Isolationists Make Wide Use of Antisemitism in Anti-British Drive
Isolationists Make Wide Use of Antisemitism in Anti-British Drive Cooperation in the name of pacifism, between Coughlinites and Communists* big business interests and Socialists, alleged...
...The electoral strength, as tabulated in the last campaign, was over 8 Vi million...
...He now seems to be trying to browbeat the President of the United States into plungjng rthis country into the European war...
...But all these issues were discussed democratically...
...There are reports that Wilson and Free French generals are preparing to invade Syria...
...British airdromes in Palestine and Egypt are close enough to lend fighters and bombers to the defenders...
...dut that the America First leaflet had quoted parts of the Catholic appeal for peace but had omitted the section which called for a "peace not based on oppression and the destruction of free peoples, but for a peace which will guarantee the rights and honor of all nations...
...it was established that Senator Wheeler had permitted subversive organizations to use his free mailing privilege...
...The charge that Senator Wheeler's franking privilege had been exploited by the anti-Semitic American Coalition Society, the Gentile League of Donald Shea, and by the Christian Front was made by Henry Hoke, publisher of "The Reporter of Direct Mail Advertising," 17 East 42nd Street, New York City...
...So, too, with the great army of civilian workers in industry, including those of the A.R.P...
...H« had just delivered a speech denying Rankin's assertion that "Wall speech denying Rankin's assertion that "Wall Street bankers and international Jews were trying to plunge America into the war...
...have been killed in action...
...Invasion of Syria, Holding of Cyprus Can Save Near East for British By DICK REYNARD As the Syrian, Palestinian, Egyptian lattoral rapidly crystallizes into the front on which the next large-scale battle-will be fought, the British had more reason than ever before to remember Benjamin Disraeli who in 1878 acquired for the English the island which the Germans must take before they line their forces up for a final July drive on Suez...
...This line of propaganda is also exploited by entire sections of the New York City America First, and by many prominent in the committee's national leadership...
...From days' of preliminary discussion ana from the first days of the convention it is apparent that the British Labor Party is wholly united, and that it will play an increasingly important role in post-war tasks...
...Ankara would have peace, but would be in a worse position than Bucharest...
...Members who preferred working with- Communists rather than putting their effort in winning the war, were expelled...
...If they move within the next few days they may succeed...
...In addition Phil Murray is now working closely with it...
...And yet, as this is written, the British have not moved—and are repeating the pattern, set in Belgium, Holland and even in Greece, of not violating "neutral" territory until the Germans move in first...
...Continuation of the present strike situation will - force it through the Senate and give President Eoosevelt the biggest domestic headache he ku yet had...
...Lothian," was forced to apologize and admit Flanders Hall's pro-Nazism...
...The Luftwaffe is firmly entrenched on all of Syria's nine airfields and three seaplane bases...
...The organization of victory cannot be separated from the post-war tasks of reconstruction...
...Odemonth ago Orton called out 12,000 lumber-wn, tying up vital defense activity in Puget SsiitWashington...
...The more complete our national planning is now over production, consumption, distribution and finance, the easier and more equitable will be the ultimate transition to peace...
...North American is making the B-25 twin-motored bombers for the U.S...
...This is partly due to the lack of machinery, to ineffective intelligence service, to fear of the repercussions of becoming "an aggressor" and in this instance giving Vichy the chance sought by the Old Men to declare war...
...Sweeney begins his piece by quoting from a pro-Nazi book "The 100 Families That Rule the Empire...
...Among them was General O'Connor, one of the best British strategists...
...We can do the same with exploitation...
...Norman Thomas praised ex-Colonel Lindbergh again...
...The Declaration on War and Peace says, in part: 1 "As we prevent profiteering in war, so we can prevent it in peace...
...He charged the Mediation Board,, headed by Clarence Dykstra, and manned by some of the best friends labor has 10 this nation, was merely a "tool" of the Weyerheuser Timber Company...
...President Inonu has little hope of stopping the German steamroller but will have little choice if Berlin's armies sweep in...
...it must also underly the peace effort...
...The Federal Workers, many of whose members are working closely with the American Peace Mobilization, have published a leaflet called "Stop the Snoop...
...An editorial in the Daily Herald demanded of the cabinet "a declaration outlining the international, economic and domestic policies which Britain will pursue after the war...
