Tories Seek to "Clean Up" OPA
EVERETT, MURRAY
Tories Seek to "Clean Up" OPA Maxon Exit Covers Purge of Liberals by Murray Everett Special to Tis ??? ??? WASHINGTON, D..C.—?? Battle of OPA-on-the-Potomae cor.tintea bot and heavy this week...
...Ik seemed to me PM's charges demanded toeeeugh inquiry...
...In pre-faecist days,* according to his account...
...There are some who now wonder whether Crawford's resignation is not actually the result of Communist slanders of Crawford and their efforts to oust him as head of PM's Washington Bureau...
...is lost...
...I mentioned it because I knew how Crawford resisted having any part of that phony...
...seen whe aadersteed industry's troubles and winked at the "public good," them never weald have been seen an outcry...
...But Acland walked into the convention proud of two -successful campaigns in bye-elections—Common wealth has a psir of representatives in Parliament...
...They will not be trusted or ro*T»sW#* by the people...
...The President was '•htinoed of this sign of the meat packers' PJwer in a defiant telegram from P. O. Wilson, •"•iraan of the Live Stock and Meat Council, **f*ture of the meat packers...
...Th*» War Meat Board is composed of repre-¦•htativee of the meat packing companies, Iive-*·** producers associations, the Army Quarter-**»ter Corps, the War Food Administration, **» the...
...particularly, the repercussions among such persons in the government service in Washington sad elsewhere were immediate and widespread...
...Labor is jest a little canoes to tad swt exactly whe is "sabotaging the War Effect...
...From time to time, apparently, certain Communists in the New York office of PM would artfully fashion a hot potato* for the New York office to hand Crawford in Washington...
...On Jnly 8, Mr...
...The Civil Service Commission reported officially that the number of government employees disqualified on loyalty charges for the fiscal fear 1S>42 was 504...
...In my original story on July 3,1 made passing reference to the series entitled "They're Beheading Liberals in Washington" run by PM last summer...
...AN ALLIED COMMAND POST IN SICILY, July 11—The beaches of southern Sicily are ours and our troops are moving in...
...Among his very first acts was a g est or* which "tested the literal meaning of 'Commonwealth' " and indicated his own Christian Socialism—he "sold all he had and gave to the poor": Acland gave up several millions to charities and progressive organizations...
...2. If she charges are false, they are propaganda which in casting doubt on the sincerity ef 009 national leadership aims a blow at our faith in the ultimate goals of the war and takes the tjhtlnt heart out of every honest pfoI dare soy there will be no disagreement as to toe necessity of determining which is toe correct conclusion...
...Thetr verdict was that the charges were preposterous on their face...
...He says that there were no differences between PM and Ken Crawford on domestic policies...
...The right aart of deeds will speak with a powerful voice...
...And so it became my assignment to, seek out the facts...
...Internal splits have hobbled the movement...
...Thes section, he reports, is "one of the most sortnT is tic regions of Italy...
...Lewis's reply...
...t_ &? Soon the great question of our* war ajora must be answered in terms of rlssdSi WiawH show what sort of a world We want, by Ban way we go about in setting up local goreTn-ment* in those Sicilian valleys...
...Don W. Wallace, deputy administrator in charge of price-fixing, formerly Professor of Economics at Harvard and Williams College...
...More topical were It* convention demands for a general election Ira the United Kingdom (the present Co in moss* was elected almost 8 years ago), and the consoles* support for the Beveridge Plan (Ha sbeteg in Parliament was to nobody's taste bet the Tories...
...They laughed at PM...
...The Cooperative League of the Dtetriet of Columbia, rittet of whose members are employed to to* government service, reported no cooper-atom disqualified because of their views...
...That there has been a packers' strike is casually admitted eves by the Wae Streit JumnuU which, in its Cemmaany Leuer ol iuiy 13, writes blithely: "Cattlemen's Strike will have to break before snow falls...
...But one way of determining this is by what might be called toe process of elimination...
...It -said nearly 200 had seen fired from government jobs on "loyalty" charges, as the official phrase goes...
...These are questions for Presidents, Prime Ministers, Parliaments and Peoples...
...After a night of spectacular air activity which, our tut armada Watched off the Sicilian coast, assault troops rushed the beaches in the face of machine-gun fire and some shelling...
...war plant...
...That question discloses two important facto, and a problem in tactics...
