French Socialists, C. G. T. Unite To End Daladier Rule
PROTTER, BEN
French Socialists, C. G. T. Unite To End Daladier Rule Party Plans Huge Rallies In 90 Important Cities By BEN PROTTER X] ANTES, France.—The thirty-first annual convention of the ^General...
...The attitude of the Farmers Union toward the New Deal is friendly, but at the same time highly critical of its inadequacies...
...By PAUL PORTER MADISON, Wis.—Though many thousands of "farmers returned to the Republican ticket in this antumn's elections, this fact does not support the oft-made claims that most farmers desire more conservative governmental policies, that they are fundamentally hostile to organized labor, or that the farm vote is primarily dependent upon the price of agricultural products...
...The convention recorded a membership of 120,000 in 36 states— a steady and substantial growth over previous years...
...they swell the total membership to nearly a half million...
...The convention adopted unanimously a motion condemning in strong terms the decrees for their retrograde character, fixed November 30 as a day of mass demonstrations throughout the coilBtry fa protest against the decrees and invited all sincere democrats to join with them in the protestation, and mandates the" executive and administrative committees of the C.G.T...
...Nazaire and the shore of the Atlantic...
...In its immediate legislative demands the union places "cost of production" or "parity income" at the forefront, to be achieved by fixing prices on farm praoducts at a level high enough to permit farmers to buy needed industrial products...
...The C.G.T...
...All talk of evacuation, forceful emigration — the whole idea that the Jew is a stranger in the country in which he lives—is harmful and pours additional oi...
...Telephone, telegraph and postal rates, All government-owned, have been increased...
...The Labor Advocate of St...
...The Colorado and NoTth Dakota Farmers Unions are now operating insurance companies, which have not only materially reduced insurance premiums, but which invest their rapidly accumulating reserves in other co-op enterprises...
...The delegates, to the accomplishment of prolonged cheering, vowed that "we never in our lives will again read a Chicago Tribune...
...The Chicago Tribune took note of the convention by labelling the Farmers Union leaders "racketeers and known Communists...
...It heard addresses by David Dubinsky, president of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union...
...The Bronx Borough Taxpayers' League, which publishes "The Realty Review," boasted that the group bad "played an important part in the election, and spent approximately $500 in urging taxpayers to vote for certain candidates and defeat others...
...For the past three years a co-op tractor has been marketed through the Farm- 1 srs Union Central Exchange and >ther cooperative wholesales...
...It is foolish to deny that known Communists, Communist sympathizers, half-baked radicals and parlor pinks have been prominent in F.-L...
...is divided in two camps on the attitude to take in foreign affairs and on the question of the political independence of the labor movement...
...The Farmers Union Central Ex-J change has grown in a decade from a brokerage co-op, starting with $1,000 borrowed capital, to a far-reaching enterprise with sales of more than $4,000,000 annually...
...The minority resolution "on peace" accepts all the abovementioned points except mutual assistance pacts, considering that "individual agreements are likely to awoken the legitimate apprehension of non-participating states," and recalls that the C.G.T...
...The convention opened in the shadow of the latest set of decrees-laws, considered the most vicious attack yet made on the labor legislation of 1936 and as having all the earmarks of regression and pre-fascism...
...The intention behind this brutal attack is to return as quickly as possible to the forty-eight hour week by the systematic destruction, first of the fact, then of the principle, of the fortyhoar law...
...Farm Union Reports Big Gains, Urges Socialism Cone/felt* Die-Hard Group Wiped Oat at 24th Annual Convention — Rural Cooperatives Fourish la Many States—Populist Panaceas Defeated...
...Daladier * hopes to buy the support of a sufficient number of deputies by offering to prolong the term of the present Chamber waich *jaVtflff normally in the spring of 1940' until 1942...
...It has a bed capacity for 150 persons, and the ¦hospital staff performs about 1,000 surgical operations a year...
...Each asserts that the Farmer-Labor movement cannot expect to make much headway if this tolerance continues...
...Bus and subway fares, private monopolies, are raised...
...These figures do not include the women active in auxiliaries or the youth in the Juniors and Junior Reserves...
...Pichot, it will be remembered (see The New Leader of October 29), was a few weeks ago in favor of a government "of Public security," modeled on the example of the French Revolution, with Daladier at the head of it...
...is not alone in protesting against the injustice of the Daladier-Reynaud decrees...
...Paul and the Labor World of Duluth frankly discuss this issue...
...upon the anti-Jewish fires...
...Charles E. Coughlin and his Union party, were finally vanquished this year...
