Blum Will Head French Cabinet; Warns Fascists
Blum Will Head French Cabinet; Warns Fascists ii|fcfitt Leader to Form 2 p p e w Government of %SpomimitU Begin Sabo' taf e—Lauvch "Soviet*." franc Is Big Issue Economic Recovery,...
...and it would net BE UTS*R sary to call on them twice BT is any attempt to rebel NGSMP their will...
...By following this line it may consolidate the great majority of the people behind it and render helpless the enemies of progress...
...industry...
...Smoldering Discontent In some cases the machine loat has been doubled, and in the "sweat shops" the load has been tripled...
...Mussolini has staged his opera bouffe annexation of Ethiopia and proclaimed Italy an "empire.J' Meanwhile the League of Nations, thwarted for the moment, has refused to recognize the annexation and the new "Roman Empire...
...They have without deviation refused to subordinate immediate financial gain to the more fundamental policy of protecting the lives of their employees and the public...
...They know that whatever the result, they will have to rebuild with years of sacrifice the economic and financial structure of their country...
...The Blum government has B great -opportunity of acting as the 1 nation's captain in the difficult transition period which it is now entering, from a destructive, deflationist economy into a new period of economic stabiltlsuw and growth, while at the nam time contributing toward a speedj economic recovery of the world as a whole...
...He apeb gized for Laval's "defection" h the Ethiopian conflict and prsmssd that the new government weak give vigorous and uneompronuSbf support to the League...
...The Conference Call The conference call issues * » » International Committee pr P* serving the Olympic Idea, into in part: , "The world is realizing to as i» creasing extent that the Olyetpf Games, whose purpOM it paw and international understand)* should not be held in a canty which is threatening otnacajfei new war and through tint Jnregarding one of the chief pern of the Olympic Charter...
...With 72 seats in % Chamber, they are unfortu• M y in a position of holding the Wmw of power m any People's government...
...Gib- sugar, coffee, butter, bacon, codfish, and even fresh fruit and vegetables, cost now almost double what they did four months ago...
...Between 1,600 and 1,800 firemen and enginemen will be directly involved and about 7.000 other engine and train service employees will be affected in the threatened walkout...
...Lawrence and Passaic have indicated that their workers will be the first to move...
...The People's Front governsast faithful to the nstional will av pressed at the polls, will BSST • policy on loyal respect tot •* League Covenant," wrote Sba " I t will not only devote HATST* saving all that can still B* SSND of international law m the Bsw opian affair and to preeervinf ssd defending the democratic CSSSSS)* of the League of Nations, set » will aim still higher...
...Xevertheless, Blum 5? . Socialist Party are deter•ST *° m i i e a n C T o i c effort to B * government and keep it m T * 0 R policies they consider to the interests of democFrance and the peace of 2...
...M r . Hill, in 1935, drew a salary of $212,199: or about $700 for every working day in the year...
...It is also an acceptance in wide form of the principle s f industrial unionism as voiced by the C.I.O...
...The situation has become so hazardous that full crew laws for engine and train service have already been enacted by 20 states, ind their constitutionality has been sustained not only by the state courts, but also by the Supreme Court of the United States...
...Blum declared: "I do not want to threaten am one...
...The legend of an 'invincible' Duce, who can defy the League and the 'powerful British Empire,' is entirely founded on the League's failure to impose oil sanctions...
...Lewis' offer of $500,000 tc help finance the campaign, contingent upon the C.I.O...
...Even those who approved of the war in the first place as a mesns to an end are realizing now that the price Italy is psying and will go on paying has made the adventure worthless...
...This practice is so dangerous that the few other carriers outside of New England who have attempted it have had such disastrous experiences that they have gone back to the safe method of having two experienced men on duty in all engine cabs at all times...
...But the question of wages is not the only thorn in the workers' side The machine load is too heavy they say, and the large number o: unemployed woolen and worsteo workers is the result...
...The conference call issued by the committee declares that already important sections of public opinion in France, the United States, England, Holland, Sweden, Czechoslovakia and other countries have rallied to the support of the movement against holding the games in Nazi Germany...
