U.S. Traditions Call for Open Door to Refugees
WALSH, FRANK P.
U.S. Traditions Call for Open Door to Refugees Nazi Challenge Can Be Met By Immediate Revision of Quotas By FRANK P. WALSH fVNE cannot discuss the present condition of the workers of Germany,...
...a quote: "The Commonweal specifically calls for as immediate modification of the American ismJE gration laws...
...He is no believer in international cooperation through international respect and-admiration, is the little doctor...
...Left: 1917 to 1921—Social Democrats are "social patriots...
...Now Ataturk is dead and the world is to see what happens in a dictatorship country when the Dictator dies...
...According to reports, the trade union lesJbfc had promised to give the Communists a p»emS> tionate share of seats on the general eseestW committee of the Federation...
...we maintained the Monroe Doctrine on every foot of soil on the Western Hemisphere...
...Right: 1922 to 1924—First United Front period...
...Nor should we be lured into the thought that it is a noble gesture to send these refugees to undeveloped, tropical and barren countries in Africa, South America, to Kenya, Tanga...
...Left: 1929 to 1935—All Social Democrats am "Social Fascists...
...Goebbels...
...Under the effete Sultanate, Turkey during the Great War was an invaluable ally...
...But he is not thought to be so strong a man as Kemal and he will have to face internal intrigues now that Ataturk has gone...
...Goebbels, fervid advocate of Germany's war party, must have been another truth...
...Employers who follow that advice, Andrews said, will invite serious difficulties...
...In a statement broadcast to members, the association pointed out ways of chiseling on the Wage-Hour Act...
...SILENCE IN FACE OF PERSECUTION COWARDLY fbUR determined course vitalized democracy at home, and advanced the cause of human freedom everywhere during nearly a century of peace between the United States and the powers of the Old World...
...The Sen- Leader's Chief European Correspondent...
...No dictator, no people and no country can violate these rights-and hope to survive against the indignant judgment of the balance of the civilised world...
...Worst of all was that launched by Dr...
...The argument that followed forced JotabsSBC* suspend the meeting and call another (jossins ** work out a compromise, although tte-^eam Stalinites vowed that they were through ***** CP...
...Profound belief in these elemental principles over a period of one hundred and fifty years made the United States what it is today...
...From America's birth down to the World War' we gave refuge to more than thirty-five million immigrants from the monarchical and despotic countries of Europe...
...CIVILIZED mankind is challenged today to provide a refuge for these dispossessed and persecuted men, women and children...
...If the struggle is with Hitler, is there any Socialist who wants Hitlar to defeat Britain ? If not, what are the Socialists to do...
...Indeed, if it were not, the argument the Nazis have carefully built up" collapses like a house of cards...
...Despite re" pea ted assurances that it is ready to "play ball" with the administration in its efforts to accelerate recovery by putting jobless workers back on payrolls, the National Association of Manufacturers this week reverted to its characteristic attitude of hostility toward "New Deal" labor legislation...
...Even Mr...
...So begins a sweeping indictment of the Chamberlain cabinet and a call to action issued recently by the British Labor Party, leaders of which expect a general election in the spring— before March,' perhaps—and war during 1939's summer...
...The Nazis have singled out for foul persecution a people to whom they are indebted for much that is best in the traditions of the old Germany...
...pended in favor of refugees...
...After a severe indictment of the Government's handling of food supplies, general defense, and air raid precautions, the Laborites call for "powerful and effective defenses by anti-aircraft guns and balloon barrages for all crowded industrialist centers . . . the trade unions must be fully consulted on all questions affecting labor supply and conditions . . . there must be no profiteering, especially on work connected with national defense . . . there must be heavier taxation on large incomes and great fortunes . . . the social services must be maintained...
...IN such circumstances the British * Premier must be finding that the - way of the appeaser is hard...
...General Ismet Ineonou, Ataturk's successor, enjoys a good deal of popularity in the country and is believed, if anything, to be proBritish in his sympathies...
