BOOKS AND WRITERS
BOOKS AND WRHlRlT Novels of Several Countries THERE are novels which are easy and pleasant to read but not so easy to analyze or define. Bruce Marshall's book* is one of such novels. While you...
...Like other Fascist organizations, European and American, the Confederation is strongly opposed, in words, to the evils of finance capitalism, evils which it of course attributes solely to the machinations of Jews...
...Marshall has a keen eye, Scottish irony, and his lines have a silken, smoothness...
...Beneath is this inscription: "By buying here you help the Communist...
...Forty years later thus dialogues were put into the mouths of non-existent Elders of Zkm for the benefit of the Russian Secret Police...
...The program calls for the destruction of political democracy, labor unions and "Jewish influence" in favor of a program of "Racial purity, White Supremacy and a Christian guardianship over racial groups that cannot be assimilated...
...Herring, comes from the Fascist nations, and Fascism is ah enemy whose strength must not grow...
...The individual characters and the particular people are nothing...
...From the minute the strike began, San Antonio's reactionary city machine, working hand in glove with Seligmann and the other pecan operators, launched a campaign of terrorism and misrepresentation against the strikers which has perhaps been unequalled in the recent history of labor in the United States...
...The avoidance of war is the civilized world's most pressing problem...
...They live in shacks jammed side, by side over Sam Antonio's West Side in what Congressman Maury Maverick and others have described as the worst slum conditions in the nation...
...OVERSIMPLE VIEW LfER views are neither profound nor startling, ** but they are attractively intelligent and worldly...
...Open anti-Semitic propaganda on the air is risky business as long as the Federal Communications Commission is on the job...
...Jews and Catholics suffer alike when the floodgates of religious and racial persecution are opened...
...IMAGES IN A MIRROR...
...Children often go into factories at the age of six while local authorities in charge of enforcing the state child labor laws turn their backs...
...Anti-Semites (Continued from Page Three) the Russian Black'Hundreds to the German Nazis of today...
...Adamson, whuac husband is already a Labor member of Parliament, captured the enormous industrial constituency of Dartford, Kent, where in 1935 the Tory Government nominee came through with a majority of...
...They live chiefly on a diet of tortillas and beans which produces pellagra, scurvy and other diseases of malnutrition . They and their families have a tuberculosis incidence and death rate four times as high as that among the other workers in the city, and what is said to be the highest rate in the entire country...
...At a time when the broadly political aspects of moral problems threaten to obscure the moral rife of the individual, and when moral clarity seems more often the mask of reaction than the servant of progress, it is refreshing to come upon Mrs...
...Child labor is the rule—not the exception...
...The ^word "Christian" has two meanings, one ethical, the ether, "Christians only need apply...
...MILWAUKEE, Wis.—Despite U G.O.P...
...This time he has only written a readable novel of melodramatic adventure...
...They backed the Silver Shirts in one of the most vicious fascist anti-semftic campaigns any state has yet seen and brought advertising pressure on the state's newspapers...
...is a practiced craftsman, and can get away with a good deal...
...West Lewisham, and Fylde...
...Then, one day, the inspiring example of a patient and God-fearing old woman rouses her to repentance, and she becomes reconciled to her career as wife and mother...
...British Labors Election Win Scares Tories Chamber loin Is Rumored Ready to Cell Geaersl Election as Engiaarf's Vital CeasHtaeacy Ts Captured by Jennie Adamson, Special to The New Leader...
...New Coughlin Broadcasts Aid U. S. Fascists9 Jew-Baiting -« Steel Trust, Silver Shirts Beat Benson MINNEAPOLIS, Minn—Unable to stop a coalition of Republicans, fascist Silver Shirts and steel trust money, Farmer-Labor Governor Elmer A. Benson lost his fight for re-election to Harold E. Stassen, on whom the G.O.P...
...Police Chief immediately announced that there was no strike and dispatched a force of 180 upecial police to put an end to the strike that did not exist...
...They came out on strike demanding the cut be restored...
...New York: Alfred A. Knopf...
...I fee...