...John P. Lewis, managing ing editor of PM, devoted a column and a half in PM in reply to my article...
...It presents the real background of Crawford's differences with PM on domestic policies, and it presents a real problem of propaganda vs...
...Most of them are members of the American Newspaper Guild and'are staunch progressives...
...fj Mr...
...The number of Fascists nagged was 941...
...Such persons cannot now obtain a government job without undergoing the most rigid scrutiny because of past Fascist or Communist acivities...
...Recently Professor Gaetano Salvemini outlined in The New Leader ways off:, seating up local administrations by the help of anti-fascist elements...
...In his letter he says Crawford did not write these stories and that PM did not suppress them...
...This method is based on the fact that liberals are ubiquitous folk ideologically...
...It deepened anxiety and fear hi the hearts of hundreds of some of our finest and most loyal public servants...
...Bat the Communists were anxious to do so, and to involve toe liberal world in the panic so that they might more successfully hide behind the liberal shield...
...Roosevelt and some of his lieutenants—and what an embarrassment they have sometimes been to the President...
...Lewis is aware of what sometimes goes on in his own shop...
...Some 1.300 pages of testimony were taken, and this week war workers here in Cincinnati, and in Buffalo, and people all over the country heard one of the blackest war stories of the home front...
...a * a Srtffj Sigma...
...This waa followed quickly by flare signals announcing the taking of one beach...
...I know that Kenneth Crawford informed Ms New York office that the facto did not substantiate the charges of s purge...
...And it is interesting tont suspicion of disloyalty in many of these cases was raised by anonymous letters which here every interna...
...On the contrary, we find a high degree of tolerance...
...1 The general feeling waa expressed by a British Tommy who haa seen three years of service in the desert: "Well, we are a long way nearer home now, chum...
...Bernard F. Haley, chief of the textile, leather and apparel division, formerly Professor of Economics at Stanford, resigned this week Others who are scheduled to lettre are...
...I madB raqmry of scores of newspapermen at the Capital...
...I mode a search of the statistics...
...they any war Nasfia...
...Truman Hits Curtiss For War Sabotage If CLAtK...
...Occasional attempts are being made to strafe us...
...The shipyard workers are asking for increased pay, and the UAW it readying demands for aircraft workers...
...We saw several searchlights fingering the sea, but before they could cause any harm we had extinguished them...
...The latter, certainly close til sip scene, carried not a word aboat toe alleged purge...
...The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom reported none of Aeir members The American Peace Society knew of no discrimination against pacifists...
...Instead, each one was investigated and approved for appointment...
...Here was the answer...
...Without violating confidences I can say my sources of information are just as unimpeachable aa Mr...
...The eroes-currents there are very complex, with the outmoded Gompers policy of "punishing ene-rsiss and rewarding friends" still strong...
...pull little or no effort was being made to hont out fascists and naris in government ?» That the questioning to wMch liberals were subjected by investigators violates civil liberties, is illegal, reveals political Illiteracy oa hat pert of the investigators, and indicates secret fascist and nasi sympathies ta the Civil Service Commission...
...S.: The meat packers openly boast they ¦?* more than majority control of ahn *»#* *at Board...
...Since PM did not name them it was somewhat difficult to ascertain what hind of "liberals" they were...
...But allied military leaders have proved that they can take care of it What haa happened thus far confirms our faith in them...
...A number of prisoners have been taken...
...By this action, government agencies invade » new field of normal employer-employee rela-titbs, making union contracts further dependent *e the approval of government officials and "^jfastning further the collective bargaining po-snloa of unions...
...As we penetrate toward the interior of Sicily, we shall soon have many towns and some entire provinces under our control...
...Several men even found time for bathing off this beautiful coast...
...Despite the loas of ? axe...
...The Little Steel Formula will not remain in existence long if the rollback campaigns fail...
...obviously, they confront every honest democrat with Only two reasonable 1. If the charges are true, then toe democracy we're fighting for abroad is already well tost to us at heme...
...And on that critical point, the managing editor of PM flatly denies that PM, refused to print OrawferaTa stories or that Crawford resigned in protest...
...In that period, labor's wage adjustments have been limited to 15%—when it could get that—while the cost of living has soared...
...Quite a contrast to the last war...
...Sherman Dalrymple, jmtideBt of the Rubber Workers...
...The fact is that he resignation of Craw-ford haa its roots in some of PM's domestic policies...
