Morrison Stirs Audience With Vigorous Attack On Fascism at Mecca Temple
Morrison Stirs Audience With Vigorous Attack On Fascism at Mecca Temple British Labor Gets Enthusiastic Response as He Lashes Regimes in Germany, Italy and Austria. Socialism Only Hope Pleads...
...3. While payrolls were being cut to the bone and breadlines expanded, fabulous salaries paid officials were untouched...
...which has plagued Big Business-for half a century...
...In Italy wages have gone down and the cost of living up at the order the State...
...There is danger that if used it will be the shortest road to the fascist gOMaV t-1- ofimste -"savjs...
...The Fascist's State is governed by a single political party," he said, and "not only denies the right to exist of every other party but actively prevents every other point of view from being heard...
...But they surely were not prepared for the imposition of greater poverty by act of the government in the meantime...
...Ctoamu-rt makes tt iatpeaeftde for re opposition to fascism...
...Bishop tears the mask from the face of the Communist Party and its American League Against War and Fascism...
...and the approving chuckles of the committee and the audience which packed the hearing loom agreed with him...
...S neatnl also destroys i Socialist Party and the laPand°other forms*of *aJd Communist Party...
...The audience responded with enthusiasm to his challenging remark that "if there were a vote in these countries 'after a twelvemonth period of free agitation by the Socialists, I have no doubt that the fascist regimes would not be returned by a parliamentary majority...
...He was cheered to the echo when he said: "Remember, American men and, women, whenever fascism lifts its head here,* if it ever does, that Americans like batter end yew cant spread guns on your bread in the morning...
...A decree law signed by the late Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss to encourage monarchist tendencies authorised former imperial officers to wear uniforms at any time...
...Labor Party Repudiates Loans to Hitler Germany Morrison Warns That Any Credits Extended by British Capitalists to Third Reich Will Not Be Recognized...
...tt ithe Communists want a aloedy eevotatTwa tet thmm go oat and try it, Ml t*ey can't expect us to do ttorfjll2^ *•*25S-|2»Ssla ^^^**CdeT 9"a^*^m c.ne itrtiSsLr^ British Lahori Flirty or/be a delegate from a central body of s trade aaiou...
...The Commum s t Party initiated the league and has always maintained that the united front can succeed only when it is led by the Communist Party: Therefore, thee is good reason to believe that tile structure ef' the league was JsMgesd, 'is alkrw Communist control without this being apparent to the innocent...
...It was quite reasonable that they should be expected to wait the eighteen months stipulated by Premier Aberfaart as the time necessary in which to arrange to pay the twenty-five dollar dividend to every adult citizen...
...It is the enemy of the human race...
...A happy solution...
...But he used the last $50 to come to Washington, with a friend, to testify before the Senate Committee...
...League and there is abundant evidence...
...He polled well over 100,000 votes...
...Its members too are denied the right to take effective part in forming the policies of the government...
...one-time welfare worker and di.-ciple of Jane Addams at Hull Houses so declared at a conference of AawTcan Telephone and Telegraph officials, back in 1930, called ^consider steps to mitigate the t%ors of the depression...
...He took from the records of the Nye Munitions Committee the records and correspondence of Federal Laboratories, which supplies tear gas and repeating rifles to corporations, especially steel corporations...
...6. Emisaries inside legislative bodies were induced to keep phone officials informed of legislation...
...The disclosure was one of several sensations at hearings before the Federal Communications Commission, which is taking apart the "daddy of all trusts" pursuant to a resolution put through Congress by Senator Burton K. Wheeler (Dem., Mont...
...The working visas most train itself 'for the arts of government and this can be done net by declamatory spetches bat by hard work sol that they may prove that they are superior in the manage ! SSSiif noTstett*upin a*poli...
...In Racine, John Buresh, Socialist, was elected to the common council where he had previously served from 1931 to 1933...
...In Kenosha, Edward Wester man and John Martin, Socialist incumbents, were re-elected to the city council...
...5. A sinister and far-reaching lobby is always on the job to look after the company's interests, which usually conflict with the public interest...
...As an unalterable opponent of fascism in every form, I cannot be a Communist...
...An early hearing is expected before Elinore M. Herrick, director of the board's office in New York...
...Even those who feel neutral towards Communism or even admire Communists because of their great activity in the fight against fascism should think twice before they allow themselves to be used even indirectly to further the growth of Communism...
...The se-«s*T of the workers in these coon tries has been diminished...
...The tactics of the Communists and fascists are basically similar," he writes...
...The primary SUHetariat would after the ruthN*he except the Communist Successful realization of ***t pn*abteT1More probable is Communist Party aright create the objective conditions which would make possible the triumph of fascism...
...This brings to.eight the total of Federation aldermen in the common council of sixteen...
...Bishop quotes the following from John Dewey, often regarded as the outstanding exponent of social thought in the United States: Dewey's Opinion "I am firmly convinced that imminent civil war, or even the overt threat of such a war, in any nation, will bring fascism with its terrible engines of repression to power...
