Communists Set to Use Entire CIO Apparatus Again to Defy FDR, Cripple Defense Factories
LORING, EDWARD
Communists Set to Use Entire CIO Apparatus Again to Defy FDR, Cripple Defense Factories Reports Indicate CP Plans for a General Strike By EDWARD LORING Special to The New Leader WASHINGTON, D....
...Shortly before then two clipper stewards were seized for smuggling platinum out of the United States to the Axis...
...The belt commentary on Lewis's irresponsible charge, designed to help the Communists inflame the workers against the board, even before it had begun to function, was...
...of James Matles, veteran Communist organizer of the same union which now has contract with General Electric, etc...
...Washington is asking what the administration plans to do to prevent the recurrence cf what happened at Inglewood...
...He is charged with having served secretly as a Soviet agent...
...The defendants, Morris Liskin, Raphael Rush, and Norman Weinberg, all former officers of the book concern, have been under $6,500 bond each since being indicted in December...
...The few sincere elements inside the New York America First Committee are rapidly losing out to these forces and imay soon split away...
...Murray's professions of anti-Communism as long as men like Lee Pressman and Len de Caux occupy positions of trust and importance at C.I.O...
...They distributed .anti-war literature and urged those going- in to boo the speakers...
...He controls the vast oiustrial 8»n apparatus...
...State Dept...
...In the last few weeks a change in policy has been noticed...
...a-gainst 25.-000 on April 22, the day before the Manhattan Center rally addressed by Charles A. Lindbergh and others, which brought a claimed membership increase of 10,000 in four days...
...Communists Set to Use Entire CIO Apparatus Again to Defy FDR, Cripple Defense Factories Reports Indicate CP Plans for a General Strike By EDWARD LORING Special to The New Leader WASHINGTON, D. C—Striken which halted induction in the worst bottleneck industries 4 the American defense system last week were jirt » prelude to what will happen in coming months, The New Leader has learned...
...The order from Berlin—^via Moscow—is to stop all this at any cost, American aid to Britain must'be crippled...
...We did not see Mr...
...In Los Angeles the Young People's Group of the America First Committee runs meetings where prominent Bundists are well received by the audience...
...The regulations Issued by the State Department for the enforcement of the act make it inevitable that the information that Congress wanted is not collected...
...Murray...
...the Clarion Cycling Club, and the Socialist Choristers...
...or of Alex Balin->t, die caster leader in Cleveland, reportedly a party member, and of veteran Communist Marcel Scherer, leader of the Federation of Architects, Chemists, Engineers Ad Technicians...
...This is the board which ha9 since proven its merit in such cases as the Ford, Bethlehem and the United Mine Workers' disputes," in...
...We are convinced that labor will not be missing from the ranks...
...board, Lewis remained silent...
...have been assiduously helping the Communists to prepare for capture of the American labor movement in order to subvert it to Moscow's purposes and enslave the workers of America as Stalin has enslaved the workers of Russia...
...Another instance of tightening discipline invoked by the Justice Department is the continued custody of the mysterious Gaik B. Ovakimian...
...His mother was equally active in the Labor Housing Association...
...These are the agents who direct Communist "strikes" in the defense industries...
...When Communist strike leaders cited his words in support of their defiance of the recommendations of the...
...A long sentence and large fine will frighten other agents...
...Some weeks ago Addis helped swing ^•entire Michigan CIO Industrial Union conation along the party line, against...
...Mr...
...It was against a deliberate, treacherous conspiracy to wreck the national defense...
...Nothing much can be accomplished by the suspension of five UAW organizers, even if Mortimer is among them^ Until action is taken against the higher ups, Joe Curran and his Industrial Union Council of New York will-make good theii threat to split the labor movement wide open unless there is a general CIO peace congress called, preceded by a Yankee Stadium anti-defense demonstration...
...It was Hessler who cap-2"8" the Fe&r$ttd Press for the party...
...The ACA has just joined the White House picket line...
...has permitted to seize important strategic positions in defense industries, such as aviation, transportation, communications and shipping...
