'Fourth Term' Raises Havoc With Party Lines
LORING, EDWARD
'Fourth Term' Raises Havoc With Party Lines 'House Wreckers Rip Social Service Bills In Anti-FDR Rampage By EDWARD LORING Special to The New Leader WASHINGTON.—A political realignment, resulting:...
...The Nelsons and Wilsons are the products of a long free enterprise...
...Few of them have made sense...
...peacefully superimposed upon a capitalist nS and how the transition would be made...
...While Eberstadt is a financier...
...But the hatred of Farley for Mr...
...The Eberstadt...
...nomination in 1944...
...Some of the explanations have hinted that the firing of Eberstadt has not ended the matter...
...Erlich and Alter Murdered in USSR 1JEINRKH ERLICH and Victor Alter, ** the leaders of the Jewish labor movement in Poland, have been executed in Russia as "enemies of the Soviet State," The New Leader is informed as it goes to press...
...Following the Nazi invasion of Poland...
...After all, you don't send a soldier to a fox hole until he has had at least eight months of basic conditioning and training...
...What is implied in all this, of course, is that much of the recent struggle between Nelson and Eberstadt has psychological roots...
...To many American industrialists, no doubt, Eberstadt must seem something of a traitor...
...The logic of our war needs and what is available has forced than to tint But they don't lib* it...
...Thus far the main victims of these maneuvers are the anti-fascist, pro-democratic elements both in the Allied and in the Nazi-occupied countries whose voices are rarely heard in the high councils of Washington and London...
...It should be filled out to read "IF labor were gumming up the war effort by calling strikes, indulging in jurisdictional disputes, engaging in, slow-downs, etc., etc...
...As long a* they are hi control of the war economy and war production they feel they can direct things towards such an end...
...he Vatican and the Kremlin Slavs Played Off in Power-Politics ' By LEON DENNEN As the victorious Russian armies near the frontiers of Poland >and Rumania, there are many signs that the future peace conference may be confounded by warfare in the Balkans and in Eastern Europe...
...For what the Controlled Materials Plan obviously is doing is teaching American business ¦•w to operate under a planned economy in which every phase of production from the ob-fcinhjg of'^the raw material to the disposal of the finished product is rigidly controlled from Waahintton...
...Apparently, these are the first moves tovwards a coalition which might include both men on a single slate...
...And that is what is both significant and Important—aside from the role it plays in the W effort—of WPB's Controlled Materials...
...Four weeks agro he was a waiter in a road house...
...They ask labor to end the practice of making workers pay high union fees to work in war plants...
...hie contact with industry js the emotionally more frigid one of the counting house...
...both have spent their lives in the actual running and management of industry...
...Nelson—and Wilson have accepted the Controlled Materials Plan as a thing born of necessity...
...for nearly a century and a half—if one goes titfttP0 farther than Robert Owen in 1800— tat we of radical theories concerning the ibape of the society of the future has revolved tbout some form of planned economy...
...The greater danger is that the Southern Tory bloc will use their strength to force a conservative compromise on the rest of the ticket...
...Lower sections of the party have been restive at the election truce and individual members have run as independents without party support...
...Many explanations of the Nelson-Eberstadt battle have been offered...
...Then, why the sudden burst of fourth term talk and Willkie publicity ? Obviously, both camps are serving notice on their conservative colleagues that Tories on either side cannot win without support of either Roosevelt or Willkie...
...The returns aren't in yet...
...On their release...
...The banker tradition is the more detached approach' of investing dollars and reaping dividends...
...How deeply rooted this hatred for Roosevelt is can l>e determined from Congressional action this week in which the anti-Administration leaders, out of sheer opposition to the New Deal, out of the almost horrifying policy of voting against anything the White House champions, cut from the hudget the following items: 1—$2,454,000, which Paul V. McNutt, WMP chief, said was essential to the operation of this most important of all war agencies...
