Communists' Moves in Auto Union Threaten Year's Gain
FIVE LABOR MEN ELECTED TO CITY COUNCIL Communists9Moves in Auto Union Threaten Year's Gain Play Into Hand* of Auto Magnate* by Smashing Guerrilla Warfare on Companies. Special to The New...
...Weiss, who polled a little over 90,000 votes, will be the only A.L.P...
...In tracing the secret wire from Kerensky's office to the Jasmin exchange, the technicians discovered another similar wire, serving to tap the telephone of M. Philonenko, a Russian lawyer practicing in Paris, who is attorney for Mme...
...On the whole, this "independent"' Congress consists largely of frightened members who fear the pressure machine of powerful corporations, who recoil before the evidence of a new depression, and who are unable to think their way out of the dilemmas that face them or all sides...
...After a canvass of the votes by the Board of Elections "early returns from the Police Department were revised and revealed that Meyer Weiss, candidate of the American Labor Party for Delegate to the State Constitutional Convention, was elected in the Fourth Senatorial District, Brooklyn...
...Frightened Congressmen However, the labor split in its effect on Congress is not so serious as it might have been...
...LOUIS, Mo.—After several weeks of bluster and brag German Nazism faced an inglorious eclipse in this city Sunday night when 3,000 persons packed the Armory to hear dictatorships in Germany, Italy and other nations denounced...
...Having established its power on the state political field the party once more resumed its activity' in national attain when Alex Rose wired the members of th* New York Stat* Delegation in the House of Representatives, urging them to give active support to the passage of the Wages and Hours Bill...
...FLASH...
...Warning From rVMM "The latest news from Prance shows to what lengths such elements will go...
...The Thomasite S. P. was practii cally wiped out...
...There is, however, ? growing suspicion that Skoblin was in the pay of the Moscow agents and had helped them in making away with Miller...
...Tory leaden to bring oa a general election within a year, perhaps sooner, instead of waiting till 1940...
...Late returns indicate that the election in Brooklyn of Louis Hollander, of the A.C.W.A...
...To press it would be to make a bad situation worse and jeopardize the prospect of any promising legislation for dealing with the new industrial crisis that is steadily advancing every week...
...Various complaints ™ve brought about an attitude on Pg part 0 the Workers culmina t¦f h> a high state of resentment...
...Before they had even signed a contract for the German House a group of the "Amerika-Deutscher Volksbund" placarded the House garden with big signs announcing that their "leader," the notorious Fritz Kuhn, would play the leading role in the convention...
...For the first time -in more than 15 years Labor will sit in the governing body of New York City...
...Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals, 1,378...
...This fight to oppose return of these bourbons has been abandoned by the New Dealers...
...The average alga may net seeai much to a union man hat a unioi shop card should have a meaning all its own...
...Lewis has had a wide platform experience in the United States, Alaska, England and Denmark...
...VOTE HIGH IN AND NEAR SYRACUSE SYRACUSE, N. Y.—The vote of the American Labor Party in Syracuse and Onondaga County shows up well in this conservative community...
...Notwithstanding all this, the Communists still played their reckless game of rule or ruin, and sought to create sentiment for authorization of the strike...
...When he learned this, he recommended that1 the Hitlerites be denied the building, and the board of directors so voted...
...In the large centres such as Barcelona, Figueras and Lerida, recently the scene of the horrible rebel air-raid which took a toll only of women and children, food can be secured solely from the municipal kitchen...
...Early in November, Kerensky observed that his telephone was not working well...
...The speakers were Paul P. Hoegen, president of the German Press Club, the Rev...
...Game of Rule or Ruin It became absolutely necessary to end the strike and to declare thai hp outlaw strikes would be tolerated...
...Happily, their efforts were without avail...
...Charles Belo'us, City Fusionist, elected in Queens, is expected to stand with the A.UP...
...The peace negotiations have been promising and while the A. F. of L. and C. I. 0. have some minor differences on the Wages and Hours Bill and the National Labor Relations Act, on other important legislative issue* they see eye to eye...
