Blackwell Family GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE Contributions, Appeals For Blackwell, Alice StoneCable Address-INTAPOPRIS International Committee for Political Prisoners Organized in the interest of freedom of opinion Room 412, 70 FIFTH AVENUE NEW YORK CITY January 10, 1930. To our friends: According to information which has just reached New York from Mexico City, through the section of the International Labor Defense there, a series of political raids, arrests, and persecutions has just taken place which merits immediate protest. The information is vouched for as reliable, with names and facts given. We ask our friends who are moved by those statements, to write at once to Senor Don Manuel C. Tellez, Mexican Ambassador, Washington, D.C. If any of you are unwilling to accept these allegations, you can at least make an inquiry of the embassy, which will serve the same purpose. The facts given us are: 1. On December 18th, a drive against left-wing labor leaders was launched in Mexico City with raids on the homes of militant political and labor leaders, both native Mexicans and foreigners. On the basis of a forced confession of an alleged plot to assassinate Mexican officials, police have arrested all outstanding left-wing labor leaders, - Communists and sympathizers. The arrested men and women include well-known members of the Mexican and Cuban labor movements, members of the Mexican section of the International Labor Defense, members and leaders in the Unitarian Trade Union Confederation of Mexico and a well-known Bolivian journalist. 2. "Mella", official organ of the Carribean secretariat of the International Labor Defense and "Cuba Libre" organ of the Cuban political emigrés in Mexico have been suppressed and their editors jailed. 3. The arrested people are alleged to have undergone extraordinary torture. The women are said to have been subjected to sexual abuse. One Valdes was kept three days without food in an electrified cell. On December 19th the police invaded the home of Barreiro, a Cuban political emigré and outstanding leader of the Cuban labor movement for the past thirty years, destroying the furnishings. They arrested Barreiro's daughters, fifteen and seventeen years of age, and while their father was forcibly held on the scene committed abuse on the wife and daughters in an effort to force Barreiro to reveal the whereabouts of other Cuban political emigres. Barreiro went insane on being taken off to jail and tried to commit suicide. While these and other similar allegations inevitably come from partisan sources, they reveal a drive on radical labor without parallel in recent [* OFFICERS ROGER N. BALDWIN Chairman DR. MICHAEL A. COHN Treasurer MARGARET STEER HUNTLEY Secretary GENERAL COMMITTEE LUIGI ANTONINI LOUIS B. BOUDIN HAROLD Z. BROWN MAX DANISH CLARENCE DARROW ANNA N. DAVIS JEROME DAVIS W. E. B. DUBOIS SHERWOOD EDDY JOHN LOVEJOY ELLIOTT NATHALIE B. ELLS CHARLES W. ERVIN JOHN G. FORBATH FELIX FRANFURTER LEWIS GANNETT ELISABETH GILMAN ALICE HAMILTON NORMAN HAPGOOD ARTHUR GARFIELD HAYS JOHN HAYNES HOLMES OSCAR JASZI PAUL JONES DAVID STARR JORDAN FRANCIS FISHER KANE PAUL U. KELLOGG HARRY KELLY EMIL LENGYEL E. C. LINDEMAN HARRY S. LINFIELD ROBERT MORSS LOVETT JULIAN W. MACK LUIS MUNOZ MARIN JAMES H. MAURER DAVID MITRANY S. E. MORISON FREMONT OLDER JOHN A. RYAN ALEXANDER S. TARDOS GRAHAM R. TAYLOR NORMAN THOMAS WILBUR K. THOMAS CAROL TRESCA MARGUERITE TUCKER GIROLAMO VALENTI ERNESTO VALENTINI B. CHARNEY VLADECK OLIN D. WANNAMAKER MILDRED S. WERTHEIMER GERTRUDE L. WINSLOW *] -2- years in Mexico. The new government is regarded as even more dictatorial than that of Calles. Expressions of protest from the United States more than from anywhere else would help check this anti-radical drive of the new regime. Protests should be directed specifically against persecutions and deportations merely for radical and political views and activities not involving acts of violence. In the case of the Cubans especially, deportation means imprisonment or death for the Communists at the hands of the present Cuban government. If you address the Mexican Ambassador, we would appreciate being advised of any reply you receive. Roger Baldwin Chairman. of Italian Labor unionists, and Progressives with occasional assistance from such well-known Italian liberals as Prof. G. Salvemini, V. Nitti and Dr. Charles Fama. Now the moment has come when these faithful workers must have some assistance. On the one hand, because there is new life stirring in Italian Labor and anti-Fascist circles of which advantage must be taken, and that cannot be done by a paper barely able to maintain itself. On the other hand, because in the present business situation workers and labor groups are utterly unable to contribute out of their slender resources, while the people of means among the Italians are too much under the domination of Mussolini to dare contribute to such a cause as this. WE ARE SPONSORING THE RAISING OF A $15,000 PROMOTION FUND FOR IL NUOVO MONDO TO MAKE POSSIBLE AN AGGRESSIVE CAMPAIGN FOR SUBSCRIPTIONS AND ADVERTISING, AND TO MAKE UP THE PRESENT SMALL WEEKLY DEFICIT OF $200 IN OPERATING EXPENSES WHICH CAN BE WIPED OUT ALTOGETHER IN ABOUT SIX MONTHS PROVIDED THAT AN ENERGETIC PROMOTION CAMPAIGN CAN BE LAUNCHED TO BRING SUBSCRIPTIONS AND ADVERTISEMENTS UP TO FORMER LEVELS. Will you help in this most worthy cause by sending immediately your contribution? It is our conviction that nothing can help more surely to advance the cause of liberalism in this country today. For the Committee, Marguerite Tucker P. S. Send checks to Clinton S. Golden, Treasurer, c/o Il Nuovo Mondo, 81 East 10th Street, New York City.ovo Mondo THE FELLOWSHIP OF RECONCILIATION NEW ENGLAND OFFICE NO. 3 JOY STREET (ON BEACON HILL) BOSTON, MASS. TELEPHONE. HAYMARKET 5635 DECEMBER 1929 GENERAL COMMITTEE MRS. JOHN F. MOORS, VICE-CHAIRMAN HELENA S. DUDLEY SECRETARY W. T. DRYER, TREASURER WILLIAM G. AURELIO MRS. WOODMAN BRADBURY WOLCOTT CUTLER GARDINER M. DAY SMITH O. DEXTER GORHAM W. HARRIS ALFRED BAKER LEWIS SIDNEY LOVETT LINDA WHITTIER MACDONALD GEORGE LYMAN PAINE BERTHA SCRIPTURE LUCY C. STURGIS MARION DE C. WARD EDITH M. WILLIAMS CENTRAL SECRETARIATE: DOBLERGASSE 2/26, VIENNA AMERICAN SECRETARIATE: 383 BIBLE HOUSE, ASTOR PLACE NEW YORK, N. Y. RT. REV. PAUL JONES, CHAIRMAN A. J. MUSTE, VICE-CHAIRMAN WILLIAM C. BIDDLE, TREASURER JAMES HUMPHREY SHELDON, M.A. EXECUTIVE SECRETARY FOR NEW ENGLAND ALICE V. CHAMPION, Financial Secretary A Vital Communication regarding future plans of the Fellowship and of its Youth Section (The Fellowship of Youth for Peace), both of which now function through a common office. Dear Friend of the Fellowship: To enlist your continued interest, and to justify the largest money contribution that you may be able to make, let us to-gether note the high-lights of the last year's work of the Fellowship: 1. Over four hundred (400) meetings planned and conducted in Greater Boston. 2. An equal number of meetings (over 400) elsewhere in New England. Speakers were sent into practically every college and normal school of the six states. 3. Conducted four conferences of the youth group, total registration over a thousand. 4. Two large adult conferences, and a special ministerial conference in Boston. 5. Organized and financed several wide-spread campaigns on special legislative issues, including Kellogg Pact, Nicaraguan policy, 15-cruiser bill, R.O.T.C., etc. 6. Defended numerous cases involving academic liberties, rights of free speech and of holding public meetings on matters of general concern, equal racial rights, etc. 7. Conducted well-attended sixteen-week extension course on international relations, for benefit of those unable to attend such courses in a university. 8. Established and developed local peace groups in numerous schools, colleges, normal and teacher-training schools, theological seminaries, religious groups, etc. 9. Cooperated with over a score of widely-organized societies in planning continuing programs and speakers to suit their special needs, often effecting a complete shift of emphasis and bringing international or inter-racial questions into prominence. 10. Supplied speakers and money for extension work in other states. (Total of 21 states reached by this office last year, contacts especially with student leaders, teacher, [?]) 11. Wide circularization of literature. Over 60 000 pieces mailed from our office. 12. Bibliographic and fact-finding service for speakers and newspapers. PROGRAM PLANNED FOR THE YEAR 1929-1930: 1. Continuation on enlarged scale of ALL items of last year's program. 2. Putting INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION and PEACE on a sound ADVERTISING basis, by a. Repeated circularization of groups specially able to be of influence. (This involves much-expanded mailing facilities, more field secretaries, etc.) b. Radio-broadcast addresses. (A very expensive item, but experience of the N.Y. office, and of the Foreign Policy Asso., proves it to be most effective.) c. Subway car and station advertising through posters. Other poster work. d. Wide distribution of free literature, supplies located in public places. OUR PURPOSE: TO ADVANCE THE CAUSE OF PEACE 74[*Dec. 1929.*] [*Page Two.*] e. A general effort to REACH MORE PEOPLE, without, however, diluting our message. This requires action NOW, while popular interest in the Kellogg Pact, MacDonald-Hoover plans, London Conference, etc., continues. 3. Development of the now-existent National Youth Coordination Committee, to make of it an effective agency to coordinate and unite the younger liberal groups. (A cooperative enterprise, several other agencies participating.) 4. Augmented office force, including full-time Educational and Conference Secretaries, and adequate stenographic assistance. 5. Twenty regularly-conducted Extension Courses on World Relations, in six units each, organized in twenty most important localities of eastern Massachusetts. (This work now well under way, largely in cooperation with various lay religious organizations. Our largest popular educational enterprise.) 6. Increased emphasis on regular tri-weekly meetings of local groups. Etc. etc. You know that we do not frequently ask for money. Regular contributions, however, are fundamental to the existence of the Fellowship. or of any other organization. Our treasury is nearly empty, and we must clear up many bills as the new year approaches. Because we do need your support, and believe that you realize it, we are enclosing a subscription blank for you to use. Remember that the New England organization is financed altogether independently of the New York office, and must secure its own separate support. You have long been a member or friend of the Fellowship. Now is the time to support it with your money -- as many dollars as you can possibly spare. Yours in the Fellowship, Alice V. Champion Alice V. Champion Financial Secretary P.S. - Our next meeting (special Christmas celebration) will be Friday evening, December 20, six-thirty, at the Mt. Vernon Church (corner of Beacon St. and Mass. Ave., Boston). Topic: "What the British Labor Party Means to the World." Speaker: Dr. Herbert Gray, pastor of Crouch Hill Church, London, England. Mail your reservations to 3 Joy St., or phone Haymarket 5635, at once. 75¢, including supper. This is our last 1929 meeting: BE THERE. Notes on DR. HERBERT GRAY: Known the world over as a minister and liberal religious leader. Author of "The Christian Adventure", "Men, Women, and God", and other widely-read books on religion, sex problems, and international relations. A prominent member of the Labor Party, who has stood several times for Parliament from his constituency. BRING YOUR FRIENDS.Fellowship of Reconciliation TEL. STUYVESANT 4468 The American Progressive Committee for the Support of "El Nuovo Mondo" CLINTON S. GOLDEN 81 East 10th Street MARGUERITE TUCKER TREASURER NEW YORK CITY SECRETARY Dear Friend:- ON SATURDAY APRIL 12, 5,000 PEOPLE GATHERED IN UNION SQUARE, NEW YORK, FOR THE FUNERAL OF AN OBSCURE ITALIAN WORKER, CARLO MAZZOLA, WHO ON THE PREVIOUS SUNDAY HAD BEEN SHOT AT AN ANTI-FASCIST MEETING BY A NEW YORK DETECTIVE. Mazzola was killed at a meeting at Cooper Union at which one of the speakers was Armando Borghi, an Italian Labor leader whom the United States authorities are seeking to deport to Italy, where he would be liable to instant death at the hands of the Mussolini regime. A representative of the United States Immigration Department appeared suddenly on the stage after Borghi had completed an address and undertook to arrest him. The audience of Italians, accustomed to Fascist violence at labor meetings in this country, thought that this was a Fascist attack on Borghi and sprang to his defense. Thus, needlessly, a riot was precipitated in the course of which Mazzola was killed by a New York police detective and another member of the audience seriously wounded IL NUOVO MONDO, THE ITALIAN DAILY, TOOK CHARGE OF THE SITUATION, IDENTIFIED THE VICTIM OF THIS CRASS STUPIDITY ON THE PART OF THE IMMIGRATION AUTHORITIES, ARRANGED FOR THE FUNERAL AND LAUNCHED A MUCH NEEDED CAMPAIGN TO AMEND OUR IMMIGRATION LAWS SO THAT THE RIGHT OF ASYLUM FOR POLITICAL REFUGEES FROM OTHER LANDS, ESPECIALLY THOSE WHERE DICTATORSHIPS HAVE BEEN ESTABLISHED, MAY BE ASSURED. IL NUOVO MONDO IS THE ONLY PRO-LABOR, ANTI-MILITARIST AND ANTI-FASCIST DAILY FOR THE ITALIANS LIVING IN THIS COUNTRY. THE EIGHT OTHER ITALIAN DAILLES IN THE FIELD ARE ALL SUBSERVIENT TO THE MUSSOLINI REGIME. Without Il Nuovo Mondo the long Sacco-Vanzetti campaign could never have been effectively carried on. It is largely due to the activities of Il Nuovo Mondo, in face of tremendous difficulties and persecution, that the Fascist League of North America was recently compelled to disband. Under the circumstances, it is scarcely necessary to argue the importance of maintaining Il Nuovo Mondo, strengthening it, and enabling it to reach a larger number of our Italian fellow-citizens. Begun in 1925, the paper has been maintained throughout the difficult years at great sacrifice by the devotion of a handful. [*National Committee Morris Berman Sarah Bernheim Leroy Bowman Paul F. Brissenden Heywood Broun Louis F. Budenz Dr. Charles Fama Dr. Nino Firenze Elizabeth Gilman Arturo Giovannitti Clinton S. Golden Florence Curtis Hanson John Haynes Holmes Alexander Howat Harry W. Laidler Vito Marcantonio James H. Maurer Mrs. John F. Moors A. J. Muste Jacob Panken J. Nevin Sayre Joseph Schlossberg Vida Scudder A. I. Shiplacoff Dr. M. Siragusa Norman Thomas Marguerite Tucker Girolamo Valenti Stephen S. Wise*]COPY JOHN V. DITTEMORE 475 FIFTH AVENUE NEW YORK Mr. Kirby Page, Editor The World Tomorrow New York, N.Y. Dear Mr. Page: I have just received a copy of the announcement of the continent-wide campaign for the abolition of war and the names of the distinguishes sponsors with pictures of many of them. But noble as is the motive back of this movement, as it has been with so many others created for a like purpose, it can produce effective results - and produce them in time - only if certain factors are not neglected. This is a world of conflicting ideals, individual and national, some good and some evil, but all more or less selfish. The choice of ideals, whether constructive or destructive, goes on continually on the unseen plane of thought. It is there that the highway of enduring peace must be built, but this can never be accomplished until certain basic facts of life are recognized, admitted, and demonstrated. Since every objective form or purpose is the embodiment of some primary mental concept, there must be and is a science of mental formation which is the mother of all sciences because it deals with the laws of cause and effect on the invisible plane of thought. To educate the world in this science, not merely as a theory but through embodiment as an association evolving by conscious intention and welded into a unit of mental energy, is the essential which is preliminary to the collective generation of mental power to be translated into deeds. Up to now this has been a world completely dominated by egotism and greed, the type of which is the fighting male. Darwin clinched the argument for this false ideal. If the individual man is the product of untold generations of those who had been sufficiently fit physically to kill their adversaries before they themselves were killed, must not the same law of survival apply on a collective scale to nations? The elementary motives of the human mind, whether expressed individually or collectively have never changed. It is to the consideration of the evolution of mind, not of cells, to the collective development of unfolding higher ideals, that man must soon address himself or perish. To integrate a miniature world, a sphere of collective thought (such as your association might be made), around the higher ideal of woman - that is to say, around a standard that represents a unity of patience, intuition, sacrifice, humility, real love, true fellowship and a willingness to largely subordinate the present to the future, would be to plant a seed which would bring forth "the tree of life". World organization, or parish organization, to be of enduring value, must be understood to be simply a mechanism for making leadership effective. No church, cult or "ism", nor a combination of them, will ever alone abolish legalized mass murder. A new order in the ages must be recognized and utilized. Then irresistible reconstructive energy will be generated, and a world-wide common consent on the right side will be gained which will transform the earth. With appreciation for your efforts in a noble cause, I am Sincerely yours, JOHN V. DITTEMOREJ. V. Bittermore 20 VESEY STREET NEW YORK 7, N.Y. The Nation ASSOCIATES President FREDA KIRCHWEY ________________ ADVISORY COUNCIL Chairman DR. FRANK P. GRAHAM Vice Chairmen DR. HENRY A. ATKINSON MARC CONNELY WILLIAM ROSENBLATT _______________________ JAY ALLEN THURMAN W. ARNOLD ROGER N. BALDWIN G.A. BORGESS ERSKINE CALDWELL EVANS CLARK HENRY COHEN ALBERT SPRAGUE COOLIDGE HELEN GAHAGAN DOUGLAS THOMAS H. ELIOT IRVING M. ENGEL MRS, LILLIAN H. FLORSHEIM LEWIS GANNETT J.W. GITT JOSEPH F. GUFFEY LILLIAN HELLMAN SIDNEY HOLLANDER SYLVAN L. JOSEPH J.M> KAPLAN JOHN FREDERICK LEWIS, JR. JOHN P. LEWIS WALTER C. LOWDERMILK THOMAS MANN FRANCIS J. MCCONNELL JAMES H. MCGILL PHILIP MURRAY REINHOLD NIEBUHR EUGENE O'NEILL BORIS PREGEL T. EDWIN QUISENBERRY REVERDY C. RANSOM WAVERLY ROOT JAMES N. ROSENBERG GAETANO SALVEMINI FREDERICK L. SCHUMAN PAUL H. TODD WALTER WHITE STEPHEN S. WISE SAMUEL ZEMURRAY April 1, 1948 Dear Nation Associate: Will Palestine become a new Spain and touch off a struggle that may engulf the world in a third world war? This may well be the result if America's retreat from the United Nations' resolution of November 29 is permitted to become the new policy of the United Nations. The trusteeship scheme -- involving the use of American troops-- is the final word in appeasement of reactionary forces which seems to have become the integral design of our foreign policy. And what is even worse, the new scheme is no guarantee of peace. The warfare in Palestine is part of a careful design nurtured by the British with the full knowledge of our State and Defense Departments. There has been no time when this revolt could not have been ended by a show of determination on our part. By failing to utter a single work of criticism of British policy or to inform the Arab world that we would not tolerate the disturbances, we have in effect encouraged the the revolt. And the revolt in turn has been made the excuse for our retreat from partition. Despite President Truman's assurances, we are not trying to extend the area of agreement with the Soviet Union. For if we were we would hold on to our agreement with the Soviet Union on Palestine -- practically the only important area in which such agreement has been brought about. We are not interested in strengthening the United Nations as the instrument for the collective will to peace. We are rapidly reducing it to the role of puppet. Who are we? Not you nor I nor the millions of Americans who want peace and want every avenue toward peace explore -- but the military. Today you, I, our government, and even our President, are captives of the clique which not only controls our military policy but dominates our foreign policy and daily narrows the area and functions of freedom at home. The Nation Associates, as you know, played an active part in securing the passage of the November 29 resolution; the story is told in part in the enclosed confidential report. Our concentration on this issue is based on the belief that the solution of the Palestine problem is integral to the peace and security of our own world. Recent developments have fully vindicated that view. The Palestine crisis is a crisis or American democracy. It is a symbol of the attack on living democracy which has been directed by those now in control of our foreign policy. We must make the defeat of their Palestine scheme the test of our ability to win the fight for freedom and peace everywhere. That is why The Nation Associates willPage 2... continue to be in the forefront of that struggle. The fight for democracy involved many other issues on the domestic as well as the international front. Our freedoms are being assailed in the field of civil rights, equality of opportunity, and government by the people. Science is being suborned and the hard-won rights of labor restricted. To the vicious loyalty tests has now been added the color of anti-Semitism. Those who defend the partition are now charged with disloyalty. Our educational system is antiquated and our housing even worse, while the military clique proposes to appropriate for war purposes almost half of the national budget of our country. The allies of this clique are the reactionaries at home and abroad. Franco and the Mufti may even be elevated to the status of allies. The democratic way of life teeters on a precipice. Never has there been a greater need for the mobilization of the liberals as a fighting force. The Nation and The Nation Associates are spearheading the right for freedom, democracy, peace. Courage and the will to fight are not enough. A fighting fund for a fighting movement, operating every day and everywhere, to expose, attack, persuade and educate before and after the election is imperative. And, above all, to produce action to protect peace. Our objective is the public at large, candidates for public office, our law makers, labor, the progressive organizations, and the delegations at the U.N. Remember, victor on the political front can prevent war. We need your help. Will you have it today? Cordially yours, Freda Kirchwey P.S. May we hope for the renewal of your gift when it comes due. MASSACHUSETTS COMMITTEE FOR THE DECLARATION OF DEMOCRATIC INDEPENDENCE 85 PRESCOTT STREET- ROOM 35- CAMBRIDGE, MASS. Telephone TROwbridge 1915 MASSACHUSETTS COMMITTEE FRANCIS RUSSELL, Chairman HARRIETT M. ALLYN ALICE STONE BLACKWELL IDA W. CANNON W.H. CARY JR. GEORGE W. COLEMAN ROBERT C. DEXTER DOROTHY W. DOUGLAS SAMUEL A. ELIOT STEPHEN H. FRITCHMAN SHELDON GLUECK E.B. GOODELL, JR. MRS. MALCOLM GREEN CONRAD HOBBS MAX LERNER MRS. W. O. B. LITTLE DONALD G. LOTHROP MRS. MARY W. MORRIS HERBERT C. PARSONS LESLIE T. PENNINGTON ORVILLE S. POLAND RUTH A. RUSSELL GEORGE SARTON FREDERICK L. SCHUMAN NICHOLAS SLONIMSKY F. HASTINGS SMYTH ALFRED E. STEARNS DAVID D. VAUGHN ANNE HOLIDAY WEBB _______________ HOLLYWOOD COMMITTEE MELVYN DOUGLAS, Chairman DON AMECHE FAY BAINTER LUCILLE BALL JOAN BENNETT GEORGE BRENT BRUCE CABOT JAMES CAGNEY JOAN CRAWFORD DONALD CRISP JOHN CROMWELL GEORGE CUKOR BETTE DAVIS PHILIP DUNNE ALICE FAY HENRY FONDA JOHN FORD BRYAN FOY HELEN GAHAGAN BEN HECHT JEAN HERSHOLT MIRIAM HOPKINS ARTHUR HORNBLOWER, JR. NUNNALLY JOHNSON VICTOR JORY WILLIAM KEIGHLEY CARL LAEMMELE PRISCILLA LANE ROSEMARY LANE MYRNA LOY JEFFREY LYNN KENNETH MacGOWAN CHARLES MacARTHUR ALINE MacMAHON TONY MARTIN GROUCHO MARX BURGESS MEREDITH PAUL MUNI ELLIOT NUGENT PAT O'BRIEN DENNIS O'KEEFE GEORGE O'NEIL DICK POWELL CLAUDE RAINS EDWARD G. ROBINSON ROSALIND RUSSELL ANN SHERIDAN GALE SONDERGAARD LAWRENCE STALLINGS DONALD OGDEN STEWART GLORIA STUART HARLAN THOMPSON SPENCER TRACY WALTER WANGER HARRY M. WARNER JACK L. WARNER ROLAND YOUNG 74 Dear Friends: A group of fifty-six persons prominent in moving pictures have recently signed a Declaration of Democratic Independence which has received wide-spread publicity in the national press (see "Time". February 13, page 11). A copy of this Declaration is enclosed. It is the goal of the Hollywood Committee to obtain twenty million signatures to this Declaration, which will be laid before the Congress and the President. A Massachusetts committee to sponsor this Declaration in this section has been formed, and a letter similar to this is being sent to some twelve hundred organizations, asking for support and cooperation in obtaining a proportionate number of the twenty million signature in this part of the country. The Committee feels that such a Declaration, signed as it is by persons well known in the moving pictures, offers an unparalleled opportunity to appeal to all groups of the public. If your organization approves of the statement and its general purpose, we urge that you write to us immediately letting us know how many of these petitions you can circulate. Fascism, both as an international and a national menace can be conquered without bloodshed, but it must be done now. Sincerely yours, Francis H. Russell Enc. FHR:MDeclaration of Democratic Independence to the President and the Congress of the United States of America [*Mail to E. HALPERN 85 PRESCOTT ST. CAMBRIDGE, MASS*] On July 4, 1776, the people of our country threw off the yoke of tyranny and called upon the world to witness their Declaration of Independence. Men of free spirit, they proclaimed their belief in man's inalienable right to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. Since that time those rights have been the measure of man's dignity in the civilized world. And since that time, whenever challenged, we have re-affirmed our faith in those rights. Today a new tyranny has arisen to challenge democracy's heritage. We accuse the leaders of Nazi Germany, as a ruler was accused in 1776, of "a design to reduce the world under absolute despotism." They deny the rights of man. They destroy Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship, Freedom of the Press, and the Right to Peaceful Assembly. They wantonly persecute defenseless minorities; they imprison ministers of all religions; they enslave labor; they victimize their own citizenry, throwing them upon the charity of the world, and brazenly proclaim that this victimization has only begun; in the name of the State they loot, pillage, inflict torture and commit murder. They defy International Law; violate treaties, repudiate Covenants of Peace; they bring chaos and disunity into sovereign nations and then seize and dismember them. They send their agents to spy upon us. They organize Bunds to spread their vicious doctrines in strident contempt for our Democracy and its institutions. They exalt Error above Truth, Superstition above Science, Oppression above Justice, and War above Peace. And today, as in 1776-- "A Government whose character is thus marked by every act which may define Tyranny, is unfit to be the friend of a free people ..." Yet we, a free people, have continued to support by trade and commerce this enemy of our liberty and our peace. This, our conscience will permit no longer. THEREFORE, WE, the undersigned, respectfully petition the President and the Congress of the United States to make such executive orders, adopt such legislative measures and alter such existing laws as may be necessary to the end that all economic connections between the United States of America and Germany be totally severed, until such time as Germany is willing the re-enter the family of nations in accordance with humane principles of international law and universal freedom. Myrna Loy Paul Muni John Ford Joan Crawford John Cromwell H. M. Warner Walter Wanger Edward G. Robinson Roland Young Gloria Stuart Melvyn Douglas Rosalind Russell James Cagney Lawrence Stallings Gale Sondergard Aline MacMahon Donald Ogden Stewart Kenneth MacGowan Josef von Sternberg Carl Laemmle Henry Fonda Pat O'Brien Jack L Warner Rosemary Lane Bryan Foy Fay Bainter Herbert Biberman Priscilla Lane Nunnally Johnson Frank Tuttle Dennis O'Keefe Ira Gershwin Helen Gahagan Walter Thrubey Bette Davis Groucho Marx George Brent Victor Jory Donald Crisp Ben Hecht Jeffrey Lynne Philip Dunne George Cukor Joan Bennett Bruce Cabot Elliott Nugent George O'Neil Ann Sheridan Dick Powell Tony Martin Charles MacArthur Alice Faye Allan Sard William Keighley Claude Rains Miriam Hopkins RETURN TO HOLLYWOOD COMMITTEE OF 56, HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR HARRIMAN FOR PRESIDENT 111 EAST 56TH STREET. NEW YORK 22, N.Y. MURRAY HILL 8-9090 HONORARY CHAIRMAN HON. HERBERT H. LEHMAN NATIONAL CHAIRMAN HON. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, JR. TREASURER JOHN C. KELLY June 17, 1952 Dear Fellow Democrat: I wish it were possible for me to communicate with you more personally than by way of this form letter but I am sure you will realize that our first objective is to send out information as rapidly and widely as possible. I hope, therefore, that you will accept my apologies for not writing more informally. During the next few weeks, until our National Convention has been concluded, all of us, both as patriotic Americans and as loyal Democrats, will be giving serious thought to the kind of leadership we are going to select for the next four years. We must consider this problem in relationship to the great national and international problems of this period. We shall fail in our duty if we do not choose the most completely qualified man for the biggest job in the world. The enclosed brochure gives the highlights of the career of Averell Harriman. Any objective consideration of his views, his experience, his character and his ability must, it seems to us, lead to the conclusion that he is "the man for the job?. Whatever your present preference may be, it would be extremely helpful to us to know your thinking. If you agree with us or if there is any possibility that you may be with us by July we would very much like to have your analysis of the feeling in your own state and community, and any advice you can give us. We are prepared to send to you or to anyone you may suggest further material in whatever quantities you may be able to use. case, I know we will all be working together for a ctory next November and I am looking forward to Chicago Sincerely yours, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. National Chairman TELEPHONE GARRISON 6280 (LOGO) 74 MASSACHUSETTS UNEMPLOYED COUNCIL 967 TREMONT STREET -- BOSTON, MASS. Boston Chronicle- Official Organ Executive Secretary Finance Committee Directors ARTHUR C. PARKER JOSEPH BEARACK REV. S. L. LAVISCOUNT ALBERT SPRAGUE COOLIDGE MR. GEORGE GOODMAN Press Agent ALFRED BAKER LEWIS REV. E.E. THOMPSON REV. CLARENCE BURRELL GEORGE ROEWER __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ PURPOSE: To create and secure opportunities for employment for worthy, unemployed persons and to investigate and possibly correct cases of eviction, dispossession, jail confinement, suffering, and ill health resulting from unemployment. Further, we propose to bring such pressure to bear on city and state governments as shall tend to eradicate the causes of general unemployment conditions. