Draftees Voice Resentment Only at American Industrialists Still Selling Oil and Iron to Japan
LORING, EDWARD
Draftees Voice Resentment Only at American Industrialists Still Selling Oil and Iron to Japan By EDWARD LORING Special to The New Leader WASHINGTON, D. C.—This correspondent has just left his...
...Algernon Lee, City Chairman of the Social Democratic Federation...
...j Krutch should remember that before the Shakespeare with whom be compares O'Neill, stretch two thousand years to his peers, the ancient Greeks: why demand so much within a mere three hundred...
...Gilbert FrsajM *. a pigmy in their presence.* He offers us only a series of anecdotes of fairly unifoffli# ness: the undistinguished record of a commonplace life, recounted with neither candor nor vision...
...such projects as the 51 new armories in Oklahoma, and the thousands of miles of arterial highways linking important industrial centers...
...This plane has a cruising range of 1,700 miles, as compared with 800 miles for the best pursuit craft now in service, and a speed of 400 miles an hour as contrasted with a top speed of 360 miles for European fighter craft.' This is important to the draftee ior two reasons: American aircraft will win or lose the war for Britain...
...Although his owi*»discussion is less exciting than formal, and rather matter-of-fact than lively, there, is justification in the fact that the drama itself has g?own more serious, in accord with the age...
...The final proof that Marcantonio is an agent of the Communists is offered by the fact that in addition to being the darling of the Daily Worker, official organ of the Communist Party, and a speaker at most Communist demonstrations of any size, as well as a faithful follower of the party's political program in all its zigzags, he is also the president of the International Labor Defense...
...in Amrican history, has put them on trial before every hamlet, every city which will send some of its young men to camps...
...Then—if it be not a mere potboiler or sentimental slopwork— we may discern that the morality in the play, which we hare accepted, is not that of dai'y life, but involves an exposure «f ess* or a frankness or intellectual honesty most persons da Jjft diet, this side the footlights...
...But I have not the slightest respect for persons like Marcantonio who change their political views as easily and as often as they do their shirts...
...f Every employer-member was compelled to sign a pledge that he would never recognize a bona-fide union...
...Marcantonio is no exception...
...He was glad to learn that during his possible year of army life . the ¦ ----------government would attempt to wipe out the snobbish officers, the court martialing-, the long days of close-order drill, the tough top sergeants, all of which made such excellent material for Hollywood scenario men and the post-war crop of authors before them...
...This is the second mass meeting sponsored by the New York Chapter of the William Allen White Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies to be held on the lower east side...
...He' startti^ * in the tobacco business and, when that failed, fousel's|JP* in the literature business...
...When this open intimidation of workers failed, the employers went ahead and formed a new : crop of anti-labor organizations...
...It is encouraging to find Krulch's provocative volume ending with a discussion of Maxwell Anderson and poetic drama...
...Abraham Ca h a n, Editor of the Jewish Daily Fes-ward...
...Marcantonio has let it be known that he wants only Communist watchers at the polls in his district, watchers Selected by the county committee controlled by the Communists...
...It is hardly an exaggeration to say that Self-Portrait is the story of a man who has eajieBeOTP nothing because he has understood nothing...
...George Gallup estimates that both minority party candidates will receive approximately the same totals as they did in 1936...
...The Gallants begging our gunners for a mouthful «¦* fJBK, tbey marched by the pits into action beyond Lone T»as# *|2r not the nfind to perceive that possibly Wells was being a*""* vicious nor funny...
...It would be more proper for him to call himself an Italian-Russian than an Italian-American...
...The World War, the years «f doubt and disorder which followed it, the Second WorM'^y all these tremendous facts have left him unchanged and unshaken...
...Of any successful plajwrijjntT LATER .Krutch tells us "What Price Glory" helped to change the moral attitude—what more could any "revolutionary" play hope to do ? And although he declares the drama "peculiarly fitted" to exploring emotional possibilities within the accepted codes, Krutch tells us that the value of O'Neill is that he probes to the moral ultimates...
