BIG BUSINESS OPENS ATTACK ON LABOR
BIG BUSINESS OPENS ATTACK ON LABOR Big Propaganda Machine Ready To Make Drive TWO documents adopted last week by the "Congress of Am erjaa Industry" inspired by the Nagual Association of...
...mission to print some of Ms impressions of Franklin 0. Jtoosovelt...
...Seven of the most im****** representatives of Western *rman industry, all of whom had *t»ed the protest, were included * the "invitation" list...
...JACK SANDFORD THE London Dolly Herold's ace , I correspondent In Paris, a personal friend of Leon Blum, Loon Jouhawx and offcor Intornotlonal SoaJilhf ami Laker leaders, who gives his first-hand impressions of what Is going on behind the scenes in Europe today...
...In Jane, 1932, nearly a hundred eminent magnates of industry and banks sent a hysterical letter to President Hoover...
...It can pet in touch with its allies in any section on short notice...
...His accuser asserts that the union innsHtutisr...
...These industrial leaders, with their foreign tie-ups and internaBmal interlocking directorates' by »tttrol!ing the kef war industries, o*M knock askew Hitler's BerlinBome axis by refusing to arm the •entry...
...Both In Meat Week's Issue...
...If this conflict regarding procedure can be solved by the joint conference, the door will be opened to a satisfactory agreement...
...Schacht from the Ministry of Economies, the Fuehrer fet the first time since 1933 encMntered opposition which he cannot smash...
...It supplies motion pictures free to movie houses and has professors of colleges to serve it...
...They declare against the closed union shop and assert that employment should be available on the "basis of merit" while discharges should be solely in the hands of superintendents, foremen and personnel departments...
...They could not agree on the status of the unions affiliated with the C.I.O...
...Revolt Against (taring's Policies He** of Industrie* Vital to Hitler's War Program Warn Him They Will Fight Schacht's Successor...
...Special to The New Leader...
...and the secret police...
...Stump recently returned from Hacrisburg, where Republican and Democratic representatives of first, second and third class cities, boroughs and townships declared that enforcement of the 44-hour law would be a hardship for these communities...
...Schacht, as a result, is more ^rauned than ever to take no '•"her part in the administration *the Reichsbank...
...Into each will be stuffed substantial sums, running, as high as $2,000 and, in all, aggregating $225,000 in the form of travel mileage allowance...
...The executive committee of the French Socialist Party unanimously decided to organize a "Help for Republican Spain Day" throughout France and it is scheduled for Dec 26...
...They were active in the Pacific Northwest until the first of tldfl year until hostile labor groups, spurred by the exposures of the Sunday Mean, curtailed their activities...
...He insisted that cities should set an example to private industry, and upon his return home declared that his administration would try to do even better for city employees than what the state law provided...
...which has laid off some 800 organisers, and H is admitted that dues received at headquarters have declined It is also reported that some of the C.I.O...
...Unions Is Main Barrier to Peace With A. F. of L.—Upholsterers Now Affected WASHINGTON, D. a —Prospects for peace between the A. F. of L. and the C.I.O...
...In all arms factories there is a military management to supplement the technical division supplied by the private owners...
...In a front-page editorial headed, "Make John N. Garner U. -8...
...Lewis wants them all to be admitted to a united organization, and Green insists on taking in only the origilally suspended unions, leaving the settlement regarding the new unions to be made by negotiations with the A. F. of L. unions whose fields are covered by the new C.I.O...
...Strength of Loyalist Arrtiy Dooms Fascists Spanish Government Can Hold Out If Food Supply Lasts —French and British Socialist* Rush AidFranco Abolishes Trade Unions—Republic Nationalizes Railroads...
...Big business ......Unit against the President has lot to several open calls for his assassination in the press and in employers' According to reports from Chicago, Maria Thorpe, editor of The Nation's Business, official paper of the U. 8. Chamber of OomJsotSS) called for foi inatiau of aa organization to "save the Constitution and our economic system...
...A few progressives and some liberal legislators are calling for action to handle the increase in unemployment, which is due partly to the slump and partly to winter declines in industrial activity...
...Social Democratic Mayor Fights for Forty-Hour Week READING, Pa...
...Tils nece*sity for retrenchment is also certain to affect many A^Bf of L. unions, and some workers tar peace - believe that this new situation may contribute something to enforcing the arguments for bringing shout unity...
