Coughlin's Eastern Agent Sets Up New Front for America First Group
Coughlin's Eastern Agent Sets Up New Front for America First Group Ecuadorian Clique Uses U.S. Fear of Nazis To Start War in Peru By BRYCE OLIVER The paradox of United States assistance...
...An A F L strike in San Diego, tying up a naval ammunition dump project neared conciliation...
...The A F L tied up three defense plants when its United —Automobile Workers Union struck at the Sealed Power Corporation which has millions of dollars in defense subcontract...
...A War Department survey showed that 187 strikes had e'est 2,458.150 man days...
...rt ** of the effect of the startling change * «e .Nazi war oa tbe world on British leftwing politics I want to write...
...It was kind of labor-saving device for the brain...
...The tenor of the America First Committee's propaganda was set in the July 12 edition of its official Bulletin...
...In effect this section of the left-wing movement were merely narks sponging on the Labor Movement...
...He is one of the few men whom Charles Conghlin has ever visited...
...Mad ^tain not heM out ^^j...
...But as one reads on the encouraging heading watered down to a reaffirmation of the old policy of do-nothing in the anti-fascist struggle...
...The United States could pot permit any such Japanese play...
...Already, the British have seized the initiative in the air...
...b Ecuador they seek war with Peru for the Wrpose of arousing Peruvian hostility against •••United States...
...The workers who differed with them were described as simpletons and fools, and their leaders as tricksters and knaves...
...Donald Henderson, president of the United Cannery and Agricultural Workers...
...Betrayed by a corrupt, tyrannical Czarist government in 1914-17, millions upon millions of Russian troops laid down their lives only to see their country lose the fruits of Allied victory when the Czarist betrayal found its counterpart in the Bolshevik treachery of BrestLitavsk...
...John Lewis intensely dislikes Tobin, whom President Roosevelt picked over Lewis as a close advisor on labor...
...Still further steps in the direction of labor peace were taken during the week by the Shipbuilding Stabilization Committee of Sidney Hillman's OPM Labor Division, which announced that the Great Lakes shipping Zone had banned strikes, lockouts, curtailed production for the emergency...
...For one thing, his machine will emerge from the Russian adventure—if it ever does emerge from the vastness of the Russian land—very much weakened for any blows against England or elsewhere...
...Harry Lundeburg's Sailor Union of the Pacific reports that during a recent election inside the longshoremen's union Bridges was actually defeated in the Washington district of the International Longshoremen's and Warehouseworkers Union, receiving only 757 votes against 1,064...
...The American people share fully Churchill's formulation...
...They got what they wanted, the offered mediation and Peru shook with anger...
...In peace time they wasted ^heir time denouncing each other, i n war they tacitly agree to bury the hatchet between themselves and concentrate their venom on the general Labor, Cooperative and Trade Union movement...
...Meanwhile the OIO president lay ill of a heart attack in a Pittsburgh hospital...
...We have long been satisfied that the first requirement towards a liberated Europe was conditioned by, the removal of Hitler...
...Reports direct from Moscow received by our State Department say that Soviet government officers have begun to evacuate the city...
...Telegrams of support came from veteran party liners as Edward T. Cheyfitz, National Secretary of the National Association of Die Casters...
...The Soviet Government must be reorganized op a democratic foundation...
...On Monday of this week New York City newspapers received a release from A Catholic Laymefi't Committee for Peace...
...1 Whether this Peruvian suspicion was correct or not, Washington confirmed i t by offering the mediation which was accepted with such alacrity by Ecuador...
...The Daily Worker lies when it maintains that in proclaiming this slogan we are demanding the return or capitalism" in Russia...
...The United States helped by a loan to stabilize Arroyo del Rio, which that reactionary immediately used to buy support from the Army by doubling thie pensions...
...The lone Communist M J V has called for increased industrial production to prosecute the war more vigorously against Hitler...
...Plans are already being put into effect for removal of the capital to Kazan...
...A new line of resistance beyond Moscow is obviously in contemplation...
