Burke Bill Pushed to Sabotage Hillman's Youth Program
SHORT, GEORGE
Burke Bill Pushed to Sabotage Hillman's Youth Program Southern, Anti-Labor Congressmen Lead Drive for Severe Conscription By GEORGE SHORT Special to The New Leader WASHINGTON, D. C.—Partisan and...
...Elections ByM.E.EDSON Special to The New Leader SEFFNER, Florida: In the recent primary elections the infamous "Whitaker Gang" which has ruled T?mpa and HHksborough County for many years, was routed completely, and their candidate for governor defeated...
...these by Utopia, Mankind United and others of the same category...
...and the entire bureaucracy of the War Department, which is up in arms against the appointment of Henry L. Stimson as secretary of war...
...The Institute also vigorously backed speakers' demands for the outlawing of the German-American Bund, the Communist Party, the Christian Mobilizers and other totalitarian agencies inimical to American democracy...
...Also the leader of the K.K.K...
...Cox told the House this week that "God alone can save .this republic if our youth are put under a man like Sidney Hillman...
...A warning that the fifth column is strongly entrenched in* Washington bureaus was voiced by Ben Stolberg, who expressed concern over the anti-defense activities of the Communist Party and its front organization...
...Politics Specialize in Panaceas By AUGUST CLAESSENS The political complexities of California are as amazing as everything else in this versatile state...
...Backbone of the program will be the National Youth" Administration, the COC, the WPA, and the Office of Education...
...Burke then plans to take the first twenty millions—less those physically unfit—out of industry, and put them into camps- for 8 months, paying them all of five dollars a month...
...It would be wasted verbiage to describe the spontaneous—and widespread— resentment to such a'proposal...
...especially the many thousands who have been routed into desperate straits by - the sudden French collapse...
...Under Burke's plan about 25,-000.000 men from twenty-one to forty-five years of age would register for immediate military training...
...An encouraging note was struck by Australian Minister Casey, who decried the "rather pessimistic spirit abroad in the United States...
...His insinuation is obvious...
...And here the blend is just right...
...Our cultural and political history will hereafter be dated "before" and "after" Elio» Torts* 1940...
...He said that Great Britain had many surprises in store for Germany...
...It retains all Biblical doctrines that are demonstrable today...
...H. Hazlitt, member of the New York Times editorial staff...
...Then there is a third section in the political vaudeville of California, the Progressive party...
...The second largest swarm of Russian termites is in California...
...It is Norman Thomas and his Californian handful of political strategists...
...found at the scene of the canje...
...The range of the book is very wide...
...On the surface it is New Deal and progressive...
...As fast as one scheme peters out another rises out of its decay...
...More f*** Bopotf *?j|j| than a third of this city's popu- w a cuiwrTflW lation of approximately a million WASHINGTON.—SWHijJ persons applied for WPA aid in 193» were 169 fewer tiwa**» 1938-39, a survey by the govern- and 2,127 fewer thaa in men agency disclosed...
...Probably not as numerous as the tumult they make would indicate, the Com-nfunist Party here is influential...
...Stolberg characterized John L. Lewis, CIO chairman, as leader of the fifth column in the labor movement, charging that the mine leader" followed the Communist Party line for power...
...One shudders at the very sight of such a title as "An Introduction to the Study of the Icelandic Language of the Xlth rjfc...
...The most important development was the defeat for gubernatorial nomination of the Whit-ajeer-supported, wealthy corporation lawyer, Francis P. Whitehair...
...He warned the American people that they could not ''escape the consequences of a German victory...
...The most ambitions of federal directors know that'the army could not begin training more than fifty thousand soldiers a month until 1941, and then only 75,000 to 100,000 a month during the next half year...
...He has held scores of conferences with experts and will shortly announce blue prints for such a project...
...Only after all employables had been put back to work could there be any consideration of the yielding of some labor standards, he said...
...being on the paper bag...
...Their daily, "The People's World," may not have the wide circulation it brags about, but it is much on display...
