Nazis Aid KKK Fight Calif. Okies
Nazis Aid KKK Fight Calif. Okies Associated Farmers Lead Terror Drive SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.—A vigorous campaign of hatred and terror against the Catholics, the Negroes, and the migratory...
...A training period of not less than 12 months (army men prefer 18 and not less than 15) will be required...
...No longer can "Weinstock hide his real motives behind slander crusades and political blackmail...
...Modern Mephistopheles By JOSEPH T. SHIPLEY MANY of the oldest legends are capable of restatement in cob...
...In most instances whole families work for the lumber companies, a single check being made out to the father for work done by himself, his wife, and children under eleven...
...Does not WeiBstosk...
...SEC Utilities Probe Convicts Power Chiefs Special to The New Leader ST...
...To make this scanty fare more appetizing, she spread on it some "Miracle Whip," a salad dressing made by the Kraft Phoenix Cheese company...
...Persons acquainted with the inner routine of Wiedemann's office state the Nazi Consulate follows the activities of the Associated Farmers and the Klan with much interest and ill-concealed sympathy...
...It is the formula be has been using as an excuse for infiltrating ear union with unskilled elements taken from the city's vast army of unemployed of every vocation and no vocation...
...If it is Weinstock's intention to go "blitzkrieging" through his program of establishing bottomless wage scales and roofless work hours, the union painters of this city -want to know it now...
...They must also win the goodwill of the bosses by doing their work, by showing them that under Weinstock the union is ready to accept lower wage and work standards...
...Families called "shackers" live in mov-~ able hovels made of odds and ends of lumber and tin...
...If the Burke Bill is also passed, a day in September or October will be set aside for the registration of 11,500,000 men between the ages of 21 and 30...
...Painters go anywhere in the city to find jobs...
...1—"Painting required in the renovation of .offices, and apartments is only a semi-skilled craft," we are told...
...Efforts are being made to have employers guarantee positions vacated by guardsmen...
...NLRB Decisions Protected Six Million Workers In four and a half years of Wagner Act operation, over six million workers sought the protection of the National Labor Relations Board, a government survey reveals...
...These civilian-soldiers will be drawn from the age groups between 21 to 30 years...
...A bottle of salad dressing killed two children...
...But the issue , is already in the laps of Congress and public opinion...
...Roosevelt's proposal to call the National Guard for a year's training is a counter-move to the unpopular Burke Bill...
...The decisions in the Remington - Rand, the JonesLaughlin, the Fansteel, and tens of other cases have changed the course of American social and legal thinking...
...industrialists because it deprives them of cheap apprentice labor...
...ious problem is, of course, the explanation of evil: if God is hsut all-powerful and all-good, how explain the cruelty and the aaS ing, the greed and fear, that reign in the world today...
...With, all these, the burdens of government grew heavier...
...The entire $525,000 kicked back was spent for political purposes during the past few .years—despite the "reformation" of Big Business, according to* utilities propaganda...
...She rests content with giving a modern turn to Faust's desireshe sees in him "the type of the impulsive reformer, over-sensitro to suffering, impatient of the facts, eager to set the worid right by a sudden overthrow, in his own strength and regardless of tae ineluctable nature of things...
...Every generation rewrites the tale of Trey Josiah Royce has rewritten the Christian credo, making theArhv inal sin man's separate sense, his individuality, which can bp^J onciled jrith the collective whole only by forces outside vH^S...
...painting contractor operatisg under agreement with oor tnrfm w the basis of the union sttJMsd the 86-hour week and suMfett painters willing to work tor* half the scale and 40 to 80 toon a week...
...Johns River north of Visalia...
...Master numbers will be drawn, and all men with registration numbers keyed to the master numbers will be notified to appear at specific mobilization points on a specific date, to go under military orders...
...This branch of the relief system irks G.O.P...
...By classifying our craft as only "semi-skilled" in the field of renovating apartments and offices ,where fully 90 per cent of our employment opportunities lie, Weinstock gives support to the realty interests.and building owners in their efforts to degrade ou: trade fcy employing psfctfi at so called maintenance an at coolie wages...
...The army, however, considers such widespread registration unnecessary at this time...