...These safety requirement* are in addition to the mechanical duties which the second man in the cab performs and which would otherwise fall upon the one man and increase the chances of accidents by decreasing the time that should be spent watching for signals and carrying out the execution of running orders...
...thought themselves lucky to get $2 a day...
...This may or may not be a bluff His real difficulties at home and in Ethiopia are still ahead of him...
...The cooperation of other unions will be setight...
...Should they succeed, we ^ . w i t n e s s the beginning of a MBmT:0" e c o n o : n i c stability and JHS***^ order...
...said Robertson "But because of their mad scramble to save money to meet indefensible interest and dividend payments, ordinary caution has beer' thrown to the winds, and a reck less policy of utter disregard oi human lives—whether employee' passengers, or the general pub...
...Threatened in Woolen Mills 110,000 Workers in 400 Plants in New England, New Jersey and Pennsylvania Prepare for the Struggle...
...Every other possibility of adjusting the issue ia_an orderly and constructive way has beer, seemingly exhausted," he said...
...and rejected implicitly any efforts on the part of other organizations to supersede that authority...
...and the C.I 0 Organization Policy While accepting the principle of ndustrial unionism, the resolution recognized the authority of the A.F.ofL...
...It would be an essential step to coping with the depression and a death blow to the policy of cut-throat competition among nations and stupid e c ° ^ | nomic self-sufficiency within STG| tions...
...It is a fact, however, that the hands of France in foreign affairs have beer, tied in no small measure by economic ^depression and uncertainty at home...
...peace—br^'AISAIESOUNT The People's Front g*W*1BS*"t will work with ardent contlssijal * revive disappointed entmms*** and create in Europe tms) • * lective faith on which security must be founded...
...But in addition to this, he got a cash bonus which brought his "earnings" up to a total of $1,010,000 for that year...
...labor history...
...Add these items together, and you will see that Mr...
...Italians Dissatisfied " L a t e l y the Ovra (secret police) service had woven around me and my houie a web of espionage and conspiracy...
...and for households with two or more workers, the average was $497...
...It would also open the road to international stabilization of currencies and acceleration of foreign trade...
...We print below the report of Giovanni Giglio, a British subject, who last month was expelled from Italy, where he was f o r seventeen years correspondent for the London, Daily Herald...
...It is realized everywhere in Italy that Mussolini went to war because he was becoming afraid of the rapidly worsening economic situation in Italy...
...This action was not taken until all other avenues of settlement had' h#en exhausted, it was emphartzed by President D. B. Robertson of the Brotherhood...
...F T E R thorough debate lasting nearly three weeks, the convention of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, meeting at Canonsburg, Pa., adopted a program which would seek to bring the more_than 400,000 steel workers of the country into one b ig o r g a n i z a t i o n formed on the principle of industrial unionism...
...The woolen and worsted manufacturers are to be asked to recognize the right of their workers to share in some of the profits that are being recorded in greater number because of the unusual business boom...
...Armand Billard $m Ch...
...and their work lasts but a few months at best...
...QeB] Branting of Stockholm...
...Perhaps the most striking fact disclosed was that the average weekly income from earnings for the 477 families in the sample studied was $3.02...
...Once it is known that soandso is openly grumbling, then trouble starts...
...has been deliberately adoptc and maintained...
...IUajn|gfjP have shown the value aMpWaf | present-day Germany .-J^ Jwff negotiated agreements...
...D. ?• Vliet, president of the Bezh| Federation of Rotterdam...
...They realize that even if the whole of Abyssinis is conquered, there will not be the money to expldit its doubtful resources...
...The FERA, probing the conditions of tobacco workers in Virginia and North Carolina, said: "Nearly half of them were receiving relief at the same time they were receiving wages...
...will | o ^ U K e it a t*^4 more difficult, ^flHMteon fronted any French tfM||lpre the war...
...ifip* The Amalgamated rejected Ufa proposal of the C.I.O...
