The Turn of Events-A Review of Global Fronts
The Turn of Events-A Review of Global Fronts Coo/irrtxi Warfare &afs ftfat Matattt « * • The first fruit of the Moscow pact in ertemy countries was in Austria. There the Nssis rushed Gestapo...
...The Army must realize that the war is lost...
...The miners asked a wage increase of two dollars a day to compensate for travel time underground (portal-to-portal pay), a $30 to $50 annual increase in vacation pay, and working tools supplied by the operators...
...That in itself is unjust because the "Little Steel" formula freezes wages at the level of May, 1942 But to the miners this seems a minor injustice compared with the fact thst Roosevelt has changed OPA administrators two times, much guff and gush has come from OPA, but the fact remains thst prices have not yet been rolled back as required by the Act of Congress...
...The Board denies the sahssrs rf>ortal-t*~portal pay, trot orders farther negetiatioaa en this point between the miners end the operators...
...TheJaoms> aocording to PM, After inrntftias, the Allies by seagTatuU tmy the poppet government ef the Tnwspsiiiie, Ft wan eanenussuT sn agrees^t with she^ursp^Itahan ment esTlciai commented: " When the srods would destroy they first zaake mad...
...A new peak was reached in Britain during September, with 200 strikes in progress,* followed by a comparative lull in October, and prospects of more trouble this month...
...On March 11, the northern operators rejected the U.M.W...
...Terrorism la France "Complete disorder is likely to break out in France at any moment," a Vichy broadcast declared last week...
...31 deadline...
...German Marata Crock/so...
...3, Lewie appears before War Labor Board for first time, in company with Illinois ' operators, to support Illinois agreement...
...Basses war profits running from 4J t* ? percent made by British warship builders W been ill moid by an eflbrial hiteaUsnUes, whs* blamed Admiralty experts...
...Nov...
...SWWSSJS* www MBVWV In Britain as in the USA, strikes an the mere—V refecting labor discontent tansed If bath geremment,' failure to held Mspajjisjt costs of living, atop war profiteering, and pursue progressive domestic and foreign poncies...
...The Negro issue is already one of the most explosive situations developed by the war...
...Count Francisco de Jordan*, Franco's Parpresident of the Philippines, aesoring him ef the continued friendship of Spam...
...W a veil has called on the Indian Army to help deal with the emergency, which will continue until the rice harvest in January...
...The fuehrer hi in danger...
...2, President Roosevelt orders the coal mines seize J and directs Secretary Ickes te operate them...
...A letter that the UP report* was smuggled oet of Germany, signed by a Noti leader, starts...
...20, Ickes begins return of mines to operators...
...demands...
...The morale of the war prisoners is very high...
...Is.' •if» and H smmist fare* oad »efa» It wss s relief but Saturday te read Peggie's entyum and and no expose ef Mstt Levy er attack on a ktber smear...
...Treatment in prison hospitals is fairly good...
...the pony rants...
...June 1$, War Leber Board again rejects demand for portal-te-portal pay and orders that a two-year contract be signed containing a nostrike clause...
...On April 3, UMW Secretary-Treasurer Thomas Kennedy resigns as a member of the War Labor Board on indications that the Board will not grant wage increases to the miners...
...Who can bear the burden ef Inert seed taxation...
...so snt...
...The Austrian civil administration has been purged again...
...The President ordered the mines seised and directed Secretary Ickes to operate them...
...Oct 16, Lewis asks strikers to return to work Oct 18, expressing confidence that the Wsr Labor Board will approve the Illinois agreement and that It will be extended to the whole industry...
...Who are the war profiteers...
...The miners promptly agreed, but the operators rejected the plan...
...a WHEN DO WE TAftf THE PROFITS OUT OF WAR...
...Oet 26, War Labor Board rejects Illinois agreement Oct 26, fourth general strike begins st midnight Not...
...In the mttrevmng three Weeks, Warres mast hove asked the sd rice snd approval of ether governssental agencies It is important to ask, therefor*, who else knew of the order snd gave their approval...
...From The Economic Outlook, CIO.] ST...
...A pledge to Finland similar to the pledge to Austria would take Finland out of the war quickly* they declare...
