A.F.L May Soon Rejoin World Labor Federation Garden Rally to Demand New Deal for Workers
A.F.L May Soon Rejoin World Labor Federation Garden Rally to Demand New Deal for Workers New York Labor Calls Mighty Demonstration For Bills Now Pending Green, Wagner, Dubinsky, Hillman...
...Gorman pointed out that the miB managements have failed to mention their defiance of Section 7-A...
...At the ballot box the voters received two transparent envelopes...
...The children are made, to march with rifles, to swear loyalty, not^to the country or the king, but to Mussolini, and they are taught to believe that democracy) is poison...
...They act as does the executioner in Sing Sing...
...How m«ny hours will « weaver, last...
...William Karlin, prominent New York Socialist, and Judge Jacob Panken...
...A. R. Concludes Session...
...The convention received them with enthusiasm...
...Those who believe that Musso¦ lini is seeking to provoke a war .are mistaken...
...This letter is intended to bring forth action from the 900 or more central labor councils, all of which will be aimed at Congress in an effort to demonstrate that public will ami public welfare call for a two-year extension of NRA on a basis of strength and usefulness, but not a* emasculated by the Senate...
...The great majority of boys do not relish the idea...
...Gorman subjects the report of the board to a devastating criticUm...
...Even members of the cruel Blackshirt Militia, Mussolini's private army, whose business it is to arrest, torture and kill, in obedience to Mussolini's orders, are not enamored of the regime...
...A resolution hailing the establishment of normal relations between the U.S-S.R...
...But these who knew Italy before Mussolini know how he has ruined the country...
...Thus the Board has reduced to a ridiculous minimum one of the issues that blazed across the whole industry in the strike- of last Sep- ' tember and that so profoundly impressed the Winant Board as to cause that Board to give the issue great prominence in its report to the President...
...It is the language of a bully to a third-rate power...
...A little butchering of some people abroad and sending conscripts into the slaughter pits to the tune of martial music and waving of flags is regarded as a tonic for a sick regime...
...the admission of members of other organizations with similar ideals to the W. C. to the sanatorium under special arrangement...
...Afiof them are bitter opponents of the existing regime...
...To permit ; their circulation would d e t r a c t from the greatness or Mussolini...
...I Gorman Hays Textile Wage Cuts And Attacks Stretchout Report Siprcial Waxhtngtrtn Cnrregpondencr WASHINGTON—The iques"tion of wages U paramount in the textile industry and it is labor's turn to he considered in the solution of the industry's problem >. -pokesnien of the mill wuffcer» insisted at a hearing herr before the Cabinet committee investigating the cotton textile industry...
...Ail reports indicate that League growth and strength hinges almost entirely upon the presence of competent organizers and adequate League centers...
...He,h>ade it plain in his testimony ann in a statement which he read for.T'resident Thomas F. McMahon thjft the union demands "a decent standard of living" for both farmera growing cotton and the workers in the mills...
...A Resolutions Committee of seven, consisting of Leo Walt, Rene Cohen, Dave Sen war tzberg, Marcus Greb, Willie Fish, Eleanor Schachner and Sophie Maziar...
...Last year, when over 10,000...
...Every day you will read in the .newspapers how the people love Mussolini, how II Duce leads the entire world by the nose...
...Chanin New President Baskin Reports a Great Advance—Youth Section Plays Important Role— The New Leader Warmly Endorsed By Y. Murray Goldmen THE historic 35th Jubilee Convention of, the Workmen's i Circle closed Saturday evening...
...secretaries Morris Cohen of Philadelphia and Syd Neidick of Elizabeth, N. J. George Weiner gave the Massachusetts League report...
...Griswald, of the Rolling Jr...
...B. C. Vladeck of the Jewish Labor Committee...
...Dern, while "unofficially" aware of the Colt violations was not "officially" aware of the fact...
...No one can take upon himself the intolerable presumption to dictate to us concerning the character and ifpfame of our precautionary measures," said Benito, "who followed this with a reference to "the noteworthy Ethiopian armaments and the advanced preparations for Ethiopian mobilization...
...in which labor, Socialist, pacifist and religion* organizations march to show their determination to fight to the end against war...
...Who is in good health, 25 years of age, who is well fed and free from financial worries, working on 204 looms running at a speed or 20ff picks per minuteT <i2...
...I have ju>t come from Sicily jAsre I spent considerable time in •» bigger cities, Palermo...
...us who live here are aware of this...
...Max Zaritzky of the Headgear Workers...
...For instance, an investigation in a southern mill showed that one weaver walked 13 miles in his day's work about the looms...
...and breakage 178 per boar on 1.000 spindles...
...On the eve of a parade, when Mussolini plans to appear in the open, thousands of suspected citizens sre rounded up and placed in jail for several days...
...He emphasis* ed the employers* wholesale defiance of the codec, the President's executive orders and the decisions of the Textile Labor Relations Board...
...and with him are associated Frank Olmstead as Grand Marshal, and Viola Levenson, L. B radford Young, Jessie Wallace Hughan, Samuel H. Friedman, Eleanor Brannor...
...operating heartily, and a twenty-1 four hour stoppage is planned as a demonstration of solidarity...
...The Socialists and trade unionists of Austria ar« doing remarkable work in restoring their organizations...
...I gathered the distinct impression that democracy in Europe is resuming the offensive and that fascism from now on is fighting clearly a losing battle...
...Contributions of money or clothing can be sent to The New Leader, 7 East 15th Street, New York City...
...but the central labor body is co...
