Hitler Set Back in Central Europe
Hitler Set Back in Central Europe Carol Pushes Drive on Nazi Spies in Rumania Special- to The New Leader. -.• PARIS.—One of the most significant international moves ;tftts week was made by...
...Raoul Trepanier, president of the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada and of the Montreal Labor Council, said that the "Canadian Commonwealth Federation, the CJ.O...
...Joseph Schlossberg, aeefHaWi of the Amalgamated Clot Btafij Workers...
...Bertha H. IM* Ben Josephson, and Ben ^MtSKi Camp Tamiment...
...The common people by united struggle have achieved what formerly seemed impossible...
...Therefore, Federal fixing of minimum wages and maximum hours is a sin which "will produce an economic upheaval" and check "business recovery...
...He has no intention of quitting now, whether Carol likes it or not...
...Powerful owners of big industries today play this game...
...But the only surprise element involved is the highly important fact that the official government of Rumania hag openly begun the drive to e xterminate Hitler's official organization in Rumania...
...Its latest pamphlet is "The Case for Freedoru from Federal Control of Wages and Hours" pnd here we find the author flitting from Federal rights to State rights and from the latter to the former like a butterfly from one flower to another...
...Not for nothing has Hitler, even in the years before he came into power, look upon Ru- ¦ 'mania as his key Balkan kingdom, necessary in his drive toward the East...
...The bill is » compromise between the viests of the A. F. of L. and the C,end provides for a minimum arage if 40 cents an hour within Oiisqiniis graduating annually at the rate of 5 cents an hear, and of a umjjquai 40-hour week in two yeaas fr»ra a beginning of 44 boars...
...German control .of Rumania would drive another wedge between the Soviets and Czechoslovakia and further isolate it...
...David DW# president of the International **J dies' Garment Workers' Union, JP Mark Starr, its educationaljjjjj tor...
...They are teased between two dilemmas: they mist support the program or meet strong opposition in the prfmerle, or ffsh out something that wflj prpve* tftA me near capitalism ia eastaffiy in a bad war and shore is a cry** need of a powerful party of *h* workers with scores of representatives in Congress equipped with knowledge of Social rVmorrsey and fighting the bat0« of tne masses from day to day...
...Ceutar of Strategy Hitler needs Rumania as an advanced military post...
...About 1,900 went abroad...
...Axis Wfchottt the <Jreen"tArt* »tler has no chance to capture Rumania ir...
...Conference Plans Fight Recently 348 delegates,, representing trade unions and other democratic organizations, met in Jarvis Collegiate, Toronto, to con-1sider the spread of the Black Plague...
...Senator Borah declares that there has never been an overproduction but that we are afflicted with underconsumption, as though it made' any difference whether the Blamp is called one or the other...
...Next the basis of electoral representation will not be the riding but the corporation, that the corporation will not elect an assemblyman but an elector, and when the setup is completed and elections take place under all forms of terror, electors will choose the 'best' "People...
...Letters and telegrams poured in from all over the country, and comrades, relatives, and neighbors came to congratulate the ample on "Jim's" seventy-fourth birthday, whith is aha their fifty-second wedding anniversary...
...The legislation pretends to define what ate ""bona fide" unions, and Calder declared tfiaft the next step "will be to turn the unions into corporations on Italian lines and go back to the Middle Ages...
...New Depression Hits Agriculture...
...A concerted drive by Montreal's powerful Red Squad-, working rNght and day for five days, had been unable to find more than a.thousand Communists in that ctiy...
...He also wants to part with as little labor-time as possible...
...Special to The New Leader TORONTO, Canada.—The Black Plague, fascism, suffered a defeat in the western province of Alberta last week, but it is advancing in Quebec, although it is meeting strong opposition and getting, publicity which it does not like...
...The political purge under way ¦»C#*,SjBsjis* Unjoa has hit Garman scientists who sought refuge in that country, according to the Commission of Inquiry on the Situation of Political Prisoners...
