Oklahoma Labor (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 30, 1938 Page: 1 of 8
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The Law of the Jungle Is the Law of Hague
The greatest single fascist danger which menaces
the American people today is Mayor Frank Hague of
Jersey City The man embodies every un-American
threat to the civil democratic and human rights of the
people His machine an instrument of greed and cor-
ruption unparalleled in modern political history gives
him the power to trample under foot in Hudson County
every vestige of civil liberties To those who doubt these
swetTing statements we can only say read his own tes-
timony on the witness stand in Newark last week when
he boasted that he controls and directs every department
J the city government that his influence is felt through-
out the state that no hall owner in his county would
rent his premises to anyone displeasing to the Mayer
that the veterans' organizations respond to his very
thoughts let alone actions that he is the recognized
leader of his domain
Last week too Rubber Hose Harvey of Queens hailed
Hague and himself as the only two "American patriots"
In the country "There are only two men in the east"
said Harvey ''who think more of their country than they
do of themselves They are Mayor Hague and myself"
He also shrieked about arming the police with three feet
of rubber hose instead of the two feet Jersey City vigi-
lantes threatened to use against all "invaders"
Take A Look
Take a look at the label on
this issue of Oklahoma Labor
It may surprise you to learn
that you have let slip by the
date you should have mailed in
your dollar in order to push the
date mark another year ahead
We are quite sure this is the
ease How about it?
VOL 3—No 33
Thes
IDLE IDEAS
of a
BUSY MAN
By O L CRAIN
Some time ago I mentioned the 1
Einstein theory and the fact that
not more than a dozen people un-
derstand it I am going to give
you one of Mr Einstein's theories
and then you'll know why so few
understand a comparatively sim-
ple thing According to the bet-
t ti- mathematicians there are
three dimensions: A line has
length a plane has only length
and breadth all other objects
have length breadth and depth
Think of a thread a sheet of pa-
per and a pair of dice and you get
who t I mean
To these Prof Einstein aided
the dimension of time Ile tried
to xpktin it by saying: "You
sce a titan under a tree later
you sle the tree and the man is
not there Thus tune affects
relativity and the importance of
things Time is the fourth dimension"
Simple ain't it I have Einstein
with zny hat I hang it on
inwit conven:ent chair at home
there it is Later I come
l'rt:k anti it's gone If I were not
tt s!-nart I'd know who to blame
fHt putting it in its proper pla(T
slnoe I've heard Prof Alhert's
ttiltitt explanation know my
Lit is iffected by relativity anti
I have Einstein trouble wilh
hshing too Others sIsear
thore are tinny beings in the
plIteid waters of the lakes aud
ri''1rs anti prove it by bringlog
back like strings of fish i!ut
when I get there to catA my
stiae Einstein's got 'eni The
dimension of time is vorking
overtime
Tilt! fouPth dimension is play - a1:1'1"i "IIIHI'l'''''' 'A' '
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it2 avoc with some of our rell(21 ''''' 11-3 l's-rvi Iy lit
w"rk We outfit a crew with ()vt'r ''''')''F'''1 v''uricI'ii 111e in "7'
rhe r
' ' l'i'oivoi io :ottolany
1-Jra:1-riew shovels and rubber- '
ttu 1 wheelbarrows and start cul i "five an1 t0n 5tore" chain piil r:z
1)work We come back later and i! PresPleltt-
'' CI' !:: Pc:":312‘1)'ri
1t: in
Einstein theory has all of ' 193" il ' ' g°r1"c1-'' ''''11-11 ' n1
h
i111 slumbering in the shade of a few uf'P'r '' l'''''-: s- 11-"I''''' m
trtt Sometimes it works in re- i thousands a gills- bAinl its s'J'e
counters colltinliel to wort for
and when we expect to see 1
di'ln der the tree they
Jnd eve unrybody by workingfool us ' small wages
One of the big sahihs p1 Ly
the Underwwnl Elliait Fi:411T orn
