Gov't Reveals 2,500,000 Farm Hands Starve in U.S.
Gov't Reveals 2,500,000 Farm Hands Starve in U.S. WASHINGTON, D. C—The economic tragedy that has overwhelmed small farmers in the Middle West and the plight of those who migrate to California-...
...Furthermore, under the re organized Supreme Court, labo: believed that the reactionary de cisions of this body's predecessor: would be overruled, including those which applied the anti trust laws to trade unions...
...But the writer's point of view remsinf a secondary consideration in the novel of excitement, and Ma* Frankau has made the companion errors of tearing too mucfc est toe glibly about society and of permitting the talk to take ft* place of tile shooting...
...The book's general philosophy is naive...
...After the farmer paid all operating costs his family realized a net average of $25 per month 1 About 7,700,000 men, women and children lived on such farms...
...The chapter dealing with the tragedy of the Kronstadt r«b# lion is one of the best in Maximov's hook...
...The entire question of labor's immunity under the anti-trust laws has recently been squarely posed before our new Supreme Court in the now infamous Apex Hosiery case...
...1^»^,.-JSr» H* »••" W« *«ing <> "liut NeW Le°d*r U nJJ0jf% pefual series of Joe Louis' $teodi,y '-"proving and if ^^^TmW± left |abs...
...Labor unions consequently, still came withii the anti-trust law while the government found these statutes in effectual in its efforts to prevent the growth of monopolies...
...At the instigation of the Department of Justice, the anti-trust laws are being dragged out of oblivion and applied to labor unions...
...It tickles this colunuiisTt sense of humor to hear Lenin called "a consistent Marxist...
...This decision, climaxing' a series of drastic court verdicts against labor under the Sherman Act, spurred the trade unions and their friends to seek to amend this law so as to clearly establish labor's immunity under the anti-trust statutes...
...AS A FOLLOWER of Bakunin and Kropotkin, the author a opposed to Marx and Marxism...
...None of these tickets will be on sale after the gates of the Fair open...
...Apex Verdict Vital The construction and utilization of these anti-trust laws in the manner indicated promise to bring with them government control and regulation of labor unions as real as any of the totalitarian methods...
...By 1935 there Were ^865,000 tenant farms and the number today is estimated as exceeding 5,600,000...
...2) fix prices...
...By 1914, monopolistic abuses had become so flagrant that additional legislation to put teeth into the Sherman Act was passed (Clayton Act...
...The free lamia of the old epic were practically' occupied by the dawn of the present century, many of ¦ them passing into the hands of big speculators, and the farmer no ranger- has a refuge to which he can flee...
...week Rhode Island unions threw their strength behind the fight against the proposed State Labor Relations Act which would enforce compulsory arbitration of industrial disputes...
...Arnold's definition, only Mr...
...Labor cannot long be free if compelled to operate in accordance with governmental dictum...
...tr ¦;< ^ The author of the bock under review* is a* well known Raggfe, follower of the views of Bakurrin and Xrepot-kin...
...Prices of the various tickets, which are less expensive than those of last year, represent a material saving over this year's 50-cents admission price...
...With oar "ft- ^^J" ELTaal noaees" it's been a sort of J** " sa?TL ^" ^ ro.gh job~and sometimes « think best...
...Thurman Arnold, the Special Assistant Attorney General rr...
...It is the story -ef the development of Lenin s state...
...The victory is seen as the beginning of an anti-Republican sweep in that section of the Midwest...
...An outstanding feature of one session was the suggestion of Secretary of Labor- Perkins that workers on industrialized farms should have the benefit of Federal social legislation...
...charge of these prosecutions, assures labor and the nation al large that prosecution will ensue only for whet he regards as unreasonable interference with commerce, namely: Unions' attempts to (1) prevent the use of more efficient oi cheaper material...
...f| It is the careful documentation, the historical unfolding sal analysis of the work of Communist terror that make MaxiawVf book truly valuable...
...Labor Victory in Minn...
...Among the other aims of the publication is the exposure of the fascist forces in Montana, chief •f which is the pro-Nazi Congressman Thorkelson...