...We contend that before any additional favors are granted to management in this industry, they come here with clean hands...
...The first four or five days of the convention were for the most part occupied with reports and greetings by leaders in every section of the Jewish, Socialist and Trade Union movements...
...The report deals with the notorious stretchoat system of sapping the vitality of textile workers to the utmost of human endurance 'and the document practically whitewashes the textile masters...
...There is some reason to expect that as a result of labor's protest there may be, in some way not yet found, a move to modify the report...
...But you do not know what every child here knows, namely, that •Mussolini himself writes this propaganda and that his son-in-law sees to its publication...
...Students from Connecticut colleges are constantly coming into Hartford for a day's picketing, returning to their colleges at night...
...The report of this Work Assignment Board is reputedly a report from the engineering point of view...
...Laurence T. Hjosie is chairman of the General Parade Commit tee...
...In one of these was a thick paper, brightly colored, bearing a flag...
...Workers in the mill join the union behoving that their rights will be protected...
...He rules like the warden of a prison...
...Deep appreciation for the excellent arrangements of the convention were expressed to the Contention Arrangements Committee and particularly Its Chairman, E. Jeshurin...
...To divine the causes of gWoliai's "popularity" they write **hs and articles in which they ¦d the causes in what they term JrtaiB negative characteristics of •e Italian people...
...Hitler Hoaeymoon Over Comrade Dubinsky spoke with satisfaction concerning his observations on the strengthening of democracy in Europe and the recession of the fascist tide...
...To stimulate attendance, railway rates were cut 70 per cent...
...A Heartless Report . In the meantime the Cotton Texfile Work' Assignment Board has made a report which Vice-President Gorman has denounced as misleading, false in its assumptions "and stamped with the employer point of view...
...I hope that the next convention will take the proper steps in this matter...
...To guard against the *'peri|^ aNHBK~r*n*t comic opera""that tne Italian laker is staff...
...Jersey is the one Northern state which in recent years has enacted no legislation restricting the power of the courts...
...At the spirited sapper conference which followed, ' important convention problems were discussed...
...As aa g> lustration of what he terms...
...Democracy had better go to work tonight...
...Dorothy Bellanea...
...They also stressed the importance of more intensive cooperation with the Workmen's Circle Branches in the various districts...
...Of particular interest was Lieberman's report as chairman of the Youth Committee and outgoing vice-president...
...The Colt strike has been going •on for several weeks, and it is complicated by the peculiar NRA situation...
...The European powers are ringed against him, but no sooner does Adolph quiet down than Benito gets the spotlight and indulges in some On Tuesday Mussolmi rattled the saber and warned i|f»e Powers of Europe to leave Ethiopia to him...
...The A. F. of L. has been out of the International Federation since the war...
...One can only hope that if he tarts something the working class will end it by ending fascism and all that It stands for, replacing it with a Socialist Italy...
...were represented A committee from the ronferfffrv canfr^W^Or-the efecnWS' committee of the Central Trades and Labor Council and was assured that every local affiliated with the Council will be asked to participate in the mass meeting...
...I was present at the last "plebiscite" to the Chamber of Deputies...
...Only a Few...
...The Socialists, trusted for their long and unselfish service to the labor movement, are cooperating in every way and are entrusted by the Workers with the most important tasks in the strike...
...I do not wish to appear to be overoptimistic, but on the other hand I now disagree more than ever with those defeatists who preach the idea of the bankruptcy of democracy and the inevitability of fascism...
...he strike i- in effect a duel be***en the Manufacturers' AssociaHH» the president of which s Jfe President of Colts, and the HP»**or movement...
...Algernon bee, president of the Rand School...
...A World-Wide Front Speaking of the Internathngf Labor Office, upon which ha %¦ presented a report to the execnthn council of the A. F. of L., CoshJM Dubinsky praised its accomn?fifcS| ments in promoting social sssH bor legislation in all countries m4 seeking to lift lower standards It highest existing levels...
...Some time ago Mussolini put on the Mostra Delia Revoluzione, an alleged "revolutionary exhibition" in Rome...
...war webM mean the arming of the people, and that, in turn, would bring tie' destruction of Mussolini aad* his fascist regime...
...David Dubinsky, president of the ILGWU...
...He has built himself a forum, in .the centre of which he plated the highest coiuirih, dedicated to hiniBooks about Garibaldi, Minszini, Cavour and other" heroes"' *%b ¦fought for the liberation_of Italy are no longer tolerated...
...Strikers have been stabbed...
...A. Hefshkowita, J. Gold, Nathan Specter, Goldberg and Rose...
...jL'*t F. Almioati f*HE world has a most inadequate conception of what is appening in Italy...
...The encouraging progress of the League was also attested to in the reports of Philip Block, the outgoing chairman of the Educational Committee, and by General Secretary J. Baskin...
...Even before Mussolini had seized power he had already prepared books and pamphlets purporting to shbw how fascism has promoted prosperity, science, art and culture...
...Max banish, editor of "Justice, S. Roumaldi, X. fferschkowits and Lewis were elected as members of the publicity committee...
...of the American labor moveaMat the peoples of Europe will rasasgf their old march toward a botte social order...
...Before him, the world has been told, Italy was a barbarian country...
...Mussolini knows he is sitting on a volcano...
...In this scattered industry, where in the one state of Washington there are fully 1,000 employers, anything can happen...
...the Socialists are in the battle to the limit...
...They will tell yoa that all these things have degenerated woefully ever since Mussolini has been in power...
