Wide-Flung FBI Precautions Show Huge Sabotage Ring at Work in U.S.
ROBERTS, BILL
Wide-Flung FBI Precautions Show Huge Sabotage Ring at Work in U.S. By BILL ROBERTS Almost exactly 25 years after that sultry July night when thousands of New Yorkers were injured by a gargantuan...
...Destroyers patrolled the coastal area off Los Angeles and San Diego...
...Such and such methods are used by each, such Md such emotions are appealed to, such and such promises are Bade...
...Crippt...
...Price, one nickel...
...Ambaesador Sieinhardt and Britith Envo...
...Of this million, more than 350,000 will have to be imported for, their special skills...
...And besides, »e youngsters face a war...
...Sohw^we**-' being nursed into the hydrogen sulphate (stinky) stage by tfce AFL Boeing workers, Wyndham Mortimer discovered the other any...
...In Canada the administration building of Boeing's $2,000,000 Sea Island Aircraft plant was destroyed by a fire of incendiary origin...
...He has been bucking the party line boys...
...I am asking for it...
...Paul H. Douglas from the Institute of Propaganda Analysis bring into focus the greatest weakness in the policy of that much advertised institution...
...Rumored editor is William McLeery, now PM's Sunday editor...
...The anions within that great federation are as different in temper, habits and purposes as the individuals -who make up a city...
...witnesses and the Coast Guard...
...American tout British propaganda with relation to this war has been scan-The trick is so simple that it has probably fooled a lot •fpeople...
...The New Leader has already drawn attention to this matter...
...j§ When it was finally brought under control by the firefighting equipment of the entire metropolitan area,*a quarter of a mile square of waterfront had been completely gutted...
...In addition it is training those Negroes who are unskilled...
...and which gave rise to the most elaborate precautions in more than two decades...
...Congressman Dickstein is suing Liberty for $1,000,000, alleging libel...
...so were shipping facilities in Buffalo where the FBI local office received a tip from Montreal warning of a plot to destroy the waterfront...
...CALIFORNIA'S "little Dies Committee," the Joint Legislative . Committee on un-American Activities, has just been probing the state...
...These are, by and large, the same men...
...They palled unauthorized strikes...
...Congressman Vinson and Westbrook Pegler seem to think that if we could rid ourselves of unions the suit would shine every day and strawberries would be as big as watermelons...
...Fellow-traveler palaver isn't making headway as the tovarischi would like...
...and has said so publicly...
...This department of the defense labor division is taking seriously the philosophy of "war on two fronts" and is not only aiding white migrants but is harassing employers who refuse to hire Negroes...
...If CIO calls such a conference, it will be sptit wide open...
...They said, simply, that they do not approve of the treatment being given to the war issue as it is taking shape in this country...
...his salary and •workshop however are contributed by his employer, his university, or research organization...
...The head officials are different...
...During last November 10,000 more persons than could secure employment had poured into Florida's Camp Blanding...
...The auto workers are a lot of young Americans drawn rapidly from all over this continent...
...Its board of eight charts vital military projects and from a knowledge of the nation's top-flight scientists select men to pursure those jobs...
...Some of tkje most damaging testimony—as far as Judge Sears is concerned—came from Bridges himself...
...Any clever Communist who has been planted among them- can get a following...
...Which proves that Paul Revere warned several families too many...
...The total result is the impression that Roosevelt is as Wg a liar as Hitlef...
...Like millions of others, I attended commence-ment The old grads Were gay...
...Arizona Governor Sidney B. Osborn threw special guards around power plants, dams and vital industries throughout the state on advice of the FBI...
...They were independent and energetic young Americans who didn't want to be imposed upon...
...Most acute problem is rubber...
...This would mean abolition of the five-man Maritime Commission and the merging of the comtrlii-sion with the Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation, the Maritime Labor Board, with authority over foreign seamen now vested in the Immigration and Naturalization Service...
...Coincidentally, the fife broke out only, one day after a Phila-i dejphia court ordered the pajy-l ment of $10,016,953, by German...
