Peace Time Draft Opponents Ignore Europe's Lessons
BROWN, EMILY N.
Peace Time Draft Opponents Ignore Europe's Lessons By EMILY N. BROWN ¦ J Head of The NEW Leader's Washington Research Bureau 'THE most momentous issue confronting America today—that of compulsory...
...The American Federation of Labor Executive Council has set up a committee of three to cooperate and every section of the American Federation - of Labor will assist...
...S. Amelia Yeager, Madison, Wise...
...Stalinite maneuvers towards national control operated in several ways...
...It is the end of a Venezuelan dream...
...Similarly...
...In some cases they are youngsters who are sowing their intellectual wild oats...
...The possibility is so faint, says Hanson Baldwin, that we should not change our whole economic, political and social life on that faint possibility...
...Nathan Straus...
...In fact, he says...
...After a spirited debate and -a roll call vote, Soviet Russia was listed with the dictatorships and an attempt to put the American Federation of Teachers into the anti-help-for-British-unions' column was frustrated when a roll call was asked on an- amendment to delete part of the anti-war resolution which remained as unfinished business— contrary to the bedtime story of the Three Old Ladies...
...A trebled membership would* make a nice birthday present for the 25th Convention...
...We will find many arguments that have no bearing on the rea...
...Daily Worker" reports, tried to cheer itself with false statements o? "one hundred proxies" despite the fact that its charming front...
...The support of the State Federation and the city central bodies in New York as elsewhere is more necessary to t h e teacher than to other groups...
...Harry J. Carman* Dr...
...That is coming about and it is going to come about faster in the future...
...On Trinidad, St...
...that thtcompulsory training program is too drastic a step...
...It is the camel's nose of militarism under the tent...
...A group met in May in New York, comprising such men as General John McAuley Palmer, Colonel William J. Donovan, George G. McMurtry, Kenneth Budd, Julius Ochs Adler, Elihu Root Jr., Lewis Douglas, etc...
...To such suggestions as this...
...Jerome Davis showed that they were apt in the "name-calling device" of the Institute of Propaganda Analysis...
...We support Rugg because he is fighting for facts and does not suppress them...
...ON Monday, the Communist Party organ felt sure that by naming John J. DeBoer of Chicago, it had adroitly split that city's delegation...
...But whether we shall see compulsory training vanish here after 1945, as the act provides, only if European democracy is stiH alive, only time will tell...
...They know the strategic importance of the school in forming public opinion...
...A larger standing army would run counter tc America's traditional policy...
...George S. Counts as president, demonstrated that they want a genuine trade union working in conjunction with the American Federation of Labor and with a policy correlated to the needs of the American labor movement and American teachers rather than the danger of being correlated by some few locals to an ever changing outside party line...
...They quote Voltaire about the right of an opponent to have his say at all times but close their eyes to the fact that their generosity is exploited by the devotees of the modern red edition of Peter the Great in order to suppress liberalism and democracy as an outworn bourgeoisie fetish...
...We appeal to them to see the folly ol their ways and retrace their steps into real constructive activity...
...Hence, we have to have available large land forces to meet the danger of invasion in the intervening years...
...i.;___ T - l j ,------Colombians, I feel that I am qualified to warn that despite surface-appearances and possible official statements, the nationals of 'these important and growing republics will be something less than lukewarm to the connotations for them which are involved in the leasing of British naval -bases, on the strategic islands and the mainland of British Guiana, to the United States...
...A reading cf the issues of the Communist daily from August 19-23 is warmly recommended to any delegates who want tc get the party line on "the educational defense committee.'' * * * ^OW comes the job of understanding and mastering the peculiar problem of organizing the teachers o? the United States...
...Baldwin...
...In the stn ';gle over resolutions, Philadelphia Local 192 wanted ! x exploit legitimate anger against some of Thurmar Arnold's actions by putting the Con• ventio'n oh record as charging the Roosevelt administration with intent to smash unions, while falsely asserting that the law had never been used against any big business unit...
...This provision, too, is a marked change from the...
...HPHE other side minimizes the danger that England will fall, or * that if she does, the British navy will fall into Nazi hands...
...Next day "news" to the Three Little Old Ladies consisted of the mimeograph reply of Local Five to Green's criticism...
...Lefkowitz had become a national cause celebre in educational circles...
...From the remaining number are chosen by lot the quotas set for the various states to meet "the number authorized by the President and for which funds are provided by the United States Congress...
