1,000,000 Jobless Look to Larger WPA Granito Spread Employment
1,000,000 Jobless Look to Larger WPA Granito Spread Employment 30-HourWeek, 8-Hour Day Now Vital WASHINGTON, D. C—Widespread unemployment and relief are ghosts that still haunt national party...
...In the land of the goosestep, TO per cent to 90 per cent have flat feet and other foot troubles...
...In the steel wages case the court decided that contractors on government work to the value of $10,000 must pay the prevailing wage in the locality where the supplies are produced...
...of Germany's preser.t-cay rulers...
...Among those organizations are the Jewish Daily Forward, the Workman's Circle, The New Leader, the Jewish Socialist Verband, and the Neue Volkszeitung...
...Germany is militarily s*J#i and that strength is likely top*" sist and perhaps increase is** long time...
...In dealing with the situation as a whole he was tragic failure...
...We are -proud that we contributed greatly to the primary victory...
...208 Injunctions In 6 Months Hit Chiseling Bosses WASHINGTON, D .C...
...arc amonf the Reich's most pitiable vie-tims...
...Today WPA is providing work for 2,000,000 persons at a cost of more than $100,000,000 a month but more than a half million workers have been certified for jobs and another half million could be certified if WPA funds were available...
...We have criticized the Party's failure to adopt a complete and integrated domestic and international policy...
...He . declared that their snit "constituted an unwarranted interference with deliberate legislative policy and with executive administration vital to the achievement of governmental ends, at the instance of parties whose rights the government has not invaded and who have no standing in court to attack the Secretary's determination...
...being- tr understand the muddle and stubbornness cf the author's original illusion aboat Hitler, it much, nevertheless, be admitted in all fairness, that Nevik Henderson has written an interesting and candid book...
...Of the civil rights of men and women in union picket lines, the former Attorney-General said...
...In the last six months, the agency announced, 231 civil suits and 88 criminal cases had been filed, compared with 45 civil and 48 criminal cases in the first year's operation of the act...
...Congressional action came as robots began following the caterpillar tractors onto the fruit, vegetable, and cotton picking lands...
...The...
...We have encouraged our members to devote a great part of their time and energy to work for the ALP even-though this has meant neglecting the interests of our own organization...
...Too many uapMOF table elements combine sad y-combine daily in the EBWtjs*S interrelations for us to to prophesy which will b* eWn* nant...
...Fundamentally, Nevile Henderson shews a keer, insight inte the mentality of Nazi leaders and Nazism itself...
...Dr Gumpert sees no possIbJS?T cf revolt with in such a Gerrossy —but rather an eventual coDaP** through the automatic sabcttte of exhausted and diseased Ms-logical and psychological msesV anisms...
...The average WPA worker to-.day earns $54.50 a month...
...the forced leticism for ail ages up to fifty-five, have produced an immense increase of physical ills, nervous strains of many kinds...
...Today they employ more women than any other country in the world...
...The "cats" drove sharecropper families from their lands and made them pickers working at starvation wages for corporation farmers...
...The statistics and conditions presented are so sensational thai they would be incredible if we were not here actually behind the scenes/ listening to the Nazis talking to themselves...
...With the same impeccable documentation Dr...
...But in his encounters with them the author snt-ceeds in making them visible and understandable, even humar to t certain extent...
...1940...
...but it had to be done "peacefully" by "negotiation...
...tolerance .. . . . 'If you want a newspaper, unafraid to ten the tnith, to hit hard...
...Suicides in Germany almost equal the total of all the rest of Europe, and this does not include the "sadden deaths^ canse not indicated," which have more than doubled since 1923...
...IHE REALIZE that vigilant and strenuous efforts are still neces-"i sary to strengthen the Party against the assaults which can be expected from the Communists...
...Other speakers of the evening were Esther Friedman, of the Women's Committee of the SDF, who reviewed the effect of 30 years of Social Democratic work for social legislation...
...L/tui nuuiLunum oi tne Rand School...
...This plan aroused protest sufficient to force it far into the background, but Babson and his backers apparently intend to renew the campaign for its institution as law...
...The more children a woman has (and good Nazis are expected to have large -famirre*), the more likely she is to be forced to work, for the husband's wages will not be sufficient...
