Oregon Business Panicku as U.S. Probes Fascist Law
TARTAK, ELIAS L
Oregon Business Panicku as U.S. Probes Fascist Law By ELIAS L TARTAK BOOKS AND WRITERS Why All These Defeats ? r' is not easy to foretell bow Max Lsrner's recent book* will impress the reader,...
...SO, WHAT IS TO U DONE...
...fwr • • » MARXIAN OR COMMUNIST ERRORS...
...Why — Germany, Austria, Spain, Czechoslovakia...
...The law declares, among other provisions, that in no state shall unemployment compensation be denied to anyone who has refused to accept work made possible through s strike or lockout of the regular employee...
...A counter-attack by the Oregon Business Council, the same pro-fascist group that paid $32,396 to pass the state anti-labor statute, ie already being prepared to fight possible setbacks by the Social Security Board...
...Only in the case of Bertrand Russell's recent Tower" has this columnist experienced so much pleasure from the sheer reading of a new book...
...Borah's views were in harmony with those of other congressional leaders who have commented on the situation...
...For brilliance of writing, wealth of thought and suggestion, flexibility and freedom from dogmatism, Max Lerner's book will commend itself to every fair minded reader...
...Employers Anxious Oregon's own unemployment insurance law, passed as part of e general social security act in NoA vember, 19S6, and amended by the recently adopted anti-labor measure, requires the employer to pay a 2.7 per cant tax on payrolls for unemployment insurance,'While the nation-wide federal tax is S per cent...
...organizer...
...However, some of the errors apply, at least, te> the "leftist" wing of both the socialist and liberal groupings...
...Be has published t treatise on court procedure in ad ministrative eases in England, am has translated Kipling's "Jungle Books" into Czech...
...THE NAZI PRIMER, translated from the German by Harwood L. Childs Harper and Bros...
...First error: the underestimation of the strength of capitalism...
...J|AX LERNER draws from his list of errors *¦* a new program of action for a firm, "militant" democracy which, as he sees it, must be a democracy,—libertarian, but courageous, militant and moving definitely and resolutely towards "socialized democracy...
...He pointed out that ir the year ending June 30, of 17,861 who fled Germany for the United States, only 11,917 were Jews This year the German-Austriar immigrants will reach the full quota of 27,360, he added...
...a Trotskyist and a "perverted Nasi propagandist...
...As President he appoints th< Prime Minister and members ol the Cabinet, but the Government must have the confidence of th< National Assembly...
...Yes, the time has come to ask ourselves: What \njhjt|kei in philosophy, strategy and tactics have we committed to deserve the recent defeats...
...Emil Hacha is no* 06 years old and has a long judi rial record behind him...
...of L., the statute violates the federal sOCJstf Security -law by requiring barjqtil to accept jobs made vacant by strikes, as n prerequisite to receiving unemployment insurance funds...
...The council is set to make loud protests that Oregon's employers will be unable to pay increased -levies and that withdrawal of federal benefits will make it impossible to administer distribution of state unemployment aid funds...
...He distortion of history and science upon which these doctrines of race and national expansion are based have been analyzed frequently and to Considerations of familiarity and space precluding a repetition of such discussion here, we must be content with recommending the Primer not because of any intrinsic worth but because it provides in compact form a picture of what has supplanted education in Germany, ^pf Fascism has served any useful purpose, if sny benefit is to be derived from the horrible suffering it has inflicted upon so large a section Of the human race, that service lies in the fact that it teas underlined and re-underlined the absolute necessity of free discussion to the maintenance of political democracy and the achievement of economic democracy...
...The long association with the mealy-mouthed and ambiguous attitude of "The Nation" towards Stalin's "paradise" has, apparency, left an aftermath...
...ATTACKS U.8...
...The lucubrations of Wakefield-Norick are immaterial...
...Without pretending to appear smarter than Prof...
...The book is written in answer to a question ^Meh, unless this columnist is much mistaken, must now be troubling, as Heine once put it, "every poor, sweating human head...
...counsel Lee Pressman aad the Oregon A.F...
...It is a felicitous book...
...tend permits...
...Parliamentary government will be maintained and the newly organized National Workers Party will probably be tolerated 'mm...
...Why, then, instead of "eollectivist democracy," do we have fascism, and stead in fear of more fascism...