...I^EXT, some background on the bill...
...School for TeachersAS in other trade unions where they are per-mitted to gain a foothold...
...Ord-way Tead and Joseph Schiossberg of--the Amalgamated Clothing Workers protested against the victimization cf Bertrand Russell, they came into court with clean hands because they would protest also the certain exclusion of Bertrand Russell from Soviet universities, if by any freak he were proposed there...
...Maybe such a group will cast longing eyes at the Congress of Industrial Organizations, but surely the C. I. O. already has enough headaches...
...The newly elected vice presidents who will welcome your aid a r e : Lila Hunter, Seattle...
...Our two-ocean navy defense will not be ready until 1946...
...Professor John Dewey's investigating commission squarely placed the blame at the door of the Communist caucus which hampered all constructive trade-union work...
...Edward Burgum and Dr...
...John D. Connors, New Bedford, Mass...
...be .destroyed or t&kem over .ir, pari by ^Germany...
...At that time, when prompt organization of teachers was necessary to meet retrenchment, Stalinite activity started in the New York local...
...This is ? considerable change from the original provisions of the bill, with registration of all between eighteen and sixty-five...
...accord ing to General William E. Sheddls most recent testimony before the House Committee, four hundred thousand by January first of 1941, and four hundred thousand at a later date...
...Empire Urge latin Nations Resent U.S...
...These are the v^ple.of;^ho:-islands-r--partioularly Trinidad, St...
...Everybody was pleased with the exception of the Communist Party "Daily Worker," owned by the Three Little Old Ladies of Thirteenth Street...
...we guarantee the continuation of Dutch control just as surely as we guarantee the safety of Caribbean waters for democracy...
...The House will pass the bill...
...Circumstantial evidence to this effect is a meeting and an excursion to raise funds for the E, M. P. carried on by the local Buffalo "peace group," (See the Buffalo "Courier-Express," Aug...
...On top of that it is desired tc have -in reserve a force with some training that could be used in an emergency...
...Such a body is easily able to rope in the inexperienced and unsophisticated delegates and this group will need a great deal of watching, because now that they have lost out in the Executive Council, they will have all the more energy to devote to such boring-from-within activities...
...General Shear: has replied that' what is desired is a thoroughly trained army of some 450.000 raised from voluntary recruits for a three-year period...
...But we read in the wreckage of the democracies in the path of the totalitarian steamrollers, the lessons of too little and too late...
...Others are just psychologically maladjusted cases who are kept on the campus as Exhibit A to prove that academic freedom exists and also are used to show how freakish and impossible such radicals are...
...Local Five leaders were counting on winning at Buffalo and staviner over for the Council meetings and then going on to take the pood name of the American Federation cf Teachers into the Emergency Mobilization Peace Conference at Chicago...
...The alternatives before us are not of e>ur choosing...
...The fact that such belong to the Teachers Union often prevents normal teachers and professors from joining...
...The voluntary method of raising a large standing arm...
...The defeated opposition, ir...
...If that be the case, they argue, the tonnage ¦ available to the totalitarian powers, especially if Japan be ineluded in a squeeze move with Germany and Italy, will outstrip our own...
...which were generously given to the delegates at Buffalo...
...There are hundreds of others who have been active fighters for teachers' rights all over the country, but have become disgusted with struggles for factional control...
...had four all for herself...
...The issue dates back to about 1932...
...But why try tc overtake such misrepresentation...
...original:five dollars a month for eight .months provision^) ...________________....._ It is estimated that of the eleven to twelve millions subject to registration, some seven and a half millions will be weeded out under the deferment provisions* and of the...
...As most graphically stated by Grenville Clark, the picture is t h i s: "When you relate these factors—these speeds and ranges of modern planes not only as they exist now, but more important, as they will shortly exist—with the power to build bigger planes and stronger engines, and with the power to transport men, as demonstrated by Hitler, in large numbers, you have an immensethreat by air to the territorial integrity of the countries they can reach...
...up against an emergency...
...In fact, there is no need for an army at ail...
...The British know that on short distances...
...Army and Navy personnel and civilian national defense workers will have 1,174 USHA aided low-rent homes ready for them by the end of December...
...Ip-HIS is not to condemn the deal, which seems to this writer necessary and logical...
...Gertrude Luehning, richer than anyone etae...
