12,000 Still Striking as SWOC Convention Is Called
DO YOU WANT PEACE IN THE LABOR MOVEMENT? 12,000 Still Striking as SWOC Convention Is Called Preketing Against "Little Steel" Goes On-First National Steel Workers' Meeting Opens Dec 14 in...
...The general public has at last been awakened to the fact that it can end the exploitation and skyhigh rates of'the local power monopolies by voting forythe Social, Democratic ticket and the building of a municipal-owned-plant...
...Hundreds of the men the Italian dictator sent out to "colonize" the lands of Ethiopia return here with hands and legs cut off revealing that despite a lack of ammunition the guerrila bands are warring on the Italian invaders with their huge swords which their enemies never discovered when the natives were disarmed...
...E. A. Graham, professor of Surgery at Washington University, Rev...
...T. D. Douglas, pastor of the Pilgrim Congregational Church, and Bishop William Scarlett of the Protestant Episcopal Church, are among the leaders of the fight to confine the Nazis to their convention ball and thus prevent any ' public pro-Fascist demonstration...
...Signed) Southern Pine Industry Committee, New Orleans, La...
...Mea Isolated Full precautions are being taken by Mussolini's officials not to allow any outsider to have contact with the wounded men who are in condition to speak...
...Louis...
...With this in mind, McLevy intends to concentrate on the closing days in a plea to the electorate to choose sixteen Social Democratic Aldermen, as well as the city-wait officials...
...The new American Workers' Committee was described by Roller as a revival of the former Workers' Committee on Unemployment, which preceded the formation early last year of the Alliance as a "unity" organization of all unemployed groups...
...When he died recently, the dissension broke bounds...
...MILWAUKEE.—Long smouldering factionalism within the Workers' Alliance here has finally split it wide open...
...The family seems to have gone to seed...
...He will St followed by Dr...
...The convention, which opens in this dty on December 14, will be confined to the draftirrg of a broad po^ey for the guidance of both the international office and the local onions, and a program dealing with plan* for negotiating with the hundreds of ateel companies when the present contracts expire on February 28, 1938...
...I77| the BUcK-Shirts Throughout Country...
...12, a* the Labor Educational Center, 411 8. 19th St., in conjunction .with the [beginning of the Debs SchaoUlecture series...
...began its organization campaign...
...In Bridgeport, Jasper McLevy— heading a slate 'for all city-wide offices—has started a las* minute drive over the radio and irough full-page advertisements n the daily press...
...12,000 Still Striking as SWOC Convention Is Called Preketing Against "Little Steel" Goes On-First National Steel Workers' Meeting Opens Dec 14 in Pittsburgh...
...tov buck the combined resistance of all liberal, religious and trade union organizations in the city, j Already at this early date protests have poured in on Mayor Dickman at City Hall against permitting the swastika to float above any buildings in St...
...lands, they will have...
...They report that the Rome created "black army" of 500,000 ablebodied Abyssinians after being armed1 and drilled by the invaders mutinied, attacked and killed Italians in' many towns and frontier posts and escaped into the hills with their modern arms...
...A civil service system was devised and put into effect which was copied by the State of Connecticut...
...When American fazis meet in their national contention here on November 20 to irganize farther ,fascist propaganda in the United States and mswer General Herman Goering's ilea for assistance from the 30,KH),000 Germans living in foreign i--._4* Running true to form as a "liberal," Oswald Garrison Villard is going to introduce Fritz Kurtn, sworn foe of American labor and of democracy, to a radio audience...
...That would bring rents down...
...The telegram reads as follows: "Representatives of Agriculture, Industry, Transportation, and the General Public resolved at a meeting in New Orleans in September that the BJeek-Connery Wage-andHoar bill MUST BE DEFEATED...
...Saabs Turn Sack The Republic has failed to run its pLacA at capacity despite the boom in the steel market brought on by the demand for armament steal from abroad, R. J. Wysor, president of the company, tried importing scabs from the South...
...A speaking tour is also heiac arranged by the National Vtbat for Gerhart H. Soger...
...Se^n hundred and twenty-one steel manufacturers are signed tc iron-bound contracts by the Steel Warkets' Organizing Committee...
...Clashing elements were held together while Minkley was state chairman...
...ping out the...
...Local Allegheny County . Pittaburgh ) will begin its lecture series the third week in November, what E. L. Tartak of the Rand School af New York will give three Wtatvs on Friday, Saturday and 9—isf en interesting topic...
