6 Years'36 Billions Arms Outlay To Absorb 7,500,000 Unemployed
LORING, EDWARD
6 Years'36 Billions Arms Outlay To Absorb 7,500,000 Unemployed By EDWARD LORING Special to The ?Jew Leader (This dispatch was written .before the results of tke-^ienate-House conference were...
...Mumford levels his accusations impartial:' against both the right and the left: against what he calls "pragmatic liberalism" and the "traditionalists," the conservatives, the established religions...
...Will London and Paris share the fate of Rome and Athens...
...a community may have the courage of lions, the infernal resourcefulness of rats, and the perfect social organiatior...
...Idaho, $4,547,572...
...All branches of the armed services, which exert considerable political influence in thesfe sectors, are overwhelmingly for (Roosevelt...
...Today, our Western civilization is losing, as Stefan Zweig has put it, a country a week...
...Already military roads are being construSed and a highway is being planned which will link the United States to Alaska, through Canada...
...f We have failed to train moral human beings proud of their freedom and ready to fight for their dignity which itself is impossible without freedom...
...California, $56,942,132...
...Utah, $6,100,458...
...as the state of Texas...
...The joint Army and Navy Selective Service Committee, headed by Lt...
...Harcourt, Br*et omA Co...
...Having caught the parts, this reader will have missed the whole of Mumford's book...
...Thus the only industries which have been developed, and which offer employment, are mining and fisheries...
...Organization at Standstill inPast Year Special to The New Leader WASHINGTON, D. C—Organized labor merely held its own in the matters of organization this year...
...in 1946 this will fall to $4,701,000,000, making a total of $36,697,000,000...
...This is expected to result in a business boom which will break records...
...N. Y. Key State in Elections as Anti-Utility West Swings to F. D. R By BILL ROBERTS Sharp differences of opinion on the three or four important election issues have come to a head inside the high command of the Republican party, disrupting-its .strategy and fizzling the well planned campaign of publicist Davenport a|nd his colleagues...
...South Dakota, $3,729,167;Texas, $42,230,204...
...Wisconsin...
...Willkie has broken with some of the G.O.P.'s most influential politicians on foreign policy: Republican strategists had hoped to smear Roosevelt as the "war president,' bat their own candidate's support of aid to Britain has lUIL'U L 11 (I I UlUVC...
...Well, England is still there, even if somewhat the worse for recent battering...
...Here the charge is that the "liberals" have b»» fascinated by the purely quantitative, technical side of our-chrihzation...
...And largescale spending has not yet started...
...New York paid $176,683,082 more for electricity than it would have to pay at the rates in force in Ontario, Canada...
...in 1944 some $6,451,000,000...
...In Memphis, George Bass, organizer for the Rubber Workers union was beaten and his car overturned by a group of 20 to 30 men, some of whom Bass recognized as foremen in the Firestone Rubber plant, which the union is trying to organize...
...or the value of 30,000,000 bushels of corn...
...Economists' figures range from 300,000 to 1,500,000...
...Maine, $7,708,538...
...Government spending will be greater and more prolonged than even during -the World War period...
...South Carolina, $8,175,060...
...Seward's ice-box" is a misnomer long responsible for the idea that Alaska has a frigid climate...
...By what faulty seamanship and navigation...
...It is a book written not only by a scholar capable of surveying the progress of our...
...New Mexico, $2,362,775...
...WASHINGTON, D. C.—Congress is bellowing itself hoarse over ah academic question when it discusses the Hamilton Fish proposal to postpone compulsory military training for a 60-day trial...
...Missouri...
...Undoubtedly the president will take some action similar to that of the exchange of destroyers for bases to protect the east coast, in order to put the western states at case...
...Business spurted ahead then, and during the two months when soldiers' bonus shot $1,000,000,000 into circulation...
...It's Planetary IT is this column's guess that "Faith For Liv* ing" will have two opposite types of readers...
...Nevada, 81,221,231...
...Sentiment in the mid-west and on the Pacific Coast is becoming more pronouncedly pro-Roosevelt...
...Additional calls will increase this number to 400,000 by January or February of 1941,'t» be¦ followed by another 400,000 in the spring...
...In La Grange, Georgia, Austin Callaway, a 16-year old Negro, charged with an attempted attack on a white woman, was taken from the county jail by a mob of masked men...
