Federaral Unionists Seek Backing of U.S. Labor for World Federation Drive
STREIT, CLARENCE K.
Federaral Unionists Seek Backing of U.S. Labor for World Federation Drive By CLARENCE K. STREIT Author of "Union Now With Britain" BEFORE the war started, Federal Unionists proposed to prevent it...
...His closest collaborators would welcome the 'ipportunity to doublecross him...
...Hess is the inventor of the concentration camps, it was he who glanned the tortures...
...and there is very little hope of resuming the process of peaceful economic evolution until these wars are ended...
...Stalin, despite his poise,' is the same...
...A small list of those purged includes: Zinoviev...
...The mighty Tsar of all the Russias was in his last days a floundering ruler, completely obsessed with the thought that conspirators were everywhere plotting him doom...
...We Federal Unionists proclaim to the entire world that "national sovereignty" must be discarded forever...
...e Many wondered why the Red Army made such a poor showing against the Finns...
...During Yagoda's regime a special drug department was developed...
...In 1»37, Dr...
...In our generation, nationalism has reached its logical limits...
...When he assaulted his son's wife for wearing only two of the three petticoats required by the "moral code of the time he aroused the Tzarevitch's ire...
...at If one is in a taxonomic frame of mind, most events in ifey ^ easily frame themselves under 8J several broad categories: mili- ei tary, air, and miracles...
...Rudzu-tak, Lettish member of the Political Committee of the Communist j Party of the U.S.S.R...
...Only the corridors of the Kremlin, with their Tsarist grandeur, in whose recesses are kept the secrets of the mighty Tsars who strutted through-them in their temporal glory, can, if they could but talk, eonvey to us what now goes on in the bosom of the Red Ivan, the Terrible...
...The renowned Maxim Litvinov has been given a job as a clerk in the foreign office to read newspapers...
...evolutionary process which has been stopped dead in its tracks hy the present outbreak of war...
...He was shot in the Ogpu prison in Moscow...
...Ivan in his later years suffered from similar hallucinations...
...that the first thing to do is to remove capitalism, and that if capitalism is removed in all nations, we will live in peace and world government will either be easy to establish or will be unnecessary...
...Stalin also rid himself of his early friends and closest associates...
...Ian Gamarnik, Assistant Commissar of War, the leading military technician in Russia, was J reported to have committed suicide...
...The steel is not in him but around him., It is a thin veneer covering a man who rules a great state badly...
...He sometimes was called "Fraeulein Hitler,"- and sometimes "Black Agnes...
...Litvinov's closest associates avoid him like a man with the plague...
...I saw him quite often, mornings and evenings, I never would have offered him my hand, he looked entirely too unfriendly...
...But "Maurice" was just another fellow-traveler of Hitler's, he was one of the participants of the "Storm of the Feldherrenhalle," like Hitler and Hess he was incarcerated in Fort Landsberg...
...To-wards the end of his reign the more he rid himself of plotters the more obsessed he became with the belief that conspirators surrounded him, threatening his life...
...He was the type which is always willing and ready to strike, he belonged to that category of young students who were always there when the time arrived to settle political disputes with beer tankards, not so much by drinking as by hitting...
...The old man Teplied: "Good night, Heir Hess____" • * » THAT happened in 1920...
...Stalin has blotted out the ablest and best informed leaders...
...The death of Gorky followed in June, 1936...
...He is never the master, always the dog, servile, yelping, biting, but always obedient...
...His subjects number millions but few admire or love him...
...But there were many people like that in Munich, many of the native-born had a similar appearance, black and dusty like coal, cross and a bit slouchy...
...Some claim that it was «ncide—others poisoning...
...They are: A. V. Alexander, C. G. Amnion, W. Wedgwood Benn, J.-E...
...Kuibyshev, Vice-President of the Council of Commissars, Stalin's most intimate stooge, died suddenly and mysteriously...
...In less than a^ear the question has changed from one, of preventing the onslaught on democracy to one of preventing democracy's total defeat...
...Just a minute and we're done with them...
...The man from the "Menter-schwaige," who only wanted to obey and never command...
