Labor Seeks Natl Probe After Shipping, Steel Profits Exposes
Labor Seeks Natl Probe After Shipping, Steel Profite ????? at_._ .--..,--—.———— ? ? I ... House Murine, Truman Groups Name Facts By T. R. GREENE Special to The New Leader WASHINGTON,...
...The Czech people _are grateful to the Soviet Union for its consistent anti-fascist policy since the first days of the rise of fascism in Europe and also for the help which the Soviet Union extended to the Czecho-S 1 ? ? ak Republic particularly in the critical days of Munich and also after the occupation of Czeoho-Slovakia by Germany...
...any basis of any kind of opposition...
...At the MUt tM», the (fecial* bf the people's Commissariat for the Interior made preparations for the work of this committee...
...The Arabs may not love the British, but they still prefer British imperialism to subjugation under Hitler's iron heel...
...Turkey is interested in the hope • of being akind of Powerful Brother in the North...
...One need not go through the most hideous mental contortions to see the truth...
...I am certaffl it is false from beginning to end...
...t - .· ,^---i Army...
...A number of persons proposed by Erlicn and Alter as members of this committee— Dr...
...But the fiction of realpoUm is not exclusively the property of the reactio» aries...
...Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp., the couhtry's» leading producer of ship plates, increased its armor 5lite capacity 20-fold," the report ead...
...unless it insures democratic government to the long-suffering Russian people themselves and the right to self-determination— through the instrumentality of Allied-controlled plebiscites—to the Poles, Ukrainians, and so on, it will not be worth the paper it will be written on...
...Iraq arid Syria have vast irrigation systeriis on the economic agenda...
...Once again Frenchmen lure fighting in Savoy...
...imperialist expansion...
...Without this, ?? analyses become foggy and meanmgtess...
...He churned with the Fascists in 1942, Went underground when the Germans moved into Unoccupied France, and remains now a fugitive in the rebel Alpine fortresses, preparing the last-ditch defenses against the combined German -Italian-Vichy forces...
...The most enlightened ruler of the day...
...British Government Is sponsoring an Arab Federation which would include Irl« Syria...
...They conspired with the Nasi...
...Moat important of all, we were assured that the action taken against as was a mistake aajl that aar collaboration in the fight' against Hitlerism is a necessity bath with regard to the interests of the U.S.S.R...
...After the Beck government fled to Rumania, Alter and Erlich continued the fight against the Naxi army...
...Col...
...Erlich and Alter were killed in December 1942...
...But tile timing was that of Soviet Ambassador Litvino'ff...
...Recently a Henry J. ¦Raiser Liberty cargo ship, built 'at steel supplied by the Carn'egie-IUfhois Steel Corp., broke In two and sank...
...but the nonsense—no...
...But who rushed out to aid the giant then— ? giant rich in corn, and oil...
...And who shell call her w'rongt Far better not to strike Uli you are strong...
...feealism" continues to dominate the picture of world-events...
...Nazi activity in Russia in 1941, as...
...The two wen very anti-Communist...
...The news that the Arab-Moslem world is rallying to the standard of the United Nations is being taken here as a significant military turn in the Near-Eastern situation, but is meeting a critical reception nevertheless...
...London, naturally, hopes that closer collaboration will secure peaceful development in a region in which large amounts of British capital are invested and which is of vital importance to imperial communication lines...
...But the Soviets were silent for three months until a favorable moment occasioned by a military advance...
...That Its for us to show we hate the Hun...
...Egypt is worried, because ambitious King Farouk is jealous of the growing influence of Ibn Saud...
...On the heels of the fake-steel plate scandal involving the U. S. Steel Corporation, comes the Ji'ews that John J. Burns, spokes-ftan for 19 shipping firms charged with taking excessive profits on charter voyages to the Red Sea t with British army supplies, has ?? Aat Wiese companies "have , no intentions of acceding to de- t nrands that some of these profits be returned...
...Such raealy-emutbed words came In an IA-torial on the Erlich-Alter executions in Tj^ Nation of March 13...
...People whose minds are not warped with anti-Soviet hatred will notice that tie Alter-ErMch campaign coincides with the recent call of Herr Goebbels for unity against the 'Communist menace,'" writes the Doily Worker's George Morris...
