HOW THE TAMMANY TIGER CAN BE TAMED
Laidler, Harry W.
HOW THE TAMMANY TIGER CAN BE TAMED Roily of Men and Women Behind Soc^ Possibility of Removing Corrupt and Grastnns Mdehme * By Harry W. Laidler rf tola brief article i am going to take It for...
...Even after a grand Jury had decided that it was murder Carey insisted upuon suicide and acted (or failed to act) accordingly...
...Helen G. Morton, journalism...
...M. Feigenbaum E'ARLY in the morning of Sun- j day, Sept...
...After more than two weeks of investigation a Grand Jury was called and the death was officially listed as a murder, not a suicide...
...Endorsed...
...Farmer • Labor Party Elects Congressman MINNEAPOLIS...
...How many of us under these conditions are really living or allowing our children to partake of, the abundant lives which should be ours and theirs...
...Likewise the Near York WotM, fa urging a support of Thomas—if essa supports any candidate—calls attention to "his quality of mind, his mtagrity of character, his uprightness and dignity of bearing...
...Correspondence courses, a new feature af the Brookwood curriculum, are am charge of Miss {Catherine Polask of the Bryn Mawr summer school...
...It is the richest city a. the world...
...3rd, at 4 P.M., at their hall, 2 W. 64th St_ J6seph and Mme...
...Incidentally, as a b> product, a party that starts at to build the City Beautiful at tame Tammany, for it will sasj the small favors that Tsnaassf can give appear insignificant k contrast with the great, cesstrav tive work at hand...
...Every once and awhile a group •f silk-stocking reformers have saarterl a campaign against Tamasaay...
...And the best way to develop such a movement is to pile up a greet vote for Thomas and the Socialist Party in this campaign...
...Josephine Colby...
...But they were meetings of sewer contractors...
...He proved his legislative ability while in the Assembly and is eminently qualified by intellect and training...
...Samuel A. De Witt (Soc...
...The Grand Jury saw through that in a moment and rejected the "evidence" so carelessly prepared...
...SO WHY BRING THAT vrr Indianapolis Socialists Nominate Full Ticket (Br a Row Leader CarrerpenSeat) INDIANAPOLIS...
...Not necessarily Republican...
...Yes sir, thank you sir...
...That, at least, is the way it appears to me after long study of the case...
...The conferences—and here we need no surmises, for we know— continued for a week...
...her ere* with tear* ef ^ saw ant...
...O. Fogleson, is a member of the Glass Bottle Blowers Association and Stove Mounters' Union, and a former organizer for the A. F. of L...
...It mattered Iltt'e to ) the high-hatted gentlemen who j presided over the destinies of toe i Republican Party and allied organizations...
...The county exeeatte committees of the Republican as) Democratic parties had sppareaty held a joint session to agree e candidates that both parties west support...
...This attiWS taken in view of the I*^JT Lima has "nonpartisan" •*0<*'T and candidates are voted for w*w...
...j The police were called and the usual perfunctory examination was made...
...It | comes as a result of the organiz: ation and constructive effort of i labor...
...The vote by counties gives a majority of nearly three to one for i Mr...
...He had had dealings with Connolly, and ths j former Borough President admitted it...
...Pressed for a motive, the suicide advocates said that D'OIier had tried to get the Kentucky contracts and had failed...
...The International Club The International Club whose programs are largely devoted to a sympathetic understanding among local groups of the various n&i tional backgrounds and cultures, will present a Czechoslovakian program, Sunday, Nov...
...Few of them were of the type of D'OIier—an American of older stock and one not involved in local politics...
...We want to crests t city beautiful for ourselves sat ss> posterity...
...Piston*, BJjy Claessens, Mollie Welnfsrt *|P Jessie W. Hughan...
...And sooner I or later the voters again went back | to the corruption of Tammany ! Hall...
...What doe* that mean...
...Laura A. Allen, for city clerk, is the wife of a union man and is a widely known progressive woman...
...For Tammany, since the days of Tweed sad Croker and Murphy, has stood as a symbol of inefficiency, of corruption, of special privilege, of a wide-open town, of utter disregard for its public pledges, of autocratic boss rule...
