Test of Roosevelt Foreign Policy Looms in Midwest, New York City Elections
ROBERTS, BILL
Test of Roosevelt Foreign Policy Looms in Midwest, New York City Elections La Follette Forces Slipping As Amlie Wins Primary By BILL ROBERTS fSOIAflllONIfl&f, Phi! LaForjette ariff the Wisconsin....
...The armaments of each state and the production and aw in arms must be controlled by the League...
...It is important in this mayoralty contest to give maximum expression of full support to the national government's foreign policy of all-out aid to Britain, the Soviet Union and China in their struggle to destroy Hitler and Hitlerism...
...Mixed consequences Bow from this order...
...The next major move on the defense front, from labor's viewpoint, must be increased production to supply goods to meet this increased demand...
...can be cat from « total ten billion dollar consumer credit business...
...The sole war goilt of the Axis makes it kHesMW h protect the world against a repetition of such crimes...
...The President may also establish certain maximum rent ceilings, but only in defense areas...
...National defense was Darden's principal ptamk...
...Writes E. R. Bow en...
...Also present was Gustave Keller, head of the state Democratic organization, and about thirty other Readers of the Progressives and Democrats...
...The .Kenosha labor organizations organized the "First District United Labor Committee for Amlie," composed of some of the outstanding AFL and CIO leaders...
...Pledged to complete support of the policies of President Roosevelt, Amlie concentrated Ms campaign in the heavily unionized section of Racine and Kenosha...
...Not where frontier* are, but what they are, it of dMs...
...Lists accumulate for a month before orders are given, Carmody stated, rather than decisions returned to government agencies at once...
...Court of Appeals...
...On the frings of the dispute, but a sinister element nevertheless, are the Dorados or Gold Shirts, who demand the dissolution of the Communist Party and threaten direct action Camacho, in attempting to steer a middle of the road course will have the aid of the Pan-American Federation of Labor, started years ago by Samuel Gompers with the collaboration of the CROM...
...If some of the small states are joined irito federatiffta...
...These factors entered into the campaign...
...1 Books and Writers Labor Saga By Malcolm Hastings CAMUBL GOMPERS...
...The Coal Division regulates production of coal and "the various regional prices...
...Head of the CROM is Luis Morones, who dominated Mexican labor politics hi the 20's and who served as a cabinet member under President Plutarco Calles...
...About five-sixths of all defense housing has been privately built," he, reported Carmody challenged Palmer's assertion that private industry builds faster than the government...
...Whether or not Tom Amlie is elected to Congress, the disintegration of the Progressive Party is considered by Washington political observers as an important commentary on isolationist strength in the Midwest...
...Participation of the United...
...The speech of Che cabinet minister signalizes the shifting support of the Ga macho regime from the CTM...
...Furthermore, the League should admit only nations Wijaa" the people possesi certain fundamental rights, such *» "j*T7 Corpus, free elections, right tc forrr partie...
...War Aims, Peace Terms, aw The World After the War n This is a continuation of the "War \sms...
...They even joined profit wholesalers and retailers in opposing amendment of the law to protect cooperative rights...
...U. S. Senator Carter Grass, one of his supporters, is one of the national leaders of the Fight for Freedom Committee...
...States is essential...
...A victory for Amlie will destroy the myth that American aid to England is unpopular in the Midwest states^ the chief center of progressive and farmer-labor successes for' several decades...
...After having enslaved the German people *a then the Continent of Europe, the Naris are now bent on ehshtfcl the world...
...The Byrd machine now has within it both Virginia Senators and the Governor in Richmond...
...He polled a 6 to 1 margin over his opponents, State Senators Vivian Page and Hunsdon Gary, who ran on isolationist 'j platforms...
...Darden Wins Gubernatorial Virginia Post on Aid Allies Plank ¦N another section of the country—Virginia—President Roosevelt's * foreign policy won a* complete victory...
...Generally speaking, the bill authorizes the President to set maximum or ceiling prices for any commodities, principally on the basis of prices prevailing on July 29, 1941...
...or they can be eomhinv tively unimportant lihes...
...Woll, in his speech at the Mexican Labor convention announced that a convention will be called soon in Mexico City to promote this continental confederation "of Labor...