...Since the invasion of Russia the British Communist Party has' issued a manifesto that is as near to its previous "People's Government" declaration as the new situation permits...
...It is*mie that the Nazis are -working in both Wintries to Create a war,, which they believe »wld set all of Latin-America aflame...
...City politics...
...the National Maritime Union expelled a man named Doyle for demanding a probe of red control...
...In Anacortes the AFL counted 83, Bridges 0. In Port Angeles the AFL, 78...
...In this section of the left wing there is only one thing they seem to regard wholesomely and that is the Lenin-Trotsky revolution of 1917...
...The elections were called by the Labor Board as a result of a three and a half year AFL fight for reversal of an NLRB decision which had cast all western longshoremen in one union...
...One more such victory as Hitler appears to be gaining m Russia and he is lost...
...In Detroit, 40,000 autompbile and plant workers, in Chrysler and Briggs, went back to work when the strike at the National Automotive Fibres, which supplies upholstery for the auto companies, was settled with 8 to 16 cents an hour increase...
...This technique of continually charging the Jews with responsibility for the war ' was carefully planned in Washington at a meeting in which several leading isolationist senators participated...
...This third biennial meeting set up a 58-man National Unity Committee to organize all ship workers into one large union...
...Mike Quill congratulated Trotskyite union chiefs by wire, while Lee Pressman, CIO national counsel, traveled to Minnesota for personal conferences with the Dunne brothers...
...v Peru was thus placed "on the spot...
...Since found that the worst kind of Chamberk""*01 did not save her from war with Nazi T*»«ay there has been a slight ripple on the BP waters of left-wing politics here...
...pro-fascist Edward Lodge Currae, head of the International Catholic Truth Society...
...Here is what **» say: ;|the United States, conscious of Ecuador's •fritegic position in defense plans for the PaMi Canal, has bought out the Ecuadorean General Staff...
...This is seen as the first step towards Phil Murray's plan to manage defense problems...
...We demand the restoration of the conquests of the Revolution to the Russian people—the conquests stolen and defiled hy the Bolsheviks...
...Says the Sailors' Union of the Pacific West Coast Sailor, official newspaper: "Bridges is through in the Northwest, he no longer represents the longshoremen there...
...Between elections the Maxtonites trade in the catch words of irrespon' sibilism, but when their three MJP.'s seek reelection they straighten their caps and bring out old Labor Parity election addresses...
...But it isn't as simple as ail that...
...It was to_William T. Leonard, at 44 Court St., Brooklyn...
...We have no illusions concerning the ability of the Germans to attain their objectives— Kiev, Moscow and Leningrad...
...It was signed by the pro-Christian Front Herbert A. O'Brien, a Justice of the Domestic Relations Court, and by William T. Leonard...
...A l l of which brings us to a reaffirmation of the position taken by the New Leader from the very first moment of Hitler's invasion of Russia: Stalin must go...
...If America comes through with the aid promised the British by President Roosevelt —and the outlook is now distinctly encouraging—Germany will be pulverized from the air"' next year in a manner that will cripple fatally her capacity for offensive action...
...Committee s roper Prints Attack On Racial Refug/m By VINCENT ROGERS A direct link between the semi-secret eastern section of Charles Coughlin's organisation and the America First Committee was uncovered this week by the New Leader...
...They faced a situation where their general theories could not be stretched to cover...
...P * Out in the Midwest the much harrasscd Dunne brothers found support In an unexpected quarter for their flight into CIO, and their union (Local 5,44 of the Teamsters) scrap with Dan Tobin...
...That is encouraging, but no new lines of military action will be worth much unless and until the Russian people have a government in which they have faith...
...This, section was in evidence at trade union meetings and conferences denouncing all who tried to think out the war situation and face the facts...
...Lewis' United Mine Workers has a $ 3 , 0 0 0 , 0 00 war chest, and only this week levied a special $1 assessment to increase that reserve...
