Nazis Still Secure Patents Despite Drive To Free U. S. Firms From Reich Control
SHORT, GEORGE
Nazis Still Secure Patents Despite Drive To Free U. S. Firms From Reich Control By GEORGE SHORT Germany -will encounter difltealtr-patching «P 5ts propaganda apparatus and replacing many of its...
...The New Leader warns all liberal, labor and progressive organizations that the'new "conference" is merely another innocent front similar to the new useless American Peace Mobilization...
...Then came the 1934 strikes...
...Since transportation, shipping, manufacturing and lumbering are mentioned, and since these are the fields in which Harry Bridges, Joe Curran and O. M. Orton'are the leaders, the public is reacting to the indictments as though they were part of a governmental campaign against the Communist party of Browder and Minor, instead of tfae Communist's historical enemy on the left...
...Another is Farrell Dobbs, national secretary and former teamster organizer...
...Frankly, Mr...
...They built and now control teamsters local 544,'one of the most strongly organized locals In the nation...
...but on this important question thlj is no systematic chapter on Croce...
...But here it is not only the Negro who feels the brunt of the discrimination, but Mexica...
...New C. P. Pan-American Front An attempt to revamp the Communist Party line on pan-Americanism is planned by the party high command, the New Leader learned this week...
...With the change in Soviet foreign policy the Germans can no longer rely 6n time-consuming strikes to keep U. S. munitions and weapons from the British...
...v. The situation is repeatable in many other instances with the establishment of industry-advisory committees in the OPM...
...especially to one busy autographing books at New York cocktal parties), that woman "whose scent is pleasure but whose smell ¦ death" often keeps^he poet sniffling...
...Vincent Dunne is the dynamo behind the combination...
...In another patent (2,248,472, granted to Eduard Zintl of Dafn>" stadt, Wilhelm Brauning of Sandersdorf, and Walter Krings of Bitterfeld, German Farbenindustries town) another method of drawing: aluminum ingredients from clay is safeguarded from Americans...
...Here in each industry division, representatives of companies under indictment sit down to advise government— in many cases — on practices for which they were indicted...
...V:"ageism...
...More than 100 negroes were immediately tested for jobs...
...Admittedly these are yet small steps, but this progress since the Presidential statement — including the opening to Negroes of jobs in three aviation companies .—presages further steps towards the adjusting of job equality...
...Missouri...
...Some years ago the Teamsters International expelled the Dunnes' Local 544 and tried to organize, a rival union...
...Robert C. Weaver, Hillman assistant and Chief of the Negro Employment and Training Branch of the OPM...
...Williams and those friends of his who give the anthology Its tone arc but the Grub Street camp-followers of the less important faddists...
...and Max*Yerg»m is president of " the National Negro Congress...
...Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington, Chicago, Birmingham, Kansas City, San Antonio'and San Francisco...
...The volume is rich in individual chapters dealing with setoena problems and surveys...
...He has been busy seeking more and more legal basis for severance of American firms from German patent ties...
...A. J. Isserman...
...These are two attitudes to be sharply discouraged...
...As a result a section ¦«of WPA appropriations was cut, thereby eliminating Lasser's post as special labor consultant to the WPA...
...Williams is not poet er crjgk enough to cope with the problem...
...In this connection, particularly valuable laC chapters by Kimball Young and Doufrla* flherdortci, wbgtJjPlr page survey ef social psychology is notable for its concisenea H incisiveness in analysis...
...Oh, the good poets are included: the poets whe speak sharply and to some avail, who do not tvrite with a foot on an overtntMi pail and an eye on James Laughlin IV...
...There is death and decadence a-plenty today, but the navel-ftnB| which so excites Williams...
...Lasser's case recalls the similar technique last October when Communists and conserrati^o ments in the Smith CooatnaBl ganged up to smear David poss, NLRB Chief ecoin*B|^ Jl a Communist, and to h**e H House kill Saposs's division- P*1, poss was on« of the most ofjflp anti-Communist* in the Among those who have joi**" Voorhis in defense of Lnsoer •** Rep...
...After organizing the truck drivers, Dan Tobih's International Brotherhood of Teamsters issued the trio a charter...
