MARION MASSACRE VICTIMS WERE SHOT IN BACK
Marion Massacre Victims Were Shot In Back Mill Owner Gloats Over Six Killings Fiendish Brutality Fails to Halt Strike~-600 Workers Tie Up the Mill MARION. N. C— (FPJ— Toll of the dead in...
...fi You have made unworthy appointments to the Magistrates' courts, Winding the appointment of pottUdaa* and fixers...
...B. C. Vladeck, McAlister Coleman, Auspices Debs Branch, Young Circle League...
...The Socialist candidate further alleged that immediately after the franchise was granted on July 28th...
...I set *tt my boy all night...
...17 3 30 p. m. Queens Baptist Church Queens VUIage...
...There was pasttan* of lead used In tbe world aar to km every man...
...More than any other one thing that women can do to end war is to work with their own children...
...No Englishman who ever visited this country made so fine an impression...
...Special Ajveal U the West, ^ Calis Rotter, of New York, fi^jpay several days in Chicago collecting jM% for the drive, reports that sh» ha* AtaA collected over $300...
...Otbsr striken are lying at death's door...
...During the former strike the Sheriff had demonstrated his entire incompetence to handle a strike situation...
...He pleaded for a greater appreciation of spiritual values...
...you say there were 60 to 76 jga sred...
...Speakers: Norman Thomas, A. I. Shiplacoff...
...Moreover, we are able to carry our conversations without circumlocution and in absolute frankness with recognition of the point of view of both sides...
...were crying outartfrry* The men brushed tear* from their eyes...
...I didn't have no hope for ntea the first...
...Speaker: Ncrman Thomas, James Oneal...
...Socialist candidate for Mayor, Charles Solomon, Socialist candidate for Comptroller, and Algernon Lee, Socialist candidate for President of the Board of Aldermen, it is announced by Morris Feinstone, president of the organization...
...The delegation was augmented as representatives of various trade unions, including the International Leather Goods Workers Union, the International Ladies Garment Workers of America, Amalgamated Clothing Workers oi America, the United Hebrew Trades, and of Socialist Party branches, crowded into the reserved section as the time for Mac Donald's arrival approached...
...Young Long, a boy of -18 up in the hospital, will give a vrrid picture to anyone who wants to listen .to him, of' how the sheriff -and deputies Shot with...
...the big railroad center, Asheville sat oner Carpllna cities...
...Not all of the *°*n Is cn the side of such a man as 8Mdwln of the Marion Mills who comes, ¦7 tbe way, not from North Carolina but '•tttaore...
...he-says...
...Tuesday, Oct...
...11, 8:30 p. m. P. S. 189, East New York avenue and Rockaway parkway, Brooklyn...
...A titter of laughter interrupted him...
...The demonstration that is in progress is in Itself of more Importance than any incidental conclusions that he and I might come to or matters concerning our two nations...
...jq Ton have not given us an honest * budget, a proper consolidation of departments or the elimination of political tobs...
...Women should work for peace by interesting themselves in the government of their country...
...All night long, he ****d...
...Tire President Gorman denounced the sasaere the "most disgraceful incident •as perpetrated on a decent union...
...W. W. Atterbury and Nicholas Murray Butler turned out to welcome to New York the Socialist premier...
...Bensonhurst, Brooklyn...
...jj* Fight On L. Lewis International Executive Board of *• Ontt>d Mine Workers of America has j***0-sustained President Lewis in refus¦» to permit Powers Hapgood to recover ¦a anion membership which Lewis took *** from turn without a trial...
...fiety 1st party state secretary of Illinois, itports that $497 was collated for te drive through his office...
...Chicago has raised ipprontnately $1200 for the drive so far...
...16, 8:15 p. m. Trinity Methodist Church...
...Adidas Ftendishneau Described "Then he gassed me right in my face and he gassed Luther...
...operated twice on him and put to htm...
...Large banners, welcoming MacDonald, the first Socialist Prime Minister of Great Britain, were held aloft by the Young People's Socialist League, and by the leaders of the various Socialist and trade union leaders and members as the automobile in which MacDonald sat swung around towards the City Hall...
...MacDonald was rushed by a heavy police escort to the Pennsylvania Station where he took a train for Washington...
...The older little girls are crying too...
...1877...
...Speakers: Norman Thomas, Charles Solomon, Jacob Panken, Edward F. Cassidy, Algernon Lee, William Karlln...
...Tuesday...
...This was the interpretation Mr...
...He showed his ignorance of the North Carolina labor movement by declaring that the trouble at Marion grew out of "the efforts of a new union, based upon entirely different principles from the American Federation of Labor, trying to dominate and control the factory, and force the employers to employ only men belonging to that union...
...In the few days following October 1. more than $1,000 was received and as news of the extension spreads contributions begin to increase...
...All he asked, he said, was that he might play the part of road-mender in building for this and new generations a broad, high road to lasting peace...
...Thomas said...
...aC ]f there were, I'll say the aSaaT sad bis men were good marks¦akhrta Gloats an KUUnga •B ever I organise an army, they m have jobs with me...
...He said he...
...J*** was silence in the sunlit yard...
...MacDonald has property ab^|ina doing...
...For once the ideal and the practical are the same...
...Luther J** had no chance to live...
...Speaker: Norman Thomas...
...He read from the majority report of the manufacturers committee, which recommended that wages, hours and wortlng conditions to the industry be probed, in view of <the...
...New York City...
...Green's telegram was then read, and Wheeler inserted into the Congressional Record a series of press articles, including one from The ration denouncing the International Labor News Service far sugnatiner t)m-Xti» Oaatpnia...
...who ordered tbe fatal fusillade after he had fired g$a bullets into the strikers' faces, held Sam Vickers, another massacre victim, and shot him...
...Fanny Rata, treasurer, who...
...Other deputies, was beating him...
...Many of them felt that the conditions for fund raising will be better in October than they were during the summer when they were first called upon to enlist for the drive...