...Lined up with Eberstadt from the beginning have %een the Army and the Navy...
...Moscow has recently pledged to restore the former borders of Czecho-Slovakia completely, ignoring the demands of the Ruthenians and Carpathian Ukrainians, who are to remain in the resurrected Czecho-Slovak State...
...The Southern Democrats appear determined to set up a new political organization at any cost, to be used nationally if the President by some traditionally clever manipulation seizes control of the Democrats' national machinery...
...In the meantime, the race for the control of the Slavs is proceeding at an ever-increasing pace...
...Although ostensibly a world organization, it is interesting to note that out of twenty members of the Executive Committee of the All-Slav Committee in Moscow, ten are Russians and the rest a sprinkling of Czech...
...But the emotional only explains their peittonai conduct, and is a shallow rationalization of what has happened...
...Recently he got a job in a defense factory...
...Whereas the Vatican scheme is predicated upon the restoration of the devoutly Catholic Hapsburgs in Austria, Russia is determined at all costs to create a mighty Slav-organization which will parallel (or perhaps supersede) the Communist International...
...And that i» not strange at all...
...In territory, Russia wants all land extending to the Carpathians, and political hegemony over other European Slavs...
...The future peace of Europe depends on the tact sad dila-gence of President Roosevelt...
...Chrysler and Ford engineers know their stuff...
...They deplore absenteeism...
...In the banker tradition, a factory does not call up * picture of a living organism...
...If the Communists win their way into the Party at these sessions, it is a foregone conclusion that many of Hs leaders will resign, among them Herbert Morrison, Minister of Home Security, and Ernest Bevin, Labor Minister...
...One irritating factor was the recent broadcast by Mayor LaGuardia to Italy announcing the arrival here of General Bergenzoli, "old electric whiskers," and eight other fascist generals...
...This does not mean that Labor is Communist...
...They have all been conditioned, Pavlov-dog-wise, to spout a certain line whenever Roosevelt or labor is mentioned...
...That seems to be in the groove...
...Shortly after their release they were both clapped into prison again, in Kubyshev...
...Eddie Rickenbacker should get to know Walter, who was against "slow downs' a year before Pearl Harbor...
...There is some chance that the British Communist Party will be taken into the British Labor Party despite the recent rejection by the Labor Party Executive Committee of a Communist bid for admission...
...Erlich and Alter organized a Polish Army to fight against the Nazis...
...As a matter of fact, what criticism of the military there has been was in the direction of giving them ¦ore rather tha less of what they want...
...These have been accompanied by stories that the Vatican is being used as an intermediary by Italy or this country for a separate peace which would leave Germany alone on the continent...
...An auxiliary bit of nonsense is that the two Ben fought over the question of military or civilian control of the war economy...
...This imminent fractricidal warfare threatens the existence of the Labor Party, the place...
...I am perfectly willing to believe that the Packard...
...Eddie was impressed...
...The White House later denied Hopkins actually asked for Nelson's head, but there has been no denial of Hopkins' place in the lineup...
...and ever since the United States has been in this second World War he has been willing to give everything he has to beat the Udet-Milch-Goer-ing gang again...
...Capital Comment Ne/son and Eberstadt TheForcezBehindThem By JONATHAN STOUT WASHINGTON, D. C—Put this dispatch <jown as a footnote to history—to history in fce making, to a chain of events which have been unfolding themselves here in recent months and whose inner meaning has escaped, if not discovery, then widespread public comment And jt li true history, in the sense that it may be on this very footnote that the future course of this country will be based...
...Roosevelt's plans for post-war peacft, reconstruction, Jwitlce and the Four Freedoms...
...Reprenentations had been made through the State Dept...
...This is obviously a bid for national liberal support, for Mr...
...they don't want to risk a five-year jail penalty for tuning into foreign radios to hear that...
...Thus Czechoslovakia has consistently rebuffed all attempts by Poland to create an East-European Federation as envisaged by the Vatican...
