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ALERT! Dedicated to an expose of all totalitarion enemies of democracy How to 'Think Weakly" By Walter K, Lewis NEWSSTANDS in scattered locales throughout New Jersey and New York are selling,...
...We have seen these same Stalinist "leaders" and their henchmen crashing legitimate picket lines of the AFL Lumber and Sawmill Workers Union...
...Nothing could be further from the truth...
...Advertisements for Joseph P., Kamp's Cmisft'lud'onal Educa...
...Speaking of advertisements: Norman Jacques, Canadian Social Credit Member of Parliament is certainly no advertisement for the Social Credit movement or Canada: Neithtr is his political colleague Gerald L K. Smith a subject for a poster to attract tourists from Canada to the United States...
...We never have...
...Do you actually want to help slop Communism...
...Hart, who receives financial assistance from many of America's top-drawer industrialists, is not to be written off as a crackpot...
...On November 10, 19'46, the editors and publishers appealed to "Businessman— Manufacturer—Banker...
...J If the issues of Think Weekly are not enough to hysterialize the minds if the union members who read it, the publishers have recently instituted a forum policy...
...by opening wide the doors of economic opportunity, and by educating the people to work together as good neighbors in a spirit of good health, and without the fear of economic, political and social insecurity...
...The new journal has no listed offices in Newark, N. J., and merely announces that all correspondence will be earned on through a post office box...
...Not so that of the Canadian Social Crediter...
...Because it seems the word, "Solidarity" was used in a pamphlet issued by one of those groupa and, according to Hart, who sees things through red-rosy glasses, "The themesong of every Communist-directed rioting picket line is 'Solidarity...
...You do not go into a store and buy fruit that worms have been boring Into, so why should you expose the welfare of your family and your onion to Communism 1 No Canadian unionist, no person In Canada, union member or not, can be . apathetic to the Communistic menace, Nor can the Canadian government ignore Communist activity directed from Mo«eow as something with which they i» not have to deal...
...If the answer from the manufacturer ia in the affirmative then a dose of Think Weekly is offered as art antidote...
...We see nothing wrong in doing either...
...Spy res Skouras, President, 20th Century Fox, also a staunch Republican...
...The weekly, which has been denounced Bb "irresponsible" by the anti-Communist forces in the United Electrical and Radio Workers of America (CIO), came into existence during the Phelps-Dodgo strike early last year to preach antiCommunism to the strikers...
...It was during this so-called "expose" that the editors^ charged David Dubinsky who Is a sponsor of Americans United with being a "follower of Trotsky Communism...
...The examples we have given are but a few of the hysterically woven pieces of journalism which Think Weekly i» trying to sell to the American people, to.the sincere fighter against totalitarianism...
...t HEARD ON THE RIGHT The Canadian Social Crediter in > recent issue claimed that the New Leader had sold its journalistic soul to Bernard Baruch and John Roy Carlson because: (1) we had accepted an advertisement from E. P. Dutton & Co., and (2) because we published a letter from Mr...
...Give out Think Weekly at meetings...
...The best answer to the type of journal which is exemplified by Think Weekly was given to this writer by ex-Governor Ellis Amall of Georgia in an exclusive interview recently: "Totalitarianism can only be fought by making our democracy as nearly perfect as possible...
...In short, we have seen these known Stalinists betraying the interests of the workers on too many occasions to ever be fooled by them...
...Among the others Think Weekly singles out for its Journal* lstlcally administered hysterical abuse because of their association with this -liberal group are: James P. Warburg, , who, the editors charge In true Protocols of Zion fashion, Is associated with the Arm (Kuhn Loeb) that "sent forty* . eight million dollars to Trotsky to finance Communist Revolution In 1917"J Darryl Zanuck, Vice-President of 20thCentury Fox, and, incidentally, a staunch Republican...
...They may talk milltantly, and even act milltantly at times—on certain Issues •—but whenever the interests of the American labor movement conflict with Joe Stalin's foreign policy, his stooges In this country always sell out American labor In the Interest of Jos's program...
...Listing them as "bad medicine for America" and demanding that "For the greater good and safety for America, .these men should be entirely cut off from any connection or position with our gov* ernment," the editors list among others: ¦ Bernard llaruch, Benjamin Cohen, - David E, Lillenthal, Walter Wlnchcll, Gen...
...Published by Conde J. McGinley and one Charles Shelton, which is alleged to be a pseudonym, the columns of Think Weekly spit hysteria and are calculated by those in the anti-totalitarianism fight to do more harm than good to the fight against Communist infiltration in unions, liberal movements, etc...
...It hai published Upton Close's vitriolic attack on the Anti-Defamation League of the B'nal B'rlth...
...The fight against Communist infiltration whether into governmental agencies, the arts,-the sciences, etc.,xwift never be won by hysteria, and the substitution of vitriolic attack and neofascism for a democratic solution...
