CONFERENCE ON TEXTILE DRIVE NOV 14
Todd, Laurence
CONFERENCE ON TEXTILE DRIVE NOV 14 |, F. of L< Unions Must .Faee Fight Calling i-sr Great Courage^ ay LAURENCE TODD WASHINGTON (FT) — When the executives of the 105 icirm} and international...
...The subject is Resolved that the Jury System be abolished...
...that he is a vicious and infamous liar and a dangerous conspirator, that he does not hesitate to discredit and ruin other men if he can serve his purpose by doing so, that he is a brazen demagogue, a fraud and a sham...
...The retail booksellers will demand that the bill Introduced at Albany by Mr...
...Debates .Over WEVD Miss Tollefson, Studio Director of Station WEVD announces a series of debates between Julius Umansky, Executive Secretary of the Y.P.S.L...
...The late ex-Socialist congressman was a prolific writer and this selection from his editorials, speeches and articles gives some idea of the wide range of his information...
...All of these lectures will be on up-to-theminute topics...
...On the othW hand, he told Commons, if these plans are to be carried out, it was necessary to cut down the number of ships which carry British exports to Canada and return to this country in ballast He went on to explain how he is negotiating with a Canadian wheat pool for greater grain exports to Great Britain...
...Expenditure of about $55,000,000 has been authorized in the last three months by the Unemployment Grants Committee for various forms of construction work such as extension of waterworks, etc...
...The Rand School Forum will open on November 16...
...No business having a less net profit than $5,000 was included In this count Writings and Speeches Of Berger Published (Br • *«w lulw O—itwest) , MILWAUKEE...
...56 are between $1,500,000 and $2,000,000 ; 55 are between $2,0*0.000 and UAOOJBSO...
...Bis...
...making $75,000 in all that the coal company wasted on the purchase of a useless ornament...
...Be forty different phces every time my heart doth beat...
...Brockway will be available for lectures before various groups and societies...
...PRODUCTION drives us on...
...expelled former district president, has been readmitted to the union and writes a leading article in the Illinois Miner...
...Butchere is damn little glory for the likes of you and me...
...For the whip that curls above me is my family must cat...
...Some die to make men happy, and some die to make men free, Some die of influenza and some drown out in the sea...
...months nave aMsed and he has not informed ft—if on cotton mill operating (gets so that he can show the country the extent to which mill workers are now exploited by tariffSjalaten null bosses...
...Whole¦av enrollment of the new union •fceaath will begin...
...Thomas 2nd Speaker How many of these 174,394 people who vi ' ed for Norman Thomas are Socialists ? How many of them can be made Socialists ? Ought the Socialist party to change its name or its policies to attract new members...
...1 British Labor Makes I Great Local Gains...
...This volume presents his views on a variety of subjects, the French Revolution, his fearless speech before Judge Land is who sentenced him to twenty years in prison, criticisms of the capitalist system, the World War, post-war conditions and other Important topics...
...Other members are Council President Frank C. Perkins, Socialist party...
...Organizers will ¦ «hot or kidnapped and flogged— «the South holds true tn i:3 rec•M...
...is set forth tn the Treasury's report on statistics of income for 1927, Issued Nov...
...2. Socialism and the Youth Movement 3. Has the Independent Labor Party a Function...
...The Illinois Miner, official | organ of District 12, reports mass meetings throughout the state becking district officials...
...Hyatt was active In the rayon strike at Elizabeth ton last spring, and he has had experience with the mill owners in tat Carolinas in connection with a expose he made, years ago, of the fake organization of "fanners" *ttch was created by the millnmers to defeat the Child Labor Amendment to the federal constitution...
...This bill releases the retail booksellers from all liabilities in selling any book that Sumner may deem indecent The publisher or distributor would he the ones held for prosecution...
...sjehaem end Tennessee...
...large as it is, is only a modest beginning...
...These are a few of the questions that are being asked everywhere in the New York area...
