CONGRESS ON RAMPAGE: Isolationists, Tory, GOP Blocs Unite to Cripple 10 Years' Reforms
Greene, T. R.
CONGRESS ON RAMPAGE: Isolationists, Tory, GOP Blocs Unite to Cripple 10 Years' Reforms By T. R. GREENE Special to ? Hi New Leade* WASHINGTON.—A conservative reaction as sweeping as the upheaval...
...And the American -people, anxious over...
...This may account for the reports that the President has offered an important job to Joseph Kennedy, the $90.000,000 Boston citizen who once warned Hollywood not to produce "war-mongering" anti-Nazi films because they would arouse anti-Semitism in some Anglophobic quarters...
...The New Deal simply abdi-ejted...
...confronted with crew shortages...
...When the caucus met early this week, the Democrats and Republicans drew 204 Representatives each...
...Their international union leaders are worried...
...In that fateful year Germany loe^ the war despite all of her victories and conquests...
...The general public "would be surprised" at the frequent and friendly conferences held by Philip Murray, Sidney Hillman and other CIO chiefs with high AFL officials, it was said in labor circles...
...The Democrats cheered a speech by Speaker Rayburn demanding independence of Congress from the President and his department heads and czars...
...and resulted in a plot to smear him as a communist...
...They are from the heart of Mason-Dixon conservatism—Kentucky...
...This winter...
...National Socialist Germany, Hitler repeats, "will never be defeated, she will never contemplate capitulation, but, on the contrary she is resolved...
...And that's the hard realistic fact the President wffl be up against for the next fateful two yean...
...The Manchester Guardian* expert calls for greater allocation of equipment to coastal commands and the air arms of the fleet...
...We dispose of more knowledge than we are making use of and are using the means less fully than we could...
...but which unfortunately added not a yard of gain for his ideals, and, in fact, only ushered in the decade oi Harding, Coolidge and Hoover...
...But it isn't difficult to imagine that Uncle Herbert's frown will exercise a powerful veto influence...
...Saposs immeasurably strengthens Lund's division since Dr...
...There is, on the contrary, as yet no dear indication as to the motivation of the new appointment to Japan...
...Too small a share of our war potential is at present earmarked for air attacks on submarines at sea...
...What we need, Lippmann suggested, is "a Billy Mitchell submarine warfare to wake us up...
...No fewer than 5? Senators can be classed as anti-New Deal, according to well-informed political circles...
...And those who can take a little irony with their realism may play with the picture of the Jew Lehman bearing the Cross of Compassion across a desolated Europe to the Aryan Nazis of the Hooked Cross...
...The President will be forced to deal with all who come to bargain in order to prevent the appeasement of Japan and the exploitation of the peace table...
...These are signs that the Wheeler-Taft-Clark bloc, which is fighting so energetically to present the public trials of the 33 indicted pro-fascists, are ready to disagree with the President regardless of his stand...
...They will not easily be pressured into accepting hasty deals with British Labor, which is constantly harassed by Downing Street, which in turn has been asked by the Soviets to obtain the AFL's support...
...Senator Wheeler has attackeed Wallace's proposal for a world-wide new democracy as a program which would destroy American democracy and regiment the people to a degree never attethppad by any mttltm m modern...
...What the volumes reveal is that, while the War Labor Board has been, haggling about giving 15 per cent wage increases to ? handful of workers here and there, the top Big Business concerns running our war effort have increased their'NORMAL PROFITS anywhere from 200 to 900 per cent between the outbreak of the war in Europe in 1939 to the middle of 1942...
...Hitler assures his jaded people, "will be followed by an bour in which we shall again go forward, exerting all our strength.'' Continuing in the same vein he adds: "We are determined to conduct the war with all the fanaticism of which we National Socialists are capable...
...There are signs of the strife to come...
...The Manchester Guardian, commenting editorially, says the censorship deprives the public of information which, were it available, would produce comments, suggestions and criticism, all tending to stimulate those in authority towards even stronger measures against the Uboat warfare...
