Morrison, Cooper, Eden Seen in War Cabinet Shift
Morrison, Cooper, Eden Seen in War Cabinet Shift By Charles Edward Russell The News Reel #pHOSE of us that looked* for an early clarification of the 50*> destroyer-gift-to-Englaiwf mystery...
...If Smith resigns, or if the President decides to replace Madden, Professor Harry A. Mfllis of the University of Chicago will get the job, giving anti-Stalinites a two to one majority on the NLRB...
...who was elected in a special recall poll two years ago...
...Plainly then, the whole thing means something else, and what it means we probably shall not know until the Autocrat ;» the White House is reaijfy to "inform" Congress of this partitular step in his steady assumption of the Ftihrer tactic...
...Therefore, we can go ahead and with confidence cut down the wage scales...
...A similar spirit animates the cooperative societies...
...It was the industrialists that ate...
...In 193(5 Healey registered and voted Communist...
...It is obvious „ reflection, that the United States does not need the bases on alien territory that are called-the compensation for our apparent generosity...
...An interesting personality known as "J...
...f^UR friend and colleague Willi Schlamm frequently refers to American liberals as "decent stupids"—all he needs for corroboration is the news that the American Civil Liberties Union, while London burns, has rushed to the defense of Joe McWilliams, the city's handsome anti-Semitic chief, urging the Mayor to ignore requests by Yorkville merchants for the curtailing of antiJewish street corner rallies...
...He has sponsored a scheme—jointly worked out by employers and union chiefs — which transfers workers with finger dexterity and mechanical experience to the war trades...
...Congressman Lee Geyer, sponsor of the Stalinite Descendants of the American Revolution (tied tip with the...
...Apparently his mimeographed apology to PM's investors didn't quite satisfy all of them...
...old crippled friends of J. J. from Shanghai...
...They were trained by "The Three Musketeers...
...Not .so long ago the City Council wdered him to fire his Public Works Commissioner, Reuben Borough...
...Presidential Move Wipes Oat Isolationism ONE of the curiosities of ijhe unparalleled situation, and one that has somehow escaped Inerited attention, is the utter frustration and erasure of theiwhole Isolationist element from coast to coast...
...this in addition to hundreds of thousands of dollars in interest-free loans, ambulances, planes, aluminum utensils from central and branch shops, vacant land, and other material...
...which recently endorsed the American Peace Mobilization...
...If Olson goes, he will be succeeded by Ellis E. Patterson, transmission belter...
...They've ** found a good thing in the Ham and Eggs crowd, which is peeved at California's Governor Olson...
...So indeed that fearful crisis is past and' the dollar remains sacred, no matter what we do with lives...
...ratus behind his campaign...
...1. It was the act of a dictator...
...John M. Coffee, Montana's gift to "the transmission belt, according to reports received by the report receiving department, begged Congressman Starnes of Alabama to push the plea for another Dies Committee appropriation and give the Montanan a chance to vote for it before election day...
...These organizations have long been restive under Toledano's Stalinite control and Cardenas' actions have given the opposition the chance to fight the union officialdom...
...Unions in the colonies and dominions are in constant motion, doing their assigned jobs in providing men and machines to beat off Germany...
...He is even appealing to those whom he has consistently attacked during his party line hewing...
...Cooper is slated to go...
...The House of Representatives adopted the Smith amendment, which seems to look toward putting dollars on a level of sacredness with lives, and naturally caused the greatest uneasiness * among captains of industry and other important elements...
...PM's coverage of the Trotsky assassination stirred more resentment...
...But while there is a certain entertainment for the cynical 6 the failnre of so much hysteria and windy suspiration of forced breath, the thoughtful must view with the utmost concent the abnormal power already possessed by one man to drag a country along td such momentous consequences and then with the utmost alarm the proposal to give such a man still greater powers and privileges...
...Even the, pacifist sections of the Canadian (Socialist) Cooperative Commonwealth Federation are working with the government...
...China Uses War Cripples To Build Vast Co-ops Crippled soldiers in war-torn China are a vital part of the Chinese Industrial Cooperative movement...
...From one of the bright lads in our vast espionage chain, this column learns that when Philip- If array, steel workers' chief, applied pressure in Maddens behalf, Roosevelt told him that either Maddea or Ed Smith must ge...
...Communist reaction to this drive against them is discernible in its press, but most important in the CTM, which through Lombardo Toledano, has not only excoriated Cardenas, but has begun to attack President-elect Camacho as an "appeaser...
