2 Fascists Seek Places in Congress, Run Solely on Anti-Semitic Plank
ROGERS, VINCENT
2 Fascists Seek Places in Congress, Run Solely on Anti-Semitic Plank By VINCENT ROGERS Sufficient funds to create effective anti-British propaganda are setting up political machines for the...
...Score one for the Chinese...
...By this time it would be difficult to shock even an American reader by, what takes place in a civil war...
...We asked you to send for a subscription booklet...
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...platform...
...Evidence of the effect of the ; poll tax in Virginia was given by George Pruner, liberal Republican legislator in the" Old Dominion state...
...He Urged that the measure be passed immediately so as to give the franchise to millions of Southerners now barred" from voting because of their low incomes...
...It all ended in a debacle and more blood baths...
...Labor represents the bulk of the farmers' market and farmers are genuinely interested in protecting low income wage earners...
...House' action on the measure is expected shortly...
...Remember that there are ten million Gentiles in New York as compared to three and one-half million Jews...
...It was not a straight armed conflict between Kolchak's and the Bol3hevik armies...
...we must take it back if we have to do it by.force...
...I "We consider these proposed amendments against public and farm interest...
...Prefect Wage Earners" In a telegram sent to the House labor committee shortly before the final vote on the Barden amendments was taken, M. W. Thatcher, chairman of the National Farmers' Union Legislative Committee and president of the National Federation of Grain Co-operatives, declared: "Representing an unduplicated membership of 350,000 farm families, our joint national legislative committee has determined, to vigorously oppose the Barden'amendments to the wage-hour...
...Backed by Nazi Band The German-American Bund officially endorses him and promises his campaign managers the backing of its newspaper...
...hairbreadth escapes, they succeeded in reaching southwest* China, where the authorities, much to the Russian's astonnV ment, received them hospitably...
...The Dutch . Catholic organizations appear doomed...
...With the enactment of the enti-injunction laws, it had Je* • hoped that the chief abuses of labor injunctions would be -eljou' nated...
...Sometimes the workers hold back a while and even succeed in getting the rate up a bit," Ham said...
...Written by an attorney who was «8jSfl*^ Justice Cotillo first as the secretary of the board of juWsW* and subsequently as a referee in the Busch injunction prawnsJjrt* it appears to be nothing more than an effort to justify Unl jttlr* handling of the ease...
...For ten years he has been one of the West's corporate farmers, of the type responsible for the exploitation of the Okies...
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...Imagine, however, t civil war in Siberia with the Japanese, Mongols and Cossacks all taking a hand...
...United opposition by - employers has already been directed against these labor organizations...
...A New Tamerlaine *T*HE STORY of the mad Baron Ungern whose Mongolian srmy * the author was compelled to join is almost incredible if it were not a matter of cold historical record...
...Bet it needs energetic support...
...Societies: "It is about time- that we, the people, take over the press of the United States...
...The German-American Bund has been revitalized by funds from abroad, and detectives of the Criminal Alien Squad have quietly been investigating reports that Rudolf Markmann and four other Bund chiefs who fled this countrylast spring during the probes have secretly returned to carry on subversive activities...
...The presence of the Japanese, Czecho-Slovak, English and American armed forces complicated the situation...
...To what low estate has the American press descended...
...For there are always more workers on hand than there are jobs for them...
...All this sounds crazy, but civil wars are notoriously crazy things...
...Among these supporting the proposal before the committee last week were Cramp ton Harris of Birmingham, a prominent Southern attorney and former associate of Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black...
...But, as has been the case with many a remedial labor It*, this hope was not realized...
...t . ^ It must be admitted at once that there is a captivating qo*Jity about Mr...
...State Unions SEATTLE, Waslu—An ai&im*1**** aiimtar to thrt which rocked post-war Centralis appeared untoinent in SSnstaB this week...
...all immigration to be stopped...
...James True is handling some of McWilliams' propaganda...