...The Labor Party pamphlet was written by Chairman A. J. Muate while the Marion pamphlet contains speeches made at the funeral of the massacre victims by Vice-President Francis J. Gorman of the United Textile Workers, Tom Ttppett of Brookwood Labor College and Muste, Speedup Song Makes Hit With Auto Workers DETROIT—(FP)—Workers in Detroit auto plants are singing a new popular song—a popular song that most song experts would foredoom to failure, since it contains neither sex, moonlight, liquor, nor patriotic appeal...
...They will like it, and by having a good time together every Saturday afternoon they will help formulate the body of thought that will become the heart of a bigger Socialist movemeqt...
...Clarence F. Conroy, State Vice President of the American Federation of Labor, headed an official delegation of the Buffalo Central Labor Council...
...and the Leader staff expects that it will have a wide distribution...
...His lectures include the following topics: "War Resistance," British Labor," "India," "Prisons and Crime...
...With a most ungodly driving and amid a mad uproar, PRODUCTION rushes on...
...Flshwick restraining Lewis . officials from taking over affairs at Springfield, point to an irremediable split in the ranks of what ! was once the most powerful union ! in the world...
...After some weeks or months of survey and of •Citation the workers in some of *s mills will orobably be locked ed, for Joining the union Then will come a call for funds to carry j • the fight—to feed and house 4a locked-out employees...
...Booksellers To Meet To Fight Censorship A mass meeting of all booksellers will be held at the Peoples House, 7 East 15th street, New York, on Monday, Nov...
...Miners Seek Aid1 From Nation Will Form National Conncul of All Coal Miners to Fight Lewis SPRINGFIELD — (FP) — The proposed formation of a national council with representatives chosen from all districts of the United Mine Workers Union to be financed and organized by District 12, Is the latest development in the sanguine scrap between the international union officials end the heads of the Illinois district The council would necessarily be organized independently of the international and its purpose would be to gather support for the stand taken by District 12 in other sections of the union...
...Frank Farrington...
...Sadie Shapiro— 1. The Rand School Library and the Community...
...Even this sum...
...In an effort to avoid a protracted struggle when the workers are called out a group of children's dressmaking manufacturers will meet for the purpose of forming an association to deal collectively with the International Union...
...Fenner Brockway Coming to Lecture Fenner Brockway of the British Labor Party and a Labor member of Parliament is .coming to the United States for a lecture tour beginning in January...
...Under the head of colonial development, Thomas announced that a bridge is to be bui't over the Zambesi River which will provide 50,0O0 man-months of direct employment in Great Britain...
...Douglas P. Falconer, Executive secretary Childrens Aid Society...
...Dressmakers' Strike Is Authorized 15,000 Makers of Children's Garments May Start Walkout Dec...
...PRODUCTION drives me on...
...Hurry, hurry, hurry up, John...
...3. The Socialist Party and the , Trade Unions...
...8 are between $4,000,000 sad $5,000,000 aad 11 ere above $5,090,000 a year...
...The following week Norman Thomas will speak on "The Next Socialist Campaign...
...The building sad printing trades have bsb m that field from time to Sjaa Some of these men are faBfliar with the Southern industrial development and are used to tst temperament and tricks exhibited in the Gastonia trial They haw that organizing the mill lends as well as the building meeosaics and 'printers and clerks in North Carolina will be far more ssscatt thaa-would the unionizing a* similar' groups in the West...
...At that **ht the test of the campaign will ¦•sin...
...3. Books of the Hour and Books of Power...
...i Anna Bercowitz— 1. The British Labor Party and the United States...
...16th, 1929 at 6 P.M...
...He told the House that this year 600.000 tons of British hard coal would be sent to Canada and that next year the only difficulty so far as Canada is concerned would be to supply th* demand there...
...2. Recent Books on Social Subjects...
...This sum, Thomas estimated, will provide approximately 500,000 man-months of direct contract employment aside from the indirect employment it will bring about About $35,000,000 of the total is made up of extension and rebuilding work which various railways have decided to undertake...
...Charles F. O. Butler, Typographical Union...
