Pan-American Defense Secured by U.S-British Destroyer Dea
SHORT, GEORGE
Pan-American Defense Secured by U.S-British Destroyer Dea 50 Destroyers Are Token, Shipment Of Huge Aid Soon to Reach Britain By GEORGE SHORT WASHINGTON, D. C.—All South America has been closely...
...The key fact is the slowing down of population increase...
...1940...
...Urban development opened new jobs and the gangling farm boy became the city sophisticate...
...The middle class is comiag to be feci up with labor's civil war...
...Lucia, Trinidad and British Guiana U. S. planes and warships can police all northern and central South America...
...CP., Italian Fascists, Unite Behind Marcantonio in Anti-British Drive Official Italian fascist support has swung behind Vito Marcantonio, incumbent Congressional candidate for reelection in Manhattan's Twentieth District...
...The 1940 census will show that cities have grown only five per cent while in this last ten years the country grew eight per cent...
...The last trial lasted nearly three months, ending in the acquittal of all defendants...
...Stores of these modern weapons are ready for shipment to England...
...In the last seven months Great Britain and Canada have received $63,500,000 worth of American supplies—an average of about $8,000,000 a month...
...Along with these supplies will be tons of war material from the U. S. Army's arsenals...
...The prosperity of the 20's depended upon the rapid growth of American cities...
...This makes Marcantonio the nominee of the local fascists, Communists, and Republicans in the September 17th primaries, during which he will attempt to capture the American Labor Party, and Democratic nominations to add to his official endorsement by the Republicans...
...Arizona unions are also battling against strikebreaking tactics of the notorious "Associated Farmers," a front for "open-shop" employers...
...The youth who, in the twenties would have found jobs in industry...
...In the post-war decade, cities above 25,000 increased their population 23%, while the country as a whole was growing only 16...
...As a true historian...
...American Diofecfics Least of all is he forgetful of the new economic and industrial technological factors, the statfp» between the cider craft type of union and the never industrial union, dictated by the develop, merit of vast and concentrated is-riustries...
...Others to be retried are Capt...
...Harris can write about economics and labor without being either "dismal'- or ber-ingiy pseudo-scientific and pseudo-dialectical about it...
...or daughters as "labor...
...Italian anti-fascist spokesmen reveal that this change in policy can be traced to the switch in Communist policy from collective security to the same "peace" policy urged here by the Italian fascist societies and the German-American Bund...
...LAROR'F CIVIL WAB...
...as Herbert Harris "icrh*iv term's "t — -*~is civ"' war may carry in its train consequences more disastrous than the civil war of the 'sixties...
...sian cr French letters...
...In June, England had received only 116,700,000 worth of fighting equipment and Canada hit a low of $819,000...
...And a bitterly divided laker¦ a heavy liability in a essBtry which tomorrow may have to late a K i flu in full control o? Biro pe...
...2,500,000 for engines, and smaller sums for other material...
...While production levels have increased with a lessening amount of workers, demands for higher living standards have led to the increasing of the percentage of jobs in the service fields...
...These speeded deliveries include every type of war material...
...Pan-American Defense Secured by U.S-British Destroyer Dea 50 Destroyers Are Token, Shipment Of Huge Aid Soon to Reach Britain By GEORGE SHORT WASHINGTON, D. C.—All South America has been closely bound to the united otates oy tne aestroyer-ror-oases-swap, wiucn at the same time has implemented the effectiveness of the pan-American "collective trusteeship" of foreign colonies in this hemisphere, naval experts here report...
...Peculiar America Mr...
...Now that the tide cf black totalitarianism has engulfed the whole of Europe from the Urals to the Gulf of Biscay, ail of us to whom freedom and democracy are rot mere empty words, have cine u understand, only too painfully, that the dissensions and lack of moral unity in the ranks of labor in Italy...
...During the selection of a trial jury, questions asked by Federal district attorney were restricted to a probe of the antifascist reading of prospective jurors...
...His scholarship and knowledge of economics and labor, particularly American labor, is carried with a lightness that ought to be a thing to imitate for some cf cur younger sociologists and historians...
...Another such drive was put on by the "Women of the Pacific," a society women's anti-labor association which circulates a newspaper called the "American W°rker-Consumer,"filled with attacks on unions...
...IN this tragic and momentous hour in history, when th* clash of two worlds, the democratic and the totalitaria» transcends all else in mind and spirit, a free, strong, BBitad labor movement must become democracy's first line of C fense, if only because labor has long known that life with...
...this is what tat ought to expect ir...
...Here in California, Edward D. Vandeleur, secretary of the State Federation of Labor, is actively organizing a camDaicn ap-ainst a flock of disfmised ————————^^—"anti-loitering" ordinances being introduced in many cities...
