Labor Peace Talks Open Dec. 2, But CIO 'Left-Wing' Balks Hope for Unity
Greene, T. R.
Labor Peace Talks Open Dec. 2, But CIO 'Left-Wing' Balks Hope for Unity AFL Questions CIO Membership Strength By T. R. Greene Special to The New Leamb t" WASHINGTON, D. C—Despite effort! of A...
...Caballero is the only Spanish statesman whose prestige is feared by General Franco...
...In this connection we think highly important the statement written for The New Leader by General Jose Asensio, chief of the Army covering the central part of Spain from September, 1936, to October, 1986, and later Under-Secretary of War in the Caballero government...
...Three days after the North Africa coup, Conuminiit circles in Washington indignantly PPUdiated the suggestion that the world-wide HSnWgft for "a Second Front in Europe Now" r^4*|™ire propaganda aimed at deceiving the fnemy as to where the blow would fall...
...of course, the strongest and the most valuable of all impulses...
...Propaganda Quote Those who believe this is the Age of Propaganda might like to know about a new book on the subject, Matthew Gordon's News Is a Weapon, published several days ago by Knopf...
...Washington expects a thrust at the Near East oil fields by trsy of Turkey to be Hitler's answer to the Korth Africa coup...
...The story about monopolies retarding vital manganese production is now breaking, with a long aeries appearing in the November 17th and 18th issues of PM...
...The study demonstrates ~* eompetence and heroism of Negro soldiers » be equal to that of white soldiers...
...The second answer was a fiat NO...
...The Guildsman recently celebrated its tenth anniversary of publication...
...Undisturbed by the fact that the leftists were Lewis' closest allies in the 1939-June 21, 1941, isolationist period...
...Petain refuted Darlan, but Petain is no longer considered as free...
...He was counsellor of the U. S. Embassy at Vichy and was in charge of the distribtuion of American relief supplies in the French African colonic...
...Murray's dislike for certain AFL leaders and practices is common knowledge in labor circles...
...The administration and the army in French Africa were "purged" by Darlan, who sent to Africa his men or at least the men for whom he represented the legal authority...
...Also...
...though exaggerated and...
...A liberal group in the War Department wants to see this report widely publicised in recognition of the patriotism of colored Americans under more trying conditions than white Americans usually face...
...Axd unless liberals put more heat on the present Congress immediately, the Poll Taxers will succeed...
...Riker...
...In three months his chance to reach Baku via Turkey will vanish...
...Murray told newspapermen and CIO leaders that there was nothing wonderful in labor peace...
...within the new labor federation...
...Today that is...
...B|t a week later, last Sunday, a dispatch...
...For the four days before American troops arrived...
...Its systematic operation is what we call news policy " A Moo Misunderstood Add heroes of the North African campaign: The State Department's Robert Murphy, one of the American diplomatic agents who arranged for French collaboration with the American invasion...
...1? (Passed by the Censor).— President Roosevelt's statement this week on the use of Admiral Jean Darlan as "a temporary expedient" has raised the question here as to what permanent arrangements might be made for French North Africa and the other territories involved...
...SeverKfriewspapennen have asked to see the study...
...r"Exa«tlyvwhat the United Nations high com-¦"Jnajid ia tfoing about this is a military secret, of course, but it is learned by The New Leader on good authority that feverish efforts are under way for the defense of Turkey...
...Murphy now would be missing...
...Assistant Secretary of War John McCley, who has been sitting on the study, then let him have a copy on the following three conditions: 1. Not to make a copy of' it...
...The arrival of Flandin and Puchen may not have any significant consequences, but at any rate it is not a very good omen...
...The AFL reported last month its affiliated unions had a paid-up membership in excess of 5.500,000...
...Murray at that time told intimate* that there would be no merger for a long time...
...Thus it is authoritatively stated that this arrangement is not a permanent one, and that it is dictated by military necessity without any political arriere penaee...
...Moscow, cleared by the Soviet censor, bjdd dpw|| the new line that the "seeming lack ?* Understanding between the Russians and the United States and Britain" over a Second Front ?* jPArt of a plan initiated by Stalin, Roose-W ?? Churchill to give Hitler false confident* and to prepare an effective surprise foi the Axig.» Hiya, sucker...
