ITALIAN PRESS IN U. S. GETS FASCIST BOSS
Italian Press In U. S. Gets Fascist Boss QJft Arrives to Assume Direction of Papers, He t fjpTS in Interview /yfff aajertlnn of Mussolini's author(/over the U. S. Italian-language —p b,...
...Such a ^nssent as Guldi's, made In America 9 jests ago by any foreigner, says the •andean Civil Liberties Union, would ngkabty have brought a sharp note from p~ to the man's government, ,(1 bk own instant expulsion from the inlay it hasn't caused a ripple In ¦¦<iln|tnn or a momentary sensation In na American press...
...The resolution, which originated in the Building Trades Council, asks Green to place the strength of the Federation behind a drive to organize taxi drivers, motormen and conductors employed by Mitten...
...Each town has its welfare director who arranges for everything from baby clinics to fraternal lodge meeting...
...For this reason we should have been very pleased to have details of the discussions of the Eighth Russian Trade Union Congress of their own trade union problems, and news of the practical experience of the Russian trade unions...
...according to figures submitted by the U. S. Department of Commerce in its census of manufacturers...
...industrial property, except main ~*k are outside city limits and city but T. C. I. tells both city and **** governments where to head ln...
...Machine Men, Tuesday, 635 Fulton street Room 218...
...A lOO^c union newspaper run by the locked out typos since last November, it has been a thorn in the side of the Hearst and Gannett sheets, r. Eking grave inroads on their circulation and advertising...
...It provides also for cancelling the permits which may already have been issued in such cases...
...It is a measure seeking to forbid the issuing of a radio broadcasting station permit to any public utility corporation, or to any concern whose stock is owned or in part by a utility corporation...
...It is not merely that it is allied with the National Civic Federation...
...Its political Impotence is unparallelled by any other labor movement...
...And he pointed proudly to the days when the Russians had rated the British and other Reformist fraternal delegates from Western countries...
...Guidl announces B aa interview printed by Editor & Pub-aar Mstt he will remain in America n fcfet • position promised him by the •nek* fovemxnent supervising the Italnsj Imrl"" press...
...It critidnS the Fascist League of North Amer1* tor the Greco-CarlHo case...
...But when T. C. L workers need charity, the steel corporation sends them to public agencies...
...The action is in conformity with the general policies...
...The new contract between the Hearst paper and the typos, signed March 1 as a result of these conferences, marks a wide breach made by the union In the open shop publishers ranks...
...J. C. Blackwell, former Birmingham city school teacher, supervises the 19 company schools, 12 colored and the rest white...
...Yes, by all means...
...A ""^¦steel corporation chief engineer Is 2**** °* the Birmingham education **veU as head of the Jefferson spSSjr *rtmiimnitj chest...
...The American labor movement Is backward in every other respect...
...Louis Waldman analyzed the old age and injunction bills and declared them far from adequate...
...Definitely known, however, are the following points: Under the new agreement all locked out employes of the Times-Union return to their own jobs with full seniority rights...
...A. F. of L. Incredibly Reactionary Is Charge Of Morris Hillquit Socialist Leader Joins With Muste in Urging Campaign to Awaken Labor \ campaign of education among the rank and file, coupled with the necessary criticism of the "almost incredibly reactionary leadership" of the American Federation of labor was urged by Morris Hillquit, Socialist party leader, in s talk before a luncheon meeting last Saturday at the Town Hall Club called by the New York Chapter of the League for Industrial Democracy to discuss "The Crisis in the American Labor Movement...
...In "lew of these facts, trade unionists feel •nai organized labor has won a decisive victory, and do not wonder at the pujb'ishers' desire to soft pedal the exact terms of the settlement...
...When the frame-up falls, be ays, Mussolini uses advertising to rUp the Italian-American press into tea Balian-language papers must depan...
...It's first task is to win the economic betterment of its members...
...Albany Typo Union Wins Hearst Fight Struggle Against Gannett's Scab-Run Papers Will Be Intensified in New York A LB ANY, N. Y. (FP)—When the night shift at the Hearst-owned Albany Times-Union went on at 6 pm...
...say workers in Bir"NhiUi...
...What can we do...
