U. S. Speeds Ammunition Production As Plant Blasts Create Bottlenecks
LORING, EDWARD
U. S. Speeds Ammunition Production As Plant Blasts Create Bottlenecks By EDWARD LORING Special to The New Leader WASHINGTON, D. C.—With tHe nation's younger men anxiously awaiting the national...
...Smokeless powder production facilities, for example, are only about 25,000,000 pounds a year, as compared with 1,000,000,000 pounds at the end...
...There is no person in the party important enough to close the widening breach...
...Bella Dodd...
...Speedy Action Necessary to Disprove Charge lhat Democracy Talks While Fascists Act ly TONY SENDER & Former Member of the Reichstag . "n/HEN the President turned over the fifty "old" American jl destroyers to Great Britain in exchange for the lease of naval bases in the Western Hemisphere, there were strong' protests even from persons who did not object to aiding Great Britain...
...How rapidly tanks can be produced, once the machines are tooled, is best illustrated by the fact that since Dunkirk, the British built many thousands of them...
...Parliaments can-, not go on with drawn-out routine while the world about changes completely...
...Barnard's eccentric employer, James Gordon Bennett, had his journalistic finger in many a politicaVpie, from London to St...
...Conscience makes cowards of us all," and Mr...
...And a good story it is...
...Wh§n this country entered the WorloJ War it already was a substantial producer of ammunition as a result of large Allied orders placed here during the preceding years, of the war...
...Any gubernatorial appointment is valid only until November, 1940...
...Fortunately, in the United States, party lines in spite of the long tradition of two major parties, are not so definitely drawn as in most European nations...
...provide the British, as well as the American, forces with the tools of modern warfare...
...The fascists, watching the long drawn out debate, certainly applauded...
...At least it need not be so...
...Since that time the Society has distributed nearly ,-50,000 pieces of Catholic literature in the metropolitan area...
...The people need not sacrifice any essential of democracy if they overhaul its machinery...
...The "left-wingers" objected to those sections of the Brainerd platform which, though expressing isolationism, ventured sympathy with Britain...
...Due to her scientific training and the important positions sk* filled, she had a greater opportunity than most foreign correspoa-dents or visiting Communists, even greater than General Krivitaky, whose main assignments were abroad, to see and observe from the inside...
...Immediately upon adjournment, the so-called "left-wingers" held a caucus and a chairman was selected to call another convention to endorse candidates and adopt a new platform...
...The great majority of the American people wanted this support given to Great Britain in the interest of American defense...
...by Freda Vtley...
...by Inmav Barnard: Dutton...
...PAUL, Minn.—The Farmer-Labor movement in Minnesota is coming to an end...
...j The War Department is now placing about $1,000,000,000 in ordersfwith American industry to obtain ammunition and ammunition production facilities to supply an army of 2,000,000 men...
...This country must set the example as a great democracy, in which the preservation of freedom and the solution of the most burning social problems are superior to partisan interests...
...But there is a tendency in every parliament that strong opposition should be expressed by long talks, to tire out the majority, and then take advantage of the situation thus created...
...Through the loose formed "censorship" which the high command has thrown np, coiaes the news that big guns, tanks, planes and especially powder are the bottlenecks...
...J State and civic leaders from Governor Lehman down have offered cooperation to the Society...
...There was bitter hostility between Wilhehn Q and his mother, an English princess...
...Steofing State Documents PERHAPS the most amazing chapter of "Cities and Men" is Hie * one telling of the author's part in smuggling out Kaiser Friedrich's diary and confidential correspondence...
...Yet before any official meetings are held, Mr...
...Since war broke the bitter sentiment prevelant among the Irish against the British has been exploited by rabble-rousing street corner speakers at meetings sponsored by the Christian Front and the Mobilizers, with which Curran, Brophy and Patrick Scanlan, editor of the Brooklyn Tablet, have associated themselves...
...For secretary of state, James Heller won with little effort over the active "left-winger" Selma Seestrom...
...In a situation which was clearly an emergency, it took months until the decision was reached...
...Petersburg,—and the author went on strange errands...
...CITIES AXD MEX...
...The majority wants this done...
...I asjked 1"% if he knew of another way tf carrying out the will of the Majority...
