Interstate Conference to Meet In Cleveland on May 22
Interstate Conference to Meet In Cleveland on May 22 State Organization* Affiliated wrtB Conference Will Lead Fight to Seat Old Guard Delegation From Naif York— 'Wilj Demand Repeal of Detroit...
...Perts>| nine of them were found te ssssfi criminal records, Syme testiasi ' Mayor Wilson was se arena* that he ordered a check-up «asj of the strikebreakers...
...The FrazierLundeen Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill, Senate Bill No...
...Albert Sprague Coolidge, a "militant" member of the National Executive Committee, suffered two defeats...
...State Convention Electa Old Guard Administration* Condemn* N. E. C. and Votes to Remain in Interstate Conference...
...New York...
...Green recommended Oat permanent officers be chosen a* soon as possible to succeed the temporary administration headed by President P. J. Dillon whom he had appointed tentatively shortly after the in te matronal anion was chartered last August He also criticised or gmnization insurgents and advised prompt action "to clear the air" of internal differences...
...Gorman's non-arrival upset the plans, however...
...It has viewed the charter suspension as a move to shift control to the...
...The major purpose of the Cleveland gathering will be to consolidate those forces in the party that believe hi Sociiism based on "democracy...
...r?W York wiH elect 12, Kings County 8, Bronx 6, Queens 1, and Richmond 1. Branch organizers are instructed to call special meetings for the voting which closes on May 16...
...Selection ot a non-factional Na"' "ttenal Executive Committee...
...Local New York and the delegates from each county...
...3475, has been unanimously endorsed by the Bridgeport Board of Aldermen, composed entirely of Socialists...
...Those elected are S. M. Neistadt, Morris Pblin and William Toole...
...It is a plain case of labor frame-up, ably supported by local civil authorities and the courts...
...The resolutions were adopted by a roll call vote of 60 to 30...
...Voting on Delegates to National Convention Ballots are now in the possession of all branches in Local New York for the election of Delegates and Alter-' nates to the National Convention of the Socialist Party...
...Interstate Conference to Meet In Cleveland on May 22 State Organization* Affiliated wrtB Conference Will Lead Fight to Seat Old Guard Delegation From Naif York— 'Wilj Demand Repeal of Detroit Declaration and Exclusion of Communists From Party...
...Old Guard Victorious in Mass...
...Rt expressed the view that: "JS*W)r gain made by the labor moveraa* since 1933 would be wiped out, ssi black reaction would grip 1st country if Roosevelt is net itturned to the White Hosts a 1936...
...State and at the same time assure control of the convention...
...Elections for delegates in these states show a predominately Old Guard delegation will go to the National Convention...
...This referendum supersedes the set ion of the totally unauthorized ramp convention held last month, which went through the motions of cfeosing 17 delegates, "defeating" Mayor Henry J. Stump and electing Assemblyman Darlington Hoopes only by s narrow margin...
...Organizers declare that the strike has paralyzed the underwear industry in the city...
...FHE Socialist Party Interstate - Conference has issued a call for a national conference to meet in . Cleveland Friday, May 22, one day prior to the national convention of the party...
...Baltimore Socialists Elected Old Guard Convention Delegates BALTIMORE, Md...
...The Bssafl charge, Syme testified, was sa»S in police records as "a notorial character and an assocmtenTjp men and thieves...
...Ballots must be in the office not later than Monday, May 18 . ww- Green Addresses Auto Union's Convention «pUTH BEND, Ipd,—Shortly *? after the opening of the national convention of die United Automobile Workers of America, President William Green, on Behalf of the American -Federation of Labor, formally retinfls«TrV*il control of the union to ate 250 delegates, tnaricmjr the e»dqf!tbe period of probationary smaagement of the union's affairs by the Federation...
...fij One strikebreaker was djsekafl as an ex-convict who had senate term for shoplifting in the nty store to which the "detectiw* agency had now assigned Mat ?i Incidentally, after this expat, Wanamakera ran ap the *hai flag and accepted peace tarsal dictated by Mayor Wilaes asi satisfactory to the striken, I "Because of the use of strflal breakers, it took several ween tt settle a controversy which eesM, easily have been adjusted ut ts* days," Syme testified...
...The prosecution's main witnesses were four spies from the force maintained by the H. C. Frick Coke Company of Pennsylvania...
...Gorman himself was marked for slaughter, according to a sworn statement made by F. L. Dobbs, former newspaper man at Durham, N. C. Dobbs said two agents of a Charlotte employer, under the impression that Dobbs was to work with them, gave him the details of how Gorman was to be killed upon his arrival in Charlotte to make a union speech...
