Where the News Ends
HARRISON, CHARLES YALE
Where the News Ends By Charles Yale Harrison «A* organization which derives its appeal to the individual from *uc*_nu»tim4tntt'*n> «***. hate, contempt . . . cannot fuUUM purpose if it is...
...Both American continents, north and south, shall sooner or later fall to my colors...
...Our ideal is the helmeted soldier...
...Unless there is a sun in the heavens, it cannot shine anywhere...
...v "What in the world am I thinking of...
...AND while we're apologising, *~ here's a letter from Max" Lerner, now up at Williams College...
...A I am not the first soldier risen from lowly rank (so thought the leader as he lay in his darkened room), I am not the [first[corporal who 'sought to conquer the world...
...j j His valiant machine-gunners sprayed the roads densely packed with bewildered humanity...
...We know we speak the minds of all friends of labor and democracy when we express the hope that the deliberations of the convention may contribute to the welfare of that great organization'and to the buttressing of the cause of organized labor in America...
...Their "price" has been the same treatment of industry, the same conscription of wealth as that accorded ike factory hands, farm boys and clerks now making up the British Expeditionary Force in the shambles which is Northers France...
...The Daily's staff suddenly jumped more than 400 per cent in paid-up dues members, among whom there suddenly blossomed forth Angelo Herndon and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn...
...Jt And in a movement sgaisn national defense I. as aa h*j*+ can believing in the swssrsp* of our democratic institution*, • not, of course believe...
...Its progress from a membership of 40,000 to 250,000, its attainments for the great masses who find protection and' inspiration within its fold, constitute one of the most thrilling chapters in the annals of the...
...No fear, no envy, no hatred...
...And that will 1 s but the beginning...
...It all happened while Senator .Wagner was in New York City aid...
...Here he partook of a simple repast of cheese and fruit, for he was apposed to the taking of animal life, being a sSm-vegewxian...
...owJAWmS.-' ~ Since the attack on Norway, America has increasingly felt the need of deckling herself...
...From the northwest there came the sound of distant artillery fire, now a mere rumble...
...Professor Robert Lynd, of Columbia, who has signed many innocent front statements, and others...
...They urge that we give American billions, American tanks, American planes—to save the lives of millions of American boys...
...Through a confusion largely due to myself, I was for a while listed among these writers...
...confused to resist my will...
...From Suzanne LoFollettt To the Editor: The following is s copy cf » letter I sent to the secretary the Keep America Out of w* Congress: .'¦ i...
...At the side of a road to the north of Amiens, "svWsijp^- Trench mother holds a dead infant in \lm,mtms -and look* upon it* lifeless face in tenanted disbelief...
...I herewith tender my resip* tion from the New York Coocil of the Keep AunjhV Out oi War Congress...
...on the side of Britain and France "our economic and moral weight...
...The call of the Kansas editor goes straight to the heart of the danger...
...No labor organization reflects greater credit upon the cause of trade unionism...
...BRITISH LABOR'S WAY WITHIN 150 minutes this week the ivy-leafed conception of private property was destroyed by the British Parliament at the insistence of Labor members in the war cabinet - The bill enabling war ministries to conscript money, j factories, real property and profits was introduced by Major Clement Attlee, veteran Opposition leader...
...CONVENTION fHE NEW LEADER extends warm greetings to the twenty-fourth: convention of the International Ladies' Garment Workers -.scheduled to convene in this city on Monday...
...lbs passage by a parliament in which there still exist* a large Conservative majority revealed that in aa emergency it was...
...New York's newspapermen had better start looking into who their fellow unionists are...
...heard faintly...
...centmy-snd a half of...
...Hits "Fake Isolationism" Events of the last few days have, of course, reinforced my reasons for not wishing to be associated with any movement which even remotely and innocently aids and abets the fake isolationism of the Nasi and Stalinist agents in this country...
...First by Intrigue and then by armed might In Mexico 'at this moment my agents are' at work...
...As a result— even though by duress—fear, envy and hatred wpuld_be banished from the earth...
