U.S. Industrialists Appeasers Stall Production of Defense Weapons
U.S. Industrialists Appeasers Stall Production of Defense Weapons With nearly $18,000,000,000 in contracts drawn and ready to be let to America's leading industrialists, more and more Senators are...
...Thus Germany has its propaganda delivered free in the United States by the simple device of printing postage stamps...
...und Wirtschaftsdier.it...
...Paul Robeson, admittedly pro-Soviet, will open the demonstration by singing the Ballad for Americans, accompanied by Earl .Robinson's American People's Chorus, official chorus of the International Workers Order, an official Comintern affiliate...
...These had been organized around the "Yanks Aren't Coming" slogan which, according to the Associated Press, and Herbert Harris in Newsweek, had originated in Moscow...
...and Control, under the direction 'yt an tf^impeachably loyal American, is gainhw momentum...
...They are not...
...These partners, in 1938, formed the new corporation known as the Deutscher Handel...
...This has centered much interest in the record of past duPont donations—a total of $343,179 to the National Association of Manufacturers, the Liberty League, the Crusaders, and the Sentinels of America...
...This would permit corporate revenue, otherwise taxable as profits, to escape, while higher prices could be charged to the government to take care of the overhead spread over a five year, rather than a fifteen year period.- The government has offered the manufacturers cost-plus contracts which guarantee big profits...
...22.—The local S.DJ...
...It might justify Hitler in declaring war against the United States...
...General Motors already has millions of dollars in contracts for the production of autos...
...That arrangement held during the last war...
...Aid from the National Union of Seamen has enabled Polish seamen to reconstitute their labor movement here...
...the American Youth wPsTess...
...has taken the lead in calling a conference, to be bold on Sept...
...A few of them wish Hitler to win, and wish to help him win, so that this country may join with Germany, Italy, Russia, and Japan in a five-way instead of a four-way split on world domination...
...Klan Splits on Anti-Semitic Unity With Bund Partnership between the German-American Bund and Ku Klux Klan indicates that a schism has' arisen inside the KKK over the substitution of anti-semitism for anti-catholicism as the organizing motif, trained investigators of U. S. fascist activity, told the New Leader this week...
...Under the International Postal Union Agreements, only the country which stamps the mail receives any recompense for distribution...
...The German Library of Information wMefc also occupies offices adjacent to the German consulate, has long been a center of Nazi fifth column activities in this country...
...Nazis at the Bund camp...
...Industry Wants More ProHts General...
...At that time the A.Y.C...
...These trade unions actively cooperate with the Colonial staffs which administer the protective laws governing colonial labor conditions...
...Some administration Senators have begun their own investigation of the bottleneck in the defense industry and will be ready for public exposes in a - few weeks...
...Friedrich Ried on their way hone, or to new stations outside the United States, ta* State Department and the Criminal Divisi?n of the Justice Department intensified its drive on the propaganda operations o? Germany, Italy, Russia and Japan...
...Quill's Transport Union...
...The August Klapproth faction—he is chairman of the Bund's Eastern division—has control of the group's apparatus, including the camps and the publication, "Free American...
...In turn, these Poles, knowing of the dangers of a Nazi victory, are bending every effort to help in the defense of Britain...
...Although Dr...
...A week ago Klapp-rott ordered the^ cessation of "he?ing" Hitler, banned the exhibition of . f&-&?&ff?l^f?~?T??itt'?Ke removal of photographs of Hitler and swastika flags from the general assembly hall...
...Mathias Schmitz, director of the library, denied that the library is any different from the French and British information libraries in this country in prominent displaying and distributing of pamphlets dealing with Germany and presenting the German point of view in the present European conflict, it is reported that the library will close its doors as a result of investigation by Attorney-General Robert H. Jackson...
...A drive for thaestablishaient of a federal bureau of Propagafila Ana^ysi...
...One of these was the recently dismantled American League for Peace and Democracy...
...The total value of all scrap iron and steel sold in 1939 was well over $600,000,000, a vast proportion going abroad...
...Industrialists Appeasers Stall Production of Defense Weapons With nearly $18,000,000,000 in contracts drawn and ready to be let to America's leading industrialists, more and more Senators are becoming increasingly irritated by unwillingness qf some key manufacturers to make a single concession in the interests of national defense, unless assured in black and white, in advance, that their profits will be unrestricted...
...Congressman Vito Marcan tonio, communist-fascist Representative...
...Observers believe the action taken by the Ku Klux Klan, New Jersey Realm, came as a surprise to imperial Wizard James A. Colescott, who is now worried over the effect of KKK co-operation with the discredited bund...
...Capital is being made of this by isolationist forces of the right and left...
