Soviet Troops at Danube Assure Reich of Romanian Oil Supply
Soviet Troops at Danube Assure Reich of Romanian Oil Supply British Cut Reich Imports 120,000 Tons By DICK REYNARD ~ Questions' stepped popping at the Speaker as Parliament prepared to...
...Now the railroad unions have announced a committee to tiotk with the President's advisory defense committee...
...He columns for the Washington New*Dealer (name is an embarrassing hangover from the popular front days, but they put it in small'type these weeks...
...Heard on the Left By VICTOR RIESEL /?OLUMNING is such a sticky (that's spelled correctly) business these hot Manhattan nights...
...Conr gress and a leading member of the YCL...
...Soviet Troops at Danube Assure Reich of Romanian Oil Supply British Cut Reich Imports 120,000 Tons By DICK REYNARD ~ Questions' stepped popping at the Speaker as Parliament prepared to adjourn after a hectic querying period...
...Costigan's sheet has followed the party Hne so> closely, it almost cracked a linotype switching after the paetJ Tne editors keep the words "imperialist war" stand in type' to save printers' costs...
...Bad company, Senator, bad company...
...It'll be interesting Jo watch "Labor's" crlitorial policy during the next few weeks...
...As a compromise to pro-ally forces, the resolution was considerably watered .down...
...The distances from Haifa are approximately 1,000 to Brindisi, 400' from Rhodes, 1,100, from Tripoli and 800 from Benghazi...
...Push Tank, Production The total Air Raid Precautions (ARP) force, paid and unpaid,-is just under a million...
...democrats get through wit* " Jfoestigation of the powejr "gpw) behind the Wilkie drive 525?^ linking his family tf...
...He gets out the mimeographed "Mexican Labor News," a straight communist news-letter...
...Within four months the Danube will be frozen, or flooded, making it impossible for shipments...
...But the competition of the British agents prevent this...
...Little of this petroleum found its way into any other country but Germany...
...Democrats Expect Public Acclaim At Convention to Draft Roosevelt By BRYCE OLIVER News Commentator at WEVD, New York WHEN the roil call of the states begins next Thursday in the Chicago Stadium, Ala" bama is expected to pass immediately to New York, and Franklin D. Roosevelt will be presented for the third time: to a Democratic National Convention assembled to choose a presidential candidate...
...With Soviet troops guarding the Danube's mouth, with Russian ships guarding the Black Sea, with rumors from authentic sources reporting a proposed Nazi-Communist partition of Turkey, with the Dardanelles in the hands of the Rome-B^rlinMoscow Axis, the Soviet parade into the Balkans begins to shape up into a well-planned series of chess maneuvers designed to wind up with the creation of a food and oil life-line to Germany over which the Soviets will stand guard...
...To avoid" misunderstanding, the Communists were listed by name in the instructions which were passed by a 4 to 1 voteShortly afterward the local's CP...
...But all of this was before the...
...And only a few day* ago the same paper urged the election of a Judge on the ground that that section of the bench was occupied only by Jews and Catholics . . . * * » |%ELAYED in transit was the following item—we had the item *^ set up in type but held it out because of too much, cpoy and then were scooped on it by a section of the left wing sliver press, but it bears repeating...
...geviously had not been so willing...
...the Montanan out on a limb with| a very precarious support...
...And so, once again, there was...
...McNutt was willing (though far": from eager) to be "a good soldier" and throw his powerful, delegate strength to Wheeler iff he received such an order froth the ^President McNutt's Senate supporter...
...a Satisfaction with the party's "anti-war" position to a few ecstatic Socialist purists...
...Block, in which he pooh-poohed the attempted assassination of Trotsky as self-planned and as a "phantom conspiracy...
...This is expected to plug some leaks in the blockade of the Reich...
...There can be little doubt of Costigan's friendship for the Soviet Union...
...send "friendly wishes...
...organisational work for the Mexican CP...
...But Cripps has been idling in Moscow, waiting for days at a time for trade talks...
...will give him good, the Beobachter thinks—and says so...
...Wheeler...
...to^moye into Romania to collect the 1,366,000 tons Bucharest owed to the Reich not so long ago, it would have meant war in the Balkans and the destruction of oil and wheat...
...Well, there it is folded into our brand new exchange eop* o# the Daily Worker...
...Water has to be imported to cope with the increae of population that follows belligerent development...
