PROGRESSIVES AND THE A. F. OF L. CONVENTION
Stanley, Louis
PROGRESSIVES AND THE A. F. OF L. CONVENTION Second Thoughts On The Sessions Held In Toronto. Canada By Loais Stanley What hope for progri—Ivs thought aad sggissslts action hi heed out by the...
...PROGRESSIVES AND THE A. F. OF L. CONVENTION Second Thoughts On The Sessions Held In Toronto...
...Walker made a settlement with the transit company which included the expensse of the company onion and for breaking sir dees...
...Three or four of the latter will be sufficient...
...They give strength to those who have contended that the American Federation of Labor is but a sleeping and not a dying giant, that the A. F. of L win yet show signs of life, and that progressives need not despair and seek new gods to worship...
...Scullin Names I Labor Ministn J For AuitriiJ CANBERRA...
...That mease hat aal must win over their ajBess anas dependent political achea aaaai cial legislation...
...Norman Thomas, the Socialist candidate for Mayor, is now making public a report regarding cur educational system that has been suppressed .for five years...
...If the accused has "inflooence" with the Hall or one of its agents, a quiet conference with the magistrate *fixe» thing-.-'" If he "has no such "inflooence" he B|aT no hope...
...Willert is worthy of election on his own merit...
...Moreover, we are waging the good fight for something more than even a clean up at the City Hall, important as that is...
...First British Labor establishes a Labor government...
...power and help everyUUag that is weak,—Ones trhislssi...
...Waging Winning Fight To Win New Offices (By a New Leaser Cerreipenatat) Reading...
...The other parties seek to multiply offices in order to reward their followers...
...The Socialist Party geeks power, the offices being a secondary consideration...
...Otheraafl bers are F. Anthey...
...The satisfied gentlemen who live handsomely on their investments seldom come into contact with these courts...
...la- New Tork City oa November S . . . What's the answer...
...Is there danger that illiterate Tammany heelers will, through some mysterious methods, become wealthy within a few years...
...were also members, did raise ten thousand dollars, while more can be expected at the conference to be called by the President of the A. F. of L within a month...
...They have confirms...
...It is dirty in Philadelphia where it has an opportunity to be clean...
...Socialist candidate for city council by the Cleveland Press (Scripps-Howard...
...Some who should have been at Toronto were not...
...The leadership of the American Federation of Labor still remains substantially what it has been...
...That aaaaiaai they must begin to seat sanal to city centrals, stats falajfl and national conventions wejdfl be expected to take up oa *¦ for progressive labor kkea U The worst calamity that anal happen is the isolation at ta) aa gressives...
...s » ' -V The public buy* its opinions as it buys its msat or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper te do this than to keep a cow...
...That mesas, Oatdl gressives must get hack t» fl union meetings sad raaaa aal lty...
...There must be a cleaning up but it must be done in all cities where the moribund parties Of the old order rule...
...The independents know it...
...ea.sra The organization thluegs^JTB j minlstratlve committee ~zTZiMfi best wishes to Josh lM\lt SBB ^ejt j joined the faculty of .".J^M School Lieberman will ~-;MmMtinur on thr board of «g-~^-se»| actively participate h* Bjyssawni slon of clubs...
...an eight-page weekly representing the Socialist Party and the trade uniopTHE LETTER BOX ANOTHER LABOR TOWN Editor, The New Leoder: I wish to add to my recent article oa Socialism and American municipalities the following interesting item: The coal miners of Livingston, Illinois, lead in the formation of a Labor Party which in May of this year elected three councilmen, accomplishing a 100 per cent union administration...
...With the worker and renter, the home owner and the professional man, the character MT the education their children get is of vital importance to them...
...We shall supply the omissions...
...Those who were supposed to be progressive trade unionists cut the sorriest figure at the convention...
...The A F. of L has not yet renounced its friendliness for the American Legion or the asQitary institutions of the government...
...All this work is being ably supplemented by the "Labor Advocate...
