Big Labor Vote Expected to Smash GOP Chances
Big Labor Vote Expected to Smash GOP Chances THE NEWS REEL By CHARLES EDWARD RUSSELL2 It seems that we in this country and on our own account can do 1 a job in Muniching and in our own way...
...Under cross-examination, the star witness, Rumrieh, revealed himself to be not a Nasi, but an amateur American country-spy with tendencies to talk like a Stalinist...
...Trktmph of peace" sang the cacklers...
...Nazi Terror Hits Movie Capital, Attacks Jews as 'Rapists' Special to The New Leader LOS ANGELES.—Nazi propaganda, which libels every ew in Hollywood as a "rapist" and a source of "Vice," "Dope," .nd "Gambling," has made its appearance in the film colony n the form'of lurid leaflets which hit a new low even for the rritz Kuhn cohorts...
...Report la January The $25,000 originally granted it - was spent months ago on preliminary work in all sections of the country...
...Beginning as little more than an uncertain experiment in 1936, its vote in that year was encouraging, so much so that it founded a permanent organization, adopted a state constitution, organized district clubs, and prepared for the campaign of 1937...
...Vladeek...
...It has fought a good campaign...
...1 Groundwork has already been - laid for concerted, opposition to i confirmation of F-DJl.'s new Fed-t era...
...By HERBERT SO LOW A series of government witnesses held the stand during the third week of the Nasi spy trial in New York, without materially altering the picture first painted by Ganther Gustavo Rumrieh, self-accused Nazi agent who has turned State's witness...
...Bat nothing has been dane and probably nothing will, since most of the Dies Committee report is in final shape and needs only the formal drafting be-' fore it's presented to Congress early in January-, where the Texans expect it to kick up quite a flurry...
...t\AJP...
...Holmes allow ** themselves to be fooled with this species of slap-stick, no one seed wonder that the German Consul at New York openly exults in the rapid spread of the Fascist philosophy...
...Since the supply of «tooges, labor spies, corporation agents, and discredited witnesses has been shown to be abundant, »it should be easy to reveal the Attorney General as in the pay of Moscow...
...Soon la Csaaraat Competent political reporters feel that Governor Lehman wouldn't stand a chance without American Labor Party support...
...Startfinc, Report Expected, By EDWARD LORING Special to The New Leader...
...There was apprehension in the tents of the mighty...
...In respect, for instance, to the vastly Profitable operations in chemicals promised at the Dead Sea...
...But because of the dastardly conduct^ of Attorney General Cummings and his accomplices, the blame' thing trt away again and is now at large in our fair land, menacing the American hearthstone and most sacred institutions...
...This fact, in ike light of the President's ami-spy statemear aV-soed on the trial's ave, and known to every juror in this case, foreshadows at toast ana eotr rctaox...
...Dejaoagfe strategists and their chief Jame» J. Farley, giro the Governor a state-wide lead of only 516,000 votes, considerably leas than what even the pessimists aspect tan Labor Party to poll...
...Bertie" Mc- jj% aaaa...
...Kennedy would be allowed to kiss the Duke's hand...
...Neither had anything to do with the defendants on trial...
...The gloom was so thick that it could be cut with a batcher's cleaver...
...Soifie A>»F¦ Lm S^^l^|^©ll*¦, Surprisingly enough, George Meany, New York State A F. of L. chief, has been stumping for Governor Lehman, despite the Federation's bitter attacks on the aVfa ican Labor Party during the past few weeks...
...in the Buckeye State...
...Byrd Sloe FiqJits F.D.R...
...But the young giant could not be seared, bribed or bulldozed...
...Behind the G.O.P...
...As for the rest of the Labor ticket, the party expects at least to .doable its present representation of Ave AeiMwhiBSfn, -mm** several State Senators, and prob-sfefeL .sga...
...FAITHFUL CHAMBERLAIN 1*HE revelation of the names of the men and women that compose * the "Cliveden Set" left not a ragged shred to cover the monstrous impudence of the pretense that any part of the international gangster proceedings had any relation to peace...