...He failed of election as a member of the State Executive Committee and as candidate for United States Senator...
...Plot to Murder Gormajj...
...He and a city police officer were sent to the hearing byMayor S. Davis Wilson...
...The committee also heard the details of a spy-hatched plot to murder a union official and of another conspiracy in which known criminals were sent from one state to another to commit outrages which could be charged against labor men and used to railroad them to prison...
...A copy of the resolution asking the passage of the FrazierLundeen bill has been sent to Connecticut's senators and representatives and to the members of the Congressional Committee in charge of the bill...
...The strike is being conducted by the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union...
...The latter is waging a campaign to rid his city of criminals employed by anti-union agencies...
...Charged to Labor Sfif| Leader of United Textile Workers Marked for Slaughter in South Durum Nation-wide Strike of 1934, Testimony B+ fore Senate Sub-Committee Reveal...
...Immediately after the seana Rieve sent a letter resigning tt* membership in the Socialist Parly, which he stated he eolM not besorably retain when a sense a* duty to the immediate interests «* the trade union movement esspelted him to support Roosevelt...
...Massachusetts, Maryland and Pennsylvania are affiliated with the Interstate Conference...
...The conference has condemned the policy of the National Executive Committee for its action against the New York organization...
...7| Menace to Society - According to Sergeant liebard Doyle of the Philadela%* dty detective force, Philadelphia employers have used "25,000 ttriksbreakers, spies, finks and gSaseti during the last two years at a alt of $1,000,000...
...ajMASMiNOTUN.—Mott testimony piled up at the hearings on Senator Robert M. LaFolfctte's^ resolution for a countrywide investigation of labor espionage in industry, which i? sensational in character and indicates that employers will stop at 'nothing to prevent the organization oi their workers...
...L" Socialist delegates from an* locals in Reading and' Mihsseta* spoke and voted against the Mnlution...
...The Cleveland meeting will bring together delegates of groups that will demand the recognition of the Old Guard New York State organization ana the seating of its delegates...
...v^g During the delivery hoja'phawl at the Wanamakers' Philasklnhh < store the police checked op u'j special guards furnished ay awi Sales Detective Agency...
...Armed with official police records to back up his charges, he testified that a large proportion of the labor spies and strikebreaking guards who have operated in Philadelphia are actual criminals...
...Since, under the rules, 25% of the delegates may obtain the submission of a resolution to a referendum of the membership, such action was taken, and the decision to remain within the Interstate Conference will now be placed -before the party members for approval...
...Returns from the balance of the state are now incomplete...
...the remaining one is a "militant" who .was ^aufcpqrted by the majority...
...Special to The New Leader BOSTON...
...The "Old Guard" Socialists administered a defeat to the "militants" at a state convention held here by electing a solid delegation to the Socialist national convention...
...On the day set for the killing the employer established "an iron-clad alibi" for himself...
...In Massachusetts eleven of the fourteen delegates Old Guard, as are all three from Maryland...
...Labor Men Framed In September, 1934, during the nation-wide textile strike, a mill was dynamited at Burlington, N. C. Seven labor men were immediately arrested...
...An investigation later bn disclosed that not only did the four 'deputies' have criminal records, two of them being listed by Pennsylvania authorities as expert dynamiters, but all had left Pennsylvania for North Carolina several weeks before the blast at the mill...
...Although the "militants" sent a letter to all members, making Norman Thomas' Candidacy for President the issue, the members were determined to send a delegation committed to democratic Socialsm and opposedtto dictatorship, armed insurrection and a united front with the Communist Party...
...r Homer W. Martin of Kansas City was unanimously elected temporary chairman of the convention...
...Syme aji that out of 516 scabs who aSj> finger-printed by the police, were found to have crhnBr records...
...They were brought to Burlington ostensibly two days after the dynamiting," Gorman testified...
...Socialist city officials have joined the picket line to aid 450 underwear workers in four Bridgeport factories who have gone on strike to ©btain a closed union shop in the industry, a 37 Vz -hour week ami a minimum pay scale substantially like "that received under the NRA setup...
...The sessions will be held at the Carter Hotel, Ninth and Prospect, a five-minute walk from the Cleveland Municipal Auditorium where the convention will be held...
...And, as usual, the labor spies were the heart of the conspiracy...
...In Reading, Pennsylvania, fearteen of the seventeen delegates on the Militant, shite wen defeated...
...One of the "star" witnesses during the week was M. Herbert Syme, assistant city attorney of Philadelphia...