...The axis will have to take England before it can take the" Empire's life line...
...July 3rd, distinguished itself by running the first anti-semitic story any metropolitan sheet has ever printed...
...In return.for any wood.sent to London via the ice-free Arctic —probably with the gleeful consent of the Reich Economic Ministry—Russia expects British machinery, machine tools, and such non-ferrous metals as'unwrought nickel and tin—which in one fashion or another will find their way into Germany...
...President and Senator Burton K.jj Wheeler...
...In addition to the Anzacs and Canadians the war office can now count on more than four million island soldiers...
...troops can be gleaned from reports that the entire output of the Thompson Automatic -Gun Company, makers of the prohibition era tommy gun, arrives regularly each week in England...
...Although every day Der Fuhrer postpones his proposed tour of England means seven thousand more trained and betequipped soldiers, tens of thousands o'f machine guns, thirty to forty new planes, more shelters and .better organization, no leader here underestimates British vulnerability...
...But whereever it is noticed it is patched up—and the,, average Englishman and his newspapers have developed a remarkable faculty for picking out defense faults' One of these is the stub.born resistance offered by private industrial and financial corporations to the government campaign for more volunteer part-time workers in air raid de-' fense activities...
...Vi, , Now the Communists have formed the Emergency Peace Mobilization Committee of Greater New York—at the invitation of Mrs...
...This total was reached when four more age groups were ordered for military service registration in July...
...They are Indiana (Ma. Nuty'smachine), and tn^ dem" 5?»tn: organizations of Iowa and Wisconsin...
...i At that time there had just.: been an attempt, believed then' to have been successful, to patch up the differences between the...
...Workers' are paid for time lost during the air raids...
...Behind the Prime Minister's wit was the last desperate hope that Sir Stafford Cripps would Vring concessions from the northern power, whose troops now guard Romanian oil and wheat for the...
...and heads the publishing department of the above mentioned Workers' University...
...y The National'Executive Committee has about finished a mail vote on an anti-war resolution analyzing the present situation...
...sponsors' list—and there you'll find...
...British fleet harm, but it has no water...
...Local authorities and employers have provided bomb shelters for 20,000,000 people...
...The Balkan exporter—especially the Romanians —has been making financial hay while the war roared.' Romania supplied just under one million tons of mineral oil to Germany, Austria arid Czechoslovakia in 1938...
...Sana, had been one of those who had .indicated a considerable dePee of friendliness to Wheeler, . Bat this friendliness changed to...
...British attitude toward Cripp's mission binges on the idea that the more goods of any nature England can secure from Russia, the less Germany can get...
...What amazes this commentator is how a chap like Professoi Robert K. Speer keeps track of every CP...
...Military and diplomatic observers abroad point out that no German pressure was effected in Moscow...
...These are official Bucharest, figures...
...possible candidate who can1 surely win for the party...
...The company is producing about five thousand guns a month...
...We think well discard our left wing Baedeker and hire a professional guide » • 4 AM AD AM PERKINS finds herself with surprisingly little to do...
...Churchill think it time to clean ' up the cabinet and set up a real people's government...
...And if he is determined not to run, he can name the candidate—that . also is a foregone conclusion...
...Between now and the first ballot at Chicago, much can—and probably will—happen, but there is just one question at this writing which begs for an answer: Will Roosevelt eliminate himself as the candidate...
...And A lost him the support of a mi...
...Russia, dealing with England, could keep the latter from belligerency in Eastern Europe while Red troops marched in to stand guard...
...These firms forbid their employees from such work on the ground that the Government might force their staffs to devote full time to defense once the blitzkrieg would begin...
...If the consequences of the loss of this war's next battle—so obvious in ¦ the fate of Prance less than 30 miles across the channel—burden the British, it is -not noticeable...
...OT so long ago this newspaper scooped the daily press with a. set of pictures and a story of 12,000 Nazi-Americans bailing Hitler—straight ana salute and all—under the camouflage of a "sports" meeting in the city's Randall's Island Stadium...
...I shall make no attempt at prediction in this...
...Morrison's Ministry of Supply and Labor department pull no punches...
...The Bund is so enthusiastic over the Monianan's attacks on tho British...
...In the meantime the British Government hesitates to irritate the Soviets...
...2 • • * |T couldn't be, could it, that the Socialist Party will erupt shortly...