...11, 8:90 p. m. P. S. 178, Dean street and Hopkinson avenue, Brooklyn...
...WEVD 7:20 to 7:35, Louis Liebennan...
...Breaks Down Prejudices "More important than all is the great evidence shown by the press and the American people of genuine friendliness to the Prime Minister of Great Britain and to his people...
...Resolution Shelved Simmons, admitting'that Southern textile wages were not ideal, said they were almost as good as those paid in the North...
...1*27, the company went to Wen street in an attempt to "peddle the franchise...
...By way of citing real issues against Walker, Thomas proceeded to cite ten Walker failures...
...without trial...
...Some branches that had turned in their subscription lists with what had been collected on the assumption the drive would end on October I, the date originally set for the conclusion of the drive, wrote to Marx Lewis, drive director, for additional lists...
...Hey eyes are *7...
...8:30 p. m. P. S. 156, Sutter avenue and Granton street...
...who was rent to Mrr'cn by the Federal Council of Chur-he...
...A. Stewart, another picket, firm under the mil) lawyers' grilling, stated that be saw sheriff's deputies shoot fleeing strikers in the back...
...Which secured a bus franchise calling for financing of about 816.00Q.OOO...
...baa gone and put her bouse to *** and swept it in the face of death...
...Cross-examination by mill attorneys failed to shake their story...
...West End Chamber of Commerce, Colonial Mansion...
...One of the clearest state¦***a of the vested right of the mill •wkers to their job that I have ever seen ¦ Published in a country weekly, the "rauntaln Inn Tribune" of South Caroedited by that brilliant Journalist...
...Dr Neistadt declared that he was confident of raising all of the balance before the end of October...
...Sara Bern helm of the Labor Bureau has gone at her own expense as our representative in Marten...
...The titer, which is signed by Clarence BenlS...
...Labor Party government of Britain made his appeal for understanding...
...Many reactionaries who had denounced him in vile terms during the war because of his Socialist stand, fawned before him in what must have been em harassing salutations...
...Albert Nobbett and Walter Wlnnish...
...hand.' "It looks like.they were taking.careful aim...
...L. I. Speaker: Norman Thomas...
...The subject of Wheeler's resolution was then dropped...
...General Electric had denied any interest in Equitable as far back as Nov...
...Old Preacher Cicero Queens, ftsa tbe hfll country, dropped to hi* ban to prayer: "Oh God, I have baptaad a heap of people, and have been a a heap of funerals, but this is tbe attest day this old man ever saw...
...Welcome, McDonald...
...someone asked...
...17, 12:30 Free Synagogue Forum, 40 Wea 63th street...
...I hope that during Mr...
...In addition there will be 54 street corner meetings, as listed cn page seven of this week's issue of The New Leader...
...WEVD g to S.20, William Karlln: WEVD 9:25 to 9:45, Harry W. Laldler: WEVD 10 to 10:20, James OneaL Wedaeaaay...
...Burerr be fc „, • man and his memory of yean jar gone in his own country and te jag act keen for him not to be aware pa aniaf- to the great crusade for _awb tbe support of those big...
...From City Hall...
...Thursday...
...There is nothing that I can report at the present moment on the conversations with the Prime Minister...
...The committee has already sent Mrs...
...This agreement was not k3pt Mr Baldwin of the Marlon Manufacturing Company deliberately broke his word and exulted in his cleverness...
...On the other hand, the BaasM Revolution was employed by both datsaat and dishonest communists and secret sa> vice men to split and wreck us...
...I should sleep better nights if we had it instead of a deficit...
...fit A. F. of L. JssfW Foncvd ft was a great satisfaction to read that h riiisM »t William Green's opening adanai at tbe A. P. of L. convention in Twonio b" unquivocally endorsed old-age ¦batons for which Socialists have been tatting so long and spoke In terms of axil hearty sympathy with Ramsay aacDmid's crusade for peace...
...16th, WEVD 1 to I: jo, Alexandra Schoenbsum...
...Friday...
...City Financed Equitable That the Equitable Coach Corporation...
...W R. SnTW...
...Thomas placed on Mayor Walker's refusal to discuss Issue* of tbe campaign until after registration week...
...He Suffered Horrible'' "l*i*z never lost consciousness...
...In part as fot'ess: "We appeal as the western and mkaOt western members of the national sasstUve committee of the Socialist Party $1 our western Comrades to put forwsrl their best efforts to insure the smmsj of the drive...
...The conservatives, politicians and nonoffice holders, bowed in deference...
...14th, WMCA...
...MacDonald's every move has been recorded in the press from coast to <"oast...
...Beside the marines and soldiers standing in military stiffness were a dozen members of the Women's Peace Society, an organization of absolute pacifists, bearing the placard, "Disarm...
...Oftb aria spite of the tragedy and the many ¦•-strock Moore children, the house is •** and swept...
...Harry W. Laldler, B. C. Vladeck...
...New Signs of Life "This onslaught has run its course...
...Speaker: Norman Thcrnas...
...He was all pierced with J*|s through the body...
...New families were brought into the mill village and the resulting bitterness can be imagined...
...S. probe WASHTNOTCH*r-(PP)—While Ramsay McDonald, -Socialist premier of Great Britain, was being escorted past the capltol building in the course of his official welcome to Washington, on the afternoon of October 4, Senator Wheeler of Montana, progressive Democrat, was pleading in vain with the aged reactionary Democrat Overman and Simmons, of North Carolina, to permit tbe consideration of his resolution for a federal Investigation of the industrial conflicts In the textile mills of the South...
...There are different stories about his ghastly death...
...United Hebrew Trades Endorse Norman Thomas The United Hebrew Trades, a federation of local trade unions affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, has formally endorsed Norman Thomas...
...Sheriff Oscar Adkins...
...18, 8 p. m. Workmen's Circle Branch 1. Irving Plaza...
...Monday, Oct...
...FuhHrststo^ various lists which have been p»»»a*f* has been hsffl up because of spsjs* a>>: lUtlone...
