VOTERS AROUSED BY CITIZENS UNION AID TO THOMAS
VOTERS AROUSED RY CITIZENS UNION AID TO THOMAS Newspapers Join in Praise of Socialist Candidate— Telegram Gives Indorsement INJUNCTION JUDGE LAGUARD1A BUGBEAR Town Hall Meeting Sept. 22...
...The Story of the British Labor Party...
...was convicted and sentenced to two years in prison because he delivered a suitcase given him by a detective, to other detectives employed by'the Pacific Gas aad Electric Company...
...U. S. Court Fights AC W In Phila...
...William W erf el, and others are at work to insure the success of the undertaking...
...r bat the exteteace af the pleas has forced tha power trass to com* dawn from its roster castles asm grant fairer ratal to farmers within the sons af escape tttien...
...was completely tied up, Makransky A Sons walked out 90 rff and as this is being written news comes that twentyfive cutters have walked out of Makransky's which makes that a 100^- tie-up...
...Finally we must insist that progress toward peace, requires a party devoted to peace, as the old parties are not...
...Ralph and Sutter: J. L. Afros, Theo...
...Lawrence B. Cohen, Jr., Bernard 3chub...
...Arthur R. Alexander...
...Leonard Bright, Henry H. Laybar*-, Ernest K. Harrsen, A. N. Weinberg...
...Detroit is considering putting on a full time organizer, if a young man can be found who will pay particular attention to work with the Y. P. S L Toledo...
...At 3 a. m. the power towers of the United Railroads were dynamited causing a damage of about $300 but the Tailroad service was not interrupted...
...Two partners are in business together...
...Thomas's sincerity and fearlessness make him all the more dreaded by citizens who are opposed to Socialism...
...Socialist county secretary...
...Cleveland...
...And when he is defeated he charges up all the expenses of this business to his long suffering partner...
...Lawrence B. Cohen, Jr., David George, William Karlln...
...After leaving the board he continued his friendly relations with Hylan...
...Two juries disagreed and the third acquitted him...
...and the committee is expected to canvas party plans for the months ahead...
...Estelle Smith has admitted her testimony was false...
...Fickert was re-elected in 1914 and directed the prosecution of Mooney...
...Hoover has not...
...Henry J. Rosner, Harry Schachner, Morris Wolfman, Harry Morris, Jos...
...Such is "justice" In the United States in the year 1929...
...Walker has been silent ever since he got off the weak wise-crack that he "was not yet a candidate...
...Mooney took notes at this trial...
...Any fair-minded man who reads only the transcripts of the trials of Mooney and Billings would believe them guilty...
...Comrade Arthur j Rubenstein, former state secretary, was chairman...
...Be weald fight crime aa a "social problem" Be would "courageously attack sack erils aa the slams, deficiencies in the edaoational system, inadequacies tn health supervision and aassnaploynaei '," and at the same time ha would 'baldly demand mora playgrounds and recreation facilities.' "In an this Norman Thomas is not only a propagandist, he is a prophet His sound idealism is so far on the way toward realisation that relatively It at only around the corner...
...And the British Empire...
...With resounding conviction, reaching both the 50,000 and more spectators and added thousands through the WCFL microphone, Fitzpatrick explained the need for united worker action on the political field just as union organization has produced progress oh the industrial field...
...This sort of thing is on a level with the Brooklyn Plumbers' Union which joined with the alleged progressive...
...13th A list of speakers headed by Norman Thomas...
...The Middishade Co...
...and Including several score other Socialist speakers, will address the meetings...
...Louis Painken, Winston Dancis, Julius Umansky, Samuel A. DeWitt...
...I have little confidence that it will work very well...
...Nicholas Avenue: Edward F. Cassidy, Solomon Perrin, Jacob Bernstein, Fred Hodgson, John Herling, Seymour Goodman, Max Delson...
...Morrty Marshied...
...Hoover ostensibly is the head of a majority government...
...where the campaign will be offleJelly opened with speeches by Thomas, tap other mujfiapal candidates and Morris Hiikjult, "the Socialist Mayoralty candidate has" been putting pointed questions to both La Guardia and Walker...
...who presided, and F. M. Klrkendall...
...Morris Kurinsky...
...Mooney tried to organize the employees of the United Railroads into a local of the Amalgamated Association of Street Railway Employes...
...Blumin...
...Solomon...
...Ohio--On Aug...
...few diyt(Continued on pare S> Schwab Forces Miners To Work Labor Day FAIRMONT...
...President of the Amalgamated and the most indefatigable of the host of workers concentrated in the Philadelphia area...
...N. Y.—The National Secretary was the guest for a few hours on Aug...
...Geo...
...The meetings, as announced bv August Claessens...
...Nathan Fine, McAlister Coleman...
...Jjd the patriots: ^*^B*,» the lesson...
...THE STORY OF THE CALIFORNIA FRAME-UP Labor Leaders' Freedom Urged by Trial Judges Anneal is Pending FOR thirteen years caged by steel bars for a crime of which he is innocent...
...Now, therefore, be it resolved, "That the Butcher Workmen's Union of Greater New York urges the Mayoralty candidate...
...18,146.63 has been reported to the national drive headquarters...
...Republican, when ths endorsement cf Thomas appeared ot the front pages of every paper in town...
...b nether part of North Carolina...
...22,000 Is Raised To Date Next Two Weeks Expected by Headquarters to Yield Biggest Contributions WHEN the national executive committee of the Socialist party meets in this city Saturday and Sunday, it will find that almost one-half of the $50,000 the committee authorized as the goal of the United Socialist Drive will have been subscribed, as the drive enters on the final, and what drive managers consider to be, the most promising period of the drive...
...who also sang a tenor solo...
...He deals not SB mot fa rhetoric as in cold, hard fasts aad that there are facts to form Ins ***~""wv,rl there is no question...
...Of this amount...
...This organization composed of Republicans and Democrats, to which not a single Socialist Party member belongs, in its official organ...
...L. I., Socialists, and those reeding hi nearby towns, took their place alongside thi Socialists of other cities last Friday eve ning whpn 75 sat down to a '. arranged in honor of Nornicn 7!: —: national drive chairman, and Eeel^tlc...
...Shall the new arrangement in Europe be merely an economic tariff union, as Stresemann wants, or political, as some of the smaller states have suggested...
...In this particularly instance, the attempt of the Philadelphia clothing manufacturers to show a conspiracy between the Amalgamated and the union manufacturers of New York to interfere with the operation of their plants, contributes an amusing and interesting angle...
...He denounces hi* partner publicly through the services of expensive press agents...
...Nathan Fine...
...For a number of years after the war the Chicago Federation of Labor was the center of vigor of the Farmer-Labor Party of the United States which ran a candidate for president of the country in 1920 and for lesser offices for several elections thereafter, falling'into disharmony and decay early in 1924...
...In June, Mr...
...So this is the status of the Mooney and Billings cases...
...in which Mooney was a labor leader...
...Express and Station Employees...
...Organized labor in Few Vork was quick to recognize the merits cf Thomas's attack...
...At your earliest convenience will ycu let me know what that evidence is ? I would like the privilege of considering It because I feel a deep sense of responsibility in this case, and I may be able to help in this profoundly importa'T: matter...
