Defense Efforts Reduce England's Jobless Total
REYNARD, DICK
Defense Efforts Reduce England's Jobless Total Laval Turned Over Huge Arms Stoats to Reich By DICK REYNARD Icelandic-Canadians patrol Iceland; British men of war ferret out armed merchant raiders...
...This will make official the- already existing cooperation between the French Communist Party and Doriot's organization, which teems with men ranging from young pro-Nazi aristocrats to gunmen from the underworld of Marseilles...
...In the Judy 31 edition of PM—through the word* of pro* Communist Richard O. Boyer—Ingersoil permitted hi* sheet to go pro-Nazi . . . the Goebbel* ministry knew what it was about when it admitted Dick Boyer io Sasi territory...
...j Of course, I know that this can be done...
...Thorez will also cooperate with the Croix de Feu, whose front man in the Petain government is M. Ybaranegaray...
...Although there has been much talk, in the extremely unhampered left-wing press, about government curtaibnenfT of freedom, only the pro-Nazi black-shirted Fascists have been banned throughout the empire...
...Some of Moseley's printing presses are still operating...
...Heard on the Left By VICTOR RIESEL COME of the boys with good memories, and tongues which* crackled like the tip of a wetl-handled gaucho whip, slipped into the back room fur another uncorking good time...
...In certain sections of London the Fascists have daringly been operating under forged War Department insignias...
...There's money enough in the country to do it...
...Confidential reports to The New Leader from London, a radio broadcast by the usually authentic Drew Pearson and Bob Allen, and Ludwig Lore, columnist in the N. Y. Post, reveal that the Germans have asked Moscow to send the fugitive Maurice Thorez back to Paris to aid in forming an anti-Italian "leftist-fascist" government under Doriot, who was a charter member of the French Communist Party...
...for the President would be required to erase from the public...
...You can't evaporate the objection to an American Fuehrer by showing that Jim Reed fought the NLRB...
...During May, unemployment insurance benefits amounting to $10,376,190, in the form of 862.267 individual checks, were paid to unemployed men and women by the Division of Placement and Unemployment Insurance, New York State Department of Labor, according to a report issued this week by Industrial Commissioner Frieda S. Miller...
...And about that, of course, we cannot be too wary...
...Dangers beset us on every side...
...headquarters an appeal for common action—strangely reminiscent of the recently abandoned popidar front period...
...about 100,000 .veteran Polish, Czech, Belgian and" French soldiers are on the front beach lines awaiting the Keichswehr...
...Thsenas end La idler are in the center, of all places...
...44 UtrwHtude...
...His department must now work with the air force and prevent new materials from flowing into the continent while the R.A.F...
...Running openly on a platform "opposing Communist dsmi nation," Walter Engels defeated Arthur Siebelist 107 to 9f...
...WHATEVER is left in the C.I.O...
...arrangements are being made with Downing Street to set up a provisional government somewhere in the provinces...
...We may well believe that Congress will attend to that matter and promptly...
...There'll be fewer turns than on the line he is riding now...
...He tells as with all frankness and not "Uncharitably, either, that when the Nazi conquest of Europe shall have been completed, American trade with Europe will be carried^ on according to Nazi regulations and upon Nazi terms...
...Then with the wages thus received, the Sjwprkers will buy other things, and it will be Off on the Morning Trajn, We'll See Our Love Again...
...in 1938 she produced 683,000 metric tons of this raw material...
...As evidence he offers the creation by the C.I.O...
...More important are the French iron ore deposits south of Luxembourg...
...I adta resorting to the counter-attack upon the Democrats that hare bolted him and his hand-picied crew...
...Nye will need a political delousing after appearing with Mike Quill, Maremntonio, John P. Davis and Bella Dodd at a "peace rally...
...Even the make-up of his lavishly published "Emancipation Nationale" with its heavy headlines and thick red lines below them was modeled after Hitler's own "V?lkischer Beob-achter...
...as the melon patch holds out...
...The entire piece fits snugly into Soviet foreign policy...
...Casa* manist-Fascist Congressman Vito Marcantcmio, and Staluirte John P. Davis of the National Negro Congress . . . had company for the leader of so progressive a trade union as Local 3 ' of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers...
...pORMER corset-copy editor Milton Kaufman, who controls the * American Newspaper Guild, may have been able to steamroller the recent national convention, but he's having his difficulties in New York City...
...Their work will be directed at fighting the Nazi mnd Fascist infiltration...
