T H E B R A Y of T H E W E E K
THE BRAY Of THE WEEK And Whit Did Yon Do, Papa, in the War Of the Open Letter? From Earl Browder's speech on the Open Letter, in which the Communist Party confessed its complete...
...From Earl Browder's speech on the Open Letter, in which the Communist Party confessed its complete failure: Let every unit and member of the party develop that first salutation when two Communists meet will be—"What have you done to carry out the Open Letter...
...Benito and Adolf M/HEN Adolf's courageous young Nordic heroes wer« " stripping women naked and beating them into Insensibility, shaving the heads of helpless Jews, burning books tha...
...of peace...
...I send you my felicitations . ,. the most rigid discipline in the air...
...Don't forget that the correspondent in o member of th< Fascist Journalists' Guild and that he may lot practice hi p/ofession unless he eigns the Code of that organization, tht first article of which reads, "Mui.aolihi '.t alwayn right...
...The private ownership of land and capital stands revealed as simply a device for enabling a small class to live by imposing their maintenance upon the industry of the community...
...Merchants and manufacturers who depend on the purchasing power of Negroes, especially in the sections where they are from fifteen to fifty per cent of the population, will receive little benefit from NRA unless Negro workers are paid at least the minimum wages, the telegram said...
...They will not be fooled...
...A GREAT MAN IS PUT TO WORK "I have always believed, and still do," said a great thinker quoted here last week, "that no man should work less than eight hours 'Jay...
...The telegram, signed by Roy Wilkins, assistant secretary, declared there is increasing evidence that colored people "are being singled out, in one manner or another, largely because of their color, to receive less than the minimum benefits of the National Industrial Recovery Act...
...Approximately 12,000 Negroes were exempted from the minimum wage and maximum hours provisions of the cotton textile code, the telegram stated, and despite the assurance that this code was not to be regarded as a standard for others to follow, the other codes proposed have all made a difference between white and Negro workers...
...They are finding it most difficult to cooperate as long as they and their problems are being subjected to special discriminatory regulations based upon their color...
...Let us talk, work and dream about the Open Letter when we go to sleep...
...Probably under orders fror - Home he made it his business to utilize every opportunit to make propaganda for Fascism, lie flung the Faacif salute around...
...hut from Fascist Italy...
...He had better...
...A complete series of these In the Dictator's own handwriting the correspondent writes, Is now available and he quote* from them to prove his point...
...People with just • little discernment will understand...
...That serves to explain a lot of "news" that comes from Italy...
...But It must be proved that the flight was a triumph of Fascism, and the only way to "prove" it was to show it was really Mussolini who deserves the credit...
...Who leaped lightly from continent to continent like a mountain goat from crag to crag...
...You must learn to wait...
...The big build-up is under way...
...But that wasn't enough...
...It was Benito Mussolini...
...The wire urges the appointment of Negroes to the labor advisory board, to the research staff of the advisory board and to the post of deputy administrator...
...And then as continued Nazi performances more and outraged the world with the German brand of Fascism cami this Ilalbo flight—a fine, clean, magnificent achievement greeted enthusiastically by a world sick at heart of Hitlerisn . But if it stood alone, if there was nothing to it but a ga - l.'int...
...It is necessary to dominate your nerves...
...He explaine< that he gave all his speeches a political character...
...Now NRA undertakes to organize a committee to teach the workers how to enjoy the new-found leisure they ore expected to acquire under the benefits of NRA...
...What with what is happening in Germany, Benito is by way of becoming quite a respectable figure by comparison with his pupil Adolf At a moment when Adolf was courageously leading Germany straight into the gutter and then Into the sewer, it was hard to think of anything any nation could possioly do that would not seem like the most enlightened statesmanship by comparison...
...how prompt he wain foreseeing difficulties and devising remedies, and how unceasing was his encouragement are shown by the telegram* sent by Signor Mussolini to General Balbo a. every stage < 1 the journey," writes this free and untrammeled reporter...
...And h< reported that the millions of people who turned out to chec him and his comrades in all cities were Fascist demor - strators—which might have been a bit of deliberate \et<pulling on his own account...