...Candidly* facing the defeat of Governor Benson for" re-election by a pluirnlty of nearly 300.000 votes for the Republican candidate, the Farmer-Labor Association is pre* paring former thorough overhauling" of its organization, policies and methods at the state convention to' be held in St...
...The answer, signed by Henri Pichot and Jean Goy, was a categoric refusal...
...The Populist leaders who sought a solution to complex farm problems in the panacea of cheap money are disappearing...
...The "week of two Sundays," Finance Minister Paul Reynaud has amiably termed the five-day working week, bears the brunt of the attack...
...Revolt Within Farmer-Labor Party Loons Many Members Believe Leaders Have Been Too Tolerant Of Communists...
...create a large fund for »U Pf^fi...
...This is a dangerous and false conception of the solution of the Jewish problem...
...Representatives of organized labor were forced to take a back seat as their voices were stilled by the constant booming of aspiring political big shots...
...A NOTHER law which smells of fascism a mile away decrees that the worker in a factory engaged in the execution of national defense orders who refuses to work overtime can be fired on the spot and loses all right to any indemnity or paid vacation due him otherwise...
...The union, however, insists that the New Deal has offered no fundamental solution to the agricultural crisis, which preceded the industrial slump by eight years...
...The mandate does not interest the nation, the mandate comes from' he worker...
...But there is also dissatisfaction with the present state leaders for another reason, and it is growing rapidly...
...Politicians Seek Jobs Coupled with this Communist tolerance has been the development of office itch and a hunt for patronage which has brought some demoralization and has discouraged idealists who stand for principles against an impractical opportunism...
...Within the near future the co-op man- ' jfacture of tractors and other farm squipment will be begun at a 1 Farmers Union co-op factory in Arthurdale...
...Nor is the Soviet govern-t nient adverse to playing ball with American corporations in the style of Nazi Germany and "civilization saving" Japan, which have made a practice of using spurious labels to cover up the unpojiular sources of produce offered to the anti-fascist American public...
...T*0 come hack to the convention...
...Jewish Labor Conference Asks 'Day's Wages' to Aid Nazi Victims Two thousand representatives of organized Jewish labor in the United States, meeting- this week at the Manhattan Opera House, uhder the auspices of the Jewish Labor Committee, issued a call to Jewish labor throughout the United State.- to contribute a day's wages to help the victims of Nazi .terrorism...
...The members of both houses will have had the opportunity before the session begins to take the public's pulse...
...He has since changed -M* mind as to Daladier, and his organization proposes to hold meetings also to arouse public opinion against the present povemment...
...when in fact it was churned in Russia...
...And what is still more terrible, he is put on the blacklist of the regional public employment office, excluding him automatically from getting another job in that section of the country in the same .industry or receiving a subsistence allowance during the period of unemployment...
...leadership made a mistake when it ignored it entirely...
...The tax on wines, coffee, sugar and salt, of which the French a*e heavy consumers, are increased, as well as the tax on bicycles and tandems, which have come into vogue again in the past three years...
...The employer is required to take the two per cent directly oat of the pay envelope and to give it over to the tax collector...
...The conference, summoned to consider the plight of German Jewry, took action to extend immediate aid to Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany, Austria and Sudetenland...
...Justice Matthew M. Levy, Social Democrat, who was appointed to a municipal court judgeship by Mayor LaGuarcba...
...The conference also called upon the democratic countries of the world, including Palestine, to open their doors wide to--the hundreds of thousands of Jews who must ' be immediately saved jfnjjjL.™ clutches of the German "Naafy A "Let the democratic counrtjM* the world," declared the iwatg "abolish atl immigration tions and quotas for the tdrtV*1 and hounded victims of faiiilif* Intensified Boycott kVfia Recording with partieuttfyr tode the mighty j.-otest that tat people of the United PUlM...
...4 • * * A NOTHER decree, which had the honor of receiving Jouhaux's special attention in the course of his eloquent speech, appeals to the worst nationalist instincts of the French worker and 'VisBHy seeks to drive a wedge between him and his foreign workmate...
...has never accepted the Versailles Treaty, Jouhaux, in his closing speech, told the delegates that he had tistened attentively to the two texts, but that "neither in the spirit nor in the letter could he find aa essential difference...
...to organize the resistance against the application of the decrees and specifically includes "the cessation of all work," in other words, authorises a general strike, if it should be deemed necessary...
...activities and have been virtually welcomed by those who controlled association destiny in recent years...
...Real Estate Magazine Boasts of Landlords' Fight on Judge Levy A real estate owners' newspaper, The Realty Review, this week revealed the forces that the American Labor Party had to buck in its recent election drive...
