Corporate Profits Grow as War on New Deal Continues
Corporate Profits Grow as War on New Deal Continues Top Salaries Soar As Industrialists Threaten Pay Cuts Weir's National Steei Nets $ 1.088,635 in First Quarts of 1938—Inland Steal Shows Profit...
...It is impossible to operate companies in towns where only a few theatre professionals are on relief rolls...
...i Like the railway industry, big steel is threatening mas* dismissals of workers, in some case* affecting as high a* 9t% of th* men employed...
...ment that the revolution was reth...
...As he seemed S fear that his motives might be (¦interpreted by the general pubic (the article having been writ-tag for a magazine with a very farted circulation), I offered him At Importunity, which he accepted, ** explaining fully and clearly to Ike American public his attitude tews*** Soviet Russia and the frenak Community Party...
...the others are writers, designers, theatre musicians, stage hands, dancers, hWK^pffice men, ushers, maintenance workers, and the accounting and secretarial force necessary to carry out any enterprise operated under procedures required by the Government of the United States...
...Marionette Units, 1,283,311—35 productions...
...The proposals, which follow the findings of a parliamentary commission and correspond to a law already passed by the Swedish Labor Government, provide for a rent reduction of 30 per cent for families with three children under 16 years of age, 40 per cent reduction for 4 children, and 50 per cent for families with 5 or more children...
...Reaction had been encouraged when the Court recently ruled that the Secretary of Agriculture should have given a stockyard operator an opportunity to file exceptions to findings before a rate determination was put into effect...
...and in Los Angeles "Follow the Parade," "Revue of Reviews," and "Ready, Aim, Fire" are examples of the use of the talents of the vaudevillians in satirical revues based on topical subjects...
...d and had to fight the *»k* capitalist world...
...The decision was made after Solicitor General Jackson and the general counsel of the Board sought a writ of mandamus to compel the desired action...
...By her vital interests, by ¦* geographical position, by the e^aha*nce of any colonial policy rf $M«xatk>n, Russia is interested ¦j«8i?^sal peace and threatens...
...the U. S. Supreme Court this week has handed down a decision that strengthens the Board and has delivered a blow to big employing corporations which had looked to the Court for aid in their fight to destroy the power of th* Board...
...They painted walls and windows of stores and banks with vicious anti-Semitic , slogans, the most popular one being "Death to the Jews...
...While workers in the lew wage bracket* are dairy warned Hut business conditions require th* railways to institute severe pkf eats, these same companies grant huge increases to the railroad magllSTIliI whose salaries run to five and six figures...
...Beside the President, sponsors of tb.e project claim support of two cabinet members—Secretary of State Hull and Secretary of the Navy Swanson...
...These figures are broken down as follows: Legitimate Productions, 4,571,350 120 plays...
...2. The Theatre of Entertainment...
...The Federal Theatre is also experimenting in a study of theatre forms, in the simplification of scene and costume, in a study of light, line, choric speech and dynamic movement...
...Columbia Gas Pro*** Among other corporation* an* nouncing high net incomes...
...Backs U.S...
...Hansel and Gretel...
...Hits Price Fixiaa Steel profit boosting, through price fixing, was condemned as a threat to job* in President Roosevelt's anti-monopoly speech last month, when the PiaaWsnt tt~ dared: "It is no accident that in industries like cement and sx*fX where prices have remained firm hi the face of a falling demand, payrolls have shrunk as much a* 40 and 60 per cent in recent launlBs...
...Adopt Short-SiahTad Policy After having exaggerated He sectarianism, according to advice from Moscow, the Communist Part/ now has fallen into a short-sighted policy of opportunism ana nationalism...
...lb* contrary, during the first ojt.the revolution, U.S.S.R...
...The contributions to Hie bitterly anti-Roosevelt magazine "Rural Progress" indicate what great funds leading bmi*—nwn are using to fight any* efforts to curtail wage cut* and dismissal...
...We car IES that th* Berlin-RomeTokio axis constitutes a bloc of aggressive nations, and England, France arid Russia defend at the present moment the cause of peace...
...In this field the Federal Theatre is working closely with psychologists and educators in planning plays for children of different age levels...