...Books and Writers By Elias L. Tartak Civil War in Siberia IF TBS WORLD we know wet* not crashing aboui us, the blunder review could be recommended as interesting summit reading...
...If you want such a newspaper as the editors of The New Leader have: tried to build, you can have one...
...A Gfoomy Subject APPARENTLY, young Alyoshin had little heart for the civil war...
...The tenor of McWilliams' campaign literature is best judged from this excerpt: "Of the 45 member of the House of Representatives who represent our state in Washington, most have publicly soiled their knees* and bowed their heads at the shrines of Jewish power, and not one has publicly spoken out against the perversions of Americanism resulting from alien control...
...But the-moment a few of them start getting into the employees' trucks the market is broken, and the problem of the others is then not to get a job at a certain rate but to get any kind of a. job...
...He is straightforward aaeat himself, about his comrades...
...He has already set up headquarters at 1691 Second Avenue...
...Because no paper but the Beobachter of New York has mentioned his candidacy, Brown charges that "this un-American act of suppression discloses that already that insidious group of international money changers is stifling the voices of American patriots who cry for PEACE...
...He Knows His Mongols ALYOSHIN had one advantage over most of his comrades...
...Congress in 1930 «si by various state legislatures within the next few years...
...at all...
...New 'Centralia' Faces Wash...
...Nevertheless, the Chinese authorities pretended to take alyoshin and his friends for ordinary "refugees," They were led and finally helped in reaching Peking...
...Henry Holt and Co.,' 1940...
...Hospitable Chinese WITH the* collapse of Ungern's forces, the author and a groip of his comrades had to flee for their lives...
...The bill • would repeal laws in eight states which make payment of th...
...Gov't Despite revived anti-Catholicism and renewed activity by the &i Klux Klan, prominent Catholics continue- to second FAher Coughlin's call for use of the "Franco way"jn America...
...Be spoke Chinese, Manchu and Mongolian...
...Its platform includes "peace with the great powers...
...general national military service for youth...
...t^ The book under review does not treat of thig important ««*blem, however...
...Labor Injunctions Today By DAYID I. ASHE •THE concerted attacks by Big Business on the Wagner Att * ever since its enactment have kept the labor movement v busy trying to preserve the slight benefits accorded Labor by ls*» that it has had no time to look after a number of other kgll matters of much greater importance...
...Curb Markets" for Hiring of Migrants Hit in LaFollette Quiz WASHINGTON, D. C—Use of "curb markets" for the hiring: of...
...Otherwise, we in America will also lose by default...
...The simple story of the book, its unvarnished account of the bloody doings of the various Cossack chiefs, reflects credit on the author's veracity...
...and Noel Bedow of Birmingham, an official of the Steel Workers Organising Committee...
...The author's manner of telling his own and the larger siventure of the book makes it engrossing reading...
...Seven thousand migrant laborers are at present on the Virginian Eastern Shore employed as strawberry pickers...
...Although the AF bloc in Congress fought for the passage of the Barden amendments which would have dropped millions from the protection of the pay and time standards set in the law, the National Farmers Union brought pressure upon federal legislators and contributed to the defeat of the proposed revisions...
...In the first place, courts suddenly changed their views as to what constituted "labor disputes" and have avoided coinplbw* with the clear mandates of these statutes by the simple expedient of ruling in case after case that the picketing sought to be *• joined did not arise out of a "labor dispute" and that the •att' injunction law therefore did not apply...
...s ,t« 1 The author exhibits a surprising lack of knowledge ot and the book suffers also from many typographical errors, * THE BUSCH JEWELRY STORES LABOR IXJUb'CTI&Lg John H. Mariano...
...The civil war in Siberia throughout the years 1918-1921^was a bloody jig-saw puzzle...
...So has the express ban against any court's enjoiw** peaceful picketing been nullified by judicial interpretation...
