Racketeers Draw Big Money from Vigilantes
Racketeers Draw Big Money from Vigilantes Senators PushQuiz toExpose Ann-New Deal Lobbyists Labor Int'l Raps Hitter, Condemns Moscow Trials joint Meeting of I.F.T.U., Labor and Socialist...
...Blind stupidity of high finance, which for a long time has had a lot more to say about railroad policy than experienced railroad operators...
...Solidarity with Czechoslovak was also urged, and educatjufor collective security in deCM of democratic nations was •ted to be an urgent necessity, y by energetic and rapid action r peace and the maintenance of Mtionai independence" can European democracies "obtain the active support of America," the two internationals declare...
...The quiz is expected to smoke out the forces behind men like Frank Gannett, publisher of a New York newspaper chain, and Father Coughlinr who in recent weeks has broadcast demands to the nation for a corporate state, similar to the Italian fascist government...
...The consequences of Hitler's coup oe force are incalculable...
...And— looming biggest now but by no means standing alone—unexpected competition...
...Jim" Hill boasted that they would pat the Panama Canal oat af tojstasss —but they didn't...
...The C. H. & D. was...
...Even at this late hour," the naolution concludes, "general war ean still be avoided if all worknig class and democratic forces are brought into action without delay sad with the necessary vigor...
...overthrow of American asmocracy...
...Frank Gannett is closely associated, with Elisha Hanson who, besides being personal attorney to William Randoph Hearst, is counsel for the reactionary anti-union Newspaper Publishers' Association...
...Paul*, of which Max Lo wen thai truthfully says: "The shrinkage in market value of its securities from 1908 to 1826 was $455,000,000...
...John H. Stanton, a Johnstown minister who worked hand-in-glove with both the local and national vigilante movements...
...It contained many significant names...
...Many conservatives regret their recent refusal, and if the proposition is put to them a second time, will not say no...
...On the contrary, it ¦Worts American democracy and ¦tea the widest possible common *a*«f supporters of democracy in •nktt to maintain it...
...It also said that Earle had "aaihlj yielded to noisy minorities...
...And then law sate began to get in b'afe''' What antes and buses have done to railroad t passenger ts^jja torn be stated in one sentence: In lt20...
...A total of $62,661 was thus raised, and $42,000 of it went to the John Price Jones Corporation and its two affiliated advertising concerns, Thornely ft Jones and Direct Mail, Inc.* This money was entirely separate from the $42,937 given by Bethlehem to tbe Johnstown Citizens' Committee trod Mayor Daniel J. Shields...
...Cancellation Significant It is very significant that King Carol canceled hurriedly his proposed visit to England, scheduled for March 22nd...
...The L.S.I, acted alone on the Moscow trials, declaring that "it has no faith whatever in the system of paotkal trials in the Soviet Union...
...If Hitler can force Rumania to accept an alliance (the Iron Guard is only too willing), Germany will have a vantage point on the Black Sea for an attack on Ukrainia...
...You went to the newspapers with paid advertisements in one hand and one-sided new* siaTlss in the other," remarked Senator Thomas...
...In the afternoon of March 16 the New Yo*k Sun printed an extract from MV...
...England can be counted on to act more vigorously towards Italy...
...Army units begin to join the " revolutionary fighters...
...The National Steel Corporation, Pittsburgh, gave $1,000...
...The third step in the campaign was a pamphlet entitled "The Lesson of Johnstown.'' It contained a "foreword" signed by Rev...
...0. Box 1138," at Pittsburgh, which the investigators found was held by "some people named Mellon...
...Jones admitted that this foreword was not written by Stanton, though it said: "I aaw these things in Johnstown with ay own eyes...
...ln* Communist Party reminds Pat committee that undemocratic *™«tion like the McNaboe mean can only lead the country along the road of Hitlerism...
...An anonymous gift of $1,000 was from "P...
...Labor foes Chipped la Another $1,000 came from J. T. Tierney, president of the Koppers Company, a Mellon concern...
...a "regular" sucker fit of about 40,000 names, "compiled" over a period of t9 yean from newspaper reports of nssnls j|ao give away money...
...TelU of BuHd-Up First came two advertisements, published in newspapers throughout the country...
...Some of these people, Jones added, "send money from abroad...
...Capitalism is losing its strongest weapon, the army...
...Well Paid,for Setting Up Anti-Union Gangs lions, Senate Committee I mm NlWIjjpWl Are Baited With Advertising...