...In addition to five admissions to the Fair, the souvenir book will contain admissions - to five new feature attractions...
...Against this nebulous turmoil« placed a murder mystery which, though successful in arsuBBJ interest and suspense, comes finally to the lamest conclusion possible in mystery fiction...
...So far we've ^| been aWe to spar for our- You can do it—why not W serves, but now we need now* * JLm seme cushioning fast and Plentyful...
...Herman Wenzel, labor choke for the city control-lership, was beaten by the incumbent, 52,512 to 37,581...
...is aeien by many Minnesota observers as presaging the reinstallation of a state pro-union administration...
...To permit such industries to benefit by the agricultural exemptions of the law is unfair to urban industries and an injustice to the migrant workers who are deprived of the law's benefits...
...His name is P. G. Maximov...
...Nationwide Attack Suddenly, for reasons bes-known to the administration large appropriations were vote* the anti-trust division of the Department of Justice and governmental prosecutions under th« Sherman Act were launched ovei the entire country...
...They will be on sale until May 11...
...Two Lenin I ERIN'S duality or duplicity is well followed up in "The- Qofi...
...Just which situations come, within Mr...
...Chicago...
...Congress can once again attempt a clarification of the Sherman Act that will permit no false interference...
...j$ There Lenin promised freedom of speech and press tor all parties, election and recall of all officials by the masses, etc Ot the other hand, there was the Lenin who was preparing his party of professional revolutionaries for a "Jacobin dictatorsMjVV Needless to say which of the two Lenins was the i iqtjil With ar...
...But once again the courts frustrated the clear mandate of Cougress and declared that the Clayton Act made no- change in the existing law...
...And hei doesn't man...
...Ambitious Melodrama 0y MALCOLM MM OH TTHE MOST interesting fact aboat Miss Frankau's meiodrsB* is the injection of the word "Democracy" into what wouH otherwise be simple E. Phillips Oppenheim...
...Miss Frankau is an fnteffigent and amusing writer, but sbf has permitted herself to lose sight of the primary requirement* melodrama...
...With the advent of the Xev Deal, the attitude of the govern ment towards labor changed...
...That the social security laws should apply to industrialized farms is obvious for two reasons...
...Gibson said...
...The result of this is.that, although there is throughout the saff a general air of political excitement, the excitement never <jo** gets through to the reader...
...TWU Fights Proposal Outstanding in the fight against the anti-labor act is the Textile Workers Union of the CIO...
...N> I to a p p 1 y to \ I Jtj^L J labor unions, (i I ZtfffQ I ; the courts by }S~ rj^my ]jr...
...a strained in _^"\\V^*^J^1 -terpreta- V. tion held the vSB^/ unions subject In the be- . Arnold ginning of the 20th century, as result of such a judicial construction, the Hatters Union in the famous Danbury Hatters case had triple damages in the Sum of $214,688.95 assessed against it under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act for organizing a boycott of an openv shop hat manufacturer...
...This...
...Behind Mayor Fallon were the combined wealth and efforts of the St...
...ifh) columnist strongly suspects that Marx himself would have had a good laugh over thts...
...The **«tZ despotism I—tftnstd in Russia % the StMhwenry has natoraflr provoked the indignation of every sincene liberal and socialist However, criticism coming from anarchistic errcies has not tt-tracted much attention...
...Decision has not yet been rendered...
...Labor anxiously awaits the judgment of the highest court...
...BELOW you see the carl- laws — for the benefit of cature of a worried the people...
...mires are those daredevil The Wagas and Hours "Daughters of the Amer- And lew, the SEC, the NLRB...
...1940...
...THE GUILLOTINE AT WORK, by P. G. Maxinun...
...He considers Lenin "a<consistent Marxist and consequently a. reactionary...
...Poland, Czechoslovakia, Norway and Finland are the other four "lost" nations which will take part in the Fair...
...O'Con-nell's paper charges that Senator Wheeler took an active part in the campaign for Thorkelson who was also the choice of the Montana Power Company and Anaconda Copper Company...
