America First Uses War on Russia as Pretext for "Christian Peace' Drive
ROGERS, VINCENT
America First Uses War on Russia as Pretext for "Christian Peace' Drive By VINCENT ROGERS A new "crusade for Christianity" is in the making as a result of hurried isolationist strategy conferences...
...Italy's investments in the U, S. in 1940, including direct investments, stocks and bonds, miscellaneous and short-term investments, amounted to $74,000,000, while Germany's investments here totalled $106,000,000...
...The forces are about, evenly matched, with the new Ford section of 130,000 members holding the balance of power...
...I asked one of them what he thinks about Hitler's attack on Stalin's empire...
...But this needs to be compared with the fact that only one man day has been lost for every 2,400- worked by an AFL man...
...The farmers with whom I discussed matters just take for granted that we will fight, that it will be tough, and that in the end we will lick Hitler...
...One of CTO's largest unions is now in the midst of heavy guerrilla undercover maneuvering, as the faction of UAW president Roland J. Thomas prepares to oust the strongly entrenched Communists from offices at the August 4 convention in Buffalo...
...The "Jew-Communist" refrain will toe used to the utmost, and the Catholics will be called on to rally to the isolationists against aid to the Bolsheviks...
...But they have already created sufficient resentment in Congress so that anti-strike legislation and "cooling-off" bills, such as the one suggested by Congressman Vinson, may soon pass...
...In this particular case, *e officers of the law give the woman from the washtub a chance WfK?»d to her social job by voting aye or^ro«I~in a jury poll ^?~er than operating with a broom or rolling-pin...
...Other speakers were Senator D. Worth Clark of N Idaho, who has cooperated with the American Peace Mobilization...
...Fascism's no longer a. matter of taste, v Our line's been changed again, For the" Red Army retreating poste-haste...
...Clad in blue slacks, red coat and whke "kerchief, her well rounded body shimmered in patriotism...
...Some writers have termed them new NRAs...
...On that evening, June 21, in Hollywood, a typical audience gathered to hear Colonel Lindbergh...
...However, labor's 'representative on the OPM, Sidney Hilman, has a direct voice in the supervision of the industry committees through his position as associate director of defense production...
...with things and not with words...
...The only strike now deserving attention as politically inspired is the American Potash and Chemical Co...
...The most phenomical occurence of the week was the signing of 130,000 members of the UAW with 'Henry Ford...
...r- ' Our line's been changed again, / knows it, Browder, I knows it, Broaoder, J Jcnows it, Brawder Our tine's been changed again...
...I hope each one will kill the other off...
...Typical of the innuendo Senator Wheeler has been using for some time is a remark he recently made over a nation-wide radio hook-up...
...And many of those lost resulted from legitimate CIO disagreement with Henry Ford and the mine operators...
...Just why I should have complete faith in the judgment of woman would be hard to say...
...The touchy problem of labor relations has been removed from the industry committees...
...According to Moscow correspondent, "except for certain taboo subjects like wide-scale arrests or high Communists affairs, the censorship ii mild...
...This word is...
...our side, he said: Hell...
...Wheeler have been won over to the policy of blaming the Jews for this war...
...They should be warned thatrAmerica has its frontier tradition...
...If Stalin goes, who'll foot the bill, "V".'fc...
...It has been learned that plans are ready for full exploitation by the isolationists of the anti-religious tenets of the Soviet Government...
...AMONG those surprised by the German invasion was Soviet Ambassador to the United States, Constantine Cnrmansky, who was out of town over the week-end...
...This is a job of reporting—not imagination...
...Ink will flow in bucketfuls...
...Folks who have lived long and continuously in, the various regions of our country have traditions...
...The American people are Sow and quiet, but they are not fools...
...United States investments of all kinds in France at the end of 1940 totalled $165,000,000...
...It is known that various appeasement and pro-Fascist elements have been quietly tajking of a new Nationalist Party to be formed in this country...
...America First Uses War on Russia as Pretext for "Christian Peace' Drive By VINCENT ROGERS A new "crusade for Christianity" is in the making as a result of hurried isolationist strategy conferences called to exploit all propaganda angles of the German attack on-Soviet Russia...
...Meanwhile, more evidence piled up revealing that Senators Nye, Wheeler and D. Worth Clark were permitting large numbers of their franked envelopes to be used by the Christian Front, the America First Committee, the American Coalition Society, and the National Gentile League...
...When told that the jury •uuldbe locked up for the duration of the trial, Mrs...
...There is only one thing ¦at troubles me...