...Aw George Decker pointed out in last week's New Leader, it is official Soviet intention to claim as Russian territory those areas seized during the Pact days-Stalin's Order of the Day, issued this week, plainly announces that...
...This advice received considerable strengthening by apparently well-founded reports that Senator Wheeler and some of his colleagues had been consBlting with persons such as Col...
...of Illinois dean of the House of Representatives, publicly declared for a fourth term...
...Rickenbacker Rehashes NAM Line By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN pAPTAIN EDDIE RICKENBACKER is a good ^" guy...
...Hero at Sea *THE Pacific was * kind of a safe place compared to the hot water Eddie Rickenbacker is getting himself in back home...
...The situation is further complicated by the activity both among the Poles and Czechs of such outright reactionaries as Ignacy Matus-zewski, a former member of the Polish pro-Fascist League of Colonels, and Milan Hodza, a former member of the Czech Government, who are sworn opponents of the Soviets and are justly feared by tham...
...Without these states, winning in 1944 would be difficult for the President...
...I could go on...
...Reports from England indicate that the Red Army triumphs, coupled with the overselling of Joseph Stalin and everything Russian, has resulted in sympathy for the Soviets in the trade union ranks...
...Over the past year, there have been many proofs of this aim...
...With an Eberstadt in their place, they knew that the plans for the post-war period would be calculated to perpetuate such a planned economy...
...the appointment of Count Ciano as Italian ambassador to the Holy See, along with the strange spectacle of attacks an "the former Ciano Government" by the fascist editor Roberto Farinacci...
...They are against "organizing activities" which "restrict production...
...Eddie believes his fellow aviators, which, on balance, is a good thing...
...2—$337,000 asked by Secretary Perkins for work curbing absenteeism in war factories and improving working conditions...
...But these JtMf'lll...
...The people must know, too...
...Walter Wmchell...
...They fulminate against "slow downs," and they decry "restrictions" on the output of war goods...
...They set him to lugging stuff around that weighed up to three hundred pounds...
...However, foi an ultimate solution of the problem, Sikorsk-i relies primarily upon President Roosevelt, who has championed the cause of Polish independence on several occasions...
...A few were close to the truth, but were shallow in that they were right as far as they went but they didn't go far enough...
...The battle isn't over...
...Now, they sound very much like the sort of thing which Walter Reuther or Phil Murray would endorse, IF...
...It has become increasingly evident that the Russians will demand parts of Eastern Poland, such as Galicia and Volhynia—to incorporate them into the Soviet Ukraine—on the theory that the Allies will compensate Poland by granting her East Prussia...
...Anti-fascists point out these salient facts: those who listen to foreign radio broadcasts are, in the main, politically conscious and seasoned anti-fascists who seek news, direction, leadership...
...2. The NAM is against jurisdictional disputes —But the fact of the matter is that the CIO and the AFL have set up machinery to handle such disputes...
...Both were kept in prison until the Nazi attack on Russia and signing of a treat' between the Russian and Polish governments...
...1. The NAM has warned labor to stop all strikes and boycotts—But the fact of the matter is that strikes have dwindled away to microscopic proportions, as Eddie Rickenbacker might ascertain for himself if he would read the statistics issued from time to time by the War Labor Board...
...President Roosevelt will do everything he can politically to prevent the Wheelerites from gaining control of the American delegation to the peace table...
...This sum could save hundreds of thousands of man-days of vital production of war and cargo seacraft...
...Mussolini is aging rapidly, and these elements feel they may be able to shunt him aside, with promises of a glorified exile, and come to terms with the Allies...
...But if K. T. Keller and Sorer-son and their staffs are war heroes, so is Walter Reuther...
...Labor Party Leadership Faces Fight on Beveridge, C. P. Issues The British Labor Party this week faced strong internal dissension and a possible crippling of its strength when two unrelated issues, that of Communists entry into the party, and Labor MP.'s revolt against the Government's shunting aside the Beveridge plan, wracked the faaiJMihlji this week...
