The New Reel
RUSSELL, CHARLES EDWARD
The New Reel By Charles Edward Russell HATURE.consideration ef thefiConscription Act as naaed%9 ¦fk* Senate is not likely tl kindle notably the fires of elation. ' <¦¦ .It provides for the...
...Bosiey Crowther, movie critic of the New York Times . . . just as we didn't like Ben Crisler and his par Jay Leyda, recently of Moscow's Bureau of International Revolutionary Literature...
...Must be quite an extra-curricular hobby, don't you know...
...Take Harry Elmer Barnes' case...
...Many of these latter papers are old-line Democratic papers which are on the fence and lean towards Willkie...
...Meanwhile Curran s National Maritime Union and Quiff's Transport Workers are losing little publjfized N.L.R.B...
...the elimination of the legislature in time of war...
...IAY FRANKLYN, whose syndicated column appeared here in the New York Post, is slated to be the real publicity brains behind the Roosevelt campaign...
...With a huge standing army at his command and Government by Decree...
...Tovarisch Curran and all the lads are readv to jump on Sidney Hillman and the Amalgamated...
...But Privilege is loyal to Privilege everywhere...
...Mexico: Clearing House ForAnti- U. S. Espionage By JOSE GONZALEZ MEXICO CITY.—A well-informed Mexican police officer said some days ago in a private conversation: "German agents arrive here on every train, on every ship, on every plane, both from the U.S...
...At the suggestion that wealth should bear its part equally with men, shrieks of resentment arose on all sides from the propertied and the industrialists, and quickly that proposal died upon the desert air...
...For Nazi agents, Mexico means the most vulnerable point of the U.S...
...and 19 electoral votes, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Pelaware, Utah, and, of course, Maine and Vermont...
...Newspapermen everywhere are furious over the Communist line foisted on the American Newspaper Guild by the Kaufman-Pasche-Watson leadership...
...2. When it is suggested that Americans of dark complexion JBtyhave rights under the law, Senator Tom Connolly of Texas •Mrs the Senate chamber to re-echo as he rages, roars and bellows his scornful indignation...
...Nation's Press Repeats '36 Sniping at FDR Despite the fact that among the populace no such conceivable division can be found, 66% of the nation's newspapers, interpreting the news for 16,587,145 readers, are plumping for Willkie...
...Illinois' 22 electoral votes are being tempted into the Republican column by newspapers reaching 1,777,193 persons, with the New Deal appeal carried to 416,476...
...to point to the strategical weigh of these southern areas, in cas...
...To this add the disconcerting facts that the bill was driven through the Senate under executive orders...
...Mexico City and other cities' hotels are virtually jammed with "tourists" or ^salesmen" who go and come along with characteristic self-confidence, ride expensive cars, get a lot of long-distance phone calls, meet with one another in country places...
...fig Business Has Patriotism And Loyalty—To Profits IF-the charges contained in recent indictments by the Federal f Grand Jury a...
...His affinity for peace got him into the Chicago Mobilization, via the following routes...
...But what does control of Mexico mean ? It means free disposal of raw materials which are essential to German war economy, especially mercury and oil...
...If we are tired of the republican form of government and determined to try the totalitarian, Jet's deal fairly and-frankly with the matter...
...a rabid Nazi, is in charge of smuggling fifth columnists through the border...
...J. Edgar Hoover is out on the West Coast personally directing a specially selected squad of FBI agents, probing the "general status and activities" of Harry Bridges, preliminary to a real investigation into the chances for deporting the Communist C.I.O...
...Willkie...
...To put it plainly, Mr...
...And it is such exemplars of Big Business loyalty that Mr...
...There are too many innocents abroad doing too much harm to those fighting anti-totalitarian propaganda to permit Mr...
...But the heavily underscored lessons iof the present war are the out-dating of infantry, the inefficiency of great bodies of merely footing men, the supremacy off the machine, the stupendous lacrease in the cost of war, and ror these real needs the bill makes only vague and inadequate provision—-or - none at all It conscripts men...
...Jellinek since he is not connected icith this paper as its correspondent...
...there, too, live the most active and fanatic Nazi agents, one of them a personal adviser to Hitler, Dr...
...a few years the executive has come near to impinging upon the judicial branch of the government as upon the legislative^ I should think here to be a situation demanding the most serious heeding of every democrat Not to mention the fact that it is now proposed to make the man that has done these things our executive for life, to give to him more prestige and therefore inore power than any European dictator has exercised and to violate and trample upon the most important of American democratic traditions that this backward step may be taken and America-its,'in effect march in step with the totalitarians...
