Hague Attack on Jersey C.I.O, Spurs Labor Party
FEIGENBAUM, WM. M.
Hague Attack on Jersey C.I.O, Spurs Labor Party A.F.L. May Act With C.I.O. in ConventiOn on December 5th Indignation Against Police Terrorism Stirs Strong Sentiment Among Both Labor Factions for...
...The settlement was negotiated by Federal Labor Conciliator John L. Conner...
...Strikers on Bus Lines Oppose Low Wages, Long Hours Struggle in 16 States on Greyhound Lines Brings Company Thugs Into Strike—Armed Group Arrested in Boston...
...The SstaW-ssi gins and the liberal groepe ars led by men who were educated •broad and are imbued with a .sfrsa iliiiiiimu spirit...
...yen- in Washington...
...It occupies one large city block, with plenty of light and air everywhere...
...gov...
...The Greyhound Bus Lines are owned by the Pennsylvania Railroad...
...The Harlan Coal Operators' Association must hsvs kicked in for a fat jackpot," remarked one spectator...
...But many A. F. of L. unions, in their bitterness against the C.I.O., continued in their alliance with the Hague machine, and the Hague crowd continued to make it appear that they were pro-Labor, and only against what a judicial puppet of Hague called "the C.I.O...
...On the bus, there is no such guarantee...
...Attempts to secure from the Quebec government one good or valid reason for this order have so far failed," it was stated...
...Between the buildings*the highest being five stories), are...
...He knew that the 18th Amendment established prohibitionf Modern Schools in Mexico Practice Socialist Education By HERMAN KOBBE Special to The New Leader...
...central labor bodies sponsored a mass meeting to promote co-operation between the two camps locally and te stir up sentiment for A.F.L...
...3. It tended to drive a wedge still deeper between the organised Democratic Party sad the New Deal, and will go far in further alienating President Roosevelt from Hague...
...Senator A. Harry Moore, for Governor...
...He will address the conference...
...Joining lie Farmer-Labor Governor are state end city officials of Minnesota labor unions...
...Then this ornament to the bench said, "I'd like to see Mr...
...A. F. ef L. Floats Labor Party Meanwhile, two continuing developments complicated the situation...
...Such a buiWing program ought to be one of the first objectives of the American Labor Party...
...The...
...Assistant United States Attorney David Pine read to Justice J. W. Cox the government's charge that Creech threatened R. w...
...nationally...
...This guarantee is likely to be one of the sticking points, as the men have two very definite reasons for asking it...
...unions in the San Francisco vicinity, where both A. F. of L. and C.I.O...
...M. FEIGENBAUM Frank Hague, Mayor «f jersey City, Democratic boas of Now Jersey and the last and most powerful of the city bosses ha she United States, did his hit to insert the Labor Party in that state a burning issue this week when "his" police drove C.I.O...
...unity conferences in Washington to act quickly on healing- the breach in labor's ranks...
...WASHINGTON...
...walls are decorated with murals] portraying the struggles of the Mexican people for freedom...
...organizer (who was not in Jersey City at all...
...He has spoiled a day and incurred some expense away from home for $2.58...
...By richard lloyd Special to The New Leader...
...and C.I.O...
...Yet wages and working conditions of members of the same union working for the same real employer are far poorer on the buses than on the rails...
...On the railroad, the man called for work gets a day's pay...
...that William J. Carney, C.I.O...
...There is only one conceivable way in which the City of New York can provide its children with schools equivalent to the Eseuela Socialists, and that is by the development of municipal housing on a vast scale mainly in the suburban sad outlying sections, where an adequate piece of land can always be set aside for a school...
...Following the outrages ef last winter when Jersey City police drove "reds" —that is C.I.O...
...BULLETIN CLEVELAND.—The bus strike, involving bus drivers in 16 states from Missouri to Maine, was set-, tied here on Wednesday when the Greyhound Lines granted a wage Increase of one-fourth cent a mile, but the company refused to concede the closed shop demanded by the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen...
...In their use of land and space the people of Mexico City have fared better...
...Translated into English...
...At" the time of my visit there were no classes, i An institute of the teachers of the State of Vera Crux was being held in the building...
...It is made to order for those who would persuade Labor to enter politics as an independent force...
