Russia's Second from Demand Splits Anglo-Soviet Group; Citrine Attacked
EVERETT, HURRAY
Russia's Second from Demand Splits Anglo-Soviet Group; Citrine Attacked By HURRAY EVERETT WASHINGTON, D. C—Sharp criticisms of Sir Walter Citrine, general secretary of the British Trades Union...
...Cooperation with the government must eonttone...
...Allies *tand By Demand for Uncon^tional Surrender...
...However pressors by several Tammany leaders and factional policies of GOP lenders have balked titis...
...In February of this year Citrine visited the United States to srsk American Labor to join the Anglo-Soviet Trade Union Committee...
...G. fislveensni of having slanted news along a sea tmi tot line en station WBNX...
...For organised labor in America, this is the year of derision «4ure//o*r*HE lid of New York's political under* world was ripped off last week when District Attorney Regan revealed that racketeer influence, operating through several Tammany leaders, had nominates I Magistrate Thomas A. Aurelio for the Supreme Court bench...
...The Communist press was also bitter over Citrine's refusal in Moscow to sign a Soviet declaration asking for the extension of the Anglo-Soviet Committee, to include all trade unions in North and South America...
...And their an!en orgsnristton...
...This rsnwalttse Is dominated by Its Has rsprssnmtoUrea of salon* that have tong followed the Communist line...
...This w#ek PM ran a,.page one headline reading: "Britain, U. S. Mleet Badoglio message...
...Keeping them rolling without halt ?»*, of course, really helping to turn out the f Ms and tanks and planes, etc...
...anti-Semitie, and antiSoviet" view...
...It was learned on good authority that with the Allied advances in Sicily s considerable propaganda sprung up calling for British supervision and control of the vital Mediterranean isle...
...Except for the heroic efforts ¦our fighting forces, this contribution of labor has been M chief source of our national strength...
...on which they have staked their faith, can do little for them...
...The rise of Fascism and Nazism threatened all the thinking and building that it has achieved during its history...
...The London reports, SmtnatiRg from official conversations between Seviet Deputy Foreign Commissar Ivan Maisky, il|e«ermer Ambassador to London, and British ¦pigs Minister Anthony Eden, are to the Bet that Stalin now regards such a con¦sw as a necessity if Russia is to hope for BJMbeeration with the triumphant democracies is the post-war world...
...We entered ; fats erwetoJ tisnVsaodinnitily organized...
...And this week a dispatch from Pierre a I lard...
...There wasn't even an apology...
...The AFL refused and as a compromise an AngloAmerican Trade Union Committee was formed, with the TUC and AFL as joint members...
...They accused him of "profascist, anti-labor...
...Lenders of the committee disclosed at the meeting thai Bullitt had been asked to ran by President Boceevert, - Vice-President Wallace and three members of the'l^reniaent's cabinet...
...The Communists in Italy are participating in the radical-amalgam Action Party...
...fB-LO...
...2—This "appeasement" movement among Italian anti-fascists was also gaining impetus from a new, widely-spreading fear concerning Allied intentions toward Italy's nationhood...
...F Ott sTIfiasvsmle1 a* ssVsse S*fl8m^?#Btfr'* tion and propose that Orlando he catted to net n pa government...
...Presitont Roosevelt's delineation of Drew Pearson at H cronic liar" is the first slam-bang result «f the new policy...
...1 was taken for granted from the start that officialdom ? nd big bestaees woaid ran the show...
...This stratagem is taken to be a maneuver by Sicilian big-landlords, still preserved in their property rights under military authority, to ward off any unexpected national solution of the agrarian question...
...trade unionists, took its first major step in municipal politics last week when it indorsed William C. Bullitt, former U. S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union and France, fin* Mayor in the "fall ejections...
...And, lest it be forgotten, when Rkkenbacker was trying to load patriotic American workers With tiie onus of "absenteeism" from war plants, fittw Pearson was the lad who backed RickenPthvr up with the charge that the labor unions were unpatriotically insisting on "feat herssddmg'' rules to the damage of the war effort...
