Unemployment Rises Across US In April Report
A U S Employment Service summary shows 4 percent more jobless in April than March, with 28 of 63 eastern centers worse and Pacific coast losses. Employment fell 7,087 in 1,424 firms, a 29 percent drop since January. Auto sector gains offset declines in iron and steel, textiles, and leather amid high costs and wage disputes affecting building trades. Major city gains include Detroit Chicago Toledo Passaic with Denver leading in percentage terms.
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United States
U. S
Empl Service
Army of
United States Employment Service
Department of Labor
Pacific Coast
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Detroit
Chicago
Toledo
Passaic
Denver
West
Ls Coast
Conserving Sacred Institutions and the Gitlow Case
An article reviews the New York Law Journal stance on the Gitlow criminal anarchy conviction and debates whether the American constitution and government are becoming sacred, divine, or subject to rebellion by workers as classes evolve. It traces historical shifts from independence to modern socialist organizing and contrasts capitalist and workers’ power in shaping state authority.
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New York Law Journal
First Judicial Department
Benjamin Gitlow
George III
England
Woodrow Wilson
George Washington
America
Ugh
Area League of Nations
Wilson
Washington
Rumis
Thomas Jefferson
Mr. Harding
Gitlow
McKinley
New York
Ben Gitlow
United States
Workers must act to free political prisoners
The article argues petitions are useless to workers and warns against relying on the right of petition. It urges workers to form Councils of Action within unions and mobilize across shops, ships, rails, and mines to threaten capitalism’s profits and force prison doors open.
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Aera of
Ameri
The Shop Delegate System
A radical union critique argues old leadership harms workers and promotes graft. It advocates Shop Delegates and Shop Committees to empower rank and file, enabling workers to control the union, elect the Shop Delegates Council, and select the Executive Committee, challenging official dominance.
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Avast
The Shop Delegate Propaganda Message
A wartime style proclamation asserts workers and delegates control over office managers and unions. It calls for a shop delegate system to replace current management, claiming increased surveillance and employment as servitude to workers with the aim of firing managers at will.
Stedman's Red Raid pamphlet attack on Socialist Party
The Toiler introduces Robert Minor’s 20 page pamphlet criticizing the American Socialist Party. It recounts January 2 1920 Justice Department raids on Communists and Left Wing Socialists, Detroit House of the Masses action, arrests, deaths, and Seymour Stedman’s involvement, with a note that continued on page 3.
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Robert Minor
The
Toiler
American Socialist Party
Socialist Party
Seymour Stedman
Supreme Court of Michigan
Palmer
Stedman
Stedfman
Otto Branstetter
Toiler Publishing Association
Clark Ave
Cleveland, C
George Hamilton
Hamilton
House of the Masses
Department of Justice
United States
America
Detroit
Michigan Socialist Party
National
Tereror
British Coal Strike Drags On Amidst Economic Strain
The British coal miners stick to their demand for a national profits pool as negotiations falter. Government leaders refuse concession, unemployment climbs to four million, and industrial stagnation spreads. The stock market suffers a sharp drop while retail remains hit. The government bans coal use in breweries and distilleries and promotes oil and wood. The Communist press accuses betrayal by Triple A members while miners resist terms.
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Lord Curzon
Capital
Commons
England
Triple al
Mance, Thomms, Hodges and Co
Red May Day Arrests and the Workers' Defense Call
A fiery piece condemns May Day arrests under Criminal Syndicalism laws across Warren Ashtabula Canton Cleveland Dayton and Pittsburgh. It argues bosses use the law to suppress leafleting and worker organizing while urging defense funds and nationwide support for trials and solidarity.
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America
Warren
Ashtabula
Canton
Cleveland
Dayton
Pittsburg
Syndicalium
Ito
Hussia
Iine
National Defense Committee
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Y Walter Johnso
Hoerge
Masses Larga
Josie Bee
Debs
Sargent
Elana
Rockefeller
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