...of some trouble here, as it mean: that practically the whole Soutl of Mexico would fall under Ger man control in very short time And Guatemala is an entirely Fascist and Nazi-controlled state...
...New York...
...The rally had all the earmarks of an Irving Plaza Mats eh to explain the Finnish threat to the Soviets...
...In Massachusetts and Michigan, the 57 newspapers of that state having 1,152,054 readers, coo nicely about Mr...
...Income payments to individuals were placed at $41,600,000,000 —the largest figure for any comparable period since 1930...
...ments in this civilization we are called upon to salvage,— Hark from the tombs—and caves—of Neanderthal: 1. Governor McMullen of Delaware insists upon retaining the whipping post that has so long disgraced that state because Be says, "It is a deterrent of crime...
...have their jobs again_units* meantime conditions have so changed as to render their reemployment impossible—employers, apparently, being the sole judges on this point...
...National Income Is Up $2 AOO,000,000 Americans had two billion dollars more to spend in the first seven months of this year than they had in the corresponding period last year, the Department of Commerce reported this week...
...3. The designed militarization of the minds of youth...
...It is, nevertheless, the caseof^one of these Germans, to whom I was just referring...
...The huge Scripps-Howard and Hearst chains are enthusiastically pro-Willkie...
...If he remains silent while the boys gang up on Hillman, it's tacit approval of the slander campaign the Communists are waging against Hillman inside and out of the C.I.O...
...This is the naked truth...
...1I7E don't like Mr...
...It is so easy to use the nice Pan-American road which branches at Laredo, Tex., on tb...
...In these ten states, the 168 newspapers, having a 2,440,918 circulation, hit hard for the Utilities magnate, a^idithere is no way for,an editorial comeback from F. D. R. Considering the states with the largest electoral votes, the • picture remains as sharply one-sided, with the exception of...
...This might be admitted for the first six or seven defeats of *• «AWi game but not after if had...
...He tries to make us believe that if the government conducted the munitions factories, work in them would cease...
...Face the Dictatorial Trend Openly I TJtTELL...
...It is the privately-owned factories that are idle, holding off until the profits are assured...
...He also fronts for a Stalinite "Spanish refugee committee" and is so frequently mentioned in the Daily Worker, the linotypers keep his name in lead to save time...
...The Transport Workers has just been routed in the recent Queens bus line election—which adds up to the fact that the rank and file is not quite anxious to tie-up with the axis...
...How do you fig-, ure a tourist who leaves Germany in January, after having fought in Poland, crosses Russia and Japan and settles in Columbia as a hardware dealer, then flies to Mexico, joins one of the Barons here and hurries to the Mexican-British Honduras ? This is really what you might call large-scale tourism...
...This bill will inevitably militarize the minds of American youth...
...Charley Michelson, present ex, ploitation director, will still be about, but in an emeritus job...
...Jellinek is so subtle...
...No connection has been established between the murder and the previous mysterious attempt on Trotsky on May 24 this year . . . there is a strong similarity, however, in the way in which both were exploited...
...Wc think Mr...
...i KTOW for a visit to the gloves-off department . . . which in this * ' column for the moment means Ralph Ingersoll and his daily paper...
...But this time Jellinek appears as a Federated Press staffma* operating out of Mexico...
...and from Central and South * America...
...It does not conscript machines, except as an indefinite eventuality...
...Which may be the reason Adolph Germer mysteriously bobbed up in Oregon, leaving his directorship of the New York State C.I.O...
...it also gives the possibility of organizing immediately south of the U.S., a huge espionage and sabotage base...
...The fierces exploitation of Indian worker: goes on there, as in Don Porfir io's times...
...In his spare time he joins Rockwell Kent, who is part owner of a scab restaurant, Margaret Bourke-White and Dan Gillmor, in judging a fellow traveler sponsored photo contqgt being held by the magazine Friday...
...Rautenstrauch is" New York City Chairman of the American Committee for Democracy and Intellectual Freedom...
...that the same source of authority, Congressional rubber-stamp in hand, might as easily have provided for the conscription of machines and of wealth...
...This bill provides for such an army under the exclusive control of the executive...
...since 1918...
...There Cali-fornian style bungalows hide amidst the trees and flowers...
...Heard on the left By VICTOl RIESEL TIT HILE it rained in New York, it fizzled in the Chicago Stadium ™ for the "peace" mobHizerir this past week-end...
