Russia Uses 'Germany' as Pawn in Post-War Bargaining With Allies
Russia Uses 'Germany' as Pawn in Post-War Bargaining With Allies Stalin Moves To Include Nazis Among "Free Germans" fy DANIEL if U Two diplomatic developments thia week brought into sharp relief...
...According to Paul W. White, director of CBS news broadcasts, the radio chain's fear of "pulpiteers," and its anxiety to "protect public opinion from one-sided assault,'' prompted the gag oa commentators...
...As negotiations between General Motors and the UAW for a revised contract began, Walter Reuther also rejected the piece-work demand, which was asked by the corporation as one of its conditions...
...Stalin is in working for fmsia- self-interest...
...The radio broadcasters will make an irrevocable mistake •if they destroy freedom of speech by establishing unnecessary and unwise restrictions oa competent news broadcasters...
...But it would he mechanical and illusory to accept this Russian line as a long-term perspective or aa an inflexible policy...
...It only broke Attack of the Axis, knocked Italy out of the •J, shook ths Nasi satellite states of Hungary, tssauii and Bulgaria into looking for a quick •ft, wiped out the famed German Army in North Africa, recovered thousands of miles of •tpsf-won territory in that sector, and is contisjfcf to wrest new enemy-held territory up it boot of Italy every day...
...hs lslav mil anei es- lie.----1tt.jp*Jot Army newspaper Red Star again JemfBmtj BuSsian version of "how to win ffiebJl and influence people", by contemptuously MpMaf the Anglo-American accomplishasss) hi Italy ss a "minor" operation...
...The Big Business lobblies are out to repeal that law...
...Incentive pay" is the camouflage in which the Communist supporters of this policy have been presenting it to the unions...
...Examining Edward Noble, one of the big "controlling interests in radio, Fly contested the ""policy that "products" may be sold—but not "philosophies...
...DENVER, Colo, r- Organised labor won a major round this week in its battle to knock out state anti-labor laws as an unconstitutional infringement on the rights of workers...
...And is it cancelled by the Soviet Army newspaper's gratuitous insult about our "minor" operations in Italy...
...The Communists have advanced incentive pay as part of their ariti-labor line...
...Be explained that because of the "scorched Ukraine," Russia had been "desperately in need of foodstuffs" and had found it necessary to ante more food earlier than some of the other United Nations...
...Other Speakers in the sessions on "Racialism" and "Race Riots" are: Eduard C. Lindeman...
...Either Stalin gets German industry or he invites foreign capital...
...The existing committees are merely ballyhoo and window dressing...
...Stettbiius elaborated, Lend-Lease shipments of ¦teats rose from 6 to 13 per cent, with "a treaemdous quantity going to Russia...
...HOW A CARTEL Fl/WCT/ONS Clark H. Minor, president of International General Electric, has gone to London to confer with the Pirelli Company, biggest electric' manufacturing firm in Italy, regarding the transfer of Pirelli subsidiary in Brazil to International Gereral Electric...
...Stalin this week personally gave his backing hAawrica'i 15 billion dollar Third War Loan P>a In a personal' message, read by Major npJtral A. I. Belyaev, chairman of the Soviet ¦athuing commission in the United States, at • •Back die Attack" show on the Washington (•"aliient grounds here this week, Stalin Wtowledged the "great support" which Amertoa amnitions and supplies are giving the Rus«M arm...
...The United Automobile Worker, official union organ, pointed out in its columns that both the Daily Worker and the viciously anti-labor Detroit Neu* backed the corporation stand...
...An nvhmrialised Swvtet rusaato'eciai by ff-Qi stall technical skill is net bah pliasaat a praspect far the British economy to contemplate...
...Based on financial reports from 322 industrial corporations, the figures show a combined NET income after taxes of $C54 million for January to June, I***, inclusive...
...Now they haven't got a single news analyst who is among the first five, or maybe the first ten...
...Did it ever occur to you," Fly asked, "thst ideas might be as important as products...
...Fly is now demanding a general formulation of broadcasting policy from the networks for the FCC...
...More, it appeals to German army officers to "organize a government which would enjoy the confidence of the people...