...Each Firm Runs Schools and Collects Taxes—Wellare Work Is Extensive Lown has its company store and local dispensary...
...fat Italian-American newspapers over -tfcft Mussolini now seeks to set up his atktrrr*'<r are American concerns, injtmiliVI nnder U. S. laws, paying taxes n •» tJ...
...The Brookwood action was no surprise to me...
...Hillquit then told of the progress of the labor movements of Europe...
...Matthew Woll were here this afternoon," Hillquit said in opening his talk, which was intently followed by almost 500 men and women of the labor...
...By "joining the only political party which is right," and the only trade unions which are right, i.e., those of the Red International of Labor Unions, which is the "guardian of the International Trade Union Movement (that is, of its Communist disciples—Ed...
...If we told the labor movement In England and other nations of Europe of the American labor movement's relations with the National Civic Federation we would not be believed...
...II CsJroecto was blacklisted and in 60 days *» advertising dropped from 72 pages totepages...
...38, 19 onion printers walked into the shop for the first time since the Hearst-Gannet lockout of union typos last November...
...Infinitely more important, however, is the cultural mission and funciion of the labor movement...
...But today we find that organized labor is no longer organizing labor...
...We must fight in all the economic battles of labor, instil In the workers a realization of their power and mission until the American labor movement takes its stand with the labor movements of the world as a dominating force for social progress...
...A J. Muste, dean of Brook wood Labor College, and Harry F. Ward, of the Union Theological Seminary, were the other speakers...
...Protests by the A. P. of L. tnt other labor groups against Musso;nfs increasmg interference In American (fjts remain unheeded...
...Not one union man...
...What Zlnowiev said in years gone by, Stalin is now saying over again: "We can quite well imagine a situation which would make it necessary to create parallel mass organizations of the working class...
...The failure to organize steel and auto workers is a symbol The complacent way labor takes defeat after defeat means eventual extinction...
...U. S. Steel Corporation is Government In 10 Birmingham, Alabama, Company Towns "Get In Bad With the Company and You're In Bad All Around" Open Shop, Black List, Company Police In Force Against 23,000 Workers By Esther Lowell Birmingham, Aia...
...An aggressive fight to clinch this victory will now be waged on Frank E. Gannett's Knickerbocker Press and Albany Evening News...
...n Carrocclo was pro-Fascist...
...The season for work is now on...
...The explanation jai tn Wall Street's financial alliance tfs fascism, and In the adoring aniens et V. 8. employers toward Muspjfcrf at the world's champion union¦sstKf...
...The unions stand despoiled of all legal rights, he declared, while, politically they arc impotent and have become "the door-' mat" of the legislative halls...
...The company contributes, with the levy on its workers, to the Community Chest and then expects the Red Cross, Associated Charities, etc., to care for employes who need relief because of much family illness or even slack work...
...Welfare work is carried on admittedly in lieu of more wages...
...Ala Tennessee Coal, Iron & ¦*Sad Co., subsidiary of U. S. Steel k the big boss of the southern in•*aal city...
...All the papers readby the delegates dealt with international questions...
...Social progress has always been tied up with the struggles of a rising lower class...
...For there must be criticism...
...Dalan-American editors who lick W— illi il"i boots share with President ObjMbb and Mayor Walker the doubtIs] bonce of gaudy Fascist decorations, anymg the title "Commendatore'' or...
...To make the work more attractive for the better type worker," is the way one company officer explained welfare expenditures...
...The new pacts will probably include the 5-day, 44-hour week, and a return to the higher wage scale of 1927...
...Socialist and liberal movement, "he would call this an irrelevant gathering Yet this Is not a meddlesome proceeding All progressives have a deep and legitimate concern in the labor movement For the labor movement has a dual purpose...
...The end of the three months Hearst lockout came after conferences with Gov...
...Workers who live in company houses find the steel corporation both landlord and tax-collector...
...This unity consists In "Intensified activity of the Independent revolutionary unions In countries with disrupted trade union movements...
...dictator...
...Some of the workers at the open-shop Gregory Sc Read factory, where the bosses have formed a supposedly strikeproof company union, have come out in support of the strikers...
...largely on advertising of Italian floss, importers of Italian products, and sassxhip lines running to Italy...