...The latest sensation is the arrest of six spies operating near the famous Maginot line of fortifications on the northeastern frontier...
...For that matter, he need not wait till New Years...
...When industry was in the doldrums in 1933 every Democratic memher of Congress waited breathlessly Tot word from the White House...
...It is net publicly known whether the police have as yet identified the inside accomplice...
...The New York Post on Wednesday took the lead with a frontpage article describing the methods by which Fritz Kuhn's Hitlerites, besides trying by all means to ruin Jewish business men and professionals, levy tribute on fellow Germans...
...it was raised and now it is again sinking, but instead of waiting for word from the White House today, Democrats amble through corridors mumbling that "something must be done," but they can reach no agreement as to what that "something" is...
...The revolt of the bourbons has also bad an effect on the New Deal section of the party...
...2nd A. D^ 360...
...This surmise has not' yet been verified, and the facts are, of course, open to another interpretation...
...Naturally, they use the methods of fraud and of force whenever they eon...
...Pine" New Clues Two Communists directly concerned in the affair have been arrested...
...This lady is the wife of General Skoblin, who has for some time been sought in vain by the police in connection with the kidnapping by Cheka agents of the White Guardist General Miller...
...Delegate-at-Large to the Constitutional Convention secured 1,246...
...Investigation revealed that this apartment was leased under a false name by known agents of the Russian Cheka in Paris, who were thus enabled to overhear all Kerensky's phone con-, venations...
...Action by theV-laboring masses is called for—prompt action, united action, sanely vigorous action...
...They wish to fid soma excuse for shutting down, and any untoward incident Ske the sit-down in Pontiac, provides them an excellent pretext for this st the same time, placing tie blame upon Labor for the strike incident...
...The board has tried to remain neutral, but facing the provocation of the Nazis it decided that it would not be responsible...
...Special to The New Leader DETROIT, Midi.—The general executive board of the United Automobile Workers Union has wrested the anion from a perilous situation doe to the new ait-down strike in the Fisher Body plant at Pontiac...
...Conspasy Staff Involved . It w»s at once discovered that a secret ^Hre had been attached fce Kerensky's installation, and this win was traced to an apartment in a neighboring house...
...The anthracite industry is also affected by the new depression...
...Vladeck led the tally in Manhattan defeating Tammany henchmen in' their own stronghold...
...Lawless at Heart f Hitler's agents are striking at e v e r y t h i n g that the American masses rightly hold dear...
...The net result of the Nazis' conduct was.that they could (Continued oa Pag* Five) (Continued from Page One) ndt get another hall in St...
...The agricultural situation makes the indecision of members of Congress all the more pronounced and their insistence that "we-"must do something" is all the more ludicrous...
...She can be reached at - 7 East 15th St., Room 506, or by 'phone—ALgonquin 4-2620...
...A sinister factor is the Communist element, which is still seeking power...
...They are divided into large owners, small owners, renters, sharecroppers, wage workers and so on, and at least a half-dozen organizations ~a?e pulling as many ways and making contradictory demands upon Congress...
...Louis as a place to meet...
...Strain French-Russian Relations These revelations, together cwith what is known of the operation ni a regular Russian "Communist Cheka in Spain, of which the kidnapping of Max Rein was only one example, do not have a favorable effect upon the attitude...
...And this noble Democrat is a leader of the Senate reaction...
...In some sections of the garment trades real distress is facing thousands of workers and in the jewelry trade in New York City about half of the workers ar e unemployed, although October and November have always constituted a prosperous season for jewelTy workers...
...that a condemnation of the sit-down strike might develop into a general strike against General Motors, a contingency that would have been calamitous...
...Andrew Armstrong of the Typographical Union, and in the Bronx, of Michael Quill, president of the Transport Workers' Union, and Salvatore Ninfo of the I.L.G.W.U., will he announced before the week-end 1s over...
