Big Business Gangs Up on Labor Board
Big Business Gangs Up on Labor Board LaFollette Ready to Spring New Platform When Congress Quits By BRYCE OLIVER News Commentator at WEVD, New York Special to The New Leader WASHINGTON, D.V...
...To be sure, the remaining five sections approve the American form of government as Hark Twain endorsed the weather...
...It is also suggestive that "May" in the old Roman Calendar was in memory of the goddess-of Spring...
...and this despite the slash in working forces in the latter part of that year...
...They adopted no platform...
...He does not believe in cannibalism, but if he were afloat on a raft at sea for weeks with other men he would "eventually agree to draw lots with the others to determine which one should provide the others with a meal...
...Langdon Post, prominent member of the American Labor tarty and termor Tenement Hoose Commissioner i« New York Cftf, will discuss fee LaFollettes and their party next week...
...1QTAUTARIANS STEP ALONG W is not enough that one should merely obey orders with a meek ¦^yj willing spirit...
...These catch the little sun which find its way into their courts and alleys, and in doe time the enjoyment of a little beauty for a short time is their experience...
...No more interest-bearing bonds...
...Men fn favor -and man against the new movement have boon a s t e d t a write...
...All funds are later cleared through the Dresdener Bank in Erfurt, Germany...
...The renewed Government activity was also the signal for an abortive uprising of Franco's "Fifth Column" in Barcelona...
...There is not one ^fjsjst...
...Let us together, on this May Day, consecrate our life to the task of winning this right...
...Absolute protection for all bank deposits...
...While the principles may be rewritten for political reasons between now and the close of the present session of Congress, The New Leader is able to present the first authentic document outlining the aims of the proposed new party...
...Air Forces Italian...
...the New York City College is called "Jew-controlled," and "the Jew Trotsky is ready to invade California with his Mexican army and take over the government...
...His human nature would not be changed...
...High salaries for executives and trustees...
...Eight squadrons (96 planes) of heavy Savoia 81 bombers...
...i had previously been tutored'from the same infallible that Collective Security leads to war, the League of Nations P|*^0 war, and_every other_attempt to adjust international ^^•s leads to war,"the7e~seems*to"be nothing'left"in~tlie world g*"»'t just a camouflaged battle-axe, except the Ladies' Sewing ¦¦Mr of the Pedunk Baptist Church, and for myself I am now pS8*ooaure even of that until I hear from the oracle of Kenosha...
...In this class are the Chicago Great Western, and the Chicago, Milwaukee, St...
...It was the Declaration of Independence that embodied the theory of "absolute equality" when it declared that "all men are created equal...
...LaFollette had nothing to say and said it...
...the Arab National League in New York City...
...Of all manufacturing corporations, less than 4 per cent of them received 84 per cent of the net profits...
...Idle land tax...
...Every day of the peat week has seen increasingly bitter attacks on the NLRB and the Wagner act in the courts, in speeches at the Chamber of Commerce sessions, in stooge union statements heralded by the reactionary press as "workers" protests, and in magazine articles and newspaper declarations by tory congressmen...
...From It have come the lawless annexation of Austria sad the threat to the security end integrity of other European nations, to it lie the rapidly germinating seeds of another world war...
...The latest lawyers* idea, as evidenced by the Ford at* tomeys* "57 Questions," fa to ptW test against the procedure of the trial boards, which have been handing down decisions favorable to A. F. of L. and C.I.O...
...Although the N.L.R.B...
...the Japanese Chamber of Commerce in New York City...
...Well financed, the organization works in the guise of an, independent group instead of a recognized government agency...
...There is nothing profound or original about that, and it stirs no thinking human being...
...The infantry divisions are:— 1. "Littorio" (Gen...
...The World Service, which seems to have devoted most of its recent issues to America, reveals that the "American Guard," a coalition of young Catholic and fascist students in the City College of New York, was instigated by Nazi agents here...
...others, nothing...
...They are slaves in t relentless economic system...
...but consider what preceded it...
...jglNo newspaper is to be admitted to the mails if it prints "an¦*itaful" statements...
...There are others milking solvent lines, but even some railroads in bankruptcy pay big salaries to their trustees...
...Stoppage of railroad ajtslirtow would bp to the nation like the stoppage of blood circulatim in the human body...
...The rest is—just nothing...
