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SDF News THE NEW LCABIir LOS ANGELES--The newly leoryanized Central Branch ** reports increasing membership. Secretary Chatcuff is xontacting a large number of former members as well as ^any...
...Children needn't be coaxed into taking it...
...WORKMEN'S MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE SOCIETY, Inc...
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...Secretary Chatcuff is xontacting a large number of former members as well as ^any new prospects...
...I 2. The C.P.-N.M.U...
...Let us not encourage them by citing the social "advantages" of Hitler Germany over the democracies...
...to tie up these ships so badly needed by the Allies, and to give these men to Hitler as more cannonfodder for his military machine...
...The Nazi, Fascist, Japanese and Soviet invasions of Latin America started years ago and have achieved tremendous force...
...When France was beaten, Hitler had physical power over the entire European continent...
...branches...
...Maritime Union is Center Of Anti-Ally Activity in Americas (Continued from Page One) "The Belgian, Dutch and Norwegian seamen did not want to sail under Allied flags . . . but wanted to leave their ships and get home to give what assistance they could to their families...
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...Alone, against terrible odds—but not at all Without hope...
...There are plenty of signs that this is already happening here, as witness Senator Reynolds' successful amendments to Senator La Follettee's "Civil Liberties Bill" (a name which is now gruesomely inappropriate...
...C and When in need of a Laxative use what millions of ethers are using — EX-LAX—mild, gentle, pleasant—yet effective...
...There is not in the whole of history a single instance in which • slave state managed permanently to keep a free community in subjection...
...The City Central Committee meeting has teen postponed to Wednesday July 10th owing, to July 3rd beingno near a holiday...
...that this was really a denial of the right of shipyard workers to strike...
...I may be wrong, of course, but I expect very soon a downright French-German alliance, aimed against England...
...Louis Beiiw * office, 188 Springfield Ave., Newark...
...I believe that'the French navy was not surrendered by the present French government because of German extortion, but was a dpwnright offer by Flandin and Laval as a capital investment into a future common business...
...With the British Empire crushed, perhaps Canada will submit meekly to our dominion (though I, for one, doubt it...
...This deposit will be repaid in full upon withdrawal Far further information •pplr to the Hals Office 227 EAST 84th STREET New York City Telephone REgent 4-2433 Ask for booklet 62 Attention Readers Readers of the New Leader are urged to send money orders or checks in payment for their subscriptions rather than cash...
...But it will be, nevertheless, the most ruthless war of all recorded history, destroying the happiness of hundreds of millions of men, million of homes, hundreds of cities, dozens of states...
...over Station WEVD on Friday, June 28, at 10:30 p. m. * * * i Two boat rides up the Hudson River to Bear Mountain Park have been arranged under the joint auspices of the Social Democratic Federation and the City Committee of the Jewish Socialist Verband...
...5 New Jersey The State Committee meets June 30 — Sunday —10 a. in Dr...
...Thursday, July 11, Ave...
...Did any one in his senses believe that these small, weak peoples could have possibly stood in against the military might of Germany...
...It is still not too late...
...Picnic of the Amalgamated Cooperative Houses Branch, Sunday, June 20, on vacant lot between buildings 7 and 9. Entertainment, chorus, community singing, refreshments and games...
...A new contract was being negotiated and the major issues in dispute were the wage scale and vacations...
...Tickets are $1 for adults and 50 cents for children under 12, and can be obtained at 7 East 15th St., Room 505...
...Order from your grocer till* (unoos Russian tea known to million* as "SWEE-TOUCH-NEE TEA" CAMPING EQUIPMENT GENUINE ARMY TENTS BLANKETS - COTS (Slightly used) I "Army Goods of All Kinds" I Special Wholesale Prices to Organizations 1 American Jobbing Co., Inc...
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...Perhaps we shall...
...Everybody welcome from noon until evening...
...East Side, Manhattan and in Brighton Beach, with' Comrades Alexander Schwartz, Bi Rosenblatt, Matthew Metzler •rid others as speakers...
...And EX-LAX is as effective as any laxative can be...
...And were not these also the instruments Hitler used to great advantage in his conquest of France...
