Nazi Terror Gangs Ready to Attack Czechs
Nazi Terror Gangs Ready to Attack Czechs Widespread Internal Chaos May Pull Japs Out of China labor League and A.F.L Cooperation foreseen in Mass. Green's Denunciation of Non-Partisan League...
...They are well represented among the officers of the Lesgae, notably in that the chairjuin is a member of the Teachers' Union, and have continued as active participants in the organizing work that is now going on...
...162.75...
...April 25th: Monday...
...The fran< remains at 163...
...The Spanish Republican Government expects to be the victim of Nazi efforts to isolate Franca on the continent...
...But that is a long way off...
...Ihe other large problem with which the League leaders are wrestling is what candidates they shall support in the primary and Soierober elections...
...A large military road and rail links now cover the route from Burma to Yunnan in China...
...The pound loiters around 153,50...
...Already counting on tins, Hitler has sent word down the line to- start the usual Nazi terrorism in Czechoslovakia...
...New drives by official battalions of the Reichsheer are expected by the Negrin cabinet' as a reaction to the change fir th* United States' administration attitude toward* '^em^aWt...
...March 23rd: Test in Senate due tomorrow...
...If no New Deal candidate proves satisfactory, there a s strong body of opinion which •npports the policy of running an independent candidate on a labor sate...
...The comparison is not mine but that 1 of Joseph Dubois, a caustic witty 1 French economist...
...from somewhere here in the East came Rudolf Markmann, eastern district leader...
...The depression abroad and the boycott in democratic nations have broughl Japanse exports down sharply...
...MarehanddSa and Bonnet are the victors...
...161,37...
...The last two months (March and < April) have brought added proof that "confidence is to capitalism what faith is to the church...
...The Tokio government is dependent upon the United States, France and Great Britain for its vital supplies, all of which is a powerful argument for the clamping down of the American Neutrality Act on the Japs...
...The scene at the meeting was the usual one...
...Confident comes back strong as Radicals (no the same kind) show signs of balk ing...
...Wotch Stondorte 2nd * Since Czechoslovakia has been abandoned by the French and British, and Italy's interest in Europe centers on the Brenner Pass, Southern Tyrol and Trieste, II Duce will probably promise aid to Hitler in any emergency arising out of tile invasion of the Sudeten district...
...Large shipments of coal arrive daily from all over the world...
...156,90...
...But the LaFollette party is another hazard to their re-election in the fall and most of them are ready to stampede unless Congress adjourns early enough to prevent their embarrassment, which is what the progressive bloc in both houses want...
...With its war budget of fullj $2,400,000,000 already inadequate Japan appears to be on the verge of complete international and do mestic collapse...
...At the same time she has only enough oil to last her some six months...
...158,95...
...Financiers, Under Daladier Regime, Reap Profits from Sabotage of Blum By BEN 'ROTTER PARIS.—Confidence—or the lack of it—in the French government usually translates itself on the 1 Paris stock exchange in wide ups and downs in tne value of the franc...
...1 p. m...
...There is no reason yet for a real panic...
...9 a m...
...Her adventure ii China now depends on the aid th< Nipponese will get—in the form o credit and munitions—i-from th other powers...
...We may as well take our profit and call it a day...
...They are both capitalistminded and have the same christian name, Paul...
...Tories Seek Adfournment The only objective of conservative members is to adjourn by June 3, which means trouble for the wages and hours petition, little or no chance for any legislation affecting anti-trust laws, and an improved chance that the President will get what he wants in the way of public works and relief appropriations, although with ear-maTking strings attached...
...The government holds council...
...163,68...
...It would almost cripple Tokio...
...Ba Maw, left for the Chinese border to study the developments in trade arising from the war and the new means of communication...
...The Socialists insist the rendezvous be kept with the aged...
...A complete town is springing up at the border to provide living quarters for the platoons of Chinese soldiers that will be necessary to handle the freight traffic...
...Hitler marches into Vienna...
...April 11th: Blum resigns, bah dier is named prime minister...
...Even if the Japanese succeed in bringing up 500,000 new men as a result of Japanese War Minister Sugiyama's mobilization call, the Chinese, who already have about 800,000 men in South Shantung, will be able not only to outnumber the Nipponese but to better equip its men...