...Acts of sabotage and breaches of discipline are punished by military courts...
...HE phrase "without coercion * from any source" is taken from the Republican national platform of 1936...
...Hoover soothed them with soft words end passed out of office with the banking structure of the nation falling about him...
...The C.I.O...
...Attacks on New Deal Grow Despite Slump Congress Stalls As Winter Relief Needs Increase Special to The New Leader WASHINGTON, D. O—Now that the buck has been passed to Congress by the President, both houses sre playing hide and seek with the depression and the special session has become a sharp fight among the strategists of various groups, and little is happening to solve the vital problems for which the session was called...
...The legal Spanish government has issued a decree providing for the nationalization of the railways and has set up a National Railway Council consisting- of a president and 18 members...
...Imagine the property less individual "freely" bargaining with a billion dollars of corporate cash...
...Franco has tried every spot on the northern CatsIonian front and he knows he cant get through...
...President," Liberation said, hi part...
...The author of the phrase was an ancle of Alfred M. Landou, a publicity agent of one of the big steal corporation*: This camouflage for company unionism is revived by the "Congress of American Industry...
...But all opposition was steam-rollered by the.majority leaders while the Senate passed the resolution unanimously...
...He remains "*«dent in name alone and his J"*J*aation from the nominal presi*Bcy is inevitable within a few J****, which will leave Germany's ***«eial destinies in the hands of i>r_?uakand General Goering...
...in June, 1933, there had been dispute over interpretation of Section 7A regarding the right to organise which continued in the two yean if consideration of the National Want Individual 'Bargaining'and Servile Unions Labor Relations Act with employer* urging inclusion of the words "coercion from any source...
...has brought conflict into the Upholsterers' International Union of the A. F of L Sal B. Hoffman, president of the Upholsterers' Union, attended the unity conference for this industry called by the CJ.O...
...But the sentiment among progressive leaders in Congress is for an increase in the $1,500,000,000 appropriation which is supposed to last until next July...
...The question then is: Can Italy continue to finance, man and arm the insurgents for so long a time...
...All is quiet on the political front...
...VALENCIA.—As insurgent General Franco closes the borders of Fascist-controlled territory near GibfaJter and the Pyren*es~$o begin his much vaunted "final offensive" on three ironts, it becomes obvious to those of us here who are in contact with the military situation that the combined RebelItalian-Nazi drives cannot succeed...
...BIG BUSINESS OPENS ATTACK ON LABOR Big Propaganda Machine Ready To Make Drive TWO documents adopted last week by the "Congress of Am erjaa Industry" inspired by the Nagual Association of Manufactawra are of special interest to the seeking: masses...
...Both present the views of the big shots of the business world regarding the renewed descent of industry into depression and presented the policies they favor to bring recovery...
...One wa% devoted to "Labor Relations Poljcies" and the other was a "Platform for 193S...
...FI their fright they asked Hoover, "Are we to sink in the mire, overwhelmed in the chaos of repudiation, bankruptcies, riots and receiverships ?" They wanted a government agency that would "quiet liana throughout the country" but assured him that they did not favor fair*"" or dictatorship...
...Franco cannot win the war by*1force unless Italy sends its entire army into Spain...
...o^nnpr ¦ ^PwS n?W 3m Of Sow SfW^j f...
...Dispute is Upholsterers Meantime, disputes between the two organizations in a number of areas have developed and some hot words have been exchanged...
...As the two leaders did not hurdle this obstacle, it is feared that the main conference will find it as difficult...
...For many months since the passage of the K.I.R.A...
...Molti-uniformed General Goering ¦ back swiftly at the industrialists by threatening to nationalize he whole German iron and steel hfastry unless its leaders accept *e government's policy without Wwtion...
...The National Maritime Union, which broke with the International Seamen's Union, has voted to join the C.I.O...
...and it was announced that he would ftfeJMH drswal of his union from the A. F. of L. Hoffman denies this and declares that he and other delegates of his union only agreed to submit the matter to a twKwBdum of his members...
...That is, as quiet as can be expected with the Communists following their usual tactics of combining surface affability and cooperation with covert s l a n d er against men not of their own party...
...Madrid hi now so strongly fortified that it may easily cost the rebels a third of their army to break through that front and then they will only hold an empty city with a garrison they will ill be able to waste...
...Panic gripped them and Aey urged the President to revive the Council of National Defense, a World War agency...
