Republican Hope for Party Coalition With Southern Democrats Fades
EVERETT, MURRAY
Republican Hope for Party Coalition With Southern Democrats Fades Tories to Battle New Deal With in Party Ranks By MURRAY EVERETT WASHINGTON,DjC.—Attempts by southern reactionary Democrats to...
...The politiealiied leftist section of CIO, whom Philip Murray despises but tolerates for reasons of high CIO power politics, are* insistent on putting over their proposals for an international labor federation which would include the AFL and the Soviet trade union organizations...
...Its own Democratic Party has failed it miserably...
...Such developments can be stopped and prevented in other cases only by the common authority of the United Nations...
...Even in this case an unilateral struggle directly against MikhaHovltch and indirectly against the Jugoslav government-in-exile would be inadmissible...
...This does not mean, however, that in Congress reactionary Democrats from the South and reactionary Republicans from the North will not work together...
...Allies Back Mikhailovitch, Smears Aid Axis Plans By GEORGE DECKER The campaign against Jugoslavia's General Draja Mikhailo-vitch on the part of the Communists continues, and it is posing squarely before the United Nations not merely the issue of unity but the problem of war aims and the post-war order in Europe...
...I am wondering whether from a purely political point ef view Lerner...
...Clippings and Comment [The discussion carried oa by "Mr...
...However, even agreement on this issue would not bring any degree of unity...
...Statisticians of the War Relocation Authority estimated today that others are emerging at the rate of about ten a day, after being investigated for character and loyalty to the United States...
...Kaiser Widens AFL-CIO Rift WASHINGTON.—Yale tide may bring a white Christmas but its spirit of goodwill will find tough sledding in the labor movement...
...The common policy regarding the Jugoslav situation should not be dictated by the one of the interested countries...
...What is to be feared is that in those countries during and after liberation the worst conflicts will not only arise spontaneously but that they will be fomented by a calculated policy of special interests...
...The Daily Worker commented on both statements as follows: "It is unfortunate ttfat OWI director Elmer Davis has seen fit to put his okay on the Jugoslav traitor, Draja Mikhailovitch...
...If the Jugoslav conflict will not be settled by the arbitration of the United Nations, then it is probable 'that the Jugoslav tragedy will be a beginning of similar tragedies whifch^afe brewing now in many occupied countries...
...They point' tost' that toe Southerns would of course have to keep the Democratic -Party name...
...Free enterprise in the abstract —may be a stronghold of political freedom, big business in the concrete, regardless ef whether owner-controlled or manager-controlled, is a dangerous anti-democratic power...
...would create terrific confusion in] the national electoral scene...
...Governor Jones was referring to the recent poll-tax fight...
...and for which powerful social forces can be mobilized...
...The daily repetition of the same criticisms and accusations, in black headlines and feature spots, clearly indicates that this policy is inspired by the masters...
...At least some new ventures in toe field of public enterprise, after the model of the TV A, for instance, could he made on the basis of Lerner's ideas...
...Bell ta Clippings and Comment and by ether contributory to the feature section est the piialiwi of isrterllilsm and toe arixed-eeeematy ha* frn I ifcej wide interest...
...And this authority cannot be created by any "ostrich" policy, but only by meeting the difficulties openly and by a dear and honest agreement about their solution...
...Releases Jap Internees WASHINGTON, b.C—Approximately 200 of the-110,000 west coast Japanese who were sent to war relocation centers after the attack on Pearl Harbor have been released to resume' normal actfvity...
...but by forcing them to set their prices and their production at such a level as effective competition would force upon them...
...rules for a mixed rr nanny are not even more realistic than Mill's views...
...From the point of view of sociological realism Bell is right against Stuart Chase, and Mills is right against both John Chamberlain and Lerner...
...It is true, and I have stated it previously, that schemes of regulated economy can be controlled by very different social forces...
...This end similar statements lay low the idea of a Southern Democrat-Republican coalition...
