AUSTRIAN NAZIS PURGED AS UNREST GROWS IN RANKS
AUSTRIAN NAZIS PURGED AS UNREST GROWS IN RANKS Local Protests Rise as German Nazis Get Pick of Jobs Viennese Socialist* Reform Rank* While Fascists Are Weakened by Dissension; S4orm Troopers...
...A. F. of L Win* in Primary The outcome of the fight in the Democratic primaries in Pennsylvania was a distinct disappointment to the C.I.O., whose candidate for Governor, Thomas Kennedy, secretary-treasurer of the United Mine Workers, and candidats fsr U. S. Senator, Mayor Wilsoa tf Philadelphia, were defeated...
...S4orm Troopers Beat, Murder Hitler Foes...
...men, hardened by five years' of experience in Germany, "hundreds of Socialists and other enemies of fascism are daily maimed, beaten and killed...
...I am not going to get the biggest, part of any profits that we build up," he told reporters...
...So we asked the members of the Amalgamated: Which would you rather do...
...v Delegates for Peace 1 All of this culminated in the j idoption of a peace resolution j A'hich approved the efforts of the officers "to bring about unity .be- | y -ween the American Federation Of...
...will encourage peace advocates throughout the country...
...Zaritsky was one of the founders of CJ.O., and although his union is an A. F. of L. affiliate, retains personal membership in that' organization...
...And when the profits start rolling STfar present Orders rndieate they wifi), there wt> no"fast grab hy bondholders, no dividends to pay, no lien's share to the boss...
...From their pay, each will buy shares in the' firm, according to present plans, until control rests in> the hands of the tiemakers themselves...
...Toledo has had no j relief funds since April 1; Columbus has a 1600,000 deficit...
...present set-up of the organization the, final point...
...Rural terrier to Relief Down to a year ago Ohio relief was managed by counties under state supervision, but disputes arose over fnnds required to continue this arrangement and the old Relief Law died without a substitute being enacted...
...By Labor Day the cooperative expects "to have 200 men at work under union conditions...
...A return postal tail is provided...
...The original subscribers will be paid back their investment—and no_ more, except for the gratification they expressed as they watched the roster of unemployed union men go down and the corners of the lips on formerly jobless workers go up...
...This action by one of the most powerful unions in the C.I.O...
...Every year, however, reserves will be set aside to return the original ten dollars to each of the corporation's underwriters...
...However, unity to be of real service to the labor movement, must be based upon the perpetuation of the gains which the C.I.O...
...1#< AwWaas" 3 " "Theorotest agamst the invasion ; of Austria by German job-hunters, and demand work for Austrians in ^meanwhile, the strict application i of the Nuremberg "racial" laws to Austria and the dismissal of so many "non-Aryans" from important positions have thrown Aus-^jr&in puttie and business life into snita^e1 of confusion...
...Pennsylvania is the nrt** intensively industrial stats in nation and the success of the A. f* of L. candidates gives that organization a prestige in the state wh«4 the C.I.O...
...These were joined, in a strong peace utterance by Max Zaritsky, president of the United Hatters, Cap-and Millinery Workers International...
...Pay unemployment assessments or help establish our own factory ? They chose the factory and hundreds pat up *10 each for our $25,000 capital...
...This chaos was followed by organization of the Ohio League of Municipalities through which Ohio Mayors have cooperated hi the effort to get a permanent ' and satisfactory relief program...
...But even ownership of the plant will-gradually revert to the workers...
...prtehunciatory leaflets, signed by 'tfmr'Austrian National-Socialist Fatrfy,** are circulating throughout •trass it .- , - "'"lfce> are voiced in the same lUimt terms used by the Nazis during their illegal work under the SelraJckwgg regime...
...The proposal is spa sored by an organization b°tl$ "Women of the Pacific...
...Jlor is the...
...There were chaff* of graft and corruption and deaiali that need not be enlarged up**-but the party machine was SO rset by the factional war that Natiseet Chairman James A. Farley intervened by advising support of la*" nedy for Governor and Earle t* the Senate, » fifty-fifty compr*-mise that failed...
...With the num-ber of the jobless increased from 90,000 last October to 182,000 today, with no less than 75,000 citizens in desperate need of relief and the city's financial resources almost exhausted, quite a number of the victims staged a stay-in strike at the City Hall here as the State Legislature met in special session to act on this grave crisis...
...This firm is no gamble for bull-hear tactics...
