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BIG BUSINESS SEEKS TO KILL CIVIL LIBERTIES BODY Probe Reveals Method Employers Used in NRA Fight The National Association df ManufacturersDbtributed instruction* to fluejpiOl Firms to Aid...
...Tabouis is in entire <¦ Hsment with Paul-Boncour, SoBt minister of foreign affairs Rum's cabinet...
...Forty-six German **n-Kazis face an axe-death as a HP1 °f their underground activ- kjjfttmg the Hitler regime Jjeh leaflets and secret broad"Jy^fiermariy...
...The new pump-priming program is expected to go over by a wide margin...
...an investigation which showed up Harlan County, not as a democratic unit of a free country, hat as a little Fascist oligarchy, s government of the people by thugs for coal barons...
...these boys have a big majority...
...Daniel W. Hoan, Socialist Mayor i>f Milwaukee...
...Green Broadcasts to Britain One day after the Dubinsky statement...
...The State of Michigan presents one case of fraternal cooperation between the rival organizations, while in Pennsylvania it is becoming a bitter political fight ever candidates ia the state primaries...
...Special to The Mem Leader WASBINGTOH...
...Louis Ave...
...Tried Meey Tricks In fighting the campaign to organize the miners, the coal barons and the Harlan County ofBcails tried every trick from spying to murder...
...The fuse had gone out about 10 feet from the sticks...
...The Senators brought out much other proof that the "company union" was a bare-fiaced fraud...
...They laughed at the 'company union...
...Sfefe, the pew prime minister, gmwd that he intended ''conSjr* the Socialists' policy of ^PBiterventkm in Spain...
...WASHINGTON, D. C—On May 16, in the li,ttle town of London, Kentucky, 24 coal mine executives and 23 "law enforcement" officials of "Bloody Harlan" County will go on trial for criminal conspiracy...
...Such unity will bring together several hundred thousand workers who have stood on opposite sides of the fence during the primary fight which has just come to a close...
...Behind the big guns of the President's attack this time are powerful labor groups, some important business groups, and the organized farmers of the country...
...This week the executive council of the Pennsylvania Federation -if Labor issued a blast against Thomas Kennedy for Governor and Mayor S. Davis Wilson of Philadelphia foj Senator on the Dexoicratic ticket, both being the choiee of the C.I.O...
...Smith's concern had a costly strike on its hands in IMS, bseaase be was persuaded to defy tils legal right of bis employes to organize into a union of their own choice...
...The miners on that property had to buy "chances" at a dollar a chance...
...JsJUjli annoyed London particularly was that the presence of Peali Rancour in the French cabinet hindered the negotiations with Hah...
...No," Lanning answered...
...Early this veek he was quoted as saying th»t the C.I.O...
...Get ted Advice Smith's company ia a member of the NAM and the Associated-Industries of Cleveland...
...and an expensively ussiest "company unions...
...fortify ¦?Thereby control the Darda.¦•¦*, much to Mussolini's disanWtion...
...Finally, another onion officer and I went to the general manager's office...
...A whole bunch of gangsters was assembled, and Middleton told them all that they must not allow anyone to come to either town, and that "there was an open season on organizers...
...LOS ANGELES LABOR TO HONOR A. SILVER j The entire labor movement of Los Angeles will render a testimonial dinner to A. Silver, Sunday, April 24, in honor of his fiftieth birthday...
...Clubbings were almost too numerous to talk about The reign of terror was so severe thai when the Clouse boys saw deputies firing at automobiles of organisers, their parents told them not to mention the names of the deputies they recognized...
...The results were traced by the Senators...
...to line up with one or the other side...
...His work has won him the respect and admiration of the entire workers movement of the city...
...They are also workjng for the success of a May utp demonstration for Tom Mooney...
...Mussolini doesn't like Paulatotoui, -who returns him the Wtm flavor...
...He is a lawyer who had a good deal of experience with employee representation plans...
...They said the workers "met in a garage and decided to form a hone fide organization.*' The less Knows test The next day, they said, they told Smith what they had done, and he remarked: "I know yon workers need some kind of representation...
...for otherwise war would be inevitable...
...He stated that unless control of such party is vested in labor organizations, it is likely to I become a hunting ground for I groups that have destroyed every attempt made to form such parties in the past...
