West Coast Labor Girds to Smash Pro-Fascist Measures
West Coast Labor Girds to Smash Pro-Fascist Measures Bills Would Cripple Unions, Outlaw Strikes by LEON EDWARDS The New Leader SAN FRANCISCO.—Tuesday, November 8, will tell *b< story of...
...Leverett Saitonstall, former Speaker of the State House of Representatives, is the Republicans* choice this year...
...The Partisan Review's chief offense, according to Mr...
...into Hungary, only to be cold-shouldered by officials with Nazi contracts in their fists...
...y BUAS JL TAIT JUL BOOKS AND WRITERS "Attacks an Soviet Union" Fj last week's issue of The New Leader, Eugene Lyons paid his respects to Malcolm Cowley of ••te New Republic...
...The occasion, as the afrpdaa „gj remember, was a previous article by Mr...
...Would it not be better, therefore, for able publicists like Mrs...
...The last scene is the most hilarious...
...Since even pro-administration Senators are privately conceding the loss of four or more majority seats in the Senate, the Republican opposition feels that it can swing enough power to beat back any new reforms, including reorganization, planned by Roosevelt...
...His political decease was thought certain until in the Democratic primaries this year it was found that there was no one else to oppose tile rank reactionary incumbent of tile governorship, Charles F. Hurley...
...Marx calls for confessions...
...Professional advertising men are doing the work of potting the bill over, with a huge publicity concern in each state being given the job of spreading the kill-the-union propaganda under the guise of "preserving industrial peace".and "ending labor racketeering...
...Adams' book was " the passage of the Wiley Food and Drug Act...
...He's sending his men scurrying into Rumania after oil, - only to find that the Nazis got there first...
...Woodward's point of view is liberal, "edu-estional," mildly reformist...
...Said he, "We have plenty on the Kansas Fascist Winrod, on North Carolina's Silver Shirt chief, William Dudley Pelley and the other totalitarian-ites...
...1») in which ,,{,1 Mr...
...MOW do you begin to get my idea about the essential sterility of this "consumer consciousness" which the Consumers Union, the women's club publicists, and other liberal agencies and individuals strive so earnestly to nourish...
...The Great American Art Sy JAMES XORTY DARENT-TEACHERS, scout masters, Epworth • League directors, home economists, and Women Shoppers who haven't had their worthy cause today—these and other middle-class political adolescents are peculiarly susceptible to a form of auto-eroticism known as "consumer conscious-MSB...
...Marx takes off his whiskers and reveals the smiling face of Comrade Stalin...
...So that the net situation today is something like this: the advertising racket is phonier on the whole than it ever was, especially now that it is complicated by radio...
...Bakunin, with a bomb in his pocket, threatens •otto wee to blow up Marx...
...into the Near East, only to find that even Turkey, Iran and Iraq are lined up by Berlin...
...Bat his complete possession of the vetes of the metropolitan Irish population until recently when he ran for Senator and last year when he ran for Mayor has always carried him through...
...branches throughout Texas, shortly before elections there...
...They intend to cripple the Spanish government this winter...
...British Colonies Endangered Italy lost out in Vienna Nazis barring a common border between Poland and Hungary, proved to Eastern Europe that Germany could not only turn Britain and France out of Central Europe, but the Italians as well...
...Report la January The |2S,000 originally granted it was spent months ago on preliminary work in all sections of the country...
...Labor was tempted to support ferir, in preference to Curley until itwa» realised what a blow bis election would be to she Mow t»aal...
...But Chamberlain, despite his having official Italian admission in Some publications that there are more than 2,000 Italian pilots fighting for the rebels, is in no mood to quibble over details or to bother much over the demise of democracy in Spain._ Both Chamberlain and Mussolini know that they'd better get busy or the Berlin crowd will be swinging the Fascist axis all by itself, and it'll probably land on Borne and London with a crash fatal to both countries...
...Meanwhile, the reader may well look up Edmund Wilson's akit...
...During the week preceding the Commons ratification of the Duce-Chamberlain treaty, 4,549 soldiers of the regular Italian army were landed in southern insurgent territory...
...another was the establishment of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry of the American Med-nti Association...
...Woodward's book is one of those books—and much more enlightening: than the average at that, because Mrs...
...Such is tee story of Curley's political nrurrec-tion...
...That statement still stands and no denial from the Texans can vitiate it...
...Now, dear reader, is not this an "attack on the Soviet Union," on the sovereign right of the Russian people to he happy in their own Stalin way...
...Mrs...
...Groundwork has already been laid for concerted opposition to confirmation of F-DJt.'s new Federal appointees...