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ October 6, 1931 Miss Alice Stone Blackwell 3 Monadnock Street Dorchester, Massachusetts Dear Friend: We have succeeded in opening headquarters at 967 Tremont Street, in conjunction with two other organizations. You are sincerely invited to inspect the office at your own convenience. As for the work done by the Council, we have circularized many large businesses asking for the privilege to place deserving persons. We have made a partial canvass of stores in Roxbury, and have taken up the question of employment with Mayor Curley, who has granted a conference. The program of the Council was unanimously endorsed by the Conference of Baptist Ministers of greater Boston, Monday, October 5. Starting Monday, we will begin a strenuous campaign to create jobs. All information as to your progress will be sent to you from time to time. Yours for the cause, Arthur C. Parker Executive SecretaryUnemployed Council NATIONAL COMMITTEE TO AID STRIKING MINERS FIGHTING STARVATION 799 BROADWAY. NEW YORK CITY. TELEPHONE STUYVESANT 9-5466 JOHN DOS PASSOS, Chairman HUGO GELLERT, Secretary LEON KAHN, Treasurer Sherwood Anderson Roger Baldwin Bishop Wm. M. Brown Horace B. Davis Agnes De Lima Floyd Dell H.W.L. Dana Robert W. Dunn Sarah Bard Field Waldo Frank Lydia Gibson Eugene Gordon Michael Gold William Gropper Charles Yale Harrison Harold Hickerson Sidney Hook Grace Hutchins Horace M. Kallen Carol Weiss King MArgaret Larkin Melvin P. Levy Robert Morss Lovett Louis Lozowick Paul Luttinger, M.D. Liston M. Oak Samuel Ornitz Frank Palmer Webster Powell Harry Alan Potamkin Anna Rochester Edward Royce Theodore Schell Marcel Scherer Upton Sinclair Lincoln Steffens Marguerite Tucker Genevieve Taggard Mary Heaton Vorse Charles R. Walker Anita Whitney Walter Wilson Charles Erskine Scott Wood Carl Zigrosser August 15, 1931 Dear Friend: Beyond Pittsburgh! Children are ragged and starving - thousands of them. Mothers are bare- foot and worn - thousands of them, ill with the pain of answering their children's hunger-cries with "tomorrow". Starvation no myth - hideously real. Families homeless on the highways, men and boys dragged and slugged and driven into mines at the point of a gun. Before the stroke? Miners cheated, coal short-weighed at the tipples; the eight-hour day a miner's melancholy dream. Wages -- "it's better to starve and die in the shade of a tree than to starve and die in the muck of a mine", said a miner's wife. Exorbitant prices at the "pluck-me's" and "grab-alls", the company stores. Miners homes, vermin-infested crumbling shacks - sanitation nil. First aid inadequate, hospitals too few. And so, in gathering wrath, the miners struck! And now, not even BREAD! MILK! Do you see it in clean, cool dairy shops? Do you hear rattling cans of it clinking on sidewalks in the early morning? Do you bring it in and pour its precious whiteness into clean glasses for your children? In the evening, do you discuss the values of Vitamins A, B and C? Many of the miners' children do not know the taste of it. They are waiting.... Their mothers say "tomorrow", but tomorrow brings naught but what we send them with your help. The money you send will mean MILK for the miners' children, BREAD for the miners and TENTS for evicted families. Gratefully yours, John Dos Passos Chairman Please Make All Checks Payable to John Dos Passos.Dear Friend: How can we explain the catastrophe which has overtaken the French Army, the best trained and officered army in the world? The French are out numbered 2 to 1. But why? There are 150,000 Italians in Spain and the Pyrenees must be watched; thanks to the betrayal of the Spanish Republic, Spain is not a friend but a potential enemy. There is a large army in Syria protecting the investments of gentlemen in London and Paris. The army of Czechoslovakia (France's Ally!) was lost at Munich, 40 divisions. The Polish army is no more: no move was made to save it. The Soviet Red Army is not in action because the Franco-Soviet Alliance was cancelled out at Munich and the negotiations for a triple alliance were sabotaged last summer. They cannot match the German equipment. Why? Because Hitler war strength was systematically built up by London and Paris while they neglected their own. The Czech armaments are in his hands. (Skoda-made tanks broke the French lines!) French bauxite fed his airplane industry. Until May 10th French iron ore poured through Belgium to Germany. Spanish copper still goes to him through Italy. (The Rio Tinto Mines are owned in London. Shares are quoted at 3 times their 1939 value.) Daladier was Premier 2 years and War Minister 4, but it was of more importance to him to destroy the Metal Workers' Union than to maintain plane production. It was more important to ship arms to Mannerheim to save Finland as a war base against the USSR than to protect France from the coming storm. The French people did not want this war. If their clearly expressed mandate had been heeded it could never have come. But it has and the burden of it is thrown on them. All popular organizations have been destroyed. Over 10,000 legally elected representatives of the people have been removed or arrested and replaced with police spies and known fascists. Cagoularde are in key positions and the Croix de Feu is represented in the Cabinet. Democracy? The Trades Unions are now an exact replica of Hitler's Labor Front. How can morale be maintained if the plain people have nothing left to fight for except the France of the "200 families"? In Spain and China, morale rose with each extension of democracy and made possible a heroic fight against overwhelming odds. The French Ruling Class is making war on its own people. Defeat of Hitler is secondary. Here is a record of corruption, treason and murderous incompetence surpassing even the old Tsarist regime. We cannot support such people and such a war. But we must be ready to support the French people when they throw out the traitors and re-establish democracy. Only then can France be saved, Hitlerism destroyed and the German people liberated. KEEP AMERICA OUT OF THE IMPERIALIST WAR: BLOCK ROOSEVELT'S WAR PLANS: Professional Branch #2 Communist Party of Massachusetts 15 Essex Street, Boston, Mass. TEL STATE 2783 GENERAL DEFENSE COMMITTEE LEE TULIN. SECRETARY 555 WEST LAKE STREET CHICAGO, ILL. (Logo) 618 June 15, 1928 Dear Friend: November 21, 1927, when the hail of bullets from machine guns in the hands of mine guards and Colorado state police mowed down striking coal miners peacefully picketing the Columbine mine at Serene, Colorado, the lives of six miners were mercilessly snuffed out and twenty-six more were injured, some seriously and permanently. One of these men, John Estenes, left behind a wife and six small children to fave the world and the struggle for existence without his counsel and support. The General Defense Committee has been providing for this and other families left destitute and fatherless by the massacre, as well as helping the injured, and is no preparing to institute suit for damages in behalf of Mrs. Estenes against the Rocky Mountain Fuel Company, owners of the Columbine mine. Suits in behalf of other families similarly left bereft will also be instituted if necessary. The case is a clear one, and we feel confident that prosecution of the suit will result in a substantial award for Mrs. Estenes and also set a precedent which will make unnecessary additional suits in behalf of the other families - - not to mention the effect winning such a suit will have on the uncensured murder of defenseless workers by corporation thugs during times of industrial strife. Herrera, Nelson and Milo, seriously wounded in the slaughter, still require medical attention. All are married. They and their wives and children must be provided for from outside sources for many months to come. At least three hundred dollars per month will be required for the next six months to supply the bare necessities of life to these families. The best legal talent in Colorado must be retained to prosecute the suit for Mrs. Estenes. It is estimated that seven hundred dollars will cover attorney fees, investigation, locating and bringing witnesses, and other incidental costs of the audit. The action should be started immediately. Lack of funds is the only obstacle. Your help is needed, and we feel that never was a cause more worthy of your assistance than this one. Help supply the immediate needs of the victims of the Columbine Massacre by a monthly contribution to their relief fund, and insure their future needs and assist in putting and end to the machine gun rule in times of strikes by supporting Mrs. Estenes' suit. Yours very sincerely, GENERAL DEFENSE COMMITTEE Lee Tulin Secretary.Gen Defense Com "Relief on the Basis of Co-operation- Not Charity." National Office: Workers Fraternity One Union Square International Relief (logo) New York City American Section Solidarity N.Y. ___ Telephone: ALGonquin 8048 BISHOP WM. M. BROWN National Chairman D.J. BENTALL National Treasurer F.G. BIEDENKAPP Executive Secretary National Committee CHARLES BAKER ROGER N. BALDWIN DAVID J. BENTALL F.G. BIEDENKAPP ELLA R. BLOOR STIRLING BOWEN WM. M. BROWN ANN WASHINGTON CRATON J. LOUIS ENGDAHL ELIZABETH G. FLYNN JOSEPH FREEMAN KATE CRANE-GARTZ DR. HOWARD A. GIBBS ELLEN HAYES MAX S. HAYES LUDWIG LORE DORA F. LOHSE SCOTT NEARING EDGAR OWENS MAX J. SILINSKY UPTON SINCLAIR ANNA LOUISE STRONG GENEVIEVE TAGGARD ALEXANDER TRACHTENBERG C. ANITA WHITNEY ROBERT WOLF (LOGO) April 25, 1928 Dear Friend:- After reading the enclosed copy of a telegram we received April 22nd, you will understand why we again appeal to you for financial help. I have spent three days in New Bedford, Mass. investigating the conditions of the striking mill workers and can briefly report as follows: (1) Thirty-thousand men, women, boys and girls are out on strike against a 10% wage cut. (2) Three thousand of the skilled workers are organized receiving a small weekly union benefit. (3) Twenty-seven thousand unskilled workers are unorganized and receive absolutely no support. (4) In thousands of cases whole families are mill workers without any income whatsoever. (5) Wages, range from about ten to twenty-six dollars per week with few exceptions. (6) Because of extremely low wages paid the workers have no savings to fall back upon. UNDER THESE CONDITIONS IT IS EASY TO UNDERSTAND THAT THE WORKERS MUST FIGHT IF THEY EXPECT TO MAINTAIN A STANDARD OF LIVING THAT HAS AT LEAST THE SEMBLANCE OF BEING WORTH WHILE. IN THIS STRUGGLE WE MUST AID THEM. Our first move will be to open up W.I.R. food relief stations under the supervision of Miss Ann Washington Craton who is now making preparations to go into the mill district and give first aid in the early part of next week. To do this we need immediately about $5000.00. We urge you to stand by us so that we may be enabled to do for the textile workers of New England what we are doing for the miners and their families in Pennsylvania and Ohio. Our first aim is the care of children and women, who suffer most during these industrial struggles with the attending poverty and hunger. Hoping to receive a substantial contribution, we remain Fraternally yours, WORKERS INTERNATIONAL RELIEF, F.G. Biedenkapp Executive Secretary FGB:RL Non Political - Non Sectarian - Non Partisan - But- Always for the Workers. Form 1228 A Charge to the account of______________________________ $___________ (Class of service graph) WESTERN (Stamp graph) UNION NEWCOMB CARLTON, PRESIDENT J.C. WILLEVER, FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT Send the following message, subject to the terms on back hereof, which are hereby agreed to BA451 29 COLLECT EL- NEWBEDFORD MASS 22 1131A FRED BIEDENKNAPP- 1 UNION SQ. NEWYORK NY- STRIKERS AT MEETING CALL WORKERS INTERNATIONAL RELIEF OPEN HEADQUARTERS IN NEWBEDFORD RELIEF NEEDED FRIDAY PRESS CARRIES INVITATION TO WORKERS INTERNATIONAL RELIEF. D I A Z 77ALL MESSAGES TAKEN BY THIS COMPANY ARE SUBJECT TO THE FOLLOWING TERMS: To guard against mistakes or delays, the sender of a message should order it repeated, that is, telegraphed back to the originating office for comparison. For this, one half the unrepeated message rate is charged in addition. Unless otherwise indicated on its face, this is an unrepeated message and paid for as such, in consideration whereof it is agreed between the sender of the message and this company as follows: 1. The company shall not be liable for mistakes or delays in the transmission or delivery, or for non-delivery, of any message received for transmission at the unrepeated message rate beyond the sum of five hundred dollars; nor for mistakes or delays in the transmission or delivery, or for non-delivery, of any message received for transmission at the repeated-message rate beyond the sum of five thousand dollars, unless specially valued; nor in any case for delays arising from unavoidable interruption in the working of its lines; nor for errors in cipher or obscure messages. 2. In any event the company shall not be liable for damages for mistakes or delays in the transmission or delivery, or for the non-delivery, of any message, whether caused by the negligence of its servants or otherwise, beyond the sum of five thousand dollars, at which amount each message is deemed to be valued, unless a greater value is stated in writing by the sender thereof at the time the message is tendered for transmission, and unless the repeated-message rate is paid or agreed to be paid, and an additional charge equal to one-tenth of one percent of the amount by which such valuation shall exceed five thousand dollars. 3. The company is hereby made the agent of the sender, without liability, to forward this message over the lines of any other company when necessary to reach its destination. 4. Domestic messages and incoming cable messages will be delivered free within one-half mile of the company's office in towns of 5,000 population or less, and within one mile of such office in other cities or towns. Beyond these limits the company does not undertake to make delivery but will, without liability, at the sender's request, as his agent and at his expense, endeavor to contract for him for such delivery at a reasonable price. 5. No responsibility attaches to this company concerning messages until the same are accepted at one of its transmitting offices; and if a message is sent to such office by one of the company's messengers, he acts for that purpose as the agent of the sender. 6. The company will not be liable for damages or statutory penalties in any case where the claim is not presented in writing within sixty days after the message is filed with the company for transmission. 7. It is agreed that in any action by the company to recover the tolls for any message or messages the prompt and correct transmission and delivery thereof shall be presumed, subject to rebuttal by competent evidence. 8. Special terms governing the transmission of messages according to their classes, as enumerated below, shall apply to messages in each of such respective classes in addition to all the foregoing terms. 9. No employee of the company is authorized to vary the foregoing. THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY INCORPORATED NEWCOMB CARLTON, PRESIDENT CLASSES OF SERVICE TELEGRAMS A full-rate expedited service. NIGHT MESSAGES Accepted up to 2:00 A.M. at reduced rates to be sent during the night and delivered not earlier than the morning of the ensuing business day. Night Messages may at the option of the Telegraph Company be mailed at destination to the addressees, and the Company shall be deemed to have discharged its obligation in such cases with respect to delivery by mailing such night messages at destination, postage prepaid. DAY LETTERS A deferred day service at rates lower than the standard telegram rates as follows: One and one-half times the standard night letter rate for the transmission of 50 words or less and one-fifth of the initial rates for each additional 10 words or less. SPECIAL TERMS APPLYING TO DAY LETTERS: In further consideration of the reduced rate for this special Day Letter service, the following special terms in addition to those enumerated above are hereby agreed to: A. Day Letters may be forwarded by the Telegraph Company as a deferred service and the transmission and delivery of such Day Letters is, in all respects, subordinate to the priority of transmission and delivery of regular telegrams. B. This Day Letter is received subject to the express understanding and agreement that the Company does not undertake that a Day Letter shall be delivered on the day of its date absolutely, and at all events; but that the Company's obligation in this respect is subject to the condition that there shall remain sufficient time for the transmission and delivery of such Day Letter on the day of its date during regular office hours, subject to the priority of the transmission of regular telegrams under the conditions named above. No employee of the Company is authorized to vary the foregoing. NIGHT LETTERS Accepted up to 2:00 A.M. for delivery on the morning of the ensuing business day, at rates still lower than standard night message rates, as follows: The standard telegram rate for 10 words shall be charged for the transmission of 50 words or less, and one-fifth of such standard telegram rate for 10 words shall be charged for each additional 10 words or less. SPECIAL TERMS APPLYING TO NIGHT LETTERS: In further consideration of the reduced rates for this special Night Letter service, the following special terms in addition to those enumerated above are hereby agreed to: A. Night Letters may at the option of the Telegraph Company be mailed at destination to the addressees, and the company shall be deemed to have discharged its obligation in such cases with respect to delivery by mailing such Night Letters at destination, postage prepaid. No employee of the Company is authorized to vary the foregoing. FULL RATE CABLES An expedited service throughout. Code language permitted. DEFERRED HALF-RATE CABLES Half-rate messages are subject to being deferred in favor of full rate messages for not exceeding 24 hours. Must be in language of country of origin or of destination, or in French. This class of service is in effect with most European countries and with various other countries throughout the world. Full particulars supplied on application at any Western Union Office. CABLE LETTERS For plain-language communications. The language of the country of destination may be employed, if the Cable Letter service is in operation to that country. Subject to delivery at the convenience of the Company within 24 hours if telegraphic delivery is selected. Delivery by mail beyond London will be made if a full mailing address is given and the words "Post London" are written after the destination. Rate is approximately one-third of the full rate; minimum 20 words. WEEK-END LETTERS Similar to Cable Letters except that they are accepted up to midnight Saturday for delivery Monday morning, if telegraphic delivery is selected. Rate is approximately one-quarter of the full rate; minimum 20 words. Jerusalem 7 March 1927 Dear and noble Sir, We beg to take the liberty in calling Your Kind attention to the flower cards which we the undersigned orphans, have had the honour to send to your address. In our appeal attached to said flower cards we related to you of our difficult plight after the bereavement of our young mother, the sole supporter of our family when we had to take to gathering of flowers of which we expected to drive some scanty living. We regret, however, not to have been favoured with Your Kind reply. Up to the present and beg therefore to address ourselves to you again with the hope to arose Your noble and Kindhearted interest in our difficult plight. The gathering of the flowers is by no means an easy task. During the winter months from November till April we have to wander about collecting various flowers on the fields, hills and mountains surrounding Jerusalem, and during the Summer months we are occupied with drying the flowers, fixing and attaching them on the cards. If we could only get a proper sale for our flower cards. But we regret to say the sale is very small and does not renumerate at all the very hard labour invested. As we have no other source for our existence, our father being very old and advanced in Years and invalid, and we must take car for him and we very often suffer want, deprivation and hunger. We therefore beg to appeal to you and entreat for Your Kind aid and support. Have pity and compassion with us orphans, help, and save us from ruin and destruction. Any help will be welcomed and greatly appreciated. May the Almighty Father of Orphans with good health, long life, happiness, prosperity, pleasure and delight in Your children and all Your family. Trusting that our appeal will be favourable respondet to by You and awaiting to be favoured with Your noble Kindhearted donation we beg to thank you in beforehand and remain Yours very respectfully Address: Miss Ch. R. Cohen, Jerusalem, Palestine P.S. We have been advised by an American Gentleman that we should try to get a Business Directory or Uniel Reports of Societies and Institutions and in the way we shall be able to sell our cards. We shall be very grateful if You will kindly send us a Business Directory of your Town, or and Reports of Societies which You belong to them in order that we may send our flower cards to their address and get some sale for our cards perhaps we will be able to make a living of it.Palestine COUNCIL AGAINST INTOLERANCE IN AMERICA 17 EAST 42ND STREET, NEW YORK 17, N.Y. Telephone: VAnderbilt 6-5584 Co-Chairmen National Secretary Henry A. Atkinson Evelyn Linwood Arthur Capper Treasurer Director Alonzo F. Meyers James Waterman Wise Council: Herbert Agar Mary McLeod Bethune Katherine D. Blake W. Russell Bowie John Brophy John S. Burke Evans Clark John M. Coffee Rudloph I. Coffee Ralph S. Cushman Hubert T. Delaney John Dewey Thomas E. Dewey Helen Gahagan Douglas Dorothy Canfield Fisher George B. Ford Roma Gans Israel Goldstein Frank P. Graham Theodore F. Green William Green Donald Harrington William H. Hastie Harry D. Henshel John Haynes Holmes Fannie Hurst Edgar Dewitt Jones Herbert H. Lehman Henry Smith Leiper Eduard C. Lindeman Robert Morss Lovett Carey McWilliams Jeremiah T. Mahoney John J. Mahoney Kirtley F. Mather James M. Mead Ernest O. Melby Robert A. Millikan Newbold Morris Richard L. Neuberger Reinhold Niebuhr Peter H. Odegard G. Ashton Oldham Culbert L. Olson George E. Outland G. Bromley Oxnam Herbert Pelt Charles Poletti James P. Pope A. Philip Randolph Quentin Reynolds Mauriace S. Sheehy Ralph W. Sockman J. David Stern J. W. Studebaker Herbert Bayard Swope Louis J. Taber Harold Taylor Rexford Guy Tugwell Carl Herman Voss Robert F. Wagner Grover Whalen Walter White Michael Williams September 1949 Dear Friend: The name of Stephen S. Wide will forever be enshrined as a champion of human equality and religious tolerance in America. Christian and Jew, Negro and white have been inspired to understand each other better, to treat each other more fairly because of Rabbi Wise's devotion not only to his own people, but to all humanity. He was a founder of the Council Against Intolerance and worked ceaselessly to further its ideals. For all these reasons our Council dedicates its 1949 seal to the living memory of Stephen S. Wise. Nothing could be more fitting. The rising tide of race hatred, the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan and of anti-Semitic groups, call for redoubled effort to safeguard America from the legions of bigotry. By exposing the hate-mongers, by enlisting the forces of the churches, the press, the radio and other civic institutions, our Council is leading an effective counter-attack. Most urgent of all is the Council's educational program. Our children must be protected against those who seek to implant racial and religious hatred in their minds. We are now engaged in distributing - without charge to teachers- over 600,000 maps, manuals, films, exhibits and recordings which are being used in the nation's schools and colleges. To continue this imperative work, the Council calls on you to purchase and use the enclosed Seals of Tolerance and Equality. If you have aided your seal campaign in the past, we hope you will increase your support at this critical time. If these are your first Council seals, we urge you to send a dollar or as much more as possible today. I look forward to receiving your generous contribution as a tribute through action to a great American - Stephen S. Wise. Faithfully yours. Henry A. Atkinson HAA:L ALL CONTRIBUTIONS ARE DEDUCTIBLE FROM INCOME TAXAmerican Friends Service Committee 20 South Twelfth Street Philadelphia Pennsylvania Telephone RITTENHOUSE 8550 Executive Secretary, CLARENCE E. PICKETT Vice Chairmen Chairman, RUFUS M. JONES D. ROBERT YARNALL Treasurer, WILLIAM R. FOGG HANNAH CLOTHIER HULL SUMNER A. MILLS SECTIONS Foreign Service, William Eves, 3rd, Chairman Secretarial Staff Peace, EMILY COOPER JOHNSON, Chairman Anna Naomi Binford Ray Newton Social-Industrial, BERNARD G. WARING, Chairman Harold J. Chance John F. Rich Fellowship Council, RUFUS M. JONES, Chairman Elmore Jackson Mary M. Rogers Mary Hoxie Jones Leslie D. Shaffer Hugh W. Moore Guy W. Solt Homer L. Morris James G. Vail E. Raymond Wilson Associate Secretaries Edward W. Evans J. Barnard Walton Walter C. Woodward 1940 Dear Friend:- The forty men and women who are our representatives in France are, in effect, America's ambassadors of sympathy and good will. Their task is the feeding of refugee children, the care of destitute mothers and infants, mutilated men and the aged. They go with clothing, soap and books into concentration camps crowded with exiles from many nations who must live in unspeakable rags and filth. Nothing is more expressive of the ruin of a civilization than these sordid, barbed wire prisons. You may wonder what so small a group of workers can do in a country swamped with eight million refugees. We confess their limitations, yet we are grateful to know that their service is keeping alive hope and faith in the hearts of many thousands. You may be concerned lest our aid to the French people be diverted to the German military uses. On this point we can confidently reassure you. Our work is carried on without the slightest interference of this nature. Feeding the hungry in France is not a matter of relieving German responsibility. We face the simple fact that those we do not feed must surely starve. Though food is desperately short in Europe, we have been buying in Switzerland 3000 cases of condensed milk a month. This allotment, so priceless for undernourished children, costs approximately $25,000. Other foods such as sardines, oil, beans, and rice have been obtainable in Portugal. We look forward to sending food from the United States as the British Government relaxes its Blockade, especially for the relief of children. In asking for your support of this work, we wish to emphasize the need for Americans to preserve the symbol of international fellowship. Possibly, you have recently responded with a contribution. Please, then, accept this letter in appreciation. Sincerely yours, Clarence E. Pickett LaFollette's Magazine 1920 MADISON, WISCONSIN Dear Friend: The coupon with this letter can-and if you use it will-bring you two years of educational truth and an inspiring book for winter reading. And it will do so at what is probably the greatest magazine bargain available today. But as this offer is limited, and is being made only to carefully selected readers, we must ask that you take immediate advantage if you intend to do so. Discovery was made by LaFollete's Magazine a few days ago that it had on hand 1,000 copies of "LaFollette's Winning of Wisconsin." a book by Albert O. Barton, who has told in an intimate way the little stories about Senator LaFollette and his political struggles in the Badger state. Mr. Barton's book resembles in inspirational tone, in rehearsal of detail. in picture of stirring events, the rare biography of Lincoln by his law partner, William H. Herndon. A fascinating book it is; a brilliant volume crowded with dramatic word pictures and singular incidents, which everyone must enjoy. When these 1,000 volumes are distributed the Barton story will be out of print. It is your last chance to get the book. In a single week during July over 250 copies of the volume went into the mails. Now comes your opportunity. In order that this offer should first go to Senator LaFollette's closest friends it was decided to send this letter to the most faithful readers of the magazine. Your name is on that honor roll. WHILE THEY LAST WE OFFER TWO YEARS SUBSCRIPTION TO THE MAGAZINE WITH BARTON'S "LA FOLLETTE'S WINNING OF WISCONSIN" THE COUPON ATTACHED, WORTH $2.00 WILL BRING YOU THIS $4.00 COMBINATION FOR ONLY $2.00 This offer is truly an educational investment at a special price. Fill in the reverse side of the coupon and mail it back to me today. Remember it will bring you a book that in a few years will be much prized. So do it now! Sincerely yours, Fred L. Holmes Business Manager This coupon is for the exclusive use of: Saves 18226A Mar 1928 Saves $2.00 Alice Stone Blackwell $2.00 3 Monadnock St. Boston Mass Or a member of the immediate family (OVER)LA FOLLETTE'S MAGAZINE, Madison, Wisconsin Name________________________________________________ Address______________________________________________ Enter me as a subscriber to La Follette's Magazine for two years and for a copy of "La City__________________________________________________ Follette's Winning of Wisconson" both for only $2.00 instead of the regular combination State_________________________________________________ price of $4.00. This coupon is to save me $2.00 on the combined price. State whether new or renewal VALUE $2.00 La FolletteCOLORADO MINERS RELIEF AND DEFENCE COMMITTEE. BOX 865 DENVER, COLORADO April 25 1928 Yes, dear friends this is another appeal from the Colorado Miners*** but wait do not cast it aside until you have read what we have to say. When one receives an appeal for financial aid who at some time or other has been confronted with that social monster, poverty, he understands what it means, he has full cognizance of all its attributes, fear, sickness and unhappiness. However, we generally say to ourselves; "Well, I know that poverty is rampant in America. But what can I do about it? We can not get anywhere by feeding hungry people, because it will be a matter of days before they will be hungry again. And it is a certainty that I can not help them indefinitely." To be sure, there is a great deal of logic in this form of reasoning., Or better yet, we could safely say that we could agree with the aforesaid fictitious quotation thoroughly. You see, although we are pleading for money to feed our families, and every penny that is received is used for that purpose; yet the aid we receive means more than that. To satisfy the bodily need for food, we all know, is absolutely necessary. However, there are factors that are the causes and unless we strive to rectify these, all of the energy and sacrifices that we make to alleviate the effects are fruitless. To the ordinary person not familiar with the mining industry in Colorado the above may be slightly ambiguous. But if one were to know that the miner in Colorado, according to the statistics of the State Industrial Commission, which are very conservative to say the least, has an averageworking year of only 167 days. And in the Southern District the average working time last year was 107 days. Further, one must take into consideration that four-fifths of this time is in the Fall and Winter. No. doubt you are aware of the fact that the miners were on strike from October 18th 1927 to February 20th of this year. This means that the miners were unable to lay anything away for the present slack period. The present condition of extreme destitution is the aftermath of a manly and courageous fight that has been successfully waged against the most oligarchicalmonster (Standard Oil) that has cursed this American continent. Every dollar that comes to the miners is a ray of hope, because it is used to feed and shelter the wives, children and mothers of these noble soldiers or labor, who have fought and won the greatest victory inthe bloody history of Colorado. So dear friends, when you contribute to our cause you are not attempting to satisfy an insatiate condition, you are doing more than feeding the bellies of human beings; you are providing ammunition for these stalwart vangards of human liberty in order that may carry on the fight for the cause of causes*** the emancipation of Labor. If you believe in that cause for God's sake do not stand by and allow us to be driven into submission. It was bread that won the strike. Bread will now make it possible for us to hold what we have gained. Please help. Kindly use the form below for your contribution. Should you have several friends who would like to help, the blank on ppposite side of this sheet is for that purpose. (Cut on this line) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ To the COLORADO MINERS RELIEF AND DEFENCE COMMITTEE BOX 865 DENVER, COLORADO Money Order THe sum of_____________________________________________________________ , Cash Check Sent by_________________________________________________________ Street Number__________________________________________________ City and State___________________________________________________ Please state Union, Club or Committee________________________________________________ Relief Bulletin Number Seven.COLORADO MINERS RELIEF AND DEFENCE COMMITTEE BOX 865 DENVER, COLORADO Fellow Wrkers; The Miners of Colorado need your help. During the last winter they carried on and terminated a successfull strike for better wages and conditions. But the slack season is upon them and because they were not able to provide for it, due to the strike, they are suffering, There is a possibility that the operators will take advantage of the present conditions. But, you can checkmate that move by coming to the support of the miners, by giving them financial aid. The miners not only challenged the Employing Class at a time when the latter were engaged in a campaign to reduce wages, they actually forced a wage increase and better working conditions. The effect of this is universal. For when one group of workers force higher wages and better conditions from the Master Class, a standard is set, to which all the workers look to with hope. You see, the miners fight is your fight. Will you fight with them? You can do this by helping them over the slack season. *********************************************************************************** NAME ADDRESS AMOUNT *********************************************************************************** ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( (( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( (( ( ( ( *********************************************************************************** TOTAL________________________________ THIS LIST IS BEING FORWARDED BY_______________________________________ ADDRESS________________________________________ AMOUNT$__________________________________________________________________ Telephone: Kenmore 5651 WOMEN'S EDUCATIONAL AND INDUSTRIAL UNION Organized 1877: To promote the educational, industrial and social advancement of women. 