Pro-Nazis Control Sections of U. S. Defense
Pro-Nazis Control Sections of U. S. Defense By BILL ROBERTS Coughlin and the German-American Bund, Wendell Willkie has associated himself with attempts to gain votes by currying favor...
...Scores cf municipal and state C.I.O...
...He polled more than 10,000 votes to lose in the recent Congressional primaries...
...Cooperating closely with the Christian MobileAmerican Destiny Party combine led by **eph McWilliams is a section of the...
...For the first time since war broke correspondents have been able to check on the Mosely Fascist movement...
...He rolled up 1SS.6SI votes in his Senatorial race against Johnson and will campaign to swing them all against Roosevelt...
...Hold fast...
...This was revealed during a press conference this week when he intimated that Generoso Pope would shortly throw the support of his H Progresso Italo-Americano to the Republican campaign...
...Knowing this, the White House ha...
...Curran, as president of the Greater New York Industrial Union Council, had sent telegrams this week to hundreds of unions asking financial aid to the mobilization...
...has been a close friend c: Cierharc v\ estricK, He...
...Since the collapse of France munitions and aircraft workers have been putting in 60 to 70 hours a week...
...University Club.Cleveland, Ohio, he said, "During my recent eight months in Europe I did not find a single man, from brass hat to taxi driver, who did not consider the present war a colossal mistake in international policies, and the consequence of a long series of political and economic blunders . . . these aims of the belligerents, as you see have nothing to do with making the world safe for democracy...
...r , P o p » i « lerrg been one of'TaMnany's main* stays, and a close political" and business partner of James J. Farley...
...He is confident of better success than that achieved by the defeated Congressman Thorkelson of McWilliams right-hand man, James Stewart, is seeking similar office in the Harlem and Washington Heights districts...
...Farley has adamantly refused to aid his friend and successor^-the Bronx' Edward J Flynn...
...He seeks a Democratic Congressional nomination in the auto state...
...Goodyear-Wende Oil Corporation...
...Twelve junior supply Ministries, stationed at key points in industrial distorts have .taken over from the parent Ministry, •Jtive control of important war production...
...On the list were Morris Watson...
...Miss Annette Rubinstein, head of the Stuyvesart School...
...McWilliams is attempting to capture the Republican nomination in the 18th Congressional District of New York...
...In this the guarantee of ultimate victory...
...on the commercial as well as the polit:g» front...
...Spokesmen for the Friends of Democracy reveal that these men have ^io chance of winning the Republican primaries and plan to run as the "Independent Republicans...
...Your victory will be the victory «f all mankind...
...Yea, a new-Cromwell has arisen in England: the unbreakable collective organization, power and courage of her organized workers...
...Morrison has suceeded in speeding up supplies to an extent which will prove extremely effective if Germany attempts a land invasion...
...restricted his activities to the Northeast, while Senator John H. Bankhead runs the southern campaign, Paul V. McNutt the Middle West drive, and O'Mahoney the Mountain States...
...Who will dare doubt that this is the sentiment of the many millions of the organized workers throughout this nation...
...Of its former 9,000 members at least 500 are in jail...
...But the sorrow we feel today ^jver the tragedy that has befallen the free trade unions in many countries is ?188uaged by the thrilling battle which Jfce trade unions of England, the only remaining free trade unions of Europe, are waging against the ruthless foe.' With dauntless courage and the last full measure of devotion the organized workers of Britain are holding aloft the battleflag of freedom...
...The Christian Mobilizers distribute *°*dy little booklets containing perforated leaves •|**»mg "Mr...
...Even the daily press, which was directly responsible for the exposure of at least one U . S . industrialist and two important German agents have been sat:sfiec v;th Torkild Rieber'g resignation, from the Texas Oil Company's board of directors and the departure for Japan of Westriok and Rekf...
...In one country after another the free :tede union movement has been de"stroyed by the combined forces of totalitarianism...
...I September 7, Primary Day, -will determine the fate of the Mobilizers' political fortunes...
...While on the continent of Europe a dictator drunk with blood and power struts the stage with jthe cry "I am the state," the workers of* England reply with sword in hand "the state—it fa we, the people...
...To their British comrades, the workers of America say on this Labor Day: "We are with youT Your battle .is our battle...
...Steel for the 2nd quarter of this year, according to the National City Bank report ,was $19,201,008, an increase of $17,891,347 over the same quartgr in 1939...
...Coughlin, McWilliams Men Push Anti-Semitic Drives in Congress Acting in well planned unison the German-American Bund, the Christian Mobi& ers and their political front, the.American Destiny Party, the New England action of the Ku Klux Klan, and the Christian Front which is linked to at least Prominent New York City official, are intensifying political and propaganda efto stir wide mass hatred against the Jews ••9 the New Deal...