...On closer inspection, the reader will find that the Partisan Review dares to speak of the enslavement of the people of Soviet gotaia by the present dictatorship, of the .enslavement of literature and art, of nnmiilialinii camps and purges,—and dares to call for a hah ia these "democratic" activities of the Stalin r*ThL, to the Cowleys and Maxwell S. Stewarts, is an "attack on the Soviet Union," i. e., an attack as the people of Soviet Russia, on their sovereign eight to be sent by the millions to concentration camp*, to be executed and deprived of political and intellectual freedom...
...of the results of Mr...
...Bakunin, Proudhon, Engels and others are present...
...About a half hour's stop at this way station is plenty, in the opinion of this writer...
...a Prolet-Play" (Partisan Review, lane, 1938...
...The magazine is somewhat chaotically and confusedly leftist...
...When Proudhon asks Bakunin: Why don't you throw the bomb?— Bakunin's answer is: This will always be unexplained...
...En route, however, Mrs...
...Byrd Sloe Fights F.D.R...
...into Jugoslavia, only to be balked by new German trade agreements...
...Woodward manages to give us a competent summary of the rise of the super-markets, the current wars involving price faring and the chain stores, a good deal of hard-boiled data about past and present advertising practice, something about radio advertising, and a little about the "kept" consumer pressure groups which are organized by advertisers for the purpose of putting the real McCoys like Mrs...
...It gees without say that they "unmask" him, take away his Dialectic and generally "stand him en his bead...
...BRUSSELS.—Europe was treated to new debacles this week as Germany again dissected Czechoslovakia, and Cham-, berlain...
...In San Francisco, every apartment house and hotel was swamped with copies of a circular urging passage of the anti-labor bill...
...It is the point of view of Samuel Hopkins Adams, who wrote a better hook thirty years ago exposing the patent itdkinc racket...
...It is a ¦seating of the First international...
...Wood-"**j*<i was an ad-woman once—until the racket bored her blotto years ago as it did so many others, including this reviewer...
...Cowley, lies in the magazine's constant "attacks on the Soviet Union," no leas...
...In Washington State, the antiunion initiative has received the severe condemnation of such noted state leaders as Senator Lewis B. Schwellenbach and Congressmen John M. Coffee, Wallgren and Smith...
...MOVEMENT—TO THE REAR AK...
...It is an impudent and witty piece of writing...
...COlirnMO?S GALORE OAXUNIN and Proudhon confess to being ** fascist spies and traitors...
...2.75...
...Karl Marx is equal to the occasion: he explains to Lassalle that the party line has changed: the popular front takes in an alliance with the liberal nobility...
...First steps in broadening the scope of the Associated Farmers is seen in the formation of A.F...
...B is a pleasure to disagree with a good deal oat reads in the Partisan Review...
...He is the head of one of the most ruthless, effective and reputedly corrupt Democratic machines in the nation...
...But nothing has been done and probably nothing will, since most of the Dies Committee report is in final shape and needs only the formal drafting before it's presented to Congress early in January, where the Texans expect it to kick up quite a flurry...
...It is also significant of these harsher times that today neither Cottier* nor any other mass magazine could afford to print Mrs...
...It is a medley, but it is vital and interesting...
...And II Duce is worried about it...
...There were giants in those days...
...at the '^^^^^M...
...Many times mayor of Boston and recently governor of the State, the unsavory odor of bribery and -corruption has always surrounded his name...
...MARTS WIFE AND THE "PARTY-UME" ITS anachronism and cheeky allusions are enough to explain Mr Cowley's wrath at the Partisan Review's "attacks on Soviet Russia.' Earl Man appears as a manly lad of fifteen under the windows of Jenny von Weatphalen (later to he his wife, of coarse) and calls out, Comrade Jenny...
...ejected head of the state, to reiease ^?^D^D^D^D^DW^DmDM??^Dm the imprisoned labor leader...
...Sheri- Leon Turrou, formerly with jm dan Downey is being: backed by F.B.I, was on the stand for labor for Senator from California, hours as defense attorneys traesi despite his espousal of the wild his adventurous background...
...Proudhon overhears the threat...
...Tour reporter recently spoke to one, of the Dies investigators who had been looking into anti-semitic activities...
...Passage of the bill, Schwellenbach told a rally in Washington last week, "would send us back to the age of feudalism" and vitiate the rights unions have won in the past ISO years, including all New Deal labor legislation...
...Woodward to put their energies into the cooperative movement, which is so much more soundly based, both in theory and practice...
...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...