...Wilson demanded that the President give •tetping authority over all other government Jtweies on the management of our meat supply •tJhf government War Meat Board...
...The first strange circumstance I found was that hot FM series apparently scooped the Wash-ragtea newspapers...
...of great lUTlifttonfe...
...This means the decimation of the complete second-level of price officials...
...The Administration is caught in the between the Tories and the Communists...
...hot it certainly is strange...
...The reason given is the strong Com-swrnist influence in some of the CIO onions...
...Bot OPA was a "New Deal" agency and than it became the target for every anti-administration circle...
...Anyone who trien, «? ???* auch tools will...
...The factory sprawls across fields just outside the city, the largest single-storied industrial plant in the world...
...Communist propaganda campaign...
...Lewis's letter...
...The Curtias-Wright business saanagement was gailty of '"producing and canning the Government to accept defective and substandard material, by the falsification of tests, by destruction of records, by forging inspection reports...
...After writing one story, Crawford passed the hot potato right back into New York's lap...
...Our radio messages to the Italians are good so far as they go...
...Robert Sherwood, Or David J. ??????, Eli L. Oliver, Tom Tippett (former personnel director of PM whose editors perhaps should have consulted him before writing thetr series), Paul R. Porter, Abe Fortas, Jonathan Daniels...
...waiting and painful preparation, we may be pardoned for giving a moment to sheer and untroubled exultation...
...The present temper ff business is expressed in a resolution of the' Small Business Man's Association, which called on Roosevelt to investigate the ???—there are too many Mew Dealers in it, they declare...
...What we shall do with Italy when we have conquered the forces of Fascism is a problem for all of us...
...Acting on toe possibility that the Washing-ten publishers in a conspiracy of silence might hove snjhed the stories of thetr reporters...
...But, as on example, I hove selected" a few names, each of which will be well-known, if not nationally, at least hi his own liberal or radical circle...
...Congress passed s rider to the War Agencies Appropriations Bill stipulating* that any person who formulates policy most have had at least five years' business experience...
...Essentially a middle-class radical party (it** no Labor Party splinter), Commonwealth looked to that "new social order" in terms of the public ownership of land, factories, nrllhisa...
...Crawford's efforts to keep Communist policy from influencing the Washington office of PM...
...Regional War Labor Board offered the *Jg«red reasoning that if the union should -*?4* for some unexplainable reason to expell ¦I ha members, the literal enforcement of the anion shop clause could result in "the discharge "Ctirtnaliy the entire working force of this...
...on Lobor Front While organised labor continues thus to (tatter in its declarations of political inde-peadence, new anti-labor developments of an oiaraous character showed their head this week...
...Since toe PM series displayed...
...The latter is «*i*rterj to be either Van A. Bittner or David J. McDonald...
...Casualties on the beaches have been extremely light...
...B. Heffle-bower, chief of the fond division, formerly dean of the School of...
...The top man doesn't always know what his lieutenants are doing...
...We believe that British people will not tan back to the old world, bot will pianwr to* ward a new social order...
...For PM asks liberal support on the ground that ft shares the views of liberals and is devoted to telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help it God, because only the truth can finally make men free...
...And my sources say that Crawford sent two stories to PM from North Africa which were suppressed...
...truth and which should and does concern every liberal...
...PM admitted that Kinkead confessed his wife registere dat the polls as a member of the Communist Party, but PM concluded nevertheless that the oniy things against Kinkead were "that he is married and has a mother...
...The other members are: R J. Thomas, president of the United Autorn-bile Workers union...
...For it should not be f ergotam that the Cfvil Service Commission is part of the Executive branch and ultimate responsibility tor its policies are directly chargeable to President Roosevelt who appoints end may remove the policy-making personnel...
...Heving set up that phony premise, Chairman...
...What is actually don* with the first conquered pieces of Esuep* vffl have a powerful effect on populations stiB under the heel of the oppressors...
...Only a wise political policy can make the sacrifices for military conquest worth _ . whiaa.- JhnKoiewtid wmf§ of deatiwg with the swosdsa of Europe can easily lose the f ?? its of victory won at each dire cost in lives and treasure...
...Tbe question is whether men so strongly pledged ? unquestioning fealty to Roosevelt will have wileient independence or aggressiveness to bargain for labor's quid pro quo in return for stpport...
...Harry VTruman and his Senate watchdog committee o*me out here earlier this year to take a look at the immense Lockland factory of the...
