110,000 at Freedom Rally Demand Convoys

RIESEL, VICTOR

110,000 at Freedom Rally Demand Convoys Willkie, LaGuardia Speak Together in Show of Natl Unity By VICTOR RIESEL More than 110,000 persons, 22,000 pf them jamming' Madison Square Garden, last...

...He knows it...
...He declared that "by no act of mine would I wish to give any semblance of support to the cause of your committee...
...We are committed to the defeat of the totalitarian aggressors...
...And so it was...
...German troops are in Africa and German raiders are on the Atlantic, threatening Britain's lifelines in an already grave shipping situation...
...The isolationist press may soon charge that such a demonstration should be expected in a city with nearly 3,000,000 Jewish folk...
...they deliberately aim at the destruction of all political and civil liberties...
...This will threaten Harry Bridges' rule...
...Brutes and bullies, who comprise the overwhelming majority of Germans, never stand up against adversity...
...no howling crowd reeking of racial intolerance and national hatred...
...For we shall win our land back again, sooner or later, and rebuild it with law...
...Hitler will have to revise his schedule again...
...even if the plants ^'struck, jfefenie sections will not be affected, the- union has promised to keep those men •J-.jrork...
...This reversed a former decision which the Smith-Madden combination had put through some time ago, to the effect that all six plants of the company constituted a single bargaining unit, despite the fact that CIO had admitted it had no members at the Parkersburg plant and the Flat Glass Workers' Union of the American Federation of Labor had a majority at that plant...
...Ev"ery labor dispute which interrupts or slows down production aids the totalitarian aggressors...
...The Hotel and Restaurant Employees International Alliance, at its recent convention in Cincinnati, voted to aid the campaign...
...The Russia-Japanese pact is the latest proof of Stalin's close collaboration with the Axis, as admitted in the Soviet press...
...the air by superior air power, will be beaten into submission...
...And the Germans will never take it as do the British...
...We have given up the legal fiction of neutrality...
...The desecration of his grave in Paris by the Nazis is their vengeance upon him for the warnings he vainly uttered against the conspiracy which German "civilization" had been hatching for generations against the rest of the world...
...They will do so again...
...Last Wednesday night, Wendell Willkie, Mayor LaGuardia, Frank Kingdon, Mrs...
...his satirical analysis of the "self-styled practical men who tell us that such messages of hope are but the words of politicians and idealists...
...Hitler can move his hordes to all parts of Europe and Asia, but he cannot alter geography...
...Our navy should be used to protect our ships and to patrol the seas in conjunction with the British navy...
...On that trip he traveled T&i9 miles to address 85,000 persons in 12 states...
...A Letter to the President The President of the United States, Washington, D. C. Dear Mr...
...There the vL's machinists' union is in control...
...Both on the platform end in the,audience, the cross-section of America will be represented...
...Age and youth will be represented, as will all the racial strains which have gone into the making of the United States...
...We have resolved to support the struggle of Britain'and her Allies...
...Louis, on the same day, Charles A. Lindbergh attracted only 15,000 persons to an America First rally, although it was held in the heart of the pro-German part of the nation, and was widely publicized by the isolationist St...
...He would much rather : have the American people 'sleep in the ilhislon" that he entertains no hostile purposes against us, so that we would refrain from giving full expression to our sympathy and aid for England...
...his demand that we furnish Britain today the ships in our docks, the ships in our coastwise trade, the impounded ships of other nations, the ships -we are building, and destroyers...
...Almost the entire continent of Europe is under Nazi domination...
...That will be the road of Hitler's doom—because, at last, America .is awake and prepares to deal the determining blow in this titanic conflict between German barbarism and Anglo-Saxon civilization, between man and beast, between slavery and freedom...
...Diplomatic etiquette must not keep our government from curbing their activities...
...Stalin's tool, the Communist Party, working under disguised names and organizations, is the most active force of defeatism and appeasement...
...He will not be reappointed...
...This will Scurtailment of production in a field where nous work is worth more to England than Mfcen destroyers...
