BIG COAL STRIKE LOOMING

...After nominating candidates by convention, the law requires filing fees to be paid...

...The statement on the whole Is beautifully vague but it slants towards Italian Fascism...

...They are consulting with miner officials and representatives of the NRA...

...If the Austrian Socialist dike is overwhelmed by the Fascist flood it will be a disaster hardly less than that which came to Germany...

...By the end of the veek there may be a decision in Washington that will determine whether the strike will become general in the soft coal regions...

...W. R. Snow Is now touring the northern part of the state...

...he shouted at Dollfuss, "Throw them outl We Hcimwehr are ready to stake our lives to help you make it a good job...

...The Dollfuss Cabinet is said to be considering three plant...

...Labor Board Gives Labor Victory ^ITII 10,000 miners out of the pits in three soft coal districts of Pennsylvania on lues-day and "vacation" strikes under way in sections of Tennessee, Kentucky and Virginia, it is expected that unless a code is signed for the industry hy the end of the week the strike will spread to the soft coal regions of the Midwest and the Far West...

...Premier Lerroux states that he intends to "pacify every one" and carry out the revolutionary laws...

...Labor Councils Plan Merger RICHMOND, Cal.—The Central Labor Council and the Building Trades Council at a joint meeting here decided to merge the two groups in the interest of more efj fective trade union * work...

...The state convention to nominate the state ticket must consist of two hundred delegates...

...The consolidated councils will qualify *¦ the central body for all local anions both in the building trades •nd the miscellaneous unions...

...The primaries are held on the fourth Monday in May of election years, and on that day all such parties must hold conventions and nominate candidates...

...The latest from Vienna Is a statement by Chancellor Dollfuss, who says that Parliament is dead...

...There will no longer be a rigid party system in Austria," said Dollfuss...

...State Officer Hits Company Union Fraud I ANSING, Mich...

...Newspapers *^ generally put the soft pedal on the recent declaration of Patrick II...

...To the extent that the workers win freedom of action as organized unions in industry will the ideal of a Socialist Commonwealth have a chance to emerge out of the chaos of a stricken captalism, for this ideal is the fruit of labor struggle, not a gift of kind aristocrats in politics...

...O'Brien made his attack on the company union in a recent telegram to President Roosevelt in connection with the company union and open shop provision proposed by anti-union employers for certain fair competition codes...

...The Appalachian owners want a code containing a "merit" clause that will permit them to fire miners at will, and they object to a provision that prohibits owners from requiring workers to live in company houses and to buy at company stores...

...Conventions must be held in each county where county candidates are to be nominated, and fifty delegates are required for a quorum...

...O'Brien Attorney-General of Michigan, in favor of unions and against the open Shop and company unions...

...governmeht, however, but that it has its own program to fight for which carries further Socialist and labor measures...

...The first is a Fascism on the Italian model...

...We recommend that all employees be rehired without discrimination and that the respondent accept and deal with, as representatives of the employees, any persons the employees may choose to elect or appoint as their representatives...

...Chancellor Dollfuss is opposed to the German Nazis and to Austrian union with Germany but he Is also friendly to Mussolini...

...For nearly a week many cabinets irere constructed only to collapse, Dot Alepandro Lerroux on Tues-iay formed one with six members »f his Radical Party, three Socialistic Radicals, and the remainder from other Republican groups...

...The bosses also fear that the Constitution is in danger and they raise the old banner of State...

...Since the republic was founded the Socialists have had an absolute majority in the city governmp-.it and 00 per cent of the popular vote...

...The decision grew out of a strike of 400 workers employed by the Berkeley Woolen Mills of Martins-burg, W. Va., who have been on strike since August 15...

...Reviewing the factors in the dispute the Board stated its conclusions, the important sections of which read as follows: "We rule, therefore, that employees have the right to choose any one they may wish a: their representative and are not limited in their choice to fellow-employees...

...Socialists of Austria Face Fascist Peril AUSTRIAN organized workers and Socialists live dangerously every day and night with two types of Fascists in Austria seeking to destroy them and the nation iiself menaced by Hitler's bands and by Mussolini...

...Rights under which slave owners sent workers to war in 1861...

...Spanish Labor Faces Another Cabinet Crisis THE Spanish Socialist and Laboj movement, cooperating in the perilous months since the overthrow of King Alfonso, has faced many acute problems and situations that have tested the generalship of the party and the unions...

...Labor Democracy...

...All these conventions must be held on the same day, and with 44 counties in the state this requires 2,000 meeting all at once...

...Meantime a unanimous decision of the National Labor Board sets a precedent that is important...

...Seven workers had been discharged because of their union activities, and an agent of the Department of Labor was unable to effect a satisfactory settlement of the strike whicn was called in defense of the seven discharged workers...

...Do something, Herr Chancellor...

...The union asked the company to recognize it as a subdivision of the United Textile Workers and the management answered that It would recognize only a union composed of workeis In the plant, not a national union...

...This is a difficult, even impossible task, and another Cabinet crisis Bay at any time force a new crisis in which the Socialists will play an important role...

