Labor Battle Moves West As A.F of L. Enters Politics
Labor Battle Moves Vifest As A.F ofL. Enters Politics Forms California Pelitieal League To Combat C. 1.0. Washington Unions of Both Federations Unite in Fighting Building...
...apparently still in prison in Moscow...
...These were accompanied by reports of the probable construction of pipe lines from Mexican oil fields to a port on the Pacific Coast to make this oil more accessible to Japan...
...The Screen Actors' Guild, whose president is the dashing Robert Montgomery, is determined that about 90 per cent of them go back home and forget the romance of the celluloid area, since there is only room for about 1,500 extras to make a fair living and maintain union conditions...
...Members of the Volksbund are used as circulation canvassers and to coerce their friends, if they have any, to read the Nazi newspapers1 and drop the "Jewish Press...
...If the revelations of Ameriag journalists, and the fear of Mm ions of a passport-fraud trial • America, do not cause the pena> lent shelving of the imprmnA >air of Stalinists, the RuossSf •nay yet take the stand in MosatS Nazis Have $40,000,000 for National Drive * (Continued from Page One) Company now has newspapers in New York City, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Los Angeles, with new papers coming up in Boston, Salt Lake City, Minneapolis, Seattle, and Milwaukee...
...Sp&ttttio The New Leader~ WASHINGTON, D. C.-^Interest in the conflict between the American Federation of Labor and the Committee for Industrial Organization shifted to the Pacific Coast th e past' two weeks in several incidents which showed both unity and division trends...
...J : McLevy Will Run For Governor in ; November Election Jy >, -1 t...
...Some observers believe that the Rubber Workers and Textile Workers will be expelled...
...imI proved health conditions, a modern accounting system, reduced city debts, and the progressive labor policies his administration has followed...
...Bernard Disturbed At Portland, Ore., cooperation is less in evidence...
...Special to The New Leader ' WASHINGTON, D. C.—Diplomatic officials of the London and Paris governments are working overtime trying to stall orT the sale of American helium to Nazis for use in super-dirigibles...
...the 40-hour week has been established for public employees, and cash saving have been effected in many bureaus...
...In 1934 McLevy was nominated by the Socialist Party, and although defeated for the state office, conducted a campaign that swept three Socialist Senators and two Socialist Representatives into the State Legislature...
...Present indications are that he would refuse...
...If LatinAmerican nations cannot socialize industries owned by foreign capitalists, even though the owners are promised/ compensation, then the United States government will claim an imperialist veto over such legislation...
...His salary as Fuehrer is a secret not revealed even to his subordinates...
...i Vigilance on the part of the i police force has also kept major 1 crime in Reading at a minimum, « and out-of-town criminals have \ given the city a wide berth...
...electric rates have been reduced...
...It ter.e> to an abandonment of the "good neighbor" policy declared by President Roosevelt last December at the opening of the Pan-American Conference in Buenos Aires...
...As Fuehrer he has the power to call a national convention at any time, appoint deputy national officers to reresent the Bund, adjust all grievances, interpret all laws, decide all -controversies, call local unit meetings ahd preside over fff meeting of any unit of the Baai ¦ suspend or remove any distrid • officer or member...
...Wage cuts and dismissal drives, sale of much real estate, further consolidation of the remaining interests to avoid considerable tax payment, and sale of stocks and bonds, are all part of ,the drive to establish Hearst on an economically impenetrable footing, while his publicity office continues its barrage of "preparing for death" propaganda to maintain public confidence \yi the Hearst enterprises...
...Washington Unions of Both Federations Unite in Fighting Building Trades Lockout...
...Tie Guild's decision, while depriving those extras who are too poor to pay dues the right to hang on for a while, nevertheless will insure a decent living for the rest...
...One hypothesis ia flpS the Eastman and other Aiuei'Ml references were remnants eff Sfa* tion of the trial scenario Kremlin playwrights, "cut" Th* portion may have involved a» Robinson-Rubenses...
