Diplomatie Flurries Indicate Major Military Actions Soon in Europe
LORING, EDWARD
Diplomatic Flurries Indicate Major Military Actions Soon in Europe The CP's Opportunist Policf on Negroes By JONATHAN STOUT WASHINGTON, D. C—The* real nature of Communist insincerity with respect...
...When France capitulated, it took courage and idealism to re— form ranks in a Britain that seemed doomed to destruction...
...Political circles believe this is the thinnest camouflage to keep him here unostentatiously during the weeks he is needed for immediate consultation...
...Then, last Sunday, the People's Voice went wt on the job of selling the CP...
...Unions Hit Murder Of Erlich and Alter...
...Giraud and de Gaulle Unity — The Needed Step for France I^HE forthright statement of principles by * General Giroud has kicked the props out from under most of the criticism of the North African situation...
...fttonil Committee...
...From this point on, partisan politics can no longer dress themselves in the honorable vestments of political idealism...
...They were led -by General Certier, a stern disciplinarian who has waited, even collaborated with Vichy and his "friend" Petain, for this signal from DeGaulle...
...Giraud's speech, announcing the return of Republican law to France and declaring his intension of withdrawing after the liberation of his country, has cleared the air...
...Already United Nations military action ha* been delayed to a point injurious to -Soviet chances of forcing the German armies to retreat from the key northwestern front before Spring clears the fields of winter slush...
...A' couple of weeks ago the pro-Stalinist...
...The St...
...He was a member * the national committee of the C.P.-front **»gtte for Peace and Democracy, and he was j*r collective security when that was the party *«« before the Communal Pact of August, 1939...
...The tories who failed to push such bills' through in Congress appear to have won out in the state legislatures...
...These war workers are not interested in postwar plans, international peace, or social reforms —they want high bracket income now...
...He does not explain that a good many of those reports expressed sharp criticism of the Stalin regime and strong disbelief in the Moscow Trials...
...Winchell has been overwhelmed by objections, and is expected to print a correction shortly...
...usefulness in this stool-pigeon capacity, the Communists are tying their supple and compliant party-line into pretzel knots...
...Lewis has said that the UMW will not work after April 1 if the operators do not sign a contract...
...GREENE Special to The New Leader WASHINGTON, D. C—Labor this week became the nation's most important story...
...The movement, initiated by a group of trade union leaders headed by David Dubinsky, president of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, found wide and immediate support...
...Carey, whose influer.ee in CIO is growing daily, and Kennedy have publicly assailed the WLB...
...After the Hitler^Stalin Pact ended "collective •Wttilgr," Hinckley switched with the party line...
...even after he joined the French National Committee...
...Suspense was strong on lazy financial markets which appeared to be awaiting immediate military action...
...Adding to the labor excitement of the past week was the passage in Kansas of a bill regulating unions...
...As the Warner Brothers' Hollywood studios readies its film production of Joe Davies' Mission to Moscow, the Kremlin Set in America is preparing its ambush for all critics of the grotesque GPU propaganda which has been adapted in wholesale, faithful fashion for millions of U.-S...
...A call for an international investigation of the murder waa made this week in a resolution passed by the St...
...York trade unions, with a membership reaching over 500,000 will sponsor a memorial and protest meeting for Henryk Erlich and Victor Altera murdered Polish labor leader*, on Tuesday^ evening, March 30...
...These soldiers are the men who wiaV *ry to force a beachhead on the Italian boot...
...Wm record of Hinckley's Stalinist activities ¦ as long as a baboon's arm...
...They have committed themselves against accepting the Board's 16 per cent formula...
...The basis for full agreement exists in Giraud's speech, tallying as it did with so many points of the Gaullist program...
...5—It has beerr-aarounced that British Foreign Minister Eden will be in New Torf thia weekend...
...London's financial center, last week emphasized in an historic editorial that England must work with Russia...
...revolt...
...They, have even anticipated a Turkish declaration of war...
...And the Communists are trying to convince the -Navy and Red Cross that the CP...
...Davis recently resigned as executive secretary of the National Negro Congress to become secretary to Rep...
...the American armed forces abroad, ??4 : ' ¦4-*·· r. Labor Assails WLB Wage Policy fy T. ft...
...The Daily Worker has appealed to its readers to counteract "the reactionary, isolationist and defeatist press" by challenging the anti-Stalinist letter-campaign to Warner Bros, studios with messages of their own, hailing "a faithful rendering of an epoch-making book...
...Machine guns, vast numbers of rounds of ammunition, even small artillery was supplied by parachute from Allied bombers and transports to a well organized army of 100,000 young Frenchmen...