...As a matter of fact, Mexico already is the clearing house of Nazi propagandists and spies for all America...
...situation, was explained...
...Hoover's men are working in Seattle, San Francisco, Portland and Los Angeles...
...This is real tourism, too...
...Jt appears that Professor Rautenstrauch takes time out of his duties as head of Columbia University Department of Industrial Engineering to proselytize for tie Communist Party's fronts...
...Pennsylvania has 88 newspapers and 36 electoral votes...
...California's 76 newspapers influencing the decision for the 22 electoral votes divide 895,815 for the Republicans and 121,439 for the Democrats...
...The only sensible answer seems to be that they prepare to face one of two possibilitie*: (1) Some purely Mexican internal trouble, in which case they take sides with one of the bands, probably with the Almazaniats, to help them to victory and so control the future regime...
...Lomas de Chapultepec (Grasshopper's heights) is the Aztec-Spanish name for the most expensive and fashionable residential district in Mexico City...
...U)-' If Mexico remains quiet, they"??sa be planning a coup to the'same end as in the previous hypothesis...
...Matles, lac, are out to hand...
...To all intents there no longer is a C.I.O...
...1 Conscription and Dictatorship— A ©rim Parallel TAKE a-look at some of the instructive parallels afforded by this sinister measure': t The distinctive features of every dictatorship of modern times are: ( if 1. A great standing army under the exclusive control of the executive...
...On the fence are the remainder with a coverage of 6,198,821...
...In New York the division is more even in circulation...
...The Senators that **d promised to address it canceled their engagements as soon •-they learned what the "innocent front" really camouflaged, Md-the total attendance was only a tenth of the number confidently expected...
...will surely blow up at the V New York State convention scheduled for Rochester 'On September 20 and 21...
...First committee move was ta approach James D. Mooney, General Motors' vice-president, who lias been urging the United States to use its military power to farce .England into a Nazi-dictated peace...
...It provides for the drafting of a huge standing army...
...putting forth such stuff he shows little respect for the intelligence of the people that must vote for him if he is to win...
...Another one, a Baron, flies here frpm Rio with a German blonde, lives for some days in a luxurious Hex ic o City Hotel, calls a New York phone number every day, then motors to a tropical resort -where he checks in at the same hotel when visited by a gentleman who just flew in from New York...
...NE of the most important newspapers in the world will shortly print a fifth column series—written by its formei Berlin correspondent—which will make all previous fifth column stories appear juvenile...
...H . . . . Most of them are Freiherren, barons von something, wealthy, well-educated and tough Prussian ex-officers (or shall we drop the ex...
...Another German there, whose name Is more Czech than "pure Aryan...
...It is unnecessar...
...President Victor Barnes of the Chicago Editorial Associate has just visited New York, Boston, and is now in Washington conferring with William Green on the organization of a national union...
...Writes Jellinek in the Daily Worker . . . "there is every evidence that he (Jackson) is a maniac-fanatic with a personal grudge against the man whom he had been taught to regard as demigod...
...This bill provides -for Government by Decree- and...
...Hillman's Defense Commission work gripes them...
...Sacrifice men, imperil no dollars...
...Conservative sheets reach 2,731,321, In the main nearly all of the small town papers are pro-Willkie, with the big city newspapers split...
...The NMU dropped three oil tanker elections' tn a row...
...PM's Stalinite Mexican correspondent, Frank Jellinek, continues to bob up in the most curious - places...
...So sharply spIH* is it that Curran, Quill, Watson...
...T« the invertebrate paragraph about maihinery was added # jelly-fish clause about re-employment for the men thus to he...
...that the present executive has shown himself so dangerously insatiable of power that to clothe him or any successor of his with the abnormal and illimitable powers provided in this act is-to endanger the life of the i republic...
...They also go to such agreeable tourist towns as Cuernavaca and Taxco...
...Acting secretary of the group is William B. Lloyd, Jr., son of one of the Communist Party's one-time millionaire angels, William Bross Lloyd...
...Not that we've ever met these gentlemen, we've just read them regularly...
...Then the process teas continued and Barnes' name was used to' get others...
...According to these indictments, Big Business has not hesitated to make secret contracts with German corporations to create a virtual monopoly and absolute control of materials essential to the conduct of war and therefore to the national defense...
...This talk is completely pro-Nazi, as is Mooney, who with Charles A. Lindbergh and other alleged Americans friendly to Germany received Hitler's medal, the Order of the Eagle...
...It is loyal .to Privilege, not to country...