...He is for democracy and political liberty, first, last and all the time...
...They wrench parts of sentences from the context of his Nazi spy trial articles, ignore whatever upsets their "thesis," and crown a farrago of fraud with mendacious headlines eueb as "TRQTSRrrlTE DEFENDS NAZI SPIES IN NEW LEADER...
...Hacha is also Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces, but h< may not declare war without thi approval of the National Assem bly...
...Fiqkt on Jobless Looms According to latest reports, Ralph H. Campbell, counsel to the Oregon unemployment compensation commission, has been selected by the state commission and the Oregon businessmen to represent them before the Federal Social Security Board...
...Viking Press: |2.50...
...On the contrary, I thmk there will be a strong movement to tighten up on them...
...By 'we' this reviewer means **5*j "bs," "ourselves," the socialists, the liberals, the labor movement, the friends of justice, freedom end democracy...
...The more than 900 delegates present elected the former Czechoslovak Social Democratic leader Antonin Ham pi chairman of the party...
...December 18, to determine whether, as charged by C.I.O...
...Employers' Tax Exemptions May Be Removed m m "'Wnmwfie two' By LhCife' E& v? AilOS Special to The Nev Leade~ WASHINGTON.—Oregon'* anti-plabor law which virtually outlaws [all unions in the state aad has already drawn bitter attacks from [both A.F.L...
...Qme Dissolve Chambers As head of the Federative State Dr...
...by Max Lerner...
...How will it stand the test of re-reading a year or two from today, L e., the «od test of any hook's real worth...
...Under the U. S. Social Security law, standards are proscribed for security measures in ail states...
...With sbem continue the censorship and state of semi-martial law...
...And, while we are at it, where are Juliet Stuart Poyntz, Ruth Robinson-Rubens, Noah London, Kim, the Aisensteins, Epstein and all the others from these parts who have done or been done in by OGPU dirty business* A month ago we published an editorial beaded "OCPU-RSVP...
...Lerner himself, this reviewer would suggest that the title "It Is Later Than You Think" is somewhat misleading...
...Should such violation be established, Oregon employers who have thus far paid an approximately 9% iniiibinoil state and federal unemployment insurance levy may find their Out boosted to 6.7...
...Soys Congress Will talk Any effort to liberalize the immigration laws to permit a larger number to come in will get a cold reception in Congress, it was predicted by Senator William E. Borah (Rep., Idaho), ranking minority member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee...
...Sounds more like a novel...
...To this "question of questions" Max Lerner gives a series of courageous and sensible answers...
...Prof...
...and CI.O...
...The report states that, of the total spent by the "farmers" on the fight for the Oregon anti-labor law, $32,396 was contributed by the Oregon Business Council, while large contributions were made by the Weyerhauser Lumber Company, the Long bail Lumber Company, the McDonald Lumber Company, and the Paulas Brothers Packing Company...
...Thos who in this country struggle for economic democracy find themselves today in the position of having to defend a system that to them has but inadequately achieved democracy of any sort...
...Where is Pat King...
...But his criticism of Stalin's brand of "socialism" is somewhat cautious, though unmistakable...
...Even with the huge flow of refugees from the Fascist nations, bow ever, the foil quota of 150,501 immigrants from all Europe allowec by Uncle 8am will not be reached Houghteling forecast...
...but now L. Wakefield in the Daily Worker snd P. Novick in the Yiddish edition, denounce him as a Zionist, (so what...
...The truth, of course, is that in each article Solow declared that Nasi espionage, howetor bungling, was involved in the Rumrich ease...
...Fifthly, the "'proletarian dictatorship" business, with its threat to freedom, democracy and—in its Soviet variant—with its "purges," "Moscow trials" and other beautiful features...
...Surely, it is one of the best written books: it has an easy and virile manner of expression, disguising rather than naradine ' an imposing depth of scholarship...
...CONVICTIONS BY DENYING FASCIST PLOT...
...Second error: the over estimation of the revolutionary character of the proletariat...
...But what bothers the OGPU press-agents is Solow's charge that there is also going on OGPU petttieal spying and undercover machinations...
...Uphold Democracy In his keynote speech Ham pi said that the National Workers Party wished good relations with Czechoslovakia's neighbors and that the party would adapt itself to its new surroundings, but that the Czechs would not easily tolerate anything other than a democratic government...