...Proof of Faseist Aid Reporters for the La bo rite Minnesota Leader and the Northwest Organizer, both supporting Benson, reveal that Stassen re-shaped his ticket to suit the Silver Shirts, who later urged election of the G.O.P...
...the great fighter for the clearance of the East ante slums, than these new teases, which will bring light and Joy to thousands who nisbarto knew only the darkness and sgaalor of the shims...
...Nothing must be left to chance...
...It now remains for us to see that the polls are manned with competent watchers on Section Day...
...Ex-GMan on Stand As Spies' Trial . Enters 4th Week Turrou Oalaaa?T aa> Pes* Ex • perten?o...
...ALP Seen as Key to New Deal Victory By BILL lOiffTS With Thomas E. Dewey, Republican "white hope," nuking a last-minute drive for the labor vote, the leaders of the American Labor Party, winding up their third campaign in a deluge of meetings in every "corner of the state, are positive that the A.L.P...
...Exactly what Sir George Younger and the Brewery Interests were twaj^y years ago...
...on the other...
...In his bitter disappointment, Mr...
...Silver Shirts Front for GOP in Minn...
...We have plenty on the Kansas Fascist Winxod, on North Carolina's Silver Shirt chief, William Dudley Pelley and the other totalitarian-ites...
...The two faces are set against ae background of a Jewish six-ointed star, around which the Nazi artist" has coiled a snake...
...Where industry decays it undermines and threatens political democracy...
...To keep the gun base at Haifa and Jaffa, the oil pipe line from Mesopotamia, and the trade with Indian Moslems may not be all of 'he real explanation of the British government's desire to be done with any idea of a Jewish Home Land...
...I Since even pro-administration Senators are privately conceding the loss of four or more majority seats in the Senate, she Republican opposition feels that it can swing enough power to beat back any ' new reforms, including reorgani-i sation, planned by Roosevelt...
...It adopted a |i1nffjajpjw iliiali in Hii flml paragraph, declares that it "enters its third political campaign with a confidence born of the knowledge that during the brief period of its existence it has become deeply rooted throughout the Empire State" and that it has "established itself on a permanent basis...
...t This conservative bloc, after having raised enough money to cover a deficit many times the original $25,000 appropriation Congress handed to Congressmen Dies-Garner and company, this week decided to shift big guns of the Dies Committee to Ohio to assure itself conservative presidential timber in 1940, should Thomas E. Dewey lose in New York or, after winning, prove recalcitrant and insist upon finishing his gubernatorial term...
...to the Minnesota Teamsters' onions...
...national organizer, who once threatened to shoot President Roosevelt...
...and prevent a "revolution...
...After being publicly thumped by the President for having smeared the New Deal in New York and Michigan, using funds supplied it by the men Roosevelt tried to "purge," the Dies Smearing Committee is being shifted to Ohio by the powers that be, m order to assure the election 6? Robert Taft, son of the late President, who is waving1 the American flag for the G.O.P...
...Schenectady, Troy, Bingham-ton, Syracuse, and even Albany— while a good vote is expected from the smaller towns like Pisasbin, Rome and Poughkeepsie...
...The A.L.P...
...Vote American Labor Drive Out the Tories HPHE American Labor Party will face its third trial of strength * in the election next Tuesday...
...Both claim to be American patriots . . . and to have done away with evidence or otherwise to have weakened in strange ways the government case...
...Toar reporter recently spoke to one, of the Dies investigators who had been looking into anti-semitic activities...
...It has good prospects of electing more candidates than it did last year...
...Hollymwood is the Sodom and Gomorrha where young gentile girls are raped by Jewish producers, directors, casting directors who go unpunished...
...With this pair in the White House nothing but an invasion from Mars could save the Social Security Act* the NX.R.B., and (Continued en Page Three) Drive on FDR (Continued from Page One) other reforms from the Girdler-Ford bloc...