...Comrade Umansky will uphold the affirmative of the first subject and the negative of the second...
...A Bitter Fight Certain As in the case of the steel strike Pat after the World War, the or(ssizers for the various national ad international unions will be financed by their own organizations...
...They must steer away from arguasrtti over religion, race, section¦Ian and . various other subtarts, snd stick to the one univerml appeal of higher wages and Skater hours, with the right to bargain collectively through their avs union...
...Frank J. Boehm, Workman* Sick and Death Benefit Association...
...He admitted that Great Britain could not hope to compete in Canada with American j soft coal merely on a price basis, but asserted that r-itish soft coal is sufficiently superior to capture I the market there and that Canadian dealers are so satisfied with it they have ordered rive 7,000-ton ships to carrj*-next year's importations alone...
...He was also dragged nine times before police courts or court martials for his war opposition...
...finance and banking and brokerage ha* $126,966,569 net profit, and other lines of business had a total of $119,879,682 net profit...
...In other words, the income taxes for 1927 were paid in larger sums, marking a rise- in the incomes of the taxpayers, but a decrease in the number who paid Income tax...
...in mining, 1,160 firms reported $12,356,376 net profit Manufactures reported $118,862,829 net profit...
...After a session which lasted to midnight, November 1, the union finally decided to swallow the bitter pill prepared by Green and Paterson and to return to work under open shop conditions, sacrificing the job rights of at least half the 1,200 strikers...
...they will at least be unfa- no Bhanon as to what Coniiaa is going to do to smooth the ST to their goaL Congress is Jjtag to do precisely nothing: to aid «e» wovement to better the living g^dorda of millions of voters in |SMSas the Carolinas...
...the suspension of the district charter by Pres...
...Cecilia S. Birmingham and Bertha P. Roetter, Womacs City Club...
...The volume bears the title "Voice and Pen of Victor L Berger...
...Thomas devoted considerable time to describing how he is attempting to substitute British for American imports of coal and stee...
...Bruce & Wright, President Erie County League of Women Voters...
...Out of this warfare the United **xta* Workers may emerge with MWat new membership, enthusiT*6 «nd ready for any sacrifice 'defense of their new freedom...
...For the Rand School Forum is a place for the meeting of minds and the crystalization of thought There— at two o'clock every Saturday afternoon—people will meet to listen, to talk and to think...
...Charges of treachery and corruption flung by both sides...
...W. B. Hutchinson, F .terns...
...11, 1929, at 8:30 P. M. The pnrpose of the meeting is to organize the booksellers of New York against the raids of John S. Sumner and his 'stool pigeons.' Morris Ernst, author of 'To the Pure" and counsel in the "Well of Loneliness" case and also for Mary Ware Dennet will be the principal speaker...
...31st -w-tlFTEEN thousand children's X dressmakers, working under sweatshop conditions in Greater New York, have been authorized to strike December 31 when existing agreements in the industry expire...
...We count on all party members...
...Then it was -fee evident that no federal ln.gay ef any hind would be permittad by the textile senators...
...3. Educating People for Social Change...
...friends, honored by his colleagues and feared by his political opponents, but admired by friend and foe alike, Victor L. Berger was a stormy petrel in our political and' labor movement for forty years...
...In agricultural lines, 18,287 business firms reported $103*212.791 net profit...
...He comes as the representative of the War Registers' International under the auspices of The World Tomorrow...
...Morris Hillquit will open the series of forum addresses this year, speaking on the subject: 'What Next...
...All this hurry, all this worry, are the things that will kill me...
...Phila...
...From such profits were drawn the individual incomes which made the millionares...
...Chorus: Horry, hurry, hurry up, John...
...It bids fair to be as big a hit as Tin Pan Alley's best Sung to the tune of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," the "Hurry Hymn" goes: Mine eyes have seen the glory of the making of the Ford, It is made under conditions that offend even the Lord...
...2. Wanted: A 8elf-Reliant Rank and File . 3. New York is Not America...
