Where the News Ends
SCHLAMM, WILLI
By Willi Schlamm Where the News Ends SO now we ere asked to aid Russia. Since my worst vice is my inability to decline any request, I will soon mail to Moscow all the bombers, tanks and...
...Great Britain neglected serious preparation for war...
...The spectacle of Brown Bolshevism, "with all its faults," to stress Lindbergh's,deliberately mitigating characterization, coming forward as the liberator of civilization from Red Bolshevism constitutes the height of absurdity and falsification...
...The Russian people would have been spared the horrors of Bolshevism if the Kaiser's Germany had not helped Lenin achieve his dictatorship in Russia...
...We permit enemies within to drain the springs of our moral force and to conspire in the name of illusory peace and a cowardly pacifism against the independence...
...Somebody somewhere must have tjat wrong somewhat...
...And photos and statistics don't lie, do they...
...The typical struggle in Polartd today is between democracy and reaction...
...Smith, notorious fellow-traveler, r from the National Labor Relations Board with the expiration of his term next month, will give President Roosevelt an opportunity to strengthen the board as a constructive instrument for the regulation of employer-employee relations...
...link in the structure should be the establishment, oUtside"*'of government, of a research and advisory agency for the formulation of policy, consisting of representatives of labor and employers...
...This action was justified by military necessity,", wrote Ludendorff...
...when the staff of generals of your Red Army had to be purged...
...It will not be enough, however, to put some one more enlightened and less vicious in his place...
...when late-comers among the factory workers had to be punished with the loss of a week's income...
...a happy nation of 180 millali people, for a whole generation living the anef life along Lenin's and (Stalin's patterns...
...bene educated than any other nation on earth...
...Antisemitism in Poland has no doubt been a reality...
...Spiritual and intellectual she Us bock of our own making has come over upon the descendants of Washington, Jefferson, Patrick Henry and Lincoln...
...one who identified Want** member of this skafldaf- sg x riding, strike-brenkitsr CmjL of Twenty-one, nor did 1 V* anyone permission to ase tide or any part of it f...
...wheh fees tfcere levied on those going to elementary school...
...And we still n> member the convincing promise that the Knsnh youth, though it might" perhaps be a bit tout in dealing with Stalin's internal foes and an too subtle in appreciating ethical valnm, a matching all these possible deficiencies wits fa unmatchable mastery in flying dive bombers, is parachut-jumping, in manning the world's ssntt perfect tanks—many, many millions of j...
...As to references to these statements, just look up your own literature, Mr...
...Hitler > And did not Hitler, when it suited him, make an alliance with Stalin which permitted the latter to share in the despoliation and enslavement of peoples...
...vincible heroes, equipped with stunning retoht of "Socialist technique...
...It is not difficult to discern that Lindbergh inserted "England" in this statement for "strategic" reasons...
...Any collectivism dictated from a government center, as experience in Russia, Germany and Italy has shown, would be an unspeakable despotism...
...Confronted with the most ruthless and most powerful enemy that ever threatened the very life of this Republic, we continue to pursue' smugly a business-asusual course as others fight our battle...
...William M. Leiserson, informed and competent, one not seeking to utilize his position and the pjpwers of the National Labor Relations Act for the purpese of promoting Communist hegemony over the labor movement...
...The same persecution has been directed against all democratic and socialistic elements...
...You certainly do not want to (at if the statistics and triumphant reports (tat tat Dean's, for instance) which were telling us jf this marvelous achievement during recent yem Our ears still hum of all these gigantic ftgtna gargantuan claims...
...our eyes still tire ftta seeing all these terrific "documentary" photo-montages, tri-color magazine covers...
...Certainly there are reactionary and therefore antisemitic elements today among the Polish exiles as -well as within Poland, but the Polish democratic forces are apposing this "fifth column" both at home and abroad...
...many's...
...when birth-control, had to be penalized with years in prison...
...Your Russian was never lured into complacency, as were his toiling brethren in democratic countries...
...We watch almost unconcerned the onward march of the foreign foe against the peoples by whose side we should be fighting ffOW...
...Since my worst vice is my inability to decline any request, I will soon mail to Moscow all the bombers, tanks and anti-aircraft guns 1 can personally spare...
...Government must be neither master nor wet-nurse of the people...
...That^t is the wealthiest country of this planet, developing its huge natural resources of raw materials, soil and human endeavor to a never-dreamt-of abundance of physical production and human happiness— under the glorious Socialist leadership of your boss-genius...
