Congress Creates "Home Front" Muddle

...For the past six months, this Congress has wrecked, ripped, mangled and mauled nearly -all the agencies and proposals of the administratian...

...These farm price increases will not go to the small farmers but to the huge industrialised farms that are run as vast corporations and owned by insurance and absentee interests...

...The Comintern is no more and the local Stalinists are going native with a whoop...

...This possibility, however, was scotched by Me*cow...

...Consideration of the matter la announced for September 8. What the esparto are seeking, it is stated, is a mesas whereby persons whoae incomes have increased been ana of the war will pay a larger share of the war's costs...

...The front pages of the newspapers have been displaying the story in all its rich ironies, but when the chortling is over two serious points ought to be made...

...In the past two months the Administration was able to forestall Labor's plea for needed wage adjustments by the promise that price* would be "rolled back...

...When after the Stalin-Hitler pact the district in which he lived was occupied by Russia, he was arrested by the Soviet authorities...

...It represents only a fanatical and twisted religious sect, unprinci pled, single-minded and shameless...

...Popgun Jones makes a Store, he is all the time figuring out, how is it going to affect busineas-as-usual...

...A commercialized farm bloc-dominated Saoato has just gouged out a 30 per cant price increase in corn—which, if passed, will force an increase in the price of hogs, poultry and dairy products...

...The demand was-made by John P. Frey, who, though one of the «M-line AFL leaders, couched his demand in militant language...

...The whole thing was so inevitable, so obvious, so miserable...

...Pressure on the Administration and a whipped-up public opinion will keep wages in line, while legislative putsches will permit price rises and huge profits...

...The kettle between the equally diminutive vice-president and the six-footer from Texas is all in terms of who bought how ¦set of what item for one or another stockpile...

...Reminding that Cox was formerly a strong defender of FCC against the radio industry, Fly said: ". . . It became the unfortunate duty of the Commission to report to the Attorney General that Rept Cox had procured a $2,500 license fee for representing a successful applicant for a broadcast station license...

...It's all fall of complicated details—enough to fill a book and defeat all snderstsnding of the essential truth...

...First: the Communist Party has now made its full line clear...

...Because Mr...

...The Hague— Browder Pact Jersey City was once a plague, Our line's been changed again...

...No atteasj...

...There is no doubt that if left alone to settle their problems without outside interference, the progressive Peasant-Socialist bloc would gain the ascendency in the Polish Government...

...Many large CIO units have called for independent political action and aa independent labor party...

...Opposed to this Socialist-Peasant bloc are the reactionary National Democrats and the former "Colonel" and Pilsudski groups whose white hope is General Sosnkowski...

...The youngest of the Polish labor leaders, he is known as the man who stood in the front ranks of Polish labor in defense of democracy when it was challenged by the totalitarian-minded partisans of the late Marshal Pilsudski...

...In Jersey City Mayor Frank ('I Am the Law') Hague, whose Americanism Rallies have regularly featured messages in fireworks "Reds...

...This General is notorious for his actions as Minister of War in 1980 when he organised the famous concentration camp for Jews at Jablonna near Warsaw...

...Popgan Jones was worried about ' having some quinine left over in our stockpile sfter the war ends (which might worry tie Drug Trust), he just went very easy se building up our quinine reserves...

...Stay Out of the USA," declined to comment...

...In sharp contrast is its attitude towards the military...

...And thit truth is that Jesse Jones and his RFC aid little or nothing about building up sssekttsl stockpiles of materials we used to get from »hat is now enemy-held territory, because before Mr...

...Retail »nd Wholesale Employees of Greater New York...

...Axis...

...In a way, Mr...

...Everything that has been asked far by the Army and Navy has been supplied without diminution snd in record time...

...On the labor froot it is indistinguishable from the policies of the N.A.M...

...Ia New York the American Laker Party faces their sabotage...

...A tip-oaT as to the direction being taken by the new tax studies is the inclusion of schemes including a sales tax and compulsory savings...

...Vice President Henry Wallace has no such jigand to lean on, nor (which may be more to tat point) does he feel the weight of such a * Itgend on his scholarly shoulders...

