U. S. 20 Billion Yearly Arms Cost Seen Forced by Nazi Arms Threat
LORING, EDWARD
U. S. 20 Billion Yearly Arms Cost Seen Forced by Nazi Arms Threat 25% of National Income To Go for Preparedness By EDWARD LORING WASHINGTON, D. C—To keept pace with German armaments the United...
...The painters know full well his shameful practices of favoritism when he was in office...
...It was used to restrict the work time of union members in favor of his machine party liners...
...The WPA Adult Education Program maintains 136 naturalization aid centers in Greater New York, with 45 counsellors to conduct the work...
...it is the sphatusl Athens, the citadel and shrine of our civilization that has succumbed under the blows of a more brutal Sparta...
...It is plain propaganda of the sort that is most dangerous to democracy...
...Seizure of this important union by the Communists at this lime would mean a victory for them in their political party-line and for the C.I.O...
...Connecticut's 16 ballots, pledged to Governor Baldwin, will swing to-the utilities magnate...
...Cheapest things here among the 1,000 G.O.P...
...Weinstock proposes also an "immediate organizing drive to recapture the lost buildings...
...Weinstock and his administration when they were in office—they lost the buildings...
...You give a dog a bad name...
...This is not education...
...France will rise again but, as in the case of ancient Athens, the sou...
...They have not forgotten that it was Weinstock who bartered away not only a wage increase but fundamental working conditions for the ill-famed 25 per cent slips...
...has recently put forward its proposals to the building trades employers for a $9 eight-hour day as against the prevailing scales of $10.56 to $13.20 and a six and seven-hour day...
...It takes the Reich equivalent of eighteen billion dollars to maintain it for one year...
...There is anbther-thing, a strain that runs throuph scores of pages, with regard to which some readers will be able to restrain their mirth...
...Zausner declared this week...
...There were Negro members in the painters' unions decades before Weinstock was planted in our organization as a Communist agitator...
...The generals and premiers may have committed their blunders, or worse, but one thinkt of the French people, of the France of Rabelais, Voltaire, Balzac, Daumier, Renan, Renoir and Anatole France...
...Vandenberg has about 69 to 71 votes...
...The glory has departed...
...To equip a mechanized division —you need them to win battles —costs twice as much as equipment of a First World War division...
...It means going back to standards of thirty years ago...
...In 1917 and 1918 the United States : spent only slightly more than $24,000,000,000...
...Suddenly, the professor's face lighted up with a joyful smile- "Don't you think," he asked, "that France is the most civilized country in the world...
...His Communist opponent is Louis Weinstock, who several years ago served as district secretary...
...Simpson, a former mentor, ridicules the idea that Dewey, whom he built into a national figure by his adroit handling of New York City's complex political situation, has the ability or stature to be an international figure in these trpublesome days...
...There is such an authentic twang to the yarns that only a few readea will peer into the tragic German element that lies deep behind the chuckles and the guffaws...
...The progressive- candidate for office is Philip Zausner, one of the early leaders of the union and for 18 years secretary of the district council...
...Japan can build a battleship for forty million dollars compared with the eighty million dollar outlay here for the same type...
...Saltonstall...
...FHIS is all to the good...
...The painters are wise to Weinstock's scheme under this heading...
...Painters will not permit themselves to be deceived by the Communazis and their agents...
...What he calls his program is a rehash of the same set of promises, couched in new deceptive phrases, which he had held out for three and a half years, and on which he miserably failed to deliver...
...Vital Building Trades Unit A trade-union struggle of interest to labor over the country is gathering intensitj here in New York as the election fight in the District Council No...
...Within the last century and a half she was invaded six timet, and Paris iteel* was four times occupied by the enemy...
...This proposal for expensiori of the union's activities into the field of insurance and fraternal organizations would lead one to believe that the painters have already solved all their burning economic problems...
...This means that more than half the hours of labor worked by Germans goes into the equipment of the army and navy...
...It is*his job as the Communist Party's plant in the painters' union to pose as protector of the Negro worker, whereas in truth*he only seeks to be the protector of those Negro workers as well as white workers who follow the party line, regardless of whether they really belong to the trade or not...