...1940, compared with an increase of 23.6% in the previous decade...
...faoo&s andWxitm Mr...
...temporary terms...
...5—As a matter of fset th "realistic" scale for "lower skill* work" advocated by Weis** means a scale just half «t * $52.50 wage for a 40- to 80** work week as applied nototlT • what he classes as "msinteasss jobs" but on all renovatnif *** in apartments and every •** kind of repainting work, tor* reason that 90 per celt jobs are in the category dsswj by Weinstock as "lower skfflto Surely, it would be contrary ¦ all logic and practical reasoning to argue the repaint* of a Bronx apartment, e*rrn*f a rental of $10 a month per*** requires higher skill thai * renovation of an apartB*Bt J* mid-Manhattan, on the fas"*' able East Side or West Sf*.*& because the owner calls ft a*"' tenance work although the fS»»* is five to ten times as Wl* • that in the Bronx...
...The Devil to Pay" seems a vivid play...
...Roosevelt therefore has let it l>e known that all members of the National Guard face the strong probability of being called into active service next autumn for a year of intensive training...
...Although it requires great skill in certain types of work such as costly interior decoration, it is only a semi-skilled craft in the flat wall painting required in the renovation of offices and apartments...
...Gatherings and cross-burnings take place along the St...
...It is a gross betrays of the members of our union...
...Several social and economic consequences Sow from these trends: The growing city of that era...
...The Associated Farmers, first exposed by The New Leader, is sb organization of large corporate and absentee landowners who ran San Joaquin Valley in a feudal manner...
...The escape of Faustus parallels that of many in our own time...
...More than $525,000 was paid to Boehm and other officials...
...he yearns for the child-like, the primitive, the unconscious—«i the weak in our generation range from child-like (dog-like) dentin to their Fuehrer to the vagaries and deliberate hysterieai state of surrealism...
...Streets, sewers, schools, police and fire protection Blast be maintained, but now there are fewer persons to pay the costs...
...These products and scores of other^ foods, fake cosmetics, and patent medicine nostrums were introduced as evidence at the FTC hearings to .show that the "guarantees" and "seals" so blatantly advertised by Good Housekeeping magazine as tested and approved as pure and of high quality by scientists, are frauds on the consumer...
...It merely records a political phenomenon which Roosevelt is trying to avoid during an election—the loss of which might turn the nation over to the Hoove r-party bosses of the G.O.P...
...Oh yes...
...The Klan is strongly anti-Catholic here because of the huge Mexican agricultural population which is religiously devout...
...Weinstock obviously imWrc0 his "victory" in the recant s*** election as a mandate to our wajre standards and undermine our working conditions...
...Although some of the speeches, especially of priest and pope, are too long, the drama is a sincere and sound reinterpretation of the Faust theme in terms of life today...
...The devil plays no specific part in this conception...
...Two other district councils exist, with different policies, one in Brooklyn and the other in Queens and Nassau County...
...Wenistock's answer is to set up a separate division and a more realistic scale for the lower skilled work, for the socalled maintenance jobs in apartment houses, hotels and office buildings...
...If Weinstock and his crew mean to wreck our union, which has been carrying on the struggle for better work in living conditions over a period of two generations, our members want to know it now...
...Bostrom, the post reporter, who set them down in writing...
...The dialogue is natural...
...Through destruction and betrayal to power...
...The principal causes are a declining birth rate, a virtual stoppage of immigration, the ten-year depression which halted the migration of farm youth to the city, and the steady advance of transportation media, especially the automobile, which resulted in the growth of suburban housing...
...3—The criticism of Urn "A...
...Rock is a NEW LEADER roving correspondent...
...The donations were made as secret "kickbacks" and "rebates" by lawyers, insurance companies and business men out of money they had received from Union Electric as payment for their services and products...
...The bona fide painters, loyal members of our union, will not be dissuaded by propaganda, no matter where it comes from, to abandon their position as skilled craftsmen and to surrender the wages and conditions for which they fought and bled for nearly half a century...
...The election campaign is over...
...Several weeks ago the New Leader reported that the S.E.C...
...This Armour corned beef was produced and packed in South America...
