ALL EYES ON DETROIT
ALL EYES ON DETROIT Greetings to All Delegates at Convention QKI'I':TIX(;S k. the (Idt'gates to tlie national convfntion of the Socialist i'arty now assembled in Detroit! \'oii meet at a...
...rrUar, Jaiit llh, (»¦ 4il* to <t4i...
...Two rommitleei were appointed by the rhair—Ave memberi as tellers and three to handle the convention publicity...
...In 1932 the trend was reversed and an almost volcanic upheaval brought a disaster to the Republicans, the other wing of capitalist pontics...
...World capitalism continues in the throes of the depression...
...Some wiseacres believed thi.s wing of capitalism had received a death blow...
...A cut in hours with « pay slash will be a blow at national t)urchtsing power and at the recovery program, the union points out...
...irmw <• (llr Avwly elerted ValiMtml ^^^Wi ('•MM-mittee witJi mI th«> |»ari) f riaa fwt "-m cuiigrpuHfOai timmtrnm <d IMM the nvxt l*rf*MlMiMal iilwHiii...
...WILLIAM M. FEIGENBAUM, SAMUEIi H. FRIEDMAN, and SIDNEY HERTZBERG...
...It^'is a situation fertile for Socialist education...
...Continuing for more than a decade, it reveals dissatisfaction with both parties...
...In the fall there will be a C^r^gressional election and two Stars hence there will be a Presi-ential election...
...President Thomas F. McMahon and the other executive officers of the union promptly protested to NRA Administrator Johnson and asked a conference in Washington this week...
...With more ample resources we could make treat inroads upon the sterile politics of capitalism...
...Thursday night a vast mass meeting was held in the auditorium of Cass Technical High School...
...When you have verified from your own station manager that you will be able to hear these ^NCrams locally, g«t up a radio i Itrty to listen in...
...Millions of workers pass from one capitalist party to another...
...These violent shifts are like a giant in agony...
...Opposition of the textile workers is not based on the fact that the curtailment will briny the 30-hour week instead of the present code week of 40 hours...
...ftule« drafts %m'm WiVHMiM by the nalmnal MMnHlM> euauKit-tee pruvidMi f«r tlw eWtiMn of convention omimilte* at the Urst session...
...We will soon be in the uiidat of a political struggle to win the soul and intelligence of the working masses...
...In addition there will be convention sidelights...
...The New Leader...
...of the convention conferences on various important party problems had been held, with active party members from all parts of the country contributing their best thought to the prot)lems of a changing time and the Socialiut approach to them...
...Don't fall to read next weak't issue I 1...
...Johnson agreed, stating that the...
...The convention will be covered by JAMES ONEAL, editor of...
...They show a social tystem in convulsions, milliovs of voters striking blindly, desiring to hit something but not knowing what it is...
...But the union wants the 30-hour week with no reduction in pay...
...Norman Thomas: "The Choice Before Us...
...At home, the workinjf farmers have reached even lower depths of privation while more than ten million industrial workers are .still jobless...
...The recent NRA order approving a 25 per cent limitation of pro-duction in the cotton textile industry during the twelve weeks l)eginning June 4 is a case in point., The curtailment is .strongly opiwscd by the United Textile Workers t)f America and threatens to cause widespread strikes of textile workers in protest against further reduction in their already meagre pay...
...The Convention On the Air Saturday, June 2, 10:30 p. m. eastern daylight time, NBC program offers to all stations easbn of Denver: Leo Kriycki: "Labor on the March...
...Among the speakers were three fraternal delegates, representatives of th Socialist movement abroad, two of them from movements functioning underground under cruel fascist dictatorship...
...The delegation sought to convince General Johnson that the limitation order in its present form was a menace to the entire cotton textile industry...
...BtH BlaiiMibcrv, •! Th* N*ir LMdtr itoff, ipmlK FrUsr> '¦¦>• Ut, al th* aaaa haw...
...These, consisting of seven members each, will report on organization, the congressional campaign, constitution, platform and resolutions...
...If present trends continue the Republicans promi.se to come back with an elemental sweep...
...Five committees were elected by the delegates...
...There's Too Much Cotton Around, So Textile Workers Must Starve By Observer Our Washington Correspondent INDUSTRY and the Roosevelt Administration are finding that attempts to balance production and consumption under the capitalist system promise trouble and difficulties...
...The NRA has become little more than a narcotic to dull the thinking and action of the working masses...
...They asked for a straight 30-hour week with no wage reduction and the standardization of wages for semi-skilled and skilled workers...
...oii meet at a time when the class antagonism is becoming more sharp...
...The arma-tilents race is on with the threat of another bloody struggle \k-tween the imperialist powers...
...There will be deUiiled stories of the convention's proceedings, the main rexolutioni adopted, and other official actions...
...Although Wood-row Wilson was acclaimed a god, yet he fell like Lucifer in 1920 and his party suflTered the greatest disaster in its history...
...Delegates from Entire U. S. A. In Detroit By William M. Feigenbaum r\l';'l"ROrJ",—The sixleemli iia-ti(tnal convention of the So-ciahst Party got under way when Nation a 1 C'iiairnian 1 -co M« Krzycki called 150 delegates to order in the hallrooni of the Fort Wayne Hotel, and delegates and visitors prepared for three days of intensely interesting and important work...
...Strikes and lockouts are on the increase and in some cities they have become physical conflicts with the police powers that are ranjced in support of labor despoil-ers...
...For two days prior to the open-inn...
...The union has vigorously supported the 30-hour week and recently told Representative William P. Ck)nnery, Jr., author of the 30-hour week bill bearing his name, that failure to pass the measure at the present session of Qongress will have a disastrous effect on the textile industry...
...On Saturday at 8 p. m. all other The New Leader Will Cover the Convention The New Leader will carry full reportu of the Socialist Party's Detroit convention in its next issue...
...J. S. Woods-worth, M. P., leader of the Canadian .Socialists, Max Winter of Au,stria and Martin Plettl of Germany added their Voices to thoia of .Socialist Party leaders like Norman Thuma*, Kriyrki and Daniel W. HiHin fur a Hweialint and a wiirkiT*' wurM...
...Th« «invt«tMMi mtU ctrtwltid* its sessiuni Huii4a...
...curtailment order could be modified if necessary...
...Elections in this country since the end of the World War show some violent, almost hysterical, upheavals...
...ALL EYES ON DETROIT Greetings to All Delegates at Convention QKI'I':TIX(;S k. the (Idt'gates to tlie national convfntion of the Socialist i'arty now assembled in Detroit...
...A reduction WEVD New Leader Speaker William M. IVlKtnbaain, ¦¦•MlaU «dlt»r ml Th* N»» 1m*u, will bt tkt •pnktr (f Th* N*w l^mtn p<Tl*4 SUtIra WKVD (IIM Kc...
Vol. 17 • June 1934 • No. 22
