Active Soviet-Nazi Military Action Against Allies Begins
HASTINGS, MALCOLM
Active Soviet-Nazi Military Action Against Allies Begins Third Stage of War to End in Russo-German-Jap Drive on U.S. By MALCOLM HASTINGS Predicting the Stalin-Hitler pact in his book, "The...
...The effects will touch vitally the life interests of the United States...
...Liskin, Rush and Weinberg were originally indicted on December 16, 4939, for serving as agents of Meshkniga, a Boviet organization with headquarters in Moscow...
...The first phase found expression in Hitler's easy conquest of Denmark, Norway, the Low Countries and France by virtue of the fact that, having neutralized the U.S.S.R., he was able to concentrate his main striking force in the west...
...Ivory towerists who attack the' National Mediation Board as a strikebreaking agency, overlook strikes like the Allis-Chalmers walkout, which now can definitely be categorized as a Communist strategem...
...This was learned last week at the trial of Morris Liskin, former president of the recently dissolved Bookniga Corporation, an official Russian propaganda agency in this country...
...In turn, most of these were prolonged unnecessarily for political reasons...
...Stark quotes Edward F. McGrady, War Department labor consultant, to the effect that idleness due to strikes "is on the upgrade rather than the downgrade...
...The, function of this system is to determine ¦which products and materials aie of primary importance, to allot these materials to the firms in need, and to cut down and conserve in non-defense fields...
...Out of the 60 stoppages last week, 21 were called by the AFL, affecting more than 45,500 employes...
...Nobody in Yjjto*" seemed to have wanted the change, Kr°ck recently remarked, except a •J°°P in Congress and the military authorities...
...That alliance is Hitler's great coming stroke...
...Vladivostok is today a powerful naval base in control of the Germans...
...This tendency became more apparent this week when it was learned that the Socialist Party and the America First Committee, were exchanging speakers and membership lists...
...These include the coal and Ford stoppages...
...The National Mediation Service has no original powers and must wait for the Secretary of Labor to dole out disputes...
...Soviet aviators, acting as "volunteers," are already helping the Nazis against the British in that country, while German troops and material are carried across the Black Sea from Romanian to Russian ports in the Caucasus for transhipment to Iraq via Iran...
...Spain, too, may be expected before long to become part of the Axis coalition against the Anglo-Saxon democracies...
...And Madame Perkins has her own brand of labor psychology: * As a result of management-labor disputes, the first break in the year-long rise of industrial output in this country is occurring—or rather has been noticeable since April—according to the Department of Commerce...
...This is how Moscow is making good on the hopes of all those in official and unofficial circles in the democratic countries who have clung stubbornly to a policy of trying to appease Hitler's ally in the Kremlin...
...Very soon they will be called upon to admit whether the world shall be ruled from Berlin...
...Leading this drive is Norman Thomas who is considered one of the most valuable men in the isolationists' speakers battery...
...Four-fifths of these were called by CIO...
...The illusion would not subside to the very last moment before Hitler's sweep into the Balkans...
...But whence can strong Federal intervention come when the Conciliation Service, the Labor Section of the Office of Production Manage* ment and the other services are confused as t$ their jurisdiction...
...Liskin, who is to be tried along, with jUphael Rush and Norman Weinberg, both American citizens, told the court through his attorney' that he had entered into the agreement with the Department of Justice on the promise that he would not have to face trial -jf he would confess...
...New Strike Wave Rising as Gov't Sta 11s on Mediation By EDWARD LORING Speciel to The New Leader WASHINGTON, D. C.-^Iust as the nation appeared to be settling down for uninterrupted and concentrated wat„production, it was hit by the most crippling series of strikes which have yet been encountered during the Uatt> gency...
...The remainder in savings and amusement...
...He then proceeded to recognize the pro-Nazi government of Iraq...
...Bernard Baruch, who was chairman of the War Industries Board in 1917-1919, has called the priorities system the "synchronizing force...
