Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 November 1938 — Page 10

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itality and Enterprise at Parley Topped A. F. of L. Show, Is Opinion.

By FRED W. PERKINS Times Special Writer

_ PITTSBURGH, Nov. 2i. — The Congress of Industrial Organizations

(C. I. 0), which has just gone

through its constitutional birthweek here is set for a long and perhaps dominant career in the affairs of American organized labor.

This is the opinion of observers who have been following the industrial union crusade for three years * and more, since the days when John L. Lewis was a member ‘of the American Federation of Labor Executive Council and emerged from its meeting with the remark that he was “tired of just sitting in there and looking out the window.” ; The strength, drive, power, Vitality, pep and enterprise exhibited

_ ‘in the convention last week disposed

of all doubts among the labor specialists regarding the lasting power of the C. I. O. Their opinions were almost unanimous that the bushy-browed and sometimes bellicose Mr. Lewis has built himself a labor organization likely to stand the test of considerable time.

Contrasts With A. F. L. Parley

There were numerous contrasts with the recent convention in Houston, Tex., of the American FederaThe younger or-| ganization is voted, by the men who attended both gatherings, a convincing edge in vitality and enthusiasm. | : For instance, the A. F. of L's reelection of William Green as president was almost a spiritless for-, mality. Here the nomination of Mr.

grown by J. L. Garrison, Albion.

EXILES DISCOVER HAVENS CLOSED

Persecutions Make Speed in Finding New Homes Mandatory.

NEW YORK, Nov. 21 (NEA)— New and violent anti-Jewish and anti-Catholic persecutions in’ Germany spread still wider the blackest blot on modern civilization—the plight of hundreds of thousands of refugees.

children in Europe, hounded and persecuted in their home lands, can find no haven. Their property confiscated, a chance to work denied them, rights of citizens and human beings taken from them, they are a problem washed up on the shores of the world by a rising tide of intolerance and hatred. It is not a new problem. In a recent survey, the Foreign Policy As-

Lewis ‘as the first president under his new constitution touched off a -half-hour orgy of ear-drum splitting—prepared for in advance and somewhat manufactured —resembling demonstrations in national! . political conventions. | oo The contrast with| the dignified and more conservative A. F. of L. produced predictions that, when and if the two great branches of organized labor are united, it willbe on terms fully acceptable to if not dictated by the Lewis leadership.

Won't Give In Firzt

‘The strength of the C. I. O. thus is regarded as indicating a. continuation of the intralabor war. It was 100 per cent apparent here that the C. I. O. leaders are determined not to be the first to give in. A reunion with the A. F. of L. would be possible now, and as long as the present leadership persists in both branches, only through an unpredictable and unexpected series compromises. " Whatever the outcome in the A. P. of L.-C. 1. O. dispute, observers believed that organization of the great mass-production industries—

permanently. There was nothing but derision for interpretations that the desertion of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers union meant a “crumbling” of the C. I. O. The C. I. O. leaders brought into this convention a technique of attacks on the daily newspaper press that has puzzled some of the watchers. There was a steady fire of criticism of the newspapers in general for their alleged distortion of news affecting the C. I. O. All the criticism was channelled through a committee headed by Heywood Broun, president of the American Newspaper Guild, a C. L O. affiliate. Lewis Holds Control

The newspapers were pilloried | particularly for printing what their | reporters had found regarding an undercover but obvious conflict between the C. I. O. left wing, in which Harry Bridges is a prominent member, and the more conservative jeadership represented by Mr. Lewis and his two chief lieutenants, Philip Murray and Thomas Kennedy, Lieutenant-Governor of Pennsylvania. The outcome was a thorough trouncing for the “left wingers” and a convincing proof, added to many others, that the Lewis forces held complete control. But instead of reading placidly that a left-wing uprising had been crushed, the Lewis leadership allowed the newspapers to be hissed and booed for printing what had been confirmed by some of the best qualified reporters in the country. In social legislation the C. I. O. resolutions outlined aims far beyond anything yet reached in the United States and pledged its best efforts to attain them through the machinery of its strictly political arm, Labor's Nonpartisan League.

Stay Off Political Limb

In politics, the leadership refused to get “out on a limb” by advocating a third term for President Roosevelt, and thus deferred stating a Presidential preference until next year’s convention, which will be not many months ahead of the Democratic and Republican nominations. No public talk was heard of a third party, although an obvious bid. for a farmer-labor alliance was found in resolutions on agricultural problems. Every indication pointed to continued and increased C. I. O. political activity, despite the conservative trend of the elections Nov. 8. :

rma RELIEF CASES HERE DROP 2 PER CENT

Times Special WASHINGTON, Nov. 21.—Direct relief cases in Indianapolis and Marion Connty dropped 2 per cent during October as compared with September, the Social Security Board reported today. The average decrease in the number of cases in 109 cities throughout the United States was 1 per cent for October, the report shows. There were 8500 cases reported from Indianapolis and obligations incurred during October amounted to .$108,000. The latter figure is a 4 per cent increase over September. An average decrease of 1 per cent in expenditures was reported for the country as a whole. In Evansville the cases increased

sociation notes that since the World War several millions of Russians, Greeks, Turks, Assyrians, Italians, Spaniard, and others have sought refuge in exile.