...The picture of the things to come has not yet emerged from the discussion...
...Mainly at the insistence of the Curran-Reid-Robinson bloc in CIO a British labor delegation will arrive in the United States on January 18 for conferences with AFL chiefs on this project...
...Big business invariably breeds monopoly while Lerner's efficiency rule for the choice between private and collective ownership disqualifies in advance all private monopolies...
...Roosevelt's social severity phui has been completely ignored both by Congress sad by public opinion, end at...
...Surely, this too would not suffice...
...The post-war world will pos...
...But there is no reason to speak contemptuously of the New Deal idea, as little a* the contempt of Keynes-Beveridgiam toot tarks behind Mill's article is warranted...
...The dangers of all this for the future are obvious...
...The same day Cordell Hull stressed the need of unity among the United Nations...
...Labor Action" Denied Mail Privileges The December 21st issue of Lajfor Action has been, held up by the...
...He is aware that the fundamental problems of a regulated market economy, as it is envisaged by Lerner, would not be of an economic but of a political nature...
...On another labor front, John L. Lewis was accused by -the St...
...Of course there are legitimate and anti-fascist monetary reform groups such as the Social Credit movement, and these should not be confused with the rejuvenated . fascist activity...
...Who even remembers that President Roosevelt about a year ago presented a plan to Congress and to the nation that anticipated the basic ideas of the Beveridge plan ? It would be worth a Gallup poll to find out how what percentage of the population have even learned that their President much earlier than Beveridge wanted Congress to enact a Beveridge plan...
...IT is because The Now Loader discussion so far "* has neglected toe problem of organised tabor that,fa seems to me to rest on unrealistic grounds To be sure, the participants in too discussion find themselves in good company...
...collectivism, but that pi big business vs...
...Bell tarns his column this week ever to a geeet contributor Dr...
...And that is not a private policy of American Communists...
...Spangler had token some heart by the defeat of Senator Josh Lee, where E. H. Moore, a Democrat, ran as Republican to defeat the N'ew Dealer...
...British to Bring New Labor Unity Bid...
...Old grievances of Balkan national minorities are being mobilized, the existing contradictions among different national elements exacerbated...
...much graver problems then the Hoover e«psession did...
...Instead, the CIO Ship Builders and toe AFL Machinists are en-snarled in one of the most complicated jurisdictional quarrels the country has yet witnessed...
...Over there we have the Beveridge plan, here we have Congress manhandling the rudimentary social security system of this country...
...The newspaper said that "beginning in 1939 and extending well into 1941, the financial reports of toe UMWA show under miscellaneous expenditures, a series of leans ranging from $50,000 down to $5,000...
...Quite on the contrary...
...But is there any realistic power concept behind Mill's suggestion either...
...The history ef the last tea years has proved that such an approach is the only realistic one...
...In that period organized labor has actually rsohsd behind s program, and behind the man who has been courageous and consistent enough to carry it out and stick to it...
...They are right because they realise, what their opponents neglect, that the real isoue of our time is not that of free enterprise vs...
...This agreement must and can be reached so long as the Allied countries are bound by common danger and by military action against common foes...
...Joe McWilliams, the Yorkville strong-arm boy .has returned to New York and has -delivered several lectures on monetary reform...
...And the end result of the CIO's challenge to AFL control of Henry J. Kaiser's workers may be a slowdown of the one-ship-in-four-days schedule...
...The Beveridge plan, whether viewed as a departure on a new road to a social progress or as an attempt to appease labor, bears witness to the huge popular strength which carries the new social ideas...
...popular democratic forces...
...While realizing that Lerner's plea for a system of peaceful competition between collective and private enterprise rests on unrealistic ground...
...The problem of monopolistic power, which is identical with toe problem of big business, must be tackled if true democracy is to survive...
...There is a civil war in Jugoslavia among the forces which should be united in fighting against the Axis...
