BLOOD-GUILTY GAMBLERS
Editorials BLOOD-GUILTY GAMBLERS *J*HE opposition in the House of Representatives to the conscription bill, which threatens to delay action for at least a month, is—with possible exception of a...
...The transaction pleases both Earl Browder, general secretary, and William Z. Foster, national chairman of the Communist Party...
...They announced that the party's national committee "heartily approved of the transaction," and that while the Communist daily rag will no longer be the official organ of .the party, it would continue to receive "the wholehearted, .continued and ever extending support" of the party...
...DAILY WORKER DONS NEW MASK 1*HE DAILY WORKER, chief Communazi organ in the United States, has been "sold...
...To al...
...Then when the seasonal ?r emergency work is done—usually within a few weeks—they are driven out as if they were lepers or dangerous beasts...
...and not impossibly some who would be sorry to see Hitler defeated in Europe, because they would like to see something very like Hitlerism established here, and who talk themselves into' the "belief that this country is in no danger of armed attack, though in their hearts they know that it is—all these are willing to gamble with the lives of hundreds of thousands of American young men by putting off what must be done before invasion begins if we are to meet the attack with soldiers who know the elements of military action...
...Perhaps tke greatest obstacle will be the indifference of many lawmaken to the interests of persons who have no homes and therefore no votes...
...men who know that they are going to vote for' the measure, but must make speeches for buncome or wait till public opinion in their respective districts has sufficiently ripened...
...But what great act, of individual or of nation, does not involve dangers) The promise is proportionate to the risk...
...The cheap attempt at an allegedly clever disguise of this fact through, the "sale" of the paper to stooges will hardly make an impression...
...His work is not only the work of a statesman, but also that of a gentleman—a type of brave and gentle man that is traditional among the Southern mountain stock of which he comes...
...The one went far toward transforming the British Empire into a voluntary—and because voluntary a closer ' and firmer union of independent states...
...If they have not been taught how, to use the equipment of modern warfare, they willnb doubt die like her?es-»-but they will die...
...Whenever any influential group of employes in this or that region need "hands," the migrants are tempted thither in numbers far a excess of the number of jobs available, so that as many ai are required will work for starvation wages...
...organized workers and to all people of intelligence the Daily Worker remains what it has always been: the enemy of the United States, the agent of Stalin and Hitler, the deadly foe of everything that spells democracy, liberty and true progress...
...The Act of Havana deserves to stand beside the Statute of Westminster as another example of a new attitude in international relations, of a new and democratic trend which, if continued, will harmonize national with...
...Democrats who, either because of then-hatred of tke New Deal or for yet more unworthy motives, wish to embarrass the administration...
...Announcement was made this week that it is no longer the official organ of the Communist Party but the property of the "Freedom of the Press Company," owned by three nice ladies...
...The Communazi Fifth Columnists actually believe that the public will be fooled by the transaction...
...THE MIGRANT WORKERS REPRESENTATIVE Tolan of California has an important job on his hands as chairman of a House committee appointed to investigate the problem of migrant workers in the United States...
...A» a class, they are as good as any other element of the population...
...ii?f" picture of helpless misery, of misery which may easily become explosively desperate, of misery which is bound to be in no very: long run degrading to its victims and which is more ways' than one does harm to millions of others...
...That is the right attitude...
...The authors of this outcry well know that "pracbcalfy all" of these 700 are men and women who have fled Hoe persecution by Hitler, Franco, Mussolini, or Stalin—pepe-cution based upon their being either Jews or trade unioniito or political opponents of the three bloody dictatorship...
...Even a month ago theN record made by Cordell Hull had placed, him near the top in the list of able and distinguished 'men who have headed the Department of State since the United States became a nation...
...Of course, the Daily Worker's-new mask will not fool anybody, it will only serve as an additional demonstration of the contempt in which the Communists hold the intelligence -o...
...Inevitably, even in times of prosperity, the demand for labor-power in most branches of agriculture, and also io a number of...
...The association alleges that ¦ the course of seven and a half years Secretary of Labor Perkins, exercising a discretion vested in her by law, kat "granted exemption to more than 700 aliens gusV of deportable offenses.*' The "felony" of which it says "practically all"" of these are guilty is failure to comply with some provision of the immigration law, and it proceeds to apeak of them ?s "criminal aliens" and to intimate that their presence here is a grave danger to the nation...
