Fascists, Coughlinites, Communists, Bundists Aid Republican Campaign
ROGERS, VINCENT
Fascists, Coughlinites, Communists, Bundists Aid Republican Campaign By VINCENT ROGERS As G.O.P. publicity campaign director Russell Davenport rushes Willkie from one speech to another in...
...fery'iioi*, however, the Bolshevik G. P. U . •leashed its terror...
...R. J. Thomas,'president of the United Auto* mobile Workers of America, CIO, recently made public documentary proof that Consumer* Power Company of Michigan, during the period when Wendell L. Willkie was its president, contributed $500 for the circulation of "The Labor Digest," a fake labor paper...
...Pope's nominal adherence -to the New York democratic machine is allegedly the1 result of pressure brought to bear on James Farley to bring Pope, his business partner in the sand, cement and gravel business, back into line...
...Zollezzi, Thomas said, has no connection with the labor movement and his "Labor Digest" is "one of the most vicious anti-labor publications I have ever seen...
...The entire incident was practically forgotten when in the September 16 edition of Social Justice, official magazine of Charles Coughlin, the following was found in the editorial columns: "Social Justice Magazine extends its sympathy to all Americans on the occasion of Sen' ator Lundeen's tragic death...
...There have, been no angels...
...and establishes the fact that the Communist Party will do what it can to elect Republicans in November...
...Roosevelt is squarely for dragging us into the war . . . the writer ol this will vote for Willkie simply because no change can be worse than the conditions that have prevailed for practically eight years...
...This shortage leads FBI directors to believe that the German intelligence officials knew that the destruction of the Kenvil plant would considerably slow up American defense—and shipments to England...
...Tcwneend, who...
...U. troops...
...The New Leader Is the only publication in its field to charge as little as one dollar a year...
...These arc at the .duPont plant at Carney's Point, New Jersey, and in the Governmentowned Picatinny Arsenal at Dover, ti...
...Probable result of the explosion wilL be an incomplete dossier in FBI files and the closing of Bund camps near defense, training, and military centers in this country...
...In addition, political observers report, not only doejt'^mjukie fail to carry his audiences with him, but his most pungent points are being greeted with derisive laughter...
...Powder plants are difficult to build because of the technical difficulties involved in drying the powder...
...when he saw Willkie in New York several weeks ago...
...JThis latter factory is not far from Kenvil, which puts it in a spot near the Nordland Bund camps...
...nominated a Borough President, six Congressmen, seven State Senators and sixteen Assemblymen, to one Representative^ one Senator and six Assemblymen for the left wing...
...Seyttal hundred students are imprisoned in **ao...
...publicity campaign director Russell Davenport rushes Willkie from one speech to another in frenzied scurrying for an effective anti-Roosevelt issue, the Coughlinite, Bundist and fascist press and machinery are mobilizing behind the Republican nominee...
...Before ;th&_ official incorporation of .Latvia vithin Soviet Russia, the repressions inflicted the G. P. U . were limited...
...Father Coughlin, in one of the the mogt virulent anti-Semitic editions of Social Justice (September 16...
...Detroit is a pressure center for Willkie...
...The A.L.P...
...The order was signed by D. E. Kark, vice-president and general manager of Consumers Power Company...
...This is the first time in 12 years "that the Society has taken a position on a presidential candidate...
...The Connecticut Socialist Party is affiliated vith the Social Democratic Federation nationally...
...Mass arrests began, however, as soon as the Supreme Soviet in Moscow had approved the incorporation...
...During the next few weeks the married and the physically unfit will be weeded out along wtih those exempt for industrial and religious reasons...
...Mr...
...Kenvil Blast Halts Vital Flow of U.S...
...This price was set years again an attempt to create a mass clrculation...
...aw ^ Opinion is split m anti-fascist Italian circles over Pope's ability to deliver the important Italian vote to Willkie...
...Last week's stunt of eating in a local Ghicago "beanery" boomeranged sharply there when word made the rounds that Willkie had patronizingly submitted to the "common" touch as a vote-getting stunt...
...In edition after edition Der Weckruf runs whole sections of Republican National Committee publicity releases turned out by Franklyn Waltman and his staff...
...This is the first time Coughlin has gone out of his way to mourn a dead Congressman—and Lundeen was a left-wing Farmer-Laborite at that...
...Reporters Link Lundeen to U.S...
...It concludes with the insinuation that the plane crash was caused by certain foreign agents who feared exposure...
...on November 11, 1918, the total was 3,673,888...
