GOP Battles to Retain '38 Gubernatorial Gains
LORING, EDWARD
GOP Battles to Retain '38 Gubernatorial Gains New Dealers Oppose Heil, Stassen By EDWARD LORING Special to The New Leader WASHINGTON, D. C. — Although the campaign is splashing its way into...
...Jr., declared that he would vote for Roosevelt for a third term...
...secretary-treasurer and seven of the eleven members of the executive board members...
...Weaver, who has been active in Government-Negro relations, will facilitate equitable participation of the Negro in the National Defense program...
...and the A.F.L., a move for which the Federation will be waiting when it opens its convention on November 18 in New Orleans...
...Here as in Minnesota the...
...The only middle term that will connect this premise with his conclusion is the proposition that students have no more right to think and inquire than they have to teach...
...He kept doubtful, pseudo-proletarian company, and ate their pseudo-Marxian husks...
...R. C. Weaver as an administrative assistant to Dr...
...Farrell has traveled far...
...Where are the snows...
...In the present struggle against the dictatorship, as in past struggles against despotism and oligarchy, the fighting strength and the staying power of the democratic peoples depends upon their remaining democratic...
...And, now, it has come...
...If the university president who almost in the same breath calls for unlimited exploitation of labor and for suppression of academic liberty is less dangerous than the Communazist demagogue, it is only because he fortunately cannot do his mischief in secret...
...Butler's companion on the platform at the Avery Hall meeting said that America should imitate the "cold-blooded em...
...Assistant Secretary of War Patterson declared that the War Department planned to call Negro reserve officers for service soon...
...Books and Writers By Elias Tartak Farrell's Irish Stew ACRITIC'S LOT is not a happy one...
...There is a broad middle ground between toleration of treasonable activities and the dragooning of workers and teachers...
...In order to avoid going to the North Pole, it is by no means necessary to go to the South Pole...
...If Sweden survives, there may be a Nobe...
...This requires some explanation...
...It would seem that he spoke his chiefs mind...
...The California Industrial Union Council, meeting last week, voted against a third-term resolution...
...He has appointed a six-man committee, which ousted the state C.I.O...
...The novel, excellent in parts, forms one harmonious whole...
...Certain scenes are so deftly handled, so easily maneuvered, that they call for re-reading...
...and specific" were put in as mere padding, we must surmise that ithey constitute h saving clause, and the question arises: What non-particular and nonspecific tracts aire to be permitted to limit the advance of scholarship and science...
...It is expected that Dr...
...Lewis the power to void a state convention, as he did recently in New York and Washington...
...be so base...
...Over in Wisconsin, Senator Robert M. LaFollette...
...The Hi 11 man group has a distinct majority in New York and in Washington...
...But how about the "accomplished scholars" in its faculty...
...G.O.P...
...A more important question is whether the CLO...
...As it is, we fear that he meant even more than he said...
...Not that he is exactly a friend of ours—Heaven forbid!—except that just now he happens to be lined up on the same side With us for combat against) the totalitarian states...
...On another defense sector Negro groups hailed the appointment of Dr...
...Political advisors are watching the pro-labor, up from the hard knocks school democrat, Senator James Mead, and the polished, advertising tycoon, Bruce Barton, for the United States Senatorship from New York...
...A "few days later a series of technical objectives were filed by one Mary McGann...
...Had Dr...
...The opposition was led by Paul Turner, international representative of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers and by delegates from Harry Bridges' longshoremen, the Newspaper Guild and other communist unions...
...The anti-Hillman forces are mending their fences in preparation for the convention...
...National interest is also centered on the congressional race in the 20th Congressional District of Manhattan, of Vito Marcantonio, lone Communist congressman, who is now running on the Republican ticket with the full endorsement of the Republican National Committee...
...York County Medical Society in an editorial in its official journal, "The New York Medical Week...
...No less- excellent is the party at Dora's, ending in unforgettable "strip-poker...
...unions cooperating with President Roosevelt...
...He had relinquished his catholic God only to worship the then fashionable idol of "proletarian naturalism,"—a despotic and shabby divinity, as Farrell has since discovered...
...They grow with the book and out of it...
...If-our country would consent to behave as Germany behaves, there would be no need to build armaments or to risk eventual war...
...This fact must be faced by such honest union chiefs as Philip Murray, Van Bittner, R. J. Thomas, Sherman Dal-rymple, and the others who resent such criticism of the C.I.O...
