Labors Enemies Are United; Shall Labor Remain Divided?
Lee, Algernon
Labors Enemies Are United; Shall Labor Remain Divided? By ALGERNON LEE THE joint conference committee set up by the American Federation of Labor and the Committee for Industrial Organization...
...Only one or two unpleasant incidents marred this great "democratic" election which has made the capitalist countries so envious...
...Bat they cant pierce the thick hid* of his ingrown certainties...
...Call it dictatorship, leader-worship, or what you will...
...It is doubtful whether a dozen votes were registered against it...
...The election results speak for themselves...
...Five hundred school chfiBM P Moscow, in black and wafts »»»• tunes with red ties, saag |m9B* fully a hymn entitled, "Thanh apt, Stalin, for a heavy M%*^J§r AN orchestra of* 900 eidBjpjjjjf cellos played s specially-**'1*** melody whose words are s OWf.m: reverence to him...
...y Letters to the Editor: NINFO HAILS ELECTION VICTORY AND CALLS FOR INCREASED EFFORTS Editor of The How Leader: The municipal campaign of 1987 is over...
...There were some people too ill to vote and quite a number, who were too dead to be placed on the polling lists, so the election passed off quietly...
...The New York Times exhibition makes a point of mis...
...Richard C. Cabot says: "The Wasserman test has about it a great deal that we do not know...
...They are fighting labor in the legislative hells and in the courts...
...in too years they made the list of neediest—the goal of ail charity eases, Mr...
...is becoming worldwide despite the various policies of many governments...
...He is preparing for a capital levy of 10 per cent next March, and if our Babbitts faced this prospect, many of them would faint '.'_ The fact is, the causes of depression are rooted deep in our present form of production and distribution, and the nations are so tied together by so many economic and commercial ties that when the illness appears in one or more'nations it is communicated to the others...
...Bv A. L. FA&TFRU AN MOSCOW.—Stalin' cheered "h of the Moscow Soviet w Bolshoi Theatre here last weel When he walked on the stage fh the center of his Cabinet, there was a burst of wild cheering lasting for fully five minutes, from an iudience of 2,000 guests representative of all parts of the Soviet Union...
...Csse 22: "Totally blind from tubercular iritis, Robert G., 42 years old, works bravely at his Job as barter* Until two years ago, the couple who make up Case SB "seemed to have achieved the goal to which they had been working through 25 years of married life—a comfortable home and a bright future for their children...
...QUR "scoop" last, week in predicting tMe election of Stalin in the "general election" has been verified by the returns...
...They are spending freely on propaganda to discredit the unions...
...Above all, it has fully conceded the industrial form of organization in at least a dozen fields, including those of steel and automobile production...
...T" It is also reported that the other two removed candidates sire, "in trouble...
...ANOTHER WORLD DEPRESSION...
...William Plant pin...
...There is no good reason why definite steps should not be taken...
...That is the one point upon which, in the beginning, the schism was alleged to...
...that they might well abandon hot words and give some attention to the plight of child slaves, whose number will continue to increase With the deepening of the depression...
...Above the tumult of hand-clapping rose a roar of "Stalin, Stalin...
...These who are in the habit of looking beneath the surface of tilings will be waiting more eagerly, even more anxiously, for the news of that conference than for any other news of the week...
...His vote was 100 per cent...
...The blood Wasserman still s negative...
...This we intend to do by proper propaganda and continuous organization activity...
...Salvatore N'info, Vice-President of the I.L.G.W.U...
...Now and then, being a literate man and therefore sadto , exposed to such contagion, he has been assaulted, toe, by 1 las newspapers and magazines...
...The medical profession now is not responsible to anybody but itself...
...he is sent home and told to forget about it" Dr...
...If none of the tests and examinations can be relied on, to be on the safe side" the whole population would have to be poisoned with mercury, arsenic and other drugs...
...be justified...
...JjL A mixed operatic choir sang wl aria whose salient words wsis: < "Stalin is our glorious nghtsr "Fighting victoriously, our P^ARW "Follow fat Stalin's we...
...ffjfc Moscow's leading uusisrlr wees** singer, with choir, sang "The neSg of the Capital,'' each v#*e tudljf with "Who sings' a song of W Soviet capital must siag s soars* The striking feature ef the asA ence was its youth, in distinCtgO contrast, I em told, anHh^aheBJjl This suggests that Stalin'* ffjji laxity is based on the younger g*** eration, who do not know tlsegfJI leaders and are susceptible tSvfjf intensive campaign to depsstjBJH as the creator and%e father JigM .new Russia...