...Few of these are on defense work...
...Now Biberman is caught with his plans down . . . mmd the peace demonstration will oali for war...
...A CIO record all-time low t>f 8,570 employees in 19 unions are on strike...
...in military formation Hilar «W MM of the League of American Fighters...
...Smith is opposed to Pressman's injection of political issues in CIO national affairs...
...It would be wrfl for them to pay attention, but I know they will go their own way and reap their own rewards...
...J, Oklahoma, Communist officials have been roughly and ille-dealt with...
...The grandfathers and fathers went out and did their part—so we will just have to do it in our time...
...Statistics are being offered all over town to prove that the handful of strategic strikes have lost^ labor the right to protest against restrictive legislation...
...Catherine Reinl, r's housewife from tha-<upper Westside...
...If-any public officials, any representatives of societies devoted tt the preservation-of civil liberties, any good men who love peace ; aid justice want to prevent such an uprising, they should devote .themselves quickly to the business of seeing that laws are en-¦ forced and that dangerous and conniving public enemies are dealt with in a legal way...
...Strikes Reach New Low, Only 17,000 Men Out WASHINGTON, D. C—Strikes in defense industries may soon be only academic or largely legitimate, for obvious international reasons...
...It is also on the scene when vital decisions are made regarding output and . price, and can attempt to sway decisions...
...About 2,500 soldiers are on guard...
...The air defense thus far has been rather ineffective_ 'hugely because of the early influence of Lindberghs and Wheel -" crs...
...farmers seem funny to city folks largely because we worry W about different things...
...Industry Councils Emerge From Defense Set-Up Special to The New Leader WASHINGTON, D. C. — As government needs make (business knuckle under to defense planning, a new form of economic council is emerging under Federal supervision...
...Heard on the Left By VICTOR RIESEL ANY minute now Donald Ogden Stewart, Richard Wright, Dashiell Hammett, Theodore Dreiser, with Mike Gold the squire of Seagate as poHtieal commissar, wil be striding down Fifth Ave...
...Imagine," he said, "the Frankfurters trying to save Christianity...
...Issometimes write about New York for the folks back home...
...The loeal placed three members on trial...
...The judge ttd'ihe great City of New York, we are all glad to know, proved equal to the emergency...
...In my talks with quiet farmers I can see this thing just below the surface...
...Like the Russian winter, we suppose...
...The Home Front By WILLIAM E. BOHN What We Worry About...
...while France's investments in the U. S. totalled $818,000,000...
...This almost automatically makes the Auto Workers the most important union in the United States, and indicates that it will shortly become the largest in the »world...
...In reality, they are not Communists at all...
...They are similar to both, but not carbon copies...
...It is almost impossible to put into words the difference beween tlufte people in the country and chaps that write all the words...
...Some Wasted Words IF I thought it would do any good, I would address a few warn* ing words to the Communist themselves...
...Talk about the Revolution or the Civil War has convt down and is part of every man's picture of the universe...
...For nearly tea urinates she raved at the West Coast chief, but the donation was not made...
...When I got down to the point about the American Communists and whether it is dangerous to have them on...
...Only 15 AFL unions are on strike, with 9,310 men out...
...Robinson is a vice president of the American Peace Mobilization and one of the nation's most notorious fellow-travelers...
...The main Communist strength appears to be in the Buick, Plymouth, Packard, Dodge, and Chrysler locals, with reinforcement coming up from the aircraft units on the West Coast...
...Reinl, we are -told, rose "with considerable agitation" and informed his honor that she had a tub of clothes soaking in her kitchen...
...Then there will be a great commotion...
...The old wars are much nearer to them than to city people...
...That more or less set the lunatic-fringe tone of the meeting...
...Head of the local America First Committee, John Wheeler, son of the Senator, knew what was occurring...
...A total of $103,000,000 was invested in Denmark, $93,000,000 in Norway, $78,000,000 in Poland, $80,000,000 in Spain, and $67,000,000 in Belgium...
...More than 22,000 jammed their way into the famed Hollywood Bowl...
...And war thundered in the East...
...The committees are, in effect, transmission lines from government to business...
...i- , Poor little Michael and 'Moscow Gold, -.»% Our line's been changed again, _g When they go the fronts will fold, Our line's been changed again, • * * #V-^ nflTH the tovarischi mentally strip teasing down to the last " G--PU string, you'll be interested in the story ol how Gypsy Rose Lee crossed Bridges out in Frisco last week...