...EXCEPT for Great Britain, this *"** country is the only remaining power in which democracy still prevails...
...Her book is not simply a narrative of the oppression and exploitation of the workers and peasants reduced to a state much worst than under the Tsars, but also a very lucid analysis of the cause* of these events and a psychological interpretation of the mothr* of many acts—otherwise incomprehensible—and of the moral d***J and degradation of a whole people, beginning with the bestiaHas-tion of the Communist party members and the youth in partieular...
...This column would like to see a sequel to "Cities and Men...
...Hendley did not even wait for the A. F. of T. Executive Council committee to meet with Local 5, before sending out to all his members on Sept...
...This sentiment certainly revived impetus with the treatment df the Bnrke-Wadsworth conscription bill, especially in its early stages...
...As might be expected, bis experiences in the earlier part at his life form the more important part of his book...
...Thereupon he left Germany in a big hurry...
...Inman Barnard is ninety years old...
...In spite of appeals from Farmer-Labor Party leaders, many voters went into the Republican primary at the behest of the Railway Brotherhoods and other labor unions and contributed to Shipstead's sweeping victory, and incidentally to the small' vote in the Farmer-Labor primary...
...This has given rise to an unfortunate impression in non-Catholic circles...
...Wfcen the Nazis marched into Holland and Belgium last May, ammuntion production in the United States 'was .confined almost entirely to a few government arsenals, and was adequate to supply only 200,000 men...
...Military experts ipeint out that usually it is easier...
...It is unfortunate that this very pessimistic outlook also J***' her to the very defeatist thoughts in the concluding chapter ****** ing the World Safe for Stalin," in which she strangely advee*"*1* a peace of compromise with Germany, because a prolonged *•* and a crushed Germany would bring about the extension of power over all Europe, which she considers the worst of all psssito" evils...
...There can be no doubt of the growing sentiment of the electorate that parliaments are incapable of taking quick action...
...So, Peterson's chances against Stassen are dimming...
...After the last war only two plants—both with limited capacity —were left in operation...
...Talk of sending Mrs...
...This column wishes Mr...
...of Australia, he seems to have met everybody who was anybody as four continents...
...Her observation of the moral degradation of the whole Russian people by the most hypocritical tyranny in the history of th< world leads her to very pessimistic judgment concerning the outlook for the future of the Russian people: "It seems to i*e ftW it is far worse, far more destructive of the creative and soeis" instincts of mankind, to commit or applaud crimes committed i"j the name of an ideal betrayed, than to commit them openly *** unashamed...
...John Day Co...
...He tells some amusing and moving stories...
...It was decided to permit an open primary race...
...About ten years ago I met H. 6. Wells and talked with him *h>ut democratic processes...
...Also, a survey of 20,000 manufacturing concerns has been completed and information compiled to enable the rapid awarding of contracts to firms best able to handle them...
...And we do not mean to plead for the suppression of debate and the thorough examination of bills involving serious decisions...
...Clemenceau and a host of other famous men,—and who is still alive to tell the tale,—cannot help writing an interesting book.* And the hook is all of that...
...BARNARD'S pen portraits are incisive, his report of things *** seen is always vivid and bear the earmarks of accuracy...
...Catholics Set Up Group to Fight Fascists To counteract anti-Semitic activity amoung Catholics throughout the nation, the Catholic Information Society of New York, 210 West 31st fSt., will begin wide distribution1 of its literature this week...
...Although unpublicized, the United States' armed forces stood at 920,000 skilled sailors, soldiers, airmen and marines on September first, the figure now is put unofficially at 1,000,000 men...
...To kill **¦ murder and persecute and persuade yourself that this is don* *•* the sake of humanity destroys the inner core of man's inl^Wj and deprives us of all hope for the future...
...by another 500,000 men...
...during the "dreamland's" transition into > bloody fascist tyranny in which the Stalinist bureaucracy replaced the old Tsarist ruling class—a bureaucracy which plays in Russia exactly the same role as the Nazi Gestapo and Schwsrse Korps elite guard play in Germany...
...The Communists have no love for Hjalmer Peterson, the regular Farmer-Laborite who swamped Charles Egley nearly four to one, for the gubernatorial nomination...