...It would be a death sentence to- these splendid people, preceded by a lingering torture, unparalleled in the story of man's inhumanity toman...
...Chamberlain's policy could not claim that relations between Germany and Britain have improved since the betrayal of Munich...
...Especially the working people who so clearly understand that the cause of liberty is the cause of labor...
...Facing the scrapping of treaties and the wholesale violation of the rights of our nationals the timid say that we can do nothing unless we are ready to go to war with Germany...
...That, I believe, is Dr...
...If, however, there is nothing we can do which will prevent war next summer . . . we should arm to the teeth and go full steam ahead...
...For twenty-five years, Ataturk has ruled Turkey ruthlessly, resolutely turning his face against any attempt at domination by a Western Power...
...Britain must have a new and firm government which will renew the strength of our democracy, restore the self-respect and the influence with our neighbors which we have lost, and work towards the rebuilding of the League of Nations and of a real collective security against any aggression...
...Failing that, then even Socialists must decide that should Hitler start war, he must be defeated at the earliest moment...
...of people list cattle, robbing them forever of every right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness...
...Congress, he emphasised, intended the act should increase purchasing power and contained a strong warning against wage reductions...
...I hope that the American people will stand four-square behind the spirit and policy of tin suggestion...
...Proudly the Nazis have boasted of the new discipline that has been instilled into the .people...
...So that our contemporary Stalinites may not be confused and know where they have stood in past years, this eclumn has gone to the pais of statistically indicating party shifts...
...It seems to me the kernel of an idea to us* these innocent and unfortunate refugees to build up raw and undeveloped colonies to further enrich their persecutors and their essfederates in crime...
...The final, compelling demands of charity are too obvious to need specifying...
...No attempt was made to stop this "spontaneous" outburst which so significantly, took place in the most important cities of Germany in an identical form...
...Our proposals for national control and organization of finance, of food production, of foreign trade, of coal and power, of transport and of arms manufacture . . . are immediately necessary...
...Goebbels Uses Pogroms to Aid Nazi Drive to East By BERNARD MOORE Assistant Foreign Editor of the London Daily Herald...
...Labor's immediate program for the national control and ownership of key industries and services is now more urgent than ever...
...The N. A. M., according to its own statement, put its legal staff to work to find loopholes through which employers could violate the 44-hour-week limit without increasing their payrolls...
...In the British Empire, occupying one-fourth of the earth's surface, there are less than eight hundred thousands Jews, and in Germany but about a half-million...
...Right: 1935 to ?—Popular Front with everybody, including Fascists in Canada, Nazis ¦> Chile, and Republicans in the United States...
...we drove a dictator off a throne, set up by foreign influence in Mexico and boldly asserted our rights against piracy in the Mediterranean and interference with our vessels by the greatest of maritime nations...
...It was because the Austrians, so the Nazis said, could not keep order in their own country...
...Jt is that this return to the barbarity of the Middle Ages could have only one result, the alienation of public and official opinion abroad and especially in England...
...Its action brought a sharp rebuke from the usually mild-mannered Administrator Elmer F. Andrews...
...in Paris on November mm...
...Disdainfully they have criticized the alleged failure of the democracies to keep order in their own countries...
...With a population of only 7.000,000 people, governed by Social Democrats, the little Scandinavian nation has sent more cash, supplies, and food than many large countries...
...Goebbels Called the orgy of want on-destruction that swept through Germany, was, in fact, carefully Organized leaves no room for donbt...
...that every alien entering wiB deprive a citizen of a job...
...The British Foreign Office elready sees in Turkey a new battleground between German and British influence, a 'battle which has, in fact, already begun...
...Right: 1925 to 1929—United Front from baton...
...REVOLTS AGAINST COMMUNIST SABOTAGE I EON JOUHAUX unexpectedly had to adjems a session of the National Confederation 0m> mittee of the C.G.T...