...The victory of the regular American Labor Party organization adds some 500.000 votes to the New Deal total in this state, practically assuring Roosevelt New York's 47 electoral votes...
...Majorities were won in practically all counties, giving the A . L . P . about 190 delegates to next Saturday's State Convention, to the Communists' 36...
...j= - ^he Soviet Government is already being comto import food from the interior of Rus•*»••'.' Social Democrats Sweep Swedish Elections Under the leadership of Per Albin Hansson, **Wite Premier, the Swedish Labor party this rolled up a majority vote, as the Swedish j P k went to the polls to elect a new House Jj Representatives...
...it widens irreparably the . split in the C.I.O...
...Defense Powder By EDWARD LORING Special to THE NEW LEADER WASHINGTON, D. C—With the GermanAmerican Bund and the Japanese press daily attacking U. S. conscription, and local Communist front organizations picketing legislators who voted armament funds, the government has finally put in motion the machinery to train 1,200.000 men within a year and spend $15,246,000,000 before 1946...
...The Army has get itself a timetable for the training of draftees and regular force men...
...Both' .Povilaitis and Skutchas had escaped across the German border when the Soviet troops idvanced in Latvia...
...Exacting forcible collectivization, the peasants are *t*flmg production to tnejtr own minimum needs...
...Only a f ew days previous Theodore H. Hoffman, national president of the Steuben Society, announced that it had authorized him to raise $10,000 to fight British "propaganda and influence" in the United States...
...We find ourselves In a financial condition extremely dangerous to continued publication...
...Council there...
...At this time there will be 380,000 men under arms...
...it conclusively eliminates any chance for the Communist Party to use the A . L . P . as its front...
...Another who committed suicide was the prominent politician T o m - . ti* I " Gastaitis, chief of the Latvian air force and *|»W aviation authority, was taken to Soviet Virtually the entire Latvian general * » * is missing...
...An analysis of "progressive" primary winners reveals that all of them are closely affiliated with the Communist Party or its fronts...
...gapping the picture were mass executions...
...First public mention of the rumors was made by Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen, the best informed, and certainly among the most accurate Washington correspondents...
...K make the state-wide ace for the eighth time...
...By making a three-cornered fight of the campaign, he will help to elect Bruce Barton, conservative Republican mouthpiece, through his advertising agency, of the nation's most important corporations...
...This wipes out the threat to the American Labor Party's plans to nominate President Roosevelt and United States Senator Mead, action which the Communist Party devoted its political machinery to prevent...
...With f ew exceptions, all lead• t political figures of Latvia, regardless of Hrtfi have been arrested...
...Despite intensive investigation in Kenvil not a clue has been found by the G-men...
...Thomas declared that the publication which the Willkie power company had sent to 600 of its employees was "owned and published by Norman A. Zollezzi, prohibition era racketeer who has served a term in the Federal penitentiary at Leavenworth...
...sees Willkie as the only "hope...
...In the Bronx, the regular A.L.P...
...In Richmond, the regular A.L.P...
...Several weeks ago they devoted their column to an "expose" of the Senator's links to the German government...
...But we need money long before that...
...The country's economic l i f e ts paralyzed...
...Said Pearson and Allen: " I f Federal authorities probe deep enough into the crash of the Pennsylvania Central Airline plane which carried Senator Lundeen to his death in Virginia, they may find some highly interesting facts regarding Nazi acivities in the United States...
...The ceremony was accordingly carried out at the Unknown SoJijar's grave i n ' t h e Museum of Vitovt the Great...
...These charges were believed to have been given substance by an editorial eulogy on Lundeen's death, in Father Coughlin's Social Justice...
...he new line-up in the Hohse1 of Representawjll be: Labor or Social Democrats, 134...
...But some of Lundeen's office force can tell a lot of things about Fifth Column activity in the United States Congress," Pearson and Allen conclude...
...in Westchester County, 18 out of 18...
...he consequence is a serious shortage of food *°4 advancing famine...
...The Department of Justice, about a week later, "indignantly" denied charges that it had been probing Lundeen...
...The seriousness of the Kenvil blowup was immediately realized by the War Department, and without any publicity it ordered the two plants now in production to increase their potential by 100 per cent...
...An independent Democrat won the remaining Assembly place...
...activities, and the articles condemning prominent Italian-Americans who publicly agreed with President Roosevelt...
...Subsequent reports even had it that the Italian publisher would be one of Roosevelt's New York electors...
...President Roosevelt and New Deal vice-pregidential candidate Wallace are sharply attacked in typical anti-Semitic style...