...Most of the preliminary polls agree that Tom Dewey will poll about 304 votes on the initial roll call...
...His pressure group now laughs at the possibility of a Nazi invasion of the United States...
...It was pointed out that 24,411 persons were assisted in completing their first papers, and 23,788 their second...
...Athens and Sparta ""THIS is why all of us who went to school to the marvelous literature of France grieve today, for we understand that it is not only the physical Paris that has fallen...
...The name of some French writer was casually mentioned...
...Right or wrong the military brains of the country believe in preparedness at a cost nearly twenty-five per cent of the national income...
...He is running with the support of the present incumbent, Louis J. Stevens...
...The test case originated in the action of the Modesto Central Labor Council in placing a transfer and hauling company on a "We Don't Patronize" list after the firm had refused to bargain collectively with the Teamsters' Union...
...F. of L.)—the largest section in the country, and one of the most powerful unions in the building trades—comes to a close in the election on June 29...
...Weinstock, under the name of "Lajos Toth," was manager of "Uj Elore," Hungarian Communist newspaper...
...While that possibility is doubtful, growing talk here discusses ex-President Herbert Hoover as the compromise dark horse...
...Here is a man who should haw been an artist, and fate turned him into a frontier world-saver.It is best to take this whole gorgeous show at its face vaint...
...The Communists are all for - "peace...
...U. S. 20 Billion Yearly Arms Cost Seen Forced by Nazi Arms Threat 25% of National Income To Go for Preparedness By EDWARD LORING WASHINGTON, D. C—To keept pace with German armaments the United States must spend a minimum of 120,000,000,000 a year...
...If a Ku Kluxer is a jolly fellow among his buddies the victim on whom he makes a cowardly attack probably does not appreciate the humor of the thing...
...vThe old-timers in the union never drew any difference between their Negro fellow craftsmen and other members, but they did draw a line of demarcation between painters and whitewashers, whether they were Negro or white...
...It is a well-known fact, both inside and outside the labor movement, that for years the Communists have sought to utilize the painters' organization in this city as a battering ram in their efforts to disorganize and capture the building Trades unions...
...The objective is to rearm without curtailing the social progress of the past eight years...
...The whole show is held together hy an urgent love of humanity brought from the romantic days of Germany and fed here ay a stream of Americans from Ben Franklin to Mark Twain...
...In 1937 the British national income was twenty-five billion dollars...
...you imply half-truths...
...This is a peacetime program...
...And didn't Heine say that every true European had two fatherlands—his own, and France...
...Now the army must be put on wheels...
...This belief is voiced by the recently deposed New York national committeeman, Kenneth Simpson...
...But when he goes in 1or a literary lynching he leaves the Kluxers looking innocent and harmless...
...Whatever is good and desirable in these proposals is taken from the program of bona fide organized labor...
...Laughter With Propaganda By WILLIAM E. BOHN •T^HIS tale of the genial Oscar Ameringer covers three wars, half a dozen professions, and a score of Americas...
...In the face of his record, this promise is sheer hypocrisy...
...Willkie will be placed in nomination by Rep...
...Under this heading, the members of our union have had some sad experience under the Weinstock administration...
...You forget *e truth...
...ANTI-UNION LAW CHALLENGED 3AN FRANCISCO.—The California State Federation of Labor has challenged the legality of a municipal anti-picketing ordinance in Modesto...
...their political transmission belts...
...But there are things in this book * which are not funny...
...In their place is being built the "Merchants and Manufacturers Association of Southern California...
...And we feel certain that on June 29 the proper answer will be given: A vote for Zausner...
...The estimates of Taft's vote ranges from 265 to a top of 308...
...Oscar Ameringer hates lynching...
...An equal amount would be required annually to service and operate them...
...Putting these people back to work will not only rehabilitate a large section of our population, but will jump the national income to about ninety billion dollars, what it was in 1928...
...The rest is demagogic admixture designed to make impossible the realization of the positive proposals in order to sow bitterness, confusion and disorganization in the land as a means of promoting Communazi sentiment...
...It is a generally known fact in the union that his party liners, under his protection, worked not only full weeks under the 3-day period but Saturdays, Sundays and over-l time as well...
...How true...
