Surly Congress Balks FDR'S Plans, Tax, Manpower Problems Remain
GREENE, T. I.
Surly Congress Balks FDR'S Plans, Tax, Manpower Problems Remain Leaders Hint Fight on New Deal Post-War Social Security Plans By T. I. GREENE WASHINGTON, D C—Instead of mobilising the nation's...
...There is much to indicate that these inconsistencies have irrita^pd and alarmed Mr...
...Stalin's Communist-Chinese armies have kept more than 500,000 Chungking soldiers fixed in the north to prevent the Chinese red forces from seizing internal provinces...
...Rivarola struck at U. S. radio programs conducted by the Co-ordinator of Inter-American Affairs...
...Russia's no would hamper the development of civilian routes...
...Roosevelt, who have talked freely and publicly their post-war plans without similar statements from their Mos-covite colleague...
...u* like the death of Irigoyen and Alvear which Practically crippled the Radical Party—the field •%ht be clear for new political formations...
...Considerable alarm has been expressed ir Great Britain and elsewhere over the possibilitj that reaction here may push the U. S. to sup port of a program of "air imperialism...
...We do not know whom Wallace was warn» ing, nor what he meant when he insinuated that Moscow had abandoned the Communist International — which is still functioning throughout the world, including these United States...
...Tightens 'Neutrality [Correspondent Jonathan Stout is away on a %ew assignment...
...and Washington...
...The U. S. wants agreements on rates for passengers and freights...
...Stalin alone is responsible because of his Orders of the Day...
...li»41, at thirty minutes past mt?-night...
...the only rebroadcasts permitted will be those of "artistic or cultural nature which are not in any way intended as political propaganda...
...Stalin was attempting to give the Russian people the impression that the Soviets were fighting alone...
...members, it has attacked labor, but it has backed the little steel formula while blasting the President's demand for a $25.000-a-year income...
...Roosevelt for additional arms, the Russians have vetoed any suggestion that some of their American-made weapons be sent to Chungking...
...Churchill and Mr- Roosevelt appear determined that Mr...
...The House appropriations committee has refused money for incentive payments to farmers, for maternity aid...
...Hven Castillo's well-oiled electoral machinery might slip up...
...The statement follows in part: "Erlich and Alter were first arrested by the Soviet authorities on September 29, 1989, in the eastern part of Poland...
...Stalin's national Communism to the democratic peoples and statesmen...
...government...
...Parenthetically let me say that the glib eyecatching squibs which make clever conversation in New York create uneasiness in the minds of airmen here coupled with a puzzled feeling over the spread back home of notions that self-evidently are absurd to them...
...At this writing...
...Official apologies were tendered them by the representative of the Soviet Government who admitted that a terrible mistake had been made and that the charge against them was false...
...Melville Maas, empire-minded spokesman for reaction, had charged that New Zealand built 105 airfields for Allied air forces and charged the cost to the U.S...
...Schreiver...
...Soviet officials visited them very often, discussing with them the principles of the program and the personnel of this committee...
...It gets wide play on the newsstands by virtue of the fact that the wholesale rate is nominal, with the vendors collecting almost all of the 10 centsvos per copy...
...But Director, of Qrfl Aviation Samuel Bosch has persistently denied their Argentine qualifications...
...Then we were released with great honors and given residence in the best hotel in Moscow and a complete set of clothes, and were placed under medical care...
...that it was merely fighting to expel the Nazis from within its borders...
...with branches in all other countries...
...The meeting will be held at Mecca Temple, 5oth Street, between 6th and 7th Avenues, the scene of several meetings addressed by Erlich and Alter on several visits to America...
...Alter as secretary, and the Soviet-Jewish artist Nichoeis as vice-chairman...
...The Chamber of Deputies, in which :*tttanti-fascist parties have a large major-•fty, has several times asked for a rapture of diplomatic relations...
...Heavy raids without precision will frequently leave vital military targets intact...
...Finally, there need be no hesitation now about accepting American claims about German fighters downed...
...This was drawn up in a Manhattan skyscraper by international business men and lawyers...
...Aviation will be one of the subjects of a conference to which Under-Secretary of State Welles said last week the United Nations will "soon" be invited...
...Most of them have already tested these tactics and the American equipment in many a trip o4?r enemy territory...