...Other* who spoke were Abraham Cshan, B. C. Vladeek aad Algernon lssv Unions Repudiate Thomas-Communist May Day Program Hunts and Their "United Front" Allies Isolated as Labor Organizations Rebuff Proposal to "Coortii-M- Bate" Celebration...
...Educational 1*0,000...
...It can by no means be the task of the British people to finance a tyrannical system like Hitler's," Morrison said...
...Fascists try to stampede people into fascism as the only way to prevent Communism...
...The organizational structure is undemocratic sad makes possible minority control...
...Free text books were ^^Btiifta vote...
...Mullen, a steel worker by trade, was formerly chairman of the company union at the Clairton plant of the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Co...
...The mystery and deadly certainty with which this scheme operated was so baffling to the men that they each suspected the others, were afraid to meet or to talk, and the union was completely broken...
...It -is inconceivable that they will remain uncritical, or that the talk of "putting the affairs of the province on a sound basis" Will satisfy them...
...Deliberate intention to conceal damaging evidence was indicated by the disclosure that high officials sent out instructions that certain information was net to be given to the commission...
...Cullman said Copeland must hare with Roper responsibility for 'ailure to benefit by lessons learned n the Morro Castle and Mohawk lisasters...
...Public Interest "Is the Bunk", Says Gifford Federal Communications Commission Adds to Revelations in A. T. & T. - Inquiry—Trust's Vicious Policies on Labor Are Exposed...
...Morrison declared that the British Labor Party would continue its efforts to make European peace secure on the basis of collective action through the League of Nations...
...Nothing like it, I Green declared, has disgraced this 1 country since the post-war period...
...pHE British Labor Party will fight bitterly any proposals for'aloan to the Hitler government by British finance, and no future Labor Government will guarantee the repayment of such loans, Herbert Morrison, MP., leader of the London ' City Council, declared in an interview upon his arrival in New York...
...Z He directed attention to the burning and destruction of cooperative stores, the destruction of free trade unions and their transformation into organs of the State cob-trolled by beads of employer' organizations in the fascist countries...
...The concluding hearing threw additional light on lobbying methods by a trained force of "legislative agents" who hover about legislative bodies...
...Repeated statements by I(vice-president of the i general secretary of must Party) and other i Communist officials ague Is 'led' by the Com-bW"V« confirmed by ftpjante of other parties Manas which were for-11(4** with the league, ¦baity toward opposition npaaps the league dem-hvntijl another way its t control, ons, any move against rheead *a feB...
...BSSf^tlPas Mnam than EptWBi>'-tMOi ttw'loww taxable ^|^PPMU;''^fcHftrtiM proportionate in-K^lv 4e*se in the higher ^^¦pfc'to Seech lower...
...George A. Patterson, president of the company union of the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Co., told how he had the same experience with the same "Sears" and "Henning," except that Patterson was offered $75 a month...
...Unhappy...
...Ha received, the regular pay for the work which he cehred^Er^^ermonth funis' real eervke...
...The Federation candidate for mayor of Madison, the state cap-itol, was defeated foot he rolled up an impressive vote...
...Final figures in the Milwaukee election show that Mayor Hoan received the largest total vote ever polled by any candidate for public office in this city in an election in which more people participated :han ever before in its history...
...study are summarized a-follows in the -conclusion of his report: "The American League Against War and Fascism, initiated in 1923 tthe Communist Party, has from beginning been identified with the 'social fascism,' 'dual union' and 'united front from above and below' policy of the Communist Party...
...Morrison asked...
...They have given the super-man idea all the trial it needs to convince them that it doesn't work...
...It even will send its own sons to disaster to preserve itself" he declared...
...The ^^ttee includes Isadore Nagler f» the I.L.G.W.U., Abraham Miller J** Amalgamated Clothing Alex Rose for the.Mil-¦*PWorkers, Morris Feinstene' S*** United Hebrew Trades and ¦Chanin for the Workmen's | ^Already 100.000 tickets are be-J^tireulated among members of gjliliiusUans affiliated or partici-¦jt^iito Trade Union May Army of Spies Used to Thwart Labor Unions $80,000,000 a Year Spent by Steel Companies to Smash Organization Efforts, Testimony at the Washington Hearing Reveals...
...Documentary* proof of Gifford's . attitude was produced as smashing refutation of his contention that "oar company always puts the public interest before its private interests," declares Labor...
...This may indirectly hasten what they fear most...
...Bui work Aaoiitst Reaction In presenting Munlsea...
...He declared that he would deal Wish the subject -in the spirit of rsason and argument fatter than denunciation" because ha did bat believe that "fascism can be fought by phrases and denunciatory words...
