The Turn of Events-A Review of Global Fronts
The Turn of Events-A Review of Global Fronts From THE MEW LEADER NEWS DESK What the sacrifices forced by war are really all about in the estimation of conservatives was shown during the tut by...
...WHile mobilisation for political action, with an eye to the now'sitting State Constitutional Convention and Congressional elections of 1944...
...Certaaupit went be the big business ox if the hogs political and propaganda apparatus at te> daw posaJ has any utility Then, after dUaoeeriag that in tee ragser brackets of the Treasony** new tax plas topflight capitalist* in New York State woted at called npea to pay mere in Federal and State income taxes than received in income, tat Tines goes on to worry about the future ef "risk capital," i. e...
...Shipments of food under lend-lease in the first eight months of 1*43 amounted to * per cent of the nation's sanely Tory-Communist Alliance Use Racial Smears, Anti-Labor Lies Against Bullitt ly ANDREW KMIMOY PHILADELPHIA.—An undercover alliance of Coinmiifiists and Republicans hss injected character assassination...
...Which is worse, inflation or malnutrition* The Times has carefully avoided addressing itself to this question, and speaks as though .inflation only were a danger...
...Under Sentner's leadership, the Communist-led forces sought to take over strategic posts of VicePresident and Secretary-Treasurer...
...Since a few hundred votes amy welj dfcide the election, the sinister importance of t the Communist strategy is evident...
...rastere between artrn osstttoasry Argentine and the Axis as s rising tide OS officially ustmii anti-Semitism in Argentina led to tito saspeasioo efl she Yiddate prose for one rfsy...
...And inflation, it argued, was a danger that should be avoided, e contention witfc which tew students would disagree...
...regardless of Holidays, Sundays or weather...
...In its dignified sen* letters, the inscription carried a message resistance te the Germans, rejoicing at «aewa*_ feats snffered by tee Nazis and r,>pag «*" speedy tmt.attoa...
...As these are savings, they constitute no inflationary threat...
...t. A state-wide mfnfjaaaa n of CIO onion representatives v.-ite rjsTliqy Mllmfnli fcn late this month to revesrf thhr'aooistow eon make other plans has novkc* pouupeMd 00** otter the national CIO cenven...
...The prisoners' day started at 6 a. m. After reveahf there was aa hoar's drill, then breakfast at a. m...
...Nobody survived such sn ordeal longer than s weak...
...Instead of lowering the tax-exempt-level on estate taxes from' $60,000 to $40,000 as tee Treasury proposed, the exemption level should be raised to $100,000, it was recommended to the committee by Boy C. Osgood, vice-president of the First National Bank of Chicago...
...In such cases, every tenth mat) in his squad is shot sad te» rest compelled to steep on their stonmchs fw several nights with their hands extended over their heads" "* Cattail* Tries A no en Hans Until they made a^cloier stddv of the Psaehal 1 candle in the Cathedral of St Row bast I* : MechBn, Beligum...
...Harris and his gang to smokescreen the fact that hie party has virtually nothing to offer the working people of Philadelphia who have made oar city the "Arsenal of* America'.'* With national attention focused oa Phil adelphia'x Mayoralty campaign, besaaas its result will ofer haportant dace regarding the trend for tee 1*4% Presidential campaign, the City-Halt, gang hi deeps lately anxious to divert attention from the principal local issue ef tee election—decent government instead of machine eon option...
...The novel, written in 1925, is a biting portrait of decaying remnants of tee upper class, and Bullitt has made clear that the reactionary and anti-social utterances of the characters were not.his own opinions and beliefs...
...when tee C<5mn.urusts were co; perating with Hitler and attempting to- prevent Amosossm preparedness, be had: stumped the country- with warnings of the impending attack by the Nasi* and the Japanese...
...The Turn of Events-A Review of Global Fronts From THE MEW LEADER NEWS DESK What the sacrifices forced by war are really all about in the estimation of conservatives was shown during the tut by proposal in Congress and the press for heavy sale* taxes that would tell moat emphatically on the depressed portions of the population, employed at relatively low wages with no future job or income security...
...AH cosveroatioas during working hours was forbiddenand there was not tea slightest chance of communicating with free workers like myssjjf Penal sqaads were composed chiefly of docteg...
...The first move of the machine was to construct a platform promising to do far Philadelphia all the thines that the machine had failed to do in 50 years of maaicipal misrule...
...Other representatives of big business called for a sales tax to raise at least $6 billion...
...heavy increases in excise taxes on tobacco, beer and liquor, and relatively light increases in corporation taxes already so light as to enable- corporations to get swap with nearly $10 billion of annual profits after payment of tax— and this in a time of so-called total war when complacency, rmsineso as usual and the like are supposed to be oat the window as American hoys are falling on foreign bettleficide...