...Mr...
...Congress has been trying to rush through the Hobbs bill to remove legal protection for legitimate union activity...
...was attacked by Germany, they were court-martialed under the nonsensical charge of working for the forces of international Fascist reaction...
...From its opening to this date more than two months later this "Victory Congress has been marked by bickerings, romping labor baiters, and limelight seekers who have so hampered Washington that the Truman investigating committee of the Senate in its round-up report this week cited the following three basic weaknesses : 1—Inadequate over-all planning within government agencies at the beginning of various programs and delay in determining basic policies necessary to carry out such programs effectively 2—Conflicting authority over, and responsibility for...
...They want to harness the American efforts in the war to their own corporate plans for airpower monopolies...
...By forcing Mr...
...to the Secretary of Commerce...
...It has failed to take leadership in solving such problems as unifying the labor movement...
...Lack of yearly experience in drawing up score sheets has been overcome and unintentional duplication wiped out...
...The Senator implied that the war effort is being crippled—something he did not want to see...
...A series of coincidences could be congtrued to indicate that Mr...
...Most Argentine ob-^ ttrvers are not sanguine about the anti-fascist-PWtpects...
...etc.—were broeght to Moscow...
...Raids Prove Value of Bombina Methods By S. L. SOLON London Correspondent, The New Leader LONDON, March 11 (By Cable).—I've spent this week talking to American airmen...
...Sol Bloom, committee chairman...
...Though the Anglo-American leaders expressed willingness to go into the Eastern Mediterranean to meet Mr...
...and to those of the Jewish nation and Poland.' "We emphasize that this apology and declaration of the necessity of their cooperation in the struggle against Hitlerism were made only ten weeks before they were re-arrested...
...Standley also said the Russians had refused to permit American observers into the front lines to witness the effectiveness of our weapons...
...to join the Polish Army and fight alongside ef the Red Army against the Hitlerite German hordes...
...Leon Dennen's series on Soinet Policy and Eastern Europe will be resumed next teeafcj...
...Reaction struck swiftly on several fronts...
...It is discussing prohibition rather than vast war problems, as stabilizing our economy, price control, wages, universal rationing and the simple winning of the war...
...In July, 1941...
...a leader of the Jewish Workers Party of Poland and a member of the Polish National Council...
...and by, perhaps, considering the problem of "the four freedoms...
...Zygielbojm's statement, which sheds new light on the events before the arrest of the two Polish workers' leaders, was made in a communication .to' the British Labor Party...
...and the Pace bill, which would have similar results, is making rapid progress...
...Special to The New Leader LONDON.—Disclosures that the Soviet Government, which had arrested Henryk Erlich and Victor Alter shortly after the Nazi-Soviet pact, had released the two men in September, 1941, with official apologies and an official statement that the charges against them were false, were made here by Szmul Zygielbojm...
...Stalin to talk of U. S. lend-lease, we have prevented the remote possibility that he could later turn to the Russian people for approval of a separate peace by telling them that the democracies had double-crossed him...
...Briefly, American bombing tactics are steadily and surely proving their effectiveness...
...The Allied leaders are tired of being stalked and have turned to smoke out the Russians, many intelligent and informed men now believe...
...Similar "slips" were pointed out in the rest of the Maas testimony...
...Churchill may have decided to force their associate's hand through Ambassador Standley so that Mr...
...that it has consistently intimated that it did not desire to destroy German military power...
...After the conclusion of the Polish-Russian Pact, however, Erlich was released on September 13, 1941, and Alter on September 15...
...They had been on food-neighbor scholarships facilitated by Washington, and their training and certificates should bare stood them in good stead...
...For two weeks they were kept in death cells of Moscow and Saratov prisons awaiting execution...
...and post-war planning...
...Joseph Stalin could clear the-international air of the present tension by declaring his war aims, keeping his people informed, telling his American Communists to forget their perpetual agitation for "Let's Be Grateful to Russia Weeks...
...On October 15th, Alter and Erlieh were evacuated to Kuibyshev together with tile diplomat 1? corps and the government offices...
...Legislators who came to town as the "Victory Congress" have forgotten the war except as a big stick to beat "that New Deal crowd...
...They were kept in prison for nearly two years...
...Instead, Mr...