...Moscow is playing a careful hand with respect to the internal Italian situation...
...Hull was not convinced at first, and so the falsehoods kept piling up and spreading out, and in the absence of...
...criticism arose when Citrine In his general report to the TLX convention, scheduled to open in Sonthport on September 6, revealed that he had refased to enforce a Soviet plea for a second front when be met with the Russian delegation in Moscow in July...
...Moscow csrrisssnmsnt for tike Communist pros*, hit a mi.....Msg note of respect for Vstterie Orlando, aged CaseinsUve leader...
...Political observers first thought that Judge Levy's candidacy would bring endorsement by the Democratic and Republican parties...
...Toe hint is contained in the report reaching Iran from London that Stalin has suddenly tsearae anxious to have a conference with" afisimlt and Churchill...
...There has, too, been some increase in union participation in war planning and war administration...
...As production has ¦Bunted, the army of Labor has had every reason to feel sSie in its achievements...
...This justified sense of aecompwunent will be a source of confidence and power for ; Bat u^Mygfcjprija » sees, tt ssent be acknowledged 1st the twwHnstostfhs since war tost Labor Day have •en a bs4 tstfr for Labor in this country...
...A national legislature chosen by default has thrown the official power of the government against the men and women who work...
...Had we had a nines ssovemant with universally recognised leadersin, the whole story would have keen a different one...
...afforded...
...Another issue over which a split occurred was the question of sending joint fteetinfs to the CTAL, the Latin American Confederation of Vincente Lornbardo Toledano...
...The members must be able to understand national, industrial and political issues and appreciate the impact of competing policies upon their individual lives...
...They must consider their policies in relation to a double framework...
...To working >sepia, inletien is no vague threat...
...Despite the hysterical propaganda Campaign of the American Communists and their rattle-brained fellow-travelers to scare the American people into thinking that Soviet and Anglo-American relations are going to the dsmnition bowwows, the prospects of those relations are very much on the upgrade at this j The score seems to be that that super-realist |ts Stalin has met some equally realistic bargainers in President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill and is preparing to accept the fact that he can't have the moon just for the asking...
...On one occasion, at a public luncheon for Citrine, Matthew Woll...
...Mereover, it now appears that Citrine, when here, even contributed to those who oppose all-inclusive allied labor amty...
...Politically, both the CIO and A. F. of L. have increased their political activity, have broadened their views of the part which they are called upon to play in the national life...
...Statistically, they are stronger...
...Hopkins has been very friendly in the past tswsrd the Soviet Union...
...What condition they will be in for this fight what chance they will have to win it these are Sjuestions which mast be answered daring the coming twelve months...
...We don't need the Russians to lick HUlsr, and the contrary argument isn't buying Malm a damn thing...
...Sosns observers feel that despite the repudietions, Tammany is still secretly beetting Aurelio...
...Hopkins' view is fmrW| that of Roosevelt, Hull...
...The - captains of industry are well-organised and far-sighted...
...He brushed aside objection* from labor persons ' here that a working unity with the Soviet unions was impossible because of the political demands the Russians would make...
...The vote by delegates was 22T to 25...
...Because of the increase in employment, union membership has steadily grown...
...In a bereaneratised war government, the traditional function of the organisation has shriveled...
...Communis...
...The counter-appeal included "Liberal Reconstruction is ts," "Socialists" and "Communists...
...Referring to the "draft declaration presented by the Soviet delegation for publication," Citrine's report stated: . . the two principal matters which the British delegation felt unable to accept were: a declaration that the creation of a second front on the European continent was imperative this year, and the Soviet proposal to extend the committee to embrace tiie trade onions of North and Sooth America and the occupied countries...