...Louis...
...He was taken to Germany...
...Farther progress wss reported from all the war fronts—in ItaJ r, Russia and the Pacific Axis forces are slowly recoiling under sledgehammer blows and it remains to be seen how ssaeh fight they »1 have in team wee*they reach "last ditch" positions Germany is reported to have available more than See dirisisas and snare man.lis* thsm as tee begtessmg ef the war...
...i n rsspians te ngUofioii by white labor on the Pacific Coast...
...engineers, priests, officers and any prisoners who had tried to escape or tried passive resistance...
...Tlmasisoto I'lai, there were no air-raid shelters at oil and that tea public shelters provided ia other parts of the town were not proof against tee effects ,of heat, so that the occupants had to flee from these titeb air-raid shelters ia the midst of the raid * * • • Eyewffaess Report—Oswfecim Coecearrerfion Camp A Polish worker engaged by the Germans at a builder to work in the Oowiecim Conoenttetion Camp has described conditions under which the occupants ef the camp have to live...
...We are not surprised at tins attempt at vilification of labor people...
...Bomhi...
...But the argument, reduced » bold terms, is that men will net do a good jo* for the commonwealth unless heavily rewards...
...and then the prisoners went to work, Work lasted teem 7 a. m. to noon and teat from 1 p. m. to 7 p. m...
...attention will be concentrated on the State Constitutional Convention, which displayed an early reactionary temper by»the ejection of an awti-New Deal Democrat irith the aid'of Republican votes, in tee person of Robert Blake, attorney for tee international Shoe Company, malign-ant and1 relentless shoe nrarmfactuTing giant*with haadquaitere hi St...
...Attacks on Jews have been a feature of the Rightist Argentine press in recent months and there have been provocative gw»~ '4...
...With htm are battered to be Under Secretary Edward Stettinins ana Ambogsadne W Averill Ilsrrtmen 7. Pro-Nazi Generalissimo Franco asserted Spain's "vigilant neutrality " a bit of s mm dawn from the previoonly expressed position of non-belligerency" * i' •••*•** 8. Britain announced a policy of conscripting labor for its coal mines, » hack sheeM logically bring forth parallel conscripting of prirate profits from the mines aniens the whole spirit ef English tew is to be float, i. ' 9. President Roosevelt arged Congress to pass tee pending bill repealing tea Chinnst "Exclusion Act...
...That is why we want a little modesty...
...They advise people from now on to follow their instructions . . . But the people knows its generals who could not conduct war, its industrialists who said themselves to German concerns, and its officials raised by a Republic which rushed into Fascism...
...The president of the State Council, Lloyd McBride of the Steel Workers, was unopposed from any side, but is subject to early Army call, malting the rice-presidency post very important...
...Witkin also revived the charge that Secretary of War Henry- L. Stimson had said Bullitt 'ones* not serve the interests of his country...
...GaUer TewUatt oi August 9th...
...jn,4 ' *¦*¦The Underground Fights The Weofkercocki Liberation, ike "Organ of the United Resistance Movements" of France, in a recent issue writes: "They are now great industrialists, great bankers and generals with their stars and war-school certificates about which they do not even laugh . . . new they all want to join the resistance movement...
...Louis...
...Further, BulBtt was able to point to the fact teat no American except President Roosevelt had been so bitterly and frequently attacked by Nam' propagandists as BnlHtt...
...TherNmewa...
...The charge, made by Republican City Chairman David W. Harris, drew e quick and scathing response from the United Labor Committee, political representative of 175.000 AFL...
...It recalls their cooperation with the Nazis in pre-Hi tier Germany...
...Sometimes a prisoner escaped...
...Louis...
...Foe tee workers, however, vary tittle was...
...So it all comes down to a question of whose ox is to be gored...
...Sentner...
...o&cr- -etv-»- te...
...The .only charge against him was that he had helped Jews who were living illegally ia Prague in order not to be deported...
...The defeat of the Communist U. E. bloc's drive for power was oar essential preliminary to any real mobilisation af the CIO-far poHtieai action in this state, which has as fancy a set of reactionary Congressmen, according te their record, as any state outside- of- the deep...
...Nobody received blankets «* eateasse...
...The New York Timet came through with a slick new proposal for a sales tax, suggesting that the government issue stamps covering $259 of anneal individual food needs...
...Quoted by the Swiss St...
...South...
...sb itetes declined to rescind its position in fsrer of Jim Crow" unionism...