...The Commissariat of Foreign Affairs, which Maxim Litvinov headed, felt the full rigor of the purges...
...Ghosts, the apparations of his countless victims, stalked him in the corridors of the Kremlin...
...S 8 • AND so we propose now that the U.S.A...
...Since representation is proportioned to self-governing population in a Federal Union, the U.S.A...
...This provisional Union would hold the fort while the seven agreed on a permanent constitution...
...it is a practical plan and a necessary plan, as practical and necessary as the American Constitution...
...Over 30,000 officers were either executed, impris- ' oned, sent to concentration camps or disgraced...
...Let's model it on_pur own Constitution, for ©nx Federal -Union is the only system of inter-state government that has ever worked...
...Heils ***e shouted from the throng, there were wavings and sheetings . . . and there was that man with the little Jioatache, beside him the thickly set Streicher, and then 1 nw again the slender young man, Herr Rudolf Hess...
...URING Ivan's regime many were tortured in prison, driven crazy and poisoned...
...The answer is: The evils of the capitalist system are not going to be completely eradicated today or tomorrow, but by a giadual...
...I am confident that the problems of capital and labor can be solved when we have established an international order that secures with reasonable certainty enduring peace...
...Better than any other group in America, labor realizes the economic unity of the modern world," the interdependence of all peoples...
...It is by injection of Federal Unionism in the political life of the world that we can cure it: And this is just what we propose to do: inject Federal Unionism into all the peoples of tjje earth, the idea that their freedom requires their union instead of their unlimited national independence...
...We need men of revolutionary vision, of courage and energy, who measure up to the spirit of 1776 and i787...
...Some people may dis- b pute the miracle classification, j oat some one "was done in" on r Hay 6, 1626, when Peter Minuit f bought Manhattan Island for $24 c worth of beads...
...Needle and Bolt By June 30 of this year, 13 Government agencies, operating 11 different programs, will have trained 3,819,650 Americans in skills ranging from sewing to airplane mechanics...
...CTALJN, like Ivan, bolsters his power by the two attributes com-^ mon to the regime of the Tsar Terrible—terror and conquest...
...You have seen the ad in which a fox terrier listens enthralled to the voice of the little master that comes from the gramophone-horn . . . that is Hess...
...What is our answer...
...He should be sentenced as a war criminal, he,should be taken for what he is, Hitler's creature, who never showed pity and who deserves no pity...
...It applies to its technique the knowledge ofmodern psychology...
...The man had a lean, emaciated face, I observed by the uncertain light of the street lamp that his forehead was low and ended in a sharply defined thick Hne: his bushy eyebrows, completely grown together, his t*eth protruded a little...
...And Haile Selassie re- v capturing his throne in May, ° 1941, has occasion to remember ° itay 5, 1936, when Addid Ababa «• * . I Under the head of miracles t well throw into the bin the birth of the Dionne quintuplets on the " 28th of this month, 1934, and t the Johnstown flood on the 31st, in-1889...
...Reports indicate that Stalin is beginning to show the wear of yearij-He and Hitler are the best guarded men in Europe...
...It was the stormy forenoon of the 9th of November...
...The Ogpu combed every nook for victims...
...The more our freedom has grown, the more interdependent we have become and the more we need union with more men under equal laws democratically legislated...
...And we proposed to make their gigantic Union still stronger by admitting outside states—just as our Congress admits new states—until it gradually became a Union of all the world...
...Rykov, who succeeded Lenin as Premier of Russia...
...It would set up .a provisional Federal Union government—an Inter-Continental Congress—on this side of the Atlantic, and give the same guarantee against a separate peace...
...In it they proclaimed their free principles and'their establishment of a common government—the Continental Congress—to defend them...
...A few minutes later the shooting and shouting began -**mre the "Feldherrenhalle" (Commander's Hall), single HFjl >nd whole volleys crashed through the air . . . the jjfttle of the Feldherrenhalle" was on, the Nazis were J™* repulsed, Hitler had to flee...
...It has turned against both society and the individual...
...Ivan the Terrible before he died had married five times...
...We don't know g who was happier...
