When I'm the President
Bohn, Dr. William E.
"When I'm the President" Willkie Campaign Talks Follow Typical G. O. P. Hack Promises By Dr. William E. Bohn WENDELL WILLKIE represents something that is very old and very respectable. He...
...In Willkie's mind nothing has changed...
...they have had in mind the teachers generally, of whom at least two-thirds are not in Local 6. * * * ItERE...
...Whatever the present Art Executive Council does will b* wrong in the eyes of the prjeant leadership of Local 5. Before any meetings were held to exainint the situation and to secure the necessary help from the A. F. of L., President Green was denounced by Mr...
...By JOHN TOWLER fJERE is an example of the high-hat division of the **¦ fifth column, a man who parades as a scholar and whose propaganda is camouflaged as "sociological research...
...IT promises another period of freedom for * business leaders, freedom to float stocks, to rig markets, to boost profits without any regard to what will happen to the American people in the end...
...We know that the Republican leadership of today is exactly the same as that of yesterday...
...The Hosch-schule fur Politik is the fountain head of National Socialist studies in Germany...
...In 1915 he went to Germany "on business" supposedly in the interests of a caviar company...
...Bella Dodd and other leaders to jump into strange waters and association with Communist and near-Communist groups such as the "Peace Mobilization Conference" cannot •»• -fend the teachers adquately in eW present crisis...
...It can not be repeated too often that the teachers of the United States can best be organized in conjunction with the American Federation of Labor...
...5) a recrudescence of the crudest forms of political graft...
...The other is dome-shaped...
...Already department engineers are studying air-raid shelters with a view to possible inclusion in low-rent housing projects...
...He did not give one hint of any important change to either group...
...What Mr...
...MEANWHILE, Prince Lippe, younger and more vigorous, busied himself recruiting students to study at the Hochschule fur Politik in Berlin...
...He was one of the men behind a magazine called The Fatherland, which sought to justify Germany's position in the war...
...In testing "pill boxes" they've followed the advice of Michael Rosenauer, noted British architect who studied shelters in Spain, France and England, in rejecting suggestions of reinforced floors above cellars...
...The National Socialist Party, Ita Organization and Mission within the State, conducted by Walter Sumner, a leader of the Nazi Party...
...On the other hand, the voters have a chance to do something that has' never been done since the Civil War...
...The sort of liberalism-he believes in dates back to 1870...
...The Deutsches Haus is still being used for this purpose...
...I think it must be clear to everyone that Candidate Willkie's claims to liberalism are mere campaign camouflage...
...Willkie is in line with the other reactionary leaders...
...His idea of how life should be run goes back to the era of General Grant and the elder Morgan...
...A dual standard of morality is something which the Teachers' Union cannot afford to have if it wishes to win the confidence of the...
...The aftermath of this new iron age would be worse than what we experienced in the old times...
...His chief speech is one which he calls "An Interpretation of the German-English Conflict...
...They may have to ask "dual" to what group or to what union ? In the first place, there have been occasions in our own lives and in the history of our country when dualism to existing institutions has been necessary to progress...
...2) the use of federal and state power for anti-labor drives...
...But his private beliefs would have little to do with our policy if he were elected...
...According to the Daily We-riuir' protest mail "from coast to coast" is flooding in against the alhajnir1 intention to create "dual unionism" among the teachers of M*F...
...Those were the days when enterprise -was free and the great leaders of business "were not hampered by labor "racketeers...
...Professor Mohme, who is retired^ has occupied some of his leisure moments in addressing student groups on the glories of the Third Reich...
...The University of Southern California did not think that Prince Lippe deserved the title of Doctor of Philosophy for his anti-democratic tract...
...When the workers do not hang together, they hang separately...
...He keeps accusing the president of being a pessimist...
...The State Federation has long bees , convinced of the Communist control exercised over Local 5 and the activity of its leadership in all kinds of transmission belts...
...In t&ew-.York City,- realistic iMayor La Guardia has had a staff secretly preparing plans for New .York to meet any threat from long-range bombers operating from air-craft carriers in the Atlantic...
...Rightly teachers and educator* reproached Dr...
...What he means by this is that the president recognizes there have been changes and therefore the people through their government must exercise new powers...