...It is probable that Califsmisisi been selected as a testing rroasl for this undercover method Of *b-timizing not only membert •? unions but non-members whs til sympathetic to unionism, and th workers of other states are wand to be on their guard aganst ftk "secret" poll...
...1. i This is the fourth and most t serious relief crisis Cleveland has ' faced in two years and four times since January, 1937, the Cuyahoga 1 County (Cleveland) delegation in 1 the Legislature has failed to get < any permanent relief program enacted although it has been sup- < ported by city officials and civic organizations...
...angry, Wnltf^w'tfermanNa*is are get-JBPmJ-'^ttw tftst )obs in the new administration, while old members at the Austrian party, who fought ¦Mr infftlisil for the movement, fSf* foTook on...
...Thus, the economic decay due to inability of the owners of industry to operate their enterprises is expressed in inability of major party leaders to think and plan against this widespread industrial calamity while an archaic system of representation in the Legislature also serves as a barrier against adequate provision for hundreds of thousands of Ohio's destitute...
...So widespread is this that Goering has been forced to forbid the murder of political opponents, w-* Labor Unity Seen Closer As A.C.W.A...
...Abraham Cahan, editor of the Jewish Daily Forward...
...As tie Nazis from Berlin ace setting about in earnest to put Austria into the grooves they have worked out for Germany during the past five years, broad sections of the Austrian people are becoming bitter and resentful at those who helped break Schuschnigg...
...One consists sf "aeuey polls taken in a questionnaire^ trap workers so that they caatt identified by anti-union exploit* the other initiating a referenda in the name of a mysterlna'fj ganization to incorporate all lain unions...
...Presi- | i lent Hillman struck a peace note j I n his opening 'address which was jo followed by a similar note in the IC •eport of the General Executive | r 3oard, by the appearance of about r !0 resolutions on the same subject j n ind a speech by Mayor LaGuardiS b rf New York City emphasizing the 1 leed of restoring peace...
...t Reports Grow of Oppo- ¦ sition to Lewis Among ( C.I.O...
...Speakers Plead for Unity B. Chamey Vladeck, leader of the majority in the New York City Council...
...Most people knew nothing of the nature of the Nazi regime, since the Austrian Catholic dictatorship maintained a strict press censorship, forbidding publication of any anti-German information...
...At the convention of the Amal- j ramated in Atlantic City...
...He declared that the C.I.O...
...The resultant ill-feeling towards the Nazi bureaucracy, and the concomitant chaos has given the So-Cvslalea in "Vienna chance to reform their ranks into a new underground movement which has to deal with a much more deadly and eCaettre secret police than that Maintained by the " Schuschnigg wf I ah if sb hi...
...Hits Runaways In addition to its major objective of finding work for many of its unemployed men, the union is also aiming to' put a stumbling block in the present mad rush of sweat shops to get out of New York and avoid living up to the decent conditions demanded by the union...
...Commenting on the Pennsylvania primary returns, he later said: "The political failure of the C.I.O...
...The workers are working for the interest of the cooperative as well as I." Officers chosen by the 2,000 subscribers are Gas Levine, chairman, Leo Schor, secretary, and Henry Heisler...
...Last Saturday, Mayor LaGuardia also addressed over 10,000 members of the A. F. of L. participating in a union label parade in New York City and ajso urged them to aid in bringing" an end to the conflict as speedily as possible...
...had coveted...
...Id ivhose candidates in the Democratic JI srimaries were defeated...
...By this "secret* kri-loting it is possible that watfei who are innocent enough to Matt the card and mail it will hav« ftiir names registered with an tJR>-union agency which, in turn,lit provide them in a blacklist aenttt anti-union corporations...
...would begin a vast organization drive when economic conditions become more favorable...
...Of course, the voter5* not required in this "secret" tt>< loting to sign his name...
...c - : l Special to The New Leader i WASHINGTON, D. C. — Over- \ shadowing all other events in the c split labor movement this week were s the national convention of the ? Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America and the Pennsylvania ,\ primaries...
...PRAGUE...
...Instead of paying a regular assessment for unemployed relief, each of the 2,000 cheerfully voted to plank down ten dollars each so that the machines could start humming out ten and jfwenty-five cent ties and 100 excited workers could at Aast look forward to regular employment...
...Unfortunately, in Ohio, like in some other industrial states, representation in the Legislature is overweighted in faVor of the rural districts and these districts, prejudiced against urban centers as in the days of prohibition, have blocked the enactment of any permanent relief program...