...Nor do I speak of the peasants, who are living in hunger and misery, weighted down by heavy imposts...
...Marx Lewis was elected executive secretary of the conference...
...people marched up Pifth Avenue in the clear Spring sunshine, the sight was a memorable one that made a deep impression upon the' hundreds of thousands of lookerson, and it is confidently expected ] that this year the turn-out will be far greater than it was in 1934...
...That, says labor, is just plain tripe, not even well cooked...
...All of these elements are enemies of the regime...
...Harry Ferliger rendered the report on Philadelphia while George London read a report on New York activity...
...the right of the National Executive to declare special dividends out of the Mortuary Fund, if the reserve permits, and raising the payments to the School Fund to 25 cents per quarter, the Organization Fund to 10 cents, and the Young Circle League to 15 cents...
...The strike is being conducted by a Joint Coun- j cil of the three unions involved...
...At wWst* age does the physical and nervous system of' an average worker break down' in operating under above conditions, assuming that they began working in a mill at the age of 16...
...Socialists Warmly Greeted The addresses of Norman Thomas and of Louis Waldman, New York State Chairman of the Socialist Party, calling for vigorous efforts by Labor in the interests of peace, freedom and Socialism, were enthusiastically received...
...Every 'party member not otherwise engaged is expected to-attend,^ and all party banners will be on hand...
...He is haunted by fear of his own people...
...The report declares that in the great majority of mills there is no imposition of excessive work loads...
...Meanwhile the strikers, backed by the whole labor movement of Connecticut and especially at Hartford, need moral and material aid...
...The chairman was Hy...
...To obtain a job in private industry or with the government it is necessary to belong to a fascist "union...
...But labor's strength has been shown in the realm of motors and that may mean more than we comprehend from this present vantage point...
...Rudolph Rocker, noted anarchist...
...M. Kraitsik reported on Chicago, Selma Sachs on Connecticut, and our Southern belle, Sophie Mazier from Atlanta, in a delicious southern - "yoU-all" drawl dwelt lengthily on the activities of the Southeast...
...The board says there is but little over-loading of workers and some under-loading...
...But the Communists, who have tried to horn into the situation in their usual manner, have been warned by the Joint Council to keep out and stay out...
...He talks loud, for home oonsumption, but he dreads a war...
...Roofs Amonq the Peooie he who has lived in Italy as ¦H as I have, commands the Ital¦.language and comes in contact jPa* various -classes of the people ¦fcrstands clearly that fascism *» «o roots among the masses and "** throughout Italy Mussolini is Jj^ed as the enemy of the gpi» not speak of the working people, whose unions have been destroyed and their leaders shot, tortured to death or exiled to the Li pari Islands and other places...
...was introduced by (Continued on Page Four) the International Ladies' Garment Workers at the San Francisco convention and wiH be reintroduced in Atlantic City with what is hoped will be greater success...
...for !be HO-hour work week," and "Against brazen and continued at em pis by tile United States and allied industrial interests to dictate to Congress and to sabotage all labor and progressive legislation...
...Then orders were issued that those who did not vote would lose their jobs...
...Only then was the discount granted...
...See article on Italian Fascism, page 7) Masses Hope for Mussolini's Fall Skillful Propaganda Keeps Truth of Fascist Inferno from the World, as a Whole Nation Is Cruelly Enslaved, — A Striking Letter from Rome {The foliouing letter from an Italian - A meriraa residing in Italy rastn an illuminating light 9a Italian fascism and is a fitting reply to the propagandist* who Bptfe to deceive the world at to Wfsditions under Mussolini...
...the continuation of payments to the Old Age Home Fund for -the next two years...
...How many' miles' per day will a spinning frame operative run, in tending 12 spinning frames, SSe spihdfcs per frame, yarn size 100s...
...radical writers permit them¦**«» to be victimized by this idea are at a loss to find an exjjsaation...
...ft is the strut of a Caesar before a kitten or the barroom drunk scowling at a boy in the street...
...that an organizer's training school be established and that the Youth Committee be enlarged to seven mem-, bers, and that the additional two be chosen from the League...
...The Labor Week By Chester M. Wright IL'ST as Wellington and Napoleon finally came together hi a climax of conflict, just as the battered armies drew into conclusive efTortTat Appamatox...
...Block, M. Golding, S. Haim, M. Spinrad and E. Lieberman, chairmen respectively of the Organization, Office,* Educational, Sanatarium, Grievance,-- Benefit and National Youth Committees...
...Bven the intellectuals—professors, doctors, lawyers, teachers, students—some of whom, at the beginning, showed enthusiasm for Mussolini, are now disillusioned...
...The conference heard and discussed reports from_ the various districts of League activity...
...When you walk in the streets of Rome or any Italian city at night you will observe groups of policemen and others walking back and forth over certain prescribed areas...
...Messina ¦d Catania...
...Miners Plan Big Campaign to Boost The New Leader RIMERS BURG, Pa...
...However, when the imperialist* idiot runs amuck he threatens peace all over the world...
...He surveyed at length the impossibility at this time of establishing a home for the aged members of the organization...
...The drive committee, headed by Bro...
...president of the I.L.G...
...I have spoken with soldiers, sailors, their officers...
...and declared that adherence to that organization by the United States makes reaffiliation of the A. F. of L. with the International Federation of Trade Unions a logical and necessary i-tep...
...Relief work is almost entirely in Socialist hands...
...The executive council of the American Federation of Labor has addressed a strong letter to President 'Roosevelt, saying that it will be better to kill NRA than to extend it in the form proposed by the Senate...
