The Dallas Craftsman (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, April 12, 1940 Page: 3 of 4
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of all thoroughbred horses.
Board could compel a written contract
between .employer and employe in col-
lective bargaining.
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Twenty-five thousands rolled into
coffers of the W. Lee ODaniet News
in Fort Worth in hardly any time.
After a while, Bill Karp, manager of
the ---
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fact was
He said that ever since ne got out
of jail he had gone straight. He sub-
mitted a detailed record of his life to
prove that assertion. It showed he
had worked steadily at various jobs
in an utomobile plant, for an insur-
peals for the Sixth Judicial Circuit A..
in a decision handed down here held I standings
that the National Labor Relations I ment."
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President Eugene Grace has dig- |
'• closed that the last quarter of 1939 j
was the most profitable in the history
of the Bethlehem Steel Cp
money. Any profit it might make will
go to the Red Cross. Governor W.
Lee O’Daniel has promised. Of course
it may take $10,000 or maybe more to
publish such a weekly paper without
advertising revenue. But the W. Lee
O2Danfel News. a corporation, will be
spending the money—not Governor’ W.
Lee O’Daniel.
Governor W. Lee O’Daniel is spend-
ing his campaign money for radio-
time. Radio-time costs lost of money.
There is no legal connection be-
tween Governor W. Lee O'Daniel and
the W . Lee O'Daniel News, a corpora-
tion. The W. Lee O’Daniel News, a
corporation; is not connected legally
with the campaign of Governor W.
Lee O'Daniel for re-election. It is
perfectly all right under the law for
the W. Lee O’Daniel News, a Corpora-
tion. to spend the quarters It receives
to put out a paper for the common
people whp want it.
ISSUE: In his opening speech for
governor, 32-year-old Jerry Sadler de-
clared the main issue in the campaign
Is whether or not the people want two
more years of O’Danielism. He
charsea the governor with wanting a
dictatorship, pointing out O’Daniel
had urged the election of legislators
who would approve his policies, had
recommended increasing the gover-
nor s powers, and had condemned the
press, the radio, and other Texas in-
- stitutions.
i ing the corporation franchise tax law
to bring in an adidtional $2,000,000.
He promised to do something about
the overcrowded condition in the in-
sane asylums and to work for adop-
tion of a parole system to rehabilitate
criminals released from the peniten-
tiary.
TRUCKS: Nearly all of the candi-
dates for state office have come out
in favor of increasing the 7,000-pound
truck load limit. Sentiment for rais-
ing the load limit is spreading over
the state, and candidates have been
quick to reallkze that this is an issue
with Which a great many people are
greatly concerned. A hard fought bat-
tle was waged in the last legislature
for increasing the load limit, but the
effort was in vain. Railroads and in-
terior compresses held the line. Now
comes a report to Austin that the in-
terior cotton compresses will relax
their opposition at the next session
of the legislature. If this is so, the
load limit is fairly certain to be raised
next year.
MA. The prospect of Mrs. M. A.
Ferguson’s running for a third term
tions were coming in so fast he
guessed circulation of the first issue
would be about 50,000. Chief sales-
map wag Governor W. Lee O'Daniel.
nation of a so-called Independent or-
ganization and to desist from refusal
to bargain with the American Federa-
tion.o Labor Canning and Pickle
Workers Union.
In addition, wage "kick-backs” were I
made illegal, workmen’s compensa- I
tion benefits substantially Increased I
a safety council established to out-
law dangerous machinery and en-
force safety standards, payment of
prevailing wages made mandatory for
all public works projects, machinery
for mediatioon of labor disputes
treated, an apprenticeship council
formed to fix standards for training
of apprentices and provision for im-
proving aid for the needy blind de-
pendent children and old age assist-
ance.
In New Jersey and Virginia laws
were enacted Instituting boards to
conciliate labor disputes.
