America First Leaders Welcome Coughlinite Support
America First Leaders Welcome Coughlinite Support Mrs. Wheeler and General Wood Ask Their Support by VINCENT ROGERS Members of Father Coughlin's Social Justice organization are welcome in- the...
...This provided agreements to stabilise working conditions as has been done for more than a million men in shipbuilding and government construction work...
...Some already have committed themselves to Edison, but Hague significantly is still without allies...
...the Atlas Powder Co...
...Pasche is considered one of the...
...In October, 1940, the then minister of the interior Peyrouton, placed the most inv portant posts' in the Surete at the disposal of Cagoulards—members of a conapiratory fascist organization created in 1935-34 with financial aid from Italy for the purpose of bringing about a political coup d'etat in France...
...Administration forces have known of this situation but have hesitated to nee it against the Montanan...
...Thus Bethlehem Steel alone has $927,000,000 worth df contracts, General Motors $490,000,000, while smaller steel and auto plants remain with their capacity unutilized...
...Jt is possible that the fight against Hague will end with dramatic suddenness...
...For this reason alone the Cagoulards hated M. Dormoy and watched for an opportunity to destroy him...
...Keynote of AFL President Green's talk was that there were to be no defense strikes dursng the campaign...
...Morris Cooke, Hillman aide, came forward with his famous "bits and pieces" plan, Reuther brought forth his auto *plan, etc...
...Doriot, organiser and leader of the anti-sjiblican terrorist band, was formerly a lead-iag figure in the French Communist movement...
...This appears to substantiate reports from informed Washington circles that Jewish oflV-cials and supporters of the America First Committee were made uncomfortable wmi finally forced to racism by fil^oneealed enti Bsnsttlsm among some of Its active leaders...
...unions...
...Because some 25 defense jobs, work in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and construction of four battleships were involved, Sidney Hillman wired Business Manager Van Arsdale asking him to send the men back on defense jobs...
...Wheeler's note is of the utmost importance since those tr positions to observe know the itoeng Mmence Mrs...
...Various evidence has been adduced to show that America First Committee has gotten its mailing lists from dubious sources...
...take organizing initiative in the industrial fields away from' John Lewis' organization...
...John L. Lewis moved to wipe out the remnants of opposition to him in the Mine Workers when 13 leaders of District 26—in Nova Scotia—were suspended for two years, by Silby Barret, who had been sent in by Lewis to reorganize the district...
...at American Car and Foundry Company...
...In her note, as printed in the July 28...
...This national and local abdication is lopked on by some opposition Ipp as an effort to split the anti-Communist '•"JPaign throughout the nation and win a JMjority of the national board and the execn-|J2 secretaryship for the pro-Communist "•dership" in the September referendum which *dl elect national officers...
...It has also been charged by responsible circles th*i "Senator "WheelwT'rfnnk nas "keen used by some organizations to distribute racial literatures...
...Onefof the items sent out post free under Nye's frank and offered for distribution at meetings was not a speech by the Senator but the text of an address by Theodore H. Hoffman, national chairman of the Steuben Society, which was inserted in the Congressional Record by Nye as an "extension of his remarks...
...The nevt test of strength will be the Fall Democratic primaries where Edison hopes to deal a final blow to Hague's crumbling state influence...
...Other assassinations may be expected to follow...
...It is known that Hague for some time has been waiting for the proper moment to retire and turn over the reins to Frank Eggers, his secretary, nephew, and heir apparent...
...The disheartening part is that this situation was foreseen by labor men months ago...
...Father Coughlin's prominent display of the notes is understandable for there has been some conflict inside America First over overt support lent it by the Social Justice organization...
...at Firestone Rubber...
...i • * * * A 75-day strike over minor issues at Allis-Chalmers has not affected the strength of Harold ChristorTel...
...These crpar.izations have been named* as the German-American Band, the Christian Front and the American CoaHtion Society...
...owned by political lieutenants of Wbeek^Ajp barred Walter Winch...
...When these plans are complete, more than 2,000 national and international union business agents and organizers will be directed in this large-scale offensive to...
...Prof...
...Klein, of the same school, is known for his famous Pittsburgh survey and other field studies...
...This week, the OPM research bureau chalked up 50 billions as the new mark of total U. S. government appropriations...
...This organization was exposed in 1937-38 by 'M...
