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...that the same thing was done by the Italian Fascists and by the German Nazis when they came to power...

...He is ready to set fire to the house because the roof leaks...

...In his anger about this he forgets everything else and rashly plays into the hands of all the enemies of democracy and trade unionism...

...The simple procedure, it would seem to me, would be to go to Weinstock directly and interview him if it is your desire to analyze his program or lack of it...

...In my first article I said: "The United States merchant marine, wartime auxiliary of...

...Yet, as we go to press, Curran continues to play possum on our challenge to submit to an impartial investigation—and lor obvious reasons...

...The September primary fight faced by the American Labor Party is not a scrap among politicos determined to push their own boys...

...His morals, of course, were perfectly acceptable as long as he followed the party line...

...Within the last few days a number of comnnmi-cants, ranging from a woman of 48 to a .child of six, bare been bitten and, despite hospital care offered them « forced upon them by outsiders, show all the painful sad dangerous symptoms that commonly follow the bite of* copperhead or a moccasin...

...leaders now face is invasion by the advance guards of a foreign, pro-Nazi, totalitarian power...

...Willkie...

...I named names, produced . original letters, teletype transcripts, telegrams, minutes of secret meetings...

...This has been a trying fortnight for Curran and his associates...

...In a letter to a brother functionary, Thomas McGowan, CP-NMU agent for the port of Boston, reveals this technique: "So Mills and myself went to work, carrying on a whispering campaign against Sawyer (an anti-Communist in the ranks of the union) to discredit him and wreck his influence...

...During, the past ten months, however, the world situation has been profoundly altered...

...And so, when I decided to expose the Communist leadership of the National Maritime Union a few weeks ago, I was fully prepared for the full force of the party's smear apparatus...

...and W.P.A...

...Instead, The Pilot has been told to cut loose with an unparalleled campaign of personal vilification...

...Or do you only, think that perhaps some day you'll begin to think...

...Editorials MR...

...How about the Securities Exchange Act...

...Political dictatorship would inevitably follow...

...In these circumstances, it is futile to shout that we must not interfere, that we want no part of it...

...In view of the slow but sure awakening of public opium that is now going on, we are inclined to bet on the survival of the technical service division in the N.L.R.B...

...foreign trade, such as practiced by Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Soviet Russia, would lead this country toward economic dictatorship...

...published...

...Presumably these folk are just as sincere as orthodos Catholics, Protestants, and Jews...

...Curran to appear and deny, before competent handwriting experts, that the letters quoted by Mr...

...Instead, in the gutter tradition of the Communist press, the last issue of The Pilot, official organ of the NMU, indulges in a veritable orgy of name-calling, vilification and character assassination that must be the envy of the Daily Worker, its parent publication, whose line it tenaciously follows...

...The appalling consequences of the Hitler aggressions have made realistic revision of concepts and points of view a matter of immediate necessity...

...I am not concerned with Churchill's motives in resisting Germany and Italy...

...SNAKES—AND OTHERS "yf^BSOLUTELY" is a word that comes trippingly of ¦» tongue, as Mr...

...Only by such reintegration can mankind hope to achieve a new world equilibrium...

...Now the Republican'candidate declares that, if his party wins, the present policy will be continued "until we think of something better...

...He knows that when the Communists triumphed in Russia in 1917-18, almost their first step was to suppress the free trade unions...

...Sbm progressive forces are now anathema to the line-following American-Communists, they are throwing their apparatus into gear once more in an attempt to capture the A.L.P, nominations from the legitimate membership...

...WILLKIE*S PLATFORM MR...

...Grady predicted that after the war the world would surely return to a liberal trade policy as the only one under which world trade-and free institutions-can thrive...

...The agricultural policy of the present administration has been one of the main targets of Republican attack...

...The accusations against them have been reprinted in scores of newspapers, both metropolitan and labor, from New York to Seattle...

...During his absence prominent guest writers will conduct his column...

...when they're caught redhanded with the goods, and when the bridge between suspicion and conviction is bulwarked by documentation, they're simply fit to be tied...

...They're determined to hang up a record in outhouse journalism...

...Not unnaturally, he is "sore" at the Roosevelt administration...

...Saposs sad employ some harmless ignoramus or some obsequious truth-twister recommended by a Stalwart or a Bourbon Congressman, all would be well...

...Of course, if the board would dismiss Mr...

...These two objectives are, in turn, part of the larger aim of promoting world economic cooperation when the totalitarian assault upon civilization and the liberties of mankind is finally repulsed and defeated—as it surely will be...

...In the light of the present world situation, I find it impossible to share the position you hold...

...We cannot suppose that he has any real love for either of these three union-smashing, war-making, and anti-democratic elements...

