Lewis Return to A.F.L. Realigns Union Factions, Hints Labor Unity
Lewis Return to A.F.L. Realigns Union Factions, Hints Labor Unity Jurisdictional Conflicts, WIB Policy To Hold Up Entry By JONATHAN STOUT WASHINGTON, D. C—It h*a ?????? Characteristic of John L-...
...He is also in agreement with Winston Churchill on the broad outline of post-war European regional federatiens...
...It was rumored that buses had been turned over and that Fort Belvoir had cancelled all leaves of Negro soldiers because there was going to be rioting In Washington...
...Underground groups hsve been particularly active tn the last severs...
...these miners were discounted in meet quarters, whet >* significant ? thst thee* stone* played up the wtppeceet Italian inslnceni ate a* "undercover anti-fascists" all along...
...Perhaps the fissidsnt ought to get around to asking his price Administator whether he intends to make •cod on the job for him, or to continue making Bowbsils for Lewis...
...He was a member of the Michigan State Labor Board, of the Advisory Labor Committee of NRA and of WPA, and'has been associated with the U. S. Conciliation Service...
...This is in the Msy lith story: ". . . Grand, long in semi-obscurity, is known to hold eroBritish sentiments, snd Badog'x has hldhtii with the Duce...
...Equally disturbing are Dr...
...Benes' idealism and his "real-politik...
...On Friday, May 7th, the uniformed , guards in four Government buildings—Social Security...
...One suggestion strongly made in responsible quarters was that the AFL Executive Council issue ist invitation to the CIO for immediate resumptkm of unity negotiations, with a similar invitation possibly being made to the railroad brotherhoods...
...and . the task of feeding and supplying millions wees* amount to a master prr-blem of logistics...
...But, on May 18, two...
...Umberto we* a Marshal in the army that steamed at France is June...
...Two days later that announcement took on the appearance of being premature when Msgr...
...In Paris, Marcel Deat, Vichy's arch-collaborationist, wrote in his L'Oeuvre: "The tension has reached its peak at the present time and bears a close resemblance to the situation in North Africa on the eve of the Allied landings there...
...OPA's new dollars-and-cents ceilings for meat «est into effect last Monday...
...the one that predominated was that the Italian K«c had andmated and that Count Dkne Grand»— who...
...Shipping facilities would BE taxed to keep the population from starving and in order to mairta: a a semBiane* of economic life in the country...
...Prof...
...According to many students of history and politics, the great number of small states in Central Europe and elsewhere wer* a temptation to the large predatory powers...
...There were dozens of variations...
...There's going to be a race riot" Cab drivers, tbe investigators found, were telling their fares throughout the week "thst s riot is coming...
...inquiry described as a "Communist front" Emerson was the right-hand man and assistant on Nathan Witt, general counsel at the time of the National Labor Relations Board...
...out of gratitude...
...the AFL and the CIO...
...Thus, while we welcome the Czechoslovak President to the United States and value his wise statesman-schip in the past, we may have to withhold judgment on...
...M* differentials of one to three cents a pound m BMat between chains and small independents, far example, are not calculated to perpetuate ?? ?? expectancy of the small fellows...
...Both sources are reliable and reputable and both say the exact opposite cf each other...
...They were also a temptation to other powers which mistakenly believed that the small states could be sacrificed for the sake of European peace...
...There fa the conflict between AFL...
...Well, that's the record...
...I do »et believe that the powers vested in any branch •J the...
...The result was that tfaf were answering nicely to the manipulation a* me Biff Business lobby and singing the tune Mt forth for them...
...Ripka's other statement than as another anti-Polish and pro-Stalin gesture...
...Nevertheless, by estranging labor and the snail busin es...
...ti * * * ^te" ^«munist Party seems to be staging a 5*J abow these days, the trapeze act ranging Jr** way from running errands fee the f***0*1 Association Of Manufacturers, bally -25* Bedeaux speed-up schemes, attempting Jjjtejy and to the personal embarrassntent ef 2? *«ray to kiss the latter on all cheeks, to ¦** a "job" on the Just demands of the coal miners for wage increases to catch up with the cost of living...