...This testimony was devedoped in the bearing conducted by Judge Harding by three strikers...
...Then I couldn't see nothing...
...on Cambridge streets or in the Harvard yard...
...Jtar* in the back yard...
...Nothing...
...This was George Jonas...
...Moore bnde In front of her fire...
...9 Yjkzt Board of Education Js not of tBe caliber or point of view to be entrusted with the task of training our children...
...Mayor Walker In a stereotyped address voiced pleasant words of welcome...
...You have done next to nothing to give us honest and efficient marketing so as to reduce the cost of Irving, "e...
...He has been an open advocate of Gen...
...From A. J. Muste and others on the scene in Marion," Mr...
...Only the most osarageous of Socialists cared to stnaggls ss> The record of unselfish loyalty Of •* eastern comrades, who raised $4 per so* of the money in New York and spent Bw than 12 per cent in their vicinity, sides pledging their credit heavily $9 St* the campaign bills keep up the 8$$* -should have been an inspiration to *• snrtahnti of the entire nation...
...In two addresses, at the Community Center...
...Speaker: Norman Thomas...
...remits $265, and promises to caDnt several additional pledges, bringing tat total contributed by that district threat* the branch uo to $300...
...M. Feigenbaum, Algernon Lee, Harry W. Laldler, James Oneal, Harry Mall is...
...175 East Broadway...
...Ballsret...
...Walker's Silence Explained Speaking Sunday at Public School 218, Clarkson avenue and 84th street, Brooklyn, Thomas urged a heavy registration, and then added: 'I sometimes think that the whole Democratic plan of campaign Is to maintain apathy until after registration week...
...N. C— (FPJ— Toll of the dead in the Marion ma«sacre mounted to six when W. 8. Black, striker, died in the Marlon hospital of wounds inflicted by deputy fheriffs when they wantonly fired into the ranks of cotton mill f*cket.s...
...parried President Baldwin, ato'atoed by your correspondent...
...Sign* of M> first appeared again during the last IB* ttenal Convention...
...Three other pickets are still in a critical condition...
...Dropping his daily questions for a day, Thomas oitzxed an answer to the qu?ct:on, "Wherein have I failed...
...Many can aafaar do better, while there are hardly sax, s| matter how small, and no* matter aha they have already done for the SsM that cannot raise $20 more, tf ttsjt are any that cannot pay the $31 amm they can pay as much of it as poassh and pledge to pay the rest Victory | new within our reach...
...Several contributions were enclosed to bring up Maryland's quota...
...Thomas declared...
...A. I. ShlplacoS...
...From Reading, Pa., where the total collected through the Socialist organization, and exclusive of the amounts received from Reading at the drive headquarters through the personal appeal that was issued by Norman Thomas, national chairman of the drive, amounted to $550 on October 1st, comes the report that the Socialists there will intensify their efforts to increase that saaSBatv/Ag^Jj ber of Socialist branches^nFJig^v port that various affairs will JhyZL»jl...
...Thursday...
...Jacob Afros: WEVD 5 to 5:20...
...Speaker: B. C. Vladeck...
...national secretary...
...Such a pasting can only be good In its genami (fleet...
...Friday, Oct...
...Yet during all months while the Executive Board ^considering Hapgood's appeal he was **tng his living mining coal in a union mine in Colorado, helping tc organise the miners and to make effective the interesting plan of co-operation set up by the Rocky Mountain Fuel Co...
...He had always fallen back upon a call for troops...
...B. C. Vladeck, ¦ A. I. Shiplacoff, Louis P. Goldberg, Wm...
...William Boss will remain in a**a share the situation remain* tense atk » awaiting death list...
...Saefto BoMs Mill la Orip ajSj Oct Gardner and Nat Townpai personal representative, refused B>aaaaent on the union's charges...
...James Myers, industrial secretary of the Federal Council of Churches, Frank Gorman, vice president of the United Textile Workers, three North Carolina Federation of Labor officials...
...WEVD 6:55 to 7:10, Algernon Lee...
...Baldwin * ^ ^en had violated the agreement "j- tat first strike...
...We fortunately have no controversies between our countries to be settled...
...Thursday...
...was informed that the whole-situation ''seethed with revolt," because this high-protection industry turned a hard face to Its workers...
...Lon Bryson met us at at cat...
...Another funeral was held for Maa Soberts, IS, who died tbe monitor of October 4. laser at Funeral Services luge labor delegations were present a tlx atrricea from Elizabeth ton...
...Over $150 came fr-a braneka of the Finnish Socialist Federation taj the Jugoslav Socialist Pede-atfcm...
...Whether w« rSSO* the desired results now depends so J*** There is much to be done, espsciaaf *• the west...
...A full report on the affair has reached the State S;parJment from the American legation in Managua...
...10 ;H to 10:30, Algernon Lee: WEVD 5:4* to 6 p. m., Henry J. Bosner...
...More than $800 came but individuals who had read of the ate* sion of the drive, and some of them atf contributed to the first $30,000...
...Be makes the gesture of whipping a revolver from a pocket and of steadying' the shooting...
...Speaker: Norman Thomas...
...He declared that the New York World had discredited the accounts of grievances of workers in North Carolina published in other newspapers...
...Paraders wore badges on which were inscribed tbe words...
...1$* government's efforts have been expessa the communists discredited...
...A smet, as of death, broods over t» town...
...tssMs?£ amounts contributed by tsjjgjlx' through the drive head^uartsn^iM^S a dance on October 28, the ftam^L which will go to the drive...
...The record- might be enlarged...
...Thomas Cites 10 Walker Failures Says La Guardia's and E n r i g h t' s Reckless Charges Are Aiding Tammany ¦JVORMAN THOMAS, Socialist candidate for Mayor, declared Wednesday that the real indictment against Tammany Hall and the Walker administration Is being obscured by reckless and indiscriminate charges made by F. H. La Ouardia and Richard E. Enright...
...ft *: Federation Branches Otve "With almost 1.000 branches SM|£aV doing their part, no matter how asaS f may be...