...Labor, Negro Groups Rally to Fight Warren Ruling on FEPC Special u Tea Now Laann WASHINGTON, D. C—Negro and Labor groups rallied this week to sattfl* Fair Employment Practice* Committee (FEPC) following a ruling by Coraf*™* General Lindsay Warren bast week that virtually cripples the work of the In a decision last week...
...The London Bureau of the Austrian Socialist Party reports increasing desertions of soldiers, and' riots in Vienna...
...Loon Henderson, former OPA head, asclsnij that the Allied governments are guilty of tseng cowardice in evading the problem of sss3 European Jews from extermination...
...Emaciated victims including babies, were strewn along the streets of every village and city, as Viscount WaveD, Viceroy of India, made his tour of inspection last weak...
...Oct 15, War Labor Board asks Lewis to order miners to return to work...
...On that date the U.M.W...
...Figured after federal income taxes, the increase in income per worker in all nonagricultural employment from 1930 to IMS is 38 per cent...
...It state* that Hitler is net taking action against these "traitors" because the .Army needs them in this crisis...
...16, War Labor Board orders operation of government-operated mines eight hours s dsy in effort to increase miners' total weekly wages, but the order is never put into effect...
...Warren, a former Congressman from North CifOiim ruled that the President s Oder 9346 requiring that the Federal goverasnent a> erode m its war contracts s stipalation against-discrimination because of race, color or creed, was merely a "directive" and not an "order" and therefore was not mandatory...
...Lewis opaa ¦ isjitisliias Coal Crisis Averted As we go to press, sn sgreement signed between John L. Lewis snd Coal Administrator Ickes granting the miners s wsge increase has averted the cosl crisis...
...As we go to press isolationist opposition is collapsing and prospects are bright for adoption of a resolution that marks a drastic change in American foreign policy...
...There the Nssis rushed Gestapo reinforcements to suppress demonstration...
...Premier Ramsswassi Aiyer of the South Indian State ef Travaaeere declared that the food assMrtage is even saore critical there than in Bengal...
...Per a wtakt...
...Nsxaire no rnngcr exists...
...The Mas* leaders ate discredited...
...are bmohV loaf, armed .. .JusfsS inriinf by the Germans ef being en tan ? at the terrorists...
...the War Labor Beard grants the miners increased vacation pay and company payment far took...
...in manufacturing industries it is 70 per cent...
...It is as much a strike against the domestic policies of the Administration and the failure of the latter to deal even-handed justice to labor and Big Business...
...Warren's ruling was published on October 27, but from reliable sources it hi learned that the rating was promulgates orayirmay en October 7th...
...Navy Day was, as usual, marked by yingoesm about the U.S.A...
...Pessimism is eating away at the pillars of the National Socialist regime...
...Soldiers returning ansae en furlough are urged to "bring to the home front tit* moral i amain that it seeds...
...The German Army officer...
...On April 6, three days rater, the southern operators demand that the War Labor Board take action in the dispute...
...The effect is ohrhsas—the collapse at any attempts to wipe out discriminatory practices...
...tbsnrs nothing yon can de about it...
...The Wsr Labor Board and the OPA must now spprove of the new contract, which follows almost exactly the Illinois contract...
...The character of the propaganda of Go ebb els and of the Osissan Higti Command, intend...
...Man with his hmaaaitarias asssV mentality shouldn't interfere with Natan't straggle for existence...
...opened its biennial wage conferences with the Southern and Northern Appalachian operators...
...On April 22, Secretary Perkins certified the dispute to the War Labor Board...
...Hitler SSSse that further retreats and defeats may undermine Nasi authority and diminish the will to fight Devastating Allied air raids are fully as effective as Red Army victories in breaking down German morale, neutral experts report...
...that American and British forces occupying India are eating the food that should go te starving natives...
...The miners virtually unanimously ignore rt-osevelt's order that they return to work...
...imperialist demands—to the great indkenatisn of those liberals who see nothing wrong with similar isms nits made by Stalin...
...Senefe bf orches On The Senate resolution on post-war foreign policy embodies virtually word-for-word the phrases of the joint declaration signed by Hall, Eden, and Molotov...
...But War Labor Board steps in and forbids the mine owners to negotiate with Lewis until the latter consents to appear before the Labor Board, whkh Lewis has ignored up to this point...
...Aug...
...Conflicts between the...
