Communists Plan Tie-up of U.S. War Industries Through Control of National Labor Board
HARPMAN, BILL
Communists Plan Tie-up of U.S. War Industries Through Control of National Labor Board By BILL HARPMAN WASHINGTON, D. C.—under cover of the war in Europe, the creation of a national defense program...
...Leiserson, an outspoken anti-Communist who has . opposed the use of the Board as a -CP...
...The records reveal that no copper was shipped to Russia during the same period last year, indicating definitely that these shipments were finding their way directly into Germany via Serbia or the Baltic...
...president and the election "of John McMahon of the Textile Workers Union ag, secretary-treasurer...
...Emerson, better known as Bertha Paret, is a leading member of the League of Women Shoppers...
...U. S. Voters Defeat All Coughlinile Election Attempts By VINCENT KOGCftS Recent primaries have resulted In sweeping defeats for all candidates running on ah anti-Semitic platform, and for those who in the put have associated themselves with Fascist "shlrted" organizations...
...He associated himself with the Stalinists, joining in the Communist-controlled social lobby in Washington and working closely with such "party-liners" as Nathan Witt, secretary of the N.L.R.B-, and Thomas I. Emerson, assistant general counsel...
...An effective guard placed at the entrance to the meeting hall kept "out all those not entitled to sit .in the convention...
...The majority rejected this proposal with the contempt it deserved on the ground that it sought to deprive the State C.I.O...
...I have told friends on more than one occasion that each time I received my "Leader" and contemplated the cost, I felt I was robbing somebody...
...Smith became a member of the executive committee of the Washington chapter of the League for Peace and Democracy, which Earl Browder admitted to be a Communist "transmission belt," and which was originally inspired and later dissolved by the Communit Party...
...At recent hearings before the House Committee investigating the Board, it was disclosed that an astonishing number of its personnel were members of such Communist-dominated organizations as the American League for Peace and Democracy, the National Lawyers' Guild and the International Juridical Association, spawn of the CP...
...Fists flew in various directions and the air was Mht by gutter cries and imprecations emanating from the Stalinist cansp, in which Mike QniTl, shantiest of the shanty, used his entire well-known arsenal of blatherskite...
...Because of his preoccupation with the huge and vital task of defense, President Hillman, of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, has unfortunately not bothered to bring his great influence to bear against the appointment of this Communist-sponsored candidate whose activities would wreck the national defense program...
...Archbishop Spellman's endorsement of peaces-time conscription and armaments put Coughlin in an awkward position, for the Archbishop is one of the Church's most influential spokesmen An Appeal...
...In New York Schenker's agent is the Drafeger Shipping Co...
...While the trade union movement is busy with an election campaign for Roosevelt and with preserving the rights of labor in the defense program of the nation, it is overlooking a vital sector of labor's interests in the control and proper operation of the N.L.R.B...
...How else could one possiWy explain his conduct...
...American industrialists are permitted to destroy the British blockade of Nazi-dominated Europe despite the $15,000,000,000 being spent, by the United States to prepare itself for an attack by German forces...
...has just leased three speedy Swedish motorships...
...Until then we want you to fight for the type of free, uneensored reporting characteristic of The New Leader by securing subscriptions among your friends...
...He has fought Communism in and outside the labor movement for many years...
...Obviously the Soviets reship to the Nazis...
...The part played by Lewis at the Rochester aeeting strengthens the belief of many that Jls obligations to the Communists are of such a nature that he has become their pioneer...
...and through this domination, it expects to be in position to sabotage defense activities, in the interests of the Soviet-Nazi pact, and direct the political policies of labor along lines dictated by the Kremlin...
...with Communist Party and C.I.O...
...Most significant of these primary results are the defeats suffered by Derry and Ward, both heavily backed by the Coughlinite machine In the radio priest's home town...
...John J. O'Connor of New York and others in Oregon and Ohio...