...FATHER ASD SOX...
...This combined with Senator Norris' vigorous stand and the organization of a national committee will hold several doubtful mid-western states for the New Deal...
...That is just what America must not do...
...but in good earnest—to destroy totalitarianism wherever it exists...
...But there was good stuff in him...
...In that—there is much promise tSi around...
...It is a real novel, L e.,—not merely the raw naturalistic material of life, but better than life itself, because seen by the steady eye and transformed by the sure hand of the fashioning artist...
...XjO wonder that Karrell was shouting and laying it art much * ' too thick...
...If Barton wins, the Republican party will carry New York State and its 47 electoral votes for Willkie...
...While little definitely was promised so far as action against these barriers is concerned, we believe definite progress was made...
...Investigation showed that Mary McGann was a member of the "peace committee of the Hyde Park Peace Council," a Communist front organization set up by the Workers Alliance and the State, County and Municipal Workers...
...He is receiving the cooperation of the Communist Party...
...But America is not . going to...
...v .: . So much for Columbia's student body...
...primaries, has filed as independent candidate for Congress in the 18th District under the designation of American Destiny Party...
...They are making an intensive drive inside the Auto Workers organization and the Aluminum Workers union...
...In California the Progressive Party convention was nearly disrupted when secret Communists who had been elected to the convention filibustered for twelve hours in an effort to prevent the nomination of Thomas, who was finally chosen by a vote of 40 to 8. The largest front built liy the Communists on the "c\vil liberties" issue is the National Federation for Constitutional Liberties, and subsidiary of it, the Election Rights Committee, headed by Dashiell Hammett...
...There will be other important issues for the convention to settle...
...merge its political activity with that of the New Deal, which has long crossed party lines, or shall it, unwittingly or otherwise, follow the Communist Party line...
...Where Will It Stop...
...Of special interest to liberal circles are the gubernatorial fights in Connecticut where Socialist Mayor, of Bridgeport, Jasper McLevy (he polled 164,000 votes in 1938, falling about 30,-000 votes short of election), is running against incumbent Raymond E. Baldwin, G.O.P., and the Democrat Robert A. Hurley...
...President Butler did not get off...
...for the executive chair...
...Prize waiting- for tfce O'Flahertys...
...Because "that phrase relates solely to freedom of thought and inquiry and to freedom of teaching on the part of accomplished scholars...
...1940...
...in Texas where the hillbilly campaign of Governor W. L. O'Daniel is under way...
...Sirin'a work...
...will openly repudiate the Communist Party and its policies, to dispel doubts throughout the nation as to the sympathies of Mr...
...Other interesting gubernatorial contests are in New Jersey where Charles Edison runs on the Democratic ticket...
...In Illinois, the Socialist Party filed 30,000 signatures in its designating petitions for Norman Thomas...
...The history of our own country proves that So does the history of England, and never more clearly than in her present bitter trials...
...CP-Lewis Tie-up May Split Nat'l CIO Parley By GEORGE SHORT WASHINGTON, D. C—When the Congress of Industria Organizations meets on November 18 for its fifth annua convention in Atlantic City, more than the surf will be turbulent...
...He was backed by Jim Coulter of the Oil Workers, Bob Roberts of the Rubber Workers and others...
...This critic has just read James T. FarreH's latest navel,* and, without hesitation, proclaims it Farrell's best?—which is a good deal...
...616 pages...
...Vanguari...
...U. S. Alien Hanks Drop 50% in Last Decade There are 3,595.338 aliens residing" in the United States at the present time, which is only 5095- of the 6,284,613 aliens the Department of Justice estimates were in this country a decade ago...
...The president told the conference that Negro units would be organized in all branches of the army, combat as well as service units...
...Another example of Communist tactics is a recent case at Troy, N. Y. There the CP...
...strategists already think of him as presidential timber...
...She is going to/ do her part—a little tardily, alas...
...The above is in the nature of a preface...
...Stassen is one of the most important Republicans in office- today, a Midwest power, young and energetic, properly respectful of big business...
...Noted Writer to Give Oral Recital October 12 Vladimir Nabokov-Sirin, noted Russian novelist and poet, recently arrived from France, will appear in an oral recital of his work on Saturday, October 12, 8:30 p. m., at the Public Library, 503 West 145th St...
...Some of the Columbia faculty members seem to share that fear...
...director, upon Lewis' command, ordered the six-man committee to take charge, when the left-wing faction appealed to him for intervention...
