LaFollette Committee Fights To Stem Growth of Vigilantes
LaFollette Committee Fights To Stem Growth of Vigilantes WASHINGTON. — Despite the work in the Senate Investigating Committee of Robert LaFollette civil liberties ere sti ft denied liberals...
...So with the Russian drive over Northern and Central Asia—and with any of the others...
...The Italia* people, the Japanese people, of course, ||i|iit<Mgj| test Wis...
...They all have to learn, they are all beginning to learn, that the days of domination are ever, and that their subject peoples have to be prepared for and helped to independence...
...You see, he had been promised not just gkry bnt a great deal of profit...
...It is no longer possible...
...The ebb is beginning—everywhere...
...Reports that the senate civil liberties committee and the CJ.O...
...The phase of building has gone...
...lids drive was sparred by the Histamine that 38 agencies furnishing industrial stoolpigeons to antiunion employers, or hiring thugs and ex-convicts to act as strikebreakers, are located in this state...
...Having disposed of this inps...
...still dream of bringing aader the heel ef the Rsisk Czechs and Pales, Slovaks aad Rumanians and Ukrainians from Silesia to" the Black Sea—this is beyond Bedlam...
...It is probable that the convention will simply decide in favor of renewal of the present agreements...
...In Africa, true, the process hss gone less fsr...
...The tide of Imperial conquest has turned...
...The world is faced by the last madness ef hist for conquest in s day when conquest has become an absurdity and the conqueror's Empire an impossibility...
...It was reported the Senate Committee's ilsrhrion to include Cleveland in the survey waa * ran ait of articles carried in The Cleveland Press, beginning with a description of Sanaa Sterling's Association of Taagnsa and ending with a survey of conditions CSMMlBj in Ohio communities by the recent steel strike...
...But then...
...S So far one man has Seen killed and a number of labor organisers have been ordered to leave town under pain of being killed if they disobeyed toe warning...
...k -was reported thai Amlie had reenhred messages urging that the speech, be cancelled because of repeat revival of activity by airti.a-Scr.Ru KVix vigilantes...
...The conquest of Afagasiais waa to salve Italy's her and everything the heart of an Italian could desire...
...From both has come little but expense and disappointment—and the prospect of more expense, more effort, more sacrifice...
...town Sheet and Tube Co...
...New Steel Union Meets In First Convention ¦ ¦— - .j . A Thousand Delegates Attend, Including Repreeesa...
...Gahtod by to Labor ranks' with that of Governor Benson of Minnesota and Governor Phil LaFollette of Wisconsin, the recently created State ' Bureau of Civil Rights has launched a TTB^'r1 t0 drive labor spies and professional strikebreakers out The Stat* Bureau of Civil Rights is a new tribunal which the last ftuWttBfl authorized as a part of Safit/n tehee program...
...Cost of living In Italy has gone dp 30 per cent Stendardjif living in Japan (already terribly low) Se^ra' Kbolh countries there is a police system that .^events discontent from showing itself...
...ly W. N. EWER...
...The real trouble about Mussolini, and about his Japanese opposite numbers is that they are out of date...
...trary, approximately l&MC sjgjt workers are still wagi* f* b?E battle at Republic Steel ph** Youngstown, Warren and Ohio...
...With th& announced purpose of combatting Communism, Miss Sterling ,an organizer for William Dudley Policy's Silver Shirts, enlisted influential sujJpmL for her work at the same time she was assisting pro-Nazi groups in antiJewish propaganda...
...A rash Imperialism would have tried to hold and rule all that territory—and would have wrecked Britain in the attempt * • * CAPTIVE PEOPLES BECOME RESTIVE BUT sound instinct knew the task an impossible one even for the resources of the British Empire, National feeling among Egyptians and Arabs and Persians and the rest was too strong...
...Despite propaganda to toe ens...
...The delegates are jubilant and confident of their power, over-confident it may be said, as quite a number favor drastic demands on hours and wages which the experienced leaders know cannot be pressed in a depression...
...4GG«$SiO«S LEAD TO HEW WARS /CONQUEST of Manchuria has forced Japan into a saw war for the conquest of Northern China...
...WHAT PRICE CONQUEST...
...the phase of breaking up, or of transition to something very different, has begun...
...In organisation and equipment add fighting power the local governments wars hopelessly inOrt...
