500,000 to Lose Jobs Auto, Oil, Aluminum Priorities Cuts; Allied Retail Outlets Suffer
ROGERS, VINCENT
500,000 to Lose Jobs Auto, Oil, Aluminum Priorities Cuts; Allied Retail Outlets Suffer OPM Knew of Situation Months Ago, Didnt Act By VINCENT ROGERS UNLESS this country becomes a land of ersatz...
...This angle is especially stressed in Southern California, with attacks on such motion picture industry figures as Joseph Breen, Will Hays, the Warner Brothers and others...
...The automobile retail outlet alone has 400,000 employees in 44,000 dealer organizations...
...To farther restrict use of this foe) -the Coordinator of Oil Supplies may order all gas stations "shut 12 hours a day...
...Part • of this is counterbalanced by the sober picture of priorities on civilian goods creating^ a half million jobless...
...Despite stiff'American competition, he has been able to tepbrt some success, especially in Chile...
...Responsibility fof this industrial confusion is' placed at -their doors, py capital correspondents, who fn'off the'record conversations' reveal that seldom in Washington's history has there been as much jurisdictional squabbling as exists there today, resulting in frequent contradictory' orders being isued by such key men as Leon Henderson of the price control office'and William Knudsen of the pftiee of Production'Management...
...Even in modem times, democratic institutions^ have, generally speaking, been "more successful in new cousj^, tries such as the United States, Canada and Australia, wha^ the conditions of life have been easy for the peopie...
...The net result today, as found by th>~i Tolan- • Committee investigating migration, is a disorderly, chaotic set-up...
...Government policy in countering these dislocations is weak...
...The second World War launched by the totalitarian stataj has led to the defeat of most of the European democracies...
...Latest Jligures state that not more than two and a half million can be reemployed in each of the next two years...
...Amlie Backing of Roosevelt Splits LaFollette' Party MADISON, Wisconsin...
...j This purely materialistic interpretation of the historical evolution of democracy leads Becker to the statement that the...
...The public has shown that it does not want propaganda on the screen...
...Labor is asking for unified industries committees with joint labor and industry representation...
...This*' means immediate loss of from 2,000 to 6,000 jobs, also a sharp cut in revenues resulting from the sale of all the myriad soft drinks and accessories which are generally sold...
...Said Agnew: . "It's purely a matter of dollars and cents...
...At football matches in Prague there are shouts of "We wis*, Svoboda...
...These instances dramatize more than any other some of the factors behind the current "labor shortage...
...The million-dollar fund was voted at the recent "K Ion vocation," in late June...
...institutions—so runs Becker's thesis...
...In 1941 defense needs will require the use of about one-fourth of the power normally used for civilian'needs) in...
...Speaking before a Klan meeting in Los Angeles last week, James Harvey, lieutenant of Imperial Wizard Colescott and state chairman of California, sounded that note in attacking several defense organization in which the movie people are active, especially the United Service Organization...
...The disappearance of that prosperity "around fpSMIr next corner" is the reason why democracy works leas well than, it did...
...rJut Sroboda means "freedom...
...The an/hfE' does not accept this new philosophy of totalitarianism...
...There are 2,000 gas stations in the New York metropolitan area alone...
...I U-S^RtmsBanned andSldshed in Latin America as Result of Nazi Pressure rJO more war propaganda will apijear in Para-f...
...they are certain to disappserjA...
...Allied Retail Outlets Suffer OPM Knew of Situation Months Ago, Didnt Act By VINCENT ROGERS UNLESS this country becomes a land of ersatz with' synthetic ^materials that industrial scientists can develop out of coal, glass, salt water, weeds and-garbage, substituting for aluminum, copper, alloy stella, tin, zinc, rubber, steel -and oil, millions will be jobless within a year...
...The Jews and the Catholics—and between the two of them they are fighting for control...
...Books and Writers The Crisis of Democracy By PETER GARVEY *J*HE rise of Nazism in Germany was more than an nteraai ' political revolution...
