Peace Senators Lead Antisemitic Drive on Hollywood Defense Films
RIESEL, VICTOR
"Peace" Senators Lead Antisemitic Drive on Hollywood Defense Films By VICTOR RIESEL An aroused motion picture industry is now planning strategy for a campaign to meet public attacks by...
...Warner is reported to have offered complete defrayment of 'expenses...
...A few months JP the same gentleman was asking for absurd Jwflays for 'British soldiers in order to cripple ••ww effort...
...Hollywood is a ragfng inferno of war fever...
...It was in emergency, policy to assist over a difficult time, and while he would work for its alteration he thought it Should be accepted at the moment...
...tob the other hand the small peace-at-any-Prlee groups in Britain are changing their •ttitnde too, although they would be the last Jr admit- this...
...7. That Lew Michener, Wyhdham Mortimer and other pro-Communist leaders will remain in charge of aircraft organization...
...68 per cent said "no," 2R per cent "yes...
...He was again paroled in 1938...
...Vinson has voted against any stringent excess proats taxes and was instrumental in releasing the shipyard companies from contracts which placed a profits ceiling over their heads...
...Of AFL cooperation, William Greea sjrtd: "We are cooperating in running thfe$*„racketeers out of the labor movement...
...One involved the United Auto Workers' Union and the employees of the Douglas and Lomason Company in Detroit...
...Profits of industrial corporations are rising faster than the average, up to 50 per cent and more above the first six months of 1940...
...There is no limit to the scope of the Senatorial investigation...
...Trley have already instructed -their clerical staff to prepare a questionnaire to be sent to all broadcasting units, including the leading networks, requiring a report of all defense speeches and text during the past 18 months...
...Equally little attention is being paid by the Senatorial committee to results of a poll recently made public by the Committee for National Morale...
...A total of 40,000 CIO and AFT...
...These sales must now be cut...
...Wheeler, as chairman of the Senate committee, immediately proceeded to name a sub-committee consisting entirely of avowed isolationists...
...Meanwhile, the movie industry has cut down on its -defense and anti-totalitarian films to avoid providing the isolationists with further -ammunition...
...The major issues are highlighted by the questions in dispute at the Federal Shipbuilding and Dry-dock Co...
...there is Joseph Schenck and Darryl Zanogh^pf Twentieth-Century-Fox: there JFsHfcray Silveretone of United Artists j-antfrhe great Sam Gold-wyn of Samuel Go&wyn, Inc...
...tu ¦ ••*« ¦ *• ••¦.-•* ••¦<'<¦' ¦-,>¦¦'¦¦>¦ As the expiration date 'of his NLRB term is rapidly nearing, Ed Smith increases his dissents, and more and mote sets himself off from the Harry MiUis-William Leiserson combination...
...Cooperating in I the cleanup are Victor A. Olander, secretary-^treasurer of the Illinois Federation of Labor...
...One important qualification must be entered here: although the national income is up, we lack any concrete analysis by the government as to who got the lion's share of the increase...
...To the question "Have you been annoyed by any propaganda in the news-reels and shorts...
...Particularly serious is the German breakthrough in the Ukraine toward Odessa, the Crimea, and the Caucasian oil wells...
...The Federal Reserve Board this week stated that payments by Jane jumped to a rate of about $88,000,000,000 a year—a 19 per* cent rise over the rate for May, 1940...
...to 'attain stabilized labor relations in industry through collective bargaining agreements, should not proceed to an investigation and certification of representatives during the term of the contract...
...Pritt sponsored the People's f»ce policy and the establishment of a People's Vsernment...
...London and Washington must speak frankly and sternly to Moscow...
...Both Vichy France and Japan are awaiting the outcome of the Battle of Russia before they take the plunge'into the war on the side of Germany...
...there is George J- Schaefer of RKO...
...Smith dissented...
...There is no reason why the 20 billions for defense can't be met out of the current income —instead of mortgaging future income by borrowing or bonds...
...As a/result of conferences in New York and Hollywood, a steering committee has been selected by the movie industry to plan strategy to-offset the expected smear drive...
...Homer in the chair, has asked the "ho to cut their holidays and work Sunday *V>U to assist the war effort...
...The noisiest opponents ^•imperialist war" have become as noisily in jjror of its ruthless prosecution, go strongly do oar local Communists- support •Jit war effort that all the small left-wing publications which' still stick to the academic position—that unless and until we are a Socialist wrld there is* a plague on all wars—these critics are spending a great deal of their time ittscking the new policy of the Communist Plrty of Great Britain...