...Disaster for the working people looms close ahead...
...To all these attempts to upset eternal truths and muddy the waters of his complacency, he had a complete and irrefutable answer: "Let 'em go back where they came from if they don't like it here...
...We do not know for certain that a person with a persistently negative Wasserman reaction does not have syphilis...
...DISAGREES WITH PARRAN'S PLANS FOR NATIONWIDE DRIVE OH SYPHILIS Editor of The New Leader: I read Dr...
...the Commissars rose snd cheered, and Stalin himself stood up and cheered...
...Block was born by mis take, and the chorus pleaded with him to go jump in the lake fee humanity's sake* But Block, who is still in our midst, knows what he knows, sad that includes all the self-evident maxima in onr school books and movies and comic strips...
...Several years ago the clique assassinated certain members of the cabinet^because the latter did not take orders from the uniformed martinets...
...Roosevelt implies that the Japanese diplomats and military leaders are irresponsible and that he must go over their heads and address the Emperor, who is responsible for hi* irresponsible officials...
...What Stalin had achieved was Russia's...
...Look at Carnegie and Rockefeller and Insull and the rest Endless attempts have been made to break down Mr...
...We must have labor peace/ now...
...If will also strengthen the drive for social legislation...
...Continuance of the schism will encourage the opponents of such legislation and dishearten its advocates...
...Girdler's memory of the Chicago massacre outside one of his Republic mills was hazy...
...Right down the line, exhibit after exhibit hits the school bosk maxims below the belt...
...waa outlawed by the U. S. Supreme Court The increase has also "continued unabated" in states having low minimum age laws...
...That one point gamed, there.can be no excuse for keeping up the conflict...
...The memorandum indirectly informs him that he has irresponsible killers in his service and it is for him to directly approve or disavow their acts...
...If we had to choose, either to get the best labor legislation that anyone can now expect, but have the trade unions more end more weakened by continuance of the internecine fight, of else to sacrifice sll hope of further legislation, but get peace in the labor movement, we would unhesitatingly choose the latter, for labor laws on the' statute book are not of much use without a strong movement interested in maintaining them and seeing that they are enforced...
...DIG BUSINESS forces of reaction have taken " the aggressive...
...Parran says of the young person "who suspects he may have been exposed to syphilis aatf-geea promptly to a doctor for examination...
...The conservatives desire no change in the status quo...
...The election also of two Assemblymen and two Councilmen convinces me that the Bronx will he the first county in New York State that will be captured by our party...
...We live in a world of anarchy where three regimes—Japan, Germany and Italy——are controlled by fascist cliques whose "diplomacy" f fmfists of bombast, provocation and force...
...The rich get that way by working hard, never watching the clock, saving their money and leading clear, upright lives...
...Block is a Httia Shaken...
...Shadows of doubt blur the dear horizons of his mossuMiaa...
...But he shows himself always proof against their blaadiss: ments...
...Long Jive Stalin...
...How will our big shots explain this...
...E nforced examination and treatment of everybody suspected of be-, ing exposed to syphilis...
...The vast audience cheered, the Cabinet cheered — and Stalin, standing, as usual in the back row, :heered and clapped his hands enthusiastically...
...In • period of normal international relations, this procedure would be regarded as an insult by the head of any governing regime...
...X, the starving widow, or Me* TL^the crippled bookkeeper, is responsible for his own troeSBph^HHsl derelicts must have been lazy wastrels, clock watchers, shirkers...
...READING the case studies of the 100 neediest, Mr...
...It was Stalin, in his famed bulletproof car, and his bodyguard...
...BVaisgaf at pleased to note that Mrs...
...All other questions now at issue are of lesser importance...
...Block is in no condition, financially speaking, to indulge in the pleasures of charity...
...In conclusion I say to all: "Let us put our shoulders to the wheel and crusade to increase the ranks of our American Labor Party...
...The blame for all this must be put squarely on the shoohteri of a certain newspaper...
...The fact that the exhibition of choice miseries, quintessential horrors, exquisite despairs is displayed under sues respectable auspices—at the very founts in head, one might say, of Mr...
