'Beveridge Plan' Becomes Political Weapon to Win Axis Peoples' Aid
'Beveridge Plan' Becomes Political Weapon to Win Axis Peoples' Aid Special to The New Leader -WASHINGTON. — Widespread interest in the Beveridge plan among millions of men in the armed forces of...
...Meanwhile it was learned that the French in North Africa expect to raise an army of 500,000 men, to be headed by General Giraud...
...The influence of the .lew'ish Labor Committee is also felt in our own country...
...There is little doubt that Mikhailovitch has fought the Axis troops...
...OWI Chief Elmer Davis stated that the U. S. and all Allied governments had complete confidence in General Mikhailovitch.] Astor Strategy ^LIVBDEN is no more...
...Eisenhower's advisers, they say, felt that General Giraud would be able to swing the French troops behind the Allies...
...The Jewish Labor Committee has initiated a number of studies and helped set up several committees aiming to prepare labor for the role it is destined to play in the re-shaping of the world after Nazism, Fascism and Japanese mil taxis m go down in infamy and defeat...
...Bidding, to the National Trust under a similar arrangement...
...Official N. Y.Totals Show Minor Parties Decline Political strength of all minor and left wing parties in New York State declined sharply in the November elections, according to the complete figures released this week in Albany by the State Board of Canvassers...
...We shall have lost the war if we do not win the peace...
...Observers expected widespread sympathy for the Soviet Armies to increase the Stalinists' total...
...That appeal was made some time ago...
...After all, Canadian Laborites say, didn't Stewart Smith, one of th...
...There is a possibility, observers pojajt out, that the CCF will win power in the n?x...
...Widespread interest in the Beveridge plan among millions of men in the armed forces of the United Nations on every fighting front was expected this week to move the President to release shortly the American counterpart to Sir William's scheme for reform of postwar Britain...
...The partisan troops, in which the Communisms have a leading voice at the top but far less support below, have attracted large numbers by promise of action...
...Beveridge Plan' Becomes Political Weapon to Win Axis Peoples' Aid Special to The New Leader -WASHINGTON...
...The Malist"Appeasement By WALTER K. LEWIS The Federal authorities are overlooking a vicious, pro-isolationist and pro - appeasement paper published in Meriden, Connecticut, by "Catholic Laymen Devoted to St...
...Their announcements are being eagerly awaited...
...The headline made it appear that Mifchajjlovitcb .was "pro-Axis," etc., etc...
...These refineries which could be converted into synthetic rubber plants or the manufacture of high-octane gasoline, were passed over...
...who was made Minister of War, are pledged to restore King Peter to the throne...
...S. propaganda experts that the Germans feel vulnerable on this phase of the international propaganda war...
...The Conservative Party, traditionally high tariff and Tory, broke with tradition at i'-Winnipeg convention last week to endorse th-Atlantic Charter and its "free resources policy...
...Discussion in Britain seemed to have died down after Prune Minister Winston Churchill's report in secret to the assembled Parliament No one knows, of course, what Churchill told the M.P.'s...
...Various labor bodies last week attacked "Darlan diplomacy...
...His time to strike would be in conjunction with the main Allied strategy...
...Now there are 341...
...The Negro death rate is" now 14 per thousand (still 82% above that of the country as a whole...
...It also suggests that "We should supply England arms, but let her do her own fighting, and plan our own attack and keep our own men under our own officers in collaboration with her...
...When the Fund's work began, there were only 29 public health nurses in the South...
...It rendered the American labor movement a lasting service by bringing to it an awareness of the fact that anti-Semitism is only another name for anti-Laborism...
...Darlan's statement that he has been unwittingly forced to work with -the Nazis was regarded as the first move in a larger political strategy based on a ' hope of "natural acclamation...
...On the whole, the statements of President Roosevelt and Anthony Eden, plus the remarks of Darlan, apparently will bring the sharp debate over "temporary expediency" to a close for the time being...
...One glaring distortion was the Daily Wafbtr reprint of an article by Louis Adamic which appeared in a Slovenian paper...
...A similar resolution was passed by the London Trades Union Council...
...Mikhailovitch has appealed to the Soviet government to end the fratricidal warfare in Yugoslavia...