...fn droit Co-opt Set Up Second OH Refinery INDIANAPOLIS.— The second co-op oil refinery in the United States has already swung into operation and is producing gasoline, kerosene, distillate and tractor fuel from 2,500 barrels of crude oil each twenty-four hours, L H. Hull, general manager of the Indiana Farm Bureau Cooperative Association, announced hist week...
...The change was evident in Congress two weeks ago...
...WE may have a good dose of Fifth Columnists, but we want to know why the anti-war, anti-Roosevelt anti-preparedness, party-line CIO Federation of i Architects, Chemists, Engineers and Technicians should suddenly !start a technical school to supply the shipbuilding industries and the merchant marine with skilled j labor...
...1 X shall then ten .fronj-'nvvvictp^.Jsfe^lm...
...One war at a time," he said softly to himself, "one war at a time...
...in fj|i leveling of the once omnipotent British j^dhvBWhtn, is fK...
...Marcantonio, who has been using the American Labor Party label despite the disapproval of the ALP leaders, has also been lining up backing for his drive on the bill to deport Harry Bridges...
...Editorials AMERICA IS IN THE WORLD *fH...
...In a statement released last week he "warned" that "If the British-French-American imperialism should win the present war, the results would be even more reactionary than they were after the World War victory...
...Under such circumstances intermarriage would be permissible...
...Every time there has been a vital struggle in the world, they have shown their concern...
...t How quickly pass the memory of those liberty bond days, Herr Foster...
...One of its contributors is Philip Sterling, who is close to Commissar Leyda of the Modern Museum...
...struggle for .human emancipation and social justice...
...is organized labor, industrial democracy and Americanism at their very best The convention meets at a moment of grave crisis for the world, including the United States...
...Over his shoulder the sky Bt by flames which leaped fromken thousand homes...
...The entire world...
...Outside on the flagged terrace an impassive, rigid sentry paced back and forth...
...In the mind of the leader a phantasmagoria of images, born of his vaulting ambition, paraded before his heavy, weary eyes...
...hate, contempt . . . cannot fuUUM purpose if it is world-wide...
...The fools...
...Even the aged and young children werefndt spared, for the word had gone forth that this was a war unto the death...
...That would be more calamitous than an Allied victory...
...There is one overwhelming task at this moment of history, and that is the defeat of the totalitarian barbarisrh which is engulfing the world...
...Iff the darkness of his room the little roan rubbed his eyes" now heavy with fatigue...
...Thomas and Miss Lillian Symes who is organising the committee and I still believe that the only way out for the world is through a socialist economy...
...AND while we're on an unpleasant note, we might as well finish with William Z. Foster...
...Sincerely, Max Lerner...
...THE I.L.G.W.U...
...Few organizations command the attention of workers everywhere and of the nation as a whole as does the I.LG.W.U...
...Thomas...
...With BsSSW being overrun and the OspS* States genuinely threatened 9+ cause of our military anptSjSfedness, it is no longer $ <ie*F* of keeping America out of s ** of aggression but of keapiaf » out of a war of national defy* if one is to continue one'* ssf port of the Congress...
...Soon his car, flying the flag cf the All-Highest, pulled up before field headquarters, a charming eighteenth century chateau whose occupants had fled a few days before...
...These men fought in Spain all through the civil war...
...The golden wheat fields Of the Ukraine shall become mine, and all the rich resources of the Carpathians to the Urals shall flow Into Germany...
...The Iron and Steellnstitute, personifies by the Weirs and Girdlers, is now frightened...
...The Allied , cause is not a 'lesser evil" in contrast to Hitler's...
...So great a historian as Charles A Beard has been telling us that our tradition is self-centered and continental, that every time we have participated in world affairs we have deviated from our true course...
...Pressure, is now being put on Madden to prevent him from making room for the Economic Division within the Board's own funds, since" the Saposs bureau wasn't eliminated—just the money witb^hich it operated...