...In the shouting, enthusiastic thousands who paid to get into the Garden, in the thousand* milling about outside, stopping traffic, piling up what police later called the greatest demonstration New York has seen in 20 years, political leaders on both sides of the aid-Britain issue saw the refutation of isolationist claims that the nation is anti-war...
...J. Borden Harri-1 man, Stoyan Pribichevich, Sigrid Undset and others representing the 14 nations conquered by Nazi steel spoke to mort people than Colonel Lindbergh has yet attracted by his tour of the solidly Irish-German isolationist sectors...
...It is an illusion to think that Stalin can be coaxed to turn against Hitler...
...The pact between Japan and Russia foreshadows a possible extension of the .war to the Pacific Ocean...
...This gave CIO a chance jj-tet into Boeing, which produces the ultra "WTO fiying fortresses so vital now to Britain...
...Tpe nation may see a remarkable Weaom'enon if JCIO takes the Ford NLRB •Won, for weD-informed reports from in-TOtHal circles reveal that Henry Ford plans cooperation with the union if it wins, but W&bf ivjmtit the last ballot is cast ^Msiever the causes may be, CIO's auto jwirs^iitciraft division has virtual control •fcfiie West...
...The bill waa passed in California and New Hampshire with amendments assuring the unions of the right to strike...
...The next few months may decide the fate of human freedom for decades to come, in the United States as well as in other lands...
...The platform was a cross-section of the decent world in arms...
...The Anglo-Saxon peoples are prepared to go beyond that—1943 will be the year of decision...
...Thomas Murtha, president of the Council, declared that "the trade unionists of Britain are fighting our fight and we would be traitors to the trade union movement if we let them down now...
...The Texas hie* makes ft a felony to "use force, violence or intimidation to prevent a person from en-Ming in a lawful occupation," or for two or ¦Me persons1 to assemble at or near a point •here a labor dispute is in progress...
...At its last semi-monthly meeting, the Central Trades and Labor Council of Greater New York, representing 750,000 AFL trade unionists, voted to raise a "substantial sum to make the lot of our embattled Britsh brothers a little easier...
...The present crisis calls for a supreme effort and for drastic measures to bring about full utilization of plants, material and labor power...
...Sigrid Undset's quiet restrained speech set iiifi tone for the'meeting...
...Hitler knows and fears America's power...
...Chairman...
...Neither legalistic pedantry nor sentimental softness should be allowed to shield those who abuse the privilege of living in a free country, and seek to destroy its freedom...
...he cannot move Germany to another part of the map...
...We had almost forgotten how a land is laid waste by un-law...
...Similar bills were defeated in seven states...
...The new rule paves the way for breaking down the coast-wide bargaining unit estab* lished by the NLRB several years ago in tne longshoremen's case on the Pacific Coast...
...Government mediation, as hitherto practiced, while to some degree successful, is not sufficient to cope with the situation...
...Very respectfully yours...
...Informality was the order of things...
...Ic use an army term, the hump in industrial disputes appears, well past...
...You have spared no effort in awakening the Amer-icarf people to the truth...
...It was as George Fie?d, New York secretary of the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, had said: "Spokesmen of all religious faiths will be on the platform, along with capital and labor...
...CIO insists oh raiding the Boeing plant by W»g in the, excelled local's members—who ¦Me already applied to Mortimer and Michener "Hfe...
...Perhaps mora than all the other speaker...
...The world is facing unprecedented danger...
...That is why he now seeks to prepare the minds of the German people for war in 1942...
...Every day they commit crimes that we Norwegians had forgotten oould happen-^-against prisoners, against women, against anybody who shows Nordic faithfulness to law and justice...
...Willkio spoke for all America, pleaded to all who voted for him and against him to rally to- the Allies...
...As part of the international Socialist and Labor movement, we realize that slavery anywhere threatens freedom everywhere...
...By their presence they will demonstrate oar unity anl...
...Louis Post-Dispatch...
...It will also bring home the gravity of the situation to many who still lull themselves into a false feeling of security...
...To make our aid more effective, the lend-lease bill was passed...