...A few days before Stand-ley's press conference in Moscow, Lend-Lease Administrator Stettinius announced that we had sent to Russia $1,250,000,000 worth of weapons and food in IS months...
...Given tnother key death—like Justo's, which was a \]P»vy setback to the democratic coalition (for *H the suspicions of the dashing General's opportunism) ; or like Roberto Ortiz's, -whose passing in 1940 put Castillo into the presidency...
...The top section is composed of Assistant Secretary of State Berle, Assistant Secretary of War for Air Lovett, Assistant Secretary of Navy for Air Gates, Undersecretary of Commerce Taylor, Assistant Director of the Budget Coy and Civil Aeronautics Board Chairman Pogue...
...But the American public that is being fed on sensational rubbish by amateur air strategists should know what the airmen who can't write articles, but who are doing the fighting, are thinking...
...Maas, like Mrs...
...Alter was called to the telephone at the Grand Hotel in Kuibyshev, where he then re-Hided, and asked to come over right away with Erlieh to the Commissariat of the Interior...
...It has set up a host of committees to snipe at, embarrass and play politics against the administration and the labor movement—the Dies Committee, the Cox Committee, the Smith Committee are but three...
...various phases of the war program, resulting in delays and buck-passing 3—Hesitancy of government to adopt unpopular or unpleasant policies long after the facts clearly indicated such policies were necessary...
...The British^ have a bfflion-douar investment in Argentine rail-Wja—the biggest British investment outside ti* Empire—and their charges of "confiscation and despoliation" are serious...
...Congress is probing and preparing plans of its own...
...v ? But whether or not Admiral Standley spoke for the U.S.A., or* for himself, the issues remain...
...This is the picture as the 78th Congress rounded out its first phase of existence...
...His nerv-ousness'aijcut the 1944 elections has been widely reported: It had been anticipated that some drastic censorship of anti-Axis movements would be pushed through before the mounting dis-sttisCaction among the people got out "of hand...
...for child care and to remedy causes of absenteeism...
...More-spectacular has been the sinking of meat and other food strips for the British business community as a reiult of the spying of well-known German tints...
...Pending his return, various writers are pinch-hitting.'] By MELVIN j. LASKY When fiery, ambitious Gen...
...A number of people proposed by Erlieh and Alter as members of this committee—Br...
...Wrangling in the House has brought from a Republican war mother...
...In his words to the Red Army he has warned that Russia is fighting alone only to clear Soviet land of the enemy...
...Then they were notified that the hjgest authority had commuted the death penalty to a sentence of ten-years' penal servitude...
...Soviets Apologized for 1st Arrest A meeting on March 80 to protest the executions of Henryk Erlich and Victor Alter was announced this week by a committee of 250 leading trade union leaders of New York, headed by David Dubinsky, president of the I.L.G.W.U., and Adolph Held, chairman of the Jewish Labor Committee...
...We quote from a letter written by Erlich himself on October 25, 1941: " 'Both of us had the death sentence commuted to a 10-year sentence in a labor camp...
...Congress is still not geared for swift action...
...Capital Comment Castillo Slaps U.S...
...Churchill to attend the Casablance conference, Mr...
...From out of U. S. Committee discussions have come these points, observers say: The U. S. wants a general international air treaty so that planes could fly over various countries without paying tolls to the nation involved...
...The day of the Standley statement, Vice-President Wallace warned that we were not to double-cross the Russians, and that the Soviets were never again to revive the "Trots-kyite" philosophy of international revolution...
...The repudiation of Mr...
...The quick lifting of the order is generally regarded as an indication of Berlin's continued power in Argentina "El Pampero" is a notorious Hitler handout...
...That spheres of desired American influence should be worked out Meanwhile, the question of lend-lease payments cropped up bitterly in House Foreign Affairs Committee hearings...
...1941...
...Stalin more than half way, the Soviet ruler refused to go...
...Air traffic undoubtedly will demand government subsidies and the U. S. fears, the dangers of "unbridled competition...
...Surly Congress Balks FDR'S Plans, Tax, Manpower Problems Remain Leaders Hint Fight on New Deal Post-War Social Security Plans By T. I. GREENE WASHINGTON, D C—Instead of mobilising the nation's manpower, weapons, food and war industries efficiently, Congress and scores of Washington war bureaus have interfered with swift streamlining of the nation's power...
