American Labor Alliance Launched in New York
Radical labor groups unite to form the American Labor Alliance in New York to oppose reactionary leadership. Twelve independent organizations join, elects Caleb Harrison as National Secretary, establishes headquarters at 201 W 13th St, and plans lyceum, literature, and defense campaigns with nationwide outreach.
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American Labor Alliance
New York
Priaed
Ory Beth
United
Friends of Soviet Russia
Irish American Labor League
National Defense Committee
Finnish Socialist Federation
Associated Teller Clubs
American Freedom Foundation
Ukrvaian Workers Club
Socialist League
Marxian Educational Society
Hungarian Workers Federation
Arbeiter Bildungs-Vereine
Pacific Coast Educational Bureauere
J. P. Cannon
Associated
Lyceum
American Labor Movement
America
Workers of America
W. 13Th St
New York City
Caleb Harrison
Capitalist crisis sparks global working class upheaval
The text argues that postwar capitalism is bankrupt and causes vast unrest. It says the United States appears insulated but is tied to a disordered world economy. It describes rising unemployment, wage drops, and escalating strikes as workers unite, challenging state and capital. It predicts revolutionary change as the only path for workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Army of Reserve
Nion
United States
Nist
Ita
Brettigim
Prisons as Tools of Class War and a Soviet Alternative
A passage arguing American prisons serve workers by spreading emancipation and economic justice. It condemns capitalist rule and calls for a Soviet government in America to end jailings of workers' spokesmen and abolish class rule through a mass social revolution.
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American ‘Labor Alliance
American Labor Alliance
Tri
Atlanta
San Quentin
Alcatraz
Sing Sing
Dannemore
Ellis Island
Leavenworth
Walla Walla
Montesano
McNeill Island
Governors Island
Jefferson City
America
Jewish Nationalists Join Mud Throwers
A declaration by H S Bloomfield attacking capitalist press and Bolshevik policy asserts Jewish Daily News manipulation and defends Einstein's lectures in Soviet Russia. It calls workers of all nations to unite against capitalism, urging solidarity and vigilance against propaganda.
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H. S. Bloomfield
Soviet Russia
Jewish Daily News
News
Evigm
Jewish Correspondence Bureau Service
Berlin
Albert Einstein
Commissariat of Education
Soviet
Russia
Jewish National Party
Einstein
White Motor Company increases work week to five days
White Motor Company of Cleveland says the five day week provides work rather than wage cuts. Management states workers will receive the same pay for the longer week, emphasizing no wage reduction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
White Motor Company
Cleveland
Unemployed urged to unite for winter relief and work
Communications from councils across the United States and Canada urge forming an Interment Convention and extend solidarity to all workers. They call for delegates to organize relief, secure state aid, and ensure employment, arguing unemployment affects the entire working class and must be faced collectively to end hunger and cold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Canada
Unem
Br brief notes on wartime unrest and labor clashes
I W W driven from Kansas fields amid propaganda claims while Ku Klux Klan organizes in Cleveland and best citizens face fortunes. Harding seeks famine inquiry in American cotton areas as democracy blamed. Labor delegates in France wounded during a debate on communism. Ida Hazlett barred from Des Moines talk by Legionaries. Mass underwear mills report 120 children without undergarments. Union labels rally A F Prat underwohrT. A discharged veteran earns his first dollar in months.
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Gompers
Denver
A. F. of L
A.L. A
James A. Marshall
Moscow
First Workers’ Republic
Kansas
Ku Klux Klan
Harding
France
Communist International
American Legionaries
Ida Crouch Hazlet
Des Moines
Lawrence
Mass
Veren
A. F. Prat
Chacha Aisihon
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