Flynn's Job to Hold M.Y., Brat GOP Publicity Machine
LORING, EDWARD
Flynn's Job to Hold M.Y., Brat GOP Publicity Machine Third-Term "Bolting" Fizzles By EDWARD LORING Special to THE NEW leader WASHINGTON, D. C —Because one Southern New Deal Senator has hay...
...This should include all industrial workers, skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled, who are called upon to serve in war-manufacturing industries remotely located from their homes and home communities...
...That sum the United States must include in its defense budget or face the possibility of spending that much inj ocean blockade) and an expeditionary force to Brazil and Argentina if the British Empire is dismantled by invading Nazis...
...Germany Has Strong Hold A study of the percentage of exports of "important South American nations to points outside the Western Hemisphere reveals how important a hold Germany has over them...
...Let us compromise you are twin-brother to a Communist...
...Willkie can depend on the support of Batten, Barton & Dursting and J. Walter Thompson, two of the world's largest advertising agencies...
...of Justice of investigations and suits in food profiteering is the charges levelled this week against the Pennsylvania system of milk regulation, whose pattern has been followed in many other States, by Dr...
...Under such circumstances, it is my opinion American Labor will support the organization and creation of an army large and strong enough to meet national requirements...
...Only in their questions, and then in a sinuous ana raod-about way, do they come out with their new pro-Hitler line...
...The American Federation of Labor will give support to compulsory military training service legislation when such action becomes necessary in order to defend, protect and preserve America...
...They should be guaranteed a return to the positions they occupy after they have served the time required for military training as may be required by law...
...Europe must import at least 51.8 per cent of its copper jfrom the Americas...
...If he is married, or has relatives dependent on him, if he is a necessary employee in an essential war industry, if he is an alien, or has conscientious objections to military service he may enter a deferment claim...
...The New Leader is the first newspaper to print the full statement, snatches of which, some-misleading and distorted, have appeared in the metropolitan press...
...Robert L. Johnson, one of the...
...We do not regard the Burke-Wadsworth Bill, which provides for compulsory military service, as a well-planned measure...
...But whir i change this year, a change both in their speech and in their w silences ! A S«SS A year ago, this columnist met there a young woman.' a tcW teacher and a confessed pro-Stalinite...
...the committee will hand out numbers beginning at one and running through to the last man, which will be about 35,000, since no board will have more than that number of registrants...
...Official reports show that 2,744,488,-29(9 pounds of milk were sold wholesale in Pennsylvania each year, and therefore $6,800,000 represents the farmer's yearly loss...
...No important European industrialized center can remain independent without free access to the petroleum, copper, lead, molybdenum and tin centers of the Western hemisphere...
...Although the country beyond the Hudson will be consulted, too, on election day New York's 46 electoral votes will be the balance of power, the weight which will decide the election...
...These figures are based on a 1939 Geneva study in international trade in raw materials and foodstuffs...
...A FTER a while, the columnist began asking in Wf'Mr: "Assuming that the rattlesnake should become a tarries domestic pet, that Hitler would give a 'square deal' tc ti» conquered peoples—would you wish to Veep the people 4t fc*i« Russia out of a good thing...
...The columnist delivered " lectures in each of the two camps...
...Nations below the Rio Grande have sent to Germany or its satelites millions of dollars worth of vital cadmium, coffee, cotton, ' copper, ore, lead, maize, molybdenum, gasoline, sulphur, zinc and other war necessities...
...Green Approves Trmniri^ Scores By WILLIAM GREEN (President, American Federation of Labor) The following is the full text* of the statement made by William .Green, President of the American Federation, of Labor, to the Senate Military Affairs Committee, opposing the Burke-Wads-worth bill, though heartily endorsing the full principles of national defense...
...Books and Writers By ELIAS L TARTAR A Literary Critic in Camp HhH9S column has been lucky...