...strengthened by the result of recent Parliamentary and municipal elections, forced through Parliament the ratification of the British-Italian pact, which is interpreted here as the first open step the Tories have dared take to crush Loyalist Spain...
...they got serialized in Colliers Magazine, and they Rt action...
...In this respect it portrays faithfully the economics of capitalist distribution...
...Massachusetts Labor Backs Curley for Governor Against GOP's SaltonstalJ By DOUGLAS ALAI?MAMB Special to The New Leader...
...Charles Sprague, the Republican standard-bearer in Oregon, preceded Henry L. Hess, bis Democratic opponent, in expressing firm opposition to the anti-labor initiative...
...Woodward out of business...
...Otherwise Curley is no- great prize...
...Harcourt, Brace & Co., New York...
...Couley (The New Republic, Oct...
...Faced bn the threat to all workingmen, CIO and AFL anions are pesh ing a widespread counter-campaign that includes huge father hand-to-hand distribution of leaflets, speeches before tion partisan and social clubs, sound truck broadcasts, distrtbiit.-oi of buttons, and use of windshield stickers, all of which urgi defeat of anti-labor measures to be voted on in each of ?m three states...
...IT'S AN AST, by Helen Woodward...
...We've been getting action ever since—one step forward, and two steps back...
...So the British Tories and the Blackshirts are building' their own axis, all the while placating Germany, to save their colonies in Africa and the British interests in the Far East...
...Finally, Engels himself confesses that he "didn't know about the plot and failed to prevent it...
...and with that in mind both Labor's Non-Partisan League and tea A. W. of L. ha** pledged to back the Democrat, f...
...Sprogat Progressive In Oregon, both the Republican and Democratic candidates for Governor have expressed their opposition to that state'* initiative which, like its counterparts in Washington and California, would ban free speech and press for labor, virtually outlaw picketing, and make strikes impossible...
...He snatches the Dialectic and shoots himself...
...This is probably the result of scr aany leftist fragments represented on the pages of the Partisan Review: Trotskyites...
...Should the organization and its allies succeed in their drives next Tuesday, indications are that they will immediately attempt to swing across the country to destroy any civil liberty, collective strength, or decent working conditions that any American union ever fought for and won...
...A HUT ON MARX AMD STAUN" tJOWEVER...
...West Coast Labor Girds to Smash Pro-Fascist Measures Bills Would Cripple Unions, Outlaw Strikes by LEON EDWARDS The New Leader SAN FRANCISCO.—Tuesday, November 8, will tell *b< story of whether the biggest anti-union drive ever to hit t'x West Coast succeeds in crippling- the strength of every labei organization in California, Oregon, and Washington...
...all but six states have passed price-fixing laws, this representing the application to the consumer of the more rigorous neo-capitalist philosophy of the late Texas Guinan: "Never give a sucker a break...
...By sending M. Francois-Poncet *~-------- — to Rome as Ambassador, Daladier has tacitly admitted that the Trench border will definitely be closed within a month, not only officially but against the vast amount of munitions and other war material which in the past the Popular Front government permitted to be "smuggled" across...
...Curley, ex-Governor and ex-Mayor of Boston, was chosen because it was feared that the election of Saitonstall would have national repercussions of great harm to the New Deal...
...Mora Baca Troops With the Tories granting belligerent rights to the rebels, insurance rates will shoot sky high, owners will send only their slowest and most decrepit ships, knowing that the Italian-manned Franco air fleet can effectively blockade the Loyalist coast, and so permit even new withdrawals of Italian "volunteers.'' Official Loyalist sources reveal that there are now 118,444 Italian soldiers, airmen, and mechanics in rebel territory and more coming in every day...
...Farmers and their candidates...
...In the next scene, young Marx and Engels are studying under Professor Hegel...
...Young Lassalle stalks in on the scene and warns Marx that the letter's attentions to the aristocratic girl "verge on class betrayal...
...LW^^^^^mM Califomian voters will decide' I 'i^0^^^km whether they want to retain Gov- ^^P^^^ ernor Mernam in the face of his notorious anti-labor record which fl - *mH includes the calling: out of militia ja^^^B,'"** vm twice to put down strikes...
...Most active for the bills are the _ <Jf4 industrialist-controlled Associated j EX-G-M?Ul Q1112200...
...It ia a delightfully usereieal light satire on the official history: "From Marx to Stalin...
...All the evidence indicates that a declining capitalist economy can't afford the kind of reforms desired by the consumer movement...
...Cowley's reasoning and tactics, goes without say...
...One of these days, this columnist will take up some of the other features of the Partisan Review...
...Whereupon everybody is happy...