...That duty extends not only to the painters but to all workers in the building trades of this city...
...of our civilization may have been wqunded, never to recover fully again...
...One of the most active anti-war propagandists in the country—during a discussion last October—laughed at this correspondent's prediction that Paris would fall...
...Costly uniforms were purchased out of the union treasury, uniforms not second to those of West Point cadets...
...But how was it used by him...
...He gave jobs to party liners, mostly unskilled,' thereby not only depriving skilled workers of jobs but undermining the union's reputation 'for craftsmanship in the industry...
...twenty-five of Massachusetts thirty-four votes will go to Willkie after the due nod to home-state Gov...
...We are confident that we will win...
...Can you trust wreckers to rebuild...
...The historians can find here more of the American spirit thsn in whole libraries of documents...
...Under Zausner's leadership, the painters were the pioneers in the movement for a 5-day week in 1919 and they obtained it...
...At the same time, defense should not eliminate the many New Deal programs, labor lobbies here argue, in reply to industrialist demands that steel, wood and other materials be diverted from slum clearance and public housing to the armament program...
...You keep talking shoot education...
...As part of this plan, with Communist support, the C.I.O...
...For example, on page 409 he brackets Benjamin Stolberg with George Sokolsky as a labor journalist who with "ine> sponsible tittle-tattle" has revived the old public suspicion of afl highbrows...
...It spent about 4 per cent for defense —hesitating to take on the gigantic effort necessary for modern wari By that time Hitler had spent about twenty billion dollars to rearm Germany and was well on his way to Munich—not to mention the Spanish Civil War...
...In contrast the American Federation of Labor is put down as a strictly craft affair, and its leaders are sneered at as old fogies...
...you apply epithets till they stiet...
...The issues, as phrased by the progressive group, are whether an acknowledged Communist candidate—running with the open support of the German...
...This is not the place to discuss American foreign policy, but Weinstock's proposal "to work for peace and keep the United States out of war" follows, as was to be expected, the Communist Party line...
...Here is a roving spirit who has laughed at his own hard luck and has made thousands of others laugh their way to a bettr understanding of their troubles...
...Estimates of the candidates' strength vary...
...There Is the crux of the defeat suffered by France...
...Several million'men will be paid a dollar a day in peace time...
...Under the late Bourboaa, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, she rose to be the arbiter of Europe...
...It is tragic, refutation of the isolationist argument that we can cut ourselves off from Europe simply by "perfecting our own democracy...
...Next on Weinstock's list of fake promises is the institution of a three-day week during December, January, February and March, inclusive...
...for one of its central aims...
...WPA Aids 150,000 On Naturalization The Naturalization Aid Unit of the WPA Adult Education Program of the New York City Board of Education announced this week that from September 1, 1936...
...pro-Nazi painters in the union—can return to power m what was once a field of Communist strength, and of equal importance, whether the CIO drive m the building trades, backed by this Communist candidate, will gain a foothold through his victory...
...With the LaFollette-Thomas bill, outlawing anti-labor tactics, foundering in the House after having passed the Senate in an emasculated form, vigilante forces on the West Coast are merely reforming their ranks, replacing officers and dissolving ax-handle organizations which were exposed by the Senator's prebe.The Associated Farmers has undergone a change in leadership...
...Each time France recovered from disaster, ever richer, more powerful and—above ajl—more fascinating as the intellectual mistreat <t& Europe, recognized and admired as such by the victors themselves—captivating her captors...
...W* major item of that enormous stfti was supposed to pro for pickettafWhat did he accomplish these paid pickets...
...That's the price this nation will pay in the future for failure to send "all aid short of war" to the Allies during the last quarter of 1939...
...Any intelligent worker will observe at once that these proposals are lifted directly from the Communist Party's program andv propaganda...
...The meeting will be addressed by prominent spokesmen of the American' labor movement...
...fyookb and Wtiteu By Ellas L. Tariak On Trance AS-a world power France has known her days of high fortssat and her nights of Mack disaster...
...These slips were supposed to provide jobs for the veteran skilled painters...
...We may survive, but that may be ali...
...His proposal for the establishment of a maintenance department has been twice defeated by the general membership in referenda, because, when translated into plain, unevasive language, it means legalization of a $4 wage scale as against the prevailing $10.50 scale...