...Organizer Shea of the street car men's union made a spirited address on the Mitten-Mahon agreement, by which the union agreed not to try to organize Mitten company unionized employes in Philadelphia or Buffalo in return for a promise to be permitted to unionize workers on Mitten lines to be acquired in the future...
...The purpose.xf this bill is to prevent the broadcasting of utility companies' propaganda by radio rations controlled by themselves...
...Prom this it may be confidently asserted, in spite of the union's silence on the specific terms of the settlement, that the returning union printers are getting the full union scale...
...With the director of physical education, these two work under Winifred Collins, head of T. C. I. Dept...
...Of course, all this must not be taken too seriously...
...v * Stan cant get a job anywhere Vise * *• district if T. C. I. fires him," ad** a company ofllcial, "unless he **ass his name...
...Hillquit found the labor movement at a standstill because it has ceased to organize new groups of workers...
...an Italianteantge monthly published in New Tot, ss a case of Fascist ¦'discipline" ¦ajoed in this way to an American pub•wttan...
...Between the lines it was possible to read that earlier tendencies to convert the trade unions into really free and independent organizations have now practically disappeared...
...Moscow thinks that democracy — in other countries—is the best way of attaining its objects...
...The company takes 50c a month from each family for school fee...
...It knows that much of what is said and written coaceming Russia is a distortion of the truth...
...The financial reinforcements being sent to Aliiany h the international union, by New Yor . Big Six Local, and by other loralr...
...The steel trust is the biggest employer in the district, with over 25,000 workers in its coal and iron mines, railroad and shops, steel furnaces and mills...
...Once more it has pointed to "the right way...
...American Factory Wage Averages Sl.299.08 WASHINGTON TP)— Average wages of American factory workers in the year 1927 were $1,299.08...
...Five taaasnd words a month are sent free owf the Italian cables for newspapers ikes correspondents write propaganda for Fascism- Reporters who write the Beta about Fascism murder, repression, lag falsehood are lucky If they are anljr rsp*"*^ from Italy...
...Russian Union Chiefs In Favor of Democracy For All Other Countries Congress Devotes Much Time to International Labor, Little to Soviet Workers (Bv a New Leadrr Orremiideat) J3ARIS—At the recent congress at Moscow of the Russian trade union centre, Tomsk...
...This is the chief reason why the press reports of the^-L F. T. U. jo seldom deal with Russian affairs, and why first-hand news Is always heartily welcomed...
...FP) — "Get m Wong with T. C. t. and you're In Pag all around...
...Presm on these advertisers, brought tksajh the Italian-American chamber cf exmnerce—which is dominated by the Bates consul at New York—has caused assy an anti-Fascist newspaper to go Treses cited U Carrocdo...
...No jther Russian delegate has since followed Krol's example...
...These who oppose him are Ussy to hare experiences like that of 2 Kaoro Hondo...
...Phila Labor Attacks The Mitten Agreement In Plea to Green PHILADELPHIA...
...It runs its own government on thousands of acres of Jefferson county and ten compan;towns, with branches at Birmignport and Mobile, terminals of the Warrior River barge service to the Gulf of Mexico...
...and whose pracUcal duties are the creation of democratically-elected strike committees, committees of lock-out workers and other fighting organizations for the management of real economic conflicts...
...The Moscow people, having learnt by experience that the slogan "Back to the Unions" is no more effective than their previous policy (since the Communists, when they get back into genuine trade unions, soon become as reasonable as other men), are now hunting up their older recipe...
...It is not long since Stalin was using very'different language in respect to Germany...
...75c to 11.50, according to trie family's size, for health work...
...SUH Talk ef "Unity" They still harp upon the "unity" which can come from Moscow alone...
...But we were disappointed in this hope...
...As we see, they are all full of the same "brotherly" unity which consists mainly In handing over the poor Amsterdammers to be buried by the Communists...
...It was here Judge Gary came for diet and rest—in the finest private room available—the year before he died...
...Union Problems in the Background The I. F. of T. TJ...
...Italian Press In U. S. Gets Fascist Boss QJft Arrives to Assume Direction of Papers, He t fjpTS in Interview /yfff aajertlnn of Mussolini's author(/over the U. S. Italian-language —p b, aeen by anti-Fascist editors In ^srriral In this country of Angtlo a staff man from the arch-Fas^I aasa Messaggero...