...The indictment charges that memben of the SWP sought to infiltrate all major industries to proselytize...
...Out at the Sun Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, at Chester, Pa., where 750 colored skilled and unskilled workers are already at work, Negro employment will increase 100 per cent...
...The poets>who write with conviction and the combustion that comes of it, whe rmm follow a thought through the treacherous waters of cadence aas % rhythm and line: HacLeish, Auden, Spender...
...Biddle is skeptical of the "return to small business" philosophy part of the anti-monopoly drive...
...To him...
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...SEW POEMS: 1940...
...The attempt failed and the local was readmitted...
...a*"otaan»*> of sociology itself...
...William E. Dodd, Jr., vice chairman...
...secretary-treasurer...
...and the General Aniline and Film Co- Inc., makers of Agfa-Ansco...
...The teamsters -waged pitched street battles with the police...
...At the same time the i regular LaGuardia petitions § of the regular Manhattan I American Labor Party can | be verified by looking for the I committee on vacancies, which | in Manhattan are: Harold § Baer, Joseph V. tyLeary, | Thomas Young, Alex Rose, | and Bessie Blum berg...
...Germany's total dollar investment in the United State* is...
...But when he attempts to pass off this brand of-tripe as the new revival and as a cross-section of poetry, in theet aarstirred days, he is indulging in a rather cheap counterfeiting jte...
...1 Main driving force in this job rise is Dr...
...The patent number is 2,248,826...
...Williams thinks it pretty hot stuff...
...Social Theory Hodgepodge IJERE is a plan of ambitious integration and a resultant storsft ** bin miscellany...
...There is James P. Cannon, Trotskyist national secretary who was among the first expelled from the Communist party during the 1928 factional fighting...
...Casey, leading libersi fro» Mass., and House Leadea •*¦*' mack...
...6,279,000 in sales and distributing agencies, which can readily be used for propaganda and pressure activity...
...Winthrop Chemical Co., Inc...
...Although the personalities involved are not known, it is believed that a .figure of the stature of Franz Von Papen, who during the first world war directed industrial espionage, sabotage and special industrial activity in the United States for the German government, is operating somewhere...
...and committee members Franz Boas, Joe Curran, George' Marshall, Jack McMichael...
...His keynoting Forward, which sets some sort of note in phoneyness and bad taste, proclaims that "the poet wrapt ha paroxysms" about the "impossible^ mystery of existence,*" that violent death during war-time "appears as ridiculously irrelevant...
...An added spur to Negro employment was the Hillman announcement this week that Dr...
...Jack McMichael is an .American ' Youth' Congress leader...
...The 1 ALP withdrew its support of I Quill at that time...
...Paul last week are men who have been familiar figures in New York City's radical movement for many years...
...The 1 ALP is opposed to the re| nomination of Mr...
...The CurtissWright move seems satisfactory, for the company has announced that similar plans are being formulated^ for its new plant in St, Louis...
...The resulting propaganda and prestige are obvious Key concerns in this •German-American group are' Sterling products, Inc...
...Isobel Walker Soule ' heads the American Council on ' Soviet Relations...
...This German concern has direct and indirect control over blocks of stock in many of U. S. industries...
...It'is believed that the FBI moved in on the now indicted -German spies before its directors thought wise, because of presaupe'against the department...
...A Lot of Bad Teeth Selective Service officials estimate that only about 22 per cent of our population receive dental care...
...Among those issued last Week was one on an invention which...
...However the United States government is still issuing patents to Germans on important war machine improvements...
...The patent is assigned to Dornier-Werke G. m. b. H. of Friedrichshafen-on-the-Bodensee, Germany...
...George Marshall is one of the editors of Soviet Russia Today...
...Barker & Co...
...i*^ei The American Civil Lnaaw* Union this week also chnMWngr the dismissal of Lasnar.-annlP^ ing as contrary to sound policy, the technique o/*|Poj| a person from trie public by naming them in tf9"tr~^ tions bills and forbiddinjf of money to pay their «*JJJr rather than the holding af a,fW lit aejtring...
...An Anthology of British ana1 Amenta Verse...
