Little Hope Seen for Small Business As Army, Monopolies Run Production
LOW, MATTHEW
Little Hope Seen for Small Business As Army, Monopolies Run Production "Big-Business-as-Usual" Policy Still Continues By MATTHEW LOW WASHINGTON, D. C—Whatever the reasons, and whatever the...
...Brehon Somervell made a flat statement of policy which would practically rule out small manufacturing from the program of war production...
...Gitton was assassinated recently...
...Ml Ambruster then came to the conclusion, "Yot don't care to answer the question...
...Some are "innocent bystanders," others are helpless accessories, and some even full-time agents "mingling with the crowd...
...trouble at all...
...Cummings, and Fred Derrick', was · in the process of being granted a charter this week-Observers here said...
...Added advantages of the latter: hundreds of thousands of tons of grain, and a steady flow of high-grade iron ore...
...M. on the highways if...
...If they are in cars, Jerk them out, search the cars and find out where they are going...
...If the story of Cachin is true then he is thi fourth major French Communist leader to haw gone fascist...
...Hollywood Writer Forms 'Front' Group By KENNETH VAUGHAK LOS ANGELES, Calif.—A new Coughlinite group, formerly known as the "Christian Liberties Union" (exposed several months ago in The New Leader), is being formed by a former Hollywood newspaper columnist, Allan W. "Bills" Wells, according to members of the movie colony here...
...The reason for this is the presence in the de Gaulle entourage of various reactionary leaders...
...The New Leader has evidence to show that on Sept...
...Its ports would probably provide valuable bases for Atlantic submarine warfare, but the facilities of the French west coast are handling that problem...
...not only become an instrument for carrying out German policies«ii...
...Hook's scalpel slices away tha argument that supernaturalism is the indispens ible pressuposition of democracy...
...The author traces thoroughly th "broad, persisting pattern of adroit penetratioi in the Balkans, detailing its acquisition of all th, important chemical firms in Southeastern Europe as part of its policy of continental monopoly...
...In the last war Cachil was one of two agents of the French government that supplied Mussolini with money for propaganda to' bring Italy into the war...
...The others are Jacques Doriot...
...In an angry clash with Senator Jim Murray, chairman of the Small Business Committee, Somervell stood pat on the Army policy of "feig business as usual," and insasmoch as small industrial plants could not be "fitted" into the Army production program, predicted their doom by · the hundreds...
...George E. Sullivan...
...Swiss Socialist Circles as quoted by a Delmonte Democratic dispatch from Zurich declare that the Italian Socialist Party now has illegal units in factories throughout most of Italy...
...the elder statesman of the French Communis Party, and Louis Aragon, former Dadaist an< noted French Communist literary person, ha< gone over to Vichy and collaboration...
...History ie catching up with the neutrals...
...G. Farben 'Adds the Balkans ti the Reich...
...Turkey has reason to be genuinely wprried about the coming 'Thanksgiving' day...
...We intend to see to it," Murray shouted back at Somervell, "that our soldiers are not slaughtered merely because certain high procurement officials fail to understand how the resources of this country should, be mobilized for the supreme effort...
...The organization has a chapter here, in Chicago, in Cleveland and one in New York (at 317 West 56th Street...
...Portugal...
...In, th chemical field, the long-range plans announced b> I. G. Farben the middle of 1941 set chemiot self-sufficiency for Europe as their ultimate go* Stack this against the answer by Stanaan Oil's President Farish at the last stockholder meeting in June 1942 that "I never had any ide-that the I. G. Farben, as an organization, wa hostile to the United States...
...One crude index is the type of ideological appeals and books that have been appearing...
...Wells is a staunch Coughlin defender...
...and Andre Philip, both of whom recently ssnspsd from Vichy, have proclaimed "neo-socialist" ideas...
...OWI chief Richard Watts sits at a cafe table in Dublin, with leading Nazi agents seated at the table beside him...
...Weekly on "I...
...The payment of interest to British holders of debentures issued before the war by the great Czech arms firms is made by the Treasury out of blocked Czecho-Slovak funds in England...