...What does his promise to business portend for the farmers and wage workers...
...Does anyone doubt that they would reappear in 1941 if WendeirWillkie should be elected ? In his significant speech delivered at Pittsburgh last Thursday Mr...
...Its meetings were held regularly at the St...
...Clear thinking about this term will have to be done by the teachers iof this city...
...These exposures are written by a well-known New York journalist who prefers to work under a pseudonym...
...But since this is the time of modern technology, the whole effect would be heightened...
...And this liberation of business is the new thing, the thing that will bring about the great and happy change...
...was a student...
...We well remember the days of Harding, Coolidge and Hoover...
...Talking to farmers at Topekahe promised them about what they are getting now under the Roosevelt administration...
...This "scientific" study was simply a rehash of Dr...
...Hansen stayed in Germany during the course of the war...
...I KNOW that Mr...
...Prince Lippe was the chief recruiting agent for these courses in the United States...
...Certainly the union of the thirteen colonies in the founding days of this republic was denounced as dual by George the Third and his Tory followers, despite the fact that many British statesmen sympathized with the American "rebels...
...He probably represents it better .than any other conservative candidate in our history...
...So the prince took his manuscript to the Overseas Publishing Company in San Francisco...
...More than ever, the Teaefcew' Union must come into court with clean hands...
...These protestations get him nowhere so far as his campaign is concerned...
...With one foot in the student world of California, Prince Lippe kept the other squarely placed in the headquarters of the arch-Nazi propagandist Hermann Schwinn who is the fflhrer of the Deutsches Haus at 634 West Fifteenth Street in Los Angeles...
...The Securities and Exchange Act would be repealed or emasculated...
...How can we get...
...Q» April 15, 1936, Prince Lippe published an essay on Leader and Leadership...
...Prince Lippe's friend, John H. Rand of San Bernardino, California, published this "interpretation" with a little interpretation of his own entitled "Lusitania—Churchill—Athenia...
...Education is under a fierce attack from the Merwin K. Harts...
...Under present conditions it would repeat the old pattern...
...The candidate's real appeal to voters was the argument...
...that what workers need is jobs...
...He will detail facts, expose propaganda, and present a literary photograph, full face and profile, of numerous agents operating in this country in the interests of Europe's dictatorial nations...
...They came during the regimes of Grover Cleveland, Roosevelt the First, Wilson, and Roosevelt the Second...
...Willkie did not tell his Pittsburgh audience how^he proposes to provide new jobs for nine million workers...
...When he talks to-business he sings an entirely different tune...
...It was founded by Ferdinand Hansen during the first World War, in Hamburg, Germany...
...But shortly after Hitler came to power in January, 1933, Prince Lippe enrolled at the University of Southern California...
...In those primitive times big business didn't care to put up its own men...
...After fourteen years of residence in this country the action of the Unitecl States Government has compelled him to register under the McCormack Act of June 8, 1938 as the agent of a foreign principal...
...Otherwise we are just the victims of words and phrases...
...Bernard Cafe, 4057 South Figueroa Street in Los Angeles...
...This miniature tabloid gets all its news from the Reykjavik Broadcasting Station...
...Precisely the same sort of language was used by McKinley in 1896, by Taft in 1908, and by lHarding in 1920...
...It is this sort of verbiage more than anything else which proves that Mr...
...Willkie promised labor everything...
...If Willkie wins, every reactionary force in the country will swarm to Washington...
...The tax on corporation profits and the excess profits tax would be reduced or abolished...
...USHA, LaGuardia Speed Bomb Defense Shelters WASHINGTON, D.C.—Whether or not war comes to American soil, the United States Housing Authority is taking few chances...
...3) repeal of much of the progressive and humanitarian legislation...
...Fifth Column Gallery Academic Status Camouflages Pro-Nazi Activity Of Prince Lippe- Weissenfeld in Calif...
...We^'can prolong a progressive and humanitarian "regime beyond the eight-year stretch which has been i?s traditional lease of life...
...5 for his "virions denunciation" and "characteristfc red baiting...
...Its courses are designed to make Nazis out of foreign sympathizers...
...Here he attempted to show that the American Constitution was not in fact a document of liberty and hope for all Americans...