...The excitement provoked in some quarters by the arrangement with Darlan...
...He is desperate for oil to keep his mechanized machine going in Russia, France tild the Mediterranean...
...3—The CIO chief has listened to the arguments of CIO's left-wingers...
...The first answer they got was a denial it existed...
...AFL men report that aside from CIO's steej-workers, auto workers, clothing workers and electrical employes—with some 760,000 duct paying members—the rest of CIO does not haw 500.000 members...
...France may be precipitated at *the peace into civil war...
...2—During the hectic weeks when the United Mine Workers policy committee was jousting with Murray, and later was replied to by the CIO executive committee...
...It is necessary to stress and consequently carry out this principle in order to forestall every attempt to predetermine the future set-upsof the French government...
...What has happened to the Attorney General's office...
...The President said: "The present temporary arrangement in North and West Africa is only a temporary expedient, justified solely by the stress of battle...
...Koch is convinced that then "Liberalistie principles of the past era must be discarded...
...Largo Caballero for a long time...
...it is admitted, will make previous restrictions on civilian goods seem a mere flea bite...
...This group has been opposed successfully so far by the reactionary brass hats who think the use of Negro troops should be confined to stevedoring jobs and kitchen police, and have stubbornly opposed every extension of opportunity to Negroes in the Army...
...That's what telegraphed Oitltt's next punch...
...Koch is careful to distinguish between the Nazis politically, and the German volk community...
...He admits tactically that Nazism, at present, may have a few objectionable points, but these are not inherent in the system...
...fa and No On Tat Second Front There is sotto voce wondering in Washington what held up Stalin for more than a week...
...Because we are at war with Germany does not in itself imply-that we must oppose political and social theories prevailing there...
...In order to avoid this, it must be insisted that no more than a provisional administration with strictly limited functions—such as military cooperation, safeguarding of order, supply of foodstuffs, etc.—should be established on every' liberated territory...
...The President added that one of the prime military objectives of this arrangement was the avoidance of a "mopping up" period in Algiers and Morocco "which might have taken a month or two to consummate...
...Witness the effect of labor assaults on Admiral Land and the naval spokesman who told the AFL that the country could live without unions...
...The other Spanish political leader who has been arrested with Largo Caballero is Mr...
...And there the real tragedy appears of all that propaganda about Germany, presenting it and its people as barbarians and outlaws, with the result that no one will readily look to Germany for pointers on the world's rebuilding...
...He was approached to get his help, but he refused flatly and took measures to fight the uprising of the nucleus that later on was going to stage the July, 1936, rebellion against the democratic Spanish government elected by a huge majority in the elections of February...
...Editor's Note: Late press dispatches report that Gaston Bergery, Vichy ambassador to Turkey, said that he was awaiting formation of a French government in North Africa before he resigned his post to join it...
...And time is of the essence for 'Hitler...
...iFront...
...Pearl, in his newsletter, recalled the CIO convention statement of Murray that the AFL would have to quit its "old habits" and recognize CIO equality in the peace conference...
...the Atlantic Charter and similar prone mice - 1 -?··.- remain unimpressive political chaff to all - colonially held peoples, and what is perhaps • more important, the great East—which is so > strategically vital—may look askance at avowed 1 Allied post-war intentions...
...The natural unobstructed successful from Liberalism will lead to Communism...
...3. Not to discuss it with anyone...
...They don't get refusals, to be sure, but so far they've gotten nothing but a stall and a runaround...
...The Guildsman "champions a new social order on the basis of the guild idea, an essential feature of which is that employer and employee belong in the same organization...
...Portela Valladares...
...The case for Nazism is summarized in the following quotation, from page 9 of...
...He charged that the CIO officers did not make a membership report to the delegates because "they didn't dare," and that "informed labor observers are of the opinion that it doesn't exceed 3.000.000...
...It is not seen here merely as a military matter of using traitors like Darlan temporarily, but the larger matter of the character of politics and government in the post-war period...
...And he said it "with emphasis...
...As far as Giraud is concerned, his great popularity and outstanding military ability will be fully utilized in his position as chief of military forces...
...Turkey has the military manpower and the will to oppose the Nazis, bet lacks the modern equipment for mechanized warfare on land and in the sky...