...3. If all that is necessary is to put wage money into the pockets of the workers, why not put it there without the trouble of making the things that nobody wants...
...Access to it has added substantially to Germany's aluminum supplies...
...The expatriated foreign legions now in England are anxious for such an attack...
...That ain't peace, senator, that's ignorance...
...Anything else, I learn from those sage counsellors, Senators Nye, Wheeler and Holt, will lead us into war...
...I Indeed, it seems to this old timer that toe are having again a manifestation of an American charkcteristic not always obtrusive but sometime* effective to astonish and discountenance the cynic and the surface judgers...
...They are now working underground in England, distributing leaflets every night, urging the British people to "Hail Moseley" and "stop the war...
...But the French iron and steel industry is almost completely dependent on imported supplies of manganese, nickel, and other hardening ingredients essential in the production of the kind of steel used in munitions...
...The latter's switch to a pro-German attitude from a pro-Spanish, pro-Italian position, is surprising and can only be explained by reports of heavy pressure and large subsidies...
...h~ tetr'tethm |$ Best When Retened With Profits i vjiND now in this hour of gravel cpneern, of dark misgivings, of heavy travail, how indeed beam this great heart of American "•fadustrialism...
...shipping, was hurriedly summoned from Detroit this week to do a public relations job easing irritated public opinion created by Charles Yale Harrison's exposures in last week's edition...
...to continue to some degree American influence by playing the Italians off against the Germans...
...Invitations for the preview were sent to all Senators and Representatives over Collins' signature—and were shown in a House caucus room...
...So, large stocks of tanks, guns, raw materials, oils, metals— stored since 1938—have fallen into Hitler's hands...
...Strongly, strong^ fellow countrymen, strongly • Jar .the best traditions of the gufld, for the old flag and an ap-J«SPrJatian, for production, patriotism and profits, for melons, Mra dividends and joy in our best circles...
...Then, in the Spring they expect their own and American material to enable them to launch a land offensive somewhere on the continent — anywhere between Sicily and Narvik...
...Burn them or throw them into the river...
...Conquest of Poland, Holland and Belgium are featured...
...Instead of speaking at the "anti-war" rally in the Coney Island Velodrome on August 14, we suggest the Senator from the Dakota* go for his own ride—the Steeplechase, perhaps...
...The German Foreign Office, according to reports received by this newspaper, has proposed a French Nazi government led by the Hitler-mustached M. Marquet, mayor of Bordeaux, his fellow neo-Socialist M. Marcel, Col...
...Downing Street's diplomats have effectively created dissension between German and Italian statesmen in Paris...
...i...- - '''V^yi , Nazis Ask Moscow forThorez Use in Anti-Italian Move to Gain France Bullitt Support of Petain Plays For Buffer State Against Reich Competition between German and Italian statesmen in Paris reached the straining point this week as Berlin turned thumbs down on the pro-Mussolini General Weygand and Laval, The New Leader learned this week from unimpeachable capital sources...
...Roosevelt's vociferating efcoras...
...The News Unit hss 600 members, giving it 24 delegates to the city Representative Assembly...
...Eugene Grace, President of the Bethlehem «•el Company, that reassures us' and there could not be a better the purpose...
...I think that fact has bitten into the public mind hardly less than the other...
...The present hearings will probably be the lsst of the House Committee Investigating Un-American Activities...
...New fork Pays $70,000.000 Unemployment Insurance ALBANY...
...Cheer up, ye doubt-%.souls...
...giving the Stalinites the first real set-beck they've received inside the Guild...
...POLITICS being what it is, Martin Dies landed in Tens—he is a * candidate for re-election—te probe Hollywood ian fifth eoluma-ing...
...This, too, is a powerful weapon in the hands of the British cabinet...
...The comrades aren't too pleased with the CJ.O...
...Watch Cerra* daring the next few weeks, first as president of the new local C.I.Q...
...It harmonizes with the rising tendency of Fascism in America to whittle down the rights of the people as citizens by attacking first, and on 'moral' grounds, the rights of women citiaens to wear what they darn please...
...Flying weather over England closes a month earlier than it does over Germany...
...Compared with the April figures of $5,193,253, in the form of 412,034 individual cheeks, the May data represent increases of 100 per cent in the total amount of benefits paid and 109 per cent in the number of checks issued...
...Socialist Party is new aplit into three fact lams with the ea> treme isolationist, left-wing group in Control...