...Victory in the Ukraine would, therefore, gravely compromise Russia's chances elsewhere...
...It is to be hoped that adequate action is already being taken by the United States to make this impossible...
...and' a score of other official German films now being shown in hundreds of movie, houses between the Canadian border and Patagonia...
...Russia in Europe would be finished so far as any serious military operations are concerned...
...Today, more and more of our plant capacities are being turned over for the manufacture of war goods...
...there is Louis B. Mayer of M-G-M...
...Homer T. Bone, Washington...
...Stalin may not accept this truth...
...Vladivostok, as the only remaining approach to Russia by sea, will have to be kept open at all costs...
...Wills was also a member of the review board of the State Unemployment Compensation Department Investigation revealed that Mr...
...Almost with no press notice anywhere, Senatorial non-interventionisU pushed through a resolution two weeks ago authorizing Burton K. ' Wheeler's Interstate Commerce Commission to probe "any propaganda disseminated by motion pictures and radio or any other activity of the motion picture industry to influence public sentiment in the direction of participation by the United States in the present war...
...In the past few weeks he has disagreed with the majority members on some of the most important policy-forming cases...
...The brother is a convicted thief and served 7% to 15 years for robbery fn Detroit, Mich., was paroled and then arrested in Lake County, Indiana, and Sentenced to 20 years for robbery...
...The American Federation of Labor is doing what it can to get Caldwell...
...6. That Lewis has assigned Allan Haywood to the special job of solidifying his position throughout CIO...
...The loss of the entire Ukraine, which now appears probable, would give the Germans control not only of Russia's granary but of the larger portion of her iron and coal supplies...
...If a new Russian front is to be established on the Volga or in the Urals, if the, Germans are to be sufficiently harrassed to make it difficult for them to exploit the industrial and natural resources of a vast portion of European Russia and of the Caucasus, Britain and the United States will have to make some truly heroic efforts...
...During the "first year of defense," from June, 1940, to June of thie year, national income rose 10 per cent, butt production kept pace, and with more goods oh the market prices rose comparatively little...
...Neither time nor the strategic-military situation will permit sueh effective material help, even if that help were available, as would alter the respective positions of Russia and Germany along the present front of their titanic struggle...
...The Russian problem is in reality an integral part of the task confronting Britain and the United States in the Far East...
...This will now become particularly important for Britain if the Germans are to be prevented from executing a f.ank attack in the Middle East toward Suez via the Caucasus, the Black Sea and Iran...
...Not much can be done now for Russia in her struggle with Germany in Europe...
...There is Harry and Jack Conn of Columbia Pictures...
...More and more strikes will resolve about this issue as unions seek to consolidate their ^recent organizational gains...
...26 per cent preferred these dealing with war in Europe, and 30 per cent favored those dealing with non-military events...
...Another 467334 returns showed incomes of $100 to $200 a week, leaving 206,937 incomes of over $200 weekly...
...The statement reaffirmed the determination of Britain and the United States to persevere in Jheir efforts to bring about the destruction of Nazism and thus cleae the road for reconstruction of the world on She basis of an enduring, democratic peace...
...Then it was taken over directly by Caldwell...
...This technique, used by both Senators Nye and Wheeler, involves the intimation that racial interests are responsible i'cr these pictures...
...I Originally scheduled to open hearings September 3, the committee has consented to postpone public meeting until September 9. It has the full sup, poet of Father Coughlin, whose Social Justice magazine this week runs a cross-page streamer saying "Ask U. S. Probe of Movies and Radio...
...We wfll continue to press on the case until all books, records- and moneys have been recovered...
...Failing in the efforts to bludgeon Hollywood, the isolationists have resorted to attempts directed at frightening the motion picture industry, which is about 50 per cent Jewish...
...4. The Reuther-Frankensteen faction is irrevocably split...
...And this money can be raised by stringent excess profits taxes...
...Koenig's name plainly before the Senator, he pronounced "Cohen...
...Aroused by the effective cooperation between the major predweer* S3M many government departments, including that of the Army and Navy, Senators directly linked to the America First Committee have attempted to force Holly-, wood to abandon anti-Nazi films and defense pictures like "Confessions of a Nazi Spy" and "1 Wanted Wings...
...Recent developments in the case are: membership records of the union reveal that only $62 of the $910,000 collected in the past several years are on hand...