...Militant Local 3 of the Electrical Workers has made a practise of tackling the big fellows...
...The AFL...
...Wheeler's presence without evoking any objections from the Senator or hit wifer-%urton K. Wheeler is not anti-Semitic i* must be understood...
...Last year out of our total national income of 86 billions, the consumers goods industries was responsible for $67 billions...
...The tax dispute has now brought the quiet, undercover conflict between Edison and Hague to a violent clash, with Edison holding the upper hand...
...Today he is a Nazi agent...
...There they;will line up against national President R. J. Thomas, who by this time has a substantial majority of the delegates behind him, | • • • As government measures to prevent defense strikes broadened into two lines—one giving Roosevelt authority to take over and operate strike-bound plants, the...
...M. Dormoy was unquestionably at the top of the terrorist^ proscription list, both because of Jus nsst.setitrties.as well as.i W*ina*r he constituted for lie Vichy regtrrte in the present...
...A man of unimpeachable character and reputation, extraordinarily courageous, he enjoyed tremendous popularity in\ France...
...There were persistent rumors at the time that support of Edison was the price demanded for calling ofT an investigation of Hague's income tax returns...
...He showed particular courage during the period since the establishment of the Vichy government...
...The campaign of exter-sjaation launched by this band against republics leaders has only begun...
...To force Consolidated Edison, into "*ndoningr its company union Local 3 has «iled out 8,000 skilled electricians in the .first Tsl!* If*** ot its sort in 25 yearslied up' were not only Consolidated's work on m company', new Waterside 'plant on New York's wateHront but more than 1,431 building projects throughout the city...
...The long-standing Western Cartridge Company dispute ended this week when the AFL Chemical Workers'* Union notified the National Mediation Board that it would accept its proposals...
...The newspaper has been polling M.-tana's 56 counties...
...Of the whole of heavy industry only durable goods industry —such as auto*, and the producer's equipment industries—such as steel and heavy machinery —can be turned into arms production...
...As early as last January, our correspondents in Prance informed us that Doriot's organization was drawing up proscription lists of persons to be eliminated, and that branches of the terrorist (roup had been established in Lyons, Marseilles, Agen, Tolouse and Montauban...
...Pormoy's Assassination Reveals Activity of Doriot's German-Subsidized Anti-Republican Killer Ring By BORIS NICOLAEVSKY The assassination of Marx Dormoy, minister of the interior in the Blum cabi-aet, at Montelimar last Saturday marks the Seconal killing of its kind in recent weeks...
...Wheeler and General Wood Ask Their Support by VINCENT ROGERS Members of Father Coughlin's Social Justice organization are welcome in- the America First Committee, according to two of its prominent leaders General R. E. Wood and Mrs...
...551 two family homes and 246 installation jobs of heavy electrical machinery in industrial plants throughout the city...
...Her letter to a Coughlinite is also considered significant for she was one of the America First Committee's initial organisers, active in the group's early days when Henry Ford was publicly associated with the pressure organisation...
...Carrier services will not be impaired...
...The cut has to come—acutely—in consumers goods...
...Carnegie Illinois Steel Corporation...
...Railway labor and management joined hands this week in promoting defense when both groups agreed to loan 100,000 men to industries short of skilled workers...
...had men out at the ¦Precision Parts Company, the Indiana Steel Products Company, and the Todd Galveston Dry Docks, CIO expressed vehement objection to giving Roosevelt power to seize struck plants, arguing that this was aimed at organizing drives...
...Many informed observers are predicting that the Boss will soon be through even in his own bailiwick...
...Etch branch is headed by a brigadier-chief and •* • L consists of three brigades...
...This unprecedented action in a union which has been solidly controlled by pro-Communists almost roce its inception is announced as a "unity" nave...
...Companies have had to install new jigs and fixtures, to retool and expand...
...Early in the week it became apparent that the union had no intention of tying up defense work and would shortly send its men back on those projects only...
...According to this survey Senator Wheeler would be defeated for re-election as United States Senator from "Montana by 106,000 to 160,000 votes if an election were bald today...
...However similar agreements are expected to be made in aircraft and other large scale industries according to Sidney Hillman's labor division at OPM...
...Last week, under this arrangement ¦a no-strike agreement was signed between 800,000 men in the AFL building construction unions and Sidney Hillman, who was acting for the OPM...