...Flynn's Job to Hold M.Y., Brat GOP Publicity Machine Third-Term "Bolting" Fizzles By EDWARD LORING Special to THE NEW leader WASHINGTON, D. C —Because one Southern New Deal Senator has hay fever and is incapacitated during the summer and early fall, Ed J. Flynn, Democratic political boss of the Bronx, is today in a position to launch the New Deal's drive for a tradi-tidn-lnjeaking third term under thV personal guidance of Jim Farley, who in the future wiH restrict his activities to that Bronx acreage which is covered by the Yankee Stadium...
...However, in providing an adequate army for defensive purposes the American way should be followed first...
...more than 91 per cent of Bolivia's exports find the same destination...
...And "1st m have peace"—on Hitler's terms, of course...
...It is here that the pro-Stalinites would become munAUnf Kit excited...
...And "Why should American boys go and kill German boys...
...Stich sums now will cut down a long and dangerous military front if the United States is forced into war on Germany...
...The full use of our material resources and the construction of naval vessels, air-planes, tanks, guns and war material is but a part of national preparedness...
...While New Yetfc «¦> sizzling, this writer had two lakes to swim in and hundredth acres of forest for shadow and play...
...With all that, the pro-Stalinites become quite embarrameil when asked as to what they think Hitler would do to Soviet Russia after a successful Blitzkrieg against England...
...The scheme by which the huge milk distributors are able to mulct both ends of the market is a devious classification plan...
...When they do, each will receive a number from the local, draft board...
...was bleeding for threatened Romania, Poland, Lithuania, etc.'fa short, "United Front" And, like all her kind a year ago...
...One could not help making a comparison between camps in a democracy and Hitler's and Stalin's "camps...
...While public opinion showed its opposition to the involvement of our nation in the European conflict it responded most favorably to the need for home defense and adequate preparation against any attempt of invasion by an aggressor nation...
...New Deal strategists breathe easier now that the party anti-third term bolting is over...
...When the Democratic Party publicity machinery begins rolling, Willkie will find that his Laraont-Morgan tie-up can't be hidden—even by a man of the people myth...
...No more viefe* * attacks on Hitler and Fascism...
...at least 63.62 per cent of its motor oil...
...The new Democratic national chairman has already countered with a charge that the rumpled-haired Willkie only a few years ago was a dues-paying member of the Grover Cleveland Democratic Club (Tammany) in the loth A. D., Manhattan, and a Tammany county committeeman...
...Just before the hot spell, the hen* * at the column managed to slip away from town and spend tew Weeks in Tamiment and Unity House...
...2 1/2 Billions in Latin Exports To Nazis Hit US By GEORGE SHORT Special to The New Leader WASHINGTON, D. C—Somewhere in one of the caucus rooms of the House a committee on Banking and Currency is beginning to discuss the benefits to be derived from adding $500,000,000 to the lending facilities of the Export-Import Bank to aid South American nations, with what will eventually develop into outright financial gifts...
...and Daladier," with predictions of a new Munich...
...Burke Bill Denounced We are firmly Sof the opinion that our Government should formulate a plan designed to mobilize adequate man-power for national defense and through the President make known to Congress and the country the manpower need of the nation...
...Brazil sends 59.2 per cent, Chile 80 per cent, Uruguay 81.2 per cent, Venezuela 85 per cent...
...You yourself said that there is ns mm-ployment in Germany...
...Following this procedure, when any section of the armed forces calls for men, number 37 (the first picksd by Stimson) will in each district will be called up, and asked questions as to his experience, background and claims for deferment—not exemption— from military duty...
...U.S...
...Iii the last six years, Dr...
...The numbers will be called in order of their" drawing from the goldfish bowl until that district has enough men to meet the quota assigned to it by the governor of the State...
...The European tragedy was uppermost in mind and conversations...
...The bolt of Senators Burke and Smith and Congressmen Allen and Coffee was expected...
...This claim receives th...
...Net income for the Mlf* was reported at ^^^Jj against $39,871,535 in the !»* period...
...When registration and number assignment are completed, pellets similar to Binger counters will be dumped into a container—and the designated official will blindfolded pick the numbers...
