U.S. Has 5,000 Planes to Spare; Send Them Over to Crack the Axis
U.S. Has 5,000 Planes to Spare; Send Them Over to Crack the Axis Yes, it is later than we thought. We Amercans are not privileged to scoff or; gird at the "European democracies for failing to...
...Aiid iiow he returns to praise his old chief— the man he left .when he found his own union bankrupt—as impecunious as those who were forced to stand on frozen street corners selling shiny apples under Mr...
...And taking the chance of losing many a friendship (he, like you, has lost these days much more than that) this writer dares to say: France did so, these past years, also under the pressure of the progressive, liberal, Socialist, labor forces...
...With few exceptions, forth our statesmen and politicians and our private citizens have been even more purblind than the British and the French—and the worst of Jt is, most Americans are still content to fiddle and quibble while Rome burns...
...This has led him into strange alliances with such Communist transmission belts as the American Youth Congress, the National Negro Congress,'and other fronts which peddle panaceas by the gross...
...Washington observers report that the radio priest has won little support...
...the stars are emblematic of the title of his political party, the American Destiny Party...
...The Walsh- Healey biH provided for a forty-hour week for s)l -private work done under government contact ,as well as time and one-half for overtime...
...For the large sums spent for political advertisements, blaming the Jews for all the ills of the northwestern farmers, he polled 18,000 votes...
...They assure you, seriously, that schools are socially more valuable than bombers—when the beasts have bombers to destroy your schools...
...Similar steps are being taken by the Senate Committee on Naval Affairs to require agreement with.government provisions by^navy supply contractors...
...Brown had the support of the Nazi press and the North Carolinian Silvershirt "Liberation.'' Brown is now publishing "The Fifth Column...
...If so, it has not been dishonorably lost—and honor is a vital force, let those who lack it say what they please...
...the nation'was warned that it was to consider no presidential nominee unless he was consulted about that "greatest liberal of all," Burton K. Wheeler, and then he told the C.I.O.'s national convention that he led 5,000,000 organized workers and would return with the "power of 10,000,000 men" behind him...
...Every move Lewis now makes is aimed at keeping this nation from aiding the fight on Nazism...
...These decent people could not live up to the realisation that our generation can either victimize today's comfort in order to secure future liberty and happiness—or sflck stubbornly to today's privileges and then loBe liberty as well as these privileges...
...it convinced the deeply cultured Frenchmen very easily that they must not hate the German neighbors, who are suffering under Hitler and eagerly looking for the opportunity to get rid of him...
...Now their new hospitals are either destroyed, because there was not enough money left to produce enough antiaircraft guns, or filled with the crippled bodies of refugee children...
...Lightning is literally quicker than thought...
...Meanwhile the organization finds itself committed to a policy inimical to the best interests of the nation—a policy which follows with remarkable persistency the foreign line of the Soviet Union...
...He represents nothing now...
...In other parts of the nation the anti-Semitic drive against the Allies is carried on by the Silver Shirts, the KKK, the American Coalition' of Patriotic Societies, the Christian Front, the Black Legion...
...She did the noblest and the finest things: fought for shorter working hours, for paid vacations, for the little man's joy in life...
...This column used *.»PPear under the headline "Behind Europe's **9nts.'* But there are no fronts in Europe any ****** By now these fronts cross all parts of world, all groups, classes, parties, and even SJJTitagle man's own trembling soul and own rSBrbed head...
...that a decent man's duty is to defend his home, not to fight on foreign ,soil—when, under the conditions of modern warfare, your home is rendered indefensible, if the attacker is allowed to penetrate your neighbor's home...
...On the West Coast, Kenneth A. Brown, running on an anti-Semitic platform in Portland, Oregon, failed to capture the Republican nomination for the House of Representatives...
...Every lead to Lewis' political activity converges on a philosophy which shouts one slogan — Beat Roosevelt...
...Blitzkrieg—lightning war...
...In view of the various practical tasks that will confront these campaign assistants of McWilliams, they are to be thoroughly trained in the art of street fighting...
