Evening star., 1935-07-10
j. s. MUST LEAD,
LEWIS DECLARES
Mine Union Heads Views on
World Labor Unit Read
at Session.
BY the Associated Press.

declaration of economic freedom. de-
clared John L. Lewis. PRESIDENT Of the
United Mine Workers OF America.
in an address read today before the
Institute of Public Affairs at the
University of Virginia
In discussing the significance TO
labor of American membership In the
International Labor Organization. Mr.
Lewis said this step b. the United
States was of far-reaching import to
the labor movement IN America and
throughout the world. His address
was read for him by William Jett
Lauck of Washington.
Fred J. Sisson. Representative from
New York. and Prof. Walter E. Spahr
of New York University. member of
the Advisory Council Of the American
Liberty League, set the pace for an
other spirited discussion OF the Con-
stitution and the New Deal before an
other group.
Japan as a factor in the Pacific
area was being considered in another
group which heard Charles K Moser
of the Federal Bureau Of Foreign and
Domestic Commerce; DR. Harold Scott
Quigley of the University Of Mime
sofa and DR.. Cliffers Cnesley Hubbard
of Weaton College.
Mr. Lewis began by explaining that
there is now under way in the United
States a fight to overthrow "the finan-
cial and industrial autocracy, or die
tatorship. which is responsible for the
present deplora BILE condition Of wage
earners farmers and ali other groups
of people who live by hand or brain.
Unless this economic autocracy is
subordinated to the public interest," y
he continued. "the future Of our coun-
try will hold forth no real hope for
labor and humanity The revolution
which is now in progress in America
is also the hope of labor movements
in other countries. Thev do not want
Fascism nor Communism. Neither
will the orga nized labor movement in
this country accept domination and
exploitation by a financial dictator
snip"
Traces Trends.
Mr.. Green reviewed trends in indus
try and finance which have affected
organized labor in America and abroad
since the World War, and traced the
growth Of the International Labor
Organization from 1919 until the
United States joined it last year.
Cin
entrance into the International Labor
Organizatio may" he pointed out.
"be said to be that the American
labor movement has again taken up
the torch Of international labor
leadership which was temporarily
wrenched from the hands Of Samuel
Gompers by extraordinary and un-
expected political developments in
America in 1919.
"A political and social revolution
is now in progress in America" he
concluded, sponsored by the churches.
colleges and universities, which finds
its practical leadership in the Or
ganized labor movement. Its ulti-
mate success depends upon world CO.
operation and in the International
Labor Organization the organized
labor movement Of America finds its
opportunity for establishing world CO.
operation"
Speakers in the round table on "The
Constitution and the New Deal spoke
on such different phases of the con-
troversy that there was little oppor-
tunity for discussion between them,
and, as was the case Monday and yes
terday, it was necessary for members
of the audience to take the lead In
the debate
Attacks Supreme Court.
Representative Sisson, the first legis-
lative spokesman for the New Deal to
appear before the institute this year.
charged the Supreme Court with at
tempting to take over legislative func-
ton that was beyond the intention of
the trainers Of the Constitution.
DR.. Spahr, in discussion of none
tary issues, asserted his belief that the
present Federal administration has
been tinkering with the peoples
money and called for the Nations re-
turn to the principles of sound cur
rency and sound recovery"
Japan's government Is dificult for
Americans to understand, Prof. Quigley
told the round table on Pacific rela-
tions. I'VE can with difficulty imag-
inc a state in which people prefer to
think of their ruler as an absolute
monarch" he said. But Japan Is
such a state"
The mass of the Japanese people are
inarticulate, he continued. The people
are led by propaganda to believe that
their sons and their brothers are fight
ing for the Emperor and that the army
is opening a way to emigration to fer
tile lands and for securing raw ma
terials and markets for industry.