...Last week in PM he airily dismissed all Ingersoll's fears that the GPU was tied up wit/, the alpenstock...
...After some days in the hotels they leave for other American countries, or, if they stay here, they generally move to furnished apartments or to nice houses in the residential districts...
...These include populous Massachusetts and Michigan with 17...
...Not the extraordinary Com-*P»mt psychology...
...But "if thou wouldst needs damn thyself, do it a more delicate way...
...Two years ago the League for Peace and Democracy censored his scheduled talk because he was for peace asd it was for war...
...without so much as a newspaper release...
...polls...
...chief of West Coast activity...
...There work several Nazi gentlemen—if I am allowed to say so — who have many connections with the neighbor farther North...
...failed uniformly t« scores «7 experiments...
...U. S. highways...
...laws a nacre joke...
...The airlines'of Chi apas and of the Southern State: of Tabasco, Campeche, Yucat?n Quintana Roo, are under Germai control, the General Manager be ing the well-known Nazi agen Oskar Franke...
...Well, Prof...
...As a reward he is president of the ^Association of Documentary Film Producers...
...Rauenstrauch called Barnes, soliciting his name for the sponsoring committee of the Chicago Emergency Peace Mobilization...
...Jellinek, who has freq-wently u-rit-ten for the Masses, is introduced by the Daily Worker as an FP correspondent and, says the D.W., we "do not vouch for the judgment of Mr...
...We think he devoted too much space to pro-Communists in the documentary film industry when he wrote his magazine piece on the subject in the New York Times Magazine of August 25...
...Crowther to escape unscathed for having devoted two Times magazine sections to giving a clean bill of health to pro-Communist fronts...
...exhibits and Relics OfAmerican Civilization F-EST we should.become too arrogantly prideful of our attain...
...Willkie Throws Seme Balderdash CANDIDATE WILLKIE did himself small good when he under-¦ took to attack even the flimsy and double-jointed expressions in this bill in favor of ultimate supposititious conscription of machinery- Apparently, he accepts and endorses the nonsensical balderdash of the industrialist exploiters that without our rich men kindly loosening their purse-strings there would he no employment for labor...
...4Repeated disasters of this kind woxdd teach anybody else the #t*r fut?ity of fraud and prstfrse...
...and the oil tankers are strategic spots to control in wartime...
...At the great Rock Island arsenal now, government-owned work is booming day and night with many more men employed than at any tim...
...Crowther ought to cut it out...
...One of them, for instance, Otto M . . . ., owns a powerful private radio-station, which can be easily heard throughout Southeastern U. S., especially in Texas...
...Hoover is not looking into the C.I.O.'s International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union...
...fifth column activities...
...Now the question arises: why are the Germans so busy in Mexico ? It seem* rather strange at first sight that they devote so much money, so many agents, so much work, to a country like ours, which, after all, is secondary...
...C. P. Tactics a Case-History Tftr Potitical Psychiatrists HE filthy tactic of the "innocent front," which seems to be 5 the limit of the American Communist's ingenuity, received Mother shattering wallop when the "Emergency Peace Mobilisation," arranged for Chicago, went fluey...
...The Mobilization has been given the complete lists of the former League, and has been sending all members letters and appeals.' The same envelopes contained leaflets of the American Youth Congress, and the Mob?izers ("Peace," not Christian-but what's the difference...
...New York are substantiated, we have a completely satisfying close-up of the service that Accumulated Wealth will perform for the national safety...
...Then a list was read to Barnes which contained only innocents...
...The whole Soconusco area oi the State of Chiapas, on the Mex ican-Guatemalan border, is con trolled by the wealthy and all powerful German landowners who have made revolutionar...
...Barnes agreed when Rautenstrauch said that Villard and other honest pacifists, had agreed to serve...
...We think he has been unkind to anti-Nazi and anti-Communist films...
...WilHrie wishes to protect against government interference...
...Harry's a good historian but.a bum politician...
...THALKING of peace and innocents brings this columnist to the * worst case of abuse of naivete—we prefer to call it that— every participated in by America's harassed liberals Oswald Garrison Villard...
...Meentime, we can hang up this instance with the long series of developments E.urope has afforded in the last few years of the real affiliations of Privilege an every land...
...PHOSE agents the movie dialogue writers have dubbed G-men * are busy on many fifth column fronts...
...all of which leaves Ralph Ingersoll and the Federated" Press with a headache . . . and the need for a long overdue explanation...
...none about Roosevelt...
...This week Jellinek does the same job in the Daily Worker...
