Post-Election War on Labor Flares Throughout Nation
Post-Election War on Labor Flares Throughout Nation KKK Opens Drive on C.I.O. In South G.O.P. Ready to incorporate Unions in Michigan and Pennsylvania — AH.-CIO Fight "Liberty...
...The . pgjgjjj |s so Seep and strong that it does not interfere 'with Keen and cutting exposition of ear national problems...
...The' air of France seems to fee healthier for proletarian writers...
...fhe two events have an almost symbolical ggnhlesnce: peasant poetry committee suicide BJt, proletarian poetry followed suit a few years jgUtt-iB the country of "peasants and Workers...
...Legal" assaults are expected in Pennsylvania, where the Annenbefg'Grundy-Pew crowd is using their stooge Governer-elect James to cover its drive for labor-restrictive laws...
...However, Louis Jfrtgoc continues a vigorous literary activity in RMrgeols franee...
...The cards are stacked a little too noticeably...
...One can only regret that he is unable to do literary justice to his thought...
...The low rental, it is explained, is made possible by Federal subsidies and tax exemption by the city as its contribution to the program...
...Sillenpaa, despite great passages and a deeply moving climax, sometimes lets his categories of understanding be seen through the structure of this*novel...
...He traveled widely ' hi Russia and, among our educators, was the leader in enthusiasm for the Russian experiment...
...ft works out with sinister precision: the third famous poet of the younger group, the "aristoerstie" N. Gumileff, was executed in 1922...
...Wfe are told "Bart Atagon8*** converted to communism and proletarian literature through ins encounter Bwith Vladimir Mayakovsky, the wen known Russian "futurist" poet...
...What would Tories say to Labor iroposals for the public control of ndustries...
...The proletariat is *tSSlDBNTIAL QUARTER, by Louis Aragon...
...But even this last rroup would not strip the program >f all its Socialist content which would immediately cause friction n the proposed Opposition cabinet...
...The j State Board of Standards and Ap- , peals has reserved decision on a j Legion application for admission , and incorporation...
...In his chapter on education he comes close to the heart of the matter when he remarks that our task is "the synthesis of democracy and industrialism...
...Knopf...
...There is no easy formula for this task...
...The school, the government, the trade union— every popular group and instrumentality—must play a part...
...And it is as a novelist that Aragon interests us today...
...The industrialists have tough work ahead of them, since the administration Is pro-Labor and is still strong enough to defend the national labor legislation and can still send the LaFoUette Civil Liberties Conference after any manufacturer Who tries the Hoover era tactics on the unions...
...RITUAL THROWN IN A LL this is presented by Aragon with an alluring straightforwardness and with keenness of both ear and vision...
...WASHINGTON, D. C—To what extent have American industries concentrated into a few hands ? Is competition still an important factor in American capitalism and, if not, can government set up controls to prevent the crushing of owners of small enterprises...
...It is the second novel of a afrits planned by the writer...
...Special to The New Leader...
...Otherwise, it is an entertaining and sensible book...
...fiBC HERITAGE, by F. E. Sillenpaa...
...Ready to incorporate Unions in Michigan and Pennsylvania — AH.-CIO Fight "Liberty Legion" Charter in New York...
...issuing the following statement: The National Executive, after a survey of the political situation arising from recent developments at Munich and elsewhere, reaffirmed its attitude towards combinations with other political parties, as clearly stated in the recently-published document, 'Labor and the Popular Front.' "The Executive draws the special attention of the Labor Movement to the decision taken yesterday to launch jointly wffh the Co-operative Party, an intensive nation-wide campaign in emphatic opposition to the 'National' Government's foreign policy...
...and the nationalization >f railroads and power, money and and...
...ftTls conceivable that in the hands of a master literary craftsman, this theme might -be devel, oped into a tale of moving beauty...
...Opportun i t i e s for small business to survive are steadily diminishing...
...If democracy is to survive the government must act to increase the income of the poorer groups...
...We fellow the growth and development of the twp boys, their adolescence and youth, their school experiences, amidst other bourgeois families of the provincial town...
...With all the drabness and ordinariness of provincial life, there is the other familiar French phenomenon, their respect for "things intellectual," their stubborn individualism, the variety and intensiveness of intellectual life, even in the province, the eternal revolt of the sons against the conservativism or the shallow radicalism of their fathers...
...Capital's Slums to Go Down Aiter 25 Year Housing Fight From Washington LABOR WASHINGTON...
...In the death-scene, however, Jussi emerges as a person and a symbol for the first time in the book...
