Socialist International Calls for Defense of Liberty Everywhere
Socialist International Calls for Defense of Liberty Everywhere The enlarged Bureau of the Labor and Socialitt International met in Zurich, Switzerland, November 19-20, and tent a resolution to...
...In drawing attention once again to the responsibilities of the capitalist governments, the Bureau of the L.S.I, recalls the repeated decisions of the International...
...It is expected that the Brother* hood of Shoe and Allied Craftsmen will send observers to the convention...
...Against any concessions to German nationalism and militarism, and Against any separate negotiations with the Hitler government...
...In addition to the Shoe Workers' Protective Union with an estimated membership of 88,000, and the National Shoe Workers' Association with 24,000, and the Independent Shoe Workers of Salem with 2,000, there Is at present the Shoe and Leather Workers' Industrial Union with 6,000 members...
...But at the same time the Bureau calls for the conclusion at the earliest possible moment of a general Disarmament Convention, with or without Germany...
...Germany has left the League of Nations, the disarmament Conference, and the International Labor Office...
...AT each of its meetings the Labor and Socialist ** International is faced with a more and more alarming situation...
...The Disarmament Convention will allow of the establishment of a system of international control which would put an end to secret re-armament...
...In New York several of the important dailea are 100 per Cent organized...
...A policy which would allow such privileges to Germany today would give the impression that Germany was being rewarded for its withdrawal from the League of Nations...
...As a remit the reactionaries declined to take part in the official ceremonies and denounced "the profanation of .it Pierre by the Godless...
...It has always understood that equality would result not from the re-armament of the vanquished countries but from the disarmament of the victorious powers...
...The vote on tho plan was 11,600 for and 2,400 against, to set up a company union...
...At the present moment the most energetic action should be taken against the dictatorial terror and in favor of the democratic liberties in Austria, where the competition between two kinda of Fascism is threatening the liberty of a people and the peace of Europe, as well as in the territories administered by the League of Nations, such as Danzig and the Saar...
...The nations are now faced with the last chances of peace...
...The employees entered tho voting booths knowing the company bitterly opposed union organization and had initiated, drawn up, and distributed the plan and selected the board of tellers...
...This ruling excludes about half the employees, since the labor turnover of the company is about 40% in normal times...
...11, show that there will be about 300 delegates representing some G5,000 workers from New York, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Maine, St...
...The collective-bargaining plan voted upon was initiated, and drawn up by the officers of the company "The whole thing was a masterpiece of fraud," said Jerome Count, attorney for the Brotherhood...
...The German Boycott The Bureau is obliged to consider the possibility that when the Convention is drawn up, Germany might refuse to accede to it and to submit to a general system of control...
...War Baa Can Only Coma From Organised Labor ENFIELD, England...
...In its present temper the Guild Is suspicious of the concern expressed by newspaper owners for "freedom of the press" and the independence of their workers...
...At the same time, pressure against Austria continues to be exercised by Germany and Italy, and the Hitler terror reigns in the Saar and at Danzig...
...Some 300 Delegates to Amalgamate Shoe Unions At Convention on Dec 11 The latest reports on the shoe workers' convention for amalgamation to be held in Boston, Dec...
...The employees are bound to sign up and withdrawal can only be affected after thirty days' notico...
...Pressure was more subtle...
...The Bureau appeals to all the parties affiliated to the L.S.I, to exert the most vigorous pressure upon their respective governments in this sense...
...They have determined to have something to say about those things themselves...
...One year with the company is required before a man can be a "union" official...
...It could only lead to a reinforcement of German nationalism and militarism and, consequently, to new demands based upon increased military power...
...Louis, New Hampshire, Mississippi, Pontiac, Michigan...
...Japanese imperialism is threatening to drive Soviet Russia into a war of defense and in this way coming to the support of the capitalist counter-revolution in Europe...
...Newswriters to Porm Nationwide Unions |ojEWSPAPER workers, long con-|l» sidered too individualistic to paganize, are expected to form an pjpirf— Newspaper Guild at a gutting in Washington on Dec...
...Geneva and Zurich are not the only places in Switzerland where the Social Democrats have made good gains in the local elections held in October and November...
...The difficulties at Geneva have become so serious that Arthur Henderson has been obliged to threaten the governments with his resignation as its president...
...The third city in the Swiss He-public, it followed Ziirich and Basle in the Socialist procession Em recent cantonial and local tions were swept by the Socialists...
...Aigle, Bevey, and Yverdon all gave a greatly increased Socialist vote...
...The re-armament of Germany is proceeding more emphatically and at an accelerated pace...
...Those who have been agitating for a bona fide union, plan to sign up with the company "union" and force a showdown on any grievances that arise...
...At the moment when its attack threatens to extend from China to the Soviet Union, the governments which have signed the Covenant have a still more imperative duty to apply economic and financial sanctions against Japan...
