Senators Denounce Vigilantes as National Danger

Senators Denounce Vigitdntes as National Danger Civil Liberties Group lights for More Funds Manufacturers UMm Try to Block New Appropriation so LaFoliette Committee a* Report Scores...

...Publicising of their activities by an employers' national ¦mnamtliin (National Association of Manufacturers in the Johnstown ease), assistance from a high-powered money-raising and advertising corporation with its 'sucker lists,' are part and parcel of this new technique- to break strikes...
...UPHOLSTERERS WIN IN LABOR BOARD ELECTION The Upholsterers, Furniture, Carpet, Linoleum and Awning Workers International announces that the Newark, N. J. hair and felt workers have voted for an A. F. of L. union after the C.I.O...
...As "a menace to democratic government," the report cites letters and pamphlets "broadcast confidentially" by the N. A. M. during the Johnstown strike...
...and the A. F. of L. must be reached...
...Without the money, the committee will not wen be able to print in fall the facts found in 74 days of hearings, eartnetekingly conducted by "Young Bob" and Senator Elbert D. Thomas (Seat., Utah...
...On the other hand, passman prevailed as the Executive Ccmnci...
...Today, the labor movement cans on all progress iveminded persons to join ft in the common effort to preserve the spirit and forms of popular gov_ eminent...
...Citizens' committees' or law and order leagues' are being enlisted for this purpose...
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...By ALBERT H. JENKINS LABOR feature Writer WASHINGTON...
...We extend our sympathies to the labor and democratic forces in all fascist and autocratic countries...
...C.—The Senate Civil Liberties Com'niitTee last week presented to the Senate two documents oi, Sjeat importance to organized labor...
...Martin faces a war of cliques in his union that is distracting tp him and dangerous foT the union and a united movement would be of great aid in eliminating the sources of friction...
...It says that "these betoken willingness of great business men's organisations to evade enacted laws, undermine democratic order, and foment means whereby pecuniarily interested parties can become a law unto themselves...
...It is also called open to take the forefront in the atewgjffcj to maintain banian freedom and democratic institutions...
...Referring to the A. F. of L., the C.I.O...
...had asked that the workers be polled...
...If the desire of the vast majority oi Labor for peace is to be realized, some basis for agreement between the C.I.O...
...Industrial espionage, driven further underground, wiH persist, but "it has seemed a much leas desirable instrument to some employers since its exposure by this committee...
...WASHINGTON, D: C—With the organized working ^ still divided into two warring armies, some oi the ok' »aspir...
...Secrecy and camouflage art elements in the larger threat to democracy.'* The report then turns to the methods adopted by employers to defeat labor organizations, through vigilantes and other "third parties" after the National Labor Relations Act made it more difficult for the "Hist party," the employer, to wage direct war on the "second party," "One third party at hand was the detective and strikebreaking ageney, the old standby of antiunion industrial interests, whose patronage had created a national business of labor spying," the report points out...
...Though organizationally divided, the American labor movement continues as one in its devotion to the solidarity of labor and to free institutions...
...Money for advertising may go to newspapers in scores of cities far away...
...Still farther removed, in appearance, is another third partymovements to have the community, or the public' do the same job on behalf of the employer...
...Sot only must the American labor movement today carry the tenner of worker solidarity and emancipation...
...The session it Ukaly to continue ten days and it is «. pected that a charter will he pa ed to the Progressive Miners, i rival to the Lewis Miners Uijmk It was also predicted that raon C.I.O...
...These have become active to do collectively what individual employers are forbidden to do to labor...
...We must strengthen all efforts for the preservation of peace as the basis for progressive action...
...President Green dectaonj that he saw no hope for peace, that no offers had been recentlj nutdt and that he did not expect any lathe present...
...unions would be expellee from the Federation...
...affiliate, dissatisfied with continuance of the conflict...
...saa embodiment of social legist*tics n the organic law of the state ami if adopted, will mark an advanct it writing'new state constitution...
...Executive Council Pessimistic In the same state* at Rochester the Central Labor Council has adopted a unity resofta«m»jrsi after this council action,theJISL eis, Musicians, Electriciaik^C...
...The union objects to the action of the Labor Board in having an extra box printed on the ballot for workers to vote for "no union...
...A substitute third party has appeared in the shape of certain employer organisations...
...1T this mofiey is not provided, «fSH Senator Rooeit M LaFoliette...
...How the Board figured out, the International declares, that a group of workers could bargain collectively without any union is a mystery...
...Whrle we look back on a year of progress in the protection and sismnct of labor unionism in this country, we also look confidently forward toward the strengthening of the organised labor movement neat year...
...S.D.F...
...Vlrmll nmima m CWik.kr*Mli-p« v it^iivilTf » **» wti iftcur'rtinci a Obviously referring in part to the 1937 strike of railroad and steel workers at Johnstown...
...it is believed that the Oil Workers, also C.I.O.," would.favor a peace move if started...
