House-Wrecker Bloc Raises 4thTerm Issue in Drive on New Deal '44 Plans
House-Wrecker Bloc Raises 4thTerm Issue in Drive on New Deal '44 Plans Farley Tours South to LineUpAnti-FDRForces WASHINGTON.—Ironically, tin assault upon New Deal plans for the 1944 presidential...
...And the case, to come up before the Supreme Court, will probably be the acid test of racial discrimination in the American armed fences...
...What this will do to the secret Nazi apparatus in this country needs no comment...
...The signatories of the Atlantic Charter "desire to see no territorial changes that do not accord with the freely expressed wishes of the peoples concerned...
...Among those were: Sir Douglas Hacking, chairman of the Conservative Party organization since 1936...
...attorneys and judges...
...Bevins' Undersecretary, Malcolm McCorqupdale, hit harder than Bevin at the Conservative opposition...
...It's made very clear that they were traitors to their country, and that in sentencing them to death, Russia got rid of its fifth column...
...liiiLjtftw' * * * imvfftfM JUpift on FoscJsfs...
...A 48-hour week won't get the Army any more manpower out of the retail trades than it is already getting...
...The action, surprisingly, received little attention in the American press, although New Leader informants insist that it is a revealing tipoff to the fate of the Beveridge bill which is up in Commons this week...
...citizenship...
...Obviously, the point of departure should be the situation existing before the period of aggressions and annexations...
...Therefore, according to the official Soviet theory, such incorporations are to be considered not annexations but "liberations," or realizations of "freely" expressed wishes of peoples, and they are wholly compatible with the Atlantic Charter...
...Grand Strategy for the Republican Party Until 1944" is the title of a lengthy discourse written by Dennis for the Republicans...
...4 (a) reads: ". . . in the selection and training of men under this act, and in the interpretation sad execution of the provisions of this act, there shall be no discrimination against any person on account of race or color...
...Pies the fact that Speaker Rayburn is sore at "Boykin for bucking him and taking an active part in keeping Rep...
...If this assumption is accepted, the theory appears perfectly logical...
...Another significant statement, generally overlooked, was Minister of Information Brenden Bracken's statement to the Empire Press Union on February 15 that the British Empire would be maintained as is...
...Dennis discusses issues which the Republicans should dwell on too long...
...This general Mea wffl need careful elaboration but la advance It aeems to be the only workable basis of discoeeion...
...Winfred Lynn (assisted by-his brother...
...The Pravda editorial quoted "the clear and simple" words of Stalin: "We have not and cannot have any such war aims as the seizure of foreign territories or the subjugation of foreign peoples...
...But for Stalin "our territories and our peoples" are all territories and all peoples which before June 22...
...And here, again, the wage increase of 21 r> should be contrasted with the steel mills' average profit increase of SSl^ since the start of the war, as revealed by the OPA War Profits Study...
...Johnston's claim of 45...
...Anyone with half an eye can see that its publication at this time it not aimless...
...The Lynn case will farce a new constitutional decision of far-reaching importance...
...The Soviet government needs this fiction to justify its aim to restore the frontiers of June, 1941...
...His definition of unsatisfactory is limitel to any New Dealer...
...Burton K. Wheeler, the former" progressive whose personal hatred for Roosevelt has thrown him in with the nation's most rabid conservatives and whose frustration at not becoming President is now a dangerous obsession, has intimated that he will bolt the Democratic Party in 1944 if an unsatisfactory candidate is named...
...Boykin will get an appropriation from the House to continue...
...Mark Starr of the I.LG.W.U...
...Does the film bring out what the treason trials really meant...
...It is ,es-pecislly timely thB, this book has been brought oat now...
...Eveline Burns of the Social Security Board...
...He omits his previous confession that the current Davies' view on the Trials was concocted on a pullman train to Chicago in 1940 more than three years after he had left Soviet Russia...
...Revocation of citizenship has been rare in the annals of America...
...An effort should be made to persuade her that it will be of great use in her own interest to accept general principles which will define the war aims of the democratic Allies and which wiH serve as a basis for fruitful cooperation after the war...
