Where the News Ends
HARRISON, CHARLES YALE
Where the News Ends By Charles Yale Harrison Letters to a German Boy MY dear Karl: This time I fear my letter wjfll be more serious than any I've written to you 3nc the four years that we've...
...met your father, your mother and you...
...We are already indirectly involved in the war and Dew*^ does not know it...
...During the many months of move and counter-move preceding the recent primaries, Morris Watson spent weeks on enfl for the "Rebuilders...
...Philip Murray of the CIO declared that 2,000.000 wfl...
...There are no stenciled addresses on any of the envelopes which are sent out from my office, and never have been...
...Unless you're one of the chosen few who'll read "Labor Action," the new publication of the expelled Trotskyite minority, you won't know that Professor Burn-liam of NYU and his colleague Max "Floating Kidney" Schacht-incn have set up the "Tfforker* i Party" because they disagreed with the international policies of the Socialist Workers Party...
...So, when you are through reading, show this letter to your father and then put it away and read it again when you are older...
...We are already affected by many "aspects of-ik* war...
...product and that no individual or corporation should bt-permitted to own it and exploit it for private gain...
...It is the culmination jf slow changes made by society since the days when print-tive men began to barter one article for another...
...The economic adviser of the committeet?& ported the workers' testimony by saying that for every f00 workers displaced by technological changes during die 1920s only 91 new jobs were opened to them When this displacement is figured in term* of all workM employed in machine industries and we remember uW 600,000 young people mature as worker* each year fot whom there are no jobs, we get some idea of the new industrial revolution and its effect on the working pafir lation...
...And no edition, of the anti-Ally, Stalinite line publication has carried more than tuyo advertisements...
...it has affected American sluppi** trade...
...IF the CIO's committee con-* sidering the warehouse and store workers' jurisdictional dispute hands Harry Bridges the - right to invade the territory of the United Retail and Wholesale Workers Union, the Lewis outfit will be split immediately: as .some of the largest industrial unions drop out...
...Ford**" dared that 3,000.000 jobs have been provided hy.,^ automobile industry but said nothing of the effect of tail new industry on carriage, wagon, buggy and similar mdW tries that have declined since the coming of the automobfc and auto truck...
...First, he states that the voters throughput the country who have received Wheeler literature in the past have compared the stenciled address on other envelopes from the Senator's office with that on the envelope containing the Lamont article, and that both are the same...
...He has never protested the fact that Thorkelson had inserted in the record 39 anti-Semitic speeches which were later reprinted and distributed by fascist organizations...
...No woman who had ever suffered to bring life into the world could bring herself to sanction its destruction, if her decision were freely made...
...in a press conference in Indianapolis that has been or*" looked...
...You know, no doubt, that he risked his career at the university because he dared to speak.?out boldly against the persecution of the Catholics and the Other minorities...
...Picture ^1] be njade linger the •Jil aegis of the American Pictures Corporation and will cost about $500,000...
...To the Editor: I am in receipt of your letter of April 9th, and in reply would say that I do not know your Washington correspondent, but certainly if he doesn't do a more correct job of reporting...
...He is living in a phantom wodd...
...Secondly, his statement that I dug Tip Jacob Thorkelson is ridiculous...
...Beaf social in character it should be socially owned and manafid for the common good and until this ideal is realized tk masses will continue to suffer...
...Hs is the ideal candidate for all isolationists, including tfcs Nazi-Communists...
...His assumption that the financial system is a "hs-man invention" marks him down as an economic illiterate for one with the slightest knowledge of the history * finance and exchange knows that exchange can be traced through successive stages over ten thousand years and tty our present system is its latest phase...
...They will be interested to learn that he now boosts the "Yanks Aren't Coming" outfit and the CP Hollywood Peace Forum of Tovarich Biberriian...
...It begins to appear that when Stalin invaded Finland he ripped up the American "section" of the Trots-kyite international as well as the Karelian front...
...117H Y ' all' the perturbation on ™ the part of Frederick Van-derbilt Field over the New York Times story that Russia is increasing its hold on China...
...A LL of which reminds us that *" Vincent Sheean has reconsidered the effect of anti-Stalinism on the sale of books and is again riding that much-discussed train to Moscow in comfort...
...To the Editor: I don't know if this manner of distribution of The Leader is original...
...Senator Wheeler has never publicly repudiated the admittedly anti-Semitic Representative from his own state...
...That is silly...
...It seemed incredible that his words /were those of...
...You here about seven at the time, all lanky legs libe a newly born colt, and your scrubbed face...
...You must always remember that there are millions of men and women in England, France, in every...
...its grudge against Melvyn Douglas and Garbo...
...For they were words without pity or understanding...