...shaken the foundation of So be doesn't like The the system ef the hysterical man-in-the-silk-hat you see New Leader doesn't like _ hare...
...w« ***** get » road ( ' fiTi There are hundreds of a" °™r*h9 com!^ we Jl^ ^bbbM9 to*,h;»„^„„ j_ u.u should soon have a ^mmmMf TOToiiTanan oaeitTS in rats _ ,. . i JllWT country who Watch ghoul- sfron...
...Farm laborers represent -the lowest strata in agriculture and they number nearly 5,000,000...
...What it means by seform and Sew* expects to accomplish its aim is...
...58 Unions, 200 Officials Hit by Arnold Campaign By BENJAMIN WYLE . From an unexpected direction comes the most recent attack on organized labor...
...It is here that the book is at its best...
...a journalist, writer and agi-tator...
...Under the terms of the projected measure, trade unions will be compelled to submit their grievances in writing to a board, to be chosen by the COP'S Governor Vanderbilt, which would then dispose of the case...
...But if the court should affirm the old interpretation that labor comes within the scope of - the anti-trust legislation, the battle still is not lost...
...No Real Change This estrapade resulted in additional provisions in the Clayton Act, clearly and expressly exempting trade unions from the scope of the anti-trust legislation...
...Sign of AntitxOP Swmg WASHINGTON, D. C—Victory of the Labor ticket in Minnesota, trade union protest against a Rhode Island "industrial peace" pact which would cripple strike efforts, and growing activity on the pension front in a half-dozen states, this week shaped a picture of resurgent labor political activity that frightened and balked the many Congressmen who last week were ready to -smash the Wage-Hour and Wagner acts...
...5 "Lost" Nations To Participate In World's Fair "WORLD'S FAIR, N. Y. — Infusion of the World's Fair oi 1940 with tile warm, homey feeling of the typical American county .Fair is an accomplished fact as May 11—the opening day—approaches, but a new and more serious note was sounded recently when Denmark announced her participation in the great exposition...
...lotir.e at Work...
...The advance ticket sale campaign got under way when Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia purchased a family souvenir book on April 11...
...Arnold -knows...
...More than once he was imprisoned in ^B5B| Soviet Russia and, luckily,for him, was finally aY^'M deported from that country...
...The fight for the plan is led by O'Connell through his organ, the weekly Montana Liberal...
...been known as...
...1The nationwide fight for broadened social security has also been spurred by labor action as manifested in pension drives, of which ex-Congressman Jerry O'ConneH with his "60-60" campaign is one of the less prominent but nevertheless one of major importance...
...The Fatter of Purges I ENIN thus paved the road for Stalin's future purges to Lenin) disciples...
...When a certain section of agriculture becomes a capitalized enterprise employing wage labor it has the charterer of urban industry and there should be no distinction in law between the two...
...never very clear, and the young* members of the society, on whom tile story concentrates, hsve » distinctly sophomoric tone about their talk and their behavior...
...It is recalled that when the Civil Liberties Committee was holding hearings in California the notorious t Associated Farmers were warned that the frightful social and economic conditions of migrant laborers on the Pacific Coast would bring a demand for the extension of social security benefits to then...
...I ¦ ™bp»"W»"0""^—- —JS^BapaBaBaaBaaasBaaaaaaM& By Bias L Torlak- „„,^ f-SKIN'S and Stalin's fiuasia has beer...
...That economic conditions were unbearable for many dirt farmers even before tbeffaamcial crash in 1929 was revealed in testimony that in that year there -were about 1,700,000 farms which yielded gross incomes of less than $600 a year...
...and his kind, and says Do as Elizabeth Thomas carnate...
...They are available in hotels, department-stores, railroads, travel bureaus, churches and clubs, states Hervey D. Gibson, Chairman of the Board at the Fair...
...Paul Association of Commerce, the city Republican machine, and several organizations that sprung up "spontaneously" to aid the incumbent...
...Efies Tartar * * « Lenin a Marxist...
...Appointment With Death, though never exactly *& is only rarely really interesting...