...The Labor Party Executive's statement, outlining its intentions of a post-war democratic reconstruction, follows long discussion and demands within the Labor Party and its publications...
...His letter, sent to members of the Catholic heriarchy, hit the "devious tactics of endeavoring to use the (Catholic Welfare) board in favor of,the America First Committee...
...This strike call breaks a no-walkout agreement Wth the National Mediation Board, signed and Utifled only last Saturday...
...Each of these strikes has **n characterized by union intransigeancs when Kbitration was suggested...
...Ine peace leaflet distributed in May outside ™ c»tholic churches and communion gatherings was condemned by Archbishop Mooney of Detroit...
...If the British had reason to be thankful to Disraeli's foresight, so did his co-religionists, 500,000 of whom are unarmed in Palestine only 168 miles from any <rf Cyprus' dnMp airports...
...Xee Pressman so maneuvered things in CIO: national, headquarters- that little was done...
...In the Daily Worker of April 29, 1941, it said that "Today we can see the campaign against civil liberties extended against trade unions and their leaders, against the teachers, the civil service workers...
...Whatever it is that keeps the Allies out of that French colony is giving daily strength to the Axis...
...It is known that Mrs...
...The statement also deals with the international movement, detailing reports and comments on the underground activities in Hitler-dominated countries...
...and Syria which must be occupied before the Near East can be swept of the British fleet and the road to India pierced . Otherwise the Germans will have to sweep through Turkey and word from Ankara is that the Turks will fight if attacked despite Russian pressure to the contrary...
...Finance is the servant of political policy in wartime...
...Meanwhile the great bulk of the loyal Federal personnel is beginning to wonder what it is that certain of their leaders and colleagues wasn't to keep hidden and what is the actual reason for their unwillingness to be investigated in a period of national crises and fifth column infiltration...
...The anti-labor Vinson bill, which wis practically dead two weeks ago, is back on tie legislative calendar and may pass the House...
...Many of Britain's generals are reportedly overrated...
...At the same time it publicized a notorious Nazi publishing house...
...Britain has fully armed all Turkish frontiers...
...Ankara has received more than $240,000,000 in cash credits, subsidies and guarantees...
...Isolationists Make Wide Use of Antisemitism in Anti-British Drive Cooperation in the name of pacifism, between Coughlinites and Communists* big business interests and Socialists, alleged isolationist liberals and anti-Semites was evidenced this week...
...In World War I more than ten times as many British soldiers ware killed as those in armed services killed in this war...
...Federal Workers Union Fights Probe Of Gov't Employes Special to The New Leader WASHINGTON, D. C.—When the investigatory service of the government, Congress and the Civil Service Commission began looking into the political allegiances of those Federal employees who might be linked tq subversive activities, the Federal Workers Union came under fire for its Communist activity...
...In not one of these strikes, and many others *t mentioned here, is there a real issue which' •Wid not be settled by mediation while the **ni are at work...
...And the backbone of German strategy in the Near East is incitement of the Moslems there—and in India—against the British...
...To date Sweeney, whose attorney ia the pro-Coughlinite ex-Congressman John J. O'Connor, has lost every suit...
...Typical of Communist tactics is the Inter-Mtronal Wood Workers case...
...It has had to agitate against any tendency 'toward exploitation, profiteering, high rents, hoarding of food, and many abases which too easily creep into daily life because of wartime...
...The Civil Rights Federation headed by Edwin S. Smith has condemned the efforts to smoke out fifth column elements...
...They have published a pamphlet on the so-called "Witch Hunt...
...German technicians and officers are in charge...
...The ideas which inspire the conduct of the war are bound to set the frame within which the change to peace conditions is effected...
...I do not know whether he is or not...
...John T. Flynn called for a negotiated peace and conceded that Hitler must control sections of Europe...
...Despite promises of cooperation, and evidence of good will from Uie Mediation Board, the same language was 1*4 by the UAW leaders as was resorted to W Orton...
...The, point is not that there are now 40 defense project strikes, with some 30,000 idle men, but that a handful of men who have publicly iden-tiied themselves with movements designed to viae out the Office of Production Management and the defense efforts are making a laughing stock of the President's national emergency proclamation...
...Vichy is bidding for Rome's place in the new scheme of things...
