MARITIME UNION WORKS WITH GESTAPO
HARRISON, CHARLES YALE
MARITIME UNION WORKS WITH GESTAPO By Charles Yale Harrison Complicity between Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia in international affairs is paralleled in the National Maritime Union where nearly...
...He thought it was a crank Tetter...
...More drastic action is necessary...
...Goebbels may charm this or that American tocialite—but there is no direct way from his Propaganda Ministry to New York or Kansas R San Francisco...
...The French Communists really aeeomplished what the most skillful combination of Nazi propaganda and autocratic French Fascism never could have done—-France's collapse at her very base...
...When the relief man next...
...Coughlin has picked up the G.O.P...
...The Black Diamond agreement was bad...
...The formal charge was disobedience...
...I i :Wty not...
...Hitler, who always wins bis battles using the enemy's troops and never attacks a nation before ' it has already collapsed, will make desperate attempts t...
...Liberalism iso genuinely., the essential part ?f America's .Stage, national pride so unquestionably the Mmotiv of South America's political history, fct the unadulterated teachings of Alfred pienberg and...
...Buenos Aires* is a leading center 01 Nazi activity in South America and the local police stood idly by when the fight first started...
...The meeting was held by the German National Alliance...
...The third one is an open shop agreement In other words, the union instead of getting stronger and stronger, like a political clique in this onion wonld have us think it was doing, is getting weaker and weaker...
...She was given a clean bill of health...
...The Tanker agreement was worse...
...Otherwise the public, the State Department and the labor movement must do what it can to take the strategic seamen's union out of Moscow's hands...
...mation showing conclusive proof of the planned attack in a statement by the famous American labor leader, Joseph Corran,' president of all the American seamen's anions, who telegraphed the...
...SON) to Cftofo Fronts "jTMs writer ventures to predict a big busi...
...the only thing he knows is that Hitler would just now enjoy this kind of business in the U. S. and, especially, in South America...
...Then, several arrests were speedily made...
...OTFanswerVMr...
...And like all offenders: whose guilt rests opon documentary evidence, tiiey are quick to cry: "Forgeries...
...The victim was Phillip Carey, Communist member of the NMU Gulf District Executive Board...
...It is rumored that Among Eicken's non-commercial activities in New York will be the organization of a new branch pi the German American National Alliance, which has already become a powerful pro-Hitler influence among German societies in the Midwest...
...rtoW"':did the Nazi broadcaster get.his information...
...Curran and his colleagues...
...They are powerless to act because, for the moment they are without adequate leadership...
...The radio priest's propaganda machine works overtime accusing the Democratic party of Sovietization, cries softly over the rejection of Carter Glass, a "Protestant Gentleman," and Jim Farley, a "Catholic Gentleman...
...The wage increase,' of which Curran boasts, were'wdiV- Uy *r united .nnion??beiare,its best and' most-'devoted members were purged for opposing the political line of the Communist Party.' Ever since Corran assumed full control in 1938, the results have grown steadily worse...
...Will they get their jobs back if want them when their year of service...
...The following are cases chosen at random from union records and documents now in my possession : 1. Thomas McGown, newly elected agent of the Port of Boston, in a letter to another union functionary: "In the meantime, we shall see that Brother Stewart meets with an accident before then...
...charged with financial irregularity are ever reported to the police authorities...
...One such typical meeting was recently held in Otto Deckert's Tavern, in Morton Grove, Chicago, on July 10...
...In New York City and vicinity it will seek contracts with newspaper where no contracts exist covering editorial staffs, including the New York Times, Herald Tribune, New York Sun and City News Association and papers in the metropolitan area...
...Meanwhile German propaganda aimed at the New Deal, is being widely distributed throughout the country in many forms...
...dozens of "Newa cervices" the denunciation of Yankee Imperialism's sinister conspiracies...
...Curran communicate this ftiformation to agents of Ihe FBI...
...phraseology and is trying to smear the Secretary of Agriculture as "destructionist of the worst possible type...
...Seamen under suspicion of anti-Communism who handle union funds, for one reason or another are suddenly called upon to turn in their books...
...That's how I got there and that's the story...
