Sidelights on A. F of L. Meet
Sidelights on A. E of L. Meet Delegates Wonder When A malg. Will Join Federation By Man Lewis a N atmosphere of uncertainty * pervade* the A. F. of L. convention hall in the Willard Hotel...
...JOSEPH A. HALL, British frateraal delegate, is introduced...
...She ia accompanied by John L. Lewis, now the most powerful figure in the conration, and, so far as numerical srength in membership is concerned, the most influential delerite...
...Selma Borchard, of ™» District of Columbia, and Hanson, of Chicago, offer Hu...
...FRENCH UNIONS WILL RESIST FASCISM PARIS...
...and 3rd Ave...
...TPHOUGH illness prevents me from making a more extended * statement, I wish you to convey a massage In say name te the large membership of your organisation...
...Ordinarily, thef ^•"Won ought to have clear KB, sailing...
...They immediately announced in the public press when and where they would sppear—so that the sergeant atarms with his deputies were there to keep them out In accordance with schedule, svhich the Communists must have anticipated, they marched up the hill and down again, leaving a communication to be read—which was not read...
...The Headgear Workers will meet in their own building, Beethoven Hall on Fifth Street, while the United Hatters will meet at the Broadway Central Hotel, under the chairmanship of Michael Green...
...The Jewiah Agency—the intermediary between the Jewish people and the Paleatine Government —investigated the matter...
...Delegates ssk, "Will the Amalgamated, after nineteen nars at a dual union, be admitted into the Federation...
...And what we need now are people who will come along, willingly if possible—but come along they must...
...All eyes tun on him...
...told them, for the good of the nation...
...In the Executive Council awe is still some bittsrness...
...Miss Frances Perkins, first soman cabinet member, whom the A. F. of L. opposed, arrives to sake an address...
...Continue This Work/ Morris Hittquifs Last Message IN 1888 Morris Hillquit helped organise the United Hebrew * Trades...
...Both labor and capital will have to be lassoed, he...
...All It discovered was thst the German Government had given a concession to the Handelebund to negotiate an agreement if it could do eol Cigarmakers Meet A mass meeting of the International Cigarmakers' Union will be held Sunday at 2 p. ra...
...Socialists | should clip this item to be pie. pared for such charges._ Palestine "Agreement" With Nazis Proved a Clumsy Fake AN "agreement" between the Nazi Government of Germany and Jewish trading interests in Palestine—recently flourished by Nazia in an effort to smash the Jewish boycott of Germany—has been proved a deliberate fake by the London Herald...
...said that they would not be prosecuted when they came up in court...
...But let idea of unity seems stronger, a* there is a feeling that difhrencei will be ironed out, either * th» convention or not long •feawards...
...She ia given a rousing welcome, with a sincerity noticeably lacking wen Postmaster General Farley Ml introduced the following day...
...They are ikepticat—privately...
...He has 3,000 votes—more than hundreds of other delegates smbined...
...New and itrange problems confront them...
...Speakers: J. M. Ornburn, Edward McGrsdy, Matthew Woll, and others...
...The Palestine Government has no foreign representatives...
...Will Join Federation By Man Lewis a N atmosphere of uncertainty * pervade* the A. F. of L. convention hall in the Willard Hotel Veterans of the labor Bovement who year after year meet to determine the policies of organized labor, no longer feel themselves treading accustomed paths...
...Despite insistent demands by Marx Raskin, Socialist City Attorney for the dismissal of charges against a number of Communists arrested during a demonstration against Hans Luther, Nazi ambassador to the United States, on a recent visit to this city District Judge George E. Page insisted upon holding the prisoners for trial at a second hearing in his court Assistant City Attorney John Megna appeared in court and demanded that the cases be dropped, and...
...The resolution affirmed the reI fuaal of the Congress to recognize ' the so-called Labor organizattona ! which had "officially" replaced I the genuine trade uniona In certain ¦ countries, and declared its deter! mtnatlon to resist in...
...President Roosevelt spoke and he confirmed some of the fears the delegates express when they get off in a corner...
...Samuel Gompera...
...J1* Teachers' Union is well ^•mted...
...am a Socialist," he says, mm been for 86 years, and never «** proud of it than today...
...Walter M. Citrine, chairman of the International Federation of Trade Unions, denounced the spread of Fascism, and deplored the disappearance of the German Labor organisations in an enthusiastically-applauded speech at the 22nd annual meeting of the French Trades Union Congress in aesalon here...
...The Ben Zvia Co-operative Society does not exist—snd Dr...
...The i difference between the two soon | *«• evident Rowan read from 1 wtw, speaking in a conventional *»y Hall strikes from the shoulder, extemporaneously and vigor"Wf...
...A number of other progressive, resolutions will suffer the same fate—for the same reason...
...It also named Dr...
...The two unions are the Headgear Workers, consisting of cloth hat and cap makers and millinera, headed by Max Zaritsky, and the United Hatters, headed by Michael F. Green and Martin F. Lawler...
...Sidney Hillman, president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, enters the hall...
...It apparently grates *m ears of some labor veterans ?• ,w* the stanchest advocates ¦ American participation in the *•< But he is given a warm "wptien...
...The two unions, each a powerul International affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, will hold their conventions in New York, and after preliminary business has been completed will adjourn to a joint session, at which the amalgamated union will be formed...
...Georg Halperin, a director of the AngloPaleatine Bank, as one of the negotiators...
