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This was interpreted as a veiled warning that the Daladier Cabinet may soon outlaw the Communist Party altogether. Ever since the Hitler-Stalin pact was announced French Communist Deputies have been quietly resigning from the Party, hoping to keep their seats in the Chamber. The French equivalent of the American Federation of Labor, the C. G. T. (Confederation Generate du Travail) headed by Labor Boss Leon Jouhaux adopted a resolution which described Russia's gobbling up of three-fifths of Poland (see p. 29) as "a premeditated treason consummated against peace, and an act of treachery toward the proletariat...
...Received from Senator La Follette a bill to outlaw spies, strikebreakers, guns and gas in industrial disputes. Fruit of two and one-half years of investigating, $100,000 expense, this bill was called by its author, with unconscious humor "several decades overdue...
...Philip Murray and Sidney Hillman, backed him up with an eloquence and alacrity which clearly reflected C. I. O.'s larger interest in the situation. Homer Martin, president of U. A. W.'s A. F. of L. wing, snarled back at them that the strike was an "outlaw" designed to "pit a few hundred skilled workers against more than 100,000 production workers...
...Passed (in five minutes) Senator Sheppard's bill to outlaw political use of Relief and other Government funds; sent it to the House...
...University Pension system, another bone of contention between the two bargaining powers, was kept in full force despite the workers' previous demand that it be abolished at all costs. The issue was held up in earlier negotiations because it was felt that national legislation might outlaw Harvard's present insurance policy...