...As David Bailey, director of the Australian Information Bureau in New York City, reported, "Australia gets the money to pay her soldiers the same hard way America does—by taxes which in Australia rise to 96% in higher income brackets and of which 4/5 go to pay for war...
...New Secret Society Forms In Georgia Special ?? The New Leader ATLANTA, Ga.—A secret society called Vigilantes, Inc.," or-ianiied by Major John E. Goodwin, Commissioner of Public Safety for Georgia and Governor Talmadge's personal bodyguard, John...
...State are: "Patriotic, secret, social and benevolent...
...Franco remains a Class 4F dictator (i...
...Wells also intends to publish a reference book with material culled from the Dies, Lusk and Coudert Committee reports...
...The complicating factor though is the presence on the, ballot of a proposition seeking to legalize Birth Corral This has raised a religious issue, with »0/0« Democrats trying to make the Republicans responsible for the birth control measure...
...Here is what Chicago Tribune reporter Henning wrote last week: "Whereupon the Roman ? hohe Hcirarchy uprose in mass to defeat the birth control measure at the polls...
...A neutral state or two will come in very handy for the Nazis when the "right...
...Wells played a prominent role in the behind-the-scenes manipulations of the isolationist-inspired Senate investigation of the movie industry by Senator Nye during the America First hey-day...
...Lend-lease funds are used to pay for the war that . Australia's fighting together with us...
...Neutrality, Swedish style, upsets Hitler...
...Have you any "they're starving our boys" weepers in your neighborhood...
...It ie hardly likely that Hitler will risk any gamble so long as Ireland is "neutral against" the democracies...
...On a different level are the Hoover-Gibson The Lasting Peace and Nicholas Spykman'a America in World Politics...
...manxst...
...Joseph Perry, Bank Commissioner, says: "There has been no governmental order prohibiting the payment of dividends by savings banks...
...The flushed hopes are fading, the strong voices becoming more plaintive...
...The French Lett A LL anti-fascist Frenchmen are united behind General Charles de Gaulle as a military leader, but various labor people have thought it necessary in print to establish certain political differences, and to insist that no political provisional French government be formed in advance...
...Show him that fright is...
...Hook attacks the new obscurantism ant irrationalism displayed in most of the papers reai at the recent Conference on Science...
...to Vichy COR the past several weeks, rumors have cfrcu *· lated in left-wing circles that Marcel Cacti...
...But there are eetrain facts to which one cannot turn a blind eye...
...The rumorj regarding Aragon have died down and may ? discounted—Aragon is last reported to be Hviaj quietly in southern France—but the story regarding Cachin is being given general credence One such report regarding Cachin has a ? pear ? in Pour La Victoire, a French paper in Neu York, edited by Genevieve Tabouia...
...But they're not getting it...
...Washington contacts reveal that Mr...
...Here's one rumor of the "fight your allies, not your enemies" type...
...Second, there is the profound long-run danger that big-business domination of war production now will prepare an irrevocable monopolist domination of American life in peace-time...
...Spain, of course, is hardly a neutral at all...
...In doing this, I. G. Farben has gone far beyond the normal operations of an industrial concern, and...
...French paper in London...
...No Skids tor Skoda DRITISH stockholders of the big Skoda works, now making munitions and tanks for the Germans, apparently got this year's dividends...
...Combine this with the recognition of reactionary King George of Greece, and the presence of reactionaries in the Sikorski Polish cabinet, and you may well suspect that governments may be imposed on peoples in occupied Europe...
...The Swiss railways . link Hitler and Mussolini, and there has been no...
...against the prosposition...
...The Socialist Party in Naples is beginning to show active signs of life...
...t , Professorial Wisdom: PROFESSOR R. M. MacIVER S sly jest: So * ciologists and academicians are writing of thi post-war world now...
...charter was Hewlett and Denis, Atlanta attorneys, one of whom, Justice Samuel C.Hewlett, was appointed to the state supreme court this week by Tal-madge to fill a vacancy...
...Insofar as this was an argument for a new industrial strategy of democratic .planning, it was perfectly in order...
...It has been aptly called"the Sleeping Beauty treatment" (probably with some Prince Charming kissing it beck to life-after the war...