...There waa a sensation at the recent Zionist Congress in Prague when Nasi newspapers in Berlin announced that a contract had been concluded between the Handelebund, the Nazi trade organization, and the Anglo-Palestine Bank, the financial Anglo-Palestine Hank, the financial Instrument of the Zionist organisation in Palestine...
...Nazi pspers, like Hitler's own Voelkiecher Beobachter, rsng the changes on the story, jeering at Jews who placed profits above the welfare of their own people, asserting that by that "agreement" Jews showed their vulgar greed...
...The raso• lution ma voted amid enthusiasm...
...of ^solutions Indicating 2 interest in questions thst LSI Walisatlcn of the impor5rt Problems...
...He said he made hia argument on two grounds, first, that Megna's motion, if granted, "would submit the arresting policemen to damage suits, and second, the public Interest is involved...
...One Walter Bender, an attorney, appeared in court as amicus curiae or "friend of the court," and opposed Megna's motion...
...TELL them that the fight they are waging la a noble one, carried on for the creation of a brotherhood of man, which must eventually come about if civilisation is to continue...
...There are minors that reports in the affirmative were premature...
...He Wfehs* the World War and dewra» that we were among the Wrst tinners...
...Leon Jouhaux, general secretary, then submitted to the meeting a resolution of sympathy and solidarity with the peoples oppressed by dictatorships...
...Louis and Cleveland, during which over 8,000 members were added to the union...
...While set speeches are being delivered, groups of delegaTes congregate in the lobbies, in comnittee rooms, on the street near the hotel, and the NRA is everywhere the main topic of conrersation...
...He quoted Woodrow Wilson, who had aaid that he liked Gompera because he knew .how to come slong...
...Charges of Nt faith are being made on both ndcs...
...Or will they be in i position to lead it...
...Raskin Again Seeks Quashing of Charges Against Communists MILWAKUEE, Wis...
...When not attending the ball games—which were probably more interesting than the set speeches of some invited notables—delegates adjourned to dedicate a monument to...
...It hss proved beyond doubt that the "contract" was invented by the Nazis' propaganda department te break the morale of the boycott against Nazidom...
...He did not explain how...
...The Handelebund then announced that the agreement had been made with a cooperative institution in Palestine called Ben Zvia...
...Berlin first stated that the Handelebund bad concluded the contract with foreign representatives of the Palestine Government...
...And A. F. of L. officials have shown by special studies they have published that when they fight their industrial battles they are really fighting big bankers who tell capitalists what they may or may not do...
...Nowhere was their failure to make headway more graphically demonstrated...
...One of gipavides for the national!™ ¦ gf' P»nha...
...CONTINUE THIS WORK TOWARDS THE LIBERATION OF MANKIND...
...The NRA—where will it nrry them...
...at the Central Opera House, 67th St...
...After the two conventions adjourn the joint conventions will meet at some neutral place and a great new International Union will be born...
...Headgear Unions Will Fuse After Conventions THE long-awaited amalgama* tion of the two great unions of .headgear workers will be finally accomplished next week...
...every possible • way any attempt to establish a t dictatorship in France...
...Whatever the leaders aiy have thought of Miss Perkins rben Roosevelt proposed her name tor Secretary of Labor, the deletes look upon her as -one on rtom they, will have to lean heavily u they set out on uncharted seas...
...William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, will preside at the united conventions until a president is elected...
...c follows James Rowan, the other | Werate from Great Britain...
...A searching Investigation into this "agreement" has now been eluded...
...It ia no longer the radical proposal that it was a few yeara ago...
...It is the first A. F. it L convention at which he has km seen—at least, the first in any years...
...The Communists tried one of their bizzare affaire...
...The Headgear Workers report the concluaion of a highly successful organization campaign in Philadelphia, Chicago, St...
...The agreement was said to provide for the import of ?600,000 worth of Palestine oranges into Germany annually in return for the purchase of German goods worth ?1,000,000...
...TELL them I feel that the workers, and the workers alone, can and will free the world from Its economic and social Ills...
...Small comfort for those who thought that there would be no strings attached to the crumbs that may begin to fall from the tables of the wealthy...
...They held a meeting at the Carpenters' Hall, misled some people as to the auspices and their purposes, and elected a delegation to appear on the convention floor...
...But in thia convention the resolution will not get far, largely because of the lack of any organized effort by those wh" really are for it, but are not likely to fight very hard for it...
...The city is not interested in the prosecution of these defendents," he said, asserting that*he was speaking for City Attorney Raskin and first Assistant Attorney William F. Quick...
...In 1988 that great organisation is to celebrate its 46th anniversary, and in response to an invitation to participate Comrade Hillquit wrote this, his last inspiring message to the Workers of the country and the world: YOUR letter reminding me of the forty-fifth anniversary of the * United Hebrew Trades brings back to me, very old and very cherished memories...
...Halperin publicly repudiated the allegation against him...
...TELL them that I have absolute faith In the triumph of Socialism: of that order based upon the virtual equality of men...
...And those who mske much of jurisdictional disputes were classified by Roosevelt with those who would destroy our institutions...
...Despite the persistence of the Socialist officials of Milwaukee in seeking to hsve the cases of the Communist demonstrators dismissed, Communist hecklers st Socialist meetings continue to chsrgc Milwaukee Socialist officials with ordering the smashing of an anti 1 Fascist demonstration...
Vol. 16 • October 1933 • No. 16