...Detcey, Lee, Waldman Among Socialist Radio Speakers Mext Week Monday, Oct...
...Jim resumes hi* story...
...Suddenly as he rounded the corner of City Hall Square, a red banner greeted him and a "Welcome to" Comrade MacDonald—Socialist Party of America"— and the Young People's Socialist League sang the "International'' MacDonald ' straightened, smiled and waved, and Ishbel stood up and waved...
...MacDonald was looking a little tired...
...We will get on the average $30 from every s»| and branch, in addition to what baj'aV ready been received...
...The next meeting will be held October 16th, 8:30 p. m., at 175 East Broadway...
...Hiilqnit Seconds Motion An amusing slip occurred during the ceremonies during which Hlllqult displayed his ready wit...
...the other progressives saw that the appeal was hnncless...
...Letters, accompanied by contributions, began to stream into the national drive headquarters, at 23 East 16th street, as soon as published reports of tbe extension of the drive reached the various branches and locals...
...Jan Bryson took up the story...
...WMCA 9:15 to 9:30, Louis Waldman...
...15th...
...He Insisted that there are only two places in the state where any labor trouble exists, and that this trouble is due to Communists from New York and New Jersey...
...Mr...
...Wednesday...
...With what ar come from Individuals who made th** contributions to the national drive headquarters...
...14, 8:15 p. m. Women's City Club...
...J. Ramsay MacDonald...
...Tuesday...
...Vice PresiSBt potman of the United Textile workers, John A. Peel...
...Friday, Oct...
...When Mayor Walker declared on March 4. 1939, that he had believed the General Electric was behind the Equitable, he knew such was not the case, Mr...
...a*, accepts Baldwin s statements at face -kg that tbe agreement was not vto^ den though more than a hunanifititi bad been refused their (a, strike to still on with tbe union ratwfcst all but a hundred of the 600 araaar, «ot President Baldwin insists aaj fare than half the force is at aa...
...Security...
...On the one hand, all the pafet and ingenuity of the ruling dasM el the United States was employed to wto» us out...
...Questioned about how the Labor government is handling the unemployment problem, he said that the problem required time, but that his government is sowing the seed and were going to get results...
...during the month to help tt»2 over before November 1. '^JSfc Local Mew Bedford, which WsJi** contributed (60 to the fund...
...He urged the translation of this into definite achievements which would banish wars from the earth for all time...
...Cars carried the party through the canyon of lower Broadway which cheered MacDonald and rained down gala streamers of ticker tape from its mighty walls...
...But isn't it a pitiful thing when the ex-service men of America are fooled by a few professional patriots into denouncing not the propagandists for war but the friends of justice and peace...
...Socialist Drive On Road To Attainment of $50,000 Mark TIEIR doubts as to the possibility of raising a huge fund for the Soc.alist movement removed as a result of the showing made so far by the United Socialist Drive, Socialist party officials in every part of the country have responded to the decision of the National Executive Committee to continue the drive until November I by beginning anew the work of raising the $20,000 necessary to complete the S50.000 fund...
...A complete list of all contrawaaaw ^ the drive fund win be published i8a« the drive is concluded...
...overman blocks tj...
...Of course the Marion strike is on again...
...With delighted smiles they greeted the man who was thrown out of every club in England for opposing the war which profited them so much...
...15th...
...With the larger implications of J. Ramsay MacDonald's visit, this brief account cannot deal...
...In a stirring address, he pleaded with the United States to turn its back on materialism and the matter of piling up wealth...
...he said, was shot down right by Jim's Jim Bryscn was standing in the ***• tears streaming down his face, as * told the assembled crowd of friend* ** Petthbcrs of his brother's long with death during the night...
...Al |Lg* ktr...
...These conversations ere continuing in the most friendly of atmospheres...
...Friday Oct...
...Tbe Illinois Miner is interesting reading these da;-s...
...TIMELY TOPICS By Norman Thomas •x^awaasW Acquit* ELu Well jSt***^ topression made by bam...
...A Most Ctmmrdly Massacre The much heralded new capitalism has done less than nothing to avert one of tbe most cowardly massacres in American boar history at Marion, N. C. Nor is there as yet any indication whatsoever tost Gov...
...And for this the poor pay out of their poverty...
...AH speakers urged the building of the ssko as s tribute to the dead workers, asberts* funeral win be held tomorrow...
...Sheriff Adkins took ths gas...
...Even the hospital is under this influence a> that the wounded in the massacre are charged for treatment...
...we can raise the reransato' 820.000," Lewis states...
...During the long strike the Emergency Committee was almost the only source of relief The strike ended on an agreement that the strikers would be taken back...
...two bands...
...Victory boulevard and Forest avenue...
...8 h expected that before th* month il «** between $300 and $500 more will ¦ raised there...
...South—crimes like have happened In the North—but "¦¦anity against cruelty, the workers •mast the exploiters...
...We shall, of course, welcome any inquiry the Senate or anybody else may make...
...Two was dead I couldn't do nothing...
...Mac Donald's iks to Toronto he may have time injmneflr to greet the convention...
...Jacob Axelrad...
...8:00 p. m. American Association for Old Ag...
...Speaker: Norman Thomas...
...went on over a half mile of red *t road to Westley Bryson's house, 'stands on a little elevation, the moun¦*» rearing themselves magnificently * around it...
...Drive Extension Approved One of the first letters approving the decision to extend the drive, and promising to aid materially in bringing the quota of his State to completion as a result of the extension, came from Dr...
...J. B. Russell...
...Quillen...
...Children have been too long allowed to think of war as thrilling and wonderful," Ishbel MacDonald...
...Big Socialist Delegation GREETING Mac Donald not only as a distinguished visitor who had come to promote international peace but as the head of a kindred party which has succeeded in attaining power over the British Empire, New York Socialists estimated to have exceeded 2,000 joined in cheering MacDonald on his arrival...
...Friday, Oct...
...therefore, able to discuss our mutual problems in the long distance view and solely in the broad aspect of human welfare in the largest sense...