...IT IS LATER THAN YOU THINK...
...He proceeds to give a reasoned list of six major errors in calculation, strategy and tactics, errors for which liberals and socialists are now paying the price...
...and, above elk it has originality and coherence of thought, combined with a depth of historical perspective,— which denote at once the philosopher and political thinker...
...When 1m became president of the Republk be was President of the Czecl mmsssae -Court of Administrative Justice aad judge of the Interne tional Court at the Hague...
...Answer Wanted Spy Trial Still Smells of G.P.U...
...Be has th< right to dissolve the Chambers though this right may not bi exercised in the last six monthi of his presidency...
...WE thought the Kremlin's pen-slaves regarded Herbetr Solow as an ordinary,'sincere Nazi agent...
...It was in Russia and Hungary, backward and illiterate, that the "social revolution" took place...
...In defiance of the Beran attitude, those who prepared the convention hall placed a bust of the late Thomas G. Masaryk on the platform in plain sight of the entire assemblage...
...With this minor and amicable reservation stated, "It Is Later Than You Think" remains the best "confessions of a liberal" this reviewer has read in a month of Sundays...
...upon its solution depends the survival of individual freedom and the achievement of collective well-being...
...State authority would have to be based on consent of the people, no on fear, m turn for which Hamp promised that the new party Wong reject the theory of class Warfare The New Year will see the en< Of the international famous Czech Soclil Democratic news paper, Prevo Lidu, and in its plact will be the new organ of the nev There is much respect for Presi dent Hacha m the National Work ers Party...
...A Text-Book in Barbarism By EVELYN UCHTENBERG THE NAZI PRIMER is the bask text of the _§ Hitler Youth and, as such, may be regarded at • definitive expression of the Nazi ideology...
...Max Lerner assumes that after the October revolution, the prestige of the Russian revolution has made Marxism more and more the official enttrjne of the world liberal and labor movement...
...groups this week faced its strongest attack [when it ran afoul of the Tj.' 9 Government's Social Security" «h?*rdThe board is studying the act land will hold hearings this Monday...
...A FTER a brief analysis, keen and temperate hi tone, of the present chaotic state of the capitalist world, Max Lerner describes the modern reincarnation of the liberal, whom he defines as a ''^ollectivist democrat...
...Under th< Austro - Hungarian Empire h< worked for the amtnistrative boarc of the Kingdom of Bohemia, whicl he entered in 1898...
...S. prosecutor of rr* German spies,;aad Eric Glaser's appointed defense counsel, who has been praised by Wakefield as a liberal, brought out the Stalinizing tendencies of chief U. S. witness Rumrich early in the trial...
...An additional $40,400 was spent on behalf of the bill by big business groups including the Associated Employer* of Oregon, the Automobile Dealers Association of Portland, and the Hood River Growers* Club...
...However, if a state unemployment insurance law is approved by the national board, the federal treasurer reduces the employer's U. S. tax by up to 90 per cent of the sum paid to the state...
...All books reviewed in the above column may be purchased at the Road School Book Store._ New Czech Party Set To Fight Dictatorship National Workers Parry Cheeses Socio/ Democrat Mampl to Lead Movemes-—Premie lefredeces Peseta*Vfli la Parfiameat — OAfc/ai A*rfJ-$emJfl«* Seen | . Special to The Neu Loader PRAGUE.—Early this week the Ca^osUpvakiaa Republic slipped quietly into the group of semi-fasciM Central European nations through the introduction of a regimentation bill...
...Houghteling explained that thi problem of refugees is not one o: Jews alone, but of Catholics, Protestants and other victims of per secution...
...It is expected that the pro-fascist government will permit the party to function and mildly criticize the cabinet but the new party's leaders have other plans...
...Fourthly, the underestimation of the appeal of nationalism and patriotism...
...Again we say: OGPU-RSVP...
...Capitalism has net collapsed so rapidly as was expected, it is sick, but far from dead...
...The waiting list of applicants for visas from the two Nazi lands is already "full up" for that period, James L. Houghteling Immigration Commissioner, reported this week...
...Because King's neck is so dirty that the CP...
...Are We entirely without responsibility in the matter...
...Haoo Contribution* The falsity of Oregon businessmen's claims that they are' too poor to give up Federal tax reductions is revealed in the official report of the Associated Farmers, the West Coast's strongest and wealthiest vigilante outfit...