...The Communists and fellow-travelers in the Board scurried to cover until the charges were flying thick and fast...
...Thomas J. Gunn was second with 7,790...
...Townsend's endorsement of a Coughlinite links the Communists to the campaign, for Townsend played an Important part in the American Peace Mobilization...
...for Lewis's personal purposes and the objectives of Moscow...
...American exports of all materials to the Communist government jumped to $48,342,000 from $23,310,037 in the first 7 months of 1939—a rise of more than 100 per cent...
...18th, the following •*»de union officials Will appear: Bert Kirkman, '"resident of Local 3 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, who will discuss Trade Unionism and War-Time Morale...
...International Labor Defense...
...prevented a thorough cleaning-out of Communists from the Board...
...He has his desk in their offices and draws a regular salary from the organization which is engaged in the commodity and brokerage business...
...By allying himself with the -Communists, Lewis is flouting the will of his own organisation, which has been groaning for years under his personal, totalitarian rule...
...and he has aiied the CP...
...The New Leader ranks higher than those "liberal" publications which charge five times what we do . . . surely each of yon can raise one or two subscriptions NOW at one dollar a year—and continue to do so each week until November when the rate doubles...
...The stakes in this conspiracy are the organization of active Communist sabotage of our defense Whether the Communists will be able to do this depends upon whether the labor movement and the New Deal administration will awaken in time to this menace...
...state organization a the country at a critical moment in the life af the labor movement and of the nation ? As is always the case in important instances ¦rten they find themselves in the minority, the Communists at Rochester staged scenes of violent disorder and rioting...
...So heated arid riotous did the session become that- it had to be discontinued, while officers of the convention went into conference with Haywood...
...Their purposes were twofold: They needed a scapegoat to deflect the attacks against the CP...
...union...
...of 17 State Street...
...refused to listen to "those in and out of the Board who warned him about the Communist termites around him...
...To avert more series troubl/er the management- of the meeting "jail was obliged to remove the steel chairs and ake other measures .to insure the safety of fclegates...
...Surveys have revealed, however, that the preponderance of those throughout the nation protesting further Coughlinite broadcasts were non-Jewish, many thousands were Catholics resenting the slur cast on their faith by the radio priest...
...Balked1 on this proposal, the Stalinists offered another "compromise," which was that the question of indorsing the President be left to a committee of the national organization of the CJ.O., consisting of Lewis, Hiilhp Murray, his lieutenant, and Hillman...
...In a special investigation made by Guy Richards of the New York Daily News it was found that "despite the British blockade, American industrialists are pouring into Germany and Italy by devious routes, about $10,000,000 worth of vital war materials every month...
...To protect themselves, they joined with these anti-labor Congressmen in attacking the Board's chief economist, David J. Saposs, as a Communist...
...Madden hajd proven himself to be a typical innocent, amenable to the "liberal" persuasion of the feilow-travelers and the Communist wing of the C.I.O...
...They are pointing out to the administration the jncongruity of permitting Germany to arm on material being shipped in via Russia and Spain, while at the same time spending huge sums on armaments which can be used against Germany and her alies...
...And •nder the terms American labor we include also lewis's own union, the United Mine Workers...
...Both these men, in close cooperation with Lee Pressman, general counsel of the C.I.O., energetic activist in Communist-controlled front organizations and ardent follower of the CP...
...British officials here are furious at the American government's failure to learn a lesson from recent events in Europe...
...the subjects of the first important conference of the seasoS—to be held at the Rand ¦ School on Friday evening, October 18th, and Sstorday afternoon, pctober 19th...
...We need thousands of dollars in subscriptions...
...v Among those who were beaten at the polls, despite their expectancy of large votes were Congressman Jacob Thorkelson of Montana...
...This is no mere repetitious appeal...
...The Amtorg Trading Co...
...They have shifted their blockade-smashing machinery to Russia and the Pacific—branch offices have been ready in Japan and Russia for some time...
