WHERE THE NEWS END
RORTY, JAMES
WHERE THE NEWS ENDS ===== By JAMBS RORTY —-— BBJBMH Mr. HmrrHem is maHoiln, rah wMmm mm be wrrrres by goes* coerribefors. TMs woofs twnwZZ is Jem** Rorty, erteor of Our Master s Voice cm«...
...To be bearable such recollections must be seasoned with homer...
...The letter was mailed from the New York General Poet Office on June 11 at 11 p. m. If any of your readers have received copies I shall be obliged if they will forward the canceled envelope to me to submit to the post office inspectors...
...who "sleeps in both camps, and is farts;* m neither...
...THIS SUMMER IS NO EXCEPTION . . . T50,000 GERMANS RUSHED INTO THE SIEGFRIED LINE ...THE POPE PUSHES HIS "PEACE" CONFERENCE PLANS . . . RUSSIA KEEPS ¦f BALKING AN ANTI-GERMAN ALLIANCE...
...It was full of anti-Semitic tirades against Weizmann, Trotsky, Litvinov and others...
...rum §* llagTlirrni the contempt of the Communist Party satraps for tht writers and artists whom it has herded and pushed sfcsml«I2 been complete and unconcealed...
...Since their counter-revolution in Russia in 1917, when the jQteprsi|ssSsm|e restoitd the Czarist autocracy under another name, the working masses in all countries have paid a heavy toll for Communist activities, and many of our unemployed tmBf'fm»9 the prospect of destitution, in part due to Alliance insolence which reaction has taken advantage of...
...Rog i-Bald Spink, Bee Prottar, Dick Ray nurd, Herbert Tracey (editor of Labour), Reginald Groves, and many others covering the vital foreign news...
...Sender, and a wide outwork of BBMfm tiiml carrsspaaalants...
...sssis people die of tuberculosis MB other diseases...
...white hope for President neat year, who is identified with all these moves, in April last year wrote a slashing attack on the Social Security Act for the Saturday Evening Post and millions of reprints were destribured...
...Newspaper stories of this horrible tragedy are reminiscent of Charles Dickens' vivid descriptions of the rabbit warrens of old London where human beings wasted away in revolting squalor and children died like flies...
...but it should not be forgotten that Senator Vandenberg, Usdfng G.O.P...
...They deserved little or no credit for sOannf' § the aid of the Party on this occasion, Mr...
...It is not absolutely excluded, however, that some other totalitarian groups may have done this in order to smear the Committee for Cultural Freedom of which I am a member...
...The fact thst Murphy Is doing so fine a job in bringing to light encroachments on the civil liberties of the American people, however, should not be a cause for slackening efforts to keep the LaFollette Civil Liberties Committee alive...
...Vainly I protested^ against these unscraptas attacks...
...i* .. _* *t - .ft*,, n, 1 **., i _ wrrres or Koyurry ana me man in the sfmet...
...THE JCHIN ATOWN FIRE gEVEN dead...
...We are witnessing the rise of a bi-partisan alliance of pelf and power that believes in the dominions of organized capital and finance and fsaajatis> amlaiiiiiin '1 to rip out the most valuable labor and social legislation ia American history...
...Lettered in red pencil on the first page was the statement: "Spread the truth...
...And to the SOgreT that this happens, independent, creative thought, and actios »** comes possible, or st least less hsisroo**, oa the American es> tural scene...
...WePJL AND THE WORKERS' ALLIANCE rVJRING it* tortuous career of twenty years, the Communist Party ha* adopted many different slogans, and yet one, "first aid to reaction," would have adequately represented its course at all time* and in all circumstances...
...The intellectuals hat jt% well better be grateful to the Party for giving them a last esse* to save their—souls...
...Earl Browder, was looking up...
...fiO) which all critical voices woes exchsded...
...Some 70,000 WPA workers in this city will be fired just as the cold weather sets in if the bill passes in its present form...
...As I rem amber it, the saf ssi sice) voices were these of nry celtosysss m the platform, each of whom Msfnght al to others were taking altogether tot much en* Malcolm Cowley and Waldo Frank, miamli jnauouim i^owiey ana wa*a* rrana, rmpashiltj, were of that opinion...
...The future is dark if this black coalition has its way...
...T.V.A., W.P.A...
...Nearly thirty year* ago another fire on the same spot resulted in a loss of three lives...