...It is pointed out that in the case of the strongly organized professions, certificates of competency are issued to members, not by the government, but by such bodies as the Bar Association, the College of Surgeons, or the Engineering Institutes...
...By ALBERT H. JENKINS WASHINGTON, D. G.—The far-reaching results of the Senate Civil Liberties investigation were demonstrated last week as the committee headed by Senator "Young Bob" LeFoUette of Wisconsin fought on many frosts...
...Thank God, we have in our town a Mayor who will not permit people to make speeches insulting your God...
...organizers, according to His Honor Botti, were statements that "the people ef Jersey City don't want them, and they know they are unwelcome...
...move...
...Most of them ajsas into contact with the radical elements in the universities is IsJtuiia, in...
...It would" also" provide a forum in which leaders of both sides could come together and argue rival views without warring on each other...
...Another inscription reads: "Labor is the origin, the means and the essence of value...
...Because of the internal fight in Labor's ranks, the State Federation of Labor issued a call to all affiliated bodies to boycott next Sunday's convention...
...flsoiis...
...Tackett* a witness who gave damaging tsstw mony before the Senate Ceawsnttssf against the cost operators, and thaU Creeeh then perjured himself when he denied he said: 1 "Well, Xackett...
...Taey hope some wj| to eaatere a majority there Measure real democracy in the Wisconsin Labor Acts For Aft.-CIO, Peace State Labor Board Takes Lead in Forming Committee to Settle Disputes — Pressure on Leadership From Members Has National Effect...
...This decision was4 reached recently by the Steering Committee of the C.I.O...
...On: one panel a woman is pointing out...
...At One end of the grounds, is an outdoor swimming pool, somewhat bigger than forty by seventy, feet, with a diving tower and stone seats for a thousand spectators...
...Benson's speech will probably be broadcast over a nation-wide radio hook-up, it has been announced...
...election laws differ, and the personnel of the Labor movement is not exactly the same there as here...
...As long ago as last March, speaking at a Communion Breakfast in New York, Moore said: Thank God, in our city we have a Mayor who does not believe is free speech for reds...
...Last year ft elected over' two-thirds of its nominees, besides issdlug 18 men to the national j? Bight hare became a powerful liberal influence if it had kept CUM with the people...
...Similarly, the Trades and Labor Council says, a membership card in an established trade union shows the holder to be a competent worker in the judgment of his experienced fellow workers...
...has its sister party over the river...
...The board has just concluded a series of conferences with leaders of both camps to get their views on the projected appointment of a labor advisory committee of 10 persons equally balanced between the C.I.O...
...Originally it JHm 'its strength in the poorer ¦gfeas which this .week, turned to Hp" .cooaervative candidates in Sir to defeat the Fascists...
...I noticed in their schedule Such subjects as: History of the Labor Movement, Popular Arts, Hygiene, Cooperatives., Physical and Domestic Education, Song and Music, social and natural sciences, mathematics, and General Concept of Socialism...
...and the United Catering Workers (C.I.O.}, under which the C.I.O...
...The other was the wave of anti-Labor injunctions made possible by the lack of an anti-injunction law...
...fights for a country free and rich and prosperous for the Mexican people...
...central body, unanimously adopted a resolution recently urging the participants in the national C.I.O.-A.F.L...
...A joint petition by Governor Benson and Mayor Leach to U. S. Attorney General Homer Cum-mings called for immediate assign-meat of G-men to the case...
...At a gTand rally of the international unions in Quebec City, the so-called Fair Wages Law was denounced as another means of undermining the unions...
...At the committee hesring, Senators LaFollette and Elbert D. Thomas of Utah questioned Chester A. Hansen, executive head of the Constitutional Education League, "of New York, New Haven and Birmingham," which disguises reaction in the cloak of patriotism and "a crusade against subversive activities...
...When we get back there,'TT1 see to it that you to prison for tea years...
...pickets — out of town and even tore down the state liquor license from the walls of a saloon where they gathered for a glass of beer, an "invasion" was announced for November 29— last Monday—to discover whether or not Jersey City is in the United State*, or is a Bezirk of the Third Reich...
...organisers from the city...
...It is the feeling of these unions that the time, has arrived to establish a central body through which they can coordinate and also guide their efforts...