...He says further that "No salary is received, merely compensation for expenses, amounting to from sixty dollars to one hundred dollars per month...
...But Lippe did not permit his active career to interfere with his literary work for the Nazi cause...
...IN other words, when we use the * word "dual" we must know what organization the new one is dual to...
...Thomas J. Lyons, President of the State Federation, and representatives of the State Federation have assisted the teachers in spite of Local 5 leadership...
...He is for the Labor Relations Act, the Wages and Hours Bill and the Social Security Act...
...The civil war in Labor now continued by the official CIO refusal to discuss a unity compromise is making for many lost golden opportunities at the moment However, we must not let words--1 like "dual unionism" become our masters and mislead us into emotional hysteria...
...They exploit the stigma attached to the term despite the fact that as Communists and near-Communists they have never hesitated to split groups and unions when the "party line" has so ordered...
...Some weeks ago ¦ he was speaking at a service dub in Southern California...
...DRINCE LIPPE carries on his propaganda work as * a lecturer on foreign affairs...
...So he took a walk, down to the offices of his superior, Captain Fritz Wiedemann, the German consul general at San Francisco, in charge of propaganda activities for the Nazis in this country...
...In the mind of this man nothing has changed within recent decades...
...Each one lasted, at most, five or six years...
...A member of the audience asked him point-blank whether he had registered under the McCormack law...
...Willkie is not stupid nor small nor awkward...
...He organized his Overseas Publishing Company there, but when the war ended he transferred it lock, stock and propaganda to the United States...
...It appears in Reykjavik, capital of Iceland, for the benefit of British and Canadian troops stationed there...
...I refer to Prince Kurt Bernhard zur Lippe-Weissen-feld, a propagandist for the propaganda machinery Herr Goebbels has set up in this country...
...He became a leader of Delta Phi Alpha, a German fraternity in the University of Southern California...
...Let me state immediately that dual unionism is a serious evil under any ordm&ry circumstances...
...If the party "directive" so dictated, the new dominant group in Local 5 would quickly split Local 5 and take it into the CIO...
...Hendley in Ms circular of Sept...
...Willkie is proposing, then, is a retreat from reason, a flight back into what seems to him the golden age of unrestricted capitalist enterprise...
...Here in {Jew Yofk City the hundred per cent to the party line laid down by the ruling Communist caucus of Local 5 makes it impossible for Local 5 to be taken back into the Central Trades unless this correlation is ended in good faith and for good...
...Rand gives what he calls definite proofs that the Athenia and the Lusitania were sunk on orders of the British admiralty...
...For those who did hot want this heavyweight dose of Nazi academic propaganda Prince Lippe organized conducted tours through the Third Reich...
...In Spain, he said, debris of buildings demolished by bombs frequently blocked entrances to bombproof cellars and occupants were suffocated before they could be removed...
...Bernard Cafe, it seems, is owned by the two Fink brothers who are prominent members of the German-American Bund...
...Ancient Iceland Gets First English Tabloid "War News" is Iceland's first English newspaper...
...In the old days this policy'-brought depression, unemployment and poverty...
...4) nullification of other legislation by court decisions...
...The Overseas Publishing Company has a history which is worth mentioning...
...The latter should give more protection from gunfire and bomb fragments, USHA engineers say...
...Teachers should be able to ekr^ jeetively consider what is best to" organization for the teachers *» this city, for the state, and « the whole nation...
...Hansen had been engaged in propaganda for the kaiser in this country...
...Under the leadership of the prince, Delta jPhi Alpha moved into the foreground as aa exponent of what it described as "German folk ways . . . the German language and German literature...
...He enthusiastically described to his bewildered and youthful audience such Nazi innovations as the "Work Service Camps," the Youth Hostels, and the "Strength-Through-Joy vacation trips...
...Now we have reached a time when a Wall Street lawyer with a winning way can be put up to present the case for free and unhampered control of this country by business leaders...
...The good: work which Local 5 has done in fighting for teachers' interests has been accomplished only by its association with the State Federation of Labor...
...It follows from this that all we must do is to return to the policies of McKinley, of Taft, or of Harding—and in a month or two we shall have the nine million new jobs and everything will be wonderful...
