Letters To the Editor
Letters To the Editor Italian Exiles Decry Mussolini's War Entry To the Editor: The totalitarian regime, the oppressor of Italy since 1922, has plunged the unhappy Italian people into the horror...
...for districts 18 and 26, with the purely Canadian organization...
...And thus, while the loss of the Battle of France will be a humiliating blow to British pride and a bitter tragedy for the French people, it does not necessarily imply the .end of Western civilization...
...who as one of the editors of the Hungarian Communist daily "Uj Elore" served the cause of Stalinism for fifteen years...
...And it would not have happened without this outcropping of the crazy notion that weakening labor will strenghten our national defenses...
...Each affect the other two...
...Barrett disclosed that he is calling a convention for the declaration of policy, and suggests that all CIO unions affiliate with the All-Canadian Congress...
...This sustained inherence will prove to be imperishable and, happily, belongs to the ages...
...denies it is Stal-inite or that it received "Moscow Goldl" And it quotes a list of contributors to prove it...
...In 1914, when Germany invaded Belgium, a legion of Italians pointed the way for Italy by fighting and dying in France and Serbia...
...Weinstock...
...Andrew R. Ingrae, Mrs...
...Libby may also be remembered as having debated Earl Browder about a year or so ago on the topic of "Collective Security or Isolation, Which Road for America...
...A few weeks ago the amendments to the Wagner Labor Relations Act had been placed on ice...
...f\UFF COOPER'S Ministry of " Propaganda will have more than two strikes called on it in this country unless it recalls Cecil Beaton, now selling photos of the Royal Family and other prominent figures, for drawing anti-Semitic insinuations into a design for a Vogue cover...
...if we will...
...bitioug and finally msaajsdI* land profitable posiflepf *fg became secretary of ta*^sjjj*f...
...There will soon appear a series of films which will set the nation laughing at the "comrades...
...Gentlemen, industrialists, editors, politicians: if you want a united country you must do better than this...
...Matthew Passion or of the Eroica...
...He was close to the Communist Party there, while his wife worked on the Moscow Daily News...
...The billowing clouds of smoke over Paris blot out not only a city, but the promise of something far greater...
...Though the Nazi armies ultimately be encamped on the Champs Elysees, the Marseillaise, song of liberty, will still be a more inspiring hymn than the Horst Wessel song which honors a common murderer, and, calls for pillage and destruction...
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...Letters To the Editor Italian Exiles Decry Mussolini's War Entry To the Editor: The totalitarian regime, the oppressor of Italy since 1922, has plunged the unhappy Italian people into the horror of an unpopular war, disregarding the long Italian democratic tradition...
...WORKING people are more interested in the defeat of - Hitler and Hitlerism than any other section of the American public Great unions, like those of the clothing indus...
...Ugo Mameli, Mario Carrara, Carlo Fragi-acomo...
...Morris Watson, who follows the party line so closely, he reportedly has hysterics keeping up the pace...
...Every bomb that comes screaming into its streets destroys something vital in the lives of free men and women in alTcountries...
...We have no occasion to mock them, nor particularly to court them...
...What is necessary is that we ourselves recognize the responsibility it puts upon us...
...To defend democracy the Times wants to repeal the Walah-Healey Act...
...The practical working of even the best-planned settlement of international relations will depend very largely on the economic and social relations that then prevail within each of the nations concerned, and conversely, the practical working of the post-war economy within each country w2 be deeply affected by the security or insecurity of the peace And on the other hand, defense of the workers' interest...
...Chicago is limestone and brick, Washington is marble and granite, but Paris is something which cannot, be told in terms of facades of things...
...The Social Democratic Federation must be rebuilt Jt can be rebuilt...
...But Hitler's armies do not come bearing the scores of the St...
...Let us hope that the Senate will have sounder views on national unity...
...Prof...
...Council, the other cppuiWjl"* sow associated with Mike Qsfflf i Where the News Ends By Charles Yale Harrison IN times of social disaster men are inclined to console themselves with the thought that, come what may, next spring the grass will surely grow and just as green as ever...
...With this statement on the record, .and also the •** dealing more with democratic war-aims on the international field which was set forth by Clement Attlee earlier » tte year, no one can reproach the British Labor Party with taking any unfair advantage when, either during the war w in the period of strain which will follow, it takes a firm stand for democratic ideals and practises in the nation» economic as well as its political life...
...Charges Santo, Wfeinstock, CP'ers Under Pseudonyms From Andrew Berths To the Editor: According to newspaper accounts Mr...