...And only such a government can command the faith and the necessary assistance of the American and British peoples We repeat: Stalin must g o ! This Week With Labor Bridges' Control Cracks on Coast, Girdler Follows Ford Into CIO By VICTOR RIESEL Labor history was in the making in a score of industrial and shipping centers this week as defense strikes became museum pieces by declining to 75 per cent of the stoppages'of last month—B...
...they were more honest, more capable and more courageous than all around them—or so they thought—and this pleased them mightily...
...Bridges lost all three...
...As we look hopefully to the ultimate disintegration of the Hitler machine, we cannot help realizing the tragedy of the Russian people...
...and Tom Girdler followed Henry Ford into the union fold by calling off a fotrr and a half iyear war with the CIO and agreeing to sign Republic's 15 steel plants with Phil Murray's Steel Workers Organizing Committee...
...the Bridge's union, 3. With the National Labor Relations Board ordering more and more craft elections it appeared that a new phase of AFL-QO was in the offing, with OIO losing its previous advantage gained from whole-plant-unit polls...
...Walter Reuther, author of the CIO plan bearing his name to utilize existing auto capacity for defense, headed the delegation...
...When the New Leader's representative asked for the committee, Mr...
...It's amazing because, ia the light of the military situation, it is ridiculous to assume (hit Ecuador would have a chance in a struggle...
...Only q Democratic Russia Can Beat Hitler Japan Seen Playing Italy's Role for Hitler in Orient By MALCOLM HASTINGS Regardless of the military objectives which the Nazi armies may ultimately achieve in Russia, the heroic resistance of the Russian people to the treacherous invader will be a vital factor in ultimate Allied victory...
...This is published by the supposedly sincere New York Chapter...
...What must be done to make certain that the Germans be bogged in Russia without any hope of extracting any economic advantages from their conquests ? If a new Russian front is to be organized on the Volga or in the Urals, direct American assistance through Vladivostok will become imperative for reasons of our own security...
...Leonard ia also executive secretary of the America First Committee's Brooklyn Chapter, which has frequently been charged with Nasi sentiment, for it is dominated by the anti-semitic...
...They are holding street corner meetings, waving banners, and shouting "Down with Yankee Judaism...
...I should be extremely surprised if the Labor Party paid the slightest attention to these petitions...
...When Coughlin came east for an Ebbets Field rally Goodwin sat at Coughlin's right on the speakers' platform...
...organ there is a two page spread banner headline declaring complete working-class solidarity and support to the Soviet workers facing the invasion of their country...
...bfy Frank Barnhart, Midwest personal representative of John Lewis...
...By agreeing to sign with CIO, Tom Girdler closed an era in which he made "Little Steel" and himself the symbols of industrial toryism in America...
...Goodwin's secretary admitted that the Catholic Laymen's Committee merely had desk apace...
...The entire machinery that was devoted to whipping up grievances in industrial life has been turned into an anti-Nazi movement...
...Unless repudiated by General Robert E. Wood, the committee's national chairman, and the Brooklyn and Queens sections of America First, cleaned of its outright pro-Naei controlling influence, the entire isolationist movement hi compromised as part of the German propaganda offensive machinery in this country...
...Only 15 A F L strikes involving 6,000 employees...
...Nor was this all...
...On outside fringes of left-wing politics here there were several groups that maintained an academic attitude to\the vast struggle going on in the continent...
...The Russian people must be free if they are to continue the battle for freedom in fruitful cooperation with other peoples...
...The CIO is well equipped for any such long-drawn-out battle...
...The British Communists, are only concerned with the defense of Russia...
...Girdler not oaly had defied SWOC, but the Department of Labor and the National Labor Relations Board as well...
...reached...
...So our local Comintern boys line up as the most loyal supporters o f the war against Hitler...
...The entire future of what is known as Ecuador is shrouded in uncertainty, and Washington, stumble-bumbling in the morass of Latin culture, history and sentiment, has itself helped the Nazis to harden the Peruvians against us...
...The conclusion is that is no war titiht now because Peru, at least, did not desire What then could have pushed the Ecuadorean Mra...
