FDR Concession to Tory Bloc Ousts Maloney
Greene, T. R.
FDR Concession to Tory Bloc Ousts Maloney Sedition Trial Seen Delayed By T. R. GREENE WASHINGTON.—One of the most serious concessions yet made by the White House to the Southern and isolationist...
...Dies is everything I've been calling him these past two weeks, but nevertheless it was a leadpipe cinch there were more wan a dozen Communists on that list of 1,000 ¦•gave Attorney General Biddle...
...The union's Executive Board is opposed to fellow-traveling President Reid Robinson six to three...
...These unions are also bound together by the demand for the swift dropping' of the Little Steel Formula...
...But as was predicted in this space last week, Dies* latest lunacy has boomer-snged on Capitol Hill...
...Government employees have been investigated by the Dies Committee, the Civil Service Com-niision, Treasury Intelligence...
...The recent developments outlined above are considered major trends of far-reaching importance...
...It was reminiscent of the revelations in this space on Nov...
...The similarity between this move and the quashing of the indictments against Father Coughlin and his Social Justice magazine has been noted here...
...Accused employees are assured a hearing...
...The reaction to the men in the meat plants will be an indication of the action which will be taken spontaneously everywhere in an effort to obtain the billions of dollars in wage increases which the employees of 7,000 firms—and the railways—are seeking today...
...Every hist one of you...
...Elected was Mickey Harris, regional director of the Steel Workers, and a leading progressive...
...Some of the anti-Fascist groups naturally, are Jewish organizations...
...As he dressed, he was thinking of his Esther and mother who left a tyranny tn Germany so that their son could be born in freedom...
...More money will have to be awarded by the WLB to the union petitioners or this nation will see a wave of strikes in vital factories, war or no war, in the opinion of many levelheaded labor chiefs...
...f "I think we better call him back and ph»J the game his way," he said...
...It is significant that the special sub-committee was setup after both Democratic Majority Leader McCormack and Republican Minority Leader Martin urged that course...
...Last week, party-liner Carl Bersing, one of the chief anti-Carey leaders in' the Electrical and Radio Union, was beaten for re-election to the presidency of the Philadelphia Industrial Union Council by more than two to one...
...But this does not mean all is plain sailing now...
...for by and large the moderates will be content with cleaning out only the Communists and their more notorious fellow-travelers...
...The Nazis in this country tried to make of Lindbergh the America fuehrer, a fascist man on horseback...
...They have a •fge number of men who are specialists in this "Be, But some of the top officials in the Com-misgion have negated all the good work and Sped records compiled by the Investigation Di-yjaion by reversing their investigators and clear-mg such characters as Joe Barnes, a rabid • * • /It's too bad that some of the politicos at the head of the Commission have spoiled its record '« impartial and discerning fact-finding...
...dustrial support for the passage of the bill...
...These organizational changes are considered highly significant clues as to the future role and policies of CIO...
...Now comes the story that explains General Eisenhower's stand...
...Philip Murray and R. J. Thomes defended CIO War Relief, and Sweetland was given an overwhelming vote of confidence...
...Coupled with the successful efforts of the Anglophobes in Congress to bring pressure— through their Congressional committees—on radio networks and Federal departments, the shifting of Maloney indicates a clear trend of appeasement by the Administration...
...There is still no complete and satisfactory explanation for the Administration's change of heart in the effort to place the pro-Fascists behind bars...
...For instance, the recent findings of the PAL that there were less than a dozen Communists on a list of more than a thousand submitted to the Department of Justice by Dies some time ago...
...He once had his friends among the state authorities call in the National Guard to do his polios work...
...Young Ike Eisenhower wjrs 19 then and captain of his high-school football team...
...In Texas there are .proposals for a state audit of union funds and a general scrutiny of all union officers, embracing their salaries and personal histories...
...Eisenhower's Negro Troops °fe of the great stories of the war bears reputing here...
...The President's yielding to the Wheeler bloc is worrying liberals here, for jt is believed that with government surveillance relaxed, a peace-r.ow group will spring out of the old America First Fascist fringe network, with men such as Wheeler and Robert Reynolds at their helm...
...This means that of all the Fascists caught red-handed, only William Dudley Pelley, George Christians and one or two others have been sent to jail for preaching sedition...
