
...In the meantime he has run amuck, driving- through civil rights in raids and arrests and offering-, a smirk m answer to crticisms...
...Their regular work day Is between 9% and 10 hours...
...Malcolm F. Dorfman, (age Bfl receives a gift of "Pioneers of ISBl from Israel Llndel...
...In it yoif transmit to me the statement ¦ that has been circulated, as follows: That at some time, presumably immediately after the war, radicals...
...Ask Fall and Doheny...
...The story of this victory is told on page 2 of this issue and The New Leader cccrrmends it to our readers...
...It would promote corruption on a vast scale...
...We" are opposed to you...
...This, in the face of the fact that the governor refused to allow the meeting here...
...w**3 far the debate raised arsaat ¦ Mere, director ef the CeataW^B Persia, was taf erased by °*^b snoaweatta Edison that ft *V¦ debate Mr...
...Eleven of them signed *H dotted line...
...That's tee a»l press has been built up...
...The formal program will be followed by refreshments and dancing...
...The members of the unions throughout the country will be interested in this assumption of the role of trade union spokesman by the man who secretly corresponded with steel magnates in the big steel strike of 1919...
...I have been a trade-unionist for the same number of years that I have been a member of the Socialist Party—twentysix—and am the present secretary of the Schenectady central labor body...
...The old red flag ain't what it used to be...
...O'Rourke, one of the members of the S. L. P., and In fact their leading spirit...
...The contemporary revolution is one of increasing mass production in great quantities, displacing labor, intensifying exploitation of labor, enormously increasing the volume of production and transforming the workers into robots...
...Carmel of the A'sciss Party instructed Leo Pryibynusbt order $10 worth of sub carts, h usual the "instructions" were prm*" ly complied uith...
...Ha keeps Maaaasaaaab the Baae Ughi as Car ss ear oasa* With the renewal ef L lasses*, Waynesboro, comes a rift at $L E. E. Hartteg ef CsswssBsj a m aaber eentrlbatar Is tat aasaaa Fund...
...I desire to brand this statement as a malicious falsehood...
...In the meeting on Sunday, Mr...
...wrote him on January 24 And five days later the Milwaukee Mayor sent the following reply: "My dear Comrade Flynn: "Your letter of January 24th> duly received...
...From the NEW LEADER MAILBAGHH SUaOOKWOOO AND COMMUNISM » Editor, The New Leader: Hearten of the financial section of the Hew York Times of task Sunday's lama assy read aa artfcde of great sagnlnesnoe in cstmecaasn with the Hoover proountiameuto on "ludlitdiishsTii" Herr W. E. von Marx, one of the vbdttog German bankers, declares that German manufacturers will have to be educated in the ralu« of conaobdsUen aad comhmatfon "The German manufacturer," be says, «is ordaneruy mteneehr awltvtdnaUsUe, and tt is difficult to show him the value ot mergers by dung the enormous progress made along tins baa in America...
...Machines and Speedup Squeeze Miners' Jobs PITTSBURGH — (FP) — Where's the coal miner's job going...
...the man who heads an organization dominated by company-union and anti-union capitalists, the man who has never given us a chance to ascertain the source of the funds of the National Civic Federation...
...He may be an attractive model for a department store but as head of the Police Department he is a dud...
...He came to the headquarters Saturday P. M and at that time felt sure that the S. L. P. would give us their permit...
...Dewey...
...Obviously the "individualism" of which Hoover spoke is only intended to influence the psychology of workers...
...Theaaai " ^ssbbs Thomas spake to a ***?rm at the Add phi Theatre, ¦tiUty preset if to seal • tatrre later en to BTSsesS B^Pl ef view...
...Get a shot of dope from the National Civic Federation...
...Pioneers of Freedom" and t mi ¦ to W. E. Blynn of Michigan...
...READING, Pa—(FP)—$1.20 a day waa snatched from the psy envelopes of girl hosiery workers when the Iris mill, the Guenther mill and the Kltzmiller mill of Reading simultaneously announced wage cuts averaging 26...
...All with best auk from Ernest Welsch of Long iaW Tuo from Lawren.e Von Cm*)i Battle Creek uith a promise of s* to follow soon ' Local Mt...
...O'Rourke was very sorry...
...to some extent in England and that its impact is being felt in other countries...
...CaOf...
...The National Civic Federation should be listed as a medical society considering that its chief function is to drug labor into contented sleep...
...Here s girl worker reported that she must push herself all day to get out 12 to 14 dozen pairs...
...I A two year's sub from h*Ts3| ttR| of Buffalo...
...We went to their meeting to get even the Information that they refused us—and immediately from there went to the Common and started the meeting shortly after...
...Our Industrial Revolution JT IS generally agreed among students of postwar economic development that within the past ten years an industrial revolution has taken place in the United States, in Crermany...
...In honor of Hoover's Itaisjnissa says R. H. Rltchey, New York "I i sending subs to the amount of tilKurt H Sell of Detroit t» —thaaa about our paper...
...Ask the militarists...
...No matter how many investigations are made they always want another one and this attitude will continue till they are defeated...
...Dewey.' I regret that Woll did not accept the offer of The New Leader to reply to Prof...
...Bore Pmi Branch, brought t« 25 subs...
...They were to have s meeting on Sunday forenoon, at which we all took It for granted that it would be just s formal turning over of the permit to us...
...How's the auction business, Dan...
...Natural gas and oil will account for 65,000,000 tons that wont be needed...
...With 150,000 admittedly unemployed after tens of thousands have fled the Industry to escape starvation, the coal diggers of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Kentucky and- West Virginia look dubiously to the future...
...Imagine the pigs drawing rich nourishment from government legislative aid and stopping only long enough to tell us that if we get a modest piece of necessary legislation it will destroy our "thrift'' and hope of attaining "an independent future...
...How anxious they are over the welfare of the aged workers whom they cast on the scrap heap...
...At least two New York dailies credit tins Socialist work with being in part responsible for this victory...
...Perhaps they also think they speak for the trade unions through their clerk...
...Fat Weeps For Us JJESPITE the widespread activities of the National Civic Federation against old age pension legislation such legislation becomes more and more an important issue...
...The operating costs have been cut 15% to 40...
...Where a score toiled in former years with powder, pick and shovel to grub out 200 tons of coal, an unproved cutting machine now gnaws out 350 to 500 tons each shift...
...And, while tt may be that Matthew Woll is compromised by belonging to the Civic Federation...
...In order to make a day's wages they must Increase this by time snatched from their noon hour to get extra tops ready and mend defective stockings...
...Daniel W. Hoan, Mayor...
...j *9 A Worried Drug Clerk JjJR...
...We hope that those millions of farmers in the West who still have their shirts were able to hear Hoover's inauguration address...
...A rather comic argument is being made against this legislation...
...It might be just as well If some of our comrades would take the trouble to read the official proceedings of the* New Orleans Convention...
...IN A NUTSHELL Workers own no industries but capitalists do...
...This brings the net loss to 137,000,000 tons...
Vol. 8 • March 1929 • No. 9