264 BOYLSTON STREET BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS November 12, 1930 The Annual Meeting will this year be preceded by luncheon in Perkins Hall at one o'clock. Reports and election of officers will come at 1:45 p.m. The meeting will adjourn at 2:45 p.m. Members of the Union are urged to attend in order that they may share in the future program of the Union, which will be outlined by the president. For years the Union has been a dynamic force in the city. The future presents its demands. It is believed that this Annual Meeting will give to those who attend an inner knowledge of the Union and of the rich contributions which it is possible for it to make to the educational and civic life of the city. Subscriptions for the luncheon at $1.00 per person will close on November 17, Mary H. Tolman Executive Secretary 000521 Return to Women's Educational and Industrial Union 264 Boylston Street, Boston, Mass. Please reserve places for me at the luncheon preceding the Annual Meeting. (1.00 o'clock, November 18, 1930, Perkins Hall) Luncheon $1.00. Please reserve places for me at the first monthly dinner for members (on November 25 at 12.30 o'clock in Perkins Hall), at which Miss Eaves will speak on the Old Age Assistance Act and what it will mean to Massachusetts old and poor people. Please reserve tickets for the performance for the benefit of the Employee's Fund and the social and educational work of the Union (On December 10 at 8.30 o'clock at the Repertory Theatre. Tickets are $3.00, $2.50, $1.50, $1.00 and 75 cents.) Enclosed find for the Annual Meeting luncheon $ ______ " " " First Monthly Member's Luncheon _______ " " " Tickets for Angna Enters _______ Signed________________________________________________ Address_______________________________________________ Women's E & I Union WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE FOR PEACE AND FREEDOM ____________________________________________________________________ MASSACHUSETTS BRANCH 6 Byron Street Tel.- Haymarket 4964 Boston, Mass. NEWS LETTER _______________ We wish a happy, restful summer to all our members. Happy with the sense of joyous recreation earned by a winter of peace activity; restful, that you may store up the boundless energy to pour forth in doubled activity. For next winter holds for the advocates of peace the possibility of great triumphs if we will make the correspondingly great efforts requisite to achieve them. Plans are afoot to start the winter with a survey of the issues confronting us, of which America's entrance into the World Court is, of course, chief. We hope, in cooperation with other organizations, the bring to Boston authorities of national reputation to present these questions at a stirring Peace Institute. The Education Committee, - which this year has worked so successfully to World Goodwill Day, obtaining a public statement from the Governor and the cooperation of numerous Superintendents of Schools, - is looking forward to still enlarged activities. The Speakers Bureau, - which sent speakers to 71 organizations this past year, - expects, as soon as the World Court Treaty is submitted to the Senate, to be kelp impossibly busy day and night answering the appeals of those seeking enlightenment. The League's latest child, an Inter-Racial Committee, is to conduct a study class to delve into various problems of international relationships. To make possible a strong winter's work we shall need a strong financial founda- tion, and so be sure to remember the fall rummage sale. In laying aside winter things now, or discarding household articles of any description send them at any time to Mrs. A.M. Schlesinger, or Miss Lydia G. Wentworth 19 Gray Gardens East, Cambridge 18 Stearns Road, Brookline Also the usual Thanksgiving Food Sale will be held. Mrs. R. G. Lopaus, North Wilmington, Mass., would appreciate empty jelly glasses or preserve jars. Notify her by postal. She would also like orders for your winter's supply of preserves as early as possible, or for special Christmas gift baskets. Headquarters will close, as usual, early in June. If any of you, however, could use a peace speaker at a porch party of other gathering during the summer a letter to Miss Luscomb will receive attention. For the scores of activities crying to be done we are in great need of more workers, chiefly committee members. We realize that some members have no available leisure. But you others, will you not set aside part of your time next winter for our League, and make world peace not your vague aspiration but your working program? Cordially yours, MARTHA HELEN ELLIOTT, Chairman Peace & Freedom Fight Against Lynching and Lynch Law! Defend the Victims of the Criminal Syndicalist Laws! _____________________________________________________________________________________ National Officers: Cable Address: ILDEF, New York J. LOUIS ENGDAHL General Secretary INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE NATIONAL OFFICE (graphic) SAM DARCY 80 EAST 11th STREET-ROOM 430 Assistant Secretary NEW YORK CITY STUYVESANT 4552*4553*1474 GRACE HUTCHINS Treasurer A. Jakira Organizational Secretary (Graphic) Dear Comrades and Friends: You have shown your sympathy and support of the militant labor movement. Since January close to 5,000 of the best working class fighters have been arrested. Six of our militant fighters, two of them women, and two Negroes, face death on a charge of "inciting to insurrection", for attempting to hold meetings to protest unemployment and against lynching at Atlanta, Georgia. Six organizers of the agricultural workers in the Imperial Valley were railroaded to prison by California fruit growers on sentences ranging from 3 to 42 years. Four leaders of the unemployed, William Z. Foster, Robert Minor, Israel Amter, and H. Raymond now serving a term of six months for demanding unemployment insurance for eight million unemployed workers in the United States. There are 78 class war prisoners now serving time. Hundreds of cases are coming up for appeals and trials in September and October. The International Labor Defense will be unable to meet the demands made upon it unless it gets help from you. We ask you to give and collect as much as possible at this crucial period when every resource must be drained to defend hundreds of workers persecuted for their working class activity. UNCONDITIONAL FREEDOM FOR OUR ATLANTA COMRADES, OUR IMPERIAL VALLEY FIGHTERS, AND OUR LEADERS OF THE UNEMPLOYED! Fight against the reign of terror! Do your working class duty! Give and collect every dollar you can to support the International Labor Defense in its fight for a week! Send it in and get another one! You have previously shown your support of working class struggles. We have confidence you will at this critical moment show it again. Send us your list, filled out, as soon as you possibly can. With fraternal greetings, INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE J. Louis Engdahl General Secretary We do not maintain a large office personnel and are therefore unable to eliminate all of the duplications that inevitable occur through the use of various mailing lists, which have been made available for our campaign. Kindly overlook any duplications that exist. It is unavoidable in this case. Pass on the duplicate lists to some other workers or sympathizers.Save Them from the Electric Chair! ______________________________________ No Death Sentence! No Prison Term! for THE SIX ATLANTA VICTIMS of boss class persecution who are being railroaded to DEATH by the capitalist interests of the South because they were organizing Negro and white workers into industrial unions. THE RIGHT OF THE WORKERS TO ORGANIZE IS AT STAKE! FIGHT FOR THE IMMEDIATE UNCONDITIONAL RELEASE of FOSTER, MINOR, AMTER, RAYMOND who are in jail because they demanded "work or wages" for the millions of jobless, and THE SIX IMPERIAL VALLEY ORGANIZERS serving sentences of 42 years for leading a strike of agricultural workers in the Imperial Valley. DEFEND THE RIGHT OF THE WORKERS TO STRIKE! Again: The Electric Chair! Help Free Labor's Militants for the Class Struggle Answer the persecution of the bosses! Answer the savage attempts of the fascists and lynching mobs to outlaw and destroy militant Working Class Organizations! STRIKE BLOW FOR BLOW! SHOW YOUR WORKING CLASS SOLIDARITY! BUILD A POWERFUL DEFENSE FUND FOR LABOR'S FIGHTERS! Support the Drive of the INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE to Free Our Fighters! WORKERS EVERYWHERE IN THE SHOPS, MINES, FACTORIES, ON THE FARMS, IN ALL WORKERS' ORGANIZATIONS! GIVE GENEROUSLY GIVE QUICKLY SWELL THE DEFENSE FUND WITH THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS! ACT AT ONCE. SEND EVERY DOLLAR YOU CAN. GET YOUR FELLOW WORKERS TO DO THE SAME NAME ADDRESS AMOUNT _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Total__________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Send Contributions to: Collected by: INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE Name:____________________________City__________________ 80 E. 11th St., Rm 430, New York N.Y. Address___________________________State_________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Join the INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE Read and Subscribe to the LABOR DEFENDER, Militant Labor Monthly Pictorial, 10 cents per copy ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ No. 329THE ATLANTA SIX: From left to right - Herbert Newton, M.H. Powers, Anna Buriak, Mary Dalton, Joe Carr. Photo of Henry Storey, the sixth defendant, is not included. All face death sentence. THE MARCH 6th FIGHTERS: From left to wright - William Z. Foster, Robert Minor, Israel Amter. Inset: Harry Raymond. Save Them for the Working Class In every section of the country the onslaught of the capitalist class becomes fiercer in the effort to intimidate and crush the resentment of the workers towards their misery and the oppression in the present period of war preparations and growing unemployment. With bloodshed and brutality the bosses attempt to destroy the militancy of the workers and prevent organized struggle. The terror of the bosses is especially directed against the most exploited sections of the working class, the Negroes and the foreign born. To smash the solidarity of white and Negro workers, race riots, mob hysteria, savage lynchings and legal murders are being perpetrated against the workers. The drive to fingerprint, register, spy upon and persecute the foreign born workers and deliver them into the hands of the fascists in Europe by deporting them, has become intensified. The Fish investigation gives the stamp of government approval to this growing reign of terror of its masters. Nearly 5,000 workers have been arrested up to June, 1930, 19 Negro workers have been lynched, scores of others murdered. The blood of Ella May, Steve Katvos, Levy, Gonzales and Weisenberg is still fresh on the hands of the police and lynch mob murderers. The capitalist answer to the demands of the unemployed workers for bread has been clubbings, torture and jail. In California's dungeons lie the fighters for a better standard of life for the bitterly exploited agricultural workers in the Imperial Valley. Now the bosses rush to send our six comrades to the electric chair for the "crime" of building industrial unions of exploited Negro and white workers. ________________________________________________________ Smash Boss Brutality and Terrorism! Against Lynchings and the Persecution of the Foreign Born! Fight for the Right to Organize, Strike, Assemble! Demand Freedom for Our Class War Prisoners! ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ MONEY FOR LEGAL DEFENSE IS URGENT. SEND FUNDS IMMEDIATELY _____________________ ____________________________ Open Build a the Powerful Prison Defense Gates! Fund to Free Them! _____________________ ____________________________ THE SIX IMPRISONED IMPERIAL VALLEY ORGANIZERS: Bottom row - Danny Roxas, Oscar Erickson, Carl Sklar, and Hariuchi. Top row: Lawrence Emery and Frank Spector, in jail for 42 years.June 11, 1930. COMMITTEE ON COAL AND POWER 70 Fifth Ave., New York. SECRETARY WILBUR AND THE POWER COMMISSION SELL OUT TO THE POWER TRUST. The Federal Power Commission has done its heroic bit to allay the business depression by a timely gift to the struggling power trust. The Flathead water-power site in Montana, second in importance only to Muscle Shoals, is the generous donation. It has been leased to the Rocky Mountain Power Company, a subsidiary of the Montana Power Company. The lease is being heralded as a great victory for the consuming public and for the Indian owners of the site. Its exponents point out with much satisfaction that a great natural resource will no longer go to waste, that the Indians will receive a return above all original expectations, and that the terms of the license constitute the very ideal of public regulation. The deal is, in reality, the greatest hoax which has been perpetrated upon the public in recent years. So glaringly evident is this, from the terms of the license itself, that it cannot be explained by Secretary Wilbur of and his assistants as an oversight. It stands out as a deliberate attempt to perpetuate and strengthen the power monoply. Much might be said against entrusting the development of this immensely valuable project to the Montana Power Company under any conditions. Not only is it the power czar of the vast area in which it operates, but, with the closely associated Montana Copper Company, it is the political dictator of this are as well. A Congress interested in protecting the public and its rights might well have considered federal development of the Flatland power sites as an effective measuring stick. A great deal could be said, moreover, in favor of the establishment of wholesome competition by the grant of the license to Walter H. Wheeler, the independent competing applicant. The lease should at least have been delayed until the completion of the pending reorganization of the Power Commission. But even granting the desirability of development under Montana Power Company auspices, a vastly different type of contract was necessary to protect the consumer. Certain extraordinary provisions of the license itself provide painfully sufficient evidence of the Commissions betrayal of the public interest. Justification of the least on the ground of needed development to avoid further waste of energy is decidedly specious. The Montana Power Company has no intention of adequate development. It is merely following the dog-in-the-manger policy of preempting all available sites lest they fall into the hands of an embarrassing competitor. Already in control of undeveloped sites on the Missouri River capable of producing 200,000 horsepower, the company now comes into possession, for a 50-year period, of Flathead water-power site No. 1, which is the key to the profitable development of the five Flathead sites with their potential capacity of 214,000 primary horsepower. It purposes to develop, however, only 68,000 horsepower of the 114,000 primary horsepower capable of generation at site No. 1. The rest it can guard, through benevolent federal cooperation, against competition which might menace its monoply position with its inflated capitalization and excessive profits. The Federal Power Commission, in facilitating this state of affairs, has deviated from its general policy of insisting that a power company develope all the sites that are possible on the river upon which is has leases before it will be granted a site on another river. A significant arrangement is the granting of the license, not to the Montana Power Company, but to a dummy organization, the Rocky Mountain Power Company. The licensee agrees that its securities shall be issued only to the Montana Power Company. (Article 39) The terms of the license establish very rigid control over the Rocky Mountain organization. It is to be capitalized only on the actual cost of construction, its accounts will be independently maintained and under the constant scrutiny of the Federal Power Commission, and the profits from power sold are to be limited (Article 36) to "an average return of eight per cent per annum on its actual legitimate investment" in facilities and property used in the generation and delivery of the power. With the cost of generation at close to two mills per kilowatt hour, and with the exclusion of all fictitious values from the rate base, the purchasers are in line for the full benefits of government control. It is this feature which has aroused the enthusiasm of many proponents of effective regulation. But this optimism unfortunately, is somewhat premature. The joker, and there is a beautiful one, is to be found in Article 36 of the license. "The licensee agrees that it will enter into a contract with The Montana Power Company under which all electrical power or energy generated by the project covered by this license, except that delivered to or reserved for the United States pursuant to the provisions of this license, shall be delivered to or made available for said The Montana Power Company or its nominee". This there will be no cheap power at cost plus eight per cent for Montana towns and farms, no cheap power for new industry that might be attracted to the Flathead region, only cheap power for the Montana Power Company to pass on to the consumers of the state at exhorbitant rates. If the dummy licensee could be thus adequately controlled under the Federal Power Act, who was not this control imposed upon the actual licensee where it would have been of direct benefit to the people of Montana? The rate control applied to the dummy licensee is of little or no value except to the Montana Power Company. Applied to the parent company as licensee, this control could have been made of far reaching value in reducing rates to the ultimate consumers. If the Montana Power Company were the licensee, it would have been required to submit its financial structure and operations in all particulars to the direct scrutiny of the Commission. Under the convenient arrangement of the dummy organization the Montana Power Company is saved all such embarrassment. It can capitalize its contract with the Rocky Mountain Power Company, include this fictitious value in its rate base, and retain its excess profits from the sale of Flathead power with absolute impunity in so far as federal control is concerned.The device has the further use of making it appear that the Indian rental is high in comparison to the licensee's earnings. If the licensee were the Montana Power Company, then it would be apparent that the Indian rental was low when compared to the excess earnings of the Montana Power Company. Sworn testimony in the hearings before the Commission developed that the excess profits to the Montana Power Company from the sale of Flathead power will be $700,000 a year. An additional profit of $200,000 a year will accrue to the Thompson Falls site of the Company from the regulation of flow at Flathead site No. 1 But since these will be the profits of the actual, bot the dummy licensee, the Federal Power Commission will have not jurisdiction over their proper distribution to the Indians and the public. The Montana Power Company distributes nearly one-half its energy to the Montana Copper Company at a special rate, approximately one-half of the rate charged to other industrial consumers. Mr. John D. Ryan's intriguing device of a dummy licensee was admirably conceived to prevent the Commission from interfering with this arrangement between his two companies. True, the Public Service Commission of Montana will now have available important information as to production costs which it may use in determining rates. But the work of the Montana commission has been singularly ineffective. It has not prevented the excessive rates to industrial and domestic consumers which offset the cut rate sales to the Montana Copper Company. It has no jurisdiction, under Montana law, over the issuance of securities by the utility companies. It was unable to prevent the purchase by Mr. Ryan of the Thompson Falls power plant for $925,000 and its immediate sale to the Montana Power Company for $5,000,000 worth of stock in that company. It has not been able to prevent the Montana Power Company from carrying over 50 per cent of its total capitalization on its books as "water rights, franchises and contracts", and from charging the people of Montana interest and profits on that amount of water in its capitalization. It will be important to prevent the capitalization at more millions of dollars, the contract for the purchase of power from the Rocky Mountain Power Company. The Flathead license is, in brief, but another of the magnificent fictions of regulation. While the Federal Power Commission "regulates" the Rocky Mountain Power Company with all of the appropriate gestures of efficiency, its fond parent, the Montana Power Company, gathers in the concealed profits which could, under direct supervision, have been safeguarded for the Indians and the public. The completed contract, now secure as against action by Congress, is still vulnerable to action in the courts. From the point of view of the Indian owners of the Flathead site, of the competing applicant for the license, and of the consuming public,, the validity of many of its provisions, as well as the method of its negotiation, are open to legal attack. It is to be hoped that the opportunity will not be lost to nullify the contract in the courts, as well as to expose the ruthless neglect of the public interest displayed by the officials responsible for its perpetration.Com on Coal & Power Church Emergency Committee for Relief of Textile Strikers in Danville, Virginia 287 Fourth Ave., New York, N.Y. COMMITTEE Dr. Alva W. Taylor, Chairman Nashville, Tenn. Rev. James Myers, Secretary New York Rev. William B. Spofford, Treasurer New York Mrs. Richard Aldrich New York Rev. W. Russell Bowie New York Winifred Chappell New York Eleanor Copenhaver New York Jerome Davis New Haven, Conn. Mary Dreier New York Bishop Charles K. Gilbert New York Rev. Hubert Herring New York Rev. P.H. Hooks Danville, Va. Mrs. J. N. McEachern Atlanta, Ga. Rev. J. Howard Melish Brooklyn, N.Y. Rev. R. B. Nelson Winchester, Va. Rev. Ronald Tamblyn Greensboro, N. C. Mrs. Lucinda Terry Roanoake, Va. Rev. Worth M. Tippy New York Olive Van Horn New York Rev. John M. Walker Charlotte, N. C. Rev. Charles Weber New York Louis Young Nashville, Tenn. November 26, 1930 Dear Friend: "Tell President Hoover we're still keeping the peace", said a pickett on midnight duty in front of the Riverside and Dan River Cotton Mills. His remark had a reference to a request by the President for avoidance of violence in the big strike at Danville, Virginia. Why admire Ghandi at a distance when men and women are making every effort at non-resistance in a critical situation in the United States? Mr. Myers has recently returned from a first hand investigation of the situation and reports: (1) A remarkable demonstration of peaceful picketing by the strikers who are the finest type of reliable citizens and church folks. They are, however, determined to stand out for their rights to the last ditch. (2) At this advances state of the strikes, a real danger that the pressure of hunger, privation and sickness might result in despair with the possible violence and bloodshed which always constitute a danger under such extreme circumstances. (3) A reliable and systematic handling of relief by the union commissary although funds have been low. The meagerness of diet (flour, fat-back, beans, etc) will tend to undernourishment and the spread of pellagra. Nearly 15,000 people including wives and children depend on this commissary for daily food. (4) A further effort toward mediation is now being made by a committee of distinguished Quakers. A more extended report on causes and conduct of the strike may be obtained on application from the Federal Council of Churches. Meanwhile the Church Emergency Committee appeals to you to send the largest subscription you can possibly afford in order to keep these people from actual hunger and sickness. Funds will be turned over to the United Textile Workers to be applied solely and directly for food, pending the outcome of the renewed efforts toward mediation. Please make checks payable to Rev. W. B. Spofford, Treasurer, and mail in enclosed envelope. Very sincerely yours, T:M Alva W. Taylor, Chairman 181Danville Strikers AsB appeals 19?0 W. B. Spofford, Treasurer CHURCH EMERGENCY COMMITTEE 287 Fourth Avenue New York City JOHN NEVIN SAYRE CHAIRMAN KIRBY PAGE ARTHUR SWIFT VICE-CHAIRMEN WELLINGTON H. TINKER TREASURER SUE FLANAGAN ASSISTANT TREASURER HAROLD E. FAY EXECUTIVE SECRETARY A.J. MUSTE FIELD AND INDUSTRIAL SECRETARY CLAUD D. NELSON SOUTHERN SECRETARY JEFFREY W. CAMPBELL STUDENT SECRETARY FOR NEW ENGLAND THE FELLOWSHIP OF RECONCILIATION 2929 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, N.Y. Telephone: UNiversity 4-5675 Cable Address: "FELLOWSHIP', New York January 14, 1937 To Fellowship Members and Friends: Our Council has carefully considered a plan for our work in 1937 and presents on the enclosed contribution card the budget it has prepared to finance essential expenditures. To all of us, I hope, the Fellowship is much more than an organization. It should be a personal linking pioneers who risk attempting a pacifist pattern of living in a world that prepares to conscript mankind for war. Like St. Francis and his followers, we are bound in an Order which calls us to be somewhat separate from the world, although at the same time striving to permeate the world with love's leaven. Manifestly we can only succeed if we stand by each other and maintain solidarity; especially with our comrades in Fascist and conscript countries overseas. A financial contribution to the Fellowship and its international work is one important way by which you can stand in. Won't you therefore contribute as much as possible now; or else indicate on the enclosed card what you intend to give this year? If I can hear from you within the next fortnight, it will greatly aid the prosecution of the Fellowship's work. Yours gratefully, John Nevin Sayre 393Fellowship of Reconciliation Massachusetts Council for the Abolition of the Death Penalty 87 WASHINGTON STREET BROOKLINE, MASSACHUSETTS President Hon. Herbert C. Parsons Vice-Presidents Dr. Miriam Van Waters Prof. Sheldon Glueck Treasurer Cornelius A. Parker Secretary Mrs. Herbert B. Ehrmann Legislative Counsel Samuel B. LeVine Executive and Legislative Committee George F. Burrows Miss Mary E. Driscoll Raynor M. Gardiner Hon. Joseph B. Harrington Judge Kenneth Johnson Miss Mildred Keane Rev. Howard P. Kellett Mrs. Colin MacDonald Mrs. John J. Mahoney Henry J. Mascarello Mrs. Rose Norwood A. Frank Reel George E. Roewer Hon. Charles A. Rome Francis H. Russell Mrs. Arthur Shurcliff Rev. Cornelius Trowbridge Miss Rosamond Vahey Advisory Council Rabbi Samuel J. Abramas Mrs. Roland M. Baker Dr. L. Vernon Briggs Judge Lawrence Brooks Mrs. Dorothy Kirchwey Brown Rev. Raymond Calkins, D.D. Prof. Z. Chafee, Jr. Mrs. Ernest A. Codman John S. Codman Rabbi Beryl D. Cohon Judge John R. Comerford Rev. Leroy W. Coons, D.D. Dr. Hilbert F. Day Dr. Robert C. Dexter Miss Zara du Pont Rev. Christopher Eliot, D.D. Rev. Samuel A. Eliot, D.D. Dr. Henry B. Elkind Mrs. James W. Elliott Harold K. Estabrook Dr. Alexander M. Forbes Victor A. Friend Miss Charlotte B. Hallowell Prof. Harrison Harley Prof. Gorham W. Harris Rev. Everett C. Herrick, D.D. Hector M. Holmes Prof. Manley O. Hudson Judge Jacob J. Kaplan Rabbi Henry Levi Rabbi Joshua L. Liebman Reuben L. Lurie Prof. Kirtley F. Mather Prof. C. M. McConnell Mrs. William C. McGuckin Wendell P. Murray Pres. William A. Neilson Malcolm Strong Nichols David K. Niles Rev. George L. Paine Henry H. Perry Mrs. William Z. Ripley Rabbi Herman H. Rubenovitz Dr. Stephen Rushmore Prof. Francis B. Sayre Prof. Clarence R. Skinner Prof. Jessie E. Southwick Dr. A. Warren Stearns Mrs. Elizabeth Tilton Prof. David D. Vaughan Dean Henry B. Washburn, D.D. Curtis H. Waterman Mrs. Eva Whiting White Judge Joseph T. Zottoli CAMPAIGN LETTER NO. 3 ___________________________ To Our Members and Friends: The Hearing on Bills relating to the death penalty has been set for Wednesday, March 26th, Judiciary Committee, Room 222, State House, at 10:30 A.M. We urge you to mark this date on your calendar; plan to attend and bring as many others as possible, Five Bills will be presented: 2 for Abolition (Sen. 65 and 138); 2 for the Alternative (Sen. 139 and House 770); 1 to substitute lethal gas for the electric chair. Your Executive Committee has endorsed both the Abolition and the Alternative Bills. No action will be taken on lethal gas. The believe that the Alternative Bill can be passed at this session and we are concentrating our efforts on that Bill. The fight has been long and discouraging, but there is definite indication of success for the "Alternative." (Copy and arguments enclosed.) We have engaged competent legislative counsel, who is actively lobbying the Bill. In the last letter we asked members to let us know whether they would contact legisla- tors, send names to be recorded, and attend the Hearing. Some of you responded. It will be impossible to succeed in this campaign unless all interested help now. The Legis- lature will not meet again until 1943. Contact your legislators. Ask them to vote favorably on Senate 139 and to do all possible to help its passage. If you do not know their names, write us. To those of you who have continued to help financially we are most grateful. Without you this work would have been discontinued. We are hampered by lack of funds which we need immediately for printing, mailing and office work. We enclose subscription blank and appeal to all who have not contributed to send checks, in any sum, for this campaign.