PACTS DO NOT MEAN PEACE
PACTS DO NOT MEAN PEACE Militarism and Cruiser Programs Continue March Onward WfBE ratification of the General Pact for the Renunciation Efcf War by the United States Senate is one of the...
...Be analysed the heavy expenditure for uniforms, entertainment, hostesses, etc, aad showed thai I'mimmediate goal ef this propsgsnds la a military force of 1.000.000 men In the United States...
...P. S. Bond, author of military textboo'.*, calling for a regular army of 300,000 enlisted men and 20,000 officers...
...Unfortunately, the American labor movement has aat aoatribnted as much to the peace sentiment as it should ¦P ether organizations representing a variety of peace ideas awe poured petitions and protests into Congress and they jEstem especially active in the past few months...
...National Civic Federation is an employers' organization of the most virions kind...
...The members of the Industrial Welfare Department, which handles old age pensions and other forme of social legislation, consists exclusively of employers, 1 —A National Civic Federation committee which " once, investigated child labor tit the Southern cotton mills, included the wife of m president of a southern life insurance company, the wives of two presidents of southern cotton mills, and noma other than the president of the South Carolina Cotton Manufacturers Association, labor had no representation...
...In tiie campaign last year Herbert Hoover declared that the Democratic administration had intervened in Latin-American nations nine times and the Republican Administration four times...
...It is for them to contribute something to it before it is too late to think and act The Secret Diary of a New York Cop Monday Well, Gardenia G rover was in and told us some more about how we was all to keep up the good work...
...In citing the Monroe Doctrine the committee quotes President Monroe and interpretations of his famous message, ignoring that phase of the docrrioe which is entirely new from the time when Roosevelt Succeeded McKinley as President...
...He may Wear a high hat and sissy spats and all but don't forget that he was Red Mike's Secretary and bafeae that he was an ashman aad he ought tokwawOpstonrta His* from Sutton Place...
...JQ—Easley has himself admitted "that the National Civic Federation it not a labor organisation" but he hat moisted that labor haw made "valuable contacts" with "representatives of the large business interests of the country" through the Fed* ormtion...
...Samuel McRoberts of the Chatham and Phoenix Bank and Trust Co., Treasurer...
...So somebody said, "plant a gun on the filthy little kike...
...Thest trained officers would pot the factories under military discipline...
...O'Rourke fanned him...
...And the Teley give him a clean bill but Bo had to stand for the pinch anyhow, not giving a damn as he is opening up around the corner in a real estate office...
...He seemed to think that Cordes should have went out and took McManus in with handcuffs in the wagon...
...This led to other 'interpretations*' by the ForAja Relations Committee of the United States Senate which f|dare flat neither the Monroe Doctrine nor the right of •elf-defense was affected and that the United States is, not obligated to use force against a nation violating the pact Then the machinery of taking pacific, action in the case of disputes is not mentioned...
...Just cut stuff...
...The committees and departments of the National Civic Federation are all packed against labor...
...Joe never sold no poison anyhow...
...The doctrine has been so changed that in its modern interpretation it justifies American overlordship in l.atin-Ameriea and we have seen the application of this view in Nicaragua...
...Is it not a striking fact also, that the two nations that have boasted of their common ancestry and speech...
...And the smart-crackers from the papers write pieces saying that this trial will give the low-down on the Rotnstein shooting and rip the town open...
...Well, it sure is a great life being a' con these days...
...What the Gardenia ain't going to do to Cordes for not finger-printing McManus is a plenty...
...It is a dangerous undertaking in a republic," observed the Mississippi Congressman, "to put Its factories, inchsafng management and men, nnner control of the military entabnshmrit This matt appears in that hill under the new name of -procurement.' Congress should bestir Hseif tar nv purpose of killing It now, while ft Is young...
...Sure, Then what bappens...
...He had carted bis stock home before the raid...
...MatHP (new Woli, acting president of the NationM Gvic Federation, whether "It is true that peNational Gvic Federation of which you are P*B*g President is really an employers' or¦WriMtioB?'''' Here arc our reasons for snmlrl...
...ess Tuesday— Well, we pinclied Joe's place last night and it's all over the tabs this morning with a picture of the wrecked bar and three of us strongarms standing beside it...
...The muM vide character of this agitation has undoubtedly comWmi even die-hard members of the United States Senate PHlake some concession to this opinion...
...Tonight I go out on a roundup of suspects...