...OjtKtS.—Acting upon the danggt that confront Europe and the igrld as a result of fascist ag^lOMinn the International Federate- of Trade Unions and the L»bor and Socialist International iUd a joint conference in Paris «a March 16-16 and adopted two liiUletinnn...
...Mussolini has made the best of a baa bargain...
...As ever, they prefer to treat with Mussolini and Hitler, even on ignominous terms, if thereby they can reduce the masses to impotency...
...The ICC, in reporting on one busted road, was obliged to say that "only a court of criminal jurisdiction could deal properly" with" the case...
...Citizens' Committee expanded into a nation-wide vigilante organization was described in detail last week to the Senate Civil Liberties Committee...
...McNaboe bills start off ostensibly with the Communists, but always wind up, as we see in the tragic case of Austria, with the Schuschniggs, the Miklases, the Catholics, Jews and liberals...
...Earl Browder, general secretary of the party...
...The Com****** Party is an American party 2ja> the ground up...
...Jones' men also wrote the "resolutions, preamble, etc.," which were adopted at a meeting la Tamil town on July IS, whan the Notional Citizens' Committee was organ* ised...
...A National BfiSt^Lse Council was held recently, dedlSbn ..was taken and put immediateIj/Ento effect...
...to Prevent Domination of Spain by Germany and Italy...
...Industrialists Support Attacks Tbe Senate Committee, it is expected, will show that a handful of industrialists and financiers have supported alt the drives on the New Deal ever since it began its program of advanced social legislation, while at the same time trying to brow-beat the administration into granting special favors to business...
...England cannot and will not be an obstacle to French collaboration, as she was in 1936...
...Street fights become frequent...
...Zh* conference urged affiliated asjss* and parties to help stop the hypocritical policy of "non-interfentioti" which has only aided the fttciat powers in Spain, to intently the campaign for solidarity with the Spanish Republic, and to ¦B, an embargo and consumers' ajtott against all goods going to tad coming from Franco's terriary...
...The Denver tt Rio Grande expansion stripped those who had trusted it to the point of indecent exposure...
...It is first of all a decisive move in the preparation for war...
...Hundreds of millions of dollars were lopped off the taxes of the rich in the measure passed by the House after months of feverish work by lobbyists representing the wealthiest manufacturers in the country...
...In 1929-30 Gannett spent millions in newspaper campaigns against public ownership and utility control trends...
...Waste of money through graft, and through tfie craze for bigness which has been quite as expensive as graft...
...Robert S.• Waters, president of* the National Radiator Corporation, told the Senators he called Jones to Johnstown during the railroad and steel' workers* strikes at like Bethlehem Steel Company plant in Junes 1937, Raised Stash Fund Jones strongly advocated a national campaign to raise money in the name of the Johnstown Citizens' Committee, to be turned over to a "National Citizens' Committee" for newspaper advertising, publicity, radio programs and other form* of propaganda...
...Each version was written by an eminent authority, one by M. J. Olgin, editor of the Communist daily "rVeifceK," and the other by the Bon...
...She is free for the time being to .think only of her empire...
...Still another $1,000 was from the Mesta Machine Company, also in the Mellon stronghold at Pitts-, burgh...
...There are battles in the principal cities...
...H. D. Clark of White, Weld A Co., a brokerage firm which is being prosecuted by the Securities and Exchange Commission for fraudulent manipulation of stock prices on the exchanges, was a contributor...
...Both fought the reorganization laws...
...By KHJAHIN PHOTTER Special to The New Leader PARIS.—The rhythm of events continues at a hallucinating speed...
...At that time the committee was headed by Hugo L. Black, who is now on the U. S. Supreme Court bench...
...As tor the share of high finance in railroad troubles, all, the things told and a hundred net hinted at wars at bottom the result of banker management of railroads...
...And capping all was the wracking of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St...
...The Styrian mines will fill that gap...
...The New Haven was as dirty as and more expensive than the Alton...
...The papers print more of your stories if you buy advertising...
...represented 20 affiliated parties of t he workers...
...Capper King a Doner Daniel C. Jackling, president of the Kennecott Copper Company, gave $100 to the vigilante move* ment, which denounced Roosevelt bitterly...
...The Communist Party does >e» advocate force or violence...
...It * net a party of anarchists, ter-j 5**" or conspirators...
...Camas aaw nasepsntsi competition: sad tins is a deadly serious thing...
...Waste and CompetfKon Cause Railroad Crisis ly ELIOT HARMS' WASHINGTON, D. C—What brought the railroads to their present plight...
...there is fraternization between the workers and the soldiers, the workers and the marines...
...Oglin's pamphlet, "Why Communism...
