Behind the Scenes in Washington

...Thirty-six are necessary to put the amendment into effect...

...They have bourgeois science more thoroughly pumped into their heads than workingmen do and they have more to be pumped out than any other class in society...

...Assailing~eon*titm\ionalitr of "the" law...

...VAST HUMAN WRECKAGE *J*R Y to vision 440,000 human beings, most of them heads of families, on home relief and work relief ita Greater New York...

...They are...

...They become servile courtiers, singing praises of "leaders," while the latter drink such adoration with a gusto which reveals them for thelitis they are...

...When the C.C.F...

...It should enact, amend and repeal laws...

...C. Section...

...Our Socialist movement in Canada is known as the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation, or the C.C.F...

...The opinion does net attempt to...

...Our people arc leaning more and more on the C.C.F., not only for their political activities but as an organization which can provide them with cultural and social outlets as well...

...how to educate them te Socialism when once we have mese contact with them—those ars sosse of the problems which confront asAll of them call for careful handling...

...Strange as it may seem, the severe critics of huge government expenditures, and calamity-howlers about the increased national debt are strangely silent about the payment of two billion dollars nine years before due...

...Play-reading groups are springing up everywhere and dramatic circles are putting on working-daw plays...

...Other figures must- be Sited W show the worth of our achievement...

...Tbe practice of providing police to ride with strikebreakers on trucks i« ah» abolished...

...As to the nature of that change we have been very clear-cut, both in our manifesto and in our public addresses...

...North Carolina textile mills, he said, also had employed children 14 and 15 years old...

...summer of 193$ in the merger of , the Socialist Party and the Associated Clubs...

...But the court, offered no encouragement to processors who have paid $1,089,000.000 to the Government, and whose right to recover was restricted by AAA amendments...

...The letters C.C.F...

...Sustaining its injunction against Government collection of rice processing taxes, the justices unanimously directed repayment to eight Southern rice millers of processing taxes now held in depositary...

...tarn bound themselves together into the Associated Clubs...

...But is was too doctrinaire In its methods of education to make a wide appeal te the general public...

...In Boston a bill teas filed in the Legislature to repeal the Teachers' Oath Act by the Council of Teachers' Unions of the American Federation of Labor...

...how to keep Che organisation unified and harmonious...

...while Ontario boasted some four labor and Socialist parties...

...What the C.C.F...

...That's patriotism...

...More than 208,500 application* filed came from families who had never before asked for relief...

...Independent educators and teacher» have formed the Massachusetts Society for Freedom in Teaching, headed by Professor Kirtley Mather, to fight the obnoxious oath late...

...Twenty-four states have ratified the amendment...

...9' *¦ : iJ...

...TVA and Cotton Act Still in Doubt AN expected decision on TVA legality, in tbe constitutional test brought by minority stockholder s of the Alabama Power Co., was not forthcoming...

...The same thing was-true of the various farm movements...

...East of Toronto there was very little political labor orgams*4ien_of any kind...

...the Consumers' Council, formerly of the N'RA but now in the Department of Labor...

...By Grace Maclnm* Special Correspondent of The New Leader This arisele, by a diotmguished Canadian Socialist, wife of a Socialist member of parliament and daughter of J. S. Woods vort h, leader of the C.Cf-, is the first contribution to this .paper by one who becomes s regular contributor and Canadian correspondent...

...This batch of human wrecks represent those who, in the main, have finally exhausted various means of avoiding public and private charity...

...In the rice millers' case the court unanimously applied the principles it laid down a week ago in its opinion invalidating the AAA...

...The suit which' has been rather loosely regarded as a test of the Bankhead cotton control act was dismissed because the plaintiff "had failed to make a case for equitable relief...

...We have made it quite plain that the change will involve the control and ownership by the community of the natural resources and productive equipment by which it lives...

...We have endeavored to make literature available to even the most remote dietrista, ear manifesto, short pamphlets and books which were not tee costly...

...New Jersey silk mills, according to Green, had taken on children 13, 14 and 15 years old at wages ranging from $4 to $7 a week...

...Mare and more have we stressed the importance of speaking to people ta language they understand, simple, unacademic language made forceful by examples taken from their daily lives...

...That would be a shift to oligarchy, to be sure, but it would have the merit of hot being the masked judicial oligarchy which we now have...

...Branches of the Canadian Labor Party (C.L.P...

...Payment of the bonus in bonds of $50 and upward, non-negotiable but immediately redeemable by the government at full face value, is called for in a coalition bill introduced in the Senate and considered at once by the Senate Finance Committee...

...v New York City and Indiana noted great increases in the number of work permits for children under 16 years of age...

...And, of coursa, economic conditions were not sufficiently developed to cause the ordinary man and woman to take an interest in social change...