...In addition to delegates from the states sow members of the Interstate Conference, it is expected that sepreneatatives from other states will also attend...
...Members wilt vote on two ballots, a ballot for Delegates acre Alternates-at-Large elected on a state-wide referendum, and a ballot for the election of 6 delegates at large " Tor...
...In every case where strife*, breakers have been employed, tte cost to the company iavehs was much more than it wsss have spent to meet the ililian of the workers," Syme ssJdl | "Strikebreaking organization*art a menace to society and should be smashed...
...3. O^jpoaJtion^any United Front 4. gselndmg ail Communists and -. Splinter Group elements and advocates of armed insurrection or violence...
...Condemning the action of the National Executive Committee of the Socialist Party for suspending the charter of the Socialist state organization in New York, the state convention of Massachusetts meeting here last Sunday voted to remain in the Interstate Conference and elected an "Old Guard" administration...
...Assisting and encouraging the strikers are Mayor MeLevy, City Clerk Fred Schwartz - kopf, Aldermen Michael Gratt, Michael Quaka, and State Representative Jack C. Bergen...
...Thus the membership of the Massachusetts Socialist Party answered the man^who introduced the motion for the suspension of the charter of the New York Socialist Party and declared frankly that he was ready "to take action for which there is no constitutional warrant...
...When it appeared that the "Old Guard" were in the majority at the beginning of the convention, the "militants" made strenuous efforts to obtain an adjournment, but this maneuver was defeated...
...Ten out of the eleven members of the State Executive Committee elected are "Old Guard," and...
...OLD GUARD WINS i VICTORY IN READING READING, Pa.—In the referendum vote, closed last Saturday, by which the organised Socialists of Berks County chose their 17 national convention delegates, only three of those on the "militant" slate were elected...
...Militants in...
...It is confidently predicted that they will overwhelmingly indorse all the decisions of the convention...
...SUPPORT FRAZIERLUNDEEN BILL BRIDGEPORT...
...Socialist City Officials Aid Garment Strikers By Abrahan Knepier (Special to The New Leader) BRIDGEPORT, Conn...
...Innocent Sfill Suffer "The convicted union men are still in prison...
...The convention elected ah "Old Gierd" state, committee, and such 'mutants" AV were elected were supported py the majority in recognition for work in the party...
...Mora Skullduggery The testimony of Syme, the Philadelphia city attorney, was sensational...
...Seven local union officials are serving one to ten-year sentences in a North Carolina penitentiary for a dynamiting outrage committed by labor spies, Vice-President Francis J. Gorman of the United Textile Workers testified...
...The state convention held Sunday, April 5th, by a vote of more than 2 to 1 condemned the National Executive Committee for suspending the New York State charter and instructed the delegates to the national convention to vote for seating the New York delegation elected by the party members at the national convention...
...In addition to resolutions .condemning the national body for its undemocratic methods and •reaffirming participation in...
...The resolution was Sitcussed for thre hours before easing to a vote...
...Thirty of the strikebreaker were finger-printed by the polka he said, and all were found to kefs: criminal records...
...During a strike at the Philadelphia plant of the Gulf Refining Company, owned by Andrew W. Mellon, the Burns DetectweAnsjl furnished criminals for gZfe duty, Syme said...
...The conference will be die rallying point for those forces opposed to the Militant policies now leading the party in the direction of Communism...
...the interstate body that is now the spearhead in the fight against militantCommunist groups, the convention adopted a statement denouncing the action of Leo Krzycki, Socialist national chairman and vicepresident of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers' Union, who at a general executive board meeting of that union voted "present" on a motion to indorse President Roosevelt...
...Delegates from states now members of the conference can be expected to lead the fight in the convention far the following program.: 1. Repeal of the Detroit Declaration and all reference to armed .insurrection and dictatorship...
...Thomas Nicholson, of Lawrence, won the nomination...
...President Kai Rieve left the chair in order t» speak for the resolution...
...This will have te be done through Federal legislation...
...Hired by the sheriff and a group of private citizens and mill owners, they were deputized to investigate the explosion...
...If el control our home agencies, outside companies will do .the work" I Hosiery Workers t Endorse Roosevelt PHILADELPHIA —The Ann* ican Federation ot Hiafefy Wafers' convention meeting here Tanday carried by a Vote of 113 te tl a resolution declaring that "wag* earners have no other pnebesl alternative than to vote for Frank lin D. Roosevelt in the presidential election...
Vol. 19 • May 1936 • No. 18
