WANTED: A SUCCESSOR TO BERGER IS CONGRESS
Todd, Laurence
Wanted: A Successor To Berger In Congress House ot Repr*»«iUtives Needs ra Modern Advocate of Labor's Causes By Laurence Todd 1J7ASHINGTON—(PP)—Who wffl take " the plan In Congress held...
...Huddleston of Birmingham speaking in the H«'i» of the Ho-ver proposal, mvd ihit H<~ov~r was trying to mave Congress smoulder the blame for execu'ive Intervention in Haiti lonjr a~o and Its military occupation of that republic ever since 1915...
...Charles A McKee...
...Questioned by The Associated Press as to whether martial law in Haiti bad the same meaning for labor as an injunction during a strike in the United States, Stimson replied that there was no desire to drive men back to work in Haiti at the point of the gun...
...The significant sections of the report which reveal these eepnomic tendencies are here quoted...
...Councilman, First ward, Santo Bonltalmus...
...The new machines make possible the cultivation of many more acres so that the trend towards larger farms is marked...
...This action came when the committee learned that Judge Belden had accepted a $30,000 "loan" from Z. O. Simmons, president of the open shop...
...Austria and France, as well as from every part of the country...
...due to a street accident as was the case with Meyer London, has removed the possibility of bis return to the Bouse...
...Hie first message, sent from London and signed by John Paton, secretary of the national council of the party, reads: "Oar Deepest Sj apathy** "National Council Independent Labor party expresses deep regret at the death of a comrade, Victor L. Berber, and sends its deepest sympathy...
...Meta, Berger...
...Will Congress Cancel Exploited Haiti's Debt...
...Accordingly, means are being studied whereby the moisture content of grain may be reduced before/it is placed in storage...
...The early farm tractors were large and proved unwieldly on land already under cultivation...
...Berger Memorial Meeting Held in Debs Auditorium Despite a sweltering night that made an indoor saetttng <a ¦ eassly uncomfortable, the Debs Auditorium of the Rand School was filled Wednesday night with comrades and friends of the late Victor L. Berger who attended this memorial meeting to pay then- tribute to his life aad work...
...It reduces the cost of harvesting to a smaH fraction of what it formerly was...
...courageous Socialist pioneer and resolute opponent of capitalism, imperialism and war...
...Ball's body was shipped on Tuesday from New York City to Buffalo where funeral services were held oa Thursday from .the home of his parents...
...30 per cent, of the Kansas wheat crop was harvested by...
...Mechanical power is rapidly replacing horsepower in heavy work such as plowing and disking in all parts of the country, and in the last few years machinery has become important for cultivating row crops and for grain harvesting...
...An Education Needed Who will introduce and make a fight for old age pension legislation in the coming session...
...If and...
...This change has been accompanied by an increase in .the percentage of all hogs moving directly from farm to packing plant...
...International...
...Cincinnati...
...There resulted a marked decrease in the demand for corn, oats, and hay...
...In a poatcript, this modtHm] of the Barnes opposition to fssfjjj loans to grain farmers said:M'W want to remind you that |H Legge was formerly presideslH the International Harvester HI Have you stopped to think we* the effect of the Farm BossH plan should have on that cess pany ? Think it over...
...and of calKng on Russell to use the Haitian oonetabularly as though it were port of the United States Army, on Haitian son, discloses in a glaring light the fact as to who rules Haiti...
...These men, however, are handling more acres and doing the work better than it was formerly done by 35.000 farmers...
...Because of going to press the following morning The New Leader was unable to present an adequate account of the meeting...
...Berger via eable: "I salute the mortal remains of a courageous fighter and send you my genuine expression of sympathy...
...when such a man does arrive" in Congress he will find that Berger and London, and again Berger, laid s broad and solid foundation for working-class agitation in Congress—hut that the foundation is avoided by all the socalled progressives who have secured election on capitalist party tickets...
...Socialist party branches are requested to telephone in the names of their appointed drive managers as soon as the appointments are made, so that no time will be los* bt completing the list, and beginning the work...
...BTe served aa a member of the board of directors of The New Leader for several terms, and was fun of Ideas and activity for the development of the paper...
...At the same time Belden's attempted Judicial frame-up against the locked-out hosiery workers has collapsed with the resignation of special Prossctttet Vials Whaley Tor lack of funds...
...23 Charles J. Ball N. Y. Socialist Dies Suddenly Bs^'TrbJefty 'aTauBti...