...Assuming that Canada can send 300 more, the allies are still 1,200 planes below the Nazi production mark each month...
...Herbert Harria...
...The psychological effect of U. ?. military might hovering over the coastlines will have a salutary effect on the morale of Latin-American governments, which have been asking for just such a demonstration of strength before they launch their drive on the Naii super-structure reaching from Columbia to the Straits of Magellan...
...Alfrti A. Knop...
...The chance for such aid which appeared remote last week, has now become a possibility, because American military and naval experts view the Atlantic ocean not so much as "the big ditch" but as vast territory which much be patrolled and guarded, especially since U. S. intelligence officers believe that the Nazi war office has already planned its drive on the American continents...
...his papers are giving Marcantonio strong support...
...presente spinous possibilities...
...9,500,000 paid for planes...
...Urban areas grew faster than the country, bringing heavy demand for apartment houses, skyscrapers, paved streets and transportation facilities...
...American cities are declining, and with their decline there is a worse headache in the farm problem...
...and present, from Fcwderly and De Leon to WiUian Green and William Hutehestm, ere masterpieces of historical and *. cial miniature...
...Helen Titus, the jury's forelady, was a cousin of the Reverend Brophy, anti-Semitic author and sponsor of the congressional candidacy of Joseph McWilliams, American Destiny Party leader...
...manner is eminently- literary, his style terse, his method cf presentation psychological, humorous, and dramatic...
...If the 50 over-age U. S. destroyers are to help Britain during the next 60 days—before real winter sets in—London must have planes, planes, and more planes...
...Aware that Britain's safety during the next few months depends on U. S. aid, the U .S...
...For the first time in the country's history, what only yesterday—historically speaking—was a "They" problem, has now become a vita...
...England needs 3,000 U. S. aircraft to give it supremacy over the Reich...
...High Command will more and more openly take the position that the Channel ports are our first line of defense...
...U>i 29...
...One New York City borough president has appeared on the same platform with Joe McWilliams, and so is indirectly linked to the Bund, the Ku Klux Klan and the Christian Mobilizers...
...out lihprtv is death without--¦dying...
...Harris' book is n natural sequel to his "American Labor.'" but he has brought more passion and sense of danger to the work under review...
...flock* attd%\im By Elias Tartak ^? Lcibor's Suicid...
...The Bahaman, Jamaican, and Antiguan bases added to the U. S. bases in Guan-tanamo Bay, and in Puerto Rico will defend the Canal, while from St...
...American military experts believe that the British need this country's air force, and its whole flotilla of destroyers, for convoy service, to meet German forces on equal or slightly superior terms...
...Projecting this statistical curve, the National Resources Committee estimates a peak population of 158,335,000 by ?980, and then a decline...
...Although no definite statement has yet been published oy Generoso Pope, owner and publisher of the two pro-fascist New York Italian language dailies- II Corriere d'America and II Progresso...
...Meyer Goldberg, G. O. P. assembly incumbent in the Sixth Assembly District, Manhattan, has accept<>J left wing ALP (Stalinite) support, in exchange for which he joined the International Workers Order, official Comintern fraternal organization...
...These bases guarantee that the Panama Canal will be open at all times—assuring the JLatin-American nations that democratic United States can rush its newly streamlined forces to any country below the Equator threatened by Italy, Germany, Japan, or Russia...
...It can be reported here that political and legislative unity is practically assured* since Willkie's backers have strong ties with the British government, and the present administration is inherently anti-totalitarian...
...a coaatry which seemed, to have been specially created "by the middle-class for the middle-class...
...Strong political and religious pressure is being exerted in an effort to . secure the - freedom of the five Christian Fronters now about to be tried...
...In August she will get only 236 fighting craft...
...There are other instances of Republican cooperation with the Watson-Communist-rebuilder faction of the American Labor Party...
...The Newfoundland base, about one-third the distance between New York and London, could be used to stop any north route drive the Nazis might attempt...
...Herbert Harris knows only too well that there is no "black and walk," "God and Satan" in history.Tim are collateral forces and fatten which at ence make the wkitf not so white...
...New they know that they are...
...Goldberg also endorsed tr»e Randall's Island "peace mobilization demonstration -last Aug...
...Sen- York...
...All the Congressman's speeches at "peace" gatherings sponsored by the Communists in their "emergency mobilization'' are reprinted in Pope's newspapers, which speak of Marcantonio as the "fighting Congressman...
...At least 6,000,000 persons have been added to our working population, but 2,000,000 fewer people are at work...
...Behind that move is the "Merchants and Manufacturers Association," which put up seventy costly billboards throughout the state calling for the suppression of all strikes "to avoid what oo curred in France...