...Coughlin now has evidence that tyt followers—among whom is the total membership of the Christian Front—are welcome in America First...
...The total of these contracts was $9,839,-000,000...
...Arrested last September, he was released within a few months for lack of evidence justifying further detention...
...Part of the agreement was a ban on the use of WPA workers from construction jobs on which members of AFL building trades unions are employed...
...He voted against establishment of the Petain regime in the Senate and was one of the inspirers of a secret organization of loyal republicans after the liquidation of the republic...
...Reverend Brophy, is a close friend of Joe Me» Williams, leader of the erstwhile American Destiny Party and the Christian Mcbilixers The America First Committee has cooperated with prominent Conghlinites on other occasions...
...Until Uncle Sam closed it, the German Library of Information at 17 Battery Place had been flooding Newton Dillaway, Reading, Mass., writer, with propaganda, although be didn't ask for it The envelopes were always addressed to him as Sfllaway...
...Each brigade is headed by a brigadier...
...The Queens and Brooklyn sections of the committee are directed by some of his closest followers: among them William Goodwin of Queens, and Reverend Edward Lodge Curran, leader of the Brooklyn diocese...
...Secretary of Labor Perkins certified to the Defense Mediation Board threatened strikes of Aluminum Co...
...Broadcast...
...Dormoy, at that time Minister of the Interior...
...A CIO tabulation in February snowed that out of 9 billions worth of prime contracts of a million dollars or more, 23 per cent were concentrated In7 two Integrated groups, 44 per cent in six' groups, 62 H per cent in 16 groups and 85 4 per cent in 62 groups...
...Four weeks ago information was received in French Socialist "circles in New York of the assassination of the former Socialist Deputy Camel, who represented a constituency in the department* of Ariege in the French Chamber before the establishment) of the Vichy regime...
...3) settlement of disputes by negotiation and arbitration...
...Only a small part of heavy industry—which supplies the remainder of the national income— can be turned into war industry...
...At the same time, all these men were chosen...
...A previous rule refusing contracts to any firm with less than $50,000 capital has been waived...
...m One ot the factors in (his decline is taatjftai| radiovstations in Butte, Helena and Roxtejaa...
...This will be a? serious, perhaps devastat-ing, blow to the city, which / \\^TS?* under Hague's corrupt rule ^**\V4«R^V has accumulated huge defrts S Vssm and is perilously close' to / , bankruptcy...
...The reductions, badly needed M"kl) CdMLT) by New Jersey's overtaxed | Jf4 f(A and financially shaky railroad I v"")s"*rr>^#lf lines, will lop an estimated V\«y /k5v $1,500,000 from Jersey City's ~J annual income...
...Industrial unionists had 10,600 out, while AFL counted only 3,700...
...Some Jerseyites think his "surrender" of state leadership presages just such a move...
...Social Justice, which on page 16 under a prominent two-column headline prints letters from these America First leaders to two of the radio priest's Col-lowers...
...One economic side note: With the President's proposals for price control now before Congress, demands will be made thrt wages be similarly controlled...
...He wondered whether ft was mere coincidence when the America First Committee sent him unsolicited literature and addressed it to him as Sillaway, , Meanwhile the controversy continues over Snator Wheeler's franking of 1,000,000 isolationist postcards...
...The immediate cause of the declaration was a bitter fight over railroad tax reductions which Edison fa-vored and Hague opposed...
...The OPM has tried to remedy this situation by encouraging sub-contracting...
...We were afraid to expand and produce for our unemployed...
...More than 200 organizers from every part of the country met last week in Washington AFL headquarters to map plans for a large organization...
...The result has been that these companies have built up tremendous backlogs of orders, while 7000 manufacturing establishments capable of . producing defense equipment—according to a CIO estimate—have not received defense contracts...
...It is even reported that ANG President Donal Sullivan has offered to resign, thereby living the national presidency automatically to "etroiVs Mflton Murray...
...This agreement brought the number of de-, fense workers under the stabilization plan to nearly 2,000,000...
...Wheeler writes: "There has never been any discrimination against Father Coughlin's followers or against any other religious body as far as America First is concerned...
...General Wood has had a liberal record and it is generally conceded that he and John T. Flynnv, head of the Mew York America First section, were among the group's few sincere pacifists...