...a bomb was placed, but did not explode, in the Baldwin Locomotive works at Eddystone, Pa...
...Most hopeful sign on the horizon is the rapidly expanding plastic industry, which needs only coal, oil, air and water to create materials...
...Word got abont in the magazine field Oat a John Scott had ml throogh two articles on Russia, via Norway, net fhviraMe t»"Wfc "fatherland...
...This will climax a Arive inside CIO for a CIO "nation-wide congress of trade unions and people's organizations for 'the purpose of organising the fijfht'~to get out and stay out of the present European war...
...This has been the job of American chemists...
...Despite national alertness by FBI, naval, military arid police guards three defense plans were injured by fire in Norfolk...
...The only battles they mentioned were ancient ones between freshmen and sophomores...
...Under the1 Shilth-Madden-Witt regime, only the fractions met...
...Ten-day leaves were cancelled for 16,000 men at nearby Camp Dix, casting a scial pall over New York City...
...Several times he returned to the United States: v- •' •'v*->1 - ' He has a Russian wife and two youngsters, whom the NKVD wen't let out of the country despite Ms pteut *ftr.S...
...This was a proftntern organization...
...Our national consumption is 650,-000 tons—for automobile uses, shoe heels, surgical supplies, electrical equipment etc...
...and defense counsel jumped up to ask whether tdis support was a deportable offense...
...Alois Hitler, Der Fuehrer's nephew, is writing a series en Hitler and Hess for a Hearst syndicate...
...The NIDRC has no laboratories or any research personnel...
...Before they landed in...
...Hillman Division Speeds Migrant, Negro Employ ment By GEORGE SHORT WASHINGTON, D. C. — With nearly 6,000,000 unemployed workers—this includes those millions now on relief rolls— registered with the Bureau of Employment Security by occupation and kinds and degrees of skill, the government is tackling a new kind of Okie problem—the industrial migration...
...1' ''* Behind Scott's expulsion is an interesting yarn...
...Every -wind that blows <will shift some of them in strange directions...
...IJARRY BRIDGES' deportation hearings will definitely close * ¦* this week-end...
...By BILL ROBERTS Almost exactly 25 years after that sultry July night when thousands of New Yorkers were injured by a gargantuan blast which sprayed the harbor with exploding munitions from the Black Tom munition dump, in which was stored 1000 tons of dynamite, TNT and shrapnel, lower Manhattan was darkened last week by smoke clouds blown in from a Jersey City fire of mysterious origin...
...Defense Spurs Science Research By MURRAY EVERETT WASHINGTON, D. PC.—Modern war is primarily technological, and so, from the outbreak of hostilities in Europe, Uftcle Sam has created agencies to prod and speed scientific research in the United States...
...Atmosphere in the Federal courtroom became Tense when the Australian testified that he had accepted the support of the Marine Workers Industrial Union in 1934...
...But the great body of the organization, centered in Detroit, is now a responsible and reliable union, well fitted to represent its members in the struggles for better wages and for an honorable position in the public opinion of this country...
...Jim Carey, secretary-treasurer of CIO, is being harassed in his own union, the strategic United Electrical, Radio and Machinists Union, and he may he purged as president...
...One instrument which has beeq developed— among the tens of others which are military secrets—is the klystron...
...To an innocent outsider, this defense by Dr...
...Nearly all quit, so the chapter was dissolved, leaving only the faithful few as membere-at-large...
...Into this crowd of young individualists came every sort of craiy -crank, every kind of dualistic dissident, every description of organizer with a party-line axe to grind...
...many of them with their families...
...Suppose an organization wave sweeps over the country and tens of thousands of these workers are signed up...
...The latter, incidentally, recently called in regional directors and attorneys froM its 22 offices for a three-day conference with Board officers in Washington...
...They held rival conventions...
...so-called CIO Bridges Defense Committee fizzled...
...Its practical effect is the wireless transmission . of electric power...
...as were the Iowa, Missouri and North Carolina, now nearing completion in the Brooklyn Navy Yard...
...An example of the growing importance of plastics is seen in the development of a plastic airplane based on plywood...
