Soviet's Move in Balkans No Sign Of Deal With British Diplomats
SCHLAMM, WILLI
Soviet's Move in Balkans No Sign Of Deal With British Diplomats By Willi SCHLAMM Shortly after the world finally discovered that Mussolini was a Fascist, it learned that Stalin tamed o«t to he a...
...the devastation you *tmld cause and have a heart...
...Its function will be exactly that which the Laagw accomplished...
...Then the old league units began functioning as the New York Peace Association, Mother's Day Peace Group, the Hollywood Peace Forum, even Milwaukee Indians have been dragged into the "peace" front Now the Communists plan a nation-wide emergency peace mobilization in Chkago^j^rianing August 31...
...While 45 of its original- 63 nations still are members, the strongest and most progressive countries have been wiped out by Hitler...
...This problem, however, is still very far from being solved: for the first five months of 1940 Germany was not even able to cany into the Reich one-third of the Oil quantities she had extorted from Romania under the wildest pressure...
...But there might well be some considering of it among w "•common people that began last Monday to pay the taxes caused...
...One American in every ten...
...They couldn't have been disturbed about what they condoned In Spain...
...War Cripples ^ International Labor Centers Two casualties of the war are the great international labov structures: the International Labor Office and the International Federation of Trade Unions...
...Bevin has extreme authority...
...chief's political vagaries and haven't hesitated telling it to him...
...The I.L.O., set up by the treaty of Versailles, has been one of the most successful world organizations...
...Lowell Mellett or Louis Brownlow, both close friends of the President, will head it...
...Summer holidays are unthought of—but vacation money is paid to the employees just as if they were on vacations...
...Unemployed workers from the Ford factory here who had helped to make Mr...
...Last week we wrote that " the pro-Stalinite American Guardian had dropped him from the editorial committee because of fcis position...
...Typical of the attempts to tap all reservoirs of skilled workers are Lord Beaverbrook's call to fitters in garages to work on airplanes, while Bevin has asked skilled workers not on war jobs to come forward as volunteers...
...For some years Radin, a former professor of law at the University of California, has been identified with Communist tram*-mission belt organizations on the San Francisco front...
...Van Bittner of Chicago, Vin Sweeney of Pittsburgh, Clarence Irwin of Youngstown and Philip Murray have joined Sidney Hillman's bloc in the C.I.O...
...CHAIRMAN Madden of the Xational Labor Relations Board will not be reappointed by President Roosevelt when his term-expires in August...
...The call to Italian Catholics to fight loyally for their country was issued in the Civilta Catolica, according to neutral dispatches coming from Switzerland...
...1X/HAT were Joe Lash, Alvarez Del Vayo and Louis Fischer " looking so morbid about the other day at the Brevoort Terrace...
...The British working people would have entrusted no one else with it...
...Owtenth of the population of ihe United States is of a ®a®lexion somewhat darker than the rest In many instances, difference is hardly perceptible, but still darker...
...He appeared quite satisfied with the statement of the Minister of Munitions and Supply that the Canadian Ford Company is doing splendid war work...
...Platform-making in the Republican Party must have passed into the hands of pikers...
...obvious place to begin...
...It had a perfect setting because of Lans-bury's extreme pacifism...
...Ford's millions were immediately thrown on the relief rolls of our cities and had to be maintained by the public purse...
...control and urging aid to the Allies...
...Nobody will heed it...
...All machines go continually...
...Only the British Trades Union Congress and the American Federation of Labor remain...
...As thus...
...1I7E owe an apology to Charles Erwin...
...Any attempt by Lewis to make good his third party threat will precipitate a split not only in Labor's Nonpartisan League, but in the C.I.O...
...Business Wants the "Shackles" Off T'HE candidate himself is not so sloppy...
...King Carol has finally joined Hitler's collection of German "protectorates" (another success the Fuehrer should be grateful for to Stalin), and that gives Germany at once full control over the entire Romanian oil production: Romania must pay for the Nazi bombers and tanks, which arrive now In Bucharest, with shares of the nation's oil industry the government always had at its disposal...