* Remember: the first act of the dictators has been the restoration of the death penalty in foreign countries where it had been successfully abolished for many years. Democracy is stronger without it. Sincerely, Sara R. Ehrmann (Mrs. Herbert B. Ehrmann) Executive Secretary *If you have subscribed, kindly ignore this appeal. OFFICIAL RECEIPT INSTITUTION FOR THE CHINESE BLIND, INC. (U.S.A.) 156 Fifth Avenue, New York 10, N.Y. No. SS3965 12/8/1947 Received Two Dollars ($2.00) Donor Miss Alice Stone Blackwell 1010 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge 38, Mass. Check X Cash Stamps MORRIS W. EHNES Book Treasurer Contributions are deductible from Federal Income Tax. FORMER FOREIGN MINISTER, NANKING GOVERNMENT "HON. FRANK W CHINGLUN LEE", now CHINESE SPECIAL ENVOY TO U. S. A. and SUPREME-CHIEF ADVISOR to the CHINESE LEGATION, WASHINGTON, D.C. 1884 - Frank W. Chinglun Lee, born in New York City. Educated in New York Public Schools. Graduated New York University - took post graduate work in University of Chicago; special studies in Columbia University. 1906) - Appointed by Dr. Sun Yet-Sen to do extensive educational work in Canton, 1910) China until 1910. 1911) - Made Chief of the Bureau of Foreign Affairs in Canton, China. 1913) 1917 - Became confidential advisor and chief secretary to Dr. Sun Yet-Sen. 1918) - Was made Chief of Political Department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs 1920) (Military Government) at Canton. 1920) - Promoted to the position of Commissioner of Foreign Affairs and concurrently 1922) First Chinese Superintendent of Customs. 1923) - Held the position of the Professor of Political Science and History at 1927) Shanghai College, Shanghai. 1927 - Appointed Chief of Political Department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at Nanking. 1928 - Made Councillor in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs - and was appointed delegate from China to Permanent Court of Arbitration. 1929) - Appointed Minister to Mexico. 1930) 1930) - Vice Minister and later Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nanking 1931) (after Mr. C. T. Wang resigned) 1932 - January - Appointed Special Envoy to U. S. A. and Supreme-Chief Advisor to Chinese Legation, Washington, D. C. ------------------ Hon. Lee is expected in Boston on February 21st en route to Western Coast. While in Boston he will pay respects to the Governor, the Mayor and other Leading Federal and State officials. He will be given several official functions and ban- quests to be arranged by Dr. Tehyi Hseih, Director Chinese Service Bureau. (Phones Algonquin 8062 and Devonshire 8261). Hon. Lee will be the personal guest of Dr. Hseih during his stay in Boston, three days from the 21st of February 1933. ------------------------------- An official Chinese-American banquet is arranged for the 23rd February at which Lieutenant Governor Bacon, Mayor Curley, several University Presidents, Deans Government Professors, executives of Chambers of Commerce, Service Clubs, and Women's Clubs will be present. Invited guests limited to only three hundred. ------------------------------- Please send me tickets for the CHINESE-AMERICAN BANQUET at Twentieth Century Club, the 23rd of February at 7 P. M. I desire____________________________________Tickets at $3.00 each. I enclose $____________________________________ M_____________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ Please make checks payable to- CHINESE SERVICE BUREAU COMMITTEE 3 Joy Street Boston, Telephone, CAPitol 7960 JUDGE EMMA FALL SCHOFIELD Chairman Dr. S. Parkes Cadman, Dr. David A. Brown, James A. Thomas, Dr. Sidney L. Gulick Chairman, National Committee Chairman of the Board Treasurer Secretary D.O. Lively, National Director CHINA FAMINE RELIEF U.S.A. INCORPORATED National Headquarters 205-217 East Forty-Second Street NEW YORK CITY ________ Dear Subscriber: You are a Good Samaritan. Your contribution will save human lives. 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City________________________________________________State_______________________ NAME ADDRESS _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________China Famine CHINESE SERVICE BUREAU COMMITTEE Three Joy Street, Boston Director Tehyi Hsieh and Committee Cordially invite your presence at the CHINESE-AMERICAN BANQUET in honor of His Excellency FRANK W. CHINGLUN LEE Special Envoy to the United States and Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nanking, China THURSDAY EVENING, the TWENTY-THIRD of FEBRUARY Nineteen Hundred and Thirty-three at Seven O'Clock, Post Meridian TWENTIETH CENTURY CLUB, THREE JOY STREET, BOSTON R.S.V.P. Chairman Mrs. Justice Emma Fall SchofieldChinese Editorial from NEWS-TRIBUNE Waltham, Mass. ______________________ FRIDAY MAY 15, 1931 ______________________ Knows it all. The Massachusetts Senate, by a vote of 23 to 9, rejected the resolve providing for the investigation of a commission to be named by the governor into the whole question of capital punishment. The character of the debate indicated that the senators who opposed the resolution had made up their minds that they knew all there was to know on the subject, that they feared the result of a study in Massachusetts and elsewhere would show that capital punishment had failed in its purpose and that it was not worth $3000, the sum to be allowed the commission for expenses, to ascertain facts for guidance in future legislation. The Senate apparently assumed that the resolve was sponsored only by those who are opposed to the death penalty. This is not the fact. Senator Nicholson one of those who voted for the resolve, said on the floor of the Senate that he favored capital punishment but that he was willing to be persuaded that he was wrong if convincing facts could be produced. That is the attitude of several of those who signed the petition for the legislation. It is true that the opponents of capital punishment were strong for the investigation largely because they believe that it would prove their contention is justified. They showed a far greater confidence in their cause than those who cling to the death penalty. The debate, such as it was, consisted principally in expressions of belief by the senators opposed to the resolve that capital punishment should not be abolished. On the merits of the resolve little was said. The proponents of the legislation that failed should not be discouraged. Neither those who are firm in their conviction that the death penalty should be retained on the statute books nor those who are undecided can with any logic support their stand against an impartial investigation. It is not an argument against the resolve that the opponents of capital punishment are practically unanimous for it. It is merely an admission that they are not afraid to face facts. _____________________________ HOUSE NO. 495 Filed by Representative Arnold Leonard of Watertown upon petition of Zechariah Chafee, Jr. Mrs. Arthur G. Rotch, Mrs. Herbert B. Ehrmann, B. Loring Young, Victor Friend ________________________________ Resolve providing for an investigation by a Special Commission relative to the Expediency of abolishing Capital Punishment in this Commonwealth. _________________________________ April 14, 1931 FAVORABLY reported (10 to 6) by the Judiciary Committee. Because of a $3000. appropriation it was then referred to Senate Ways and Means. May 12, 1931 ADVERSELY reported by Senate Ways and Means, although three of the five members of this Committee voted for it after debate in the Senate. May 13, 1931 REJECTED in the Senate by a rising vote of 23 to 9. __________________________________________ Massachusetts Council for the Abolition of the Death Penalty 6 Byron Street, Boston, Mass.Death Penalty THE MASSACHUSETTS FOR THE ABOLITION OF THE DEATH PENALTY Six Byron Street, Boston, Massachusetts Dear Members and Friends: May 25, 1931 ANNUAL MEETING ____________________ Our second annual meeting was held Wednesday, April 6th, 1931. Reports of the President, Treasurer, Executive Secretary and Nominating Committee were read and approved. Dean George W. Kirchwey of Columbia University, formerly warden at Sing Sing, spoke on the situation of Abolition of Capital Punishment elsewhere, stating that he believed there is a strong growing sentiment for Abolition. He hoped that local organizations would follow the work of Massachusetts. LEGISLATIVE _____________ Senate 23, For Abolition of Capital Punishment, was given "Leave to withdraw" House 294, For Abolition of Capital Punishment, was grated "Next annual session", pending the report on House 495. House 495, A Resolve for the appointment of a special unpaid committee to investigate the advisability of abolishing Capital Punishment. On April 14, the Joint Judiciary Committee reported favorably (10 to 6) this measure. It was then referred to Senate Ways and Means. Despite the apparent opposition the bill might have been passed had this Committee brought in a favorable report. On May 12, Senate Ways and Means reported adversely, although in the Senate three members of this Committee (Parkman of Boston, Haley of Rowley, Nicholson of Wareham) voted for the Commission and two members (Moyse of Waltham, Warren of Lawrence) against it. We may draw conclusions as to the reasons for an adverse report from this Committee when a majority of its members voted against their own report. On May 13, House 495 was defeated in the Senate by a rising vote of 23 to 9. Interest was manifest but leadership was totally lacking in the debate. The speakers opposing the Resolve did not confine their remarks to the question of investigating the facts, but bitterly attacked the Abolition of Capital Punishment. SenatorDavis of Haverhill, Chairman of the Joint Judiciary Committee, an ardent believer in Capital Punishment, presented as his address to the Senate a speech of Dean Archer of Suffolk Law School but he did not attribute his remarks to the dean. This speech has been read repeatedly at public hearings and at various meetings and is of the most emotional and superficial sort. Senator David claims that he has seriously considered this question and yet he chooses this speech in preference to the statements of Dr. A. Warren Stearns, Professor Frederick Hoffman, Warden Lewis B. Lawes, Mr. B. Loring Young, and countless other authorities. Senator Goodwin of Melrose was in charge of the bill and made a brief statement in favor of it. A roll-call was not requested. It finally became apparent that the controlling group in the Senate had determined to defeat the investigation. One of their members on the Judiciary Committee had previously been persuaded to vote against his beliefs in opposing the Resolve. These significant facts remain: 1. The Joint Judiciary Committee, in spite of the hostility of the two chairmen, reported the bill favorably, and 2. Three of the five members of Senate Ways and Means favored the Resolve although an adverse report was submitted. The bill made unusual progress in its first year. Legislators and newspapers advocate its re-introduction next year and predict favorable results. The enclosed editorial from the home city newspaper of Senator Moyse of Waltham (Chairman, Senate Ways and Means) does not concur with his action in opposing House 495. ----------------- The active work draws to a close. Will you do any or all of the following? 1. Distribute literature during the summer. 2. Try to arrange for discussions in the fall. 3. Take every opportunity to respond to newspaper articles. 4. Get new members so that we may have better financial support. Sincerely yours, SRE:D Sara R. Ehrmann, Executive Secretary Enc. CENTRALIA PUBLICITY COMMITTEE 827 NORTH TOWER AVENUE CENTRALIA, WASHINGTON CENTRALIA CASE. CONTRIBUTION SLIP I wish to aid the struggle to free the eight innocent Centralia prisoners still serving an unjust sentence in the Washington State penitentiary at Walla Walla, Washington. Please find enclosed $_______ to apply as follows:- (Place X in place desired,) General Fund ( ) $________ This fund is used for the general working expences of this committee such as material, research work, wages, etc. Court Fund ( )$________ We are trying to raise 2000.00 to take the Centralia Case into court again. Family Relief ( )$________ We try to give $20.00 to each of the three families of the Centralia prisoners which amounts to $60.00 per month. Any amounts of the $60.00 will be held in trust to be used for this purpose only when the amount isn't reached on certain months. Prison Relief( )$________ We try to give $5.00 per month to the prisoners who will accept same for incidentals needed while incarcerated. ******* Itemized financial statements issued monthly. Copies free upon request. Receipts issued for all contributions. Monthly bulletins issued. Free for distribution. Free literature upon request. Date___________________ Name____________________________ Street_____________________________ City & _____________________________ StateELMER SMITH PLEADS FOR LIBERTY OF CENTRALIA MEN CENTRALIA, Wash., July 4.- Today, July 4, 1928, my thoughts are far away from the parades, martial music and the decorations to make war appear beautiful and prepare use for the next. My heart bleeds for my brothers in Walla Walla and their families, and I look forward to the day when the workers will no longer tolerate the mobbing, the tarring and feathering, jailing and even lynching of their militant members who are guilty of no crime except loyalty to their class. "And I saw within the jail those who gave liberty to the slave and those who unbounded the mind of man, and those who led onward to Freedom, Justice and Love. Woe to the cause that has not passed through a prison- And the hosts within held up their arms, and the marks of their shackles were upon them. But I hid my hands behind me, for there was no mark on my wrists." PAROLE BOARD CONSIDERS Eight and one-half long years of grasping hope, with all the energy of despair, and still they wait; the families clinging to hope- yearning for their loved ones and counting the minutes of delay that seem like years. The Washington Parole Board set aside June 14, 1928, at Walla Walla to consider the Centralia case - to determine whether or not Bert Bland, Eugene Barnett, O. C. Bland, John Lamb, James McInerney, Britt Smith, Ray Becker and Loren Roberts should be released. Myself, representing the Centralia Publicity Committee of 827 North Tower Avenue, Centralia, Wash,; Miss Charlotte Todes, secretary of the Centralia Liberation Committee of 619 University street, Seattle, Wash.; Mr. Taylor, secretary of the Tacoma Central Labor Council; Mr. William J. Finn, vice-president of the Washington State Federation of Labor, representing the Spokane Central Labor Council, with the assistance of the three wives of the three Centralia defendants, who are married, and their families, presented the matter. Much new material was presented. While the board wasin session a telegram came from the secretary of the Seattle Central Council stating that the Seattle Central Labor Council unanimously requested the release of these men. A member of the American Legion had been selected to represent the Spokane Council, but at the last minute and emergency arose that necessitated his absence, and Mr. Finn, the Council secretary, took his place. JURORS PLEAD FOR VICTIMS A majority of the trial jurors, seven to be exact, have signed a petition to the governor, asking that these men, who are still in prison in utter violation of their written plea for leniency, be at once released. This petition was presented to the governor by five of the jurors in person. These same seven jurors have, in addition, written personal letters to the governor, stating in detail their reasons for urging release. Each one of the seven has also executed an affidavit, which affidavits show conclusively that they have convicted innocent men; that they were intimidated into their verdict of guilty, and that the same was prompted by actual fear of their own lives. The board's attention was specifically called to the fact that not one of the Centralia defendants was even charged with actually killing or hurting anyone; that the charge was one of conspiracy - a conspiracy to kill Warren O. Grimm. The only evidence of a conspiracy was the so-called confession of Thomas Morgan. GHOULS TERRORIZE JAIL Morgan was held in jail as a witness until after the trial - he was one of the original defendants and was given his freedom - his very life. if you please - for his confession. He is now in the state penitentiary of Oregon, at Salem, having been convicted of the crime of rape against a 13-year-old girl. This confession was obtained by taking the mutilated and already putrid body of Westley Everest and throwing the same right into the "bullpen," into the very presence of the Centralia defendants and Morgan. While the body was there Morgan was taken out to make his so-called confession. The jury brought in a second-degree verdict against five of the defendants; a third-degree verdict against John Lamb and Eugene Barnett; an insanity verdict against Loren Roberts, and a verdict of acquittal for Mike Shehan and Elmer Stuart Smith. The judge refused to accept these verdicts and sent the jury back. They then brought back a second-degree verdict against John Lamb and Eugene Barnett - making a second-degree verdict against seven of the defendants. The capitalistic press, the labor papers and the American Legion papers all agreed that the verdict should have been first- degree murder or nothing. The verdict was second-degree murder, meaning that there was no planning, no premeditation - NO CONSPIRACY. CENTRALIA ASKS FREEDOM Witnesses were jailed during the trial and charged with perjury when they connected Warren Grimm with the actual raid on the hall. Now three personal friends of Warren Grimm, P.M. Crinion, Cecil DeWitte and Clyde DeWitte, under oath, state that they saw him break in the door of the hall before any shots were fired. A petition signed by 2020 citizens and residents of Centralia, requesting the release of these men, was presented to the governor and then filed with the Parole Board. The petition is signed by a number of the leading business and professional men of Centralia. This is especially significant when we consider that there are only 3000 registered voters in Centralia. The people here realize that this terrible blot on Centralia must be eliminated - at least a united effort on the part of the people here to partially right this criminal injustice by the release of these men would go a long ways towards redeeming Centralia. Every day dozens of people make inquiry of the writer as to whether or not the Parole Board has yet acted. PROSECUTION JOINS PLEA W.H. Abel, chief of prosecution counsel in the Centralia case, has written the governor, urging the release of these men and stating that their conviction was unjust. This letter is in the possession of the Parole Board. In this short letter I can only touch on a few of the sordid facts of the Centralia case, the Parole Board and the governor know all the facts; during more than three long years a mountain of evidence, showing the unjust conviction of the Centralia defendants, has been piled up before the governor and the Parole Board. Never was a matter more thoroughly presented to any governor or any Parole Board. They have been told and retold of the action of the trial jurors; of the paying ex-service men $4.,00 per day to sit in the court- room in their uniforms and intimidate witnesses and jurors; of the stationing and camping of a contingent of the United States army on the very campus of the courthouse, with the deliberate intention of intimidating the jury into a verdict of guilty by marching the jury past them three times a day and waking them up in the morning with the bugle call; of the 30 or more affidavits showing a raid on the hallbefore any shooting; of the affidavit of Elsie Hornbeck Sherlie repudiating her testimony against Barnett, of the reign of terror surrounding the conviction of the Centralize boys; of the browbeating and intimidation of witnesses; of the scandal school for witnesses at Montesano during the trial, where each witness for the prosecution was schooled in preparation for his false testimony; of the lynching and mutilation of at least one person who dared oppose; of the lumber trust conspiracy initiated by George F. Russell, secretary of the Employers' Association, to raid the hall and forever rid the woods of the Loggers' Union; of the jabbing of bayonets into Ralph Pierce, Seattle attorney, when he first came to Centralia to defend the boys, and his immediate deportation; of the use of the consummation of their own deviltry in the prosecutions following under the Criminal syndicalism Law; and so on, in an endless chain of treachery, tyranny and injustice that would make Nero blush for shame. WHAT PRICE JUSTICE? Words seem so weak and helpless to express the horrible infamy of the whole matter. And still they hesitate to act. July 4, 1928, and we are still waiting - isn't there any power that can melt their hearts of ice? In the language of the Hon. Seymour Thompson, in addressing the Bar Association of Texas: "There is danger that the people will see these things all at once; see their enrobed judges doing their thinking on the side of the rich and powerful; see them look with solemn cynicism upon the sufferings of the masses nor heed the earthquake when it begins to rock beneath their feet; see them present a spectacle not unlike that of Nero fiddling while Rome burns. There is danger that the people will see all this at one sudden glance, and that the furies will then break loose and that all hell will ride on her wings." Let's do this one thing well; let's bring together all the power at our command to force the release of our noble brothers who have stood the brunt of the fight to organize the timber industry. IN THE FIGHT, ELMER E. SMITH. 717 North Tower avenue, Centralia, Wash. For further information write to THE CENTRALIA PUBLICITY COMMITTEE 724A North Tower Avenue, Centralia, Washington. 28ELMER SMITH C.S. Smith Chairman Sec'y The Centralia Publicity Committee Dedicated to - The Centralia Case of Nov. 11, 1919 OBLIGATION - Release of the eight innocent Centralia Victims now serving an unjust sentence in the Washington state penitentiary at Walla Walla. 724A- North Tower Avenue 28 CENTRALIA, WASHINGTON CENTRALIA PUBLICITY COMMITTEE 724A NORTH TOWER AVENUE Elmer Smith CENTRALIA, WASHINGTON C.S.Smith Chairman. Secretary Dedicated To:- The Centralia Case of Nov.11, 1919. Purpose: - Release of the Innocent Centralia Victims Now Serving Unjust Sentences In The Washing State Penitentiary. Bulletin. February 19, 1931 VALUABLE WORK BEING ACCOMPLISHED. THINGS ARE MOVING IN THE FIGHT TO FREE THE CENTRALIA PRISONERS. ------------------ Altho it might seem that the fight for the release of the six Centralia prisoners is lagging, never before has the situation been so intense. Forces that have never before been brought into play are now functioning and we look forward to interesting development. Of course we realize the anxious interest of our supporters, but the very nature of the work we are now engaged in demands utmost caution if we are to succeed and it is impossible to give details in a generally circulated bulletin. We do not want our many friends to think that we are deliberately holding information from them, but we must make sure that the opposition does not learn of our plans and as it is very easy for them to secure copies of this bulletin, the best policy is for us not to disclose them in it for the time being. Please be patient with us for a month or two yet, and we feel confident that you will agree with our present policy when we can finally make a detailed report. -------------------------------------- A WORD FROM THE CHAIRMAN ------------ More than eleven lonely, heartbreaking years; The population of the penitentiary has come and gone, again and again, and still our Centralia men remain, victims of commercial greed and war hysteria- food for the cold stone walls and iron bars of Walla Walla, those stone walls and iron bars that are so expressive of the system that holds them there. It is not easy to smile after eleven years of prison hell, nor is it easy to be hopeful. "Goddess of Liberty listen, Listen I say and look, To the sighs and sights of sorrow This side of Sandy Hook. Your eye is searching the distance. You are holding your light too high To see the slaves who are fettered, Tho close at your feet they lie." On the face of things it may appear eleven years of failure, of wasted effort of money and energy. Do not forget that no righteous effort is lost. "TRUTH IS ETERNAL.' WITH TRUTH AS THE ONLY WEAPON we have compelled the enemy to recede, inch by inch. In the Centralia Case, TRUTH has waded thru the muddy waters of reaction, trampled underfoot superstition, fear, ignorance, criminal hypocracy, false patriotism, war hysteria, blind hatred, tyranny, formidable forces of arrogance, bribery, schooled perjury and criminal conspiracies to conceal her, vicious and slimy press propaganda and today stands vindicated. Her enemies no longer dare to face her. She stands unconquered and unconquerable. We started to wipe out this stain, to obtain some measure of justice for those who gave their all. Let us never forget. Let us resolve anew to battle on, inch by inch, until complete victory has been won. We must have your earnest cooperation if we are to win. Remember, this is your fight. We can only win with your help. Elmer Smith -------------------------------------- NOTE: CHANGE OF ADDRESS ---------------- Mail is still being send to our former address at 827 N. Tower Ave. Please note our new address shown on the letterhead. This is important as some mail might go astray if not correctly addressed. --------------------------------------- ELMER SMITH RECOVERED ------------------ Elmer Smith has completely recovered from his recent operation and auto accident and is now enjoying good health again. He sends his best regards to all friends who felt such deep concern for his heath. Many thanks for the kind letters.Page 2. --------------------------------------- EUGENE BARNETT WRITES SONG -------------- Handicapped by prison bars, but spurred on by a deep love and loyalty for his wife and thirteen year old son, Eugene Barnett is endeavoring to make life easier for them by providing them with a few of the necessities of life. Snatched away from his family and thrown into prison more than eleven long years ago, despite his innocence of any crime, but just to satisfy the blood lust of predatory savages, he is trying hard in the very limited way allowed him, to provide some food, clothing and shelter for his loved ones. Regardless of the walls of stone and steel that hold his body a prisoner, his thoughts are always at home with his wife and boy who are the real victims of his incarceration. He visualizes their needs and suffering and is making a great effort to ease their hardships. For this purpose, Barnett is publishing a song and hopes to sell it among his many friends. It is a western love ballad and was written by him and sent to his wife as she lay in a hospital broken down by worries and dissapointments his long imprisonment had brought upon her. Deep longing and thoughts of the scant four years of happy companionship they enjoyed before he was torn away from her, and the heart eating grief and killing distress he was suffering, worrying over her serious condition and he unable to be with her, prompted the writing of this song. In his own words, he was thinking "Of her loyalty thru these eleven long years of imprisonment and what might have been had our courts been instruments of justice instead of weapons on oppression. Mrs. Eugene Barnett, Route 2 - Box 298A, Clarkston, Washington is handling the sales of the song so order and remit direct to her. The price is 50 cents and everybody who sings or plays an instrument should secure a copy and thereby help 'Gene in his brave attempt to provide for his family. ___________________________________________ SUNSTEDT CHILDREN THANK FRIENDS FOR XMAS CHEER ----------- Dear Fellow Workers and Friends: - A few lines to thank you all for the fine Christmas present that we received. At present I am working and supporting myself but lily and Elmer are still attending school. We are in good health and hope all our friends are enjoying the same. Again thanking one and all, we remain, Mae, Lily & Elmer Sunsdedt FUNDS URGENTLY NEEDED We are now faced with as serious a financial condition as we have ever found ourselves in and we urgently request further contributions as soon as possible. Up to the present date, this month, less than $20.00 has been received and if the balance of the month is no better, we will have to eliminate some very valuable work. That will seriously cripple our prospects. For the last ten months we have been steadily going behind in the General Working Fund, borrowing money to carry on necessary work. On Jan. 31, the General Fund reached a deficit of $388.24 not counting a printing bill of $155.63 that we owe. We have been as economical as possible in