...Presidents Get Protest On Color Line in Codes "THE growing alarm of colored * people over the injection of the color line into the permanent codes being adopted for the basic industries and into the voluntary NRA agreements being signed by all businesses, has been communicated directly to President Franklin D. Roosevelt by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People...
...and other philanthropic organizations...
...The philosopher who thus divested himself of Great Thoughts was none other than John William Davis, former Congressman, former Sol iciter-General of the United States, former Ambassador to Great Britain, former president of the American Bar Association, former West Virginian and former Democratic candidate for President of the United States...
...diverting into their possession, as fast as It is produced, the whole of the wealth created by the national Industry over and above the necessary maintenance of the worker...
...Kalbo took care of that...
...In his official report he stressed the fact that he had uti.ized the magnificent opportunity afforded him by crowds a hundreds of thousands for F« scist propaganda...
...The flight of 23 planes am nearly 100 airmen had to be converted into a triumph o Fascism, and so it ha...
...The telegram went on: "In the matter of employment for Negro mechanics and laborers under Title 2 of the National Industrial Recovery Act (the public works section) there appears a disposition to leave this important item to local contractors who in turn, as experience has shown (notably in the Boulder dam project) give the Negro worker scant, if any, employment...
...It's an interesting game, and It is as transparent as crystal...
...It Is, however, not krown whether his statement hereinbefore quoted referred to his clients when they go grousing in August...
...The important thing for you all is to arrive safely...
...Just at that moment he was photographed standing on a haymow making a speech to farmers in fields jus', reclaimed from the Pontine marshes, glorifying a victory ol peaceful husbandry over the former swamp lands as noble' than a victory in war, a speech that contrarted sharply wit I the war-like blatherings of the German chief...
...How are we going to employ them...
...flight how could Mussolini and Italian Fascism cash ii on it...
...He Bhouted "Viva Italia Fascista...
...Halo Balbo...
...And in the morning when we get up for breakfast, let the members of the Pioneers demand from their mothers—"What are you going to do today to apply the Open Letter...
...A constant check-up on one another...
...What are we going to do with all those extra hours...
...Extra!, Benito Flies Across the Ocean...
...Who Did It...
...taught ideals higher than those of the Nazi animals, stealing .he funds of labor organizations, murdering peopU guilty of the crime of holding opinions the Nazi half-wite disagreed with, arming a nation for a war that may conceivably destroy civilization, and, in other ways, displaying their superiority to the "criminals" they displaced in office— just at that time Benito ostentationsly began doing worst...
...While Hitler and hi* colleagues are making themIves as popular as a nest of rattlesnakes, Mussolini has his name and that of Fascism identified with a noble feat...
...Usual Stuff, but . . . JUOTIIING but the unual greetings and congratulations...
...How constant was the vigilance with which ho watched every step of the armada's progress...
...Fred Henderson...
...Wrong, you dope...
...And that is the •vay it is "proved...
...He is now one of the whitehaired lads doing legal work for J. P. Morgan & Co...
...The Negro people of the nation desire to give tlHr closest cooperation to you in your efforts to rout the depression...
...Z nhall embrace you, together with all your men...
...No impatience, no hurry...
...Youra is not a pleasure flight...
...Keep your nerves...
...Nothing that cou d not htve been sent by any President, King, Premier or even Mayor under a hated democracy...
...The correspondent then explains that Balbo and his ~iei also had something to do with it, but "Mussolini also, however shared considerably in the leadership the flight...
...You guessed it...
...John William Davis, former philosopher...
...You must start at the right hour...
...H writes a week or so after the return of the air armada the "On his return to Rome Air Minister Italo Balbo declare, the whole credit for the Italian armada's successful fligh was due to Premier Mussolini...
...pOR example, here ;s Arnoldo .'oiasi, Rore corresponded *^ and member of the Fascist Guild of journalists...
...Big Build-Up Begins WHO flew across the ocean with twenty-three planes...
...And you'd better not deny it either if you want to keep out of an Italian jail...
...In a his speeches he made it clear that he came, not from Itai...
...And who do you suppose is on the committee...
Vol. 16 • August 1933 • No. 9