...Labor groups have bitterly assailed his sppointment as well as several others...
...Taming out defective craah-bonnd engine*, hopelessly behind dive bomber schedules, and having bitten off more war contracts than it con ? properly, fulfill, the company is working overtime trying to • whitewash the record . Fabulous snms are being spent in advertising the new Curtis* Wright engines, a number of which were involved in the sharp Truman criticism...
...Next week the Little Steel Formula will be one year old...
...liance on fascist elements who ma>~ swah .to change sides at the Inst moment, or prnhatai to do so...
...But the Truman Committee wasn't sight-seeing...
...It is for this reason that I write in reply to Mr...
...Offered thus, without further identification, are the names of...
...The military conquest may take long, may be tough, may take as yet unimagined sacrifices...
...Renaissance for Italy *V*0 the average American the storming of * the sawrVrn coast of Sicily is an unalloyed triumph of organised and mechanised might...
...With arvawi I might we ran beat armies and con quer territory But to revive and nurture do ? sot r ary where it has been ruthlessly trodden down-that takes a different sort of power, a higher kind of talent...
...There is no...
...It begged the question Who was it that was -beheaded-' Still another fact might be examined...
...ia patching up a way of Tsfe that haa changed into a way of death...
...Nor have they to this day...
...In invalidating the union shop clause for the *iration, Chairman Lewis M. Gill of the Cleve...
...rsn Capital Comment by Jonathan Stout ??, AFL Take Steps Toward Political Action WASHINGTON, D. C—The AFL Executive Council meets in Chicago on August 8. One of the main items on the agenda is a program for political action by the Federation...
...After all oar heart-breaking set-backs, after all our long...
...We>e even got a testers toohe FA, otai they have not been discriminated against...
...Ada ?d Sees Growth Of 'Commonwealth' Special to The New T.gsntw LONDON...
...By every sort ef ohJocUvs test, therefore, it was reasonably dear that the story of * "purge" of hbersh in Washington was with-oof foundation whatsoever In this subtle political ara when Communists pose as "liberals" or "progressives," and fascists posture as "defenders of toe constitution...
...Inspectors were threatened if they did not accept engines which were leaking gasoline.*' The Truman Committee implicated Army officials as "collaborators...
...4tiS3flr&3Sit behind-the-scenes influence is CtO Secretary Jim Carey...
...What line it wilt take, however, is not yet defined...
...Whether we haw* it—or have enough of it—we shall soon know...
...That fact hi that hundreds of liberals and radicals ef various shades ef opinion have heea aamuiti ess] roetm mended for ep-pointment to government jebs by Ciril Service investigators...
...But I was particularly struck by one sentence in Mr...
...the combiaad «?**** P**ss, ofetrttrufd by the A.P...
...One cannot blame the finger ami absolve the hand...
...These men have sought to do their jobs without prejudice and without favoritism to special inluenee groups...
...That kind of thing, of course, goes on in big places...
...opposed "manufacturing" facto to support such a campaign...
...A good example is Mr...
...For the rewards of military power will be reaped in terms of political reorganisa-tkm...
...It actually named six names...
...An Allied command post cruiser near us silenced s gun battery with a aingle salvo...
...On the contrary, they said, coopers tors axe to high demand for government jobs because of their cooperative backgrounds...
...Of the SM so disqualified, the Commission Stated, the number of Communists totalled 288...
...I Naval support haa been on a tremendous scale and as far as the eye can see there are ships...
...The effect of propaganda has worn thin...
...My source has for years had an enviable reputation for integrity...
...As might be expected, in their environment they are pretty sophisticated po-Hticslry...
...With Tom Wintringhnm, well-known Home Gusrder...
...The packers want higher prices and have played] their game shrewdly...
...Lewis's...
...The first message from shore at ? a. m. said: < "Landing successful...
...continued: "We do not believe the Congress 4P the President ever intended that the Gov-«rnment should be powerless to act in a situation Wfh na that one merely because the action djjtnded was in conformity with an existing Under this precedent, no union contract ia ¦"•rib the paper it's written on until it has fart received the approval of the War Labor JWl in Washington and all its regional ¦"Mus in the field...
...At the moment, the powerful Railway Brotherhoods with 300,000 members are pressing for wage increases averaging S0?c...