...and to justify its former policy before its own people...
...Bo/kin Committee in PerU The Boykin Committee to investigate the steel shortage and its startling revelations on the steel monopoly's opposition to the cheaper sponge iron process may die a sudden death...
...If any exceptions are to be nude in the interest of the common security, the decisions must be made by agreement among the United Nations...
...The only chance for the Republicans," he advises, "is that the New Deal may become linked with the war in thought and memory of the people...
...The decision is handed down within three days...
...Jack Warner at the Hollywood studios may still have an important influence in the final cutting of the film...
...And it is ..particularly recommended to the U.'S/iA.ttom'ejf at MBi Wayne where next week will open trials arnled at revoking U.S...
...The 'draft •wards have not been giving deferments to men employed in retail trade...
...Bevocation-of-citizenship trials are efficient in action...
...This means that the Republican-isolationist^ dissident Democratic bloc, which has complete control of Congress, will fight efforts for the creation of a World Court, international pooling of the air lanes and a -world-wide police to prevent renewed totalitarian aggression...
...f Sooiel Security Conference Because Quakers do not permit admission to be charged at their Friends Meeting Houses, there will be no entrance fee at the three-day session on "Requirements for Post-War Security" scheduled for Washington March 5, C aad 7 by the League for Industrial Democracy...
...In the war industry group, only the steel mills •to working as low as an average 42 hours a "eek, according to latest Labor Department figures...
...She will face a tremendous task of reconstruction, and she will need help...
...The size of the adverse vote (283-116) was a considerable Wow for the present coalition administration...
...That is the root of a very difficult problem and a possible source of very grave conflicts after the defeat of Germany...
...Study Passes Unnoticed By JONATHAN STOUT WASHINGTON, D. C. —The definitive work on the Nazis is now written...
...lig Business SHdown 0s the 48-Hour Week Is speaking of strikes these days, it is well to nots the clear threat of a sit-down strike by Big Business against the war effort unless the Presi-dest agrees to killing of the time-and-a-half provision in the Wage and Hour Act...
...Scaoo/efoys is Abyssinia Haile Selassie's minister of education has cabled Washington an appeal for teachers...
...Director of the British Match Corp...
...House-Wrecker Bloc Raises 4thTerm Issue in Drive on New Deal '44 Plans Farley Tours South to LineUpAnti-FDRForces WASHINGTON.—Ironically, tin assault upon New Deal plans for the 1944 presidential election, opened late this week by what has now become known as the "Housewreckers" bloc and the Wheelerites, will have greater effect upon Europe and the rest of the world between 1944 and 1948 than it will upon the U. S. The anti-Administration leaders believe that with the actual presidential election only 22 months off, with the nomination conventions some 15 months away, and the public cam-piagning for the nominations less than eight or ten months distant, the time has come to charge openly that President Roosevelt is readjf to rule America through a dictatorship by post-war reconsSu^ic^on^red^^F^Vhite House official ro appointee...
...No well-informed person noV can afford to discuss the Nazis until he has read this book...
...This group of Congressmen, now laughed at in Washington's the "Housewreckers," numbers some 20 out of 531...
...Bracken said, he had been sickened the last two years by the "whining of apologists for our failures...
...Said the Tribune: "The British people will have only themselves to blame if they ignore the fact that the old ruling class are as reactionary as ever...
...When the Red Army crossed the Polish border, Molotov declared: "The Soviet government deems it its sacred duty to extend a helping hand to our brother Urkainians and brother White Russians who live in Poland...
...Schuyler Bland of Virginia, who is elected from Norfolk, where (J...
...In the witness chair sat Karl Radek, confessing to heinous Nazi-instigated crimes...
...that is, including all annexations since September, 1939...
...Labor Statistics Commissioner A. F. Hinrichs, Milton Webster, vice-president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and member of the A.F.L...
...So did the Warner movie studios this week film the Moscow Trial scenes in Joe Da vies' Mission to Moscow...
...The most amazing fact was that this large vote was mobilized via the organized opposition of many leading British industrialists against such a comparatively small act of social amelioration...
...AIL controversial cases must be settled according to...
