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THE POTTERS HERALD
OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF
THE RATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF OPERATIVE POTTSB8
and
EAST LIVERPOOL TRADES & LABOR COUNCIL
Published Every Thursday at East Liverpool, Ohio, by the N. B. of O
P., owning and operating the Best Trades Newspaper and Jot
Printing Plant in the State.
Entered at Postofiice, East Liverpool, Ohio, April 20, 1902, as second
class matter. Accepted for mailing at Special Rate of Postage
provided for in Section 1108, Act ol October 13, 1917, authorized
August 20, 1918.
New Jersey.
General Oflice, N. B. O. P. Building, West Sixth St.. BELL PHONE 573
President—Tames M. Duffy, P. O. Box 5. East Liverpool, Ohio.
First Vice President—E. L. Wheatley, Room 215, Broad Street National
Bank Building, Trenton, New Jersey.
Second Vice President—Frank Hull, 11/, Thompson Avenue, East Liv
erpool, Ohio.
Third Vice President—George Chad wick, 802 Bank Street, East Liver
pool, Ohio.
Fourth Vice President—Charles Zimmers, 1045 Ohio Avenue, Trenton
Fifth Vice President—Alex Young, 31 Passaic Street, Trenton, N. J.
Sixth Vice President—George Turner, Glenmoor, East Liverpool, Ohio.
Seventh Vice President—James J. McGowan, 744 Cadmus Street, East
Liverpool, Ohio.
Eighth Vice President—Joshua Chadwick, Grant St., Newell, W. Va
Secretary-Treasurer—John D. McGillivray, P. O. Box 6, East Liverpool
Ohio.
F. JEROME McKEEVER
One Year to Any Part of the United States or Canada
Editor and Business Manager
lage
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EASTERN GENERAL WARE STANDING COMMITTEE
Manutacturers A. G. DALE, FRED SUTTERL1N, JAMLS TURNER
Operatives, E. L. WHEATLEY, WM. E. YOUKG, EDWARD SEYF1KRT
WESTERN GENERAL WARE STANDING COMMITTEE
Manufacturers, CHARLES F. GOODWIN, M. J. LYNCH, ARTHUR WELLS
Operatives, JOHN McGiLLIVRAY, LOUIS P1ESLOCK, FRANK HAYNKS
EASTERN CHINA WARE STANDING COMMITEE
Manufacturers, EEN D. HARDESTY, E. K. KOOS, CHAS. F. GOODWIN
Operatives, E. L. WHEATLEY, JOHN T. BALDAUF, Jr., WM. OWEN|
WESTERN CHINA WARE STANDING COMMITTEE
Manufacturers, BEN D. HARDESTY, E. E. KOG3, CHAS. F. GOODWIN
Operatives, ALV1N J. BURT, H. H. HA15LOP, JOHN E. McGiLLIVRAY
DECORATING STANDING COMMITTEE
Manufacturers, J. B. MrDONALD, HARRY SPORE, MARGARET PARKLfl
N. B. of O. P., JAMES SLAVIN, HUGO MILLER, ROLAND HORTON
POVERTY IN NICARAGUA
T'HE international problem of poverty seems to
exist not only in countries where the capitalist
system of production has reached a high state ot
development but also in the more backward coun
tries where the industrial exploitation of labor is
in its infancy.
This was indicated in press dispatches from
Managua, Nicaragua, which stated that on the
day before Christmas, Senora Salvadora de iiayk
Somoza, wife of the President of Nicaragua, dis
tributee! 25,()()() presents to poor children, the lar
gest group of poverty-stricken boys and «»'irls ever
assembled in that city.
The wives of Cabinet members and high gov
ernment officials joined with Senora Somoza in
the ceremony designed "to make the children
happy."
Whether it be in the United States or in Nic
aragua, the existence of poor children is largely
caused by the refusal of employers to pay wage
earning parents wages high enough to enable
them to buy the necessaries of life for themselves
and their families.
The manifestation of charity by the well-to-do,
either in the United States, in Nicaragua, or in
any other country, to provide poor children with
gifts designed to make them forget for the time
being their suffering has grown to be an import
ant part of social welfare work.