...They also return to Federal rights in another sector of their economic reasoning by -insisting on tariffs and even government subsidies when they can induce a Congress to grant them...
...New "Patriotic" Attacks on Wage-Hour Bill By JAMES ONEAL AWAGES and hours bill has finally" been reported »«t pf cpj»BUtt«e at Waafcwfton, For many mojitbSjhigh-powered capitalist.jpMManda has been mobilized against enactment of such legislation, largely in the name' of "state rights," the same dogma which the old slave owning class used in defense of its interests...
...We must not only wish for improvement, but work for it with the full confidence that, "It Can Be Done...
...Leo Meltzer, national «•* tary of the Social Democratic eration...
...James H. Maurer's whole life-story is an illustration of his idea that things can be done, if we have the will to do them...
...Due to the terror which is methodically applied to all those who do not adhere to the doctrines of the Third Reich, it must be expected that a large number of persons will still try to escape the arbitrary measures...
...However, Urge spending orders fer slum clearance are said to be tied up by red tame and the President is anxious to eat the tape without delay - The Wages and Honrs letfejettba favored by the House Leber Committee is intended to aid the process of industrial race vary by stabilizing workers' incomes ahftfe a definite minimum...
...Their "America" is a paradise of long hours and sweated labor...
...Among those who sent mesaM* of congratulation were PresjOP William Green and Vu-e-PrSOjPs 1 Matthew Well of the Anaj| j Federation of Labor...
...Moreover, the states that enact such measures would not provide uniform legislation...
...Many beautiful bouquets and flowering plants came from the employees in the various city departments of Reading, and one also from a numerous group of New York comrades...
...Concerning the refugee scientists and university professors the following has been submitted to the Commission: 2,500 have been dismissed* for political or racial reasons...
...Totalitarian Trend R. L. Calder, president of the Montreal Civil Liberties Union, pointed out what would be the logical development of the Quebec fascist laws regarding trade unions...
...Wages and Hours Bill The slum clearance program and enactment of a wages anfl hours bill are considered supplementary stimulants to get the capitalist system out of the red...
...and Mrs...
...Meantime, the authorities of that Province are enforcing this "law" and Archbishop W. M. Duke is the latest high Catholic prelate to give his support to the measure...
...Those who know you love you, admire you, and cherish the fact of being able to eaR yon comrade and friend...
...Of those, half found new occupations...
...Lea to Maurer In presenting Maurer with a "dummy" or sample volume to show what the finished book will look like, Lee said in part: "The book is to be called 'It Can Be Done.' The author chose the title, and it is just right...
...Larry S. Davidow of Detroit...
...We gather from this that the only "America" he knows is the small minority of the population who own and control the agencies of production, distribution and exchange...
...The administration again faces a surplus of agricultural products, a surplus which has bedevilled the Federal Government since the days of Hoover...
...CAPITALIST VERSION OF AMERICANISM "THIS is what those who are enriched by low labor * standards consider being "in concert with Americanism...
...has ny now expelled almost all German scientists, including those who went to that country from idealistic impulse...
...By better organization, closer union, education of the masses, devotion to ideals, they can do yet more in years to come...
...That is the purpose in Quebec...
...MOW-te-oar mutton...
...Special to The New Leader...
...American Socialist movement has not many comrades like you to beast of...
...READING...
...President Green wrote in part: "I recall with a feeling of great satisfaction and deep appreciation the fine service you rendered to the organized labor movement when your health and strength permitted you to be active both as an officer and a member...
...Facing the huge program for relief, many Congressman up ier **election this year feel that ihey «re en the spot...
...Toronto Trade Unions Plan Fight on Fascism Alberta Fascism Is Hit by Supreme Court as Union Conference Organizes Against Quebec Totalitarianism...
...Wheat has' declined from $1.25 a bushel to 80 cents, corn from $1.05 to 61 cents, potatoes from $1.31 a bushel to 56 cents and cotton from 13 a pound to 3 cents...
...Reports of widespread arrests of foreigners in Russia in the general press tend: to support this1 finding pf the Commission...
