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FRIDAY, MAY 28,1937
CONFESSIONS OF A FASCIST
Dino Alferi, Mussolini's minister of
press and propaganda, spoke on Fas
cism aftd the press the other day, and
some of his remarks are worth re
peating—as horrible examples.
"Fascism," said Alfieri, "has no use
for the license that permits the press
in some countries to betray national
interests or favor the interests of
groups or factions.
"It is natural that countries expe
riencing a change of the party in
power every few months should have
a journalism as varied as its polit
ical parties."
As Fascism never expects to allow
any other party to come into power
it need not allow the press of any
other party to function, and doesn't.
"On the foreign front," said A1
fieri, "the press suppoi'ts the gov
ernment's action ... On the internal
front, its task is to illustrate the Fas
cis« regime'* achievements in all
fields."
In a word, the press in Italy is an
agency of the Fascist government
and is expected to suppress or distort
or invent news, according to the gov
ernment's directions. And Mr. Alfieri
goes so far as to say that Fascism
is proud of its press.
Which is one of many reasons why
no one should ever put the slightest
trust in dispatches from Italy or
any other Fascist or Nazi state.
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A LOOK AT THE RECORD
Before swallowing the common
blurb that President Roosevelt's plan
for remodelling the supreme court has
been slaughtered, killed, scrapped, an
nihilated, washed up and treated to
several other bad ends, just conside
some of the things which have hap
pened since the president put forward
that plan. In that brief period:
The supreme court reversed itself on
the question of minimum wage laws
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for women. It had knocked out an act
of congress on this matter 14 years
before, saying that congress had no
power to protect women from- exploi
tation. It had knocked out the New
York state law on this subject 10
months before, saying that a state
legislature had no such power.
Then, just a few weeks after the
president proposed a radical change
in the supreme court, that court does
what the president and every other
New- Dealer has been wanting it to do.
Next, the supreme court upheld the
Wagner labor relations act in such a
way as to declare that congress has a
right to fix labor relations for manu
facturing industry, when the manu
factured product goes into interstate
commerce. The court knocked down
and trampled on Justice Sutherland's
pet notion, that the relations between
factory owner and worker are "domes
tice relations," purely local, and free
from any interference by congress.
In other words, since President
Roosevelt put forward his plan, the
supreme court has twice reversed
itself, twice sanctioned progressive
laws which either directly or indirectly
it had condemned before. And there
is nothing in the record to account
for such reversal—except the focus
ing of public attention on the supreme
court, brought by the president's plan
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WHAT NEXT?
Peter Koch de Gooreynd, a Belgian
who lives in London, has invented an
unbreakable plastic lens which is
hailed as revolutionizing the manu
facture of cameras, spectacles, field
glasses and similar optical instru
ments. Costly lens-grinding is elimi
nated by a molding process which
makes 1,500 lens an hour and does
away with the need of skilled tech
nicians, it is reported.
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WISDOM
The conscience of modern society
realizes that occupational diseases
should not be reserved for certain
persons, but they should be made to
disappear.—Albert Thomas.
Poultry Workers' Union
Signs Pact in Detroit
The Poultry Workers' Union of
Detroit, affiliated with the Amalga
mated Butcher Workmen and Meat
Cutters of North America, has nego
tiated a contract with 21 Detroit
firms said to constitute about 80 per
cent of the poultry business in that
city.
The union, composed of drivers
dressers and unskilled help, has about
350 members.
The wage increases run from about
15 per cent to 50 per cent and estab
lish a basic wage of $25 per week for
unskilled work and $40 for dressers
Other provisions of the agreement
set up aboard of arbitration, estab
lish the 48-hour week with time and
one-half for overtime and guarantee
no discrimination for union affiliation
VANCOUVER LABORERS' UNION
WINS GRAVEL COMPANY PACT
Vancouver, Wash. (AFLNS)—Hod
Carriers and Building Laborers' Union
No. 335 of Vancouver has negotiated
a union shop agreement with the Dor
man-Kampe gravel pit company of
that city.
The employes are 100 per cent or
ganized.
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The union label is a lighthouse in
the fog of foreign-made goods. It
will guide our nation to the port of
prosperity.
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the truth
about many things, sometimes pro
foundly, sometimes flippantly,
sometimes recklessly.
Men are voting in the steel mills.
They are voting for the organization
that will represent them in collective
bargaining with the company.
Or, to put it in plain terms, they
are choosing the men and the organi
zation to speak for them when they
deal with the boss.
It is a new thing this voting in
the steel mills. And it means more
than even the most resentful of bosses
can quite imagine.
It means, at the last, that these men
in the steel mills vote on wages, on
hours, on working conditions, on lay
offs. These are the subjects of col
lective bargaining and when the
steel workers choose their bargaining
agency by vote, they vote on the mat
ters of bargaining.
Naturally, this doesn't please the
bosse? very much. They like to run
things without asking anybody's per
mission.
Tom Girdler, bf Republic Steel,
sometimes known in the mill towns
as the man whom everybody hates,
declares that he will quit making steel
and pick apples before he will deal
with labor unions.
Some of the French nobles
about the year 1788 said much the
same thing about the peasants
and the rabble voting.
The nobles wouldn't have it. They
denounced the terrors of slow exe
cution against anyone who disobeyed
them, or tried to curtail their privil
eges.