...No nation in the world's history has spent so much in peace time...
...This gigantic spending is expected to increase national income greatly and to absorb at least 7,500,000 of _ the unemployed 10,000,000...
...Then U. S. armaments may be useless, but will be on hand to prevent another National Socialist Reich...
...This -will give America a ready fighting force of 1,200,000 men...
...The cost of maintaining the increased Army and Navy, the cost of replacements of guns, planes and ships are not included in the stuDendous figure just legislated...
...D. C—As the Anriy and Navy fortify Alaska against the appetites of hovering Russia and Japan, the time is ripe for our own industrial "prospectors" to take advantage of its rich possibilities...
...This focuses attention on New York State and its 47^ electoral votes...
...which led to the lynching of Elbert Williams, who was the leader of an attempt by town Negroes to vote in the election, resulted in a large mass meeting in Nashville, featuring Walter White of the NAACP...
...Overcharges in other States were: Connecticut, $22,494,401...
...Colorado, $10,257,341...
...j Since the creation of the Tennessee Valley Authority, and the beginning of this Administration's power program, the U. S. has forced reductions in light and power rates to the ultimate consumers throughout this country amounting to more than $600,000,000 a year...
...Within a year after the first draftee gets into uniform—which- is all ready for him—some 800,000 other unmarried Americans between the ages of 21 and probably 40 will be training...
...This drive for vast armaments already has increased the Federal Reserve index of business conditions to a point higher than that of 1929...
...This may counteract the votes Willkie will receive from the anti-Roosevelt, pro-fascist, prosoviet groups...
...Michigan, $49,415,023...
...In 1942 $8,115,000,000 will be spent...
...6 Years'36 Billions Arms Outlay To Absorb 7,500,000 Unemployed By EDWARD LORING Special to The ?Jew Leader (This dispatch was written .before the results of tke-^ienate-House conference were known...
...But twenty years ago the warning was theoretical and poetical...
...The Supreme Court also finally limited the authority of the Circuit Courts of Appeal to substitute their opinions for those of the Labor Board in cases arising under the Wagner Act...
...The need of maintaining an army in Alaska, and a larger population to service it, and the possibility that trade with Europe will be ended after the present war, plus the need of refugees to resettle and reconstruct their lives, all indicate that the time is near for Alaska's in. dustrial development...
...26,144,710...
...Lewis Mumford calls for a moral rededication of AmeAa, tor "politics and economics of sacrifice...
...Despite the fact that the thug had assaulted Bass, the Judge said that a "person must have been riotous and noisy to be fined.'' While none of the men who overturned Bass' car were fined, a traveling companion of Bass' was arrested and fined $10 for having.used "strong language in characterizing the assailants...
...the Department of Labor of its estimates of union organization...
...Few authorities place that figure at more than 1,000.000: These latter unions have been constantly losing ground, both in membership and number of unions, under the pressure of the national unions...
...In 1943 the sum will be $7,652,000,000...
...Here the American Labor Party holds the balance of power...
...Louisiana, $7,818,533...
...for selection of 75,000 men for training between Nov...
...was spending in recent years...
...The Republicans have good reason to believe that they can cut this down through strong support from the Brooklyn and Queens Catholics, the Italian communities and the Communist apparatus...
...He has been associated with "Keep America Out Of War" groups which are suspect in liberal circles and...
...But the-rasttU, —the very appearance of that robot en masse, with appetite* and grudges, but without a sense of world responsibility, with a downright suspicion of sacrifice or of a call for sacrifice,—is well pointed out and analyzed by our writer...
...A section of this campaign is being directed against officials in Gaffney, South Carolina, who have refused to register eligible Negroes for the presidential election...
...of ants...
...As Mumford himself tells us, he was afraid that England might be destroyed by Hitler before his book would appear...
...His body was later found eight miles from the town with bullets spattering his head...
...ready to sac** rifice each his own Czechoslovakia, in the hope that Well be spared somehow...
...Kansas, $13,209,420...
...Mumford does not underestimate the importance of "things, but thinks that moral training of the "free man" ready to fight for his freedom against the forces of darkness has been dtaaatrously neglected...
...It is possible that Mumford overstresses his thesis,—that we have been caught short by the inevitable lag between the •fl«*r* ance of new techniques and our ability to adjust our educational system so as to cope with the new robot—sometimes, quite an "intellectual" robot—produced by our machine age...