...Field changed that by putting up another $500,000 to keep it going...
...We Wieve in democracy...
...The Automobile Workers Union is in the headlines, and it is that great organize-tion which I have especially in mind...
...A couple of minutes of meditation on American social history would lead them to a* opposite conclusion...
...and a Consolidated four motored 'bomber was tampered with and crashed into San Diego Bay...
...To counteract the striking power of the airplane, electronic spotting and firing devices are being established...
...Within the next two years however, at a cost of $250,000,000, the United States will become independent of the Orient through the large scale production of synthetic rubber plants...
...Obviously the government men expected air attacks for they ordered anti-aircraft guns mounted and manned atop west coast aircraft factories...
...Young Jhonnie feels like taking over his knee...
...if it ordered anti-aircraft batteries manned there is little doubt of reasonably authentic information that air raids were imminent...
...Yon follow through with a glance at recent decades, which are, by comparison, practically years of peace...
...Eduard C. Lindeman and Dr...
...lafantif/sm 4 mono Unions ASLIGHT regard for familiar biological phenomena -would help us to understand things about unions which .some pretend to find very puzzling...
...Some $40,000 worth of construction tools and equipment were destroyed...
...One huge task is the development of adequate substitutes of vital raw materials from which -we may be cut off when war is declared...
...Despite the movies, there's little romanticism about Federal Bureau of Investigation work...
...From «* togtSning, the treatment of German and Russian vs...
...T'HERE is talk of a new cabinet officer who would have charge " of all maritime functions...
...Hitler is a threat to our way of life...
...Recently we reported that it would fold on May 1st...
...Moscow and Berlin1 publishers are not enthusiastic...
...Desire for continuous production and lapid increase of national wealth probably takes second place among their motives...
...Among them will be Ken Crawford, Ben Robertson, Jr., and Ben Hecht . . . but not Mr...
...Fort Meade, Maryland...
...From coast to coast, from Canada to the 'Mexican bonder, the FBI ordered extraordinary precautions...
...Marie canal locks...
...The set^ip is unique...
...A double guard was thrown about the aircraft manufacturing plants of the Engineering Research Co...
...interests to the Lehigh Valleyl Railroad for property damage* occasioned by the -Black Tom...
...Observers believe that Bridges' testimony, and very little of the others, would be the basis of Judge Sears' report to Attorney General Jackson...
...Two Tuesdays ago, they were met by a barrage of stale eggs...
...It took the FBI 23 , years and extensive travel in six countries to solve that mystery...
...CIO is being asked to invite AFL and railway unions...
...This great union in a basic industry, however, is now a permanent part of the American industrial picture...
...Any lie-up at Boeing would cripple Anglo-American defense plan* on a front reaching from Manila to Berlin...
...They mors-the sort of persons who stand up for their rights...
...Then consider the way in which utamobite Workers of America have conducted the campaign ,*> wiq *°e election at the Ford plant...
...The investigation is in charge of Jack B. Tenney of Inglewood...
...Suppose that Hitler makes a thumping speech...
...af plenty, fls geHJMli took the pieces, btrt they jrot to some tern-fash in the pabihuV ing field and word went back to heme plate...
...PM is still losing heavily—about $30,000 a week...
...In'addition the huge, Mid-Hudson Warehouse, a grain elevator and important stockyards were wiped out by the flames which sprang up as...
...Only J. Edgar Hoover and a handful of military and naval authorities know the nature of the "tip" which set the Federal anti-sabotage machinery in action...
...There were as many barkers as you ever saw at a circus or a county fair...
...There is in the organization a unity of purpose and a consistency of action which may well be envied by many an older organization...
...They use every sort of dirty innuendo—the sOrt of thing which they are supposed to pilkjry before the public—to imply that British statesmen »re little better than horse-thieves...
...The airplane section of the union out on the Pacific Coast seems to linger in the infantile stage...
...Week-end leaves were cancelled at Fort Custer and Fort Brady in Michigan, not far from the strategic Sault Ste...
...One thing is certain, the government expected sabotage this weekend...