...But let not the Irresponsibles and their Communist allies deceive themselves...
...Both men belong to that characterless coterie of conspirators around John L. Lewis who ever since the foundation of the C.I.O...
...Chaplin...
...Only 19 out of several thousand known German agents in this country have registered under the act...
...The defense industries, and particularly the aviation industry, are about to enter into mass oroduction...
...This is the same type of talk one hears in the Washington headquarters of the isolationist leaders in and out the Senate, although Jewish government executives do not come to more than a few hundred out of several hundred thousand...
...clean the Communists out of their unions and there will be no need for drastic action by the government...
...of North American strike leader Elmer Freitag, registered Communist...
...He is the organization's national •ttpty chief...
...to all organized labor and to democracy...
...which was designed to throw the "spotlight of pitiless publicity" on foreign propagandists and saboteurs, has been administered in such a way as to become a dead letter, according to a report published this week by the Institute of Living Law...
...despite the presence of Phil fcrray as nominal chief, is run by the pro-toriet Lee...
...That the Cwnunists have been seeking what they call H iemi-revolutionary" situation somewhere 'in tie nation has been obvious since the Northwest International Woodworkers' strike...
...Has Lewis had the decency to apologize...
...At the last demonstration late in May the four Van Meter brothers, notorious Bund printers and photographers, were present, along with James McBride, Ellis O. Jones and others prominently associated with Western subversive groups...
...That bloc of unions, with its supernumerary organization, still exists...
...It has amazed many observers in Washington to learn that top government leaders have Brought pressure against the Civil Service Commission, the Dies Committee and other in-twtigatory agencies to prevent the exposure of Stalinists in the government service...
...One of his lieutenants is Secre-*JI-Treasurer Addis of the United Auto *«fckers...
...Yet its Industrial Council is merely the California Communist Party at another headquarters...
...Also Joseph P, Selly, president of the American Communications Association (CIO), the wireless and telegraphers, and associated workers...
...And what will the government do about the California State Industrial Council, which announced its support of the strike and denounced Phil Murray and President Roosevelt...
...The President's use of troops was not against a defeitse "strike...
...These are 9 National Maritime Union, the American Cbmmunications Union, the Transport Workers toiion, the American (Newspaper Guild, the Woodworkers International, the longshoremen ad the warehouse workers on the West Coast, Be Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, the Die fitters, the Chemists, Technicians and En-lawers, the Farm Equipment Workers, the fcnn and Cannery Workers, and others...
...They were set to bolt if the Hillman unions took direct action...
...Our own national defense musst be paralyzed...
...Murray would profit by the tragic experience of labor in France and Germany, that the responsible elements of the C.I.O...
...The accused— only two of thousands—are Itaru Taliban...
...He Woe wide influence in Detroit and in the •to Workers...
...Recently his union voted to raid the East Coast warehouse unions to give the party control of those men...
...considered the most dangerous threat this nation has yet seen, and those capital commentators who label him so in/private are among the nation's leading newspapermen and government officials...
...The government has known feBKari six months that the Communists itm im- using the American Peace Mobili-¦tfurthe spearhead of their drive in every 4Jjji«ttiL dff-raa* The settlement of tfc inglewooS strike and the strike at Cleve-g means nothing...
...These are the weapons more essential than others for the defeat of Hitler...
...We agree with Attorney General Jackson that it was a Communist insurrection...
...The Foreign Agent Registration Act...
...headquarters, the first as general counsel and chief advisor and the second as director of publicity...
...They are borne out by the fellow-traveling tivity »f the .leaders of these unions...
...by omitting from the registration forms all questions relating to details of the agent's propaganda activities, and by inserting a series of loopholes which have the effect of facilitating evasion of the purposes of the act...
...In Boston, isolationist circles are openly cooperating with the Christian Front and German agents...
...This has led to the disregaiding of the Registration Act's clauses...
...This has been proved many time's...