...In the latter ' the CP...
...Army officials know that the Selective Service Act, first peacetime draft...
...Marcantonio represents neither the Labor Party nor any loyal American citizens of Italian decent...
...Toward school and library construction...
...Marcantonio says he is sure to win the election by a large plurality...
...Marcantonio won the A.L.P...
...The most earnest analysis of the volume is accorded the works of Eugene O'Neill, which Krutch acutely declares possess tragic themes but do not lift with tragic language...
...Employers who refused to join voluntarily were forced to do so under threats that their products would' be blacklisted...
...Nor are the registrants comfortable over the thought that the United States is doing little to prevent Mexico from selling tons of scrap to the Nipponese to aid Tokyo get around our embargo...
...An example is the pursuit plane being built, by the United Aircraft Corporation, which is described by anny men as "the fastest u» the world...
...He should be driven from Congress and from public life as a blot upon decent citizenship and an enemy of organized labor and democratic institutions...
...Washington permitted U. S. exporters to sell 199,969' barrels of gasoline to Japan in June, July, and August, 1940, compared with 28,225 barrels, according to "the Department" of Commerce...
...Among other activities were the use of billboard advertising along the roads • * -'CP on Ballot in 22 States, Fails to File in 10, Rejected in 13...
...The votes are not counted yet...
...Drama, he declares, is "peculiarly fitted" for the first of these...
...The Communist Party never puts at the head of any of its affiliates a person in whom it does not have absolute trust...
...Even some scrap and iron find their way into Tokyo...
...E. P. Dutton and Company...
...While it was expected that both the Socialist Party and the Communist Party would not be able to place in the South, or in some of the sparser agricultural and lumber states, failure in states like Ohio, Illinois and Indiana are distinct surprises...
...West Virginia, Utah, Kentucky, Kansas and Indiana, where there were insufficient signatures , or an inability to meet other legal 'provisions...
...Having lost all vestige of honor, and knowing the contempt which all decent citizens and true friends of labor and democracy feel for them, the Communists resort to the trick of denying their true character in order thus to pursue their nefarious purposes...
...This is tiie or-ganizati^r...
...The meeting is open to the public and admission is free...
...In a single walkout involving a motor freight line, the agency, run by Glen C. Bodell," was paid $91,000 for its service, the report said...
...MarcantonioVpacifism," for example, is an exact replica of Moscow's...
...Thomas on in 30 By JOHN DONNE Special to The New Leader WASHINGTON, D. C—A survey undertaken by this New Leader correspondent indicates that the Communist Party will not appear on the presidential ballot in more than 25 states ojt} November 5. The Socialist Party, with Norman Thomas running for the fourth time, will appear on the ballot in about 30 states...
...Marcantonio persists in his denials that he is an agent, of the Communist Party...
...Harlem Urged to Rid Congress Of Stalinite by Beating Marcantonio By LUIGI ANTONINI In a statement issued this week, Luigi Antonini, state chairman of the American Labor Party, called upon Laborites and all honest liberals and progressives in Harlem to unite against Vito Marcantonio and t6 defeat him for reelection to Congress.—Editor's Note...
...New York...
...COMEDY is swiftly traced from the bedroom farce of e^lejea-tion ("Getting Gertie's Garter...
...2.50...
...If the book isT BSJMS> ing at all, it is interesting as offering an example of the type intelligence which British culture at its worst can prednesyjjyjfc' derir.g, blind, insensitive, and immensely self-satisfied, Gflsert Frankau has lived through some of the most shattering IWIx history without receiving a scratch...
...Among its results was the formation of a group known as the: "Neutral Thousands," an organization which carried on work among housewives, blaming unions for high prices, and the Employees' Advisory Service, which organized dummy unions when a real union was being formed among employees...
...Up in Mabel's Rooa"j^ the rapid-fire stir of George Abbott (as co-author, director sad producer) and the wise-crack rousings of George Kaufman, whose "shorthand reference to facts or attitudes calculated to abash or annihilate the victim" is apexed in this season's triumph jrf insults, "The Man Who Came to Dinner...