...If you enjoy t.e paper • _ • If you want 115 . to fight for decency, to flare u,;t1le spark5 .of...
...too...
...Congress Plan To Aid Okies Fought by NAM Special to The New Leader WASHINGTON, D. C —Congress acted this week to probe the national transient labor problem with a view to the establishment of more federal camps and the dissemination to the migrant of bona fide facts concerning employment opportunities...
...The House of Representatives unanimously voted to investigate the situation and to authorize a committee to recommend means of rehabilitating poverty-stricken families of transient workers...
...SDF May Day Meeting Urges Labor Solidarity Against Nazis Stirring calls for the international solidarity of the working class fighting Hitlerism marked the May Day addresses of Louis Waldman and Algernon Lee to over 500 Social Democrats who assembled Tuesday evening, April an in n-ike- i,ijit^?.™ ~r *v„ -_in uit...
...Seger discussed the problem of Socialist war aims and hailed the plan of the British Labor party for a reconstruction of a united federated Europe, • bised upon mutual understanding and not on power politics...
...He is just a junior Chamberlain, another Nevile...
...Diphtheria mortality is four times thtt of the United 'States and is increasing...
...own conscience in this respect is clear.'" Thus—Sir Nevile Header son, British ambassador in Berlin from 1937 to the outbreak if this war...
...Reich Labor Represented Lee pointed out that the war would be ended sooner and the changes - for • America's military participation would be diminished if effective aid by the U. S. to the Allies were forthcoming...
...Justice Black, who read the decision, administered a stinging rebuke to the corporations...
...With no civic rights and with double duties, womcr...
...KEIL HUNGER...
...fruit, truck, and berry laborers of Georgia...
...FAILURE OF A MISSION: by Sir Nevile Hen?e~tcn...
...Now that the Communazi elements have been eliminated from influence in the Party, we Social Democrats have an added responsibility in the preservation of the American Labor Party and in its development into a powerful independent instrument of Labor, not only in New York State, but in cooperation with other progressive forces throughout the nation...
...One reason for the increased cost is that the contributions of the Federal Government have increased from about ?11 for each ? reliefer annually in 1933 to $27 ' last year...
...THE Social Democratic Federation congratulates the American Labor Party on its effective victory against the Communist-created "Progressive Committee to Rebuild the ALP...
...We see hew the dictatorship cf the lie penetrates and ates every aspect oi human life how the perverted spiritual, w-teliectual and physical elemente act destructively on one anew...
...We extended our cooperation despite our disappointments because we realized that it is in the nature of the case that in its formative stage such a party should be somewhat lacking in cohesion, in self-reliance and in clearness of view as to its own future road and goal and should at first tend to pay too high a price for immediate success in the electoral field...
...Roger W. Babson, Tory statistician, last week joined such powerful figures as H. W. Prentiss, chief of the National Association of Manufacturers, in calling for the abolition or negation of non-property owners' votes...
...334 ppf Putnam's Sons...
...New York...
...We'" use it to 900d acivantage .••• and your friends will read a paper the "democratic left" Is proud of • _ • show us you are...
...And both stubbornly held to the belief that a "peaceful solution , of the Czech and Austrian problems"—in a sense favorable to Germany—was possible...
...While this represents a substantial gain, the masters of industrial enterprise cannot claim any credit for it...
...rs 1-1» i «r . I ¦¦ "-Vi By Elias L Tartak= A Tragic Failure *lk#Y MISSION to Germany was a 'tragic failure, but at W...
...Associated Farmer and similar agencies in recent months have sought to set up a "one-two plan" of voting in California, under which property owners would receive two votes each, while other citizens 21 or over would exercise one...
...In exchange Hitler was to help fa creating and guaranteeing a peaceful Europe...
...Another Nev/fe REVILE HENDERSON is either a second Macchaivell: or the son...
...Gerhard Seger, editor of the Neue Volkszeitung, brought the greetings of the German movement to the assemblage...
...Hitler's honor...
...Not only individuals in the Federation but the Federation's many institutions worked energetically for this victory...
...This does not apply to Eibber.trop who is the author's pet boor and bully...
...r _-j.__ vSi...
...His book, however, is one cf the most vivid portrayal...
...However, although he paisa» • true and xmforgcttahi* pfcSSS* we must not jump to ths «se* elusion that Germany vfll ses» collapse like a house built * rotten cardboard...