...to those who are not members I say "Join our ranks," and to those who are members I say "Come along, our campaign has just begun...
...now he is in mental collapse and helpless along with an aged and stricken wife...
...On Christmas the damaged places are covered with boDy leaves, on New Year's they're sprinkled with confetti, and the surface h as good as new...
...Despite the heavy odds on the CP's chances to wie the election, there was little bettieg done...
...Is it sensible to compel people to submit to such hocus poous ? Would the people have any redress for harmful reactions or would the doctors be free to do as they please without question or responsibility...
...The gist of it was that Mr...
...The Soviet's most famous at!ISM recited an ode, jn snsefaw 4Bt^B* great Leader—this savior of BBJ Fatherland...
...We need another effort to bring a social order that will eliminate depressions as much as humanly possible...
...About thrift and industry and the rewards of virtue...
...If this wholesale treatment goes into effect the stockholders of the drug corporations will grow rich no end...
...Wa aim to please...
...and the clique does not hesitate at assassination...
...The demonstration exhibited one central indisputable fact that today Soviet Russia is a concentration on one man—Stalin...
...As only eight more states are needed to ratify the Amendment, may we remind the A. F. of L. and C.I.O...
...Somehow it makes his oWa lot easier...
...The Tory Government is just what our "industrial captains'" want here and yet industry declines there...
...The next day it was reported that the first named had been executed...
...This recalls Mr...
...What Russia had accomplished was Stalin's...
...Mr...
...The "cases" are suitable for display as horrible examples ef social misery despite the fact that they spent long years at drudgery, sacrificed themselves for their parents or their child sen, asdja...
...Baas you ever seen such a neat collection of human derelicts...
...Those real issues have been very much clarified...
...As Bronx County chairman of the American Labor Party and as a City Councilman, I want to thank all the officers and members of the labor unions and the Bronx Assembly Districts for the splendid cooperation given to our county campaign...
...Not The New Leader, or the Dairy Worker...
...Because in December it always publishes a list of what rt ssSs the year's "100 Neediest Cases" as a gentle prod to the charitable instincts of Ha readers...
...By ALGERNON LEE THE joint conference committee set up by the American Federation of Labor and the Committee for Industrial Organization to deal with the problem of recruifing the American trade union movement will resume its sasasooa in Wash' ington next Tuesday...
...the darkneld teat hi not made...
...They are not going to split into two factions...
...They are going to organize more closely and fight harder...
...Block's respectable ideas on such things...
...It is always in the month of December, it happens, when As dawn of peace on earth and good-will toward men makes fuei esarstcsmen on his peace of mind the more distressing...
...It is as though the conservative press, having insisted fey eleven months that this is the best of all possible economic setups, decided to go on an annual debauch of truth-telling in the twelfth...
...Where Seftlo'Bes* tried and failed, the New York Times succeeds...
...A.L.P...
...LITTLE STEEL SPEAKS f°M GIRDLER, Fuehrer of Little Steel, speaking to the —. Illinois Manufacturers' Association Tuesday, adopted the platform of his class, which we consider on the first page of this issue...
...And the new depression, which in the mat few months has thrown hundreds of thousands out of work, gives the reactionaries a bis* advantage...
...Emphasizing the importance of the Amendment, the committee points out that 75 per cent of employed children are in non-interstate commerce industries and that there has been a marked increase in child labor since the N.I.R.A...
...Wasserman tests for everybody as a routine matter in hospitals, clinics, industry, public places, etc and compulsory treatment for everybody who might have syphilis...
...Thomas Parran's article, "Syphilis, Next Great Plague To Go" with great interest . What are the essential points of Dr...
...But that is not the choice before us...
...What is extraordinary is that the memorandum requests the Japanese Ambassador to advise the Emperor of the protest...
...He reads that "until his firm dismissed him 10 years ago as too old," Case 17 was a respectable accountant...
...Stalin Joins 2,000 To Cheer Himself Sieee there was an election hi Soviet Russia, in which every one bet the dead voted, the Editors of The Now Leader think it only fair that its readers get a first-bond view of a Russian pre-election pop-rally to bring out the vote...
...THE MEMORANDUM TO HIROHITO THE bombing and ausfcaag of an American gunboat in the Yangtze River by Japanese aviators is the thirteenth "'incident" of its kind since last August in which English and American citizens were killed or injured, and the sharp memorandum of' President Roosevelt to the Japanese Ambassador shows that it brought extremely strained relations between this country and the Japanese killers...
