WHERE THE NEWS ENDS
LYONS, EUGENE
WHERE THE NEWS ENDS By EUGENE LYONS MU* Mr. Hneiisos itjrwtwhmmkwp, ttm ctx... ^ 1m wf Mm hy gnesf cosjfTlbeFtors. This weei* i eoiMatiat to ttolU Lyons, orfrfor of ftej 4rlc Morccrv...
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...Those critics wk) pretend to be independent but actually follow the "party Isr* refused to join it...
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...The Committee has served as a sort ef temaassuse ot the sincerity of those who talk ml freedom, bat » ml as era when their own crowd violates it...
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...racy, which either ignores or actually applauds fascist method* f they are used in Russia or by Stalinists...
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...The fact is that the politicians are as befuddled as were the baffled rats...
...Anyone who has felt the impact of that terror could teD yes how it worked in his case: John Dewey after he exposed the aimcow purge trials...
...the dictatorshipat once the victims and the master* of the aw system...
...Yet all of us who have contacts with the world of publishing, journalism, the theatre, education are aware of it...
...We offer this merely as a tentative interpretation...
...On the Left, however, we are confronted with totalitarian ides* and attitudes wrapped in democratic phrases...
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...In the fourteen-year period between 1922-1985, the report shows, the Bell System alone spent $68,000,000 for advertising purposes...
...In the first place, it does not rest oh a small group whieh s*» nopolises state power...
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...Dorothy Thompson, James Rorty and Albert S. Coolidge, came out for the "inviolability of creative and intellectual freedom" no matter who violates- it or where...
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...An attempt to "capture" the International Jewelry Workers, with the two Communist dailies also going to bat for the Communist slate, is also doomed to failure...
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...V publican sabotage in this res** was so callous thst it compels* the Hearst prese to protest, s*t the liberal "World-Tesageear deemed the protest* of the Beess of Education "crude" sad * "poor taste," and called lb f+ ture of closed kindergarten* am play schools, curtailed * ds|> classes, and the lose of which is facing a tbosesn* teachers, "badly overdone...
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...These are big enough to take It anc laugh it off...
...I REGARD the formation recently of a Committee for Cenara * Freedom as a healthy sign that the dictatorship of the totsBtsrian Left is being thrown off...
...That Committee comprising net and women as different in their political views as Jehn Dewey, Ferdinand Lundberg...
...That the investment had positive value can be judged ftoss the reception accorded the report he the daily prams, want* its disclosures ware not altogether amppressed or buried, they were met by an outpouring of vituperation unequalled shtce the F.C.C.'s exposure of the Power Trust s decade ago...
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...The millionfold parades, the vast enthusiasm sre net fssn They represent s voluntary, sometimes even a joyous, surrender of freedom for the sake of other things...
...and four out of nine business agents, while a combination of Communist agents and others in Local 117 of the International Ladies' Garment Workers was also routed by the members after the "united front" had flooded the market with special literature and used the Daily Worker and the Freiheit as mouthpieces of the coalition...
...a Catholic weekly, in its issue of June 16 points a finger of accusation at the daily press for maintaining a "hush-hush" attitude towards the almost daily outbreaks of hoodlum ism in New York and Philadelphia, engineered by the so-called "Christian Front"a stooge outfit for Father Coughlin and his ilk...
...But they're wrong...
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...a hm>dred others I could mention...
...taraogk strategically placed communists on most of the papers and magazines, including the most conservative publications, through under, lings in the publishing houses...
...The Kremlin < may yet line up with the British and French, but in any event it will be an uncertain and treacherous ally just as Bolsheviks ' have been in every "united front" they have joined.2 Whatever happens it is certain that "morality," long denounced as a 'bourgeois prejudice," is no more a factor in determining Stalin's course than it does Hitler's...
...Thus realtors at opposite sides of the continent speak without knowledge of what the others are saying...
...The unprecedented insolence,, of the Jap military clique, directed primarily against the British, should have brought Russia to accept the concessions made by the British in the prolonged negotiations, for the Jap militarists' conduct in Tientsin is part of a drive not only against the Western Powers but ultimately nisi in si Russia, whose southern frontier touches the SinoJapanese conflict...