...There are now 110 Negro hospitals in the U. S...
...Westinghouse of Light Monopoly...
...The Protestant churches declare they will' not halt their missionary activities, claiming that their activities are not a peril to the good relations of the Americas...
...and while they remain in the place they are exempt from taxes, inheritance duties too...
...The vehemence with which the Nazi radio has attacked Sir Williams' suggestions has indicated to" XT...
...In the final analysis the fault is the lack of a disciplined Allied strategy—or is it that someone has violated a discipline already decided upon ? [As we go to press...
...It participated in all efforts to alleviate the plight of the striken Jews in Hitler Europe and helped bring food to the hungry, clothing to the naked and shelter to the homeless...
...The severe fighting at Casablanca and Oran indicated that x Giraud was unsuccessful, and that Darlan, who allowed himself to'fall into the Allied hands, was able to force a deal by demonstrating that only he could order the resistance halted...
...The Jewish Labor Committee helped expose the sinister social forces behind the anti-Semitic movement...
...Sherman discusses the work of the Jewish Labor Committee.] The Jewish Lator Committee came into being in 1934 at a time when Hitler was taking the first steps toward his designs of dominating the world...
...Further progress must rest with the public...
...Flourescent lighting uses only a fraction as much power as incandescent lamps, thus cutting irito the market and profits of these two giant companies...
...One positive gain, it is felt, is that .the stormy debate over Darlan may have put the damper on ideas some Allied groups may harve had for the pojajbe use of Darlan as a wedge in the installation of safe, reactionary {governments, ' Italian Socialist Underground Appeals for Aid An appeal for funds for the Italian Socialist Party's underground activities was made this week by Vanni Montana, secretary of the' Italian Socialist organization here...
...Under the direction of William Haber, formerly a Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan, Eveline Burns, formerly, with'Columbia University, and other committee members, the NRPB has reevaluated the entire Social security system and made recommendations, according 'to published reports...
...qswrisf to Tax New Leader WASHINGTON, D. C. — The synthetic rubber program is not going so well, belying the earlier, rosier forecasts...
...The hundreds of labor loaders, refugees from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia...
...Lord and Lady Astor "turn the estate over.'' there is no compulsion for them, to move out...
...In 1924, the Negro death rate was 17.6 per thousand, compared w\th 11 J& for the rest of the population...
...Now, however, comes a hitch, and one likely to produce wide repercussions...
...It was the first real and comprehensive document issued by American Catholics as a body, and it was generally understood to be a quasi-official nature, i.e., it bore Vatican approval...
...In roundup: Few people now question the matter of "military expediency...
...The paper continues by asking for the repeal of the 18 draft law: "This smooth-tongued ma-sonicized servant who appears, by his 18 year old draft, to be a reckless or bloodthirsty leader for the interests of paganism...
...Communist circles in Wjtthiflgton and New York have boasted of their influence in concentrated defense areas...
...Little did the world realize at that time that by promulgating the anti - Jewish laws and crushing the German labor movement, Hitler fired his first shot in the global war...
...Jude...
...Private Coleman B. Cheney, Socialist Party candidate, polled 21312, a decrease from the 40,000 vote obtained by Harry Laidler in 1938...
...the aid Mikhailovitch has been getting from the United States and the Allies has been pathetically little...
...Chas...
...Italy, and other countries, who had somehow managed to establish themselves in France and, from there, maintained contact with the underground movement in their homelands, faced extermination at the hands of the Nazi henchmen and their Vichy tools...
...Only the complete destruction of the political and economic foundation upon which the whole structure of Nazism rests will bring real relief to the millions of Jews who are marked for death if Hitler continues to rule Europe...
...There is little doubt in Washington that the 'Beveridge Report, the appointment of Herbert Lehman as director of Rehabilitation of Occupied Lands, sad the sudden widespread publicity given to the "American Beveridge plan" is a coordinated Allied effort to underpin the morale of captured lands...
...A somewhat longer story-is contained in a supplement to the journal Yugoslavia...
...The Malist says: "The election proved to be more than what was expected...
...Over the past year, these Protestant activities had been under fire from Catholic sources, and the Rockefeller In ter-American Committee was under pressure here to halt these activities...