...Megalomania is hut chief characteristic...
...The convention closed on a note of hope, accompanied by the strains of the Internationale, the delegates a bit tired, but, nevertheless, still full of vigor and enthusiasm...
...Students in Opposition In the universities all independent literary, scientific, sport and other organizations have been abolished...
...More than I can begin to tell you about...
...The valedictory address closing the convention on Saturday evening was delivered by the incoming president, Nathan Chanin, who stressed the important role played by the Workmen's Circle in keeping alive the flame bf Socialism and enlightenment among the Jewish laboring masses...
...Speaker after speaker, in1 eluding President Weinberg and General-Secretary Baskin, throughout the duration of the 7-day convention, reverted to this theme and Oleaded for Socialist unity...
...k9b demonstration will be de- j Mgaed to dramatize the fact that ft is the strikers who are upholding the laws of the United States, g* codes and the provisions of PBA and that it is the enormously j*»atthy employers who are acting m defiance of the Government...
...Referring to the Callaway walkout, he said: Bayonets for Strikers "In' this' particular case, the Governor of the state is permitting the militia to be used for the purpose of evicting people from their homes...
...There are special blacklists of such suspects...
...Sal international progress of iasgL, Comrade Dubinsky pointed to tat fact that the most important iang at the meeting of the I.L.O...
...The workers hold that if the government and the industry cant enforce code standards of wages and hours, then the workers have but one recourse—to organise and do that job themselves...
...In Rome you will observe frequently thousands of posters, with huge letters: "Long Live II Duce...
...In the front are two carabinieri...
...The only organization permitted to exist is the Gruppa Unicersitaria Fascist a. Membership carries certain privileges, such as paying half rate on railroads and other advantages, social and financial...
...He is still in a position to do great damage to Germany and Europe by his militarist policies, bat inside of Germany there is a growing' disillusionment with the Hitler regime, and the* tide of opposition is rising...
...behind them two policemen, and bringing up the rear are two fascist militiamen...
...The report was a bitter disappointment to labor and labor said so, sharply, quickly...
...Nathan Chanin was overwhelmingly approved as the new chairNathan Chanin ; man of the National Executive Committee, which is equivalent to | the presidency of the Order...
...New York XoMore-War parade up Fifth Ave...
...He was enthusiastic in his praise of the accomplishments of the I.L.O...
...There seems little hope at this moment f or«early settlement of the lumber strike in the NortWwest...
...This is even more true of Austria, where there is a distinctly weak government and where the forces of fascism are divided between the native brand and the Hitler variety...
...The Winant Board found the stretch-out, or overload of work, so gteat as to demand a separate investigation...
...Labor likewise demands the enactment of a 30-hour law as the <$ily effective measure for reducing unemployment and bringing job* to millions of idle worker...
...Aaron Levenstein of the YPSL...
...Speaking to the robots who constitute his fascist Senate, he declared that "No ane can judge this most delicate matter except Italy...
...The Italians know better...
...In a letter to William A. Mitchell, chairman Sf the Board, Gorman asks "how your committee arrived at this conclusion, how many mills have you investigated, and why the indefttrfTe statement that the greater majority are not imposing excessive work loads...
...It is no secret to the Sicil¦m that those tried were not membra of the Mafia but labor leaders *d Freemasons branded as Mafia ¦enoera to get rid of them...
...Frank ' Epstein was chosen vice-chairman ! and Ben Levitin treasurer...
...Both groups, McMahon said, have for many years been "notoriously,underpaid...
...The membership of the League at present is over 3,000...
...the membership has displayed a keen interest in the activity of the Order...
...Senator Wagner is hopeful, labor is hopeful, but nobody expects an easy victory...
...Toledo's strike is over, with some gain—not much more than an inching along...
...Foreigners, particularly Americans, who come to Italy and contrast the dirt of Mulberry Street with the cleanliness of Rome, Milan, Florence and other Italian cities are inclined to attribute this to Mussolini...
...Organization of mass production industries on the principle of industrial unionism and international reaffiliation will be among the most important issues before that convention...
...recommended to the National Youth Committee that a National Conference be held biannually...
...Those who want victory can help by going to work in the only way that counts when battles are staged in the arena of the United States Congress...
...Only a few weeks ago Hitler mm the main danger in Europe, but he only succeeded ^isolating his brutal regime...
...payments to the office have increased...
...W.U., Max Zaritzky, president of the Millinery Workers' Union, and Senator Robert F. Wagner, Joseph P. Ryan, president of the Central Trades and Labor Council, will be chairman...
...and the bal-, a nee sheet of activity and finances compared favorably with that of any fraternal organization in the country...
...I also went into the auatry, visiting many villages...
...We would like to know whether this is above or below what should be considered a standard...
...The honeymoon of Hitlerism in Germany is over," he said...
...This meeting in New York will be augmented by hundreds of similar meetings hi hundreds of industrial cities all over the country under the auspices of our organization and all bodies affiliated with the American Federation of Labor...
...It isn't easy to localire any conflict today...
...When the foreign visitors who come to Italy observe that human beings are not devoting their time to killing each other they conclude that this, too, is due to Mussolini...
...The National Office report was gjven by Y. Murray Goldman, Assistant National Director, who showed that the League gained about 1,000 members during the past year and carried on an intensive activity in the labor and culture fronts...
...Leaders of every walk pf Jewish life also delivered greetings...
...Perhaps the patriots of today haven't forgotten how to turn a trick on our modern Redcoats and tones...
...Dubinsky Sees Reunion With I.F.T.U...
