A Primer on the CCF
Jr, JAMES LOES
A Primer on the CCF By JAMES LOES,Jr AMKg W i f f FOU* CANADA. A « ~ - ~ v o/ CCF Hutaa « W Poiirv. gfc, Doind Ltwf, « ,d Seott, mhm a foreword by M. J. Coldwell, M.P. Published by the...
...My experience is that soldiers don't like to talk about these things because they are anxious to make .buddies of their barracks mates...
...The most radical program which a third or labor party in the United Statos could adopt would be a more vigorous and B s S B going New Deal program...
...There's no narrow sectionalism dividing-the various groups...
...urges sppian ment of Mussolini...
...PM aa* bean noted for its staunch defense of civil rights, as has the New Yojk Post, but Sjsjthsr has commented editorially on the action...
...Should Ireland be given freedom now or after the war...
...For the first time, there is some relief, some laughter...
...The soldiers whom Dick interviewed came from New York, Washington, Minnesota, Ohio, South Carolina, Connecticut, Oklahoma and New Jersey...
...ftWh" *eat u infleautial mm...
...George Washington Robnett is suing Walter Wmehetl and 'John lay <^irfron for statements made against him in Ussier Cover...
...Sweat and Tsars'.'' That's running the gamut from A to Z and back again...
...He correctly says that "in a people's war such as we are fighting it is all the more important that the home front should he as fully aware as possible ef what |e going on in faraway waters...
...Here were some of Time's snapshot comments: "...Passes Sandhurst entrance exams on third try...
...Saul Mills, party-line secretary of thp New York City CIO Council, was trying to grab the past of New York State director of CIO's political action committee...
...Sogge will name the Nazi paymasters who distributed the "dough" for the hate campaigns...
...Of the utmost importance, too, are his conclusions regarding the time element in the Euroshould take precedence...
...Now he is l i in csmp being trained as a flier...
...Published by the Cooperate** Csmmm wealth Federation of Canada...
...With him, Fascism is not a matter of teste...
...What is more, he has begun to relax sufficiently to turn out as gentle s piece of writing as the reverie of an old woman hours sway from her death...
...When I saw the first ones, my snap judg- -jsfht was thst your correspondents were right...
...Smith loves to "bait" the Communists aad be loves the publicity he gets...
...Come on, you boys in other camps...
...Do you believe the Negroes should be given greater equality...
...This does not mean to endanger the European front by withdrawing men and supplies needed there—it does mean, however, not to sacrifice the Asia front—and perhaps the war—by i l i i 1 lag it unnecessarily Fortunately recent developments IiiiThila that the master minds Who determine OUT military strategy have come to realise tills sBJI are beginning to translate that realisation Into action...
...How many members has Smith got enrolled in the ALP hah...
...By Gilbert'Cant...
...On the other hand, once sound friendships are made—and that takes a long time—five to eight months, I'd say—they are willing to air their views...
...Do you believe in labor unions...
...On the whole, do you like the present day unions...
...in his mind this is a global war in which the problem is one Of inter-reutfenship between the various fronts, and not a choice between alternatives...
...Make This Your Csn*4l»*\ is an attempt, and a highly successful one...
...The history of the ^ , . a a optima* by Lewis and Scott, is a complete refutation of their arguments...
...Tims Limss fee Iff Three EVERY magazine had some layout prepared for the announee1 mer.t of the meeting of the Big Three, and Tim* had s fearpage biographical spread leading off the issue...
...T is one of the paradoxes of American letters that the saost a-signifieggt writers * are superb craftsmen where the significant writers have been unconscious or careless of technique...
...Right-wingers objected...
...Besides providing a • painstakingly careful story, so far as the censorship permitted, of the sea battles in which we participated, the book is analytical and critical in a constructive manner...
...2.75...
...There is ao need for the Navy and the Army to lose their identities, • Or for their air forces to be taken from them and combined in a third co-equal branch...
...One of the Communists interested me most...
...He had spent 13 years in jail under the fascists and had been released by Badoglio...
...It's a job keeping the fire going while it's pouring down buckets of rain...
...j_a aw, a Mtor srsriv In the first place, the CCF is net a labor party In its origins it leaned heavily on the farming community, especially in the fax western Canadian provinces...