...What the courts will do if a case is carried before them we do not know...

...The Socialist Party did not accept any post...

...O'Brien isn't liked by the ruling politicians as they never know what he is going to say...

...It i their intention to wage an intensive campaign from now on until the general election next year, when they will make an effort to roll the required ten per cont...

...The Prince the other day demanded that the Socialists be thrown out of the city government...

...There is a large and rapidly growing Socialist sentiment all through Idaho and a vigorous organizing campaign will produce good results...

...On the eve of a threatened nation-wide strike of coaldiggers the mine owners agreed to a further conference through two committees of their own...

...the third would bring a coalition with the Austrian Nazis if one or two leaders will accept the program of Independence and work with other parties...

...To overcome these obstacles and prepare tpr the next election the Socialists are planning to organize locals in every county and to nominate state, congressional and county tickets...

...The two groups of Austrian Fascists and the Hitler and the Mussolini bands threaten the whole working class movement in Austria...

...We rule, further, that the respondent's refusal to deal with representatives of the employees, unless these representatives are workers in the mill, is an attempt to interfere with and restrain the employees in the designation of their representatives, and is a violation of the code which covers the industry of which respondent is a member, as well as a violation of the Industrial Kecovcry Act...

...Plans are under way to carry on a campaign to amend the state constitution to allow the state to build and operate hydro-electric power plants, and take over and operate industries...

...It is a coalition of moderate revolutionary and republican grojjps...

...Spain is the last itronghold of anarcho-syndicalism sicept for some remnants of it in ie Latin-American countries...

...O'Brien told the President, "protects the right of collective bargaining and fairly construed leaves no room for any declaration in any code that might be interpreted as an encouragement cither to company unions or to the open shop...

...Conspiracy is still rife emong the clericals and the big land owners who look with longing for the return of the "grand monarchy" or ¦ substitute for it...

...Idaho Socialists Battle Vicious Primary Law (Special to The New Leader'1 DOISE, Idaho—The Socialists of this state, where once they polled 12,000 votes or 12 per cent of the total, are struggling to rebuild their organization and regain their political standing in the face of one of the most undemocratic election laws in the country...

...The National Recovery Act," Mr...

...The Socialists are backed by a million members of the trade onions and have declared that they will take a "belligerent" attitude towards the new government...

...The issue was carried up to the Board, whose decision is in favor of the union...

...We recommend that the strike he discontinued and that '.he employees return to work...

...While the decision is a victory for the workers and will have its effect in other disputes, the working class should not relax vigilance...

...We will build up a Catholic, German State which will be thoroughly Austrian upon a corporative basis...

...Convention to nominate candidates for Congress must bo held in each district and must have one hundred delegates present...

...A determined fight will also be waged to elect Socialists to the legislature who will battle to amend the vicious law...

...I hope you will take a stand on this issue that will make it plain to the automotive, the steel and the mining industries, and to every other industrial activity, that organized labor must be fully and frankly recognized in the new deal...

...The law prohibits any party from nominating candidates at the primary election unless they polled ten per cent of the total vote at the preceding election...

...Unfortunately, a large section of the workers are in syndicalist anions and they have prevented nation-wide solidarity of the working class in a number of important crises...

...The Socialists, in order to function under the law, are therefore bending all their efforts in the building up of an official state convention of 200 delegates next May...

...Prince von Starhemberg, leader of the Heimwchr bands and one of the wealthiest men in Austria, announces that there "is a boom in Fascism" and from behind the curtains of the Dollfuss Government may issue an attempt at dictatorship any day...

...The clericals and the landed magnates have suffered big losses n the revolution and the shifts and changes in the republican and cap-Ulist groups in recent months live brought two Cabinet crises...

...Let us bring to the solution of our problems the brains of the labor movement...

...This does not mean that the Socialist Party will oppose all measures of to...

...Pacific Electric Company Deserts Anti-Union Policy RICHMOND, Cal.—Confronted *Nh the militant organizing campaign being carried on by the frsde unions of California p us the Provision .>f the National Industrial Recovery Act guaranteeing 'he right of •hu workers to or-¦snite without interference from ••Plovers, the Pacific Electric Jjompsny, whici has long main-•ined a bitter anti-union policy in Los Angeles County, has changed its hostile attitude toward organized labor and withdrawn all barriers to the unionization of the concern's nembers, according to a statement by D. W. Pontius^ president of the company...

...For more than a generation the exploiters of child labor raised the same banner and the Federal Child Labor Amendment was framed to destroy it...

...The outcome of this class , struggle is vital to workers in all industries and to Socialist* who understand that it is an issue of Capitalist Oligarchy vs...

...The company as a textile business comes under the textile code and the Board points this out...

...the second would strengthen the present coalition of the Christian Social (Catholic) Party, the Helmwehr, and the Peasant Party by creating a "fatherland front...

...Between the owners and the miners there is a basic conflict before the NRA over the terms of the code, a conflict of class interests that has run like a red thread through the claims of workers .and owners in other big industries...

...The law, passed by a combination of so-called Liberals and Progressives, is designed completely to disfranchise the Socialists and other radicals...