NAM Sets Up Spy Wetwork to 'Monitor' Press, Pulpit
NAM Sets Up Spy Wetwork to 'Monitor' Press, Pulpit Seeks to End Alt Criticism Of Industry LINCOLN, Nefcr.—An army of sentries .-to 'fmmata/' tie -na> tion»s press, pulpit, and aH...
...Its ranks have not been completed, but it represents a coalition of the various religions, political and economic groups in America...
...In addition, the Allies have about two billion dollars worth of dfrectf investments in American factories, mines and the like...
...If more cash is needed the Allies can swap Bermuda, the Bahamas, Trinidad, Jamaica and other West Indian islands for American cash...
...the"- afhniifia "to bring 'into the open those few borers' from within," Ammon declared...
...senators and representatives in the current national legislature will be chary of irritating the trade unions in the months between now and November...
...United States navy yards1 now have 90,000 men engaged in building 96' ware raft, of which eight are battleships...
...Such volunteers will be requested to spy on all religions, educational irad youth leaders, report instances where any of these attack7 corporations, and attempt to "persuade" all speakers Aid ¦writert to take a friendlier vie* towards the National Association of loMehctBggCT* '•' | • "Volunteers will be expected to serve as sentries or listening posts to identify sources of information," the Associated Industries bulletin pointed out...
...This sale could be effected without running Congress through a month-long gamut of isolationist and political crossfire concomitant with any efforts to relax the cash and carry policy...
...j 1 Peace officers were directed by rajs governor to track down all aliens who had not complied with .[the finerprinting order ' and' to report them to the State Executive Department...
...plex nature that one is compelled to admire Oscar Wilde...
...Where is the consistency...
...Both forces have their pressure groups ready to fight off excessive taxation and force the bulk of payment onto the other side...
...Chance, always ill-starred, and his own reckless nature...
...In Britain it's Prof...
...defiant before the Marquess of Queensberry...
...U, S. Can Raise 15 Billion for Arms Yearly Special« The New leader WASHINGTON, D. C—With prospective war department appropriations, totaling $8,124^21,732, the question of who will pay the defense bill is being asked in labor and industrial circles here...
...This would deprive no one of any necessity and effect a national saving of $2,500,000,000 of th $5,500,000,000 annually spent on automobiles in this country...
...This means that American industry must be ready to shift immediately from a peace economy to a war-time production schedule—in other words, cut its production of consumers goods by $15,000,000,000...
...Of this amount approximately 65 per cent or $650,000,000 have been Spent for planes, four thousand of which have been ordered since September...
...i Fears that it might be used by know-nothing legislators and executives to terrorize all non-citiiens were heightened by the news that Governor E. D. Rivers of Georgia bad ordered all aliens to |ej fingerprinted and to "register gifch the nearest police, sheriff, or tate highway patrol officer...
...He adored Ellen Terry next, then Helen Modjeska, and finally, Bernhardt...
...A meeting of the New York City division of the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies will be held in the Little Theatre of WEVD, 117 West 46th Street, Monday evening, May 27, to discuss policy and to carry out a course of immediate action...
...Of the combined army and navy total of 5,400 planes, this country could spare between 700 and 1,000...
...Wm...
...taxation on incomes between $1,200 and $10,000 a year would yield the remainder—ten billion of dollars...
...To live beautifully—dangerously, if need be—was all he asked...
...Neely, Guffey Win Other labor victories in recent weeks include triumphs for the union forces in both the federal and state primaries...
...distinguished from the Comnranazis) who say, "England certainly bungled things over there because she was afraid to take any risks...
...Ammon started the campaign for "sentries" after a conference with H. W.-Prentis,- J?, national president of the NAM...
...he gave a love that.seemed, for its brief, passionate duration, likely to snatch him from the abyss toward which he was heading...
...Sales taxes on luxury goods, perfumes, cosmetics, jewelry, . liquor and tobacco would slice another $3,000,000,000 from con- . sumer purchases...
...announced - this week that he would seek passage of a bill for alien registration...
...Bade the rescue hopeless...
...Allen White Heads Committee To Defend U. S. by Aiding Allies By GEORGE FIELD - - We are tardy, but not too late...
...A ¦JBimilar measure was proposed in the New Jersey legislature early this session, but it was defeated, {primarily because of the antagonism it immediately aroused in [labor circles...
...Only one who has felt the direct ' impact of the Keichschan-' tenor's brutality can fully understand what his domination' over Europe would mean to the entire civilized world...