...Finally, in the session devoted to the Southern situation John P. Burke of the Pulp, Sulphite sad Paper Mill Workers, Socialist, redeemed tke progressive cause a little by making a telling speech but thai was partly counteracted by the performance of Fltzpatrick of the Waterbury, Connecticut, city central body, who knowing that he baa been persona non grata with the officialdom for several years, nevertheless announced that he had been asked by President McMabon of the Textile Workers to take the floor...
...Australia-A Isfl or party cabinet has been foraS as follows: 9 James H Scullin, prune mwm ter and minister of industry, 149 Theodore, treasurer, and F. hafl nan attorney general...
...The working masses provide the victims of tbiu sort of "justice" and the Socialists •¦if tC ft*****}{t root and branch...
...condemned such legislation as "based on Utopian thought" but now, declares Senior, "the Socialist philosophy of using the state's powers for the advancement of labor is accepted in regard to old age security...
...President Green showed his resentment by appointing Fltzpatrick oa the canvassing committee to raise immediate funds among the delegates to help the Southern workers and by warning the South hi his concluding remarks that it must meet the North half way, if it desires help from the organized labor movement above the Mason and Dixie line...
...the German Social Democrats who had 17 seats and gained three or four...
...I do believe you will understand and I thank you for the trouble it may cause you, but you will help a friend...
...This amendment was offered as a substitute for one by 'Broward of Louisiana, a sugar senator...
...The Socialist Party emphasizes the low charterer of the magistrates courts...
...Suggests Use of Leaflet (By a New Leader Cerreepenaeat) CHICAGO...
...Australian Labor then obtains an absolute majority, in the lower House of Parliament and forms a Labor Government...
...So we might pass from issue to isaoe and problem to problem and show that the Socialist Party represents the claims of die great masses who do some useful work in the shop and factory, the store and the school, and men and women everywhere who are tired of the swine politics of the Hall...
...Vice President Matthew Woll does not strut about as formerly but he is still there and even if others replace him, as it is rumored, does that mean any change in policies...
...The climax came with the May Day Parade in 1929 when open shop Interests and patriotic organizations made a carefully prepared attack on the May Day parade rs and let loose a hired horde of thugs...
...Pioneer Youth CamptsS Hold Important RetaiM Children in Pioneer Yosts OBM and Club will nave an (CTcraeaJ to meet former tent mate* aad eafa councilors at a reunion to be base] Saturday afternoon...
...One of the most eBBBBi projects is the shop which ¦ aej the direction of Henry Palsy...
...Tat sag ing date was October IS, sateaai Saturday afternoon from ***£*&¦ until five is to be reserved mm work...
...The American Federation of Labor did shake off its lethargy in the field of organization work, when it took steps to organise the South...
...This endorsement was accompanied by the following editorial: "John G. Willert, an avowed Socialist and supported by the Socialist Party, has the confidence of all who know him regardless of party...
...Senior Urges Party Aid A. F. L. Pensions Drive...
...The children will s» §mm opportunity to work in lat4lnt,sei metal, clay, paint, and mar as* awi block print* from linoleum eaajfj shop is located at the LaaTjBBBB Much Interest has bssnjjBWfaw the inter club gym and poelaaa»a| each Saturday at the Caaree "jsj Nations, 8 Second avenue, nVBSwaa till one...
...Scullin has decided tt *9 in a hotel in Canberra and **¦ the special residence erected *¦ the prime ministers, .where fifl former prime minister, BtaSPa Bruce, resided, as the guninasB is determined to eliminate say ta necessary expenditure...
...CLARENCE O. SENIOR, National Executive Secretary of the Socialist Party...
...Education and the Courts The Socialist Party has given special attention to public education because the public schools are the source of what education our children get...
...That means that taw mnot only call for but psrueaaaal organization work en*ag%__ organized...
...And yet he did not offer any specifications...
...Not only the problems of the local campaign but the larger aims and policies of the Socialist movement of the nation and of the world are being expounded over the radio...
...For these we slag high praise...
...Over in Philadelphia the Democrats would ask us to join them in cleaning up the dirt of the Republican Tarn marry...
...sk9 Co-educational seniorataI HH ate groups with club rooms **iS_| Temple meet Friday and aeawga evenings each week...
...Lamfrom represents," wrote the Socialist Mayor...
...Here are real dangers, Mr...