...The League for Industrial Rights, the National Industrial Conference Board, the National Association of Manufacturer*, the Associated Industries of New York State, the National Association of Clothing Manufacturers, the Untied States Brewers* Association, the Minnesota Employers' Association, tike New York State Chamber of Commerce and the League for the Protection of Property Rights...
...Bet if this big concession is made to protests all over the" RU the statesmen also feel it necessary- to leave an opening MBfh which they may crawl...
...Collins pointed out that'Congress actually provided far creation of a "division of munitions," in the act passed tat the 17...
...Speay^wiizarions have also held many meetings, printed vast amotion of hterature, sent committees to parliaments and...
...But BQlor said that he was nut a walk whan that tlnasr has•• • ~ . r U> ^^"-^^^rM^i^iJJ>X^}""~m, " IS pened aad so they let him go...
...They had Bfller right after the Rothstein shooting...
...T~~~--------• '-•---He had me going too foe awhile, right after the appointment X figured like O'Rourke said that Grover might mean business...
...But now I've seen him work, I know that there ain't much under the hat...
...And if I don't collar a few babies I've had my eyes on, then you can have the old badge...
...This action is certain to be resented by ail Latin-American countries for it assumes that the United States has special zones of interest in that part of the' world...
...e, little J"*J...
...In paying solemn homage to a condemnation of wars "of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be" the statesmen nave handed a weapon to the peace forces that may be effectively used.' _ And Now For Cruisers . A total of fifteen nations have signed the treaty and many others are expected to sign...
...In Europe the atopies still have a viyid memory, of the hideous carnage and tetti ixUon that raged for four years and it is no accident Bfe-gcAcrnments across the Atlantic signed it before it was Hied by die United States Senate...
...J—The International Ladies' Garment Workers at Us 1925 convention adopted a resolution colling on officers of the American Federation of Labor to sever all affiliations with the N. C. F. on the grounds that "some of the worst enemies of labor in the Untied States are members of said National Civic Federation and of groat influence in tit deliberations" and "we consider U inconsistent for labor mem to belong to said organisation and to give thereby prestige to our enemies.'* 4—The hands of the National CMc Federation have come entirely from employers and hence the N. C. F. has done their bidding...
...national guard of 400,000 to 0—,000 officers and men...
...And he will be tried about the same day I Join the Salvation Army...
...Some "Interpretations" Made , iTfce substance of the pact is contained in the first two Hpies which read as follows: . Rj;<llll 11 L—The kick contracUnf parties solemnly •trim ka the sum of their respective peoples that they PlMI IIMMIl to war for the solution of International Win i wall ¦ aad iiauiiimm It M aa Instrument of national ^patMKU II.—The hag* twtfrtfa parties agree that Hp^aaYhMMat efall iMepiilis or eesnttets ef whettui nature •ret whatever origin they may be, which may arise among ippqatipn of war as a means of settling differences between Bm tad this is alogkal irrterprctaUoa of .the language...
...Joe was grateful for me having tipped him and I went to bis apartment after the raid and licked up some good Scotch...
...Here the desolation, 4k mSering and the horrors were not so vivid with the that ratification was more difficult...
...PACTS DO NOT MEAN PEACE Militarism and Cruiser Programs Continue March Onward WfBE ratification of the General Pact for the Renunciation Efcf War by the United States Senate is one of the most ¦Lsjicant events since the end ef the World War...
...Cut my finger yesterday cm a broken glass when I was helping bust up a dump on Third Avenue...
...What Is The National Civic Federation...
...There ain't the lowest rookie but knows what is going on in this man's town...
...Then O'Rourke says we might as well make a couple of pinches so we grabbed off a little kike who was going down the street in a hurry and wouldn't say What his business, was...
...What has happened is that the statesmen of eight powers have made a big concession to the hunger for peace and at the same time they have "interpreted" the pact to such an extent that even the condemnation of war is largely vitiated...
...4ST week The New Leader asked Mr...
...Moreover, the Senate has administered a slap to all LatinAmerica, an act that is a sorry performance for such an occasion...
...He only left a few bottles around, the same as he give the Telegram investigators a few \$e«ks before...
...Can he or Matthew Wott mention one open shopper who has bean converted to trade unionism through associating with tabor man in the councils of the N. C. F.f ' On the contrary men like August Belmont, a former president of the Federation stated frankly in his tsotlmony before the Untied States Industrial Relations Commission in 1914 "Shut the majority of the companies he represented opposed the right to organise, and maintained spy systems...
...Here he goes and suspends a Department honor man) for not doing enough about the Rothstein case...