...Bishop's valuable study shown why no sincere, intelligent and well-informed anti-fascists can be members of the Communist Party or lend any encouragement whatsoever to the Communist American League Against War and Fascism, the maneuver of she uhrted front or any Communist enterprise saHingnfider anti-fascist colors...
...A Happy Solution" A correspondent from Brooklyn writes: "I have the extreme pleasure of voting for my party and not for Louis Waldman...
...A really searching n vest igat ion will bring to light he reasons why the maritime in-lustry has lagged so far behind I ither industries in its treatment if workers...
...After a distinguished military career under the Aus-tro-Hungarian Empire he became a convert to the Socialist cause...
...When Morrison rose to more than a score of children, Sal Falcons, colorfully drs—¦ in blue and cad, surrounded him wblld aUs of their representatives preeeaMii him with a bouquet ef red roses asking him to take back with him to Great Britain, "the greetings of friendship and comradeship of the Socialist children of AmstlsS to the Socialist children of Great Britain...
...It is a form of government rather than a point of view on economic and social policy...
...Green told the committee of sev-1 oral cases of labor spies...
...It is fair to state that not a single pre-election premise of the Aberhart party was implemented during the session, and that every move made by the government, backed up by the Social Credit members, was in the direction exactly opposite to that in which the peeple voted to go at the election last August...
...When a communication from the Bhr Day Committee representing Spants, Communists and some anions was read requesting HMSSa^^ pfarTfo^Vo...
...This evidence was so shocking that the Department of Justice will probably prosecute...
...j out of the ^ ^Grounds affair, a Policy ComrlhfL ^ e,ected to "elect speak-l **uL,mA meetin* and to make I sastET1 ns designed to in-~JS* complete success of what ^*P*«e<i to be the biggest May ¦esiebration in years...
...K their Union squ8-re ¦ ihe Mo Grounds demK the trade union repre-Wfm each hi turn scored the *t as a maneuver intended to asMJiWllii in a united front with the Csmmanist Party...
...He estimated that industrial spying costs around $80,000,000 a year...
...He already announced before the official returns of the primary were known Who were to be the officials of HIS state committee...
...Questioned by Gerhart H. Seger in behali of the Keue Volksseitung, German Social-Democratic weekly, published here, on reports that a loan to Hitler Germany was being contemplated in London, Morrison said: "The Labor Party will fight it like the devil...
...The successful candidates were Fred Kneevers, Hugo Froehch, Alfred Gerbtr, Herman Herziger and Leonard Anhalt...
...Mere for Less fas net result of the buget was totekajaore from the people and •But hitting even harder at the feertige of the administration than *• budget was the fake recall bill Istrodenad by the government and amported by all the Social Credit members...
...In Sheboygan the Federation won a decisive victory, electing five of the eight aldermen who were up for election...
...In Germany the same baa happened and soft has been in Austria...
...One prominent Social Credit member of the House has been telling his friends that the private members knew nothing of the budget until they heard the Provincial Treasurer's speech in the legislature...
...Meanwhile a reserve fpnd of $800,000,000 was accumulated, demonstrating that during the depression the trust literally rolled in wealth...
...From beginning to end the record is one of higher taxes, reduced social services and a lowered standard ef living...
...It is hard enough for us to get hung juries now," was the amazing plaint of a Kansas 'phone official in a trepan to Gifford—a confession that jury-fixing was a part of the trust's stock-in-trade...
...Blankenhorn arso said that students of industrial spying estimated that in the last few years, the Pinkerton, Burns and Thiel detective agencies had employed 135,000 persons, and that their income "was around $60,000,r 000 a year...
...He then continued: The Fascist State "What is fascism...
...Social Credit" ProgramProves flop in Canada Higher Taxes, Reduced Social Services and Lowered Standard of Living Are Results of the Alberta Experiment By Elmer E. Roper THE first session of "the world's fir# Sdcial Credit governmenf is over, The members have returned to their homes and must now answer to their constituents for the* acts Of the past two months...
...Mors) Pro-Capitalist Pointing oat that fascism "in its pre-conquest program preaches the rights of the masses and denounces the privileges of the rich" he said that "nevertheless, when it I comes to power its fundamental economic and social purpose is to maintain the institution of private capitalist profit, that is, .to maintain through the power of the ! State, tfte capitalist exploitation of labor...
...lib'audience, Morrison stnrod fsnrimw in fiery words that again and again aroused the audience to rigorous applause...
...As' .the ^^¦kWhb of cabinet ministers ^KKKftM the increased tax be-H«k teas severe, a "coincidence" that has not been ex-ejajaned by the government...
...The task ahead is to provide the organizational machinery for the people to act themselves...
...The Lib...
...Herziger won by a 3 to 1 margin, Anhalt and Gerber by a 2 to 1 margin, and others by comfortable majorities...
...It is probably the most hypocritically dishonest piece of legislation ever placed On the statute' books of a Canadian province...
...Communist 'leadership' of the...