...This means keeping the heavy New York Catholic vote in line—a difficult job because of the preponderantly anti-New Deal sentiment" engendered by Father Coughlin, Father Curran, of the International Truth Society, and Father Brophy...
...Without those imports the German structure couldn't long stand as a military power since the industrial nations of Europe can secure such materials in small proportions only from sectors already being completely exploited by the Jap, Chinese and Russian war machines...
...of the Americas stand to lost $2,500,000,000 if they completely severe trade relations with a Nazi - controlled Europe...
...However, it was not all play...
...And so America's first peacetime conscript army will be created...
...But you must also understand how difficult it h i* me to distinguish you from a Communist...
...During the past six years, under milk control, farmers have averaged $19,79 per hundred weight, or 24.8 cents less than during the twenty-four years pre-csding the institution of the "protective" and regulatory laws...
...Reynolds, is a subterfuge and smokescreen whereby large milk distributing and manufacturing companies, by juggling figures, make it impossible to detect hidden urofits which the companies realize by cheating farmers...
...This state of .mjnd is reflected in the action which Congress took when it appropriated large sums of money for the construction of naval vessels, air-planes, tanks and war materials...
...A Putrescent Socialist" > ll/HEN this colmrrrrist timidly expressed his suspicion •&* " Stalin might "doubleeross" tit was in July, ttfa) tflfaafc a pact with Hitler over the dead body of partitioned Poland, t» became purple in her face and spluttered: "Only in the'tffceafcj 'mind of a putrescent Social Democrat could such a slander 'ari*r A month later came the Stalin-Hitler pact...
...Draft Bill Will Take 1 Man in 10 Out of 11,000.000 Registrants Sometime early in the fall, an important government official—probably Secretary of War Stimson—will put his hand into a large fishbowl filled with little white pellets, each of which has a number on it somewhere between 1 and 35,000...
...Hitler a Goad Boy A N'D here is an example of a question which this columnist aa *^ lecturer had to answer a dozen times, if once: "Don't vol think that Hitler, now that he has all these countries—Frtatt, Belgium, Holland...
...founders of Time and now publisher of- Promenade...
...Just what forces the New Deal is up against in this campaign can best he illustrated by a roll call of the publicity men and advertising agencies behind the Willkie campaign...
...As a matter of fact, they Hit become strangely silent on political questions...
...It was the new line...
...This is both primary and basic . Labor for Defease Labor, as represented by the American Federation of Labor, will stand immovable in its defense of our Government, of our democratic institutions and of the blessings of liberty, freedom and justice, provided for in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States...
...Ber'fctar...
...We cannot, therefore, give it our approval and support...
...Which today .means a first cousin to a Nazi...
...The pleasures of camp life Were tinged with a touch of sadness...
...We have expounded a philosophy which proclaims that loyalty to Labor Unions presupposes loyalty to our Government...
...she vat very cocky and voluble...
...Flynn represents a metropolitan machine, and his first job will be to fight the Willkie publicity blasts hitting the New Deal for the support it is receiving from Chicago's Mayor Kelly, Jersey City's Frank Hague and, of coarse, Tammany Hall...
...Final decisions on each man to be drafted will be made by the local board which is to be composed of disinterested civilians...
...And it'will be Flynn's job to maintain Governor Lehman's 1938 60,000 majority over the Republican Party...
...Each state will receive a quota from Washington...
...Although Flynn satisfies the need for a New Dealer who at the same time is a reguar party man —and a Catholic-—he raises new problems...
...Steve Hannagan, a movie version ace publicity man...
...consideration of the local board, if the claims warrant deferrment he will be dismissed, and a person in the same district with the second number drawn, 3,567, will be called up...
...These men are closely connected with the interlocking corporate structures of America...
...Norway, etc.—in his power, he, heist ir clever, will give the workers in these countries steady empiiy-ment, fairly good wages and a general 'square deal,' and entry-body will be satisfied...
...More than 81 per cent of Argentina's exports go to Europe...
