HILLQUIT CHOSEN AS CHAIRMAN OF SOCIALIST PARTY
Hillquit Chosen As Chairman of Socialist Party National Executive Committee Moves to Set Up PanAmerican Socialist Alliance—Southern Organization District Created—Comprehensive Program...
...Connecticut, Florida...
...After having been elected chairman, Hillquit called for a rising vote as a tribute to Berger, whose death ,it was evident, left a great void in the committee...
...LUlth Wilson of Pennsylvania...
...Minnesota, Montana...
...Time...
...It was easy enouga » win one fight for the bosses by "°n* troops...
...The campaign committee authorised Gerber to complete arrangements with the National y*""*""*^ ffgmpany and a number of local radio : broadcasting companies for a number of speaking dates for Thomas...
...The New York campaign will be important . . . Buffalo feels certain they will elect a Mayor . . . Lackawanna, N Y...
...CHARLOTTE, N. C —<PP>—C M Lell...
...Lewis' report won the praise of the committee, who felt that the collection of $25,000 during the summer months showed the strength of the party and the determination of its members and supporters...
...I do sot mean this as a sweeping indictaaat of the men on the grounds...
...List* of contributor* will be putBatow as soon as they are compiled...
...Similar parties of armed men patrolled every highway leading Into Gastonia and turned back every truck load of workers bound for the meeting...
...Paul atraat Ctt Caapar, chairman of the comauttae a*, arrangements, ttna called upoa ag taoaa who wish to join in this gx...
...Senior will also communicate with A. Fenner Brockway, M. P., aa well as others who an planning to coma to the United States...
...the thought and these protests are stP of s worried msn...
...Paragraph three, which was stricken out, restrained the Amalgamated from interfering in any way with the complainants, their agents or employes in the legitimate conduct or operation of their business, while oaragraph four, also stricken out, prohibited the defendants to "interfere in any way with the complainants .their agents or employes in the manufacture or sale of their products wherever such manufacture or sale may take place...
...The two paragraphs which were stricken out were supplanted by a modification clause which permits the officials-to advocate union membership but bars them from attempting to persuade workers in the non-union shops to violate their contracts with their employers...
...Reading, and Washington, Cleveland took its place alongside of the large cities that are working overtime to make the drive successful...
...The Committee of 100 did not dare, evidently, to interfere with the funeral, which passed off quietly...
...i Ella May...
...But many and varied as they are...
...William M. Bennett polled 17,442 votes against La Guardia...
...On the other hand .those that are endorsed by labor have not the finances to put up a strenuous campaign...
...Annabel R Ricks state secretary, is in charge of arrangements, Senior will leave for Pittsburgh, where the Socialists have arranged a dinner in his honor.- Pittsburgh has frequently led tha dtle* of the country (a aw gwnarowlty erf lta coBtrlbutioaa far ST ¦twflh—ing of tha national *x*a...
...Many branches have assured the drtrt managers that they will be entitled to sets of British Labor party posters, offered by Lewis a* prises to branches en*, local* which contribute $50 or men to the drive between September 15th s**October 1st...
...Other clUea In New York SU.U, ta...
...Marx Lewis, director of the drive, reports that contributions received since the last issue of the New Leader went to press, when the total reported was $18,146.63, brings the total announced to the drive headquarters close to $21,000...
...directly by retting the Socialist* sal progressives in those ctiea together...
...assailed Police Commissioner Whalen for "false statements, Inefficiency, and hypocrisy...
...The bill was referred to the Judiciary Committee, where it will be taken up at its regular meeting next Monday...
...Tat nice is by no means driven out Hsrton...
...The enemies of labor finance the campaigns of legislators who are antagonistic to labor and can be depended upon to vote with the monled interests...
...Charlie Shope...
...Pickets are still patrolling their beats—all under legal advice and within the letter of the injunction...
...k3 connection I quote with pries asm aa...
...The defeat, I am convinced, was assteessary...
...Thomas Fight Opens Sunday At Town Hall Socialist Mayoralty Candidate Will Sound Keynote— Hillquit to Preside—Apathy Rules Republican Ranks, as Thomas Makes Telling Attacks on La Guardia, Walker and Grover Whalen NORMAN THOMAS, Socialist candidate for Mayor, wffln*., formally notified of his nomination at the Socialist Partys opening campaign rally this Sunday afternoon, September 22nd a* 2 p. m. in Town Hall, 113 West 43rd street...
...On motion of Hillquit, Senior was instructed to sound out the possibilities of forming a Pan-American federation of Socialist and labor parties...
...plans a valiant effort to recapture the city . . . The Independent Labor party of Niagara Falls formed by the Socialist party and trade unions is important . . . Cleveland is forging ahead under a full-time organizer...
...Leaving the committee meeting late Saturday afternoon, Hoan and Senior attended the Socialist party picnic at Newark, N. J., where, after an appeal made by George H. Goebel, $90 was contributed to tne drive...
...Socialist sentiment is today greater than the party...
...Acting on the recommendation of Senior, the committee decided to study the possibility of securing affiliation of the Hantchakin (Armenian Social Democratic Party...
...Before adjournment a telegram of greeting was sent to 8L Louis Labor in its SOth anniversary...
...Some desultory attempt st organizing...
...Schwab Is Implicated Shearer, credited with wrecking the Geneva arms limitation conference, where British and American emissaries were seeking a formula, is sore...
...Judge Is Demanded La Follette Denounces Injunction Against Amalgamated Clothing Workers By Gertrude Weil Klein WHEN tne open-snop ciommg manufacturers of Philadelphia were granted an injunction against the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America last week, they were confident that it would paralyze the organization activities of the Amalgamated...