...And here an element of deep mystery enters...
...Qualified...
...or Italian contractors, like Joe Sigreto and Atgelo Paino...
...Assembly—New York County Fifth District Evelyn West Hughan (Soc) Qualified...
...If they cleaned the streets of pushcarts and •brought a little more of Fifth A venae and Park Avenue into the Qty Hall and a little less of the Bbwery and 14th Street, they felt that their duty was done...
...Most of the men in the ring were (and are) petty local politicians like Andy Zorn, Fred Curran and others...
...2nd, 1928, a bakery...
...Th> only difference between the tee letters was the name of the parti and the name of the chaJrast signed to each letter...
...These f acts, while not known definitely, are pretty good surmises...
...An energetic candidate who should make a good Alderman...
...A few hundred comrades and outsiders were present and handball games and several * boxing rounds featured the evening...
...Many problems tbet «2 once individual have sow Vaka social, collective, tn teak assay We are still, however, r*a*nf*j these problems as Inrtlishjaj |g cialists say that it is now taste take stock of these preekeskh get an aeroplane view of eat eh) and Its activities...
...Busses and machines have been arranged for the many hundreds of friends of Harry Silver...
...Fifteenth District McAlister Coleman (Soc...
...New York City ***• be made, with proper bosses, am proper transportation, with steer playgrounds, with proper drrskej into factory and residential sal commercial districts, with Brew educational facilities, a wosders] place in which to live, in wash a work, not only for the "four be* dred", but for the majority of a people...
...For the reformers that fired their shots against Tammany didn't Stent to abolish the great grafts Which were robbing the people of their rights...
...3, the members of the Hebrew Butcher Workers Union will gather at 175 East Broadway at 12 o'clock, and go to the unveiling of the monument to Harry Silver at the MontefloTe Cemetery...
...They were in league With the great holders of land and taOdtngs, with the masters of subWays and elevateds, and with the electrical and gas monopolists, ejuite as much as were the Crokars and Murphy j and Currys of Tammany Hall,—perhaps more so...
...Need I mention the fact that the De Bragga Republican organize^ , tion never lifted a finger or raised | a voice against a single incident in this whole revolting story...
...Franklin D'OIier, first national Commander of the American Legion, the "patriot" who started the Legion on its illustrious career of "red" baiting...
...strikers might continue to be denied the elemental rights of American citizens...
...That they did not find out what D'Olier's connection with the Kentucky business were is unthinkable...
...There has not been a battle for peace, for municipal reform, for better conditions of labor, for ctvil liberties, during the last dozen years but that Norman Thomas has been hi the vanguard, voicing the hopes and the aspirations of the hosts of labor, and of all to | whom social justice is a living , ideal...
...All members are requested to come to the meeting...
...An alert, capable candidate who is endorsed on merit Assembly—Kings County Board of Aldermen—Manhattan Sixth District August Claeseene (Soc) Endorsed...
...Then on Saturday night he went home, changed to an old suit, put his old gun in his pocket, and went off to meet his Queens colleagues...
...Bonn of the Rand School was present and was very glad to see this improvement...
...Assembly—Bronx County Third District...
...He knew them, you see...
...Connolly and Seely were convicted and sentenced to jail...
...He had the contract for part of the gigantic Jamaica and Rockaway sewer system that John M Phillips had built to the tune of so much swindling and in connection with which Connolly and Seely were conv.cted...
...The municipality should follow the lead of Vienna, of London, of Frankfort, of Liverpool, of Birmingham, of other cities, and itself construct on a large scale municipal homes for ths workers, renting these homes at cost, aad devoting half of the space to courts and playgrounds for the children...
...His Integrity and Judicial ability were convincingly demonstrated during his service in the Municipal Court...
...On Saturday sf»f> noon next at four o'clock tsey hold three open air meettoffy* : all Women speakers, jjjljj meetings will be at Seventh ""^j and Ave...
...Did D'OIier bid...
...He had had dealings with other sewer contractors...