...The Department of Agriculture is keeping a close watch for further violations...
...The debate on both questions was very long and warm but never got out of hand...
...Any landlord who- had the.occasion to come before Judge Levy in the past, will certainly welcome his defeat...
...Last week the U. S. Government took action...
...Each of these claims is in part true, but far less true than was the case not many years ago...
...12,000 at Convention Nowhere has the abandonment of the old individualism among rural folk -been more evident than at the 34th rAnnual Convention of the Farmers Educational and Cooperative Union of America, generally known as the National Farmers Union, which was held there last week...
...Thinking persons in the labor movement...
...Instigators and agitators, in clear language labor leaders and delegates, who encourage workers not to accept overtime, are liable to a heavy fine and imprisonment...
...It was finally ! decided to ask the veterans to give up voluntarily their pensions, ii they could afford to do so...
...The C.G.T...
...West Virginia...
...In Oklahoma, Colorado, North Dakota, South Dakota, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, and on a smaller scale in some other states the local and state units of the union operate local and terminal grain elevators, creameries, poultry and livestock marketing agencies, credit unions and insurance companies...
...Industrial plants must spread the forty hours over five and ,a half or six days...
...It is hardly likely that Daladier will be able to weather for long the storm that is blowing up...
...Gasoline, oil, flour, coal, twine, feed, seeds and farm machinery are now extensively purchased through ' consumer eo-ops...
...Farmer-Laborites who supported the Republican candidate because their candidate, Petersen, failed to get the Farmer-Labor nomination for Governor...
...Considering the rising temperature of the common people, it is more than probable that they will think twice before accepting to ratify the decrees and renewing Daladier's plenary powers, which expired on November 15...
...11 founded in 1929 at Elk City, Okla-' homa, by Dr...
...We do not accept," declared Jouhaux, applauded by the entire assembly, "that our foreign comrades should be eliminated from elections for factory delegates...
...registered against the ^•^Tj ties, the conference called jj**^f progressive men and ^to^KjL^ ticularly the Jews of AiBSrfOtJ intensify the boycott again* w goods and servces which nai eap carried on for four years JBM Jewish Labor Committet' "IPS operation with other pr*>i*^^ organizations...
...favors "the collaboration of all nations, disarmament and collective security, mutual assistance and economic cooperation...
...In the realm Of co-operatives the Farnfers "Union has made important, though little-known, progress during the past decade...
...State employees and department heads were permitted tc control the actions of state, district and county conventions...
...The government had the intention of modifying the condi...
...Tobacco, a state monopoly, has gone up...
...no butter Dispite official admission in the foreign press that there is a scarcity of dairy products throughout Soviet Russia the Stalinite regime is up to its' old tricks of starving its Ceople to round up foreign xchange...
...who are pro-labor and are militantly anti-war...
...PARLIAMENT reconvenes at last on December 6th...
...It also supports the small beginnings made during the past year in crop insurance...
...THE accompanying article, written by Benjamin Proffer, . Tne New Laader'% correspondent in Froace, h vitally important to am understanding of what's happening in Franee today, not only because ft paints a vivid picture of the background of fhe present situation, tat because lttH tha only faff report of the French Federation of Labors conference at Nantes published In fWs country...
...This definitely refuted, even before the vote, the assertions which appeared in a certain part of the French press and reproduced by foreign newspapers who prefer to take their pious wishes for reality, that there was a serious possibility of a split in the forces of the French labor movement...
...Reuben Guskin, president of the United Hebrew Trades, and Max Zaritsky, president of the United Hatters, Cap -and Millinery Workers' International Union...
...Back Collective Bargaining Resolutions passed condemned capitalism without a quibble, urged socialized and cooperative medical care, supported collective bargaining for industrial workers, directed the executive board to establish a permanent committee to promote collaboration with organized labor, condemned vigilante activities, condemned persecution of minority religious and racial groups, opposed further armament expenditures, and favored a national referendum before the declaration of war except in case of invasion...
...say* the Labor World, "know that the issue of Communism is over-emphasized, but the F.-L...
...Compensation for overtime is brought down from the previous minimum and maximum levels of twenty-five and fifty per cent to ten and twenty-five per cent respectively...
...tions of payment of the war veterans' pensions...
...The real estate owners specifically named, as a chief target of the landlords' campaign...
...A ttW per cent exception (the third to bear this qualifying adjective...
...In the field of labor, since all have equal duties, all have equal rights, and therefore the right to participate in the election of those who are to be charged to represent them in the factory...
...It P'JtU L, Wfrnn...