...Other contributions made by in; dividuals residing in Massachusetts | bring the total already contributed ( by Massachusetts to the drive well above $3,000...
...and Mr...
...Supposedly there £ ju no discrimination in taking got the workers, but there is no ^ to take back the men whose u i up for union activities was a* aasaediate cause of the strike in to Baldwin mills...
...The Bohemian Federation reports renewed work in Cleveland, Detroit, St Louis, Milwaukee and Chicago...
...A conference will be held it j Washington with Santiago Igleeiaa I head of the Porto Rican Socialist party, he said...
...On the other hand, *• iotas Leary of the New York purporting to speak as a et President Green told one **e manufacturers that he would •Jeeihat Hoffman be removed or ye^eaeated by someone more and he, a veteran newspaper 7*» showed this morale destroying *° get on the front page of the J"**** papers...
...former member of the national executive Committee and Senior addressed the diners...
...was shot through the heart when a mob attacked 1 a truck load of Bessemer City workers j who were on their way to a union meeting, scheduled in Gastonia...
...Them's union...
...Cincinnati, where a commit-, tee of liberal* have agreed to serve Witt",' the Socialists on a reception committal for Norman Thomas should he be avail-' able for a dinner there, 1* planning • dinner early in October, Charles R. Refers, Cincinnati Socialist, reports...
...X. Phfs> Haffner...
...Thomas also made public letters written him by two prominent local labor leaders denouncing La Guardla for his support of Justice Stephen Callaghan...
...Together with G. August Gerber...
...The success of Thomas" attacks was shown by the fact that he again drew the fire of condemnation of The New York Times and the New Tork World, the city's two largest dailies...
...It y** et the Marion situation bat did *J"»g for relief...
...timely topics Norman Thomas iTr+c Defeat ^ strikes in the Baldwin sad r^jjBchtoid nulla at Marion...
...nactady, are being aakad by Law* to undertake similar dinner*, wfctd» Senior may not be able to -ttiBl*, but which prominent Socialists, 3r eluding the members of the xjatioaaL executive committee, have agreed to address...
...who were in the mob surrounding it...
...At the XiaV eraon Hotel, In Baltimore...
...and the move by Senator I LaFoilette for a Senatorial investiga: tion into the constitutionality of the i injunction...
...The secretary's suggestion for pub1 llcation of a small hand-book for 'party branches was also approved...
...Escape was impossible on the crowded road and the car stopped...
...A state charter was granted to North Carolina...
...September 21st, at Washington...
...The Federated Press correspondent was in a car with other newspaper reporters, which was threatened and stopped by the mob...
...Senior's First Report There were no predictions of immediate startling gains...
...It won't be long now...
...September 22...
...the truck driver, is being de- j fended by the Int...
...A small boy who witnessed the scene declares that the shots were fired by one of the cars pursuing the truck, which passed it just as It struck the car ahead...
...On the same evening...
...Central and South Am?rica A comprehensive literature jrogram was authorized...
...Though he had been in office only a month, 12 days had been spent on the road for the party...
...Foliaatof the collapse of the Gastonia thftt it had a chance to show that t oooM succeed where the Commuakapafjoaopny and method could not...
...and S. Lerner, aided by a esc.tribution made by Dr...
...Porto Rico...
...The mob at the South Oastonla grounds, as well as the patrolling parties, was partly formed of deputised Legionnaires, members of the Committee of One Hundred, and mill hangers-on...
...The Bohemian Marxian Federation has joined the Socialist Federation...
...Urges Financial Support ROCK ISLAND...
...Judge Kirkpatrick's modification order came almost concomitantly with Senator LaFollette's bill, but when questioned about the latter, Judge Kirkpatrick refused to have anything to say...
...Then, guarded by riot guns, the whole party was driven to the county jail where the driver was charged with speeding and Listen M. Oak, Communist publicity director, who was in the car, was charged with carrying a concealed weapon...
...Judge Pan ken will speak on the work <t the British Labor party and the eat*", duet of the campaign in which he took part...
...Before the dinner $134 was collected by Alfred Baker Lewis, another member of the national executive committee, making a total of $1025.j 48...
...a What might easily be dom k bs«j A. F of L. to set up simple but rfisskt machinery of relief, publicity, laps Sv fence snd strategy to use in %'k port of one of its constituent asap which ls bearing the brunt of Ha) sfh The U. T. W. cannot finance the earn zation of the South alone...
...The onndnion of assjfi^^B As X write...
...an* two Republicans, issued a statemerhailing Walker as the benefactor c! education...
...Joseph W. Sharts of Ohio...
...sarabstB the deliberately mflammatory propsaaS of their masters, murdered a waaaswj firing into s truckload of winkers tents, for home Is the worst thing is saltAmerican history...
...New Literature To Be Issued Senior's recommendations on the setting up of an information bureau and the Issuing of a periodical service to party speakers were also approved...
...Bulwinkle, counsel for ' ManvIMe-Jcnckes and a member of the prosecution in the Aderholt case...
...HiUquit Campaign Chairman Hill quit was elected chairman of the Socialists' municipal campaign committee Monday at a meeting in Socialist headquarters, 7 East 15th street...
...Hill quit's "Story of the British Labor Party," is to be brought up to date, aa Is James Onsal's "Labor is England and America...
...D. C...
...making a total of 80fil6S out of 600,000 enrolled Republican voters who cared enough about their party and its candidate to take the trouble ;o vote...
...at Reading, which raised $474 for the drive fund at a picnic held on Labor Day...
...Others who attended the sessions were Mrs...
...Bin Elizabethton and Gastonia snd Usrte mobs snd troops hsve crushed self snd organization both North snd BteW even when the organisation wu sab the auspices of the more eonssnas* unions...