...The Italian Confederation of Labor has been revived, the Italian Socialist Party strengthened, the J ????snd Liberty group* active, the party Sf Etaflo Lasse (an independent moderate deputy in the former ItsHsn chamber) |lOWiU| is pcrwer—these element*, in urrited front...
...Jbjltfc.-»hpims)sg · to represent 600.000 small fasasks retailers aired their complaints contttmsn's Inquiry seemed aimed at a complete srfaWown of 0...
...etc The Hades* people, frees ah sober sad vesntable reports, have - ? leve far the sting sad the House of Savoy, are sodiffereat to the si i d a* I groups and hostile to the entire hierarchy of fascism...
...Eduard Benes...
...a number of Communist-dominated unions, Emerson resigned at the same time and voiced a vicious attack on President Roosevelt...
...Grandi is allied with tke nesvj hv dustrislntt*' tliqnea...
...A democratic liberal and far-sighted statesman, President Benes, in many respects, holds the key to the future status of the smaller nations in Europe, particularly Eastern Europe...
...his present policies...
...And as a part of Oat picture, organised labs* may get a black eye and labor unionism a setback because of the prejudice-blinded behavior of a local labor leader and a small group ef mis guided followers...
...Invasion Nears, Underground Indicates Collapse of Mussolini By MATTHEW LOW "If we must fall," Fascist-Secretary Carlo Scorza told Benito Mussolini's party in Rome this week, "we will see to it that we fall with fine dignity...
...Adolf Hitler and D Dure, as-one cartoonist effectively sketched tite""afrs-ntion, have suddenly been isolated in their European fortress, and stand back to back with anxious eyes on all walls and corners at once...
...Nearly two-thirds of Hitler's army (er about ISO to 200 divisions) remains oa the Eastern front...
...I look f**artt to an early reversal of your decision ¦ «der that we may get these boats to sea...
...But maybe the Republican National Committee will give him one...
...At no time since THE outset erf the war has ;t been LESS clear where rumor, psychologic...
...It is no coincidence, perhaps, that two of the most astute leaders of Europe, Winston Churchill and Eduard Benes, President of Czechoslovakia, timed their visit to the United States to the opening of the Virginia Conference...
...t ration...
...It has revived talk of labor unity...
...bases i. Tre-oenoousacrifices of men, iiaterie...
...A scheduled hearing on the case last Tuesday by tee FEPC was suddenly halted Monday by an announcement from the White House that a new chairman of the FEPC had been appointed...
...Present members include Boris Shishkih of the AFL, John Brophy of the CIO, and Milton Webster of the Sleepingcar Porters Union...
...1. It was a direct threat to Roeeevelt to face the New Deal wdm a labor 0??§}?????4< 2. It was aimed, (uftsiast CIO ??*???1...
...Immediately...
...In an effort to balance this, apparently, prices in the small independent stores dropped about 10 per cent from the previous week's levels...
...Another strong point mad* in favor of Ml idea is that steps would in any case have to be taken very soon if there is to be nay...
...It would be more understandable if he were werkinr for John L. Lewis...
...Badeglio was the isimuwtei of Ethiopia...
...Jut ???* FWluch policy, said Count Sforza, Gaetano galvemeni, Luigi Sturso and others, would drive the Italian people to despair—and possibly to Communism...
...Benes Visit Poses Fate of Small Nations The United Nations Conference which opened in Hot Springs, Virginia, last Tuesday, although called ostensibly for the exclusive purpose of discussing the problems of post-war food and agriculture—to explore pathways to a world free from want—is actually the first attempt at Allied international collaboration and can serve pa symbol for future cooperation among all the nations engaged in the war against the Axis...
...Particularly flagrant in this respect ware tint dispatches from the London office of united Press, which slanted its stories pro-Royalist...
