G.O.P. Nat'l Committee Asks Fascist Support
G.O.P. Nat'l Committee Asks Fascist Support Steel and Plane Industrialists Balk V. S. Defense Drive Business Strikes Against "Threat" to Curb Profits By EDWARD LORING Special to The New...
...Scores Roosevelt For Hitting Italy's War on France By VINCENT ROGERS Active support from fascist circles in the Italian communities scattered throughout the nation, is being sought for presidential nominee Wendell Willkie by the Republican National Committee...
...The first 100 corporations reporting for the first half of 1940 had total profits of $113,659,-JJ28, an absolute rise of...
...Profits Jump Tremendously These figures above are comparative figures of increases of percentages of profits...
...The British have...
...official...
...The first 300 corporations disclosing their jfcfits for the second quarter of 1940 reported Itotal of $319,829,000 or 37 percent more than ?eir $232,688,000 profits in April-May-June, §39...
...Its meaning is simple but profound: Henceforth, and until the world is organized on the basis of a new, democratic international order, the hegemony of this earth belongs to the JLJnited States and to England, not to the Berlin-Rome-Tokyo-Moscow Axis...
...and atrributing to it an evil and shameful course...
...During that talk he severely criticized German aggression and ideology bnt studiously avoided even the insinuation of ill-will toward Rome's fascist government...
...Michael Quill, Bella Dodd, Franz Boas...
...Jones and Laughlin Steel, up 485 percent...
...Herbert Biberman, Hollywood's Communist commissar...
...In the reiease...
...From now on the resources of all the American Republics may be expected to be pulled with those of the British Empire in the titanic struggle...
...These companies demand that profits above .the 'legal' limits now O'force not be taxed, so that enough money . would come from defense contracts, which would leave them a profit and a new plant free and dear in five years...
...What we have in mind is not its military-naval significance alone...
...since demonstrated this truth...
...Excalibur from Lisbon and was met at the pier by a iarce rieicgatiai cf Social Democrats and trade unionists Abramovitch is already well known in this country, having made several speaking toun here, besides writing for The New Leader, thi Jewish Daily Forward, and other papers...
...Mussolini knows it...
...In addition the Colonies have made loans to the British Government, free of interest, for the duration of the war, amounting to more than $6,000,000, and cash gifts to war charities, amounting to nearly $2,500,000...
...Harry Van Arsdale, of the Electrical^ Workers, who has spoken at nearly all the New York Communist "peace demonstrations...
...Unity of Democracies marks Beginning of Wars Second Year By MALCOLM HASTINGS The second phase of the war—the phase that will end in the defeat and destruction of Hitlerism—has begun...
...Elmer Felhaber, pro-Communist Ohioan...
...Morri« Watson, of the Newspaper Guild and the A.L.P...
...Pure Oil Company, 95 percent increase...
...Millen Brand, Maria Robinson, Richard Wright, Langston Hughes, Carey McWilliams, California Immigration Commissioner...
...In a release issued under the code number of 1940/35 the Republican National Committee distributed a column called "Looking Forward," by Franklyn Waltmam...
...y Unions Contribute government, Sir Walter Citrine, secretary of the Congress, announced this week...
...the openly fascist mouthpiece, said editorially...
...Despite these loans and profits certain industrialists refused to accept $8 cn the hundred as a reasonable profit and struck, refusing to produce the necessary guns, tanks, shells, planes and munitions required by an army of 2,000,000, which this nation will have within a year after the Burke-Wadsworth bill is passed...
...Roosevelt delivered a slashing attack on the Italian government, actually naming it...
...The Latin-American Republics know n*w that the United States, and England mean business...
...England stands firm, ready for any new blows the enemy may yet deliver...
...Among those refusing to cooperate are Bethlehem Steel, Curtis-Wright, Douglass, Fairchild, United and Glenn L. Martin1, airplane corporations...
...Willkie and Pew held telephonic consultations last week, and the nominee lat«i expressed • his desire to visit the oil magnata at his huge estate in Ardmorc...
...Senators Withdraw The men whose withdrawal caused the collapse of the mobilization and the petering out of the proposed "mass" anti-conscription demonstration in Washington, were Oswald Garrison Villard, Harry Elmer Barnes, and Senators Gerald P. Nye and D. Worth Clark...
...Of the other council members the following have long been identified with Communist peripheral organizations: Professor Walter Rau-tenstrauch, Marc Blitzstein, Donald Ogder...