...O A. MATTHEWS, ex-U...
...Oregon's employers, who jubilantly hailed passage of the pro-fascist act in November, are now worried at the prospect of its boomeranging against their pocket-books — so worried, in fact, that, together with the state unemployment administration, they will send a representative to Washington in an effort to maintain the anti-labdr law while keeping benefits obtained from the federal government...
...Organised under the guidance of the Socialists, who have pledged themselves to fight for democratic rule in Czechoslovakia, the new National Workers Party held its constituent assembly on November fO...
...Lerner is definitely opposed to the Stalin brand of dictatorship...
...Precisely in the more capitalistically developed countries, the proletariat has shown the least readiness for revolutionary action...
...This has sent so many of the lower middle class and even of the proletariat into the fascist camp...
...1...
...No word of this in Wakafield-Novick's columns of vituperation...
...Success of such a fight would mean total destruction of financial aid to the unemployed insurance funds...
...Third error: the underestimation of the strength of the middle class and the misreekoning of its direction...
...One suggestion, that three years' quota be combined in one to provide .sanctuary for persecuted Jews quickly, cannot be carried out without consent of Congress...
...A» jntlv «—*¦» *¦ — the Government's Party led by Premier Rudolf Beran, who is rushing a totalitarian . state program...
...The problem of how to counter the methods and tricks which totalitarianism uses in undermining democratic institutions, without our sacrificing those very institutions which despite their limits are a guarantee against tyranny, is the basic problem of our time...
...are years hence...
...Hacha, a Roman Catholic, it almost unknown to the genera public, but has an excellent reputa tion in legal quarters for hi: knowledge of constitutional lsw He was born in Trove Sviny Bohemia, in 1872...
...Should the Oregon law be found contradictory to the federal statute, however, all such reductions will be halted, thus, faring the employers with a tax of 5.7% in place of the present three per cent levy...
...This, in the opinion of this columnist, has been the most serious error of all...
...In 1916 he wai appointed judge of the administra-tive court in Vienna...
...Socialists Head Opposition There seems little doubt that anti-semitism -will, soon appear even if only to satisfy Berlin, which has already • pproved Beran s fascist program for the forcible coordination of all cultural, physical, trade union, financial and other reorganization...
...There are in the country between 12.000 and 15,000 Germans and Austrians who were admitted un der visitors' permits, good for su months...
...Probes Fascist Law By ELIAS L TARTAK BOOKS AND WRITERS Why All These Defeats ? r' is not easy to foretell bow Max Lsrner's recent book* will impress the reader, let as toy...
...Has it aD been just an "act of God...
...Immigration Laws Bar Refugees for 15 Months WASHINGTON, D. C—Victims of the latest wave oi Nazi persecution in Germany and Austria have no chance tc enter this country, under present quota restrictions, for anothei 15 to 18 months...
...jj "Tbt question is: Why have we suffered defeat after defeat...
...dare, not produce him until and unless he be scoured...
...At the moment, however, it seems that Professor Lamer has written one of the most important books of see year on the state of our tJSTr—"*'r rocking world...
...Voicing personal objection to the relaxation of restrictions, Borah declared: "I imagine that Congress wBl be reluctant tc liberalize any of the immigration laws...
...Borah said this proposal violates the spirit if not the letter of thi immigration laws and intimate* that Congress might withdraw from the President authority to ex...
...The proposal for an enabling hill, wbkh marked tee passing of the dismembered Czech nation into an authoritarian state, includes decree rule for two years while the emergency measures proclaimed in September to prepare for war are prolonged for three months...
...Here, the reviewer wishes to point out that most of the errors listed by Max Lerner are really Communist "errora"—rather than general ' Marxian errors...
...It has been intimated thai the President has decided to ex tend the permits indefinitely, con tending it would be cruel to forc< these refugees to return to cer tain oppression in their nativi lands...
...Here they are, the more important ones...
...He took an important part ii drafting the Constitution of th< Legislature of the Czecho-Sloval Republic...
...Not more than 27,360 persons can be accepted by the United States each year from greater Germany, Houghteling pointed out...
...Solow revealed in The New Leader, among other things, the tie between the self-accused Nazi spy Rumrich and Pat King, Montana CP...
Vol. 21 • December 1938 • No. 51