...One such magazine, apparently unknown to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, circulates through the subsidized second-class mail although it is more outspoken than Social Justice and in effect more sympathetic to the doctrine of Nazism than the Bund's own Free American...
...Under joint Allied supervision...
...occupied areas should be brought up to demo¦ era tic standards until prepared for self-go vera -I ment...
...Largo Cabarello to Franco is a loss to the ideals upheld by the United Nations, and it definitely proves the systematic repression that is carried out by the Gestapo and the Falangist police...
...The reports from France are wrong concerning Mr...
...The Guildsman, a 16-page affair, published on a good grade of paper, is edited and published by Edward A. Koch, in Illinois...
...This publication, a monthly, is known as The Guildsman, and declares itself "devoted to the Cause of a Corporate Order...
...Rather, they are a hangover from the Liberalistie and individualistic epoch which Hitler's regime so happily ended...
...The Manchester Guardian, influential British daily, points out that "if a fascist or semi-fascist party is built up now in North Africa...
...They **re no mere catspaws in a sucker game, it f** asserted with heat...
...write in this week's AFL newsletter that the recent CIO convention produced no membership report and that forthcoming peace conferences of the two organizations could not be successful unless the CIO submits an impartial audit...
...GuildsTnan: "Whatever our country's proper and legitimate objectives in the war may be, we believe that the destruction of Nazism (and "fascism" generally) should not be among them...
...Dies Promisen to Blast Fascists The Dies Committee is interpreting the recent election returns as a "mandate" to resume full steam ahead . . . The first blast on the Dies schedule is an exhaustive expose of native fascists . . . There is some wondering whether it will contain the dynamite on Father Cough-lin...
...What is also coming up is the question of the cultural and political aspirations of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunis, comprising over a million square miles with sixteen million natives...
...No one government established under such conditions should be more than a provisional administration with strictly limited tasks...
...not •nly wu there not a word from Stalin but the Soviet public was not even permitted to learn fbout the Mediterranean Second Front for 10 jky»i according to dispatches from Moscow...
...haekipronnd: Hitler's drive in the Cau-eusas, and Rommel's drive on Egypt were the arms of a wide pincers movement aimed at the Near East oil fields, and calculated to father In Turkey by encirclement...
...The United State is now in position to take - the lead in beginning to carry out the -promises .* of "a better world...
...If Largo Caballero is executed, it is a victory for fascism everywhere...
...Not even Congressmen have succeeded in blasting the study loose from the War Department...
...It doesn't seem very bright public relations policy to withhold from colored Americans a deserved pat on the back that would do much for morale in a quarter where it is most needed...
...Treason, even double treason, it is strongly felt, is no qualification for anti-Fascist leadership...
...The war is with Germany as a political and military power and potential commercial rival...
...Save Largo Caballero...
...Po/1...
...Back in May, Now Leader writer Walter K. Lewis reported the activities of a California fascist, William...
...These basic facts should be clear: "Nazism is a theory or set of principles concerning political and social affairs...
...Lei's turn to the current October issue...
...Vichy did not give Largo Caballero an exit permit, so he had to stay in France under police surveillance...
...In closing, I have to state again that the delivery of Mr...
...The leftist bloc ii smaller than ever, informed government circles believe...
...6—Finally there will be no peace because of the consistent attacks on the AFL by the CIO...
...Eisenhower, Montgomery, Darlan and Giraud...
...Its means are: dissemination of the news...
...His safety is as much a part of the anti-Nazi fight as the political warfare in North Africa, * the fight in the Pacific, or the appeals to the oppressed peoples everywhere...
...Midwest Magazine Spreads Line of U. S. 'Corporate State' By THOMAS LEE BICE Special to The New Leader CHICAGO, 111.—Not all the fascistic magazines in this country have been exposed, some move along cleverly garbed in various dress...
...I know that Franco has asked the German authorities to see ways and means of arresting Largo Caballero...
...S ince then it has followed a fanatic and unbending course of popularizing Nazi ideology—not in half measures, but with the full, measured strides of a calculating propagandist...
...The officers especially were bound by their oath of fidelity to Marshal Petain, and it was Darlan alone who could act in the old Marshal's name...
