Workers Abroad
Workers Abroad BROADCASTING defeatism is any form anywhere in the Iritis* ** Empire will soon become treason, punishable as such by as rigid a wartime code as the French use. It is no secret that...
...Interests eager to assassinate or hamstring the Wagner and Wspt and-Hours Acta, They have aide *a new high in insanity and the devious, every day or two turn ing up a new trick tist would have made even the railroad lobbyists of former times sac simple and childish...
...Tsey Should (tart Let Him Be TOE REVENGES that the whirligig of time brings in are often * of a nature to make one stare and wonder, and my stout young friend Adolph Germer, calls my attention to one of the neatest that I had dully overlooked...
...The effect of the recent food regulations is in part psychological...
...The decree says "two plates,*1 of which only one can he meat . . . pbas hors d'oeuvres, salads, dessert, cheese and' fruit, and not counting the vegetables which go with the "plates...
...Franco to Cosh in on Civil War by Hawking Battlefields to Tourists fWarm winds across the Spanish main will bring with them canned romance this summer— romance with the macabre hand of the Madrid propaganda ministry, which will soon launch an intensive campaign in the United States to attract tourists to Spain...
...If this year's crop falls short of the national supply needed, the authorities propose to increase the amount of barley and bean flour which can be mixed with the wheat...
...The long lines seen a few weeks ago in front of shops with coffee to sell have disappeared magi-v cally...
...Austrian* Set Up Volunteer Army . A VIENNESE exiled Social Democratic leader, Heinrich Al-lir.a, and Hans Rett were named in Paris last week to head an Action Committee which will coordinate all Austrian efforts to aid the Allies...
...The general mobilization in August and September : last year took many of the peasants away from farms...
...But if Exploitation had not won this glorious victory, and had et.shown public officers where they gat off about strikes, Frank Wphy would not be on the Supreme Court today, and not be-sj on the Supreme Court, he would net have written that momen-ia) decision in the teeth -ef,?xpioitarimiand -ail its fang, eafe-mh forever the right to picket and tuins the campaign the Wmiert had planned to extend their1 anti-piekeiiug laws to aef state...
...Passing through New York on his way to Mexico, he visited this dust-clogged editorial room...
...Although it has neither army nor navy and no fortifications, the Danish and Swedish governments recently lent Iceland many 'thousands of dollars for sufficient armaments to bold off a surprise landing party...
...Penalty for ^^^^^^M spreading defeatist literature may henceforth ^^^^rT be execution, according to a decree issued by ' / the cabinet last week...
...Australia Censors Stalinite Press CO THROUGHOUT the British Empire today the governments *~ are clamping down on Communists and their press...
...Social Democrats Give Iceland Progressive Gov't A LTHOUGH much has been written of Iceland, little has ap-peered in the daily press to tell the world that the tiny island, an independent republic since 930 A. D., is now governed by the Social Democrats...
...I AM AN OLD Washington correspondent and hard boiled to ^legislative flim-flam, but more than ence this winter I have ten startled by the adventuring in crook that has been dared by the...
...Ed R. Pountney, "owner" of the London Daily Worker, was fined $7,000 for libeling Sit Walter Citrine and other members of the general council of the Trades Union Congress...
...Whether bread will be rationed at all depends on the size of the crop...
...But they are well ^¦rtk-your sober consideration, nevertheless...
...v Already on trial under the new law are ^O'^V^l George Bolore, one of the GPU political com- ^T^f \ missars who watched over the International • J. \ , Brigade...
...The Socialists have governed long and well...
...Don't go all the way in...
...They just walked out because they tot ordered...
...Finn Moe of Nor- (Js\XP way...
...tot the most determined enemy of the$e Acts has not been the northern manufacturer but the Associated Farmer and the South-era employer...
...Bat having lived among them, I have learned to respect a cer-tsa dogged tenacity in them that doesn't go scram when the pjwtscs pile up big and black...
