A. F. of L. Convention to Combat Company Unions, Boycott Nazi Barbarism
A. F. of L. Convention to Combat Company Unions, Boycott Nazi Barbarism UICH spots in the convention of the American Federation of " Labor convention which meets in Washington, D. C, next week...
...Industrial Unionism Favored INDUSTRIAL unionism, for which * Socialist and progressive members have fought for more than teree decades, ia now urged by James O'Connell, president, nnd John P. Prey, secretary-treasurer, <>f the Metal Trades Department of tk* A. V. of I,., who contend that craft organization isolates one anion from another in the same induKti v. They take this position h> their annual report to the delegates to the department convention...
...That is final...
...Hitler Ditches Labor Section of Program THE ruling Hitler gang in Germany that only a few years ago was expressing savage hatred of big capitalist exploiters and promising the abolition of German capitalism has taken the final step in support of the owners of capital and the big banks...
...The Federal Government assumes the increased cost of the shorter hours and better wages, and the white bosses wanted to save this rather than pass it on to the Negro workerH...
...Several independent steel companies have declared that they are "not ready" to sign union contracts with the miners...
...Sinclair Is Expelled by California Socialists (Special to The New Leader) LOS ANGELES, Calif.—Scored for announcing his intention of seeking the Democratic nomination for Governor next spring, Upton Sinclair was ousted from the Socialist Party at a special meeting of the State Executive Committee Sept...
...the admission of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers to the Federation, and dedication of a memorial to the late Samuel Gompers...
...The opportunities for organizing unions opened up by the NRA and practical experience have compelled recognition of industry rather than craft as a basis for organization...
...A. F. of L. Convention to Combat Company Unions, Boycott Nazi Barbarism UICH spots in the convention of the American Federation of " Labor convention which meets in Washington, D. C, next week will include plans for extensive organization of workers in accord with section 7 of the NRA...
...The convention is expected to De~ the largest held since 1917...
...The Nazi game had been to broadcast his expected flight from Germany as evidence of guilt...
...Investigation by the London committee reveals that Van der Lubbe, in the company of Nasi chiefs, entered the Reichstag through an underground passage leading from the official residence of Herman GSring, ..Prussian Premier and President of the Reichstag...
...SocialistsFace Fusion On the Reading Front (Special to The tfew leader) READING, Pa.—Socialist candidates for the principal offices to be voted for here at the November elections will be faced by a united front of the capitalist parties...
...The class antagonism inherent in capitalist production for profit is plain in this attitude of the militant manufacturers...
...In the group wss Edmund Heines, a notorious killer and Nasi leader...
...The plot itself was known in Nationalist circles weeks before thai fire...
...Big Exploiters Still Fight for Comp...
...Ewald Banse, the German Nazi, has written a book on the science of war, in which he advises Germany, in the "next war" for which its present government is preparing, to make use of what he calls biological methods, namely, "the pollution of drinking water with typhus bacilli and the spreading of bubonic plague by means of rats...
...It acquits the four accused persona and directly charges Nasi leadera with the crime...
...The organization sponsoring the book was never heard of before its publication...
...Van der Lubbe was used as a scapegoat and there is no doubt that he is doomed because he knows too much...
...rubber and oil can be effected is along industrial lines...
...This decision will be a boon to thousands of Negro workers who were helpless in the hands of white officials and bosses...
...and whereas, in joining such a party he has flatly broken his pledge and is in opposition to Socialist principles and the Socialist Party constitution...
...Ernst Oberfohren, Nationalist leader, recorded the whole story in a secret circular to soma friends, a copy of which fell Into the hands of the police...
...Socialist Councilmen Hoverter and George, running for re-election, will be faced by Kjiiil L. Nuebling and Frederick A. Muhlenberg, who won nomination on both old party tickets at the recent primaries...
...Chief interest centers upon Marlnus Van der Lubbe, young Dutchman, former Communist and evidently of weak mind, who "confesses" to the Reichstag Are and several other attempts at arson...