...Catholicism, Judaism, Protestanism, Buddhism and Mohammedanism had been abolished...
...one of them was the highest paid American officer in Loyalist ranks...
...I : Then, in utter exhaustion, he lay down to rest...
...i There have been those who accused the British Labor Party of unwillingness to assume responsibility, of saHjag oft its Socialism, of decadence and hesitancy...
...Steel leaders have suddenly developed an anti-war psychosis...
...It would) be the end of my power...
...He has been replaced by Father E. V. Dailey, i a Franco-supporter...
...office—Algonquin 4-2620 or write — Youth Committee Room 505, 7 East 15th St...
...IT was late now and still the distant roar of the * guns could be...
...Today my armies are in France...
...They will learn too late that in a world of clashing arms, all sovereignty is contained in steel...
...They eye their factories as longingly as a conscript soldier watches his family while his trooptrain snores up front They might even turn against U. S. Jsfssisa etsM and munitions factories notwithstanding—to avert what Ml happened to their colleagues in Britain...
...Only last week he was called by the Daily Worker "one of those who have kept a sane position on the war...
...LaFollette conducted his hearings on the sharecropper situation...
...Fan I have destroyed in my own heart and hi Obit, -hearts, of my people all soft emotion...
...U7HILE you're watching the " stands for national magazines, pick up next week's edition of the Saturday Evening Post General Krivitsky has a piece there on the Red Army...
...They gnash their teeth once more at "that man in the White Hews.** - The British Labor Party, under wartime stress, hsi launched a new way of life—for peace as wall as war...
...1*HE stampede away from So* cialist Party isolationism continued this week as the Jewish affiliate of the SP decided to ewing its support to the proAllied minority position within the Thomas organization...
...JJfcy*W^tseed cowards will era ri out'of their ruined holes begging for peace an I mercy...
...And so, ultimately the rest of the world will fall into my hands by default I shall be the first man in all history to have conquered the entire world...
...Ajsd a na km lulled to ||»*p\b* the stupid Wlahy ofiibei ty will be too Js^gWimB and...
...Wodin was the Lord and the leader was his prophet One Reich, one faith, In the dark, silent room the little man stirred . Of course, in a totally conquered world there could be no war, and hence men everywhere would hail him as the great giver of peace...
...Even now in the United States they are chattering about their invulnerability...
...U* freshly ploughed field a few kilometers Mgnd Arras, a French peasant sprawled dead, jt\1ttat hole between hi* eye*, hi* stiffened fingers clutching a handful of the mil of Frmmee...
...Bright a letter of resignation from the Keep Out of War...
...Now, when freedom is threatened in its very cradle, we Americans would be false to every tradition if we were to play the part of unconcerned Pharisees...
...America, which has never been neutral since this war started, is now speaking out with a voice which has more than once rolled across our great speces injlse...
...the Allies...
...Poor John goes down with a four-column headline...
...The school, operated at 116 I East 16th Street, is cooperative and non-profit-making and is run by an advisory board which includes Professor Edwin 'Berry ' Burgum, of NYU, whose name has graced more transmission belt letterheads than has Harry Ward, and who is chief whip of the College Teachers Union Local 537, a party-line local...
...Another high school in Queens will be probed for the same reason...
...isvfljkahfcn holds the balance of powwronthe Board...
...Will you add mine to the others...
...Chamberlain was characteristic of the unwillingness to open the flood gates of a national was* 'time economy...
...j - Within a fete weeks a prominent national magazine will print one of the molt startling exposes yet written on Loyalist Spain...
...By the way, what has become of Bridges' plan to raid the Warehouse Workers Union T • * • "T*HOSE with the Daily Worker * were determined to hand the administration of the New York Newspaper Guild the convention delegation...
...FATHER ROWAN, who, under the late Cardinal Mandelein, ran a liberal anti-fascist | weekly, has been fifed by Archbishop Stritch...
...These American people know better...
...remembering the enthusiastic response of last year's conference decided to arrange for an outing this season, with a program that will excel that of hist year...
