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HIGH TREASON The Plot Against the People, Albert E. Kahn — BOOK 3 — THE WAR WITHIN: 9 Force and Violence — 6 The General Staff

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Feb 082014

Walter C. Teagle (left), president of Standard Oil and chairman of the Industrial Relations Committee of the Special Conference Committee. On the right is Roger D. Lapham, President of the American Hawaiian Steamship Company.

Chapter IX 6 The General Staff

Once each year during the turbulent New Deal era, a small group of immensely powerful American millionaires gathered with great secrecy in Room 3115 at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City. The group called itself the “Special Conference Committee.”

The cryptic inscription on the door of Room 31 15 at 30 Rockefeller Plaza— ‘Edward S. Cowdrick, Consultant in Industrial Relations”— offered no clue to the business that the Special Conference Committee conducted at this office. The Committee was not listed in the telephone directory; its name appeared on no letterheads; and all Committee minutes, records and communications were marked Strictly Confidential,

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HIGH TREASON The Plot Against the People, Albert E. Kahn — BOOK 3 — THE WAR WITHIN: 9 Force and Violence — 5 “Lest We Forget”

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Feb 072014

South Chicago, May 30 1937

Chapter IX 5 “Lest We Forget”

The date was May 30, 1937, Memorial Day, the national holiday in honor of American soldiers fallen in battle. The place was a large open field adjoining the Republic Steel plant in South Chicago.

By mid-afternoon, almost a thousand men, women and children had gathered at one end of the field. They were striking Republic Steel workers and their families, workers from other industries, friends and sympathizers. They had come to parade past the Republic Steel factory as a demonstration to protest the company’s anti-labor policies.

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HIGH TREASON The Plot Against the People, Albert E. Kahn — BOOK 3 — THE WAR WITHIN: 9 Force and Violence — 4 Techniques of Terror

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Feb 062014

July 5, 1934, San Francisco: during the longshoremen and seamen’s strike of 1934 two strikers were shot dead outside a strike kitchen by policemen, an action that triggered the historic (and ‘successful’) San Francisco General Strike which ended on July 19, 1934.

Chapter IX 4 Techniques of Terror

In later years, the Congress of Industrial Organizations, with its 6,000,000 members, was to be almost universally recognized as a vital and integral part of American society. But in the mid-thirties, those labouring men and women who set out to build the CIO were often treated as common criminals, were widely branded as “Communist conspirators” and traitors to their country, repeatedly jailed, driven from town after town, and blacklisted in every major industry.

During 1935-1937, more than 47,000 workers were arrested while participating in trade union struggles in America . . .

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HIGH TREASON The Plot Against the People, Albert E. Kahn — BOOK 3 — THE WAR WITHIN: 9 Force and Violence — 3 Gas and Guns

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Feb 042014

Chapter IX 3 Gas and Guns

“Labor difficulties are in the making all over the country,” wrote Barker H. Bailey, vice-president of the Federal Laboratories, Inc., of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in a letter to one of the company’s travelling salesmen in the spring of 1934. “The man who has a territory with any appreciable amount of manufacturing . . . certainly should be on the look-out for advantageous outlets for the protective devices which we have. It looks to me like the year 1934 may be a very beautiful one for all of our men.”

The Federal Laboratories “protective devices” to which Vice President Barker referred in his letter consisted of machine guns, submachine guns, revolvers, automatic pistols, shot-guns, rifles, armoured cars, gas guns, gas ejectors, gas mortars, ammunition, bulletproof vests, tear and sickening gas, gas projectiles, gas masks and similar supplies.

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HIGH TREASON The Plot Against the People, Albert E. Kahn — BOOK 3 — THE WAR WITHIN: 9 Force and Violence — 2 Blackguards and Blacklists

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Feb 022014

Chapter IX 2 Blackguards and Blacklists

“We see no reflection in any way in the employment of detectives,” an attorney representing the Michigan Manufacturers Association told the members of the Senate Civil Liberties Committee in 1937. “‘Detective’ and ‘spy’ are two names that are used in a derogatory sense, but even a spy has a necessary place in time of war.”