...Propaganda operates in the psytShHrtlel-lectnal world, and therefore presumes an exact knowledge of the mental fabric, nature and disposition of the men it desires to influence...
...One already observes growing doubt about Allied politics in many minds...
...Either Communism or Nazism, is Koch's black-and-white argument...
...Intellectual warfare is the systematic preparation and execution of those operations which arc aimed at strenghtening or destroying the moral resistance of the betUgetont parties by the application of moral pressure...
...Social Justice has been banned from the mails, while The Guildsman continues to pollute the national bloodstream with open espousal of a New Order hostile to the Constitution, to democracy, and the present war effort...
...Largo Caballero, now in Franco's hands after the Nazis turned him over to the Spanish dictator, is a symbol of the democratic aspirations of the Spanish people...
...Unless he reaches the Soviet-Iranian oil fields (cm of the three most valuable in the world) ¦ by Spring« the Axis will start folding like a Uow.-motion accordion in 1943 instead of 1944 « l...
...Lead nearly lost his job...
...In the September 26th issue...
...Bergery, a former RadicalSocialist, had been a Communist fellow-traveler and enthusiastic exponent of French-Soviet collaboration...
...of A strong coalition of right-wing AFL and CIO chifetains there will be no labor peace resulting from the inter-union conferences scheduled to begin here Dec...
...The current, October, issue is devoted to "The Case of Nazism," and apologizes for Nazism from "patriotic," "Christian," and "social-reform" standpoints...
...If Nazism is (as it seems to be) a factor in such revolution, will it be serving our country's interests even to desire to crush it...
...The justification of the Eiaenhower-Darlan arrangement by the stress of battle is self-evident...
...we trust that the American authorities in Spain will act swiftly towards saving the life of Francisco Largo Caballero...
...Will renegade Fascists, leaving the sinking Axis ship, be "temporarily" used to maintain order and avoid chaos in the defeated countries* Until clear-cut United Nations principles are established for the administration of defeated countries, disquieting possibilities remain...
...Darlan's appointment has been creating some demoralization among underground and refugee anti-fascists, despite reassurances—which dramatically illustrates the need tc supplement the Atlantic Charter with ¦ specific political measures...
...Koch goes on to explain that Nazism is far nearer the actual realization of the Corporate State than any other political philosophy...
...The future government of liberated France will be formed within France and it will be designated by the French people themselves...
...The evidence: American intelligence learned that shortly after Admiral Jean Darlan ordered French collaboration, with the American ipvasion and sealed the fate of the Axis in North Africa, Rommel abandoned his decimated Afrika Korps and returned by plane to Berlin on orders to take over command of the Nasi Army in Greece...
...Thee* ia cited, for instance, the fact that two ihuk regiments of Negro troops...
...he put his imprimatur on the Mediter-???*5>18...
...2, according to well-informed labor and government circles in the capital...
...I\ hes;ncd'escaped official notice here^—and not without a sense of irritation—that China rushed its congratulations on the Mediterranean Second Front before the news was off the wires (although Puna has been pleading desperately — and Bjretty unsuccessfully—for American aid...
...And in that matter we can learn from Fascism and Nazism...
...If plans had missed...
...Whan Murray told the CIO convention (and he appears to this correspondent, who was watching him closely, to be sincere) that a merger now would result in a split, he obviously believed that thia left-wing bloc would leave the organization rather than be swallowed up in the hundreds of Central Trades and Labor Councils of the AFL throughout the nation...
...The statement of General Asensio follows: "General Franco has wanted to lay hands on Mr...
...There is no escape from this eventuality, except by adopting principles of an organic, that is, Corporative system...
...More than any humanitarian principle is involved...
...But this ultimate prospect should not lead ? ?? immediate optimism...
...Who, for instance here, would now think—will some even believe it when it is explained to them?— that Nazi Germany is engaged in what can prove to be the laying of foundations for true freedom and sound order in the world of tomorrow...
...This would have meant invaluable time lost by the allied troops rushing to Bizerte and Tunis, when the gain of a day was of the greatest importance...
...But once liberated from the German yoke, the French people must be free to designate their government and to rebuild their state...
...Jumping Turkey might have upset Von Papen's delicate negotiations with certain Moslem elements...