...Some $34,000,000 has been set aside for the training of 45,000 civilian pilots—these in addition to the regular army air force, recruiting for which is now being done by newspaper advertising created by N . W. Ayer of Philadelphia...
...In Buffalo, Robert Hoffman, New Leader correspondent and leading Social Democrat, defeated Al Larkin, Communist secretary of the local C.I.O...
...The new Communist government in Latvia was ordered to stage a show honoring Latvia's unknown soldier...
...The Communists retained control of the nominations and . convention delegates in Manhattan and a sprinkling in the other boroughs...
...Although widely taken for granted in political circles here, there is still no evidence of anything but support for Willkie in New York's . two Italian daily newspapers published by Pope...
...This *»t accompanied by an -epidemic of suicides...
...The Yorkville Deutscher Weckruf und Beobachter, published by the German-Americar Bund, has similarly given Willkie a back-handed endorsement...
...The remains of Latvia's Uak&twnr&aj&er were taken f n m the.battlefleM near Drink, where the Letts fought the Bolshexfcsin W19-20...
...Every bit of the Hercules powder producing machines were ground to bits and mangled by the explosion, leaving only the machinery in the remaining two plants producing smokeless powder...
...In most circles this column's charges were attributed to the need for "hot" copy that day...
...The machinery of Henry Ford and publisher Robert McCormick has swung into action behind the Republican hopeful...
...Skutchas had previously served as Latvian military attache in Moscow...
...The national implications of the New York primaries will be felt ip more than one sphere...
...The New Leader's feature writers and news coverage put It high in the class of national magazines, which charge six to eight times more then we do...
...nominee...
...unions...
...We now find ourselves In a position which mokes impossible continued publication at so low a rate...
...We need those many, many thousands of dollars...
...There is now ample evidence that Pope pleged support to the G.O.P...
...high command is making every effort to secure wide pro-Fascist ItalianAmerican backing...
...Fifteen students were extorted...
...The Socialists (left-wingers) and Communists ^tether lost almost half the vote they bad in which is viewed as a change in sentiment ^Jting from, the Russian Invasion of Finland...
...P. U . machine...
...The G.O.P...
...Agrarians...
...In the 1938 election McLevy received 166,000 •otes for Governor, exposing the Merrit highvay scandals and throwing a scare into the democratic and Republican candidates, G. P. U. Terrorizing Baltics...
...And in the meantime we solicit spiritual remembrances from our rr.any readers for the repose of the soul of one whom we were proud to call a friend...
...Townsend's agents were recently reported seeking the support of Joe McWilliams in Yorkville for his pension scheme...
...Important Announcement COR 17 years The New Leader has fought unceasingly for a democratic world...
...McLevy, now serving his fourth term as Mayor of Bridgeport...
...Since then, Edward J. Flynn, successor to Farley as Democratic National Chairman, has revealed that Pope supports F.D.R...
...Shaemas O'Sheal, Vito Marcantonio and Alfred K. Stem...
...Typical is an editorial in the September 12 edition which warns Mr...
...Thomas made public photostatic copies of an order for 500 subscriptions to Zollezzi's "Labor Digest...
...Another official executed was Povilaitis, xihief of police...
...and since more' than 70 per cent of jg People cast their votes, the outcome of the ^tbn is regarded as proof of the continued of the Swedish people in democracy...
...Willkie "against overself confidence in his election...
...after a full -morning's conference with Republican National Chairman Congressman Joseph Martin, announced his opposition to Roosevelt because "he will push us into war...
...Ernest D. Baumann, labor organizer, was nominated for the State Senate by the largest plurality ever given any A . L . P . candidate...
...Jfere -arrests and executions are feared...
...Marcantonio's race for the Democratic Congressional nomination^rosu!tcd in 3,694 vote...
...But upstate the regular A. L . P . slate literally wipes out Communist opposition in county after county...
...During these years we have never appealed for funds...
...wvatives, 42...
...If It doesn't, the labor and progressive Industrial and political movements will be without Its most energetic journalistic champion...
...Zonnecticut Socialists Ycme Jasper McLevy for Governor BRIDGEPORT.—The state convention of the Connecticut Socialist Party this week nominated Taspcr McLevy as its Gubernatorial candidate...
...Two new plants are being rushed by the War department but will not be ready for some time...
...Later in the week, after meeting in secret convention—the doors were guarded by private detectives to prevent pro-Nazi speeches from being publicized—the society of German-Americans endorsed the Willkie-McNary ticket...