...The Czarist Okhrana concoted the plagiarism for its own needs in combating revolution...
...Undset seems to assure ¦•..for any woman...
...The Conservatives are doubly hit because certain of victory, they tried to make this Dartford campaign a public Vindication of Chamberlain, "the angel of peace," believing that this would be a sure-fire vote getter since Dartford would suffer severely from air in case of war...
...Sabtle Aati-Semite ( At four o'clock last Sunday afternoon Father Coughlin'* voice returned to the air over Station WMCA, in the first of fifty-two hourly broadcasts dedicated to the cause of Christian Social Justice...
...Almost inevitably she finds herself listening to Vegard Luders...
...Her husband is a complete blank...
...A Scandinavian Navel By ROBERT 3. WARSHOW IN Image* in a Mirror,9 Sigrid Undset tells sin old story and preaches an old morality...
...It is the melodramatic and arbitrary element that makes the reader shrug Ms shoulders...
...Group Seeks 50 Million Fascists by '40 By BORIS SHwJ Fortunately for every racial and religious minority in the United States the whispering campaign did not prevent the re election of Governor Lehman...
...And all tihs because workers asked restoration of a wage cut which, when restored, would enable them to average little more than 92.00 a week...
...he lost a leg in some attack...
...Texas "Wages"=—=__1 "Let em Eat Nuts,55 Says Pecan King, Urging 5c-Per-Day Pay - _ e_ IN 1934, Pecan King Julius Seflg* mann stated under oath, "The Mexican Pecan Shellers eat a good many pecans, and five cents a day is enough to support them in addition to what they eat While they work...
...Victories are expected in Walsall...
...A true Fascist in the exact sense of the word, Father Coughlin couples every attack on organized labor, on the C.I.O., and on the New Deal with impassioned 'oratorical service to the cause of social justice...
...Undset's unpretentious realisation of the significance of the everyday problems of human relationships...
...In Spite of these profits Seligmann has continuously contended that the industry cannot pay higher wages, and has ruthlessly suppressed any organized effort on the part of the pecan workers to better their conditions...
...When pecans are "bad,", aad they are frequently so, workers have been known to make as little as fifty cents for a full week's labor...
...In 1885, a French lawyer named Maurice Joly published a pamphlet against Napoleon III entitled Dialogues in Hell Between Maehiavelii and Montesquieu...
...This was the last straw...
...Socialists Gain Seats Despite GOP By PAUL PORTER Special to The New Leader...
...For many, the two armed camps are separated into the haves and the havenots, the interests of one Empire against the interests of the other...
...By taking the Dartford Commons seat, 46,514 votes to 42,276 for R. Godfrey Mitchell, Conservative, the Adamsons become the only married couple in the House...
...This disturbs neither the Nazis nor Father Coughlin...
...Should Hie court refuse to apply the measure to the pecan industry, a bitter strike looms as police prepare guns and clubs to fight shelters' demands for $3.50 a week...
...But that is not the immediate issue...
...Three subscriptions to the organization's News Bulletin, entitle one to a free copy of the fyotocols...
...NO REAL SATIRE MOW, what is wrong with the novel ? It suffers *^ badly from the author's arbitrariness, a bad habit in a novelist...
...Both continue to use the Protocols, confident that there are more powerful weapons than prosaic fact...
...THE ZEALOT TAINT CO, instead of characters who by their own ~ strength give significance to the situations in which they are placed, we have a contrary process wherein the writer depends upon his situation or "problem" to carry his book...
...Cornelius Lamsden falls in love with Lucky penny's daughter, and Luckypenny's hoy does the same with Lamsden's daughter, the naughty and fascinating Dido...
...The Si eg an, "Vote American" proved unwelcome and embarrassing to tin Republican standardbearers, and it is to the credit of the leadership of both major parties that the raea issue was brought into the open and condemned...
...Recently the Sews Bulletin nounced that "after much deliberation, your Party Council has decided to join our Canadian brotherin the selection of the Swatika—as the emblem of this organization...