...i-' t: k\*u'- .-!*i-i- -*«>tt*is r * 6. Secretary of State Cordell Hall is reported to be on his wsy by air i > Hsosiw to attend the meeting of "Big Three" Foreign Secretaries...
...the teat...
...new barracks were built adjoining thsm for Jewish and Russia 11 prisoners of want...
...He ssye: "The camp was arranged to house some tea of thousands of prisoners in the former barracks of the "3rd Polish Infantry Regiment...
...They wan housed 200 to «M to s te> rack...
...Penal sqaads worked at night They ware allotted the heaviest work, such as digging and carrying stones...
...Jules C. Abercaught...
...He emphasised .hat he had fought against the Hitlerites "smce the day they existed," and said "tee unforgivable sin against tee spirit yf America is the sin of stirring...
...Mr...
...No mention was made by any of these elements of the possibility of more taxes to be gleaned from swollen corporation profits and surpluses...
...Bat if it is the incomes under $5,000 which.threaten inflation in a thee of diminished merchandise stocks, the fear being that the excess of dollars will bid up the price of the reduced stocks of goods, is it not possible to institute firmer price controls than wo now have, penalizing both buyers and sellers for violations of ceilings...
...The net result, aoorenaw, has been to give Bullitt added support in Ms uphill fight for election...
...His offense was to have called upon passengers in a tramcar to come to the aid of a foreign woman worker against the police...
...dating back to 1882, as a means of reassuring the Chinese ef oar support...
...while Japan has also boitt up its military inventory, eneeeateg cargo ships, veryooanaddswaopv 11...
...State Chambers of Commerce, the United States Chamber of Commerce, and the National Association of Manufacturers...
...In Bremen the arrest of a member of the Nazi Party was announced by the police at the end of July...
...These proposals were a reaction to the Treasury's rejects* tax proposals, .which, called for light increases in upper-bracket individual income taxes and sharp increases in the lower brackets...
...The New York Timet led the way wite an editorial demand for a sales tax, and was quickly echoed in the Senate and the House and by the stooges of big business, such aa the New York State Chamber of Commerce, the Associates...
...It is all wrong*, of eourse.ta argue that only higher taxes can prevent inflation, even if the Times (and the big cosiness interests it speakes for in this respect) is correct in maintaining that the major inflationary direst comes from the numerous low-income -grotp...
...Russian prisoners of war were machinegunned for any infringement of regulations...
...Missouri CIO Parley Rebuffs "Left-Wing" Attempt at Control By ALBERT GLADSTONE ' JEFFERSON CITY, Mo...
...There were aa ventilators or windows...
...When the platform proved ¦ and, the boys derided to becloud the issue with . s smear campaign against Bullitt...
...Politics...
...tee Italian govemment-te-seasi-exfle...
...White W we may believe, is true for the coitsUlocsii m which the Times permits itself to speak, w* may consider oursleves fortunate that the same mode of reasoning does not actuate tee men of our armed forces, oar farmers and oat factory Spot News Events of the Week 1. A^ssos aai by Portage...
...And on the incentive to earn his) infernos the accnmulation of "risk: capital" and the future well-being of the country allegedly depends...
...And he punctured tee Communist attacks on him as pro-Nazi and anti-United Nations by recalling that in 1&4& and UHl...
...Tans, it is else* to all be* these whe read and ran *hat the current annate is all about: an attempt of the rich to stooge off present taxes and to evade paying store, and to make up the difference by taking breed and milk from children's mouths...
...jf...
...The action ef tike convention m repudiatinc anytismg bondertag on Communist political control was- restarted in othes* actions by tee cornrantion which included the rejection h> the P.esorutions Committee of the hackneyed propaganda Second Front res elation...
...Belgian emsnineis always were lingeraW about, readmg the Latin teueriptions agerjTiaW agalit...
...capital that plays only sat*' things, wish nearly ¦ ail surrounding circumstances controlled so as to make a pants cartas...
...These stamps would be given up the way ration stamps are, and only^ persons exceeding 'the $850 level would be forced to pa* sales taxes on feed, The point of tee scheme, though, was that it would saddle a general sales tax on the country...
...Aside from spreading false rumors, and mnuendos, the Communists have an "independent" candidate in the field to help out the Republicans...
...Workers The leaders of the German Nasi Party have since 1934 equipped teats' town and country residences with bomb- and gas1 proof shelters...
...4...
...The smear started with a series published in a tabloid -newpnper consisting of distorted* quotations from Bullitt's novel, "It's Not Done...
...The Tim** took the high-mt-aded position that the tax was necessary to aw.id inflation...
...The people has seen tee bankruptcy of this elite...
...According to this school of thought, under present tax rates m 1944...