...This year, however, at a meeting of the union's national council, it reversed itself ah-ruptly or, -the question ef the third term and declared that Roosevelt was a tool of Wall Street and a war-monger...
...below the Mason Dixon line, Wendell Willkie receives ?he probably unwanted support of Father Coughlin...
...An incriminating example of this complicity between Nazi and Communist members of the maritime union is contained in the files of the United States Maritime Commission in a report describing a riot that occurred in Buenos Airen last June 17...
...The following incident speaks for itself: On May 25 of this year, the S.S...
...The present period for voluntary enlistments is three years...
...3. Joseph Curran, president of the onion, reporting on the "damping" of NMU members "aboard the S.S...
...I : no...
...I - • .. J^nnis.last round before being relieved, the saboteur can poor a thimbleful ef emery dust into one or more oil-cups of the ship's ma-'-cnirfeiy...
...Government agents are at work in New York and other Atlantic ports following cities concerning a possible espionage link between NMU officials and Gestapo headquarters hi Berlin...
...Dumping," the seaman's expression for to slug or to blackjack, is resorted to freely...
...Five days later, on May 29, when the vessel was Bearing her port of call, the New York Daily News printed the following unusual news item: "Charges that agents of 4he British Secret Service were aboard the relief ship President Roosevelt, plotting to blow up the vessel and blame it on the Nazis, had a strong eche fen New York last night...
...It is expected that the attack on the Roosevelt campaign will be lauched there...
...In all cases a "shortage" is discovered and the victim is tried by a packed committee and expelled...
...This is quit...
...authorities, jthat he had evidence that there are three British Secret Service agents among the crew of the President Roosevelt and...
...gS applies only to firms engaged in interstate 2""»erce...
...12,011, condemns the Curran leadership as follows: - "The Communists are as bad as the shipowners, they're both out to use the union for their own ends...
...Liberals Easy Prey Liberals who do not live up intellectually to a changed world's conditions and stubbornly stick to formulas as wrong today as they ware sound ten years ago, are just the material Hitler is looking for in this hemisphere, He expects Stalin to perform miracles in guiding North America's best-natured liberals and South America's most ardent national revolutionaries into the Nazi trap...
...We got it every time: better food, better quarters...
...Henry Wallace comes in for vituperation...
...today's decision can be repaired tomorrow with the same democratic means...
...JtB for the manufacturers of stationery all t*r both Americas...
...dominant questions raised by many era--#*7«ts are: will they lose their seniority and W ratings when they leave their jobs for miliar service...
...is ^¦pleted...
...Conscientious Objectors, Job protection, Discussed by Senate j WASHINGTON D. C—The bewildering pace at which the idea of universal «iflitary training and the speed of actual drafting of the conscription measure has Wn flashing before the public's eye has led-to many doubts and confusions as to Hie effects of the bill on the youth of the country...
...For Newspaper Men Onfy In a statement issued to the press, the new union declared: "We are definitely a craft organization...
...It should be noted that under the law there are no exemptions...
...Harrison are not authentic...
...William L. Laurence is president of the new organization and Joseph Shaplen is secretary-treasurer...
...A "want" ad which exactly suits the *ew of Stalin's old-established , agencies, as fw have already noted...
...Violence is commonplace in the affairs of the union...
...But no union has ever been wrecked by the-truth...
...I I ^Members of the United States Maritime Commission- arc frankly concerned over the presence of active Nazis and Communists in tSeyyj.' S. merchant fleet- They point out that in the event of war with the Axis powers...
...a "Committee the Independence of Mexico" (interchange-•biy: Cuba, Bahama, Bolivia, ¦ Peru, and all tot), a "Congress for the Protection of South AFL Launches New Editorial Workers Union Formation of the American newspaper Writers Association, a craft union affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, and devoted to the interests of working newspapermen, was announced here this week...
...The Tanks Are Kit Coming" has replaced the slogan widen esioM for the quarantining of Hitler, Overnight the union has become violently anti-British and anti-Roosevelt...
...The more subtle German anti-New Deal propaganda is directed by such men as Dr...
