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...The latest large city to organize under the sinner of the AX.P...
...With the death of that measure, the movie was revised with the addition of a few feet of film, was titled "The American WayJ' and is now being used to fight the President's measure for governmental reorganization...
...A meeting of the Christian Herald Corp...
...Whatever happens, adjournment will not come later than the first of June...
...Like the Liberty League and other big business groups, the National Defenders describe themselves as "A national, non-partisan organization of volunteers pledged to oppose forces destructive to sound economics and government...
...During the 15 years of its existence, he declared...
...exaafe>tf of a suit for accounting a§n:net James C. Penney, the Rev...
...The conference was opened by Max .Zaritsky with a speech in which he called the attention of the trade union leaders to the important events taking place throughout the world, and to the tremendous role JThe New Leader has played and can play in the organized trade union movement in America...
...WM...
...zation, and re Hied prntitaan troth hypnotized with articles concerning the delights and religious surroundings of the J. C. Penney Foundation homes 1 tee in Florida (30 acres such far Justausatiaa and terms apply to the J C. Penney Foundationj...
...This Ones to WEKwoSl of Penney, which foam asWseao-ment among she lOOiloiS f? the Christian HerakJ...
...While sOBie of these bodies, like the Liberty League, have been so Wg|l publicized as to make them virtually boomerangs in po-fypil campaigns, many smaller organizations exist and work actively and often subtley to influence church, school, and regular theatre group members against the administration's labor program...
...At one such meeting, held at Carnegie Hall last September 13, where the film "We the People" was shown, Senator Royal S. Copeland was among the speakers who endorsed the work of the Defenders...
...Miss Roberts, secretary in charge -of the office, denied that the group had any contact with the rFord organization, and declared that the pamphlets "have been mailed to us because someone thinks we might be able to pass them along to interested people...
...Defeat of this bill was presaged when the Hague Democratic minority voted against the bill, which was supported by two Essex County Republicans, followers of -Senator Clee...
...There is no doubt that the bill will be rejected by the Senate...
...The author is Mrs...
...It has thus far produced several films, outstanding of which has been a picture called ''We the People," prepared for use in fighting the Roosevelt plan for Supreme Court Reform...
...Most of the articles "fW...
...The New Leader ha* faithfully served the best interests of the labor movement, and it is now the duty of the trade union movement to do all it can to safeguard the existence of The New Leader and' to' make it the most important weapon in the hands of labor at this time...
...Lacy Op-penheim, Millinery Workers' Local S. Bkwnt^Hebrew-Am^feM^T^^ Marx Lewis, and the following representatives of The New Leader Board of Directors: Adolph War-show, President...
...Building Service Employee's Union...
...The idea is a good one and will accelerate government ownership considerably...
...Many Bills Ignored By Restless Congress Impatient Legislators to Rush Through Final Weeks of Session—Reorganization and Tax Measure* May Pass...
...enhancement of their business...
...R. HEAKST TO SELL SEVEN RADIO STATIONS The William Randolph Hearst propaganda machine will be minur the services of the great bulk of its radio outlet shortly, as the Hearst empire, still in the crack-up that caused the liquidation of the New York American some time ago, prepares to let go seven of its ten broadcasting stations...
...If this ! money doesn't last...
...Total appropriations may reach eight billion dollars...
...Levitas, Manager...
...These national issues are the ostensible purposes of the films, as announced in the Defenders' literature...
...Wish a circulation of 200,000 or mere, based largely upon religious Saa*jfn*0nt and interest in religious Snuau, the Christian Herald, aoeoftfsag to Mrs...
...A copy of an advertisement for the "We the People—American Way" production declares that the film illustrates how in Spain "churches are defiled" and "lives are sacrificed on the altar of class hatred...
...Hamm, to whom the Chris-tian Enaaaroi 11 s aOgVOe^sfusla critical analysis ot'to Jpbrntoa Harold's col noons, It f ¦¦ ams* Middle West ni ¦ llSsjnS wiasaq, who invested about ft5,0OO m the CtvtetiaUl BaWsaVld eWMl^VrMES 9f/tk She stated in nor soft Wft fct mat a highly profitable pubHeaWon along legitimate reHgious linos, with excellent advertising rcvenao, w4eeB Patterson, toon she peaosdaa* of the Christian Herald Corp., pob-lishers, urged her to Ssffl hsr sissE CoTrfldent that Iier inTeetntfnt would return Babytantiav] profit*, - - f aaTi ii 4ssraasatolaf> alasaaanaaaakel ' Is* nowever, flirs...
...The Law," Mayor Hague of this city, is tired of taking a holiday and is considering turning Indian-giver and replacing John Milton as the Junior Senator from New Jersey...
...Negotiations being conducted at present will include sale of WINS in New-York...