...The formation of the New Bedford Labor party may be expected to be the forerunner of more such organizations," Senior reported...
...The cars caught up with us and seme j passed us," Wes Williams, textile worker...
...this spring had aatonkfeteg results...
...Norman Tbamsi who has signed the appeal has la^utoMi, those who have not already contrlfcswl to come forward before the drive daw*, in order to assure the success of J*t drive...
...government...
...Thomas demanded to know how Mayor Walker would finance the planned new subway systems...
...Some of the delegates pointed out that while the plan suggested by Walker, raising a fund to back acceptable and friendly candidates, was a step in advance of the former policy, it did not go far enough...
...li'e're going to have a union all over the South So ice can ivear good clothing and live in a better house...
...Gifford...
...Nor is he willing, now that he feels gypped out of some $250,000 for alleged back pay, to let the gold-braid admirals duck out of responsibility for the close collaboratiton between the private cruiser builders and the U. 8. navy...
...Something, I say, was done, but in % face of this challenge and this easnrtantty neither the U. T. W. nor ta> A. F. of L. made a survey of the lekl or had any central strategy...
...The y**U*e Council was in session...
...said...
...It was near this hall that the killing of Ella May occurred...
...professed progressive, stood on Fascism, led The Times to wrtte a lengthy editorial accusing the Socialists of dragging extraneous issues into the campaign...
...Such splendid fighting spirit joist hare been wholly in vain, aao* employers may see the writing a the wan and improve conditions...
...Victor L. Berger...
...The order reads...
...editor in chief, to rationalize his uncomfortable position as renegade Socialist...
...Big Navy Men In Charge of Shearer Probe Senators Hale and Short-1 ridge Known as Preparedness Jingoes— •yr^ASHINGTON— (F.P.I—Both the armor plate trust and high U. S. navy officers are inescapably tarred by the brush so freely wielded ty William B. Shearer, patriot for pay and big navy booster...
...The industrialimtioo of the South on the basis of a BXtY or sixty-six hour week and a tU to $13 average wage threatens worything won in the North as the pauper labor of Europe, that favorite ¦agey-man of the protectionists...
...Its other activities, useful and important though they be, are secondary to this basic duty...
...In view of this...
...Hillquit Chosen As Chairman of Socialist Party National Executive Committee Moves to Set Up PanAmerican Socialist Alliance—Southern Organization District Created—Comprehensive Program on New Literature Sanctioned—Senior Makes First Report THE National Executive Committee of the Socialist Party, ¦f meeting .n New York over the week-end...
...As thst saasatS* candid Southern Journalist Nstl BpF Lewis, points out...
...Pursued by Terror Crew Twenty three workers from Bessemer j City, seven miles from Gastonia, were 1 in the truck bound for the union meet- I tag...
...To believe aasni such party is possible ls not 1h» fb" face but the conclusion to editor 1SF msnn's political Morals...
...first report of the new secretary impressed the committee, and Hillquit...
...They jumped out of their cars and started shooting at us...
...We were going at top i speed and could not stop...
...of Philadelphia, have done so before Richmond, Pittsburg, Rochester, Baltimore to Hold Affairs - Boston Gives $891 More TlEFORE the present week is over, j the United States Socialist Drive, inaugurated to raise $50,000 for Socialist organization and propaganda work, will have passed the one-half mark and entered upon the second half of the journey to victory...
...This, Senior plans, will make sugges| tions aa to the bast ways of carrying Ion party work...
...Victim Wrote Labor gongs Ella May, the victim of this organized and government-supported violence, was a widow and the mother of five living children...
...and a telegram of protest was sent to the governor* of North Carolina on the violence practiced there against textile workers and Communists...
...Hale of Maine, chairman of the committee and a rabid big navy man enjoying the full confidence of Bethlehem and other shipbuilding companies, named Sen...
...On literature...
...The strike at Philadelphia has been extremely peaceable...
...than the failure of the state of North Carolina to function effectively in the aires' and punishment of the capitalist killers and mobsters is in significant and sinister contrast to Its promptness and zeal In arresting and punishing the strikers...
...On the suggestion of Senior it was decided to hold the next meeting in the middle west, so that the national office could arrange speaking tours of the party's national leaders...
...They could not have ** used so generously if there was —I'lliiug approaching a general *Ske of textile workers as a result J the discharge of all who joined •a union...
...Shortridge fo California as head of the special subcommittee...
...Arizona, California...
...the election of Senior national executive secretary was confirmed...
...The Italian Federation reports five branches reorganized since June...
...Berger, Norman Thomas, State Senator Thomas M. Duncan of Wisconsin...
...Attempts would be made to have him speak for the party...
...the New York Socialists staged a dinner m honor of HHlquit on Sundav evenine...
...They are | defended by Maj...
...let our leaders die...
...There was *» central plan, no machinery for ¦sbueity, no machinery for relief...
...who were armed and deputized by the hundreds...
...It only heh^weUBJ Ignorant passion...
...North Carols* did not and could not finance its •en strike...
...The wish b faUafb...
...As The New Leader goes to press...
...Following a dinner to be held this evening at Richmond, Va...
...He said: "The great victory of the British Labor party coupled with a few striking local election victories here may well revive the movement all over the country...
...jto bonder the Southern press hails jaae terms as a "surrender" of the (OTkert...
...III.—The plan of supporting candidates who are owned body and soul by the old parties received a blow from President Walker of the Illinois State Federation of Labor meeting here...
...was buried in Bessemer City, her home town, by the union for which she composed her now-famous songs...