...The union now has jurisdiction over the huge auto corporations, the Allis-Chalmers type of corporation, and the aircraft industry...
...Poor Herbert Biberman...
...As late as Saturday night, however, the Communists were part of the America First audiences and activity...
...Mrsmder Our fine's been chauced again...
...This isn't so...
...Eddie was retained as UAW publicity chief...
...He grinned and said: "Well, friend, there's Bathing tickles me more than to see two ornery critters get at each, other...
...A deal was then made giving the editorship of the Auto Worker, assent anion nonapaanr to Carl Haessler, veteran Communist who helped turn the Federated Press over to the Tovarischi...
...V. V. "feats**, one of the embassy staff, later told some Washington i mpui'loU that the meeting was called to "acquaint staff •members with the situation abroad, and was addressed by Oumnsky...
...The comrades had prepared a roaad of parties and activities for Mare BUtsstein, as part of a pablieity "peace" stunt...
...Illinois proposes to follow suit...
...Its potent weapon is the power to withhold—under priority rules— vital materials which any industry may need...
...It is understood that"' Merwin K. Hart, William R. Castle, Elizabeth Dilling, Father Coughlin, Maude deLand and others of that periphery know of these moves...
...Constant reductions in the number of troops on duty at the Los Angeles plant of the North American Aviation Corporation have been ordered now that production is back to ten warplanes a day...
...It is by far ^ better way...
...According to the Department of Labor there are about 4,000,000 employees engaged in national defense work...
...He rushed back to the embassy when he heard the news, and called a hurried meeting of all those connected with the legation except the younger children, who kept playful guard in the red-carpeted foyer...
...You know they ain't on our side and sever will be...
...During the summer months he will hit the ladies club circuit—which will take him on a coast-to-coast leetnre tour...
...They believe in it...
...they lack authority to regulate trade practices under the name of "fair play...
...From informed Washington circles comes news alleging that both .Senator and Mrs...
...Other Insect Life 9>I8tHAPS it is because of their experience with the beetles that • the farmers are more practical about this war than editors or congressmen...
...They don't talk so much, but they have their minds all made up...
...This is the sort of elements and audience attracted to America First rallies...
...These people cannot possibly think of America as lying down and letting someone like Hitler bestride the world...
...Lindbergh himself was nervous, fidgeting from foot to^ foot as he read his speech...
...I am writing these particular double-jointed sentences about the home folks for my New York friends...
...The notion of fighting for what you believe in is pat ordinary stuff...
...Furthermore, they are established by government instead of industry, as in the NRA days, meet only on government call and with' OPM men sitting in...
...They have abused the liberties accorded by our Constitution...
...But this is only the ming...
...so WALTER DURANTY, who will become a celebrity by appearing ** with John Gunther on the July 4th Information Please program, plans to return to Russia in the Fall...
...If they don't do it—and most of them are asleep at the switch— the balance may be righted by violent and illegal means...
...This was called by Reid Robinson's Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union...
...He is just 'another in a line of dangers which have to be met...
...She *«2!ed to 'work-in...
...Our soldiers need the money now...
...The industry committees^—they have already been set up for the steel, paint and varnish, and the electrical equipment industries— lack ^he power which business had under the NRA codes...
...Of course, as Stalin flopped— by necessity—so the Communists here flopped...
...They have flouted our laws and our courts...
...He will undoubtedly call^off the strike now that London and Moscow are officially allied...
...In the past six month some 10,000,000 man days have been lost...
...Their whole method of thinking and living and addressing themselves to our people is an affront to everything that is decent...
...The local officers first attempted to browbeat the three defendants into withdrawing their criticism of the fellow-traveling officers...
...Already Brooklyn has been the scene of an America First meeting, with Reverend Dr...
...Then it was too late...
...the company is owned by the British and has been struck US Money in Italy, Reich total Less than Half Billion WASHINGTON, D. C—Total United States investments in Italy, including direct investments, bonds and short-term investments, at the end of 1940 totalled $151,000,000, and the total in Germany was $441,000,000, the Department of Commerce reported this week, as the Axis powers threatened reprisal for the President's order freezing Reich and Italian funds in the United States...
...Now they have plenty of collective regret...
...They see a long way into Vm Communist business...
...Kathleen Norris and Lillian Gish...
...These are industry committees, organized by the Office of Production Management to act in an advisory role on priorities in materials, price control, expansion of factory capacity, export-import control, curtailment of non^lefense industry, etc...