...Moving ptetSNi ssfj during the summer, several oaMBK plays, tumbling stunts and csSfl songs are listed as part of the psm gram on announcements aent > j children connected with the *B*B ration...
...Those who live in the upper range of great wealth need lose little sleep over what happens te popular education...
...Henry Kullman, third district and Sidney Yellen, fourth district...
...It requires fighting inch by inch and day by day behind our own walls of principle and idealism, winning recruits year by year till the army of the second party marches into the fortresses of power...
...Canada By Loais Stanley What hope for progri—Ivs thought aad sggissslts action hi heed out by the forty-mnth annual convention at the American rederatton of Labor which recently ended its sessions at Toronto...
...I don't care to read the usual stuff recommended by the schools and I do want to get the truth about some of the great, wise, and diplomatic men of our country...
...LA Socialist administration wonld help to emancipate the workers on the fines from the slavery of company unionism and give them the opportunity to organize a onion of their own...
...g Observations on recent *edJ5B to the Palisades and Indian a*JBj tlons at Inwood Park will be taMSj up by a trip through the ktanesBB Natural History, Sunday aBaaaBB November 3rd...
...WhateaaasM there is in this appellatiei skS fom the fact that prqrj«aS have contented themieWej afl press releases and marastat |fl tides lor their work...
...Is thire danger that our magistrates courts will become the haunts of professional "fixers" and justic become an article of merchandise...
...Nature Stab mm rector for the organisation- IJk With memories of s happy eaejSJ at camp still fresh to that ¦¦¦ the boys and girls of Peonaw.Bsja| are planning for a winter flMJ activity...
...In the recent election they lost 10 seats...
...He acted as an individual but his action sprung from the sense of gratitude that he and others in his organization feel toward President Green, Matthew Woll and other A. F. of L...
...A CmttpsmyMJnien Umymr Tim is an age of organesatfeeuand most everybody is ergewired for scene purpose...
...The A. F. of L. can reiterate its adherence to non-partisan political action, just as the delegates are breathlessly awaiting the entrance to the convention hall of the Labor Premier of Great Britain, J. Ramsay MacDonald...
...To be in is to be dirty and to be out is to be clean...
...We know it...
...Ohio.—The outstanding development of the municipal campaign of the Socialist Party this week is the endorsement of John G. Willert...
...The King proposal was defeated by 45 votes to 36...
...Senator King of Utah, an antitraperal 1st, brought up the independence issue directly October 9, in an amendment to the tariff BUI proposing that the Philippine legistlatnre call a constitutional convention, and that the adoption of a constitution by the Philippine Islands should be followed by a proclamation by the American President, .granting independence to the Islands...
...French Socialists Cain In Senate Elections (By a New Leaser Cerreieeaaeat) Paris.—Elections to the French Senate recently show a drift away from the conservative parties and the reaction represented by big finance and imperialism...
...The canvassing committee, of which Brooks and Birthright, a Tenneaseean...
...The powerful bankers, corporation magnates, and wealthy rent profiteers are not interested in an intelligent and serviceable transit system...
...N e w s that the American Federation of Labor convention at Toronto had gone on record in favor of old age pensions and that the affiliated unions would be urged to work for this legislation was followed with an announcement by Clarence O. Senior, National Executive Secretary of the Socialist Party, that he was sending & circular to all state and local branches of the party to cooperate in support of this work in all the states...
...You know that and we know it too...
...Czech Socialists Gain 20 Seats I n Parliament Prague.—The general elections in Czechoslovakia last Sunday resulted in substantial gains for the Socialist groups...
...The traditional Socialist unions were heard from but once and that time ill-advisedly...
...the National Socialists who had 28 seats and have gained four or five...
...That the smugness which characterised the gatherings of recent years has been badly shaken hi apparent but that any big change of heart has occurred is somewhat doubtful...
...We would wipe them out if we had the power...
...The A. F. of L» still shuns social legislation, even if its tardy approval of old age pension laws has been given...
...1 Mr...
...When a day come* that I mm •towns, I shaB hate everything that ha...