...Klan, Bund, Coughlin Unite to Battle F. D. R. By VINCENT ROGERS ¦ This country is about to witness one of the strongest political combinations it has experienced in its 39 presidential elections...
...When that line demands immediate, effective sabotage of America's merchant, marine, Mr^ Carran-.i3 in* a position to be consistent:* The documents now in Mr...
...The Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League last i week advised J. Edgar Hoover of plans to merge the Bund and the KKK on August 18 at Camp Nordland, Andover, New Jersey...
...There isn't a good agreement today...
...In all cases where an employee is **ft«d, an employer will have the opportunity * appear before the local board to protest the ?*ftjng of any man considered necessary for the *™|taiance of his plant...
...Its entire position dh international affairs is a carbon copy of Earl Browder's...
...Curran has tenaciously followed every twist in Communist Party line...
...Last week the United States merchant marine, second line of the nation's naval defense, was shown to be honeycombed by agents of the Communist International's espionage and sabotage network now operating in this country...
...When Jack Paone and Walter Kaner, New York business agents, refused to recognise the Molotoff pamphlet as official union literature, they were promptly hauled before Joseph Car-ran, relieved of their duties and expelled from the union...
...So far as France was concerned, the Nazis knew in advance the Value of the French Com-munists' cooperation with the German army: being a nation of genuinely libertarian tradition, France could be pushed into defeatism in the face of German aggression only by a propaganda which smelled, at least from far, like skial revolution and deep concern for the plain people's welfare...
...Laudatory defense of the Nazi-Soviet, pact has become a major article of faith-among the NMU elite...
...And especially enlightening are the examples of "imperialism" and "self-government of small nations...
...abuse America's liberal and anti-imperialist' traditions to the utmost He relies faithfully on the fact that liberals, in times of transition, somehow tend to become dependable conservatives, precisely if and when they are honestly devoted to their ideals...
...tltese articles, Curran said: "We are attacked because we have increased wages in the industry ^^FW^BPE .eent?'—Vr ',' .iVpfafTt_ J^"' ."t-Ah original copy of the minutes of^^bfrrV membership meeting of the NMU, held on - November 4, 1938, contains a rank-and-file rebuttal of this statement A member of "the Engine Division is speaking:' "A year and a half ago this union was one of the most militant in the country...
...I made out pretty good...
...The objective of the entire political melange will be the defeat of the New Deal...
...But this is a more crucial period...
...That both sides, are giving a*ay liberally what belongs to others is habit in their circles...
...Another, rank-and-file member, Roscoe Williams, Card No...
...Contracts have been lost, the open shop has returned, unnecessary concessions have been made to the shipowners...
...Quincy, an American destroyer then in port, came to their assistance...
...Some employers—The A. T. & T. is one—are studying plans to make up to the employees the difference between army pay —$2-1 a month for privates—and the employee's normal civiliar earnings...
...Challenge to Mr...
...Well, if it was Communists, we should get after them, by all means...
...Like most unions that are run for the personal or political benefit of a clique, the NMU frequently employs the frame-up to discredit and oust members of the opposition...
...In both Americas the Nazis sled translators of particular skill: fellows who how how to flavor totalitarian cookies with file taste of liberalism and national independence—chaps who are trained experts in idling foreign goods under fake American abela...
...If the reds would leave their beliefs uptown, we'd all be much better off...
...Their mottoes are "cultural autonomy" and "political representation in the federal, state, and local government...
...Curran's handwriting, others are receipts, minutes, secret codes, CP...
...The recent $5-$ 10 wage increase in the industry was due solely to the action of the Seamen's Union of the Pacific...
...Fascism Works Democratic Methods Self-government of small nations, specifically, becomes a mere farce if and when these small nations, by an act of so-called self-government, lose this very right The prerequisite of each democratic procedure is the certainty that...
...Curran to accept the decision of a competent, impartial tribunal before whom we are ready to present four case loads of documents...
...In Washington, the American Federation of Labor issued a statement this week calling* upon all working newspapermen in the United States to rise and "smite the Communist-dominated Newspaper Guild," and build their own, bona fide trade union organization...
...In addition, it would almost be impossible to discover the culprit...
