Guffey Act Nullification Blow at Nation's Efforts To Regulate Industries
Guffey Act Nullification Blow at Nation's Efforts To Regulate Industries Let Organized Labor Meet Court's Menace THE Guffey Coai Act has gone the way of the Railway Workers' Pension Act, the...
...5) we Ire against advocacy of violence and armed insurrection by Jarty members inside and outside the party...
...Amalgamated Will Convene On Monday Convention of Men's Clothing Workers Will Tackle Many Important Problems-—Membership Near-ing 150,000...
...It presupposes hostile intentions on his part and expresses concern as to his policy, even though in polite, diplomatic language...
...The congress took the position that the Labor Party could not afford to maintain a negativ attitude of opposition and that its duty to the working class, and the unemployed in particular, demandBritain's Pointed Queries Stress Hitler Germany's Threat to Peace Growing Economic Crisis in Reich Fans War Danger as Nazis Prepare for Another Thrust Against Treaties When Olympic Games Are Over—Madness of Fascist Policy Revealed...
...It is not honest and it does not help to salve any problems...
...3) Will Hitler guarantee the territorial and political integrity, of states contiguous to Germany...
...6) we are op-Ijasd to the theory of the "inclusive party" which would P$teit all sorts of Utopians, near-Communists and parlor Bol-*av'is...
...remedy .r^ocnaj cvj...
...The movement of clothing plants to the South and their operation, with cheap labor working under sub-standard conditions will also receive the attention of the delegates...
...Employment is up only 2.4 per cent...
...By Rudolph Katz (Former President of City Council of Altona, Germany) TTHE British government has addressed a questionnaire to Hitler-for the purpose of clarifying various points in the "peace proposal" with which Hitler.sought to deflect the attention of the Western powers from his' violation of the Locarno treaty...
...We cannot do that aryway and it is certain that we cannot deceive others...
...in opening the doors i splinter Communistsr-OTnol...
...The Detroit convention merely advanced the struggle to another •ate...
...Both Spaak and De Man are ministers in the Van Zeeland cabinet...
...The wages are paid for doing local work...
...believe in the theory of dictatorship or we do not...
...The first «f these five elements is the Nazi idea that all countries of German blood and language must belong to Germany and that the Germany of today is merely the nucleus of the Greater Germany of tomorrow...
...minister of economics and president of the Reichs-bank has failed in his efforts to avert economic ruin resulting from Germany's mad expenditures en armaments...
...w 1 ¦ Supreme Court's Latest Decision Render* C ungrate Helpless in Legislation Designed to Stop Economic Anarchy, Labor Holds...
...in the united front with Communists or not...
...Profits in the first quarter of the present year were 86 pay cent higher than those of the same period of 1936...
...In this latest instance, to make the lesson more emphatic, the majority of the court made it clear enough that they would have upheld the price-fixing provisions of the act if these had not been tied up with provisions designed to reduce the working hours and increase the wages o.f the men who dig the coal...
...We get nowhere by refusing to caaaWly face facts...
...4) Is Hitler prepared to include Russia and the Baltic states in his proposed plan of non-aggression treaties...
...Oregon withdrew from aSt party and the states of New York and Indiana are split...
...The growth of the Amalgamated, whose branches now extend from coast to coast, has brought added responsibilities...
...I Evasive and obscurantist language is positively the worst Iffy to settle issues when they reach such an acute stage as I*** have in the Socialist Party...
...AH of which, we assert, is an essay in evasion...
...The problem of craft vs...
...Is (Pare any denial that they are...
...The Belgian , people Will go to the polls on Sunday, May 34...
...Still others may say that it is a conflict between aaVrirluaia or that issues are camouflage to conceal personal aatagomsn and that it is solely a struggle for power...
...As long as unscrupulous characters like Mnssolini and Hitler continue to dominate completely large parts of Europe, with the | power to set in motion at a word of command their well armed war machines, without anyone in their own countries being able to interfere, a lasting peace in Europe is impossible...
...A glowing picture of the great strides which the union bas made will be presented in the report to be submitted to the convention by the General Executive Board...
...New Jersey, Oklahoma and Texas also have two factions irrevocably opposed and practically separated...
...Wagner Act in Danger Social Security Act and Nearly Every Other Law Intended to Prevent Industrial Peonage Now Threatened, By George L. Knapp WASHINGTON, D. C—The Supreme Court, by a vote of six to three, has declared the labor provisions of the Guffey coal regulation act unconstitutional...
...Gerssaay is facing a catas-thropasc financial breakdown...