...But just as definite a move, and one little known about, was the creation by the Soviets early last year of a Slav Conference, which met in Moscow April 4-6, 1942...
...that the majority of the Italian people are anti-fascist, are anti-militarist and anti-clerical...
...The argument would be that "stability would be maintained in Italy," that the antifascist world could be appeased by dumping Mussolini, and that lives would be saved by averting fighting...
...For the benefit of Eddie Rickenbacker, let us test the NAM "rules" for wartime labor against the actual wartime practice of labor...
...Despite appeals by internationally known persons, including William Green and Philip Murray, the Soviet government had refused to disclose any information about them...
...3. The NAM has blasted the "slow down" and other "restrictions" on output—But if our wartime conversion and production records have been almost miraculous, which I know to be true, then labor deserves a big, fat share of the credit...
...And to a somewhat lesser extent OPA's price ?ontrols and the War Labor Board's wage-Ixtog...
...that they do not have to be told that "II Duce is a skunk...
...That's not very hard to find out...
...The idea is to look before you leap...
...Charles A. Lindbergh preparatory to launching a new isolationist propaganda drive to win the peace their way...
...Eberstadt has been constantly pushing in that direction...
...It's a natural alliance...
...One group, headed by Premier Sikorski, is represented as satisfied that the Rosso-Palish agreement of 1941...
...Men with considerable influence in White House circles were advising the President to seek a fourth term...
...That "IF" is a great big one...
...This week, in his home state...
...3—(200.000 asked by the National Resources Planning Board—the President's personal planning advisers who have drawn up the American Beveridge Plan and other post-war projects...
...On tha other hand, the Government may fear a break with the Labor Party and tread more slowly...
...4. The NAM doesn't like absenteeism—Neithet does labor leadership...
...as well as many men switching party allegiance, appears this week as a likelihood...
...Then, in an amazing orgy of Roosevelt-hating, Congress took its venom out on the "widow and orphan" strata of the people...
...Just about nothing...
...If the Southern Democrats gain control of the nominating convention and name an isolationist Democrat, and the Republicans back some one of the Taft type, the President would run with a new political organization...
...But he has gone on from there to assume that labor has not been following the rules...
...But Captain Rickenbacker's silence on matters like these has been deafening...
...The imprisonment of Krlirh and Alter had been protested b» the labor movement of England and America...
...Almost the same situation exists in the Republican Party...
...fired out of hand last week...
...Both were captured by the Soviets when the Red Army moved in to pinch off the Polish resistance and seize Polish lands...
...Without these men and the other dynamos of the party, the Labor organization *will deteriorate...
...Roosevelt—bom of frustration over failure to be named on a presidential slate: and the hatred of Wheeler for FDR for the same reason, and John Nance Garner's animosity for the same reason, is stronger than the usual politician's horse-trading sense This hatred is bolstered by the knowledge 'that they have the President on the spot, politically, because they have torn from him for their own use the important Democratic state machines of Texas, North Carolina, Georgia, and perhaps Virginia...
...Week after week now the stale old lihe has been sounded—Labor is to blame for this, for that, for most everything...
...I've talked with him in his Rockefeller Center office in New York City, where he puts his feet up on the desk and laughs at the more costly office appurtenances...
...There are many signs and rumors of impending action on the continent...
...He did it for a week...
...The fact is that the battle is concerned almost entirely with the future rather than anything immediate, with the post-war period rather than the present...
...The present Pope, the former Cardinal Pacelli, was apostolic delegate to the Polish church for many years>^ Stalin, on the other hand, has been working feverishly for the creation of a Slav organization which would embrace, under his own tutelage, the Slavic people of Europe...
...The plot of the new play is "Quo vadis ? Or, which path shall post-war America take: B»ck to untrammeled free enterprise...