...Stimson Reverses Kellogg on Exclusion of Karolyi WASHINGTON—(F P)—Secretary of State Stimson announced, Oct 28, that Count and Countess Michael Karolyi, Hungarian liberals, refugees from the White Terrorist regime in their own country, would be admitted to the United States as visitors...
...The A. F. of L. has taken no further steps to organise the automobile industry, the authorisation of the Detroit convention to raise a fund to light company unions etui remains on paper and the approval of craft unionism as a principle is once more affirmed...
...The campaign being waged by the Socialist Party is the most extensive it has conducted in many years...
...The American Federation of Labor did free Itself for a moment from the deadly embrace of the American Legion, when President Green declared against military preparation in the face of peace talk and against universal conscription that could only apply with universality to labor...
...Here the special type of "justice" intended for the jobless and moneyless man is handed out...
...Our program Wee received a publicity which it has never before teceived...
...Through them are dragged the man without a job and the man without friends...
...Is there danger that our transit system will become an abomination for the millions of workers who must use the lines...
...Is there danger that our educational system will become a source of incompetent management in which the welfare of our children is sacrificed...
...Daily Paper CLEVELAND...
...And this is the story of both the ruling parties throughout the nation...
...Many of these blows will be struck next Tuesday and we shall continue to strike them till your power and your politics crumble and eventually they will become only a disagreeable memory...
...It is opposed to contracting corporation politics, to private housing politics, to company union politics, to transit system politics, to Tammany education politics, to low grade magistrate politics, and the whole system of anti-labor and anti-social politics that serves the profiteers and their political agents...
...The party is now using the radio to reach the voters, its message being broadcast every weekday morning at 8:15 over station WRAW...
...It is generally conceded that our presantatkm of issues has been effective and sound and th** our program meets the problems of the ety, . The Sociahst Party is the Labor Party of the TJnited States...
...The banker and corporation magnate are not concerned with the housing problem because they five in sections remote from the tenement boxes in which many thousands oT workers live...
...He would have us unite with his awkward squad to "clean up" Tarnmany...
...The ¦ Portland convention in 1923 had...
...I am a poor old man over 70 and I have given $2...
...The city under Absentee Jim bee hecoene the partner of a company union on the Iftterboroogri lines...
...A good stock of this pamphlet is on hand and in view of the action of the Toronto convention it now becomes especially useful in the hands of members of the trade unions...
...The children may both work and play in a eadwaj program...
...The World War and the resultant hysteria battered its ranks mercilessly...
...These magistrates courts are the courts of the poor man...
...It is true, as the writer indicated in bis Toronto dispatch in the New Leader of October 19, that certain encouraging signs appeared at the convention...
...The statement points out that the decision at Toronto marks a drastic change in policy of the A. F. of L on social legislation...
...Why were there strings of progressivism at the Toronto convention of the American Federation of Labor...
...It is high time that the mask of dignity be torn from the organization which Mr...
...The final count showed that the Socialistic Radicals held or had won 36 out of 96 seats, the Radicals 17, Republican Socialists 12 and Independents 1. The Nationalists have 17 seats and the Left Republicans Milwaukee's Socialist Mayor Upholds Policy Of Decent Pay for Labor Milwaukee, Wis.—Mayor Daniel W. Hoan has issued a defense in behalf of the wage policy of the Socialist administration which was recently attacked before the Rotary Club by Leon Lam from, attorney for the Milwaukee Employers' Council...
...The pevetssj Labor speaker adopted the tsafl course...
...This is all the more encouraging considering that the suffrage is limited in Senate elections and works in favor of reaction...
...It is probable that other cities and towns could be added to the list which shows that the idea of Labor Party politics is growing In this country...
...THE PARTY DRIVE Editor, The New Leader: I am writing you a line or two and I want you ta put this in The New Leader...
...Outsider*" |S ! have called them...
...In every local union in the United States," continues Senior, "our members must get behind ; this movement...
...Noranser ISM at the Ethical Culture School, tmm 64th street...
...The Socialists have earnestly presented t%tf views on problems,and issues of immediate etipoarn to the working masses...
...Noon meetings are being held at various industrial plants, open air evening meetings are being held in the city streets, and the campaign is also being carried into many villages and towns of Berks County...