...German Bohemia, and parts of Yugoslavia, the Baltic region, Switzerland and other neighboring states, is, naturally, not compatible with the present Railway Men Vote Walkout BOSTON.—The vote being taken on the principal New England rail-roads for s strike against...
...M. Blum announced "we shall demand the immediate convocation of the adjourned disarmament conference" and declared that "hereafter Great Britain assy rely freely upon Prance to rapport the collective action of the Leagne of Nations...
...Sutherland's Dictum After acknowledging that the coal business is and has been in a rather bad way...
...t As an outcome of a fundamental conflict of views, it is true mat personal antagonisms have developed and that there is a tvuggle for power...
...The employee* are not in or about commerce but exclusively fn producing a commodity...
...usually mora, "Workers are not sharing equi-I tably in business rains: buying power falls short," the survey declares...
...Guffey Act Nullification Blow at Nation's Efforts To Regulate Industries Let Organized Labor Meet Court's Menace THE Guffey Coai Act has gone the way of the Railway Workers' Pension Act, the National Industrial Recovery Act, the Farm Mortgage Moratorium Act, and the AgriculturaUAdjustment Act—all passed by House and Senate and signed by the President in response to the appeals of wage workers and of working farmers—all within one short year wiped of the statute book by decision of the Supreme Court...
...I he may find it expedient to make...
...They hang like heavy storm clouds over Europe...
...The first fact to recognize is that the division began "not at Detroit two years ago but at Milwaukee four years ago...
...It is quite clear-that the action of the British government is useless...
...It resembles a conversation between two prize fighters during a pause in their contest...
...Commenting on the interview the "Daily Herald" declared, "it means that the law of the League can still be upheld" and that "sanctions against Italy can be Belgian Labor Faces Test in Sunday Vote Socialists Confident of Success in Election Called to Pass on Achievements of Coalition Government...
...If further evidence were needed of what is said above, let •» also remember that charges and counter-charges of irregularities in the election of delegates in probably a dozen states Wu be before the convention...
...the policy of eTRs-rnei...
...The latter, numbering about 7,000 recently joined the Amalgamated in a body, after voting to merge their own organization, the Journeyman Tailors' Union into th« larger body...
...CLEVELAND...
...If These are Socialist principles, policies and methods...
...Brink Wans Banks To Slop Giving Credits To Bankrupt Germany LONDON.—Beaks and insurance companies in this city, financial centre of the world, have bean warned by the government to give no more credits to Germany...
...8) we favor a party ¦•gaaization of self-governing party members...
...The warning carried with it also the advice to withdraw whatever loans and >.i vestments British banks may have in Germany...
...All the (Continued on Page Three) Reemployment Is Far Behind "Recovery" Industry Piling Up Profits As 12484,000 Workers Seek Jobs, A. F. of L. Monthly Survey Shows...
...We **Ve had plenty of them for nearly two years...
...This new German religion, which would incorporate into the "Aryan German State" Austria...
...Other subjects on the agenda include consideration of a constitutional amendment, legislative protection of wages and hoars, and independent labor action...
...It would be constitutional to protect mine owners from the effects of cutthroat competition in the coal market, but it is utterly unconstitutional to protect workingmen from the effects of cutthroat competition in the labor market...
...in a National Executive Committee with |A»trary powers or not...
...Conflicting views gBpoped between Man: and Bakunin and both brcame perW&f***(*>9*±.....T>*» happened in 1899, when Hillquit and Mfcj T**S DeCeon and Kuhn...
...This is the conclusion reached in the monthly survey of the American Federation of Labor, reiterating conclusions reached in previous surveys...
...For this reason the principal danger of a war explosion in Europe revolves about Hitler...
...in a self-governing party of i members or not...
...2) Is Hitler prepared to respect the provisions of the Versailles Treaty still in effect, and which form the basis of the present European structure...
...This, in the face of the fact that Congress expressly declared that the act could be separated into its primary purposes, and that if one of these were disallowed, that should not affect the rest...
...7) we are opposed to the admission of splinter Nssnuinists unless they unequivocally repudiate the principles pp policies of Communist organizations...
...Hitler Main Danger For the moment Mussolini presents the lesser danger to Europe's peace because he has concentrated his aspirations upon distant Africa and must first consolidate his position there...
...1 This new international anarchy of I the dictators, which has been illustrated again in the Rhineland occupation and the annexation of Ethiopia, is one of the basic causes of the war danger in Europe...
...7; *:8eme may say that there are no fundamental issues, others iff there are issues but that tScy can be ironed out by mutual csafcsworn...
...industrial unionism will come up when the delegates will be asked to ratify the action of the union's officers in affiliating the Amalgamated with the Committee for Industrial Organization...