...However, he repeated his threat to organize a third party "if the same thing happens in 1944 that happened in 1940...
...When the war ends, the starving French people will deliver power to the men who have more important things than guns and medals to give them...
...At" the same time, Wheeler affirmed his loyalty to the Democratic Party...
...Capital Comment Reveal Suppressed OPA War Profits Study By JONATHAN STOUT Special Washington Commentator WASHINGTON, D. C—It is time to stop talking of the New Deal in the present tense, Like Free Silver, the Bull Moose and the New Freedom before it, the New Deal this week has officially become past history...
...From the border states come 27 additional Democratic representatives...
...He concludes, "We should do this at once before increasing volume of Uboat construction reaches the point where it may require a diversion of effort beyond our power to accomplish...
...The day will come when one of the contending parties in this struggle will collapse...
...The alleged bitterness among national labor leaders in both camps is limited more to the autonomous international unions...
...There is no doubt that the Presidential strategists have aroused the antagonism of great sections of the American people by irresponsible appointments, by .permitting infiltrations oi the federal bureaus by wild sloganeers, and by overselling certain pet policies of influential Washington circles whose first loyalties are not to the UntWU StaTes...
...But that alone might not have done it were it not for certain crimes of omission by some °» the New Dealers themselves...
...The same suggestions apply, of course, to the American situation...
...It was believed by many uncritical persons not only in Germany but in other countries as well...
...To the joint Anglo-American Trade Union Committee, the Federation has named President Green, and Vice President William L. Hutcheson, George M. Harrison, Matthew Woll and Harvey Brown...
...Faced with an unfriendly Congress, .the President now must tackle the problems of winning the war...
...As the AFL-CIO peace negotiators, William Hutcheson, Daniel Tobin and Harry Bates...
...He stated that since 1940 he had never made peace proposals...
...Back in good social standing again, with their j»nde on the reins of power, Big Business this time went to town...
...But the reasons for the reinforcement of political activity in Spain are evident...
...We are above all determined to cos-duct it until a final and clear decision has been reached...
...Political observers refused to judge the strength of either party solely on the basis of the number elected on each ticket...
...la- nekiition, southern Senators plan a cam-?*4...
...In his speech he had stressed the guilt of Kaiser...
...the incorporation of unions...
...Lewis and his colleagues such as William Hutcheson of the AFL Carpenters will fight Roosevelt until one or the other disappears from public life...
...Hans Thompson, former Charge d'Affairs in Washington, a ??» torious specialist in political intrigue...
...But most persons in Germany believe, not a true, but a false version of history...
...These assertions have a very significant Implication...
...Labor appears destined for its most crucial year, fearful of an unfriendly Congress and harassed by spreading internecine war...
...official, however, confirmed their existence and admitted that circulation of the volumes "had been restricted to a few government officials...
...But inadvertently he may have destroyed some of their hopes...
...Oddly enough many of these men are friendly both with Philip Murray and John L. Lewis...
...An analysis of the Democratic Party in the new House reveals that it is driven back largely to the old combination of the South and the big cities of the East and Middle West, where Democratic machines still operate...
...Certainly, it would have provided the progressive candidates who went down to defeat with a livelier issue to take to the people than the politically dubious test of who was pro-war and who pro-peace before Pearl Harbor (in the face of the fact that too many honest persons remained isolationist right up to Pearl Harbor simply because they were slow in reconciling themselves to the realities and inevitabilities of the conflict...
...The House's 222 members elected as Democrats and 208 Republicans will abandon party lines shortly...
...Many of the alleged majority were virtually in the amorphous anti-New Deal camp...
...Wood row Wilson, facing a similar situation in the dying days of the New Freedom, chose to fight He went down to defeat which glows heroically in the pages of history...
...Saposs has the confidence of both the AFL and CIO, and had the approval of the whole WPB Labor Advisory Committee...
...With Lewis expanding into rural areas successfully, 1943 may sat * head-on collision be-twte||^e^MW, and ..th...
...But many observers testify that the hope for a negotiated peace is very widespread in Germany...
