ROSE SAYS 'RADICAL' GROUP IN ALP TRYING TO TURN PARTY FROM ROOSEVELT
Rose Says 'Radical' Group in ALP Trying to Turn Party from Rodsevelt New York's American Labor Party Is Strife Scene NEW YORK CITY — President Roosevelt Is the real target of the left-wing...
...The lenders, Mr...
...Slave of the wheel of labor, what to him Are Plato and the swing of Pleiades...
...New York NEW YORK CITY —A campaign against loan sharks who charge interest of 365 per cent a year and enforce repayment of the loans by rigging criminal procesutions against the borrowers was disclosed las...
...The investigation, which began three months ago, will continue with the examination of all false check cases in the magistrate's courts during the last several years, in the hope of catching other violators of the banking law, the attorney general said...
...It was translated into 30 languages and won for Mark-ham the title, "Poet Laureate of Labor...
...with the arrest of four men Indicted for euch conspiracy...
...There are 203 organization candidates who are unopposed, Rose said, because of the fact that the left-wingers were able to nominate upstate candidates only in places where the Communist party has units...
...How will it be with kingdoms and with kings— With those who shaped him to the thing he is— When this dumb Terror shall reply to God, After the silence of the centuries...
...O masters, lords, and rulers in all lands, How will the Future reckon with this Man...
...The move is backed by Pres...
...He was the author of several powerful tributes to Lincoln, and the ambition of his later years was to fashion a pcem against war which would stir into action the sleeping conscience of mankind...
...It is another of the anti-Roosevelt activities of the Communist party...
...Oregon BRIDGEPORT, Conn...
...To trace the stars and search the heavens for power...
...On the basis of the 250,000 ALP votes in 1939, Rase asserted the ALP could reasonably expect to poll 500,-000 votes for Roosevelt if he is a candidate this fall, which might be the deciding factor in his re-election...
...More than 80,000 workers are unEdwin Markham,Poet, Author of "Man With the Hoe" Dies EDWIN MARKHAM, one of the greatest of American poets, died last week as he was apprcr.ehing his 88th birthday...
...Roosevelt of "turning his face the other way" from the New Deal, the Bridgeport county branch of Labor's Non-Partisan League unanimously adopted a resolution urging John L. Lewis, as national chairman of the league, to form a liberal third party for the 1940 election...
...He was born In a dugout in Oregon and for 47 years worked as sheep herder, blacksmith, cowboy, school teacher, and an occasional writer of verse...
...Rose said the organization candidates would carry at least 70 of the 88 upstate districts and 40 of the 62 in the city...
...We are no longer fighting for a majority," he said...
...In 1899, a San Francisco paper printed "The Man With the Hoe," inspired by Millet's painting...
...Morris Watson, chairman of the left-wing group, countered by denying that the purpo.se of Rose and the other state leaders was to oppose "Communist infiltration" of the ALP, and at the same time affirmed the left-wing support of the New Deal...
...Time's tragedy Is in that aching stoop...
...week by Atty...
...Who loosened and let down this brutal jaw...
...How answer his brute questions in that hour When whirlwinds of rebellion shake the world...
...Is this the thing the Lord God made and gave To have dominion over sea and land...
...Give back the upward looking and the light...
...Through this dread shape the suffering ages look...
...Whose was the hand that slanted back this brow...
...Who made him dead to raptu'e and despair, A thing that grieves not and that never hopes...
...It is becoming more and more evident," Rose said, "that the whole fight was started and is being continued for the purpose of preventing us from nominating President Roosevelt on our ticket if he is a candidate this fall...
...Here is "The Man With the Hoe"—time has proven it a prophecy as well is a poem: Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his hoe and gazes upon the ground, The emptiness of ages In his face, And on his back the burden of the world...
...A statewide survey just completed indicates that the left-wing faciion will be swamped everywhere except in Manhattan and Queens, and that the regular ALP organization will elect at least 550 of the 750 state committeemen to be chosen in the Apr...
...Five hundred thousand persons In this city borrow $50,000,000 a year in that way, Mr...
...It will be voted on May 17 in the primary election...
...What the long reaches of the peaks of song, The rift of dawn, the reddening of the rose...
...2 primary, Rose said...
...Make right the immemorial infamies...
...John J. Bennett Jr...
...Cries protest to the Judges of the Wold, A protest that is also prophecy...
...Rose said sentiment for Roosevelt was very strong In ALP ranks and "If he is a candidate for a third term I have no doubt our party members will be happy to support him...
...Five state committeemen are to be elected from each of the 150 assembly districts in the state...
...The association has long wanted to establish Sunday closure but has been blocked in previous attempts...
...Down all the stretch of Hell to its last gulf There is no shape more terrible than this— More tongued with censure of the world's blind greed— More filled with signs and portents for the soul— More fraught with menace to the universe...
...Accusing Pres...
...We are seeking to overwhelm the opposition so as to leave no doubt in the mind of the public that the ALP has nothing to do with the Communist party...
...O masters, lords, and rulers in all lands, It this the handiwork you give to God, This monstrous thing distorted and soul-quenc&ed...
...It was pointed out that more than half of Connecticut's unemployed receive less than they need for the lowest living standard, and that one-fourth of the state's dwellings are unsafe and unsanitary...
...ALP state secretary, charged last week...
...Through this dread shape humanity betrayed, Plundered, profaned, and disinherited...
...At the earth's poles, local Ideas of '.lmc do not apply...
...What gulfs between him and the seraphim...
...Other resolutions opposed loans to belligerent countries, called for retention of the wage-hour law and the Wagner act, demanded bigger federal housing appropriations, tripled relief funds, and enactment of the anti-lynch bill...
...There can be no midnight there as we know it in the temperate and tropic regions...
...The issues are simple and fundamental," he said...
...Stolid and stunned, a brother to the ox...
...George Lightowier of the Portland local ot the Retail Clerks International Protective Association (AFL...
...How will you ever straighten up this shape, Touch it again with immortality...
...Is this the dream He dreamed who shaped the suns And marked their ways upon the ancient deep...
...To feel the passion of Eternity...
...If the loan were not repaid on the due-date, the lenders then threatened the borrowers with arrest for obtaining money under false pretenses...
...Whose breath blew out the light within this brain...
...Rose Says 'Radical' Group in ALP Trying to Turn Party from Rodsevelt New York's American Labor Party Is Strife Scene NEW YORK CITY — President Roosevelt Is the real target of the left-wing faction which Is trying to cap-,ure statewide control of the American Labor party, Alex Rose...
...employed in Connecticut because WPA jobs were cut 50 per cent in 1938, speakers charged...
...Connecticut SALEM, Ore.—An initiative petition on file with the Oregon secretary of state would prohibit Sunday and holiday sale of certain merchandise...
...They are democratic control of the party, developed of the party into a powerful irs.ru-ment for progressive action, and the preservation and expansion of the New Deal...
...Perfidious wrongs, immedicable woes...
...Midnight is only a man-made definition, used in our time .schedule...
...Bennett explained, required borrowers to sign checks dated ahead, as of the due-date of the loan, and also to make false affidavits that they had a bank balance to cover the draft...
...This Is the first time the Issue has been brought up through regular legislative channels...
...Rebuild in it the music and the dream...
...Bennett estimated, adding that the four men already arrested were doing business at the rate of $100,000 a week...
...Any other issue they have raised Is purely a blind...
Vol. 10 • March 1940 • No. 12