...The family souvenir book, selling for only $2.50, is outstanding among the many bargains, Mr...
...MM those who do . . . He doesn't tike "that only left-wingers man in the White House...
...These are two rather large orders, aren't they...
...Socialist ^aaT^-^aaW^ Kk* *°r "* *° ge* +hat ""^ _| .^SBaB-aaaeBL knockout sock...
...Textile mills in Rhode Island produce half the value of the state's manufactures...
...The picture is fascinating and harrowing, As would be expected, a large part of the book is devoted t» the history of the Russian anarchist movement in Soviet Rnssft and to its merciless suppression by Lenin, Trotky, and *Stolta...
...natio«l platform.-skISu...
...The St...
...In stead of repression or at bes tolerance of organized labor, th< administration, in a series o measures, gave definite encour ¦ft—mt and impetus to the or ganizations of working peopi and declared that the puWi policy of the nation was to en collective bargaining...
...The "60-60 plan" has been presented in the Montana state legislature and has behind it pressure of ninety-six clubs organized for its passage...
...All of which means that these appeals have been The virtually ignored by the bulk of our readers...
...In same sections slum conditions prevail while aTs»qaaas of jfjaaiaas "are still living in sod houses or modified dugouts...
...Utterly disagreeing with P. G. Maximov's political philosophy, this columnist ie grad to report that "The Guillotine at Wert** an important, almost an indispensable hook for all those who not to understand the machinery, the workings and the history si a* Lenin-Stalin terror, that basic feature of the Communist state...
...For, m tart, queasf Lenin's words and adducing hie acts, Maximov demonstrates sal what unswerving mercilessness and unscrrpukscsness Lenia ha) set out to drive his party, the workers and the peasantry, assst the path of his terroristic Utopia...
...Moreover labor unions were made the principal victims of such prosecution Everywhere trade unions ant their officials were brought to tfu bars of justice charged as criminals, not for violence, extortior or fraud, but for alleged inter ference with the free flow of commerce...
...Passed originally in 1890 to curtail the growing tendency of capital to monopolize, the Sherman Act, emasculated by the courts, proved of little avail for this purpose and business unification continued...
...wnfle raids on labor's rights have-taken place in legislatures from Oregon to Illinois, union organization in recent months has been strong enough to slow down the campaigns to pass omnibus anti-labor bills in every state...
...He ha...
...3.50...
...i The New York State counterpart of the Federal Sherman Anti-Trust Act, popularly known as the Donnelly Anti-Trust Act, which prohibits intrastate restraints of trade" and monopolies, contains an express exemption of bona fide labor unions, in -its provisions...
...hodftafoathe coloredThe gentleman obviously «Mrt boys and the caviar ?~Li^lZ doesn't believe in making comrades...
...The story deals with a secret society called "Phoenix" wl** aims to reform England...
...From the very beginning there were to* Lenins...
...In recant years we ve . , ' „ . . u^motds...
...Nothing was said of floods, dust storms and insect pests which have added to the misery of' Middle "West farmers • and started them on the trek to California,, the "Eldorado" which has proven to he an even lower abyss for many of these unfortunates...
...Tickets immediately went on sale throughout the nation...
...Meantime big estates that have come to be known as "industrialized farms" have appeared to gome extent in the Middle West but especially in California...
...i the USHA, and the entire Hut's pretty far to the left reform alphabet soup has for him...
...The announcement, which came late the very night the little country was invaded, brought a deep and sympathetic response in the consciousness of the American people as Denmark became the fifth "orphan" European nation to adopt the Fair as a shrine at which to keep flying the flag of lost democracy...
...The book, which is the only one which is tranferable, will have a value of $4.06, representing a saving of almost 40 per cent Last year the book sold, for 13.75...
...However, this Sherman Act which had proved so ineffectual for the purposes intended did prove proficient in one ^&*rf2e0^^ respect...
...Governor Stassen, keynoter of the Republican convention, has wiped out the labor gains rolled up during the many years of the Farmer-Labor administration in the Gopher State...