...Born, in Minnesota's agricultural country, he turned lumberjack, Wobbly and then communist...
...I wish fam *th«"jiy g his opinion...
...Weaver's staff are being assigned to regional offices in New York...
...of Bethpagc, L. I., and the Republic Aviation Company of Farmingdale, L. I. In the middle west, Negro enrollees are now receiving training in defense classes operated in Detroit for the aircraft division of the Briggs Manufacturing Company...
...to produce at lower prices...
...As usual when the line changes the old organization are jettisoned and new ones created...
...It is aVrab bag...
...The Bureau reportedly had been watching the foreign agents for two years in the hope that sooner or later the mysterious leaders could be apprehended...
...Previously engaged in turning Latin America against the United States for its alleged "yankee imperialism," the Communists now seek Latin support of the United States' effort to aid Britain and the Soviet Union...
...It is somewhat inexpedient to press these suits and at the same time invite oil company representatives to sit down with Harold Ickes to jointly regulate prices and production...
...Dunne Brothers Key Figures in SWP Indictment "•"T^rttral figures of this week's wholesale indictment of 29 Trotsiyist Socialist Workers Party leaders are the militant Dunne toothers, Vincent, Grant and Miles...
...The indictments include charges based on the statement of principles- written in January 1938, when the Trotskyites set up the SWP after being expelled from the Socialist Party...
...In the section dealing with application of theory to spechV fields, Seagle and Roueck discuss various historical and ceaua*} ¦porary contributions to jurisprudence and education, While IsloW rides his hobby horse of positivism, empiricism and voluntarism n economics for all its esoteric worth...
...as with his chapter ¦ sociology and political thought, gives indication of being a rewlpt with little substantive addition, of essays written fifteen yean IBThe dominant confusion of this particular volume seems to* . in the author's uneasiness as to whether their chapters should MB been expository or whether they weir to be allowed to present than parti-cular points of view Howard Becker presents a chapter ft typology, a polemic in methodology, while his chapter on maternal sociology is shot through with references to his own pa] Ml bent...
...Douglas, Ryan ¦ and others...
...The action was take as a result of orders given by Acting Attorney General Francis Biddle, who' is reportedly slated to succeed his former chief, Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson...
...The Nazis now are expected to speed physical instead of political sabotage against the factories...
...Report Biddle May Drop Arnold Anti-Trust .Suits WASHINGTON, D. C—Political "dope" in Washington has it that if Actirig Attorney General Francis Biddle takes over the Department of Justice post, Thurman Arnold may find his trustbusting division relegated to the shadows...
...the New York Communist Party, occasionally appearing at Newspaper Guild meetings...
...An important chapter labeM the relations of the natural science to the social science;- if m«ru| an essay on Dilthey and Rickert by Goldenwciser (seemingly «SB> pleted just before his death...
...Simmel, Windelband, Meaaheim' and others who grappled with the problem of Hsdeteal relativism...
...Biddle...
...Albert Goldman, Trotsky's lawyer, who went to Mexico after the murder- of the Bolshevik leader to push the investigation and wind up legal matters for the" SWP...
...The'Bayer Co...
...poetry is where ma hang your adjective, anthologies where you publish your dealer friends...
...Cleveland...
...Other developments in this field include the admittance of Negro trainees in pipefitting, welding, sheet metal and electrical defen-se courses at Philadelphia for anticipated employment at the Cramp Shipbuilding Company yards, and the conclusion of an agreement with west coast unions and shipbuilders for the transfer of NegTo building trades workers to the shipbuilding yards for immediate construction employment...
...McAvoy Tec'ently resigned' as deputy commissioner of welfare under public charges of active communistic ' activity...
...Thurman Arnold, head of the' Department of Justice's AntiTrust Dlvisjph, has been active against the German corporations...
...This week, House liberal leader Jerry Voorhis blasted the action against Lasser and branded it a Communist trick to rid effective anti-Communists from the government payroll...
...At the same time, Negroes were given representation on the Regional Labor Supply Committee, and members of Dr...
...Goldenweiser's brilliant short account el anthropological theory and his biting criticism of FtmctiolBnaB (with a capital Ft: Becker's informative account of hinteetel sociology, and George Lundberg's workmanlike chapter on staftaV in modern thought...