...Some of them professed to see in this and in the Russo-Japanese non-aggression pact signs of a cleavage between Moscoy and Berlin...
...The second phase of the alliance was marked by the Nazi conquest of the Balkans...
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...The Socialist Party's front, the Keep America Out of War Congress, is actively cooperating with America First, with Republican leaders, Charles Lindbergh, personalities who have been frequently associated with the Communist apparatus, and leaders of the anti-labor bloc in the Senate...
...Tries To Free Red Agent In Soviet Deal WASHINGTON, D. O—More than 300 German and Italian aliens have been rounded up by the Department of Justice in its efforts to dean the nation of potential spies and saboteurs, tot until late this week there was little intimation that Attorney General Jackson would order the mopping up of Soviet agents in this jonntry, many of whom have failed to register in accordance with the Foreign Agents Registration Act Instead there is evidence that the Department of Justice has entered into some sort of deal with representatives, diplomatic or otherwise, of the Soviet Union...
...This is not the first time a deal was made between Federal officials and Soviet agents...
...Here the corporations were guilty...
...Even after Nazi Germany stood victorious on the shores of the Aegean, and with the official accession of Stalin to the Soviet premiership, the illusionsts in London and Washington would not give up...
...Miss King is ¦wf attorney for Harry Bridges, in the San ftancisco deportation hearings...
...Benjamin Marsh, who has been mailing pro-Soviet literature...
...Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Thomas's leading proponent in Washington...
...The Keep America Out of War Congress, with which is affiliated the Fellowshp of Reconciliation, the National Council for Prevention of War, the War Resisters League, Youth Committee Against War, and Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, will receive national publicity next week when it opens its National Anti-War Congress in Washington...
...This was the belief also of many wishful-thinkers and illusionists who could not rid themselves of the belief that somehow, at some point, Stalin would yet be drawn into action against Germany...
...Joe McWilliams' Christian Mobilizers and the fascist Paul Revere Sentinels are distributing blocs of tickets for the Garden rally...
...Infractions are punishable by two T*n imprisonment and fines up to $2,000...
...This would mean a shutdown in the production of automobiles, radios, phonographs, and similar products which use tremendous quantities of steel, rubber, aluminum and other needed war products...
...Vichy has finally been enlisted in the program...
...American First Uses Socialists To Cover Up Pro-Nazi Supporters Cooperation among isolationists, ranging politically-from outspoken pro-German 'groups'to the Socialist party, indicated this week that the "pacifist" pattern in this country is following that of pre-Vichy France where the Paul Faure socialists slowly found themselves working with men fronting for German agent, Otto Abetz...
...A strong centralized government mediation service would be in a position to stop walkouts such as hit the coal industry and the Ford plants recently...
...long years of tenure have reached key posts in House committees...
...The- struggle for control of priorities—of which the -Cox amendment was only an entering phase—emphasizes the crucial nature of this division...
...Tke...
...The consequences of collaboration between Vichy and Nazi Germany and of the impending collaboration of Spain with the Axis will become apparent before very long in North Africa, the Western Mediterranean and in the Atlantic...
...Companies feared expansion—this was the case in aluminum, and it is now apparent...
...In the latter union Stalinist control is so entrenched, there are now reports that the pubic will soon hear of a knock-down fight there between James Carey, anti-Communist president, and the Communnst bloc...
...Thomas is lionized both in New York and Washington by conservative political elements for he is one of the few pacifists who is anti-fascist per se...
...Senator Arthur Capper, who has been endorsng George Seldes' In Fact...
...During the past week observers counted fifty strikes, the largest number since the beginning of the preparedness program began...
...Stalin has also concentrated troops on the Russo-Turkish border to help make certain that Turkey will not resist Germany's plans for an advance through Syria or even across Turkey to the Mosul oil fields and Suez...