...Can the issues of a post-war free world be met by hiding from the problem of monopoly-capital domination of economic life...
...In the latter "Social Justice" article we are told that Mr...
...Swat That Rumor—A Sampling Of Those Making the Rounds Special to The New Leader WASHINGTON, D. C —"The walls have ears...
...In commenting, on the new organization, McCallister said this is evidently a streamlined version of the Ku Klux Klan, organized to make good Gene Talmadge's promise during his campaign to see "that "white supremacy" is maintained...
...The consolidation ol Germany's position i; southwestern Europe, accelerated since the out break of World War II, is seen as an index ? Nazi plans to dominate Europe economically an politically in the event of a victory...
...Neutrality here seems relatively safeguarded as long as nothing pops at Dakar...
...Here's a specimen of the "fright" the "economic collapse" rumor...
...Behind the squeeze on Little Business, there are a whole complex of factors: war-time needs and peace-time industry, national productive ' efficiency, waste and overall organization— and also Big-business pressure, brass-hat myopia, and failure to remove the home front conduct of the War from the dangerous fields of old-line power-polities to a higher level of democratic planning...
...And in the international fields various rumors will not down—that certain elements in the state department favor a deal with the King of Italy and a section of the army, against II Duce but also against any revolution that might sweep the country—that high circles favor Archduke Otto for the leadership of a Free Austrian Movement —that Spain will be guaranteed as a Catholic country after the war, etc...
...Asa result of this and other irregularities, including solicitation, of -one hundred dollar contributions, for Talmadge's campaign, Sergeant J. F. Hartefeld, district commander in Waycross, resigned and submitted an affidavit containing the above charges...
...Switzerland...
...The next day, another dispatch said that it had been decided to cancel the meeting...
...that the organization was probably formed...
...Farben has participated vigorously, writes th author, in carrying out "Grossraumwirtschait (continental economy) plans which require th Balkans to furnish Germany with more food stuffs, raw materials, oil and minerals, in retun for which they receive from the Reich large amounts of chemicals, fertilizers, pharmaceutical and cosmetics, in addition to machinery an technical engineering services...
...P«ul Morand, leading Communist publicist and editor who is now Vichy's Minister of Propaganda, and Gitton, member of the Politburo of the French CP...
...The peasants had overpowered the local police, burned {heir headquarters, and the municipal office...
...Army Supply-chief Lieut...
...The banks are stronger than ever before in their history...
...We print below digests of authenticated stories from underground sources...
...and assailing new social welfare proposals now before Congress...
...Or that in 1941...
...pub lished in a recent number of La Marseiliaue, t&i Fighting...
...The other . . later became a leader of toe Czech Communist Party...
...Walter E. Spahr of N.Y.U.—who once wrote tracts for the Liberty League—asks for a Fifth Freedom for private, individual enterprise...
...Can we any longer ignore the fact that one of the leaders of the movement, today occupying an important poet in overseas territory, Is one of the confidential agents of a great international capitalist who played an' important part in Paris ? Can we any longer ignore the fact that one of the moat important of the General's 'ministers' was for a long time in the service of the French insurance companies...
...The enemy is listening...
...On instruction ? Cardinal...
...still sang the praises of Vichy's reforms only last year...
...Goodwin said, "Use your blackjacks' on them whenever you can...
...Farial thought that the question was not "proper...
...A protest was filed with the Department of Justice by Frank McCallister, secretary, Southern Workers Defense League, but so far they have not indicated what action will be taken...
...the role of the non-fighting Irish is something else again...
...None will succeed in setting itself apart from the main stream of events which has engulfed nation after nation in World War IL' Neither treaties nor their own solemn assurances would prevent the Germans from adding another European country to the number of protectorates...
...in an effort to appeal to the wool bat Doys who make up Governor Talmadge's' support...
...Six Neutrals Watcfe New Hitler Moves HIDING in the comers of the .European arena, torn by total war, are six neutrals—Sweden, Ireland, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, and Turkey...
...Commissioner Goodwin is the man who, during the recent Georgia gubernatorial campaign, ordered his state patrolmen to search all cars after 9rP...