...More than a week of hearings has been held on the bill, with no let-up in sight...
...8^ ^ many economic and human problems that have distu-bei ano ,\n, tinue to disturb the hundreds of thousands of workers in this &4ft are treated with the high intelligence Irfcieh comes only fma 4e« understanding, long experience and profound devotion tc the aai* • ¦ a * _ f. TTAUaNER'B book should be read with attention not only 1} ™* woskers to whom it is directly addressed, but by all who to grasp the character and sigmftcanee of the labor movement Theoreticians and practical workers in the field of organhM -WW will find the book a valuable guide in the maze of problta* tmt confronting labor and those who, with labor, are sttaggitt* ii evolve a policy of social reform and readjustment to it the neeo> of a nation in tumultuous transition...
...Hence when the Coal Division rejected Che Midland application for registration, the co-op was cut off from income to pay for its work in distributing coal, and Midland's wholesale coal business, worth at least "$30,000 and owned entirely by farmers and wage earners, was confiscated...
...a new League of Nations, must be laid...
...m* cially in two respects...
...Another is William J. Goodwin, eastern lieutenant of Father Coughlin...
...labor Groups in Mexko Credit Safes Cut Spurs Price Rises in Const*mers Goods 'WASHINGTON, D. C^WWie a CongrtssiehalJ cohi-mittee dawdled akmg on the Henderson price-control bill, and...
...Racketeering, ganfeterhin Cormaenim in the building trades, craft versus industrial uaionlsrn...
...Former Representative Colgate W. Darden, Jr., of Norfolk, Va., backed by the Byrd machine, swept the entire state in the gubernatorial primaries last week...
...demonstration of how a man who works with his hsaili con atso think and write...
...Amlie will now run against non-interventionist Republican Lawrence Smith in the special August -28th election...
...Finally, when -nrteTBattea** operation 1s fully established, the way will be open for gradual, general, and controlled disarmament .j...
...This situation evoked no concern from Coal Division authorities...
...Carmody charged that Palmer's , policies "WeTe responsTBle foX the fact that only a few thousand defense ^project homes had been, erected, a m«re 'drop'Sn the bucket" compared to the need...
...On farm prices a ceiling of lfoVc of parity or the price prevailing on July 29, 1941 -"-whichever comes out higher— is established...
...This means that the Progressive i( Party will have no candidate*, ...^ , Tenor of the campaign was keynoted by the Progressive, official newspaper of the rabidly isolationist LaFolle.tte organisation...
...One factor favoring the CROM is the belligerence of CTM attacks on "Yankee Imperialism...
...This present bias is not the result of any sudden flare of anti-Semitism but a policy deep rooted in many machine district leaders in every borough...
...The League must have executive power, backed & force...
...Brotherhood Publisher...
...Said the Progressive...
...As was cited in last week's "New Leader, from a Rus...
...Weekly it drops further...
...The district is traditionally isolationist and Republican...
...And no one can predict hoV emasculated tbe~bttTwfH Ttof Comae/So, Woll Aid in Revival Of CROM MEXICO CPTY.-^Pba CTM, Confederation of Mexican Labor, long holding sway in the Mexican labor field Under the protection of former President Cardenas,, faces a new straggle for dominance ^)rith the revival of the CROW, Regional Confederation of Mexican Labor, which maintains fraternal ties to the American Federation of Labor...
...the houses were opened to the ! general' public, and even today . they remain 50 percent unoccupied...
...Profrreanre * Pitrif 'itook' g lieking last 'week when Tom Amlie, miming: in the Democratic prrmartes on ah «H-oot aid to the Allies program won the congressional nomination in Wisconsin's1 First (District...
...As the l*ew tional order is strengthened, h will be possible gradudly • *J plant the police power of the English-speaking natiaatf • international sea and air force...
...We (German Social Democrats included) call upon all d*** Germans to accept disarmament willingly as a proof of their J** faith...
...But this latter provision is a joker...