...If some day they go a bit too far in starting strikes in defense industries, in sabotage, in heaping insults on our standards and institutions, their little professional .M*ds of gangster violence will be swept clean off the earth by JW« greater viplence of masses of people finally roused by a threat tstkings that are dearest to them...
...The thnee refused...
...Tfcnr were never fooled a minute—so they don't have to write long iirtobiographies to show just when the trials and the liquidations niade their gorge rise and so led to repentance and the writing jrf best-sellers...
...Last week he had just wound up his work in connection with the American Peace Mobilization's Western conference...
...This means well over a billion man days a month...
...Lined up with President Thomas are Richard Frankensteen, and Walter Reuther, who controls the strong' General Motors division of the union...
...One of the recent scuffles tank place in the UAW esnmtfra committee about a month ago,"when the Communist* insisted that Eddie Levinson be fired as UAW publicity man...
...Our line's been changed again, What's going5 to be with Cur ran and Quill, Our line's been changed again...
...walkout at Crona, California...
...faith in her and others like her has a deeper base...
...These mouthers of Soviet phrases have used violence aplenty in this country...
...Durarrty is telling friends that reports of Soviet censorship is just so much bourgeois misconception...
...Among the literature passed out at the demonstration was a leaflet blaming the Negroes for all the world's woes, charging that they were undermining the white race !by feeding them white, devitalized flour...
...Industry, in turn, gains exemption from anti-trust laws...
...Coming as it does after Wheeler's derision of Jewish leaders in recent broadcasts, it parallels the sloganeering of Father Cough-lin and other pro-German splinter groups...
...This waa all part of the explanation for a taint Loagae of American Writers—American Peace Mobilization demonstration which Herbert Biberman had scheduled for the Embassy Auditorium on July first...
...I would tell them what I found in minds of the .people back home...
...then Da Men Trumbo gave a party, aad then Elaine Barrio...
...Mot the Warty line tfHE trial of Morris U. Schappes for perjury tosses into the '"mews a number of human-interest items...
...Before that he will write a series of articles on Europe for the North American Newspaper Alliance...
...The trial was, stopped in the name of unity...
...This is a field' encompassing well over a million men...
...She is tadamentally of the same sort as my untroubled farmers...
...I went out to the old place last Sunday -ad found the folks all in a dither nbout the expected blitzkrieg ^ the Japanese beetles...
...economists compare them to the industry-labor planning councils established by the Weimar constitution...
...Over the radio and at a poorly attended Chicago meeting—some 2,000 came out—Senator Wheeler set the new tone for isolationist literature, propaganda and demonstrations...
...the next night the League of Americas Writers gave a coffee elatseh for the alleged composer...
...About 516.000 man days of work have been lost to the defense program in the month (May 27 to June 27), since the President declared an unlimited emergency...
...These people have done shameful things in America...
...But Harry said no...
...One was Anya Smith, wife of Anthony Wayne Smith, associate CIO counsel...
...California has passed a law to put the party off «allot...
...R. A. Thomas said that Levinson stays...
...The facetiousness of my New Leader colleagues furnishes dubious help...
...J*0 the tune of "I Knows It, Brother" . . . Imperialism is not the vogue, Our line's been changed again, Hitler is the bigger rogue...
...some day they go too far, if there is a dramatic incident that kits the public imagination, there may be real trouble...
...Enthused by Gypsy's well made points, some I—gshsrsmsa moved to donate S5M...
...She ended her speech with an appeal for the "United Serviee Organization, much to Bridges' consternation...
...They have committed murders, they have carried the methods of the gangster into areas where we never had such things before...
...The check-off gives it a regular increase in income amounting to $65,000 a week...
...Mingling with the American workers and peasants west of the Mississippi should do him good...
...A policewoman was dispatched—we hope with police escort and screaming sirens—to rescue the clothes tad serve the cause of cleanliness...
...One battallion of 900 infantrymen left June 17 and another 900 were ordered to leave a few days later...
...Meanwhile charges are being prepared against Lew Michener, UAW representative on the West Coast In charge of organizing plan factories...
...COME weeks ago we itemed here that the party line Federal Workers Union Local at the United States Housing Authority planned to purge some of its anti-Communist elements for being too outspokenly critical...
...A WIDESPREAD feeling these past few days is that all is unlet on the West Coast front, that CIO will now settle down to organizing without the interruptions of internal fighting and rebel strikes...
...They Cannot control prices—this is in the hands of Leon Henderson's OflSee of Price Control and Civilian Supply...