...because of the waiting-period provisions of the law, May is the first month to reflect the opening of a benefit year in benefit payments...
...British men of war ferret out armed merchant raiders in the North Atlantic...
...Walter Net, fellow-tourist from City Caliese...
...All these insinuations do injustice to a great man...
...I 1NDER the leadership of Marmaduke Grove, chief of the Chilian ^* popular front, the Socialist parties of South America are setting up a series of organizations reaching clear through te the United States...
...of its Committee on Latin America, presided over by Kathryn Lewis...
...de La Rocque, and M. Doriot, ex-Communist leader who in 1936 founded the Partie Populaire Francais a day or so after he left the Communist Party...
...I OMBARDO TOLEDANO, Stalinite trade union chief below the *-* Rio Grande, is swaggering over Mexico boasting of his influence with John Lewis...
...T*HIS will be a week of upheavals in Washington...
...THIS column has long warned of the danger inherent in the Communist "National Mobilization for Peace rallies*' aU jtutm-the nation...
...I think also the old man is recouiltiqtg the history of that stooge «aovention and of Mr...
...He will^have a lovely time on that trip...
...IJOLLYWOO D Communists are much perturbed over the Fascist ** trend over at the Warner Brothers' let...
...2. What shall we do with these things when made...
...The Polish- merchant navy, which at the beginning of the war escaped from the Baltic ports of Gdynia and Danzig, moved thousands of Polish soldiers—with their full equipment —from Bordeaux and Bayorme to British ports when France collapsed...
...the .national "peace mobilization" in Chicago on August bl On the platform with the myopic Van Arsdale will he Jean Horie, Communist commissar in the American Youth Cost-grew...
...Roosevelt's inexplicable outburst of fretful «gotism, and you can be, sure the tairative helps not the President anywhere...
...Henry WaUaoe * will either resign as Secretary of Agriculture or will take formal leave of absence, another cabinet post will be vacated, and the army's fears of a shake-up among policy-forming officers will materialize...
...Roosevelt and friends have adopted the obvious ^cjmique, sometimes effective, sometimes a boomerang...
...The government has told the people that this -record low in unemployment is permanent—and something worth fighting for . . . that a victorious Britain will not see the return of yesterday's life on the dole in the rotten and forgotten boroughs...
...He is fond of •xcitement and adventure...
...Even in tie gathering gloom what was obvious to all impartial watchers nHHt have been.clearly evident to Mr...
...The British fleet will see that Petain's government does no importing...
...I have seen him in six weeks utterly overturn and reverse an election that "had been deemed a foregone conclusion, At present he is pointing to a question whether at such a swirling time it is well to abandon a traditional and'potent safeguard of liHerty, q.nd the inquiring soul will not read fai- in the country's press with* out discovering that the question bodes nothing goodto\ the Duce idea...
...There are some exceptions, such as iron ore, bauxite, and potash...
...The central committee of the Uruguayan Socialists has already turned the bid down...
...PROM Washington, the only eity where sound travels faster than ^ light, comes news that John Lewis will have other headaches...
...Nye of North Dakota, and at least one important trade union leader, Harry Van Arsdale, around whom they hope to build a -wedge for entry into the A. F. of L. The August 4th rally at Randalls Island will set up a permanent organisation already in blueprint form ewer an 13th Street...
...The pictures are part of Herr Goebbels' attempt to frighten U. S. public opinion out of any moves which might irritate Germany...
...Laval and company saw to it that little was d estroyed...
...France must import one-third of her coal requirements, the bulk of her needs in steel alloy and non-ferrous metals, as well as the greater part of the raw materials for her textile industries...
...Hugh Dalton's Economic Ministry's blockade has about crippled the inflow of materials of French and German steel and oil production...
...Scotland Yard has discovered the secret hiding places of Oswald Moseley's fifty revolt cells inside London...
...That year he openly favored a pro-German, pro-Nazi policy and launched the publication of newspapers subsidized by the Goebbels Ministry in Berlin...
...In this hjstance, it's a dud...
...Nearly all the members of the Polish government and national council are now in London...
...Ralph Ingersoll has been waiiing all ever .town, depioring tht "attacks" on PM...
...chief's reluctant return to the Near Deal bandwagon...
...President Stanley B. Wolfe of the Youngstown (Ohio) local has the support ef at least ten other city unka and is sssmmmV ing a national referendum en a resolution which lashes hard at the Communist administration...
...i^^fe'ik That's the spirit, comrade...