...Can these be ignored in the military and political period ahead...
...Yet these energetic unions, with their ????» ant and politicalized leaders, control many of the local CIO councils in the country...
...Note the following amazing testament copied verbatim from the 10th anniversary issue: "The world today is in the process of rebuilding...
...I believe that Franco is most anxious to get rid of Largo Caballero, whom he considers the most eapable man to fight him and also because the leader of the Socialist Party has the largest political and personal following among the population of Spain...
...Expect Nazi Thrust ai Turkey to Check Allies By JONATHAN STOUT Watkingtov Correspondent, The New Leader WASHINGTON, D. C—The Nazi invasion ofiTurkey is imminent, according to American feteiligence reports reaching here...
...This makes it senseless to speak of the war as being carried -on to exterminate Nazism...
...It is indisputable that neither Darlan nor Flandin nor Puchen represent the French people...
...Casares Quiroga...
...Pearl, a former ace reporter, tends to his business, which is promoting the Federation...
...Instead of merely giving manufacture-* priority ratings and then letting them worry about where to find raw and semi-pro-cesser materials, the new plan will control and allocate materials so that an okay from WPB will guarantee the manufacturer the material he needs...
...whose books the Dies Committee is known to have seized more than a month ago...
...This statement is very important and it leads up to the more general principle, that not only the present arrangement with Darlan, but every arrangement concerning any liberated part of French territory must be a temporary one...
...Precisely this confusion of Nazism with Germany is the source of the difficulty of understanding and properly deciding the case...
...Unfortunately, the news from Turkey is likely to be bad long before jt turns good...
...Entitled "The Colored Soldier in the United States Army," the study was made by -fte Army Historical Section from War Detriment archives...
...frosaffafi Suppress Army Report 0» Negro Soldier Bravery ¦ The fight for democracy on the home front brings to light this week the battle of reactionary elements in the War Department to bar the door of equal opportunity to Negroes...
...others merely take their pens in their hands...
...A story on "Monopoly Groans Restrict Manganese Production" appeared ob the front page of The New Leader on October lflh...
...This wbs undesirable to both Murray and President Roosevelt...
...5—Not for nothing did Phil Pearl, capable spokesman for the AFL...
...Judge Hastie offered his resignation...
...It is to be feared that a French Africa, governed by Darlan, would become of convenient place for the concentration of reactionary and more or less fascist forces...
...Thus restricted, the temporary leadership of the Darlan administration in French Africa can be of great .use and at the same time deprived of political danger...
...large masses of determined anti-fascists in Mexico, Central and South America stand behind the figure of Largo Caballero...
...Since than he has frequently assured others that peace with the AFL during war time was unlikely...
...1. It will affect critical materials at first but will be extended steadily...
...who is in London...
...And yet...
...Unless some such policy is carried out...
...The AFL charges in off-the-record talks that the leftists—through their unions—exert inflo* ence far above what they should on the basis of contribution to the war effort and strength of membership...
...For that reason we should not oppose or destroy them—in our own country's interests...
...Washington is terrifically (the word is used advisedly and not in the Hollywoodian sense) labor conscious...
...Portela Valladares was the Minister of the Interior...
...their merit and soundness must be judged on the basis of future conditions and with due allowance for their own spontaneous adjustment and perfection...
...From my personal experience, knowing the political background of Mr...
...Largo Caballero and Mr...
...Its aim is: the formation of opinion...
...What is being discussed is: since tbe American Army has taken on the role of trustee, the key issue is trustee for whom...
...We are acquainted with the declarations recognizing this principle, and we do not doubt their sincerity...
...the polls, General Franco, together with some generals, made an attempt at a coup d'etat...
...Two priests, Father Moraru and Father Opreanu, were indicted for espionage.' The New Leader revealed their pro-Carol activity here...
...The CMP...
...Nevertheless...
...Which shall these be...
...Even the movements of resistance, with which we sympathize completely, only represent an aim common to the great majority of Frenchmen: the aim to be free of the German yoke...
...He does this in an attempt to whitewash the regime of all guilt, and to absolve it of all of its perpetrated inhumanities against minority people...
...He writes: "Now since Nazism is simply a set of ideas or principles, all our guns will be of no avail in opposing it as such...