...i This readiness of Communists and Nasif within the NMU to collaborate with each other became manifest shortly after the signing' of the Hitler-Stalin pact last summer...
...Unit Studied America .Applying a truly scientific approach in all nutters of demoralizing propaganda, the Nazis save studied the American scene thoroughly enough to discover that straight Nazi activity has almost no chances in both Americas: this part of the world was so definitely infiltrated by an unceasing search for national and individual liberty, that it is almost invulnerable if Attacked by an undisguised philosophy of serfdom and utter...
...Sentiment in Congress is gaining for the Vandenberg proposal of voluntary enlistments for the one-year period...
...Curran to appear and deny, before competent handwriting experts, that the letters quoted by Mr...
...How he hopes to reconcile this with his newly created Bund partnership, is a question for his publicity men to work out...
...The New Leader challenges Mr...
...Just as it utilised for the conquest of Europe the traditional, pacifist emotions, the totalitarian conspiracy is anxious to abuse for the conquest of the Americas the traditional anti-imperialist feelings...
...But what we can expert now in both Americas, surpasses by 'far tits French masterpiece...
...These men, like Stalin, whom they serve, ruthlessly crush all opposition...
...During the next months, (nadreds of new "Leagues," "Committees," ^Congresses" and "News Services" will need ispressive letter papery There will be, you bet, »*ne "League Against Dollar Imperialism" lolled, probably, by that strange American V» for abbreviation, L.A.D.I...
...Happy days are here again . . . for printers...
...He said: -i...
...The anti-Catholic, 'cross-burning Ku Klux Klan recently declared it*"brotherhood with the German-American: Bund and all its affiliates and friendly organizations, which in turn means the Christian Mobilizers and the Christian Front...
...Up and down the Atlantic seabord, down along the Golf ports, and up on the Great Lakes waterfronts, NMU seamen are beginning to realize that their union is part of the Communist apparatus operating in this country on behalf of the Bignators of the Hitler-Stalin pact The overwhelming majority are loyal Americans who know that their outfit is headed for disgrace and disaster if this country should have to defend itself against an attack by the Berlin-Moscow-Rome Axis...
...Several participants in the brawl were seriously injured...
...The matter is more serious than it seems at the first glance...
...If this fails, all American defense efforts will be negated...
...The union issued an appeal to "All Working Newspapermen" asking them to join in the task of building a nation-wide organization...
...We will not be diverted from our legitimate and lawful task of helping to build for the working newspapermen of this country an organization of their own choosing and creation, which will serve only the interests of the newspaper writers* craft and not the interests of the Communist Party under the flag of a spurious industrial unionism such as the Newspaper Guild represents...
...v GfBcials of the line said they attempted to remedy this situation by discharging known BUM it?m'bersy but thai replacements sent by the NMU's Stewards' Division, where most of the Nazis are concentrated, were equally on-:d&&bie...
...The Free Press praises Adolf Hitler and frequently attacks American Democracy...
...The noble emotions which thirty years ago pushed cultured nations and cultured men onto the road of anti-imperialism, today demand from them a strict revaluation of their attitude concerning a democratic big power's relations with small neighbors: while the goal remains just the same (namely, the safeguarding of a small nation's right of independence and self-government), each sound mind must recognize that a democratic big power, retreating today from its spheres of influence abroad, merely pushes the small nations concerned, by this very act into the arms of the totalitarians...
...Shaplen is one of the best-known labor reporters and authorities on labor problems in this country...
...The Nazis may bribe this or that South American politician—but they have nothing to •fer to the plain peoples in Mexico or Cuba...
...Brazil, an American Republics liner, Bund and Communist members of the ship's crew assembled in a waterfront bar in the Argentinian port and taunted several of the crew of a British vessel by shouing: "Your turn is next...
...This would score the.babbit, diverting the aU ¦from its,'proper Channels'and causing the affected parts to 'bum.' The ship could thus be caused to stop at any pre-arranged time for "fniate"ver purpose the enemy had in mind...
...And the boys in Washington had better get busy before it's too late...
...Erica Reed, at which he was present: "There were four well-dressed men, one tall and blonde, that-came aboard the ship...