...secondly, it saossi be made possible for refugees to enter tab country without the present requirement of liquid financial resources or else sponsorsfck by an American citizen...
...Just as clear to Dr...
...It is brazen larceny, not of four hundred millions of dollars but of all the goods that Jews possess, the homes of the poor, the accumulated savings of the thrifty and industrious, the communal property of temples, schools and the fund's of charitable and relief agencies, so much of it contributed by anguished relatives and friends of German Jews in the United States and other countries...
...Sweden has done more for Loyalist Spain than any other nation comparable in size...
...They are excluded from the professions, commercial activities, from industry and every means of earning an honest livelihood...
...There must be a National plan based on Socialist principles...
...People of venerable culture who gave us the Old Testament of the Christian Bible and worshipped one God for centuries while others were living in a pagan world...
...First of all, quota allotments should, at least for the time being, be am...
...Traditions Call for Open Door to Refugees Nazi Challenge Can Be Met By Immediate Revision of Quotas By FRANK P. WALSH fVNE cannot discuss the present condition of the workers of Germany, under Hitler or measure the ground the masses have lost without taking into account the contest waged through the,centuries for human rights against tyranny and despotism...
...Out of the two billion inhabitants of the earth there are sixteen million Jews, or less than one-tenth of one per cent...
...War is a thing of horror . . . everything possible should be done to remove the causes and get the world to settle its disputes b^ some other means...
...Chamberlain is honest with himself, he knows will go straight into the Wilhelmstrasse waste paper basket...
...modernized, almost with the status of a Great Power, she would be infinitely more so in the future...
...Our one solace must be that the present issues are.as old as mankind...
...Russia- and other parts of the Old World, we should not falter in defense of democracy today...
...LINE CHANGES DECENT purges in the Soviet Union indicats that Stalin intends to celebrate the twentyfirst year after the revolution with another swing in the Comintern line which to date has reversed itself five times...
...Says Woodburn: "The Labor Party, if it were returned to power, would take immediate steps to conler with other Governments on the basis of an economic reorganization of world resources to eliminate immediate causes of war...
...If we could maintain these policies from the time we were a small nation and support our rights without war against the tyrants that rose and fell in France...
...This great race has been hedged about by edicts and decrees without precedent since the Middle Ages, stripped of their property, harried and beaten like wild animals...
...A craven thought...
...the only international cooperation he believes in is that dic• tated by a mighty/ all-powerful . Germany...
...To all this it can be objected that we have already problems of unemployment and relief...
...There is a name for this in the criminal laW of all civilized countries: robbery, plus the kidnapper's technique of holding and torturing helpless hostages for ransom...
...For, as soon as news of Ataturk's imminent death became known, German diplomats grew busy in an attempt to consolidate the Nazi position in - Turkey...
...Despite his honeyed words after Munich and the great sacrifices he made there, there is not one single sign so far that his policy of appeasement is in any way nearing fruition...
...Scientists, physicians and scholars, to whom the whole world owes much, have been driven into concentration camps and condemned to the hardest physical labor...
...Just to make matters quite clear, the worthy doctor had the photographs of these British statesmen published alongside that of the murderer, and of Frankfurter, the young Jew who assassinated Gustloff in Switzerland three years ago...
...to him Herr vom Rath was much more valuable dead and a martyr than alive an insignificant third secretary of an Embassy...
...And again, the extension of our powerful aid in this Christian and humane way weald be a re-consecration of the lives of the Americas people to these imperishable principles...
...no _ alliances, no popular fronts with Liberals, Communists or dissident Conservatives...
...The plan set forth by the Commonweal should meet with the enthusiastic support of the citizenry of our country...
...Goebbels called a halt...
...NAM Gives Free Advice on How To Evade Law WASHINGTON...
...Additional able inhabitants are more likely to create jabs for Americans than deprive them of existing jobs...