...The threat wis implicit in the statement of Eric Johnston, president of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, when he told newsmen as he left the White House last week that members of the Chamber had been advised to "sit tight" and await official regulations before changing over to a 48-hpur week...
...Johnston break your heart...
...A third party would enable southern Demo* crate to vote for an opposition candidate without voting Republican and so give that party a chance to gain prestige in the "solid South...
...Inasmuch as lu.hrot corpus has jurisdiction there, Lynn faced his induction a*d proceeded to serve has colonel with the writ, it is expected that the case will reach the Supreme Court Macdonald in his Nation article points eat, "an adverse decision will be politically in expedient view of the present state of mind among Negroes...
...Under Labor pressure, the bill became a Government measure, but diehard opposition soon arose...
...Clare Hoffman and others whose support you are now seeking in order to attack honest anti-totali-tarians...
...The Beveridge Plan itself may find tough sledding, as opening remarks by Sir John Anderson, old Tory whip and head of the reactionary "1922 Committee," and Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Kingsley Wood, indicated...
...The problem of frontiers wffl in many eases he a complicated one...
...This puts Farley in the strategic position held by Roosevelt in 1940, when the President threatened to split the party unless his complete ticket was named...
...Our opinion may be that Russia's lasting ante rests require the repudiation of the fiction of "liberation," but unfortunately we cannot hope that the Soviet government will be ready to accept this opinion...
...It ja is of the utmost importance that the Soviet Bgovernasent he persuaded as soon as possible to Baccept seene such general prifiaipia^ Soldier Fights Draft in 'JimCrowArmy'TestCase Winfred William Lynn, private in the U. 8. Army, has just served his regimental colonel with a writ of habeas cor put, charging illegal restraint of his freedom...
...If anybody thinks," he said, "that this generation, which has made so many mistakes, is going to make the catastrophic error of destroying or handing over our godly heritage, I think there is enough toughness in the fiber of the Empire to resist such a suggestion...
...Third party conferees are even talking "concretely of a slate consisting of James A. Farley for President and Senator Harry Byrd of Virginia for Vice-President...
...Here the 48-hour week order would mean a wage increase of 13.6% (not Mr...
...a lawyer) first protested as a c-vltian writing to his local board on receipt of his 1-A notice, "Please be informed that I am ready to serve in any unit of the armed forces of my country which is not segregated by race...
...He deplores attempts by leading Congressional Republicans to make it appear as though the war were being made though by the Republicans...
...The non-acceptance of these principles for the organization of Furope would prbbably result in a revival of American isolationism and in the self-isolation of Russia...
...Political strategists feel that that would be an unfortunate move lor the entire liberal movement built during the past three presidential terms...
...The old Tories warned of "creeping" Government interference with private enterprise...
...So the 48-hour week order doesn't mean any wage increases here...
...And, in addition, the largest portion of retail trade is exempt by law from the overtime provisions of the Wage and Hour Act...
...On the West Coast, native-born Japanese who were American citizens have been removed from the coast defense area...
...To White House reporters Johnston said he told the President the 48-hour week order will mean wage increases of 457c (307r over the Littls Steel formula) in those industries now working 40 hours weekly and that this "will have a tendency to cause more inflation" because of the premium pay provisions of the Wage and Hour Law...
...Certainly this will be the first time in the history of the country it has been done on such a scale...
...the freely expressed wishes a! the peopleal concerned...
...Selassie, it is reported, is determined to wipe out illiteracy among his people and is setting up a public school system...
...Submission to Moscow Special to The New Leader HOLLYWOOD...
...Dennis, """Is to servetSSfTutHxm-in 19ft by offfrrvst i. * real alternative to the Roosevelt international crusade, not to offer to run the crusade better or differently...
...Marcarrtonio, darling of the Daily Worker, off tJie powerful House Judiciary C«m-mittee...
...With regard to Europe, this principle would take us back to the point before the annexation of Austria...
...More important, it was the first crucial test of policy a3 to whether Britain shall go ahead now -with concrete social reforms or wait until the post-war period, as the Tories insist...