...never betrayed by appeasers, Wall Banal agents, democratic politicians;*(*5T**ssec with aW> tory's greatest achievements itiimatters of eat ture, economic security, personal perfection...
...On July 4, 1941, the United States of America is in deadly peril...
...It must intervene only to the extent to which the rights of the people and their opportunity for independent, creative action must be protected...
...The board needs another man like Dr...
...fully sware, far more than twenty years, that they would am to fight the invasion of effvrotni—"mperiaan vipers...
...The Wagner Act should be revised in harmony with the New York State Labor Relations Act, which permits the workers themselves to determine tjbe scope and form of organization...
...I am looking for clarification Mr...
...an army which stancd modern training and armament production ftftw years after Father Stalin had established, sal insured, his Red Army's superiority over si possible intruders...
...And we have the National Defense Mediation Board...
...and integrity of America...
...ruling themselves\ in the wcrid's Bjajj perfect genuine democracV...
...America, awake...
...The future belongs to a collectivism which will retain the democratic framework, and preserve and extend the...
...All three should be combined into one agency, under the direction of a competent chief, someone like the able and universally respected William H. Davis, now head of the NDMB...
...Such an undertaking would presuppose unequivocal acceptance by business and industry of the principle of genuine collective bargaining...
...From a Social Democratic point of view this should be the most important factor...
...During the great peasant revolts, as in Rupczycs about eight years ago, and in Lapanow, and during the mass strike of peasants in Malapolska in 1938, not one antisemitic outrage occured, although there are large numbers of Jews in these areas...
...You can't deny that, Mr...
...a J - B\ A NATIONAL LABOR POLICY ^FHE exit of Edwin'S...
...They d:d this because they saw in Bolshevist Russia an instrument for the revival of German militarism after its collapse in November, 1918...
...A union emanating from the mind of ,an Edwin S. Smith cannot possibly retain the life force which comes only from the intelligent and untrammelled action of workers themselves...
...For more than twenty years it was arming for, and expecting, the forthcoming imperialist invasion...
...The ' new free society can be achieved Only through voluntary, democratic collective action of all creative forces of society...
...perialist attack, Mr...
...Such an agency, with equal representation of labor, industry and the public, armed with proper authority but excluding any vestige of coercion, would contribute immeasurably to the stabilization of employeremployee relations while helping, both directly and indirectly, to promote that industrial democracy which is so vital a factor in the task of peaceful social reconstruction...
...JULY 4, 1941 ON JULY 4, 1776, the United State* of America was Bom...
...Nazi Germany's silent partner until June 22, we are now asked by windy Lindy to believe that Stalin has become the "ally" of American democracy in its determination to help destroy Hitlerism...
...It was not and is not something peculiarly Polish, nor is it to be charged against the mass of the ¦ Polish people...
...There are 180 million happy," always busy,^ economically and politically satisfied Soviet Russians, gentlemen, but not more than 80 million Germans who, before Hitler came to power, were living in the wholesome misery of capitalist democracy and, since 1933, under the iron heel of a hated dictatorship of finance capital...
...might be kind enough to supply me with...
...A labor movement moulded in structure and policy by government fiat ceases to' be a free labor movement...
...when the eighthour day had to be abolished...
...The Polish Socialist Party as well as the Jewish Socialist Bund, the trade unions comprising gentile Poles M -well as Jewish workers, the Peasants...
...purpose...
...Russia had to be destroyed.'*' And Russia was destroyed, as Ludendorff, Hitler's precursor and political associate, had planned and hoped...
...I shall do it, but...
...We suggest that Lindbergh consult no less an authority on this question than General Ludendorff, commander-in-chief of the German armies in the last war...
...A compared with Soviet Russia...
...Many of the best names in Polish science, literature and art are associated with the fight...
...The mightiest and most intelligent a my ol the world, led by the greatest of aU great eaden, equipped 'with modern machines whose hesatl caused all the great proletarian poet* t- wntt the most raving adjectives, supported hj ttj limitless love and faith of 180 million r*lf-ea»sV dent, happy, free workers and peasants—fighuaj an army of blind ants, out-worn by counties previous campaigns, threatened by the revolt aj dozens of conquered nations, forced to keep sap occupation gangs in the hinterland, —and I am asked to send my few spare unto to Russia...
...I am trying hard to reach their level...
...For more than twenty years your Russian woke up, spent his busy day, and went to bed activized and even electrified by his wise government's neverceasing warnings that he must prepare himself, with supreme efforts and all necessary sacrifices, for the impending moment of the unavoidable clash between his beloved Socialist Fatherland and the imperialist vultures...