...Look Post-Dispatch of investing more than 1,06,066 of United Mine Workers' money into private mining companies...
...What the 78th Congress with its solid anti-New Deal majority in the House will de with toe renewed and expanded social security plan that Roosevelt is expected to submit, God knows...
...Bat this is only meant as a coalition in Congress...
...Democratic Committeeman far Arkansas: "As far as Arkansas is concerned...
...But which is preferable, a' program that actually leaves everything where it is because it is constructed in a historic and social vacuum, or a program that wrotnises to be s stop in the right direct...
...The time is now, for agreement is far less likely after "the victory and the war...
...The CIO news displays the story prominently...
...More than 9,000 were allowed to go out on temporary leave to help harvest sugar-beet crops in the West, but most have returned to toe centers...
...post-office as unmailable, the New Loader learned this week...
...This power is anchored in a strong and united, politically firmly entrenched and excellently organized working class, but radiates far beyond its reaches, permeating the strata that control public opinion...
...The trouble is that Lerner's rate is constructed in a vacuum...
...Action...
...Any sort of' organic unity with the G.O.P...
...As if nobody had the courage to toueh this hot iron...
...At the same time a survey of southern Democrats while revealing their bitterness against the New Deal, shews that the southern leaders publicly will not unite with the RegahtJcaasGovernor Sam Jones' of Louisiana^ recent open advocate for a coalition of HoMthmn and middle western Democrats said: "It is unquestionably true that the South is ripe for a political revolution, bat I cannot, see that this gives aid- and comfort to either of the existing major par-tie...
...As the year ends, the various factions—led by Philip Murray, William Green, John Lewis and a host of minor officials—are wider apart than ever...
...Over there a tremendous popular force is pushing forward towards a new social order...
...To do justice to Lerner, it must he said that he himself is far from accepting big business in his concept of mixed economy...
...Several such discussions have taken place in Father Edward Lodge Curran's parish hall...
...The question as to which sectors of toe industry shall be operated by private enterprise and which ones shall be take* over or rigidly controlled by the government has certainly its economic-technical aspects, bat substantially and ultimately it is a question of political power...
...But this doesn't help clarify things particularly — because Mikhailovitch doesn't in any sense belong to the anti-Hitler camp...
...Although we cannot consider the Communist accusation against Mikhailovitch well founded, we should welcome a Russian request for an impartial, inter-Allied commission to examine the Jugoslav situation...
...Strangely enough, the power aspects of the problems of social and economic change has been gravely neglected in the discussion so far, although Mills has an inkling of its import...
...effectively refute the charge* that we are operating concentration camp* for people u-ho»e only crime was to have Japan*** parents," said a WRA statement...
...More recently, the Democrats of the North have defied all the political traditions of the* South...
...lieves that this will serve as a satisfactory substitute for toe previously suggested Anglo-American-Soviet Trade Union Committee, a proposal which Citrine made in person here last summer and which was vehemently rejected by Federation chiefs...
...This apparent intransigeance is purely the result of unrelenting attacks by American Communists within the Federation...
...It would be necessary to search for the solution of the controversial question by common discussion and common decision of the United Nations...
...Congressmen Gene Cox of Georgia and Howard Sputa- of Virginia have publicly made overtures to the Republicans to participate in a "crusade," especially against labor legislation...
...Sir Walter beFascists Use 'Money Reform' For New Work By WALTER K. LEWIS The monetary reform theories once espoused by Father Charles Coughlin are now being revived as a blind for renewed activity of Cdughlinite and fascist groups, The New Leader learns...
...However, The New Leader discussion so far has been productive of academic rather than realistic programs...
...He realizes how firmly entrenched the power of big business is...
...The issue was released five days after publication, but the editors were informed that all future issues would be similarly held up...
...Retorted Harvey C. Combs...
...Various Brooklyn churchmen who have been followers of Father Coughlin, have made "financial reform the subject of several sermons...