...Hitler and Hitler-ism are the full flower of that conspiracy...
...At last the Anglo-Saxon peoples are meeting it in the only language the Germans understand — force...
...Thousands in the crowds were young men, many thousands were women of all ages, refuting the anti-British leader's charges that the nation'* youth and women were opposed to aid to the Allies...
...For we shall win our land back again," the said...
...Mere than one-half of the 43 state legislatures meeting during the early 1941 aanths have adjourned with less damage to civil liberties and fewer restrictions^on organized labor than appeared likely last month, according to a survey of state legislative action conducted by the American Civil Liberties Union...
...Under the blows of a superior force —the kind of force now being forged by the British Commonwealth and the United States —the Germans, will falter and cave in...
...No matter what we do, Nazist Germany will need no pretext for making war on us if and when she deems it practical...
...In-order to continue her resistance, Britain must get much greater supplies and she must get them quickly...
...The audience was of all kinds...
...When Mayor LaGuardia— who presided after beingvasaounced by Frank Kingdon, New York head of the Aid Allies Committee—-introduced Wendell Willkie, be said: "I give you unity...
...Were he in a position to conquer England this year, he would not be embarking upon sideshows in the Balkans, in the Middle East, in North Africa...
...As Americans, we consider it our supreme duty to defend our country and its free institutions...
...The Social Democratic Federation: (Signed) By ALGERN'ON LEE...
...After the tragic experiences in some countries of Europe, the danger of the Fifth Column must not be underestimated...
...Nazis'Campaign in Africa Sign Hitler Can't Craek Isles By MALCOLM HASTINGS Even Adolf Hitler, flushed with Vis latest victory in the Balkans, admits now that the war has just begun...
...They took Norway by a bandit's raid," she said quietly, "and afterwards they tried to justify themselves with lies...
...At last mankind understands...
...We have said before and we repeat: this war will be won on the sea and in the air...
...The General Motors iapute will be mediated...
...This does not need to be said to yon...
...Messages were read from Herbert Morrison, British Laborite Minister of Home Security, and Ambassador to America, Lord Halifax...
...But force, unstinted force, is what is required...
...For there can be no doubt over the sentiment expressed that night at the Freedom Rallies inside and , outside the Garden...
...He would much rather wait for the day •when he can tackle us alone, when we shall have no allies, and do to us from,, within and from without what he did to France...
...Convoys, fcomfcers, shipping pool, twenty-four-hour operation of our defense industries, the rapidly increasing mobilization of our superior war potential spell the inevitable doom of Hitler and his "new order...
...We shall not give him that opportunity...
...Unless he manages to subdue die British Isles before the end of this year, Germany must, before another twelve months are over, face:an ordeal much worse than that to which the British people have been subjected...
...our resolve to remain free...
...0nly Arkansas, Maryland, New York and Vermont' passed -la model sabotage prevention bi whieH may affect the restriction of picketing...
...The Germans and their hirelings have proved it to us in a way we shall never forget...
...President: t Never in our history has there been such a threat to our security and liberty as now...
...He foretold with uncanny vision her present, assault upon the life and liberty of mankind...
...We urge the government to set up more efficient machinery to settle labor disputes in such manner as 1) to avert stoppage of work...
...Bat this reporter with others pn the story walked through the crowds, listened to them, walked out with them, and learned conclusively that Jews made -up but a minute part of the vast audience...
...The appeasement policy of our administration toward Russia and the lifting of the moral embargo only help the enemies t>f freedom and facilitate Russia's economic aid to Germany...
...This law was encouraged by hill-billy Governor CDaniel, who isn't proving as amusing to the Texans who voted him in as he did some years back while campaigning with a mountaineer chorus...
...110,000 at Freedom Rally Demand Convoys Willkie, LaGuardia Speak Together in Show of Natl Unity By VICTOR RIESEL More than 110,000 persons, 22,000 pf them jamming' Madison Square Garden, last Wednesday night roared their approval of Wendell Willkie's and Mayor LaGuardia's demand...
...Nothing that has happened to date or may happen in the near future can alter the final outcome...