...Entitled "Contemporary Social Theory," its 9 papers by 19 professors cover the development of sociology, dttl with differences of social and natural science, trace biological dtti and environmental theories as influences on social theory, devote a hundred pages of discussion on innovations and concepts of MeJftT psychology and psychoanalysis, "introduce" a cultural approach (c social evolution (bedraggedly labeled development) and ends wjtk applications of theory to economics, politics, jurisprudence, crinanology, social work, religion and education...
...1 The technique being...
...The Dunne brothers have had a colorful career...
...Property...
...The Division recently obtained an indictment that had the effect of freeing the American Company from its obligations to ' C t r l 'Zeiss,' Inc.,-of Jena, from where had come many of the patents, processes, and even technicians used in the American manufacture of binoculars, range finders, periscope lenses, gun sights, fire-control lenses, and essential optical goods...
...it is learned, does not favor Arnold's practice of bringing criminal indictments against business executives...
...Social theory would have dealt with the dnP and patterns shaped by basic institutional structures...
...P. Appl**** Century...
...He is still active in...
...Studies made by anti-Nati groups here reveal that not only is German control present to a.n extent approaching domination in some industries, but the products involved are widely used and advertised...
...In the hands of a ring, run by such a man or-group of men, is the direction of efforts to cripple American industry...
...The Dunne brothers too, were ousted about the same time...
...Aviation training courses have also been opened -to Negroes by the Gruman Aeronautical Engineering Corp...
...After their expulsion from " the Communist Party they entered Minneapolis' transport industry...
...It is the work of the anthologist to define and concentrate new or surviving trends, and manners, and this Oscar Williams 'hit not done...
...Most of (he chapters ar...
...Edited hy Harry Elm* Barnes, Howard Becker, Frances Bennett Becker...
...2,467,000 in transportation facilities...
...Evidence of this is seen in the communistic activities of the conference callers, These areUUffttttl T. McAvoy...
...Yet George Lundberg who mightjjiave been called on i answer Becker, merely presents a straightforward account of Ihl rise of statistical uses...
...Recipients of the patent arc Jean C. Seailles of Paris and Walter R. G^ Dyckerhoff of Mainz-Amoneberg, Germany...
...Nazis Still Secure Patents Despite Drive To Free U. S. Firms From Reich Control By GEORGE SHORT Germany -will encounter difltealtr-patching «P 5ts propaganda apparatus and replacing many of its agents among the 450 'Axis employees now on t^ie West Point heading out to sea...
...Good taste and a sensitive ear were necessary, and hen we were betrayed...
...Liberal, Labor and . progressive circles have constantly warned all left wing elements that such Statements of Principles were politically useleas and merely put a weapon into the hands of those who at any time desired to crack down on American radicals...
...Among the policies passed on to the regional offices, of significance to Negroes is the one recently announced that the Defense Training branch of the OPM that Negroes will be trained in selected occupations in Communities where heretofore there have been no employment opportunities -for them...
...Isaacs for I his cooperation with and I employment of Communist 1 help...
...Singularly enough the Communists made absolutely no protest or criticism of Congress' action...
...An airplane propeller built like a leaf is patented by Claude Dornier of Friedrichshaben^on-the-Bodensee, Germany, builder of Germany's Dornier flying boats...
...Yet, because of...
...The number is 2,248,221...
...Jones recently remarked that the personnel of the defense agencies "looks more like Thurman Arnold's anti - trust docket than a list of persons employed to safeguard the public interest or welfare...
...and other funds in finance, banks, trust companies, investment companies and insurance...
...One of the first dents in the aviation discrimination wall came when the Curtiss-Wright corporation at Buffalo, makers of military aircraft, told the OPM that it will exhaust all skilled labor in the Buffalo area—including colored workers—before it seeks men in outside labor markets...
...surveys of particular fields*or accounts of the devej», ment of a field...
...Bill Dunne, the fourth brother, toed the line and for a while was editor of the Daily Worker...
...such actions by Arnold, part of ALCOA's throttlehold on aluminum production was broken to allow competitors, like the Reynolds Metal Co...