...And the time to begin is now...
...As in the old movies of the American fronthtra, -the Stars and Stripes fortunately arrived hi time to halt the exectuion...
...The magazine is published as a lay Catholic magazine and has its main appeal to a limited group of clerical-fascists...
...The New Leader believes it detrimental to national unity to continue to permit the distribution of The Guildsman freely through the United States mails...
...For example, the United Nations could, it is felt, specify that old colonial politics are finished - everywhere...
...THE NEW LEADER PRINTS IT FIRST Recent newspaper reports show that The New Leader was the first to expose active fascists and foreign agents new taken into tow by the Federal Bureau of Investigation...
...Concealing or distorting the good things in Fascism," writes Koch, "will be detrimental to our country's future...
...AFL publicity man, and Len DeCaux...
...Strategy Strategy of the poll taxers on Capitol Hill is to stall the antf-Poll Tax Bill until the new-Congress convenes and brings up the newly-elected reactionary reserve...
...b the AFL would put John L Lewis Bad ?? alleged "Lewis Bloc" in a strategic...
...To do so, it is felt, would mean playing a dangerously shoddy Vichy game which might cost the United States enormous losses of prestige in the progressive world...
...The very difference between Phil Pearl...
...Thought-provoking is Gordon's ouote from hig-h Nazi sources: "Intellectual warfare has become an essential ingredient in waging war...
...The question has also been raised whether the American Army is going to serve as caretaker of the French Empire for the duration of the war with a possibility ahead of handing it back to the old crowd at the finish...
...Judge William Hastie, Negro Civilian Aide to the Secretary of War and former Chicago jurist, several months ago asked to see a copy of the study...
...Returning delegates from the recent CIO convention in Boston report that the Transport Workers, the National Maritime Union, the United Office and Professional Workers, the Mm...
...New Leader staff writer Elizabeth Charney exposed the activity of agents of Rumanian King Carol in the United States...
...Thus ^although it has not its mass appeal, its danger is greater in its attempt to influence men who command the respect of hundreds...
...Of the two he would rather have Nazism...
...Although political considerations must be subordinated to military emergency, they cannot be neglected...
...The resistance of the French troops was not stopped by the appeals of de Gaulle and Giraud, but by Darlan'i order...
...Until recent days circumstances prevented plugging Ait soft-spot ill the United Nations armor, what with the defense of Egypt, Stalingrad and the Pacific demanding everything the United Nations could give...
...The delay in official word from the Kremlin, powever, was toughest on American Commu...
...Murray nevertheless has agreed to protect their interests in any merger...
...Civilian Goods WPB's new CMP (Controlled Materials Plan) goes into effect Jan...
...Legal restraints have avoided arrest until now, when the Germans invaded unoccupied France...
...Darlan Deal Raises Colonial Issues By S. L SOLON New Leader London Correspondent LONDON, Nov...
...This means, steps to be taken to assure democratic government : as quickly as possible for all areas in Allied ? hands...
...the first American soldiers to be decorated for heroism under fire in the first World War...
...Now more than ever we need to know how it shoqld be rebuilt...
...The Nazis didn't get tough with Turkey, but kept their Army marking time in Greece, because Von Papen in Ankara was still hoping—until the lightning struck in North Africa—that a triumphant Rommel could rally the Moslem world of the Near East to the Nazi banner...
...perhaps, too hysterical, is not without foundation...
...Portela Valladares, who belongs to the extreme right of the Spanish Conservative Party...
...But such historical changes also mean an eventual improvement or renovation...
...On another page, Koch declares the fight against fascism as "senseless...
...Another reported fleeing is Marcel Puyrantin, former Vichy Minister of Interior.] The forces of democracy must be vigilant, i , Therefore it was very opportune that President ' Roosevelt announced the temporary character of the arrangement with Darlan...
...Similar passages are found throughout the October issue...
...It discusses doctrinal matters, but under this heavy layer of intellectual-ism is an overt sympathy for fascism as a doctrine directed to various clerics who read the magazine...
...The strategy: Stopped at Stalingrad, and crushed in North Africa, Hitler's last remaining note to the oil fields of Tiflis, Iran and Iraq is through Turkey...