...Speakers include New Zealand Minister Walter Nash, Haakon Lie, secretary of the Norwegian Federation of Labor...
...of accused pro-Nazis...
...Those which would have to J** up the work-week six hours would fchere-the basis .of average hourly rates of *1|078 and average weekly wage of $45.63—have i to increase wages under the law 21 (and not 45...
...And, while we're at it, what did you ever do with Father Coughlin's books which ^ou seised last Summer...
...Sir Leonard Lyle, Director of Lloyds Bank and President of the Giant fata monopoly Tate and Lyle...
...Compare this 13.6% with manufacturing's average profit increase of 2437c since the-start of the war, as revealed by the Q?A War Profits Study...
...But elsewhere it has been given little publicity—although, with the entrance of Arthur Garfield Hays and the American Civil Liberties Union, and an article by Dwight Macdonald which will be published in The Nation this week, the case is beginning to stir in American liberal and labor circles...
...Some over 54 hours...
...Dennis' new effort is meeting, according to excellent sources, with remarkable acceptance in reactionary Republican circles...
...But with the exception of steel mills in Detroit and Buffalo most of the steel industry is located outside of the 32 labor shortage areas ™*d by Manpower Czar McNutt and would not compelled therefore to adopt a longer work-at present...
...Any genuine pro-Nazi will find it a rope around his neck...
...If this situation arises, the great sacrifices of the war will have been in vain...
...The Pravda editorial, which provoked in this country the sensation of a bombshell, has been nothing but a confirmation of the same basic idea which was invariably expressed by spokesmen of the Soviet government since the partition of Poland...
...During the course of his strategy plan Mr...
...Attorneys in New York asd Philadelphia who will soon be following Fort Wayne's lead...
...Dennis contends it not the issue...
...There is no sign that Rep...
...The segregation-discrimination gituation has been smouldering...
...Mere and more Negroes are making piliaipted beda» at induction...
...Wood first made his reputation nationally wherv as representative of the large insurance interests, he fought Lloyd George's plans...
...Soviet Union Claims Post-War Rule of 'Liberated7 Territories By GEORGE DECKER According to the Soviet theory, there is-no contradiction between the Atlantic Charter and the war aims of the Soviet government...
...Sir- Alfred BMt,^direetor of Rhodesia — Railways...
...Changes will be necessary, but we must have at least a general notion of the status from which the start will be made and of the general principles on the basis of which any new boundary lines wffl be drawn...
...One correspondent here has said: "They spend their time complaining about hardships and shortages, denouncing government regulations, ridiculing plans for a better post-war world, conducting a guerrilla warfare of carping and sniping at the Administrator., and taking covert pot-shots at our military allies...
...Committee on Post-War Problems...
...The New Deal, Mr...
...The Bevin bill, setting up controls for the hotel and restaurant industry involves more than 500,000 workers, most of whcm put in a 72-hour work-week and earn as little as $10 per month...
...Number One, Stalin himself...
...The 48-hour week order officially goes into effect March 31...
...S. Steel wields plenty power in local politics, has been pulling strings_ag»mst the Boykin'Committee...
...v Sir Arnold Gridley, director of various electrical companies, and others...
...The Soviet theory affirms that in the territories annexed by Soviet Russia, the peoples had freely expressed their wish to become a part of the Soviet Union...
...The Lynn case is the only legal test that has yet been made of the Jim-Crow prae- . tices by which the military authorities are "violating the spirit if not the letter of the basic law under which the present Army ia befsag selected and trained...
...Perhaps that is why the daily press has token little or ho notice of it...
...In the cases of the 1,500 accused pro-Nazis, revocation of citizenship will mean immediate internment...
...This will be done to paint Roosevelt as "an internationalist" less concerned over the United States than Europe...
...Let them put the internationalists in the defensive by challenging them to show first that their monolithic world Utopia is probable of achievement and second that pursuit of this chimera is worth its cost in blood, sweat and tears...
...Conrad...
...In all, it is expected that about 1,500 pro-Nazi admirers of Hitler will lose their U.S...
...The situatibn would be essentially facilitated if the war were to result in a certain democratization of the Russian regime, but there is little prospect of such a development...