...Especially since movie-struck kids hit this town in droves every day...
...STUMP REPORT TELLS OF READING PROGRESS READING, Pa.—Presenting his second annual message to the City Council, Mayor Henry J. Stump, Social Democrat, reported on...
...Improved Working Conditions Two ordinances were enacted . providing protection for working j conditions for two groups of skilled workers who* have a public --esponsibility and who are often subject to unfair competition...
...The •Workers succeeded in halting the iseiliag of six cannery vessels while the operators threatened to close up and throw 20,000 men out of work...
...but the Hitlerites are notoriously short of cash...
...Londoners are telling Washington officials, to remember that German airships may be able to fly 300 miles an hour by using new high-power motors developed by Nasi technicians...
...The State Departasat has abandoned action and, da)p repeated demands in the lint press, has refused to publish formation on the ease which Ji agents have been gathering pr some months...
...After the suppression of Viennese Socialism t>y Dollfuss in February, 1934, this City became the model Socialist community of Central Europe...
...Rubens, whose adventures in Kav sia and other activities denua strate a GPU tie-up, is probtbff also in prison, despite runwi printed in the New York tabloids that he has been shot...
...progress despite tremendous depression difficulties that face all industrial cities...
...It •will -not abandon the non-partisan •policy and it declares that it will not support any candidate "known to be sympathetic with or to have (riven encouragement and support to the CJ.O...
...Despite the defeat of the referendum proposed by the Social Democrats last year for a municipal power plant, the threat has had a good effect...
...We believe that the threat of municipal ownership is still the most effective weapon against exorbitant charges by public utilities," Mayor Stump declared...
...The American Guards an* W American National Socialist Le*fc*ot which was formerly the Aajgrfc* National Labor Party, are |jf youth organizations of the Gerffl** American Bund, which is the holding corporation for Aff^K organizations tat America...
...All Germans vere urged, as a matter of honor, :o take a stand against suppression of Austria and to demand lights of self-determination for he Austrian people...
...Despite the skillful methods of his agents and the actions of Hearst, who is himself well versed in effective publicity work, the sounds of the empire's crumolings have been beard for some time...
...Zurich, a city of more than 250,-" 000, has had a Socialist city administration since 1928...
...Despite the fuming of Colonel Goering, Nazi Air Force chief, Ickes is determined ' to take his time and places little trust in Hitler's promises...
...I: foreign capitalists have their way it means that any Mexican pro gram of nationalization of sub soil deposits will be impossible...
...In no otba American organization has u* , leader as much power...
...Charles A. Beard voiced the opinion of many American educators when he told a teachers' convention: "No decent man would touch Hearst with a ten-foot pole...
...The pubhatjjfcl of articles in The New Leader,* New York Sun and other Aassnii papers, revealing the tie-up l» tweer...
...Without any definite program Duttweiler...
...Klotz received 52,235 votes to the 3,679 for the Fascist nomineeSocialist victory here was threatened for a while by the appearance in city politics of a new party— The Independents—which is subsidized and controlled by a Gottlieb Duttweiler, a multimillionaire chain store owner...
...regulation of the hours during which barber shops may be open, estab- i lishing a penalty for...
...Although the sale was arranged and the State Department has issued an export license, it is up to the Interior Department, which controls all the helium in the United States, to draw up ?he final papers...
...Geneva's left-wing Socialist leader...
...to consider a popular loan oi 100,000.000 pesos as an installmem in paying for the nationalizec properties...
...Under the present plan, Shearn will direct the Hearst empire, which will continue to pay dividends to the publisher's family...
...defeated them...
...D. C —Long outstanding disputes between American and British petroleum corporations and Mexico has developed into a crisis in the relations between the 'United States and Mexico this week when a sharp protest was "sent by Secretary of State Hull to the Mexican Government against the nationalization the alien-owned oil properties...
...It is understood that sti result the family is at a loss bar to proceed...
