Where the News Ends
SCHLAMM, WILLI
By Willi Schlamm Where the News Ends |\QDO, a friend of mine, believes strongly in equality. His feelings were hurt by the fact that, seemingly, only big shots like Dr. Gallup and the Congressman...
...Our way has always been to let each industrialist make what money he could in any fiscal year without thinking of the next one...
...as-he thinks, significant The question Dodo's -stooges askea last week all around town was: "Ago yon for or against nailing teeth...
...said Dodt with that dignified coolness only scientific na> trality can provide...
...In Spain we attributed the tenacity of the Loyalists to their firm anti-fascist political convictions...
...Certainly the statement that the French ¦ army was better equipped than the Red Army is utterly w rung'.' as everyone who has but the slightest idea of the technique of modern warfare and has attentively followed the military history of the French and Russian campaigns in this war will readily confirm...
...The style was French but the substance was Nazi...
...1 bet you one to twelve, you too *tt learn that the public is agsinst pulling teeth and overwhelmingly so...
...But the marshal's speech served also to emphasize the unbridgeable gulf between his regime and the French people...
...was killed...
...To -blame individual sinners for this state of affairs is futile...
...It suggests that out industry and our army of workers and farmers be looked at as a unit...
...The trouble with Dr...
...I'm afraid Ems* will find out what Budyard sPr** ing meant when he wrote "¦ - •Sao _the female of the species Jf_#4r* deadly than the male,"""__„ Says Schlamm Derides Allied Soldiers, Hitting Democracy Fro* ALFRED tRAUWTHAL To the Editor...
...The cry for final reckoning with tat criminals will sweep the country...
...Having admitted the failure of his "national revolution" —a synonym for French fascism—Petain proceeded to announce how it was to be promoted from now on under Darlan's supreme executive command...
...women's auxiliary Air Force) who are taking over numerous responsibilities in the armed forces—relieving men for other posts...
...Having been vested with supreme executive authority, including supreme power over the French army, navy and air force, as well as control over French naval bases, will Darlan now proceed to turn over the French fleet to the Germans...
...What I think is beside the point...
...I bste to interfere with your tfnsrmmf' dreams...
...Jobless workers will look without the price and with nothing but longing at the food in the markets...
...There is no one whose business it is to think about our industry and our labor force as a whole...
...Here you can safely say —and without being attacked as a Latin phrase addict (the English are so cold and meticulous in their terminology) — "that every man is a man and every woman is a giant...
...As one measure to be used in making the "national revolution" effective, the efforts of the i republican ancVsSocialist parties for a democratic restoration and the leaders of these parties are to be "decimated...
...There the shortage' which throws workers on the street is due to the negative?' planning of great industrialists...
...The survey was made by.a system of highly selective samplings in each of the five boroughs...
...The men of/Vichy are the-prisoners of their own treachery and blindness...
...There is no comparison batwstt this War and the other Work1 War 28 years ago The waofc set-up this time is different Tkb is not a wsr against eapHslisn-or for<the preservation of capa* ism...
...An ill-wind is rising in many regions of France," said Fetain, as he complained of the flouting of the authority of his government...
...How do the people know they are taking this chance...
...This I could not doubt...
...The national revolution which I outlined in my message last October has not yet taken its place among accomplished facts...
...But why wait...
...Under the energetic guidance of Louis Waldman...
...A real uneasiness afflicts the French nation...
...If no..French court can be found to condemn them, they will be taken care of by Doriot's gang of assassins as they took care of D'ormay and Camel...
...And at best, the plans contemplated can cover only a fraction of the employes involved...
...I objected...
...AH Gods chum) gat• ieethv and thus all God's chilun are expert* "as** .that matter,-don't you see...
...thereby, Dodo .holds, is obtained a result which would not vary from that of a muck larger canvass...
...The latest example of the policy of decimation approved by the old traitor is the assassination of Marx Dormoy, minister of the interior in the Blum government...
...Having surrendered France to the enemy and made common cause with him, they cannot retrace their steps...
...Out on bail, Beal, very much against his own judgment, was persuaded to flee to Soviet Russia...
...ADOLPH PETAIN MARSHAL PETAIN'S speech last Tuesday should dispel any remaining illusions concerning the character of the Vichy government and the role it is playing under Hitler's direction in the building of the Nazi "new world order...
...Secret societies are to be run down and dissolved—an admission that secret organizations have been at work despite all previous efforts to suppress them...