...His tongue, and then his pen, were the blades he used to goad smug, Victorian England...
...The government will have either to force the industrialists to stop producing what the people want to buy, or prevent civilians from purchasing increased amounts of peace-time goods while industry is demoted to turning out war material...
...Liquid Assets in U. S. Allied purchasing agents in the United States point out that a fight for war loans now is unnecessary because there are $11,000,000,000- in liquid British, French, Dutch, Belgian and Norwegian assets here which could be converted without any difficulty into dollars for war equipment...
...Yet Wilde bmm love...
...The committee urges that every step short of war be taken now to make our influence felt on the side of the democracies...
...and finally, drinking himself t» « wretched death * * » TTHE BOOK is equally memorable for its tan tali zing sketch* * of other figures around Wilde—of Walter Pater and "JmW Ruskin...
...of Aubrey Beardsley and Andre Otai...
...I could well understand this expression of a terrifying emotion...
...until the reader feels himself 11 mmmi and helpless before the onrushing, inescapable tragedy...
...In Illinois Congressman Frank 'Fries, who had earned labor's support by his active fight to save the Wage-Hour and Wagner Acts, won nomination for reelection by a wide margin...
...The latter bill would ban use of labor spies...
...He did not have an easy time, and Miss Winwar follows his career as an artist from his hack-work days to the heights of success, noting all the obstacles that would haw stopped a less intrepid man...
...or, most of all, if it had vA been for the Marquess of Queensberry's fanatical hatred of tut son, Alfred, reciprocated to the full by that son...
...When even strangers like Andre Gide seeing them together knew that Wilde was "Bosie's" slave...
...Osear Fingat O'Flahertie Wills Wilde should have been a girl, as his mother intended him to be...
...romping or boa tint with his two sons...
...The latter organization was disclosed' last week -when recruits were sought for it by the Associated Industries of Nebraska, which released a bulletin asking members and friends to enroll in a crusade against "anti-business" speakers - and writers...
...And his asking brooked no denial...
...Labor Athletes to Gfve Exhibition at N. Y. Fair The sports arena at the New York World's Fair will be taken over by organized labor on June 30th and July 7th for the conducting of union-sponsored athletic activities...
...i*arperi;^M*V...
...of Whistler, the waspish "Butterfly": of the Pennells, Of GilWrt Sullivan, and the one and only D'Oyly Carte...
...He never tried to save himself...
...It makes its appeal to all men and to all creeds and clans "to present a united and non-partisan front to the world...
...HeTe all the rights that the common man has fought for during a thousand years are menaced...
...Keynes...
...Miss Winwnr's book is memorable, not only for the unforgettable portrait of Wilde—the butt of Punch's merciless cartoons...
...The next step would be to make available to the government - the purchasing power saved, f Levies on profits would bring in about five billion dollars...
...t ' ?A- nationwide conference of governors and mayors to take local police-action everywhere in Aimeriea tm behalf of the "antififth column'' campaign was proposed in a resolution passed by tie New York City Council...
...Constant pressure on both of the houses, however, is still necessary to prevent approval of the Smith anti-NLRA bills this session...
...They have too long throttled confidence and maintained- unemployment...
...In Lincoln, Nebraska, Reverend Raymond A. McConnell of the .¦ First-Plymouth Congrega{Mfeal Chureh, was one of the Stsct precninent figures among those attacking the NAM sentry ptanV...
...Not only ridicule, but failure, dogged his way...
...If fighting ocean craft are needed by the Allies to replace, within the English Channel, the British'fleet immobilized by the Italians in the Mediterranean, we could spare some one hundred ships out of a possible total of 810...
...And the call to action concludes with these resounding words: "It, is for us to show the people of England, France, Belgium, and Scandinavia that the richest country on earth is not too blind or too timid to help those who are fighting tyrannies abroad...
...Business is now on the offensive...
...Both Neely and Kilgore had labor support- and are expected to win in November...
...Union, which is supporting a bill banning the denial/ of citizenship to .aliens because they have been on relief ' The measure has been introduced into Congress by Representative John M. Coffee and Senator Lewis B. Schwellenbach...
...Only $200,000,000 has been spent here for munitions and machine tools because of the Allied policy of purchasing all other equipment inside' the British and . French empires where credit, of course, is unlimited...
...of Walt Whitman, whom Wilde visited in America...