...The Spanish offer of an alliance with France has been momentarily turned down, as well as the proposition of an independent Catalonia under French protection...
...By no ***ah of the imagination does it fome under the terms of the crim¦al anarchy statute or any law IStisrned after that statute...
...The railroads had put the rivers nearly eat of business as common carriers...
...The joint war waged by Germany and Italy in Spain and the eanaaeat of Austria have placed Sitka armies on the Danube, on the Pyrenees, in Africa, and in the lalairir Isles, and constitute a iron threat to Czechoslovakia...
...Armed workers and soldiers and marines seise the principal governmental offices, invade the residences of the President and his Cabinet members, arrest them, declare the old regime abolished, establish their own power, the power of the workers and farmers...
...York Herald Tribune of •••ch 1« provided morning readart with the following telegram by tee Hon...
...The Communist Party is an •¦¦ican party and is not subject ¦ any foreign control...
...Many had armed themselves before as the struggles sharpened...
...Racketeers Draw Big Money from Vigilantes Senators PushQuiz toExpose Ann-New Deal Lobbyists Labor Int'l Raps Hitter, Condemns Moscow Trials joint Meeting of I.F.T.U., Labor and Socialist International Urges WorldWide Activity to Aid Austrian* and Spaniards...
...The French are stunned by the turn Of events in Central Europe and in Spain...
...Jackling could wall afford the gift because, under the New Deal, his company made a profit of $40322,000 last year, practically double its profit tn fas preceding y"Looking 11 am .04, the Big Business men was the name of Rex Beach, the famous author, who gave $6...
...Senator LaFollette read the list of contributors...
...Pressure is already being brought on Hungary (wheat), Yugoslavia (cattle) and Rumania (oil) to bring them definitely under German influence and domination...
...The two internationals also noted the barbarism of the German Geaepo in Austria and the fearful reprisals taken against trade union members and Social Democrats...
...WASHINGTON, D. C—How the strike-breejan* town (Pa...
...Barricades are built and defended...
...The haw...
...England knows that and will probably let him play the watchdog...
...the "criminal jurisdiction" case...
...Workers stop work, many of them seize arms by attacking arsenals...
...The London Tories have two principal cares, safeguarding their, commercial interests and their empire is one and upholding capitalism everywhere is the other...
...The morning version was one tiling...
...The revolution is victorious...
...One principal reason why they have handled Mussolini with kid gloves is because he is Capital's "strong man" to ward oft" any impetuous movement of the Italian people...
...Chiefly, three things...
...they left the road broken and flat, with a capitalization of $121,000 a mile...
...The groundwork for a sweeping probe has already* been laid by the Senate Committee which in 1935 exposed the Power Trust's strongly financed campaign against the Holding Company Act...
...I have heard also that artillery and staff officers have already arrived at the battlefronti Spanish Offer Rejected The question arises, of course, whether sufficient material and technicians are to be sent quickly enough to more than offset the combined German and Italian assistance...
...One was toe notorious "We Protest" ad...
...The workers' righting has a decisive influence with the soldiers...
...The movement among the soldiers and marines spreads...
...We submit the two for the attraction of our readers...
...sold bonds of the roads to themselves at from $23 to $29 below the market price...
...It might have said, the same about a dozen others...
...met later and passed a third, condemning the Moscow "trials...
...Jones next sent to his "seeker list" a letter appealing for funds...
...Railroads for more thaw a g*neratkm had a practical monopoly of both freight and passenger carrying, except in the region of the Great Lakes...
...Chamberlain realizes that the English public would not stand for it...
...one considering the ntustion provoked by Hitler in the apt of Austria, and another dineted to the Austrian workers...
...Two Communist Recipes For Making "Revolution" On the same day, March 16, two versions of Communist theory, aims and methods appeared in the Hear York daily press...
...French Fascists exult because they think they will be able to profit by the panic...
...t A probability"—whfch is likely to be an actuality by the time this paper goes to print—is that France will have a government of National Union...
...The joint conference declared •Jur events in Austria have "dissipated any illusions which still regained...
...It was written fat New York by one of Jones' professional scribblers...
...its policy is entirely upon American *•¦*, and it is absolutely not subW& to any decisions except its **S conventions and officials •MM thereby...
...always paying more than they were worth, and many of the lines, fins hoggad at vast cost are bankrupt...
...At the same time, the papers published "news" stories furnished free by Jones' writers...
...The drives against the New Deal culminated this week in a deluge of 75,000 telegrams attacking President Roosevelt's reorganization plan...