...Right now we are witnessing in our own industrial set-up the most disastrous results of lack of'foresight...
...For Britain and the United States the immediate significance of the address lies in its military implications...
...said Dodo triumphantly "The seans-tell them—the same dentists who art making their living pulling teeth...
...The story with regard to industries requiring aluminum is even more disgraceful...
...Wita the help of propagandists they try to get arosaj the people's will, to lead the people into tsc eta> tist's chair through the back door, jest to siakt their bloody profits...
...But don*t jot think thst a man might become deadly infected if he does not have a "rotten tooth pulled is time...
...ships, enough to keen leuenr the: bravest Nazis at bay...
...Yes...
...Will Vichy, in other words, actively enter the war on the side of Germany...
...To hell with experts...
...If you have any doaMt as to the results of my privste poll, try sm yourself...
...Perhaps, after all, the A. F. of L. Executive Council has thrown its thought into our national stream of consciousness at a favorable moment...
...De Gaullist sentiment is rising in the army and navy, while French industrialists are likewise in rebellion against the policy of collaboration with Nazi Germany, a "collaboration" which is stripping France of her resources and makes for her enslavement...
...Stunned -at first into passivity and numb surrender to what appeared to be the inevitable course of events, the French people, under the impact of experience, have awakened again, at least in thought and yearning, to the realization that there can be no hope for them except in British Victory, and the restoration of liberty in France and through-¦ out the world...
...I am for one-way results," Dodo added rather brusquely "And what should we do now...
...A ~~"I find that many of our comrades differ as to the position Socialists should take relative to the Wsr, or rather jnst what our government's position should be...
...We are all keyed, up for a mighty effort...
...They know it...
...Confronted with a rising tide of popular contempt and condemnation, and responding to cracks of the whip from Berlin, Petain announced that "authority no longer emanates from below" but only from him and from those to whom he delegates it...
...Leon Henderson says that we shall soon have two million workers unemployed as a result of the enforcement., of priority orders...
...auxiliary territorial service) W.A-AJ...
...Rosenberg »* Schlamm, the opposite it tret and that the peoples of BrlttO and Australia, of Norway « Czechoslovakia, of Belgium "* Holland impatiently wait i«* * opportunity and for the eotmas* to fight and die for a "nesnw* collective" Jim Maurer Scores Stand Of Norman Thomas on War The following « part of a letter from James H. Maurer to Lena Morrow Lewis of this city...
...If this were true, woum.nM tkt Nazis be right in their atSjSnas...
...His book, "Proletarian Journey," is such a stark and straightforward tale of Russian realities' that it instantly won him the bitter hatred of all the Communist powers...
...The members of this Council were thinking...
...Gallup and this 'Fortune' guv, Elmo Roper, is their highbrow inclination to formulate complicated questions apt to confuse the people...
...In expressing their thoughts in the sort of world we live in, they were exhibiting a rare degree of optimism...
...We read ^rraf^rfF' Washington O.P.M...
...The overwhelming majority of the French people have repudiated the traitors and cowards of Vichy, a fact which stands out unmistakably in Petain's address...
...men, industrialists and union rep're'-.' sentatives arc in cquncil devising wajrs of substituting other fibers for silk: That is all right, but the conference takes place after the men are out instead of before...
...Gauleiters as regional prefects, with complete authority in their respective jurisdictions, are to be set up in the various provinces...
...Jim Maurer is,one of the veteran leading figures of the American Labor movement...
...With all his youthful fervor he set to work to serve what he thought to be an ideal Socialist commonwealth...
...Surprisingly enough, a large majority is decidedly against it.-If put to a city-wide vote, Dodo's survey shows, the question of whether or not Greater New York favors pulling teeth would be answered in the negative by a majority of not less than 91 per cent of the voters...
...I am always tiirilled by Willi Schlamm's column since it continuously incites me to dispute his curious theories about democracy...
...Hitler and Mussolini and test-retainers must not only b* defeated, but they and their tisJ made to join McGinty at tat »*-Jnm of thp sea...
...Petain's savage, hypocritical address will not deceive the French people, anymore than it will deceive the peoples and governments of the democracies fighting Hitler...
...I see an irresUhl* mass movement growing everywhere—an swakened people rising against' the conspiracy of dentists...
...The Council was expressing its fear of peace...
...Indeed...