...Charles Halleck, one of the most able Republican speakers...
...It is conceded that Willkie will draw about 60 first ballots...
...The same is true of the 7-hour day, which was won by the painters under Zausner in 1933, before any other building trades union had a workday shorter than 8 hours...
...During war mobilization this nation's factories will be geared to at least 150,000 planes a month five thousand a day...
...Those "moderate" among the employer-officials, who urged establishment of friendly relations with the trade unions, have been purged and replaced by "direct actionists...
...Whatever gains in shorter hour's the painters enjoy were obtained under 'the administration . and leadership of Zausner...
...Now and then the author takes a crack at the Communists and Nazis...
...This Franca, the teacher for centuries of semi-barbarous Europe in all that is intelligent, artistic and humane, the wise brain and gay heart xf Europe, the bold champion and pioneer of all new ideas ant movements...
...Under the epic rule of Napoleon I she was the empress of the West, with' all Europe from the Vistula to Madrid the vassal of France...
...9 of the Painters UnioE (A...
...The plan today is part of the larger plan of the CJ.O...
...As to Weinstock's proposal for a 50 per cent control of hiring through the District Council and the distribution of jobs through a rotation system "to help limit the speed-up and to normalize work," all that can be said is that it has provoked the laughter and ridicule of our members...
...And in the writings of some of the younger authors one cleady sees that they . '.' . have not read French prose...
...Whether he is living on a copper quarter in Ohio or ttanriet up with a hypnotist in Oklahoma, life is rich and fine and funof fun...
...The Association is openly designed as a "coordinating agency" for all groups seeking to boost the open shop in this vicinity...
...x If this sounds fantastically astronomic, remember it is the result of ^extensive government research by some of the U. S.'s best-informed military experts...
...in its objective to invade the building trades and break the control of the American Federation of Labor in this all-important field...
...But, my dear flute-player, this is precisely the method of the Communazis...
...The Knights of Labor, we an told on page 189 "had industrial unionism...
...Another demagogic promise made by Weinstock is "equal rights of Negro members to all available jobs...
...They will understand the aims and objectives of Weinstock and his gang...
...On the rumor cycle again, belief is gaining here that Dewey will show a good first vote strength but will soon fade...
...Its literary quality has been hailed by all of the accredited reviewerB—including some of the Ph.D.'s whom the author scorns...
...The man's insight into people whom he knows is deep, and his humor gives him a healthy, saving skepticism...
...Hitler is winning, and therefore they don't want the United States, to come to the aid of the Allies...
...These are mainly from the states where he won primary elections, such as Wisconsin, Nebraska, • Illinois, Maryland and New Jersey, and a scattering in New York and some of the western states...
...Landon, in charge of the platform committee, is definitely out for an anti-isolationist position...
...That would be contrary- to Stalin's pact with Hitler...
...They have used the painters' union, as they have used other unions where they are in control, as a milkcow for financing Communist enterprises...
...But who got these slips and jobs from Weinstock ? They were given to patty line, infiltrated, craftless rhT-rtft drawn into the union from Communist Party to perform ti* role of Weinstock's storm Hoopers to build his machine...
...But the painters W* not forgotten that under his of three and a half years, Weinstock has disposed of more ft** $600,000 of union funds for mfposed organizing activity...
...The President lias called for an air force of 50,000 planes.' Conservative estimates place the cost of such a protective arm at $3,500,000,000...
...The Communists are all for peace, for keeping the United States out of war...
...Though he is a first-class snowman, his gaiety is as spontaneous as the laughter of a chile...
...Seek Anti-Labor Law These men plan a state-wide anti-labor drive during the summer months, hoping that the •Federal administration will be too preoccupied with defense to .bear down on illegal campaigns on the West Coast...
...Progressive Governor Culbert Olson, who is under fire from the Ham and Eggs and the Communist front organisations, will be attacked by the Farmers because . of his social reforms and sym' pathy for the Okies...
...Weinstock promises also tfl "amend the District Council bylaws to institute comptnsW picketing...
...He has sufficient drawing power to secure a shrewd politician like Bruce Barton for the seconding speech...