...the secretary, reports that arrangements have been made with the Pittsburgh organization to forward the Leaders to them each week...
...The parade will be the third of an annual series that have come to be- a regular feature of the agitation against war...
...The employers in a large number of cases have denied them this right and at the present time are carrying on a campaign of espionage, persecution and tyranny...
...For a long time the Colts refused to comply with the code provisions as to wages, hours and conditions of labor, while at the same time the Wat Department continued to do business with them, to the immense profit of that firm...
...the various funds' were established on a sound working basis...
...All informai*s coming from Italy, except iaat which floivs through undcrpvund channels, is false...
...for the Wagner Labor Disputes Bill...
...In' sounds incredible, bat' all of...
...Wages Paramount "At all times we have been willing to cooperate in meeting the problems of the industry...
...It is these striking facts that the workers are going to dramatize when they come to Washington, that they dramatized in their great demonstration here...
...Nicholas Palace, with a new i administration for 1935-37 elected, the course of work for the (next two years charted, and I many important decisions conj sumated...
...They are looking for suspects...
...This week the long-awaited report of the Cotton Textile Work Assignment Board was delivered to the President...
...The march will be up Fifth Avenue to Madison Square, where speakers will address the throngs...
...A resolution urging reaffiliation with I.F.T.U...
...Outstanding among the many resolutions indorsed by the 926 delegates was one calling strongly for anity in the Socialist Party and the exertion of every «4Fort to preI vent a split in the Socialist move, merit...
...Fascism is their business...
...The fact was, however, that people came, had their tickets stamped, paid little attention to the exhibition aad proceeded to visit their friends aad attend to othei business in the city...
...I have seen him on various occasions, pale and nervous...
...Mussolini is particularly afraid of the army and does not depend upon it for protection...
...All this meant huge profit* to Colt and misery and starvation to the Colt workers...
...The Senate, which so often has led the House in point of progressiveness, takes the side of privilege in this conflict...
...The Workmen's Circle he called the main torchbearer of Socialism in the far corners of the nationr -Other speakers were Weinberg, Baskin and Philip Geliebter...
...The workers of Europe are once more on the advance, as developments in a series of countries have shown...
...I have spoken with leaders of fascist student organizations, with journalists employed on fascist newspapers, with .hotel keepers and bank directors...
...It is not surprising that 92 per cent of the votes were cast for Mussolini's candidates...
...The House takes the side of progress and seems firm in its determination to go ahead,, regardless of torpedoes...
...Dubinsky, a member of the Socialist Party, returned from Geneva this week, where he represented the A. F. of L. at a meeting of the International Labor Office...
...The signature, -of course, is a pseudonym...
...No ruler of a first class power would use this language to an equal...
...This board was sent up to stop the stretch-out in cotton mills and to fix a proper work load...
...Imagine nearly a million soldiers ready jfc guarantee the "security" of Mussolini's Italy which, pa some way...
...We are in the same position today, bat we insist that it is laborV turn to ha considered and that the question of wages is paramount over anything else...
...K fascist militiaman receives one dollar...
...The ¦enters Qf the Mafia, the world ¦m told, were rounded up, triedMi sentenced to long prison terms, ranographs of the trial scenes Spa been circulated far and wide...
...In this manner the fascist papers were able to announce the "mass enthusiasm" shewn by the people for the exhibition...
...My visit to Europe has confirmed me more than ever in my belief in the international solidarity of...
...He placed great stress on the role played by the organization in the initfation of relief activity, material aid to the needy...
...Important Decisions Among the important decisions passed by- the convention were those calling for the establishment of a new class of sick benefit, paying $4 weekly, the extension of the extension of the member's right to stay at the sanatorium from 12 months- to 15...
...Baskin Reports Progress Baskin called the past rear the most encouraging year for the Workmen's Circle since the advent of the depression...
...so entrenched privilege and labor are drawing, together on the Potomac to - discover whether newly fledgeci liberties are to be maintained in practice or must be surrendered for the time being while plans are laid for another building up of conflict...
...His analysis shows the report to be ridiculous and contradictory and that its very language gives the impression of an attempt to hide a hideous sore His criticism in part follows: "The report says 'there are some FEW in the cotton textile industry who have set op machine assignments that MAY create excessive work loads on SOME jobs' and there we have three avenues of escape for the employers A FEW of them MAY sin on SOME jobs...
...Tho-e present at the conference were Dubinsky, Hiliman, Laigi Antonini, I. Napier, Jul...
...Whether to extend" tne Recovery Act as labor wants it...
...vice-chairman was Murray Kraitsik, Branch 1P16 Chicago...
...It is impossible to express opposition in the press, but privately one hears Mussolini denounced everywhere...
...When he reviews parades all windows and points of vantage are manned by armed police in civilian clothes...
...Important reports were delivered by L. Dinnerstein, J. Rothman, Ph...
...Should fascism fall they would be out of jobs...
...The statement of President McMahon read by Vice-President Gorman declared the United Tex-J tile Workers stands squarely for a decent standard of living for farmers engaged in cotton production as well as workers in the mills...
...These are the matters which have been brought into the controversy on what the textile workers call the 'stretch-out.' What the workers are thinking of is the variant in the human endurance factor, under the varying conditions of machine operation...
...Although Mussolini is ashamed to call them elections, designating them "plebiscites...
...labor," Dubinsky said...
...And", in truth, he believes himself to be.a new Caesar...
...Mills left the east to exploit labor in the south...