...Morris Berman...
...This would mean millions of workers in an overstocked labor market bidding against each other for jobs while the corporations pick those workers whose necessities compel them to sell their labor power for the lowest wages'possible and for the longest hours they will consent to work^ But why do these corporations, which are generally inter-state in character, insist that if minimum wage and maximum hours legislation is passed it should be enacted by the states...
...Cm the other hand, "every one of the 48 states already has legislation of some kind dealing with this problem" and we should leave it to the states...
...The Machinery and Allied f? Products Institute, headquarters in Chicago, represents eighteen corporations which specialise in pamphlet literature on "sound" economic information and interpretation...
...What...
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...What forced the decision of King Carol, diplomatic and newspaper circles here can only guess at, but his order for speedy trials of Codreanu and his followers is a direct defiance of Hitler and the Fuehrer's plans for a rapid MittelEuropa campaign...
...Whether it was getting children out of the shop and into the school and playground, or securing compensation to 'victims of industrial accident, or providing for widows and orphans and old people, or organizing trade unions and co-operatives and building v.p the labor press and developing workers' education, or cleaning up the city physically so as to prevent epidemics, or cleaning rt up politically so a« to stop bribery and extortion and waste of public funds—the crapohangers might say, 'It can't be done' but Jim said 'It must be - done' and inspired other meajSl - women by his own faith uMmpii s "In every forward move that 1(1 i Seen made in the last fifty JOBi - Comrade Maurer has been S^Bm f neer...
...SCORE ACTION BY ffOfMl GOVERNMENT "?•HEN* it appeal* that, this minority representing * "America" has decided that it's all right for the states to establish minimum wages and maximum hours of, labor, but it is all wrong for the Federal Government to do so...
...The President is eager to get his "pumppruning" under way to check the rapid decline in factory payrolls which run as high as $200,000,00 a month...
...who came specially to announce that Maurer's autobiography is to be published before Labor Day by the Rand School Press...
...Is there anything sacred about this system ? Has it not inflicted measureless misery upon the workup masses since the great collapse in 1929 and does it nit still condemn many millions to haunting anxiety and intolerable privations...
...It must be recognized that the institution of assistance established by the-Labor and Socialist International and the International Trades Union Federation and their affiliated organizations in the various countries, give regular aid to a considerable number of Socialist refugees...
...They translate their unearned incomes into patriotism and the process by which these incomes are produced they call "Americanism...
...Thus we learn that "American evolution" has warned against a wage minimum fixed by Federal law and that "America" has in some way made a declaration regarding it...
...The Socialist refugees number 4,000...
...Mr...
...the "^teodiesa- waj fce took Austria and expects to take Czechoslovakia...
...The United States, Maurer insisted, is today the best country on earth, because we have here democratic institutions which make it easier for the people to express and enforce their will...
...aotj George E. Roewer and ke^JSRl of Boston...
...one of the oldest living me**** j the Brotherhood of Plumba*,** j Steamfitters...
...If Hitler doesn't follow through in Rumania as he did in Spain and Austria, and as he will shortly in Czechoslovakia, it will be the first defeat international fascism has suffered...
...That is, lower-price labor power...
...the French -Soviet interests and is ready to tie up mora closely with the Little Entente...
...The President hag lotpressed definite objection to direct subsidies to the rertread* aadetec to government ownership so that nursing through loan* is the only alternative now...
...1938 Relief Coat Reaches AllTime High...
...Because they know that only some states will act, many will not, and that those that do not act will provide a refuge for runaway corporations who want the cheapest human material they can get...
...the whole labor struggle under capitalism...
...And why ? We should preserve the "competitive factor...
...King Carol and of coarse every one in the know in Romania, have been ¦ aware of the military drills, storm troops, Munition depots, money from Berlin, "secret" infiltration into the police forces and of course the army, and all the other accoutrements of the usual Hitler plot...
...Sic* Railroads The railroads are ascot she sickest industry and the RJ.C...
