Labor Ready to Fight Reaction in Fall Elections
Labor Ready to Fight Reaction in Fall Elections Labor's League Strife to Rianove ffiritl-flew Dealers Entire House, One-Third of i Senate wl Many Local Official* Face Voters in...
...Ziamnft and his 15 co-defendants were da* after a trial which left ,warid opinion in grave doubts as' to $m justice of the sentences, ," "The Radek trial did notn%1i remove this impression, and ttosi then hundreds of people are fcnWfc to have been shot without publk trial...
...Rocords Destroyed The committee was temporarily balked when it sought to learn who financed the so-called "Citizens' Committee' which operated in a high-handed manner during a strike of steel and railroad workers at Johnstown, Pa., last summer...
...nfnce,-4idW in the Rand School...
...In many cities and states the League will make direct campaigns far all these offices while in the others, where it is impossible to get a third party on the ballot, it will go after the nominations of the Democratic JJartJ...
...He was tried and later expelled for causing internal disruption, forming a political machine which tried to oust duly elected officials so that Galloway could take over the office for himself...
...He even withheld sums of money which the union had collected for the wife of an injured member, whose family was destitute...
...Their leaders bare brazenly avowed that flea* .is one of their accepted tactics, and oo confidence can be placed 9 their recent pretense of friendship to democracy and free unionism...
...L. W. Campbell, manager of the Chamber of Commerce, and Francis C. Martin, a banker, had been ordered to produce records, , but failed to do so...
...They indorsed and recommended" for general application the so-called "Mohawk Plan," which originated in the mind of James H. Rand,, Jr., millionaire owner of the Remington-Rand Corporation, and ruthlessly used by bhn during a strike of his employees a year ago...
...i The witnesses admitted a slush fund had been raised find distributed, but contended they were unable . to give further information because their records had .been destroyed, notwithstanding they were under committee subpoena...
...Later he neglected the books of the union to such an extent that a correct record of the receipts of the organization could not be accounted for...
...Governor Acts Against National Guardsmen Who Fought Strike in Major's Plant...
...Among documents taken from N.A.M...
...According fa well-informed circles, the A.L.P...
...X§fiJ, in Carnegie Hall...
...sels recently, the...
...endorse Senator Wagner -for re-election or for the governorship, or Governor Lehman for either nne of the offices...
...Dan Tobin is a stanch A. F, of L. man but has never been very bitter in the controversy between the A F. of L. Stid the C. T. O. In San Francisco he expressed regret over the split, but he also expressed the conviction that a reunion of the two organizations is closer than it was a year ago...
...Three Guardsmen Face Court Martial As Strikebreakers - - a „ a— Minnesota's F.-L...
...Special to The Sew Leader WASHINGTON...
...It appears to us that .fWJi attitude is entirely foreign to m elementary prrnciith(g or Js*% and is calculated to create ail atmosphere prejudicial to the proper conduct of the trial...
...Company Union Danger From the set-up of the "Independent Federation," and the background of its leader, can be discovered the danger which this combination of company unions holds for the A. F. of L. and the C.I.O...
...Karlin was chairman and that, the Governor then acted on some of the recommendations then niade...
...Use of the National Guardsmen as strikebreakers has been a routine feature of labor difficulties in America in the past,' and it remained for a Farmer-Labor governor to demand that guardsmen participating in such action bfe removed...
...had poured a flood of propaganda into the schools, public libraries...
...And, of course, the Progressive Federation has Wisconsin clinched for Governor Phil La-FoUette...
...D. C—With the nation-wide fall elections already paralyzing the New Deal and i killing this session's chances for passage of progressive labor and social legislation, Labor's Non-Partisan League prepares to fight at the polls n&xt November to send those Congressmen who were loyal to their New Deal pledges back to Washington and to defeat those who deserted Roosevelt's program...
...tional decided to call a jokty JM...
...or if neither are available, current rumor has it', that the A.L.P...
...public relations director...
...Sphevenels, Secretary...
...Seats in the reserved section are on sale at 50 cents, while 25 cents is the general admission fee...