...The farmers, the villagers, the share-croppers, the miners, the politicians, the trade-union officials—they are all here drawn to the life with a few flourishes of Oscar's pencil...
...The painters recall also how Weinstock bestowed upon them a brass band...
...It is of this France and not of the France of premiers and generals that one thinks with sorrow...
...His address on Tuesday, the 25th, the second evening of the convention, may be a turning point in these considerations...
...to seize control of the building trades field here...
...Distribution of the applicants by country of origin reveals that 60 per cent are of Russian, Polish, Italian and German birth...
...His threat consists in his apparent ability to pull reserve strength after complimentary first ballots have been cast for "favorite sons...
...The very word has been discredited by Weinstock's promises and betrayals...
...This proposal emphasizes once more his capacity for deception...
...jni this respect, Weinstock betrays the Negro workers as well as the white...
...If you don't weaken, you may weaken...
...This situation through- ' out New England is the result of an amazing whirlwind tour which Willkie made in less than a week...
...It means lengthening of the work day from seven to eight ftrars...
...Germany's army, according to official United States diplomatic figures, cost thirty-six billion dollars between 1933 and 1939...
...He is known to favor the adoption of a "postal-card" size platform, one which will sharply sketch broad premises calling for the building of America's national defense, but not commit itself to a definite proposal...
...senatorial candidate...
...Vigilantes Reorganize in Los Angeles Senate Fails to Stop "Farmers" Special to THE New Leader LOS ANGELES...
...An entirely new force must be built...
...to May 1, 1940, covering a period of three years and eight months, 153,632 aid and guidance interviews were given to persons seeking citizenship papers...
...The United States faces no choice of guns hefore butter but it faces taxation the bases for which are laid in Berlin...
...to build a defense force equal to those of the totalitarian nations without succumbing to dictatorship...
...Among those ousted was Secretary Harold E. Pomeroy, a proponent of "appeasing the unions...
...Surpluses of food, clothing and other staples make it possible for this country to feed, house and clothe the ten million unemployed while training them for jobs in vital industries...
...9 as a call of duty," Mr...
...As for the painters," Mr...
...They seek to make of the painters' union one of...
...Since I wholeheartedly thought so, I was touched hy the same sentiment coming from a Prussian officer, wounded by a French bullet in the World War...
...under Zausner's leadership, ten years in advance of sister unions in the building trades...
...Etnry Holt and Company...
...A total of 3,459 were given miscellaneous aid...
...The painters will recall that this was instituted under the Weinstock administration in 1937 and 1938...
...The practical result of the fact that the union was blessed with a band was that the band was employed on two occasions for Communist May Day demonstrations, and in each case the Musicians' Union was compelled to raise the justified complaint that the painters were scabbing on the musicians...
...Take, for example, Weinstock's promise of "enforcement of strict union conditions without any favoritism, leniency or discrimination...
...But who lost the buildings...
...Zausner*s campaign is sponsored by an Interlocal Conference of Progressive Painters' Clubs, with headquarters at 293 Seventh Avenue...
...They recall his monthly paper, which cost the membership thousands of dollars above the value of such a publication and "which served the exclusive purpose of perpetuating the Communazi regime in the union...
...Zausner continued, "will be waged on this issue and, in equal measure, on the immediate vital economic issues confronting the painters: Preservation and improvement of standards, close adherence to the trade ¦ union line, not the Communist line, organizing the unorganized craftsmen and-not-merely party liners, and strengthening the union in every way, so that it may remain a healthy, component part of the great building trades organizations of this city and of the American Federation of Labor...
...The word "program" so far as the painters are concerned has become anathema...
...He was later sent into the painters "union to direct Communist activity there...
...Our campaign," Mr...
...Labor history is twisted to the disadvantage of the AmtHrican Federation of Labor...
...Zausner declared, "the issues on which I am waging this campaign are simple and fundamental: Are the painters to become once more the football ofCommunist Party pontics and Communist intrigue in the labor movement...
...scab outfit...
...Dissolve Former Fronts Because of the months-long federal civil liberties probe in this state and the notoriety given them in the liberal and labor press throughout the country, such organizations as the veteran Southern Californians, the Neu'tral Thousands, the Women of the Pacific and other employer fronts were recently dissolved by the big men in the Associated Farmers...