...Road Building Planned The sum of $47,000,000 will be spent cn road building in the next four or five years, Thomas said, to be followed by a further five-year program in the carrying out of which $140,000,000 will be spent...
...He declared he was even more optimistic regarding the prospects 3f substitution of-British for American steel irr.poriB|ons into Canada...
...Under the caption, "The Master Wrecker", Farrington accuses Lewis of responsibility for the disorganized state of the industry and premises that in future articles he will prove Lewis to be "dishonest and disloyal, that he is an ingrate and a hypocrite who cannot be loyal even to those who befriended him...
...lajasths ago it became clear that ay Wheeler resolution, calling for l ferr*f» inveetigation of the texts* war in the South, would not w permitted to pass...
...Order of Eagles...
...Ernst be passed...
...Nathan Fine— 1. Unemployment in the United States...
...Authorization was granted by President Benjamin Schlesinger and the General Executive Board of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union after VicePresident Harry Green berg, in charge of the children's dress activities of the union, exposed the conditions under which girls and women, mainly American, are forced to work...
...Corporation income for the same year is indicated la returns from buslnsssss engaged in agriculture, mining, T*^T*a*rrur1ng...
...The total pet income of this group was $22,545,090,553, or 2.6...
...2. The Mechanization of America...
...The speakers for the next three weeks will be Harry Elmer Barnes, Harry F. Ward and Morris L. Ernst...
...Answers to these questions will be given by Morris Hillquit and Norman Thomas...
...St are between $3,000,000 end $4,000,000...
...The school will be taken over on April 1st, 1930...
...C. P. L. A. Issues Labor Party,Marion Pamphlets "Why a Labor Party" and "The Marion Murder" are the titles of the first two pamphlets of the Progressive Labor Library, just published...
...Beloved by his comrades, revered by his person...
...2. Prospects aad Problems of a Labor Party...
...Public Service rejected the compromise and announced that all negotiations with the union were off...
...percent more than in 1926, but the tax was 13.40 more than in the previous year...
...Wheet_ isjiiitnnb to took into the cotoa and rayon textile schedules in gjl tariff bill, in the hope of turntag op a situation which would gtao-tae South to concede that its toctoe wage level is too low and n hours of labor too long...
...Hurry, hurry, hurry up, John...
...Florence Pierce of the American Fellowship...
...The Chairman of the Executive Committee is Rev...
...He expressed confidence that similar success could be achieved with the exportation of British soft coal to Canada...
...Brockway is a brilliant figure in the labor and peace movements of England and on the Continent During the world wax he served a term in prison at hard labor because of his opposition to the war...
...Campaign Passes the 90% Mark PHILADELPHIA (FP)—Organization in the Philadelphia clothing market now includes more than 90 per cent of a'.l workers employed, according to officers of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, who say that 100 per cent organizatJer, is foreshadowed for the near future...
...Robert A. Hoffman, Evangelical Brotherhood Federation: Mrs...
...Branches, Do You Want Volunteer Speakers...
...The modification which was accepted before the anal roll call was taken was one which exonerated Bingham of corrupt or dishonest motives in thus introducing a high-tariff spy into the tariffmaking councils...
...Buffalo Organizes Old Age Aid Conference i By s New Leader Correspondent > Buffalo, N. Y.—At a meeting at Reickert's Tea Room, attended by representatives of two score organizations, a Buffalo Conference on Old Age Security was organized...
...Oh that new and better model is as pretty as can be...
...Be swift my mind to another, and be swifter stilt my feet...
...Moreover the audiences themselves will give answers...
...These incomes of over $1,000,000 a year represent no less than $600,640,846 of net income, or 2.67 per cent of all the income reported by the 4,101,547 persons who made income tax returns to the federal government in 1927...
...We've got a rush Job on...
...Alfred S. Priddis, Supt of the Episcopal Church Extension Society...
...But "The Hurry Hymn of the Ford Workers," composed by workers, seems to have an appeal of its own to employes of the 100 per cent open shop motor industry...
...Resolved: That American Capital abroad be protected with a military force...