...For there is something enduring about Paris which is not fully expressed in its streets and structures...
...IN a letter to the Nation the * Communist Committee to Re-, build the A.L.P...
...If truth is contained in Stuka bombers then the Sermon on the Mount was a demagogic harangue and those who listened were poor dupes...
...We were oppressed with a sense of our own weakness...
...Annette T. Rubinstein, a new comer to the fellow traveler ranks...
...This addition to our labor force would raisethe national income by more than the sum required to cover the cost of guns and boats and -tanks and planes...
...He left the United States shortly afterward leaving a wide streak of resentment here...
...The Executive Board of the Italian Republican Group fn the United States: Dr...
...Every day brings a new call to action...
...Jules Korchien, now housing expert for the new daily PM, spent several years in Moscow as a consulting architect...
...the Communists - »re launching a series of "peace" rallies in the name of the Labor Party with a new transmission belt "the ALR Peace Action Committee...
...All we had left was clear Socialist knowledge and understanding...
...We need none...
...Raise our income and raise our standard of living...
...Eber complained that he was eased out of his position to make room for a Mr...
...Not to mention one of PM's labor department, who is widely known as an important member of the Young Communist League...
...Now is doing some riding of its own...
...others...
...Garibaldi, a Mazzini follower and friend of Lincoln, led a legion of Italians which shed its blood in Argentina, Uruguay, France, Italy and other countries' wherever liberty and democracy were at stake...
...WASHINGTON Newspapermen ™ are firmly convinced tnat cabinet members Wood ring and Perkins will follow Navy Secretary Edison into retirement...
...New- "York represents the hurried, American mechanical tempo of the age in' which we live, Hollywood is a false glittering showr* London is1 * the time-stained symbol of England's slow march through the centuries...
...Cooperating closely with the Communists is Elmer Brown, president of the Typo Union's Big Six...
...By some sort of magic this sort of un-American docility is expected to make this country unconquerable...
...try, have taken the lead in waking this country to a realization of its danger.-' Both the American Federation of Labor .and the Congress of Industrial Organizations have pledged full support to the government in its defense program, i -. ,.' ix' .-".v...
...His high human ideal was to found the United States of Europe as the first step toward the creation of the United States of the World...
...Since then, Italian volunteers have fought for the cause of liberty and democracy for all people...
...Reports are that Mayor La-Guardia will take over the War secretaryship, and Daniel J. Tobin's job will be to work with Sidney Hillman on labor and training problems arising out of the defense program...
...It is this tenacious hold on life that enables men to go on, no matter how* devastating the holocaust...
...Suppose we put five millions of the unemployed to work...
...NOT A "PRICE," BUT A PURPOSE *J"HE use of the phrase "Labor's Price" as applied to tke British Labor Party's program of war-time and post-war socialization* does not express the true meaning of that important document...
...This was one of the things decided at the recent June 7th mobilization" in Washington—all that remains is the raising of funds...
...We can protect our labor standards, produce more guns than Hitler has, and live better than we ever did...
...i No "peerless leader" is going to do the job for us...
...The really innocent "innocents" of the Communis...
...But of Paris alone can it be said that it expresses everything that is fine in man's long escape from intellectual squalor and spiritual meanness...
...No matter how many fellow-travelers and Harvard amateurs manhandled the administration of the act, the act was right The wringers could have been thrown out...
...What we were saying last summer—to deaf pars, we sometimes felt—is now being thought and said by so many millions that even time-serving politicians begin to echo it We have had our part in bringing about this awakening...
...Lajos Toth," the nrtiUfg} "Uj Elore" about the asm* ** John Szanto was employs* 1...
...It represents the interpretation put upon ' the party's action by news writers who were not in a position to form more than a hasty judgement...
...For this there must be a national purpose, a national feeling...
...rVEMANDS in the City Council for investigation of aliens and legislation against them has thrown Tammany Hall into an uproar because so many relatives of the Wigwams' big shots have never become citizens...
...rank «•» file" leader...
...They will find their way, and will be welcome...
...aggregation have had their eyes opened...
...If Hitler's way is to be the way of the world, then the lowly Nazarene and those who followed in his path spoke in tain...
...I DCnbt mean to imply here that righteousness * and justice, unarmed and undefended, always triumph...
...In this connection, he has linked the U.M.W...
...The trade union movement, for its part, owes it to the country to set its house in order...
...It is the task of each and all—with the empham on "each...
...AN important member of the Socialist Party's national campaign staff called this columnist to protest our item of last week revealing the sharp schism within that organization...