...He then moves on to a critical view of Socialism, democratic Socialism, and he is no more happy in his criticism...
...are moving along, brethren, moving right along and doing ffiL^*"* we can to win into the Fascist paradise...
...will seek to reopen those cases, such as the Ford sad Republican Steel decisions where it feats that it may have left itself vulnerable, while the corporation, at* torneys try to stall until thr ftp' preme Court declares the board procedures unconstitutional -* Also under the fire of the antiLabor front is the LaFollette Civil Liberties Committee, which has exposed and publicized the throats, assaults, "Mohawk Volley*' formulas, and other vicious tactics used in the tory employer drive to break strikes and smash labor onions...
...In recent issues of the World Service, Jews in every country are attacked...
...Troops Quelled Revolt Hastily summoned troops isolated the jail, drove the prisoners back after killing many of them, and disarmed the rebels...
...Had any —tor ions reactionary proceeded in this way, how the "progressive" LaFollette would have roared in protest or roared with laughter...
...Presenting a vacuum is had enough...
...These principles indicate a coming political platform which will lean heavilv towards oroductibn for use...
...In this country there is a greeting movement to encourage dwders living in the slums to grew flowers in window boxes and their window sills...
...Lieutenant The World Service, edited by a veteran Nazi lieutenant of Germany's leading Jew-hater, Julius Streicher, has Urge headquarters in Erfurt...
...J * * 9. NOTHING IN FIVE POINTS 1TJST • » amasing is the "platform...
...The number employed in February this year was 938,017, a drop of 174,060 from the average of last year—and the decline continues...
...Without social justice there Icon be no poses, sod peace is the essential condition of inlsi lis Ho—1 cooperation...
...The Governor again and again talked of some mysterious "new frontier" in our civilisation, but he does not specifically define it...
...All issues between the i A. F. of L. and the C.I.O...
...Big Business Gangs Up on Labor Board LaFollette Ready to Spring New Platform When Congress Quits By BRYCE OLIVER News Commentator at WEVD, New York Special to The New Leader WASHINGTON, D.V C.—Solution of the unemployment and production problems through a proposed system of re-creating the one-time American shortage of common labor, and the resultant competitive bidding for man-power, is the aim of the National Progressive Party, called to the hustings last week by Wisconsin's Governor Philip A. LaFollette...
...And it must be Mmitted by all that there is some zip to this latest proposed step »that direction...
...From now on it's a race between the Board and the attorneys of the corporations...
...Modern scholarship and Socialist teachings long ago rejected this way of presenting this principle of democracy by amending it to read "equality of opportunity...
...2. "Black Flames—March 23" (Gen...
...JUne patrol Heinkel 45's...
...10—No more than eight hours of labor per day, five days per week...
...It shall remain inviolate for that sacred purpose...
...Scarcely had Fuehrer Hitler pointed out to us that our press ought *• be subdued to the proper respect in its attitude toward dictators wpa Senator Minton of Indiana introduced a bill perfectly adapted to SB*** this salutary reform...
...He could not be expected to endure silently such betrayal Jsf his sweet and child-like confidence, and we are not astoaisbeo learn Usst'he has ordered'France to close ap tight -the Spanish frontier that no mere aid from any source may reach the besotted people that still ding to the fragments of their shattered liberties...
...Our Sunday Visitor" in Huntington, Ind...
...CHAMBERLAIN UE...
...WW hen ie faced up that sweet and sweaty partnership between jfemooraUe^ England and Fascist Ttaly^ it was with the distinct nutertttitimff Bsoj tie Italian troops now marauding in Spain should at once complete the conquest of that country and so gratify the noblest aspirations of the Best Elements in English society while giving to English industrialists a whack at Spain's rich resources...
...German land forces as such do not exist...
...Yon bet...
...jk* This having been negatived by legislators unsympathetic with polite gangsters, the railroad management naturally falls back apon the workers and announces a 15 per cent pay cut for one milben employees, many of whom are living now far below the limit of comfort and decency...
...The Supreme Court decision against Secretary Wafiaoo gave the corporation lawyers a loophole for which they had long been seeking...
...They assure us that we "must" have social security, that we "most" have ^access to materials, we "must" assure a "decent annual pneome for all," that the "absolute right to earn his living" most be assured the worker, and that "spoon-feeding the American people," whether they are workers on relief or business, must be stopped...