...The majority of the conservative bloc, which is dominated by its middle-of-the-road nucleus, has recoiled from the Moonbeam of its Lunatic fringe, and there is less danger of the House going to excesses in cleaning Communists from the government payroll than before Dies opened his big mouth...
...veteran opponent of unions, has introduced a bill into the House which would place unions under the 1934 anti-racketeering act, designed to give the Federal government an opening to deal with gangsters such as Al Capone...
...But he was on Guadalcanal for about 40 hours, and according to correspondent Ira Wolfert, who was there through much of the autumn and winter fighting, Rickenbacker's conclusions 'are wrong and grotesquely —ier iiTieenl -the men.' " Communist Forces Losing Hold In CIO Elections, Survey Shows ~ By DANIEL BELL Communist forces in the CIO, long ousted from the major CIO unions such as steel, auto, clothing, textiles, rubber, and others, have lost ground in various international unions and industrial union councils over the past month, a New Leader survey shows...
...For in North Africa today, serving anoer him as a captain of the Negro troops sjfcssi General Eisenhower insisted on having there despite the War Department's brass hats, h» the same Negro boy—Captain Norman Jobseea —who played against Ike Eisenhower in * Kansas high-school football game so many year* ago . . . comrades In arms GreeW/fe Cork Soeeftr Jteocfioeories Ignored Labor In Peseief Manpower Conscription till Behind the introduction of the Mae-power and Womanpower Conscription Act by Republican* Austin and Wadsweeth was a campaign to line ap powerful in...
...Which means that the Congressmen on the sub-committee will he forced by the tremendous job before them to give up practically all their other inter-efts and activities...
...FDR Concession to Tory Bloc Ousts Maloney Sedition Trial Seen Delayed By T. R. GREENE WASHINGTON.—One of the most serious concessions yet made by the White House to the Southern and isolationist blocs became shockingly clear this week when it was learned definitely that the Administration had kicked William Powers Maloney upstairs to prevent effective prosecution of the 33 indicted Fascits...
...The face of fate is inscrutable and its loaf hand unpredictable...
...Bridges attacked Monroe Sweetland, national director of the CIO War Belief Committee, the chief target of the Communist forces, for not having consulted Saul Mills on policy decisions...
...Flirtations, such as those with Lombardo Toledano, have been described by CIO insiders as "administration and palace politics...
...That much is clear gain, of course...
...They surely will function as a swift-moving unit in Washington...
...He Had a drivers' strike one year "because he tried to chisel on them...
...He pulled off his helmet and- walked off the held to the lockers...
...CIO relief sponsoring of an Indian seamen's home, charging it fitted in with "British imperialist schemes," .and attacked arrangements with the Chinese Association of Labor, which he called "Fascist" Morris Muster, fellow-traveler from the Furniture Workes Union, hit Sweetland for exposing the "Jewish Trade Union Committee for Tanks and Bombers to the Soviet Union" as a fraud...
...This means further delay...
...They require a different kind of training and education than,an ordinary police investigation...
...who gathered all the evidence against the anti-Semites and anti-British propagandists, has been removed from the case to be chief of the Criminal Trial Section of the Justice Department...
...With Captain Eddie Rickenbacker effectively exploiting publicity for the many groups interested in using this no-strike-pledge period to restrict Labor legally, industrialists have succeeded in having introduced into Congress and many state legislatures bills described by national labor leaders as the most serious threat to unionism which has yet developed...
...In Tennessee, proposed bills would collect 6C...
...One would think Congress could have accepted the findings of these other investigating units in place of the Dies Committee...
...tnen in his home town and to those from whom be baa worked the hero has had clay feet...
...There are political as well as labor implications...
...According to a United Mine Workers' survey, in Missouri a bill has been introduced to require all labor officials to be residents of the state for five years and real estate owners...
...Ik*'s puztled teammates followed him to the locker room...
...The unions may for the first time decide to fight certain candidates...
...Also, the hearings will be before men largely unschooled either in the ideological differences between various leftist groups or in the subtleties of Communist web-jpinning...
...It is expected that this will not happen because the "cases will be kicked around and postponed until they are forgotten and many of the 33 set free," it was said...
...If Winchell talks too dangerously, pressure is put on the radio chains through the threat to investigate the Federal Communications Commission, which issues licenses for broadcasting...
