FDR, Wallace Raise New Deal Banner, But Business Entrenches Self in Agencies
FDR, Wallace Raise New Deal Banner, But Business Entrenches Self in Agencies WASHINGTON, D. C. — The President's return to his "ftreeide" chats last Wednesday evening with the announcement that...
...For the making of decisions by the people is the stuff democrat« feeds on...
...Government's pro-democratic policy...
...Honest men of good wffl sceept the record in, good faith, until there-is ***** evidence to the eeatrary...
...th* people of America know that the second step iimaid fsactsm is to* des true ttea of lake* unions...
...Politically there are two problems...
...Nothing could be farther from the truth, for Fascism is a network of ideas and i ? teres te...
...Government and its armed tote** to Italy after the armistie* has been established, it was made plain te sne, extended eniy te seeing to it that the Zasetste do not find a backdoor to a return tc power-aad that the Itenian p*opie are given a free *ad nntrammeled opportunity in a democratic meaner to give political pawer -to whomever they choose...
...And in informed circles here, for weeks before the dramatic announcement came over the air Site hut Sunday, talk and speculation already tee concerned with the political and military aftermaths...
...Some of the Big Business executives, it waa said, would direct pricing policies on a foil-time basis, with the others in a consulting capacity on •a $1 -s-year basis...
...shot each ^giving of power" can and will be don* ceiy by the Italian people ' • ··- - * "r - The set*--of the U.S...
...The Communists are this country's outstanding TtactJonariea...
...Gouncils in their efforts to destroy the Ansariona Labor Party...
...A party which cannot muster a meager 50.*·* te keep its franchise on the state ballot fairly drools aad dribotes at thought of all those Inscious votes...
...reunions in using the...
...It can only he uprooted with great effort, aad over a long period...
...if ia Italy there is little er ?? tern eteamteg by an occupying farce which impresses en all oaghly ^''^^?^^ /??*^ **m expect to see the Nffcs and the Japanese feudal lords sabieetea to no worse...
...New York, this week, Vanni Montana, teetary of the Italian Socialist Federation, teed that a message he received from Italy ¦te underground forces informs him that: [Reports of "united fronts" in Italy are «teoe...
...From the Italian people we want to know another thing—how mach Itager will they permit the pair to issue each orders...
...The Communists have adopted new Urtica...
...Bat, ; like the Italian worker and peasant, he has played a stellar role in sabotaging fascism Those who propound the theses that there ia something inherently...
...Communists Seek to Use CIO Community Councils to WreckALP An invitation by Sidney HUlman...
...1< At the bar* pi aspect of such leniency after the grim sacrifices that have been exacted of them by this war, the peoples of the United Nations will became the victims of such a wave of frustrated fed · preaoc...
...Govennnent h? lend the weight of its backing to such persons a » Randolf...
...FDR, Wallace Raise New Deal Banner, But Business Entrenches Self in Agencies WASHINGTON, D. C. — The President's return to his "ftreeide" chats last Wednesday evening with the announcement that he was turning his attention to the misconduct of the war on the home front, and the Vice-Preeidtnt's clarion cal\ to battlt for a world at peace in an economy of plenty did not get as much newspaper space in Washington this week as the downfall ol Mussolini, but they had a much profounder effect...
...has obscured from W^K* cteee sea-are deeply listed te Urn Italian Peniasala...
...Is there any such thiag as an Italian Communist Party ? And, a fe, what role are they prepared to play in tet seems, from the surface appearance of fts proclamation, to be a democratic coalition...
...It cannot be destroyed overnight...
...It is beginning to asnhe crystoi-ctear that 97 per cant ef labor hes&ceopepsted 100 par cent with one 0 ? intent to theWer effort...
...The people of the world'waited expectantly to see how their governments would ideal with the rabble that has for more than two decades slowly choked the breath of life oat of the Italian people...
...Among them were such as: "We know that a ganging-up by a group of international cartels a t odd* with us could wrpf . out our markets aad sow the seeds of war...
...By announcing that the war would continue he was giving the Germans time to withdraw their legions from the peninsula—or to reinforce them heavily on interior lines...