...While less confident than Krutch of the soaring of Anderson's diction, I can agree with him that, in fields far wider than the theatre, in the life it mirrors and the guests of the human spirit, while then ¦ poetry there is hope...
...The Communist Party will appear on the ballot in Alabama, California, Connecticut, Colorado, Iowa, Idaho, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Michigan, Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, New Mexico, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas, Vermont, Virginia and Wisconsin...
...He goes to Stalinist meetings in the morning and to religious processions, with taper in hand, in the evening...
...There have been museums and parks, playgrounds and schools...
...In ten states, the Communists made no effort to file...
...I have the highest respect for political adversaries who are sincere and politically honest...
...But the examples reveal a confusion...
...AftSf he writes with triumphant obtuseness, "I had seen wfif...
...The average chap who walked up to the local board knew he was signing up for serious business, whether he was called or not...
...The Merchants and Manufacturers Association of Los Angeles, notorious foe of organized labor, was the spearhead of the drive...
...Books and Writers Through Critical Eyes By JOSEPH T. SHIPLY THE keen though slightly melancholic eye of the drama critic of The Nation has for some years been gazing upon oar theatre-in this volume Krutch collects and conveys his impressions si tilt twenty most exciting years in the American theatre...
...In thirteen states, the Communists were denied places on the ballot mainly because of insufficient signatures or failure to comply with statutory provisions, although in Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Tennessee and Washington they were barred on *he grounds that the Communist Party favored the overthrow of the government...
...An average of about 100,000 persons voluntarily leave the WPA every' month, most of them to take p r i v ate employment...
...Yeats, Sassoon, Graves, and Chesterton have sat a hi»* standard for those who wish to follow them...
...At present there are about 1,700,000 on the rolls...
...The elements who are doing the intimidating are the G.P.U...
...This is almost one out of every five American workers in business and industry...
...New or improved schools of all types from small rural buildings to colleges and universities have been erected in almost every section of every state in the union as well as the territories...
...It ran a scab employment agency through which it supplied workers antagonistic to unions...
...Norman Thomas tallied about 250,000 votes . The Socialist arm and torch emblem will not be seen by voters in eighteen states . Lack of party organization or rigid state provisions led to the filing of insufficient signatures in most of these states—Oregon, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, South Dakota, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Maine, Vermont, Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, Rhode .Island and New Hampshire...
...although we often recognise that the prevailing code demands his death, we are the more led to challenge the code...
...Ohio, because of insufficient signatures...
...Over a billion dollars worth of new and improved schools built with the aid of PWA funds have brought America's educational facilities to the highest level in the nation's history...
...LOS ANGELES, Calif.—A bizarre set-up, whereby an employers association became a super-vigilante organization forcing other employers into union-breaking schemes and held "kangaroo courts" for recalcitrant members, was revealed this week by the National Labor Relations Board after a seven-months investigation...
...and Benjsmin Gebiner, Assistant General Secretary of the Workmen's Circle...
...Tbey should be dismissed as bad workmanship...
...American aviation gasoline has been embargoed, but ordinary oil, which according to experts is better than anything the Jap refinery industry produces, is delivered regularly by tankers recently out of our West Coast cities...
...Marcantonio stops at nothing to gain votes...
...If the draft directors expect good win for their "project" the government will have to act' fast in locking American borders to Japan...
...oil and gasoline to move steadilyinto Japan...
...One sure way of detecting a Communist stooge like Marcantonio is to watch him change his "line" every time the Communists * change theirs...
...At this writing Earl Browder's name will appear on 22 state ballots...
...The Unseeing Observer By ROBERT S. WARSHOW rT*0 write a good autobiography, one must first be a witenstt * Significant experiences are not simple things, and they cannot be described merely by saying "I did this," "This thing hajwajsir The man who desires to interest others in the story of his life mult be unusually aware of the world in which it has been Used and unusually sensitive to the quality of his experiences...
