British-Jap Tension Grows Over Shanghai
British-Jap Tension Grows Over Shanghai English Stevedore* Refuse to Unload Nippen Ui tSodncU Bound for London's Christina* Market. — Naval Officials See Threat to Hong-Kons. LONDON—WHhtSe eyes...
...SSSsflttBr* MEMBERS LTICA, N. Y.-The Amalgsmated Cloth in* Workers' local onion has purchased the machinery of a local clothing plant SSid will operate it a* a anion sshrjtke...
...district organisers had free use of note telephones, desks and offices...
...The frantic effort to untax wealth means putting more burdens on the poor through a sales tax...
...Aa readers of The New Leader will remember, the election held a few months ago gave the Fianna Fail, Mr...
...This would place the British colony in direct line of attack and may give rise to a more serious "incident" than did the sinking of the Panay...
...Corcoran, when he was killed, oas a district vice-president of the state federation...
...Action on a protest which the i F. sf L leaders lodged with IsvernoT Benson awaited his resjrr...
...De Valera's party, exactly half the seats in the Dail, and its voting strength there was brought below half by the choice of one 0i its members as speaker of the house...
...British naval authorities are aroused at a warning handed them by the Japs' Consul General in Hong-Kong, which included a demand for the expulsion of important Chinese officials who have their headquarters there...
...Sir Frederick Mase and the entire foreign staff of the Chinese Customs Service will resign in a body if Japan fulfills her threat to take over and operate it...
...Meanwhile the Grand Jury continues to sift the Corcoran murder...
...The eniea will manufacture detains far the former owners tenor contract...
...These five men had led n hum ma ful strike of building trades workers in Buenos Aires (among whom are many immigrant* from Italy) early in the falL Though the employers had to concede the strikers' demands, the authorities immediately afterward arrested the leaders and ordered them deported aa "undesirable aliens...
...William E. Bonn, educational director of the Rand School, discuss America's Relationship to European Democracies...
...The Labor Party won 13 seats out of the total of 138, and without its support the ministry cannot command a majority...
...Pa., this Sunday...
...Cosgrove's conservative opposition party, to be able to carry on the government independently of the Labor group...
...British authorities on the Island, which is a Crown Colony, are worried over reports that 50,000 Japanese troops had landed on Chikkai Island, 70 miles southwest of Hong-Kong...
...KINGS OPENS NEW HEADQUARTERS State Chairman Antonini, Councilman Armstrong and Assemblyman Frank Monaco will speak at the festivities marking the opening of the new headquarters of the 3rd A. D. Kings Club of the American Labor Party at 502 Henry St., Brooklyn, on Saturday evening, December 18...
...Only one of those trying this, Bailey of North Carolina, has admitted the fact—but one is plenty...
...Feed Hares Btcssr feeling between the A. F. of L> and the CJ.O...
...Government Breaks FrnssJso Officers of the National Federation of Labor intervened and get a solemn .promise from the government that the men should be allowed to transship at Gibraltar, so as to reach some country (probably Mexico) where they would not be in danger of arbitrary imprisonment or worse...
...The Irish World admits the possibility that, in the event of a new election, the Labor Party would come hack stronger than it now is, but thinks that the present governing party would gain enough seats from Fine Gael, Mr...
...The paper even en-' visions the possibility that within a few years Fianna Fail and Fine Gael will have to "pool their following to keep the Laborites from controlling the politics of the Irish Free State...
...William E. Bonn, educational director of the Band School of...
...unions in the vicinity ran high as the Federation jOBTieii...
...from California where he had addressed a "Free Mooney" mass meeting of 12,000 people...
...Carpenters' Union organizer, with revolvers...
...The occaaipS will take place in the Jane Addams Peace Center, 206 Stanwix St., Pittsburgh...
...I.F.T.U...
...LONDON—WHhtSe eyes «/ltt| world teeoed on Nanking and the international situation teaming more tense as the "Panay incident" wMend trie1 ri7t% between tile XWllW and Japan and throws America into Great Br.tam's pesittori the Japanese v are arrogantly takfng more of Sterhgha...
...The A. F. of L.'s $1,000 offer brings total reward money for arrest tad conviction of the slayers ———1The anion label has the "Green Ujff-Lat's ge!_ Argentina Sends 5 Labor Leaders to I tal| to Be Shot Men Are Deported Alter Leading Successful Strike a* —Turned Over to Fascists Despite Government Promise...
...ft would bring about an even more dangerous situation in the Orient, for the Chinese Customs revenues do not only go to fill China's national treasury, they serve as security for the millions of dollars worth of British, American and other foreign "loans'' to China...
...The union members are now busy getting the factory into shape for operation...
...lifwiky from other world powers every day...
...to The New Leader MINNEAPOLIS, Minn...
...December 19, at 2:30 p. m. Dr...
...The boycott against Japan—'' goods which 'is sweeping reveals the bitter feeling prevalent amongst the people against the Nipponese aggression in China...
