Daladier Alienates All Republican Backing by Anii-Strike Measures
Daladier Alienates All Republican Backing by Anii-Strike Measures CGT Suspends Collaboration With Premier Hmm Numbers Answer Calf tor ft S Mr ill Strike; Virtu-«44y AN Miners and Seamen Walk...
...iocals had exchanged their charters for T.W.O.C...
...In 1930 a band of 12,000 Lappo I men marched on Helsingfors and forced the centre government under the present President (Kallio) to resign...
...Virtu-«44y AN Miners and Seamen Walk Out...
...of L. Back of the Gorman letter is * court decision in Shade Island ar.c a secession from the C.LO...
...The government thought to profit by the strike to break the C.G.T...
...It has provided assistants for 1,581 others...
...the union's constitution provides that the organization cannot be dissolved while there are nine, dissenting union: and the local unions were net giver an opportunity to express their wishes in the matter...
...It' committed a long series of terrorist acts, first against Communists and later against Socialists and Liberals...
...I speak not as an economist but as a doctor," the Sap...
...In the state-owned tobacco and- airplane factories and in the textile and metallurgic industries, seventy-five to ninety percent answered the call...
...It is .perfectly true the government scored a spectacular success in getting the trains running and the public services functioning in and around Paris...
...it is the duty of the national officers to call s special convention to act on the matter...
...to suspend all collaboration with the present administration...
...Private concerns took the cue and followed milt...
...The ban includes all the party's sub-divisions in the form of snorts anH vouth movements The official explanation of the government's action is that the Fatherland Front was a continuation of the illegal Lappo movement which was dissolved in 1932...
...The reactionary press clamored its joy the day after the general strike at what it called the rout of 'die C.G.T...
...lists 86 new hospmS^HHBis been built...
...Wl A lnvMi fundamentally they are all there because health-,*ac weft-bo* demanded that idle hands most have something to da Bm.*e« W the WPA has specifically, thoroughly and efficiently set abast av viding direct aids to health as well...
...Continue the study of the ledger: see how the WPA has lpaAt malaria all through the South by draining more than inp acres of swampland where the Anopheles mosquito hiasija, Ajp it has sealed 7,777 abandoned mines to reduce the hSHpnt streams...
...it has to give their, the ajpg...
...It frjaffrT-plished the examination of 1.056,202 children outside »f ehwoi: it has sent visiting nurses on 2,460,133 borne visits...
...The movement quickly declined and the unsuccessful Mantsala revolt together with further acts of violence including the abduction of the Liberal ex-| president Stahlberg led to the dissolution of the party...
...I eirphasiv ful work...
...You con got ten nc» *«bo fbis wocic-ond aasaof yawr foiio•rode aajoaisfs...
...On the other hand there is the court decision, the impounds...
...PARIS.—An important decision was taken at a recent meeting of the C.G.T...
...Severe Anti-Strike Acts Labor .through the C.G.T., has its word to say on every governmental advisory board and all the industrial committees grouped in the national economic council...
...A few days after the discovery of this plot the head offices of the Danish Labor Party were burgled...
...Hillmon Disputes Gorman Speaking for the T.W.O.C., Sidney Hillman declared that Gorman's preparation for a convention matters little as most of the U.T.W...
...Public opinion in Denmark has been shocked by two recent revelations of Nazi activity in the country...
...Another inten-tiott is to reduce the workers' salaries and other benefits by declaring the worker broke bis contract of his own initiative and thereby New Finn Curbs Balk Fascist Terrorists •'Fatherland Front,- Founded in 7928, Has Long History of Violent Aaaults on Socialists—Broad Nasi Espionage System Exposed in Denmark...
...The Fascists had at that point already marched out...
...hich is a legal offense in Finland...
...No government in this country is likely to coaunh u,e era*, pauperizing millions of its citizens with a dole, whatever % Twoe> ity of taw wind in the speeches directed against * lwjj work program...
...in the name of -the working class as a whole...
...It has mobilized armlet af workers for rescue and salvage work, and co-operated with die R«d Grow the police, the National Guard, the CCC and other agenciet is the field to get the stricken communities back to normal...
...FISHER Author and playvrrigkt.^formtrly aeaeetsSwi with Ha-ocrrf ly "J...