...He added that "the fascist governments are even' more pro-capitalist than the capitalist countries of France, Great Britain and the United States...
...No Aid to Wreckers 100,000 Tickers Being Dis...
...The right of workmen to organise into unions has become an important civil liberty," said J. Warren Madden, chairman of the National Labor ReJations Board, in his testimony before the committee...
...Disdaining: the histrionics of oratory, and preferring to employ ' leatssss hsgi aed"7'^ ^*tf' ^^^^^^r^n^^^^l^a^^ce^^^^^ On the platform were' representatives of the Labor ialVtt> ist movement in this city, including Abraham Cabas...
...The growth of Communism directed by the Third International from Moscow, with its opposition to parliamentary institutions, its belief in force, violence and dicta...
...Green Scores Liberty League William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, told the La Follette committee that the Liberty League has made an ap-| peal to lawlessness on a nation-I wide scale...
...He was asked by two men, who called themselves 'Sears" and "Henning," to keep them informed on what the other workers of the plant were thinking and planning, especially in the matter of organizing...
...8st h a not only in new taxes tan* las budget pinches...
...The people of Madison registered their support of the Federation's proposal for a municipal bus system by a majority vote...
...The Vienna Police Commissioner challenged the general's right to wear the uniform, but General Koerner thrust the Doll-fuss decree into the commision-er's face—and that ended the matter...
...According to it* national executive secretary, the league is a 'selective united front' and has no expectation or intention of becoming an all-inclusive united front of all those who oppose war and fascism...
...Bishop's report on his study lays bare the falsity of the pretensions of the Communist Party that it is seeking a genuine pasted frag* against fascism and shows clearly how the Communist Party, under the direction ef Mos•Ig^BS&'to^th...
...I am not the keeper of a legislator's conscience," Gifford calmly declared...
...The supplementary revenue tax, ¦NBreet fast on fans and city prop-¦h^ws* thinly disguised under a *«aM—and increased by one Hp...
...However, the utility-reality com-, bine aided by the local Hearst and Paul Block newspapers effected the defeat of Max Raskin, Socialist City Attorney, who had successfully fought against the utilities and forced a redaction in phone rates, now held up by an injunction...
...The people of this province are a forward looking people...
...The Socialist Karty is-also actively participating it the affair...
...American League Against War and Fascism Exposed as Tool of the Communist Party THE American League Against War and Fascism is not a genuine organization devoted to the purposes its name implies "but rather an organization dominated and com rolled by the Communist Party for largely Communist purposes.'' The League is a tool of the Communist Party, and its activities, like those of the Communist Party, hinder the development of a genuine anti-fascist movement in this country and tend to "create the objective conditions which would- make possible the triumph of fascism...
...Last year fMelSMO was expended for agri-j^^^HBiBsf- The estimate this ^^^HH^MMau...
...For himself, Mullen would not use this "blood money," as he called it...
...Wald-•nan declared that he represented "all that is fine, stable, ideal aa* practical in Sim British Labor Party...
...It was, indeed, "a happy solution...
...Those who pour scorn on democratic institutions and say parliament is merely "a soundboard of agitation" are following the same line of argument as the fascists, he remarked...
...The spokesman of British labor wss vigorously applauded when he assailed fascism's "militarist worship of the sword, physical force and tyranny," and its nationalism, which be characterised as a "danger to world piece...
...growth of fascism...
...The lesson for genuine radicals in the-session just concluded is one of organisation...
...He warns that the result may be repeated here...
...The good Socialist wants the democratic organs of government to be strong, firm, capable, of doing what the people want it to do," declared Morrison...
...Responsible leaders of the- Communist Party boast of the...
...It asserts the State has pre-eminent poweis over the individual and the individual has no rights as against the State...
...In this connection, Mr...
...Roper Charges Stiff Rebuke WAssWNGTON, D. C. — Low " wages and had working conditions are solely responsible for mirsat among seamen, and if the Department of Commerce wants to improve conditions it will direct its immediate attention to these That was a mushing reply to the announcement last week that Roper proposes to investigate "unruly erewa* and probably bring mutiny charges against seamen who have grumbled against exploiSignifteantly, the rebuke came from a aWaptteat seafaring man who was picked by Roper to head his National Committee on Safety at flea . JOa sard S. Culhaen of Cullman called on the Senate Commerce CsasmJ^se to launch a thorough probe of the maritime personnel situation with particular attention to the way labor is treated...
...Ts» Canunittee instructed its sstreUufy, Frederick F. Umhey, to tfsd a-Jreply to the Communist-Minat group headed by Norman Tbaass rejecting their request...
...The act makes it impossible to recall a member, the terms of the legislation being so severe as to prevent the successful operation of it in any constituency...
...The Socialist who knows his business will be no party, therefore, to the deliberate creation of confusion aad chaos A Socialist who creates confusion and chaos is creating the very conditions eat of which fascism While he, of course, believed that the strike was a most important weapon in the armory of labor, nevertheless he assailed those who believe in calling irresponsible strikes solely to create confusion and led by other than recognized heads of labor unions who are not responsible for the consequences of their reckless actions...