...Laxity Responsible for Failure to Expose Foreign Agents By GEORGE SHORT Special to The New Leader WASHINGTON, D. C—With German, Italian, Japanese and Russian agents wreaking damage through sabotage which is costing American industrialist many millions and the government many secrets, the Department of Justice has finally brought to trial several Soviet foreign agents who failed to comply with the Foreign Ag-nt Registration Act of 1938...
...But this is precisely what they have failed to do...
...Washington Times-Herald columnist, reported this •week that a high War Department official had told him of the activities of a German embassy staff man here...
...the board's decision in the soft coal cage granting the demand of Lewis's miners ior abolition of the Southern wage differential...
...They hivt been able to accomplish this through the siewoeglect—which puts it charitably—of the idttimstration, from the' President down to Miiuvferkins...
...Fascists Flock To America First In Large Cities From such representative cities as Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles and Washington come increasing signs of growing cooperation between the America First Committee and the avowedly fascist fringe of U. S. politics...
...agents operating on American soil...
...Now the Communist chickens have come home to roost...
...His influence flows •We the...
...But Lewis finally stopped holding out and stepped down for Phil Murray...
...The use of troops in strikes is deplorable but in the instance of the Communist-directed "strike" at the plant of the North American Aviation Company it was both necessary and unavoidable...
...No action such as occurred last week week would have been possible if he had passed on the word that the Stalinist unions were to "lay off...
...They Found Hess By MAGISTRATE JACK DAVIS The New Leader's Scottish Correspondent GLASGOW (By Mail).—The radio has just announced the dropping of Rudolph Hess, Nazi number 3, just outside the city boundary...
...Yesterday the total metropolitan membership, the announcement said, was 76.471...
...The party unions were told to stay in and seme of their men were placed on th ClO'se rational executive committee...
...Pressman...
...They have but one choice: continued alliance of the C.I.O...
...all of which it has demonstrated its fairness and genuine desire to do justice...
...The Institute's report, which was drawn up with the assistance of Congressman Jerry Voor-his and the American Council on Public Affairs, charges further that chief responsibility for the act's failure "must be laid at the door of the State Department...
...Fighters and bombers will soon begin to- move from the assembly lines in hundreds and thousands...
...The Ameiican Peace Mobilization is blatantly a Communist front...
...Those agents who have registered have not been required by the State Department to divulge any information concerning their propaganda activities, it is charged, and the material collected has not been effectively presented to ' the public as Congress intended...
...This result is reached by exempting the most dangerous propagandists from the requirements of the act...
...Another of those who are part of the Com-*j*M superstructure in CIO is Maurice Sugar, attorney for the United Automobile Wtew> a veteran Communist, once a travel5 igent of the party's front organization...
...Although we are close to the event I know nothing more of its significance than the veriest speculator at the other end of the globe...
...And they have the assistance of the Fascist Ovra and of the Japanese wrecking and espionage machine...
...The Communists in the CIO have had their own faction government, their own federation within a federation, ever since the November, 1940, CIO convention in Atlantic City...
...Recently it went on record for the dissolution of the Office of Production Management and the National Defense Mediation Board...
...It has refrained from publishing the information it has collected...
...The government knows jtt some oL,ihe nation's strategic industries it controlled by Communist unions...
...SABOTAGE: Why Is John L Lewis Silent As Lieutenants Peril Nation...
...The Division of Control", in that department, has not shown itself to be in sympathy with the democratic purpose which the act was designed to effectuate...
...The same may be said of other "strikes" instigated in recent weeks and months by the Stalinists whom the C.I.O...
...with the Communists, the deadliest and most contemptible foes of free labor, the allies of Hitler and Mussolini, or honest support of the national defense effort and of American democracy...
...The immediate purpose of the most recent wave of strikes in the defense industries pursued by the Communists is only too clear...
...Selly, according to reports, has just been named advisor to the Communications Division of the National Defense Commission...
...Murray to proceed now with energetic action against the Stalinist termites as long as he permits these termites to continue functioning in his own office...
...Bfchvd Frankensteen, the United Automobile Workers Union's representative on the West (tot, an do little more, for the UAWA cental: headquarters in Detroit is controlled by tie Communist Party, despite the honest anti-Cunnunist president, R. J. Thomas...
