Reynolds Bloc Wars on 3,600,000 Aliens
SHORT, GEORGE
Reynolds Bloc Wars on 3,600,000 Aliens Largest Foreign Group in U. S. Is Italian By GEORGE SHORT Special to The New Leader WASHINGTON, D. C. — Despite the F. B. I.'s competence...
...Winrod estimated her husband's wealth at $20,000 cash in addition to his profitable business enterprise, the Defender Publishers...
...On the Republican side, neither Dewey—nor any other candidate—will be nominated on the first ballot, so watch the shirtsleeved bosses go into action in the smoke-filled hotel rooms...
...Willkie Threatens Dewey The big surprise factor in the race is the showing of utilities executive Willkie...
...In court Mrs...
...posed her husband's Nazi activities, because they are contrary to her religious beliefs...
...MEN OF POWER, by Fred Eastman...
...But they do maintain an objective attitude...
...Edited by George W. HarUumM Tkeodon Nevcomb...
...already ripe by 1905, are only dimly sensed by the author...
...A'typical advertising blurb, dated March 22, 1940, and ostensibly signed by Mrs...
...More than 360,000 Russians here are not citizens...
...The Senate Immigration Committee recently reported out favorably slightlyamended Dempsey bill (H.R...
...Lewis...
...For the first time convention publicity is pushed off the front pages by the very foreign news which will determine the action taken by the national political delegates...
...As late as 1930 there were more than 6,600,000 white aliens in the United States...
...The pamphlet is written by Dr...
...Just a mere assertion...
...Had this been accepted, it would have destroyed trade union aid to the New Deal and crippled the American Labor Party...
...We are informed, however, tint the worker was decorated with the "Order of Lenin...
...They do...
...The court ruled that the minister must pay Mrs...
...KCVnVmCBT SflHQ Another measure which can be traced hack to preparedness drive and which the rail unions have . long advocated is Senator Johnson's bill providing $9,000,000 to effect a complete service record for every railroad worker, providing a readier means for retirement, unemployment benefits and check on personnel...
...This would hit hard and virtually suppress official labor publications, and such periodicals like The New Leader, the proposal was defeated in the House Judiciary Committee...
...Winrod, began: "Dear Sister-in Christ: "The awful conditions which are developing in the world, due to the fact that people have re. jected God's remedy for sin,, pulls at the heart-strings of every Christian wife and mother...
...were not picked in primaries and are not pledged...
...Those who Relieve in political democracy, and particularly those who- want to achieve industrial democracy as well, cannot live in peace with Hitlerism or totalitarianism of any sort...
...The larger portion of this number are really subjects of nations now at war in Europe...
...It is an interesting conception to juxtapose Lenin against Ghandi, the jacobinistic revolutionary ruler against the ToU stoyan, "non-resistent" spiritual ruler of another great nation...
...At present Winrod is engaged in an "anti-war" campaign which is less anti-war than ( pro-German...
...Frank Kingdon, president of the University of Newark and chairman of the New York chapten of the committee, Robert E. Sherwood, the noted-playwright, James Truslow Adams, historian, and William Allen White...
...Irish, Czech and British subjects number in the hundreds of thousands...
...Despite his-wife's opposition to Ms program, Winrod has used her to advertise his magazine, "Defender," which circulates approximately 110,000 copies monthly...
...Roosevelt will say yes to a third term race...
...The essay oh Lenin, however, is a pearl of misinformation and myopia...
...Winrod's action will have on her husband's followers, many of~whota are religious fundamentalists who look upon marriage as a rather sacred business and one which should be kept out of the profane hands of the courts...
...Second largest alien group is the Polish...
...I hope and pray that this matter will engage the interest and cooperation of every Defender mother, wife and daughter...
...s ~" The author tells us "Lenin would have liked that" Ym, if it had been true...
...to "protect free speech for employers...
...the facte are probably true enough, but the treatment is sophomoric and superficial...
...Instead of recommending the book, the reviewer must use his space to warn the reader against it...
...In the public opinion polls conducted by Dr...
...Tat whole splendid struggle of the local municipalities (samstvas} for the people's education, a movement victorious even before— and particularly after—1905, seems unknown to the writer...