...We said: "Let's organize government between nations the American way...
...When the son reproached his father, Ivan in that moment suspected even his son...
...Lominadze, his confidential adviser and friend, after being disgraced and exiled— a "suicide," Yenukidze, Stalin's boyhood pal and confidant, for many years head of the Control Committee of the party, a member of the Political Committee and for fifteen years chief of heavy industry, killed after his assistant, Pyatakov, the ablest man in i Russian industry, was executed...
...For a score of years he has been as guilty as the rest of them, he is responsible for the killing of the Jews, the murders of countless workers...
...Tie other died suddenly on Nov...
...They first signed a common Declaration...
...Using the same scientific method, we discover that the major ills of the world today are caused by a germ which we can best describe Ss "absolute nationalism...
...It is generally known in Russian circles that Gorky insisted on being allowed to leave Russia for his health...
...Wars anil economic depressions that follow them have always been setbacks in social and economic advancement...
...The people would give the new Union government only the duties that can best be performed by such a Union, for the common welfare and defense—leaving the present governments in other respects just as they are...
...I had entered the little bodega to speak with my friend, the waiter, to pass the time of day...
...Leaders of the party, governors of provinces, commissars of every branch of the government including writers, teachers, professors, historians, scientists, professional men, actors, movie stars and stage and motion picture directors were caught in the net like so many poor and helpless fish...
...But men are even more deeply torn into enemy camps by political dogma of nationalism...
...In these arts Stalin's Ogpu does not pray second fiddle...
...ME never did anything of his own volition, the "supe-" * rior" was the God who decided...
...Three years later Stalin blamed Yagoda, the head of the Ogpu for Kirov's murder...
...The times in which we live are revolutionary' times...
...Of the outstanding members of the Political Committee which ruled Russia together with Lenin only Stalin is alive...
...There are five powers which could be transferred to a Union government with great benefits to the individual citizen's safety, prosperity and freedom...
...And now, house-dog Hess has allegedly become a free, wild animal...
...Several of his wives were banished to convents, others he poisoned...
...one of Stalin's closest associates...
...He trusts no one, not even his closest associates...
...National sovereignty" is the basic cause of tariff wars, of exchange difficulties, of economic and military warfare...
...The thought always uppermost in his mind is that hia political death is but the precursor of his physical end before a firing squad or in ithe dungeon of an Ogpu prison...
...The sycophants inside and outside of Russia will sing his praises, will flatter his ego and acclaim his wisdom as long as he lives and holds on to his power...
...National sovereignty" is the root of world anarchy and of world chaos...
...He soon found this "God" in the painter from Braunau, and from the very first day this chap Hess lost his personality in that of the master...
...Stalin feared that once abroad Gorky would campaign against his terror and initiate a movement on behalf of its victims...
...g • And one last happy thought, 1 the struggle of thirteen states to J become a nation, started—successfully—on Wednesday, May it, 1787, when the First Constitutional Convention opened...
...An evening in January, in Munich, dark, snowy, cold...
...He is no '"hero," but the servant of Hitler...
...One has but to watch Stalin at close range to discover behind the pallor of his pock-marked skin, a cynic whose cynicism is .devoid of all compassion and contempts ons of mankind...
...j*e ma reed along, keeping up the step, he was one of the «»ri-gang, a loyal follower of the "Fuehrer...
...Now, p. continued stress on points of difference between nations can only keep mankind divided and make for greater misunderstanding, quarrels, wars...
...When he drives from tiejSmlin to his Moscow villas the roads are cleared of all per-aawnu traffic...
...He is a ruler who has the power to rule but exercises no authority...
...That morn-Wi the peaceful citizens had suddenly been torn from their political twilight sleep, the papers pronounced in shrieking headlines: "National Government formed under Hitler...
...We pointed out that these 15 needed only to unite to become so powerful that all of them would be secure...
...Three years later I was stand-ing in the little wine "Stube" in the Theatiner Street, »»d the waiter looked worriedly out on the street...
...And then came the procession, a closed Wop of Nazis, marching slowly, almost solemnly...