...we reap the harvest in our need to produce for guns...
...The estimates for 1942—optimistically—is $97 billion...
...At the end of 1940, he visited Berlin twice . Shortly thereafter, he entered into a definite agreement, with 1st Germans, on the occasion of Alfred Rosenberg's visit to Paris, under which Doriot undertook not only to conduct a political propaganda in the interest of the Nazis in France but also to organize a secret t e r rori st organization for the extermination of persons regarded as dangerous by the Nazis...
...A 10 per cent wage increase raises costs, by only 1.6 per cent which is more than easily offset by increased productivity, savings due to expanded production or other economies...
...With several additional {billions of dollars in contracts to be let, the situation has become a nightmare...
...American Potash and Chemical Co...
...Wheeler exerts on the Senator's ptrfrftcaW attitudes...
...His sacrifice indicates f»* the opposition to party line control has •welled up so strongly nationally that it will be impossible to re-elect Kaufman without some dramatic move, such as that made this week by national pro-communjst administration...
...While the piled up orders choke the production program, economists are hastily revising their estimates of defense expenditures—and with the upward spiral goes any hope that may have lingered for guns and butter...
...Hew York Guild leaders already have contacted the opposition leaders in an effort to effect a united front...
...c He himself admitted openly after the French debacle in June, 1940, that he began receiving financial subsidies from the Germans as early' as 1935-36...
...Reverend Beckman is a colleague of Father Coughlin, and is as openly outspoken in his isolationism and ant-Semitiam as is Father Coughlin...
...Wheeler's activity has sharply reduced his-popularity and support in his own home state it was revealed met week by the Great Fall (Montana) News Poll...
...After that, or perhaps simultaneously, the fight may be carried into Hague's awn Hudson County...
...Of the 23 strikes recorded throughout the country, 17 were CIO, 6 AFL...
...The Bdison-Hague fight, however, is more fundamental . than the tax disagreement and goes back to last Fall when Edison's candidacy was forced on Hague by Washington...
...Upon his liberation in March he immediately resumed his political activity...
...No trace of the assassins was found...
...thty want the backlog and the profits to be made, before handing out any of the gravy to other firms...
...Alabama...
...Electrical Union Tackles Consolidated Edison By VICTOR ttlESEL In a desperate move to keep Milton Kaufman si American Newspaper Guild executive vice-president party-line administration leaders have offered to withdraw half their slate in the September nation-wide referendum for officers...
...Until now, contracts have been poured into those individual companies best equipped to start immediately, and smaller companies were left behind...
...Wheeler has for the Roosevelt...
...On May 25 the OPM announced that defense expenditures leached 41 billions...
...He was killed by a revolver-shot fired on a deserted street while returning home on a bicycle...
...Last week was no ***«Ption...
...1 . Both assassinations, that of Dormoy and Camel, "were the work of an organized bind of anti-republican killers headed by Jacques Doriot...
...Other sections of the same edition of Social Justice refer to the present anti-Nazi conflict as a "Jewish /war" and to the United States government as "pro-Jewish...
...There is no doubt now that Secretary' of' War Stimson had little to substantiate his charges...
...the Warburg* and Sassoons...
...Archbishop of Dubuqpe...
...It is tqo early to discuss this activity in concrete terms, but it may be said that M. Dormoy's death, organized and brought about by .Nazi agents, is a severe blow to all those who work and hope for the restoration of a free France...
...In recent months, Metonier's secret organization in the Surete has cooperated closely with Doriot's group, whose members have been assured immunity for any terrorist acts they may commit...
...The American Guild of Musical Artists, headed by Lawrence Tibbett, won a court victory in its fight to prevent Musician's union head James Petrillo...
...The Defense Contract Service was set up late in February, but has met with stubborn opposition...
...Curran's associate...
...This, the world's greatest lndustriarTie*— lion Lacks the economic potential for guns and butter...
...However this- does not clear the Senator' of well-documented accusations that pro-German organizations are using frank, and that of his Senatorial isolationist colleagues, to spread anti-British propaganda...
...Every newspaperman in Washington knows it, and is aware that she w to a laxge extent responsMe for the Senator^ hsrtVsst1*** President Roosevelt, the most dominant force hi Burton K. Wheeler's rabid isolationism...