...They pointed to the more than successful recruiting drive conducted by the Army during the past few months in meeting the quotas set, ano they argued that with an increased bate pay...
...In the Teachers Union, too often, individual professors have let their inhibitions take a holiday in compensation for ?heir suppression in school life...
...Arthur Elder, Detroit...
...that it is, in fact, the most critical in oui history...
...Too many of the past members of the American Federation of Teachers are "unjelled liberals...
...The biggest issue America faces is "peace-time conscription...
...Representations ot this group, when asked the:: policy ir the evert of Nazi infiltration in countries like Brazil or Mexico, leading to the setting up of regimes cooperating with Germany, and repudiating the Monroe Doctrine, replied that they would do nothing but mind their own business, which to them meant defending territory clearly marked U. S. A. There is no need for a large army ;f you arc going to wait for the enemy to step upon your shores...
...Selma Borehardt is now once again able t> exercise her experience as the teachers' lobbyist par excellence in Washington...
...Many in this grr up...
...Emily Brown, who is a regular feature contributor to The New Leader and who is head of our Washington Research Bureau, thoroughly explores all the arguments pro and con on the bill as these have emerged from the weeks of torrid debate...
...New Dealers, the President of the United States, and according to the Gallup, poll, a majority of citizens'from every age group,' pot?tic&Lp^rfy, labor ijnMjt fo'rMthe principi?* ot*fe&f???!ii?^'m3itary serVlc^aricPwe will fiVKgpp?eed Bundists, Communists, pacifisWisolationists, the heads of the American Federation...
...assertion, and the clippings from local and national newspapers will tell cf many similar :nstances which have given an entirely wrong impression of the relationship of the AFT to the labor movement...
...Sen alor Norris slates th^t the dictator eourtries v ill ?ij?ht among themselves and destroy each other...
...Since 1935, the Executive Council had been deadlocked on the majority of issues...
...and with the oneyear enlistment period (instead of the three-year period that now by the custom cf the army heads prevails i the number desired could be raised...
...Considered a companion bill by the War Department is that which has already been signed and acted on, providing for the mobilization of the National Guard and the Organized" Reserves for a period of one.year...
...Jane Souba, New York City...
...In the opinion of the oppositionists, the plan tc Introduce compulsory military training is.not an honest emergency measure, but an attempt to graft upon America permanently the military way of life...
...They spend years tracing the use of the definite article in Chaucer or teach Latin and Greek or Browning's poetry or some abstract natural science...
...Professor Robert K. Speer of New York University asked the delegates to be specific and to call them as they saw them...
...We do not like to give up the cherished, easy ways of life...
...The chief sponsor of the ^ bill is the Military Training Camps Association of the United States, which organized a National Emergency Committee with Grenville Clark as chairman, to wage a campaign on behalf of compulsory military training...
...At the meeting Dr...
...Louis...
...If we err in the other direction and fail to meet the menace we will not be able to repeal that error...
...When Dr...
...And, make no mistake, the undercover Communists will not give up the struggle quickly or easily...
...Some a r e r aw recruits to progress who rush to make up for lost time...
...Having been for many-years intimate with the ideas and aspirations of patriotic Brazilians, Venezuelans and rM...
...greater dangers with it...
...The plans of these leading military men and industrialists were laid bare before the Senate Committee on the opening day of testimony...
...And on Sunday, August 18th, its outlook had all seemed so rosy...
...But as one who has been in ¦ rather close touch with affairs in the independent countries concerned, I can...
...The House has delayed it...
...If we are...
...This hope is now Wasted by the partnership of United States naval might supporting the perpetuation of British civil control of the island...
...Unfortunately for his friends and hydra-letter-headed playmates, the delegates did—as the election returns well show...
...In a field where timidity in joining a union is at no premium, Stalinist locals blatantly used the organization's name for scores of "innocent"—and not so "innocent" fronts...
...One of them was the formation of a College Teachers local separate from the regular New York Local 5, thus gaining convention strength...
...By the lime Hitler might be prepared with sufficient tonnage to come- ever here, our own navy program will be complexes, and with that, and a strong ait force, we will need only the strengthened, mechanized army fol which plans are now under way...
...The whole case is already given away...
...Thomas we took over what Hoover called "the poor-house...
...To this, the pros retort that Congress has ;t in ?ts power, by control of the annual appropriations, to put a stop whenever it deems it advisable to the training program...