...The Year of Decision for U. S. Labor THIS issue of The New Lender serves a double purpose, 1 It marks the fifty-fourth celebration of the America* Labor Day and, at the same time, it commemorates the fourth anniversary of the beginning of the most terrible war in history...
...PhillyAFL-CIOEndorse Bullitt for Mayor PHILADELPHIA.—The United Labor Committee, political voice of almost 200,000 Philadelphia A.F.L...
...The jltofJgsSJ^wer* denied by Michael Harris, president W*he Philadelphia Industrial Unton Coosd...
...Beth of our great federations are regularly, month by month, topping past records for membership enrolled and dues collected...
...Opposing Bullitt hi the campaign will be Acting Mayor Bernard, sJsltjneL Re-publican machine wheel-horse, whs ipjJMating a full fouryear tents...
...The Russians cam help at do the job faster . . . and we are willing to buy that—but not if the price is too high...
...is s very old one...
...Magistrate Aurelio joined this Her* tsntenio front...
...The two events are vitally connected...
...Capital Comment By JONATHAN STOUT h, »y -"wn* r HAM STOUT I WASHINGTON, D. C—The state of our relations with Russia is still Washington's favorite subject of conversation, conjecture and Urmise...
...Bet from n long-ran point of view, their position* have never been . more insecure...
...1—It was becoming clear that the democracies' curious failure to pound home in political warfare the injunction for a "democratic peoples' revolt" was confusing the anti-fascist opposition in Italy...
...Vice-President of the A. F, of'L., sharply replied to certain criticisms Citrine had made of the AFL, Now Citrine reveals, in his report to the TUC, the difficulties he faced hi Moscow last July...
...Under the moat difficult conditions, the unions have' made good on their no-strike pledge...
...S> The Kremlin-Set's press the world-over has taken vigorous exception to liberal criticism of a possible "Badoglio deal...
...Berle and ^P^^W^c^A^ericsj^itotesmen who place j$JMljf Henhins' very friendliness towards mHMJbb kid him to say more politely what tW WHsWf experts have been saying more Mostly...
...But what we need today—desperately need—is a new unionism with a new definition...
...Omsequently, there has been a reactionary, undemocratic, labor-be-damned policy to Washington which has stiffened steadilyvas the year has gone on...
...S—Nor is it only to Badoglio...
...Active, conscious, sett-sacrificing participation in the war effort has had widespread effects...
...The regular American Leber Party, which had infused to nominate Auratio after be had been proposed by the Mnrcantonio "left-wing" forces, immediately named Judge Matthew M. Levy for the post Levy's nomination wen immediate support from Mayor LaGuardia end the heads of the leading bar associations fat tiie city...
...Citrine also revealed that tin extension of the committee to include other labor groups in North and South America, was outside the powers of his delegation...
...Similarly in the face of an Askgot rating against political activity, a movement for Sicilian separatism has grown under the leadership of Andrea Finoeehiaro-Aprile...
...The times call for a unionism that can function effectively in the gigantic and tight-knit industrial set-up which modem technology has given us...
...The expression, new vmomrwi...
...From the point of view of organisational success ami the welfare of the union membership, the war has both advantages and disadvantages...
...Citrine Attacked By HURRAY EVERETT WASHINGTON, D. C—Sharp criticisms of Sir Walter Citrine, general secretary of the British Trades Union Congress, by the Communist press here and in England, presage the end of the Anglo-Soviet Trade Union Committee, or its reduction to a mere formal shell, labor observers feel...
...He has a war to fight and he must fight it with the cooperation of titis leaeUonary Congress which came Into existence through Labor's political absenteeism...
...When Mussolini fell, PAf ran a P***°ne "•*dli«« reading: "Watch Out for Deal With hidsglio...
...A Hard insisted en -the asrtifassist content" of Orlando's recent lOdrsss The writer stated that "If BssmgMi were as* hsMB^Jss^s, swe'ea- D o * e lh...