...With such sufficient strength has it placed Communist agents inside the American Merchant Marine, Joe Curran now feels cocky enough to boast that he can control shipments of munitions to and from this country...
...Unions Save been wrecked by racketeers, gangsters, and by the "Communist program of "rule or ruin...
...The National Maritime Union is in a strategic position...
...It will seek, however, to work in cooperation with all elements upon whom the welfare of newspapermen depends, including the organized printing crafts.: "One of its most important tasks will be the promotion and maintenance of high: ethical standards in the newspaper field...
...The masthead o? the newspaper is adorned with pictures of two U. S. flags and one torch of Liberty, flanked by drawings representing George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, but beneath the title is printed: "Every Pure Aryan American At His Post To Save The Country From The Ejiemy Within Our Gates...
...It is a political racket .operating in the interests of a potentially hostile foreign government...
...We are ready to appear before any one of these selected by Mr...
...efforts "to "crack the solid south" will have KKK cooperation, observers learned this week, as Imperial Wizard Colescott denuded the Klan by ordering the abandonment of hoods and robes and launched a drive for respectability...
...We got what we wanted off the shipowners...
...If predictions can be made on the past records of such gatherings, some 20,006 Bunds-men will be present, no doubt joined in the festivities by some thousands of Klansmen...
...1~rat8 flew, chairs and bottles were thrown, while the fight rapidly took on the proportion* of a riot...
...Both men are on the staff of the New York Times...
...Prussianism...
...There are unions devoted to the organization of office workers and others having no relation to newspaper writers, who should not permit themselves ' to be overwhelmed by elements extraneous to their craft and, therefore, having no relation to their particular problems...
...And the true liberals in the New World should be advised to reconsider the issues involved before they fall for the magic of words...
...This sub-, stitute proposal would also set higher pay scales for enlistments, for—as the author points out—the attractive officer's pay has always stimulated more applications than needed, and a living scale commensurate with civilian life would be an attractive inducement for enlistments in the ranks...
...Communist May Day parades, Was available for comment...
...This would seem to indicate that a greater percentage of crooks, thieves and embezzlers are to be found among seamen than in any other trade, which of eourse is obviously absurd...
...These cases, however, are bound to be rare...
...Curran must now prove to the American public that the NMU is not part of the Comintern's apparatus here...
...This has been a favorite Communist Party tactic . . . the idea being to deny all accusations and then face supporting documentary evidence with the simple cry of Fake...
...An- official of the Maritime Commission recently described to me the comparative ease with which a modern liner could be put out lpfrcpmmission by an enemy sympathizer among the ship's crew...
...No Political Affiliation "The American Newspaper Writers Association is an organization of, by and for working newspapermen...
...Outnumbered two to one, the Britishers were getting the worst of it until the crew of the U.S.S...
...2. Frederick C. Phillips, chairman of a membership meeting, reporting on a factional brawl in the union: "Well, one of the members of the committee, a two-time fink, went after me and the battle was on...
...They're in the union for one reason: to build - the party...
...Some of them are in Mr...
...A Berlin broadcast, picked up by the News short-wave listening station-at 9 p. m., named Joseph Curran,/president of the CIO National Maritime Union, as an authority for the German accusation...
...Young, Grand Kailiff of the Klan in the New Jersey area, and Bundsmen Wilhelm Kunze, August Klapproth-and Mathias Kohler...
...In his reply in the Daily Worker to tie first of...
...Harrison, who has by no means exhausted the documents in his dossier on the National MarluSe-TMoltrwill retarn to this question, from time to time, as circumstances warrant...
...They pointed proudly to - two swastikas inlaid in the floor of the liner's har—In this case, decorative American Indisn symbols—and said to the passengers: •^That's as all overl" . '.The Manhattan's newspaper, edited by the radio operator, a member of the Communist-controlled American Communications Association, was defeatist in character, it was said, highlighting German victories and British reverses...
...Standard didn't know...
...In last week's edition of The New Leader, Mr...
...The arrangements are in the hands of Dr...
...The-^Berlin announcer declared: 'The German authorities have received additional infor...
...Obviously the solution to this problem has an anti-Semitic base—which provides the key to cooperation with the Mobilizers and the Front...