...Roosevelt found1 that subtle suggestions could not evoke a resignation, so he's conducting his relations with organized, labor through Sidney Hillman and Dan Tobin...
...Joseph Hansen in the Trotskyite Socialist Appeal reveals - that Block is a citizen of the United States, that his wife ia Main Cabrera, daughter of a wealthy Mexican oil corporation lawyer...
...JWs mass demonstration of the POMic is what is expected to conff nation that Roosevelt Roosevelt only, is wanted...
...The Germans chuckle over the way in which Cripps is kept in a perpetual anti-room although he has the power to place and accept orders in Moscow...
...Bund, John L. Lewis, and the Communist Party...
...Rumor gives ugly reasons for this attitude...
...One of the features of the Italian navy is its train of water carriers ("Navi cisterna per a"qua...
...For a lift of' annjjaers just thumb through any CP...
...All tank and plane factories go 24 hours a day, some on two shifts...
...Enough Food There will be enough soldiers to handle all the guns Morrison can make or buy...
...front he sponsors, or Bella Dodd, or Morris Watson, or Franz Boas, or Abe wSjjJa, or that up and coming transmission belter Dr...
...AB tfca way from Seattle comes the tidbit that the peace-loving Senator found the time—which he couldn't find to attack anti-Semite Jacob Thorkelson—to be a-guest columnist for transmission belt chief Howard Costigan, the C.P.'s Boy in the fellow-traveHnjr Washington Commonwealth Federation...
...eavesdropper reports that Paul Porter, Art McDowell, David H. .Felix and City Councilman Harry W. Laidier are expected to vote against the isolationist resolution...
...And before we send the sheet down for deloueing w« should item here that the Weckruf applaud* the National Maritime Union's $1,000,000 libel suit against Walter WincheJI...
...Morrison, in cooperation with Bevin, has succeeded in shifting skilled men from regular industry to war factories...
...secretary and hie keys had a secret meeting at which they gathered enough member* to order another general meeting to "reconsider" tkc rtefarjaatjs* instruction...
...As a mat-i Pf fact, it is known that the...
...This situation creates a new and novel use of sea power...
...Wheeler accepted Costigan's invitation to write the fatter'* column during the Westerner's vacation...
...Had the German army^ atter.ipted...
...Hay's committee now plans a "People's Rally for Pengs" to be held -at Randall's Island Stadium on August 4. Vito Marcantonio, the Will Gallacher of Congress, will be the chief speaker, cutely announces Jean Horie, the, committee's temporary secretary...
...thrown into the ashcan, leaving...
...Tripoli...
...Annette T. Rubenstein, director of the Robert Louis Stevenson school...
...It is 830 miles from Brinisi to Alexandria...
...It was easier...
...As * "Miter, of fact the demonstra3P n»ay be correct...
...The pay-off was Bessarabia...
...j[ ,' In view of McNutt's statement...
...But orthodox ' Democrats, New Dealers smd': anti-New Dealers alike, are convinced that Roosevelt is the only...
...Benghazi...
...as to the Trotsky attack...
...it is likely that he prefers to] avoid any campaign for the Presidency...
...The Allied contraband control did its share in cutting down the Reich oil imports...
...Confusing for a minute the Nasi' Weckruf and the Commie Daily, from reading the stories you never knew which sheet is which...
...Where these are located only the local ARP leaders know...
...There is enough food in England to stand off a long siege— if it comes...
...They set the new session for the evening of July X when a majority of the membership was oat of town far the Fourth...
...Pantellaria is bound to figure largely in the news soon...
...The majority, however, now want to stop Hitler before Europe's last free labor and Socialist movements are wiped out in England...
...Miss Horie is N.Y.C...
...How can desks clutter up so . . . and the second-hand copy, of 1937's World Almanac while we search for our Deutsche* Weckruf und Beobachter which one of our colleagues tussled out of a Yorkville ashcan...
...Cripps' negotiations are over a trade pact in which timber and plywood are the most important items...
...and 650 from Benghazi...
...some on three...
...Last December, after long negotiations, Romania undertook to supply 1,560,000 tons of oil to Germany in 1940, in addition to unspecified additional quantities on account of previous arrearages...
...Germany would rather have fought than have this route jeopardized by permitting a belligerent power to control the Black Sea, the Danube and the Romanian coast...
