Bund Coordinates All Anti-Semitic Activity in America
Bund Coordinates All Anti-Semitic Activity in America Reich Chiefs Reward American Nazi Heads The 'German-American Bund, is un-American, open ojffj unashamed. The credo of the movement was...
...The state determines where labor is required, even as the state determines price and output of the industrial product in accordance with the requirements of its armament economy...
...But urban life which demands a steadier cunning and pliability is too much for most of them...
...the Irish are a hardy and fighting 1st...
...An attempt will ho made between now and then to find some workable basis acceptable to all, but it is more than likely that coming events will help settle their differences even before the congress meets...
...Three men arrested as they sought to spread fear among Chinese civilians recently named Zang as their ruler, declaring that he had given them instructions to bomb many parts of the Shanghai settlement...
...CIO, AFL Wait FDR Move for Labor Peace Sec'y Paridas Sees Sentiments tor unity Growing la BothOrganizatloos...
...With all that, the political atmosphere remains confused and the* future as much as ever at rhe mercy of events...
...Blum, with Monnefc and Dormoy, places himself between P*?.l Faure and Zyromski...
...They do be lively, the Irish—as O'Henry once observed...
...Special to The New Leader...
...THEY booze amd FIGHT fVAN'N'Y O'NEILL lives with his grandmother and uncle, the O'Flahertys...
...This Italian entrepreneur awaits each new day in the fear of some new restrictive or confiscatory decree...
...NO STAR IS LOST, by James T. Farrell...
...The credo of the movement was perfectly ajH pressed in its organ, the Dentscher Week rot und H mineral i : To give America oar souls as many of oar tertow-countrymen have done, nobody con force that...
...Feiler points out how big business is prevented by a thousand restrictions from cashing in, as it had hoped, on the helpless state of wage workers...
...One feels that they would do much better for themselves on farms in some semi-savage country, for they are full of passion, fight and hardiness...
...Socialists Divided on Future Policy in France Recent By-election Results Reveal Strong Party Vote —Slum Urges Strong Military Machine and Revival of Former Alliances...
...The two elections came only a few days after the break of the People's Front political unity was consecrated by the vote of an anti-Communist resolution at the Radical Socialist convention...
...The repeated shocks of annual capital levies which Italian business men have suffered since 1936 should give the American employer some answer...
...The fight grew out of a dispute before the Labor Board in which the C.I.O...
...also bring -the conflict into the International Federation of Trade Unions, although it isn't likely that the I.F.T.U...
...They are vastly, almost elementally alive...
...When it comes to character, these Irish live, breath and swear on Farrell's pages...
...But from there to break with them, as the radicals have invited them to do, is a long step which the Socialists have wisely refused to take...
...The I.F.T.U...
...It is mere likely to offer its good offices to both federations to establish peace...
...There is the facade of the Nazi real property law which makes of every peasant with a plot of land large enough to be regarded as a self-contained economic entity, but not exceeding 309 acres, the founder of a compulsory dynasty, with an indivisible and inalienable realm...
...wiB admit another federation in the United States...
...In the end, the blow comes, the vast brood of children fall all ill with dipthteria...
...Zyromski, who escaped death by a hair's breadth a few days before in Madrid, came out with his usual passionate speech in favor of active resistance to international fascism...
...In both cases the number of Socialist votes actually increased since the May, 1936, landslide...
...Ascoli and Feiler make it amply dear, that whatever the original intentions may have been, the result is that the middle class is subdued quite as effectively as labor...
...The O'Flaherty family go from bad to worse because of the drinking and "goings on" of Margaret, Danny O'Neill's attractive and young aunt...
...A desperate attempt was made to beat Paul Faure...
...The local Radical Socialist Federation disobeyed instructions from headquarters and kept its candidate in the field for the second ballot, hoping to win with the aid of the Croix-de-Feu...
...W. W. Norton & Co...
...Product, price, output and market are determined by the state alone...
...Most of them go their respective ruin and perdition...
...New York...
