Skeleton League Continues Work lit Economic, Health Research
Skeleton League Continues Work lit Economic, Health Research The HHome Front By WILLIAM E BOHN CARDENAS. Cuba.—Before lay door on the plantation where these paragraphs are written lies an old...
...Ievolutions Dob'* Help >|F salvation lay in revolutionists and revolutions, Cuba would be well on the way to the millennium...
...Only three are left...
...and the Rockefeller-endowed library is still open to research students and accredited diplomats...
...They are permitted to work in the closed shops signed by TLX unions...
...A Minneapolis department store owner J. D. HoKaermatui...
...Like the International Labor Office the League has dispersed some of its activities...
...The possibility of making Cuba one of our states has been debated for just about a hundred years, and now Puerto Rico teems to be actually on the way to statehood...
...Meanwhile, with ^Florida's Bishop Hurley in the lead...
...and then to larger office on University Street...
...It is -about time to think about them...
...These islands have asweyjf been at our back door...
...The speed of this desertion will vary directly with the speed of the German army...
...The AFL then last threw the Geild Cartoonist* over...
...Jut her dismissal gives them the chance to raise a terror campaign so that other department heads will prefer to leave the Communists in their jobs rather than take on the entire local CIO apparatus rn the midst of all-out defense work...
...There is drama in under' ground organization, in the secret rendezvous, in the sudden rtlsh, *he patter of shots, corpses huddled in the street or against a wall...
...was dipping bis beak in again...
...Krawczyk...
...Each edition devoted at least one page of pictures to German churches...
...We have here, then, a naturally rich land with a population basically uniform but divided and misgoverned under a crazyquilt system which resulted from all the accidents and idiocies of centuries of European control...
...low point was $40,000 last August, it now appears that Marshall Field will subsidize PM indefinitely, for although it is costing him close to f1,000,000 a year, he wouW have to pay $850,000 in excise taxes if he didn't spend the million...
...So short a time ago was this the central slave market of the world...
...No longer the scene of scurrying, dispatch-carrying diplomats, the empty League of Nations palace at Geneva is three quarters closed...
...They are constantly hampered by the ever present threat of German and Italian armies...
...Blood is mingling, a unified type is taking form, and anyone with halfjan eye can see that the prevailing type is Negro...
...The Internationa] Federation of Trade Unions and the Interna-tional Labor Office were forced to flee the panzer?, and the Luftwaffe...
...The German plan to use religion to cloak propaganda was carefully built up in recent months, but was neutralized by the Vatican's sudden offensive against the Nazis...
...According to Ingersoll, iPM is selling some 90.000 s day...
...The story is from Stockholm...
...Like the League, the ILO is directed by a genial Irishman, but not quite as neutral...
...To facilitate contacting Americans the Transport Workers Federation has assigned O. Becu to open a press office at 27 Pearl Street in New York City...
...Politically these heavenly islands have had a hellish break...
...Ntee AFL anions returned, while the independent Motion Picture Bditors (cutters) accepted Disney's terms aad also want back...
...Civil Service Commission...
...This striking show of resistance originated in Norway, when anti-Nazis under cover of darkness, painted huge V's on the wall...
...who has cooperated with the American Committee for the Protection of Foreign Born—an organisation beaded by the hitherto anti-defense, anti-British -Hugh DeLacy of Washington (state)—is being mentioned as possible choice either for Scofieki'e job...
...The rhythmic adaptation, the Morse-tapped three short and one long, has spread from the Skaagerack to the Aegean and the Zuyder Zee...
...And Cuba has no market in Brazil or Argentine...
...IO's United Federal Workers, until June 21, opposed *»> <4feer^ ican defense efforts and aid to England, goes into action with all its publicity and propaganda machinery every time a ptpjCommonist is fired from Federal'employ...
...Meanwhile Marshall Dimock...
...They ace big enough, important enough to count in our future...
...ILU and IFTU in Montreal and London Exiles Aid Free World Labor Bodies By BILL ROBERTS Forgotten international organizations in which the post World War nations onct placed their hope for permanent peace and cooperation are functioning quietly under skeleton staffs in Geneva, Montreal, Washington and some United States university towns...
...Already the Greater New York Industrial Union Council has called for all-out aid to England, and for support of the President's defense efforts...
...has just launched an Anglophobic newspaper called the Minnesota Beacon...
...He will try to interview Chiang KaiShek and Stalin—if the war goes as it is now he should be able to do both jobs in Chungking...
...It also reveals that the Swedish police are raiding Communist headquarters in that eovntry...