...The Socialist party of America ¦» emerged, as you know, from a terrible sa* siaught...
...Prime Minister of the United Slates—'" Fuller bepan...
...S. M. Neistadt, state secretary of the Maryland organization...
...Contributions to the fund are tt W sent to Mora an Thomas, chairnef* • Bast 18th wtreet...
...There is always a chance that the independents, as they so often do, will wake up too late, if they wake up at all...
...M. Feigenbaum, Hyman Nemser, Joseph A. Weil...
...Thomas again took up the Equitable Coach issue...
...Staten Island, and at "The Group," 150 West 80th street, Mr...
...We appreciate the reasons at Man policy why tbe Prime Minister •forest Britain cannot seem to advise star mam conventions or Socialist Parssgwsfla* on this official visit to Amergt> SSI more do tre appreciate tbe '5es5etes?^^^^'h?hab*tound^irne* jsf a friendly and informal meeting with .k-sastB deputation of Socialists in New Toot so we hope he will find time In some tanner to convey greetings to the official tody which represents the great bulk of organised labor in America...
...Speakers: Norman Thomas, Louis Waldman, James Oneal, Louis Epstein, Theodore Shapiro, William Halpem...
...Asked whether England would join a United States of Europe, he said that England would be "glad to join any move for a cooperative Europe, but would not if it were directed against any other power...
...WEVD 7:15 to 7:34, Carl P. Parsons...
...Hector Fuller, announcer over the city's radio station, was reading a flowery scroll of honor which was being bestowed on MacDonald by the city...
...I Cain't Tab Moeb "I cain't talk much about it...
...They should grow up to believe that it is better to live for their country than to die tor it...
...Witt Miss Minnie Welsberg...
...lected at a dinner held in Boston sal month...
...The society had previously • radioed him a message congratulating him on his stand against war that made him so heartily hated by all the "best people" in England a decade ago...
...I seen him at They are going to bring him home *a soon...
...T. W oraoaer, James Myers, Industrial secretary sf tbe Federal Council of Churches ¦at Ton Ttppett spoke lbs four coffins hi tbe strikers* lot b tbe Marion cemetery were covered att': towers, gathered by widows...
...But he knew us...
...He horrible...
...With his handcuffs, still on, he was laid on the operating table, a raass of wounds...
...MacDonald was given the key to the city...
...out to ratal fund of $10,000 for the drive, report) i satisfactory showing from all parti at the country...
...Not another member of tbe Senate came to Wheeler's aid...
...Neither of us has anything to reserve...
...S. H. Friedman...
...11, 8:30 p. m. P. S. 165, Lott and Hopkinson avenues, Brooklyn...
...WEVD 7:45 to g, John Dewey...
...It I gfjfcfcated that Gardner win be —aa] in his decision by Townaend...
...Within the aldermanic chamber at New York's City hall...
...Some- say he hit the sheriff with his cane and some say he didn't...
...As the Mac Donalds landed, they were greeted by a contradiction...
...was awful young to die, my Luther...
...WEVD 3:20 to 3:40...
...Speaker: Norman Thomas...
...Louis Sadoff Friday, Oct: 11, «rS0 p. m. P. S. 149, Wyona street and Sutter avenue, Brooklyn...
...The Socialist delegation paraded '.Torn the corner of Warren street and West Broadway, where the parade began at 8:30, to a section reserved by the Police Department on Broadway near City Hall Place...
...McAlister Coleman, Louis P. Goldberg, Iicuis Epstein, Theodore Shapiro...
...1. there was $53 Cross aBraJ Baker Lewis, a member of the ttatr-tf executive committee, who collected tan in addition to $1,025.00 which wm...
...Approximately $700 of the $1,000 assigned as the quota for Maryland has already been raised...
...Ma was with him all night...
...Be loaad the true aspirations of labor far ¦sn surely than those unionists who was a big cruiser program because they fleak it means more work for them...
...He aimed like be was going to shoot us and he told us to get out...
...22 Park avenue, Manhattan...
...he told press correspondents next morning...
...strike leaders were in Soviet Russia they would be "quietly shot...
...Thus the nation of Republican conservatism, of blatant capitalism, of Marion massacres, had a fullsized view of a Socialist at work...
...Term., sens sf the recent rayon strikes...
...and later was forced to forfeit the franchise, was originally organized by city funds, was the charge made Tuesday by Thomas...
...Himself once a stable boy, MacDonald was the soul of geniality and correctness, in his high silk hat, looking "more like a duke than most dukes ever look...
...hich Mayor Walker Is asking nightly at public movie-tone exhibitions...
...Enright's and La Guardia's tactics, the Socialist candidate asserted, are permitting Mayor Wall:er to cover up serious shortcomings in his administration...
...Saturday, Oct...
...When the gas cleared I was the only man a-standing There must have been 14 lying on tbe ground round me...
...Cohen defied the authorities and distributed a thousand of the circulars before he was arrested...
...funeral was held In the Marion saasaaore by Sheriff Adkins' ansssn...
...He Just s? *» *eath...
...rJsseh and children from yards In the SB vBage...
...108th street and 85th street...
...Satarday...
...Labor Leader Is Deported from Nicaragua WASHINGTON (FP).—Solomon de "elva, prominent in congresses of the Pan-American Federation of Labor as spokesmen for the Nicaraguan workers, has been deported from his country by President Mcncada as a plotter for the overthrow of the government...
...9:00 p. m. St...
...Of the more than $1,000 Which M raised towards the remaining tSBJSj since Oct...
...educational director of the Hosiery Workers union and Sara Bemheim of the Labor Bureau Interviewed Gov...
...In response, MacDonald broke through the formalities and spoke directly of his object in making the trip to America...
...I second the motion...
...Samuel H. Friedman: WEVD 6:15 to 6:30, Henry J. Bosner...
...Already six deaths have resulted and others are likely The destitution Is pitiful...
...Historic irony jested merrily as J. P. Morgan, Owen D. Young, Gen...