...The cure of the memorandum is in the following questions: 1) Does Hitler intend to respect international treaties in the future...
...And the controversies and evils, which it is the object of the act to regulate and minimize, are local controversies and evils affecting local work undertaken to accomplish that local result...
...We assert that Socialist principles, practice and policies N in accordance with the following: (1 ) that we are opposed P the theory and practice of dictatorship...
...9) we are |PPo»ed on democratic principles to vesting the National fiecutive Committee with arbitrary powers over states, locals, attaches and rrfernbers because we believe in the capacity of •a ran)t and hje to take care of their own problems and to S*Srk within the range of decisions of conventions and mem-j^ahip referendum...
...It is likely that the union Jwill be called upon to endorse the Non-| Partisan Labor League, which is i working for the re-election of j President Roosevelt...
...Justice Sutherland says: "The evils are all local evils over which the Federal Government has no legislative control...
...Ail this does not come out of a vacuum...
...The division runs all through Is State...
...The Socialists entered the government against the opposition of | -their left wing-, hot among thosei who—fa^preaV' eaeaseptfrm «*• -guvJ ernment responsibility was Spaak, leader of the left wingers...
...A man who broke his solemn promise to respect the Loearno treaty ten months after he had made that promise cannot, naturally, expec: to be trusted in any new promise...
...Three thousand union members are affected...
...Hjslmar Schacht...
...President Sidney Hilman is a leading figure in the Leagne...
...4) we fttfpr a united front with the organized working ernes...
...It is the most fateful convention laid acce the convention in 1919, because the Socialist Parrel { fprided now as it was then...
...Saying that 12,184.000 persons 1 are still unemployed in indmstry, J .'Continue, sa Pace Seven...
...Infers** t ion received by the British government from its representatives in Germany indicates that Dr...
...It is due to a deep-seated cleavage of Union* that include not only principles and policies but even Stype of organization that is desirable...
...Each ha* frankly supported different principles and policies and each las held meetings, published leaflets, articles and pamphlets ¦ which differences have been openly proclaimed...
...The railroads involved are the Boston and Maine, the New York, New Haven and Hartford, the Maine Central Railroads and the Portland Terminal Company, The date for the strike will be set as soon as the returns are completely tabulated and the results are officially reported to the railway executives...
...These issues will be raised...
...until in the past month or two a fight was waged in every, Mae between two well-defined groups to elect delegates to $e oaiional convention in Cleveland...
...WASHINGTON, D. C—Labor is getting the short end >t" the^^covery stick in wages ind employment, and the long nil only fn the matter of hours ¦ >f work...
...London financial and political circles, particularly well informed as-to the situation in Germany, believe that the bankruptcy of the Hitler regime is inevitable and that the collapse is likely to be accelerated by derelo preen ts during the summer months...
...k»rless resolutions and statements will settle nothing...
...The storm may break at any moment...
...The referendum is being conducted by the Brotherhood of Firemen and Enginemen...
...The convention wil' consider the problem of initiating a big campaign to organise the non-union minority of clothing concerns and particularly the considerable portion of 1 open-shop firms in the other branches of the industry...
...and by another vote, of five to tour, has thrown the entire act on the ash heap, on the ground that the labor provisions drag down everything else...
...ft classes air productive work at any sort an purely "iocal...
...Sunday's election wil be held in accordance with the under standing df- a year ago by which the present government of the Catholic radical leader, Van Zeeland, was to present Itself for s vote of the people within a year after taking • office...
...Working conditions are obviously local conditions...
...I No informed member of the Socialist Party will deny that fcere is a marked cleavage of opinion on these questions, and pat being true it is evident that the convention cannot make •ewsions favoring both positive and negative on any of (kese issues...
...The great powers are aware, of course, that Hitler's reply, regardless of what it may be, will be of no decisive significance...
...What is happening now is in reality a conversation, in no way binding, in which England hopes to bridge a difficult pause in the international political situation...
...BRUSSELS...
...but it is the official pronouncement of the highest court in the land...
...15»e government, of which the Belgian Labor Party is a part, came into power in March, 1936, at a time of severe economic erisis...
...HE national convention of the Socialist Party is meeting in i " Cleveland this week-end...
...The first essential in meeting any problem is not to try to deceive ourselves...
...What lends particular interest V> the election i.« the fact that the Socialists will appear before the people as a government party and not as the opposition...
...This is to be followed within a fortnight by elections to the so-called provincial councils, which chose a portion of the Senate...
...b^rakEx* "of j Diesel engines is almost unani-1 mous for a strike...
...This has always been the sseiution of schism* in any organization...