...Russia's decision will determine whether America goes ahead with plans for civil aviation development or builds a single giant airline for off-shore service that would be "semi-militarised...
...The figure of "105" is the number of airfields already in existence at that time in New Zealand...
...A very high official of the people's Commissariat for the Interior, named Colonel Wolkowsky, proposed in the name of the Soviet Government that they should organize in the U.S.S.R...
...While awaiting Stalin's answer, they did their utmost to arouse the enthusiasm of Polish citizens in the U.S.S.R...
...Bolton, of Ohio, an appeal that Congress stop bickering and win the war...
...Though the Casablance parleys resulted in a pledge foil «an "unconditional surrender" demand, the Russians hare as yet failed to expre?* similar sentiments...
...Instead Congressional glamor girls talk of "globaloney...
...The President has attempted to mobilize manpower...
...Roosevelt and Mr...
...Afentina is anxiously scanning communique* ?? obituary notices...
...Most important of all, we were assured that the action taken against us was a mistake and that our collaboration in the fight against Hitlerism is a necessity both with regard to the interests of the U.S.S.R...
...Critics had said that daylight precision bombing would be limited because cf few clear days over Germany...
...It forced the White House to delay for three months submission of the National Resources Planning Board's "American Beveridge Plan...
...Rising costs in many cases have been officially imposed, and tariff-increase demands refused...
...According to this agreement, the presidium of the committee was to consist of Erlieh as chairman...
...Stalin could not tell his people later that he was forced to conclude a peace with the German military because Russia was bearing alone the brunt of World War II...
...In any event...
...The Soviet Commissar for Interior...
...Since then the Soviet Government refused to give any information about them, in its reply to the Polish Government, declaring it regarded both Erlieh and Alter as Soviet citizens...
...Congress has done nothing constructive...
...Unlike that Irishman's happy formulation of Eire's position, Argentina is not neutral agin' the Alis...
...Death cleared the road for the Castillo administration, and this week it became clear Argentina was stiffening its stand: Castillo will not desert the Axis...
...Since the war began in September, 19S9, it was revealed, only ? new airfields have been constructed...
...At the moment, it seems, there is peace in the chancellories only because it is vacation time and the ministers and diplomats an lolling in Rio de la Plata resorts...
...Hold Erlich-Alter Rally March 30...
...that the Chinese armies, like the Chetniks of rebel Jugoslavia, were "fascist," and that the Anglo-American High Command was deliberately permitting Russia to fight the war alone by refusing to open a second front in the almost unassailable section of western Europe bordering the English Channe.1...
...It is becoming ensnarled on political riders to important bills...
...Facts are that though suitable weather is limited calculations show that the United States Air Force can operate more effectively with its precision tactics than by following other precedents...
...keveompiete control of national and international affairs, and to every last detail the jtf^soaping of the Nazis has been pure CaBecently a group of Argentine students returned home after a course of aviation studies hire in the United States...
...This experience is the best description of today's "Victory Congress...
...In the whirl of amendments, it lost first the support of its author, then that of its principal...
...Congress is giving clearest signs that it intends to ignore the President's proposal for post-war planning and go ahead with its own plans...
...His report was issued too late for analysis here.] The Truman Committee charged this week that selfish "me first" attitudes, and bickering and struggles for power within the government must stop, and called for harder work, longer hour* and greater sacrifices...
...Apart from these two, other opinion, though not unanimous or official, te mobilized behind several other viewpoints: That the U. S. should demand partial repayment of lend-lease in terms of air bases and air rights...
...These are the boys who are doing America's air fighting and executing the tactics and strategy devised by their leaders...
...I was at the bomber station which sent Fortresses over Rennes last Monday and had the chance to see before and after pictures of the bombing...
...But they never came back...
...Naturally they cannot reply to the popular and easy criticism which is being directed against daylight precision bombing by writers who tread clumsily where air experts have labored for many years...
...under reverse lend-lease," and that American commercial air lines were barred from New Zealand airports...
...Given major Hitler setbacks in Europe, Castillo will have to find a new international focus for his administration...
...It is difficult to estimate how far Allied international pressure can jolt the underpinnings of the Castillo regime...