...Uafe-tnaately...
...The new bill would wipe seat the present prohibition of the export of arms and munitions to^SraVring nations and increase the discretionary power of the President in dealing with commerce hi war time...
...The black reaction in politics which becomes bolder every day would lip*)*' attacked the Federal program of public works anyway, but its drive has been more effective because of the dictatorship imposed by the Communist Party through it* Alliance stooge over many W.P.A workers...
...The ruthless domination of W.P.A...
...who hate civil liberty to provide work for both Murphy and LaFollette...
...Mail to s friend when you haveHmished...
...For the 1932 honeymoon of the C* and lie hilillaUMsl Miss travellers was soon ended...
...Four hundreds million American dollars can fix a lot of political fences while Mda dependent on NYA for a college education, and Joe, the jobless mechs...
...One rather simple conclusion...
...4 flDtfS PERVERSION •QENUNCIATION of Claude Bowers, former Ambassador to Republican Spain, now Ambassador to Chile, leads the e-dkatrsnl pages of America, Catholic weekly edited by Father Talbot, because Bowers' dispatches to Secretary of State Hull were "diatribes against Christian Spain and increasingly vehement demands for lifting the arms embargo" against Spain...
...I think, eiueiges from this data It is that as politicians, writers, including this writer, ate tetimV conspicuously inept Worse than the** they are lasy...
...was ha good repair...
...Early this month Senator Taft, a leaser CO.P...
...Browder point...
...cmhjna •re deprived of seeests...
...And ! m. tainly had not regarded the Party as a sugar papa vse* i neglected rather lucrative commercial employment for § csnm of radical journalism and organising...
...There are foulai as too numerous ta mention here, articles by The New Leader's regular feature writers: Charles Yale Harrison, Chaiiss Edward Russell, Leon Daaaaa, Ellas Tartak, James Onoal, Viator Rlasal, Boris Snub, Ton...
...whereas the revolution, as led by that ssssftng tw«*, birian...
...The close connection of its leader, Col...
...Brood* hm boiled say...
...Urges Grant For LaFollette Committee To the Editor: "Attorney-General Frank Murphy is too much with us," would appear to be the plaint of every Republican spokesman and newspaper in the country these days, as the ex-Governor of Michigan, having been voted out of the leading post in his state by the G.O.P...
...It was a mistake to protest, counselled Mike Gold, as warned, with dark over-the-shouldeslooks "TketfU get yon, Jrm, they'll get\ you...
...Huge Cuts In Relief Menace AH Jobholders To the Editor: Like a vulture's cawing high over the soon-to-be dead, Herbert Hoover last week broadcast that with a little more confidence and a lot less taxes 16,000,000 unemployed could be put back to work within two months—and 16 minutes later they would be boiling two chickens in every pot and trying to get two ears into a one-car garage...
...there are other sections of the city spotted by such rffanasrrl areas...
...IDID not then and do not now regard this ¦xperts.nco W yMBy wasted...
...r, are thrown oft* the Governm* ^lief rolls to roam the streets i. become fertile soil for the first "Save America" fascist colored-shirt organiser who strolls into sight...
...As secretary of that now almost forgotteu ergs'iiislhsv { gj on the platform and listened with dismay while Mr...
...women and children...
...Ciena* McKay* ia a recent relnma, rerallsd similar chsstiasm—1 was ialttaf upon Waldo Frank shortly before the second Writers* Cte-greas...
...Needless to say I have never bought a copy of Coughlin's anti-Semitic sheet nor mailed a copy to anyone...
...All these proposals and actions are significant and they are by no means confined to the Republicans In fact, without the sesfsegtt oi many Democrats the mounting reaction in the two ruling parties could make little headway...
...Jack Sandtord, veteraa Perls cor respondent...
...m tude with astonishing f rsnkness in one of his Third Period spsccst...
...Our congress might well spend a sum no greater than its towel and pencil money for the expos* of this powerful and growing anti-democratic society...
...Brooklyn loses several sewage projects, two high schools, and a public school...
...The blaze that consumed this pig sty called a "rooming house", made vivid the tragic inadequacy of present shim clearance plans foe...
...moved to est the OwOO.QOO.OOO in half...
...To the Editor Hook Warns Against Forgery Tactics of Totalitarian4 Agents To the Editor: I wish to bring to the attention of your readers a contemptible practice by one of the totalitarian groups now peddling its poison in the United States...