...Beyond a prepared greeting, MacDonald refused- to <b» interviewed, saying that he had to save his discussion of cruisers for President Hoover...
...As a result, our press was aB sat eliminated, our branches wrecked, m membership and leadership, including** National Kxactive Committee and Kueaae V. Debs, persecuted, indicted or jsflst Our finances were wiped out and •» spirit of many of us partially sad ¦ some cases wholly crushed...
...I profsandly hope that the whole A. F. of L. *ffl promptly put men and money as •*B as good wishes behind this fight...
...Denied ay Harvard and Cambridge authorities the privilege of passing out the circulars eith.-1...
...Brooklyn...
...In this industrial warfare at least the Emergency Committee can again temporarily renew its Red Cross activities and send help to the wounded and destitute...
...In tat long tbe teas money that is spent at wholly unproductive armament the mm money there will be for productive tatetprises tor the benefit of all workers...
...Carl Parsons, formerly National Commander of the World War Veterans, who led the veterans' fight for the release of prisoners sentenced for their opposition to the World War, led the cheering for the man whose opposition to the World War in England caused his temporary retirement from political life and his expulsion from numerous organizations of which he was a member...
...It will be enlarged by me during the campaign...
...All agree that be was shot and bandcuffed and then beaten to death...
...O. Max Gardner, himself a mill stockholder, on the Marion situation The labor delegation proposed an Investigation by a committee Including a representative of the U. T. W. They demanded an examination of the records and character of the deputies and on whether Pres...
...Thomas declared: "Miiyor Walker's failure to provide better housing is a bigger scandal than the Rothstein case," he said...
...Already Mrs...
...could be done for.- him...
...The Emeramey Committee which suspended activities on the settlement of the strike has nsoaed them and welcomes contributions . at 111 East 19th street...
...Manhattan...
...2* they treat Luther good to the ^JW...
...Mayor Daniel W. Bean, of Milwaukee, national vjoe-ilielrwss of the drive, and Joseph W. Shafts, 4 Ohio, a member of the national txsoetlve committee, reads...
...Untermyer by the appointment of Craig, and what is worse, have made no provision for financing subways on the basis of maintaining the five-cent fare, for unified operation of subway lines or for independent operatiton of the new lines if that should be necessary, "a You have done little except talk * to Jve New York, decent houses for its children or remove the disgrace of the slums...
...It came to a head in a spontaneous strike of the night shift and before the general officers of the United Textile Workers to which the strikers belong could be notified that a new strike existed the massacre had occurred...
...Thomas asserted, despite the Mayor's statement made when the franchise was finally forfeited that "the Equitable bus set-up was the best ever presented to the city by a franchise bidder...
...Mayor Walker knew of this, Mr...
...Cynicism was hushed in the press galleries and in the Senate and House cloakrooms—at least for a day—after the head of th...
...Two pickets are allowed to maintain the principle of picketing in front of the mill gates L. J. Jenkins, the Asbevllie banker and cotton mill owner who was an important factor in ending tbe first strike...
...Tbe quotation, in the above ¦ask vat released for southern paA hap...
...He bled to death...
...Luther fell beside me...
...Among the speakers will be A. J. Muste who has gone to deliver the funeral oration over tbe slain, WiTlirm B. Spofford...
...gag...
...The strongest state organization, that of the Illinois min-rs, is out in the open against him for his interference in that state...
...Norman Thomas...
...The Tammany machine can be trusted to get out the reliable club house voters who vote Democratic no matter what happens...
...Sandino, who is now a guest of Mexico after years of hopeless warfare against American marines in the mountainous northern region of Nicaragua...
...What is of great interest to Socialists was the spirit of the reception accorded the Socialist prime minister...
...Two other men connected with the Nicaraguan labor movement was deported with him, while five Chamorristas, or reactionaries of the old military party, were given the same punishment...
...Johns Lutheran Church, 139 Milton street, Greenpoint, Brooklyn...
...We shall credit ggat sMDWith a sincere desire to avert wU1f- World War...
...The American Legion has Joined less responsible so-called patriotic organizations in a peculiarly stupid attack on what it calls Pacifist propaganda...
...tatoai wailed and daughters sobbed as fee tray painted wood caskets were saowf into tbe red earth, as the mill People sang from tattered hymn books, attest even the accompaniment of a aneaty organ...
...We know that many OP** rades are impatient, but this worksSt* not be done any faster than fiuie»<pie*tsV "Urge the Comrades in your fast** to help push tbe United Buetahst Bt*» across to a triumphant finish...
...We only wish the American Legion would help us And that money...
...buinet Communists Simmons first declared that he wanted to answer Wheeler, but Overman, by objecting to consideration of the resolution, took over the defense of the cotton mlH owners and the mobs...
...I ltollerea to the boys tear gas couldn't hurt nothing but our eyes...
...Tom Tippett...
...He was even used by Percy Tetlow, President of the Colorado district, as a star witness before the State Industrial Board in behalf of the miners...
...Havemeyer and Grand streets...
...12:00 a. m. Union Theological Seminary...
...They also dejj . report on actual wages and *"t >. the Marion mill prepared from *^awr-"v* pay™" *JMl * statement . u fjainrlal condition with profits, aatorfc* and dividends...
...Harvard Socialist Is Jailed for Distributing \S elcome to MacDonald (By a New Leader Correspondent I Cambridge...
...fht Issue Is Vo£ A Sectional One mour jusC anger at the crime of Mar¦a, N. C. let us not forget that the is•** b not North vs...
...ani Rcgsr Baldwin, Director of the American Civil Liberti« union...
...Thursday, Oct...
...The only members of the reception committee who did not wear silk hats were Thomas, Hlllqult, Vladeck, and Paul U. Kellogg of the Survey...
...I Just tried to raise up Luther...
...Socialist...
...The League for Industrial Democracy finds itself attacked in the extraordinary company of the Federal Council of Churches, the Association for the Advancement of Atheism, and the defunct National Student Forum, not to mention other bodies, for its lavish expenditure of money against preparedness...