...There was unanimity on Spain, the necessity and desirability of an international conference for economic and military fisarmament in conformity with Roosevelt's proposition, and for We preparation and orientation of that conference by the premnrnary meeting of all the trade unidh organisations in the world, "estimating that an agreement between those orgenlza¦ons on the subject of the international conference could be the Point of departure for the realisation of international trade union unity...
...Over 1,000,000 workers In 538 or-' ganizations were represented by 2,23G delegates...
...Important changes in the viewpoint of the farm population are taking place, especially so among the men and women who cultivate family-sized farms in the great basin that lies between the Alleghenies and the Rockies...
...The union supports the modest accomplishments of the Farm Security Administration in debt readjustment and promotion of |co operatives...
...Friendly to New Deal The Michigan and Minnesota Farmers Unions, however, were wrecked in the struggle...
...Another set of measures aims specifically at lowering the national standard of living in order to leave a greater margin for state revenues and private profits...
...The most important taak.ljFS present moment, declared ^jS^ gates to the conference...
...The older populist leaders have'fought both the co-ops and the friendly approach to organized labor, but these leaders, grouped around former president E. E. Kennedy, who has been closely allied with the Rev...
...Armour and Co., a section of the packing house trust, was fined $300 for selling butter labeled "Made in U.S.A...
...The great majority of the delegates approved the motion ''sgamit war" which declares that the C.G.T...
...Pichot, furthermore, •enounced the iniquity and unequal sacrifices imposed by the decree-laws on the middle-classes and the workers...
...A government permit is needed now to keep a factory' or workshop closed two days a week, whereas overtime ia authorized with little and in many instances no formalities...
...These developments have not been achieved without serious internal struggles...
...Run Insurance Companies A Farmers Union co-op hospital...
...revenue tax is put on all wages and salaries, without My deduction whatsoever at the bottom for small incomes or f amity charge...
...Oevelopmairt of Office Itch Arouses Protest...
...Nathan Chanin, educational director of the Workmen's Circle...
...Dissatisfaction prevails among members for various reasons, and it is even rumored that a rump convention will be called for early in January by some former...
...The Madison convention revoked their charters this year and directed the national executive board to rebuild them...
...When you are in agreement as to the essential,'' he said to them, "I do not understand that yon can act agree on secondary points, but I retain particularly your unanimous desire for peace...
...They are now largely replaced by a newgeneration of farm leaders who advocate a co-operative or socialist society in place of capitalism, and already have to their credit the establishment of many flourishing co-ops...
...One hundred and seventy Socialist senators and deputies, including Leon Blum, Paul Faure and Marx Dormoy, will speak at mat* meetings on December 3rd and 4th in ninety of the most important French cities...
...Paul on January 27 and 28...
...In this respect, we are very happy to report that as a result of our efforts we were successful in defeating-Justice Matthew-Levy for re-election to the Municipal Court...
...Adolph Held, president of the Forward Association and chairman Of the Jewish Labor Committee, presided...
...The orators on both sides re-affirmed their entire loyalty to the CjG.T., whether or not the majority was in agreement with them on the subject under discussion...
...The Socialist Party is undertaking an intensive campaign throughout the width and breadth of France...
...The same publication also declares that some Communists were placed on the state's payroll and they used these jobs as springboards for promoting Communist ideas...
...They mustered only six votes at the convention...
...Registering its opposition to any attempt to convert the Jews into a refugee people, the resolution adopted by the conference declared : "We want to warn against the anti-Semitic slogan which calls for the forceful emigration of -Tews from countries in which they have lived for thousands of years...
...Much more significant than this increase in membership, however, was the consolidation of the new leadership, which came into power, in 1936, and the victory of radical policies...
...Michael Shadid, has won national fame...
...was held this year in the city of Nantes, on the estuary of the Loire River, an hour's ride from St...
...French Socialists, C. G. T. Unite To End Daladier Rule Party Plans Huge Rallies In 90 Important Cities By BEN PROTTER X] ANTES, France.—The thirty-first annual convention of the ^General Confederation of Labor (C.G.T...
...de-> clares the Duluth paper...
...Some 100 odd Farmers Union coop oil associations m North Dakota have rebated nearly $2,000,000 in patronage savings...
...cuted Jew* of Germany, as to help in the struggle |M Fascism, Nazis*, a*H *»« Semitism...
...This revolt comes from the trade unions, whose members protest that the leadership has been toor tolerant of Communist penetration of the movement...
...Maximum cost per year for any family holding membership in the co-op, is $25...
Vol. 21 • December 1938 • No. 49