...wiped out and the Securities and Exchange Commission to relax its vigilance, despite the recent Whitney debacle...
...China's resources far exceed Japan's...
...1SSJS...
...Vsst Resources way inaccessible to Japs...
...LONDON.—Once mare, a...
...3 p. m...
...Reynaud is in the political hemisphere more Conservative but believes the financial situation calls for radical measures...
...it wants the N.L.R.B...
...Some observers here believe that the chances for getting the wages and hour bill on the floor of the House through petition are now much greater...
...Special ta The New Leader WASHINGTON, D. C. — Anti-" New Deal Democrats, who rode in on the Roosevelt bandwagon and have been trying to pull the wheels out from under ever since 1936, are worried by this week's primary victory of Senator Claude Pepper, who ran on a straight New Deal platform...
...Later they hecome martyrs when released, since their alibis are always perfect...
...Freistadt, a little Austrian town on the Czechoslovakian frontier, may become another Sarajevo...
...Swastika flags, Bund uniforms of gray and black, and squads of the youth organizations were plentiful...
...tale No Action Immediately after President Green decided to extend the deplorable split in labor's ranks to Ike political field and made his speech denonuncing the Non-Partim League, the central A. F. of L. body of Massachusetts met and derided to support his policy without, however, attacking the League in say way, and, it is generally believed here, leaving the way open for the unofficial cooperation of all labor behind progressive candiaues...
...fiessman Casey...
...158,19...
...Altffough the British and fie French have grounds to believe that Tlitler will get little from .Fascist Italy, the continent's smaller nations and Spain, knowing that Mussolini has little to lose -within their boundaries, also know tKwn Duce will give Hitler carte blanche...
...London* (being nearer Paris) MS...
...The invaders' acute shortage of fighting materials and the financial crisis at home may soon bring Japanese attempts to have a neutral nation effect a peace which would leave the conquered territory in her hands...
...Orders come through regularly to stir up trouble in Czechoslovakia...
...158,25...
...April 23rd: Yesterday was Friday...
...Chautemps has promised to place the bill for old-age pensions before the Chamber of Deputies no later than March 10...
...March 14th: Chautemps resigns...
...England sells Japan 85 per cent of the wool she needs...
...Social Reforms in Peril After the show Big Business put yn this week at its Chamber of Commerce meeting, there is no ioubt that from now on the pins n the anti-New Deal bowling game will be the Social Security Act, the Wagner Act and the S.E.C...
...March 15th: The capitalists have done the job so well, the franc gets out of control Ind goes to 165...
...The cabinet has 1 short breathing-space...
...Green's Denunciation of Non-Partisan League Ignored—Labor Candidate May Run for Governor...
...The system worked well in Austria...
...Special to the New LeaiS...
...Since it is paerally believed herfe that there '» longer .is any possibility of hats Roosevelt, the President's SfVunning for Governor on the iBocratic ticket,, the question is: fcll labor's support be thrown to fie candidate Whom the New Deal Democrats will undoubtedly presat in opposition to the reactionary snti-N'ew Deal Hurley machine ? Independent Ticket Possible Possibilities now being considered as likely to dispute Hurley's esntrol are the mildly liberal State Attorney-General Dever and the young but more aggressive Con...
...March 16th: However.-gentlemen, let us not exaggerate...
...A new route which the Japanese cannot reach, over which huge shipments of guns, tanks, munitions and planes can be transported, discovered recently, has already been exploited...
...The importance of the conference with Kuhn can be judged from the distances traveled by the regional lieutenants of the U. S. Fuehrer...
...April 8th: The stock exchang considers the moment ripe to ui pressure...
...The only new angle here is that the -British can't ignore Nazi Aggression so close to home, especially since the country offers some fine air base sites...
...It was the " S tandar t e 2nd" whith led the campaign of terror in Austria in 1934 whose climax was the assassination of Chancellor Dollfuss...
...In the chronological table below, the pound sterling is used in preference to the dollar, in order to better visualize the rapid fluctuations of the franc...
...The Paris stock exchange is closed Saturdays...
...April 20th: Confidence is a great thing...
...March 17th: Blum wins vote of confidence in the Chamber, but the right wing of his majority is shaky...
...She must import all her highly mechanized war materials, such as tanks, planes, and motor trucks...
