Hague Track Victory Will Break N.J. Public
LANGHORNE, VICTOR
Hague Track Victory Will Break N.J. Public Jersey City Mayor Sets Up New Patronage Mill By VICTOR LANGHORNE Mayor Frank Hague, the Jersey City violator of civil liberties, received a...
...On Me Jewisfc Novel *JRKE, eJ»o, we have, for the last half-century, *~ prominent names and recognized achievement, *Yet, the work of Jews who left the field of their own tongue, who joined the literature of the goyim...
...Vlqiie nte Or ive inWashinq ton In Washington State, which faces a powerful anti-labor campaign despite defeat of the big business initiative last November, plantation owners organized into the Beet Growers Association physically attacked workers who were seeking to raise their present wages of 40 to 60 cents per day...
...GeOMnj was late with her task of national unification, and there the need as a form of literature, matured later than among her wetani neighbors...
...The only encouraging note the past week was the statement of Secretary of Labor Perkins in -Denver that she possessed "confidential" knowledge that the two organizations would be reunited "within a few months...
...Injunction Sweep Hits Illinois, New Jersey GOP May Disown Heil As New Laws Boomerang WASHINGTON, D. C—While G.O.P...
...Attendance is greater at mutuel tracks for they make their profit on the amount of money wagered, and as a result the admission charge is nominal...
...appears to be dissatisfied with President Martin's administration of the A.F.ofL...
...To many (Easterners in New York and New Jersey the parimutuel system of wagering is a strange and fearful machination of a machine age...
...On the fiscal side be uudm ee»*^ period of glorious nonsense and foresaw the Wall Streetei!**^ But now this man of 81 years stands among his ^eP-^i2g and watches the sunset...
...However, Beals did not reveal who was invited and who attended the conference...
...And-4btJBi of the Jews, almost in each generation, breaks down under ttl impact of these forces...
...Wages are low, injustieerW frequent and many...
...which is bad enough, and a Russian eeBBBOSMt...
...Police in Bogota Colombian capital, are guarding the Spanish consulate because of widespread resentment against the ambassador from Madrid, one Luis Aviles, who tried to force the local press to cease publishing anti-Spanish, anti-German articles...
...Antique Glass By WILLIAM f. BOHN /"*ARTER GLASS is the most brilliant specimen of the stateee* antodiluvianensis in America...
...It has plenty of money and can well afford it...
...iIn Somerset, Pennsylvania, meanwhile, quick action by a highway workers union forced the re-signing of a contract which had been cancelled because of vigilante drives against the laborers...
...Lewis Group to Enter Building Trades field...
...Alfred A. Knopf...
...He has a coherent, i unified view of Jewish life and characters...
...Moreover, again and again he denounced Miss Gallagher for i not accepting Mooney's "orders," the implication being that Billings was not to be consulted in working out defense policies for the two men...
...They get no cut from the betting...
...Yet the eareer of this Lynchburg Methodist, this small-*** editor, is a shining exemplification of the democratic B9 bi.tc— little man—with only the education he could get in » ne^" paper office—has done great service to his country...
...culties besetting the Jewish novelist...
...Texans Go Broke Many promoters point to the gold mine which is Santa Anita and the plush elegance of Florida's Hialeah Park as the perfect example of how prosperity follows swiftly upon the heels of legalized betting...
...H the state and track together take 10 per cent of every dollar, it is easy to see that a person must only wager a dollar 10 times for it to be gone...
...He gets caught in a "purge...
...They never point out the disaster which overtook legalized gambling in Texas, a state in which the population is more or less stable...
...The ban, Htt!kman, is a young Jewish worker who has probably MM eVed • square meal...
...One day after this decision a representative of the Automobile Manufacturers Association made a slashing attack on the Wagner Labor Act before the Senate Committe on Education and Labor...
...The latter's 1931 pamphlei is an example of Mooney's policies...
...0,000 anti-Nazis, with the backing of Rio de Janeiro are a powerful anti-Axis force...
...He is a Polish Jew...