...Gas may be doled out at*the rate of five gallons a week...
...We don't want any part of it...
...His successes, which mean vetoes' on anti-Nazi pictures, are due largely to a vigilant and vigorous diplomacy, according to reports from Santiago de Chile received By the Christian Science Monitor...
...That is the leasoa des...
...Becker, "that democratic mate* tions may disappear in England as a result of the war, ejrea M Great Britain wins the war...
...Yale Lnivmrtm Press, vtdv...
...j. Another generally esteemed football player is named Svohed^ an even more widespread cognomen, the equivalent oi the AbsW^, can Smith...
...His Progressive opponent, Kenneth L. Greenquist, backed by the La Follette's, states: "I believe the present administration has pursued an aggressive foreign policy which" 1s leading to war...
...The prospect for this year, on the -basis of Power Commission data, is that one-eighth of the normal civilian use of power will1 have to be diverted to defense industries...
...His answer J» that in those countries where the democratic tradition is strongly entrenched, the process of increasing governmental regulation ojf economic enterprise should continue "event, to the point, if .tMj^, should prove necessary, of a virtual ^hf not formal socialilStwe of certain basic industries, without incurring the destruction of, democratic institutions...
...which state that the principles of indavUp^t liberty are incompatible with economic evolution...
...One reason for the former condition is indicated by a WPA report which states that by "May 1 68 per cent of all prime defense contracts had been awarded in 20 areas containing only 27 per cent of the total population of the country...
...Backer neither apologizes nor accuses, but presents a critical ana^ysii which sees the vices and deficiencies of democracy but does not know any better political system...
...Amlie's campaign statement centers around his succinct comment: "I approve President Roosevelt's foreign policy...
...and in Eutt^, pean countries, more or less in proportion to their industrij^ prosperity...
...The hardest hit however will ,be the salesmen, bookkeepers and other office workers...
...jj* Other trie** ketml frequently are: "Give us back Be***"* "He't on the waiff* "Give it to Bene*r "Benes, come b"fkiW& let the others get it.- "It's no good without Benes* "*«g% how lon-g have- wt got to wattf...
...And theJMK of socialization as well as its form must be a function of nL maintenance of democracy, not inversely...
...mount films, that companjSMjtnounced last week through its vice-preSidenqBreJl' "P...
...MODERN DEMOCRACY...
...which in effect is the basis for war and 'defense pictures,^is.'injurious to the box office' and is being misunderstood'and'exploited in isblatidhist circles...
...this ideological shattering of our changing time...
...The scheduled 20 per cent slash is expected to cut out 96,000 jobs in the auto state/ and 155,000 throughout, the country...
...Tom Amlie's candidacy for Congress on the Democratic ticket on the foreign policy issues has split the La Follette party wide-open...
...But Jg, believes that "if the democratic way of life is to survive, »t nmat • give to the traditional concept of freedom a more positive contend especially in regard to the economic security which is indispensibli to the decent and independent living...
...however, •'after' temporary suspension, the Ideal government permitted the showing of the Nazi war propaganda picture "Victory in the West," with "which tfce Nazis have been frightening drplbmats front the Aegean to the Arctic...
...New Migrant Wave, Rent Booms Add to Defense Headaches > Special to The New Leader WASHINGTON, D. C—Men on the move, looking for jobs, a chronic problem inherited from the depression and the restless frontier tradition of the nation, is plaguing the defense agencies and Congress...
...Southeastern railroads were asked by the Association of American Railroads to caned all excursions and to reserve cars for moving'troops...
...Since then, organizers, have been sent into the field and new literature printed...
...Give us back Svoboda "' Jj And the answers come from'th»opposite stands: "Hell bs ¦BE...
...that is to say, without a^corresponding social regimentation of opinion and political freedom...
...His theme is that democracy has, as yet, had but a limited and torn-p'orary success because "that democratic government is a upr1*^ of social luxury...
...Agnew...