...when for many years the production of the most essential consumer goods had to be relinquished for the sake of tool and tank and plane production...
...Corliss Lamont or some other of Stalin's many ambassadors to the U.S.A...
...Did you not defend all of Stalin's deeds, wfcig i we simple-minded stooges of international ahesnt * capital charged were inhuman crimes, wfc| statements that it was all-important to man) the endangered Soviet Union the biggest, can, pletely invulnerable military power on earth* And has not your fatherland caught up wft^ and joyfully surpassed, rotten capitalist An« ica's productive power, not to speak of Q...
...Party, comprised exclusively bf gentiles, and democratic elements among the intellectuals, professional men, and even bourgeois elements, have fought and are fighting against antisemitism and against all forms of reactionism...
...The old individualism, synonymous with anarchy, economic crisis and social perturbations, is gone as a system...
...Da only nation which knows what she is fighting tod Such a nation is being attacked by an ana* which is backed by a people of only $P mitten —nay, opposed by a huge part of the Geaav nation, as you told us, comrades...
...Those who know the facts wijl not fail to recognize in Lindbergh's statement one of the most shameful utterances in our political history, on a par with Senator Wheeler's contemptible assertion that in promoting a policy of aid to England in the interest of our own defense President Roosevelt was trying to plough under every fourth American boy...
...Who sent Lenin to Russia...
...I am amazed, gentlemen, I am amazed...
...8bts of the individual...
...While this anal SW tee is, in true K« ntko fashion, hiding its hhmKty, * tend to ascertain wbe a* ***** srble for this plagariara an* take suitable action on tt* Los An jelcs...
...bargaining units...
...With absentee ownership becoming an ever more dominant factor in industry, labor and management should seek together to promote an ever widening cooperation not only as regards wages and working conditions, but also a joint participation in the administration of industry itself, under such social control as the facts established by scientific research and experience may prove necessary and feasible...
...A giant of steel, he has always foreseen every possible turn of history—the only recorded case of ability to look around the corner...
...Dennen says that "racial hatred in Poland unfortunately is as old as Polish nation...
...The American people had a great dream and were not afraid to follow it...
...The NLRB should be an agency for the protection and promotion of collective bargaining...
...Antisemitism is one feature of reaction...
...Today this nation is not united...
...Do not the characterizations Lindbergh applies to the Soviet regime fit equally the regime of his hero...
...We have^'also the labor division of OPM...
...Just let us take the facts as you have offered them to the American public for many years in countless illustrated books and magazines...
...We do not dare as did our Forefathers...
...In exchange, however, I should like to learn bow come Russia needs our outworn, shabby, inefficient democracy's aid...
...kZ ' your Secret Police was forced to pat your walk country into a strait jacket...
...Democracy and social justice, not racial hatred, have been the traditional "watchwords of all Polish insurrections for the last hundred and fifty years...
...His presence on the board has been a veritable scandal...
...Contrary to the unhappy democratic nations, who are at the mercy of crooked politicians and Quislings, the Russian people have for twentyfour years enjoyed the wisest, most honest, most efficient leadership with which mankind was' ever blessed...
...In that conflict, which, including the uprising in the Philippines, lasted officially from April 21, 1898, to July 4. 1902, about 400,000 soldiers and sailors were engaged, every one of whom *»*| volunteer...
...Furthermore, we wonder whether Lindbergh, whose -ignorance of international affairs is no less abysmal than his ignorance of military aviation, so tellingly exposed by no less an authority than Maior de Severaky, is familiar with the fact that Germany had a direct hand in implanting that very regime in Russia which Lindbergh professes to condemn while pouring the soft perfume of his eloquence upon Nazism...
...Your Socialist Fatherland was certainly not caught sleeping...
...Did not you tell me all the time that your fatherland covers a sixth of the inhabited earth...
...This Russian nation of socialist superaw...
...The combination of a beat wave and Stalin's cry for American help was too much for my hitherto well-balanced picture of this world of ours...
...Smith's exit will, therefore, be welcomed as the elimination from the picture of an enemy o/ democratic, free trade unionism...
...It should not dictate the shape and character of the labor movement...
...Have we really lost the capacity to say "Give me liberty or give me death...
...when your geveri ment, .with tears in its eyes, supplied Masathal with oil for his Abessynian adventiu* and Ha...
...A board consisting of representatives of the A. F. of L., C.l.O...
...Oumansky...