...Almost all the employees were members of our federal union...
...After five years...
...Terror Closed Witnesses' Moots t "Bennett just rose out of the chair, an' fell into the bedroom," his mother told the committee...
...Trial to Throw Spotlight on "Bloody Harlan's" Terror Kentucky to Try 47 for Violation Of Workers' Rights Civil Liberties Committee Report Shows Company Used Espionage end Murder to Halt Union Organization...
...Sr\ By BENJAMIN HOTTER PARIS.—In a recent conversation I had with Madame fjjttevieve Tabouis, France's best-informed diplomatic jour^^fc?ind author of "Blackmail or War," she expressed the iBJBQB that it was high time Mussolini's and Hitler's Jjluff flPrtalkd...
...Labor Peace Seen Possible Despite Permanent C.I.O...
...have a hunch that if Blum apt down technically on his finanisWprogram, the true reason lay m ftp fact that Paul-Boncour did see eye to eye with Chamber¦to f»d Lord Halifax...
...Paul-Boncour BpTgreat deal in the four weeks Messed at the Quai d'Orsay to Kvigorate French diplomacy...
...It is a sorry mess, to say the least...
...and one man testified that he got $25 for manhandling an "agitator...
...pHies Paul-Boncour, also, who engineered the Montreux Treaty, gWgg Turkey the right to...
...urging them to fight against a "closed shop" and telling them how to defeat "Section 7A" of the NTRAWar Threat Greater Under DaladierPolicy Appointment of Bonnet as Foreign Minister Indicates new French Premier's Intention to Give Way to " fee Fascist Powers...
...Throughout all this, tee N.A.M...
...It is said 3 British ambassador to Paris yffSt fainted when Pa^l-Boncour Wl Mm of his intention to help "*lfw!t* the Spanish Republicans, jMeh h$ did effectively and' withjRNHay...
...The "spirit of revolt" may be expected to fade sharply when these vote-produc:r,g blocs open up on the stooge fronts of the N.A.M...
...Bassham thus unloaded seven or eight used cars every year at from $750 to $800 apiece...
...Silver its heartiest best wishes and congratulations...
...The fight between the two labor federations provides the tragedy...
...The local resisted and held the headquarters against 150 C.I.O...
...Heed-Picked Otfecrs Further testimony showed that Smith appointed the 11 members of the "dummy's" "management committee" and an equal number of "employee representatives," who were not the same man the employees had elected to head their own union...
...Evidently having Lewis in mind, Green also said that no leader could "prevent the millions of American workers from Coming together in peace and harmony...
...Dynamite Used As more direct measures, they fired on the meetings, shot union organizers, and dynamited or shot up the places where those organizers were stopping...
...The Labor Party refused to participate in that primary, even though it might have favored some of the candidates, because under the Illinois election laws those who vote in the primaries are barred from signing petitions for the nomination of an independent slate in the regular elections...
...on the part MX only of the conservatives— pjjlfcfc was, after all, natural—bat JKMUty or the Radical-Socialists and the English government...
...Leaders of both Houses won't get back home to mend fences until about July 1, maybe later if they continue their big business inspired "revolts...
...Suf were to make it clearly snderstood to wavering allies and ¦Ik'dictators that France was determined not to let things slide say further...
...Political Cooperation Made Possible by Mass Meeting Addressed by Mayor Hpan, Homer Martin, and Marx Lewis...
...members for several days when the police arrived in squad cars and averted a catastrophe...
...Cooperation Between Rival Labor Federations in Michigan Points the Way for Unions Throughout the Nation...
...But the graft -which was worked on the miners was almost as hard to bear as the brutality...
...and the National Chamber of Commerce...
...They dynamited the hotel where Lawrence Dwyer, a 'union organizer, was staying...
...ELIAS TAR7AK TO SPEAK FRIDAY ON SOVIET TRIALS Dr...
...in the coming primaries...
...Another organizer, Clontz, found three sticks of dynamite under his house floor...
...Silver, who has resided in Los Angeles for the past sixteen years, has been, throughout his career, in the foreground of labor...
...D. C — Ones agair...