...Since the Hohenzollern took up his abode in Holland, the depression has cast up another type of idiot, the fasipst Hitler and Mussolini...
...We submit that the wage structure in the cotton textile industry should be first of all increased and strengthened...
...Continued on Page Two) It required merely a notification from the NRA headquarters in the Commerce Building in Washington to the War Department less than half a mile away that the Colt's had forfeited their Blue Eagle, but somehow it slipped the mind of Donald Richberg so to notify Secretary of War Dern, and Mr...
...The overwhelming majority of Italians will tell yoa so...
...The convention voted $61,900 for the support of various Jewish, Socialist and labor institutions here and abroad...
...H^HRt is serious...
...The International Labor Ofht is a world parliament in nfcht governments, labor and emalsnaa are represented...
...Hitler has shot his political bolt...
...Meanwhile, a national committee representing business and industry,' with Ward Cheney, silk manufacturer, as chairman, with more than 100 coded industries in its giemfoership, is planning a meeting in Washington next week to show that whereas big business may be" against NRA, the average run <rf (Continued on Page Two) business and of industry is for it as proposed in the House...
...Jsd I can assure you that the ¦Saa continues to operate as bear...
...strong and for two years, or weakened and for ten months, as big business wants it—that is the issue as to NRA...
...of the Recovery Act and he charged that thousands of workers have been walking the streets since last September because they accepted the labor provisions of the codes and Section 7-A as meaning they would be permitted to organim without molestation...
...There is a system of roll calls by which they are obliged to attend demonstrations at given times...
...A similar report of strength was given by Y. Murray Goldman, Assistant National Director at the special session of YCLA delegates assembled in conference Saturday...
...who quickened the hearts of his listeners wtth the story of the progress and promise of the Young Cirele League, which for the first time was represented at a Workmen's Circle Convention with 40 delegates and admittedly made itself felt at the sessions...
...to demand that Congress pass the 30-hour week bill and extend the life of the NIRA, The summons for the Garden meeting, called for the day after the Coughlin meeting in tile same gTeat arena,, designates the purposes of the demonstration to be "Vat a greater and stronger NRA...
...L. Arkin of Boston was chairman of the important Resoh tions Committee, and I. Alpert of Newark of the Distribution Committee...
...and the United States, but calling at the same time for the freedom of political prisoners in Russia was adopted after some discussion...
...fraternal organization, for a united front, was overwhelmingly defeated...
...Kaplan, Branch 1001, New York...
...Harry W. Laidler of the League for Industrial Democracy...
...The scheme to extend it for ten months only has already created uncertainty and demoralization in the entire code machinery- We are solidly behind the Wajrner-Connery Labor Disputes Bill, which should be passed promptly without any weakening amendments...
...Yes, "elections'' are still being held there...
...cement this cooperation by mmt reaffiliation with the I.F.T.uTjB thus create a world-wide unitetf front of organized labor thai wf stand like a mighty rock agaMa fascism, capitalism and reactias, New York Socialists to March Saturday In Big Anti-War Demonstration I-A|tLiE and impressive delegation of Socialist Pany members and allied organizations is expected Saturday afternoon m the anntia...
...A request of the International Workers' Order, rival Communist...
...wttsj he attended was the internaticijZ' ization of the 40-hour week...
...We in Italy know, (Continued on Page Nine) however, that the demonstrations are Artificial, that they are carefully prepared, and that the "cheering' multitude" is invariably composed of Mussolini's picked henchmen...
...Nor do I speak of the middle class, the small tradesmen, sorely burdened by huge taxes made necessary for the maintenance of Mussolini's private blackshirt army...
...When he drives through the streets the route is guarded heavily by dense Hnes of detectives...
...May 11th, in the great hall of St...
...There remains, of course,-JH danger of war, which would brag with it many additional Mriaa* complications, but barrir.fr the aa?l stbility of war there is reason hv hope that Europe will right Sal and that with the cooperation rf< the United States, and particulath...
...Other resolutions called for the freedom of Mooney and Billing.;, j support of the Scottsboro boys, : sympathy for the oppressed Jew! ish masses of Eastern Europe, eni dorsement of the aims of the LaI bor Chest, the fight of* organized I labor for the JJO-hour week, and 'Continued on Care Five) the struggle for unemployment and social insurance...
...Rabbi Sidney E. Goldstein, and many others...
...Tin Amalgamated Clothing Workers* Union, the Cap and Millinery Worker*'Union and the I.WXjG.U...
...The falsehoods concerning the "popu¦ mritg" of dictatorships in all esuntriex are based upon the some principles of misrepresentation and propaganda exposed m the letter...
...At the age of 14 he automatically becomes a member of the Avanguardisti, the fascist youth organization...
...President of I.L.G.W.U., Back From Geneva, Reports Fascism on WaneUrges Closer Cooperation With European Workers By John Powers DE AFFILIATION' of the American Federation of Labor with the International Federation of Trade Unions at the next convention of the A. F. of L. is foreseen by David Dubinsky...
...The gates of his Palazzo Venezia and Villa Torlonia are guarded by blackshirts, never by regular troops...
...Joseph Schlossberg, secretary-treasurer of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America...
...The anion will not be a party to any intimation that the price which the cotton farmer is receiving plus the processing tax is exhorbitant," he added...
...As a part of s Socialist propaganda campaign to be carried anfcay the Rimersbur* Branch of the Socialist Party, the branch ha* undertaken to build up the circulat ion of The New I saner in this mining community...
...The Teachers' Union, Local 279, is now engaged in an intensive drive to unionize every school in Cleveland...