...Lenin said ass* that, owing to the destruction caused by the imperialistic World War and the prolonged civil war, reconstruction of the country would be more difficult than elsewhere...
...the publicity given to his article*—1nthy he left the Communist hpfcwhich appeared in the origi-atfrench version in the dissident (ihmunist monthly, Que Faire, ad in translation in The New leader, flattered and disconcerted fan at the same time...
...Representative Maury Maverich, who has introduced a measure to establish a Federal service to Latin-America, appearing before the House Naval Affairs Committee, said: "Mussolini and Hitler must stay out of South America...
...By REGINALD SPINK COPENHAGEN...
...In addition, it is building up for its millions of listeners a strong educational program, dealing with the lives of scientists, musicians and artists...
...Camps, 464,823...
...A condition of the loans is the construction of dwellings for low-grade incomes including a suitable number of apartments for large families...
...The Supreme Court now orders the Circuit Court to show cause why the Board is denied the power to order the recall...
...Nine out of ten of these workers come from relief rolls, and $9 out of every $10 of the appropriation...
...Community Drama Classes, 3,380,000...
...THE Federal Theatre program is planned along eight distinct lines: 1. Classical Plays, in forms interesting to a modern audience...
...This proposal would locate the station in San Diego, Calif., and provide $3,000,00 for construction and $100,000 a year for operation...
...In Chicago "O Say Can You Sing...
...All property taxes resulting from dwellingSj erected under the loan scheme, as well as all properties built under a previous law of 1933, will be placed to this fund, which will be administered by local authorities and may not be used for any purpose other than the one specified...
...Socialism without HB-erty is not Socialism...
...Interest is centered on providing the public, particularly youth, with plays of the past done with fire and imagination rather than as a "superstitious rite...
...All of them subtract th?H|ra salaries to executives from the profit side, thus indicating f$St gross incomes of the flrflffs actually far higher than even the enormous profits reported...
...It is an excellent medium for returning people to private industry and is creating a new type of theatre...
...As in the Ford and Republic cases, the Board had not provided the Mackay Company with an intermediate^report based on the investigation of its trial examiner...
...ment and personnel, to community j and educational groups in every ¦ state in the union...
...Oregon has a Living Newspaper on "Flax...
...That, perhaps, was useful in the beginning Bat now becomes stupid, as there is no longer civil war in U.SifcR...
...Community Drama, 1,234,398...
...the circumstances peculiar to France...
...Marionette companies in Mia*mi and Buffalo, dramatizing "Death Takes the Wheel...
...BARIS.—I visited Charles Rappaport in his flat, consisting of rw* cubby-hole rooms, kitchen and bath in proportion, in the Seuare d\\ Port-Royal...
...Answer: Your question is of prime importance and dominates ill others...
...Some of these experiments are of such importance that great universities—Yale, the University of Washington and the University of North Carolina—are offering the hospitality of their p i a riX s and equipment to the I project's workers...
...In addition to the above sums a further appropriation of four million kronen annually for four years is made for loans to governments, societies and private builders for the erection erf small houses and cottages...
...The nationwide cycle of George Bernard Shaw and the cycle of O'Neill plays are examples of modern plays which haxe attained in the lifetime of their authors a place in a classical repertory...
...fceaa*a Important ^dajS U.S.S.R...
...tively easier because Russia had JW large middle class...
...A MONG other cities are Seattle, ** Portland, San Francisco, Denver, San Diego, Detroit, Gary, Peoria, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Boston, Salem, Springfield, Manchester, Portland, Hartford, hiewark, Buffalo, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Syracuse, Roslyn...
...Little Steel' Is Hit The Republic Steel Corporation, leader of "Little Steel" in fighting unionization of the steel industry, had also challenged the Labor Board, and the latter, following the ruling against the Secretary of Agriculture, had decided to recall its order that the Republic Corp...
...I remember Lenin's state...
...opposes its 15,000 airplanes and its huge Red Army (even decapitated of a few generals) as an obstacle which we cannot deny, which can and does effectively serve as a warning to any and all nations with-aggressive designs...
...As Stalin himself has saii, "*SJL seeks no added territories...