...It is proposed that treatment be free to those who cannot pay but nowhere is it suggested that the drug factories donate the drugs...
...INCREASING CHILD LABOR PROMPT passage of legislation by Congress to end exploitation of children in establishments whose products enter interstate commerce and speedy ratification of the Federal Child Labor Amendment are urged by the National Child Labor Committee...
...This man, with the powerful frame, greying shock of thick hair, low forehead, fierce moustache and drab khaki tunic is the head, front and center of all Bolshevik Russia, holding it in a grip of vice-like power...
...Block doesn't add it up in this fashion, of course...
...The "undeclared war" in China is also the work of this clique, who used a local clash between Chinese and Japanese in China to begin the present campaign of mass murder of helpless civilians and the destruction of cities, towns and villages...
...member of the new City Council...
...Case 90 got that way "when her young husband, his spirit broken by long unemployment, deserted her...
...their savings were used Up...
...There are many citizens who believe in the principle and the program of the American Laboi Party...
...It is a sincere pleasure and honor for me as the Bronx County chairman to state this publicly and in the name of the County Executive Board and Committee to thank every member, our party and all friends and sympathizers for their valuable cooperation...
...No, the blame rests with the New York Times...
...They only seek a new industry to tide things over until—what ? How long must the workers keep paying in privation for every depression ? Chicago, 111...
...matically looks for confirmation of .his maxims...
...aftasjk^ast...
...7 VERY few minutes afterwards the speeches would be interrupted by the shrill hysterical voice of some woman high up in the gallery, or the equally hysterical voice of a youth shouting, "Long live our dear Stalin...
...Or does the Fuehrer mean that the "union" should receive dues from the corporation as in the old happy days...
...About Case 10 he learns that "years of toil over a washtub want fade Mrs...
...Often it takes him well into the second week of January' to straJgosat^jShls maxims again...
...Facing the political opposition of the two major parties, confronted with the selfish political deal of professional politicians, we could not carry our county ticket, but the vote cast for candidate for Borough President Isidore Nagler, of 156,000 against the T84.000 for his opponent, can be called a great victory for the American Labor Party of the Bronx...
...We narrowly avoided a crash...
...Their crime adds up to this: that they grsw old and sick while laboring beyond their strength, and were thss cast on the offal heap of economic outcasts...
...If they are not, it will mean that there are men on one side or the other or on both who are more interested in factional prestige than in the solution of the real issues involved...
...The backwash of the depression is reaching many of these nations and they are now thinking of rigid restrictions on imports to maintain a favorable balance of trade...
...Carl Peterson...
...A depression is always felt in these countries after it has affected their foreign customers...
...He referred to the many strikes of this year, adding that they were "accompanied by every form of violence...
...This departs from the usual procedure of dealing direct with the foreign office of the nation against which the complaint is made...
...That includes himself—he's broad-minded in admitting Ms own faults...
...m So he examines the 100 selected samples of human degradation with some relish...
...It is commonplace knowledge that a military clique determines internal and foreign policies in Japan...
...However, their troubles will soon be over in that glorious country of Soviet "democracy...
...Is the Wasserman test accurate and reliable...
...Syracuse, N. Y. » • • DEPLORES FAITH IN BALLYHOO OVER NEW BUILDING PANACEA Editor of The New Leader: The great ballyhoo of the day is the need of a huge building program to relieve unemployment Obviously the effort to always find a new industry to relieve a depression cannot go on forever...
...While our industrial kings, are demanding cooperation with tie Washington Administration' along the lines their Congress formulated last week, there is the closest cooperation in Great Britain between the government and big business, and yet that country is also witnessing a decline in business activity and en increase ha unemployment...
...O's battle to bring up her four children," and that she was worsted in that unequal struggle...
...u WHERE THE NEWS ENDS By EUGENE LYONS *|*H&'^W.W.'s once had .a song about him—I mean about BIB * Block, the average citizen which only we old-timers still remember...
...Block's precious maxims—makes it the more liuuiiassilel...
...And it's sJPH doing of the New York Times...
...Not one cast against him and not one blank I Moreover, the Communist Party carried the election with an overwhelming majority throughout the country...