...The profound diaconaat of the textile workers and the aBQtsm of these particular strikers ajeM have been better used...
...This will be HlttC quit's first appearance since the Socialist* of New York City met to celeartlT hi* sixtieth birthday...
...On Sunday evening, September 21, tw...
...N. C—(FP>— Ella May Wiggins, courageous strike leader and member of the Communist Natl...
...Labor defense...
...Thomas' demand to know where La Guardia...
...Solomon and Lee...
...L. C. Carter, who caught Ells May as she fell, described the fusiiade of shots that came from the side front just as the two automobiles collided...
...North Cs»H»*- have been settled...
...It sat s> dered the British representsuve It sv introduce at Geneva the Amerksa f Crane plan for limiting the prodsees of narcotic drugs to amounts needsf st medicinal purpose—s plan hitherto S> tested largely by the contemptible sn hypocritical stand of the Bridal Tftrj...
...Leaflets .'or free distribution rather than pamphlets for sale are to be printed m a variety of subjects...
...unanimously elected Morris Hillquit national chairman of the partv to succeed' the late \ ictor L. Berger...
...Stop that car...
...As far as the city of Philadelphia is concerned the Amalgamated is committing no breach of the law...
...The host of speakers and organizers who are preaching solidarity and teaching the history of the Amalgamate* 'jo the worker...
...Wyoming and the New England District have displayed noticeable activity of late...
...The meeting was attended by the following members: Hillquit aad j Oneal of New York...
...a few hours after his election...
...of Philadelphia, with Joseph 8chwartt Harry Berger, and other* in charge aji* preparing to make HUlquifs first appear-* ance in Philadelphia in many yean a ' gala event...
...A union is successful, not so much as the formulator of an idealogy, or the Inspirer of heroic deeds, but as it is successful as a labor union...
...eluding Syracuse...
...She sang then Ip a full deep chest tone, swinging them along in the marked monotonous fashion of the mountain people...
...lessness in the class struggle the as« those men in Gastonia who...
...The workers joined together and this teas their reply...
...The spreading interest in Thomas' candidacy, the support voiced for Thomas by the executive committee of the CrOssns' Union have given the Sodahst workers the enthusiasm for a strong fight...
...The policy of co-operation with local labor parties was reiterated...
...A one-day strike called by the Communists failed to materialize...
...Indiana, Maryland...
...Any student of the labor movement can testify that the Amalgamated Clothing Workers is the most progressive labor organization in the country...
...organiser of the Socialist Party...
...And Shorfridge's big jobs in the Senate are to see that jingoistic...
...Killings The national executive committee of the Socialist party meeting in New York last Sunday sent the following resolution to the Governor of North Carolina: "Resolved that the National Executive Committee of the Socialist party remind the Governor of fthe State of North Carolina that he took an oath of office to uphold the laws, and that the killing and cowardly mob-violence committed by the organized employers and their henchmen against the Gastonia strikers and the Communist* alleged to be leading them, is as much a violation of the laws of bis state as if the killings and mob-violence, had been committed by the other side...
...The committee accepted this recommendation...
...r Ratification Rally TOWN HALL 113 West 43rd Street SUNDAY, SEPT...
...The effect of the injunctions at Philadelphia, if made permanent, Senator LaFollette further said, would be to induce employes to sign "yellow dog" contracts...
...The _ll - voted to go back for a 85 jjii of a 00 to 70 hour week, but m ao increase in the rate of pay v aisee work, so that they win gar bare to work harder or accept at' than the pitiful wages which m average for moat of them leas HJ a week...
...Settlements are being made every day ! with smaller houses and with contract shops employing from 150 to 200 ; workers, in most cases without a j strike...
...They locked up our leaders, they put them in jail...
...as aatomobile age...
...Ohio...
...j^lug these critical weeks Preel**» Green had time to join a com•***» to raise funds for a citizens **^ary training camp...
...for S9...
...Two others in the car were wounded...
...one of the two workers who caught Ella May when she fell dying, described how after the truck was turned back, the mob in automobiles followed, "pestering us with cussing*" and shouting "you fellows are going to get shot up...
...Later in the sessions the question of filling the vacancy came up...
...Otherwise he would never have "peached" on his bosses, the Bethlehem, Brown-Goveri and Newport shipbuilding companies, whose cruiser contracts furnish the gravy for their stock-holders...
...She composed many songs foY the strikers to sing, and set them to the old southern mountain tunes...
...Nebraska, where the a> cialiat* believe the time is ripe for reorganisation, Mr...
...wTagBSfj held, but on the ridiculously *W_**|I $1,000 each...
...22nd, 2 P. M. Speakers: NORMAN THOMAS Socialist Candidate for Mayer CHARLES SOLOMON Socialist Candidate for Controller . ALGERNON LEE Socialist Candidate for President of the Board of Aldermen MORRIS HILLQUIT National Chairman, Socialist Party ADMISSION FREE Eight Cities to Stage Dinners To Swell United Socialist Fund...
...Oregon has a new state secretary, a trade unionist of long standing . . . North Carolina has held a state convention . . . Virginia has a new state secretary, and the party la putting on a good campaign for Um governorship .which will Increase the vote and the membership . . . Reports from Wisconsin indicate an increase in activity...
...Coincidentally...
...Grounds for '*t|^ fir Murine ..p There are msny things to enooasst Socialists these days: the growkig s> terest in the Labor Party ides: ttt s> creasing success of our drive: ths as* ligrnt vigor with which Clarence Hss" hss taken up his work as National swretary: the happy news that Morris Sf* quit our new national chairman can aw more time to party wort To thai I' sdd the frequent editorials in wnk* » New York World petulantly teU* m SSSers that no strong Socialist or SSW party is possible...