...In March a survey found him with less than 1 per cent, by May 17 with 5 per cent, and to date he has more than 10 per cent of Republican strength...
...With 501 votes needed for nomination, the estimates of Dewey's strength range from slightly less than 300 by his opponents to about 450, the guess of those supporting him...
...The vote broke through party lines as the Democratic southern bloc, along with other Tory elements joined an al. most sold Republican membership to vote for Smith's rule...
...Organized labor also effectively protested the amendment to the Federal Corrupt Practices Act proposed by Congressman Howard Smith, which would prevent unions from contributing to na...
...One of these was the Hobbs amendment to the Hatch Anti-politics bilL Congressman Hobbs, who specializes in deportation and concentration camp bills against aliens, went slightly afield this time by pushing this amendment which would have forced newspapers to cease "political activities" if they take advantage of the special government secondclass postal rates...
...world...
...We Hove AH Shoes I ENIN is the "revolutionary," the other Socialists are ''opportunists...
...The measure has already passed the Boose...
...Cokesbury Press: Nashville...
...These men cut straight through the jungle d propaganda...
...Moving with a record speed of two hours, the Senate Committee - on Interstate Commerce favorably reported three measures, the most important of which was the Wagner bill to amend the railroad insurance act...
...Mrs...
...It belongs to the category of books which make the reviewer act the part of policeman rather than that of a friendly critic...
...F. S. Winrod of Wichita, Kansas this week filed suit for separate maintenance against the notorious Reverend Mr...
...With only three dollars in her purse, Mrs...
...Join Socialists" "But the danger to democracy and the Labor movement from big profits to munition makers is far less than the danger from a victory for Hitler and his abominable principles...
...Winrod and her three children left the home the following morning...
...The^ League, which had already charged that the group was backed by Christian Mohilizsr and German-American Bund elements, offered to provide the Dies committee with further evidence showing that the Unity Party • is part of a "Fifth column*' in process Of formation in the United States by Nazi sympathizers...
...Every one of tham » substantial, and many of them contain suggestions useful either to a student or to a practical worker...
...These figures refute the antiSemitic propaganda that the Jewish immigration is responsible, in large measure for the continued depression and unemployment...
...The conclusions drawn ax * the effect that strikes result from a long period of "thwarting sad frustration to which human beings are subjected daring the work process of modern manufacturing...
...against its many inaccuracies, vapidities and emptiness...
...Objectivity son not result from lack of interest It "must come from method*, not motives...
...Bat what a disappointment...
...world can reach a sound basis for judgments...
...Ift view of the path-breaking nature of their enterprise their percentage of success is away beyond what anyone would have foretold...
...The general level of literary quality, of scholarly responsibility and depth, has been steadily rising within the memory 0f any reader...
...The author has swallowed all communistic myths, about Russian history before 1917...
...Largest ethnical group of aliens is Italian—there are in this country approximately 700,000 who technically owe their allegiance to Rome...
...These and other bills affect about three per cent of the people in the United States...
...This can best be done by getting The Defender into thousands of new homes this month...
...The Social Security Act did not create a national system of unemployment insurance, as it did for old-age pensions, leaving the former to the states...
...The depression with its concomitant unemployment has forced thousands to return to their home country while the new immigration laws have cut down the number admitted annually...
...What would the author make of it...
...The railroad workers, now in a strategic position because of the unprecedented peace-time defense drive has forced action which will aid hundreds of thousands of men in the nation's rail lines...
...Roosevelt now has 56154 of those chosen...
...Anti-Nazi League Urges Prate of Unity Party The Non-Sec re tariaa Anti-Nazi League this week wired Representative Dies asking that his committee investigate the newly formed Unity Party, chartered by the State of New York, for evidence of s link with Nazi agents...
...Senator Taft, on the other hand, has gone about quietly, playing the old political game, and has thus snared about 275 votes for the first count...
...Psychology of Labor Conflict By WILLIAM E. BOHN THIS is the 1939 year-book of Society for the Psychological Study * of Social Issues...
...And a -wrong one at that, for today, the standard of living of the Russia* worker is lower than it was in 1913...
...The Cordon Company, New York...