It would be much more commendable if the
same groups would join in definite efforts to re
form the prevailing system oY production and dis
tribution of wealth so that there would be no un
derpaid wage earners and consequently few so
called "underprivileged" children a term evidently
devised to hide the reason why they are "under
privileged" and the responsibility of those who
own and operate our industrial system for that
condition.
DEMOCRACY AND THE UNEMPLOYED
ARMY
PROTECTING and perpetuating the democratic
institutions which characterize the United
States is a motive dear to all patriotic citizens. Jiut
love for American institutions cannot be expected
to find an enthusiastic reflection among tin mill
ions of jobless workers whose right to earn a liv
ing for themselves and their dependents by theii
lalxr has been denied for many years by those who
own and control industry and commerce.
This fear that democracy is seriously menaced
by the persistent refusal of employers to provide
jobs for millions of unemployed workers was well
expressed by Secretary of Commerce Jlarr.v L.
Hopkins in his recent address before the Economic
Club of Dos Moines, Iowa, in the following terse
statement:
"Some people may think we can maintain a de
mocracy in this country indefinitely with 10,000,
000 unemployed. 1 don't. If had no other mo
tivation other than my deep love of freedom, 1
would want to do every thing in my power to try
to help solve the problem of unemployment."
As a definite step toward providing employ
ment for the jobless Mr. Hopkins urged teamwork
between the Government, private industry and la
bor in the development of reasonable programs to
expand production on a profit-making basis. Jlut
he did not mention shorter hours which the con
tinued introduction of labor-displacing, job-de
stroying machinery has made imperative but
which organized capitalists, determined to seize
the achievements of technological improvements
for the exclusive benefit of profit grabbers, still
intransigent^ refuse to accept as a fundamental
part of our industrial policy.
Drastic reduction of the length of the work da.v
and work week is the basis of the solution of the
unemployment problem. It is to be hoped that
serious minded officials in both the Government
and private industry will quit stargazing in con
sidering unemployment, examine the question with
a pragmatic realization of the facts, and join with
labor to rescue the victims of job-destroying ma
chinery by applying shorter hours of work.
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OREGON ANTI-UNION LAW
Il/HKN the anti-union interests of Oregon in tin
last general election secured approval of an
initiative petition to limit the rights of workers
in labor controversies, they considered the issue
too hastily to realize the complications involved
There has lyen built up a considerable body of fed
eral and state labor law, assuring rights to wage
earners. New measures must be drafted and in
terpreted with reference to the existing legal
jjtrueture.
The Oregon anti-labor proposal defined labor
dispute to mean controversy in which the disput
ants have the relation of employer and employes,
and which directly concern wages, hours, or work
ing conditions of the employes of the particular
employer directly involved in the controversy. The
majority of the employer's employes must be in
volved. Specifically excluded from the definition
ire disputes between organizations, or groups of
employes as to which should be the collective bar
raining agency. Workers or their unions are for
bidden any process of lawful unions—. buying,
selling, transporting, receiving, delivering, manu
facturing, harvesting, processing, handling, or
marketing of any agricultural or other products."
Picketing is unlawful except in a labor dispute,
is defined in the initiative petition. Boycotting of
employer not directly involved is prohibited.
Furthermore, unions are prohibited from col
ecting dues in excess of the ordinary and legiti
mate requirements of the organization. Unions
must keep accurate records itemizing receipts and
expenditures and the purpose of such expendi
tures. Any member may, at reasonable times, de
mand an accounting and inspect the books and rec
rds. No person or organization shall directly or
indirectly interfere with any person seeking em
ployment or any employer desiring to employ such
person. This law is to be enforced by the State
Circuit Courts with power to issue restraining
orders, temporary and permanent injunctions.
By this legislation Oregon turned back the
pages of labor legislation to the period of yellow
dog contracts preceding the Norris-LaGuardia
Act, ignoring the National Labor Relations Act,
and all recent decisions of the Supreme Court de
fining the rights of workers to union membership
to promote their economic welfare.
