AFL LEADERS FLAY ARNOLD'S TRUST ACTIONS
AFL Leaders Flav Arnold's Trust Actions Say They'll Fight to Finish Against U. S. Cases PITTSBURGH, Pa.—In this city, where the first sentences in the government's antitrust drive were handed down...
...Sixty-seven per cent of income payments to residents of Wisconsin in 1938 were labor income items, a proportion again almost identical with the national figure of 66 per cent...
...Max Yergen...
...LOAFING CAUSED CHANGES Flatfishes originated from a species of sca-perch that "lay down on the job" while awaiting prey, according to scientists...
...Wages, Salaries Lead Two-thirds of the total income of residents of Wisconsin in 1938 took the form of salaries, wages and other labor income (direct and work relief and unemployment benefits, workman's compensation, pension payments, and related items...
...Over the 10-year period, per capita income In Wisconsin was less stable than In all states combined The sla.e figure was 4 per cent below the national average in 1929, 9 per rent under in 1932, and about, equal to the national figure in 1938...
...The declaration, which was made public by Carey McWilliams, chairman of the American committee, is being sent to the different members of congress, who are considering almost 100 "anti-alien" bills...
...A breakdown of the total amount of income payments to individuals in Wisconsin In 1938 reveals $893,000,000 paid out for salaries and wages, $123.-000,000 for other labor income...
...One-fifth went to farmers and other owners of unincorporated enterprises...
...Walter Rauten-strauch, Vilhjalmur Siefansson, Donald Ogden Stewart...
...The federation cannot and will not condone this at the election...
...Bills Aimed At Aliens Hit In New Statement NEW YORK CITY—More than 200 prominent Americans have joined in a declaration to congress charging that "it is these 'anti-alien' bills which menace America and not the so-called alien," it was announced here by the American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born...
...Thurman Arnold and urging a court interpretation of the anti-trust laws' application to labor...
...Mary E. Wooley, Dr...
...Signers of the declaration pledge themselves, "as Americans, to to defend the rights of the non-citi- I ten and the foreign "Jorn regardless of place of birth, political, economic, social, or religious belief...
...payments...
...LANSING...
...Mich.—The first union shop agreement in the automobile industry has been signed between the United Automobile Workers (CIO) and Reo Motors Inc...
...In an earlier speech, AFL Pres...
...Per Capita Income $514 In Wisconsin WASHINGTON, D. C—If all the SI,500.000,000 income received by Wisconsin residents in 1938 were divided equally among each man, woman and child In the state, each would receive about $514, Harry L. Hopkins, secretary of commerce, announced last week...
...Attacks on Arnold's activities were made by Pres...
...William Green denounced CIO Pres...
...Either through malice or political motives, Arnold has chartered a course "hell-bent for the destruction of organized labor," Coyne charged...
...Frank P. Graham...
...The recently completed study of per capita income payments by states, Secretary Hopkins pointed out, revealed that in the 10 years from 19'.'9 through 1938 per capita income payments in Wisconsin declined steadily from S653 In 1929, the peak year of prosperity, to $346 in 1933, the turning point of the depression...
...Franz Boas, Van Wyck Brooks, Dr...
...Atty...
...the declaration states...
...Income Not Stable Figures compiled by the national Income division of the commerce department reveal that Wisconsin, with 2.27 per cent of the nation's population In 1938, had almost the same proportion of total Income...
...Income of self-employed persons accounted for 21 per cent of total payments in the state in comparison with 18 per cent for the nation...
...John L. Lewis and described talk of a third political party as a part of Lewis's presidential ambitions...
...WASHINGTON, D. C—Only the voice of the American people lifted unceasingly against war will prevent politicians from trying to dodge domestic problems through foreign ventures...
...311.-000,000 for the self-employed, and $186,000,000 for dividends, interest...
...and net rents and royalties...
...An injunction against further prosecutions will be sought soon, it was revealed after the state body adopted a resolution attacking Asst...
...AFL Leaders Flav Arnold's Trust Actions Say They'll Fight to Finish Against U. S. Cases PITTSBURGH, Pa.—In this city, where the first sentences in the government's antitrust drive were handed down last February, leading AFL officials told the State Federation of Labor last week that the AFL will fight to the finish against application of the Sherman anti-trust law to building trades unions...
...Income from invested capital provided 12 per cent of the state's income payments, as compared with 16 per cent of the national total...
...CIO Pres...
...John L. Lewis, told the National Negro Congress...
...Ernest Hemingway, Robert Morss Lovett...
...Other labor income increased markedly in almost every year, rising from 1 per cent of total payments in 1929 to 8 per cent in 1938...
...Incomplete per capita estimates for 1939 indicate that payments improved substantially last year over the 1938 per capita average...
...They warn that "war conditions throughout the world today increase the danger of acts of intolerance and prejudice against the foreign born similar to those which culminated in the Palmer Raids of 1920...
...Income of self-employed persons from unincorporated businesses accounted for 17 to 23 per cent of total payments in all years from 1929 through 1938...
...John P. Coyne of the AFL Building Trades Department and by AFL Third Vice Pres...
...Roosevelt recently after having been passed by both houses of congress "Every one of the anti-alien proposals would restrict the constitutional rights of all Americans...
...Signers of the declaration included: Sherwood Anderson...
...One-eighth of the total went to owners of securities, mortgages and real'estate...
...J. Raymond Walsh, Dr...
...The government has no place in these cases...
...Both speakers made it clear, however .that the attack on the anti-trust drive was not to be construed as an attack on the New Deal...
...These fish reclined so much that their eyes migrated to the top side, and the bottom side lost its colorings...
...The pact covers 1,500 workers...
...Matthew Woll...
...One of these bills, the Starnes deportation bill, was vetoed by Pres...
...Dividends, interest and rents combined to contribute between 12 and 16 per cent of total payments In the different years...
...This identity ot income levels is measured by a 1938 per capita figure of $514 for Wisconsin and $515 for the nation as a whole...
...manufacturers of trucks and buses...
...Salary and wage Items declined in relative importance from 63 per cent of total payments in 1929 to 59 per cent in 1938...
...Describing Arnold's procedure as "Hitlerism," Woll said the use of the antitrust laws against labor was "sheer perversion of justice...
Vol. 10 • May 1940 • No. 19
