SOCIALIST APPEAL AUGUST 24, 1940 There Only One May Bill Pretends to Protect Homes Way To Stop The Of Conscripts. But Does Not Arms Profiteers RADE UNION Notes JACK MALONEY AND LOU MILLER BEGIN FEDERAL PRISON TERMS seems to be Sidney Hillman Working With Green For Unity tion and labor observers at first campaign has been vigorously in lating the Act in such a way that Conscript Family became due, the tax collector the service man pay toward the finance company cannot take As Unprotected As could not sell his property, but obligations he left at home. In away their car. that their insurwould wait until he left the mili stead of being able to send the ance will remain in effect, and An Editorial Without This Bill tary service, when THE TAX measly 21. to your wife and fam. that their homes cannot be sola Roosevelt and the leaders of Congress from both parties The gentlemen in Washington WOULD BE DUE WITH INTER. Ily, the government could see to by the tax collector while they by Farrell Dobbs have surrendered completely 10 the demands of the armament have been getting reports from EST AT PER CENT. In other it that your landlord, insurance are in the army.
their home towns indicating that words, when you return homo, recompany, finance company. and little pocket money. Massingale magnates.
the conscription Bill in its pres. gardless of whether or not you tax collector get theirs first! For their own protection, work. Aircraft Unionization felt that it was unfair to sent That is the plain meaning of the deliberately misnamed ent form is not quite palatable. can return to your job, you have KIDDING US ALONG ers must expose this plan in their Attacked In Advance!
them into military service out. excess profits bill which louse and Senate committees, with These are just some of the vi. unions and mass organizations, The heads of families, especially, to pay the back taxes on your Congressman Martin Dies anside the United States.
who have such obligations as rent home immediately, plus in clous provisions of this will. This is no help to the conscripts. nounces from Los Angles that he White House approval, are now recommending for enactment The good Congressman failed to into law, leases, payments on a car, insur terest, or your home can be sold is a cigantie fraud meant to de. It is a bill to protect the interhas uncovered a plot to bring inform his costituents that most about a general strike in South of these boys did not know when The real purposes of the bill are: enerante este how the proposta The bill also provides that in into a calse sense of security. ests of the finance and insurance ern California aireraft factories. they enlisted that they would be To permit the armament companies to deduct from army pay of 21 the proposed most cases the government would They will be told that their fam. companies, the landlords, and the His statement comes on the heels used as scabherders, as they were their income, before arriving at the net income on which taxes month would enable them to meet be authorized to deduct part of laties cannot be evicted, that the government tax department!
of the decision by the St. Lou recently when the oil workers must be paid, 20 of the cost of new plant or equipment.
these expenses. Quite naturally convention of the United Auto went on strike. It seems that Workers (CIO) to launch a large he doesn think it unfair to pak That means that at the end of five years the companies would they do not consider it fair and scale organization drive in the the boys to do a little strike have new plants anti equipment completely paid off out. of the of Patriotism and actonal De aircraft Industry, breaking now and then in return sums received from the government for planes, battleships, fense, are taken from their famiThe aircraft CORPORATIONS for social entertainment and a bit etc. They call this pay off amortization.
lies and allowed only 30 a month have been conducting a general of spending money.
strike against the acceptance of To wipe out altogether the profit limitation, embodied to send home, while the landlorde in the Vinson Trammel Act, which limits profits on plane and ment of rent, the finance contpa government contracts for airplane Green New Stand On construction.
They demand tax Wagner Act Changes ship contracts to per cent on competitively bid contracts ntes take away their cara, the in Lou Miller Writes In 1938. The men. under spe been mad credits to assure themselves of and per cent on those negotiated privately. Under the ex surance companies lapse policies, AFL President Green, appear cial orders from Washington, stet Anal and under these cmum super profits from the armament cess profits bill the sky is the limit!
or the tax collector conscates Inspiring Letter AFTER deducting the amortization allowance of 20 per their homes for fron payment of ped into a local situation, and stances there is nothing left for program. Dies isn the least bit ing before the Senate Labor ComTo Farrell Dobbs taxes.
built up a charge of allegedly me to do but take the consequence worked up about this open fisted mittee to testify on the bill to grab by the corporations, but he revise the National Labor Relacent, and AFTER deducting the average normal profits SIOUX CITY, Is Jack Malo damaging a truck Into a federal want you to know that in spite is always quick to suspleion subtions Act, altered the stand he In an effort to pour ofl on these ney. Organizer of the Drivers offensive.
troubled waters, a bill, proposed Union of this city, and Lou Mil.
that the companies have been making during the last four me guilty. shall serve time as a versive activity among the work previously took before the House years, then the excess profits taxes will apply against the by the War Department, has been ers.