...Comparatively little new construction has taken place in Manhattan...
...Rabbi F. M. Issertrian of Temple Israel, Dr...
...British East African port of Djibouti are mute evidence that the guerrila warfare of the natives against the Italians which started early in September has reached large scale proportions in Abyssinia...
...Mayor McLevy's administratis* has reduced the city's bonded indebtedness bv $1,214.000...
...The Social Democrats are trying to get oat the heavy vote in order to assure victory for the entire aldermanic slate, especially in the districts where the old parties are strong...
...i What we need is joint action by nation, state, and city to build i decent dwellings for tens of thou¦ sands of families each year in this I city alone—for a million a year ki : the whole country...
...The National Office it as* asp...
...Anti-Nazis Combine Forces A call has ben issued by an independent committee composed of all the mentioned elements to arrange counter ^activity when the Hitlerites are in session...
...in four years—a record without parallel in the history of Bridgeport or any comparable city...
...LouisAhii-Fascists flight Nazi Convention Fifteen Thousand American Hitlerites F.-gpeote«t at the National Meeting on November 20—Trade Unions, Churches and Progressive Forces Unite to Seek Ban on Parades...
...tkmal Office, 813 Albee Building Washington, D. C. The Declaration of Pr-retjoet it now ready in attractive pamphlet form...
...During this period of strife in the Labor forces the Communist Party, though small, was active in planting cells in the Labor groups and by its "united front" maneuvers contributed much to the decline of the Labor Party...
...Charles Edward Raise...
...In the August number there is a bit which it is worth while for tenants to read...
...Louis Council for American Democracy and so evidenced the rapid solidification of anti-fascist feeling...
...and Leo Meltzer will be tht guest speakers...
...3,200 men are out in the Canton, Ohio, district, with 1,800 more Massillon...
...The uprising started September 18th and has continued growing in ferocity and magnitude ever since...
...Public officials, National Labor Relations Board and LaFollet&e Committee have been notified...
...Refugees from the terror with which Mussolini answers the stubborn resistance of the Abyssinians escape frequently into Egypt with stories of the collapse of all Italian projects...
...The clause forbids affiliation of anyone favoring "dictatorship—of the proletariat...
...That a strike against "Little Steel" is still very much in effect ean be seen from' the condition of the Republic Steel Corporation mills...
...1, a mass meeting will be h*J4 by tto* S.D.F...
...We ; have the natural resources...
...z An all-time record of 61,000 people will be eligible to vote in this election, an increase of 20,000 over the number who voted two years-ago...
...Several hundred cars of finished steal are lying in Ohio rs.iiroad yards because many Republic Steel customers refuse to handle "scab" steeL Anti-Labor Ads Supplied to All Large Publications (Continued from Page One) tiens...
...Van Bittner, western director of the S.W.O.C, reveals that 3,500 workers are on strike in Cleveland, and 1,100 men are still out in Chicago...
...The excellent results for Labor in the Senate elections forecast a promising future for the Labor Partv...
...The outlook • for landlords, it says, "is brightening every day...
...Drozewski was named temporary chairman and Roller temporary secretary at this meetin tr Social Democrats Wind Up Campaigns in two Cities Victory Assured in Bridgeport and Reading—McLevy Finds Little Opposition—Reading Socialists Gain Unexpected Advantage...
...The S o c i a 1 Democratic campaigners in Bridgeport and Reading are winding up their campaigns in both cities with strong appeals to get out a record vote...
...Local Baltimore is also vutkiat arrangements for a mass meeting, with Louis WaWman at 4S arincipal speaker...
...Imagine his great Abolitionist grandfather giving such recognition to a slave dealer's hired stooge...
...THE FIGHT HAS JUST BFGUN...
...So rapidly is the outlook for higher rentals "brightening" that the Real Estate Letter gently warns, landlords "to ttse a little discretion in the matter"—not to...
...They objected only to the curtailment of the Nazis right to parade, not to the attempt to deprive the Fascists of all means of physical propaganda, such as signs, swastika flags, pictures of Hitler or printed material...
...The last few weeks have brought a constant flow of revolt reports in the "conquered" territory...
...The soldiers also arrive in lorries which pour into the city in.a constant stream...
...former member of the state executive board—for the disaffiliation...
...Communists Banned A constitution adopted at a meeting of several hundred members of the new committee last week contains a clause aimed, at barring Communists from membership...