...The new government represents a shift to the Left and a democratic policy for cooperation in keeping the peace of Europe...
...One of the significant results of the vote is the decline of the Communist Party...
...Independence of Philippines To Come aUp Again WASHINGTON— (FP)— Due to the fact that Philippine sugar production ia becoming a growing menace to the cane sugar industry of Louisiana and the beet sugar industry of the West, Philippine independence—solely for the purpose of excluding this duty-free sugar—has suddenly become a major issue before Congress...
...I hope that they will wake up and make it $100,000 or more...
...They constitute the p ret on an guard of every exploiting interest in the city, state and nation...
...V What is needed now a aakal file pressure upon trade asaT™ era...
...The comrades should be ashamed of themselves that they have not been able to raise 150,000...
...Not only will many Clevelanders atone for their sin in throwing the two Socialists out of the city council during the war days by voting for Willert, but the other three candidates will be elected as weU: Joseph Martinek in the second district...
...The Two Party Allies The Socialist Party as the Labor Party carries a mop, a pail of water and strong lye, a big supplyof disinfectants, and a cargo of garbage cans to clean up the mess caused by the party in power whether in New York City or in Philadelphia...
...Mayor J. Henry Stump and other local speakers are frequently addressing public meetings and the campaign is drawing to a close with the Socialists confident of another victory...
...It will soon regain its powerful status here when it had a membership of 3500 and an influential Socialist weekly...
...Is there danger that thousands of working class families may have to live in foul rookeries and be exposed to disease...
...Here the professional "fixer" of Tammany Hall follows his trade and gets the ear of the magistrate...
...The wholesale condemnation of the A. F. of L by the Scripps-Howard editorial and the motion by Nagler made impossible the criticism on the convention floor of the backsliding by the A. F. of L and instead shifted the discussion to a defense of the American Federation of Labor and the freedom of the press...
...Brooklyn, N. Y. This inquiry will be answered next week.—Editor...
...the last national convention of the ' party and bearing the title, "Tour Unions—Your Future...
...As the Labor Party we stress the need of a better transit system...
...Those who do the useful work of the city have to suffer because of any neglect of a housing program...
...Had the report been favorable to the Tammany professionals we would have had it many years ago...
...It has been assured a full and direct consideration in the coming regular session, and will probably be approved by the Senate...
...They can afford private tuition and also send their children to the universities...
...The top hat gentlemen who live on our labor have no grievance because of this policy...
...The parties to the Right lost eight seats on the second ballot and the Socialists won one...
...Norman J. Makin, the stfl speaker, will not wear a wig, BBM is the practice of most of the BBS ish parliaments...
...Its approach to politics, its view of political action, and its aims differ from the eenventional American parties...
...The role that the progressives inside the labor movement have played both before the formation of the Conference for Progressive Labor Action and since has been te eaasarSal lags of the A F. at L, avssaai view and thus to a grak 9 stimulate the liberals ta eaaj . their criticisms, the anal the "New Leader" er*shee) delist sentiment, aska* ad mine the position at MateWai and the National Crete rak , and contributed to aakagal pensions the t—n steal s73 greesive labor peaey...
...They include the Czech Social Democrats who had 39 seats in the old Parliament and have gained 10 seats...
...The Socialist Party gives special attention to proper municipal housing because, it vitally affects the health and welfare of the working ¦asses...
...A. GREENBERG...
...It is an example of what we may expect in matters of education...
...It is a shame that it has been coming in so slow...
...The mayor, village clerk and police magistrate were also elected...
...aal work to criticism, aad eriaaai very soon degenerate into thai] It is hard to distingue...
...Hardly...
...The American Federation of Labor did unite with the workers of the world when it gave such a hearty welcome to J. Ramsay MacDonald...
...He will work hard, is deeply interested in government, and should make an excellent councilman...
...Thar mjm ent job is to dig themselva'anl the unions...
...Only activity Ma3 the organized and unorruaj-f workers will give them tat mB to be heard by the labor ami ment...
...Every Socialist vote is a blow at all these dangers...
...e Holy Musaohni speaks of the courage of his assassin band who "plunge the lead of its muskets into the backs of the enemies ef Italy...