...Once Butler's job was to re-elect a man who was very useful to American imperialism but was hated by the Nicaraguan voters...
...Perishable commodities produced within 200 miles of their market seem to offer the principal field for truck movement...
...British Mourn Berger Death German and Austrian Labor Alio Send Cables of Condolence to Mrs...
...Butler thought it a huge joke on the Nicaraguans, Haitians and Chinese...
...The Secretory presents data which show an unmistakable trend towards the conquest of farming by corporations with the use of power machinery...
...It also suggests that the State board of bar exammen consider disbarring Belden...
...p |M TT Because the Federal f8 Board intervened to step mm financial grain buyers* &^ejS seemed likely to depress^yj| of wheat to 70 or even 0> J| bushel, President Hocver <m3 centre of a battle hiitismj close friend Julius Barnes, man of his new 'business piS ment," and Chairman LsjS the Farm Board, recent of the Internationa] BarQ Co...
...Wis...
...From this House atmosphere the Bergers and Londons were half a century advanced...
...Not a man on either the Democratic or the Republican side of the lower branch of the national legislature approaches in knowledge, working class sympathies or seal for achievement the veteran from Milwaukee...
...Other candidates are...
...Simmons Bed Co., and subsequently sat as Judge hi eases when the bed company was a litigant...
...Socialists all over the world who have reserved judgment as to whether agriculture would become a capitalist industry on a grand scale with the transformation of the farmer into a wage worker may see to the American agricultural revolution a mirror which reflects the future of the countryside in the industrial nations of the world...
...He sided with the weak and poor against their oppressors...
...The resolution was introduced by Benjamin Schlesinger, president of the union, and declares that Mr...
...and fourth...
...Obviously it must he relieved of part or all of the burden of the extravagant loan which was made by Wad Street bankers after the American rule of terror had been eetabMehOd If Haiti were free of payments of interest on this debt, it could pay for new schools, roods, public health and housing works and for the equipment of its ports for hatter tnde Membership Drive To Begin on Jan...
...Hoover's attitude of ignoring his Bono "government...
...In the same country Butler saw to it that a man who could neither read nor write was appointed minister of education...
...Outstanding in post-war mechanical developments in agriculture is the rise of the combined harvester-thresher (known everywhere among farmers as the "combine"), in the territory east of the Rockies, where it was formerly believed that wheat could not be left standing until ripe enough to be harvested by the combine...
...the failure of the American officers in any way to punish their subordinates guilty of abuses, often criminal in character...
...Smedley D. Butler of the marine corps told a big Pittsburgh audience how marine representation works...
...Following the introduction of the tractorcultivator the number of horses needed on corn and cotton farms decreased sharply...
...Tet Haiti is an adherent of the Kellogg Pact, which Is declared by Hoover and Stimson to ho the guardian of weak nations against wars and dangers of wars...
...Simultaneously the automobile and the truck practically replaced 'horses in cities...
...The following radiogram of sympathy was received by Mrs...
...The text of the resolution follows: "WHEREAS, The so-called Communist "papers' of New York have printed libellous charges against our beloved leader and Counsel, Morris Hillquit, in connection with certain sales of stock of the International Union Bank, and "WHEREAS, These transactions were made with the full knowledge and approval of the General Executive Board, and for the benefit of our International Ladies Garment Worker's Union, and "WHEREAS...
...The introduction of tractors suitable for cultivating corn, cotton, and potatoes is comparatively recent...
...Will Russia or Japan ask the other powers to remind Hoover of the Pact...
...Use of the duckfoot first became general in the Columbia River Basin, and spread therefrom to Montana and other states east of the Rockies...
...Signed: Executive Committee of the German Social Democratic party...
...He wasn't so bothersome after that...
...In other words, lacking a militant champion of modern social thought in Congress, the cause of modem social thought must face In Congress a well-nigh overwhelming opposition...
...Fourteen per cent, of the receipts of fruits and vegetables at Newark during 1928, at least 5 per cent, of those at San Francisco, and at least 9 per cent, of those at Boston, arrived by truck...
...Since early youth he had gtrea couaUees days sad Sights to work for the ScelalUt movement...
...New types of implements for cultivating summer fallow have helped to increase the size of farms in the Plains and in the Mountain States of the West...
...the abuses of fines and imprisonment for the slightest offense or pretended offense by justices of the peace under constabularly influence...