...vice-president and an official of the Amalgamated...
...The ground thus cleared (or not), Dr...
...the union counters by pointing out that indigent unemployed are at present compelled to seek medical services at public institutions and charity clinics, dispensaries and hospitals, and that certainly no "free choice of physicians'' is available to the patient at any of these places...
...2.75...
...9b has Farrell and his Irish...
...Pseudo-Proletarian Idols TTTuKN, several years ago, this columnist first read the Studs " Lonigan series, he saw what others saw at the time: that Farrell had talent, honesty, an eye, an ear, and that he knew his shanty-Irish...
...Negroes in Gov't Insure Army Equality Special to The New Leader WASHINGTON, D. C. — Details of the recent White House conference dealing with discrimination against Negroes in the nation's armed forces were made public this week...
...In recent weeks he has consistently fought moves on the part of scores of Mine Workers locals to name him as a presidential candidate against John Lewis...
...Further' links .between Mary McGann and the CP...
...But the critics must earn his keep...
...They Swear Less "PATHER AND SON" reveals a more exacting, more mature * art, and—a free spirit...
...There is no stopping the Irish...
...Moreover, this critic considers "Father and Son" the first really good novel by Farrell...
...Richard Francis, regional C.I.O...
...The scene in Danny's school, the French lesson, the running dialogue between Father Michael and his Irish disciples, is a masterpiece of humor and ado!e*eent psychology, including the teacher's...
...The conference was called to discuss the question of discrimination against Negroes in opportunities for defense training, and to consider opportunities of enlistment in all branches, and officer training for Negroes in the army and navy...
...He must stand up and justify himself.- He must give reasons...
...leaders behind him...
...In Illinois and California, Communist attempts to strike the Socialist Party and Norman Thomas off the ballot were made recently...
...With the publicity given the case in Illinois, Mary McGann failed to show up at Springfield, and the challenge was dismissed...
...Among .the important "mjnor" elections are the selection of 33 governors, two score senators and an entire House of Representatives...
...Most of them have consistently been part of the Communist Party's labor apparatus, and have actively cooperated with such transmission belts as the American Peace Mobilization...
...Butler has in view, as he straightway made clear by pointedly inviting those whose convictions are in open conflict with the aims of the "university itself" to get out before they are kicked oat...
...Will there be unity between the C.I.O...
...The pro-Roosevelt move was led by Morris Zussmarfj a state C.I.O...
...O'Flaherty would be...
...First, he put the students out of court—for, although his use of the phrase "those who are in statu pupiliari" to designate adults who are qualified to vote and subject to conscription, is as inaccurate as it is pedantic, it is obvious that it was the student body he meant...
...Certain incidents in his past justify the fear...
...American literature has grown...
...Both these unions are anti-Communist, although strongly isolationist, the latter sentiment the spurious Communist peace policy directors are exploiting to the full...
...And what Irish bull and banter...
...The medical plan of Local 802 provides for complete medical care and treatment including specialist care and hospitalization, for its indigent unemployed and \heir families, the entire cost to be borne by the union treasury...
...GOP Battles to Retain '38 Gubernatorial Gains New Dealers Oppose Heil, Stassen By EDWARD LORING Special to The New Leader WASHINGTON, D. C. — Although the campaign is splashing its way into its final month there has been comparatively little written of the important elections which will parallel the selection of a president in what is generally considered the nation's most important poll in its history...
...Dnlser or Lardner...
...It is significant that a number of them, according to the newspapers, plainly told .reporters that they disapproved the denial of academic freedom to students and held that- "university freedom" was not consistent with refusal of freedom to the individual professors, but insisted that they be not quoted by name...
...Lewis, head of American Labor's largest union...
...One (or more) longed for form, deft line, the quick and cunning touch, for the expert and deadly thrust of a Ring Lardner as against the honest flatfootedness of a Dreiser...
...America has grown...
...Speaking for the Negro delegation, White of the N. A. A. C. P., declared: "It is gratifying that the opportunity has been afforded to discuss frankly with the commander-in-chief, and with the top representatives of the army and navy, the flagrant discrimination Negro citizens are encountering in the combat and civilian wings of National Defense...
...eiency methods" of the Nazis...
...New York, with its foreign population of more than 979,431, takes the lead in the east among cities with alien population...
...ANOTHER good omen...
...No doubt this will be elucidated in the fullness of time...