...When the workers complained against these inhuman conditions the Police Chief ordered the fire hose turned on them "to quiet them down...
...Undset seems to regard the vows of marriage...
...There's little doubt that Labor will hold the seat despite a Liberal-National coalition against it...
...The words "just living wage" never sound more impressive than when spoken by the Royal Oak prophet, even as the name Dubinsky on his lips seems to leap straight from Hell...
...TD stop any further progress on the road to Collective Security, which Mr...
...2.50...
...How long the Catholic Church will permit him to carry on his- destructive work before it unfrocks him remains to be seen...
...He pays himself a $1,000 monthly salary...
...Boredom, irritation, and the mere physical unpleasantness of impoverished motherhood make up the sum of her daily existence...
...It also distributes a circular sticker, two inches in diameter, portraying a bearded, hooknosed head wearing a skull cap...
...Undset examines white mice and thinks she is studying human beings...
...Stassen's campaign was bolstered by assistance from the national Republican "brain trust" in charge of Franklyn Waltman in Washington and huge subsidies from industrialists ready to pledge about $300,000,000 dollars to erase Labor and New Dea^ control from the country...
...While you read it you are carried away by the smoothness of verbal expression, by the amusing- or startling vicissitudes of the story's progress, by the frequent felicity of the author's remarks on humans aad their lives...
...At the -same time he has been clever enough to print articles attacking then- authenticity...
...I Workers of both sexes, and of I all ages, were clubbed and beaten, and more than 1,000 were thrown into jail "where they were often held over a week'without charges i being filed against them...
...A long list of anti-Jevrhih books and periodicals, published here and in Germany are offered for sale at moderate prices...
...He manages to live decently, if very modestly, but he feels cheated...
...Undset, of course...
...Of money collected ft» taxes o* wages, more than- two and onehalf million marks have been spent on rearmament...
...turtles and ostriches are laughed at as cowards of whom we have no fear, ready objects of aggrandizement Vultures will attack only if you roll over and play dead...
...Nations that recognize, only a display of might cannot be met by crawling within the shell of neutrality...
...VENTURE STORY HE day comes when he challenges his superiors, demanding a substantial raise...
...The reader's interest in marriage is all that can hold him to the story...
...He could do better than that...
...had put its last dollar in an effort to smash the eight year reform government of the Farmer-Labor Party...
...Police beat into insensibility an' aged woman carrying her baby grandchild in her arms, when she innocently passed a pecan factory on her way to a neighborhood grocery store...
...by Hubert Herring, New Haven...
...Throughout propaganda literature of this type the equivocal use .of the term Christian is notable...
...Even the problem with which she deals loses it power...
...There is nothing of yourself," her husband tells her, "that you can give away outside your children's home, if you wish it to be yours...
...Realising this, Uni makes her choice—the only really good choice, Mrs...
...RECORD DEATH RATE |"VFTEN as many as fifty families...
...It is how to prevent the open aggression in China and in Spain from spreading to the rest of the world...
...Mrs...
...His "impudence" all but lands him in the street, but somehow the ease is carried to the head of the firm, the cynical and formidable pirate of industry, Cornelius Lamsden...
...Laborite Victory Seen This makes Labor's tenth gain from the Tories in 53 by-elections since the 1935 general election...
...Instead of looking at life, he keeps his attention on abstractions...
...When a writer sets up to be a moralist, his art almost invariably suffers thereby...
...The aggression, i$ is recognised by even Mr...
...Herring the latter position is a fanciful one, a moral rationalization and camouflage of the sarnie selfish interests that dragged as into the last World War...
...next three years Seligmann netted more than $500,000 from the industry...
...Like some scientists, Mrs...
...Its possibility occupies every mind...
...For Mr...
...The novel has the qualities one would expect from the author of that engaging and tolerant comedy "Father Malichy's Miracle.'' The several parts of the novel ¦re quite good, but the whole is somehow disappointing...
...Why ? "Luckypenny" sets out to be an English novel of social satire...
...The factories in which they work are generally little better than the shacks in which they live—poorly ventilated, dust-filled- ill-lighted and unsanitary...