...Said the Daily Worker in its August 30th issue: "Citrine visited America ostensibly to bring American labor into a joint allied labor body...
...a Sicilian politician and Parliamentary figure in republican days...
...Every eosveattoa that meets shews that the weraern are attve and areesed—seeehing oat for new solutions But these solutions anas*, he found within the costing year...
...Our traditional practices are not good enough...
...the ground is being cleared for any Moscow maneuver here...
...The strange tie-ens of New York polities could also be seen hi the fact • thst Magistrate Aurelio had spssesrsd a lending Communist frent of the United Italians of American Origin orgssdsed hy Vito Mareantoano...
...Marea*tenia's rsssmtttss Is alee sponsored by Lido Belli who has been accused by Prof...
...Added point is given this view by the fact that Maisky sought out Eden on the subject keswdiateiy after publication of an article by Harry Hopkins, President Roosevelt's confidant sad advisor, in the American Magazine in which Hopkins inferred with rather unctuous asKjothaess that so far aa America and England an concerned, Russia could go make a separate ffispp with Hitler or anything else it pleases, sad we will still lick the Nazis into unconditional surrender...
...Wages fall behisd in the race wHn prices...
...The Soviet delegation pressed very hard for the intssninn of a statement to the effect that a second front most he organized on the European continent this year...
...Pearson ignored completely the fsct that the drivers were having to do the same amount •f work in three days that they had been doing * six, that the milk companies had no right *• the saving in delivery costs and that it did *»t cost the milk companies a red cent to make *•» change m their delivery systems, and that therefore they were not justified in cutting the **»'a wages...
...Pearson selected for particular examples the esses of the teamsters who, on long-distance htsfs, insist on having two men on a truck, nation thought that was unpatriotic featherhtdaing, ignoring completely the fncts of the Pltoation, that two men on those trucks permit Asto to keep rolling because while one man iron the other slept One man on the trucks toIm oblige the driver to pull up at the side * the road while he slept Many of these *»«rks are transporting critical war materials sad parts...
...With prices going up and wages held rigidly within Wm Little Steel formula, the working men and working llpneh have stuck to their jobs...
...Citrine stated that the British Trades Union Congress would hare to consider the matter separately...
...The mesa rat the war is ever and government restrictions are off...
...The Communist answer was the usual invectives and vituperation reserved for choice enemies...
...Communists spokesmen led a stormy but unsuccessful fight against Bullitt, the Democratic organisation candidate...
...ns without foundation...
...Long before this nation declared war on the Axis, our labor movement had thrown every ounce of its power against all the Axis stands for...
...The unions are larger than ever...
...Their Uisnwilis are greater...
...Labor Party leaders, it was learned, refused to accept the nomination of the magistrate because the Communist forces in the ALP had made a deal with Tarnmany to back Aurelio...
...The war must be time—odoeation and organization for far-ranging new methods and policies meet he developed and sarrtei 4B...
...That was several weeks ago...
...Separatism' Grows in Sicily as Badoglio Groups Block Strikes By MATTHEW LOW Into the MeditemiiMn poUtkll Twnont...
...It is already here...
...The only difference Russia's withdrawal at this time would make, Hopkins ISM, is thgt the job would take longer...
...For political reasons apparently...
...As agreement was not rowohod on the two major points—the second front and the extension of the committee—it was decided that the proposed declaration should not be published until the matter had been considered by the TUC general council...
...Shvernik, the Soviet trade anion commissar, proposed a greeting by the Anglo-Soviet Trade Union Committee...
...Cwrtjtif rfgff fn1^ *ut^l versed that policy...
...There is plenty of evidence that all of tide Is hecoming clear to trade union leaders and ¦ambers...
...He made a trip to Ionia for personal conversations with Stalin...
...But their role is loss important than that of Stalin's orientation...
...created when the resumption of Allied heavy bombing ended the Badoglio-House of Savoy episode, floated this week a number of suggestions hinting basic Italian developments...