...Whether he will be shifted to another cabinet post or dropped entirely, cannot be determined...
...The ACLU has also protested the ban on Earl Browder's campaign tour...
...Lemke is running as an independent, * * * A LL is not orange blossoms and Grauman Theatre previews for Los Angeles' Mayor Bowron...
...3. It was,clearly in direct violation of the intention of the law of 1917...
...So well has Morrison organized supply machinery, the cabinet is reported anxious to have him direct propaganda...
...5. It reveals clearly the progress of the dictatorial complex in the presidential mind...
...Labor reporters in town will be much surprised if they don't wire stories of a C.I.O...
...Pressure being put on Nathan Witt, NLRB executive secretary, to force him to resism...
...Now Patterson is promising the Ham and Eggers a special election on the old age pension panacea if he "becomes acting Governor...
...Smears Cardenas and Camacho for Probe of Trotsky Killing Bv GEORGE SHORT WASHINGTON, D. C.—President Cardenas has not only split with the Mexican Communists, he has declared war • on the Mexico City political, industrial and espionage agencies of the Comintern, well-informed Latin-American circles here reveal...
...J.," working with a loreign doctor, spent over a year in Shanghai getting crippled soldiers into mental and bodily shape, and training them for cooperative employment...
...And then, think of the so?i'h# to us taxpayers...
...Bowron has been appointing right and (mostly) left those afflicted with Kremlinitis...
...j_ Tie Dollar Remains Safe From Conscription 'I'HE great heart af Privilege, which has been bowed down *¦ with fear because of the Smith amendment to the Life Conscription bill, has been lifted again, and hope and confidence reign once more in our best circles...
...One cigarette co-op overcame the difficulties of a dishonest ehairman, bad technicians, and poor salesmanship, and showed a profit of $2,468 with its "Cripple Brand" and "Aero Brand" known throughout free China...
...A split already has developed inside the CTM...
...In Chungking (the seat of Kai-Shek's gov't) there are now 14 co-ops, with 483 crippled members, engaged in making cigarettes, soap, leather, stockings, hospital supplies, clothes, alcohol, gold and shoes at a $30,000 monthly output...
...The Mexican police have been ordered to probe thoroughly the party and its many fronts...
...After being elected with Thirty Every Thursday support, he failed to rain dollar bills on the aged...
...From the Daily Worker we learn that he is also the fellow-traveling Federated Press' Mexican correspondent . . . and Jellinek's correspondence has been paralleling closely that of Harry Block's official Stalinite newsletter...
...Connolly is the Morris Watson of the West Coast, a notorious fcllow-traveleri Bowron also named Don R. Healcy, Los Angeles County secretary of Labor's -Vow (?) Partisan League...
...Here are professed Liberals like George Norris shouting *» the end of the democratic system in the United States...
...And when one has jumped the reservation, get another that will repeat the operation...
...The whole story in 'Europe has been the story of the industrialists in power with other beneficiaries of ..*e system...
...If his plan goes through, the Stalinite front will have its first Governor...
...That is why I am so keen for this King Carol person...
...OINS of their fellow-traveling activities are returning to plague *"* several Congressmen...
...ft is the industrialists of America that for their own selfish Stfs have most dogged, bedeviled and damned national defense...
...Mexican CP...
...He has been studying those strange beings that say there might be a better social system than the blessed perfection we now enjoy, and he has come upon remarkable and reassuring facts...
...Congressman William Lemke, North Dakota's Republican Representative, has decided to buck ex-Governor Langer and Charles Vogel, of Fargo, in the November Senatorial election...
...Democratic politics being what it is, reports from London indicate that Churchill and the Labor Party are ready for shifts in the War cabinet, now composed of six members, some of whom were chosen for their political affiliations and not for their ability...
...This would take Herbert Morrison, dynamic Minister of Supply, from that position and put him in the Propaganda Ministry, with ¦Anthony Eden, War Minister, taking Morrison's post...
...It was the industrialists of Germany that with tte financiers, junkers and oId nobility put Hitler over and created the German despotism...
...From Frank Jellinek persoiially we learn that he has been PM's Mexican correspondent from the start...
...The Mexican Communist Party participated, nor was the hammer and sickle noticeable for its absence...
...A congressional bloc has introduced a bill outlawing the party and demanding that C. P. legislators disaffiliate from it—an action similar to that taken by the late French Republic shortly after war was declared...