...But the Russian people are oar allies in a common war...
...For three months they were free in Moscow and Kubyshev...
...of other "enemy" countries, he remained in Russia to resume his post the moment Hitler attacked the Soviet Union...
...irriesst · friendship with the Soviets...
...continent went down a cataract, Hut Russia did not think It right to Not ready...
...patrolling Swiss retreat positions above Lake Geneva, the bands of Savoyard rebels appeared from the latest reports to be Continuing their resistance m. the face of virtual destruction...
...This tiny island, antiquated, tired...
...The Story is continued by S. Zygetbojm...
...American liberal* have too long closed their eyes to thee* facts and the implicative of them...
...We laud, we love htm...
...On October 15th, Alter and Erlich were evacuated to Kuibyshev together with the diplomatic corps and tbe government offices In December, 1941...
...Effete, capitalist and uninspired...
...They were released in September and rearrested in December...
...At the last election for the Warsaw City Council the Bund elected 17 of the 20 Jewish Councilmen, in Lodz 11 of 16 Jewish Councilmen...
...The nearest thing to any kirid of central leadership has been the authority of General Cartier, of tbe former French...
...His views on Russia are perhaps best expressed in an article published in the Jane, 1942, issue of this magazine, where he states...
...They were captured in 1939 by the Soviet armies which moved in from the east and pinched off Polish resistance...
...He implies we are trying to integrate Canada to our economy...
...Erlich and Alter /viuraer— The Record and the Reaction By DANIEL BELL The instantaneous cry of rage that arose from tbe Labor movement over the muhM of trie two Por5«rf*SociaIbt leaders, Henryk Erlich and Victor Alter, fig brcrt»*rnt the CommorrfSt press rntO a frenzy over the persistent question asked by trade orribri leaders: -eras it necesefluy for the Soviet Government to execute the friendly labor leaders Of a neighboring Allied country ? Each d4y4be ifctriy Worker hurls *#ta a grdfStiue mrJctore of hatie, ifotortion ISd gibberish, ft seeks to answer the troth by a screaming curtain of invective...
...In 1940, when we bore the brunt...
...Slav, says the Call, "no matter how far from your hallowed native land and from your own people destiny has cast you, in these times of unheard of adversity be united with your people with your thoughts and acts...
...We could have done, boys, with a second front...
...Toe Truman Committee's disclosure that the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp, through a deliberately dishonest system of inspection, produced defective steel plates forkhtps increasing their profits) is .another of the worst scandals in VS...
...The announcement of the deaths of Erlich sad Alter should take, the scales fron oar eyes...
...One thing, however, is certain: unless tbe guarantee is based on the Atlantic Charter and the Four Freedoms enunciated by Roosevelt and Churchill...
...Both T\e Nation, and PM, omit the salft* political fact that ErMch and After Wei* ?* cuted as Russian citizens...
...World War II, though all its contradictions, may be bringing a new era to the Near EAst...
...Forfnes vos bataillons...
...This clearly antagonizes the Algerian Jews, who have been staunch republicans, and the Arabs, who have professed no desire to mix in French politics...
...The General Jewish Workers Union of Poland, the official name for the Bund, held the allegiance of nearly ?0 per cent of the four million Jewish population of Poland...
...One force, operating with maehine guns and rifles and pistols near Mont Blanc, Europe's highest peak, was estimated at 1,000 strong...
...Several weeks ago the All-Slav Committee issued a call addressed to "Our Brother Slavs in the United States of America, Englaad, Canada, Australia, South American Countries, and Other Countries...
...These are the times, we are told, of "realise^ and power-politics...
...Alas, these shy.'maneuvers had to end When Hitler leaped upon his largest friend...
...These were the two largest Jewish cities of Poland...
...Thousands of wild, angry French youths, revolting against the new Vichy conscription for Nazi legions, are making their last stand this week in the mountains of the Haute Savoie...
...But unlike the diplomat...
...The shipping firms have already earned some 127,909,000 net profit of a revenue of $31,-364,880...
...Tiie Record But the record is dear for all to see...
...Burns said that there was not a single operator involved in the * Ke'd 'Sea deal who could not have more money at that time on less hazardous charters...
...It was here that Caesar's legions cut through Gaul for Roman power, that, Charlemagne consolidated a medieval kingdom, that France developed her most celebrated fighting tradition...