...Ryan is a former law' partner of Governor Stassen, and the F.L.P...
...The Communists precipitated this action when it became apparent that they were in a minority...
...Well, the boy had to sow his wild artistic and other oats...
...He saw the "too-mnchness," the lack of artistic sense of measure in the younger Farrell, his insistence on discovering naturalistic Americas disco^exed long ago...
...The lady is beautiful...
...Musicians' Union Hits Opposition to Hospital Pimm Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians rallied quickly and vigorously in defense of its medical plan, which was launched this week at the Manhattan General Hospital, and which was immediately attacked by the New...
...As to the navy, Colonel Knox stated that while he was sympathetic, he felt that the problem there was almost insoluble since men have to live together on ships...
...But the would take it in her stride, for there is nothing too good for the Irish...
...And they don't swear so much, the O'Flaher-tys...
...For John L. Lewis, with the aid of the Communist Party, will have by that time lined up a probable majority to prevent cooperation with the New Deal, and tc embarrass the Commission on National Defense by attacking Sidney Hilbnan and the bloc of C.LO...
...Has Mr...
...Unless the words "particular...
...Present at the . parley were President Roosevelt, Secretary of Navy Knox, Assistant Secretary of War Patterson, A. Philip Randolph, president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters...
...That is the way we feel about Nicholas Murray Butler...
...The convention was prevented from having even a first official meeting because of the struggle over the Communist issue...
...Elias Tartak, critic and lecturer, will, deliver a brief, introductory talk on Mr...
...This solicitude is a delicacy Lewis has not always shown to labor leaders holding less colorful ideologies...
...political farmer and labor movements are making their last ditch fight, if they lose this election the disintegration which was set in by 1938's Republican swing by the Hoan defeat in Milwaukee will be complete...
...The conduct in question, of course, is not being drunk and disorderly on the streets or staging fistfights in faculty meetings, not picking pockets or cheating at cards, nor any graver civil offense...
...T. Arnold Hill of the National Youth Administration, and Walter White of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People...
...Despite the Hillman majority in Washington, Lewis has stepped in and ordered a complete reorganization of the Council...
...John Nitka, active C.P.er in the 5th Ward, and Sam Cohen, active C.P.er of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade...
...How proud old Mrs...
...And why...
...circulated Thomas petitions among enrolled right-wing A.L.P.ers, and then had their names stricken from the enrollment lists by a Republican judge for being members of the Labor Party and signing Socialist petitions...
...Colonel Knox stated that the logical outcome would be "Southern" and "Northern" ships —«an impossible situation...
...Reeves is in charge of the Labor Supply Division, and is responsible for the training and supplying of labor to defense industries...
...Butler got down to brass tacks—two great big tacks, indeed, and both very brazen...
...No doubt we could strike a good bargain with the Fuehrer, if we were base enough to abandon the democratic way of life...
...Just enough for spice and completeness of effect...
...But this columnist also saw, and spoke of, other things...
...No reasonable person," he said, "would insist on remaining a member of a church, who spent his time in publicly denying its principles and doctrines...
...Following up his speech at a gathering of professors and students in Avefy Hall, in whieh he denounced limitation of the work-week and safeguards against speeding, and on which we commented last week, — on October 3 President Butler addressed an extraordinary meeting of the faculty of Columbia University and laid down the law in a manner somewhat reminiscent of Jehovah oi Mount Sinai...
...in Michigan where organized labor is lined up against incumbent Tory Lurin D. Dickinson, and in Minnesota where Hjalmar Peterson will try to resurrect Farmer-Labor strength by trying to defeat incumbent Governor Harold Stassen, of the G.O.P...
...His actions in New York and Washington are expected to be used as precedent...
...In Defense Industries A nation-wide drive to open «¦ jobs for Negroes in industrial plants which are expanding xas-idly in line with defense production rates has been begun by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People...
...by James T. Farrell...
...It is expected that Lewis will call the national convention illegal if the unions opposing should come with a majority...
...Murray's actions, however, have long been characterized by a strong personal loyalty to John Lewis...
...It was honest and bracing, but—to wade thnnfh inches of pages of filthy Irish drunken dialogue—it made one yawn at times...
...Shall the C.I.O...
...The committee condemned the present control of the state D e ai o c ratic party, headed by Congressman Elmer Ryan...
...At the conference Randolph, Hill, and White presented a memorandum to the president.and the war and navy representatives, urging the use of Negro reserve officers, opportunity for training in the air service, and that existing units of the...