...Those, however, who so far have put their personal and class interests above that of the nation, should again look at France, where the shortsighted reactionaries sold their country to the enemy—to realize too late that they had sold themselves in the bargain...
...Bella Dodd and other leaders of Local 5 jumping dizzily from one Communist transmission belt to another...
...The author went to Russia as to the land of her dreams...
...His report of General Gordon's and General Wesley's campaigns has a contemporary ring...
...The Navy does not bave the problem of increasing production of ammunition which faces the Army, as the Navy maintains its operations more nearly on a war footing...
...thus take seriously the desire to reaffiliate...
...Benson, who headed the Communist Party-dominated slate, ran ahead of George Lommen for the Senatorial nomination...
...Lundeen's term runs to 1942...
...Likewise, there are only three small ammunition assembly plants now, as compared with 20 to 25 large plants in 1S)18...
...Record of Local 5 Leaders Impedes Unity By MARK STARR Vice-President of the American Federation of Teachers The progressive victory at the recent convention of the American Federation of Teachers and the re-election of Prof...
...Confidence in the democratic process has been shaken during these years of trial and defeat...
...27th...
...Its further functioning is not only vital for its own survival, but also essential for the revival of democracy in those countries where it was lost...
...Oar author actually concealed them under his vest, and managed to pass the scrutiny of the palace guards...
...We can anticipate similar premature gloating for the next rally on Sept...
...The poor quality of the Russian roadbeds did the rest...
...Despite her four years of frantic attempts to locate him, he remained "spurlos versenkt...
...Shipstead's strength, and the meaning of his defection from the FLP shows clearly in the large vote he polled in the Republican primary...
...CP...
...OF course the enemy is not yet as close to America's doors...
...15th...
...And out of this impatience they may slowly develop contempt for parliaments and the men who sit in them...
...251 pages...
...New York...
...He rallied the faithful Communist caucus for an oratorial lynching bee...
...An expenditure of $188,000,000 is to be made to make up th<4 deficiency in production of smokeless powder...
...Thus, he talb us t}\e famous train wreck at Gorki, in which Alexander in ani all members of his family came within an inch of destruction,— was caused by the "nihilists...
...However, as long as we have "** as yet discovered an instru-"Wt superior to government by the people, it is our most urgent duty to improve the one we have...
...Bennett talked to royalty and they seldom gave him "back-talk...
...tihey especially welcomed the improvement of the western hemisphere's defenses by the lease of British .bases on this side of the ocean...
...The Kenrid blast destroyed the better of them...
...Teachers more than any group of workers need the aid of the American Federation of Labor which has good and detailed reasons for doubting the good faith of the officials of Local 5. Maybe the Communist caucus in Local 5 and their inocent victims would really like to have a good excuse for switching to Mike Quill's Communist section of the C.I.O...
...Military men are practical—and although the news may set up a howl in circles close to embassies of foreign governments in the United States—it can be revealed that they are pushing a 24 hour a day drive to prepare transports which can carry 1,000,000...
...3.00...
...George Counts as president has resulted in a campaign of anti-administration vituperation on the part oi officials of Local 5, who at the same time are seeking re-admission to the Central Trades and Labor Council...
...By Elias Tartak ¦ From Lincoln to Hitler *T*HE reminiscences of a man who heard Lincoln tell one of his & * funny stories, who rode with General Meade's staff, who as a boyt was kissed by Sarah Bernhardt, who knew Bismarck, fir Richard Burton, Victor Hugo...
...Hendley beats the gun and circularizes his membership with a fierce denunciation 1 of President Green and the Council members of the A.F.T...
...1 ¦ Split Led by CP., Loss of Shipstead, Lundeen, Leads to Minn...
...Count Witte, then a railroad district superintendent, tells the story in his famous 'Memoirs...
...The officers of Local 5 profess great anxiety to once again become a part and parcel of the Central Trades and Labor Council of New York City...
...1940...
...when he realizes toward the end that the book's narrative does not go much beyond the nineties^ Is the book to be viewed as the first volume of a larger work...
...Powder presents another problem...
...fNID those who prolonged the *^ debate, often without contributing anything constructive, realize the psychological situation they helped to create, which in the near future might prove dangerous to the American way of life...