...Evasion is met by a three-year blacklisting by : ill government purchasing agencies...
...He must get a new base from which to work.- By ambition and temperament Lewis must keep going even if his direction is . one inimical to the best interests of the hundreds of thousands of men whom he represents...
...There has been nothing in the world's history finer than the conduct of the French citizens and soldiers in the face of a physically irresistible attack...
...Was French democracy not aware, what was prepared for her since 1933...
...Some two hundred of these are contemplated...
...Lindberg is praised, and Congress excoriated...
...Having finally raised sufficient funds, McWilliams has bought a horse and wagon...
...The motives of their attitude are beyond all doubts...
...and we love democracy precisely because she loves'leisure better than sweat, peace better than war, life' better than death...
...He lived a hand-to-mouth mental existence then, and seldom knows where his next idea would come from...
...Because there is nothing harder than to tell the people, who trust you, that they have to chose between liberty and comfort, and that they, cannot have both of them...
...Which might mean that every labor movement in Europe would forever remain under the boot of the pactpartner of the Soviet Union...
...Lewis' ardent isolationism has been faithful enough in recent months...
...There was failure of vision in Great Britain and France,' but there has been no lack of courage, of loyalty, or of discipline...
...Most of these double up and concentrate on an anti-alien campaign as well...
...7ht_Ftcrx trooper* ygii wear black shirts...
...But only American aid, and that soon, can smash Nazism in Europe and avert war on this side of the water...
...One thousand planes would not be enough today...
...The amendments "to the War Department bill, offered by Senator Wagner, require compliance *nth the government labor standards by all <rms working on War Department orders...
...Nations that can do such things as these do not die...
...The most elementary and 8« most decisive question to be answered is to survive at all...
...We could have spared them, for we were in no instant danger of attack, and they could have been very quickly replaced...
...It wasn't John L. alone whp charged this week that President Roosevelt's proposal for universal training of youth for government service was a "fantastic suggestion from a mind in full intellectual retreat" Behind that statement—and the significant policy it insinuated— were John L's closest advisors: Len De Caux, C.I.O...
...it cared for the spreading of love for peace...
...Nazism was a new thing in history, and it is hard to believe in a new thing until we see .and feel it...
...His drive bristles with antiSemitism, Anglophobia, and pro-Nazism, despite the position the Vatican has taken...
...There is nothing in between...
...legal brains and close friend of Ed Smith and Nathan Witt of the National Labor Relations Board...
...Provocating Lewis now is the knowledge that even the White House knows that—in political parlance—the C.I.O...
...JEhy,?bien, did she spend the years of radical democratic government the way she did...
...Senate Keeps Labor's %WABHlNGTON.:-^)efeai, atleast temporarily, Jr etfortaito modify enforcement of the Walshjfcaley standards on national defense program ¦ork, was seen in the Senate adoption of amendments to the Army Expansion Bill...
...The troopers will be between the ages of sixteen and twenty-three and will be under the leadership of an ex-prizefighter...
...As Sidney Hillman becomes one of the most important men in the New Deal Defense directorate, Lewis swings closer to these men in his efforts to maintain control of the C.I.O...
...They were noble, human, positive motives...
...Harry Bridges, waterfront Fuehrer of the West Coast...
...Or France had to invest all her wealth and all her manpower to be used against the announced attack...
...Lewis' private war on Roosevelt dates back to his last Labor Day speech, when much to the glee of the Daily Worker—still punch drunk from the effect of the Soviet-Nazi pact—Lewis .lashed at the President, reminding him of the "New Deal's failure to deal with the social problems existing here...
...dojng their duty, though seldom so promptly as could lie wished...
...Latere he followed through with his talk of "ignominious defeat" if Roosevelt attempted to run in 1940...
...i^pm 1934 to 1939 the popular trend within J*!** went undoubtedly to the left...
...Hoover's vast unemployment relief program...
...that treachery of rotten politicians...
...This sheet vigorously echoes the pro-fascist and anti-Semitic ideology which Brown so blatantly voiced in his campaign for nomination to the House of Representatives...