...Non-compliance with code provisions, the complaint in every direction, has been one of the main sources of irritation...
...Fascist Bully Threatens Little Nation in Africa »*J the old sad days of imperialist looting of weaker peo1 piss there were idiots of the type of Wilhelm Hohenzollern who spoke of "Me und Gott" and rattled the saber •9 let the world know that he was the guy that put the agtt in the ocean...
...Another my.th assiduously culti**es throughout the world is that **h is completely fascist and that fcmolini is the hero of the people...
...The reports indicated encouraging progress on every front of Workmen's Circle activity, cultural and organizational...
...The processing tax would not have been accessary if the processors through manipulation had not permitted cotton prices to sink to an unprofitable level...
...3...
...Hence the "millions of members" boasted by the . Fascist Party...
...Charles Solomon for The New Leader...
...Such are the precautions taken to guard this "hero of the people...
...I don't know whether we stand at Armageddon, but we do stand, beyond any doubt, on the edge of a very steep and dangerous precipice...
...You have often seen in the films demonstrations of thousands of people cheering and applauding Mussolini as he appears on a balcony or in some other place to address the multitude...
...Decision to call such a meeting was made at a conference Monday at rht headquarters of the Into'* national Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, 3 West 16th street...
...first national youth conference of a.r...
...Finding no resistance in their attack on wages they went into the market and practised the most vicious, cut-throat competitive method- When they destroyed the wage -trurlurc m the industry they automatically destroyed their price structure and there wan no IhnH to thin vicious circle...
...FOR the first time in the history of the Workmen's Circle about forty delegates representing Young Circle League branches from throughout the country assembled in national conference at the new League center in New York the day prior to the opening of the convention...
...Directors of museums, libraries, clinics and laboratories will tell you that they are receiving much less awiiey for their institutions today than in the' past, for meat of the' money at Mussolini's disposal toes to maintain the fascist militia and the organization of the Fascist Party...
...the-lowering of the sanatorium tax by five cents quarterly...
...Fascist "Elections" A few words about elections in fascist Italy...
...Colt Strikers Will Tell Story In Washington Demonstration BiRtKORD, Conn.—Determined W9w> break the resistance of the Hpf revolver and machine gun jSttnufacturers to the demands of PW» employees, plans are being jMd for a mass demonstration in ^ MUhington in the near future to JnVt home the fact that this emipntly respectable munitions firm In virtually on strike against the •wfrnment of the United States...
...Statistics on the membership of the fascist party mean nothing...
...President Weinberg in his report of the National Executive Committee, dwelt' chiefly On the participation of the Order in the activities of the Jewish laboring masses, the founding of the Jewish Labor Committee, the ORT, the Jewish Trade Unions, and the like...
...A special room was devoted to "the victims of the revolution," not the thousands of workers, peasants and intellectuals murdered on Mussolini's orders but the few fascists who lost their lives in the murder expeditions...
...When one thinks that agfajB few years ago the 4s-honr nap was the issae and of the time Warn labor in all coantries regarded Sn 8-hoar day as the ideal, one ssassi the great advance that has WS made...
...is.menaced by tribesmen in Africa more Kin two-thousand miles away, tribesmen whose weapIds are spears and a few modern rifles but lacking the jbwerful weapons possessed by the European Powers...
...Copies of this resolution, endorsed unanimously, is being for| warded to the National Executive Committee of the Socialist Party and to the New York State Com roittee...
...As soon as a child enters the kindergarten he is enrolled in the "Balila," the fascist children's organization...
...are many, not friendly to oaeolini, who assert: "Yes, he is » treat tyrant, but a great adminetnrtor, nevertheless...
...This Work Assignment Board has brought in no contribution to the problem which it was set to solve, which was and still is: What is the relation of human endurance to the standard technological and mechanical mill set-ups...
...Nobody knows whether there will be a victory...
...He stands *r law and order...
...In clarifying the purpose of the demonstration, President David Dubin-kv of the I.L.G.W.U...
...But what else is happening in the realm of labor...
...Some Perinent Questions "Suppose the^enrgiheers begin to examine such problems its these: ' "I...
...The other envelope contained a thin paper marked No...
...In schools and business offices you will see portraits of Mussolini...
...H*anwhile...
...Membership carries with it automatically membership in the Fascist Party...
...The call to quit work at three o'clock and parade from the shops in mass formation to Madison Square Garden means a stoppage in hundreds of work shops in Greater New York...
...R. Guskin of the United Hebrew Trades...
...A soldier fas the national army gets one cent a dav in pity...
...Many thousands of new members were gained, he said...
...Speakers who will address the meeting will be William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, Sidney Hiliman, president of the Amalgamated, David Dubinsky...
...The League has grown to over three thousand, has more than doubled its branch membership since the last convention, has carried on a vital activity on the labor and cultural fronts, and has within the last year or two established itself as a vital and important sector of the Workmen's Circle...
...Hochmaa, Charles S. Zimmermann, Philip Kapp, Greenberg, Joseph Breelaw, Jacob S. Potofsky, Louis Hollander, Weinstein, Abraham Miller...
...The Wagner Bill aims squarely in the direction of code enforcement, ft would make collective bargaining a reality, not merely a phantom right to be accepted or rejected at will by employers...
...You see thousands lifting their hands in the fascist salute...
...Over the Hudson from New York, the New Jersey assembly has passed an anti-injunction bill and New Jersey labor is building its camp fires to capture the Senate...
...There are similar organizations for girls...