...Of the wages of machine stemmers, the Labor Review says: "None of them earned a weekly wage as high as $14...
...rtm\ m 0 S t i r r ? c r t a n t immediate I2r* * a t confront the f a . •W«rn;:;e:.: at home will be of deflation, the disPolicy which Hoover pur- , |JJ*J...
...He has emphatically disclaimed, I any intention of embarking upon irrespo-^ifc'e "revolutionary" experime-' s. indicating clearly that his policy will be similar to those of the Socialist governments of Scandinavia, which have been so successful in improving economic conditions and strengthening the foundations of democracy...
...That these railroads should try to operate engines with only one man in control "seems amazing, if not incredible...
...The of the people of France IS igP...
...Letters ^e^t to me were SpttltMTmrwiL delivery...
...Soviet Russia and the Little Entente, would automatically deprive Hitler and Mussolini of the advantages they now enjoy in the prevailing* confusion...
...Safety Is the Issue On all three carriers the issue is the operation of Diesel-electric engines with only one man in the cab on 90-mile-an-hour passenger trains and in switching service...
...When they read in the financial pages of the newspapers the millions in profits made by the American Woolen Company and other corporations, and then find in another column of the same newspapers the rises in prices ol the produce and meat markets they know that their wages have been, in fact if not in form, reduced^ Their resentment has now reached a boiling point and in many sections of the country strikes have resulted in ».n effort by the workers to gain a wage increase to meet the rising cost oi living which, they believe, is particularly justified in view of tki increased profits made out of theii labor...
...Both in the J U J U t internal and external UPViri...
...taking charge of the drive, was likewise -ejected Instead, the Amalgamated declared that its own ef^eers anc •rganraation...
...service of the Republican law...
...The Monthly Labor Review of October, 1934, gives some figures of the wages of stemmers, that is, those who "stem" the tobacco, separating the leaves from the stem...
...A clear provision for the trans* formation of the AmalgaiaatS% nto an industrial union was " a w tained in the section of the r t f fc lution declaring that "any and sot rights or claims of jurisdiction In the steel industry be permanently waived by any and all interested organizations in fsvtor of the Amalgamated Association...
...The managements of these New England carriers have constantly maintained an unreasonable and anti-public position...
...Leon Blum, leader of the S o istkt Party, which emerged from Selection the largest single unit |t the Chamber of Deputies, will fcrm a new government to succeed Ik cabinet of Premier Sarraut pen the new chamber convenes •tt month...
...ft b believed that unless the p-meat Congress passes the NacJBgJ Ttxtiie Act providing for a M asnr work week and the manufactercrs agree to grant a 20 per cast increase in wages, which will Subrmate pay differentials and cutthroat competition, the nation will •j&rience the greatest woolen and saw ted cloth famine in Its history...
...Having spent nearly a billion dollars in the conquest of Ethiopia, Fascist Italy, facing financial bankruptcy, will have to spend even more to^extract any profit from the country...
...Any substantial halt in production, he indicated, would provide a woolen and worsted 'famine far beyond the control of the small surplus which could be rushed from the storehouses to the markets...
...Let me, first of all, shatter the illusion prevalent in Britain that the Abyssinian war is popular in Italy...
...That means a ten years' sentence...
...The report says further that 71 per cent of the machine stemmers got less than $10 a week, and that 65 per cent of the hand stemmers got less than $12 a week...
...Most of this work is done by hand...
...Already the finaicial oligarchy, in MDtrol of the Bank of France, on m nde, and the Communists, on the other, have begun to make iffleolties for the coming governMSt A "flight from the franc...
...Economic recovery at home, economic stabilization abroad, and an unequivocal foreign policy, based upon cooperation with England...
...They indidBmat the woolen and worsted • H P had reached the end of flHkadursnce and ware ready to djBjp in an open struggle to end •ajMrtal exploitation and oppresskojn the industry...
...For households containing only one wage earner, the average was only $2.35...