...WASHINGTON, D. C. With the election handing them several industrial states and many rural areas, the Republicans are preparing their anti-Jabor drives to pay dividends back to the industrialists who footed the bills during the G.O.P.'s lean years...
...Jfartvurt, Brace & Co...
...Majority of Its Own" The document, "Labor sad the Popular Front," referred to hi the statement, said: "The facts do not warrant an approach by the Labor Party to sther political parties...
...Fear-Room Homos The homes will be allotted to families with incomes of not more than $1,100 a year...
...He discusses industry, politics, propaganda, war, and education...
...But the prophecies are obviously mechanical, and seem to be in the nature of a ritual...
...They ire insistent that only a Labor Government with a reliable majority of its own can build that road...
...When he steps trembling into the gravetrench the other naive revolutionists have already fallen to the firing squad and voluntarily lies down upon their dead bodies, Toivola steps into immortality...
...The encounter took place in a Parisian safe, ? |*e...
...The author's conviction that this business of democracy is a matter . of life, and death, gives urgency to the style and porta -to the- argument...
...Due to the depression, however, income declined From the peak average of $806 per capita in 1920-29 to $332 in 1932, then rose to $404 in 1937 and it is estimated at $472 for this year...
...The plot is firmly handled, the scenes are vivid and incisive, the figures drawn with clarity and esse of movement...
...Both A. F. of L. and C.I.O...
...The Klan t is fighting Textile Workers' Or- ganisatlon Committee attempts to unionize southern cotton mills...
...leader: "Labor will not run Michigan...
...120,000,000 Lost by Labor In Depression U.S...
...We were set back exactly 33 years in terms of the production of our mines and factories that were available to each of our people," declared Dr...
...has had a somewhat stormy career as a leader of a number of advanced literary movegggl, ift- his native country, from Dadaism "JFfJIg*'- (whatever that may mean) to the proletarian novel, whatever that nay mean, again...
...Some informing figures were presented by Dr...
...fM- the personal side this book is Professor Counts' return rrom Russia...
...That life is petty, cramped, filled with bitter struggles of competition and cheap and brutal intrigue of small business and local politics...
...jfe'much for poetry, aristocratic, peasant and proletarian in Soviet Russia...
...Franklin D. Roosevels^ook up the agitation when she moved to Washington in 1933 and is entitled to a large share of the credit for getting something started...
...2.50...
...The book is full of careful analyses of conditions and positive proposals about things to be done...
...Wo are confirmed in this view by the large body of support for independence from our own members "They believe that the read to peace lies through Socialism...
...lo- , eal leaders opposed the granting , of the certificate at a hearing last t week, charging that the Legion is j a stooge outfit for the industrial- t ists...
...It is only towards the end that the novel becomes somewhat befogged in the meshes of a criminal intrigue...
...0 definitely in the background, forming a sort of Greek chorus...
...286 pp...
...John Day...
...She tried to improve conditions, but speculative land owners and "realtors" were too much for her...
...AU in all, it is a satisfactory, good oid realistic novel with a modest ingredient of "proletarian" frills...
...The only proletarian feature that this columnist has discovered contains prophecies after the fact as to the future Russian revolution, the French labor movement, etc...
...His style is a curious mixture of the labored precision of a freshman theme writer and the indiscriminate use of slang under the mistaken impression that because slang is widely used, the incorporation in dialogue automatically gives that dialogue life...
...On the book-jacket we read that Sillenpaa spent some years in the natural sciences...
...Thurlow Gray, founder and secretary of the Legion, told re- , porters that he had 80,000 men , behind him, 90 per cent of whom t were employees of the Ford Motor t Company, including himself...
...Lubin...
...Willard L. Thorp, economist, declared that corporations have multiplied and that while the number of business enterprises increased 45 per cent from 1910 to 1930, the increase in the corporate type was 90 per cent...
...Ms* appearance of Small Business, Expansion of Huge Corporations...
...Democracy/ Education, and the Future of America «rr Ry WU.UAM E. BOHN .IT is about time...
...Besides which the Labor feels »nfldent of winning the next gen;ral election...
...Comrnfttee Tofd of Hshje Wage Loss...
...It is "Main Street," only more cramped, poorer and pettier,—hence more cunning and hypocritical...
...Accompanying this economic degradation of millions of useful workers has been the steady concentration of capital and power Into the hands of -great corporations...
...Mayakovsky was considered the "proletarian'' ?oet of Soviet Russia, pa r excellence...
...The program is also the only one which wffl provide new "homes (for groups with incomes as low as relief standards...
...This is a terrific indictment of American capitalism and the price for its failure to function has been paid in unemployment of tens of millions of workers and the impoverishment of these millions since 1929...
...Where he taps...