...It comes on the fcgt anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War, the outcome of which n?a decide the fate of freedom and demWatic institutions for generations to eoaie...
...unions rebuked Curran*s aid to the Stalinoid front, This attack was led by Murphy M. Kudish, secretary-manager of the Retail, Dairy, Grocery, and Fruit Employees Union Local 888...
...Originally scheduled for Hastings—now in a protected area—the conferences will be held in Southport...
...It is no J*&er strange to read notices of meetings at *j>jch Joseph McWilliams and Reverend E. F. *°Phy, lieutenant of Father Curran, both apJ**r on the same platform...
...Additional evidence cf the "peace demonstration's, "Stalinite nature was seer in last Wednesday's Bronx rally at which a complete Communist slate was scheduled to speak...
...We will not be long behind...
...New Morrison Supply System assures Britain of Vital Munitions By DICK REYNARD Even" if the sessions have tto be held in air-raid cellars the British labor moveaent plans to meet in its annual Congress as usual this year...
...She was brought out of obscurity by the Communist Party some time in March...
...Employers must provide medical, welfare supervision and nursing services for his staff...
...vast volumes of oil...
...After The New Leader's expose of the "Mobilization," and the concomitant publicity, open resentment spread through C.I.O...
...Another Coughlin lieutenant attempting a political campaign is Louis B. Ward of Michigan, former editorial director of "Social justice...
...In this is our hope...
...This is traced to his past pro-fascism and his alliance to former Democratic National Chairman Farley, whose partner he is in the sand and concrete business...
...This was the purpSfrt of the message cabled to the British Trades Union Congress last week by the New York State Federation of Labor at its memorable convention in Niagara Falls...
...In the meantime, Morrison, and Minister of labor Ernest Bevin, have been showing the Conservatives the efficiency a democracy is capable of if properly directed...
...More than a month has gone by since The New Leader revealed the appeasement, proNazi sentiment of James D. Mooney, vice-president of the Genera...
...leader Luigi Antonini...
...councils are sending delegates to the mobilization, but the C.I.O...
...On this Labor Day the toilers of Britain may be assured that the old spirit of international solidarity still lives, that in this grave moment the organized workers of America are guided by the vision of Lincoln leading the hosts of freedom against those who would forever divide mankind into oppressors and oppressed...
...Congressional nomination...
...A Wjjtson-Communist victory there would prove fatal-to Roosevelt success in New York, New Deal strategists report...
...Also on the West Coast is Harold A . Sparling, who at this writing was still undefeated in the California's (Los Angejes) -primary contest for G.O.P...
...Colombian . Petroleum Corporation...
...The threat of a defense sitdown by big business met a large degree of success when the House Ways and Means Committee voted to wipe out the 8% profit limitation in aviation and steel, and approved amortization ,of plans within five years, the profits of that period to be free of taxation...
...That is the supreme all-pervading thought and sentiment that moves us on this Labor Day...
...When this is linked to the consistent antiRoosevelt sentiment among the Brooklyn and Queens- Catholics, and the intensive Communist anti-FDR "peace" drives the chances for a Roosevelt defeat in New York are sharply increased, bnly a successful American Labor Party campaign can swing the balance of votes to Roosevelt, tiovernor Lehman carried the State by only 60,000 votes in 1938...
...Christian Merchant, the Christian *»ifczers slogan is 'Buy Christian' and that is :*W I Bought here ." Petitions are also disjfonted f o r tfte same purposes...
...Included in this JWem are reserve factories which can swing .wo production- immediately a regular plant is itltroyed by enemy bombs...
...Much of the eight months Mooney spent abroad were' consumed in Germany, where he met many important Nazi military, political and industrial leaders...
...Three companies that make "practically all" of the special cotton fabric necessary in airplane construction were accused of raising their prices by 28'/o .and creating an "industrial bottleneck...
...The West Coast is as yet not assigned to anyone...
...In the world-wide civil war now raging between democracy and totalitarian counter-revolution, the British workers count upon the workers of America, who cannot, must not, will not forget that in our own great conflict between freedom and slavery under Lincoln it was the workers of Britain who were the staunch friends and supporters of the cause of freedom here...
...Several indictments handed down against makers of airplane fabrics for collusion in ringing the market and price-fixing shows that large industrialists are not averse to utilizing the defense emergency for profits...
...Labor Seen Winner Of Australian Election MELBOURNE, Australia.—Election of a parliamentary' Labor Party majority, as" a vindication of its defense policies, advocated since 1937, was seen by political observers here as all parties intensified their campaign for the September 21 general election...
...a/ i umu i .nymuumuiui, vmr School of Applied Science...
...chairman- has not commented...