...They will be tried in Federal Court under two Federal laws> one, the Wagner Labor Relations Act, and one, an old law of postCivil War days, which makes it s criminal offense to conspire to prevent any citizen from enjoying "any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or lsws of the United States...
...A neighbor of mine named W. K. Stanley," Smith replied...
...F.D.R...
...The dinner, which is being arranged by the Socialist movement of Los Angeles, will be held in the Socialist Center at 1026 St...
...He also called attention to the progressive and proLabor attitude of the LaGuarflia administration, which was returned to power by the American Labor Party...
...Musick was away...
...Did this set-up satisfy the employees ?" LaFollette asked...
...the lid off the aetj-laior attacks and employers' stooge *ront» and detective agencies, is Mating for its *.ife before the Sonet* Fi-ance Committees as it seeks the 160,000 necessary to continue its - vestigation cf law-breaking incus trialists...
...His address will be delivered at the headquarters of the [ 3rd A.D...
...The favorite trick was to send out bands of armed thugs to block the roads leading to any central place where 'meetings might be held...
...The bloody fight in California two weeks ago between the two organizations at Crockett shows what grim fruit open war brings...
...favorite and nojr seeking a seat in the U. S. Senate, is now supported by the A. W. off...
...They declare that a small membership of the A. F. of L. local voted to join tile C.I.O...
...hag called a state convention for Iowa to meet April 23 and 24 to organize a State Industrial Council, while the Typographical Union in a referendum vote has voted 35,730 to 12,115 against payment of a one cent assessment to the A. F. of L. and by the even heavier vote of 44,138 to 4,493 approved a proposal that no assessment levied by a convention of the executive council of -the A. F. of L. be paid unless it is approved by referendum...
...Thug" Johnson, long a deputy sheriff, told how he was called to come down to Sheriff Middleton's office...
...The Nationalist adgjjto oi the Teruel front was jPgtoi within twenty-four hours...
...Incensed at the report of the Special Senate Committee on Unemployment which simply had the effrontery to tell the President that the way to put the 15,000,000 jobless back to work was to cot the surplus profits tax, modify the capital gams levy and then sit back and watch big business take care of everything, F.D.R...
...Took Vigorous Steed ¦ As soon as he came into office, bt called the French ambassadors S. all the Central European and 'jjpfTTT countries to Paris for a round-table conference...
...She conWtjjB the democratic countries' refusal to use war as a card KjBir play as making it all the more possible...
...This time F.D.R.'s organised support will be brought into play like an artillery barrage laid down before the infantry attacks...
...Company stores and company houses were as thick in Harlan County as formerly in the Rockefeller coal regions of southern Colorado, But the prize graft was Pearl Bassham's scheme for raffling off the used cars of the Harlan-Wallins mine...
...Organizer after organizer was clubbed or shot at...
...Tee Gorment Workers Peace-makers recognize that the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union is an important group in the peace movement, as President Dubinsky and most of his official aids are known to be opposed to continuance of the strife...
...but his son, Bennett, was killed...
...Victims of Company It is with such things as these that the trial will be chiefly concerned...
...The meeting here is one of a series of efforts being made throughout the state to bring about the formation of a Labor Party...
...He said they told him just what to do when his employees formed an A. W. of lb federal union in July, 1988, when the Mew Deal and the National Industrial Recovery Act OSjpSjsd a nation-wide sweep of onion organization...
...wonder is he accomplished so Hh in face of the furious reKsgce he encounterpd...
...Meferity for Real Usloe Senator LaFollette then reed a letter from K. L. Falkner, a c. S. Department of Labor conciliator, who said be bad a conference with the Ohio Rubber management on September 1, 1933, and was told that the federal anion "represented a minority...
...The Black Bottom church in which one meeting was scheduled to be held was blown up by dynamite...
...D. <3.-~Peacemakers in' the Labor Movement were disappointed at the turn of events late last week when the C.LO...
...They went in gangs, met the unarmed miners walking to the meetings, and drove them back, clubbing them with guns...
...Special to The New Leader CHICAGO.—Plans for the formation of a Labor Party in this state were considered at a mass meeting attended by approximately 1,000 workers and progressives...
...Martin, speaking on behalf of the 400,000 members affiliated with his organization, pledged the support of his organization to inedependent political action...
...those to keep the miners from organizing, and those to exploit and graft on the unorganized workers...