...Labor Ready to Fight Reaction in Fall Elections Labor's League Strife to Rianove ffiritl-flew Dealers Entire House, One-Third of i Senate wl Many Local Official* Face Voters in November...
...Joel Sargent...
...World Labor Body Stores Trials If Old Bolsheviks Socialist Internationai Sow Sitaatiam...
...ex-.accted in many states which will, .ii successful, strengthen chances "for»_Natkwial Labor.Party in 1940...
...A' division among Socialists, always a tragedy, may be necessary when, a deep cleavage exists in principles or policies...
...NJV.M...
...v • We therefore call on all those members of the Socialist Party who have overcome their differences with us to sever themselves'from an organization which is rent by dissension, and to johi odr ranks...
...We do not wish to open old wounds and to reproach those who were responsible for splitting the Socialist Party...
...up-formly condemned' the accused Before any evidence has been adduces...
...Leads Drive That the anti-union.National Association of Manufacturers was the fountainhead of a vigilante movement that swept the country last year and' threatened to assume alarming proportions was pretty conclusively demonstrated by evidence presented during the week to the' Senate Civtt Liberties Committee, . The organization was evidently the financial "angel" of several groups that flagrantly invaded the civil rights of workers fighting for decent conditions...
...The forte'f f* Minister will speak in Russian...
...Algernon Lee, president of the Rand School and a member of the National Executive Committee of the S.D.F., will also speak...
...The document follower| ' WE call the attention of the officers and executive' vbiifmBBeUe ** the American Labor Party to the dangers which confront it fro* the infiltration of elements whose aim is not to build op the »*W but to capture it for the purpose which, if they should succeed, weaat destroy its usefulness to the cause of Labor...
...one-third of the Senate—34 Senators...
...Stooge of Manufacturers Galloway is known here as a stooge of the manufacturers and has always played their game by worming himself into liberal, radical and labor organizations and then sabotaging them by the well-known agent provocateur tactics...
...the relief rolls and return 'Work are.now again clamoring ^(WSS^nce," f Harrison Sees AFL-CIO Unity Before Fall WASHINGTON, D. C—With George M. Harrison, president of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks, saying in St...
...Hague's sp»ge, Senator Milton of New Jersey, and the reactionary Senator Tydings from Maryland...
...In Minnesota, interest is centered" around fiffvernbr Benson's rijee 'for re-¦ election...
...fa a campaign designed to discredit labor unions and to arouse public sentiment against strikes, these witnesses said,^ the N.A.M...
...He made his contact with the manufacturers years ago when he returned from Chicago after his expulsion from the Railway Employees' Union, Old Party Politics When he hit Indianapolis, he immediately began playing old party politics and secured a Democratic Party nomination for the state legislature, to which he was elected and where he served the corporate interests for two terms...
...But we cannot regard wHhMt misgiving the attitude of the «A-cial Soviet press, which has...
...ANDRE PHILIPE TO SPEAK ON WORLD WAR THREAT Andre Philipe, Socialist member of the French Chamber of Deputies and a close collaborator of Leon Blum, will speak at a meeting in the Debs Auditorium at the Rand School, 7 East 15th St., on Wednesday, April 6, at 8:30 p. m. Mr...
...INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.—Despite the secrecy with which the new stooge company union outfit, organized late in February as the National Federated Independent Union, cloaks the background of its leaders, a New Leader correspondent has discovered that its national president, Frederick S. Cialloway, was once a secretary of the Association of Railway Employees of America and was expelled for sabotage and withholding funds which belonged to the Association...
...Mayor Daniel S...
...the reactionary Senator VajfNuys, wno .will hare to buck the New Deal machine in Indiana j Majority Leader Barkley of Ken-.ttyik...
...presidostsjjic secretaries of the IntajgiatHa Fedecation of Trade Uniana Mi the Labor and Socialist IzitX...
...Chairman Robert M. LaFollette {Prog., Wis...
...the old Socialist Party in New York State who now recognize its mistakes, to join the Social Democratic Federation, The resolution, follows: ---5 TPHE Social Democratic Federation of New York City, in its desire *. to include all who consistently stand for democratic Socialism, addresses itself specifically to that large section of members of the Socialist Party who in the course of recent events have come to accept our views...