...Grady said, should be regarded as the "only apparent method of defense against the economic infiltration of the Axis powers in Latin America...

...Three years ago, I became a part of your committee because, as one who is and has always been opposed to war, I was anxious to participate in a movement' to prevent war, not only here, but everywhere...

...Most Americans art strong for individual liberty in the matters of religion, awi rightly so...

...All I know is that under British imperialism, yes, even now in the midst of the present life and death struggle, democracy is still in force and labor still has the right to organize and to function freely...

...support of President Roosevelt and the New Deal...

...Should they be left rite to worship in their own way and to persuade others to joss in their ophic rites...

...There are scores of labor arbiters whose honesty and objectivity are unimpeachable...

...When New York State goes to the polls on September 1 7 it will select candidates for the United States Senate, the House, and some state-wide offices...

...AfteT the balloting is over, the boys generally forget their differences, slip into the backroom, and decide campaign strategy over a beer and cigars...

...The American Labor Party is now circulating petitions, street-corner speaking is vitally needed, the usual energetic volunteers are essential...

...Gallagher and Mr...

...understand Vito Marcantonio's participation in the so-called peace rally on Randall's Island last Sunday...

...But no sooner did he challenge the Stalin dictatorship than he became "an agent of Hitler" (before the Hitler-Stalin pact) and a spy for the British Secret Service after the pact...

...The cartel system put before the recent Havana conference, Mr...

...He lashed the "barter" system of the totalitarian countries, pointing out that it had clearly demonstrated its failure before the outbreak of the European war...

...And...

...We can see only one possible motive which, though foolish, is not consciously dishonorable...

...The trouble with Mr...

...and TV.A...

...If there's anything Stalin's representatives in America can't take, it's a heavy dose of fact...

...THE RED AND THE BLACK ^^ASHINGTON dispatches say that a group of reactionary Democratic and Republican Congressmen are planning to waste the time of the House in an effort to drive one expert out of the staff of the National Labor Relations Board...

...FIGHTS AUTARCHY T^HE President's message to the convention of the National Foreign Trade Councils in San Francisco rejecting the policy of economic autarchy—the enemy of international peace and world economic recovery—heartened all those who seek the economic reintegration of the world...

...And consistent with this practice, this paper, in a front-page editorial last week, challenged Curran to submit his case before such a body...

...In particular, he has been able to spot ostensibly local enterprise* that are really doing interstate business and are therefore subject to the National Labor Relations Act The anti-labor clique, unable to "get" him in any other way, intends to rewrite the appropriation measure, itemizing all the bosnfi expenditures so closely that there will be no room for such scientific service as he has been rendering...

...Coupled with this, he called attention to the need of expanding the activities of the Federal Export-Import Bank as a "pump-priming" measure to accelerate the flow of commerce between the United States and South America...

...VAN ARSDALE ^yt...

...Must a democratic state tolerate P»" litical sects whose known purpose is the destruction of democracy...

...State Committee but failed when the trade unions and progressive rank and file beat the spurious Morris Watson Committee to Rebuild the Labor Party...

...This is,, after all, ti4e issue...

...It has long been an accepted procedure in the trade union movement to adjudicate controversial questions before an impartial labor arbiter or tribunal...

...But what is Harry Van Arsdale of the Electrical Workers doing in that galley...

...In conquered areas he has liquidated the labor movement...

...Hitler is bent on dominating the entire continent, and he will not stop once he has succeeded in Europe, because Nazism does not stop...

...This represented no native criticism of the national administration...

...Harrison are authentic...

...The primaries are barely five weeks off...

...Roy B. Hudson, leader of the Communist...

...That is unworthy of a grown-up man...

...it simply was the expression in America of the Soviet policy, determined in turn by Berlin, to defeat President Roosevelt, the world's most militant anti-totalitarianite...

...Editor's Note: While the copy supplied us by the writer of the article in question spoke erroneously of an "interview" given to Mr...

...Curran and his col-i leagues...

...Please remove my name from any stationery or literature that bears your imprint...

...If you can't answer an opponent's accusations and proof, call him a crook, a labor spy, an enemy of the working class, a profligate, a scoundrel—anything...

...No, what the A.L.P...

...It gains its dynamism from the Communist apparatus created in this country by the political police operating out of Moscow...

...If we are interested in safeguarding fhe rights of labor and preserving a free labor movement, we must help those who are still fighting Nazism and fascism...

...However, The Pilot is not a labor paper, nor is the NMU a bona fide labor union...

...In April this force attempted to capture the A.LP...

...The latter is a cog in the Hitler-Stalin machine now at work in the country and the former is its loose-lipped mouthpiece...