...laboriously assembled intellectuals with as sJaS sadistic unction...
...and the Wagner Act are the main target* now...
...That is the death toll in a ramshackle building packed with poverty-stricken human beings living in eight-by-ten and six-by-eight rooms, separated by partitions of wood and cheap composition wall board...
...Unle-s the responsible authorities lasaton the extermination of these abominations more victims will die in such funeral pyxes...
...The Bronx is suddenly deprived of the William Taft High School, a public school, t extensions of the Independent subway, and the new Tuberculosis Hospital...
...Honesty is involved...
...amendments which would abolish the theatre projects, wipe out a million and s quarter jobs for the idle, and in other way* seriously ilmspla the public work* program...
...Harold Irvine...
...I have no idea whether copies have been sent out in this" wsy to other people or whether the names of other individuals hsve been used as alleged senders...
...Although admitting dst this was so, MacLeish stood pat on this occasion, as Var W|d Brooks, when confronted with similar evidence "I Now, two years later, I see by the sopors that Is Ban lag shv publication af Ms manifesto ia the SURVEY GRAPHIC...
...All of us except, perhsps, early Cossnial patW like Earl Browder and Ms cultural stooges.___Well, as I put raw out, one must season one's politics with a good deal of hssatr ¦ order to make it bearable than* days...
...At least I served say apprenticeship in post-dspramoe radical politics relatively early, so that I was seen-af th* lata* experiences of MacLeish...
...It is a call to the organized workers to abandon their suicidal ¦ inter-union fight if the gain* won for the masses are not to collapse in ruin about our heads...
...The latest example of this is **-fvp' section* of the proposed W.P.A...
...Come* the ear and both manifestos will be promptly tossed into the wests bssew of the military dictatorship...
...of course...
...Twenty-one Senators have signed a declaration opposing the proposed change...
...TMs woofs twnwZZ is Jem** Rorty, erteor of Our Master s Voice cm« *m can Med'cl«e Mo©m»s...
...Upon opening it I found a copy of Coughlin's "Social Justice...
...As to the need for a thorough expose of the Associated Farmers there can be no doubt...
...aMr% with Sidney Hook...
...job projects by the Workers" Alliance, a masked agency of the Communist Party, contributed much to these reactionary proposal* so that over a million jobless men and women may be sacrificed...
...Frank's speech...
...A few days ago I received a notice from the post office that a letter of mine was being held because of insufficient postage...
...In this speech I jeered at AksAsM MacLeish, who had just published, ia tat Ms* Republic, a poem in which he ikened *»< ass of the artist in polities to that of Its juniitlni...
...I failed, to do H. The consequence was that is 1932-33 I was to waste a lot of time and emotion in soap-boxing ssi organising others—time which I could have emmfiU atasn sett* advantage in a library, educating and orgaatanhf myself...
...GemTqTf* ^ttmSt The Month QBISES AMD Ifw HiADUNi NEWS TAKE MO HOLIDAY, . . SINCE 1933 THE PLACID SUMMER MOUTHS HAVE VANISHED IN THE SMOKE OF A BROWNSH1RTED, GUN-RUMBLING...
...When it was returned I discovered that it was addressed to a person completely unknown to me, and that > my nam* and address had been written in as bender in a strange, obviously disguised handwriting...
...Father Talbot isn't happy that Bowers is now Ambassador to Chile, "one of the two Red governments of the Western World...
...a' One way of putting what hno happened is that during the M decade the Communist Party has given American i- tj.n^^^, something a little more realistic than a college education, aadffcg some of the pupils have proved themselves educable...
...about the Associated Farmers, new holding corporation for native vigilant-ism...
...a» Economics determinism had dene it...
...ear contract with Cooper Union ran ont at 11 s'dat sad promptly en the dot, a proletarian janitor starts btsek* the lights...
...Chinatown, this week...
...1th asjkai WffKI • * • Tim} ¦WW VI iHHM IT * J *»¦ mast read Mm dispatches—appearing regaiarty ia THI tMW LEADER—by •eraord Moore, assistant tWaJfja editor of the Leaden Daily Herald...
...Such optimism is, of course, highly provisional...
...o* Stalinists havs advaoesd MscLsaaa'a ed station to the seeeai stage, caaraetertssd by sever* ehastisssnsat...