...Cardenas has just granted a Japanese controlled oil corporation, the Veracrusana Petroleum Company, a five-year contract for the exploration and exploitation of 250,000 oil acres in the State of Veracruz...
...THE AMERICAN DRAMA SINCE A918...
...then they are damned as social criticism...
...Frankau si grant now that the remark may have been made in J***'-jr\«fr time, he thought it a piece of unmitigated viciousness...
...PWA has made direct grants of $481,526,508 and repayable loans of $93,106,070...
...August Ciaessens...
...SELF-PORTRAIT, A NOVEL OF HIS OWN LIFW", Frankau...
...E. W. Clark states that in seven years PWA has aided in the construction or improvement of 12,-700 educational buildings, including 113 public libraries, at a total cost of 81,182.397,133...
...and if America fights it will afford the American soldier the belt aerial protection any anti-Hitler force has yet had...
...The speaker at this rally will include: Ludwig Lore, N. Y. Post columnist...
...Many of these projects are vital factors in national defense programs...
...The autobiographer must fi« his reader a sense of logical development and of form...
...reactionary by reflex rather than conviction, B«t^PBnr what he was for and what he was against or why, bot •Wj**^ ingly consistent in a lifelong ignorance of the realities it into which he was born...
...v?t|±v H. G. Wells said to Frankau during the last war that it M perfectly all right to smash the German Empire so long >*u" British Empire was smashed along with it...
...Educational projects in the PWA programs have added 59,600 class rooms to the nation's supply, accommodations for 2,400,000 students...
...Random House...
...But is not precisely the same fact true of the "revolutionary" Shaw...
...In California, a bill passed by the state legislature with only three dissenting votes, and signed by Governor Olson, bars the Communist Party from the ballot in 1941...
...The main function of the association was to break unions and crush strikes...
...That is the peesJsW we pay for living in an age whose most powerful dramatist cannot rise above prose...
...practices conscription of its own people, but opposes conscription in the United States...
...But social criticism in the theatre lysJyXnjff, and he warns "the artist who confuses artistic seriousness with seriousness of any other kind...
...Chief of these was the "Southern Califomians, Inc.," which was the center of a huge slush fund for propaganda drives against the union...
...If a strike broke out, a detective agency under contract to the Merchants and Manufacturers Association supplied strikebreakers and guards to smash the strike...
...nomination for the House of Representatives in the last primary election with the aid of Communists who have colonized Harlem under the direction of the Communist Party in order to help keep him, a Stalinist agent, in Washington...
...He may be sure that we will do our best to have i.'.e poiiing places watched ny the proper authorities—city, state and federal—because the nation is interested in keeping a close eye upon Moscow's agents, whether in Harlem or elsewhere...
...This is quite in line with Communist tactics...
...He is a political harebrala was has gone so low as to flirt with fascism, and, if he is now fa* agony of repentance for that error, it is not because he has **f~ stood fascism but because the fascists have had the impertinence to start shooting at the British Empire...
...A recent sampling by Dr...
...Comedy is subtler...
...v '« This problem, indeed, opens the volume, as Krutch distinguishes between the "classical" play, which borrows its morality from the audience, and the "revolutionary" play, which thrusts a new morality over the footlights...
...What can victory mean to a man who is always ready to barter his ideals and willing to enter into any compromise ? After the defeat at the battle of Pavia, Francis I of France, sent a message to his mother, saying: "All is lost save honor...
...These are South Carolina, Florida, Delaware, Louisiana, North Carolina and Oklahoma in the south, and Wyoming, Nebraska, and Nevada...
...Ohio has been the scene of many turbulent labor battles and the Communists and to a lesser extent the Socialists boasted of their membership and influence there...
...This is precisely what he has done with loyal consistency...
...It can no longer be considered propaganda, it's a matter of record...
...aii 71 Trans is when the plays are well wrought If they axe poorly * made, they may seem to hammer at an ethical point, or pitas » politic issue...
...There is one registrant in 1,000 who would back a pact with Moscow, now being discussed by Under-Secretary of State Sumner Welles, and the ex-G.P.U...