...Long-man*t Green...
...The emergence of the Jewish mel k« triumph over the very difficulties besetting the Jewish novdat, but also a proof of these difficulties...
...which can only make matters worse...
...Mooney is not authorized to collect funds for Billings or to represent him in any way, and yet Mooney in public statements has given the impression that he has such a mission...
...When they picture him in his library with the -works ef Edmund Burke, and Thomas Jefferson at his finger-tips, they *•» sure that they are exhibiting the very highest thing in hMJJ* development...
...The highway is being built through a P.W.A...
...T*HE Federal Reserve Bank law was the greatest aitai'sat**^ "the Wilson regime, and Glees deserves full credit ier M1^* it through...
...Such mo to be the lessons we may draw from the history of the mnd, whether French, English or American...
...This situation was eommon knowledge on the Pacific Coast for many years and for many of us in the East, but no publicity could be given to it because both Mooney and Billings were still , in jail...
...However, they do not point out that Hialeah.is located in Miami, the second greatest tourist city in America (New York is first), and that Santa Anita is able to draw upon the transitory pseudomillionaires of Hollywood...
...He »» fast to Jeffersonian principles" and "there are few ,B<B'^^^ cernment left...
...MBh 402 pp...
...But he is stubborn, idealistic...
...It is that latest of the recurrent breakdowns of Jewah in Poland that I. J. Singer portrays with honesty and inteHif«ew 'EAST OF EDES, by I. J. Sineer...
...Jewish life, but also had to adapt themselves to Polish and JkuaiiM domination and oppression...
...That is because the New York tracks depend on the gate receipts to pay expenses...
...There is not one to Charles Beard * John Dewey or Thorsten VeWen...
...But what about the Jews, a nation of travelers, uneasy goieti among other nations...
...Tourist centers such as Los Angeles and Miami depend almost entirely on out of town people, and thus are able to survive, The New York racing problem is of a different nature...
...As Mooney has made his alliance with the C P . , that organization should pay his bill...
...CAJITER GLASS: A Biography...
...To the nations in the midst of which they live, the Jews given many poets end novelists of distinction...
...Under the mutuels, the public's money determines the odds...
...Whet about the Jewish novel itself, the Jewish novel as such, written by Jews and, primarily, for Jews...
...It was to have borne the title "'Labor Leaders Betray Mooney and Billings," but as published the name of Billings was dropped as the latter wrote Mooney that he (Billings) would establish his own defense committee...
...And he does deserve credit for picking Dr- ™T* and standing by him...
...and its International Labor Defense' for raising funds in his name and 'keeping the money...
...grant to the contractor, who was compelled by lay to refuse to replace union workers with scabs...
...He becomes a communist, i. e., once more, he is eat haeseM...
...bill, countered by an American Federationist editorial that John L. Lewis has rewarded President Roosevelt for his intervention in the Miners' dispute with the operators by ending the C.I.O.-A.F.of L. peace negotiations,, indicate that the conflict between the two organizations has I reached the point where disagreements are emphasized rather than the common objectives both have in organizing the working class, improving labor standards, and preparing to meet the increasing menace to both organizations by upper class reaction...
...and Norman Beasley...
...unions...
...Especially since it has been followed by Brazil's "presdent" Vargas agreeng to admit 3,000 German Catholic refugees...
...Once more, the "wandering Jew" departs on his uneasy bawet * * * 1 J. SINGER'S recent novel possesses the quiet bittetneai ed " simplicity of "Brothers Ashkenazi...
...Of course, the reason why politicians prefer the mutuel system is that the state usually takes from two to five per cent of the money wagered...
...How long that can continue depends on the amount of tourists and out of towners who spend an occasional day at the races...
...Farewell to Tom Mooney...
...That novel Ant brought I. J. Singer to the attention of America as a dnfci novelist of sincerity and trenchant power...
...Since his bright period as Secretary of the Treasury Wilson, Carter Glass' best service has been his entaii** . Coolidge and Hoover policies...