...Support of tke sales tax by these elements and their subsidised cohorts of the dairy press should ha sufficient to lead everyone else to reject the idea, but tee week produced many evidences that a widespread campaign is getting- under way to convince the country that a, sales, ton is oar last resort...
...Simultaneously, the Republicans of the reactionary Pew-Grundy machine, angered by their inability to break tne solid front of the United Labor (AFL-CIO) Committee in support of Bullitt, accused Bullitt's labor supporters of being "labor racketeers...
...Not even food was to be exempted under the proposed sales taxes, for W. J. Schieffelin, Jr., representing tee New York State Chamber of Commerce, called for a tar of 3 or & per cent on feed "and basic necessities" and of 10 per cent on "meet other pxoducts in general nan," "We urge no total exemption for anything," he said, "no matter hew necessary...
...rates on everything else must be raised if the desired amount is to he collected...
...They slept naked to preserve their underwear, as no new suits were issued The food consisted of .about 10 grams of bread daily and • tin of soup thrice daily for two men...
...The fourth- term for Roosevelt was approved* and hi cootra-distir.ctiDn to tee action of the Executive Council of the AFL, the-conventlon unanimously resolved for the repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act The outcome of the election of officer* st the State CIO Convention m ernsoted te have seme bearing ea a reported intention of Sidney Taalmsa te appoint Wan Saotasr of the Electrical and Radio Workers as Regional Director of CIO Political Action for the states of Miasoeri...
...dangerous anarchism be land ' the whose "incentive" theory has apparently escaped nonce...
...It...
...Elssworth C. Alvord, chairman of the Committee on Federal Finance of the United Chamber of Commerce, recommended repeal" of the excess profits tax on corporation...
...These locals are like any mass organizations of no political color, but are dominated by a group of Stalinists under the very capable leadership of Wm...
...And, if it is necessary to reduce to some extent the $127 billion of purchasing power wteay ft* nanwrTO Win^-priTll^M tJte snpporttee'bettef teaTiilftkh ffiRsa^a of "purchasing, power" is bouncing aroand» the open market...
...tost...
...Only water was great to such prisoners...
...dene to ensure protection against air raids Thus the Berlin ammasaeaeami of the Smuts Jeergenmeetrn lupoeted team Hamburg -em August 13th, that in seme of the wcrkteg-riam quarters of teat town, e_4j...
...comprised- the meet important general' business of the convention, one of Its most substantial accomplishments was the defeat of a drive for control of key posts in the State of Missouri, and therefore in tee political action set-up, by Communist Parte4 forces operating through the strong Electrical and Radio Workers locals centering in St...
...Penal squads were composed of lot men guarded by SS troops...
...Kansas and Arkansas...
...district head of the U. E. in this section and one of the organizers of the drive which ousted Jim Carey from the presidency of the Electrical- Workers...
...Witkin said that Bullitt, while, Ambassador to France in 1940, had disobeyedinstructions from Secretary of State Cordell HuH Ordering him to leave Paris before the Nazis entered...
...Jewish prisoners were electrocuted...
...The act was passsd larger...
...The convention condemned police brutality in St...
...Soffrfui iff F. Cerny was executed at Prague on July 1st...
...taxpayers earning more than $5,000 will contribute $8 billion of taxes, and those earning less than $$,000 will contribute $11 billion—meaning that SO per cent'of the upper $ 30b ill ion of national income would be taken in taxes, while less than 10 per cent of the lower $127 billion would be taken...
...This drive was defeated when the convention re-elected James Davis of the Auto Workers Union as secretary-treasurer and elected Wayne Terry of the Wholesale and Retail Employees over a U. E. candidate for vice-president...
...The charges were immediately denied by Bullitt, who assailed tee City Hall' machine for its attempt to escape responsibility fee Philadelphia's failure to advance with the times...
...of September and registered the growth of the Industrial Union Movement in this state to over 100.00* members...
...with money and special privileges...
...When men are little setter off for earaJaf or registering big incomes than for sssniisj small ones, they win have less and less inceaaaa to take tee risks and trouble of earning Kg incomes," says the Times...
...Woe* now reaches London by undargiaaap sources that the ffermans have pa^sJeejaaT...
...Harris apparently forgets," said tee U.L.C...
...It is just another evidence' of the emotional attempt of Mr...
...After sterting with a whispered hodgepodge of rumors that Bullitt was bosh Jewish and anti-Semitic, and that be was anti-Negro, anti-Catholic and anti-labor, the drive came into, the open wish a charge by a Republican leader that Bullitt, when Ambassador to France, had.abetted tee Nasi occupation of France...