...Total infantry force is therefore 36 battalions...
...Everybody was in an expectant mood...
...Officers of the "independent unions" of Republic Steel, the Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation, H. J. Heinz Company, Duquesne Light and Power Company, Remington-Rand, the National Steel Corporation, and the Pressed Steel Car Company, signed theh" names to a petition drawn up by company heads in whicH everything anti-union employers have ever called for is demanded...
...pabhe service privately owned that is not collecting its Ijjssrlyjtoll fay charges, based upon imaginary investments...
...This not only annoys Mr...
...WHAT fundamental teachings* WHERE can one find them...
...Its symbol is a rising sun, across which is a swastika with an American Indian giving the* Nazi salute set into it...
...Governor Lehman is blasted for cleaning the Nazis out of the National Guard...
...In the British House of Commons, Mr...
...On the other hand it is significant that LaFollette's followers in Congress have never thus far attempted to translate his wizardry into Federal statutes...
...Vallani,alias Velarde...
...During April more than 63 high ranking officers left Munich in Junker planes, 52 of them for Seville, to prepare an immediate offensive against Almeria...
...As the past week's anti-Labor fight has indicated, every type of propaganda and pressure weapon available to the Chamber of Commerce and the National Association Of Manufacturers will be brought into play...
...Our hemisphere was divinely destined to evolve peace, security and plenty...
...Munition caches were tminA m nunv ^alla where guns had been hidden since they were smuggled in...
...As the infantry strength of th< Italian army corps is roughlj 30,000 men, the total number oi I foreign troops {including artillery • tanks, supply services, aviation per ' sonnel and technicians) can hardl...
...He made the decision...
...NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN, the British Prime Minister, is a gentleman of the most distinguished patience, but it seems that Ben he can be annoyed when other players at the inter national poker one overdo the four flush...
...Nothing that would start a discussion is offered...
...Like his platform, it says —just nothing...
...It is evidence of the fact, that human nature cannot he changed and that the "progressive" can cut peculiar capers under the stress of a terrible economic catastrophe...
...He wants idle capital to function but does not inform us HOW to make it function...
...German...
...Paul & Western...
...Private enterprise can do everything so much better than the gHsiilliailf can do it...
...comes in for its share of vituperations, as does the labor movement of other countries...
...The time has come when a new trail must be blazed— a trail that will take the fundamental teaching of the past and apply them to t he modern world' as we know it," said the Governor...
...He presented a platform...
...11—Conservation, reforestation, and public ownership of natural resources...
...To it must be added the swollen capitalization of many roads upon which dividends must be paid unless the water is eventually squeezed out...
...the Defender Publishers in Wichita...
...One-tenth of 1 per cent of them received 50 per cent of the net income of all...
...Under the name "World Service," it publishes its bi-weekly attack on the Jews in eight languages, including English, and sends its bulletins into every country in the world...
...Burke's speech blamed the Board for everything from the existence of labor unions to unemployment and the depression...
...The Governor is an educated and cultivated man...
...THE GREAT ART •raiJS may we learn the true nature of that blessed Initiative and * Incentive for the sake of which we maintain this system of protected rapine, . There is box one big business corporation in America that is not leased down with the same phony capitalization...
...some have read with chuckles and admiration, for did not the twfjpj get the Stuff...
...New Nazi Agency Opens Worldwide Anti-Semitic Drive 'News Service' in Germany, Controlled by Streicher, Linked to Pro-Fojcist Organizations in U. S. By VICTOR RIESEL Not content with their sadistic persecution of Jews in Germany and what used to be Austria, the Nazis have organized a new international propaganda bureau devoted solely to spreading antiSemitic "news...
...realised that its procedure at times was open to legal potshooting, the board couldn't help itself since testimony on some cases took as long as seven months to present This sort of filibuster by the company attorneys was an effspt ive weapon for awhile against union organization until the board took to cutting down on the testimony admitted...
...Most of the prisoners are insurgents captured on the Catalonian front, as well as Franco's supporters arrested by the Republic's secret police in Barcelona...
...One group (1Q planes) of Breda 61 scouts...
...These include the following: Of all corporations reporting in 1935, one-tenth of 1 per cent owned 52 per cent of their assets...
...The artillery regiments (General Manca) are the 1st, 2nd and 5th, wath guns ranging from 2.5 in...
...Stretcher...