...The Overton-Russell amendment which allow* immediate condemnation of recalcitrant ttrporations, subject to ultimate court decisions, k being bitterly fought by industry, inasmuch •^company threats to withhold production—as voiced by Eugene Grace of Bethlehem recently—would be meaningless in the face of decisive government action...
...Cash gifts from the Colonial Empire to the British Government for the prosecution of the war, amounted to more than $38,000,000 by July 17...
...John De Boer, Staiinite caucus candidate against George Counts at the recent Teachers' Union convention...
...to* General Council of the Trades Union Co?Sre*8 has placed more than $2,000,000 of its funds, interest free, at the disposal of the i...
...high-priced publicity director cf Willkie's campaign, in .which Roosevelt is attacked for criticizing Italy's declaration of war on France...
...Willkie's ghost writers were preparing his Indiana local-boy-makes-good acceptance speech...
...Joe Cadden, executive secretary of the American Youth Congress...
...60.5 percent over their profits of $70,818,876 during the same period in §39...
...des Forges" refuses to accept contracts —which will eventually total close to $15,000,-990,000—without a guarantee that the govem-jnet will under no circumstances.limit profits or Jtgislate any act even faintly resembling a move tewtrds Federal control of plants, industrial profits during the past six months have been as much as 1740 per cent over that of the same period last year...
...In effect, he accused the Italian government of stealthily stabbing a neighbor in the back...
...This followed closely a loan for $92,000,000 to the Wright Aeronautical Corporation for en-fine production...
...is even more a part of the Communist machine than was its predecessor, the late League for Peace and Democracy...
...is almost completely in the hands of the Communists, for it officially cooperated with the mobilization and helped in procuring the aid of P»\ Townsend's movement, and other pressure groups...
...Besides being vice president of th< Sun Oil Company, he is president of the in> portant Sun Pipe L:ne Company, and chair man cf the board, and a director of the 8m Shipbuilding and Drydock Co, RAPHAEL ABRAMOVITCH FINDS REFUGE IN U. S. Readers of The New Leadei will he glad tc learn that...
...and surprise that the president shouk criticize it...
...The power of the British Navy holding our first line of defense will be considerably enhanced^thus improving our own position as we proceed with our defense program...
...Bethlehem Steel, 250 percent increase...
...Frank?r D. Roosevelt will find out how the Italians in America will make him swallow the insults he hurled at the whole Italian people who for years struggled for a place in the sun...
...its vice-chairman is Reid Robinson, stalinoid president of the Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers, C.I.O...
...That part of the French Empire outehie Hitler's control knows it...
...General Motors, up 13 percent...
...A string of strategic naval and air bases from Newfoundland to the Panama Canal region and beyond will make us impregnable to attack...
...So has Oscar Ameringer . British Unions and Colonies Voluntarily Lend Many Millions to Empire War Chest Special to The New Leader LONDON (Passed by the Censor...
...United Aircraft Company, 13 percent1 more...
...Speech Is 'inflammatory" "What is worse...
...In place of the wide "peace" organization the Communists had hoped to build out of the meeting, they were forced to set up an obvious Staiinite group called the American Peace Mobilization, led by John B. Thompson, an unknown clergyman, and Frederick Vanderbilt Field, long associated with obscure party line publications...
...beta try Balks at Curbs William Knudsen's statement before the Sen-tie Finance Committee this week carried the tiear implication that industry would not pro-anee for defense unless all curbs and 'heavy* exes** profits taxes were levied...
...the United States...
...The road for an Allied thrust into Germany through the Balkans may yet be opened despite the dissolution of the French Army in Syria consequent upon the collapse of France...
...The Britiah Trades Unions and the British Colonies, °bjeet of the crocodile tears of some of our paci-**** and 'ultra-left-wingers' as the 'downtrodden' sections of Britain, are demonstrating their ^yalty to the government ar.-d their determination to fight Nazism by their wholehearted vol-nnt»iy effort in placing their resources at the disposal of the government...
...But as part of all this and as a guarantee of ultimate victory, the Roosevelt-Churchill deal is a reeling moral and political blow against the entire Nazi'-Comiminist-Fascist front in Mexico and South Ajnejfca...
...Raphael Abramovitch...
...In doing so they have given the Nazis a foretaste of what is yet to come...
...Chairman of the Mobilization's council is the probably very innocent "fighter for peace" from Oklahoma, Rev...
...has given the A.P.M...
...There have also been many gifts in kind, ranging from fifty live turtles, 94 heads of cattle, 1,680 cases of rum, and bags of beans, coca, coffee, maize and rice, to seven motor lorries and one saloon car, two patrol vessels, and an aeroplane...
...The demonstration revealed that the C.I.O...