...The House bloc of old guard Democrats which has taken the lead in the campaign against the Wage-Hour act and the NLRA is made up, for the most part, of representatives chosen from states where nine-tenths of the potential electorate is disfranchised by the tax.' The/Southern . Conference for Human Welfare, meeting in Chattanooga, Tennessee, last week, voted to continue its drive on the ballot levy, which is termed an "undemocratic restriction on the franchise of a free people...
...Yet the injunction was affirmed by the Appellate Division and by the Court of Appeals, with only one judge—Lehman— dissenting...
...He said: "In this campaign upon which I am entering and which will be noteworthy for its forthright frankness, I shall, in discussing vital issues, call a spade a spake and, where necesary, a Jew a Jew...
...Christopher Publishing House...
...Key figures in the Washington Employers campaign are Daniel Hay, executive director of the organization's Oregon counterpart, and G. Robert Huston, believed to be an attorney for the Associated Farmers...
...The Belgium Catholics are fighting for their lives...
...Huston is secretary of the Yakima Valley j Trades Association, which has often sponsored Associated Farm- 4 er and Silver Shirt activity, . f Machinists' Union Hit | Observers in Washington believe that, despite the funds which such a federation of industrialist societies will have, it will be impossible for the group to secure in time the 50,000 signatures required on an initiative petition...
...We new need support for The New Leader which, during the past eight months, has consistently warned of the dangers the Americas are just, now realizing...
...Such representatives have, been dispatched to, and offices set up in, Centralia, Vancouver, Camas, Chehalis, Bellingham, Fort Angeles, Kelso, and various other important industrial centers...
...Their bills will be paid for, as were those of Norway's Quisling, England's Moseley, and Holland's Mussert, by directors of a reported vast slush fund established here to unloose a wave of anti-Allied sentiment...
...Every newspaper office worth the name pushes its editions out in a haze of electrical tension through which looms the grim possibility that Nazi troops will crash across Belgium and outflank the Magi not line—the last defense between civilization and the brownshirred hordes...
...The local "side-shows," run by the Cossack chiefs Semenov and Kalmikov in Transbaikalia and Ussury region, made the situation even crazier...
...Meanwhile, the baron was engaged in an orgy of executions and mass cruelties, making little distinction between friend, foe and neutral...
...2 Fascists Seek Places in Congress, Run Solely on Anti-Semitic Plank By VINCENT ROGERS Sufficient funds to create effective anti-British propaganda are setting up political machines for the Christian Mobilizers, the Christian Front, the German-American Bund, the Silver Shirts, and amenable "scions of respectable families" in states from the Hudson river to the Oregon coast to participate in the 1940 national elections...
...culture research expert, told the committee, it is customary for the migrants to congregate at particular street corners between 8 and 7:30 a. m., and to be visited by planters' agents who hire the cheapest labor...
...Detectives Probe Bund Chiefs While the Christian Front, the Mobilizers, the Silver Shirts and others plan local campaigns, they are attempting some form of unity on a national ticket...
...The Civil Rights Committee, of the Conference was directed to represent the parent body in the campaign for the Geyer bill...
...We are ready for that service...
...We have contributed much to the exposures of these totalitarian farces...
...Men are frequently nominated on the basis of their ability to pay the poll taxes for a large number of prospective voters -and in one alone, Pruner pointed out, candidates for offices paid over half of the $19,000 collected through the ballot levies, tabor Support Voiced Harris testified to the legality of the bill, which he described as clearly constitutional...
...The result is Thurman Arnold's union-busting dri»» which may more than offset all the gains won through the Wagner Act...
...Another fascist congressional hopeful is Kenneth A. Brown, who has announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination in the 1st Congressional District of Oregon...
...Brown is reported a member of one of the oldest and most important families in Oregon...
...All of which makes "Asian Odyssey" a significant contribution to the literature of the Russian rerdB* tion and civil war...
...migrant laborers at the lowest possible rates was described this week to the LaFollette Committee, which is investigating the needs of transient workers...
...Hits "Jewish" Press Mr...