...The spontaneous strikes of the textile workers tn Marion and ElizaSsthton are symptomatic of a general revolt against intolerable consltion* in the South...
...That he was asked about his profits on the Jamaica and Rockaway jobs, and he said they were gone...
...English sad parliamentary law...
...The opening dance of The Inter- I national Club will be given in The , Community Center, 270 W. 88th St., Saturday, Nov...
...A number of Socialists | are praised, as follows: Supreme Court—First District Jaeob Panken (Soc...
...Some hot-headed (and maybe hop-headed) Queens patriot killed him...
...Miss Clara.Cook., on .leave hart year studying workers' education projects abroad, will essist in extension and tutorial work...
...STeaSea...
...That much is known...
...second district...
...For A Ciry Beautiful And so I might go on and tell of ! the Socialist program of protecting j the workers during labor contro' versies In their legitimate rights: j of protecting them against the ewuislse and ~tc*j sj^H which have helped to crash sal after strike tor better-eessihS I might tell of the ufg'jlB gram in tackling ths fttJajfca crime, of unemployment, ttifcajj tion, of lighting aad besrjss...
...C. E. Tompkins ef Us Machinists' Union, and W. S. laringer of the Electrical Woriuef Union...
...Faculty members include A. J. Muste, dean and instructor in Btteign labor, history and public Bass ring...
...We want set es) to tame Tammany...
...And the Republican organization to which he so fantastically allied himself, and which still more fantastically and insincerely allied itself with him, offers not hope, but only more confusion...
...the unemployed might continue to walk the streets of the great city begging for the privilege of work...
...The two letters also warned St respective party heelers »faa» the Labor Party as "oppose* • our Constitution...
...Rutgers Sq»Bl*,j{?l Pitkin Ave...
...children by the thousands might contttme to face death in their only playgrounds—I the streets and the sidewalks Of I New York...
...HOW THE TAMMANY TIGER CAN BE TAMED Roily of Men and Women Behind Soc^ Possibility of Removing Corrupt and Grastnns Mdehme * By Harry W. Laidler rf tola brief article i am going to take It for granted that all pay reader* agree that it i* time |hr the Tammany Tiger to be toned...
...An amusing incident of the *s> mary fight with the candidate* s] the Chamber of Commerce saj used with telling effect by thi Labor Party...
...j The Labor Party obtained eajji of these identical letters sad*pB> , Hshed them a leaflet bearing tsi main title, "Why the Deadly Per allel...
...D'OIier was head of what was called the "Sanitation Corporation...
...The latter »¦ I adopted a program which trm*^t I states that it represents bUXSje* that its candidates will labor measures...
...I cannot name the man, for I have no proof other than the whispers of many Queens people, but I know exactly whom they had in mind and I believe the story is true...
...The Socialist administration would see to it that New York was rifted from last place among the largest cities of the country in playground space for the children, into the front ranks of municipalities...
...His murderers made a clumsy attempt to make it appear as suicide...
...A. Fox, who is running in the fourth district, is a well known dentist, and Geo...
...It was s warning to others who might consider telling all they knew...
...sent to its judges, clerks, aad aav tral committeemen...
...Here and there it has distributed small favors, but the common people have had to pay fear for those favors...
...William L had lived an exciting life, and it was brought out that he had not married his wife until after he had lived with her for some years...
...Alexander Ficbandler (Soc...
...In addition the recreational rooms were crowded to capacity...
...The next that is definitely known is that he was found dead...
...Morrison...
...He carried every county in the dis! trict, including Stevens, the home of the Republican nominee...
...The thing of outstanding political interest in Minnesota is the election of Paul J. Kvale, Farmer-Labor indorsee, to succeed his father, the late Congressman O. J. Kvale, as representative in congress from the Seventh District...
...His Integrity and courage are beyond question, his Intelligence of the highest order, bis energy, tireless, and his highest ambition that of showing to these who labor by hand and brafn their possibility for human happiness if they but unite intelligently and constructively and demand their rightful heritage...
...No tears need be wasted upon D'OIier as a man...
...The lessst er the laborites pointed out that s» of their members had bees "W" rested and jailed for readhej * Constitution and Bill of Rifnts-e Lima...