...All great cities reveal a local or national trait...
...Any startlingly tragic story out of Europe—the fall of Paris perhaps—will bring a - wide national split inside the Socialist Party, which can report practically no membership anywhere...
...CO viciously anti-Roosevelt was the radio continuity prepared by the magazine Friday's advertising writers recently, radio station WMCA was forced to cancel the entice broadcast...
...Local 66, of the United Wholesale and Retail Union, communist stronghold in the retail and wholesale international...
...and that means a pretty large and vigorous element—hut quitting its ranks...
...With Browne will be Moses L. Miller, front for the Communist ' — and discredited — Jewish People's Committee...
...See, Merger of Canada CIO...
...We were practically penniless...
...Somehow, no matter how great the cataclysm, men find a way to survive and carry on...
...There is much more to be done...
...Their followers, the Italian republicans, inherited the ideal of liberty and democracy and fought for Poland and Greece when these nations struggled for their independence...
...Balzac's world will be explored by...
...The cpmmissars will squirm before they get out from under the ridicule prepared by movieland's best directors . . . * * *' THe National Council for the * Prevention of War and the Keep America put of War Congress are thinking of sending a "peace train" over the country to arouse isolationist sentiment...
...Petras, a Chicags who helped to organize thi jjg and is still active in tht Ij° Hungarian . section...
...The British Labor Party has not driven a bargain vdth the other parties and exacted a price for its collaboration in resistance to Nazist aggression...
...And when Hitler enters the blackened city—God spare us the day!—our own liberty and our civilization will be infinitely more insecure than they are today, although we may not fully realize it at the moment...
...The sincere ones belong With us...
...Let the defeatists stand aside or be pushed aside...
...The first thing is to realize our duty, our opportunity, and our latent powers Let us stop talking about our weak-> ness...
...On Friday they were brought out, warmed up, and passed by a large majority...
...WbsB W-Weiss assumed hig new P0^** as associate editor of s Cnm**" ist daily during the "thud P* iod" he changed his name to *W, Szanto...
...What the Labor Party has done, and rightly done, on steep ting a share" of governmental power and responsibility, a to make a frank and clear statement of its views as to the manner in which the war should be conducted, as to the international settlement to which it should lead, and t» the nature of the readjustment at home which must be rasftV when the war is over...
...Wheeler for activity during the national election campaign...
...The union men are expected to be good boys and take any sort hours and wages...
...The followers of...
...Quill, in his testimony before the Dies Committee, denied that John Santo, secretary of his union, is a Communist...
...The misled Socialist Party signed its own death warrant at Washington...
...He plays a communist...
...Keith Allerson, of the'Committee for Democratic Action, a C. P. front...
...What we have accomplished with a broken organization, an empty treasury, and an obsession of defeat we can better a hundredfold...
...Only the stupid, the vandals, the destroyers are honored there...
...The sincere element among its member...
...The suggestion that strikes, be made illegal rises on every side...
...Do a little straight thinking...
...The poems of Francois Villon will fire the imagination of youth in all countries long after the illiterate writers of Nazi doggerel are forgot-ten...
...All our resources of plant, materials, man-power must be mobilized...
...I simply declare that the essence of a civilization cannot be utterly annihilated...
...Weinstock and Weiss w**j...
...Isolationist, sentiment so permeates the local office it may have cut itself off from its membership, more and more of whom are swinging over to an "aid the Allies" position every day...
...Ray Torr, my own cute little commissar in the Labor Press unit of the Newspaper Guild...
...j^ICEED out of the American *^ Civil Liberties Union the Communists are going into the business for themselves...
...It is ours forever...
...the President of the National Lumber Association calls for a- longer work-week...
...fascinated readers when Hitler's world will be recalled with* shame by the German people...
...Observers are surprised to see him on PM, which already has David Ramsay and Leane Zugsmith, former New Masses writers, on its staff...
...It is alike their iotaiat and their duty to defend it, and they naturally do not demand a price for resolving to live or die as free men...
...is—according to Mr...
...At the beginning of the last century, when the Italian nation was not yet existent, the great patriot Giuseppe Mazzini founded the Italian Republican Party for the purpose of arousing the Italian people, not only to fight for their liberty and the winning of a democratic government," but also to fight for all people oppressed by tyrannical regimes...
...You must have a broad plan of action including capital, management, labor, government...
...A fellow who starts now to steal Labor's pants because the house is on fire comes,close to being a plain traitor...
...Dora Jones, party liner from the Cosmetic Workers Union and Dr...