...It can only be hoped that the Britain will treat him accordingly...
...S Your grandfather may recall *J' the btood-and-thunder headline % excitement of Dewey's victory on Hay 1 at Manila Bay in 1898, bat you'll have to go to the his- u tory books to recapture the flavor * of Ethan Allan's capture of Fort » Tieonderoga on May :J0, 1775...
...Immediately following the assassination, 117 persons were executed, among them 12 heads of the Leningrad police...
...Each of the thirteen guaranteed the others against a separate peace by transferring to their Union government the sole power—I quote the Declaration—''to levy war" end "conclude peace...
...The people of the democracies—not their governments, as in the League of Nations— would elect their representatives to the Congress or Parliament of this Union, with at least one house elected on a population basis...
...Marshal Tukhachevsky, the genius who mechanized the Red Army, along with Generals Yakir, j Kork, Uborevich, Eideman, Feldman, Primakov, Putna and others, all of the highest standing, were tried "in camera," found guilty and shot within 48 hours...
...Membership would be so advantageous that eventually all nations would wish to join just as our American Union grew from 13 to 48 States...
...Clynes, H. Dal ton, J. Chuter , Bfc, G. M. Garro-Jones, D. R. , Gwifell, J. Griffiths, G. H. Hall, T. Kennedy, J. J. Lawson, Herbert Morrison, P. J. Noel Baker, , ._¦ jyfc- Pethick-Lawrence, E. Shin-*tQ, Tom Smith, J. West wood, *9d Tom Williams...
...There are 697,051 more men than women in the country today —thirty years ago men outnumbered women by 2,692,288...
...once, in 1923, he took a number of frightened Bavarian Cabinet-members with him for a ride in the woods, threatening to shoot them . . . and let them run away...
...His removal from the J Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union is an act which registered his political death...
...He saw treachery in everyone's eyes...
...We believe that Federal Unionism is the practical and necessary internationalism of this country...
...invite the British democracies to sign with us another Declaration—this time a Declaration of Inter-Dependence...
...The others have been executed as traitors or listed as suicides...
...Thousands of foreign Communists who sought a haven in Stalin's Russia also paid with their lives in the purges...
...To divorce him from the party, from political activity is a great personal tragedy for a man like Litvinov...
...Old and New 'Terribles' Purges Show Stalin, As Ivan, Driven by Fear By BEN GiTLOW 11 i THE large numbers involved in the purges fail to give a complete * picture of the stark terror which has gripped the peaceful Rus-sians...
...His appearance was neither demoniacal nor impressive, he looked somewhat cross when he passed by, a bit of a gypsy, a little helpless and awkward, he did not look exactly intelligent, there was something stupid about his mouth, the teeth protruded, and since he never wore any kind of headgear, his low brow, fur-like hair and the fused eyebrows gave him a foreign look...
...Yet he rules, like Ivan the Terrible ruled...
...The most urgent problem of civilized mm* kind today is to find effective means of governing itself as a whole, now that machine civilization has already made the whole world a single economic unit...
...Labor for World Federation Drive By CLARENCE K. STREIT Author of "Union Now With Britain" BEFORE the war started, Federal Unionists proposed to prevent it by organizing an effective, democratic world government...
...Losing Their Strength...
...first president of j the Communist International...
...Says Robert Koch: "It is only when a manor beast has tuberculosis that I can find these bacilli...
...Now of those 15 only 7 remain free—the six British democracies and our own U.S.A...
...The tall Hess was a much feared "slugger" who-always loved to smash something...
...he is surely hanging around yet, his *name is really Maurice, there's nothing mystical about him, he is one of the worst Nazis, and always has been...
...Let's start with a nucleus United States of the world, formed by these fifteen democracies: The U.S.A., Britain, Canada, Ireland, Union of South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, France, Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland...
...He had the soul of one who loves to serve, with the inborn servile nature of a slave, longing only to obey, to submit...
...It would reaffirm those same old free principles...
...The freedom of man goes hand in hand with the interdependence of man...
...Eighty members of the Council of War were removed...
...On you and me rests the heaviest burden that has ever rested on Americans...