...Those Clevelanders of the First District who have some desire to atone for their city's sins will recall the shameful throwing out of Council of Willert along with Mandelkorn during the war days of prejudice, and will perhaps care to make atonement by voting for Willert...
...In the summer they have their summer homes in the mountains to flee to...
...The few advanced steps that were taken were largely in response to criticisms by middle class liberal elements that were aroused by the Brookwood controversy to a realization of the reactionary, complacent and indolent character of the American Federation of Labor...
...You know it...
...That report has been withheld from us for years...
...Thuse far tat tee 9 have been beard from am «fl bothering from without, a» speak...
...The American Federation of Labor did do the decent thing when it came out squarely for old age pension legislation...
...They will continue to flourish if you and your kind are returned to the City Hall...
...The Socialist "Danger" Mayor Walker warns against the rise of this second party as a "danger," warns the independents who are flocking to the Socialist standard of the "danger of Socialism...
...Those who were, let the endorsement of nonpartisan politics get by without their voices being heard in dissent, although the Impending reception to MacDonald gave them the opportunity to make a few wen-chosen remarks', When President Green selected a committee to usher in MacDonald, the needle trades delegates, who, it was reported, had need their influence to bring the Prime Minister to the A. F. of L convention were conspicuous by their exclusion...
...Thus it is seen how silly is Major LaGuardia's plea for us to...
...under the BsSBeBH of Herbert Zlnn...
...Is there danger that workingmen on the Interboro lines will become the slaves of a hateful company union...
...Last Sunday the elections ia Ceaclioilovssls give the Socialists a good Increase...
...The Czech Socialist parties are not yet united in one organization...
...The masses of workers have a grievance and the Socialist Party, true to its role, as a Labor Party, has exposed this servility of the Hall's Major...
...The task of progressive elements inside and outside the labor movement is to keep the progressive pot boiling...
...STUDIES OF THE CIVIL WAR Editor, The New Leader: Will you please recommend some book that gives a true account of the causes of the Civil War and other books that deal with the periods before the Civil War...
...The masses have been defrauded for years by the secrecy that has shrouded this report...
...Why if all comrades would have given one dollar each you should already have at least 1100,000...
...1 M Daly and John Barnes...
...We are fighting for the building of a second party to represent the masses, a second party to displace the two-party undercover alliance that is never written but is always observed between, the two major parties...
...BBM times between love for tat JLfm of L. and hatred, and certsafc/Bft conservatives will do sat feC done their utmost to BShgThB I progressives...
...They have their expensive cars and their chauffeurs and do not have to endure, the intolerable conditions that face millions of workers going to and from their work...
...They represent an old order of politics financed by the upper range of corporation masters who are enriched by the parties they own...
...In fact, we wonld to the extent of our power abolish many offices because they are useless...
...The new government will be organized with representatives of the following parties: the Agrarians, the Czech People's Party (Clerical), the Slovak People's Party, the German Agrarians, the German Christian Socialists, the National Democrats, the Czech Democrats, and the Czech Traders' Party...
...They were excluded in 1925 by Secretary Kellogg...
...That means eoaeataadaaal among the active sat kaaal workers...
...They have great wealth which gives them a special standing and which enables them to hire exBensive lawyers to help them break through the mesh of the law...
...Pa.—With the election less than one week away, the Socialist administration of Reading is before the voters in the councilmanic contest with the Socialist battle for the control of the school board a close second...
...So it is, bat tke naUk is mare likely te be watered, Samuel Butler...
...That was when Isadora Nagler of the Ladies Garment Workers, not himself a Socialist, rushed to introduce a motion to censure the Scripps-Howard papers and was soundly trounced by the conservatives who came to the defense of freedom of the press...
...Senator...
...The total Socialist representation has increased from 17 to 20 seats...
...The party and the unions should work together If possible—but the party should work anyway...
...That second party of the masses cannot be built by agreement, fusion or compromise with the major parties and their agents...
...It is not the private property of the Tammany office holders but they have treated it as such...
...Los Angeles, Calif...