...Palestine and possibly Saudi Arabia...
...3. Felix Merely, influential writer and'former isolationist, in a column in the Wall St Journal, makes much of Sumner Welles* recent Ottawa speech and inter-"jfrets it as an attempt to force a showdown on our neighbors to the north...
...The Sttion ref<j> to see or admit the-deeper political iiwpliratW** of the Soviet actions as manifested by to* killing of the two Polish leaders...
...So let's not offend them...
...Iman Yahya, autocratic ruler of the Yemen state in Southern Arabia, who openly helped the Italians during the Abyssinian campaign, has now decided to intern all Axis nationals in his territory and te stop anti - Allied radio - casting...
...But deceptions on this score are dangerous...
...But Senator Truman found that as a result of the "fake tests" approximately 5% of last year's steel plate shipments from the U. S. Steel subsidiary were below Navy and lend-lease specifications...
...The seamen who float for weeks on the open sea( or try to swim from torpedoed ships through burning oil, appeared not to enter into Burn's 'calculations...
...The imme-' diate cause of the outbreaks . was the Nazi new manpower drive, but it was clear that if the guerrilla warfare was not systematic, it was at least seriously prepared...
...Alpine peaks tower above the surrounding valleys...
...Then they were officially re-auested to send the entire material, together npth a covering litter and explanations, to Stalin in orVUr to obtain his official sanction for the above-mentioned committee and to enable them to begin their activities...
...Schreiver, Geredwicz, etc.— war* -brwght to Moscow...
...And supplies are being increasingly cut off by the Nazi "reign of terror" in Lyon and Annecy and in many French villages said to be the life-lines for the fugitives in the Alps...
...The guerrilla bands have reverted to primitive military tactics, and...
...That is way they were shot...
...At the beginiftrig of OAdTfer, 1*41...
...Taking advantage of the censorship clamped down upon the Sikorski Government by the British, Stalin is now issuing anti-Polish propaganda from Moscow, thereby playing directly into the hands of the Polish reactionaries and pro-fascists like Matuszewski and others...
...When the ? axis marched on Poland, Alter and Erlich were the leaders of the Jewish military resistance movement to tbe Nazis...
...Henryk Erlich and Victor Alter were the leaders of the Bund, for many years the leading "Left" party in the La bor and Socialist International...
...L. Beria, himself invited Alter and Erlich to a special conference, during which he had a long talk with them about the same matters...
...From the fall of 193© to September 1O41 they were in jail in Russia...
...Col...
...This apology and declaration of the necessity of their cooperation tn the struggle against Hitlerism -were made only ten weeks before tifey were re-arrested: . A.high official of the People's Commissariat for the Interior, Colonel WostoWsky, proposed in tab ahdte of the Soviet Government that they should organize 5n the USSR a Jewish Committee to fight Hitlerism...
...and men: Long, long prepared and having, so fney...
...These facts are recognized in a powerfully-written editorial in The...
...And the labor move-merit is now beginning to stir and ask that the white heat of publicity be turned on these scandals Instead of creating fake labor issues...
...The Near East is in for an industrial revolution, which would menace good sections of Western supremacy, if the "post-wir planning" materializes...
...Russia ban claimed all of Poland seised during the days of the Hitler-Stalin pact The presence of Britta and Alter within those borders, representing the free, democratic aspirations of the Polish workers, was a threat to those plans...
...The case is not haadW separately but as a tail editorial to one deploring the stirring of sentiment against the Sovi*W The Nation editorial admits the strong «TO-fascist record of the men, bat deplores tile tfUtof mainly because it will serve as...
...The curious factor is that this section *f* liberal press which has been condemning ??* wing reatpalitik as regards post-war ??????* affaire ("De^mism") tend to use the «? type of arguments in shielding a ruthless ???* Politik ob the "fett...
...Sic...
...The leading figure in this Wolna Poleka group is Wanda Wassilevska, a member of Moscow's All-Slav Committee and self-styled General Secretary of the Communist Party of Poland...
...that Is not the way we fight this We Helve them tanks—and take them to the door...
...Tbe rebels rolled boulders from the Czechs and Soviets (Continued from Page Flee) vaded by Germany and even after the signing of the Stalin-Hitler Pact...