...We do not for a moment believe that Germany's victory against the Red armies or any advances Hitler may make toward the Middle East and Suez win win him the war...
...there are the three Warner Brothers, Arthur Loew, Nicholas Schenck, Sam Katz and David Bernstein of Loew's, Inc...
...The war will be won or lost over the British Isles, in the air and an the seas, but h is obvious now that the vast theatre of the-conflict is about to be extended, creating ever new tasks and problems for the nations fighting Nazi Germany...
...Ernest W. MacFarland, Arizona...
...than in the corresponding period last year...
...The men who doauaate policy in these companies own or direct them are well known to you...
...Purchases will be diverted into fewer channels, increased demands will bring price rises...
...Harry -M...
...b» the delegates arrived for the meeting ln*y were told by the sponsors that the attack on Eussia had "altered the whole situation and ^fl* was no need for the gathering...
...It is assumed that similar, questionnaires will be directed to the various film companies for comparable details and descriptions-of films which in many instances were made at the request of government officials and departments...
...The collapse of Russia in Europe might well set Japanese armies in Manchukuo moving into Siberia...
...Louis speech...
...the new situation the Communists will not anything to interfere with the prosecution "'the war...
...1248, poured some $1200 a week into the paper until June...
...at Kearny, New Jersey...
...Now he says Churchill's Govern*t must not be replaced...
...h>a is supported by a demand for inde-Jwdenee for India, to prove our good intentions j*P justify iBritish claims that we stand for **_freedom of small nations, ^••re ig still a strong personal opposition to rV"*"r as keen in the deliberations of the y^a Conscientious Objectors* Tribunals...
...Developments on the Leningrad and Moscow fronts in the past week were none too encouraging...
...Japan is waiting to repeat Italy's move in June, 1940, vis-a-vis France...
...The "Builders' Leader" called a confer-m to discuss the "Essential Work Order" and Jteffect of pjec-work in the building trades...
...Despite his age, John Fitzpatrick is mad . . . and is throwing himself into the probe, cooperating with William B. Crawford, assistant State's Attorney, who is seeking the whereabouts of Local 1248's $910,000 worth of dues...
...Russia cannot remain in the war under her present political and military leadership...
...Out of the hundreds of news columns written about the Buffalo auto workers' convention, the salient facts are: 1. The Hillman forces were defeated despite the almost unbelievable good showing of Walter Kuether and Dick Leonard...
...Much of his talk was based on material sent him by his son, John Wheeler, chairman of the Los Angeles America First...
...British leftist ' Sects in Turmoil Over Soviet War by MAGISTRATE JOHN DAVIS GUSGOW.—Opposition to the war effort yrt has narrowed down a lot 'since the last isniion—that of Russia...
...The class-war theory is in cold storage for •Mttration...
...It is iearned that both Wheeler and Lindbergh plan to use the Senate committee's apparatus and findings as basis for an America First campaign...
...These decisions covered the supply problems of the Soviet Union as well as Britain, the situation in the Far East and, undoubtedly the problem confronting Britain and the United States in the Atlantic...
...Probers learned that Caldwell was a North Side cabaret owner in 1936, and so poverty-stricken that be was unable to pay even the salaries of his hired help...
...Russia esrmmt win without the Allies...
...While the arrival of autumn rains and winter snows would hamper the Germans in the North, weather conditions in the South give the Germans ample time to complete their operations in that sector...
...Another tactic may be, the taking to.the.air in a round-table discussion of the issues...
...A*oe' stories told at these tribunals have p*0...
...3. R. J. Thomas has shown himself lacking in sufficient trade union political sagacity and strength to control a large union...
...N.'Pritt, M. P., who called upon Sir Stafford Cripps to leave Russia and cease Wag the dirty work of the British Tories, has KM out flatfooted in support of the present Wernment...
...One Washington report states that in speaking before the Senate on the issue, Senator Wheeler indulged in Jew-baiting...
...As -some papers pTUctalrn it in scare?heaas, there is a new strike wave on...
...Peace" Senators Lead Antisemitic Drive on Hollywood Defense Films By VICTOR RIESEL An aroused motion picture industry is now planning strategy for a campaign to meet public attacks by isolationist and CoughEnite leaders early in -eptember...
...There was loud left-wing criticism, mainly from Labor supporters, about the banning of the "Internationale" from our Sunday night 'Broadcasts...