...Senior was the guest of the Socialists ;n both ot these cities, and former Judge Jacob Panken, who had just returned from England where he took part in the British election on behalf of the British Labor party was the guest of the Washington Socialists...
...The former has been in control of the Bohemian daily paper but this action assures the Socialist party control of it...
...Textile Workers Union, shot to death by a 1 mill owners' lynching party Sept...
...Atty...
...La Guaxdia, making a total of 80,169 out of a situation where his nomination was in some danger...
...At a dinner held at the Winton hotel in Cleveland last Friday evening, at which Mayor Daniel W. Hoan, of Milwaukee, and Senior, who were on their way to the national executive committee meeting, $400 was raised...
...David George, Marx Lewis, August Claensens, Sol Levi tus of the Jewish Socialist Verband...
...The speakers will be Alexander Marks, organizer of the American Federation of Labor: Morris Feins tone, secretary of the United Hebrew Trades, and August Claessens...
...sharp at the Forward Building, Room 505, 175 East Broadway...
...All contributions are to be to him at 23 Bast 16tb street New *** Many individuals contributing *» «•* *pon*e to the appeal the last few daja Lewi* reports, have pledged to ccntrtoaw like amount* each year, thus assuring •* Socialist party a continuous fond * which to draw for the rebuilding of * party...
...Underwear and Dry Goods Clerks' Union will hold a mass meeting st 8 p.m...
...On the -ecommendation of Clarence Senior, latio-nal secretary, efforts are to be tiade to set up a Pan-American So:ialist federation embracing: the workers' parties of Canada, Mexico...
...The meeting place was original'y scheduled for South Oastonla on a lot where union meetings have been held previously...
...Publication of the following was authorized: l-A leaflet on war...
...the Beds withswt the assistaae* st a» 1 regular labor movement and iSsHapl erlean Federation of laser...
...I blame the generalship of the American later movement, its lack of plans, natal and machinery adequate to the Batter in hand, its go-cart tactics to...
...Nothing at aU is aa» shout the miserable conditions 4mill village...
...We'll never, no...
...Many Hopeful Developments Secretary Senior then presented his report...
...It is, smwSSSVJeJ the latest in a series of sbaSSSSts crimes...
...she told me when I saw her at a workers picnic, three weeks from the day she was killed...
...Lewis reported about $22,000 raised to date, with every likelihood of a total of $25,000 before many more days...
...anti-Japanese elements in his home state are fed enough cruisers to make sure that California single-handed, can wipe out the Japanese fleet when it comes steaming toward the Golden Gate and San Pedro, as they believe it will some day...
...Some of the provisions of this injunction, he stated, woul deprive citizens of their ~right to organize and would be a violation of constitutional rights and the principles upon which this nation was founded...
...paralysis is not among them...
...Herbert H. Merrill, New York state secretary...
...At the ¦* sign that the workers might oplea* the reopening of the mills to •Wke breakers a reluctant militia *** called out...
...another is tied-up by a walk-out of its employes...
...Boston Socialists and liberals, who had Clarence Senior, national secretary of the Socialist party, as their guest, raised $891.48 at the dinner, after George E. Roewer...
...who wrote "Well never, no we'll never let our leaders die...
...Judge Pant** win be the guest of honor of the Bainy more Socialists Dr...
...Virginia, Wisconsin...
...The repercussions have been many and varied...
...Thomas bad not said that Fascism was an issue in the campaign, but had referred to La Guardias straddling the question of Fascism as an evidence of his political instability...
...Though she was only 29, she had buried four more...
...Daniel W. Hoan of Wisconsin...
...U.S.Probe Of Phila...
...of L. followed up the reason«ab/ successful spontaneous strikes la Beeth Carolina and the Elizabethan sMs n with organizing work...
...They suggested that to fight labor's full time enemies on the political as well as the Industrial field a labor party was needed to insure full time friends instead of those who promised lots at election time...
...Terrible conditions H** which only eoneerted action can remedy...
...5-A leaflet on unemployment...
...I as vet primarily blame the judgment at the captain on the field or the aaa tad women in the ranks...
...In the course of the discussions, the new national chairman stated succinctly his view of the party's tasks and prospects...
...We'll never, no...
...Labor Defense called the proceedings "just a subterfuge to hold these men and try to keep them from speaking at the meeting scheduled for South Oastonla...
...The case was dismissed before the defense counsel had a chance to speak...
...The union did sol even make a gesture to organize Ttohoro where mills owned by the Cfiachfield people were kept running M blast while their fellow workers •ere on strike in Marion...
...E. C. Wires Protest to Governor On JVo...
...1 The Murder in Gastonia For sheer, cowardly, cold Uluussf tar...
...Gastonia Slaying Expected, Yet Town and State Failed To Provide Any Protection Socialist /V...
...Llngerfelt...
...The United Textile Worken with a little help from the iuf...
...campaign manager, the committee completed plans for a citywide campaign such as the party has never waged before...
...It was attended by hundreds I of union workers, neighbors and friends of the 29-year-old mother of five children, who are now orphans...
...Culmination of a spiritless Republican primary fight waa the outstanding development in last week's campaigning, the dullness of which waa relieved only by Thomas' cent lnueal pointed attacks on Y. H. La Guardla, Republican designee, and Mayor Walker, Tammany incumbent...
...Morris Hillquit, recently elected chairman of the party, will preside at the meeting and officially "convey to Thomas the designation of his party...
...The term is probably too Mag...
...The injunction is so drastic in its nature—it has been compared to the infamous Danbury Hatters decision— that it even prohibits the Amalgamated from spending its own money for organization purposes...
...Our truck j smashed into their car and wrecked both...