...1931 then was a Socialist Administration In the City of Lackawanna...
...According to Nye, a rnsfiffj| was held in Washington durinsjj Hoover big business psiltMj bolstering up prosperity, fSsjS by Barnes and other master sJH in the grain trade...
...Revolution In Farming Facing Modern Capital Agriculture Slowly Becoming Capitalised as a Big Industry — Machinery and Large Farms Displacing Farmers Value of Mechanical Power . Increases Ten Fold Since 1913 WASHINGTON, D. C—The passing of the old individualist farmer who "fired'the shot heard around the world" is recorded in the annual report of the Secretary of Agriculture to President Hoover...
...Manufacturers have bean cautious about p reducing such equipment, fearing that their necessarily higher price might interfere with sales...
...One of these implements is called the "duckfoot...
...Milwaukee or New York must send him, since those cities sre today the radical strongholds' Prom none of the other cities where organized labor is well entrenched is there political organisation In the hands of men who think In terms of the Is'ott .- .niggle...
...for the sake of American honesty as well as for the sake of Haitian se'fraspect But Huddlestm sa'd he favored an -open investigation by a committee of Congress, to expose the facts as to this occupation and its harvest of hate...
...In the name of the British Labor party, I send sincerest expressions of sympathy in your great loss...
...He said his usual method was to declare the native opposition candidates bandits...
...Most of the change has developed since the European war...
...That, he considered, was one of the biggest jokes the marines ever pulled on natives anywhere...
...Then followed a reaction toward very small tractors...
...Receipts of bogs, cattle, calves, and sheep by truck have increased at most of the large livestock markets...
...Three years later in that state 1,000 combines were used in small-grain harvesting...
...However, the decrease in the demand for corn for horse feed was partly offset by a slight reduction in the acreage ef com and by increases in other kinds of farm stock...
...Then we dropped one of our bombs and let him see what it meant...
...Previously the standard method of cultivating corn was with the 2-horse, 1-row cultivator...
...hshr-BiTertteig of Hew Tor* pay, wfD ke shocked to team at his daash-aha...
...They {JH stop the Farm Board from Iflfl more funds to the grain gimB cooperatives to maintain thenar ket for the farmers...
...N. Y. For' several yean the Socialists have been inactive but this year, stirred by the victory of the British Labor Party, an active^ campaign is planned...
...Who will champion the end-, less procession of victims of official violation of civil liberties, such as Tom Mooney, Bacco and Vanzettl and the political prisoners still deprived of the rights of cltlenship...
...Hillquit promised to give the matter his earnest consideration...
...Comrade Morris Hillquit has instituted criminal prosecution for libel against the so-called 'editors' and publishers of these Communist sheets...
...This gain in the acreage one man can cultivate tends to increase the size of farms in the central Corn Belt and in the western oart of the Cotton Belt...
...A recent study showed that before the introduction of trucks the market points used by a certain group of farmers averaged seven miles from the farm After the introduction of trucks the average distance to market points was 18 miles...
...it was less than half the nrmber turned out in 1928...
...Though all parts of the country have been affected more or less by this technical progress, the western grain-growing areas have been affected most...
...Harvesting by "Combine" "This year more than half of our hard winter wheat, one-fifth of onr hard spring wheat, and a smaller proportion of our soft winter wheat was harvested by combines...
...h order to receive government total The local elevator company wtiff lose all independence of action ssl there would be much more sttct government control than ever sju isted under the Food AdnuBJttjl tion, and the present servias tS& dered by the commission cafep> nies of checking grades, caUtmH inspection, sending out market fcV formation, auniting books, tm placing and helping msiiJ could never be expected to ifH plicated under government aS trol, and with no eompetttlSamV the business...
...Before earn as the rallying cry of the parannouncing which one will be cr-~ ty in the drive, they will be submitted for selection to a number of party workers, including some party members whose work in fadvertising field qualifies them to help make the selection...
...Milwaukee, Minneapolis, and St...
...The papers had attacked Mr...
...He was one of the board of editors...
...Everyone whaflj studied the proposed plan hsj that there is a very serious djBj tion confronting us...
...Butler continued...
...Under the old conditions one man could cultivate from 30 to 50-acres of corn, according to the topography and the character of the soil...
...Use of Power Mechinery "In recent years a rapid technical evolution has token place in American agriculture, characterised distinctively by a substitution of mechanical power for human and animal labor...
...Today a middle course is followed...