...Heard on the Fronts COMMUNISTS AND LABOP • We have seen too many good union organizations sacrificed on the bloody altar of Soviet foreign policy...
...Its journalistic presentation has won for it the praise of the outstanding leaders of the antiliberal and anti-labor movements in the United States...
...In a letter dated June 27, 1946, Close wrote Think Weekly: , "You men are doing a good work in putting out your little paper and I wish you a great measure of success, "Such efforts are of great value, because- they reach their own districts in a way nothing else can do...
...We have seen Hugh DeLacy voting for the MayBailey bill to draft labor...
...The deeprooted feeling tor labor (?) by Think Weekly, published in Newark, New Jersey, can be measured by its dubbing of International Ladies Garment Workers Union President David Dubinsky aa a "follower of Trotsky Communism...
...the publishers from tbe spokesman of the anti-liberal forces in the United States: Upton Close...
...Communism opposes such study, owing to the fact that when a group or individual look at » ' Jabor-msnagement problem from all Sides, it reveals the utter weakness of ' Communism and shows clearly how their doctrines offer no advantages to th* Canadian unionist...
...Baruch and author Carlson against totalitarianism are noteworthy and commendable...
...We have furnished more than seven hundred people weekly bundles of papers to distribute in many states...
...From the Labor Press, Hamilton, Ont...
...It must' work in good faith to assure a continuously rising standard of living and constantly have and hold the confidence 'of management The Aeld for union - and management cooperation li broad and offers great scope for Investigation and study...
...It erroneously stated that we had editorially attacked John Roy Carlson's books...
...t ion at League have been carried in Think Weekly...
...The fact that he recognizes Think Weekly as an outlet, ia significant enough...
...It has kept up a campaign against price control, and on occasions, fought other measures supported by organized labor...
...Here is your chance—easy—positive—you get value for every dollar...
...We have seen too many sellouts in our own industry by so-called'labor leaders (in the IWA-CIO) "who are known to have taken active parts in CP-sponsored meetings...
...Dwlght D. Eisenhower, Harold Ickes and Eleanor Roosevelt...
...In the same issue, Merwin K. Hart, as President of the National Economic Council which has fought against prolabor legislation and anti-discrimination legislation, now puts his sights on The Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, and the Church League for Industrial Democracy, and calls then* Communist...
...In a recent iss^ue Think Weekly appealed to: "Mr...
...Some of them even write for Think Weekly...
...Id one issue Think Weekly took up the cudgels for the odious pro-Hitlerite group, Tht Columbians, with a headline reading: "Attack on Columbians Similar to Effort For Intervention in Spain...
...It published on October 13, 1946, an article by Merwin K. Hart, noted Francophile, in which Hart attacked Roger Baldwin, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union as an * advocate of Communism...
...We have seen Harry Bridges, offering the bosses a "permanent" no-strike pledge...
...We have given away many thousand free papers during these 27 weeks Think Weekly )ios been published...
...Articles by Close have appeared in Think Weekly...
...We have seen IWA-CIO representatives organizing behind LSW-AFL picket lints, at the instigation of CP leadership, when our union was on strike for better wages and working conditions...
...By the time this is read, one such forum will have already been held...
...The records of both Mr...
...Do you trant lo prevent labor trouble...
...Dedicated to an expose of all totalitarion enemies of democracy How to 'Think Weakly" By Walter K, Lewis NEWSSTANDS in scattered locales throughout New Jersey and New York are selling, and subscribers in the 48 states are receiving, copies of a new weekly which announces boldly that t't is "combating Communism...
...One of its star attractions will be a former orator and leader of the Christian Front, which served as Bhock troops for the Coughlinite movement in America...
...To further illustrate how irresponsible birda flock together, Think Weekly carried advertisements for a book by a Salt Lake City lawyer, Jeremiah Stokes, in which The New Leader ia listed aa "official organ of the Communist Party...
...From Union Register, Dec...
...Manufacturer," in the following terms: "Are you hminy labor trouble...
...Send this paper out with your mail...
...Do you expect labor trouble...
...6.) NO COMPROMISE WITH COMMUNISM • Labor must carry on its work for collective bargaining and at all times look to better the welfare of its members...
...Applause for its efforts has been won by...
...From time to time in New Jersey's workers' districts Think Weekly will sponsor forums...
...Most irresponsible of the charges made under the guise of being a spokesman for the anti-Communist forces in the United States, Think Weekly on January 19, 1947, attacked Americans United For World} Government, Inc., a pro-democratic organization dedicated to the Idea of an anti-totalitarian On* World...
...In the same issue it proclaimed that "90 percent of our so-called problems today are being deliberately created-by the Communists to cause confusion and discontent...
...Please be assured of my friendly cooperation and best wishes...
...Baruch praising our editorial on tht atom policy of the United States...
...This is the most effective weapon against Communism, Take out insurance.against Communist organized labor trouble in your factory...
Vol. 30 • February 1947 • No. 6