...His bookl are tab* rate and his mind is third-rate...
...In thousands of cases investigated exhaus-ively by the WPA where charges have been made that WPA workers would not accept private jobs, less than 19i of these charges have been substantiated...
...You never heard him opposing conscription in Russia...
...He has been repudiated by the American Labor Party as not representing the sentiments of the overwhelming majority of the party's voters and members...
...25 A mass meeting to defend America by Aiding the Allies will be held in Hennington Hall, at 214 E. 2 St., Manhattan, between Ave...
...As can be seen, these are many of the states where the Communist ticket also will not appear...
...In the event Marcantonio wins the election, he will be justified in sending a message to Earl Browder: "Nothing is lost save honor...
...In three states, Maryland, Mis--, sissippi and Missouri, the party status is in doubt...
...This will be done with or without Marcan-tonio's consent...
...With Philip Barry and S. N. Behrman, however—incidentally delivering to the former his«anost powerful body-blows—•Knap moves to the drama of social c^ticism, turning to the soap-taw plays of Clifford Odets, after a lengthy funeral ovation over Elmer Rice, who this season" must have surprised the critic with ha hearty resurrection...
...we accept the moral standard of the play and with all the rest laugh at the victim...
...If Finland tries to defend itself, Marcantonio cries, as do the Communists, that it is obeying the dictates of imperialist warmongers...
...Among these are the WPA-built airports at New York, Cleveland and Los Angeles...
...agents who are active in his behalf.| All I am doing as state chairman of the American Labor Party and as a loyal American citizen is to appeal to the voters of Harlem to exercise their constitutional right of voting Marcantonio out of office as a Communist tool...
...In the past five years over 8,000,000 persons have worked on WPA...
...When Moscow is "pacifist," so is Marcantonio...
...He voted against the conscription law .because he obeys Stalin's orders...
...But when Moscow says it is pursuing a policy of peace in attacking Finland, Marcantonio changes his line accordingly...
...Five barrels will run a plane a day, and none of the lads cherishes being blown to bitt by bombs from a plane being fueled with Texas oil...
...Aid Allies Group Holds J-gt Side Rally Oct...
...All good art is revolutionary, radical, rousing us to our best . Tragedy presses us in sympathy with the victim, against the dominant spirit, the ruling code, of the time...
...It seems, on the other hand, a bit antiquated (and ua-necessary) to quote Aristotle - as authority for removing jy Green's folk plays from the tragic realm...
...Reporting to Federal Works Administrator John M. Carmody, Public Works Commissioner, Col...
...finger man, Soviet Ambassador Constantine Oumansky...
...In 1936, Earl Browder polled 80,000 votes, the hammer and sickle appearing in thirty-five states...
...About 6,300,000 have left the projects—surely that is not "freezing the load" as some circles have maintained...
...It set up a flock of disguised "trade associations" in all lines of business and industry...
...Those rejected by the social system have found their capacities utilized by the government...
...Draftees Voice Resentment Only at American Industrialists Still Selling Oil and Iron to Japan By EDWARD LORING Special to The New Leader WASHINGTON, D. C.—This correspondent has just left his local draft registration office, where with scores of other men, he queued up, waiting for the little white card which indicates the bearer is a potential shavetail...
...Oregon where an insufficient number appeared for a state convention...
...What Price C-tay," says Krutch, is "classical," for its code is "ah-eady at least developing in the minds of a potential public large enough to make the pUy a conspicuous financial success...
...He has '¦•^•^JfJ at his writing, he has hobnobbed with at least the lowarr*a» the haut monde, and doubtless he can depend on the dsftwetwe of most women's literary dubs...
...In its financial preoccupation, his tive has the flavor of a Horatio Alger story...
...He consorts with all and sundry to attain advantage, with Catholics and atheists, with fascists and antifascists, with democrats and to-talitarians...
...Like his admired BffB who seems to have given him his ideas without doing much i* his literary style, he is a worshipper of the empire and 9rjK' erant and entirely unperceptive hater of its enemies...