...Today, Hitler and Nazism stand condemned at the bar of public opinion in every quarter of the globe, see NAZIS ESTABLISH NEW "RELIGION" rVEGRADATION of the human spirit and enkj slavement of the minds and bodies of all bodies of all who live under it, denial of the most precious liberties, the deliberate persecution of helpless minorities, the confiscation of their homes and brazen robbery of the fruits of their thrift are integral parts of the Nazi creed...
...Even the most optimistic advocate of Mr...
...Employers were reminded that they got "in wrong" by accepting the advice of "big-shot" lawyers that the National Labor Relations Act was unconstitutional — a bad guess that later was rebuked by the United States Supreme Court...
...Chamberlain has been shaken out of his complacency by that, and the British Charge d'Affaires in Berlin is" to make a strong protest which, if Mr...
...we encouraged people everywhere to adopt free, republican institutions...
...Learning that Spain is a great producer ef oranges and that most of the orange grows an in Loyalist territory, the Swedes have *>sm keeping the shiploads coming...
...The bulk of the work is done by Social Democratic unions which have a membership of over 700,000, in cooperation with the small syndicalist unions which number some 40,000 workers...
...These gains have been sacrificed in the five years of the Nazi dictatorship...
...T'HIS is what the four hundred million" dollar * levy by Hitler upon the Jewish people means: Having deprived them of any opportunity to realize on their assets, Nazis are free to confiscate the whole of their property...
...Goebbel's deliberate policy...
...And the Labor Party, watching the Radical Socialist* crush civil liberties in France, is more determined to fight Chamberlain alone...
...And a substantial addition to our papulation adds to the number of consumers, a not undesirable thing in the present state of affairs...
...Woodburn's sentiment echoes the general statement of the British Labor Party which will be the basis for a general election campaign...
...They have been met victoriously again and again in the painful struggle ukward from naked barbarism...
...Unctuously, when for-some-ten hours the people of Germany had been treated to a spectacle such as has not been witnessed in any civilized country for a century or more, Dr...
...whs know how to value and use the protective shield of free speech, free press and ate .fret exercise of religion...
...Goebbels, Minister for Public Enlightenment, whose paper "Angriff" described the assassination of vom Rath as following the line pursued by Churchill, Duff Cooper and Eden...
...Fatuously -and sacreligionsly this dictator would set up a religion of his own which would constitute a barrier between the soul of man and Almighty God...
...But the vote Mm revealed ttoat practically no one had votod far he Stalinites...
...For fifteen years after World War, Germany made unbroken progress in the understanding upon which the power, the trade and the influence of every nation must ultimately rest...
...Without these elemental rights, the people in every country and in every age, have always been slaves...
...COMMONWEAL" URGES EASIER IMMIGRATION THE most courageous and direct suggestion yet made to meet this frightful rnnan sibility will be found in the leading editorial of the current issue of "The Commonweal" of date November 25, 1988...
...It is not- enough for us to merely condemn these outrages and the philosophy behind them...
...CERTAINLY the little doctor is ^ working hard to stop such an understanding being brought about...
...John C. Gall, chief counsel, said this could be done by reducing the rates of workers who are earning more than the 25-cent-an-hour minimum...
...We seriously danjbt whether there is much validity to this any*, ment...
...The Munich Agreement was supposed to be followed by an understanding between Britain and Germany...
...T*HE truth—that the demonstra* tions were organized and carried out by Nazi stormtroopers and that the police were ordered not to interfere—is crystal clear...
...We should not be willing to entrust the cause of democracy in any future encounter with the Nazi or the Fascist to a Chamberlain or the degrading conference threatened at Munich...
...LONDON—Nazi Germany treated the world last week to another exhibition of its philosophy in the raw...
...Tg Socialist labor leaders were determined to state hy the election...
...The Comintern approximates its language to that of the Social Democrats...
...nyika, Madagascar Or to any impoverished, unpopulated and waste place in the far reaches of the earth...