...This is practicable through the use of hitches that compel each unit of the team to do its share of the work...
...Hillquit acted for the benefit of the Union in the transaction and that the Union has complete confidence in his integrity...
...Increased use of automobiles and trucks for road work has greatly extended the market area available to farmers...
...We are of the opinion that the trial of Comrade Hill quit's libel suit would only serve to Infuse a flicker of life into their dying movement and give them an opportunity to start out making collections of money to enable them to keep alive their army of professional hangers-on...
...Whenever a Chinese leader got to be a nuisance to the American marines in the recent revolution, he was taken up in a marine airplane...
...Urges Hillquit Drop Freiheit Action Chief of New Goverantem ley Intended to Down" the Far (By a New Leader Correspondent) Cleveland.—iA resolution adopted by the 20th convention of the International Ladies Garment Workers' Union here urged Morris Hillquit, the union's chief counsel, to drop a criminal libel action instituted on his complaint against the Communist .editors of "The Freiheit" and "The Daily Worker...
...A successor, then, must be found and sent to Congress...
...In many western localities farmers have increased the sire of their implements, and the area of land they till, by using large teams...
...His earlier activities were in Buffalo when he was the driving force of what was one of the stmisest city Socialist organisations la the country...
...in the northern Great Plains region the 3-plow and 4-plow tractor is coming rapidly into use, and there is some demand for 6-plow tractors...
...Coming just as Boss Vare was kicked out of the Senate because in Pennsylvania, Vare too always won, this Butler slogan made quite a hit...
...At the hearings It was also established that Belden never bothered to repay the loan...
...Than Sbk to light a letter from one at tie Minneapolis grain firms, loH Hankinson & Co., giving tmaH to all foes of the Farm BsjS P "Fight Is On" iJM "It begins to look as if tsajnf is on," began this letter, .fM* Legge, chairman of the PmH1 Farm Board, said in a ieJB...
...When the practicability-of the new method of harvesting was demonstrated for the Plains region, the introduction of the combine was extremely rapid...
...There is nobody in Congress who cares enough, and has-1 information and...
...Some of the shipments went as far north as Albany, N. Y., and Boston, Mass...
...Meta Berger from Vienna, Austria: "Austrian organized workers mourn with you over Victor Berger, the pioneer for the emancipation of labor...
...Rap...
...WASHTNOTON...
...therefore be it RESOLVED, By the International Ladies Garment Workers' Union in convention assembled to express our utmost and unqualified confidence in the integrity of our counselor and advisor...
...In the same manner he can cultivate about the same acreage of cotton...
...In the Senate, progressivehave discussed the matter from the standpoint of trying to reach a plan under which Haiti may be helped to go forward alone...
...In lsie, Ban left Buffalo for New York City...
...One farmer in that state, using 16-horse teams on 12-foot duckfoot cultivators as a substitute for plows, is able to farm 1,600 acres per man...
...Some branches have already mode their selections, designating the most active workers in those branches to head the committees hi those districts...
...Who will care enough about the suffering Inflicted upon the families of strikers by an injunction in the next big strike, to make a fiery appeal to the House for prompt and drastic anti-Injunction legislation...
...Haitian workers have been forced to emigrate in large numbers to Cuban sugar plantations to find work...
...ltoJ^ork...
...ItewtOc the people had cut telephsae liaea between the chief tarn...
...The local Socialist ticket ti beaded by Michael Joyce, veteran Socialist, for Mayor...
...Ball dropped dead of heart fanae, Monday evening, as he was enterraslded at S33 West 101st street He was returning from his day's work, baring left his home that morning feeling in excellent condition, Possibly the intense heat that prevailed in the dry Monday brought oa the strait which caused Bail's sudden death...
...Grapes from Michigan are today moved as far as Indianapolis...
...Fourteen per cent, of the fruits and vegetables grown on the Delaware-Maryland-Virginia Peninsula, including more than half of the more perishable commodities, such as strawberries, peaches, and cucumbers left that area by motor truck in 1928...
...Miss LuclDs Negrtn cunU muted, a number on the vtohn tad whs aocomnasjed at ths piano be Barmen Bnstam...
...week...
...The wasare follows: "Labor and Socialist International deeply regrets the death of Comrade Victor L. Berger...
...At the request of Lewis, many Socialists have submitted slogans to he used in the drive...
...It has been the task of the Socialist congressman...
...Many elsaH companies would have to ekaC their organization so as to wtt the Farm Board's requirement...