...Members of Unions,Co-ops Floclc to Army By DICK REYNARD British political and governmental circles have rapidljr conditioned themselves to perpetual raids, and life in air raid shelters...
...He has-been investigating the source and origin of this pestilent radicalism that disturbs and even threatens the lords of the preserves of loaves and fishes...
...Beautiful " upon the mountains must be the feet of Prof...
...He will succeed Chajrles Fahy...
...The one thing that remains certain is that the acknowledged part of the transaction'curtains something much more momentous and jBiister...
...This severely handicaps the FBI, which could effectively use more than twice the amount...
...L'affaire Madden is giving the administration a headache—which doesn't include "Fanny" Perkins' fluttering tribulations...
...The total of interest-free loans given the government by leading unions comes to almost $5,000,000...
...Because he had the entire Communist popular front appa...
...He is being kicked about behind the usual "scenes' by a cross-current of politics resulting from fellow board member Edwin S. Smith's feilcw-tourist proclivities...
...He defied the council, although Borough consistently bends with the contemporary Communist line and is active in front organizations...
...Morrison, Cooper, Eden Seen in War Cabinet Shift By Charles Edward Russell The News Reel #pHOSE of us that looked* for an early clarification of the 50*> destroyer-gift-to-Englaiwf mystery have heen disappointed The jetualities of the deal remain deeply hidden in the smoke-screen that clouds so much of the Tstrange ways of, the Executive...
...The City Council, which by this time you may have gathered, doesn't like the Mayor or his colleagues, tried to remove Connolly but failed...
...To revise the city charter, Bowron cutely named to the commission Philip M. (Slim) Connolly, West Coast Vice-President of the American Newspaper Guild and chairman of the California C.I.O...
...Whaf This Country Doesn't Meed Is a Good 5-Ceitf Industrialist WITHOUT some such theory as that of the Hitler Bacillus, pro" mulgated from this pulpit a- few weeks ago, how are you going to explain such a case as that of Dorothy Thompson, for instance—not to mention others...
...f Jag Carol Upholds The Royal Form IN a world of disappointment, disillusion and sorrow, refreshing it is to come upon an instance of a man, a machine, gadget, device or contraption that runs true to form, that verifies expectation, that justifies the advertisement...
...The sentiment has been for <ns, somewhat enlarged and embellished: "I am the Congress, the Supreme Court and everything else in sight...
...But there are certain facts concerning the transaction that are so clear and emphatic they admit of no debate...
...As President Conant of Harvard pointed out some time ago, ive should educate only selected individuals—children of the gifted and the propertied...
...Morning newspapers appeared Sept...
...But Ed Smith won't resign...
...private organizations...
...The publisher wants to purchase his own plant...
...1 in London as usual despite the fact that the stories were written, edited and printed and the newspapers distributed while German raiders were overhead the night before...
...There are more than •60,000 employees of the cooperative movement now in the fighting services, and by the end of the year the total will probably exceed 100,000...
...The Canadians assist in transporting U. S. war g6ods, sending more and more war planes across...
...He broke with Roosevelt when the CP...
...To sell out one' coentry and then skip blithely over the frontier with one's lady love—what could be more appropriate...
...It reads: "It takes a lot of anything to ruffle English newsmen...
...compositors are in intricate assembly work...
...v...
...A large total of bombers is being . flown across the Atlantic with Canadian aid...
...CATHER COUGHLIN'S folly...
...American Peace Mobilization), speaker for the official Communist International Labor Defense, and a signer of the Call for a Congress of Youth, suddenly finds himself worried about re-election and is canvassing anti-Communist liberals to vouch for his patriotism...
...People go to movies to see Robert Montgomery, Congo Maisie and the Roaring Twenties...
...Which leaves the President on a spot...
...Some unions send money to all of their members in the fighting services to increase their ability to "aid their families back home...
...Into this melange the Communists throw the American government and are peddling the story that a deal among the various groups—including the United States—is aimed at wiping out the CTM...
...The G.P.U...
...King Carol has skipped: long live King Michael...
...So she is out advocating their election wherever they appear and upon whatsoever ticket...
...Stereotypers are making scientific instruments...
...Industrialists, say you...
...The morning papers appear regularly, regardless of raids...
...If this report is true, and its source can be described as an unusually authentic one, Duff Cooper would take Eden's place in the War Ministry...
...For months and even years, these clamorous souls have filled the air with passionate outcries and the mail bags of Con. pressmen with fervent appeals to "keep this country out of foreign entanglements" and to avoid "involvement" in the European war...