...Other observers Underline his suspicions with speculations about the role of the Vatican and the conversations recently between the Pope and Archbishop Francis Spelhnan...
...Wilhelm Keite...
...two union officials, J. G. Bigelow, president of the Washington local of the Amalgamated Association of Street, Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employee* of America, AFL, and the local's attorney, Sei ton Darr...
...The recent American snd British oombrr.gs hsve pointed to a campaign for Sicily, and Mussolini's Uieiy expressed price in the isle* of PantaUen...
...would be sesced...
...Iter since the outbreak of the war this has Jfakthe practice of all canneries...
...investigators were sent into the coal: regions to investigate the miners' charges of outrageous and widespread price violations...
...Meet stone* ply a pattiftnar r*?nt...
...It [the very unrvMSbte Radio Morocco] said...
...Here are some of the wild and utterly untrue stories that came into newspaper offices or which reached the ears of officials and other pepple concerned...
...Hard-hitting and blunt-worded Gaetano Sal-vemeni states flatly thst he "suspects" the policies of the State Department...
...D. O—It may be pertinent tt ?? whether Price Administrator Prentiss pPirn thinks he's working for Franklin D. gsjsevelt or for .John L. Lewis...
...WouM ha she Italian "Darier...
...Labor, War aad Agriculture Buildings—told Government werkers to "harry home before the trouble started...
...Comment labor Hits New OPA Ceiling as Ineffective By JONATHAN STOUT V.WASHINGTON...
...The outstanding problem of after the war," he said, "will be the status of Central and Eastern Europe and its relations to the post-war status of Germany...
...Perhaps in this esse there is a contradiction between Dr...
...And in Allied capitals, where the climax of the North African campaign was taken , as the beginning of the siege of Europe, feeling ran high that major military engagements with continental Axis forces were impending...
...Carol Weiss King, secretary of the association and attorney for Harry Bridges David J. Benall, a charter member of the Communist Party, and Leo Gallagher, a'candidate for office on the Communist Party ticket When the lata League for Peace and Democracy was dissolved on the signing of the HitlerStalin Pact, and the isolationist Washington Committee for Democratic Action was organized, Emerson promptly joined this organization, which Attorney General Biddle in an offieia...
...A survey of opinion among labor leaden in Washington indicates that a realistic view prevails on Lewis's return to the American Federation of Labor...
...It is universally granted that the AFL will accept the return of the United Mine Workers...
...They bear out the prediction in The New Leader two weeks ago that Brown's price •refback'' orders to date have all added up to jKprie* increases, ,: ..j...
...S. And it was possibly an ultimate threat against those forces in the A FL whom Lewis has never forgiven and who have never lite-given Lewis...
...Simultaneously there came several clear calls to violence in the controversy...
...Official Allied policy towards Italy has never been made clear...
...Note: Before joining ???, Charles W. Trigg *fa a fish broker...
...finally took the bit in its teeth last month and ordered another hearing on the Capital Transit case for Tuesday, May 18...
...There is no doubt that the Czechoslovak president acts in complete agreement with Washington when he advocates a clear understanding between Soviet Russia, Britain and the U. S. on the pattern of post-war Europe...
...It is argued even by those who are personally opposed to Lewis that the AFL cannot dose (hie door to the return of any of the unions who originally organized the Committee far Industrial Organization...
...However, the bitter cup he was made to drink at Munich has convinced him—possibly to the detriment of the future of Czechoslovakia and the smaller European states—to put most (if not all) his eggs in Stalin's basket...
...Do Your Part to Dispel Fantastic and Groundless Reports of Outbreak...
...aad pracueaily so wood, wool, or leather...
...esearing s continent and sweeping- free a sea lane whsrh shorten* convoy routes by norm...
...Saivemeni charged...
...Both announced they were appearing not as official* of the union but as 'citizens of the United States and residents of Washington...
...Negro papers in Washington, tbe investigators reported, received frantic calls from Negro Government workers who live in Virginia and wanted to know whether to leave their tote-aad rush hom# to safety and to guard their families...