...No man can dodge the thunderbolt or stand up against it when it strikes...
...McWilliams is undertaking the formation of a youthful "shock-brigade" to accompany him .4ucng.Jus .campaign...
...Repeating the antiSemitic calumnies characteristic of fascist propaganda in general, "The Fifth Column" reprints a familiar Nazi-inspired cartoon entitled, "Onward, Jewish Soldiers...
...Mike Quill, party line chief of the Transport Workers...
...There is still time to keep war away from America...
...With these picturesque additions he plans to canvass the Yorkville area in his electioneering...
...Labor's Non-Partisan League is in the hands of the Communist Party throughout the West, except in Oregon, where it is pledged to a third term of Roosevelt...
...that six hours daily work means more joy of life than eight hours—when the foe, for years, is forcing his men to work twelve hours daily, so that they produce enough weapons to force you, for decades to come, to do a slave's daily work...
...Oh, yes, democracy will win in the long run...
...that a "third party set-up" combined with Senator Wheeler and others in the "antiwar" bloc can whip up hysteria against the policy of aiding the Allies...
...In New York City, Joe McWilliams continues his campaign for election to Congress along the same propaganda lines...
...In this they receive the cooperation of Senator Reynolds of South Carolina...
...Joe Curran, communist head of the National Maritime Union...
...German tanks proved to be stronger than Leon Blum's excellent 40-hour week, air planes stronger than the subtleties, of modern French poetry, the Panzerdivisions stronger than the "Popular Front's" progressive social security laws, . And if you look for somebody to blame for France's death,—you and I and all the fools are to blame, who believed it possible to achieve peace and social Progress in a world which has but one duty: to «n» against the beasts, at any cost, with the #«t bit of human strength and material reKErcw...
...Stalin's agents as well as the Lavals and Flandins could not have spoiled a nation like France...
...Hie time is over for analysis of strategy and t*t*ieal .movement...
...that once in office the G.O.P...
...I live for today and tomorrow...
...For the last few years France could chose one of two possible ways: Nazism and Fascism wanted France's wealth, and France wanted peace...
...There was but one way," leading France unavoidably to the shameful- disintegration of a total collapse: to resist capitulation pathetically, but to use, at the same time, her wealth for a good time...
...Now the French will have either to work like ants or not at all...
...We have five thousand planes and more...
...But will they be sent...
...And all that will last for years, perhaps for decades, perhaps for centuries...
...on a national scale...
...There is only one thing more dangerous to contemporary society than the lying of a demagogic cheat: the demagogy of decent men...
...But it is never too late to do what the moment demands...
...Coughlin's new slogan is "Keep America for the Americans...
...But today is today, and •tomorrow is never far off...
...Now they will curse a peace which means for them helpless subjugation under the iron heels of the- Nazis...
...In the East its most important sections are in Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York...
...It would *»olMi to deny that the French Left bears J?™on»ous part of responsibility for its nalOas last five pre-war years—the years, in which France lost the war of 1040...
...But man's intelligence can tame the lightning, and intelligence is on the side of democracy...
...The sooner we act, the less we shall have to do and to suffer...
...Because there is nothing harder than to tell people, who have longing for white bread and red wine and good time, that you can offer them "nothing but sweat and blood and toil...
...We could safely spare them for a -while...
...In the first two states the League follows the Stalinite line, in New Jersey it is pledged to Roosevelt, while in New York it is most difficult to find...
...would make a cult of Munichism and strike deals with European dictators'—all in the name of peace...
...press chief...
...It can be destroyed, if our country does its duty—and the American people have a habit of...
...Lewis is enough of a politician to know that 60,000 votes in New York State can turn 46 electoral votes over to Dewey and defeatism...
...Moving John L. is the knowledge that he has failed to brow beat his way into the inner councils of the administration to the exclusion of the American Federation of Labor...
...The past errors have to be forgiven—first beeSnse they are understandable, and, anyhow, because they are past...