...Initiated by A. Philip Randolph, that mtrrcment gafned the support of 100 trade union leaders at s conference called recently at Fieedum House and a committee wan organised to support that end under the chairmanship ef Samuel Weichak ef CIO with David Dnbfnsky a* treasurer...
...Survival ef the attest, sad all that you know...
...Aug...
...The Senator also objects to Uncle Sam's feeding starving millions...
...She write* a passsoaate and eloquent pretest sgainst.the way radio goes round-'n'-rosnd sad comes est blab "Radio bleats out an endless repetition of catchall phrssea," she complains, sad we agree...
...WehTmaeht lenders are bitter ever Hitlers effort to bolster up Nazi Party prestige at the -nxpsonf-nf Ostovagnttt SOU Ban* of men and material, rather than strategic retreat on both fronts...
...Sabotage and clashes between terrorists and police are taking place all over the country...
...announce s new agreement for wage increase of $1.7$ dairy to pay for additional working time to include portal-to-portal time...
...concludes Peg of Old Sewery...
...Malaria, cholera, dysentery are fast becoming spiosmic in Bengal, lime!— Iamine and silitoosilii Of SaadJCOl sappPoi, Le&oers of the Congress Pasty charge that governmental efforts te cheek the rapid spread of disease, to bring hi teed and iimesl sosnsons and isteo has emergency hospitals, are half-hearted and ineffective...
...French newspaper "Le Petit Pwrw»*f reported...
...It is reliably reported that Ickes as operator of the mines is prepared to settle with UMW with a compromise of a dollar a day...
...On March 12, the southern operators betrayed their real objective by demanding that the 1941 contract be maintained in status quo for the duration of the war...
...If the WLB approves this new contract, it is expected thst harmony will prevail when the mines are returned to their owners...
...3, Ickes and...
...On March 20, the reactionaries in Congress got in on the fight by indicating that a coal strike would result in punitive legislation...
...Does the promise of the Moscom accord, that the right of small nations to self-determination will be respected, apply aiso to Finland...
...needa access to raw materials, especially oil, in colonial countries controlled by Britain, "lest the end of the war find these resousces virtually untouched and our own exhausted...
...The Senate marches on—reluctantly...
...Doctors are begging for quinine...
...Aug...
...Swedish social democratic papers, say that the joint declarations have produced consternation among Nasi leaders...
...On May 17, at request of Secretary Ickes...
...June 25, P resident sn Bounces he doesn't recognise Oct...
...It seems plain now that to be a leader of the miners one must first agree with the miners...
...The Senate recognizes the necessity for an international organization based on the principle of the sovereign equality of all peaceloving nations, to maintain peace by collective security...
...31, U.M.W...
...Red Cross packages ware a great boon...
...Joe R. Hanley...
...The Negro citisens have felt keenly the segregation and discriminatory practices of the Army and tension has run high...
...German morale is cracking fast, according to virtually aii of the recently lepatiiated Brisens, Canadians, and Americans who have spent from six months to three years in German prison camps...
...June 21, third gonersl coal strike begins...
...Most of those are seBeeSwOI 5 guarding ruins...
...t ft * • • franco Scolded fry Store Doporfmoof...
...Such air raids were the prime factor in the Italian capitulation...
...Dehorns* is taking the place of arrogant confidence, and discipline is profoundly shaken, these neural observers state...
...On May 2, Lewis beat Roosevelt to the radio by 20 minutes to order work resumption for 15 days...
...French pfjS forces...
...Than) whs can't* make the grade are natarefly weak lings who deserve to perish...
...25, War Labor Board rejects Illinois agreement...
...The moral knsert of his thesis is that the iiadi i srirlkfjal among pigs sad birds are just satsiaflj doomed...
...The coal dispute has raged almost without cessation since last March 10...
...A. Philip Randolph, co-chairman Wf the National Committee for a Permanent FEPC, mat night telegraphed President Ttoisn nil and Comptroller General Warren criticising warren's decision as "hsir splitting " The lehoTsO said in part: "Any legalistic metaphysics with res pert * an attempt to use letter-perfect teehnioas a contradistinction to the spirit of Esecathw Order 8802 (Roosevelt's order baring dmeSsaasV tion in war industry), that sabotages tip *lja»nation of discrimination on scceont ef m*V religion or national origin in the Gesmnsstst or defense industries will not only m*m minority groups, including Negroes, Jeaa aw others, but will have its disastrous *ssm»at siona throughout the entire war massnasry...