...On the same date the Law and Order Committee of the Chamber of Commerce offered a reward of S14.000 for the arrest and conviction ! of those responsible for the explosion on July 22...
...at which plans were discussed for rehabilitating the organization in that area...
...As a member of the Board of Estimate during the last two years of John F. Hylan's first term he was a sore disappointment to those who had hoped he might contribute elements of sanity, dignity and constructive deliberation to the proceedings of the board...
...Tom Mooney's hair is today streaked with gray, bis features are haggard, and only his indomitable will and consciousness of innocence sustain him through the horror of unjust imprisonment...
...I Cleveland—Held an enlarged meeting [ of the regular city central committee on ! Aug...
...Socialists of Pittsburgh expect to raise $1,000 in addition to what has already been raised for the drive...
...MacDonald has his party behind him even if it is a minority party...
...For the adherents of tha midget major had been expecting kind words from the Union...
...This view, the Judge added, implies that, "innocent or guilty," Mooney should continue in prison...
...New York has already sent »«e,ooo 00, with day's pay assessments still to be collected in many shops...
...they must all become part...
...Louis Sadoff, Chas...
...The true* had noadst the following offer to farmers efeakdag pease near Iiiswls, Brown County, Wis.: Farmer to pay I11J4 a mesrth each for power peas aa initial charge ef flee each far expense of extending the Bsmb...
...Some days afterwards, when you sent a message to the State Federation of Labor at Sacramento, you said again that you believed them guilty...
...A complete list of contributors will be published in next week's issue of the New Leader...
...I myself might like to be for Thomas, but the time is not yet rips for a Soeialist--M*yor of New York City...
...Part of that resume follows: Many Cities Active Milwaukee...
...Fitzpatrick Again Urges Labor Party Head of Chicago Labor Makes Plea Before Giant Labor Day Throng CHICAGO (FPi.—Before the largest crowd that ever asaembled in Chicago to celebrate Labor Day in the Grant Park Stadium...
...Ohio—A small group of sympathizers got together for a luncheon meeting on Aug...
...Homei made himself, at the InstiPublic Affairs at the Univer2* Virginia, spokeman and deJ*Jf for the most extreme antig...
...Saturday and Sunday, Senior will attend the N. E. C. meeting in New York...
...This is only one new proof of the essential hypocrisy of the Administration in dealing with the subways...
...First we must demand that there be no whitewashing in the investigation, no sparing of admirals, corporations or politicians, no making of Shearer a solitary scapegoat...
...larger cities...
...of a world community ii there 1* to be nleuly and peace among men...
...Isadoi* Caspar, and Frank W. Krehbiel...
...He even takes his partner into court at enormous cost...
...On July 22, the exolosion occurred in connection with the preparedness parade...
...on the bandwagon would do anything essentially different...
...it is safe, for even a conservative to gay, that as far as Philadelphia Is concerned, victory for the Amalgamated Is in Sight...
...If these prove successful, and the expected amounts are raised at each of them, most of the balance of the fund will be raised by October 1. when the drive concludes...
...In short, it is difficult to find in Mr...
...Talks were made by Comrade F. M. Klrkendall...
...is fully recovered and back on the scene of action in an upright position once more...
...Hillman (Got sei dank...
...Pitkin and Bristol: Jack Altaian, J. L. Afros...
...If Mooney Joined the Republican or Democratic party, avoided trade union activity, and in general so conducted himself as to gain the approval of the Chamber of Commerce his parole would be followed by pardon...
...Dean of Brook wood Labor College, and Chairman of the Conference for Progressive Labor Action...
...Manufacturers and Employers' Association of Stockton, broke into a car and stole dynamite...
...candidate for Mayor of N?w Yori...
...I am afraid, of the present spirit tikJL F. of L for meeting those jjwlailtli ii As Chairman of the BsBjmcy Committee for Strikers' Mat I want to thank the friends b)sm gifts have enabled us to finance ass* during this period...
...position of Southern employers...
...are confident that the attendance will be as good as any Senior has had in any of th...
...W. Va...
...Offlhigh in the Navy Department at* Shearer semi-confidential informal which he used to fight the ***ed policy of their commander•^hief and their country...
...Their homes were searched without a warrant or any charge...
...Socialist candidate for Mayor of New York by the nonpartisan and influential Citizens Union...
...several "backsliders " applied for membership, and a collection for the Drive was taken...
...he declared at the conclusion of his address...
...but then it is his conscience 'hat has to decide the case and if he doas the right thins when he gets around to It, it will be all risrht...
...Buffalo, N. Y.—Had arranged a supper Aug...
...Addressing...
...Angered by the postponement of the legal warfare in the Charlotte courtroom, due to the insanity of a juror, the mill bosses and "peace officers" of Gastonia took the war into their own hands...
...moat of them waiting until the conclusion of the drive to make a complete report...
...Cocticucd en Tate S) United Socialist Drive Reaches Half-Way Mark...
...defense counsel, "has become Charlotte's shame...
...Benjamin Katz...
...Last week saw the signing up of three die-harda and this undoubtedly turned the tide...
...It put new life Into our movement...
...Municipal campaign activities in a number of cities will bulk large on the agenda...
...Mooney home from a union meeting about 1 a. m. on June 11...
...Reading, the second of the Socialist strongholds, lived up to its reputation as one of the most efficient of Socialist organizations in the country, by raising S474 for the drive at the Labor Day picnic...
...Rose Rubinstein, I. M. Knobloch, Louis Painken...
...B is to ta regretted in the interest oi idiMnilM Information that a debate among too three men could not be arranged" Town Hal stilting In a series of striking addresses leading up to the big meeting at tha Town Hall on September 22nd aaat at 3 30 P.M...
...Block...
...Saylor and Lell...
...Weinberg testired that on July 17 Swanson accosted him and tried to induce him with an offer of 53.C00 to testify that he had driven Mooney to the scene of the dynamiting of the power towers on June 11: that when he refused, Swansc-t told him he would have the ciref of police take Weinberg's jitney license away...
...Reading...
...Annabele R. Ricks...
...as well as Patrolman Tom Gilbert, star witness for the state, and various mill overseers...
...The United States of Europe is an idea that has much to commend it...
...Saturday evening, Sept...
...Certain events between 1906 and 1916 provide a setting for the case and help to explain the developments which took place during the trial...
...He is a product of the old Tammany school but with the new Tammany label, plausible, witty not overcotiscientious...
...Mi* Danger fb grant secrecy on the incomes st corporations which demand tariff inert on the score of poverty was at s»cb for the stomachs even of bbm of the Republican stalwarts, lest emphatically the Senate and the Sic...
...or one-third of the amount set as Pennsylvania's quota...
...President John Fitzpatrick of the Chi:ago Federation of Labor, made a direct plea for an American Labor Party to emulate the political achievements of the British Labor Party whose representatives now rule the British Empire...
...On the same date Mooney wired the chief of police that, he had seen the statement and was returning to San Francisco...
...Judge Griffin to Gov...
...Heckseher Likes Thomas Bo sooner had the endorsement appeared, than Socialist City campaign headquarters at 7 Bast Fifteenth Street received offers of aid from Independent voter* who are not enrolled Socialists and a number of civic and social organisations whose members want to vote for Thomas...
...An unofficial military dictatorship has been established...
...My dear Governor—When you discussed the Morney case some weeks ago with a group of citizens at Berkley, you told us that until then you had believed Mooney and Billings guilty of the preparedness crime...