...Full realization of any goal set for the production of material to be used in the creation of an adequate national defense would avail nothing unless such achievement would be supplemented by the creation of an army large enough and strong enough to man our defenses and to resist successfully any attempt by any enemy, no matter how large or powerful it might be, to set foot upon our homeland...
...Having heard it half a dozen times mt»i» almost as many minutes from an obvious pro-StaHadaa, Bk columnist was moved to say: "I understand that you are * Communist...
...Stte was then att for i fight against Hitler, a fight to death, all for democraer,"'fe freedom, for independence of large and small nations...
...This would be putting voluntary action before compulsion...
...Harry M. Shackleford, advertising manager of the million-dollar Johns-Manville Corporation...
...Stalinites a Year Age <¦¦- ~ DL'T let us limit ourselves to a few impressions nf Tlii'THi munists and fellow-travelers fn the camps...
...Reynolds charged, Pennsylvania dairymen have been rooked to the tune of $40,800,000 through the under-pricing of their products, and in the last three and a half years Pennsylvania consumers were overcharged 5115,500,000...
...In pledging universal support the men and women of labor accept the assurance of our Government that social, industrial and economic standards set up and recognized by the Government will be maintained and, in turn, they assume, in full measure, their responsibility for service of the highest order both in industry and for the nation...
...Ned Stevenson and his colleagues, all radio experts...
...There will be one board for every 35,000 civilians...
...There has always been bad blood between the Democratic Party machinery in the Bronx and Manhattan...
...T*HE other line of approach was the knowing assertion ft* * "since Fascism anyway was inevitable in the United States, what was the use of our fighting Hitler's mellowing Fascism «* an inevitable Fascism in this country'*" With this srtat ts* inevitable attack on England and former France, "Chambariem...
...The following stipulations and safeguards should be incorporated therein: First of all, working men and women whose services may be given to our country should be assured that they will not be called upon individually or collectively to engage in a foreign war or to be sent abroad to become involved in foreign wars...
...There can be no more strategic move for U. S. national defense than cutting the Nazi continent off from Latin America's strategic raw materials and foodstuffs— which must result in a sharp curtailment of German armament production...
...Willkie's publicity nigh command is much chagrined over the fizzling of this stunt...
...He is an avowed political enemy of Mayor LaGuardia, who is expected to declare for President Roosevelt...
...Fourthly, the cost of trans-, portation incurred by those who are a part of the Army and Navy, from their homes to the places where their services are utilized, should be borne by the government...
...The American Federation of Labor has cooperated and will continue to cooperate with the Federal Government in the formation and execution of its preparedness plans...
...Why Kill German Boys...
...Howard C Reynolds, for six years a member of the board...
...Kellogg Fairbank (former Democratic National Committewoman), John Hanes, T. J. Coolidge, L. W. Douglas, Hugh S. Johnson, Raymond Holey and Roland Hill (all former' administration officials...
...Willkie's publicity staff is the highest priced aggregation this nation has yet seen...
...Planned as a smashing antiTNew Deal post-convention coupe, it bagged only the politically useless Al Smith, former Governor George White of Ohio, Vance McCormick of Pennsylvania, John- J. Raskob of New York (all former chairmen of the Democratic National Committee), Jouett (former chairman of the Executive Committee of the Democratic Party), Mrs...
...it must take 60.59 per cent of its cotton essentials from this hemisphere...
...press man, is reputed to have a fighting fund of some $300,000,000 behind him —and this will be an expensive campaign...
...A voluntary enlistment program should be launched by the Government designed to create an army of one million and a half men...
...The whole setup, said Dr...
...All men who are at least 21 but not yet 3T will be required to register...
...those dependent upon them...
...Hew About Soviet Aussie...
...There were a few others, including Bainbridge Colby (former Secretary of State), four former Governors, one former Democratic State Chairman, a former U. S. Senator, and some college professors—all of whom, for all intents and purposes, have long been in the G.O.P...