--- u e00 t) P D Wa-
Anybody who understands tiw
fourth dimension and tries to
write a column will cuss Ein-
stein For here the time element
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A third member in this worthy trio is none other
than Hitler 's personal representative in the United States
Fritz Kuhn who proclaimed himself ready to march in
Mayor Hague's "Americanization" parade despite the fact
that some quarters tried to make believe he wasn't in-
vited He didn't have to be invited He knows where his
pals are
Certainly matters have come to such a pass in Hud-
son County that federal action is essential Attorney-
General Cummings must be urged by nation-wide pres-
sure to hurry the investigation into Jersey City affairs
Do we have to wait until affairs come to the pass
they have reached in Harlan County Kentucky before
Hague is curbed ? The history of bloody Ilarlan goes
back many years The International Labor Defense as
far back as 1931 was fighting for the restoration and
enforcement of civil rights in Harlan Our organization
told the whole world then the TRUTH about the rule of
murder and terror that held sv sy there—about the mur-
der of Julius Baldwin Harry Simms about the intimi-
dation of the miners and their families the forced entry
into their homes of the coal and iron police thugs the
shooting up of picket lines the frame-ups At last though
it has cost another innocent life in the course of the trial
itself those responsible are being called to account
0 KLAH OM A
650000 WAGE
ACCOUNTS ARE
POSTED DAILY
By A F of L News Service
WASHINGTON D C—The
tremendous amount of bookkeep-
ing required in keeping accurate
records of the wages ot
of men and women for whom the
Social Security Board has esta o-
lished old-age insurance accounts
was revealed in the statement by
John Corson Acting Director of
the Bureau of Old-Age Insurance
that the accounts are posted at
an average rate of 650000 entries
a day The largest number of
entries made in one day was 1-
221259
The wages now being posted
Mr Corson explained are from
employers' wage reports for 1937
which were filed at the end of
each 6-month period Approxi
matcly 75000000 wage items re-
ported by employers for 1937 have
been received by the Social Secur-
ity Board from the Iflireau of In
ternal Revenue
The Social Security Board's ri'nV
method of reportMg wages which
(ContinuPd on pige 2)
Fat Salal
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The Securities 'oil Exchange
this ivook
some annual reports by corpifia-
: lions dtisrite the filet that the col
piratious urged timt the infollua
tion he kept "confrientiar
reports contained salitry atri
figures al othor extrcincly
inatini4 facts ---that'i why
panies
E I )hil'orit 1 Nemoini
love lionuscs
41 of its high oiti tti:17
report (11-i1osed
gut large 11 of tile
money came flom cum-
pany's hige stoi-kho1iirgs in Cu)
Organized Labor's ‘'olee---One for All All for One
OKLAHOMA CITY OKLA THURSDAY JUNE 30 1933
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BID PEDDLING PUNKS ADIEU
By O L Crain
Must labor bleed because its leaders cut their throats?
Be chained with bonds of 'personal desires
Or crucified upon a cross of selfishness
Or burn itself in sacrificial fires?
Must labor yield to leadership unfit to lead ?
Support self-seeking individuals
Or blindly follow vain and disregardinc 6 men
Who deal in ill intrigues and crude cabals?
Must labor reinforce its idols' feet of clay
Neglecting basic principles for those
Who need its organized and undivided strength
To sell themselves in markets manned by foes?
There ought to be a test of leadership so true
That none but worthy men could gain command
And selfish traitors who betray a sacred trust
Could not succeed in shameful things they'd
planned
We ought to choose those men whose minds and hearts
are right
To supplement the efforts of the few
Unselfish leaders labor follows loyally
And bid the pilfering peddling punks adieu!
rts reeti hcati c'xpcma- f 1111 Ii
tho laf:t that 'nary IrctI cl)!