...at the present time...
...By contributing anti-Semitic and anti-labor literature, by providing expert advisers, the Bund coordinates the activities of these various groups...
...The combined strength of the radicals and de La Rocque's party failed to come up to the total Socialist and Communist vote...
...Zang's radio appeals have 1 made him known to many residents of this city as "the Bmg Crosby of Kiangwan...
...The about-face of the radicals is not as definite, however, as the apparent unanimity with which the motion was voted may make it appear...
...But despite the glory attached to the title of "honorable farmer," the incidents of ownership are not enviable...
...unionists came into conflict on the New Orleans waterfront with the result that one was shot and 34 were jailed...
...ment for advertisements of Ger-| man steamship and railroad com-1 panies in Bund newspaper.*, irre- i spective of the amount of ppace used...
...Socialists SttH Undecided Paul Faure, Severac, Lazurick...
...Zang recently concentrated himself and his old jail cronies (run-ins with officials put the new hero of Japan in prison twice) hi Kiangwan, from where he broadcasts passionate appeals to the Chinese, explaining just how Nippon intends to institute "good government," and to root out gangsters...
...Cliveden set please copy...
...The goal for the following year was set at another 200,000...
...Socialist Votes Increase The elections take on added interest, however, when they are taken as weathervanes of trends in widely separated sections of the country and very different in character...
...By BEN PROTTER Special to The New Leader PARIS.—The last week of October and the early part of November saw two party confabs...
...Vtmgitard Press...
...out that in this soantiy "advocates of »r.u-Semitic and anti-Catholic movements ana attempting to strengthen their organizations by falsely blnadnfl Jews aad Catholics for nil the evils that plague the present order...
...The same lively and free-tongued Chicago Irish we met in fjt World I Never Made" are here once more...
...Workers may not strike, they may not leave their job without official permission being stamped in their work-books, but the employer may not hire men as and when he needs them...
...1 "Whoever lives el??^H man Dusine&t man...
...It purged the shops and sent 170,000 persons back into the lap of the proletariat within a year...
...The words speak for themseh Membership in the GermanAmerican Bund is open to alien Germans as well as to citizens, bat the full extent to which the Bund draws the bulk of its strength from Germans who de not interfd to become naturalised is not generally known...
...In Germany the pace has been much quicker...
...The consequences of Fascism to the worker are s matter of general knowledge and this book contains an ample account of the methods used in transforming instruments of industrial democracy into links in the totalitarian chain...
...3.00...
...C-t.i ofiicci-j iiavj Lluntly refused to resign and have called a meeting of key union officials for December 1 to consider and act on this situation...
...scored a minor victory...
...To this end all alleged principles are subordinated and in time forgotten...
...farrell's lively irish • pHINGS have changed in American literature » since the days of Prof...
...They booze, they fight, they swear, they are filled with bitter shame and religious fear and remorse—in their nasty hangovers...
...A National Socialist age needs its own economic methods and its own economic laws, just as a Bolshevist age needs them, too...
...Be* the emphasis is on the devslepmeat and rhttnaoad at Danny O'Neill, sad on the tribulatiSSM- and disintegration of two related families: the O'Neills and the O'Flahertys...
...637 pp...
...Socialists Score Nazis Special to The New Leader...
...He gets workers and loses them according to state decree...
...T. FarreH...
...Bat James O'Neill's earnings cannot keep step with the rapid growth of the family...
...Roy Zachary, state mogul of the Stiver Shirts, was announced guest speaker...
...More than the bare legs of the table has come into evidence...
...This is true despite the fact that titular ownership of the means of producion ist still largely private in Germany and Italy...
...Reich Rewards Bund Hoods Practically every previous Bund leader, national and sectional, has in time been promoted to service in Germany...
...The poor official was overruled, and our morals have since been exposed aet~ only to Voltaire, but to D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce, and want not...
...He considers with favor a campaign for en international conference, but does not believe such a conference would have any chance of sUce??5...