...Progress toward the north cannot be achieved by traveling in a southerly direction...
...They supported Mr...
...Socialist representation in the common council and board of supervisors was cat down and the referendum proposal for the purchase by the eity of its beat, light and power distribution system defeated...
...It contained nothing but higher taxes and reduced social services...
...The 'Daily Worker* account of the First Congress of the League in 1933 shows that this congress was packed by the Communist Party and that the congress followed the party even in violating elementary principles of the united front...
...He arrived in New York an Tuesday to make a brief lecture tonr under the auspices of the Rand School of Social Science...
...It has no set body of doctrine...
...w»fl have already decided to participate in the Polo Grounds Aff ante ffmato with the left-wing meet-i*S- The latter meeting was assailed ss an attempt to compete w«h,and weaken, the Polo Grounds daaoetiration...
...He agreed to the proposition, and was introduced to 'Mr, Macklin of New York," the big boss of the Fidelity Bond Company," which Sears-and Henning professed to represent...
...How can we hope or expect .hat underpaid, overworked officers vill be able to maintain real dis--ipline at sea...
...Individual members of the com-¦dtsM mSsced no words in con-dsauung the attempt being made tsiBflsencs locals of the I.L.G.W.U...
...Paid $50 Monthly Mullen got $50 a month for his reports, in which he was careful not to incriminate any of his fellows...
...That, he said, seemed fair...
...It can be isTiliBfffr combatted he said, only by shawms the people that "it in net the answer to their troubles and that there is a better way to end them...
...That some of the members have been unhappy over the budget is an open secret...
...EW YORK.—The Trade * Union May Day Committee which is sponsoring a mass demonstration at the Polo Grounds on the annual international labor holiday, decisively turned down a request for a "united front" ¦Bade by the Communist-militant brroups, who have formed their pwn May Day committee headed Sjr Norman Thomas...
...It denies the right of agitation, of political controversy...
...and for eight years before that, an employe of the Department of 'Justice...
...What Roper has referred to as •mutinies," Cullman insisted, "are nerely symptoms of a serious condition to which the Department of Commerce and the Senate commit-:ee have closed their eyes...
...The patronage of these rats by big business tied up With the Liberty League shows how filthy the big shots of capitalism can become...
...The police decided the monarchist eause would net be forwarded by having an imperial major general in uniform sweep the streets...
...to show that both the Second and Third Congresses were completely controlled by the Party...
...Tactics aad Alms Mr...
...r tributed for Great Meet...
...He received 111,1«7 votes as compared to 97,124 for his opponent, Sheriff J. J. Shinners...
...He declared that the League should be reorganized and strengthened in order to make it a more effective instrument for checking aggression aud maintaining international equilibrium...
...Two-thirds of the amount for traveling clinics eliminated, crippling this esfig a^welSe Tas Seed to the tune of $219,009.73...
...Vieinna Socialist Thwarts Street Sweeping Penalty According to press reports from Vienna, Austria, one man found a way to defeat the police rule of forcing prominent Socialists to sweep up leaflets scattered by the Socialists Major General Koerner waa the man...
...Their discharges, of course, meant that they and their families went on the government relief roils, with the ridiculous result that because they exercised their civil liberties, they were made paupers and their government was obliged to maintain them, and the Pinkerton Detective Agency pocketed cash for the accomplishment...
...Violence is not inevitable...
...His opponent received 405,916...
...Bishop shows with the support of his mass of documentary and historical evidence that the tactics and objectives of the Communist Party, its American League Against War and Fascism and some hundred "innocents clubs" of various forms and hues, are a replica of Communist tactics and objectives everywhere, notably Germany, where they contributed materially to the triumph of fascism...
...A review of what has taken place would indicate that their task is not an enviable one...
...They recalled the SMakmg-up of the Madison Square •JlfP8 meeting in honor "of the *S*tyrsd Austrian Socialists by jemmaaist hoodlums which was ¦Sharaally condemned by all de-gt elements and expressed their j**r*dnstion to adhere to the i'jBgtrt former years when they Ofay Day demonstrations gent the participation of the _2*' Committee also rejected a Pwa request made bythe Mfli-to be included on the ar-asgiUfata committee for the Polo ¦¦g^MWr notwithstanding the [Jet they are officially repre-a^ in the committee for the ¦Petition" gathering...
...Bishop's study, the waaHl of which are embodied in a report covering-xoity-eix closely mimeographed pages, presents a detailed analysis ef the inception, development, structure, ^nethods and policies ef tise league under Communist leadership and direction...
...t Morrison armed upon hjs audi-uuW the need for Socialist* to be positive, constructive and affirma-;ive^ in their approach...