...Seldom, perhaps, does any one migrant family safar within a single season all the disasters that befall the gram depicted in Steinbeck's "Grapes of Wrath...
...The other transforms our "Monroe D op trine from a mere, declaration of the intent of .the largest American nation with regard to the others into an expression of their common will...
...Lip-patriots will get a thrill out of making speeches in their honor—and some among those will be the very men who are now preparing their fate...
...Such persons are a dtaj#s* to the class for which they pretend to speak...
...The public remembers only too well that under the law the Daily Worker was recently compelled to register with the-'State Department as an agent of foreign interests, and that is how the public will continue to regard it...
...What matters that when the association sees a chance to strike a partisan blow against a member of the Roosevelt cabinet and especially against the Department of Labor 1 Some of our best friends have been business men...
...Editorials BLOOD-GUILTY GAMBLERS *J*HE opposition in the House of Representatives to the conscription bill, which threatens to delay action for at least a month, is—with possible exception of a few sincere but dull-witted individu?is—something: beneath contempt...
...The Economic Accord has its dangers, which must be faced in order that they may be averted...
...It should be no impossible task for the government so to organize the flow of labor as to protect the workers concerned without regimentation or coercion...
...Poland, and other countries...
...We can rely on their courage, yes...
...The formal reservations made by some of them need not cause misgivings...
...SMALL AS THEY MAKE 'EM 'J'HE, National Small Business Men's Association hat brought its existence to the notice of the general public by an action which will not win it the respect of good'old-fashioned . Americans, who are proud of the hospitality which, for more than a century, this republic extended victims of racial, religious, or political persecution sedar to our shores from Ireland, Germany, Italy, Russia, Hungary...
...The new "owners" announced they would entrust its management to an executive board, headed by Louis F. Budenz, one of the Daily Worker's chief hatchet men, and two others, including Ben Davis, Jr., Moscow's editorial commissar in the Daily Worker office...
...In that sense the book and the film may be exaggerated—but in thai sense only In effect, the picture is a true one...
...the public...
...A considerable body of mobile workers is: necessary to the functioning of the productive system...
...industries, fluctuates very greatly from one pan of the year to another...
...But courage is not enough...
...After the experiences of Europe within the last eleven months—nay, after the experience of this country in 1861 and '62, which every highschool boy must know—it is worse than foolish, it is wilfully wicked, for anyone to say that, if, when, and as invasion comes, we can safely rely on a hastily formed .army of untrained volunteers...
...Heaven defend us...
...With few exceptions, they are victims either of the agricultural depression which has become a chronic evil in many pith of the country or of the technological development of industry which has enabled this country to produce at huge a volume of goods in 1939 as it did at the peak in 1929 while giving employment to not more than nine-tenths or perhaps not even four-fifths as many workers...
...It would be far worse if there were reservations not openly stated...
...Republicans who would vote for the bill with both" bands if a Republican were in the White House or even if the election were over...
...But from the professional small business man, who it out to show how very small a business man can be when he tries, may...
...His work at Havana carries onward a consistent, bold, and yet never brutally aggressive policy—a policy that aims at peace without shirking the possibility of war, that respects the rights of other peoples without sacrificing our own, and that succeeds through intelligent frankness, not by craft or domineering power...
...WELL DONE, CORDELL HULL *J*HE value of the agreements worked out and adopted by the Pan-American Conference will of course depend upon the fidelity of all the twenty-one nations, including our own, to the spirit and letter of what they have subscribed...
...Tolan is quoted as saying that the committee "is starting out with no preconceived ideas of what should be done to cope with the migrant problem, except for the basic belief that it is much too vast a matter for individual communities or states to deal with and must be attacked nationally...
...is estimated that there are at least four million of these unfortunate nomads—including the children: whom they drag around with them from one miserable temporary job to another—and their number appears to be growing...
...From now on, we have reason to hope, while the security of this hemisphere will be strengthened, the threat of Gringo imperialism will wane...
...They know that to deport them would be to doom them to death before the firing squad or a fate in the concentration camp often worse than quick death...
...In the past, the Monroe Doctrine has been sometimes a guaranty and sometimes a menace to our neighbors farther south...
...world-wide interests...
Vol. 23 • August 1940 • No. 31