...Not if the Bundists, Communists, Christian Defenders, Associated Farmers, and other such criminal groups in this country have their way...
...Ford and Mr...
...Now they will have either eternal vacations in their graves or no vacations at all...
...But there come moments, when you can only have either life or leisure...
...But is there any word of ••tempt strong enough to characterize the inWtostual and moral state of people who, wit"•Miag" France's ordeal, still dare to tell their "•ive audience that you can have both, peace growing welfare for "the masses ?" How easy and cheap to explain France's fall »* this or that strategic fault of generals, with or...
...And in this JJB of fatal trial it is, by far, more important ™ "think over the fundamental problem, and to »it courageously, than to finger the details of **,iaprecedented cataclysm...
...It is later than, we thought...
...This crude and brutal drawing is supposed graphically to prove that the Jewish people are responsible for the present European war...
...With all the evidence that was piling up before their tres, they could not realizingly believe in the existence of anything so monstrously false and enel and" so amazingly potent for evil as Haiigm now proves to be...
...But five thousand, equipped and manned, would almost certainly enabje the French to go on fighting and save a great outpost of world democracy on ?he European mainland...
...They have been overwhelmed, not defeated...
...She knew every bit of Germany's feverish war preparations...
...as much as I disagree '¦ijfcfllm, I dont' refuse to respect such an oldftristian philosophy...
...It was precisely that way, France chose...
...And it is only democratic, nations that ever do such things as these...
...The prairie wagon symbolizes courage, integrity and other virtues for which the Christian Mobilizer chieftain is not exactly famed...
...But why permit it to be a long run ? Every delay makes the task harder...
...gird at the "European democracies for failing to realize in jime how formidable and how near at hand the Naxist war-danger was...
...Rauschning is undoubtedly right when he says that, whatever victories the Nazis win, Nazism will eventually destroy itself, because in rejecting all moral ideals it deprives itself of the internal loyalties without which no social system can long hold together—because its very soul is a cancer that corrodes.its flesh...
...perhaps France could .have saved -peace by giving away her wealth voluntarily...
...Now they will have to enjoy the life of slaves...
...There was no precedent for this particular horror...
...Now he nods in the direction of the party he left to jump the New Deal bandwagon, split the American Federation of Labor, and set himself up in a political bargain basement John Lewis' intent is obvious...
...were plenty of military stupidities, of and there were plenty of rotten polititWtt, too...
...I It is the nature of democratic peoples to be honest and humane—and optimistic...
...Seven nations on the other side now know by dreadful experience just ?hat Naxist Blitzkrieg is...
...There is every reason to believe-that a thousand more fighting planes would have turned the balance three weeks ago...
...She could be broken only by the comfortable blindness of the decent men, who still dreamed the 19th century's »sweet dreams, as the Middle Ages makes its comeback with the gadgets of the 20th century...
...No American who can read the papers or listen in on the radio has any excuse for not knowing...
...Not if the Republican politicians have their way...
...We had them...
...Morality, too—common decency, simple good faith, human sympathy—is on the side of democracy...
...This week the CJ.O...
...The fatal guilt of European democracy generally, and of French democracy particularly, was her spiritual unwillingness to recognize this moment and to meet its challenge...
...America cannot afford to have France destroyed...
...chieftain can't deliver the votes of his 400,000 miners should he decide to buck the New Deal...
...But all that was merely the surface w* process, which went on deeply below the f^dental events of the past weeks...
...But we cannot wait for Nazism to destroy itself...
...The New Deal is attacked as totalitarian...
...It isnlt ingratitude which moves John Lewis to strike at President Roosevelt and the governmental machinery which made possible the Cil.0., the Steel Workers • Organization Committee, the United Automobile Workers and the vast gains won by both labor federations during the past four years...
...it spent the nation's money for hospitals rather than for armament...
...Len DeCaux, Lee Pressman, Mike Quill, Joe Curran, and Harry Bridges know all this too...
...Not if the Bourbons in the Democratic Party have their way...
...Now they get the opportunity to make personal acquaintance with the nice German boys and to make sure, whether or not they are eagerly waiting for Nazism's fall...
