Washington and the Nation
Washington and the Nation Partial Report of the ILGWU Convention T^HK International Ijidies' Garment Workers' Union, at its 25th national convention in Boston, urged support of Roosevelt and...
...Mayor LaGuardia was criticized for the part he played in the A LP fight...
...Farm machinery and tools belonging to the Land Authority are available to the farm workers who live on small plots on the large plantations...
...It called for the re-establishment ot Puerto Rican Reforms in Danger By Devere Allen Washington...
...The campaign is on in full blast...
...Even the New York Tmu featured, not Tugwell's answer, but the appeals of banker Rafael Carrion, now putting his message across to chambers of commerce in the States, for s restoration of power to land owners, industrialists, and other forms of outside and local enterprise,'free from what he labelled "government paternalism...
...In the new crusade against the Governor, both some sections of the press and certain groups In Congress are enlisted...
...By means of a newly organized attack on Governor Rexford Guy Tugwell, the elements desiring a return to the old unchecked power of tht sugar barons and land hogs are hoping to undo many of the reforms which antedate the Tugwell administration...
...The elimination of confusion and overlapping of authority in the various government labor, agencies, by creation of one over-all centralised organization, was urged in a resolution...
...Unity between the AFL and CIO was stated to lie essential for the strengthening of labor's postwar influence...
...with anti-labor legislation being enacted in many State Legislatures, and the very existence of the labor movement threatened by wavea of reaction that are sweeping the country...
...Washington and the Nation Partial Report of the ILGWU Convention T^HK International Ijidies' Garment Workers' Union, at its 25th national convention in Boston, urged support of Roosevelt and the election of a New Deal Congress in the report of the ILGWU general executive board...
...The AFL was criticized for failure to oust racketeers from its ranks...
...The rest of the profit is distributed among the workers, who are also paid regular wages...
...The red herring being used in the new antiTugwell c*mp»ign is personal abuse, exaggeration, and misrepresentation...
...Under the new program these people are eligible for small tracts where they can build a home and raise subsistence crops...
...This is the "Socialism" of which the Governor is being convicted by Washington journal which play up the attacks against him and play down his constructive efforts to alleviate the poverty of the people...
...Pdgan's outburst received such prominent display in the Washington papers that some of them even repeated it through editions covering two dsys, while some of them suppressed altogether Tugwell's reply and others gave it slight space...
...The report stressed the need for labor participation in the peace settlement and the solution of all postwar problems...
...with the forces of liberalism everywhere on the defensive and the enemies of progress snd democracy on the march —abandonment of the effort to defend the New Deal would have a depressing effect upon our own members and would dishesrten our own associates with whom we fought side by aide for msny years...
...Carrion's emphasis on the division of the sugar plantations reveals that the drive against Tugwell goes to the root problem of land distribution...
...When Bolivar Pagan, Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico in the capital city, recently launched a vitriolic attack, using preposterous figures and language of the most extreme sort, he was not merely giving vent to the personal spleen and ambition which has characterized his utterances before...
...Meanwhile, recently-compiled figures from Worldover Press correspondents in the troubled Island stress the benefits to the common people, most of whom are behind Tugwell, from the land division he did not originate, but carried forward fearlessly...
...The report declared that: "With a Congress majority bitterly antagonistic to Isbor, snd public opinion more and more inflamed and united against trade unionism...
...This is the crux of the anti-Tugwell fight, though there are other issues...
...The plots are free, and although title is held by the Land Authority, the occupant has a perpetual non-transferable lease...
...Revision of the Little Steel formula was recommended, as was adoption of the Wagner Murray,-Dingall hill for social security, and establishment of s permanent FEPC...
...The A. F. of L. postwar plan was praised, with cooperation and planning by labor, government, and industry for full pro duct ion...
...These farms are managed by experienced farmers who receive from Ave to fifteen per cent of the net returns...
...This union, one of the most progressiva in America, has a membership of 305,000, nearly half of whom are in the New York metropolitan area...
...The new Lilreral Party of New York State was endorsed...
...The ILGWU board supports the plan to create" immediately a United Nations Council...
...He was opening a new csmpaign to oust the Governor and with him some of the reforms which date back for almost a quarter of a century, along with some inaugurated by Tugwell himself...
...Differences of opinion are legitimate about the steps taken under the Gvernor, but the chief issue it whether the facts can be brought before the American people...
...The Lend Authority created by the insular legislature in 1941 carries into concrete reality me oreaa up oi uis nuga plantation* decreed by the law of 1900 which was enacted, not by any official in Puerto Rico, but by the United States Congress...
...They are designed to preserve the advantages of large-scale operation but with the profit* shared by the workers and the manager-lessee, Instead of going to corporate owners in the form of dividends...
...Among the chief beneficiaries of the land-division program are the "agregados," or farm laborers, who have formerly lived in shacks on land belonging to others, usually to sugar corporations...
...Another important provision of the Land Law he* resulted in the creation of several proportional benefit farms, ranging from 100 to 500 acres...
Vol. 27 • June 1944 • No. 23