...One was the Lenin who premised socialism end /reals* s) the masses, the Lenin of "The State and Revolution...
...Bat let m overlook Maximov's sweeping assertions...
...freqwr.tiy CTitietos*a» m socialists and liberals, let alone by conservatives...
...4) oppose collective bargaining systems, and (5) graft and extortion...
...3) require employment for unnecessary labor...
...We've been fighting the s|w wrote...
...What is happening is that the epic-of historians and poets—the "American yeoman'' of rugged virtues is being wiped oat by adverse economic forces...
...Victory for labor in St...
...if not, then,for the sake of political and social decency, write to as for that subscription booklet we want weeks without salaries to print...
...Paul, Minnesota election saw the Fallon-Gehan clique howled over by a Labor-Progressive fMTwpnigTi which elected John J. McDonough to the mayoralty and maintained in office in the city '•"""'•i' three Laborites: John S. Findlan, William Parranto and Axel Peterson...
...Not- withstanding H the fact that W rn this law was /"^^JoX jW*) never intended lfy...
...Already the line between reasonable and unreasonable interference has become thin...
...Vjb»W~ He is thoroughly familiar with the ^^OHbl history of the Russian revolution, with the a^flSH^^fc Soviet press, and with ¦ the writings of ABBBByKssl Lenin, Trotsky and other dfet ef Communism...
...The Associated Farmers are tied up with big banks and corporations and many of them have direct investments in the big farms where migratory workers are exploited to the bone...
...WASHINGTON, D. C—The economic tragedy that has overwhelmed small farmers in the Middle West and the plight of those who migrate to California- /were made vivid this week in the hearinaa before the LaFoHette Civil Liberties CoBbnittee...
...He is big business hs- biai...
...Under the dear language of this state statuter the Mew York State courts, unlike the Federal courts, have held labor unions and their officials immune from either civil.- or criminal prosecution...
...long ^^p...
...And here Maximo*- has a number of pertinent and intrrnrtha, things to tell the reader...
...If there's a reason, we'd like to knew it...
...This part of Soviet history, little known on this side of da ocean, has long a watted its historian...
...its factual material mi its analysis are irreplaceable...
...He was as merciless and cynical in dealing with the sepal tion in his own party as be was in his treatment of Socialist*, liberals and anarchists...
...Plea..'find enclosed preme Court Justice Me- ades...
...From all over the country comes news of the criminal indictment of unions and their officials for alleged violations of the Sherman and Clayton Anti-Trust Acts...
...sotUMsi by Alexander Berkman Ftund...
...Carefully, the suae goes through the history-of Soviet terror, explains its system ad machinery, tabulates the approximate statistics ef its victims, The number of people who perished from the "shootis*** purges, man-made famines, and deportations, easily runs iSS millions...
...The State Labor Relations Act is now on file in both houses of the Rhode Island legislature...
...Most ef us, I suppose, hare been irritated by the inteBeeasv infancy of the average writer of detective fiction or meiodrsna-and Miss Frankau's attempt to write melodrama She an sdo* » altogether to be welcomed...
...impressive array of quotation and historical fact, pMP mov shows' how Lenin had anticipated and, right from his October coup d'etat, deliberately instituted a system of one-party iffiUnaf ship, pitiless terror and "iron discipline" not only tor the opponents of his system, but—first and tost—tor the masses...
...lean Revelation...
...Agricultural experts testified that 2,500,000 persons are almost starving on 500,000 barren farms...
...lV "' -'*»' • The important part of Maximov's book is wot his polemic «Nh Marx...
...The Public Be...
...He likes rugged .. of Milwaukee did when individualism, the G.O.P...
...Already 58 labor unions and 200 union representatives have been indicted in the government's anti-trust drive...
...Employing hired labor for lew wages, the wage workers do not have the social security benefits that offer some measure of relief to the war ken in urban industry and Secretary of Labor Perkins recommended that this legislation be extended to workers in industrialized agriculture...
...The new statute was hailed by Samuel Gompers as labor's "Magna Charts...
Vol. 23 • May 1940 • No. 19