our work but still we are going behind hopelessly and with the work that is to be done, the situation is very discouraging. The only regular wages being paid now is the $18.00 per week for the secretary and out of this amount, numerous small items of expence are paid which takes from one quarter to sometimes nearly one half of it. Of course we realize that the prevailing industrial depression has made it impossible for all to contribute, but funds are necessary and perhaps, if you cannot contribute yourself, you could as a friend to do so. The situations now is such that we must receive a generous response to this appeal or casrifice a splendid opportunity to do valuable work. We do not want you to take the above as a personal criticism, as we fully realize the hard times and we deeply appreciate your splendid support and cooperation already so generously given, but we are desperately in need of help and consideration, to do what you can to alleviate this deplorable condition. Please respond as promptly as possible and end this critical situation, so we can be assured of backing enough to carry on. Thanking you for your splendid consideration in the past and feeling sure that funds will be sent in very soon, we remain, Yours for justice, Centralia Publicity Committee. By- C. S. Smith Acting Secretary FREE YOUTH A Room 601 SOCIALIST 7 EAST 15th STREET SEMI-MONTHLY NEW YORK CITY SUBSCRIPTION $.50 PER YEAR 246 Dear Friend: We are happy to announce the publication of the first issue of "Free Youth", the Socialist Youth semi-monthly, which we are herewith enclosing. To convey to young men and women as frankly and forcefully as possible the shortcomings of capitalism and the possibilities of socialism is the task that "Free Youth" sets for itself. By supplying intellectual dynamite in the form of facts, stimulating opinions, and progressive ideals we hope to aid in producing a vigorous, courageous, active, intelligent youth, willing and able to grapple with its problems. It is our purpose to mold the mankind of to-morrow thru the young of today, to help make the hopes and strivings of our time the realities of the future. We have enough funds to cover the first year's publication, but to secure the issuing of "Free Youth" for the second year we must appeal to you for help. We are making a special drive to secure 10,000 subscribers to "Free Youth" and only with your aid can we succeed. Show that you are with us in our endeavor to arouse the young minds of America to the injustices of capitalism by sending us $1.00 for a two year subscription or better still $5.00 so that we can put you and ten young people on our subscription list. Whatever you send, do it now! Mail your check in the enclosed envelope to-day. Sincerely yours, YOUTH PUBLISHING ASS'N Abe Belsky, PresidentFree Youth FREE YOUTH WORKERS UNITE OF THE WORLD ============================================ Vol 1, No. 1 FEBRUARY 15, 1931 PRICE 3 CENTS -=========================================== DOLES, DOLES AND DOLES They Are Bad For Your Souls ----- There is a process of capitalist politics and propaganda that may be called the "bogification" of ideas which, when supplemented by another mysterious system, the "bogiferous classification", becomes one of the greatest powers of the conservative mind in conserving itself. Don't be afraid; I'll explain. Capitalists take perfectly good words and ideas which are distasteful to them. In their press, pulpit, and schools, they hammer away at the stupidity and inadvisability of these plans. They continually repeat that some theory is bad, bad, bad. Eventually this idea is driven into the ordinary mind. Examples of this are easy to find: Socialism, Communism, free love, etc. This process has been named "bogification" for in truth it is making a "bogey" and a "bugaboo" of perfectly tenable ideas. You see of course that "bogification" is very valuable in itself; the capitalist is destroying an idea disagreeable to him. For the second process, however, the "bogification" of an exceedingly harmless word suffices; such as qwertyuiop. They continuously repeat with all their power, "Qwertyuiop is bad, terrible, and worse." Pretty soon everyone believes it. Besides, who is there to defend poor qwertyuiop? (Continued on page 3) COLLEGE RADICALS BATTLE R. O. T .C. ____ At present, 86,000 students are marching in R. O. T. C. units on American campuses. These courses are generally compulsory, often prerequisites for graduation, and always directed in part by the United States War Department. These courses often teach social and economic doctrines which would be contradicted in every classroom of the university. Among these gems of War Department pedagogy may be cited a definition of democracy as involving "agitation, anarchy, and discontent", a falsehood inculcated in the young at the expense of the taxpayers of a presumably democratic nation. (Continued on page 3) What Is Child Labor? For working-class homes - emptiness. For working-class mothers - sickly children. For working-class fathers - unemployment . For working-class children - broken minds in broken bodies. For workers of the world - poverty, ignorance, misery. For disease - a harvest. For poverty - a victory. For ignorance - a feast. For the future - despair. For bankers- interest. For manufacturers - cheap labor. For capitalists - profits. For capitalist politicians - "equal opportunity." For Hoover - "rugged individualism." Capitalism must bring poverty to the workers home and poverty brings child labor. THERE IS NO NEED FOR CHILD LABOR! POVERTY! CAPITALISM! ABOLISH CHILD LABOR - POVERTY CAPITALISM FACTS IN THE CASE ---- The 1930 census on the number of child laborers has not yet been published. The statistics at hand are based upon the reports of 1920. The report tells us that there were at that time 1,060,858 children at work between the ages of ten and fifteen. This census was taken at a time when a national child labor law, which was later declared unconstitutional, was in force. In addition, it was taken during the slow months of the year when many children were not needed. The estimate, as a result is very modest. (Continued on page 2) ABOLITION OF CHILD LABOR A Socialist's Remedy ___ A national child labor amendment is advocated by the Socialist Party of America and it part of its program. Such an amendment would give the state the power to prohibit or regulate the labor of children below the age of 18. Such a platform is in line with the Socialist policy of minimizing the evils of Capitalism while they are striving for the new economic order. It will be a relief measure rather than a permanent remedy. The difficulties of carrying out child labor laws under Capitalism are obvious. The wealth of manufacturers who are desirous of procuring the cheap labor of children will act as a means of blunting the weapon of state execution. Local magistrates and policemen and office holders will be weakened in their effectiveness by the gleam of gold. The power of the dollar will be utilized to procure clever lawyers and fixed juries to circumvent the law and make the courts a farce. In short, all the forces which capital has always brought to its aid to make the acts of legislatures null and void, will operate against the child labor laws. (Continued on page 3) HAM FISH FORGETS THOMAS JEFFERSON __ Congressman H a m Fish (R., New York) climaxed a brilliant career as law-maker and red-baiter when he demanded before professional patriots and daughters of wars and later before Congress in an official capacity that the Communist Party be outlawed and all alien Communists be deported. Among the organizations which asked for anti-Communist legislation at Carnegie Hall were the Boy Scout Foundation, the A. F. of L., and the New York Central Trades and Labor Council. Congressman Fish presented his report in Congress as chairman of the committee to investigate radicalisms and as an authority on the subject. (He himself admits it.) His figures for the "red-scare" are based upon admissions from the DAILY WORKER. (Continued on page 2)FREE YOUTH ===================================== DUTY TO MANKIND BAR TO CITIZENSHIP --- If any conclusions may be drawn from an examination administered recently to Reverend T. F. King, pastor of the Methodist Church in Lake Arthur, Louisiana, the young men of today are still expected to give up their lives for empty phrases and the perpetuation of a pecuniary ruling class. Judge: What did you do during the World War? Answer: I served for three years in the British Army, and spent about fifteen months overseas in Salonika. Judge: Suppose the United States engaged in a war that you considered wrong, what would be your attitude? Answer: I would consider it my duty to protect and defend Democracy. Judge: But supposing, to take a concrete example, California wanted more territory, and decided to seize some in Mexico, and everyone was drafted for some form of service, would you object or be loyal? Answer: I do not believe the United States would engage in such a war. Judge: I do not want any conditions. Under such circumstances, a war of aggression, would you object? Answer: In all probability, I would. I would first have to consider by duty to God and humanity. Judge: In other words, you can not subscribe under any and every condition to the doctrine, "My country right or wrong, but my country"? Answer: No. Judge: Then you cannot be admitted. What we want are citizens who are prepared to say, My country right or wrong, but my country." __________________ FACTS (Continued from page 1) The Census, moreover, did not include working children under ten years of age. Investigation has shown that there are many thousands of these at work in sugar beet fields, cranberry bogs, cotton plantations, and other forms of industrialized agriculture, as well as in street trades, tenement home work, domestic service, and canneries. The number of child laborers has not been on the decrease but during the last few years has been increasing steadily. The Children's Bureau of the United States Department of Labor issues statistics which show that child labor has increased 33 1/3 per cent in 1929. This occured at a time when adults were being laid off and wages were being cut. All such statistics, of course, exclude children who do tenement or other forms of homework. In three Rhode Island cities it was found that nearly 8 per cent of all children between 5 and 15 years of age were employed at home during the year. Of the 2,300 children, 4 per cent were under 6 years of age and 46 per cent under 11. In a Newark home, an investigator found an Italian widow with four children, 8, 7, 5, ______________________________________________ MEN ARE DYING FROM LACK OF WORK ___ CHILDREN ARE DYING FROM OVERWORK _____________________________________________ THE CHILDREN'S AUCTION ____ Who bids for the little children- Body, and soul and brain? Who bids for the little children- Young and without a stain? "We bid" said Pest and Famine, "We bid for life and limb; Fever and pain and squalor, Their brought young eyes shall dim, "I Bid," said Beggary, howling; "I bid for them one and all! I'll teach them a thousand lessons- To lie, to skulk, to crawl! "I'll Bid you higher and higher," Said Crime, with a wolfish grin, "For I love to lead the children Through the pleasant paths of sin. "Give me the little children, Ye good, ye rich, ye wise, And let the busy world spin round While ye shut your idle eyes; And your judges shall have work, And your lawyers wag the tongue, And the jailers and policemen Shall be fathers to the young!" -By Charles Mackay _______________________________________ and 3 years old all working. The children were suffering from impetigo, but nevertheless were enclosing the puffs in "sanitary" packages. Many children, because they are illegally employed, can be counted only with difficulty. These are many. A state investigation taken in New York in 1929 showed almost 800 children under 14 years of age. These child laborers are employed long hours and at dangerous tasks. Over half a million children are permitted to work more than 48 hours a week according to the in sufficient census of 1920. The effects of the work are disease, death and demoralization. A recent investigation carried on in Denver disclosed the following Of 286 families of best sugar workers, 443 children died. Similar investigations have shown a higher death rate, the average being 38 percent of all children born. Many are occupied in hazardous industries During a two year study of Georgia (1928-9), 8 boys of 16 and 17 were killed. 669 minors under 18 years of age suffered injuries rang FISH STORY (Continued from page 1) The tone and content of his suggestions smack of the war time mania over the 'bolsheviks". He suggests "the re-establishment of a bureau of investigation to keep under constant supervision the Communist organization in this country - and allied and kindred societies." He further suggests "that the Communist Party of America and the Worker's Party of America be excluded by law from all right to organize and function as political parties." Fish does not believe that we ought to allow the Communists to overthrow the government - he wants to have that honor. Before the Communists get a chance to destroy the fundamentals of this government, he says, we ought to destroy the government. Why, he continues, the Reds even want to rip up the constitution - we ought to prevent their doing that by ripping it up ourselves. The Congressman from New York was a star football player while at college. It is believed by some that that is the reason he missed reading the Constitution, especially the first ten amendments, while at the university. He also is believed to have skipped class when the Declaration of Independence was read. No picture could be taken by the representative of FREE YOUTH of any of the daughters of the many wars and revolutions. Although many people have expressed curiosity as just what the daughters of wars look like, so far as could be reasonably ascertained it seems as if they look like any other people. The same selfish spirit that pervaded Hamilton Fish seemed to be present in all of them. Just as he believed that he is the only one entitled to destroy civil liberty and this government, so the D. A. R. believes that the American Revolution was the only justifiable revolution. Oswald Garrison Villard and others were classed as "pink intellectuals" and "Socialits" who we "worse than Communists". Among optimistic circles it is believed that there is a good use in such a meeting in determining what the most stupid and reactionery part of the population thinks. Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends (life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness) it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it and institute a new government. Thomas Jefferson ing from those cause a week's loss of time to the amputation of an arm. Children below 14 are allowed to polish and clean machinery in action. A recent report of the Children's Bureau of the United States Department of Labor estimates the number of laborers below the age of 18 at 5,000,000. At the same time it is reported that there are some 5,000,000 men out of work. FREE YOUTH ======================================== FIGHT R. O. T. C. (Continued from page 1) It has been found that the more practical knowledge of combats instills an unpatriotic loathing of war and such needed instructions as the plunging of bayonets into straw dummies leaves American youth cold. The aim is now to idolize war. Parades led by pretty girls as colonels, and manoeuvres on that military anachronism, the horse, have displaced the more realistic mutilation of straw men. A painted veil is thrown over the horrors of mechanized slaughter. It seeks to draw a false and romanticized picture, to instill in these 86,000 marching men an emotional attitude which will make them plastic to the demands of the trenches. It is against this menace that socially conscious students in over a hundred colleges are protesting, students who refuse to sacrifice themselves to a capitalist class in its struggle for oil, steel, and coal. One national student protest, led by the Intercollegiate Student Council (under the auspices of the League For Industrial Democracy), is now under way. Petitions have been sent to the colleges, paid for in part by the students themselves, supporting two bills in Congress which seek to outlaw compulsory military drill from the colleges. The petitions attack the R. O. T. C. on the grounds that it instills an attitude in the students mind which tends to regard war as inevitable; that it is inconsistent with the Kellog Pact; that its removal from the control of the college makes it a peril to academic freedom; that it teaches at government expense doctrines contrary to the principles of our government, and that it constitutes a grave danger to world peace. It is felt that the time for local action on the part of the students in colleges directly involved, is long past; that military training as an over and dangerous preparation for war is the problem of all the students, since they more than any other group will be asked to share in the horrors of war. N.W. ------------------------------- A SOCIALIST'S REMEDY (Continues from page 1) Opposition to the law will not alone come from the employer. Many hungry parents, unable to provide for the need of their children and their own needs, will be forced to send their children to work. They will make attempts to avoid the teeth of the law by falsifying names, ages, health of children and the other requisites of the law. Work done at homes will be increased. Many of the evils will continue surreptitiously. Any remedy put into effect under capitalism, will be a partial cure. The only effective cure for child labor is one that goes to the roots of the problem. Children are employed today not because they enjoy the work, or because their parents are particularly avaricious, but because there is almost always the great motive of need. Poverty breeds child labor. Any system that would strike a blow at -------------------------------------------- The national platform of the Democratic and Republican parties on Child Labor: (We regret that we can not give more space to such golden wisdom. Ed.) ________________________________________ DOLES AND DOLES (Continued from page 1) So they take the new-found bogey, qweryuiop, and use it for the process of "bogiferous classification". Suppose transit unification comes up for consideration in some town and the conservatives are opposed to it. They just come out and say, "This transit unification means nothing less than qwertyuiop." And the pious people immediately vote against such a terrible thing. This is "bogiferous classification" - classifying something so that it bears (ferous) a label on it of bogey. You know how often every petty scheme has been labelled Socialism. Well now there is another convenient word - dole. If you don't like a certain measure for the relief of the unemployed, call it a dole. Food loans are doles. Unemployment insurance is a dole. It is used so indiscriminately that we Socaialists ought to start using it. In fact, the plan is very good. When the Red Cross comes for a contribution to you, smile, be nonchalant and say, "I don't believe in a dole." When the V. F. W. man tries to pin you with a flag and says, "Pay what you want, buddy." just you tell him that you do "not think that a dole is advisable." They will not stop to argue with you. If unemployment insurance can be called a dole so can any kind of charity. Unemployment insurance is, after all, the right of the worker, not a charity of the government. Society has given him unemployment; it should insure him against it. Dividends and profits are insured by surpluses; wages should be kept secure by insurance. "Governments are instituted among men... for the pursuit of happiness"; let us not forget that men may have no jobs but still remain men and human. Never be frightened by words. R.T. ============================ poverty would eradicate the entire evil. Socialism makes child labor laws unnecessary. The employer, in the form of the people, will certainly not try to circumvent the law. The need of parents will be minimized. The conclusions are obvious. We must act, to use a simile, like the Hebrews at the fall of Jerusalem. While they kept the enemies from the gate they simultaneously erected their temple. The program of the Socialist is to fight for child labor laws and other social legislation to minimize the destruction of the enemy at the gate, and simultaneously to erect by propaganda and organization the new order - Socialism. THINK OR SURRENDER Capitalists are good hearted soul. Look at the southern mill and cannery owners. They are doing humanity a favor by sustaining child labor. When the kids work in the canneries, they stay out of mischief. They won't gather in gangs; they won't play baseball and break windows; they won't bother cops or shock the morals of honest judges by playing craps. In short, the capitalists are so anxious to keep the kids in the factory and out of mischief that they will even break the law to do it. They will even suffer persecution in the courts and meet heavy fines so long as they may perform this deed of grace for society. In fact, they will bribe judges, corrupt police, offer weighty presents to legislatures, just for the right to do this act of charity to mankind. The Ingratitude of Child Laborers The child laborers, of course, do not realize this act of graciousness. When they cut their tender hands on the rough cans they cry, "It hurts." When the salt for the shrimp cannings gets into the cuts they weep. The capitalist, needless to say, does not like such sights. It greaves him. It is a matter of singular ingratitude for the children to have such little regard for the tender emotions of the loving capitalist. For the Good of Society When the five and six year old children cut their hands, they should not cry. They should contain themselves and say, "I will go right on. I will not play craps. I will work on. It is for the good of society." "When the salt gits inta the cuts 'n it hurts," they won't weep, they will whisper softly to themselves, "It will not shock the morals of honest judges. It is for the good of society." When their young and inexperienced bodies are caught in the whirling machine and an am or two is broken, they will not complain, they will perserveringly say, "Men died for their country in war. I will be maimed also for the good of society. It Will Go For Charity Really, the capitalists are good hearted souls. They won't keep all their money for themselves. They won't hoard their money. They will reinvest it and give jobs to other six year olds. Now, isn't that nice of them? What's more after their money piles up so they are ready to be choked by it, after several hundred kids have been killed or maimed, they will give some of their money to charity. In fact, they will give enough to get into the front page of every newspaper. As a matter of truth, they will prove to the world that the capitalists as a whole are much more generous than workers. They will contribute even more to charity than the children who work in their mills and their parents. Now, isn't that nice of them? Isn't it? -ABE LEEFREE YOUTH FREE YOUTH Published semi-monthly by the Youth Publishing Association, 7 East 15th St., New York City, in the interest of the Young People's Socialist League Editor - Gus Tyler Managing Editor - Abe Belsky Subscription Rate, $.50 yearly Vol.1, No. 1 246 February 15, 1931 TO CONVEY to young men and women as frankly and forcefully as possible the shortcomings of capitalism and the possibilities of socialism is the task that FREE YOUTH sets for itself. It is predominantly a paper of the young, by the young, and for the young. By supplying intellectual dynamite in the form of facts, stimulating opinions, and progressive ideals we hope to aid in producing a vigorous, courageous, active, intelligent youth, willing and able to grapple with its problems. It is our purpose to mold the mankind of tomorrow thru the young of today, to help make the hopes and strivings of our time the realities of the future. EVEN THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE of the A.F. of L. has fallen a prey to the anti-prohibition argument - it will cure unemployment. We are suffering because the great purchasing population has not sufficient money to buy bread, and clothes, and shoes, and the necessities of life. Yet, do the A. F. of L. leaders suppose that exactly these same people will have money for Scotch, and gin, and rum? And is it not true that if money is spent for liquor, it will not be spent for other things, and unemployment will, sooner or later, result in these other industries. When the French peasants called to Marie Antoinette, "We have no bread," she replied, "Then eat cake." When the American people call, "We have no bread," some misled and misleading gentlemen reply, "Drink liquor." DISCOURAGEMENT often faces the socialist worker. This is especially true if he confines himself to his little territory and can not see immediate progress. It is particularly advisable for us to recall every now and then that we are members of the greatest world wide political and economic movement existing. It is often encouraging and vivifying to know that tho we may have received a tiny set back in this local or that local that the world socialist movement grows daily, and losses here are more than compensated for by gains there. It is for this purpose that the editors will as often as possible print the news of socialist and socialist youth movements in other lands. No nation in the twentieth century can remain an outcast or isolated. Socialism abroad must eventually mean Socialism in the U. S. A. A NEW SCHEME for ending unemployment has forged its way to the fore. Since people are not spending, let's issue paper money in exchange for the currency which the people have. The paper will carry a date after which it is worthless. Thus people will have to spend their money and spend it fast. We may suppose that the governmental papers will bear some insignia on it as: "After July 4th, throw this paper into the scrap heap. It is worthless." Of course, it may be said of the plan: "Throw this plan into the scrap heap right now. It is worthless." What we should do however is to get a great big slogan telling the world: "Throw Capitalism into the scrap heap as soon as you get a chance. It's worse than worthless." THE RED CROSS has begun another one of its drives for funds. The organization carries the guarantee of Herbert Hoover, Alfred Smith, Will Rogers, and a host of other well intentioned persons. The actions of the Red Cross, however, have been such as to alienate the support of intelligent workers thruout the U. S. Its unwillingness to co-operate with strikers and those who have been evicted from their homes in the course of such events, together with its attitude against governmental insurance for unemployment and other economic disasters, and its general lack of sympathy for the worker's struggles, have marked it as a distinctly class organ. This type of organized charity which is continually being used as an argument against governmental aid for the workers, and which in its actions generally turns out to be ineffective and prejudiced, should be fought by every young man and woman of intelligence and courage. LIBERIA was delivered a moral lecture by Secretary Stimson. The lecture was worthwhile but the source was somewhat polluted. In a nation where peonage (a modified form of slavery) is practised and tolerated by worthy government officials, it is somewhat hypocritical for the Secretary of State to moralize to outsiders. Where is Stimson's indignation at the wage slavery which is a common ailment of white and black workingmen both North and South? CAPITALISM MEANS SLAVERY in Liberia as well as the U. S. It is not the intellectual inferiority that has made the negro the suppressed race in the south and the descendants of former slaves. It is due to the fact that there exists such a thing as an economic ruling class. A class society in Liberia means chattel slavery in Liberia. A capitalist society in America means wage slavery here. This slavery is independent of race, color, creed, or belief. Freedom comes only with the abolition of classes. COMRADES ABROAD A MEETING took place in Rumania and Bulgaria at which the possibilities of promoting Socialist youth work in the Balkans were discussed. The deliberations had a favorable result. The Bulgarian Youth Federation has developed well in recent times. The development in Rumania is also satisfactory. The Rumanian Youth Federation, newly formed in the spring, now has about 2,000 members in 21 groups. The Youth Federation in Yugoslavia can not carry on work because of the dictatorship. In Greece the same is true, tho the party is evidencing an increasing interest in a youth organization. It was decided to combine the Socialist youth organizations of the Balkans into a union for work in common to ask the Socialist Youth International to hold one of its next summer schools in 1931 in the Balkans. This summer school shall be attended by comrades from the Balkan countries and from Hungary, Austria, Poland, and Czecho-Slovakia. The Socialist youth organization of Latvia "Darba Jaunatne", is participating in the work of the Party Week and parallel with it is carrying on a propaganda week of its own. Our comrades from Czecho-Slovakia show a membership increase from 5,600 to 8,000, and an increase of groups from 167 to 273. On account of its campaign against militarism the Federation was exposed to numerous persecutions on the part of the authorities, but the numbers show that these difficulties have been unable to prevent its growth. The month of November was spent as "peace month" in Belgium. The Congress of the Belgian Young Guards held in Liege declared for full and immediate disarmament in Belgium. It declared its intention to fight to the end, even if it be by violent counteraction against every attempt at war. It proposes as its watchword: "Not a farthing, not a rifle and no conscience for militarism." The organ of the Federation of Socialist Youth of Spain, "Renovacion" reappeared after a three-months' silence. Until its reappearance the regime of press censorship was still in force in Spain. The Federation in its first number promises to throw all its forces into the work of overthrowing the regime. I. I. SUBSCRIPTION BLANK FREE YOUTH A Socialist Semi-Monthly 7 EAST 15th ST., N. Y. C. I enclose $__ for which to send FREE YOUTH for __ year to Name ___ Address ___ City ___ State ___ Subscription rate 50c per year [*Intern at Labor [Defenc?]