...On Sept...
...116th Street and 5th Avenue: Ethelred Brown...
...Far Rockaway...
...Niagara Falls...
...IsW and Sifter Patriots Lobbying has dangers...
...Because I betleve that, Governor Young I am asking you—before you make your final decision—Co let me know what evidence has led you to believe that Mooney and Billings really committed the crime for which they were tried and convicted and are now In prison...
...Governor aad resident, tat Ma aaata BiiiiosKsoln aetMtta have been aa director ef the Lsagae far ladaetrial Democracy, which —tat Ha appeal partiealariy ta coUefe atadaota...
...The Edeaus were completely discredited...
...Nolan and Weinberg were a gang of dynamiters, guilty of the explosions of June 11 and July 22 and of other crimes...
...a mass meeting of 2.000 citizens in San Francisco last February he made this ringing statement: "I am old-fashioned enough to believe that a court of justice should be a court of Justice, and when I know a wrong has been done it is my duty and your dtt y to see that wrong righted...
...Claremont Parkway and Washington Avenue: Norman Thomas, Isidore Philips, Abraham Mollin...
...In 1913...
...He is...
...1 .Continued en Par* !> 21 MEETINGS TO DEMAND MOONEY GO FREE...
...A. I. Shiplacofl...
...Whatever special regional groupings may grow up...
...When, we almost said, if (force of bad old habits) Makransky and Middishade seti tie, the entire New York organization will • make a pilgrimage to Philadelphia, and i there will be dancing in the streets...
...23 East 16th street...
...Comrade J. Mueller was chairman...
...He would unify transportation and operate it at coat through a public oarporattan hi which employes would sit as member...
...Sharts wrote Lewis after the banquet...
...There is a great deal to be said for a United States of Europe, but not much good will come , to the world if it merely means economic and political conflict between the United States and united Europe...
...Despite the boost givtn.to it at Geneva it is not likely to come true in a hurry...
...Middishade and Makransky are two of the largest and most reputable houses in the city...
...Arrangements were made to follow up this contact and to put into effect a sys| tern for distribution of literature at I factory gates...
...He would bring dignity and character to the mayor's office* He has had no experience in pubUc office, but If personal merit alone were to decide the contest Mr...
...mm* a gold mtm States la saitlai...
...No record of those disturbances have appeared yet on the Charlotte police Hntt»r "Gastonia's shame," said John R. Neal...
...U Tf^vmKBKik...
...N. E. C. Meets In New York...
...The politicians are as usual standing in with the boys with the money and the power...
...Baker & Co., parenthetically speaking, will probably be mixed up in the next batch...
...On July 13, Mr...
...We shall at, of course, continue to collect reis tor Marion and shall issue no fur...
...Pennsylvania and Sutter: Louis Epstein, James Oneal, Theo...
...Billings, et al...
...Although much smaller than any of the other cities In which these funds are being raised...
...Mooney went on a vacation previously planned...
...accepting legal assignments from the latter's Corporation Counsel, and in 1925 expressed willingness to support him if he became an independent candidate for reelection...
...The trial of Billings occurred September 11 to 23, 1916...
...All convinced except Fichert, the total of the Chamber of Commerce...
...It is expected, after a canvass of prospective contributors Just undertaken by the Chicago Socialists is completed...
...68th Street and Bay Parkway: Jacob Handler, Wm...
...135 were present .and over $300 were raised In cash and pledges to the United Socialist Drive...
...Chicago...
...That's why I am here tonight to testify to wfiat I have repeatedly said, that torn Mooney Is innocent and ought to be pardoned...
...It is probably the clearest case of justice prostituted to base ends that we have in our history, so clear that even the trial judge is shocked that Governor Young has not acted...
...Rigall was promised $200 and all expenses j if he would agree to do as Oxman requested...
...It would appear that acute *¦ taantvirarilv over...
...OxI man was the "star witness" in the j trial...
...95th Street and Broadway: Solomon Perrin, Jacob Bernstein...
...He haa been unable to report progress in locating fellow-members of the mob...
...Practically every person connected with the prosecution, except the notorious Fickert, and al of the ten surviving members of the jury believe that Mooney was the vtttim of a conspiracy.' AlTask Tor his pardon...
...Whatever the scope or the ultimate outcome of the proceedings will be...
...He denounced the Bethlehem order as "contrary to the best traditions of Americanism...
...Socialist state secretary, who is in charge of the arrangements, and Miss Sarah Wasserstein...
...TIMELY TOPICS By Norman Thomas f^sssaaatic ending of the GasHmb* trial at Charlotte...
...FP i —Charles M. Schwab, head of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation and author of a stirring Labor Day address, has been askad by Van A. Bittner...
...Halpern, Louis Sadoff, Chas...
...In addition to the cash and pledges collected at the supper, local comrades have gathered lists of likily contributors and will make personal calls for subscriptions...
...I believe ithat you are as anxious as any other citizen of California to see justice done to these two men, and will give serious attention to the documents in behalf of their pardon...
...MacDonald in England has his troubles with his big navy crowd and the traditions of his country...
...On September 29...
...But subsequent revelations damned every witness who testified before me against them as perjurors or mistaken...
...to help win votes for HooS during the campaign when HooJPtjjked like a big navy man...
...This adventurer...
...Two men buried alive though innocent of the crime for which they were convicted...
...with the Chamber of Commerce in the background as the evil force striving to destroy trade union organization...
...Pa., former President of ths Pennsylvania State Federation of Labor and A J. Muste...
...The Pressmen's Union makes Msyor Walker of New York an honorary memter for his services to labor...
...In April, 1917, there came into the hands of Judge Griffin some correspondence that passed between Oxman and, friend of his, F. E. Rigall of Grayville, I1L The correspondence showed that Oxman had urged his l friend to come to San Francisco and j testify that Rigall had seen Oxman I in San Francisco on July 22...
...Solomon, Samuel Kantor...
...Socialist state secretary, reports that trade unionists...
...A lengthy discussion on the relations between the party and the trade unions was held...
...Here are the exact words of the Govj ernor: "I have always taken the altitude that in a state such as ours, with the very liberal parole system we possess, the ordinary procedure of re! lease from prison should be first through parole, and later, after the parole term had been served, end the prisoner had subsenuertly demonstrated his right attitude toward the social order, that a pardon and restori ation to citizenship should follow.'.' ! In other words...
...Following the earthquake in 1906, Francis J. Heney prosecuted the United Railroads of San Francisco on the charge of bribing supervisors whose permission was needed before the company could install overhead trolleys in place of cable lines...
...Thomas continued his attempts to persuade Walker to engage in a debtee with him and La Guardia...
...Governor Young, there can be no two opinions, and I believe you must base your belief in the guilt of Mooney and Billings upon other evidence, not known to me...
...Other language federations are also raising funds...
...Solomon, Simon Wolfe...
...Early Labor Troubles During the strike of the linemen against the Pacific Gas and Electric Company in 1913...
...The preliminary organization work was handled by the workers themselves and they called on the union for help when the time came to have the agreement signed...
...Further plans were made for reaching with the Drive appeal those who were out of town...
...To the contrary the Union says of La Guardia: "Mr...