...Although the CIO rejected, the idea of a nation-wide labor party because of many election law difficulties, the way was left open for the formation of stste-sride parties that would act independently of the two Spi parties...

...The situation is explosive...

...Jan Kwa-piasky...

...In this case all Poles of all shades of opinion and however critical of the Sikorki regime were united, since no Pole would contribute to an action which could be interpreted aS yielding to Soviet intervention...

...One lesson is inescapable and the CIO i* learning that lesson, albeit in hatting fashion...

...Labor's demands for wage adjustments an being vetoed by the Economic Stabilisation Board...

...tad *hy ttr...

...Meanwhile the fate of the pries rollback movement is hanging in the balance of a 8want* House conference on the controversial lubspdy question...

...Stalin feared and hated Sikorski because of the letter's friendly relations with the United States and Great Britain...

...In New Jersey the Communist policy found ite appropriate level...

...John R. Longo offered no statement...

...y That is the bad news on the domestic front as the worries on the war front fade...

...Polish Socialist Party), After Hitler invaded Poland, he remained in the country fighting actively against the German aggressor...

...There is no doubt that he will now seize the opportunity to push the claims of the Moscow -controlled "Union of Polish Patriots'* which parades under the traditional Polish eagle, et al...

...Paderewski's Partja Pracy (Labor Party) — and an offshoot of the National Democratic Party which split away from the older party on the question of support of Sikorski and his pro-Soviet policies...

...Whatever compromise is effected by the Polish President, Wladislaw Raczkiewicz, there is hardly any doubt that latent political and social antagonism between the powerful Socialist-Peasant bloc aad the reactionary Sanaeja (Pilsudski) National-Democratic bloc will become more acute...

...Like Kwapinsky, Adama Cilkosz is a well-known Polish Socialist...

...For the muddles on the domestic front, tb* blame can be placed squarely oa Congress...

...The move carries with it a wpudiation of the policy of the Communist-eoatrolled City CIO council...

...the Old By JONATHAN STOUT WASHINGTON...

...Jones — Mew Deal vs...

...The investigation of the FCC was an outgrowth of that, Fly charged...

...Secretary of War Stimson to worry about the war...

...Wallace's Board of Economic Warfare has a real record of accomplishment, whereas Mr...

...And Congress is determined ta adjourn, leaving the country facing a price problem gflhaap continues as dangerous as ever...

...The Little Steel formula of the War Labor limits wage advances to 16%—when they are granted...

...Jones' attitude is at least understandable...

...The pretentious preamble was so characteristic: ". . . outworn conceptions, if carried over to other historical periods, can prove of incalculable harm to the cause of progress and the chief issue today, the nation's war...

...Workers...

...The Senate is adamant over its amendment which woald forbid any government agancj to pa/ subsidies to roll back prices, whi^h & why the President vetoed the bill last weak...

...In this respect it was fairly representative of the political outlook of Poland...

...On the political side it is identified with "Hagueism...

...forming a CIO committee to rally local CIO anions to participate in the coming primary election in Support of the state leadership of the American Labor Party which is headed by George S. Counts, State Chairman...

...The Sikorski National Government was formed of a coalition of three principal Polish parties—the Peasant Party, the Socialist Party...

...This woald correspond more to the actual relations of forces inside Poland...

...A great soldier and statesman, the General was held in high personal regard by both President Roosevelt and the British Prime Minister...

...In the case of radio, industry's most powerful weapon is the Wheeler-White bill that will be pushed shortly after Congress returns from the forthcoming recess...

...As the situation is now the death of Sikorski is bound to result in even a graver crisis in Russo-Polish relations—a crisis which will play into the hands of the Polish reactionaries...

...Our line's been changed again...

...By legislative action, however, the commercialised farm bioc has voted a 30 per cent price increase...

...The Soviet Government, however, which hates democratic Socialists and liberals more than it does outright reactionaries, will undoubtedly exert pressure to prevent this bloc from gaining power...

...Charles L. Brecht, Regional Director, Indus-Wei Union Marine and Shipbuilding Workers...