...Their purpose has been to initiate planning in the fields of investment, production, markets, wages, consumption...
...York' City...
...It is the liberalism of Rockefeller, Carnegie and James J. Hill...
...The one great distinctive feature of the American Federation of Teachers is that, in contradistinction to all other educational organizations in the United States, it belongs to the AFL...
...What he represents is American Business Unlimited...
...Addressing the workers at Pittsburgh he promised maintenance of present legislation...
...Protection of workers and consumers through regulation of corporations would be reduced all around the circle of industrial and financial operations...
...We know the heartbreak and the bitterness which is created when two unions claim the same jurisdiction and organize, not against the employer bat"' against each other...
...In his portion of this neat little pro-Nazi pamphlet Mr...
...Criticism of the action of teachers will be used in order to cut down the salaries, to deplete the curriculum...
...The chance to Mo this is such a great thing that the anti-third-term slogans seem nothing but the miserable mouth-ings of candidates who are at a loss for a real argument...
...But in his other addresses he has given abundant indications of his plans...
...The American consul in Hamburg decided that Mr...
...All of these reactionary periods had certain features in common: (1) domination of our national life by big business interest...
...The public schools were dual to the old-time private schools...
...He called it "A Scientific Study Based Upon the Life of Adolf Hitler, Leader of Germany...
...He proposes a triumvirate of business, farmers and wage workers to cooperate in ushering.in the new, dynamic, productive and ^prosperous era...
...Lippe made a habit of bringing prospective converts to Deutsches Haus for a glass of beer, a liverwurst sandwich and a mouthful of the Nazi gospel...
...that three per cent of teacher *r- ' ganized to 50 to 80 per ceatT AB* methods and possible reorganttt^* tions should be judged in light and not by tag words and . phrases...
...If my own correspondence is examined, the reference must be taken strictly' J*^ mean the coasts of the HadnsSv River and below Washingtn*: Bridge...
...Walter Frank, who is president of the Reich Institute for the History of the New Germany...
...For a few years his trail vanished...
...He wrote a book for doc- . toral thesis which he called "Modern Ideologies and American Democracies...
...Nothing is so disgusting to union members and-to the general public as one union running arrvJiv picket line against another...
...It meEns liberty to-fool the people,-to make profits, to wreck the economy of the country...
...All of them were painfully short...
...The American Labor Party is a dual organization from the point of view of the Republican and Democratic old-line organizations...
...w DRINCE LIPPE also found time to prepare for his *^ degree of doator of philosophy while carrying on his multifarious activities...
...William E. Bohn WENDELL WILLKIE represents something that is very old and very respectable...
...Teaching Teachers Teachers Local 5 Dual Union Cry Seeks to Cloak Leadership fs CP Record By MARK STARR Vice-President, American Federation of Teachers jyiANY teachers in New YorlcT City are likely to be the victims of semantics unksf they give themselves a vigorous mental shake...
...We had all of these manifestations of reaction in 1897, 1909, .and 1921...
...On that date he arrived in New York City aboard the Stuttgart of the Hamburg-American Line...
...USHA engineers are now studying two types of "pill boxes" built by a New York company for testing by the Bureau of Standards...
...He was interested not only in establishing connections on the college campus but also in penetrating into Southern California high schools...
...Willkie belongs to the * Town Hall Club and that he has been around with civilized people...
...At that price he is certainly a bargain for the German consul, Captain Fritz Wiedemann...
...t.;'* » » ., 1I7E cannot expect the Amerieen ** Federation of Labor to pot everyone of its constituent group* behind us in a nation-wide canv paign to organize the teachersaf this nation if there are any doubti concerning the loyalty and good faith of Local 5 which prevent Its reunion with the Central Trade* of this city...
...Hansen's business was not with caviar, but something less edible, and refused Hansen a return visa...
...Harding was stupid, Coolidge was a smalltown politician, Hoover was politically inept...
...Various secret meetings of the fraternity have been held in his home...
...Suppose that the candidate is sincere, that he really aims to maintain the gains made by farmers and workers under the New Deal...
...Perhaps he really believes in trade unions, and social security...