...writter in simple yet gruntok jjtvfc is not only a fascinating account of a labor leader'* career ttir valuable contribution to the history of American My» Specifically, the book «s the story of the New York {mnien their struggles, victories and defeats, but it is alsoj striking «* tribution to the sociology and psychology of the Sbor movement Zausner tells both the brighter and the Barker sides oi the paim...
...Queens district leader and America-First isolationist Goodwin, Sill appose Democratic nominee M. Maldwin F«rtig,, Transit jmmissioner...
...He cited the fact that we are now getting 100 to 1,000 family housing jobs done in from 90 to 120 days compared to the three or four years which the PWA used to take in sub-contracting houses to private builders...
...The CROM, dormant for twelve years,, last week held a convention attended by Matthew Woll, AFL "Vioe-President, and Miguel Ale-man, Minister of the Interior...
...commodity indices soared, President Roosevelt this week cracked down on installment buying ais the goverti-ment's first major slsep to slice civilian consumption of durable goods.: It is expected that about four billion dollars...
...This group is opposed by .the La tin-American Confederation of Labor (CTAL) which was taken over by Lom-"bardo Toledano after his term J *was . finished as executive secre-' tary of the CTM...
...Measures adopted by a democratic state, to protect itself against those who set out to undermine the democratic system, are in no way inconsistent with democracy and cannot be considered as grounds for appeal to the League...
...Pro-Coughlin Isolationists Run in New York Primaries TNTERNATTONtAL affairs put their imprint on New York City * politics this week as the deadline on primary petitions was reached...
...and nit made a telling contribution toward making it a better and flu* country in which to work and live...
...Meanwhile _ committee sources advise that another (month and possj^ly two wiH^ass Ibefere any Congressional action is.taken...
...and VM&f 1-1 ""J...
...fff advantages will result to their security-, stability, and *il*Bk prosperity...
...Peace Term,M The World After the War," declaration of OVmoeratv SaaW-lsts of several nationalities, which started in tan week's lew Leader...
...ers' story...
...The Communists controlling the Manhattan clubs told reporters that "we are motivated solely for the public interest and because of the grave situation facing the people of the world in the fight against Hitlerism...
...In all cases, full political and civil rights as WD •» cultural autonomy must be given to minorities...
...The FWA head charged that Palmer's office is a bottleneck, for no houses can be built until the "need" for them is "certified" -by Palmer...
...he reveals tn his autobiography a goci d*«?jr^ m:nd and methoc of the grand old man of American its<k WWMHa Like Gompers...
...This poll whs called to fill the -vacancy created fcy the death of OOP , ^Congressman (Bolles...
...Making this bid in the reactionary Democratic calumn, former Progressive Thomas R. Amlie, of Elkhorn, seemed to be somewhat confused as to Who his opponent was as he blasted away at Senator Robert M. LaPollette, Jr...
...The Pan-American Union is desirable, but it can be no substitute for the participation of the American nations in the World League...
...Orland S. (Loomis, Progressive candidate against Hei...
...In writing his autobiography, Zausner has gbren one nr...
...9. Germany must be made rncapable of ttdrting war Even after the downfall of Nazism, no responsible StatssnllB'" take the eha/iee of a revival of German militarism and aggf*«fc-To this end, we favor complete disarmament of Germany, proper supervision and control...
...The entire Midwest is watching the campaign...
...The lands auUI!<»t^J Germany since the Naris came to power must be er*3ufl>rf»jP to divide Germany would foster a tfeflant mrtionafiat rpirlt^WW strengthen the reactionaries and Weaken the democrats, VoiB w» German economy and thus sevetely hurt the rest of the WWW, would prevent the rebirth of the free labor movement Which «•* be the mainstay of a peaceful and democratic Germany...
...autobiography...
...The Co-ops are appealing this decision and the case will be tested in the St...
...Germany's disarmament wiTl be a much better guaraat* 9t peace than Germany's dismemberment...
...The new League of Nations should give full attention to the problem of cultural rapprochement and collaboration among the nations...
...This activity is a continuation of the NRA days and the Gu'ffey Coal Commission...
...better than any other labor leader the substance and sifrit # America Because of {his tfn3ersUncrint he was mtitt tr bSJj mass movement of labor, founded ttptfri cooperation ten...