...If events should prove that tins defeat cannot ha brought about without American aid, I shall be for our going in, From Helen Woodward To the Editor: I see that you art listing the names of people who have resigned from the Keep America Out of War Congress...
...When the German tanks roll over the land of Voltaire and Lafayette toward the island of Milton and Cromwell, the plain people know that something is happening that matters to them...
...had been a day of smash jng Ini brilliant victories for the armies of the...
...White's heartening call range from Hollywood to Boston, from Chicago to Mobile, Alabama...
...The actions of the convention will, we are sure, prove aa added source of encouragement and faith...
...Canada, Australia, India and .all the leaser dominions shall I ecome part of the Third Reich...
...And now that his power was universal he might—he toyed magnanimously with the idea for a moment—he might grant some sort of semi-legal status to the Jews and to the Catholics who, in their fanatical faith, had opposed him in the early days before the war...
...virile Germans would be sent to all parts *>f the world to improve the bastard strains, of the conquered nations...
...He found little sympathy but will be backed by Congressman Thorkelson...
...Leiserson is putting up a strong scrap bat needs aid . from trade unionists throughout the country...
...From tie first silver streak of dawn until late in the afternoon his bombing: armadas had dived \ toward helpless towns and villages until scores of thriving communities had been converted | into...
...On Wednesday, May 22, the DW turns him into a Social Democrat and accuses him of "inevitable treachery...
...smoldering heaps of rubble...
...answer to those whose rhetoric rested _islfe*Mte Mpne jjf accumulate vituperation against European SeaMiBk-'/'' Repercussions of this action have develojsiitlnew tip for the isolationists...
...Thomas's speeches of the last few days make it clear that he stands before the public now only for pacifism, and I cannot even by implication support that I have a high regard for Mr...
...Whispers Were coming from the wheat country, the com country, the hog and cotton and tobacco country...
...Watch called Films, a big gun in the transmission belt artillery...
...The eloquence of the isolationist Congressmen sank exactly in proportion to the growing volume from back home...
...even to the inroediate^ dspK tion of war, to hala *hf MNp and to save ourselves...
...that it was organized so that we might all work together for a decent social system in case of war...
...Leiser son's on one side, Ed Smith (not to forget friend Nat Witt) on the other...
...Where the News Ends By Charles Yale Harrison «A* organization which derives its appeal to the individual from *uc*_nu»tim4tntt'*n...
...In a, world whhrt> ajuapassions are strong, an organization which becomes worldwide is pretty ours to break up, since it will have lost Us motive forcei f I —Power, by Bertrand Russell...
...Why their sudden interest in shipbuilding...
...He never had been a member...
...The roads were clogged with advancing tanks and motorized columns of infantry...
...notf the man of mercy who died on the cross...
...And now in the gathering dusk the leader returned from the battle front...
...Let ho one dare to throw stale epithets at the Social Democratic Federation or at the Committe to Defend America...
...In a harsh world only fools can find solace in the puerile story of the gentle teacher of Nazareth...
...areata oh Heard on the Left By VICTOR RIESEL •THEY'VE finally "gotten" David Saposs by the simple stratagem of eliminating tie appropriation for the Division of Economic Research, nerve center of the National Labor Relations Board—two important associates of which weep no tears over the action...
...and "from ta#e"» gross...
...But (where others have failed, I shall succeed...
...And ^0'JBbs'#oa.;-of an obscure Austria t couple—will impose my mandate on the ruler of the once pj^Otod English people...
...Evidence of fifth column activities has frightened some of the late movie colony "left-wingers" right out of their greasepaint...
...Our spies last week were a bit perturbed by the war news...
...I have not joined any committee as yet to back anyone for the presidency in the coming election...
...Further information ? "cured from S.D.F...
...The sooner it is accepted, the sooner there will be a basis for a new hope in the world...