...In order to have a secret ballot the workers most vote for It in an open meeting by a show of hands...
...EdisonCompany Has'Election" On Union WHILE an injunction suit, " brought by tho Brotherhood of Edison Employees of America to restrain the New York Edison Company from interfering with collective bargaining by the use of coercion and intimidation, was pending in the Ftueial courts, the company held an "election" among its employees...
...In this spirit the Bureau declares itself: Against any re-armament of Germany...
...This historic old ^* city, seat of tho League of Nations and of many international conferences, is now in the hands of the Social Democratic Party...
...At Renens there is now a Socialist majority in the city council...
...In any case, the working class will do all in its power to support the defense of the Soviet Union...
...Election notices distributed by the company-chosen tellers reminded the voters that "unity is the basis of contentment," and care was taken to avoid open intimidation...
...For many years attempts have been made to organize newspaper anions, but due to the peculiar conditions of the craft they have thus far been abortive...
...I Charles Rousselet is new elected Socialist president of the Grand Council, governing body of the city...
...In conclusion, the Bureau reminds the working class of all countries of tho resolution on the dangers of war in the Far East, which was paased by the Executive of the L.S.I...
...Japan has already been declared the aggressor by the League of Nations...
...There was only one guarantee for peace, he added, and that waa to organise a labor movement so strong that their rulera would know that 'he natku...
...The L.S.I, has always regarded its opposition to German re-armament and its desire for general disarmament as inseparable...
...World peace will be nothing but a dream until the workers exercise their strength and dominate tho production and distribution of wealth, declared M. A. Hrvan, Labor member <>f Parliament, in a speech here on the menace of war, "If you want world peace you must reorganise the economic llfo of the world," he said...
...If the democratic governments, and especially the British, French and American governments, do not reach agreement among themselves at this late hour, if National-Fascism continues to arm, if the threatened countries do not themselves seek defense except in a new armaments race, the universal catastrophe will become inevitable...
...Leon Nicole, Socialist Deputy tod editor of Travail ("Labor"), released from jail but two months ago, became President of the State Council in a ceremony devoid of the military pomp and glitter usual on such occasions, as the streets were jammed with tens of thousands of workers wildly cheering tfcelr victory.' Nicole and his comrades, in taking over the government of the «Uy, declined to take an oath of the famous Calvin Bible in the cathedral of St...
...The meeting, which will meet in the New Willard Hotel, will be a pssBVention of city Newspaper kflaJlds already formed in New fferk, Boston, Buffalo, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Duluth, Philadelphia, |S~ Paul, Minneapolis, and a number of smaller cities...
...No union dues are allowed, therefore all expenses must be ratified by the company...
...on May 22nd, 19S2...
...was not behind them if they declared war...
...A significant trend is at present asserting itself in the Boot and Shoe for reforming and democratizing the union along progressive lines...
...LEON NICOLE HEADS SOCIALIST RULE OF GENEVA /JENEVA...
...It has no hesitancy in declaring that in the supreme interests of peace the International would then support the measures of pressure or of political, economic and moral boycott decided upon by the League of Nations...
...Socialist International Calls for Defense of Liberty Everywhere The enlarged Bureau of the Labor and Socialitt International met in Zurich, Switzerland, November 19-20, and tent a resolution to the affiliated parties regarding the dangers of war, the Hitler terror in Danzig and the Soar, and the precarious situation faced by Austrian Socialism^ The resolution follows...
...With a nation-wide organisation the greatest weakness of the past is eliminated, for now reporters moving from city to city will no longer be out of touch with their organized fellow-journalists, la has been the case in the past...
...The conquest of Geneva constipates another setback for the Swiss ¦Heist movement and another in Pt impressive Hat of political triumphs of Social Democracy since tho rise of Hitler...
...At Lausanne our party cast 48 per cent of the total vote...
...In hearings on newspaper codes he pointed out that the owners and mechanical workers were represented to press their interests but that the writers were not...
...The Newspaper Guilds, while get yet affiliated with the labor Movement, are in every respect bona fide unions and it is expected teventually become a section of A. F. of L. I The Newspaper Guild movement, confined to bona fide workers on dailies and on press services serving dailies, grew out of Code hearings in Washington, when General Johnson challenged the reporters to form an organisation of their own...
...It appears that a leaven la not only at work in the various independent unions outside the A. F. of L. toward strengthening the workers, but also within the old Boot and Shoe Workers' Union...
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...At Montreux not a single candidate of the bourgeois parties was elected...
...This is believed to be the first nation-wide attempt to organize reporters and other newspapermen on a genuine union basis, with branches in all cities and chapters in various papers...
...Equality of Right* It has always advocated equality of rights and duties between the European powers...
Vol. 16 • December 1933 • No. 24
