New Liberalism Grows in California As Yorty Exposes C. P. Trojan Horse
Vale, Rena M.
New Liberalism Grows in California As Yorty Exposes C. P. Trojan Horse By Rena M. Vale I OS ANGELES.—One to a peculiar set pf circumstances, California liberals grew up with file Popular...
...However, to do so might also result in an angered charge that the government was trying to frighten the United States into war, and so, for the moment, the State Department must Temain quiet and work under cover...
...Here's the first: In January, 1938, shortly befo're Hitler marched into Vienna, the truth of Nazi interest in South America became apparent in a veritable avalanche of speeches and newspaper and magazine stories...
...0* of the most startling of these was in Uruguay, in the northern provinces contiguous to southern Brazil, which is strongly German...
...New Liberalism Grows in California As Yorty Exposes C. P. Trojan Horse By Rena M. Vale I OS ANGELES.—One to a peculiar set pf circumstances, California liberals grew up with file Popular Front, sJmPjor^tnat reason-there is evidence here of more Communist influence per capita than anywhere else in the United -States, unless it is in Washington, D. C. , ,^DieStalinist.bureaucracy moved into the...
...f> Nazi type of imperialism is not simply S *w mand for new national territory...
...They have seen the ranks of independent labor utterly destroyed* in .-Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Norway, Denmark, Holland, and Belgium...
...Old Dom Fsfw Philippe, for so many years pretender to the throne of Brazil, died this ynu, but his son, Prince Pedro Gaston, carries on the tradition...
...Germany must get hold of half of South America...
...It was all so thrilling to these dispensers of celluloid passion, and so different—sort 'of took your mind off taxes, cocktail parties Snd swimming pools to be called comrade snd be permitted to JdraW a cheek to the Western Hemisphere Committee to Preserve Manhattan for the Indians...
...threatened to recall them and carried on an energetic campaign of character assassination...
...It is doubtful...
...At the special session of the Legislature which'convened last January 29 to consider further relief appropriations, Yorty moved for an Assembly investigation of Communist activity in the State Relief Administration...
...Ostensibly, he was referring to Suez, but -Nazi observers at Lima were : stupid' enough to point to the passage and remark that Suez was not the only (international waterway in which nations other than the controlling nation might have an interest*, * 5* » '¦*|*SIS Incident, evolving from the Nazi weakness for drawing blueprints, was * really the beginning of the end, I am informed, of Western Hemisphere .apathy/.This is not to say that the Panama Canal is no longer in danger, but since that date most of the South American governments have worked hard to undo what they had been permitting without full realization of the consequences...
...When that deal is completed, the Trojaa Horse, firmly implanted in Mexico, Central America aad on the southern continent, will become a direct menace to the safety of the heart of the U. S. defense machinethe Panama Canal...
...He pointed out that hundreds of thousands of craftsmen have been dropped by industry during the depression and would jump at the chance of aiob...
...In this hopr Qf...
...And how about a Nazi revolution from within those countries...
...especially in Mexico...
...Without advocating American iulrn we can still see the necessity that *«•* morally bound to give every possible d*Bsr» worth of supplies to the allied forces...
...During the recess of the special session the "Little Dies Committee'' conducted hearings in the San Francisco Bay region 'and in the San Joaquin Valley, both Communist .strongholds...
...U. S. Federal agents are active today on a front stretching from Nome, Alaska, to the Falklands at the tip of South America...
...reactionary elements who had resented Tenney as*' progressive, and he was replaced by a president who would "pay ball...
...Now, however, that the daily press has begun to emphasize the'"fifth column" in Latin-America, I think some of these can be released...
...Many of .us in the past have opposed large armaments and bitterly attacked the American militarists...
...Among these steps was the granting of special privileges to Japanese colonies, ^vnfeif today could probably put a well-equipped army of trained men in the field...
...Employees in the relief administration had to contribute to Stalin's various rackets, and those who did not "play ball" were purged...