...Murray and Thomas Kennedy...
...Although tiere is much talk of a wide rift in CIO, a JiiHotti fight between the Hillman forces fgi the closely knit Communist bloc of unions (OTering the nation's most strategic industries »2l not be permitted by John L. Lewis...
...We had hoped that the advent of Mr...
...Neither will his other K^Coanunist lieutenants...
...Robinson is also a vice-president of the American Peace Mobilization...
...The MacLean family, whose broad scots tongue might lead strangers to imagine an ignorant, uncultured peasant family like those found in Middle Europe, is indeed a Socialist group...
...We had hoped that Mr...
...presidency would bring a change in this fatal policy, fatal to the C.I.O...
...The high figure set as bail indicates the seriousness of the unknown charges laid against him...
...Lindbergh will become Piesident...
...They aw that OtO...
...Washington newspapermen believe that German agents are as active today inj their efforts to sabotage defense production as they were in World War years...
...by Lou Michener, reportedly one of the top party fraction leaders in the state...
...i -. Typical of this activity is what occurred last week outside the Willkie meeting in Chicago...
...The traitors will be eliminated...
...Let them not.believe that they can deceive the American people...
...CIO organization into government teaws, and on to sdine prominent government •fcUls...
...Just as he had told President Orton.of the Woodworkeis (a Communist) to keep his men out despite presidential orders...
...Leon Pearson...
...What is the government planning to So with Harry Bridges, who controls the West Coast longshoremen and warehouse workers...
...And now he has given orders to denounce the President for-action to which he was "forced by Lewis's Stalinist fellow-conspirators...
...Scores of thousands of foreign agents throughout the country' are following the,trial closely, for it will set a precedent...
...His father was an active member of the Govan I JL.P...
...And yet the national leadership of CIO has permitted this situation to obtain for nearly a year, just as the government has done nothing about its employees, some in vital defense bureaus, who are leaders of the American Peace Mobilization in the District of Columbia...
...There is also Milton...
...The time has come for all who believe in American democracy to stand up and be counted...
...The job of sabotage, of wrecking defense plants, is entrusted to the Gestapo...
...Recent information received by the Federal Bureau of Investigation reveals that espionage agents enjoy wide liberties in the United States...
...American Naval intelligence has just rounded up its first spies, a Japanese naval officer and a Japanese servant in Hollywood...
...They are in a position to implement their threat...
...The defendants are former employees of B okniga, the Four Continents Bbok Store, official propaganda outlet of Soviet Russia in the United States...
...The fact is that this was not a strike in the legitimate sense of the word...
...He told his audience that President Roosevelt had filled Washingtin with "anti-Christians...
...Joe Curran, O. M. Orton, Freitag and Mortimer have been using John L. Lewis' attack on the National Mediation Board as their weapon...
...Women in the audience having sons in the U. S. army were urged by Francis P. Moran, director of-the Christian Front and close collaborator pf Reverend Edward Lodge Curran of the Brooklyn America Fiist Committee, to tell their sjor.s what they had seen in the film...
...Even the (White Ho use is jittery over Lindbergh...
...But they would be mere carbon copies of Wyndham Mortimer, of the UAW's West Coast aircraft division...
...In New York City, the tjrte, County and Municipal Workers are run ky Communists...
...Along with the rest of CIO's left wing leaders, he attacks President Roosevelt for opening the Inglewood plant...
...His call for a "change in leadership" was obviously designed to instil a public mind-set for such propaganda...
...Evi-Jj» of this^ih He found, in the New York "¦Be Library...
...The Institute alleges that even if the State Department's Division of Controls charged with enforcement of the law were sympathetic to its purposes "the notion that a $60,000 agency on a part-time basis can exercise any effective control over agents of foreign principals spending amounts hundreds and thousands of times as great is ridiculous...
...Many of those present are also active in the Boston America First Committee activities...
...The merchant marine is controlled by the National Maritime Union...
...The backbone of APM throughout the nation is CIO...
...The former is directly associated with important members of the Brooklyn and Queens America First Committee...