...He is the incarnation of the Tammany machine...
...In a sense, he was of a higher grade and so considered something of a maverick by his pals...
...Police Inspector Arthur Carey, in charge of the homicide bureau, insisted from the beginning that D'OIier committed suicide...
...We should immediately begin the clearance of the slums, a disgrace to any city...
...In the Wllliamsburgh section of Brooklyn, for instance, in one aldermanic district containing two hundred blocks, the only playground in that district is a small plot under Wllliamsburgh bridge, accessible to only a small part of the children of the district...
...Miss Hughan is qualified by intellect and training...
...The gun with which he was shot was his own, but his hand was found over the butt of the revolver, not clutched about the handle as a suicide's would be...
...A wellequipped candidate with unusual ability and wide experience which qualify him for legislative work...
...to study «]3 an efficiency engineer stank* % workings of a factory, aad teas) to bring: some order and SSsSb and comfort out of the *tn 3 ugliness and exploitation to sens the hunt for individual profttsa brought us...
...He received 24,777 votes to 9,085 for Mr...
...How Can Tammany Be Beaten How can Taaaauuly be genuinely tasaed...
...He had an office in the Graybar Building, and was known to have gambled on sewer and road building contracts...
...Labor and fraternal organizations will also participate...
...Tenth District Jessie Wallace Hughan (Soc...
...out any party designation...
...David J. BSposs, American labor history and trade union strategy...
...Just prior to his death he had gone to Kentucky to bid on certain road construction work, a job estimated at from $40,000,000 to $45,000,000 a year for ten years...
...The candidate for council for the first district...
...They have g*eer»hs Toper...
...M. Larralr, fifth district, has been an active member of the Electrical Workers' Union since 1911...
...D'OIier had been one of the sewer contractors...
...It looked all along like a Kvale victory...
...The Sewer Rats In A Panic In the summer of 1928, especially after the death of Jack Phillips, the sewer rats were in a panic...
...it is only when the working class learns—and it is learning daily and by bitter etbarience—te unite and to set together that there la any hope at emancipation.—Eorene V. Debs, Queens Has Its Rothstein Case Murder of D'OIier Against Background of Extensive Sewer Graft, Remains a Mystery Which Public Authorities Seem Anxious to Keep Unsolved By Wm...
...He is striking the public fancy by the mere power of his voice, his character, his fine intelligence and his wide and intimate knowledge of the problems of the people and 'of city government...
...Tammany is not tamed by aristocratic reformers, who worry ! a great deal about the little grafts I in city life, but who overlook the ! great grafts which are so vitally I affecting the health, safety and happiness of the plain people of j the city...
...It Is said that D'Olier's share was to be $5,000...
...3. Did he get the contract, or did be not, or was the matter left in the air...
...We should organize a aaaalrJpaBy ewaed transit corporation, with a directorate representing experts, the cunsurntrrg public and the workers, a Municipal Transit company freed from polities, to supply ourselves with this vital sendee at cost We should week out a comprehensive system at subway construction, in conjunction with a system of zonbar, of playground development, of building, aad we should see to it that at least a part of the new construction is palh for out of assessments imposed on adjoining property owners, the value of whose property Is materially increased by the coming in of the subways...
...Qualified...
...Sol EaffiaaS 'ICacTJmal* at there t*e*ay...
...He was on the ragged edge, he had lost everything, he had a wife and two children and a third child coming, and he needed money badly...
...The Socialist party looks upon the control of municipal government in the City of New York not as an opportunity for turning one group of rascals out and putting another group in, not as an opportunity for jobs, for patronage, but as an opportunity for doing all that can be done through municipal effort toward making life worthwhile for the many...
...Ind.—A city convention of the Socialist Party has nominated a complete city ticket, including mayor, city clerk and councilmen for six districts...
...We have had more applicants than ever before," said A. J. Muste, chairman of the faculty...
...He sent an assistant to Kentucky to look into the matter, but so far as I know—and I was on the story three weeks—no answer was ever given to these questions: 1. Were there any contracts for road building to be given out ? Was the road building program ever approved by the Legislature...