...A** the Japanese lines in the Shantung sector continue -to buckle under sledgehammer .drives of a rejuvenated, reorganized, united, well-equipped Chinese army, and the Tokio government invokes the sweeping powers of the Japanese mobilization act which will give the premier complete control of private life and industry, Marshal Chiang KaiShek is ready to launch a drive to keep China supplied with arms and to exploit its vast raw material sources...
...The real director Of German assnstmiia in Czechoslovakia, the Sudeten "Seyss-Inquart," wont bo knows oatH Hitler takes oven the district...
...March 9th: Chautemps seeks to avoid the issue by asking full power to act by decree...
...March 10th: Rumors Chautemps : may resign rather than risk splitting the People's Front, though the ' Rightists press him to accept their , votes...
...April 22nd: Reynaud is considered an expert on financial matters, though only Minister ef Justice...
...China's Resources Superior Thousands, of Chinese soldiers are being turned out of the strategically placed training camps every week...
...IHfeflia WWMi Kffievt vrflfuc FT rflUfi miPcu DodfussOrderedto Work on Profit Danish Socialist Cabinet Orders Investigation as Hitlerites Increase ProFascist Agitation...
...Nervousness on the stock exchange, 160.93...
...Senators, Blum must go...
...March 25th: The Senate accords five instead of the eight billior francs needed...
...The news leaks out, but the communique is only read towards three o'clock...
...Special to The New Leader...
...The Socialists show no inclination to be taken in...
...Factory owners accept to settle strikes IK" the very same conditions they refused a week earlier...
...Last week the Burmese premier, Mr...
...Labor's Non-Partisan IsHgae in the coming fall elections...
...pursuance with Green's policy...
...The camps are manned by foreign military men, all of '.vhom .have held important posts in former European governments...
...Paul Marchandeau is a Radical but conservative...
...Japs Depend on Imports V In contrast to this, Japan has practically nothing...
...So while Hoalein makes the noise, the -men of the "Standerto 2nd" eriginOW "incident'' after cident" to give Hitler an opening and to give the world outside the impresion that the Sudeten Germans are restless and the Czech Government is powerless to keep order...
...LONDON...
...The rally was held out at Camp Nordland in Andover, near Newton, New Jersey, Mayor Hague's state...
...A free flow oi armaments from America will enable the Loyalists to continue fighting for many shore months, even years, which is something the Nazis, Fascists and Tories can't afford...
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...That is all they can agree on...
...Relative calm...
...Blum trio« t/i form a National Unttv Cabinet, fails, and must satisfy himself with a government formed of Socialists and Radical-Socialists...
...New Deal Win Worries Tories in Congress Hopes for Passage of Wage-Hour Bill Brighten as Result of Senator Pepper's Victory in Florida Primary...
...162.25...
...in charge of arrangements was William Kunze, national director of public relations...
...11 a. m. ICS...
...In the meantime, up at the other end of Germany the Nazis are kicking up a row 'in Denmark...
...From now on the fight over the New Deal will grow hotter, with every sort of propaganda and lobbyist weapon in the war against social legislation...
...In the meantime, as a result of agitation by the Social Democratic Federation and other anti-fascist organizations, Mayor LaGuardia has ordered a complete investigation of the armed Nazi guards maintained by the German-American Bund, and the attack on Charles Weiss, the crippled editor of an anti-Communist, anti-Nazi magazine published in Brooklyn...
...By DOUGLAS BLAUFARB Special to The New Leader OOoTON, Mass.- -The one point ?*t emerges dear <>ut of the pre¦ uncertainty in which labor •Jities finds itself here, is that the Uor has been definitely left open far cooperation between the A. F. of L. and...
...world watches the meeting of the Nazi and Fascist dictators, every small nation in Europe prepares for possible sudden aggression within a few months...
...The seriousness of Japan's position is emphasized by her importation of almost 75 per cent of the raw materials she uses, while China has huge deposits of iron ore, oil, copper, coal, tungsten, antimony and tin, all vital to the manufacture of munitions and the transportation of motorized troops...
...April 6th: Chamber of Deputie approves by reduced majority, 31 to 250, due to abstention of man Radicals...