...The Stockholm correspondent, Martin Martelius, writes that the Swedish and Danish press have traced Jan Valtte's association with the ring's activities...
...This bears oat whole ssettesn of Valtin's Out of the Night, tar in it he traces Wail wetter** role in the anti-Nazi underground movement...
...A 'little honesty and decency would be accepted rather than a lot of drama and romance...
...In the very nature of the case it cannot be done by the natives independently...
...Anyone who is undeceived by diversity of tongues quickly sees that this whole island empire is a black man's land...
...But we have never understood them, never taken them seriously, never thought of .their people as neighbors and equals...
...Now a new war of nerves will start, for on July 20, the British will launch a V blitz in every section of occupied Europe...
...will be in China and Russia *~ for two months or more for a series on both countries, similar to his stories on England...
...If the porkers discover that better politics can mean better life, the Cubans may be on the road upward...
...Catholics everywhere, in trade unions, in social and political organizations are fighting isolationist sentiment...
...en much of official Washington Ived'ih political sin...
...If it is put into operation, Lewis' isolationist Labor's non-Partisan League will collapse for the Party apparatus is the only thing holding it together...
...To this end it collects facts about labor and social conditions, formulates minimum international standards, and supervises their national application...
...The thirty or thirty-five larger islands of the West Indies make up together a territory of...
...At the test, desperate moment this anchor was heaved over the aide, and that -fluke broke like match-wood...
...The remaining specialists, operating under a neutral Irishman, Sean Lester, acting League secretary general, work in a small wing...
...A WASHINGTON international news agency, the C.7B&., re ports that Ernest Wollweber...
...Here we have the basis for a new political life...
...It will print ia fall the speeches of Charles A. Lindbergh, Herbert Hoover, Senator Wheeler and other isolationists...
...When the International Labor Office's Geneva headquarters became uninhabitable it moved to London...
...Interviews by Harry Bridge* and pubhe statements by Joe Ciirran are just so much camouflage to cover their shift...
...Operating in London, the International Federation of Trade Unions, with which is affiliated the American Federation of Labor, is reconstructing the continental labor movement out of the exiled craftsmen and refugee leaders...
...Cuba to Trinidad have been close to us for centuries...
...To the Washington Industrial OIO Council, and the top United Federal Workers Union, Mrs...
...or the National Labor Relations Board...
...He reported that the German Bishops "are now united in their approval and support of Germany's war on Russia.' The same day this story appeared, the daily press carried a foreign dispatch stating that "Catholic Bishops in Germany Assail Nazis for Church Policy in First Protests Since War...
...Dorothy Thompson is leaving for London and Moscow in a few days John O'Donnell...
...Lewis' lieutenants are even using the argument that the next CK) president should be a native born American...
...As floating corpses the men who riveted the chains and those who bore' then achieved an unexpected enpality...
...A pro-Nazi Roman Catholic pries^ one of the few to be found, Right Reverend Mr...
...Even in those far-off days this was a romantic vocation-la-id, an American Italy, but far more mysterious, with more highly colored Jlowers and birds, more exotic fruits, more highly spiced ways of life...
...The ILO has set up new world headquarters in Montreal, Canada...
...Phil Murray was born in Scotland...
...They need three things: educa1 tkm, political development and markets...
...You cannot blame the Cubans for being a bit cynical about politicians...
...Carter Goodrich, U. S. Government representative and Professor of Economics at Columbia University, remains as chairman of the Governing Body of the ILO...
...The drive for sympathy among American Catholics was part of a coordinated drive to stimulate public opinion in favor of a peace offensive which,, was to be launched in Washington, New York and London immediately the Russians were Hpfe«t.ed...
...Typical ii the ease of Helen Miller, fired from the Department of Labor on charges of being a member of the American Peace Mobilisation", and of being a member or close to the Communist Party...
...With the Russian armies still in the field the peace drive has been delayed...
...the Catholic system of education in Germany completely destroyed...
...T% ALPH INGERSOLL, editor of J*M...
...Paul McNutt appears suddenly as a rival candidate to Francis B iodic for the Attorney General's job...
...Vatican Statements Explode Coughlin, Nazi Peace Drives A RADIO, pamphlet and organteational drive by the Goebbels propaganda ministry directed at American Catholics is failing, the New Leader learned this week from a well-informed source which has maintained observers in the field ever since the German invasion of Russia...
...that 400 priests have been deported to Germany...
...a former chairman of the Minneapolis America First C'ommn tee...
...Each of these in turn have organized local unions...