...Police held up "invaders" as they got out of the tubes and off busses at Journal Square, opened their briefcases and ransacked them...
...Those who cam* back were arrested and given five days in jail by Police Judge Anthony Botti, who made the remark about "C.I.O...
...Rail Workers Fere letter Similar tasks and payments are by no means uncommon...
...Among the crimes committed by The C.I.O...
...The court scene provided a food example of the difficulties Uucle Sam faces when he tries to convict wealthy Individuals or these Who are protected by powerful interests...
...and as'the decisions of this board, when ratified by the Minister of Labor, become public ordinances, the effect is to preclude a union in sueh industry making a collective bargain on the basis of union rates except by special permission of the Minister...
...Then the investigation staff moved to the Federal District Court at Washington to act as witnesses against Ted Creech, coal operator from Harlan County, Ky., .who is charged with perjury in testimony he gave before the Senate Committee last April...
...MINNEAPOLIS, Mmn...
...Despite the fact that many A. F. of L. locals planned to send delegates, and despite the fact that at least one A. F. of L. organiser—Harry Wendrich — was actively pushing the Labor Party move, the impression prevailed that it was strictly a C.I.O...
...and the...
...The pact also provided that retaliatory picketing of one union against the other would be stopped...
...Selection of a similar advisory committee of industrialists is also to be made by the labor board...
...Senator Thomas, who is distinguished for the depth of his scholarly knowledge, began at Article I of the Constitution and went clear through the articles and amendments, asking Hansen detailed questions about every paragraph of the great document...
...Italy before Mussolini, JaMsftiissiJ More Hitler, and in It is lata*.usee who are making hbt Part more poweiful as the saaRas rail by...
...ss fee N*w L*mder LONDON.—Word of the recent municipal election in Tokyo, Japan, which has just arrived here, re* veais that the left wing, liberal, piwgnasivs and trade union elements in that country ere by no means dormant...
...M eeBsgeed ofanost entirely jpjsej|p*.sswiflwi ^ffieu it was able to place only 10 out of 42 candidates...
...The striking drivers are members of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen...
...Hague has always insisted that "his" city is free from labor troubles...
...The courts were ready...
...Propagandist, in Senate Quiz, Gives Pitiful Exhibition Leader of Anti-Union "Patriots" Knows Little of the Constitution , He "Defends...
...That it will be a powerful influence in giving sharp emphasis to the nature of the Hague leadership is certain...
...unions have made splendid progress in organizing thousands of workers in several cities in Connecticut...
...Ban-sen could answer but one single nuestion...
...didn't...
...harmony has been taken by the Wisconsin State Labor Board...
...Attempt to End Disputes This committee, in addition to making recommendations to the board, would seek to iron out specific disputes on industrial fronts between C.I.O...
...in ConventiOn on December 5th Indignation Against Police Terrorism Stirs Strong Sentiment Among Both Labor Factions for Inde-pendent Political Action...
...The Greyhound Lines is one of the corporations fighting the National Labor Relations Act through the courts, and the firm seems to be also following the example of Remington Rand in importing low creatures to break the strike...
...As a sample, take the driver who takes a bus load of football fans from Washington to Baltimore and back...
...stEtlCO CITY.—Ia New York City speculative landlords have btoja permited to "overbuild'' the t, with congestion of population Inevitable result...
...Frisked" All Visitors Blue-coated guards "frisked" every person who entered the crowded court room, to remove any shooting-irons imported from "Bloody Harlan," where for years the coal operators have used guns and dynamite on anyone who tried to organize the miners...
...It is true that they are overshadowed by the militaristic clique which has seat General Iwane Mat-sui and SSisisl hundred thousand triage, asset of whom are Koreans, into China, but the leaders of the left wing forces still have widek Fascist Party Loses This whs evidenced by the election, which resulted in s set-back for the Social Masses Party, Which formerly espoused democratic and laborite principles...
...I'd like to tell him to keep out of Jersey City with his violence and his hoodlums...
...and C.I.O...
...Miserably Lew Wooes Most of the drivers have been getting 3.4 cents a mile...
...Moore has always paid slavish tribute to Hague...
...connecticut c./.o...
...Moore informed the world that his boss would not permit C.I.O...
...The disastrous is of this unrestrained land-lordism are seen in our school faculties...