...If those organisations have done as well as the few who have reported, the amount now in the hands of local party officials must exceed $3,000, Marx Lewis, drive director, declares...
...Alex Retskln, Meyer Cohen, Marx Lewis, Louis P. Goldberg, Molly...
...The speakers will include James H. Maurer, Socialist Councilman of Beadiag...
...Of Jimmy Walker, the Union says: "James J. Walker's record is familiar to our members and friends...
...Workmen's Circle members, and Socialists are uniting to elve Panken a rousing reception...
...Clarence O. Senior, has taken odce...
...BRONX Longwood and Prospect Avenue: Norman Thomas, Abraham Kaufman...
...I suppose under our blessed Constitution this may be the only possible method of immediate attack...
...Billings testified that on July 18 and 19 Swanson accosted him and tried to bribe him to implicate Mooney in the dynamiting...
...of New York, will be the guest of the Socialists in two cities...
...with what has come in the last few days, exceeds $22,000.00...
...Among the witnesses against Mooney was a sc!bundrel by the name of Frank C. Oxman whom the prosecution called "the honest cattleman...
...a private detective employed by the company, aided in the prosecution of Mooney and Billings, who were chargj ed with having explosives in their , possession...
...Every miner was threatened with discharge if he was idle that day and attended any gathering of union labor...
...circus acts, parade, vaudeville, athletic contests and dancing in the evening on the Navy Pier where the federation radio station...
...I Mooney was tried three times...
...A prohibitive American tariff may hasten a European alliance against us even if the diplomats politely insist they have nothing of the sort in mind...
...organizer for the United Mine Workers in West Virginia why his firm threatened to fire miners who wanted to lay oft^ Labor Day...
...Said the reactionary "Evening Sun": "The report does not add...
...Tompkins and Willoughby: Samuel H. Friedman, Henry J. Rosner, Morris Wolfman, Jos...
...UsOBOr wMt in8ane- suOT«*t* fj^tiof moralizing about the syafSXjietng jurors and a lot of * patters...
...30th...
...Then that meek gentleman says: 'I won't pay it all but well settle on something like a fiftyfifty basis.' "In ordinary life nothing of the sort could happen, but that is precisely what has happened between the I.R.T...
...Isidore Laderman, A N. Weinberg...
...Karlln...
...The mob passed down the main streets of Charlotte howling threats and shouting...
...Several hundred branches and locals have not reported at all...
...r appeal for the general textile Bathos until we have surveyed the isB...
...Billings, age 19...
...Fred Warren told how a conference called by Mayor Daniel W. Hoan, of Milwaukee, recently brought him back to the Socialist movement...
...In giving a kind of grudging approval to the settlement of claims against the subways, Mr...
...22 to Sound Gong For Socialist Fight NOT for many years in the history of New York municipal politics ha« such a furore been created as arose this past week over the out-and-out endorsement of Norman Thomas...
...Goodman...
...Weinberg, a Jitney driver, took Mr...
...A. Weil...
...Intervale and Wilklns: Norman Thomas...
...and Mrs...
...Max Edelson...
...Edward L. Parsons, Episcopal Bishop of California: Jacob Nieto, Rabbi of Temple Sherith Israel, Fremont Older, editor of the San Francisco Call, W. N. Burkhardt, Editor of the News, and William V. McNevin, foreman of the Mooney jury...
...The spirit of the banquet was 100 per cent good for the rebuilding of the Socialist movement" W. R. Snow, Socialist state secretary wired Marx Lewis, drive director, when the banquet was over...
...Be now promises to ask Mayor Walker one question a day from Primary Day until election day...
...Chicago's contribution to the drive will reach $1500...
...Entering prison a man of fine physique and healthy appearance...
...Benjamin Blumenberg, Walter Dearlng...
...The Chamber of Commerce raised a fund of $800,000 to support a movement for the open shop, and Swanson was placed at the head of a detective bureau set up by the United Railroads, the Pacific Gas and Electric Company and other utilities...
...Socialists of Dayton...
...Senior On Tour National Secretary Visits Many Cities to Further Drive ' Br a .\>w Leaser Correiaanaent' CHICAGO...
...Joseph W. Sharts...
...State president of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks...
...willing to close his eyes to indication of graft, lest legal evidence may implicate persons enjoying organization favor...
...Morris Hillquit will be the guest of the Socialists ! and liberals of Philadelphia...
...ISOth S-reet and St...
...manager of the Philadelphia office of the Jewish Dally Forward, and JosI eph Schwartz, head the committee on ' arrangements Definite plans for the banquet will be announced within th* n;x...
...6th Street and Avenue C: Algernon Lee, Edward Le Vinson, Benjamin Goodman, Emanuel Switkes, Isidore LadeTman, August Claessens, A. N. Weinberg, M. Kuzmack...
...Socialist party organiser, follow: MANHATTAN Rntgen Square: Emanuel Swukes...
...It was a grand success...
...Baker & Co...
...Ten months before Judge Griffin | wrote the above letter he wrote an- 1 other to Governor Young forcefully objecting to the claim that Mooney j should be first parolled before a par-1 don should be considered...
...The Chicago trade union movement in large measure supported its officers in the third party move at the outset but latterly the so-called labor vote has been ostensibly traded here and, there by a number of politicians ateliated with the capitalist ¦oarties...
...He has repeatedly been contemptuous of party leaders and party regularity...
...Lodge replied: "How can you make (Ointlnaed c? Pij* Two) Niagara Labor Party Opens Campaign Sept...
...Samuel Untermyer said In effect that that was about the best that could be done as long as the City would not give notice of recapture...
...Frank Krehbiel...
...Bittner wired...
...But atate these limits lobbying is legiti•ate...
...Major La Guardia...
...Just for good measure he asked Walker this week how the Mayor came to band the Inter borough Rapid Transit, $«,291,118 in settlement of the privatelyowned subway's claims and why there was no demand for recapture of the lines...
...Ohio, who were doubtful about being able to secure any attendance at a banquet, especially one arranged in August, have just reported at a banquet held on August 29...
...La Guardia's friends see in him a man of honesty, integrity and courageous independence...
...That is not an ajafiy perfect result but it is the sat practical result in sight...
...Young's Amazing View In answer to thi3 contention Judge Griffin wrote that it means denial of justice to Mooney on the assumption j that Mooney hr.s a "bad reputation...
...Niagara Falls and Buffalo are planning to make use of the British Labor Party posters in their municipal campaigns this fall...
...Rigall declined to do this dirty work and yet this documentary evidence of conspiracy, which alone warranted a new trial has not moved the succeeding governors to act upon the pleas for a pardon...
...Burnside and Walton: Norman Thomas, Isidore Philips, Abraham Mollin, I. Rosenzweig...
...that pun was not intentional...
...He baa been ¦actaHat —aaj— far Major...
...Fred Hodgson...
...We have been asked to applaud Its settlement with the I.R.T...
...Whereas, it has always been Understood that Major La Guardia has loudly proclaimed his opposition to promiscuous ¦Tasting of injunctions In labor disputes and ha* classed himself as a friend of labor...
...Thomas would win easily...
...Martin Swanson...
...Morris Goldowsky...
...Their employees are supposed to be of the much-braggedabout in Philadelphia, "one happy family" type...
...I regret that the governor takes so long a time to act...