...Heard on the Left By VICTOR RIESEL Careful figuring of tie mailing,, literature, and proxy costs incurred by the "Progressive Committee to Rebuild the American Labor Party" reveals that whoever footed the bill paid out some $50,000 to capture the ALP and is ready to spend as much again to battle in the September primaries to name local slates dominated by the Communist Party...
...is back in the revolutionary-days of long committee names...
...Those who are leading Germany will be awe tb point to the words of this English statesman and say that war to the bitter end, war to the point of annihilation, is the only road for the German nation...
...and industry, and it has prompted a number *> presidential proclamations...
...But-—more than 80 per cent of the Yipsels went with the minority, which is -really the majority because throughout the country they have about 600 members to Cannon's 450...
...r ':'*'" The German- workers - sports leaders, records show, are all either dead or-iiH concentration camps...
...Duff Cooper's statement...
...So if you're still interested, here's the line-up: Pitching for the majority is Jimmy Cannon, simon-pure Trotskyite, the "Old Man's" favorite s^n...
...They pray-that Germany may soon be delivered from those who have defiled her...
...AH of which make the Workers Party the 21st splin-iter group which is positive it I has the blueprint for a nice, q u i e t, democratic, socialized society...
...The insinuation was only that he was playing all sides to get the nomination.—The Editors.] Describes Way to Build Circulation By JOSEPH FRIEDMAN Organizer, A. J. Shiplaeoff ffr...
...We all swore bruderschaft by linking our arms as we drank a farewell toast—in imported English ginger beer...
...Looks like Garbo—and many others won't laugh below the Rio Grande...
...Duff Cooper's statement is a cruel one...
...I have just read what I have written and realize that what I say can only serve to sadden and confuse you...
...But State CIO director Adolph Gcr-mcr, who suddenly has discovered John Lewis' "inherent democracy," said nothing...
...No one accused Senator Wheeler of being anti-Semitic...
...Never forget that day in Gothenburg when we—you as a lad of seven and I as a grown man—raised our mugs of ginger beer, linked our arms, and uttered the magic word by which mankind alqne can be saved...
...On the other side there are Max Schachtman, James Burn-hhm, J. R. Johnson and the "youth leaders," Nathan Gould and Ernest Erber...
...He said that Alfred Duff Cooper, former British First Lord of the Admiralty, declared in Lohdon this afternoon that from now on England is at war not only against the Nazi government but also against the entire German people...
...The American minority has a majority on the executive committee of the Fourth International...
...Let us take the case of your father...
...s And as I switched the instrument off, my memory went back to...
...0* April 22 the New York Times published a photo of a Pj?ff displayed in Russia bearing a revised map of China...
...Sees No "Focrs" The article is a malicious libel from top to bottom, but I am so used to things of that sort that I would not even dignify it by a reply were it not for the fact that you asked me concerning the same...
...And now Mr...
...during an appearance at Ebli?gs Casino on the same platform with Christian Mobilizer leader Joe McWilliams, attacked the Jewish people and the democratic processes o four nation...
...In that case you must put these pages away and read them again when you are older...
...And the millions of liberals in the Reich who fought against Hitler up to the day he rode into power may now feel that they must stand by him in sheer self-defense...
...Bnrke Lauded Hitler Even when Congressman Thorkelson came to New York and...
...He takes his copies, wraps them individually, and delivers them to five different enrolled labor voters in his--election district each weak...
...It is not a "human invention...
...These millions bear you no ill-will...
...Among the new vice-presidents was Linton Wells, latest recruit to the ranks of the Committee for Cultural Freedom...
...New _____ WORKERS AND MACHINES *J*HE Temporary National Economic Committee is ao?jfj| vestigating whether machines displace workers and it is interesting that Edsel Ford and several other corporation heads contended that they do not while a number of jijgS and CIO representatives asserted that they do...
...In reply, to Senator.Wheeler we are informed* by important men in the organised labor movement of Montana that Wheeler was active^ in securing "behind...
...the scenes support for Jacob Thorkelson" We have never had reason to doubt the veracity of our Montar?an informant and his position in the labor movement is one of the highest In the midwest...
...I know of no better way of stirring up anti-Semitic feeling in this country than to accuse people who are not anti-Semitic, of being such...
...lt is quite possible that much that I will say here may be beyond the understanding of an elefen-year-old boy...
...depressed agriculture, low wages, etc.—arc due to this "human invention...
...But no matter what is told you, Karl, you must never believe that all warmth and humanity is gone out of the world...
...To your mother, to all German mothers, to mothers in all warring countries, I send my profound sympathy...
...IF you' 11 get out your political * Baedeker well take you on a short trip through-that sector of the Left which has learned to split the political atom...
...Then came the day when you had to go back to Germany...
...They were words designed to breed hatred...
...Your father, of course, will read these lines and to him I send my admiration and affection...