Committee rekrrding some of the Lou Miller. when word came free man, irl thought.
introduced in the House by Chait ler, member of Drivers Local 554 He has found seven finks in the provisions remaining income.
The Senate Cominit. have at all times tried to play Only from 25 to 40 per cent of this remaining income will mah May of the House Military of Omaha, entered federal prisons that the appeals court had refused Committee.
last week. The other unlun to review the case, sent the fol the same as a true unionist, igh. plants who describe the strike) tee reports Green now says that be taken by the government by these excess profits taxes. The association of this reso organizers are still in the county lowing letter to Farrell Dobbering for those principles which achome as having double objec he acquenced in the amendments The firm of Dow, Jones Wall Street analysts have tonary name should make work. Jail, where they are awaiting com Dear Farrell: every true union man has in de tive crippling the national de while they were in the House with heart. do not intend that this American aid to Britain. The to the AFL could be altered in fense program and hindering the idea that those unacceptable figured out what the tax would mean to representative big ers look on this piece of legisla mitment papers, Jack Maloney was committed This is the last letter shall be letter should in any sense be an have netted 89, 000, 000 instead of 895, 000, 000: United Air deed, this is one of the crassest to Sandstone prison in Minnesota, able to write you as a free man abituary, rather want to arouse political Erlends of the clothe Senate If this is the case, it must be the union consciousness of every are thus preparing to give heavy said that Green is guilty of cricråít a net of 87. 447, 000 instead of 375, 000; General Moattempts to hoodwink the work and Lou Miller to Leavenworth for some time.
ers.
in Kansas. do, however, take this oppor working man and woman.
tors. 210, 500, 000 instead of 238, 500, 000 net profits, and WHAT GIVES Let the injustice which has be support to the aircraft corpora minal negligence toward his du The Eighth Circuit Court of Ap tunity to express my sincere ap.
peals, sitting in St. Paul, recently preciation of the financial assist fallen me serve as a warning te Lions in their opposition to the tres as a representative of the so on union campaign.
Under the terms of this bill, denied the appeal of the seven ance and moral support you and every ardent unionist to guard AFL workers. The workers get WHEN THIEVES FALL OUT the conscript would be assured: union sts from a conviction whle your organization have given me against the pitfalls and dangers The UAW leaders will have to little enough consideration from (1)
That for three months his was the result of a frame up en during the past several months which may be in his night for muster more cuts then they have Congress under the best of cirSenator Clarke gave the show away at a meeting of the landlord could not evict his wife gineered by the Federal Bureau in my efforts to secure justice, economic freedom.
Green should then if the organization drive in the criticisms of the amendments past House and Senate committees, when he asked Assistant Secand children from his home, giv of Investigation as an aftermath in the high tribunals of this land feel that the price which have alreraft Industry is to succeed.
ing them time to move into of a drivers strike in Sioux City and present, are added up, he retary of the Treasury Sullivan: cheaper quarters. But: THE UN As you know, a decision has been called upon to pay will not have been paid in vain.
still hasn got much of a pori Isn it a fact that the excess profits feature of this bill PAID RENT WOULD HAVE TO FBI Fingerprint Remember me as one making tion. The AFL has been so anxiis merely sugar coating to get the public to swallow the amor BE MADE GOOD WHEN THE a plea for continued organizatioa. Drive Intensified ous to strike a blow at the CIO tization feature and the repeal of the Vinson Trammel Act CONSCRIPT FINISHES HIS continued courageous leadership through amendments to the NaARMY SERVICE!