...Churchill reflected that feelhf in his speech in Commons in which hs tfcnpty rebuked the British Communists who, Bkt the American Communists, echo the Rushes Hne in insulting the courage and accom•Jhtaent...
...Far the first six months of 1943, Mr...
...The importation of German workers is a double safeguard...
...As Alexander Werth observes in a Moscow dispatch on the new group...
...Labor Leaders Ask US Warn Reich Of Reprisals for Jewish Atrocities Special to The Nkw Leader WASHINGTON.— Leading representatives of J****" labor visited Secretory of State ~m*u Hull late this week to urge immediate jU^»etivc U. S. aid to Jews in Nazi-held jj-fe statement was drawn up by the delegare *hich included William Green, Philip Mur* Cared Dubinsky' AdolPh H«4d and Janies , IT**8 American labor," it said, "which feels L*j*»>ip with the victims of Nazi terror, has ?t hoir°r-stricken by the slaughter being car2* 00 -gainst the Jews...
...for Carey...
...4 "T At the moment, the hottest hit ef specula(j*, is on whether Secretary Hull will gs to mmeee to take part in the tripartite conjUsurr next month of American, British ya Soviet foreign ministers...
...Labor people sat up with surprise at the Carey vote when the convention of the United James B. Carey, fdt re-election to his preserl post as national secretary-treasurer of the CIO by a vote of some 2,200 to 78* last week...
...Tat the British feet mat there is hope...
...The delegation made clear that "American labor seeks no mass reprisals against the enslaved people of Germany," but, it was added, "the tnurderers of our fellow human beings, the ring leaders and their aids, must be named, apprehended, and tried in accordance with the judicial process of criminal law* • • • "We appeal to the government of the United States to do all that is humanly possible, and consistent with our successful prosecution of the war, to bring immediate aid and succar to the Jews in the Nazi-occupied countries...
...How sweet—Moscow, which would not be "defiW* by Darlanism...
...Moscow is prepared to offer the condition of a strong Wehrmacht as a condition of peace...
...The process of building aa industrial economy by exploiting the masses to gain large capital funds can no longer be continued...
...Its first taste of victory came in Colorado, where Judge Charles C. Sackman of Denver, in a precedent-making ruling, held invalid the most vicious sections of Colorado's laborshackling law, miscalled a "labor peace act" Colorado Anti-labor Law Thrown Out 'Union officials in Washington were particularly jubilant over the decision, because Colorado's law is the worst among nearly a dozen passed by state legislatures during the past year—all of which are being challenged in the courts...
...Secretary Hull will go to Mates w. Pack ef this belief is the reliable informspya that Secretary Hull will leave the Or"*1 on Mm>a*y for aa as yet aaanaeenced destination...
...Only such a government can create conditions for an honorable exit of our country from the war . . , The Casablanca statement is for "unconditional surrender...
...compel them to open their financial records to inspection...
...Horace M. Kallen...
...of MHMMfc commentators...
...It was felt by many that the CBS order was closely connected with other similar movements on the radio to rule out controversial and political issues...
...We are fighting that the spirit of brotherhood which we prise in this country may be practiced here ami by free men everywhere...
...be has stost of tba time been a anwtnhthj, Anthony Eden's actions are a fax better laaMMtioii...
...Hull goes to Moscow it will be because the tripartite conference of foreign ministers will explore and fix the terms of a final agreement on the war and on postwar objectives that could be readily adopted at a meeting of President Roosevelt, Prime Minnster Churchill and Premier Stalin later on . . . and with such an end in view Mr...
...vice-president -of the Association of Radio News Analysts (andl a NBC man), came a sharp attack on White and the CBS edict...
...Some minor operami The Soviet Army should save its bragging hr the day when it begins fighting on enemy •Wtory...
...The fact that the official organ of the union speaks out so vigorously indicates that the factional fight will be fought to the end...
...If Mr...
...Sir Samuel Hoarea speech, and the recent statements at Secretary ef State Hall and President Roosevelt lashing- Drew Pearson for saying that the State Department is "anti-Soviet," may be accepted at their face value If Europe is to ha kept "stable and orderly," then Russia's > cooperation must be secured...
