Tolpuddle a Guiding Light For the Whole World
Tolpuddle a Guiding Light For the Whole World Walter M. Citrine, Prendtnt 0/ notions of Justice. But they were Intematieiui Federatim of too seriously frightened to boggle fndt Union$ and...
...City AttoTSpey Max Raskin, Alderman Emil SSdel and Alderman Paul Gauer, all of Milwaukee...
...or railroad magnates or President Meanwhile the value of the dollar Roosevelt or Mayor LaGuardia was going up, so that the income If lil)erals like I^Guardia make from interest, which had dropped occasiona...
...In INO It bad risen U 102.4...
...most hardenec' criminals — inThe program of events for the flirted on men who were guilt commemorations will include a less of any crime...
...their final triumphant vindication, due to the strenuous efforts of the trade union movement, and the niHA T is Tolpuddle...
...In 1930 wages of the national income...
...The main business section of the city is six blocks north of the river, with the convention headquarters just a little further north...
...61.0...
...State Senator Walter Polakowski...
...in 1931...
...the General Council of the International Federation of Trade Unions will this year meet in Dorsetshire, as a mark of respect to the brave fighters of 1934, and will at the same time pay tribute to the martyrs of today, the enslaved workers of Germany and Italy, the heroes of Austria, all who fight in the battle of freedom for Europe, where the clock has been turned back a hun dred years and which has become another Tolpuddle, whose heroes will in the years to come be hon ored as we today honor the heroes ff 1934...
...Wages in 1929 amounted to the New Dealer in the capital wh< 21.2 per cent of the total national advised railroad workers not U ' income, and both wages and sal'afight to regain their wage cuts ' ries (which include million dollar but made no mention of the fac salaries) to 66.1 per cent...
...All you who refuse to believe in 1932, 39.8...
...merce on the national income And interest/ Interest, which 1929-1932, reveals that during th« had been receiving 7 per cent of worst years of the depression, while the total income in 1929, by 1932 wages were being slashed and th« received 11.2 per cent...
...Its task, in effect, is to save { Kurope for freedom, progress, and ' the democratic spirit...
...These poor sports meeting with international laborers, four of them married, football matches, a play based on •tt hard-working, chapel-going the story of the martyrs, a pageant folk, had formed a trade union of labor, a monster demonstration, a brass band contest and a fair...
...class to the night ('1 o. a pri7.e for each ft the two seclirins of the schnol, and his mark 'cd him U win it in I'illicr (ine or tlic dIIht of the lions, hut he iriis kI It when he I'haiiifcf' from one wssion to the . otiicr...
...This year we celebrate, but we Bust fight too...
...Why was ihis savage sen to the trade union and labor move tence—usually reserved for the ment, and to the general public...
...Mayor M. V. Baxter of West Allis, Alderman Jack Harvey of Racine, K. L. Vernon of Madison, George Mueller of Sheboygan Kails, Herbert Dumky of Medford, Paul J. Hoyd of Gilmanton, and Jessie Winters of Oconto Falls...
...languishing in concentration camps, But the celebrations will be more •nd hundreds of thousands have to th'an a mere festival of the moveUde away like hunted animals, all ment...
...the authorities decided this(.must Be sternly repressed...
...But they were Intematieiui Federatim of too seriously frightened to boggle fndt Union$ and SeereUtry of tke at trifles of this kind, and in due griti$h Trade Union Congrett, on course the "criminals" were brought f|« Centenary Commemoration of to the bar of "justice...
...They are National Chairman Leo Krzycki, Mayor Daniel W. Hoan, Carl Mink-Icy, Al Benson, Andrew J. Biemiller...
...ever the unshaken support of every j The centenary celebrations will be real friend of progress...
...and in 19Si wages may be cut to the the investments of -he couponbone, but interest must iemaiii clippers and iMnd-holders, whe untouched...
...in hwrers...
...MEN and women may starve, -4t drepyed to 99.S...
...runs parallel with Woodward Ave...
...two blocks west...
...Tolpuddle a Guiding Light For the Whole World Walter M. Citrine, Prendtnt 0/ notions of Justice...
...The Detroit Socialist Party headquarters are at 226 E. Forest Ave., about two miles north of the Detroit River and one black east of Woodward Ave., at the corner of John R. A cordial invitation to all delegates and visitors to visit the Detroit party headquarters is extended by the comrades of the local...
...when the total Income fell some Taking the 1929 income level 60 per cent, whereas the receivers as 100, we observe wages on a of interest got a still larger share steep toboggan...
...Visitors and del^gMH should note the following dfrections for reaching the convention headquarters: The principal street ip Detroit is Woodward Ave., running north from the Detroit River, and Cass Ave...
...It wai angle...
...She has been receiving many applications from comrades who are making the journey from distant parts of the country...
...The commemorations take place Tisty were taken to Dorchester all Dorchester, the county town of jail and were later sentenced to Dorsetshire, from August 30 to leven years' transportation over- September 2. They have been planned to make the widest appeal leas...
