The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-05-04
Seen As Choice OF Redc-
tionurY Bloc For Vice
Presidential Nomination
BY BETTY GOLDSTEIN
Federated Press

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Warren of California will be the
choice of the reactionary bloc now in
control of the Republican party for the
1914 vice presidential nomination were
strengthened when Warren was named
recently as keynoter Of the COP ma
tional convention.
Herbert Hoovers prime minister on
the west coast, Warren is notorious as
the political front for the most vicious
labOr-hating big business groups in his
own state. The AFL and CIO fought
desperate though unsuccessful fight
to keep him from the governorship in
1912, and have been fighting his slick
political maneuvers designed to pro-
mote dsunity and hamper the war eff
fort ever since.
I'm the light of Warren's record, la
Dor sees the bid for national political
power of any team including him as a
menace to victory in the war and a
promise of breadlines and chaos in the
peace Knowing him as bitter and
unrelenting foe of unions, they see the
COP with him as keynOter geared for
| the destruction of organized labor on IL
national scale.
Warren was HOOver's campaign
manager i'm 1892, and in 1886 tried TO
persuade the Republicans to nominate
him again. In that year Warren was
also district attorney of Alameda
county, where he prosecuted one of the
| "a. l. r1
the King -Ramsay-C Conner case. He
succeeded in getting Earl King, Ernest
Ramsay and Frank J. Conner, mari
! time union leaders convicted for muir
der of the chief engineer of the >. ).
Point Lobos on framed evidence by II
hand-picked jury before judge who
once had been his own assistant. Over
wheming evidence indicated that the
case was deliberately timed by the
waterfront employer groups to dis
credit the union in the maritime strike
and wage negotiations then i'm progress.
As state attorney general in 194O
Warren did a piece of political work
for Il coalition of Associated Farmers,
bankers shipowners and employer or
ganizations plotting to outlaw strikes
and curtail rights under the Wagner
act with an nsidious legislative meas
ure called the California labor rela-
tions act. EIe also had a hand in the
anti-llnion hot cargo bill, and on the
side. threw in Il ruling That unemployed
l'workers would -l,e- thrown off relief
rolls il they paid union dues
Powerful force in the state senate
at that time was the Associated Farm
ers, exposed as Il fascist organization
by the LaFollette committee. This
group was backed up by Warren in its
fight against the Farm Security Adj
ministration, the NLRB and the right
of organized workers and farm labor
ers to boycott and picket.
Under Warren as governor, the Cali
fomia senate labor committee brought
! forth one of the worst union incorpOra-
tion bills introduced in any legislature.
This was backed by employers, Associ-
ated Farmers and Warren's Republi-
can henchmen i'm deliberate violation
of an agreed wartime truce on anti
labor bills. United action by AFL, CIO
and railroad brotherhoods caused the
| bill to he tabled.
TO labor, Warrens state government
is most glaring In its complete failure
to meet wartime responsibilities. In the
| words of the executive board of the
state CIO: ~ situation has been ere
ated in which official California is
| dragging its feet in the war effort.
| And the inertia of the state apparatus
has hampered the work of the federal
agencies i'm. California;"