...Posing as an expert on the sentiments of the 7,500,000 men in the U. S. Armed forces, and passing himself off as being an injisil on labor relations as he is in the cockpit, Rieken-backer has been doing irreparable damage to the labor movement at just the moment wwSB conservative Congressional forces and mdua-trialists need some national hero such as the aviator to prepare public opinion for the most severe anti-labor drive in the past 12 years...
...The Colonel was hailed as an expert on foreign affairs...
...To the American people "Rick" has had a heroic publ ic career...
...A survey of these proposed laws reveals-Sam Hobbs (D., Ala...
...The decision, affecting a conflict in Baltimore, also saw Allen Haywood, in charge of CIO organization, voting for Wolchak against Bridges...
...They failed and today, Lindbergh sits on the sidelines enjoying the crumbs of charity from an old admirer...
...Phoney reports don't make a monkev out of anyone...
...The average government employee must feel like Mayme the Goldfish—just no private life at all...
...One of the areas under dispute, the Connecticut district of the union, has been taken from a Robinson supporter and placed in the hands of an administrator responsible to the anti-Communist Executive Board...
...In Connecticut, party-liner Patrick Malloy was defeated for re-election as president of the Connecticut State CIO Council by John Dris-coll, anti-Communist leader of the Mine ,Mill and Smelter Workers Union...
...The Scripps-Howard press is leading the campaign to paint this drive for higher wages as a dark plot of John L. Lewis...
...But when it comes to political sophistication most of them think a. leftist Is a southpaw pitcher with the Yankees...
...The attack had been led by Harry Bridges of the Longshoremen...
...How dare you...
...The men in most of the government's investigating bodies are equipped to do the latter type of job...
...fcver the past several weeks, Grenville Clark, wealthy Wall Street lawyer sad author of the bili had called conferences of easiness men to organise sap-port for the MIL Labor people were not invited and did not participate, although represent stives of Merwin K. Hart sad the New York State Economic Council were invited sad did participate in the discussions...
...In other words, the Administration has defeated itself in its drive to keep control of foreign policy regardless of what concessions must be made to certain Congressional and outside pressure groups...
...Another good example for lack of Congressional confidence along the same line is the Civil Service Commission...
...They wanted to know why So Ike toM them...
...Coloradoans have proposed to incorporate unions, control their finances and limit picketing and boycotts...
...But to the...
...But Hoover's F.B.I, report failed to make a monkey out of Dies, if that was his- intention...
...They may decide to name men for office out of their own ranks...
...The War Labor Board appears ready to defend the Formula...
...Capital Comment Dies Gets Setback In Special House Probe By JONATHAN STOUT WASHINGTON, D. C—Reverberations of the most recent blast from that prize Mastered Martin Dies still echo in Congress and top table talk in Washington...
...This was made evident by the rejection of an appeal for raises from the CIO packinghouse workers...
...There was a moment of stunned silence...
...Hoffman recently excoriated the Department of Justice and have threatened to probe that division and its chief, Biddle...
...And he walked out...
...This record was won when Rickenbacker was an auto-manufacturer...
...e His Indianapolis Motor Speedway has bean on the unfair list of the AFL Central Labor Union there for many years...
...He was active in, and an organiser of, the Indianapolis America First Committee, one of the extreme rightist-isolationist sections of the anti-British movement...
...It is expected that at least one isolationist Representative, frequently attacked by the recently censored Walter Winchell, is eager to start such an investigation...
...Neither has much' use for Martin Dies...
...21 of the struggle going on between Tory and liberal forces in the War Department over opening the doors of opportunity in the Army to Negroes...
...A roll-call of the states where conservative elements have placed anti-union bills in the legislatures reveals that many new types of restrictions are planned for unions and their leaders...
...In California the AFL and CIO have jointly warned GOP Governor Earl Warren that they are prepared to fight any anti-labor legislation...
...Another important straw In the wind was the decision of the CIO high command favoring Samuel Wolchak's Wholesale and Retail Union in the jurisdictional dispute between that union and Harry Bridges' Longshoremen and Warehouse Workers...
...He seemed staggered by the news...
...Ike came back, and they played the game Ms way . . . with the Negro boy on the oppoSiSe" high-school team...
...How can you make those things for which aiy parents and your great-grandparents fought for mere words...