...Minds la the Mud I T A L Y may not be a part of the home front, but Bob is one of our New Leader family- I know that his letters are intended for you as well as for me...
...Most of the people seem to be either Socialist, Communist or pro-House of Savoy...
...In Spain, ' in the much vaunted and so-called politically mature International Brigade I have seen—in the Thaelman Brigade—German excouncillors fighting like cats and dogs over a piece of rag to keep out the cold...
...He is under surveillance, his mail is censored and no political correspondence is altowed...
...Assuming that we have a 'bureaucracy' today, do you like it...
...CANT minces no words about this—he declares that the American Navy's naive form of censorship "can produce ludicrous results, and has done so...
...And in my opinion it defeated its own purpose, because it is negative and suppressive...
...I looked at him again and could see that he was a really sincere revolu- . tjonary...
...There has never been a glimmer of joy, of hope, in your stuff...
...The public which is paying.4he piper in taxes and in human lives has the right not only to call the tune, but to demand that it be played in harmony...
...As for the Lincoln Brigade, where the level of political development never got beyond 13th Street, a can of bully heef would be sufficient to start an internecine Trotsky-FrancoHitler riot...
...If so, the Hitrer-Hirohito tOirfhtud I I fceasd to defeat years earlier than otherwise possible...
...ims|** justly finds it unjustifiable for information known to the enemy to be kept by oar Navy from our own public...
...And they do have views...
...however, should be particularly valued by Navy families— by the parents and sweethearts and others close to our boys at sea, for it contains a meticulous summary of our naval warfare that harrowing year...
...It is also to be noted that the American naturalists are men devoid of any real humorous sense, of the feeling for wit...
...His outstanding characteristic is reasonableness—he instinctively avoids the extremist conclusion' no matter how sensational...
...On the one hand we bave the deft handlers of words—the OUaras and the Cabells: on the other, the Dreis^rs and Farrells...
...I don't attribute this to the lack of political development of the average Canadian or U. S. soldier...
...By James T. FarrelL Vanguard Press...
...And in writing of an adolescence which was more than slightly his own, Farref...
...This takes us to James T. Farrell's latest book My Days of Anger...
...A Nat* os Political Semantics TIE NEW LEADFTt is in favor of political asylum for refugees whether the;, be Kipg Carol or Jesus Hernandez Toman, 9°t one thing ought to be cjuar, and that is the label the man kgus...
...Then he goes on: "We have little time at the moment to think about anything but mere animal comforts...
...The defensive, all along the line, is tar more costly and wasteful than a properly conducted offensive, because, as the British found out in the early days of the war before their war production reached its peak, it is impossible to be strong at every point where an attack may be expected...
...Polo and Pig-sticking Becomes Home Secretary, sends troops to put down railway strike, leads police in person against anarchist...
...Smith boasts that he has instructed his members to vote for the State leadership of the American Tabor Party and the Communists give the story a seven column streamer...
...More From Farrell By PAUL CASTELAR MY DAYS OF ANGER...
...Do you believe the U. S. should cooperate in post-war reeosstruction and the maintenance of peace...
...His great work is Studs Lonigan, a book which in the years since its appearance has maintained its vigor and shock despite numerous readings...
...He is the boy, you will remember, who is fighting With the Canadians in the Eight Army...
...We manage this on the simple basis of we-had-our-share-now-givethenext-gang-a-break...
...The Home Front By WILLIAM E.BOHN f\ICK used to be a member of the New Leader staff...
...such as Bricker, Dewey or --.mm worse...
...Do you believe in public housing...
...He believes the solution of that head-splitting and hair-splitting problem is in neither of these extremes, but in the setting up of a unified high command above all present independent commands...
...Nor would I suspect that the large Americar corporations whose economic interest* m Canada are so heavy would accept Sac expropriations of Prime Minister Cornwall's C?g QomsjBassimJ srfjhout a fight, even with the somssmsation that the CCF program offers* I don't cite this problem hist to be nasty...
...A monthly four-page paper will be issued in January to be called "Freedom Digest" and edited by Mrs...
...P/fl you believe that Britain should give complete freedom to India now...
...No ens to bis right mind could suggest that such a party eoold be organized on a mass basis in this country at this historical moment...