...The same Polish Jews whaet enerty and resulting squalor make their very survival a tragic posh In the present novel it is the post-war period rather tkn tti pre-war times that occupies most of the canvass...
...Mooney, Billings Split The break between the two men is a subject for comment in San Francisco papers, and it is time that it should be known throughout the nation...
...At the recent Madison Square Garden Mooney meeting copies of Governor Olsen's message pardoning Mooney and the latter's speech of acceptance carried advertisements that the profits would be devoted to the Billings defense fund...
...unemployment director that the A-F.of L. is "betraying" its members to benefit building contractors association because it has not announced its position on the Woodrum WJP.A...
...In some states so many passes are given out that the admission price if not an item of revenue...
...In the arguments heard prior to the Illinois decision, the A. F. of L. Cosmetologists' Union which was conducting the strike pointed out that the state antiinjunction act made it illegal to deny the union's right to picket...
...Hence, the novelist has to deal with Poles and Batswns: at has to understand three nations and their souls—not only that 4t his own nation...
...Yet, the novel exempb&ei the difficulties the Jewish novel is heir to in its struggle for arueulttion and existence...
...The novel, for its proper soil and climate, requires long aai undisturbed national existence, political independence...
...With pari-mutuel betting, which will become legal next spring if the voters pass the constitutional amendment on Nov...
...He did not write the law...
...In the book there are seven references to 1W* and thii-teen to Jefferson...
...It rang with bitter, though quiet truth...
...He promised that towns in which tracks are operated would find the corner around which prosperity has been lurking these many years...
...It was a ettal of small-town Jewish life, of Polish Jews caught into tat atwag current of advancing capitalism...
...Newspaper Guild denied the A.F.nfT., accnaation that this union would be used to covertly penetrate C. i. O. pub 1 i cat ions with propaganda and advertising- although he admits that the union intends to p u b 1 i s h a pamohtet in the labor press ar.dWW/to(n Sfe#n that a conference of some labor editors had been held on June 2- to "improve the quality of the labor press...
...By Elias L.Tartak Books and Writers I. J. Singers Jews MUCH could be said about die Jewish novel or, rather, the dtt...
...This lining up in an antiFranco bloc by the Latin countries annoys Berlin no end...
...Nachman is arrested by the Polish police, beaten and fnaedAfter a term in prison, he escapes to the land of his dreamt, to Soviet Russia...
...Public Jersey City Mayor Sets Up New Patronage Mill By VICTOR LANGHORNE Mayor Frank Hague, the Jersey City violator of civil liberties, received a smashing "victory at the polls of his state this week when he climaxed a long and bitter struggle for supreme control of the "Skeeter" area by single-handedly pushing over a pari-mutuel bill...
...But that life itself never belongs to itself...
...12.50...
...The court nevertheless granted the company an injunction and, adopting the favorite phraseology of the N.A.M., it declared the union was illegally seeking to prevent the employer from "earning an honest living...
...and CIO Uadtn intensified...
...In the meantime the defense of Billings can get under way and The New Leader will do its utmost to aid in obtaining his release...
...Thus if a given number of people start out with $1,000 between them, at the end of 10 races the state or the track will have the entire amount...
...His novel suffers from the same stresses that afflict the life of his Jewish characters...
...These statements were made in part to avoid the charge of an intention to organize dual unions and it is recalled that Charles Howard, former secretary of the C.I.O., frequently denied the charge and emphasised that no unions would be organized in opposition to affiliated A.F.ofL...
...If a second horse has $3,000 on him his odds "would be between 2-1 and 3-1...
...He has repeated its attacks, and this indicates his alignment with the CP...
...Since expropriation would be dangerous at this time, the State Department expects the largest Central American nation to fall into the Germans' lap...
...mg., and French literature...
...eouid be added: | h±J But these ere Jews who have become part and parcel of-a1 iteratures of the countries where they were born...
...Two years later Mooney disassociated his defense from that of Billings at the express request of Billings, who could no longer tolerate Mooney's actions, which were jeopardizing the cases of the two men and which were disgusting union men and leaders who had worked for many years to obtain the release of the prisoners...