...And that was the theme of the spokesmen for exiled governments, that was the determination cheered by the audience...
...That sentence will be duly executed...
...To meet the danger, our Republic has'embarked upon a great defense program...
...Our actions, however, are not yet in keeping with our purposes...
...We are moving at last...
...a8*VAIL will no longer be kicked about by ™V*°aidY»m*ny lawyers and trial examiners evidenced by the NLRB's decision permitting the employees of the Parkersburg (West Viriginia) plant of the Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Company to have its separate bargaining unit, instead of one company-wide unit...
...And Mr...
...Our air force, with pilots and ground crews, should cooperate with the Royal Air Force...
...They are tearing down whatever we have built and rob us of whatever we have created through centuries...
...We urge that the President and Congress declare a state of emergency...
...Ever since the Stalin-Hitler pact of August, 1939, made it possible for Germany to start the war, the Soviet government has been a silent partner of the Axis, receiving its pay in territories taken from Poland, Rumania, and the Baltic countries...
...They did so in the last war, after fear years of uninterrupted, unprecedented victories...
...That German and Italian consulates and embassies are centers of espionage and sabotage...
...In St...
...On May 3 the Miami City Commission denied to the local chapter of the America 'First Committee the use of the Bayfront Park for a May 17 rally, at which former Governor Phillip LaFollette was scheduled to speak...
...men of Wall Street and the trade unions, Henry Morgenthau, Tom Lamont and many union chiefs...
...As Socialists, we know that democracy must be restored where it has been lost before world peace can be made secure, and that only in a free and peaceful world can our ideals be realized...
...He knew his Germany better than any one else...
...Here was no theatrical demonstration such as the isolationists have been arranging for their very Lone Eagle...
...We must use every means at our diposal to aid in crushing the forces of darkness, so that we shall not later Rave to face them alone...
...There were foreign ministers, men of all religious faiths, Jews and Catholics, Rabbi Wise and the Reverend Francis X. Talbot, S.J...
...Labor Peace Spreads as Drive on Unions Fails inCongress, 43States By EDWARD LORING WASHINGTON, D. C—Passing through one of the toughest months in its history, American labor made the May deadline without any serious legislative injury despite the fact that the Gallup poll showed 78 per cent of the people con-fiaced that the Communist Party is responsible for defense strikes...
...The impending institution of American convoys to England will insure the continued, successful resistance of the British Isles until the moment arrives when Germany, pulverized from...
...BAoguring-t|ten for industrial peace are Sidney "Julian's plans for no-strike, no-lockout agree-jnaU major defense industries...
...The American people have pronounced the sentence of death upon Hitler and his "new order...
...And when they do they will weep and whine and charge that they^have been deceived and betrayed by their own rulers, as they did in 1918...
...Originally, German victory over England was to be achieved in 1940.- Having failed to reach this objective, Hitler promised its attainment in 1941...
...This case has already been appealed by the AFL...
...2> to incWirtc wage-rates in full proportion to any increase in the cost of living...
...publishers, scholars...
...American merchant ships should be allowed to trade directly with the Allies...
...f«r immediate convoying of ships to Britain regardless of the consequences...
...To meet the need of the hour," we must act whole-heartedly...
...He must have "victories," however indecisive, because he cannot win the one victory which "can bring the war to a close— the victory in the Atlantic and over the British Isles...
...That is why he has not dared to declare war upon us, although we have given him ample technical provocation...
...V Jla »djJitioaj the National Labor Relations i* slowy recovering from the reputation "(faring the period when it was domi-^Woy Edwiii Smith, now openly campaigning ^¦Communist* and their many fronts, and latker bemused J. Warren Madden, now wurt of Claims judge...
...We are glad to know that public opinion is rallying -to your support...
...This will give our government the necessary powers to unfetter the tremendous forces of our great democracy...
...But the longer the war lasts, i. e. the longer the British Isles hold out, the more certain Hitler's defeat...
...Thus England will survive...
...But there certainly will be no revolution in Germany, even of a superficial character, until the Nazi sword is broken and its entire military machine is rej*lexe<f "usfeless and impotent by mighty cyclones of fire from the air that will cripple every essential instrument of German industry and communications...