...No teacher can be made loyal by the required oath...

...TU campaign waged against us by ok capitalist parties was fierce sad quite unscrupulous...

...dobs for those who, because of prejudice or other reasons, ware unwilling to Join the S. P. of (X, and these dubs in...

...The old theory ef three air-tight departments of government—legislative, executive and judicial—is a farce so long as the court exercises this legislative power...

...What is true about the bonus is also true about the request t? appropriate 938 million dollars for military purposes, the largest appropriation since the war year...

...The fight is just starting...

...It is futile, and it is not loyalty but...

...My opinion is that this bill will be enacted into law," said Chairman Pat Harrison of the Finance Committee, one of the four Senate sponsors of the measure, which also has the reported support of Senate Democratic Leader Joseph T. Robinson...

...In Alberta was to be found also the Dominion Labor Party <D.L.P...

...Mayors Ask Fund fa Reemploy Tfcr0© Millions PREDICTING that 3,000,000 heads of families will be jobless and in need of assistance in the fiscal year beginning July 1, the mayors of eight big cities called for expenditure by the Federal Government of $2,340,000,000 to provide work for the needy idle...

...The limits of this article, however, | will permit only the briefest possible summary of what the C.C.F...

...VANCOUVER, CAN...

...Touchingeach other as we are, along 3,C00 miles of border line, it should, indeed, be of great value to each of us to understand the other's problems oli organization and education, to profit from each efther's mistakes and to tum.each other's successes to account...

...Although we elected lest than one-quarter of the representatives, the C.C.F...

...men, women and children numbering a total of 1,750,000 who must worry over food, clothing and shelter, and we have a picture of the fearful ravages of the industrial depression in the largest city in the United States during the year just closed...

...THE U. S. SUPREME COURT RESENTMENT against the U. 5. Supreme Court is mounting with every decision it hands down that sets aside laws enacted by Congress...

...According to an announcement by John Heasty, president of the local, the fight against Matthews and Consumers* Research is by no mesas over...

...Opportunity for an early ruling is afforded in a suit against tbe cotton law by Gov...

...s na tieswide campaign will be directed against Consumers' Research before all progressive labor organizations...

...At one time this movement succeeded in electing as many as four members to the provincial legislature...

...THE CULT OF LEADERSHIP > ^JO party of working people can afford to permit it to come under the control of intellectuals of middle class and capitalist origins without causing conflict...

...Child Labor Rife EMPLOYMENT of children has *-* increased enormously since the collapse of the NBA, William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, reports...

...Labor Marches On...

...those for labor, 30...

...Moreover, the "culture" obtained by these gentlemem in the educational factories of capitalism does not fit them to lead...

...In spite of alander and intimidation we won three out of the sixteen seats in this province, one cf them by the largest majority west of the province of Quebec...

...The local union will also cooperate with the Warren County Council of Labor unions te obtain enactment by the New Jersey Legislature of laws limiting the powers of injunctions in labor disputes...

...Two factors, spart from economic conditions, have been important in oar- growth...

...Its function in mis respect is more like that of the Supreme Council that surrounded the Czar in the days of Romanoff absolutism...

...How Socialists and Labor Built Up Canadian C.C.F...

...but there was little, if any connection between them...

...It is useles for its supporters to say that it does not exercise legislative powers...

...When the breach becomes open the upper aristocrats turn to intrigue to enforce their will upon the rank and file...

...When the movement was initiated in the summer of 1932 political observers predicted that the rater unwieldy name would militate against its popularity...

...The sooner America departs from the vestige* of undemocratic principles the better it will be for America...

...Electerol Successes A movement for greater unity culminated is th...

...Supreme Court Makes No Maw inroads Upon New Deal Legislation — Mayors Ask Funds to Employ 3 Million "Employables" and Sane» 12 Million From Starvation— Professional "Bsdget §aU ••ears" Have No Object)on to Big Expenditures for War I RECKON the big news this *¦ week is that no new inroads upon the New Deal legislation were made by the Supreme Court decision last Monday...

...Eugene Talmadge and the State of Georgia, which has yet to be argued...

...Proposed as a substitute for the cash payment bill overwhelmingly swept through the House last week, the new measure received unhesitating support from three major organized veterans' groups, which previously indorsed the House bill...

...Winnipeg and Vancouver had active branches of the Independent Labor Party (I.L.P...

...Teachers' Oath Law Assailed AT the annual luncheon last Saturday at the Hotel Astor of the Teachers' Guild, of which Dr...

...They kept their own names and their own organizations, being responsible only to the Provincial Council composed of representatives of all the competent bodies within the province...

...Strong...

...disloyalty that it promotes," declared Mr...