...Joe Curran of the Seamen, Julie Empsback of the Electrical and Radio, and Lewis Merrill of the Office Workers...
...The team was at practice when Ike learned that bis school had refused to play a neighboring high-school team because the latter had a Negro on it...
...Then one of them spoke np...
...He has hired labor spies and blacklisted workers for union activity, according to recant statements of Frank Martel, president of the Detroit and Wayne County Federation of Labor...
...He has urged a program that is tantamount to the post-war destruction of unions, he has urged national drafting of labor, he has charged that unions have caused incessant strikes and eta responsible for the growth of absenteeism...
...The remaining players looked at each other...
...The swift action of the House this week in directing the Appropriations Committee by overwhelming votejto set up a special sub-committee t« investigate Charges by the Dies Committee and others of subversive character against certain government employees is the sign that direction of the governmental housecleaning has been taken safely out of Dies' hands and is now in the control of the moderate conservayves...
...F.B.I., Secret Service, Army Intelligence, Navy Intelligence sad the separate intelligence units of the various agencies for which they work...
...He has been a veteran anti-labor employer...
...The isolationists' technique is simple...
...Rickenbacker has willingly done this, in the opinion of independent observers, not oat of naive or blind desire to aid the man in the foxholes but out of consistent bias against Labor...
...Eisenhower...
...Tories Begin Legislative Attacks On Labor...
...This outburst, repeated in other states, has brought the competing national labor federations together more rapidly and effectively than any other force or theoretics could have done...
...Any delay now will give the isolationists a chance to attack other government offensives against the seditionists and those whei would do business with Europe's Fascist forces to hasten a negotiated "peace...
...And to top it all, this becomes still another investigation of government employees...
...Organized Labor has protested the Austin-Wadsworth bill, as has the War Manpower Commission, oa the grounds that a voluntary program has not yet been really tried...
...No eae had ever talked to them like that before...
...The possibilities of this combine are many and important...
...tax on all union dues and prohibit picketing...
...And they were overruled by Gen...
...I'm ashamed of you," Ike Baid...
...For *** Commission's investigators showed their Political sophistication by clearing of any suspicion of disloyalty a number of the men whom branded in his recent regurgitation...
...Among WSf 80 cleared by the Commission investigatdrs Bg David J. Saposs, Paul Porter, John Herling, Jack Lever, Tom Tippett, Nathaniel Weyl and wl Borders...
...It opens just after the turn of the century in a Httle Kansas town...
...There's no love lost between Martin Dies and J. Edgar Hoover, both of whom like to get their •unburn in the limelight...
...It was common gossip in certain Washington circles at the time of the North Africa coup that the Army brass hats were opposed to sending Negro soldiers to the Second Front...
...Senator Reynolds is still pushing his intricate union incorporation bill, with the support of Senator O'Daniel and many isolationists...
...It expressed the sentiment of the entire labor movement when it said: "Fascist elements here and abroad, used Lindbergh...
...As Matthew Low reported in last week's New Leader, "while Captain Rickenbacker has been touring the country, telling big business societies and advertisement clubs all about the virtues of company unionism and how the fox-hole fighters are mad at the labor movement, Sergeant Johnnie Partek—who was with Rickenbacker in the Pacific for 21 days—has been quietly visiting mills and factories in the East, fraternizing once again with old buddies (Partek was a member of the CIO's Textile Workers Union) . . . Rickenbacker's strong point is 'what the men out there' are saying and feeling...
...But Congress is not altogether criticizable for not having done so...
...The three big labor groups—the AFL, the CIO and the Railway Brotherhoods—have joined with the National Farmers Union to throw the weighUaif their 13,000,000 members behind the most powerful labor lobby the country has yet seen...
...And an equally big reason why Congress does Bot have confidence in the findings of these in-TMtigating units is their malleability under po-litical pressure and their susceptibility to other influences...
...The groundwork for this has formed spontaneously in many states...
...All labor sees in Rickenbacker another Charles A. Lindbergh, whose reputation as an aviation expert—so effectively destroyed by the British and Russian destruction of the Luftwaffe—was also exploited...
...In.Ohio, the Chamber of Commerce is calling for compulsory mediation and a ban on all boycotts...
...Investigations into subversive activity require specialists...
