Workers of the World Unite!
Workers of the World Unite! Socialism Hope 0f Humanity, Says Morrison |nt»h Laborite Stirs Meeting of 3000 in Chicago * With Appeal for New Social Order — William Green Presides. Special...
...Their second line of defense as consumers is the cooperative movement with 7,000,000 members...
...The Federation unemployment estimate shows there were 12,184,000 without normal work in industry at the end of March, 1936...
...The intent to employ the person transported in interstate commerce to obstruct or interfere with the right of peaceful picketing during a labor controversy is an essential ingredient of .a violation of the proposed Act...
...Sponsoring the meeting are the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, Amalgamated Clothing Workers, Cap and Millinery Workers...
...Our failure, thus far in 1936, to make any permanent progress in patting the unemployed to work has boon due at least in part to lengthening of work hours...
...It is a business which, according to the information given the committee, is not tolerated in any other country...
...The labor controversy must be one affecting wages, hours, conditions of labor, or the right of organization for the purpose of collective bargaining...
...rrison asserted that it Is a 2***y when the workers of one **try kill the workers of another BWfc?: be interests of workers lay- world are the same and ^^tlers of all nations should unite -Hrsspose the slaughter of one i-«Wtratteg the futility of the ",,tr' Morrison made some huff?00* I*ferences to reparations BRf-***" debts...
...They realize that in consideration for their class interests the capitalists repeatedly shrink from decisive measures for overcoming the crisis...
...Then Engr^w^jwould pay the United States out of what...
...The New Leader editor then drew a vivid picture- of what has happened in Germany and Italy "under the dictatorships of hairy apes," and concluded by saying that the labor movement of the world would fight the barbarism of dictatorship and for democracy without compromise...
...In 1935, of the membership found jobs between January and April, in 1936 only 1.7...
...but less than half (46%) of those laid off in depression have g4&e back to work in Industry...
...The new rulers are well ' aware of the swelling unrest and discontent amongst the working popu lance...
...Thugs Cam Bloodshed In recommending the enactment of the bill into law, the Judiciary Committee's report said: "There am ir tne United States individuals and organizations whose regular business is furnishing for large fee...
...Most of this reI employment shortage has occurred since NRA...
...But the Socialists, the real friends of peace in all countries, recognize that imperialist and capitalist intei eats repeatedly prevent the capitalist governments from fully ach eving collective security, and that even the terrible outrage* of Italian fascism in East Africa did not cause them to take cect* sive action...
...That is we should have reemployed tfiMjBQO...
...Disputes can he settled more amicably without the injection of professional thugs from the outside into an unfortunate situation...
...They have no illusion...
...But the Socialists recognize that only bold and far-reaching measures for alleviating the crisis, only the development of a Socialist economy on an international scale, can end it once and for all...
...We therefore extend our greetings to the Socialists of Belgium and France...
...In this city more than 75,000 men and women will fill the Polo Grounds at a mass meeting of Socialists and trade unionists which promises to surpass similar celebrations of former years...
...Wherever freedom rules the workers are advancing, increasing and strengthening the numbers of their organizations, firm in the confidence that the day of victory is drawing nigh for the forces of culture, liberty and Socialism...
...Italian fascism, which has brought its country to the edge of the abyss, seeks a way of escape in a murderous war of conquest...
...Tor freedom and Socialism, in all countries ur die* fascist dictatorship...
...The new order proves exactly the opposite of the Nazi contention that the German workers are standing behind the Hitler dictatorship...
...The period of office of the present councils entirely composed of Nazis has been prolonged for at least another year...
...Election Methods Under the Hitler Labor Lew the lift of council delegates is drSna up by the employer in consultation with the Nasi Labor Front iH» other list or propaganda, even against individual candidates^, is permitted...
...As the audience filed out of the building, hundreds of copies of Mr...
...Throughout the world the toilers in all free countries are celebrating May Day this year with new hope and revived fighting spirit...
...In countries where fascism is in power the workers will be unable to join in the May Day demonstrations, . but their hearts and minds will be one with their fellow toilers in other lands...
...For, of the young persons rho have come of working age ance depression, nearly four and i half million (4,246,000) are seeking jobs...
...and in addition relief agencies are caring fir about 1,890,000 cases MFeb1939...
...Our warmest sympathies are with them In their struggles...
...Measure Is Carefully Drawn "The bill is carefully limited in its terms...
...Only in a ruthless struggle against warlike fascism can the' danger, of war „be averted...
...The workers of Belgium are entering an election campaign with a determination to continue and extend their policy for overcoming the crista The results which they achieve in these great struggles will be of decisive importance for the fate of Europe...
...1935, "making if a felony to transport in interstate •or foreign commerce persons to be employed to obstruct or interfere with the right of peaceful picketing during labor controversies...
...only by the overthrow of fascism can lasting peace be assured...