...Governor James of Pennsylvania will be a first-ballot nominee, but a move is on to stampede his pledges to Willkie after the first count...
...Jerusalem has fallen...
...The last two proposals in what Weinstock calls his "program" call for the Setting up of a permanent legislative committee to work for and support certain labor and social legislation and "to unite with other unions to ¦* fight the attack against labor by the government on the anti-trust law and to work for peace and keep the USA., out of war...
...It is difficult to gauge the total accurately, for most, of Taft's votes h*ave been obtained through silent deals...
...2.75...
...Weinstock promises "to" work together with all other building trades unions for the six-hour (day without reduction in pay...
...I would rather recall the copper quarter and the hypnotist * IF YOU DON'T WEAKEX...
...More than 100,000 interviews were given persons seeking general advice about naturalization...
...Oscar Ameringer...
...The name is different, but the personnel and the work are the same, devoted, to labor breaking tactics which paid the industrialists dividends on the money they invested in their past vigilante outfits...
...I have, accepted the nomination for •: secretary-treasurer of District No...
...Two Fatherlands AYEAR ago this columnist was engaged in a conversation wHi a well-known German scholar, a refugee in this country...
...Today Germany, it is estimated by the United States military experts, is spending more than half of her national income on war...
...We ask the painters: How-can they hope to obtain the cooperation of the 150,000 building trades workers in this city if they permit themselves to be led by a Communist union-wrecker and a champion of the C.I.O...
...Zausner and his running mates will address a series of local union meetings during the campaign, which will culminate in a big mass meeting on June 22nd in the Central Opera House...
...The usual drive for adoption, via referendum, of an anti-labor law banning strikes and union organization will be initiated by the Farmers to attempt what they were prevented 'from doing during 1938...
...His assistant is John Watson, a large land-holder and r banker, and former G.O.P...
...One.of the principal targets will be the A. F. of L.'s Teamsters' Union, which is trying to organize the Los Angeles sector...
...And Goethe, when reproached by his fellowGermans for not coming out with a Gott strafe Frankreich during the Napoleonic wars, said that he could not hate the French: "They have such a beautiful prose...
...GOP Hopefuls Unite to StopWillkie Campaign By JOHN DONNE Spec'al to TBS NEW LEADS _ PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—An hysteria has hit Philadelphia, but it's labeled WillMe...
...delegates are rumors—a Dewey-Taft or a Taft-Dewey deal is one, Hoover as a compromise candidate is another—but whatever their source, they all coalesce about a definite movement—a stop Willkie campaign...
...Weinstock also holds out the promise of "group sick and death benefit insurance" for painters...
...Mors than once he lambasts the Ku Kluxers...
...It ended in the debacle of Waterloo...
...Nat Silvers, secretary of the Interlocal Conference of Progressive Painters' Clubs, announced the following slate of progressive candidates for Business Agents in the various locals: Alfred Gorden -—Local 51 Morris Arber- " 261 Jack Siegel-- " 442 Paul Dinda- " 454 Louis Sirico _ " 848 Gabriel Baldinucci_ " 874 William Crawford— " 892 Hyman Rubenstein— " 1011 The following statement is an analysis of the economic and political issues confronting the painters: Weinstock, Communist candidate for secretary-treasurer of our union, charges that Zausner has no program...
...This people of inexhaustible originality and intellectual courage is now lying prostrate under the heel of tbe.barbarian...
...Once more Weinstock promises the painters an "educational program...
...The experience of the painters with the Weinstock administration recalls . the educational activities he instituted during his three and a half years in office...
...The new regime in the Associated Farmers' revised set-up includes Colonel Walter E. Garrison, one of the early presidents of the organization and a leading advocate of the worst forms of union-baiting...
...Zausner Fights C. P. Attempts to Capture Painters Union...
...If America's air defense alone will cost $7,000,000,000 the total figure of 20 billion dollars begins to sound plausible...
...James' political boss, oil millionaire Joseph N. Pew, is bucking the maneuver, believing that if the much-discussed deadlock ensues, James might be nominated...
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