...It is to be hoped that_Britain and the United States have taken all the necessary preparations to meet any eventualities that may arise from the situation...
...it has already been partially successful...
...he is now "somewhere" in England on active war duty...
...The farmer's priced will plunge from parity half-way down the road to zero, and out entire economy will spiral earthward...
...This is a public pob...
...They said our present productive capacity would be sufficient, and someone in Washington, for some reason, believed them...
...Their minds seem not be geared to take on two...
...Petain's address confirms it...
...While we view the present tragedy that results from lack of thought in the past, some of us may be prodded into thinking now about the future...
...These are skilled people, people used to running machines...
...if a dear majority is found against it German measles will no longer be tolerated in our community...
...but a war agsinst btnsSB progress, the annihilation of Ister lsws snd standsrds, the'dtotroe-tion of democracy and eroci'ytaf minorities...
...A typical argument of those in favor: "lam a dentist" A typical comment of those with no opinion: "I have no teeth," « * * MY friend Dodo asked me whether I do not think that this aesait is the answer, tn a p*ft-taker's- prayer...
...ar.i-aii- I «ar...
...Blame us—all of us—and our sleazy, haphazard way of doing things...
...Thr the course of a riot the/Cisef>of PbHce, a man named Aidershct...
...It is a wonderful process too infrequently indulged in by those in high places...
...made Dodo-, er.gry becaate, like any other believer in public polls, he does cot like Of-tee the implications-of his activity questioned';n any respect...
...It is on this basis that plans are now being laid for a new appeal to a new governor of North Carolina...
...Under this commutation it will terminate in 1944...
...So we find ourselves, more than a year'after out program was initiated, in a ridiculous situation...
...Only 2 per cent of men and women reached by Dodo's apparatus gave an affirmative answer, while 7 per cent were without opinion...
...Ha could not endure it, and resolved despite great dangers and difficulties to return to America, to face a prison term, and to tell the truth about Russia...
...A reply typical of those who opposed pulling of teeth was: "It hurts...
...More «ai<-' ipofe peopV at fast -win get those to he rrwasthii fof the shameful fact that teeth are '*t«r caying, hi spite of the people's outspoken, oosjs* whelming decision agsinst purling them.' Way, .-the dentist* are to be blamed, of course...
...Waldman that more could not be done at the time without violating the principles of the North Carolina parole system, one of the most advanced in the Union...
...From the moment that he set foot in his native land, early in 1934, they have hounded and _maligned him...
...we think it of sufficient interest to print a section...
...The history of the case is so startling that one cannot but be shocked at the ease with which the public -forgets it.,, * -iiuei jAs an organizer for the Communist National "Textile Workers' Union, Beal led the famous Gastonia textile"strike early Tn 'the' year1!929...
...Information reaching the New Leader from well-informed French sources discloses that even in high army circles, not to speak of officers in the lower ranks, there is a growing resentment against Retain and Darlan, to whom the old fake hero has now delegated supreme executive authority...
...say r? Londoners can cafiattt.y take it...
...And who wouldn't prefer juicy, sweet chocolate to an hour of pain in a dentist's chair...
...Letters To the Editor YankeeinLondon Tells of Women's War Heroism From ROBERT GLAD NICK (The following letter was received as a personal note by the editors of The New Leader...
...Weir, in the absence of any notional action by our party on the subject, I do not fcesitate to say that I do not agree wits fkomw and Co...
...We shall not now have to wait long for the answer to these questions...
...How closely the Petain regime is - cooperating with the Nazis in the task of decimating French and foreign anti-fascists can be seen from articles in The New Leader in this and previous issues...
...A wave of hatted and cos--tempt for the dirty bunch—thafs what 1 see see and hear and smell...
...Our griat men are able to think earnestly and effectively about one thing at a time...
...The broadsilk weavers will simply have to find some other industry...
...The enemies he has made ace his best witnesses...
...I stuck strictly to the methods of that gentleman who just asked his constituents whether they are for or against war, and thus got a nice one-way result...
...Activity of all political parties is suspended, payment of members of parliament discontinued...
...Every influence which they control has been brought to bear to dissuade American citizens from supporting the movement to secure his liberation...
...And we throw a couple of millions out of work...
...TIME FOR ECONOMIC PLANNING " *pHE Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor is right...
...These sentiments have recently found expression in the formation of a group of former conservative members of parliament, under Louis Marin, who have openly proclaimed their repudiation of Vichy and its policies...