...The slums—a disgrace to any city— might remain...
...There was also an ugly divorce in the background...
...That i* sss> ly negative...
...If you don't think that that can be done, go to poverty stricken Vienna and see the wonderful Work that the Mm" t mojl Igrnlllj has deals 1bea%in prothjinsjf comfortable, eleaay sunlit _sselsai— (er «s*> .......lists amd iTTiilliIll a^nasjfls for tall kiddies...
...D'OIier had been gambling heavily in contracts and was believed to be up against it...
...Eliza M. Elder, candidate for mayor, is an official of the operating engineers' union...
...Only by this means can the maintenance of the five cent fare, with decent transit conditions be assured...
...Socialists insist that this must cease...
...Thetavas and Hat Party I have had the rare privilege Of being intimately associated with Norman Thomas for the last esght years as co-director of the League for Industrial Densoeracy, and I want to endorse everything that the Telegram and that the World and Professor John Dewey and a host of others have said about htm...
...The Awtxa Corporation, with which he had had dealings, has a malodorous and crooked history...
...people might continue to be ¦ jammed like so many sardines into our underground tunnels...
...But Norman Thomas would be i ttie first to say that salvation, political or economic does not come i through following any Messiah...
...He Is one of the most brilliant, one of the most devoted, one of the most idealist and at the same time practically-minded soldiers of the common good fn twentieth century America...
...At least the mairtei nance of the system that brought them fortunes meant more...
...Word fcf word both letters to the respeeun party workers were identical...
...Only Wheal we the people operate ear own subways with a view to our ewn eassiost eaa saw guarantee be made that conditions will be improved...
...The story, which again Is based only upon what everybody believes, is that the contractors were going to raise a sum estimated at between $50,000 and $150,000 and give this man a lovely trip to Europe...
...Connolly was out of office...
...in sax subways and trolley...
...Women's Section to * Hold Open Air lUle» The Women's Section of sW cialist Party are conductinf e*w paign work at headquartetaW Fifth Avenue...
...Go on you're drank...
...Seventeenth District Nina Prey (Soc) Qualified...
...The speakers sts j*HM Esther Friedman, Ann* WeaT* j Bessie Adler...
...He told his wife about some of them...
...Qualified...
...and once in a great while, as In the Seth Low and Mayor ¦Tt*"*"11 campaigns, they temporarily succeeded—but only temporarily...
...Inspector Carey continued to insist, however, that it was suicide, and no real attempt has been made to get the murderer...
...Support of La Guardia cannot do the trick...
...Alderman—Brooklyn Fiftieth District Louis Sadoff Qualified...
...kastnaaisat...
...It was as- j sumed—and reported—that the man had selected that appropriate spot for committing suicide...
...And it says, with meticulous decorum...
...And there the matter rests with D'OIier lying in a Philadelphia grave, and bo far as I know, his wife destitute in her home in the Bronx...
...He knew too much and he could easily have put the lot ol his comrades into jail if he spilled everything...
...What does that mean...
...Mrs...
...Labor College will open for I KB eighth year on October 14 with i a capacity enrollment of 37 stu- I dents—19 men and 18 women representing 16 trades and coming from 15 states and Canada...
...With only a frtiful fraction of the 30 million American workers organized, a labor school like Brookwood can play an Important role in training srganiasrs an din educating workera to the larger needs and implieatfcms of trade unionism in the bjsbsiu industrial world...
...Abbsbsb, her arses eaistreiehed, bat ^,sbs area set...
...They were for the moet part only concerned with the Ey grafts which went to the e fellows...
...Now, in the last weeks of August, 1928, there was a panic fear lest one of the indicted men turn states witness in exchange for immunity...
...It is known that he tried to bid, but at this point all authorities, police, district attorney, Connolly—who was associated with D'OIier in some vaguely defined capacity in the Kentucky business —and others were tantalizlngly vague...
...The Need Te Build a Party And so Thomas and his comrades in the Socialist party declare that, neither In this nor i» any other campaign, can those who are suffering from tn Justice hope to achieve their emancipation through the leadership of one Individual...