...Participating in the meeting— one of a nation-wide series of America First demonstrations scheduled between last Saturday and July Fourth—were the local German-American Bund, the John Steinbeck Committee to Aid Agricultural Workers, and the American Peace Mobilization...
...It's nothing to get excited about...
...The point in the Times report which gives the public good reasons to have faith in this jury concerns Mrs...
...In August, 1939, he was on tour urging war on Germany and Italy...
...Similar action is planned against George F. Addes, UAW secretary-treasurer...
...There was no idea of collective security and no plan for dealing with the enemy in a big way...
...To the initiated, this is a signal for a more intense drive to line up the Catholic population of America on the Communist issue...
...They are merely dishonest "fed dangerous representatives of a foreign power-tfiat has designs on this country...
...Last week she was asked to speak at a Harry Bridges longshoremen's meeting...
...Something, may happen that will start a march of with guns and clubs and ropes...
...John A. O'Brien brought from NotreDame for his first speech in the East...
...It was a meeting typical of those called in Soviet shop unit* The speakers were cheered, the new line was applauded, mmd grout heed was paid, repo%?ers later discovered, to the teaming that nothing must be said, especially to newspapermen...
...for many weeks...
...The G string expert jumped up, put her naked fist under Bridges nose and yelled: "Harry Bridges is always doing something Kite this...
...Since the Ford unit is allegedly clean of the comrades, it is expected that the convention will oust Michener, Wyndhmn Mortimer, Carl Haessler and George Addes...
...Already an 'amalgam of this sort has quietly taken place in Milwaukee...
...The jury consists of Ave women and nine men, and in the report of the second day's Proceedings it is the women who scored...
...And although Senator Wheeler has cooperated with the Communists in the American Peace Mobilization, and once permitted his frank to be used for the mailing of a Corliss Lamont article praising Soviet Russia, he is now ready to break with them...
...1JVITHIN a few weeks the government will make public asms for the training of Negro sailors aad gunners for an all-Negro fleet of torpedo boats...
...The industrial disputes scene, however, is slowly growing quiet...
...When he heard that his wife was being tried by her local he called Allan Haywood, is charge of the Federal Work* rs for CIO...
...The first night Biitssteia was in Hollywood he met the local commissars...
...It achieves a certain stabilization in raw materials, price^—and profits...
...And let me tell you, they'd better behave themselves or we'll put 'em where they belong...
...Thtn the loeal voted 26 to 20 to dismiss the charges...
...Communists Are-Not Their Comrades IT is strange how much more these tillers of the soil know about ..Communism than all of the professors who went to Russia...
...If public officials would do their duty and if great public bodies like trade unions would clean house, the danger of violence would be reduced...
...stationery and application blanks have been printed, discussions are under way as to what cities are to be organized next, what leaders are to appear in the open, who are to remain behiiid^scenes...
...They can take care of this Communist jWger with one hand tied behind them...
...ancient and 'ihas always borne a good meaning...
...These ruthles enemies spend all winter •resaring .for their "^Pa'kr and then let loose countless parachutists on the helpless vegetation...
...People like when they get round to it, will tike care of Communist ^Bnfcation and perversion with finality...
...One of them •hggests that she can be depended upon to put the faculties of some of our institutions of higher learning through a sani-¦<«ry wringer, and another interjects that her line is probably 7 not the party line...
...The climax is planned for Wheeler in Buffaftj-on July 4th...
...But it is the .government these days that makes and enforces these decisions...
...Then came peace a la Moscow aad he returned to Hollywood to confess that he had been wrong...
...After calling for a march on Washington by isolationists from all over the nation, Senator Wheeler urged a peace drive for "democracy and Christianity...
...The long-distance telephone call had its effect...
...Only the Federal agencies can lay down policies...
...The beetles conquered one region at a time, much'like Hitler, but no farmer was interested till they reached his own line fence...
...Like most patient folks, they are liable to see nd when they are aroused...
...Lindbergh, Wheeler, Nye, Bennett Clark and" D. Worth Clark, Kathleen Norris, Robert Taft and Hamilton Fish are leading a roster of speakers through ten states during the next ten days...
...The Marxist stripper has been a favorite at comradely gatherings ever since she shed for Spain...
...Our line's been changed again, / knows it, Browder, I know it, Brawdfr, I kmmmm it...
...At the same time, the America First Committee is spending large sums on one of the widest mailings and one of the most ambitious series of speaking tours undertaken in the past twenty years...
...pHE pall overhanging Los Angeles is not artificial log from the * San Diego naval base, but gloom over the movie colony...
Vol. 24 • June 1941 • No. 26