minula mlruts sp(1 11 ahno:it atal pr1 114 ti
mach uL)I V i:ii wcre piV(11 hy 0i ! rnitt
iig thcir 1oohi as tht:y ray for heft p wa company Unl-rY
thu matcrals anr il Who alott
icil1Lire1111 proChrung pany
The International Labor Detense is conducting every
siagls! i:1o:tant defense case ihis:ng out of Mayor
Hague's terror rule in Jersey City This is in keeping
with its role as the defense arm of the labor and pro-
gressive movement James Burkitt and John Longo are
in jail today because they dared to oppose and defy
Mayor Hague's dictatorship The International Labor
Defense is behind tt?ir fight for freedom and vindica-
tion every step of the way and will carry that fight to
the highest court and back again if necessary until we
win Three young seamen are serving 11 to 13 years
at hard lobor in Jersey City because they don't agree
vith Alayor Ilatio that American workers haven't got
the right to strike
Nlayor Hague boasts of his pwer Ile is holding
his rule up as an example to the rest of the reactionar-
ies in the United States is giving them a sample
of the way he thinks things ought to be run Well the
American people don't like it They nmst make their
voices heard in protest—they must direct their efforts
on a nation-wide scale to Washington to Attorney-General
Cummings demanding action The Department Of
Justice got Al Capone where he belongs liague has more
crimes to his credit—Vito Alareantonio in Equal Justice
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Not Feudalists — These
Combatants Tell P u blie
They Believe in American
Democracy Rut Neither
Have Been Giving a Dem-
onstration of That Belief
By ALMA: f VO741
The American Federation of
Labor anI the Conunittee for la-
dustrial Orgadization have lead-
er These are men represented In
fact and symbolioally by WilLani
Green of the A F ot L and John
L Lewis Of the CIO NVhat these
men say and do the public accepts
in the St'llSe that tl ! rank and
have spoken
Public opinion has htYCZI heavily
in sympathy INith collective bar-
gaining most of the better and
larger employe8 of tile Collistry
have been also sympathetic to col-
lective bargaining But it is ask-
ing too much of the public and too
much of employers to accept juiis
dictional disputes arising out ot a
perirwal feud between lalior
err
Remirk
There is mach to this leadcrliip
lcuil that reflects tAo i-ickro-le of
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ity because acconling to a Fed- Chiclo Ounpany rfnl ort p)r (::ancl'e sltulf the2 Hion1:1
erol 'Dade (2ormision riTort they : sliovng a pri:JdnYtion nioved by the i k nie
hAve an iron-clad monopfly com- 160572 111 profit s61271 navot r!!-Ihs inoUrn
bine which hoists the prices of ifl and anycl:tr:Ung: S2::)2(l'7”l bolli
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not twoii coo-
ifirett of 1 hat intviligence
report di4c1osed In :'Ion U-: For cimple it cost the Willioni Wig! af count for ollv p it t LI '' '' - ' ' ' " ' ' " H
got kir-:!e !-a111:(-s MP' li of t!le Wr4iey Jr Company only :35711- the proluetion (0-Iri wl' 1:i il r"'-!'''
inonoy cInie Loin rile 411tr"ltt co::- 609 to make its gum in lt'Tj but they weie all of it Ile: Igci organized LW ir iu 1104 ( owl-
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saleguar!eil its ics-rves by firt'L'2 -sunig ari gine p e a
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utu y'riit yt t'Ll:r it is inti'llit4ont ancl k (111klile ot
over :'Otrlo wuricyrs late in 193i tut1 of '20:9 And on top of profits elmducting 114 allairs Oh vm-
The f W WoHwotth Company that Wriley made a net prolit of ' 'Ime rilorts at(-) prove that plo er intelligent l' but sinve
many rminulacturers sell theii the tireen-Lewk feud arose it
"live anl ton 5tore- chain pail r:' 's9:-)Iit'!sl w-hich was much more
presidLt c i' pep' S20011I in than his entire cost of production Products for at least thiee calit!i de vvlops I hat the public nor I he
1937 It doalt genorou-ly with a Ar almost identical situation what is costs to make thorn trhv effitilovvrs 1
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few other "hig shoUz" hit t 1-o: obviottly do not r ty their vae lured Of that intelligence
thousands of gills bAind its s'J:e
A SWITCII work(!rs enough money to buy ' The feud at tho top lvis 1
contin d to rk r
back the products tnc:y ifr dilv own and
ike ' n d into the ranks
counters ue wo fo i f
small Nvages -- Nor has the public enough put- ! many yours of effort to prove to
ex- chasing power to buy the produqs the Puhlic aril the l'Inplover-i tlrit
one of the big- salaims pai1 by BA LTIMORE—A tternpts by
the underwfvni Elliott Fi411yr corli pellol officers of Local 2T3 Mine of industry at prices so inflatrd ' ort4inized lalnr is truly cTible of
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flan was sulstTp0 t) II D Wag- Mill and Smelter Vorliets CIO by selling adve rtising arr profIts i aetilY4 intellig-nt have hecn 1
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expei'ees e
i however V le'S thin ti lt rc-2- local to the AFL were smashed ny ! ernment has to put money in the ' wit
the itinct ilities
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Shelden, L. N. Oklahoma Labor (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 30, 1938, newspaper, June 30, 1938; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2104568/m1/1/?q=communication+theory&rotate=270: accessed June 29, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.