...Pointing out that America's good behavior is not enough to insure international peace, Louis Waldman, chairman of the National council for Social Democracy, declared that "so long as isolationists proclaim themselves indifferent to what Hitler and Stalin have done and are doing to weak peoples, these dictators axe encouraged in their vicious actions...
...This loyal support was given despite the many criticisms entertained for some of the policies of the ALP in past years...
...What happened, however, was the obvious: the cunning dictator, once feeling assured that England and France would not fight far Austria and the Czechs, refused to be a "gentleman," and grabbed all these sweet morsels with a display of brute force, each tint inflicting irreparable damage to British and French prestige...
...Dictators Are Not Gentlemen ALL OF WHICH boils down to this: England was willing to Id Hitler achieve his "legitimate aspirations...
...In the end, England was compelled to fight for Poiand...
...We have claimed no privileges and more than fulfilled our duties...
...600,000 wives are working in factories...
...In sponsoring the successful bill for an investigation, Congressman John H. Tolan* of California pointed out that the "Okies" actually form a nationwide problem, from California to New Jersey...
...Of all the employed, 25 per cent are female...
...Back-wage restitution growing out of litigation over the payment of sub-minimum wages, the agency said, - had aggregated more than $500,000...
...f'f you 'want a publication with courage enough to expose tIIose In h19...
...Your Subsean Stop This From Happening Here .2>~~~: From Elmer Davis...
...Himmler and Ribber.trcp...
...that Hitler, once he had been helped in * "peaceful" and "gentlemanly" manner to all his "unredeemed" Germans, to Austria and Sudeten,—would be satisfied—and a general pacification of Europe could be achieved...
...Cordially • _ ••• " From Stephe .. Naft...
...Rickets, a disease of malnutrition, decreasing in other countries, and all contagious diseases of childres, have increased alarmingly...
...So it seems...
...It was "a tragic failure.'" And still Xev?c Henderson doet not regret "having tried to believe in Germany's honor and gooc sense...
...Together witi his chief, he believed that "there was a limit to Hitler's ambitions and a word of truth at least in some of his utterances...
...This cooperation is of course nothing new to the Social Democrats...
...Unemployment has become ? permanent problem and the jobless have become a permanent social charge upon government agencies unless there is some eventual basic change in our industrial system that will guarantee Useful employment to every employable person...
...Juvenile crime has doubled since 1934...
...Gumpert showl Bi in some detail the "self-blo**-adc" which makes undcrnourieh-ment chronic, the misery of the farmer who was also to be savei by National Socialism, the ma of science, the decline of edocS-tion...
...Because of the events in the Party during the past six months, we have confidence that the American Labor Party is on the road .to solve its problems, and chart a satisfactory course...
...Hunger Well Organized By CLARA GRU?NIHG.ST?LIMAN EXCLUSIVELY from Nazi sources, from official year books, modi-cal journals and the like, Dr...
...The Strenuous discipline of the Hitler Jugend...
...No wonder that the world finds it so difficult to understand all this English "muddling into" things—and their strange imperturbability about their admitted "ghastly failures...
...SI.75...
...Perhanaa?S¦ in__, - i____ ____u i__ ___-L...
...an Englishman could be capable of writing Sir Nevile's book.* To admit in the same sentence that his mission was a "tragic failure" and at the same time, to feel morally justified about the "failure" of his "appeasement,"—is an apparent contradiction which only the British seem to possess the secret of reconciling...
...SDF Resolution on The A merican Labor Party Adapted by the Social Democratic Federation, Local New York, at its Convention in the Rand School, April 21, 1940...
...the robots, one of which can do the work of 20 men, threaten the few remaining jobs and, unless strong agricultural unions are formed and protective legislation passed, will drive the wage level even further below the subsistence standard than it is at present...
...This will at leasf cover my subscription to TheHew Leader for a w"lIe...
...With clothing rising in price and food insufficient alcohol is one of the few easily obtainable pleasures...
...On the criminal side, the agency said that 50 employers had pleaded guilty to indictments charging violations of the law and had been assessed $266,862 in fines...
...What they are saying is in substance this: the great birth polking campaign for increasing- the German race is a colossal failure...
...In all probability he is neither...