...anti-New Deal heafi of the New York Daily News Washington bureau, is suing the Philadelphia Record for $50,000 as the result of an editorial which said that he "has broadcast his sympathy with most of Hitler'g aims—-such as destruction of the British Empire, suppression of labor union and liquidation of Jew...
...The spotlight always was on the League Palace's huge assembly hall, where the big news of international doublecrossing broke...
...children denied religious training...
...Old folks of the neighbor, hood eagerly recall the night—perhaps in 1880, the last year of slavery—when the slave-ship Blackbird tried to beat Ha way past the point and into the boca beyond...
...In the very nature of the case the people down here are helpless by themselves...
...The V Blitz LONDON.—Everyone knows the crashing chord — the mighty fate motif—which introduces the first movement of the Beethoven Fifth Symphony, that is why the Nazis are going to be sick of it—after July 20...
...This is false, says O'Donnell...
...Tio Sam Musi Help , y\UR isolationists and left-wing slogan-slingers try to spread the idea that rf the great, rich, imperialist countries would jnst stay away, things in lands like these would automatically -right themselves...
...We are old neighbors hat not good neighbors...
...Illiterate men who **ve lived in huts and worn rags all their lives are now protected View...
...The road was built...
...First headquarters was in a small Arts Building lecture room in McGill university...
...There is a forty-two hour week...
...Cuba.—Before lay door on the plantation where these paragraphs are written lies an old and rusted handwrought anchor with one fluke gone...
...All te defend a woman who in recent testimony before the Dies Committee was cited as having claimed thai oer government is "Fascist...
...AFL has put up a huge election poster m the city room...
...The IFTU is now operating in London, cooperating with the International Transport Workers...
...It is the one which starts east from Havana...
...According to regular Vatican broadcasts, all Catholic organizations in Alsace-Lorraine have been dissolved...
...Ever since its inception the League of Nations has quietly worked away at probing epidemics, halting trans-country white slavery, gathering vital statistics, and reporting on the intricate problems of international finance...
...Finances are supplied by the British Trades Union Congress...
...Ed Smith's NLRB term expires early in August...
...Already tap d a n c e rs in European vaudeville houses have ended with three brisk and one long tap, prisoners in concentration camps, swing sledges, picks and shovels to the V, victory tempo...
...Doting the September :9S9-June 21, 1H1...
...That is what the people expect...
...In Geneva the League still publishes the monthly statistical bulletin, epidemiological reports...
...I am prepared to believe that Cubsuitsglf is the richest of islands...
...White families which come here will either return to their homelands or disappear...
...There has always been something sub-rosa, illegitmate, left-handed about our relationship...
...Most of these men are talking of a streamlined "Labor Party" which will be pro-war, and which may be launched sooner than observers believe...
...This left the Cartoonists with no sne but the tcisOT-travstteg Democratic Youth Federation . . . and the strike appears broken...
...The antiopium work is being directed from Washington, D. C. where six league officials operate the central opium board...
...But Mexico has been free for a century arid a quarter...
...A Washlpgttei Committee to Reinstate Helen Miller has tmen fermee fellow traveling radio commentators and columnists are accusing the Secretary of Labor of union basting...
...But Mexico is as different from Haiti as it is from the United States...
...congregations outlawed and possessions confiscated...
...But not now...
...OUDDEN illness of Phil Murray is being exploited by John Lewis' regional directors—all of vefiom were strategically appointed before the November...
...The membership comes from those refugees who are efnployed in English industry...
...The Reich has been using the short wave broadcasts to influence American Catholics...
...Madam Perkins is bring harassed for approving the suspension...
...They have here : their Wages and Hours Law and their Wagner Act: Their New Oeal, like ours, started in 1933...
...Seldom was the League's humanitarian work publicized...
...Only one wing remains open, There, some 90 trained economic, financial, transit, health, epidemic-control and international law experts gather statistics and direct some of the constructive and invaluable League work which for two decades was observed by the diplomatic shadow boxing of the larger powers...
...In addition, until the German consulate was closed in New York City, its subsidiary, the German Library of Information devoted many pages in its weekly "Facts in Reviews" to building up the myth that the Nazi Government is furthering religious life...
...The first 'two they can work out for themselves in the course of time, but for the third, on which the others depend, they must look to the United States ''and Europe...
...where oehcial opinion makers turn to the East towards the caviar Mecca for their daily intellectual ted...
...If Biddle gets it, Lemuel Scofield may be out as Immigration Commissioner...
...i . Mexico still has troubles, economic, political, educational...
...The inspectors take them seriously, '•hd as far as it is possible with the sums that can be saved from the politician they get round and do their work...
...What we need here is a real job of political and economic organization, something as big and decisive as was done by our people at their constitutional convention in 1787...