...I"\0WfN in Washington, the city beautiful, the Russia First crowd has been having difficulties...
...There are several major lines of concentration...
...He went to Russia about 10 years ago, worked at Magnitotsk for four or five years, and then began writing articles on Russian production for the Herald Tribune and Soviet Russia T%d*y...
...Ihgersoll...
...Those at the top ; now have worked up from the bottom...
...Its making constitutes an important chapter in our history...
...And because some of them are young, they are changing fast...
...Vow the showdown is coming...
...A network of 1,500 public employment offices are distributing workers from one area to another quickly and efficiently so that millions of industrial Okies will not starve on the roads like their agricultural brothers...
...Fort Allen, Vermont...
...Similar situations were reported in Fort Bragg, North Carolina...
...Another major concentration of NDRC activity lies in electro...
...It will spend about $100,000 a month, and he staffed by 43 cameramen, 137 "brilliant reporters...
...National Executive Secretary Paul Allen explained plaintively to tome of his friends that "so many members had /sores...
...The survey, compiled by the Bureau of Employment Security reveals that these particular areas must absorb more than a million persons of the approximate 4 million new-workers needed this year...
...rMffc and Age at Commencement QHE curious" effect of the war is'reversal of the manners of youth and age...
...From 1935 to 1938 they had •boat every infant disease you can think of...
...mysteriously as did those which exploded Black Tom and the Kingsland, N. J., munitions plant/ back in 1316...
...RJOT all the eggs laid out West were aboard the first lend-lease food ship which reached England last week...
...It is still following Communists...
...They came from every state...
...Then President Roosevelt delivers a fireside chat...
...The idea of a national "peace" conference is supposed to have originated with the National Maritime Union leaders, at the Greenwich Village fraction meeting...
...Plastics now are widely used instead of metals, and, with critical situations developing in zinc, aluminum, magnesium and possibly steel, these materials can be used for consumer products, releasing the metals for armament purposes...
...But construction will not be delayed for a duplicate set was in another safe...
...That Is the way it sounds...
...Germany has beer* oppressed, Germany -wants peace, Germany is fighting for a new order...
...The Longshoreman chief rushed East to learn why...
...A more specific indication of the extent of necessary migration is contained in a survey of 68 labor market areas with a total populalfon of close 17 million people...
...The defense industry must absorb 4,000,000 more workers by January, 1942...
...The state is reportedly crawling with foreign agents...
...325.000 more than its present 300,000 in the shipbuilding industry by September, 1942...
...Concentrated defense areas about Detroit and Pittsburgh were heavily guarded...
...The differences between the CIO and the A. F. of L. must be ironed out They are important now, but they will pass...
...Propaganda Analysis Against Democracy THE*resignations of Dr...
...Miller may sound very honest...
...Discipline is a new thing...
...Things that were true of them last year are not true now...
...In last week's New Leader, Bill Bohn told trf CIO Auto Workers' Aircraft Division's attempt to raid the AFL union at the famous flying fortress factory...
...Phil Murray's Steel Workers Organizing Committee is far aid to the Allies...
...no funds were being raised...
...They carry union cards, but their habits and impulses have not changed...
...The Home Front By WILLIAM E. BOHN Who's Afraid...
...that aid to Britain was endangered by our stand on pureiy*domestic issues...
...Presumably what they want is liberation from riots, violence, and soul-disturbing headlines...
...which discovered the first glow-t ing signs of the $25,000,000 fire...
...Part of tovarisch Mortimer's (alias Baker) strategy was to stage sound truck and pamphlet distribution demonstrations three times a day...
...And how...
...Bridges shot back...
...Clyde Miller and the other distinguished leaders Of the Institute have any defense to make, they had better make it now...
...Should this consolidation take place, and be ruiuby someone politically initiated, it could cripple subversive infWtTnce In some of those departments which need a house-cleaning as badly as did the National Labor Relations Board...
...And by . next summer, the government's emergency stock pile will have only 417,000 tons...
...Almost unnoticed in the bewildering melange of defense agencies is the National Defense Research Committee at whose head is Dr...