...Browne qlumped for Mike Quill during bast year's councilmanic elections...
...Melvyn Douglas will star in the first picture...
...The union is led by Arthur Osman, who is being boomed by the CP...
...from day to day while the armed struggle goes on...
...They belong with us...
...The remnant are following the Communist path to disgrace and oblivion...
...The denial reminds this writer of a conversation in 1933 with Ladislaw Eber...
...More important still, the newly awakened masses, who have never been "ists" of any sort, will listen to us if we will speak loud enough to make ourselves heard...
...There was no excuse for changing the rules of the game...
...And this intangible something, I am hopeful, will outlive the hordes which are now converging upon it...
...WATCH for a big story to break on negotiations between John L. Lewis, Labor's Non-Partisan League and Sen...
...Hollywood was taken for a ride during the popular front period...
...The way to rebuild is to rebuild...
...We were able to see the right way, in international as well as domestic affairs...
...EDITORIALS GUNS AND BUWEfe f^lftB...
...LET'S GET ON THE JOB ^OT in any spirit of brag, but just because it is a truth which has a specific value, we record the fact that in , the awakening of the "popular conscience and the reprienta-tk>n of public opinion which has been going on through the last ten months, very slowly at first but ever faster and more surely, the Social Democrats have been always in the van...
...For Paris is more than a city of stone and mortar...
...For if Beethoven were alive ' today, I am certain that Goebbels would have him composing coarse Nazi marching songs and Goethe would be in exile or in a concentration camp...
...Even if Hitter conquerap^l of Europe, millions will be found to speak wSn awe of the culture and civilization of his victims...
...Every street meeting every bundle of papers or leaflets distributed', every new member enlisted, every dollar of dues paid, is an act of rebuilding...
...In Washington Vito Marcantonio—seated as an "American Laborite"—is handling the job by loudly voting alone against every armament bill...
...On that list are: *^ Herman Shumlin who accused Finland of intent to invade Russia and fought the theatrical industry's attempt to raise funds .for Finland relief...
...You can't secure harmony by a blitzkrieg of grabbing...
...IN an attempt to infiltrate the * educational departments of New York unions the communist controlled New Theatre League has now formed the Trade Union Drama League...
...The Italian republican exiles in the United States stress their protest against the new infamy which the tyrannical Italian regime is perpetrating against Italy and her best interests—an interest which requires that Europe rid itself of the mortal Nazi threat to modern civilisation...
...The working people have even more at stake than any other section of the Brrath people in the democratic way of life that haa been developed through centuries of struggle...
...It is not at all necessary that we shout this from the housetops and claim credit for it...
...Though every building in Paris be razed, though every last French soldier be slaughtered, men everywhere in the free world will testify to the innate superiority of these who went down in the ruins...
...Heard on the Left By VICTOR RIESEL ADRIVE as strenuous as the primary campaign to capture the American Labor Parity, te being organized by the-Communist Committee to Rebuild the A.L.P...
...And the standard of living could be raised instead of lowered...
...Everything' that is fine and creative has been killed, exiled or imprisoned in Germany...
...Weiss coming from Chicago with the fim**P of Mr...
...It is a monument to the work of countless French craftsmen, philosophers, artisans and artists...
...And of course there is Morris- Watson, who may not be a vice, president of the American Newspaper Guild, after that organization's national convention in Memphis...
...We need five billion for defense...
...Once we act like men, we can win recruits, and funds will follow...
...This is the way to plan for defense: put all men, all plants, all capital to work...
...The magazine, by tbe way, continues to take]a terrific weekly loss...
...Alf-Canadiaji Group MINTO, N. B.—In addressing a United Mine Workers meeting here, Silby Barrett, of Glace Bay, N. S., head of the CIO in Canada, and organizer for the United Mine Workers, revealed that he is negotiating with the All-Canadian Congress of Labor, for a fusion of the two hitherto warring forces...
...Whether or not the peace that has to be won by war shall be a secure peso or one that contains the seeds of future wars will depend Isijefr on what the fighters consciously aim at while they are fighting...
...Even if Paris is lost—and at the time of writing this seems more than a mere-possibility— the spirit of that gay and cultivated city will continue to live...
...It would be possible, by tracing the spread of certain phrases which we were the first to use, to show that our direct and indirect influence has been far greater than we ourselves realized...
...so that he may better cooperate with Harry Bridges' raid in the warehouse industry...
...These are not intact three disjwt questions...