...Tractors have recently been greatly improved in design and construction...
...Teams of 12 to 20 horses are not uncommon for plowing, disking, harrowing, and seeding, and on some of the combines in the Pacific Northwestern States as many as 32 horses are used effectively, A contest is on between the tractor and the big team, the outcome of which is not yet determined in many localities...
...Intelligence and energy enough to do this work...
...In the last five years the number of Illinois hogs marketed by truck has risen from 7.9 to 22.5 per cent, of the total marketed...
...Nye remarked that the fM trade had its back to the watt i| was fighting, scratching auT throwing out scares, to stop' W constructive work done by Lejp and the rest of the Farm BeB He asked the Senate and HouM* join in a demonstration of appnV val of the Board's work, in aflonV ing sufficient credit to the fsajj ers' cooperative grain-niariMttC agencies as will maintain a ¦ price for their 1920 crop...
...have gone back into the regular Republican organization...
...With the entrance of the school draped in black and red la honor of the fallen Socialist leader, the meeting was called to order by Algernon Lay who is a few brief remarks totJpducod the speakers...
...Orris Sage is the candidate for State Senator in the 50th district where a special election to fill a vacancy is being held...
...In 1928 more than 50 per cent, of the hogs received at Indianapolis, Oklahoma City, and Sioux City, and an equal proportion of the cattle received at Indianapolis, the calves received at St...
...second, Boles la r Sikorski: third...
...Comparisons limited to the post-war period are not available...
...In value of machinery per farm worker, in terms of 1913 dollars, the increase was from $36 in 1870 to $200 in 1925...
...The greatest misery in Hsitien history has followed marine rule, declares Perceval Thoby, former charge d'affaires of the Haitian legation at Washington and author of the N. A. A. C. P. indictment...
...Bsrl Rodgen...
...In one rice-growing county in Arkansas the survey showed 1,507 tractors, or one for every 63 acres of rice...
...SIKTZ and DUTBCHE...
...Negro Body Blames Haitian Misery on U S. Marine Rule I.L.G.W.U...
...They have nothing to say about public ownership, nor about the curbing of federal judges, nor about a bill of rights for the workers...
...As in the old days when the TfWff drove oat the French sneeters of their country, evaeuauon\ ex white women ana cnnoren from Aux Geyes, where the first eesmtct in *"" sd, «n nude by •tapir...
...the combine, 8,274 machines being used in the work In 19x8 Kansas had 30.000 combines...
...a gain of 455 per cent...
...Back-SHdtog Progressives The Wisconsin group which followed the elder LaFollette in his presidential campaign in 1924...
...Assembly Tells Kept Judge to Resign KENOSHA Wis.— fPP)—Resignation for Circuit Judge E B. Belden, foe of Allen-A hosiery striken, is recommended by the Judiciary committee of the Wisconsin Assembly, which has completed an Investigation of the anti-union judge...
...Organised labor has no Intelligent spokesmen in Congress—no man whose first thought is the immediate and uncompromising advance of the industrial, economic snd political power of the workers...
...Labor Legislation worthy the name win stand still...
...P.)—Scarcely had President Hoover finiahed telling Congress that in the large sense the United States does not care to be represented abroad by marines when Maj.-Gen...
...Bergher was a member of Milwaukee Typegraphical Union No...
...This gave anybody, including the marines, a legal right to take pot shots at them...
...Indications are that a solution of this problem will be found...
...Nye in a speech ¦§ Senate, Dec 0, disclosed thstj grain speculators have lssuslH fldential circulars lliinii||»sjM Northwest, rallying their"fkml fight the Farm Board SsdV farmers...
...Though this was double the production of 1916...
...The executive committee of the German Social Democratic party, cabled the following message from Berlin: "Our sincere sympathy is extended in the death of Berger, a loyal comrade in our fight for peace and freedom...
...WA SHrNOTON — (FPI — President Hoover's appeal to Congress to vote him 150.000 and authority to spend it in a study of conditions hi Haiti, with a view to redeeming the failure of American military role of that republic fcr the past 14 years, hsd led to a suggestion that Costtts ray off the 940,000.000 loan whiCi was farced upon the Haitiars by American m«/-M«» gun diplomacy...
...After Hillquit addressed the convention en Wednesday, President Schlesinger told him of the wishes of the delegates as stated in the resolution...