...I believe, does not want such an understanding...
...Do you remember one of the reasons, why the Germans went into Austria...
...A refugee is likely, by the very fact of kk flight, to be above the average...
...Left: 1924 to 1925—Social Democrats are the "third party of the Bourgeoisie...
...An uproar followed the news that not a sJnfw Communist bad been named...
...By Dick Reynard The Workers Abroad BRITISH LABOR EXPECTS GENERAL ELECTION IN SPRING "«T»WENTY YEARS after the Great War, in * which a million British lives were lost, the 'National' government has brought us once more to the brink of war and surrendered almost everything which nur countrymen payed a terrible price to preserve...
...Finally, the official red tape which now a*, tangles anyone trying to get a 'quota' vbs should be cut...
...If we are really interested in free labor, in the rights essential to its preservation and in the liberties we have always claimed not only for ourselves but for all humanity, we would be cowards to ignore the plight of our Jewish brothers in Germany...
...It would mean a shipping...
...And the development of his policy is not likely to become any easier with the death of Kemal Ataturk, founder of modern Turkey...
...After years of cabotage, during which dh» Communists, despite "peace pacts,** constantly vilified Federation officials, trade union lfsdsjs turned on the Stalinites, giving them e deSSjm their own medicine by voting in secret belMiaf contrary' to the caucus agreement reached dnstaf the recent Nantes Congress...
...All Social Democratic leaders are fascists...
...When the United States applies to this problem as our common humanity dictates it should do, a tithe of the spirit and statesmanship by which we settled tens of millions of Europeans, countless thousands of them fleeing from despots, on our public domain under the Northwest Ordinance and the Homestead Act, we shall vindicate the democracy expressed in our own institutions which we stand ready to defend with our lives...
...These are the methods of desperate men and the most hardened type of criminal, and not of a secure and powerful government building for i the future welfare of its people...
...Writing in the Labor Party's Glasgow Forward, Arthur Woodburn, Scottish Secretary, reveals that the Chamberlain Government now considers war inevitable and will face the country in a general election shortly on the issue of "immediate national defense and service...
...Of these, about one-fourth reside in the United States...
...At the same tisw they are boycotting all German-made goods am Italian olive oil which has for years found s lucrative market in Scandinavia...
...f Smouldering synagogues, wrecked shops and homes, a new terror added to the many that already oppress them, piore arrests, a new wave of suicides—these went to make up the heavy toll the Jews of Germany have had to pay for the action of a half-crazed youth of their religion who assassinated Herr vom Rath, a young German diplomat of whom no one had ever beard before...
...There have been constant attacks on this country, on its statesmen and its policy from the lips of Germany's leaders...
...sabotage in the name of labor peace...
...C.6.T...
...If he bad done .so nine and a half hours before, the world might have placed some credence in his subsequent lame excuses...
...a AND STILL THE CP...
...And in Turkey they are likely to find plenty of influential politicians ready to assist them in their wrok...
...THAT the "Spontaneous" expression of the people's resentment, as Dr...
...Every dictator who has arisen in modern times began bis usurpation of power by striking down the guaranties of equal opportunity, free speech, free press'and the right of every human being to worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience...
...prevent the Communists from breaking it M|f during a near riot which followed the niiiiiiissS) ment of results of an election to the cgbr Executive Committee...
...v. ' sweden leads in aid TO spain AN orange a day helps keep the fascists away— ^* so figure the Swedish workers, Social Democrats and Anarchists alike, as they do what they can to help the Spanish Government beat back the Italian-German invasion...
...To admit that the United States, Canada, Australia, South America and other countries that would be influenced by our example and active leadership, could not solve this problem and provide a decent, self-respecting choice of homes and a way of life for a -few million of the victims when free to throw off the chains of Nazism, would be a virtual declaration of bankruptcy on the part of democracy...
Vol. 21 • November 1938 • No. 48