In the war against trade unionism in America, labor espionage had long been regarded by big business as a weapon of vital importance. For more than half a century, secret battalions of professional labor spies, detectives, agents-provocateurs and paid informers had been waging clandestine warfare against the labor movement. But it was not until the advent of the New Deal, and the outmoding of the crude strikebreaking tactics of the Bergoff era, that labor espionage operations reached their peak offensive.

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CUANDO LA PATRIA MATA La historia del Anarquista Julio Rebosio (1914-1920) Víctor Muñoz Cortéz (Spanish) [Kindle edition] — £1.57/€1.88/$2.50

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Jan 292014

CUANDO LA PATRIA MATA La historia del Anarquista Julio Rebosio (1914-1920) por Víctor Muñoz Cortéz (Kindle edition — in Spanish). Primera edición en Editorial Universidad de Santiago de Chile. This e-book (Kindle) published 2014 by ChristieBooks in conjunction with Mar y Tierra Ediciones de Valparaíso — Check out all Kindle editions of ChristieBooks titles NOW AVAILABLE ON KINDLE — £1.57/€1.88/$2.50 READ INSIDE! ¡LEER EL INTERIOR!

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‘When your country kills. The history of anarchist Julio Rebosio (1914-1920).’ A fascinating insight into the life and work of an Italo-Peruvian-Chilean anarchist organiser and promoter of ‘the Idea’ in Chile at the end of the 19^th and early 20^th centuries

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HIGH TREASON The Plot Against the People, Albert E. Kahn — BOOK 3 — THE WAR WITHIN: 9 Force and Violence — 1 King of the Strikebreakers

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Jan 262014

1935: Edward Levinson was the New York Post’s Labour Editor

Chapter IX 1. Force and Violence

It is one of our proudest boasts that the American working class has, generally speaking, the highest standard of living of any working class in the world. How did our workingmen achieve this position? Only through struggle, intense struggle against bitter opposition, and especially through the struggle of organized labour. — From a speech by Rockwell Kent, September 1948

Those who call for violence against radicals, strikers and Negroes go scot-free. Not a conviction, not a prosecution in fifteen years . . .. But the reactionaries not only incite violence; they practice it … It is plain . . . that those who defend majority prejudice or property rights may not only advocate but practice violence against their enemies without fear of prosecution. — American Civil Liberties Union Report, 1936

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SLAVE LABOUR OF FRANCO’S POLITICAL PRISONERS IN ANDALUCIA Lola Martinez – José Luis Gutiérrez Molina (PDF)

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Jan 252014

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REAPROPIACIÓN on ‘The Events of May 1937′ (PDF)

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Jan 252014

PDF of the first issue of REAPROPIACIÓN, a journal (in Spanish) focused on ‘The Events of May 1937′ in Barcelona (las Jornadas de Mayo de 1937 en Barcelona),

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HIGH TREASON The Plot Against the People, Albert E. Kahn — BOOK 3 — THE WAR WITHIN: 8 New Deal — 2 First Term

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Jan 242014

Chapter VIII 2. First Term

F.D.R. inauguration, January 1933

In his first inaugural address, President Roosevelt had promised action; and action there was, from the start— bold, hectic, intense, electrifying and sometimes confused and confusing action, action on a scale never before witnessed by the American people.

Within his first ten days in office, Roosevelt called Congress into special session, and demanded and received special emergency powers — seventy-five distinct grants of sweeping power— such as no peacetime president had ever had. He decreed a national bank holiday; drafted the National Economy Act; prohibited the export of gold and all dealing in foreign exchange; slashed Federal expenses; asked Congress to legalize beer; reopened the banks; and, as the opening week of his Administration ended, addressed the nation in the first of his famous, informal and warmly intimate Fireside Chats.

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