...The question of France's foreign policy dominated the debate at the meeting of the Socialists' national committee in Paris on November 5-6...
...New York...
...According to John C Metcalfe, testifying before the Dies Committee, many of theee organizations lead a very insubstantial existence...
...Japan Uses Gangsters To Rule Puppet Gov'ts Special to The New Leader HONG KONG.—Japan's efforts to consolidate control over captured parts of China have resulted in Nippon's establishment of puppej regimes led by some of the Par East's most notorious gang leaders and petty criminals...
...In Antioch...
...Leads Terrorist Gemrn This ally of Japan was first dragged up before Chinese courts of justice in 1927 as a dope-peddler and a carrier of arms in violation of the law...
...But there are others who may be surer guides: Tolstoy or — nearer home — Hemingway...
...The overruling of the poor official was a sign of times: The "morbid'' and the "immoral" in literature, if not quite approved, ware officially recognised...
...L'Heveder, though not pleading peace at any price, are against military alliances and intensive rearmament, believe it is possible to satisfy Germany without endangering French national and political independence, and declare rhemselves in favor of an international economic and disarmament conference, including the United States and Russia...
...It is the middle class that sometimes looks wistfully at the example of Germany and Italy in the hope of savins, this country from militant unionism, social regulation and irrepressible populism as expressed by recurrent new deals...
...Calif., the A. F. of L. has threatened a strike of building trades workers unle* contractors rtpudiate the closed chop contract ¦=ignej with the C.I.O...
...Margaret is a fine girl, good looks and all, but she has been crossed in love, and drink is in her Irish blood...
...They do be lively...
...Article Two ef the by-laws of the Bund, hitherto unpublished, reveals that a cardinal purpose ef the organization is to "work for the welfare of the nation by promoting knowledge and understanding of National Socialist principles among the populace of the United States, as the best solution of the national problems of eur century...
...It is recalled that state and local A. F. nf L. t-o-?c* in the past have often acted independent of j national political recommendations, and Green...
...In the summer of 1936, the government decided there was a shortage of labor and an overabundance of small business men...
...DaJadier's move to isolate the Communists is interpreted as preparing the rupture of the FrancoSoviet pact, already greatly weakened by the destruction of the Czechoslovakian "bridge...
...A. F. of L. and C.I.O...
...Some of the most effective work done by the Bnnd is through the medium of ostensibly American organizations, such as the Silver Shirts, the Knights of the White Camelia, the American National Socialist Party, and similar outfits...
...And wasn't Tolstoly's "Kreutzer Sonata" a "morbid" and dangerous book, sold in cigar stores and—at that—with a reproving postscript by some obscure clergyman, the pious postscript to serve as a kink of moral disinfectant for the susceptible reader...
...THE SCREWS ON THE BUSINESSMAN DUX it ia often argued that by destroying labor unions and political parties, fascism benefits the class of owners and employers...
...A beautifully printed invitation was sent to a select list of names and only those receiving the cards were permitted to enter the hall...
...It is doubtful whether the "shirts" had more than a handful of prospects at the meeting to whom the hate-dish of this fascist organization was served as Heading is a strong democratic Socialist city with mere than a generation of sound Labor and democratic teaching back of in The Council letter to President Roosevelt pointed out that many thousands of non-Jewish Garni sns, as weU as Jews, are victims of the Nasi terror...
...One gangster who was arrested by Shanghai police recently declared that he joined the Huang Tao Hui on July 5, was catalogued as a "third-class gang member" receiving the third class pay of |30 a month, and wis promised that good work would advance him to the second class with a concomitant raise of $20 a month...
...chief of thejjflH cialist Organization nn^S Abroad, "is working nf(9 himself but priwtmr?kj si as vice of the German /«tsWiaM By vorking in concert gtjj American units of the Hajgfl national, the Bund ha - J choice of loyalties...
...The Communists caused Blum much annoyance when he was in power aad irritated the Socialists by their tactless methods...