...The Board of Education has been asked to probe the Gompers Vocational High School, located in the heart of the Bronx CoughUnite district An official of the school, Timothy F. Murphy, who is dean, librarian, chairman of the academic department, and administrator of the National Youth Adrainistration, has been preaching antiSemitism in the classrooms...
...Our revolution was a flowering of an older British struggle, and the Frenchmen who helped us were not isolationists...
...Arrangements are being made for a bus to leave on Friday .for those wishing to attend the full session, and also a bus on Saturday for attendants the hut day...
...I have just read in your column that I am one of the 'big names' whom Lillian Symes has recruited for the Independent Committee for Norman Thomas for President "I am flattered by the implications of your statement And I have a very high regard for Norman Thomas...
...The periodical has a manuscript and documentation to prove the authenticity, of its charges, which 'reveal what happened to the funds collected by the North American Committee for Spanish Democracy...
...Lusty...
...DECAUSE Hollywood stars are tumbling over each other to wipe out the ¦ memory of their caviar comrade days, the Communist Party is rushing up reinforcements to retain as much of its hold on the swimming pool periphery as possible...
...The common folks recognize an irrepressible conflict, and politicians must be elected again...
...That's how it is when your first • love is the' Soviet foreign ~ apparatus...
...V Ej ' ' ¦* ' ' ' - 1 \ - ^JOTHING can now deter me (tie leader con¦ tvnued to think), no power i| heaven and earth can now stay the rise to world dominion...
...All mankind living together in peace...
...Which writes finish to one of the few remaining liberal Catholic sheets...
...Then, smiling weakly, he reassured himself by admitting the impossibility of his thoughts...
...I shall not end my days on a desolate island alone wits the anguish of conscience and bitter memory...
...But Mr...
...It was my understanding that this committee was not to endorse the pacifist ideas of Mr...
...These now control all productive efforts within Britain...
...I must remember to send Lindbergh another decoration...
...INVESTIGATORS are turning * up anti-Semitic cells in the New York high school system...
...Englishmen, Americans, Chinese, Jews, Russians, Frenchmen, Koreans, Indians, Esquimaux were now his subject peoples...
...the signers of Mr...
...Labor's dynamism, the pressure and insistence on coordinated national effort undiverted by the exigencies of profit margins and dividend coupons, which finally forced Socialist-inspired concessions within the very heart of ansa- ' cial capitalism...
...The Social Democrats advocated using promptly "our enormous economic resources, our navy, and our air force" to help the Allies...
...They are made up of practical and clear-sighted < citizens...
...Letters To the Editor European Crisis Causes Flood of Resignations From Isolationist Group From Benjamin Stolberg To the Editor: Please publish the following letter, which was sent by me to Miss Rosamond Clark, acting secretary of the Keep America Out of War Congress: Dear Miss Clark: On April 30 I sent your Mr...
...Our ideal is a military handbook, not the- Sermon fan the Mount...
...The House and Senate committee conference, knowing that.the CIO would say nothing if Saposs was knifed, just lopped $360,000 off the NLRB appropriation...
...West aiidlae* toward the East^*^sha#!to*Jr the Soviet Union in my stride, for the Russians have always been a nation of serfs who dearly lore « harsh master...
...Here is "a life-and-death struggle . V . for every freedom that upholds the dignity of the human spirit Here all the .rights that the common man has fought for during a thousand years are menaced...
...Tomorrow England's populous cities will look up in terror mw fit s*mdn>na...
...I have not received an acknowledgment I therefore repeat that I am resigning...
...In the great tasks that confront the nation in its search for adequate defense and security, in the problems involved for organized labor that loom now with ever increasing clamor, die I.L.C.W.UJ' with its vision and social consciousness, will play the vitsj role it has assumed in the community by virtue of ka strength and achievements...
...They represent labor and industry, church and state, Republicans and Democrats, men and women...
...May it help bring peace to the labor movement and thus help democracy in America and in the world to emerge victorious from the greet ordeal...
...Round-trip bus fare%$2...