...He was replaced by O. M. Orton...
...The United States, awakened by the insight of its great President to the dangers involved in a democratic defeat, is giving ever growing moral and material aid, which in the end must prove decisive, "Beyond the gates of victory the vision of a new, more just, and happier world lies before our eyes...
...Some British sources, however, believe that the Turks can fight a long delaying battle inflicting the usual heavy damages on the Germans...
...The recorded vote, was an instructed vote by local units.—Editor's note...
...The two polls were on two memoranda, entitled The War and The Peace, which had been prepared in advance and submitted to local party units for discussion...
...She has been given arms, tanks, airplanes and munitions...
...Lindbergh himself has a theory of Aryan racialism...
...And this week The New Leader received further evidence that cn May 17 the Socialist Party sent out a city-wide mailing to its members enclosing tickets to the Lindbergh-Wheeler rally at Madison Square Garden...
...vBRwas finally called to Washington by a fl*n§P Mediation Board panel which included ¦ ¦gP*-Golden and'John Brophy of CIO...
...Free speech and a free press, the declaration states, does not mean allowing conspiracies to be advocated against the government and the people...
...Last week the "Washington New Dealer" used as its feature piece the Congessman's broadcast over the Red Network of the National Broadcasting Corporation...
...Hoke is ready to prove that similar mailings were sent under the franks of Senators Nye, Wheeler and ex-Senator Holt...
...No less than 18 Laborites were included in the Ministry when Churchill became Prime Minister, the statement shows...
...The 4500 die-casters now striking the Cleve-'•ad plant of the Aluminum Corporation of America are members of the National Association of Die Casting Workers, CIO, Its officers tave frequently tied it to Communist fronts like the American Peace Mobilization...
...Harrassed by perpetual picketing of his home by the American Peace Mobilization, and infuriated by another anti-Semitic speech in the House by Mississippi's Representative Rankin, Manhattan's progressive Congressman M. Michael Edelstein died . in a house lobby this week...
...Without absolute command of the air by July the British will collapse throughout the Near East, according to one of the world's'leading authorities on that section of the world, who recently returned to the United States...
...All these gladly face .death in order that we may live...
...The British Labor Party, meeting at its 40th annual conference in London this week, by a smashing vote of 2,430,000 to 19,000 voiced full support of Britain's war effort...
...it must be so when peace comes...
...Even George Seldes...
...AH honor, and a debt too great ever to be repaid, is due to our heroic airmen, soldiers and sailors, both of the Royal Navy and the Mer- ' chant Service...
...The central principle underlying the nation's war effort is equity...
...This hesitancy is also partly due to a lack of imagination, which is being sharply criticized in London today...
...In addition, he is a vice-chairman of the American Peace Mobilization and one of Congressman Vito Marcantonio's close co-woikersv...
...Their power in the Eastern world can best be likened to that of the Roman Catholics in the West...
...The political, social, an^-mHftary implications of the fall of Cyprus are vast—and they include the first actual steps of a German overland march to India, now hardly more than half a day's flight by troop-carrier planes from Syrian airports...
...Since then his anti-Semitic attitude has been established in a score of courts by attorneys for Pearson and Allen, the Washington Merry-Go-Rounders who are being sued for-libel by Sweeney in the largest chain libel suit in history...
...On the island, the Australian troops are fortifying strategic spots, mining the airfields, and taking precautions necessitated by the costly lesson of Crete...
...More than 1,500,000 of her men, the world's toughest fighters, are under armed, trained to the hilt in the methods of mobile, guerrilla warfare...
...Once Turkey were invaded, these millions would bolster British prestige and sentiment throughout the Moslem world...
...This is the same line used by Father Coughlin and intimated by Senator Wheeler in recent speeches...
...British Civil Casualties Greater Than Army's LONDON (passed by the censor):—Statistics released this week by the British Ministry of Information bore oat the truth of the oft-repeated London quiq about the girl who gave her boyfriend a "white feather" when he joined the army...
...President of the Federation is Hugh De Lacy, who two weeks ago protested to Attorney General Jackson against the roundup of alien German and Italian seamen...
...This was published by the anti-Semitic Flanders Hall Publishing Company...
...In one locality (the equivalent of an Assembly District), the whole executive committee was killed in an air-raid...