The FBI already has many tional Labor Relations Act that This means Profit limitation?
and continued fight for justice in acres of fingerprint files in Was they have blinded themselves to that when you return home, you With the President asking for another four or five bilthe Fraternity of Labor.
will have to pay double rent im ington. They have long conduct the dangers of the situation they LOU, lion dollars every time he gets back from a week end trip, mediately: the current rent cach ed an educational campaign to are creating. The National Asso 190, 000, 000 (the total return on this tax for 1940 expected month plus the back rent you obtain prints wherever and when ciation of Manufacturers is stepby Sullivan) is just a drop in the bucket, isn it?
owe. This, of course, will be very AFL About Face on Smith Amendments exigencies which the Administra. ever they could. Lately. this ping in with the idea of emascu easy when you join the ranks of It is to convey the impression that we are soaking someMay Be Part of Deal With Roosevelt the unemployed after release body to pay for this program, when as a matter of fact rom the army.
Indications that considerable Green regarding the Smith feared misht aggravate matters test more fruit is beginning to the amendments will prove a WPA employees working in Arwell as an injury to the CIO.
boomerang against the AFL as just a drop in the bucket.
MAYBE YES, MAYBE NO headway has been made by sid. Amendments to the Wagner, Act, between the two factions.
ney Hillman. Labor Coordinator before the Senate Labor Commit.
Hillman Game my and Navy posts and on other Sullivan, of course, evaded the question. And Senator (2) That the finance company of the government National De tee this week.
In other words, Hillman is ap national defense projects must But even taking the AFI. pro Clark only asked it because he and a bloc of mid Western could not setze his car for non fense Advisory Commission, in Well Informed Comment parently well on his way towards have their prints taken. Forty sram for what it is worth, this creating the presequisites for a WPA workers on a New York action by Green means that he mission to locate plants and grant contracts to mid West CEPT BY COURT ACTION: The pence in line with the deert en the usually welformed. New Roosevelt defense program for any war emergency that may thus weakened the fighting power Senators were putting pressure on the National Defense Com Dayment of the installments, Ex his efforts to secure AFL. ce According to special article labor peace under the auspices City sponsored project to prepare Abandoned an important field of court might order the finance program of the Roosevelt sdmfil battle without firing a shot and States. They got that assurance the next day, and Clark hasn company to return the payments. istration, are increasing in evi York Journal of Commerce of Au What forms this will take or how confront the city have also been of the AFL on this question by said a word since!
already made or part of them dence.
gust 16: rapidly it will be culminated is finger printed.
in order to regain possession of survey of labor and person. not as yet predictable.
SABOTAGE SPEEDED THIS BILL to According The New York City police de more than 50.
the car, or make such other diswell informed nel executive opinion yesterday John Lewis and his machinepartment has laid down new reg.
We aren convinced that Creen position of the case as may be sources the announcement last indicated a wide spread belief in the co which is opposed to ulations requiring the finger print told the whole story when he gave We have also learned a little the whole story was told equitable. Please note: the week that the AFL Bullding and that loss antagonism is apparent the peace program of Hillman foring of night club employees. The the Senate Committee this reason in secret sessions of Senate and House committees, but most court MIGHT or then again. Construction Trades Department between the AFL and the cho purely opportunist reasons still unions are fighting this order. for his change in attitude. It has by Inference, it MICAT NOT! will be recognized as the sole la currently than at any time since remain formidable obstacle.
the earmark of part of a horse of it is still suppressed about the strong arm methods used (3) That his insurance policy for representative on all construc John Lewis broke away from But such moves as these two rect. How They Recruited trade with Sidney Hillman, CIO by the armament billionaires to speed up their getting this bill.
vice president, who is rapidly In order to frighten any slow moving Congressmen into of premiums, but would remain program, Is even more significant The Journal then points to Green. cannot help but cut ground National Guardsmen drifting into open conflict with moving faster for the bill passage, Secretary of War Stimson in force, up to 5000, face value. than was at first assumed.