...Instinctively the organised labor movement -throughout the <wt* passionately desires peace ¦Uoau the nations," he said...
...Fully | realizing that it is impossible to present faked election returns in shops where workers are mors or less acquainted wrth the views af their fellow men, they have deemed | it wise to suppress them altogether...
...The Labor Party in Great Britain demonstrated its imposing strength in the general election of November, 1°35, and it more strenuously engaged than ever in the struggle for power .The workers of France are engaged in a fierce struggle against capitalist reaction and fascism...
...March 1935, 19.4...
...she received from France but as it...
...The reemployment shortage of 2350,000 jobs is only part of the story...
...What world Socialism has always affirmed has become a terrible reality: fascism is war...
...The entry of the German troops into the Rhineland in violation of treaty obligations threatens to be the overture to a powerful offensive by German fascism, which would set Europe in names...
...fcy declared mat the only good pag that had come out of the g **r was the League of Na!jBPk but if it is to become "a gat authoritative instrument of Bp pacification, it will neadyth Bp* of all the nations of the HK that desire peace...
...For this reason, also, we greet the workers of Spain «-"ite Have overthrown clerico-fascism in their country and brought liberty to the heroes of the October rising...
...When business reached its low| est depression 'point in March |1933, 11,342,000 of those who had jobs in 1929 had been laid off, and business had- fallen 42% be tow ; normal, sccoiduig to the Annalist i Index...
...JSfa ¦•ans bereavement for . JWas-masaai of working families, ISawher war« have to be paid for, •^¦•¦ajor economic burden necesfeB| falls upon production labor, aoreover, the labor movement has ySfed from experience that wars nothing...
...There is a place for all in the Labor Party, he said*, providing they accept" the principles of the party...
...Resentment end Strife Incited "The importation into any state of persons from outside the state to interfere in labor controversies, it is demonstrated by experience, fans the fires of resentment, and incites further strife and bloodshed...
...j. In the afternoon a luncheon had Ifcten given to Morrison at the [Stadquarters of the Federation, at||eded by local labor men and out' Handing figures like John' Fitznsnck and Edward Noekels...
...a$out" the'lbudly proclaimed "overwhelming Nsri victories" in the two priced in at workers councils j elections in 1984 and 1938...
...Today there are two philosophies—no, one philosophy and one barbarism contesting for power, th*e philosophy of democracy and the barbarism of dictatorship...
...With 72% of the business {loss . regained, we- should have | found work for 72% of the depresI sion unemployed if we expect to I restore employment by the time business again reaches normal...
...WASHINGTON, D. C. — The Committee on the Judiciary of the House' of Representatives submitted a favorable report ott the bill sponsored by Senator James F. Byrnes of South Carolina and passed by the Senate on August 22...
...Morrison concluded his fine address by saying that "the good friends of peace must be interested in economic questions...
...In 1935 another "gigantic victory" was reported, but in all cases where it was possible to check the election returns it was clearly proven that a substantial majority had voted against the Nazi candidates...
...to a mas...
...Long five international Socialism 1 The Bureau of the Labor and Socialist International German Shop Elections Halted by Labor Unrest JJfAMBURG...
...Long Hve the Labor and Socialist international...
...The weighted figures show the following percentage of union membership unemployed: March 1936, 16.5...
...They sever pay what they ewe.'' Why leagjaa Is Imperfect The League is imperfect, he declared, because the governments are imperfect, and governments are imperfect because "we do not have enough Labor governments in the world...
...To struggle against the crisis means at the same time to work for the achievement of Socialism...
...the realization of its expansionist plans...
...strong-arm men and thugs in almost any numbers to take part in labor controversies...
...Morrison advised...
...German fascism continues its preparations for...
...Morrison was at his *%est, his rich fund of humor again jba again provoking laughter while Um most telling blows against capitalism were loudly applauded...
...The mass meeting was a natiaaaj, state and local affair...
...Splitters Help Fascism "Maintain the discipline and unity of the labor movement...
...j | ITTLE or no progress in fie- j employment has been made during die first quarter of 1936, according to the regular monthly economic survey issued on j Thursday by the American Fed- J eration of Labor...
...The average workweek has increased since January...
...rsjUonriaoa aipieised his hearty thanks far die very warm recep^Pi j» bad received m this counter and then launched into his address...
...A Every war in the past Hked years was caused by econo V_Snsiderations, Morrison con jPued...
...France, he said, g^fS'leo to get money from GerK**y t<> P«y England...
...More than a million possible jobs have been eliminated by lengthening work hours since the termination of NBA...
...The survey covers the situation as it appeared at the beginning of April...
...To the workers of the countries in the grip of dictatorship -we send our fervent greeting, remembering also the Socialist victims who languish in the jails and concentration camps of Soviet Russia for no other crime than loyalty to the ideals of democratic ^Socialism...