...opened its first national convention here on Tuesday and listened to Philip Murray, its chairman, Lieutenant-Governor Kennedy and Governor Eerie...
...Doubts ajjit tea waa nsa "deageroue thinking" in Japan, "Bolshevism" in, Italy...
...A battis or two could eoaqoer a arovtaee...
...What lies ahead these same worried gentlemen are beginning te regard as a difficult puzzle...
...Each speaker was severely critical of President Green of the A. F. of L., who, the day before at a meeting in East Liverpool, Ohio, also severely criticised the C.I.O...
...nas^twtisse with the companies will begin ea February 17 in the iiipsilljsn that agreements will be reached* Ifcbpnary 28, whan the ir4af Among the delegates art representatives of lodges participatiaf hi the strike against Tom Girdkr** anti-union Republic Steal Corporation...
...Dances, parties and minstrel show* have been staged by these lodges to raise funds...
...Buffalo, N. T^BL'fl| Chicago, fll...
...The new bureau's activities also have been speeded by a campaign of terror, launched by anti-union employers against A. F. of L. organisers in the city of Phoenixville...
...Despite the work in the Senate Investigating Committee of Robert LaFollette civil liberties ere sti ft denied liberals and progressives throughout they-country...
...But his dreams go further...
...They cannot atop...
...But it begins there...
...At the dose of the war Britain had conquered an enormous new Empire in toe Middle East...
...England, very rich in experiences of such things, has learned the lesson...
...tea* matter, wag...
...They must succeed or break...
...Empire-raring a very easy one...
...JToday it is all different...
...Mussolini may, by straining Italy's resources to the utmost, subdue and hold Abyssinia...
...Cost of Mm Abyssinian war was outrageously beyond estimate: and it is (after two years) by m Ipflata'ejpav 9m new capital levy shows to wha* financial straits it has reihcsd Italy...
...Of course, all this does aet lessen the dpnges that such attempts may be made—are, indeed, being made...
...Congressman Amlie received tha> following message from a "We still feel ear only hope for stopping these depredations lies in an investigation by the LaPollette committee...
...Erapire-building was comparatively an easy thing...
...straggle, exhausting, profitless, in the long run hopeless...
...A business man who ranted an empty building for anion meetings was threatened with having his store dynamited unless he cancelled the lease he had given the labor men...
...The Chinese lines may be broken...
...The days of the great Empires, as the nineteenth century knew them, are over...
...W/HAT price Conquest...
...Two of the LaFollette commit, tee's see investigators—-Ren Allen, who directed the exposuie of Harlan Comity mine terrorism, and Ralph Winstead, who Investigated jfte fcfljggt father, spy^ agenay^i* | Their visit hare is in sneaitijl with a nation-wide inquiry the Lajfaflstto Committee is conducting into alleged majpr—lion of constitutional lrberties, particularly with reference to last summer's ataal stria* ana the vigilante, gronpi which arose from it...
...Having set Ufp provisional Headquartera hi CUvinmci, Ohio, the Civil Libertiea Committee is getting ta week on "UtiSm M" The files sad TSaairi> of Hill and1 Knowlton, public relations directors for Republic Steel Corporation and the American Iron and Steel Institute have been subpoenaed...
...the average Italian, the average Japanese, can hardly help wondering...
...and J|L lehem Steal O>rpe*ation, k etL tion to Republic Steel'—those syi fee ted by last summer's strik* against "Little Steel"--*** aha represented...
...a madman's vision that, pursued, could' only lead Italy not to greatness bat to eoBapse...
...Nationality has become too-strong foe Imperialism to succeed...
...As with the British, so with all the other Empires—French, Dutch, Bosnian and the rest...
...It deed not lessen (he responsibility of those who have 1st the organization of security become so feeble that the attempts are possible...
...Pretty high, as worm jfatl gentlemen in Rome and in Tokyo are beginning anxiously to discover...
...Lodges at mills of Yo«*ya...
...He thinks of a new Roman Empire of the East, of Italian domination of Spain, of heaven knows what 1 Even if no Great Power stood in iris way, it is...
...Cost of the Chinese war hi touching the $500,000,000 mash, more than tie whole cos* of the Russo-Japanese war...
...And they cannot succeed...
...Manchuria was to provide for Japan as Abyssinia for Italy...
...H^RMSBURC^a...