...Such a demand would have seemed utterly fantastic a year ago, but it is not too fantastic for belief today...
...Espionage rVESPITE what occurred in Norway, " Holland and more recently in Belgium, the majority of the American people listen to exposures of fifth column activities with an "it cant happen here" attitude...
...sa^TS*** while we must build up so overwhelming s fensive force that we can act as the prsterfsf of those weaker nations to the South <fc»t V* already threatened with Nazi penetratioa...
...That cleared the last of the fog from Tenney's ideology...
...Does that sound like a shortage...
...but a promise would have considerable effect inVfcSSJ...
...Friedrich Lange, in "Reines Deutschtum," wrote at the same time: "Decrepit nations like the republics of Argentina and Brazil, and more or lesa all those, beggar South American countries, will be induced, by force or otherwise, to come to their senses...
...However> within the past few days the daily press reports have more and more emphasized the arrival of large numbers of German ""tourists", in Mexico...
...Some people thought that he would stop when he captured Austria, arid then when he captured Czechoslovakia, and then when he captured Poland...
...There was not even a -vestige of collective bargaining principles in their tactics...
...IN all this drive for a national defeassie^* * against the Nazi peril, it is nuiussflej aSnj ever, not to lose sight of labor's rights...
...Shortly after Stalin signed with Hitler, the Stalinists in the Musicians' in Los Angeles formed an alliance with the...
...He has many fsV lowers, and these might be awakened to activity once Italy entered the sat There is a connection between the royal family of Brazil, the Bragancsa, a*J royalty in Europe who hope—perhaps not too wisely—for restorations hew ssi there in return for favors wherever they have influence...
...Now he says: "We are in danger of war today not because European people have attempted to interfere with the internal affairs of America, but because American people have attempted to interfere with the internal affairs of Europe...
...I was deeply concerned when I read that the State of Georgia was rounding up all aliens and engaging in a good old-fashioned spy hunt...
...Labor has most to lose in war, and therefore labor should be summoned to the council table for every great national decision...
...But the organization should, and shall, there in foreign countries, create a German community which may not know frontiers nor far-away seas...
...This survey is.part of the AFL drive, directed by Wm...
...the Workers' Alliance demanded the reinstatement of Communist relief officials...
...x Yorty and Tenney have had no active support .from;ft, right, from big business, patriotic organizations of red baaing societies...
...Commissar...
...Harvey W. Brown of the Machinists, Daniel W. Tracy of the Electricians, John P. Frey of the Metal Trades Department, and John P. Coyne head of the Building Trades Department united in declaring that "cries about the shortage of skilled labor is a screen in an effort to break down labor standards...
...Coyne similarly ridiculed the claims that the eountry hasn't enough skilled help...
...But the Italian Government has now taken afar the Axis operations in Brazil, and very cleverly is sending the Countess Eddt Ciino to Rio de Janeiro by air...
...With the Japanese navy opposing us in one ocean, and- a eombined, German, Italian navy against us in the other, we would face a chal- . lenge to our naval power that the American navy of today could not meet...
...Both had gone into the Legislature under the tegis of the Popular Front, but later events show that they were then, as now, sincere liberals...
...Everybody knows now what a fifth column means...
...Perhaps the mere presence of well-loaded guns on our hips will frighten sway the Nazi brigands...
...We in the United States are the last gran bulwark against the spread of that syst** to the Western Hemisphere...
...AS SOON as they began looking into forbidden corners '"and listening to small voices, they ran afoul of the Stalinist chopping machine...
...Nevertheless the government is taking precautions to prevent any foreign power from gaining a foothold anywhere in the Americas...
...But how about the little South American countries wljjch have almost no military strength...
...Nervousness began to develop that early...
...The bitter tragedies of the little democracies of Europe that have been: trampled by Hitler show that the soft answer given to a Nazi only arouses his wrath...