...stopping management hoarding of labor and stalling on huge cost-plus war contracts...
...Churchill and Mr...
...We are in possession of this program...
...Underneath is a working Committee headed by Pogue with representatives of the Air Transport Command, the Navy, the State Dept's division of international communications and the aviation asst...
...They left the hotel, assuring their friends, who were then with them, that they would return soon...
...To this they agreed...
...a Jewish committee to fight Hitlerism...
...The "globaloney'' to which they object in the Wallace-Administration notions on the subject involves the government's insistence on some policy of "freedom of the skies...
...This Congress has originated the longest and most anti-labor bills in recent years...
...Bloom's denial was based on information supplied him by the New Zealand Minister to the U. S., Walter Nash...
...There are many inconsistencies in Russia's policies and actions...
...Stalin Silence Causes Allied Strain IT is possible that our Ambassador to the * Soviet Union spoke for himself and not the United States when he bitterly assailed Joseph Stalin for allegedly failing to keep the Russian people informed of the extent oS aid the western democracies were delivering to Russia's doors...
...Here President Castillo's concern for the^current state of public opinion kss driven him towards the practical shutting down of all U. S. radio propaganda...
...By these yardsticks Congress is the first to be chastised, the rates of absenteeism in both houses would horrify the nation and show why the axe grinders have been able to stall the war effort...
...Committee on Aviation Policy, divided into sections...
...Congress countered with an investigating committee...
...It has sidetracked the Tolan-Pepper-Kilgore bill to solve manpower and production problems by total war mobilization, while it concentrates on the Austin-Wadsworth compulsory labor bffl...
...Today United States Air Force figures are based on the most careful checkup and are conservative...
...Iri December...
...This was about the same time that the Senate Judiciary Committee was spending hours over the McKellar bill to subject government workers earning more than "$4,WO a year to Senate approval...
...The U. S. Ambassador charged that by suppressing the news of effective Anglo-American lend-lease, Mr...
...Better than anyone else they know what daylight precision bombing can accomplish and the cost...
...It is opposed by all labor...
...The House has investigated alleged strike waves, absenteeism and alleged loafing by...
...a military ally—as the Western leaders have been characterizing Mr...
...After two months Congress still ? ads itself facing all of the major legislative problems it had when it came to Washington in January...
...Hundreds of government bureaus hare buck-passing fever, and fearing the wrath of Congress or a sudden investigation, have stalled and failed to hire many competent men...
...Agustin Jueto died in Buenos Aires ten weeks ago, there was easier breathing in the Casa Rosada, Argentina's executive mansion...
...A detailed examination of the President's program will appear in the next issue...
...Secret' U.S...
...It is dominated by an organized minority of conservative poll-taxers, isolationists and anti-administration politicos who are determined to win on the home front in 1944...
...Roosevelt and Mr...
...The Senate has passed the Bankhead bill of the big business farm bloc to raise living costs...
...President Ramon Ca-ttjBo'e Axis-minded policy of "prudent neutrality" had Seen sorely pressed by Justo's whirlwind campaign to line up a democratic coalition for the 1944 elections...
...Erlieh and Alter sent the letter to Stalin, a copy of which is in our possession...
...At the same time, the officials of the people's Commissariat for the Interior made preparations for the work of tbis committee...
...Instead of warring on the Axis, Congress has been fighting social reform, labor and war mothers who have been seeking appropriations for nurseries in which to place their children...
...Each time the administration moved...
...The top committee is the U.S...
...L. Beria, himself invited Alter and Erlieh to a special conference,, during which he had a long talk with them about the same matters...
...The new announcement by Horacio Rivarola, Argentina's postmasber-general also hit at the efforts of anti-fascists to break down Castillo's "prudent neutrality," which is simply the expression of ruling-class fear for their shipping interests in the event of Nazi hostilities and for their political control of the state in the face of the mass of the people's pro-democratic sentiments...
...six weeks after the U.S.S.R...
...Congress probed the effort frightening him off and driving away public support...
...But the reactionary jetwork operating from the Casa Rosada...
...American pieci«ion bombing has been used to follow up heavy RAF Blitzes to knock out still undamaged military installations...
...Similarly the various Allied representations to Foreign Minister E. R. Guinazu (a number of pointed puns on his name are common hotel ?1 in Buenos Aires) are still lying on his , politely gathering dust...