...This move follows similar pott office action against The Militant and The Fourth International weekly and monthly publications of the Socialist Workers Party, another Trotskyite group...
...Under the circumstances I /¦suggest that economic, sociological and political writers, ins toad of discussing blueprints of the coming order in a social vacuum, concentrate their thoughts en a program of political action behind which organized labor can be hoped to rally...
...The editors and publishers of Labor Action, were told no reason why the issue was arbitrarily held up...
...Mills, without saying so, expressly advocates outright collectivism...
...New Leader, does not mean that this southern bloc will coalesce with the Republican, party, political observers feel...
...a radical publication...
...This was conceived by Sir Walter Citrine and others anxious to bring the Federation and the Soviet labor men into a joint conference...
...Compared with the bold suggestions of Lerner anod Mills, a program of this kind might appear trivial and unprincipled...
...they weuht net bring about a fundamental change ia toe economic and social order, bat they weald at least be productive of social and economic aoegrass in themselves...
...It is wholly unrealistic to assume that the power of private monopolies will be broken one day by the government's erecting competitive steel plants, aluminum plants, copper plants.etc...
...Collectivism, en the ether hand, cannot be the rallying cry ef today...
...And it is even more unfortunate that State Department officials have indicated that Davis' statement is .in line with official policy . . . State Department officials say that Hull's statement on the need for unity applies not only to •Darlan but also to Mikhailovitch situation...
...To be sure, there are realistic concepts in some contributions...
...On the contrary, if this cry were raised, it weuM split apart toe only social force upon which any hopes fee social reorganisation must rest, organized labor...
...Labor Action is the weekly pAtfttieatkm of the Workers Party, &f &tm<<hm»n group...
...U.S...
...is it realistic hi such a political situation to think of collectivism as the only alternative to the present system...
...Where are ia this country the political and social forces that would be ready and mature enough to rally behind such ideas and strong enough to carry them through in the face of the terrific opposition which can be expected ? Nothing perhaps is more significant in this respect than the recent trends in the social security field in Great Britain and in the United States...
...McWilliams had spoken in Chicago for a monetary reform group headed by a Coughlinite, Willis Overholser...
...The much discussed peace conferences which were planned for later this month at the parleys three weeks ago never materialized...
...The British union representatives will bring with them a proposal for a United Nations union committee...
...I ask...
...The Jugoslav situation is very grave not only because of its immediate effect but also because its development may very unfavorably influence the future solution of the most difficult and complicated European problems...
...McWilliams has spoken at the Roamers Social Club, which is headed by a McWilliams lieutenant Louis Hel-mond, a printer of 1066 Brook Ave., Bronx...
...Republican Hope for Party Coalition With Southern Democrats Fades Tories to Battle New Deal With in Party Ranks By MURRAY EVERETT WASHINGTON,DjC.—Attempts by southern reactionary Democrats to form a solid bloc to capture the party and possibly organize a new Southern Democratic party, as reported in last week's...
...Its very far fetched to believe Arkansas would do like Oklahoma...
...OWI Chief Elmer Davis, declared last week that Mikhailovitch had the complete confidence of this and the Allied governments...
...Admit, for a moment, that the accusations against Mikhailovitch were well-founded...
...And the plain implication of the situation is that the disorder in Jugoslavia suggests a corresponding dissersion among the Allies...
...In these eases sectional differences mean very little...
...Whatever the original intention, it is known now that the new proposal will embarrass the AFL, which is adamant against sitting down with the Communists...
...There cannot be peace in the labor movement until this issue is settled to the satisfaction of the AFL, for despite whatever merits the CIO Ship Builders believe their case has, the Federation will interpret any CIO victory as a wholesale raid to be fought for years, it was said this week in Washington labor circles...
...Governor Jones's statement, as well-as that of several other southern Democratic leaders, was made in response to a feeler by tip, new national chairman of the Republican Party, Harrison Spangler who was quoted in Washington as being "informed that Southerners were much interested in forming a party to defeat the New Deal...