...The Stalinist minority, in turn, challenged some delegates of the majority...
...In the summer of 1938, he attended two Communist-inspired conferences in Mexico City: he was a speaker at two sessions of the International Industrial Relations Institute, organized by Man- Van Kleeck...
...The Department of Commerce has revealed that shipments to Spain and Portugal have jumped more than $22,000,000 over last year's figures for the first seven months of the year...
...Division...
...He was one of the founders of ffie Guild and is still an active member despite its public repudiation by such men as Adolph A. Berle, Assistant Secretary of State, and Attorney General Jackson, who found it to be Communist-dominated...
...Bntike Lewis, the miners are for re-election of Resident Roosevelt, restoration of peace in the labor movement, which the Communists seek to Prevent at all costs, support, without equivocation, of the national defense program, and reputotalitarianism in any and all forms jj»tion of totalitarianism in any and all forms...
...stooges in the Board...
...How else is it possible to explain the open and dreet support given by Lewis to the Coramu-B5ts in their brazen effort to capture by force oirtrol of the largest C.I.O...
...The Stalinists then held a rump meeting as Haywood, in a public statement, announced Lewis's support of the Comrnunazis...
...That cleavage, in turn, reflects ithe widening breach between the bona-fide, anjti-Communist elements in the C.I.O...
...moreover, they wanted to drive Saposs out of the Board as he has been a close associate of Dr...
...of L. unions in the northern Pacific ports...
...Industrialists Help Nazis Run Ally Blockade A world-wide network of ports and ships built since September 1939 by the Germans to counteract the British blockade has its center in the United States New York City newspapermen revealed this week...
...What was at stake was the Communist Party's drive to get a stranglehold on strategic American industries, in line with the plans of the Soviet-Nazi pact...
...The result was that Congress made no appropriation for his...
...Last week six miscellaneous freighters were booked by Soviet offices to carry cotton and wheat from West Coast ports to Vladivostock...
...He was formerly Washington representative of the National Union of Social Justice...
...tte ultimate consequence of this breach can be only the complete disintegration of the C.I.O...
...is the vacancy in one of the three seats on the Board, which occurred when the term Utairman ju Warren Madden lapsed late in August...
...He ran third, receiving only 2,569 votes...
...The ports of entry are Vladivostok in the Far East and Petsamo in the Arctic...
...organization in this state with the blessing and support of John L. Lewis...
...Whatever shade of differ-ence there has existed between Lewis and the Communists disappeared completely at Rochester, where —- he finally threw off the mark ud ordered his henchman, Allan S. Haywood, to back the Stalinists...
...Last year, the underground rumblings within the N.L.R.B...
...So do Mexico and Cuba...
...IT takes cash to come through a crisis...
...Edwin S. Smith came to Washington as the protege of Mary Van Kleecfc, the founder of the Communist-sponsored Interprofessional Association, vociferous admirer of the Soviet regime and sponsor of the Lundeen Bill, which was drafted by the Communist Party...
...and the Lewis-Stalinist combination, which has...
...Ralph W. Liddy placed second with about 21,000 votes...
...both administratively and in his decisions on cases involving Stalinist-controlled unions that have come up before the Board...
...In the face of such vigorous opposition, the C.f...
...At the same time he edits Social Justice...
...He has consistently favored the interests of the Communist wing of the C.I.O...
...Take it or leave it, your paper is worth ten times its present price, and anyone wishing to buy it for less than twenty cents a copy, should .first be required to file a pauper's oath...
...Realizing that they were hopelessly outnumbered, the Stalinists let lose a cyclone of lies «nd abuse as their minority group walked out the hall and were joined by others excluded »y the report of the credentials committee...
...use the N.L.R.B...
...The response to these broadcasts will finally answer a question the staff has long tiredly asked itself—will The New Leader continue publication...
...as a source of jobs for its patronage machine and to put CP...
