LA GUARDIA HONORED GUEST AT 'LABOR DAY CELEBRATION' OF FORMER SCAB-HERDER
O'Connor, Harvey
La Guardia Honored Gueat At 'LaborDoyCelebration' Of Former Scab-Herder Woll Abo Graces Fete of F. Paul A. Vacearelli, Alias Paul Kelly, Noted By Harvey O'Connor • NEW Tomt«V ssBttsn ar mon...
...In direct opposition to J. S. Woodseorth...
...Frank Strune, Ted Urtamo, Leo Janik, Bam Gordon, Chicago...
...Tentative plans such aa the advertising of next year', conference, the subjects and place wen made...
...Once unionized problems would then be dealt with as they arose...
...With these purposes in mind a third party was unnecessary, impractical and improbable...
...Applauding vigorously was Major riareue La Guardia, fiery congressman who has won the nnmtnttlnn from the ttandpat Republican machine for mayor to oppose Tammany Jlmmle Walker and Socialist Norman Thomas...
...Helary Industry Seloda Arhistrator ffgao ta to fax sbbbbbb* haa bat* aw...
...Harold Brown ot the F«derate< Press declared that the labor pres lacked photographs and stories of humai interest He urged students to contribut these...
...VeccareBl organized a oompany union of musicians to New York at a time when the asssilrsTi Federation of Mundane was facing a critical controversy with theatre rnanagers...
...But his favorite racket has been preying upon bis fellow countrymen, particularly garbage scow workers and building laborers...
...He now describes himself at a realtor, as well as president ol tut Loyal Labor Legion, whose only activity is to bold an annual affair and present the "most outstanding labor mac I of the year" with a medal...
...Leifur Magnusson, Director, Washington Branch International Labor office, declared quite rationally that by the time Tannenbaum had organized eighty or ninety percent of hit workers in unions, Woodsworth's hope of a third party would be fulfilled, since both must Inevitably move forward aide by side...
...Ne OsBeial Celebes Uo* New York labor itself held no regular demonstration en Labor Day, the militaristic fete organised by the Central Trades and Labor Council last year at Fort TTamiitwH having met with a chilly reception...
...A provisional committee to work with the present Labor Sports Union to hold a national indoor meet In Chicago this winter was formed...
...I. W. W., and Socialist groups are urged to use care to seeing that they are affiliating with an organisation in which they can exercise control over its affairs...
...Rut Brown, a member of the Office Worker Union spoke on sex discrimination in to dustry...
...Interesting were the points of view advanced in regard to the church and Economic Change...
...wttaaOaltottBT l» eewsj*t*ttr (ssfsy sWeB^swss^y ^TwB^ts^s'w' SBrtts eaaasg as tar.^ABBBBBra sbsjsbbbsBtstt Be was tsjusfcalt sssjintoi bbbbt the new agreement which maasSBBBSOt and employees are unable to solve BBrettMagnusson Sees Rise Of A Labor Party Director of U. S. Office of League of Nations Labor Office Takes Issue With Tannenbanm (Br a Bew leaser CetiaaeeaSeat) f> ILVER LAKE, ». Y.—That eondl3 tien* in the United States pointed tvorshly to the formation of a labor arty was the opinion advanced* by J. S. yoodsworth, Canadian author and Labor somber of Parliament at the national nnual conference of the Fellowship of teconciliation, held at Bpworth Inn, here, le further stated that in England the mbor Party bad come into office, not lecaute of it* popularity but because the Amservatives and Liberal* had been entirely discredited in the eye* ef the leople...
...He organised a company union ef building totems st one time, in opposition to the Building Laborers' International, although he baa been a district official ef that union as wen...
...Since there is a Communist-controlled organization with a similar name, all union...
...sat ¦shot a Isstsr standards are imperilled by low wages aad that defeat of southern sliltous wffl react unfavorably an trade toatoa ewgaatisHon bb sterthern dttoa...
...Bay, af a rteketatr, professional onion-buster and patriot for cash, grabbing the spotlight to...
...the observance of labor's annual celebration...
...One method wifl ha ta reset* aoatbera girts freeh from the atrike semes through the aerth waere they are ta star ess unions...
...A this meet representatives win come from other labor sports groups with full power to form a national organization, which will affiliate with the Labor Sports International...
...Exponents of this theory were ably refuted by others who claimed that the so-caned spiritual life was determined by materia: factors and the Church therefore could not afford to withdraw from a consideration of economic and political matters Student Conference Held At the same time and place a Student In Industry conference was held...
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...Anne Spera, a graduate c Teachers' Training School spoke en tfc difficulties of obtaining employment The SM.oee Socialist fend means et ganlxation, publicity, literature aad agi taUon to much needed to these days < the new American capitalism...
...Jerry Hajak, St Louis...
...There were those who claimed that the task of the Church wat solely the care of the spiritual life...
...By a Wew Leader Carreaawndeat) CHICAGO, HI.—Plans for a nationwide labor sports organization embracing all union and Socialist groups participating In athletic events were worked out this week...
...While labor leaders spoke over the radio, the main affair of the day occurred at a Long xsfaatt assort whets the laws...
...They will sniphssii* tJtas...
...At one time he held a lucrative Job as head of the New York District Council of Laborers...
...a oetasnlttee of five, ispiosanMag the TJrdted Textile Worker* aad Mestas, wfH he senaral sanevaaeed Pres...