...Tarn?ment Speakers Urge War On Fifth Column, Back Defense By a Staff Correspondent ? , CAMP TAMIMBNT, Pa.—In sharp contrast to the peaceful rusticity which is Tamim?nt's, representatives of labor, industry, education, government, ilhe press and the' Social Democratic Federation struck an aggressive note by demanding full economic, military 'and counter-espionage preparation for defense against Europe's belligerent Fascism and Communism...
...Lee pleaded that this country ?ecome the haven for refugees...
...Byrke's bill for compulsory military training of all men between 18 and 45 is considered by observers here to be designed to create dissension and confusion in both houses by introducing proposals which will arouse sufficient antagonism by their extreme nature to arouse enough opposition to kill all projects of such nature...
...THERE is a story of a German siholar who wrote a three-volaa» , work—over six hundred pages to each volume—under the title-"An Introduction to the Study of Elephants...
...was definitely identified with the outrage, the name and addijess of the local secretary of th?iK.K.K...
...The speeches of Louis Waldman, Algernon Lee, Bela Low and Father Kernan at the Tamiment Conference win be reprinted in future editions of The New Leader...
...First, and most sincere, is the Progressive* Commonwealth Federation, a group of honest and idealistic people many of whom stem from the Socialist movement, the Upton Sinclair Epic campaign, and kindred ventures...
...We may have to lose our world and its culture, but now we can see that we have had a great, humane and truly a world culta» * , » • Talk to Aristotle *T*HE author's touch is so light and unpedantic that some rat?S may fail to perceive his vast erudition, manifest not oufafifc the book's fundamental material, but in the author's familial^ with all that has been said and written on art and titeratur»|H Aristotle to Bergson...
...But there are some features in this picture that are decidedly progressive...
...Other population or "class" groups will be trained as well...
...I Before 1914, we were one cultural empire, a new Greco-Roman orbit, extending from Vladivostok to Dublin, with America u a kind of distant and young, but rapidly1 catching «p: Jhii the hew vandals and Goths have nrblcen up this " *^jjggt*ij?j empire, and America may remain the only A island of Western civilization...
...Three young, decent, honest, "New Deal" democrats were nominated for the State' Legislature, and all of the gangsters wore cleaned out of the local offices...
...Bv* should we appraise literature...
...The French tradition, the oldest and wisest, with its independence, skepticism arid "humaneness of outlook...
...PREFACE TO WORLD LITERATURE...
...man's plan will seek to enlarge this number to the maximum that the NYA will absorb...
...Guess who...
...the first, in New York...
...Secretary of Labor Francis W The total number of persons j- nortea fro_ nrata,«#¦ represented—applicants and their ' "P01^*1 Irom dependents—was 348,644 of this PUed b* *¦ Bureau of Urn* mmcity's estimated 950,000 residents, tistics...
...But voting machines have now been adopted in the three largest counties in Florida despite the machine's opposition, and this has made it harder for the gangs to steal the elections...
...3.50...
...It's all epitomized by the elderly women I saw peddling papers of each movement, on the street...
...The Preface to World Literature" deals not so much with history as with the essential problems of literature, of the 1;t*^Jj^ffi of the West as a whole...
...fessor by long adoption and acclimatization...
...What is the relation of literature to our history and life...
...He pointed out that not one of the many stipulations in laws such , as .the W?gner act, or the Walsh-Healy act, need be repealed to permit full productive capacity...
...It is therefore with a certain diffidence that this critic approached a book of which the name itself brings alarming mat), ones.* A book on world literature...
...from Orlando was identified and placed oi trial with the local defendants...
...A faint shadow of what it once was, this left-wing, isolationist, and pacifist splinter is now desperately trying to cut in on the Progressive party s? that it may yet obtain a place on the ballot for its candidates...
...On the extreme right the McAdoo wing is Old Deal or just No Deal, respectable and opportunist...
...When does it begin and where does it stop...
...So big in territory, so varied in climate, so diversified in agriculture and industry, so complex in racial composition is California, that it is no accident that its political complexion is unique...
...The recently elected delegation to the Democratic national convention (supposedly Olson's progressive New Deal delegation) is, (in the estirriation of astute political observers, a very doubtful crowd...