...In other words, we are falling short by 2360,000 jobs of iiiiltfrjaf the employment k>s t duri ing depression...
...Admission free...
...Capital is privately owner] an< workers produce more goods for the owners than they can buy back...
...Business has already travelled nearly three: quarters (72%) of the distance upward from depression bottom to normal...
...actually we have reemployed onl|3 5,270,000...
...The other <60r'r, that is the majority, had sabotaged the elections in one way br another...
...Trade union figures for the first part of April show the same employment gain as last year, but the union record of reemployment in the first four months is slightly less than that of 1935...
...British labor stands not only for eWmonflc cooperation Vase*1 upon public ownership of the great forces of modern industrial production, as a means of eliminating economic confusion within countries, but also as a means of promoting good will and cooperation between the nations of the world At the conclusion of his address Morrison received a standing ova tion...
...Editorial As we go to press hundreds of thousands of toilers in New York and other cities ire preparing to celebrate May Day with huge mass meetings and demonstrations, in unison with workers throughout ths world...
...Recent calculations made by the American Federation of Labor show that in recovery from depression reemployment is by no means keeping pace with gains in business...
...Democracy can only successfully ward off the fascist danger when it is strong and determined to lead the masses of workers out of the suffering caused by the crisis...
...A. F. L Reports No Progress in Reemployment Federation Warns Jobless Will Not Submit Indefinitely to Enforced Poverty in an Age of Plenty...
...At a moment when lives are being destroyed by poison gas and bombs in Africa, when Japanese imperialism is threateningly raising its head, when the danger of a new war in Europe is growing, you are preparing for Labor's First of May...
...Only a powerful exertion of the forces of the workers of the world, of all those who desire pence and freedom, can save the threatened peace...
...The present slow rate of reemployment is a matter for seri<> ous concern to all interested in our motional welfare...
...Their entry on the scene of any labor disturbance usually means bloodshed, and frequently results in death or injury to innocent people...
...He said that there was one thing he would emphasize...
...Morrison which was so informative and charged with good-natured humor...
...Even the nobility may join if they agree to this but, he added, "there is no rush from that quarter...
...i^&r^jmyfrr Morrison ^Tht British Socialist was greet - . iimw standing for a few minutes tHMfcqr applauded aim...
...Special to The New Leader MQCAGO.—"Not until the natans collectively own the instruments of production and distribution will there be peace in this world...
...Thank God it was a Conservative Government that 'didn't pay the United States," said Morrison...
...He should consider whether that constructive and creative Socialism for which the British Labor Party stands is not, in the long run, necessary in order to remove the economic causes of war...
...It reads: "Be it enacted by tne Senate and House of Representative* of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that who-' ever shall knowingly transport or cause to be transported, or aid or abet in transporting, in interstate or foreign commerce, any person with intent to employ such person to obstruct or interfere, in any manner, with the right of peaceful picketing during any labor controversy affecting wages, hours, or conditions of labor, or the right of organization for the purpose of collective bargaining, shall . be deemed guilty of a felony and shall be punishable by a fine not exceeding $5,000...
...They must agree to the program of changing the present...
...Do not do things and say things that divide labor's solidarity...
...Their third line of defense is the Labor Party which includes 2,500,000 trade unionists affiliated with it and 500,000 members paying individual dues...
...The strongly advancing Socialists in Scandinavian countries have shown how Socialists may successfully use political power on a democratic basis in the struggle against the crapi} Their example is an encouragement for the workers everywhere...
...social order into a Socialist commonwealth...
...President Green then introduced James Oneel, Editor of The New Leader, stating that he was an able and loyal exponent of the labor movement.* Oneal declared that it would be an imposition on the audience to make any extended remarks after the fine address cf Mr...
...With reemployment steadily falling behind business recovery, we know that we can not count on industry, without control, to put the unemployed to work...
...1*"* states associated with the jfej» had not "played the game," j**-speaker said, but the "labor 9*%»ent is not responsible for pactions of the governments of and Great Britain...
...As they are among the first victims of the war and the crisis, they avast also be is the forefront of the struggle for the liberation of humanity...
...JbJoM a fine tribute to Mr...
...We renew our demand for their liberation and for the end of dictatorship everywhere...
...As an aftermath of the recent so-called national elections the Hider government has abruptly ordered the cancellation of the workers councils elections originally scheduled for April...
...This means that even •sen busiaess again reaches norasl we may expect a job shortage d more than 7,000,000, in addition tithe 1.864,000 who were without jabs in 1929...
...Seasonal gains in business and agriculture from January to March this year gave jobs to 569,000, which is about the normal increase in work at this season...
...One breach of treaty follows another...