...You appointed Grover Whalen to * solve tbe Rothstein case and have kept him in office- though be has not solved tbe case or raised the level of police administration in this city...
...Anna Moore...
...Friday, Oct...
...Thomas Asks Relief Funds For Marion Money to Aid Wounded and Families of Victims Is Urgently Needed ja^ORMAN THOMAS, Chairman of the Emergency Committee for Strikers Relief, 112 Bast 19th street, has announced that the committee would resume its activities to raise money to care for the wounded and destitute in Marion, North Carolina, where during the previous strike the Emergency Committee gave relief service...
...Surely by this *»»e it is evident to all men that capifrBam in the South, whether of northern ar southern origin, is not so much flghtssj Oommunism as unionism...
...Wheeler did not begin by offering a telegram he had received from William Green,, president of the American Federation cf Labor, reporting tbe killing of four strikers at Marten, N. C„ and asking the immediate adoption of the inquiry measure...
...There was to have been speaking on the ground October 3 In protest against the murder of rive men and wounding of 14 more.' Two of the men are at the point of death, pie speaking was not held...
...The people are too hot," said William' Roes, strike leader...
...Not men who hate Ramsay •ajcDonald's social ideals and once would lag* gladly seen him in jail or in bell, kat taoK who share them can be trusted 4j BTa*f peace to the world...
...took cbarfTef the drive work in that section of Brrettyu...
...However, Lewis' days as czar of a union which be has done more to ruin than any one man in recent American history may be numbered...
...Mass—It is a crime in this city to distribute circulars welcoming Prime Minister J. Ramsay MacDonald to this country 1 This became evident in this suburb of medieval Boston when Lawrence b. Cohen Jr., of the Harvard Socialist Club, was arrested for distributing such circulars...
...J Your taxation program has at every * point favored the landlord*, especially the landlords with a pull, at toe cest of the workers of the city -q You have permitted the violation * of the prevailing rate of wage* lav em city contract*, to the hurt of the workers, and you permitted the discharge of 288 technical workers for the crime of belonging to a union and agitating for the Increased pay you had promised...
...18, 8:30 p. m. P. S. 159, Pitkin and Crescent avenues...
...18th...
...When Wheeler quoted Green, Overman replied that he knew Green to be a patriot, and tbe A. F. of L. a great institution, but that Green was misled and the Marion strike was due to the stirring" up of strife by outside radicals...
...pistol out of his pocket...
...Tease Scene at Barlal Wfflaun Rosa, strike leader, told the aaarsaa that they were there to "avy oar martyrs matwaueed by the affl rang...
...Automatically, Mrs...
...8:15 p. m. Royal Palace, 16 Manhattan avenue: Millers Grand Assembly...
...I seen one wounded man, his bead all wobblin" be in' held up by three deputies...
...X suggest that other candidates discuss these issues and say what they would do constructively as the Socialist Party has said...
...Whatever the official labor movement •sea or leaves undone, we cannot desert to atarion workers now...
...Before the gas blinded me I see him pull his gun and make to aim...
...Mayor you have failed in these vital matters among others: j You gave us the Equitable Bus scandal instead of busses on the street, "2 You have not saved the five-cent fare but instead hampered Mr...
...We are...
...As one of the New York dailies said, "The Socialists fairly danced with joy...
...so ttet the national office of the Socialist p~r> may be in a position to beg'n tbe wort of reorganization and rebuilding in its* States and localities has just twn not to 150 Socialist party officials...
...The Prime Minister possesses a wealth of Scotch humor which lubricates any discussion...
...Here we ¦at less than five pounds and four at dead and 30 wounded, Damn pod, I say...
...Armed - "My brother Luther was murdered in cold blood...
...President Hoover, timid and elusive as he usually shows himself, was led to Join the chorus of good-will...
...They paid the lowest wages," be said, "worked their employes the longest hours, worked children in their factories under the age of 16: the people, down there Were rszbting for an opportunity to form unions, and they were being denied tbe right of collective bargaining, so that they could get some of the benefit of tariff tows passed by Congress...
...New York City, 'bin decent humanity .the rescue of asierica from barbarism, the well-being •1 the whole working class, demand that »e make of the blood of the martyrs of atarion the seed of a strong and powerful labor movement in the South...
...1 ^ MaeDonald In America, the atn./ {be country's welcome to ban: fe* apparent progress be baa made rLgggtog tbe great cause of peace arc * ^1 for heartfelt rejoicing...
...Presently the body of young Bryson a betog brought to tbe home of his Mbar, Mrs...
...Thomas alleged that maps and resorts prepared at city expense in the Board of Transportation were the Equitable s only asset at the time Mayor Walker and the Board of Estimate granted the Equitable Its franchise...
...I cculd just bear the shooting...
...To the Hon...
...anything that —iff —| g party complexion to hat vMt, hat j,jmiii" and the fact that be at a ^adkt cannot help but further the gf a strong party of the workers band and brain here to the United •o^oa, Ramsay MacDonald mill 11 aaavwjote in that fact...
...Sara Bernheim of the Labor Bureau as Its representative to look mto the present relief situation...
...Friday...
...Luther r* He died in a bath of blood...
...Hi Jewish Socialist Verband...
...Within a few days of his arrival a call went out to the principal military and navy powers of the world calling them to a disarmament conference...
...Organisation will piunisl* funds roll in...
...Not only 1* this the testimony of Jim Bryson, "but'of all the eye witnesses...
...His brutality in firing promiscuously into a crowd was Drobablv tho brutality of a man frightened into Wholly unnecessary panic...
...Ob statement was made to me the Bjatt of October 3 by President Baldnk to the presence of four newspaper ¦a...
...Instead, be called attention to the long delay of action on his resolution, which went to committee tost April...
...8:30 p. m. Workmen's Circle Branch 75...
...The Nation Acclaims Socialist Mac Donald On Peace Mission Socialists Play Prominent Part in Reception to British Prime Minister of Great Britain JRAMSAY MacDONALD came to the . United States last week on a worldembracing errand of peace...