...Of the three noteworthy events in a newe-crowded week, it was interesting to note that official Washington accepted The Bum's demise with sangfroid and got really excited about Wallace and Roosevelt Hank and Frank, fighting shoulder-to-shoulder again, seemed like a revival of the early New Deal days when America's Common Man wae their first concern...
...Bat whenever republican ideas...
...The price being demanded by Big Business for cooperation is a raising of price ceilings...
...men who are being forced out under the Congressional edict that only men with experience in the industry can hold 0...
...d ****** w-ltb "??^????????** tsstflhs 4?^^???»?«?*??1...
...right and left...
...There are some who- want to see that decision, made ia Washington, London or Moscow These include etonmarto ranging from tee Totalitarian Left to the Reactionary Right...
...The free creative impulses of the Italian people, for two decades choked off by the Fascist satraps, overflowed their long restricted channels, and gave promise of what may be expected once they get arms into their hands* ? Tta^-so^r/h^e...
...of the war...
...The voice of the people is the voice of God...
...The replacements from business and industry, presumably, would lower the prices of the things their companies have'to sell and would roll back their companies' profits...
...On that day...
...Of more immediate concern to Washington was the indication that the...
...Far from being a stigma, it has been aa admirable quality of the Italian eoldter that he has doggedly declined to fight for te : regime of Benito the Fat...
...And if wd wtoh to see democracy established in Italy we mast'eegwh * y letting tint Italian people make that decision...
...Re want* aad be must have a job, enough to eat Wad wear, decant shelter, bis own home and retoinohfls, and a chaaee to educate his ehildten...
...for several weeks the question ?, Mussolini's exit has not bean "if" but "when...
...Although CIO chief Hillman's plana call far neutrality in the primaries now, aad other nteen...
...i f we are to mobilise peace preduetten to tee service of all the people we reuet iamplst*9j -turn*way from scarcity semmmisa, Tea- atony 4Sorporetions have asade money by hoidiag toverrtsons oat of ose, fay holding np prices aadrfay cutttog down producttoa...
...following waa the Socialist Party...
...From the hitter pair the U.S...
...Although the major CIO entons in New York—the auto, textile, shipyard, aad event the Amalgamated Clothing Workers—are not affiliated to the local ?? Council, the latter group insists it speaks in the name of tha CIO...
...President finally is awake to the profundity of the people's embit-terment against the war profiteers and the tatter's sabotage of the home front—the production strikes of the meat packers, the dairy trust, the grain speculators, the war fraud Benedict Arnolds and the other Big Business elements who have demanded the biggest profits in history as their price for shouldering a gun on the home front...
...The Mate of regular candidates will be sent to every registered veter...
...But while evidence that the President is at last aware of this is heartening to Washington's liberal and labor circles, there is no great tendency to easy optimism...
...American workers...
...Badoglio's assignment waa, obviously, to prepare the way for aa inexpensive a peace as could be obtained...
...There are 180.000 voters regtetoied under the ALP symbol The Communists have caused some 20.000 Beteten colonists te inscribe their names along with them...
...7#4e HW Step*— JfatiecieasUHf ? QaAciUi THE second day after Marshal Pietro Ba...
...That its phrases speak nts of the Italian people appears But do its signers represent the 1 of the Italian people...
...Be lie and the others that She U.S...
...To defeat them ie very simple...
...When ever the idea ef empire has dominated, as m the ? rat Iva centuries ef te Christian era, the werkt has been ??» frested with a period of ItaUaa aecadteto...
...The rtertetteatemt stem tea...
...the same political pillow as Hague aad still claim the title of Leftist...
...2. What eternal pressures will be exerted to bend the people of Italy towards some course other than «ne of their own choice...
...4 ' But It was made clear te me by Mr...
...t* . t...
...s*r *H "Leber is eegrnning to do it* part ia enlightening the public...
...What is the sentiment of tte Italian people concerning them today ? What jrtefr attitude, for instance, towards the Itahan Communist Party...
...ft %__ do the same thing here...
...The news brought satisfaction, of course, but M element of surprise...