...Public memo to Martin Dies: Has publication of your Committee's report on native fascists MSB withheld because it would offend Rep...
...The reason: Rep...
...Lawrence Dennis Draws Up Plans For GOP '44 Drive By WALTER K. LEWIS The Republican Party is getting some pointers from Lawrence Dennis, pro-Fascist author and lecturer...
...and former Director of the Hotels and Restaurants Association...
...bill...
...If the war needs the New Deal now," continues Mr...
...His recent tour of Democratic Party headquarters throughout the country has convinced him that he can raise powerful opposition within his party to the nomination of the President or any of his designees...
...The book of Raymond E. Murphy and his colleagues ought to be of great assistance in demolishing that apparatus, beginning with the notorious German-American Bund...
...Therefore, Russia maintains and will maintain the fiction of "liberation" of all territories annexed by her before June, 1941...
...The nature of these principles can be suggested emry in the most general way...
...Our first aim is to liberate our territories and our peoples from the German fascist yoke...
...These men talked of opposition to the President even if it meant that a third party would be necessary...
...Let its leaders have the courage to say that they do not believe that America has to put the world right or to produce political and economic solutions for the problems of security for all nations, all minorities, all persons, everywhere...
...Dennis, "the New Deal back in 1937 and thereafter needed the war...
...Mr...
...The courtroom was complete to every last detail...
...Throughout the Negro press the case has been front-page news...
...The set and script were faultless—everything proceeded exactly as the GPU had first staged it in Stalin's Russia five years ago...
...The Government has been seeking to avoid "controversial" legislation...
...District Court without a jury...
...If this is a forecast, what of the larger blueprints for post-war planning...
...Dennis appeared recently before the Army Exclusion Board which is acting on the legality of removing Dennis, a native-born American, from the entire Eastern Defense Command...
...Only as such does it make sense...
...The tract, the New Leader learned, is being circulated in ranking Republican circles...
...Democracy is not as powerless to defend itself as it is sometimes stated...
...school systems are said to be held in high regard by Selassie...
...Contrary to the promises of high Washington and Warner officials, the Davies' movie is being cut completely to the pattern of the grotesque Kremlin propaganda which had every Old Bolshevik conspiring with the enemy (except, of course...
...These are figures of the Labor Department...
...Roosevelt's opponents believe that such a move will give them the votes necessary to defeat a New Dealer in 1944...
...None of these* significantly enough, are mentioned today...
...Russia will have terrible wounds to heal...
...The New Deal never became a success until the war made it one in 1940...
...and don't let Mr...
...Although British interests dominate Ethiopia, Americans and U.S...
...Former Postmaster Farley appears to be the leader of the anti-fourth term forces...
...The title is "National Socialism," and it can be obtained for one dollar from the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C. Here for the first time is a great anti-Nazi book, which through the resources of the State Department is realty well documented...
...This theory, of course, is based on the assumption that military occupation gives a people the best opportunity to express their wish freely...
...The average weekly wage is $39.78...
...The London Tribune points out the representatives of Gas, Electricity, Property Owners and Insurance Companies who organized a committee against Bevin's...
...The duty of the GOP," writes Mr...
...citizenship...
...Sam Wolchak, president of the United Retail and Wholesale Employees Union...
...I will refuse to report far induction " Following a series of hearings in various Federal courts (the highhanded procedure of which brought Arthur Garfield Hays into court for Lynn's defense) it was decided that the test-case of Jim-Crow in the Acmy might best be fought from within the service itself...
...The average hourly wage is 90.5 cents...
...Every American liberal and in- -dependent must act quickly to stop this "submission to Moscow...
...If the ban is ordered, it will be the first of its kind in the East...
...You know these people who were tried confessed that they were plotting with Germany...
...In the name of "Disraeli," he called on them not to oppose social reform...
...These, then, are the signs of things to come as the campaign to keep an internationally-minded progressive of the Roosevelt camp oat of the White House in 1944 gains momentum...
...1941, belonged to the Soviet Union...
...It is being given serious attention by some party leaders, many of whom are not aware of the identity of the author of the proposed plan...
