Cuban Workers Slaughtered To Make Profits for Americans
Cuban Workers Slaughtered To Make Profits for Americans itialist Senators Lead Fight wjDefeat Bill far Scab Labor | Camps in Connecticut Hjp<t)RD. — Attacking the HHkbilitation bill,...
...As bitter as they were vocal, those who fought to retain the publicity provision took the floor one after another to denounce the repeal movement as "a plot to hide New Deal prosperity," as a "Charge o? the Light Brigade of plutocrats," a' "Republican measure," a device of "unprincipled demagogues" and an "untried but prejudged" law...
...hind the Scenes in Washington ly Benjamin Meiman Our Washington Correspondent Ht.beginning of this week bw a continuation of last B stormy Senate sessions Bprickbats and dead cats Hw'gh, wide and handsome...
...Sell Paison Gas to All Sides And to American Employers ¦y Victor Riesel MAOilNK guns sputter and stutter and riddle strikers into sieves in Havana during the past chaotic week, and ax the workers are mowed down they can take comfort from the fact that they are making profits for American tear gas ami gun manufacturers...
...Hillman, who is 4itbor's representative on the National Industrial Recovery Board and as such probably will be called to testify before the committee some time next week, said: "It is unthinkable that Congress will withdraw the only protection that the 3,000,000 to 4,000,000 underpaid, overworked and helpless workers in the 'service' trades have...
...Among the, correspondence between Mr...
...The publicity move originated there and sentiment for retention was described as unchanged by Chairman Harrison of . the Senate Finance Committee...
...Young* who' «ajtfff$i;.Tn the organisation of a national police force for Mendieta...
...They kiss the hand that feeds them...
...Kor the Hfitig at least almost all the Bry and reform hills have Shelved...
...An elaborate spy system will be set up immediately...
...This was just before the successful insurrection of Mendieta and Menocal, which gave rise to the Cespedes government, immediate successor to Machado...
...Advocate** of the Connecticut Federation of Labor's ' 40*hour week bill found themselves facing a formlaable array of manufacturers and employers who used every conceivable argument...
...Morro Castle, - New Tor* CHy...
...But they know the way back and if given a chance will lead us back to chaos...
...Three wholesome meals a day during working days, and the right to organize are other provisions...
...been much worae...
...see enclosed folder...
...J. \V...
...that when they did pay they found ways of cheating the government of its Snare of the profits through all kinds of legal technicalities...
...Industrial workers ran Mo anything with animal husWgfi--¦ Senator Taft, SociarUt...
...TNT demolition boffins, guaranteed and catalogues supplied upon request...
...Btit boat serious objection as I see Ift won Id »o (wp cheai> sckb ¦Wimp* around industrial citWfeh as Bridgeport, Waterbnry, Hps...
...Please give my regards to Dr...
...The argument was that if Morgan does not pay any taxes at lest let the world know it...
...for troops that engage in skirmishes with rioting mobs aud with revetting soldiers...
...l thesa "eyes', ears, and nooo^yMg management of the corporation...
...Louisiana's Senator said: "Somebody is going to do the pork barrel work," and It ought to be Congress, not the President...
...opposition under *o* a U02-»8 vote, Democrats and Republicans united in the House last Monday to adopt the repeal of the pink-slip income tax publicity law...
...AH the products made by the Federal Laboratories, • j! ^i«2&»AitiviiftMk*» ..i . . v Inc., are "guaranteed to give absolute satisfaction" — to factory,.mine and mill owners, not, to 1 the, workers...
...where there art no antagi' •nittt trouble it fomented...
...I that "If this plan would | enough people I would fight for it, but W it stands .it would' benefit very few...
...Pittsburgh's disturbance was also caught by some enterprising photographer., A few pages further on one is delighted by a uniformed officer guarding the Capitol at Washington against "a mass rush" while hunger strikers were there...
...Those who died during this last upheaval in that unhappy island may go to their Valhalla knowing that they were killed in the most luuivttie |K)s» sihle manner, as advocated by Mr...
...While it specializes in Cuban and South American trade, the Federal Laboratories also spreads its tentacles-into every section of the United States...
...needs merely to communicate his* needs to the Railway Audits and Inspection Co...
...amount of ben¦pter the manner of President H> in loaning $98,000,000 to Hfwe* bank in Chicago...
...This brought a protest from Sidney Hillman of the NRA's high command...