...dresses, shoes, toys, etc., as examples of productive labor...
...union ceded a major Milwaukee hotel to the A.F.L...
...What effect it will have in persuading A. F. of L. elements to forget the bitterness of the*internal battle, and to back the labor party convention remains to be seen...
...and even the longer trips of say 200 miles and back involve expenses which pare the pay below a reasonable level...
...and A,F.L...
...union activity, nor any expression of religious opinion that he disagreed with in "his" town...
...you've put tM Harlan coal operators in a fix...
...Secretary Pertfss Ceiled In Requests have been made by the executive board of the Minneapolis Central Labor Union, Teamsters' Joint Council, the Union Board of Business Agents end railroad organizations that Attorney General William S. Ervin appoint special investigators to aid in solution of the crime...
...Milwaukee's Federated Trades Council, A.F.L...
...No p a s s p o r t requirements ?) and drove them trot...
...First, the present system gives the men utterly inadequate pay in many instances...
...said —according to His Honor—"We don't care about Mayor Hague...
...Tito A. F. of L. supported Moore fa eg—at the C.I.O...
...Machinists' Union...
...and C.I.O...
...Benson then joined U. S. Senator Ships'tead ia a plea to the LaFollette Civil Liberties Committee to investigate the gangsterism and racketeering charges...
...Call Peace Meetings At Eau Claire, in northwestern Wisconsin, the A.F.L...
...an inscription which reads: Dedicated to Socialism "The Socialist School is a revolutionary school, anti-imperialist...
...Mayor Leach, conservative fusion mayor of this city, revealed this week that he will ask Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins to investigate racketeering and gangsterism charges made to him by letter by two officials of the C.I.O...
...union...
...Chairman of the conference will be John F. Shelley, president of the San Francisco Labor Council, A. F. of L, while other labor representatives will be A. F. Gaynor, foT the railway clerks...
...4th and Sth...
...He gets paid for "6 miles...
...benson to go to california for mooney MINNEAPOLIS.—American Labor completed plans this week for another drive to free Tom Mooney and Warren K. Billings, which will include a huge labor conference to be held in San Francisco, December 5. Goverpor Benson.- Farme*-Labor executive of this state, has promised to bring all his influence to bear in behalf of the two famous labor prisoners...
...D. C. — With more than 1,300 Greyhound bus workers on strike in 16 states, the Boston area of the struggle thts-week brought imported thugs and strikebreakers into the picture...
...The brutal terror Hague ordered came just in time to give the Labor Party cause a mighty boost, it will probably do much to dear the air in at last three directions: 1. Coming as it did just six days before the Newark convention to organize a Labor Party (to be held Sunday, December h, in the Newark Labor Lyceum), it removed the i last possible argument that might have been urged against Labor's independent political activity...
...One was the open alliance of some A. F. of L. leaders With the Hague machine during the 1987 campaign in support of the candi-¦ d*cy " of Mayor Hague's Charlie JfcCarthy...
...Pine was the only government attorney and fought single-handed...
...Creech's four lawyers went ever the jury panel with a fine-tooth comb and challenged every man or woman' who admitted the slightest sympathy for labor organisations, or that they had even read new*, paper stories of the Senate civil liberties probe...
...Canadian Labor Fights Gov't Move To Shackle Unions MONTREAL...
...Benson Asks G-Men To Find Murderer Of Labor Leader P^forts toSol C^j^jTau Specie^ to The Sew Leader...
...By WM...
...2. It will go far to the direction of reconciling the warring factions of Labor...
...Left Wing Forces Still Powerful in Japanese Politics FmcM Social Mum* Party, Formerly Associated With Trade Unions, Defeated fa Tokyo by Groups It Betrayed...
...Apparently, it is a move in the' direction of establishing that corporatism, which is the principal characteristic of the totalitarian state...
...There is the picture...
...Armed with sawed-off ball bats and other weapons, a group of these provocateurs have been arrested and turned over to the Federal authorities to face charges of violating the Byrnes anti-strikebreaking law...
...It is interesting to note that the Farmer-Labor Party, predominantly A. F. of L., is cooperating with the C.I.O...
...The police were ready...
...hoodlums...
...Sheriff Dan Murphy, former president of the California Federation of Labor, for the A. F. of VL., and Harry Bridges, regional director, for the Committee for Industrial Organization...