...Or, Mow the European road to planned or managed economy...
...The news that Steel Magnates sabotaged, with malice aforethought, America's industrial production (as the latest Truman report revealed) would probably not be received very well in the fox-holes...
...youth in the High School Victory Corps, and $1,200,060 for emergency grants for maternity and infant care in enlisted men's families...
...A Labor Party convention is scheduled for later this month...
...So the entrance of the Communist Party, with its 29,000 members'into an organization of wriflijne, will aet the British progressive movement hack for generations...
...The old, tottering regimes are finding crutches in certain Allied circles, while the manses, their democratic aspirations denied, are being putted into the Soviet orbit...
...It would be easy, and perhaps a temptation, to leap to the conclusion that this means we're headed for as American brand of fascism after the war...
...More surprising, perhaps, was to find the New Dealer, Harry Hopkins, on the side of Eberstadt...
...This held* particularly true in Bulgaria., Hungary and Rumania...
...Adolph Sabath...
...Equally interesting is that two such leading radugtriai;gts as Nelson, former president of Sears, Roebuck, and Charles E. Wilson .former •President of General Electric, should exhibit «nch bitter opposition to the three groups which, for the duration of the war at least have raised them to the heights of national power...
...Furthermore, the magazine obligates itself to print reports "on anti-fasicst Slav movements in America, England and other countries—about their congresses, meetings, exhibitions and to shed light upon the work of individual groups, organizations, etc...
...There is every reason to believe that it is not the end of an act, but the prologue of a new play which is in rehearsal now for the post-war era...
...Not a word about Big Business...
...A word of warning, in summary...
...His Indianapolis Speedway has been on Labor's unfair list for many years...
...But I hope Eddie Rickenbacker has got the idea by now...
...Perhaps that is what is meant in the report* of Nelson's complaints that Eberstadt "stabbed him in the back.'' t It was perhaps inevitable that Nelson and Eberstadt, wit* two such completely different emotional approaches to a vital problem, should strike sparks in each other...
...The war is .in the hands of the military, and it only obscures true understanding to represent the Nelson-Eberstadt quarrel as civilian versus military...
...speculation on a new mission of Myron Taylor to Rome, and isles -sified propaganda to Italy—all combine to raise talk here of "a deal with Italy," or Italy as the next target of the war...
...it's ' only beginning...
...That may be so, but the sketchy footnotes outlined in this dispatch do not provide sufficient basis for such a hasty conclusion...
...But the trouble with Eddie Rickenbacker is that he is suggestible in the field of social relationships...
...They do this without thinking, just as an Indian of the southwestern desert propitiates the rain god without bothering to study the elementary chemistry and physics of rainfall...
...This is particularly true of some middle-class tarty elements affiliated with the Commonwealth movement...
...They do not have the intimate "feel" for running a factory that the Wilsons or Nelsons have...
...Some of the nonsense ought to be cleared up immediately...
...Italy Seen as Key to Next War Moxes...
...There is little doubt that the President is seeking to gather back in his hands control of the party machinery...
...Thus the forms of fascism would fall, the contents remain...
...The bifftst jurisdictional row— that of the right to organize the West Coast shipyards of Henry Kaiser—has kicked up a lot » of talk, but it has not prevented Kaiser's workers, who are covered by an AFL contract which the CIO shipbuilders call a backdoor agreement, from breaking previous shipyard production records...
...Benes will shortly come to Washington, and Sikorski is expected to- follow...
...Morrison and Bevin spoke as Government members in the House debate, but they couldn't hold the party in line...
...Rather, this is offered for thoughtful consideration and background information in watching developing events...
...The increasing hostile attitude of the Tories, as reflected in their vote on the Catering Bill, as well as the Government position on the Beveridge plan may force the Labor Party to reconsider its coalition policy...
...And that is a field in which he lacks the savvy to know when he is being sold a bill of goods...