...Insofar as it insisted on "little business as usual," it will and is running up against hard facts' that it won't «et by, But nevertheless Murray's committee has arguments, a~nd they are being developed in hearings and reports which promise to be the richest source of detailed information about: the American economic structure since the TNEC experts were let loose...
...People's election not provisional governments must be allowed to decide a nation's future...
...Two Socialist leader...
...f. G. Farben...
...Small business is to' be put out of its suffering for the duration...
...Said the Navy: "This story is definitely false as men in the service are fed well...
...But such occurrences are rare...
...In both articles, one under the heading of the "Fifth Column in Hollywood," the other, "Critic Assists Senate Film Probe," Mr...
...Next time someone you know comes around with something-hot off the rumor stove try to find the pot in which the gossip was brewed...
...Run them off the highways...
...First, there is the very obvious situation wherein a neglect of small-business will mean wastage of existing machinery and productive capacity...
...The Navy Public Relations Office answered that one...
...There are bigger stakes than that...
...Squeezed in between the belligerents, it blocks -the path to an easy Axis victory in South Russia as well as in Egypt...
...Marching in the liste on one level are Peter Drucker's The Future of Industrial Man, Gugliemo Ferrero's Principle* of Power and Herbert Agar's A Time for Greatness...
...Although strikes are prohibited in Italy "not a single policeman or soldier showed himself" and the demands were granted six hours after the strike was declared...
...Any day in The Sew York Times will bring you reports of business leaders beginning to raise their voices against the collec-tivist trends...
...There was a buoyant hopefulness, a confidence that the war meant the end of empire and exploitation, that a post-war world must lead to a planned, democratic society...
...Most likely, for so long as there is the threat of a United Nations invasion of northern Norway, Sweden is the immediate danger of Nazi occupation...
...Too...
...Spain is serving Hitler today exactly as she served the Caesars in the days of the Roman Empire...
...Wells plans to publish a national magazine to be known as "Christian Justice" or "Christian Liberties...
...One clip from this week's paper: a speech by W. G. Curtis, chairman of the executive committee of the Insurance Economics bo-ciety, viewing the "war as a screen for socialist ideas...
...The Socialists recently precipitated a sudden strike-/at>^he Fiat works demanding pay increases...
...The New Leader exposed Dr...
...Some of the clergy are reported to have advised voting not only against 'this RepHfc bean measure but against all Republicans on the ticket' though they thu* exceeded the Cardinal's injunction thjst the action again»* birth control should be without prejudice t» the candidates, the Cardinal himself being a Republican.^ • · * ft/oemy Note «? the Times #TIE American slogan of World War I was "« ? war to end war...
...of asylum" becomes pressing and desperate...
...Broselette expounded these views at length h an article on "Political Revival jn France...
...and the strong air bases in Sicily,-Crete and Rhodes point right at Turkey's western border...
...all priests in the State in their sermons last Sunday urged tSnr flocks to register for the election and to vojtf...
...in the post-war world thej will write books about what went on during thi war...
...t Comintern member, who with Earl Browoci served as Comintern representative in China...
...An interesting transition book is F. H. Carr's Conditions of Peace, which, in its analytical section recognizes the revolutionary forces precipitating and unleashed by the war, in its prescriptive side comes perilously close to a theme of Anglo-American world domination...
...Italian troops and special police were recently rushed to the village of Montel-eone near Naples to suppress rebellious peasants...
...booklists oft times mirror the sentient sub-surface change* that are occurring...
...And from the conservative side there comes a new chorus...
...The last group that went to Australia was half-starved and didh't get one decent meal on the way over...
...Cachin km| has had a spotted record...
...German diplomatic officials are active, and transmit valuable information to the Foreign Office...
...PhuosoDbj and Religion...
...I. G Farben was still included in the negotiationc ? the Catalytic Refining Association, a world carte dominated by Standard, Farben and SheU...
...The "former sounds a great deal like the banned seditious "Social Justice...
...On the other hand...
...This column will discuss this new politics trend—as well as one quite similar in the Ger man movement—next week...
...The United Nations are still forbidden the use of Cobb and the western Irish ports or any air bases...