Aside Green declaration concerning from under the Lewis machine. Representative Massingale of John Lewis. second factor last week had to tell part of the truth: that, despite all the After he got out of the army, he from being a direct slap in the the Smith Amendments as signi Before using the big stick to Oklahoma made a slip the ton is the report that Hillman as the would have to pay up the dack race at John Lewis and his ficant in this light, and continues: bring the official labor movement que in the House debate on the labor coordinating expert on the money voted by Congress, only 33 planes have been con premium WITHIN ONE YEAR, artifically fostered CIO Constructhe immediate cause of the under his pro war wing, Roosevelt National Guard bill. He told how National Defense Committee, has tracted for.
to keep the policy in effect. This lion Workers Organizing Commit. AFL sudden loss of enthusiasm is preparing the ground by man the chambers of commerce in arranged for the AFL to have The profiteers simply refused to sign contracts until Con means that when you return home tee this move is now. considered for the Wagner Act amendments euvers and horse trades Instde of Oklahoma had urged enlistment jurisdiction over construction gress adopts this infamous bill!
you will have twice the normal as a more concrete step in the apparently was the assurance its ranks. To achieve this end by high school students and that work under the armament proPart of the testimony given at a secret committee hearing tosurance expense during the first direction of AFL CIO unity, against CIO raids on AFL craft he could not have chosen a bet the National Guard in many in gram. Ilman has denied this year, or else your policy will by Rear Admiral Furlong, chief of ordnance, has now been It is pointed out that shortly unions provided by machinery set ter agent thar Sidney Humanstances furnished the best social report, but the AFL continues to revealed. Typical was this telegram from one corporation: lapse just the same as though this after that announcement, another up recently by the National De As the recent events indicate, Hin entertainment for youth. He add. insist that it is a fact.
law had not been written. sensational development in the fense Commission. The les man is doing a good job for ed that the students also wanted If the AFL Hillman horse WE PREFER NOT TO OPERATE UNDER VINSON TAXES PILE UP relations between the two labor sening of tension between the Roosevelt and for the imperialist a little spending money. Since trade is a reality it will intro.
ACT.
taxes on real estate when they about face pronounced by William arising out of national defense Stands. 1) That if he failed to pay federations was revealed in the AFL and CIO paradoxically politics for which the latter they had enlisted only to have a duce a series of new factors into Do we have to underline what this means? The govern good time socially and to get the question of AFL CIO unity.
ment can conscript tens of millions of young workers and send them to their death. The workers can say No. But the profiteers can say No to government contracts guaranteeing them per cent profit! Why can they do that? Because the government is THEIRS.
All talk of taxing excess profits is a fraud and a delusion. There is no such thing.
The only method that would mean anything would be to Congress is authoriting the President to call bosses. Without going back further than the past and the Pacife? Where is the enemy in our During and after the last war, similar Home CONFISCATE ALL PROFITS FROM ARMAMENTS. out the National Guard for military duty any six years, every worker will remember how the midst so strong as to require such forces to meet Guard units were instrumental in leading armed But the armament kings would answer that, as they have where in the western hemisphere. This Act fur National Guard was used to intimidate or break them?
mobs against labor agitators. Their formation ther concentrates the war making power in the up union picket lines in the Minneapolis teamalready answered any attempt to limit their profits, by reThe answer is obvious to any worker who will today will place in every community a body of will of the Chief Executive, after the fashion of ster and the national steel, textile, and auto fusing to take government contracts.
reflect a moment about the matter. These Home armed men available again to act against the totalitarian states, by converting forces, hitherto strikes.
That why there is only one program in this matter Guards are being trained, not to protect the mass workers whenever the bosses see fit to unleash exclusively reserved for service at home, into an them.
which the workers can support: of people against foreign invaders, individual seInstrument available for military intervention on Their Main Enemy At Home boteurs, or isolated enemy agents, but to protect What must the workers do about this potenExpropriate the armament industries! Take at least three continents, The capitalist rulers of the United States are the capitalist minority and to keep down the tial menace?
them away from the profiteers!
There has been almost no attention given to getting ready to wage a twofold struggle against workers.
For Union Defense Guards!
Let ownership of these industries henceforth be vested in a companion move of even greater importance two different kinds of enemies at the same time.