...stubborn resistance of the Red Army and the heroic efforts of the Russian people struggling under terrific handicaps imposed by the Stalin regime—the joint statement issued by President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill becomes even more significant and timely than it would have been under any circumstances...
...Whether Marshal Budyony will rr.anage to extricate his army from the trap' into whiehj it has been driven by the Germans is still a question, but the loss to Russia of the entire industrial region of the lower Dnieper along the Black Sea would be a tremendous blow to her capacity for resistance...
...There he said: 'There are ten major film companies...
...Issues are not wages and hours, but union recognition...
...The transfer of the French fleet to the Germans, now a grave possibility, would complicate the tasks of the British and American navies...
...On August 5 the majority dismissed an unfair labor practice complaint based on charges -brought by the CIO's United Building Service Union against the Rutland Court Owners, Inc., a cooperatively owned type apartment house in Washington, D. C. Millis and Leiserson ruled that a cooperative could not be held under the jurisdiction of the Board because "Congress did not include the particular activity of the respondent within the scope of the NLRA tinder the terms 'of trade, traffic and commerce...
...By cutting off access to the Caucasus through domination of the Ukraine and the Black Sea approaches, Germany would be in a position to cripple fatally both Russian industry and mechanized agriculture...
...there is Barney Bala ban and Adolph Zuckor of Paramount...
...Russia Faces Crisis as Military Catastrophe Looms in Ukraine By MALCOLM HASTINGS With Soviet Russia facing military and economic catastrophe—as was to have been expected despite the...
...Without such contracts, the unions are liable to fall apart when any slack comes...
...This may mean the United Service Organization, Spanish and British relief groups, and activity of movie stars in behalf of President Roosevelt and pro-British demonstrations...
...Negotiations between the railroad unions representing 1200,000 workers broke down last week after the management rejected higher pay demands...
...The isolationist probers will also look into radio broadcasting...
...Income tax figures just published show that 7,400,000 .people filed income returns in 1939— less than one return for every four families...
...To Zanuck's name he added a burlesque Jewish pronunciation...
...a new charter has been issued for the reorganization of the local...
...As a statement of responsible policy in an emergency,it surely understandable, but our small freakish revolutionaries are death on responsibility...
...Joseph H. Kazan, of Warners, in New York...
...the compantv refused the National Defense Mediation Board order...
...The latter problem may soon become more important than any other, in view of the prospect of military and naval cooperation by Vichy France with Nazi Germany...
...Each of these depicts the scenes of Hitler's conquest of the Western democracies and seeks to drive home to North and South Americans the futility of resistance to the invincible i German army or to impress the audience with the "horror" of British imperialism...
...h the West Coast, discussions have been con-dacted by Y. Frank Freeman, chief of the Paramount studios...
...A powerful fleet of long-range American bombers based on Vladivostok would, more than anything else, restrain Japan in the North...
...He was made a union organizer by C. C. Coulter, secretary-treasurer of the retail international, through the recommendation, of Charles F. Wills, advertising manager of the Chicago Federation of Labor News...
...When left-wing revolutionaries 7* asked what support they will give Russia 2 Bow My they will give pacifist support, ?*> U, all support short pf taking life...
...The survey, directed by Dr...
...In each of these companies," Nye said, "there are a number of production directors many of whom have come from Russia and Hungary and Germany and the Balkan countries...
...They are anti-everything,—and this seems a flrie chance to slash their erstwhile partners.' At a large rally, in one of our worst bombed cities Jn support of the Anglo-Soviet Pact under Labor Party auspices the national anthem and the Internationale were sung and this* sent our sectarian revolutionaries into a paroxysm, of rate...
...The producers have chosen Austin C. Keovgh, of Paramount...
...Tory Congressman Vinson, whose recent anti-strike bill was defeated in Congress, now pops up with a proposal that union treasuries be taxed as a means of revenue...
...We will make sure that the racketeers are out for good and the union is run on an honest basis...
...The Communists apparently supported thi meeting aind they come in for a trouncing...
...The original motion was made by isolationist Senators Bennett Champ Clark and Gerald P. Nye after Wheeler had delivered a long speech on the Senate floor charging Hollywood with attempts to force a declaration of war...
...Occupation of Vladivostok by Japan would be a serious blow to the United States...
...The local, No...
...There must be a reorganisation of Russia's .political and military commands...
...9. That the goal of 1,000,000 members eat by the auto- union will undoubtedly be reached which will make the UAW the "most powerful union in the United States...