...Lack of coordination among the five agencies charged with settling labor disputes has permitted employer-sitdowns and exploitation by those union chiefs who are determined to slow production on all projects turning out aid to the British...
...And beyond Iran lies Afghanistan and, then, India...
...This unity was not affected by the appearance last week of Father Edward Lodge Curran on the speakers platform of an America First mass meeting in Brooklyn...
...The only difference in the Balkan instance was that Moscow received its compensation before, not after the event...
...j*6**" Rayburn later remarked: "It wa.s.put 5** J*«e the House was asleep...
...The battle for control of the defense machinery will be intensified .shortly...
...The defendants had organ-hied the Bookniga Corporation in New York State "for the sale and distribution in the United States of America of books, magazines, periodicals and pamphlets of a political and propagandist nature, and for political and propaganda purposes...
...One of Stalin's first acts as premier, to which post he promoted himself on Hitler's suggestion, was to recognize Germany's conquests of Belgium, Yugoslavia and Norway...
...Soae months ago Mikhail Gorin, 8 Russian spy ico had been sentenced to six years in jail and foed $iO,000 for buying United States naval seeits, was freed so that he could return to NHL The Soviet government paid his fine...
...And in proportion as the question becomes acute, our ap-peasers in Washington will discover that America is vitally and directly affected by Stain's position, as determined both by the Stalin-Hit-^ler pact and the Moscow-Tokyo non-aggression treaty...
...Even so astute a statesman as Winston Churcbjfr believed In Ortuber, !»59, that Stalin was acting as a brake upon Hitler's expansion in Eastern Europe and would stop him in the Balkans...
...Middle Asia is to be the additional "lebens-raum" allotted to Stalin, in accordance with the pact signed with Hitler in August, 1939, and confirmed with clearer understanding as to detail on^ the occason of Molotov's visit to Berlin on November 14, 1939...
...Senator D. Worth Clark, who at one time cooperated with the American Peace Mobilization...
...The two men returned to Russia...
...The Stalin-Hitler combination bids fair to transform the world...
...As compensation for his "benevolent neutrality," Stalin received a large slice of Poland, the Baltic States and a strategically important part of Finland...
...Bookings was dissolved in April...
...To help Germany in her campaign against Britain in the Middle East...
...Tory Attempt to Shift Factory Control from New Dealers Fails By MURRAY EVERETT New Leader Washington Research Bureau WASHINGTON, D. C.—The administration fa...
...i Some Washington circles believe that a postponement was asked by defense counsel to gain ¦fflcient time for Carol King to come to Wash-ington as Liskin's chief counsel...
...Congressional group is, in the main, the rJWnfni bloc of poll-tax Tory (^ngresamen "»*> thttfcgh...
...Senator Charles W. Tobey of New Hampshire, one of the Senates leading Tories and now notorious for his cooperation with the pro-fascist Cardinal O'Con-nell of Boston...
...Last week in Chicago, JUaynard Krueger, Norman Thomas' 1940 running mate, addressed the Hyde Park chapter of the America First Committee...
...Some of these were entirely unjustified, some like the Colt walkout were justified but have fallen into the jurisdiction of the Communist-dominated Electrical and Radio Workers CIO...
...Only 29 have registered...
...Among the Congress' speakers and sponsors are Kathryn Lewis, veteran fellow traveler...
...Priorities, essentially, are a result of the desire for business as usual...
...When the indictments were returned they included Book-Ufa, Inc., and Boris Nikolsky and I. A. Ilyian, both soviet nationals, according to a New York Tunes report...
...This is the official literary agency of the Soviet government...
...Strong government action could stop this walkout...
...As crises increase, and defense is speeded, it becomes the supreme organizing force of the nation's industrial life...
...Responsibility for many of thepe stoppages can be about evenly divided among the employers, the Communist and the government...
...It was a combination of these two forces which beat back the Cox amendment in the Senate, forced it into conference, and through Senate pressure forced the conference committee to finally eliminate the measure...