...SH- Herry Maiulanii Wiieon Tht RAF has already established key base* on the Turkish penir.sui...
...Bus drivers were among the first to do so, announcing to their passengers...
...He reports that investigators ipund food prices in mining towns "approximately the rj same as in comparable communities...
...The Washington Minorities workshop, composed of a number of white and Negro liberals and labor people, made an investigation of the- rumors...
...Last Tuesday, May 11, the front pages of Washington newspapers carried large headlines, of which the Evening Star's was typical: "Don't Spread Rumors...
...thousand* ef miles...
...With appointment of Father Haas to the FEPC, it was understood that a new roster of members will be appointed to the committee...
...contending that Jcsef Beuna, leading Czechoslovak trade unionist, had no right to speak at the London protest meeting against the Ehrlich-Alter executions...
...The immediate effect was a drawing together of anti-Lewis elements in the ???4...
...On April 20 the Chicago Czech semi-weekly, Kova Doha, published a statement by Czechoslovak "Social Democrats," among them three ministers of tee Czechoslovak Govemment-in-Exile...
...His fellow committee members include Joseph R. Brodsky, attorney for the Communist Party...
...of s unified labor movement to cope with the reactionary Congress now in session, the looming political campaign of 1944 and the problems ? post-war adjustment...
...Fighter planes are its main ferec and the missing bomber strength may perhaps be takes a* a* indication that Hitler dees net expect to be surprised en the Atlantic reset...
...And wtti the bulk of the butcher business going to tteehsins...
...You Must Help Stop It...
...L 0...
...Nor is the military operation of an Its bar...
...OPA's coddling and catering to the eanners ma packers has been notorious...
...Speaking on May 20 before the Council of Foreign Relation* in New York, the Czechoslovak President spoke his mind on the future of Eastern Europe, dearly and unequivocally...
...A hearing was held and, as this column reported, "what is painful to add—in support of the company's poslitaw there appeared bafcta the F.C.P.C...
...This is all the more regretable since he was the first and the most outstanding advocate of federations of small states...
...Yet of all the possibilities, the Nazis showed least fear of an early large-scale invasion of Europe from the Atlantic coast...
...In the Near East however, preparations have oeen frenzied...
...never existed...
...Rivtera fort:§cai»onf are being overhauled, and Toe ion and Nice are already partly evacuated...
...New FEPC Faces 'Race Riot' Issue In Washington By New Leader Wat king tan Bureau Last December 19 this column reported the "painful but stern necessity to record the fact that the making of a ram riot fa brewing in the capital of the embattled democracies of the world...
...But it fa equally clear that this will not...
...Any deal in the interests of ' stability" would only plunge the country into violent ? rri...
...Tee Ita-haa economy has bees "rassaiiaed" BY Werid War II —there is no coal »r o...
...wbich ha* been described a* a pistol aimed at the bean of Itaiy The "political frrvaskm" cf Italy is discussed elsewhere on this page, but it is altogether probable that the "chaos" which is being sc •wildly reported in the press is just a psychological instrument for softenrng sp public opinior for s Drrro Grsndi or Prince Umberto Certain authorities ere finding "snti-fascists" everyVhere...
...Comparison between the new prices and the ?? week's in Washington shows that meat fat chain stores here actually averaged tO per cent higher...
...This last flood of rumors follows a pattern that has become familiar in Washington — baseless and malicious stories of brewing racial clashes between Negro and white citizens...
...From Tobruk...
...New defeases hsve been constructed for the Dabnstion coast...
...There were, threats to gang up on the first Negro to dare take a job as a driver...
...is indistinguishable from their partiality to tyrants...
...Commentators are gauging the time of military victory, editorial writers are debating political tactics—yet in the breathing-spell of the North African victory, it is important that we gather the full historical moment and significance cf the event After twenty years, a tyranny is crumbling...
...or whether the ?? will adopt the slislaffj *JT awaiting that dissension will foBoW Lewis ? the AFL and cause crippling repteraa within that organisation...