...self-rtsw and skill from rusting away...
...It members are invited to withdraw immediately from all official participation in government bodies, excepting in such cases where it may be considered best to stay in order to assure directly the defense of the workers' interests...
...The government decree came as a complete surprise to many people, though repeated demands had been made that something should be done to stop the Front's illegalities...
...The United States has to have the WPA w a equivalent, because it has to preserve the mental health *t J the physical health of its citizens...
...An extensive espionage plot to procure information about the movements of foreign shipping and aeroplanes in the event of war has-been brought to light by the police...
...no other type fills the mental needs...
...968 that have been repaired or improved, 33 to wfed additions have been made...
...The party had also broken the ban on the wear-, ing of" political badges and had enrolled schoolchildren as active members...
...Tba subs ort only OHl DOLLAR A TEAR...
...also claimed thatl about 25,000 members of local unions in Fall Bedford are negotiating to returi to the A.F...
...its \ufn concept oi mental health, economic factors axe eaJfrdiaste te tk vital necessity of providing for oar destitute citJaets *r op...
...of which the U.T.W...
...There are two members of the 6.6.T...
...in thai state of eleven textile unions ar.c several C.I.O...
...ware's yon cbaoco fa betid your ii brary a»d boip t*rm Tba Now Locdoi *afo o efooof nuHoe wide labor odwe poper...
...of L. The court action grew out of th< contract signed in March, 1937, bj President Gorman and John L Lewis, chairman of the C.I.O...
...haps generations repair losses to human character sod mm* hearth which will result from a failure to give use*, empufmm to our citizens...
...Thus it gives people all over the country a ehaa»» perform useful work for a living, rather than allowing tasa tt fall victims of idleness, which is death...
...It has built 243 new sewage treatment fiaftU, (¦ pumping stations...
...It ordered the state factories to be closed and sanctions taken against the workers...
...Behind these figures see volumes abort Qrpkflfal dysentery, hookworm, that will never have to be written...
...In internal matters its policy is one of progress and social reform...
...In foreign affairs it lias shown an increasing approach io the neutrality .policy of the Scandinavian bloc...
...sgA k WPA roads, WPA schools, WPA airports...
...The New Laador needs «b*«rJ*fio»*— we bepa to see e fmfHW labor d««y in IMc roanliy —el yoa wavf *•«•* of tba boat seftioa new boob* Tney're yours FREE Of ANY CHARGE •~~ novel* biogi tfpay, music, trovol, er **• cfaeefct oof > o o t you seloef—we W " - d N m f o r •vary bate* of 10 WW Y*"**l/ *wbi»rlam»m$ you *«ed fa before Mew Peer's Day...
...It is entirely „ another story which comes out of the meeting of the national council of the C.G.T...
...There is to be a general election next year, and pending the election it is not known whether the 14 Fascists will sit as independent members or whether they will choose to stay away from Parliament...
...mast WJ...
...not because it is their duty, hot because it .is their "QjaymSj ness, when enforced, is more deadly than any poison wastsarl infects an individual, a community, or a nation, the only antiagfe * for it is work...
...Charney Vladeck, late majority leader of the New York City Council...
...has one of its men on the board of directors of - the Bank of France and the national state railway...
...The spies are believed to have had a share in the operations of Franco warships in the North Seas...
...We can eve* recoup lone* from plague or pestilence, but we cannot for long years «m per...
...fX this sense the whole Recovery Program is a health fsjaja as no less an authority than Surgeon-Genera Parri...
...Its whole health program, indeed, is based on eo-epamasa, fe it is administered through the states aad carried oat Uuoajkhsd agencies...
...Three Danes and 11 Germans hare been arrested, including Captain von Pfiugk-Hartung, the man who shot Karl Liebknecht in 1919...
...those who came to honor the memory of the man who was a firm believer in action and not in mourning approve the creation of a Vladeck Memorial Fund which will be utilized exclusively in the fight for liberty, democracy and racial - tolerance...
...This greatest of health agaaoas <kji laid 4,995 miles of water mains, aqueducts, and distriaatieajis*: has built 1.272 storage tanks, reservoirs, and cisterns...
...The Su perior Court of Rhode Island nulli fied this contract on the grounc that it violated the constitution oi the U.T.W...