...The New Year's activity of Hitler was net limited to this message...
...Meanwhile it is a moot point whether the present silence on shipping losses is of more handicap to the enemy than to our own vigilance...
...The actual situation provides no cause for this widespread smugness...
...Towards the end of 1917, the official German news agency said "we've won the war if we can hold the enemy's attacks until Uboat warfare has done its work...
...Roosevelt finds himself at the mercy of Congress during a two-year period when victory over Germany appears imminent...
...It reaches its climax in the words: "Let us swear that we shall exert all of our strength...
...Washburn, wan the first to call attention of the FBI to her and Clark's activities...
...There is too much pulp sad too little meat in North African news and the emphasis on pleasant themes may ill-prepare the public fort ruder shocks that may follow...
...Even if this Democratic bloc decides to work with Roosevelt, it will demand a good political price...
...And the hand with the bread basket will be that of Herbert H. Lehman...
...The National Labor Relations Board...
...In the name of "recovering power" for Congress from the President and the Bureaus he found necessary to create for the direction of his vaat social plans, the conservatives propose to investigate and destroy, if possible, the following Rooseveltian projects: ? Vice-President Wallace's plans for an international post-war court and police force...
...And now these persons are assured by their great Fuhrer that "the German people of today are no longer the same as the German people of the years 1914-1918...
...This week the Washington Grand Jury investigating subversive activities returned five new indictments, two of which brought to trial Mrs...
...And from its vantage point ?? the war effort, Big Business was able to «ife the New Deal in front and in the back...
...The New Leader story, which was picked up by several radio commentators and newspapers, reproduced one of the leaflets being circulated by Mrs...
...The simple facts are;, 1) The Germans are building U-boats considerably faster than the Allies are sinking them...
...Serious German historians, however, and especially German military chiefs recall very well the historical facts...
...8?????1 months ago the...
...those who have watched closely the deasSsWef frustrations suffered by Congressmen 19» Wheeler,' Taft, Reynolds, Smith, Hoffman and ethers in the bloc which place Mr...
...Maryland, Missouri, Oklafiema and West Virginia...
...the information in them for some months before...
...Of the Democrats' 222 members...
...It is clear that this message was especially aimed at the stimulation of this will...
...Editor's Note:—The issue of silence on our anti-submarine campaign was raised this week by Walter Lippmann in his syndicated column...
...3) The Germans are not yet...
...It will accuse the President of exporting arms and importing alien philosophies in the guise of lend-lease, ft will try to curb all these shipments...
...But in any case, such a shake-up of diplomats is in itself a sure indication of increasing political activity, even if it is not followed immediately by any visible action...
...However, this is insufficient to eliminate in 1943 the rivalry of international unions over jurisdictions and the deep political cleavage between the AFL and the line which the CIO has been following in its political and foreign policies...
...The end of the era began when the Administration permitted Big Business to take over the running of the war, and with it the whole national economy...
...He also "approved" · very important shake-up of German diplomats...
...to terminate this struggle only with a definite victory...
...Wendell Lund, director of the division, obtained Dr...
...Insofar as this represents a return of legislative power to the elected representatives of the people—and within those limits—the mood ef.the aew Congress shows a healthy democratic trend...
...The Democratic majority in the House has shrunk to 14...
...Lippmann charged that our losses have been extremely severe, that our production increases are being lost at the bottom of the sees, and that Washington has displayed a shocking disregard for new suggestion on conducting the antt-Ubont campaign...
...Roosevelt and the labor movement as public enemies Nos...
...Nasa» controlled agency commented on his appointment by quoting a German spokesman as saying: "Anglo-American propaganda in Scandinavia has assumed the proportions of a real offensive...
...The President, from behind the closely-guarded gates of the White House, has sent forth several growls of defiance, like an aged and stricken champion challenged by a virile young {tretender to the chieftain's headdress...
...They must heed to some degree the whims of men such as Lewis, who through the United Mine Workers wields considerable influence on election day...
...David Saposs was sworn in this week as Economic Adviser of WPB*s Labor Production Board...