...But there are immediate and important advantages for the British people in the newprowar policy of the Comintern...
...And for three and a half years Bridges' International Longshoremen's and Warehouse Workers Union bargained for men who wanted to go into the AFL...
...There he found no such name on the bulletin board...
...But I can tell you something about the' Peruvian youth movement...
...Yet, the fighting ocenrred inside one of them,, Tumbes, along the Saramillo River...
...We demand that Russia be returned to the Russian people...
...Meanwhile the Minneapolis teamsters situation continued to boil into what appears to be the hottest inter-union fight in years...
...A New Leader reporter was assigned to visit the Catholic Laymen's Committee for Peace at the address listed in the release, 288 Broadway...
...In the current issue of the weekly I-UP...
...The statement denounced President Roosevelt and assailed Bishop Joseph J. Hurley's speech which urged American Catholics to support the drive on Germany...
...Lewis Merrill, president of the United Office and Professional Workers, and Abram Flaxer, president of the State, County and Municipal Workers...
...Mervyn Rathborne, who was made secretary of the San Francisco Industrial Union Council to be i n t a better position for grooming as a substitute for Harry Bridges, said "now is the time for action...
...and had arranged for an adjustment of wages after one year to care for advances in the cost of living...
...So far as the vast majority of the British, people is concerned the entry of Russia as a belligerent made no difference...
...Accordingly, Lima is correct in maintaining that not Peru, but Ecuador, was the aggressor in this last and most menacing series of clashes...
...About 41,600 men will be affected by the contract, and so be brought into CIO...
...In spite of bomibs and aerial bombardment there were people who contrived to abstract themselves from the world and spin nice theories about the goings-on...
...The most recent was seen in Chicago recently at the German Day picnic, at which the America First Committee distributed a leaflet containing Charles A. Lindbergh's May 10, Minneapolis, speech...
...The demand for "a people's peace," for deep bomb-proof shelters, for holidays at home for soldiers, and for all the other fantastic proposals born of the Hitler-Stalin Pact, have died a quick death...
...Goodwin has been frequently exposed by ' the New Leader as one of the most important doughlinite leaders in the East...
...The port of Guyaquil, itself, is directly across the gulf, northward, from the shoreline of Tumbes Province...
...In this simple mental set-up our extreme revolutionaries enjoyed a feeling of exalted superiority...
...One must talk to Peruvians to understand •hefbasis for this belief that the United States ~*Pports a frivolous claim...
...So hot headed Peruvians went berserk...
...the defense of their own homes from Naaism is of no consequence but the defense of the new holy Russia is paramount...
...This time, too, the Russian people are battling the same foreign' foe under circumstances analogous to those created by the Czarist regime: political oppression, lack of food, bad communications, incompetent leadership and government-made isolation from any possibility of adequate assistance from outside...
...The British I J J - P . is merely a right-wing section of this conglomerate...
...Churchill did well when he declared this week that the Russian people are the allies of the British...
...The next few weeks may bring Japanese intervention in Siberia, with Japan attempting to play the back at the crucial moment...
...The amazing part of the business is that lenador-^-at least, the General Staff of Ecuador's small army—attempted at this late date to establish Ecuadorean rule by force in Tumbes Province, which has always been under Perurisa legal administration...
...Neither the Government of fern nor President Arroyo del Rio of Ecuador desire war between the two nations...
...The elevator starter, however, directed him to Room 1778, when he asked for the Committee's office...
...Too big now for .their breeches, the Ecuadorean staff j / u i / i YYUI KJII r v t u took the Nazi bait and attempted to force the United States to act...
...Other indications of the America First efforts to win over anti-Semitic elements have been reported...
...The Committee consists of 29 N M U delegates and 2? men for Pacific coast indepedent locals...
...Despite the apparent quiet, there were important news st;ries on a scoro of fronts...
...It is, and always has been, a small, undelimited buffer state, existing onlfci by fhe will of Peru, Colombia, and some short-sighted United States commercial-banker interests...
...If 544 gets jurisdiction, Tobin will attempt to organize the field...