...i Supporters of the Popular Front doubly regret incidents which thus weaken faith in the Franco-Russian entente at the very moment when France is being shocked by the exposure of the secret activities of the Cagoulards—primarily French royalists, closely connected with the most reactionary elements in the realm of High Finance, but demonstrably in treasonable alliance with Italian Fascism and with German Nazism...
...A detailed analysis of the vote reveals that the Council will have 14 Democrats...
...3rd A. D., 360...
...Out in the countryside the farmers are also -"growing restless but they do not have a solidarity of opinion -that is more typical of workers of the cities...
...As the telephone system is in France a publicly-owned service, forming a part of the postoffice department, this makes it certain that the Communist wire-tappers had at least one accomplice — whether a partisan or a hireling —among the employees...
...VladeckFirstALP Man to Win Seat Election Board Reveals Meyer Weiss, Labor Party Nominee, in Brooklyn, Wins Constitutional Delegate's Place — Antonini Flays Kings* Grand Jury...
...It has beta ascertained by experts that the listening-in device would not have worked without a certain change being made in the equipment of the Jasmin exchange, which could have been made only by technicians of the telephone staff...
...Strebel for Mayor in 1935 received 1,193 votes on the S. P. ticket while Elliot this year received only 261...
...Plevitskaya, a Russian opera singer...
...The meeting was planned as a counter demonstration to the Midwest Regional Convention of the "Amerika-peutscher Volksbund", a German-speaking pro-Nasi organisation.' The Nazis had intended to hold their convention in the German House on November 20-21, but their stupid and provocative conduct deprived them of this meeting place and forced them to abandon St...
...Each difficulty becomes a springboard for a "revolution" Oat is about to take place...
...REACTION ON THE MARCH THHERE may be some legitimate criticisms of the Wages and Hours Bill, but the exploiters of cheap labor and their intellectual police do not criticize it in some details, but attack the whole measure...
...A better distribution of wealth can be obtained through the buying of union label goods...
...Charles Belous, who, by the time The New Leader is oft* the press, will be declared elected in the same borough, is a member of the A.L.P...
...The reactionaries know this very well, including 'the raucous Josiah W. Bailey, Senator from North Carolina, who declares that the Federal Government does not have the power implied in the bill and he doubts whether even the state* can enact such legislation...
...of tjie French public toward Moscow...
...LENA M. LEWIS AVAILABLE ' FOR SPEAKING DAVIS Social Democratic organizations, labor unions' and educational forums are recommended to piece Lena Morrow Lewis on their Hst of speakers...
...A.L.P...
...Thousands will starve to death unless the Labor movements of the world rush food into Spain as quickly as possible...
...Their criticism is unsound...
...Louis and -they had to go to an outside city in St...
...The bill would not arbitrarily fix wages and hours...
...Congress Scared By Pressure of Big Corporations Leaders Lose Control of Both Houses as Industrialists Help Push Nation Into New Depression...
...The Nazis were told to look for another hall and save the board from taking more drastic action...
...Unity of all anti-Tammany elements under the leadership of B. Charney Vladeck will keep control of the Council from the hack politicians who have ruled the city since Boss Tweed's day...
...Candidates of the Thosiasi te- Socialist Party and the Communist Party were eliminated early in counts everywhere except in Brooklyn where they hung on for a few days...
...The | membership of De la Rocque's or' ganization and that of- the Cagou| lards overlap...
...Although...
...VALENCIA.—All ramonTbTdip" lomatic circles of moves by Great Britain to effect peace between the fascist forces of insurgent General Franco and the Republican Spanish Government were vehemently denied this week by Loyalist leaders...
...Herman Meyer, manager of the Liederkranz Club, said that tentative arrangements had been made in his absence for the Nazis to meet there...
...Let them have the full benefit of-^fhe law, and let.[them feel the fqjl strength of the law...
...The Communists are also in a ccnstast conspiracy to create situaasns that will embarrass the administration of the International tfofen and thereby cast an odium upon it with the hope of persuadisg the members that more "militat" methods are necessary...
...If the bill is enacted it will leave plenty of room for still better standards in wages and hours, but it will prohibit excessive working hours and starvation wages...