...Think of...
...Hours count now— and day after day, as military intelligence reveals that the invasion will not come for at least 24 or 36 hours from the time the last reports came in, the Laborite industrial leaders in London count the precious minutes in terms of so many more guns, tanks, bullets, and whip their factories along...
...In turn, Joe Curran's outfit is being sued for $225,000 worth of libel by Peter J. Innes, a former NMU member...
...Avoids Interference Needless to say, the Canadian Government is not anxious to interfere with the Canadian Ford factory...
...XIOT so long ago John Lewis walked into a mid-western auditorium and was cheered by thousands of steel workers...
...Townsend must neèds add to the circumambient gloom by taming upon us the brow of reproacn and the heavy frown of menace...
...FERDINAND LUNDBEBG and^Iarquis Childs have asked that * their names be dropped from the editorial sponsors list appearing on the letterhead of "Uncensored," Socialist Party anti-war newsletter...
...Of Deal Wffli of the Negro * Notional Unity...
...The Minister of Munitions and Supply admits that Ford has a considerable interest in the Canadian plant but states that he does not know how muSn of the stock he controls...
...He has authority to direct any person to perform any services...
...labor Ministry Vital Thousands of factories have been taken over by the government — under the direction 0 f Morrison's Mini stry of Supply and Bevin's Ministry of Labor, which has ceased to be the passive, 1 r responsible r e g i s t ry of facts that it was under the Tory Ernest Brown until last May...
...So Stalin is allowed to play Hitler's watch dog against Mussolini, freeing Nazi Germany's hands for the adventure on the British Isles...
...Because of tinting and for no other reason, all Americans th*t have it TMff degree are set apart for helotage...
...The Communist Party has ordered the dissident C.P.'ers in the Guild to get together before the session opens...
...But whatever idea Stalin has for that eventuality (and he has never had an idea extending beyond the next three months of his bureaucratic survival)—it is certainly not lining up on England's side...
...I ARGE-SCALE plans are taking shape for the creation of a Ministry of Information in Washington, to counteract German propaganda in this hemisphere...
...But first take off...
...yjR colleagues in the American Newspaper Guild expect to have a majority of the delegates when the national convention opens in Memphis this week...
...I would not seèm to foster hopes that may prove illusory, but poefcibly the furious Doctor might be appeased by Teading Kelly Miller's account of the gallinippers...
...In seven years we have increased the national debt by twenty-three billion dollars in a fantastic titmpt to salvage a social system outworn, dry-rotted, and be-"mt hopelessly unworkable...
...Thus he hurries to collect foreign territories—not in order to entrench himself for future military resistance, but merely to have as many pawns as possible to lyield later to a threatening, demanding Hitler...
...Result: Don Stevens who endorsed an attack on the administration has confessed—about a column and a half worth in the last edition of the Guild Reporter—and well done too, strictly in the style of a Moscow trial...
...Uien let the platform say any old thing...
...Apparently because he is more worried about Italy's military value than about Russia's...
...and are bucking Lewis' party-line opposition to President Roosevelt...
...own wires in Washington pick Up the news that some B0 ^^ members of Social Security Board local of the United Federml Workers of America (CIO), Local 10, will resign en maim, protesting the C.P...
...Jesuits Urge Italians to Fight British ¦Special to The New Leader LONDON (Passed by the Censor).—Despite the Hondl report to the Vatican and the recent threat to suppress the "Observa-tore Romano," official papal newspaper, the Jesuit Fathers' publication in Rome this week urged all Catholics to fight for Italy, and therefore its axis partner Germany, in turn allied with Red Russia...
...WJUkie, brains of the fewer Trust, was the ablest, the most adroit and the most daring at the men that fought TV A and the public ^ownership of the public's utilities...
...He made a vigorous attack on Henry Ford's record, asserting that the policies of subsidiary Ford factories in other countries are controlled from Detroit...