...A great deal is being made of the fact that to, Arthur Horner, Communist Miners' leader Inn Wales, has supported the Miners' Execute/policy on the recently granted bonus of 9 Aits per day.being conditional upon the afr* putting in a full week in the pit...
...5. The Communists will remain in strong positions, among which are the editorship of the paper and the chief legal counsel's spot, as long as they dq not openly attack John Lewis...
...Drain the fhtge profit* and one source of inflation will be^halted...
...In the first four months of 1941, American consumers bought 40 per cent more automobiles, 35 per cent more refrigerators, 20 per cent more Vacuum cleaners, 50 per cent more furniture, etc...
...Nye, on the Senate floor, has condemned by name such films as "Convoy," "Escape," "Flight Command," "That Hamilton Woman," "Man Hunt," "Sergeant York," "The Great Dictator," and "I Married a Nazi...
...The loss of the Ukraine and the Caucasian oil wells would not speak encouragingly on this point, and should this loss be augmented by German seizure of Leningrad and Moscow before autumn...
...The place swarms with refugees and British actors...
...2. John Lewis will be the next CIO president, for he now controls the two largest CIO unions...
...To the question "Have you been annoyed by any propaganda in the feature pictures you have seen recently...
...This may include.a direct appeal to the public through a national broadcast to clarify the industry's: side of the controversy...
...The National City Bank Bulletin reports that 360 big manufacturing, mining, service, construction and trade corporations made profits (after taxes and less deficits) 20 per cent higher in the first six months of 1941 than in 1940...
...The majority ruled that the AFL contract could not be broken while it was in effect, although the CIO contended that more than two-thirds of its members desire a change...
...4The, majority said: "Although there has been a considerable Shift in membership from the UAW-AFL to the UAW-CIO, we are of the opinion that the Board...
...Charles W. Tobey, of New Hampshire, and C Way land Brooks, of Illinois...
...Military assistance and help in weapons and equipment can also be delivered through Iran, provided the British can establish and maintain control of that country...
...But matching it in intensity was a miniature battle in extreme left circles on a similar banning of this anthem from Soviet Igjsian broadcasts...
...Hie salary from the local, which he took over in 1937, was only $1% a week...
...Miss 'Agnes Nestor, president of the Chicago Women's Trade Union League, and Frank Fenton, 4FL organiser and director...
...The National Defense Mediation Board has agreed . to the union's request that all workers the company hires must join the union...
...Horner argued tb«t while he did not like lie policy hV faced the prospect of the 'alterative being penalization for absence from work, tad he preferred to get a bonus for full time rather tlWn"afjjketialty for loss of work...
...Nine out of every ten who filed returns reported incomes of less than $100 a week, leaving only 674,000 incomes of $100 a week and over...
...k the workshop this new spirit is seen in *tong Communist opposition to any strike fftm...
...In knottier case, involving CIO Transport Workers and the AFL Teamsters, the majority Tuled that truck drivers hired since a strike negan Were employees of the company (Frank NewfieldJ Itic, New Orleans, La...
...Smith disagreed, arguing that a co-operattve should be treated as an ordinary employer...
...This first blow at the new policy of Russia ltd the Comintern has been followed up with 1 ilishing attack on the C.P.'s surrender of the takers' right* in the factory in pursuance of •it new war policy...
...The Russian people wiin e. Mounting Corporate Profits Spur Inflation as Cut in Goods Hits Labor In coming months U. S. national income will top 90 billions...
...The Interstate Cemmerce Committee's subgroup has been active these past two weeks collecting data on Hollywood...
...Although a strike vote has been called, it is expected that the dispute will be settled by mediation...
...He had some letters written by Darryl Zanuck and WiHiam Koenig, producers...
...He is now completely isolated and in a position where Lewis can play Communist George Addes and Dick Frankensteen off against Thomas next year...
...From the immediate, practical point of view, however, more important than the statement of the American and British leaders are the concrete decisions reached, at their meeting at sea in consultation with official and military representatives of the two countries...
...and again seven per cent did not know...
...Floyd Kueh, Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Southern California, found that of the persons questioned, 44 per cent preferred newsreel and short subjects dealing with America's defense program to any other kind...
...The time has arrived, therefore, to begin disregarding* Lozowsky's stupidly optimistic statements from Moscow concerning the military situation and to start thinking of how to keep Russia in the war after the debacle which appears to be impending...
...J. Robert Rubin, of Loew's...
...It is completely ignoring the hundreds of official Nazi Alms showing in the United States...