The immediate issue upon which Oregon's em
ployers were made to realize the disadvantage of
turning state labor laws back several decades was
Unemployment Compensation. The Federal law
provides as a condition for approval of state law
by the Social Security Board to allow credits for
state payments against the Federal 3 per cent tax
on payrolls and for certification for Federal pay
ment of state administration costs that compen
sation shall not be denied in such State to any
otherwise eligible individual for refusing to ac
cept new work under any of the following condi
tions: (a) If the position offered is vacant due di
rectly to a strike, lockout, or other labor dispute
(b) if the wages, hours, or other conditions of the
work offered are substantially less favorable to the
individual than those prevailing for similar work
in the locality (c) If as a condition of being em
ployed the individual would be required to join a
company union or to resign from or refrain from
joining any bona fide labor organization."
Clearly the Oregon Initiative petition set up
special limitations which restricted labor disputes
to something very different from the conditions
stipulated by the Social Security Act. The Social
Security Board in accord with its legal duty in De
cember held a hearing to determine whether the
Oregon Unemployment Compensation Act could
again be certified in view of its modification by the
initiative law.
The discovery that if the Board did not certify
their unemployment compensation law, they would
lave to pay 3 per cent on payrolls to the Federal
Government in addition to 2.1 per cent to the State
and in addition meet administrative costs by state
taxes, came as an awakening shock to those who
had sponsored the initiative measure.
On January 26 the Oregon Legislature adopted
a retroactive amendment to the Unemployment
Compensation law, declaring that the provisions
on labor disputes have the same meaning as those
of the Social Security Act. This amendment set
tled the issue so far as the Social Security Act was
concerned but the workers of Oregon are still de
nied rights generally accorded them as a matter
of social justice.
The Initiative Law is in conflict with public
policy as formulated by Congress and is clearly un
constitutional. It must either be repealed or car
ried to the Supreme Court.
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11LTIM ATE ES PON SI HI LIT Y
COCTETY rarely realizes what it owes to its or
crmiippri lulim- mnupmpnt. wliinh in «i bivo'P
ganized labor movement which in a large
measure organizes labor opinion on work problems
as well as relations with other groups of society.
Labor opinion and labor discipline constitute the
.... ...
real foundation upon which economic, social and:H
1
PC, iticnl I rest. I-alx.r opinion and labor
ii
policies arc colliuiui 11 forces Willi their roots 111 ,.iK,0.
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past experience. What that past experience may partment Mr. Wiedman is called "an
have been was not determined by Labor alone but undesirable alien.
by employers, public opinion, the legislative and| The difference in the alien status
administrative branches of our government, the
ii i i
years is the \\a«iior Nalumal l' ibor lldations Act,
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THE POTTfifeS TTFR AT,T
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WHAT NEXT?
The Ranger Engineering Cor
poration has announced develop
ment of a new stream-lined air
plane motor which is the most
powerful in the world in propor
tion to its size. It is air-cooled
has 12 cylinders in inverted-v
formation develops 500 horse
power and weighs only 610
pounds. It is 200 pounds lighter
than any in-line motor now pro
duced in Europe.
WISDOM
I....
Mind is the great lever of all
things human thought is the pro
cess by which human ends are ul
timately answered.
—Daniel Webster.
REAL MOTIVE OF STORE TAX
Washington, D. C.—The President
of the Arkansas State Federation of
Labor, Vic Wood of Fort Smith, ac
cording to reports received here, went
on record recently as being opposed
to the so-called chain store tax bills
pending in the Arkansas General As
sembly, Mr. Wood said, "it is true that
in some instances, the authors of
these pernicious bills have coupled
this subject with that of Old Age As
sistance, Pensions for the Blind, and
Aid for Crippled Children, but a close
study of just what these different bills
provide, will convince the most skep
tical that the real motive is hidden,
and the above mentioned sacred sub
jects have been purposely added to
these bills for the sole purpose of add
ing prestige and creating favorable
sentiment in favor of their passage.
It probably would be interesting read
ing if the cloak of secrecy could be
drawn from the real motives behind
this method of taxation and expose
to the public, and especially the wage
earners of the state, just how much
'rot' lies hidden there."