...One ef the gaag's methods is to have two or three men attract the attention of the police and, if possible, get arrested while their accomplices are blowing up somebody or something...
...From the West Coast came Hermann Sehwinn, who, along with the Nazi San Francisco Consul Killinger, runs German propaganda out West...
...it may work in Czechoslovakia...
...Leon Blum is vice-president...
...Monutocture Incidents Henleht, pressing his "demands", on the Government in Prague, is merely the front, the loud-speaking mouthpiece, used to draw attention from the real undercover activities* of the Nazis...
...But, while the Some festival is the biggest story of the month to the 8,000 international correspondents in Rome — Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Rumania, Switzerland and BuiTram are setting their secret police, how organized on a wartime basjs, on the, trail of the well organized, well financed Nasi espionage, propaganda .and terroristic cliques...
...The pound goes to 155,50...
...The Nazis are particularly strong in the frontier districts of South Jutland, the part of Schleswig which the Treaty of Versailles took from Germany and gave to Denmark...
...On dark nights they slip over the frontier, one by one, through the forests near Freistadt, following orders which will create an "international incident" which will give the Nan government the chance, to move its infantry, artillery and aviation forces, stationed near Dresden, into Czechoslovakia...
...The Danish Socialist Minister of Justice, Steincke, has lost no time in appointing a special commission to investigate Hitlerite activity which has been increasing there...
...160.12...
...Marc bandeau is Minister of Finance...
...Japan's tremendous imports are already cracking her financial structure...
...159,43...
...164,37...
...Industry wants amendments which will cut out its old age and unemployment insurance taxes...
...All Bauxite for her , planes, most of it comes from Canada, must be imported...
...So the attack on the franc is continued hi London and New York, capitalism knowing 'no frontiers except when they are convenient...
...With the industrialists and financiers at their back, most Congressmen are in no mood for new reforms...
...April 15th: Daladier given financial powers refused Blum...
...TtSl The financial decree* are to aV published on May 3rd, which cornea after May 1st, Labor Day in Parti...
...If the Pepper victory is any indication of the temper of the people throughout the country, and there's no reason why it shouldn't be considered so, those anti-New Dealers who refuse to play ball with their more progressive colleagues on the wages and hour bill and the new relief appropriations will be on the spot...
...U. S. Nazi Chiefs Come East for Hew Orders from Kuhn Although the four regional American leaders of the German-American Bund announced "that they came into New York City to speak at the "May Day Celebration" of the local Nazis, the real reason for their coming was an important conference with the national Fuehrer, Fritz Kuhn, who has just returned from Berlin, where he received his instructions for this year's American campaign from Adolf Hitler himself...
...In the weeks that have passed liace William Green's denunciation jf the Non-Partisan League, none of the A. F. of L. unions which took an active part in the recent convention of the League, have jjiown any indication of their delire to withdraw, in...
...April 26th: Confidence blooms forth again in all its splendor...
...Forty-eight of the toughest gunmen of Austrian Nazidom have been stationed in the town, 1MB supplied with dynamite, bombs, hand grenades and guns...
...If it does, the European blow-up everyone has been expecting may have arrived...
...It has become the headquarters for the ruthless Nasi terror gang known as the "Standarte 2nd...
...March 8th: The fatal day approaches...
...Nine months' of severe fighting have left Japan bankrupt and China in better economic condition than before the war started...
...March 1st: Chautemps is president of the French Council...
...March 28th: Lack of confident going strong...
...Boycott Effective Besides this strain on the nation, already bankrupt by pushing an aggressive war hundreds of miles away, additional tension is created by the desperate need of almost all metals necessary for the manufacture of munitions and the machinery with which to make them...
...New York IS...
...160...
...Blum's cabinet cannot last long...
...The conservative area* attacks Reynaud...
...11 tandem Bonnet-Marchandeaji is the saddle again...
...most of her cotton comes from the United States, and she must import all the rubber she uses not only in the army but in civil and industrial life as well...
...from Milwaukee, where the trade unions have exposed him, came George Froboese, the midwestern district leader...
...The pound is quoted 161,65...
...after that she'll have to buy in such huge quantities that she must seek outside credit, which is difficult to get...
...April 5th: Blum asks for specie powers to impose capital levy am other radical measures...
Vol. 21 • May 1938 • No. 19