...Nazi Activity Special Correspondence to THE Ns)W LEADER WASHINGTON, D. C—Ever since the air transport carrying Senator Ernest Lundeen^and 24 others crashed and killed all aboard, reports have been circulating here, linking him to the German-American Bund and Nazi activity in the-United States...
...In Brooklyn, the regular A.L.P...
...In New York City the regular A. L . P . ticket elected about 400 delegates to the Sta^Unitef' 2§0, . • * .. Impressive victories were won by the antiWatson slate in Buffalo, where the official leaders of the Communist Party and the Young Communist League manned the polls to electioneer for the so-called "Progressive Com-' mittee" led by Morris Watson and Eugene P. > Connolly...
...Among these are Bernard Harkavy, Joe Curran, Morris Watson...
...This defeat definitely wipes out the Rebuilders' Communist chances to prevent the Roosevelt nomination...
...The rest of the column relates Lundeen's mysterious visits to George Sylvester Viereck's office, and Viereck's visit to Lundeen's senatorial headquarters...
...Further analysis compiled by the daily press reveals that: In Manhattan, the left wingers nominated eleven Representatives, nine Senators and eighteen Assemblymen, to five Assemblymen for the regular A.L.P...
...Stalin's minions began with a move designed to reassure the population...
...Little information has percolated to the outside world concerning the martyrdom to which the peoples of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania are being subjected by Moscow's *G...
...The Bolsheviks sent Merkis, former Latvian premier, to urge the two officials to return...
...Willkie's campaign spurted slightly after his denunciation of Coughlin, but has fizzled badly as news of totalitarian circles' support became nationwide this week...
...In Monroe County, where Rochester is located, the regular A.L.P...
...And the liberal, labor, and...
...But importance of the "incident" cannot be overestimated...
...To meet this emergency, after much deliberation, The New Leader's Board of Directors has decided to increase the subscription rate from one to two dollars a year...
...The Republican Committee announced that Dr...
...When reporters asked Hoffman to comment on Hitler and German aggression, he replied: " I am not interested...
...There was one perfunctory attempt to dissociate WiTTJrie from this brand of "anti-Rooseveltism" and then it was forgotten...
...A demonstration staged by their relaand friends near the jail was dispersed *T'G..P...
...A G-man, a Department of Justice attorney and an FBI secretary were on the plane with him, and all were killed...
...By way of comparison: in 1917 the Army numbered a little more than 600,000...
...At the same time Townsend was appearing, along with some of the nation's leading Communists, at the Emergency Peace Mobilization in Chicago...
...Tnntt'BpnH wHl fnur picrlit states and address twenty-four meetings foi Willkie...
...E6r a while the Latvian people had hoped that-with the arrival of the Soviet army of occupation and the setting up of a government acceptable to Moscow, Stalin would refrain from accesses...
...won a Senator and the left wingers two Assemblymen...
...At that time 900,000 new men will be drafted and trained for another year...
...Willkie is also receiving agport Jtoui t>r...
...progressive movement of this nation needs Tie New Loader...
...It It brings In the increased revenue we hope tor, The New Leader will be published...
...Under the present circum- Sj?*88...
...Now the heavy burden placed on our meagre resources by efforts to adequately cover the war, American defense, and a presidential campaign, has been too much...
...Upon their return they were immediatelj- srrested and shot...
...He was nominated >y acclamation, no other names being proposed...
...nominated a Representative, a State Senator and three Assemblymen, to a Senator and three Assemblymen for the left wing...
...The Republican candidate seems to be afflicted with an inferiority complex—seems to stand in awe of his opponent...
...New York City...
...But not so with the fascist support in this country...
...Execute Latvian President By MALCOLM HASTINGS UTHLESS terror reigns in the Baltic States' !ever since their seizure by Stalin...
...But these are backdoor aids to the G.O.P...
...In the metropolitan area, results ran according to political expectations...
...Armament production WW severely set back by the Kenvil Hercules Powder plant blast...
...While the press has carried the, news of the execution of Latvian President: Ulmanis, the Soviet Government has sought to suppress the horrible details of the situation as a whole...
...Liberals, 23...
...They agreed...
...Nothing was said of Nasi propaganda activities here...
...During this time its only source of Income has been its readers...
...nwmists, 3. The Social iDemocrats gained J***4*- The Communists ilost two seats ip S * » d and one in Goeteberg which had been "V-ltronghold...
...Evidence that all anti-British'pressure groups are jumping on what passes for a Willkie bandwagon was seen this week in the Steuben Society decision, to, campaign for the G.O.P...