...All of the foreign language federations from which reports were received have increased their membership...
...Frank Flowers of the Intl...
...lata in those cities, but it win alat' help In the work of reortraaisaBe...
...One of the favorites, to the tune of "Floyd Collins", she made about the raid on the tent colony on June 7, in which the chief of police of Gastonia was killed...
...editorial in the official magasim of 2] Teamsters' (Daniel Town's DasSxyfH -It might se a gesd sbasg aftatjaf American Federation mt Leber tkaanl nations...
...Oregon, Pennsylvania, Utah...
...we'll never...
...Marx Lewis Reports After hearing Senior's report, the committee heard from Marx Lewis, director of the United Socialist Drive, on the progress of the drive...
...Each was held in $500 bail...
...The Walker-Tammany campairr^ showed few signs of life during tv week...
...This statement received scant attention in the press...
...It is the present intention of the committee to haws a broadcast over WEAF, WJZ or some...
...The temper of the mob at the South Oastonla grounds was no less than murderous...
...Senior reported new leafllets were urgently needed...
...Apparently we were mistaken for union organisers and speakers for as our car drove slowly down through a lane of menacing guns, the hoarse mob yell rose back of us "There they go...
...j The Boston dinner was the first of a series that is to be held in the principal cities following the meeting of the national executive committee in this city last Saturday and Sun, day...
...we'll never...
...Mass...
...In addition to Boston...
...Dry Goods Clerks to Hold An Organization Rally The Wholesale Hosiery...
...The union had received word, however, that machine guns had been planted on the roofs of surrounding buildings and changed the meeting place to Union Hall in West Oastonla...
...The hundreds of incidents important and trifling, some amusing, some bordering on the tragic, which bring color and form and texture to such an upheaval will never be written, can never be written except perhaps by painstaking collection and collaboration over a period of years, and them most likely the color and the taste will be lost But out of it all, this observer at any rate, received with hammer like precision, one idea...
...We were unarmed and unprepared to protect ourselves against such a large gang...
...Plans for organizing the wholesale hosiery, underwear and dry goods clerks will be discussed...
...Other cities, including St Louis and MlnnoaaoHs, are on the list of cities consldsr**., for dinners...
...They shoied them in prison...
...other cities the drive among the works* bringing small amount*, but each eat helping swell the total, is coctmub...
...and on Friday evening...
...The setting up of an information bureau to supply data on Issues was agreed upon...
...But the SB*«a cry was never the real reason **5d implacable hostility of Northers staw...
...Ella May Wiggins" The six Loray employes are T. C Morrow, who drove the car that collided with the truck...
...New Jersey, New York...
...C. D. Saylor and six other National Textile Workers Union organizers, charged with conspiring to overthrow the government of North Carolina by disseminating Communism, have been freed on motion of the city solicitor...
...are pissning to hold a get-to-gether to aid Up drive and also to reorganise a local 8, other cities In that section of the country will plan similar get-to-gethers Senior may be able to address several at them during a midwest tour...
...composed of 67...
...Pittsburgh, will inaugurate the second phase of the $50,000 drive...
...The main centers of activity are Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Pottotown and Reading...
...Here are use facts: .ike Southern situation is critical fe American labor...
...Legal proceedapi against the strike leaders were at aropped...
...Otherwise, they said, a fund of this kind will only attract old time politicians who are always on the look out for a new trough to hog...
...A body can't do for five children on S9 a week...
...On Sept 29 Walker Finds Union Political Policy Weak...
...Wiggin was imminent...
...Hillquit in Phila...
...The committee opened its sessions Saturday afternoon in the Rand School...
...These facts are considered by Washington observers to be established beyond contradiction, despite the prompt efforts of admirals to whitewash themselves, the heads of the three big cruiser and the highly diplomatic statements building firms in this country...
...Boon Marion became a critical point in the South...
...A few days later _."*rria»L was ended on the tnterel a snppoeedly liberal ^Paseontent remains in Marion and textile field...
...In his annual report Walker states what all political observers knovr to be true in regard to old party candidates...
...It is impossible to give in what purports to be a news story, any of the movement, the glamor, the excitement of a great strike which seems heading for success...
...let our leaders die.' This is part of Ells May's song...
...This does not include, as last week's total did not include, the amount collected by branches and locals throughout the country, and which is estimated to be between $3,000 and $4,000, the estimate being based on meager reports received at the drive headquarters...
...The position was unanimously offered to Mrs...
...Senior also raised the advisability of promoting sports activities under Socialist sponsorship...
...The N on-Partisan Citizens Committee of 675...
...These dlnnera will sot cabaid the drive, he advised the Soctoj...
...The party is making a strong effort to place five men in the city council . . . Cincinnati has reorganized and is concentrating on one candidate for the city council...
...With arrangement* for these aSairt definitely completed, and prospect* for large accretions to the MO.OOO a* s result of them assured, Lewi* Is branehtntj out into other cities in an effort is §*_ at least s dosen more to undertake similar affair...
...Textile Worker, 29, Mother of Five Children, Shot Down by Mill-Organized Crew GASTONIA...
...The Republican party's lack of interest in its own candidate was indictated by the fact out of a total of 600.000 enrolled Republicans, only 62,727 cared enough for Mr...
...This order leaves the Amalgamated and its officers free to drive for membership in a peaceable and lawful manner, but It prohibits the union from either trying to induce employes to join a strike or to violate the "yellow dog" contracts with their employers...
...When we got to a bridge they passed over first and stopped one on each ' side of the road and one in the center just ahead of us...
...He told of the work of the Labor Sports Union, and recommended Socialist party support...