...Tow nsend Shows Up F would seem to be no time for the multiplying of troubles, but Dr...
...Apparently Leiserson, who has been in the minority until now, will dictate nomination of a new man...
...In that case Nazi Germany, her oil needs reduced by the end of the French campaign, would be self-sufficient as far as oil is concerned in 1941...
...That means the British and French oil companies in Romania must from now on produce exclusively for Germany...
...has pushed many agreements for protective legislations for women and children, and for improvement of world labor 'conditions generally...
...CCF Protests M. J. Coldwell, acting leader of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF), Canada's socialist party, was far from reassured by this discussion...
...No Sign Lord Beaverbroek -{aboveI, Minister of Aircraft Prediction, this week ordered a fuller intensification of production to meet the increased bombings now taking place daily over England...
...The leader of the opposition raised the matter in the House of Commons, asking Prime Minister King what the Government proposed to do to protect Britain's interests...
...We are provided with a candidate whose career makes that of "Mark the Match Boy" look like discarded burlap on the city dump...
...It is therefore highly probable that the Soviet army will not cross the demarcation line Hitler has drawn in advance...
...Mu- be if yon were to laud the national sense of fair ™™nhe sTeTweTteep with civilization...
...It is his duty to see that men and women are ready and trained to produce whatever the government may call for...
...Therefore Hitler does not mind if Stalin steps in meanwhile to lessen Mussolini's appetite a bit...
...If it weren't so capable of ¦doing damage, it might be called pathetic...
...His lieutenants in the Steel Workers Organizing Committee don't like the C.I.O...
...Well, what are the shackles that now bind noble Business in Ons and handcuffs ? The Holding Company Act, S.E.C., Wagcs-and-Hours, the NLRB, Anti-Trust—all enacted to'protect the public from the predations of the" nofile...
...Pivot of the drive to utilize the nation's productive capacity is Arthur Greenwood's Production Council, composed of representatives of the Admiralty, the Ministry of Aircraft Production, the Ministry of Supply, the Ministry of Labor, the Ministry of Agriculture, and the Ministry of Mines...
...Only the Communist Party objects...
...alliances are the President's seleetions for the advisory committee cm labor policy under the national defense program...
...That does not exclude, of course, further Russian undertakings in Southeastern and Central Europe...
...Leisure and holidays have disappeared—British work-ingmen and women gladly yielding them while they shudder at what had happened in France...
...seem to the impartial the »0...
...Similar defections in the union locals of the Departments of Interior and Agriculture wiü shortly be made public...
...British diplomacy a la Stafford Cripps hoped strongly that a Russian move in the Balkans would concentrate Hitler's attention in Southeastern Europe, thus postponing the imminent Nazi attack against the British isles...
...so, if at 5> only as menials, hostlers, scullions, valets or waiters...
...Canada Urged To Seize Ford Plants < By .GRACE MclRNIS OTTAWA, Canada (Passed by the Censor).—The shortest debate last week—and the most heated— in the Canadian Parliament concerned the refusal of Henry Ford to make airplane engines for the British government...
...Those cheers would still sound today but would be created by the process —devised in a northern suburb of New York City known as the Bronx—of ^placing the tongue between the lips and blowing hard to emit a sound irritating to the ears of the recipients...
...The News Reel By Charles Edward Russel President Roosevelt is indeed the political wizard and seer men say he is, he must have passed unconrfortable half hears this week...
...Some of the repercussions from the Wittkie nomination frêre so ominous that they suggested a crawfish to be executed t&h neatness and despatch out of the whole Third Term obsession...
...fended for isolation and contempt because of complexion...
...WJUkie an Exploiter JM a Profiteer tfj the midst of the seething enthusiasm, rather novel for the • -times, that was engendered by this lire combination, the ugly patches on a phosphorescent career had inadequate attention...
...That is, surrender and get a job...
...However, what of it...
...This spontaneous "peace" conference already has named itself the "Committee to Defend America by Reaping Oat of War...