In the seven legislatures which have
held or are holding sessions there has
been no repetition of the extreme
anti-labor measure enacted in Oregon
last year. I
Washington. D..C. (AFLWNS).—
The records of the State legislatures
which have held sessions in 1940 in-
dicate that organized labor has made
considerable progress both in secur-
ing labor legislation and defeating
anti-labor bills.
In Kentucky the State Federation
of Labor secured the enactment of a
number of iniportant measures with
the co-operation of Governor Keen
Johnson, who was elected with the
support of the American Federation
of Labor.
The labor bills passed by the legis-
lature and signed by the Governor
included a declaration declaring it to
be the State policy that workers shall
have the right to organize, strike and
picket without interference from em-
ployers.
If Mr. Scalise’s story is true--and
I have no reason to doubt it—surely
Mr. Pegler rendered no public service (
in exposing the sordid story of his
past. As I understand the theory of
penology and the principles of decency
the object of -punishment is to make
the culprit see the error of crime and
mend his ways. If a man commits a
crime, pays the penalty and then goes
straight, is he to be penalized for his
past for the rest of his life?
The American Federation of Labor’s I
Austin, Tex., April 8.—Two years
ago a genial flour salesman with an
appealing radio voice and a hillbilly
band applied medicine show tactics to
Texas politics and won the governer-
ship hands down against a dozen sea-
soned politicians
Passing around miniature barrels
labeled Flour. Not Pork," he collect-
e1 campagn funds from thousands of
people who came to be entertained and
who went -away entranced by hillbilly
, music vowing they’d help w. Lee
O’aniel squelch the professional poll-
t icians.
The rest is history.
Today Governor W. Lee O'Daniel is
running for re-election. His number
one offer to Old Man Texas is a trans-
action tax to raise between $35,000,-
000 and $40,000,000. He is playing the
same tune against the professional
politicians, but he has a special new
arrangement for the common people,
mstead of passing around miniature
barrels, he is selling his campaign
literature, the W. Lee O’Daniel News
for twenty-five cents, by the tens, the
hundreds, the thousands.
Night after night, over a powerful
Mexican radio station owned by one
of his wealthy friends, Governor
M Lee O'Daniel advertised the W. Lee
O'Daniel News. All along, he Indi-
cated to the vast audience of Texas
that he wasn’t sure he would run for
re-election. Then he decided to an-
nounce. just in time for his weekly
campaign paper to carry the details to
his subscribers. A happy coincidence.
Fifty thousand quarters added to-
gether amount to $12,500. Many more
quarters are coming in. Professional
politicians have cause to be envious.
Who would have thought the common
PeoPe would buy campaign litera-
ture? It took an imaginative flour
salesman to show the professional
politicians how.
George R. Cain, superintendent of
the mine, told authorities that officials
of the United Mine Workers of Amer-
ica. a CIO union which has several
locals in nearby communities, were
resentful of the fact that 80 per cent
of the workers at the Cattle Creek
Mine had joined the A. F. of L. union.
penitentiary. When this
I spoken to him. He is an appointed
I representative of his union The facts
in his case are that he has been asso-
ciated with the union movement only
five or six years. The crime for which
he was convicted in Chicago took
( place many years before that and had
nothing to do with his subsequent
union activities. He is now charged
w th having evaded his sentence and
the case is before the courts. It is
up to the officers and members of
the union by which Mr. Bloff is em-
ployed to decide whether they wish to
be represented by a man of his char-
acter. My personal views in the mat-
ter are well known to the officers
of this particular union. However,
Mr. Bioff is not responsible to me but
to them. And the elected officers of
the union are responsible to the mem-
bers of the union. If the officers and
United States Circuit Court of Ap-
Backstage in Austin
By D. B. HARDEMAN and ALEX LOUIS
progress” in Texas.
finance the social secur-
ity program by Increasing natural re-
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seventeen was vonvicted of a crime. membership is made up of human be-1
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Actb_"not embodying the under-
reached in a signed agree-
Would you reject the capitalistic
system and join the Communist Party
becanse certain corporation officials
iave run off with the stockholders’
money?