...7—The measure of the dollar to be one hour of minimum human labor...
...The masses who join this "party" are expected to sign a blank check and have faith that Phil LaFollette has a potent program for all onr ills...
...For a week tne press carried stories of a new political party to be announced by Governor Philip LaFollette of Wisconsin...
...T*HIS recalls the^flamboyant speech of Theodore Roose* velt in the national Republican convention in 1900...
...Every advantage labor has gained in the mat few months will be tested by the powerful legal and propaganda barrages available to the industrialists, i This is already evidenced by the Wide publicity given in the past week to the Little Steel companyfinanced unions "protest" against the Labor Board...
...jonquest and annexation: for tin rule of justice and law in interna, tional relations: for the peaceable settlement of colonial territory, the idjustment of national frontiers, economic difficulties, or the exist, ance of national minorities under jther sovereignties...
...The Governor's statement regarding 'human nature is a bromide some fifty years old...
...The first article of the sympoSinm by James Onaal is printed below...
...Kansas...
...Congressmen Join Campaign Senator Burke, in a speech to the Chamber of Commerce, told his appreciative audience that the National Labor Relations Board is "Public Enemy No...
...Gen...
...The tank group (Colonel Sabini) is composed of three battalions, two of tanks, one of armored cars...
...Tne readers of The N ew Leader are invited to participate...
...Promptness and a cheerful celerity are likewise •••¦tial to a really flawless discipline, and it is pleasant to note J** we have in the national legislature those in whom these virtues resplendent...
...the Industrial Defense Association in Boston, Mass...
...The news must have been received with rapture by the young gntlemeh of the State Department that have stood like adamant for totalitarian success in Spain and plenty of good bombings...
...There is no evidence that he consulted the membership of this party...
...The same purchasing price to small dealers and industries as chains and larger businesses enjoy...
...If he were one of the lucky survivors, he would gnaw the shinbone of a friend with relish...
...The prisoners were well equipped with arms smuggled in by Franco's agents and others sympathetic to the Insurgents who have succeeded in keeping themselves unknown...
...T H E NEWS REEL By CHARLES EDWARD RUSSELL I tjrtfQ generations ago, more or leas, the American railroad system, mmhif* public highways privately owned, was plundered by various Hj§?o*e gangsters that happened to have a chance to get into the *f Many Americans have since read the record of these banditti and , losked apon it with a mild and detached interest as ancient history...
...the Tomahawks in Walla Walla, Wash...
...Although your official La» bor Day, I believe, is in September, we are hoping that one of these days the first of May in this COUDtry will be recognised as a workers' legal holiday, and if the last can be spread throughout the world we shall have one day in which the whole of world Labor will be able to rejoice together in the realisttion of our ideals...
...In the two brigades of the "Arrows"-!— Black Arrows Brigade and Blue Arrows Brigade—there are a few Spaniards...
...The working masses might as , well understand that a struggle is . now on between them and the minority of masters ef capital for the control of the republic and the domination of all American life by this clique...
...to 12 in...
...Helpfulness to business in conjunction with laws to protect the consumer...
...It was understood then that in three weeks this happy consummation and overthrow of the rabble would surely take place...
...be less than 60,000...
...This is not sufficient...
...Barcelona.—As the Loyalists under General Miaja are taking the initiative in the Southwest near the rich Cordoba mining area and in the North near Tremp, the Catalonian electricity center, the Italian and Nazi invaders of Spain are rapidly replacing Franco's high command with general staffs of their own, the Germans in the North and the Italians in the South and Southwest...
...We challenge the proud privilege of doing the work that Providence allots us...
...Because uf a delay in the mails the messsges of Walter Citrine, president of the International Federation of Trade Unions, and Herbert Elvin, chairman of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress, came too late to be printed in our May Day edition, published last week...
...r According to the most informed newspaper circles, which include the energetic international reporters of the London Daily Herald, the German general staff has decided to remain permanently on the Pyrenees frontier of France, where it is now in charge* of all operations...
...Their life is dread and drab because it is net their own...
...So much to the good...
...It can do the people...
...6—U...
...Those whose connection with the Wofld Service could definitely be established are the Barclay's Bank, Ltd., in London and the Societe Generate in Paris...
...Is the spirit of international solidarity...
...There are several thousand German "technicians" (officers, gunners, etc...