...from the very mt^i undermining the position of g N i i r i n g People's Front governJ*1* and playing into the hands 5/Sueist and reactionary elelph>, as they did in Germany bel l ? the advent of Hitlerism...
...Life became almost unbearable...
...ThtIsm* of German sport shea WSm everyday activities spise th'e Olympic spirit aw* not recognize its vahdHa^g have declared that the MWf tion of the Games is ajHH to them 'for reasons at-jlaR tionai propaganda' TbahT^a not to serve sport bot m^W^ make a propaganda nairjag|" giving it a 'German saMpfst Bankruptcy Is Italy's Price for "Victory" Financial CoHapae Seems Imminent as Internal Situation Become* Desperate Amid Shout* of Triumph in Ethiopian War...
...INS7_^ Blum declared that if the Osss**" nists persisted in their refusal O join in the government, ths cialists will share their •••J with the Radical Socislirts am other elements of the rbnfln Front, including the -^---jj* Union...
...Sovage Sentences "Normally the punishment is three years' deportation J o some sun-scorched little island off the northern coast of Sicily...
...The effects of the preliminary program will be checked by Secretary-Treasurer Anthony Valente, who will make' known his findings to the executive council of the Woolen and Worsted Federation which will meet again within the>> next six weeks...
...There is no question in the minds of the leaders oi the Federation but that there will be a 100 per cent walkout...
...Also, he g o t a special credit, whatever that may mean, of $273,470...
...Mussolini has taken the first step toward bolting the League of Nations...
...They know that they will have to start their lives sgain, reconstruct their homes, in s word, de over sgsin the work of economic snd industrial expansion which they have so successfully carried out during the first two decades before the World War...
...be called upon to ik& prebierr- whose solution nay detenrtr...
...The Women's Bureau of the Department of the Labor found stemmers working 28 hours a week for $3.60...
...As usual Mussolini plsyed his trump card—namely, bluff...
...Tobacco King's Salary Paid by Hanger Wages S.EC...
...S n e <-1 States for the 2J^* : propertied interests...
...Smith-Leiper, secraUr*#tt» Church Central Council, agjHfca...
...The Italian people, with the picture of their economic future clearly set before them, have become indifferent as to whether the wsr ends with victory or defeat...
...i&dinjr expression, among other ftjags, in large exports of gold, ks been engineered by financial i&d Industrial interests, the soSaM "two hundred families" who ilk'French economic life...
...The low wages in comparison to the profits, the extension of the machine load, the third shift, the 48, 54 and 60-hour work weeks— all have added fuel to the smoldering discontent which is due to burst into flames when the strike call is issued...
...Jaswever, the executive council ebasftd to move slowly but surely...
...By Budd L. McKilhps A S T R I K E vote of Brotherhood of L o c o m o t i v e Firemen and E n g i n e m e n is b e i ng taken this week 011 the N e w Y o r k , N e w H a v e n & H a r t f o r d, taep-Bosto****-- ManeeMtBw the M a i n e Central...
...Feared Oil Sanctions "Food prices are going up and up daily...
...The workers did fee) that it was their efforts that made the prosperity now enjoyed by the manufacturers possible...
...Their failure »^^*Weaces...
...The oil sanction was again delayed while Mussolini filled with petrol every possible space...
...The convention's set-ion wma a compromise between the sttitae* taken by the executive c o u n « « ef the American Federation of Later, as expressed by President ^ iBfSM Green, and the Committee f c r j fe "k»*r«nft rt^i fsajsMSwae^MsSapfpp...
...franc Is Big Issue Economic Recovery, Fight on Reactionaries and Qose Cooperation With Uague of Nation* Will V Bk socialist Program...
...The council also made it known that it had wired President Roosevelt, Secretary of Labor Perkins and Congressman Patrick L. Bolan of Pennsylvania urging their support in securing passage of the National Textile Act by the present Congress as "a means of averting chaos in the.textile industry...
...the decision to make preparations for the general strike was adapted by the executive council of the Woolen and Worsted Federation of America at a special emergency session held here this week...