...The obstructionists in Congress—those of them, tt any rate, who are not consciously playing the dictator's game—may well take note of this trend of public opinion, as reflected, for example, in the recent Gallup poll, which shows 62 per cent of the people favoring the speedy sale to Great Britain of the sixty reconditioned destroyers which our Navy can well spare and which the British will sorely need when Hitler starts to ferry an invading army across the Channel...
...Many of the pamphlets are illustrated by repulsively obscene pictures, Qkiecfc SDF Calis Conference For RoostYelt Support CHICAGO, Aug...
...It is the culmination of the Communist Party's successful drive to revamp the apparatus discredited by the Soviet-Nazi pact...
...Simon, despite his sudden affection for the G.O.P., has long been following the Communist line...
...Sixty more destroyers might well turn the balance...
...Simon who has frequently been charged with Communist activity, protested to the New Leader this week that he was a Republican, had long been in Republican politics, that his people were Republican and had begun to worry over these charges...
...The Committee to Defend America by Keeping Out of War is an outgrowth of the Emergency Peace Mobilization groups which were set up at the "Peoples Rally" for Peace" in Randall's Island on August 21...
...Colescott this w eek asked the Dies committee to investigate the meeting of the Jersey Klan with the...
...Typical of the defense contracts the duPonts will receive a job to produce $26,543,420 worth of explosives during the next few months...
...The Bund considers partnership with the KKK a^step in the direc- • tion of streamlining its "Americanization" process...
...They must be exposed and driven .into ohscuritv...
...One of the earliest resulta of this activity is the discovery of FBI agents that the Firm of Deutscher Han?els und Wirtschafts-dienst, at 17 Battery Place, is the New York headquarters of the German Gestapo...
...The joint rally heard Charles Lindbergh cheered, war attacked, and saw distribution of Willkie buttons...
...The executives had taken the position that they would accept no contracts that made plant expansion necessary, not even on a tentative basis, until Congress repealed the 8 per cent limitation on airplane and naval contracts and permit industry to write off the cost in five years rather than the legal period of fifteen years...
...They know and understand...
...Youn was convicted on May 27, 1933, of disorderly conduct after he was arrested on a moral charge in a New York subway...
...several Hollywood "peace" fronts...
...Are these gentlemen so naive as to think that Hitler will wait for a justification ? Are they so ignorant as not to know that he starts war before he declares it and that he is already preparing for it in this hemisphere faster than we are...
...Delay is criminal, and may prove suicidal...
...Doctor Townsend's Old Age Pensions groups, some 300 "peace" groups and some 4,000 religious, political fraternal organizations in 35 states...
...The Camp Nordland joint meeting held Sunday August 18 also revealed a split in the Bund over loyalty to Fritz Kub-n, now in Danne-mora...
...Jfeded in securing advance reservations of more ™an 20,000...
...In charge of arrangements here is Walter Neff, secretary of the New York Emergency Peace Mobilization committee, operating from 381 Fourth Ave., a building which is notorious for the number of Communist fronts it has housed...
...George Seldes, who was a good newspaperman before following the Party Line...
...The latter have to be prodded into action before it is too late...
...Boas, who has been on literally scores of Committees with a 'Stalinite base...
...So far, Grace revealed, Bethlehem has been able to handle this enormous business at a "surprisingly small outlay" for new -facilities...
...The Bethlehem contracts were let privately by the Navy department, without any competitive bidding, on a cost-plus ten per cent basis...
...What is more, he and his cabinet members— notably Secretaries Hull, Knox, and Stimson—^are getting results...
...More than 100 will come from New York City...
...Mothers Day Committee for Peace, Coney Island Peaot Groups," etc...
...Mar.y labor organizations and workingmen's fraternal societies will participate* Chicago "Peace" Mobilization Is Part of Axis War Front By VICTOR RIESEL • At least four United States Senators have aided the American Communists to organize the Eniergeney Peace Mobilization which opens in Chicago Stadium on August 31...
...Unions Increase in British Colonies LONDON.—In sharp contrast to the generalized slogans in Hyde Park of British "imperialistic colonial domination" comes the Parliamentary report of 200 trade unions registered in British colonies, as against the few of three years ago...
...60 U.S...
...This also indicates1 the strength of the communist control in the maritime industry...
...These activities were under the guidance of Bund leaders, and Arthur A. Bell, New Jersey Grand Dragon, and the Reverend Dr...
...The hope for organizing and training an adequate army for purely defensive and service in this hemisphere, and doing it in time to meet the danger if Britain falls, has already gone glimmering...
...Michael Quill...
...The August 31 mobilization was also giver the illusion of spontaneity when it '•origmised" in a resolution passed on June 5 by the America.- Youth Congress...
...The Federal probe disclosed the fact that the Gestapo staff, which used the travel agency as a front, had been engaged in a three-year fend with Dr...