...But what of the run-of the mill writers, acton, teach era who cannot afford to be ostracized It is easier and mart prsfh able for them to be good, to avoid offending the Stalinists, thai to be honest...
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...This weei* i eoiMatiat to ttolU Lyons, orfrfor of ftej 4rlc Morccrv tss sftsr of "issJejnneenf la UfopJo...
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...Without the wonderful technique that we nets* the dictators could not possibly regiment the minds and the eons !fI^BFTn dictators routed "THREE years of arrogant dictatorship by Communist Parry agents hi District Council 9 of the Painters, ruled by Louis Weinstock...
...3, Irrtl Brotherhood of Electrical Workers...
...To the Editor: At the risk of sounding like the author of a paid testimonial, I must nevertheless tell you that I think The New Leader an excellent paper...
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...In extreme canal sgh/ slanders are set afloat and their reputations are plastered with ami How does this intellectual red terror operate Through Stabsists and fellow-travellers in key positions as reviewers...
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...LAUDS UNCENSORED, UNBIASED NEWS" To the Editor: My sincere congratulations on your past birthday and here's hoping that you will continue informing the people of America of the uncensored and unbiased news which takes place from day today...
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...John Dos Passos after he discovered how the Kremlin's agents were undermining the Loyalist cause hi Spain, Edmund Wilson after he dared criticize the Soviet paradise...
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...Instead of spelling lalsadtf ta the educational ay stem, ¦ seemed like "m nch -needed sesy oar" to the "Telegrem...
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...To all individuals, groups and organizations, regardless of affiliation, race or creed: This is your fight to assist all of those who cannot now find respectable employment at a living wage...
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...Despite a rising volume erf new home building, scarcity is on the increase in 46 I*" .r*P°rtineT cities and unless Federal, Sta^e and municipal authorities step in on a more extensive scale realtors will continue to talk nonsense while decent housing becomes ever more a remote ttopia...
...Busy as I am, and you have no idea how busy that is, when I didn't receive the last issue, I went looking for it...
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...Writers who offend the fashionable Leftist ideas of the momentideas that more or less conform to the Communist Party "line"feel the full fores of that terror...
...They are baffled yet each mumbles incoherently and assures us that if he gets the ir>b Hoover's chicken in every garage and car in every pot will be realized...
...The Nation and The New Republic weaHt vehement as the New Masses and other openly Stalinist aapl in attacking the Committee...
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...In the second place, a modern dictatorship is unthinkable wllfcout the tools provided by scientific advance, such as radio, retsff presses, airplanes, machine-guns...
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...THOSE who have not lived under a modern dictatorship of the * German or Russian type are inclined to think of it in tsrsu of older types of tyrannical government...
...Take, for instance, the parlnj of $8,800,000 from New Y«* City's school budget with * consequent threat to disroot * city's educational services...
...the russian-british negotiations PROLONGED and, thus far, futile negotiations between Great Britain and the Bolshevik dictatorship for cooperation in the event of war with the fascist dictatorships is a puzzle to many and we do not pretend to have the answer, but trie assertion that Stalin does not trust Chamberlain and that this is the barrier to an understanding is decidedly thin...
...8, I.B.E.W., has the six-hour day, 30-hour week, and has had it for over three years...
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...ii some instances the companies have secured agreements fron editors that they will submi letters of criticism to- represen tatives ef the company for thei: examination before publication.' By those and similar methods the Industry has been assured of a universally favorable press that has made short shrift of aU criticism ef high rates, faatty service aad poor working conditions...
...Ihe problem is to bring both together...
...of rats and men MICHIGAN man trained some rats to an uncomfortable situation and then blocked their normal methods of escape with the result that the rodents became hysterical and their brains ceased to function normally...
...What was their objection ta it T Only thisthat the C*s> mittee refused to make an exception for Rassia or for Stsls> ists here and abroad in condemning the perseeutie* ef free thought...
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...PHlLRE is no need to labor the fact that there is no trace «f * cultural and mental freedom on the totalitarian Right fa various fascist and near-fascist groups make no pretense of hater, ing the Bill of Rights in the domain of mind and spirit any meet than in the domain of political life...