...of L~ and Gorman, being a memoes, again became a member of the A J. of L. It is...
...charters...
...It received a majority of 140 votes, with 24 members voting against...
...union funds in Rhode Mastd evidence of distention thtt m l*d to bring further i iiie)il»SjfcsM Further muddle the already w died and divided labor ipsfsse For the Sick WPA Has Greatest Heaalth Program in U.S History By A.E...
...is an affiliate, it is believed by some observers that this is a move intendec to bring the organisation back t« the A.F.ofL...
...More directly still, it has hit at the problem of inadeqefte health services, especially in rural areas, by building clink* Mi conducting 379 of them with its own doctors, nurses anii tedt-nicians...
...It mattered little to Daladier that to arrive at this result, he was obliged to decree the mobilization of railway engineers, bus drivers and even the clerks in the courts of justice, and to have the troops on hand to enforce the order...
...General has said, "when I urge that useful empieyaw be pnnjfai for all who are willing and able to work- Whatej < • the emt, J would urge that from the standpoint of publk health...
...gronsbled «f tbo local . library focilifios and fumed fo fee . sports secfion wifn a scowl...
...In great SSjMfWiw like the New England hurricane or the floods of lstt sh 1WI, it has sent food and clothing to distribution centers,and wm tad women to run those centers...
...tomnmbor any boob yoe woof—am aefbar Jobo #os Poosof, tgeacie SI »©»•, ffraaaf Homingwoy, John oVonfbor Jobn tfolobocfc, Joaeos T. Forrotl, Ee gene Lyons, i»4i Sfoiberg, and nnndred) of novel* and *e*u>opermnn bio graeaical accoenfs yoe r e been woof...
...Strikes, LeckeiiH Still On Behind this brutal attack on the workers is the attempt to decapitate the workers' movement by firing the delegates...
...President of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union, John Hayes Holmes, Adolph Held, Chairman of the Jewish Labor Committee, Sergei-Braun, well-known European socialist leader, and Joseph Wein?berg, President of the Workmen's Circle...
...The Court Decision Outstanding features of the decision are the following: that th« contract illegally transferred all od the property and functions of the union to the T.W.O.C...
...Tea laker move m* ft galas a re ereff every time Tea New Loader f « l * a raadar...
...Hillman added that the disputed contract was signed in good faith, that the membership approved it, and that Gorman's move is ,solely an individual action on his part...
...Joining in the tribute to the great labor leader were some of the outstanding political, religious and literary figures in American Kfe including Mayor LaGuardia, Hendrik Willem Van Loon, Shoiem Aach, noted Yiddish novelist, Sidney Hillman...
...held in Paris on December 5. The miners and the seamen followed the strike order practically to the last man...
...Fund Set Up Newbold Morris, President of the New York City Council, presented to Vladeck's family two leather-bound resolutions adapted by the New York City Council and members of the Board of Estimate expressing their sorrow at the premature death of one of their most valuable and beloved co-workers...
...tunity to lead normal family lives, and to keep the...
...Gorman himself U now a member of the A.F...
...Stat* Director to obtain possession oi funds retained by the seceding local unions and the court ordered these funds to be impounded subject to further orders of the court...
...and the C.I.O...
...It ass «aj 1.632 wells...
...President Gorman declares that he shares blame for the present mess and adds that he made a mistake in signing the contract...
...Pfiugk-Hartung was Copenhagen correspondent of the "Berliner Bor-sen-Courier...
...the PMOt week shifted to the textile field when it became known thai Francis J. Gorman, president oi the United Texwk Workers, had sent letters to local uaxms preparing the way fag »4MffcMS$ convention...
...It has since then toned down its enthusiasm con-siueraoiv...
...The public was impressed by what it could see for itself and believed all the more readily the cock-crowing over ¦the radio and in the press that the strike had failed lamentably...
...Uselessness, the most fatal of oWasi...
...it has sroricW nurses at 638,972 immunizations...
...JJ, pointed out...
...sbeaanefoj, oelgbjbeirt 4merice* Lobar Party Qabe aad Socio Democratic federation bra tie not...
...The C.G.T...
...The present government of Finland is a coalition of Social Democrats, Farmers and Liberals...
...Money and valuables were left untouched, the thieves taking with them files of international correspondence, including considerable material relating to political refugees...