...At about the same time, the noted Nazi propagandist, known as "Tannenberg," was writing in "Gross-Deutschland": "It will be a blessing for the inhabitants of the South American republics when they will pass from the effects of the Spanish-Portuguese tradition to that of German domination...
...For some time I have had definite information concerning these facts, but have considered them too sensational for general belief...
...We should not only build an air fores sse» navy able to protect the West Indies «*« »• Panama Canal, but that we should be rJSdT * keep a combination of totalitarian po*Js ^ of the Western Hemisphere with our asiitsy w offering to buy those islands and other j**^ siona which have belonged to Denmark ss» BJT land...
...A number of the "pressure boys," notably Don Healy of Labors' Non-Partisan League and Joseph Ayeroff, Los Angeles County chairman of the Young Democrats, were likewise exposed as Stalin's agents...
...And the only no that Hitler will respect is a negative backed up with an overwhelmingly superior navy and air force...
...The motion passed, and California's "Little Dies Committee" was set up with Yorty as chairman...
...Why should we not own by pnTchss| s* possessions as Greenland, Dutch Gufldfj|> possibly even Bermuda...
...Let them come to us and well supply 350,000 men in our line in 10 days,'* he said...
...The sings said: "Unser Land ist ein Stuck von DentseV land"—"Our land is part of Germany...
...The Communists and their stoata have attacked them bitterly, and it would appear -to: the outsider that they've been caught between two fires.- Xt...
...Tenney was then president of the Los Angeles Local of the American Federation of Musicians, a Roosevelt Democrat and all around liberal...
...Those who will not taBc or «V* refuse to answer subpoenas are cited for contempt of coon...
...Governor Olson, on the other hand, has shown signs of awakening,' and recent events have imade it clear that Olson-'-did-not know he was dealing with, a foreign power Imthe-hegirining of his term...
...tually, however, they are in the forefront of a new and true liberalism that is forming in California...
...They know that Hitler stands for everything that labor hates...
...JLffEXICO,.moreover, is no_t the only point of danger...
...The defense of Brazil might be crippled fairly easily...
...choice grocery orders and other dole favors went to those.who "played ball...
...those who have been given momentary glimpses...
...But today we have a choice between American military supremacy and something infinitely worse...
...Klieg Lights /CALIFORNIA sunshine has long been: filled with vitamins and ultraviolent reds—especially on the Holly-: wood front, where the glamor girls r'Csa1ary $4,009 per week) and the heman stars gave dialectics a three' minute perusal before joining of Earl Browder's transmission belts...
...it hi SB"**' ganized plan of aggression calculated to dsSfJST all civil liberties, all freedom of thought, «S trade unionism, and all social democracy...
...Colonel Lindbergh is not so concerned about that kind of Nazi penetration because he is not so deeply concerned about the spread of Nazi philosophy in the world...
...The report Yorty made to the Assembly brought about a shake-up in the Los Angeles relief organisation...
...So far as the Republicans are concerned, tat probers are still "reds...
...Since that time Patterson has not deviated an iota frpm Stalin's foreign policy...
...One reason was that the then President Terra was eager to data contract with Nazi Germany...
...The party worked its way into everything, from Ham and Eggs to the State Legislature...
...Even more intense activity is expected as rearmament increases...
...Those who know report that the Communist Party drew hundreds of thousands of dollars--from silly motion pictare stars...
...There are, nevertheless, a few facts which show what has been going on...
...AT that time, it is now possible to say, investigations were launched in seven] *™ South American countries, resulting in some rather alarming findings...
...nHE TACTICS of Yorty and Tenney differ in many ways * from those of Dies, and considering the time and money expended, they have been vastly more effective...
...The Yorty Committee Went to the heart of the situation by bringing out evidence to show that the SCMWA, like the Workers' Alliance, was under Comrfunist domination— had been organized by them, in fact By this time the Olson administration, squirming under the light of public indignation, began to cooperate and to fire those exposed as Communists by the Yorty Committee...