...As a matter of fact, we drift from group to group and never feel as if we're committing sn act of treachery...
...John Day Co...
...JP#mmsj^^r,eifTfce> ope wrserwiss 'WJggTBROOK PEGLER is seriously ill with pneumonia...
...Cant finds this question the wrong approach...
...And that is the kind of book that they have written...
...Eloquent in its appreciation of the handicaps we surmounted and the bravery shown by our men, it is plain-spoken in criticism...
...Do you trust Russia...
...From the following letter ism will learn that he has not lost any of his sharp interest in italic affair*: *I have not read all the letters in your controversy about whether soldiers think...
...not a secondary front...
...First be wanted to know whether I was a 'proletarian.' Then he took toe aside and answered my questions...
...But Hernandez was constantly referred to as an "antifascist," a "Spanish Loyalist," a "Republican Minister" and anything but what he really was, a Spanish Communist who had been the Communist representative in the Loyalist government...
...When the war is over do you think we soldiers should unite in a powerful legion *to show the brass hats and politicians how to run things...
...Do you believe that Jews, Catholics and other minority groups should be given a greater degree of equality...
...That latter film, incidentally, flopped miserably all over the country according to trade paper reports...
...The American Civil Liberties Union issued a blistering statement en the refusal of the Court to act...
...In their own preface the authors recognise that several problems 'deserved fuller treatment, including foreign policy...
...4SS pages...
...The facts are simple: Mosely is pot released, he has been transferred from prison to a private home on the advice of leading physicians...
...has begun to exorcise some qf the hags who have ridden him for so long...
...It is expected that the trials will be held in Washington and start shortly before toe New Year...
...But they were not written in irony, I am sure...
...But it is in no way a deprecation of the Lonigan't eminent position to state, that since then Farrell has merely rehashed his subject matter with no newness of approach and no appreciable growth or discernment...
...ox-lf ttlnue , Canadian people...
...But it bears the fruit of sn experiment which was plowed under in the failure of Ellen Roger*—an awkward attempt to leave a barren objectivity...
...During his 13 years in jail he had been cut off from the Psrty line...
...He will always have his slabs of life, but I think that in the future, among the greasy ones a few will be buttered...
...The CCF*s position is one of active opposition to "policies which encourage the rise of anti-democratic forces everywhere— such policies, for example, as those which have been pursued towards Vichy France, Franco Spain and in North Africa...
...f)0 you believe thgt Britain should give complete freedom to IjraJand...
...In" this outfit we have our cliques and groups, it is true...
...The Daily Worker is manufacturing a great hullabaloo over the "release" of Oswsld Mosely and The New Leader's editorial statement on the release...
...Farrell stops condemning.now and then to have pity for some of his people...
...There is even a rather stirring hypothetical speech to be made by Mr...
...ARqig with the all-important matter of coordination between the military services, Cant takes up critically and constructively the coordination that should exist between the fleet and the people at home...
...Of particular interest is the last section of the book in which Lewis and Scott outline concretely what the CCF will do when the party attains power in Canada...
...Up to now, Farrell's output has been, in a way, monolithic...
...Do you believe that we should help to rebuild Italy politically 'and economically...
...f f i s a s T. Svjue, iniluential Midwest political figure and editor of ike Madison Capital Time*, writes that he has not gone eat tor .WkW^mam says be has supported FDR from 1982, hut stated 4aP«Ptg.Wmiue'i> Wisconsin tour that he hoped the toualed^haawd HasgJsrW would be the GOP nominee in 1944...
...Do you like "big business?' Yes...
...All armed services must be eisposiij and directed by a unified command...
...These two books cdwkl well become forerunners of a notable series of annual books on the American Fleet's role in the war...
...Sidney Hillman will head off the storm by taking the post himself and moving national headquarters ef CIO's political action committee to New Y o r k . . . . Freedom House will move to 6 West 54th Street after November SO to a house loaned by Robert Lehman...
...Coldwell becomes Prime Minister during the incumbency in our White House of s "Warren G. Harding, Jr...
...Polities, however, has nothing to do with it...
...Amerka's.Navy in World War II...
...Professionally they represented bartenders, students, railway workers, farmers, businessmen, factory and office workers...