...Each is caught in a depression environment and while they are not yet hysterical their brains have ceased to function...
...The menace tc ttm thought from that direction, I am convinced, is greater and men immediate precisely because it is insidious, hypocritical deft*, ately disguised to use the innocent and trap the unwary It operates through such organisations as the League of Am*, lean Writers which, ostensibly supporting creative freedom, hum room for writers who denounce the suppression of creative ^ dom in Russia or its suppression elsewhere by agents of Stalm...
...Why should Stalin contemplate this ultimate facing of Japan's victory in China with "moral" resignation...
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...Most of them realise tnetr mistake after a while, and withdraw angry or shame: need tm more innocents in the meantime have entered to take ine:r pmen » /CULTURAL life in certain American cities, especial.^ m. Me* V» York, is constantly under the ores sure of what 1 can Wi scribe as an "intellectual red terror...
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...3, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, have undertaken to secure one million signed pledges of citizens and voters of the City of New York, stating that they are in favor of the six-hour day, 30hour week for all workers in the United States...
...Machinery that is "labor-saving" and should really aid all workingmen has, instead, been permitted to be job-killing_____ The great split-in the ranks of labor may well be healed through a common fight lor a six-nour aay ana au-nuur < week...
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...Through all this the press, with Tare exceptions, has maintained a stony silence...
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...a welcome announcement gPEAKING at Camp Tamiment, FatherTnlbot...
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...I know I am laying myself -wide open with such a statement, because that terror is not a thing that can be proved...
...These rats remind us of the politicians of both ruling parties now hoping that presidential lightning will strike them...
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...Sixteen thousand members of Local Union No...
...This movement is dedicated to the totally unemployed, the employable workers on relief, and to the hundreds of thousands of men and women who graduate yearly from our schools and colleges, and to the members of organized labor, and to the members of unorganized labor...
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...They are honest to the extent that they openly admh that the* consider dishonesty the best policy, abhor democratic ideai asj aim to exterminate those who will not be regimented...
...3, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers...
...This It Year Fight To all of you who do not now enjoy the benefits of the sixhour day, 80-hour weak: This is your fight to gain the advantages of steady employment...
...Get the answer, gentlemen, and if it is short of collective possession, operation, and management for social ends you will still be as frustrated as the Michigan rodents...
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...Despite all the denials of the Kremlin adherents that they have abandoned their old methods of intrigue, penetration and dictatorship in unions there is a mountain of evidence that the "party line" in this respect is as crooked as ever, but as inactive members learn of the danger retribution overtakes the "left" dictators...
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...They imagine that K * just old-fashioned absolutism such as that of the Rsmsnefi er Hohensollerns raised to a higher degree...
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...More mumbling and symptoms of hysteria are the only answer we get...
...Recent events in Tientsin also confirm our view...
...Thousands of well-meaning, high-minded American* p-v* thee names tb such false-face movements...
...Moreover, -tonakfermg that the superiors of Father McGlynn found the power to silence this democratic priest in the eighties, we hope they will find the power to silence Coughlin, the advocate of anti-Semitism and admirer of Hitler...
...Our professional liberals refused to join it...
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...Any courtesy you may show our members, either by simply signing the pledge sheets, or by appointment committees of your own to further this movement, will be deeply appreciated by the officers and members of Local Union No...
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...You may contact the Electrical Workers Union at 130 E. 25th St., New York City...
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...In s curious wsy then dictatorships are democracy turned inside out: the msjortty ftnttioning as a cruel and illogical collective dictator...
...Your for a national six-hour day, 30-hour week, Ike Woodard, Chairman, Educational Committee, Local Union No...
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...It operates through the so-called League for Peace end Demee...
...was overthrown by the members last week in the election of a secretary-treasurer opposed to the CP...
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...It rests on the acquiescence of s majeraj of the population...
...m* - If Chamberlain betrayed the Czechs at Munich, and he did, he did no more to them than the Bolshevik dictatorship did to Georgia and Armenia and no more than the Bolsheviks have done to the labor movement in each country in "united front pacts...
...In a sense, the people themselves are paste...