...Thousands of bags of coffee wait on the docks of Madagascar because there are not enough ships...
...The winter is over, consequently coal rationing will have no effect until .next October,, il.at afl, As for bread, the situation is more serious...
...complete religion freedom and no illiteracy...
...But a prolonged state of hostilities will find a consolidated and well-organized French empire...
...Erstwhile CP celebrities are as popular in Paris as a McKey-nolds dissent in the United States Supreme Court...
...These—Great Goering...
...Severe...
...wish, you can see Seville, Granada, and the pictures of Velasquez, Goya, and El Greco which the Falangists inherited from a Spain now dormant...
...Keep one hand on mow mm f« Move CULL, I think that in these grim conditions most persons regard ? attempts at humor by high officers as bad taste...
...Tfce colonies can supply the metropolis, according tQ Mr...
...When the war began, France had a very large surplus of wheat, amounting to seventy million bushels...
...Behind our hands, job knew—ike this...
...LEAST, I shouldn't be in any indecent or precipitate haste ffgboat that invasion of England over which the Italian press jl maw cackling...
...French pastry, which is still authorized four days a week, will be completely forbidden...
...A decisive Allied victory may come sqoner, but Mr...
...H, that noble Private Enterprise, Cornerstone of our Pros-r perity, of our free institutions, of|pttr liberties, of our na-*«JItself...
...A considerable effort is being made to increase the spring sowing...
...After police raid a headquarters, such as the Rassian consular offices or the Spanish refugee relief bureaus, the Staliniite apparatus is merely shifted to another well prepared center, often m one of Paris' wealthiest districts...
...In the past Communists have been sentenced to four or five years imprisonment on islands >gtf B| off the west coast of France...
...British Labor Party leaders are touring the country in swings around the circles, stopping at all local labor councils where they avail themselves of their prerogative to criticize the Chamberlain cabinet...
...As it is, France remains after eight months of hostilities a bind of Cocagne where most everything can be had in abundance— so much so that the Parisians have a hard time taking the war as seriously as they should...
...vjoy that sin fell the angels...
...But they have shown again to the philosophies...
...thousand Austrian* have already enlisted...
...And there is no limitation at all on fish...
...Too oft have we Ishmaels scoffed at it, too oft sweep-¦tly denied that it can do things bettejr than Public Ownership...
...The greatest obstacle lies in transportation facilities...
...Embroidered linens are higher still...
...There if...
...Daring our conversation he asked: "What's wrong with your university people...
...Grand-work...
...The "magnificent Sy*" business would be the...
...Coming during British negotiations with Maisky, Russian ambassador to London, the firm French stand is also a note to the English that France still considers the Russians as noisome an enemy as Germany...
...The mixture of two per cent now allowed will be increased to twenty...
...They are also busy with the better part of the trade which the American merchant carriers have lost since the passage of the Neutrality Act...
...Just as the American government is picking off the leaders of the CP apparatus one at a time, London resorts to legal action...
...tThe great automobile strike in Michigan occurred when Frank Murphy was governor...
...France Tightens Empire's Transport Set-up to Fight Food Shortage Threat By benjamin protter...
...I turn to the classics for: the aft epita\ph upon flpto of this hat endeavor, %ot*t xeith their own...
...petard...
...No Limit en Dishes There are' no restrictions, properly speaking, on the quantity.of food which can be eaten by any one person at one meal...
...m\W^ m\m^ On the commission are Camille Huysmans ^HF^rsT^^^B of Belgium...
...an ^iu>- that will be just enough to keep?ti»enj alive...
...Leoe Blum In the meantime, the Anglo-French trade union council has completed federation of the organized labor...
...Coffee Plentiful This thriving maritime trade has been the share of the small nations, such as Greece, Holland and...
...Rey*ead Such drastic action reflects French bitterness against the Soviets and the Comintern apparatus in France...