...was ruled off the ballot i with a court appeal pending...
...Marcantonio accuses me of trying to intimidate the voters of Harlem...
...He lies...
...B and C, on Friday evening, October 25...
...Modern England has produced some fine autobiograplfcial writ-ing...
...U. S. Exposes Anti-Union Drive in Calif...
...Marcantonio having been chosen for the job of president of the International Labor Defense, the conclusion is inescapable that he is the trusted lackey of the Communists...
...He must be capable of conveying that quality to his T&i0& and he must at the same time be able to relate each incident to the whole...
...So does Marcantonio...
...Facts are not enough...
...we are comfortably on the side of the winner...
...If he complied with, the Wagner Act and dealt with the union, he was subject to a "trial," with penalties running to 2 per cent of his sales for a year, but not less than ?10,000...
...Aside from that, he has not much to shew...
...founded, directed ami jealously supervised by the Communist Party, which uses it to raise money under the guise of defense of political prisoners and refugees...
...It is 'mainly in the southern and western agrarian states that both minority parties failed of nomination, states where left-wing sentiment is traditionally weak...
...Some critics point out that while 45,000 men volunteered in September, and even more than that number will have volunteered by the end of October, cutting down the number of men who will be' needed in the draft, ' the government is permitting U.S...
...Here is another .proof: the U.S.S.R...
...WPA Built Morale of 8 Millions Special to The New Leader WASHINGTON, D. C. — One of the most persistent and most vicious of the attacks on the New-Deal has been the assertion that the WPA rolls consist of a "bunch of congenital loafers and perpetual reliefers who expect the government to support them for the rest of their lives...
...The truth is that there is no difference between "classical" and "revolutionary" comedies, but only between good and bad...
...He just doesn't understand...
...0 > The army public relations counsels, if they go into the hinterland, may find that their work in keeping'the draftees comfortable, so that the folks back home will not complain to Congress, may be neutralized by the resentment felt by the people over their lads being endangered by American fuel and iron...
...Jtf-IW pRANKAU has been a business man alL his life...
...There was no grumbling, no complaining, just talk and an.-incipient resentment against possible deals with the Soviet government and appeasement of Japan...
...What Madrid and Barcelona were to British air strategists, London is now to the United States' high command- If there ever is another A.E J., this country's warplane industry will keep the American soldier well protected from the air, for it is producing craft containing speed and fighting features superior to anything Europe is now showing...
...It leads us with the majority...
...These are the subjects the nation's "youngsters" discussed while* waiting their turn last Wednesday, food, clothes, tents, and barracks came in a poor second And judging from letters this correspondent and his colleagues have received fromBoston, New York, Richmond, Chicago, and Detroit, those who charge America's'youth with being pacifist to the point of appeasing Germany are propagandists or part of a small clique whose world stopped moving in January, 1933...
...An Informal W»-tory, by Joseph Wood Krutch...
...But the 16,000,000 who registered—and the 919,807 armed and trained men now in the active forces or reserves of the United States-7-Were less interested in the High Command's efforts to wipe oat World War abuses than they, were in what was occurring in Europe' and the Far East...
...Executive Secretary of the S.D.F...
...And, JsV.sppjj} Alger's terms, I suppose he has been a success...
...He has been the most jingoistic and most obstinate1 ¦<& *I*BB aries...
...Other states in which tl\e party was barred are Illinois, where the Communists failed to gather at least 200 signatures from each of the states' fifty counties...
...in Mississippi, filing date is October 21st . The American Civil Liberties Union has announced its aid to the Communist Party where the latter was barred as a fifth column organization...
...lfls<j4**-tw» $2.50...
...Chairman of the meeting will be Irwin J. Jaffe, Director of the Trade Onion Division of the Committee to Defend America...
...But even if he should win, what moral value could this victory have for a man who, in order to achieve it, sells his honor as an American citizen by putting himself at the service of the Communists, Moscow's agents in this country...
Vol. 23 • October 1940 • No. 42