...He has been active in organizing the Psychologist's League, which is known in the university field as a fellow-travelling apparatus for recruiting support among academic and research psychologists...
...Documents are now being prepared by the Justice Department to present to the American people a detailed expose of Axis activity here...
...Roosevelt's personal guest, when he organized...
...while one or more delegates from 150 ships will accompany those from 20 Atlantic and Gulf ports...
...Attorney General O. John Rogfe, tf»(i&3e Department Criminal Division chief...
...has sent, several delegates at its own expense, to help fill the vast Chicago Stadium...
...and directed the American Youth Congress siege of Washington last Spring...
...Grand Klaiiff...
...Indications are that it will be the most successful front ever created by the Communist International in thi* country...
...It would offend Hitler...
...The literature disseminated consists of typioaJ Nazi viiliScation of the American system of government, of President Roosevelt, the "international Jewish bankers," the American presa and so on...
...This material will be made available to newspapers, public libraries, schools, and directors of other means of reaching a wide public...
...Among those represented will be Joe Currans National Maritime Union, which Charles Yale *J*rnson recently Jinked to the Comintern...
...Although Jhe carrying of arms is forbidden, the Nazi storm troopers had" brasa- knuckles dangling from their belts, which in themselves were sufficient to be used effectively in a fight...
...Bet if more business is received, new equipment will be needed, and Grace made it clear that the government must put up the money or permit "adequate profits to compensate the stockholder for his investment...
...Most of the new labor organizations are in Ceylon, Mauritius, Cyprus and the West Indies, several are in West Africa and some in East Africa...
...Another capitulation center is the scrap iron industry, the lobbies of which work overtime to prevent the embargo of metal to Japan and Germany...
...Special trains have been chartered in the- larger cities to carry the Communist delegations to Chicago, where arrangements have been made by Abbott Simon, committee secretary...
...The understanding with Canada carries on the same policy...
...It is one thing that can be done quickly...
...The crux of the conflict was the antagonism of a diplomat, schooled under the stiff Prussian ethics of Bismarck, tc the agents of Himmler'e hated secret police...
...He was...
...But n is saie to say aiso tnai sneh an offer would never have been made but for a growing conviction that tile President's policy is pointing toward international co-operation to stop Hitler and his allies, and aha that American public Opinion is rallying to his support...
...It is known that Knudsen and Stettinias have sought to break down the resistance of airpiane and steel executives...
...In addition every Communist union in the C.I.O...
...He is legislative representative of Local 537, of the College Teachers Union, well known for its Stalinite domination...
...It puts a new meaning into ,the Monroe Doctrine, as widely removed from jingo imperialism as it is from' isolationist shirking and stalling...
...The former are incorrigible...
...Publication of these documents will be the first step in the direction of government counter-action against and control of foreign propaganda here...
...Justice Dep't to Start Exposes of Axis Activity Here Special to The New Leader WASHINGTON, D. C—With Gerhard Wert-rick and Dr...
...He is known on the police records as Milford Young, of 294 Magnolia Ave., Jersey City...
...Destroyers Now Will Save English Democracy Of course President Roosevelt isn't going out on a barnstorming tour with the enterprising but somewhat juvenile-minded Mr...
...Professor Franz...
...Let them be sent in time...
...international relations in this hemisphere...
...Kenneth Leslie, editor of the controlled -Protestant Digest...
...Joseph Curran, Theodore Dreiser,- Julius Ems-pak, communist whip of the United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers, C.I.O...
...and Senators Arthur Capper of Kansas and Edwin C. Johnson cf Colorado, who "*ve joined with a score of recognized Stalinist, anti-Roosevelt industrial' unior leaders in endorsing the Labor Day demonstration...
...Attorney General Robert H. Jackson's approval is necessary before the department makes its findings public...
...Neff was a League officer and an editor of the Psychologist's League Journal...
...The League has marched in Communist May Day parades and other Party demonstrations...
...The idea originally came from Assistant U.S...
...Among other sponsors and speakers are Mike Quin of San Francisco, author of the pamphlet and slogan "The Yanks Aren't Coming...
...Investigation proved that 90 per cent of these "Brooklyn Peace Forums...
...a resident of the White House, Mrs...
...President Grace reported to stockholders last week that on June 30 it had on its books unfilled orders for $288,000,000—a peace-time record...
...Willkie...
...v We may safely take Premier Churchill's word for it that ?rit?in's offer to lease us> naval and air bases in Newfoundland, the West Indies, and Guiana' was made on Britain's own initiative and that there are no strings to it...
...t*° Ham and Eggs Jorganization...
...Morris Watson, Communist Vice-President cf the American Newspaper Guild...