...The restof funds win ha bsBdled by the oonmsi tt**> of tva through tt^^aBec and uader the control erf the United Textile Worker*, asid •ad Ibbb ahaaaBBBtrgSi^ mmtWeOj af^^T^.ffiwI ahntl B**ve aad See- Wilttatn Senith af the Hosiery Workers Fesaratien...
...Earlier he had been a notorious gangster...
...At one of the Joint sessions of the Tel lowshlp of Reconciliation and the Stud eat and Industry Conference, Lewi Copeland of a Texas University spoke a the average worker's philosophy of lif as he saw it Lillian Cooper of Hunte College related various grievances c which students complain as contrast* with those of the ordinary worker...
...Labs...
...R. Gs Palm, Labor Sport* Union, and Clarence O. Senior, Socialist Dartw McMahon, Thomas and Muste Lay Plans For Relief Drive for Southern Strikers At a New York conference attended by union and progress...
...He saw the hope of the future in the rise of trade unions...
...One of his neatest rackets was collaborating with Czar BrtodeU in promoting Uncle Sam, a monthly maeastoe to which each of the 18,000 members of the New York laborers' unions was to subscribe at $3 a year...
...The issue at hand is organisation, nor was partial organization sufficient since that meant no organization...
...Washington, D. C. author of "The Labor Movement...
...At their sessions the students drew up a Job analysis to help students interpret data gathered on Jobs Methods of propaganda at school and a work were discussed...
...Members of the provisional committee are: Joseph Martinek, Cleveland...
...The aim of the organisation, according to the committee, is to "unite all sports and physical culture organisations of working people on a fraternal and federative basis ta order to co-ordinate and expand their activities and aid their development on a national and international scale...
...Explaining his Labor Legion, President Vacearelli said it waa organised in war days ta the waterside unions to "frustrate strikes and lookouts and otherwise to hold the men to their tasks...
...Muste, Carl Holdrrraafi aad Toss Tippett sf the Cenfauastea fesr >>BetrssaliS I stow i Aotkwi Jama* Caaeal and A. Lefkowitx, and Norenaa Tb"—eg sad Paul Porter ef tits fcenjru* for udrmtrial iMenocraoy...
...Give yoi one-day wage and meet the test like good Socialist...
...Per his aasaetates he bad raone lees than Matthew Won, erstwhile president ef the Photo Bnayavvsra* Union but now president of the Ne^oael Otrie Federation, and Bdward McGrady, personal representative of President William Oreen of the A. F. of L His nam* is Paul A VeeeareTfl aad his record v in organising the loyal Labor Lesion as a stritatamking outfit to war days was a stench in the nostrils of decent BTrtovnsts of those times...
...The same state of affairs he ilalmed was rapidly developing ta the 7nlted States...
...The place ef lntellectutls In this third party would be to furuah the idealistic basis necessary and » educate the worker* along those lines, rne best method would constat to the successful organisation ef local labor sartie* which would eventually grow into i successful national labor party...
...fast honor he had wen, said VacsBBBBL ssetident of the Lsglen, In a neat Bttte etHraaa, through ssBMSBBBr the Cotmntataws, In the New fork asedle trades seal effecting a esaMttanit at the rayoa workers' strike to sTBisasthlrin, Tana., which has mat wb* the sharpest criticism of labor progressive leaders...
...Later he developed labor racketeering to fine flower and was s doee associate of Csar Brtaden ef the Building Trades Council, who spent several years in sing Stray to crown hie career...
...Thomas f. MoBfahon ef the V. T. to eotUne the drive for financial relief...
...Labor Lsgtoa was She Bast At that ssAhartec WeO ptaaed est the breast of McOrady a Loyal LeatonBBMbd as the -outstanding labor man of the year...
...Labor gymnastic union representatives from Detroit Cleveland, St Louis and Chicago, met with the secretary of the Labor Sports Union of the United States and the National Secretary of the Socialist Party to make the initial arrangements...
...Half of this waa to be Vaccarelli's...
...He was kicked out of the International Longshoremen's Union by T. V. O'Connor, then president Ha has also headed the street pavers and scow trimmers unions...
...All such groups are invited to Join...
...ant the Y.W.c.A...
...He particularly deplored the practice on the part of many intellectuals of "imposing'' their ideas on the workers, who he felt should be permitted to work out their own destiny In the trade unions...
...Thii was sponsored by a cooperating committee representing such organisations ai the F.OJt., the L.I.D., and the Natlona Student Councils of the YM.C.A...
...ra reader*, press were laid for the speedy raising of relief fund* for southern textile striker*, and for Cie financing of educational work beeew the Mason-Dixon Baa...
...La Guardia Honored Gueat At 'LaborDoyCelebration' Of Former Scab-Herder Woll Abo Graces Fete of F. Paul A. Vacearelli, Alias Paul Kelly, Noted By Harvey O'Connor • NEW Tomt«V ssBttsn ar mon eei" gsnised wostrer* war* resit d ta tbt aaMtattaj spectacle...
...was Frank Tannenbaum, Brookings institution...
...Although the regular A. F. of L. leaders ta New York are mostly Democratic, La Guardia was a featured guest Before the picnic La Ovardia marched at the head of a parade alongside of Vacearelli Vacearelli, described by Herbert Asbury In the American Mercury, as perhaps New York's outstanding racketeer and gangster before be "reformed" and took to labor leading, was the owner of the "flashiest palaces of tin to New York City" in hat heyday...
Vol. 9 • September 1929 • No. 5