...Conflict would upset communications already running smoothly, and possibly .upset the attacking forces too, for the Swiss militia, hall a million strong, is brilliantly trained in Alpine warfare, and might well hold Italian or even crack German divisions...
...Once Christian Aroeric a," Wells has written (and after Pearl Harbor), "in welcoming European refugees indiscriminately to her shores shows surprisingly little concern for the effect some of them may'have on the morals of her people, especially the youth of the country...
...Many of them hold that viehy is guilty of nothing except capitulation and that many of its internal reforms are acceptable...
...Peoples' or Anti-Peoples' War IF one steps out of the subtle shadowlands of ^ ideology into the business world jungle, the full-throated growls of the business leaders among themselves are vocal evidence enough...
...Sidney Hook's crackling title "Theologies, Tom-Tom and Metaphysical Bag-pipe...
...Peace, Peace, let There fs No Prise TWO laconic "sticks" in the news gave a sound-* less echo of the roar of the war's cannon...
...Labor is watching the Battle of Little Business anxiously, and not merely because the powerful New York unions are badly caught in the small-manufacturer depression...
...Or read the angry telegrams to various U. S. Senators by General Motors, General Electric, Westinghouse, Inland Steel, among other 600 large corporations, vehemently protesting against the Government's renegotiation law on contracts in order to stop excess profits...
...The interest is on the 3.000,000 pounds of six-percent Sterling debentures which *ere issued mainly in London in July 1930...
...Wells has an always-welcome hand at the office of Dr...
...German troops are being concentrated in Bulgariar Greece...
...A dispatch from Stockholm stated that the Nobel Prize Committee would meet October 29 to select winners of the J942 peace awards...
...Neutrality here is almost traditional, but the scrupulous Axis respect for it has mystified many observers...
...One mother heard this from someone who hadn't bothered to check for truth: "This sugar rationing is just the beginning...
...and head of its labor department...
...Pierre PnmsbtU...
...Wells had two articles cited in "Social Justice...
...22, 1941, Mr...
...Wells' organization will be known alternatively as the "American Defense Union" and the "Christian Liberties Union...
...Vigilantes, Inc., coming as it for White Supremacy," organized for White Supremacy, organized recently in Alabama, portends serious times for democracy in tfye South, unless these budding totalitarian movements are repulsed by a vigorous, aroused public opinion...
...Strategy of Freedom in 1940 and 1941, Frances William's War by Revolution, Carl Dreher's The Comma Showdown, Samuel Grafton's AU-Out, Lewis Corey's The Unfinished Task,- Max Lerner's Idea* for the Ice Age, and a host of pamphlets and articles...
...The statement wa made in an answe to a question b. Howard Ambruste who asked Farial "Would you desir to state to this meet ing when you fin became convinced ? suspicious that tb activities of the Get man I. G. Farben in its relationship to Standsri Oil of New Jersey were hostile to the nation* security of the United States...
...Sullivan's scurrilous letter to Congress last week...
...Hitler is anxious to maintain respect for at least a few European sovereignities...
...The peasants, too, havte been increasingly active...
...Loose lips that acquaint the enemy with military information are probably the sharpest, most explosive variety...
...Eire holds an even more favorable position...
...imperialism JVECOMMENDED to all persons interested ? problems of monopoly and the econonu character of the Nazi state: the fascinating ar ticle by Karl Falk in the Foreign...
...The first two years of the war brought a flood of books with the theme of "people's war" and "democratic collectivism...
...Brought to mind are Harold J. Laski's WAere Do We Go From Here?, and...
...bet the shifting ideas of various Socialists among the Fighting French even more important...
...Ireland...
...Politics and ? ? ge ties QNE of the hottest political battles of the V country is in Massachusetts with Henry Cabot Lodge battling to hold his Senatorial seat against Congressman Joseph Casey...
...there's another dangerous lip in this country—the lip of the rumormonger, the lip so loose that it can be set wagging by the first juicy piece of disgruntled gossip that it: can taste...
...Four out of nve.peaete interviewed by the Daily Sews's Inquiring,*** tographer last week, said No to the qi&tto) De Yjou Believe This War Will End All Warsf...