...noiseless...
...With the murder of Patrick J. Corcoran, former labor leader, no nearer solution than it was two weeks age Wednesday, the labor movement of this state, led by Governor Benson, is demanding that the scope and Intensity of investigation by the futhorities be increased...
...unions...
...Left-Winger* Active The toft wing elements hi Japan era stffi a force with which the saUtarists have to reckon...
...The rally voted for selection of a committee of five to work out a peace plan for Eau Claire unions...
...Desks and seats are light and movable, but...
...But what aggravates these matters is a fact which is being neglected in most accounts...
...The party begin- to wane immediately it adopted * ttaP** hassB^iHtBe National Issfflfc principles of Nazi Oer-msay...
...All these brave words were evoked by the charge that the C. I. O. organizers were violating a city ordinance by distributing circulars without a permit—a $1 or $2 offense...
...One of the more important st^ps toward A.F.L.-C.I.O...
...Efforts to get united A.F.L...
...will have their first State Conference in Bridgeport on Dec...
...support behind a drive to secure Jobs for workers laid off by industry in recent months have been started by the Milwaukee Industrial Union Council, C.I.O...
...It is a modern glass and concrete construction...
...In spite of millions invested annually the New York schools and pi ay g r o u n d s remain overcrowded and inadequate...
...group yielded all organizing claims over a chain of local restaurants to the C.I.O...
...and unites with the workers of the world in their efforts,to destroy the capitalist regime and form a classless society...
...Sunday's Labor Party convention is part of that realignment...
...groups are outdoing one another in their efforts to make the conference a successful basis for permanent action...
...A notable unity gesture was the recent signing of a "peace pact" 'in the restaurant and hotel field between the Hotel and Restaurant Employes Alliance (A.F.L...
...to meet m Bridgeport The unions affiliated with the C.I.O...
...union, and in turn the A.F.L...
...Everything Modernized The central space, some 300 by ,100 feet is ured for a running \*p**k- At one end of it is a large **Sge, partly under cover and part-"ty Open, where I saw children busily engaged in making scenery...
...Hansen arrogantly set out to explain both the Constitution and Communism to the Senators, but was soon deflated like s flat tire...
...The Trades and Labor Council is protesting against an order-in-council, passed by the Quebec provincial government, which requires workers to become possessors of a competency card issued by the provincial Department of Labor...
...hood-rums...
...The agreement goes into effect July 1,* 1938, and will continue for one year...
...Carney...
...and A.F.L...
...It is all part of tie realignment of'parties en a more realistic basis than this country has known iff" three auarters of a century...
...The Fair Wage Board is rapidly fixing minimum wages for whole industries...
...In the main entrance building are glass showcases containing...
...The committee held a one-day aeaston to question officials of the Johnstown Citizen's Committee and the Constitutional Education League, two of the numerous organizations which recently sprang up like mushrooms to "front" for reactionary interests in their war against labor...
...courts for basketball and other games...
...Six imposing buildings flanking the central space right and left, contain the classrooms, all of which give on open-air corridors...
...MILWAUKEE, Wis.—Split more sharply and more bitterly than in most states during the past year, the labor movement of Wisconsin is now slowly heading toward unity, under pressure from bith within and outside its own ran...
...conference will follow, by a few days, the filing of the latest Mooney appeal with the United States Supreme Court, and will bring the case into the national spotlight and increase agitation immediately the justices begin consideration of the appeal...
...During the last few months the C.I.O...
...central organization...
...But the fundamentals arethe same, and it will not be long before our A.L.P...
...The conditions in New Jersey and New York differ...
...Defending Creech were two prominent lawyers from Harlan and two of the highest-priced criminal law...
...We don't want him in Jersey City, and we will go the limit to keep him out...
...The object of this order,' it is claimed, is to undermine the authority of the unions and lessen their usefulness to the workers...
...They are asking 5.5 cents a mile, with a guarantee of 200 miles when called...
...Unions which was chosen at the meeting of the several unions of the Committee for Industrial Organization in New Haven as early as Aug...
...What...
...I wish every New Yorker could see the "Eseuela So-rialista," a public school completed three years ago, and providing ample classroom and playground space for five thousand children...
Vol. 20 • December 1937 • No. 49