...More thatf ?25,000,000'worth of grain, metal and other defense material was destroyed in the 24 hour blase...
...Great numbers came from the country and from small towns...
...200,000 more in the aircraft factories...
...You start with the record of the 1870's, when we had hardly any anions and riots all over the map...
...It will be a 32-page national weekly and will be distributed as a magazine supplement to subscribing newspapers...
...Those amounts devoted to consumer luxury needs can and will be cut...
...But the upshot is one of the most disgraceful lies a man could print without being sued fur libel...
...But with millions on the road unaware of cities and towns where jobs are available, the employment of new hands is stalled for months...
...Joe Curran's Greater N-ev) z*dr/k Industrial Council is planning a "mass peace rally" in MoAitqn Square Garden or the Yankee Stadium...
...Three or fear months age s—ethlm happened...
...Judge Sears moved forward rapidly, government attorneys were on the alert...
...The good sense of the membership has asserted itself...
...When I **ked a senior how they looked to him, he smiled in a superior way Md.remairked: "They look rather silly, but you must remember »at in their, day people didn't learn much in college...
...The membership is much larger, but it is made up of the same sort of young and vigorous men...
...Last year be was in Bulgaria...
...There's trouble brewing in GIO...
...One wag on the dearth of comm«r*r roods, the other on an oil shortage in the leas...
...There may be »n answer to this charge, but so far Dr..Clyde R. Miller has not Kiven it...
...When they finally got organized as an industrial union, it would have been a reckless gambler who would have given any odds on their reaching their first birthday...
...But 95 percent of this rubber comes from the East Indies...
...We Will help defeat him so that we can have our sort of world...
...Detroit or Pontine or Lansing, they did'nt know any more about unionism than a fish knows about agriculture...
...Clyde R. Miller, the founder and director, answers that the organization is treating this'issue in "a non-partisan and neutral way as it is bound to treat ahy matter which is 'the subject of conflicting propagandas...
...WITH $1,950,000 already sunk in PM, infant terrible of New " York's newspapers, department store ©wnef Marshall Field is backing a new publication...
...In those cities where no client is found, it will be sold separately on the news stands...
...They split...
...Heard on the Left By VICTOR RIESEL fy course, we could say something nice about somebody, but that would be not nearly as interesting . . . so...
...Sears did not rule...
...Both Professors Lindeman and Douglas were very gentle in phrasing the'reasons for their withdrawal...
...All '«"tht...
...The ones who were in from the beginning have learned fast, and they furnish a central core of experience and continuity...
...This much is definite: at least 25,000 more men must enter the machine-tool industries by the end 6f the year...
...The blaze started ing several places, according to the...
...Mortimer has not been back...
...Organizations, like children, grow up—arid have atom, or less trouble in the process...
...A $15,000,000 bomber assembling plant being constructed at Fort Texas was under a permanent guard...
...Camp Beauregard, Louisiana...
...In a recent letter to "ALL HOLDERS OF DEFENSE CONTRACTS," Sidney Hilrman, as associate director of the office of Production Management wrote: "all holders of defense contracts are urged to examine their employment and training policies at once to determine whether or not these policies make ample provision for the full utilization of available and competent Negro workers...
...Added to the al-loted million jobs on WPA this should wipe out unemployment— except for the chronic jobless— if government statisticians are correct...
...magnetic activity...
...The office contained a complete set of blueprints...
...There was no housing, no sanitary facilities...
...TtMTD arrd conservative people should do all they can to encourage the organization of trade unions...
...On the theory that everyone will love it, they're calling it Parade...
...His report is expected to channelize research activities into specialized concentrations in the light of the defense' problems England has to face...
...are very simple and are spread out in a score of books easily available to anyone who can read...
...Some are directed towards electric power, wireless, and explosives...
...This work of wiping out the unplanned, chaotic, haphazard search for jobs which has put more millions of families in their jaloppies, is being done by Sidney Hillman's labor division...
...People talk an immense amount of foolishness about the CIO...
...Some months ago Conant was sent by President Roosevelt to England to observe research progress there...