...Whatever individual Brazilians $iajr have felt about the war, it %as been ¦ the feeling in Rio de •Taneiro that the Guianas must yhll' into the hands of Brazil...
...They are hence naturally sympathetic with minority groups, no matter what the ulterior motive* of these groups may be...
...They have always known this, and long before this "deal was consummated, the islanders themselves were proposing it...
...It is being debated in the heat .of a Washington summer, after relatively short hearings and time for public digestion of the problems involved, during days when the European scene, which gave it being, shifts rapidly...
...and subsequently framed the bill introduced by Senator Burke and Representative Wadsworth...
...Other cases include the climbing college professor and adminlstratoi who mistakenly think that the support of the mosl vociferous radical elements in"- t h e existing teachers leadership in New York will help them to secure th« deserved goal of their ambition to become a college president...
...Charles M. Etheridge, Augusta, Ga...
...There must, of course, be some sort of partnership where the British and American interests intermingle, and this can only redound to the benefit of the islanders...
...It may be remembered in this connection that it was a Socialist Congressman...
...Counts as president...
...Henry Linville had labored to build the Teachers Union...
...b} the compulsory selective service method...
...Next day this "defense" committee just as suddenly became a political caucus to defeat George S. Counts as president...
...Of course, if the Communist P a r ty reverts to dual unionism, here is the prepared nucleus of such a union...
...Abraham Lefkowitz and Dr...
...US HA guilds 50.000 Additional Lew-Rwrt Hmmms More than fifty thousand dwfiik ing units in public housing projects, where rentals average $11.84 a month.—including charges for hot and cold water, heat, gas, and electricity—will be ready for more than forty-four thousand low-income families living in sub-standard dwellings in cities and towns, about Dec...
...Especially is this true in the-.ease erf .Brazil, 'where administra t?o it after administration has coveted the Guianas...
...Henry Linville...
...Miss Layle Lane, New' York City...
...In all candor, it must be said that while the British possessions in the Caribbean have been made to produce for the empire, this has been done by the Tories at the expense of the islanders...
...Of Labor, the...
...If at the expiration date that figure were not reached, the President is empowered, through a draft, to fill in the difference...
...The major cleavage is over the necessity for some form o? compulsory military training, over the imminence cf the cangei confronting the nation...
...The fact that compulsory military service has never been used before in peacetime will be cited by the antis—as though lack of precedent were ar argument...
...ould create an enormous army of professionals, in lieu of a militia created from al* ranks of the people, and as such would cam...
...in English Colonies By BRYCE OLIVER News Commentator at WEVD, New York |K the sudden and surprising expansion of United States * sea power through the acquisition of Atlantic naval bases from Great Britain, the North American press has completely, overlooked,, .the...
...who introduced in Congress a bill contemplating thf reorganization of the American militia on the Swiss basis...
...Technically, it may be just as easy...
...and their shipbuilding facilities will r.lso be enormously increased, three, four or five times our own, depending upon the estimate you take...
...This number serving for only a year could best be raise...
...At the Buffalo convention, "spontaneously," the so-called Educational Defense Committee sprang up and in the twinkling of an eye was converted into an election machine for the rival to Dr...
...A COUNTER PROPOSAL was widely discussed by those- who recognize the need for a la-ger army bit fee...
...Despite Counts' current declaration in the "New Republic" and his whole life-work and record and the printed statement made by the Joint Progressive Cauerus, he and his supporters were slandered in public and private...
...THE first group entertain the possibility that England may be 3 defeated, and the British _navy...
...that it is of a nature more grave than that which hac to be met in 1917...
...It gives them also a responsibility to work as partners toward the creation of a better world for millions of people of the Caribbean, whose entire history has been one of blood-letting, slavery, and abject poverty...
...George .Axtelle, Evanston, 111...
...ular, have only the fuzziest notions on hemisphere defense...
...Punctuating every discussion are new words like "Blitzkrieg," "Wehrwirtschaft," "total organization," "total planning...
...The situation was insoluble, and Lefkowitz and Linville left the union and formed the Teachers Guild...
...But for the people of the islands themselves, this offers the first ray of hope in many a weary year...
...We will find profiteers and professional patrioteersv...
...For the people of the islands themselves, however, the leases offer the greatest hope of the generation, and dispatches from Port of Spain and Kingston already indicate the enthusiasm with which the change has been effected...
...Tc try tc raise t from amongst volunteers would subject any planned program to all the hazards of unpredictable numbers, coming in at irregular periods, and the benefits of the selective principle would be lost...