...On the international committee, which is headed by M. Justin Godart, senator and former minister, are Walter Citrine, general secretary of the Trades Union Congress of England...
...In 1980, for example, Mr...
...This, it may be said, is part time—but the stemmers seldom work anything but part time...
...No Surplus on Hond "There is no surplus oi goods...
...This is one of the so-called Big F o u r union hating companies which make non-union cigarettes...
...GigHo's report follows: "For months past every word I have spoken on the telephone has been overheard and recorded by Mussolini's secret agents...
...Reody f a r Action The brief statement issued by tile executive council follows: "The executive council of the Woolen and Worsted Federation of America, affiliated with the United Textile Workers of America, met i t national headquarters, 341 Weybosset Street, Providence, May 10 for the purpose of considering the advisability of calling a general strike in order to bring about stability and uniformity in the industry by the establishment of a 35-hour work week and a wage increase of 20 per cent...
...When the war ends—whstever its end—Italy will find herself in a worse plight than would have been the case if there had been no war...
...Thus the strike plans will be made slowly...
...t5iaConimunists,too, who waged M r election campaign under democratic, nationalist and "rebranst" slogans, are making JMF to throw monkey wrenches Ho the wheels...
...In the domain of foreign policy the new government faces very difficult and grave problems...
...All unions willing to assist in the proposed organization drive were invited to contribute trained organisers and funds...
...but I w ant to point eat AM we have the working memos UJ hind us...
...The ADVENT of the Blum government is, therefore, sa event pregnsnt with tremendous consequences for sll nations The new government is expatsc' also to take a tinner stand is Ot League of Nations against Mum lini...
...By George O. Reddy (Special to The Xeic Leader) D R O V I D E N C E . R. I . — T h e w o o l e n and w o r s t e d department of tlie textile industry, w i t h 400 plants mostly cent e r e d in N e w E n g l a n d . X e w Jersey and P e n n s y l v a n i a and 110.000 operatives, is threatened with a complete shutd o w n as the e x e c u t i v e council ' o f the W o o l e n and W o r s t ed F e d e r a t i o n of America, affilia t e d with the U n i t e d T e x t i le ! W o r k e r s of A m e r i c a , is m a k i ng e x t e n s i v e preparations for a general strike The t.utmos't secrecy surround...
...Please note that in 1930, Mr...
...To End Oppression The woolen and worsted council members who represent the membership of 113 locals of the Federation were heartily in accord tith the belief of the international •Peers that the time was opporf f e to demand the shorter work midland higher pay...
...tat Committee on Fair Play la last for the United States...
...I t is net...
...So one dares express this view, however, except in the privacy of his hone, and even there in hushed words...
...With this obstacle eliminated and a People's Front government ready to pursue a consistent and determined policy abroad, the chances of strengthening the international situation would be vastly improved...
...They understand that whether the war brings them victory or disaster, their country will be...
...Blum has already indicated in press statements that his policy would be directed solely toward economic rehabilitation and inspiring France with confidence...
...t If the strike, program is completed within, the next six weeks when the executive council meets again, then, in all probability, the date for the nation-wide walkout will be set for such time as will occur during the industry's busy season...
...Reveals President of American Tobacco Co...
...I have known cases of wives who wanted to get rid of their husbands, and succeeded in doing so by telling the police that their husbands were in the habit of using insulting language about the Duce...
...Conscious of the grave tasks before him...
...Full Crew law is now •>er.d;«g before Congress, and with ie enactment of this legislation, locon otives of all descriptions will ".ave to carry in addition to fne i r i n e u . a fireman, who will aeLually fire steam locomotives, but who will also be usedytgs an enprineer's helper on electric, gaselect...
...Creep and officers of the Amalgamated...
...Robertson said that the managements of the three New Enjr land railroads are taking thechances even after their attention has been called to more than 10<" cases where engineers have sud denly died on duty or become incapacitated so that they were unable to keep control of their trains...
...The spendid setting of ffc»inter Games at Garmiaca«Paimv kirchen could not hid* thvJnt that the Games were aft aval by a spirit of respect 4a.Olympic ideals...