...And there is no single objective not en the part of the U.'S...
...That "vagueness"—so-ceiled by PM and others who show impatience with the severe} questions outlined above—seems to me to be the very evidence of the State Departmnt's, the President's, the U.S...
...JbJk the proclamation itself raises even more Interesting questions...
...Henry Wallace got the worse "break" as he was making his historic speech in Detroit last Sunday, the day that Mussolini picked for his exit, with the result that the Vice-Presi-dent's speech was practically buried in the press the next day...
...We know that imperialistic f imminent ????, the united States as a base can make another war hteritahse...
...Th* tight little Commenfet-??* machine that dominates membership meetings ran rouglsrbud over the opposition . These actions by the small ????????* union* that dominate the City CIO Council and the local CIO Community Councils, to aiding th* so-called left-wing ALP, disrupt she I stir P«rty, are Jeopardizing labor unity, snd w4R fa* s major setback to CIO poiitteal...
...If tea Italian Awny « ? . obey th* orders ef Bedogtieor the King in laying down it* arms, the American General er4he American Ceaimender-in-Ch ief who refused to treat with them e a a military footing for such s purpose oa th* sol* grounds that he dees net like their polities would be properly subject t e e court-martin] fer the crime agsdnst Aenerieen lives such an attitude would unnecessarily cost The Italian problem will not enter the political phase until the military phase is ended...
...The Italian soldier hat been a poor fighter In thii war, as he was id the last one...
...and a Cabinet of trained tabby cats, thai it Will be clear that once the jig is up tofcermany all that the Army, bureaucracy aasunduatriahate need do is follow the same...
...than in Mws of the official acta of Badoglio and f/leter Emmanuel coming from Rome...
...The Italian snldtee, like the Roman soldier, was never any goad I except under the republican banner...
...They are being sought, it was stated by Brown, in order to effect a reconciliation with business and industry...
...Under the guise of neutral CIO Community Councils, they are engaged in raising funds in CIO anions to fight the ALP...
...And whether the President is prepared to go such lengths while the war is on remains very much in question...
...te Italians aa ssedters weeua de »eil te take -note that seme of the meet ¦IsHagamtejd members ef the American armed feacea, " thrice-decorated for eatrteadmg...
...Administrator Prentiss Brown to obtain front Big Business circles 100 "vahmteer advisers" for OPA's pricing division...
...Whom does it include, besides Mussolini ? Does it extend to the King, to Badoglio and to others of...
...This la a new situation...
...Sa it ie e?TamaWet that ia des lieg with a slsteiagjallag Fascist regime ia Italy the Laited Na-(ten face thaer giealast battle...
...It waa built by trade unionists to represent them te tlte political field...
...of Turin, according to Daniel T. Brigham, Mm York Times correspondent in Berne, celebrates the end of "the painful nightmare that has dominated our political life for the past Jpyears," blames the fascist regime for "drag-ag the nation into a war it did not want—a Sir violently forced on us which has today left 'Spa tragic situation," and closes with the •arte paragraph...
...TUfl < Bum'* rush, and the President's speech got a better press...
...Montana indicated that competent agen-teof the American government were acquainted ?? the communication...
...Reports about anti-fascists participating " agreements with monarchists are untrue...
...As an evidence of the er—s purpose at work between the President's declaration and the actions of his Administrative lieutenants, there ie the canvas* ander way this week by...
...attitude toward the monarchy in Italy will be whatever is the Italian people's attitude toward that monarchy...
...In the meantime, obvious good sense says, "keep your shirt orr*—none in Washington, not even ehe U. S. Chamber of Commerce's Erie Johnston, shows the slightest meHnathra to save the necks of the Italian^ascist...
...official circles in ngs are known...
...All that te reqaire* Ie that the party members tare out and register their preferences...
...If in Italy large section...
...At the same time, he assembled a "peace" Cabinet, presumably to be used as an instrument for obtaining lenient terms...
...and" other authoritative spokesmen of the State Department with whom I have personally discussed the problem in recent months I found no took of sympathy with the work of the Italian endengroand tir State Depertracnt circles, nor any lech ef appreciarior...
