UNITED STATES EXPOSES HARLAN'S TERROR

...Ford's Impudence s Ford's attorneys have;, displayed, •insolence that is unusual for capi'tal's legal watchdogs...

...T. J. Coonan, Minister without Portfolio in the Duplessis Cabinet of Quebec, in a recent address to the Business Women's Unit of the Catholic Women's League, predicted the organization of a "National Party...

...The' corporation accused the Board of not having sufficiently investigated the dispute and of not holding an election that woujcT" justify its order...

...Special guards have been sworn in to protect the witnesses and see to it that the operators don't absentmindedly prevent their showing up...

...Ford is the most desperate and determined of the oligarchs of capitalism in the fight of big capital against union organization, and six years ago he was the first of this crowd to openly defy Section 7-A of the N.I.R.A...

...Ford Defeat Seen In Supreme Court Verdicts for NLRB Remington Rand Ordered to Reinstate 4,000 Workers as Court Upholds Decision of Labor Board...

...Padlock Law on Issue Letters and resolutions in support of the Padlock Law are pouring in to the Federal Minister of Justice at Ottawa from the reactionaries in Quebec, and David Lewis, national secretary of the Canadian Commonwealth Federation, is urging C.C.F...

...It is time to put in a few kicks to show that there is still life...

...The Coal Operators Association has its counterpart in the Little Steel combination and other anti: union corporations and when big business yelps about the unfairness of the Wagner act decent Americans will see the Harlan picture instead of the National Association of Manufacturers' propaganda...

...The Board hag answered that not only are the questions outside the procedure provided ley the Wagner Act, but that no less than five - are "impertinent abd scurrilous" and presented in "bad faith...

...representatives...

...Senators Hit Cut Progressives in both houses have denounced wage cut proposals of the rail management, and Senators like Wagner of New York and LaFollette of Wisconsin have stated they will oppose R.F.C...

...The Wagner act is a civil statute and in itself carries no penalties...

...By invoking the 1870 law, providing jail terms and fines for persons who conspire to deprive a citizen of constitutional rights, the Government hopes it can write a punitive clause into the Wagner act...

...The railroad unions had been cooperating with the managers not only regarding wages but with the view of working out a program of financial relief far the lines when the managers made their sudden decision...

...The court has already disalk>w«i similar acts jammed through...

...The Association, which represents over a million workers, has also notified Congress that it will fight any legislative relief for the railroads if they go ahead with their ruthless plans to lower the living standards of the railroad workers...

...At the time this legislation was agreed upon by representatives of railroad management and labor and the R.F.C," Wagner commented, "it was understood that the loans were to be made to reemploy railroad workers, not to lay them off...

...members to send letters and resolutions to the minister "demanding its disallowance or its reference to the Supreme Court...

...The go-between was the cherubic, but deadly, Ben Unthank, who at one time ruled the mining towns...

...Eastern corporations, trusts, and mining interests are backing this proposal and the formation of a "National" government...

...loans to the roads if the companies persist in inflicting pay reductions...

...The Remington Rand case was the most important, one...

...As the testimony continues and McMahon draws the picture of dynamiting and isolation of the mining area, in which the corporations owned everything from the hospitals to the movie houses, organized labor and progressive circles throughout the nation will get a vivid picture of the viciousness anti-union drives can maintain for •a long period without the genera...

...The R.F.C...

...The federal attorney also showed that heavy assessments were levied on the mine owners by their ¦ association te pay for the war on the organizers of the United Mine Workers of America...

...If the Government wins, it will have set a precedent that can affect scores of industries...

...by the Protestant fascism in Alberta under Premier Aberhart, and it is believed that this sets a precedent for the disallowance of the Quebec legislation, where the Corporative State idea has made some dangerous advances in legislation...

...In opposing a Board order, the Ford corporation asked the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals to require the Board to answer 74 questions...

...Tenseness is growing in the court room as the triak continues...

...McMahon more than once during the opening of the **rial accused the mine owners of running Harlan like a feudal barony and compared the company gorillas to the storm troopers of fascist bands in Europe...

...The court battle probably will reach the Supreme Court on appeal and months from now there may be handed down a decision that will affect millions of workers and thousands of industrial concerns...

...This will be necessary if Congrfes is to forestall reductions by the rail management, since the national legislature does not intend to remain in session until July 1, when the proposed cuts are scheduled to take effect...

...Workers will not stand for being made the goat," the statement adds...

...It was well, because we were not strong...

...The prosecution is driving for conviction on all scores of murder, kidnapping and violence besides the violation of the Wagner Act...

...The Supreme Court had already Upheld the law and the Board in eleven consecutive cases, and th'S decisions this week increase the Board's victories to 14...

...rail loans bill is now in the Senate banking and currency committee, of which Wagner is chairman, and it is probable it will emerge with a clause forbidding loans if wages are cu^t...

...Canadian Labor Party Forming to Combat Fascism Workers Fight Quebec Padlock Law—Anti-Semites, Business interests Seek to Found "National" Party...

...Not only are the railroad magnates seeking a substantial portion of the $4,500,000,000 lendingspending program of the Administration, in addition to the proposed drastic wage reduction which would add $250,000,000 a year to their coffers, but they are asking the repeal of the old railroad land grant law which requires them to give the government a lower rate for Federal passenger and freight traffic than is charged for* similar business from private individuals...