...And their book is so new in spirit and method that eve ryes* in the field of social studies must read it if he pretends to st . anywhere near up-to-date...
...The vital point of the convention is that 627 delegates are instructed, i.e...
...Liberal circles point out that empolyers' rights have never been interferred with and that the Smith suggestion would open the way for wholesale coercion of employees...
...The clinical accounts are clear and H unprejudiced as humanly possible...
...In the New Jersey primary, captured by Thomas E. Dewey, Willkie rolled up over 24,000 write-in-votes, even out-polling Dewey in a number of commuter suburbs near New York City...
...Despite the propaganda, of Senator Reynolds, Father Coughlin, and the Tablet, newspaper of the largest Catholic diocese (Brooklyn), there are fewer aliens here today than ever before...
...Where did the author get his misinformation...
...There are fewer emigres coming over than ever before...
...Willkie backers have circulated petitions in every state, and Willkie himself, has recently completed a trip in the Middle West...
...Such is the little book under present review.* In its simple conception there is nothing to warn the reader against its general uselessness...
...As it was pointed out in ' an article in The New Leader, June 24, 1939, Winrod is one of the most articulate and influential of America's fascist...
...A compromise candidate will emerge from Philadelphia the week of June 24...
...Quite the contrary: the plan, if well executed, could have made it a valuable and popular work...
...Shoes are a thing most difficult to obtain in Soviet Russia...
...In the «a4 bodies of men axe motivated by their experiences iu thil res...
...There are many new downright good htx*, whether novels, biographies, or books on social and historic*.' subjects...
...The rest of the book, and the larger- part, consists at studies in various fields of labor relations...
...In another year 111 retire on a pension...
...Aids Germany "In opposing economic aid to the Allies in their hour of desperate need, the majority of the Socialist Party are doing exactly what the Nazi Bundists and others of Hitler's supporters are doing, even though they are doing so for different reasons," said Mr...
...This is best illustrated by the following figures: I»1907, the year of the largest immigration, 1,285,000 were admitted to this country...
...On the Democratic scene, the pressure of national defense, the growing insistent voices of organized labor—the ILGWU shouted it overwhelmingly this week—and the New Deal men, seemingly assures that Mr...
...For the book seems a travesty bott on the accuracy of the scholar and the vividness of a man of let...
...Winrod's Pro-Nazi Exploitation Of Wife Forces Her to Flee By ROY TOZIER Special to The New Leader KANSAS CITY.—Because she could no longer endure her husband's Nazi activities, Mrs...
...Dewey Strength Hit by Strong Swing To Willkie WASHINGTON, D. C.—For the first time in generations the conventions of the two major parties approach without rampant ballyhoo...
...The real offensive against labor legislation started Tuesday of this week when the Smith Committee forced by an overwhelming vote of 292 to 106 the adoption of a rule which forces consideration of amendments to the Labor Act...
...And, of course, there were no schools to speak of before 1917...
...Copies ate available at1 RaiidSchoorBook "Store, 7 East 15th St Books and Writers By Elias L Tartak jlfiuu- Kin* tn Writs* nwrf IwT fw 11 IIIO 117ITH so many books—war or no war—still rolling down Jro« " the presses, it is net always possible for a reviewer to Xtmt his face straight...
...Mussolini has a wide network of cultural and other '"societies and clubs" consistently functioning here to win the support of bis former subjects...
...He is the only candidate who has been able to arouse the enthusiasm of the Republican voters to any extent approaching Dewey...
...He calls Stolypin, the reactionary though talented prime minister (1905-1911) "tile great liberal premier...
...Winrod said she has op...
...break completely vita "pure" scientists...
...The figures are: Lenin, Ghandi, Trudeau and Stevenson...
...The biographic essays on Stevenson and Ghandi turn out to be mere compilations...
...A. B. Lewis Quits S. P. On War Issue BOSTON...
...The society has B»:|f*fj!* ration other volumes dealing with vital human problems...
...The pay is good...
...Now that most people take the third-term for granted, the new game is speculating on vice-presidential possibilities...
