Foreign Language Press Survey

All intelligent Jews, orthodox and radical understand what an ugly and harmful effect, the Jewish Courier has upon the Jewry of Chicago. For the time being the masses are not yet familiar with the character of the Courier and there are people who believe that the Courier is a helpfu

Last Saturday the bakery employer at 517 S. Halsted locked out his Jewish bakers because they demanded a ten-hour day. The workers, indeed, would have won the strike, had not the industrialists stepped in and helped the boss against the strikers. Without a union label, the boss knows very wel

The Jewish Labor World is being published by workers for the purpose of helping to improve the material and spiritual conditions of the Jewish workers of Chicago and other large cities. As a labor newspaper struggling for the workers' interests, the Labor World will aid and assist w

An appeal from the United Hebrew Trades to the Jewish Workers of Chicago. We have gone through a year of suffering. The lamentations of the workers and their families still ring in our ears. There was great misery among the unorganized workers. These men began to understand that the trust mag

Labor organizations, unions where workers organize with united powers in order to improve their conditions, to receive higher wages, shorter hours and more sanitary work-shops, better and fairer conditions from the bosses and foreman, is an inevitable result of the present social and industri

On the request of the editor to observe the locality where the sweat shops are located, I took a stroll on 12th street between Canal and Jefferson street, only two blocks. We see to our sorrow, in these two blocks, pools of sweat and blood; human lives are sacrificed on the altar of profit. View details

Mr. Edwin A. Relkin is coming to Chicago for the entire season, with the Jewish Opera Company, and the only talented Primadona Mme. Freida Ziebel, together with a largest group of artists from New York. Friday night September 4, Ben Adur Saturday night, Blimele S

Last Saturday night our entire family of the Jewish Labor World assembled at the Metropolitan Theatre for the benefit of our paper, the Jewish Labor World. When the audience came, we noticed that we have a big family. The theatre was filled to its capacity, hundreds of people were turned away

The Jewish baker employers have decided not to get into a squabble with the bakers. Last Saturday after a long meeting, twenty-two owners determined to sign the union agreement and take the union labels. The bakers will work ten hours a day. It is now our duty to buy bread from places where t

By spreading its theories among the Jewish workers, the Zionist Socialist destroyed the belief of the Jewish Proletariat, and implanted the conviction in it that it is of no class now and is unable to carry on a real class struggle in politics. After all, the Zionist Socialists speak of the p

The Chicago Order, Knights of Zion, held their Twelfth Annual Convention and Banquet at the Hebrew Institute and made known to the world, what has been accomplished until now and what they intend to do in the future. Of the reports presented by the officers, we print the following:

The United Hebrew Trades have reorganized. Hereafter, only trade unions will compose the organization, and only such workers will be accepted as delegates as are able to accomplish something for the Federation. If the reorganization will do good to the workers we are perfectly satis

William H. Taft's inauguration, according to preparatory plans was to exceed those of all the former presidents, but nature would not permit them to make an exception for President Taft. Every right thinking person will ask himself the question: Why were they intending to make more

Since the saloons have been closed Sundays, the question has been raised, "What is to be done for the young folks who seek a place to spend a few hours when they are free?" To answer this question, Mr. Lipsky, a member of the Board of Education and chairman of the Neighboring Center

Last week was Zionist week in Chicago. In many stores and offices, signs were displayed, Welcome Delegates. (Naturally these signs were printed by non-union men in a non-union shop.) Conferences, a ball, mass meetings, a banquet, and many speeches took a great deal of time away from the deleg

Since the saloons have been closed Sundays, the question has been raised, "What is to be done for the young folks who seek a place to spend a few hours when they are free?" To answer this question, Mr. Lipsky, a member of the Board of Education and chairman of the Neighboring Center

A civic and citizenship league was organized at the Institute where anyone can receive all the necessary information on how to become a citizen. A class in civics was also organized to help those who want to become citizens. A legal bureau was established and the members of the Inst

The Hebrew Immigrant Aid society closes its campaign for the Building Fund. A large sum of money was donated for this fund by local business people. A list of donations are: Morris Joseph, $3,500, Julius Rosenwald, $3,500, Samuel Phillipsohn, $500, Harry Berstein, $500. A number of

Volunteers wanted for the first house-to-house collections for the war suffers, arranged by the People's Relief Conference, Sunday morning, Jan. 16th. All men and women willing to volunteer in this noble work will assemble at the Elenbogen Bank, 12th Street and Ashland Boulevard, an

At the Sherman Hotel, Sunday, January 23 at 10 A.M., the Jewish Congress will open. At this conference delegates from four states will introduce various problems of Jewish life in America. This will be the first time in Jewish history that radicals and orthodox will meet for one and the same