...Meanwhile little more than a week remains until the primaries...
...The latter is true, but the sksptw assertion in regard to English democracy after the war seam* unfounded...
...In view of unemployment today at six and a half million (WPA figure—CIO estimates 8,175,000) the notion ofi labor scracity...
...Total capacity now is 33,000,000 kilowatts, defense needs come to 70,000,000...
...Svoboda Means Freedom /"\NE of the best Czech football players is named B^nes...
...MiH^.Dollqr fufic) Sparks Nev/ Klan #nti-Catholic Drive Under the impetus of a "Million-Dollar Americanization Campaign," utilizing its old anti-Catholic slogans, the Ku Klux •Klan is busily re-creating a national chain from Miami to Detroit to Southern California...
...in Detroit the Kluxers are busy recruiting auto workers, i tying in their .campaign with a new industrial open-shoppers outfit, the Detroit Council for Industrial Peace...
...This is most apparent in the west north central states...
...will be no propaganda in its pictures...
...If the order takes in the entire eastern seaboard some 35,000 to 40,000 men will be affected...
...V More serious is the situation in the auto industry, where according to C. C. Carlton, president of the Automotive Parts and Equipment Manufacturers association, a sudden Cut 6f 50 per cent in production on August 1 would throw 2|0,0OO men1 out of work, including...
...J'ODAY we have the rise in many countries of "new aoelsgl . philosophies...
...Town officials, as in Miami, now boast openly of Klan ^affiliation...
...Some cities have deliberately resisted new buildings, fearing destruction of property values, and ramshackle "ghost sections" of the town when war employment is ended...
...1943 the proportion will increase to one-third before1 it begins to decrease and additional facilities, supplied by development of power pools in the Southeast, Southwest, and Northeast, take effect This dearth of electricity, almost inconceivable in the' United States will hit private industry hard...
...The mother company is Germany's Filmkammer,' which has a special envoy shuttling by Italian' . planes between Buenos Aires and Berlin...
...They point to the intense and hestily financed German drive to capture the S«uth American motion picture industry, and" report that the United States iwill lose out' completely on this front unless its pictures^have some propaganda in them...
...More chilling is the instance of Seattle where in the next year 50,000 to 55,000 men will be needed, oi' whom 30,000 must be brought in from the outside...
...So far as Paramount is concerned, there...
...Recently he brought 25 German pictures back to Argentina with specific order to'get Latin movie houses to open to the Nazi ^propaganda films...
...The question chiefly raised by Becker is whether "the necessary social regulation of economic enterprise can be effected by tat democratic method...
...the Germans will simply take oyer the field...
...He said: "On the surface the USO is good...
...There the Cr?rin«ris''iworTdng under his direction have been able to keep off the screen entirely or to cut' American-made propaganda films...
...175,000 in Michigan...
...There "PaStorvHalI" was removed after running two days, "this action was taken after constant German.' ambassadorial protests...
...Here, tied in with the Detroit Council for Industrial Peace, the Kluxers are making headway at Ford, Briggs, Dodge, Packard and Hudson, promising "quick promotions" in plants where the men work...
...Reasons given by the Santiago authorities were that the picture disturbed public order and was "politically inopportune...
...Government officials are talking of issuing oil ration cards to driven' of pleasure cars immediately the summer resort' season ends after* the Labor Day weekend...
...They have even gone so far as to approach advertisers to secure support for their publication, the Fiery Cross...
...In Miami, Chief of Police Leslie H. Quiggs, Sheriff Dave C. Coleman and many other public officials do not conceal their membership in the Ku Klux Klan...
...In the same week...
...Main effort is one which is of a long-range nature—an attempt at decentralization...
...Mechanics may find a place in some defense industry...
...from all totalitarian socializations...
...The auto sector is feeling the impact of a strong Klan campaign...
...He has bought five minor exhibition outlets in Buenos Aires and some minor ''ones elsewhere, and is searching for a string of theatres throughout the continent...