...J * * * "PAST of Eder...
...In New York, the only state which had legalized racing without mutuel betting, the admission price is two and a half times as large as in any other track in the country...
...3.00...
...This is all the more reprehensible considering that Mooney on January 20, 1929, wrote to the "Monitor," a weekly New York magazine, denouncing the CP...
...Prompt action by a group of pickets who turned in a fire alarm this week saved a southern potato chip plant in which inexperienced scabs had started a blaze...
...He gets into the black book of the "aedlP The inevitable happens...
...Agents were told to spread their work sufficiently to keep the United States out of the European picture until the Axis wins another bloodless victory...
...GOP to Disown Heil Even the hard-bound Republican chiefs who were apparently convinced that the electorate would stand for any laws which helped the C. of C. and crippled the unions, are finally beginning to recognize the boomerang represented by their anti-labor laws...
...This is why the Beats novel so seldom, if ever, achieves the epic harmony, of TaaJ|e or the vigorous unity of Balzac...
...They take him at his own valeation...
...Hague and his minions promised the voters that there would be at least 6,000 jobs created by the passage of the bill...
...Heil's actions will probably be disowned by the Republican party of Wisconsin when next major election day rolls around...
...Tourists Vital The great flaw in the mutuel system is that a community must go broke if the machines are operated too long without fresh money coming into the track...
...The Jew has little chance to be or to become himself...
...This is not true...
...Peace advocates in both organizations here regard the new policy as a declaration of war and it is believed that members of both organizations who are sacrified in this conflict and want peace hold the same view...
...VT_i!---1 Influence of the National Association of Manufacturers, which played the leading role in passage of laws banning strikes and picketing, was seen in two decisions of the past week: one of an Illinois state supreme court, which ignored all federal legislation and banned picketing of a beauty shop by a union which sought a contract with the store's operator, and the other a farreaching verdict by Major Leon Berry of New Jersey who declared picketing was illegal since it sought to create a monopoly...
...The European novel seems to have first reached full "**iran% in the countries which were fortunate enough to achieve earb...
...For the novelist had to portray Jews who lived not ante...
...Warren K. Billings has been sacrificed to erratic policies, he is free of totalitarian influences, and he is entitled to a "break" which Mooney's monopoly of the limelight has deprived him...
...Silver Ban Aids Axis in Latin A merica By GEORGE SHORT Special to Thi New Leader WASHINGTON, D. C—After receiving full instructions from Ernst Bohle, Berlin director of Germans Living Abroad "delegates" to the department's recent "convention" are on their way back to the United States and Central and South America cities under orders to stir up anti-democratic sentiment immediately...
...political and national unity: England, France, Russia...
...purposes of illustration...
...Mooney's one achievement was to drive many California friends of the two men into inactivity so that Billings was made th< victim of Mooney's erratic con duct...
...Perkins Sees Labor Peace Soon Fight Between AH...
...FOR the novel, more than any other form of letters, is thee*, pression of the realities of a nation's existence...
...Most of Berlin's recent agitation has been behind a Franco front...
...It certainly is not because of lack of talent among Jewish writers...
...At the same time Clyde Beals of the C.I.O...
...bosses behind Heil are planning to wash their hands of him and come before the voters at the next gubernatorial election with a shiny new pseudo-liberal...
...H. Parker Willis etw* it—a fact, by the way, which our authors carefully side-sW- , But Carter Glass put behind it all the power at hit **LS his indigestion...
...Special to The New Leader WASHINGTON, D. C. — Announcement by the Congress of Industrial Organizations that it will invade the building trades, and a declaration by Ralph Hetzel, Jr., CJ.,0...
...Beet workers who attempted to pass.out handbills calling for formation of a strong union in the fields, were manhandled by police and deputy sheriffs, who assisted the prominent beet growers of Toppenish City...
...and its numerous innocents clubs...