...On September 21, Senior will be the guests of the Socialists and trade unionists at a dinner at Richmond, Va., one of the most recently of the organized cities, and one of the moet active in the nation, this dinner being the second held for the benefit of the drive...
...Tom Mooney's political and econ^mi" o-i'nions and ?.ctivitles while paroled would dster] mine whether he was worthy of a [pardon, according to Governor Young...
...Graham and Varet: Hyman Nemser, Samuel H. Friedman...
...He has been forced to meet local demands for his time at a number of meetings and gatherings in connection with the United Socialist Drive...
...there were strikes of longshoremen, boatmen, ironworkers and machinists...
...Julius Umansky, Bernard Breslaw, Irving M. Knobloch, Solomon Wechsler...
...John Herling...
...Edward Levinson...
...27th...
...Both Lell and Saylor recognized among their captors Solicitor Carpenter and Maj...
...Chalken...
...Commenting on this, a number of editorials appearing in New York City and upstate said: "Of the three Thomas is most to be dreaded...
...23 a banquet was held in Detroit with one hundred present...
...N. F. Matteson...
...Solicitor John G. Carpenter, identified by his victim* as a leader of the mob that kidnapped and beat three organizers and raided International Labor Defense offices in Charlotte, was in charge of the "investigation" ordered by Gov...
...The thing that happened on Preparedness Day twelve years ago was a terrible crime, but I am sure ithat you will also consider It a terrible crime to keep In prison two human beings who were most unfairly, even criminally, convicted—and that you will wish to give those two who believe there has been a miscarriage of justice every opportunity to meet any doubt of their Innocence that you mav have...
...Franklin A. Griffin, Judge of the Superior Court, who at the time of the trial believed Mooney to be guilty, ' is conscious-stricken because his court was used to consummate the crime...
...He provokes troubles among the workers which he settles at great expense...
...Warren started off the collection with a $100 contribution, and he was immediately matched by John T. Whitlock, who donated $100...
...a few short weeks ago—to shake up a few old metaphors—were playing deaf and dumb as far as Amalgamated activities in Philadelphia were concerned, to suddenly pull their heads out of the sands and cry "Wolf:" "Wolfr The result of their concerted frenzy is a sweeping injunction granted this week by U. S. District Court Judge William H. Kirkpatrick...
...One of the forty Socialist party branches in Milwaukee—the 17th Ward branch...
...T. J. Emerson, a private detective employed by the Merchants...
...Dsyton, Ohio—One hundred and thirty Daytonians attended tha National Drive banquet Aug...
...Very truly yours, FRANKLIN A. GEIFFTN, Judge, Superior Court, Dept...
...86th Street and Lexington Avenue: Ethelred Brown...
...Do not these facts show the almost indecent futility of labor's alleged non-partisan political policy i Speaking of injunctions, all of us ought to back the new A. F. of L. Federal injunction bill which seeks to cure the injunction evil not by forbidding them outright but by narrowly prescribing the condition and procedure under which injunctions may be had and may be enforced...
...That branch alone may raise $200 for the fund...
...Young As for the other evidence and witnesses employed against the man buried in a living grave, their character is evident from a letter sent to Governor Young on November 14, 1928...
...If the testimony In these cases was honest and true then their guilt was conclusive...
...This letter was signed by Edward J. Hanna, Archbishop of San Francisco...
...Samuel Orr, Winston Dancis, Samuel A. DeWitt...
...Simon Sarasohn, Jacob Axelrad, Jack Kaufman, Dave Levick, Chas...
...These services include, his agreement to stand a large part of the cost of maintaining a ccmpany union in the I. R. T. And the reward is made at the very moment when the building trade* are conducting legal proceedings to enforce the Prevailing Rate of Wages law on work done for the city, which law the city under Walker has allowed to be openly disregarded...
...In June and July...
...Morehead of the Loray mill of the Manville-Jenckes Co., where a strike in April precipitated the fatnous Gastonio case, bossed the...
...They have been pleading for his release for years but Mooney remains in prison...
...One of them tries at every point to get the better of the other...
...announced through Alderman Paul Gauer that the branch had already collected $116 towards the fund, and that there were more contributions coming in...
...of New York, when she was there last week A committee was organized to continue the drive work in Toronto...
...How will Russia fit in...
...Carpenter is Accused At the union office in Gastonia, mobsters threw out all of the literature...
...ob of beating up Wells, one of the kidnapped organizers, according to ' affidavits signed by Lell and Baylor...
...With the contributions that have already ccme to the national drive headquarters from Reading Socialists, and with what will still be raised there during the next two weeks, Reading's contribution to the fund may reach $1,000...
...local Socialist attorney: Isidor Casper, of Middletown, and the National Secretary Comrade Joseph W. Sharts acted as chairman...
...While the veteran central body chief, just nominated for his 24th term as president, knew that he was departing from the solemn mandates of the American Federation of Labor he did not permit this fact to harass his delivery...
...The l*t tgainst Shearer and his meth••Js not that he was a known lobbyIt tut that he posed as a disinterested ••trt, and denied he was a lobbyist £ the very tune that he was working teMs own and his employers' pock*• The scandal is an amazingly I** Illustration of what we Socialist have charged about profits and •triotiam...
...N. C. — (FT) — Mill boss terrorism has yielded in Gastonia to a farcical whitewash of the events of the two days following the breakdown of the trial against the IS Gastonia Communists and strikers...
...of Far Rockaway, led the contributors with a contribution of $100 to the drive...
...and Mrs...
...As this occurred in neighboring Cafrabus county, some prosecution is possible...
...C. C. Young, Governor of California, Sacramento, California...
...N. C...
...Hillman On the Scene Since the granting of the injunction, two smaller houses, have of their own volition come to the union headquarters asking to be admitted as union members...
...Hyman Taubenschlag...
...29th...
...16th he will be in Boston, returning to New York on Sept...
...We'll take these bastards to the river and you'll never see them again...
...James Oneal, Jacob Axelrad...
...He is a man of ability, learning and high ideals...
...8. M. Neistadt...
...and Mrs...
...I say this because certain big navy *• are trying to cover up the scan•fcos conditions revealed by the fttarer charges by demanding a gen¦•1 investigation of all lobbying...
...Lynch Jimison...
...I shall reserve MSsant until I am better informed, grstraggle, I am sure, has not been hiss...
...The Labor Party made no nomination for Sheriff due to the large number of signatures required on independent positions for this office...
...The world is too small and the economic interest of the workers too closely knit to try merely for a hemispheric solidarity and cooperation...
...Be —do a —is for Maseeh* »s » e»seal wertar ia "Hefl's He hem," won the -Angel ef BWTs KMetas" ss ta> wife iM later was pfcced ia charge of large choreh and settlement activities among tn—'1--1 pospls am the appor aaat •Me...
...ts»B»>»Bet soar/' has ^uho cttytsjsjatfct, •*•*» aad -Ms** sy»§tm at assMJMChs...
...Congress cannot act unless it hart from people interested in legisatten and gets their point of view, ttfc is true even when the point of tor Is selfish and concerned for tar• benefits...
...A. L. Bui winkle, counsel for the Manville-Jenckes mill interests and for the state in the trial of the Gastonia strikers for the death of Police Chief O. F. Aderholt In affidavits, they charge that Carpenter and Bulwinkle, affable representatives of the law in North Carolina, were leaders of the mob...