...In fact it had repudiated the fifth columnists before Dennen's article was written...
...an a~nu>ant which is hated and sabotaged not only bytonv of enslaved German workers, but by the task of subjugated Europe...
...And while the President is considering improvement of the NLRB and its operation, it would be highly desirable if he addressed himself also the task of perfecting the nation's machinery for the settlement of strikes and labor disputes...
...One mora...
...When she wrote, "we never had a single war without conscription in one form or another, even the Revolutionary War," Miss Hayes evidently overlooked the Spanish-American War...
...It was not all in fun, was.it...
...Nay, your Stalin never fell for the sweet poison of appeasement, never ran into the trap of pacifist illusions...
...Oumansky and Lamont follow my reasoning...
...Led until 1939 by a wicked appeaser clique...
...KNIGHT OF THE NAZI EAGLE I INDBERGH'S role aa chief Nazi propagandist in the United States and leader of American fascism was exposed by himself as never before in bis speech in San Francisco last Tuesday...
...This is one of those half-truths that are sometimes as bad as falsehoods...
...Democrats, regardless of race or religion, are combatting it...
...Why-England needs American aid, every child can see—since yesterday—through the courtesy of the one who writes the resolutions of the C.P.'s Central Committee...
...Excessive state control in labor relations inherent in the feature of the Wagner Act of which we speak is the foundation of totalitarianism in social and economic life...
...Letters To the Editor Scores Dennen for Charge That Most Poles Are Antisemites From FELIX GROSS To the Editor: Leon Dennen'a article on Polish antisemitism, in the New Leader of June 21, besides containing some incorrect statements, conveys a wrong impression because it says nothing about the attitude of the Polish people...
...This machinery requires greater coordination and a clearer policy...
...OUT Soviet Russia...
...i work of landscape-changing proportions...
...Lamont...
...Moreover, being a plutocracy, England is structurally unable to develop her industrial resources...
...Under its now well-known agreement with Moscow, the German Reichswehr used Soviet Russia as a. laboratory and springboard for the development of Germany's new war industry to circumvent the restrictions of the Versailles treaty...
...Still later, under Stalin, Germany cooperated with Moscow in the establishment of the draconic industrialization and- collectivization of Soviet Russia...
...It is not true that the Polish govemment-in-exile is antisemitic...
...Because Hitler has chosen to attack Stalin...
...Corliss Oumansky or Ksctk Lamont, or whatever your name is, Mr...
...ler with manganese for his continental burgUras just for the sake of foreign exchange...
...Very much is being done now in the Polish prtdergrorod movement to cultivate Polish-Jewish friendship and solidarity...
...And now when Germany finds it no longer advantageous to keep that regime in power and has declared war on Soviet Russia, Hitler, with Lindbergh's assistance, seeks to paint Germany as the savior of the world from Bolshevism...
...That was why they were victorious...
...when your glorious leader, with heart-break and profound sorrow, was forced to liquidate all his former associates...
...j Cites Action of '98 Spanish i Volunteers to Dorshq Hayes* From HARPY T. SMITH To the Editor: Kindly allow me to point out a slight error in Dorsha Hayes' excellent "Letter to a Young Pacifist" in the June 14th issue of The New Leader...
...v Sure...
...Having uttered this monstrous lie, on the well-known totalitarian principle that the greater the lie the more likely it is to be believed, Lindbergh hastened to add that he would "a hundred times rather see my country ally herself with England, or even Germany with all her faults, than with the cruelty, the Godlessneas, and the barbarism that exist in Soviet Russia...
...Finally, the British are outnumbered by the Germans at the rate of almost 2 to 1. All in all, it's a pitiful case of capitalist inefficiency, caught sleeping by the onslaught of a superior though fascistically distorted "planned economy...
...And despite the fact lliiiana* of them had seen some ef IS* comrades die as the result «f n rotten meat sold to the <3**S* ment at high prices by the *P triotic beef barons," about 7*1" Spanish-American War ««nsaS volunteered again and nerval • the World War, although w*4l ? yond the draft age...
...On page 407 of Ludendorff's memoirs, "Meine Kriegserinnerungen," Lindbergh will find the statement that the German general staff sent Lenin and a group of his chief lieutenants through Germany in a sealed car from Switzerland via Sweden to Petrograd, in April, 1917, with the deliberate purpose of promoting the Bolshevik counter-revolution against the Russian Provisional Government, because the masters of Germany considered this to be of military advantage to their country...
...ITjTHEN the death penalty had to be introduced ™ for twelve-year-old children...