...None of them brought statistical proof of that claim hut all dwelt on the excellent war record of the president of the Canadian Ford Company (until recently Mr...
...The party bluntly emphasized the importance of a Kaufman-Watson reelection slate...
...The Ï.F.T.U...
...He can require persons of any class or description to register any particulars about themselves...
...Not one of the six C. I. O. men is friendly to the Stalinite clique...
...DEFLECTING shifting C.I.O...
...A few weeks ago it -threw all its money and forces into a "stop the war" campaign to take the Bow and Bromley by-election (caused by the death of ¦¦George Lansbury...
...I do not know how these situations can be avoided...
...She is the ninth "stop the war" candidate to be defeated- badly since the "war started...
...If they seek ft o defend 'S» country by joining its armed forces, they can da...
...For Henry Ford unionism and collective bargaining have .been an anathema...
...Military experts here expect the Reich to strike at the area between Chatham and Portsmouth during the week-end over which you Americans will be celebrating your Independence Day...
...But what puzzles me is ®at seither gifted, speaker in his sunward flights of entrancing ^rfjalism has mentioned what would...
...He is not only for the * restoring of Prosperity, but he will not conceal the means by her smile may be made to warm once more our disconsolate hearts...
...Now comes one that has all the ''two-fisted and red-Wooded" endowment and adds to it allurements heretofore Irresistible...
...finple, safe, sure...
...That was so long ago...
...He shook...
...In aircraft factories, at the order of Lord Beaverbrook, Minister for Aircraft Production, work is focused on nearly completed machines, so that as many as possible can be put into the air immediately...
...long as that is the case, yfl* pivot-.tongaed candidates, Jon must be dreaming when you speak of national amty—as jg» would be if you were to land the national sense of lair *®y~"rtlrë'?lê|rwèTièe"p wTfh clvïfaation...
...cried the other...
...My convention exigences extend over fifty-two years, and I have not beföre seen 40 punk a job...
...This is wrong...
...He beg** with nothing, he worked hb way «rough college, hé rose from thé raaks, he enMsted to light ftr his country at its first summons, hit becfcine a great captain of industry, by his own indomitable will he achieved riches tad honors—Horatio N. Alger never imagined a better figure t» fire the American imagination...
...AND from the land of sunshine, movies and the C.P.'s Hollywood Peace Forum comes a dossier full of news to the effect that California anti-Stalinites are up in arms over Governor Culbert L. Olson's appointment of Max Radin to the California Supreme Court...
...Winchell claims he can prove that the NMU has sabotage cells aboard every ship, ready with materials for sabotage purposes...
...It proposes to restore that tattered old tart, Prosperity, to end unemployment, put everybody to work, reduce expenditures, and then leaves us to believe that all these miracles are to be achieved merely by delivering government to Accumulated Wealth...
...John Lewis' popularity in America's open hearth sector has hit its all-time low...
...It would be difficult for Germany, after having smashed England, to turn against an Italy entrenched in the Balkans, but it would be next to nothing for her to -throw Stalin out...
...find comfortable company among the other sponsors, which includes Joe Curran, Theodore Dreiser, Howard Lee, Kennrfh Leslie, Jack MacMichael, Max Yergan and Franz Boas, stooges all...
...But it was beaten 23 to 1 as Alderman C. W. Key (Laborite) rolled up 11,594 votes to the Communist Isabel Brown's 506...
...Besides its valuable reports covering labor conditions over the world, the I.L.O...
...All jaches of the service are closed to them, now more rigorously T*?:«?er...
...There is little doubt that Stalin got the jitters concerning the deal the victorious Nazi Germany is preparing for Russia...
...While Moscow last September expected a long wär in Western Europe, during which the •Soviets wanted a comfortable expansion free of charge, Stalin is now faced with the possibility that Nazi Germany by winning the war in 1940 will turn against Russia...
...Sweetly exhilemting is the choice thus offered to the voter this year by the two major parties...