...Rickenbacker's Record Shows Long Bias Against Labor Special to The New Lcadoi DETROIT.—The time has come for some da-bunking of Captain Edward V. Rickenbacker, whose physical courage no -©oe doubts, but whose exploits in an airplane, racing car and life raft do not make him immune fpom sharp retaliatory criticism from those he has been attacking...
...Now he has permitted weeks to go by without publicly repudiating the sudden campaign to idolize launched by Gerald L. K. Smith, leader of the American First Party, and self-avowed successor to Father Coughlin...
...Hart's representatives, it was learned, prppeaed amendments which would prohibit mi tea shops...
...Bridges also attacked the relief arrangement with British, unions...
...Senators Wheeler and Nye and Rep...
...This represents one of the greatest victories the anti-British, isolationist forces have won...
...It is expected that the isolationists will shortly launch an investigation of anti-Fascist groups as the next step in their effort to cripple all government and private investigations of pro-Fascists...
...Their-education cannot be undertaken overnight, and it is to be expected that mistakes fplhw*- made—both in undeserved leniency to Communists and injustice to honest progressives...
...Mills is the secretary of the New York City CIO Council...
...Only facts and the truth can do that...
...He talked himself out of the hero class at Des Moines, Iowa, when he charged that the British and the Jews had started this war, which was started by Germany's crushing of Poland, a nation of 35,000,-000 Catholics...
...These groups already are functioning as a joint legislative lobby in Oklahoma...
...This will lead to parallel thinking, and in turn to possible organic unit, not only of the AFL and CIO but the railway brotherhoods and the farmers as well...
...Unions Prepare to Fight By EDWARD LORING WASHINGTON, D. C.—A renewed campaign against recent national labor laws by Congressional conservatives encouraged by the anti-New Deal trend of the last election^the sudden union drive to smash the WLB'a "Little Steel Formula", and the recent coalition of AFL, CIO and the Railway Brotherhood Union—all combined this week to make Labor a news story ranking with the war in importance...
...These -men believe, they will not be able to control the rank and file, which is faced with skyrocketing food coats, high rents, poor housing, separation from families, and wages far below the rates the public believes, are paid to defense workers...
...The facts' are that Lewis jumped on the wage-increase bandwagon of the United Auto Workers, the International Association of Machinists, the Railway Brotherhoods and the International Ladies Garment Workers, just to mention a few of the prominent unions which asked for a wage increase and a virtual abandonment of the' Little Steel Formula in the recent past...
...In the recent presidential election, Robinson scraped through ahead of John Driscoll by the barest margin and under charges of vote-fraud...
...The Packard Local of the United Automobile Workers has spent $1,300 on a full page advertisement in a Detroit paper...
...Ha has ignored WLB statistics proving the contrary, proving that strikes have been kept to s minimum of 1300 in 1942...
...It's about Gen...
...The new special prosecutor, replacing Maloney, is reported to have fired his predecessor's assistants from the case...
...The Appropriations sub-committee can still •we itself a lot of work and not go wrong by *wering the Civil Service Commission to give it «• complete files of its investigations, which *°uM include, of course, the findings of the instigators...
...The New Leader has been reliably informed...
...This development, at a time when the Soviet Union enjoys its most favorable public relations, is indicative of the realistic mood and temper of the CIO rank-and-file and most of the leadership . Here are some of the major developments: • An attempt by the party-line caucus to discredit the CIO National War Relief Committee at the CIO Executive Board meeting last Sunday was beaten decisively...
...In the important Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union, party-liner Ben Riskin was fired as educational director and all organisers placed under control of the Executive Board in several sweeping changes recently...
...This has resulted in the appointment of another special prosecutor to handle the cases...
...Tears of anger and shame came to his eyes...
...He has had scabs paint and repair his plants and enterprises...
...the Investigation Division of the Commission fa the best of the government ageneies when it tomes to disloyalty investigations...
...Union men have interpreted this bill as meaning that any anti-labor court' could see violation of the proposed act in a bid for higher wages or the calling of a strike...
...Dwight D. (Ike) Eisenhower, commander-in-chief of the Allied Forces in North Africa...
...In Illinois and Michigan, both groups have agreed on a legislative program and a joint campaign against anti-union effort The same story could be repeated in such important states for labor as Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Texas...
Vol. 26 • February 1943 • No. 7