...It reaffirmed this position at a recent meeting of Labor Party leaders, industrial and political...
...ia»:4sf--f.*.?arai Srxfr.« *:s v...
...I am intent on seeing that workingmen are protected from radical leaders and selfish employers...
...2.50...
...Thorpe who declared that two-tenths of one per cent of all corporations possess about 62 per cent of all corporate assets while 55 per cent of all corporations possess 1.4 per cent of the assets...
...Isador Lubin, Commissioner of Labor Statistics, by means of numerous charts, explained how national income has not kept pace with the increase in population and that had a balance been maintained in the past nine years the value would have been 132 billion dollars ot an average of $1,000 for every inhabitant...
...American industry does not produce enough goods to insure an American standard of living...
...It is his conviction that we must fight dictatorship by making our democracy successful...
...That is lower than rents charged on any public housing program in the country...
...Labor Bars Deals With Other British Parties ¦Osfees Independent Fiakf for "eHiomoatory Medorfff ¦—-Regards Sectaiisf rVofrom Moeoseory for Lesfief *eece—dveies Popeier Proof Toeflcs, LON POK.—Regardless of the propaganda lor a "National Opposition" which is bombarding the British Socialists, the British Labor Party is determined to wage as independent fight against the Tories...
...Projects announced this week are the first of a series of homes calling for an ultimate outlay by the' Federal government of $18,000,000...
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...He is no arch type of patient peasant, for peasants as a class are shrewd and imaginative...
...By ELIAS L. TARTAK BOOKS AND WRITERS Proletarian Writers, Dead and Livinn -r^ryiS A RAG ON is One of the leftist Writers k* ef contemporary France, in fact, he is One tfte editor...
...What have been the effects of the ten-year depression on the distribution of incomes and why fat ft that American capitalism has been unable to rise from its sickbed since it collapsed m 1929...
...2.50...
...Professor Counts brings passion . the defense and analysis of democracy...
...The book is full of facts, tod the logic is irrefutable...
...Tiew tar lees more clearly than anyone else the sharp line between freedom and dictatorship...
...Most of the personages <rf the novel are good (or had) French bourgeois, their families, their children...
...In all of these he sees group interests and the dangers from group control of government and of the organs of public opinion...
...Anjtaer, and even more famous poet, Sergey fefnenin, a "peasant" poet, had hanged himself «jger, in 1925...
...Michigan will control labor organisations...
...Skeptical about the possibility of peaceful development in Russia, he repudiates all of the assumptions of the Russian system and rests his *TJBB PROSPECTS OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY...
...T*HE advances of the Fascist states give the * immediate poignancy to his thought...
...K.K.I...
...A Novel of Central America ; , *y EVELYN UCHTENBERG "T*HB Bridge in the Jungle" is a story so sim'•tple as -to be almost without plot...
...Traven has yet to demonstrate his ability to handle language to the degree necessary for such a task...
...Several former employees of the , Ford corporation in Detroit testi- ] fied at last week's hearing that ? they were discharged for refusal t to join the legion...
...It is also a picture of French life, particularly it the provinces, as lived in the years immediately preceding the war...
...It is reported that Sir Walter Citrine was not entirely apposed to the alliance with Liberals and dissident Tories while others like George Dallas vehemently fought even temporary sua>ension of Labor's Socialist aims 'Not'l Opposition" Impossible Arthur Greenwood, prominent Parliametnsry leader, is one of a small group who feel that "slavery is worse than poverty*' and ivould be prepared for a reduced Labor program...
...A Finnish Novel Ry ISABELLE PAYE tat I * Two book, by Finland's "greatest living wriVr" as the jacket tells us, concerns a simple fpMnat in rural Finland at the turn of the cen¦ tjjls, lassi Toivola is born to poverty, stupidity ¦phi labor, and he enters the Finnish democratic movement...
...Lowest Rent With a grant of $6,600,000 from the United States Housing Authority, new15 homes for 5,000 slum dwellers are to be constructed, st an average rent of $4 per room per month...
...Tremendous Loss of Income ! Dr...
...Some important facts have been disclosed, among them the following: Industries are more and more pass'ing under control of gigantic corporations...
...hope in the American way of life...
...iy, Mr...
...Down South the Ku Klux Klan, s backed by the mill owners, has de- ^ clared war on the Congress of Industrial Organizations and is rid- i ing under burning crosses again...
...Meek Heritage"* reveals a writer of profound social sympathies, but its technique is occasionally sociological...
...This is no negative diatribe...