...Witnesses told this correspondent that they had seen the local American Legion post marched in a body to the county courthouse to be deputized, and that not enough badges of authority could be provided for all those who were sworn in en masse...
...A new series of activities, beginning with a| banquet Sunday...
...aa afternoon rise ths Incredible report -mtfm A. F. of L. becking is to teas gkaaa, of sn effort to "shift ths slssjBaS tha Bed fearing South to the aVa{—s and its unionisation plan tpabatan the textile operators.'* They est 2 to try to beat the operators ettask5 anti-red game...
...So zee must stand together and to the boss reply...
...Socialists ij, Philadelphia will have a* their guest of, honor Morris Hlllqult...
...The Finnish Federation has sold one hundred per cent more dues stamps during the past month...
...World Attack Tbomaa Meanwhile the views of the Socialist candidate, expressed at a series of meetings of the party's district organizations, continued to force the attention of the public and the press...
...And the word "organization" is a particu: larly comprehensive one under the injunction...
...Last week the textile workers of Lerrence...
...It was followed by dinners held on Thursday September 20...
...On thst fact the A r <f i, must count welcoming whatever onssf it finds among employefS.*wh«tever eat of fair play exists in the comarssflhV but depending on the strength tt Jk own cause and the courage and Sleep of its own tactics to break the tndasaY serfdom of the South Score one more good point fer at British Labor Government...
...Governor Gardners statement after the killing that "North Carolina will insist on maintaining law" can be regarded as sheer hypocrisy...
...Caro...
...Neither organizers nor lendi were available...
...Organization activities are still on...
...From a dozen or more towns nary sent representatives to beg for organization...
...One of the firms which signed the demand for the restraining order against the Amalgamated has since signed up...
...Is it too mta » hope from the leadership of the ana ican labor movement 4hat It can tag' out such a plan and obtain its sdopat at the forthcoming federation Itsaj) Convention...
...A follow-up letter, addressed to that who failed to respond to the fast aptut 1* now going oat, and several thotaaal doners are expected to be raised ss * result of that appeal...
...major affair* will be held...
...The daily press of Gastonis, openly ' bribed as it is by the Loray mill, and the obvious atmosphere through the town gave the police and the governor ! of the state of North Carolina ample ! warning that some such tragedy as the killing of Mrs...
...YToe-Prealy W«U had time to make one at the University of Virginia, •* he could not remain long enough *» answer the employers...
...The strike in Philadelphia is still i on...
...Alfred Baker Lewis of Massachusetts...
...refused to (jive them boil...
...At the coroner's inquest, witness after witness described how the workers who fled from the mob were hunted like jack rabbits across the cotton patch...
...The Emergency Com¦fttee for Strikers Relief which the U 1 D. had formed as a supple¦eatary industrial Red Cross to aid ktor and put some decency and ¦saanity in the industrial struggle ml practically all the relief funds ttat were need until the strike was ever...
...and IiiIiii iialf—gsal tsuu the huge ssnpleyera of North ssasbtl fight the as-csBsd radicals UHtmasfl and spend ear time snd massy at'Si ganhdng the workers of so crash sat 1 let those whs are giving sat tse pa j ting over ssiusHdiig en ths tsssaasf-l tag public de ail this week at Saba...
...grave the lie to La Goardta'a statement that be "never made a deal with Tammany'' in Us Hfe by etttng the fact that he ran on the Tammany Democratic ticket for Congress In 1918...
...All members of the trade are urged to be present...
...2-A leaflet on the Negro problems...
...and L, M. Sossoman and Will Lunsfordl...
...mi a did...
...Reports from the West continue to bring the total raised in the Westers states nearer their quota, and In oot case, California, the prospect* art not that the quota originally set win *» exceeded by »1.000...
...But whether the sub-committee of the Senate naval affairs committee will really try to get at the bottom of the brazen efforts of the armor plate trust and the admirals to thwart efforts at reduction of naval armaments is a question...
...Los Angeles membership has doubled...
...During the national campaign, but $100,000 waa raised...
...Equally interesting is I the modification order signed by 'Judge William H. Kirkpatrick, which J modifies two of the clause in his injunction...
...3-A leaflet on the municipal program of the party and Socialist municipal accomplishments: 4-A leaflet on the need for a labor party...
...The meeting- of the national committee embarked the national office >f the party on a new period of inense Socialist activity...
...Big Pitta burgh Contribution Expected Reports from Reading and Washington as to the amounts collected for the $50,000 fund are lacking as The New Leader goes to press, but previous reports received as to the progress of the arrangements indicate that Reading will add materially to the $474 it has already collected, and that Washington, which expected to raise their quota of $500 of which $150 has already been contributed, will probably exceed its quota...
...TJtica, and Sca...
...A conference marked healing of a split which developed after the war...
...She worked a 64-hour week In the American Spinning Co...
...It will contain the 1 best experiences of other branches, i On the matter of touring speakers, 1 Senior reported that Robert Danneberg, president of the Vienna diet and Socialist expert on municipal work, will visit here soon...
...The eyes of other ¦wxers were on the gallant striksja...
...Pennsylvania has picked up considerably...
...Colorado...
...About $2.MM haw been contributed by the California Socialist*, and several Los Angeles branch* are continuing their efforts...
...The mob surged up and police drove them back In a crowded excited moment...
...In the course of Ida aadiwses, Mr...
...There was a volley of shots and Ela May fell dead...
...ing to communicate with aim at tat Savoy hotel, Rochester...
...It is not thought likely that the bill had any bearing on his modification order...
...As they reached the union headquarters they were met by dozens of automobiles filled with members of the "Committee of One Hundred" which has spread terror throughout this section during the past week...