...In British dominated Argentina, second largest nation in South America, the Nazis were active far out of proportion to their strength ond size...
...To give an example...
...Wide support of both bills is plentiful around town, especially since the news broke here of the anti-Semitic campaign in South America...
...However, due to Mr...
...Station to Fight Fascist Propaganda Special to the New Leader WASfttNGTOSi...
...The fight will mo on despite th* fact that the House Naval Affairs Committee an-nounced this week that it has indefinitely postponed hearings on the Ceiler bill which would set up such a station...
...Labor Board Vindicated The Labor Board poined out that, in its procedure, this is accomplished in three ways before the enforcement stage is reached, and the decision this week vindicates the Board's contention...
...These statistics are contsJassLhi the companies' own report* SOlAt Securities and Exchange CMMSfa-sion...
...Question: Why «M French Communist Party, of wMeh yea were fro* of the- fso*§*rl~,#e 1920...
...I am far from underestimating Swat Russia's great role in favor •f peace...
...Republic fought this proposed recall and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia refused to authorize the Board's issuance of the recall...
...J*61* ejriat in the world at the 2*""* time, as everyone knows, T*sw>»p* of Powers: one con-v*~* those countries which S1 ffi Geneva to be freer to 2f*J?*r (Germany, Italy, Japan) we o^her group of those who ^remained in order to better and defend the cause of criticized and attacked jfcj****1*8 of Xations for many Wm out anally joined in the in-gf °* peace ef the world •ggi has thus become the touch-*e Powers' real attitude j23r...
...The project is experimenting with the theatre as a force in education, therapeutics, child, hospital and prison welfare...
...C.C.C...
...C.—As Brazilian authorities link both lofty and Germany to the recent abortfee putsch in Rio 4* Janeiro, and Nasi groups scattered throuehout South America stir up anti-Semitic senti-.ment everywhere, President Roosevelt is pushing proposals to build a Federal radio station to counteract Fascist and -Nazi propaganda broadcasts to countries below the Rio Grande...
...the res)2-tionary slogan "France for Mb French" was taken up in order?4jp arouse public opinion against ttye foreign agents of Fascism works"** in France...
...and the Chicago Ballet Fedre are examples of an attempt to show that the dance in and of itself may be theatre...
...The Federal Theatre's Department of Records and Reports discloses that in the City of New York alone from November, 1935, to April, 1938, more than twelve million persons attended W.P.A...
...is directly men-*"**by the Berlin-Tokio-Rome axis fflP' under pretext of combating ~*jn»anism, threatens the new So-^•frsad workingrtan's nation...
...As for myself, J raJAjR old a revolutionary ^tS cnfcfvTHks easily as that...
...are used by the Police Department as a part of the campaign against reckless driving...
...Owners' Salaries Up In the Pennsylvania Railroad...
...Another successful feature of the program has been the ] Radio Division...
...shows...
...Abraham Lincoln...
...Tae program,, according to trade union figures, will not increase production of pig iron, ingots, or rnifsBed steel, and will cause dismissals of 85 Vr of the workers in branch** affected...
...Whatever criticism I a»y be obliged to make as Marxist, »s an old revolutionary who entered ie Russian Socialist movement 55 J**rs ago (at Vilna, in 1883, with the future Polish Marshal Pil-sodski, participating with him in the conspiracy against Alexander HI which cost the life of Gain's brother), and particularly •* » friend of the Russian revolt t*n with which I have always eol-i*hw*ted as best I could (with kain ia Paris and afterwards I am forced to oppose Sta-present policy of exterminat-"tall those who made the October le»eluti** and creating a perma-**1 state of siege in Russia...
...President J. M. Davis took $78,000 instead of $09,000, and fai the Chesapeake, President G. D. Brook* boosted his salary from $46,000 to $60,000...
...Circuses, musical comedies, light opera, marionettes—a 11 of these have a large place in the Federal Theatre...
...I call this bad opp^jt tunigm...
...Inland Steel, whose voice it among the loudest in the oanont Big Business fight to smash the Notional Labor Relations >*wa> and which, the N.L.R.B...