...1 jm same time, voters in this state will '??^m^m^m^?m\ w* M have a chance to work for the: 'l^^^^^^kjr' m freedom of Tom Mooney by chocs- H jg ing Colbert L. Olson, Democratic <^^^^^^^^^0b>'"^V «?a candidate, who has promised, rf H wf' S...
...30 Every Thursday" scheme...
...London-Rome Axis Seen As Nazis Grip Balkans UueeoJJoJ Hm MUM0 Troop* J* Rebei Sooia Froaaa Cuooai mllurn See* ia Tory Plan fo Dtwrvm LoyuHaei Oaf TMs Winter...
...Thousands of dollars have gone for transportation of important -witnesses...
...Here once again the loosely formed bloc of anti-New Deal Democrats and Republicans led by Senator Byrd of Vir-{ginia is making its power felt...
...Dies Shifts to [ Myfaarngf in Cmaif IVIIUIf 111 will Wl Drive on FDR (Continued from Page One) other reforms from the Girdler-Ford bloc...
...ex-Trots ky-itss, disappointed former pro-communists of various kinds, Edmund Wilson, Victor Serge and other...
...Any more is likely to be both a bore and an interruption of traffic...
...BOSTON.—With the choice before it of two equally undesirable candidates, Massachusetts labor has finally decided to throw its support in the coming election to candidate Curley of the Democrats in preference to the Republican Saltonst?lL The choice was hard, because labor had decided not to run its own candidate, and was made largely for reasons of national politics...
...ON TO CO-OPS...
...At the same time, Sprague has frequently landed "the humanitarian policies of President Roosevelt...
...The well-known deb linker of the advertising game needs little introduction, if any...
...This means that the only inlets lor food, oil and munitions, the vital necessities without which the Loyalists must surrender within six months, are the big eastern Mediterranean ports like Barcelona, Valencia, Gandesa and the rest...
...the American Medical Association, having taken over and deloused the advertising of "ethical proprietaries" finds itself with respect to most medico-economic issues, tied to the chariot of the drug interests...
...Woodward's mild copy (some of it appeared in the Notion) which, however, was prevented for over a year by threats of libel from printing facts of record regarding the highly questionable medical advertising campaign of the Philip Morris Company . contributed by this reviewer...
...That Eugene Lyons dealt adequately with the wjitkal morality of Mr...
...Now you understand why Comrade Cowley simply has to defend the liberties oi the Russian people against semi-fascists of Edmund Wilson's type...
...Large newspaper ads, billboards, millions of leaflets, short film subjects distributed throughout the large and neighborhood theatres, and radio speeches are the outlets for the advertising company's work...
...Cowley had sternly expressed his almost j,,.' disapproval of Partisan Review, a leftist aao, horrible to say,' an anti-Stalinite mags vine of considerable v boldness and ability...
...They have oj?ftioBS, even if they are not our opinions...
...As to type of writing found in the Partisan Review, this columnist takes malicious pleasure in referring the reader to Edmund Wilson's skit: "Karl Marx...
...Cowley champions the right of the Russian people to their concentration camps...
...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 "purgee8...
...They get it from reading "consumer books," ' jest the way you get athlete's foot by patronizing the shower baths at the T"—or so, at least, the advertisements tell me...
...In order to defeat Hurley, who is the yes-man of the Catholic Church, labor threw its support to Curley and succeeded in having him nominated...
...This column welcomes a contribution by James Rorty...
...it's an Art" starts nowhere in particular and ends at about the same place...
...will have an opportunity to show,1 ¦ ^^^^^^B in clear-cat and unmistakable ¦ ^^^^H terms, whether be favors the abo- '^H ^^^^b lition of civil liberties for working- j :flm _-J^^^B men, virtual outlawing oAstrikes, -^H ^^^?W??D^D^D^Dm and the maintenance in office of ¦ ^^^^k bitterly reactionary state officials...
...we've just passed a thoroughly castrated Food and Drugs bill...
...Marx shoots each of them with bis Dialectic...
...j jna< Every voter on the West Coast ' fl...
...Eugene Lyons' article offers to *» this columnist an opportunity to pay an old debt, to say a few words of the literary and jmsasiietic material of the Partisan Review...
...One grants readily that the consumer movement is a recruiting ground—a way station for people headed for the cooperative movement...
...He has s fajriy good labor record, besides having the reputation of rigid honesty, but he is a conservative Republicar...
...Since lecent surveys and elections have demonstrated Roosevelt's great popularity in the Far West, Oregon's Republicans have swung away from the extreme eight...
...Special to The Neto Leader...
Vol. 21 • November 1938 • No. 45