...Jury Fixing, a Trade All this and more has been proved from the files of the A. T. St, T. That the whole story, if fully revealed, would be much blacker is indicated by the fact that many documents sought by investigators have disappeared...
...Mullen, who decidedly is not a vimid man, was afraid to refuse, because he felt certain that refusal meant discharge...
...Guns and Butter "In fascist countries" he continued, "the tendency has been to depreciate the standard of life of the work people...
...Lawmakers are courted by gifts and other favors...
...Carl Hampel, Socialist Justice of the Peace since 1920...
...torship—if it grows beyond a point in a given country—the answer of the people may be not democracy, bat another land of dictatorship...
...Mussolini was condemned by Morrison who said that he "knows perfectly veil that the paseamiua of Abyssinia win not benefit th* Italian people and will only involve it in heavy financial burdens, yet he is willing to sacrifice the lives of youth, to use poison gas and bomb Red Cross hospitals in order to preserve his regime," _ Pointing his finger *a...
...Regional Director Golden also confirmed Mullen's story...
...I CStafaBf frUIHSMlUrt and buttressed by 'ah overwhelming mass of evidence from C on no pi f t sources, Mr...
...Gifford admitted he had been "tipped off" on w&at had transpired at a secret meeting of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee by Senator Hamilton F. Keen, New Jersey Old Guardsman, while the latter was a member of the committee...
...Actually, his name was Georgge F. Ruck, assistant to the H. C. Frick Coke Co...
...Returns in 311 oat of 397 precincts showed 61,029 for the purchase and 81,986 against it...
...The dear lady should understand that what she calls "my party" is really the private property ef Norman Thomas...
...It has been the policy of the iresent administration to approach ndustrial problems constructively," Pullman said...
...Chairman Waldman reminded his audience of in statists end trade unionists that in 1911 Harrison began to work far a local London Labor Party which was subsequently born in 1914 and now, after twenty-two years, it has become the governing party of the largest city in the world and the center of world finance...
...The same member has not been backward in expressing his own and other members' dissatisfaction...
...The action taken farther isolates the militants from the balk of the bona fide (grade anion movement...
...T He declared that "nothing could be more contradictory to the whole American tradition than fascism which makes the individual the slave of the totalitarian state...
...Algernon Lee, president of the Rand fsfcuul of Social Science...
...B. C. Hadsck, manager of the Jewish Daily Forward: Joseph Schlossberg, secretary of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, and away others...
...2. It brutally tossed 200,000 low-paid workers into the street during the depression, in order that regular dividends might be paid to stockholders...
...They have |ainformed of the decision al-•w made by the Committee that jjrejo- Grounds affair has been gtby the trade unions and the ~?fp's Circle and only repre-sft** °* these organizations >•» the Trade Union May Day PWjSwhich is in full charge 99...
...Morrison assayed what he characterized as the confusion and uncertainty of Tory foreign policy, contrasting this with the dear policy of the Labor Party aiming at collective security...
...Probably the most outstanding betrayal of the people came in the budget prepared by the government's financial adviser, R. J. Magor of Montreal...
...The facts brought out in Mr...
...After thanking the Red Falcons toe their "kindly littis ceremony" and good-naturedly remarking that the youngster who delivered his gristing clearly sal capably "had the makings ef aJH a troublesome orator,* MarHaas laencbed into his sddress on "Fascism and the Labor Movement...
...Louis Waldman, chairmen of the State Committee ef titoVt ¦ialist Party, presided...
...Mr...
...Consequently General Koerner was exempted from that task and sent home...
...C offlin odtttes Taxed Two million dollars will betaken out of the living allowances of Alberta people through the new and drastic tax on commodities...
...Aber-hart because they believed he offered the most effective challenge to the forces that were crushing them...
...Recalling the defeats suf-"ered by German and SMSJilaalfr cialisa at the hands of fsismm, Waldman declared that the British Labor Party is a bulwark against iictatorship "holding aloft the banner of democracy and free-iom...
...Both officials were scored 'or refusing to consider "the luman equation...
...I These are the conclusions of an exhaustive study of the American League Against War and Fascism just completed by Hflltnan M. Bishop, an instructor in the department of political science at City College...
...Victory jyilLWAUKEE.—On the heek of the news about the reelection of Mayor Daniel W. Hoan of Milwaukee come reports that other victories were scored by Socialists in cooperation with labor and progressive forces now united in the Farmer-Labor Progressive Federation of Wisconsin...
...t Wtg^t anywhew merely urge the* transformation of the means of production into public PrB4arrfson concluded his memorable address by urging the Socialists and trade unions to get together in a party of the masses to end the absurdity of a society in which ¦poverty exists in the midst of plenty...
...Condemning the fascist form of government as undesirable for the political health and progress of a country, Morrison declared that "a one-man dictatorship in which a free expression of opinion is denied leads to subserviency, cringing, fawning, dishonesty by officials in the discharge of their functions'and jobbery, and denies to the civic life of the country the participation of large sections of the community...