...Samuel rianoff...
...I will spend the rest of my life to work for Socialism...
...who preceded Clarence Senior, the guest of the evening, pointed out the necessity of strengthening the American Socialist movement in order to aid the progress of the world generally against the encroachments of American capitalism...
...Only after and subject to their satisfaction is the public good considered...
...Nolan was arrested and held incommunicado, and his • home was searched without warrant, j On August 1, the prisoners were 1 brought before the grand jury, refused the privilege of consulting counsel, and all were indicted for murder...
...Philadelphia fizz has gone to our head) Incidentally, and it was only incidentally, so far as It affected Mr Hillman's strike activities, the Amalgamated President underwent a minor operation last week, which necessitated the transfer of general headquarters to a cot in the Jewish Hospital for a short period...
...Between July 27 and August 1. Fickert issued a number of statements to the press stating that Billings, the Mooneys...
...Detroit and other cities whose Socialist party officials were biding their time and preparing the party machinery for the best period for money-raising were among the first to begin announcing the results of their efforts as this week's drive activities were inaugurated...
...5." It will be observed that Governor Young ignores the fact that the original transcripts of the Mooney and Billings cases have become worthless for the reasons qited by Judge Griffin...
...Horowitz...
...Shapiro, David Breslow, Wm...
...and by Miss Ava Hlibert at the piano...
...On the other hand, many impartial observers view him as a political opportunist, ready to enlist under any banner that may enhance his political fortunes...
...Chicago took $50,000 out of its treausry and sent It , right along as an advance payment which it will collect when it needs the money (Chicago is the Amalgamated rich uncle j . And so all along the line...
...The Mooney case Is one of the dirtiest jobs ever put over and I resent the fact that my court was used for such a contemptible piece of work...
...is located...
...Music was furnished by the Arb?iter Gesangverein Eintracht...
...When Solicitor Carpenter came around the next morning to the Lodges' place, asking thpm to make cut affidavits for anybody th?y recognized so that he could investigate...
...Cantlnurt in Pace t) Prosecutor Led Mob In Gastonia Victims of Violence Identify Carpenter, Now Asked To Make 'Investigation' By Jessie Lloyd GASTONIA...
...The report will not spoil Mayor Walker's Monday morning It may send another regiment of conservatives into his camp " "The Evening Telegram" had a long editorial praising Thomas, giving this resume of his career: "Son of a minister, descendant ef the founders of Southampton...
...24th held a meeting on short notice with comi rades from the Polish branch in attendance for the first time...
...Frank Manning, on the results of the Sacco-Vanzetti, Mooney-Blllings meetings were received...
...I urgently request you to give me whatever added Information you may have in an early reply...
...state president of the Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers...
...At the rate Milwaukee branches are responding the $2,000 set as Wisconsin's quota will be raised before the drive ends on October 1st...
...with the National Secretary as speaker...
...17th for party business...
...Out of a "•l navy they stood to win advance^ttand glory, and for that they be2f their trust...
...While a large amount of money was raised for the Drive, the Detroit Comrades are planning to i keep it up until the last day of the Drive...
...A better understanding of the position of the Socialists in the new party was secured...
...He claimed to be near by when the i bomb was exploded...
...Marx Lewis, Harry Sapkowltz, Molly Weingart...
...Almost concomitantly with the signing of the injunction—but before the individual officials of the Amalgamated were served with the papers—two more important houses responded almost 100<~r to the strike call...
...If North Carolina jg prosecutes the knows or easily ^jaersfflr members of this mob it Sh| B new thing in Southern, perssi I should say in American, hisB The mob violence itself is no ar (ktaf nor was it aroused simply SLfjssttfcM to communism...
...On the same date Swanson went to work for District Attorney Frickert...
...Their professions tc B tontrary are the rankest kind of 2*ri*y- Tb* workers may be in?^»d in knowing that the head of f * these companies, Mr...
...while other branches are continuing their canvass of members...
...Mooney were arrested and charged with the misdemeanor of distributing handbills, and on July 16 Mrs...
...Regardless of one's estimate of his party's platform, his sincerity and fearlessness make a particularly strong appeal in view of the lack of those qualities at City Hall at present...
...A Governor avoiding his responsibility In the case by specious arguments...
...He was caught in the railroad yards but the case against him was dismissed...
...President of the Labor Council and the Labor Party, will preside...
...If we are to have a navy all ships should be built in government yards...
...Oes at FitatfoOB...
...as it might, that Mr...
...The advocate of a particular bill Mart Congress, no matter how pubfc qtrited his motivea, should not •ajsst'to full publicity about himself att say organization he may serve, sages without saying that when the lobbyist resorts to direct or indirect kftery he is a public enemy...
...of the Jewish Socialist Verband, contributed $25 on behalf of the Verband, and pledged $30 more as the Verband's contribution to the drive...
...This will be the first meeting since the new secretary...
...Va., on the 22nd in Pittsburgh...
...The Socialist Party has endorsed all ot the Labor Party candidates and in addition nominated Abraham Hoch for Sheriff...
...M. V. Halushka...
...of the board of directors...
...O. Max Gardner...
...but according to the latest rulings promulgated by Tammany Hall...
...the strikes of the Baldwin ^CSacnfteld mills have suddenly gpg to an end on terms which aa I egt art unknown...
...When Mrs...
...Why has not the City given notice of recapture...
...It must be arritd on in the full light of publicity...
...Vnioa Injunctioned-Hardened On the Amalgamated battle-front, however, injunction proceedings are not strictly news...
...Praise In Editorials Editorial writers instantly commented on the Union's stand...
...Every living person once connected with the prosecution, the surviving jurors, and the trial judge all convinced that Mooney and Billings are victims of a conspiracy and the Governor hesitate sto act...
...McAlister Coleman...
...22 2 o.m...
...Manrer, Muste to Sneak (By a Not laaaw CamapowSaaM * NIAGARA FALLS, N V—The Independent labor Party, sponsored by the Central Labor Council, will officially open its campaign with a mass meeting in Eagles Hail...
...There is contagion in the very air they breathe and when this stage has been reached, as pas*, experience has shown, nothing can prevent ultimate triumph...
...Although Heney was shot during the trial he recovered and became a candidate for- district attorney in oppoeition "to Charles M. Fickert, the candidate supported by the United Railroads...
...This correspondence was discovered after Mooney had been denied a new trial...
...and reports from the National ! Secretary on the condition of the party ; and from the city organizer...
...71.20...
...t was the first gathering of its kind hrld in the Rockaways within the memory of New York Socialists, resulted In the formation of a Socialist party branch, and when a collection for the drive was taken $255 was raised...
...through Al Benson...
...Tb;n they rushed past her, dragging Wells...
...Chas...
...But the "old man" is never satisfied...
...The workers of Philadelphia have been virulently Infected...
...ICaaUaaea aa pace S) rhomas, Lee and Others to Address Gatherings in New York DEMANDS for the release of Mooney and Billings will be heard at 21 big 3utdoor meetings arranged by the Socialists of New York city on Friday night...
...Harry Ber'< ger...
...Politicians, Re(Plcan politicians, circulated Sheart^Jtufl...
...to withdraw his endorsement of Justice Callahan for re-nomination for Supreme Court Justice, and that a copy of tills resolution be forwarded to the Republican candidate for Msyor...