...In California the election law permits such gentlemen to run on as many tickets as their lack of honesty and their possession of funds will allow...
...Pit jWhitaker, boss of the Tampa political machine, was their chief defense attorney...
...Robert J. Watt, American Federation of Labor's international representative...
...Algernon Lee urged Social Democrats not to he pacifists in the|.Gandhi sense but to take an active part in the struggle for democracy...
...He charged that the party had not only penetrated the CIO, bat had made it an instrument of the GPU in the United States...
...IJhe winning candidate, Spessard U Holland, is a small town lawyer from Bartow, the Rcene of the triads in tlie Shoemak'ei"case, but he has a long record of rather conservative, but honorable public service...
...By Albert Gu?rari...
...Robert Watt pledged full cooperation of the American Federation of Labor in the defense program but warned employers that the same sort of sacrifices that labor would be forced to make would be expected from industry, which must refrain from abusing the emergency...
...It seems as if the westward drift of political,, ideas reaches the geographic dead-end here, and the warm Pacific winds cause a precipitation of ideas that settle here because they can travel no farther...
...small, a Tittle seed, but with mustard in it...
...Louis Waldman, chairman of the National...
...It is pointed out that so many millions of men would be affected by Burke's proposal that the government could not handle them for years...
...J* Cultural Empire TEN YEARS hence, what will remain of this culture of ours...
...Originally born of the Bull Moose breed and sired by Hiram Johnson, most of its offspring have stampeded back to the domesticated herd of the GOP...
...It has a faint pink progressive fringe, a legacy of Hiram Johnson's ancient Theodore Rooseveltian Bull Moose Progressivism, but this is too sunkist and bleached now to be recognizable...
...This government should not be tolerant of those who would use &bje Bill of Rights to destroy then|,'f Reverend Kernan said...
...Badly beaten in the recent Democratic primaries, this Communist alliance threatens to move en masse into the Progressive party and capture it...
...Every form of political vegetation out here attains a luxurious growth and there are more social schemers, cranks, and crackpots to the square mile than in the rest of the civilized world...
...Who and what should be oar gmm in criticism ? How and when does a national literature become a part of world literature...
...internally full of contradictions...
...498 pp...
...Council for Social Democracy, presided...
...It is a vicious, vulgar, frankly Communist sheet...
...THE ARBITRATOR is a Humanist monthly...
...Reverend William C. Kernan, of the Newark, New Jersey Episcopal diocese...
...And the reader will find it worth his while to sit in o?-lNMu discourse...
...This country should not wait until it is attacked but should take the offensive against totalitarianism, he urged, calling upon'the government authorities for action not against aliens but action against the more dangerous native fifth column elements and those, known to work as the agents offoreign governments...
...The Democratic party is a ' strange hodge-podge...
...These he characterized as the "fascist elements which function in the liberal and labor world...
...Age limits will be nineteen to twenty-one, according to the reports...
...I The "Whitaker Gang" perpetrated the outrageous fatal fledging of Joseph Shoemaker on November 30, 1935...
...Trade unionists and members of many liberal and progressive organizations, gathered lagt week-end at the sixth annual conference of the Tamimfent Economic Institute, issued a public appeal urging thet repeal of the law prohibiting Americans from volunteering in the armies now fighting Germany and Italy...
...There is almost unanimous support in the country for military training, but observers feel that Burke's bul will rapidly kill such sentiment...
...tury...
...Democratic Representative Woodrum (anti-WPA) of Virginia...
...They point out that no man would be willing to jeopardize his livelihood and career by spending eight months in a military camp during times of peace...
...Yet, the author succeeds in presenting the landscape o? so many ^problems and things literary with a patient ease which makes the reading of the book a consolation in these bitter days...
...Frank Bonn, author, and lecturer, and .Bela Low, engineer an# economist...
...And, in these days, we need consolation and encouragement St can draw from the contemplation of our past, if not from tfceJJMt peot of our future...
...For many years the Progressive party.has maintained its position on the ballot largely due to the fact that more often an ambitious politician or a plain faker obtained enough signatures to be a Progressive candidate...