...The latter is our old acquaintance, Dr...
...Especially clear in their memories is what happened on August 8th, the day called by Ludendorf "the Black Day" of the German Army...
...A perfect example of the kind of 1^-ime of omission I mean «wne belatedly to light this week...
...The plainly avid interest of the people in such subjects as the Beveridge Plan, a World Council following the war and other ideals of ? socially progressive nature simply doesn't square with the kind of Congress which today speaks in the name of the people...
...103 are from southern states and will cooperate with the Byrd machine, which sees eye-to-eye with President Roosevelt only on foreign affairs...
...Added to the 208 Republican votes in the new House, these 14 vstes plainly spell a majority for the Republicans...
...That it will not be Germany we know...
...As chairman of the AFL post-war planning committee Green named Matthew Woll...
...Saposs from Nelson Rockefeller's Office of Inter-American Affairs where he was Head Labor Consultant Prior to that Dr...
...Millions of new defense workers, many of them over-anxious to make "big money" while the war is on, do not understand wage ceilings, job freezing and manpower control...
...While from the tent of the confident pretender on Capitol Hill come the sounds of jubilation sad boasting loosed by the smell of the kill...
...In the words of General Smuts," their concentration of effort is unheard of, their performances at sea such as were formerly thought impossible...
...The Puerto Rican social experiment...
...British Experts Criticize Secrecy Oi Shipping Losses, Cite Sub Peril By S. L SOLON New Leader London Correspondent LONDON, January 7 (By Cable).—Naval experts here feel that the wave of optimism based on the Russian advance and the North African campaign is obscuring the fact that we are not yet winning the basic anti-submarine campaign...
...All Congressional support the President had in the Southern and Midwestern blocs has vanished...
...Public complacency in this regard is based simply on ship production figures and lack of press information...
...He repeated the old ???-mation that in the year 1918 Germany was not defeated, that she merely capitulated because of internal weakness...
...The appointment of Dr...
...It is the end of an era...
...This need not denote anything as crude or foolish as Uncle Sam becoming the Bread Director of Europe...
...These conferences are considered evidence of 1943 trends, for they center on common dissatisfactions with government policy...
...As it stands, even today, Woodrow Wilson, however glamorous in retrospect, still is accounted in history's pages as the leader of a Lost Cause...
...The four volumes reveal war profiteering on a scale that staggers the imagination...
...The movement for revocation of the no-strike pledge, originating in the Flint local of the UAW, is spreading rapidly to other sections of the nation and other unions...
...To stay my from the party caucus thus is the usual procedure of Congressmen whose intention it is to defy their party's leader...
...Lois de Lafayette Washburn and Frank W. Clark as subversive agents who had been flooding the West and Midwest with poison propaganda against the war effort...
...The AFL Executive Council members were planning to leave for Miami, Florida, for an important session during which it will have a showdown diseussion with British unionists over collaboration with the Soviet Union's labor groups...
...It will raise a cry over the alleged hardships caused this winter by the lack of fuel...
...Actually, of course, it makes little difference whether we do business with Darlan, Giraud, DeGaulle or anybody else for that matter who can deliver the goods we need when and where we need it...
...But, unfortunately, the new Congress appsrently is reaching not only for liberty hut for license...
...The OPA War Profits Study (Us four books...
...In his last pseech Hitler had already revealed the fear of many Germans that their country now faces the same fate as in 1918...
...The picture of a conservative majority in Congress seems a cockeyed caricature of the eonntry...
...The year opened on a dispute between John L. Lewis" strong independent federation of varied unions and the powerful railroad brotherhoods, which have been sneering at the United Mine Workers' efforts to organize some railroad workers...
...Obviously the task of the new minister will be to launch a counter-offensive...
...Once again Roosevelt will be forced to pay heavily to Tammany, Hague and Boss Kelly for the votes necessary to put over even foreign policy legislation...
...Elmer Davis' Office of War Information...
...The real ruler of hungry France, hungry Germany, hungry Italy and the rest of hungry Europe will be the hand with the bread basket, as any realist will readily grosp...