...Our only hops in New York for justice, housing, transit, city planning, education is to build our own party in the determination that the City government can be made our servant In furthering a good life for all of us who dwell within the confines of the richest city in the world wherein about one-third of the people^live ip the^ slums we call old-law tenements...
...A. Weil, Ben...
...In many places, party officials have been organizing their machinery for effective work to begin after the middle of September, when all party members can be reached...
...Miss Sarah Limbach heads the committee of Pittsburgh Socialists who are in charge of the arrangements...
...1916...
...Once the tide has been definitely set toward victory, restraining orders or other wisps of straw cannot stem it...
...The three women defendants in the Charlotte trial and I. L. D. employes escaped in the nick of time, fleeing to the top floor of the Charlotte Hotel...
...CaDaghan Worries La Guardia In the meantime Norman Thomas kept up his deadly fire on the platforms and records of both old party candidates...
...and Mrs...
...Bran the eminent and aged August rTarkarher who ran down to Mayor Walker's office with a speech telling Jimmy what a nobis character be was, was moved to comment thus: "I think the Citizens Union did a very dangerous thing...
...The "old man" is Sidney Hillman...
...Cities that have not already done their utmost for the drive wUl concentrate their efforts during the next two weeks, and those that have raised some money will intensify their efforts with a view of helping the drive go over to victory on October 1st...
...M. Peigenbaum, Isidore Corn, Morton Salzberg, Phil...
...Major La Guardia, in endorsing injunction Judge Callaghan on the ground that as chairman cf a building committee of a hospital he has got along with them...
...and he was convicted of second degree murder and sentenced to life imprsonment...
...Comrade Senior has been able to spend little time at the national office...
...fSjttien...
...The fate of the drive will be determined during the next two weeks, when many cities will have gatherings of various sorts to aid the drive...
...Thomas said at a dinner given in his honor by the Socialist Partk organization of Par Rockawav: "We have recently been treated to an almost unparalleled exhibition of nerve by the City Administration...
...and then asked "But Where's Chas...
...That was In 1911...
...moreover, only the head of a minority government...
...A good deal, however, may be done under this proposed law provided labor itself will not stultify its own proposals by dimly voting for injunction granting judges in states where the Judiciary ii elected...
...First they kidnapped and flogged Ben Wells, C. M. Lell and C. C. Saylor, National Textile Workers Union organizer, then swept on to Charlotte, intent on "stringing up" Tom P. Jimison, union attorney...
...More, it has caused the very gentlemen, who...
...It brought out in high light ¦ possibilities in the South and the ppli fin in"m of present machinery, sa...
...BROOKLYN Havemeyer and South 4th: Emil Bromberg, Henry Jager, Hyman Nemser, Harry Schachner...
...Thomas ia epaajdlag ranch time lectarIns at American aali wait tea and cat" Though he will probably oarer ta a aoeiala* Mayor, hie fanctfcm ia one of great importance...
...Later investigation revealed that he was 90 miles I away when the explosion occurred i and did not arrive in San Francisco | till the evening of the explosion...
...ought to know the financial II iff tvtry group which for It* .socket seeks changes in tariff rtatiilis An indirect result of the Isssts resolution on publicity on corsaaooa Incomes and of the new fight • the seating of Vare of Pennsyltosja may he the utter failure of all brsT legislation...
...On the 19th he will be in Reading, on the 20th in Washington...
...Injunction Fails to Halt Organization Drive — More Shops Signed Up By Gertrude Klein , THE Amalgamated onslaught on the notorious opea-shop stronghold of the men's clothing industry, has drawn blood...
...Baltimore and Washington, before the drive is over...
...Michigan—On Aug...
...Major La Guardia...
...I trust the courts to find holes in the law through which to enlarge their power...
...The Chicago Federation of Labor enclosed 5.000 copies of the Socialist Party leaflet...
...Whereas, Major La Ouardia, Republican candidate for Mayor of the City of New Tork...
...The large Buuher Workers' Union adopted the following resolution, Influenced by Information as to Judge Callaghan's labor record as supplied by the Socialists...
...Why has it left Itself at the mercy of the power trust in the matter of current for the new subway...
...The transcript evidence, upon which Mooney and Billings were convicted, no longer exists...
...Instead, he was an active participant in the disgraceful brawls that featured the sessions during that period...
...The national office has issued a short resume of Comrade Senior's visit to a number of the cities he has \is:ted: National Drive Progressing , Detroit...
...His continued criticism of La Guardia for making the re-election of Supreme ; Court Justice Stephen Callaghan of Broklyn, a notorious unlon-balter, one of his principle Issues brought great grief to the La Guardia forces...
...Prosecution Possible Supt...
...Benj...
...It will take a good while to answer these questions, but the effort is worth it...
...lf- 1* at once disaptbat a mistrial resulted and SSgW for th* future to know jurors having heard only the evidence were for acCT that fact and Judge Barngftjsaeta do something to take cgn off North Carolina placed PC ky the mob passion which —gpgnj and respectable citizens _KH—cultivated This mob j^p, jn the interest of the profit of came to a disgraceful head S attack upon three of the Gas*^ strikers...
...Toronto, Canada, contributed the first installment to the drive—$49—which was collectd by Cells Rother...
...On July 26...
...Ha ia both critic and Weelirt "Sound Idealism" •Here is a statement of hi* dream far New York city which ta gave Frederick Boyd Stevenson, a reporter: " -By a "sew city" I mean a city where the men, women and children who are making the wealth of this dtp bp work of hand and brain weald receive their fall rewards In the shape af u enter opportunities far leisure and decant Bring standards, working together for the higher things In We rather than competing in a drab straggle for existence...
...The injunction is one of the most sweeping ever granted in a labor dispute, and the concensus is, that it may lead to important legal precedents...
...But what nonsense to think the Republicans with Charles Evans Hughes lawyer for the LR.T...
...42nd Street and 13th Avenue: Isidore Ostrowsky...
...Previously announced estimates that about $3,000.00 more has been collected but not reported as yet to the national drive headquarters on subscription lists which Socialists in various cities have circulated appear to be very conservative, judged by the meager reports which began to trickle into the headquarters during the past week...
...And because It does not exist, the trial judge (myself), ithe foreman of the Mooney Jury, eleven members of the" jury, the present District Attorney, Captain Matheson, who had charge of the case, and every other official—except former District Attorney Fickert—now believe the convicted men Innocent and are earnest advocate"", of their pardon...
...led by George Deger...
...Another Milwaukee branch sends in...
...On September 20, several hundred liberals and Socialists will honor him and Senior at a banquet to be held in Washington, where a committee, composed of I. Oeracl, B. Meimon, I. Roseblatt...
...Samuel E. Beardsley...
...It was jtsied by opposition to unionism, jl^fkislde in the currnt Labor Age 10^01 as of more terrible violence jgsit th~ A. F. of L lumber strikers .^stscppi and Louisiana following * World War...
...The national executive committee of the Socialist Party will meet in New York City this week-end...
...Panken will be the guest of the Socialists and trade unionhave arranged a dinner at which he will be the principal speaker...
...Indianapolis, Ind.—The birthplace of the Socialist Party held a National Drive meeting Aug...
...A Regaldt Max Delson...
...Sheridan Square: Pauline Newman...
...WCFL...
