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Most leaders who once fought John Lewis have since joined him. A. F. of L.'s President William Green, dedicated by his office to the craft tradition, has made himself look silly by continuing to order Lewis' Committee for Industrial Organization to disband under pain of excommunication. No one knows better than "Bill" Green that it takes two-thirds of a Federation convention to banish member unions, that the Committee for Industrial Organization represents more than a third of the entire A. F. of L. membership. Best current guess is that William Green will make his peace with...
...Schuschnigg and Vice Chancellor von Starhemberg was widened early in May when the vice chancellor refused to (1 agree to the return of the Habsburg heir, 2 support the Chancellor's move to effect an Austro-German union, 3 support a treaty of mutual assistance with Italy, 4 disband the Heimwehr, 5 resign his office...
...Recent ineffectiveness of the League has caused European statesmen to consider revamping the Covenant to (1 deny membership to dominions and protectorates, 2 return the South American mandates to Germany, 3 disband the League's international army, 4 revoke the League's power to use force in applying sanctions, 5 cancel the membership...
...program is to let existent craft unions die on the vine, henceforth take into the A. F. of L. only industrial unions. A. F. of L.'s Executive Council issued last Janu ary the first of two orders commanding C. I. O. to disband. Miner Lewis impudently replied in March by offering to put up $500,000 if the A. F. of L. would put up $1,000,000 more to organize Steel along industrial lines. In effect, President Green agreed if Amalgamated would re spect craft organization. A set of illegitimate quintuplets could hardly have been more embarrassing...
...Westchester County . . . the first act of the Works Progress Administration, of which the National Youth Administration is a part, was to disband the county bureau and substitute their political agents who know nothing of the country, nothing about public works and nothing about administration. And who do you think has now been selected in addition to our numerous Federal missionaries to save the youth of Westchester at $3,000 a year? None other than Mr. Hopkins' sister, Mrs. Adah Hopkins Aime...