...During the week Lou Michener, who is close ip California Communist leaders in CIO, and Ulio recently endorsed a banquet held in honor of Leo Gallagher, a prominent California pro-Communist,-called out the men at the North American Aviation Corporation, huge warplane factory in Inglewood, California...
...The Executive's report shows the extent of Labor's participation in the war, and demonstrates the hardships of keeping a party going under wartime conditions...
...North American produces about one-fifth of all U.S...
...Most recent of the anti-Semitic isolationists to hit the public eye is Congressman John E. Rankin...
...The local conciliators reported back *aat there was little hope of obtaining union •greement to mediation...
...Without an outlet in the Mediterranean, Turkey would collapse economically if the British shut her backdoor by closing the Persian Gulf...
...services...
...A west coast communist line newspaper, the "Washington New Dealer," gave prominence to an anti-British article written by a Coughlinite Congressman...
...This r.ose-thumbing will bottle-afjfc some defense industries—enough to give the anti-strike bloc in Congress the big sticks tjiey want...
...The next day, by 2,431,000 to 30,000, the conference voted support of the statement of the National Executive Committee regarding postwar reconstruction...
...If Turkey decides not to use these forces against Germany, she will be cut off from the rest of the world...
...He has never been elected to any office that I know of...
...The "Washington New Dealer" is published by the pro-Communist Washington Common- -wealth Federation...
...We re-affirm our vital principles of our Socialist faith...
...The problems facing the Labor Party are many...
...In crude terms he has told tkfjjfficnal Mediation Board to go to hell...
...The suppression of the Dairy Worker was endorsed...
...Use of Ohio's Congressman Martin L. Sweeney's article by the " Washington New Dealer" definitely ties the Communists to the Coughlinites in the "peace" fight...
...Archbishop Mooney Hits "America First" The America First"" Committee was accused Vus_week by the National Catholic Welfare inference of having distorted and torn out of fVvf" * *utement on peace issued by the rftholic organization, for use in leaflets dis-WbWed by the isolationist group...
...Hundreds of questions and resolutions are submitted on all important matters...
...Meanwhile the Civil Service Commission is checking on the affiliations of nearly 1,000 government employees who WjBre on a list which the Dies Committee turned over to ^t...
...The Communists are waging an energetic campaign here against the many investigations of their sympathizers in the Government service...
...But more important is the fact that there are 50,000,000 Turks in Turkish Asia, Iran, Afghanistan and China...
...O'Connor charges that Sweeney was libeled by Merry-Go-Round statements that he was a Coughlinite and anti-Semitic...
...Recently on the floor of the House he said, referring 'to Walter Lippman, that "I have heard him referred to many times as an 'international Jew...
...The small forces withdrawn from the Iraquian Mosul and Kirkuk oil fields have been placed in Syria by the Nazi High Command...
...In each instance the ••Be type of attack has been made on the *»tional Mediation Board, although most of its Jj-ttons ha've had the support of both AFL and «0 members on its panels...
...In Parliament the Labor group, now numbering over 160, keeps a firm watch on the affairs of the whole nation...
...But it is Cyprus which the Germans must take...
...British Labor Party's 40th Annual Parley Calls for Post-War Plenty, and End of Nazism By HARRY LANDSBERG Special Cable to the new leader LONDON (Passed by the Censor...
...There is little doubt in Washington diplomatic circles that Benito Mussolini, at last week's Brenner Pass meeting, was told that Italy must not count on anything from France and that II Duce's occupation forces and "armistic" commission must be withdrawn as rapidly and quietly as possible...
...It was his Washington State section of the American Peace Mobilization whieh started a drive to eliminate the Office of' Production Management which is directing defense activity...
...In the first 21 months of war only 18,627 members of the Army, Navy and RAF...
...Although- the wood workers have nothing to lose and their regular wages to gain by going tack, Orton has turned the board down...
...General Maitland Wilson was completely outmaneuvered by the Germans in Libya...
...Unfortunately he is now enforcedly retired to an Italian villa...
...Great difficulties in holding local meetings have, of course, been experienced, yet members find ways of overcoming them...
...Phil |Wfay supported the Board's request that (jrton recommend to his followers that they go lack to work while negotiations are resumed...
...The Archbishop's letter pointed...