...Murray Kudish, Manager, Retell, Wholesale *»* Chain Food Employees Union, Local 388...

...This did not mean, however, that the relation of forces inside the coalition actually reflected the relations of forces in Poland itself...

...And when Wallace passed the lie to Jesse '(Popgun) Jones in their enlivening exchange tkh week there was no smile on the Vice President's somewhat overearnest countenance...

...so called because of one of the blackest anti-labor and anti-civil liberty aad aati-hea—I administration records ha civic history...

...George F. Cranmore, Acting Regional /Director, United Automobile Workers...

...Thomas DeLorenzo, President, Local 365 (Brewster Aircraft), United Automobile Workers...

...The price rollback campaign has came to » dead halt...

...Capital Comment Wallace vs...

...The feud between Chairman Fly of the FCC and Congressman Cox is in miniature a reflection of the battle that has been going on in Washington for the pa.H year and a half...

...In court, facing charges in a trial which the CP...

...fdJ^jMpt' -before the war will pay higher taxes than tames who have had steady i ias.il sjppil Alao Wugw earners who are now working overtime wttt Jflag higher taxes...

...Congress has given labor a cruel lesson of what lack of political organisation steam...

...Popgun Jones was getting picturesque with the rather slight Eugene Meyer, diminutive publisher of the Washington Post It has helped get this overheated Capital's mind off the weather, a stampeding Congress and the problem of where to get a good steak...

...Cox," said Fly, "immediately joined forces with the radio monopoly and Wall Street interests on the one hand and the military on the other, all moving in for the kill...

...r Political Crisis After Sikorski Death Tests Strength of Polish Liberals By LEON DCNNEN The untimely death of General Wladislaw Sikorski, Polish Premier and Commander-in-Chief, is, in the words of Winston Churchill, "one of the heaviest strokes" the Allied cause has suffered...

...According te committee counsel Eugene L. Carey, the FCC policies were partly responsible for the disaster at Pearl Harbor, and the FCC has "embarrassed'' various Army and Navy operations in connection with the conduct of the war...

...Monopolists Seeklo Hamstring FCC, Cox Opens 'Swear' Probe iy GEORGE SHORT Special I* Tax New Leadeb WASHINGTON, jfr...

...Like the utterly irresponsible Johannes Steel who, because of ignorance or subservience to Moscow, bitterly attacked Sikorski while he was alive and now that he is dead calls him a "liberal...

...His death will undoubtedly result in another grave crisis not only in Polish government ranks but also in, and of even more ominous import, Russo-Poiish relations...

...the worst Tories of all: both are working artfully te remove the shirt off the workers' backs...

...Which is what he does, leaving it to Mr...

...Labor intends to take this lesson to heart...

...The fact is that Frank Hague supports the President and the government's win-the-war policy . . ." Any labor or liberal opposition has been characterized as "Lewis-Trotskyite splitting maneuvers...

...And the end of Wallace means the end of that spirit...

...But the President's program has been stymied by an inflarieai waat Congress, with the farm bloc .riding bard...

...In fact, the opposition has been read off the books as "the non-existent struggle against so-called Hagueism" (a priceless formula worth its old Comintern weight in Moscow gold...

...In many ways Wallace is regarded as the epitome of the spirit of the New Deal...

...Polish labor, for example, and the Peasant Party which bear the brunt of the underground struggle against the Nazis and play a decisive role inside Poland, did not occupy a position in the Sikorski Government commensurate with their strength...

...In New York the puwar-ful American Labor Party has beta taking the initiative in drawing many CIO and AFL unions into political activity...

...Wallace takes quite a different cut at the ball...

...Jack Rubinstein, Regional Director, Textile Worker* Union of America...

...Anthony T. Esposito, Manager, Playthings »nd Novelty Workers Union...

...At the same than, every single "civilian" proposal has beea drastically slashed...

...In fact, all of the BEW Vs...

...Another sad commentary on Sikorski's death is the ignoble role played by some American radio and newspaper commentators...

...But, as usual fas Washington, all is not as appears on the surface...

...Alex Rose, State- Secretary,' and Andrew R. Armstrong, State Treasurer...