*] Demand Amnesty for All Class-War Prisoners! Fight Against Lynching and Lynch Law! Fight Against Deportation and Censorship of the Workers Press! National Officers: J. LOUIS ENGDAHL General Secretary GEORGE MAURER Assistant Secretary GRACE HUTCHINS Treasurer INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE NATIONAL OFFICE: 80 EAST 11TH STREET - ROOM 430 NEW YORK CITY STUYVESANT 4552-4553-1474 Cable Address: ILDEF, New York 26 May 15, 1931. Dear Friend: The lives of nineteen workers, Negro and white, are at stake. They may be burned in the electric chair by the ruling class of America. Nine Negro boys framed up under the age-old cry of "rape". Eight have already been sentenced to death by the landlord courts of Alabama. They are in the death cells of Kilby prison, Alabama. Five workers are held in Paterson, N. J., indicted on first degree murder for a crime which they never committed. Five workers in Atlanta, Ga., are charged with insurrection, carrying the death penalty if convicted, because they dared to organize Negro and white workers against the miserable conditions in the south. This is the answer of the ruling class to the demands of the workers for the right to organize for better conditions, against starvation, against exploitation, against misery. Race hatred is being whipped up by the southern landlords to force the Negro workers into submission. Lynching is carried out legally by the courts on a mass scale. The capitalist class is trying to divide the workers in order to stop them from organizing and fighting together for their demands. The lie of race superiority is spread to divide Negro from white workers. Jim-Crowism and lynching are weapons of the boss class. The foreign born workers are being discriminated against by the ruling class in order to create hatred between the native born and foreign born. All this is part of the scheme with which the capitalist class expects to keep the workers from organizing into militant organizations uniting Negro and white, native and foreign born. The answer of the workers must be to unite and fight against all discrimination. In this instance when the lives of these workers are at stake, it is the duty of all workers to show their solidarity and unite in mass protest to save their lives. We must save these workers from the electric chair. We cannot allow the ruling class to take the lives of the nine innocent boys. Enclosed you will find a contribution list which you should use to collect money from your friends and fellow workers. Money is needed to carry on the fight. We appeal to you, who know and realize the seriousness of this situation to do your utmost to help us in this struggle. Send in your contribution and get your friends and neighbors to contribute. Do not delay this work. The nine Negro boys in Scottsboro, Alabama, are sentenced to die on July 10. No time can be wasted. The lives of these boys and of the other framed-up workers depend on you and all workers of this country. Fraternally yours, J. Louis Engdahl Gen. Secy.PRISONERS RELIEF FUND Organized under the Auspices of the International Labor Defense to Help Political Prisoners and Dependents 80 EAST 11th St. Room 430 NEW YORK CITY Roger N. Baldwin Silas Bent Winifred Chappell Malcolm Cowley Robert Cruden Horace B. Davis Solon De Leon John Dos Passos Robert W. Dunn Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Waldo Frank Lydia Gibson Michael Gold Jack Hardy Josephine Herbst Henry T. Hunt Grace Hutchins Ellen Kennan Walter Hinkle Margaret Larkin Melvin P. Levy Jessie London Esther Lowell Louis Lozowick Helen Mallery George Maurer Clarina Michelson Frank Palmer Joseph Pass Paul Peters William Pickens Hollace Ransdell Anna Rochester Edward Royce Bernhard J. Stern Ruth Stout Maurice Sugar Charlotte Todes Marguerite Tucker Paul Wander Arthur Warner Anita Whitney Walter Wilson [?57] Dear Friend: This committee has just one purpose - - to raise funds for some 90 workers now in prison because of their devotion to the labor movement. They are in prison under sedition laws and because of participation in strike, union, unemployment or other activity. Their terms range from one year to life. Those of us who are not - - for the moment at least - - in prison for our beliefs are pretty prone to forget those who face long grey days behind iron bars. Perhaps it would help to keep us more aware of their presence there if we could contribute regularly to a specific fund to help them. 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M.Telephone: HAYmarket 5635 Cable Address: Fellowship, Boston THE FELLOWSHIP OF RECONCILIATION NEW ENGLAND OFFICE Three Joy Street (On Beacon Hill) Boston, Mass. May 4, 1931 jhs/m General Committee in New England SIDNEY LOVETT, CHAIRMAN MRS. JOHN F, MOORS, VICE-CHAIRMAN HELENA S. DUDLEY, SECRETARY PROF. WILLIAM G. AURELIO, TREASURER MRS. WOODMAN BRADBURY RT. REV. BENJAMIN BREWSTER MRS. A. BURNS CHALMERS ALBERT SPRAGUE COOLIDGE GARDINER M. DAY SMITH O. DEXTER LINCOLN FAIRLEY GEORGE W. GOODMAN PROF. GORHAM W. HARRIS REBEKAH G. HENSHAW MRS. JOSEPH D. LELAND PROF. HALFORD E. LUCCOK HOWARD G. MATSON MRS. LUCIA AMES MEAD GEORGE LYMSAN PAINE E. TALLMADGE ROOT MARIAN DE C. WARD EDITH M. WILLIAMS PRESIDENT MARY E. WOOLLEY International Secretariat: DOBLERGASSE 2/26, VIENNA, AUSTRIA North American Secretariat: 383 BIBLE HOUSE, ASTOR PLACE NEW YORK, N.Y. Officers of National Council: RT. REV. PAUL JONES, CHAIRMAN A. J. MUSTE, VICE-CHAIRMAN KIRBY PAGE, VICE-CHAIRMAN WILLIAM C. BIDDLE, TREASURER JAMES HUMPHREY SHELDON EXECUTIVE SECRETARY FOR NEW ENGLAND Dear Friend of the Fellowship: This is your 1931 Financial Letter. The enclosed leaflet summarizes the activities of the New England branch of the Fellowship. We urge that you read it carefully. We believe that our record and program justify your active and increased financial support. Our work grows from month to month. The office budget requires five thousand dollars now-- and we need to use large additional sums in special work on behalf of the World Court, for the campaign against militarism in the schools, to develop public concern in the coming General Disarmament Conference, and to enlarge the valuable educational work of our speakers and bureau and youth conferences. Members and friends of the Fellowship are invited to contribute in propor- tion to their means. Every two-dollars bill helps--but we must also have checks for fifty, two hundred, and five hundred dollars, if the work is to be effective. We hope that you will send us all that you can spare, as your part in continuing a most valuable work for the promotion of peace, during the present very critical year. Please note that the New England budget, used entirely for work in this region, is raised and used quite separately from the budget of the national office (located in New York). Write checks and money orders payable to the Fellowship of Reconciliation, and mail to 3 Joy St., Bostons, Mass. We enclose a pledge card and return envelope, trusting that we may have the pleasure of your reply by an early post. Very sincerely yours, THE GENERAL COMMITTEE Sidney Lovett, Chairman Mrs. John F. Moors, Vice-Chairman Helena S. Dudley, Secy. Prof. Wm. G. Aurelio, Treasurer Lucia Ames Mead E. Tallmadge Root (Members of the Policy Committee) Mrs. Joseph D. Leland, Financial Committee James Humphrey Sheldon, Exec.Secy. A Movement to Build Peace Between Nations, Peoples, and Classes Fellowship of Rec. Alluded toWe do not maintain a large office personnel and are therefore unable to eliminate all of the duplications that inevitably occur through the use of various mailing lists, which have been made available for our campaign. Kindly overlook any duplications that exist, it is unavoidable in this case. [?7] INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE. INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE 80 East 11th Street Room 402 NEW YORK CITY Dear Friend: The southern textile mill barons have sentenced the seven Gastonia strike leaders and organizers to prison terms as high as 20 years. Their case is now up for appeal to the State Supreme Court. If we have worked and fought before on behalf of these workers, we must redouble our energies now. Every worker of this country must be aroused to the danger facing the entire labor movement if this appeal is denied. There are at the present time over 150 workers in whose behalf the International Labor Defense is working. Workers charged with Sedition, Criminal Syndicalism, framed-up murder charges, Inciting to Riot, Conspiracy, Illegal Entry, and any number of other charges which the capitalist class attaches to workers whom it wishes to destroy in the labor movement. These workers face long prison terms and many face deportation to fascist countries where death awaits them. The bosses intend in this way to stop the workers from organizing and fighting against misery and starvation, and to divert the attention of the workers from their preparation of a new Imperialist War and attack on the Soviet Union. YESTERDAY- it was these workers; TODAY - it is the Gastonia prisoners; TOMORROW - it will be any worker who will resist the attacks of the boss class. Every day information reaches this office of local arrests and persecutions of the workers. In Chicago 28 workers are being charged with Sedition and face long prison sentences. In Los Angeles five women workers were found guilty of Criminal Syndicalism and were sentenced to as high as 10 years. The U. S. Supreme Court refused to listen to the appeal of the three Woodlawn defendants, who must now begin serving a five year sentence, charged with Sedition in the State of Pennsylvania. The I. L. D. is preparing a new appeal on their behalf. Scores of arrests are being made daily for picketing, distributing leaflets and for speaking to workers before factory gates. This terror which is sweeping the country must be pushed back by the united resistance of the entire working class. The workers of this country must answer - YES! or NO! Shall the GASTONIA defendants be allowed to serve a prison term of 20 years? The murderers of Ella May, are whitewashed - the kidnappers and floggers of union organizers are exonerated - the leaders of the workers' struggles are sent to a living death! Shall the CHICAGO workers be buried in prisons by the capitalist class without the protest of the workers of the entire country? Shall we allow SALVATORI ACCORSI to be railroaded to the electric chair, the same as were Sacco and Vanzetti? Shall we forget the CENTRALIA prisoners who have already spent ten of their best years in Walla Walla prison? Shall we forget MINEOLA? BETHLEHEM? LOS ANGELES? TAPOLCSANYI? THE SAN QUENTIN PRISONERS? AND THE MANY OTHER CLASS WAR VICTIMS? Shall we forget the dependants of these prisoners, whom the International Labor Defense helps support? Shall we stand idly by without doing our share to fight against the attacks on foreign born workers, and persecutions against Negro workers? There can be but one answer. You must answer it by redoubling your efforts on behalf of these class victims. You must contribute generously to the defense fund. You must get others to do the same. You must raise this question in your local union, fraternal organization and wherever workers gather, and ask them to contribute. Build the International Labor Defense. SELL THE ENCLOSED COUPON BOOK, then WRITE FOR ANOTHER ONE. Fraternally yours. J. Louis Engdahl Executive Secretary INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE.Release the Gastonia and All Class War Prisoners! Defeat the Bosses' Terror! (Above) Beaten and arrested for demonstrating against imperialist war in Los Angeles, Calif., five women have been sentenced to from 1 to 10 years on charges of sedition for conducting a children's camp at San Bernardino. (Left) Pat Toohey, miners' leader, arrested in Pittsburgh, on Red Day. The I.L.D. is still handling many Red Day cases. Indian worker killed by Anglo-Indian police during the Bombay textile strike. 33 Indian labor leaders now face trial at Meerut for "high treason." The I.L.D. is carrying on a campaign for them, as well as for all victims of fascism and imperialism thruout the world. Sixteen Gastonia strike leaders in Mecklenberg County jail. Seven of them have been sentenced to 117 years. The I.L.D. is appealing the decision and fighting for their unconditional release. Eugene Barnett, one of the 8 Centralia prisoners, who have already been in jail for 10 years. The ILD is fighting for their release and for the freedom of all class-war prisoners. Salvatore Accorsi, in a Pittsburgh jail, framed-up on a charge of murdering a coal and iron policeman during the Cheswick miners' Sacco-Vanzetti demonstration. The I.L.D. is defending him. $50,000.00 NEEDED BY JANUARY 15TH Estimated cost of cases which the International Labor Defense is defending. This does not include the many minor cases, as well as the cost involved in the campaign for the release of all class-war prisoners now serving long sentences, and the protection of the foreign-born workers. Gastonia Appeal . . . . . . . . . . $20,000.00 Chicago Sedition Case . . . . . . 25,000.00 Los Angeles Criminal Syndicalism Case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,000.00 Mineola (Furriers) Case . . . . . . .10,000.00 Cheswick Case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,000.00 Salvatori Accorsi . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,000.00 Philadelphia Sedition . . . . . . . . . . . 3,000.00 Bethlehem Sedition . . . . . . . . . . . 10,000.00 Tapolcsanyi Case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,000.00 Ohio Sedition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,000.00 Stephen Graham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000.00 Shifrin Case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,000.00 Woodlawn Appeal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,000.00 $110,000.00 $50,000.00 is needed almost immediately, by January 15th. Do not fail these workers. Contribute generously! The capitalist class says there is "PEACE ON EARTH." The above citations tell the story of "CLASS WAR ON EARTH." Defend the class-war prisoners! Release the class war prisoners! JOIN THE INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE - the shield of the working class! (Above) C. D. Lell, Benn Wells and S. M. Saylor, kidnapped and beaten by the mill-owners' fascist band in Gastonia. (Right) Harry Eisman, Young Pioneer, jailed in New York City for demonstrating against the Boy Scouts. He is now serving a 6-months sentence. The I.L.D. is appealing the decision. (Below) Extreme police brutality marked the street-car strike in New Orleans. The I.L.D. must meet this terror in all parts of the country. Help the Political Prisoners _____________________________ by Building the International Labor Defense _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ THE INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE is an indispensable weapon of the working class in its struggle against persecution, oppression, and capitalist "justice." It fights for the release of all class-war prisoners and for the repeal of all criminal syndicalist and sedition laws. It provides legal defense to the workers persecuted by the bosses for their activities in the class struggle and gives material support to the political prisoners and to their dependents. It fights for the defense of the foreign-born workers and against deportation of workers because of their activities in the labor movement. It fights against the system of frame-ups of workers. It fights for the right of freedom of speech, press and assembly for the workers and for their right to organize, strike, picket and defend themselves. It helps the victims of, and fights against the White Terror in other capitalist countries. It fights against the oppression and lynchings of Negro workers. At present the International Labor Defense sends regularly to each political prisoner give dollars and to his dependents twenty dollars per month. WHAT YOU MUST DO Join the International Labor Defense and get others to join! Organize a branch of the International Labor Defense in your shop, mine, mill, lumber camp, farm or in the section of the city where you reside! Get your local union, fraternal organization, or cooperative to affiliate on a collective basis! Collect funds and fight for the release of all political prisoners now rotting in the prisons the land over! Collect funds for the defense of the thousands of political cases now pending in the various courts of the United States! Subscribe and spread the LABOR DEFENDER- the official monthly magazine of the International Labor Defense! Build the International Labor Defense as a powerful weapon and shield of the working class! INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE 80 EAST 11TH STREET, Room 402, NEW YORK CITY I wish to help in the defense of the persecuted workers and join the International Labor Defense. Enclosed find 25 cents initiation fee. Name........................................................................................................... Address..........................................................City..................................... Political Affiliation.................................................................................. Union Affiliation...................................................................................... Date.............................................................................................................. SUBSCRIBE TO THE LABOR DEFENDER Pictorial Monthly Organ of the INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE 80 E. 11th St., Room 402, New York City Enclosed $............for subscription to LABOR DEFENDER ($1.00 per year; .6- per 1/2 year) Name.......................................................................... Address..........................................City.....................ALEXANDER BERKMAN, Sec'y-Treasurer RELIEF FUND OF THE I. W. M. A. for Anarchists and Anarcho-Syndicalists Imprisoned and Exiled in Russia Dear Friend: December , 1927 No doubt you are informed by this time that the amnesty issued by the Bolsheviki on the tenth anniversary of the October Revolution does not benefit the imprisoned and exiled revolutionists in Russia. The terms of the amnesty expressly exclude "active members of political parties", by which meant are mostly Socialists and Anarchists, since that is the usual official charge against arrested revolutionists. Thousands of the political prisoners and exiles have been hopefully looking forward to the expected amnesty. Many of them have been imprisoned for a number of years, most of them completely broken in health. Now their last hope of release is gone and they are doomed to stay in prison indefinitely. The Kremlin rulers have remained deaf to the voice of humanity, have refused to listen to the international appeal for the liberation of the Russian Saccos and Vanzettis. We are sure that you share the fearful disappointment of these idealists who are suffering for their loyalty. We are powerless to give them back to life and liberty. Yet the least we can do for them is to help them, morally and materially, to bear their cross bravely, as they have done till now. From our BULLETIN you are familiar with the conditions in Bolshevik prisons and exile. You know that our unfortunate comrades cannot exist on the pittance they receive from the Government; they cannot survive without the aid of their friends. The Russian winter has set in with its extreme cold and resultant suffering for the prisoners and exiles. Help is desperately needed. The appeals we receive are heart-rending and urgent. They are looking forward to their friends, to you, to respond. Do not close your heart to their call. The Christmas season is coming. Give of your cheer and good-will to those who so desperately need it. Send us your Christmas gift for them, send it quickly and generously. You will inspire the martyrs in Russia with new faith and courage, and you will help save the lives of the best revolutionary men and women in that much-suffering country. Fraternally, Alexander Berkman (Stamp) SECRETARIAT RUSSIAN RELIEF FUND I. W. M. A. P.S. We take this occasion also to request you to inform us whether you receive our BULLETIN regularly and how many copies are to be sent to you in the future. Address all communication and make checks payable to: A.S. Bergman, 120 Rue Tahere, St-Cloud (S.-&-O.) France. Paris Commune Anniversary ... March 18,1930 International Labor Defense National Office: 80 East 11th Street - Room 402 New York City .. Stuyvesant 4552-4553 January 28, 1930 National Officers: J Louis Engdahl Executive Secretary George Maurer Assistant Secretary A. Jakira Organizational Secretary 21 National Executive Committee Cyril Briggs Joseph Brodsky Henry Buckley Alexandria Chalupsky Robert Dunn J. Louis Engdahl James W. Ford Grace Hutchins Louis Hyman A. Jakira Dave Mates George Maurer Sophie Melvin Clarina Michaelson Clarence Miller Alberto Moreau Samuel Nesin Julius Portnoy Edward Royce Fred C. Somme Dear friend or comrade: So far in the month of January, since our National Convention and up to the 20th of the month, over 350 arrests took place all over the country, will scores of trials, deportation proceedings, etc., etc. These took place mostly in connection with strikes against increased exploitation and wage-cuts of the workers; also in "unemployed" demonstrations and in demonstrations against Fascist-Terror (Mexico and Haiti), police brutality (New York, where Steve Katovis was shot to health in the bank, by a policeman), and against legal and extra judicial (boss-gang) persecution. The I.L.D. is today faced with great tasks and responsibilities. The entire working-class and all friends of labor must help as never before to keep workers out of jail, to defend them to the limit - and to give materials aid to the families of imprisoned or murdered workers. In fact, the I.L.D. is in DESPERATE NEED of BIG FUNDS - AT ONCE. We have fought, with the help of wide circles of workers and friends, particularly with YOUR financial help in 1929, -- a militant and in some cases a successful fight -- SO FAR. This fight saved the Gastonia prisoners from the electric chair, as well as Salvator Accorsi; and saved others from prison or deportation to their deaths in Fascist countries. BUT NOW we must save the seven Gastonia young strike leaders from living-death in prison -- must save Shifrin from the same fate -- must save workers, men and women, young and old -- in California, Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, New York, the South, all over the country -- from prison and deportation. Only the millions of pennies of workers rushed in to the us as quickly as possible -- will enable the I.L.D. to defend all these brave workers in the courts and carry on an ever greater, wide-spread mass protest movement STRONG ENOUGH to save them.Haiti-Santo Domingo Independence Society Room 401, 20 Vesey Street New York City OFFICERS MOORFIELD STOREY, Chairman JAMES WELDON JOHNSON, Vice-Chairman HELENA HILL WEED, Secretary ROBERT HERRICK ,Treasurer (Make checks payable to LEWIS S. GANNETT, Assistant Treasurer) * * * ADVISORY COUNCIL FELIX ADLER ERNEST ANGELL MRS. JOHN WINTERS BRANNAN HENRY SLOANE COFFIN, D.D. ALBERT DE SILVER GILDON GARDNER ERNEST H. GRUENING FRANCIS HACKETT DONALD R. HOOKER, M.D. MRS. EDITH HOUGHTON HOOKER MRS. CHARLES E. KNOBLAUCH PAUL KENNADAY BEN B. LINDSEY ROBERT MORSS LOVETT RT. REV. FRANCIS J. McCONNELL JAMES G. MACDONALD WILLIAM C. MATTHEWS JOHN E. MILHOLLAND JESSIE MORRIS MARY WHITE OVINGTON JOHN A. RYAN, D.D. HERBERT J. SELIGMANN ARTHUR B. SPINGARN THEODORE SUTRO OSWALD GARRISON VILLARD SUE S. WHITE L. HOLLINGSWORTH WOOD September 15th, 1921. The Haiti-Santo Domingo Independence Society asks your active support of its work, now well under way. The society was formed as a result of the presentation to this government of the "Haitian Memoir" by responsible Haitian citizens, members of the non-partisan Union Patriotique d'Haiti. The memoir consisted of categorical charges against the American Occupation of graft, cruelty, brutality, torture and murder, as well as specific charges of treaty violations, legislative and civic lawlessness, financial malfeasance and the substitution of autocratic control by individuals and courts martial for the orderly process of their hitherto independent and constitutional government. Believing that these charges were of so serious a character that they could not longer by ignored or brushed aside, this society was organized for the purpose of securing and open, thorough, and complete investigation of the entire Occupation, the restoration of their full independence to these two nations and to work for the extension to them of future aid based on mutual understandings and international justice. We are well on our way to the first of these objects. Senator McCormick of Illinois, on whose motion the Senate ordered the investigation, and who is Chairman of the committee, has welcomed the aid of our society in his work. We have engaged Mr. Ernest Angell, of firm Trowbridge & Fox, to represent us throughout the investigation. He will be present at all sessions of the commit- tee, both in this country and in Haiti, will cross examine all witnesses and will secure and present the testimony of witnesses whom our society is locating. Owing to the fact that all public discussion and criticism of the Occupation has been suppressed in Haiti and Santo Domingo, under military laws involving very severe punishments for infractions thereof, it is extremely difficult and costly to locate, verify and secure the testimony of many valuable witnesses. They hesitate to jeopardize their future, remembering that some complainants in the past have immediately been "murdered by bandits," according to the official reports. The work of locating and securing these and other witnesses, involving legal and travelling expenses, our expenses connected with the investigation and our office expenses all cost money. We have no dues but depend on the voluntary contributions of our members to sustain our work. Will you now show your interest by enrolling as a member of the society and, when sending in your enrollment slip, will you not include as generous a contribution as possible to help carry the work along. Money given now, when our expenses in preparing for the hearings are so heavy, will count for far more than larger sums given later. We feel that our nation, which has made such supreme sacrifices for the principle of democracy and for the right of the little nations to self-government and protection from invasion and oppression by powerful neighbors, can no longer stand before the world as a ruthless violator of these principles. Please give us your moral and financial support in the stand we take. Very truly yours Helena Hill Weed Secretary Can you not send us a contribution of $10? If you feel that you cannot send that amount, make it $5, $4, $3, $2, or even $1- every little helps.PROF. ZECHARIAH CHAFEE, JR. CHAIRMAN SARA R. EHRMANN EXECUTIVE SECRETARY CORNELIUS A. PARKER TREASURER MASSACHUSETTS COUNCIL FOR THE ABOLITION OF THE DEATH PENALTY 6 BYRON STREET, BOSTON, MASS. HAYMARKET 3188 Advisory Council RABBI SAMUEL J. ABRAMS MAYOR ROBERT A. BAKEMAN ROLAND M. BAKER MRS. ROLAND M. BAKER DR. L. VERNON BRIGGS DR. RICHARD C. CABOT* REV. RAYMOND CALKINS, D.D. PROF. ZECHARIAH CHAFEE, JR., Chairman* MRS. E. A. CODMAN* JOHN S. CODMAN REV. LEROY W. COONS, D.D. DANIEL G. CRANDON REV. HENRY H. CRANE, D.D. HON. JAMES M. CURLEY DR. HILBERT F. DAY MRS. WALTER E. DEWEY REV. SMITH OWEN DEXTER MISS ZARA DU PONT* REV. CHRISTOPHER R. ELIOT REV. SAMUEL A. ELIOT, D.D. DR. HENRY B. ELKIND MRS. JAMES W. ELLIOTT HAROLD K. ESTABROOK* VICTOR A. FRIEND* MRS. CATHARINE GARDNER BENJAMIN GERIG* DR. SHELDON GLUECK CHESTER GREEN* HENRY COPLEY GREENE MRS. HENRY COPLEY GREENE MISS CHARLOTTE B. HALLOWELL FRANK W. HALLOWELL MRS. N. P. HALLOWELL PROF. GORHAM W. HARRIS REV. EVERETT C. HERRICK, D.D. DR. MAURICE B. HEXTER MRS. JESSIE D. HODDER DR. FREDERICK L. HOFFMAN HECTOR M. HOLMES REV. LAWRENCE R. HOWARD PROF. MANLEY O. HUDSON REV. CHARLES R. JOY ROBERT W. KELSO REV. HENRY J. KILBOURNE, D.D. RABBI HARRY LEVI REV. HAROLD MARSHALL, D.D.* PROF. KIRTLEY F. MATHER PROF. C. M. MCCONNELL DR. E. GROESBECK MITCHELL* DAVID K. NILES* REV. GEORGE L. PAINE CORNELIUS A. PARKER* HERBERT C. PARSONS HENRY H. PERRY MRS. WENONA O. PINKHAM MRS. LOIS B. RANTOUL STOCKTON RAYMOND GEORGE E. ROEWER RABBI HERMAN H. RUBENOVITZ DR. STEPHEN RUSHMORE PROF. FRANCIS B. SAYRE REV. EUGENE R. SHIPPEN, D.D. PROF. CLARENCE R. SKINNER MRS. H.L. SOUTHWICK DEAN WILLARD L. SPERRY, D.D. MRS. ELIZABETH TILTON PROF. RICHARD G. TYLER PROF. DAVID D. VAUGHAN DEAN HENRY B. WASHBURN, D.D. JOHN PRATT WHITMAN REV. F. A. WIGGIN MRS. GERTRUDE L. WINSLOW* *Executive Committee To our Friends: The plan of this Council for the coming year is to continue its campaign of public education throughout every locality of this state, and to continue efforts in the State Legislature. In order to know as soon as possible upon whose support we may depend, would you be good enough to answer the following questions? 1. Do you favor the Abolition of the Death Penalty in Massachusetts? 2. Do you care to receive literature pertaining to the subject? 3-a. Are you a member of this Council? b. Do you wish to become a member? (Membership $2.00 or more). 4. Check any activity in which you might assist: speaking _____ writing ____ finance ____ getting new members ____ office work ____ etc. _____ Encourage by the great progress made during the past few years, we hope soon to accomplish the Abolition of Capital Punishment in Massachusetts. Very truly yours, Z. Chafee, Jr. Chairman Sara R. Ehrmann, Executive Secretary Name ________ Street __________ City __________ MAKE CONTRIBUTIONS PAYABLE TO CORNELIUS A. PARKER, TREASURER, 14 BEACON STREET, BOSTON.IRWIN T. DORCH, PRESIDENT ALFRED BAKER LEWIS, SECRETARY National Association for the Advancement of Colored People BOSTON BRANCH 464 Massachusetts Ave. KEN 3059 1939 Campaign Headquarters N.A.A.C.P. Membership Drive WHAT THE N.A.A.C.P. MEANS TO YOU ________________________________________ The N.A.A.C.P. was thirty years old last February. These years have been filled with the uphill battle of securing full citizenship rights for Negro Americans and other minorities. It has been a fight that has taken its toll in money, energy, thinking and goodwill from thousands of volunteers all over the country. Since during 1939 we in America are faced with the necessity of fighting to reconsider the value of the N.A.A.C.P. as an important agency in helping to keep American democracy alive. The 1939 program of the association includes the fight to pass a federal anti-lynching bill; full backing of the Government's proposed federal health bill, with amendments safeguarding the rights of Negroes, full support of the broadening of a program of work relief which will give to all citizens unable to find work a change to keep their self- respect on a decent basis of security; a broadening of the Social Security Act so that it may include domestic workers, farm laborers and casual workers, a successful drive to equalize the salaries of white and colored teachers in southern and border states; a concerted drive to break down discrimination in labor unions, public places of amusement, Federal and State employment, employment at the New York World's Fair, and a new campaign to fight anti-Negro propaganda that is spread in American schools through the use of textbooks that give a misconception of the place occupied by the American Negro in the development of our country. These are some of the things for which the N.A.A.C.P. is fighting, and we believe that you will want to renew your membership now, while our campaign is on in Boston, because you want to preserve your own freedom and security through preserving the freedom and security of your neighbor. Cordially yours, Irwin T. Dorch President, Boston Branch N.A.A.C.P. George B. Murphy, Jr. Campaign Manager February 1950 Published by the NEFOR New England Fellowship of Reconciliation 9 Park Street, Boston 8, Mass. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 'BROTHERHOOD MONTH" "As a nation we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal'. We now practically read it 'all men are created equal except Negroes'. When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except Negroes and foreigners and Catholics'. When it comes to this, I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty - to Russia for instance, where despotism can be taken pure and without the base alloy of hypocricy." Thus Abraham Lincoln to his friend Joshua Speed. _________ The day to day program of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation consists of interracial, economic, and international reconciliation. By your support you help further this great work. CONFERENCE ON WAR The College Division of the American Friends Service Committee is planning an excellent conference in Cambridge, February 10-12, with the theme: "More Than The Absence of War". At an open meeting at the First Parish Church (Unitarian), Friday, February 10, at 7:3- P.M., Allan Chalmers and Herbort Gezork will answer the question, "Must Christians Be Pacifists?" __________________________________ CIVIL LIBERTIES All lovers of liberty will rejoice at the defeat of a bill which recently was rejected after a hearing at the State House. The bill would seek to probo Communist influence in the educational field. The probo bill would set up a special commission to investigate "infiltration of Communistic doctrines into the teaching systems in the Commonwealth and... persons who are sympathetic to Communism and its doctrines." Among the prominent pacifists opposing the bill were the Rt. Rev. W. Appleton Lawrence, Dean Walter Muelder, and others. Our F.O.R. was not listed among the organizations opposing the measure, as reported by the dailies. ____________________________________ CLOTHING FOR LOCAL NEEDY PERSONS If you have clothing which will fit either young or old, but especially the young; please contact Miss Ellen Riggs. A number of needy families near a social settlement in Boston will fare better this winter by your help. ____________________________________________ THE MARCH MEETING OF THE F.O.R. WILL DISCUSS THE THEME: "PACIFISTS AND EUTHANASIA". THE MEETING PROMISES TO BE AN ESPECIALLY INTERESTING ONE. A MEMBERSHIP PROJECT FOR FEBRUARY The month of February is a month of Brotherhood emphasis. As pacifists we try to make every money of the year one of Brotherhood and Reconciliation. During February, as a project in race relations in which all F.O.R.ers can participate, it is hoped that each of us will endeavor to arrange at least one meeting where someone may present our point of view in race relations. Mr. Brush may be contacted for speakers to present some of the interesting work which pacifists have been doing recently in Boston to improve race relations. All of us can not give witness to your convictions in race relations as often as we may wish. Here is an opportunity for each one of us to help. Speakers may be arranged for either small or large groups. Prof. Brush's telephone number is LA 7 8578. _________________________________________ CONCEPTION AND MISCONCEPTION "The born world-citizens, world pacifists, and the world reconcilers - alike in the China of the"Contending States"... and in the Western world today - are the spiritual leaders of fellaheen. "Bread and Circuses" is only another formula for pacifism. "In the history of all Cultures there is an anti-national element, whether we have evidence of it or not...Every people has such 'waste products". So says Otto Spengler. "Refusal of individual after individual to support any war or war preparation is the most positive, most constructive, the most patriotic, the sanest, the most Christian social act men can perform today... Unless war is abandoned, the light of democracy will be quenched in one land after another. Until war is abolished, the whole movement for social justice is halted." So we learn from A.J. Musto. _______________________________ GIVE REGULARLY FOR PEACE Page 4 February NEFOR _______________________________________________________ DR. HENRY CADBURY AND THE REV. MARK SHAW TALK ABOUT THE QUAKER REPORT At the regular January meeting of the Boston F.O.R. we were introduced to Dr. Henry Cadbury and the Rev. Mark Shaw who talked to use on the report prepared for the American Friends Service Committee which has been published and is on sale under the title of "The United States and The Soviet Union." Dr. Cadbury told us what lies behind the printing of the Friends Report. He expressed the idea that since the main business of the Service Committee apparently is to mop up the mess left after wars. that it is a relief to present an alternative to wars such as this pamphlet presents. He explained how consecrated peacemakers in the Friends Service Committee had an open letter printed in the Philadelphia newspapers which suggested that a few chosen Americans might make a statement about our international relations in such a way as to provide good meat for public discussion. The so called "Quaker Report" grew out of this suggestion. Dr. Cadbury publicly answered some of the criticisms give by the pres. One of the encouraging things about the press's attitude was that it gave publicity to the report. He concluded with the thought that there is a need for a change of the whole atmosphere in which the business of the world is carried on. It is hoped that a dent can be made in the atmosphere of the cold war. The Reverend Mark Shaw then offered some interesting comments which he was ready to make as a direct result of reading the report. He said first that the reports comes as a relief in the present drift of affairs. Second, that it is not an over-simplification of the problem on a broad front; third, that it shows that neither nation is willing to face up to its faults. Fourth, he stated that it would be supplemented by pamphlets and information that bring some of the ideas down to earth and make them more concrete and interesting. _______________________________________________ THERE WILL BE COPIES OF "UNITED STATES AND THE SOVIET UNION" AT OUR NEXT MEETING. COPIES MAY BE PROCURED AT OUR OFFICE AFTER THE FEBRUARY 2ND MEETING. THE PRICE IS 25 CENTS. A GOOD STUDY GUIDE MAY BE BOUGHT FOR 15 CENTS.NEFOR February 1950 _________________________________________________________________________ REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING Thursday, February 2, 1950. 6:15 Supper. Mrs. Schenk, this month's Supper chairman, asks that reservations be made the Mrs. Yates by the Monday before the meeting. 7:15 Devotions. 7:30 Business. 7:45 Address by Gladys (Mrs. T.D.) Walsor, Field Representative of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, and Accredited Observer to the United Nations. Her subject will be: "Conscience in the Atomic Age". From a letter from George Paine: "These are grand people, - simple, honest in speech, very intelligent among the college-trained, and patient and seemingly happy. The great numbers of the poor, some of whom in cities live in most horribly small, dark, dirty, un- healthy abodes. No wonder Indian life expectancy is 27 years against our 67. They eat almost nothing, as they have no cash. The villagers here are much more advanced as they were trained by Ghandi and the place is being run on his principles. We helped a bit yesterday in reaping his ears of maize. ____________________ Among our members, 182 givers and 185 non-givers! This is disturbing. Have you made your pledge for 1950? ____________________ To date we have been unable to discover the man for our Executive Secretaryship, despite earnest efforts to do so, in cooperation with the New York office. We need an earnest, capable leader very much. Have patience with us, and follow us with your prayers. _____________________ "Out of every 100 civilian employees on the Federal payroll, 40 are civilians in the military establishment." ______________________ The new address of the national office is: FELLOWSHIP OF RECONCILIATION 21 Audubon Avenue New York 32, N. Y. ____________________ BOSTON UNIVERSITY WOMEN'S COUNCIL 675 Boylston Street Boston, Mass. September 22, 1930 To the Members of the Boston University Women's Council: We hope you have a good restful summer and that the activities of the Boston University Women's Council may now claim some of your time. The first meeting will be held next Monday afternoon, September 29, at 2:30 o'clock at the Harriet E. Richards House, 328 Bay Street Toad. Miss Richards herself will be our hostess and will be glad to welcome you all. Most of our business will have to do with our first activity, the Houghton Concert, to be given in Symphony Hall on the evening of December 4. Mrs. Helen Willard Howard will be our chairman on this occasion and is hoping to name the Committee Chairman at that time. We want each and every member to have an opportunity to volunteer her services where she thinks she would be most useful. Will you please think it over between now and next Monday and be ready to give your name and the name of the committee on which you would like to work? Very sincerely yours, Louisa Holman Fick President Nellie P. Bliss Secretary P.S. Please reply by telephone or card to the Office of the University Dean or Women, 675 Boylston Street, Boston- Kenmore 1605. We should like to have your answer by Saturday of this week. B U Women's Council New England Anti-Vivisection Society 6 Park Street Boston, Massachusetts TELEPHONE LAFAYETTE 6020 HON. GEORGE R. FARNUM MISS MARY E. HANNAN President and Counsel Secretary MRS. JOHN RITCHEY MR. P. E. PATRIQUIN Vice-President Treasurer November 13, 1939 Dear Friend: Summer is past and we are well advanced on another year's working program toward the goal upon which we have set our hearts. That goal may at times seem distant and our progress slow. However, history teaches us that fundamental reforms demand years of patient and consistent effort, and we have faith that the rightness of our cause will in the end win universal recognition. Furthermore, we are greatly heartened by indications on every side that the influence of our society is daily increasing, and that the public is beginning to understand the evils of vivisection and to sympathize with our aims. We are enclosing a copy of one of our new folders. It would be a fine thing if you would pass it on with the hope of thereby bringing in a new member. Of course if you could distribute additional copies of these will be be promptly supplied with our appreciation for this indication of your active interest. Yours very sincerely, George R. Farnum PresidentAnti Vivisection Society NEW ENGLAND ANTI-VIVISECTION SOCIETY 602 TREMONT TEMPLE, BOSTON, MASS. December 31, 1929 Dear Member: The Bill of the International Conference for the Investigation of Vivisection, for the Exemption of Dogs in the District of Columbia from Vivisection - House Bill #7884 - has been introduced in Congress by Hon. Frederick N. Zihlman, of Maryland, and referred to the District of Columbia Committee of which he is chairman. Will you not write a letter to Mr. Zihlman, thanking him for introducing the Bill and to some member - or all- of the Committee urging a favorable report? This is very important and should be done at once. Write yourself and get others to write, if possible. Very truly, (signed) Wegia H. H. Tracy Executive Secretary, N.E.A.V.S.HOUSE BILL 7884. 71st CONGRESS - 2nd SESSION This Bill: To prohibit experiments upon living dogs in the District of Columbia and providing a penalty for violation thereof was introduced into Congress by Hon. F. N. Zihlman, Dec. 20, 1929, and referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia, composed of the following members: Chairman- Hon. Frederick N. Zihlman Vice-Chairman, Hon. Clarence J. McLeod Hon. Merlin Hull - Wis. Hon. Vincent L. Palmisano - Md. Hon. Albert R. Hall - Ind. Hon. Christopher D. Sullivan - N.Y. Hon. John W. Palmer - Mo. Hon. James L. Whitley - N.Y. Hon. C. B. McClintock - Ohio Hon. Gale H. Stalker - N.Y. Hon. Mary T. Norton - N.J. Hon. Edward M. Beers - Pa. Hon. Joseph Whitehead - Va. Hon. Patrick J. Sullivan - Pa. Hon. Malcolm C. Tarver - Ga. Hon. Frank R. Reid - Ill. Hon. Robert S. Hall - Miss. Hon Frank L. Bowman - W. Va. Hon. Wright Patman - Texas Hon. Florian Lampert - Wis. Hon. 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Although we have not yet heard from you, I feel sure that you wish to help but it has just slipped your memory. Mr. Haines' long illness has made it more difficult to carry on the work than it would have been otherwise. But he is at his desk again with an accumulation of important investigative work to be done. The first step of this work resulted in the article, published in the January issue of "the Searchlight, "The Missing Link in Public Affairs." The important thing now is that his mind should be as free as possible from financial worry in order to carry this work through. It is an amazing fact, but if each of our readers sent in one new subscriber, it would enable us to go ahead with the real task we have here to do. That is not much to ask of one individual. We sincerely feel that you will want to give this work your help at this time of real need. I am confidently looking forward to your prompt response to this appeal. Sincerely yours, G. B. Harris P.S. We are carrying our special offer into the month of March for the benefit of our old subscribers. We are offering a year's subscription to The Searchlight and a copy of "Your Servants in the Senate" for $2.00. the price of the magazine alone.Searchlight STARVATION! DISEASE! Funds exhausted, bodies weak- end by months of famine rations, the limit of physical endurance has been reached among the miners, and the winter brings despair. Pneumonia, flu, and all the malnutrition diseases find easy victims in the hungry, thinly clad men and women and children crowded together in their small, unsanitary boxes of rooms. The mine workers of Central and Western Pennsylvania and Ohio are fighting for a wage of $7.50 a day. The disorganized condition of the coal industry enables them to get work to do approximately 160 days in the year, a total gross earnings of $1,200 a year. The mine owners are endeavoring to establish an open-shop wage which goes as low as $2.85 a day. The United States Department of Labor minimum subsistence budget is $2,162 a year. Is the right to work for a wage of $1,200 a year to support a family of five an unreasonable demand" The coal operators are reaping enormous profits at the expense of the workers. The profits of one coal company for one year were $2,000,828. Regardless of who is right and who is wrong in the desperate strife between the operators and the striking miners, the children constitute the tragedy of the coal industry today. Their condition is a blot on the face of our economic system. It is to the shame of our country. Teachers in the camps tell of children fainting in school from hunger, and hundreds kept at home from school for lack of shoes and clothes. In one camp our investigator saw children hobbling along through the snow with their bare feet thrust into big cast-off rubbers tied on with rags. "They are so perished-looking with their little old rags of old clothes," said an Irish woman up at Nanty-Glo. The miners await your help. Financial assistance, to buy food in wholesale quantities, is the great need. We ask you to help them- to be as liberal as you possibly can. You may miss it a little or a lot - to them it means life, particularly to the children, whose cries for bread are heard day and night. Money for food and medical attention for miners and their families should be sent to EMERGENCY COMMITTEE FOR MINERS RELIEF Forrest Bailey, Treasurer 156 FIFTH AVENUE Presbyterian Building New Y156 Fifth Avenue, New York City. WITH THE PENNSYLVANIA-OHIO MINERS' RELIEF TRUCKS (an account of our experiences while taking several trucks of food and clothing to the mining camps of Pennsylvania.) At six A.M. while it is still dark some ten or more large trucks line the curb facing the warehouse of the Pennsylvania-Ohio Miners Relief Committee (in Pittsburgh). Groups of strikers are busy loading the trucks with large cases of food and clothing. All help is volunteer help. Early in the morning the miners come in from the nearby mining towns to accompany the relief trucks to their respective destination to help with the loading and general work of the Relief Committee. By daybreak, I count thirteen large trucks loaded to the top and ready to start to the neediest camps. The many cases of food for the strikers have been purchased directly from the wholesalers, loaded into the relief trucks and are ready to send to the Commissaries of the different camps. The committee states that all efforts are made to secure the best of food.All goods are new and fresh. Fresh food will give the men, women and children encouragement, stamina, and determination to continue their courageous fight for a living wage and decent working conditions. The trucks move away in caravan fashion. Early morning crowds stand and watch the trucks go by, reading the signs which cover the sides of all the trucks, notifying people there is a strike on and that relief is needed. Three trucks start for the four towns of Mollenhaeur, Coverdale, Van Voorhis and Vestaburg. These three proceed as a unit and will remain together until the four towns are covered and the relief delivered. We arrive in Mollenhaeur an hour later with the weather a few degrees below zero. The strikers in Mollenhaeur have come to consider the relief trucks as definit and certain as the sun, moon, day or night, so there is always a large crowd on h at a certain time in the morning on a certain day to meet the trucks. At least hundred men, women and children swarm around the truck. A cheer goes up, and set to work unloading. One of the local relief committeemen says:"The Penn Ohio Committee is doing splendid work for the miners. It stiffens our backb gives us courage to fight on when we know you are working so hard to save o Another says: "WE have had no money relief from our union this week. Last got $1.00 per man, same for wife, and nothing for the children. Can we liv dollars a week, which we get some weeks, not always? Next week they will have already started building the barracks." Vostaberg relief is distributed in the afternoon. Recording to r of the Pennsylvania-Ohio Committee, it "must be distributed fairly equally, discrimination, and to the satisfactions of all the families under your juris The crowd swells around the trucks. A strikers wife aids the thawin process applied to the cold men on the relief trucks with large cups of hot cof She is sad because she cannot give us "something to eat" also, but she explains until the relief is distributed coffee is all she has. We hear many stories of the brutality of the State and Coal & Iron Police, of hunger or suffering, of fortitude. The trucks proceed to Coverdale, most famous of all striking camps, famous for its evictions, water being shut off, companies tearing off roofs of strikers' houses trying to hasten the eviction orders, of unparralled brutality from the gunmen etc. Long rows of the famous "barracks" house the strikers. Barracks are a one bear contraption with no tar paper, etc., to keep the wind out. And no coal is to be had in most camps to keep the barracks warm. The Local Union Committee is on hand. Several scores of miners, poorly clothes, are busy on more barracks. Life in camp is immediately switched from the building of the barracks to the coming of the relief trucks. Many willing hands begin unloading. A checkup reveals everything in order, all received, all satisfied. Several members of the Ladies' Auxiliary (who are in charge of distribution) report on the situation in Coverdale: "More evictions, more relief needed, children with no shoes, clothes, difficult to get coal to keep barracks warm, union relief coming poor - and all determined to fight." Thirty miles back into the hills is Van Voorhis. The trucks pass the mine. The picket line is out - so are the gunmen. A large crowd meets the truck at the Union Hall. The Local secretary aids in checking off the delivery: "All here, all satisfied." The Local Committee reports: "We go into the barracks next week. Our relief has been very poor, but now we have faith in the Pennsylvania-Ohio Committee to keep us alive until victory is won." Twelve hours have elapsed since leaving the warehouse in the morning. We have travelled more than sixty miles in one direction, entering the hill country, reaching the isolated towns. The trucks are empty. 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A-14-Reg.GOOD THINGS TO EAT FROM FARM AND KITCHEN DELANE BROWN 1501 GUILFORD AVENUE BALTIMORE-MARYLAND MARCH 27, 1928 Dear Madam: It is a problem isn't it, to know day after day, what to get to eat? Sometimes I wonder if the men folks realise what a lot of planning is required to produce the meals that are so much enjoyed. And because I know just how it is in my own home. I'm anxious to help you out if you'll let me. Just for example- right now when it's 'tween seasons, I have made up a special assortment of the most popular fruits and vegetables that will provide the needed variety and flavour in your meals. This assortment I have priced at a real reduction- it gives you a chance to replenish your pantry shelves at a marked saving. The enclosed "In Between" folder tells all about the opportunity that is yours for a limited time. Don't let it slip away from you. And while you have it before you, just glance over the list of Good-Things-To-Eat on the order blank. 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As an Easter remembrance for your friends or family, you could find nothing nicer. From your past experience you know that I don't let any customer of mine be dissatisfied if I know it. Whatever you order must please you fully or it costs you nothing. I promise you the same attention you'd expect if you were here supervising everything yourself. Is your pen or pencil handy, so you can make your selection on the order blank now- while you have it in mind? Yours sincerely Delane Brown DB:BHDelane BrownWORKERS INTERNATIONAL RELIEF 751 Washington St. Boston, Mass. CHILDREN'S CAMPS DEPARTMENT Dear Comrade: Enclosed you will find receipt for the WIR CHILDREN'S CAMPS. We are sure that you will continue helping the Workers International Relief in all it's activities. Thanking you very much. Fraternally yours, Belle Lewis For the Camps Committee THE PEOPLES' LOBBY PRESIDENT TREASURER EXECUTIVE SECRETARY PROF.JOHN DEWEY W. JETT LAUCK BENJAMIN C. MARSH GENERAL OFFICES 39 BLISS BUILDING, 35 B STREET N.W. WASHINGTON, D.C. TELEPHONE, LINCOLN 2748 20 May 3, 1928 ADVISORY COMMITTEE HON. HERBERT F. BAKER Pres. Farmers' National Council ROGER N. BALDWIN T.C. CASHEN International President, Switchman's Union of America OTTO CULLMAN JOHN D. DENISON MORRIS L. ERNST E.H. FITZGERALD Grand President, Brotherhood Railway and Steamship Clerks W. W. FITZWATER National President, Farm Labor Union of America J. A. FRANKLIN International President, Brotherhood of Boiler Makers, Iron Ship Builders and Helpers of America FRED. H. FLJOZDAL Grand President, United Brotherhood Maintenance of Way Employees MRS. KATE CRANE GARTZ LEWIS S. GANNETT D. W. HELT President Brotherhood Railway Signalmen CHARLES P. HOWARD President, International Typographical Union CHAS. H. INGERSOLL ROSCOE H. JOHNSON International President, Commercial Telegrapher's Union of America HON/ HENRY T. HUNT FREDA KIRCHWEY E. C. LASATER DR. E. C. LINDEMAN JAMES MALONEY President, Glass Bottle Blowers' Association E. J. MANION President, Order Railway Telegraphers PROF. BROADUS MITCHELL J. H. MCGILL WILEY W. MILLS JACKSON H. RALSTON L. E. SHEPPARD President, Order Railway Conductors S. A. STOCKWELL WM. S. UREN FRANK P. WALSH Dear Friend: A purely negative policy on Nicaragua won't get the marines out of there before Christmas, - nor soon after, probably. We are working for two specific measures to meet the situation there now. First - An investigation of the concessions which Americans obtained there, and elsewhere, Second - Getting the Secretary of State to ask the Nicarguan Government to approve a joint commission to supervise the Nicaraguan election, composed of representatives of Argentine, Brazil, Chile and Mexico, as well as of the United States. We have arranged a Conference to be held in the Raleigh Hotel here, Saturday, May 12th, of representatives of important peace organizations, to try to get and agreement upon a minimum plank on international relations to be submitted jointly to the Conventions of both major parties. We suggest opposition to intervention, joint commissions to supervise elections if necessary to do so, public record of concessions, and international cooperation in development and conservation of natural resources. It's a minimum to be sure, but the maximum upon which agreement seems possible, and a combination is stronger than many diverse, if not conflicting views. Among the speakers at this Conference will be, Professor John Dewey, who has recently taken the Presidency of the Peoples' Lobby, Dr. Albert H. Putney, Prof. of Constitutional Law in the National University, and Mr. Robert W. Dunn, Author of American Foreign Investments. Won't you attend this Conference? Won't you also make a contribution for our campaign on these specific measures? Please make your check payable to the order of W. Jett Lauck, Treas., whose envelope is enclosed. Yours sincerely, BENJAMIN C. MARSH Executive SecretaryTHE PEOPLES' LOBBY PRESIDENT TREASURER EXECUTIVE SECRETARY PROF. JOHN DEWEY W. JETTY LAUCE BENJAMIN C. MARSH GENERAL OFFICES BLISS BUILDING, 35 B STREET N.W. WASHINGTON, D.C. TELEPHONE, LINCOLM 2748 ADVISORY COMMITTEE HON. HERBERT F. BAKER Pres. Farmers' National Council ROGER N. BALDWIN T.C. CASHEN International President, Switchman's Union of America OTTO CULLMAN JOHN D. DENISON MORRIS L. ERNST E.H. FITZGERALD Grand President Brotherhood Railway and Steamship Clerks W.W. FITZWATER National President, Farm Labor Union of America J.A. FRANKLIN International President, Brotherhood of Boiler Makers, Iron Ship Builders and Helpers of America FRED H. FLJODAL Grand President, United Brotherhood Maintenance of Way Employees MRS. KATE CRANE GARTZ LEWIS S. GANNETT D.W. HELT President Brotherhood Railway Signalmen CHARLES P. HOWARD President, International Typographical Union CHAS. H. INGERSOLL ROSCOE H. JOHNSON International President, Commercial Telegrapher's Union of America ROY HORN President, International Brotherhood Blacksmiths, Drop Forgers and Helpers of America HON. HENRY HUNT FREDA KIRCHWEY E.C. LASATER F.C. LEUBUSCHER DR. E.C. LINDEMAN JAMES MALONEY President, Glass Bottle Blowers' Association E.J. MANION President, Order Railway Telegraphers PROF. BROADUS MITCHELL J.H. McGILL WILEY W. MILLSN L.E. SHEPPARD President, Order Railway Collectors S.A. STOCKWELL WM. S. UREN FRANK P. WALSH May 3, 1928. Dear Friend: A purely negative policy on Nicaragua won't get the marines out of there before Christmas. -- nor soon after, probably. We are working for two specific measures to meet the situation there now. First - An investigation of the concessions which Americans obtained there, and elsewhere. Second - Getting the Secretary of State to ask the Nicaraguan Government to approve a joint commission to supervise the Nicaraguan election, composed of representatives of Argentine, Brazil, Chile and Mexico, as well as of the United States. We have arranged a Conference to be held in the Raleigh Hotel here, Saturday, May 12th, of representatives of important peace organizations, to try to get an agreement upon a minimum plank on international relations to be submitted jointly to the Conventions of both major parties. We suggest opposition to intervention, joint commissions to supervise elections if necessary to do so, public record of concessions, and international cooperation in development and conservation of national resources. It's a minimum to be sure, but the maximum upon which agreement seems possible, and a combination is stronger than many diverse, if not conflicting views. Among the speakers at this Conference will be Professor John Dewey, who has recently taken the Presidency of the Peoples' Lobby, Dr. Albert H. Putney, Prof. of Constitutional Law in the National University, and Mr. Robert. [?] Dunn, Author of American Foreign Investments. Won't you attend this Conference? Won't you also make a contribution for our campaign on these specific measures? Please make your check payable to the Order of W. Jett Lauck, Treas., whose envelope is enclosed. Yours sincerely, BEJAMIN C. MARSH Executive Secretary.Benj C Marsh (Logo of circle and star) EAST AND WEST (Logo of circle and star) Published by the Massachusetts Committee NEAR EAST RELIEF (Formerly American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief) 1218 LITTLE BUILDING, BOSTON 11 ============================================================= Issued Weekly Vol. 2 No. 9. Dr. William A. Bartlett January 18, 1921 Executive Secretary ============================================================= THE ATLANTIC CITY CONFERENCE The conference of State Directors with the New York office just held at Atlantic City, January 8th to 12th, was of such importance and import to all our constituents that we are giving a resume in this number of East and West. ** I. The plan for the next six months will be a thoroughgoing cultivation of all national, state and district organizations, such as churches, fraternal orders, chambers of commerce, etc. It was emphasized that while we have had the most splendid support from all these organizations the greatest credit is due to churches and Sunday schools. The intensive community campaign will be to reach all organizations and individuals in each state. ** II. It is now planned to secure volunteer speakers and workers in every community: people who will be in training and who will constantly seek an op- portunity to present our cause before every organization in their own vicinity. ** III. Passion Week (from March 20th to 27th) will be observed as a Week of Sacrifice, while continuing in our campaigns in every way we shall aim to make this week one of devotional and sacrificial giving. ** IV. There will be an enlargement of the industrial campaign held in industrial states, a number of states will begin at once to consider a "Buy a barrel of flour" and "Say it with flour" campaign, which was successfully carried on by New York State, under the direction of Capt. Stephen N. Bobo. This, however, will be secondary to a continuous campaign for money. In the State of Massachusetts the $60 bond book will be constantly used, and made the basis of approach by which an orphan may be fed for a year, the chief em- phasis being on the adoption of an orphan. Talk more about orphans than money ** One of the points made in the Conference was the importance of reaching the public schools in every community. This may be done under the head of "Educational Values". Educators are today seeking to give the child a larger vision and a sensitive comprehension of its fellows. A number of school prin- cipals have welcomed our speakers because of the vision it gave to the children. These children are also the advertisers, and will take the message home to their parents, which will be followed by a contribution. __________________________________ A Sunday School superintendent was in the office today asking if it were possible to get money into Armenia at the present time. He had heard a report that it was not. Money