...Conceivably, the scale could be maintained through tight citywide organization supported by the other A. F. of L. building trades...
...William Hynes testified that, "with twelve children, all I had to feed them for supper one 'Friday night in 1934, was bread and tomatoes...
...Many of the appeals from the Board have been carried through to the Supreme Court where the decisions have become fundamental precedents for future court decisions in labor law...
...Federal officials investigating the lumber operators of northern Minnesota have uncovered conditions that are rivaled only by the squalor and misery of the sharecropping country in the South...
...Military and naval officials want only an additional 400,000 men— the maximum which can be handled by present training facilities...
...Mrs...
...The organization of Germans Living Abroad, directed by Ernest Bohle in Berlin, has long regard-, ed the feudal character of the large-scale farms in California as a fertile field, and Wiedemann, a close friend of Hitler's, was sent to this region precisely because it was felt that the "gentlemenfarmers" of the Golden State would welcome him...
...Other witnesses cited other instances...
...In various towns of the valley numerous leaflets have recently been distributed by the Klan's agents...
...The first skirmish over the form military training should take is almost over...
...Good Housekeeping" does have some standards...
...records indicate, to subsidize a newspaper man to publish propaganda against a proposed municipally operated power plant at St...
...The Communists'* know that if they are to retain control of our union as a springboard for the Communist - CIO . drive in the building trades they must first destroy our trade as a skilled trade and drive the old, tried trade unionists from the industry...
...Exposed in these records is the technique by Which the huge power trusts were able to manipulate local and state politics for their advantages...
...Because of the hearings conducted by the LaFollette committee on the Associated Farmers, they are using the Klan to conduct "their terror campaign of smashing unions and beating workers...
...One of the most typical and striking cases was that of William Brown and his family...
...a can of corned beef put a whole family in the hospital and a can of putrid ham exploded and the stench drove everyone out of a Federal Trade Commission hearing room...
...bad completed a two year investigation of this utility system to determine whether there had been violations of the Holding Company Act of 1935 which forbade such combines to subsidize political candidates or otherwise engage in "political activities"—as they had been doing on a vast scale before the New Deal...
...But such a tight organization has not been possible...
...In addition, more than $67,884,000 have been allocated among 48 states, New York City, and the District of Columbia for the operation— within the defense projects—of the National Youth Administration out-of-school work program between July 1, 1940 and June 30, 1941...
...The younger children set to work clearing the brush, while the older boys and their father cut the timber...
...Another factor has been the , decentralization . of , industry and attempts, such as Henry Ford's paternalism, to provide'farm plots for workers...
...FDR Seen Winning Fight On Peacetime Training By GEORGE SHORT Special to The New Leader WASHINGTON, D.C.—It may be lonely in the capital, but the real excitement is.here—not in Chicago...
...The first convictions were obtained at Brainerd when three men...
...All the children became deathly sick, Mrs...
...The building of new homes, schools, streets and skyscrapers provided many jobs...
...Burke is using his franking privileges for wide distribution of Willkie Speeches which he has inserted in the Congressional Record...
...It is, therefore, necessary to analyse them now so that the painters and the public' may know what confronts them under the new Weinstock administration...
...Data thus obtained will provide the military offices with- information on the physically handicapped, those engaged in key industries, those with absolute dependents—all of whom will be set aside in a deferred status which would be more or less permanent...
...They will not give up their local unions for a consolidated transmission belt...
...Benjamin P. Alschuler, an Aurora, I1L, lawyer, testified, he kicked back $111,000 out of the retainer fees paid to him hy Union Electric in the late 1930's...
...These allotments will make possible employment of needy young men and women between the ages of 18 to 24, on publicly cos p o n s ored projects, d esigned to provide youth with work experience in basic defense industries...
...We saw boys and girls as young as eight years old peeling pulpwood and piling brush...
...LOUIS, Mo.—One ef the results of the shocking testimony disclosed by the recent Securities .and Exchange Commission investigation of the giant North American utilities holding company, is the conviction here in Federal Court of Frank J. Boehm, vicepresident of the Union Electric Company, one of the chief links in the powerful North American system...
...settled" for $750 for her and smaller amounts for the other victims...