...And a bold, a far-reaching enterprise it is...
...C and 6th St., Manhattan...
...program of obstruction...
...Friday, July 5, Brighton Beach and Coney Island Aves...
...immediately threw up a smoke-screen of the usual demagogic charges—the British were trying to dictate the composition of the crews of American ships running down to Bermuda...
...Will we take easily to the regimentation which will be necessary if we are to hold our own as a dynamic, race ? Will we adapt ourselves readily to this new order, this new star-spangled imperialism, to enforce which many of us will have to fight and die in the jungles of Brazil or the mountains of Chile...
...The N.M.U...
...It did not come," said an editorial in The Pilot, "as a result of the war and it had nothing whatever to do with the war...
...Grown-ups enjoy the taste, too...
...Sometimes cash becomes lost in the mail...
...We Americans are addicted to a 'live and let live" attitude...
...France fell because her leaders, misled by the Fifth Column of the Right and of the Left, failed to provide its people, with the weapons with which to smash the "intransigeant revolutionists" who have suddenly caught the fancy of dilettantes...
...This close connection between the Comintern agents here and the German fifth-columnists was disclosed when the British government protested the use of 40 German stewards on the S.S...
...the Jewish philanthropic and community organizations such as the ORT, the Jewish Labor Committee, the American Jewish Congress...
...To be sure, we too are not free of the corroding influences that undermined the strength of France and brought her to her ruin...
...The Czechs, the Poles, the Danes, the Norwegians, the Dutch, the Belgians...
...Such an alliance will not be just the result of ruthless Nazi police control over occupied France, but the voluntary policy of those French political and social forces who are eager to jump on the bandwagon to get a crumb of the booty...
...Friday, July 12, Walton Ave...
...The N.M.U...
...A few weeks ago, we expressed our conviction that even if Hitler occupied the whole of Europe, the war would not end, but merely develop from a war between European nations into a war between continents—into the first real world war...
...Real Te$t Between Hitler And America Yet to Come (Continued from Page One) dole, with Frenchmen sleeping tfnder the bridges of Paris, with our own homeless and unemployed, with our Arkies, Okies and Texicft...
...4th St., Manhattan...
...Perhaps, when the last spark of the free spirit has been extinguished in the rest of the world, it will flicker and die here too...
...the Social-Democratic Federation...
...A grand* welcome will be given to »___„ Anpnl ;mri familv when ————_.____~ jjjnes Oneal ami family when gey arrive for a permanent residence...
...It is taken from the propaganda arsenal of Goebbels and Stalin...
...Beside the obvious internal and social goals, their program of the last ten years, is based on the fundamental idea that France must change her traditional policy of alliance with England for av^modern" policy of alliance With Germany...
...The first excursion is on Saturday, July 20...
...Let us drive these forces from our midst...
...The officers asked for delay for further negotiations, particularly because they were aware of what underlay this attack on the program of American defense and aid to the Allies...
...France fell because its people and its statesmen failed to recognize in time the need of tanks and guns and airplanes—the bitter, unfortunate need...
...Columbia Tea Co...
...But under the impact of tragic blows the democratic world has finally awakened to the realization of what confronts it...
...But there is a single fatal weakness in England's position: the vulnerability of her munition and plane factories from the air...
...Perhaps Nazi Germany does have such new weapons, which have been kept in reserve for the outstanding and most difficult part of her attack—true to Hitler's strategic principle of surprising and crippling every new country with a brand new trick...
...at the Verband office, 175 East Broadway, and at all S.D.F...
...But anyone who has visited Latin America., or studied its complex problems and incalculable potentialities, will know that in this area we shall have a job of appalling proportions...
...Whom has Hitler conquered...
...Will any one assert that life in most of these countries was worse than it was in Germany...
...The most civilized and influential people of South America are far closer to Europe spiritually and emotionally—as, _ indeed, many of them are geographically—than to us...
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...If that is so, nobody can underwrite England's power to overcome weapons, yet unknown to the world...
...It fell because it was better...
...voted to strike despite the opposition of President John Green...
...Si added for service costs...
...August Claessens and Louis Epstein, speakers...