...This same lack of a consistent social pVowphy permeates him now as it did during me days when he played labor ward heeler for the G.O.P...
...that Labor's Non-Partisan League howling for "peace" in Pennsylvania can cut sharply into the New Deal's narrow margin in the Keystone State...
...The good natured Frenchmen, whom we love precisely because ©f their love of life, in previous years did not want to believe in the harsh reality of this narrow alternative...
...Knudson are telling the truth, they could be replaced with better ones in a very short time...
...The cheat, who acts consciously for sinister purposes, is not the real danger in our lifetime...
...Lewis' talk of a peace movement, a third party, has meant only that he was ready to split votes from the New Deal and in effect turn them over to the Republican Party...
...Coughlin Starts New Anti-Alien/ Anti-Ally Drive By VINCENT ROGERS The campaign to smear efforts to aid the Allies as a "Jewish drive to get America into the war"—predicted in these column* a month ago—is in full swing under the leadership of Father Coughlin, Joe McWillians and a string of native fascist organizations reaching from Yorkville in New York City to Oregon...
...Sespect a man whose religious conviction lets '4b...
...and the other squadristi in the_Cffngress of Indusrial Organizations...
...prefer utmost poverty and the status of a titve to taking up arms...
...Mayor LaGuardia is a "pro-war Jew-Italian reputedly related to Bela Kuhn...
...What did the French democratic left do, when it was either directly or indirectly responsible for France's fate...
...Ebb of Coughlin's influence is evidenced by the failure of his attempt to influence Congress by stirring up one of his traditional mail campaigns against the "pro-British influences behind the plan lor America to arm the Allies-'' Coughlin called on every reader of Social Justice to make himself responsible for 10 letters to Congress...
...It may be that the European continent is lost to civilization for years to come...
...Make up your mind, side of the front you want to stay...
...Lewis and ClO's Stalinite Chiefs Bid for GOP "Peace" Support John L. Lewis' blast at "Roosevelt for the depression, his exoneration of Hoover and his turning to his first political love, the Republican Party, reveals iiot «nly that he has failed to elicit any bid from the New Deal, but thqt the organization he leads is in a state of disintegration, that his Labor's Non-Partisan League that practically disappeared and that his entire political structure is bankrupt...
...So he turns to Herbert Hoover to get Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...And the extrication of the British army from the trap that had closed around it in Flanders was-equally magnificent, not only for the intelligence with which it was planned and executed, but also for the steady valor of the men who, knowing what would be their own fat*, held the lines so that their eoittrSHes might escape...
...France Chose Leisure, not Arms, And Lost Liberty in Nazi Total War By WILLI SCHLAMM France has not capitulated,—she was crushed...
...chieftain—or his party line publicity man—decided it was time to publicly, advise the Republican Party that an isolationist plank in the G.Q.P- ticket this fall .would secure the covert support at which the Communist fronts are so adept...
...The horse and wagon are the living'representatives of McWilliams' campaign symbol: a prairie wagon surrounded by a ring of stars...
...Hurry...
...in the vital 1940 election...
...It must be destroyed...
...Lee Pressman, C.I.O...
...That might will be worth billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of lives to us in days that are not far off...
...They/ought to be sent without delay...
...The suffering and the despair, they will now have to pay with for their human mistake, is beyond the limits of our imagination...
...No Gestapo efficiency is necessary to know of the men who surround the mine workers' chief...
...We can thus understand Lewis' statement of aaveral years• agor^P don't give'' a hang •what happened yesterday...
...she even published all this information carefully in her newspapers from 1933 till.a969...
...If Mr...
...Which means that the world's more powerful anti-fascist will be fought by the C.I.O...
...But we took our time about it, and the British and French paid the penalty of- our procrastination—which, will not exempt us from paying it doubly later on...
...Politically bankrupt, and with his key unions in the hands of Stalinites, Lewis has been consistent only in his paralleling of the Communist Party line...
Vol. 23 • June 1940 • No. 25