...The Communist defense is wearing exceedingly ^hi^ ^ California liberals are beginning to wake up...
...If this thing happens we must have, an answer...
...These "tourists" have been destined for the same role in Mexico that the Japanese "colonists" were destined for in Peru...
...We hear talk-of a July rebellion in Mexico, and mpst observers are inclined to attribute this to internal politics and Com, nfunist agitation...
...Perhaps we will never need to go to war...
...I think he is wrong...
...They cannot, however, be rendered harmless at the moment because any such action by the government yrould precipitate the explosion which the Mexican and United States governments, hope to circumvent...
...BEFORE the special session was recessed in February, Yorty's authority and appropriation was increased...
...Threat of Nazism Forces Revision Of Labor's Attitude on Armaments By Paul Blanshard Chairman of the Program Committee of the ALP WHEN PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT in his speech to Congress last week called for a new billion dollar defense program there was ail distant and favorable response from every part of the country...
...pHEY have been deeply shocked by the destruction of the great social Democratic experiments in the Scandinavian countries where labor had advanced further toward the establishment of a new Democratic social order than in any other nation in the world...
...1I7HEN I speak in favor -of a huge national "defense program, I am aware that it is a fundamental reversal of many of "my own ideas and .many of the concepts of American progressives...
...Colonel Lindbergh doesn't think we need to worry about the Hitler challenge in the Western Hemisphere, and he points out that an invading air force would have to be backed up by an invading army to conquer the United States...
...Green, to safeguard labor standards daring the emergency...
...As early as the spring'and summer of 1939 a number of sincere liberals in public office began to do some quiet investigating, and foremost among these quiet investigators were Assemblymen Samuel W. Yorty and Jack B. Tenney from Los Angeles...
...But there were reasons why the Uruguayan Government could then ah no action...
...When and if Hitler demands this territory in the Western Hemisphere, we must be prepared to say no...
...It can now be authentically reported that the United States is considering offering the English a large ssa for the last two groups of islands to establish air aad naval bases...
...For instance, they endeavor to get the Communists to convict themselves out of their own mouths instead of allowing...
...Street signs began to appear in the towns...
...We may be the only remaining great power outside of this.coalition...
...The CIO State, County and Municipal Workers' Association (SCMWA) and...
...r ¦>- r But like pigs1 at a banquet, the Communist gang snatched, gobbled and stank...
...It should be remembered that after years of Hitler's terror, Lindbergh could .still" accept a decoration from the Fuehrer, and smile his thanks...
...Now with German guns almost within shelling distance of Paris, and German airplanes almost ready to take off for London from the channel ports, we must face the practical possibility that Germany will win the European war within a few weeks...
...The Special Session of the Legislature convened May 13, and it is anticipated that the report and recommendations of the Yorty group will deal a staggering blow to the "Fifth Column" in California...
...We have withdrawn our citizens and held back our sUr* We have refused to lend our money...
...The metamorphosis which has been brought about in Peru within the past few months is important now because of what was discovered at Lima and because of"what is happening throughout Latin-America...
...Frey, testifying before the House Naval Affairs Committee this week, declared that 100,000 trained men in the metal trades could be supplied in 10 days, and another 250,000 in a month...
...Rich and poor, employer and employed are almost unanimous in demanding new weapons and new techniques to meet the Nazi menace...
...After all, civil liberty is the chief thing we want to preserve against Nazi aggression, and it would be a pity to lose sight of the goal while we are - concentrating upon temporary obstructions...
...Tenney seconded hjm...
...He tost steps against the Integralistas...
...Thirty-five per cent of our members are unemployed...
...There is no affinity between the totalitarist Axis powers and royal "houses anywhere, but it is entirely possible that ttt aristocracy of Brazil would welcome revolution in the hopes of slipping intt power by default in the general melee...
...At least, such is the report of "The Hemisphere,*1 fat confidential news letter delivered to business concerns here that must keep in close touch with South American affairs...