...Preliminary reports from 105 cities show a population increase of only 5% between 1930 and...
...His colam* will ha resumed in fft* next Inn...
...In the strategic San Joaquin Valley local leaders of the hooded order claim an active membership of 7,600 Klansmen...
...THE DEVIL TO PAY," by Dorothy L. Sayers...
...The Hillman project was the first objective of the anti-Roosevelt bloc —a group which has the support of Father Coughlin, who has whipped'up a letter campaign, in his usual style, attacking the vocational defense plans in antisemitic statements...
...They must All the union with unskilled and semi-skilled riff-raff...
...The Armour Co...
...Closely associated with the activities of these two organizations is the work of Captain Fritz Wiedemann, talented Nazi propagandist, and Eeich consnl here...
...This conviction will offset the presidential campaignWitnesses' testimony demonstrated that Boehm and Albert C Laun, a former vice-president of the power trust, lied when tbey denied that they or the company had received contributions to a secret "slush" fund which the company used for political purposes...
...Present facilities can be expanded without further equipment to provide shop employment and experience for 73,930 young people...
...If Weinstock means to drive our union into one of his notorious "general strikes" as a means of creating confusion to enable him all the more to provide jobs for his under-skilled party liners at the expense of old-time skilled craftsmen, the union membership wants to know that, too, right now...
...The hearing adjourned instantly without a "formal motion" as the F.T.C...
...Of what use is all his lip-service about "revitalizing" the union and "rebuilding" the union, and all the rest of his flim-flam phraseology, when he comes right out into the open and tells the bosses that, as compared with other building trades, our trade is only "semi-skilled" and that we are not worth the wage scale obtained after many years of struggle and sacrifice...
...Some sort of compulsory training will be effected before 1941...
...policy has been to maintain a wage scale of $52.50 for a 35-hour week, comparable to wages paid some of the highly skilled crafts...
...As a result of Board action, over 270,000 workers were reinstated after strikes and lockouts, and nearly 20,Q0O others who had been fired for union membership were put back on their jobs...
...They were fined $10,000 and ordered to pay back wages amounting to $35,000...
...Dorothy L. Sayers, in her retelling of the Faust s|ory as tae drama* .for this year's festival at Canterbury Cathedral (where T. S. Eliot's "Murder in the Cathedral" was first produced) daes •not attempt any novel solution of the problem...
...This is one of Weinstock'* oft-repeated stock statements...
...It was this group that started the wholesale importations of Okies and Arkies to work the short-term seasonal crops, by lurid promises of work and prosperity...
...These" cases have involved thousands of -workers and a change in the fundamental outlook of the courts towards the government's and industry's responsibilities toward labor...
...The area of concentrated Klan activity is no accident...
...For some time they were in a hospital in an "unconscious coma...
...From the remainder, classes will be drawn for military service by a draft system, modeled after that used during 1917-1918...
...He givw « tfeati bill of health to tlnm aajilnjn seeking to force upogaimaintenance wages and "TratflSsn beurs of labor...
...nfte this statement uttered by tie secretary-treasurer of oar ask* would it be surprising If tke k» ses should now kick out...
...As a consequence, apartment houses and building owners have had no trouble in getting painters for half this wage and on a 40and 50-hour week...
...The fund was used, ihe S.E.C...
...The family lived on a tract of land which the company wanted to clear of brush and pulpwood...
...For she points out that when the man discovers he cannot have his way,*ne iSBt into despair (or, to use the current term, into 'defeatism') and takes flight into fantasy...
...The City Oil Company of Wadena was the first of these to be moved against and was .ordered to meet all requirements of.the law and pay $2,000 in back wages...
...Yet, the commission pointed out, Hearst's magazine gave consumers the impression that it has examined these products, and that "they are as reliable as governmentinspected meats...
...FTC Exposes Hearst OK on Poisoned Foods By JOHN DONNE Special to The New Leader WASHINGTON.—A grim story of poisoned food sold by the huge Armour Company, the Kraft Company and many other large concerns endorsed by the "seal of approval" of William Randolph Hearst's Good Housekeeping magazine, was told last week at the hearings conducted by the Federal Trade Commission—and significantly enough, was largely ignored by the big metropolitan dailies...