...THE DREAM WE LOST—SOVIET RUSSIA THES SOW...
...Little will be ! revealed by the War Department from now on...
...At the rfcmp convention held July 28th, they nominated a. ticket headed by Elmer Benson for United States Senator...
...As the Association has not endorsed any ¦candidates, its State committee will have an op-iportunity to take such action as the situation re-ijuires...
...The Dream We Lost By STEPHEN NAFT TTHE latest (and probably most remarkable...
...The officers and members of the A. F. of T. need not be unduly disturbed by the erratic rankings and allegations of the officers of Local 5. We know these officers do not represent the whole of the membership of Local 5 and certainly while they remain active on their many "transmission belts," they remain a serious obstacle to securing again the membership of thousands of teachers who have been disgusted by the factional control exercised to enforce the party line and to organizing the 30,000 unorganized teachers of New York City not to mention the larger possibilities throughout the nation...
...As unfortunate as it is untrue...
...to provide facilities to manufacture guns than ammunition...
...Although working with Mr...
...Htm York...
...The Executive Council is trying hard to remedy the tragic and unprecedented situation in New York City...
...In contrast, the War Department now has worked out nearly every detail as to the quantities and types of ammunition needed...
...He may be closer, though, than some suspect...
...Naval officials will have adequate time to increase facilities to provide for additional needs when the present shipbuilding program is finished...
...book* on Stalinist * Russia is from the pen of a former devoted British Communist who worked in Stalinia for six years—in the Comintern, in the Commissariat of Foreign Trade and in the Communist Academy...
...In the 1917-18 emergency^ one of the biggest difficulties was the constant shifting of plans...
...This is historically wrong...
...Twice> as much money is being spent junder the rearmament program ifor ammunition as is being spent |for rifles, artillery and all other Ifcypes of guns...
...5th an unwarranted- denunciation of the members of the Executive Council...
...But what good are armaments without trained man power...
...The official organization is known as the Farmer-Labor Association...
...In the past it was the Association convention which nominated candidates...
...Having now given up all hope of ever seeing him again she finally speaks without retice***, While there ate other excellent books which tell the troth about Russia as seen by disappointed former sympathizers or enthusiastic admirers no other book has been published in America by anybody who was so close to the Communist machinery during the years when Russia was gradually becoming Stalin's prwatl slave plantation...
...Democracy in itself must be a higher value than -party interest...
...He answered he did not," tot was still looking for it...
...He is not always so lucky in matters of hearsay...
...But we cannot defend democracy while ourselves adopting totalitarian methods...
...He was the only figure in the State who commanded the attention of both groups...
...While the Association does not want to iplay into the hands of the Republicans or the Democrats, candidacies such as Peterson's will be strongly backed, letting the Communists take a care of their pets...
...Congress may try to achieve the task ahead by self-discipline and changes in procedure...
...Williams, sponsored by the rump group, won (he nomination for lieutenant governor...
...Withholding of this information, on the ground that it mfeht reveal military secrets, b in sharp contrast with the situation a few months ago- when department spokesmen made extensive public statements on such matters before congressional committees...
...And we had better take measures before he becomes bolder...
...It is just what it is: a shrewd story of a man who saw sua/ "cities and men...
...L The candidates who won in the primary constitute the official structure of the Farmer-Labor Party — which is legally independent of the Farmer-Labor Association, headed by the trade-Unions...
...Democracy is not synonymous with procrastination, although the fascists try to make the world believe it is...
...The German people is not so calloused in Hs as the Russian is, because it has not been forced for years to pretend that black is white...
...U. S. Speeds Ammunition Production As Plant Blasts Create Bottlenecks By EDWARD LORING Special to The New Leader WASHINGTON, D. C.—With tHe nation's younger men anxiously awaiting the national draft lottery drawing to come sometime about the last week in October, the American high command implements a streamlined' strategy, 20 years in the making, to meet the threats of potential invasion on both co*sts...
...He wants to discredit the new Executive Council of his national union by immediate attacks as mere bought stooges for President Green...
...Party strife was still most articulate when the enemy was at the doors...
...More of Same Mixture "/MTIES AND MEN" holds the reader's interest from the ftnrt ^ chapter to the last one...