...A leading item was placed with Walter Winchell for his nationally-syndicated column which tagged all the critics of Mission, to Moscow as "Trotskyites and America-Firsters...
...Failure of a second front to develop now may see the Red armies thrown back within 60 days...
...The political implications of Spellman...
...Vichyite* were removed slowly and unhysterically...
...Giraud has ousted Vichyite elements and we hope that before long all pro-Vichyites will be eliminated from the administration...
...It is expected that he will remain here te make important decisions which impending military action will necessitate...
...Shock and surprise has been registered in various circles over this last revelation...
...The notorious Hollywood correspondent, Peter Furst, whose by-lines no longer appear over his stories, sent a dispatch which was printed in PM, attempting to link The New Leader's criticism with the isolationist Chicago Tribune, Westbrook Pegler, and Martin Dies, all of whom have been under constant Are in these pages...
...Hinckley was a member of the Young Com-JJWet League, on the sworn testimony of *«W*i|rGoft*, former member of the Y.C.L...
...Since then he has 22 Wring the Red Cross workers who accom...
...Kremlin Set Stirs Smear Campaign Against Critics of 'Moscow7 Movie Special to TBE new LEADER HOLLYWOOD...
...Reports from the Haute Sevoie frontier reveal that the Germane are moving in regular army divisions to fight the Frenchmen well entrenched in the frontier hills near Italy...
...Nor have they neglected the Balkan peninsula...
...tried in secret before a court of fanatically intolerant political opponents, can only remind us of the political injustice and hatred visited upon unpopular figures in this country such as Sacco and Vanzetti...
...Resolutions have also been passed and copies forwarded to The New Leader by the Joint Board of the Textile Workers Union of America (CIO), by the Negro Labor Committee, and others...
...Louis Industrial Union Council (CIO...
...To point out these facts is not to run down the Gaullist movement...
...It is firmly believed here that the political pressures of global politics will force Allied action on a second front to prevent the massive German counter-attack in Russia from developing...
...The price of the service rendered is that the Communists get into and intrench themselves in the two services...
...The story went on to explain that the late Leon Trotsky "is represented in the film as visiting Ribbentrop in the German Embassy in Sweden on behalf of the plot to overthrow Stalin...
...talk, made with the approval of the Vatican, waa a meaaage to the German and universally Cathotte Italian people that they would not be punished for tbeir leaders war policies when the Allies won...
...There is heavy tension here and in London...
...Hinckley is a **™ber of the Washington Committee for ¦jwweratic Action, which Attorney-General ™*<Ue designated in an official report as a ^Communist front organization...
...If both of them have no designs on the future of a liberated France, their armies should be fighting side by side under one command...
...Louis CIO said that "these vague, undocumented and unproven charges against the two men...
...ben the Soviet Union was attacked, Hinckley •bin switched with the party line and joined ~e "warmongers" who demanded a 'Second-"*nt to save the Soviet Union...
...Caught between a rebellious rank and file, and loyalty to the White House William Green, Philip Murray and other labor leaders have finally told the President that he must chance inflation with national wage increases or face wide political and industrial revolt...
...The time for bickering is past and vying for great place is a service to the enemy...
...Johannes Steel in a radio broadcast made a pretense of exposing a "job of vilification" and rasped that "the public should refuse to be terrorized...
...Not only is there not a single Negro girl in the WAVES, but there is no indication from the Navy of any intention of accepting *??The hundreds of Negro girls who have tried vair.iy to join the WAVES are not being fooled bf the new party-line on Negroes, of course, tot the two Commissars who appear to have talen over "the sheet, the two Negro decoy-ducks—Max Yergan of the CP.-front National Negro Congress and Ferdinand Smith, Stalinist wd-beeler of the National Maritime Union— apparently figure that Assistant Navy Secretary Ralph Bard only knows what he reads in the papers...
...to the Red Ci...
...activities of the CP...
...People's Voice in Harlem ran page one head-fines that the "Navy takes down bars to Negro...
...The labor men's attitude virtually doomed the War Labor Board and its 12 regional branches— now loaded down with 10,000 cases...
...If he wants to wipe it out no tears will be shed over on Jackson Place or in the AFL Building...
...This week the French National Committee of De-Gaulle broadcast from London a call for...
...Only ill-faith can block the negotiations...
...Its passage was expected to speed similar laws in a dozen other states...
...6—Eden has told persons here that the British intend to center their European | milt me on Russia now and in the future...
...here this week that one of the 'personnel officials who "selects Red Cross ••tfonnel for overseas duty is William Hinckley...
...For the Giraud administration has steadily moved in the direction of decency and democracy...
...That will mean troops in the coal fields and turbulence in other war centers...