...M. Solo-vieff, Manager, Soft Drink Workers' Union...
...Members of the EpWartr League and the Christian Waatei in Society, church organisation* witfc a membership all over SOS United States, are especially ooncernad with the testimony which places Poling, head of both orgatnoetion...
...Mrs...
...in New York and which has no connection with the American Defenders discussed last week...
...Upstate ALP Is Ready for fall Election As Sew York swings into the B*tch just before the Guberna-tool nominations are made, the Sierican Labor Party is rapidly infecting its election machinery throughout the state...
...The accounting Ins ae-manded of Penney...
...Films for Propoganda Moving picture films, prepared for the organization by Pathe, form its chief propaganda method...
...The officers of this drive are-Max Zaritsky, chairman...
...Avowing his belief in the necessity of political parties, Langdon W. Post was publicly received last ¦O^iSik^afa member of the American labor'Party in a ceremony broad-8§t from Radio Station WEVD...
...Abe Herschkowitx, A.C.WJL...
...Morris Ash-bes, Secretary, Joint Board Cloak-makers...
...Patterson, manager of the Christian Herald, felt it advisable daring the , straw vote campaign to defend the " methods by which it sons token...
...It may approve can get home on time for a re-the plan for government reorgani- election campaign, zation which if passed will be put into effect slowly by the President...
...M. Vasilew-sky, Manager, Dress Pressers' Local 60...
...The following were present: Max Danish, editor of "Justice," official publication of the I.L.G.W.U...
...Morris Feinstone, United Hebrew Trades...
...Congress can provide more next January...
...This might explain the Ad- RlinB I ministration's reluctance to try to force House acceptance of several QgB New Deal laws the President had originally scheduled for passage H this session...
...One of the other defendants is Graham Patterson, owner analpdb-lisher of the National Farm Journal, the most powerful hnilaattliinl publication in eke \\miw§ —I the organ which achieved groat prominence in 1636 by a staoar vote which purported to sURMr that the farmers were massed so heavily against Roosevelt that has tfefaat was a foregone conclusion...
...Abe Miller of the A.C.WJL...
...The President intends to ask Congress to appropriate a billion dollars for relief in the fiscal year that begins July 1 in place of the billion and three quarters provided ! for the current fiscal year...
...J. Bres-lau, Manager, Local SS...
...It was at this time that Permey was acquiring majority control...
...They have hit upon a plan, involving the expenditure of billions for projects like conservation, refor-estration, public health, and self-liquidating works to boost the national income...
...would be "frozen out...
...According to govern- H ment circles the bills will be reintroduced early in the next ses- Majority i^.ad«.r Berkley of Ken_' .„ , ,, tucky, who is poshing things Congress will probably pass a . ., . , corporation tax, without the penal- a,onS ,n the Se«*^ "° that he ty taxes attached...
...Meanwhile, the accounting has been ordered to take place before William M. Wherry, attorney of 50 Broad St., as referee...
...Hamm says she received nothing for her interest, amounting to 10 percent of the common stock...
...Hamm's complaint recites that, unknown to her, a new "association" was formed to publish the magazine...
...Penney, described as-111 I ¦ihsiat who Mves up to the "GoWen Rule," were written-by Rev...
...ntnim reiuera...
...John Howland Lathrop and I Dean Ned H. Dearborn of the New i York University School of Edu-I caticn...
...Fred Umhey, Secretary, General Executive Board, I.L.G.W...
...Moss Meetings Held Mass meetings to "uphold the constitution" are also on the program of the organization...
...S.'M...
...HaJ resist...
...Besides its use in home, church, and school groups, commercial theatres have accepted it at no price to themselves, from the Defenders, and run it with the regular daily program...
...A. -Men-delevitch, Millinery Workers' Union...
...Meanwhile, the attack all along the line on New Jersey labor legislation continues despite the passing by the House of an Anti-Injunction Bill by a vote of 40 to 14...
...Union leaders Launch Drive For New Leader Subscriptions Leaders and representatives of various trade unions in New York gathered last Thursday to launch a drive for ten thousand new subscribers to The New Leader...
...The adjudged "fraud" against Mrs...
...One "big play," however, turned out to be a fairer...
...A committee consisting of the following members were elected to conduct the drive: Max Danish, Abraham Miller, A. Mendelevitch, Morris Feinstone, James Bambrick, A. Herschkowitz, S. Wolchok, Charles Goldman, Louis Fuchs, Joseph Belsky, A. Vasilewsky...
...Councilman Louis Hollander, Manager of the A.C.W.A., and Assemblyman Nathan M. Minkoft...
...One of the charges is serious, in view of the assertion that the magazine was used for the "self-glorification" and "aggrandizement" of defendants and the...