...Then bow, wow...
...After displaying pictures of pretty girts used as lures to inrihdiiHaU in ¦luiiiwt training corps, ta various coBeges and high schools, Coffhss stewed hew the pretty girl dement is being employed mare and mete to popularize the military . training system...
...Gertrude Books Easley, his wife, Secretary...
...organised reserve of 500,000 to 1,000,000 officers aad men, reserve officers' training corps aj stun, and universal military training for young men in these of peace...
...The Gardenia come in and said we done good and shook hands all around and had his picture took...
...Sk i i. KPaing it is: v Ite National Civic F« deration of which Mmilirw * oil Bp Acting President is really an employers" organi«i« was founded in 1900 by Ralph M. Easley, to Hi*- workers with the hope that labor and capital WHI be brought together through fratemiiation of ir~°f £«»fay, Herman Hapgaad has written in jtM^fe**ionml Patriots...
...P* tfcirs!, from his failure ever to criticise the **»J Corporation for Us attacks on organised labor...
...This morning the magistrate let him off and he made some kind of a squawk about suing for false arrest and we give him the laugh...
...Ralph M. Easley, Chairman...
...It also parallels the British declaration that Great Britain has special interests in "certain regions of the world" that are excepted from the pact...
...Naturally the report found nothing & Another federation committee which conoid'" ered increasing the Army' and Navy, consisted W .25 representatives of business and pcoftosiansi associations, 10 from military organisations, 16 from miscellaneous bodies and only 2 from labor, 9a—The National Civic Federation has had interlocking directorates with the following employers'^ organisations...
...Industrial as well as military...
...At first everybody was scared...
...O'Rourke and ate went over to Norton's pool-room and bulled around for a lititle...
...And there's going to be a trial and all...
...In the meantime the fifteencruiser bill is before Congress and this measure may well cause apprehension...
...The boys listened good and quiet And when the photographers come along they all crowded around the Cornish so that they could show their mushes to their girl friends...
...O'Rourke says to me when he read about the appointment: "Don't get this btrd wrong...
...It does not...
...I wonder if he ain't thought up some pretty good yarn by this time...
...G&pJe FederatiomJtosUes Mr...
...This plan provides also for compulsory service...
...How is it possible to reconcile more warships with a world at peace...
...This is a power that is reserved for the United States in die "interpretation" adopted with the ratification of the pact...
...But when he went, everybody laughed...
...You never can think what new way you're going to bust.into print...
...Did you ever see a more complete back-down than the Cornish pulled...
...PotgUL Gtecho-Slovakia and Japan...
...This is not the only unpleasant phase of the peace problem...
...And be gets everybody to forget about Rothstein and Cordes by making up rules about where the fat boys is going to park their cars when they go to the theatres...
...I wonder if they won't decide pretty soon that the Park Central shooting was all a big mistake and that Rothstein croaked himself and chucked the gun out of the window on the third floor, see Friday— Now, according to the Cornish, we got to chase nude women off'the night-club stages...
...And yet the peace forces can seize the two articles signed by the eight powers and use them for their work...
...Of course, there wasn't no poisbn in what he left...
...Panama, Haiti, San Domingo and Nicaragua are examples of what this special American interest means...
...This is the posture of affairs in the United States in relation to peace...
...Some of the boys had it figured out that this Gardenia lad was a real tough baby under the greeting uniform...
...Militarizing factories and mines, military training in -schools, employment of government funds to publish militarist journals and influence opinions in favor of all this, are part of a concerted drive...
...Wednesday...
...Well, I got to go tell my friend Joe that he's due for a pinch tonight and to get the evidence ready...
...J°y* JSP to honsa *»d charged him with I safsfhtj an officer and" the boys in the back room worked on him some, but stfll he wouldn't say what he was doing...
...All American life is passing through a grave phase of evolution which means either peace and freedom or terrible conflict with its inevitable reaction in favor of militarizing the nation after the old Roman ideal...
...V. Event Macy of the Central Union Trust Co., Chairman of the Department on Industrial Relations and, of all people, Archibald E. Stevenson, of Lush Committee fame, as Chairman of the CommUtee on Free Speech...
...J7N»irf b" remembered that Mr...
...Wsm% ore such friends of labor as Elihu Root, Honorary President...
...It is obviously competition with Great Britain for mastery of the seas as well as a mockery of the . peace pact...
...The Standard Oil Company ham also been treated with affection by the National Civic Federation...