...Pa., the report says that "instances have bee* noted of c We ens' committees sponsoring...
...The other was a resolution that the Senate appropriate $60,000 to enable ^he committee to continue^ itsinvestigatton...
...support for their organization campaign they desired last summer...
...The events of the past year have thrust upon upon the working men and women of this country a new responsibility...
...Senators Denounce Vigitdntes as National Danger Civil Liberties Group lights for More Funds Manufacturers UMm Try to Block New Appropriation so LaFoliette Committee a* Report Scores Labor Espionage Activity of Employers...
...penters and Operating ?njnMth issued separate statements declaring for harmony in the local nwv...
...of the A. F. of L. met here MonOi...
...they altered their beaks, and 'corrected' their canceled checks...
...A sample citizens' committee.' widelv advertised as a manifestation of the public's initiative,' had in h so little of the public, that its activities were knowp only to a hidden few...
...4m proo* will be enaed...
...The spokesman is Suit Senator John J. Dunnigan, Dentcrat...
...tion that characterized May Day celebrations in th* $ami»j|l be absent at Sunday celebrations, and ye* keen observer»4eft have not abandoned hope of peace by the end oi the yeati Not only is the International Ladies' Garment Workers, a C.I.O...
...These workers had constituted Local 163 of the International, the latter declares, until last December a minority voted to affiliate with the C.I.O...
...Howard for Unity Even Charles P. Howard, president of the International Typographical Union, speaking at the 40th semi-annual-Empire State Typographical Conference at Utica, N. Y., last Saturday struck a positive peace note...
...Ot the other hand, some observer* at in it a forecast of support of Den...
...morning...
...Special to The New Leader...
...A strong labor movement is the best bulwark of democracy against fascist encroachment...
...It is a matter of public concern when business organizations, influential and moneyed, foster such vigilante movements to attain their own ends...
...ftict—Howard Urges Leaders to Recognize and File Demand for Unity...
...Howard became even more positive when he said that the differences "will become more serious as time goes on unless the leaders realize that the rank and file wants peace...
...ocrats in coming ejections ej A. f of L. unions and making it aor* difficult for the American La*r Party to get-affiliates among ma unions...
...Homer Martin, president of the Automobile Workers, also recently suggested peace terms that differ little from the proposals rejected by John L. Lewis last year...
...Such practices are part and parcel of the thwarting of labor's rights...
...This A. F. of L. program it i good statement of civil right...
...Coming from the national secretary of the C.I.O...
...In various business quarters record Steeping has gone out ef fashion and bookkeeping has given way to 'book-cooking.' Labor s Rights Thwarted "Such things go beyond a mere challenge to government investigation, the right of the people to ascertain facts of public concern...
...Money flows through the citizens' committee to deputies and tear gas companies, and to local government authorities...
...before it has don* more than scratch the snrfaee of evils which threaten the fi Una rights of labor...
...We yyejnse them that then- fight will he fought here and their liberties regained through am aid and example...
...In New York Stote Meantime, the conflict batata the two organizations in state politics continues unabated and in N«v York the State Federatiee of labor has obtained a spokesmar, * the Constitutional Conventaos Ur fifteen proposals for a new ' Bit « Rights...
...and the RaUway Trainmen he declared that "more would be accomplished if all three merged...
...fcne was a report on the new weapons used by anti-union eniplovers and vigilante groups, as revealed at the committee's jBEm "hearings...
...Leader's May Day Message Urges te&or to Lead Struggle Against Fascism #y LOWS WALDUAN This year, flay Day can not be a routine celebration...
...this statement by Howard has extraordinary significance...
...The Oil Workers are reported bo be dissatisfied because they did not got the C.I.O...
...In thie new fight there can be no hesitation or compromise for us...
...The labor movement in this country cannot maintain its gains, candot advance unless there exists a MSis of political democracy on Wtdch It esn work...
...Giving examples, the report says that rroncreds of detective agencies, employer associations and large CQBpoTa-tnrHg destroyed their records after the investigation began, adding: "In adation...
...back-to-work' movements which are, to use the words of aa employer association witness, the new technique in strfkeb*ealrmg,' "Appendages of a citizens' committee may include a large fend for publicity and law and order.' Industrialists, large and small, remote from the locality, may be ueucrtbutois...
...They examined 848 witnesses and accumulated a mountsje of documentary evidence 0emocr#cy ot St^ke The report said that the commit - tee has uncovered "a state of afhtt»s wh-ch is a serious threat to dotnocracy itself despite obstruettaas designed to thwart the comsrtietea's efforts " tt named seme of these obstruction* as "stripped files, doctored i»ook#, piecemeal responses to requests for information, end witnesses schooled in forgetting...
...The National Association of Manufacturers and the Chamber of Commerce are already in action trying to alack the appropriation...
...Sentiment for Labor P#«?* Revived Among Workers Seme A. F. of L. and C.I.O Unions Tired of the Gob...

Vol. 21 • April 1938 • No. 18


 
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