...National Service Bureau supplies scripts and technical service, and : when possible the loan of equip...
...Another important labor case was lost by anti-union forces when the Court upset an injunction obtained in a three-judge lower court restraining the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union from picketing the Kansas City plants of the Donnelly Garment Company...
...However, since project funds are federal funds, it is desirable to give servcie over wide geographic area...
...In this case Chief Justice Hughes warned that quasi-judicial agencies should accord all accused persons an opportunity to know what are the charges and proposed findings...
...rmadU, has used the most brutal form* *f intimidation in its anti-union campaign, made a net profit of $92B,0?8 for the first three months of Bethlehem showed a profit of $994,908, Ernest T. Weir's National Steel SV.088.635, Continental f*»> 208...
...1 -..»« Answer: I have three reproaches to make...
...iSupreme Courts Sets Back Industrialists Fight Against NLRB Affirm* Labor Board's Right to Order Reinstatement of Former Strikers—Republic Steel Also Hit by the Verdict...
...New Danish Labor Gov't Law Cuts Rent of Big Families Provides $2,000,000 for Shim Clearance and Development of Better Homes for Farmers...
...must be spent on wages About 50 per cent of the workers are actors...
...The b i g companies, like General Electric, Westinghouse, and C ol u m b i a Broadcasting, all of which expressed opposition to the measure in early hearings before the committee, are worried about a campaign to set up a central Federal control on the style of the British Broadcasting Corporation, which has eliminated private broadcasting for profit in Great ¦Britain...
...That is why, on this point...
...Rappaport Condemns "Stalinian" Russia VstE^lJn Revolutionist, in Exclusive Interview With New f earlrr Correspondent, Discusses Soviet's Foreign Policy and Stalin's Dictatorship...
...7. Research and Experimentation...
...Terrorisas 4a Ba^aassartftts...
...4. New American Plays...
...Hopkins' wisdom in stating at the beginning that this was to be "a free adult theatre," it has been, in spite of certain local problems, remarkably free from censorship...
...Some of "the plays' in this division are, of course, controversial...
...It thug produces in a section of the public the opinion that ft represents a foreign country...
...reinstate 5,000 workers who struck last summer...
...OtheT fins* which continued to pay *tx*Afure salaries to their presidents w$ffe U. S. Rubber's $8»,240 to President F. B. Davis Jr., Johns-Man-ville's $136,910 to President IMWk H. Brown, and Allied Chemical and Dye's $135,000 to President W,W-Atherton...
...It is for that reason also I criticize Stalin's policy of terrorism, beeaw* it wSsVEeris 'frorjNy and 'auCeMaJbr that warlike fcrce in the ' service - of peace...
...I shall always defend Soviet Russia as a powerful factor for peace...
...F.D.R...
...On the other head, Stalinfah Russia teaches the world the lesson that if liberty without SoeialiMB to not liberty...
...Before the attempted putsch in Brazil, the Nazi-subsidized Integralista led the fight against Jewry — bearing heavily down on those refugees from Austria and Germany...
...bat particularly at the present moment replete with the dangers of war—remains and as soeh we have the duty of defending it, however much we may criticise the abuses of its policy of violence...
...Stalin's . policy may change, bat U.S.S.R as a factor far "universal peace—not to , be underes tuna ted...
...For it is not with speeches and pacific pium desiderium that peace can be defended against the totalitarian nations who have made of war a sort of religion, a cult of violence and who see peace as a human decadence...
...Others attack problems of industrial and economic life, as may be gained from such titles as "Altars of Steel" in Atlanta, "Big White Fog" in Chicago, "Class of '29" in Boston, and "Turpentine" in Harlem...
...A Senate interstate commerce sub-committee began hearings last week on a similar bill introduced into the upper house...
...The 72-year-old revolutionary, whose shock of hair and thick beard are still more black than p»y, received rrfe in his dressing-gown, invited me to take a asjple seat while he himself sank down in a comfortable chair...
...A $100,000,000 plant modernization program is to be undertaken shortly by U. S. Steal in an effort to boost profit...