...Delegations attended fron> all walks of life, in which Vladeck was actively engaged—-various labor unions, including the I. L. G. W. U., the Amalgamated, and many others...
...August Claessens, speaker...
...If you help England to survive 1940, you shall survive with her to see the world safe for your children...
...But when Flandin and Laval, through the medium of dumb generals, signed the treaty with Hitler, something even more serious, and more fatal for the entire world, happened: not just a conquered Europe, policed by German troops, but a continent, united along Fascist lines, began pooling its forces for future, common adventures...
...is trying to use American ships as a feed-line for getting Nazi agents into the British colony of Bermuda...
...But the reason behind these nefarious maneuvers was shown in its warning/to N.M.U...
...The second excursion is on Saturday, August 10...
...Printed through the courtesy of the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies...
...raised the smokescreen of false charges: that only war propagandists and employer agents were trying to tie up the strike with the war...
...revealed its role in the affair when, on June 7, its official organ, The Pilot, vociferously denied (although nobody had yet made the charge) that the strike had any connection with the Nazi war in Europe...
...If Germany has not- completely new weapons and techniques in storey-the methods she has so far used in the campaign against the Low Lands and France are by no means sufficient to smash British resistance and to occupy the British Isles in a few weeks...
...And the way to defend ourselves is to jro to the aid of the democratic Allies, while there is yet time, with all the force, moral and material, that we can speedily command...
...No, England is not doomed...
...And what, may we-ask, are the actual accomplishments of this superior Hitlerite state over which some gentlemen now enthuse...
...Once -again the N.M.U...
...Morris Waldman speaks on "Which Way Labor in 1940...
...23 Elizabeth Street (Corner Canal St), N. Y.C I Phone: CAnal 6-1197 § 1 I illlllllllllllllipiHHipHIIM French Fascists Expected To War on England tuinniinunuiiinuuiuiiim Chrrdklfl (Continued from Page Ok) and with full steam fchead...
...But England carries on the fight...
...Such a straggle will not start tomorrow, of course...
...A momentous step in that direction came with the French counter-revolution though the world these days is scarcely aware of that event...
...Roosevelt of the U. S. Lines...
...We shall have to dominate them, personally, and at the point of a gun...
...but while the great French revolution was conceivable only in a France eager to lead Europe, the great French counter-revolution prefers German "protection" to the eternal tension of controlling, in alliance with, England, the European balance of power...
...This demagogic demand to send about 1,000 seamen, stranded in this country, back into the Nazi hell, which their homelands are today, is part of a plot by the C.P.-N.M.U...
...3. A third point of attack by the C.P.-N.M.U...
...Now, at last, Flandin and Laval can live up to the real meaning of their political conception...
...ALL NEW FABRICS...
...But this picture is all a lie...
...on the AHied war effort was the fomenting of a strike in the Kearny, N. J., shipyards in order to disrupt the construction of naval and merchant vessels for the United States government and the Allies...
...and 170th St, Bronx...
...We shall have to concede that we are in a permanent state of warfare and organize ourselves totally on that basis...
...On May 30, Local 16 of the Industrial Union of Maritime and Shipbuilding Workers of America (C.I.O...
...Labor, Crfy, Leaders At Vladeck Unveiling More than ^6,000 people attended the unveiling of a memorial stone to B. Charney Vladeck, late late Socialist, business manager of The Forward and Laborite Majority Leader in the City Council, last' Sunday at the Workmen's Circle cemetery plot...
...Monday, July 8, Ave...
...NEW YORK CITY Street meetings: Successful out(joor meetings have been held faring the last two weeks in the West Bronx...
...perhaps it will be a thoroughly modem war, carried oat with gigantic dumping of goods instead of air fleets, with trade emissaries instead of expeditionary corps...
...to take all possible insurance against a Hitler victory...
...this was merely a device to fire good union men...
...There is still something left to do for men who are unsophisticated enough to defend themselves, and intelligent enough to do so in time...
...Oh, no, the real test between Hitlerism and democracy is yet to come...
...Yes, the free peonies of the world have just begun to fight' Let the Hamlets and defeatists be silent...
...It is to come in England and in America...
...Alexander Schwartz and Morris Waldman, speakers...