...It will do in Pennsylvania what the LaFollette Senate Committee is doing throughout the nation by exposing the seMaiUas of labor spies, vigilantes and other agencies interfering with the rights of workers...
...tivea of Little Steel's Struck PknU—To CoasiaW New Agreements...
...Wisely, "British Imperialism" 'rejected toe temptation, and quietly withdrew from its aew conquests...
...The Wielaad Packing Company, leading spirit in the anti-union movement, has armed its truck drivers...
...Server of KU Klux Klan repniaaji agaicst friends who had :r.vn#d him tc speak at a memorial meeting for Joseph Shoemaker, mtrsderea by the Tampa police, i s ifsiiTf Progressive Congressman Amlie, a frequent contributor to :hg eofcamis of The New Leader, to cal off a speech which had been scheduled for some time...
...Even that is not certain...
...To hold that new Empire would have <been to embark on years of confirms...
...Richard O'Donnell, assistant director of the State Bureau of Civil Rights, was rushed to Phoenixville to investigate, after charges were filed with the bureau by the A. F. of L. organizers...
...Gov...
...are regarded Vtfh antagonism and of growing activity by vigilantes in sou them .sta tes have reached Washington is increasing numbers recently...
...Janlie said he had ho fear for sisvown life, but explained that he wehted no reprisals' against his friends living ht Tampa...
...Whan the British conquered India they did so because there was no affective resistance...
...Conquest of Abyssinia—a little less directly—has led Italy into the Spanish campaign...
...late Puskt Efforts to Stamp Out Labor Spies New Pennsylvania Bureau of Civil Rights Will Probe Fascist Anti-Union Drive m rooeruxTiiie...
...behind the packing company...
...And more adventure...
...It is reported that 1,080 lodges are represented and that nearly 2,000 resolutions by locals and delegates threaten to swamp any committee that considers them...
...If this is not dene, Z saa afraid that many of on will have to nee the state for fear of our lives...
...They are chasing mirages as illusory as Dante's dream of re-establishing one universal monarchy over all Christendom or Napoleon's vision of a French Empire from the Tagus to the Volga...
...Typical of the *^^4fttat hi these steel centers is that of Mat sillon and Warren, Ohio, where 6.500 men, through varfisa sstfarttias to boaster striae ap^hto digging in for a fight to the finish...
...Permits to carry guns were granted by the sheriff...
...Special to The If** Leader PITTSBURGH, Pa.—With about Steel Workers' Organizing Committee of the C.I.O...
...They are dreaming of building and rating and exploiting great Empires, of installing their people as a ruling race over huge subject papulations...
...Bnssaass the days of conquest are over...
...British rule would never have bean passively accepted...
...and it ha* only just begun...
...There was no national consciousness...
...The conditions for doing so are gene...
...Scores of men suspected of onion- sympathy have been "laid" off .and the police have become less tolerant of the mine union's meetings, which far t time went unmolested...
...Meanwhile, despite the indictments of the Senate Committee, the Harlan County Coal Operators have^begun^to close their grip on again...
...China of the twentieth century is not India of the nineteenth...
...The LaFottstte committee has been gathering material in the South recently Mock of the committee's investigation has been ulaalSil by shortage of funds, due partly, to aenpsitUn yw*H»wn niiiUJS—.Willi according to information here...
...As to Germans who may...
...DICTATOR'S DREAM AND it is aew that, with a blind romanticism, Japan and Italy choose te try to begin careers ef Imperial conquest and domination...
...A "citizens' committee'' has been formed to prevent unionization "because it threatens the business of Phoenixville," and the city council has authorized employment of 25 "special policemen" to prohibit picketing of merchants who line up...
...But, police or no jftlfrrt...
...To try to keep them in submission would be, in the long ran, a hopeless, unprofitable and suicidal effort...
...Special to The New Leader...
...Reports- from the South reveal .net ngnwme grags sno wse wtw Kiax Kian are riding again detersiai to wipe out gains winch trail anises and other organiaatioqi, fighting fox social improvemdft have evade sine* the LaFeilette Committee came into existence...
...Japan may win battles in China...
...To subdue, to hold, to govern and to exploit that huge population tnosed now to a wbite heat of national consciousness and hatred for the invader is beyond possibility...
Vol. 20 • December 1937 • No. 51