...At fate Maws-paper Guild meeting ? waa pointed oat that the only primary fight in New York existed m the Labor Party, where the Communist* have enrolled en masse in order to wreck the party and head aff possibilities of independent polttteal action...
...They -have nothing te da with He purposes or ideate...
...This official attitude ia a matter of public record, tt has town stated ntoay t mes...
...the commander of the Garibaldi "Brigade in the Spanish Civil War, who has the support of the communists, to those who echo the sentiments expressed last Monday by Eric A. Johnston, president of the U.S...
...Who can...
...vt.-u...
...The easy and cheap victory ? spa alienism will have to be psssed by for complete victory, not only aa aa example to other gsagetir nations bat as an inspiration to the aroused and now thoroughly angry peoples of the United Nattens...
...Following a conference with right-wing CIO leaders, Hiliman declared that the Amalgamated Clothing Workers would return to the ALP if the "trade union bate were widened," and the party "freed of all isms fron the...
...J. Thomas, Sherman Dnlrympte, David McDonald) are anti-Communist, the "Mit...
...Chamber of Commerce, when he skid that he hoped the downfall of fascism would mean a return ia Italy to a type of government "that businessmen the werld over believe in and support...
...But that was a generation Periodic reports reaching this country from the Italian underground give ample evidence •hat the Italian Socialist Party still lives and ete strength...
...Now—whea trade onion political action is becoming vital—they come hi from the outside to take it over, to take it away from Late, te use it for their ewa reartteaai) paipoose...
...On August 10th these thisamaas ? Ith every stooge, innocent aad fettow-traveler they can master—will be oa band to carry oat their orders...
...And that cal question in...
...1. What (piths reaction of the people of Italy...
...reports difficulty finding replacements from industry for- the men it has to let go because Big Business doesn't like OPA's present price ceilings and price policies...
...At that...
...This is not a Left-Rraht fight, mwou.ei, because the Communists have forfeited the last shred of right to be called leftists or liberale or progressive*—or aae any other title which implies that they are in favor of a better life for American people Or, especially...
...All, including Mussolini, should be stripped of property ?? privilege* and placed on trial charged with dkyital Crimea...
...Tate is an attack, a raid, aa attempt at conquest...
...These are the Socialist Party, the Christian Democratic Party, the National Party, the Liberal Reconstruction Party and the ComThe proclamation, as printed in La Stamps...
...Demonstrations of joy and of violence against hated symbols and monuments immediately broke out all over Italy...
...hers of the National CIO Political Aceton Ceaa...
...jobs...
...August 10th...
...Attitude Toward Monarchy in Italy...
...They ordered the main body of their followers te register ia the American Labor Party with the definite purpose ef taking it ever...
...Neither under emperor, king, prince nor potentate has the Italian ever made a good soldier...
...Because of the fM',aa>te, there has teen s more inteiis?M§Kla Washington ia reports of...
...mittee (R...
...The invasion of Sicily pros the manatee air raid by American forces on Rome finally convinced the real rulers of Italy— the tawdry House of Savoy, the landowning aristocracy, the Church, the big business and commercial interests and the vast government bureaucracy—that he was a liability...
...emsnating »rem Tarin...
...doglio took ovar the premiership of battered Italy The New York Times headlined: "Fascist Rule Ended...
...Yet the leadership of the local Gaud, hi asking for contributions for political activity, stated they would enter any party primary to elect -wm-the-war" candidates...
...They have not financed it...
...Primary Lesson for Primary Day mt' emiur * - ___ ; - t - _ t___a.__ -1____ *_ aL...
...What should be demPwHh the Fascist functionaries...
...who are responsible for the grave damage inflicted on the nation wul be inexorably jBAiahod.*^ The paragraph begs the question: How far doe* that promise go...
...These 100 business executives were being sought to replace an equal number of...
...ruling class has to do in order to win ia reprieve and to become the "collaborator* of democracy" is to install a general (and lone with the blood of Ethiopia on his hands...