...102 New Seats Won a I*»nx>N'.—Sweeping gains by Labor Party and the failure of MjeVinmist candidates to cause I** impression on the electorate the chief features of the muI sf*l elections last week 290 Millionaires Reported By U. S. Treasury DepH...
...The Labor Government expects to spend a total of $210,000,000 for the relief of the unemployed...
...Florence Kelley, National Secretary of the Consumers League...
...of New York, and a non-Socialist The first one will be held on Saturday Nov...
...On the other side, the United Mine Workers Journal in an editorial recalls the circumstances of Farrington's expulsion...
...Following is a list of the speakers and their topics: Algernon Lee— 1. The Old Socialism and the . New...
...We are all creatures of habit Algernon Lee said the other day: "Let's get our people to form the Saturday Forum habit...
...A.G.W...
...Rand School Staff Volunteers As a part of the effort to consolidate the gains made in the election, members of the Rand School staff have volunteered to speak for the Socialist branches in Greater New York and vicinity...
...Thonaas, Lord Privy Seal and unofficially Mhdeter of Employment tn the Labor Government, placed before the House of Commons this week Labor's program for the unemployed which numbers over a million...
...His double cross of the United Mine Workers of America caused a shameful scandal and Farrington had to get out of office -and out of the union He remained in the employ of the coal company for three years at a salary of $25,000...
...the subject being...
...It came to light that at the time, Farrington sold out to Illinois coal operators for $75,000...
...serviceprofessional, amusements, hotels, etc.—had $688,881,713 net profit...
...C. L. Smith, Waitresses local union...
...Under the agreement negotiated two months ago by President William Green of the A. F. of L., and Vice-President A. B Paterson of New Orleans Public Service, Inc., the open shop is established and several hundred strikers lose all chance of re-employment The New Orleans union voted overwhelmingly to reject the agreement shortly after it was signed in New York by Green and Paterson, who obtained the consent of President W. 9. Mahon of the street car men's international...
...Later, international representatives persuaded the strikers to accept the pact, with a reservation for arbitration of the disputed point of seniority rights of the strikers...
...The strike of 15,000 children's dressmakers will be co-ordinated with the general strike of 45,000 dressmakers scheduled December 3L Hillquit To Open Rand School Forum...
...The Conference for Progressive Labor Action sponsors the 17-page pamphlets...
...and Council President Frank C. Perkins...
...Problems to Be Faced first of the practical problems Mors this organizing conference ¦ the one of sending additional orleasers into the mill towns...
...The last Issue of the United Mine Workers Journal, reflecting Lewis | opinion, prints letters from two \ dozen Illinois locals pledging sup[ por...
...It is intended to equip this residential college as a new Labor College in addition to the one already existing at Esbjerg, and the curriculum will be amended accordingly...
...Don D. Tullis, executive secretary Buffalo Council of Churches...
...Florence H. Orr, Y. W. C. A...
...Conroy stated that the Central Labor Council, while favorable to the formation of the committee, must wait official action by the State Executive Council before paxti creatine...
...The Labor Government is also considering, the House of Commons was told, a scheme proposed by the London subways for extension work to cost about $45,000,000...
...Mill guards •d state troops will be used to ¦tonidate them...
...Ihey will work together, probably through local committee meetings Bsd regional conferences as the teak gets under way...
...Of the million-dollar Incomes, the report shows that 138 range between $1,000,000 and $1,500,000...
...4. The $830,633,434 of income tax collectible against individuals for that year came from 2,440,941 persons, a decrease in the number of taxpayers amounting to 0S9 per cent...
...into Canada...
...etc...
...The glory of its Duco is a lovely sight to see...
...William E. Bonn— 1. Socialism and Anglo-Saxon Psychology...
...the Rev...
...Stephen J. Ambor, Redmen...
...Workers' Educational Activities in Denmark COPENHAGEN.—The Workers' Educational Union "of Denmark, the joint- educational centre of the Labor Party, the Trade Unions and the Co-operative Societies, has recently purchased for 125,000 Kronen the People's High School at Roskilde...