...Big roads bought control of littie roads...
...Anoth^ donor was L. Y. Spear, vice-president of the Electric Boat Company, which builds nearly all submarines for the United States Navy...
...The work-will be done by a committee set up in 1935...
...Perhaps the American people haven't noticed it, but the newspapers of the nation have suppressed all the startling revelations of the LaFollette investigation into the anti-labor activity of the American manufacturers...
...the afternoon version another...
...The police as a rule continue fighting, but they are soon silenced and made to flee by the united revolutionary forces of workers and soldiers...
...In the Alton case, E. H. Harriman and a few of his brother Wall Streeters took the Chicago ? Alton which for years had paid $8 a share dividends, and which was capitalized at $42,215 per mile...
...paid themselves a 30 per cent special' dividend out of proceeds of bonds...
...For seven years, they ruled and rooked...
...Expect Sensations Well-informed political circles [here expect the inquiry to be packed with sensations which will undoubtedly be suppressed by the country's press, just as the news of the LaFollette Civil Liberties discoveries are being ignored today...
...The information I have received today from the most reliable source is that the government has decided to take energetic measures to prevent Italian and German domination of Spain...
...The conference was attended by 120 delegates representing, on behalf of the I.F.T.U., 12 national federations of unions and 14 international trade secretariats, while the LS.I...
...The LS.I...
...These contributors would have his appeal fey donations...
...Tie Story was told by witnesses who had a hand in the movement, including notorious labor haters...
...He must count now with a powerful back-door neighbor...
...Hitler will never let a revolution take place, if he can help it, in a neighboring country...
...Special to The New Leader WASHINGTON, D. C—Startled by the sudden spurt of activity of the heavily financed lobbies which are still mushrooming all over the capitol, the Senate's progressive leaders have forced through what is expected to become a sweeping government investigation of the forces which are supplying the millions of dollars to finance the "crusades" against administration proposals...
...This was no rare case...
...Browder to State Senator Philip M. Kleinfeld: •1...
...An outstanding fact brought out by Senators Robert M. LaFollette, Jr., and Elbert D. Thomas was that the whole thing was a profitable "business racket,*' managed from beginning to end by the John Price Jones Corporation, t mw York firm specializing in publicity and fund raising...
...Jones described to the Senators the various steps in hia propaganda campaign for the National Citiaens' Committee...
...The Communist Party opPasee the...
...Logically, he should be happy that France accepts to draw the chestnuts out of the fire for him...
...Mussolini can no longer offer to guarantee Austrian independence, and the Italian Tyrol country and the port of Trieste are so near the new border as to make a good German's mouth water...
...He bought the Brooklyn Dail^, Eagle with Power Trust money, and it has since been a consistent opponent of all moves toward public utility ownership or improved regulation...
...Germany lacked sufficient iron to meet the needs of a great army...
...What the Italian dictator did not say in his recent speech is that Hitler very cleverly took a trump card out of his hand in the deal he is playing with Chamberlain...
...He paid he has...
...The Senate Interstate Commerce Committee investigations have shown that the scramble of big eastern roads before the crash to build "railroad empires'* for an expected consolidation cost quite as much so any ccudsr graft...
...Will investigate Innocent Fronts Of Frank Gannett Expect to Unearth Industrialist Powers Behind "Crusades" of Pressure Groups Since 1933...
...Blum, howgwer, is not letting himseff he caught "napping...
...Under the leadership of the Communist Party the workers organize revolutionary committees to be in command of the uprising...
...in which the author informs his readers of the aims of the Communist Party and how it intends to realize them...
...A number of big hankers and financiers also "kicked in," including Percy H. Johnston, whose many directorships include one in the New York Life Insurance Company...
...4 As for graft, it is probably the hardiest perennial in the railroad garden...
...Mussolini, to remain in power, must choose to behave with England or be Germany's prisoner on parole...
...It was addressed to "Fellow-Americans," and denounced Governor George H. Earle as "un-American" for declaring martial law and closing the Bethlehem pleat...
...Among the more effective lobbies is Frank Gannett's organization, the so-called League to Uphold Constitutional Government which, according to its own admission, sent out 16,000,000 pieces of literature, costing over $200,000, during its fight>on the court reform bill...
...He has been succeeded by Senator Minton of Indiana...
...Lawyer-lobbyists, who will receive huge fees as a result of their (Continued on Page Eight) France Set to Meet jtttack by Fascists National Defense Council Acts — Government Determined...
...This com*pany is headed by E. T. Weir, hardboiled enemy of organized labor...
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