...So in the recent primaries the people of this county "went to town" and cleaned out the "Whitaker Gang" to the last man...
...whipping- crew...
...Concurring in the demand for the suppression of the Communist Party and other parts of the fifth column, Reverend Kernan demanded the immediate expulsion from the United States of Italian and German consuls and Soviet agents, who were engaged in sabotage and dissemination of anti-democratic propaganda...
...This menace is increased by the fear that the growing violent anti-Communist agitation may succeed in debarring the Communist party from the ballot...
...Rather than a party of progressive principles, the Progressive party is often a political ferry-boat * » * Progressives Week •THE...
...It is a good comMan-tion when the component parts are properly blended...
...Readers vnll find these ideas strangely modem and m They will also find Professor Gu?rard's "creative pragmauas" comprehensive, tolerant, consoling and encouraging...
...It is the shameful fact that in 1938 Pat Whitaker was nominated for state senator over a weak and divided opposition...
...A frenchman and American SYMBOLICALLY enough, Albert Gu?rard is a Frenchman ay birth and early training, but an American Bcholar and pro...
...In the jf abe of the present world crisis Sre must strengthen and preserve bur American democracy by outlawing organizations which serve [foreign totalitarian powers and b^- striking vigorously at all fifth [column activities in the United States, Communist, Nazi, 'and fascist," he stated...
...woman displayed on the same rack, "Social Justice," "Ham and Eggs," "The People's World," and "The American Guardian...
...The Communist Party should be suppressed as a fascist spy organization...
...Olson was elected by an assortment of all the elements named, together with the Communist party, the CIO, and Labor's Non-Partisan League...
...Most likely the vote was truly progressive, while the candidates were often nothing more than careerists...
...Powerfully entrenched in the Maritime, Longshoremen, Transport, Auto Workers and other unions (even a strong elements in the I. L. G. W. U. and other needle trades unions), the Communists of the Pacific Coast are a serious factor...
...It will be recalled that Burke—who was repudiated this year in the Nebraska primaries—has been ardently anti-labor for many years...
...Progressive party today, _ I' am informed, has a very small membership and is poorly organized and financially weak, It is made up of at least five factions...
...HUMANISM is a philosophy that expresses faith in man's ability to improve human relationships without reliance upon theology...
...During 21 years it has corrected every error called to its attention...
...Nurtured by Californian big financiers, great landowners, railroad, oil, and movie magnates, and the huge industrialized fruit and vegetable farms, the Republican party is smug, "patriotic," vigilant, and Hooverite...
...By Elias L Tartak Whither Our Literature...
...Algernon Lee, president of Rand School...
...Holt and Company...
...In the above questions there is enough material for dozens of volumes...
...Fourth, the Olsonites, who control the Democratic party at present and need the Progressive party for additional support...
...Communists Noisy •"THE noisiest and most brazen * anti-war, anti-New Deal isolationists in California are the Communazis...
...They pile up ia California in great density and confusion...
...Every lover of literature will spend profitable hours W??h "Preface to World Literature...
...What is the value of a translation...
...There are some 300,000 youths under vocational high school instruction in a variety of occupations...
...One might say that the book is a discourse and disputasM •#• tween Professor Gu?rard and the thinkers of ages on the pnbfasu of twenty-five centuries of literature, from Homer to 01W31...
...Scrambled Calif...
...Social Democrats like E. E. Porter, Florence H. Kirkpat-rick, and several others are among them and they plead with all California Social Democrats to join the Progressive Commonwealth Federation, Second, there are the Patter-sonites who are in the Democratic party and who were recently defeated by the Olsonites in the primary election'for delegates to the national convention...
...Governor Olson is also a queer and vacillating puzzle—a compound of Epic, New Deal, Townsend, Ham and Eggs, Utopia, cross and plain double-cross...
...The Socialist party has lost legal standing on the ballot...
...Where is oar world, with Germany, Russia, and Italy, and, now, France—submerged by the new Dark Age...
...New York...
...Fifth, there is another boarder on the threshold...
...The National Maritime Union is controlled by the Soviet secret police, as are Curran, Harry Bridges, the American Communications Association, Mervyn Rathbone, and others in the CIO, he said...