...Plane production—some 1,200 a month—is being increased...
...For the uninitiated, this should be translated into a fondness for transmission belts (the libel laws being what they are...
...agents, whose chiefs are known to be concentrated there...
...d Dorothy wants them to go the rest of the way and take charge •f everything...
...heart out of France...
...All we can say is: "Look homeward...
...By the end of the first year, after a couple of bad starts, the co-op showed a net profit of $698.32 on its soap output...
...From our statistical department comes the authentic estimate that fifth columnitis costs totalitarian agencies about $15,000,000 to $20,000,000 a year to operate here...
...And now with one movement of the presidential hand, we are pftmged headlong into thff midst of the worst of all "foreign entanglements" and irretrievably involved in the European war...
...A recall move was started and it now looks serious...
...The Assistant Secretary of War has allayed all concern on the subject with the assurance that even if the amendment should become law, its enforcement -would be so regulated that it wouldn't disturb your grandmother...
...This year's census will show that, until the armament boom set in, there were 12.500.000 totally jobless—about 1.000,000 above the highest unemployment estimate made by...
...I am the State," proclaimed a character famous in history...
...commissars from Moscow, who expelled former Communist general secretary Laborde—and his entire clique—to maintain control of the party after the pact last winter, are now fretting over the danger of losing the CTM, and the PRM, dominant Party of the Mexican Revolution...
...Unions are cooperating with Bevin's efforts to take men from other skilled trades and turn them into munition workers...
...Goodwin Watson of Columbia University, for he beareth good tidings...
...ine Doaras next general counsel win prooably be Robert B. Watts, present associate general counsel...
...The C.C.F., after failing to secure passage of laws to include mobilizing of all financial institutions and the financing of the war by the issuance of debt-free money, voted for the mobilization of the entire Canadian human and material resources for offensives against the Nazis...
...Nothing else could twist a normal brain into a rail fence inlortion...
...This investigation will probably have important repercussions when the Trotsky assassination "mystery'- is finally broken...
...F there is virtue in consistency, just pile our reward in yonder * corner while we add to Ralph Ingersoll's troubles again...
...A three-cornered change of jobs is indicated by one source as a plan devised by Churchill...
...The government is beginning to check on the intra-Mexican travels of the local G.P.U...
...1I7EST COAST Communists are playing for big stakes...
...Well, it was industrialists in Italy that *ith the Banca Commerciale put Mussolini over and created the Italian despotism...
...Inspired by the sudden Mexican government's approval of anti-Communist ac-" tivity, scores of organizations and their political representatives, who were long forced by the government to fight the Cardenas Stalinites in underground fashion, are launching public offensives against the Moscow agencies...
...What is really the cause of the trouble is education, ant he finds that the more education the more radicalism...
...So have the trade unions, the cooperatives, and the many governments in exile now centered in England...
...His technique won ¦ and held London for the British Labor Party...
...Education only makes him discontented with his lot, opens his mind to 'dangerous and subversive doctrines and mcidcates a wonder whether he is divinely appointed to produce wealth for the rest of us ind get none for himself...
...It is a disease so easily remedied that alt right-minded persons must rejoice and be glad...
...They went into the arms factories direct, without training, proving that trades and crafts manned by machine-minded workers, skilled of hand and eye, are a reservoir of trained workers...
...One report of London's newspaper publication during the height of the recent bombings is typical of all Britain's attitude...
...Can there be any doubt that this plague is infec**H...
...Some of the backers are much worked up over PM's failure to lash out at the Communists for constant aid to the Nazis, whom PM refrained from criticising for weeks after it put its first edition on the streets...
...It may chagrin left-wing American isolationists to learn that all the British liberal and progressive movements, at home and in the colonies, are unanimously behind the government, offering it huge funds and manpower...
...Other co-ops with about 1,000 members and $80,000 capital are engaged in canning, glass making, and gold washing...
...This was first tried in the printing industry and is now being extended to other fields...
...Stricter watch is being kept over "El Popular," Communist Mexico City daily...
...That is what we have kings for—in this Twentieth Century of enlightenment...
...One of the most important names in the groups backing the afternoon daily has quit cold...
...As a matter of 'fact, what is the use of educating the worker, anyway...
...on September dth, it voted to demand that Bowron remove Healey from the City Charter Revision Committee on the ground that he is a Stalinite...
...Angel...
...Since the middle of June, about 1,000 printing trade workers have been transferred to munitions work...