...It reflects the deep intellectual excitement of ear days Which Cements our ******** and social system...
...However, monopolies can be controlled, not by forcing them to be competitive organizations, that they never can be...
...A "beveridged" world may still be controlled by big business and the Tories...
...On this side of the ocean the volcanic forces that are in motion on the remote isles of Britain have not even aroused a ripple...
...If the new leave regulations are carried out sincerely and on a scale large enough to substantially reduce toe population of the present centers—then we cam...
...Various Christian Front groups that were quiet after Pearl Harbor have popped up as socio-economic discussion, groups where comments on the financial system become thinly veiled anti-Semitic attacks on the "international bankers" and the Morgethau tax proposals...
...Alfred Brum?**', Blueprints, But Not in a Vacuum By ALFRED BRAUNTHAL THE fascinating debate in The New Trader in which A. P. Lerner, Daniel Bell and C. Wright Mills have participated is net of auadeuih Interest only...
...When it comes to political machinery and patronage, the dead and heavy hand of tradition means much, and the political anomoly of bucolic southern reactionary political machines squatting together under the same roof with toe urban northern machines, and the progressive labor and liberal forces will continue into 1944...
...Since there are no indications of the development of a political force that would be able and ready to solve this problem by collectivization and since competition between collective and private enterprise would be unrealistic in this field, nothing is left but a rigid, hard-hitting public control over monopolies, or to be more exact, over all firms which operate under conditions of imperfect competition, in spite of Thurman Arnold, the fact has been well established by the history of a generation that the existing anti-trust legislation is ineffective...
...Because the very basic principle of NLRB operations and AFL organization are involved, national labor leaders are watching the fight carefully...
...The editors were told by the local post-office that orders had come from Washington to •top the mailing of the paper...
...In this, the South is a fertile field for Jim Parley who is now touring the mid-west lining up anti-New . Deal Democratic support...
...The order against Labor Action ?» sow the third government move ftgetost...
...But officially Stalin keeps silent, whereas the Communists- run the most odious campaign...
...But why should act labor b* the force that attempts to rally the Batten Oasis • a Keynes-Beveridge scheme of *uil employment and social security, especially as a scheme of thi* kind would be but the consequence of the Now Deal philosophy which labor has embraced for the last decade...
...Of course, the New Deal of pre-war days wa but a beginning...
...Milo MacDonald of the American Educational As-sociatioon has led several discussions in Father Curran's hall...
...The amaaing fact is that the entire public dtacosaiea abate America's future steadfastly ignores toe salient problem, that of organised labor aa a political power...
...Most Southern political leaders feel it would be political suicide to join the Republican party...
...of this land would net lead very far...
...Lombardo Toledano, Mexican Communist labor leader, who has just finished a tour of Latin America during which he pro-' moted the idea of a continental federation of labor opposed by the AFL, will visit Washington 'early in January to seek support from Philip Murray, William Green and government officials for his proposed Pan-American Labor Congress...
...Spangler is all wet...
...The Southern Democrats will work closer together than ever and will try to make theiryvoices heard in the national convention against the New Deal...
...Hie South owes nothing to the Republican Party...
...The granting of indefinite leave to those obtaining regular work supplements the program under which some 250 were allowed to transfer from Pacific Coast to Midwestern and Eastern colleges, and under which large groups received temporary leave for seasonal work...
...VET the underlying ideas behind Mill's article in The New Leader are constructed in a political vacuum, exactly as Lerner's ideas are...
...These are listed'merely as "New York" draft for loan with security notes as collateral...
...toat ta» TTth Congress ductote ef the eeeseJ siiteaM taxes en which toe stebUfcy ef the fecial htoaMape spate* nets...
...It is true, it doe*, not constitute a patent solution of the problems of our time...
Vol. 25 • December 1942 • No. 52