...has done is to provide us for tbe first time with a Socialist movement, nation-wide in scope and including within its ranks all those wealth-producers or potential wealth-producers who want to see a change in the basis of our society...

...Young people's auxiliaries are beginning to show signs of a steady growth which has long been lacking...

...In the Hoosac Mills case the court decided that* the processing taxes were merely part of an unconstitutional plan to regulate agriculture...

...They said the government thus could "take care of 12,000,000 men, women and children...

...We went ints the recent ilniiih?tt election campaign as s single bod», the C.C.F...

...Further Attempts to Draff a National Industrial Policy IN a week that brings a further fading of Congressional powers to carry oat any national plan, Major George L. Berry, Coordinator of Industrial Cooperation, summons representatives of business and labor to formulate ? national industrial policy...

...Henry R. Linville is president, the Ives Teachers' Oath Law was condemned as "futile" by Charles H. Strong, secretary of the New York- Bar Association...

...A Sunday night concert Sting held regularly in down-town Vancouver draws capacity house» and gives an opportunity for musical expression to many of oar comrades which otherwise would be denied to them...

...In the provincial elections at the end of the following year the two sections et the movement cooperated in electing seven out of the forty-eight members in the provincial legislature...

...There has been a Socialist movement in British Columbia for the past forty years, a movement which has gone under different names at various stages of its evolution, but which, nevertheless, prepared the ground...

...When the intellectuals rise to prominence in a labor organization, a class struggle inevitably follows between them at the top and the masses below...

...For the whole year the net reduction of those who received relief was only 44,484...

...Our problems are many and difficult...

...This probably will be handed down Monday, before the court takes a two-week recess...

...Period of Origins Prior to 1932 our Socialist movement in Canada was almost entirely local in character...

...how to keep contacting more and more people...

...A similar opinion was held by Professor H. H. Home of New York University, who said: "If we are told to swear, we swear and then stand by our constitutional j rights- of freedom of speech...

...No labor organization so poisoned can thrive until it rids itself of this incubus...

...TTHE New Leader has expressed the opinion that it would be helpful to Socialists south of the Une bisecting this great continent to be kept in touch with the Socialist movement in Canada...

...Although Harrison insisted the White House has had nothing to do with preparation of the revised measure and has expressed neither approval or disapproval, speculation turned at once on the possibility that the President might sign the legislation if it passes Senate and House...

...macie no attempt to submerge the identity of these different organizations which composed it...

...The formation of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation was an attempt to draw together for common action political labor and Socialist parties and farmer parties and to add to their strength newly formed units composed of those previously unattached to either labor or farmer parties— people from the professional and business groups as well as from the manual and technical groups...

...But with the coming of tat present depression, conditions were ripe for the growth of Socialism...

...They had money, they had the presa, they had influential connections, they had experience of long Standing...

...Their academic culture confirms them in the belief that they ire destined to "lead" the working class and working people simply will not be led by academic upstarts...

...He assured organized labor that strikers may participate in mest picketing without a permit...

...Some hostility between the Socialist Party sad the Associated Clubs was natural and inevitable at first, bat their constant association made for greater and greater harmony...

...The moat enlightened sentiment in the country is against this law...

...ft is said that the nine members of the court are learned in the law...

...was formed in 1932, British Colombia was repra.' seated by the Socialist Parrv 0f Canada (B...

...Roughly speaking, onehalf of the population of British Columbia is concentrated in the city of Vancouver...

...It is a ghastly panorama of uprooted humans, the fruit of a Social system that stands indicted before the bar of history...

...It is a hideous indictment of our whole capitalist civilization...

...The C.C.F...

...Somehow the professional "budget balancers" forget to raise their voices when it's a question of past or future wars...

...Organiiotion Problems The second factor has bean ear organization...

...Then there were 174,800 applicants who had at one time left the relief rolls but who had to reapply for aid because of inability to finance themselves and their families...

...It is plain that business executives have not the slightest intention of paying any attention to the social consequences of productive policies that reap quick profits unless the control arm of organized society restrains," he said...

...Very often there are also men learned in the law in both the House and the Senate and their views are often in conflict with the eminent members robed with judicial power...

...They don't belong.'" That is the sentiment of an increasing number of members...

...I take British Columbia as our example for several reasons, chief among them being that we have made more tangible progress here than anywhere else...

...To committees formed, representatives for consumers will bs appointed by...

...The only method by which we can oppose employers determined to profit by child labor is ratification of the child labor amendment," he concluded...

...The eight mayors, headed by Fiorello H. LaGuardia of New York, president of the conference, pointed out that the $2,340,000,000 was a "minimum figure of the funds needed for which federal aid is required if a critical situation is to be avoided...