...One of the slickest bits of anti-New Deal business is being maneuvered by the unofficial old guard Democrat and Republican liaison committee which has been working behind the scenes ever since the Tories in both parties jnmped the bandwagon to defeat the court reform bill and the reorganization measure...
...Toft Next Vice-President...
...Only One Cob-vicfioa Expected...
...angle, and takes toward Matthews a nattering tone which would make it easy for the CP...
...ver^tr?s j In Minnesota 1 TnntfnurtJ from r*«<re On...
...Big Labor Vote Expected to Smash GOP Chances THE NEWS REEL By CHARLES EDWARD RUSSELL2 It seems that we in this country and on our own account can do 1 a job in Muniching and in our own way be as good as the best The Power Trust, an institution in principle not unlike the Hitler ¦model, wins out attest with a capitulation by the Administration and mmeh "appeasem?iir...
...As election day nears, the Silver Shirts are speeding up .their anti-Labor Party campaign, outlined by Roy Zachary...
...Although he may exist, he is absent...
...As the week drew to a close, Leon Turrou, G-man who was fired under a cloud from the Department of Justice immediately after the present indictment was returned, was being cross-examined...
...aside from ail questions as to Bniwttob'a cnameter, motives or esedi bittty, d*e tztot seems to support the iaitVjiillaldi thesis that the Nazi galsilisisiq, like any other, anas «pia» bVAsner-ica...
...Thousands of dollars have gone for transportation of important -witnesses...
...JDorothy Blis...
...Here is just the same old "ruling class" that has always been the actual government...
...Chemicals are well represented at Cliveden...
...The A.L.P...
...3. Attorney Matthews alone, inasmuch as Mr...
...Whole neighborhoods have been ooded with posters urging that Christian Vigilantes Arise!," and earing the slogans "Buy Gentile," Employ Gentile," and "Vote Gentle...
...will draw such a record vote—optimistic reports indicate 650,000—that Dewey's strength in the rural areas will be counteracted, permitting the New Deal slate, led by Governor Lehman, to sail into office with a large plurality...
...In the face of the demonstrated fact that the government-owned TVA has already saved to consumers in reduced raptes far more than its total cost...
...It was he that *>hen Chairman of the United States Shipping Board, ordered striking esatnen to be put in irons...
...press by emphasising t»s idea...
...The experiment of 1936 had become an influential and permanent political organization which the politicians of the ruling parties could not ignore in their calculations...
...2. Testimony revealed s ooun on the part of the missing Schlw-ter to teach Rumrich that the Soviet aad U! S. governments are identical, in so far as suffering from Nazi spying ?s oaajcerneft: Rumrich has greatly pleased the CP...
...Thtse are the facts, as clear now as the unclouded sun at noon...
...ANYTHING FOR APPEASEMENT MEANTIME, the lusty rooters for peace by surrender may care to note that one of the clauses in the proposed alliance between Nazi Germ?jy and Daladier's Faseist France is an agreement to Wmxle the French press that it shall say nothing unpleasant about Der Fuehrer—or, what is still more important, about the forces back *f him...
...It now appears that the State may rest before this third week ends...
...But I hope he will not *Uow himself to be disheartened by his temporary triumph of Evil...
...Significantly, Caesar's ehatvee «i escaping conviction has, to the opinion of many observar», since increased...
...The-old wigwam no longer echoed to the shouts of warriors bringing booty to the Sachem...
...This correspondent reported on September 10 that the brains behind the Dies Committee activities was Vice-President Garner, and that the money came from the "purgees...
...is here to stay...
...In plain, truth, it was the triumph of International Steel, International Banking, and Imperial Chemical...
...M Panaris from Brooklyn ami Isidore Nagler from the Bronx Although this year's registration is lower than the 1930 record, it is remarkably higher than the last off-presidential election year, 1934, and the total of 5,557346 registrants is worrying both old parties since it can be interpreted only as a swing to Dewey or the American Labor Party, whieh is not appetising to the Democrats on one hand or the G.O.P...