...The gang burned the picket headquarters and demolished their equipment...
...Nasi, Fascist or other brands...
...The group immediately decided to hold a counter demonstration more spectacular than the one the Nazis were panning and to eclipse t them in the daily papers...
...Italian colonization of Abyssinia is proving impossible and 30,000 civilian settlers are to be sent back, nccording to authentic reports from Cairo which reached here late this tiis rule m tJtntopia «s a brilliant failure...
...Army deserters escaping into French Somaliland also tell of food shortage menacing the Italian occupation...
...By RICHARD LLOYD Special to The New Leader...
...Orovps I ncunnporfote While Roller and Drozewski are both active Socialists, the division did not occur solely on the basis of Socialists versus Communists...
...Antifascists are organizing rapidly to • offset the publicity the Nazis ex! pect their meeting of 15,000 dele\ gates to receive in the press...
...Many Socialists remained with the Alliance, including Arthur Ludvigsen, Milwaukee, the acting state charrwian...
...No less than five trains full of Italians-have arrived in Djibouti the past two Weeks...
...So these men, who were tricked into leaving home, trekked back to North Carolina, first hewever revealing what had happened to them to the regional office of the C.I.O...
...All we nead . is the awakening of the masses...
...Wares Agatast OverC Ofr^cJence Mayor McLevy will spend the last week emphasizing a request to his supporters throughout the city not to be too confident of his victory and to turn out on Election Day to give him the strongest mandate any Bridgeport mayor has ever received...
...They were actually promised 67^ cents per hour and given 47:i cents...
...regional office reports...
...Latest returns indicate that Labor will hold 13 seats in the new Senate...
...E* tensive Orgaruzabon Educational Work, t The National Executive Com...
...The local section of the national German-American Bund has a membership of only a hundred, despite the nursing of the countrywide fuehrer, Fritz Kuhn, who until s few years ago was employed by Henry Ford as a chemist...
...Local strike leaders are as anxious to win now as they were when the walkout was called last May...
...Tenants are not supposed to see it...
...It 3 will eliminate slums...
...The Italians are said to have suffered terribly, and in reprisal have wiped out whole villages,, including thousands of harmless women and children...
...mittee of the Social Democratic Federation will meet in Washing, ton at the Willard Hotel on Sunday, Nov...
...Until they awake, the landlords* . outlook will go on brightening and ; the tenants' condition will become II darker every daiv...
...Roaass...
...n R lliiilSSSSu tear which Leo Meltser...
...The organized workers of the country will face one of their most important battles in many years in meeting the undercover propaganda barrage against this proposed legislation, and it is all the more reason why peace should be restored to Labor's ranks so that a united movement can face a united reaction...
...Branch in Washmttta, at the Workmen's Circle Lyceum, 1502 14th St., at 8 o'clock...
...Constant arrivals of dead and wounded Italian soldiers in the...
...A good part of the membership has seceded in Milwaukee county and set up the American Workers' Committee as a new association of the jobless to compete with the Alliance in the city and state, and eventually in the nation...
...T*» speakers WNi ha».Lo«i«, Waidnnuv Jasper McLevy, DarKngtor...
...At the period of its greatest power, obtained in the elections, of 1929, Labor had only 7 oat of 36 members of the Senate...
...Mat* fS> tarv, will shortly undertake, flat* County Local (Chicago) has arranged a banquet for Dec...
...Saofe" Steal Returned Although Repulic Steel is still carrying on its campaign of terror against strikers, active picketing is in effect at all mill gates throughout the Ohio and Illinois district...
...In Warren, Ohio, 2,500 men are en strike, the S.W.O.C...
...Ludvigsen succeeded the late Carl Minkley, Socialist Party secretary, ae state head of the Alliance...
...be so recklessly greedy as to rouse public indignation to fever heat,, and so perhaps provoke emergency, rent laws like those of 1920 and the following years...
...Over 75 men and women active in and representing the t r a d e unions, veterans' organizations, social dubs, churches and other ' groups formed the St...
...The action of the commission, coming just before election, has practically clinched tile victory for the Socialists...
...Striae 4feiacj Srrana A drive to organize every steel mill in die United States will be launched at this first national meeting of steel workers' delegates •race the C.I.O...
...Branches desiring meetings with Seger are u communicate with the Katioud Office for -dates...
...Alotady, many orders have come in ff SI» tions of the country...