...Hamm, voted to dissolve the corporation and sell the assets...
...At the same time,.these societies advocate a brand "^of American Fascism...
...Hamm was of small moment compared with the poblic interest concerning the aaas roods of the Christian Herald after «bn«Jaea|M frand was perpetrated...
...Cameron's speeches are noted for their anti-labor bias and their general depreciation of the union movement...
...In New York it has been shown at the Rialto Theatre, the Lyric Theatre (both in the Times Square district), and the Grand Central Newsreel Theatre...
...were unable to attend and sent letters in which they promised laah'Ttill' est cooperation in the campaign...
...elections were taken this week »t a meeting of about 20 key Social Dereot i st s and progressive trade unionists, \gorking from a nucleus & S80 men and women who enrolled in the party at the primaries Silt year, party leaders hope ti| create an integrated organization longoefore^ election time...
...Joseph Gilbert was named chair-sa&Ti of the organizing committee, irtth John Fanning, Herbert M. nerrul"Richard M. Levy and Harry Chestnut as members...
...This is the charge that the defendants circulated the magazine on postage rates granted by the U. S. Post Office...
...Julia MeAlpin Hamm of tC Fifth Ave., Now Torn, to recover profu she claimed as a stockholder alike Christian Herald Corp* lambisoW* of the Christian Herald, titS foremost Protestant publsSSttss^Jal Jbe country...
...Loots Fuchs...
...JERSEY CITY...
...squarely into • deal by ofsJeh the $100,000,000 a year Penney retail interests turned the religion* sentiments of toe public to goad business account...
...The economic planners of the Administration now speak of "public investment" which is just the old pump-priming in disguise, bat they present a difficult argument for the anti-New Dealers to beat...
...Suit Finn's ExjMtfft* Of Church ftpLink Between J. C PsMeoy Retail Interest* o*sd rVot extant Paster Cm* to Light m Fraud CaSJnaS•r mat rtmmm Serious laqMliiiionment lor millions of sincere anO earnest chorc> corded in the document...
...They attack the forward strides of labor unions and, in the international scene, while scoring "dictatorship," defend the rebel cause in Spain...
...Three new bills propose the repeal of the minimum wage law and of one prohibiting industrial home work by minors...
...Among such organizations is the National Defenders, which has its headquarters at 542 Fifth Ave...
...Post asserted that the party system was the only device yet discovered for the successful operation cf a democracy...
...Mayor Hague Plans To Replace Milton As U. S. Senator Attacks on Labor Continue Quietly in State Legislature—Anti-Union Bills Increase...
...Other ties with reactionary forces in America ase indicated in the list of the Defenders' advisory committee members...
...The crisis in Europe has smashed much of the isolationists' opposition to the Administration's billion dollar naval expansion bill which is being heatedly discussed throughout Washington...
...M. Abramson, Provision Salesmen's Union...
...Hamm, was used to enhance the business interests of Janaes C. Penney, former president Of the chain of seven hundred Pooaoy department stores and araaWOnt of the J. C. Penney Foundation, controlling 120,000 acres of real estate in Florida...
...The trustees of the dissolving corporation then turned out to be the members of the non-profit New-York corporation...
...With the machine "safe" in family hands, Hague intends to go to the United States Senate and fulfill a life-old ambition which was frustrated, recently when public opinion was aroused by his fight against the C.I.O...
...She is also a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and of practically every "uplift" organization in the country...
...Nationally it has been offered in commercial theatres, community centers, or mass meetings in Maine, Washington, Oregon, Alabama, and other states...
...for toe totted States Government to appropriate several hundred uiHlnai liasaai for the building at oh urea e* on impoverish rnhtmaaislas With Penney basinoss linked closely to church iiiiafs ssjtlions through sentiment* careeotly nurtured in the celnmaa of-JaWOJaris-tian Herald, a successful Si he Jar government church liiiilsaag Ursula1 have been a stroke nothing short Of genius...
...The others received into the Labor Party by Alex Rose, state executive secretary, were the Rev...
...is Schenectady, where the Social Democrats live had a strong following for over thirty years...
...LaGuardia's assertion that there was no Republican Party way of cleaning streets nor a Democratic Party way of running the Police Department, but merely an honest or dishonest, an efficient or an inefficient way...
...Charles Goldman, Manager, Blockers' Union, Local 42...
...Reuben Guskin, Manager, Actors' Union...
...With nominations for the fall elections coming up shortly, Hague is grooming his nephew so that the youngster can take over the political machine the perennial mayor has built...
...Constance Wilson Hand, 53-year-old Orange club woman, and one of the most reactionary member of the Assembly...
...Grace Brosseau, past-president of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and Co]L H. D. Linds-ley...
