u. S. Chamber Finances New Attacks on Labor Board
u. S. Chamber Finances New Attacks on Labor Board C.of C. Spent Million in 1937 to Break Unions WASHINGTON^—No sooner had the Chamber merer finished its sessions in the Capital than its watL...
...If they were eliminated union members and officials could concentrate attention on the other two and deal with them effectively...
...Frankensteen has...
...2) the conservation of bis skill so as to make him a part of a vita...
...The Tories still have a majority...
...Figures given of other J™t»s profits showed that the Canadian resources to Jf* Canadian living standard's Sy** Smnitely more, profitable my as a whole...
...But even the entire Tory cabinet couldn't stem the feeling of anti-government sentiment aroused by Chamberlain's policy and the recent taxation program to supply funds for rearmament...
...most of which was spent for anti-labor propaganda A secret group of 3,300 associate members supplied most of the funds for this work...
...What the government's experiment in music, painting and the theatre actually did, even in their first year, was to work a sort of cultural revolution in America...
...Add the third factor of party groups directed by persons not members of the union and one can understand the disintegrating tendencies that endanger the very life of the union itseif...
...in the corabelt of Nebraska, iu--*he hay valleys of New England, in the culturally isolated settlements of the Ozarks, in the hill-billy towns of the Oarolinas...
...SOCIAL VALVES FORTUNE MAGAZINE," in a leading article entitled "Unemployed Arts," measures, the social values of this project in these words...
...The site is neither in the regular theatrical section of London, nor in a workers' residential district, but in a swankier quarter of London town...
...in the House of Commons of 416...
...Thus far it appears that the new party has made scant gains, and it remains to be seen whether intensive propaganda will make it "take...
...Behind it ore the influence - apt money of men like WialluOp'W...
...That figure was •* the whole Dominion and includ-d food,.foeL clothing and shelter...
...Free circuses, vaudeville, Gilbert and Sullivan have reached out to places where the theatre was before unknown...
...But so far it has not assumed responsibility for what most Canadians now recognize as a national problem...
...And in the vital and vighrous works of "The Living Newspaper," our national theatre has created a new dramatic form...
...In less than a year from the time the program first got under way the totally unexpected pressure of popular' interest had crushed the shell which had always isolated painters and musicians from the rest of their countrymen, and the artist (viz: actor, painter, writer musician) was brought face to face with the true American audience...
...Classics of the theatre have been revived...
...Immell earned the dislike of the organized farmers and workers in 1934 when he directed the militia against the farmers' milk strike in that year...
...The government is taking no part in the project...
...The union's troubles go back to the days when it was an affiliate of the A. F. of L. At least three political groups, two of them Communist, were plotting for control of the union and this tripartite struggle has continued...
...Pro-health and education for' Sjfjj*" children might be less than maiming Chinese ^¦**ith lethal weapons made in *«h Canadian minerals...
...To Investigate "Wildcats" The board decided to investigate three recent unauthorized strikes and to penalize those responsible for them by suspension or expulsion...
...t Ramsay MacDonald's groan), sup.' norter of ChamberhrtaV'*Jie?»te»h*» Party has gained over 4,000 votes...
...Leading Socialists in the Federation are cool to the proposal and feel about the same way that the trade union leaders do...
...Members of all parties pressed for a low-cost housing project to be carried out from coast to coast...
...Democrat who have supported the President's general policies naturally oppose the move on the ground that it divides the opposition to the rising reaction and is likely to strengthen it...
...The Dominion Government has provided some projects for unemployed single men...
...in one of ¦St in fact, relief has been cut * thogether...
...The issue will come up before the Farmer-Labor Progressive Federation at its state convention in Madison, May 21-22...
...r {hqrpeatd do little except desist ijotii ¦! conditions in their iSSSTwr**- and offer a wide vari-«I«f iaggestions for dealing with apt...
...seats to 195...
...The "newsreel" shots will be urged upon moving picture house owners so that they can be palmed off as subtly as possible on the British people...
...The ground has already been purchased...