...Yes, emergency laws may be ¦•1 necessary, but they won't solve the ¦ problem...
...It will put i unemployed mechanics and laborers > at work...
...It is perfectly practical...
...week...
...It contains, in addition U the Declaration, the backgrenne of the S.D.F...
...Italian Projects In Ethiopia Fail As datives fight 30,090 Settlers Return ai Rome's Orders — sjnians* Uprising Beat...
...6, van Jasper McLevy and Lao Mehaw he the guest speakers...
...Reading Victory Assured In Beading the Social Democrats gained an unlooked-for advantage in their fight to elect city-wide officials aad put across the first of their municipal projects—a power plant, when the State Public Utilities Commission ordered the power trust to cut its rates $360,000 per year...
...But reports from, men high in company circles show that a great percentage of the steel produced is returned because of defects caused by lack of efficient workmen...
...His campaign rests entirerjr op the record of the Socialist administration during the past four years...
...On Sunday evening, Hot...
...State and local secretaries are urged to send communications j» advance of the meeting te the sj...
...J. H. Scullin formed a Labor cabinet but when the world depression hit Australia a few years later the Labor Party split into three factions, the "left wing" being- led by J. A. Lyons and J. E. Fenton who left the Cabinet in 1931...
...7, 8 a. m>, at which time many members from various states are expected to be present...
...Local Philadelphia will hold • meeting on Friday...
...Single copies arc 5 cents each, ?% or more 4 cents each, 10* or more 3 cents . each...
...Inability to work with Communists in the Alliance was blamed by the leaders of the secessionists —Rudolph Roller, who was county secretary of the Alliance, and Julius Drozewski...
...Local MECO officials and thenNew York City dictators in the Associated Gas and-Electric Company, and the "Citizens' Committee" which is financed hy the Pennsylvania public utilities, a r e now "on the spot...
...Despite the propaganda of Tom Girdier and his associates which the daily press has gobbled up, the strike continues in many cities...
...PrTKBU»68.-While the Republic Steel Corporation, leader of "Little Steel," continues its campaign of terror against more than 12,QftO ateel workers still picketing its ijl^irts thixrugbont the Midwest, » call has gone out to every local steel lodge to send oalegates to th« first national convention of the ¦ted workers since the C.I.O...
...Fascists Starving They confirm previous rumors of extensive risings by the natives against the garrisons...
...Pickets reported that the thugs wore masks and white sleeve bands...
...Outlook Is Brightening," Says Landlord's Adviser When the capitalists and theirretainers talk business among themselves, they say many things which , they do not say to the public...
...An investigation will get under way shortly...
...We . have the labor-power...
...In Nile*, Ohio, about six miles from...
...BtuShM should order at one...
...The strikebreakers were given flowery promises of high wages and good working conditions...
...started its campaign in the industrial field...
...Australian Labor Party Captures 12 Senate Seats Elections to the Federal Senate in Australia show that the Labor Party, after internal dissensions and a disastrous split several years ago, is recovering from its weakness...
...Yes, the company is making steel...
...LOUIS...
...Although their time cards were punched to snow an eight-hour day, they were paid for only three or four hours...
...Executive of S.B.F...
...7th to Consider...
...Four steamers, two of them Italian hospital ships, are in the harbor waiting for more men from the interior...
...Special to The New Leader , PARIS...
...To Plan Lecture Tours of Hatlil Meeting m Washington on Not...
...A section of the council, led by Rabbi Iaserman, fought the pro- s pOsal to ask the mayor to refuse the Nazis a marching permit, on the grounds of free speech and the setting of s poor precedent...
...The Real Estate Letter is a monthly information bulletin provided to city landlords and real estate agents by the New York Title Insurance Company...
...and there is little likelihood of overproduction ?in the housing field], so future increases in rent should be higher as the scarcity of accommodations become acute...
...What , form this effort would take has not , yet been revealed...
...Warren, several pickets were gangad by a masked mob, and two men were injured...
...In 1929 the Labor Party obtained a majority with 46 out of 75 members of the House but with only 7 out of the 36 Senate seats...
...Wisconsin Workers Alliance Splits vver vfHnmufitsis New Group—The American U7 _ * -frfcVfci if is ii ¦ Call w oncers committee oets Up Headquarters to Compete With Affiance — Outlaws Extremists...
...William Bohr, ssd August Claesseas...
Vol. 20 • October 1937 • No. 44