...Less openly impudent a as pest, Fascist control has been none tn) sat effective through bribery, lntimldaSon...
...In Russia itself this very same democracy is laughed to scorn as narrow-minded sentimentality, but it Is nevertheless found useful to take in Amsterdam...
...of Social Science...
...He saw a danger In the A. F. of L. become a select aristocracy of skilled workers...
...Labor and Socialism, which, in Europe, are identical movements, he said, are more potent than the League of Nations...
...When we turn to the United States," the Socialist leader continued, "we find a sad and almost inexplicable contrast...
...This was definitely learned from international union sources...
...An hour before, every last one,, of the scabs imported by Hearst had walked out of the Times-Union shop for the last time...
...Dean Muste said the immediate necessity was to rally progressive groups within the unions, supply them with the facts and the inspiration to remake the entire labor movement Into s movement which would strive for the advancement of progressive labor principles...
...in the ccm; inunity house or school auditorium...
...Ward devoted himself mainly to a discussion of the Brookwood case suggesting at one point that the American Association of College Professore investigate the case...
...He urged amendment of the old age pension bills to more nearly meet the requirements of the needy aged...
...This brotherly spirit of mutual criticism," he added, "is the right test of the capacity of a true friendship...
...Room 218...
...The next morning 30-odd more members of the Albany Typographical Union took their places an the day shift...
...Throughout the strike the publishers have made '.his $1 Increase their headline issue...
...Compulsory arbitration provisions in the agreement do not apply to matters covered by International union law, such as wages and hours...
...Little more was announced of the activities of the Russian trade union beyond the facts that they Ijave 11 million members, that there is still a good deal of corruption, that the trade unions have to render more service to the Party than ever: and that there are, even in Russia, strikes which are against the will of the union executives, while the shortening of working hours goes forward only very slowly...
...But more than that we must develop new hope and fighting spirit among the rank and file and thus force a change of leadership...
...Criticise the aders...
...S. government, some of them ggajd by V S. stockholders...
...Both union officers and employers refused to make public the terms of the settlement, in accordance with an agreement made between them that neither side should publicly claim victory...
...No other firm in "^NhnTo industrial district dares defy * steel trust blacklist...
...But workers pay extra for hospital care and operations, even if they are taken in unconscious from an accident at work, unless compensation becomes due under Alabama's poor law...
...The result has been that the American labor movement has become the door-mat of our legislative Balls...
...A motion to make the organization a permanent affair was passed...
...Remaining points of difference are being worked out at conferences between representatives of the lasters', cutters, and stock-fitters' unions, the employers, and a Department of Labor conciliator...
...Means Little Change Balsa-American newspaper men say tnt ittle change in the real status of Af nalian-American press would result trsa actual setting up of Guidl as an ansa...
...The lockout was brought on last November by the typos' demand for a SI a week increase, due them according to international rulings at the renewal of iheir then expiring contract...
...The old age pension bills, the injunction bill and the dwelling house bill occupied the particular attention of the conference...
...Previously both Hearst and Gannett had refused to negotiate separately...
...state officials heed the master's ***• State superintendent of education came froru the steel company's President George Gordon Craw2 at T. C. L heads the state indus¦sj development board and vice-preslpt Hyding presides over the Birming^*oard to attract new Industries...
...Idle Babblings" This, it is declared, is one of the best ways of attaining the desired goal...
...the best way," and once more the trade unions of the various countries can turn with a smile to their daily work...
...We have done so often before, but not so much for thenaction in Russia as for their machinations in western countries where there still is mutual internal criticism and opposition (since in the West we have no Stallns to send those who do not think as they do to Siberia or elsewhere...
...Mabel Vogelson superintends the kindergartens, home economics classes and welfare in steel company towns...
...The object must be to "conquer" the Reformist unions...
...These reports, speeches and resolutions were long and turgid...
...This year, even more than usual, the practice was adopted of leaving all the real trade union questions to the last moment, when they were rushed through behind closed doors...
...But of course this is only true of criticism of other people: for when Krol, the former secretary of the Russian food-workers' union was bold enough to apply this "test of the capacity of a true friendship" by criticizing his own fellow-countrymen, there was a great outcry and the honest comrade at once lo6t his post...