...It is only "the beginning of the end," but we and our allies have already proved that we have the power and momentum that will, soon or late, take us to that end...
...Clair Wilcox,,chief of the industrial materials division, iotmeriy Professor oi Eco» —rice-sii...
...We promise "freedom to the Italian people to choose any kind of non-fascist government...
...Our answer to this question has high importance...
...Ulrie Bell, Robert R. Nathan, Emil J. Lever, Karl Borders, Nathan Fine, Jacob Kane, Simon Rottenberg, Jay Clark Waldron, Bertrand Rassel] Sei ihnen, and even Joseph F. Barnes...
...And I think I expressed my disappointment that PM should turn out in several matters of vital moment to be no less a propaganda sheet instead of a newspaper than the Hearst press, etc...
...The next fact to bo determined .therefore, was whether these latter persons are or whether they are liberals, at ilalisd by PH...
...That sentence strengthens my faith in my sources and weakens Mr...
...Air Force inspectors were transferred be-eanse they absolutely refused to accept material which they knew to be faulty...
...More than 25% of engines built st the plant have consistently failed in one or more minor parte during a three-hour test run...
...Battle of OPA-on-the-Potomae cor.tintea bot and heavy this week with a r.ghi-wiag eun\»<::r.g Br« knocking out several liberal* while a left-wing bunt eliminated cocky Lou Maxon, leader of the extreme right...
...however, it was apparent that the right wing is pushing, ahead steadily, and it is only a matter of time until the last-ditch liberal positions are stormed...
...Eves these who never saw the PM series seen hear shout it...
...The "Hell Diver" had a SlZ,f** account for ads which plugged it as "the world's best bomber*'—when "in fact not eae of the planes produced was...
...Above this Allied command poet dogfights are going on...
...He foresees ? "wave of democratic socialism which, rising, from aosrsfa-eastern Sicily, will spread ii iSsfsllstily Over Italy...
...m at Washington State College...
...For more than a year I have known of Mr...
...Hat impact on liberals thron ghost she nation Was serious...
...Substantially, it was that Crawford was sent to North Africa by PM, that he wrote some stories of what he found there which disagreed with PM's policy of criticizing United States policy there, that PM refused to print the stories and that Crawford, in consequence, resigned...
...With the military situation looking brighter, it may be that the flowering of political Bfe will...
...The troops are almost in holiday spirit...
...One wonders why PM's editors did net investigate the Kinkead case more fully before rushing half-clothed into print with such t classic example of how "they're beheading liberals in Washington!'' PM said "something under 200" liberals have already been axed in its exclusively-discovered "purge...
...The developments came from Cleveland, where the Regional War Labor Board arbitrarily suspended the anion shop clause in a valid collective bargaining contract between the AFL United Automobile Workers Union and the Trailer Company of America...
...only while there's plenty of pasture...
...The...
...United Electrical Workers, and a raps*)' skttttive from Phil Murray's United Steel Workers Union still to be named...
...and that I wrote.the story because it affected the public interest...
...It is hinted to proa* reports that Italian democrats have already played a port in tia> invasion...
...Lacking any sort of monolithic discipline, they are found in all kinds of organisations (few of which agree with each other in all tenets...
...Bat PM gave figures...
...Chief problem raised by the CIO political ettuaittee is its strong pro-Roosevelt character...
...Socialists rontrottas} the overwhelming majority of the ninth tnaTe em Sicilian municipalities, and also the provincial legislature...
...The PM series placed the number of "liberals" beheaded at nearly .200, and made a number of charges, aimed principally at the' Civil Service Commission, which boiled down to three main allegations: 1. That liberals were being purged out of the government service under the pretext that ?hey are Communists...
...National Council for Prevention of War reported...
...Weorpocken Strike Coitrineos The meat packers' strike against the war **Prt last week reached the point where less "•M half a pound of meat for the week was mflavie for eecj, person...
...And some of the unfounded suspicions against these reel liberals and honest radicals were raised by whispering campaigns, investigation of which traced them to known Communists...
...It's pretty embarrassing in the first place to admit having hired 288 CommunistsOne example woe the very first ease offered by the PM series—that of Robin Kinkead...
...If the Italian people are to take the soriws* step of rising against their government, they must know what they may expect a^ Allied hands Basically we must not ptooajhrf* fa...
...one most ask better credentials than the mere say-so of self-proclaimed "bbersls.' Apparently, the Civil Service investigators were realistic enough to demand better credentials of those who were fired . . . and were tougher to fool than the editors of PM...