...in a poll of some 20,000 members, while a new Furniture Workers' Union chartered by the C.I.O...
...As more attention is being paid to the hostilities in the Orient and to war talk in Europe, the army is pushing its propaganda among Senators and Representatives to make new and heavy armaments the next pump-priming venture...
...It is recalled that it was Pelley who directed Bis organization under the fuidanos of those in charge of bisaktng the strike against "kittle Steel" earlier this year...
...They mean that government should protect scabs in taking the puce of strikers...
...Again nervous, the big shots now present a program of their awn...
...do not appear promising as the time approaches for the joint conference to again meet here next Tuesday...
...All the workers are treated as soldiers on active service and come under the military laws...
...The Silver Shirts, oxpsssj along With such groups as the GermanAmerican Bund as proponents of Hitlerite doctrines in the United States, are urging that "Roosevelt 'and his Jew-Communist mob" be replaced with Gamer...
...A difficult barrier to reunion arose in the recent sub-committee meeting at which President Green and John L. Lewis met...
...Fascist Threat to Roosevelt Seen in Pelley's Paper Special to The New Leader WASHINGTON, D. C. — AntiNew Deal forces are beoomiag bolder and their attacks lees subtle, reports in the capitol reveaL What amounted to an appeal for the assassination of the President was contained in a current adrttea of the New Liberation, official publication of William Dudley PaftayV Nasi Silver Shirts...
...Pelley's support of the vice-president and his I in Usui—Is against Roosevelt are legarded OS significant, in light of Got em's recently revealed hostility to the Mew Deal and labor...
...Other Socialists Help On the other hand, the British Labor Party, spurred by Major Attlee and Herbert Morrison, has renewed its drive to supply food to the Loyalists...
...The company union emerges in the following mask: "The right of employees and employers to form organizations for their mutual advantage...
...Sandford will write every month...
...Compared with the right oe ten million unemployed, it can be seen how inadequate public relief is at present...
...Iu other words, «'nce the time between the special id the regular session is too short to permit them to go home, they are being paid for expenses they will never incur to the tune of a quarter of a million dollars...
...Following the 10 per cent capital levy edict, H Duce placed the Italian war industries en a military basis...
...While other Pennsylvania cities ore seeking exemption from the state's 44-hour week law, Mayor J. Henry Stump, Social Democrat, declares efforts will be made to place local city employees on a 40-hour basis...
...Immediately Hitler had *eived the protest, signed by *°re than 30 corporation heads, "•ring summoneeNa meeting of * key men in Berlin.* This was attended by Goering, *Mral von Blomberg, War Minge...
...And if he tries Almeria in the South, he will have to beat an atnaaing military organization built by the Spanish government...
...This is mo biographical sketch but en htlght into the personality behind the New Deal...
...Remaining true to his fascist tradition, Franco abolished all the trade unions in the Biscay provinces of Northern Spain...
...Frick...
...Mast Hove Food If the Republic's authorities can reorganize its food supply as it has reorganized ita fighting machinery, the war will go on for another year and more...
...HIS organization has the moat * extensive (Und powerful pubdieity machine ever organized...
...Funk, Schacht's successor to jm Ministry of Economics, and *¦ Dreyse, vice-president of the hnehabank...
...These policies differ fundamentally from the attitude of big capital in the sinking period of 1932 which ended in the bank holiday in March, 1933...
...However, the Fascists are not the only inspiration for such action...
...A watch is maintained constantly...
...They have been replaced by "syndicates" formed by the amalgamation of the Spanish Fascists and Traditionalists, organized on Italian lines...
...Speciat to The New Leader PARIS.—When heads of three rreat German industries—iron and rteei, caul, and chemicals—sent after s joint message protesting •gainst the tactics of Goering which drove Dr...
...Unless we rise to our «e» sponsibilities, close ranks and prepare to meet the attack, wn aw likely to loae much that hsqffln gained in recant years...
...The Congress IjmTIfssj that the decline of industry and increase of unemployment provide H an opportunity to attack...
...Nowhere is it stated that collective bargaining is to include negotiations by unions organized and controlled by the workers themselves...
...THEY assert that a primary obligation of government "is protection of the right to work...
...Then with bluntness Goering told *«m» that the government would ** shrink from the drastic step of *>nscatuig their industries if they f*m»ined adamant...
...Those Congressmen who objected to the steal did so on the ground that the special session had accomplished nothing to help the hundreds of thousands who lost their jobs just before Christmas...