...He called attention to the fact that even though labor groups did not elect their candidates in the recent Michigan elections, the tremendous vote Labor piled up is bound to bring about some of the reforms in which Labor is interested...
...The President is placing all his bets on the spur, this will give to private business, which despite its persistent howling, has been ready to jump at the profits increased relief expenditure assures...
...Both ware employees of the company...
...They damaged him a little with a second explosion...
...Marx Lewis, who was formerly the executive secretary of the United Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers' International Union, and who was designated by Max Zaritzky, its president, to convey assurance that his organization will cooperate in establishing a Labor Party in Illinois, described the method of organization adopted in the formation of a Labor Party in New York State...
...That will not be necessary," Lanning told Smith...
...The abuses worked in Harlan County may be classed in two groups...
...of the A.L.P., 564 South- | ern Boulevard, Bronx...
...The President is out to win if it takes him all summer...
...It was a peace note, although coupled with resentment of his chief antagonist...
...He has the full confidence WW* French and English bankers '"pit/tin be expected that his jggode towards Spain, Germany gwRjly will be calked on that of •jSj Jtosoning here is not based iff* *n my knowledge of the man...
...Every labor organization in Los Angeles is expected to participate in the celebration...
...WASHINGTON...
...They shot up the house of another organizer, Marshall Musick, with more results...
...Of course, Lanning refused e tdemand which would have pet the union members "on the spot...
...Then he ssat them scurrying back to their Mats with definite instructions...
...In company with the Socialist movement of Los Angeles and the host of labor organizations participating in the affair, The New Leader sends Mr...
...He IPBfcl mentioning that that policy , jj^<*rced on Blum in 1936 by the jpgjstSocialists and the English MfcMZIS face death SEIZURE ftXPOL/CE ^jfiSDON...
...had done well ia or|aaization of five baste industries, btfthat "there is now bo justification of further dualism of organization, The A. F. of L. is ready to re«ognize our unions and has made satisfactory compromise terms...
...and A. F. of L. follow the "non-partisan" political poMey, put it is amusing that the profsnslnimi politicians have to bp rrrtjsrr to one side er the other in order to be satisfactorily •non-partisan" In the opinion of one group...
...the Senate Civil liberties Committee, which under the drMftf force of young Bob LsFoUette has torr...
...t* tf pntapl opt that if the decision intensifies the conflict, it will bring penalties that will reveal the tatossibility of either federation making those advances in organisation which began to taper off when the new depression set in last fall...
...The financial minded Mr...
...Homer Martin, president of the United Automobile Workers of America, and Marx Lawis, deputy treasurer in the LaGuardia administration of New York City and a member of the State Executive Committee of the American Labor Party, addressed the meeting and cited the protection which Labor enjoys wherever it has seriously undertaken the formation of a Labor Party...
...Nevertheless, the company refused to negotiate, and a strike began the next morning...
...Some ten years ago, Kafi Duncour referred to MussoIsjres "a Caesar for Carnival...
...The organization of the Onto Rubber federal union was described by Charles Lanning, who was its president and Dallas Williams, its financial secretary...
...Falkner added that he investigated the facts and told the management: "Take my word for it...
...Senator Minton of Indiana, cooperating with the anion*, has promised to urge that the appropriation be raised to $100,09...
...The Upholsterers, Local 15, in Los .Angeles report a similar struggle that almost resulted in a physical encounter that would have brought more human casualties...
...Even the briefest summary of the committee's discoveries will help the reader to follow the story of the trial...
...BIG BUSINESS SEEKS TO KILL CIVIL LIBERTIES BODY Probe Reveals Method Employers Used in NRA Fight The National Association df ManufacturersDbtributed instruction* to fluejpiOl Firms to Aid Maintenance of Open Shop...
...In Michigan the two organisations have frequently supported each other in local strikes, and in fitetroit both are affiliated with the Civil Rights Federation, which protects the constitutional liberties ef the unions...
...Mayor Hoan spoke of the necessity of an .organization to make certain that those elected to office have the machinery for the enforcement of the program dedicated to the people's needs...
...sad that rankled...
...Lanning said that "our federal 'union tried repeatedly to enter into negotiations with the company...