...You will want to know what it is that right now forms the basis of our grouping...
...What do you think of Dick's figures...
...Several under indictment now may be dropped...
...My Days of Anger is Farrell's best book since Studs...
...There's no relief...
...the CCF as a model "success story" which should be eoniec here...
...Offhand r"should say that the experience of the social program of former President C&rdcftMM of IsfoXskw 4MB 9&9Bf well and that was carried oat earing the p residency of Frank}in D. stoaeeveK...
...It is simply this: we all have turkeys, but there are not enough pots...
...In such a case, "The War at Sea" could very well be considered the prelude to "Americas navy in worm war 11," cant's present book...
...i * • CsmerJIan Soldier—Italian Palitict " V H E political situation here is confusing...
...Try it sometime, you letterwriters, and I think you will find that soldiers think, take sides !aad have opinions...
...And it is equally important to observe that it was...
...y I "Do you believe the United Nations should establish a world police force...
...Becomes Secretary of War and Air, Offers dotes tod Germany rewards if she will join agaknst feel baboonery of Bolshevism.' . . . Helps break general strike at 19S6, runs national debt up Welcomes Italian faeHsm...
...Do you trust Britain...
...What's more, if a survey were made I think the results would be astounding...
...Blood...
...It must be given serious though: on both sides of the border...
...Proving my point that front-line conditioning depends on a simple mentality and a sense of personal comradeship based on personal relationship—and not on politica^.commitments...
...But I think that for the first time, Farrell has some doubts about his literary method...
...Ah geews HitMramda-r FASCIST Gerald L. K. Smith and the Communist Daily Wormar *• have a neat publicity arrangement, whereby each leads the other s helping hand...
...Do you believe that we should completely destroy Italy as as giographic unit...
...Its appendices list the names of those who received decorations, and the warships lost by ourselves and our Japanese enemy...
...He points out that in no single instance in this war did "either of the great Axis powers achieve signal success by the use of only one branch of its armed forces...
...He reveals how that • ease ate si ion has been handicapped by the Navy's purblind censorship...
...Only more recently has the CCF begun to have heavy labor SUgpotV , > Secondly, whatever its name, the CCF is a completely Socialist Party, with a Socialist program based on Socialist theory...
...And it takes us to the one thing which can be said of it, the one thing which was not said of his previous books...
...For instance, he finds himself neither in the camp of those who believe that our air service should be wholly independent, nor in the camp of those who wish it to foe merely a part of our Army or Navy...
...to Wlfcfcjfcsf gossery Ward ia linked, to call off Avery, hat Avery aassddp't he swayed...
...Do you like 'little business?' Yes...
...It's usually up to one of the boys who really have views, who are particularly interested in peace aims, post-war reconstruction, Winkle's chances or whether he'll get his old job back, to set the hall rolling by popping a dynamite-loaded question when everyone's lying in his bunk just after lights-out...
...He was so different from his 13th Street colleagues...
...He goes to the crux of the entire matter when he says that while "we shall he nahlSt ta JUag overwhelming force to bear in the Far Bast until the Nazi-Fascist Axis in Europe has been brought to defeat"—a holding war is not success ful if while holding the enemy to the territory it has conquered, Japan is permitted to dig into and exploit these areas...
...v . ., One final point must be made for the benefit of our own advocates of the hnmsdisto...
...She was in Russia with Albert Rhys Williams and wrote s hook in praise of the Soviets...
...Antagonizes labor by work or fight order (first World War...
...This volume, which brings us up to our Navy's part in the conquest of Guadalcanal, is primarily a story of our war on the Pacific, as it was there that our Fleet was preoccupied that first year...
...JkWgmmr Wend is suing "Business Week" for libel o> a 3mm tNJtog wfth its labor rrisriaps The mail-order ae«se . JliSjw f s&g tius CIO WWleeaJe asm Retail Union (eg ajieged>y Uhekee sUtosseau...
...T say American because it is probably a local phenomenon...
...The Pacific is a second primary front...
...The CCF offer* an alternative system of society, for which Messrs...
...L "Do you believe that we should completely destroy Germany as s geographic unit...
...The Morning Freshest, Jewish CoannUt daily, to an editorial reply to a reader, proposed that the Department ef Justice shut down The New Leader, "just as it did the Milium...