...Alliance Boot «¦*•» Longmans Green...
...That the old order of conservative legalism is almost dead in our highest judicial 'body is evident from the fact that Justice McReynolds, die-hard survivor of that order, stood alone in opposing the majority in these three decisions...
...Its cultivation and consumption are encouraged by the ^personally teetotal fiihrer, even though it uses up necessary land and grain and is no doubt an important factor in the lush growth cf tuberculosis (declining: in other countries), venereal diseases, mental diseases (doubled in a few years), crime, industrial and other accidents, and suicide which flourish in the Nazi Blut vnd Bo-den, as in no past, past or present, since statistics have been in use...
...in adcfitioll, these men send us cash to pay for a score of subscriptions_ .. Howabout you...
...Therefore we call upon our many institutions, members and sympathizers to continue with increased vigor their cooperation in this-effort to build fot^the democratic and progressive movements of this country a strong political party...
...the degradation and defen-eration of what was once a grest people...
...Thus the human cast-offs of American industry have become a permanent problem of the Roosevelt Administration, and it will also be permanent for each successive administration unless some drastic measures are taken to solve the conflict between government and private enterprise...
...The court declared the two laws unconstitutional on the ground that they violated fundamental guarantees of free speech and press...
...Drunkenness has risen to tremendous proportions...
...little Steel" Loses Fight on Wage Law Special to The New Leadeb WASHINGTON, D. C —Following swiftly upon two decisions last week which upheld the right ¦ of organized workers to picket peacefully, the United States Supreme Court this week handed down a verdict in the steel wages case in which it dismissed the fight made by seven "Little Steel" corporations to nullify the determination by Secretary of Labor Perkins under which minimum wages were to be paid by steel firms filling government contracts under the Walsh-Healey law...
...1I7E HAVE consistently pointed out the danger and the evil of * Communist infiltration into the American Labor Party and into positions of influence...
...Algernon Lee, city chairman of the Social Democratic Federation, called for a demonstration of solidarity with the labor and Socialist forces abroad fighting Hitlerism...
...About one out of every seven persons in our country is receiving some form of federal relief...
...The filthy hovels, corporate farmer persecution, and low wage standards that confront the California transient workers also afflict the Colorado sugar beet workers...
...While it is difficult for an ordinary humar...
...Justice Murphy, newest member of the court, wrote the two opinions...
...Taking its case before a trial court, "Little Steel" lost and then obtained an injunction in the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, and it was this restraining order that was vacated by the Supreme Court...
...dealing- witt individuals and individual situations...
...This was demonstrated by California's Congressman Bert-rand W. Gearhart who, in backing the investigation bill, revealed that thousands of workers in recent months trekked 500 miles to Alameda county for advertised jobs as spinach pickers...
...Gumpert has constructed a picture of health conditions in Germany under the Nazi regime which k the complete antithesis and disproof of Hitler's sweeping claims of the rehabilitation of German health, family life and econonw* security...
...places •• _ . tf yOil want a paper with the 9uts It takes to smoke out America's fascists .•• • • • tile least YOIl can do Is to 9ri your friellds to read it...
...Credit belongs to the social legislation enacted by Congress over the opposition of die-hard representatives of the old order of indifference and neglect of social responsibility for human disaster...
...lative halls of Congress and the State Legislatures, the private burden being imposed upon the Federal Government...
...A loyal and substantial support without which victory over the Communazi effort to take' Over New York's political organization could not have been so certain...
...Relief Costs Up Although the number of persons has declined 11,000,000 since early in 1934, the cost of relief has substantial increased...
...1,000,000 Jobless Look to Larger WPA Granito Spread Employment 30-HourWeek, 8-Hour Day Now Vital WASHINGTON, D. C—Widespread unemployment and relief are ghosts that still haunt national party chiefs and politicians who most face them at the coming national nominating conventions...
...Payments are still low but the, average jobless person is being cared for better except in a few states where an "economy" policy has been followed at the expense of human welfare...
...The relief population has dropped from its peak of over 28,000,000 in January, 1934, to the present figure of a little over 17,000,000...
...The average relief payment in 1933-34 waa under $20...
...Through four successive campaigns and a primary election fight we have given loyal and constructive support to the ALP-which we helped to organize in 1936...
...The statement makes the reader gasp...