...The official organ of the A. F. of L. seamen's union in its issue of July 7, 194%, says: "The main function of the Curran leadership seems to be to break down the wage standards and conditions of the American seaman...
...Will they lose their benefits .under "'"•trial insurance and'company retirement HtnsT ¦One provision of the bill tentatively approved ¦ *e Senate Committee would make it an unfair "bor practice under the National Labor Rela-gP Act for an employer to refuse to rehire a IE »ho has left his job for military service...
...The following categories of editorial employees are eligible to membership in the new organization: Reporters, rewrite men, copy readers, district men, editorial writers on the regular payroll of newspapers, writers on drama, music and books on the regular payroll, and all others on the regular payroll who collect, write and edit reading material...
...And after we went so far along that line the policy changed, and all of 4. sodden we were told not to fight the shipowners but to go down, to Washington and fight our own government...
...The entire emphasis is on a slandering of the Jews and Great Britain...
...He was...
...Passengers returning an the S.S...
...About all that this writer has not a bit of inside information, he confesses...
...We are willing to prove the validity of these documents beyond any shred of doubt...
...In Chicago, in addition to directing the Alliance, Eicken headed the German Veterans of the World War and was on chummy 'terms with'the Nazi Bund...
...Peter Innes, a former officer, responded to the customary charge by bringing a suit for libel against Curran and the union, alleging $225,000 damages...
...A huge "Americanization rally is planned there for that date...
...To fight for India's independence (certainly a sound idea and a high ideal) obviously makes sense only as long as England's retreat would bring about real self-government for India and not a combined Russo-German "protectorate.*' In short: all democratic demands are bound to U« acceptance of the same democratic rules of the game on all sides...
...filled ^;the oil-cups, he would unwittingly wash the '.dust down the 'hair' or wick of the engine...
...In such times, a traditionally liberal mind is not always quick enough to cope with the speed of material changes abroad...
...While we fully sympathize with the efforts of other classes of employees, such as stenographers, bookkeepers, accountants, clerks, etc., to organize for collective bargaining to improve their conditions, we do not see why such classes of employees should be lumped with newspaper writers, representing a highly skilled craft, no more than that they should be lumped with skilled craftsmen in the mechanical departments...
...Seamen along the New Orleans waterfront say that Carey was murdered because he was getting ready "to spill the beans...
...Manhattan jirn* Jtrry 19- complained to officials of the United States Lines concerning the offensive pro-Nazi ..behavior of many of the NMU crew aboard, i^tfed" stewards burst into cabins to tell of Nazi military victories...
...It will not countenance interference by any political party and will not follow any party line...
...We challenge Mr...
...Harrison made charges which in normal times would require government investigation...
...The officials of the organization announced that the union is a Federal local chartered by the A. F. of L. and will be included before long in a national council of similar locals in other parts of the country, preliminary to the establishment of *a fnB-edged A. F. of L. international of working newspapermen...
...our sijips would be at the mercy of totalitarian - saboteurs on board American vessels...
...We have formed our organization in response to a widely expressed desire on the part of newspapermen for an organization of our type...
...It is a job that simply clamors to be done...
...As compared with the services Stalin's j family con-a?et?oas in North and, especially South America «SJ render to the Nazi plan for penetration of this hemisphere, the poor slices Stalin was slowed to cut'from Europe's poorest countries ue next to nothing...
...Laurence is the paper's science reporter, and Mr...
...Not until the crew of the Quincy went into action, and several NMU Nazis and Communists were severely beaten up, did the Buenos Aires waterfront police become conscious of their duty...
...Last year, on September 17, a mysterious murder occurred along the New Orleans waterfront...
...While the KKK carries the underground campaign for the G.O.P...
...transferred to this city from Chicago by the firm for which he works, H. A. Brassert & Company, consulting engineers...
...Only the pleas of Argentinian officials that the affair be bushed up prevented it from bp-coming the basis of a minor international Incident...
...One question can definitely be answered...
...Provision will be made for conscien-Trious objectqrs—definitely for objectors on religious grounds—anc these fc*i»ed for nonitpmbatant service, as in Britain, «ad not for figttting duty...