...Not only will the defense of these coast-lines, as well as our own, require a vast naval and military establishment, but we shall require a Gestapo to watch all the interiors for the fifth columns which are already there...
...And perhaps not a single shot will be fired...
...We must accord similar treatment to Mexico or to any other Latin American country if, by vote or by revolution .of its citizens, it establishes a government which we consider hostile to our dominant interests...
...But if Hitler must run against the English walls with the combination of methods he has applied so far, then Churchill's grim promise that England will eventually re-conquer France from Petain, is not at all whistling in the dark...
...They have successfully fostered hatred and fear of "Yanqui imperialism...
...The bloody union of Stalin and Hitler has thus brought about the *nity of action of Communist and Nazi cells on American-flag ships for antiAllied activity...
...An increasing number of these meetings are being arranged...
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...the members and officers of the New York City Council, and many other civic organizations...
...With our present system of government discredited in the world of Nazi-Fascist victory, we shall no longer be able to influence them with our "Good Neighbor" policy...
...members that there will soon be cries against it of " 'sabotage, and 'treason' and fifth column' and 'Trojan Horse' and 'Communist'," in order to prepare them for the reckoning day when they will be revealed as the tools of Stalin and Hitler...
...France felLbecause her people refused to breed cannon fodder and march "like robots to the accompaniment of satanic music...
...They were conquered with treachery, bribery, Fifth Columnism working within...
...August Claessens will speak on "Social •Democrats in the United States...
...Their propaganda, their trade schemes, their bribery, persuasion and intimidation have been violently effective...
...Would you say this was a mark of superiority over democracy...
...Annually for *very $100.00 Insurance Fir* Uim Appraised Liberally Upon Admission every member must make a deposit equal to 90 cents for every $100.00 of Insurance...
...When, on June 3, the officers recommended ending the strike, about 20 per cent of the 4,500 members present voted for the CP...
...AND what #of the effect of this permanent state on our own people...
...August Claessens, speaker...
...The time to defend ourselves against such dreadful consequences is now...
...The German Branch meets on Friday, June 28, at the Labor Temple, 243 East 84th'St...
...For behind an eventual British defeat lies the tempting outlook of economic control over the entire rich world—under German bosses, all right, but nonetheless pretty profitable...
...Keep Regular with Ally Defeat Would Push E X - L A X us into B|9 Arms Race THE CHOCOLATED LAXATIVE you may NEVER AGAIN have an opportunity to buy such values at these sensational low prices ALTERATIONS FREE CRAWFORD STANDARD BRAND J UOTHES J f COSTS ARE RISING...
...France and other free communities have fallen victim of illusions, of failure to grasp in time the dangers and problems arising from the totalitarian world counterrevolution...
...Why not add these as qualities to the picture of Hitlerite superiority...
...Plainly enough, the French counter-revolution believes it more comfortable to work profitably for the industrially superior Germany, than to bear the costs of an unceasing French armament...
...Perhaps we shall decide to destroy the Bill of Rights and the Gettysburg Address along with the Magna Charta, agreeing in our hearts that nothing does succeed like success...
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...that it was a foreshadowing of the denial of trade union protection in wartime...
...France fell not because life for the French people was worse than it was for the Germans...
...Let England hold until the American people can add their might to, the hosts of liberty, and the defeats of today will be turned into the glorious victory of tomorrow...
...From now on the problem of sending arms and planes to England becomes the most momentous military detail of England's battle for the sake of the world...
...Only the British isles defend the rest of the world against the cnimag-inable threat o! an eventual fight for life and death against a Wined, totalitarian Europe, throwing into the battle 400 million men and an industrial power which, if re-organized by the efficiency of a victorious, controlling Germany, will surpass all dreams of American efficiency...
...the central committee and many branches of the Workmen's Circle...
...ALL NEW MODELS...
...France fell because of too much ease and comfort and tbe good things of life, which the people were not willing to exchange for "regimentation...
...To go with'Germany (and Italy), the gentlemen realize, would mean that France necessarily would become a second-class power...
...I seriously and sincerely believe it is the only hope we have of saving our own heritage...
Vol. 23 • June 1940 • No. 26