...It is their faith and morale that is at stake...
...Last year Franco asked" Vichy for extradition, which was not granted after trial...
...This opinion is based on the following: 1—As early as January o? this ?? CIO President Murray realised that any...
...Now with short Ripply routes in the Mediterranean opening up again and the Egyptian situation no longer arote, Turkey can get within three to six months the planes, tanks and guns she needs to become a full-time partner of the United Nations...
...1936...
...The decisive factor was not Darlan's personality, but the function which he could and did serve through accomplishing the cessation of fighting between the American and the French armed forces...
...When the brass hats would not let him have a copy...
...Koch writes, "past standards cannot be taken as a guide for judging Nazi principles...
...If his life is saved, it will be the signal lor the democratic offensive on many fronts...
...CIO publicity-man, emphasizes the schism which will continue to separate the two organizations...
...An Editorial—Provisional Gov'ts Must Not Bind French People President Roosevelt has made a highly satisfactory statement concerning the agreement reached in North Africa between General Eisenhower and Admiral Darlan...
...Referring to the forthcoming peace meetings, the AFL spokesman said: "The bitter fact is that there is no hope of success for these conferences unless the CIO representatives are prepared to lay their cards on the table and agree to an impartial audit of the paid-up membership of their affiliated unions...
...Largo^ Caballero and his being taken to Spain ia a political defeat for the United Nations, as Mr...
...I don't hesitate in saying that the arrest of Mr...
...This situation did not change...
...At that time Mr...
...He also said that he understood and approved "the feeling in die United States and Great Britain and among all other United Nations that in view of the history of the past two years, no permanent arrangement should be made with Admiral Darlan...
...We know, however, that a provisional government, if not sufficiently controlled, can in a great measure predetermine future decisions of the people, and may even become through the mere holding of power a permanent one...
...4—The AFL and the right-wing CIO leaden are reportedly irritated by the undue influence wielded in government and military circles by this leftist bloc...
...The very fact that the principles of Liberalism must be abandoned, implies that other principles must be adopted instead...
...This should not be misunder* stood...
...and Smelter Workers and others ta their left-wing bloc have leas than 150,000 duo* paying members...
...The only left-wing unions aid ing war production are the Electrical Workers, the National Maritime Union and the Longshoremen...
...Criticism from any labor source today can start the most violent repercussions in government circles...
...In February, 1936, -when the reactionary parties were beaten at...
...Murphy it is understood here was under arrest in Algiers...
...and replaced with something else...
...The American government does, we think, realize the grave issues involved...
...It was founded in 1933, the year Adolf Hitler assumed charge of Germany's destiny...
...2. Not to use any part of it fer quotation or pu b-licarion...
...The Fighting French forces want at their head men worthy of the ^reliant United Nations' war effort...
...Two weeks ago the FBI arrested Mr...
...This is not meant as a reproach to de Gaulle or Giraud, but is a simple statement of a fact brought about by previous events and the mentality of the French officers...
...its articles have a pseudo-erudition and an esoteric quality...
...Lend-lease economic arrangements, it has - been suggested, could be used to elevate Irving '¦ conditions, build schools and* social services, and • the like...
...So there is a great difference between Nazism, on the one hand, and Germany as a party to the war, on the other...
...But the Nazi timetable has been scrambled by the Messrs...
...From its tone and features it is not intended for mass consumption...
...Negro soldiers, it is proved, have a glorious record of service under the American...
...He turned Vichyite and became a fervent pro-Nazi collaborationist...
...I do not doubt that the American authorities, always ready to follow public opinion in this country, will do their best to save the lives of Mr...
...Before our entrance in the present conflict, ,jbe War Department made a study on the conduct of Negro troops in previous American *ars...
...AFL leaders charge that the leftist bloc is fearful of disappearing, worried by losing all influence, if a merger is effected...
...From the viewpoint of Roman Catholics, he argues, all Catholic effort should clearly be in support of a Hitler victory...
...Some men take their lives in their hands...
...Largo Cabarello, I have to state that he has all the qualities of the progressive Spanish leader who is aware of all the virtues of a democratic government and abhors any political interference inspired by totalitarian methods...
Vol. 25 • November 1942 • No. 47
