Word: york
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Born in Nieder-Rehback, Austria-Hungary, 69 years ago, Victor Berger attended the Universities of Vienna and Budapest, arrived in the U. S. in 1878 with $75 in his hosen. Metal he polished for $5 a week in New York, thence progressed to Milwaukee as a school teacher. In a debate he upheld the Single Tax against Socialism, won, but, convinced by his opponent's argument, turned Socialist himself. He it was who converted Eugene V. Debs to Socialism, later boomed him quadrennially for U. S. President. In 1898 he helped establish the Socialist Party. In 1900 he became...
...Later Socialists in Congress, both from New York: Meyer London (1915–'19; 1921-23), Fiorella Henry La Guardia (1917-19; 1923- ). Mr. La Guardia, now Republican designee for Mayor of New York, was temporarily (1925-27) tagged a Socialist when endorsed by that party. He denounced the label as a "dirty Republican trick...
...embroiderers in Manhattan is also directed to undertake a strike. Strikes are now under consideration in Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Toronto, Baltimore, Toledo, Kansas City. But the specific purpose of the bond issue is to finance a strike of 45,000 dressmakers to be called in New York...
Stanley Zasadzdniski dug many a grave. He rose through the dead to be, aged 42, a foreman in huge Calvary Cemetery, New York City. Two weeks ago he and some 300 fellow gravediggers stopped digging, struck for higher wages (TIME, Aug. 12). If Foreman Zasadzdniski had dug just one more grave, for himself, he would have been just in time. Last week he was shot dead in the graveyard as he lead strikers against a busload of strikebreakers...
...necessity for the issue is explained by the fact that some three years ago control of the New York subsidiary was seized by a group with Communistic leanings. They declined to accept arbitration and forced a strike which lasted for nearly six months, cost the union treasury some $3,500,000 in cash reserve, the workers some $30,000,000 in wages. The strike was a virtual failure. So the old officials stepped back in and reorganized...