is constantly sent to the most remote parts of the Near East. ** It is desired that any who have "15 club" books which have not been filled should fill them at once. Kindly communicate with this office in regard to the book which you have. A life may be dependent upon your activity. ** You who read this copy of East and West, please realize that you may be- come an active worker and representative for us, and that no one else can take your place. A very busy woman in one of our leading churches came to the of- fice the other day and said: "I am so much interested that I would like to have the privilege of reaching members of our church." She has spoken before the Men's Club, different women's organizations and young people's meetings; she has written letters to individuals and has been sending checks to this office for a number of weeks. ** Through an oversight in the last number of "East and West" certain important data was omitted. Under the Publicity Department: we have had 115 columns of matter published in the state in the last six months. Under the Fraternal Organizations: we have reached 253 out of 286 State Granges. (Rectangle with decorated borders) (Logo of circle and star) Hunger Knows No Armistice (Logo of circle and star) NEAR EAST RELIEF - 1 MADISON AVENUE, NEW YORK -2- In response to our appeal to the Granges, we gladly acknowledge $25.00 from Great Barrington Grange, No. 265; $60.0 (complete Bond Book) from Marion Grange No. 2359, Warsham, Mass; $25.00 from Fitchburg Grange No. 186, Fitchburg, Mass., and there is beginning to be a steady response from business firms. Among those who have made a contribution is W. H. McElwain Company employees who have pledged $180. We also wish to express our appreciation to R. H. White Company, Wm. Filene & Sons Company, Gilchrist Co., and Jordan Marsh Company for generous contributions of material from their stores to Near East Relief. ** The following is an illustration of the Sacrificial Week which we approach and the wonderful spirit shown by some who have so little to live on: " Gentlemen: Enclosed please find money order for the relief work you are carrying on.Though unable to earn money and depending only on my widow's pension I will endeavor to contribute regularly according to ability." The money order was for $5. ** To give a little idea of the wealth of this nation, our publicity director, who speaks with authority, states that the United States owns over 8,000,000 automobiles, and all the other nations put together own barely 2,000,000. There is no doubt but that every community, even if comparatively small, has enough money in the savings bank to take care of Armenian orphans in Harpoot. It would require only $1,124,640 to make every child well fed, clothed and given an industrial education. ** A little girl came into the office within a day or two, accompanied by an elderly woman. The child could not have been more than five or six years old. She had a box which contained over 275 pennies. These pennies she had deposited a few at a time, for many weeks, for the suffering children of Armenia. It meant practically her entire financial capital, but she brought it with great joy to be used for this beautiful purpose. Looking forward to our Sacrificial Week let us recall this incident and remember that "A little child shall lead them". ** The churches have made a splendid response to the appeal of Near East Relief. Several of them are using the "15 Club" book, or the newer 60 Bond book. Therefore it will take some time to get complete returns from them. Dr. William Allen Knight, author of the charming books on Palestine, writes from Plymouth Church, Framingham, that their contribution of $1000 has been increased to$1260. Park Street Church, Boston, has increased its offering from $1225 to $2000.94. The Church of Christ in Fitchburg, Mass. has increased its offering to $2,324.85. ** Miss Maria Yacobson, who is spending six days in Massachusetts, has made a profound impression everywhere she has spoken. Among other activities a fine campaign was put on in Waltham, beginning with an address by Miss Yacobson at the High School. On Sunday, January 16, a great mass meeting was held in a theatre, which had been donated by the proprietor for the occasion. Miss Yacobson moved her great audience to tears, and the response of over $500 in cash and pledges does not indicate what will be done there as this is but the beginning. Great credit is due to Rev. Frederick H. Page, D. D., who took entire charge of the meeting, and made a masterly plea for Near East Relief. When such busy men as he and Dr. Knight and others give so much time to this work we feel greatly strengthened to know that we have this splendid volunteer backing.Neareast Telephone, Stuyvesant 3094 Lake Tamiment Blue mountains Pennsylvania People's Educational Camp Society, Inc. (New York office) 7 East 15th street, New York January 19th, 1921. Dear friends, Are you interested in Labor Education and Recreation? If you are, then the plan of a great summer camp for the workers, as it is described in the following pages, must appeal to you. We trust you will consider these facts carefully and then respond in accordance with your ability. Send money order, check, or registered letter by mail or call in person. Make checks payable to People's Educational Camp Society, Inc. In order to save expense we are sending this letter in identical form to thousands of friends, but if we were to write these thousands of friends each an individual letter, we could not say more. Every five dollar subscription will mean health and joy to some worker. What will you do? Sincerely People's Educational Camp Society, Inc. Bertha H. Mally Treasurer The story of Lake Tamiment The friends and students of the Rand School are building a summer camp. There have been 20,000 students of the school in the past fourteen years. These are our firm friends, and we confidently expect that many of them will be glad to spend their vacations with us at Lake Tamiment.That we have staunch friends is evidenced by the following facts: 1. In 1917 they contributed $90,000 for the purchase of the People's House. 2. In 1919 they rallied to the defense of the School when it was under attack by the Lusk Committee and the Federal Authorities. 3. In 1920 they raised $3,000 in four days, to pay the fine imposed for the publication of Scott Nearing's "The Great Madness." DESCRIPTION Late in 1920 a large tract of land in Pennsylvania suddenly came into the market at a very low figure. The estate was attractively situated, next to Forest Park, the summer home of the Ladies' Waist and Dressmakers' Union. With the land came an 85-acre lake, and more than 1,500 acres of timber. For some time the Rand School had thought of establishing a summer camp for recreational purposes and as a special feature of its Summer School. With this unprecedented bargain in view, plans were made swiftly, and as swiftly realized. On December 15th the land was bought. In January, 1921, title was taken. The land is in the Blue Mountains, in the northeastern part of Pennsylvania. It is easily reached by the Lackawanna Railroad. From New York City the trip takes about three hours. To make the camp available for the summer of 1921, construction work had to be begun at once. Rapid progress has been made to date, Altogether, $35,000 is needed to put up the necessary buildings, to buy the equipment and to provide working capital for the managements of the camp until income begins to be available. SUMMER SCHOOL Our experience with the Summer School in 1918, 1919 and 1920 has shown the need for combining education work with rest and recreation during the Summer months. It is expected that the Camp and Summer School venture will be more than self-sustaining. It is confidently expected that the entire investment will be repaid in three years, and that thereafter the Camp will contribute liberally to make up the deficit of the School's educational activities. PEOPLE'S CAMP The Rand School group has done big things in the past. It has opened and maintained the People's House. It has withstood the most determined onslaught of those who desired to destroy the School. It has, against, great odds, maintained a center for the radical thought of the nation. It now wishes to offer to the workers a real opportunity for rest and recreation in pleasant surroundings and in congenial company. We have found many people who recognize the need for Labor Education. We are quite sure that there are as many who realize the need for wholesome recreation. We are sure that there are enough forward-looking people to make this venture possible. Will you enroll yourself as one of these? Will you get other to enroll likewise? TENTATIVE BUDGET The following tentative budget is a conservative estimate. At this time we cannot commit ourselves as to the amount of the weekly board at the camp. Current prices of supplies will of course be taken into account. INCOME EXPENDITURES Estimate income Supplies $14,000 from number of Services 6,000 people expected. $37,500 Incidentals 5,000 $25,000 ______ Margin for the year........................$12,500 The $35,000 we ask for now will be expended as follows: First payment on the land.........$ 5,000 Buildings............................................15,000 Equipment.........................................10,000 Athletic fields, beach, tennis courts, etc................................................5,000 ______ $35,000 With a margin of $12,500 in the first year, the obligations of the camp will be liquidated within three years. We are offering you a safe investment. We are offering you much more besides - an opportunity to build a recreation center for the Labor Movement. People's Educational Camp Society, Inc. Seven- East Fifteenth Street New York City President, A.A. Heller Vice-President, Meyer Gillis Secretary, S. J. Lieberman Treasurer, Bertha H. Mailly WILL YOU HELP US BUILD a camp for the workers? We have one of the finest opportunities to develop a center for rest and recreation ever presented to the labor movement. We have bought a site of 2100 acres - containing an 85 acre lake. We are clearing the ground, and making preparations to build. We need $35,000 to carry this work thru. We propose to raise this money by selling bonds at $5, $20, and $100, - bearing interest at 5%, and maturing in five years. HOW MANY OF THESE BONDS WILL YOU BUY? Fill in the attached subscription blank and send it in promptly. .................................................................................................................................. TO THE PEOPLE'S EDUCATIONAL CAMP SOCIETY, Inc. 7 East 15th Street, New York City I hereby subscribe....................dollars for.................bonds at..............................dollars, bearing interest at 5% and maturing in 5 years, to assist in building a people's camp at Lake Tamiment, Blue Mountains, Pennsylvania. Signature.......................................................... Address............................................................. I hereby donate.........................dollars for the same purpose. Signature...........................................................NEW YORK,____________________________________19_________ NO._______________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ (NAME OF BANK) PAY TO THE ORDER OF PEOPLE'S EDUCATIONAL CAMP SOCIETY, INC. $__________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________DOLLARS 26 ________________________________________________________________230 Russ Bldg., San Francisco, Cal. Fellow Men and Women: Perhaps some of you are aware of the fact that persecution of the I. W. W. is again in full swing in California. Already there are eleven Criminal Syndicalism Cases pending in Los Angeles and one in Sacramento. By observing the inclosed roster you will note that the District Attorney of Los Angeles is endeavoring to crowd the trials so close together that at least two attorneys will have to be employed to defend these men. If we fail to secure these attorneys there will be more innocent men railroaded into San Quentin to join the twelve victims of the vicious Criminal Syndicalism Law already there. Not only must attorneys and witnesses be secured, but also we must wage an intensive publicity campaign, as publicity is the only weapon our enemies fear more than any other. In order to carry on this campaign, money and workers are needed at once. We appeal to you for money to help defend these men who have given their all, that the rights obtained through such terrible sacrifices shall not be swept away! You as a Liberal know that the aims of the reactionary element can only be defeated by a concentrated effort. Will you stand by at this critical time and see these men sent to the penitentiary and their lives wrecked, when it is within your power to aid them? No! you will not, because if you did, in the future you would blush for shame to think that at the time these men needed your assistance you failed them. Men and women, money is only one of the present urgent needs. Workers are needed who will assist in getting publicity on these cases. If it is impossible for you to spare money, will you devote a few minutes each day writing to persons you think would be interested to see that these men secured justice. Also wherever possible, try and arrange protest meetings, and let people know what injustice is about to be committed. Don't delay because time is short. Act now! Let us show the hosts of reaction that we intend to fight this issue to a finish, and that we don't intend to let such people, with minds a thousand years behind time, to hold us in bondage. Remember, it is easier to retain a right than to regain it after it has been taken from us! The California District Def. Comm. 230 Russ Bldg. San Francisco, Cal. The World Tomorrow A Journal Looking Toward A Christian World ================================================================ NORMAN THOMAS, Editor RICHARD ROBERTS, Associate Editor GOVE HAMBIDGE, Editor Editorial Board - RUTH STANDISH BALDWIN, EDWARDW. EVANS, WALTER G. FULLER, PAUL FURNAS, JOHN HAYNES HOLMES, AGNES BROWN LEACH, JOHN H. MELLISH, RIDGELY TORRENCE, OSWALD GARRISON VILLARD, HARRY F. WARD Fellowship Press- GILBERT A. BEAVER, President, JOHN NEVIN SAYRE, Secretary, L. HOLLINGSWORTH WOOD, Treas. ================================================================ Telephone: 303 108 LEXINGTON AVENUE Madison Square 1240 NEW YORK CITY 5378 November 2 1921 Dear Subscriber: We need $2000 to carry on The World Tomorrow to the end of the year. After that,-- well. we must first cover the span of road that lies between this and then; and we are writing to you because we want your help, and we think you want to help. There is no other journal that is doing just that The World Tomorrow does. The liberal weeklies are splendid; and some of the religious organs are doing excellent work. But there is real room and need for an independent Christian journal which has a definite and forth- right social and international gospel to preach and which does not have to consider denominational interests. It is our special task to blaze the trail, to push ahead of the rest. It is not possible now to tell how much The World Tomorrow has done; but if one day you chanced to look in at the office, we would show you letters and other documents which would tell you how, month by month, The World Tomorrow has carried a message of courage and good cheer to our friends in lonely and remote places, how many loyal folk in the depressed regions of Europe regard it as a beacon of hope amid the surrounding darkness, how much of thought, discussion, study and activity it has stimulated in its brief life. So we turn to you, with assurance that if you possibly can you will help us. We know that these are difficult times; but that is an additional reason for keeping the flag flying. We are cutting down expenses to the lowest possible point. We will take large gifts, we will take the smallest gift, with appreciation-- a dollar slipped into the enclosed envelope will help. We are sending this letter to all our subscribers. What would cheer us is the kind of response from every one of them that would not only carry us to the end of this year but would enable us to go into the next with a great and confident swing. Every yours sincerely, L. Hollingsworth Wood J. N. SayreWorkers' Defense Com. Col.Chairman Vice-Chairman Treasurer LYFORD A. MERROW S. T. EMERY KIDDER, PEABODY AND COMPANY COURTENAY GUILD GEORGE E. HENRY Executive Committee ALFRED H. AVERY HOWARD W. BURGE CALVERT CRARY FRANK E. CRAWFORD S. T. EMERY COURTENAY GUILD H. K. HALLETT GEORGE E. HENRY WILLIAM J. KURTH FRED P. KINNEY EDGAR C. LINN COLONEL E. E. LOCKE LYFORD A. MERROW JUDGE ROBERT F. RAYMOND A. F. REIMER WILLIAM T. RICH SAMUEL R. RUGGLES FRANCIS H. SLACK ELMER A. STEVENS Women's Committee CHAIRMAN MRS. GEORGE E. FROST VICE-CHAIRMEN MRS. DAVID FLOYD MRS. GEORGE E. HENRY MRS. FRANK P. ELLISON MRS. HERBERT J. GURNEY MRS. STEPHEN H. ROBLIN MRS. FREDERICK G. SMITH Superintendent E. J. HELMS Campaign Director GEORGE W. WILLIAMS MORGAN MEMORIAL EMERGENCY FUND CAMPAIGN FOR $97,163 OR MORE HEADQUARTERS ROOM 46 - 150 DEVONSHIRE STREET BOSTON, MASS. TELEPHONE ... MAIN 7085 October 28, 1921 Dear Friend: We come to you with an EMERGENCY appeal asking for your co-operation in helping make possible the completion of the Emergency Fund for Morgan Memorial. We believe that when you have read the enclosed you will extend your aid, and not allow this Campaign to fall short of its goal. Your help along with that of hundreds of others will make possible the giving of work to the large number of old men and women, the crippled folds, and young fathers and mothers out of employment, all of whom are in great need and are daily begging for "work not charity" at the doors of Morgan Memorial. We say to you that for every dollar contributed we can give give dollars worth of work. You ask how? We take your dollar and give it to the worker to help reclaim the old clothing, shoes or furniture that is sent to Morgan Memorial through its Goodwill Bags, over 50,000 of which are in the families of Greater Boston. The article costing us $1.00 to reclaim now sells for 80 cents; we take that 80 cents and turn it over again and again, each time losing 20% on the turn-over, but in the end, as you will note if you will figure it to the last cent, we have given over $5.00 worth of work. Do you know of a better philanthropy in Boston than this in these days of unemployment? The cause deserves all you can do for it, whether that be $5.00 or $5,000. We ask your aid. It has been impossible to have our solicitors call upon all our friends, and we trust you will cooperate with our Committee, who have been giving weeks of time and effort to this cause, by sending your check for the largest possible amount you can give, to our treasurers KIDDER, PEABODY & COMPANY. We enclose a return envelope so that we may have your answer before the Campaign closes, Tuesday, November 1. Thanking you in the name of those we aim to serve, who ask "NOT CHARITY BUT A CHANCE," I am, Sincerely yours, Lyford A. Merrow Chairman. P.S. -- Please note that pledges may be paid quarterly, or at your option, on or before June 1st, 1922. Phone, Stuyvesant 9026 (HOLD TO THE LIGHT TO SEE THE UNION WATER MARK) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EDUCATION ORGANIZATION EMANCIPATION TRADE UNION EDUCATIONAL LEAGUE OFFICIAL JOURNAL WM. Z. FOSTER, Secretary-Treasurer UNITED WE STAND THE LABOR HERALD Office of Eastern District DIVIDED WE FALL Room 8, 208 East 12th Street NEW YORK CITY 119 June 15, 1923 Dear Friend: Under the leadership of the militants the American labor movement is moving forward. The old conservative leadership is no longer accepted at its own valuation, the rank and file of the trades unions are taking a more active interest in the destinies of their organizations and have organized the Trade Union Educational League with Wm. Z. Foster as secretary-treasurer. The LABOR HERALD, the official organ of the Trade Union Educational League voices the aspirations of the militant section of the American labor movement. Although it is only a little more than a year old it has done much to solidify and give direction to the progressive sentiment in the trade union movement. The LABOR HERALD has carried in its columns the message of Amalgamation and a Labor Party to the workers of America. Through its influence fourteen State Federations of Labor and seven International Unions have endorsed Amalgamation. The LABOR HERALD is a monthly publication and prints articles of interest to trade unionists and those interested in the Trade Union Movement. 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FITZGERALD, Secretary LEAGUE FOR THE AMNESTY OF POLITICAL PRISONERS 857 BROADWAY NEW YORK LEGAL ADV. BOARD ____________________ PHONE STUYVESANT 673 Isaac A. Hourwich Harry Weinberger Bolton Hall GEN. ADV. BOARD ____________________ Leonard D. Abbott Rose Baren Lillian Brown-Oil Robert Minor Anna M. Sloan Stella Comyn Hellen Keller October 27th, 1921. Lincoln Steffens Alex Cohen Roger N. Baldwin Margaret Sanger Rose Strunsky Dear Friend: Were you opposed to Mollie Stimer, Jacob Abrams, Hyman Lachowsky, and Samuel Lipman being sent to jail for 15 and 20 years because they were the first to denounce the United States military intervention in Russia? Through the efforts of their attorney, Harry Weinberger, these sentences have been commuted. The government is permitting them to leave the country NOW, before the expiration of their sentences, if they pay their own fare. The three boys are already at Ellis Island and Mollie Stimer is expected to arrive within a day or two. The money for transportation expenses and complete outfitting of the young people, who have spent almost two years in Jail, is needed at once. On behalf of the Political Prisoners Defense and Relief Committee, who has had charge of this case from its beginning, we ask you to do what you can in your vicinity to raise funds for this purpose. Unless we do so, the government will send these four brave Russians back to their prisons. Send what you can and get others to do likewise. All mail should be addressed to the Secretary of the Committee, S. Adel, 857 Broadway, New York City. PROMPT ACTION IS IMPERATIVE! Let me thank you for the generous response received to the appeal I sent out sometime ago to help the work of the Political Prisoners Defense and Relief Committee. Very sincerely yours, M.E. Fitzgerald 241 Secretary. S. ADEL, Financial Secretary M. GOLD, Treasurer POLITICAL PRISONERS DEFENSE & RELIEF COMMITTEE 48 CANAL STREET, NEW YORK CITY This too I know- and wise it were If each could know the same- That every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim. 24 -OSCAR WILDE May 4, 1923. Dear Comrade: Do pardon the delay in answering your letter of April 9th. We have, however, sent the pamphlets to the addresses indicated. I am glad of your interest in our work, and this gives us courage to continue it. With all best wishes, Sincerely, S. Adel Secy.Pol Prisoners' Defense & Relief Com w address "We want children to be conceived in love, born of parents' conscious desire, and born into the world with healthy and sound bodies and sound minds." - Margaret Sanger NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON FEDERAL LEGISLATION FOR BIRTH CONTROL, INC. CAMPAIGN HEADQUARTERS 17 WEST 16TH STREET NEW YORK CITY WAtkins 9-6709 Mrs. Margaret Sanger President Vice Presidents Dr. John Randolph Haynes Mrs. Dexter P. Rumsey Mrs. S. Foster Hunt Treasurer Mr. Noah H. Slee Ass't Treasurer Mrs. Frances . Ackermann Secretary Mrs. Alexander C. Dick __________ Mrs. Thomas N. Hepburn National Chairman of Women's Committee April 27, 1935 Miss Alice Stone Blackwell 3 Monadnock Street, Dorchester, Mass. My dear Miss Blackwell: Because of your warm interest in Birth Control, I wish to tell you of a serious emergency we are facing. Since the meeting to which you were invited at the home of Dr.and Mrs. James M. Faulkner on Friday, March fifteenth, the situation in Washington has become critical. Not only have hostile forces kept in committee our bill to lift the ban on contraceptive information, but powerful opponents have introduced a menacing bill in Congress to permit prosecution of recipients as well as senders of books and articles about contraception. This most reactionary bill in the whole history of our efforts would put every woman in jeopardy who tried to inform herself, and would set our cause back twenty-five years. We are in critical and urgent need of funds to fight this vicious bill, to promote our own legislation to amend the Comstock Law, and to carry on our program generally (details of which you will find on the inside pages of this communication. Won't you stand by our cause in the crisis by sending a contribution so that we may fight the obnoxious bill which is in serious danger of passing? If this bill passed, it would seriously handicap our work for public health and for the protection of mothers, and would increase the number of abortions. A gift from you will help us both to resist such unfortunate legislation and to push our own bill and program. Your help is necessary to hold the ground we have gained and to move forward toward our goal. I shall be profoundly grateful for any help you can give me now. Sincerely yours, Margaret Sanger President Make checks payable to J. NOAH SLEE, Treasurer, Depository New York Trust Company, 277 Madison Avenue, New York CityThe Program for Birth Control In addition to its work in the field of legislation, there are several major fields demanding the immediate attention of the National Committee on Federal Legislation for Birth Control. They are as follows: 1. In Public Education: We cannot begin to meet the request for information, literature and addresses about Birth Control which pour in upon us every day from every organizations, physicians, health groups, women's clubs, study groups, educational institutions and many others. Our office correspondence exceeds 15,000 letters a month. 2. In Clinics: Our counsel and assistance are constantly in demand in the operation of more than 160 Birth Control clinics already established, and in organizing new clinics. There is crying need to establish more clinics for contraceptive counsel and assistance along approved medical lines which would both place such a vital function in proper hands and would prevent desperate mothers from resorting to abortions and to bootleg contraceptives. Likewise, such clinics would strike a hard blow at the innumerable quacks now exploiting the miseries of mothers. The present number of clinics is far below the need. They can serve only a fraction of the women who want contraceptive advice. Thousands of poor women are denied contraceptive information which is available to women of means who can afford to pay the fees of private physicians. Many of the poor women needing such advice are in relief families, the wives of men out of work. When the restrictive Federal law can be changed it will be possible to open the doors of more than 7,000 hospitals and other centers which are now unable to give contraceptive medical advice legally or to obtain contraceptive supplies lawfully. The law would also affect about 150,000 physicians. There are 20,441,719 married women of child-bearing age in the United States. The obsolete law passed over sixty years ago keeps poor mothers - those most in need of Birth Control information - in ignorance of reliable contraceptive information. No such restrictive laws exist in England, or in Holland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden or Russia. American mothers are denied rights enjoyed by every mother in those countries. Our own clinic, operated at 17 West 16th Street, New York City, has not only given contraceptive information to more than 45,000 women since it opened twelve years ago, but is a reservoir of information and counsel to other clinics. 3. In Medicine: There is increasing interest among progressive medical men in Birth Control in connection with their private practice and their professional organizations. One of our most pressing needs is to employ a physician, qualified professionally and personally, to make contacts with individual physicians and medical and public health bodies throughout the country. 4. In the Field of Maternal Health: If the authoritative facts about the relationship between maternal mortality and abortions, bootleg contraceptives and the lack of competent contraceptive advice under medical auspices could be more widely known and put into effect, it would mean an exceedingly substantial contribution to the reduction of the disgracefully high maternal mortality rates in this country. Authoritative statistics from the U. S. Census Bureau and other sources indicate that every day in the United States approximately 82 women die from causes due to pregnancy, 560 infants die or are born dead, and 3,000 pregnancies end in abortion. Every year in the United States there are approximately 30,000 deaths among mothers as a result of pregnancy. Of these, 13,934 women die in child birth, and 17,000 die from abortions. There are from 800,000 to a million abortions yearly in the United States. One pregnancy in ever three ends in abortion. 5. In Infant Mortality: The important bearing of sound Birth Control measures upon infant mortality is equally clear, and if we had sufficient staff and support we could make a very important contribution in this field also. Every year in the United States 200,000 infants die or are born dead, still births numbering about 78,000. 6. In Dependency and Relief: Birth Control, as you are fully aware, has assumed a tremendous importance as a factor in dependency and relief. There is nowhere more clearly and emphatically revealed than in the studies made by Dr. Sydenstricker and Dr. Perrott of the Division of Research of the Milbank Memorial Fund. Their work has stimulated other studies and reports, which have corroborated their findings. An opportunity for a great service is open to us had we the resources to acquaint relief administrators, legislators, taxpayers and other groups with the challenging facts about the burdens of relief, taxation and care of dependents and delinquents which are being piled up through lack of the controls which the dissemination of contraceptive advice, particularly among relief families, would establish. Recent studies indicate that families without any employed workers had a birth rate 48% higher than those which had one or more full-time workers. One careful study revealed that the number of babies born to relief families was 35% greater than in families not on relief. With several million families on relief, the increase in birth rate among families unable to support their children tremendously aggravates the relief and taxation problems in this country. 7. In Research: Much more needs to be done in the field of research, both to increase our understanding of the scientific, medical, physiological and sociological factors involved in Birth Control, and in providing data with which to refute objections which are continually raised against Birth Control without any sound scientific basis. The above are a few of many fields open to us. If funds are made available for adequate organization we can secure results of great importance, not only in the specific fields mentioned, but in promoting recovery and greater economic and social security. [*Margaret Sanger*]