...American correspondents' "fortress" stories make good copy but hardly tell the whole tale...
...Ah, the old flag...
...The Germans hope to set up a Reich-styled "National Socialist" government in France which would weave the future Paris state directly into the Beiiin network rather than leave it a loose buffer sector in which the already favored Italy could play Pressure politics...
...There are authentic reports that even before Reynaud fell, and while French men were still desperately fighting with rifles against German panzer divisions, more than 1,000 new tanks and 400 unused planes were turned over to German officers...
...What he has really in mind, no doubt, is f% practical wisdom of keeping well out of the way of the brick b^att, if the show should prove a-frost, and to be ready to pick up some nice good things for himself if it should prove a success...
...A few days after ?he ANG convention adjourned, the Memphis unit of the Guild went on record opposing the national administration on the question ef denouncing the "isms" by name...
...treasury had better he spent ™ bnying up the— pretty pictures of John Llewellyn Lewis . and the jittery Senator Wheeler sitting—paunches in front-— at the Townsead convention...
...How sweet to fggjbfkie to rest in this perfect c?ifidence that patriotism is now a ;.**rleet quotation...
...Tis the voice of Mr...
...They have now succeeded in netting at least "one important Senator, the good Mr...
...But as France, like the United Kingdom, has to feed the major part of her industries with imported raw materials, many of them will become idle as soon as existing stocks are exhausted...
...Polish airmen stationed in France lost no time in flying their machines to England...
...A compilation of Congressional eloquence of . the last two years would show that the only things in the world that io not lead us to war are stewed prunes, chewing gum and wal-%ut sundaes...
...And thp first of these will be an order to disperse our gold hoardings...
...The Doc's New York lieutenants have been visiting Joe McWilliams' anti-Semitic bradnnartem Jk trying to make a deal to tie m with the Christian Mobiliser congressional campaign committee...
...All will be well so long...
...He was bound to treat them with decent respect and he used his power 'U mad position to wreck their candidacies that he might cop the nomination for himself...
...DO!' HUDSON, top ranking member of the Communist fraction in the National Maritime Union and author of a pamphlet in which he justifies CP control of US...
...Ah, the new appropriation...
...Meanwhile the coordinated R.A.F., which is now augmented by a minimum of 850 planes a month, bombs Germany and France regularly two or three times each night...
...Italian Fascists have been most 4Jb?ging in that respect, repeatedly calling our attention to qie fact that commercial more then political domination of the' wor Id was the real aim of the Aaris.\ To this and other admonitions, Herr Funk, Hitler's .Minister of Economics, has now added an Invaluable disclosure...
...How did it happen that the gentleman sponsoring a private showing of the film in Washington—a good sprinkling of Congressmen were present—was Representative Collins of Mississippi...
...I surmise that old Sober Reflection is abroad fit the land and the more he statics about the worse it will be for an American dictatorship...
...And you don't better it by saying that Tom Collins is a liad man...
...mind the sense that he...
...France is the largest producer of bauxite (aluminum ingredient) in Europe...
...The resentment against that extraordinary convention and lie President's extraordinary, exhibition of the autocratic temperament was not a temporary exasperation- but a conviction that instead of passing grows stronger...
...The Communist faction which has controlled the Daily News Unit (largest in the country) for years was defeated by one of the Anti-Stalinite Progressives in the recent election for unit officers...
...This seems almost within the range of my intellectual powers, but I am perplexed with, one or two questions that I wish this deep-browed philosopher would solve for me...
...I . ¦> Bos the lack of munitions disjfurbed you...
...But who is |o [transfer it from the buttoned-«P pockets of the rich to the gating pockets of the hoi polloi ? ? suggest that...
...the shorter the saortf>?|?7 greater the opportunity for Ufe, liberty and the pursuit at' ha^jpiness...
...As important as the armed forces is Hugh Dalton's Blockade Ministry...
...It is not expected that Thorez will be placed in the cabinet but rather that he will cooperate with the Nazi government as the Norwegian Communists are doing at present...
...Warner Brothers have ordered all women players not to wear slacks or shorts...
...Gab turned from trivia te a discussion of the world's eldest profession . . . which one of the lads insisted—after reading Richard O. Beyer's Berlin dispatch te PM—originally sprang from what is euphemistically and generously referred to as journalism...
...One of the best —art— of potftscsJ mown m Washington reveals that the Comintern has ordered that Joseph Cues— . be built up by the CP...
