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...last week Joseph Stalin wrote a letter calling upon the working class of the capitalist world to organize for the support of the Russian "working class." First reply to this appeal came from a U. S. working man who is as comfortably fixed as any Soviet Commissar -little Matthew Woll, vice president of the American Federation of Labor. Cried Matty Woll: "The Soviet regime deserves no more support from organized labor in democratic countries than do the Governments of Hitler and Mussolini. . . .The American Federation of Labor rejects as impudent Stalin's appeal for support...
...part at least, for the collapse of the peace negotiations. But the question of war and peace hung mostly on the division within the A. F. of L. itself. In the Executive Council a man's importance depends on the number of votes he can command. Moderate Matthew Woll (who all last week was in touch with C.I.O.'s Moderate Dubinsky) has only 8,700 photo-engravers behind him. Moderate George Harrison has the backing of 135,000 railway clerks. But Lewis' implacable enemies number such men as William ("Big Bill") Hutcheson who alone pays...
...Three"-with John Lewis of the United Mine Workers and Sidney Hillman of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers. In practice there has been only a "Big Two.'' Suspicious of Mr. Dubinsky's continued friendliness with William Green and Matthew Woll of A. F. of L., Messrs. Lewis & Hillman simply ignored his counsel. Pushed in opposite directions by factions in his own union, torn between his high faith in the C. I. O. cause and his personal loyalty to A. F. of L. (he was the first Jew on the A. F. of L. executive council), David Dubinsky found...
...heavy hand of regulation, the latter responded in two quite rash ways: Assistant Attorney General Jackson, with his political eye cocked at his chief, berated the "business Bourbons"; Secretary Ickes claimed that sixty families controlled the economic destiny of the nation. Labor opened its mouth first when Matthew Woll, vice-president of the A. F. of L., said that most trade union leaders thought the government had gone too far in regulating industry. The U. A. W., an affiliate of the C. I. O., declared that the solution to the present business recession was to increase the purchasing power...
Adolf Hitler smashed the German trade unions affiliated with Iftu. At an Iftu meeting in Warsaw last summer Matthew Woll promised that the American Federation of Labor would join with its 3,400,000 members. But last week in Moscow the backing of almost 5,000,000 French trade unionists made Leon Jouhaux much the most prominent foreigner at what may prove Iftu's greatest congress. Technically, the headquarters of Iftu are in Amsterdam-it is often called the Amsterdam International-and Iftu's General Secretary Shevenels brought from Amsterdam last week the papers inviting...