Word: berkman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arrest of seven men, two of them Harvard students, while they were demonstrating for the release of Edith Berkman yesterday, brings up anew the question of "class-war" tactics. The action of Mrs. Tillinghast, of the Immigration Bureau, has been sufficiently antagonizing. By refusing to see the persons involved in yesterday's demonstration, she enabled them to appear as martyrs in their cause. She has, moreover, persistently maintained an unconciliatory attitude and to some extent denied to Miss Berkman the privilege which she has herself exercised of presenting her case to the press. The police probably added to the error...
...CRIMSON does not now pass on the merits of the Berkman case itself. It does feel that the students harmed their own cause by allowing the affair to take such a turn as to give the newspapers an opportunity to brand their action as a "Hunger March" staged by "radicals." The American public, much to its own disgrace, refuses to have any sympathy with a movement tagged "radical," regardless of the justice involved. Practical action to aid political prisoners should be planned with a full recognition of this condition, and such action should avoid antagonizing the public until every alternative...
...main reason for Miss Berkman's arrest was her energetic activity as a strike-leader whom the Lawrence mill-owners wished to get out of the way as soon as possible. Her affiliation with a left-wing union was the excuse, and the U. S. Department of Labor was the means...
...Department of Labor as a strike-breaking weapon in the hands of the mill-owners that is the crux of this situation. It is against this, and the particularly flagrant use of it in this case,--the holding of Miss Berkman for seven months without ball as a punitive measure,--that the Liberal Club's protest is lodged. By Miss Berkman's activity, the National Textile Workers' Union had conducted a vigorous and thorough prosecution of the strike, which in turn created a united front of millowners, the A. F. of L., and the U. S. Department of Labor, whose...
...right" to free speech and agitation when this "right" conflicts with ruling class interest. It realizes that in an industrial crisis the machinery of the State is used to suppress by any means the activity of militant working-class unions. And it is with these unions, of which Edith Berkman was a member and organizer, that we sympathize and propose to defend. E. Y. Hartshorne...