...and Hopkhwoa a#dj Brooklyn...
...Solomon to Address London Athletic Clnh Charles Solomon, the Socialist nominee for Comptroller of New York City, will address a meeting of members of the Meyer London Athletic Ass'n., this Saturday, November 2nd...
...And so when the common peo| pie exchanged Tammany for the 1 Fusionists, they found that little had been changed in their daily lives...
...Most of the little rats were— and are—Democratic politicians, who danced attendance upon Connolly and still are active in that party...
...Mark Starr, economics...
...A few hours later, however, a | newspaper reporter who was, familiar with all the ramifications of the malodorous Queens sewer | scandal saw the body and told the 1 police that the dead man was none other than William L. D'OIier, a sewer contractor and one of the witnesses before the grand jury that had found indictments against Maurice E. Connolly and Frederick Seely, and that he had been scheduled to appear as a witness in the trial held later j that month in the course of which...
...A capable candidate with excellent training...
...ak* ssr rebe splashed with drops ef Moedy sew . . . Praaaaan, the dasauess, is ear SBesBsa vet* —Jeka Barlas Brownsville Lyceum Opens Its Gymnasium On Sunday, October 20th, the Brownsville Labor Lyceum celebrated the opening of their newly constructed Gymnasium and Recreation Rooms...
...What kind of citizens can we expect to develop, from a physi leal, a moral standpoint, if the only playgrounds we give to thousands of our youth are the filthy dangerous and grassless streets of New York...
...The meeting will take place at the S. P. headquarters, 204 East Broadway, four o'clock sharp...
...Today Ramsay MacDorraki ! is the Prime Minister of Great Britain, ata head at a. Labor Co*r e rumen t Kara say Mae Donald % a man of unusual parts, a great leader...
...Thi* renovation in the Brownsville Labor Lyceum has put new life into the Comrades of the Lyceum and members of the Socialist Party...
...a .Labor party, which represented the aspirations of the workers of Great Brtfste, aad watch would never be satisfied until it transformed England into a land based upon peace and plenty and freedom...
...All that was dragged in to deaden indignation at the murder—or at least, so I am convinced...
...They 'ttanTt «hat one Of tire great WUBBI ,ser the peasant ettitassau Is thee, while we now own the subway properties, we lam gtvemever the operation of the subways to private corporations, whose primary aisa la that of preen, not ef eomfort...
...His fellow contractors never knew whether or not they could play ball with hib, how far they could go with him, how far they could trust the secrets to him...
...Fiorello means little flower in Italian...
...And I do not believe them...
...The chairman at the unveiling will be Morris Feinstone, secretary of the United Hebrew Trades...
...But for the purpose of this piece, it is enough to say that a guard is a thing that stands at a door with a despatch box and a vacant look...
...j This discovery put another face on the situation, and instead of hustling the body away like any other casual suicide an investigation immediately began...
...This I county has not in the past shown i much favor to the Farmer-Labor ! candidates...
...This victory of the Farmer-Labor Party makes the prospects of a | Labor party bright in 1930...
...1 American cities have snail from small, sprawling vKsfsj'S great cities...
...They seek to ttanafsrss the educational process from one that tares out Standardised, uhtsrinkmg, "yesmen," mere packages of fixed ideas and prejudioee, into an educational process khat has as its object the unfolding of the personality of the student and the development of independent thinking men and women who are ready te take their part In a democratic commonwealth...
...Walker surely cannot tame Tammany...
...In this campaign the New York Telegram, in its issue of last Tuesday, October 22, suggests one course...
...1 Ninth District...
...Its papers had a bad habit of disappearing at the most aggravating moments...
...The best aw to start is by casting a huge tea this year for Norman Thomas sal the entire Socialist ticket Brookwood Opens With Capacity Enrollment (By a New Leader Correspondent) <a£-ATONAH, N. Y.—Brookwood j AV...
...They agreed to support Bogart, a Democrat, and Mitchd and Faurot...
...Eighth District Edward Levinson (Soc) Qualified and preferred...