EMPLOYMENT FALLS AS OUTPUT
RISES IN THE STONE INDUSTRY
Washington, D. C. (ILNS). In
creased productivity made it possible
for 33,000 men working in the crushed
stone industry in 11)30 to produce a
greater output than was produced by
07,000 men in 1013, a Work Progress
Administration study shows. A report
on the study, prepared by the WPA
National Research Project, was made
public by WPA Administrator Har
rington.
After rioting thai in 1913 total out
put was 80,C00,000 tons and that the
number of nu iayed in that year
has not since been equaled, Assistant
Administrator Corrington Gill, in
charge of all WPA research, writes in
his letter of transmittal:
"The great gains in productivity—
from 0.40 ton per man-hour in 1013
to 1.38 tons in 1020—brought about
a drop of one third in the number of
men employed, despite a two-thirds
increase in the industry's production.
In 1030, output per man-hour reached
an average of 1.85 tons. In that year
only 33,000 men, working on the aver
age of three-fourths as many hours
per year as in 1020, produced 03,000,
000 tons at commercial crushed-stone
operations."
Gill said that technological improve
ments threatened to reduce employ
ment still further in the crushed stone
industry and that it therefore offered
little hope of new jobs or reemploy
ment in the near future.
'Undesirable Aliens'
The C. I. O. Industrial Union Coun
cil of San Francisco which functions
uj«lor -ho
ff
courts, and by business activity with its peaks note-worthy. Mr. Wiedman does not
and dips. This fact is fundamental: In industrial [m,foss to be anything but a German
socielv there is always a labor movement shaped '3™r,humP w,e T?
... ,, ... service of his countrv. Mr. Bridges,
to deal with problems us they exist. 11 society
does not guarantee the right of wage-earners to who seemingly enjoys his status as
contracts covering conditions of work negotiated an alien. He has earned his liveli
by representatives chosen by the workers, and hood in the United States for nearly
employers do not accept unions for the purpose of twenty years but refuses to become a
performing constructive functions, relations are citizen of the land that feeds him
on a "force" basis—relations are considered in
struggle terms and leaders are chosen for militant
qualities. Force becomes the dominant factor in
the thinking of the masses of the citizens, for the
philosophy that develops out of work relations
permeates thinking on all life problems.
The most fundamental and the most revolution
iry law that has been enacted in the last fifty
which extended the pi iliciplo ol tieedoni thnt is unions in Chattanooga was takon
consent to the work agreement under which the when tho management of the Erskine
best part ol the day is spent. I'Ol'ced labor wasBakery signed closed shop agreements
abolished by the lttth Amendment, but necessityjwith Bakers Local No. 2f of the Bak
of accepting employment under oppressive condi-,or*.an(l Confectionery Workers Inter
tions is removed only by collective action of work-lnational Lnion of America and Team
ers to make their bargaining power equal to that Loca' 51 of the Internation
of the employer.
princi
Nation. A free labor movement is the real bul
wark of a free government.
he employer. Acceptance of thi.s
cipie is the ultimate test of democracy in our fiijalos
Labor looks to business statesmen for help in
the acceptance of unions and developments that
will enable producing workers to become partners
in the work and problems of production with the
responsibilities and opportunities of that status.
Ultimate responsibility for facilitating such a de
velopment in organized labor by evolutionary
methods rests with employers and society.
supervision of the notorious
KM1.Ijarry
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rj'i'^(!f
protested the
.ii appointment of I«ritz Wiedman as
Germa|, counse| R(!neral
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tho
San F].an.
lr„toat to the State De-
Messrs. Wiedmann and Bridges is
the other ham|i an Austraj!an
Anyone is entitled to judge which
of these two aliens is really "unde
sirable."
Chattanooga Firm Signs
Teamsters-Bakers Pact
Chattanooga, Tonn. (AFLWNS).—
,• Another long in the advancement
(lf America.,step
Federation of Labor
()f tjie A 0f
The wage schedule provides for
wage increases as high as ten dollars
per week, while the hours of work are
heavily reduced, in some instances be
ing cut nearly one-half.