...Catholic .~?**rchy of the Brooklyn dioscese...
...While the reserve factory takes over a force rushes to repair the injured plant...
...And on this Labor Day, as America * ' prepares again to unsheath her sword in defense of freedom, there rings in ttit breast of every American trade unionist worthy of the name, bat with even greater passion, the old battle-song with which the common people of this land responded to the call of duty when Union and Freedom were imperiled: "We are coming Father Abraham, one hundred million strong...
...But- & ? ?W m fttili 4» • strategic position to turn strong industrialist aid over to the pro-German forces during • crucial moment...
...It is reported that .Harry Hopkins has been conferring with important progressive New York leaders, including Mayor LaGuardia, to insure a regular State Committee victory in the September 7 Convention of the American Labor Party in Utica...
...This includes all its leaders...
...The New Deal Farley split story will some day be told, but from the standpoint of practical politics it means the lose cf many valuable thousands of votes ir...
...Motors Company and a member cf the G. M. Board of Directors Executive Committee...
...Without Farley, Flynn is lost on a national scale...
...Yet these companies have been the ones showing the greatest profits within the last year...
...A loss of 47 electoral votes may mean the loss of the nation...
...They were supported by- Bernard Haravy...
...British Unions Defend Old World's Last Democracy tabor Day 1940 comes at the most facial moment in the history of the labor movement of the United States and throughout the world...
...The Italian publisher's switch in allegiance comes as a result of pressure from Italian consul Vecchiotti, according to antiFascist Italian spokesmen here...
...These organizations-«?ntro...
...The Chicago demonstration ^threatens to become the immediate issue over which the C.I.O...
...Since then she became part of a trained group which makes the rounds of peace rallies, attacking "Roosevelt dictatorship and imperialist Britain...
...The American Destiny Party has an Oregon branch consisting of Kenneth A. Brown of Gervals...
...Pope is the first prominent Italian "to take a walk...
...Five aircraft companies—Douglass, Fairchild, Curtiss Wright, United and Glenn L. Martin— showed an increase in profits in the first quarter of 1940 over 1939 of 90.9...
...Brrison's new chain of offices transfers detailed JJervision of output, plant and manpower from Whitehall to the workshops...
...The net profit for U.S...
...Curtin has called- for increased pay for the militia, and the overhauling of many of the war-boards created by Prime Minister Menzies, which Curtin asserts, are dominated by businessmen more intent upon profits and resisting improvement of employees' conditions than defense...
...the Catholic communities of the State...
...They may be assured that the millions of American trade unionists stand ready to play their part, shoulder to shoulder with the workers of Britain, in the fateful struggle for the preservation of democracy and free institutions, without which the labor movement is- inconceivable...
...These rallies genare anti-Semitic demonstration, •frequently McWilliam holds up The New 7**^" and ridicules its attacks on anti-Semitby shouting that it is a "Jew sheet...
...He has devised a scheme, already in operation, by which munitions production will be directed not by one, but by a decentralized system of 13 "Ministries of Supply...
...And this man is entrusted with the production of millions of dollars worth of war material, ordered to protect us not from England or Tasmania, but from the blitzkrieg armies of the Third Reich...
...pro-Stalir.ite Lieutenant Governor...
...As far back as 1937, the Labor Party had called for government manufacture of munitions, the building of a strong force...
...This latest anti-Semitic drive is detailedly orP^ked...
...Pro-Nazis Control Sections of U. S. Defense By BILL ROBERTS Coughlin and the German-American Bund, Wendell Willkie has associated himself with attempts to gain votes by currying favor with other fascist blocs here...
...Communist Party treasurer, was president: Tom Jones chairman of the New York Youth Congress...
...Labor Minister Bevin is now ready to cut this to 55, so capably has he managed the transfer of skilled workers from noncombative to war industries, so well has he managed the training of metal workers and machinists...
...Indiana Kenning Company...
...The date has been set lick from the customary September to October 7. And air raids or not, the conlention will last three days, the General Council of the Trades Union Congress derided last week...
...Another factor in the swing of the Italian vote in New York is the campaign of Edward Corsi, popular and prominent politician who has just resigned his office in the Federal immigration service, to campaign for Willki Rieber, Mooney Run Key Oil And Auto Firms By VINCENT ROGERS Although millions of dollars in contracts are being awarded to companies led by prominent industrialists who are or record as friendly to Nazi Germany, the government is doing little to assure itself against the type of sabotage which crippled the French government...
...secretary of the Jewish People's Committee, o? which William Webner...
...The A . F. of L. Monthly Survey of Business points out that wages have lagged far behind the rise of earnings of industrial corporations...
...He still is president and director of the South American Gulf Oil Company end an in-.portart member of the boards of the California Petroleum Corporation...