...among its council members are Vito Marcarto-nio...
...Algeria and Morocco may be in flames tomorrow, the flames helping to consume Mussolini's dream of Empire...
...Tokyo, too, cannot fail to miss it...
...A conviction based not upon wishful thinking but upon a realization of the forces inherent in democracy and its ability to win fighting with its back to the wall...
...But the principle is already established for all who understand...
...From now on we may expect to hear that totalitarian, Axis propaganda is losing its beguilcment below the Rio Grande...
...Observers were surprised when they learned that George Nelson, Norman Thomas' running mate in 1936, had accepted a place on the council...
...Council...
...They know now whose protection to prefer, with whom their future lies...
...He con trolled the Pennsylvania delegation end swunf his support curing- the first five ballots behim Pennsylvania's Governor James, his stooge it Harrisburg...
...There were other smaller loans made a few weeks ago...
...Thus when Du Pont has an increase of 17 percent profit, it simply means that the rate of profit which had given the Du Pont companies more than $90,000,000 profit in the last year, had been increased by 17 percent of itself...
...American Peace Mobilization' Newest Of Communist Propaganda Belts By VICTOR RIESEL Because of public pressure resulting from a front-page expose by The New Leader of the Emergency Peace Mobilization's communist character, several "innocents," on whom the Stalinites had counted to hoax the American people into believing it a bona-fide peace movement, refused to speak at the Chicago Stadium rally, causing it to fail completely as a publicity maneuver...
...When in the darkest hours of the conflict—the downfall of France and the retreat from Dunquerke—we declared that the free nations of the world had just begun to fight, we gave expression to a deep-seated conviction...
...Turkey, a most important key point in the picture, affecting the situation in the Near East and the Mediterranean, cannot help but be impressed...
...They have not only repelled successfully Hitler's air attacks upon the British Isles but have carried the War into Germany...
...On the contrary, with England as the citadel and springboard, the war against Hitler and his totalitarian allies is to be prosecuted until the initiative is wrested from their hands and totalitarianism is shattered forever...
...George Marshall, cf the stooge National Federation for Constitutional Liberties, also of the editorial board of Soviet Russia Today...
...Shell Union Oil Company, 336 percent...
...The outcome?—the victory of freedom...
...Republic Steel, up 500 percent...
...free run of the offices and equipment of Labor's Non-Partisan League throughout the country...
...Said II Grido delia Stirpe : 'Next November Hon...
...The Communist Party threw every available "personality" it had into the meeting and the officialdom of the new organization, but failed to obtain any publicity except in the Daily Worker and C.I.O...
...Curtiss-Wright Company, 85 percent jump...
...Mr Pew on occasion has said that he would spenr his entire fortune—which is considerable—ii necessary, to beat, the New Deal...
...This the Administraron was forced to eliminate...
...The Mobilization is already working from the League's headquarters at the Earle Building in Washington...
...The Congress also made an outright gift to the government of $4,000 for the purchase of four mobile canteens, in the campaign to replace canteens lost in France, and other unions are following suit...
...A full demonstration of this fact will, we are sure, be supplied by subsequent events...
...While this American «Comit...
...Here too occurs the phrase "a friendly nation likt Italy...
...Rabbi Moses Miller, of the communistic Jewish People's Committee: Joe Curran: Max Yergan, president of the National Negro Congress...
...Franklin D. Roosevelt must go from the White House...
...vice pre»i dent cf the Sun Oil Company, considered ii some circles to be of fascist tendencies...
...F.D.R...
...This was part cf a long feature castig-atinjr Roost-veil for his ar.ti-totalitarian foreigr policy...
...George Seldes and Aline Davis Hays, wife of Arthur Garfield Hays...
...There is to be no "knockout" of England...
...On August 20 it was'revealed that the •amy and navy had funds for 5,725 planes and fans for 28 destroyers.but could not contract for them because manufacturers objected to the federal profit limitations...
...N. Y. City...
...veteran of the Russian Socialist movement and a vahan fighter against all totalitarianism, who has beet living for many years as an exile, first ir Berlin and since 193.3 in Paris, has found rcfug* ir...
...Theodore Dreiser, and Katherine Terrall, executive secretary of the Institute of Pacific Relation?, which is indirectly linked to several stalinoid fronts...
...to wait...
...Rebuilders Committee...
...John B. Thompson...
...Abe Flaxer, pro-Communist president of the party-line State, County and Municipal Workers' Union...
...Colonies Lend $47,000,000 Including cash gifts subscribed by local residents to Colonial Governments and subscriptions not yet allocated, the total gifts and> loans amount to nearly $47,000,000...