...Bat even when the Wallace-Jones duel is taastarised in these essential mental atti-tadea of the two men, it still doesn't tell the whole story...

...And while the Senate was crippling sny move to cut grocery store prices it revealed its ball-bent for inflation motives by advancing com ceilings from $1.07 to $1.40 a bushel...

...In the old days a Mofotoff might have insisted, in classic Kremlin formulation, that Hagueism is, after all, "just a matter of taste...

...He does not feel the need to be picturesque about his epithets or his drawls—which may be one of the advantages of coming from Iowa instead of Texas...

...Among those who signed the statement *tre: Jsck Altman, Manager, Joint Council...

...Action Committee headed by Sidney Hillman and including R. J. Thomas, Sherman -D*i» rymple, Albert Fitzgerald and a stoat workers representative, either Van Bittner or David MacDonald...

...IFC controversy is regarded by the politically wise in Washington as being a M of double-talk...

...He is supported by sech outright reactionaries and anti-Semites as Doboszynski and Mackiewicz who form the extreme radical wing of the National Democratic Party...

...The three outstanding personalities in the present Polish government ranks capable of succeeding General Sikorski as Premier are Stanislaw Mikola}czyk, the present Minister of Interior...

...Harold J. Garno, Secretary-Treasurer, New York State Industrial Council, CIO...

...A CIO program had been presented previously by John Green who pointed out that real wages—or wages in relation to living costs—have declined in shipbuilding to an alarming extent...

...S«n Baron, General Manager, Textile Work-**» Union Joint Board...

...Charles H. Kerrigan, Regional Director, United Automobile Workers...

...Such a misconception continues to exist with regard to Frank Hague and so-called (st'e.') Hsgueism"—and with these words the Communist Party took op the banner for one of the most scandalous back-room machines in the history of American politics...

...was made to check estimates...

...On the surface, it looks like gsHlag after the war profiteers...

...With that in prospect, there is no reason why hoary Wallace should sit back and wait for tas axe...

...i*^Tba^**«**lt the monopoly radio ^ irtteaiala against 'the Federal Communications Commission got under way this week when Congressman 'Cox's investigating committee unloosed a barrage of smears against the government agency...

...In Michigan the recent CIO convention had te combat their delegates...

...Jones' RFC has not...

...This week, Phil Murray appointed a Potttica...

...And to top it, under the excess-profits schema a person who now earns more than ho earned before the war will be taxed more heavily thee a person* whoae income has remained the seme ^>AI1 of which means that,wage earners who worked part-time or did not wots...

...New Tex Scheme Uader Way Treasury and Congressional experts have gotten together this week to plan a new tax formula...

...In a letter addressed to the Liberal and Labor Committee to Safeguard the American"Labor r*rtjr and signed by over 20 prominent CIO of-*cials in the New York State Area they said: "We, the undersigned, CIO officials in the New York Area pledge our wholehearted support to the state leadership of the American Labor Party in the coming primary election...

...Kwapinsky was released only after the Soviet-Polish Treaty of July 30...

...In Pennsylvania a joint AFL-CIO patitteal action committee is headed by Philips aad He* Debitt, the heads of CIO and AFL in the state-Joint Political Action Committees exist in Ctrve-land, Detroit and other cities while in New Jersey the American Labor League is organised on a state-wide basis...

...Second: It is naivete and foolishness to throw up one's hands in nice liberal horror every time the Stalinists are found walking arm and arm with the Nazis or America Firsters, or are implicated in the murder of some independent left-winger, or are found making advances to corruption-ridden political bosses...

...Now we all love Mayor Hague...

...D. C—Jesse Jones, our pug-jaejoos Secretary of Commerce, is Washington's rbible embodiment of the Texaa legend which M epitomised in the drawling phrase, "Smile afcen you say that, pardner...

...The formula is simple...

...But for Earl Browder, apparently, de gustibus non ditpu tandem...

...It shows reaction on the offensive and the New Dealers fighting a stub bora rear-guard action...

...What is behind the surface battle is the bigger fight between the Progressive New Deal and the Reactionary OU Deal...