...Colonel Redmond F. Kernan, Jr., speaking to members of the 104th Field Artillery follbwing their attendance at a communion service in the Church of the Immaculate Conception,, told them this week: "If our government ever gets into the hands of these people (advocates of 'nihilism...
...House Action On Poll Tax Ban Nears WASHINGTON, D. C. — As bearings on tin Geyer Bill to ban the poll tax neared their end this week, prominent Southern liberals continued to offer testimony in favor of the measure to the House Judiciary Committee...
...In Newark, Father Curra°n' excoriated the American newspapers and told his audience, the Newark Archdiocese Federation of Holy Name...
...Hence, he has a deeper understanding- of the Mongols and Chinese who played a collateral but an important part in the Russian conflict...
...While Patrick Scanlan, editor of the Brooklyn Tablet, and Father Curran, head of the Catholic Truth Society, ha>ve intensified their campaigns in defense of the Christian Fronters, Catholic National Guardsmen have been urged to seize government control when "necessary...
...As it is it will have to be recommended as — reading for this summer to offset the effect of the daily sjjnBp Not that the subject-matter of the book is light end reposter It is the record of a Siberian Russian who had been a yesa* officer in the great war and later took part in the civil warVfim in Kolchak's army, ami—subsequently—as an officer ia the 5 Army...
...Space does not permit a discussion of the faulty reasoning kj which these courts arrived at their decision, nor of a nwshw « other instances in which injunctions have been granted i*flPn»* tion of the legislative will...
...Lucy Randolph Mason, publicity director for the CIO Textile Workers Union...
...Serious attempts will be made to place avowed fascists in Congress this fall when the campaigns of Joe McWilliams, Christian Mobilizer fuehrer, and others get under way...
...Tersely, this is a final -appeal for funds, for subscriptions, for support...
...We asked you to get as at least one sab each...
...While the LaFollette committee in the capital continued its probe of the migrant labor situa. tion, federal and state agencies meeting in Norfolk, Virginia, this week, determined upon a survey ". of the needs of transient workers in the Old Dominion State...
...For weeks we have been begging, cajoling, pleasantly pointing out that we need finances for this feature or that series...
...i"The men who get jobs are paid off in cash at quitting time and the next day the whole process is gone over again...
...Markmann, who was former eastern district leader of the German-American groups, and the others, whose names were not revealed, were said to have arrived here about a week ago...
...Who, then, controls the press...
...The Associated 'Employers' convention was held in Olympia, Washington, May 16 and 17, and was expected to draft an' antistrike initiative similar to that defeated here two years ago and instituted in- Oregon at the same time.: The convention call specifically states that one aim of the meeting will be a merger of existing business societies, so that organized labor may be "dealt with collectively...
...All this becomes picayune...
...We warned of a fifth column, of long-planned Communist sabotage, of detailed Nazi subsidization, of Coughlin's Christian Front, of the semi-Fascist Associated Farmers, of the Senator Reynoldses, the Thorkelsons, the Mobilizers and the Fronts...
...THESE THOUGHTS are brought forcibly to mind as one re* the history of the Busch strike injunction proceedings, whis* has just been set down in a book.* Whatever one may think of the conduct of the unions and t** pickets during that now famous strike, it is clear that the injW** tion issued by Justice Cotillo banning all picketing—even pea***"1 picketing—was in direct violation of the New York State AnnInjunction Law...
...you didn't...
...The author admits that Ungern had so horrible a record 4 cruelty against the Chinese as well as the Mongols that the Cknese would have been justified in dealing sternly with the amnants of his bands...
...His people were well-to-do and lived in Harbin layer, d any Russian jurisdiction...
...Department of, Agriillt-+A At^- hM...
...In Italy, the official Vatican newspaper, Osservatore Romano, today was not circulated in Vatican -City...
...The anti-alien specialists and isolationists, Senator Reynolds and Congressman Thorkelson, might be put up by the fascist fringe as a national slate to compete with the GOP and the' New Deal...