...6.299 miles of sewers, 37,988 cessp>*s, Jttjfl sanitary toiIts...
...tunity of a livelihood earned by individual effort...
...So far no arrests have been made...
...how it has eradicated insect pests over half a BuHat acres of land...
...The attention of the police was first drawn to the activities of a German 'driving instructor' whose suspicious movements along the coast of the Great Belt had excited local comment...
...By BENJAMIM PROTTER Special to The Sew Leader...
...As a fitting tribute to the memory of the man who worked all his life for the rights of the persecuted and exploited, David Dubinsky, President of the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, suggested that all...
...The ban must be confirmed by the judgment of an i n dependent court...
...Kb* year scowiieg day* are #ver...
...r>U can cure a man of tuberculosis, of syphdis, evet of jjttM when ais pride falls sick, measure biro far hi sfc3 Shame sacks marrow from the bones, deffadaSioB turns %a9 flesh to carrion...
...great plague of our times, the Black Bean which wouM dsssto oar civilization if allowed to spread unchecked...
...By REGINALD SPINK Special to The New Leader COPENHAGEN—A severe blow has been dealt the Finnish fascists by the issuing of a government decree which makes illegal the movement known as the "Fatherland Front" and prohibits all its newspapers...
...5,000 at Carnegie Hall Honor B.Charney Vladeck More than" 5,000 delegates representing labor, civic, educational and welfare organizations with a total membership oi ane million men and women gathered last Sunday evening at Carnegie Hall to pay tribute to one of the outstanding American...
...Later in the year the Lappo in cooperation with other reactionaries won a victory at the general elections...
...which created the Textile Workers Organizing Committee with Sidney Hillman as its chairman...
...The Front conducted an agitation which was undisguised in its antidemocratic tendency, while numer-articles and speeches were frankly unconstitutional...
...the University of Pari...
...largo Numbers Walk Out The effect was to give a semblance of normal life to Paris, the aerve-center of France, on which all eyes were centered...
...These organizations were chartered b> the A.F...
...Play Santa Claus to Yourself Help Us Beat Old Man Depression •Hp 31B %*at fftatt SeprpBStoa Qjourself a Qjiseful (Sitrxslmas cJifi O'low }LI4Nr fines during the pati yoor yoe'vo ioobed of tba lis* of be*f sciittrs ©ri«f«d is yoor fovorife doify, s i f t e d A* Hie condition el yoor pelvafe oxcbcooor...
...AN inventory of these direct contributions, in the Mriad sjjMt the WPA was founded in 1935...
...organisers...
...In the ether branches where it has not been possible to get exact figures as yet, a large majority of the workers laid down their tools...
...The decree was endorsed by Parliament after a lengthy debate in which the Front's 14 members took part...
...One of the far-reaching reforms accomplished by Blum's government in 1936 was to assure labor's participation in directing the nation's business...
...There are rumors in Helsingfors that the government has proof that the Fatherland Front was receiving support from Fascists and Nazis abroad...
...The court action arose over a suit brought by the C.I.O...
...it has sent housekeqhf side*, for the chronically sick or for those disabled by safe mm, on four million separate visits...
...Acting independently of th< C.LQ...
...rhas reached into schools in poor districts and af| wtjDts to work to cook 129,015,003 hot lunches...
...Marched on Helsiagfors The original Finnish f a a e i s t movement took its name from the village of Lappo, where it was founded in 1928...
...Although the meeting was arranged by the Jewish Labor Committee as a memorial to its departed founder and chairman, it was actually a militant demonstration for liberty, democracy and racial tolerance—causes for which Vladeck worked indefatigably*during his long life of public service...
...Investigation disclosed that he paid frequest visits to Pfiugk-Hartung in Copenhagen —via the back stairs...
...I f s oosy...
...l't cat reMmc cities destroyed by earthquake or fire...
...Papers found in their possession led to the discovery of a huge intelligence service with representatives in every part of Denmark...
...on the national wheat board that fixes the price of wheat each year, one member representing the individual agricultural workers' federation and the other appointed by the C.G.T...
...Gorman Calls Textile Convention For Return to AFL WASHINGTON, D. C—Interesi in the factional struggle between the A.F.ofL...
Vol. 21 • December 1938 • No. 51