...An attempt by colored citizens to exercise their rights, resulted in the "doors being slammed in their faces," with muttered threats on the part of the officials...
...The Army also plans to call up 90,000 reserve officers, to be added to its present 14,000 officers all needed to command the estimated 1,200,000 force this country will have by 1942...
...With jthe conscription bill out of the Wjay, the Defense Commission cartfconcentrate all its efforts on material preparation...
...Between the two passages quoted above we have Mumiord's indictment of our society and his description of the Nazi and Stalin type of society...
...Labor Gains in Courts and Gov't...
...but the members of it will still not be human...
...Lacking a moral aim, this society eannot even achieve mechanical efficiency" ajainst the totalitarian gangsters...
...26,520,299...
...Montana, $6,123,079...
...If we cling to the carpo ** may lose the ship...
...among sincere pacifists...
...The example of Spain and England means wmrttkinfThe masses are still sound at heart...
...unions in the nation's industrial . life...
...One man against whom the union organizer had sworn out a warrant was dismissed by the court...
...Thus a new market for goods, and a profitable outlet for idle funds awaits the confidence of businessmen...
...They had things: riches, schools, magnificent roads, ships and legions, but they lost faith in themselves, lost heart And they fell...
...These 18 billions will be spent during the six years which began July, 1940...
...Government officials point out that the relief payments stirred industry but slightly, because the heavy-goods factories were untouched by the AAA, the WPA and other such agencies...
...Few of us have caught up with the universal, truly totalitarian character of the tragedy now unfolding in Europe...
...Massachusetts, $51,278,061...
...Machines Not Men...
...They also felt sure they would be able to "appease" and buy off the German tribes, the Goths and Vandals of their times...
...And— the question of questions: Is there still a chance of saving our ship...
...Thurman Arnold's investigation of alleged monopolistic practices resulted in the indictment of many union officials in the building trades...
...Mumford's "pragmatic liberals" seem to embrace a good many socialists as well...
...Our author wishes to know why and how the ship of our civilization has been brought to the verge of impending anipwreck...
...At least, we are "short of war...
...Arkansas...
...Books and Writers By Elias Tartak All Hands Saw Ship...
...The Willkie ticket is losing popalarity in the wide rural areas—despite McNary's campaigning — as the Democratic Party's publicity machinery opens up on the G.O.P.'s public utility tie-up...
...7 and Nov...
...Iowa, $17,446,385...
...Arizona, 55,088,034...
...Minnesota, $20,335,981...
...Efforts by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to crack . the reign of terror in Brownsville, Tenn...
...Fish, it is recalled, recently traveled through Europe making appeasement, and almost pro¦vr—- j— ii— Tin...
...Governor Lehman beat Tom Dewey in 1936 by a 60,600 vote margin...
...Indiana, $30,325,918...
...or almost all, "appeasers...
...15,464,689...
...FAITH FOR LIVING...
...Alabama, $10,386,684...
...IT is one of Mumford's main conclusions that we have sinned not * so much in quantity or in Cistribution as in quality...
...Delaware, $2,464,079...
...New York...
...An additional 18 billion will be needed for ordinary armament and maintenance...
...The other type of reader may still go to the movies—while there is time...
...Spain and England OIAS or^io bias,—this column believes that Mumford's reproach applies more to the middle class than to the masses, 'fistnier or worker...
...By 1941 the government will have spent $5,000,000,000...
...North Carolina, $16,484,940...
...A large committee was formed to start a "broaden the vote campaign...
...Mississippi, $5,682.532...
...Competent observers believe no married tfnen will be called during peace time, although this will be decided : by the Army, not by Congress...
...These are broken down into 4,300,000 in the American Federation of Labor, about 3,750,000 supposedly in the unions affiliated with the Congress for Industrial Organization, and about 450,000 in the independent railway brotherhoods...
...Under the Burke-Wadsworth bill, the Army can draft 900,000 men a year, in addition to the regular army, which is now about 285,000 strong...
...Election officials have told colored citizens that Negroes have never registered in South Carolina, and'especially in Cherokee County...
...isn't it...
...Georgia, $14,218,978...
...North Dakota, $3,044,298...
...i Nor is this type of reader to be blamed too much...
...About $18,000,000,000 will be spent on armaments alone, millions more will be spent for the draft army...