...Tovarischt influence in certain asiimetesnr bureaus lake the United States Housing Authority, the factional Labor Relations Board apparatus, the Railroad Retirement Board, and even the Department of Justice is a matter of common footer in Washington...
...Several German bombs proved to the directors that papers and records were safer in a North American exile than the front line trenches...
...The pro-Communist Nathan Witt, who resigned as secretary of the NLRB when J. Warren Madden was not reappointed, has been retained as counsel to defend Mrs...
...In this way there will be no disruption of union activity, no field will have to be reorganized...
...TW dispatch was carried in the Washington Press under s TBtockholra...
...Those cabinet officers who have taken no action are being flattered as liberals, unlike the "reactionary" Miss Perkins, 'for not engaging in "witchhunts...
...60 priests expelled...
...They have a saying here that sums up a eentury of experience: "Every new president (or dictator) makes the last one look good...
...All the studio AFL unions ordered their mesnbers back to work...
...Until a few years ago you could see the wooden troughs out of which slaves were jed...
...Europe has done its best to impose on them her own divisive system...
...The entire Communist apparatus is ia motion...
...Its purpose is to promote social democracy and justice in all countries of the world...
...The IFTU has many millions of members in affiliated organizations in Finland, Sweden, the United States, South America, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and China...
...They may look romantic to the North American visitor who dashes out of Havana, but to themselves life is nothing but a long stretch of poverty...
...more than ninety thousand square mjles...
...Our night-club music may have come from Cuba, but you "hear little of it among the natives either by day or by night...
...But nowJnVtt* Srjfiet e'ftVtfy <Wm*Wkv running in and out of the White House in hi* ice cream au«Vposing for pictures in Sumner Welles arms, eland eat inf «oire%* are gone, the honeymoon is on...
...IN certain ways these islanders from...
...There are differences, but they tend to disappear...
...treaties are registered...
...by the dwindling financial backing, by faulty postal communications...
...This u n c easing "sound" war against the Nazis will be tapped out over the short wave, in music halls and in motion picture houses...
...The tariff systems seem to have been specially designed to.make life impossible...
...The ILO is a federation of nations financed by these governments and democratically controlled by representatives of governments and employers and workers' organisations...
...Nm one needs to write me letters explain that the people of Cuba are different from those of 'Wait* or Martinique or Jamaica...
...Reports are that when PM shows a profit, Field will turn it over to the employees...
...that the number of districts without priests is increasing...
...There is a minimum wage...
...Our trade with them goes back to the tarlifst days of Virginia and New England...
...The ¦ lines between the HUlman and Lewis blocs inside CIO are rapidly being drown for a showao-wn fight...
...see The attempt of the comrades to move into the movie assies field through the Mickey Mease strike of the Serosa Cartenaists Guild appears to have lopped...
...Lewis remains adamant on foreign policy despite the fact that this will cost him support of the Curran-Quill~Bridges-Rathborne bloc...
...Correspondents will remember the large staff of 20 librarians...
...speaking around comers to'parous* amid ceejrnjalyjtoohtails and fellow-travelers...
...We talk of Latin America as if everything south of Florida and the Rio "Grande constituted one region...
...Now the large hall is empty, as is the rest of the building which rivals the palace of Versailles in space...
...Three-fourths of the expenditure went into graft...
...He is Edward J. Phelan...
...Ia beauty and potential wealth they are a. glorious tropical world...
...In population they are comparable with our largest states or with many of the countries of Europe...
...The whole art of politics lay in bribery and deception...
...The north wind blew it hard toward the rocks...
...It reveals that the Swedieh Supreme Court, after reviewing the case decided that the international implications were so vast that the documents concerning Wollweber should not be published before March 19, 1961...
...One of these articles recently dealt with Poland...
...1940 national convention—in an effort to start a Lewis-for-OrO-President boom...
...Until June 21 there urns some chance that the government would take some actio...
...The -old slave sheds—without any windows—can still be seen hereabouts...
...And the whole expensive tribe of parasites is supported out of the people's poverty...
...This will act as a brake on some of the other movie Guises which the comrades hope to use to control the mechanical pad writing end of the most powerful propaganda medium m tee mmm...
...The best the admirals and diplomats could.do was to produce a tropical Balkan region...
...BLabor Laws Do Help UT in the midst of this corruption and cynicism is developing a vigorous push for basic social legislation...
...Yet,the inhabitants are ametrgthe poorest of people...
...T>RESS PICKUPS— j * The New York Times offu:e looks like a political ward as the New York Newspaper Guild battles the AFL Editorial Writers for support in the July 23 National Labor Relations Board poll...