...Brewers Lobby Held Responsible...
...The first, and for many years only, organisation to extend a 1 helping hand to the organizers of the underground movement was the American Jewish Labor Com-mittee, comprising a number of i important trade unions, such as " the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, Amalgamated i Clothing Workers of America...
...The complicating elements revolve about internal Yugoslav politics...
...It was an impressive document calling Tor an all-out war against the Axis...
...Montana stated that the Italian Socialists do not want and will sot ask governmental agencies and committees foi financial help...
...For another 800, asylum has been found in Canada, Mexico and Cuba...
...At least not the house ^ and estate bearing that name...
...Its leading figures have all been evacuated and brought to the United States, more than 1,200 of them...
...But the progress that has been made has established a broad foundation of health reform...
...and has been renewed siocf...
...Contributions to help underground work may be sent to the' Italian-American Labor Council, 202 West 40th St., N.Y.C., or to the treasurer of the Italian Socialist group...
...Says an article: "Our major parties are through, consider them from any angle you like, begin with any public official you like, starting with the White House down to the town alderman, they are all scheming politicians without a single thought or respect for the will of the people...
...The ITWF said that the French workers had demonstrated their power by sabotaging Laval's and the Nazis' appeals for workers to go to Germany...
...The fading Conservative Party has become the Progressive-Conservatives...
...The Truman Committee reportedly is investigating a situation within the War Production Board whereby large brewers and bottlers were permitted to "sabotage" the tin drive...
...Darlan Statement Seen Ending Debate...
...Dakar was used to force further concessions...
...The answer of the Soviets, given this week, is a statement that they shall make sure no Soviet arms fall into the hands of Mikhailovitch...
...The Jewish Labor Committee- A Leading Force in the Fight on Fascism By CHARLES B. SHERMAN [The Jewish Labor Committee, one of the foremost fighters against Fascism, meets in annual convention this tveek...
...A fairer and mere comprehensive analysis of the blurred Slaaic metan is contained in a Jong article by Louis Adonic in site Saturday Kvewang Part of December 19th...
...the bouse ana estaw including the famous Cliveden wood* is being handed over to tbe British National trust to promote friendship and understanding between the peoples of the United States...
...the Liberal Party (strongest in Ontario under Mitchell Hepburn) is reactionary, the Communists have made an alliance with Mitchell Hepburn (yep, the man who wanted to shoot all labor loaders...
...Aaron M. Orange, candidate of the Socialist Labor Party, polled less than 3,000 votes...
...Negro Health Rises, Report Shows Although progress is being made in the efforts to improve the health conditions of the Negro population in the U. S., the rate of social reform is far from satisfactory and faces an imminent dead-end...
...In attacking the recent approval by the U. S. Senate to extend the draft age to 18...
...Substantial further progress is difficult to envisage, shqrt of a widespread national health program, according to the facts revealed by the Fund report...
...There have been no official statements from the French labor movement as yet...
...Viscount and Viscountess Astor have dedicated Cliveden to "world understanding...
...The American plan contains a demand for complete federalization of the social security apparatus...
...The policy of the Italian Socialist underground is to accept financial contributions only from known antifascist sympathizers, Italian immigrants of democratic faith and legitimate labor onions...
...It snipes at England with: "We cannot fight England's wars and fight o'ur own...
...Darlan today is the provisional government for North Africa and Giraud, apparently is being entrusted with an army of 500,000 men...
...Mikhailovitch opposed these guerilla actions contending that it would deplete equipment, and, more important, invite vicious reprisals...
...Oniric elections...
...It is the Dunkerque of the Second International...
...Darlan rose to his high po«t in the French Navy via an active lobbying career in the French chamber and important associations in the Radical Socialist Party...
...This army would aid in the fight on Hitler it is felt...
...Govt tQPrghe §nag in Rubltmr Progrqm SUMMARY Of THE Art Jt-m vff ejrvLJ ncn* • Synthetic Robber Production Falls Off...
...It is estimated that conversion could be accomplished within three to eight months as compared to the two years estimated building time for the new plants...
...As Nazi occupation spread from country to country, bringing in its wake one crushed labor move • ment after another, the work of the Jewish Labor Committee expanded reaching tbe most isolated underground groups and bringing new courage to those carrying on the fight for freedom...