...a crisis in Congress late this week when * Senate-House conference committee dropped won, the Vinson priorities bill the Cox amend-•entF which would have created a priorities **«ncy separate from the OPM, place it under 5™«8Tessional control and subject it to the veto tJ* Joint ArmV and Navy Munitions Board...
...Since control of priorities is tantamount to power over the nation's industrial life, this group sought to lodge this power in Congress...
...But these purchases are of commodities available in large surpluses, and therefore, are not an impetus to price inflation...
...Yes, Rauschninp was right...
...We wonder how much longer the United Stated proposes to waft before embarking upon a course of action adequate to meet the situation...
...and Bertram D. Wolfe...
...Gustave Holstrom, New York City Secretary of the Keep America Out oi War Congress, was seated prominently on the Manhattan Center platform when Lindbergh made his first speech here recently...
...From New York comes news that the coal opeiators' intransigeance may force the miners out again...
...that most foreign agents have failed to register, waiting for some court action to set precedent on how drastically the government iwjld deal with them if they were discovered...
...At the same time these groups announced tnat they had changed their regnlar Friday night meeting to another evening to avoid conflict with the larger rally...
...the Tory Senator Hendrik Shipstead, who has voted against every New Deal measure proposed during the past six years...
...This is ft».first test of the law which was passed on Jtoe 8, 1938...
...Ths is how Stalin is putting into effect Mr...
...On tifning the release Order the federal judge fitthat he did so reluctantly but felt duty Mn.do so since the State Department had oawfcrequested the action...
...This would badly cripple defense, which is already short of fuel...
...But they have not succeeded, for within America First are elements consciously cooperating with the openly pro-Nazi organizations...
...29 were called by CIO, making 74,500 idle...
...All these forces, with Christian Front elements quietly working alongside, are cooperating to make this Friday night's Madison Square Garden mass meeting an imposing isolationist rally against further aid to Britain...
...In exchange for Soviet desertion of the Balkan peoples, who, like the French, had fervently looked to Moscow f >r support, and for the pressure brought by Moscow upon Turkey to desist from coming to the aid of Greece and Yugoslavia, Stalin was permitted to occupy Bessarabia and Northern Bucowina...
...Churchill's idea of a Soviet brake upon Hitler...
...There is a concerted effort on the part of the Socialists to paint Charles A. Lindbergh as a sincere and objective pacifist...
...Led by men like- Cox of Georgia and Vinson of Kentucky, it opposes the administration...
...Surveys show that since the National Defense Mediation Board was created, more than 6.481,000 man-days have been lost in some 111 strikes...
...Before very long the American people willybe forced by circumstances to decide whether they propose to resist encirclement in the Atlantic and Pacific, or whether they prefer to yield to the "wave of the future" and follow the course of the men of Vichy...
...The firm and the two men pleaded guilty within an hour, the firm and Nikolsky being each fined $1,000 while Ilyian was fined $500...
...This not only means tha role of Hopkins as head of the Office of Emergency Management, and Leon Henderson to head the Office of Price Administration, but the role of younger men such as John Sullivan guiding tax policy, Edward Foley guiding the legal phases of defense, and the host of young men such as Oscar Cox and Philip Ycung, who are aides to Harry Hopkins...
...Rush, Liskin tad Weinberg have been under $6,500 bond...
...Observers believe that • conviction in the Liskin case would bring a ttth of registrations, enabling a more competent surveillance of foreign agents...
...The policy of appeasing Stalin has now suffered an even greater fiasco than Washington's attempts to appease Vichy and the combined attempts of London and Washington to appease Franco's Spain...
...Harry Elmer Barnes, who urged German agents to publish the notorious White Book smear of William C. Bullit...
...In additon, Soviet Russia has been building a string of air bases and fortifications along the cost north of Vladivostok, facing the narrow stretches of water separating North America from Siberia...