...There is little doubt that Van der Lubbe was associated with the real criminals...
...He failed in his former attempt to ¦ake Italian women go back to long skirts...
...Four powerful steel corporations and their affiliates are joined in a united front supporting this policy...
...The old game of uniting forces and sinking differences whenever the Socialists become strong enough to win office or to menace the dominance of the old parties— known to Socialists in Milwaukee, New York and other places—is also being tried in nearby rural districts...
...He protested against the Nazi press accounts of the trial and also clashed with the judge, who on Tuesday denied him the further privilege of asking questions...
...There will be no exceptions," said Administrator H. N. Waite...
...In Washington it is said that this action "widens the breach between capital and labor" which has been growing for two months...
...All labor—white, black or brown—is going to get 40 cents an hour and a 30-hour week...
...State Secretary Harold J. Ashe made public a resolution in which Sinclair's action was condemned...
...Mussolini is just now requiring the whole Italian press to wage a campaign against prevailing notions of feminine beauty...
...have no unduly optimistic picture of the benefits of the Recovery Act in terms of new employment," said President Green, although he believes that the act is*sound in principle...
...And a boycott in which American labor joins will be one step in making them see how civilization regards their brutal rulers...
...whether he will succeed in making them go in for *>ight and rotundity remains to I* seen...
...At the same time, plans to effect a fusion against Socialist School Board candidates, Raymond S. Hofses, Birch Wilson and George D. Snyder, failed of complete realization...
...The bulletin is practically , advice to all affiliated manufacturers to challenge the law...
...Foreign press correspondents were given copies of this volume which was, no doubt, financed by the Hitler Government...
...Two of the opposition candidates won nomination on both old party tickets, but there will be a three-cornered fight for the third place...
...They are like rats in a trap...
...Van der Lubbe is also certain to die, even though a half wit, whether by a sentence in court or his "suicide" in a prison eell...
...The resolution says: "Whereas, Upton Sinclair has joined the capitalist Democratic Party, a party which he has justifiably despised, scolded and scorned for a quarter of a century as a powerful and dangerous eneray of the working class and of the Socialist Party...
...The Council decided that capitalist development of industry is the primary concern of the Nazi dictatorship, that private initiative and enterprise should have the right of way, and that the government should stimulate this program...
...Torgler the day after the Are embarrassed the Nazis by'voluntarily reporting to a police station...
...combatting company unions appearing in disguise in some of the big industries...
...Georgi Dimitroir, the Bulgarian Communist, was equally courageous In defense of his views...
...There ii considerable dissatisfaction with the hours of labor and minimum wages fixed in the industrial codes m well as representation of the workers in the machinery set up by the NRA throughout the country...
...His action catalogues him as a Democrat, according to political law, and from the standpoint also of the Socialist Party national constitution, he is no longer a member...
...TWO DICTATORS Despots and dictators, obsessed with the desire to regulate and control all human activities, often make themselves ridiculous as well m odious...
...He was arrested coming out of the burning building with a passport, a Communist membership card and literature conveniently on his person to identify him...
...Sinclair," said Ashe, "technically has not been a dues-paying member of the Socialist Party since December 31, 1932, and his membership lapsed March 31, 1933...
...If this recommendation carries in the Metal Trades, it is certain to have a big prestige in the A. P. of I. convention next week...
...This means that Hitler will crush those witless workers in the Nazi party who hoped to have this program carried out...
...A Dr...
...A few days after this decision the German securities market showed an upward trend, which means that the upper" section of the capitalist class has full confidence in Hitler as a modern slavedriver...
...The shock leaders of the Council, like Kurt Schmitt, Dr...
...John C. Gall, an attorney for the Association, goes so far as to say that "there is no difference under the law between a company union, on the one hand, and an affiliate of the American Federation of Labor on the other...
...NAZI CULTURE Prof...
...Organized workers contend that wages and hours so fixed are not adequate to absorb enough of toe unemployed workers and to establish decent standards of living...
...Evasions of the NRA are evident on every hand, and last week President Harriman of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce again went to the bat for company unions...
