Political Realignment in Sight
Editorial Political Realignment in Sight The platforms of political parties, said Josh Billings, are like the platforms of railway cars—they are meant to get in by, not to ride on. That has been...
...Wadsworth, however, with a dictum that any such provision would be un-con-sti-tu-tion-al, justa»a...
...JTXPOSURES of Communist activities and intrigues are not at a premium in these days of fifth-column consciousness...
...The jg&JlB humane nature of this provision is beyond all qnfiiriwi "*Wl had enough experience after 1918 of men who were mustered out from the United States army onfr h» Bsc themselves mustered into the wretched and ingloxam amy of the unemployed...
...Interference via their diplomatic agents in the political, cultural, and industrial life of the few remaining democracies has become a casual item on the consular agendas of Europe's totalitarian states...
...The Democratic convention in Chicago showed a little more respect for the intelligence of the voting public...
...The service excuse given by Curator Iris Barry was that the Library Wjjjdjk cutting down on the budget...
...HEALTH WORKERS' RIGHTS JUSTICE NOVA of the New York State Supreme Court recently sustained the State Labor Relations Board in holding that the law giving employees a right to bargain collectively through agencies of their own choosing applies to hospitals operated solely for profit...
...that Huff's salary was only one-tenth that of Miss Barry...
...This, despite the fac...
...Almost alone of the younger generation, and entirely alone of the Film Library staff, Huff witnessed Griffith's famous Biograph classics and other historic films when they were first shown in the vanished age before "The Birth of a Nation...
...it ordinary industrial plants, then the public must give them such protection that they will not need to fight for tbec rights as other workers do...
...Letters To the Editor Stalinites Tighten Control On Modern Art Film Library From JIM WAVERLY To the Editor: ^ . The Stalinist elements in control of the Museum of Modern Art Film Library scored a definite victory in the - discharge, several weeks ago, of Theodore Huff...
...The National Maritime Union has long been the goal of Soviet efforts...
...The prospect of Wag thrown on the junkpile after getting out of the uniform cannot but have a damping effect upon even the braves and most devoted...
...a vital part of the administration's plan for protecting far interests of workingmen called for military training ajj service under the conscription law...
...a call to military service...
...It is no deep secret that Huff contributed the major share to making the Film Library the authoritative institution which it professes to be today...
...They will be gaifcfk the records and utterances of the caaSZaZ "What we shall have is not a **"rnafj_*j~¦' tween Roosevelt and WilUrie, but a ettnaaW for and against Roosevelt and Wallace f5 record is an open book, more pages in...
...We may hopV that the Wadsworth proposal wifl H rejected and that Congress will straightforwardly dec?s*» # law that no man shall lose his place in industry by an...
...Wadsworth has ds»f the nation and the workingmen a bad service by prc«po«*f to emasculate this part of the bill...
...The 'Republican, party in convention at Philadelphia last month ran true to form...
...They were willing and eager to-work for their living, but we saw many of them reduced to tnt necessity of panhandling and standing in breadlines...
...Huff had long been outspoken in his opposition to the local Communist movement and to the Soviet Union...
...New York...
...Perhaps this is the time to act sharply once more...
...By rolling up his sleeves, and plunging.into the months of arduous probing and leg work, Mr...
...task of getting rid of Huff at the earliest opportunity...
...are being written day by day...
...It is, of course, every man's guess how the court decide...
...That wrong remains to be righted, and it would appear that this cannot be done by judicial interpretation, but will require an amendment of the State'Labor Relations Act or a separate statute...
...Since 1912, he has been going to pictures on an average of three times a week...
...The platform had the usual pointing with pride and viewing with alarm...
...but the convention was careful not to say in any definite terms whether a Republican Congress and President, if elected, would reverse the trend of social and labor legislation which has prevailed for the last seven and a half years, or would continue it in principle and modify it in detail—and, if the latter, just how they would change it...
...STALIN AND HIS N.M.U...
...For the present, that is a safe thing to say...
...But here's the pay-off: Huff had been on the Library staff for nearly five years...
...As usual, the voters will pay jjty, Igfe tion to the piatforms...
...It can block supply routes, help starve out the nation, simply by cutting the United States' jugular vein^-^-thae American merchant marine...