...That is the reason why State rights appeal to these corporations...
...As for hours, no one will deprive capitalists from establishing shorter hours than the maximum fixed by law...
...It merely proposes to establish a minimum below which wages shall not sink and a maximum beyond which hours shall not run...
...Max Zaritsky, presM* j of the Hatters' and MiuM* ] Workers' Union...
...for this would Make millions of workers a part of the "America" now dehied them by the corporation publishers of this pamphlet But the pnoposed legislation does not propose to "regulate" wages and hours...
...Thomas^ | Burke, president of the intat*}" tional union of which Ma*I|U...
...Those who do not believe ia this reasoning do not belong to their "America...
...In spite of emigration to Palestine and countries overseas there are in Europe forty to fifty thousand refugees still, of whom a small number only have found means of subsistence and of whom a considerable number live in abject misery...
...The rest are dispersed in other European and extra-European countries...
...Assume that it is...
...E. E. Porter and Cameron H. King of San Francisco...
...If the whole 48 states enacted such laws, and that would not be likely for another generation or two...
...Has Expeiied Many Gorman Scholars for Political or Racial Reasons...
...and Communism are all in one bag as far as Quebec laws go...
...Soviet Purge Hits inn Scientists WhoSoughtRefuge Commission on Refugees Finos U.S.S.R...
...The 'unemployed again number between eleven and twelve jpillion persons and the estimated cost of relief for 1939 is an all-time high of not less than $3,800,000,000...
...It would mean real control of the Balkans...
...If ten per ceat at them would live up to his motto H Can Be Done,' his dreams at •» nomic liberty, of comfort *nis> curity for all, and of worlJtBP peace would soon be realized, Messoqes to Mowrer Maurer was greatly pleased e^ the assurance that his book OT soon be given to the public, ssi th*e local comrades present dsejsni that it would certainly have a sale in Berks County...
...The capita list who buys his labor power and labortima.waajto fO attain, as mpch of...
...There will be no Parliamerit-and we will be living under a dictatorship...
...One is also "an attack upon the competitive system of private enterprise" and the other is not...
...John P. Burke, J**dent of the Brotherhood of HP* Mill Workers...
...Above this minimum the employers are permitted to pay all they wish or all that the organized workers can compel them to pay...
...Please accept my hearty congratulations and best wishes for health and happiness...
...j secretary of the Montana SjS* Federation of Labor...
...It could serve him as a potential base of operations against Russia and a buffer state between Germany and any Soviet force in ease of war...
...If the exploiters want'*orepetition, let them try rivalry in establishing more satisfactory wages and hours...
...in wages for "what America wants is stiffer competition and lower prices...
...More than 1,000 are in France, about 1,200 in Czechoslovakia, and about 300 in the Scandinavian countries...
...Biography, "It Cam Be Done," to Go on Sale Soon...
...He spoke feelingly of the fifty-two years of happy married life that bad fallen to his lot, and told hoar in the darkest days Mrs...
...An article by the Commission in the Journal des Nations ©n the occasion of the International Conference for Political Refugees, held in Geneva in February, states that "(he U.S.S.R...
...Itany happy returns of the day...
...Morris oMfl stone, secretary of the United brew Trades of New York...
...They are "aginst" but have nothing to offer of their own...
...The alleged Communist danger, other speakers pointed out, is a smoke-screen to conceal the drive against all civil liberties...
...The estimate of wheat is a surplus of 500,000,000 more bushels than^the American people use with the result that farm prices have fallen 29 per cent in the past year...
...In the West it is the Protestant fascism of Premier Aberhart that has sought totalitarian power, but it met an effective reverse when the Supreme Court of Canada disallowed three acts of the Alberta Legislature that struck at the freedom of the press and the civil rights of citizens...
...Evidently, the millions of wage workers who constitute an important part of "American evolution" have no existence in the "America" for which the author speaks...
...So they flee from Federal rights to State rights in a hide-and-seek game as old as Negro slavery...
