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Facing the Facts With PHILIP PEARL Adolph Hitler wiped organized la bor off the face of Germany but he has not rendered it extinct. This was revealed to the Executive Council oft he American Federation of Labor last week at its session in Miami by Frederick Stampfer, for mer Berlin editor and member of the Reichstag, who is now an exile from his native land because of his connec tion with the German trade-union movement Mr. Stampfer told about the dark days of the Nazi putsch when union offices were raided, their property and records confiscated and their leaders dragged off into concentra tion camps where they were executed immediately or condemned to a slow death by brutal forms of torture. But some of the men escaped and today they are carrying on their work from Paris, from Copenhagen, from Switzerland and other havens safe from Hitler’s avenging arm. They are spreading the truth about labor con ditions in Germany—the pitifully low wages, the insufferably long hours and the forced labor which German workers are compelled to endure un der the Nazi regime. Mr. Stampfer, who is conducting such information work in this country in behalf of the German trade-union movement, also revealed that the truth is quietly being spread among the workers in Germany to confound Hit ler’s lying propaganda. He appealed for the aid of the American trade union movement, as represented by the American Federation of Labor, in this campaign. It was quickly assur ed. The council instructed President Green to issue a call to all American Federation of Labor unions to con tribute to this worthy cause. CAN IT HAPPEN HERE? It would seem that conditions which prevail in Germany and other totali tarian States could never happen in this country. , But there are signs that this may be a somewhat over confident attitude. The Executive Council issued a solemn warning last week that the present policy of the De partment of Justice in invoking the anti-trust laws against American Fed eration of Labor unions is a step in the direction of Government control of organized labor. The Council pointed out that the Clayton Act which was adopted in 1914 clearly exempted farm and la bor organizations from the provisions 3f the anti-trust laws. Yet in the last few months the Department of Jus tice has obtained twelve indictments against thirty-five American Federa tion of Labor unions charging viola tion of the antitrust laws. In the Council’s statement it was explained that Mr. Thurman Arnold, the Assistant Attorney General who is in charge of the prosecution, is at tempting to define what are and what are not the legitimate functions of a labor union and is seeking to make unions conform to his personal speci fications. If he is permitted to get away with this arbitrary and high-handed game, how far off is Government control of unions? Fortunately, however, the Ameri can Federation of Labor is powerful ly equipped to resist Mr. Arnold’s ef forts to place organized labor under the thumb of the Federal Govern ment. The Council announced the is sues involved will be carried to the highest court of the land and if the Supreme Court’s ruling is adverse, Congress will be asked to amend the anti-trust laws again. LEGAL JUGGLING It is amazing how tricky lawyers can twist and misinterpret simple, dec larative English. The Clayton Act was passed in 1914 at the insistence of organized labor because the courts had seen fit to permit prosecution of la > POPULAR PRICE PLAIN TIP Union Label on Raleighs and all other B. & W. Tobacco Produces Samuel Gompers and his a tea. They deliberated together and choaa language which nurd perfect ly dear even to a layman. Thsor draft ed a law which declared that the la bor of human beings is not a commod ity and which provided in so many words that the anti-trost laws did not apply and most not be applied to la bor and farm organizations. They thought their work well done and when the Clayton Act was overwhelm ingly adopted by Congress and signed by the President, Gompers hailed it as the “Magna Charts” of labor. Yet look what the lawyers are doing with it today! If this were a sincere move by the Department of Justice, the American Federation of Labor might be less re sentful. But there is no question of doubt that the whole campaign was inspired by some of the C. i. O. “mas ter minds’’ with the aid sseistann of fellow travelers in the Administra tion. As the Executive Council said, it is noteworthy that all of the indictments to date are against A. F. of L. unions. Not a single C. I. 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