...Miller is not important per se...
...Some of the islands are British, some French, some Dutch, some independent, ami some belong toTio Sam, as Uncle Sam is affectionately called down* here...
...But here, where labor and materials are cheaper than they are in the states, this roadway cost eighty thousand dollars a^mile...
...Some of the economic, financial and transit research has been carried out at Princeton since last summer...
...toured the Government General and then reported in "Facts in Review" that he found that the Roman Catholics there had all the benefits they could possibly have...
...former Russian...
...Constantly the staff talks of moving to the Americas...
...Montreal was selected...
...Between Nazi propaganda broadcasts over the radio, listeners can hear the V symbol—tapped in Morse— cut in on their wave length, while V stands for victory in most European languages, it also means in German Vergel tung—revenge...
...But if it happens again and again within one generation, and the teme old breed of politicians is still there with extended palm, if the appropriations for education and health are stolen as they nsed to be, the glamor rather wears off the word "revolution...
...Also bearing esrt the book is the Swedish report that one of the gang's members called Hansen Vanham told the police teat Wollweber related how he got his orders directly from Georgei DimUrns aad Kleraenti Voroshilov...
...Fears'" ago they borrowed money to build the great east-andwoot highway through the island...
...who has been under arrest in Stockholm since January 20, was the head of a "great international sabotage ring of Communists recently discovered by Copenhagen police...
...SOME uncertainty is noticeable in the White House over a successor to Robert Jackson...
...Greatest impetus to the campaign designed to split American public opinion has been given by Father Coughlin's newspaper and organization...
...Under the supervision of the British government, and in cooperation with the British Trades Union Congress, the IFTU has set up a series of national centers...
...Heard on the left By VICTOR RIESEL QEDFELL0W6 no longer mate strange polities in Washington...
...Jsly 10" dateline...
...This is an international problem, and this is the time to think about it This whole business of different sorts of people in different sorts of countries will be up for debate and decision when the present war is over...
...For the beat Of the first four notes is the three dots artd dash of Morse code—which is "V," victory signal adopted by the British as a dramatic, aggressive propaganda campaign within Nazi territory...
...Catholic newspapers suppressed...
...The League is the only international body which is not in exile...
...When the AFL Intervened and obtained fair concessions from the Disney company, the fellow -travelers in charge of the strike refused te> aeeept them —raising the cry that Brian...
...Washington and Jefferson used to come to these enchanted isles to swim in these unbelieveably blue waters and send home letters in which touches of romance were mingled ptj realistic'remarks about agriculture and trade, • » « QH Neighbors - . . . ji I$t?oi Martinique sailed the French fleet to support Washington at Yorktown, and many is the filibustering expedition which has set out from New Orleans or Tampa to take part in comic opera revolutions which were serious enough to those who were killed...
...Each of these centers is ready to move into its former country and take over trade union work immediately the Allied forces clean out the Nazis...
...A large, part of Boston respectability was built on the triangular trade in sugar, rum, and slaves...
...There are epic Spaniards, some East Indians, some Chinese here and there, .fc the basic society is African...
...Much of the Civil Service remission's probe of FstmrWrporsonnel is nov useUst...
...Officers and sajlors cursing against the wind above and the black men groaning in their chains below went to their fate together...
...Miller before the I'.S...
...In his eagerness to support the Nazi claim that ihe invasion of Russia is a Holy Crusade, Coughlin rushed into print with an article in the July 7 edition of Social Justice, purporting to describe the German Church's absolute endorsement of the Third Reich and its war efforts...
...A Black Men's Country CUBA is larger than, Ohio...
...And despite all the thievery, these »ws are more or less enforced...
...PM now is losing $22,000 a week, a drop from the peak loss of $42,000...
...It has a good one in New York and in Illinois...
...Wollweber came io Sweden after fleeing Nonwey in May, 1940...
...Cuba Was longest under the corrupt and tyrannous Spanish colonial system...
...cloisters closed down...
...War Cosamisnnr...
...They need uurrethan loans down here...
...On these thirty or forty islands are enough useless palaces and governors and presidents and courts 'and politicians to administer a great continent...
...The "revolution" which established her independence took place so short a time back that the revolutionists, like our Spanish War veterans, are still here to draw their pensions...
...i I This was in 1880, not 1780 or 1680...
...The papal spokesmen also report in their broadcasts that only 3,000 priests are permitted the 30,000,000 persons in Poland...
...then a church hall...
...Pleasant occupation...
Vol. 24 • July 1941 • No. 29