...Urges Peace CIO Prestige Hurt By Kennedy Loss...
...Following the adoption of this important resolution, President Hillman re-affimed the intention of the national officers to do everything they can to bring peace...
...Both were winners...
...Miners...
...t^.U., and Mayor LaGuardia Of New York City also made strong pleas for peace several days before the resolution was adopted...
...Increasing reports of suicides are the usual camouflage for brutal murders by the Nazi S.A...
...Jobless Desperate Protest Mount as Ohio Crisis Grows CLEVELAND...
...In Pennsylvania A. F. of L. Candidates Win ] in Democratic Primaries...
...Dubinsky expressed satisfaction with the achievements of the C.I.O., but declared that "We will not support a program of division and separation" in the lhovement...
...All work in other plants, and none is a union, official...
...At present they are receiving the union" wage scale, which' ranges from $25 to $40 a week, and are working at a completely modern plant with a sanitary layout and recreation facilities for workers...
...The resolution was adopted by a unanimous vote...
...New Undercover Blacklist Schemes Tried in California Workers Showing fW Union Sympathies m . "Secret" PoB Are Ee* Identified — P I a n Rfcl Spread Over U. & , SAN FRANCISCO, Calil.—f** mysterious moves from two mysterious sources, both itfMH)a)| t. strangle labor organizations, %w come to light in California m% cent weeks...
...Despite Henlein's ' noisy publicity that the Germans in the Sudeten are behind him, &ii f is dissension even in the finer circles of his own parly, jgjtfpffig out «tf the tactics fitter Hj^fbkfted in Austria ever since Czech Nazis tear that once Hit-ier^Sraibs the German section of Czechoslovakia, they will get a dose of the medicine handed out to mtmJMimrt flails in Vienna, and ^#KsnM in the columns of The New Leader some weeks hack, even m o? r ii n. Acting on orders from either Hitler or Goeriag, Bwrekel —the jsjaMirttr"- iti-rrtr~ wb° is now jfij}" commissioner for Austria— hjtif opsVsnd a sews clean-up oi littler s Ae*a?er ~ AetoraHag to correap (indents of •Jp Mtfcsh Lahorite London Daily Herald, this is Hitler's answer to jfripaf I aiscooUnt which prevails ¦Bum* the Austrian Nasi "did •y4B A^astrian members of the Nasi Party will have to make new , applications for membership...
...storm-troopers...
...In hastily improvised torture chambers throughout Austria these S.A...
...The Neckwear Makers' Union, Local 250 and 263, affiliated with the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, is sponsor of the plant, expenses of Which have been underwritten by 2,000 union members...
...The fact that he was the first to initiate peace proposals two years ago, gives added significance to his statement in The Hat Worker...
...At the same time, union conditions are strictly maintained and will continue to rule as the shop expands...
...to vote costs «t nothing...
...Zaritsky declared: "Labor's struggle today is not only the preservation of its own position, of its own status, but to save the democratic processes of our government...
...California law permits citiaemn initiate legislative proposals, td unnn members have also ban astonished to receive initiative p> titions favoring incorporation i all unions...
...Even the old members «BJ*« V9g?P&+* *° nsuitThe Austrian Nazis aTe...
...week shipping clerk to the hired manager...
...j. Labor and the Committee for Industrial Organization...
...1Whether the Legislature, now in special session, will bring satisfactory relief remains to be seen...
...It hit necessary...
...We had to do something," was the way Louis Fuehs, manager of the union, put it "We were faced with the question of 'runaway shops,' concerns moving out of ¦ New York to avoid union conditions a _^ a g ......=U for their sweat shops...
...Edward P. Vt»-deleur, secretary of the Calif Otis Federation of Labor, hat ssat* letter to all affiliated unions totte state warning them that «trito provisions of the measure VMN practically make it impossible fer workers to strike without vioitnw two of its sections, and if they <M strike they could be prosecuted ¦ the criminal courts...
...Additional stock in the cooperative is purchasable by all members of the union, but it will do no professional stockmarket gambler any good to try to manipulate shares and seek to gain high dividends...
...A. F. of L.t C.I.O., and rajfe* union members are receiving Og innocent questionnaire, vhies <%-ries an invisible number in \ujjm juice...
...Dayton's relief funds are exhausted...
...has so brilliantly se-cured...