...At hast one member of the Cabinet is pro-Nazi, and the Army Chief of Staff, fleSsisi Goes Monteiro, is a constant worry to the United States War Depsriaaest **cause of his admiration of the Nazis...
...As a result the Reich sank 80 million gold am into a giant power plant at Rio Negro for which the Uruguayan Governs* gave a mortgage on every power house and telephone system in Uruguay, i Brazil, by this time, already had had its so-called "Integralista ftrtadt" which almost ended in the assassination of President Vargas...
...That is not a probability, but it is-a possibility so real that we cannot afford to delay...
...If Hitler, wins, it is to be assumed that he will form a new world-wide imperialist combination with Japan, Italy.Spain, and possibly Soviet Russia...
...At the-time the Lima conference was being held, Field Marshal Hermann :Go"errng wrote in "his "National-Zeitung" of Essen: " "In the future, an international waterway will have to become the common property of-those who are interested in-its preservation...
...What the Japanese did long ago in Peru, the Germans and Italians are now doing Jn.Mexico in another way...
...We cannot afford to take the chance and go underarmed in a. world where a madman is loose, a madman with an army of bombers and tanks to back his army greed...
...I refer to the reports of 1938 which indicated that Peru was rapidly becoming fascist...
...Our motto should be: Defense without hysteria, and preparedness without exploitation...
...they picketed homes of the members of the Yorty Committee...
...In-the accompanying article, Rena M. Vale, newspaperwoman and magazine writer, explains what happened after Assemblyman Yorty learned that the honest California liberals were being doublecrossed by the local GPVJtes...
...and neither the Nazis nor the Fascists are above making promises with thstr fingers crossed—just so long as the results are a weakening in the defense sf some nation...
...There can be no world -peace until Hitler's philosophy is destroyed, and I include in his orbit, the philosophy which dominates Mussolini and Stalin...
...crisis when a new national policy is being determined, it is appropriate that I^abor too should speak out, and I am privi-_, leged' to speak in behalf of the American Labor.-Party, which although it is small in numbers, "occupies an important strategic position in'-American politics...
...Ninety-nine" per "cent of American labor todaV-suppdrts'the President's defense program...
...The warm weather, corporate f-rms and low living costs had drawn minions of ill and old folks and the Okies...
...Many parts of Latin America are seething with Nazi sentiment...
...As I write, tljere is a bitterly contested political action in Peru itself to retrace ¦ some of the dangerous steps which had been taken by previous administrations...
...Communist terror was at its height throughOut the state...
...Panaceas swarmed over the state—each followed by a CP...
...He, like Tenney, was a Democrat...
...I have seen the Nazi business men in cafes in Mexico City and I have heard of their careful plans to carry their gospel of the new dictatorship into the lands that lie south of us...
...We must defend ourselves because we have no choice, and we must defend ourselves because the heritage of freedom which wo possess is a supreme value worthy of every sacrifice...
...Moreover, in fighting against "dictatorships, we should not surrender any of those basic labor rights which have made democracy valuable for the common man...
...The only dissenters are a few controlled Commmiists, and a few independent pacifists and Socialists...
...Tenney and others who had interested themselves in the subject were named on 4t, . x . This committee officially considered much of the material Which had already come to the attention of Yorty and Tenney, and in addition a one-day hearing was held in Los Angeles on February 5. In this hearing evidence was offered to show that many leading relief officials who had gotten their appointments as "deserving Democrats" were actually secret members of the Communist Party...
...Fascist Agents in South America Create Revolt Network in 5 Nations By Bryce Oliver WEVD NeWs Commentator OlNCE there were some unusually candid reports to the United States press cWrceriiTng Peru during the Pan-American Conference at Lima in 1938, it is • only fair to report now, two years later, that the conditions then complained of have beenj largely rectified...
...DUT we cannot ignore the fundamental f*» that the war against Hitler ia a *sr tt all that labor and democracy hold dear...