...The writer was characterised as "David Dubinsky's man...
...For more than two decades, Dr...
...Having nauseated themselves by the over-used name-calling device of "red baiting, Lovestoneites, Trotskyites," the Communists and their friends launched a new term of abuse, "intellectual goon' sqiiad...
...remaining number, some eight hundred thousand will be called.up annuat?yt...
...Under the amendment the President would be authorized to call for a volunteer corps of 400,000...
...Now the way is clear for an advance which ;will organize many more teachers, for their own good and for that of education and of society as a whole...
...From this number provision is made for deferment of those whose employment in industry, agriculture, or other occupations or employment is found to be necessary to the maintenance of national health, safety or interest, and for those whose status with respect to persons dependent upon them for support renders their deferment advisable...
...The Malcney amendment, incorporating the voluntary program, and making compulsory military training contingent upon a breakdown of the voluntary program, was a stall fe>r a time, s waiting for developments, and for the passage of the November elections, and as such was indefensible...
...The confusion can be imagined, therefore, and your Washington correspondent who has followed the testimony before the Senate Committee on Military Affairs, the present testimony before the House Committee, the tangled exchanges on the floor of the Senate, and the burst of discussion in-the newspapers, over the radio, is going to attempt a herculean task in weighing the merits of the arguments pro and con...
...Mark Starr, New York City...
...Oth«rs are honest liberals but confused...
...The report taken back to London was so serious that it was suppressed...
...To push a program of activity in defense of the teacher without any strings attached...
...Mildred Berleman, Chicago...
...In St...
...OUT the coming of American naval establishments to Trinidad, Jamaica and other islands means one thing certainly—that while the United States naval authorities will bave absolutely nothing to say about the British civil administrations, and nothing to say about Empire trade, it is conceivable that after the peace, which must eventually come, the people of the United States will have a personal interest in what happens to the people of islands this nation guards...
...There is nothing secret about the genesis of the bill, contrary to the impressions given by Senator Holt on the floor of the Senate...
...THE problem is how to get around these obstacles and to make the union representative of the school teachers...
...Instead of scraping in by twenty-four votes as in 1939, Counts had 40s against 238 and every nominee of the Joint Progressive Caucus was successful because the six uncontested candidates (Axtelle, Smith, Elder, Berleman, Etheredge and Yeager) were also on its slate of fifteen vice presidents...
...but we have got to stretch our minds to the point that it is going to be just as easy to fly one hundred men in a plane for two thousand miles very soon as it was a few years ago to fly the men from New York to Washington...
...But we must be ready to meet the awful alternative that America may face alone a world where power politics is the dominant motif...
...If bases could be obtained and held in the Caribbean, with that range of aircraft, it opens up the whole center of the country, so that I have heard it said by qualified people that the really vulnerable part of the country is not, perhaps, so much the coasts, but the Mississippi Valley...
...Stanton Smith, Chattanooga, Term...
...we should adopt the plan that will meet that emergency and take no chances...
...The bill is called democratic by some, anti-democratic by others...
...Incidentally, they have the cash to spend, as witness their extensive press and such journals as " F r i d a y " and "Equality...
...We know the dangers of militarization that Senator Norris has so eie>quently depicted...
...Since my &*t contact - With ; political' leadle» ia Caracas twenty years ago, it ?has been made entirely clear % he that if ever the" grip of the British Empire were shaken ' along the coast of northern South 'America, Venezuela would fully expect that rich Trinidad, with -Its oil, cocoa and pitch would fall like a ripe apple to Venezuela...
...Frrst,.a few facts on the terms of the bill, as it emerged from the Senate...
...For Colombia, the whole deal also means the end of a dream —the eventual ability to shake loose, from all foreign domination...
...Either we are...
...If the hard-drrving, 'Progressive government at Cara-¦**» has been gambling the future the eventual acquisition of ?Wttisao as the natural right of * sovereign nation, one can 2»?Cely blame them...
...Ruth Wanger, Philadelphia...
...The progress that was made was confined to certain areas and was attributed to the Chicago teachers and the sterling efficiency of Secretary-Treasurer Irwin S. Kuenzli...
...There is not much to be gained by going into'the motives of those who arejn favor of or ^against the bill...
...Mark Starr, educational director of the LL.G.W.U-and newly-elected vice-president of the American Federation of Teachers, tells what occurred at the recent convention in Buffalo and sketches the problem which the new, progressive administration faces...