...They can enjoy their daily aperitif in their favorite cafe and gossip to their heart's content just about as much as before, for the fighting goes on far from home...
...This legion will he vet up along fetes of the Czech and Polish armies in exile,jy Charles Edward Russeft-— ^___The News Reel • -—kbut Trpodheim itfV.tbe end of the story...
...Because a six weeks stoppage has crippled steel production and shipping, the government has passed laws compelling operators to begin drawing coal if the "strike" leaders refuse further negotiation...
...None of the 117,692 people in Iceland is unemployed...
...Avant Garde...
...sw*nk and runs the goveramenfcbe41y,: isn't the British 551 Anyone else that has had my opportunity to observe at "gj^age in a time of stress and strain, the peculiar British 2«ehology »nd British reaction to defeat, iriH be as ready to be-??tbat there are several more chapters fn this-serial and some TJjeai will ^ rough re*din&"- They arc no friends of mine, i—toogh-fibered, acquisitive islanders...
...I could a stayed if I had wanted to," said Hack Finn when tie man appeared with the shot gun, "fat I didn't want to...
...This committee will invite affiliated Socialist parties J^^^ . to send material on the subject...
...Murphy these, putting forth their utmost endeavors, brought about his defeat...
...Philip ^^fff*<7^^^ Noel Baker of Britain...
...except for meat when served in a restaurant...
...A trip to Paris would convince them of the utter nonsense of their impressions...
...City councils throughout southern England plan to curb the CP's anti-war activity and fight the party's influence in the trade unions...
...Leon Blum of France...
...War conditions notwithstanding, the Trades Union Congress and its affiliated organizations will hold their 1940 convention as usual during the first week of September, in Hastings, under the presidency of William Holmes...
...PARIS (Passed by the Censor).—The Cabinet Minister for the French colonies counts on a long, drawn-out war, lasting possibly five years...
...All men and women over twenty-one years vote...
...Bread and coal cards are being prepared with the intention of rationing the population if the necessity arises...
...France's, shipyards have never caught up with the huge loss that French shipping sustained in the previous wars...
...Man-del, with much more foodstuffs than they are sending right now...
...Doubts as to sincerity, jgf...
...General Franco ^e ^aven'* learned whether Guernica, where 800 women and children were splintered to death in the market place one warm day, is on the itinerary...
...Or maybe he" is pursu-mexphcable policy of silence so thai ha can neve a lead-*9?eineh on the convention and pick has-successor...
...This committee will attempt to create a volunteer army in France...
...The new secretary will be appointed at a meeting early in June...
...It even attempted to prevent Prime Minister ivienzies num seeking to speak at a miners' meeting in an appeal for peace in the coal fields—which have been tied up by a strike of 30,000 diggers...
...Koos Vorrink of Holland...
...But the power to withstand the ^2?wm of personal-ambition is th| IJBst of ctou»cter's jeeUt...
...The newspapers exaggerate when they speak of "meatless" days...
...If one can't get beef or veal, he is allowed poxk, lamb, chicken, rabbit, and calf's liver...
...All his plans for speeding up colonial production are...
...Being of a notable sense of justice, first, and therefore having a strong sympathy with the men that toil, Governor Murphy refused to allow the state troopers to be need to drive the strikers back to their work, refused to allow strikers to be starved or intimidated, and insisted that they should have a fair chance to state their cause...
...And what is revealed in these activities is that to * part of the South, after seventy-five years, the only conception «f labor is still slave labor,' kept upon a a subsistence baaia ex-*»Vas before the Civil War...
...kynebing keeps them subdued and submissive end willing to **pt-the subsistence basis end make no fuss about it...
...Out of these maneuvers it would be difficult to say that the KOBfacturers Association and the Chamber of Commerce emerge tith any credit...
...Addressing tbf British troops that scrambled out of Norway just in time to jsjp themselves, the British chief of staff, bearing the singularly iioaie name of Ironsides, told them they must not think they had bten driven out...