...Mr_Post, who resigned as Tene-nent^House Commissioner after a B*P$e with Mayor LaGuardia on housing policies, took issue with the Mayor's attitude on political parties and characterized as a "half-truth" Mr...
...Actually, however, the pictures go much further...
...A. Snyder, Manager, Local 32, I.L.G.W.U...
...Harry Green berg, Manager, Local 91, I.L.G.W.U...
...As a result of the discussion, two- committees were elected, and it was decided to start a drive for ten thousand new subscribers to the paper...
...Chances are good for a series of appropriation bills that will include provision for a much larger navy, for new flood control and for a continued WPA...
...Poling and others was granted by Justice lb-Cook in a finding of facts in which it was decreed, among other decisions, that the action which caused the suit, the alleged dissolution of the Christian Herald, "constituted a fraud...
...Another committee was elected to study the possibilities of making The New Leader more adaptable for mass circulation and of greater service to the trade union movement...
...Tie fight of big business against the New Deal has created ghost of societies under various titles, all of which attack the International labor movement and the Roosevelt reform pro-jtfgjn Under the guise of defending •'Americanism...
...WASHINGTON, D. S.—Practical * pTfn»Trn rnit.retTrt^^^ politics will dominate Washington MVUSnCS V t/rf J/J LBO developments more and more from '_'—mw^^~~"ir^ now until the fall elections and B what bills are scheduled for pass- HH age by a frantic Congress will ¦ speed through more rapidly as the H legislators grow restless...
...The Defenders ooast that their movie has received the endorsement- of the American Women's Committee against Communism and the American Coalition, two groups similar to The Defenders, advocating their own brand of "Americanism," which means suppression of the labor movement, opposition to the New Deal and to industrial and political democracy in'general...
...The latter, of course, was the corporation which acquired the assets of the Christian Herald Corporation...
...Young men with church cflaniSeUfHH wSre urged to eater the f*sni& oraajsi...
...Included are Mrs...
...S. Wolchok, Retail Employees' Union...
...Skrhiel A. Poling and others which ho* just been loiinlaiil In Hon fork County Supreme Court before Jas-tice Philip J. McCook...
...The call for this conference was signed by Max Zaritsky, president of the United Hatters, and long prominent in labor circles...
...National Defenders Attack Labor Groups Society for Preserving •Americanism"' Combats Unions, Supports Spanish Rebels — Works Through Films and Mass Meetings — Big Business Tie-up Seen...
...Adolph Held, treasurer...
...The suit woe instituted lgfp...
...Marx Lewis, secretary...
...Toarrtt ¦a»sna A tourist buieau, wfsh % Mtfmgiy religious attitude towgrt total, was also "played up" In the Chris-tian Herald with 1 eosHan ~ j^rattta from those who considered their souls safer in Mont* f*M*S Qildoi religious auspices thOn WRWt the ordinary commercial gOtdnftcfe...
...The defendants, denying the allegations, have sought a review of Justice McCook's findings in the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court...
...Poling also was promiaaat in the campaign against the Now Doll through his radio rermoos, aroad-casted over a national haofc**to...
...reawapespeT aapwrsaaica Mrs...
...charter Commander of the American Legion...
...Copeland also spoke at a meeting of the society held last May in Philadelphia...
...Democracy, the film declares, exists only in the United States and in Britain, and it is the duty of the American public to prevent the inroads of allegedly radical propaganda at home...
...Manager, Neckwear Makers' Union...
...Meyer Gillis, Treasurer...
...This was the Christian Herald Association, Inc., a nonprofit membership corporation, chartered under the laws of New-York State...
...During the discussion that followed, a number of speakers mentioned some points to make The New Leader a suitable newspaper for mass circulation...
...James Bambrick...
...PoliOg...
...The principal asset was the Christian Herald, itself...
...We the People" has had a wide circulation in America...
...New Jersey corporation) was then- held ,at .which tHe stockholders, excepting Mrs...
...First steps to build up the party in felt City in anticipation of the fa...
...Post added that the only-possible conclusion that could be drawn from such reasoning was that the people of a city would be better off under a system of government that did not recognize parties or party responsibility, and that this argument could be applied equally well to state and nation...
...Joseph Belsky, Manager, Butcher Workers' Union...
...H Members of Congress are be^ coming increasingly impatient to I wind up the session and get back ¦ home to fence-mending, and don't I want to be loaded down w.: ^fc'V >aoo...
...more work...
...President Roosevelt has H sensed this for some time and the I White House's decision is not to Hr...
...In the organization's Fifth Avenue office are to be found large bundies of a pamphlet called -'Weeds," which is a reprint of a speech made by W. J. Cameron, one of Henry Ford's public contact then, over the Ford radio hour...
Vol. 21 • March 1938 • No. 12