...Why did *t prosecutor overlook this oudia luestion...
...Some time ago he suggested that the Nazis post a large cash bond to be forfeited if the gas is used for military purposes...
...Considerable interest throughout , the state has already been shown ¦ in the mayor's proposed candidacy i by many inquiries sent to the So. cialist State Executive Committee i asking whether McLevy would be i willing to run on any other party ticket...
...Despite the victories of the Nazis in other countries and the recent Austrian raid of Hitler, the proximity of Zurich to the German porder, and intensive Fascist propaganda, the Socialists have won fevery election battle sinee 1928...
...The A. P. Of L.C.I.O...
...Fritz Kuhn, besides being American Fuehrer, is head of the publishing company...
...The Socialists control five of the nine places on the Executive Commission which runs the city and have 60 places in the council...
...It may seem harsh on the surface, but the union officers feel that a closed shop in the movie industry and a decent living for the 1,500, for whom there are jobs, are better than encouraging the 12,000 to starve and hold on...
...The Guild's answer to the wretched wages earned by the extra colony in Hollywood is very strict enforcement of the suspension of members back in their Cues...
...Citizens Committee of fff and Use Citizens Protective Laajgg and the A.B.C., America's BSf Citizens...
...League for Non-Partisan Political Action...
...As soon as one of them becomes 35, his earnings drop j to practically nothing, since the producers can get the younger looking people who are constantly streaming into the movie city...
...The Mexicans have no affection for Japan, but they may be tempted to consider this outlet for Mexican oil if the American government drives them to the wall with a hard bargain in the interest of American oil capitalists...
...L . it Bridgeport Mayor to Cam! paign for Highest Office in Connecticut—-Reading 1 (Pa...
...Mexican Qr\$\$ Mexico's Nationalization of Alien Properties Will Test Sincerity of American "Good Neighbor" Policy...
...The United States controls almost all the helium in the world, j ' According to several reporters, all on liberal newspapers, who are close tor the outspoken Secretary Ickes, he is loath to let the Nazis have the gas and is stalling along, hoping that something may break to prevent the sale...
...His message show...
...3 ;3tn the same city, three A. Y. of L. and two C.I.O...
...Froebest Heads West Kuhn has appointed Rudcll* Markmann leader of the E*rt*r« Division and George Froebes« Milwaukee, head of the MM*** section...
...11 also tends to throw Mexico into the arms of the fascist nations, especially Japan...
...Twa Rivals Cooperate • "'On the other hand, in Seattle, Wash., unions of both federations cooperated in fighting a lockout of 300 members of the* local Building Trades Council...
...A great deal of his supUNO E fi G B QUND MOVE MEN T BROADCAST RAPS HITLER LONpaN jfJThe anti^Jazi ufider?round movement m Germany reached the German and Austrian people March 13 with a broadcast jrging Austrians to vo?e "No" in :he poming plebiscite on "merger" >f the two countries...
...After serving one term ending in 1937, he was appointed By Hitler for a four-year period, which parallels the Goering Four-Year Plan, in which to accomplish the Bund's aims...
...The Bukharin-Rykov trial reesd indicated four abortive Amsfiei references which may be natal to the Kremlin policy teUBs the Robinson-Rubenses...
...Here the split was dramatized because both men are members of the Typographical Union...
...This will be the second time that the Bridgeport mayor has been a candidate for governor...
...ftabaas o Stalinist Mrs...
...the Order of T» the World Alliance Against Je*«* Aggressiveness, the Nations...
...This appears to be internal sabotage of Mexico and it looks like parallel action with the American government's new silver policy and its diplomatic pressure against the Mexican government...
...Sp9dal *sf The*We» Leader » ' * "' ' ' • WASHINGTON...
...She has rejected a propsssl of the U. S. Embassy to'belp be...
...Robinson-Rubens, the GK, and American Stalinists, proaffe plaved a role in causing this aft ponement...
...It is expected that it will be some time before the contract is drawn and I :he helium gets to Germany...