...Interestingly enough, other sections of CIO on the West Coast are criticizing the United Auto Workers for attempting to raid Boeing, where the AFL Aeronautical Mechanics Union has a closed shop contract running until July 1. 1942...
...For the bright boys who do these jobs have a special animus against Great Britain...
...An interesting exchange occurred when government attorney Ssked Bridges: "Do you believe munitions should be tied up in times like the present, for instance...
...Yon go on to the first two decades of the, American Federation of Labor, when we still had plenty of strikes bat a diminishing amount of violence...
...instead, we'il give the appeal to treason lads a twirl or two...
...John Lewis has said nothing...
...One of the eight committee members is James Bryant Con-ant, President of Harvard University, and in his own right a prominent scientist...
...After that Scott spent much time at the American embassy, where he payed tennis and lolled around...
...Meanwhile other areas go begging for hands...
...In this case the democratic process has worked well...
...The scientist has a contract with the NDRJC...
...Today no government law enforcement agency will reply to questioning whether Jersey City's waterfront was again destroyed by sabotage...
...Recently it was forced to dissolve another of its fronts—the Descendants of the American Revolution, Washington Chapter...
...But it really covers one of the cleverest possible attacks on the democratic countries and on democracy itself...
...Reading is a great thing—if only one reads books which make sense and can remember a few things long enough to draw conclusions from them...
...It is all very cool and impartial and scientific...
...And separate bunches followed Stalinists, Trotskyites, Love-stoneites and every other sort of ism and ist and ite you can * * » Iff the Child Grew Up fNK of the sit-down strikes, and remind yourself that they :ured only four yeas ago...
...THE "John Scott" who was this week ordered expelled from Moscow by the secret police, is John Nearing, set) of Scott Nearing, who is now absorbed by Vermont maple sales end feature articles for the Federated Press...
...Since California is one of the most intensely concentrated defense spot* in the nation, Tenney's findings are expected to he more cxciting than Dies...
...disaster...
...There's resentment at the failure of the national headquarters to rid itself of Lee Pressman's clique...
...One hopeful act to come of this research is that nearly all military developments will have enormous practical value in peacetime...
...A lot of nfissatisfied, individualistic, unorganised workers can play the >very devil with the production program of a plant...
...at Riverdale, Md...
...This is the first conference since 1938...
...The neutral expert of the Institute will go to work on fhe two orations...
...The CIO chief baa said little to commit himself, bat Dave McDonald, SWOC secretary-treasurer, is for all-out support of Roosevelt...
...This 1916 Jersey City dock explosion caused $22,000,000 worth of damage, it was estimated then...
...The up-Shot -rs that this great, high-minded institute, subsidized Dv ¦well-intentioned philanthropists, has become one of the most subtle propaganda dissemihators in this country...
...The book will shortly be published in a special Yiddish edition, in addition to those planned for England, Portugal, the large South American nations, Sweden and the Dutch East Indies...
...Reporters learned that word had come to the FBI from several sources, warning that foreign agents would use the three day holiday to destroy strategic materials and tools...
...This destruction of docks, cranes, warehouses and other shipping paraphernalia vital for the rapid loading of freighters bound for Britain, will delay the dispatch of aid to the Allies, for the destruction hit one of the most highly concentrated sailing points in the world...
...If it happens that Winston Churchill fe maying opposite Hitler in the Institute piece, the result is even worse...
...If Dr...
...Vannever Bush, president of the Carnegie Institute of Washington...
...The local men were told that NLRB operations must be cleaned and sped up . . . or else...
...The results of such philosophizing could he recorded briefly in mathematical form: Irregularity in labor relations—leading to violence and reduction of output—is in inverse ratio to the number of men organized into unions.' The items which lead to this Q.E.D...
...Up to that time he traveled freely in and out and about the Soviet Union...
...Both AFL and CIO have aided in this work, cataloguing and transferring their own membership when they receive requests for skilled workers...
...RBSS PICKUPS: Jan Valtin's "Out of the Night" will be T serialized in more than 20 large dailies before July...
...William Green, with his federal union and the promise of craft onions, was not much of a help...
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