...They are as follows: Raises Wag* Standards 1—Emergency government work at all times at variable hourly rate low enough not to compete with private industry, yet high enough to compel private industry to pay $1 per hour minimum for common or unskilled labor...
...Distorts Nows f vents The trick used tjjr Fleischhauer is to take ordinary news events involving Jews and turn the items into anti-Semitic propaganda of the most vicious nature...
...According to the news bulletins, which are mailed to hundreds of thousands of non-Jews in all countries, the purpose of the new propaganda office is to "enlighten illinformed Gentiles, irrespective of the state or country to which they belong, of fAe machinations of the Jewish underworld...
...Chamberlain, bting prodded, that it cant come before July, despite his best bombing of women and children...
...From it come also the wars of conquest now raging in China, Spain, and even yet in Abyssinia...
...Some expected Something...
...on income 1 per cent (more or leas) to meet all needs of national government not otherwise provided for...
...pale into insignificance compared with this struggle...
...One of its subsidiaries, the Federation of Christian Militants, ms been lobbying in Washington as pro-isolationists in an effort to prevent the passage of the Naval appropriations bill...
...By WALTER CITRINE General Secretary of the British Trad— Union Congress (Special to The New Leader) The aspirations of the people of all notions for o new order of life, depend for their fulfilment upon the principles of social justice, peace, and international cooperation...
...According to exclusive and most authentic sources, the invading forces are organized as indicated in the following report: Land Forces Italians, commanded by General Berti, with General Manzini as second in command, form the Legionary Army Corps of three infantry divisions, three artillery regiments, one group of tanks and the necessary supply and auxiliary units...
...And they all face France, Germans Command North The command on the northern Spanish front is in the hands of General Wolff of the German Air Force and General Wietershein of the 14th German Army Corps...
...While the anti-Jewish blasts, in almost ludicrous fiction, make up most of the "news" bulletins, the real danger to democratic America is revealed by the references to a widely ramified fascist network in this country...
...To date its valuable investigations have cost only $90,000 which may be compared with $260,900 for the Senate banking investigation...
...At the moment, "Flowers" enter very little into the life of the workers...
...Government to assume campaign expenses and make it a felony for any person or organization to spend money in behalf of any candidate...
...4 — Occupational representation in Congress...
...The N.L.R.B...
...Although the otfrfeae e f The New Lnader wtU be one of watchful waiting—until the new party finally develops a definite prof mm at its coming eonvneion—the editors will permit wile latitude of opinion...
...That is the contrast in this impending struggle on the railways...
...Like the rest of the document, - it is nothing, just nothing...
...Make loans to quasipublic corporations and real estate owners directly at 1 per cent per annum...
...8—The Government to lend any government sub-division labor money at cost of printing the bills as it now lends to the Federal Reserve Bank...
...The senator's address, also well played-up in the reactionary press, suggested the complete abolition of the Board as the first step towards recovery...
...As the Italians have done near La Linea, the Nazis have mounted huge guns in concrete emplacements near strategic passes...
...No tax on incomes under $2,000.* Each additional thousand to constitute steps for computing the tax...
...Human nature—man's thinking, action, beliefs, prejudices, feelings, etc.—is what it has been for thousands of years...
...Following his address, the ? . otf C. immediately went into action using all of its propaganda and legal agents to fight the entire social legislation program of the New Deal...
...Francisci...
...IMC4USE of Me nation-wide interest which has been aroused by the new third party of " t h e LaFollettes and the miied reaction with which it has been greeted by the liberal, progress?ve and labor groups throughout the nation, we hove invited prominent politico/ writers, legislators, governors, farmer and labor loaders In the industrial and political fields to give their opinion of the National Progressive Party in the columns of The How leader...
...We want flowers all the time ,and particularly the flower of a full and cotsplete life which is the workers' toalienable right...
...Well, one thing it can do better, certainly, and do it to the king's test* and the holy limit...
...British Labor Leaders Semi Socialist May Pay Greetings As in past years the leaders of the British Labor Party and the Trade Unions organized in the British Trade Union Congress, many millions strong, send their annuel May Day greetings to the American working people through The New Leader...
...Another anti-Semitic front, headed by a George Deatherage, which has received little publicity but which has been extremely active on mysterious funds, is the American Nationalist Confederation...
...JM* other words, with the aid of a prehensile press service and 9hN*%Msf correspondents, the whole thing is-just the putting over 9f tome more gigantic bunk...