...This'squadron consists of thirty-three huge water tankers—all vulnerable to British submarine control...
...Block is managing editor of Future Stalinite monthly...
...Lack of Water at Italian Naval Bases Is Strong British Weapon Special to The New Leader WASHINGTON, D. C.—Naval circles here are jubilant over the British offensive in the Mediterranean, and the amazing news that English submarines can dry out three of the most important Fascist naval bases by continuing to cut off the drinking water supply which keeps Leros, Rhodes and Pantellaria alive...
...and Tobruk have little water...
...The same issue praises Lindbergh and Harry Bridges...
...The parks, the lakesides, the • river banks, are crowded with boaters, fishermen, and picnickers, jamming into a few free hours the leisure of yesterday...
...and of course re-instnicted the delegates .. . Of such things, Junior, are made CP...
...City noises heckle through open windows and the drama department sighs over the deserted state of Broadway (this is a good spot to expose TAG, but it's too warm...
...The other was Paul V. McNutt: of Indiana...
...Gallacher jumped up and growled "Doesn't Mr...
...The Food Ministry revealed this week that there is sufficient food hidden in secret depots throughout thecountry to hold the Island for three months even if no edibles cah get in from abroad during that period...
...And so < file whole Wheeler movement was...
...Pantellaria,' a forty-five square mile volcanic island off the Sicilian coast, has been built up in the Italian press as a bogey threat against Malta, from which the British control the 1,500 mile Libyan coast line...
...For that reason every effort to make •it an Italian Malta has failed...
...Germany is so much dependent on the Russian and Romanian oil sources that Hermann Rauschning recently staked his reputation in London on the prediction that Hitler would first assure himself of Eastern European oil before his next move...
...activities from the Labor Department to the Department of Justice...
...FlOR Senator Wheeler, he's popular with the wrong people: the...
...Wagers are placed and-the men find it "more exciting than the football pools...
...Anxiety of men friendly to the Allies, over the Italian threat to British Mediterranean nava...
...MEMBERS of the Chicago Guild reveal how the "comrades" reversed the membership instructions to the national - convention delegation...
...Arthur Garfield Hays, by the way—which will tie-up with the national Peace Mobilization meeting in Chicago over the Labor Day week-end...
...By the time ™j...
...Senator Miflton of In...
...Halfway between French Tunis and Sicily it might do the...
...German government...
...Since the blockade has severed connections with all other oil exporters except Russia, the relative importance of Romanian oil to Germany has been considerably enhanced...
...The Italian effort to' cover the movements of their water carriers may well prove to be the basic cause of an important clash between the fleets...
...In normal times about one-half of the oil sent by Romania to Germany went via the Black Sea and the Mediterranean...
...Around that point will break the next week's front page stories...
...Rome must take desperate action or some of its most important naval depots wili be taken without a shot being fired...
...In the aircraft plants the men have devised a speed-up of their own...
...The House laughed...
...in March of 1940 this had fallen to 44,797 tons while the British .during the same period increased their imports from 32,974 tons-, to 122,504...
...The N.M.U...
...There is for instance the July 4th edition of the Weckrdf where you can read how brave a man is Senator Wheeler...
...control of C.I.G...
...During this period Soviet oil has been exported in increasing amounts, reports the London Economist, and Russia is in a position to increase its oil exports because of the new wells drilled in the Ural and Baku districts...
...The English are doing strange things with their working day, entering into the job of equipping the fighting forces and laying in reserve stores as if it were ~ a gigantic national game...
...J . * * * DUT the President all the while had two irons in the . fire...
...bat we'll wager our 1904 vintage typewriter against a ticket to the Chicago's World Fair, Howard didn't tell Willkie that the World-Telegram on Wednesday...
...These are the men who reached the ages of 30, 31, 32, 33 or 34 during 1939...
...Only 480,000 are whole -time workers...
...German blitzkrieg, and the re-i emergence of Wheeler as a strict...
...Oitr Mexican informant told us that Harry Block work$ jpr the Stalinite Universidad Obrero, which is directed, by Lombards and Alehandro Carrillo, two CTM leaders who follow the Communist line south of the border...
...first in the oil industry and then among the peasants...
...Leopold© Arenal is a well-known young Communist leader who did...
...Every large population center vulnerable to air raids is surrounded with these depots—rations to be used only in case of rush evacuation...