...Darlan has long been known as the "political Admiral," or the "leftist Admiral...
...It is significant that De Gaulle, despite his earlier pronouncement, has declared that the Fighting French would constitute a provisional government for France...
...This was the between-the-lines conclusion of a report issued hut week by the Julius Rosenwald Fund, which has spent almost $2,000,000 on Negro health...
...15 years ago there were almost pope...
...German labor leaders, who managed to escape from the Gestapo terror, found it extremely difficult to adjust themselves to the status of uprooted refugees...
...Now comes the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ, the central body of 27 Protestant denominations, to deplore the Catholic statement as attempting to create a "religious monopoly" in Latin America...
...The same evil forces are also responsible for the opposition to every piece of social legislation ever introduced in the United States and for all attempts to destroy the trade unions...
...President Roosevelt is studying the American social security plan which was recently put on his desk by the National Resources Planning Board's subcommittee on Long Range Work and Relief...
...Britain, Canada and the other dominions...
...However, the bask ALP strength was placed by political observers at over 335,000 votes, which were polled by Alexander Kahn, candidate for comptroller...
...A Darlan bid for post-war leadership would certainly revive' the whole controversy, but that is still for the future...
...Finally there is the question of post-war reconstruction...
...Casey revealed that an intercontinental, broadcast to the troops on Beveridge's proposal would be arranged shortly...
...this, too, was one of the factors in his de^ cision to wait rather than engage in reckless adventures...
...Commentators who have followed Darlan's career are slightly skeptical on this point...
...Shinwell's remarks reinforce an impression gathered here from conversations with diplomats that Darlan had not entered into the political considerations of the North African strategy before the invasion...
...On the one hand, the Yugoslav government-in-exile is in the main an uneasy melange They and Mikhailovitch...
...Darlan, however, is not going to reiaa in North Africa nor anywhere else—he is an expedient...
...The more interesting fact is that this gift toy Lord and Lady Astor follows similar actions by other large landowners who &ad the upkeep on their estates too tremendous for them: Lord Lothian, former ambassador to the United States, left bis estate...
...Both the Communist and Socialist parties failed to poll the .50,000 required by state statutes as a prerequisite for remaining on the next gubernatorial ballot...
...Shin-well, who has been one of the most vociferous critics of the North African situation, said: "I do not like the Darlan set-up nor the things that are happening...
...The executive committee of the International Transport Workers Federation criticized recognition of Admiral Darlan, stating that the morale of the French underground had been seriously hurt...
...There are reports in some informed circles that the publicity on post-war planning for permanent social security is directed at the adverse effect of "Darlanism" in Europe's underground movement...
...The details of this greatest rescue effort in the history of the international labor movement will some day be told, and there will unfold a story of unparalleled devotion and sacrifice...
...On the other hand, Canadian Laborites see nothing inconsistent in the alliance of the Communists with Mitchell Hepburn in a "national unity" campaign to oust Premier Mackenzie King—and install Hepburn, despite tbe fact that Hepburn has been in contact with such financial adventurers as Ben Smith, associate of William Rhoades Davies...
...The second source of confusion is file outrageously .misleading headlines in the Daily Worker and the other Communist press organs over the most innocuous stories...
...Gillette to Investigate Monopoly Control...
...Today, there is a growing realization in the ranks of American labor that upon the successful outcome of the struggle against anti-Semitism depends in a large measure the future of the • labor movement in the United States...
...and all parties fear the rise of the CCF...
...And says The Malist: "Demand the repeal of the 18 year old draftee law, and fight this new request of his for a law to push people around and smashing our immigration laws that are a protection against foreign radicals invadl»j| ~&* Hf Th< publisher «? The Malist is one t. fjpiy Sattflar of Meriden, CenSecikWt...
...There are a score of these in the state...
...Of course, there is a slight catch to the matter, which minds more mundane than esthetic note...
...Since then, he has embarked on a campaign of physical annihilation of the Jewish inhabitants of the otcupied lands which has already claimed the lives of nearly two million Jews and has given an example of bestiality and ruthless butchery such as the world has nevdr seen...