...Bella Dodd is active in the Communist-controlled secton of' the American Labor Party, which is trying to defeat such a declared friend of education and academic freedom as President Roosevelt A union which has been servinf as a spring board for political adventures by Dr...
...In the past the periods of Unbridled business control produced graft in government, depression in business, poverty for the farmers, and unemployment for labor...
...The laws which Mr...
...We may not have reached the period of - a closed economy, but there is abundant proof that we have reached the beginning of a new industrial era...
...Captain Wiedemann told him that he had better register.' In his statement prepared for the State Department Prince Lippe describes himself as a "German lecturer and interpreter of events and conflicts in Europe, which activity will be stopped with the ending of the war or if general circumstances will change in such a way as to endanger my status as an immigrant...
...Goebbels' propaganda tracts...
...The story of Prince Lippe registering as an agent of a foreign principal is interesting...
...then, are the grim facts • * * which the teachers of New York City have to face and no mumbling of outworn phrases can be a substitute for facing that problem...
...Willkie knows little of the party machine...
...The audience was taken aback by his blatant Nazi propaganda since he had obtained the lecture engagement by posing as an objective observer of European events...
...In the last session conducted for English-speaking students from August 1 to August 31, 1939, the curriculum included: The History of National Socialism, taught by Dr...
...Rand, incidentally, who is native-born, has a home-made fascist group of his own with a program tb,at is a weak imitation of Herr Hitler's twenty-five points...
...The prince was disturbed by the exposure and saw trouble brewing ahead...
...Joe Martin would be in a much more powerful "position than Wendell Willkie...
...Actually, said Prince Lippe, "the Constitution of these United States was never intended to realize an abstract, alien, rootless phantasy, such as a liberal-istic-democratic melting-pot of the world...
...W7E have had four reform periods since the ™ Civil War...
...So the -Republicans put up Civil War heroes —starting with generals and finally, in the days of McKinley, getting down to colonels...
...This bureau, operating in a small room in the Municipal building, has mapped plans for evacuation, for fire control, for signaling, and the other minute detail* which are 'part of civilian protection...
...The party leaders have little faith in Mr...
...Rand has been friendly with leaders of the Silver Shirts, a rival outfit, in promulgating fascist propaganda...
...Assisting Prince Lippe in carrying on was Professor Erwin Mohme...
...Roosevelt has failed to provide jobs and he (Willkie) -will provide jobs...
...Our ears nmat be as protestingly sensitive to the call for the mental goose-step, whether it sounds over Berechts-gaden, the Kremlin, or Columbia University...
...For all of these are New Deal measures and voters specially interested in them will, presumably, vote for President Roosevelt...
...Willkie would repeal are a tentative effort to solve the industrial and economic problems of this new time...
...One type of the new "pill box" is oblong with a parabolic cross section tapering towards the top...
...majority of the teachers of New York City...
...But it is not new...
...On April 26, 1939 Professor Mohme addressed the student body of the Manual Arts High School in Los Angeles...
...Count von der Schulen-berg, vice president of-the Police of Berlin and Admiral Gadow were other professors teaching there...
...Perhaps we could not go back precisely to the situation of 1920, but we would be as near to-it.as anti-labor and anti-reform forces could shove us...
...The American Federation of Labor was a dual organization to the Knight of Labor away back in the eighties...
...Business is to be liberated from the doghouse...
...Some fifty honest and conscientious 'teachers who have written me are seriously worried by alleged dual unionism proposed in thiSr fcity by the rumored granting of a charter by the A. F. of T. to the Teachers Guild...
...Wall Street boys would have fared badly at the ballot box...
...Each one was followed by a period of reaction...
...The story of the propaganda prince goes back to October 4, 1926...
...For many years he was a steady contributor to the California Weckruf, organ of the Bund on the West Coast...
...In 1938 he told the students of the University of Indiana that he would be "very much surprised" if their outlook was different from his at the time when he...
...Butler, and Preti-dent Roosevelt himself next day went out of his way to laud the open and uncontrolled school...
...Bat at Buffalo the leaders of Local I led the fight against naming Soviet Russia as a dictatorship and Dr...
...The St...
...Colleges This is the first of a series, which will run intermittently in The New Leader, as a Gallery of Fifth Columnists...
Vol. 23 • October 1940 • No. 41