...Total membership in national labor unions is now approximately 8,500,000...
...Whether Fish's amendment passes the House-Senate conference or it is junked, none of this nation's young men will be ordered to don army uniforms until the middle of November—well after the seventh, which is election day...
...They Were Also Rich THE parallel which Mumford draws between the state of our * civilization and the Greco-Roman state of the third or fourth century of our era is an uncomfortable one...
...The attack took place two days after a statement by Mayor Walter Chandler that "foreign labor agitators who seek to stir up strikes and trouble are not welcome in Memphis...
...Lacking truth, justice, ffeeBom...
...Within a month the first 60,000 of the National Guard's 217,000 eligible men will be called to camps...
...If England loses, there'll be a grimmer use for these guns, planes and tanks...
...Oklahoma...
...There are figures to show what is happening in various States The people of Illinois were overcharged $85,480,273 for their electric lights and power in the years 1938 and 1939...
...The Fish amendment's terms permit the Army to go ahead with the draft machinery and to register and classify prospective conscripts, but it disrupts the apparatus by forcing the government to mark time for two months while Republican Congressmen go back home to rebuild political fences...
...With more Alaskans, and more prosperity, this market would undoubtedly increase...
...by Lewis Mumford...
...Hamilton Fish's fight to postpone 'compulsory training has aroused cloakroom comment here which hasn't hit the newspapers yet...
...Mumford's book is much wider in scope than this review--"** hope to indicate...
...We stressed the means above the moral ataa...
...An analysis of utility exploitation shows good reason for consumer reaction against Willkie, long a Utility Publicist...
...The appointment of Sidney Hillman as a member of the National Defense Commission was a recognition by President Roosevelt of the necessary role of labor Anti-Union Terror Flares In Memphis Special to The New Leader WASHINGTON, D. C—Antilabor and anti-Negro violence flared up in several sections of the South as a union organizer in Memphis, Tenn., was run out of town and a young 16-year old Negro was lynched at La Grange, Ga...
...If the population increases sufficiently, the resources of the country can be developed into profitable industries, and provide the U. S. with many products, such as wood, paper, fur and leather which till now we have had to import from Europe and Asia...
...France feH...
...Compare this with the $140,000,000 a month the W.P.A...
...Nebraska, $8,696,182...
...Major developments expected from these m the next year are an intensified drive for labor unity...
...It was Valery who said in 1918: We, as a civilization, we know now that we are also mortal...
...Florida, $17,474,288...
...i , * * * We Are Mortal | EWIS MUMFORD is continuing where Spengler and Pall ¦— Valery left off some twenty years ago...
...There are about 190,000 independent voters in Manhattan alone who usually do nojt come out to vote...
...The Government attempts no estimate of the membership of single-company employee associations or local • plant units...
...2.00...
...U. S. military forces in Alaska have already been trebled to 1,100 men...
...civilization from Socrates to Dewey, but also by a sensitive moral being who feels his share of responsibility (and ours) for the apparent downfall of our cultural empire...
...Thus the great majority of the nation's 32,000,000 workers are still largely unorganized— 22,500,000...
...In Congress, while drastic revision of the National Labor Relations Act was forestalled, a combination of reactionaries and Communist fellow-travelers in the NLRB succeeded in wiping out David Saposs' vital economic research division...
...6,906,584...
...At the same time between 1941 and 1946, at least seven additional billions will be spent for relief, social security, AAA benefits, and routine government expenses...
...Its «B ioT moral rearmament will go to the heart of every reader who*'*'" stands that the straggle is not just for "wages and bwtfs.* " concerns the whole of our civilized existence, the human dlpaty of ourselves and of generations to come, the very fate of* our culture...
...It can support a population ten times its present size, which is about 72,000...
...rWUllitUlLsources reveal that G.O.P...
...Pennsylvania was overcharged $105,004,244 for electric lights and power in 1938...
...This number will be steadily increased, indicating a rapid development of the country...
...1940...
...We Are All "Appeasers" AND now, we are all...
...The temperature actually is never below zero, and rarely above 80, so that Juneau, the capital, is warmer in the winter than New York City...
...One, including this column, will read it not only with interest, but with passion,—era a remarkable confession of our common dereliction and guilt...
...The crux of this underdevelopment is underpopulation, causing high transportation, living and production costs...