...William Leiser-son of the Railway Mediation Board is fearful that the result might be a breakdown of the labor disputes machinery provided by the Railway Labor Act...

...The political scene-shifters are letting it get around that Henry Wallace has served his last term ss Vice President...

...The battle between Henry Wallace ud Jesse Jones is a struggle over the life or djeath of the New Deal...

...The Cox investigation is regarded as a preliminary to the legislative action in the fall...

...J.' ', At this writing, it is not yet known who will replace Sikorski as Premier...

...But he has an efficient and honest mind...

...The powerful railway brotherhoods, who ware persuaded by President Roosevelt to accept an eight-cent an hour wage increase in lieu of their twenty-cent an hour demand, new are in a rags at the veto of this eight-cent award by Stabilisation Director Fred Vinson...

...The Communist mnvesaaut is neither "idealist" nor "pro-labor...

...So began the Daily Worker statement which inaugurated the new Journal Square-13th St...

...Minister of Commerce, and Adam Ciolkosz, who is a member of the Polish National Council...

...As the Soviet Government tried to exert pressure in favor of personal changes inside tha Polish Government, the idea of re-arrangement was rejected by Polish opinion both in Great Britain and in the United States...

...has up till now denounced as a "Hague frame-up...

...Another grave political factor in this Polish crisis is the role of Soviet Russia...

...Thomas Flynn, President, Port Council, In-•toitrial Union Marine and Shipbldg...

...Maybe you can't say that Henry Wallace is all out for production for use and not for profit The Vice President, with all his idealism, is still a long, long way from being a socialist...

...Which is why the fight has broken out in the open...

...Mikolajczyk (who has been appointed by President Razckiewicz as acting Premier) represents, together with Professor Kot, noted liberal historian and stateman, the powerful Peasant Party, which occupied the center in the Sikorski Government Jan Kwapinsky, who replaces Mikolajczyk as temporary Deputy Premier, is a noted Socialist and is the chairman of the Foreign Committee of the P.P.S...

...Abraham Miller, Secretary-Treasurer, New York Joint Board, A.C.W.A...

...It may now be revealed that four months ago Polish reactionaries and anti-Semites led by General Sosnkowski, who now seeks to become Premier and Commander-in-Chief, and the leaders of the anti-Semitic and pro-fascist National Democratic Party, Thadeus Bielecki Doboazynski and Mackie-wiez, sought to overthrow General Sikorski's regime...

...And Washington is delighted with the brawl, as it •it sbont the exchange of fisticuffs some while sge when Mr...

...Neither did Longo's lawyer Vito Marcantonio or the ILD, which had proclaimed Longo a "martyr" of Hague's justice...

...The coup failed, however, because Sikorski was one of the few Polish leaders in exile in-fiuential enough to keep in check the various antagonistic forces within the Polish Government...

...In the backgrouncV-clearly visible, are powerful vested interest groups which are using Congressional spokesmen to gain advantages for their monopolies...

...And when he has a job to do he goes apt to do It the best way he knows how, and considerations of who is going to make how much profit by it • are not going to stop him...

...It is an open secret, toor that some weeks ago a governmental change that would give a more prominent role to the Polish peasantry and labor was regarded as possible...

...CIO Leaders Call Parley to Defend ALP Important State CIO leaders this week announced the calling of a conference for the purpose of...

...In American politics today, at a crucial moment when reaction has mobilized its forces, the Comwaniats are engaged in a violent disruptive campaign te break up the liberal aad labor for— rallying to form aa independent labor party...

...The aim has obviously been to wreck the Commission, the only agency representing the public in this important field...

...Chairman Fly of the FCC stated the issue succinctly in a slashing attack on Cox...

...He figures his job is Being Secretary of Commerce, which makes it his business to worry about business and that's all...

...In Trenton, Governor Charles Edison, whose anti-Hague line is now denounced as "tommy rot," expressed his hope that the t ova rich Mayor would not now run for Ambassador to Moscow...

...This week, for example, AFL shipyard workers made a formal demand on the War Labor Board for a wage adjustment te match the increased cost of living...