...betar fed and clothed and housed than Hhr ihajaV lessly exploited masses \,of plutocratic eaajfc raceis...
...But this reality was bound up with general reactionism and in recent years ' with iascistic tendencies...
...Thus, rotten England must be helped by another rotten though economically somewhat stronger democracy...
...Improving la Qaofffy From Elizabeth H. Thomas To the Editor: The New Leader is heartily improving in quality and, shall I say, in political wisdom, Rena Vale Scores "Committee of 21" For Use of Article Frost RENA VALE To the Editor: It has come to my attention that the Committee of Twentyone, a childish group of illiterates in Hollywood that is assisting the Disney side of the Screen Cartoon Guild strike on that studio, plagarised my article in the June 21 New Leader, and mailed it anonymously to naunabun of -the AFL Negotiating Committee...
...So far, I hope, Messrs...
...whs 1 your international leaders were forced to earn the Socialist Fatherland's borders tc refama from Nazism—was not all that done, with i bleeding heart, for the purpose of making country invincible against any forthcoming as...
...S. • • • CO here we are: a country covering t tixtk *•* of the inhabited earth—22 millions squats kilometers, while the whole rest of Europe atnanj only 10 million square kilometers and Germany proper merely 0.5 million square kilometers its* Soviet Union being forty-two times ss fan ¦ Germany...
...The Polish people are faithful to this great tradition...
...For a whole generation your Russians traveled the road towards Utopia under the guidance of a man who not only surpasses any human being's wisdom and virtues but is also the shrewdest realist of history...
...when milium* * ' helpless "prisoners' were ordered to da «u...
...The Bolsheviks under Lenin, assisted and financed by German militarism, seized power in Russia, took her out of the war, betrayed the democracies, as Stalin betrayed them again in 1939, and brought the Allies to the verge of defeat...
...Oumansky or Mr...
...At the birth of the American Republic stood men who knew what they ..wanted and how to achieve it...
...While lucky Soviet Russia, organized by the incomparable Stalin, has not known unemployment for about twenty years, the Germans <at least until 1935) were allowed to use only a fraction of their productive power...
...Germany was most generous in supplying Stalin with credits and machinery for the enslavement of the the Russian people—with one purpose: in order that Germany might use the Bolshevik regime, as Hitler used Stalin in the pact of August, 1939, against Europe and the world...
...The natural inference was, nl that The New Leader and ' engaged in sti ike-rimniaif- "] I was not appro acini by a...
...Or will this great nation yVst arise in all its grandeur and its glory, in all its might and stature, and say to all the work): "We are here, we are-here fighting by the side of all lovers of freedom and humanity for the defense of the Rights of Man...
...At present it is scattered over several agencies...
...We are drifting, fumbling, uncertain, confused...
...He could not very well urge unequivocally that this country enter into an alliance with Nazi Germany, although it is obvious from his statement that he would like nothing better than to see ourselves joined to the Nazi "wave of the future...
...With the intellectual dishonesty and amoralism that have characterized all his utterances on the war, Lindbergh hastens to help his pal Hitler convince the American people that by aiding the unfortunate people of Russia, who hate Stalin no less than they hate Hitler, "we are fighting to defend the Russian way of life...
...OamnmJ'* request...
...Where is Dennen's "old racial hatred...
...it is beyond nwj* understand why I was never able to say "ak but I am definitely stumped by Mr...
...We have the Conciliation Service of the U. S. Department of Labor, an excellent organization with an impressive record...
...drawing from the planet's richest raw m»tera sources, producing, within a superiot "ulssanl economy," more oil and steel and grain am e*»rf thing than all Europe and the rest of th- want (the Americas excluded), is attacked by i mtw which lacks oil and steel and grain and a otke raw materials in a rather ridiculous »a...
...fi aaj - of the Soviet Union...
...The National [ Labor Relations Board should be stripped of its present absolute power to determine the character and scope of collective...
...The word "volunteer** hi * could legitimately cover IB* ular Army and Navy aa wal * the State militia outfits, h****** economic necessity differ* aa* ri«llv from rnnxrrintiolL...
...and the recognized national organizations of business and industry, financed by equal contributions from each of the participant groups, would act as an unofficial parliament of labor and industry for the discussion of vital problems of labor relations and the formulation of measures for mote- effective collaboration between the two and such legislation by Congress as may be deemed necessary and . advisable...
...Later, having implanted Bolrhevism in Russia, the Germans did all in their power to maintain the Soviet regime...
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