...Harrison is firm in the belief that peace is inevitable and declares that the membership of the rival organization will insist on it...
...An Invitation to Sincere Socialists ^fHE following resolution was adopted by the last session of the city * convention of the Social Democratic Federation...
...will take an active cp8*t rri the fight foV'tte* Michigan ^governorship > because of the concentration of the mass production industries in that State...
...his , letter to the Governor, Karlin recalled the visit paid him ^.few years ago by a committee ** %ni«b...
...1 We took a determined stand against statements that belittled the value of democracy...
...A military court of inquiry, which Jiftd investigated the charges on order of the governor, found that Major John R. Clark, owner of a manufacturing company, had used hi* position in the Guard to break a Strike in his plant...
...Scores of thousands of persons who" were glad to •get...
...Senator Hill of .-Alabama;1 who wrote the infamous ;labpr conscription bill...
...J...
...1836, the trial of Zinoviev, the first Presidant at the Communist International, wu announced, we addressed ourselvti to the Soviet Government in' orosr to ensure a fair and impartial trial for the accused men, itgiMhu of the bitter hostility which they had always shown towards oar movement...
...and local associations affiliated with the National Industrial Council, which has been charged with actively fomenting vigilantism and other strong-arm •methods...
...SDF Warns ALP Dangerous Groups The following statement was adopted by the New York Cit$ of vention of the Social Democratic Federation two week* *Jf*J"* " addition to the declaration defining1 the Suttee of .its' iiiImW'iV *• supporting the American Labor Party and to be kneien ae eectio* *• This additional section was set in type and by mistake the type a** destroyed...
...In all states attempts will be made to place labor men on the ti'ckef., " «* Success Anticipated . Successful campaigns are expected in New York, where the American Labor Party holds the balance of power, and in Pennsylvania, where the N on-Partisan League is swinging behind Thomas Kennedy, secretary-treasurer of the United Mine Workers...
...When the story is complete, it was, hinted, it will be of a highly sensational nature...
...They said all ' had been destroyed, but when and Employers' Stooge Heads Fake Unions Frederick Galloway, Expelled From Association of Railway Employees for Sabotage, Is President of National Federated Independent Union...
...It is to be expected that both the Democratic and RePf**5...
...His reference to the elections next November is also believed to be prompted by the political situation in Pennsylvania where John L. Lewis is at war with one group in - the Democratic Party...
...In all countries they have tried to MgSJtl thfe labor vAfeew and labor parties that they could not control...
...the progressive Senator Bone of Washington...
...Philipe's topic will be "Can We Escape World War...
...The meeting is jointly sponsored by the Social Democratic Federation and the Rand School...
...The Pennsylvania Split Coming from a. man for...
...is-ready to...
...Karlin Asks Larger State Relief Grants is "Please do not let a misunder-Sjtoding take food from a single .person's mouth...
...ALEX AW DM KEREHSKY TO SPEAJLAT tCdUmm HAU Alexander Kerensky, SoasS* Prime Minister of the Bevflp-tionary Provisional Russian Osrernment of 1917, will njijMf f* "Current Events in the U.S.S.IL" st 8:30 p. ^Saturday...
...secretary, and James P. Selvage...
...Now, on the eve of Hie trirt «* Bukharm, •Zinoviev's successor ti President of the Communist International ; Rykov, former heafi «f the Soviet Government...
...MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.—Proven charges of strikebreaking levied against three national guardsmen in Minneapolis will result in court martial of the guardsmen involved, according to sin order by Fartner-Labor Governor Elmer A. Benson *0f Minnesota this week...
...Kennedy was elected with the aid of the whole labor movement, but it is not likely that A. F. of L. unions will support him for Governor unless the split in the labor movement is healed...
...By tyasJiington Correspondent of WASHINGTON, D- C—The Sen-sate Civil Liberties Committee ran into an astounding situation last week when it called...
...Adkr, Secretary...
...now the Socialist Party itself was forced to expel the same group for which we were sacrificed...
...Jfrji The lecture is being spohsrtW by the Russian Socialist GliW.** New York...