...George Nelson Included, Too Also Mervyn Rathbone, party-line president cf the American Communications Association...
...Compare this with Waltman's statement that the "Italian people won't soon forget the insult...
...Philip Connolly, Staiinite president of the California C.I.O...
...This last figure was earned by the United States Steel corporation, while duPont for the same months earned 17 percent more...
...The Roosevelt-Churchill deal will stimulate this process not only in Africa and Asia but also in the Balkans and everywhere where weaker nations, conquered and nnconquered, are waiting for the opportunity and the signal to go into action...
...Pursuit of such backing became a well planned GOP stratagem when...
...Jack McMichael, fellow traveler and chairman of the American Youth Congress...
...Libbey Owens Ford Company, IS percent higher...
...Willkie Joins With Pew Willkie also is seeking support of the mo*' conservative industrialists in the country, despite his early split with the appeaser bloc One cf these is Joseph N. Pew...
...Up to th< time of the Republican nomination he was anti Willkie and isolationist in sentiment...
...Already ;ome of the French colonies have repudiated the vassal Vichy government and have allied themselves with England...
...Does anyone suppose the Italian people soon will forget that insult?'' The Italian vote is strong: in New York and if Waltman can swing- it against Roosevelt be can put New York and its pivotal forty-seven electoral votes in the Willkie column...
...The National Union of General and Municipal Workers, and the Transport and General Workers each voted $962,500, and eleven other unions and affiliates lent sums ranging from $400 to $96,000...
...John P. Davis, commissar and secretary of the National Negro Congress, who succeeded A. Philip Randolph, when the latter resigned in protest against Communist domination...
...and Crucible Steel, 1585 percent...
...Inland Steel, 68 percent...
...In addition the C.I.O...
...Walter Neff, City College "activist...
...A fev weeks earlier I! Gride dells Stirpe...
...Stewart, president of the League of American Writers...
...Hugh Delacy, staiinite whip of the party-line Commonwealth Federation of the state of Washington...
...Harvey O'Connor, signer of many front statements, former editor of the People's Press...
...Stalin knows it...
...Ninety-five per cent of the officers and National Council members are notorious Stalinites...
...That is the meaning of the second phase of the war, marked by the Roosevelt-Churchill accord...
...publications...
...Waltman counts on securing strong sup pert among the nation's 120 Italian publications, eighty per cent of which are fascist ir action or sympathies, ton per cent of which ii anti-fascist, and ten per cent neutral, according- to the Italian News Service at 147 Four...
...Roosevelt interpolated inte that speech an intemperate statement unworthy cf anyone who merits the description of statesman, when he asserted that 'on this tenth day cf June the hand that held the dagger struck it into the back of its neighbor...
...The battle for the freedom of mankind has just begun...
...The list of officers shows that the A.P.M...
...The deal concluded in behalf of the United States by President Roosevelt with Prime Minister Churchill for the leasing to this country of a string of strategic naval and air bases in the Atlantic, in exchange for 50 American destroyers accentuates more than anything else the fact that the war has entered the new phase...
...In the Western Hemisphere, this accord will have revolutionary consequences, upon which we shall not have long...
...Pew is one cf America's wealthiest men, at important oil executive and notoriously anti labor...
...Donald Henderson, long a Communist and C.I.O...
...Hitler knows it...
...Only last week Jesse Jones lent several aviation corporations $78,500,000...
...sent to you without charge for publication as you desire," Waltman writes of FDR's University of Virginia address: "In that speech Mr...
...Fifty destroyers sent to England will play a most important part in buttressing British resistance and striking power...
...Nat'l Committee Asks Fascist Support Steel and Plane Industrialists Balk V. S. Defense Drive Business Strikes Against "Threat" to Curb Profits By EDWARD LORING Special to The New Leader WASHINGTON, D. C—America's defense directors face an industrial executives' sit-down itrike, which is tying up prodaction of war-planes, tanks, ships, guns and other material which has a steel base...
...Seldom in modern history, has the ruler cf one nation uttered such inflammatory and provocative words rerardinjr a friendly government, as President Roosevelt in this speech...
...In addition the Federal Loan Administration it lending many millions to vital factories for plant expansion...
...He arrived in New Yort on Friday, by the S.i...
...There are a hali-rr.iilicr Italians in New York City alone At the same time that this release reached several thousand publications, Willkie was tilling a press conference that he expected the aid o? Generoso Pope, publisher of two pro-fascist New York Italian language dailies...
Vol. 23 • September 1940 • No. 36