...France is labeled fascist, and the hinterland is told by the garrulous Oscar that had Hitler not molested the Jews and Catholics, all the--world would have loved the Nazis...
...As for you, Karl, I have only one thing to ask of you...
...This province is ju*t north of the province s*fc*^ General Chiang has his capital...
...It all wouldn't be so devastating if it really meant anything...
...Chungking, and it is *** shown on the map...
...It adds up to a tacit pact .between the backers of' the "Re-builders" and the directors of the New York State section of the CIO...
...shone as though it were freshly waxed and polished . . It seemed strange to hear a little German lad of seven, who had never been in England or the United States, talking something that obviously resembled English...
...had he done so, he would have been given the correct information...
...Production, distribution and exchange «re all phases of impersonal social and economic development and if tfc* Black Fuehrer think* otherwise we urge him to tell us «l*f the "human" was that "invented" our financial system DEWEY'S PHANTOM WORfcD yHOMAS E. DEWEY...
...The CIO committee consist of John Brophy, Clinton Golden, and James J. Matles of the Electrical Workers...
...Recently he joined George Seldes' Citizens Defense Committee for the Pickets at the French Consulate (the CP...
...I never endorsed Senator Burke...
...S.DS...
...and headquarters of the Chinese Commssj* armies...
...These words are not for a young boy whose only .concern should be his studies and his piay...
...Do you recall the difficult time you had in framing your thoughts and how your verbs, German fashion, had the amusing habit of coming up in the rear of your sentences like breathless runners staggering in at the tail-end of a race...
...Their sympathies are with the victims of oppression, not with those who sow hatred...
...Tgj map shows a Russia whose border extends over the maj* part of four northern Chinese provinces, including Saf* the capita...
...of dupes ia order to cut their throat...
...Up to now the going has been simple, but hang on...
...In other words, while Chiang ha* counted on the bW-shevik dictatorship as an a!iy the dictatorship had ah'**~ decided to double-cross Chiang as the map wa* P...
...They were words which failed to see the difference between the oppressor and"the victim, between the arrogant and the meek, between Hitler whose only thought is war and the humblest German worker whose sole prayer is peace, between the hardened Junker arid the little boy at play—a boy like yourself...
...We learn that Sir...
...Just where does Mr...
...For when you are grown up you will understand that letters are sometimes written not so much for what they may mean to the reader as for what they do for the writer...
...Which gives Bridges a 2 to 1 edge...
...All this time he''was on the payroll of the regional CIO office, supposedly organizing newspapermen...
...Marsh is not a Communist...
...Bruderschaft...
...Senator Wheeler still refrained from criticizing the only self-admitted pro-fascist anti-Semitic in Congress...
...The "minority group" has the yputh, the magazine—New International, and the peripheral intellectuals—Dwight McDonald and the Partisan Review crowd...
...an AFT- representative declared that the dial telephone^ permanently displaced I 50.000 operators, and George rison of the Railway Clerks contended that over 626,000 railroad workers had been displaced by machine* «n« 1920...
...However, if it is I think you might, print this letter so that it might be followed up by other organizations interested in increasing New Leader circulation...
...that September day in Gothenburg in Sweden when I first...
...It has been responsible for an important chaig* in the Neutrality Act...
...I have been accused of being pro-Jewish because of the fact that I have had people in my employ for many years who are Jewish...
...Third...
...But there are international complications...
...Our main obligation, said Dewey, is to make "ifc solutely certain that this nation is not involved, directly * indirectly, in any aspects of the war or any negotiatkM between the the warring nations...
...And so the CTM theatrical unions forced the Mexican government last week to ban the showing of Ninotchka...
...i * * • fpHERE are reports that the I * American Federation of Labor "is becoming a motion picture-producer and will -turn out the life of Samuel Gompers...
...SauaTe electric sign for publicity...
...Field's American Council of the Institute of Pacific Relations get into the transmission belt pictured...
...civilized country, who condemn the words of the man who called for pitiless, war on the entire German people...
...Brotherhood...
...But it is more than that—it is stupid...
...At the same time Russia broke off relations with the Workers" Sports Movement, , .. v, j. 'So shortly Soviet- and 'Nazi soccer teams may be playing on grounds confiscated by^the" Hitler reghne ?remrtwc^irlftrrHb?mbers of the German WOTkert" Association...
...Tib is not to say that there are no injustices associated with 09 system of banking and exchange but we do say that ?* man who asserts that it is a "human invention" is an ignoramus and imposter...
...Support for Cannon comes fpom the Dunne Brothers, Far-rell Dobbs, George Clarke, and those self-styled theoreticians, John G. Wright, Jack Weber, and Felix Morrow...
...ANOTHER DOUBLE-CROSS ^ DISPATCH from Chungking, capital of General Chi** ' Kai-shek's "all-China anti-Japanese front," on Apdi * declared that Chiang would soon make a supreme effort* get decisive aid from Russia in the war against Japan...