...Already the agitational, movement in the workshops has dampened down...
...The government statement on the war on Russia has been received with acclamation by the Soviet Government and the leading...
...Tbe name on the door read William J. Goodwin, and obviously was merely a business headquarters...
...While Harry Bridges was traveling to Cleveland to tell National Maritime Union delegates that the FBI was a strikebreaking agency and that the Soviet Union, not England deserted all. out aid, his union lost three important NLRB elections on the Northwest coast...
...This belief was confirmed when the Ecuadoran General Staff, running hog-wild out of Wntrol of the unpopular, reactionary President Arroyo del Rio tried to force the smouldering issues...
...Best known of those on this committeeyfwhich will cooperate with CIO's new Maritime Organizing Department, are Joe Curran, Frederick (Blacky) Myers, Mervyn Rathborne, and Joe Selly, who succeeded Rathborne as president of the American Communications Association...
...Mike Quill wired support and characterized as "Hitler-like" the FIBTs raid on the Trotskyite Socialist Workers' Party headquarters...
...Dan ToMn's International Brotherhood of Teamsters, from which Local 544 has just withdrawn to join CIO, is opposed to' such a poll...
...I f I told New Leader readers that no one in Britain is troubled about the state of the consciences of our Trotskyist minorities, this would be but the simple truth...
...The contents of the erstwhile agitational typed and mimeographed sheets has changed completely...
...But he was careful not to say that Sfeaiin and his regime were Britain's allies...
...All the recent anti-war stunts have already been dropped...
...As a matter of national honor the Peruvian Gevernment had no authority to mediate a matter which was strictly internal Peruvian...
...Every hour lost in unneccessary strikes means more danger to Soviet Russia, so we might expect less industrial troubles in this country...
...But the price the Nazis will have paid for them will be very considerable...
...British Communists Dump Pacifists, Grievances, Air Raid Shelter Campaign, as Nazis Invade Russia By JOHN DAVIS Special to The New Leader J*A8GOW (Passed by the Censor...
...In Tacoma the vote was AFL's International Longshoremen's Association 523, Bridges CIO DUWU, 50...
...Before adjourning, the delegates found time to call for the release of Earl Browder...
...But everyone expects that this face-saving declaration will be quietly forgotten in the very near future...
...For literature she directed him to an address typed on a card...
...Peruvians say they never have been able to enforce their rights because of United States objections...
...The Russian people cannot achieve the internal unity necessary to avert catastrophe, new civil wars and famine with Stalin and his G.P.U...
...The Electrical Workers Union local 3, which recently won its Leviton strike, delayed a walkout on the Consolidated Edison Company to give conferencing a chance...
...The pew war situation compelled a hew attitude which expressed solidarity with the Russian workers and peasants, but stopped short at doing anything to implement their solidarity...
...AM three provinces are Peruvian historically <*»use representatives from them signed the fwuvian Declaration of Independence...
...Recently Goodwin organised The Rock, a rabidly anti-liberal organisation to participate in New York...
...The •seer"'si given by democratic statesmen in hoof'Aires is, the Nazis...
...No authority on the subject, including the official historians of the former Spanish Court, e*er conceded Ecuador any right to any part of these three provinces...
...tne fall of ""we ftalin wouldS be facing the entire ^™*n>Md millions of Nazi Germany alone...
...According to the Peruvians, the General Staff had assurance-that Washington would offer mediation, and thus create substance for the Ecuadorean • claim...
...Meanwhile, the auto woi-kers made industrial and defense-history when the first time in the OPM, representatives of the union sat down jointly with auto company heads to plan the conversion of a peace-time industry to defense...
...It would bring the war to a more speedy victorious conclusion than we had any right to hope for after the campaign in the Balkans...
...The rj*Wwts of "imperialist war" are now thanking Privately for the British fight against the J?L*nemy of the "Socialist Fatherland...
...There were those small but noisy groups which declared that all wars are the result of capitalism in its ever extending struggle for markets and trade routes...