...It is reported that ka will he gone for three weeks or more, jlat...
...WaKher Meyer, leader of Hitler's special Totenkopf brigade, into.n ffe Gernma* cesnmttfee', . "The appeal of the officers is "moderate and correct.' It endorses the statement of the Free Germany Committee which calls for "freedom of economy, trade and handicraft...
...But business is net interested actaally in building financial reserves for post-war...
...It will cause dislocation of schedules," Reuther pointed out, "it will lead to lay-offs and unemployment, it will pit worker against worker in a speed-up contest which will lead to chaos, rate cutting, and destruction of labor morale...
...boiled an Army •fmr at the War Department...
...He emphasized that, all butter exported under Lend-Lease had gone to "the* ighting Russian soldiers and nowhere else...
...ftj ia desirable," said Stalin in his message, "JM the American people, by successful par**Pstion in the War loan in the United States, J»J»U the gro*th of the military might of ¦» United Stat* and help the joint efforts *th» Allies to achieve victory over the bitter Fly of the Federal Communications Commission was once again set to challenge th* irondad policy which prevents labor unions and other organisations from buying radio time on an equal footing with business firms...
...The British made a strategic "sacrifice*' in the speech by Sir Rnwuael Hoare, the man moat darkly linked with appeasement schemes, who now states that Russia must have her "rightful place" in "any stable Europe...
...A "RoundTable Discussion" on Saturday afternoon, in which delegates and speakers will sum up, concludes the Conference...
...Stalin has already staked his claim...
...We also appeal to our government . and to the governments of the United Nations, to admit to all territories under their control, Jewish refugees who may succeed in escaping from the Nasi hell...
...enemy within the shortest possible period of time," r Wer loan funds support lend-lease operations...
...require the unions to elect officers annually...
...No other network supports its position...
...The Soviets advanced one gambit in the formation of a "Union of German Officers" in Moscow as an auxiliary to the Free Germany National Committee...
...Now if it reduces news reporting to the level of some executives—then it'll he time for the air to be purified...
...A wave of firings and resignations among CBS broadcasters is known to have taken place, for many of the leading analysts would not submit to censorship...
...The real question is "What To Do With the Industrial Might of Germ any...
...More than 100 officers sign the appeal of the Union of German Officers...
...If Russia noted be persuaded to operate within a earned economic system— rnehiding certain slices of the Baltics and the Balkan*—then Britain might be abte to offset the inroads of American trade by dominating tba continental economy...
...incentive pay is a substitute for vigorous labor action...
...They are unwilling to see that labor's standards are kept during the war...
...If GM is genuinely interested in increasing war production, let the corporation set up bona fide labor-management committees in its plants...
...all th* nations will discover how we will cope, not talk, about the solution of world-wide racial problems...
...TMt presumptuous and taunting line, reitersmi by the Soviet Army paper every time an MJb Imiihsii victory is registered against the •m, ass got people in the War Department mm seeing red...
...laB'i health end his dislike for travel would mm.him at home...
...The Jews in the ghettos can no longer be regarded as civilians...
...This week'the House Ways and Means Committee has been holding hearings on the war contract ifclfflttlon law, and the National Association of Manufacturers bas been bringing us Its big guns to aa attempt to torpedo the law...
...f,»'ft,*»^Especial fire was concentrated again** An full-page advertisements in which CsW mafi* public announcement of its censorship peUeW...
...Highlighting the opening panels on Friday evening, September 24, at the People's House, is the address of A. Philip Randolph, wellknown Negro spokesman, chairman of the March-On-Washington move men t^nd President of the International Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters...
...Hull is as tenacious in working for American self-interest aa Mr...
...Algernon Lee, president of the Rand School, and August Claessens, author of the best-selling pamphlet on "Race Prejudice...
...permit the state industrial commission to send agents into union meetings for a check on proceedings, and allow members who do not like anything a union does to apply either to the commission or the courts to override the majority decision of the union...
...Germany's medsia technology aad barter aesthsda mere able to drive Britain eat ef the Balsam and Biimean market in tbe last situ as...