...Leaving aside the larger issues of international politics and peace, the American labor movement cannot afford to stand aside from the great world-wide movement of labor if our own labor standards in this country are to be preserved and improved...
...Upon it was written Si—yes...
...I hope that before «¦} long the American Federatias ft Labor, which is now reprnwsM in the International Labor QsJE side by side with the Intematiaad Federation of Trade Unions, iff...
...president of the International Ladies" Garment Workers' Union and member of the A. F. of L. executive council...
...For example, there is a wideoread belief that Mussolini has siped out the Mafia, notorious Sifilian bandit gang which has long terrorized the local population...
...Labor 21 everything in its power to atflha this parliament for farther mr vancement...
...Victim ofMeqalomanio Mussolini has caused postage stamps to be printed showing him astride a horse, without hat, in a Roman toga, like a Roman emperor...
...The I other officers—general secretary, I recording secretary and educationI al director—are not elected by the convention...
...Thousands in many cities took advantage of the rate reduction to visit Rome, but to obtain the reduction it was necessary to have railway tickets stamped at the exhibition...
...Gerhart Seger, German Socialist leader...
...Going beyond that and calling for battle all along the line, the United Textile Workers, over the signature of Francis J. Gorman, has sent a letter to every central labor bpdy in the* United States...
...Francis J. Gorman, vice-president of the United Textile Workers, of America, flayed wage cutting policies of the industry and vigorously denounced the way in which it has sabotaged labor provisions of the cotton textile code...
...The battle flags are planted in two measur.es before Congress and 'before the outcome in regard to R^Rpse ^"mcawneiHhB •thft' "fiBam^Sr today are pale in comparison...
...the long line, headed by the notable Socialist Guard*' division clad in blue shirts and red ties and carrying red flags...
...New Leader Thanked Special thanks were extended to the labor press, including the Forward and The New Leader, for sympathetic support of the Workmen's Circle...
...Back of this rattling of the saber, however, is the fact that, as in Hitler's Germany, Mussolini's regime is also shaken' by the industrial depression and financial difficulties...
...First, Mussolini selected 400 of his "good boys" who were to go to the chamber...
...The Socialist delegations will gather Saturday at 1 p. m. in from of the People's House, 7. East 15th Street, with banners, placards and bands...
...The Jewish Daily Forward has already sent several truckloads of food and clothing to them, but much more is needed...
...High-School faculty, reported of scores of delinquent members who paid their dues and of hundreds of new members that joined since the first of April...
...Long years ago the Continentals played tricks on the British at Trenton...
...said: "Organized labor stands unequivocally behind the demand that the NBA be extended for another two years...
...Outstanding among the individuals who greeted the convention were Raphael Abramowitseh, member of the Executive of the Labor and Socialist Internationa...
...C. M. Met afferty...
...with the closest co•Perartbn of the local Socialists, P»d especially of the Socialist delepthjns in the two houses of the P**fclature, the strikers have just' ||**ged an impressive demonstrag*> against the Colts in front of [if Colt plant here, carrying banBJf* and placards telling their Bifc to .the tens of thousands of M>tanders...
...As such it illustrates completely the characteristic plant engineer approach to such* problems, in that it makes certain very definite findings as to the variants in details of yarn and yarn breakage, bobbin and loom operations, time between doffs, and the like...
...A.F.L May Soon Rejoin World Labor Federation Garden Rally to Demand New Deal for Workers New York Labor Calls Mighty Demonstration For Bills Now Pending Green, Wagner, Dubinsky, Hillman Among Speakers at Meeting to Be Held Next Thursday to Back Legislative Program— Stoppage for Afternoon Ordered QRGANIZED labor in New York will stage a monster demonstration in Madison Square garden on Thursday, May 2$, at 3 p. m...
...Introductory addressed by chairnun Elias Lieberman and B. Levitin who gave A brief summary of vital League questions to be discussed at the Convention...
...Yet only a small number of students belong to'the organization, so thoroughly detested is it...
...Every house owner or tenant along streets traversed by Mussolini must sign a paper, saying he is responsible with his life for Mussolini's safety...
...If there are mill set-ups which it is not only uneconomic but itahuman to attempt to operate, why did not the Board say so...
...The deplorable conditions in the cofton textile industry today," Gorman declared, "are traceable to distorted and destructive merchandizing policy...
...The Socialist delegation is expected to be among the most striking in...
...He declared that the strike at the Callaway mills in Georgia was caused by the employer's action in reducing wages and intro(Continued on Page Four) ducing the "stretch-out" in violation of code provisions, the'execntive orders and the Winant committee's proposals...
...It is an old trick of the rulers of countries facing •cute internal troubles to try to divert attention from them by a .nice little war...
...The walls of the city were decorated with his portraits and war propaganda pictures...
...They are watching for the first opportunity to get into action and we may be sure they will not be asleep when the opportunity arises...
...Mussolini alone has the right to nominate candidates...
...Pompous and arrogant, the imperialists of this type added to the economic and international strains that threatened to break the peace of the world...
...Now that we are in the International Labor Office, in which the International Federation of Trade Unions is represented, it would be illogical for the A. F. of L to keep aloof from the I.F.TJJ...
...And as for the Wagner bill, labor's paramount issue, it came to the Senate floor Wednesday, with Senator Wagner declaring its enactment is essential to achieve Industrial peace, combined with economic justice...
...Now that special and separate investigation brings forth this mouse of a report, while the mountain of agony remains exactly as it was...
...He is the savior of the country...
...The English language ought to be able to stand the strain of such a statement...
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