Well, then, there is just as much
sense in Westbrook Pegler's attacks
upon the American Federation of La-
bor because he has found two union
officials with criminal records.
The two men named by Mr. Pegler
are Willie Bloff and George Scalise
I have never met Mr. Bloff nor
as governor this year was strengthen-
d by the announcement that O’Daniel
will seek re-election. Ex-Gov. Jim
. .---— Ferguson, her husband, said the out-
PAen: announced the subscrip- look yas good.
South Pittsburg. Tenn. (AFLWNS) I
Twelve members of the Progressive I
Mine Workers of America, affiliated I
with the A. F. of L., were shot by |
snipers on the way to work in the |
Battle Creek Mine near here I
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became active in a local teamsters'
union in Brookln and later accepted
a job as organizer for the Building
Service Employes Union, which pro-
moted him to higher positions until
he became President in 1937
Nr Scalise said he had married
and had a daughter and that the first
knowledge his wife and daughter re-
ceived of his criminal record was
when they read it in cold print in Mr '
Pegler's column. He said he lives with
his wife and daughter and his parents 1
in a cottage in Brooklyn.
Furthermore, Mr. Scalise charged
that certain local officals of his union
whom he had exposed for alleged mis-
appropriation of funds were respon-|-.
Bible for reviving and spreading bv I
anonymous circulars the unfortunate
early chapter of his life. Mr. Scalise
made the point that if he were himself
a racketeer he certainly would not be
active in extirpating racketeering in
Ids union.
members of the union are dissatisfied
w ith Mr. Bloff. the union’s constitu-
tion provides the means of getting rid
of him IEthe officers and members
of the union feel that Mr. Biofr’s rec-
ord is a good one and that he should
be retained, they have the right to
stick by him. The American Federa-
tion of labor itself cannot Intervene
in such cases and I will explain why
in the next article.
Now as to Mr. Scalise, I have
known Mr. Scalise during the two
years he has been President of the
Building Service Employes Union. It
appears that Mr. Scalise at the age of
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THIS SPECIAL
FOR A LIMITED
TIME ONLY!
The Texas law provides that a can-
didate for governor, directly of indi-
rectly, may spend up to $10,000 in his
campaign for the Democratic nomina-
tion. Professional politicians have
found devious means to dodge the law
But not Governor W. Lee O’Daniel
The W. Lee O’Daniel News is a
corporation. Unlike most corpora-
tions, it is not in business to make
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Article No. 2
By WILLAM GREEN
President, American Federation of
Labor
There is just as much truth to the
charge that the American Federation
of Labor is a racketeering organiza-
tion preying upon the workers of the
country as there is to Adolph Hitler’s
charge that democracy is a device by
which racketeering politicians prey
u pon the people.
Would it be fair to condemn Amer-
ican democracy because of a Teapot
Dome scandal and the disclosure that
even a Cabinet officer has been cor-
rupt?
Would you lose faith in the courts
and American justice because the Se-
nior Judge of the United States, Cir-
cuit C ourt of Appeals is now serving
a jail term for betraying his trust?
Would you lose confidence in the
Federal Reserve System and start
hoarding your savings under a mat-
tress because a number of prominent
bankers have been sentenced to prison
for crookedness?
Would you condemn the police sys-
tem of an entire city because anindi-
vidual member of the force is ex-
posed as a bribe taker?
inEs.. ‘They are subject to human
frailties They cannot all be perfect.
Of twenty-fife years, Mr. Scalise camne ence. arrnnesty sxsennrseofex ist-
to me and voluntarily told me his ception rather than the rule in ihe
story. -American Federation of Labor and i
think that Mr. Pegler has uncon-
sciously helped to prove this.
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Pittsburgh, Pa., to cease alleged domi- ldens
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