...ical crisis...
...Corrobating this, Heber Blankce-j horn testified that NLRB is three j months behind with its work on ! account of harassments from the j League and others...
...In some cases they were raised...
...If British ' capitalists do so—and they are capable of it—they will do it at their own risk, and a future Labor Gov'ernrnent in England would not lift one finger to help-them get back their money in case the loan proves a failure...
...Chaos and Cowfesloa - Recalling the visit he made to Vienna in 1930 when he saw the magnificent work of the Socialist government of that city which had been re-elected three times by a two-thirds majority, he said that fascism does not Build but is a weapon of destruction...
...Mors than 3.500 Socialists and uaisssMatty ended the meeting...
...He joined the union which wee just getting a start in the plant, and his pretense was so ef - fective that, he was elected treasurer...
...erty League, he said, has blocked the work of NLRB by legalistic ; maneuvers...
...In one ef the Board's earliest cases it was proved that a Detroit manufacturer had engaged, through the Pinkcrton Detective Agency, such .a...
...arrangements...
...The .result is an exposure of the most important of the Communist "innocents clubs" in the United States and of the methods.pursued by Communism in creating "movements" ostensibly devoted to the promotion of social and working class interests but actually seeking to id ii as the political purposes of the Communist Party as laid doom in directives from Moscow...
...Communism, then, with its doctrine of the necessity of the forcible overthrow of the state by armed insurrection, with Ha dec-bine of the dictatorship of the ¦¦amtairaT, with its threat to exited* an Other classes from atffl . rights, to smash their poMtkal parties, aad at deprive them of the right of freedom which the Communists new claim for themselves under capitalism— Communism la itself aa unwitting but nonetheless powerful factor in bringing about fascism...
...Low Working Conditions "Working conditions for officers nd crews on ships flying the Vmerican flag are so low as to iiscourage the right type of men Tom entering the service...
...Fascism grows out of conditions of economic decay, depression, hopelessness and disorder, when people say things cant be worse," he said...
...The grant *fl*W'fPP,ef hhnd and deaf ekfldren was reduced...
...Committee hearings have been adjourned for 10 days, to enable Investigators to bring up new supplies of ammunition...
...It was the first public appearance of the distinguished visitor from across the seas, leader of the London County Council, member of Parliament, and an outstanding-leader of the British Labor Party...
...Company influence was used to* prevent the prosecution of racketeers...
...Radio Union Strikes For Union Recognition Workers of the Kenyon Transformer Corporation walked out after the company refused to bargain collectively with their union, the Radio Factory Workers' Local B-1010 of the Internet Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, formerly a federal local of the A. F. of L. A complaint has been filed by the union with the National Labor Relation's Regional Board in New York...
...He reported, but in addition to carrying the broom he wore the full dress uniform of a major general of Francis Joseph's regime with all the medals and decorations...
...This involves another $325,-which for the most part win ¦a Oat of the living allowances It the people of the province...
...Socialist-Labor Forces Add to Wis...
...Tied Up With Gangsters 4. It is tied up with underworld gangsters in the dissemination ox racing and other gambling information...
...The sndtence responded with feel ourselves kin "to the British Labor Party beeaaee we represent the same social ideal, economic philosophy and tsctics...
...mg to Be Held in Polo Grounds—-Socialists Will Participate...
...Surely, we would sever, on land, entrust the invest-nent of millions and the lives of mndreds of men, women and children to a $40 a week executive, inch, however, are of en the regards of a career at sea...
...that other *r* welcome and may par-*!3d may ^ represented on at speakers provided they ^thave a speaker at any other °*y meeting...
...It was in the budget that the people might have expected to See the first glimmer of the "new social order" for which they voted...
...James J. Bambrick of New York- vice-president of the Building Service Employes' International, declared that when the recent New York strike was settled a Bergoff agency man attended the union meeting and tried to" stampede the members into a general strike...
...Fascism has no code of political morality...
...This is the high point—so far— of the testimony before the La Follette subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Education and Labor...
...As for the people of the province, what must they think...
...In a letter to Chairman Royal 3. Copeland (Dem., N. Y.), Cull-nan charged that Roper's threatened inquiry was a "red herring'' o divert attention from his own 'ailure to compel ship owners to •omply with safety and other reg-llations...
...With the tools of undeniable facts and evidence, taken directly from the highest Communist sources, Mr...
...Heber Blankenhorn, industrial .economist of the NLRB, told the _._ committee that espionage is universal in large-scale industry, and that the steel industry has gone farther into this matter than any others...
...Communists try to stampede antifascists into Communism as the only way to prevent fascism...
...As against 12,087 votes for the incumbent, Mayor James R. Law, the Federation candidate, Jerome B. White received 8,550 votes...
...He said j that the A. F. of L. had fought labor spies for 50 years, and would continue to fight them...