...It is believed that this means the establishment of a powerful base from which further air raids on Canton can be effected...
...immediately it authorized the acetang of a $1,000 reward for the arrest and eonviciton of the murderers, charged that the CJ.O...
...Tartak will preside...
...The International Federation of Trade Unions has issued a statement sharply denouncing the duplicity of the Argentine officials, who are suspected of being either secret sympathizers or bribed tools of the Fascist movement...
...In next week's issue The New Leader will print an article contributed by L. J. Duffy, secretary of the Irish Labor Party, which gives a background for important news that may be expected.—Ed...
...It is understood that Mussolini feared a popular demonstration at Genoa...
...Nov PfftittBt For lie Irish Dail Arc Thought Probable The well informed Irish World, published in ¦ New York, gives prominence to the report of statements made by two cabinet ministers of the Free State indicating the probability that the present Dnsl (Parliament) will he dissolved and now elections held in the near future...
...AMSTERDAM.—Trade unionists all over Estrone are indignant over the action of the government of Argentina in not only deporting five Italian-born labor leaders, but treacherously handing them over to the Italian Fascist government...
...A Minneapolis and Chicago organizer, known to the Hennepin County grand jury under the alias of "Mohler," and who is thought to be Frank Huber, has been indicted for carrying concealed weapons...
...Siegfried Lipschitz, director of "Labor Chest," and Dr...
...The Grand Jury will resume its inquiry into reports of Minneapolis labor union violence on Dec...
...A«.L..C.l.O...
...The Labor members in the Dail made a vigorous protest...
...Japanese goods on their way to the London Christmas market were reshipped from Southampton to their home ports since the stevedores, members of the Transport and General Workers* Union, refused to load them on trucks or trains for distribution to the interior...
...3rd 4.0...
...As the {bar-week old attempts to find the Ourderer of Pstrick J. Corcoran, Minnesota labor leader who was ib»t m front of his home, came to naught, the State Federation of Labor officially entered the case...
...It has been reported this week that the government has proposed to appoint a minister to Rome, Iaccrediting him not only to the King of Italy, but to the "Emperor" of Ethiopia...
...Objection was voiced also by spokesmen for Fine Gael, but this is thought to be actuated only by partisan apposition...
...Posing the question, "Should America Keep Aloof From the European Democracies...
...County Attorney Ed J. Goff, who has reported receiving several threats since the investigation opened, said his office will continue its probe to obtain a mass of new evidence to lay before the jury when it reconvenes...
...Inquiry Continues Firotto baa also been charged with second degree assault in connection with his fight with Corcoran the Saturday before the vicepresident was mowed down by bullets...
...When the vessel touched at Gibraltar the Italian consul went aboard, and the five workingmen did not get ashore...
...Its inquiry into the slaying and the Minneapolis labor situation has resulted in the indictment and arraingment of Eddie and Al Firotto...
...The government at Rome telegraphed orders to the ship to change her course and run straight for Naples...
...Principe asa Giovanna, bound for Genoa...
...The union has decided that under no circumstances would products of the aggressor nation be handled...
...BOHN AND LIPSCHITZ WILL BE HEARD AT FINAL RAND SCHOOL FORUM Closing a long and successful season, the Rand School Forum, under the guidance of Elias Tartak, will hear Algernon Lee, contributing editor of The New Leader...
...It was with this distinct understanding that they sailed on the S.S...
...the siyimposium begins at 2:30, Saturday, December 18, at the Rand School, 7 East 15th St . Mr...
...Crisis Over Customs la Shanghai the situation has become even more tense...
...The promise was shamelessly broken...
...Protests As soon as the ship dropped anchor in the port of Naples on November 21, Fascist police boarded her, brought the men ashore handcuffed and under heavy guard, and hurried them to a prison, where it is known that they were locked in five isolated cells...
...Chicago organisers, on charges of first degree assault...
...imihjiirtnrn was being maintained fcr state funds in the State Highway Department and that the C.I.O...
...Social Science will speak eh American Democracy and Depressions Quiz Into Union Violence Pushed by Minnesota Labor gpeem...
...If this threat of the British hi carried out, it would immediately paralyse the collection of customs, on which Japan is largely counting to recoup her cost of the war...
...They are accused of threatening Detlaf Wieck...
...The plant has been operated for several sV cadi l and employs about 236 workers...
...Sean Lemass, Minister of Industry and Commerce, and Oscar Traynor, Minister of Posts and Telegraphs, are quoted as saying that this situation is becoming intolerable, intimating that Fianna Fail would rather be relieved of govemmenal responsibility if it cannot have a clear, majority...
...fenesylvaile The second in a winter series of public meting* sponsored by Local Allegheny County, Social Democratic Federation, should be of outstanding interest to the pantile of the Pittsburgh and AihJ^eay County area...
...He is not yet in custody...
...HOW ABOUT UNTAXING THE POOH...
...LEE...
Vol. 20 • December 1937 • No. 51