...When Witt resigned under fire from the Labor Board to become attorney...
...and Lampedues (Italy's so-cailed "water Maginot line") may also irjdicate as expected direct drive from Bizerte...
...many others are obviously drawn out of the top drawer, dusted off and slapped in with little regard for a changed situation...
...Tbe Communist Party took advertising space * the Detroit News, last week for a bleat 5j»»t Walter Reuther and the United Auto-¦mBs Workers Union...
...Contradictory reports hold that Fascist Italy will share equal responsibility with Germany as aggressors, and thst Italy would be treated as a "slave state" chained to tee Nazi chariot and not responsible for its actions...
...unprecedented pace of thirty and forty mime a chxy...
...gives the right to abrogate labor iWiUscLs or any section thereof...
...No matter how welcome on general grenade, the application of the Mine Workers presented the Council with a timet bomb...
...A real unity move, it was pointed eat, »mihi enable pro-Administration elements in both labor federations to retain the balance of power against s Hutcheson-Lewis coalition whfah might possibly include some of the building trades...
...was osmpieteiy smashed in six months...
...Francis J. Haas, dean of the School of Social Science of Catholic University, on learing the President after a two-hour conference told reporters that he had just accepted the pest...
...months...
...M m th> core of dernricretk Tscistajiov - and the f?rb* of a democratic Italy...
...warfare, war of nerves, and actual military prepsrstions begin and e*vd...
...Father Haas, a native of Racine, Wis., has had long experience as a labor negotiator and conciliator...
...The Detroit News is the *? Paper in that city on Labor's Unfair List...
...Murray in that the addition of half amfsmto miners to the A PL would boost the latter to close to seven million members...
...The report made public last week by Thomas I. Emerson, senior associate general counsel of ???, on the investigation of price enforcement in the coal fields ordered by the President is as slick a "political" document as the Capital has seen in some time...
...The question was pat off until Wednesday, when the AFL...
...The British 8th Army marched 1T00 mile* Th* vaunted Afrikm...
...invasion as suaple as the contempt for ? Duce's strength would suegeet...
...Despite Emerson's public activity in various organizations, it has been impossible to find in his case a single instance in which he showed or indicated public deviation from the Communist Party "line...
...v'- 4.., This is a view which progressive optekm in the United States can wholeheartedly endorse...
...It was the natural assumption that »I would continue to be the practice...
...In the West Hitler's "Atlantic Wall" was being bolstered to face a possible thrust across the English Channel...
...Himmler has tenred Croatia end ? trier part* ef Yueoslana srd F e d Marsha...
...Tired of McNutt's stalling on the issue, the F.E.P.C...
...The Italian people, the anti-fascist leaders state, are democratic and will choose freely a democratic regime, if there is no outside interference...
...Benes' coming visit to Stalin, who fights the idea of a Central European federation...
...But facts and political values sre being lost IN the flcod of rumors, "dope" store**, syiAmsesc analyses and front-porch speculations...
...It is only too true to say that Lewis' position «fand not be half so good if Brown had not jet ? «P for nirtt- ?"?!**' This week the AFL Executive Council tuned one of the strongest condemnations ef Brown so far uttered, spearing the ex-Mieairsn Senator mercilessly for his re-spessibiHty la the complete breakdown of price control, his reneging on his owe previous approval of grade labeling, etc The CIO has issued similar strongly-worded eeeoemnatioas ef Brawn...
...In Washington, as Roosevelt and Churchill were conferring, the press and the aar were filled with stories about s J*9*Beae c-»e-tst»on The battle of Attn in the Panic stow the sesdlrnee But the invasion sf Europe st en* er mere points ts clesrly on the agenda...
...He has arbitrated about 2,000 cases...
...rri charge of Italian affaire When...
...Ripka told the Czech Council in London, "trusts it will be possible to overcome the difficulties which have led to the temporary euepeueien of negotiation* between Czechoslovakia and Poland...