...Roosevelt will be forced to "play ball" with the conservative elements who prevented his lifting the embargo on arms to Loyalist Spain...
...These 14, by absenting themselves, are therefore not bound by any -decision of the Democratic caucus...
...And once again Mr...
...If, however, as seems possible now, Roosevelt should lead the United States into a working issfily of nations, he will automatically thereby sasctify the Father of the League of Nations It the prophet of a Cause Triumphant) - How the score stands in concrete figures fussily was disclosed by the Democratic caucus »Ha* House on Tuesday...
...From a progressive point of view, the difference among those three French worthies is barely visible to this naked eye...
...The bound volumes have been available since November...
...meetings for a long time...
...The conservative bloc, which is heavily tinged with hatred for Britain, will not assault the war effort directly, but will attack along the edges...
...It will probe the military, price rationing, federal employees, and the "bureaucrats"—who to the political nouveau rieh« of Congress are any of those who have been appointed by the Administration to direct even the least important social service...
...Lend-Lease mechanism...
...Of the 222 Democratic members of the House, only 204 attended ¦? beer Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas breathe dlftance of "the Bureaucrats" in the Executive Iranch and announce that hereafter Congress was going to write its own legislation without kelp from the President's appointees in the various agencies...
...From the heavy production centers in Michigan, California and the Southwest there are reports of vast unrest among the memberships of the United Auto Workers, the AFL machinists, the Oil Workers and members of other vital unions...
...It will charge that food is being shipped to foreigners—"Bolsheviks"—while the U. S. citi-zens—women, children and babies—are being rationed...
...As yet no German comment has been reported about the appointment of von Moltke (formerly Ambassador to Poland) to Spain and of Heinrich Stab me r to Japan...
...Obviously von Moltke is considered the right man for this task, whereas the mission of his predecessor is probably considered a failure...
...It's a good bet no Commies will get past his door in WPB...
...Iacidentally, Franklin D. Roosevelt has in his hands the molding of the final historic stature of the Chief who brought him to Washington as Assistant Secretary of the Navy...
...volunteers are probably still exceeding their need...
...If Leon Henderson has a valid alibi for withholding from the defeated progressives this political dynamite which might have changed the November result, he ought to trot it out...
...This Congress will be in a position to set policies which will affect the world for generations...
...namely, the control of both the Republican and Democratic parties by a group of internationalists...
...Informed circles are using recent appointments to important and controversial committees as the key to future AFL policy...
...In his former speech Hitler had affirmed that he never will conclude a negotiated peace...
...This legend may now be believed in Germany...
...The National Resources Planning Board's plans for modernizing the country's social security system...
...Roosevelt that the people have given them a mandate to strip the President of the powers acquired in ten emergency years...
...But it definitely is significant that 14 of the 18 Congressmen Who stayed away from last Tuesday's caucus I« torjr Democrats...
...Washburn and Frank Clark...
...How did it happen, then...
...2) The Germans have solved the problem of mass production of submarines...
...Hitler Message Reveals Nazi Fears Of New 1918' By GEO AGE DECKER In his New Year's mesage Hitler tried to quiet some of the apprehensions of his people...
...The New Leader's lead story exposed Mrs...
...Another...
...A coalition of veteran and newly-elected Republicans and anti-New Deal Democrats have the votes to return America to the heyday of Herbert Hoover and Hiram Johnson...
...It is difficult, otherwise, to see how one can avoid laying much of the responsibility for this Congress at Henderson's feet...
...The important question now is: Will the President fight or parley...
...Hitler may fear that such a hope will lead to a relaxation of the will to victory...
...CONGRESS ON RAMPAGE: Isolationists, Tory, GOP Blocs Unite to Cripple 10 Years' Reforms By T. R. GREENE Special to ? Hi New Leade* WASHINGTON.—A conservative reaction as sweeping as the upheaval created by President Roosevelt in 1933 threatened the nation this week as a result of the New Deal's lose of control over Congress for the first time in its three-term career...