...The Congress of course declared its "complete solidarity with all the resolutions of the Fourth Congress of the Red International of Labor Unions, especially its policy of intensifying the fight against the Amsterdammers" (whom it nevertheless censures for not being willing to hold a "unity congress") and "conducting economic fights independently, regardless of and in despite of the wishes of the reformist trade union bureaucracy...
...He has been firing unionists in all his transportation concerns...
...Labor Legislation League Organ i zed In New York City Representatives of some thirty trade unions in New York City met with representatives of the Social.'st party and the Workmen's Circle teat Monday to organize the Labor LegislstVon League, a permanent organization which will watch over labor legislation in Albany and Washington and carry out plans for appropriate action on bills affecting the laboring people...
...The leadership of the American Federation of Labor is of an almost incredltably reactionary quality...
...If Mr...
...Once more a Moscow congress has come and gone...
...International typo he-is remind the world that they collected $17.000000 from their members for the successful 44-hour week fight, and that it can be done over again If necessary to win the crucial Albany battle...
...Criticism alone will not do much good...
...The workers are still fighting 10«% for a victory, tinder the Shoe Workers Protective Union...
...In the more lucrative industries rigid exclusion is practiced through the establishment of prohibitive entrance fees...
...The tendency Is to cease to be a movement of the working class and rather to set up a privileged group within the working class...
...The labor movement In the last 50 years has given social progress its greatest direction...
...The International Congresses held at Moscow give vent to loud lamentations and issue yards of resolutions and wagon-loads of reports: but the national congresses issue nothing...
...In all of Its other activities the A. F. of L. is as reactionary in this connection...
...The kick was administered with genuine regret: for what will become of the next trade union congress, if there is not a single independent foreign delegate left to be told what a poor specimen he is...
...It surrenders its political rights and privileges and choses to lobby and to beg—unsuccessfully...
...Yes, criticism Is a fine thing— wh-n you criticize the other fellow: "So we really feel it our duty to critisize the Russians—Just a little," says the press service of the International Federation of Trade Unions...
...But as they can no longer hope to secure the material for such mass organizations from men and women trained to trade unionism the Eighth Russian Trade Union Congress has, quite wisely, laid stress in its foreign policy on the recruiting of the unorganized...
...The Miller-Mas tick bills on old age pensions could serve only as a beginning in the right direction, he said...
...The organizations represented will also consider plans for staging a joint May Day demonstration which would stress immediate and concrete issues facing labor...
...Company police are directed by an ex-army officer...
...A shower of letters received by the manufacturers' bureau and the chamber of commerce from shoe jobbers who anxiously inquired whether they were going to get Easter deliveries, made the bosses glad to settle...
...Fitters and Lasters, Thursday, 635 Fulton street...
...and black-hand methods...
...Black Wants Utilities' Broadcasting Curbed WASHINGTON—(FP)—One of the most important proposals for legislation that has rerilted from the Federal Trade Commission's exposure of the propaganda against public ownership which the power trust has financed throughout the country', has been offered by Sen...
...T. C. I. dispenses with county school, health and law-enforcement officials in its principality...
...We cannot stand by while the labor movement is condemned steadily to go down, while the Influence of the company unions grows wider...
...Worse still: the national congresses too are now being used at platforms for international declamation...
...The dwelling house bill was reported on by Edward L3Vinson, who pronounced it "a real estate owners' bill" which offers practically no relief to the families which are forced to reside in the more than 500,000 old law tenements of the city...
...Black of Alabama...
...Join the union now, and fight for union wages...
...Although the county pays part of the company teacher's salaries, the steel corporation issues no public report of, its school system...
...The discussion which followed these reports brought out the feeling that the need for an organization which would develop labor opinion on these and other biils was great...
...All three drew a picture of the backwardness of the American Federation of Labor and urged action to bring it further along the road to a progressive movement...
...But It wasn't 100...
...In this respect our trade union movements does not function as do any other trade unions of any other country...
...In accordance with the resolution passed by the Fourth Congress of the Red International of Labor Unions, these unions must be Induced to join the revolutionary trade unions, thus ensuring the "complete liquidation of the Reformist trade union organizations...