...In the flourescent lighting field, General Electric has sought to eliminate the Sylvania company, its sole competitor...
...Last summer Jesse Jones's Rubber Reserve Corporation permitted the construction of 31 new plants at a cost of ten millions each—while small oil refineries were shutting down because of rationing...
...The vote was interpreted in left wing circles as a sharp rebuff to past and present isolationist and anti-war splinter parties of the left...
...It proved that we have hateful representation in the Senate, so hateful that out of spite, it changed to vote again8* the one yea/ training for eighteen year olds drafted...
...U. S. Accuses General Electric...
...Fears of Post-War Influence Remains Special to The New Leader WASHINGTON, D. C — Admiral Jean Darlan's forthright statement that the French people would choose their leaders freely, and that action is already being taken toward the repeal pf Vichy laws, all observers are conceding, makes much of the Darlan debate "acad^hJK-" Darlan, who made his statement .after a long series of attacks by liberals in Britain and the United States, also stated that he intends to retire after the war...
...When Hitler declared war on the Jewish people, there was only about AOO.OOO Jews under bis heel...
...A report received in London from Richard Casey, British Minister of State in the Middle East, that the troops there informed him they were most interested in the Beveridge report and the postwar security of their families, was seep as evidence of the full value of the plan as an international propaganda weapon...
...This warfare can only hurt the ATlied cause...
...Considerable surprise was expressed in political circles herd over the smallness of the C. P. upstate vote...
...The entire labor leadership of continental Europe and International Socialism was in grave danger of being wiped out...
...The periodical also accused President Roosevelt of being "mad for power...
...Since 1920, the Negro tuberculosis death rate has dropped from 235 per 100,000 to an estimated 129...
...The Truman Committee was told that the tin scrap drive was failing, due in part to the brewers outbidding the government for tin to be usgd in bottling caps...
...The Department of Justice this week accused General Electric and Westinghouse of dividing the lighting market between them, creating a monopoly in flourescent lighting and conspiring to retard the growth of this new righting development...
...The Communist Party revealed surprisingly weak support upstate, the /final tabulation showed...
...The position of the Jewish Labor Committee since inception has been that in attempts to esse the suffering of the Jews in the Nazi-occupied countries no line can be drawn between relief and political action...
...The larger question is the problem of post-war France...
...That in outline seems to be the main clash at band...
...Despite the heavy concentration of unionized defense workers in areas such as Long Island, Buffalo, Albany, Troy, Niagara Fails, Syracuse and Schenectady, the Communists ware able to poll only a fraction of their past votes...
...This number was multiplied at least ten times after be invaded Soviet Russia...
...A feeling of pessimism and defeat gripped European labor...
...As we read the latest news from Poland, we must ask ourselves the horrifying question: Will the European Jews live to see the day of liberation...
...Having had no experience in illegal work and lacking financial means and political support, the homeless German labor leaders at first met with little success in their attempts to build up an underground movement in their native land...
...Negroes' health needs, the report stated, "cannot be met by the Fund or by ajiy voluntary organisation...
...Some observers fear that the issue of Giraud or Darlan or De Gaulle may simply be, or become, a reflection of the conflicting pressure among the British Foreign Office, the American State' Department and the Soviet Foreign Ministry — to the exclusion of the wishes of the French people...
...these French workers will not be able to understand the Allied actions, the ITWF said, unless it was proved that Darlan was an "expedient...
...Mikhailovitch has preferred, as a major tactic, to be disciplined and wait...
...Mjkhailnvitnh is a Serb and his armies are (^rasjjfry&ssl jp jjjshjpp mountain strongholds...
...while the double-column-long article by Adamic, discussmg the Slovenian situation, carried one sentence: "Mikhailovitch plays no part in the Slovenian resistance...
...Dean Alfange, American Labor Party nominee, polled 403,552 votes...
...A new investigation by the Gillette Committee will show that the policy of concentrating production in the hands of a few large companies while plants of smaller independent operators go unused, is largely responsible for the slowed progress...
...The October issue of the periodical was exposed in The New Leader several weeks ago.' The November issue has just been sent through the . mails...
...These 1,500 men and woman haw left their imprint on the development of the labor movement before the war, and will have to supply leadership to the liberated masses after the Axis powers are crushed...