...And hadn't Theo¦^fs: jr\ dore Dreiser consider able *y trouble with his earlier nov^¦¦V, - els—"Sister Carrie" and "The ¦P^ho Genius," both novels banned Am Rt sfsao an<1 tnPPressed by publishers mwBmmmWBmm for several years, on the ground of alleged "unmoral- ity...
...The "honorable farmer" plants what he is ordered to plant, charges what he is ordered to charge, and sells to whom he is ordered to sell...
...This is toe second upheaval of this character in New Orleans in recent months, the first one involving the taxicab industry...
...To note but one example, the American National Labor Party and the American National Socialist Party both proved upon investigation to be operated from the same basement office by Peter H. Starhemberg, a German-American Bund member...
...as often as not loss of employees, conscripted for work elsewhere, comes when his need is greatest...
...Paul Faure, general secretary of the Socialist Party, won back the seat left vacant by the death of a Socialist deputy, and the conservatives retained another formerly occupied by the pastor Souli...
...We are and remain Germans, Germans in...
...James Joyce is all right in his own way, or Proust, for that matter...
...Huang for several months led her crew of men cut-throats in terroristic forays on behalf of the Nanking puppet regime...
...They point out that although Fascism proclaims that it has saved civilisation from the ravages of Bolshevism, there is no longer any significant difference, political or economic, between the two systems...
...snarl Bohle...
...Soviet Pact Each The progressive forces of the French nation must unite if their action is not to be constantly paralyzed...
...to become German-American mongrels, who do not know where they belong, nobody CM ask of us...
...Both of them raise the state to the rank of deity by humiliating men to the level of animals...
...Whenever it is pOSs9h,fB women in every land irt *X board German vessel* esnnV finement to give the «Cn*3 blessing of Germs* dtbS By ELIAS L. TARTAK BOOKS AND WRITERS Another Novel T3 think that, within the memory of every adult person, American literature was so- belatedly Victorian, so timid, coy, and "happy ever after" . . . the marriage...
...Since that time, he has gathered about himself a horde of some of the land's bestknown and most experienced gangsters who, under his expert leadership, frequently leave their camp for terror drives against Chinese inhabitants of Shanghai...
...Germany and the...
...For it is self-evident: if the economy depends, upon politics, the economic methods must depend upon the political methods...
...Spanknoebel holds the commendable post of commander of a concentration camp in Wfirzburg, Bavaria...
...In Italy, the peasant retains a small measure of that personal independence which he had 'before the Mussolini era, but in Germany he is completely tied down to the state ia a new form of serfdom...
...Seeking a footing in this city, the Silver Shirts called a meeting to be held in the W.C.T.U...
...He pleaded earnestly that energetic measures should be taken to defend republican Spain...
...Hall...
...While this peace sentiment in undoubtedly genuine, the conflict between the two organizations continues to flare up on s number of fronts...
...Carl Nicolni returned to the United States recently after teaching at the "Institute for the Education ef Future Leaders...
...Malevolent Utopias By BORIS SHUB FASCISM FOR WHOM* is a book which every j " middle class American should read...
...Some of them die...
...Paul Manger, original organizer, is at present an official of the Labor Front in Saxony...
...the new combination will eventually take...
...If the strike is ca!l?d, the teamsU-rs will go out with the building trades workers and the contractors also declare that in the event of a strike they will take their case into cour...
...Subsidy comes through many channels...
...Phelps who, a year or two before the great war, complained that American literature was then afraid of —4M mentioning the bare legs . . . OJww"m of a table...
...This anti-Semitic cog of the Bund was founded by a former officer of the German Imperial Navy who still visits Germany at frequent intervals for instructions...
...So, it ia poverty, filth and sordid suffering and quarrels...
...The League has four branches with about two thousands members, recruited from "Aryan" tradesmen, mechanics, physicians, lawyers, and beer hall proprietors...
...It urges that diplomatic relations with Germany be broken and that the shipment of munitions to the fascist nations should be abandoned...
...Conflict ¦rooks Oat ia Louisiana aad] CoHfernio...