...Prom *•**«* up he was in a bath of blood ¦** he died...
...capital^a and imperialists who dominate our paswnt in America...
...We expect to have s report from her In time for the Monday mass meeting at 8 P. M. at the Community Church in which the Emergency Committee for Strikers Relief, the New York Chapter of the League for Industrial Democracy, the American Civil Liberties -Union and a number of others are cooperating...
...Mrs...
...Socialists To Be Heard At 72 Meetings Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for Mayor, Charles Solomon, the party's nominee for Comptroller, and Algernon Lee, for president of the board of aldermen, and a number of other leading party speakers, are to be heard at 72 public meetings during the coming week...
...The funeral scene was soring b-vond all description...
...Speakers: Norman Thomas, Wm...
...In a letter which Lewis has W _u to all Socialist party branches S>*t j|3' the suggestion is made that to sahlea' to what personal solicitation ttas as*, members may be able to the onjaagajt undertake some some activity 5z3 end of the month so as to P*o*Mi of tbe $30,000 necessary to h^WS success of the drive...
...Gardner's fair words much noised in the northern press will make tbe state of North Carolina other than rtat it has been: the open ally of a mill management which, according to reliable witnesses, boasted that it deceived the voters in the agreement settling the flat strike and later exulted that it took moth less lead to kill strikers in North Carolina than soldiers in the World War...
...Probe Demanded...
...130 E. 22nd street...
...Speakers: Norman Thomas, Algernon Lee, Charles Solomon...
...Friday, Oct...
...fact that this industry enjoys high .protective tariff rates which were .granted, to it on the pretext of creating high wages for labor...
...Hillquit shouted...
...A special appeal to several Weston State and local party officia'i to raha th> quotas assigned to their Suti...
...He smiled at J* befcre he went...
...Dry Goods Clerks May Invade B'dway District The Wholesale Dry Goods, Clerks and Salesmen's Union at a meeting on October 8th, discussed the question of extending its work to the Broadway district...
...Yet for the sole crime of criticizing Lewis vigorously and for brief membership in the "save the union movement," he is now compelled either to work as a surveyor who need not be a member of the union in the Rocky Mountain Fuel Company's mines, or in a non-union mine, or Join a dual union It is this sort of thing that Lewis has done which is more fatal to the soul of the labor movement than the guns of its enemies...
...Monday...
...Next he recited the recent events in tbe strike region—mobbings, kidnapping, arrests on charges of treason, murders of strikers, and charges of murder against strike leaders...
...Speakers: Norman Thomas, A. I. Shiplacoff, Louis Waldman, William M. Feigenbaum, Jacob L. Afros, S. Wolfe...
...He died October 2. We was 65 and partially paralysed so he walked with a eanc...
...They shot and killed Luther when be was bunded with gas...
...be declared in a loud vote*: No Striker...
...Sunday, Oct...
...None of .us strikers was armed...
...MacDonald Wins Capitol Ovation By Laurence Todd WFrASHINGTON iFP-.—Ramsay MacDonald, spokesman for democratic Europe, won the tardy but sincere admiration of even the Republican and Democratic reactionaries in the American capital, by his eloquent plea for world-cocporation in doing away with the thought of war...
...Here is the list of hall meetings to be addressed by party speakers...
...Speaker...
...No alliance was sought, he made it plain...
...I want he should be brought toe- It'll be the las' time 111 see him...
...a promises from each that additional or* trtbutions will be forthcoming soon...
...Gardner Silent The troops are not unfriendly to the strikers' cause and are far preferable, unionists state, to tbe band of gunmen marshalled by Sheriff Adkins...
...Speakers: Norman Thomas, Morris Hillquit...
...Thomas said, "I have received telegrams saying that the action of the Sheriff in firing on unarmed pickets was without excuse...
...Feinstone made public a resolution which had been adopted at a meeting of the United Hebrew Trades, in Forward HalL 175 East Broadway, Monday night...
...Singing Socialist hymns, including the "Internationale," the hymn of the international Socialist movement, as the Socialist Prime Minister reached the City Hall, the Socialist deiegatiin cheered their leader and also Morris Hillquit, Norman Thomas, and B. C. Vladeck, the Socialist members of the Mayor's Reception Committee...
...Down by the Marion abrnifactaring Company detachments of taps surround mills whose broken wln»» and bullet-scarred walls tell of tbe trass...
...We have good-will and moral solidarity between the two countries...
...12, 8 30 p. m. P. S. 115, 5S6 West 177th street, Manhattan...
...Speakers: Norman Thomas...
...the premier's daughter, told women reporters...
...The national drive for fiends so aw has been successful...
...The ***** Lewis gave are too stupid for bej* One of them was that Hapgood was bona fide miner...
...19th...
...They blinded us with gas and then they shot us down...
...One more bbim effort, and we can grasp it...
...Richmond Hill...
...The solemn crowd of children stare queaUrmtngry at then- mothers and fathers...
...Only on tbe street corners ¦saps of men talk in low voices about tie saaaacre...
...The speakers were Alexander Marks, of the A. F. of L., Robert Brown, for the United Hebrew Trades, and Joseph D. Cannon...
...We da not credit 0bb fdtb sny willingness to pay tbe aa*w«r)d eo-operattan lor li.niMlatki fat al progress toward peace with any rraapaf Americans that the Labor Prime in aaar of Great Britain may make we main bat that progress cannot be seoaal tatul tbe Labor Party in Oreat ajaaal h*s as its ally and friend a atmiar partr of similar strength In our own gassy...
...The circular itself consists of a short resume of the history of the British Labor Party and its rite to power and quotes MacDonald as saying last spring "we are not concerned with patching up the rents in a bad system, but with transforming Capitalism into Socialism...
...Among the larger contributions that came in during the week was one ttan the members of the 23rd A.D., Dap County, branch of the Socialist sartj...
Vol. 9 • October 1929 • No. 10