...entered the primaries, electing its legal committees and nominating its candidate* as prescribed by law...
...The elders of Tammany Hall, especially, wondered if it could not be chloroformed or kicked into oblivion...
...Continued ea Page Sevan) Documentary evidence of the ¦ deals between the G.O.P...
...aside from all questions as to the gv.it or innocence of Glaser...
...Taft is a senatorial candidate and would make fine vice-presidential timber to be coupled with Dewey...
...Labor strength will come from the large cities—New York, Buffalo...
...candidates Next Tuesday...
...Let him press on bravely at the call of doty...
...I A/ST BE PATIENT...
...which, in essence, will be a political demonstration...
...That statement still stands and no denial from the Texans can vitiate it...
...If Dewey wins, hell be the first Republican governor in 16 years, and at 39 will have captured the largest state in the Union, a state practically decisive in presidential elections...
...i Dies Shifts to Ohio in Smear Drive on FDR Seeks to Assure Election of Toft ia Ohio to Furnish G.O.P...
...SOO D MEN AND GULLIBLE DDT so long as good men and great spirits like Dr...
...Benson Governor Benson's Republican opponent, issued by the Silver Shirts, has swamped the Twin Cities, urging voters to support the G.O.P...
...But "appeasement"—we most have "appeasement.'' With Big Business, In this instance with the Biggest...
...All out for a big vote for A.L.P...
...DIES PHIEF Huntsman Dies assures us positively that if he had received any proper support from the abominable Administration men, his «spedition would have succeeded in treeing the Communist monster «o long ravaging our coasts...
...At the moment, the following main tendencies in the trial, which, incidentally, is not the newspaper hit hoped for by the prosecution, seemed clearer than ever: 1. Few of the charges against the defendants now in court are (Continued on Pago Three) flies Shifts to J?lll?lACf in Ctnnor nnwnwl tf I VIIIVUI Ex-G Man on Stand As Spy Trial Enters 4th Week CContinued from Fag* Oae> sen o as...
...Among leading witnesses following Rumrieh were two women who told lurid stories of relations with Nasi agents . . . bat always missing Nasi agents, some of whom "escaped" in unexplained ways...
...liW'wrawSSl..- '^..-*?i*e...
...Progress toward an "appeased"—and chain-bound—Europe seems • be aiming at a road record...
...to enoorae an eventual attempt by ahe anseeaatoa 4o get Matthews out of the case by drey-ping the charges asjainst the Hlitto involved Glaser 4. Aside from all ejaeistien» of military significance...
...In the face, finally, of what has hitherto been the policy of the Administration to foster the public ownership of public services...
...CLIVEDEN AND PALESTINE INCIDENTALLY, it might be well to inquire into relations between Imperial Chemicals, which is the British Chemical Trust, and the present situation in Palestine...
...Underneath the picture is the ry "Boycott the Movies...
...They gave their instructions to Yes Man Chamberlain, who sees them dutifully every Week, and he, like a well trained lackey, did what he was told...
...MM AFTER CLIVEDEN'S HEART THE news from London is that Ambassador Kennedy's eloquent xj)lea for a sweaty intimacy with totalitarian dictators has so thrilled »nd delighted the best circles in England that they are almost willing ¦ invite him to Cliveden sometime...
...The Jewish Hollywood Anti-Nazi League controls communism in the motion picture industry...
...WASHINGTON, D. C. — Since this week's election will decide the next presidential candidates, every local political machine has been streamlined, oiled, and poised to launch booms in every state in an effort to give each section's favorite son a two-year jump over his opponents...
...Dies will have, I am sure, the warmest sympathy of all Right Minded Men...
...Since none of the A. F. of L. unions have any grievance against the party, most of the 800.-000 A. F. of L. members to the State who will vote for T<thaian are expected to vote for him on the A.L.P ticket...
...This should be the next task...
...Standing out in the upper enter of the placards is a picture f the Nazi conception of a Jew, rhose profile is behind that of a hi...
...Of coarse, it is too late now to smear any more prominent candidates in this election, bat Mr...