...In the three 1 Assembly districts in 1936 the S. P. received 1,573 votes and this year ' only 371...
...Louis Closes Halls ToAmericanHitlerites Nazis Forced to Leave City in Order to Hold Annual Convention—Connter Demonstration bv Antifascists a Success...
...Companies Cusflaas Abuses With this background, one can better understand the Pontiac Ijsker Body strike...
...The diet is simple—onion soup, a little rice and a few beans with a little— very little—bread...
...Uftists" Hurt Local „.3 — Immediately eome of the Joists" injected themselves into •f* situation, to the dis-service of *• Local...
...Let Dewey Probe Nazis' Racket...
...The demonstrators were led by bands of mountain tribesmen who had been smuggling themselves into Tetuan for some days previous...
...They ate lawless at heart...
...Foul mouthed members of ¦Bterviaory personnel have been permitted to indulge in abusive Wftdcet without restraint, although Potest has been made...
...This came after positive assurances were given by Homer Martin that no outlaw strike would be tolerated...
...Equally alarming is the discovering of at least 200 secret radio stations, many of them located near the German and Italian frontiers or near French airports^ arsenals, and fortifications...
...They rejoice in their "independence" of the Executive, but when asked for their program their eyes.turn glassy as they make no response...
...The Communist psychology aakes for disturbance for the sake <rf disturbance...
...KerenskyDiscovers Communist Cheka Tapped His Wires Trial Leads to Wide Activities of Soviet Agents in France and Spam...
...man in the state at the Constitutional Convention when it meets in April The vote throughout the city revealed that the A.L.P has wiped out minor party strength...
...If the organized workers of the nation were as well informed of their interests as the rising reaction is, and acted as much in concert as the enemy doe*, the Baileys would not be so cocky before a ballotarmed working class...
...No authorization was received from the International Union...
...The" United Mine Workers had intended to negotiate for a new wage scale for anthracite workers when the present contract expires next April, but the union decided not/to press the matter and will merely seek to renew the old contract \ for two years...
...A new due was soon found, which led to on even more surprising ramification of the Cheka's activities...
...Two of the six arrested were identified as workers of Casimir de la Rocque's French Social Party, an alias for the old Croix de Feu (Fiery Cross) which "had been banned by the law...
...Advertising and tickets were circulated and local Bund leaden began a campaign of vulgar denunciation of their opponents as "communists and social degenerates...
...A* vice-president of the Alaska Labor Union in Anchorage, daring the building of the government railroad, she engaged In educational work among the 8,20* and more members who had come from | nearly every section ef the gists...
...Extortion practiced by .Nazist organizations upon German-speaking local merchants and others having German-speaking customers in Yorkville and other parts of Greater New York which was exposed by The New Leader several months ago, has this week begun to command the attention of the daily press...
...They ware reduced to impotence in the International administration, although in different locals they still assert themselves with some effect...
...The New York Times index of 50 combined stocks since the middle of last August also shows a decline from,, 135 to about 85 early this week...
...Indelacio Prieto, social democratic Defense Minister, Premier Negrin, General Miaja, and other cabinet leaders feel confident that the rapidly developing Republican army, which now has 600,000 trained men, can defeat the rebels...
...The Cagoulards are not only organised enemies of da* mocracy...
...Members of Congress have in recent years been more careful in their attitudes toward the working class as organized workers have been aggreaive in demanding rather than begging legislation...
...this country, aim to undermine those institutions and substitute intolerance and a reign of brute force* They glorify a s y s t em which excludes political liberty, religious^ Jberty, civil rights, free dom of speech and press, aad the right of labor organization...
...The latter speaker expressed great satisfaction that the A. F. of L. and the C. I. O. were working harmoniously for the great cause for which the meeting was called...
...Six months hence it may be too late...
...Morrison says tin* is not certain, but seems probable...
...THOUSANDS FOR "flHMS" In two years, Bethlehem Steel spent $18,867 on the Pinkerton gang alone...
...Louis County to hold their convention...
...refugees, winter will bring severe hardships...
