The Yellow Socialist Post Office Clerk's Call to Action
A former United States Post Office clerk recounts brutal conditions in the early wartime mail system, detailing heat in the hole, heavy lifting, overtime, and punitive demerits. He argues against state capitalism and urges railway and postal workers to organize, framing government ownership as enslaving workers and advocating a workers' dictatorship.
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Yellow Socialist Party
United States
Steve Sme
G. P O
Park Row
New York
General Post Office
G. P.D
T.xuppose
Vier Provident
Coolidge
Post Office
U Forms Council of Action Rally Against Wage Cuts
Pennsylvania rail workers resist union busting and wage reductions as Vice President W W Atterbury departs for Chicago to address the United States Railway Labor Board. Altoona becomes the focal point where One Big Union drives a vigorous campaign among Pennsylvania Railroad shopmen at the nation’s largest shops with about 20 000 workers.
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Amwona
Pennsylvania
W. W. Atterbury
Pennsylvania Railroad
Chicago
United States Railway Labor Board
Altoona
P. RR
Sonona
Howses
Turbulent Protests Across War Nationwide Strife
Amid chaotic reports from Constantinople to Moscow, workers endure intimidation and mass mobilizations. Kemal Pasha gains followers as Russian labor unions expand, rail and transport systems improve, and literacy drives reach millions while industry reels from wage disputes and wartime concessions.
Unemployed Angered by Refusal of Work in Wheeling
A letter from Wheeling West Virginia recounts Feb 4 at 6:30 am, when National Tube Co Riverside Works refused to provide jobs to about one hundred men causing an uproar. Guards escorted workers out as ex soldiers muttered about the democracy they fought for in France, with fears of a mill takeover.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Tube Co
Riverside Works
France
Economics for Workers: Millions Out of Work
A workers pamphlet laments 6,000,000 people unemployed, argues five million could be employed to build houses, roads, schools, and playgrounds, reclaim land, and produce items for exchange. The writer questions why people should be without work when they need basic goods and poses how to reconcile production with shared needs.
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Svorke
Cam
Russians Petition to Come to America Sparks Debate
Five hundred Russians petition the government to allow Soviet Russia to send a ship to the United States to repatriate them. The writer questions their grasp of U S opportunities and warns of Lenin's persuasive influence and the belief that the United States is not a land of freedom and opportunity as once thought.
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Soviet Russia
United States
Russia
U. S
Lenin
Demonstration at Madison Square Garden Defends Amalgamated
A 19 000 strong Madison Square Garden turnout shows support for the Amalgamated Clothing Workers as manufacturers seek to dissolve the union over claims it would take over the industry. The crowd, though large, represents only a fraction of New York City’s 68 000 workers. Speakers stress unity, discipline, and the union as Americanization, with leader Hillman asserting the organization can wait months to win and cannot be dissolved.
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Amalgamated Clothing Work
Madison Square Garden
New York City
New York
Amalgamated
Hillman
Conld
Centurieu
Rosenblagt
Amalgamated Clothing Workers
Vosses
Tabor
Uts
Abraham Lincoln
Industee
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Hell
P. O
Sam
Department of Labor
Railrad
Angin
Junion Society
Bks
Council of Action
Toren
Benevolow
Detroit
Thaif Warker
Tefrain
Tech Americam
Gil
Jung
Constantinople
Angora
Kemal Pasha
Helsingfors
Moscow
Lis
Rosta Wien
Patrida
Society For Emigration
Rusia
Germany
Commissary of Agriculture
Itda
Woodworkers Union
al Russian Societies For Communal Organisation
Communist Party
Karl Lebknecht
Rosa Luxemburg
Wrumgel
Crimea
Russian Commissariat For Public Health
Morehhan
Crimean Peninsula
Rosta
Petrograd
Kharkov
Tvanovo-Vostosen
Monsow
Rowta Alan
9 Bureau For Foreign Science
Tech- Atterbury
Ukraine
Petrograd Tobacco
Nishi
Novgorod
Pirenent ' UN Boivet Tuasia
Kazan
Wistriot Hwelt
William Montgomery Brown
D. D
Eleven Ten
Bishop Brown
Thomas I'sine
Twentiethusand
Prem
the Toiler
Clark Ave
Cleveland
Ohio
George Lansbury
London Daily Herald
England
Teller
Wheeling
W. Va
Floyd Ramp
Nover
Mary Heston Vorse
William M. Leiserson
Ainigs
Armalgamates
Prank P. Walsh
Raymond Robing
Debs
Lenin and
Tyotzky
Fraina Pelle the Conqueror
BP Vole
Clark Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio
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