...The first co-op was started in Kiangsi in 1939, with 23 members and a capital of $3,300...
...It isn't poverty dor unemployment that produces radicalism...
...She has been gunning for Ed Smith all these months, but Brother Smith won't resign as she has not so very subtly suggested...
...In the past he had excoriated the Committee...
...spKt...
...From what can be learned from close-mouthed British sources here, it now appears that Duff Cooper has mismanaged the Ministry of Information, causing much resentment in press circles and in Parliament, where the propaganda director on several occasions has lost his temper and furiously berated those who criticized his work...
...At the fifth convention of the central labor union in Guadalajara, capital of the important state of Jalisco, some six hundred non-Stalinite delegates, from every type of trade union, split -with the CTM and set up the independent Left Wing FederatioVi of Workers of Jalisco...
...4. The opinion of the Attorney General setting that law aside was an appalling instance,, of the ease with which despots are supplied with convenient "opinions" to help them hurdle laws and constitutions...
...1*HE Amalgamated is preparing a slam-bang, show-down fight * on the Curran-Quill unions at the Rochester State Convention next week-end...
...The cooperatives have contributed over $12,500,000 in direct taxes since the war started...
...Destroyer Transaction "iffas §m» in a Dictatorial Fashion TOHETHER at a time that we are told by eminent authority is « one of "deadly peril,''Jit was wise to give away fifty items of the national defense, continues to be debated without definite conclusion...
...when his predecessor was removed from office...
...So will the probe of Communist domination of the semi-official Confederation of Labor (CTM), the personal property of the Comintern agents who order about Lombardo Toledano, the CTM general secretary, a Mexican counterpart of Joe Curran...
...So long as they are industrialists nothing else matters, says Dorothy, her latest treasure trove of this breed being one that by all accounts is not much better than dumb...
...Patterson, who polled more than 113,000 votes in the Senatorial primaries against Senator Johnson, has been following the line for years...
...Whether or not the trial of the Trotsky assassinator will lead to this cell is of great interest to the police and President Cardenas who, according to reliable sources here, is convinced that the first murder attempt and the successful alpenstock crime was planned by the secret Soviet police...
...That may not be news, but the fact that the leaders of the nation's powerful railroad brotherhoods are backing the man who is closely linked to the pro-Nazi anti-Semitic radio priest, is startling...
...The membership was not consulted...
...Otherwise he would lose Leiserson...
...i J We learn from our old friend, Authoritative Source, that England does not need those destroyers, having more than replaced from its own shipyards-its losses in this 'category...
...The Mexican Communist Party and the CTM directors are trying to smear this government drive against them as a "Trotskyist-reaetionaryfaseist plot" to crush the labor movement...
...2. It was an act of war...
...His behavior throughout the recent trying years has been so perfectly responsive to the demands of his job and the best traditions of royalty that it may well be called kingly...
...Its *bng, I tell you...
...In the Southeast there are more than 100 crippled co-opers making shoes, clothes, and sulphur...
...Listen: What this country needs, says the agile Dorothy, is industrialists in the government, and many of them...
...Since party cards are elusive items, the best we can do for Ed Smith is to reveal that he has oeen irienmy to several ironx organizations, and not so long ago accepted the invitation of Stalinite Lombardo Toledano to come to Mexico for a Confederation of Labor meeting...
...CTARTLTNG results of a government survey will be msde ~ public in November...
...Outside of London, life goes on as usual, in the Midland industrial sectors, in the Welsh mining regions, in northern Scotland...
...Another attack on defense in general, and the conscription WI1 in particular, was recently made by the International Executive Board of the American Newspaper Guild...
...The latter's agents are spreading the reports that Camacho and Almazan will shortly Obviously the Communists know that both Camacho and Cardenas are ready to wipe out Nazi and Stalinite espionage activity and as in the United States the Communist Party is beginning to whip up fury against the "warmongering, appeasing, reactionary" administration...
...Heard on the Left By VICTOR KIESEL BEDFELLOWS make strange politics, Charman i. Warren Madden of the National Labor Relations Board must have discovered by this time...
...QNLY $400,000 of the $100,000,000 blank check given the President to spend as he thinks best without reporting to anyone, went to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for counter-espionage work...
...1 •:_ A Little Education ' It Dangerous BUT this was not the only precious news of the week...
...bookbinders are operating capstan lathes...
...We hear that Ingersoll is scratching bottom and is stalking a new backer, from out of town, with about $750,0*0...
Vol. 23 • September 1940 • No. 37