...j*> Loan Was Refused At the same time, the Security Exchange Commission dealt another blow to the weakened structure when it refused the publisher permission to borrow millions of dollars...
...Meantime, Presi dent Cardenas has called a speCia session of the Mexican Congres...
...like Coughlin in American, feigns an antipathy for politicians and party alignments and insists that his group is a movement, censures both Capitalism and Socialism and is the most potential fascist leader that Switzerland has...
...Basic Causes of Dispute The crisis involves two dangers in international relations...
...Mrs...
...The city is full of pathetic extras who live on practically nothing a week...
...Gas, electricity, water and the traction system are already municipally owned and operated public utilities...
...The latter, 1 said the Mayor, "insures competent i operation Of' highly complicated i equipment in places and under < conditions where diastrous panic might easily follow a slight mis- i hap...
...ante...
...Within* a few days after Amer ican oil magnates visited the Stati Department, a vigorous statemen' was sent to Mexico protesting against the nationalization of the oil properties...
...t Oil Magnates Bring jyT...
...violation, | was requested by the vast majority i of barbers.' The other ordinance I requires a licensed projectionfst to ( be on duty with each projection < machine when in use...
...The prsa cutor, for example, failed to Mk Christian Rakovsky, a defends* whether he meant Max Eastasi when he declared th|t "BrftiB agents" * learned of his lesnfa...
...Japan got into the picture last week when dispatches from Tokyo stated that Japanese authorities were interested in the purchase of Mexican oil...
...Hollywood .extras are proving a serious prob' ^lem to the motion picture actors' " "union out on the West Coast...
...Thus it is obvious thai outright confiscation is not content plated by the Mexican government and yet it is understood that th< Roosevelt administration wants assurances that "full compensation" will be paid...
...Heavily in Debt The publisher, whose great wealth, some thought, would place him out of reach of public opinion and above the possible effects of boycott moves, is actually heavily in debt...
...The dispute has already brought -'-—a sharp fall in Mexican currency, _a drastic decline in the production of Mexican Oil, a suspension of American purchases of Mexican silver which is regarded by Mexicans as "economic sanctions" against nationalization,' while Japan has been brought into the ¦picture as a prospective big purchaser of Mexico's oil...
...The bosses tried to substitute the 8-hour for the 6-hour day, but the combined A. P. of L. and C.I.O...
...A recent attempt to sell stocks and bonds in the Hearst interests failed badly...
...The government answered by nationalizing the properties...
...toward Trotskyism years ago fWU a "Mr...
...Eastman...
...By LON LEE '¦ BRIDEPORT, Conn.—After five ¦ years as Bridgeport's Socialist mayor, Jasper McLevy is preparI ing to enter this November's race ' for the governorship of Connecti, cut, at the head of the Socialist i ticket...
...For a long time the influence of Hearst has been on the down-path-r present reports indicate that his financial power is heading in the same direction...
...is "Dollar Diplomacy" Revived...
...port came'from the dwindling Nazi financed National Front, which lost all of its ten seats in the City Council...
...struggle in the lumber industry continues, with the A. P. of L. claiming- important gains, including the ¦ desertion of eleven Cr.O...
...unions cooperated in a dispute with Alaskan cannery operators who endeavored to eat wages 10 per cent...
...There are about 12,000 men, women and children, all would-be stars, who are literally starving while waiting for bit plwts from the big studios...
...He.published his own newspaper, "The Deed," which is edited by an ex-Fascist who in 1936 urged in print the murder of Leon N'icolle...
...Emil Klotz, Socialist incumbent and member of the Executive Commission since 1907...
...New Hearst Crack-up Seen in Recent Shift ' 5 -;- 1 ^ Publisher Heavily in Debt—Plans Wage Cuts, Dismissal Drives, Sale of Many Real Estate Holdings...
...Three weeks ago, in The Nar Leader, Herbert Solow disclosed that the parents of Mrs...