...Its members did not rise to the occasion offisred by the election of Congress...
...And it must, especially, be able to play a vital role despite the large degree of government integration with businessmanagement...
...Sections of liberal and progressive forces were apparently being won over to Badoglio-collaborationism...
...Thin double anniversary, therefor;, calls upon A mcncsLtt trade unionists to consider simultaneously their domestic position and international forces...
...The leaders must be statesmen prepared to take their place in industrial government...
...Milan and Naples newspapers have been featuring political statements of leading antifascist Italian figures, including ex-Premier Francesco Nitti, most of which indicate that the Italian elements of liberalism without the reassuring international support of the democratic forces, would be unable to hold to an uncompromising position...
...From the beginning, the American labor movement has striven toward a realisation of the democratic dream...
...and C.I.O...
...Iks' **•'-• e • * An additional reason for the prominence of me subject of Russia in the daily press of the ¦Sit few days is the determination of Secretary HttB to give the liars and muddle-headed muttea brains a fight for it The State Department 1st been taking the falsehoods and lying hsoendoes on the chin for a long time in restrained and gentlemanly silence...
...At meetings of July 21 and July 22, discussions , wore resumed on the Intend front...
...Bat now we see that he has himself absorbed and carried to Britain the reactionary position of the A PL's council and the poison of the Dubinsky Social Democrats whose hospitality he enjoyed...
...The prospects point to the probability Out Stalin is preparing to climb off his arrogant high horse and behave himself...
...We must be able to learn and apply the ieaeions of these war years...
...Citrine at that time insistently urged the AFL to join with the Soviet unions in one committee...
...Their members are herd pries ad...
...When the Cesnmunist forces failed to win the Jwdlftol convention, the regular ALP, denouncing such judicial deals, nominated indscsnassU candidates...
...Only slowly have lie leaders of the A. F. of L. and the CIO made bead's.' ngssnst traditional set-up...
...As the resent of aB this, we nave a strange sites tion...
...Instead of sens sing their energy fighting for higher wages, the union leaders are forced to spend H trying to keep their mambstoblp in Una...
...The call for political organisation in both of ear groat federations is a part of the evidence...
...The ConnellySmith Bill is only one evidence of political negligence and defeat President Roosevelt, under whose leadership our federal government has received its greatest labor slant was placed in a difficult position...
...They meet took at foes both at heme and abroad...
...QflWtllll^ncne has ever regarded Hopkins as ifpkrrlel tot, in essence...
...The members as voters and the organizations as social units must be prepared to play a part in government The provisions of the Connelly-Smith Bill and the regulations of the War Labor Board cannot be countered by strikes sr* riots or boycotts or sny of the old techniques...
...So it is that many Italian progressives, more nationalist perhaps than resolutely anti-fascist in such a itilemms, are being wen over to BadogBo...
...Bsarson also thought that milk wagon drivers 3it to take wage cuts when the milk cornel' cut down deliveries to three times a Jfek...
...This week a leading collaborationist group opposed a September 1 strike call issued under the name of "Cola di Rienxi" (a revolutionary of Italian Renaissance times...
...The British delegation nude certain gmssahnuits which, while expressing the desire for a second front, did not go beyond ekprsasiag the hope that this would take place during the present year...
...an answer, more and more persons came to accept the deliberate propaganda...
...the trade unions will have to fight for their Uvea...
...Even new—after four Mars of war end wserly two years of American paryipstssn am labor forces are rssesaoatsd in the top Manning and administrative bodies only In subordinate »Our union forces have only themselves to blame for fadbre to utilize the political opportunities which the past yea...
...For more than half a century it has been bandied about and applied to every fresh organisational form that has appeared...
...I Some advisers urged that the Drew Pearson, I. F. Stones and other fState Department critics of that type should be answered vigorously when they misstated and misrepresented the plain facts of American foreign policy...
Vol. 26 • September 1943 • No. 36