...Alfred Baker Lewis, who has for many years been identified with the Socialist Party in Massachusetts as their State Secretary and candidate for various offices including governor and senator, declined to accept any nomination for office on the Socialist ticket at their state convention in Worcester, on the ground that he believed in giving all possible economic aid to the Allies in their fight against Hitlerism and could not conscientiously support Norman Thomas, the Socialist candidate for president, which would mean opposing all such aid...
...As recently as 1923 nearly 800,000 aliens a year came over...
...Winrod's petition for separate maintenance, custody and control of the children, and the possession of the home...
...We have all a ho...
...The chapter headings are "Action Now," "If -Hitler Wins," ". I . like the Beasts Thai Parish" and "A Message from the Middle West...
...In leaving the Socialist Party at this -time I do not feel that I am any less a Socialist than before...
...One is still vigorously alive, enjoying the profound respect of the world...
...Hits at A.L.P...
...A social scientist who marshals the facts of thi* res...
...Only 150 delegates are actually pledged to Dewey, while Senator Taft has 56, Vandenberg 38, and Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas, 18...
...f% '.'On the contrary, I feel that I am joining the International Socialist movement, for more than 90 per- cent of the Socialists throughout the world are working for the defeat of Hitlerism by any' means as may be necessary...
...of owners and their managerial representatives to frustrate thsfc aims...
...The author relates a conversation he had in Moscow in 1934, with a woman factory worker...
...Except for the election of eight delegates from Illinois on June 8, the 1,001 delegates to the Republican convention have been elected...
...And tins by Soviet statistics...
...4860) which provides deportation of' aliens who advocate the making of any changes in the government of the United States...
...There is, they maintain, a real world...
...Some 8,600,000 persons have never applied for citizenship...
...No proof, no figures are quoted...
...Senator Minton's bill compelling the roads to use conductors for conductors' work instead of forcing porters to do both jobs,' was also favorably reported out of committee...
...As a result of Lenin's work, we are told that today Russia's "standard sf living has steadily advanced...
...The representatives of the S.P.S.S.I...
...For without American economic aid, the dictators will win the war, rule all of Europe, wipe out political democracy and the labor movement there and start to arm against us with the resources of the whole of Europe at their command...
...They constitute, the one group in which— according to Federal estimates— there are the greatest number of fifth column suspects, and at the same time the most democratic anti-Nazi element in the world...
...It .makes us sad to know of the.thousands of mothers' sons who are losing their lives, through war...
...Four prominent figures of the last 60-70 years, political, scientific, literary figures...
...Speaking in psych** logical, sociological terms the- authors suggest the cure far tab sort of conflict: "Change the environmental conditions leading *• inter-personal struggle...
...Their strength can be manipulated at will by the national committeemen in control...
...222 pp...
...Of these 895,000 were Italians, 628,000 were Poles, 475,000 ifrere Germans, and 435,000 were Russians...
...The Senate proposes increasing unemploy...
...Winrod has contemplated either separation or divorce for some time, but her final decision was made Sunday, May 26, when her husband sat in their home most of the day, revolver in his hand, awaiting "enemies" whom he believed were planning to capture him...
...a * It would be easy to criticize the method of citing this M»tsri*l and drawing conclusions from it A really satisfactory tatJMsJf of either strike would require at least a fat mil in— .Bat ta» writers have dared to give us an example of application of clinical methods to the open-air problems of a great industrial strufgl* A fuller treatment, filling in vacancies and answering objerassa, would certainly justify both the method and the results...
...Give the people the facts, and our country will be safe...
...He has shown the best flair for favorable publicity of any of the stolid and stodgy Republican wheelhorses, and has the added advantage that his strength is concentrated in the eastern states— New England and the strategic Middle Atlantic—important considerations in trading strategy...
...As a Socialist I know full well the danger that comes from excess profits for munition workers...
...Judge I. N. Williams granted Mrs...
...The latest clipping in the rumor file points to Senator Byrnes of-South Carolina, a guest this week-end on the Roosevelt yacht...
...A pair of shoes costs the full average monthly wage of a Kumiss worker...
...More than 600,000 Poles—now without a country— live here...
...Gallup to ascertain presidential sentiment among Republicans, Willkie has risen to fourth position within the short period of two months...
...If Hitler wins the present war, we in America will be forced to use half our total natural resources to produce armaments for years to come, with taxes of course three or four times greater than they are today, and with war as the inevitable outcome...