...Where fluw «i» compact minorities, and where practical, regional adminiftntin autonomy should be given to them...
...During the first defense year, enough supplies were on hand to meet increased consumer buying power, and relatively little price advance came...
...The appearance of Woll at the convention brought a blast from the CTM, which accused him of meddling in Mexican Labor and denounced him as a "servant of the...
...rapprochement with Camacho came, as the CROM says, because the new "government is generous and respectful of our organisation...
...There have been many desertions from Progressive Party ranks...
...The CROM convention supported a policy of friendship with the United States, and expressed solidarity with the Russian people, although condemning the Stalin dictatorship...
...Tammany Hall's strategy of naming several Jews to its city-wide slate, to take public attention fronVthe fact that 90 per cent of the ticket is of one national and religious group, is being jolted by several district leaders who want no Jews on their ticket at all...
...Mayor LaGuardia is being opposed in the Republican primaries by former Municipal Court Judge John R. Davies, who has America First support...
...In her own interest, the United States must collaborate with the other nations of the world to maintain peace...
...The liberal credit lure offered by installment buying has been one of the main spurs in the sale of consumer goods...
...On the Defense Housing Co - ordi-nator's insistence, the Boston land was bought, costing a $1,000,000 more thanjand nearer . the shipyard...
...To this end, the constitution of the new League will to dfffer from that of the old League of Nations...
...big corporations and an enemy of the genuine struggle of the working class...
...Great Britain and also Russia, once she has been freed from totalitarian rule, will necessarily be included in the European grouping...
...a "•, portanee...
...That's the sickening picture facing the factory worker as he goes to the gate to collect his paycheck...
...Not even Chris Sullivan's word that tne Jejwish vote is important in this campaign "for the good of »he Hall" has been able to keep several rabid , Isolationists in line...
...Whether or not this will take the form of a "United States of Europe" is a question to be determined by the states immediately concerned, bat it must be strong enough to deal effectively in the first instance with specifically European problems, and so to insure the mutual collaboration which the common interests of the European peoples require...
...Davies' organisation, The National Republican Builders, is a high-pressure, flag-waving, "patriotic" group linked to Mrs, Elizabeth Dillings' totalitarian crowd...
...They should positively welcome H, for it will disarm m1H*» of their enemies within Germany and thus safeguard G*naw democracy...
...sel Sage report, 2/3 of all automobiles, % of all mechanical^ refrigerators, washing machines and gas and electric ranges, and an even higher percentage of automatic furnaces are bought on the installment plan...
...Similar snags have arisen...
...he quickly grasped the essentials of principle ant a^fe, necessary it ire building of a great trade onion on America* Zausner...
...This week, invoking powers of a 1017 trading-with-the-enemy act, Roosevelt directed the Federal Reserve (Board to curb installment buying...
...Darden's other important plank was a broader school program and free text books, a progressive step in Southern states...
...Thirty days after the project was open, not one , shipyard worker had moved in...
...Less than a third of the Committee's 25 members have cross-examined Leon Henderson on the bill...
...from discussing details of its form, but some basic principles das functions may be presented...
...but this* e» be gradually overcame, if the principles here stated are aHJM 7. The principle underlying the i-eare treaties must b* HUOtl and world cooperation...
...that each nationality must be a separate state'has to be daernw Each state must have the "possibility of a normal econ»«fc ex*1 ence...
...However, Amlie Won over Democrat Bernard F. Magruder in the Democratic primaries by drawing strong support from the Progressives, who under the Wisconsin open primary law can vote in any column they wish—'Republican, Democratic or Progressive...
...The Autobiography of a Union heaim, *> Philip Zausner...
...The purchasing power of the worker's dollar has dropped six cents since June 1939...
...and again now...
...They can be walls which shut off trade and travel sMl which atifle peoples who live within them...
...The absolute sovereignty of each state was primarily "JJi sible for the failure of the League of Nations, as formed in** Some elements of national sovereignty must be relinquished...
...Co-op people regard the outcome of the situation as one which wfll determine the future of the cooperative movement...
...movement, was not a native-born American Yet"h* iillQwtWunL...
...Morrissey will run in the primaries against Jewish philanthropist Dr...