It is important to point out, first of all, that the state, with workers committees controlling the wages and to organized labor. This is the administration Anti Labor Groups As Guards They must have trained troops in large numsuch a situation underlines the absolute necesscheme to mobilize regiments of Home Defense bers to fight against their imperialist rivals and This is evident in the way the government working conditions!
sity for the workers to have their own political Guards to replace the National Guard as soon as to regulate the affairs of colonial countries. But has chosen to organize the Home Guards. AccordThat the only way to deal with these blood suckers!
organization. If the trade unions possessed their the latter enters active service. These plans, the capitalists, who guide themselves by the rule: ing to the President plans, these corps will be own local, state, and national Labor Party and THE WAR DEPARTMENT PROMISE already well under way, constitute the most the main enemy is in our own country. are built up around World War veterans through candidates, they could either vote them into ofdirect threat to the labor movement.
also taking administrative and military measures such bodies as the American Legion and the fice or be prepared in political debate to expose The people of this country hate and fear the spectacle In order to grasp the full meaning of this to carry forward their war against the workers Veterans of Foreign Wars.
in time the anti labor tendency of these Home of capitalists in control of the armament industry and in a proposal, it is necessary to understand the role at home.
In most communities these veterans posts are Guards. In either case, the possibility of these position to charge all the traffic will bear.
of the National Guard. It was established as a The absorption of the National Guard into the mainstay of the most reactionary elements.
Home Guards getting out of hand could be conThat why, in an effort to soothe the feelings of the consequence of the great strikes which marked the Regular Army leaves a gap in their domes They are controlled by hardshell small businesssideraly curbed.
people, Assistant Secretary of War Patterson announced on the resirth of the labor movement during the tic defenses that local and state police can men and loud mouthed, fat bellied peanut poliAside from their own independent political August that one of the major goals of the defense pro1870 The railroad and other workers displayed fill. Therefore the President, War Department ticians who snap to attention at the commands action, however, the trade unions have a way to gram is a permanent munitions industry, owned largely by so much militant power in these strikes that the and Governors are promoting the organization of of Sigger bosses. They have formed the nucleus the Federal government.
prepare their defense against possible attack by bosses were thrown into panic. They required a Home Defense units.
of vigilante committees in all parts of the counforming their own Union Defense Guard units.
reliable armed agency of the state to suppleIt turns cut that this is a promise to be carried out only It is extremely significant to note that in his try from the agricultural valleys of California Workers organizations are entitled to the ment their private Pinkertons and strikebreakers. statements to the puslic Roosevelt did not ex to the Ohio steel districts.
in time for future crises. For the present, even those plants same rights and privileges as veterans organizaImposing armories were built in the midst of plain what the Home Defense regiments were The War Deparument has vested the direction tions. Instead of allowing the Legionaires to built by government funds 60 of them are to be turned the largest cities as drill halls and fortresses for to defend and against whom. And no capitalist of the Home Guard movement in the hands of monopolize the defense movement, every trade over to private corporations on lease, run, of course, for these watchdogs of the bosses.
paper was rash enough to ask embarassing these fascist minded organizations as a matter union ought to set about to form Union Defense profit Since that time the National Guard has served questions which might give the game away of careful caleulation and capitalist policy. If you Guards. They should demand of the government In other words, the War Department promise of gov its masters well as a Pretorian Guard. Whenever Incredible tales of shooting parachutists and have heard or read the speeches of the Mayors, the necessary equipment, training camps, and ernment ownership of the munitions industries is a fraud. the workers could not be dealt with by normal ferreting out saboteurs and fifth columnists had the Chamber of Commerce heads, and the Legion technical assistance.
But that what the people want to take away the armastrikebreaking and terrorist methods, the Gov to be invented to show the necessity of Home Commanders at the meetings now being held to Labor answer to the War Department ment plants from the capitalists.
ernors, as the executives of capitalist class rule, Guards. But, it may be asked, why whole regiorganize these Guards, you can instantly detect drive to organize Legionaire sponsored Home Expropriate the munitions industries!
have been prevailed upon to call out the National ments of such guards in every community from their anti labor, anti democratic, and Ku Klux Guards should be: Labor Defense Guards under Guard and place them at the disposal of the the heart of the Middle West to the Atlantic outlook.
trade union supervision and control.
Labor Needs Own Home Defense Guards!