...This would stymie any plans Hitler may have for a take-off from Dakar...
...Among those not freed was William J. Bishop, reputedly the ringleader of the origi-inal group of 17, which was charged with conspiring to overthrow the government...
...These are designed to take the place of the anti-picketing ordinances recently outlawed by the California Supreme Court...
...No questions were asked concerning the talesman's reading of "Social Justice," the "Tablet," or other anti-Semitic, pro-Fascist literature...
...If the same percentages prevailed today as in 1870, farms and factories would have 12,000,000 jobs to offer...
...We simply want to know to understand, the deeper reasons, the psychological and social history of the C. I. O. and A. F. L. civil war...
...Bermuda will defend the central U. S. coastline...
...Harris' story sf bow the Stalinites at once set oar to "use" John L. Lewis and to ne thought he was "using" the...
...to play and draw or...
...4. The Republicans last week endorsed J. Eugene Zimmer, Assembly candidate of the Communist-ALP faction...
...During a religious festival in the Italian quarter, honoring St...
...him American labor ii xtot k many lifeless statistics, bat I jiving organism, just as unlike English or German labor*- y American literature is unlike fat...
...Nazi factories turn out about 3,000 planes a month...
...To a large degree the shifting nature of work, combined with the increasing productivity per worker due to technological advances, has contributed to this decline...
...There —the North won...
...For an analysis of South American and Caribbean reaction to the deal, see Bryce Oliver's article on page 5.) Census Reveals Population, Industrial Worker, Decline WASHINGTON, D. C.—A full appraisal of the census results now being stamped on cards by the clattering, card-punching Holerith machines in the Department of Commerce Building will have to await the enumeration of 132,000,000 cards, but analysis of sample statistics reveal the fundamental changes wrought by the .chaotic thirties in America's "Middletowns" and "Southerntowns"—changes requiring vital economic and social planning by government and business...
...Harris' '"American Labor" it will be no news that "Labor's Civil War" is an interest-holding and firmly written book, from the first lrne to the last one...
...August totals will be about a third higher than for the previous 30 days...
...Zimmer is running in the first district of Troy in upper New York...
...Herbert Morrison has stepped British production up to 1,200 a month...
...this esati—at...
...In the interval since the 1930 census, the population increased only 8%, the smallest increase in the history of the nation and onlv half as laree —————————— as that between 1920 and 1930...
...Marcantonio is also receiving Italian fascist support in the Harlem Community...
...The big interests knaar ass...
...It is amazing to ate Dm labor movement of a vast *ac —industrially—the moat arinaaW country, dominated by the backward middle-class meatality oi labor itself...
...later, other bases, and perhaps outright possession of colonies will be bartered...
...To this should be added Canadian purchases totaling $1,200,000 for airplanes...
...The Front's liaison reaches high into Brooklyn and Queens politics, and has sympathetic listeners in both the Democratic and Republican parties...
...Although only a token sale, the 50 over-age destroyers will be followed by millions of tons of ships, planes, ammunition, rifles, and larger guns...
...This control over the Caribbean is Washington's first move to oust totalitarian forces from Latin-America, source of some of the world's most vital raw materials...
...Compare this with the $24,000,000 figure of July...
...thumbnail sketches of labor leaders, pas...
...Anthony of Padua, Marcantonio created a high point in the fervor of the celebration by posing on the traditional ornate eighty-foot tower, depicting different aspects of the saint's life, for the benefit of admiring neighborhood camera fans, and generally ioining in the spirit of the festivaL ..^ JOK Front Resumes Pressure To Free 5 on Trial Again (As we go to press we learn that U. S. District Attorney Kennedy of Brooklyn has postponed the trial to September 17th...
...the other would head from Dakar, West Africa, to the North Atlantic Brazilian coast, a distance of only 1,600 miles...
...One hanged himself shortly after hearings had begun in April...
...With this moving yet soberly realistic and statesmanlike passage, Herbert Harris concludes his recent and remarkable book.* Never has American public opinion been so labor-minded as in the last ten to fifteen years...
...Unions LOS ANGELES.— The widespread onslaught of anti-labor restrictive legislation flooding the legislatures of several western states, pushed by Tory, vigilante groups, is being met by active trade-union opposition...
...are staying on the farms...
...The recent legislation in the State of Washington virtually satiating labor union...
...This -then was the era of the flow from the farm to the city...
...Jeep jeopard...
...John T. Prout of the National Guard, John A. Viebrock, William H. D. Bushnell and Macklin Boettger...
...Here—both sides of labor must lose, and the only victor may be the "third rejoicing cue...
...peculiar origins and psychology are a pleasure to beheld...