...At, least act withput arousing the suspicion thst I am s dentist...
...around - the roof putting o^'ineend+ary-bombs as quickly as they fell These bombs not only can set buildings on fire but have dangerous explosives in them and unless snuffed out in a fraction of a minute after a landing, they explode and spread both flame and shrapnel h* all directions-, ^ The London lass told me about it as though she were talkisf about the inevitable sftoreeSJ tea...
...We should break diplomatic relations with Vichy and recognize de Gaulle as the representative of France, the France that is temporarily broken and enslaved but which tomorrow will march again with all other free nations toward the sun of liberation and of peace...
...Why were the million tf French and British soldier* ate died before Verdun ana on tat blood - drenched battlefields *f Flanders, the hundreds of taw sands of French, British M> tralian, Belgian, Dutch and Nor wegian soldiers that brave* **» or met their death in as mem* fight against Hitler's supew war machine, selfish cowards** knew of no collective ioeslitX* idealism and devotion to s safe-personal collective be fs«td a totalitarian countries only «** democrats know of no dosser *¦ sfrethan to plant their testef ' and to collect stamp...
...Unless its plea is heeded, peace will have its terrors as well as war...
...The Spanish Republicans raised a slogan of defiance, when Franco's hordes broke through to the sea in the spring of 1938—"every woman a man, and every man a giant...
...Would it have required a superhumanly gigantic intellect to figure out that a defense industry should be started at a convenient point and that these men should be retrained to serve it...
...my friend fired back at me...
...Police measures to keep the> people silent and inactive are to be made more draconic, a group of special commissars of police to be created for the purpose...
...It is an unfounded and unjustifiable slander against democracy in general and against the millions of known and unknown soldiers in particular that died for the cause of aeawrscj and for the defense of thatr countries in the first and a tV present World War...
...If sufficient public interest is lined up behind this effort, there is good reason to hope that this man will be set free to continue a life of great usefulness...
...of tire "decadent Jimsissrisr" The hope of the sroriT *»+¦** on the conviction "that...
...The Governor assured Mr...
...Gallup and the Congressman from Dutchess County are taking polls of the public opinion...
...Such estimates increase as we go along...
...But looking with sharp workingman's eyes, he saw tyranny, corruption, inefficiency and endless misery...
...Every able-bodied man is needed...
...nvister...
...that it might have been more appropriate to ash the people whether ' they dent prefer losing some teeth' to* risks* sepsis if the rotten teeth are not removotf...
...In London I've spoken with women of various military services such as A.T-A...
...And who has started all thst...
...The men of Vichy, with Petain and Darlan as their leaders, live or die with Hitler...
...Any similarity of this statement, given to me by Dodo, with that of any other institute of public polls is purely coincidental...
...I." said Dodo with aa air of sempkAe happiness, "me snd my poll...
...his...
...They must follow the road of betrayal to the end—to find security in Nazi victory or death in its defeat...
...I said to my friend...
...in such an enterprise only what tik public thinks counts...
...To make it more palatable, the old traitor who serves as a pseudo-patriotic camouflage for the structure of French fascism, mumbled something against the "trusts" and "capitalists" and wept crocodile tears over the fate of French war prisoners, workers and peasants...
...Will he permit the Nazis to occupy Dakar, Casablanca and Bizerta...
...Ii's-auciean and impressive reoalt'M gdnutted.-"Srs*or^- as far'as.it goes...
...Don't blame Roosevelt or Sidney Hillmah or William Knudsen...
...Why, they are the people's teeth, aren't they ? An overwhelming msjority of the people is against pulling teeth, ani if we still want to be a democracy, not a single tooth must be puUed here--after...
...At last the people will become «nlly propaganda-conscious...
...In other -lines, even more men have been thrown out or soon will be—in automobiles, household appliances, farm machinery...
...Born of national defeat and humiliation which the rulers at Vichy themselves deliberately promoted as a means of destroying the republic and establishing a fascist regime in France, the Vichy government has failed in its^efforts to deceive the French people into collaboration in its treacherous program...
...But on October 21, 1929, he was sentenced to from 1 7 to 20 years in prison...
...But this action laid the basis for a parole board pardon at a later date...
...This effort has, naturally, been led by genuine American liberals...
...The results of Dodo's private surrey are interesting and...
...The writer is a veteran of the Spanish War, having fought in the International Brigade...