...Two years of fancy talk and fancier footwork has been translated by the miners into the simple formula: We can't pay 1943' prices with 1941 wages...
...files suit in Birmingham claiming portal-to-portal pay under the Wage and Hour Act Sept 23, minors operators and U.fJf.W...
...After strong labor sad Negro pressure, seme of the powers at the FEPC wore restored...
...This position was officially adopted by the northern operators on April 7. And the Administration has backed this proposal consistently...
...June 1, the second general coal strike begins...
...Eden, and Melstee...
...Aug...
...Blsssu* permanent rights te airfields across Africa, bases in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, Russell insists the U.S.A...
...The only goad thing about M per ceat ef tbo stuff is that yen can tarrn it off when you reach the saturation point...
...I« , 4k...
...Thh em issue has been avoided, postponed, sad ask merged with all the forms of polities* a*n avaisshee to powerful governments.'' he rbj^T Sweden and Denmark he said, shams sjTS their generosity and hospitality te Jowsfi refusmes...
...The New Deal is a dead duck, reaction is in the saddle, and once more the coal miners are playing the part of the militant vanguard of the workers...
...But all the soap in the world cannot wash the cobwebs and dirt from the nineteenth-century minds of reactionary Senators who have dynamned the tax program of the Treasury, part of the antiinflation plan of the Administration...
...Finnish social democrats have raised the thorny question...
...On May 1, a general coal strike was virtually complete...
...The FEPC was their greatest gain in the war, obtained under the leadership of A. Philip Randolph...
...Dear eld Weathreeh jest wrote sheet * sack pig brenght into tow* and te the kosastal by Job* Jacob Aster...
...Reports from varying sources are persistent that something is scheduled to happen in the coming weeks in Germany something drastic Possibly a palace revolution of Army officers against Hitler...
...The new contract is in force only so long as the government operates the mines, • which is expected to be about 60 dsys...
...It is expected that the Controller's decision will spur action towards s permanent FBPC...
...On April 13, Secretary of Labor Prances Perkins proposes s settlement on the basts of a guaranteed six-day work week in view ef the full-time requirements of coal production for the war effort...
...The History of the Coal Negotiations (From The New Leader Washington Bsreeo) WASHINGTON D- C.—The President probably knows now how John L. Lewis felt three yeara ago when the coal miners' . chieftain tried to swing them to Willkie...
...H is sn*a worthy that the Jew** stasias is snt BBssjtsensd tn the jets* Jiih»**iu-_ issond by Hail...
...Taxes Unfa Death With commendable concern for cleanliness, the House Ways and Means Committee has exempted soap from the excise tax schedule...
...southern reactionaries sought to hamotiina, the agency by robbing it of its independent status and piecing it under the dhnetiea of Paul McNutt and the War Manpower Commission...
...ntwwuwss...
...despite -the picture ef Jliiofnl eWvastation such as has never been seen before.'' , *..„••* Tan) foesjo Urea mi .. . flsastor Richard B. Rsssell has again vetoed I aserista...
...Food is poor—potatoes, bread, and watered soup—in the camps for war prisoners, they reported...
...It was explained then that "the cool miners really regard Roooeveh as their loader...
...A good neijrhbor policy, international cooperation, by consent of the U. S. Navy...
...Versing en the hysterical, radio announcers reiterate day-ia-and-dsy-ost sad all through the sight, cliches and punch lines and fake "sincerity" sad drain, drool, droei...
...A new wave of terrorism is swepeing through France...
...Oct 13, Protest strikes agsinst return oi mines start in Alabama and spread next dsy te Indiana...
...The fourth national coal strike in a year was more than a strike against the operators who have received higher price ceilings from OPA while sitting heavily on the lid of wages...
...From correspondents of Swiss newspapers and of ether neural countries comes additional testimony that civilian morale is cracking in Gerssemy...
...Discontent is creeping into the ranks of the Foreign Legion...
...Oct 12, Ickes returns last of mines to private ownership...
...maintaining the world's biggest navy, "national greatness buttressed by sea power...
...The agreement reached at the Moscow Conference to wage united coalition warfare, combined with smashing military victories on all fronts, have produced a flock of prophesies from varying quarters that the German Army may oust Hitler, set up a military dictatorship, and sue for peace, during the coming winter...