...For tack of space, I cannot print the names of the hundreds who were cleared of false accusations of being Co mm artists by government investigators...
...Meanwhile, labor has been fettered...
...But the battle of...
...Lewis...
...Lewis offers no explanation for the resignation, except to deny the reason my story gave...
...If these men had been t-a...
...none of their people were fired...
...They work in Cartiss-Wright ate «ml savmt e*>y* (or nights) s weak...
...This week, too, Truman warned Wright that if the inspection scandal is not cleaned up, the committee would make public the whole of the secret testimony...
...These« cannot be left to Eisenhower, Montgomery and Patton...
...England.—Old and triad British politico* looked up this week at the Comasoa-wealth Movement, England's newest radical party which celebrated its first birthday that week at its annual convention, r A year ago, Sir Richard Acland, independent Socialist spokesman in Parliament, conceived of a political movement to seine hold of what he ssw as the coming militancy among the British people...
...Naval guns still are heard but the major resistance haa been overcome...
...They did net wait to be etaamaBfled officially...
...The result will be a "flexible ???," one that will bend to the whispers and wishes of business ¦ Government price policies will face another severe test shortly...
...dropped on grounds of disloyalty from the Office of the Coordinator of Information (now the Office of Strategic Services...
...I have faith in that integrity, and I obviously believed the story or I should not have written it...
...I explained that I had^qejfT«em*aT err eon-tin uinf interest in PM*sireJett*wt with its employ ess...
...Vanni Montana, Secretary of the Social-1st Federation of America, informs us that the landing in south-east Sicily haa po*rttas» implications of the moat fortunate sort...
...My investigation of the facts fully supported the government findings...
...if not elsewhere, would like to hear about the wheat story...
...Air Force executive officers were found to have misrepresented facts, intimidated witnesses, and introduced "specialty prepared" evidence...
...The only thing definite so far comes from circles close to President William Green which declare that whatever the AFL does, it will not, how-tver, collaborate with the CIO on any political Urogram...
...Rather amazing that none of PM's "liberals'* should have belonged to any of these non-Communist Organisations—with such a wide range of liberal, progressive, pacifist, socialist and'cooperative ideology...
...they hsv* children hi the Army (soon* at them fas the Air Forcen...
...A hurst of the Congressional big guns is the finale...
...And almost the bulk of the million-dollar advertising campaign for this year will, Truman charged, "be borne by the Federal Government because it has been treated as an expense of doing business before computing profits...
...But the political problems ;which become urgent with our first step* inland from the European bridgeheads are something of an entirely different sort...
...A combination ;i a Meat Peckers and Dairy Trust strike described at length in past issues if The New Leader4, together with a tremendous publicity barrage, deetdec the issue...
...In many of these eases, they were cleared of nariast sntafcliu* ef dsstoyslty by ?? very investigation ef toe CrvU Service...
...The number of Fascists totalled 216...
...Others who may go, despite business records, are: Ben W. Lewis, chief of the indoatrial manufacturing division, formerly of Oberlin College, and Vincent Barnett of the services and consumers division, from Swarthmore...
...In addition, as a precaution to prevent employment to toe government service, the Commission had "flagged" the names of 2,195 persons on suspicion of disloyalty...
...Also, it may be significant to note, of the see oeatseV 200 promptly resigned voluntarily on being confronted with evidence of their disloyalty...
...The...
...evtoeuee of coming from Communist sources...
...Brown is set on ousting all of Henderson's men, especially the university men named above...
...He admitted that Crawford brought back reports from North Africa which, if accepted, would have cut the ground out from ander PM'a criticism of American policy in North Africa, be admits that Crawford and PM did have differencea and that Crawford -did resign in consequence...
...The results of the survey were as follows: The Civil Liberties Union office in Washington reported no knowledge of any liberals dropped from toe government service because of their views...
...The perfect timing in the combined operations has set a new high in the standard of co-operations...
...Commonwealth is not making any gigantic strides in the direction of the "seteore of power," but it is holding its organisation together...
...These figures, of course, immediately dispose of FM*s second charge that little or no effort is befug made to hunt out fascists in government potts...
...The rollback campaign and the subsidy plans have been halted...
...If Carey's ideas prevail, the CIO will organise its members politically on the same local level in a manner •eraewhat similar to the plan advocated by the Railroad Brotherhoods, who are setting up political secretaries in each of their lodges...