...That was the road of doom for Kaiser-Germany...
...Shortly after he had received a long and noisy ovation, Willkie took his seat, smiled, waved at the crowd in characteristic fashion . . . and immediately proceeded to tie an unlaced shoeWillkie punched out his speech in his usual hoarse style, emphasizing, his rejection of defeat and despair, his prediction that England will win if she gets American planes and machines...
...Equally incongruous is our policy in permitting shipments of essential supplies to Japan, which is our potential enemy...
...As the defeat of Nazist Germany is our objective, we must not refrain from any necessary measure for fear of its leading us into war...
...If the NLRB rules as it did in the Libby-Owens case, thousands of AFL longshoremen, who were forced into Bridges' union by the former NLRB ruling, will be able to re-establish their own organization...
...There are no revolutions in Germany—they are forbidden by the police," said Heinrich Heine...
...Recently l;Wti forced to oust the local's leaders when learned-they were working with Com-**»Ut Party men...
...She spoke for Norway^ of the Nordic creed, of a land built by law, laid waste by lawlessness...
...The red, black and brown agents of foreign dictators, as well as the "native" fascistic organizations, not only undermine morale and obstruct defense effort...
...Our output in war goods is retarded, not only by technical difficulties, but by a desire to "continue business as usual...
...Only in Texas was legislation passed hitting directly at the -anions...
...Coatft war plane industry except fe"one or tfro plants, among which the Boeing Corporation is the most important...
...that was what they had come to pledge so that the President of the United States, the people and politicos in every camp could hear...
...In many cases the employer must be blamed, but some groups of Labor, especially those dominated by Communists, share responsibility...
...AFL swfllc strike the plant...
...The Alliance has close to 300,000 members with locals all over the country...
...There were more people in the demonstration last Wednesday night than there were in all of Senator Wheeler's audiences during his recent swing from New York to California and tack...
...Similar sentiments were expressed on the same day by Mayor Thomas J. Spellacy, who flatly refused to extend an official greeting to Kathleen Norris, author, and to United States Senator D. Worth Clark of Idaho when they arrived on Thursday to address a rally of the America First Committee...
...3) to leave no excuse for antiunion legislation...
...To win a decisive victory, a more active participation of the United States is essential...
...Whether the defeat of their second and move brutal attempt at world domination will mark the beginning of a genuine revolution in the barbarian German soul remains to be seen...
...Smith's term expires c Afcgost...
...One Million Unionists Join Aid Britain Group Representatives of trade unions with more than a million members this week pledged wholehearted support to the American Labor Committee to Aid British Labor, of which William Green is honorary chairman...
...When that force becomes overwhelming and unconquerable, as with the aid of America, it surely will, it may become possible to tame the blond beast in Germany and harness her positive forces to the chariot of culture and civilization...
...Here was no wild-eyed, booing mob...
...Mayor Alexander Orr, Jr., said he believed the committee was subversive and opposed to the government's defense policy...
...Meanwhile, a reversion of feeling has set in throughout the nation against the America First Committee...
...The scores of thousands gathered in mid-Manhattan roared approval of every statement which called for war on Germany...
...All these subversive elements must be publicly exposed and driven out of key positions in government departments, in the educational system, the labor movement and other institutions...
...Hillman *H already jaken steps to effect tliis type of y*ment> using the shipping industry pact model...
...He spoke slowly and deliberately and was cheered again and again when he said America must "see that those ships, loaded with the ever-increasing production of American factories and farms, deliver their cargoes safely to the ports of Western and Northern England...
...We American Social Democratics regard it as our immediate task to assure the speedy defeat of the dictators...
...Last Sunday, in his address to the rubber-stamp Nazi Reichstag, he admitted the possibility of the war's prolongation into VbtZ— due to the part America is beginning tb play in the situation...
...They were what Mayor LaGuardia said they were . . . "representative of American citizens living in every section of the city...

Vol. 24 • May 1941 • No. 19


 
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