...The snob end of the combination wants Fascism because it would guarantee them in their privileges and holdings and keep the lower orders down...
...The pmaieliaa obviously was disconcerted by the fact that Matthews questioned Jtumr.ui until the latter confesseTt-h* had on occasion espoused the Communist Party viewpoint...
...appointees...
...Let him proceed to tear the mask from this atrocious Cummings person...
...Attorney George Dix, representing Johanna Hoffmann and reputedly backed by German interests, attacked Turrou as corrupt...
...Similarly, the Daily Worker refrains from including in itsler^g?iy and enthusiastic reports any mention of the CP...
...With the government's aid, the Trust is to jpend two billion dollars in the next two years to extend its business tad services with the addition of 1330,000 horse power in its plants...
...Or be otherwise insubordinate...
...This latest Nazi campaign is seen as an effort to cripple the movie industry and to counteract the anti-Hitler boycott which has been very effective on the West Coast...
...will play te fature elections...
...In the face, also, of the fact shown by Congressman Rankin's investigations that the publicly-owned power plants in the country save the people every year more than half a billion dollars...
...A strong conservative Senatorial '¦ bloc is ready to capitalize on the - reaction to the report, which has enough information in it to startle ¦ the New Deal brain trust led by ' Tommy Corcoran and Ben Cohen...
...ScMaatar Emsrgas as Mystery Men...
...Abo with time to realize the realities of "realism...
...The business end of this combination wants Fascism for As labor peace aad &e low and dependable labor cost that it insures...
...Isaacs, president of Manhattan Borough, declared in offering his plan: "No better monument ..V: be erected to Mr...
...DY 1938 the American Labor Party had become a threat in the view of some powerful leaders of the old parties...
...Campaign Fascists Threaten to Use Bullets Ii Ballots Foil tc Oust Benson from Governorship fa November Elee-Tribune Smears Farmer-Laberites, Special to The New Leader MINNEAPOLIS.—One ofr the hottest campaigns ever waged in this Farmer-Labor controlled state has brought out a record registration on which the Laborites, led by candidate Governor Elmer A. Benson, pin their hopes of smashing the G.O.P.-agricultural implement trust-Silver Shirt combine...
...Stars, writers, and artists are compelled to pay for communistic activities...
...One might even hope to produce the cable message giving the order to "stop Dies at all costs...
...Two years before the election...
...On the other hand, Attorney Benjamin A. Matthews won from Turrou important admission as to his early views of the innocence of defendant Erich Glaser, to whom Matthews was assigned as counsel by the court...
...I am sure that if this fact were made •sown now in Mayfair, Mr...
...So the American Labor Party has grown up in three years...
...ticket will cause the defeat of the Democratic candidates Morris S. Tremaine aad Attorney General John J. Bsnattt, Jr...
...It declares that its fundamental objective "is the establishment of an effective and enduring political instrument to deal fearlessly with the social and economic problems of our State and Nation...
...Turrou repudiated the accusation...
...Muzzled as the English press ¦ already muzzled...
...Tofioe Fiobt Polotti Since disgruntled Democrats have been knifing ex-Supreme Court Justice Charles Poletti, bocaass of the ousting of Lieutenant-Governor Bray, there is a slight chance that the nominee for the Lieutenant Governorship may be defeated unless the American Labor Party gives him and Lehman the needed plurality of 200.000 votes, which however, seems assured...
...had "arrived," arrived in the seats of power...
...Whatever else may have been pretended for the fooling of simple outsiders, chiefly gullible Americans, one small' coterie of eminence has had a virtually absolute sway—in this "democracy...
...Said he...
...A. T. G. Wooster, Minneapolis fascist chief, acted for the Silver Shirts...
...new charges ma4e againet defendant Voas as to the eo» as of aircraft plans for German agents, assay higher on a test test than all of what preceded, bat fiber are baaed solely an a ripais islnn which Voss's attorney says was involuntary and false...