...Matteo Siragusa, c/o "La Pa-rols," 80 East 11th St., N.Y.C...
...On the other hand, Russian agents in Yugoslavia (many of them consular officials who had bean stranded by the sudden Nazi attack on the Soviets) began agitating for immediate guerilla action in order to harass the Germans and prevent them from withdrawing troops winch were marked for duty on the Russian front...
...It was obvious that the Conservatives, now the Progressive-Conservatives, were trying to shift with public opinion...
...Influence by brewing interests within WPB permitted the companies to outbid the government and spread their allowances...
...Key jobs in the Rubber Reserve Corporation are in the hands of men in a patent pool dominated by Standard Ojl of New Jersey...
...the Canadian Cooperative Commonwealth Party...
...The Jewish Labor Committee was on the job...
...On the other hapd, the Partisans themselves are a jumbled mixture On the political scene again: Mikhailovitch has been the victim of a lack of unified Allied strategy...
...The statement was regarded as one of the fruits of Myron Taylor's visit to Rome...
...United Hat, Cap and Millinery 1 Workers, United Hebrew Trades, and a number of other labor or- ' ganizations headed by tbe Workmen's Circle...
...While discharging it* obligations to international labor, tbe Jewish Labor Committee did sot for a moment lose sight of tbe fact that it was a Jewish organization, and that on its support depended the lives of many thousands of Jews in the Polish ghettoea and German concentration camps...
...Relief effort, as matter bow well organized, cannot catch up with Hitler'j savagery...
...Clippings and Comment By DANIEL BELL f*• s?Jfa*"o*fc* Auzfe PFROM out of the confused currents on the * Mikhailovitch situation, one fact, sadly enough, begins to emerge: the Yugoslav controversy represents a cross-pull of the British and Soviet governments, bisected and trisected by internal racial The one fact that should stand clear is that the source of all the stories attacking Mikhailcvitcfc is Intercontinent News (ICN) which is connected pith Tass, official handout agency of the Soviet Government...
...Apparently, however, it was convincing enough for Emanuel Shinwell, fiery left-wing Laborite, who issued a statement "accepting" the Darlan deal...
...The Hierarchy's statement contained a declaration of Catholic policy with respect to the missionary activities .of non-Roman churches in Mexico, Central and South America...
...The- meagre showing in cities such as Buffalo, where the C. P. pulled several hundreds votes, is interpreted here as refusal of the public to identify the American Communists with the successful resistance pf the Red Army...
...The situation changed radically in July, 1940, following the collapse of France...
...the Slovenians are the third largest national grouping in Tugoslajaa...
...but any provisional government would wield tremendous power and would be a powerful force in shaping the permanent path of France...
...It is well and good to say that the French people will freely choose their government...
...The Malist is campaigning for a Third Party in 1944...
...r • • • Religion and Monopoly I AST month ten leading Catholic archbishops and bishops of the United States issued a "Statement on Victory and Peace...
...However, Mikhailovitch and the British intelligence officers who work with him and operate his radio station decided that their main tactic now was to consolidate and keep intact their forces in expectation of an Allied expeditionary landing in Yugoslavia...
...It is known that the American plan calls for a complete underpinning of American life and the incorporation of the philosophy of freedom'from want into a permanent operating bureau which will, make unemployment insurance and public works as recognized a .function of government as the Treasury Dept...
...Israel Amter, Communist gubernatorial nominee, polled a total of 45,211 in the state, only 3,179 of which .were obtained outside New York City...
...The labor press throughout the country is asked to cooperate by publshing this announcement...
...Conodion 4iHmrs *?*HE political situation in Canada is enough to . give any political analyst the jitters...
...It is not known when the President will release the NRPB report, or whether he will, wait for a propitious moment to turn it over to a post-war bureau similar to the WPB and the BEW...
...but when you are at war, you cannot afford to pick and choose your associates...
...Communist Party heads, choose the very day the government took over the National Steel Car plant at Malton to tell Canada that Socialism and discussion of post-war problems should be out for the duration, and the Laborites should forbear from disturbing the peace of mind oi reactionaries, however obstructive...
...Truman Investigates Failure of Tin Salvage Drive...
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