...The more unpopular Lewis grows with the top labor leaders, the more his prestige is growing among the restive rank and file of CIO and AFL...
...Since the North African invasion, persons in many quarters have shouted and stormed over the readjustments necessary to convert without chaos Vichy territory into an advance base for United Na- . Hons' action...
...To observers here the following incidents indicate that the big push to end the European war in 1943 is imminent: 1·—Archbishop Spellman, instead of returning to the U. S., hurried to Africa to apeak to tlotys there...
...meinegoers* ¦ , ~This week found the Kremlin Set Wecking overtime to smear the representatives of liberal, labor and independent cirdes who have protested the flagrant "Moscow Trial" distortions and the irresponsible rewriting of the history of the Hitler-Stalin honeymoon in the screenplay, which was handled by Davies and fellow-traveler Erskine Caldwell...
...The test of these two qualities will be in the manner in which both Giraud and deGaulle go beyond oratory and get down to the serious business of uniting all Frenchmen everywhere, of creating a single hard-hitting force which will help bring the Axis down...
...From that city he will start a tour of the nation's war plants...
...And it has made eminently clear one fact—that the Gaullist and the Giraudist factions today have no reasonable cause to remain apart...
...joining: the WAVES...
...Fischer said, "Hollywood will be guilty of a scandalous distortion" if it accepted the Kremlin-Davies version of events...
...In June, 1941...
...It was revealeo...
...believed that Archbishop Spellman negotiated for the Anglo-American government* with the highest Catholic circles in* Spain and Italy...
...It waa believed that this waa the signal for open sabotage and guerrilla war...
...Said the St...
...Washington and London are in full sympathy with Giraud's proposals...
...There appears no way out but the emasculation or the destruction of the WLB...
...A prologue has been added to the film in which ex-Ambassador Davies offers a personal explanation of his "Mission...
...The Kansas bill goes so far as to call for the licensing of union officials...
...He asserts that the picture is in essence documentary, having been based on State Department official reports...
...2—For months'General DeGaulle has warned the French not to resist Germany openly, not to use their well hidden guns nor to expose themselves until word came from London...
...Pro-Allied and Gaullist prisoners were released and those who aided in the Anglo-American landing given' prominenca All these acts were accompanied by loud protestations that this was not enough...
...General de Gaulle kept alive the spirit of resistance and hope among patriots in metropolitan France and the colonies...
...3—President-in-exile Benes, who has been extremely cautious in his broadcast to his native Czecho-Slovaki alast week, radioed that liberation was at hand...
...California...
...They don't have time to do it, was the bright explanation...
...But he has certainly no monopoly on love of country or fighting courage...
...On the same day and simultaneously, the Negro Pittsburgh Courier followed a similar line on the Red Cross...
...they wanted to be shown...
...The WLB has no legal standing, they point out...
...A sudden diplomatic flurry in the United Nations' capitals indicated to observers here this week that the unexpected resistance of the Nazi Fox in Tunisia has caused a sudden revision of inter-continental stragtey in the Mediterranean theatre...
...General Giraud received his sbare of blows...
...The French are fighting as a small army, led by all types of officers from the non-coms to the commanding General...
...These are only reports, yet they have gained wide credence...
...Not even the official charges of the Moscow prosecutor—which ranged from "Jap," "Hitlerite...
...Trade union groups over the country have been passing resolutions condemning the murder of the two Polish labor leaders...
...Diplomatic Flurries Indicate Major Military Actions Soon in Europe The CP's Opportunist Policf on Negroes By JONATHAN STOUT WASHINGTON, D. C—The* real nature of Communist insincerity with respect to the Negro problem is revealed here this week by the false and fawning efforts of the Stalinists to ingratiate themselves with .the Navy and the Red Cross...
...Hinckley's first act on his Red Cross job was J° Open the door to Red Cross jobs for Janet j*»e« Stern from the C.P.-dominated United ?**·*·1 "Workers of America and Mary Pond, ]** notorious Stalinists...
...They are the new crop of war workers, the undisciplined men and women from the South, the youngsters who have walked, out on a thousand .Eebel strikes in the past year...
...Louis CIO: "Be it resolved that we solemnly record our protest to the Soviet Government and request of the Soviet Ambassador and President Murray of the CIO collaboration in an international investigation by an unprejudiced labor commission of the charges against Erlich and Alter...
...The Gaullists and their friends, despite the Gallicism of their temperaments, were all from Missouri...
...is the one that can do the jcb for them...
...The Harlem sheet printed an interview with a Patricia Williams, of the Stalinist Manhatta-n Council of Negro Youth, denying that the Red Cross segregates Negro and white blood in blood banks...