...He was imprisoned under the general home defense powers given to Morrison...
...Sew.ll Avery, heed of the eesaeaay, ha* »>HiWr UW»»jL»va*red thoeaaada at deUars to aowsaegmr ,ads W i n g the W«r Labor Board ami the untoe...
...Inside and Out By MURRAY EVERETT AtHmm — fa* fascist Free* ' ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL JOHN O. KOGCW_Kill •send seme neat Christmas presents to some American Fascist "Typhoid Marys" in the form of indictments for sedition, Sogge has pi spared his case earef ully and about 40 persons will be named...
...it will facilitate war bond sales and tax collections...
...TVie tort comments on Churchill were the most provoking...
...Plain Talk About Our War at Sea By EDWARD HUNTER AMERICA'S NAVY IN WORLD WAR II...
...The Oommunists appreciate Smith's baiting tor it gives them a "handle" against the liberals...
...One of the features was a huge box that compared the activities of FDR, Stalin and Churchill ever the different years...
...It is necessary that the respective Army and Navy officers responsible for tit forces should cooperate fully, should stop competing for materials aad manpower and publicity, and should coordinate fully the efforts of the trained combatants under their jurisdiction) If they fail to do these things, they must be replaced...
...Lewis and Scott make a most effective argument...
...M. J. Coldwell, parliamentary leader, when he is sworn in as Canadian Prime Minister...
...I know very little * about it...
...3.76...
...Bsjatees...
...Cries after Munich?''You will chess dishonor and you will have war.' . . . Defends gliosis II iwTaaton of Poland...
...It is so restrictive as to suggest the the suppression of information in a totalitarian dictatorship rather than the maintenance of military security in a democracy...
...Do you believe that Britain should give complete freedom to...
...Joyce, who —rr...
...The British labor leader/ srho has been making the most energeeic speeches in the Labor Party against monopoly and for Socialism, decided that the stringent regulstions could be relaxed and some civil procedures be reestablished, without danger to British democracy...
...Bessie Beatty...
...To India with 31st Punjab Infantry...
...The conclusion is inescapable," he goes to say...
...A week or so ago I stopped in a town and saw a political center called Fronte National...
...by David Lewis, national secretary, and Professor Frank Scott, national chairman, to review the origins, the history and the-progrjim of the CCF in such a way as to win tuhie< vcounimfidueennccee...
...My Days of Anger marks a point of departure...
...To try to be strong at every point means to be weak at most of them...
...You write one greasy elab of life after another...
...This is asanttojly wast the CCF is not...
...Do you believe that after the war the U. S. should adopt a policy of armed isolation...
...He reports that it rains so much in Italy that the boys are getting homesick for Britain where it merely rained all the time...
...Smith this week boasts thst he has the support of the American Civil Liberties Union, and the Daily Worker obligingly features the story...
...On the other hand, if the Japaaeaa can he pinned down to the defensive by strong local attacks...
...Their analysis of capitalist society in wartime Canada is strictly and frankly Marxist...
...The pots are doing 84 hour service boiling or broiling the old gobblers...
...It is not at all unlikely that after the next general elections the CCF will be the official opposition, thus paralleling the rise of the British Labor Party after World War I. While the concrete program of the CCF as outlined sounds plausible enough, there is one unanswered question which I should like . to pat to the authors through the medium of this review: What happens to the CCF Government and its program if Mr...
...This will inspire the'workers st home tb greater efforts, so that the fighting men be plentifully supplied with ships and weapons...
...Yes...
...It still suffers from the usual Farrell faults, including a sparing use of the shears and the blue pencil...
...I met some Socialists, Christian Democrats and Communists...
...General Patton was suffering some sort of shell-shock himself when he struck a soldier, Quentin Reynolds declared this week in London...
...Do you believe in socialized medicine...
...But since then I mm b * e n thinking the thing over...
...Carol can't get away with the story that he is a democrat «bd people ought to know who Hernandez is.' PM recently cailjoapn a commendable and vigorous campaign to have the immigration authorities permit Hernandez (to travel across this country toto Mexico...
...It's natural for people to seek out their own kind for companions...
...It should also be noted that no charges have been launchedndjBhst the fascist leader...