...Burton K. Wheeler, who along wth Henry Ford and Colonel McCormick helped launch America First...
...an Allis Chalmers plant employing 95Q^persons was struck...
...It proposed veto power for the Joint Board because it works daily with the military authorities and trusts them more than it does the New Dealers or the businessmen in the dollar a year positions...
...Priorities may be extended not only in plant facilities and raw materials, but also fuel supply, electric energy, transportation'by rail, water, etc., labor, and access to the capital market...
...Liberal economists favor the cutting down of "durable consumption goods" as a means of easing the shortages of materials...
...Justice Letts denied Lukin's appeal for, the quashing of one of the two indictments against him...
...sm/pWashington, correspondents consider "¦sKi/now postponed for three weeks, "one fsWflt will be watched by thousands of propa-,|kndists and other foreign agents operating ft- the United States...
...Of the CIO strikes five were called by Communist unions...
...Parenthetically it may be pointed out that it is this shortage of basic metals and materials which has been responsible for price rises and the threat of inflation, not the wage raises granted to workers.- Department of Labor studies indicate that out of an increase of a dollar in salary, 38 cents will go for more food, 19 cents for better housing, 10 cents for more clothing, and 10 cents in household operation...
...By MALCOLM HASTINGS Predicting the Stalin-Hitler pact in his book, "The Revolution ef Nihilism," Herman Rauschning wrote: "This will be no ordinary coalition between two powers for normal political purposes...
...Liberal critics of those who are advocating the elimination of defense strikes overlook the fact that a strong and duly authorized national mediation service, under the New Deal, would edge its decisions in labor's favor and at the same time save employees millions of dollars in wasted «ages...
...The importance of the case, which Justice Letts has postponed to June 9, derives from the bet...
...The defendant told District Supreme Court Justice F. Dickinson Letts that he "bad reached an understanding with Department of Justice prosecutors, and should not be add...
...Gerald P. Nye...
...For the logic of both treaties commands the involvement of the United States in both oceans and will ultimately, unless Germany is smashed in the meanwhile, bring Russian submarines and bombers into action against us in the North Pacific in the direction of Alaska, while the Japanese strike in the South...
...She was also . fftorney for Earl Browder...
...Soviet troops concentrated on the Iran border are ready to march into the country to receive there Stalin's compensation for his latest acts of assstance to Hitler...
...Germany and Russia, if they come together, will radically transform the world...
...The Congress has been busy, during the past week, helping to get out an audience for Senator Wheeler, Charles Lindbergh and others for this Friday night's rally...
...This alliance, in its practical application, is entering now into its third and most important phase, the phase of active collaboration of Stalin with Hitler in the war...
...startling thing is that the amendment Congressman Eugene Cox of Georgia passed House unanimously about two weeks ago...
...Undoubtedly John T. Flynn and the Socialist isolationists are sincere in their efforts to give the non-interventionist movement and demonstrations an anti-fascist reputation...
...Events have quickly dealt a blow to the latest pipe dreams of the wishful-thinkers...
...The third phase, now begun, will be marked by joint Russo-German action looking toward the dismemberment of the British Empire, and, ultimately toward a joint Russo-German-Japan-ese assault upon the United States...
...that this will be the case in steel—as a result, material for civilian use must be cut down, priorities for war production must be established...
...It would be suicidal in view of the situation in1 the Near East...
...1939, and was succeeded by the Four Continent Book shop, which did not even take the trouble to change its address or window display...
...According to Louis Stark, New York Times Washington labor correspondent, some 9,196,773 man-days have been lost...
...The battle lines were drawn tighter recently when it became apparent that the New Dealers had recaptured the key positions in defense...
...Nor has this united front been disturbed by the fact that for three months the Queens section of America First Committee has been controlled by followers of Father Charles Coughlin...
...Norman Thomas...
Vol. 24 • May 1941 • No. 21