...Emery dust -does not have to be smuggled aboard ship, as it cari be found in any machine shop...
...Harrison against the Communist - dominated "National Maritime Union, Joe Curran, NMU chief, has used the time - worn rebuttal of "Forgery...
...The working newspapermen of this country are tired of being misrepresented' by a Communist transmission belt...
...Tbe use of emery dust is perhaps the simplest way in which to cripple a vessel and leave her helpless on the high seas...
...This case is now pending in the New York courts...
...MARITIME UNION WORKS WITH GESTAPO By Charles Yale Harrison Complicity between Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia in international affairs is paralleled in the National Maritime Union where nearly 2,000 German-born, pro-Nazi seamen, many of them strong-arm members of the German-American Bund, work in loyal cooperation with the Communist leaders of the NMU...
...whose hobby is to fight ardently for the world's most rotten causes, will lend their names 'to the letterheads...
...But when Lithuania "decides" to join the Soviet Union, or Bolivia the Axis, they jkave evidently abandoned for a pretty long time their right to change their mind...
...Thus, of the 146 seamen expelled from the union as of February 9 of this year, according to the'union's records, 42 were accused of embezzlement, absconding with union funds, petty larceny and other variations of this- favorite device of the Communist Party in "exposing" comrades who balk at the party line...
...1 Mr...
...i Did Mr...
...Premier MolotolTs speech before the Supreme Soviet, jn which he hailed the pact as "a mighty bulwark of peace," is included in all bundles of union literature carried aboard ships for NMU crews...
...There are scores of prominent labor arbiters whose honesty and objectivity are unimpeachable...
...There are only postponements or "deferments" for people with essential jobs, dependants, defectives and conscientious objectors...
...Shaplen made the following statement to The New Leader: "As was to have been expected, the Communist-dominated Newspaper Guild denounces us as a company union...
...A well-meaning and charming lady, whose sympathy with the Communist Party is only exceeded1 by her ignorance of the bona fide labor movement, asked me the othr day if I did not think that exposure of the Communist control of tKe NMU played into the hands of the enemies of labor...
...instructions and blueprints...
...AH the speakers invariably urged the German Americans: "Tb wake up—and secure representation for the oppressed German minority in the United States...
...This attack, which will be chiefly carried out by the fellow-travelers of all 21 rep?blica, deserves at least the same attention as the ordinary espionage activity of the Fifth Column proper...
...I got a couple of bumps, and I got hit with a chair and the matter was stopped...
...The American Natis, in their various-' nreetings, now follow the same methods and malte the same demands which the Henleins did in Czechoslovakia before Munich...
...Here to Stay "The American Newspaper Writers Association is here- to stay...
...4. Nor are "dumpings" the only form of violence known to the Maritime Union...
...Ried was expelled from Brazil a short time ago because of his activities in promoting Nazi sentiment there...
...American Self-Government" (what would make unavoidable the truly exposing abbreviation C.P.-S.S...
...they are preparing te commit an act of violence on the vessel's retnrn voyage.'" , The charge that British agents,, plan to blow op neutral passenger ships with the < intention of blaming the Nazis is one of the shopworn publicity devices of Dr...
...The National Maritime Union is not a genuine labor union dedicated to the economic and social welfare of its members...
...Before her departure, the vessel was boarded by agents of the FBI and inspector» of the United States Maritime Commission who conducted a search for any possible violation of the Neutrality Act...
...Here Is a superb opportunity for the American Federation of Labor to step in and perform a patriotic duty by tearing the control of the American waterfront from the hands of men who pledge allegiance to a foreign dictator...
...For the first time in its short history the United States faces a threat of annihilation from within, as well as from Nazi Germany...
...ri»e unions have already obtained agree-| with employers stipulating that any em•"tfw called for military service shall be reinstated without loss of seniority at the end of his service period...
...My reply was that every corrupt labor leader, when caught red-handed with the goods, pleads that publicity in the press will play into the hands of the employers...
...But that's all the knowledge you need for predicting that, therefore, the orphans of the late "League for Peace and Democracy" will dp their utmost And is there anybody who doubts that all those prominent fools, male and female...