...It is apparent by now that talk of the Soviet* wanting to "botehevire" Germany is nonsensical...
...We are fighting for tke right ef men to Hap together as members of one family rather than aa masters and slaves...
...Year National Conference to Combat Racial Prejudice ami Couiiet has the opportunity of initiating new yard- . sticks by which to gage psobltms which must, and wiB, be solved, and bee the opportunity to inspire new confidence among the troubled people ef Imsrirs Goad rack to yon...
...As a result of their policy, CBS is losing* its public following...
...Btettianm said Lend-Lease shipments of 6 per cent of our total farm products last year #re being increased to 10 per cent this year...
...It shows that the Reuther forces seem to have the majority...
...The swinging over by Thomas against "incentive pay" is widely interpreted as signifying a Reuther victory at the convention in early October over the Addes-Communist coalition...
...Whst hss become of our resolve that there shall be no war millionaire* * Labor Notes Reuther Seen Winning UAW, Carey Shows Strength at UE Lines were being sharply drawn tins week Jn.the Vmjab^^JKjM;»\t r^wenmWmt...
...Prom H. V. Kaltenborr...
...psr it would be considerable of s blow to the gnunans to find Mr...
...The NAM said the law would have to be reutsj|d...
...A government report discMUM that excess profit' totalling: four and a half billion dollars has been recovered throagjf actual repaym*»t er in reduction of current contract prices...
...From the White House came a message to the Social Democratic Federation: "The Americas conviction in war and in peace has keen that man finds hie freedom only when he shares it with ethers...
...the Banians would much rather that America It iepre*«nted by more amiable gentlemen, such ¦ jbsj*m*te of "SubMission to Moscow" fame, PJHheabacker, the labor-baiter who (.from Russia full of enthusiasm for ' ist way of dealing with labor problems, it widely accepted that one of the spms» the Russians insisted on Moscow as the skat for the tripartite conference was the asHBStjon that the well-known fraily of Mr...
...Another report by Randolph Paul uf the Treasury Department skews that industrial corporations have laid aside $79 billion for post-war reserves...
...With the increasing political tension in the country, more and more executive and bigbusiness pressure is being exerted to muzzle in the most "legal" and "democratic" manner possible the expression of progressive sentiments...
...The law would have made~i(*'possible to put out of business the unions that failed to abide by the myriad of restrictions...
...Walter Winchell, in his syndicated column this week, wrote: "Sadie has committed many sins...
...CBS stands alone in this censorship matter...
...He wants the German machine-tool industry and other technical skills amassed by German industry...
...When Are We Going to Take t he Profits Out of War D EN EGOTIATION is a kmc, dug wara, *^ to most people- And that's what one of the most powerful lobbies In Washington Is counting on...
...Btalir.'s message was read simultaneously wlm the announcement by Lend^Lease Adminsftrstor Edward R. Stettintus, Jr., that his agency planned "to do everything humanly passible to expedite our aid to Russia...
...For the same period last year, profits were $585 million...
...This week R. J. Thomas notified the War Labor Board that the auto and aircraft.workers union would fight the return of any piece-rate policy, which they managed to abolish a few years ago...
...It is understood - that the Communists are organising an effort to oppose Carey's reelection as CIO seeretary-treasnTer-^Mnrt they appear to have as much prospect of success as Hitler...
...On the contrary, the totally unexpected size of the minority in the convention who opposed the Communists has raised hopes that the union may soon be retrieved from the grip of the Communists, who seised its control's year ago by a surprise maneuver...
...This week it became public that Cecil Brown, celebrated foreign correspondent and regular evening broadcaster, has quit...
...Hon goes to the Soviet Union it will be jrttrpreted here as meaning that the period of |0 romantic approach to Russia is over and that realism will prevail in Moscow — in the J pari" snd British delegations as well as the ^fj'bslsnce this, it would not be surprising to am the President resorting to bis familiar gahsique of showing apparent even-handedness If pitting down somebody whom the Russians •> sot like...
...which Inds the AMG "undemocratic," which demanded that Hess, the criminal, pay immediately fee his crimes, now welcomes Gen...
...The by-word of both blocs in the Allied coalition ,l| olsmMlj or order on the continent...