...The Union Label Directory is the shoppers' best guide...
...Smith's troubles are not ended...
...nice a C.I.O...
...He crawled some, and his feet were past the door...
...Clontz's house was shot up while he was away, and bullets went through the beds in which his wife and h^s son were sleeping...
...Headaches far Politician* These fights in the states are likely to spread and they r|jw the politicians sick trying...
...They included two strikes, violence, bitterness, beery losses for the company, employment at thugs and spies, clashes with Uncle Sam...
...Meantime the C.I.O...
...Organizing Opposition to Tory Set-up in Congress Set-up in Congress President Set to Fight for rump- pruning r rogTarn Despite Efforts of Big Business to Cripple Relief By EDWARD LOft/NG Special to The Now Leader WASHINGTON, D. C. — Despite the constant attacks of the very committees he expected to support him in his final drive on the depression, President Roosevelt is determined to buck all opposition, organizing his own machinery to beat the Gannetts both within and without his own party...
...Unions Must Control" Referring to the statement by Mayor Hoan that the building of a Labor Party may take several years, Lewis pointed out that if the party can be established on a substantial trade union basis, with such financial support as can be assured only through labor unions, the growth of the party can be expedited...
...He told us he would not negotiate until we brought him a written list of our union members, signed by them...
...We have made our own plan for a union connected with the A. F. of L." A few days afterward, a bulletin describing a "company union" plan was posted in the plant, Lanning said...
...and Associated ladnotrjat bombarded the Ohio Rubber Company with "bulletins...
...President Green of the A. F. of L. broadcasted an address to Great Britain which, in part, was an answer to a broadcast to Britain by John L. Lewis several weeks ago...
...Both C.I.O...
...naming of Georges Bonnet ,*"»flfinkter of Foreign Affairs in jfe»A,pf Paul-Boncour is very sig]Bj«nt...
...Unity of Leber As a result of the meeting, and of conferences which may be held shortly, the Labor Party of Illinois, in which are represented many unions affiliated with the American Federation of Labor...
...The miners were, forbidden to hold meetings...
...They did hot buy a chance on a known car, but a chance on a car, they knew not which...
...Governor George H. Earle...
...and Labor's Non-Partisan League, with which are identified the organizations affiliated with the Committee for Industrial Organization, may unite their forces and establish a Labor Party in time to be an influential factor in the fall elections...
...The trial is a direct result of the investigation made by the La Foilette Civil Liberties committee...
...Roosevelt is now on the rebound, just as he was after his Supreme Court defeat, and realizes the mistake of having fought Congress on the reorganization issue instead of some social legislation . . . but this fight is coming on pump-priming, or the wage and hour bill...
...Elias Tartak, member of the Rand School faculty and book j critic of The New Leader, will speak Friday, April 22, at 8:45 p. m., on "Whither Russia—The* Meaning of the Moscow Trials to Labor...
...An increase of $50,000,000 a month in WPA expenditures is expected to increase the national payroll by at least $200,000,000 or more each month...
...It is believed that Dubinsky would not have made his statement so strong if he were not confident that he was speaking the sentiments of most of the members of his organization...
...the contortions of the professional politicians provide the comedy...
...fact, Mrs...
...While Green discussed the dispute with the C.I.O., unlike the Lewis broadcast, he also declared the interest and sympathy of American workers with the European struggle against dictatorship...
...decided to set up a permanent organization, and yet they dp not consider teat this ends the possibility of peace...
...has his Own ideas' on the subject and these include putting those anti-New Deal Congressmen, who come up for reelection this year, on the spot now...
...The group was 'J?J^ recently after months of BMfstisn by the Nazi secret Illinois L. P. May Merge With NonPartisan League A.F.L-C.I.O...
...And he's going to win this time...
...Senator LaFollette asked Smith who prepared the "dummy" organization...
...The explosion tore the whole front out of the building and broke every window for .rods, but Dwyer escaped unhurt...
...and the latter attempted to take over the headquarters...
...That employers who laflnr the advice of the National Assojcjition of Manufacturers and other antilabor organizations lay themselves open to all kinds of unpleasant and expensive troubles was the testimony last week of Franklin O. Smith, president of the Ohio Robber Company, before the committee...
...In a couple of days I will give you a plan...
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