...But even more effective was the defense set up by the majority.'-"The Communists discovered that when it comes to a showdown between bona-fide representatives of labor and their gangsters and strong-arm men, labor knows how to defend itself...
...More than 90 dele- • rates of the pro-Stalinist faction were chal-' lenged by the credentials committee...
...The duPonts, part of the munitions dynasty which is such an important cog in the American defense machinery, have denied any association with Mayorga's work...
...After the exit of the Stalinists, the majority adopted resolutions reaffirming indorsement of President Roosevelt as voted by the CJ.O...
...Four years ago his main strength was in Detroit, but his state-wide showing surprised all political observers The final count then showed that Ward lost to Representative Prentiss B. Brown by about 4.000 in a state-wide count...
...Exports to Cuba have gone up by $7,700,000...
...On Saturday afternoon, Oct...
...innocents' organizations: the Washington Friends of Spanish Democracy and the National Conference on Constitutional Liberties, at whose recent sessions he was one oft the main speakers...
...Social Justice attempts to paint this cessation of broadcasts on some "mysterious" influence controlling the nations' broadcasting facilities...
...The Stalinist assault met with stout resistance OB ft* part of the Right Wing majority, led by Louis Hollander, of the Amalgamated TBe'lfacf that the Amalgamated took the^lcad in the fight on the Stalinists, commanded by Joe Curran, of the National Maritime Workers, and Michael J. Quill, international president of the Transport Workers^ served to emphasize the growing cleavage between Sidney Hillman, president of the Amalgamated and national vice-chairman of the C.I.O4 and Lewis...
...and he attended the sessions of the World Congress Against War and Fascism, at which the Comunist symbol of the hammer and sickle was displayed prominently and Communist speakers dominated the scene...
...He was also a sponsor of two other CP...
...were so bittejy-thart -the case is again before the Board for reinvestigation...
...reached the ears of Congress and the House set up an Investigating Committee, unfortunately manned, in large part, by labor baiters...
...William Laserson, who has the confidence of the bona fide labor movement as loyal to ouraemocratie institutions...
...I he immediate focuslof the struggle for control of the N.L.R.B...
...His wife was one pf the leaders of the League for Peace and Democracy and is an active member of the League of Women Shoppers, another Communist Party innocents' group, linked through its officers to the American Peace Mobilization...
...Ward protected the count, received another and watched Brown's margin of victory jump almost 100 per cent...
...Men like Senator Thomas, of Utah, Daniel Tobin, of the Teamsters Union, and Philip Murray, of the Sjteel Workers, have lent their names for the same purpose...
...The speakers announced are men who have the full right to speak for American Labor...
...The associate general counsel, Thomas I. Emerson, was, like Witt, one of the founders of the Lawyers' Guild and is today fhe leader of the Stalinist faction in its Washington chapter and a member of its constitution committee...
...organization of its right to express itself...
...Now that Spain will be blockaded by the British, the Germans will be ready...
...Thus, the next presidential appointment will determine the .fate of the Communist Party's bid for power over American Labor...
...commissars and their fellow-travelers decided that their best bet, in- their struggle for control of the Board, was to press for Madden's reappointment, since they could not hope to get another Edwin Smith on the JJoard...
...The Board, to keep its work in prder, found it necessary to make financial provision for the Division from its general funds...
...Haywood, national direc-ur of the C.I.O., was at Rochester as Lewis's personal representative...
...Townsend's old age pensfon organization...
...Control of this seat is crucial to the Communist Party as it will give it a majority...
...j'j The session at which the Stalinists bolted the convention was the most tempestuous of aU...
...of L. President Green once made clear his opposition to Madden, this has not been followed up, at this crucial time, when the appointment by the President seems due very shortly...
...From HUGO POLLOCK "I was personally plaesed to read of the proposed increase of your subscription rate, for as far as I am concerned, it will help allay a long troubled conscience...
...George Hermann Derry and Louis B. Ward, both Coughlinites who ran in Detroit...