...Thus, all the money wagered is thrown into a gigantic pool and the amount bet on each horse in relation to the total in the pool determines the odds...
...It is significant to observe that the French, English and Bvsdea novel had achieved world-wide influence long before the Genoa novel came into its own...
...It is .a piiythbt of cruel extraneous forces, Polish, Russian, German...
...President Roosevelt could learn soine»*» from him about this business of picking economic advisers...
...Coupled with the recent action of the New York State legislature in passing to the voters the right to decide which type of betting they shall enjoy at race tracks, the Jersey amendment throws the "Sport of Kings" into the laps of unscrupulous politicians...
...has decided to invade the craft field of building workers is difficult to reconcile with its many statements that its chief interest was organization of workers in the mass production industries into industrial unions...
...Several of the other LatinAmerican countries will be heavily hit by a United States ban on purchase of foreign silver and will turn to the Axis for favorable barter-trade agreements...
...It is now evident that Mooney is traveling the road that Bill Haywood took, that the service he might render the labor movement will not be given, and that it is time to present some facts that could not be revealed while he was a prisoner...
...He also accused the Communists of trying for thirteen years to separate him and Warren K. Billings, his fellow prisoner in another California prison...
...Another Vargas decree admits 3,000 Polish German Catholics who have been living in exile just across the Reich border...
...PICKETS' FIRE ALARM SAVES STRUCK PLANT SAN' FRANCISCO...
...Among those whom he indicted on such "evidence" was Mary Gallagher, a noble woman who gave many years of devoted service to the two labor prisoners...
...In connection with the novel under review,* the men jjmremember I. J. Singer's "Brothers Ashkenazi...
...Now that Mooney is free and is associated with the C P . and its stooge organizations, the "inside story" of the Mooney case can be told and work can begin for the release of Billings...
...Shortly after Mooney's release...
...Intensified War Seen The fact that the C.I.O...
...Meantime the A.F.ofL...
...We do not regret what wc said in his behalf in the past but the unmerited fate of Billings requires that we tell this all too brief "inside story" of the MooneyBillings cases...
...New''FreeBiHings"GroupUrgedas Mooney Stooges for Communists By JAMES ONEAl ^HEN Leon M. Birkhead, director of the Friends of Democracy, an organization founded to fight all forms of dictatorship, including the Russian, at Camp Tamiment quoted a radio address by Tom Mooney in which the latter denounced the Friends of Democracy as "anti-Catholic, anti-Semitic and anti-foreign" Mooney took the first open step since nis release irom prison showing that he is now in the hands of the Communist Party...
...Here his troubles begin all over, toe* is not a paradise for the worker...
...Under the bookmaking system the state is left out in the cold...
...Roosevelt is ell wrong...
...The only group that has attacked the Friends of Democracy, as Mooney attacked it, is the Communist Party...
...Another vital factor in the mutuel system is the number of jobs the system creates in the form of ticket sellers and cashiers...
...Theeap great good luck he is not given "the highest measure -of «abi protection...
...politicians mapped plans this week to counter a growing wave of labor resentment against Republican administrations in anti-union states, judges in Illinois and New Jersey added to the injunction sweep which has kept pace with the drive to cripple labor organizations through local legislative action...
...By Rixey Smith um**^ man Btatley...
...Attacked CP...
...Running through the entire pamphlet is a scurrilous indictment of the California Federation of Labor unions, some now in the C.I.O., as composed of "fakers" and "betrayers...
...In this pamphlet he transformed Miss Gallagher into a weak and crafty tool of Mooney's "enemies," and implied that she was bribed by "subtle compliments, invitations to the theatre, to dinner, to parties and motor trips...
...No better men conld haecb** found to do him up in alcohol than Rixey Smith, hit seeeeedf...
...Argentina, Mexico, Salvador and Venezuela rushed to Chile's support...
...Fielding, Dickens, Balxac, Stendhal and Doetoyevsky eaptaaaj the attention of a world of readers before Schmtzler, Hauptsaan and Thomas Mann...