...Hundreds of names of Communist CIO leaders in strategic positions could be listed...
...But his silence is more significant than speech...
...This is the picture, and any attempts to deflect the minds and attention of the American people from the true picture by raising . false labor issues and denouncing the government for doing its duty, the duty of protecting and defending this country against enemies, will be condemned by the people, including the vast majority of loyal American workers, as part and parcel of the conspiracy...
...All this is clear, simple and undeniable...
...The full force of the entire lease-lend program in aid of Britain and the democracies is about to make itself felt...
...Just how much other valuable material and in^-formation is going via similar channels can be imagined...
...From John L. Lewis, of course...
...The capital hears a constant stream of reports revealing fascist plans being made for Charles A. Lindbergh...
...The German government's "Victory in the West" propaganda film, used originally to soften anti-Nazi sentiment throughout the world, was shown June 3rd to an audience of 600 at the Christian Front meeting at Hibernian Hall, 184 Dudley Street, Roxbury...
...We, therefore, scorn as- " lip-service the reported plans of Mr...
...He former CIO chief still controls the vast QO apparatus through his office as president i the United Mine Workers of America...
...39 j ears old, a lieutenant-commander in the Imperial Japansc Navy, registered in this country as language student at the University of Southern California, and Torachi Kono, 36, for many years the major dom in the home of Charles Chaplin...
...Murray and others who have heretofore failed to grasp the desperate seriousness of the situation should understand that the moment for demagogy has passed...
...But both outfits work together...
...This is the board on which the C.LO...
...In .New York City membership in the America First Committee in the metropolitan area has more than doubled in the past fortnight, according to an announcement yesterday by Edwin S. Webster Jr., secretary of the New York chapter...
...Chaplin as a speaker for a New Leader dinner...
...He is out on $25,000 bail...
...The stewards would deliver this valuable metal to German agents in Lisbon...
...Orton's crowd is the backbone of the Washington American Peace Mobilization, which is now about to meet...
...When for a while Phil Murray appeared ready to openly fight the Communist bloc, Harry Bridges wired the rebel strikers to defy the troops...
...There is one sure way of averting the use of troops in strikes...
...The consensus is that he has caught the imagination of the young people and the isolationists, and that his flying career and subsequent publicity have engendered a wide public syfnpathy for him...
...As to the President's "work or fight" orders designed to eliminate dupes of the Communists from defense plants, there is no reason whatever why these dupes should be permitted to escape military service by draft deferment because of their alleged need in industry if they use such deferment to help the Communists undermine the national defense...
...Under the Stalin-Hitler pact this job is entrusted to G.P.U...
...These are the facts...
...Murray does the labor movement a poor service when he helps Communist agents to identify their conspiracies with bona fide strikes...
...In Buffalo, Los Angeles, Cleveland, Seattle, Chicago, New York and San Francisco the local Industrial Union Council is also the local American Peace Mobilization...
...He has not...
...would come to understand at last that permitting the Communists to entrench themselves in any labor organizations, particularly in defense industries, is to pave the road for the destruction of the labor movement and the death of democracy, without which a free labor movement is inconceivable...
...Speaking in New York City, at the opening of his negotiations for a new contract with the bituminous coal operators, on March 11, John L. Lewis, denounced and ridiculed the Defense Jlediation Board, as an instrument deliberately designed to break strikes and deprive workers of their just due...
...Murray to the C.I.O...
...The flyer is...
...Among its leaders—all of whom publicly praised the woodworkers and the Inglewood strikers for defying the government and the National Mediation Board—ris Reid Robinson, head of the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers" Union...
...Has he tried to correct tfte impression which he sought to create among ail members of the C-LQl that the Defense Mediation Board was not to be trusted...
...AD Communist-controlled unions have been ttfcred to exploit trie 'North American Aviation Cnpany strike by rallying publicly to the sated West Coast strike leaders...
...For years the new Leader has been in the forefront of those who have warned against the inevitable consequences of the alliance between John L. Lewis and the Stalinists...
...Moran also spoke...