...delegates-to the August 4th Buffalo convention of the United Auto Workers' Union...
...Two younf isolationist* who were house guests of, the Wheelers spent an uncomfortable few hours there two months ago when another guest, a Polish noblewomen praised Hitler and criticised the Jews in Mrs...
...While Minister of the Interior, Peyrouton created the special post of chief inspector of police, whose-, task it was to keep an eye on the members- of the Surete with reference to their "political dependability...
...Labor Roundup Newspaper Guild Leaders See Nat'l Defeat...
...The note to a Coughlinite from General Robert E. Wood has occasioned much surprise among those reporting the isolationist move* ment...
...This would leave work suspended on 634 private industrial jobs...
...The argument will be that wage rises cause price rises and thst the halting of one is needed) to stop the other...
...This new job was entrusted to Metonier, a former engineer employed by the Michelan Arm...
...Mast Democratic leaders outside of Hudson County kept their heads down during the hot exchanges between Edison and Hague, and they are now waiting to see which way the battle is going before they take sides...
...The New York Court of Appeals this week backed the AFL motor coach employees union against Mike Quill's CIO Transport Workers Union, in ruling that the State Labor Relations Board lacked the power to set aside a contract of the Triboro Coach Company...
...VK-tanans protest that Wheeler is trying to that off free speech...
...Until recently Hague has appeared invincible in his own territory, but Jersey City's financial troubles and the curtailment of patronage which reduced taxes will necessitate, are going to place a severe strain on the loyalties at many Hudson County politicians and voters...
...Immediately on relinquishing the Democratic leadership, the Jersey City^ Boss left for Tuscon, Arizona...
...One of the few successful industries where production is flowing smoothly is shipbuilding, where Morris Cooke, chairman of the OPM cemmittee negotiated an industry-wide stabilization program, which plans for complete production and adjusts wages...
...Unions also balked at accepting the stabilization arrangement...
...Or-»»B)ng the electrical industry has thrown the jjMon Up against the colossuses of American 2*igtry-_.the electrical equipment corporations, "W's and the World's Fair...
...la recent months a few columnists and magazine writers have begun to point to the effect on America's international policy os* the intense dislike Mrs...
...The central core of labor's scheme—bitterly opposed by huge industrial interests—was that industry-wide capacity must be utilized as a unit, not the equipment and plants of individual firms...
...drive which will compete directly with CIO control in aviation, shipyards, chemical plants,' rubber and textiles...
...John A. Fitch and Dr...
...These will undoubtedly remain tied up until Consolidated Edison dissolves its 600-member Brotherhood of Consolidated Edison Employes, if the past record of Local 3 is any precedent...
...To the politically initiated Mrs...
...Actually it is designed to guarantee thfi aion of Kaufman, whose position is threat-by Sam Eubanks of Los Angeles...
...An OPM aide laft Washington for conferences in New York...
...Although Edison, the first non-Hague Democrat to enter the New Jersey's Governor's mansion in 21 years, did not launch an open fight on Hague, he at once began to weaken Hague's influence by diverting state patronage, which Hague had formerly controlled, from the Boss's Hudson County machine to Democratic organizations in other counties...
...Each trio has its leader...
...1041, edition of Social Justice, Mrs...
...Twelve years of production at fifty per cent capacity has left its mark...
...Philip Klein, nationally figures in the social work field, and 24 other members in the Social Service Employees Union face possible expulsion on the charges of attempting to counteract what they consider the undemocratic, Pro-Communist anti-defense leaders of their union...
...2) no limits on production...
...Naturally...
...The organization has been considerably extended in recent months...
...The case was one of the first certified to the national board" of an employer refusing to abide with an NLRB decision...
...There has never been any public doubt of the political and ideological positions held by Father Coughlin and his associates...
...from taking jurisdiction over the Guild, when the N. Y. Court of Appeals granted Tibbett an injunction preventing such action...
...On June 26 in Dubuque, Iowa, Senator Burton K. Wheeler and General Robert E. Wood appeared with the Reverend Francis J. L. Beck-man...
...Still another section praises Senator Wheeler for his recent activities...
...The idea was to build, with the help of Labor's Non-Partisan League, a New Deal Democratic bloc capable of defeating Hague in state primaries and able to break the grip of conservative Republicans on the state legislature...