...Appeasement of reaction during wartime is as unwise as appeasement of fascism before the war proved to be...
...u-^r,__A -* -:-¦--—-¦—.-—--¦-¦-¦---—-----------¦--For almost a year there has been sn Act Of Congress on the books requiring prices to be roiled back to the level of September 15, 1942...
...e - AWmM Eva do Jewish Problem...
...What Abort Finland...
...Aug...
...June 3, the President ordered the strikers back on the job by June 7. June 4, Lewis, in response te a letter from Ickes, orders work resumed June 7. June 7, the Illinois coal operators offer to bargain on the basis of $1.50 for portal-toportal pay...
...W esters U **on tovWsOS to " I ¦» tlajaj _ W illiam N. Haskell tried to ngutslsu bp op...
...June 9, the Central Pennsylvania operators group apparently is ready to settle for $1.30 a day...
...That is the heart of the controversy, and in their reaction the miners are expressing a point of view on which all labor appears unanimous...
...vast ha 'sn die...
...The feehrer Is la Danger...
...The atmosphere of France is ripe for complete lawlessness...
...Unreliable as they are, these rumors, "letters smuggled est of Germany," and observations of "neutral experts," they nevertheless indicate the possibility of impending change...
...Radio Droolery The gratitude of the nation is doe Harriet Van Home...
...On May 26...
...For this week the miners ignored Roosevelt just as three years ago they ignored Lewis...
...wilt try to do something te save themselves...
...One theory holds that Field Marshal Wilselm Keitel heads a plot to oust Hitler and negotiate peace...
...The Warren ruling comes at a partieolariy terse moment, for the FEPC has bean expected to hand down its ftndhnrs on discrimination in the railroad industry...
...That hot seems to be the way things have to he...
...MAZAIU tfFOffTl• ?I4in» BARCELONA, «parn — Asked te report en bomb damage to his city, the ¦syOf •/ St...
...Or will that principle be laid aside when Russia's small neighbors are discussed...
...It is charged that British authorities have drained India of supplies to ship to British troops...
...In the same period the national income increased 1M per cent...
...Ssmc wsy with the New Deal tar tie underprivileged among men—but th*Banal needs m> underlining...
...Miners Get Wage Demahds From Ickes...
...British miners demand nationalization ef the . mines...
...the present impasse was precipiated when the War Labor Board refused to approve a contract signed by Lewis snd the Illinois coal operators...
...Venssj Union tssd him that such s win riiittit ws» time regulstions General Haskell had kt an the phone...
...June 22, Lewis calls off strike on condition that government continue to operate mines until a new contract is signed, but in no case longer than until Oct '31...
...Lewis extends work order until May 31...
...to strengthen sworsia, is significant...
...Nazis May Saa far Paaca...
...tm ion ¦¦¦ »iiMhiii •VeaWsmaWTa...
...The Germans seem to realise that they are losing the war...
...Naaafre told Marshal "Jewel Petap that "St...
...on sis electa* « Lieutenant Ginermw of New York...
...The latest strike is at a Scottish engineering plant, where 24,000 have walked out The coal-mining industry is a perennial headache to the British government, just as it is to the American...
...etcetera ad aaaceaas...
...Army and the Naxto over sUsnsjj in Russia and Italy is growing...
...Be eewateaM the demtttt ef piggy, tie else sssatfenol s swrssssal experience with s sack ant a hemming hard te pre*t hss asnat ant when aarmahi snd birds get ssrhty...
...July, 21, Lewis announces agreement with Illinois operators calling for extra hour of work each day st overtime rates and settlement of portal-to-portal demands at $'..25 per day...
...and continues with the warning that the lOsWllI caste plan* a military dictatorship which will try to negotiate peace...
...A srefeuad aaalysas of these ssssssht shew* that even ea the subject ef passu* Peggie is s reactionary...
...The Mayor, one of forty nakmf ?. rsid reports, said that in 9l- ^•"Sj' which once had a pepslation of <M§| • ration cards now arc Issues' te ssdy >fj persons...
...Net profits after taxes of corporate business have increased 107 per cent...
...WorM-Telegram radio critic...
Vol. 26 • November 1943 • No. 45