...This is the' plan being considered...
...This sum represents only bank balances and stocks and bonds here...
...In Pennsylvania New Deal Senator Guffey won a., primary victory by over 100,000 votes...
...They brought him fame, tad fortune undreamed of, yet they proved no match for outraged Britain's heavy cannon...
...New the Allies are buying an additional $600,000,000 worth otf U. S. aircraft...
...The day Chamberlain resigned as Great Britain's Prime Minister and a coalition government including the ablest leaders of the British Labor Party took command, was the signal for all progressives and laborites in America to give meaning to their desire for an Allied victory...
...t i Moore Fights Aliens I New Jersey's Governor Moore, Hague's ' man...
...He would live as he chose, let men say what they would...
...Whether it will be adopted depends more on the poilus south of the Somme than on Congressmen south of the Potomac...
...It was bitter to hear at the trial that young Douglas w» Wilde's victim, aa innocent corrupted by the older man...
...Wilde was to feel the full brunt of that "physical fvm," but nothing, it seemed, could save him...
...This doty to ourselves and to our comrades in the wartorn countries abroad is not...
...The courage that came of conviction...
...Fought by "Labor" j T|giB«ffTig the Nebraskan drive - is Charles D. Ammon, Lincoln head of the Associated Industries...
...We have seen the ignorance of the community organized against Be'rtrand Russell in our own time, but without Miss Winwar's picture of the trial of Oscar Wilde, one cannot appreciate the extremes to which organized prejudice can be brought...
...for 1942, totaling- only one billion...
...Also pending before Congress is the Barbour bill to bar mailing of forged material or any matter tending to incite racial or religious hatred...
...that comes inexorably on...
...In order to make audible the clear voice of the American people, a group of prominent American citizens has organised 'the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies...
...This may come in the form of forced loans to the government...
...Labor Fights New Drive On Aliens WASHINGTON, D. C—While city and state legislatures across the' nation this week swung into a drive on fifth column agents in tfieT United States, Bheral and labor forces acted to prevent" the enmpaign from turning into a general anti-alien sweep...
...The statement, introduced by Walter K. Hart .and approved by fifteen councilmen, with four not voting and two absent, also called upon New Tories Governor Lehman to summon a"special session of the state legislature for the "enactment of laws designed to cheek *fifth column' activities in the State.* It requested passage of "such laws as may be necessary to provide military training and instruction of the citizens so that they will be able properly to protect themselves from enemies from within and without?' Hit Citizenship Ban Positive action to curb the antialien campaign was pushed by such groups as the American Civil Liberties...
...Who else would have refused, knowing what was ahead, to flee --the country, when even the people who had put up security for his bail, begged him to leave Englandf ,-•-.-„ .-¦ i Terrible, to be aware, from the first moment of his suecen, that "if it had not been" for this or that circumstance, WHdt, who shared with many others his physical aberration, mijjt have died crowned with the laurels he had just begun to ML If it had not been for a certain anonymous novel...
...The other day a prominent exited German Social Democrat said to me, "If Hitler wins the war ifton't want to live...
...In West Virginia the defeat of Holt was accompanied by the primary victories of Senator Neely, a candidate for governor, and Judge Harley Kilgore, who sought Holt's senate post...
...The people of our country cannot avoid the consequences of Hitler's victory and of those who are or may be allied with him...
...of Barbs ud...
...AHied orders in American factories reveals that Paris and London are*stfftlelently cottfiaent to spend millions in essVlisrirhljf^sdeBv^ —-¦—ery of planes, parts, engines arid other material as late as the spring tf-'lVtt^'r"- *r,st...
...In its bulletin, the Nebraskan Associated Industries asked that its members take a "service pledge" and seek volunteers for ¦ the fight against business' critics...
...Thirtyfcur such denials have, been issued in Tacoma, Washington, and eighteen in Bellingham, also of the same state...
...Congressman Thomas D'Alessandro of Maryland, fought by the local leadership of both parties, won an easy victory...
...Books and Writers "Oscar Wilde" Makes Exciting Reading LIKE A DARK and evil thread that mars a brilliant patterned cloth, the "love that dare not speak its name" destroyed a the end the* glittering fabric Osear Wilde had made of Lffe.-V: The power that Is in Frances Winwar's daring end unsparing study of Oscar Wilde, the man, is the power of an end fvnimmaj...
...Liberal Trend Seen in Recent Primaries WASHINGTON, D. C. — The next Congress of the United States will be more liberal than the present one...