...Corporate Profits Grow as War on New Deal Continues Top Salaries Soar As Industrialists Threaten Pay Cuts Weir's National Steei Nets $ 1.088,635 in First Quarts of 1938—Inland Steal Shows Profit of $923,076 . While industrial leaders bitterly attack every agency of the New Deal as a blow to bosiwea* profits and a hindrance to recovery, and threaten mass wage cuts and firings to aid their "ailing" arras, top salaries are going higher while corporation profits continue along the same high level they have maintained in the past...
...Most of the large radio corporations in the country are fighting the projects, which are now being investigated by the House Naval Affairs Committee, on the grounds that even- a government propaganda station, set up to fight antidemocratic broadcasts from abroad, would ije thje entering wedge of what might prove to be a drive for government control of the nation's broadcasting facilities...
...Marionette troupes work in hospitals with children with paralyzed hands...
...Some oi these plays deal with legendary oi historic figures of American life John Bunyan, Davy Crockett, Johi Brown...
...There are 4,001 persons employed in the local project...
...New Orleans has one on "Flood Control...
...1 - - ' • •* France is an old revolutionary country...
...Fau-stus," Coriolanus," and "Trojan Incident," a play based on Homer and Euripides, are examples...
...Yon know that the French Communists are often called "moscoutaires...
...The French Communist Party has not done so...
...L. I., New Orleans, Miami, Tampa, Jacksonville, Atlanta, Raleigh, Oklahoma City, Chapel Hill, and Roanoke Island...
...P.D.R...
...Other: deal with whole periods of Amer ica's development, such as the history of Arkansas doneHn "America Sings," the saga of the Dunkards in Pennsylvania in "Feet on the Ground," the peopling of the plains in Chicago's new symphonic drama, "Midwest," the story of the "Lost Colony" in Paul Green's drama done last summer on Roanoke Island...
...The French Commanlet Party should have given Russia advice and shown her, by the ax-ample of the French Revolution, that a policy of terrorism by elimi-nating the artisans of the resolution, can eventually lead to Bona-partism...
...Coupled with the anti-laboc fights in the face of increased profit*, and the raises in top salaries desptt* threats of mass wage cots, is the fact that the nation's leading hv dustrialists are able to spend hage sums of money for diverse ssaans of agitation agaiast all Now Deal measures...
...Cfi«>Uati-neau Power Company «rii mk declared a net profit of tffMMM for the first three months of 1JS8, for an increase of more than $150,000 over the corresponding period in 1937...
...President M. W. Clement raised his salary from $60,000 to $100,000 a year, while in the Lackawanna...
...The Missouri Pacific MaBjtia also showed increased profit*, accompanied nevertheless by threat* of severe wage reductions...
...All of these experiments are, of coarse, for the benefit of the entire theatrical Industry...
...Circus, 639,325—1 show...
...The Federal Radio Theatre was the first to do a complete cycle of Shakespeare, of Ibsen, and of Gilbert and Sullivan over the air...
...It changed its tactic* in twenty-four hours without e>§a consulting the members 6f 'fHh Party...
...Old Drama Units, 136,450...
...Nor is it mere chance that hi AMI competitive industries, where price* adjust themselves quickly to falling demand, payrolls and emplejAMSft have been far better maintained...
...3. Theatre of Youth...
...Views Foreign Policy Herewith are the two questions I pus to him and Rappaport's textual answers.' Question: What is and will be russia's international policy to-*»rds peace and war...
...Representative Ceiler, declaring that the full support of the administration was behind his plan, indicated that the committee's action would not stop efforts to pass the bill...
...The total of performances given in the City of New Tork for the same period is 21,000...
...However, it is aimed, through units in Harlem, Hartford, Seattle, Chicago, and Los Angeles, and wherever a sufficient number of professionals are on relief, to develop a theatre for and by this gifted people...
...THE LIVING NEWSPAPER, a * terse, cinematic, hard hitting dramatic form envolved on the project, deals with contemporary factual materials: Agriculture in "Triple A Ploughed Under," labor in the courts in "Injunction Granted," and housing in "One-Third of a Nation...
...In that blind and absolute dependency on U.S.SJR., the French Communist Party often neglect...
...6. A Negro Theatre...
...It follows blindly and glorifies all that Soviet Russia does, renouncing all right to criticise...