...This backs up the Eden tactic...
...Spellman Speech, Eden Visit Seen As Signs of Move By EDWARD LOftfNe Special to The New Leader WASHINGTON, D. C—A major war development is in the air...
...That is why the Germans have concentrated their fleet in Norwegian waters, rushed strong divisions deep into the Pyrenees above Spain and flooded Italy with some of the best Nazi soldiers...
...at Mecca Temple, 55th Street, near Broadway...
...It is operating merely on the fiat of President Roosevelt...
...This move alone was, to have signaled an invasion of the Continent Somewhere...
...Events have shown just how ??-founded these rumors were, how unfair the charges...
...Communist infiltration into the Red Cross, The New Leader is able to report, is not wishful thinking — it s "an already accomplished fact...
...Vito Marcantonio, the Harlem Congressman who talks Russian with a ventriloquist accent...
...Significantly DeGaulle said the "French Empire" now had sufficient resources and force to guarantee powerful help to France...
...And to demonstrate CP...
...4— The British Eighth Army, most powerful in the world, has cracked tbe coastal end of the Mareth line...
...Commenting on the action, it said: "The Red Cross might need 'democraticizing,' but the fight will be just that much more effective if we become a part of the organization . . . and fight from the inside . . . rather than from without...
...The decrees of Vichy were renounced and are being abrogated...
...That means a second front in Europe now, whatever its political implications in the future may be...
...It is believed that this waa the special objective of Anthony Eden's mission from Moscow and London in Washington...
...He is reported to have attempted to gain assurances from these circles that there would be only German resistance to Allied invasion attempts...
...Minne-, sota, Texas, Arkansas, Arizona, Maryland,-Idaho—and a dozen other states—are now about tc pass similar laws banning picketing, strikes, coercion, and calling for the complete registration of union finances...
...The People's V^oice reports that the Council's "jrotest was not over the Jim Crow of Negro Hood—since there is no such thing at present— bat over the fact that the Red Cross does not make inch facts public...
...Predictions of Royalist plots and fascist intrigue were the everyday fare of the Gaullist sympathizers...
...Labor is beginning to pay for having failed to reunite, for having failed Jto curb the Morechis, the Tommy Rays, and all those responsible for giving labor the black eye it has...
...Polisk\," and "British" intrigues — included liaison with Ribbentrop, it was pointed out...
...1940 publicly supported the platform of *e American Youth Congress, then anti-war...
...The important London Times, which usuaHy operas¦ for The City...
...Peyrouton was a fascist to them, but Vallin was quite all right, despite his avowed loyalty to the Croix de Feu...
...The two organizations have been trying to overcome their bad record of public relations because of Jim Crow practices...
...A checkup here shows that to date the Navy hasn't even got a Negro ripple, much less a WAVE...
...The bill, which would prohibit Mtdowns and jurisdictional disputes is described by its sponsors as a grass roots revolt aguiinst "union racketeering...
...PM correspondent Furst discounted this on the grounds that "Fischer had not seen the film when he spoke...
...The over-the-top whistles may blow at any minute...
...He has faithfully Showed every twist and turning of the party «M* since 1934...
...Publicly and privately Green," Murray, James Carey, and John Lewis' Tom Kennedy have warned that while they would not resign from the WLB or outrightly ask for its destruction, they wanted it_ merely to serve as a mediation board instead of a legal arbiter on wages...
...The PM story quoted Louis Fischer's -attack on the Moscow Trials in connection with the Davies movie...
...John L. Lewis has threatened to strike, his 450,000 soft coal miners thereby heightening tension this week in government-labor circles...
...Thea* could be no other reason far the Foreign Minister of the British Empire suddenly to tour plants which have been visited now by every conceivable type of delegation...
...f"Hinekley was chairman of the C.P.-controlled ™°wicah Youth Congress...
...The campaign of doubt emanating from certain Fighting French sources, which pointed to Giraud first as a "fascist" and, after, as an arch reactionary with dictatorial ambitions, has shown itself to be an effort to make political capital out of the sufferings of France...
...5***« a signer of a'New Moeses letter to the j^Wident in April, 1940, in defense of the iso...
...K may be significant that John P. Davis is the new Washington representative of the Courier...
...At no time, however, did they make any efforts to clean their own house...
...General de Gaulle supports the Third Republic, and he can have no further-quarrel with General Giraud...
...fBp Pittsburgh Courier in the past has been JWtf iadependent and outspoken on Negro discrimination than most Negro papers...
...Today the Giraud government is as democratic in intent as the Gaullists—perhaps more, since it has not been subjected to Communist infiltration...
Vol. 26 • March 1943 • No. 12