...And in the 1936 election campaign, Hearst's backing of Landon was effectively capitalized by the Roosevelt forces, while the Republicans, despite the huge publicity resources at Hearst's command, sought vigorously to dissociate themselves in the public eye from any connection with the publisher...
...Closely associated with, «** dominated by, the Bund are American Nationalist Party *Sf Russian Nationalist Party, a <** ist organization...
...This legislation, in addition, promotes public safety and public health...
...by the ignition of the hydrogen gas used...
...New Evidence of C. P.-Rubens Tieup In Garber Ami - _ (Continued from Page One) known to be involved are, in atf...
...Public opinion has been roused by the continued pressure of all liberal forces in America to expose Hearst lies and antilabor activities...
...A plan to parade the Robins* Rubens couple in a demonstrstia "spy" trial, complete imk *W>3 fessions," was apparently tmdf way early this year but now sella to have been pushed off into at indifinite future...
...Swiss Socialists Beat Fascists in Election Social Democrats Capture Mayoralty in Zurich, Majority in City Council, and Control of Executive Commission By MYRON TRIPP ZURICH...
...Another plan is to have each studio put several hundred extras under contract and so stabilize employment...
...Rubens, also, a Stalinist...
...Washington, both Charles P. Howard,, secretary of the C.I.O., and Frank Morrison, secretary of the A. F. of L., accused each other est dictatorship in a debate before tine local Typographical Union...
...He is quoted as saying that peace between the two federations could have been achieved had John L. Lewis gone along with an agreement reached during negotiations "Tfetween the C.LO...
...Although the State Department has issued an export license for 19^00,000 cubic feet of helium to Germany for strictly non-military uses, the Department of Interior— under Secretary Ickes—is taking jits time in drafting a contract which will definitely carry out the clause that the helium, will be used for commercial purposes...
...and the A. F. of L. Dubinsky also said that he is "doing everything possible'' to bring about a reunion...
...He was a candidate for the mayoralty ten times before being elected in 1933...
...Ickes Holds Up Sale Of Helium to Nazis ' ¦ ¦¦ ¦ ' ¦ ISecretary of Interior Fears Non-inflammable Gas Will Be Used by Germans for Armed Dirigibles...
...Reading now has its lowest infant mortality rate per thousand births...
...tion to Garber, Helen RtrflBj, Marshall Shaw, Arthur Sharfa and several persons who liveia an East 17th Street address Ifta utilized by Robinson-Rubena»j...
...Their control of the council rests in the four votes of the Democratic Party which has consistently aligned itself with the Socialists for years...
...Special to The New Leader LOS ANGELES.—Under, coyer of well-planned publicity announcing his recognition of "the uncertainties of life,** WilKard Randolph Hearst is giving up a large area of his empire in order to meet heavy ^Jebts to the Chase National Rank and other creditors...
...Switzerland.— Fascist candidate- were smashing!} defeated by the Social Democrats in a city-wide election helc here late in March when the Socialists won the mayor's ofhc< and a majority of the 125 seats in the City Council, all elccte< on a proportional representation ba>is...
...Mayor Stump reported that about $350,000 had been saved for consumers in rate reductions...
...Under this power the German dirigibles, using noninflammable helium gas, can leave new secret air-bases in the Baltic and Saar regions and fly over London and Paris within an hour and a half...
...The sale of the helium to the Nazis comes as a result of the horrible Hindenburg explosion, caused GLAMOUR OF HOLLYWOOD CREATES UNION PROBLEM - Special to The Sew Leader ¦' • LOS ANGELES...
...Only recently the Hearst chain decided to let go of seven of its ten radio stations...
...And newsprint mill owners, to whom Hearst owes about $11,000,000, were greeted by an anxious agent of the publisher who begged the group not to press for money at a time when the Hearst interests were so hard hit...
...In Seattle, despite every anti-labor trick that the publisher could use, the Hearst forces were badly defeated in the Post-Intelligencer strike...