...In three of the areas a union man has already been ckosen chairman...
...will split—a division already exists over support of Roosevelt, aid to the Allies, conscription and defense and labor unity...
...Seaboard Oil Company and the Texas Company of Canada...
...Should invasion or bombardment result in a complete breakdown of communications, the area organizations assume full executive powers and direct production on their own responsibility, the chairman of each board becoming a local Minister of Supply...
...Whoever this sector falls to will have a mere difficult job than the rest it sow appears after an appraisal of Senator Johnson's electoral success in the California primaries...
...Michael Quill, both familiar to New Leader readers...
...There has never been so glorious a spectacle in the history of labor as is witnessed now in...
...That is the task that American labor is called upon to lead as this country girds for battle, so that government of the people, by the people, for the people may not perish from the earth...
...The chairman or deputy chairman of each board must be a trade union representative...
...It is our fervent hope that before very long the people of America, led by the organized labor movement, will be fighting side by side with Britain's, helping to demonstrate to*the despots of the earth that liberty is not yet dead and that free men know how to die in its defense...
...Each Area Board is controlled by experts representing the trade unions as well as the industrialist...
...vita...
...Kudish was supported by former New York City Councilman Louis Hollander, manager of the Joint Board cf the Amalgamated Clothing Workers and by the United Textile Workers...
...Nor have Senator Johnson cf Colorado or Capper of Kansas withdrawn their endorsement of the demonstration...
...the heroic resistance of the British trade imiiais against the unholy forces of ffitfcrfcnsr darkening the skies of their land...
...The brutal powers' of despotismembodied in Hitler, Statin and Mussolini have found, their match in the British labor movement barring to the dictators with its broad and mighty breast the road to world domination...
...On this Labor Day the organized workers of America send their embattled British comrades a flaming greeting...
...Immediately seme 36 officials of 27 New York C.I.O...
...Senators to Speak for CP in Chicago Despite National Public Pressure Despite evidence revealing that the Chicago Peace Mobilization is controlled by the American section of the Comintern, and ignoring trade union and newspaper pressure, Senators Nye, of North Dakota, and D. Worth Clark of Idaho have refused to withdraw as speakers at the Communist rally scheduled for this weet-ena in me cnicago atacium...
...This action has been traced a national network...
...The former postmaster has ever, refused to campaign actively for his friend Senator Mead...
...Official Rome agencies here are doing their best to swing Italian voting support to Willkie as a result of President Roosevelt's "stab in the back" speech...
...In these latter instances political blackmail has been futile...
...to a mechanized U. S. army...
...A comparison for the first quarters of 1939 and 1940 reveal that seven steel companies—United States Steel, Inland, National, American Rolling, Bethlehem, Youngstown and Republic—profits were $9,064,365 (1939) and $40,445,017 (1940), an increase of $31,380,652 or 384.7...
...Because there are many hundreds of thousands of Italian votes in New York City, official anti-Roosevelt pressure in II Progresso may seriously injure the New Deal's chances to take New York State...
...John Lewis has maintained his typical restraint where Communist fronts are concerned...
...Your defeat would be our defeat...
...An interesting sidelight of this election is the vote polled by Ellis B. Patterson...
...John Curtin, head of the Labor Party, declared as the issue that the old order of profitmaking and self-interest must be subordinated to the necessities of national security, since to lose the war would be to lose everything that Labor regards as fundamental to its objectives...
...and a newcomer who hasn't really come in for her deserved share of notoriety...
...He is closely allied with the local Coughlinites...
...By lending their prestige to the rally these Senators will share responsibility for the creation of what will be the most successful transmission belt the Comintern has yet put into motion in the United States...
...Similar pressure has been applied to Lieutenant Governor Charles Poletti, Mayor LaGuardia, State Supreme Court Justices Ferdinand P?cora, Felix Benvenga and against A.L.P...
...ranks against Joseph Curran, president of Stalinite National Maritime Union...
...In a speech he made recently at the fiftyfifth alumni reunion io anquet^ c-1i m*Ue- ivC,-a..s..e...
...Because of its Anglophobia, the demonstration dovetails with the propaganda disseminated here by the Goebbels ministry of propaganda, a section of which operates out of 17 Battery Place...
...A delegation q_ Yoricville merchants have seen Mayor La?*^'a's secretary, urging that action be taken fP*«!?t McWilliams before all trade is crippled B « \ t New York sector...
...along- with Lindbergh and Ford has been awarded Hitler's Order of the G e r m a n Eagle, e medal which goes only tc 'distinguished foreigners who have deserved well of the Reich.' He has nothing but good words for Grmany...
...It is practically disintegrated...
Vol. 23 • August 1940 • No. 35