...Better, perhaps, though this was not oar Ate, . . - To make new treaties with the man you hate...
...These men had fought the Nazis, had been in jail since...
...That the peoples of the Near East have "no particular Irking for the Allies" is well-known, and the Nazi cause has more and more been recognized as hopeless...
...Then we were released with great honors snd given residence mi tbe bent Atel la Moscow and ? complete set of clothes, ami were placed ander medical care...
...Pressed by Marshal Petain's Mobile Guard and motor-Hied Italian regulars, trapped from behind by the German Elite S.S...
...who spent twenty years in Russia working for the Comintern, was competent to speak for the Finns...
...1. A group of Congressmen who favor U.S...
...The band* holding out in the mountains are reported to have numbered more than 5,000...
...of socialist leaders and the subsequent attempt* to besmirch their names and character is a great disappointment to socialists and democratic pieoples everywhere...
...Stalin has never permitted any possibility of opposition...
...To most of us here, and probably abroad, the Verse is self-explanatory: Less Nonsense Let's have less nonsense > from the rriends of Joe...
...This failure by the Communists and their colleagues "to take it" in and out of Parliament sent London into more gayety over the Krenaflfn .Set's lack of a sense of humor...
...Coincidentally the U. S. Steel Corp., of which Carnegie is the largest subsidiary, this week issued its 41st annual report...
...The daring of World War I's Savoyard "Blue Devils" emerged from this land of battle...
...bat what does it matter...
...Palestine has extensive preparations fur becoming the industrial center of the area...
...At present it is not very formidable, but in some quarters it has become highly ybckl...
...2. The Daily News, in a "series of editorials suggests not too siftittely that Canada might Want to dissociate itself from the British Empire, but that in any event, a permanent military alliance is necessary...
...And what is troubling a great many of the federal-minded Arab" spokesmen is the economic foundation of the' association...
...at thirty minutes midnight, Alter was called to the telephone of the Grand Botel in Kuibyshev, wnere ha then resided, and asked to come over right away with Erlich to the Commissariat of tbe Interior...
...This subsidiary also cooperated in the . development of the National Emergency alloy steels, an important contribution toward the conservation of alloying elements...
...Republic Of March 15: . . One of our most powerful albas m the war, aad the ally which has certainly inflicted the greatest punishment en oar of oar enemies, is a nation which frankly denies freedom of speech and freedom from fear, and pays only gradgihg service to freedom of religion...
...Stalin is a harsh realist who knows how to take advantage of every opportunity...
...Miss Wassilevska is as competent to speak for the Polish people as Otto Kuusinnen...
...I'HE ebb and flow-of Russia's relations with * the United Nations depends—and will depend even to a greater extent in the future—upon the fortunes of wst...
...The Intricate steel combine rVaches into nearly every form of armament on every land, air and sea front...
...Cartier is known as a stern disciplinarian, and was a friend of Marshal Petain, who appointed him Mayor of Annecy...
...Would they, alone in Moscow and Kubyshev for three months, conspire to bring about "peace" ? Is there so efficient a Fifth Column in Russia that Erlich and Alter were able to contact people there to spread defeatism...
...Erlich and Alter were released on September 13 and 16,1941...
...The Canadian Commonwealth Federsttei (CCF...
...Only in this case it is the Slavs who are the "superior race" destined to bring about a new "Socialist" order...
...did a service in publicly discussing the eke* ¦ several featured pages, bet apparently =coem not And the facts on Erlich and Altert...
...That is why he shot the leaders of the Polish Communist Party who fled to Russia in 1938-39 during the Beck persecutions...
...The Story of an Heroic French Revolt | By MATTHEW LOW Aux armes, Citoyens...
...This tiny island, wounded In the war Through taking tyrants on two years before...
...the Soviets are · force in this world and we have to work wie them in Europe...
...One current comment is notable: "Negotiations for the formation of an Arab Federation after the war are still going on...
...The Nev...
...The realistic horse-trading fbr post-war positions is being closely watched here by all observers...
...It shows that_ ? spite bf the war, the Stalin dictatorship in Soviet Russia has not let up...
...Fierlinger, of course, forgets altogether the Stalin-Hitler Pact of 1939...