...On the first of April...
...Block, in writing for the Nation, overlooks the confessions of Luis and Leopoldo Arena...
...Seme of your American "leftists" won't believe the following story—but it is happening...
...bases are ill founded...
...He is smart enough to: realize that if Roosevelt will run...
...A general membership meeting held recently ordered delegates to oppose the administration and all CP...
...Whatever publishers and candidates talk about we have only a faint idea...
...fur special S.P...
...Between that goal and oil star, vation stood, the ready-monied British agents buying up everything in sight...
...The powerful Leros and Rhodes bases in the Dodecanese Islands have inadequate water supplies, being desert or volcanic islands...
...uority (a powerful one) which": from 1932 onward has voted pro-' Roosevelt...
...t»ge has been set by Chicago's «»Xor, Kelly and the State Dem<°«atic machine controlled by the *ides.of Governor Horner., • * * "pHE organizations of thre^ states are cooperating with «* Illinois state machine to crei J* in Chicago a popular acclaim jw Roosevelt sueh as this nation ¦Ms never before seen for a cans idate...
...Back from Churchill came: ''Our relations with Russia are at so good a stage now that I cant answer Mr...
...Mrs...
...Alexandria and Haifa are farther removed from hostile air bases than is Scapa Flow from the German plane depots...
...IF you know a publisher who has i'yacht, and you're a presidential nominee—then yen can go yachting as did Wendell Willkie last week aboard Roy Howard's boat the "Jamoroy...
...This water supply problem also affects other Italian bases...
...They have formed teams which compete against, each otiier on hourly output...
...And this must be carried out within the warm months...
...For the "anti-war" position, of course, are our old r-r-r-reyolutionary friends (no slander intended, boys) Aaron Levenstein, Frank Trager, Travers Clement and the presidential candidate...
...And the editors of "Labor" don't like the idea...
...In September of 1939 Germany received 69,691 oil tons from Romania...
...Tanks and planes are pouring off assembly * lines_ at a rate unknown during the ' appeasement regime...
...Isolationist...
...Suddenly, lone Communist member Wm...
...Gallacher's question...
...gB@?jjjj connections, the strap'.g^jjffl-probably.be its own jusBritain Stocks Food To Meet 3 Months Siege Special to The New Leader LONDON (Passed by the Censor).—If Hitler's much ballyhooed lightning invasion is as successful as his "nerve" war against the British-people this island will still be free when the first protective snow falls this winter...
...wdwin with lys (McNutt's) un-r swerving support, he can land a Pi»ce in the coming cabinet This reasoning, if correct^ »ould seem to lead inevitably t<ij *. draft-Roosevelt trend early next week at Chicago...
...frigidity rapidly...
...A few editions back, Frieda Kirchway.s Nation printed an article by its Mexican correspondent*, Harry...
...More than 60,000,000 gas masks have been issued...
...Now, however, the bulk must be shipped up Hie Danube and the remainder sent by rail...
...Look at your Mediterranean map, put your finger in the square formed by the Italian bases at Brindisi, Tripoli, Tohruk and the Dodecanese Islands...
...flNE of the most important union newspapers in the country— ^ Edward Heating's "Labor"—is the publication of the Railway Brotherhoods...
...to predict on April first (April: Fool's Day) than it is today...
...Sufficient Food • An idea of other reception ^glans provided for the.Qerman...
...850 miles from Tripoli...
...Only respect for straggling members who shot desultory remarks at the Premier and his councillors kept the MPs at their benches...
...an obvious conclusion...
...During the past two months it has been rabidly anti-defense, printing in its columns much of the material peddled around the countryside by organizations whose loyalties can be doubted...
...Wheeler's isolationism imme-;diately won him the support of" i Congressional minority which...
...The Germans in recent'months turned increasingly to Romania and other countries of Southeastern Europe in a desperate effort to close the gap between supplies and war requirements...
...resolutions...
...eonld no more unite the Demo-;: eratic Party than a Senator from: the southern clown belt...
...conventions...
...secretary of the American Youth...
...That he can have the nomination, probably by acclamation, is a foregone conclusion...
...In addition, he's ihifflne...
...Somehow the desk is more clattered than usual...
...His sister is the wife of David Alfaro Siquiros, whom the police also suspect in connection with the attempt...
Vol. 23 • July 1940 • No. 28