Immigration Cut

But since the economic crisis of 1929 the problem has been aggravated because country after country has closed doors to immigrants, or even barred doors against the persecuted who wish to leave. The rise of totalitarian states has created

new classes of . exiles, because in such states any who disagree with the current leadership or are presumed because of their background to be out of sympathy with it, are potential refugees. ; ~ As many as 500,000 Jews may be driven penniless from Germany. Whichever side wins in Spain, thousands will find life there intolerable, and will become exiles. Thousands of Czechs now a minority in the Sudeten lands are being shuttled back and forth between Germany which does not want them and the remains of Czechoslovakia, which cannot handle them. Disaster, the Foreign Policy Association fears, confronts 5,500,000 Jews in Baltic, Mediterranean and Adriatic Europe, in countries where they are a small minority. Thus the refugee problem, terrible as it is today, may be worse before it is better.

League Limited

The world has tried to cope with it. But there has been little enough success. Nations, through the Nansen International Office for Refugees, has done useful work. Lacking par-

ticipation by the United States, and hobbled by League politics, however, the Nansen committee’s work was limited. As the problem grew more acute this year, the United States secured a meeting of 32 countries at Evian, France, in July. Under the leadership of Myron C. Taylor, machinery was set up to co-operate with the existing League work, and extend it. The United States promised as its contribution, to admit each year the full total of 27,370 immigrants whose entry would be permitted under the compined legal German and Austrian quotas. But the practical problem remained. When it came down to admitting more German refugees, nearly every country bucked.. The French, who already have received 200,000 refugees, said they couldn’t handle more. The British said they were not “an immigration country.” erlands, with 15,000 and 25,000 to receive more, Swecen and Switzerland followed suit.

Fear Racial Problems

The © Latin-American while needing certain kinds of immigrants, all wished to be very sure they got the kind - they wanted,

trained farmers and technicians, The British possessions, even Australia, which needs immigrants, were dubious about “creating racial problems where none.” Kenya Colony in Africa might take a few, it was proposed. Even Palestine, which has been receiving 40,000 Jews a year from all countries, is in so disturbed a condition that its future is uncertain as a refuge, : Though disappointing in direct and immediate results, the Evian conference resulted in formation of an Intergovernmental Committee under the leadership of the American, George Rublee, now actively at work on the refugee problem. It is making an effort to convert the disorderly exodus from Germany and other countries into an orderly emigration.

Vocational Problem But recent steps in Germany whereby refugees are first stripped

of all property makes it more difficult to receive them elsewhere. They

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are all the more likely to become public charges. ” The problem of occupation is also keen, as recent surveys show: that Jewish immigrants from Germany contained these divisions: Businessmen and office employees, 29 percent; craftsmen, 19 per cent; professional men, 6 pre cent; laborers, 4 per cent, and domestic workers, 4 per cent, About 40,000 refugees have been able to leave Germany -each year since the “anschluss” with Austria.

1 At that rate it would take 16 years to find new homes for all those].

Germany wishes to eject. Conditions within Germany are such today that such a delay is unthinkable. . 3 The problem starts the whole world in the face.

37 NEW ATTORNEYS ADMITTED BY COURTS

The 37 men and women who successfully passed the State bar examination in October were admitted to practice in State and Federal courts in ceremonies held today. Among. the candidates is. Miss Mary Louise Dennis, 23, of 2839 N. New Jersey St., one of the youngest women ever to have passed a bar examination. The ceremony in the Indiana Supreme Court, which will admit the group to the State bar, is to be followed by admittance procedure in Federal Court. Following the ceremonies, the new attorneys were guests of the Indiana State Bar Association at a luncheon at the Claypool Hotel. Speakers were Milo Feightner, asso: ciation vice president; Henry M. Dowling, Indianapolis attorney, and judges of the Indiana Supreme and Appellate Courts. Harold Bredell, chairman of the association’s young lawyers’ committee, presided. :

$257,625 SCHOOL GRANT IS ACCEPTED

The School Board today accepted a PWA grant for $257,625 to aid in financing the $572,500 Milo H. Stewart memorial building at Tech High School. Original estimate for the building was $700,000, A. B. Good, schools business director, said. This figure was lowered when the school budget was made for next year. The Federal grant of 45 per cent of this was accepted but had to be revised when the budget was completed, Mr. Good said. Construction on the 56-room building is to begin Dec. 27 and must be completed within a year. Bids are to be received by the board Dec. 6.

INSANITY PLEA SEEN "FOR GIRL SLAYER ECE

FT. WAYNE, Nov. 21 (U. P.)— Adrian Miller, 31, of Racine, Wis, will be arraigned this afternoon

in Allen County Circuit Court on the charge of first degree murder. Wayne Miller, his attorney, indicated he will plead not guilty and ask that a sanity commission be appointed to examine him. Miller is charged with slaying. of Alice May Girton, 17, a business college student, Oct. 13. If the sanity commission finds Miller insane, he will be committed to an institution until cured and then tried on the charge, his attorney indicated.

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