...He owes the country an explanation for appearing at a conference which not only attacked American defense plans, but which studiously refrained from criticizing the crushing of civil liberties' in-Russia, Germany and Italy...
...But flame and high explosive shells cannot destroy the essential spirit, the inherent rhythm of French genius...
...and the prospect of a better social order when peace comes, will strengthen the morale of the men at the front and those at home and will thus conduce to efficiency in wagiaf the war...
...With labor thinking as one, we can get the kind of drive We need into our.productive effort...
...Let no one imagine that I would berate the greatness of Germany's Spiritual creators...
...The roots of British %nd French culture run much deeper than many of us suppose...
...in order to smear the legitimate Laborites with an anli-defense, anti-Ally reputation...
...The National Association of Manufacturers speaks out against "Barriers to economic efficiency," meaning New Deal legislation...
...Our organization was shattered...
...And the aching beauty of Debussy's Claire de Lune will enchant the hearts of men as long as there are taut strings to be struck...
...Today all of Germany, save a few terrified, silent liberals, stand in adulation before the brute, the pervert and the moron who regard the things of the spirit with uncomprehending eyes, reaching the while for an automatic...
...Frederick J. Libby — ardent peace lobbyist in Washington for years is to be in charge...
...When they put up their shingle they'll be known as the Civil Liberties Federation, result of the recent National Conference for Constitutional Liberties...
...If Mike Quill wouH MP* know more about John Sew* (now without the letter s) »» him consult Louia WatostSWj "perennially A.F.ofL...
...Vj So there is something sinister about the many-headed attack on labor standards under the cloak of devotion to our country...
...But only a fool would declare that they do not seriously endanger a civilized way of life that has been centuries in the making...
...These are the men and organizations the Rebuilders' Commit-' tee use as a front . . . use your own imagination to identify those not mentioned...
...We are pledged not to reveal names—but some of the most important figures in the organization will lead the exodus out of a party which only two weeks ago permitted its official organ to print—in defense of its isolationist position—an item announcing that all was well in Denmark, that Hitler was keeping his promise not to molest the labor - and Socialist movements...
...TTHE bombs which fall in the streets of Paris * today cannot, as I have said, wipe out the rich heritage of French culture...
...George Marshall, Wealthy economist, one of the heads of the defunct Friends of the Soviet Union and one of the editors of Soviet Russia Today...
...Some of the Parisian suburbs are in flames and a pall of smoke hangs over the city as the Nazi tanks press closer and closer...
...In New York Morris Watson is stooging for Eugene Connolly and the other commissars directing his committee, which with John Lewis' support is set to sabotage New Deal vote - getting machinery in this state...
...Mazzini and Garibaldi and the thousands of Italians who sacrificed their lives for liberty and'democracy want the American people to % know that the Italian people hate to fight for the barbarism of the Fascist and Nazi regimes, and long for the moment when they will be able to break the chains of the present slavery and regain their civil liberties and national dignity...
...stabbing in the back their former allies, the great world democracies, and covering *Italy with everlasting dishonor...
...They will find their way, and will be welcome...
...For Ray Terr's party lining we refer you to "We Accuse" the story of Communist control of the National Maritime Union...
...In that respect it is a universal capital...
...For if man's greatness is to be measured by tanks and flamethrowers, then Hitler is a deliverer of mankind, and every sadist ia his ranks is a holy crusader...
...And no one has as yet asked to/ machinery to adjust wages upward without strikes...
...Pascal's soaring thoughts will be honored -by thinkers when sections of Mein Kampf are footnotes in a textbook on abnormal psychology...
...State, County and Municipal Workers, Newspaper Guild, United Office and Professional Workers, the National Maritime Union and...
...Italy has a long liberal and democratic tradition...
...Alexandra Caroti, Oswald Forlani...
...She is principal of the Robert Louis Stevenson School and is being boomed by the Communist pro-Nazi "peace" front machinery...
...If you do your part, then you will have" the right to talk to labor...
...And now this splendid tradition is being crushed by the fascist regime—now forcing the unwilling Italian people to fight by the side of their eternal enemy, Germany...
...Although neither the Committee nor Marcantonio speaks for the A.L.P...
...Ed Smith, a friend of Nathan Witt, both powers on the National Labor Relations Board, who did little to save Dave Saposs' division, was guest speaker...
...The industrialists, of course, are never responsible for strikes...
...Such a nobie tradition did hot die with Mazzini and Garibaldi...
...Associated with it are the following party line organizations: the Transport Workers Union, the Fur Workers, Wholesale Warehouse Employees Union...
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