...Wheeler, who exerts much influence over the Senator's policies, and is a leader of the America First crowd, has expressed the same sentiments...
...The British labor movement calls to its members and* to the workers of every land to play their full part, each according to their own opportunities, in achieving the triumph of our common cause...
...This is the horseshoe-crab like island of Cyprus, which, if it falls, gives the Wehrmacht and the Luftwaffe complete control of the eastern Mediterranean, the Turkish coast, Syria, the oil port of Haifa, Port Said, and Malta...
...The vote on the war came after discussion of the report of the National Executive Committee...
...warcraft...
...Last week the demand for a government statement of Peace Aims was made...
...And some of General Wavell's bes/ men were captured in a group "taking a shortcut" one dark night on a Libyan road...
...Undoubtedly diversions will come in the shape of German attacks on Tobruk, Egypt, Suez, perhaps even Gibraltar...
...Pressman's idea wasito get Joseph Kovtief, of CIO's legal staff, tvhomne did not want around, into the United Federal Workers, where he would be overwhelmed by the Stalinists...
...The lead for this campaign is to be found in the proclamation of the National Committee of the Communist Party...
...The report, dealing with every phase of Labor's work in the past twelve months, stresses as its theme the demand for a peace in which freedom will be restored to conquered peoples and which will assure international control for the prevention of aggression...
...In a spurious shake-up of the United Federal Workers' leadership by CIO,, actually no changes occurred...
...We must march threugh victory to the international and democratic Socialist Commonwealth...
...i CIO Communists Defy Phil Murray and FDR in Strike Wave By EDWARD LORING .WASHINGTON, D. C—If ever there was a time for friends of labor to do some straight talking, it is now when the disregard ,of all uational mediation machinery by strategic anions, a good percentage of which are con-troUed by men openly following the communist line and opposed to the national defense, is about to precipitate a vigilante sweep through-o«t the country and a wave of restrictive anti-ittike legislation...
...army, single *»t pursuit ships for the RAF and trainers for 4* Army, Navy and Britain...
...In that same period almost twice as many civilians have been killed in air raids—35,756...
...Orton then used language familiar to those who have, followed speeches by Joe Curran, Harry Bridges and John Lewis...
...The so-called "people's convention" was denounced as front of the Communist Party, set up to spread the notion of defeatism...
...Last year, shortly after the organization of the American Peace Mobilization, Congressman Sweeney inserted APM material into the ComTres»i«»n«| Recoid...
...On the West Coast 4,500 members of Harry 1'idges' International Longshorement's and Warehousemen's Union walked out...
...But that election was before the war, and the vigorous efforts of Morrison, Ellen Wilkinson, Bevin and other Laborites has served to increase that following...
...De Lacy is also national chairman of the party-line Committee for the Protection- of the Foreign Born...
...Aid is'given to refugees here, men and women who have played important parts in their own labor movements...
...This union was formerly led by the avowed Stalinist Harold Frltesett, who was removed from the American Isbor scene when the Canadian border officials refused to permit him reentry into the States Srhe tried to return from a short visit to Dominion...
...Even now it may be too late...
...The Vichy forces in Syria have about 40,000 armed and trained troops...
...But on May 29, the Board sent a telegram to Orton, part of Which follows: "The Board points out that it is' proposing only a temporary settlement to insure the resumption of production pending' an impartial study of the entire question by a competent commission...
...If it is lack of planes and equipment, then America is responsible...
...He has mailed his charges to Senator Wagner, chairman of the Senate Postoffice Committee...
...The total membership of the Labor Party stands now at over 2 Mr million...
...This is the most serious threat to the National Media-ton Board...
...He has been speaking frequently of the "international"Jews" and the war...
...The Board further points oat that it is understood in its proposal that •By final recommendation with regard to wage rites or increases or findings on vacations which iffect payments of any kind will be made retro-actfve to the date-of resuming work...
...Dispatches and other authentic information from the Near East reveal that the Germans, in one guise or another (some as Jewish refugees, some as wounded soldiers, some as tourists, some as peddlers), have already massed one complete armored division in Syria...
...So with the "aid" of France, Germany is taking Syria, and prepares ta^take Cyprus...
...We re-affirm our dOcrmination to fight until Nazism and Fascism are overthrown...
...after urging the reading of a Flanders Hall book, "Lothian vs...
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