...Anger over the CIO's attitude towards the recent merger negotiations and the CIO Shipbuilders conflict with John P. Frey's Metal Trades over jurisdiction in the nation's shipyards indicated that the Council might tell its labor peace committee to postpone future...
...Labor Committed Meets in Miami Jan...
...1 and 2, can envision the legislative extent to which the power voted them by the country last November can carry them...
...Division of "esearch made a study of the war profits •f 1,753 of the larger industrial corporations and 200 of the more important war contractor...
...In his message he said that "the German people, weakened at home by revolution, laid down their arms* and that "had the German nation in 1918, liaibsssn of putting its faith in Wilson's lying and hypocritical phrases, continued to conduct the fight with iron determination, the enemy world sur-rounding us would have collapsed then...
...This same line is being used today and the Germans have perhaps three times as many submarines as then...
...A people's state has sprung from the former bourgeois capitalist class state...
...Those who were distressed over doing business with the totalitarian Darlan appear to be complacent about doing business with the reactionary Giraud and the monarchist DeGaulle— which is more puzzling even than the original to-do about the late Admiral (for instance, why strain at the gnat Darlan and' swallow the camel Stalin...
...Had this been revealed before the November elections the millions of independent voters who stayed away from the polls for lack of a burning issue to bring out the vote, and thus permitted the Big Business boys to pick up the dice by default, might have written a different result...
...The Speaker of the House, traditionally next in power to the President, lashes the appointees of his Chief as "bureaucrats...
...Anglo-U.S...
...I have just seen the volumes—too briefly to **«* ? detailed report this week (and which * MP* to do next week), but long enough to re*ogn«e that what they contain is political dynamite...
...This throws 130 Democrats—well over half their strength—into the still ill-defined "coalition...
...They have been imbued with a militant spirit, thoroughly convinced that the November elections were so pronouncedly a pretest against Mr...
...making the peace and rebuilding his fences inside his own party to prepare for the 1944 elections...
...In his New Year's message Hitler reverted in telltale fashion to this old theme...
...Naval expert Lord Winster writing in January 7 Manchester Guardian says, "The Nazi-U-boat attack it professionally highly competent and will become increasingly savage and resolute...
...These men are practical trade unionists with no use for the professional sloganeers of the...
...Editor's air attacks on submarines at sea...
...Saposs was Chief Economist of the National Labor Relations Board, where his staunch refusal to follow the fellow-travelers incurred the unrelenting enmity of the CP...
...fate of the war, followed the cue of their tofcated Administration in the new attitude ¦•Wards Big Business...
...F-en in the President's own party speak of •undoing bis work of the past 10 years...
...As for Allied counter-measures, Lord Winster writes shrewdly, "We have the technical knowledge of what is required to step up the attack on submarines and to a limited extent we have the means...
...18 Special to The New Leader By EftUMID LOftfN6 WASHINGTON, D. C—Signs of a grim year ahead for U. S. labor were abundantly evident this first week of 1943...
...The New Leader Prints It First —And Gets Action In its October 10 issue...
...More to the point, perhaps, would be to ask where, in all these business dealings, is the great and powerful French labor movement...
...Responsibility for the success of those who hate Rooseveltian reforms can be placed on many persons in the Administration as well as the public's dislike of the war and its inconveniences...
...vivairts of the domestic and international labor movements...
...New ambassadors are assigned to Japan and to Spain and a new minister to Sweden...
...Wages and Hoar Law...
...It may or may not be significant that Speaker Rayburn exempted the person of the President iron the epithet "bureaucrat...
...Bat as late as this week, the...
...Publications Division denied knowing anything "¦Wt a War Profit Stndy or the existence of the four volumes...
...From the caucus halls on the Hill have come reports that the unleashing of anti-Roosevelt venom, pent up for ten years, will end only with the fiael emasculation of the progressive laws which have become synonymous with American liberalism...
...Hitler appears to have grasped the position at sea more clearly than that on land...
...4) Allied anti-submarine technique still is unsatisfactory, competent commentators state...
Vol. 26 • January 1943 • No. 2