...If they are not saying much about cutting wages as yet, they have it in mind...
...other ways practiced elementary virtues that make them" especially deserving of charity...
...We have another world sinking spell and whether it can be checked remains to be seen...
...Block at this writing is W*BRM%tworried, and finds it hard to live with himself...
...The whole lengthy proceedings, lasting till the early hours of the morning was one unbroken accentuation of Stalin-worship...
...In a few cases of syphilis we have positive evidence of syphilis on the surface of the body despite a negative Wasserman...
...Then the husband, a laboratory technician, fell desperately ill...
...THE American Federation of Labor has already conceded, as an integral part of the settlement to be reached, as much as could reasonably be demanded of it and mere than seemed likely a few weeks ago...
...BUT once s year, unluckily, Mr...
...AS my car proceeded in the "onetway" direction to the square, a powerful car, followed by six others, tore at terrifying speed around a c o r n e r, racing right imself at the festival meeting hich I attended in the great across our path, across traffic in the wrong direction, towards the theatre...
...Block thinks, in sny eases, that press suddenly rips the surface off American Ufa sad points gloatingly to the gruesome social rot underneath...
...The credit for such accomplishments belongs to Organized Labor, and to the various Assembly District administrations and in particular to the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, and the United Hat, Cap and Millinery Workers' Union...
...He will assure yon, as though you needed assurance, that the poor are responsible for their own sad condition...
...But what does he find instead ? He finds that these neediest, far from being scoundrels, are in reality hard-working nwe and women, devoted to their families, usually of excellent slorsl character...
...But normal relations no longer exist...
...They know that with a divided labor movement and a growing cringe of the unemployed wage scales cannot be maintained...
...a%|li and better every year, ladies and gentlemen...
...The negotiations between the American Fed-** eration of Labor and the Committee for Industrial Organisation appear to be reaching e critical stage: If definite steps toward peace are not taken next week, there will be intensified bitterness on both sides and the hope for a negotiated peace will be dimmed...
...THE new depression, like the old one...
...The speaker stopped to cheer...
...Reunion of the now warring trade union groups will not only strengthen labor in the shops...
...Dooley's ideal union, one without members, no funds and no strikes...
...He did not'mention it , The Fuehrer amended the platform of the Congress of American Industry, however, by adding the following clause: "No employe should be forced to pay does to a union...
...EXTRA...
...I take this opportunity to wish' all officers and members of my International Union, of the other Tabor organisations and of the American Labor Party the season's greetings for a happier and a prosperous New Year...
...aVtJi < suppoaes...
...But be gropes toward the same idea, and has an uncomfortable feeling that everything isn't quite right with his maxims, and that maybe he'd better go back where he came from himself...
...Look what we got, and pay a conscience fee before you sit down to gorge on your Christmas dinner," it says in effect "Look sew, because the show will close down on the stroke ef twelve...
...Even Mussolini's bombast and fascist economy are not barriers to the flow of the depression disease...
...The square in front of the Bolshoi Theatre was cleared of people long before the meeting began...
...Six months from now may be too late...
...One day before, three candidates were removed from the ballot One waa chairman of the State Planning Commission, the second chief of the Air Corps, and the third a member of the court martial that condemned Marshal Tukachevsky to death...
...Are drug companies in business for altruistic ends or are they organized for the same reasons as other capitalistic corporations—for profits...
...But he likes 1* read about other people's troubles...
...Every such reference, no matter bow slight, was the signal fsnjjwwv derous applause, in whk*'w>B» Almost every item in a sasap|** cent concert, which followaf am actual meeting of the SovW, *** a eulogy of Stalin...
...STALIN WINS...
...Parran's program...
...We do not want war and a war with Japan would be a catastrophe for the masses of this country, but one cannot resist approving this "passing the buck" to the Japanese Emperor...
...Latin •America, which provides raw materials for the industrial nations, is also feeling the slump...
...Every speech was punctuated by repeated adulation of him and his glorious achievements for Russia...
...An attack of excessive honesty, Mr...
...They can be adjusted, if there is the will to adjust them.' As things now stand, obstructive tactics or jockeying for position would be a crime, or the sort of blunder that is said to be worse than a Crime...
...A lot of radical bellyaehera sad agitators and parlor pinks have worked on him, directly eat utdirectly...
Vol. 20 • December 1937 • No. 51