...MARCHING EUROPE...
...The latter had* emerged from fat Mbsm long enough to prepare an eloquent address wherein, writ siflbei phrases of greet nobility, he Messed the struggle of tht fartj against the fell designs of that arch Social-fascist, Prsnafi S. Roosevelt...
...Frank, and others...
...Ia all likelihood this to the dirty work ef New York Cough-linites...
...I In 1937 MacLeish and I happened to ha sleeping ia the Mat camp {she editorial office Of Fortune) and were on friendly terse I therefore ventured to protest to him y*—* what I raayrasi a the enormity of bis mistake in "fronting" for the weend Congrm of Writers, sines the Congress was clearly a Stalinist s«t-ap...
...road these In The Now Leaders July ft* edition . . . IR-VING i, ALTMAN, dynamic editor af Dynamic America, analyzes taxes and the Now Dual la a vital dHcasslon of the Americaa balance sheet...
...Walter Garrison, with such would-be fuehrers as General Moseley, has been well-publicized...
...Among those projects to be abandoned in Mow York City arc the additions to the City College l^sry, the mteowi ty n teoa much-needed Manhattan medical building...
...To them it means dropping 1,260,00* from the relief rolls, in the name of economy while the Senators jockey a House-approved Mil for from $83,848,100 to $407,865,600 worth of pork barrel ia the form of bridges and river dredges...
...The committee's investigators have already done a great deal of field work in probing pro-fascist activities, and are thoroughly acquainted with the backgrounds of the societies and men that have fallen and will continue to fall under their surveillance—and there are certainly sufficient forces in the U.S...
...The brass hats will give the sisse* and they'll tarn the light* out on all of us, jest as that janHat BW on Waldo Frank...
...one ssoat expiring for lack of nourishment...
...Aa the big gnn ef the evening, Want* came last...
...A similar fata Is conceivably in store for Van Wye* Brooke and ethers...
...Bat \ suspect that Wsldo never quite forgave that janitor, av-aw fa-having failed to provide against sock sacrilege...
...made at a 19$2 campaign rally in Cooper .Union, tpnnsnsas by % League of Profession si Groups for Foster and Ford...
...its diU*tnntism, and its credulity are now...
...Three mdnths after that Cooper Onwu meeting I saw the axe of Psrty disapproval, swung from ambush of-intrigue and poisoned with slander, fall on one sne another of the League ablest and moat OSOtve member...
...In Maw York City mere than a score of projects, costing more than $138,000,000, of which 46 per cent was to be born* by the PWA, will be sbandoned after the bill is passed, since Woodrum, a gentleman of the deep South, sun, permitted the entire PWA only $126,000,000 for construction, outlawing sll projects easting $500,000 or more...
...fHE current cracking-«p of the Stalinist cultural front pmiem, * excellent material both for the social historian a c ?», ^ writer of asejnj comedies...
...Sidney Hook...
...NEUTRALITY LEGISLATION THE new Neutrality Bill before Congress would largely do 'away with the present pretended neutrality law which plays intp^fbe hands of the fascist dictatorships, which helped Genera) Franco destroy Republican Spain, and which has materially aided Japan in her wax on China...
...So that the andience started walking •etl>% middle af Mr...
...1 ntpof font Pro|eevs Killed In New York City alone nearly 3*600 on the theatrical project* will be dropped...
...It is a question of whether in a world struggle our hands are to be tied or free, whether we are to pay lip service to democracy while at the same time we aid fascist barbarism with a law which this barbarism rightly regards as serving it...
...Subscribe today—ana dollar far one year and receive tree of charge a copy of Charles Yale Harrison's bast selling novel, "Moat Mo oa the iorrieados...
...The emergence ef the two independent formations 'the Committee for Cultural Freedom end the Lsagos for Cultural Freedom and Socialism) is therefore an event of the first imports*** They mark, one hopes, the political coming of age of Amsoeea intellectuals* As they gain strength and iasrasnsr, the ootueitt of the Stalinist innocent dubs moot decline...
...The wages of whoredom in the capitalist Babylon had aVbati since 1989...
...He knew net what he did...
...Oa the domestic scene in coiatng editions are FERDINAND LUND-I ERG, author af "America's 40 Families," discussing the attacks aa the Committee far Cultural Fran dam . . . ROY TOZtER, continuing Ms startling series af exposes of American fascist chiefs . . . STEPHEN HAFT, who asks 100 guestions at the CP, party line followers...