...They are prisoners of war, and should be legally regarded as such...
...The people of the conquered rilsmtlHsl may well interpret our actions in dealing with minority groups at home as an indication ef the amount of trust which they may safely place in our promise to them of Four Freedoms...
...These sections restrict the amount of dues and initiation fees unions may charge...
...nen arms contracts were first handed eat ia the fash ef the wat boom of 1940...
...he seeks to conscript several million German skilled technicians and craftsmen to work hi Soviet factories...
...Pressure from various trade-union and consumers organization, which have been denied radio time, is operating to smoke out "the betrayals of public interest" on the part of big-business radio...
...That technique is very like Stalin's sjetJct of slternstely boosting and knocking EC Maxim Litvinov every time it serves Soviet mange policy...
...The e-peetloa actually ia whether the Anglo-Ateerieaa Wee 4s wtUtag to pay Russia's "price...
...In Great Britain, pnbfits of war contractors are held down tm7» per cent on the capital Used in business...
...Eaftnc Varja...
...In London an adjunct to the Free German Committee is now being set up, comprising German Communists and fellowtravelers in Britain...
...Israel Knox, and Leon Dennen...
...The tremendously large veto for Carey, without any organization, behind him, is being interpreted as an important defeat for the Communist Party machine, which has had control of -the union fee*a*^*^.% The union has 150 organizers ia the field, all of them hired by the Communist macame.' "Deipife their efforts to round up anti-Carey delegates, and although there has been no organized effort on behalf of Carey, over one-third1 Of: th* delegates took the opportunity to display"'their independence of the Communist domination over the union by voting...
...Harry Paxton Howard, author of "America's Role in Asia...
...In the recent flowering ef bigname reputations among correspondents and commentators, liberals came to have more of a foothold in radio opinion than in the eld sponsor-dominated days of reactionary snakesmen...
...And of the two, there is more ™—nlation about the first than the second...
...1 Judge Sackman threw out the sections which call for compulsory incorporation of unions and rezulate in detail the legitimate activities of unions...
...m Of no small significance in this whole connection was the news this week that James isms that do not readily Wad themselves to outside direct...
...prohibit contributions for political purposes...
...Winston ChurehiH is not always the beat index to the thinking of tba important British ruling groups...
...As he pum tt nnm: "Communism, «for all tbe claims of aeaap aaapagaairleli, is a aauonal, not an inOarnattonal product...
...Ways and means must be found to feed the hungry men, women and children who are doomed to a death of starvation...
...That may turn out to be nuu> of s challenge than it is safe to toss at the emriuy old gentleman from Tennessee...
...for only through higher profits weald the workers be certain of having their jobs afteV flke war...
...The grapevine insists that, contrary to gg .ipeetatiens...
...The NAM drive is a drive to tear the lid off profiteering and make fhn sky the limit...
...Controversy is the life-line of democratic freedom," Kaltenbom insisted...
...Stalin has always been impressed by the cohesion of the German Army and feels at this moment that they offer the most solidly organized group with which to deal and accomplish his aims...
...Under SB* Renegotiation law, the armed services were given tke right to re-examine terms ef agreements sad scale oo«n prices where there have been excessive profits...
...Hull turning up in Moscow, "fr...
...Testimony before the committee shows that industry hsa been mshshg adequate profits...
...The radio network has some public responsibility beyond the presentation of "soap opera* during the day, cloying moonings songs at night, and the superficial veneer of patriotic razzle-dazzle all the time...
...edible fats from from 13 to 14% per sent, and eggs went up from 10 to more than 11 per cent of our total annual production...
...Now is the time to salvage those Jewish people who are still alive and who may still be saved...
...Roosevelt is not disposed to send some gullible mutton head to make Isfpp^ pmstk...
...And now we find Sir Samuel Honrs swinging around to the notion that Britain most work with Raaato and avoid Russian isolation...
...We therefore take jjT**«ision to urge the government of the 4? States to warn—through short-wave raWi*nd aH other available means of communithose guilty of aiding the Nazi leadt^~their inhuman campaign of exterminating ^ ^fenceless Jewish population of Europe, 2* »*y will be held accountable as war crimiand will be punished for every innocent life l*» have taken...