...Transportation, house-buila| ing, electricity, gas, the great utilities of the city were still run by I private corporations with a view | to maximum profit, instead of with the view to maximum welfare for I the common people...
...2nd, at 8.30 P. M* The Pretty, Pretty Little Flowers La...
...wagon driver, driving his vehicle between a Jewish and a Catholic I cemetery in a lonely spot in ¦ Queens County came upon the dead body of a man lying upon the em- j bankment leading up to the fence surrounding the Jewish Cemetery, i There was a bullet in his brain...
...In fact that seems to be the Idea of the entire Republican party...
...Six other tex- ! tile workers come from various ! branches of the industry in Salem aad New Bedford, Mass., Milwaukee, Wis., and Woonsocket, R. I. Other trades represented include i HJrway clerks, railway carmen, machinists, longshoremen, laundry ; Workers, miners, carpenters, worken on men's and women's clothing, millinery workers, radio workers, hodcarriers and painters...
...Bozena Roucek will give descriptive lectures together with folk songs and music...
...He has left political expediency to one side and talked of the things which could be done to and with this city government to make it better answer the needs of all the people...
...And with Napoleonic grandeur...
...The Failure of "Fusion" , The leaders of the Republican **arty sad the Fusionists who came into combat with the Tammany TJger had little idea of the needs ef the common people They had Utile sympathy with the aspirations of labor...
...both Republicans...
...He was probably killed in a scuffle in a car, and his body tossed out...
...He did everything in his power to have the case listed as suicide...
...A candidate of ability and valuable training...
...Minn...
...He is qualified by trainins...
...The ajHlittM administration would see to it that educatosa, not palJUcians, were, appointed to our ¦bard cat hlducaties...
...Monnment To Be Unvefled In Memory of Harry Silver Sunday, Nov...
...Kvale...
...The opposition of certain elesasats in the A. F. of L. to BrookWood seems only to have increased Interest in the school...
...From all indications it seems that the Socialist Party Campaign in Brownsville will be pressed with greater vigor from now on through this medium...
...Not necessarily hydrangeia...
...That is the way the rats in out sewers treat their kind who do not play ball with them...
...The transformation can he *> complished if we will it, ant (a organize to bring it about It «*> not be accomplished in a day, as we can move forward steadily *> ward the ideal...
...On the other hand, says the Telegram, Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for Mayor, has been steadily gaining strength...
...Labor Party Fights for Qty <B» a New Lender ' ri 11 iptunli LIMA...
...Plenty of books have been written about guards...
...The county always voted Republican on congressmen except in the 1928 election...
...Guardia...
...that the Tiger has been (fljnning wOd is this City of New •fork long enough and that the ajpaS-being of all of us demands fcyj the reign of the Tammany machine come to an end...
...They believe that pswverion for educational f aciatiae for the children in public schools, Mgh schools and ooBeges, should be one of the primary alms of day efty e^jvarnosant...
...E. G. Grahn, in the third district, is a college graduate and is known as a student of political economy: Dr...
...The Fusion-Republican | method of taming Tammany has failed miserably, because it has buie to ester to the saasa of people...
...The result of the primary sS* tion to produce a straight 1bW«J in the coming city electioaJB^ three candidates of the two^ew union face the three candide**** | the Labor Party...
...Even so, no one looked for a victory such as was won in the Seventh district on Oct...
...Turner T. Marshall, is a contractor...
...I asked the District Attorney again and again what he had learned...
...Hence, according to those who insisted upon suicide, he had tried to make his pile in Kentucky and was despondent because he had failed...
...The conclusion I have reached is that certain authorities were overeager to create the impression— without actually saying so in so many words—that D'OIier had a motive for suicide...
...Today when we go to amd from our homes, we find ourselves berd, em Uke so asaoy caJtfla...
...Brookwood offers a Y-montns' BBsfe course In the fundamentals of organised labor and an advanced ©nurse for research and the study ef special problems...
...The united front of the two pare ies had the support of tbe Cheress of Commerce but the amathf phase of the two-party deal es) the letter which the County S> ecutive Committee of each put...
...Thomas, in his campaign, has pursued a unique course...