...The Axis now openly promises the justice to Peru denied by Peruvian considerations for Hispanic-American relations...
...As the weeks and months roll by, the British initiative will be intensified...
...One reason why North Americans have never been able to understand Peru's sweeping claims is the failure to understand just what Ecuador actually is...
...Battle lines in the United Auto Workers Union, which were tightening with R. J. Thomas and Walter Reuther fighting Wyndham Mortimer and the Communists, preparatory to the coming union convention, loosened this week, as Roy Hudson, Communist Party trade union commissar, in an article in the Daily Worker announced that the opposition to Thomas would be dropped...
...The International Brotherhood of Teamsters has a $6,0 0 0 , 0 0 0 bank reserve...
...Initiated observes were ready to turn in their political Baedekers on learning that during last week the now indicted Trotskyists were being backed by "fellow-traveling Lee Pressman...
...sa Peru...
...Some 65,000 "whites" run the alleged democracy and maintain their position with United States aid...
...In this general category could be grouped the myriad small local groups of anti-parliamentarians, revolutionary parliamentarans, Trotskyists, Anarchists and whatnots...
...The moment is approaching, however, when the Russian people will be confronted with the urgent necessity of radical internal changes if resistance is to continue beyond the lines set in the enemy's objectives...
...Thomas immediately repudiated their support, rejecting "Communist support, advice or interference in the affairs of the union...
...I cannot prophesy for the continued support of this group against Hitler: it all depends on Father Stalin...
...They bow that all Peruvians, from the pro-Amer<•» President down, believe that the United States alone supports Ecuadorean claims to had historically Peruvian...
...Axis agents in Peru then openly denounced the United States for "supporting" suddenly aggressive Ecuador and promised Axis support for Peru...
...I don't suppose my opinion counts for anything," wrote the son of a high Peruvian official to a friend in-New York...
...There is what the two countries are threatening to fight over, lire are three Peruvian provinces which stoat into the so-called "disputed area," the rttmsces of Tumbez, Jaen and Mainas...
...These objectives will probably be...
...Hearings are now -being held in Minneapolis before the Minnesota State Labor Board on the Dunne Brothers' Local 544 demand for a statewide poll of the;motor transport industry's workers...
...This decision was made during the hey day of the Edwin SmibhJ. Warren Madden majority combination on the board...
...We demand that Stalin be eliminated...
...The only thing discussed now is the Nazi-war op Russia...
...Some 6,500 men will receive back pay—amounting to nearly $100,000—as a result of the signing...
...So the danger of internal strife whipped up by the JJritish Communists is at the moment removed by Hitler's latest aggression...
...At that time it ordered a "unit" election' for the entire west coast...
...I., before invasion, News came of the cracking of Harry Bridges' hold on west coast longshoremen...
...Washington, they say, is committed to give at least some moral support to «uador's ambitions...
...Ecuador is militarily important to the United States—nothing more...
...For 120 years, Peru has held moral and historical rights over vast stretches of jungle territory (now found to be rich in oil) straight northward to the Colombian frontier...
...A pitched battle between the teamsters and C IO would tie up and bloodyup the midwest for months...
...in power and millions of workers, peasants and intellectuals in concentration camps...
...The fighting has been in the Province of Tumbes, a atrip of coastal land with its shores on the Gulf of -Guyaquil...
...O'Brien was listed as chairman, and Leonard as secretary...
...During the week of June 17 the NLRB, with Harry Millis and William Leiserson now outvoting the outgoing Ed Smith, ordered new elections in three northwestern cities...
...That's where the Nazis came into the picture in Peru...
...Revolutionary France in the 18t!h Century was able to meet and destroy her enemies precisely because it was revolutionary...
...Fear of Nazis To Start War in Peru By BRYCE OLIVER The paradox of United States assistance for war-mindeJ Nazi agents_on the West Coast of South America has confused the issues between Pern and Ecuador...
...Harry Bridges' San Francisco majority steamrollered over the antiCommunist, anti-CIO longshoremen in Oregon and Washington...