...Among ttiosr whor have offered to withdraw is Vic P»*che, national Guild secretary-treasurer and office holder for the past four years...
...In accordance with his understanding with Rosenberg, Doriot has set up his organization in both occupied and unoccupied France...
...This represented a decrease of eight strikes from last week's total, with the number of employees cut by 9,000...
...other giving OPM authority to negotiate agreements stabilizing wages and working conditions in essential arms industries during the defense period—important defense stoppages continued through the week...
...He and his entire administration alafU were re-elected by the plant's-UAW local...
...This applied to both Frenchmen and foreigners on French soil...
...The organization functions around "cells" of particularly dependable participants...
...The workers in these plants—and those who could be.absorbed, suffer accordingly...
...It has risen from $3,994,500 in 1917 to $44,315,000 ill 1940...
...The men had protested secret contracts signed by the'district executive committee with mine operators...
...Fitch, of the New York School for Social Work, is one of the authorities in the field of social legislation, while Dr...
...Since Hague took over in ^s^X ° Jersey City in 1918 the cost , Hague of municipal government has spiralled fantastically...
...Defense Monopoly Hits Small Business, Chokes Production By DANIEL BELL Our piece-meal approach to the defense problem, resulting in wide—and avoidable—dislocations, is best illustrated by a survey by the OPM research bursas which disclosed this week that six corporations held 31.6 percent of War and Navy Department supply contracts awarded up to May, and these six with fifty others held nearly three-fourths of all defense supply contracts...
...CIO strikes continued at the Bendix Air Associates plant, which saw violence some weeks ago...
...As I shewed last week, that of the 1L1 per cent price increases from June 1940 to June 1941, the maximum that oould be attributed to wages was 1.4 pes cent Edison, Labor League Crack Hague Hold On New Jersey TRENTON, N. J. — New Jersey political circles were speculating wildly last week on the possible "effects of Governor Charles Edison's declaration of war against Boss Frank Hague...
...General Wood's letter reads: "Reply* ing to your letter of July 6th, I have not re*, jected the Christian Social Justice movssneni, I welcome their support in vnir common objective—preventing this country from getting into war...
...Both are AFL...
...Doriot's job supplements die work of the official Surete...
...This it false...
...at an America First rally...
...This was revealed in the current edition of Coughlin's official magazine...
...Outran has frequently spoken at Christian Front rallies and has frankly voiced -his anti-Semitic attitude...
...Their output last year was 10 billion...
...He has been sold the idea that prominent Jews are responsible for the ¦war, as was evidenced by his recent attack ofl the Rothschild...
...while the backlogs grow to such staggering .proportions that delivery dates are months and years away...
...most notorious of the Stalinists in the Guild...
...Official welcomes extended by America First leaders, unless repudiated, reveal that there is mo objection to the" principles which the Detroit priest frankly espouses in his sermons and publication...
...This is not the only link between Father Coughlin and America First...
...Barton K. Wheeler, -wife of the Senator...
...Copies of speeches by Senators Wheeler and Nye have been mailed out under thfeif Congressional free waiHhg privilege...
...Metonier was the man who organized the attempted explosion in the office!of the Metal Workers Union in 1 Paris in« 1937...
...4) uniform regional standards for wages, hours and general working conditions...
...Outside ' Butte, the gft where Wheeler's attitude favoring the lef!-wffl[ mining element has given "him his f-iatjgf strength—the vote ranges from 4 tr 1 tc 6 to 1 against him...
...There is talk that the OPM may compel subcontracts...
...The U. S. Census of Manufacturers of 1939 show that wages form only a relatively small part of a company's total costs—only 16 per cent in manufacturing industries...
...Doriot's terrorist organ i-' zation ' is financed by Germany, whose -epresentatlves sit in its councils as observers jnd directors...
...It was Hoffman who sought to raise a $10,000 fund last Sep ternber to fight British prSpagAida...
...Although it would be strange behavior for the country's most bellicose political boss to quit under fire, it is not out of the question...
...The latter are divided into trios...
...of America (United' Auto" Workers) at Los Angeles, and the" Lincoln Mills (Textile Workers) at UunttrVUk...
...Main points in the stabilization plan are: (1) no strikes or lockouts...
...Doriot's organizational experience in the Communist movement has served him very well in his new task...
Vol. 24 • August 1941 • No. 31