...a key position in the new Administrative Division of the Board was given, through the pressure of Smith and Witt and over the protests of Leiserson, to Aaron Warner, who had been active in the C.P.-organ-ized Interprofessional Association and was a member of the Lawyers' Guild...
...Cotton, oil, machinery and scrap iron are the items leading the increase...
...A free news-magazine like The New Leader justifies its existence only by keeping pace with every twist in the news, every screaming headline—and all ' this takes an organization...
...Last week Ward ran third, polling only little more than 20,000 votes in Wayne County, being beaten by Frank Fitzgerald who rolled up 123,-574...
...Because of increased costs we have been forced to raise our yearly rate to two dollars.—But not until November the first...
...Observers report that both Derry and Ward campaigned by delivering pro-Nazi anti-Semitic talks...
...j This decision- was so raw, and th<K protests of the A.F...
...Ho lost heavily even in Wayne County (Detroit) which was his stronghold...
...sent an army of lobbyists to fight amendments to the Act last Spring,-they wene ordered not to defend Saposs and his Division...
...The new tally gave Brown 123,715 votes to Ward's 115,731...
...The first test is at hand in the Communist bid for control of the National Labor Relations Board through tha reappointment of Madden*Lewis Backing of N. Y. Stalinites Seen Splitting Nat'l CIO The split in the New York State organization of the C.I.O...
...These vital •topics will be discussed by...
...These defeats, as well as general resentment among Catholics against him, have played a strong part in Coughlin's abandoning his new serie^s of weekly radio talks, which were scheduled to open on Sunday, October 20...
...1 Strebel stressed the latter resolution when he warned "Black Shirt Mussolini, Blood-dripping Hitler and Assassin Stalin to keep their hands off the American labor movement...
...to the American Federation of Labor, complete isolation of Lewis and the Communists, and the building of a strong united American labor movement...
...at its (Convention in Rochester last week as a result of a determined .abortive effort by Stalinists to "seize control of the organization was an event of vital importance not only to the labor movement but to the nation as a whole...
...19th, the gather-will hear Thomas J. Lyons, President of the N- Y. State Federation of Labor on the subject, ''How Labor will cooperate in the Defense of democracy...
...line, have filled the N.L.R.B...
...voted to appoint Aaron Warner to the Administrative Division...
...Although A.F...
...The convention was concluded with the re-election of Strebel as...
...Says Mr...
...Coughlin picked him to win in the September 10th Michigan primary...
...Oh the other hand, however, the Communists have been very active as they know that this is a world of pressure-politics and that if they can divert the country's attention with spurious slogans of peace and civil liberties to cover up their un-American activities, they will be able to win the struggle for control of the Board...
...Louis B. Ward is ? Coughlin's official biographer...
...The winner, Archie C. Fraser, polled 10,534 votes...
...Eleven vice-presidents were also elected...
...It is becoming increasingly evident also that Hillman, backed by his own and other powerful organizations in the C.I.O., will now be compelled to force the issue...
...would be determined by the national or-* ganization...
...Louis Waldman^ well-known labor attorney, ¦ 00 the subject, "The Interests of Labor and the "Wes of the War.' ^AU trade unions, Workmen's Circles, locals of «e Social Democratic Federation and other sim-™r organizations ire asked to send delegates to this U.S...
...Vincent Ferris, Executive Secretary of the N. Y. Al'ied Printing Trades Council, whose subject *m be "Labor and the Fight Against Profiteer-and Matthew Woll, who will take up "Laws Part in National Defense...
...His most notorious decision was the one in the case of the longshoremen of the Pacific Coast, in which he helped to**hand over to Harry Bridges, notorious leader of the Communist-dominated International Longshore and Warehousemen's Union, control of the members of the A.F...
...I believe you have gotten up the richest, most sparkling, the meatiest periodical in all of the history of progressive journalism...
...He was also a member of the national committee of the International Juridical Association...