...They will not give up the 7-hour day or the 35-hour week under any "plan" or "department...
...F. of L. policy to maintain a wan scale of $52.50 for a *±wr week" contained in Wemtteft statement to the post, is awotrageous piece of union witdrinr and supports the content** A the bosses that our wsgw«« altogether too high, that the aw is ripe for a wage cutting «apaign on a grand, uaaesnsaartal scale...
...Most of the work here is semiskilled but the old A.F.ofL...
...Following the convictions of the operators, "consent decrees" were filed against a number of other companies...
...These are the elements Weinstock and his Communist masters utilise as voting cattle for control of the organization...
...Brown's case was successfully prosecuted by the federal attorney on the grounds that the company is engaged in interstate commerce...
...The contention of the commission officials was dramatically substantiated when just before beginning taking testimony on cans of Polish ham which had been imported in large quantities and granted "Good Housekeeping's" seal of approval, several burst wide open and released foul gases generated from the rotting meat...
...At the end of that period the trainees will pass into the reserves and remain in that status, with an annual period of retraining for a month, until they become 31 years old...
...it breaks effectively from prose into poetry, often of dignity and power...
...Kraft "settled out of court" by paying her $4,000, after convincing her that a court fight would be expensive and lengthy...
...Moreover, the statements ascribed to Weinstock by the reporter are the familiar ideas peddled for many years to tae members of our union by Weinstock...
...We have not the slightest doubt that these quotations represent correctly the ideas expressed to Mr...
...At present the NYA operates 1,632 shops including woodworking, automotive, airplane, metal and mechanical, radio, electrical, and related trades, in which 38,327 young people are employed...
...The wages paid to this family of sixteen in a year and a half totalled only $349...
...The average pay for the workers, when employed, was $6.18 a week in the winter and $9.66 in the summer...
...Bostrom is well known as a competent reporter friendly to labor and it will be difficult for Weinstock to disavow the interview on the ground that he was misquoted...
...Against this Communist conspiracy* we progressive members of the Painters Union will wage war without cease and without compromise...
...Often as many as a dozen people live in one room...
...These are already being selected...
...Mason Miller, vice-president of an insurance company, testified he kicked back $73,000 to the fund...
...Province is the term applied by the Klan to the rich fruit-growing San Joaquin Valley area, and the head of the "province is called Titum...
...Many of these companies have been protected by Governor Stassen's administration which has wiped out nearly all the social and progressive gains enacted by previous Farmer-Labor administrations...
...Okies Associated Farmers Lead Terror Drive SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.—A vigorous campaign of hatred and terror against the Catholics, the Negroes, and the migratory workers was unleashed this week by the Ku Klux Klan acting .as a subsidiary arm of the labor-baiting Associated Farmers...
...If you can't enlist with real, red-blooded Americans, then line up with the spineless creatures and crooks, so you can be counted and people may know what you are...
...About 50,000 unskilled WPA workers will be trained under the Hillman schedule...
...Under this plan, if the training period were fixed at one year, there would be 800,000 men constantly under training after the first six months period...
...Other branches exist in iPorterville, Fresno, Bakersfield, Dinuba, Sanger and Selma...
...The Progressive members of the Painters Union will not surrender their union standards...
...With this, as Dorothy Sayers points out, we And an avoidance of adult responsibility, the denial of value to growth Tend time...
...Many of the food products advertised in "Good House-keeping" and bearing its guarantees and seals are from foreign countries where, the institute admitted, it has no inspectors and no way of telling whether a can was pure and safe...
...It is easy enough to see the Communist objective through the Weinstock plan...
...9 of the Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paperbahgen, the New York Post carried an interview with Louis WeiMtodt: "He (Weinstock) takes over again at a time when a momentous task confronts the Council—the stabilistfior of wages and jobs in an industry which has been uambir for years, caused in large part by the very nature of the craft itself...
...CP Plans Craft Ruin of Painters for CIO Entry On July 3, 1940, only a few short days after his election as secretary-treasurer of District Council No...