...But those who "prod" cannot be quite Immune...
...On the other side are the partisans ? the Soviets who say: this may be bad...
...war'history...
...Inquiry is now under way to determine why the Navy or the War Shipping Administration has riot taken over management of fld'ese and other lines making millions out of carrying arms and tten to the United Nations' forces everywhere...
...Aren't you grateful to the Red Army...
...And now we will hot hear from anyone...
...t If be hadn't...
...reviews the record 0? Erlich and Alter, their vigorous opposition to .St.il Hitlerism, and their urgln% of a fcoUa ?-prochment with Russia against Hitler, ft concludes : "They must neither praise she Union uncritically or scream against It And In forming AWr otofnmn of the Mrttp and demerits of the Soviet regime, tbey must take deep cognizance of facts like the execution of Erlich and Alter...
...For the sake of the future peace it is of paramount importance that the United Nations conference scheduled to be held in Washington and for which Anthony Eden, British Foreign Secretary, is now preparing the ground, should give some guarantee to the Russians that will convince them that they are not fighting in a vacuum...
...What if fefcey u*re ???, lAtn'r...
...and to those of the Jewish nation and Poland...
...who knew both men intimately during his three years' stay in Europe, said: "I would just a* soon believe such a charge if it were mail against Leon Blum, Ernest Bevin, or any « the leaders of the CCF, with whom I haw worked for the past seven years...
...Giraud acted apparently in beihalf of the Moslem community, offering them the obvious "equatitarian" privilege of non-citizenship...
...Erlich and Alter, sent the letter to Stalin, a copy of wham is in oBr po«ei?'ion...
...The Polish Socialist Party in London is In possession of this program...
...Polish Bund reader in London, reporting to the British LabOT-?????: "According to this agreement, the presidium of the committee was to consist of Erlich as chairman, Alter ?? secretary, and the Soviet-Jewish artist Nichoels as vice-chairman...
...Herbert, now a petty officer, and a member of Parliament, Was called upon this Week to explain die poem, called "Less Nonsense...
...But the cold, open nights, the disorganization, hive forced hundreds of hungry, freezing rebels to surrender...
...They are shedding their blood in the struggle against Hitlerism...
...They left the hotel, assarfcg their friends, who were then with them, that they would return soon...
...Dated February, 1943, this call, characteristically enough, was released by the Soviet Information Bureau...
...German defeats in Russia and in Libya have cut the ground away from under Axis propaganda...
...The "Moscow trials" made them more cautious in their demands...
...Alter and Erlich were leaders of a small fragment, a splinter group known as .the Polish-Jewish Bund," writes the Daily Worker's Joseph Starobin...
...The Czech people have followed with deep interest the Socialist construction in the Soviet Union and also Russia's daring and successful solution of the complicated national problem...
...Only on December 24, 1989, upon tbe urgent request of Von Rib-bentrop, was Fierlinger forced by the Kremlin to relinquish his post...
...The testimony was given before the House Merchant Marine Sub-committee...
...Honor the Kremlin, boys, but now and then , . Admit some signs of grace at No...
...Arab policy, it is Widely understood, has been consistently that of "the lesser evil...
...Canada's Labor Party, ?? its ccrrV* issue of Neiet Comment, says: "This...
...Her only claim to distinction is the fact that she has written two bad "proletarian" novels and that she is the daughter of the noted Polish Socialist, Wassilevsky, who was a firm opponent of the Stalinist dictatorship...
...A letter written by Erlich himself on October 25, 1941, states: "Both of ? had the death sentence commuted to a TO-year sentence in a labor camp...
...We might have said: "Our shipping's on the stretch...
...David Lewis, national secretary of the <X...
...Indications that the Arab-Allied rapprochement is mainly on the negative side is coming in from North Africa, particularly with respect to the recent Giraud abrogation of the Cremieux laws in behalf of Jewish citizenship in Algeria...
...Of special interest, In view Of the reported effectiveness of 'American tanks, is the part it ? played in advancing the welding technique which led to production of the first welded tank...
...The view is commonly found among protagonists of U.S...
...Some *Vench sailors from the scuttled fleet at Toulon are said to have joined the guerrillas in Haute Savoie...