...VNLY DIMLY sensing the difference in himself, W^lde attained" ^manhood and marriage before he realised fully the hunger in him that no passion for woman could satisfy...
...of Ernest BsNSSt and his faithless "Cynara...
...I have it found it difficult to understand, however, the wailing of the sincere isolationists (as...
...Even before the birth of his second, eon, Wilde was seeking newer, forbidden pleasures...
...Frank reasons that the automobile industry could then turn . to producing vehicles for war, and the oil industry could supply gasoline for battle use in large amounts...
...Hfe bill would clear the way for the Allies to purchase planes and ships, now oh hand hut unused, which can be replaced out of production...
...The NAM is conducting this campaign through the "Mobilization for Understanding of Private Enterprises...
...The demonstrations will be jointly run by AFL and CIO unions...
...Some $5,000,000,000 could be saved by preventing plant and factory expansion...
...The War Department fa Washington would grab the chance to fortify these bases so strategically located for Panama Canal defense...
...Yet for one who so avidly sought pleasure, Wilde was savingly industrious...
...Frank Devises Flo* Expert estimates are that it wiH take at least 15 billion dels lars worth of war goods to keep the army and navy going during any conflict this eountry may enter...
...In Indiana labor's Non-Partjsan League succeeded in naming . Chobinski of the GaryTsteel workers as a candidate for state senator on both tickets...
...f ISS WINWAR shows such perfect understanding of that can...
...He found the greatest pleasure of his life in young, exquisite Alfred, Lord Douglas, the "golden boy" who was to be the darkest of all Wilde's dark angels...
...Another tax on building materials and higher interest rates on mortgages could cut new housing by $600,000,000...
...Butte lovely, violet-eyed Mary Constance Lloyd, whom he made Ms wifs...
...Suggested tax rates now range from 2 per cent on incomes between $1,000 and $1,500 to 25 per cent on incomes between $5,000 and $10,000, and 75 per cent on incomes above $100,000...
...Miss Winwar draws a delightful portrait of Wilde, madly in love with Lily Langtry, hanging around the theatre witajfot arms full of great orange-colored lilies...
...efsa'l»i»ter^ aid wiB go to the Allies unless Italy declares wax.' Tne*: e aeeKoh of ihe "United States army and navy facilities will be placed at the disposal of the democracies, i•,»«?-* 100 SUps to Spare • .¦ This wfll be effected under our present -neutrality laws by some resolution «f thy type' offered this weef bjf the progressive Senator Pepper of 'FWrida...
...cracking jokes on a lecture tour of America...
...The committee in its recent statement points out that "as one democracy after another crum-' bles under the mechanized columns of the dictators, it becomes evident that the future of western civilization is being decided upon the battlefields of Europe, Here is a life and death struggle for every principle we cherish in America, for freedom of speech, of religion, of the ballot—every freedom that upholds the dignity of the human spirit...
...Representatives of the labor movement of New York have been invited to attend, i The membership of the national committee includes Nicholas Murray Butler, Harry Woodburn Chase, Clark M. Eichelberger, Fannie Hurst, Frank Kingdon, Freda Kirchwey, Herbert H. Lehman, Reinhold Niebuhr, Samuel Seabury, James T. Shotwell, Henry L. StimsOn, Gene Tunney, Robert J. Watt, Stephen S. Wise, Mary E. Woolley and Spencer Miller, Jr...
...j ""^TO>?1a&e America,4" he told fcai congregation last week, "they {NAM ¦'leaders) propose to spy troon - all who disagree . with them...
...Nothing," ht would say, "ages like happiness...
...one for any single group or section of our population...
...Holt was elected in 1934 as an alleged supporter, of the Roosevelt program...
...Several hundred aliens have been denied citizenship status because of relief records...
...The NAM campaign has already put labor forces',* progressive newspapers, and liberal ministers on their guard against the Association's projected spy system...
...The defeat of the West Virginian in his state's primaries, coming so rapidly after the ousting of Senator Burke, has set the forces back in the Senate supporting the campaign against the National Labor Relations Act...
...It was Wilde himself who said, "England has done one thing...
...If this sounds astronomical, it is even more so in fact...
...It is being fitted into the army and navy industrial mobilization program as neatly as pieces into a jigsaw puzzle...
...Reynolds this week added to his many such bills one which would amend the LaFollette civil liberties proposal by limiting the number of aliens hired by any company covered by the Wisconsin senator's act...