...When the results of the Lichfield by-election showed that C. L. Poole, Labor Party candidate, had beaten a Government nominee in a dstrict which has been* pro-Tory for years, Chamberlain and his colleagues decided to get busy...
...This does not aciude the thousands on relief in ¦it drought areas of Western Can-•eV which would make the relief tasl ^proximately the same as a Jeer ago...
...PLAYS OF ALL SORTS 4ND in the larger communities, * ¦> at popular prices, there have been many performances of plays of all sorts...
...In this apace of time, operating <a - in hundreds of communities ir...
...has announced his support and states that he will tour the nation for the new party...
...So far little attention has been paid by the Government to its proposals...
...Special.to The New Leader LONDON.—So worried are the Tories over the second successive loss of recent by-elections that they plan to "streamline" their cabinet and swing their leading party campaigners throughout the country, both in person and on the screen...
...u. S. Chamber Finances New Attacks on Labor Board C.of C. Spent Million in 1937 to Break Unions WASHINGTON^—No sooner had the Chamber merer finished its sessions in the Capital than its watL otMtt, and well financed propaganda machine |tarted to flood,the, countrf with fresh attacks on the New jOeal and-all social legislation, paying particular attention to the WaMeT llSfoor Relations Act which big business hates worse tSan •ft""'aoes 'Roosevelt—if possible...
...Auto Union Board Crashes Factional Anti-Martin Hols National Executive Condemns Unauthorized Strikes...
...If the Labor...
...By GRACE MACINNIS OSPTAWA.—Confusion and dissatisfaction ran through the reoBrt debate in the Canadian House of Commons on the GOvtisfeut's Unemployment Relief Bill...
...Canadian Relief Needs Grow as Tories Dawdle Dulge Unemployment issue — Nickel Corporation Nets ttLjtib0,000 Profit From Fascist Invaders of Spain, (Jj|ii>—Paruament Puts Burden on Local Gov'ts...
...Labor Victory Scares Tories Into New Drive High-Pressure Campaign, Using Movies and Ministers, Planned by Conservatives After Second Successive By-Election Loss—Three New Elections Scheduled...
...October and early November in an effort to defeat New Deal candidates, if Mow Dealers lose say large number of seats the drive against all serial legislation will begin in earnest...
...New Deal Backers See La Follette Party as Aid to GOP Minnesota Farrner-Laborites Also Oppose New Movement—Wisconsin Paper Hits 'Obvious Platitudes.' WASHINGTON, D. C. — With opinions varying widely, regarding the new political party founded by Governor LaFollette of Wisconsin, few observers here are willing to hazard a forecast as to its future...
...A NATIONAL THEATRE GROWS IN AMERICA DECENTLY, Bernard Shaw in-augurated the campaign for the English National Theatre...
...Some headway has been made in this direction by the executive hoard's decisions this week although they do not end the struggles of the inner party cliques for control...
...Prominent spokesmen for the Farmer-Labor Party of Minnesota also maintain an attitude of aloof- 1 ness from the new party...
...The Federal Theatre audience is for the most part a new audience...
...Such a scheme was recommended this year by the Government's own National Employment Commission...
...Chamber is called the voice "of a million basinets men...
...The same C.C.F...
...T. S. • » * PLAYED TO 25,000,000 'T'HE Federal Theatre Project is * now two and a half-years old...
...Ose socialist member reminded •JBouse of the Hoover report j**hheam K34 wheih stated that JW wfaiation of the resources **e United States could provide ¦ay family of five with an aver-*» firms/ standard of over $4,090 V...
...The Lichfield election, won C. C. Poole, who is a 35-year-oiQ...
...Three more by-elections are coming up soon, in which the Cabinet's foreign tactics will again probably be repudiated by the British people...
...P**r t»M the House that last International f ickel, the Ca-corporation with almost a monopoly of nickel produc-Jjjsadaa...
...New plays of high artistic merit have been introduced: T. S. Eliot's "Murder in a Cathedral," later done commercially on Broadway...
...net profit of between *W0.0Q8 and $53,000,000...
...Benson j was unable to attend the LaFollette | conference because of the press of i important state duties...