...It was at first feared by mani' critics that no free expression of opinion would be allowed in any theatre operated by Federal funds...
...The Negro "Macbeth," Marlowe's "Dr...
...Negroes play a part in many divisions of the Federal Theatre...
...This ii one of the Federal Theatre's most important lines of development since it is based on the belief that American life is full of exciting possibilities for drama...
...Bethlehem Steel, which today is among the loudest opponents of the N.L.R.B as a force aiding aniens in their demands for "impossible'' nd "destructive" wage levels, managed to more than double Eugene Grace's salary from $180,000 tp $.394,586, while Charle* Schwab of the same firm continued to receive his yearly $190,000...
...The Supreme Court held that the lower court had no power to act, under a law of last August which provided for a three-judge court when the constitutionality of a Federal law is being challenged...
...and Midland Steal |l?l,88l the first quarter of the year...
...Consequently, the project tours as much as possible into rural areas...
...Pinocchio, Treasure Island, and The Emperor's New Clothes are examples...
...Special to The New Leader WASHINGTON, D. C. — In upholding the National Labor Relations Board in ordering the Mackay Radio and Telegraph Company to reinstate five former strikers...
...Loans are likewise made for the erection of new meeting halls and improvements of existing ones, and also for the construction of better I houses for agricultural workers...
...Connected with the loans is the creation of a new fund to finance reduction of rents for families with three or more children...
...However, the Court declared that other proceedings of the Board had informed the company of the character of the charges...
...Scores Violence Against that diabolic theory, which does not remain in the realm of theory but passes constantly into action (see Ethiopia, Spain and China), U.S.S.R...
...A NATIONAL THEATRE GROWS IN AMERICA PART II THE unvarying objective has * been to stimulte appreciation af the theatre, especially in those l-ommunities where such opportunities long have been unavailable, and to develop through its program permanent community assets by enlisting the interest and substantial aid of sponsoring bodies, such as schools, colleges, universities, educational foundations, women's clubs, industrial cluhs, urban leagues, labor bodies, fraternal organizations, state, civic and county organizations...
...Hull, Swanson Back Bill The Naval Affairs Committee has jurisdiction over the bill submitted which would authorize 175,000 for construction of a short-wave station in Washington and $100,000 annually for its operation...
...The California International Cycle produces, every month, a play which has made dramatic history in some past period, and so far has included plays by Strindberg, Cia-cosa, Pirandello, Hauptmann, Ca-pek, Ibsen, and Chekov...
...Vaudeville, 1,004,722—41 productions...
...A repertory of five Gilbert and Sullivan operas, which re-1 cently celebrated their QOOth per-' formance in New York, has attracted a total of 1,000.000 persons...
...4. Theatre of Dance, especially as it relates to the theme of American life...
...nSBSafRy is the Columbia Gas CosappjqL which last week reported » not profit of over 18 million dollars far the year, indicating a clear JMpAt of 13% on every dollar...
...The Los Angeles festival ,of the American dance, "An American Exodos," the New York dance production of "How Long, Brethren...
...It is evident that the strong fight made" against the old conservative decisions of the Court is now bringing important results for the future of unionism in this country...
...Asset* in the Missouri Pacific roe* t* $678,890,610 in 1937, for an in-rease of more than 100 million dollars over the previous year...
...New York with its quota of 4,000 has the largest project and is followed by Los Angeles with 1,289 and Chicago with 768...
...In stressing this material of the past and present, it is hoped to help build a theatre out of the fabric of American life...
...Peace and war...
...By BENJAMIN PROTTER Special to The New Leader...
...An extension of already existing legislation in favor of better and cheaper^ housing for the working population is made in a new Danish Labor Government act which appropriates an annual amount of ten million kronen (about two million dollars) for six years to provide building loans to local authorities and cooperative building societies...
...and what is year aattWhlf fa day towards that party...
...Russia seeks, with the aid Of modern technique applied f*r tfe benefit of all, to build a new so* ciety where capitalists are uo-known...
...In that, also, It follqwed the model of Moscow...
...8. Radio...
Vol. 21 • May 1938 • No. 21