...Sena-tor Burke's affiliation is also a matter of record...
...Sheean's joining with Seldes has reunited him with Martha Dodd, Herman Shumlin, Isabel Walker Soule, Morris Watson, Shaemas 0*Sheal, Arthur Kober, and other fellow-travelers...
...Like some other illiterates of the past the Black Fuehra singles out one phase of capitalism that he does not understand...
...It is the old «tory of the front," whether ft be between labor organizations and PM Communists or nations and the Bolshevik dictatorship- j every instance it has been a policy of winning the done...
...I thought of all these things as*=I listened to Mr...
...A SPORTS PACT has been signed between Germany and the Soviets providing for a resumption of athletic relations between the red and the brown...
...The only way the United States can live up to PI program is to shift the nation and its people to anota** planet...
...Social Democracy contends that machinery is a soda...
...This is a matter of recordAs for Senator Burke's courage, well admit that any man who can return from Europe and praise Hitler to the shipboard reporters must have courage...
...However, I shall try to make myself a< clear as I can...
...Of course, Mr...
...the American "majority" might, therefore, find itself expelled...
...why he was prompted to put copies into the mail we can't understand...
...Not wishing to disturb the Hollywood war on bacteria, the producers of "Gompers" have left Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson to their 'researches and" will use "Luther . ! Adler in the title Tole...
...They know that Goethe, Bach, Beethoven, Thomas Mann, Einstein, and your father, not Hitler and Goering, are the true representatives of Germany...
...Where the News Ends By Charles Yale Harrison Letters to a German Boy MY dear Karl: This time I fear my letter wjfll be more serious than any I've written to you 3nc the four years that we've been corresponding...
...If Wheeler never endorsed Senator Burke, then he permitted scores of daily papers to report that he had done so...
...D. C. [In checking with our Washington correspondent, we find that the Lamont articles, entered in the Congressional Record by Senator Wheeler some six years ago, were, sent out last month on the Senator's franking privilege by Ben Marsh . of .the People's Lobby...
...It is easy for the gentlemen at the top of the social pyn...
...PUGENE LYONS, who used to column on this page, was elected president of the Overseas Press Club of America last week at its first annual meeting...
...Letters To the Editor Wheeler Denies Link to Thorkelson or Burke From BURTON K. WHEELER U. S. Senator from Montana...
...than he did in this instance, he is unreliable, to say the least...
...I OMBARDO Toledano's Con-f ederatt9n of Mexican Workers has...
...Washington...
...In response to somebody who wrote me a letter, I stated that Senator Burke had a great deal of courage...
...ers have been displaced by machines in the past ten yean...
...In the latest edition of the American Guardian, which still carries Mac Coleman's name on its editorial masthead, and Mac Coleman's features in the news columns, Ameringer goes the entire Soviet line...
...It sounds as though the article was written by some intolerant jackass who cared nothing for facts...
...Hilarious angle is that the split ostensibly came over .^democracy within the organization...
...Utile Lord Fauntelroy candida* for a presidential nomination, recently said scmethis...
...a man- who had givi;n them a moment's thought...
...Jimmy Cannon has Trotsky's prestige, the Socialist Appeal, and—the Dunne Brothers...
...Russia late last year...
...After plastering the city with expensive placards, and getting up one of the most costly subscription appeal blanks we've seen, Friday has become the- only magazine to use a Time...
...So he's happy...
...mid to claim that machines create new jobs but the mom on lower levels who have been tossed into unemploynwk know better...
...One of our oldest comrades, Meyer Singer, a member of my branch, receives five papers weekly and is responsible to the branch for their distribution as one of a committee of six regular distributors...
...For I am certain that if it rested with mothers, men would never be sent to the battlefield...
...Your Washington correspondent did not call my office...
...As ever, your friend CHARLES YALE HARRISON...
...rVIRECTORS of Friday's pro-" motion department are running through Gillmor's thousands like Trotsky through a polemic...
...Fourth, Senator Burke has never been affiliated with the local fascist groups...
...In the Socialist Workers Party, the majority had a lead of about 6p per cent to Schachtman's 40...
...COUGHLIN'S "INVENTION JN HIS last two radio broadcasts Father Coughlin a* given his attention to what be calls "our financial mp-tern'* which, he declares, is "after all a human inventwa" He concludes that all the ills of society—debts, unempkp ment...
...I have been listening to my radio and the broadcaster has just announced a news item of fearful" importance...
...COME of our Socialist Party *^ friends have protested our criticism of Oscar Ameringer...
...Duff Cooper has played directly ; into the hands of the very men whV havedeprived your father of his post at the university...
Vol. 23 • April 1940 • No. 17