...Union AH the Way for f!w'*T3oopeTs?FTe is 'me only corporation oT its kind hi New York: anion all the way through to 'jts" underwriters...
...A disunited labor movement cannot present a united front...
...the first giving an im- \ setus to the desire and need for a j v anited movement, and the second j { providing a setback to the Com-Is ¦nittee for Industrial Organization...
...While Cleveland's crisis has reached an acute stage, other large Ohio cities are approaching a similar state...
...A leading section of the resolution also declared: "The needs of the labor movement demand unity...
...Hembers who joined the party r*eensttwffl as sahjscted to a close scrutiny...
...Among other things...
...Tbl A. F. of L. opposed these eaneV dates by supporting Governor Balk for the U. S. Senate and CbarW A. Jones of Pittsburgh for Go*" ernor...
...AUSTRIAN NAZIS PURGED AS UNREST GROWS IN RANKS Local Protests Rise as German Nazis Get Pick of Jobs Viennese Socialist* Reform Rank* While Fascists Are Weakened by Dissension...
...State May Be Testing wrta* Thirteen questions are subtatRtt referring to labor unions, the epa shop and closed shop, methcdl conducting strikes, etc., and ttd is so worded that the mat « woman of strong union sympsJkiej can be identified according tt'iBs vote cast...
...candj<n>» Only more complete return* «r*Q the mining regions of the state** enable one to determine how »••» truth there is in these stories...
...2,000 Tiemakers Chip in for Cooperative Factory to Help Jobless Union Brothers ^T^erWa'new'IBrmTn tne n«?c-wear'mdustry, a"firm created by 2,WK> miiori'men who are "tired of hearing hundrwfe of tHeir fetlow-members daily tell "now" they plod-eSeTirom office to office to hear the monotonous chant of: "No help "TSeay the Cooperative Cravat Corporation is open and reaVfry for tetfttssat 46 West 29th Street...
...For profits go straight to the workers, to be divided equally among them, from the $20 per...
...A number of speakers were very caustic in criticism of the A. F. of L. during the discussion, but it was evident that the desire for peace has penetrated wide circles of the Amalgamated...
...in Pennsylvania, as indicated by the primary returns, may be attributed directly, in my opinion, to the division in the labor movement...
...And by January 1, according to present expecta! t^#»U$0'of business will have been completed...
...Akron's : funds will be exhausted June 15 ; and Canton's June 25, and the funds , qf Cincinnati and Youngstown wjll < last no longer than Sept...
...Grossman Manager Alex Grossman who 'ha not a union member but who has operated tie factories in and out pf New York for twenty-five years, is manager of the shop, having complete charge of operations, and announced after his appointment that if the laborers in the shop were satisfactory "their jobs are here for a lifetime...
...Fetor* Prospects Social Democrats have little confidence in the non-partisan policy of trying to capture old partf primaries, and their only inters* in this "primary fight is its ls»W angle due to the split in the 1*»* movement...
...David Dubinsky, president of the I.L.G...
...This proposed measure it ptfr ticularly vicious, as it wouMrtlfc up labor organizations that tarj would be useless as free ageseat of their members...
...This de- 't feat can be directly traced to the I v nter-union fight, which became a r political struggle in that state...
...The Pennsylvania primaries net a national significance not only b»* cause of the struggle between tbt A. F. of L. and the C.I.O., but mr cause of the bitter struggle between rival factions of the Deaes* cratic Party...
...When a hot iron is patfe over the code number, i: beconta visible, and the person who vSia in the "secret" poll can tm» identified...
...John L. Lewis addressed the convention but made no reference to the inter-union fight, except to express his dislike of William Green...
...Conditions in Leopoldstadt and Brigittenau, the Jewish'districts of Vienna, have become so bad that an outbreak of epidemics is feared...
...The reso- l lution also instructed them to con- ] tinue this policy "to the end that unity may be brought about when a satisfactory basis can be found...
...For weeks there have bean reports from Pennsylvania that owtt* a number of miners were opaosss to John L. Lewis' political PjJ** that they resented a $2 psS*** assessment, and that they OWM" not support the C.I.O...
...The antagonism cuts across party lines and Governor Davey, Democrat, who seeks renomination, and John W. Bricker, Republican, a candidate for that office, offer no measures to meet the problem...
...Jp>.ayjylii tl/miiH most be accompanied by a full record of the Kfld'' former activities...
Vol. 21 • May 1938 • No. 21