...The Executive ilomm itlee consists of such open shoppers as Nicholas F. Brady of the New York Edison Co., George B. Cortelyou of the Consolidated Gas Co., and John Marhle, anthracite coal operator...
...According to Norman Hapgood, a Labor member of the >. C. F. Executive Committee has stated confidentially that Judge Elbert H. Gory, of the Untied States Stool Corporation, now deceased, used to bo "one of the Federation's financial ongeis...
...second, in his spying on !*• Inter-Church investigators of the Steel Strike...
...l|* what may he called a '"moral condemnation" of wars *Bwp»gei nature or of whatever origin they may be...
...His close relations fg1** United States Steal Corporation novo boon first, in his connections with Us Welfare gflwesf, (which, incidentally, handles Us labor •tjMoiuife icork), and his pamphlets praising the SP*ra*jiaUbw's labor policy...
...In England and on the gggjoent there has been a powerful agitation against arrrta¦eats and in favor of every suggestion that promises a guaraafee of d**f*' trade unions and the Labor and Soddkt parties have carried on a widespread -'agitation...
...Cordes says be is going to call Joe Warren and OXoughlin and a few other big shots for his witnesses and right away the Cornish puts him back on the force where be is now, sitting pretty...
...Now the Cornish says that he don't want to butt in on the McManus case for rear of obstructing all the traffic on that road...
...Moanent officials and thus have made a profound impres0rtm popular opinion...
...I wonder how bad they want him...
...Easier admitted jP*"* rertmin espionage documents to Judge HP e**t*ining later, of course, that he did U as PjMMsMl and not as the secretary of the CMc 2 —The United Mine Workers, the union of William Green, President of the A. F. of L., saw through the National Civic Federation and in order to prevent John Mitchell, their president, from being a member of U inserted a clause in Us constitution reading as follows: "Mine managers, top foremen, operators' commissioners, persons engaged in the sale of intoxicating liquors and members of the Civic Federation shall not be eligible to membership...
...Ike scheme cans for giving to 800 or more college graduates, annually, a S-monthi special training in the regular army, then back to military college for 9 months, aad then to send them into the factories tor 6 months, to fit them to take charge of factory operation in war time...
...two nations that ten years ago fought aide by side for "democracy," should also engage in a race for naval domination...
...I'm getting tired of this speakeasy stuff...
...Its significance lies, kaffaer reasons the chief of which is1 the attempt of some sj the leading statesmen of the world to give some answer iai'Afeneral world wide popular agitation that the peoples M jparH the agony of another general war...
...But 1 wouldn't stand for that...
...Ilathe United States the agitation has not been on as large tsptfe...
...But not so sick I couldn't get around to one of them night-club assignments...
...The workers of the nation especially have reasons for keeping the peace...
...Yes, the...
...now they want him back again, having thought up same more questions to ask aim...
...Ihjfce Powers now signatory to the pact, except tl>« United Ittfes, include nations which suffered most from the World Eg^i Russia, Germany, Belgium, France, Great Britain...
...Qverlords of Latin-America -. ¦ h ¦It is important to understand this important change in the doctrine...
...He had took so many pinches from the Federals before the Gardenia got into the picture that there wasn't no use going on in the old place...
...S. Senate in done, 1926, but the appropriations committee has thus far prevented appropriations to make it effective...
...Not Ef It guarantees peace...
...When everybody knows that McManus come in when he was ready and had his alibi fixed...
...Monroe said nothing about the United States doing in Latin-America what some European Powers might attempt to do...
...In time of war—the industrial draft plan which fat fought by the whole organised labor movement...
...This has been done by cerpa Interpretations" made by some powers, the British GovBphat especially declaring that in 'certain regions'of the lllrhf it may be free to make war upon another power if Bpdced...
...Congressman Collins of Mississippi recently uncovered the widespread propaganda schemes for bunding up a huge military establishment in tins country...
...So I'm on the sick list for a spell...
...So we Just chucked him in a cell...
...5. ', 4—**»g em the Executive Council of the...
...H»'an answer to the pressure that has been brought by ¦[peoples in many nations against policies that may again ¦psHhetm, humanity in a terrible conflict...
...He read a proposed military program, offered by Col...
...Already the federal mad state troops number 700,000...
...Wonder where Biller fat...
...President Monroe's view was directed oily against European Powers that might attempt to "extend thtjir political system" to this part of the worSd...
...I hope I get a cut in on that job...
...Thursday— What do you know about this Cordes mess...
Vol. 8 • January 1929 • No. 1