...Favored nominee, Lawrence Smith says "1 am for aid to Britain but a non-interventionist" The election was occasioned by the death of Republican Congressman Stephen Bolles of Wisconsin's First District With Amlie and Greenquist nearly sure of their nominations, it is expected that leading national liberal figures will enter the campaign for the respective candidates...
...The Catholics are backing the Axis, and the Jews are backing England, Soviet Russia and the United States...
...New Britain, Connecticut, a 13 per cent rise on 66 out of 100 houses...
...IN Argentina, concentration point of t|ie German -*icampaign to win over the Latin rtwvierfteki, the Nazis have come out into the open with the founding of UFA Films de la Argentine...
...The end result is that it becomes more difficult to attract workers with necessary skills into these areas, high wages become illusory—and the labor turnover is high...
...Continual German intervention has been neutralized by the abundance of propaganda hi the films which did get through with a democratic message to the lashi movie fans, ft this is deleted!by HoUy-wood...
...The author's opinion is that "war, being the negation of the democratic idefc, can in itself do nothing to safeguard democratic institution*,.;, i But the deduction from this statement seems to remind one ff the famous and perilous remarks of Mr...
...tu ' » • • democratic Socialists believe that the necessary socialiiafijp ". of basic industries is compatible with democratic institnJtidSL without the "sacrifice of some of the freedoms...
...Less Light on Defense First positive notice that defense requires sacrifice came in the Southeast when the Federal Power Commission declared an emergency, decreed a 17-state power pool and asked consumers to curtail electricity consumption...
...The picture that will appear there has already been seen in many defense localities: skyrocketing rents, three-shift beds, workers living 50 to 100 miles from jobs and commuting each morning and evening, the absorption of high wages by rents and rising living costs...
...His aim is the .mprovemwutef this system by adapting it to the trend of modern economii iAd social evolution, toward an extension of social control and social regulation of economic enterprises...
...A large part of defense electric power needs must be met by ¦*f curtailing normal uses of kilowatts...
...Germany wins the war...
...Its success brought on a crisis in our politic^ way of life...
...tjjj ditional idea of liberty as formulated in the 18th Century hf Rousseau and later by James Mill, is no longer applicable U}«1 our time, for the economic realm produces a flagrant disharmony...
...This will' effect retail stores, salesmen, credit organizations—the ramifications are endless...
...but who is running it...
...These difficulties are already apparent although the federal government is spending much less than the $1,866,000,000 which U. S/Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau estimates must he spent each month for defense production...
...yet only 1,500 new dwellings are being built by private and public agencies...
...civilization as we have known it provide for the essential Mgl|* of the common man...
...In Europe the Jews and Catholics are also fighting...
...Refrigerator production has been cut to 150,000 units-a month, a decrease of more than 50 per cent...
...But only 500 dwelling units are expected to be constructed by private interests and 1,000 units by public agencies...
...Defense housing is proceeding at a miserable pace, little relief is in sight The problem of defense migration still bulks large as one of our main social problems...
...Jobs are where the workers aint," or "too many workers flood an area where contracts have been let," OPM labor officials complain...
...And there are fully 165,000,000,000- needed for complete defense...
...Industrial government and labor leaders are up in arms against the Administration's complete failure to handle the problem months ago when it first made itself -obvious...
...Kennedy...
...He also represents UFA, Terra and Tobis studios, lij...
...The concentration of wealth and power in the handl'lf the fortunate few nullifies for the majority many of those enf^ tial liberties which provide both the theoretical justification, att the necessary conditions for the practical success of democrats...
...Tilms like Charles' Chaplin's "Great Dictator" and "Nurse EdHh' CaivelP* were badly slashed...
...The author analyzes democracy' as an historical institution, as part of the social and economic evolution of mankind...
...Thfcfc in Bohemia, roughly corresponds to the American Brows, or Jones...
...We agree with the author's assertion that the essential ean-dition for preserving democratic institutions is the "political iBr dependence of the people who wish to preserve them...