...Of these influences the political factions are the most dangerous and destructive...
...E. P. Conkle's "Prologue to Glory...
...Frankensteen Rebuffed After Rumored Deal With CP...
...A Progressive Party in California has pledged support to the Governor through its executive committee and it is to arrange a speaking tour for him in that state...
...The sessions began after the appearance of news stories predicting the eclipse of President Homer Mar-ton...
...Most of the propaganda work is linked with the publicity campaign of the G.O.P...
...For these reasons The New Leader is happy to print our first full account of the Federal Theatre, especially written for these pages...
...By March, 1937, the relief lotre was just over 1,000,000...
...Instead a steady campaign is planned which will be climaxed by heavy propaganda in September...
...Money is being sought from private contributors...
...On this basis, the "Wire family of five gets relief "¦Wting |6 $385.80 a year...
...let since then it has been rising Readily until by March of this year it was up to 848,000...
...In some of these cases the Board has ordered a ease into its own hands before the trial attorney had submitted a complete report and recommendation...
...Tories, who have also lest a constituency to an Independent tnii one to an Independent Conservative^ Poole's victory margin over Kjs^ Conservative opponent Was 8$^ votes, which means that since the last election in the district, whieV was taken by a National Lnboriqt...
...The project is operated on a basic plan that calls for (1) the rehabilitation of the professional worker...
...In the districts of Aylesworth, Devonshire and Stafford the British Labor Party will be bucking strong Conservative opposition, since all three districts have been held by Tories for some time...
...Track Lands of Tosthnony In the meantime the courts are refusing to give the Caber Board s chance to reopen totne of the cases the N L R B. decided without receiving a final report and recommendation from the trial attorneys, and without the inclusion of some testimony which the companies involved wished to pi eseut a procedure made necessary by the immense length of the testimony...
...A^sbmewhat similar situa-¦h voeid abtain in Canada...
...Questionnaires, answered by more than 40,000 members of this audience, indicate-that the Federal Theatre is ^bringing the professional entertainment of the living theatre to communities 60 per cent of whose adults and children were seeing living comedy and drama for the first time in their lives...
...funds are being sought for the building...
...In the United States, a federal theatre, without trumpets of our great playwrights, has begun" to flourish—-not in one building, recording the past as in a museum, but all over the country handling living themes...
...Just how the melancholic Chamberlain, appearing life-size on the movie screen, cam win votes, politicians here can't understand...
...and the Iowa Farmers' Union, but in his home state William Evjue, editor of the "Capital Times" of Madison, the leading Progressive paper in Wisconsin, opposes the movement...
...They brought the American audience and the American artiste face to face for the first time in their respective lives...
...Wjr<satable, that is, to a few r*ac*ti°M...
...That state has the pioneer independent NewDealBackers See LaFollette Party Aid to GOP (Continued from Page Three) political movement of workers and farmers and has made more headway in control of the state than the Progressives have in Wisconsin, and Minnesota Farmer-Labor men believe that they should be consulted in any new national venture in the political field...
...By ftsknibir it had been cut in half...
...Until this Commission reports at least there will be little, if any, action taken by the Dominion Government~to improve Canadian conditions...
...at this time...
...It should be remembered that Poole and the Labor Parry beat the Tory opposition despite the recent lifting of the ban on participation of cabinet ministers in local elections...
...which is aimed at the fall elections...
...in lumber camps of the Pacific Coast, and in sections apparently no more familiar with the living theatre in Greater New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles...
...ford Ready to FissM Leading the fight oa the K.LJt.B...
...the calling of "wildcat" strikes and the chiseling of union contracts by plant bosses...
...Laborites pointed out that the Tories were overburdening the lowest paid workers while they didn't molest the industrialists or the munition makers, who were rolling in huge profits...
...To call a strike requires a two-thirds vote of local union members and approval by the international officers...
...Considering J:he .governmental source of its funds and ultimate supervision, the Federal Theatre has— been remarkably free • from censorship and other repressions...
...Aldrich...
...The board declared that On-authorized strikes had "penalized, without voice or vote, thousands of workers directly and indirectly affected by them...