...They also know that this is no time to talk of pennies when millions are needed...
...It is estimated that about one man in 10 will thus be selected for service since some 11,500,000 men will register and 1,200,000 will be drawn...
...This summer, tat lady was not in camp...
...If it is Stimson, he will be acting in accordance with the regulations of the Burke-Wadsworth bill—if it is passed...
...Directing the curly locks, rumpled clothes, tie awry, and proletarian slouch are Russell Davenport, recently managing ' editor of Fortune...
...Stanley Resor, president of J. Walter Thompson, who spends his spare time as treasurer of the Republican United Finance Committee of New York...
...They would fall back on the "greater hopes" of tb Soviet people...
...as you know, the German mwten Bitter Hitler have a higher standard of living than the Russian* under Stalin...
...It is not as Hit-dent, as they themselves like to say...
...Appeals may be carried to a board set up by the State, and, if necessary, to Washington...
...Farmers get more for "fluid milk" sold, as such to the consumers, than for milk called "surplus" which goes into the manufacture of butter, cheese, ice cream, etc...
...If the first one is 37, the man with that number in each of the 6,500 men to be called before the boards...
...63.73 per cent of its natural and synthetic nitrates and 45.16 per cent of its wheat (this is* peacetime figure, the need being much greater now because of the devastation wrought over huge farm areas in western Europe...
...Du Pont Company Makes Record Profit A report released by the E. I. du Pont de Nemours Co., leading American munitions manufacturer, shows profits of the company and its wholly owned subsidiaries rose to ¦** JjjJ levels in the first six ¦ this year...
...Franklyn Walt-man, chief G.O.P...
...Developments which have taken place in the war situation in Europe have served to arouse • feelings of apprehension among all classes of people and a consciousness of the need of the formation of a constructive, prac...
...Fred Smith of Selvage & Smith, Bruce Barton's personal exploitation man...
...Workers Need Protection Secondly, the positions of workers must Jbe protected...
...f AM Not a Communist" A ND it is always: "You must understand that I am W * ^* Communist...
...It must be orders to tup quiet...
...Reynolds pointed out that over a period of six months two large Philadelphia distributors sold consumers 4,422,000 qaurts of bottled "fluid" milk for which they paid farmers "surplus" prices...
...The surroundings are wonderful: The exchange of questions and discussions gives him an opportunity to feel the pulse of the electorate, so to speak...
...If it -becomes apparent that legislation providing for compulsory military service is necessary such legislation should embody provisions which would adequately protect the economic and industrial status of working men and women...
...Wouldn't you wish to set Icte Russia also taken over by Hitler, who might give them a MsVr standard of living...
...An absolute guarantee should be accorded them that their services would be used only for home defense, for the protection of the western hemisphere, our homes, our homeland and our governmental institutions...
...Milk Trust Mulcts Public of $150,000,000 PHILADELPHIA.— Hard on the heels of the announcement by the Dept...
...The banking committees of the House and the Senate—where hearings on a similar bill are being held—might as well save their breath an $500,000,000...
...camp...
...Must Pay The Spanish-speaking nation...
...It was almost unfair to tfe numerous readers of this column...
...tical national defense policy...
...Whatever his audiences may feel, he likes to lecture at Tamiment and Unity House...
...American labor would respond to such a program wholeheartedly and en-thuastically...
...Unless they are set to give much more substantial aid to the Latin republics, Nazi, Fascist, Jap and Russian agents will have little difficulty delivering South America to their Axis...
...This Lindberghesque question cant a frequently from obviously pro-Stalinite personages that H wu clear it was not "just an accident...
...Secretary Hull and the State Department had this in mind when they urged the spending of $500,000,000 to aid Latin America...
...There Has dean been a number of pro-Stalinites amdng the guests...
...Thirdly, the compensation allowed, while engaged in military training, should be sufficient to provide for the maintenance of a standard of living approximating that already established for...
...Their Silences TpHE pro-Stalinite line is now quite different...
Vol. 23 • August 1940 • No. 32