...But a new high ¦ thii respect fa revealed in the following self-•xplaaetory telegram from J. B. Skinner, secre-tay-treesursr of the Seafarers International uifas, in San Francisco to Charles W. Trigg, Wrertor-in-Chief of the Fisheries Section of ?: ? just received a long-distance telephone call win our fishermen's representative in San alsro, Calif., stating that yottr department hew token it upon itself to rule) that the cannery •pernors are forbidden to pay war risk insur-mm upon crew members of fishing boats...
...joint operetons with witn the AH LED arm es ? ? » s tat once in Syria...
...Characteristic of John L- Lewis's ms*** to have multiple objectives...
...It fa safe to say, will form the basis of the AFL committee's discussions with Lewis...
...fir of the small 'business representatives vhs appeared on Capitol Hill this week seemed...
...It was a task to And a good word said for it...
...Thousands of workers, recent reports have it, are reinforcing Axis strength there, aad the vulnerable Lofoten Islands off Northern Norway are being turned into a fortress...
...Alexsndrie...
...It W|UJ rumored that a gang of 800 'roughnecks' had been imported from New York to invade downtown theatres and hotels...
...I Equally symptomatic, is the stand by members of Che Czech Government with regard to the Soviet executions of Ehrlich and Alter...
...Their demonstration was orderly and without incident...
...The price differential between the large chains and small independents staged from one to three cents a pound...
...Said the Star's story, "There is a story in the curious repetition of the wave of rumors which has kept newspaper switchboards tied up with all sorts of reports of what people said they 'heard on the radio'—when they have heard nothing of the sort on the radio—and of equally baseless reports of alleged disorder...
...The reaction of the Council was typical of that of practically all other labor circles In Washington...
...Bulgaria, despite ail the confusicn of doublecross politics, th* Nazis have continued tc pout in German equipment and have stationed strong German detachments at strategically important points like Salor.ikj and the B-ack Seat ports : f Varna *r,d Burgas An AHted atuack ar» . n « ( Saloniki and South ern Th:*ce would, of cour««, require the REccup* t.oe of Crete and the Aegean Islands ? especially tne...
...It was rumored that the parade of last Friday night was to become instead a fullfledged invasion- of the Capital...
...Was it, perhaps, made in order to smooth the way for Dr...
...Benes made this statement, Hubert «ipka, the Czech Minister of Foreign Affairs in London, disclosed that negotiations between Czechoslovakia and Poland, looking toward establishment of a ?onfedsrstion of Central European states, have been suspended...
...This victory was planned, long-calculated opening gun of a hemispheric fainpaigti—ftf battle fee &**o** . By DANIEL BELL After twenty years, Italian fascism faces collapse and destruction...
...Council tabled Hutcheson's motion and approved the naming of s committee to meet with Lewis to discuss the matter...
...The most striking political fact regarding Italy was underlined in The New Leader symposium 04 "After Mussolini—What...
...Among facts to be considered are the following: Emerson is a member of the national committee of the International Juridical Association...
...It wafB rumored that all the banks in the ?! ? were to be robbed...
...Of all the newspapers ™watcity, the Communist Party's ad appeared •? fa the Detroit News, thereby further carry«t the labor-busting policies of the Na-{¦•al Association of Manufacturers and similar ¦"•-hating outfits...
...Recapture of the upper tip would secure the Allied route for convoys to Russia...
...The situation grew out ef an order last November by the Fair Employment Practices Committee that the Washington Capital Transit Company would have to hire Negro as well aa white fas* drivers and street car motormen by December 16...
...The "Atlantic WsU" is supported by 40 to 50 divisions, and only about 30% of the German Luftwaffe fa estimated to be so located that it can participate from its present airdromes in western warfare...
...The Minorities workshop concurred with the Evening" Star's implication that "when a rash of rumors breaks out it isn't accidental," and disseminated posters reading: "Rumors Can Cost Lives at Home as Well as at Sen...