...Then the'LaGuardia 1 signatures are destroyed, B The New Leader warns all | enrolled ALP members in I Manhattan to ask the can| vassers for their authoriza- ' I tions...
...There can be little doubt," Voorhis continued, "that one Communist tactic which has been used more than once is that of starting and fostering false reports to the effect that these very anti-Communist progressives are Communists...
...with some of the grabbing good...
...it remains a shallow attempt at the iaeaf**" tion promised by the authors in their preface...
...The Yardstick Press...
...It also has a large share in control of parallel industries throughout Latin America and other parts of the world, accordjng to the Non-sectarian AntiNazi League's Bureau of Economic Research...
...OPM Drive Spu rs Neg ro Job Rise in Defense Special to The New Leader WASHINGTON, D. C—-Employment of Negroes in defense industries is steadily rising under the impetus of the Presidential declaration asking for the end of job discrimination, and the OPM order of June 26, a New Leader surveydisclosed-this week...
...Calls for "action" Which would wartant publicity, and adverse criticism high in government circles is'alleged to be responsible for the arrest of the spies before the "higher-ups" could be traced...
...r* I Watch I Petitions | Carefully 1 Canvassers carrying petii tions issued by the Com| munist-controlled Manhattan | American Labor Party Clubs 1 are using a new device to 1 get signatures to a primary I petition designating Stanley | Isaacs for president of the | Borough of Manhattan, the | New Leader has learned...
...ttm *COSTEMPORARY SOCIAL THEORY...
...Others indicted are Felix Morrow, who edits the Militant, official party paper, renamed decently., after the last Trotskyite split...
...Franz Boas is head of the Committee Democracy arid for Intellectual Freedom...
...All the names arc representeaV-Aent Aiken to Zaturenska—very conscious in their modernity...
...wtcJT^ Sen-Sen rhymes of Frederic Prokosch thrown in to m^k, ja ~% "electric" collection...
...the Aluminum Company of America...
...Poetry Betrayed Books and Writers Poetry Betrayed By RALPH DE TOLEDANO IJERE is an anthology of new verse* that fairly begs for 4mJ ~ , tion by faint praise...
...Already the defense pressure and the need for business cooperation has resulted in the quiet dropping of a number of antitrust suits...
...As is common with contemporary sociological theory it deali with abstracted processes of social facts, but not its results...
...The (Dunne Brothers won and went on into other fields...
...This will fake place at the Hotel Commodore, in this city on Tuesday, July 29, 1941, when an" "Emergency Conference on the Western Hemisphere and the Defeat of Fascism" is called to order...
...These companies have been accused of forming a lobby for the benefit of the I . G. -Farbenindustrie, the huge German dye trust...
...That, Ifcs* is no mention or discussion of capitalism as a system of tosh* relations, of Fascism, Bureaucracy, Class...
...But in the editorial hands of Oscar Williams, whose talento might better be employed at writing ad copy for phrenologists, these energetic throats have been strangled in a manner most foul, and the sounds that arise from N-ew Poem*: 1940 resemble the jemtnfoniiste cat-calls, the faun-like moans of a new Greenwich...
...Of this amount $55,000,000 are "direct investments,"'that'is direct control by German companies of United States subsidiaries, according to the department Of commerce...
...Further friction was | caused when the incumbent M borough president: endorsed 1 for election to the city Com1 munist Michael Quill, presi1 dent of the Transport Work1 ers Union, after the' latter 1 refused to criticize the Russo| German pact of 1939...
...He has had some success...
...Except for oblique handling in chapters by Becker, tbeTi ¦ no discussion of the crucial problem of social causation...
...The rest are members of the General Drivers Union Local 544...
...2.50...
...The Communist ALP clubs are 1 opposed to the Mayor's reI election, but are obtaining | signatures for him to canton| flage themselves...
...At the same time they are in a position to curtail production, through their control of patents and U. S. corporations, in vital fields despite the impression that the President's recent executive order freezing axis property would provide a means of severing contractual relations of American corporations manufacturing strategic war materials under license from German trusts...
...Aspirins...
...chairman...