The company announced that it in
tended to use the uilion label on its
cakes.
Anyone who tells us what is wrong
and helps us make it right is a friend.
Truths Pondered While
Riding At Anchor
MR. MODESTUS
Wl'CH TOO CROWDED
CRIME CONTROL
THE CONTRACTOR'S
ARGUMENT
JAMMED INTO SPACE
Scatter!
Too many of you on a square foot
of land—
No wonder slum clearances come
like pulling eye-teeth
When land costs $680 per room—
Which makes land for a five room
dwelling—
In a New York City apartment
house project—
Cost as much as whole house and
lot costs in the country—
The only answer is: pile 'em up!
And so, they propose 12 story build
ings for city dwellers—
Where they can get in 450 people
per acre of land—
No: not per square mile per acre—
Pile up the rooms high enough—
And you can reduce the land cost to
$15 per square foot—
That is, per square foot of living
space—
Which means the added cost of ele
vators—
Added cost of fire protection and
fire escapes—
There is a loud cry going up to—
well—
Wherever it is that the gods of sky
scrapers live—
In Harlem a certain area covered
152 acres—
It included about 70,000 persons
dwelling there—
Government rules for slum clear
ance—
Provided "Harlem Housing", for
1.900 persons—
With an "enormous" provision for
play space—
So that it housed only 146 persons
per acre—
As against the previous rate of 450
per acre or more—
At a land cost of only $576 per
room!
This "low" density per acre for city
housing—
Is called a "fetich" by the building
contractors—
A "fetich" being something to which
worshippers bow down—
In superstitious awe and venera
tion—
In this case, the "fetich" being a
solemn concern—
For the health and happiness of hu
man beings—
Related also to the problems of
crime, and crime contx*ol—
Whereby also cost and extent of
police force is affected—
While that "enormous" area for
play grounds—
Has a direct relation with control
of tuberculosis—
Fetich!
The Building Contractors have an
argument—
That population "density" is not
what makes a slum—
So they point to the Central Park
areas up town—
Where the swell apartments house
as many as 100 persons per acre—
Compared with which they call the
government standard "de luxe"—
As though they did not know the
real meaning of "de luxe"—
In the "Croesus' Thirty Acres" of
New York—
Where the first families paid as
much rent as $8(,000 a year—
Decking their rooms with million
dollar rugs—
Hut these are the mighty ones—
To whom lowly and poverty stricken
ones send up their offerings—
Paying rent on square feet of living
space—
Stretched high up in the air—
When it is not located in cellars—
Cellars where 25,000 New Yorkers
live—
What is this "Fetich"?
Which compels the damming of hu
man bodies and souls—
By jamming them into spaces where
hogs would die?—
THE DAK AND MISS ANDERSON
(From the New York Herald Tribune)
The Daughters of the American
Revolution, by definition inherent in
their name, are the descendants of
those who fought to make this country
free and to establish a government
which would hold to certain ideals—
ideals which seemed high at the time
and which, come to think of it, still
seem high. That fact makes it all the
more astonishing that the I). A. Ii
should have refused to permit Miss
Marian Anderson, the distinguished
Negro contralto, to give a recital in
Constitution Hall, Washington, on the
evening of April 9. It happens that
the D. A. R. owns the hall and has the
technical right to refuse its use to any
one it sees fit. However, there is lit
tie wonder that persons of many faiths
and many occupations have been de
lighted to make a vigorous protest. If
such a snub to a Negro singer had
occurred somewhere in the deep
South, it might have been understand
able, although just as regrettable. But
to see such a thing in the nation's
capital, with the D. A. R. the chief
culprit, is, to use a word of extreme
mildness, dismaying. In the past, on
occasion, the D. A. Ii. has stepped
from the sublime to the ridiculous in
the case of Miss Anderson this dis
tinguished old American organization
has outdone itself.