...7 worker in this field will wish it long life and great mom- . * INDUSTRIAL CONFLICT...
...His statements axe frequently just comical...
...She told him: "No it is all different...
...Because, of her known antipathy to these- activities, Winrod has not taken-her into his confidence recently, she said to F- B. I. agents who questioned her...
...Winrod $25 each week and enjoined him from going within two blocks of the home or attempting to communicate with his family...
...Aid Allies" Group Issues Pamphlet The Committee to .Defend America by Aiding the Allies, which is headed nationally by William Allen White, this week issued a twenty-page pamphlet which will he available throughout the country at ten cents a copy...
...In 1938 he almost succeeded in getting the Republican nomination to the U. S. Senate...
...not pretend to be above the struggteThey confess frankly that this year-book is, edited from, a f*** labor standpoint...
...ment benefits by as much as 65% to 100%, which will give jobless railworkers as much as $200,000,000 more in benefits during the next fiscal.year than they would receive under the existing laws...
...On the whole, literary America today is seeing toper and thinking holder than twenty-five years ago...
...tional political campaign fund and stop labor leader from participation in helping to raise such funds...
...ters...
...Of the 1,094 Democratic delegates ready to spend a week in Chicago starting July 15 to nominate a presidential candidate, 722 have already been elected...
...Every week sees Senator Reynolds and the xenophobic Woe accelerating the drive against millions who have sought safety and a livelihood here...
...THE most ambitious section of the book is Part I, in which the methods of the society are applied to the recent sfrike* » Detroit and Johnstown...
...Lenin's jacobinism and dictatorial plana...
...Even here, to be fair, it must be said that the essay on Trudeau has qualities of holding the reader's interest in its narrative of the heroic American doctor1...
...Mrs...
...Not infrequently, however, one strikes a book which one simply cannot make out What is the purpose of such a book...
...If "Men of Power" is to be recommended to the reader, it is as an example how such books should not be written...
...The authors and editors have had the coarse* and imagination to undertake a practically impossible task...
...The way to meet this dangger is by public ownership of munition manufacturing establishments...
...Between such principles and our principles of political democracy and personal rights there must be eternal conflict...
...How does it become accepted and published...
...1940...
...Ghandi and Lenin TSE book consists of four biographical essays...
...v Senate Bills Bid for Rail Labor Support Special to The New Leader WASHINGTON, D. C. — Unnoticed by millions absorbed in the daily press' black headlines the Senate this week went- beyond military spheres to assure fullhearted labor support on the vital —but chaotic—railroad lines, by acting favorably on several bills long favored by the strong railroad unions...
...Elsewhere in Congress during the past week's labor has been equally successful, this time by forcing the defeat of bills introduced to cripple its activities...
...A scattering of first-ballot votes will go to Senator Vandenberg, Senator H. Styles Bridges of New Hamshire, former President Herbert Hoover, Frank E. Gannett, Wendell L. Willkie, Governor James of Pennsylvania, Senator Charles McNray, Representative Joseph Martin, Jr., and about three others...
...and the vast number of aliens in the U. S. are Catholics...
...Unnaturalized Germans come to 365,000...
...Reynolds Bloc Wars on 3,600,000 Aliens Largest Foreign Group in U. S. Is Italian By GEORGE SHORT Special to The New Leader WASHINGTON, D. C. — Despite the F. B. I.'s competence in handling counter-espionage work, and the many Federal agencies which can ferret out the saboteur divisions planted here, the antialien "patriot" squads are using ¦widespread pro-defense sentiment to wave the bloody shirt against the millions of honest aliens, of whom thousands have fled from Europe's "Aryan" totalitarianism...
...Labor lobbies are fighting the Smith Committee's proposals for amending the N.LJJ...
...last year the total was only 82,998...
...For a balanced appraisal indicates "skat mm and higher values are implicit in the struggles of the worksrs to achieve a richer and fuller life than can be found in the effort...
...Gerald B. Winrod...
...This is simply tragicomical...
...Dewey has garnered' most of his delegates by going into primary fights displaying a great appeal among the voters...
...It is interesting to conjecture what effect Mrs...
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