...C. of C. Convention Launches NewDrive On All Labor Gains Supreme Court Decision Gives Corporation Lawyers New Line of Attack on Wagner Act :¦ If EDWARD LORING Special to The Now Leader WASHINGTON, D. C.—Moetag rapidly while organised workers of the nation are divided into two hostile camps, an alliance of political industrial and financial leaders this week dropped its • pretense of a "united front for recovery*' with the administration, and moved into open attack on all the gains labor has made under the New Deal...
...In the first place, there are rail- <" road executives still drawing enormous salaries...
...Although nominally in charge of the work, Ulrich Fleischhauer takes orders directly from Streicher and Goebbels...
...From their May Day demonstrations, the workers and citiseng of each country send their message of fraternity and goodwill to the people of ali other countries...
...Heading the list is M. W. Clement, of the Pennsylvania, who drew $100,000 last year...
...On Friday of last week the' press carried the story of several thousand expectants at Madison, Wisconsin, cheering a five-point platform announced by the Governor and a speech explaining the new party...
...will rrnd nothing more definite than the "platform...
...The Governor ia t h e titular bead of an independent party in his state, with which trade unions, farmer organizations, the Progressive Party, and the Socialists are affiliated...
...ft Is quite another thing to say HOW you are going to do it...
...Plan Now Attack The corporations hove turned from their "labor advisers'* to their Wall Street attorneys in the latest maneuver to wipe out Labor's recent gains...
...Semi-Fascist Fronts Some of the pro-big business, semi-fascist fronts which have beenplaying ball with the Nazi Government and its agents in this country are: The Industrial Control Reports in Washington, D. C; the Christian Free Press in Glendale, Calif...
...jpprWO Mff...
...It hasn't taken place and the chief of the Italian brigands tells Mr...
...In addition, further reinforcements have recently reached the Aragon front...
...He and a handful of personal aids prepared a party emblem, party banners and buttons, drafted a "platform," selected organisers, and provided application cards to be signed end sold for • dollar apiece...
...4C?-G?ST>»PO STYLE THE brae Inside of these touted "accords" of which the cable news :TJpuao so ecstatically may be gauged by the judicious from two •Wats that the cable tries to obscure...
...A. W. Dilling in Kenilworth, 111...
...Reciprocity and labor tariff differential...
...L The first fruit of the noble "accord" between England aad ftaaee about Czechoslovakia is a joint order to Czechoslovakia to do i*atever Hitter wishes...
...3—:Abolition of tax on industry...
...In the meantime, "Spring" sad "Flowers" can be our inspiration...
...Yes, Governor, even your queer "platform" is an abnormal document which a normal environment would not have produced...
...Eight squadrons (80 planes) of fast Savoia 79 bombers...
...y - In the first sentence he has the facts reversed...
...The Nazi and Fascist armies, which are being rapidly increased, are well distributed throughout Franco's territory...
...Two squadrons of Heinkel 51 bombers...
...For the farmer, a price stabilizing system for major farm crops comparable to labor stabilisation...
...The spread-eagleism of that final section of the "platfrom" is reminiscent of the raucus frontier orators of nearly a century ago...
...As, of course, any statement about a dictator that is short of eulogy is -untruthful," this would seem to ^¦eet every requirement...
...Only the first section is positive when it declares that "ownership and control of money and credit" must be public, not private...
...ranny and aggression, to make si end of the betrayals of liberty dog human right, and to it ml shim the institutions of free citisenehta which are the strongest safeguard* of social justice and of international peace...
...2—Old age, motherhood, educational, sickness, physical inequality, pensions...
...Albans, W. Va...
...WHY have YOU watted so long, Governor, to inform us "of "fundamental teachings" that were fruitful in some other period...
...Big Job Losses Meantime, the railroad workers have 'suffered terrific job losses...
...There ilplloetThousehold in the.United"States~that is not reached and ¦okted daily by these vast pilferings...
...The Terrible Teddy declared: "The young giant of the West stands on a continent and clasps the crest of an ocean in either hand...
...He acted on his own initiative...
...f IE is against fascist and communist dictatorship...
...the Pelley Publishers in Asheville, N. C; Charles B. Hudson in Omaha, Nebr...
...Some have read and heeded not...