...The army's generals are making converts inside the Administration and Congress, aided of course by the excitement stirred by the sinking of the Panay...
...While Congress is doing nothing to stem the tragedy which wQl hit millions this winter in the form of little or no income, it is playing Santo Clans to itself by making sure that no member of either house will have an empty sock this Christmas morning...
...He is determined to do little but wait for Congress to act and fouows tenaciously his .now policy of reconciliation with big business...
...Thus a nasty row appears to be imminent In the Upholsterers' Union...
...national affiliate* are economising by reducing the number of organisers...
...They do not mean that when millions become idle through no fault of their own the government should see to it that industry employs them...
...It reaches schools with its propaganda, stocks libraries with boohs to its own liking and provides 24sheet bill posters supporting its interests...
...They want to amend State and Federal anti-injunction laws and will seek to repeal "provisions limiting liability of anions for acts of their officers and employees...
...Minority Gets RoHof Latest reports show that there are 1,575,000 persons on work relief, including the 360,000 recently added...
...Largo Caballero, who went to Paris to negotiate for peace in the U.G.T., attended the meeting of the officials of the I.F.T.U...
...A workman absent from work for more than four days without a valid excuse is regarded as a deserter and may be sentenced, to be shot by a firing squad...
...aaOREover, they favor the sacred '""right" of the workers "to bargain individually" as well aa collectively, each party to be "free" to "accept or reject proposals made by the other...
...President Roosevelt will not permit himself to be questioned on the depression at any of bis press conferences...
...Minister of the «erior...
...They intend to fight for the old corporate absolutism and rip from the statute books of the states and nation those mega axes that have given seme protection to the organised workers of the country...
...He is now being hi+entt gated by Senator LaFollette's Civil Liberties Committee Is Cleveland, Thousands of copies of the Maw Liberation were covertly distributed all along the rente of President Roosevelt's recent trip through the West...
...It is a warning to the working masses...
...Already there is more than mere dissension under Mussolini...
...FEATURES COME FIRST The NEW LEADER is happy to announce EMIL LUDWIG WHO bos given the Editors per...
...It supplies news releases and has Its feature writers for various publications...
...Good Americans should know, and appreciate their vice-president better than they do and realize what an influence for reconstruction, and a return to sterling Americanism of the Coolidg* variety, he would ispr scoot if the fates be kind enough to pi salt him to step into the present shoes of Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...answers with a bitter criticism of Hoffman, nipsrtlng that he had declared "onea wsk^oa' all bodies" of his union favoring the C.I.O., and a New York member of Hoffman's organisation ha* brought charges against Huffman on a number of counts, one being that he had obstructed "efforts to bring about unity...
...provides for suspension of an accused officer until after vindication in a trial...
...Army Fashes Armament Harry L. Hopkins, Public Relief Administrator, who threatened to resign when Roosevelt suggested that the government return to direct relief of unemployment with grants-in-aid to states, and state administration of relief, said this week that additional workers could be taken care of out of funds already appropriated...
...Although not announcing its program as a declaration of mar against organised workers, labor and social legislation, that is what it means...
...Tat decision of the heads of the protesting industries to apt Hitler was taken at a held in the office of the !*«Mb-Westphalian Chamber of It was a private eon7*^** »nd there was unanimous ^***>over the concentration of -JiaotBie power in the hands of #*«ui Goering, Labor Conference Of Rival Groups To Meet Tuesday Status of New C.I.O...
...It has its Intimate contacts with leading newspapers all over the nation...
...Mayor Stump supported the new law at a meeting of representatives of the League of Third-Class Cities and his was* the only voice raised in defense of the law...
...Lndwig's article SOS appeared" In so other English sews* paper ar magazine Is this country...
...Having stated all these "rights," the silk hat gentlemen piously assert that they favor the "excercise of all these rights without coercion from any source...
...It is nothing more nor less than a return to the corporation feudalism that preceded the first crash, supplemented with ethical and almost religious piety...
...organizations...
...Herr Hirdmler, head of *e S.S...
...British capitalist groups interested in the northern mining region, it is known in authentic diplomatic circles, are pleased no end by the decline in "labor troubles" their corporations in Spain have enjoyed since Franco conquered that territory...
...At the same time it appears that the depression has hit the C.I.O...
Vol. 20 • December 1937 • No. 51