...Moreover, I had in my pocket a prepared speech Wat* il I few moments I would deliver...
...and sixteen injured in the "Bloody Angle" of Doyers Street...
...Earl Browder expressed ta...
...slush fund, continues—in his new position—to irk the industrialists that ride the elephant...
...y'*_ * TOE RISING BLACK COALITION THE assault on the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Work* Progress Administration, the Federal Housing Authority, the Wagner Labor Act, and the Wages and Hours Act is certain to be followed by a drive against the Social Security Act, and we might just aa well understand now that all the black force* of human pillage, including their retainers in Congress, are' dertermined to scuttle every important labor and .social advance made in Washington in recent years...
...Under the circumstances I could ssaeshg k blamed for feeling-that Comrade BrewdW i*| changed sides on me to the middle of the gam However, I spoke my pises with such esBtjsshx as I could muster, and to my amasement en roundly applaadad...
...But Hoover's colleagues, whom The New Lkabcb headline writer so aptly dubbed "Repubiicrats," have their own idea of "confidence...
...POLAND DRILLS 1400,000 SOLDIERS ...A GENERAL ELECTION LOOMS Iff BRITAIN . .. CZECHIA WILL DISAPPEAR COMPLETELY____ So rust thw news these bo* iasa\Aate tleesk Uaaj4*aw*rfjs**i Hi at...
...They did, in May of 1933, whoa, jnawHUng to he a parlgjbsll "innocent club" type of deception which the Party exassfv anf demanded, I resigned aa Secretary of the League of Pmfssavas-Groups and urged the dissolution of the organisation...
...Appalled, I charged absst * the basement antil I found the miscreant, and inOuced kka W stay his hand...
...Such pwrJotic falsehoods sound like the obscurantism we are accustomed to from the Communist International...
...They say that At would be "far more honest" to make an open alliance with nations that control the seas: as though it were honest neutrality, for example, to approve the old act which ha* enabled Japan to get vast quantities of scrap iron and steel to kill hundreds of thousands of -Chinese men...
...white hope, in opposing Senator Wagners amendment of the Housing Authority •Ast to im I near the government's insured bond authorization from SoOO.eOO.000 to *1.600,000.000...
...Bast » 1925-1927, Max Eastman told me what to do to bring myself af ft* date politically...
...MARK STARR, educational director of the IX.G.W.U...
...Ambassador Bowers did hie duty by accurately reporting the armed insurrection of General Franco against the Republic, and had his advice to lift the embargo been followed, the Republic would have obtained the arms needed to crush the "Christian" Franco, Stalin would not have been able to sabotage the Republic, and the Clerical-Fascist-Monarchist cliques would not now be aJM^Ijifll the Spanish masses in the name of "Christian Spain...
...Queens and Richmond drop vital si wage disposal plants, a Mgu school, several public scheoto and much needed *TL*t "no^onT think that only those en relief suffer freer jM drive to cripple the relief •P*** Real estate values drop...
...New York...
...P VER sines 1SSS the gtaliniaf ajmmmm A- —-flh' - the Uomeo* trials and the ruie-or-ruin oiisiirt|iulsmsaoaii which has chsrae terixed their behavior in mass organisations, have hsi ieOpl nQ> eesslve crops of politically ignorant, emotional, mad intellect**** lssy "intellectuals " We have had a seven-yesr plague of luiinsU* dobs which, hsving denuded the cultural landscape of muck el ** ignorance...
...They want political office and a return to the old cut-throat :jungle policies that brought the collapse in 1929...
...These stupid reactionaries are apparently reckless of the i«lisei|iii in i s to millions of disinherited workers who are locked out of the industries whose owners the reaction represents...
...1. < The new relief Mil, nfee**g» by those who hste the prog*** si visas incorporated in saS'sgt Deal, is s de liber set crime sg*"* the people on the main stress* • Mew York City...
...Death of the LaFollette investigation, which has marked a new step in the courage and effectiveness of federal probes, would be particularly regrettable since an appropriation of only $100,000 would be enough to keep it going long enough to tell the entire U.S...
...I • • • ."^ BUT so far as I knew, my sen...
...more _;fntMjJj pollutes the waters arouse* 9 city, spreading typhoid...
Vol. 22 • June 1939 • No. 25