...PM and John P. Lewis — Rejoinder on Crawford WASHINGTON, D. C—In the July 3 issue of The New Leader I told the story of why Kenneth Crawford resigned as Washington Editor of the newspaper PM...
...trend is quite clear...
...Vernon Dal liest, and J. B. Priestley, he founded Commonwealth...
...PM did not explain that Kinkead was dropped because he failed to explain satisfactorily why over a.period of several years he aeeamdsnied his mother, a section Organiser' of the Communist Party, to closed meetings of the party in San Francisco, and how it happened that he made speeches at Communist Party meetings to which only party members were admitted...
...To paraphrase oho pungent lines of the classic poet: 0, tempore 0, mores 0, "Kberals" O, Nuts' Solon Reports Sicily Invasion ff ? S. L. SOLON, New Lewder Foroife Correspondent...
...Special to ? be New Lsvaoek CINCINNATI, Ohio...
...Which raised the question in my mind: Why doesn't the Administration refute these slanders by revealing the evidence on which these persons were fixed...
...Curtias-Wright Aeronautical Corporation, next to General Motors the second-largest U. S- war contractor...
...There are a few people her* in Cincinnati, and in Buffaio...
...Of Qua grand total of 2,196, the number of Communists flagged was 1,254...
...ignorance ef •ay fascists, fired from government jobs (an ignorance they could have remedied as easily aa I did, simply by asking the Civil Servil» Commission), it may be taken for granted that PM was concerned solely with those charged with being Communists...
...It was evident in the appointment of Genug* Burke, of Ann Arbor, as successor to David Ginsburg...
...Acland growing with British nadirs...
...Surety, if there were a purge of liberals, some of the above heeds might have been fitted to the chopping block...
...That |eft something under 194 to be accounted for...
...Crawfbrd, an honest newepapersmon...
...They'll keep stock an the...
...Albert J. 4j*MreU> president, of the Communist-doroi...
...An age la ending- A whole way of Uf e la breaking down and is reaching its end...
...discredit himaasf hi Italian eyas...
...One may wefl ask again . . . who wss ? that was fired...
...herd will start towards the stockyards and there will ha plenty of beef— for a while and fer somebody " Bat, mean while, New York and ether large urban areas are suffering a severe saeat shortage while (he heasWnee continue blaming...
...The railroads have made tremendous profits from government business, profits which have enabled the railraods to refund hug* amounts of their debts...
...We have a right to a new sense of confidence...
...Came the end of grazing and the...
...Battlett and Priestley resigned many months ago...
...The Socialist Party reported none of its 'members dismissed because of their views...
...banks, and insurance companies (with varying "compensation")—colonial self-government, and immediate freedom for India—an interactional economic council (to regulate post-war trade, shipping, aviation...
...Following this theory I made a survey of various well-known liberal and radical organizations of the non-Communist groupings, that is organizations to which Communists do not belong...
...Of eourea, that's not proof one way or the other...
...I think perhaps this is a good place to tell the real story behind PM's series about the beheading of liberals in Washington...
...The element of surprise figured largely jn the ipi-tial operation...
...The "liberal" PM aided and abetted that campaign...
...Men end women working day and night on the wax effort were alarmed about their status, their jnmatadjoBJ as' decent citizens, and a patriotic concern for toe welfare of the jobs they ore trying to do...
...The New Dealers can hardly pooh-pooh the Tetter* charges that "the government is fall of Communists" while publicly confirming the charges with loud publicity on these firing cases...
...The inflation bloc—and there are determined groups of men in this county who want inflation to wipe out debts and reap huge profits—has won a victory there...
...Whetr was a typical reply, "are the'New Peelers supposed to be decapitating themselves...
...Thus, if PM's charges were true, some of the 288 disqualified by the Civil Service Commission oo> Communist grounds to the fiscal year 1942 should have been found by the law of averages in one or another liberal organization...
...On that basis, one wonders how thoroughly Mr...
...Jf Use meantime, the CIO has taken the first positive step in a political direction by setting ** a five-man "political action" committee, beaded by Sidney Hillman, president of the Aasslgamated Clothing Workers Union and a staunch Roosevelt man...
...A fact that was not mentioned by PM...
...How did PM become a party to such a fraud...
Vol. 26 • July 1943 • No. 29