...He points out that only the bare necessities of a warring nation are imposed on Jouhaux and the French Federation of Labor, This coincides with the remark made to this columnist recently by the curator of an important Parisian museum...
...I am too mindful of w-juid, India and Palestine, with occasional trimmings of Tas-00i,, Honk kong, South Africa, and points east and south...
...owing to Mr...
...The OP has been Stakhanoffing its sabotage schedule in Australia...
...For this reason, he eras marked for destruction by the great Industrial and Financial Interests, and when he fame up for re-election...
...Marcel Vittet, former editor of the / 1...
...A sure sign that Mandel is organizing transport satisfactorily lies in the improved coffee supplies which have arrived in Paris...
...All groups within the Socialist Party, all leaders from Leon Blum to Paul Faure, feel that the government is justified in ' taking action against the agents of the CP, the policy of which now .pivots around the German strategy of turning French public opinion against London and demoralizing the home front to spread dissatisfaction among the front line forces...
...And as for |he cinch on the convention, gj»'»»ready so unshakable that the convention wduld nominate BES^Soe if Roosevelt told it to dp io, ^tt*e most poignant phase of the whole situation he has cre-Hg* inevitable doubts he will* cause to germinate tn all ^•rte* tninds and seasoned obeerveie...
...The French rank among the biggest bread eaters per- capita...
...LSI Commission Discusses Reconstruction A SMALL commission of its leaders has been set up by the ^* Labor and Socialist International to draft a plan for the reconstruction of Europe after the war...
...And Owe**, TVuch makes the noises (and the blunders) Md putt «n the ^i...
...Thus always to public officers who pro strikers a fair deal...
...1930 the Icelanders celebrated the one thousandth anniversary of their parliament, the Althing/ the ©West assemble in the world...
...In addition, the public authorities have made a very wide interpretation, • classifying oysters and snails as hors d'oeuvre...
...Stalinite publications in Australia are now being rigidly censored on any reference to war, strikes, industrial unrest, or the Soviet government...
...Paris has had to depend since then on foreign car-gos to carry a good part of the colonial products to French home ports...
...So watch for the big red letters on the posters . . . and keep calm...
...must be that when one kneels in our political Pantheon 9** jinking engine goes completely | stalled...
...Nor is there any restriction on the labor movement...
...In London, although thfe bulk of the Labor Party members— especially in Scotland—oppose the restrictions, the government has begun to hamper the liberty which the Stalinites have turned into license to chip away at the war machine...
...and «ee to what unhappy conclusions it SPg**- 4»eWi ite "fexgettenj eeaj...
...fa iueetmAteex...
...Let all the test take warning, for fee'is what we can and will do for them...
...and the sue- C^mhyjL: cessor to F. Adler, secretary of the LSI, who ^"^^nJ/J^ has resigned...
...There are no strictly vegetarian periods...
...Or the bull fight ring in Badajoz . . . where 2,000 Loyalists'were thrown into a pit and machine-gunned...
...Herbert Morrison, particularly, has done this loudly and effectively...
...Now these nations have turned to the more profitable commerce of carrying war supplies from'one part of the world to the other...
...and two of his assistants, Si- ^-ii^X mone Vigoureux and Morris Berlemont...
...London "Worker" Hit In Libel Case ^•ANADA has already banned CP publications and the Labor ^ government of New Zealand prepares to follow suit as the Anzac Stalinites not only continue to smear the government's war efforts but use their prongs on the Labor Party itself...
...movement in both warring nations and is pushing activity which maintains high working standards, wages, and civTl rights despite the conflict...
...Mandel is taking no chances...
...Coffee can be bought now anywhere and in any quantity desired...
...It wasn't until I came to New York that I learned from them that I was jittery from persecution, emaciated by ration-imposed starvation, and in constant danger of jailing because I'm one of the radical intellectuals...