...1. Who is to pay the wages of the worker making things nobody wants...
...ISN'T it about time the FBI looked into the distribution of Nasi * terror films in this country...
...I - ¦-¦ ' ¦ ;- - ~ - j v Tfce Natis Lay the f; * Scene for Amerita $ tut", when Fascism shall have completed its task, the United States !T finds itself commercially between ^ie- hooks of a pair of enormous pincers, it can never say that it lacked warnings of that situation...
...and the Socialist Minister of Labor, Ernst Bevin, working closely with industrialist leaders, has reduced unemployment by 113,987, leaving the lowest number of jobless in nearly 40 years...
...According to well - informed sources in Washington, it is understood that Ambassador to France, Bullitt, issued his pro-Petain statement in order to keep in power in France what he considers the lesser evil...
...council, then aa en important ceg a* the "Peace Mobilisation" machinery of the CP...
...Abler press work than has yet appeared...
...The Communist parties in each southern republic immediately sent through to each S.P...
...Let but the govern-¦*« wake the proper arrangements to insure us profits and the *9idity with which the munitions wiU pour forth will astonish **- But, of course, the profits'must be large enough to make Amrjotism alluring, or what's tht fse...
...r II Duce Plays , | Jbe Scavenger, . | IMPRESS A RIO HITLER'S press department announces that his .* long-expressed show, "The Destrpc;ion of England," will positively have its premier on the nighj of August 15 and that seats may now be secured with perfect confidence...
...Dick paid of oy nwetaup: ' of the German*' "hearty and efficient kindness...
...AM of which demonstrates in the teeth of calumny and slander that 11 Duce is still the same dear old II Duce...
...In its month and a half of publication, the mow afternoon daily ha* studiously refrained from attacking the Hitler Reich...
...And they make up quite a formidable force...
...This tremendous increase is due to the fact that a new benefit year began in April...
...Dies' funds are about exhausted . . . and investigation of totalitarian activity here is now a matter for the military intelligence...
...1 The entire country watches with admiration the work of trade union chief and Minister of Labor Bevin...
...In 1937 France produced 37 million long tons of iron ore, with a metal content of 13 million tons...
...He'll shortly become the American Ceutmunists's public energy number one...
...Not so long ago he reported that there were only 766,835 jobless in all Britain— 582,744 less than a year ago...
...p\ESPITE Lillian Symes' quite natural desire to forget aU about us, and despite her columnar pretestatiena, lip...
...gy Charles Edward Russell The News Reel HEAVY weather and a falling baSometer attended last week all the sailing of the newly launched Third Term craft...
...This outfit will then send a minimum of 5,000 delegates to...
...That's what happens, Senator, when you play the panacea circuit...
...blows to bits war goods already in German hands...
...j Thy Name Is— | IF I can still read the signs of the times, it is not alone the * Third Term menace that is causmg the disaffection...
...About this, Harrison George of the Daily Worker excitedly writes...
...behaved unworthily and scurvily ta the other, leaders...
...j Economics for If T«* Bewildered | JtS nearly as I can decipher the recondite economics of Candidate Willkie, he would bring depression to an end and restore glamorous Prosperity by putting^ everybody at once to work making things nobody wants but making them at wages...
...Willkie urge [upon the Manufacturers Association the performance of this'gjreat salutary, patriotic benevolence and see how far he -will get jwith.it there...
...I r It is to be hoped that when''that time arrives, we shall ¦accept these orders in a spirit of humble submission...
...The government expects to come through August's 31 days of good flying weather, a little the worse for air bomb wreckage but with hardly a dent in its flying forces...
...publicity apparatus to replace Lewis...
...Germany's gains in French munitions and war material were tremendous...
...At this, Detraction, ever envious of Virtue, suggests scornfully that the Signor- has lost his overshoes and cannot risk his feet in the cold, that he has been attacked by drooping of the spirits, that he has dovelopedjJin\ fact, an intestinal insufficiency...
...Foolhardy or not, the British expect to maintain these bombing raids as far into the winter as possible...
...The British navy will now cut these imports off . . . and as Germany already suffers from a shortage of steel and alloy metals, she will not be able to use the French iron and steel industry to full advantage...
...Control of France's iron ore deposits will appreciably strengthen Germany's steel position...
...Incidentally, it is to be noted thitt the first-class and far-famed hat-and-rabbit operator, Signer Mussolini, will not take part in the performance...
Vol. 23 • August 1940 • No. 31
