CRIMINAL SYNDICALIST LAW IS ASKED
Criminal Syndicalist Law is Asked Judge at Marion Trial Hints of Drastic Law Against Strikers—Convicted Men Out on Bail MARION, N. C. (F. P.) Enactment of a criminal syndicalism law,...
...More In functions Striking gypsy workers of Fort Dodge, Ia...
...Many of the older people have been able to leave the poor houses and have returned to the homes of their children...
...Few and decreasing benefits have been rendered the needy aged by private employers' pension schemes, it is asserted According to Murray W. Latimer, of Industrial Relations Counsellors, Inc., whose article on "The Lesson of Industrial Pensions," is printed In the December Issue of the Association's Bulletin the Industrial pension plans have affected very few employees...
...Poorer nations of Europe can afford state aid it Is pointed out It ia cheaper to maintain aged persons In their homes than in institutions...
...Private Pension Systems of Anteriean Corporations Challenged by American Association DICLARING that private penaion plans do not meet the needs of workers to this age of mass production, the American Association for Oid Age Security...
...The letter contains a survey of the pension situation in the United States...
...15th, 4 to 6 PJC...
...Director Forrest Ba'ley denounces it as "sweeping and indefensible...
...104 Fifth Avenue, New York, has •ant a letter to 3,000 large employera emphasising the need of old age pension legislation...
...Praising North Carolina's "liberal labor policy," Judge Cowper repeated Chief Justice Taft's famous dictum that there Is no such thing as peaceful picketing...
...Judge V. G. Cowper, to passing sentence, foreshadowed the legislative action next year when he asserted that North Carolina needed harsher legislation to curb militant strikes and strikers...
...The salaries of private Insurance executives are compared As compared to $10,000 a year paid by the New York State fund to its chief executive, the salaries of $200,000 and $175,000 a year paid to certain private companies are cited 6. Arguments In favor of a contributory plan are met with the statement that such a plan would not aid those already old, of which, it is said there are millions in the United States...
...It states the case for state legislation, answer* various objection* to such a solution of the problem and points out that private pension plana have proved insufficient to cope with an increasingly acute situation...
...A Liberal Labor Policy Judge Cowper asserted that the evidence supported the mill attorneys' charges that the four unionists were responsible for disturbances when an Imported scab's furniture was thrown out of his house...
...It was the second trial of the four unionists, the first on charges of inciting to rebellion, and insurrection against the state having been nonsuited by Judge Cowper...
...POETRY FORUM Charles A. Wagner, Henry Reich, and other well-known poets will give a recital at the Labor Temple Poetry Forum, 242 E 14th St., N. T. C, Tuesday, December 10 at 8:15 to 10 P. M. David B. Berenberg and Anton la Y. Schwab will read their poetry at the Union Settlement Poetry Forum, 237 E 104th St...
...The state militia was called when the strikers gathered on the road near the scab's house...
...the public school system, libraries, health activities, street cleaning, policing, fire protection, farm relief and agricultural research are cited as some government activities In the public Interest 4. Answering the fourth objection...
...The open letter declares old age dependency the most serious of the problems now facing worker...
...At present rioting is a misdemeanor instead of a felony, and carries a two year maximum penalty...
...Washburn extolled Vlckers, the turncoat who testified as to the terrorism preached at the much mooted "secret" meeting at Sarles Springs, as a courageous man who dared to sneak out...
...If Hoffmann, the United Textile Workers and the great A F. of L can get away with what has happened we might as well burn the Constitution," he vehemently declared Unbridled as were his denunciations of organized labor they were mild as compared with those of W. T. Morgan, whose bull-dozing cross-examination has received so much unfavorable comment during the trials...
...9 in Burnsvllle when eight deputy sheriffs answer for the lives of six union pickets they slaughtered in the Marion massacre of Oct 3. Fifty other cases against pickets and unionists remain on the prosecutor's list, but the heavy expense involved In convicting the four leaders may cause the charges to be nolle pressed...
...A pension of even $20 a month Is sufficient to give the old people an independent standing In the homes of their relatives who are often hard pressed to earn a living for themselves...
...It is denied that the costs of a state system is prohibitive...
...depressed industries, such as soft coal and textiles, cannot spend money on pensions...
...A Renegade Praised "The law says the American Federation can organize the labor of men and starve babies, organize railroads and stop' transportation, organize miners and freeze "eople to death," declared G. L. Washburn, mill attorney, actlrg as assistant to Solicitor J. Will Pleas In a closing appeal for conviction...
...Six Objections Answered The Association then proceeds to take up six objections occasionally given against state old age pensions: L It is denied that old age pensions are exclusively an employers' problem, or that Industry could take care of the entire problem If it so desired Less able employers, financially, and less generous ones, cannot or will not install private schemes...
...Violation of a criminal syndicalism law would involve a penitentiary sentence...
...Figures are given to prove this point...
...Businessmen generally approve of It" 3. Against the cry of "Sociallam" and paternalism," the open letter declares that the United States is not opposed on principle to public endeavor...
...A study by the Pennsylvania Old Age Assistance Commission estimated that the actual cost of a pension plan in that state would not exceed 57 cents per capita, or 24 cents per 1,000 wealth In the state...
...All four men were released on $2,000 bond each, pending an appeal to the State Supreme Court which may not be heard for several months...
...NEW ORLEANS — (FP) — The temporary injunction granted bondholders of New Orleans Public Service, Inc., against the street car men's union has been mads permanent under a default decree entered by Federal Judge Borah when officers of Local 194 of the Street Carmen's Union did not appear to contest the motion...
...A surprisingly large number are eager to engage in some work despite the fact that their earnings are deducted from their pension...
...2. Unforseen illness or other emergencies prevent the workers from "saving against old age," wages are low and those who can save are urged by business to spend in order that production may be kept up...
...It is declared: "Insurance companies know and cannot dispute the fact that the state underbids them in the writing of insurance...
...The next trial for Incidents growing out of the two strikes aerainst the Marion Manufacturing Company's cotton mill begins Dec...
...P.) Enactment of a criminal syndicalism law, the first to be passed In any state since the ebbing of the war hysteria, may follow the conviction of Alfred Hoffmann and three Marion cotton mill strikers on charges of rioting...
...Spending is paramount in this era of mass production...
...The jury returned not guilty verdicts on the charge of resisting an officer...
...The pension law has been in effect in this province since 1927...
...have been offered the aid of the American Civil Liberties Union in their flsht on a savage <r2<r injunction imposed by Federal Juc"~e G»or»e C. Scott The ln4unct!on forW-'a the union ani its -nembcrs to Inform anyone that tvere Is a strike on...
...5. In answering the statement that administration costs would be prohibitive, the insurance companies come in for criticism...
...British Colombia Board Save Pensions Foster Thrift Vancouver, B. C.—Old age pensions encourage rather than discourage thrift, according to the workmen's compensation board of British Columbia which administers pensions...
...the chairman says...
...en Sunday, Dec...
Vol. 9 • December 1929 • No. 18