...For example, in 1870 agriculture and manufacturing accounted for 757c of American employment while in 1930 only 50% of the workers were engaged in these activities...
...His understanding of the sui generis features and history of American labor, of j...
...Over-age or not, these rifles and cannon are of life and death importance to the British...
...After the trial under Judge Campbell had closed, the anti-fascist press in New York sharply criticized the methods used in selection of a jury, and the method of prosecution...
...and burning matter to the majority of American people...
...During July $4,500,000 of the above total went for rifles, machine guns (sub-Thompsons) and cannon...
...Edward Brophy, pastor jf the Precious Blood Church, Long Island City, is the author of the new book, "The Christian Front, one of the most avowedly anti-Semitic, anti-democratic publications yet sponsored here by a member of the Catholic hierarchy...
...When the American Federation of Labor Teamsters union struck against a Phoenix trucking company, the "Associated Farmers" promptly ran in scabs to take the strikers' places...
...In this last decade the trend is reversed...
...Germany and France were fundamentally responsible for the victories of black and red reaction...
...It was later revealed by Friends of Democracy investigators that Mrs...
...Records of British purchases here indicate the increasing amount of material being shipped by this country...
...makes instructive reading, Anti-Labor Laws Lewis' ambitions ana qeak?ivc-ness led to his rift VjtfcjvV New Deal and to plajhsj lato the hands cf reaction...
...A rough measure of British airplane needs is found in Germ?n and English production figures...
...One of the strongest fights by labor is being waged in Arizona, where all sections of the trade-union movement have united against a proposed law which would compel unions to incorporate and post $2,500 bonds as the price of operation...
...Harris' knowledge and "dialectics" are courteously implied and do not fall on the innocent reader like a ton cf pedantic bricks...
...Hence, he takes us back to the Knights of Labor, to Gompers, De Leon and the I. W. W., all in order to give his reader tkc historical and social perspective, the truly soil history of the cob-f.ict between the C. I. 0. and the American Federation of Later, Hi...
...Labor's Civil War" ie ant at many books on vital protassH • American labor, but it is one of the best...
...i Tory-Inspired Legislation Seeks to Break Calif...
...They call for the smashing of picket lines so that housewives can "buy what they want, where they please, without interference...
...In typical logrolling style the Communist party apparatus is out campaigning for Johnny Crews, twin brother o? the Brooklyn G. O. P. leader, and three other Republican nominees, all endorsed officially by those ALP districts captured by the Communists last April 2nd...
...American factories must fill the breach, and the reception given Roosevelt's ship deal indicates that the White House may soon announce that scores of U. S. Army planes are on their way over, and that the U. S. can afford to wait for more modern output...
...Meanwhile, labor and its recent ysiiu are in...
...In San Diego lumber companies staged a city-wide lock-out of VUU unionists, after the latter refused to handle "scab goods...
...Although hearings for a retrial, or dismissal, of the five Christian Fronters who were not among those freed by Judge Marcus B. Campbell last June began this week in Judge Robert Inch's Federal Court in Brooklyn, there appears little doubt that the proceedings are of an academic nature and that these men will be freed shortly...
...More than the fifty destroyers, England needs planes and pilots to fly them...
...1,000,000 for airplane engines, and nearly $7,000,000 for ammunition and powder...
...Between 1910 and 1930, for instance, the numDer oi persons employed in selling and clerical work increased from 3^000,000 to 7,000,000...
...Hence, the bitter conflict now raging in the ranks of American labor is not just a source cf friendly regret to every liberal and socialist, but carries with itself a vision cf menace to every libertarian, and a joy to every fifth columnist...
...dialectics" or no "dialectics...
...In July, U. S. aid amounted to 124,000,000 worth of war material ferried across the Atlantic, and $4,500,000 worth of supplies sent to Canada...
...In the last edition of "Social Justice," Reverend Brophy is quoted as supporting a full page editorial advising Hitler not to-continue emptying European Jewry into America, and concluding, "one questions the wisdom of Jews flocking to America...
...These aerial blitzkriegs are allegedly designed to use two routes, one from France in a northward arc towards Canada's sparsely populated northeastern coast, a distance cf 2,900 miles...
...As long as Britain can pay cash she will...
...After the "dispossess" of the workers, the bosses launched a propaganda campaign blaming the unions for holding up the national defense projects at San Diego...
...Rejoicing Enemy There is another angle, r.o less important...
...Dromo and irony For those who read Mr...
...Rev...
...the totalitarian...
...The vast depression since 1929 has made the problem of employment and job a vita: thing to millions of people who net so long ago would net consider themselves cr their sor...
...that we all are labor, only with so many of us without a job...
Vol. 23 • September 1940 • No. 36