...The Daily Worker ran five articles last week calling for "incentive pay" and one by Earl Browder calling for the expulsion of Reuther from the labor movement...
...The Saturday morning panels of the Conference on "Anti-Semitism" and "Labor and Internationalism" will hear Judge Matthew M. Levy, Gerhart Seger, Newe Yolktzatung editor...
...the largest union in trtenteutltry approached...
...there are celarly lots of thugs, including SS men, in the officers union whose only complaint against Hitler is that he failed in his world conflict...
...Renegotiation is a simple business...
...That proposal was advanced the other week by the leading Soviet economist...
...The list includes a number of German generals and several leaders of SS (Schutxstaffel) Death's Head divisions...
...Testimony before Congress showed that contractors who have gpue through renegotiation had been permitteejrAo retain an average of about 1* per cent en the volume of sales...
...ef course, lends support to the guess Hat Moscow is his destination, i If Mr...
...It supplies needed skills —and it breaks of a free and independent German labor movement...
...Much intelligent thsmght and general discussion based upon aew conceptions of . racial prejudice and r nutlet are seeded to combat the age-old hysteria which baa to the past surrounded all discussion ef racial problems...
...freedom to lawfully acquire property...
...Our handling of our own ethnic problems will provide the clue by which the people of...
...He feels apparently that the German workers movement is shattered and underground organizations helpless in a totalitarian state...
...It has fostered adenoidal tenors and popularised trashy songs, and it has out-awfuled even the movies In drama—but its record on news has been swell...
...Could the Stettinias announcement and Stalin'a "thank you" note be a mere coincidence...
...The Braxthan Government seised the Pirelli subsidiary, but now Pirrelli wants International General Electric to take it oversea safekmmigtLS , ^teoks as if the iateraaptohal carfsgs* weic lining things up again* - * " [fW Pseraon m M*4f-Go-Ro«nd] F.D.R., Willkie Greet Opening Sessions of SDF Race Conference President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Wendell Willkie sent messages of greeting to the "Conference to Combat Race Prejudice and Conflict," called by the Social Democratic Federation of America this week-end to meet one of the most burning home-front issues of the war...
...However, if the captive German army appeals fall flat, Stalin's methods are sufficiently opportunist for him to attempt on the one hand a "dear with the Anglo-American bloc or a desperate gamble in controlling the flood tide of popular movements that may surge after the end of the war...
...For a lag war profiteering drive is under way to repeal the Renegotiation law in Congress and permit war contractors to skyrocket , their war profits...
...of American and British soldiers, ^tuinor operation, indeed...
...I But what was most damaging to the big business lobbies wan a report released by the National Industrial Conference Board, an employers group, that* shewed that industrial profits for the first half of this year were 11 per cent higher than for the same period last year...
...Capital Comment By JONATHAN STOUT WASHINGTON, D. C—Most talk here about Jfctes on the foreign front still centers about Sfr and Italy...
...prices were set at wild figures with Uttle regard for costs...
...We have gotten rid of the last one," White remarked recently...
...prominent in American social work...
...It is ear promise to extend such brotherhood earth wide which gives hope to all the world...
...Russia Uses 'Germany' as Pawn in Post-War Bargaining With Allies Stalin Moves To Include Nazis Among "Free Germans" fy DANIEL if U Two diplomatic developments thia week brought into sharp relief the cautious maneuvering of the Allied powers prepatory to the "conversations in Moscow" pezt month...
...dried fruits •Moments rose from 15% to more than 20 per «*nt...
...No problem today," wrote Wendell Willkie, "demands more serious thought, more concerted effort, and more genuine concentration than that which your conference is discussing today...
...For the while, the latter policy is furthest from his considerations, for revolutionary movements have certain internal dynam(Continued on Page Sevan) Radio Network Clamps Censorship On Liberal Broadcast By MATTHEW LOW The old bugaboo of "opinionated news" mas raised again this week, as the Columbia Broadcasting System moved to slice all editorial matter from the news scripts broadcast over its networks...
Vol. 26 • September 1943 • No. 39