...Franco is bidding for foreign exchange from some of the 120,000 Americans who used to visit pre-war France each year...
...It is no secret that the Paris government has been harassed by a wel-equipped propaganda machine shooting anti-war,-anti-Reynand leaflets and miniature newspapers into railroad stations where returning soldiers gather, onto trains moving into the Maginot line, and of eowrss through every street in all French industrial centers...
...If I were a German, I j^gjd draw the jubilate rather light these weeks...
...Not at all...
...Was this in mind from the beginning* Follow that ^??&le snggestum...
...Mendel's energetic efforts, capable of supporting indefinitely the burden of a gigantic conflict...
...There's more «njed stuff on the fire, and if it calls for a new cook, ho will not Itlil from Cliveden, which is something different again...
...T°p will not read of these things in your daily newspaper nor ¦*» them discussed on Independence...
...Hooray...
...There is scarcely any curtailment of the number of dishes a restaurant can serve to a patron...
...If German resistance breaks down sooner, so much the better...
...Highlights- in .the posters and folders issued by Franco's men will be tours of the battlefields and wrecked cities and of course, if you...
...Just to plug Franco's campaign, we'd like you tovknow that hotel rooms and railroad tickets are somewhat higher nofjr than they were before the civil war, because of new taxes, food is 'scarce and much .jnore expensive, and so is the Toledo ware which many tourists boy...
...2?mbly, now, if the revelations mpide by the national Se-**0tjes and Exchange Commission are correct, memorably we j*T»nvicted of error and injustice- According to- these allega-jgy^hrought against branches of the|power Trust in Missouri, fjfelfe Enterprise can bribe public 'ttflSters, corrupt nolitica with *jj»*annpaign contributions and falsifjjr its books to cover these JS^nents with a skill, a dexterity, and an acumen ti»*t prove— 2^™*^ respects—a superiority not jjnerely demonstrable but ^SO-WORSHIPPING elements among the New Dealers con-tfjjjfoe to cling to the storm-toeeedj raft of their hope that jv^sident Boosevelt does not intend"to try for the Third Term **fe What you will see, they say, ¦ that the nomination will H*™wd to him in the convention ami with e^magnificent ges-WM «f self-effacement, he will decline (t...
...based, on that estimate...
...Ten centjS...
...But you can't go . . . visas will be issued only to those who can get two persons to testify to their good character and "innocence of any beliefs prejudicial to the Nationalist regime...
...Despite strong Stalinite organization work within the Australasian Council of Trade Unions, that body vuted last week to back the Federal Labor Party's policy of endorsing the war on Nazism...
...One correspondent close to the French labor movement writes from Paris that he's amazed at the perverted conception American left-wing publications have of the "restriction" on trade upon activities...
...Hist...
...They may do some fancy.gig steps taWing W cover up their losses, but no one need be deceived about fa it they don't front page defeat they don't forget it, either, ¦pdacs, the British Empire idea is too closely interwoven with tks dsfly end hourly fife of every Englishman to be surrendered jjter one swift movement to the rear...
...BW what is no less instructive is that the same social •••eept is at the seme time the mainspring Of the Southern , elimination to maintain in Congress the sacred right 1 w (lain...
...Portugal, whose principal business is plying the seas...
...And then there is the shell-pocked telephone building in Madrid, the graves near Teruel, the crater-filled Ebro shores . . . and other quiet spots...
...No more than half the usual ground was sown with winter wheat...
...Although restrictions on CP anti-war activities increase, there is no concomitant hampering of sincere pacifist campaigns...
...to what lengths men will goto defend their profits, and also «Wn something else at least equally interesting and worth pon-sMsg...
...It is the mainspring: of all the Southern attacks upon the Wage and Hours Act...
...On Jane 23...
...most despicable performance-.of 2*» »ny President of the United States has ever been, guilty glis hardly conceivable...
Vol. 23 • May 1940 • No. 19