...To forestall this situation, the Council advises real planning...
...When we adopted plans -Toy the armament industries, we simply followed the old way and forgot about everything else...
...FRED E. BEAL MUST BE LIBERATED ^EWS comes from the Non-Partisan Committee for the Defense of Fred E. Beal that new efforts are under way to undo, so far as possible, a great wrong done to an honest and innocent man...
...What women, what iscrot-ible creatures...
...The seething internal discontent in France is clearly reflected in Petain's address...
...Next question I sm going to analyse is the people's opinion about German measles...
...IT you ask me about London—I can safely say, the heart of London's and England's resistance lies in the English workingclass women...
...I can see the people's anger go om tht dam...
...We have no doubt Petain meant that literally...
...The bombardment of Barcelona seems to have been a pink tea party compared with the destruction wrought in' London— but life goes on as ever...
...As a final touch, the imprisoned leaders of the Third Republic are finally to be tried for their alleged responsibility for the disaster of France and, in all probability, exterminated in one way or another: either by judicial murder or assassination...
...The voyage here can best be described as a pheasant sea trip conducted with the escort of numerous' H.K:8...
...Some months ago he enlisted in the Canadian corps...
...Union men everywhere nave nightmarish presentiments of the day when death takes a holiday from the battlefields and hunger starts to stalk the housing projects which surround the mushroom armament industries...
...No longer wil...
...Thus, Dodo took a poll of his'own because, as he put it,.this is still a free country...
...Why give the Nazis the jump...
...I have s visa*,** said Dodo, and instantly bis eyes assumed Cast strange visionary shining...
...they pot- * rait a state of affairs which make* it possjate that s ridiculously -small mfnorhry oT paid wVfttn, editors snd internstional manufacturer* of dental supplies cheat them into pulling teeth, although the people are decidedly against it I can hear those speakers, standing on all street corners, and preaching the new message of Boat, I hear them arouse the public's anger witt tat startling exposure that the money a maa it supposed to pay for pulling a single tooth eenkt buy between 25 and 40 bars of chocolate...
...So the housewife will get no washing-machine and the employe will get no wages...
...The conclusion, however, which Schlamm drew from his wrong premise is much worse thsn wrong...
...It is not our way of thinking...
...What a question...
...Dakar and Martinique should be occupied at once...
...Such is the new order Petain offers to the French people, I saying "today 1 wish to save you from yourselves...
...The most interesting girl I met here was a girl in her teens who works in an aircraft factory in the daytime and is a fire watcher on the roof of an important industrial establishment at night She described in the coolest manner imaginable how during the Blitx nights she'd run...
...But arent the dentists supposed to know BMH about teeth than you and I? Aren*t they tht -experts, Dodo...
...Long-range plana for the future," it said in a statement adopted at Chicago on August 9, "must be prepared without delay or the economic security and political freedom of oar country will be menaced...
...Just Across Ibe' rivtr't« FardHton a*ri*i Passaic we already haVe die silk workers walking tr»*eu'stfeets...
...oepeciairy after the flismarck affair.'' ,"r - ' - '.^Sinco onr arrivaaV I'seJseea en leave ,to> London...
...Why,*: said be, "the question was put to the public in the;^|ra^est possible form...
...Last week, for instance, Schlamm claimed that the French army was far better equipped than the bulk of the Red Army can possibly be, and arrived at the conclusion that democratic nations produce inferior soldiers because to them "the violets in their backyard are far more important than the 'glory of a nebulous collective...
...I Now, how do the people of this great city really feel about pulling teeth...
...since we know how the people feel about pulling teeth...
...No one knows who fired the fatal bullet, and not a shred of evidence has been produced to incriminate Beal...
...Don't you think, enum...
...He was a loyal Communist, a skilled textile worker, and an experienced union organizer...
...Americans ;wko believe in justice should support the Defense Committee to a man...
...IsV'tpte of Hitler...
...The whole thirtg happened in the dark...
...He was the Socialist Party vice-presidential candidate ir 1928 and 1992...
...I We have known for many months that commerce with Japan might be cut off, that there might be no silk, that the Faterson workers might be thrown out...
...If some industries must stop or slacken, it thinks, we should plan in advance for other activities to take their place...
...Former Governor Clyde Hoey, who had acted as prosecutor at the original trial, was persuaded to cut the sentence in two...
Vol. 24 • August 1941 • No. 33