...He was one of the oldest employees, having started work there when the Library was founded in 1936...
...result will be the same,, for most American» admire courage and dislike side-steppers...
...Both platforma assure the people that the United States is not going to send an army to Europe...
...kinds of labor laws used to be, because it would trespaM on the employers' sacred right to hire and fire, instead, be proposes a harmless and useless provision that tsm mustered-out soldier shall be given a certificate, pafa»g* with an embossed seal and other ornaments, stating the pious wish of Congress that he may get back hi» "job * some other job just as good...
...jIt would be for the United States Supreme Court, at the proper time, to pass on the constitutionality of the {*"jH| plan...
...Yet, after three and a half years of the same work at the Museum of Modern Art, .suddenly, and without explanation, his job was given to . a Viennese ballet accompanist, who had never played or arranged music for silent movies...
...No one is asking us to send an army there, and we could not at this time send one even if we wished...
...the Comintern's agents will sacrifice control of all its other unions here, will junk a score of transmission belts and its Thirteenth Street headquarters to boot This interference in the industrial life of this nation—now facing its real crucible years—is clearly in contravention to the letter and spirit of the 1933 treaty of recognition...
...That this would involve sending ships and troops to fight far from our own shores is a fact that both of the conventions ignored, nor does either platform explain why it would be worse for Americans to risk their lives on> European soil or- in Mediterranean...
...Harrison unearthed letters in Joe Curran' a own hand- . writing, secret minutes, codes, and special seals, a closely knit network which E. Philips Oppenheim might have envied...
...It tt mm that record tiratf the people wifl divide...
...waters than in Canada or Braiil, fa fti'ia^^ Atlantic or in Asiatic waters...
...The same problem exists all over the country...
...Up comes Mr...
...If we ate to expect workers in hospitals, schools, and other SsA institutions of humane service not to act like employee...
...Huff is widely recognized as one of the outstanding authorities on Griffith and the American film, and his part in building up the Film Library on the basis of his first-hand knowledge of motion pictures, which none of his superiors on the Library staff could claim, is well known in motion picture circles...
...The decision will cover about 4,000 service and maintenance employees of sixty-five hospitals in this city alone, and many others up state...
...Prestase Roosevelt went further than he had ever t»si before in drawing these new lines...
...The Soviet Union, as well as the other totalitarian powers who specialize in exporting bestiality, must be told now to dismantle their espionage and anti-democratic machinery here—or we will dismantle it for them...
...It too, however, when it came to the question of foreign' policy and the stand of the United States in the present international situation, did its best (or worst) to leave essential things unsaid...
...Huff had played for silent pictures since 1923 in the movie houses of Princeton, N. J., and on Long Island...
...As to the New Deal, its platform declarations are reasonably clear and concrete...
...If I should—well, public opinion would certainly get on th*T»» with far better chances of success than in an attempt ¦ moralize greedy and heartless employees...
...The real story was not told by Miss Barry in her letter to Huff...
...The original intention was to assure to these men, ajp released from service, a right of re-employment in thtifM where they held situations when drafted...
...To dominate the N.M.U...
...2 the lines of division will probably ra»*»^ both parties much more deeply than thejj1' in 1936—more deeply, perhaps, than hfTB' campaign since that of 1868...
...These, as well as Local 80 of the Building Service Employees' Union, which fought the case, are to be congratulated on Justice Nova's wise and just ruling, which we have no doubt the higher courts will affirm...
...Huff grew up in the shadow of the old studios of Fort Lee, N. J., in the dayt "when the movie* were young...
...Leyda poisoned the minds *of the library's staff against Huff, at the same time .that he indoctrinated every stenographer, secretary, and office-boy in the place with Stalinist doctrines...
...Both parties are for defending the Western Hemisphere against invasion or armed attack from Europe—and presumably from any other part of the world...
...It must be added that there are many thousands of workers in public, charitable, and partly charitable hospitals who* do not come within this decision and whose hours, wages, and other terms of employment are oppressive to them, disgraceful to the institutions concerned, and detrimental to the health interests of the people...