...It takes onlry one to make war, be continued, and it is not enough to think merely of what the U. S. should do...
...The result is that the jobless millions are tossed into the legis...
...Although 1,250,000 workers have left WPA rolls vohantarity in the past twelve months, American relief rolls still provide for over 17,000,000 persons and opinion is shifting to the belief that unemployment, is not a temporary but a permanent problem in the United States...
...More than that: the book has dramatic sweep and, not infrequently, amazing power cf portrayal and analysis of the Nazi leaders.—from Hitler to Goering, Hess...
...Premature invalidism and insanity are widespread...
...Another British contradiction...
...The men were then kept waiting for weeks, forced "to live along the ditches, and finally hired at wages far below those advertised...
...The cost to Federal, state and local governments in 1933, fpr example, was $1,400,000,000 for 19,000,000 persons, while in 1939 about the same number of persons received $3,500,000,000...
...Cordi,,,,y Both these men write for a Iivin9' Yet both these me...
...Nevile Henderson is all lucidity and common sense...
...We regretted that the Party did not develop into an independent political party of labor as rapidly as we had hoped...
...AF Handbills Spread While nation-wide protest, stirred up chiefly by the Steinbeck "Grapes of Wrath," has brought about the establishment of employment information centers to combat the Associated Farmer trick of drawing labor surpluses by spreading handbills far in excess of tie number of openings, the AF still succeeds in attracting hundreds of job-seekers to sites where few workers are to be hired...
...Write for a subscription booklet now_ • Fill out the el9ht subscript10D blallks ' and send In the six dollars...
...These defects, it has shown, it can and will overcome...
...one of America's most prominent ma9cmne writers Gnd radio commentators and an occasional . contributor to these columns, comes the follow1n9: "Here is fen dollars...
...Injunctions totaling 208 have been granted out of the 231 cases filed, "with three denied and the remainder pending...
...naivete...
...Noihhej ¦ less likely to happen...
...Progress Shown' Of even more importance to the labor movement" were the two decisions rendered against anti-picketing laws in Alabama and California...
...What they are saying is in substance this: What of German youth which always looks so violently health} in the illustrated magazines...
...Private owners of capital have no plan for absorbing the unemployed and they have sufficient economic power to sabotage government plans that do not suit their narrow outlook...
...Increasing use of injunctions and criminal prosecutions to force -employers to obey the Fair Labor Standards Act is reported by the Wages and Hours Administration...
...pronriaent magaune writer, one of theeclitors of tile Living Age, and freqllent cOlltriblltor to tltese columns, comes the followln9: "Here Is my pledged contribution, and I Itope t"at In view of tile excellence of t"e paper everybody who Illes TIle Hew Leader will contribute· in the same proporiion to lIis 'ncome as , did...
...the average family on home relief received $25.27 last December, and the average person on old age assistance got $19.33...
...He asserted the right of the people of Central Europe to decide for themselves the problems of national reconstruction following the war's termination...
...Eli Rosenblatt, who spoke for the youth members of the SDF and who called for renewed political activity and revitalized Socialist idealism', and I. Levine-Shatzkes, brought-greetings from the Jewish Socialist Verband...
...At times Henderson's "fairness7' to Hitler's paladins will irritate the reader...
...We cannot be isolationists and speak of international solidarity, he declared...
...Marriages are fewer, the birth rate is lower, the death rate is higher, .jiot only in comparison with pre-Hitier Germany but with othsr countries now...
...The seven corporations had questioned the power of the Labor Department to define a locality for basing a minimum wage and complained against the extent of one locality defined by Secretary Perkins...
...Famliy Happiness In Nazidom IT WAS one of the main Nazi * boasts that the Hitlerites put women back in the home to protect family life...
...by .*fff* Gumpert...
...This increases the Federal debt which in turn induces the chiefs of corporate enterprise and their political retainers to insist on "economy" in Federal expenditures...
...have frequently taken time out of their work for days to sit down and write ~e featur-:s your I.Hers reveal you have read With enthusIasm...
...and vegetable pickers of New Jersey and Florida...
...safeguarding of these rights to the end that men may speak as they think on matters vital to them and that falsehoods may be exposed through the processes of education and discussion is essential to free government...
Vol. 23 • May 1940 • No. 18