...Disputes, no matter how bitter, between persons pursuing a common goal, it is held, ought never to become the basis of court action...

...Harrison leaves this week for a well-earned vacation...

...But then this has ever been.the favorite device of every culprit who is caught with- the- goods and confronted with documentary evidence...

...This is particularly true of the Communists, who balk at no obstacle, no matter how low and contemptible, in an effort to discredit an adversary...

...A.L.P...

...Van Arsdale knows as well as any man the disruptive role that the Communists and their dupes, stooges, and under-cover men have always played in the American trade-union movement—in his own industry as well as in others...

...This is an all-important primary— and if labor is to have a political voice in the important mayoralty and gubernatorial elections to come, progressive elements in this city must bestir themselves...

...Curran has been ordered to play dead on The New Leader's challenge to appear before a board of arbitration...

...It's a well-used and- well-oiled machine, and I am not its first victim...

...Nothing in my story could lead a reader to believe it was an interview with Weinstock...

...and that in all three countries real wages-wages measured by the amount of food, clothing, and shelter they will buy — are lower now than they were before the World War...

...They can manage fairly well at steam-rollered meetings, but...

...9, Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paper-hangers...

...But my material has been carefully scrutinized by attorneys and experts before it was...

...In spite of organized pressure the board has insisted on retaining the services of David J. Saposs because of hit thorough knowledge of the economics of industry and because he is not susceptible to backstairs influence...

...Or should I say ou t-of - the-cor ner-of - its-mouth piece ? Yet, though the temptation is strong and despite assurances that mine is a prima facie case, I do not propose to sue Curran and his unfortunate editors...

...The part of practical wisdom is to distinguish the better from the worse and find the way to betterment...

...Letters To the Editor Charles S. Zimmerman Quits Isolationist Group To the Editor: This is a copy of the letter I sent to the Keep America Out of War Congress: _* _ Gentlemen:— This is to inform you that I am officially resigning as a member of the Keep America Out of War Committee...

...These- measures have a twofold purpose: to keep the Western Hemisphere from embarking upon commercial totalitarianism and to checkmate the political infiltration of the Axis powers into South America...

...Would you continue them until you think of something better...

...How about the Labor Relations Act...

...And a whispering campaign of the most revolting nature against Eugene Lyons and his charming wife -has been ¦ making the rounds ever since the publication of his anti-Sovjet book, Assignment in Utopia...

...It said: "The New Leader challenges Mr...

...F.D.R...

...It'll be difficult, I know, but the boys really plan to surpass themselves this time...

...The President assured the convention that the United States would continue to espouse and to follow "liberal trade principles," declaring that "totalitarian control" ovex...

...Pinned to the wall of public opinion by evidence of their own making, the comrades .make the welkin ring with hysterical outcries and filthy imprecations...

...the Editor: The July 20 issue of The New Leader carried a story on the election of Louis Weinstock as secretary - treasurer of District Council No...

...TO MR...

...Fraternally yours, Charles S. Zimmerman, Secretary-Manager, Local 22, International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, • Bostrom Hits N. L Story on Weinstock From KARL BOSTROM (Labor Editor, New York Post) To...

...He will return early in September...

...And there is every indication that they'll make the grade...

...The government's policy was emphasized at the convention by Assistant Secretary of State Henry F. Grady, whp dwelt upon the undeniably positive achievements of Secretary Hull's reciprocal trade treaties as a contributing factor in the task of world economic reconstruction...

...America's naval forces, through the control of its personnel by the National Maritime Union (CIO), has become an integral section of the Communist International's espionage and sabotage apparatus now at work in this country...

...The man who, first as a Republican and then under the cloak of the American Labor party, has systematically collogued and connived both with Italian Fascist groups and with the Communist party was quite in place there...

...Saposi is that he has two sets of ruthless enemies-on one hand the union-hating employers, who would like to have facta doctored in their favor, and on the other hand the Communists, with whose machinations in the labor field be bu refused to cooperate...

...The President wisely called for "the closest possible economic cooperation with other countries, particularly with those of the Western Hemisphere," and assured the nation and the world that America has no intention to seek a reactionary economic self-sufficiency...

...I have in mind Frederick Engels' apt warning: UU you're determined to go into politics, be sure and put on an old pair of trousers...

...Under Nazism, the labor movement is completely destroyed...

...Cvtade the field of pure mathematics there is not much that ire can safely declare to be absolutely so or not so...

...And I am almost ashamed to confess that I am actuated by motives of pure sportsmanship...

...This invasion of the rights and functioning powers of the American Labor Party is as concrete as if Soviet troops had landed in lower Manhattan...

...How about the Wages and...