...L. F. Loree draws a pension from one road and a salary from the Delaware & Hudson which total $60,000 annually...
...Nazi-Backed U. S. Groups In the pages of the World Service one can trace for the first time the actual tie-up up of the United States fascist organizations with the Nazi Government...
...to say and said nothing...
...And get away with it...
...it*** if that comes, everybody will know it...
...There is a vast difference between a Socialist theory of absolute equality and the American principle of equality of opportunity," said the Governor...
...So long as they stand for it...
...Thirty-five squadrons (285 planes) of Fiat and Romeo pursuit planes...
...He proposes organization of a party of the masses with the masses silent...
...Top Salaries Stay High as Fight on Rail Pay Opens WASHINGTON, D. C—With the railroad kings insisting on a 15 percent cut in wages of railroad workers and the latter determined to fight this demand, the economic cleavage has certain contrasts that are important...
...Condor Legion" (149 planes...
...This having failed, there was a gorgeous plan to recoup the rail losses by appropriations from the national treasury...
...the interests of peace," say the well-trained editorial chorus...
...squawk the brainless parrots of Reaction...
...There is the place to begin, not with a platform of meaningless platitudes...
...Unless Labor heals its breach, it is folly to think it can win...
...Roatta...
...Each division is composed of two brigades, each brigade of two regiments, each regiment of three battalions...
...The final section of the "platform" is a curio in party declarations...
...Many Socialists recognize that the world has changed, but fail to see that "human nature has not...
...While Henry Ford and the entire governing board of Little Steel lash out at the Labor Board on the industrial front, Senators Bridges of New Hampshire and Burke of Nebraska command the legislative sector of the antilabor ranks...
...The break was to be the signal for the general uprising oiFranco's nebulous "Fifth Column...
...The railroads on their present fictitious capitalization having become unprofitable, effort was made Ipgaiinfrom the Interstate Commerce Commission another increase of rates, meaning another increase in the cost of living...
...The drive in the South will be in cooperation with the Italian general staff, under the unified command of General Prager of the German Reserve Corps and Colonel Himer of the 7th German Army Corps...
...Less than 5 per cent owned 87 per cent...
...No child labor under 18...
...The arithmetical unit on inheritance to be 1 per cent...
...Chamberlain but nuts him in bad with same of the best industrialists that ever contributed to a campaign fund...
...When word came through that new drives were planned on several fronts by the Loyalists, about 7,000 Spanish insurgent war prisoners revolted last week in the Barcelona Modern Jail...
...Beth platform and speech recall the line of the British poet quoted above...
...Obviously subsidized by Berlin is the American National Socialist Party, which has a newspaper called the "National American" and headquarters in lower Harlem in New York City...
...It was an undemocratic procedure...
...Strife and enmity are the outcome of the capitalist system, with Ms economic inequalities, social injustices, and class privileges watch hafe led to the complete destruction of popular liberties in seme countries sad to many encroachments upon these liberties sad the rights of the working people in other countries...
...Excluding switching and terminal companies, the average rail employment through 1937 was 1,115,077...
...No proposals are made...
...Working in close cooperation with Fleischhaaer are banks in several countries, which handle international exchange for the Nazis...
...they pledge themselves to centmut the straggle against Fascist ty...
...Bergonzoli...
...9—All present form* of money, except fractional currency, to be withdrawn from circulation and labor money issued in its stead...
...It most come, but when depends upon yes and me...
...Eight squadrons of Messerschmidt pursuit planes...
...3. "Arrows" (Gen...
...One hundred planes, mostly Junkers and Heinkel I l l ' s . , The commander of the Condoi Legion is General Veidt, commander of the 6th Section of th< German Air Force...
...1," while one of his tory allies in the Senate, Bridges of New Hampshire, in an article in Liberty Magazine, called the Board procedure a new "Inquisition," taking several pages to indulge in personal vituperation of the 1919 variety against David Saposs, senior economist of the Board...
...Not since the birth of the Anti-Masonic Patty in 1830 has there been anything so barren...
...Whereupon the employee* announce that they will meet with a ta every line of employment any attempt to saddle upon them the results of the hold-ups of other days...
...6—A graduated income and inheritance tax figured by arithmetical progression...
...The C.I.O...
...but they are attached to Spanish units...
...They have no quarrel with one snnflssf...
...Its authors in five ** sections manage to say nothing, just nothing...