...The ruck of them are just waiting till they feel sure which way the cat is going to jump in their respective districts...
...In a telegram, Colescott said, "we have repeatedly insisted that Congress dissolve the Communist Party ,the German-American Bund and all other alien organizations...
...Drilling of children ' and adults has been stopped—and until they discovered that Irving Berlin wrote "God Bless America" the Bundists had substituted it for the Horst Wessel song...
...These men are G*rald p. Nye of North Dakota and D. Worth Clark of Idaho, who have been announced as speakers...
...Admiral Furlong testified that the United States Steel Corporation was perfectly willing to spend $4,000,000 to build a special plant fox the handling of naval orders, but that the company wanted the government to amortae it in five years time...
...The Labor Day meeting is intended to do the aame for the utttnml "peace" front that the Randall's Island demonstration did for the New York city local traits...
...A clear majority of Americans are for it, and more will be...
...Jack McMichael, cf the American Youth Congress...
...The Randall's Island Rally was organized by the Communist Party—it featured Vite Marcantonio— as the clinoax tc a supposed "spontaneous" mushrooming cf local peace committees throughout the City...
...Motors is a duPont subsidiary, with control vested directly in the Delaware family...
...To sell destroyers to England in time of war would be unneutral, cry the obstructionists...
...So effectively has the C.P.'s Committee to Defend America by Keeping Out of War exploited *°e prestige of these men, and others like Harry Van Arsdal'e, who is anxious ta appear on any Platform to attack the anti-trust indictments of kade unions, that the Communists have sue...
...Gov't Copifufcfes on 'Cost-Plus' While the Defense Commission fats cleared contracts for army materials, approximating $315,000,000 as well as $1,412,000 of contracts for the navy, only a small percentage of the contracts "cleared" have been signed by manufacturers...
...Bethlehem Makes Huge Promts Bethlehem Steel is well on its way to repeat the enormous profits of the last war...
...Largest delegation at the demonstration will be that of the National Maritime Union which will dispatch and pay for some 600 men...
...Neff is employed by the Psychology department of the City College...
...More than 4,000 were present...
...With the destruction of most of the continental workers' movements, the British unions are bearing the financial burdens of resurrecting these trades-union centers...
...The "Propaganda Ministry in Germany has a Master mailing list of ail Germans living in this country, and also the names of their relatives in the Fatherland...
...This, despite the action taken by the Texas Oil Company after the exposure of the Westrick-Rieber tie-up, forcing Rieber to resign his presidency...
...Abram Flaxer,'Stalinite president of the State, County and Municipal Workers of America...
...The nation was startled by tesimony before a Senate committee this week that the army and navy had funds for 5,725 airplanes and guns for 28 destroyers bat couid not contract for them because manufacturers objected to Federal profit limitations...
...At the same time, Borcher received orders from the Home Office to give the new firm spaee adjoining the consulate, and to give it preference in the consulate's travel business...
...He has a job on his bands—a rather more exacting job than that of being "public relations counselor' for a group of utilities corporations...
...We do not care to spend stockholder's money for that purpose," Grace said...
...adopted a platform directly contradictory to its previous collective security line, and directly paralleling the Comintern line...
...were really the old American League for Peace and Democracy nuclei in a new guise...
...Jochem Freiherr van Wimmersperg and Ernest 0. Hopf in 1933, the year that Hitler came into power, entered into a partnership, and formed the Yorkville Kanzlei, which still conducts its affairs as a travel agency...
...Edward E. Young...
...The Library maintains a large mailing list, part of the steady stream of Nazi propaganda circulating by direct mail routes, among Ger-men-Americans in this country, for which the United States Post Office receives no money...
...John P. Davis' National Negro Congress...
...Max Yergan, chairman of the National Negro Congress...
...A.Y.C...
...Those who have sabotaged it may within another year have blood-guilt on a huge scale upon their consciences...
...No probe of the activities of Great Britain will be made, a government spokesman said, since English action here does not threaten United States' security...
...10 in the Morrison Hotel, to organize a people's committee to work for the Roosevelt-Wallace ticket...
...Since then $200,000,000 of additional naval orders have been received...
...Meanwhile Defense Commissioner Knud-sen, president of General Motors, has made no public move to censure Vice-President James D. Mooney for the lat-ter's public affiliation with this country's pro-Nazi appeasement bloc...
...Hans Borchers, German Consul General ,which culminated in the June 20th bombing of the so-called travel and foreign exchange agency...
...It opens the way to whatever action the two countries may freely decide on ss being advantageous to both in the face of the totalitarian' menace...
...Hardly a day goes by that contact with Germany is not established in this fashion...
...delegates booed President Roosevelt when he addressed them from a White House portico...
Vol. 23 • August 1940 • No. 34