...Let the responsible officers and members of the C.I.O...
...Both are important CIO nions...
...This reporter encountered Kono nearly a decade back when he tried to enlist Mr...
...From whom, may we ask, came the cue to the defense strikers on the Pacific Coast to defy the National Defense Mediation Board as a "strike-breaking agency...
...A negligible punishment by the court will increase sabotage and espionage activities...
...Similar to Pressman's position is that occult by Leri DeCaui, another pro-Communist IwerinCICj...
...If Kono was as good a spy as he was a valet, the Imperial Japanese navy must know more about our navy than many Ai our own officers...
...Com-pttCDt observers know that Philip Murray, re-Mr?ess of his personal viewpoints, will not boek the mine chief...
...It is led by Phil (Slim) Connolly, notorious in the American Newspaper Guild for his Communism...
...But the press here is dramatizing the incident by picturing the ploughman and his mother who received Hess with a pitchfork as simple people who work away at the farm without the slightest idea of what is going on in the world...
...Lindbergh has helped a ?ieat deal with her writings...
...But we have hoped and waited in vain...
...Last week, during the height •? tte strike ware, -%e opened the columns of News Bulletin lb Carl Haessler, a noto-*«» Detroit Stalinist who has long been •¦king under cover...
...The prosecution of the Bookniga agents apparently is being energetically pursued...
...John L. Lewis, arch-demagogue, repudiated by American labor last November as a traitor to labor's cause, the architect of the C.I.O.-Communist alliance .remains the power behind the throne now occupied by Mr...
...Kaufman, executive vice-president of the American Newspaper Guild, one of the nation's leading Stalinists...
...As we go to press, Philip Murray, president of the C.I.O., is quoted in dispatches from Washington as condemning President Roosevelt's use of troops in the California aviation strike this week and branding his "work or fight" order to extremists as a "flagrant abuse of the conscription law...
...the Institute charges...
...All previous "strikes" of this character were mere rehearsals...
...California turns out half the, planes made in the United States...
...Kono was polite "but firm...
...is represented by two of its distinguished leaders, Mr...
...However, this tightening-up policy appears to have come rather late...
...Many of tfese are members of the United Federal linkers of America...
...The young man who took Hess to his home was brought up in the Socialist Sunday School with me...
...If it is true, as has just been reported here, tiat the Hillman clothing and textile unions km ttnt Leo Krzycki and Franz Daniels to tie West Coast to fight the California CIO lafostrial Council, they will fail, for that tfatt'i industrial unions have long been completely controlled by avowed Communists with tie knowledge and consent of John Lewis...
...Murray is twice wrong...
...The people know treachery when they see it and no efforts to camouflage it with the...
...of Jules Emspack, Communist editor of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers Union...
...By MALCOLM HASTINGS It was 'inevitable that sooner or later the government would have to use troops to stop certain "strikes" in defense industries...
...Three weeks ago their attorney informed Justice F. Dickinson Letts of the District of Columbia Federal Court that a deal had been made with the Department of Justice guaranteeing them freedom if they pleaded guilty and paid their fine...
...We cannot take seriously Mr...
...by Wyndham Mortimer, whose party name was Baker, and who is an old hand at rebel strikes...
...flag of organized labor will lead them to believe that treason is a service to the labor movement...
...At that time it was secretly set up with Joe Curran of NMU and Mervy Rathborne, then of the American Communications Association, as the nominal leaders...
...The Communists were active, along with the Bundists, Socialists, and members of the America First crowd...
...1939...
...Observers here believe this part of the department's policy of not prosecuting Russian agents to avoid conflict with the State Department's foreign policy...
...Another leader is Joe Curran, head of the Maritime Union, which is now the mainstay of the American Peace Mobilization picket line around the White House...
...The Communist talk of a general strike of CIO unions is no idle matter...
...imperialist war, convoys, etc.," all stock phrases of the party...
...Recent!^ the State Department learned that Berlin had issued confidential instructions to her agents here, telling them to spread the rumor tha\t there "soon will occur a revolution in the United States and Col...
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