...He, too, konght a brown bag full of "maroni," as they say in Munich, then he nodded and said "Serous," in the familiar 'South-German maimer...
...It is operating less and less to bring men together and more and more to keep men apart...
...He fears his enemies from within and his enemies from without...
...I AM aware of many of the difficulties con-fronting the establishment of a union of democracies, but it is not a Utopian plan...
...Evidently they do not consider Stalin's purge ol the Red Army...
...There is no alternative...
...The life of the famous Russian novelist Gorky and his son Peshkov were shortened by poisoning...
...Karakhan, his assistant, I was executed...
...He was unable to decide on policies or to execute the affairs of state...
...Levin, the Kremlin doctor and the personal physician to Stalin, was accused of the poisoning and executed...
...Stalin Baiajumber of villas outside of Moscow...
...He alone, in his few quiet moments, knows his own limitations and how threadbare are his claims to greatness...
...That is Hess, the torturer...
...The characteristic of the machine is, as it develops, to bring the individual man into closer relation with the rest of mankind We find that this process has already reached the point requiring constitution of effective government on a world scale, and that the urgency of the problem is greatest for the peoples most advanced in this development of the machine...
...Yezhov, who replaced Yagoda as chief,, was later also purged and his place taken by Beria who conducted the purge of Stalin's old Georgian friends and associates...
...Then he was still an exile in England...
...We must now begin as the thirteen Colonies began, by forming a provisional Union for immediate defense...
...They seemed -to think a nightmare was more practical than a dream.-The war came...
...This is a bitter end for a man like Litvinov, an old Bolshevik, who rendered the Soviets the most valuable service by establishing the first contacts for them with Great Britain and the rest of the world...
...Many called our proposal a dream...
...He struck him with his staff and pierced his breast with the steel point...
...One must not forget that the Hess-type is a purely Teutonic-one, a dumb and loyal soul, ready to commit murder and assault . . but only on command...
...We call to our ranks all those who understand this demand...
...Internationalism is one of the basic principles of the labor movement...
...More than ever, "Union Now"—immediate Federal Union of the remaining democracies...
...There was torture in his laughter and his whole being had always something retrogressive...
...1\/|Y third encounter with Hess occurred in 1932...
...Among the many who have disappeared from the diplomatic service are: Bogomolov, Arossiev, Rosenberg, Boro-dovsky, Ostrovsky, Troyanovsky, the first Soviet Ambassador to the United States...
...All that ten generations of Americans have won for human freedom now depends on each of us equally...
...j^the Not So Very Merry Month of May Hay is not the so very merry month sung about in homily verse — jad calendar pictures when one J. glances across the historical land- et marks of this month...
...I still see Hess before me, lurking, listening, and ready to spring...
...RATIONALISM is a child of the 19th cen-tury...
...We ask organized labor in America to take up this cry and make it ring from one end of the United States to the other...
...They are: union citizenship,-union defense force, union money, union free-trade area, union postal and communication system...
...The Zamzam is being tagged by n contemporary writers as a sig-nificant point for future historians almost 26 years to a day 8 after the Lusitania was torpedoed t. by a German submarine (May 7, ' 1915...
...We must set the masses thinking in this direction now...
...This evening, now, a man came around the corner, a tall slender young man it was, he wore no overcoat, was dressed in Some kind of old military uniform with a civilian cut...
...Enough , proof has already been produced to indicate that Stalin knew of the plot on Kirov's life and did nothing to prevent it...
...8, 1932...
...editorials were written on the subject...
...The inhabitant of the little house in the street called "Menterschwaige," in Munich, was a certain Rudolf Hess, a joyless looking man who came home from his business in the evening, played with his dogs, lolled around on the terrace, read the papers, in short, was a Bavarian citizen like many others...
...For we propose they declare at the start their determination to convene as soon as they can a Constitutional Convention to establish a permanent Federal Union, open to all other democracies—notably the eight now imprisoned when they are free—-and expressly, open to the peoples now under dictatorship when they have satisfactorily freed themselves...
...Bukharin, one of Russia's great i scholars and one of the triumvirate that ruled Russia after Lenin's death...