...Levenstein Heads Class in New York City Law School Aaron Levenstein, active Mew York Socialist and former cxoculive wcrelary of the Y.P..S.L., will receive his degree at the New York I>aw School this commencement season, graduating with the highest mark in his class...
...men and women stand firm for The British Trade Union movethe ideal which inspired the mar ment and free Trade Unionists the tyrs of Tolpuddle 100 years ago, world over will this year pay and which today need more than homage to the Tolpuddle S^artyrs...
...This is a year of destiny for the British Labor movement, which is fully alive to the menace of the situation...
...had shown no hesitati 1 in'using the most sevt :c methods of repression against any manifestation of discontent...
...standard of living steadily driver What is obvious is that the wages downward, interest not only kept of the proletariat fell more than it» prosperity level but in somt 7 per cent during the very time rases mounted...
...ai this was their only offense...
...when bankers and insurance officers' salaries are inA glance through statistics re cluded, the total of wages and leased by the Department of Com salaries was 64.5 per cent...
...The government of the day was • lert for opportunities of exercis ing its vigilance: it found one in a complaint from the landowners • t Tolpuddle that certain farm ••borers in the district had formed • trade union...
...New York who exempted the bank Let us consider this matter of ers from his proposed 1/20 of 1 wages and interest from another per cent tax on business...
...They tell a story more sweeping and profound in its indictment of capitalism than the most powerful proletarian novel ever written...
...Doreetekire Laborere and tke The sufferings of these men, in ffirt Played by Great Britain in English jails and in disUnt exile, 0§ Figkt for Freedom in Europe...
...Par ticularly was it on guard against triJde unlimism, then beginning to Bwlw an effective appearance in the field as the champion of social Justice...
...speeches against inter less than one-fifth of a billion est's rights above human rights dollars between 1929 and 1932, al iheir actions belie their words most doubled In value in real It was the "liberal" mayor ol dollars during that period...
...Not memory of the martyrs, will be •ix but thousands of people are dedicated...
...onirade Levenstein just i.sscd winning the schiKil's first prixe of ?1 because he transferred from the dn...
...This is a credo ac had proliably never Heen the in cepted hy all capitalists and theit side of a factory, returned to a lackeys, whether they be hankers mere 90.7 of the 1929 level...
...boi%rs were arrested at daybreak...
...Reaction was, on the whole, sure of itself: even in England i...
...Let us look back 100 year, and »ee how a British working class, faced with the same perils, vindicated its rights by an act which proved one of the main inspirations of a century of successful evolution...
...The registration of delegates begins at the Hotel Fort Wayne, Cass and Temple Aves., at 8 a. m., Friday, June 1. The second floor of the hotel has been reserved for the convention and will serve as headquarters...
...Six modern cottages, erected to the Today history repeats itself...
...Krzycki and Hoan Head Wisconsin Delegation MILWAUKEE.-Delegates to the national convention from Wisconsin have been announced by the stale office of the party...
...The Fort Wayne Hotel is at the corner of Cass and Temple Aves., about one mile porth of the Detroit River...
...But Interest was that wealth is becoming more and riding serenely along almost more concentrated, consider these figures...
...It is a deep significance of the whole epi "little village in Dorsetshire in sode have indeed provided an in^M^uid where, a century ago, spiration which has lasted down in rebruary 1934, six farm la- to our own time...
...held at Dorsetshire...
...of the income...
...were down to 82.7...
...They will be symbolic of merely because they have belonged the strong determination of labor to free trade unions...
...Alternates are Otto Hauser, (ieorge Hampel, William Zumach, .Supervisor Robert Buech, Milton Peters, Walter Palm, Helnrlch Itartel, Supervisor Frank Metcalfe, Elmer W. Bauman, and Alderman August 'Strehlow of Milwaukee, Hari-y Miller of Kenosha, Alfred Nabor of Mayville, Charl^ Emmrich of Oshkosh, Arnold Zandler of Two Rivers, Harry Taylor of UiviTH Falls, and Alex SchaufTcll)i'rger of Cleason...
...They invoked • B obsolete and irrelevant statute *• make good thei^ case, and had w take some other precaution* not • tirely consonant wjth ordinary Delegrates Now Bef inning: to Arrive in Detroit 1% B T R 01T.—Bescrvationa for rooms for the National Con vention, to be held here June 1-8, are pouring in, according to Com rade Clara Naysmith, chairman of the Housing Committee...
...By 1932, that the interest rate could b< wages amounted to only 14 per cent reduced...
...In 1834, as in 1934, the greater part of Europe lay under the shadow of grinding despotisms which seemed as firmly established as they were detestable...
...It is determined to resist every encroachment on its rights, and to do everything in its power to roll back the tide of barbarism which has already engulfed so Urge a part of the continent...
...While Millions of Men Stand On the Breadline • y Ini M NsdbM* level gronad...
Vol. 17 • May 1934 • No. 21