...of Berlin, with 208 offices throughout the world, is the center of this activity...
...A short time ago...
...We are not taking valuable front page space to put over a fly-by-night circulation stunt...
...exports to Mexico have soared $8,100,000...
...Continuing to appease the Soviet government Washington has permitted American manufacturers to ship $11,374,940 worth of copper to the USSR between January 1 and July 31, 1940...
...between the Lewis-Stalinist camp and the bona-fide trade unionists who are determined to put an end to the game of using the C.I.O...
...George Hermann Derry, backed by Coughlin...
...and generally proven himself to be a reliable, if unwitting, tool...
...Haywood Placed the stamp of legality upon the Stalinist Poup and declared that the question of control of the New York State organization of the C.LO...
...The Daily News' probe has already resulted in the suspension by the Francis I. duPont Co., brokers of 1 Wall Street, of Jose M. Mayorga, who was revealed by Guy Richards as the Axis agent in this country and the American representative of Juan March, the billionaire who financed the Franco revolt against Republican Spain...
...Vast stores of oil, copper, machinery and cotton essential to the manufacture of explosives, are finding an entrance to Axis territory through Arctic Ocean ports, Spain, Portugal, Cuba, Mexico and Russia...
...Ward tried to capture the Democratic nomination for the United States Senate in 1936...
...attempted to capture the Republican nomination for Representative in the Fifteenth Congressional District...
...Obviously, the issue goes beyond the N.L.R.B., for this is but a vital part of a larger conspiracy on the part of Moscow's Communist Party to penetrate and control our government agencies, our labor movement and our strategic peace and war industries...
...The Communist backers of Madden, however, have been obscured by typical cover-up maneuvers: John L. Lewis, whose alliance with the CP...
...For the enclosed check, please send me five subscription cards, which I shall present to friends, on condition that each get another person to subscribe...
...It has been chargedr by reliable authorities that Witt has asked those applying for jobs as to their social philosophy, to make sure that they were sympathetic to the Communist Party line...
...Professor George S. Counts, President of the American Federation of Teachers, •» "Civil Rights ani Fifth Column Activities...
...As for ourselves, we have little doubt that when stripped of all irrelevancies and Stalinist camouflage, the issue will appear clear and unmistakable: the return of all non-Stalinist, bona-fide unions in the CJ.O...
...Through this control, it hopes to dominate the organized labor movement of the United States...
...The miners, we learn, are rapidly growing weary •f being used'by Lewis as pawns in his personal SUn* in the labor movement of this country...
...tnd affiliation of its healthy elements with the American Federation of Labor...
...The very fate of* the nation will be determined to a large extent by the courage and wisdom shown by the organized workers of America in meeting this issue...
...partisans...
...Behind Edwin Smith is arrayed the whole of the carefully constructed Communist Party apparatus in the National Labor Relations Board...
...The Stalinist rump meeting elected a committee to seek a charter from the national organization of the CJ.O., thus indicating the determination of the Stalinista to become the C.I.O...
...Unless he quickly bethinks himself and reconsiders his suicidal policy of cooperating with tte Stalinists along the line laid down by the Communist Party, American labor will before long throw John L. Lewis into the ashcan...
...Cooperating—at a good price—with the blockade-breaking network are some of this nation's leading cotton, oil, machinery and copper corporations...
...Beside the Social Justice club machinery Ward was backed by Dr...
...And they have even been able to induce Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, to jb» the-Commtmist-inapired preasnre-squad for the reappointment of Madden...
...On Friday evenings Oct...
...The alliance between the conservatives and the Communists was evident in every move of both groups: In arranging the presentation of the Board's case before the Committee, Saposs, unlike the other key men in the Board,-was not given the chance to present his own defense, appearing only when called, and not to present his own case but rather for hostile cross-examination...
...When the , C.I.O...