...Steel Men Vote To Organize in Industrial Union General Strike Amalgamated Association Convention Approves Organization Drive to Unionize More Than 400,000 Workers in the Industry...
...Under the resolution adapted by the Amalgamated the «saa is opened for the cooperstioa it all unions in the propote<i rfr-we> ! The resolution adopte-i by the Amalgamated pleaded f - the hs% and good will of the AmeriflHt federation of Labor am: soaghS ts iiminate from the situation the :onflicting elements which have developed in the strugg f rwwMB the A.F.ofL...
...insofar ss its authority is recognized as supreme in organizational matters...
...placed in the workers' weekly envelopes...
...2"n»er.t cf deflation, com• a program of public ° r " a e r intervention of , . y .at- the economic fife of the nation along broader social I lines would, it is believed, have the same salutary effects upon the economic and industrial life of France which have been achieved in England and the Scandinavian countries...
...Many plants have introduced the third shift, which not only the textile workers but even manufacturers charge is not economically sound...
...It does not relieve unemployment but means a short period of employment "with much longer periods of idleness, labor experts say...
...Underground rsshnbsm wiH not be tolerated SAY sun* than direct reststsitce...
...J J A V I N G crushed helpless Ethiopia with aeroplanes, bombs, poison gas and an array of military force which the little African nation could not possibly withstand...
...The rising cost of Irving cannot be met with the skimpy pay...
...Economic stabilization on an international scale would do more than anything else | to make possible a lasting peace...
...Robertson explained how, beginning in 1931...
...In substance the resolution is a victory for the A.F.ofL...
...DARIS—A . p r o g r am of s p e e dy - economic recover\-,._uncompromisJBf o p p o s i t i o n to fascism, and close c o l l a b o r a t i on with the L e a g u e of Nations mainst those states w h i c h seek • plunge the w o r l d into an8&cr war w a s a d o p t e d by t he Stecutive Council of the j j t n c h Socialist P a r t y at i ts eetting on M a y 9, i m m e d i a t e ly fallowing the victory of the Peoples Fro tit parties in the jafflainentarv election...
...With this view in mind the necessary arrangements for such action are to be made...
...H i l l was getting $700 a day—in salary alone, large numbers of workers in the plants at the American Tobacco Co...
...Ww- game appears to be to hold hand over it by a policy gSpjfitJonai support while conBBJ*' t 3 e : r ~J r e Communist • p r a n d a and organization' in | S * w m t r y . With half of the By*' Socialist...
...Speaking at the Federation executive council session, President McMahpn clearly pictured the woolen •and worsted situation...
...depression year of 1930...
...A firemanhelper as well as an engineer was used on the yard engines at first, but then the railroad, in a desire for "economy," dropped all safety precautions and instituted the one-man engine system...
...which would waive jurisdictional rights in the industry and contribute funds and organizers for tike drive be asked to sit on a Joint committee to direct the drive in conformity with the Amalgamated'* charter...
...Blua •*" dressed warnings to both munists and the reartionaiy rib* At the special meeting 9t " j* Socialist Party held on...
...Movement for Boycotting Nazi Olympics Grows D^VRIS.— A powerful move-' -'Vittnf agan>«f 'the" h o l d i ng of the E l e v e n t h O l y m p i a d in B e r l i n is d e v e l o p i n g in many countries and has resulted in the calling o f an international conference to b e held in Paris June 6th and 7th...
...The German <Np> pic Committee did not Bt» 4l Games for the furtherancarfa* but rather as propaganda fa particular political ayetonvJMI is opposed to the free ana 4an> cratic system which nav.OT* sented by the majority af men in the Olympic meajaat Flags, displaying the aanaaM symbol of racial hatred, new aha a festival which should tjplnltlnieofaality of nations a a l m* What took place at t a o j g Games at Garmisch-Partananin , will be repeated in a l a r j jp at the Summer Games hilM^ "Herr von Tschammap^Mff leader of German sport aaHP* | dent of the German OlyiapW* mittee, declares that tfmjJflPj rules will be respect^JlBp* the Games will take plat* jfc* spirit of the rules...