...I have as great a fear of war, I am sure, as any isolationist^ horror of war is not a>fag togfi us from Nazi and CowsWP* forces which feel no sBch^hajJs* I believe profoundJs^wlKB| should 4h> ¦ everythlngJWqlg...
...Phen the leader awoke from his grandiose dream of world conquest His forehead was bathed in perspiration and his mouth was parched...
...But the great leader was neither elated nor saddened He was lost in thought...
...They,, of course, are being vilified by the Lincoln Brigade commissars but have;behind them some of the Republican's most important, war leaders, whose names will be made ' public later in the week...
...Their proposal is in the interest of civilization and of peace...
...The agony of the war would soon be forgotten, for the memories of men are notoriously short Had he not said so In his memorable book...
...Rates $6 for two days and $3 for one...
...a • * A7ETERANS of the American * brigades which fought Franco in Spain are organizing a strong pressure group to fight present neutrality legislation which prevents the creation of a "United States force to volunteer to battle -for...
...A committee of writers is being formed to endorse Norman Thomas...
...j It was Benjamin Stolberg to whom we meant to refer...
...Robert Dunn, who has never denied his sympathy for the CP...
...But our world is exploding around us, and the notion that we can ait under the explosions and act as though they were a show of firecrackers belongs in the land of dreams...
...Men and Women would now live in peace because the last rebellious force-against the power of the leader had been extirpated...
...JOtf.V STRACHEY has been •* handed the usual dose by the comrades...
...These critics have been in the ranks of the liberals and isi Jst^SBsri as W* as in the foreign service of the GPU-Gestapo...
...The DW registered as the agent of a foreign principal...
...Faces of some innocent* around town will be very red...
...One planet, one leader...
...ITO MARCANTONIO has * tried to get support for his fight ou the defense appropriation measure in the House...
...Think of it...
...I request an acknowledgment of this letter...
...The French and the British, too, thought they were invulnerable...
...All-Highest leader of the Teuton forces...
...I insist that you remove my name from any and all of your lists and literature, and I demand that you inform your members of my resignation...
...he asked himself...
...The I.LG.W.U...
...Camp Eden Conference 'There's nothing that succeeds like success!' That's why the Youth Committee of the S.D.F...
...At the present juncture it seems to me that such s n*wment is in theory Utopias •» in practice bound to hsi^aBWg anti-democratic forces ayf work for the victory «f WfW tarian barbarism...
...Kansas...
...I. The assembling of the union s delegates in this city # this time will in itself be a source of strength and reassurance to labor and to all those who with labor hope and struggle for a better world in this critical period when everything that civilized mankind holds dear hangs in the balance...
...William Allen White, backed by the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, urges boldly that we throw in...
...In London, Paris, Moscow, Washington, Mexico City, Melbourne, Buenos Aires, Rome the swastika flew over all official buildings...
...But Herb Biberman fights a losing battle...
...For this reason Conservatism in Britain has long bees loathe to war on Hitler...
...Sterling wo* an organizer for the late Film and Photo League and now is a coeditor of the film biography being prepared by the Federal Writers Project...
...And in warm self-satisfaction he smiled to himself...
...Congress, of whose New York Council I was a member...
...He went In his place came Winston Churchill and a war cabinet dominated by such men as Arthur Greenwood, Herbert Morrison, Major Attlee and Ernest Bevin...
...Here then, in the setting of Britain On^M.-ittfatt psMhsB Socialism, in the' expropriation of all «a»jf ^sjSto...
...The only trouble with your statement is that it isn't true...
...June 15-16, Friday an3 Saturday is the date...
...It should be itemed here that we were wrong last week in listing Ferdinand Lundberg as one of those who had resigned from the Keep America Out of War Committee...
...To shorten the war, to avoid the dread burden of conflict which America must bear if Germany wins, they propose that we hurl in our economic strength now...
...war resolution of the New York Social Democratic Federation was echoed on Monday from that citadel of Americanism, Wichita...
...I have also resigned from many years of support of Norman Thomas' as a political candidate...
Vol. 23 • May 1940 • No. 21