...However, the entire furor is Tiuch ado about nothing since n 'national opposition" couldn't be created Indications are that Eden ind Chamberlain have patched :hmgs up and that there are few f any dissident Tories willing to sreak away from the Conservatives and the Liberals hare no strength at all...
...George S. Counts...
...La bo rites feel that in a coalition that could only hold together on the issue of foreign policy they would have to subordinate their ultimate Socialist aims to the more urgent need to bold the coalition together...
...Now York Drive Attempted Just to prove how fair his intentions are, he added that he was considering the advisability of leg- I islation that would require notice I of intention to strike, forbid picketing except by employees of a I struck plant, and outlaw any sys- ' tern of forced membership or payment of union dues...
...Said the G.O.P...
...He perceives that Russia provides no universal pattern and that America, at least, will follow a different course...
...Traven is to be commended for his sympathetic treatment of the native as a human "being who acts in terms of his culture...
...for a great flowering of a free culture he nee beholds school, press, and other organs of opinion shaped by "systematic and ruthless use of the police power...
...Woodrow Wilson was shocked while on a tour of the city...
...1 White-robed men are kidnapping t and beating organizers...
...However, the major quality of his work is unmistakable...
...No "revolution" will do the job...
...Most of the homes will be four-room, twostory, one-family dwelling/, con^ sisting of a living room with a large closet, a combination dining room and kitchen with a stove, sink, laundry tub and hotwater heater, two bedrooms and bath...
...1988...
...Each home will have ample closet space and a small yard...
...There are hints here that it was last winter's trials which finally opened nis eyes...
...Fights C.I.O...
...And the ways of doing this give the substance to his book...
...3.00...
...Chekhov was a physician, but he digested his learning...
...On the other hand, the bankruptcy of business firms is high...
...Finally, it reaffirms its policy declaration issued to the nation at the end of October under taa title of 'Labor's Claim to Government...
...three years after the memorable meeting, gjfskovsky blew out his brains in Moscow...
...Undercover anti-union activity is ^ scarce m New York State, but the auto manufacturers with plants j there tried their best to settle that | little matter by importing the Lib- 1 erty Legion of America, Inc...
...of the communist "Humanite...
...is spreading from Georgia, t where violence has broken out 1 sporadically, to Florida', where So- s cialist leader Shoemaker was mar- i dered, and to Alabama...
...Unfortunate--—— ¦ "•!« THE BRIDGE IN THE JUNGLE, by T. Traven, Alfred A. Knopf...
...Briefly, it tells of the death by drowning of an Indian boy fcf ^Central American jungle or rather of the dfeHf of his death on his mother and on the community over a period of some thirty-six leers...
...Since IPSE, there have >een 56 by-elections in which the Labor Party has lost no seats rhile the Tories have dropped 13...
...The two heroes, if so they be called, Armand and Edmond Barbentane, are respectively the younger end the older son of Doctor Barbentane, a provincial physician and rising politician of that Strange socialist-radical party, which is well known to he neither radical nor socialist, but liberal middle bourgeeisy...
...In tile portrayal of that life of the French bourgeois, Aragon follows the solid tradition of French merciless realism, the tradition of Maupassant, Zola and Anatole France...
...Whether American democracy is to survive tomorrow rests fundamentally upon the action taken by the friends of American democracy today...
...The campaign to eliminate Washington's slum dwellings, declared by housing expert- to be the most squalid in the country, dates back a quarter of a 4 century", when the first Mrs...
...To put it baldly, he writes quite badly...
...Michigan, the auto union state, has already been warned by Governor-elect Fitzgerald just what can be expected during his administration...
...The net loss of income to wage and salary workers alone from 19^0 to 1938 was the staggering sum of 120 billion dollars...
...and the s CJ.O...
...D. C—After precious month- lost in wrangling over plans and other detail?, a slum clearance program for the nation's capital this week finally got under way...
...fie is just a stupid and at times inexplicably depressing creature, working another man's soil, marrying an expectant servant-girl, and dying at last in the democratic uprising of which he "¦•if stands nothing...
...P&YlNtiAL FRANCE A RAGON'S novel under review* is a refreshing "phenomenon among the general run ef "proletarian" literature...
...These are some of the important questions confronting the Temporary National Economic Committee which is sitting here as a collective physician diagnosing our invalid capitalist system...
...604 pp...
...The c war between the K.K.K...
...Tessi is ill-endowed by the setter...
...Mrs...
...The figures again bring out the enormous disparity in holdings and economic power between tile big kings of our corporate world and the smaller fry below...
...The trend has been ;hat way...
...It begins to " appear that Knudsen, Slosn, and the duPonts will finally win the last auto sit-down strike...
Vol. 21 • December 1938 • No. 50