...Here once again i the loosely formed bloc of anti-r New Deal Democrats and Repub-i licans led by Senator Byrd of Virginia is making its power felt...
...ai* • . * ii 111 in i as ii...
...Cormick's Chi- m\r^^^^^^^o\cago Daily W y Tribune, and P. ft William Dud- \ ^^J^) ley Pelley, yfS^^n^^'^f/ chief of the yw^j~ If fascist, anti- \^"V\ ? Semitic Silver V^^2** ?A Propaganda Yj^J^ favoring Harold E. Stassen, Gov...
...It bentme « full-grown political party...
...Only in a large American Labor Party vote is there a chance for the Now Deal slate's election, since the Governor'* hope for election rests en his chance of securing a New York City plurality large enough to more than offset Dewey's probable plurality up-state...
...ISAACS UftMS "VLADffCK . HOUSES" AS PROJECT MAME A lower East Side «80.00C.OOC housing development, erected by New York City in its war on slums, will be named "Vladeek Bouses" if Stanley M. Isaacs' suggestion this week is accepted...
...i The second paragraph is equally firm in its confidence that the A.L.P...
...Where one decays the other tends to disintegrate...
...A heavy vote for both these men will moan the launching of a completely independent ticket in the future...
...He has organised anti-Benson squads and h?s openly boasted of his influence in the Republican Party...
...This means, of course, just so many more consumers to be bled and so much more capitalisation upon which rates are to be extorted from the public...
...The cross-examination also brought out the fact that before becoming a G-man, Turrou adventured from Moscow to Shanghai, from Berlin to London...
...For months now the Republicans *" in this state have fought with every hack political trick in the bag...
...and the Fascist Silver Shirts' leaders is in the hands of the editors of the Northwest Organizer, a news paper belonging...
...More aad more Sehlueter emerged as a key man...
...Presidential Timber...
...slate, warning the people that the Farmer-Labor Party must be turned out of office and "if it can't be done with ballots, now, there must be bullets later...
...To those that know Britain as it actually is and has been for many years, the disclosure seemed the most natural thing in the world...
...So close will be the vote of the Democrats and Republicans, it is generally expected that Langdon Post's total for Comptroller and Joseph O'Leary's vote for Attorney General on the A.L.P...
...Moreover, it adds this important statement: "It stands squarely for the principle that political democracy cannot survive without economic and social democracy...
...Dies should remember that there will be another election in 1940 and that with diligent attention to business, many a fair reputation can he tainted before that time arrives...
...Recall the pitiful outburst of jubilation over the "triumph of peace" at Munich and reflect upon what that event really was...
...The ladies' teatuaaug pointed mostly towards one Kar...
...Imperial Chemicals, the International Steel Interests, tive biggest bankers, and the most besotted of the nobility are now...
...No greater truth has ever been stated in any party platform...
...Some of the witnesses for the State have contradicted themselves or each other...
...When all the Powers have been properly appeased, the masses of the population here and elsewhere will be like a man tied hand aid foot to a tree and awaiting the leisure of the pickpockets...
...Remember, a vote cast isn't always a vote counted...
...It it wiser, more experienced, better organized and disciplined...
...The vote for Post and O'Leary will be indicative of the straight American Labor Party sUsugth to the state and will teu the story of the part the A.L.P...
...They can, indeed, have full confidence in him, for his adhesion to WO Fascist creed is no seventh-day conversion^ The Marquess of Londonderry and the Duke of Backstairs should not forget that he ¦a* historically demonstrated his faith by hie works...
...Despite its lack of experience and the new human material that had to be organized and disciplined for the campaign last pear, the American Labor Party finished the struggle with substantial delegations in the City Council and the State Legislature...
...has been V the money of the International Harvester people, and the active support of Col...
...Schlue-ter...
...Due's htoater is hardly likely to charm the jury, has approached the heart af tia question involved in this .total- 9s bringing oat Rumrich'* StaUxuziag tendencies, he suggested an underlying political element...
Vol. 21 • November 1938 • No. 45