...The Pinks Appear The Thiel Agency, the Williamj J. Burns International Detective Agency, or the infamous Pinker^ ton's National?' Detective Agericyj stand ready,.ti furnish informers.^ The labor spy is regarded even by,the company employing him as one of the lowest forma of human lifs.l His chief task is to Icqep his effl and ears open and his mouth shiitif extept when It is necessary to act _j 4k* a provocateur...
...Hearings will be held this week on the ratification of the Federal Child Labor Amendment and on a bill prohibiting the use of state police in strikes...
...IN THE UNITED STATUS THIS P O L I CY OF USING THAI GAB IN MOB DISTURBANCES Iff NOW <J KN KR A I.I.Y RECOGNIZED PI*** A*§ 0FPICIBNT...
...With sincere personal regards and best wishes for a successful administration, . . I am, very truly yours, It is these personal letters to the possible buyers of machinery of destruction, aided by bribery, family relationships and the blandishments of loose women, which creates such intimate ties in this traffic In death...
...Big capital ia prepared...
...The dealers in death will tarr] in their drjyO' for munition sales if they can make some gains front these byproducts...
...Advocates of secrecy, however, still have the Senate to hurdle...
...During recent months of renewed labor troubles in various section* of the United States, industrialists .met the situation in this manner: 1 Gat for Strikers San Francisco, scene of the great general strike, purchased Federal tear gas to the extent of $30,000...
...Brerett f...
...We only hope that workers will learn the necessary lesson from all this...
...Robert Beattit, vice-president of the Stationary Firemen'oj International Union and secretary of the Pittsburgh Central Labor Union, was shown to be a spy fof the Railway Audit and Inspeci tron Co...
...After matters adjust themoelvea and your own position is established in the new government, I BELIEVE I CAN BE OF SERVICE TO CUBA IN ESTABLISHING A MEANS OF NATIONAL SAFETY AGAINST FURTHER UPRISINGS...
...Klrven million unHyed, twenty (wo million on *fr-byt the members of the H§ legislative body bark and Hit each other and play foot-, HJPhe work relief hill, pay not attention to the proposed social security hills, and are only snapping in committee hearings at the NRA 'continuation proposition, "u Senator George W. Morris admonished his colleagues on the Senate floor Monday, they should guard against changing the legislation into a "pork barrel bill...
...a terrible state of affaire for...
...Mr...
...They represent (he most modern rquip ment...
...The conservatives responded with equally heated declarations that making public tax payments Is "a violation of privacy," it's an encouragement to "snooping and meddling" and a help to criminals to make "sucker lists...
...Thia letter la significant for what it infers: Col...
...Carlos Mendieta, co S.S...
...They ¦ ii well put the money down Whole...
...We can agree with almost everything each of them says about the other...
...Voting, president of Federal Laboratories, Inc...
...Young testified at hearings at Washington that he tried to impress upon public officials in Pennsylvania that they should spend, money for the purchase of tear gas...
...But I have been impressed by opinions given by outstanding members of the bar that a condition of keeping millions of workers at starvation wages levels does not affect interstate commerce...
...Gomez and your associates and our assurance that we are moat happy to see you return under the conditions- you are able to to do this.' Very sincerely yours,, „ Federal Laboratories...
...Dow of West Hartford, chief spokesman for' the bill, said tlhat he wanted the bill passed because he "felt that it [pacifist sentiment] might come up at any time," and the presence of the adjutant general "would be insurance against huflaballoo...
...another page intrigues the imagination with a picture of crowds being dispersed by gunpropelled gas bombs...
...T His Excellency Carlos Mendieta, President of Cuba, Presidential Palace, Havana...
...My dear Sir: —It was with great pleasure that I read of your acceptance of the Presidency of the Republic of Cuba, and I believe it is m order to congratulate the people of Cuba in having a man of your sympathies and experience to direct them at such a critical time...
...Young, Who new admitted being "a great atoim el Menfliete," the latest of the murderers of Cuban workers, wrote to the present president...
...With conditions of unrest as they are today . . . you have a real opportunity before you if you will only get back of this thing and push the Federal program...
...You are going to give a candidate for office $5,000,000,000," I ,mig shouted...
...Bey" Long keeps up his run¦attack against President Mwelt and I'ostmaster-GenBtrlry, to the delight of the Wk entertainment seekers in Hwleries...
...The tax publicity law was enacted after the disclosure that the Morgans and others in their class did not pay any income taxes at all in many years...
...The petition, circulated by members of the Social Problems club, was forwarded to the education committee of the legislature...