...He points out that Nicholas II, a firm antiSemite, repudiated the Protocols when he learned their spurious nature...
...Four young men were imprisoned last week for refusing work assignments handed down by the Hitler chiefs...
...The story is of a married woman who rebels, momentarily, at the suppression of her individuality, sad the morality may be reduced to the proposition that, for a woman, the service of marriage demands and is worth the sacrifice of all else...
...Of the remaining five seats to be contested, only One, the * Doncaster constituency, was taken by the Labor Party in the 1935 General Election...
...But the rest of us recognize the struggle as one of freedom versus tyranny—Democracy battling against the encroachments of a never-appeased Fascism...
...Entire families live in a single room nearly devoid of furniture...
...Their pay checks average little more than two dollars for fifty or more hours of work Weekly...
...She does not descend to sexual infidelity, but the center of her life slowly shifts away from her family...
...On February 1, 1938, the owners of San Antonio's pecan factories announced a wage cut amounting to almost 20...
...Protocols" Revived The Protocols which purport to outline a plan for Jewish domination the world have long since bean exposed as a flagrant plagiarism and forgery...
...The abstract rights of labor are warmly defended, while concrete exercise of the rights is invariably condemned...
...Tve never met anyone," he says, "who convinced me she was an artist so surely as you do...
...the friend who sees and understands her as she wants to be seen and understood...
...B. P. Dutton A Co., New York...
...Deatherage, is addressed in true Nazi style as "The Leader...
...landslide that swept Phil LsFollette oat of the governorship, Socialist strength in-this state grew strong enough to elect eight Assemblymen, giving the Socialist Party here leadership of the progressive delegation in the state legislature...
...448 pp...
...This avowedly Fascist Party desires to preserve "the foundations of Christian democracy...
...Last week Mrs...
...Fifty Million Fascists by 1940" is the slogan of the American Nationalist Confederation...
...The attempt may be partially successful sometimes, it may hold the reader's interest, but it can never adequately realize the potentialities of true literary art...
...hut, at the opening of the novel, he holds a nonetoo-important job as an accountant at Lamsden's, a large armament firm with international ramifications...
...REICH "UNEMPLOYMENT FUNDS" USED FOB AIMS LONDON.—Nasi "unemployment insurance" funds are being used for any purpose suitable to the demands of the Hitler government, figures obtained recently reveal...
...Bruce Marshall may yet write a novel of social satire...
...Twelve year old girla were jammed Into cells with prostitutes...
...The more than 12,000 workers who eke out something less than a bare existence shelling pecans in San Antonio, Texas, have come to be known as America's lowest paid and .worst exploited industrial workers...
...He becomes a director of the firm and a rich man...
...rive By-Electfonj Coming There can be no doubt of the uneasiness with which the Tories took the news of the loss of Dartford, a vast rambling constituency of 88,790 people of all class groups...
...A dangerous demagogue is Father Coughlin, dangerous not only to the five million Jews in this country but to the members of his own faith who number five times as many...
...It is hard to resist such an appeal to the suppressed artistic side of her nature, and Uni drifts into a close relationship with her newfound friend...
...Since the middle of the past summer Father Coughlin has been reprinting sections of the Protocols of the Elders of Ttion as an authentic picture of Jewish world aims...
...nevertheless that she has written rather a wise ttol...
...Today the Pecan Snellen are fighting to reap the benefits of the wage-hour act, as the owners of the industry shot down to evade the law...
...And, as Mr...
...By Sigrid Undset...
...In both men's and women's wards in the jail, workers were often packed together so tightly that they found it impossible to sit down, much less to sleep...
...Just a few hours before the polls opened, the Labor people discovered that the Republican Party had supplied Stassen with one of the largest slush funds in Minnesota history, $50,000 alone being contributed by "Big and Little Steel...
...GERMAN YOUTH f\GHT CONSCRIPT LABOR SYSTEM LONDON.—Germany's conscript labor system is meeting with opposition on the part of the Reich's youth despite the severe penalties and concentration camps of the Hitler regime...