...whea the tens of the present parliament would automatically expire...
...That is the situation as viewed by alert observers in Washington...
...They apparently met opposition there, for they announced that only the Saturday session would be held there and that the sessions the following day would be' held _t the Liederkranz Club in St...
...S.D.F...
...Despite this grave condition, the Communists immediately began agitation for authorization of this outlaw strike...
...2)— J* the management itself knew *?nt the anticipated strike fully before it occurred, although of the Union and the Com¦wtee were in ignorance of it...
...This yields in all a very tidy sum to be spent or pocketed by knights of the Swastika...
...Collective buying is to collective bargaining as gasoline is to ar engine...
...They are also paid agents of the great money lord* ef that country and of two foreign -governments known to be hostile to France, and are in league with common swindlers and professional criminals...
...The union will proceed to investigate the "rank and file committee" BnsajBJh which the Communists •Sit* JAWBO^ f^pj— aoothtr significant fact is the hsaawat Tsassaion -which finds the antontobiit industry with more cars than thm are orders for...
...5 American Labor 'Party men, three Fusionists sad three Independents...
...And you can be sure that every copper of* that outlay was charged to operating expenses and added its bit to the high cost of steel...
...It is alleged that they have succeeded in bullying some 800 neighborhood dealers into paying a tax of 3 per cent on their business receipts...
...Mrs...
...They feel that the Nazi's pre-occupation in Central Europe and the Orient and the growing discontent in Italy, which Mussolini is attempting to suppress by wholesale arrests and bloody terror, will soon cause the fascist countries to curtail their aid to Franco...
...Special to The New Leader...
...the plant was evacuated last Monday...
...St...
...Food Situation Dangerous While the military situation improves, the food condition of Loyalist Spain, especially Catalonia, becomes the most serious threat to the Republic...
...Moors Revolt It will «e difficult for rebel Gear eral Franco to reinforce his troops with Moorish soldiers in the future...
...In Catalonia, swollen by more than 1,000,000...
...Culmination of the riots came last Friday when hundreds of Moors stormed the office of Franco's high Commissioner and were dispersed only after a pitched battle with fascist troops...
...be the leader of the Labor Party delegation...
...death of the International Union...
...How serious the industrial decline is, is revealed in a number of reliable sources and this week Secretary of Labor Perkins admitted a decline in employment of about 145,000 workers in manufacturing industries in October as compared with the previous month...
...Complaints •f workers have been held up unnecessarily long because of the inutility of the Union to agree with «s management upon the choice * arbitrators when the procedure ¦st op for settling disputes has exhausted...
...A Job for Dewey Algernon Lee, member of the National Executive Committee of the Social Democratic Federation and the New York State Committee of the American Labor Party, and until recently president of the Rand School, being asked to comment on the situation, replied: "Here is a job ready for Mr...
...Demands 3 Per Cent Levy on Local Dealers Part of Shameless Attack on Free Institutions, Says Algernon Lee...
...Special to the New Leader PARIS...
...All but a small though dangerous minority of the French people will back the government in energetic measures that may be necessary to root out this network of reactionary crime...
...The International Union was confronted with this problem: That complaints of discriminations, discharges, speed-up, hundreds and thousands of them in all plants of General Motors were making for unrest...
...He wB...
...Ostensibly Skoblin was also a (Continued est Page Five) Tsarist, and had been very close to .Miller, who had relations with the German Gestapo...
...The bourbons, who fought the, President's court proposals and defeated them were marked for opposition when they sought renosnination by the home folks...
...This affair throws additional light upon the maze of antidemocratic intrigue that is arousing a good deal of fear and still more indignation among the French people...
...The leader of this gang, a German named Dengler, made his escape across the Rhine...
...After a few days he called up the telephone administration, which at ance sent men to locate the trouble...
...Reaction is bad enough when industry is functioning in a normal way, but when industry is sinking into a new depression and reaction rears its ugly head, confident that it can dominate, the future is not bright for the laboring millions and those who have no work at all...
...and president of - the - party's Corona Club, although he nn under Fusion endorsement...