...But the historian of the future, carefully sifting the evidence, may come to te conclusion tte te j Italian people have really made better soldiers j than te Germane, They eomd be beaten down and enslaved by a hated regime, bet teg,, could not be made to fight for it . , ; t|t< The {tasten ssldtots wha have teste I te fight against te Greek, Britteh aad American tu ops, or wha have teemfeV half-te*te41y, have really tea ea met . aide of parliamentary oamecracy te teer hearts...
...Another point of view, distinct from those expressed above, is represented by Assistant Secretary of State A A. Bcrle Jr...
...Or would there be opportunistic appeasement in the supposed interests of administrative law and order' What the interested governments decide to do about Italy will, it is clear, be regarded by the world as the pattern for dealing with the homicidal criminals who rule Germany—not only the Nasi Party but also the Army officers, who have been willing collaborators of the Nazi», the btg landowners, and the industrialists...
...f the administrative bmeatete are re take id...
...a recent vivid example of these insinua-**» there is the page one headline in last JJteay'i PM: "Mussolini Booted Out Bat Wate* W« for Deal With Badoglio.'* And the headline in last Tuesday's PM: "Hull Vague on U.S...
...people-^ the itehnn people hold them eulpebie...
...Today, the trade union division of the ALP has affiliated to It the Ante Workers Untoa, the Marine and Shipyard Workers, the Textile Workers, the United Wholesale aad Retail aid other important unions...
...The matter ef eetabuah.ng an aranhtii a with the Italian Army in obviously a -military aneblem, not a pelitieai one...
...But how much strength ? The same questions apply to the other groups Wmjng to speak in the name of political terties, concerning which the Italian people »ve had no opportunity to express their senti-aents for 20 years...
...Government to contradict the reccri or raise suspicions- of its honesty...
...to the Leber Party primary, wRl mean th* deetructiea ef labor's rooet powerful political weapon today a party that has a solid core at 400??0 cat** - aaentolds th* balance of power m N e * York Comment By JONATHAN STOUT • ^WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Capital frequently has shown more excitement over news that tha teators have wan a baseball game than ? did iter the downfall of Mussolini...
...The leadership of the City CIO council—Curraa of the seamen, Quill oTtranapert, and Saal Mflte of the Newapaper Guild—has consistently fallowed the Communist party line...
...f ahe^vniek of their efforts end the MTh ooerage ef their leaders...
...let that group which «an shew , a mere comprehensive effort throw toe swat «toheet labor...
...It had been discounted long in advance...
...Montana also re-teed that leaders of the Italian labor under-fte»d had formally requested our State De-tement to allow' representatives of democratic...
...And would not the name, American Labor Party, nerve their purpose admirably...
...And would it not be more than pleasant to carry same ef the IIMW ALP voters along with them through the agreeable metamorphosis...
...But if all that te...
...been dominant, aa ia the seven centartee pre- -ceding the Christian era, aa in tha Renaie-sanee, aad aa in the nineteenth eeatary, then Italy has been in the forefront ef 1 world progress...
...chairman tt CIO Political Action Commutes, to the American Labor Party to join with «Im nitioamf ?? for political activity, was «Bing exploited (Ma week* by the Communist faction attempting to capture the American Labor Party...
...This attitude ranges "from those who want the U.S...
...King's entourage...
...There are midger Hitters has* who continually attack Inbox...
...Ocverr.ment <ioe* not feel the* it is within its pesetoea te «ftve power" to anybody to Italy...
...Men of good sense know this and men of good-will Won't , confuse-the two phases...
...And the act ci handing-over the sword of surrender wffl wet save the King, Badogtio or anyone erne from She wrath of the-Itahar...
...Parleys for unity have been conducted by •tee Italian Socialist Party and the Partito ' -eTAsione, but they have been slowed up because of arrests...
...The future'of Italy, in the final analysis, will be settled in Turin, Milan, Rome and Palermo and not in Washington, London or Moscow...
...Would the Casablanca Declaration of "unconditional surrender" be applied...
...The latter question therefore lends a double interest here to the news from Turin of a proclamation to the Italian workers signed Jointly by five liberal and radical groups which ¦til' use the names of political parties of preistet days...