...Barnes dropped out when the...
...An analysis of the Guild's political activities reveals that it is doing its best to defeat the New Deal and prevent U. S. defense—not a sane course for any union, especially that made up of men who mold public opinion...
...Despite the fact that the American Newspapers Publishing Association boasts of a free press tradition, there are ten states of the union — with 79 electoral votes—where there is not even one paper for Roosevelt...
...1,615,500 readers are daily supplied with pro-Willkie editorials, while only 257,436 hear the New Deal side...
...Lewis has said little so far which might affect the controversy, but he'll have to come out from behind the eyebrows by the time the State convention meets late this month...
...All the street and avenues are called by mountain names, Himalaya, Sierra-Madre, etc-or viceroys' names as Marqu?s de Velasco, O'Donoj...
...Crowther's copy is too reminiscent of the Stalinist line...
...Call a constitutional convention,' amend the organic law and walk into a dictatorship through the front door instead of sneaking into the csullery door under the pretense of a "national defense" that is no defense, and the cloak of a pretentious "conscience...
...CO spontaneous has been the sentiment for the recently organ-ized A. F. of L. editorial writers' union, that demand for the organization of a national council of the 15 units already in the field in 13 cities is rapidly spreading throughout the country...
...As he cannot possibly believe it himself, he starts his campaign -with a disheartening insincerity...
...Profits have no national frontiers in their geography nd no idealisms in their philosophy...
...He was asked for aid by the Villard group because, of his recent speech which Congressman Barry inserted in the Congressional Record...
...wrested from civil Ufe...
...It conscripts only live* at a time when our production of the indispensable defensive machinery Bags, droops and goes alarmingly lame...
...Psychiatrists,-do your duty...
...When we reflect that Congress has already been reduced largely to the estate of humble Yes Men and that within...
...A rather curious effect of Pan-Americanism, thi Pan-American extension of Naz propaganda and espionage network...
...2. Government by Decree aid the elimination' of the legislature...
...The liberal has joined with scholastic fellow-traveler Jerome Davis and several others in organizing the Committee to Defend America by Waging Peace...
...Despite all Stalinite howls...
...Ranged "against them are 20% of the news sheets, reaching 5,332,905 persons...
...TPHESE German tourists are * rather funny...
...WheH they return from their enforced musket practice they are -to...
...This is a nice place indeed, up hill, with the magnificent landscape trf the Capital in the sunshine below...
...This work has been going on quietly for many weeks, in accordance with a presidential order to expose espionage and...
...Now let's turn for a while to Monterey,-the big industrial city of the State of Nuevo Le?n, near the American border...
...Ftaxer...
...J oris I vene has long been close to the line...
...It does not conscript wealth...
...Contents of all foreign language newspapers published in the United States are being translated and examined by FBI men in an effbrt to ferret out those which are transmission belts for totalitarian propaganda...
...Nor was the Daily-Worker inconspicuous...
...There is no patriotism in Profits...
...Those Chicagoans who wandered anywhere in the direction of the mobilization were deluged with free copies of Friday, Equality, and the New Masses...
...Our deputy spies at the rallies send along an important carrier-pigeon' message providing a new link in the tie-up between the American Peace Mobilization and the late and unlamented League for Peace and Democracy...
...A bit of probing among those innocents who were snared reveals that the 13th Street representatives of the Berlin-Moscow foreign office, still use the same technique...
...And they never much discuss prices...
...This, of course, is supposed to cover Brother Ingersoll, but look what it does for the Federated Press . . . and PM's selection of Jellinek ss the spot news correspondent...
...New York State to Willkie, and stymie defease a* long as possible...
...Hoto about that, Candidate...
...If we really wish to go the same well-trodden path to the same smash, that is our privilege and the highway'is open...
...It is pleaded to me in behalf of these strange mm that they are Mcting%*?r the orders of a Moscow gemus r*«, having no knowledge of the American scene, xnsists that the way to win anything here is to be forever on the crook...
...1WHATEVER is brewing in the C.I.O...
...They drive about in their Mercedes, Opels or sometimes American cars, to 17, Viena Street, former headquarters of Arthur Dietrich (expelled at last by the Mexican Government) to 14, C?rdoba St., German Legation and other less official meeting places...
...CHALL we go to Southern Mcx-*^ ico ? The picture is more oi less the same—in fact, even dark er...
...as previously remarked* down this same old road re-" puNic after republic has walked to its ruin...
Vol. 23 • September 1940 • No. 36
