British Labor Party Rejects All "United Front" Offers
British Laodr Party Rejects All "United Front" Offers Special to the Sew Leader LONDON. — Shocked by Parliament's sudden adoption of the Tory policy which will soon wipe out Britain's famous...
...Members of the Socialist Party (Thcmas Groupie had boeif .allied with the" Communist unitv group and charged that the Communists had deserted their candidate, Victor Reuther, in a caucus Saturday nipht...
...Labor Campaign Punned With the Government ready to sacrifice appropriations for jobless relief, health services, education and various pensions, off which live impoverished millions, the British labor teaotat...
...The Amalgamated Clothing Workers convention meets late this week m Atlantic City and it will also face this new situation...
...toward fascism as a final aim...
...battle between Martin and "left" elements, overshadowing the real interests of the union and other C.I.O...
...The Executive Council also chartered the Progressive Miners as a rival t« the United Mine Workers and the Progressives will send organisers into the territory of the Lewis onion, where they claim there are communities much dissatisfied with the Lewis organization...
...The progressives also claim that they have applications for local union charters in about ten states...
...No information is available to make a forecast of what the convention may do...
...unions that had been suspended since last year...
...However, it is known that Charles P. Howard, heading the printers, has urged members of both organisations to work for peace, and Homer Martin, heading the automobile workers, is regarded as favorable to any promising peace program...
...It will fight for a clear and independent Tabor majority in the next general election, ignoring the Liberal Party as wall as the splinter "left" wing grenps...
...The British Labor Party has fought its own way for the past fifty years on labor and democratic Socialist principles and intends to continue fighting on that basis until it becomes the government party once more...
...The exception was the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, of which David Dubinsky is president.*" The action was not unexpected when it is recalled that lest December the United Mine Workers removed from their constitution every reference to affiliation with the A. F. of L., and the C.I.O...
...Since that story was written, George Meany, president of the State Federation of Labor, haa notified A. F. of L. unions affiliated with the A.L.P...
...Mich.—Several political groups, parties and factions, working .behind the scenes and under the direction of outside leaders, some as far away as New York, have kept the United Automobile Workers' Union in a- constant stew, and the strife came to a head in the sessions of the new C.I.O...
...WASHINGTON, D. C—Events in the past week moved swiftly to a more acute crisis,in the split in the Labor Movement when the Executive Council of the A. F. of L. expelled all but one of the remaining C.I.O...
...TMTn In 1 n , (Continued from Page One) 12—Suppression of crime, racketeering and graft It was pointed oat in Washington this week that the LaFollettes already are prepared, in Wisconsin, to back a bill by AsaeasHyman Khrfer fa tb* 3*a*e Legislature which would give th*J*ate* the newer to take over idle factories and resources so as to employ the jobless at practical production...
...Paul and Minneapolis where 11,000 union members of all factions met in the Minneapolis Auditorium, to combat a menacing united front of seven anti-union employers' organizations under the name of Associated Industries...
...Fremming came to the convention to address it...
...This much, however, can be told: that as early as 1934 the set of principles already had the signature of seventeen members of the Senate, alone...
...The pressure on the White House is beyond the wildest imagination," said he...
...Bone and Schwellenbach were given a voice in the framing of the Democratic National Platform...
...17 Senators How Pledged to Five Year Old Program Pla^k.Urge''LaborMoney/' i Gov't U»e of kfie Factories, and Creation of Labor Scarcity...
...Each faction has its "party line," of which innocent members have as little knowledge as they "have of Einstein's theory of relativity...
...With the exercise of disciplined loyalty, thorough organisation and widespread propaganda, the captors of power can he achieved...
...Labor is split into two camps and can't support us any longer...
...Morris L. Polin, assistant manager of the Jewish Daily Forward, who presided, emphasized the importance of restoring the unity of the organized workers, and Arthur Fisher, German refugee, speke in behalf of Social Democrats in Hitler's concentration camps...
...Special to The New Leader LANSING...
...unions...
...Urgent appeals brought all but about 50 back...
...Z. Lorber, Seroin Lowe, and Golde Myerson, representing the Workmen's Circle Youth, who expressed the need of solidarity between Arab and Jewish workers in Palestine...
...Shocked by Parliament's sudden adoption of the Tory policy which will soon wipe out Britain's famous social services to pay for gasmasks and bombing planes, the British Labor Party swung into immediate action this week to fore* 4 general election before all the gains the English people have made in the past forty years are wiped out by Chamberlain and bis potrcy of placating the/dictators...
...They now fear that with the split the exploiters have an advantage that can only be overcome by a reunion of A. F. of L. and C.I.O...
...He declares that it would be futile for the C.I.O...
...Despite its minute size the CP...
...This decision is binding on all members, none of whom can join with Communista in any project or meeting...
...issued a statement denying that the Labor Party is dominated by the C.I.O...
...According to reliable information, it waa over this measure that the Senator had his falling out with Roosevelt, » "falling out" which stimulated the LaFollettes to launch the new party movement...
...affiliates, included the following: Communists in the unity faction deserted it to line up with Richard T. Leonard...
...The celebration was the most successful held here in years...
...State Industrial Council meeting here last week...
...national officials to investigate causes of the union's internal strife and recommend a solution was made by Harvey C. Fremming, president of the Oil Workers' Union...
...One of the bestinformed journalists in Washington said he doubted that a single Congressman knew who the, other signers were...
...Only one of the anti-Martin candidates for vice-president was elected and he is credited with having the support of at least half of the twelve elected to this office...
...They are expected to seek a modification to provide for taxation to a small extent of all income...
...Special to The New header...
...has ceased tne usual disruption in working class organisations wherever it has been able to plant its members...