...ChargesDefense Housing Head Blacks Program Special to The New Leader WASHINGTON, D. C. — Two top government housing chiefs clashed last week in testimony before thV, Tolan Committee on Defense Migration probing the serious shortage of homes for defense workers.x The two were John Carmody, Federal Works Administrator, and C* F. Palmer, Co-ordinator of DefensfrJlousing...
...So many votes did Amlie draw from the LaPollette party that its official and unopposed candidate for congressional nomination, 'State Senator Green-quist, received less votes than the- minimum legally required to.be on the ballot as a party Li candidate...
...In reply to Amlie's statement that Roosevelt "is the best friend labor ever had," the Progressive retorted that he had "used trqops to smash a strike" of airplane workers last spring...
...architect of the' modem Amortes* Mfca...
...While PKlip Zausner...
...Christian Front Rev...
...Nazi Germany has wantonly brought ¦ this world conflict...
...1 f\ Europe must be organized in tome form toitkin the frame-* xoork of the League of Nations...
...The Bituminous Coal Law gives the Goal Division of the Department of Interior the right to "register distributors of %:oal...
...Republicans on the Committee are playing politics...
...freedom of speech, press, assembly, association, and relif** League must guarantee these fundamental rights to the people of its member states against forces that would destroy their free institutions...
...Last'month the same spokesmen labeled Mayor LaGuardia an "imperialist watchdog...
...Just previous to the German invasion of Russia the left wing Connolly-Watson-Blinken group were set to name either Mike Quill or Vito Mareantonio as its mayoralty candidate...
...America must not repeat the error of 1919, which weakened the League of Nations from the start and thus contributed to its failure to preserve peace...
...Louis Federal Circuit...
...If the slash in installment buying is made, and the companies are allowed to make their profits by selling defense goods to the government, then it is the small man alone who is the loser, is a joke...
...New Pro-US...
...As an organ of the League, a World Court should be established, to which disputes between states must be referred for arbitral settlement or adjudication...
...necessary for administrative purawi Frontiers in Europe cannot be made to coincide very ciff^r * ethnical or linguistic boundaries, nor can they crearajflanV balanced economic units...
...One of the major defense problems today is th% transferring of the steel, rubber and metals used in automobiles, refrigerators, washing machines, etc., into arms production...
...Both are Ducking the machine decision...
...One of these is John P. Morrissey, York-ville district leader, who is openly antirJewish...
...Just as the United States cannot be isolationist in war, it must not be so in peace...
...The existence of a Pan-American Union not connected with the League of Nations might easily lead to conflicts batwsail the two...
...in the last gubernatorial election, attended- the caucus which nominated Amlie...
...For similar reasons Germany's Allies must be treated tn » **' ilar manner...
...Unilateral disarmament of the aggressor natioa* •** political necessity for a transitional period, during whieh aa victors,, especialTy Great Britain and the United States, will *•* to exercise international police power...
...At the same time, however, the basis for an international <^ ganization...
...Twenty-five years ago...
...The League must stimulate moral disarmament and especially help to overcome the disastrous consequences of the totalitarian ideologies of cruelty, inhumanity, and race hatred, by which the younger generations have been poisoned...
...In either case the verdict must be enforced by the League, and the refusal by any state to submit a dispute for arbitration or adjudication should be considered as an act of aggression calling for immediate action by the League...
...RatnofT for the Manhattan Borough presidency...
...a*4 "Tfc, Gcmpers...
...There win be some unavoidable conflicts between polities": ni economic needs and national aspirations, and wherever Tmfar are established, there will be some dissatisfactions...
...general secretary of the Cooperative League: 'If by a legislative act or administrative ruling Cooperatives can be denied the right to engage in any activity because of the payment of patronage returns , on purchases, then it Means the end of co-ops jn several trades...
...a brilliant Tactician, wbc (mOKftofyi flow \ apply the theory of labor organization to the Ameriear ernnrw ment...
...Palmer urged the buying of a slum clearance project in South Boston, twenty miles away...
...As a case history of Palmer inefficiency, .Carmody cited an instance where 1,000 houses were needed for employes of the Fore River shipyard at Quincy, Mass...