...The charges against him were brought by Macao Kueny, AIlen-A striker, who was recently elected to the county board of supervisors on s labor ticket...
...The other massage sent by way of the Chicago headquarters of the Socialist party and signed by Middleton .acting secretary of the Labor Party, follows: "Deeply grieved to learn of Victor L. Berger's untimely and tragic death...
...Paul receive 90 per cent, of their milk supply by motor truck...
...It materially reduces unit costs of production...
...Humane legislation will suffer...
...The Communists are too discredited to be worthy of a hearing, the resolution said...
...Berger MILWAUKEE.—Condolences of the ' abor and Socialist International on the death of Victor L. Berger to exDressed In a cablegram received by Mrs...
...H* demanded American wi'hdrawal...
...The Increase in Tractors "An indication of the rapidly rrowing use of mechanical power on farms is the increase in the number of tractors manufactured in this country...
...Other phases of the agricultural revolution show that the old independent farmer can no more survive the drive of big capitalism than the old shop producer of a hundred years ago could win in the fight against the corporation factory...
...City Treasurer, John Oalvin: City Judge, Catherine Barber: three Assessors, Wesley Botcbktss, George A Neeb, and Joseph hTowak...
...It is now coming to be recognised, however, that the great power of the modern tractor necessitates strongly built attachments...
...In Haiti, he related, the marines helped provoke and prolong a riot in the congress so that the American-kept president could order the congress dissblved before it could adopt a new anti-American constitution...
...The famous street ear strike which was engineered and led to victory by the Socialists In Buffalo was to a great extent his work...
...The opposition didn't have a chance...
...Until another modern-minded fighter comes to Congress, organized labor and organized defense of civil liberties and public ownership and social insurance programs must fight on wtth such momentary and uncertain aid as old-party members will find it profitable or safe to render...
...Joseph, and the sheep received at Indianapolis, Louisville, and Oklahoma City arrived by other means than rail transportation, mostly by truck...
...The county tost interest ia Whaler's cruseds when it found out that Belden, who appointed him to "clean up" the hosiery strikers, was the kept man of the city's biggest corporation...
...Helen Hoy cabled to Mrs...
...In New York" the many branches of the movement nigiossad his attention...
...Butler's talk immediately started things humming...
...This machine eliminates the grain binder, the shocking of the wheat, stacking, and the use of the threshing machine...
...The combine appeared in North Dakota for the first time in 1925...
...Comrade Morris Hillquit: and be it further "RESOLVED, That we urge him to discontinue the prosecution against the Communists, who are so discredited in our movement that no intelligent person attaches any weight to their absurd and ridiculous charges...
...In some instances hauling by automobile and truck saves two-thirds of the fwmer's time in delivering his products...
...It has been estimated that from 1915 to 1917...
...In the same period the value of machinery on farms in terras of 1913 dollars increased tenfold, or from $270,000,000 to 12.700.000.000...
...Hillquit in connection with the sale iof stocks of the International Union Bank...
...On them will rest the primary responsibility...
...A serious problem connected with the use -of the combine is the fact that much combined grain contains more moisture than grain may safely contain when put in a bin...
...Haiti is the only Negro republic in the - western hemisphere...
...the brutal and Illegal expulsion of the peasants from their small estates by order of U. S. officials of the Bureau of Internal Taxes, in the interest of American corporations...
...Trend Toward Larger Farms "Large power units of farm equipment are undoubtedly the chief cause of the recently accelerated trend toward an increase in the size of farms...
...Butler Tells How Marines Perform Swaggering Smedley in Pittsburgh Frankly Relates Methods by Which Other Peoples Are Exploited and Ruled PITTSBURGH...
...Senator Borah of the Foreign Affairs Committee was notified and the Stat* Department was questioned by correspondents while European news agencies demanded detailed accounts to be cabled to their papers across the sea...
...Indianapolis, Detroit...
...That question arises since the death of Berger...
...1 (Ciillm ll (na P»f* <Ht week, Lewis announced...
...In 1927 the number produced was 62.742...
...Wanted: A Successor To Berger In Congress House ot Repr*»«iUtives Needs ra Modern Advocate of Labor's Causes By Laurence Todd 1J7ASHINGTON—(PP)—Who wffl take " the plan In Congress held alternately by Victor L. Berger and Meyer London...
...From 1918 to 1928 the number of farm horses in the United States decreased more than 7.000,000 head...
...Two cablegrams from British Labor expressing sympathy on the death of Berger, were received...