...With war about to break, the British government felt that nothing could be done at the moment, and to the everlasting credit of the islanders, they made no demands that something should be done immediately...
...The Three Old Ladies must be getting a little deaf, because they reported that Green and Thomas Lyons, president of the New York State Federation, were both "received coldly...
...Victor Berger...
...Most of the army heads cf this nation led off by General George C. Marshall, chief of staff, War Department, believe this nation confronts an emergency, that this emergency confronts us now, within the next six months, twe years...
...The United States bases will protect not only the United States •nd South American interests but will serve to perpetuate British empire control...
...The whole House comes up for re-election this fall...
...The establishment now of United States naval bases on the guar--djan islands and on the mainland itoelf*%htstB' the hopes of Brazil...
...Russia and famine will keep Hitler too busy to find time :'{.• us...
...This same group also emphasizes the threat by air and the unpredictable factors introduced by the newer aerial methods of warfare...
...addition...
...Trebled Membership Seen Result of Ouster Of Stalinite Officials From Teacher's Union By MARK STARR Vice President American Federation of Teachers TPO the general relief of their fellow trade unionists * throughout the United States, the members of the American Federation of Teachers by the election, at the Buffalo Convention, August 19-23, of a new set of vice presidents, and the re-election of Dr...
...While the amendment was passed by the House sitting as a Committee of the Whole, there is little likelihood of a reversal on a roll call maneuver...
...reactions • of people more Jnti--jaately involved ?i} the leases than ourselves...
...We now enter into partnership for the protection of other "poorhouses...
...On the other side are men like Senator Norris and Senator Wheeler, Oswald Garrison Villard, and Norman Thomas who buttress their position with the estimate of the military situation given by such military writers as, notably, Hansor...
...It is planned to use the Guard and its equipment in the training of the conscript group to be raised under the terms of the Burke-Wadsworth bill...
...Both great democracies are retarded in South American nations as imperialist, and the partnership of American naval force ind British civil administration would seem to end forever, in tile minds of South American leaders, the hopes long held of tOme day ending extra-continental influence on the nations of Latin-America...
...Lucia and •Jamaica—and the people of some of the South American republics...
...the pacifist C M ;-.i<: ts ir t...
...Lucia, Barbados and Jamaica, shortly before the war, conditions among the islanders were so serious that rioting forced the authorities to double the capacity of the jails...
...The founding fathers will be quoted on both sides to prove that the bill is un-American or American...
...Both had suffered discrimination, and the Tammany Board of Education'* refusal to promote Dr...
...Such persons should at once rejoin the American Teachers Union in order to maint a i n and extend the present advances...
...Administrator of the United States Housing Authority, estimated this week...
...They are trained in the a r t s of capture and control and pursue their ends with fanatic zeal...
...the USHA program, includ-ing 1bc forty-nine public housing projects built by PWA which house 70.000 people, has provided dece-.t homes, with rentals within their means, to about 240,000 low-income families...
...Peace Time Draft Opponents Ignore Europe's Lessons By EMILY N. BROWN ¦ J Head of The NEW Leader's Washington Research Bureau 'THE most momentous issue confronting America today—that of compulsory military service in time of peace, with consequences that will be graven deep not only in the lives of those most immediately affected, and the generations living today, but for generations unborn, is now being debated in the Congress of the United States...
...or we are not...
...But if the -Pawed States takes a ninety-nine-ij*"r lease on a naval base at Wil-•"•tadt...
...The Senate already has passed the amended Burke-Wadsworth bill...
...Since its inception, three years ago...
...In anticipation of some criticism from President Green of the American Federation of Labor, an "educational defense committee" spontaneously sprang into existence with the most non-controversial and praiseworthy program...
...All these names are applied to everyone who mentions Finland and Spain together or who affirms that a dictatorship exists in Soviet Russia or who notes the one hundred per cent correlation in the line of the Communist Party and the changes made, for example, by Local Five...
...The way is now open for a big campaign in conjunction with the American Federation of Labor to organize not three per cent, but a t least fifty per cent of the educational workers of the United States - While Europe Burns *T*HE destruction and chaos wrought by social * crises are usually accurately reflected in the host of new words which spring up to describe the holecaust...
...Michael J. Eck, Cleveland...
...Communist organizations in the American Federation of Teachers have sapped the organization's strength...