...To make matters worse, rank-and-file members of the union are planning to take matters in their own hands...

...And how long do you suppose it will take you to do your thinking...

...Alter Andre Gide, former Communist sympathizer anil one of the greatest living French novelists, returned from the Soviet Upion and reported, with sorrow that all civil liberties were dea^"*in"*Russia,' the comrades responded by asserting that Gide was a sexual pervert...

...How about Social Security...

...It will keep anti-fascist candidates from the ballot...

...Today, as in' the days of Engels, filth, vilification and character assassination remain the stock weapons in the arsenal of all who dread honest political debate...

...That, say the pastors of tbe church, was because those particular persons did not h*Vt faith in the Lord...

...When Max Eastman endorsed the Soviet Union as an experiment in scientific Socialism, he was held in great esteem by all good comrades...

...Our interest in freedom and democracy is not academic...

...Party's waterfront section, has been hurriedly recalled to New York to take charge of the situation...

...Sheean taught ttt a few years ago...

...My disagreement with your committee is fundamental...

...We only pose the question, and suggest that the answer may have its bearings on a larger problem-namely...

...As the effort to oust the Nazi-Soviet agents becomes sharper and as responsible American labor leaders take an increasing interest in the struggle, the in-fighting will become really dirty...

...How about P.W.A...

...I do not care whether he is opposed to Hitlerism in principle or whether his interest is the protection of the British Empire...

...as was to be expected, Curran replied to my accusations with the shrill and none-too-convincing cry of "fake...

...But it is really a dangerous word...

...WILLXIE has made a start on his appointed task of telling the voters what the Philadelphia platform means...

...IT has long been a matter of principle among ¦*• liberals and progressives never to sue a labor organization for libel...

...Hours Act...

...The American Labor Party will follow its liberal tradition of nominating and endorsing the most progressive candidates available...

...Curran to accept the decision of a competent, impartial trihunal before whom we are ready to present four caseloads of documents...

...Unsupported by-corroborative evidence, this is a highly libelous statement...

...Pathetic Watson, who by the grace of the G.P.U.'s American section heads the Communist Newspaper Guild, was placed at the head of the Rebuilders group to sabotage A.L.P...

...We believe that he will personally be ready to risk his all for the defense of this country against the German-Italian-Japanese attack, backed by Soviet Russia, which will come all too soon if British resistance is broken...

...IN my recent columns on the NMU, I pulled no * punches, nor hid behind the journalistic "alleged" and "it is said...

...Knowingly or unknowingly, that story was a distorted rewrite of one written by myself and printed in the New York Post of July 3. Your readers are led to believe that your extensive interpretation was based on direct . quotes to me by Weinstock...

...We are willing to prove the validity of these documents beyond any shred of doubt...

...SEPTEMBER PRIMARIES pRIMARY fights are always among the uglier manifestations of the more sordid side of our body politic Usually they are engendered by competition- for power, prestige, and the well-filled pork barrel...

...Yet, by taking part in this anti-defense rally, he is now doing all he can to prevent the United States from being in condition to repel that attack when it comes...

...After all, when an opponent has been knocked half-unconscious, sent staggering up against the ropes, even though the Marquis .of Queensbury rules prohibit it, he should be forgiven if he hits low and fouls in the clinches...

...In parts of At South and the Middle West there has arisen a new secs*-the "True Church of God"—a part of whose ritual consist* in passing around venomous serpents to be handled by the devout...

...How about the Housing Act...

...Although the news of it has been carefully hidden from the unions' membership, this type of irresponsible, if not criminal, attack has already resulted in libel actions involving nearly $350,000 in damages against the union and its official organ, now pending before the courts...

...Emphatically is this true of liberty...

...We challenge Mr...

...It will dovetail neatly into the Nazi government's design for - Americas politics...

...And so long as Hitler endures, labor is enslaved, with no hope of freedom, no possibility of expression...

...Communist success on September 17 will undo the progressive victory of April 2. It will write the obituary for the A.L.P...

...But is it an unqualified right...

...For these reasons, I strongly advocate' all possible assistance for the Allies, and I can no longer serve on youn committee...

...Absolute gooc is like the pot of gold at the foot of the rainbow...

...We are ready to appear before any of these selected by Mr...

...Van Arsdale is rightly indignant at the perversion of the Anti-Trust Law, by Thurman Arnold of the Department of Justice, into a weapon for attacking his and other unions...

...Hitlerism is destroying freedom and democracy everywhere...

...Bostrom by Weinstock, it did reflect correctly Weinstock's policy in the Painters' Union...

...Next week the articles will be read into the Congresisonal Record in the Senate and in the House of Representatives...