...To be more exact, if there is $10,000 in the pool and one horse has $1,000 wagered on him, his odds would be 9-1...
...Two official of the Maritime Union in New Orleans have also resigned from the organization, •both charging similar Communist Party control that extends to the "top officialdom in New •York...
...In a city such as Jersey City, the money wagered through the machines will be almost entirely local money...
...In Wisconsin, where Tory Governor Julius "the*Just" Heil has killed 40 years of progressive legislation, ruined the civil service, and held the threat of a sales tax over the lower-income group while cutting levies on the higher brackets...
...Proust, Arnold Zweig, M. Aldanov wZ5 suffice for...
...place and social envirooBsas —laws which seem to have militated against the normal "ifwlt growth of the Jewish novel...
...is so far better known than the novels of Mapu, Bogrov, Sholom Ash, D. Pinski, L. J. Singer, in whateeo languages these writers may have written...
...Under the bookmaking system, the bookmakers themselves determine the odds on each entrant in a race...
...i This j pamphlet was sent to the unions j throughout the country to get i support for Mooney, and it is j this sorry performance from which Billings w i t h h e l d his name...
...There are many outstanding Jewish names in frfm...
...New York City itself is the greatest tourist center on the face of the earth...
...The recent fracas over Chile's right to harbor some 14 Loyalist refugees in its Madrid embassy lined up most of the Latin-American countries against the Spanish Nationalist government and concomitantly against the Axis...
...There he is arrested as a suspect, a potential WFreed through the intervention of an influential friend, h* Wtains work in a factory...
...Many others, old aajd^j...
...Mooney himself acknowledged this request made by Billings in the pamphlet which he (Mooney) published in January, 1931...
...has many of the essential features and quattn *"* of "Brothers Ashkenazi...
...But he neglected to tell the voters what every race track man knows—namely, that parimutuel betting must and will bankrupt any stable population...
...He 1* *P gressively honest.^and in the clean-up of the past Wry 7**" he has done his share...
...Sec...
...would use* him for its money-raising "innocents club's...
...G.O.P...
...Mooney sent out an appeal stating that his defense expenses were SI 5.000, and he asked for contributions to pay this debt...
...To him the new forms of democracy in wr dustrial age are nothing but bitter tragedy...
...hundreds of thousands of dollars of tourists' money will be poured into the machines and into the state treasury coffers...
...It reesaeaa long tradition of such existence, time to mature and fashion ¦> tional types and varieties of human character, to give then strmony, coherence and clarity...
...But the novel as a form of literature, and the Jewish novel a particular, has its own laws of time...
...That pamphlet did more harm to Mooney's own case than any of the efforts of his real enemies to keep him behind the bars...
...The bill—in reality an amendment to the Jersey Constitution—makes the wager-------inc nn horsp mrt**L Ipca] and &-----——--¦above board for the first time in 40 years in New Jersey...
...Patronage Soars That is the essential difference between the two systems...
...News also comes from the Pacific Coast of a bitter war between the Sailors' Union of the tPactfic and the C.I.O...
...In The New Leader of January 7 we warned him that Robert Minor, representing the CP., was on his way to California to meet Mooney, and we urged the latter to "watch his step" as the CP...
...Drive Among frieads Its fifty pages are p a c k e c with a short statement of Billings' refusal to be associatec with Mooney, a restatement ol the frame-up, and then forty pages of retailed gossip, innuendo, accusations and repetition of alleged conversations and statements carried to him by various persons, without any attempt to check their authenticity...
...German representatives in America are jubilant over the Senate action on silver, since it's expected that Mexico will face the alternatives of expropriating additional foreign property or turning to Italy and Germany on a barter basis...
...He is only exiled from Soviet Russia...
...Maritime Federation in which the latter is accused of Communist domination in San Francisco and it is declared that the Communist Party "machine" tried to "sell out" the Sailors to the employing class...
...auto union and President Green has appointed four men to go to Detroit to aid in stabilizing the organization and to review administrative policies...
Vol. 22 • July 1939 • No. 26