...William A. Weinleln of the Albany typos local, and E. W. Waldron, publisher of the TimesUnion...
...the manufacturers are seeking workers and the Shoe Workers have an opportunity to become organized...
...This danger is fostered by restrictions on membership of this trade union and that...
...General supervi-lon )ver health is held by the doctor in charge of the big company hospital at Fairfield, one of the largest and best equipped hospitals in the south...
...What are we as outsiders going todo about it...
...Ss editor was a member of the Fascist jany...
...The Albany Citizen, union daily, will be divorced from union control, continuing under the management of interested local capital...
...It has been the victim of legal writs and injunctions until today it stands despoiled of Its legal rights...
...Criticize us, we are not afraid of it," cried Tomski...
...At nearby Haverhill 8000 members of the Shoe Workers' Protective Union will soon vote on the provisions of new agreements to be presented to the bosses...
...But whether the speaker be Stalin or Zlnowiev, Tomski of Losovsky, the words are mere idle babblings which no one but a fool now takes seriously...
...commented on the speech of TranmaeL the dissatisfied leader of the Norwegian trade unions and gave a last kick to this last fraternal delegate representing a genuine national trade union centre...
...Such an Investigation, he said, would disclose a case of suppression of academic freedom such as has been frequently brought to light in private and public edcational institutions...
...As for their contents, they are all modelled on the old pattern: so that it is difficult to imagine any one's taking the trouble to print them . Even the most case-hardened editor loses heart when he has got to the 8th of the 15 points, and thinks of the hundreds of times he has read the same sort of thing before...
...Wake up, you New York Shoe Workers," says an appeal by organizer Thomas Kelly, "and fight for organization, and stand back of the Morrison-Silver factory workers who have fought your battle for 19 weeks, and intend to fight, until victory is assured...
...Cutters meet on Friday eve, 635 Fulton .street, Brooklyn, Room 218...
...Nor is this all...
...Lynn Shoe Strike Ending in Victory LYNN, Mass.—(FP)—A majority of Lynn's 2200 shoe strikers are back at their branches following signing of an agreement recognizing the union by 29 of the 44 factories involved...
...But it uses the county government to deputize its company police and give its school head the title of assistant county sperintendent...
...has always been very cautious in its dealings with Russia itself...
...School statistics are not compiled for general distribution and no Information is forthcoming from company offices without an OK from president Crawford...
...This is the greatest danger confronting the labor movement and it is not a theoretical one...
...wi" be continued...
...He traced its influence and growth until, he said, today the allied labor and Socialist movements of European nations a-- -he greatest forces for economic str y, democracy and international peace...
...Union in Appeal to New York Shoe Workers Appeals to all Shoe Workers of New York not to lose sight of the fact that the lock-out of the Morrison-Silver employes, is now in its 19th week...
...CFP) — Philadelphia's Central Labor Union has laid the Issue of Mittenism before President William Green of the A. P. of L. Mitten's pretensions to be the "savior of the labor movement" through his Men and Management company union hasre been punctured by a series of offensive actions against Philadelphia unions...
...The other 15 bosses are expected to follow suit Immediately...
...they say, has deserted the Aibar.y strike ranks...
...A combined summary for all manufacturing industries, showing that 191,863 establishments employed an average of 8,351,257 workers, to whom wages amounting to $10,848,782,433 were paid, has just been issued...
...There have been some achievements, mostly in the past...
...It said •st the esse was an obvious frame-up, ftst the Fascist League, which lnstlPasi the prosecution, knew that the men *¦» Innocent, and that it was bad* polfcy for Fascists to attempt to make a ¦sntay out of the American courts in «•» to "get" two anU-Fascists...
...The United States has the lowest percentage of organised workers of any civilized nation...
...Roosevelt by Pres...
...For all these reasons, he said, intellectuals outside of the labor movement have a legitimate interest in building the labor movement...
...And how must this be done...
...New York anti-Fascist mij, whose building recently was burllnaad and its print shop sacked, with i ha of more than $3,000 in smashed Cads Treses, editor of the anti-Pases weekly ? Martello, was sent to Atash penitentiary by the Department of Mke under Oaugherty, on charges based op by Fascist government repre¦anttra...
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