...UNVARNISHED...
...Newcomers in the labor movement thoaU derive particular benefit from this life sftry of an inmtigraitl Jro» Lemberg who learned to understand and love Afneriea...
...This was i%ceived with jubilation, for the CROM was completely eclipsed under the Cardenas regime...
...This latter occurence was the result of a decision of the Bituminous Coal Division in Washington denying the Midland Cooperative Wholesale of Minneapolis the right to engage in the wholesale distribution of coal...
...Brophy will take the stump for Goodwin...
...It had 500,000 anti-LaGuardia-peace leaflets prepared for wide distribution on June 19 and 20...
...Henderson's testimony has vividly shown the volatile dynamite which the price situation is...
...While durable goods sales will be cut, the eighty and ninety bilHon dollar incomes jingling "in the pockete of American families, wiH be channelized mto non-duratble goods through such measures as the President's, but a danger of inflation arises through this increased demand...
...William T. Evjue, influential Wisconsin editor, head of the Madison Capitol-Times and former editor of LaFollette's Progressive, will support Amlie...
...Widening of Government Price Controls Threaten Co-ops One unforeseen casualty of the government's price-fixing and trade control activity has been the limiting of Co-op activity, and in one concrete instance the denial to a Co-op of a license to engage in business...
...New York Political circles were amused by the failure pf the left wang of the ALP—it controls some Manhattan clubs—to file a candidate against Mayor LaGuardia...
...Gompers was a born leader of Tabor, a great fofealint tv « great pragmafist...
...The CROM supported General Almazan in the recent presidential campaign...
...But, same times, the peace terms must provide fdt permanert udtl and for collaboration of the emancipated peoples of fht countries with the victorious democracies...
...Although the organization has been anti-New Deal on domestic policies, its leaders have been supporting Roosevelt consistently on foreign policy...
...Much of the political situation in "New York has a semi-Fascist overtone which few of the regular political leaders care to .discuss...
...Representative Gif-ford of Massachusetts has talked of a four-man price control board, saying darkly that no single New Dealer could be trusted with the job...
...A N*w Leogw of f*at»ons 9. Whatever safety measures the peace treat*** may they will not be euffieient to guarantee permanent pause operation...
...Zansner was bom in ttie old cottntr...
...tare, concealing nothing...
...he is receiving the support of Williain T. Leonard, . Brooklyn America First chief...
...America'* security has been threatened by events in Europe...
...These remarks underscore a rift between followers of Camacho and the leftist wing of the Cardenas machine which threatens to fiare up at the opening of the Merican Congress on September 1. A group calling itself the Avila Camacho Popular Section of the Mexican Congress is asking for a purge of 'Stalinist elements from the CTM, and the Mexican Revolutionary Party, PRM...
...The concluding im-1aiment will be puMiahed oeat week...
...for many years a sfOrmX jpearel"^ Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators aSd Paperhanfeei* ia*> ^ be a Gorrrper...
...He gives what appears to be a truly unvarnwhao pit...
...Palmer, testifying firsL declared that lite had "reUed on^'pri^ vate enterprise" to furnish housing for defense workers...
...Andfewas vigorously opposed in last week's primary by the entire official Progressive, Party's machinery...
...In order to reduce the harnrfMha o frontiers, the following principles must be applied, infemqhfc as far as possible, -with the wishes of the populations coksfn* Self-determination must not be identified with the artti"'» creation of states and frontiers along ethnical lines...
...Under its rules, until a "distribu- ' tor" — generally defined as a wholesaler — is registered, coal operators cannot pay him for his xrork of distributing coal...
...This is the first election test of the popularity of President RdOseYelt's foreign policy...
...Minister of Interior Aleman, speaking in the name of Camacho, stressed the fact that all labor organizations will receive "equal attention...
...Once the countries now under totalitarian r»fc*Wj* been brought under a democratic regime all discrimination exea* that of unilateral disarmament sbould cease...
...This did not keep the Kenosha and ' Racine unions from backing Amlie...
...cifcjjj^ acuon under conditions when extreme lncTVieh»arratn mao* an* «wt accomplishment a very dflneolt, heartbreaking task...
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