...Government training centers have been expanded, their courses intensified and their shifts multiplied to pass through 100,000 trainees.in a year-inetead«E-the dilatory 40,000 half-trained bythe jßeft reckoning with Russia...
...Two of them were flying Borth one day and alighted for rest on the coping of the roof of fee Capitol at Washington...
...Campbell...
...Germany can solve the serious problem of getting that oil into the Reich on trains, she need not worry any longer about the fuel for her war machine...
...This appointment is important because the remaining member ts Ed Smith, who, to put it mildly, is C.I.O.-minded...
...But all that would be merely a policy of gaining more ground for more retreat...
...But why did he agree at all with Russia's move...
...What it will merely do is set up a new front on the structure of the old League...
...Not too subtle was the latter's left-hand endorsement of Willkie's candidacy in public interviews...
...To meet that deadline, Sundays and weekdays are indistinguishable in factories from here to Scotland...
...Soviet's Move in Balkans No Sign Of Deal With British Diplomats By Willi SCHLAMM Shortly after the world finally discovered that Mussolini was a Fascist, it learned that Stalin tamed o«t to he a Stalinite—npt at all eager fco support England'* defense of the democratic way-of life against the totalitarian onslaught...
...Stalin's march into Romania—far from being an act of indirect aid for England, as Sir 1 Stafford Cripps and some' incurable illusionists would explain the burglary—however is not at all a routine repetition of the Polish autopsy...
...is now crippled...
...as well...
...foe and without therefore entering a foreign war is not explained...
...H would, have been one thing to push the Third Term to success against a Dewey or a Taft, but it is something else again to get jlray *ith it against this glamour boy...
...Tm so mad,1" said the first, "that I>e a good mind to stamp with my feet and shake this whole •fracture right down,to the ground...
...The twelve were cited for contempt of court for refusing to answer questions at Yorty's hearing 0» state relief administration...
...No one dwelt much upon the fact that Mr...
...And to eroWn ail, he was aoninated by the people and dead against the bosses and poppet manipulators...
...And Stalin, on the other hand, is weaker on a military scale than ever2—certainly too weak to dare a serious rendezvous with seasoned Nazi troops...
...But neither Hitler, nor Stalin, will do England that favor—Hitler, because he knows that Russia would be no match for him, once England is smashed, but that England could completely recover overwhelming strength if Germany were to spend the rest of 1940 M orrisonßevin Run England as Deadline Nears Special to The New Leader LONDON (Passed by the Censor).—If Herbert Morrison and Ernest B2vin have intensified British production- and purchases sufficiently to replace the 1,000 guns, the transports and all the armed vehicles lost by the British expeditionary forces in Flanders, the Germans will not take Southern England's coastline...
...It may well happen that Stalin will use the phase of full German involvement in the attack on England for more grabbing-—in Romania proper, perhaps in Bulgaria and Carpatho-Ruthenia (Hungary...
...And indeed it woüld be ferfect grand if We" could come by it...
...BECAUSE Walter Winchell accused it of intended sabotage the National Maritime Union is suing him for a million dollars...
...A friendly tariff ' policy has allowed him to collect millions of dollars in Canada...
...the Tory government...
...Promises fterything to Anybody ßVEN the" rickety, wobbly, jerry-built and manifestly dishonest rf platform upon which the "two-fisted" one is supposed to stand eould douse his halo...
...He may be afraid that Italy might get tob great a «ontrol oiver the Balkans, while Nazi Germany is fighting it out with England in the next weeks...
...No one stopped to point *>ut that when they sold, to the national government, they extorted a rankly extravagant price for propertie* afloat with water, and that all these operations demonstrated the exploiter's mind and not the statesman's, these things (and others) will probably appear later in tie campaign, but one may êtmbt that they will have much punch...
...No one insisted that the companies he manipulated and drove to success were heavily over-capitalized, that to jjbe limit they played the dirty melon game, that they were conscienceless gougers upon a patient public...