...hat beer me-etir.p these moves with a reported reorganization of the entire Baikar, defense The main spoti.ght ha* been, of course, or Italy But it *as debatable whether the Allies would invade Italy when <as one expert put i t ) "she ean be crushed just as easily by a pmcer* movement...
...The effect of that would be to increase the mflaenee si tire A FL and conversely to decrease the influents of the CIO...
...Chairman Wright Patman of the fssse Small Business Committee moved with •ferity in opening hearings early in the week...
...The Czechoslovakian government, Mr...
...and s scattering of others, and there fa the AFL Progressive Miners Union...
...Emerson's report admits that "effective" price enforcement by...
...Both in France and in Heiland the news of "Biserte-Tnnis" lit off widespread disaffection, and it is here, according to underground reports, that civil collaboration with the Allied invaders will take on its most organized form...
...Csmrresemen were hearing from the small fastness men this week, but unfortunately un-fetee obvious tutelage of the Big Business May boys...
...Particularly significant at this time is the visit of Dr...
...Then Paul McNutt became War Manpower Czar and took over the FJU.P.C» Nothing was done about the order to Capital Transit to hire replacements for its badly depleted manpower ranks without racial discrimination...
...Umberto would succeed to the thrcne Anti-fascists have cowstetently warned that the House of Savoy share* fully the guilt ? the F»*<-HU Party asm the menstrialiato hi the ·. ? ????» aal rule of Itaiy...
...In general, the Executive Council's at Item fa*, dicates beyond question that Lewis and Bntek-eson were acting independently tend wfafamx prior discussions in the Council...
...snd time would oe prevented in une EVEN* of active Turkish eoi.aboration t...
...Not one of these stories was true...
...This statement about an act of the G.P.U., which aroused the indignation of the entire civilized world is clearly in line with Benes' appeasement policy towards Stalin...
...There are the relatively minor problems ef jurisdiction involved in the Mine Workers District SO which has a number of chemical worter...
...One could hardly mrgest s better way to prove Lewis' position **· & * It teems apparent also that in the new price smssxe play under way, Brown has decided to tear the small business man to the wolves...
...At the meet-¦t ? attended in Los Angeles where finally a "jHng price on fresh tuna was agreed to, the ••aeon relating to war risfi insurance did not *rise as it was the past practice and established i*e*fant that the canneries pay such war risk * crews...
...A London dispatch states that the Allies will treat only with military commanders and make no political deals—and Raymond Daniell adds in the New York Timet that we will not strike any bargains with the Royal Family—yet the Washington bureau of the Wall Street Journal wired on May 14: "State Department plans to make deals ahead of time with friendly faction in all countries invaded...
...Due to your spontaneous action without due '¦»fatigation in arbitrarily ruling that canneries •ball not pay war rieft insurance on the crews a* fishing boats we have five boats at the Ptenet time tied up in San Diego waiting for masone to pay the war risk insurance...
...A crew of...
...Then he attempts to cut the ground from under the miners' complaints with the assertion that the investigators in the cosl regions found "no evidence that food commodities were selling at extravagantly high percentages above ceiling prices...
...it is easy to see what the new, price tsufage will ia to the small business men...
...Iraq and Paieetme under th* command cf British Gen...
...Indignation meetings were called by Bigelow and his followers...
...Tan Rumor of ? Pending Race Riot Has Been Planted in This City...
...In the last days before Case Boa the Allies were moving s t s brillssnt...
...with Mar seal Badeerho...
...duration, support of the War Labor Beard, and *he Admuiistrsitsn» sei ? Ufa's msteimi st ski no-strike pledge, his snubbing of the War faM Board and his bitter oayosittor, te the...
...end Cyprus (not to exelude the possibility of Turkish basest the threats to V ·•»* »c Europa'» "soft underbelly" is perticularly greve The Egyptian government f » - tightened «11 military regulations in the last tec days Turkey's shipments of British and American m r material have been ewelhng...
...tiiat by failing so far to limit the profits ef the middlemen — the wholesalers, jobbers, aaaors, eanners, shippers, processers, grain amfatators, etc—Brown has been passing the sfsmm along to the consumers and small busi-mfa men, who are in the same boat together...