...Georgia...
...However, it is in sharp contrast with the policy of neglect which the unemployed faced under the Tory Government...
...210 Millions For jobless In England Sam to Be Expended on Public Works and on . Necessary Relief LONDO*L-5*H...
...W.s.—An event in the local Socialist Party organization is the publication of a volume of 775 pages of the speeches and wrtings of the late Victor L. Berger by the Milwaukee Leader, the local Socialist daily...
...With this background, Hyatt is likely to stir considerable interest in the mill workers' grievaces, and to be the target of enaged comment from the millowned press when he prepares the publicity material for the organizing campaign...
...there has Just gone to Marion from Washington an experienced cat enthusiastic labor newspaper sen, Gilbert E. Hyatt, who has taken leave of absence from the nilrosd workers' paper, "Labor," to handle publicity for the United Textile Workers...
...The conference was addressed by Abraham Epstein, National Secretary of the Old Age Security League...
...But all depends upon ¦» energy with which the fight is ¦sged...
...The second debate is on November 23rd, at 6 P.M...
...U. H. Long, Molders Union...
...Last year he attended the congress of the Socialist and Labor International at Brussels as a delegate of the Independent Labor Party...
...The bitter tone of mutual recrimination between the Indianapolis administration and the officials of its largest and most prosperous section, seems to indicate a determination on both sides to fight a finish battle...
...aV_ 11 Hare) Yearly Incomes of Over $5,000,000, Report Shows WASHINGTON—(FP) — How great American fortunes are piling up, so that Incomes of 15,000,000 a year era enjoyed by e group ef 11 men, while those having over $1,000,000 a year number at least 290...
...It is understood that the association will be composed of the better type of manufacturer whose purpose it will be to stabilize the industry, to eliminate the sweatshop and cutthroat competition from unscrupulous manufacturers...
...trade had $400,029,873 net profit...
...Fishwick replies, "We state positively that we are not dominated by anyone and that Frank Farrington does not nor has he in the past had a voice in our councils...
...construction had $111,392,090 net profit transportation and other utilities had $22,594,344 net profit...
...Something more than three years ago", it says, "Frank Farrington was booted out of the office of District 12...
...PRODUCTION must go on...
...Assemblyman Frank X. Bernhardt Vice Chairman of the Governor's Commission...
...If the national and internUkxtal unions stand by the PjeJge made to the workers of the ¦aeh by the Toronto convention, •sough funds will promptly be .•had to give courage to hundreds * thousands of mill hands to come •*sr into the union camp...
...CONFERENCE ON TEXTILE DRIVE NOV 14 |, F. of L< Unions Must .Faee Fight Calling i-sr Great Courage^ ay LAURENCE TODD WASHINGTON (FT) — When the executives of the 105 icirm} and international unions SSed with the American Fedfjaosi of Labor beg-in their con-rceee on the proposed organizing pjlyn in the South, in Federates headquarter* in Washington aw...
...New Orleans Carmen Take Open Shop Pact NEW ORLEANS (FP)—Union street car men, on strike since July 2, have finally accepted the Green-Pateraon settlement, by a vote of 889 to 20...
...Lewis and the injunction obtained by District Pres...
...But Wsseier proved to be no success si a research worker...
...J other class of labor in the ***h will in that case benefit by J* drive...
...jpjeghafM TriAery^ WASHINrjTON fm — After hoars ef debate and of roE-calls a modified edition of the Norris resolution, November 4, condemning Senator Bingham's action tn secretly bringing into the secret sessliMiS of the Senate Finance Committee during the re-writing of the Hawley-Smoot tariff bill, a $39,000 representative of the Connecticut Manufacturers' Association...
...Both sides claim the support of | rank and file coal miners...
...Terms may be obtained from A. Albert MacLeod, business manager of The World Tomorrow, 52 Vanderbilt avenue, New York City...
...The Lewis organ charges that Farrington has never ceased running the affairs of the Illinois district while in the pay of the Peabody Coal Co...
Vol. 9 • November 1929 • No. 14