...m The resolution provided that there be one "great organisation including all workers, from the highest skilled laborer down to the man who pushes the wheelbarrow...
...The resolution provided also that those unions affiliated with the A.F.ofL...
...that it tint charge of the proposer] organisation drive in the stet...
...If necessary, be said,"* Socialists will form the a*** cabinet themselves...
...The guiding S-Jj| «f President Thomas F McHtbia and Vice-President Horace i S$ere and Francis J. Gorman an) mm in the background as the jUfke machinery takes form...
...Firemen Avert Disasters "In many of these cases," be pointed out, "serious accidents, probably resulting in the deaths of many passengers, would have resulted had it not been for the prompt action of the fireman on duty who immediately took charge af the engine and prevented thi train from running wild with its cargo of precious human lives...
...the fate of France aar#Barope for years to come...
...Everybody realized that if the Italian War Office could no longer receive i t s " oil supplies from abroad, Badoglio's army of over 300,000 men in Abyssinia would be forced in a few months to suspend hostilities...
...B e y are already striking oppojjfca attitudes and have begun •Mrtng district "Soviets" with the jfcpd purpose of establishing I p r dictatorship in France...
...But while Mr...
...1 ' Rejects Lewis Offer Program Cans for Joint Action by All Organizations Willing to Help— Compromise of A . F. of L. and C l . O . Views...
...Only a few within the inner circle know the mechanics which will operate to bring a hundred thousand Workers out of the factories and .stop a powerful industry...
...Steine- man, Bern (Switzerland), pnedent of the Workers* Sport ad Gymnastic Association...
...Aside from the ever-present possibility o? something happening to the engineer, it is a weH-entabi lished fact that high speed operations of a train requires that the two occupants of a cab be in constant touch with each other...
...Protection and facilitation of social interests as against the selfish interests of privileged group* '. so powerful in France, will be the guiding star of the new government...
...ic and oil-electric trains...
...Blum has publicly repudiatee Laval's policy of playing both am against the middle in the Itab | S y IONIAN situation, and then B P^doubt that the refusal of to League of Nations to revogaw Mussolini's annexation of Etbisfb andTo lift sanctions against Italy is the direct consequence of an People's Front victory in Fran* Writing in "Populaire," Social* organ, on May " Blum plessat with Great Britain to luslnas support of sanctions...
...A "eriera...
...It XJBW considered improbable that ST, Will enter '.he government...
...the program which is being fashi ioned by President Henry Jennings ' and Secretary-Treasurer Anthony Valente of the Federation at the ' national headquarters, located here # $41 Weybosset St...
...Green had proposed thai the •aaeutive council of the A . F c>fL direct the campaign and offered tc rains a fund of $1,500,000 for the parnose...
...When the oil sanctions were talked of for the first time in the foreign press, the effect on fascist morale was devastating...
...This being so, the advent of the Socialists to power in France bids fair to become an event erf extraordinary historical importance...
...The Boston & Maine and the Maine Central followed suit...
...Gordon Battle, chairman...
...Conscious of the grave ajf* and difficulties that will eotBv** the new government...
...which have been primarily responsible for the continuation of the world crisis...
...at the end, completely pauperized, and that, for the next twenty years at least, Italy's export trade will be negligible...
...the New Haven commenced using Diesel engines, first in switching service and then gradually extending them to certain passengnger trains...
...The controversy centers around the practice of these three carriers in jeopardizing the lives o f passengers and employees by operating high-speed trains without using the commonsense safety precautions that are in effect on practically all other railroads throughout the nation...
...The conference was initiated by the International Committee for Preserving the Olympic Idea on the ground that games have been diverted from Olympic ideals of sport to propaganda for the Nazi regime...
...Pizanti, swimming chaaoiei of 1931 and 1932...