...In all their meetings and addresses the speakers constantly refer to the oppression of the German minority just as they used to speak of the oppression of the former Sudeten Genua* in Czechoslovakia...
...Julius Streicher are positively SsVof the race on this side of the world...
...Curran DEPLYING to charges brought by Mr...
...in line with Communist tactics of slander and character-assassination...
...Goebbels' ministry of propaganda...
...Anyhow, what Hitler now gets jack is many times the betrothal gifts Stalin received from the fuehrer in Europe...
...That was the hopeful, though unfortunately short, epoch of predominantly progressive trends in world politics- Since then arose the entirely now phenomenon of totalitarian expansion—an: expansion which imitates exactly the movement of gases: they immediately expand into each vacuum, and so does totalitarianism...
...Reporters anxious to confirm the Berlin broadcast scurried about New York for several hoars trying to locate Corran, but without success...
...and'there was a fireman, in the bonk ?bove Scotty;1'They/worked on Scatty wjtii lead pipes...
...Fascism, as my friend Ignazio Silone observed in one of his Easterly books, must be presented ta Americans H the most dependable device for the safe-parding of democracy—or not at all...
...For apparent reasons, none of these anti-CmmuniBts...
...Small Nations Seed England's, U.S.' Protection By WILLI SCHLAMM Maybe Hitler did not know a year ago, when he proposed to Fraeulein Stalin, that the bulk of the dowry would be paid in the Western hemisphere...
...This liaison extends even further, since the Christian Mobilizer leader and congressional candidate Joe McWilliams has been officially endorsed by Father Brophy, who with Father Curran of the Catholic Truth Society leads the Christian Front...
...Nor will the American Newspaper Writers Association countenance the admittance into its organization of other completely outside elements, holding no jobs of any kind on newspapers and, therefore, having no right whatsoever to hold cards in an organization of newspapermen and mould its policies...
...Typical of the scores of fronts set up by Goebbels' agencies here is the Free Press published by Syd and Harriet Pierce in Bend, Oregon...
...Who the people were who dumped them.r don't know...
...Firally, William L. -. Standard, the ' union's attorrfey-wbo never: fails to march, in...
...i Belatedly, Standard revealed that on the day the President Roosevelt sailed, an anonymous letter reached Curran stating that British Secret 'Service men planned to Jeetroy the vessel'on her return voyage...
...We have set ourselves a great task and we are determined to fulfill it...
...Ried was the German Consul in Dio Grande Do Sul, where pro-Nazi feeling is more intense than anywhere on the continent Aiding Ried is Ernst ten Eicken, recent president of the German American National Alliance (Einheitsfront), who has just arrived in New York...
...Shortly before the killing of Carey, the entire board had been arbi-'trarily removed from office because of its refusal , to carry out Communist instructions...
...For the six years previous to his expulsion Dr...
...President Roosevelt left New York for Galway to evac?ate American citizens who had been stranded tb Europe...
...Here's fx point where Stalin comes in ;_he has a few faglar's keys for doors firmly closed against ^tier...
...Friedrich Ried, who has been working on the staff of the New York German consulate: since July 9. Dr...
...According to officers of the S.S...
...Every Scalise and Bioff iu the labor movement uses the same argument...
...G.O.P...
...Harrison's possession are genuine...
...any kind of "Anschluss," a democratic big power is downright betraying its small neighbors by leaving them alone—which means-, in our time, to leave them to Hitler and Stalin...
...And since the modern technique made it a child's play for totalitarian big power* to manufacture over night in every small nation a passionate longing for...
...Last year the union at its convention in NSW Orleans overwhelmingly endorsed a third term for President Roosevelt, clamored for quarantining the aggressor and led in the hue-and-cry against Nasi agents in this country...
...Twenty, thirty years ago, when the anti-imperialist feeling became overwhelming in America's liberal public opinion, the basic assumption that the U.S.A.'s voluntary renouncement of exerting any influence on small nations abroad would open the road towards a true self-government of these nations, could be generally and rightly accepted...
...This would, naturally, settle to the bottom of the cop by the time the relief oiler came oh doty...
Vol. 23 • August 1940 • No. 31