...It has the same characters and the same characteristics as A World I Never Made and the other Danny O'Neill books...
...Cant points out that "we must abandon the idea of a purely defensive campaign against Japan...
...I t is followed by a review of CCF history and organizational structure in which particular emphasis is placed upon the democratic nature pf their party, as opposed to Communist Party practices...
...That this section is not of mere academic significance was proved by the provincial elections in Ontario last August when the CCF won 34 seats and polled one-third of the total vote cast...
...it will enable the workers in the factories and the fields to identify themselves with the exploits of relatives and friends to the firing line—and perhaps most important of all— it will give our officers and men the invaluable encouragement that comes from knowing that their hardship and their hard-won victories are appreciated by those who have never seen an ocean or an enemy warship...
...Speaking to O'Neill about his apprentice writing, a character says: "You've almost * sWamped me for ten weeks Him svuiics « u sarwuca aooui wnores ana pimps, stealing in gas stations, drunken women, unhappy homes . . . miserly immigrants, superstitious prejudiced Irish Catholics...
...Cant returned only recently from a.four-month tour of investigation with our naval forces in the Pacific war theaters...
...not enough for the United Nations to enjoy superiority ia a single element, even when, as in Burma, that-superiority was in the air...
...pushed naturalism to its outermost reaches, was a breath-taking technician...
...A hey figure involved is a man described as America's intellectual fascist...
...100...
...I think it would be tragic if some sonenity like Bricker should, through a fluke of politics, emerge aa the Republican victor in 1S44...
...But then, unless you kno>w the people intimately, they were all pro-Duce just a little while back— officially, anyway...
...this situation can be reverted...
...to the Morgan emfirt...
...Bubastt sags that Carlson is a Communist because the first papers to jump to the defense of Under Cover -were The New Republic, PM—and Tho Sew Leader...
...Becomes Prime Minister...
...There is something about American naturalism which eludes* ^od*Srrttmg...
...anrnvari pnrrMesunmmaawWyv tt)nue> vvnoftens...
...r* ILBERT CANT, whose first book, "The War at Sea," has become a source book ^* for those interested in what the navies did from the outbreak of Work} War II until just after Pearl Harbor, has now provided us with a new book, appropriately on the American Navy's role in its first year of warfare...
...hp Xfriten...
...After the war would you like to see more social reforms like unemployment insurance, social security and N.Y.A...
...Yes...
...Are you satisfied with the prosecution of the war...
...N Y O N E who has met and talked with the leaders of the Canadian Cooperative Commonwealth Federation must be impressed by their competence, efficiency and general grasp of economic and social problems...
...who received the annual radio award of the Women's International Exposition of Arts and Industries for promoting unity among the United Nations, is not only on WOt but on the party-line...
...The anion has formed a nations) defense committee Witt weU-knewn liberals, headed by Selig Perlmaa of Wisceasto University These has been a virtual conspiracy of silence—which is meet probably inertia—among 'the liberal metropolitan press on the refusal of the Supreme Court to hear the case of the 18 Trotakjites convicted of violating the Smith "gag" law...
...And here, too, Joyce has been spared the rigors of the seriouseyed writer...
...lsjnyhmg of a nation-wide labor, jsafty in, the, United States, since they constaptly pqipt to...
...As of now, I don't think they aje exactly right in their view that soldiers do little or no thinking »b»ut politics and peace aims...
...Herbert Agar...
...Thus we form combines and syndicates for the purpose of being next to use the pot...
...224 pafiee...
...She was a press agset for fellow-traveling Arthur Upham Pope's exhibition ef Iranian Art . . . MGM will shortly release a film, Russia, directed by Gregory Ratoff, that may prove to be as controversial as Mmosc* to Moscow...
...Hot political arguments don't help toward making friendships...
...A <roHep in Camp ft HAVEN'T taken any Gallup poll, but I think that if samples * were taken this is how the men in the Army would snswer the following questions: "Do you believe in unconditional surrender...
...The real Patten would have cut off his arm rather than strike a soldier," Reynolds declared...
...Do you believe that we should completely destroy Japan as a geographic unit...
...These words come from a man who has lost himself by selling out to sn easy life...
Vol. 26 • December 1943 • No. 49