...Behind the facade of unity on national defense plans is a political slugfest between the Administration on one side, and the War Department-Woodring crowd and anti-New Deal Senators on the other...
...Charles, Mo., and spend large sums maintaining a luxurious summer camp for politicians...
...Hynes said, and she wept as she told how two of them died...
...THIS description might seem to turn Dr...
...dividual, thus by an "act of grace...
...Olive Leasure of Cumberland, Md., related that she and her brother and sister were taken violently ill after eating a can of Armour's corned beef in May, 1937...
...It becomes evident that this most recent campaign is planned as a gesture of assistance and comfort to the exploiters of the Okies and to the haters of those who would help these migrants...
...and Hearst men ^an from the room holding their noses...
...Have you enough money to advertise ? Minnesota Lumber 'Shackers' Rival Okies'Conditions, Average $6 a Week By MAX ROCK (Afr...
...Torfok is out of town this week...
...The center of the new Klan ¦ activity is in Visalia, Tulare County...
...Edward B. Sullivan, Saul T. Ziman and S. William Locke, operating two companies pleaded guilty to charges of violating the Wage and Hours Law...
...INo married men will be forced to yield their jobs...
...He will send dispatches from different cities from time to time) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn...
...Faustns into a Communist...
...Harcowrt, Brut and Co...
...Psychologically, therefore, we may consider the Anaricans who until a few weeks ago thought they were Stalinitei, fa the light of Dorothy Sayers' continuing comments...
...that the bosses would b»»* » trouble getting all the mas **J want on such a basis...
...bat he cannot be left out of any symbolic picture of our days—the greatest relig...
...It is known that volumnious reports on this and other facts of California's domestic affairs are sent to Berlin with methodic regularity...
...This isn't meant to be facetious...
...When the tract was cleared the family hauled their shack to another spot, where 'the entire process was repeated...
...The reverse side of the leaflet reveals this printed message: "We have met many people who are neutral on the Klan question ^afraid to take sides—just waiting for the thing to get popular...
...The area for this campaign has been well plowed too by Nazi consul Fritz Wiedemann whose office is in San Francisco...
...Through the Union Electric Company, the North American system was able to Iccome a powerful factor in mid-west and national politics...
...Japanese tuna fish imported from Japan without any inspection at the canning factories were approved without inspection...
...They must undermine the entire economic base upon which our union is founded...
...If these be the aspirations of the Weinstock regime—and they are—then our union is heading straight into civil war, the kind of war which his fellow Communists have imposed on the workers of other unions, with the result of utter destruction of longestablished working conditions and complete annihilation of trade union democracy...
...When Congress re-assembles after the Democratic convention it will find a bill before it providing for this National Guard training...
...One leaflet, for instance, has the drawing of a hooded and gowned Klansman on horseback carrying a fiery cross...
...The administration which launches a national compulsory military training law will be as unpopular as a New York mayor attempting to raise subway fares...
...The Senator Burke-Roosevelt feud has leaped out of the compulsory conscription arena into the presidential campaign...
...The inability to accept time, and also to distinguish between time and eternity (the temporal and the spiritual), is at the basis of the errors of communism as it underlies the misconceptions Tegareing good and evil...
...Mrs...
...This method made it possible for the company to conceal the fund, because "neither the doaa tions nor the oxpei-.ditures appeared cn the books...
...The Browns were awarded $262 in back-pay...
...Unbelievable conditions exist in the industry here," Federal agents report...
...Sources which this correspondent has always considered reliable insist that the Burke Bill was introduced to stymie effective defense and create anti-New Deal sentiment...
...Despite the Grapes of Wrath exposures, the conditions described still prevail...
...Boom Cities Dead WASHINGTON, D. C: The picturesque booming frontier town, the erection of new skyscrapers dotting the skyline, the prosperous growth of a "Zenith" as epitomized in Sinclair Lewis' "Babbitt" all are now firmly entombed in the past as returns from the 1940 census show for that the first time in oar history the urban population of the United States is leveling off...
...4—"Apartment house and bsiWing owners have had so toJBkk in getting painters for keif tab wage and on a 40- and swkw week," says Weinstoek...
Vol. 23 • July 1940 • No. 29
