Foreign Language Press Service

The long period of unemployment in the United States and the constantly growing disorder in the domestic and foreign policies of this country have undoubtedly exhausted the patience of the people. They are angry, and they are showing their anger against the "barons" who now have the governmen

From the middle ages friends of humanity requested equality of rights between man and wife. In 1776, at the time of the Continental Congress, Abigail Adams wrote to her husband: "If the future constitution does not pay more attention to women, then women must become rebels, and we w

Branch No. 1, of the Lithuanian Socialist Youth League, helf an important meeting on Sunday, April 16. Among other things, the following interesting question was raised and discussed: Would it not be a good thing to call a conference of the Lithuanian Socialist youth of all organizations, clu

The Organizing Comittee of the United Jugoslav Socialist Organizations in Chicago announced plans for a May-Day Manifestation, which will be held in co-operation with Bohemian organizations on May 1. All organizations willing to participate in this manifestation should send th

Monday, May 1, is a great holiday for all working people throughout the world. The purpose of the holiday is to show the international solidarity of the working class, to protest against war, and to encourage working people to intensify their struggles for social and economic improvement.

Today is May Day, the holiday of all the working people throughout the entire world. The holiday was established more than a quarter of a century ago, when the American Federation of Labor, assembled in a convention in 1888, in St. Louis, Missouri, decided to make May I a holiday for all work

General William C. Gorgas, chief surgeon of the United States Army, and who is famous for banishing yellow fever from the Panama Canal district, delivered a speech at the Congress of Missionaries, on April 29, at Washington, D. C. He stated in his talk that poverty is the main obstacle in the

According to telegrams received yesterday, four cavalry units of the National Guards were hurriedly sent into the Pittsburgh area. The reason is that many big strikes are now in progress in that area and clashes have already taken place between strikers and strikebreakers. The police and stat

American capitalistic newspapers are still babbling about preparedness. With all possible energy they are trying to convince the public that only a gigantic standing army, a gigantic navy, and gigantic war industries can guarantee peace and freedom of cultural development to this country. The

The greatest infamy of which our great and rich republic must be ashamed is child labor. We all know that in the United States, one and a half million children of the age of 10 to 15 years, are employed in different branches of industry, mostly cotton mills, glass factories, and mines.

An article entitled, "Heed For a Better Understanding," which appeared in the "Voice of the Readers" section of the Naujienos (News), prompts us to call attention to certain misunderstandings which seem to have pervaded the minds of certain people in regards to present day social questions. View details

The Chicago Lithuanian Socialist movement in Chicago is not young--it has been in existence for ten or fifteen years. Chicago Lithuanian Socialists are organized into several branches. At present there are seven Lithuanian Socialist branches in Chicago and surrounding territory. The

To strike is to struggle for a better life. But are such strikes as are conducted by the American Federation of Labor beneficial to the working people? Let us take, for example, the strike of the cattle slaughterers in the stock yards. As soon as the white slaves went out on strike through on

In yesterday's issue of the Naujienos (News) we wrote of how the capitalists became seriously concerned with Christianity; we pointed out out that they become so concerned that, in order to increase the influence of Christianity, Mr. John D. Rockefeller proposed at the Cleveland convention of

These days all over America a struggle is going on for an increase of wages, shortening of working hours, and recognition of unions. Workers in all industries request an eight-hour workday. Eight hours work, eight hours sleep, eight hours rest, are a logical division of a day, and y

After vainly trying various desperate schemes in order to break the fine solidarity of labor, the factory owners have resorted to a court injunction against the picketing of their factories. Truly it appears that judges in Chicago are the servants of capitalism. However, even if the

Three days more and then the third Jugoslav Socialist congress will convene at Chicago. This congress will happen in the most bloody era of human history, when Europe is a great slaughter house; while America is anxiously waiting for the report of the first rifle to give to this hemisphere an

We are again compelled to call upon you not to forget our society, the aim of which is to aid the victims of the Russian revolution. Despite the bloody war that the tsarist government had to carry on on several fronts, and regardless of all the misery and destruction that the war br

Many of you have been very close to the revolutionary movement in Russia. All of you were compelled to leave your Fatherland and search for fortune in America. And what have you found? Here, as well as in Russia, during strikes they shoot workers and dump them into prisons. Politici

A Russian library-reading room on the West side is located at Hull House, corner Polk and Halsted St. It is open every day. A Russian library on the Northwest side is located in the International Club, 1182 Milwaukee Ave., on the 3rd floor. It is open on Wednesdays from 8-10 P.M.