...Factional Strife/Hits CIO Gains in Michigan Sectarian Groups' Battle for Control Threatens Auto Workers* Union's Existence—Communists, Socialists and Lovestonites Directed From New York...
...It is reported that the Democrats will also take advantage of this situation to restore their damaged prestige and power in that state by wooing the A. F. of L. Alex Rose, secretary of the A.L.P...
...Detroit U.A.W...
...that they must withdraw from it as the Labor Party is an affiliate of Labor's Non-Partisan League headed by John L. Lewis...
...later decided to organize a permanent federation...
...Long ia Preparation The set of principles was the result of scores of meetings extending back as far as 1933...
...The Communist Party stooges have been extra strenuous in their "demands" that the Labor Party change its position...
...Investigation Advised A proposal that the U.A.W...
...A* times the 800 delegates were treated to displays of...
...welfare director, for secretary-treasurer after Adolf Germer was unanimously elected president...
...A* F. L. Expulsions Widen Labor Split Twin City Unions Bury Differences in Face of New Attack by Pro-Fascist Employers' Affiance...
...There is nothing to do but offer a pillow upon which the advanced people of both old parties can rest their weary beads...
...A resolution adopted by the mass meeting declares that "the only hope" lies in reuniting the organized working class and it urged the "A...
...Instructions by the National Executive Committee have gone oat to ail sections of the Labor Party forbidding any united front...
...and declared that its executive contained substantial representation of A. F. of L. unions...
...The workers of the Twin Cities are convinced that the exploiters' alliance is determined not only to crush all unionism but that it is heading...
...Outstanding developments in the U.A.W...
...In that year, some of the signers wished to read the new party into being in Congress...
...MAY DAT CELEBRATION JAMS HALL CHICAGO.— The Social Democratic Federation and sympathetic organizations and frienda here crowded the Workmen's Circle Lyceum to its utmost capacity in an inspiring celebration of Mary Day...
...Dubinsky Refuses Appointment In the meantime, Dubinsky, adhering to his peace policy, has declined the C.I.O...
...They were deterred only by a step to the left by Roosevelt...
...It"is understood that seldom were these meetings in various offices of the Senate and Hoose office buildings attended by more than five...
...This possibility was forecasted by this correspondent last week...
...Other speakers were Dr...
...Some of them have hoped that the very existence of the document, and the threat of its disclosure in Congress, would be sufficient to offset the tremendous pressure on the President from the Right...
...director, intervened to force a compromise by saying: "Any officer, either national or local, who lends himself -to factionalism, is misusing his position and is doing a disservice to the Automobile Workers' Union...
...Wheeler...
...The late ZaharofT's own Urn, Vieaerm, rolled ap the huge record profit of $10,000,000 during the past year...
...heated factionalism, which reached a climax on Sunday when 200 supporters of President Homer Martin left the hall...
...The United Front," saya the Committee, "would weaken the party by . association with other political bodies net sharing the party's policy or its determination to achieve its democratic Socialist objectives...
...personally, signed the set of principles, even though objecting to the proposed exemption of incomes under $2,000...
...Labor leaders are especially bitter against the Chamberlain cabinet, which even shocked its own Conservative members with its new internal policy of -taxing those families with the lowest incomes while no check is placed on the profits of the monitions makers...
...Communist Opposition and the Socialist Party are brought into the councils of the unions, which are used as arenas for fighting out their differences, each incidentally trying to obtain control of the unions...
...The N.E.C.'s decision was the above The Communist Party has about seven or eight thousand members in England while the Labor Party and its affiliates list some four million...
...A<rain, in 1936, the program was ready for unfolding but was held back because Senators like Black...
...The Democratic Party is already split and the big majority we had in Congress in 1935 has been turned against progress...
...Many of the signers of the declaration of principles have been urging that they be withheld until conviction growls more widespread that the forces of reaction are winning the battle with Roosevelt...
...Under this measure, the Wisconsin Production Corporati6n would he established with authority to acquire land, mines, forests, water newer sites and other natural resources...
...Twice in the post-war period the workers of the Twin Cities have hurled back a similar reactionary alliance, but their success was due to a united Labor Movement...
...appointment as the head of a Housing Committee...
...According to one Congressman, it was the evidence that the President was weakening on the National Labor Relations Law that convinced the LaFollettes that the movements should be launched without further delay...
...John Brophy, national C.I.O...
...It is understood that the LaFollettes...
...It is an old story that the split has extended to political action in many states and it has now affected the American Labor Party in New York State...
...Aiding them is their subsidised press...
...During the past few weeks, especially since the Labor Party has been agitating for a general election because of Chamberlain's policy, the party has been besieged by requests for a "united front...
...or improve them and to maintain them and operate them...
...Most of the factional orders appear to come from New York City, and the conflicts between the Communist Party...
...CHICAGO S.D.F...
...Thus, the conflict has emerged into definite dual organization unless sober counsel by members on both sides calls a halt to the present almost hopeless trend...
...to have such a committee considering that the building trades unions are all affiliated with the A. F. of L. The executive board of Dubinsky's organization will meet late this month and it is expected to make a pronouncement on the latest phases of the split...
...Peace action by members is reported in St...
...F. of L. and C.I.O- in behalf of humanity and the preservation of democracy, to settle their differences and thus bring to the rank and file that united leadership ana power for which they pay and to which they are entitled...
...Major Attlee, Herbert Morrison and others outlined plans for a nationwide campaign However, despite the demands of minor groups seeking to eash in on it* popularity, the British Labor Party will not join any "Popular Froat" alliance...
...also the "property works of any company" and to "add to...
...Washing their dirty linen inside the union threatens the very existence (flf^ the organization itself...
...invite C.I.O...
Vol. 21 • May 1938 • No. 19