...Those thus chosen serve for a period of one year in the armed forces of the United States at a base pay of twenty-one dollars a month, now raised by Senate amendment to thirty dollars after fou^ months...
...Geographically, Trinidad is Venezuela...
...The correction concerning the facts was sent to the "Courier-Express" by Irwin S. Kuenzli but a denial never catches up with the origina...
...Those between the ages' of eighteen and twenty-one, and forty-five to sixty-five being subject to home defense duties, and those between the ages of twenty-one and forty-five for military service...
...Under the new Council, there is room in t h e Teachers Union for such veteran militant defenders of teachers' r i g h t s as Abraham Lefkowitz and Dr...
...A's'trong swimmer might cross tte narrow gulf that separates the island from the Venezuelan nu?nland, and since the start of the war, with its uncertainties for the British Empire, the Cara-: ess government has looked long--i>gli forward.to the acquisition *f ? great commercial port:— Port of Spain...
...Congress of Industrial Organizations, the Railroad Brotherhoods, and sincere men and women everywhere who share the fears of Senator George Norris...
...Roosevelt will make it law...
...By the way, when the ILGWU delegates returned from the protest hearings a t Albany, it was the speech of Lefkowitz which remained in their minds and not the speeches of the other teachers' locals represented there...
...We may hope the emergency will be a passing one, that England will survive, and that we may exercise our democratic right to repeal an emereency measure...
...Bella Dodd spoke as the "legislative representative cf the American Federation of Teachers...
...For or.ee, organization had beer, met by orgari7ation...
...However, with over a million educational workers in the United States, the paid-up membership was oniy 30,000...
...Every able-bodied man in Switzerland is a member of the militia and upon his return from service takes his rifle and ammunition with him...
...Shortly before the war broke out, Parliament spent fifty thousand pounds on a royal commission in which Walter Citrine participated, to investigate...
...mindful of the second amendment of the Constitution, reading "a wellregulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep or bear arms shall not be infringed...
...Led by Representative Ham Fish, the House passed an amendment, a counterpart of the Harden amendment defeated in the Senate 43-41, to postpone the operation of the selective service act sixty days until after the November elections...
...J'HB same sentiments stirring •¦'¦> in Brazil are undoubtedly stirring in Venezuela, the cradle of Latin-American liberty...
...They smart in indignation against the petty tyrannies of achool superintendents, of college presidents and board* «? trustees...
...report that, this will be regarded as the awakening from a dream too good .to be true...
...During wartime there will be many cases of alleged a n d - ? ? a l persecution of radical teachers for such a group to exploit...
...It may be hoped that this nation, in collaboration with the British, will justify democracy for these people...
...One must go beyond the %-erbiage in which arguments are dressed to get at the real heart of the controversy that new sweeps the nation...
...Ruth Dodds, Sacramento...
...New sets, new outlooks arise, too, to meet the conditions created by the change...
...Oswald Garrison Villard states that in all his travels in European countries during this war, he found not one military man who believed that the United ,States could or would be invaded at the end cf the war...
...although the president cf the ILGWU did not know the educational director cf the ILGWU was to be present at Buffalo to represent Local 189 of which I have been a member since 192S...
...Its report did not even make normal attempts to be accurate...
...It provides for the registration of all male citizens and those who: have declared their intentions of becoming citizens, between the ages of twenty-one and thirty, inclusive...
...Classroom teachers,- vocational instructors, college professors, teachers in private schools and workers in adult education throughout this nation, need the American Federation of Teachers to protect them and the AFT needs them...
...There are hundreds of thousands cf teachers in this country disgracefully underpaid and insecure...
...Paul Preisler, St...
...Friendly understanding ih?stac-cordingly be established on «orne other ground...
...Another th.ng certain is that this partnership, the intermingling of the interests of the great democracies, gives these democracies something more than an advantage...
...I am only raising the story from the other side of the fence—which I happen to know very well from' personal association—and to warn-that while, the-naval- base deal may help to protect the South American nations, it will not improve the cause of frieitdly understanding, of the United States...
...According to rumors in Washington, the transfer of naval ba-*» to the United States fleet is yet complete, and one may Sness that this nation still has *o acquire the Dutch island c\f Curacao, another geographical Wit-of Venezuela and with Wil-«ntttadt, the richest oil port in -world...
...The American Federation of Teachers must also be abbve logical reproach...
Vol. 23 • September 1940 • No. 36