...Their business is to listen and accept what accomplished (and accredited) scholars tell them...
...CP Drive on Thomas Ballot Rights Fails CHICAGO, 111.—Although the Communist Party, which has failed to get a place on the ballot in 33 states, has set up numerous fronts to protest alleged denials of "civil liberties," it has moved to deny election rights to other minority parties...
...And it is the well-known paradox of literary criticism that the more snontaneou* and convinced the critic's opinion, the mere difficult it is to give "reasons," The matter seems to he self-evident...
...Lewis has been careful not to antagonize men like Joe Cur-ran, who affiliated the National Maritime Union with the American Peace Mobilization, or Mike Quill, -who did the same for the Transport Workers Union...
...The New York County Medical Association charges that the union plan interferes with the "free choice of physicians...
...In Minnesota the Farmer-Labor state committee, faced with a hostile Communist-dominated faction, has called a delegates convention to nominate a slate of electors for Roosevelt and Wallace...
...and in Wisconsin where Governor Julius P. HeiL is being fought by Orland S.JLoomis, candidate of the Progressive Farmer-Labor Federation...
...were disclosed When it was discovered that her address, 5437 Kenwood Ave., Chicago, is also the address of Abraham Ginsburgh, well-known Communist Party member...
...When questioned she admitted that she acted on behalf of the organization and had not even seen the Socialist petitions...
...in Ohio where John (Breadlines) Bricker has aroused the hatred of labor for his relief and strikebreaking policies...
...Hammett has long been identified with Communist fronts, he being one of the initiators of the "letter of the 400" which a week before the Stalin-Hitler pact denounced those who predicted such a move...
...They are better drawn, their psychological content is richer and more dynamic...
...Floyd Reeves of the Advisory Commission to the Council of National Defense...
...For them, he declared, "academic freedom hag no meaning whatsoever...
...And America is not going to be so stupid as to think the Devil can be fought with hell-fire...
...Anti-Semitic, pro-Fascist Joe McWilliams who was recently defeated in the G.O.P...
...It is academic misconduct that Dr...
...After indicating that it was unnecessary to discuss the nature of academic freedom, since he had himself settled that question several years ago, he did condescend to say that .'its purpose is "to make sure that scholarship and scientific inquiry may advance without being hampered by particular and specific religious or political tenets...
...Lined up against the Curran-Lewis-Quill bloc will be the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, the Textile Workers, the Auto Workers, the Oil union, the Rubber Workers, the Retail and Wholesale Workers, the Laundry Workers, and perhaps Philip Murray's steel workers, who owe much to the Roosevelt administration...
...neglect to tell them where-they "Before and above academic freedom of any sort," he said, comes "university freedom," which is "the right of the university itself to pursue its ideals unhampered and unembarrassed by conduct on the part of any of its members which tends to damage its reputation, to lessen its influence, or to lower its authority...
...council swung to the Hillman faction last week, with the election of a complete slate of anti-Stalinites, and passed a resolution barring all members, supporters or sympathizers of Nazism, Fascism and Communism from being delegates or officers in the council...
...Farrell was immature, and—-above all—he was not free in spirit...
...Butler's Stand on Academic Freedom Destroys Basis of Democracy's Fight "Oh Lord in thy mercy deliver me from ma freends," was the Scotchman's prayer—"I can tak care o' my enemies mysel...
...Butler stopped short of thus evening the university with the church, the scientist with the • devotee,' thought with blind belief, and disagreement with heresy, we might have hoped that his tendency to pompous utterance had led him to say more than he meant and that his bito would prove not so bad as his bark...
...The St Louis C.LO...
...Why give reasons and specifications...
...charges that Ryan's donin ation opens the way for s a b o tage of the Roosevelt-Wallace ticket...
...In short, the "Neio Masses period...
...Hence, the now older O'Neills and the-'O'Flaherty* have alio become more human and more neighbor-like than the boisterous riff-raff of their previous incarnations...
...V»W York...
...Lewis is coming to Atlantic City with' the support of a majority of the C.I.O...
...The Association has recerwi lists of the plants in the various states whieh have defense eofc-tracts, and are urging them ts employ Negroes in skilled jobs if well as in unskilled...
...army be required to accept officers and enlistments on the basis of ability, not race, and the abolition of racial discrimination in the navy...
Vol. 23 • October 1940 • No. 41