...it merely seeks to provide a minimum below which wage* shall not sink and a maximum beyond which hours shall not be stretched...
...members on all important issues...
...The industrial system had sunk and it had to be raised...
...The first sit-down strike in Pong* »t the Fisher Body plant oc^red Monday, November 15, un¦ar circumstances which indicate P. was not wholly spontaneous aa rather, the result of a conPlot by irresponsible persons ¦•der Communist influence...
...The Loyalist Government has definitely turned down the peace suggestions which would divide Spain in half and leave a good part of the country under fascist control...
...Revelations about the Cagoulards—our French K.K.K.— have unfortunately overshadowed the news of the tapping of the telephone in the office of Alexander Kerensky, who was head of the democratic provisional government of Russia which the Bolsheviks overthrew in November, 1917, and who has for a number of years lived as an exile in Paris and edits Nova ye Russiya (New Russia), a paper hostile to Bolshevism and leaning toward Social Democracy...
...Happily, the International prevailed, the strike ended, and the machinery lor negotiation''' with arbitration will be speeded up and used...
...Last week 60 Moorish tribesmen and 20 Fascist machine gunners were killed in violent anti-Franco riots which have been raging for some time at Tetuan, Spanish Morocco...
...5—Despite the agreement arrived at by the committee with the International Union that there would be no further strike action, but that negotiation would be used instead, a second sit-down sfrike began on Wednesday, November 17, which almost led to disaster, until it was ended on Monday, November 22...
...WASHINGTON, D. C—The old solidarity of Congress under the leadership of the President is breaking up and the Democratic Party is cracking under the impact of powerful capitalist propaganda demanding that our incompetent industrial kings be given a free hand...
...Anti-Nazi Meeting a . Big Success The anti-Nazi meeting was a tremendous success with representatives of the American federation of Labor, the Committee for In-" dustrial Organization, veterans' organizations and outstanding progressive organisations pledged against dictatorship and supporting the principles of democracy...
...The management has sought to increase the ISXtuction load tor the worker and •as in the plant claim that the hbor load has been increased from S to as much as 100 per cent on <•* 1938 model as compared with (he 1987...
...The new Council will have 26 seats only hah* of which will go to Tammany, revealing how thoroughly the American Labor Party attack smashed the stranglehold the Hall has had on the city through the now eliminated Board of Alderman...
...It i$ no exaggeration to say that the International Union with its 400,000 members, came as close to disaster as it ever can and still not be smashed...
...If even half of what is specifically alleged is true—and I think it likely that not half the actual truth has yet been told—this is (Continued on Pag* Five) (Continued from Page One) " one of the moat vicipus and impudent rackets New York has ever known...
...that in a business decline, with General Motors anxious to have a pretext for suspending operations, a strike would be most inopportune...
...for the "sin3 of omission and commission" of irresponsible people parading for the Nazi convention...
...James J. Bambrkk, president of the Building Service Employees, was defeated in Qn—as he broke through the rigid control the old parties have had on the borough since it became part of Greater New York by rolling up the record labor vote of 33,099...
...Which simply means that sweated labor, in the view of the Senator, has no case in our legislative halls...
...Arrests Continue Almost daily new deposits of arms, or shipments being smuggled into the country are, being discovered...
...General Motors and some other corporations find it difficult to understand that the onion has come to stay, many members are still new to union discipline, bosses have tried a return to the old speed-up system and a discipline almost prison-like in character, and the Communist Party, preying upon the discontent of the workers, has taken its usual course of nearly bringing about the wrecking of the trains won by the union...
...Nesis Suffer Defeat As most of these vicious attacks were made by Nazis on the premises of the #erman House, a $500,000 social center owned by 2,200 stockholders, the Nazi campaign made the German House a morel scapegoat for this disgusting conduct...
...The September convention at Milwaukee put the Communist elements definitely into the discard...
...Assemblymen, 1st A. D., 381...
...The board was then .denounced by the Nazis and some members of the board wen told to "go to Moscow...