...In 1938 he told ship news reporters that Hitler was to be congratulated on what he had done for Germany...
...HUMANISM accepts evolution, the brotherhood of man, democracy, justice, peace and Truth, btft rejects a plan of salvation predicated upon the existence ' of angels, devils, cherubim, seraphim, witches, wizards, satyrs, pygargs, unicorns, cockatrices, fiery serpents, dragons, horses of fire, leviathans, behemoths, gods * other Biblical creatures...
...College memories, examination papers, nights when one crammed on strong coffee,—all these come to mind in a dWJ??fc procession...
...KKK Floggers of Shoemaker Defeated in Fla...
...Third, there is the Hiram Johnson faction, now a negligible element and yet potentially dangerous if they need the Progressive party nomination...
...The NYA has some 350,000 young people under its wing, of whom about ten per cent are receiving some type of technical training...
...The panacea epidemic is still on in California and it win probably continue for some time...
...In a sharp analysis of the New Deal laws protecting labor, Louis •Waldman charged that none of the standards the unions have won during the past seven years would interfere with intensive and efficient rearmament...
...It is refreshing to discover that Aristotle and Euricides had their own ideas on "proletarian" 1»-erature...
...Democrats Split *T*HE Republican party in Cali-* fornia is very much the same as in most northern and western states — powerful, occasionally dominant, rich, arrogant, and thoroughly reactionary...
...sar Third of Cieveiand Less Strikes in 1939 Km1 ^'cLEVEL^ND^C-hio...
...Another fifteen million men from eighteen to twenty-one, and from forty-five to sixty-five would be recorded...
...Patterson, second in command in the Olson, crowd, is the favorite of the Communist party, the CIO, and Labor's Non-Partisan League — the Californian "People's Front...
...For the under-dog and snappy, it dares discuss pacifism, socialr ism, sex and God...
...Hillman, as labor coordinator of the Advisory National Defense Commission, has charge of devising some system which would train two million young people before they entered industry or developed financial responsibilities and dependents...
...The K.K.K...
...Besides these, a goodly part of the former Socialist party was absorbed by the Olsonites and some .prominent former Socialists, like Congressman Jerry Voorhis, John C. Packard, and others, now members of the Democratic party, had much influence in this Olson combination...
...The Communist Party acts as the termite army in the whole progressive world," Mr, Stolberg said, "and wants civil rights for Benedict Arnoldism to spread treason...
...The CCC camps have some 300,000 in training which could easily be turned into national defense work...
...Burke Bill Pushed to Sabotage Hillman's Youth Program Southern, Anti-Labor Congressmen Lead Drive for Severe Conscription By GEORGE SHORT Special to The New Leader WASHINGTON, D. C.—Partisan and racial politics entered the defense arena last week in Washington as a small group of southern anti-labor Congressmen—with the Hitler-praising Senator Burke in the lead—declared war on the President's youth training bill and the appointment of Sidney Hillman as director of the project...
...containing feathers which was...
...The votes' received by such candidates were sufficiently large to retain legal political status for the party...
...What is world literature...
...yg»_ Today, we must revise many things, among ¦¦IIS others—the whole history of our culture...
...Leading the Congressional opposition to the National Defense Commission's control of military training are the rabid anti-union Democratic Representative Cox from Georgia...
...as one of the last books written when it was ^afl still possible to speak of our world as one cul- m\ tural unit...
...Benjamin Stolberg, author arid magazine writer...
...He backs Burke's bill...
...Pro- H» fessor Gu?rard's book may come to be classed jtj...
...Epic is followed by Townsend Townsend by Ham and Eggs...
...Aypg those who discussed America, the New Deal, the war arid the 1940 elections, conference theme, were R. G. Casey, Australian minister to the U. S...
...It sounds almost prehistoisafl, for such a book must deal with the literature of our world, the Western world...
...And the American eagerness and curiosity, wift its feeling that America is truly the heir of all cultural straini of the West, of the best there is in English, German and Lata, inheritance...
Vol. 23 • June 1940 • No. 26