...The glories of Republican rule from 1921 to 1933 were extolled, and the voters were expected to forget the orgies of corruption that characterized the Harding administration,, the utter subservience to the interests- of Big Business throughout the Coolidge period, and the flood of misery which burst upon the country within seven months after Mr...
...He had been pan tieularly bitter about Communist penetration into the Film Library...
...If Mr...
...It was small wonder, therefore, that when Huff left, the office manager, one Miss Florence West, told him that he had "never belonged" there, that he "didn't fit in," and that he "didn't work well with the others...
...He feels quite sure, be ajjfc that public opinion would compel employers to hoaof As certificate...
...Last week Mr...
...Even so, Mr...
...Hoover entered the White House and which began to recede within four months after h? left it...
...By insisting that his running mate abatid be not only a man personally acceptable $ hum, but a man who clearly agrees with t?» on domestic and foreign policy...
...4 **~ AFTER CONSCRIPTION—WHAT?' J^EPRESENTATIVE WADSWORTH of New York-*» sibly with good intentions, though his past record it set reassuring—struck a dangerous blow on Wednesday agam...
...If the Republican candidate lack the wisdom or the courage to Bo" HA, the election may not give quite so clear i picture,,of the state of public opinion, Bw in'-^jat case, we believe that the practica...
...None of the others, least of all Miss Iris Barry, the curator, had an equal grasp on the subject...
...Welles spoke out strongly against Soviet annihilation of three sovereign states...
...Whether they will outnumber the an voters and the former Republican voten wht will rally to the Roosevelt-Wallace ticket j, by no means so sure...
...It controls shipping out of the world's most highly industrialized nation.N It controls the movement of men and munitions...
...Here is the concrete evidence, the missing link between suspicion and conviction...
...That has been generally true of the major parties in this country, throughout our .history as a nation...
...telligible expression of the voters' wfll—taj in that case, we believe that the next tare months will brjng a development of paefc opinion more and more favorable to Roesevth and Wallace...
...Aa?c from justice and humanity, the re-employment provisor would have an immense value from the point of view o? patriotic feeling and army morale...
...With us, elections are held at fixed times, and when an election is at hand, no great issue is allowed to interfere with the vote-getting plans of the party machine...
...Wifflae ad Senator McNary proceed to their appoints task of unequivocally defining the pobo* for, which they stand, we shall have an to...
...As a result, Miss Barry's faithful assistant, Soviet-trained propaganda commissar Jay Ley da, set himself the...
...Huffs dismissal merely confirms the already well-known fact that the Film Library is not a liberal institution, operating in accord with the traditions of American democracy, but a totalitarian stronghold in the heart of free America, functioning in the interests of a destructve political movement under Iris Barry, the dictator who rose to power through suavity and clever manipulation, and her henchman, Soviet-trained propaganda • commissar, Jay Leyda...
...Harrison's charges now become of vital concern to the State Department...
...To meet any real troublesome questions,' an elder statesman was put forward to explain, before he or anyone else knew who would be nominated, that tiie candidates would some time before election day, tell the people what the platform really means...
...The recent history of that high tribunal njakai'f very improbable that it would invalidate the law...
...In any event, it looks as if the long onrdae realignment of voters on live issues instead «f partisan affiliation is now at hand...
...Subsequent investigation revealed that no one else had been dropped from the Museum's payroll either for some time before or in the weeks following Huffs dismissal...
...The Roosevelt administration was condemned forevery-thing it has done and for everything it has not done...
...But the story told by Charles Yale Harrison on our front page is not only unique in the startling documentation of its serious charges, but it is of international significance because it presents irrefutable evidence of the Soviet Union's flagrant violation of the commitments made by the then Commissar of Foreign Affairs Litvinoff in the treaty by which in 1933 the United States granted recognition to the Soviet gpyernment...
...Under the parliamentary system, when some great new issue arises, an election takes place...
...That t«j many who voted for him in 1932 and lge will vote against him this year appears certain...
...Since this individual was unable to read English sufficiently to follow the cues, and since he was also lacking in real understanding of the technique of film accompaniment, Huff was forced to sit beside him for a solid year to "break" him in...
...The Comintern's entire American espionage and sabotage apparatus is linked to a vital and strategic trade union...
Vol. 23 • July 1940 • No. 30