...It should be remembered that Quebec fascism, unlike the Alberta type, is Catholic, but their aims are the same—the crushing of civil liberties and destruction of the trade uions, both A. F. of L. and C.I.O...
...The Reich is poor in raw materials apd Rumania is fabulously rich in oil, timber, salt, foodstuffs and other valuable resources which mnst appear like an oasismirage to Pour-Year Plan Director General Goering, who needs Rumanian oil for his industrial and military machines, and Rumanian food to feed hungry workers and soldiers en far-flung frontiers...
...Mere "Pump-Priming" ~ Moreover, relief of the distressed masses has again become the greatest industry in the United States...
...Here ia a conflict of interest between the capitalist who bays labor power and Uhortjair and the worker who sells both...
...James H. Maurer Is Feted on 74th Birthday Labor Leaders, Friends and Relatives Honor OutsfjsK ing Socialist...
...James D. G...
...The honors, he said, ought to be divided among a host of fellow workers, many now in their graves, many growing old, others with years of service still before them, who had fought shoulder to shoulder with him...
...In his quiet and sincere way Comrade Maurer voiced his thanks for all the tokens of affection and for what lie called the undeserved praise that be had received...
...The working masses^are organizing and thinking of an America which they will some time own as a collective democracy of democratic Socialism, where workers will no longer be living commodities bought and sold in the market for the enrichment of .those who think of themselves today as "America...
...The younger generation of today, he said, can hardly realize what immense progress has been made in the last half-century...
...Vfiges SAd hours legislation is the main theme of the pamphlet which asserts that it is an "attack upon the competitive system of private enterprise," that it )« "not ia concert with Americanism," it is based upon "economic theories which have been proved unsound," and that it extends "Federal Government into matters which, American evolution has insisted, should be controlled by the states...
...both as he can for the price he paw for them...
...They want to preserve the "competitive factor" in wages without a legal minimum wage base or a maximum of hours...
...PARIS.—One of the most significant international moves ;tftts week was made by King Carol of Romania when he ordered his Ministry- of the Interior to raid the munition depots of the Xazi-Berlin-subsidized Iron Guard...
...Next are Turkey and the United States...
...It is figured that if funds are poured into large scale public works fast enough new orders will start to flow into the sorely'depressed heavy good industries...
...Vera Hilkjuit, Mr...
...The others are political refugees or persons who left Germany after the enforcement of the race laws promulgated at Nuremberg...
...One is a blessing and the other is a curse in the view of "America...
...Looking for Markers The economic consequences for the farmers are obvious from these figures and hopefuls are again looking for some markets abroad to relieve the home congestion...
...I am sure those days of unusual experience and intense activity still live in your memory...
...Louis Waldma-n, Wm...
...He wants to part with as little of it as possible and for the best price that he can get...
...Millions of young asli: e women today are getting the Mafit of what he started to do *M 1 he was a youth...
...Other Tokeos of Appreciation The Pennsylvania veteran was particularly touched by the message from Abraham Cahan, which read:, j, , .'«' "Hearty congratulations aad best wishes on your seventy-fourth birthday...
...This conflict is basic tie...
...WASHINGTON, D. C. — The American industrial system is again cracking under the impact of the new depression, its effects being apparent in agriculture as well as industry and an attempt at blood transfusion is being made by the Federal Administration in the hope of bringing it back to normal...
...has funds available for loans that will enable them to purchase needed equipment...
...The arrest of "Captain" Corneliu Zeiea Codreanu and some thre« hundred of his lieutenants throughout the country means that Rumania has thrown in, wjth...
...President did not mince words in his message to Congress and in his "fireside chat" last week -in admitting that the situation is again grave...
...Farmers Destitute Markets Abroad Sought as Outlet for Surplus...
...The fact is that if there are any products that ere not consumed it is because they cannot be bought and they cannot be bought because incomes of urban and rural workers are not sufficient to buy them...
...As for members of the President's own party, many of them have passed from uncrtti-: e*l support to uncritical opposition...
...BUT that isn't what they want...