...All of these protests have been gathered m a brochure by the Northern Pump Company which is being circulated extensively throughout the country...
...Writing in the August issue of Left S'ews in England, Louis Levy, former diplomatic correspondent of Leon Blum's Le Populaire, says: "We shall take great care here not to give any names, or to transform political criticism into personal criticism...
...after two years of War, a related in Reimann's Patents for Hitler...
...Can the issues of a total, revolutionary war be met by old-style economic fumbling, and evasion of the necessity of democratic industrial planning...
...On the one hand, WPB Chief Donald M. Nelson has admitted that hope of getting any large volume of war orders for small industry is just about gone...
...they contained Negroes...
...Wells "exposes" "Jewish-Communist" domination of the motion picture industry with all the usual "details...
...Little Hope Seen for Small Business As Army, Monopolies Run Production "Big-Business-as-Usual" Policy Still Continues By MATTHEW LOW WASHINGTON, D. C—Whatever the reasons, and whatever the historic justice of the case, it is becoming as clear and conclusive as an obituary notice that America's Little Business is caught in the toils of a fatal squeeze...
...The law firm making application, for the...
...There are real dangers for Hitler here, and he might move to check these by: conquering Leningrad, driving on to Murmansk, or occupying Sweden...
...unfit for military service), but he's coming across with raw materials and foodstuffs, quicksilver, iron ore, olive oil ami citrus fruits...
...The Wall Street Journal has cynically called for a Fifth Freedom from the other Four Freedoms...
...There may, be isolated instances where stormy weather, unexpected absence from base, or similar occurrences prevent ordinary service of meals...
...This gossip has been heard in several parts of the U. S.: "Australian soldiers get $60 a month and they're paid out of lend-lease funds loaned by the U. S." ' Hooey...
...Spreading, around this nation is some Berlin-founded gossip Which pretends that the soldiers and sailors will he poorly fed no matter how much food civilians surrender...
...A move on Finland, exhausted, war-weary, might be a decisive blow to the Axis front in North Russia...
...Comment Readinq From Lett to Ǥ*t YOU can't put your finger on it and say'this is it, yet for the past six months there has been the definite uneasy feeling that reactionary and conservative tides, are setting, in while the progressive tide i* running, out...
...The purposes of the \orgaiyza-tion as filed with the Secretary _ of...
...A move on Norway may-well be on the agenda of the Allied councils...
...an Axis weapon, "and loose talk loosens our grip on ourselves...
...Ask your informant to tell you who told him...
...The revolt broke out when Rome ordered local officials to requisition grain, hidden by the peasants during regular state collection periods, for their own use because the government prices were "hopelessly low...
...this area but sometimes even formulates them...
...Not only is the political character of the ^right-wing" members of the De Gaulle movement in-portant...
...Its success would secure the northern supply route to Russia, outflank the Finnish armies, and present a formidable problem for German forces in Norway...
...8, 1941, and Sept...
...Wide Unrest Grows in Italy, Socialists Active Reports from abroad indicate wide unrest in Italy...
...Soon everything will be rationed, supposedly to help feed the boys in the service...
...Since he was defeated in the election, it appears that extra legal methods may be used...
...We shall attack," the Fuhrer said in his^ recent Sportpalast address, "wherever we deem an offensive desirable.' And the Neutrals are eyeing each other anxiously...
...Which will he attack first...
...Show your rumor-spreading associate that he's been talking through a hat fuH of holes...
...Sweden...
...But it is hardly likely that the Nazis, however grandi. ose their dreams .of world-power, will molest all of .the states...
...That is satis factory...
...For example, oan we ignore the fact that the person particularly responsible for relations with France is an avowed reactionary, who at the B.B.C...
...on hi searing article in tne current issue of The...
...Maybe someone has said to you: 'The government has ordered all savings banks and cooperative banks to cease paying any interest on their deposits as of the end of the current year...
...P. S. Sweden has mobilized 600.000 men, almost 10% of the entire population...
...One case in point is the recent snickers at the Four Freedoms...
Vol. 25 • October 1942 • No. 43