...The so-called Progressive Grout) of the House fought against the repeal of pink slips, which make public information regarding payment of taxea...
...A star salesman wrote: "We are certainly in oho I hell of a business where « fellow has to wish for trouble so as to make a Kving, the only consolation being, however' that if we do not get the business, someone else will, It would be...
...Victory for Tax-Dodgers /CRUSHING all...
...Interlocking Directorates In this business there are the usual interlocking directorates...
...Some of them as a result'of the NRA are for the first time in their lives getting one day of rest a week-and something a little better than the coolie wages they have been paid in the past...
...They are strong inks forged around the working1 fceoplo by a ruthless drive foi profits of a prodatofV capitalism...
...The ase of the more familiar methods of police In combating MSOb disturbances only ant ago niece the reverters owe aad more and gains for them popular sympathy which is exactly what the administration is trying to avoid...
...The bill would regulate the hours of labor of domestic help, with a minimum wage of $15 a week in addition to board and lodging, and time and a half for overtime over 48 hours a week...
...Editor...
...The Socialist Party will be represented at both...
...thty tell to both tides...
...Hare is told a small part of »>• story of the subversive machinations behind the scene* of the rapidly changing Cuban governments: Federal Laboratories, Int., (• intricately interwoven with, every one of the, onickly-ehavgluy pretidents peeking control of the Republic...
...While other bills affecting labor were heard on the same day, they met little opposition from the manufacturers, who concentrated their attack on that...
...Aat tin same time, tkfto intichant* of death hod ri presentutives in the revolutionary cOHtuftlo which planned every uprmlng lives the overthrow of the murderous Maehado government, Thtir code knows mi ethics...
...The Stormy Road of the NRA AT the opening of the NRA hearing before the Senate Finance Committee, Donald R. Richberg, President Roosevelt's chief "coordinator," told the committee that he favors (which is interpreted to mean that the administration favors) 'abandoning all NRA attempts to regulate wages, hours and trade practices in the "service" industries...
...President William Green, speaking for the A. F. of H., said: 'The suggestion that industrial codes of fair practice applicable to industries engaged in purely intrastate business and to aervice industries be abandoned will meet with the uncompromising opposition of labor...
...Arabridge, Pa., captioned "End of a Stubborn Strike," are depicted to secure the business of the Department of Justice, the National Guard, largescale manufacturers, and agencies supplying deputy sheriffs...
...With an election coming on, is it fair to give one man all of that money...
...1964: ¦ut New That Mendieta 1i In Power...
...my conscience to start bothering, me now...
...Young had played ball with both sides, he disclosed that he was well satisfied to be with the "ins...
...Bridgeport's Socialist legislators on Tuesday objected also to the appropriation of $400,000 for the construction of a new armory in Bridgeport, arguing that the money could far better be used in the relief of the unemployed...
...Similarly, the American Federation of Labor protested indications given by members of the committee that they favor confining the NRA's future activities to those industries that fit within a narrow definition of interstate commerce, and that they would like to see Jhe NRA itself abolished and its duties turned over to the Federal Trade Commission...
...The two Socialist members on the Labor, committee of 17, Senator John M. taft and Representative Jack C. Bergen, will carry the fight in committee for a favorable, report . A bill introduced by Senator Eccles, on request, was heard the same day...
...Witness his jubilation in a letter .Funnary...
...I Our emphasis...
...sickening gas, Thompson ma chine guns, fragmentation bombs...
...To this Richberg replied: "The Senator and his associates led us into the depression and they could not lead us out...
...Thcse agencies^ will for a stipulated remuneration^ attempt to .Bribe labor leaders .or, weaken the union in any way possible...
...Next is shown the bombing of'Weirton, W. 'Va., duHng the steel strike...
...Although Mr...
...Toledo used up about $10,000 worth in subduing striking workers last winter) Pittsburgh purchased over $75,000 worth of gas to hold in readiness for labor disputes, and Youngstown, Ohio, another steel spot, spent over $25,000...
...To secure the servicer...
...Let the tax-dodgers be subjected to public opinion...
...fjt&ijAJ*' :Am rodMifsd that July, Mr...
...See the Catalogue An ornate, tastefully engraved catalogue of the munitions firm is devoted entirely to labor torobles.j Here is a graphic scene froni the' West Virginia coal strike, streets' full of gas...
...its tujb-trtle is: "Against tne California Communists...
...To put these people on the farms would take markets away from the farmer < and would alto provide cheap labor iflmps from which the manufacturers might draw in competition with the unemployed...