...Maurer had cheerfully shared every hardship and given him courage when eviction and hunger stared them in the face...
...Rumania is vital to Hitler for economic, political and military reasons...
...Hitler Wan'* Give Up Hitler won't give up Romania that easily, and from now on all political circles in Europe will be watching the little Balkan country where civil war, may break out shortly and the world may face another Spain...
...At element* of surprise and "discovery" IM pat into the dispatch and the official fovernmfpst communique...
...N. Reivo of the Finnish SaajWl Federation...
...John C. Packard of Los Angeles...
...The article in question also gave other .interesting data on German refugees...
...If it is necessary to interfere with this system or even to abolish it entirely, as democratic Socialists contend, mankind will be the happier for it...
...The only true patriotism is in the determination to make it a still better country for all the people...
...Once established ia Bucharest, the Nazis' troops would be in a position to move eastward against the Ukraine or southward toward Jataahai and- llm F iiiqmj Ciilf — German conquest of Oe Balkan country would be an important political triumph for the Nazis...
...are the issues and principles ir.voived ? A worker sells labor power far a wage...
...There are plenty of evils still—unemployment and poverty and injustice and needless suffering and the ever-present danger of war...
...Hitler has for many years had his eyes on the man-power of the Rumanian army...
...The laws would vary from state to state...
...England has received the greatest number of German scientists...
...The acts were intended to penalize criticism of the Aberhart Government...
...FsfJR Cohn and Spencer Miller, jhf^ the Workers' Education Roger N. Baldwin, of the XmSgfj1 Civil Liberties Union;' Mayer¦wfi iel W. Hoan of Milwaukee, aaOMpJ Elizabeth Thomas of that ejtff^ of the earliest co-workera ]H| Eugene V. Debs and Victor 1*0**" ger...
...Special to The New Leader...
...It is likely that this "pump-priming" on the largest scale ever will be approved by Congress as no critic in that -body seems to have any alternative...
...James Oneal New Leader...
...Supreme Court Hits Fascism In disallowing the vicious measures, the Chief Justice declared: "Parliamentary institutions derive their efficacy from free discussion of affairs, from criticism and answer and counter-criticism, from attack upon policy and administration, and defense and counterattack...
...it is practically certain that the standards would vary as widely as they do today in other forms of labor legislation...
...Other labor men spoke on similar lihes, and it was pointed out that Cardinal Villeneuve recently stated that feedom of speech and assembly could be tolerated but were not essential rights...
...At the end of 1937," it declared, "the total number of refugees was estimated at 150,000, of which about 130,000 are Jews...
...i The decision is an important one and the notorious Padlock Law of Quebec can hardly survive if it reaches the high court...
...Hitler has for years kept Codrenau supplied with * steady flow of money to,.recruit thousands of men, to buy uniforms, to pay for barracks, to feed Storm Troopers, to send agents all over the country, to subsidize newspapers, to hire halls, to stage demonstrations, and to bribe officials...
...Benjamin Gebinar of* Jewish Socialist Verband twi <B...
...M. Peigenbaum, Adolph Held, Max Sherover, Joseph Tuvim, and Adolph Warshow of New York, and others too numerous to mention...
...But never mind...
...New York was represented by Algernon Lee...
...pttWers waft the outside, uninformed public to take this drive on Codrean u's Iron Guard green-shirted storm troopers as the result of a sudden decision...
...and Mrs...
...Among the callers were Mayor J. Henry Stump, George Rhodes, president of the Central Labor Council, City Attorney-Darlington Hoopes, Raymond Hofses, editor of the "Labor Advocate," and Nathan Detterlein, organizer of Local Berks County...
...In all categories of refugees the number increases constantly while in all the asylum countries the economic conditions become more unfavorable for their admission...
...But what has been done only shows what can be done to get rid of these evils...
...Pa.—The modest house in North Eleven* Street which is the home of the Socialist veteran James M. Maurer and his wife was bright with flowers on Friday, April 15...
...I To French-U.S.S.R...
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