...Minnesota "Ill-Timed' Howard Y. Willians, national organizer of the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party, declared the LaFollette move to be "ill-timed, ill-planned, and lacking in an organized rank and file or program...
...Governor of Wisconsin, declared that, while in favor of national conferences of liberals, he was opposed to any movements which would weaken support of President Roosevelt and the national administration's relief program...
...Members criticized the 6«*«nuaent's policy of treating un-mpktyrsaut as a temporary dis-sat, when, tn reality it has become » csronk cancer in the economic •Jttem...
...Previous fssimrr, however, should have nmed the Government that conations south of the border would islsct themselves in this Dominion, h March, 1934, Canadians receiving relief numbered 1,205,000 out ds total population of under 11.-WW0Q...
...In no by-election since 1931 have the/* Government organizers spent so much money or put in as much effort as they did to prevent Poole's victory over Chamberlain's policy of coddling the dictators, which was the fundamental issue...
...BENSON SEES LaFOLLETTE PARTY AS DRIVE ON F.D.R...
...The Governor proceeded to Iowa after the Madison meeting and obtained the support of a small Farmer-Labor Party, the state C.I.O...
...It then dealt with the chiseling" of union agreements- by the corporation agents by declaring: "Should the management attempt wage cuts, the impairing of working conditions, or the refusal to settle legitimate grievances in keeping with the contract, the international union will not hesitate to authorize and fully support strike action in keeping with the international constitution to meet the offenses of the employer...
...It was an undercurrent struggle back of every issue in the Milwaukee convention of 1937 when John L. Lewis effected a compromise that settled nothing...
...Certs in the three Maritime prov-Mtt vefe tie lowest...
...Sometimes the testimony of ene side, as m the Douglas Aircraft case, only took five mania* to present, with hearings five dors a week...
...Finding this audience, while engaged on its first task of rehabilitating the professional worker of the theatre, long unemployed and often destitute, the Federal Theatre Project has employed approximately 12.700 at its peak of personnel...
...This is a service to the theatre and to the connnsnity that in the judgment of Brooks Atkinson "ooght to have a considerable social value all through the country.'' Eager, excited and exciting, this audience has been found in the drought land of the Dakotas...
...Wisconsin Opinion Wisconsin trade union leaders declined to be quoted, yet some quietly expressed displeasure that one person should take the initiative in such a move without consulting others...
...One result of the inner union factional fight appears to be the decline of the influence of Richard T. Frankensteen, vice-president and assistant president...
...cost, on tStsveraee $6.43 for the last nine awths of 1937...
...wyryararfioa Profits *Jietoea8)ers contended that in-*hy cannot afford a high stand-2jf living...
...The big drive against the Na-tional Labor Relations Board is do...
...The Government excuses itself from this responsibility because a Commission is now at work trying to tletermine what functions should fall to the Dominion and what to provincial governments...
...It is rumored that Frankensteen, a conservative, had made some deal with the Communists to oust Martin and that the former would be the candidate to succeed Martin...
...It is likely that the Government will continue its practice of the last few years—that is, to grant aid to the provincial governments, leaving them to work out local schemes for the most part...
...Another stunt planned by the publicity men of the Conservative camp is to distribute free throughout the country, talking pictures of Chamberlain, Hore-Belisha, Sir Samuel Hoare and perhaps some others of the "personality" group in the,Tory line-up...
...It is recalled that Governor LaFollette never joined the Federation, although accepting Its support, and there is an undercurrent of resentment that one man should make such an important decision...
...Another C.C.F...
...president of the Chat* National Bank of New York, the world's largest banking house, and Lammot duPont, king of America's munitions makers...
...The issue of revision will also split the ranks of the Democrats...
...been a protege of Martin and when the former recently issued a letter urging board members to support a "harmony program," Martin bitterly condemned the letter without naming its author...
...And the theatre is to keep in circulation popular plays of the past...
...twenty-two states, the Federal Theatre has brought the artistry and skill of the riving theatre to audiences in excess of 25,000,000 persons...