...The National Executive Secretary urges the use of "Is It a Crime To Be Old," an old age pension ' leaflet which the National Office ! has in stock and the address to i the trade unions of the United j States, a pamphlet approved by...
...The report shows what education and public schools mean in the clammy hands of TaTruriany appointees...
...On the other hand, whsn we analyse these omens more closely, we are led to temper our optimism with realism...
...The outspoken comments by the "New Republic," the "Nation" and other papers, culminating in the ScrippsHoward editorial as the convention opened at Toronto, stung the labor officials...
...We believe in removing the dirt but we cannot associate with either party because where either has ruled any length of time it is in need of our mop and disinfectants...
...A BSB| group under the tnreotsal 1 Coultoflt of the American «****31 Theatre has been ortanin* „ 11 meetings are also being paasjH rora Merendet, a inembsr a J graduate group, is tecratarr "Jf-TaB surer of the youth e°*JJ!^aaB Industrial cooperation wU*aTil sored a meeting for ths WSmrn Marion textile strikers heMWWjBJ Temple last Monday SfeaBBv^jaBJ Pioneer Yeuub hat she 1 its activities to the air, *m\gfLover the municipal ttelaa "^j Joshua Lieberman bat Wk on camp activities hi aaw*^a1 children participate wittVWfSfM Walter Ludwig will auk rg,al oneer Youth clubs, oa from 7—7:30 pjn...
...President Green, although perhaps a little uncertain of his position because of some of his progressive manifestations and the diminishing influence of his union, the United Mine Workers because of its loss in membership, not yet reflected in A F. of L statistics and internal dissatisfaction, still heads the organization...
...J. E. faafl A. Blakeley, A. E Greta, t.m Moloney, J. A. Lyons, J. A kafl ley, F. M. Forde...
...The Republican machine in New York City is fairly'dean because it has no opportunity to be dirty...
...Into the unions and tomm must be their slogan...
...What the Campaign Means *»«AriTHIN a few days the results of the elec? tOTal Struggle in New York City will be foown...
...That aim we ever keep in mind while fighting the battles of the masses in each campaign...
...One dollar I sent to the east and one dollar I gave to the local...
...Mayor Walker and Major LaGuardia and their associates on their tickets want office...
...They must sst H main isolated, they must sst jB "outsiders...
...Is there danger that a labor administration of New York City would swindle the voters of Queens boro of millions of dollars in sewer graft...
...join with him and his motley collection of supporters...
...Does it mean an internal change...
...Czechoslovakia has been one of the few European nations where the Communists built up a strong movement...
...This editorial is an indication of the change of public sentiment here regarding tbe Socialist Party...
...In a letter to the president of the Rotary Club Mayor Hoan asks that be be permitted to speak before the organization in answer to Lamfrom...
...officials for aiding them in their struggle with the Communists and the employers...
...Instead John L. Lewis of the miners, who is a Republican, and "Joe" Ryan of the Longshoremen and the New Tork City Central Trades Labor Council, who is a Republican nationally and a Democrat locally, helped to greet the outstanding figure of the British Labor Party...
...Dan" Tobin of the Teamsters and "Andy" Furuseth of the Seamen may call for militancy but the first led the defense of the A. F. of L. against the criticism in the now historic 8cripps-Howard editorial, and is a staunch craft unionist, while the second represents an organization that has been declining in membership and aa an individualist at all costs constituted with John P. Frey of the Molden the only opposition to old age pensions...
...FLORA DEUTCHMAN...
...It would reduce our working people and their wages to a starvation standard if possible and to the level of many revolution torn foreign countries...
...Imagine the "courage'* that kills a mse from the rear...
...Willert Wins Support Of Cleve...
...The Socialists have carried out a minimum wage policy for city and county employes and it is this policy that was attacked by Lam from...
...It has one purpose, to smash every vestige of organization among working people to maintain a decent American standard of wages...
...JfJI in the Brooklyn Ethical Osaj and director of the intermedin* aeaa at last summer's camp...
...But the tide is now turned...
...Walker, that flourish under the flag of Tammany Hall and its Absentee Mayorl They are abuses that bear harshly upon the working masses of the greatest city in this country...
Vol. 9 • November 1929 • No. 13