And four years later, when they
rode in droves to the guillotine, they
wished they had been a little more
ready to learn new things.
The fact that voting is a new thing
in the steel mills shows how very far
business has lagged behind politics.
People have voted for hundreds of
years on public affairs. But it is just
the other day that they began to get
the chance to vote on the matters
which give or withhold their chance
to earn a living.
One man, one vote—or one woman
one vote. That's democracy. There
was a time when only the king voted
Then the king and his advisers voted
Then the king, his lords and gentle
men voted. Now all citizens vote.
Only in our corporations is the old
cheating, chiselling voting system- re
tained.
Henry L. Doherty bought a million
preferred shares of Cities Service for
$1 a share—a dollar a vote.
Dupes a few months later were buy
ing common Cities Service shares for
as high as $68.25 a share—and it took
20 of these shares to have one vote.
Doherty voted for a dollar—it took
the outsider $1,365 to get a vote.
Men are voting in the steel mills
Democracy is making its way into
industry.
FEDERAL AGENTS
Investigate Terrorism In
Harlan County
Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—Attor
ney General Cummings has sent a
number of federal agents to Harlan
county, Kentucky, to investigate tY
behavior of the coal companies and of
Sheriff Middleton's. deputies.
"The object of the investigation,
said Cummings, "is to learn whether
coal operators and other individual
have conspired in violation of the
United States criminal code to injure
oppress, threaten or intimidate em
ployes in the exercise of rights guar
anteed under the provisions of the
national labor relations act.
"Complaints have been received
from Senator La Follette and from
John L. Lewis. These complaints
have painted a sordid picture of vio
lence and terrorism in Harlan county
If the investigation discloses offenses
that come under federal jurisdiction
prompt and vigorous prosecution will
follow."
The general opinion in Washington
is that this federal inquiry marks the
beginning of the end of the Harlan
county reign of terror.
Connery Asks U. S. Probe
Of Maine Labor Conditions
Boston (ILNS) Representative
William P. Connery, Jr., of Massachu
setts, chairman of the house labor
committee, has asked the department
of justice to investigate labor condi
tions in Maine.
The object, he says, is "to find out
if there is a conspiracy there to pre
vent workers from obtaining their
rights."
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Child Labor Uan Defeat
Hits Florida Children
Tampa, Florida (AFLNS)—Lack
of regulation of child labor, at the
base of which is refusal of states like
Florida, New York, and others, to
approve the pending federal child
labor amendment, will again enable
strawberry farmers to put 5,000 Flor
ida school children to work in the
fields next winter.
These children |re unorganized, of
course, and it is stated there is no
limit to the hours they work and their
pay is miserably low. Hillsborough
schools close for the "holidays" for
three months, so the children can join
other members of their families in the
strawberry fields.
AUTOMOBILE MECHANICS UNION
ORGANIZED IN SANTA MONICA
Santa Monica,Calif. (AFLNS)—A
new Auto Mechanics and Accessory
Parts Workers' Union has been or
ganized by the International Associa
tion of Machinists in Santa Monica.
More than 100 men attended the or
ganization meeting.
Advertise in The Press.
Petillo Returns to
Wheel in 500-Miler
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INDiANAPOLIS, Ind.—A cham
pion never quits even though he may
announce his retirement.
Kelly Petillo, hard-driving Italian
who won a spectacular victory in the
1935 Indianapolis 500-mile race, told
the world that he had definitely hung
up his goggles but he came back to
the Hoosier track last year as a car
owner.
He turned his sleek speedster over
to Doc MacKenzie and was content
ed to let that be-whiskered pilot do
the work until trouble started to hap
pen at 355 miles. MacKenzie had
been running in fourth place when
he came to the pits to adjust a balky
carburetor. He spent two minutes
and 35 seconds in this operation
and, so hot was the competition
he dropped from fourth to eighth
position, Ted Horn, Mauri Rose
Chet Miller, Rex Mays and Floyd
Roberts passing him.
This was entirely too much for
Kelly's racing blood and he went
back into competition taking the car
himself, caught and passed Miller and
Rose and finished the car in third
money position when Shorty Cantlon
Roberts and Mays ran out of gaso
line.
Kelly has entered his car again in
the Silver Anniversary race this
year on Monday, May 31, and named
another driver but few believe that
he will remain in the pits for the
entire race.
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FEDERAL
GOVERNMENT
'ights to Smash Insurance
Racket
New Fork City (ILNS)—The fed
eral government authorities here ar
rested 14 men in one day as a move
to break up a large and profitable in
surance racket and the number of
arrestees" is likely to be trebled be
fore the attack ends. A federal grand
jury has been impaneled, and the
outlook for a long delayed cleanup is
said to be good.
The racket lies in false claims of
disability, usually from heart disease.
It is believed to amount to several
million dollars a year. Lamar C.
Hardy, U. S. attorney, described how
the game was worked.
"The trainers, including lawyers,
doctors and chasers, gave the insured
a thorough coaching in the symptoms
of the disease chosen to be stimulated
by the client. A bogus case history
is manufactured, showing appropriate
heart attacks for a long period
He is taught to stimulate heart at
tacks during his stay at the hospital
while his doctor, furnished by the ring,
keeps feeding him with drugs."
The drugs are carefully chosen to
produce the heart symptoms which
the victim is supposed to suffer.
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