...Stalin has married three times...
...L4IOR M.P.s ELECT 1 HEW COMMITTEE - LONDON.—The names of the 1 Labor M.P.s elected to the new 1 Administrative Committee were announced at a recent meeting of the Parliamentary Labor ¦ Party...
...But Anton, the waiter, was full of spite and loathing agayist the TOris, he used strong Bavarian epithets for them that *»n not be printed...
...The ghost of Ivan the Terrible must be strutting through the marble halls of the Kremlin smacking his lips in satisfaction at Stalin's emulation of his terrible past...
...Like everything that has outlived its usefulness, nationalism has changed from a beneficent into a malevolent force...
...Hess, the narrow-browed, brutal Nazi, is one of Germany's greatest criminals...
...The best way to i cripple an army is to deprive it of its trained officers...
...One hundred thousand persons were deported from Leningrad...
...would have the majority in this provisional Congress...
...It developed as the means to secure wider political organization, especially in such countries as Germany and Italy, which the industrial revolution made more and more necessary...
...The SgLjgg meant for us tow and the other "Non-Nazis" .¦Rooked upon the events of that day as a final defeat iyjr* Nazi-movement "* Recurrent mention is made in the American press that «»«« used to be referred to by Hitler as "My magnificerfV Maurice...
...Stalin's purges from 1934 to 1939 were drastic and thorough...
...His death was reported a suicide...
...I Knew Hess---A Munich Profile By JOE H. GASSNER J 920...
...And down the democracies went, one after another—invaded, ravaged, conquered, imprisoned...
...Buda Mdivani, Stalin's boyhood friend—executed...
...It leached its crest early in the 20th century...
...Since nationalism united man by emphasizing the things separating one national group from another, it could not possibly unite into one state the groups that it had united a< nations by the imperialist methods to which the greater nations turned...
...As he extends his empire his fears grow...
...He never was the "idealisf which he is now reputed to be...
...National sovereignty" stands in the way of this great and necessary change in international relations...
...And as I stood there, looking through >oe window panes, a hoarse murmuring and rumbling be-***e audible...
...For the remaining democratic peoples of the world the issue is—and has been—clearly stated hy an official pronouncement of the' British Labor Party: "Federate or perish...
...Later all Ogpu chiefs who had something to do with the Kirov affair were liquidated so that their j knowledge of the frame-up should die with them...
...A democratic world government and peaceful world order would, therefore grow out of the original nucleus...
...There is no doubt that men everywhere are torn into hostile groups by economic issues and that great economic changes are in the mailing...
...Mankind remains more miserably and murderously divided into nations than into labor and capital...
...With the rest of them he is guilty of the brutal attack upon all Europe, he is not one who has suddenly become "converted," he is just Hess, creature and flunkey...
...Some argue that it is the capitalist system that causes war...
...It is tantamount to complete ostracism from all social life...
...I was standing at the entrance to the house where the old man kept his little stand loaded with roasted chestnuts...
...Speeial Ogpu guards keep a sharp watch over mSy inch of the way...
...Like our own American Union, this^TJnion would establish a new era of prosperity and opportunity through the lifting of trade barriers...
...Anton, the waiter, Wjl...
...You and I live now in one of history's great decisive hours...
...Each night I bought a small brown bag full, took them along to my furnished room...
...We expect American labor to support it...
...Was Stalin afraid j that they might disclose something of his private life that he wanted kept secret for all time ? • » • OTALIN'S great purges started in 1934, right after the assassination of Kirov, the boss of Leningrad, a Stalin man...
...One wife died of tuberculosis...
...The Ogpu has developed its own methods of mental torture to force confession...
...He must spend his lonely days and nights like an outcast...
...The:man made a sinister and Weak impression, his movements were rapid...
...If we are to be realists, we must recognize, once and for all, that there never can be a truly "independent" man, or nation, or empire, and there never.,will be...
...Science has shown that the only sure way to overcome disease is to isolate the germ...
...The Ogpu - has systematically exterminated all persons in Russia who had ' been friends of Stalin during his early days...
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