...In Norway the Catholic Party and trade unions have " been crushed by the Nazis...
...The baron's Hitlerian dream was to repeat the exploits of Genghiz Khan and Tamerlaine, to create a vast Mongolian amy and with it to conquer Russia and western Europe...
...Another sad example of this neglect is to be found with reaaeet to the anti-injunction laws, passed first by...
...And he has a deep feeling im the vast Siberian landscape, for its mountains, rivers and steps* which formed the background of the tragic conflict...
...All candidates sponsored by these groups will" run cm an anti-Semitic...
...f vents move much too rapidly, the Nazis are smashing their way through too many nations, traditions, and Labor and Socialist movements, to permit the waste of space which is involved in these statements...
...no crusade for democracy abroad...
...Organized labor throughout the nation has long been opposed' to the poll tax requirements...
...The system of "curb markets" •prevails in transient labor centers as widely separated as Florida and Trenton, New Jersey, Ham stated...
...Alyoshin's writing...
...His story is told witkt ntenejjjj^ with a certain naive freshness...
...Brown's patriotism is best exemplified by recent campaign statements...
...Bedow and Miss Mason expressed labor's fgervent support for the measure aud urged its immediate passage...
...Is it too much to ask of our lords and masters, too much to ask of the Elders of Zion, that at least ONE representatives from New York may speak out in Congress, not for Britain, not for Jewry,1 not for Germany, but for Americans, first, last and always...
...Not only did he spend his childhood in the country when these languages are spoken but, before the war, he was a states at the Oriental Institute in Vladivostok where these languages were taught...
...II Duce's troops have'' been-stationed near the Vatican...
...McWilliams will run for Congress in the 18th Congressional District of New York City...
...Secondly, a number of courts have held that the law w ti* same today as it was before the legislatures had spoken...
...The Associated Employers has sent representatives throughout the state to induce various firms to refuse to negotiate with trade unions...
...He is sad about the whole thing...
...ASIAN ODYSSEY, by Dmitri Alyoshin...
...The stotr itself is told with verve and an understanding of the varme human elements involved...
...They undertook what seemed an impossible trek through the Gobi Desert and tin inaccessible mountains of Tibet...
...Initiatives must be submitted by July 5. An immediate vigilante attack on several unions, such as the Machinists Local 79, Alaska Fishermen and Cannery Workers unions, and the International Woodworkers of America, is believed to be the real aim, for the present, of the anti-labor merger...
...He participated in their short-lived triumphs and ultimate defeat...
...And yet when we have appealed to yon for a little activity in your own behalf we have been dismally disappointed...
...In This Grave Moment There can be little humor now...
...Under the "market system," William T. Ham...
...While Washington state trade unions prepare for a re-enforced drive by the Associated Farmers, real agricultural groups have been aiding labor in the fight to preserve the wage-hour act...
...After weeks of toil, fighting aw...
...His military and "bourgaoia"J)td^ ground, however, made it almost imperative for him to join the Kolchak forces...
...Technique will be to center this drive around the slogan "No Jew War for the U. S." This was devised by the New York office of the German propaganda ministry and appears regularly in its official newspaper, the Free American, Deutscher...
...Thus, Labor failed to take advantage of favorable Congresional sentiment of a few years back to press for amendment* * the anti-trust laws to exempt unions once for all from thwr visions...
...Boston...
...Weckruf und Beobachter...
...orzanizstions here to conlabor organizations haw to confront a unified drive against them by such societies as the Associated Farmers and Better Business Builders...
...In most cases they are in urgent need of assistance...
...A, call for a ecowntte of the Associated Employers of Wellington, released m the midst of a state-wide unionization campaign, has prepared — - labor...
...Militia Urged To Be Set to Seize U.S...
...you didn't...
...Here you have the proof that news inimical to Jewish designs can be and is withheld from the American people...
...levy a perequisite to voting in federal elections...
Vol. 23 • May 1940 • No. 20