...It works in close collaboration with the trade unions and the employers' organizations...
...IHTH fervor, with eloquence, with research of language, both ^•candidates have spoken of the delectable nature of National Vnity in these days of trial and stress...
...This is interpreted here as a sign of the extreme pressure put on the pontiff by the Fascist government It is well known in London diplomatic circles that Mussolini had threatened more drastic action than banning II Osservatore Romano, if Pope Plus XTI gave public vent to his anti-Nazi sentiments...
...Form Council Aiding the Ministry of Labor is the Labor Supply Board, also under the chairmanship of Bevin...
...What, indeed, can go far against "two-ftstecF' and "red-blooded" 1 G.O.P...
...A gruelling pace speeds through all factories producing tanks, armored vehicles, guns, shells and ammunition...
...John L Lewis By VICTOR RIESEL 1VHEN the wond came from on high for the Comumst Party to " begin changing old fronts into new ones, Daily Worker staff men wrote the obituary of the League for Peace and Democracy . . . and immediately began plugging Mike Quin's "The Yanks Arent Coming...
...He asked to be removed because of Ameringer's isolationism...
...A few weeks ago he drew fire from Assemblyman Sam Yorty when he utilized the University of California Law School to influence Stockton, courts in favor of twelve Communist-suspect members of the State, County and Municipal Workers' Association, the C.I.O...
...Start up the predations again and hear the wheels go round in every factor...
...Never missing a chance to peddle a few papers, Oscar Ameringer leads the list of conference sponsors...
...In some quarters Radin's appointment is interpreted as Governor Olson's attempt to rebuild his Stalinoid fences...
...Vote to abolish the republican form of government in the United States or vote to turn Vfiiltft^** over to the Power Trust...
...the shackles...
...A seven-day week is in operation on vital work...
...Take the shackles off Business, turn it loose at its own weet will, start everybody at work ' making things, and then fliice prices so that everybody can bay what everybody n^akes...
...Unless one or the other of the major parties endorses his scheme of pensions for all, he will organize 'a third party that will grind the others to powder and ashes to be sown in the peat dark sea...
...Possibly the most disquieting statement in the debate was the Minister's concluding one: "I could mention a motor car company which is doing good work for the allies in the United States, good work for us in Canada, good work for the British Government in Great Britain, and also, I assume, for Hitler in a plant owned by the same company in Germany...
...Don't do it...
...Wallace Campbell was Chairman of the Government's War Supply Board) and one Liberal member added the Red Cross work done by Mrs...
...Instead he used the opportunity for getting part of the booty...
...Members of both major parties who spoke were careful to insist that the Ford Company in the United States was one thing and the Canadian Ford Company was quite another...
...The magnificent structures of the German, the French, the Scandinavian, the ^Lowlands and the Czech trade-union centers are shrapnel-wrecked,"dismally empty halls...
...But it is wholly possible for the Nazi efficiency to overcome that bottleneck in a few months—if and when Hungary refrains from quarrels with Romania and the Balkans remain at peace...
...It is a sort of • saving -account for rainy days...
...social workers' union...
...It pledges the party to keep the country out of foreign wars' and yet to defend it to the limit, though how it is to be defended except against a foreign...
...But they're in for a squeeze play by the "comrades...
...Tuet for a ••Wig System NATIONAL IXEFENSE item...
...He can enter and inspect premises to see that all available labor is being used to the best ends...
...The President might prayer- and profitably consider the historic instance of his cousin _ Jore.' A man of mediocre intellect, without vision, without s, without ideas except to win, he sustained for years an «Static popularity on the one basis that he was "a two-fisted, ^blooded American" that had been a cowboy and a Rough Rider...
...Coldwell bitterly assailed Ford as an anti-democrat, one who had been decorated by Hitler...
...A dutiful Congress single-minded to <*«Jf orders will not give much heed to this burden nor to the normous handicap it is now to the country whereon it was im-Vmi...
Vol. 23 • July 1940 • No. 27