...The mayors, meeting in Washington as the executive committee of the United States Conference of Mayors, prepared the memorandum for submission to Vice-President Garner as presiding officer of the Senate and Speaker Byrns of the House of Representatives, carrying their plea for the huge work-relief appropriation directly to the Congress over the President's head...

...AAA chieftains have reached no decision on whether to proceed with enforcement of the Bankhead law, which the Supreme Court last week clearly implied was invalid, though it has yet to rule specifically on the act...

...All of their training and associations render them unfit to understand working-class life and psychology...

...The teaching profession must not be suspected...

...its own farm organization with both industrial and political functions...

...Today a network of local clubs covers the province...

...Our continued growth demands their solution...

...One gets the impression of a mass of human beings tossed about by some elemental force, clinging bo something for a time, then losing their grip, a few disappearing, and others cast into the frightful struggle from time to time...

...Section...

...Mass Pickering PsinsiHee MAYOR S. DAVIS WILSON ef - ¦ Philadelphia announces a new policy for police in tabor disputes...

...existed in several Alberta cities and also in Ontario...

...lecclved about one-third of the votes of the entire province...

...This was still a new country with large, tav developed areas into which boft capital and population could expand...

...In the circumstances grave inequities appear to be unavoidable...

...It is backed not only by all major veterans organizations bu* also by the Congress leaders of both parties...

...has achieved in one province...

...Yesterday's decisions afforded small comfort either to the New Deal or to those who are seeking further curtailment of its powers...

...Here and there will be found followers who exhibit self-abasement before such Headers...

...Each of the three prairie provinces had...

...On* is oar educational work...

...If the U. S. Supreme Court is to have the final say in legislation, logic would require that Congress should be abolished and the court, now a Third House, should be recognized as the primary source of legislation...

...There are some 200 of them carrying on activities of various kinds and standing ready to carry ea election work when necessary...

...We won twe of the five seats in Greater Vancouver, losing a third by only abt votes on a recount and a fourth by only about 160 votes oat of a total of some 20,000...

...This belief was enhanced by the fact that Senator Robinson participated in conferences to its introduction and indorsed the printed measure...

...The power to repeal a law is a legislative power and when the court strikes a law out of tbe state hooka it exercises a legislative power...

...Will that not "unbalance" their demand to "balance the budget...

...Topics on which formulation of policy is sought are limitation of the work week, minimum wage and child labor laws, fair trade practices, internal and foreign competition affecting American standards of wages and working cond?- j tions, anti-trust laws and aid to small enterprises...

...Or is it all a question of whose ox is being gored...

...Consumers' Research Strike .. "Otr STRIKEBREAKER and ex"militant" Socialist J. B. Mat- | thews -won an empty victory when ; the four months' strike at the Consumers' - Research plant in Washington, N. J., was "ended" by tbe Technical, Editorial sad Office Assistants' Union...

...We keep on excepting so much that what does not happen is news now...

...Some Achievements What have we accomplished...

...This ruling will enable process, ors generally to recover some $180,000,000 from escrow or depositaries as a result of lower court injunctions...

...Senate Speeds a Bonus Baby Bond Bill AREAL "united front" was created in favor of bonus payment...

...Processors who have refused to pay these levies, except to depositories set up by tbe courts, are thus rewarded, while others who have merely paid under protest appear to have slight chance of recovery...

...We feel a-growing need at the present time for broadening the scope of our activities...

...We have sought to make our objective perfectly familiar to the thousands of people whom we have contacted during the past three years...

...There would be no police protection fer imported scabs...

...During the year the Emergency Relief Bureau received 363,384 requests for relief, of which 21.3,974 were granted...

...Most of the largest industries continue to boycott the conferences...

...consider the predicament of processors in the latter class, but it may be assumed that Congress will protect the government against suits to recover processing taxes that have already been paid and distributed in the form of benefits to farmers...

...If the Supreme Court keeps on the name of the New Deal will be changed to the Nude Deal...

...sprang almost immediately into prominence and gave a great impetus both to Socialist propaganda and to tbe organization of local clubs...

...As a logical sequence, taxes impounded by the lower court pending final decision of the rice millers' case were ordered returned to the millers...

...Georgia claims "irreparable losses" on cotton produced on State farms, as result of the act...

...The vast program would add $2,340,000,000 to the President's estimated budget deficit of $1,098.000,000 to make a grand total deficit for 1936-37 of $3,438,000,000...

...Spokesman for management in attendance number 90...

...S- SS...

...Instead of leading they- should sit at the feet of workingmen and women from the sweatshop hells, the mines and factories who have supplemented their Socialist education by intimate knowledge of working-class life and experience...

...This body wisely permitted the formatici- of C.C.F...

...But when these members divide six to three and five to four we have learned men disagreeing with learned men as to what the Constitution means...