...The Brutal'aatien of Soviet Youth IN describing how normal, decent, young men and women becsffl* * convinced that it is perfectly good socialist ethics to stifle al humanitarian scruples, and to commit acts of atrocity in the BSMSI of the party when levying all food from the peasants to an ertwt that their women and children were bound to starve, as happened in the famine years of 1932-33, she writes: "The war on the peasants was more brutalizing than a war against another nation, for the peasants were unarmed and «T«" fenseless...
...Working for hin^-fe^a* Barnard had the entree to all the chancellories of Europa, 9 a young man be held a high post in Egypt...
...A method which may lead to success in a particular case—but at the same time leads to greater danger for our entire system of representative government...
...Catholics trade unionists have long been in the forefront of the fight on Hitlerism and have contributed heavily to funds caring for refugees of all faiths...
...as a reply to ^the alleged A. F. of L. plot to split Local 5 and grant a charter to the Teachers Guild...
...It must adapt its mechanisms to the needs and the tempo of our present world...
...Keeping pace with this activity is a straining-point industrial schedule to...
...Some politicians did not seem to realize just how close the enemy was...
...With the exceptior...
...But in spite of this and the expenditure of $2,-000,060,000 for additional facilities to produce armament the United States had to depend largely on the Allies for much of its-ammunition and artillery...
...to create in the member's minds unwarranted suspicion...
...The riew organization, led by the Reverend Bonaventure Fitzgerald, formely of the Monastery of the Sacred Heart in Yonkers, was formally approved by Archbishop Francis J. Spell-man on Novem"per 20, 1939...
...Whereas in Germany only a minority of Nazis have tortured Jews and political prisoners, in Russia a whole new genet*" tion of the Communist party was degraded and brutalized n the war aganst 25 million peasant families...
...its members will remain calm and refuse to be provoked into any improper actions...
...The imperial train was overweighted and overspeeded...
...of the war...
...1940...
...In men whose hjjve thus been perverted there is no spark of humanity or law left to rekindle, no possibility of revolt or reaction against «W* inhumanity and barbarism...
...Hendley in his widely circulated effusions knows that the record speaks all too explicitly of Dr...
...Of course, the President acted constitutionally, with the legal advice of Attorney-General Jackson...
...Quill in every cuckoo-Communist agency laying its eggs around in the American Labor Party and elsewhere would be nothing new to Dr...
...At the |nd of the war this country was | supplying ammunition for 2,00(|000 men—about half our army...
...Under the present armament program, the Army expects to obtain adequate ammunition to supply an army of 1,200,000 men by next autumn and sufficient ammuntion for an army of 2,000,000 by the early part of 1942...
...On the other hand, the speed with which the rearmament bills were passed, proved that the foreign menace to this country was recognized by Congress...
...Opposition had becomes§yn-onymous with sabotage...
...All facilities are being built so that eventually, if it is found desirable, they can be expanded readily for production of ammunition for an army of 4,000,000...
...The first two Congressional districts were uncontested...
...The decline of the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party, long the bulwark of the midwest progressive movement, combined with the decline of the Wisconsin Progressive Party, ends for a long time to come, hopes of an independent third-party movement coming from the midwest...
...The story is always good and—frequently—rich in implications...
...Nihilists Didn't Do It IhilR...
...The United States as the only remaining great democracy at peace, has the mission of demonstrating by quick action that democratic processes can be made to function, and can be adapted to the requirements of our mechanised a(e...
...The results can be read in the Daily Worker's joyous report on Sept...
...The "nihilists" had nothing to do with that catastrophe...
...Lundeen to replace her husband in the Senate is perfunctory, preparatory to a slam-bang fight for the seat...
...Mc-Williams is the leader of the anti-Semitic and avowed pro-Nazi, pro-Christian Mobilizers...
...Much reser-.tmer.t has been stirred up in New York — both in Jewish and non-Jewish circles— by the activities of Father Cur-ran, head of the Catholic Truth Society, and Keverend Brophy who in recent months not only has written one of the most virulently anti-Semitic books published, but has also associated himself closely with Joseph Mc-Williams who was recently remanded to the psychiatric ward at Bellevue for sanity tests...