...O'Connell and "Prey contend that th« only way in which organization M_workers in the mass production ¦Xluttriea like at eel, automobile...
...Unions ALTHOUGH the "rugged individualism" of Hoover is aa dead as a poisoned cat even in the upper circles of organized capitalism, corporation kinga still fight organization of workers in the big industries...
...The Socialists, however, are in a confident mood and are working . for complete victory everywhere...
...Last week, facing an increasing crisis in the capitalist system, Hitler summoned the Grand Economic Council in session and the Nazi wing that has been demanding State Socialism had its doom sealed...
...Embattled manufacturers were informed that they could advise workers against joining a labor union or, within certain limits, offer group insurance to workers to induce them to join company unions...
...This antagonism emerged in the soft coal fields Monday despite signing of the coal code...
...Sinclair be considered no longer a member of the Socialist Party, and that his action be condemned...
...What stands out in the trial this week is the fine courage of Ernst Torgler, Communist leader, in declaring his innocence and vigorously defending his honor...
...Krupp von Bohlen, Fritz Thyssen, Karl von Siemens and Robert Bosch, are the most powerful capitalists in Germany...
...In this country Harper's Magazine rushed a remarkable artice to the press, making the same accusation, and a New York publishing house this week published the "Brown Book of the Hitler Terror," an appalling story of gangsters, murderers and dope addicts ruling the Germany of today...
...Therefore, be it resolved, by the State Executive Committee of the Socialist Party of California, that Mr...
...Orders have gone out from Berlin that high-school girls are to put on a minimum diet in the matter of studying mathematics, natural sciences, history, economics, and other such subjects...
...In the Southern States, where Negro workers were the victims of discrimination, the Deputy Public Works Administrator has notified the advisory boards of five states that the minimum wage ia obligatory for both white and Negro workers...
...This decision to ditch the "labor" section of the Nazi program follows the alarming decline of German capitalism reported here last week...
...Awl while 11 Duet commands his female subjects to expand physically, Der Ftikrer is bent on cramping German women's minds...
...This week the National Association of Manufacturers issued a bulletin stating that labor agreements made with a single union violate the intent of the NRA...
...Bell, who also knew inner secrets of the Nazis, was murdered in Austria by Hitler gunmen...
...Oberfohren was murdered and the press announced his death aa "suicide...
...action against the Hitler regime in Germany, which is likely to take the form of a boycott of German goods...
...Both O'Connell and Prey are trade unionists of the old school and their conversion to industrial unionism is regarded as significant of a progressive trend that is becoming general in the trade unions...
...And, be it further resolved, that Socialists be warned against the futile supposition that they can use a capitalist party to further the interests of 'the working classes...
...The interest In the trial Is worldwide...
...The murderous regime of Hitler is declared' to be "medieval, revolting and sickening" by Green, who added: "When the German masses realize the true state of world opinion, they will act, I am confident, to tear the grip of Nazi dictatorship from their throats...
...That company unionism is still ¦ menace appears from the numerobi corporations submitting codes that "interpret" section 7 or npplement it with "merit" clauses, and it is expeeted that a common course of action in meeting this dinger will be recommended by the delegates...
...Socialist Burgess Charles R. Yerger of Laureldale will face a fusion candidate when he ccmes up for re-election, and in West Lawn there is ali>o a fusion of the historic "enemies" in an attempt to defeat the Socialists...
...Torgler has been a prisoner in manacles for Ave months...
...He went on to explain that "The 30 percent gift clause in the loans to states and municipalities was placed in the bill to provide for this increase in labor costs...
...An international legal commission in London has finished its inveatigation of the fire...
...Reichstag fire Trial in Germany Begins as Nazis Are Also Accused of Arson WITH the Nazi press howling (or the conviction of the men accused of burning the German Reichstag, the trial at Leipzig really began more than two weeks ago when the Associated AntiCommunists of Germany published a volume of 200 pages presenting the Nazi version of the fire...
Vol. 16 • September 1933 • No. 14