...Some of the committee personnel was changed, but Tenney remained...
...But that didn't stop them...
...THE discredited Republicans and reactionary Democrats protested mightily against the "carpetbaggers'' who had moved into the State Relief Administration, but the Communist noise machine managed to drown the small voices of protest that arose on the left...
...COME time ago I outlined Brazil's place in the Holy Roman Empire and likened *~ the aspirations of Hitler to those of Prince Metternich...
...Relief clients were forced to join the Workers' Alliance...
...It is because I hate war so intensely that I believe we must be adequately .prepared to meet Hitler's challenge...
...I think our government has been scrupulously careful to keep out of European entanglements...
...At that time, one of the high officials of Dr...
...Hitler will not stop if he conquers France and England...
...The American workers do not want to send American troops across the Atlantic for another foreign war, but they are thoroughly aroused by the threat of Nazi penetration of the WesternHemisphere...
...Jobs Wanted THERE is no shortage of skilled labor, four heads of the American Federation of Labor reported this week...
...known in Los Angeles as a "young radical," though something prevented him from actually signing up with the Communist Party...
...Despite a few squalls, it was smooth sailing for the Kremlin barque...
...The thoroughness with which Nazi and fascist agents have organized all of Latin-America is astounding to...
...There is no class division on this issue of defense...
...Under the Republican administration the relief organisation had been anything but a haven for California's needy, but the Stalinists turned it into a hog-wallow of petty politics...
...We must ask and answer the question: What shall we do then...
...Evidences of sell-outs in the CIO, of Stalinist-manipulation of the Newspaper Guild, of sabotage of labor and liberal principles in the state administration convinced them to act...
...It is likely that the United States Department of State is well informed and could, at any moment, release information in Washington which would thoroughly frighten the nation...
...All official Washington is' watching President Cardenas, in whose country are lafaaud thousands of Comintern and Gestapo agents reportedly planning s revolt after the July election...
...Quite so...
...Yorty was...
...Sacramento Capitol in January, 1939 with Governor Cslbtrt L. Olson and L?eOtenaht' Governor Ellis E. Patterson...
...Sooner or hd* Nazism will have to be destroyed if arxsni**: labor is to function in the great ejvifcsn nations...
...But he has gone on and on, driven forward by his own fanatical ambition and the necessity of keeping his followers on fire with the intoxication of victory...
...Breaches of political etiquette became too glaring to ignore, and grievances'piled high...
...We must not permit patriotism to degenerate into intolerance of all those who oppose conservative trends in our life...
...If he conquers France and England, he will probably ask for the entire British, French, and Dutch empires, including Greenland, Newfoundland, Bermuda, and the French, British, and Dutch West Indies...
...that either Hitrer or1 Mussolini would keep any promise* to royalists anywhere...
...OOLONEL LINDBERGH is not alarmed...
...others to denounce them...
...If it is true, as "Hemisphere" hfr mates, that the Countess Ciano is sent to contact the Brazilian royaliat element her visit) will bear close,, watching...
...Left-wing Democrats and right^wfng Democrats, Republicans and Independents came forward with public assurances that they supported the President's program...
...The plans to turn the Caribbeu into an American lake involves Mexico, where thoaaaads of Soviet, German and Japanese agents are gathered— as they are in Cuba, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and no doubt even in British Georgetown, Jamaica, the Bahaman Islands, the Lesser Antilles, Barbados aad Trinidad...
...California was lucrative politically as well...
...There may be some spies in America, but we must be careful to distinguish between Nazi agents and honest American workers trying to improve their conditions through strikes...
...Goebbels' propaganda ministry, speaking before a huge Nazi Youth meeting, said: ¦ "There are, in the New World, great territories, peopled almost in their totality by Germans, whose task should be that of taking under their own government the lands tilled and worked by them, to bring them under the direct protection of our marvelous and once-more powerful Fatherland...
Vol. 23 • June 1940 • No. 22