...Meanwhile, money is pouring in from all quarters of the Amalgamated map...
...The Searchlight says: "la contrast with the other candidate*, the personal qualities of Norman Thomas stand oat...
...Frank Poree, Tim Murphy, Murray Gross...
...August Claessens, S. E. Beardsley, Herbert chaeffer, Walter Dearing...
...and the City and the Administration asks us to cheer...
...But lf no more than these $3,000 be added, the total subscribed so far...
...Gaining momentum rapidly, the close of the first week in which branches and locals have been able to do effective drive work finds the drive well past the $22,000 mark...
...has repeatedly and emphatically made the endorsement of Justice Callaghan of Brooklyn by both parties a major campaign issue, and Union Denounces Judge "Whereas, it is of the opinion of the Butcher Workmen's Union of Greater New Tork, that Judge Callag nan is hostile to the interests of labor in that he has promiscuously granted Injunctions in labor disputes and has abused the discretion granted him by his high office in labor matters, and it appears to the satisfaction of the Butcher Workmen's Union that the point of view and so-ial philosophy of Justice Callaghan makes him a foe of labor and...
...Shipl"tog companies paid Shearer a j"*T and he claims they owe him 2*- By their own admissions they ™ "o reason to pay him anything in the hope that ha could get imager navy...
...The basic answer is clear...
...7th Street and znd Avenue: Algernon Lee...
...Oxman is completely out of the case ,as a perjuror who also tried to suborn perjury in another witness...
...Mooney were arrested j without a warrant and held incom- j municado until July 31 when they...
...The union's appraisal of his administration characterized him as a Mayor with whom the claims of personal and political fnends and associates come first...
...Shapiro...
...L. I., a onetime newsboy who worked Us way through both Princeton and the TTnJoti Theotoflral Seminary, dtsttncntshlnf himself hichly in both pUu-e* e* a student, he has tlven his life he ¦ tatter day...
...D. C. on the 21st in Richmond...
...Thomas at Town Hall Sunday, Sept...
...Mooney was again arrested and charged with disturbing the peace in connection with a strike of the railway employes which had been called on July 14 and which failed...
...Shearti three great ship building compannaval officers and miscellaneous Kncians worked together secretly to tw*at the efforts of their own counw.to bring about reduction of armteot for their own advantage...
...Anita Merkin...
...Panken to Address Meetings Former Judge Jacob Panken...
...This is not mere rhetoric...
...Lodge, owner of the house, refused to promise not to rent it to the National Textile Workers again .they slapped her face and when she tried to telephone for help, cut the wires...
...Next we must renew our demands that private profit be taken out of armament making...
...in 1916...
...One year before, September 22, 1927, Chester H. Rowell of Berkeley, California, wrote Governor Young urging a pardon for Mooney and the Governor answered in an amazing letter that a person's attitude towards "the social order" should be considered by the pardoning authority...
...Algernon Lee and Charles Soiomon...
...The actual meaning of the whole series of events which have happened to the underpaid, pellagra-ridden textile workers of this district is that mercenaries are saying, with guns in hand, th'at there shall be no union, no betterment of living conditions in this section...
...These notes were later used against her and her husband as pertaining to dynamiting activities in which the Mooneys were engaged...
...Henry H. Layburn...
...This letter from Judge Griffin to Governor Young is as follows: "Hon...
...Columbus...
...In addition a corps of Yipsels passed out thousands more to those who did not eet them in programs...
...John McDonald has since sworn to an affidavit that he knew nothing about the crime...
...at which talks were made by local candidates for city council in addition to the Drive talks made by Comrade Rotter .of the New York Drive staff, and the National Secretary...
...Abraham Kaufman, Frank Poree, Tim Murphy, Samuel Orr...
...He encouraged and echoed Hylan in the output of cheap claptrap and blatant demagogy that passed for declarations of policy, his voice at times drowning out Hylan s own...
...28th...
...Senior will leave Richmond the same evening to be present at a banquet which will be held In Pittsburgh, Pa., the following day...
...Philadelphia will have a banquet on September 29th, the same night Baltimore will have Judge Panken...
...Billings and Weinberg while engaged in their ordinary ac- j tivities were arrested by Swanson and policemen beld incommunicado...
...Even if Judge Kirkpatrick's order is made permanent—it is a temporary order for ten days—it is thought unlikely in most quarters that final disposition of the legal issue involved will be arrived at short of the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States...
...Billings and Weinberg, were charged j with murder...
...Shortly after Fickert's election in 1910 he moved to dismiss the indictments against the United Railroads officials and the motion was granted...
...LaGuardia's record anything tangible upon which to base hope that as Mayor he could formulate and adhere to a constructive program of administration...
...La Guafdla Thrown Down There was loud-expressed chagrin around the headquarters of F. H. Ln Guardla...
...Chicago, rapidly recovering from the apatheUc condition which rendered party work difficult, added over $500 to the amount it has already contributed to the drtve at a dinner held last Sunday evening, at which Fred D. Warren, onetime fighting editor of the Appeal to Reason, and Clarence Senior, newlyelected national secretary, were the guests...
...26th...
...Mooney and Nolan demanded Emerson's rearrest and Emerson was tried and acquitted...
...27th of Comrade Edward Gray, secretary of the newly-formed Independent Labor Party...
...shouting...
...When the Makransky and the Middishade people came pouring into union headquarters, to the extreme jubilation of everybody concerned, the "old man" said something equivalent to the currently popular "Oh yeah...
...former county secretary, was the first speaker, and Snow made the collection appeal...
...he (Uric* eat ia williMl work ta Spring St...
...About these facts...
...On July : 27, the newspapers published a statement that Mooney was being sought aa the "dynamite suspect...
...But he accepted if he did not court the support of the militarists in the last campaign...
...Too many nationalistic feelings and fears and hates are in the way...
...The substance of the testimony of the important witnesses in both the Billings and Mooney cases have since the convictions been so thoroughly refuted and discredited that the original record of the trial is a story of perjury, malice, crooked actions by Prosecutor Fickert...
...A possibility is seen of the application of whatever principles may be ultimately established to other industrial fields and especially to activities of textile labor leaders in the South...
...Reaching the Walton Hotel in Charlotte, the mob, raging because William Dunne and Leon Josephson, a defense attorney, had eluded them, tore up the hotel register and smashed the lights...
...This city Is not yet ready to be handled by a Socialist and to be run under Socialist principles...
...restraining the Amalgamated from interfering in any way with the plants or employes of the eight large manufacturers who instituted anti-trust suits against it...
...We must go on to try to prevent injunctions in labor disputes altogether even if it requires a Constitutional amendment to state and Federal constitutions...
...A resume of drive activities in a few of the many cities that are organizing to send the drive across to victory before October 1st is considered encouraging by drive managers...
...by Morris Hillquit in the official programs passed out to the crowds at the Labor Day celebration at Soldier' Field...
...One after another joined, some giving $1, but every one adding their bit to help swell the total...
...Algernon Lee, Rebecca Turner...
...They ¦a* willing to stir up hate and fear **«nake war more likely if it put a ¦ue more money in their pockets or ^•fwiae improved their standing, "fct'a pass around the blame...
...and Mrs...
...Hlllqult Leaflet Distributed In addition to the speech-making there was a 16-hour round of fun...
Vol. 9 • September 1929 • No. 6