...Representative Jack C. Bergen and Louts 0. Krahl, Socialist town chairman of Meriden, were chief opponents of a bill which sought tO add a military man, the adjutant general of the state, to the board of trustees of Connecticut State College...
...equipment, even when they cannot afford to pay salaries...
...The Cuban government has already bought o\ cr $100,000 worth of equipment With more to follow, in eluded off gas hand grenades, gas riot guns, gas billies, Thompson submachine guns and bombs of nil types...
...I leave that to the Supreme Court...
...Federal Laboratories, Inc...
...and prevents the He from voting on the work¦ foill...
...A "leer inept** later;,Mr...
...Such a step would mean a return to indefensible long houra, minimum wages below a subsistence level and a withdrawal of the small economic protection now accorded to workers employed in these industries...
...I Y1 y dear Colonel*—I a* terry, I cannot get to see you personally and say good-bye...
...Here is part of it: Dear Gerarao w' Hon or abb- Gerardo Machado: Several times (a the past we have addressed communication to yea about the use of Federal tear gas weapons in suppressing the revolts which are occurring with greater frequency in the Republic of Cuba...
...Practically all private9eiecttve agencies will furnish oflerItlves for the exclusive purpose of discovering the thoughts/ plans ••id tjm Of "O'ekvoes, with apewal emphasis on radicals and labor organizers...
...Big business seems B pleased with the stalling Hi legislative engine...
...The same Congressmen who are so dilatory in recovery or relief legislation were extremely prompt in uniting Democrats and Republicans to come to the aid of the plunder bund...
...I JUST WANTED TO EXPRESS OUR CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU AND YOUR ASSOCIATES ON THE MARVELOUS OUTCOME IN CUBA...
...The last one stated that they had reached a new sales record, and that they appreciated It...
...Milk strikes in New York, coal strikes in West Virginia, riots in Los Angeles, radical demonstrations throughout the West, and an entire pege devoted to a small town...
...exdusrre manufacturers for all Cuban regimes of tear g.i...
...For reasons of hu own, Senator Borah jumped into the fray...
...It sends out congratulatory letters at intervals to its agents...
...Thus the important recovery bill, designed to give employment to three and a half million unemployed, is being treated by the Senate worse than Hugh Johnson was by Father Coughlin...
...I am not interpreting the Constitution...
...A special brand of phosphorus bomb receives this high praise: "Casualties are produced by the particle* hurled in all directions, burns from which are very painful and long healing...
...We know it has taken a lot of hard work to get this business, bui it aos paid dividends...
...He said the codes were made and controlled by the big industrialists to the detriment of the "small fry" and against the best" interests of the workers, and that it fosters "monopolistic rulers of big business...
...More than one man is a director of a bank, a mill or a mine, and » munitions company...
...Mendieta had no official position in the then Cos pedes government but,was considered the next presidential choice...
...3O0 Connecticut State College student* .-•igned a petition opposing the bill on Die grounds that they felt that the presence of the adjutant gen eral on tfie board would restrict' free speech at the college...
...Haven and keep regular Bator Eceles, Socialist, said, Hpoke - like ' spending a lot of Bp'lo'r a Final...
...Attacking the HHkbilitation bill, sponsored ^fir* Federal administration Hnvernor Cross as a plan bet up "scab labor camps, Hjsport's three Socialist series led life -figlit to defeat the Hre in the Senate by a vote MB to 17, the Republicans, Sring the Socialists' in opposite House of Representatives ^previously defeated the hiU, |to d1, both Socialists in the pjr House voting against the Hie bill would have set up jjfsubsistence farms in Con¦br Setor, Socialist, declared Fplaj) 'twould cost over $800,000 ¦pfr about '200 families...
...I wish to pledge to your sapport the staff and resources of the Federal l.aborOteriea to assist you In brieftnff and mala, raining order Inhale...
...Of living...
...Closely linked with, the Federal Laboratories through mutual directors is the Hallway Audit and Supply Co.fef Pennsylvania, which arranges for the supply of undercover spies for employers in Strike troubles, tinough a "Central Industrial Sei .vice...
...They have found from experience that It is cheeper to stock up in instruments of death before the strike than to spend dollars in wages to employees seeking a decent standard...
...Young and President . MachadoLia a letter urging upon the dictator the purchase of certain armaments...
...We, of eourse, regret that such a price of human life was paid, but it could have...
Vol. 18 • March 1935 • No. 11