...Stalin not only refused but failed to send an emissary...
...Standley's remarks by Undersecretary of State Welles does not eliminate the fact that Russia has failed to declare its war aims...
...It uses Goebbels-slanted news from the blacklisted Trans ocean Agency...
...If this is so, Mr...
...If this failed we would see a repetition of the mediveal commercial system with each little "duchy" levying its fare...
...For critics to assume that European weather conditions were not considered by American experts is without foundation...
...Most of American air routes crisscrossing the world must traverse Russian soil...
...So flagrant is this blindness to the war effort's needs that protests have come even from conservative Republicans, veteran enemies of the President...
...There is no doubt that Washington and London have been disturbed by talk of alleged Soviet negotiations with the German army— talk for which Mr...
...And now we find out that Erlieh and Alter have been executed—probably a long time ago...
...Gercowicz...
...The record of this Victory Congress, which arrived in Washington bragging that it was eager to take a more active part in running the government, announcing its determination to retake the nation's leadership from the President, this record "is a shocking one" to the CIO...
...Clearly Castillo's so-called neutrality is certainly far from "prudent...
...The White House had its own food plans, anti-inflation strategy and Congress literally drove Leon Henderson from the...
...Senator George has announced that he would ask for an appropriation to launch a Congressional inquiry...
...It has hit hard at the morale»«f the people by scoffing at post-war plans and receiving coldly any suggestions for a "cradle-to-the-grave" social security pla.\ It forced the Prasident to cut from his message to the nation any references to social reform...
...The administration is seeking a large army...
...U. S. Air Force Colonel Claude Putnam said to me, "Bombing is not a matter of trucking serviee, it is precision surgery and that is what we spent years and lives in perfecting...
...Under such a charge they were sentenced to death...
...Group Prepares Skyway Plan for World Parley Special to The New Leader WASHINGTON, D. C.—The perplexing problem of post-war...
...Though Madame Chiang Kai-shek has pleaded with Mr...
...These are serious charges, but not as serious as the implied Soviet distrust of its British and American allies...
...The big fights are still to come over taxes, farm problems, manpower, the draft, size of the army, public debt, salary limitation, federal deferments and control of federal hirings—in fact, all the key problems that lie at the heart of the war effort...
...At the same time, two government units, whose work is an official secret, are grappling with the problem of international agreements and routes and bases...
...It was Henry Wallace?1 whose views on the subject have been attacked as "Gobaloney," who has convinced Welles that the problem can not be neglected for the duration...
...Stalin shall tell his people that Democracy is a fjiendly...
...Luce, has become one of the leading spokesman for the ambitions of the big Airlines in the poet-war world...
...Though enthusiastically invited by Mr...
...A statement said in part: "The lives of Henryk Erlich and Victor Adler are shining examples of sterling and fervent devotion to the cause of their people...
...The Nazi afternoon paper "El Pampero," had been suspended following a series of openly fascist articles...
...after the phase of combat experience, the results are forthcoming...
...In its full stride it is the most militarily successful tactic in the world and it is improving...
...The execution of Erlich and AHer, we declare, was a political assassination, an act of vengeance by the Communist Party and by the leaders of the Third Internationale against men who as life-long Socialists and trade union leaders in Poland stearfastly opposed all forms of dictatorships including Communism...
...Stpndley spoke for the U.S.A...
...At the beginning of October...
...To informed circles here it presents a more dismal picture of small men eager only to attack the White House...
...One South American report states that "it is not exaggerating to say that the diplomatic atmosphere in Buenos Aires is charged with a large amount of electricity tad that a storm has threatened to break several times since the New Year came in...
...One of the key questions is the attitude of Russia...
...This was pronounced inaccurate this week by Rep...
...Senator Taft of Ohio has proposed that the Senate Republicans create a committee to study House appropriations changes to make certain that no important governmental function is impaired...
...Then they were officially requested to send the entire material, together with a covering letter and explanations, to Stalin in order to obtain his official sanction for the above-mentioned committee and to enable them to begin their activities...
...It has received huge subsidies from the Geraum Embassy...
...These statements could be interpreted as a Downing Street-White House nerve-blitz against the Russians...
Vol. 26 • March 1943 • No. 11