...i iL'i' ~i ' . 2. Formal declaration ef war est Germany's...
...reported to have refuse* Nasi offers of "protection" through removal from Rome to Lkateuetem or German* n*d moists en remseninr in Vatican City 5. Turkey was again reported to be meditating casting its tot with the /.Mies, which would enormous I v si ¦ pray the attack on the Balkans...
...up rase hatrec "The little men of our City .Hall," he said in a vigorous idfhsis, "who are attempting to profiteer on race hatred in order to hang- on to the jobs which they fill so 'badly, have forfeited all right to call themselves Republican by making their unholy ^alliance with the Fifth Columnists who cast themservis the American Comanmisos...
...Theemtp is guarded and commanded by SS^'Impi ¦ '*m "Political prisoners were mosffy Mas sat Czechs...
...3. Loom lag peseteiBty of a dtpwmate...
...A special category oi prisoners was held in underground cells, in which they can only assume a sitting position...
...CIO-and Railroad bsotiherdhood members in this city, and alienated some influential anion leaders heretofore considered friendly with the Republicans...
...in its -statement, "teat When he courtedour support in May, he said we are fortunate in Philadelphia in having tee most responsible group, of laser leaders in America, and lauded our people for maintaining a no-strike pledge made bene more than a year ago...
...A Polish miner working in Belgium who had helped Russian prisoners of war to- escape was sentenced to five years' penal servitude by a German military court in Liege at the end of July...
...to make available the said-Atlantic Aseces Islands to Allied oavdfcfsei ss mail i aW^Thntesaaaii ladlioj shorty off Mgfij* *f« > -* !«- i-s...
...Immediately, Bullitt replied that he had stayed in Paris on explicit instruction from Secretary Bull and President Roosevelt, and that stimson had stated the quotation at-' tribated to him wee without foundation...
...The anion Its...
...naaater»^t< oervZotoss wi sbechlia Cauhonaet eaargteg 111 111 isaabasia| atitme...
...Appearing before the Boose Ways and Means Committee, agents of the United States Chamber of Commerce endorsed a flat 19 per cent sales tax to raise shoot $6 billion in additional revenue...
...BntoiotteaM they exchanged sly soJ«r with one another, and sometimes they drew amg breaths and afthled awav as if given asff* strength hi the midst of their Nasi diuilasjtelf Then tee Gestapo agents read one inscription for themselves—and pwnptiy gas- banting tee awteor...
...The A. F. of L. convention in Boston last week declined to support she Preside nt on oato hams...
...The people of the Oswiecim village and *» neighborhood relate that prisoners are used far gaa and bacterial experiments...
...The whispers spread, however, and were magnified until tee m_?veiling Bulletin, a conservative newspaper Hwith the largest circulation in Philadelphia,'felt Kt necessary to call on Mayor Barnard Samuel, Hthe Republican candidate to repudiate the Rsmears...
...In the way tee Time* handled the question is illustrated the glib fashion in which a limited objective can be utilised to obscure a major objective, the limited objective in this case being inflation...
...The fifth and largest state convention of the CIO in the State of Missouri met here at the end...
...E Instead, County Commissioner Morton Within, la machine stooge, made a public address, with K Mayor Samuel present, in which he repeated " the smears and offered some new one* (supplied, it is suspected, by Communist sources i. Among other things...
...Hitter's weapon, into tee campsites against WiUiara C. Bullitt, laborsapnertod- Democratic candidate for Mayor...
...If widely used necessities are exempted...
...And it is from this $127 billiorf of lowlevel incomes that the inflation threat stems...
...A great deal of ft is grring into savings and government bono*, agaiatt the day when the earners know they tent' have Estimated savings this year are running aroend $36 baton, and the Times sn*ssjJ2 itself in ¦aellial idieeisl to suggesting' temUSS Treasury get its needed $10V» billion (if it cos be considered needed, for the government under the excuse est hoe war is certainly not being cautious in any of its spending i by digging mto these savings "and still leave individuals whe savings of about $25 blhon—or more than tee ' and e half times as Urge as tea highest ansonr volume of savings attained in any year prior to 1P4L" "There is ample evidence that tee balk oftjfcv savings,*' the Times comments sourly, "are being' accumulated by those hi the moderate and lowincome brackets...
...Gestapo agents saw notetag 1 unusual about tee number of persons fc^rvriag about this particular taper which Cardinal vW Roey had blessed on Holy Saturday...
...who insists he is a Democrat, is in the race, with the avowed aim of winning labor votes from Bullitt—in other words, of making'sure th*t Mayor Samuel, the Republican candidate, is 'elected...
Vol. 26 • October 1943 • No. 42