...Station owners will he forced to slice off one complete shift of from one to three men on the average...
...of new facilities...
...It is spoasible," says Mr...
...All shades ^ criticism—from wholesale negation to opportunist reform"inj—^ are represented in this array...
...organized 'labor are refusing to sit in on the labor advisdry'boards.^for'this gives them no voice yet in the matter of planning production cuts'and' priorities...
...If other studios follow suit, the government's ^hemispheric* good-will program will be affected, regardless of the validity of the film' leiders' reasons, according to unofficial reports by government publicity men...
...Recently the Klan and the Detroit Council decided to form a citizens' committee for "Law and Order...
...Catholics and Jews are singled out as the main targets...
...TKi| ' development deepened the general despair and strengthened tht critics of democracy...
...soon|* or "We shall have to waff a bit for htm...
...Tickets were distributed under the Council's imprint' " Reliable sources indicate that more than $75,000 has been poured into the Council's treasury...
...Here too, jobs ate lost Illinois Director of Labor Martin Durkin reported last week that 24 companies in his state, employing 3,596 persons, would shut down within three months because they could not obtain the materials needed...
...even at the sacrifice of some of the freedom* and amenities q...
...Tljis policy is part of the'growing sentiment in Hollywood tha,t openly anti-Nazi' propaganda...
...This small volume by Carl Becker, comprising three lectures delivered at the University of Virginia in November, ;s>«0, reflect...
...Alexandria, Louisiana, a 36 per cent increase on 55 oa\ of 100 homes...
...If he wins in the final election on August 29, many deflections will follow in Amlie's wake...
...Illustrative of file situation today, and that to arise in the coming months is the case of Wichita, Kansas, which in the next 18 months will require 21,000 additional defense workers, of which 15,000 to 17,000 have to come from the outside...
...First'official statement Of this feeltng ww made two weeks ago by'Movie Czar Will H^ysl head of the Morton Picture Producers Association...
...Thus, when contracts were let and plant wheels turned, statisticians in Washington carefully plotting arrows showing migrants moving west, found their lines beginning to whirl and spin in all directions...
...Authorities estimate that only 36,000 of these displaced auto workers will be reemployed by October Other civilian lines are already suffering...
...Despite British and "United States j efforts to wtJTthe showing of ,lCbnfessions of a Nazi Spy," the Chileans turned them down...
...The Industrial Peace Council is an organization of" "Businessmen" interested in bringing the real industrial peace to the city...
...it was also an ideological challenge si, democracy...
...South America he is known as Herr Biester, the Nazi super-salesman...
...Right now the Jews have a stranglehold on the Catholics in this country...
...A large critical literature has come into being «tek« ing to provide answers for a confused people...
...However, a contradiction to that conclusion arises when Bectaf says that the condition of survival of democracy is that it shall...
...This small volume by Carl Becker is a very substantial ttttra-d action to the complex problems of modern democracy...
...Seven candidates- have entered the GOP primary, with no one taking a candid stand on the war...
...The anti-Communist Detroit Newspaper Guild terms it "the newest thing in Vigilantes which bids fair to supersede the Mohawk Valley Plan...
...Curtailing of tin and rubber, will affect many hundreds of thousands...
...between democracy as an ideal and democracy as a going SJJfr^ cern...
...In Brownwobd, Texas, in 78 out of every 100 homes rents have gone up 69 per cent...
...By Carl Becker...
...Only the heroic resistance of Britain to the j "blitzkrieg" kept the faith in the democratic ideals from com- -l pletely shattering...
...Meanwhile all section of...
...Typical is what, may soon occur in the retail gasoline -field...
...1 * " 'Sharp criticism is being leveled by the nations newspapers against the complicated and overlapping Washington' bureaus...
...The vote should be a barometer of what the heavily isolationist midwest is thinking...
...Necessarily defense contracts had to follow the general pattern of manufacturing establishments...
Vol. 24 • August 1941 • No. 31