...Democracy must not be satisfied with talking while the fascists act...
...We cannot prevent »people comparing the ability of the totalita-rians to act quickly, and obtain advantage after advantage over the slower parliamentary processes...
...This record of fact upon fact and not the behavior and ideas of the majority of the Local 5 membership was criticized by the President of the A. F. of L. at Buffalo...
...The second , step,' the formation of a large army, is only the consequence of the first, the huge armament...
...There she married a prominent .Russian specialist who, one day, "¦• kidnapped by the GPU...
...in the third, Henry Teigan easily beat three opponents, and in the Fourth, George Siegal swamped his "left-wing" . opponent...
...The Farmer-Labor Party is a product of the primary system...
...The incoming young kaiser, Wilhelm II, was anxious to lay his hands upon his father's diary...
...As a young journalist he attracted the attention of James Gordon Bennett, then the prince of American and European journalists...
...Nevertheless, the deal might have been more palatable had the House passed on the bill...
...He feasred himself in favor of rde-Moerscy, but opposed to the par-iitoentary procedure...
...By November, 400,000 draftees will have been added, these will lie followed shortly...
...France must be a warning...
...It is not believed that Benson is a Stalinite, but his support of them, and from them, arrives out of their mutual ^isolationism...
...Conflict of the State and Federal laws may force a special election in November...
...She and the British embassy were equally interested in getting those documents out of Germany...
...American manufacturers are to be equipped to produce the latest types of armor-piercing bullets, bombs, artillery shells and other ammunition...
...Charles Hend-ley, president of the local, has created for himself and his Communist caucus a phantom bogey of a pursuing American Federation of Labor purge against Local 5. Mr...
...When the Executive Council members have given a full opportunity to every group interested to express its viewpoint, then the officers and members of the A. F. of T. can expect a full and adequate presentation of the facts...
...Her disilhisioB-ment had begun before that, but she kept silent in order not *) jeopardize the fate of her husband...
...The more disappointed the reads...
...Although this division is giving full publicity to the broad picture of Rearmament developments, it is clamping down on information on details of production of weapons and munition...
...Let us hope that such is the case...
...How can the Central Trades Council of the A.F.T...
...they may become impatient at seeing the democratic side seemingly always the loser...
...These protests were inspired by their doubts of the legality of the act...
...Many of these have been completed in Brooklyn drydopks...
...War in Egypt IN Egypt he was an active participant in "war and peace" scenes * and saw England carve out an empire for herself in Northeastern Africa...
...When the President chose the-other way, he probably considered that putting the destroyer and bases problem before Congress might delay action so that its effect would have been lest...
...The death of Senator Lundeen widens the split now wrecking the F.L.P...
...The effect of an organized opposition nominating a slate has caused strife and Antagonism which may carry over into the November elections...
...FLP Decline By JOHN DONNE Special to The New Leader ! ST...
...The task industry faces to reach the goal set by the Army may be shown by a few comparisons of production facilities now as compared with World War days...
...For the Congressional offices, tBe regular nominees have the edge over those sponsored by the rump convention...
...The book does not pretend to possess great, depths of historical analysis...
...it has only been told by its government that black, not white, is the best of colors...
...371 H* $2.75...
...A recent survey revealed that hundreds of thousands of Jewish and Irish families live amicably in the Brooklyn'and Bronx mixed sections, despitje incitement by the Front, the Mobilizers and the Coughlinites...
...Barnard further longevity and more loquacity...
...Hit hard by the death of Senator Lundeen and the defection of Senator Shipstead, routed overwhelmingly at the general election in 1938, and split wide open by a Communist-dominated faction which ran a rump convention and won several places in the primaries, the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party, after surviving the political vicissitudes of two decades, may be headed for the dump heap...
...This year, faced with a strong minority caucus dominated by Communist-led elements, the Brainerd convention of the Farmer-Labor Association voted by an almost unanimous vote not to endorse candidates for the State, office or for U. S. Senator...
...Howard |T...
...Certainly not...
...It may not be necessary to take legislative measures for the purpose of speeding our legislative procedure...
...after the evacuation they had only three modern tanks left...
Vol. 23 • September 1940 • No. 39