...Industrial Organization is probable before the coming Npvember elections and Daniel W, Tobin, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, expressing a somewhat similar view in San Francisco, peace hopes again r6se Here in informed labor circles...
...Among the Senators coming up for re-election are such prominent men- ae George Berry of Tennessee, former president of the League...
...Senator Wagner, the -author of the Labor Relations Act...
...When, however, many members of the Socialist Party have cotne to accept odr viewpoint, ana only the existence of two organizations separates those who share our ideas from us, perpetuation of a division berweVm^denab-cratic Socialists would become an unforgivable blunder...
...for the L.S.I.: D« Bronekere, PrestdeW...
...and his colleague, Senator Elbert D. Thomas (Dem., Utah), indicated by their questions that they are determined to learn who contributed the money and the use to which it was put...
...Hence its fate Appearance...
...It was further decided to A patch the following Mapa**^ the Soviet Government: " When, in August...
...Two Others Involved Captain Sylvester of the National Guard, an assistant superintendent in toe plant, and Lieutenant James F. Callahan, also an employee of the company, face court martial under charges similar to those levied against Clark...
...m ^jt There is danger, on the other hand, from the infiltration of GOs> munists into'the American Labor Party...
...Grave Doubts "Despite oar appeal...
...Harrison is also chairman of the Railway Labor Executives' Association, and the leading member of the A. F. of L. in the peace negotiations that broke" down last fall...
...the Socialist Party headed by Jasper McLevy...
...He had no trouble in working himself up into the Railway Employees' Union and getting himself elected Chicago Secretary...
...L. W. Campbell, manager of the Chamber of Commerce, and Francis Martin, banker, to tell who put up the money spent by the Citizens' Committee in breaking a strike of s^l"workexs"1^sTintoeT...
...Many States Reached Vital labor campaigns .axe...
...Galloway is the man who is the labor "authority" of the industrialists behind the new Federation of Independent Unions which is dedicated to "fight the American Federation of Labor, the Committee for Industrial Organization, and the National Labor Relations Board...
...Steel and rubber concerns which have used "rough" tactics against strikers were shown to be leading lights in the councils which draw their inspiration^ i? not their support, from the NTA.M...
...It is >f a*»*f whole record, not by their present ptosis*, that theV'shouhJ be" The American Labor Party has nothing to gain and rvervt»S*J to lose by permitting the infiltration of ConrmuTnrts Not only, 'JjjJKm they be a disruptive force within the party,' but tnWr pieseuce viy-tend to discredit it in the eyes of esBTMl^l mass of the working pea* ¦HH sadeHwdslljr ig«ai eyes ef Organists Labor...
...The aim of the Commntus* has been and is to undermine democracy, to breed dissension is W labor movement, and to .destroy every organisation that strives sV the betterment of the condition of the workers through deaSocraW and peaceful means...
...would consider Comptroller MeGoldrick of .New York City for the governorship on a fusion ticket...
...Special to The New Leader...
...ference of the two InterpaiioK in Pans on March 15*noV"«6.jJ Note: Next week's edition- qfMr New Leader will carry a this session] for a full dlt-usafk of the European situation -indi Far Eastern war...
...The C.f.O...
...With these words William Karlin, city chairman of the Seeial Democratic Federation, appealed to Governor Lehman to keep, the State Legislature in session until it passes legislation that wjU assure that the hungry of the .st^we will not starve...
...Benson'stymied the search of Minnesota industrialists for new strikebreaking material a few months ago when he threw the Pinkerton Agency, one of the roost notorious anti-labor-groups in the country, out of the state...
...It is an invitation to those members in...
...Daniel J. Shields, mayor of Johnstown, Pa...
...Coming up before the' voters tlSis' fill is the entire membership of the House of Representatives— 43i> Congressmen...
...Paul that peace between the American Federation of Labor and the, Committee for...
...The court declared that Clark knew of the use of the armory as a place to assemble guardsmen,' who were to be used to help break the strike, and that he knew of the illegal use of Guard property in his plant...
...AH these in Indianapolis who have known Galloway for even a short time characterize him as a glib talker and a smooth worker— looking out at all times for the interests of Galloway...