...Mrs...
...On the same day over 6,000 workers made up their minds that they could no longer tolerate the conditions under which they were forced to work and decided not to accept the wage cut...
...It deals with high finance and super-industry society...
...From there on, the action moves swiftly, too swiftly, one might say...
...An appeal in terms of "Christian national philosophy" (another favorite of the American Nationalist Confederation) or "practical Christianity," a paraphrase of the Nazi term "positive Christianity" has enormous emotional value...
...every country in Europe already has its assigned place, for which it is feverishly preparing both in terms of material and diplomacy...
...But the blight of zealotry is on her book...
...LONDON.—A by-election so important thai it may force a general election hi Britain was won last week by Mrs...
...Their annual real wage is even below that of the Negro and white sharecroppers who are generally considered to be at the lowest economic level in the nation...
...Anti-Semitism sustained a defeat Tuesday, but the crusade of race hatred proceeds through many channels...
...Herman Wegner, Ben Rabin, Claude Larson and Clem Stachowiak, all of Milwaukee Jaek Harvey, Socialist, won in Racine...
...The result is—doable disaster...
...Coming so soon after the "inner cabinet" forced through Parliament the ratification of the ItalianBritish pact, the Labor victory becomes doubly significant and should Labor take a majority of the next five by-elections all of which come up this month, the Tories will undoubtedly attempt to stop the stampede to the Labor Party by calling a general election...
...His caution is understandable...
...Carrying almost his entire slate with him, Stassen beat the FarmerLabor ticket by about 100,000 votes, breaking the hold on the state which the Laborites have held since 1930 when led by the late Floyd B. Olson, they swept into power capturing almost every office...
...His weekly journal, Social Justice, scrupulously avoids the grosser type of racial incitement so faithfully copied from the Stretcher model by Edmonson, True and Pelley...
...The point is that /mopes in a Mirror is an intelligent and mature treatment of an ethical problem but it is not a good rfovel at all...
...Lamsden is impressed by the audacity of the younger man, and asks him whether he would take a chance on smuggling the money out of Italy...
...AND SUTO WAR...
...This organization, with headquarters in St...
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...lamadaa hi in difficulties: the Italian government refuses permission to export five million lire which the Italian branch of the firm owes to the English Lamsdens...
...With great and elaborate patience, he traces for us the path of Wilson, and then the path of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the machinations of Lansing, and the moves of Hull, and would have us believe that they are analogous...
...Uni Hjelde finds that she has given up her career as an actress only for the drab discomfort of caring for four children and an inattentive and undistinguished husband...
...Jennie Adamson, Labor party candidate who campaigned against the Tory myth that Chamberlain had preserved "peace with honor" at Munich...
...The...
...Uni is a dull and commonplace housewife who gives no evidence of the deeper nature of wMch there is so much talk...
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...In accordance with established Nazi tradition, every Jewish business man . is a Communist...
...They maneuvred the Dies Committee and smeared Governor Benson as a "Red" because of the unwanted support pledged to the Farmer-Labor Party by the Communists...
...In the...
...He is the most skillful antiJewish propagandist of all...
...Undset is a mature woman who has learned to understand human beines and to sympathize with them, while, above all, she has also learned to see them in terms of their responsibilities...
...Father Coughlin in his Initial radio talk underlined "Christian" heavily, but left the meaning floating ambiguously between the two...
...Albans, West Virginia, "seeks to include in its membership all Christian Americans who are opposed to the advent of alien Communism under the direction of International Jewry — popularly called 'The New Deal...
...Mill NA^isc...
...In addition the Conservatives have dropped three seats to independents...
...la a very recent book, Burtzev, an anti-Communist Russian expert on historical and political framenps and forgeries traced the history of the Protocols and their use from Coughlin Aids US...
...And So to War By ROBERT CLAYTON 1J|7AR is a living issue for the citizens of almost every nation ™ on earth...
...Bat if Father Coughlin's radio words are shadowy, bis printed utterance* are a good deal clearer...