...I Domestic and international political consideration are djjsrupting effective detective work, according to observers long familiar with the work of federal investigating bureaus...
...Dow Chemical Company and the Magnesium Development* Company, the latter having been jointly owned by the German concern and Alcoa...
...PARTICULARLY of this category is George Barker of EngUai, * a mannered versifier perfumed in the high odors of, cheak puberty...
...German infiltration into key defense industries through patent and cartel agreements was recently termed by government officials as "not only a subtle form of fifth-column activity, but also a means of sabotaging an all-out effort of American industry...
...Robert Weaver, a Negro, has been appointed one of the twelve officials of government agencies who comprise the newly-created Labor Supply branch of the Labor Division of the Office of Production Management...
...has no relation tote* acrid world confronting the poet...
...Heretofore regarded as unsuitable, this substance may become the source of limitless supplies of aluminum...
...edited by Oscar Williams...
...One Washington columnist, Leon Pearson of the Times-Herald, predicts that if Arnold, under the Biddle regime, should persist in bringing criminal indictments for monopolistic practices, "there may even be some changes in personnel in the Justice Department...
...McNiece and Wallace Stevens, Delmore Schwartz, Horace Gregory, Aiken, pcrhsM Dylan Thomas, even Marianne Moore whose little flame mum harnessed, more and more, to a mechanical refrigerator...
...106,000,000...
...Barnes' chapter on the development of sociology is thnfnV, loaded with names and little else...
...Lasser's past connection with the Workers' Alliance, winch wan captured by the Communists, was used by Tory Congressional elements, intent on slashing relief, as a pretext to cut WPA...
...extracts aluminum ingredients from low grade clays...
...f\ 1 Basically, the book is not social theory, but sociological theory It talks of the problems of the particular field: its leeas, ¦ methodology, its definitions (of group, accommodation...
...The Department also obtained' indictments against I. G. Farbenindustrie of Bitterfeld, Germany...
...Isobel Walker Soule and Max Yergaft...
...Among those' indicted by the Federal Grand Jury in St...
...After the | LaGuardia "petition" is I signed, the enrolled voter is | asked to sign one for Isaacs, | the implication being that the I regular ALP with clubs all g over the city is backing § Isaacs...
...However, its industrial, espionage and sabotage machinery, even the operations which require' consular outlets remain intact, but under constant surveillanjce by the Government's law enforcement agencies...
...Toughest nut to crack is the west coast firms: Boeing, Vultee, North-American...
...Biggest advances to date have oeen in snipouuaing...
...A declaration of war would do this automatically...
...While officials of the Aluminum Company' of America, the Magnesium Development Co., the Dow Chemical Co., and the General Anilin, were indicted amidst much fanfare for having restricted the production of magnesium while allowing Nazi Germany to proceed unimpeded, suits such as the action against twentytwo major oil companies and 344 subsidiaries for price-fixing and collusion are being quietly dropped...
...used 1 by Communist club canvas§ sers consists of carrying on'e 1 spurious set of petitions nom§j inafing Mayor LaGnardia, and 1 one nominating Isaacs...
...and Chinese as well are not hireu...
...Let us not be deceived: this is a eieea m damn most heartily for its essential untruth concerning the ttnat of Anglo-American poetry...
...T<8test available statistics furnishing a breakdown of the types of direct investments Germany has made in the United States show that In 1937, the Reich had $45,805,000 invested in manufacturing enterprises...
...House Liberals Brand Ouster of Lasser as C. P.-lnspired Trick WASHINGTON, D. C—As of June 30, the name of David Lasser, former head of the Workers Alliance and leader of the antiCommunist American Security Union, no longer appears on the Federal payroll...
...Communists, meanwhile, spread rumors that Lasser was a "Red.'' Voorhis stated: "There can be no doubt that the kind of people that Communists have most to fear—and whom they most bitterly oppose—are effective progressives wno are anti-Communist when they see one...
...Ironically enough the daily press is treating the case as a drive against the Communists...
...the most dogged and determined in aviation...
...Men were killed...
...Indictment of the small party—there are some 800 members throughout the country, most of them in Minneapolis— created considerable surprise in progressive political circles...
...Lasser was accused in the House of being a Communist...
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