...The witnesses told a fantastic story of the money having been deposited in a bank safety deposit box, where anybody interested, apparently, might go and help himself without supervision or interference from the banking officials...
...The election fight in Connecticut is 'especially interesting because of Jthe, impending formation of a statewide labor party which will co-roperate with...
...Shields, who , was jailed during prohibition days for trying to bribe a Federal officer...
...had applauded and encouraged vigilantism was wrufig"from'the reldctaht lips of V/albV WeisenburgerV eW ecutive secretary...
...Tickets may be secured in the Rand Book 8fore or ttreSJEF...
...leaders have a high respect, Harrison's statement is regarded as significant...
...By coming to us, the many sincere and disillusioned members of the Socialist Party will have an opportunity to engage actively in the building up of the American Labor Party, and in developing and strengthening the forces of democratic Socialism, to Which the future belongs," Senators Balked in Effort To Trace Vigilante Funds Johnstown Mayor and Offier Mob Leaders Defy Committee by Destroying Records...
...Admission that the N.A.M...
...whom C.I.O...
...Champ" Clark, Jr., who with -Sewator Nye tore the lid off the monition makers...
...No Prejudgment "It is not oar desire to proaouM at this stage upon the mj|j$t,,*f the charges, fantastic s»||||sMy appear...
...Party machines will try to have large numbers of their trusted Wj lowers' enroll under the emblem of the American Labor Party jM also join its district branches, in order to gate Control of ife ,ai>HB*Sl organization and make it a tool for the old parties and the i dSiliieqft interests that they represent...
...It was shown that its "educational" fund, which in previous years ran around $40,000, had jumped to $793,043 in 1937...
...Numerous rumors of his tie-up with the big interests earned him the enmity of the^ organized labor movement, which ^ has prevented him from coming near it since then...
...In 1923 he began spreading false, propaganda about other officials in order to get their jabs...
...Thus the inter-union fight may contribute to a Republican, victory m the Keystone State if the split continues to the day of the November election...
...The "Independents" have established a national weekly newspaper, and headquarters in about thirty-eight states...
...Signed, for the LF.T.U.: OtA President...
...Whatever importance may be placed on the statements of Harrison and Tobin, it is believed that as responsible men they would not have spoken as they have without some justification for it...
...This has caused a split in the Democratic Party...
...Many of the local units had previously been exposed as having employed labor spies and with being large buyers of tear gas and other munitions to use against strikers, Senator LaFollette said...
...files by committee investigators were a score of books and pamphlets proffering advice on how ta deal with unions and to break strikes...
...Tie-Up Is Traced Senator -LaFollette read into the record an extended statement showing an interlocking relationship between the N.A.M...
...We must, however, state that our position has been completely vindicated...
...d f ?• «taj luflts-BRUSSELS.—Meeting it Br...
...Rahavik?, ex-Soviet Ambassador to, Majp and Paris, and other prorainest Communists, we again feel it Mr duty to call the attention of fit Soviet Government to the d*ffiaji which is being done to the SMtt of the workers throughout, fte world by such trials and execs...
...Senator Nyfc, who headed the Munitions Investigation Board and who npSft is the country's leading isolationist...
...34 Governors, and * large number of Mayors and other local officials...
...In some instances t**T hive succeeded, and have thtts gWfctf ffie ^lff to' KatrW,*** Fascism...
...Past experience under similar ehtBSf" stances in this and other states has shown that only by" ten etas' vigilance can such machinations be frustrated...
...J...
...With the recurrence of the depression," wrote Karlin to the Governor, "the same serious situation ¦has- reappeared...
...The American Labor Party candidate will be named at a statewide convention shortly...
...Lewis wants Thomas Kennedy of the Miners and now Lieut.-Gover-nor to be named for Governor...
...now the need to defend democracy is so apparent that even Communists have to give at least lip service to it...
...In'the one country where they have control, demoere^ise free trade uruonism have been ruthlessly suppressed...
...We protested against the infiltration of Communist elements into the Socialist Party...
...newspapers and other agencies of public information...
Vol. 21 • March 1938 • No. 12