...Herring believes is certain to bring us into war, he proposes the acceptance of the Ludlow Amendment, a strict Neutrality Law without any loopholes, legislation curbing the President's supreme control over our armed forces, ..plus .an amendment giving Congress greater control over the State Department...
...LUCKYPENNY, bg Bruce Marshall...
...This, he believes, is the only practical way to keep us out of trouble...
...Aside from the cumbersome thing* his proposals would make of bur government, aside from the years it would take to put the body of his proposals into effect, it is naive to think that the same pressures that work on the President are not even more forceful when applied to Congress...
...When it suits the author, a modest English bookkeeper speaks several languages, attracts the passionate love of fascinating women, and, generally, becomes the hero of a melodrama...
...Luckypenny goes to Italy (H turns out that he speaks French, Italian and Spanish), has there a series of romantic aad hair-raising experiences with beautiful female spies, brings home the five million Hre and a fat contract for armament from the Italian government...
...Vegard Luders, the interloper, is a shallow romantic whose conversation serves only to destroy all the reader's respect for the woman who can be tempted by such vacuity...
...This is s pity, since Mr...
...On September SI he ran an article by the editor of the Detroit Jewish Chronicle, fattened by a much longer rebuttal, the latter piece being adorned wish a composite picture of Litvinov, Leon Blum, and Here Behsha...
...The top man of the organization, a theatrically mysterious Mr...
...Herring points out in his book, despite the separation of two oceans from the probable tinder boxes of the conflagration, our government is no exception...
...Compared to their violently emotional line of attack, his approach might almost be characterized as intellectual...
...averaging seve nor eight persons each, use the same toilet and get water from the same hydrant...
...2,646 votes...
...Nor do I share the oddly reversed romanticism of her opinion that the artistic instinct is "a force that splits up and paralyzes all one's capacity for giving...
...I dm unable to accept the extreme rigidity with which, by implication, Mrs...
...Yale Vdiversity press...
...MMEN, women, children, and moth*"* ers with babies in their arms were herded together on private property by these police for no other purpose than to pour teargas into their midst...
...The language of the Confederation's program and pronouncements is identical in form and content with the language of the German Nazi Party...
...TREMENDOUS PROFIT U7HILE workers in the industry " have been getting these incredibly low wages and have been forced to live in unbelievable conditions of misery and squalor, one man, Julius Seligmann, who is a virtual monopolist in the industry, has been paying himself a salary of $1,000 monthly and in three years has taken more than $500,000 net profit out of the industry...
...With the scorn of one who sees through this sham, he dubs the believer in collective security Sir Galahad, and his quest as the Holy Grail...
...Adamson wiped but the Tory lead and piled np a majority of 4,238 votes despite the thousands of dollars and big gun speakers sent into the district by the Chamberlain cabinet...
...Out of revenge, Lamsden doublecrosses Luckypenny and sends Mm to Spain where Luckypenny is captured by the Fascists, etc., etc...
...The hero, James Luckypenny, was a "hero" in the great war, i.e...
...On four hundred (pounds) a year, Luckypenny is expected to support a family of five and keep up his little suburban house...
...The line-up for the ne^t World War is no longer a speculative matter...
...Campaign issues were fought squateTy on the Chamberlain deal at Munich and the Tory policy of conciliating the dictators...
...With war a daily possibility, if this is the only way to avoid it, we may consider ourselves as already involved...
...The eight Socialists elected, all of whom ran as prugresalres, were Andrew J. Biemffler, Edward Kiefer, Arthur Koegel...
...There are affidavits on file stating that in at least one case a "contractor" in the pecan industry received a check from one of the industry's operators for $2936 out of which he was to pay eighteen full time workers and three part time workers for one, week, and take his own profit, overhead, and expenses...
...So, for all the intelligence of her outlook, Mrs, Undset his failed to write a signincant*book...
...The Confederation distributes, for the asking, the releases of the anti-semitic Nazi World Service and copies of Goebbels' latest Nuremburg speech...
...Other diseases flourish among them...
Vol. 21 • November 1938 • No. 46