...These are lets...
...to elect a hew parliament...
...It is not due to lure cussednes* and the unwillingness of leaders or rank and ¦fat to "gat together...
...Each group has insisted that there are issues...
...3) we are against a united front in this •wastry with Communist organizations and groups...
...After this decision, together with the simultaneous decision of the United States Court of Appeals wiping out those parts of the Eemejgency Appropriations Act under which the Resettlement Administration was operThe Issues Confronting Socialist Convention gbrf Questions of Principle and Policy Will foershadow Proceedings at Fateful Meet-tmg in Cleveland—Clear Expression on fundamental Controversial Problems Demanded in Party Circles...
...No one can deny them...
...buying power of workers 4.4 per sent...
...industrial production S.7 per cent or more...
...The organization is rapidly reaching the 150,000 mark and, in addition to clothing workers, has brought within its fold shirt and neckwear workers and journeyman tailors...
...Ybu do not expect your opponent to foaew your philosophy in the'administration of power and he does not expect his opponent to follow his views' m the admin-sSsjnen of power...
...A year ago the Socialists entered the government with the approval of the overwhelming majority of the party membership, their chief objective being to cooperate in the task of bringing about economic recovery, reducing unemployment and -fighting for the realization, at least in part, of the now famous program of economic planning of which Henri De Man is the author...
...in the •err, oi the "inclusive parly'' or not...
...in a» exclusive interview given, to-the Parts eamyaiaeiir ofWlPKBT Daily Herald, organ of the British Labor Party...
...in anocracy or not...
...Cpfcet of fundamental philosophies brings personal dis-JElptjthe struggle becomes more keen and it finally leads to • sn^de for power, but it is a struggle for power not for the MM power but because the fate of a philosophy which you nSjpori s involved...
...The questionnaire cannot be said to be very flattering to Hitler...
...advocacy of violence and armed insurrection or not...
...Five basic elements of Nazism will determine the immediate future of Germany and Europe...
...and since Detroit the struggle became more and more ¦sen...
...There is such denial...
...It is now time for the party to speak clearly and frankly that there will be no misunderstanding of what it means...
...The relation of employer and employees in a local relation...
...According to high British official quarters...
...In effect, it makes the court a jailer for Congress, and a tun* key on every attempt to...
...2) we are in favor if democracy in theory and practice as a basic principle of HI movement...
...Wages an only 4.8 per cent higher, and more than half of this apparent gain 1* cancelled by a 2.8 per cent rise ir tiv ; cost of living, "the work week is longer by nearly two hours...
...Now, we are Socialists—Social Democrats—or we are hot...
...It happened in 19 Iff md Fjraoia parted with Hillquit and Berger...
...However, these antagonisms did not pro-1 pee opposing opinions: it was opposing opinions that pro-peed the personal antagonisms...
...The entry of the Socialists into the government was approved by a congress of the Labor Party by a vote of 519,672 against 41,902, with 18,928 abstaining...
...not to be disturbed by the national government...
...It includes five Socialists, among them Emit Vandervelde, leader of the Belgian Labor Party, who is vice premier...
...The aggressor will be careful not to reveal his true intentions and fighting methods, in order not to facilitate the opponent's defense...
...The quoted paragraph reads like something said in a grammar school debating society...
...Some ¦9 denied completely and some are half-denied in language P*t permits confusion of meaning and even complete denial...
...Ohio.—When President Sidney Hillman's gavel calls the delegates to the Efeventh Biennial Convention of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America to order next Monday at 9:30 a. m. in the Public Music Hall, here, they will hear a report of two years of solid achievement since the last convention in Rochester and will be called upon to make important decisions and formulate crucial policies...
...The decision, written by Justice Sutherland, is one of the most astounding documents that ever, the Supreme Court has ever produced...
...The con-ftct has continued too long, it has spread so far and has enlisted ao many party members that the reasons cited above ale evidently trivial and no t true...
...Jjo other course will prove of service in the present crisis, and l*ary real Socialist will frankly face facts and issues with a ¦attrminauon to have a movement that will not attempt to |H»d> in two directions with the result that it does not march Blum Pledges Strong Effort To Save Peace French Socialist Leader Pleads for Close Co-operation Between England and France — Will Seek Disarmament...
...There are also organized "militant groups in the Old Guard states and organized Old Guard groups in "militant" states...
...I OX DON.—A plea for international cooperation, and particularly for close collaboration between France and England, in a determined ef-ort to bring about disarmament and preserve the peace of the world was made by Leon Blum, French Socialist leader and pTernier—designate...
Vol. 19 • May 1936 • No. 21