...T** With the Chamber of Commerce as its spearhead, the latest drive is the result of a frenzied search for a new and effective angle from which to smash the National Labor Relations Board...
...The toilers of ail nations have a common interest in peace...
...increasing unemployment for workers and a demand that those with jobs shall take a 15 per cent wage cut...
...The petition, which the stooge unions say actually represents the demands of workers, urges Congress to outlaw strikes affecting interstate commerce in any manner whatsoever when the strikers have no Interest ether than pecuniary, and demands registration of all labor unions with an annual accounting of funds received and expend• eS...
...But HOW all this is to be accomplished is a mystery which its anthots decline to- disclose, although a platform is the place to disclose it...
...Organized Labor on Mag Day is united in a world-wide protest against the policies which make for war, and against the waste at wealth sad life resulting from the conflict of nations...
...It declares that the Western Hemisphere . "was set aside by our Creator for the ultimate destiny of man...
...250,000 for the Wheeler railroad investigation, and $198,000 for the Nye munitions investigation...
...May Day" is onr beacon, f" With the members of their f sallies, labor unionists could form s union label army that would drhe the chiselers out of their antiunion trenches...
...Loyalists Crush Revolt Of Franco's 5th Column Italians and Germans Take Up Permanent Stations in Rebel Territory, With Guns Pointed Toward France —Report Reveals Strength of Nazi and Fascist Garrisons and Armies in Rebel Territory...
...Only a few have token the trouble to note that every year and everyday since the plundering that . created some of the moat pretentious of Our Peerage, the public has paid for it is increased rates for transportation, reflected in the prices of most things we consume But the loot and the consequences now stand to be rammed home to everybody's attention by a national disaster, the greatest in our industrial history...
...Every * * civilised human being is...
...The Anti-Masons had nothing...
...LaFollette Platform Offers 'Just Nothing' BY JAMES ONEAL OLESSBD is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed,—Alexander Pope...
...Two squadrons of Dornier 17 scouts...
...He would be the same cultivated man acting in an abnormal way in an abnormal environment...
...Concentration of Wealth These economic contrasts recall the amazing figures of concentration of income and power reported by the President' in his recent message to Congress...
...It is only since 1890 it has been set apart as a day ef demonstration in favor of Labor** ideals...
...S. Treasury to be the only institution authorized by Congress to issue U. S. money...
...TOWARDS A FULLER LIFE By HERBERT H. ELVtN Chairman of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress Special to The New Leader May Day was originally an all festival in honor of the goddess of flowers, and in some parts of Great Britain fires used to be kindled on housetops...
...the American Nationalist Confederation in St...
...1 ' - °**CLfS IN KENOSHA Jp *R now instructed, by way of Kenosha, Wisconsin, not hitherto y^*|*«feally renowned as a seat of learning, that the New Deal . T* 1)6 opposed because it leads to war...
...unions...
...While the announcements and the* call were made from Madison, Wis., the principles of the party have been worked out in Washington over a period of five years in widely separated conferences of legislators and leader* in all walks of life, who have set their names to a "set of principles...
...WHEN were they abandoned and by whom...
...Peace—Gestapo style...
...It is one thing to say that you will do so and so...
...Bernasconi, alias Garda, and—in Majorca—Gen...
...At present the fight on the LaFollette Committee is focused around big business's campaign to deprive the committee of an additional $60,000 to carry on its work, now that its meager funds are exhausted...
...It would have served the columnists of the press with a theme for their satire for many weeks...
...This "workers" petition would 'obviously prevent strikes in any major industry, and is another sign iof the arrogant misrepresentation which the new war on unions will enlist...
...Turning to the long speech which filled almost an entire page of The New York Times* the reader may read it word for word and he...
...It stands new, as it has always stood, for collective guarantees of peace, order and national security: for a union of the peoples and their Governments m defence of the rights of all nations against lawless millennia...
...Its expression in thought and action, however, is affected by differing environments...
...Bernard Baruch and the Rothschilds are dubbed revolutionaries...
...Springtide witnesses the departure of winter and heralds the dawn of a better time...
...Chamberlain being asked g» to face whether the "Spanish settlement," upon whSch the drum¦fcsmed "accord" with Mussolini depends, means erasure of the ReWblic, dodges the question with agility and success...
Vol. 21 • May 1938 • No. 19