...Liza- O'Neill is toe slovenly aad religious to do anything about her yearly pregnancy...
...In this connection DKV, the German-American Consumers Lea rut...
...READING, Pa—Simultaneously with the announcement of the first meeting of Silver Shirts in Reading, the Federated Trades Council authorized its president, George M. Rhodes, to send a letter to President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Hull condemning Hitler's brutal treat- < ment of minorities in Germany while the Socialist-controlled City Council also adopted a resolution urging President Roosevelt to cooperate with other nations for the protection and relief of Jews, Catholics and other persecuted minorities in Germany...
...They describe the phenomenon for what it is, rather than for what it ought to be according to some soul-satisfying formula...
...One direct subsidy from the Reich is the fixed monthly pay...
...He is of tri...
...It happened in Boston, as the reader should have guessed...
...One election took place in the Sa?ne-et-Loire department, ia the east of France, mostly rural with a few small industrial centers, and the other in the heart of the Paris business district...
...assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Berlin...
...of hose fide organizations...
...Under National Socialism there can be no liberalistic concept of the economy, and it is likewise unthinkable that for any length of time there can be under National Socialism a capitalistic economic policy...
...So much for notion of fascism as the guardian of the middle class...
...Inside conflicts in affiliates of both federations also add to the .picture of muddled policies and relations...
...Even several years after the war some cautious customs official barred Voltaire's "Candide" from entering the country of the brave and the free...
...copvention to also effect international affiliation may...
...Each appears to be awaiting a move from the other or from the Roosevelt Administration, and it in known that the President is anxious that peace negotiations be resumed...
...has all types of federations as affiliates and it has no power to displace the A. F. of L. to accept the C.I.O...
...Zang rules in the same way that Al Capone controlled the gangster kingdom of Chicago in the prohibition era...
...Wasn't it so temperate a critic as Pref...
...opinion that talks with Germany cannot lead to a definite result unless French military strength :'<5 roised to a higher level of efficiency and the alliances that link France and other nations are solemnly renewed with the firm intention of keeping them...
...The O'Neills have tee many months, to feed, and Liso O'Neill is "expectin...
...Zang Nyoh-Tsing, a Chinese renegade who in the past years has had many encounters with Shanghai police as a murderer, vice-king, terrorist, dope peddler, bandit ruler, arms smuggler, and radio propagandist for the Tokyo chiefs...
...Expropriation and the concentration camp...
...The City Councils resolution to of a similar character but also point...
...Bund enable them . torn preserve the appearance...
...More than three-fourths ef those investigated prove to be "letterbead outfits" only, with few or no members of record...
...The old witch, mother O'Flaherty, is a masterpiece of portrayal in her sudden switches from peasant tenderness and dignity to a fierce obscenity of foulmouthedness and cursing which almost attains grandor...
...The chief virtue of this book, which comes from an Italian and s German member of the faculty of the New School for Social Besearch, is that it dispells ana belief...
...FASCISM FOR WHOM?, by Max Ascoli and Arthur Feiler...
...Radical Socialist and Socialist, two by-elections, and Paul Reynaud swapping portfolios with Paul Marchandeau...
...It is written by men both expert and sensible, (a rare combination...
...In a receai election, an anti-Semitic candidate singled out for support by the Bund received the ridiculous total of 210 votes in Yorkviile...
...Silver Shirt "Invasion" of Reading Fizzles...
...That vital need will bring about, sooner or later, a new grouping of republican elements...
...The ebbf j [of the Women's DlvmW» marized by Miss [leader of the Amk»iL j I man Women, in these omnia I words: "It is eur aia^B see to it that net eat ea*l ! man money is spent a ¦ I stores...
...iemanj for the resitrInations appears to be due entirt ly to the war between the two federations...
...play an important role...
...The book is notable for its avoidance of the pitfalls of prevalent myths as to the "nature" of fascism...
...These happenings, taken alone ] or in comparison with each other, bring into the limelight the con-1 tradictions and hesitations of present-day French politics...