...and important theatre pattern for America, whether he be actor, writer, or designer, and (3) the social and cultural presentation of these theatre skills to the equally needy in the American mass...
...t-__jjB**la for dealing with -unemployment were not lacking...
...Cast of Relief man, woman or child « relief for the month it...
...Party wins at least two ofat of three elections in the next few months, the Conservatives wilj be forced to either reshape their foreign policy or realize that they've lost the country...
...Jsempioymeirt Increases amada has not yet experienced 0 foil force of the business reces-ax in the United States...
...This is the procedure followed by most of the strong and disciplined unions in this country...
...The industrialists know that they have no chance if they attempt revision of the Wag- ' ner Act at this session...
...On the other hand, the Governor's brother, Senator LaFoiiette...
...Sven members of the Govsaaent party expressed disapjastaent with the Government's ss of policy and generally with at Sex of leadership given to the ¦da...
...Unity Undermined Since then the union's solidarity has been slowly undermined on two fronts...
...The letter appeared to be evidence of a "deal" with the Communists whom Frankensteen has always opposed...
...In a leading editorial he refers to it as "frustrated national action" and declared the leaflets distributed at the Madison meeting to consist -of "obvious platitudes...
...are Henry Ford, Senator Busks of Nebraska, Congressman Clare Hoffman, who broke into the news last year during she auto workers" drive against General Motors by urging in Congress that the "sit-down strikers be sent back where they came from...
...Yet the...
...The latter title was abolished by the board...
...Cabinet Ministers rrfoie<f to state how much money would be spent or to give detailsd2 the way in which it would be used...
...Reports made public at • last week's session of the C. of C. revealed that control of the Chassis* was still in the hands of the big industrialists, who pay most of the bills and dictate the policy without regard for the opinions of the smaller business men, who nevertheless broke up plans to force la* Chamber to excoriate unanimously the large-scale spending planned by the President...
...they ended with a unanimous decision of the board condemning unauthorized strikes and assuming authority to punish individuals who instigate "wildcat" strikes...
...Except for the hilarious "Pins and Needles" of Labor Stage, and for "The Cradle Will Rock"— originally scheduled for the Federal Theatre—the only vivid and vigorous dramatic treatments oi social problems this season have been on the stages <rf our new and active national theatre...
...These workers are engaged in approximately 100 producing companies, operating in 22 states...
...Employment at the present is approximately 8,500...
...nd more...
...Ernest Brown, Minister of Labor, and W. S. Morrison, Minister of Agriculture...
...Many other works have directly and courageously presented problems of our day, local or national, social, economic, political...
...Minnesota Dislikes Move Dissatisfaction is also expressed over the mystic symbol offered the party as its emblem, s blue X on a field of white, and the fact that Adjutant-General Ralph M. Imme'.i was in charge of the Madison mass meeting...
...Members of all parties were left in the dark...
...railway clerk, is the ninth since tan...
...PAUL.—Governor Elmer A. Benson, Farmer-Labor head of Minnesota, commenting last week on the National Progressive Party inaugurated by Philip LaFollette...
...In each one the Tory muckamucks will explain, a* gently as possible, the Government's foreign policy, in an effort to keep new constituencies from returning labor candidates to Parliament...
...It bids fair to become not only our permanent, but truly our poopie'sr- -national theatre, introducing all over the land not-only good plays but sound social stadias: in terms of the theatre...
...1935 General election in which the, Labor Party won seats from *4>e...
...Special to The New Leader DETROIT, Mich.—Another crisis in the United Automobile Workers' Union, due to intrigues of political factions mainly directed from New York, was safely passed when the national executive board this week established better discipline after severals days of maneuvers by the groups following a "party line...
...Small Group Rum Chancer The Chamber's operating revenue during the past year came to almost 11,100,000...
...member urged similar measures to those being carried out in New Zealand: better wages, regulation of hours and working conditions, reduction of the pensionable age, etc., and at the same time the maintenance of similar economic ,levels foT farmers...
...In a last-minute effort to save Lichfield, Chamberlain sent in three cabinet ministers — Earl De La Warr, Lord Privy Seal...
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