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COMMENT ON WORLD
EVENTS
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A little, shrivelled, bald man 69
years old fasted for nearly 5 days and
a 20-year old East Indian despot sur
rendered, and promised to call a coun
cil. The little old man was Mohandas
K. Gandhi, called by millions of his
people "Mahatma" Gandhi the young
despot is the ruler of Rajkot, and his
last name is Dharmendrasinhjii. Ap
parently, all the people of Rajkot and
pretty nearly all the hundreds of
millions of people of India were watch
ing Gandhi, and if he had died in his
protest fast, the odds are that no pru
dent agent would have written a policy
on the despot.
And this is the sixth time that Gan
dhi has fasted some government into
yielding to his demands. They are al
ways moderate demands but six
times in his life, Gandhi in that way
has backed some government in India
from the line which it has proposed
to take.
It wouldn't work here. They'd take
Gandhi to a hospital and feed him
through a tube. But in India, time
after time, it has worked.
Germany is getting so short of la
tor that she is drafting the Jews and
so short of money that she has recent
ly paid more than 1,000,000,COO marks
—about $400,OCO,CGO—in vouchers a
voucher being simply a government I.
0. U.
Jews at most form nine-tenths of
one per cent of the population of Ger
many which certainly cannot add
greatly to the supply of the labor
market. Also, half the adult male
Jews in Germany were swept into con
centration camps last November, when
that Nazi attache was killed by a
crazy Jewish boy in Paris and the
diet and treatment in a concentration
camp do not develop good workers.
What Germany is really doing is to
advertise to the world that she is mak
ing arms so fast that she hasn't men
enough to man her factories—another
threat, like the one she worked at
Munich.
But the billion marks of vouchers
doing duty for money tends strongly
to verify the threat. Germany's liv
ing standards are certainly not high
enough to demand such a pace. Gen.
Goering undoubtedly told a good deal
of truth when he said that Germany
was arming at a pace never before
seen. But will she be able to take up
these vouchers by bluffing other peo
ples out of their property—or by tak
ing it in war?
Expectation of substantial reem
ployment from the United States re
armament program is not justified,
economists and others are warning
Rearmament, says Elliott Jancwat,
economist and financial writer, "is not
going to create any employment worth
talking about."
Aircraft production on which so
many advocates of employment pin
their hopes, he goes on to say, "con
sumes little in the way of materials
and is not a mass employer of labor
—not even when we are producing up
to 10,000 planes as a standing force.
"This country is simply too big, and
its productive needs too great, for
this kind of program to bring recov
ery as a by-product."
AUTO WORKERS UNION
RE-ELECT PRES. MARTIN
Detroit (ILNS).—Ending their con
vention here, delegates representing
the membership of the United Auto
mobile Workers of America which re
volted against CIO affiliation, re
elected President Homer Martin, con
firmed Martin's previous declarations
that it was an independent union and
took final action on the constitution.
Martin was chosen president by ac
clamation and following an enthusias
tic demonstration of support and con
fidence. He predicted that "either
John L. Lewis and the CIO will rec
ognize the desire of workers for a
clean, democratic American union, or
Lewis and the CIO will fold up like
an accordion."
Irvan Cary of Lin wood, Calif., was
elected vice-president and Jerry Al
dred of Flint, Mich., secretary-treas
urer.
The election left open a path for
President Martin to resume attempts
to organize workers in the Ford Mo
tor Company. The convention author
ized the president to negotiate with
managements of any unorganized
plants and make agreements subject
to approval by the union executive
board.
The convention formally severed ties
with the CIO by declaring that CIO
affiliation "could only be accomplished
by sacrificing our democratic auton
omy." The convention also said that
the union had never submitted the
question of CIO affiliation to its mem
bership, but that it "remains firmly
committed to the principles of indus
trial unionism and absolute auton-
FIREFIGHTERS PRESIDENT DIES
Canton, O. (OLNS).—George E.
Hopkins, state president of the Fire
fighters' Union, died February 28 in
the Cleveland Clinic where he had been
rushed after being stricken suddenly
ill in Canton.
He was recently appointed a cap
tain in the Canton Fire Department,
and was well known throughout the
state. In addition to his activities in
union affairs, Hopkins was also inter
national president of the Welsh
American Society.
