SEN. GUFFEY IS WINNER IN PRIMARIES IN PENNSYLVAINA; HAD ROOSEVELT AID
Sen. Guffey Is Winner In Primaries In Pennsylvania; Had Roosevelt Aid Defeats Millionaire Oil Man in Dem Content PHILADELPHIA. Pa. -With the aid of President. Roosevelt, Sen. Joseph F. Guffey...
...and Abe Murdock (D., Utah) declared in a blistering minority report...
...Employment Week, to the end that interest in the welfare of all the unemployed, arid especially the worker over 40...
...Instead the New Deal was to.be subjected by slogans to the attacks which Hitler...
...What the effect of all this will be in November remains to be seen...
...Mussolini and their idelogles merited last year...
...was denounced for sarrying on political activities harmful to the cause of the Spanish Republican refugees...
...DelVayo, who have repeatedly indicated that the Spanish refugees need relief—not dubious propaganda...
...by a majority which may reach 100,000...
...Employment Week Proclaimed by FR WASHINGTON, D. C—Pres...
...Spanish Aid Group Ousts Chicago Unit Claim 'Politicals' Took Over Activities for Propaganda CHICAGO, 111.—In a statement issued last week by Joseph H. Rich, field secretary of the Spanish Refugee Relief campaign, the Chicago Chapter >f the SR.R.C...
...STORRS...
...New York NEW YORK CITY—As far as May Day is concerned, the Communists and Nazis can have it...
...Roosevelt, last week signed a proclamation designating the first week in May as national employment week...
...The Wagner act may be modified In some respects but its main features will be retained...
...Steps are being taken in Chicago to prevent the local politicals from using the name of the national organization and to reestablish the work on an honest foundation...
...Rich declared...
...klansmen broke into Toney's \ home and asked him why he had a ; "foreign" <ou.-of-state> license on his car...
...Ryan declared: "If one-half of the national income now paid out in dividends and Interest wore ronvcrted into higher wages for labor and higher prices for farmers, business would benefit through increased sales and the unemployment, problem would be greatly relieved...
...The attackers then told him that he would have to straighten out the matter immediately...
...Inc., and chairman of the board of the American Management association...
...Guffey welcomed Lawrence's departure and said he would build a new organization...
...The National Executive Committee has no other alternate but disaffiliate the Chicago chaptrr until such a time when responsible people shall control Its policy, and requests all friends of the Spanish refugees to refuse further financial assistance to the group...
...Reps...
...Plans called for an intensification of the attack on domestic problems...
...The idea of organized labor is sound," he said...
...On the Democratic side, Guffey is an ardent "third termer" and says all the Pennsylvanlans will be for Roosevelt "first, last, and all the time...
...The union organizer was kidnaped j and tarred and feathered in August, 1938...
...I don't get nearly as worried about the act as some people, for In the long run the right will comt> out" Macfadden Sued For Accounting NEW YORK—Bernarr Macfadden was sued in federal court last week for an accounting of $1,500,000 of the funds of the Macfadden Publications, the allegation being made that he spent the corporation's money in an attempt to obtain the Republican presidential nomination in 1936, Macfadden, who is now running for the Democratic senatorial nomination in Florida,^ is accused of having switched $250,000 of corporation funds to a wholly-owned subsidiary and then causing the debt to be cancelled...
...This is the feeling of the various unions In the International Ladies Garment Workers and the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, which, until this year have planned celebrations of their own to mark May 1, 1886, when organized labor began Its fight for the 8-hour day...
...A parade of several hundred thousand marchers was expected...
...Impersonating officers of the ; law...
...The investigation of the KKK activities started after the fatal flogging i of Ike Gaston...
...Still standing is a felony indictment charging Cawthon with kidnaping Toney...
...The Fulton county grand jury acquitted Cawthon of eight other floggings...
...Flans for the regular May day parade by the so-called provisional May day committee, which is regarded as completely Communist - dominated, were going ahead last week...
...Annenberg, publisher of the Philadelphia "Inquirer...
...organizer for the Texile Workers union (CIO...
...Joseph F. Guffey swept through the Pennsylvania Democratic primary last week, defeating Walter A. Jones, millionaire oil man...
...He had opposed Guffey, charging that the Senator had "wrecked" the party in 1938, when he joined John L. Lewis in a bitter campaign against former Gov...