...He or she is taken to the local party quarters, where, after undergoing a summary trial, he is told of the punishment inflicted on him or her...
...Hill was receiving as salary only a paltry $168,000...
...Gets Stipend Equaling the Earnings of 1,470 Workers, By George L. Knapp W A S H I N G T O N . — I n the 1atest batch of corporation salaries released for . publica: r i « v ; by -the *SEC occurs the name, of George W a s h i n g t on Tobacco Co...
...Hill's total income from his company was more than seven times his salary- If his cash hand had not lost its cunning—and there Is no sign of such a happening, he would have raked in a total of about $1,600,000 in the year 1935...
...This action, taken by the convention on Wednesday, opens ttoe door to an organization drive hi the steel industry which may presage one of the most dramatic developments in America...
...Every cable I have sent has been examined and re-examined in case I tried to send information out pf I t a l y that would reveal the true .state o i affairs...
...but machines are used in many factories...
...A t home Mussolini is confronted with a serious situation, which will be the decisive factor...
...John I * Lewis...
...New England Railmen Take Strike Vote Firemen and Enginemen Threaten Walkout Unless Adequate Crews Are Employed to Assure Safety —8000 Involved...
...The average annual wage in these parts of the tobacco industry is given by the FERA at $144...
...T o say that Mussolini is mad is a crime that brings the culprit straight before the Special Fascist Tribunal...
...Hill got from the company of which he is president the-tidy sum of $1,283,470 in the...
...The Fascist Party is well organized...
...It appears to be a compremise which should please all friends of organized labor...
...I t was learned that the resolution as finally adopted followed consultation between Mr...
...Fat, Prague, president of the FootM Association...
...For soma Ha the French Socialist neasanjn, Oeuvre, has been carrying pi campaign against participetff# the games...
...under Herriot S j P f t 0 break away from the J**'* Front and watching for 2 L * P * l c t a - Communists to g» taem ar opportunity, the pothe Blum government will 4 1 1 enviable one from the W Wtiet...
...Istnngh the m e m b e r s made kftfWn that immediate action was Issjutial to obtain their objective pnaet new high economic, social sad iadostriai standards, wise and veteran labor minds c a u t i o n ed 1 against "haste which would make waste...
...Because of the existence of a widespread industrial spy system, the Federation is keeping its strike plans as secret as possible...
...The incoming government d France, composed of Socialist* mi Radical-Socialists, will be askeis vote credits to defray the expana of the French team and it it en sidered probable that the tmm will be refused...
...Hill's takings during the year...
...Marshal Badoglio's recent victories, and the failure of the League to apply oil sanctions against Italy, however, have had the effect of reconciling some of the younger folk to the war...
...Tnai* must be a rapid exchange nasi checking of signals, a constant lookout for obstructions, Bj|Ha» ularly at grade eressingn* a * * a checking of train orders If MM rules of safe operation are hp an observed...
...The Italian housewife in the larger towns finds almost every morning some new increase in •• the cost of rlsrsd...
...They see that the war is fast driving their country to rnin...
...PThe new government, which will i t composed of Socialists and Ijljea: Socialists (liberals), with S u e Communist participation aMlpievoiefit neutrality...
...rupsattih, Dr...
...But, i f past history is any indicator of present performance that sum is the smaller part of Mr...
...Italians, taken as a whole, are tired, dissatisfied, hostile towards the fascist regime that led them into an unwanted war...
...In j p g 10 they are...
...with the cooperation of the A.F.ofL., would direct the campaign...
...The executive council has considered this serious question from all angles and feels that some drastic action is necessary to accomplish the social and industrial improvements long sought by the operatives in our industry...
...As a matter of fact, there are no goods on the shelves...
...It wfll endeavor to establish real snniMr— thst is...
...Speaking with an eye to me actionaries...
...The recommendation for such action had been previously made at the May meeting of the officers if the United Textile Workers of America, held in N ew York...
...All of the goods are on the machines," he said...
...This is nearly three times the salary of the President of the United States...
Vol. 19 • May 1936 • No. 20