...As an exposition of the dark forces luri** >" our society, "Dtostoyevskian" forces, as the author calls tkietB;.** an analysis of our errors in over-optimistic evaluation of bOT mechanical "progress," Mumford's book will rate high...
...No wonder Mumford calls his book "a testament for the survivors, if ever they reach shore...
...Maryland, $16,608,569...
...From the liberalized Supreme Court, unions obtained recognition of their right to picket and distribute handbills despite efforts by local authorities to curb these activities...
...Twice previously Bass had been molested...
...decline in strikes...
...It is precisely Mumford's vision of the planetary character of this tragedy and of our common responsibility for it that forms the substance of the book and endows it with a significance distinguishing it from a number of similar books on "the state of our democracy...
...This summation follows from the official release by...
...But now more than $24,000,000,000 of the '$36,600,000,000 will be spent on steel machinery and construction, aiding all the concomitant industries...
...Present plans caU...
...Hence, they stressed things, comforts, "economies," «bo»e moral values,—"calories" above "vitamins,''—wages and toon above the greater freedom and dignity of the individual which these wages ought to help in producing...
...That Alaska ' is a potentially valuable market for American businessmen, is indicated by the fact that she consumed S 44.000,000 worth of domestic goods last year...
...And England is also an "imperialist country...
...legislators in Washington are furious over Willkie's tiff with Hamilton Fish, Jr., on the issue of the 60day d^lay for conscription...
...i„ r„ _:_2_ -_____i- - ' Nazi talks...
...While in Germany he conferred with high ranking Nazis...
...Ohio, $63,968,130...
...a movement for government conciliation as a substitute for strikes, and pressure for restrictive legislation in the Floral and state legislatures...
...The union is cooperating with the local branch of the Workers Defense League in fighting company goon squad tactics...
...in 1945 approximately $4,778,000,000...
...New Hampshire, $5,517,000...
...Greatest union advances were scored in the Federal courts...
...New Jersey, $55,574,610...
...Since the Senate conferees are sure to kill the proposal, it can be forgotten...
...LEWIS MUM FORD has written an uneven but very moving book.* The impression one gathers at first reading is that "Faith For Living" was written against time...
...Young men in the most eligible 1 classifications stand a 1 out of ;10 chance of being called under t5e Senate provision, and a 1 outj of 20 chance under the House age limits...
...And there lies our hopeFrance was a typical middle class country...
...Vast forest reserves, tin, platinum, silver, gold, copper, huge deposits of soft coal, and petroleum, thousands of fur-bearing animals, rich fisheries, all make Alaska a land of opportunity, yet the country's only real development resulted from the Gold Rush in the 90's...
...However in the legislative and judicial fields, labor registered many gains...
...And it is this robot who bwomes the follower or the admirer of the dictators...
...A Manhattan Campaign Committee for Willkie has been set up by Kenneth 1 Simpson, chairman of the New: York County Republican Committee, to get these votes for Willkjie, and any switch of 30,000 votes- in any of the religious or national groups will' hand the state' to the G.O.P...
...When he returned, his remarks were easily interpretable as paralleling the German propaganda line...
...Rhode Island, $9,710,671...
...Alaska Army Spurs Growth Of Industry WASHINGTON...
...We have produced the wrong kind of humans...
...According to a recent Gallup poll, the split on the 551 electoral college votes is close...
...British and Canadian war orders and our own long-range military plans will keep U. S. industry at capacity for the next five years, whether England wins or loses...
...They were also i rich and sophisticated civilization, with wonderful bathhouses, with hot water for all,—and with "bread and circuses" for their proletariat...
...Colonel Lewis B. Hershey, has completed draft machinery, and 45 days after Roosevelt signs the bill the first trainees iwill be enrolled...
...The other type of reader will read the several parts of the book with a degree of mild interest, but will thereupon proceed to the movies where hell behold the latest Ann Sheridan classic with equal or even greater interest...
...If so, what is to be done...
...Oregon, $9,107,187...
...If Britain holds off Germany until 1942, it will be in a position to strike back...
...This territory, only 54 miles from Siberia and 660 from Japan, is twice as big...
...Kentucky, $11,520,461...
...Power interests are collecting in overcharges more than $1,000.000,000 a year from the light and power consumers...
Vol. 23 • September 1940 • No. 37