...However, despite the systematic terror, hitlmidstion and watchers set over thorn, the w#Hrsrs have repeatedly, shown their aversion to the existing reginftc . Thus, while the innwrfjo ¦terttoas in 19S4 were trnmphantiy aa> nounced as showing an "enormous Nazi majority," the Nazi leaders soon afterward were forced to concede that only 40% of the workers had taken part...
...they do the work of the Hitlers and Mussolinis...
...Even if business reaches a level considerably above normal we must count on a permanent job shortage of at least 6,000,000 or we must find a way to put these millions to work producing the goods they need for a decent living...
...deelared Herbert Morrison, leader of At London County Counci...
...May Day Appeal To All Who Toil...
...There is an artificial overproduction .and resulting unemployment...
...The text of the;bill is short, concise, and pungent with meaning...
...There is evidence that such organizations sometimes drum up business by fomenting industrial disorder where none exists, in order to secure a contract to suppress it...
...As seasonal production increases required more work time, employers in many cases lengthened hours of work instead of adding to their work force...
...the day of peace and freedom...
...February 1936, 16.2...
...The Socialists in the democratic countries cannot help iSesr harrassed comrades-in-arms in the fascist countries more ej fectively than by offering a successful resistance to fascism at home...
...The speeches were broadcast by the Chicago Federatho of Labor's radio station WCFL and tens of thousands of staple in the Middle West heard the speakers over the radio...
...Long five peace and freedom...
...No itgi mere delivered it the tana*, "he ****** had come to *fmE*t"Green opened the SatHHp meeting with a spiritalsjafiSB is which he emphasized (jMm character of the unemjJw/Wiiit problem and insisted that fere most be a drastic reduction a tattoos of labor if the jobless ¦nHsai are ever to return to work...
...Even the weak fascism in Austria dares, at the order of its Italian patron, to violate treaties and offer Europe provocation...
...Turning his attention to the British movement, the speaker said that the trade unions, with more .than3,000,000 members, are the first line of defense of the workers as producers...
...Long live Democratic Socialism...
...The struggle for peace and the struggle for freedom are inseparable Our first greeting on Labor Day is therefore extende to *§AM^oare strujfjUng hstojcaJIyjuwky conditions of Ulag, »t» ' iHSlirlrwgr...
...turned out...
...The laws of the states proVide full protection for life and property, and if necessary the chief executive of the state can call out the National Guard for the purpose of furnishing such protection...
...We are now depending on the federal Government for 3,878,000 jobs in PWA, WPA, etc...
...These mercenaries are transported from state to state by their employers, who supply captains and lieutenants, feed and finance their men, and furnish them weapons of clubs, brass knuckles and firearms...
...Had the Labor Party been in newer our enemies would have said, 'There you are...
...Morrison's elementary pamphlet on Socialism, recently published by the Rand School of Social Science, was sold...
...Every defeat for fascism in any one country is a defeat for fascism throughout the world...
...Other cities where celebrations wilT be held include Chicago, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Buffalo, Milwaukee, Bridgeport, Trenton and ntlmerous other places...
...Do not listen to those who spread suspicion and strife or to those who disparage democracy...
...just like the Socialists...
...MANHATTAN ^~ Upper West Side branch will hold its Spring Festival Friday evening, April 22, at headquarters, 2307 Broadway, near 84th StreetThere will be entertainment, dancing, and refreshments will be served...
...Only the realization of collective security, which would confront an aggressor with an of whelming coalition of forces prepared to fight for peace, can frustrate the threatened attack...
...nobody was paid...
...or by imprisonment not exceeding two years, or both, in the discretion of the court...
...Neckwear Workers, Workmen's Circle, the Socialist Party and many other organizations...
...Bill Prohibits Transporting of Strikebreakers Measure Introduced in Congress Makes Importing of Scabs From Other States Felony — Committee Backs Proposal...
...meeting of about 9,000- workers in the Ashland Boulevard Auditorium last Saturjjay night...
...The A. F. of L. survey says...
...This absurdity can be ended only when the human race collectively owns the instruments of production...
...Labor and Socialist International Summons Workers to Struggle Against Fascism, Imperialism and War—Stresses Freedom arid Democracy as Instruments of Emancipation ¦yyORKERS and Socialists of All Countries...
...The ussen for this is that in all wars |jkareet«s»t personal suffering .km upon the working people...
...They know that the end of fascism cannot be far removed and that the hour of labor's emancipation and with it, the emancipation of all humanity, is advancing...
...We call upon the workers and Socialists in all countries, men and women, to rally under oar banner on the First of Mag | We make an appeal to the young workers...
...Morism and the achievements of the JnHish Labor movement...
...PresiStot Greer of the American Federation of Labor made a special trip from Washington to preside at the meeting...
...The struggle against the capitalist crisis is at the same time a straggle against the danger of fascism...
...These figures are siren in an article to appear in the American Fede rationalist for May...
Vol. 19 • May 1936 • No. 18