...He worked tirelessly for The New Age", the Socialist publication in that city...
...With one of the new power cultivators equipped for 4-row cultivation, one man can cultivate from 160 to 300 acres of corn...
...His audience of prosperous building contractors thought so too...
...the tractors now turned out are somewhat larger than those that were popular a few years ago...
...it is estimated that in 1928 there were approximately 864,000 tractors on American farms...
...The misinilssuuy oathreaks of the '"ll "*»•••• are the eemeqnenee *J*»J"Jesiliis ef the other classes.— Fourteen years of incompetence, misrule and oppression by the American occupation is responsible for the present revolt m Haiti, charges the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People...
...KmmS ant M of the wmtitnlerty there, ready for battle...
...American farm workers using mechanical power now produce from two to five times as similar workers in the older countries of Europe...
...statement that when his vsAa subsidiary agencies began to|9 tion there would be little roosS'' any, for privately owned cos|fl sion companies...
...The speakers wen William KarBn, Jacob Panken, Morris HlQoUit, FJcegaaa Thomas, B. Cbamey Vladeck and Times Oneal...
...So we rounded up 400 voters we could depend on," Butler bragged, "gave five minutes notice of the election and closed the polls as soon as the 400 had voted...
...Socialist leaders, as interpreters of modern economic and industrial .thought to the half-developed Republican and Democratic minds in Congress...
...In the process they are exploited by a $10...
...But we'd better not let it get out," he cautioned his audience while reporters from all Pittsburgh papers were in plain view taking down notes...
...From GuMo 1*1 alalia Guido Enderis, head of the Associated Press bureau at Berlin, and former Milwaukee newspaperman, sent this message to Mrs...
...Jacob P. Ortesinger is the Assembly candidate in the Sghtb district of Brie County...
...emigrant tax and OB arrival at the foreign port must pay the Haitian consul 75c "Some of the causes of this unprecedented exodus," Thoby explains, "are the relentlessly harsh treatment to which the Hsitian citizen is subjected by the Ar% icans: the starvation wages of e laborers...
...At Chicago, the percentage, while increasing, has remained negligible...
...In 1926 farmers on the eastern shore of Maryland and Virginia moved 1,162 carloads of strawberries by truck...
...He believed that happines is the only good, reason the only torch, and justice the only worship...
...Berger from Paris: "Deepest sympathy and love...
...Another new implement that is gaining in popularity in the central and northern Plains region is the oneway disk summer-fallow cultivator, which permits a more effective cultivation and results In better yields...
...MILWAUKEE, Wis.--(FP)-- The Milwaukee Federated Trades Council to which the late victor L. Berger was formely a delegrate from the news writters union, has passed resolutions in his honor in which the socilaist leader and editor is referred to as follows: "During his life he lived and labored for his fellow men and women...
...In 1926...
...Our candidates always win," said the general, describing native elections supervised by his marines...
...Some wheat growers in the State of Washington substitute this implement for the plow...
...Today Montana probably has not more than 14,000 wheat farmers...
...More strongly built implements to hitch to these tractors are required...
...Ball was at years eld...
...Supervisor, Howard K. Rathbum...
...Lackawanna Socialists Out to Re-capture City In This Fall's Election LACKAWANNA N. Y.—In 1B20 and...
...Montana had about 35.000 wheat farmers, many of them operating half-section or small farms...
...From flat many, France Messages of condolence have also been received by the Berger family from Germany...
...Roods were apparently Denial hi made at the State Department that Russell proclaimed martial law In order to drive the dockers and other labor groups hock to work when they went on strike...
...Who will explain In detail, with patient exactitude, the experience of the various nations In dealing with unemployment insurance, sickness Insurance snd the employment of women and children in Industry...
...And In the Democratic camp there is only Huddleston of Alabams, limited In his rang- of liberalism by religious and racial views...
...The party's various campaigns and drives, The New York Cell and The New Loader received his support...
...Some idea of the magnitude of the change can be gained, however, from the fact that between 1870 and 1935 the average area of imp-oved land cultivated per farm worker increased from 32 to 49 acres, or slightly more than 50 per cent...
...A typical example of the labor-saving effected by the use of the tractor is given in a recent study made by the University of Arkansas, which showed that a rice tanner in that state' using tractor equipment could accomplish three, four, and even five times ss much as he could with earlier methods...
Vol. 9 • August 1929 • No. 2