...This .means that there will no . longer be a counteracting force to such films as "Blut und .Erde," "Einheitsfront," "Irisehe Trsgodie," "Sieg .im Westen...
...The committee is authorized to go beyond the actual film into "any other activity of the motion picture industry...
...But there will,be 90 billions in money payments and only 12 to 13 billions will be lopped off in taxes, leaving the remainder a volatile powder keg of inflation dynamite...
...The news concerning the battle raging from the Black Sea to the Baltic and beyond is bad...
...From the dues and initiation fees of 5,300 low-wage employees, Caldwell took nearly a million dollars lb pay luxury travel bills of his family and an assortment of friends, to purchase a $45,000 estate from the Capone . gangster Frank Nitti, and to buid up a bank account...
...Hays, president of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors ci America, Inc., has participated in outlining a course of action...
...Influence of Coughlin on Senator Nye is obvious in the text of Senator Nye's recent St...
...The South Wales Miners' Executive, *ith Mr...
...The committee, which is empowered to subpoena witnesses, includes Senators D. Worth Clark of Idaho, chairman...
...Here are the over-all figures which are the framework of the defense program...
...Will .-H...
...77 per cent answered "no...
...This writer has learned that the isolationist group has requested the files of the Dies committee, indicating that the Wheeler-Nye committee will use the popular front honeymoon period of Communist activity in Hollywood to paint the Jewish producers and] movie stars as reds...
...From these money rises comes one of the major fears of inflation...
...In this connection, it should be remembered, that 50 per cent of the metal industries of the U.S.S.R...
...concentrated in the Leningrad and Moscow regions, operates with Ukrainian coal and iron...
...These are pertinent facts to consider in the Alee of growing talk, of draining purchasing power...
...Boiled down, in a country of 132,t)00,000 only one family in 160 received an income greater than $200 a week...
...London military experts now frankly admit the seriousness of Russia's position, declaring that her^further resistance depends upon her ability to replace losses of men with adequately equipped troops' and to maintain a sufficient supply of materials...
...But a perusal of the papers Jjkh • year ago carried headlines such as JJtop the War" are today only asking for a *j*temeBt of war aims of the Government, and "to they demand, they say, in order to get a •Hlion more recruits against Hitlerism in "*"*Pied Europe...
...John Fitzpatrick and the Illinois governor suspended Wills from both jobs...
...The Allies can win this war without Russia...
...and entitled to vote in^tlbe coming NLRB election...
...The leading Communist fellow traveler in Britain, JAr...
...Of the 90 billion income, 20 billion- will go for defense, about 70 billion worth of goods and services,- at current prices, will be available for civilian consumption and normal government services...
...profits of large industrial corporations rose 25 per cent sinee the first half of 1940 and dividend disbursements of all corporations increased 15 per cent "notwithstanding increases in taxes or other costs...
...Wills is the father-in-law of Caldwell and worked with him to coerce women into the union...
...8. That all the talk of Phil Murray's slow but inexorable moves to clean up CIO of subversive elements has been just so much talk...
...Wills also appeared in court as a fixer for Caldwell...
...But 5* now evident that at least the goodwill of 'Pacifists is on our side,/which may not mean "™«Jn a positive sense, but it rules out the ""•wility of sabotage, with which Hitler has ,^*jk°n within Germany and the occupied Chicago Union Chief GoneWrtb^l0.000 Max Caldwell, Retail Clerks' Chief, WdS Capone Bootlegger ly VINCENT ROGERS Investigation of a racketeering scandal inside the Chicago Federation of -Labor, involving the disappearance of $910,000 in dues, is being pushed by William Green and local president, John Fitzpatrick...
...it was learned that an ex-convict brother of Caldwell's was paid as reporter and circulation manager for the local house organ...
...Central figure is the vanished Max Caldwell, ousted business agent and czar of Local 1248 ol the Retail Clerks' International Protective Association...
...The Federal investigation of Hollywood has long been overdue, Coughlin says, charging that its "international interests of wide range and power include gun-running between warring countries, oil concessions and munitions contracts...
...workers are out on 24 strikes...
...a litfie...
...John Wheeler's committee is notorious throughout California for irg previous collaboration with pre-July isolationist Communist fronts, and its continued cooperation with persons officially active in Bandist and Cough unite circles...
...6 per cent answered "yes," and seven per cent did not know...
...JMnth even here there has been a decided in the numbers registering as C.O.'s...
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