...They might shout at trade union conferences that Churchill was as bad as Hitler, but they could npt declare that the great Stalin was worse than the blonde beast of Berthtesgaden...
...You wool find them on any but the official maps...
...Russia cannot continue the bitter struggle ahead of her with a counterrevolutionary, totalitarian regime paralyzing her energies...
...The support to be given to the Soviet workers presently facing the guns of Nazism is to consist of determined effort to establish a Socialist Commonwealth in Britain...
...The New Leader's reporter was not sent by the Catholic Committee to the Manhattan office, where John T. Flynn is in charge...
...This generalization excused the theorist from further thought about the matter...
...Yet, the United States was seeking to intervene...
...Assuming that the Germans will have thrown the Russian armies to the Volga line by September, if not sooner, as well they may, the questions will then arise: How shall resistance be continued ? What is to be done to rally the Russian people for new battle regardless of territory lost...
...During the 1936 Lerake campaign be was Coughlin's eastern organiser and ran on the Coughlinite ticket for Congress...
...The Rock has been characterised by competent observers as fascist in principle...
...Phil Murray rebuked Lew Michener, friend of the California Stalinists,''for accusing the United Auto Workers in general and Richard Frankensteen in particular, of selling out to North American Aircraft...
...Paradoxical but true...
...With the foreign policy issue out of the way, the Communists feared that they would be wiped out at the forthcoming convention...
...An organization, centering about the old Sedta (air-line) company in Ecuador inspired the Ecuadorean General Staff with the idea that now, with America committed to maintain Hemisphere peace, these generals could move with Impunity...
...We have no doubt the British are doing and will continue to do all in their power, under the circumstances created by Stalin's policy, to help the Russian people and their armies resist the common enemy...
...and 15 CIO walkouts oi' 9,100 men could be found by the middle of last week...
...The back of the leaflet contained a subscription blank which sought membership or contributions for the committee...
...Failing complete success in this age-old venture, the Russian Revolution can be overrun by Hitler's panzer divisions and the philosophic revolutionaries of Great Britain can safely wash their hands of any responsibility...
...But that the conscience of left wing socialists should not be stirred by the Nazi attempt to grind the life out of the Russian people is surely beyond understanding...
...Tpes would stain their high principles...
...In the Oregon district he obtained a bare majority of 182...
...However, both the Government of Peru (the Prado ad¦iaiftration) and the President of Ecuador are becoming highly unpopular with vociferous, Nazi-inspired sections of the populations of both countries because of 'the attempt to frustrate the war parties...
...Communist spokesman in Britain has approved it wholeheartedly...
...As Churchill reported this week, the R^fcf&Js"^jjfljf devastating German industrial, military and communication centers td a degree much greater than the damage the Germans have heretofore inflicted upon England...
...staff into the crazy adventure...
...The first result cf the change in the war situation has been that the Communist Partywants to make a political bargain with the Labor Party to try and get some political capital out of their necessary change of front...
...Anti CIO talk was prohibited in the Allis Chalmers plants which' earlier this year was shut for just such a reason for 75 days...
...pie-ii* • Although the National Maritime Union received the widest publicity as a result of the Joseph J. Doyle resignation and the involvement j o f the Government, which owns the Panama Railroad Liner Ancon, Joe Curran threatened tc tie up unless Doyle were fired, more important news was made at last week's Cleveland NMU convention...
...With the invasion of Russia our academic revolutionaries were caught out...
...The political consequences of such development inside Germany would be incalculable...
...In an editorial it said: "If, then, Hitler were to agree to restore the independence of Norway, Denmark, Holland, France, even Poiaad, while these people in America (the foreign groups) might be appeased, there would still be a powerful group—the most powerful of all—the refuge Germans and their fallow racial and religious brethren, who would protest...
...The address turned out to be the Brooklyn headquarters of the America First Committee...
...In 1937, 18 men were killed during the notorious Decoration Day massacre...
...An excited House of Representatives killed the May bill, which would have treated strikes as sabotage . . . the-rVinson bill was dead...
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