...Toney explained that he had \ bought the car in another state and ; that he intended to get a Georgia ii-cense within the number of days pre-scribed by the law...
...His family has been in politics and banking since the early days of the Republic...
...East Point barber, ' early in March...
...Ryan, director of the department of social action of the National Catholic Welfare Council and an outstanding economist...
...A Communist slogan attacking Hitler is a thing of the past, and so are effigies of the dictator who ordered the invasion of Poland and Finland...
...is merely following the advice of the leaders of the Spanish republicans such as the former Premier Negrin and the rormer Minister of Foreign Affairs...
...Conn.—A special course in labor economics will be introduced at the summer session of the University of Connecticut here, starting July 1. Georgia ATLANTA...
...The Republicans picked Jay Cooke as their senatorial candidate...
...WASHINGTON, D. C—Conclusions reached by a majority of the Smith committee studying the national labor relations act are entirely unsupported by evidence...
...In insisting that all organizations using the name of the Spanish Refugee Relief campaign must have the Spanish refugees as their sole clients, the N.E.C...
...The investigation has received | the support of Atlanta's two daily papers...
...This combination will control the Pennsylvania delegates to the Republican national convention and will probably endeavor to "stop Dewey...
...Their activities include the calling of noisy picket demonstrations before the French Consulate in Chicago, the using of money raised for refugee relief to circularize misleading statements concerning the conditions of the Spanish refugees in France, and the support of a national group whose sole interest in the Spanish refugees seems to be in creating greater difficulties between them and the Reppblic of France...
...The garment workers' union, which usually led in the planning of the separate May day celebration, was Dressmakers' Local 22 headed by Charles Z:mm:r:nrn...
...described by the state as chief of a KKK "wrecking crew," who was found guilty of flogging Pierce S. Toney...
...And In Berlin and Moscow there will be the usual mightly military parades...
...Collective bargaining as a guarantee to labor is here to stay...
...Bark-ley of Kentucky, Democratic floor leader in the Senate, made two flying trips to the Keystone state and assured the voters the president desired Guffey returned...
...Arthur D. Healey (D...
...Mass...
...Distribution of Wealth Favored WASHINGTON, D. C—Greater distribution of the nation's wealth and more careful economic planning were advocated last week as a cure for unemployment by Rt...
...The Chicago Chapter of the Spanish Refugee Relief campaign is dominated by people who are attempting to exploit the tragic conditions of the Spanish civil war victims in the interest of a political line...
...New York, from whence it will be relayed to the American Friends Service Committee for disbursement in France...
...There was to be no praise for the New Deal or President Roosevelt...
...A maximum sen:enee of 12 months in the workhouse, six months in jail and a $1,000 fine was imposed for the assault and battery charges by Judge Hugh M. Dorsey...
...When the result was announced, David Lawrence resigned as Democratic state chairman...
...John A...
...Then they threw him into a car, drove him to the city lim-its, tied him across a stump and whip-ped his bare flesh with a large leathr ; er strap...
...Addressing the convention of the Newman Club Federation in Washington, Dr...
...Pennsylvania PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—More than 400 industrialists and members of the Chamber of Commerce were urged to "deal with a union" by William L. Blatt, president of SKF Industries...
...Afterward the organizer was dumped In an Atlanta street...
...George H. Earle...
...urges that such funds be sent directly to the Spanish Refugee Relief Committee...
...may be stimulated and employment be extended to them,' the proc!amation said...
...It is estimated that more than 100 citizens in the area have been flogged during the past two years...
...I urge a:l churches, civic organizations, chambers of commerce, boards of trade, veterans' organizations, industry, labor, public-spirited citizens, radio, and the press throughout the U. S. to observe that week as Natl...
...381 Fourth ave...
...We have derided," Zimmerman said today, "that May day no longer represents the Amerlran labor movement...
...The N.E.C...
...Ga.—The first conviction following the grand jury' Investigation of the Ku Klux Klan was that of Henry Cawthon...
...There was to be no unlted-front-collertlve-security - for - democracy slogan from which the official Communist party line switched after the Stalin-Hitler pact...
...Roosevelt never gave Guffey his official blessing, but Sen...
...Msgr...
...His close associates were "Joe" Pew, anti-labor oil millionaire: "Mbe...
...now facing a prison sentence on account of income tax frauds, and other "big money" men of that type...
Vol. 10 • May 1940 • No. 18