...AMONG BEST LEFT-WING PAPERS OF THE U.S, To the Editor: The New Leader, I think, is certainly among the best leftwing papers that have ever been published in the United States...
...Is it because he believes that a British-French war with the fascist powers would result in the two alliances bleeding each other to death and that in the ensuing "chaos and confusion," the *" Bolshevik dictatorship would impose its own totalitarianism on Europe while the Japs undertook the enormous task of reconstructing all Asia...
...The owners will not open the plants...
...During the past weeks their manatee* have wrecked the headquarters of the Debs Labor School on 14th Street and stabbed a Jewish school teacher on Union Square...
...editor of the " Catholic weekly, "America," declared that Catholics are not anti-Semitic and that there is divided Catholic opinion regarding Father Coughlin who is "a problem to be handled by his ecclesiastical superiors...
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...Realtors and housing *^H1LE the National Association of Real Estate Boards in its ¦ annual report revealed that housing scarcity is rising in this country and that the shortage is becoming acute in the larger cities, the president of the National Association of Building Owners and Managers in convention at Del Monte, California, was declaring for a "hands off" policy to stimulate business revival, adding that those who favored legislative correction of economic inequalities are similar to the "expert witness who speaks with assured authority on all questions and is generally about 80 per cent wrong...
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...through the penthouse partial at the wealthy pseudo-revolutionaries...
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...millions of idle workers and there are hundreds of thousands of idle industrial plants...
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...Similar statements were made at the Catholic Press Association the past week and we hope that they will be followed by restraining the hooligans who sell Coughlin s magazine in the streets and that the occasional references to the Jew in Father Talbot's publication, with the implication that every Jew is a Bolshevik unless he is expressly on record against Bolshevism, will no longer appear...
...l lie so-caueu jiwrii uiagumcs bum vii bucut, iciwu uivnaj critics jump on their work, they are shunned by the "respectable* liberals and radicals who rule the roost socially in the city, sal made to feel outcasts in a thousand ways...
...To the Editor Electrical Workers' Union Opens Nationwide Drive for 6-Hour Day ro the Editor: All labor, AFL, CIO, unorganized, and unemployed, faces the problem of dealing with the joblessness which is the most vicious feature of our long depression...
...We have tens .of...
...It portrays Stalin with a "moral" halo that is ridiculous...
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...The fascist and Stalinist dictatorships are products of the technological age...
...That popular acquiescence earn not be obtained without the instrumentalities provided bv science...
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...Such a week will spread jobs to the unemployed, help bring continued prosperity to America, and give to all labor the advantages of shorter hours and greater leisure which technical progress can provide if correctly utilized...
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...Not Fit to P rint By Y. Murray Goldman THE Federal Communications Commission, following a four-year study of the telephone industry, has made public its report containing some startling disclosures of the industry's efforts to influence the press...
...To all of you who also enjoy the six-hour day, 80-hour week: This is your fight to gain the advantages of steady employment...
...TW totalitarian state is a new kind of regime, without precedes* ¦ modern history...
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...Campaign for Pledges The dead-line is July 15, 1939, after which they are to continue right on in an effort to secure forty million signed pledges throughout the entire United States, so that the elected officials representing the voters of the United States may realize that there is a practical solution for unemployment, and that the electorate demands that solution be applied...
...were he aires s> day, would surely be rassed by some of the practs* turns in policy the chsin s* taken under tutelage of » business-minded Mr Howard...
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...By judicious placing of advertising with certain newspapers," the Commission states, "it has changed the attitude of editors from one of opposition to one of "cooperation : "it nas made it i practice to have personal Con tacts with editors wheneve: items appear which are crttiea or unfriendly to the company At these conferences attempt are made to influence the futun attitude of such editors...
...This is our fight to spread the advantages of steady employment...
...Moreover, the dictatorship's continued silence regarding the open provocations of the fascist dictatorships and the Kremlin's economic trade policies in recent years that have favored Hitler and Mussolini do not correspond with the "moral" pose ascribed to Stalin...
...IT has been evident for see* time that the "Worid-TsV> gram" has steadily bees **» ing away from its one-time 9> eralismso much so that W* elder Scripps...
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Vol. 22 • July 1939 • No. 26