...Fascists, Coughlinites, Communists, Bundists Aid Republican Campaign By VINCENT ROGERS As G.O.P...
...According to the Italian News Service, Generoso Pope's support of Willkie can be proven by the numerous editorials in his II Progresso Italo-Americano devoted to the Republican convention, G.O.P...
...will low New York State's 47 electoral votes...
...Lundeen and Miss Jean for the loss which they have sustained...
...in Nassau County, 8 out of 8; in Suffolk County, 6 out of 6. These counties are typical of the sweeping victory gained by the A . L . P . , despite the well-financed campaign led by Morris Watson, Hyman Glickstein, Eugene Connolly, and a score of Stalinite-controlled C.I.O...
...It is not generally known that there were only three such smokeless powder .plants operating in this country, ^redsctng o^ly 20,000,000 pounds a year when douBle and even triple that amount is necessary for British and American supply...
...One will be near Chariestown, Indiana, and will be worked by the duPont corporation...
...A Republican victory will result in clearing out the parasites, press agents and new deal bureaucrats who have fastened themselves on the government like leeches...
...This has occurred during several of the talks he has made in "costume"— open collar, tie awry, and hair uncombed...
...in Erie County, in which Buffalo' is located, took 23 out of 26 delegates and tied one, despite the intensive Stalinite campaign...
...When asked to comment on the reason for the anti-British fight he explained: "Because Great Britain, with its propaganda, is trying to get us into war, and we don't want that...
...Regular ALP Slate Sweeps Primaries, Ousts Communists New York State voters this week repudiated the Communist attempt to extend its control via the primaries, from Manhattan to other sections of the American Labor Party state organizations...
...Aneng those who killed themselves to escape fte dutches of the G. P. U . were Colonel SalodJB who, before firing a bullet into his brain, Hied his nine-year-%ld son...
...by January, 1941, more than a million will be training...
...The bell goes off on October 16 when, under the Burke-Wadsworth Law, 16,500,000 men register...
...Take advantage of the one dollar yearly rate while It Is In effect...
...In Queens, the regular A.L.P...
...Morris Watson, Communist vice-president of the American Newspaper Guild, was nominated in the 17th Congressional District...
...It you want the continued publication of The New Leader—and this Iss in deadly earnest—each of you must send us at least one new subscription before November...
...Circulation jumped—bur so did the cost of publishing this type of newspaper...
...by June, 1941, about 1,200,000 will be in camps, and by September, 1941, more than 1,400,000 will be completely trained and ready for return to civilian life...
...Each edition depended on the week's subscription income...
...May we take this occasion to offer our condolence to Mrs...
...the other will be managed by the Hercules Powder company near Radford, Va...
...These will cost the government $25,000,000 each...
...This is vital to our continued existence...
...Deadline for the increase is N o v e m b e r first...
...What most people do not know is that Senator Lundeen, rabid pro-German isolationist, was under investigation at the time of his death...
...Colonel Skutchas, minister ((-the interior before the occupation, was exetated...
...Altogether, there were more than two thou***i arrests and executions in Latvia...
...Senator Lundeen is dead and whatever role he played in fifth column activities, his value to the Gestapo here is gone...
...took 20 out of 20 delegates...
...Subsequently he was elected vice-chairman of the American Peace Mobilization, the outgrowth of the Chicago Communist conference...
...The A . L . P . vote will more than counteract the losses F D R will suffer as a result of widespread anti-New Deal sentiment among the Irish Catholic and Italian sections in...
...Merkis was arrested next day and taken to Sstiet' Eussia, together with: Urbshis, former Latvian minister of the interior...
...Whether certain foreign agents figured that they were about to be exposed, whether G-men on the plane tangled with Lundeen in flight, or whether it was an act of God and,the weather, may never be known...
...Vital to the new defense machinery is the federal anti-espionage and anti-sabotage apparatus which the Federal Bureau of Investigation has set up...
...Fallible as every man, nevertheless the able Senator from Minnesota putting patriotism above partyism, generally managed to be on the right side of every question, careless of the personal sacrifices which his convictions cost him...
...nominated a county judge, two Representatives, three State Senators and seven Assemblymen, to one Assemblyman for the left wing...
...The results of Tuesday's primaries now on hand reveal that the Morris Watsonrgtalinite Committee to Rebuild the American Labor Party was swamped by more than a two to one vote...
...It focuses attention on others in Congress who are "friends" of Charles Coughlin, and who are in vitally strategic positions to sabotage American defense and peddle American state secrets...
...for Lanzetta and 3,500 f o r Marcantonio...
...If he does, F.D.R...
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