...War Industries Through Control of National Labor Board By BILL HARPMAN WASHINGTON, D. C.—under cover of the war in Europe, the creation of a national defense program in this country, and the current presidential wmpai^n, tne communist Party is quietly making its bid for complete control of the National Labor Relations Board...
...Backed by John L. Lewis, the Stalinists, who wen obviously in the minority, came prepared to frustrate the will of the majority on the question of indorsement of President Roosevelt, support of the national defense program and repudiation of all dictatorship, whether Nazi, Fascist or Communist...
...their penetration of the American communications system through the dominance of the American Communications Association...
...The Committee not only recommended amendments to the Labor Act but the abolition of Saposs' Division t>f Economic Research...
...voted in favor of Harry Bridges in the West Coast longshore case...
...The staffing of the Board with members and supporters of C.P.-dominated organizations is traceable to the activities of Smith's "brain-trusters" in the Board, Nathan Witt and Thomas I. Emerson...
...Richards reveals that Henry W. Hamacher, a former official of Schenker and ¦ Co...
...Acting upon direct in-- structions from Lewis, Haywood sided openly wita the Stalinists, whose purpose became crystal-clear when they agreed to have all challenges of delegates withdrawn, provided the majority abandoned the resolution indorsing President Roosevelt...
...This is of a piece with the Communist penetration of the American merchant marine through the domination of the National Maritime Union led by Joe Curran...
...The remarkable thing about this remarkable story is the fact that there is a very real danger that these maneuvers of the Communists may-succeed...
...been consistently losing ground...
...a list of speakers fcJaded by Matthew Woll, Vice-President of the American Federation of Labor...
...The implication is obvious...
...Richards: "The furious pace of trans-Pacific trade has brought numerous charterings by Russia of American tankers...
...It is evident that the split at the Rochester convention marks the beginning of a final showdown in the C.I.O...
...leaders like R. J. Thomas, of the Auto Workers Union, and Philip Murray, of the Steel Workers Union, to come to the defense of Saposs and his Division and to clear him of the charge of Communism...
...was definitely proven by his role in the recent convention of the New York State Industrial Union Council of the C.I.O., has been pressuring President Roosevelt, directly and indirectly, for Madden's reappointment...
...stooges in key positions within the Board...
...Nathan W^tt, who is the secretary of the N.L.R.B., has been a member of the League for Peace and Democracy, the International Juridical Association and the Laaj-yers' Guild...
...in 1936 and denouncing Soviet Russia and Communism by name, together with Hitlerism and Fascism...
...The majority issued a statement challenging the right of the national organization to interfere in the business of the State organization...
...At present, the Board is the scene of a bitter internal fight between Edwin S. Smith, trusted fellow-traveler and confidante of the Communists, and Dr...
...The battle broke out almost 'immediately after the meeting was called to order by Gustave Strebel, president of the State Industrial Union Council, the fight centering around the report of the credentials committee...
...patronage machine...
...The work of the "poison squads" was so effective that the well-meaning, pro-labor members of the Committee, Congressmen Mur-dock and Hsaley, all but asked for Saposs' dismissal in their minority report...
...Only a short time ago, Smith and Witt were ready to fire Elinore Herrick...
...Which takes cash—which we haven't got...
...Senator Burke of Nebraska, Joseph Mi Williams...
...their increasing penetration of the transportation system and the government service...
...He has defended the activities of Nathan Witt...
...Labor in War, Topic Of Rand School Parley How Labor will support the government and *hst sacrifices Labor should make in war-time •ffl be...
...Despite the usual false claims made by the fonraunists, it was evident that three-quarters of the delegates supported the anti-Communist forces...
...rt was necessary for men like President William Green, of the A.F.of L., David Dubinsky, of the I.L.G.W.U., and anti-Communist C.I.O...
...at the bidding of the Stalinists, during the Consolidated Edison case, because she refused to be partial towards the Communist-controlled C.I.O...
Vol. 23 • September 1940 • No. 39