...When democratic thinking is caught Ja WP viae, wrth the twin Ibrces of aatofct eettbAj •world ia their own peculiar fashion Whfct mjtt liberale scurry to one or the other ride «?????, then we have com* to a sorry t** and a gloomy future...
...Soviet officials visited them very often, discussing with them the principles of the program and the personnel of this conrmittee...
...While awaiting Stalin's answer, they did their utmost to arouse the enthusiasm jot Polish citizens rh tire U.S.S.R...
...The Soviet Commissar for In-terSor...
...Transjordania...
...the Zygeffiofrn document, though a P.tf reptftW spent a week en the case...
...Together With Otto Bauer and Theodore Dan, Erlich was one of the leaders of a bloc that called for unity with the Communist International after the rise of Hitler...
...managed effectively to stall a column of Italian troops pushing northward through the snow-covered passes Of tbe Savoy mountains by unloosing a man-made avalanche...
...This tiny isle of muddles and mistakes— Having a front on every wave that breaks...
...to JWft We Polish Army against tbe Hitlerite German tiordes...
...But oh the whole, the rebels are feebly equipped...
...All that we hear is a vile, scurrilous jabberwocky that they are guilty because they are guilty...
...A. P. Herbert Verse Riles Kremlin Set, Stirs Row in House of Commons LONDON.—Laughter in liberal- ' labor London circles over an A. P. Herbert poem chiding the British Communists has stirred a controversy m the Parliament and the newspapers...
...A closer association between the Arab countries is likely to be established...
...IN the.meantime the Kremlin is intensifying *¦ its Pan-Slav activity...
...them by reprementative* of the Soviet Government who admitted that a teerrible mistake had been made and that the charge* were false...
...cannon in the mountainside battles against the Vichy arid Italian agents of the great Nazi manhunt...
...And those who itch to conquer and to kill Should waste less breath on tubs on Tower Hill...
...U.S.Expanslonisfs Want to Annex Canada Special to The New iLttotoi WASHINGTON, D. C.—A curious jf'rounuswell of Opinion which fhVors U.S...
...air expansion have called for supremacy over Canada, because Canada dominates the Vital polar air routes...
...Bat they never came back...
...Yet it appears at the same time that Great Britain h*< no intention to give up Its dominating position in this part of the globe but will eontinoe to prbtaftt its' strategic and economic mfer-ests...
...The Haute Savoie Department lfes in Eastern France, along the western borders of Switzerland and Italy...
...I wonder, by the way, If Russia would be In the war today...
...Iraq some time ago abandoned neutrality for an active role in the war, and now King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia, the most powerful personality among the Arab chiefs, is preparing to enter the war on the Allied side...
...The Communist smear pattern runs this way: 1 They are guilty, the Soviet* said «0...
...The Reaction The Communist press has not dared to print one of these facta...
...Power plants rfnd new oil fields are to be exploited for native advances...
...It does not profit- much to sing this . tune...
...Fellow-travelers have characterized the bit of doggerel as "reactionary" and "mischievous," "offensive to the Soviet Union...
...The formation of the Wolna Poleka (Free Poland) group on Soviet territory rivals in cynicism the organization on Soviet territory of Otto Kuusinnen's 'Free People's Government of Finland...
...hegemohy over Ca-riada has been growing in the United States...
...You shall have all the thanks that you , can retch...
...Some of the Pan-Slavic propaganda issued from Moscow is reminiscent of the Nazi theory of the German Herrenvotk...
...Erlich and Alter Were shot because the Sott« dictatorship cannot admit within its...
...Zdenek Fierlinger is also an important figure in Moscow's All-Slav Committee and a contributor to its official organ, Slavia-nie...
...Thislrind of jumping-on-theiAnd-wagon is likely to prove of immense military value to the Allied armies fighting in the Near East...
...A Berne correspondent reports a ??-mm...
...Arabs Turn Pro-Ally, Seek Near East Control Special to The New Leader LONDON (by M>il...
...House Murine, Truman Groups Name Facts By T. R. GREENE Special to The New Leader WASHINGTON, D. C. — Evidence that many large corporations, in the grim tradition of the almost legendary munition makers of World War I, are making vast profits out of the sweat, blood, tears and casualties of this antifascist conflict is accumulating in Washington...
Vol. 26 • March 1943 • No. 13