Truth is stranger than fiction—in
fact, to many it is a perfect stranger
Thursday, March 16,1030
The Cherry Tree
Where We Hatchet Out
The Truth
EXPERIENCE IS TEACHER
BUT IT MUST BE PERSONAL
FIGHTING COMMUNISM
AN ASTOUNDING STORY
Experience is a great teacher, say
old saws.
Trouble is, most of us don't profit
by the experience of others, and must
experience things ourselves in order to
learn. And then we frequently forget
the lessons, even when dearly learned.
This must be the explanation of why
some new labor organizations have
had Communist trouble.
Members haven't had the experience
with Communists that older unions
have, hence they have let the Commies
play fast and loose with their organ
izations for a while.
Now they've had a lesson and are
giving the gate to the Communists
and other advocates of totalitari
doctrine.
Unions which have had to fight
Communist infection might have saved
themselves a lot of grief if they had
looked back a few years to the experi
ence of some other labor organiza
tions.
International Ladies' Garment
Workers' Union, for one, could have
given them valuable pointers.
Communists were permitted to gain
a foothold among the garment work
ers in the first half of the 1920's and
what they did for a time was a cau
tion. They almost wrecked the union
and were only beaten after a hard
fight, in which Matthew Woll, Edward
F. McGrady and other A. F. of L. lead
ers gave valuable help to the legiti
mate unionists.
Commies, it is true, have changed
their tactics since their earlier raids.
Now they disclaim all intention to
wreck the unions, once their avowed
aim, and profess great love for Amer
ican unionism.
But they haven't changed their ul
timate aim and still seek to make the
unions serve the ends of the Com
munist movement.
The Communists, you see, did learn
by experience, at least in most coun
tries.
In Germany, they saw, too late that
if they had co-operated with the demo
cratic elements, they could have pre
vented the triumph of Hitlerism.
But instead of co-operation, they
fought the democrats, tooth and nail,
with every resource of invective,
slander, deceit and violence of which
they are past masters.
They thought in the ensuing neri(&
of chaos, they would seize p6 ipr, as
they
did in Russia.
It didn't work out that way. The
Nazis beat them to it and the once
powerful Communist party was de
stroyed.
Now the Communists seek the aid
of democratic peoples in fighting
Nazi-ism and Fascism. But once the
danger is over, the Reds will again
plot the overthrow of democracy and
the establishment of a Communist dic
tatorship, as iix that "workers' para
dise," Soviet Russia.
But, say the Communists and their
sympathizers, the Communist dictator
ship in Russia is only an "intermediate
phase" in the establishment of a new
order.
It has now lasted more than 20
years and grows more tyrannical with
a^e, if that is possible. Witness the
bloody "purge" orgy of the last few
years.
Unfortunately, dictatorship, like
many other things, grows to be a
habit. Everything indicates it has be
come a habit with the Russian Reds
and that it will not be easily broken.
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In one nation—Spain—the Commu
nists learned nothing from the Ger
man experience. They have run true
to form in the civil war. They have
proved their utterly impractical na
ture by fighting to set up Communist
regimes within Loyalist territory,
when unity of the Loyalist forces was
imperative.
Part of the responsibility for the de
feat of the Loyalist government must
be placed on the Communist, anarchist
and other extremist elements. When
the whole story of the Loyalist
regime's internal troubles is told, this
column predicts it will make an as
tounding story.
COME OUT OF THE TRENCHES!
(From Editor and Publisher)
At the risk of being told to go away
and sit down, we would like to make
the simple plea to newspaper special
writers and columnists, radio commen
tators and news experts, perspiring
propagandists and jaw-weary politi
cians, to come out of the trenches for
a little while and drop back to a rest
camp.
It has been a bitter battle ever since
the Munich pact, and we have followed
n e a y e v e y w o o i w i e i n
dignation and revulsion which, no
doubt, almost every American feels.
But spring is drawing near, and we
are growing a little tired emotionally.
The dictators are still there and the
democracies still stand. The kickoff
may not take place until after the fall
practice season.
Until it does we hope to give our
eyes and cars a little rest. We may
need 'em later.
Book Agent: "Don't you want to buy
an encyclopedia to give to your wife?"
Old Krusty: "Don't need one. My
son is just home from college."
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