...Concurrent with a great decline in his influence and prestige, the publisher finds himself forced^ to meet large debt claims and to drop many of his newspaper, radio, and real estate holdings...
...Rubes received from their daughter I secret message through the Stat Department in which the daurbttr asked them not to interfere in be affairs...
...Noted educators, intellectualists and statesmen have rejected offers of lucrative jobs...
...Any favoritism by Mexico to Japan would be considered an unfriendly act by the American government, and yet much of Mexico's, revenue is largely dependent upon taxation of sub-soil products...
...Clarence J. Shearn, appointed last week as voting trustee governing the Hearst organization, was, evidence indicates, chosen in a compromise move between the publisher and his creditors, particularly the Chase company...
...The 'Hearst chain is in debt, principally through mortgages held by banks...
...Unions Support Party Mayor Stump reported for the second democratic Socialist administration of the city, and he is the only mayor ever elected twice since 1885...
...He's a Swiss counterpart of Huey Long and Father Coughlin and spent $46,000, an enormous sum for politics in this part of the world, to smash the Socialists...
...Herman Schwinn rale* W West from Los Angeles...
...Conditions Improve Under Stump...
...Under the Mexicar Constitution the nation claims al rights to sub-soil riches, and foreign investors have always resistec this basic law of the republic...
...He is about 45...
...The immediate c a-u s e of th« crisis is due to a Mexican court decision not satisfactory to th« •foreign oil companies...
...The strength of the party lies in its general support by the local trade unions...
...That empire, however, will be considerably narrowed, while many of its branches will continue to be sold in order to pay debts on the remaining parts...
...In New York, because "two morning papers competing is not good business"—the claim of" the Hearst group—the New York American, one of the oldest links in the publisher's chain, was discontinued...
...Hearst's vigorous opposition to Roosevelt in 1936 served only to further lower his prestige when Roosevelt was elected by an overwhelming majority...
...The capitalist parties refused to enter the mayoralty contest knowing they would be defeated by Dr...
...t> is also reported that more C.I.O.' unions are slated for expulsion from the A. F. of L. when the Executive Council meets in Washington on April 25...
...It will revive the "dollar diplomacy" of Taft, Harding, Coolidge and Hoover, and the United States will lose the confidence of all the Latin-American peoples...
...unions in as many mills to the A. P. of L. -' Disturbed by the effect of the conflict on the independenj^political movements of the working class, Congressman John P. Bernard, Farmer-Labor representative from Minnesota, broadcasted on a national network last week, deploring the split and declaring political, reactionaries will take advantage •Tit...
...An interesting interview with David Dubinsky, president of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, is also reported ia the "Gazette" of Montreal...
...Zurich under Socialist leadership has been one of the most progressive cities in the world...
...In California, 450 delegates representing A. P. of L. unions met in state convention at Santa Barbara and organized the A. F. of L. Political League of California as .a rival to the C.I.O...
...McLevy is -national chairman of the Social Democratic Federation...
...The Independents won 20 places in the Council...
...The prestige of the entire Hearst chain has fallen considerably in recent years...
...He should be closely watched...
...The S. P. was supported by 48 per cent of the vote...
...bens' former attorney, as The Km Leader has pointed out before, lb* has had Stalinist connections, although it is not known that af.Hl anything to do with Rubens' seen activities...
...Meantime, other American-owrtec industries in Mexico are reducing their labor- forces, and as this retrenchment of production continues, Mexican workers fear widespread unemployment...
...The organisation" broadcasts on ihort wave length . 29.8, and has frequently been successful in puting its anti-Nazi propaganda over he air despite the efforts of gov'rnrnent-controlled stations to over-»wer the voice of the secret >ro ad caster...
...Former Ford Employee Kuhn, the national Fuehrer, was formerly a chemical engineer for the Ford Motor Company in Detroit...
...This Mexican problem now tests the sincerity of the American "good neighbor" policy...
Vol. 21 • April 1938 • No. 14