...with the hope that her personal affairs would make it possible for her'to accept...
...sation, and Socialists aervtBf mW eamml t ta* expect to be able to naff* and poaaihry acttpaa the record as* bold toy Boston u Um city w** coo tributes soon than any other si any single affair held during the drton PH>m Kaw York On Monday evening, Rochester mi1 Y., wUl greet Senior at a dianar a» ba hold at MO St...
...Of course, in such t jaj Southern leadership and Southern Ujferation should be brought a* far Bifi sible into the foreground...
...Lowry Davis, Troy Jones, and Theodore Sunms...
...The introduction comprised a summary of developments in the party in recent months...
...Tet -when all this is said, tat sitter fact remains that we have agftrsd a serious defeat and the beat «« can hope is that we can learn tai Is—PS of the defeat...
...In lta wars mood it would welcome help of tsa gP. of L. under conditions which sea protect its autonomy...
...Mass., members of the Italian asclalist Federation, sent In their contribution, amounting to $24, collected torn many workers who are unemployed...
...It is this success that is bringing Philadelphia into line...
...The World's attack on the Socialists proved to be but another attempt of Walter Lippmann...
...We were thrown to the ground and started running across flekte...
...Back of this murder ef SBSJg lies the whole psychology of ^"V'*"*"^ the supposedly chivalrous Starts Wj can't kill black folks without WaBT the safety of white folks—sspss1s*»^ the latter are 'Teds...
...I Said Senator LaFoilette, addressing the Senate upon the introduction of his bill demanding a probe...
...The largest addition to the fund during the past week came from Boston...
...But Noras* labor has the right snd duty to sartr Northern capitalism in the Scuta, ask opportunities as exist now if thq>«f loft may not soon come again...
...The Marion strike happened because tie workers could not be held back ¦hen some of their number were and after they joined the union...
...and exposed the record of defeats suffered by (he Walker ml ministration fat rates cases involving public utilities...
...The injunctions at Philadelphia issued last week are a glaring example of misuse of judicial power...
...where Mrs...
...While keeping a benevolent eye on the development of local labor parties, oar Job will be to strengthen the Socialist Party...
...who were with him...
...where a dinner was held at the Elks Club for the benefit of the drive...
...who has Just Ma, elected national chairman of the Socialist party, to succeed the late Oongraa man Victor L. Berger...
...The West Reports Activity '„ In Omaha...
...At the point of.* guns the truck was forced to —turn around, and started back to Bessemer' City, pursued by many of the cars...
...alleged the Commissioner has crawled to cover oa the Issue of closing spensanmtes...
...S. M. NetHs*," chairman of the arrangement* comrnfttea, report* that the balance of da 11.000 set as Maryland quota for fix drive food win be raised at this dtaaer...
...Thomas will respon£ with an address which will sound toe Keynote 01 toe Bone net neiinielin In addition to Thomas and Hfikaht, the speakers will Include Charles Buliswi, Socialist candidate for controller, and Algernon Lee, Socialist candidate for president of the Board of Aldermen...
...notorious Injunction judge...
...and Jasper McLevy of Connecticut...
...Assured of a Urn attendance in any event, the Socialist...
...On international relations, Senioi reported efforts to open contacts wits Porto Rican and Latin America* parti ea, aa well as the parties is j Canada...
...Sale of dues stamps shows an increase of 50 per cent in the last four months in comparison with last year...
...Democrats and Tammany men...
...i These are the immediate, and to ' the organization, the most important ! developments...
...Colorado has a new state secretary and has formed two new locals...
...The workers, disregarding the "yellow-dog" ' contracts they signed a week ago, are walking out of the factories in the direction of Amalgamated headquarters and are quite within their rights in doing so...
...ists snd local Southern business biaaaj to unionization...
...Tet ¦tea Alfred Hoffman, an able and natgetk young organizer, called up tW central office in New York on hfly llth when the strike began he •as told that North Carolina must tasnee its own strike...
...stated the Socialist position In favor of special assessments on property improved by new subways...
...the A. F ef I»B1 the same general sort of cppostt*s»^| the Marion bosses in the SSSSS sslay It ls a Utile comfort thst Carolina courts are better than The state's attempt to fr*™***2sl defence witnesses to the mnrdST STSSW charges of conspiracy for revobSSSJ w^ foiled: seven men were tsM napping snd beating three the alleged killers of Mrs...
...Six Loray employes who were in the ] mob and the driver of the workers' truck j are held in $1,000 bail on charges that they "conspired to agree together to slay Mrs...
...This in Ism at 2 history of unionising ii tliaha |J South which were ruthlessly bxajg2 fore there was any ComaaaaaVM snd in face of the candid aagssshai Southern employers snd a "arat tsS the Southern press that tt k maw Uon which they are fighting...
...Yet no steps were taken by either local or state authorities to control the bossinspired thirst for blood...
...who presided, complimented Senior on his business-like report...
...Provided that nothing herein contained shall be construed to foreid the advocacy of union membership in public speeches or by the publication or circulation of arguments when su;h speeches or arguments are free from threats and other devices to intimidate and from attempts to persuade the complainants' to join a strike or to leave the employ of the complainants...
...Senior reported...
...5-A leaflet on Socialism and Catholics...
...employing interests could and •« concentrate on Marion...
...Rather the atmosphere and the sessions of the committee left the impression that the Socialist party is again a working machine, carrying on day-to-day, intelligently and vigorously, the propaganda of Socialism...
...A weekly or semi-weekly factual service for party speakers was authorized...
...On hearing greatly encouraging reports from the 3outh, a Southern Organization district was created and David G. George was placed in charge...
Vol. 9 • September 1929 • No. 7