...By G. A. HOiHN Special to The New Leader...
...While all the democratic elements recognize th_t friendly relations between France and Russia are to be desired by both governments, for the sake of mutual protection against threatened aggression by Germany, \tsi\f, and Japan, they feel that it is hard to co-operate with a regime which uses or incites such conspirative actions under the cloak of international friendship...
...Loyalist Leaders Deny Reports of Peace With Franco Moors in Tetuan Revolt Against Fascist Recruiting—Food Is Scarce in Catalonia...
...Shouting "Death to Franco and his recruiting agents," they charged into machine gun emplacements in front of the office...
...Increasing Unemployment All this statistical information is supplemented by idle workers in many steel cities, rapid and increaa(Continued oa Pag* Five) (Continued from Page One) ing unemployment in the needle trades industries and discharge of workers in many other industries...
...Premier Negrin told the foreign press last week that "the front is not our greatest problem—it's here in Catalonia*— refugees...
...Four packed trains a day bring thousands of mothers and children across the French border from Bilbao, Santander and the Asturias...
...it was definitely an outlaw strike...
...If we don't want that sort of thing here—and 99 pet cent don't—the sworn officers of thai law should cut ant the incipient cancer before it has time t o become a grave danger, H "I do not propose, that any arbitrary or extralegal Measures should be used against these ruffians...
...This compelled the board of directors to act...
...As we go to press the New York Times has a special dispatch stating that Herbert Morrison, national campaign chairman of the British Labor Party, has got word of a secret plan anon...
...Bourbon* Hove so Program "Many Democratic members of Congress "nave no program and the Republican minority is equally helpless, but both suspect any proposals that may come from the White House...
...B. Charney Vladeck, manager of the Jewish Daily Forward and a member of the Social Democratic Federation, was the first American Labor Party candidate to secure the necessary 75,000 votes which mean automatic election ?to the new city council...
...After an agreement to evac.thepUnt and get back into (Continued oa Psge live) production, four of the active members of the Union were suspended...
...Premier Chautemps had good reason to say in the Chamber that the extent of the Cagoulards' conspiracy, the large sums of money evidently at its disposal, and the sources of the numerous caches of rifles, carbines, sub-machine guns, hand grenades, and other weapons "represent a situation of fearful gravity...
...The impudent Nazis received another blow within a few days after announcing that the convention would meet in a suburb...
...The Nazist organizations, taking* advantage of our democratic inatitntiotrs and of the too nap jenna temper that generally prevail* If...
...I have no fear that they will succeed in establishing such a regime here, but in their effort to establish it they may, if not rhecjkod in time, do grave in jary to shsftrp individuals and to the public life of the nation...
...George M. Gibson, whose addresses were roundly applauded...
...TPHE honeymoon of the recovery period is over and reaction is steadily coming back...
...Some of those who projssted too strenuously, were punhfc»d...
...When evidence of the disastrous work of the Communists piled up the high Communist leaders tried to retrieve their position by sending a hypocritical letter to president Homer Martin, saying that the Communists were really "100 per cent" back of him in handling fte Pontiac ait-down strike but the telegram deceives no one...
...That will be sufficient...
...The procedure set forCh in the constitution of the International Union was not followed in either the first or the second strike...
...Louis...
...Douglas and Rev...
...As Special Prosecutor, commissioned to root out what is called 'racketeering' throughout the city, he could and should get to work on it at once...
...Backers of the plan think a real depression is coming and wish to have the election before Ma starts...
...The reactionary newspapers of the entire country were sending their star reporters to Pontiac to be in on the kill—at least what they thought would be the...
...Enough is now known to prove that the preparations made by these traitors for an armed revolt in concert with a foreign invasion must already have cost millions— not in francs but in dollars...
...Dewey when he takes office as District Attorney of New York County...
...The rift in the labor organizations of the nation and split into A. F. of L. and C. I. O. groups has not added any encouraging feature to the situation...
...The obstruction Democrats come largely from the South, but they also have important allies from northern districts...
Vol. 20 • November 1937 • No. 48