...K A teak facing liberals of the United Nations, then, ia the placing of the rati tete rjtbewt the Italian people before ? bah constit-uenta so a« to off act the slanders pmreayei by oui mans Pegiara...
...under Ire, have been of lutiaa birth or ? lineage...
...Government wants to knew only one thing—how much longer Will they order the Italian Army to resist oar invasion...
...nmHg^L^ the provincial Anglo-American press...
...ttewb- ,s "Atel so I say...
...What appeared to have happened in Italy waa this: Mussolini resigned under pressure as it became painfully obvious that his regime was bankrupt...
...wing" ALP group is enlisting the support in New York City of the local CIO...
...There ar* other eeeangoga** blind to tee errors ef every other *veap who-shout, »W« lore toner, bat...
...From these quar-"4 comes most of the criticisms of State De-(•rtment policy, most of the insinuations that *· State Department is following some sinister Jte-faecist policy of its own—ignoring the well-fact that Franklin D. Roosevelt is his te io«!ign minister and that the State Depart-is no more than his errand boy...
...At a time was} American Lamer ia moving into the political field te defend all those bask rights for which this war hf being fought these mean and devious little fellows are using every deute they teasw te tarn its coarse aad hamstring its efforts...
...The Vice-President's speech wae full of ringing phrases which are sure to be heard again and again...
...who m tompoiamtut and-in parts of their ideology are idesmteji etesh the Fascist cvenorda...
...The contest which rssrhis its climax at New York ballot boxes on August l#th ie not merely a continuation of warnt UppSnsJ teal year or the year before...
...Local ALP leaden, in private ounvorsatton were quick to point out that whan the (ilMsH mated was ammmted with the ALP, the party was composed principally of throe anions, the ILGWU, the Millinery Wette« and the AflsaL ; gamated...
...The war profiteers have made such deep inroads in the Administration, feeling here ie that getting them out would require little short of another "Roosevelt Revo-» lution...
...There is good stgff in the Italian people A Britteh-American tela < of occupation would do well to bring it to the . fore...
...The events in Italy faced the United Nations with the possibility of a grave crisis...
...What else can there be but "vagueness" until the Italian people have spoken—if the United Nations are to follow the really democratic policy of waiting for the Italian people to indicate of their own free will which course they choose to take * Tb* U.S...
...Whatever- may be the diffmsMce* ia that school of thought, they share equat&y the one thine that marks tnevn .apart from the honestly democratic world—a distrust of the common people of Hary- and a dictatorial unwillingness to permit them to make their own decisions...
...While Mussolini was busily glueing together the papier-mache Italian "empire," however, these same elements were solidly behind hirer, and had been willing to do anything for the Italian workers, peasants and free intellectuals except to stop sucking their life's blood...
...At the time of Mqssolini's march on Rome almost 21 years Mr me political party with the largest ? u merke...
...The speech moved liberals here to enthusiasm...
...labor to take over fascist unions in **epied Italian territories.—Editor's note.] There are some in this country who are im-teent with such questions...
...The facte are all well known...
...The JI liegen) Guild motion was passed at a membership meet-ing with only 164) persons in sttiadanro, although the Guild ha* ? membership of more tnaa...
...t . . · . - ; . · - "The everng* man of America knows that we can make and consume all the good* which ???* for a higher standard of awing...
...The verve with which the Italian people reacted to the departure of Mussolini could not be concealed by the Badoglio government...
...Pacciardi...
...every ALP member has one duty that transcend* every other call oa ate time te energy...
...These people did not start the ALP...
...TT ? _ j____j...
...This move was made clear on Wednesday night, when the Communist-line leaJaisnbji of the local New York Newspaper Guild defeated a resolution that would bar any funds sejtected for political purposes from use in the Labor Party fight Local CIO Community Councils hare tea organised on a neighborhood basis by the New York City CIO Council to "support win-the-war** candidates...
...It had tte largest number of representatives in the House of Deputies...
...The Vice-President's speech in Detroit last Sunday is regarded as having the greater long-range importance . Liberals bare regard his call for a "common man s peace in a common man s world" as the authentic voice of the New Deal...
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