...It is not their fault that they have been given the opposite to that which they were promised...
...General Koerner was ordered to report for duty with a broom for sweeping the streets, littered with thousands of protest leaflets...
...t» ^Lof *** »*ny maneuvers I *¦ »acceLfmf to interf«e with t-lie Cm...
...Gifford's cynical statement, declared Samuel Becker, chief committee investigator, takes rank alongside the more forceful "pub-hc-be-damned" declaration of profane old Commodore Vanderbilt...
...Although the fascists espouse Ike cause of the small business man before they come to power, he asserted that they have not damaged the great capitalist organisations bat have simply used the small business people as a means -with which to destroy the great cooperative movements . The cruel treatment of the Jews in Germany came in for attack at the bands of Morrison who pointed out that the anti-Jewish laws were excluding from participation in the life of the nation "a people who have contributed much to the economic, cultural and social progress of Germany...
...Although the surface has scarcely been scratched, the evidence already produced makes this indictment of the A. T^*T^ S ^ Vleioas Lobar Policies Creative legislation before Congress and state legislatures...
...In Great Britain I waa the man who did the most fighting to prevent the^Communists from capturing the British Labor Party...
...When Kansas was considering a constitutional amendment permitting three-fourths of the members of a jury to bring in a legal verdict, the A. T. & T. brought up shock troops and succeeded in killing the proposal...
...PHE- public mte*est is "the * bunk rPresfdejit Waher S. Gifford...
...They were indorsed by the Farmer Labor Progressive Federation...
...As a form of government it is a complete denial of individual, political, civic and intellectual rights...
...Biajfbp's...
...Referring to a statement cynically made by the Propaganda Minister of the Nazi Government that a shortage of batter could not be helped because money was needed for armaments, Morrison said that it was characteristic of a regime "in which the instruments of destruction came before the physical need of the German people...
...was re-elected by a smashing majority oyer the combined votes of his three opponents...
...This thoroughly dishonest measure will take some explaining to the people who were promised genuine recall legislation...
...How the detective agencies solicit workers for stool pigeon work was told by James J. Mullen and George A. Patterson...
...Tits program ef the League has never been what it pretends to b —a minimum program able to unite the largest possible opposition to war and fascism...
...The League was lead-| ing the concerted campaign against joiganized labor...
...Undemocratic Srructure [ •The overwhelming majority of the organizations active in the went ;ef.: the league are under the orders and discipline of the Communist Party...
...The decision of the committee -was made at a meeting held last Friday in the office of the International »Ladies Garment Workers Union attended by representatives fly that union, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, the ¦minery Workers Union, the United Hebrew Trades and the Workmen's Circle...
...The candidates for the school board on the Federation ticket were defeated...
...He put the money each month into an envelope, and deposited it with Clinton S. Golden, director of the Pittsburgh Regional Labor Board...
...Socialism Only Hope Pleads for Constructive Approach to Solution of Social Problems—Assails Communism as Ally of Reactionary Forces...
...Returns from 2,500 of the state's 3,000 precincts gave Glenn Turner, Federation candidate for Supreme Court Judge 203,816...
...He solicited members for the Active Union Men Fired » '"He"' reported to the Pinkerton Agency several times a week concerning.-.the union activities of the men, and the agency reported to the employer, who immediately discharged any of the men who showed'any particular union activity...
...The dominant, privileged political party itself has no democracy in a fascist state...
...They should mor\ not to creute a muddle but to create economic order...
...Hhl^^ax {^^am^deBar on all rich the coffers of the government tat wSr take from the pockets of tht sversre family from two to He daosr* that might have been snas sS%eedful articles...
...Herbert Morrison hat corns, we have seen him, he has conquered us" was the unanimous verdict of the people as they poured out of the Mecca Temple Auditorium Wednesday evening: to discuss an address which was at once a devastating analysis of fascism, a militant defense of democracy anil' a brilliant exposition of Socialism...
...The a Party has letcatlj re-¦JfSted its intention of utilizing fl* United front as a means of !**iag off 'great chunks' from ^^flodehst Party...
...A third Federation candidate was defeated by a narrow margin...
...Against Communism Turning his attention to the Communists, Morrison said...
...Hoan has publicly charged that the local electric company spent a quarter of a million dollars to defeat the public ownership proposal...
...editor-in-chief of the Jewish Daily Forward: David Dubinsky, president of "the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union...
...Blankenhorn farther testified that the board of directors of the Federal Laboratories, Inc., of Pittsburgh, supplying munitions to industrial plants, is the key to the relationship between industrial spying and the Liberty League lawyers...
...It has no respect for human life...
...WASHINGTON, d. C —Industrial spies, called "undercover men" by their employers and "stool pigeons," "rats,\and still less complimentary names by workers, are now the chief reliance of Big Business in its efforts to evade the National Labor Relations Act and stop the organization of its employes...
Vol. 19 • April 1936 • No. 16