...Unless I am assured that I can serve in a mtaed regiment and that I will not be compelled to serve in a unit underoocraticaTly selected as a Negro group...
...So the 48-hour week order doesn't mean any wage increases here...
...Similar trials will follow in other diss...
...Private Lynn, you see, is a Negro, and his struggle against military segregation has become a cause celebre among colored Americans...
...Opinions of the President's 1944 aspirations are divided here in circles closest to the White House...
...After her magnificent fighting...
...Roosevelt will seek a fourth term to win the peace...
...The authors, Raymond E. Murphy of the State Deparement's Division of European Affairs and his aides, Francis B. Stevens, Howard Trivers and Joseph M. Roland, have turned out a work that for scholarship, authenticity and documentation puts everything else written about the^Jazis in the shade...
...Russia became a victim of aggression after she had been herself an aggressor...
...What the debates also revealed was a deep fissure in Conservative ranks, with a group of young Tories ready to back social reforms against the diehards...
...It has been published by the State Department, which does not go in for advertising or fancy promotion...
...This, of course, intimates that even Farley feels that the Roosevelt group might control the Democratic convention—Of that the old Democratic Party has so bees marked by New Dealism that a new political alignment is necessary...
...Indeed, the careful documentation and citations from Nazi authorities (apparently collected with care for many years by the State Department) make the book almost ideally adapted for use by U.S...
...After military occupation, the "Peoples' Assemblies" of these "brother Urkainians and brother White Russians" and later of the Baltic countries decided to request the Soviet government to incorporate their territory into the U.S.S.R...
...Said Huston emphatically, "Oh -yes...
...Farley has seen former Vice-President flan Southern conservatives...
...Capital Comment Impt State Dept...
...Meanwhile, the attack on post-war international cooperation will be coupled with assaults by the "Housewreckers" on post-war planning and war measures for the home front...
...Before him stood Prosecutor Andre Vyshinsky, in triumphant accusation — Leon Trotsky's 5th Column was trapped at last...
...There is much support for the theory that Mr...
...A. large amount of manpower is employed in retail trade where the work-week averages almost 41 hours...
...BritishToriesBalk at Labor Reform Fight Catering, Beveridge Bills By DANIEL BELL The deep Labor-Tory cleavage over British post-war social policy was foreshadowed this week in the bitter Parliamentary debates over Ernest Bevin's Catering Bill, a debate that saw 116 Tory diehards defy the Government and vote against the bill...
...In the original Trials, listed at various times among the "enemy intriguers" were also the British, the Poles, and the Japanese...
...The legal basis of the Lynn case rests on a section in the 1940 Draft Act which reflected the gains made by the Negroes since 19T7...
...They are held before a judge of the U.S...
...Nor does ex-Ambassador Davies' professed love for the "historical truth" (which he recites so touchingly in the recently completed prologue to the film) extend so far as to explain that at the time he witnessed the Trials, he like every other informed representative (world press opinion was unanimous) was convinced that the Trials were frame-ups...
...The Republican Party to survive and serve must offer an alternative," he concludes...
...The phoniness of all this is revealed by the facts, which are: War industries as a group have been averaging over 48 hours a week ever since November...
...But no one if willing to consider himself an aggressor...
...Farley obviously is satisfied that he has the Byrd machine, Democratic ruler of Virginia and many points 8ontJV lined up behind him...
...Readers of The New Leader might like to remember this when other newspapers wake up to the book's real importance within the next month or two...
...But rt is necessary to agree about seme point of departure...
...The latest figures of the Labor Department show that the average work-week for all manufacturing industry in the United States (both *ar and civilian production) is 44 hours...
...It's a New Deal War...
...Note: The House of Commons this week defeated a Labor Party amendment condemning the Government's attitude towards the Beveridge Plan, 335-119.] Other signs indicate that the Tories are getting ready to rear up and battle Laborite social reform attempts...
...Telegrams and letters of protest addressed to Lowell Mellett, OWI film chief in Washington, and Mr...
...a Daily Worker reporter asked star Walter Huston this week...
...Many have been averaging over 50 hours...
...It is also recommended to the U.S...
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