...Harlan" Means Murder ' Harlan during the past decade beoame a by-word for union suppression and wanton . industrial murder, while the state and Federal authorities looked the other way until the LaFollette Civil Liberties Committee, with the help of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, swooped down on the area...

...House leaders, acting on a proposal of majority leader Rayburn, decided to take no action on the bill until the Senate had made its decision on the measure...

...Defense Plays on Prejudice Then Charles I. Dawson, a former judge who had retired to fight New Deal laws since it pays so well, began the strategy upon which he is basing his entire defense...

...Rail Labor Set for First U. S. Nationwide Strike Union Declares Million Railworkers Will Strike if the Roads Go Through With Proposed IS Per Cent Pay Cut on July 1. WASHINGTON, D. C. — The first nation-wide railroad strike in American history loomed today as the Railway Labor Executive Association warned such action would follow any attempt by railroad managers to impose a threatened 15 per cent wage cut July 1. "The railroad workers of America, already grossly underpaid, simply will not accept a wage reduction, of any kind," the statement declares...

...He accused local authorities of shutting their eyes to budding conspiracies which were planned in the "whispering room" of the court house itself...

...Sixty-nine Harlan County coal operators and peace officers" are now in the dock before Federal Judge H. Church on a charge of conspiring against union labor...

...MONTREAL, Caneda.-^%hi 1 e clerical fascism in Quebec Province pla'rTs a "National Party" for Canada, bankers and corporation heads in that section engage in propaganda in support Of the notorious Padlock Law, organized labor is moving toward "organization of a Labor Party to fight ^he anti-Semitism, capitalism Slid fascism that are united in an unholy alliance for the mastery of the nation...

...Solving' the Railway Problem The minister proposed to "solve" Canada's railroad problem by cutting the railworkers' pay...

...UNITED STATES EXPOSES HARLAN'S TERROR Gov't Trial Win Will Put Teeth in Wagner Act Special to The New Leader LOUISVILLE, Kentucky.—Whether or not the Government wins its case against the Harlan mine operators arid the ptin'men they hired to smash miners' attempts to organize, the country will see the lid torn off the ten year melange of murder, kidnapping and terrorism which the corporations paid fen" and which won the name of Bloody Harlan for the mining _¦_I area...

...Of their action the statement of the union executives says: "They double-crossed labor when they served this wage-reduction notice, because railway management an"d workers had reached an understanding that no such notice would be served while the workers were cooperating with management in seeking financial relief through other sources...

...Realizing that McMahon will make good his threat to prove that the defendants did not stop even at' murder to keep out union organizers, Dawson is taking advantage of a faint resemblance he bears to the late Will Rogers and is working on the jury in homespun phrases, appealing to their Hatred of "outsiders" and "northems...

...During ihe course of the trial, B'- en McMahon, fighting assistant attorney general, wfll show how the mine operators kept Harlan County as a feudal barony, prevented any attempts to win higher wages and fewer working hours, provided weanpns, tear gas bombs and blackjacks to their "deputies" and ruled the highways and railway stations in the vicinity with machine guns...

...The five insulting questions ask whether the Board had submitted the disputed order to Thomas Corcoran and Ben Cohen of , the New Deal advisory staff, and to John L. Lewis and Homer Martin, president of the United Automobile Workers' Union, or to any other C.I.O...

...In an address to a large gathering here, Raoul Trepanier, chairman of the Montreal Trades and Labor Council, in which many Catholic workers are represented, declared that "There was a time when organized labor kept out df politics...

...It involved a Board order which directed the corporation to reinstate 4,<K)0 workers who had struck a ¦year ago last March...

...Since then the operators have been squealing like pigs about "government interference" and have been scurrying throughout the state trying" to cover up a long trail of gunfire and blackjacking...

...But today the wovement will die unless Labor mixes in government...

...Despite the successive victories T>f the Board, more cases are to be decided, the most important one being that of the Ford Motor Company...

...United States deputy marshals search the court room spectators for guns and knives because the threats against witnesses persist...

...For news the Capitalist Press dare not print, read The New Leader...

...Outspoken supporters of the NewYork Senator were, besides LaFollette, Wheeler of Montana, McAdoo of California, and Truman of Missouri...

...public knowing about it...

...Gunmen Linked to Owners Slashing rnTo" 'the defense's attempt to play on the sentiments and the cliquishness of the Kentucky jury, McMahon revealed evidence during'the week which linked the gunmen who had killed at least two men, and wounded and terrorized hundreds of others, with the mine operators...

...The strikers "had accused the corporation oi unfair labor practices, and the Board 'ordered it to bargain with the union in the industryFord Case Next The corporation turned to sabotage of the order by going into the courts, apparently with the view "of discouraging the^ union through -many months of litigation...

...However, the trend of high court decisions is against him apd it is expected that fte*" will lose his case...

...WASHINGTON, D. C —Three ¦more victories by the National Labor Relations Board in its bitter contest with powerful organizations fcf capital were registered this week when the U. S. Supreme Court denied the pleas of Remington-Rand, of the Carlisle Lumber, and the Black Diamond Steamship interests for a review of cases which they had lost before the Boa^d...