...The announced aim of the drive to "monitor" all organs of public opinion...
...Responsible Washington officials even predict that the Government will be spending as much as $10,Oe«;000#Oe a year before this country is adequately armed...
...On the other hand, senators such as Reynolds of North Carolina, are intensifying their efforts to pass anti-alien measures...
...Nor" is this the limit of Allied resources...
...Verlaine and Huysmans...
...Pleasure is the only thing te live for...
...New Deal leaders are working on a finance program which will have a war basis whether or not this country enters the European conflict...
...in the United States it's Jerome Frank, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, who is the war-time financial bra in truster...
...This is best illustrated by the orders'that have'been placed...
...they answer, "No, but we must avoid the risk of being drawn into the • war...
...Sales Taxes Planned Another $2,000,000,000 could be taken from the sales of furniture, radios, refrigerators and similar household goods by the same taxation method...
...Labor," organ of the rail- road unions, last week attacked the sentries project as "the first lime in American history that *0*sfc>HatfeB'bf employers has undertaken openly and on a national scale to establish a cen- sorship of the pulpit...
...23 Billion Here Farther, ike British have direct investments of $2,500,000,000 and ?5,000,000,0O0, in South and-Central America, which can be liquidated...
...He has been one of the most consistent labor supporters in either house...
...Senator Andrews^ of Florida, with labor support, won over a wide field...
...Allies Have 24 Billion In U.S...
...The national committee is headed by William Allen White...
...It has invented and established public opinion, which is an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force...
...of Toulouse-Lautrec, who painted Wilde, the voluptuary...
...for Arms Buying By GEORGE SHORT ^ A", : Special to.The TSxwZatox* . * WASHINGTON, D. C—'French lilies on'the K»rttie*n channel front%itt hold solids competent mititvy [observers here believe, despite the blunders and holocaust of the past IS^dKftfil^iag^i^-^^^-^^ ¦ -> * 1 A flifirvey of...
...addressing the ecstatic first-night audience at "Lady Windermere's Fan...
...Of few books can it be said more truly than of "Osear WiMe and the Yellow Nineties," that truth is more exciting thasr aatiss...
...To curtail private spending, he would have the government impose prohibitively high sales taxes on such items as private automobiles, gasoline, oil and tires...
...And the Scandinavian countries have made the fatal mistake of refusing to stand together against the Hitler-Stalin, conspiracy...
...Similar victories were scored throughout the Hoosier State...
...Hiram W. Evans, the KKK leader...
...V The grand total of Allied assets, then, without the West Indian islands, is about twenty-three billion dollars...
...Indeed, any policy which is calculated to destroy the beast of Berlin entails its risks...
...And it is tor psycr.iatristi te determine the effect on the boy of that willful mother's dresting him as a girl until he was old enough to be sent away to school...
...V> quent in discussions of art with his jailer, who didn't knew *n« ' name in ten, but loved it...
...wavering under pitiless fire at the Old Bailey...
...Some nay be gives special assignments...
...But Wilde had courage...
...and of Lady Wilde, whose coursge matched her husband's...
...When these isolationists are asked, "Would you be content if Hitler conquered Europe...
...iGoveraor Rivers is a former &>mber of the Ku Klux Klan and I today a very close friend of...
...NAM Sets Up Spy Wetwork to 'Monitor' Press, Pulpit Seeks to End Alt Criticism Of Industry LINCOLN, Nefcr.—An army of sentries .-to 'fmmata/' tie -na> tion»s press, pulpit, and aH other opinion-making forces is being recruited on a nationwide basis today by the National Association of Manufacturers...
...or for tW anonymous undergraduate's fable...
...Guffey was fought by the State's entire Democratic machine but was backed by labor...
...These two predictions were freely voiced in the capital last week as Senator Rush Holt, tory youngster from West Virginia, was' voted into oblivion by his home state constituents angered at his fight on the New Deal program...
...If Switzerland is forced into the war by a German or Italian invasion, the Allied cash supply will jump by $1,700,000,000 (the Swiss balances and gold holdings in the United" States...
...But a do-nothing policy which says you may wish for Hitler's defeat but inust not take a single step to bring it about, offers infinitely greater risks to our national wellbeing...
...I. L. _ * "THE YELLOW NINETIES," iy Franks Winwar...
...A war finance plan is considered as essential a part at the armament structure as the building of war plane...
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