...Who'll be · the Giraud of Italy: Count Ciano or the^ King...
...Some of the questions outlined above...
...snd in all the highest places "their love of order" ? to borrow DeToeqaeviIle's sentence...
...He was a member of the old National Labor Board that preceded the NLRB...
...men, who comprise together the balk of the Administration's supporters, Brown •jasrently is rapidly working himself out of a job...
...The new hearing in the Capital Transit esse has been set for June 2. ., . Capital Transit fought tit* old order...
...They may have been started by reports of a perfectly osderly and legal demonstration on Friday evening of a group of Negro citizens who are championing the movement to secure platform jobs for Negroes on buses and streetcars...
...The small business boys, that ia...
...IpPrentiss Brown fa working for Franklin D, Roosevelt, this seems an odd way to carry tot me President's order to roll back prices to fait September 1? levels...
...Benes' views with regard to an East-European Confederation...
...In the North there was fear for Norway...
...ha« assumed command cf all A x * troops ;n the Balkans IT...
...Ketea m Soaa...
...In the circumstances, as they actually are, howtver, President Benes, unfortunately, in the fadfds of Time magazine, will hot iulfiill this function...
...The drsmstic ssilSUUMlkBtit cf his application for readmfaaipn of the United Mine Workers in the American Federation of Labor not only nearly stole the show from Winston Churchill and the Duke and Dockes» of Windsor last Wednesday but threatened three birds with the one stone...
...A "new social order" will have to be built, and it may well be the pattern for all future political events on the continent...
...And, he adds, compliance by company stores was "above average.'* Whether there is any connection between Emerson and the Kremlin Gremlins out to do a "job" oa the mine workers is open to question...
...It was indeed hoped that President Benes, while in the United States, Would serve as a useful intermediary, both in such matters as the Russo-Polish break, and in the larger field of post-war relations...
...In view of the announcement of the Czech Foreign Ministry that President Benes "will stay strictly away from the Russo-Polish affair" while in Washington, how is one to interpret Mr...
...This is what actually happened in 1938...
...All leading antifascist exiles, writing independently of each ether, ehorused...
...Last Monday President William Hutcheson ef the Carpenters Union presented Lewis's appss-catoin for readmission in the AFL ana moved its immediate approval...
...Thus ? Y. Porf-cceunrsist Johannes Steel, in hie May 15th column, discourses blithely about dime-a-dosen DarhrSa and casually describes Aldo Vidnssoni as general secretary of the Fascist Party, although the pro-Germs ? Vidnssoni was summarily ousted s month ago and replaced b y Carle Scorza \'idosscni's ouster, coming a few days sfter the recent Hhler-Mussolmi umfs**anU and the rejection of the Axis peace hid train Madrid, has beer, refrarded as of vital uoHthVhl snrnrftcsnce In the «ernte of stories and rnnwrs...
...The Conference at Hot Springs can serve as a spring-board for a series of conferences on various other technical questions affecting political relations among the United Nations...
...Failing such or some similar Solution, labor circles here are agreed that raten of the Mine Workers to the AFL presages internal diasen-sior in the AFL The important question in AFL circle*, thai* fore, is whether tike CIO fa willing at this mesne to join with pro-Administration elements in the AFL to stop the Lewis-Hutcheson cealltfaa...
...Since then anal yaw of how the new prices have been working set have been coming in from all over the wastry...
...But there are mn|t problems involved before the Mine Workers can be readmitted that consummation of the mattet can be delayed as much as six months or, more...
...iBtrs-Eoropcas export* %'«aid/)f course, be .mrieiuw ? cut off...
...The students of history Mad politics . who hold this view believe that tee idea of federation—or at W*t, oonfederatio-,— must be- applied to Europe when the war is over...
...They found that the rumors started spreading the week ef May 3rd...
...the real ones, were evidently aimless, paaless and disorganized...
Vol. 26 • May 1943 • No. 21