...high rents in overcrowded tenements might continue to add to the sickness and the immorality and crime of the city...
...He sees the city," continues the Telegram, "not only as a place of skyscrapers, night clubs and express highways, but as the abode of men, women and children whose principal yearnings are not for grand things but merely for less intolerable conditions between the four walls where they reside, for more air to breathe in greener places, better opportunities for education and a fairer A Sacs against these who vend them the things they live by...
...Base The Slums...
...D'OIier is dead, the sewers have been paid for by the people and the thieves are still in full enjoyment of their stolen swag, and no one has been indicted for the murder...
...The district has for several years been strongly FarmerLabor and it was apparent, too, that the failure of the Hoover administration to function in harmony with its platform pledges operated to the advantage of the Farmer-Labor nominee...
...Ohio—The three —if dates- of the Labor Party tar tk City Commission have been bb» inated in the primary...
...After D'OIier came back from Kentucky, either with or without the road building contract in his pocket, he attended conferences almost every day in Queens...
...He was a cousin of Col...
...Qualified...
...landlords might continue to i gain enormous fortunes merely by "sitting tight" and allowing society to increase the value of thenland...
...The henchmen were scurrying for cover...
...Sinclair Lewis, author of "BabUtt" and 'Main Street," will be on the lecture staff of Brookwood this year...
...He was asked about the Kentucky contract, and be stalled aad insisted that he didn't have a dollar in the world...
...He was not an engineer, but rather a promoter...
...and eapetiaoes Lima, Ohio...
...Effle M Mueller, who served as state secretary of the party for three years, has been nominated in the sixth district Citizens Union Pjgaises Many Socialists The Citizens Union has made j public its recommendations to the i voters in relation to candidates for ] Judicial offices, for alderman and I I assembly...
...seas ass* te work in behalf of .peace and social justice, because, for the hast genefav tion, thousands of men aad women who lakes, a> the- factories, ha the ssiaes, in the offices, at Che basses, tn the neM, Bave sajteQy, petlnntry, entkueaastseairy, seif-sacrificing ry heart up a polities...
...Facts Brought to Light The following facts were established beyond dispute: Mr...
...No man arose who had the personality and the forcefulness of Phillips, and the thieves knew their hour was striking...
...The two letters were hv troduced to the voters as Dust Twins" and were foflsesl i with some satirical comment B> garding the love ties that bound *» two parties in a united froat «• the aid of the Chamber of 0s» merce...
...Some Unanswered Questions Now, when that point came up I tried to find out whether or not D'OIier had secured that contract...
...Not necessarily geranium...
...Southern textiles, the hot spot in American industry just now, is well represented by three young men from | Martyrs' Local 165V in Marion, N. j C and three young women from j Georgia, Tennessee and North Car- j osma respectively...
...Many prominent labor leaders have been invited including Norman Thomas, A. I. Shiplacoff, N. Chanin, Baroff, Becker and others...
...We look forward to this, our eighth year, as one of Increased activity and usefulness...
...Georgia and Texas, Michigan and Canada, Washington and Colorado, Ohio and Illinois, have added their quota to the nearer eastern states ef New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and New Jersey...
...An educator of distinction, he is highly qualified...
...If you have enough, of them it turns ont to be ah, la, la...
...They must devote theesselves to the task of building up a strong, vigowms party of the plain people, wftkft has as its object making the state the servant of the masses in their straggle for a finer life...
...Tom Tippett, extension director...
...The plain fact of the matter is," declares the Telegram, "that he (La Guardia) has not been able to distinguish himself in the present campaign...
...That they were -overzealous in blurring the facts in the public mind is my honest opinion...
...Another instructor will fed added the first of the year when a short course for union officers Sad organizers will begin...
...Tbejr mi C. N. Shook of the TypasTsnbka Union...
...It is said that D'OIier said he was broke and couldn't kick in...
...D'OIier had assigned his part of the contract to a mysterious organization known as the "Awixia" corporation for consideration not definitely known...
...The dead man had a gun in his right hand...
...He did not tell where they were or what men met him...
Vol. 9 • November 1929 • No. 13
