"Read, think, and act!';. April 28. 1946.
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Aside from John L....
The demand made by John L. Lewis for the striking Un. Mineworkers
(recently joined with the AF of L) is for a health and welfare fund.to
provide adequate compensation for injured miners and their families.
They want the employers to put ten cents for every ton of coal mined
into a benefit fund to be administered by Lewis with proper restriction
to jodtprotect the distribution of the money. The men also want safety
recommendations made by Federal investigators in the mines to be carried
through and enforced. Five miners are killed every day in mine accidents, and more thani-200 injured. Up to now compensation has been pitifully inadequate. For example, in the mines around Charlestown, W.Va.,
a widow left with one child gets $5 a month. Another woman with one
chilB received a lump sum of $1000 on the death of her husband. The
lump sua sf type of compensation is one of the most unsatisfactory. A
man with a broken back and nine children gets under $100 a month. Although John L.'s eyebrows are not particularly attractive, it has been
generally recognized that even coalminers' children need milk...
Music for Millions?$?$?
While the coal miners are striking for a benefit fund of ten cents
a ton of coal, J. Ceasar Petrillo demanded a 100% increase for musicians in the movie companies. This would guarantee an annual salary of
$10,400 for a ten-hour week. He got a 30% increase. Millions for music
but not one cent for the coal minors...
Danger: Rankin Committee at work!!
The House Un-American Activities Committee has pressed contempt
charges against the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee for refusal to
submit its records for investigation. Former Asst. U.S. Attorney-General
Thurman Arnold and former Interior ttmbunJbuutXS Undersecretary Abe
Fortas offered to defend the accused if they are brought to trial. The
Refugee group explains its refusal by saying that the Wood-Rankin Coram,
wants the names of anti-fascist supporters so that it can persecute
them, especially the names of the Spanish Republicans whose families in
Franco Spain would suffer by the disclosure. The anti-fascists offered
to help any impartial comraitte of American citizens open their books,
for instiance the Presidents War Relief Control Board which licensed the
group' to act. Vincent Sheean, respected writer and correspondent, Jeads
a volunteer citizens' committee in publicizing the anti-fascists' position.
Are there any more at home like him?
Gerald Smith, infamous preacher of race hatred, has invited 68
organizations to a "nationalist congress" for next month. Smith is well
known for his fascist activities. We wonder why the Wood-Rankin Comm.,
formerly the Dies-Comm., hasn't noticed? (Read John Roy Carlson's book,
Under Cover, for a picture of American fascism at work.)
It's only fair.
The Spanish government indignantly denies the Polish charge that
German research on the atomic bomb is going on in that country. Franco
proposes to let any UN Commission come in and look at anything he cares
to show...
GIVE TO THE CANCER DRIVE...STOP PUBLIC ENEMY NO. 1! ,
#**HELP THE WAR SERVICE LEAGUE. IN ITS DRIVE TO SEND FOOD TO EUROPE.
Details in last weekte Cary.
"I find the great thing in this world
is not so much where we stand, as in what
direction we are moving."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