...Advertisements which appear in the four Bund newspapers are obtained from small shopkeepers, physicians, and restaurant owners through the potent threat of economic boycott...
...Those who protested were jeered at for their "bourgeois prejudices...
...It is too early, of course, to say what form...
...Both families try hard...
...The Socialists are divided as to the right attitude to take...
...Most acts of Japanese terrorists are centralised in the Huang Tao Hui organization, which Mr...
...But with all his qualities of sweep and bloodand-fiesh characterization, Farrell could pay more attention to form and structure...
...Phelp's complaint, since the days of Richard Harding Davis and Gertrude Atherton...
...President Green of the A. F. of L. has demanded the resignations of the president and secretary of the Pennsylvania State Federation because they opposed I A. F. of L. endorsement of Senator Davis (Republican) in the Novem' ter option...
...In their present stage, according to the authors, Fascism and Communism alike are concerned solely with the maintenance of power...
...All this brings us to James T. Farrell's latest novel.* ParrelPs new book is a continuation of the previous "A World I Never Made," but it is an autonomous novel in its own right...
...the extraordinary congress v b>h will be held in Paris the or d of December...
...Herriot threw his weight in favor of the pact and the idea ef collective security and obliged I Daladier to retreat on this point...
...But they put up a fight which is almost fascinating to watch...
...Feiler quotes Hermann Goering, generally regarded as one of the more conservative Nazi leaders, to this effect: "A liberalistic age must have capitalistic methods...
...Moreover, Secretary of Leber Perkins this week declared that the sentiment for reconciliation in growing among members of both organizations...
...The effect on the farm population is perhaps less generally known...
...while Bund meetings m the Turnhall and the Yorkviile Casino attract anywhere from five to twenty times that number...
...We've had Hemingway, O'Neill, Dos Passoss, and, among the younger ones, Faulkner and James...
...The two by-elections, looked at superficially, have changed nothing...
...The Bund has auxiliary organizations of the sanfe type as the German Nazi Party—Boys' Division, Giris' Division, Women's Division, Storm Troopers (OrlnungsIdienst) and afi...
...In Paris, on the contrary, the Socialists and the Communists withdrew their candidates after the first ballot in favor of the official radical candidate, considered a sincere republican, and so kept intact in this particular instance the principle on which the People's Front was founded...
...WASHINGTON, D. C—Although a unanimous vote of the sehmatas to the C.I O. convention in Pittsburgh last week approved a committee report favoring peace ia the Labor Movement, no definite action was taken to reopen negotiations with the A. F. of L*, and the latter organization is also marking time...
...Walter Kappe, former editor of the Deuischer Weckruf und Beobachter, is in Germany as advisory expert of the "Department United States" of the National Socialist Organization for Germans Abroad, the Nazi version of the Comintern...
...Following the Pan-American Labor Conference in Mexico City last September, which John L. Lewis attended as a representa tive of the C.I 0., the A. F. of L. has decided to revive its PanAmerican organization which hen been dormant for a decade: Two Dangerous Conflicts The decision of the CIO...
...Hubert Schnuch, national leader in 1935, is ar...
...Dangerous clashes between the two organizations developed on two fronts the past week in New Orleans and California...
...The Council urges the President to "protest against the apparent conspiracy of certain oeme era tic powers with fascist dictators to preserve the profit system bp the sacrifice of democratic institutions, and to work with ether governments to the end nVjat flV condition of the victims ot JaaaltfB may to some extent be eased, 'amp at least a temporary haven be provided...
...The debate will be cwttinix...
...A more prominent figure who, it has been learned, worked for the "reform government," is Miss Huang Pa-Mei, "queen of the pirates...
...Our hearts go out to Jim O'Neill and the O'Flahertys, Margaret and Al...
...The alternative...
...n ----—---i--While little known to the west-* ern public, the leader of the Japanese-controlled "reform government" of China, which has headquarters at Nanking, is Mr...
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