...Long ago, during a trip to Germany in 1923 or 1924, he was cornered by hie erstwhile enemies, Udet, Milch and Goering of the Kaiser's 1914-18 air force, who boasted of what they intended to do in the way of building a new air power "to win back the German empire...
...As an auto manufacturer, he was guilty of hiring labor spies...
...Why...
...The chairman of this All-Slav Committee is the Russian Lieutenant General Alexander Gundorow, and the first vice-chairman the noted Soviet writer and dramatist Alexander Korneichuk, who recently accused the Poles of attempting to re-establish the old regime of landlords in the former Polish Ukraine...
...On the other hand...
...I offer this anecdote to Eddie Rickenbacker because it is typical of what is happening everywhere as elderly men try to jump in and perform physical work for which they are not in shape...
...Eddie Rickenbacker has evidently read and taken to heart the NAM rules of behavior for labor...
...who of late has been one of the Administration's weathervanes...
...Nelson is a production man, as is Wilson...
...We now learn from ab*olutelv authoritative sources that the two men were shot...
...There is apparently no unanimity of opinio*} among leading Poles on relations with Russia...
...For the moment, the industrialists have won out over the financiers...
...The efforts of the Vatican to weld a Catholic Slav Federation as a potential anti-Soviet force have been accelerated recently due to increasing Polish nervousness over the unsettled state of Russo-Polish relations...
...When the Reck government fled, the tw o Socialist leaders rallied their forces and continued their struggle...
...The basis for it is now being laid by the attempt of two world powers—the Vatican and the Kremlin—to gain control over the European Slavs...
...Erlich was a member of the executive hoard of the Labor and Socialist International...
...But the forces of planned economy are far from licked...
...The fragmentary notes on this story, as they hive come to my attention, are concerned with tfce true nature of the struggle between Donald jftlson, head of the War Production Board, and Ferdinand Eberstadt, the deputy whom he finally...
...then he became an "absentee...
...There no longer can be any rfnuht that Mr...
...By crippling this agency, Congress hits directly at the group which may devise the most efficient methods of getting jobs for the demobilized armies...
...There was a perhaps exaggerated "port that Hopkins went so far as to demand *e dismissal of Donald Nelson...
...The small buj efficient Communist machine has also infiltrated many unions...
...Bevin was so incensed at the slap that he boycotted a Labor MP caucus called to discuss the party's position...
...They also must have the "know-how...
...His supporters have not avoided publicity on the subject...
...Understanding of this fact lies, perhaps, in noting the difference in die roles of the Nelsons . and Eberstadts in American industry...
...The tradition behind the Eberstadts is different...
...He has been a veteran anti-labor employer...
...The men on Guadalcanal might not be too happy about fantastic corporate profits...
...So has West Virginia's Matthew M. Neelev New Deal circles in Washington and every other large city where the W+itte House is aligned with a political machine have suddenly begun talking of the necessity of controlling the nation's policy immediately preceding peace preparations...
...In its anti-New Deal rampage, Congress even refused to give this small sum to the Department of Labor to tight the very evil which it is legislating against in other sessions...
...The issue of the Beveridge wee may mean a crisis in the Labor Party's coalition policy and its election truce tactic 110 Labor MP's overrode pleas by Morrison and Bevin to accept the Government's position of delaying concrete enactment of the Beveridge plan...
...Roosevelt plans control of the White House in 1945...
...Erlich and Alter mobilized the Polish worker* and Socialists to lead the struggle against fascism...
...Stalin puts Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Karelia, Moldavia (in which the Russians include Bessarabia) in the same category of "Soviet lands to be recovered" as the Crimea and White Russia...
...wrote this week that '"the President will run for a fourth and a fifth term...
...Few definite facts are known of the Vatican's foreign policy, yet there is, based on reliable sources, every indication that Pope Pius XII is working for a federation of Catholic Slavs to be composed of Poles, Czechs, Croats and Slovenes...
...Now that the world hae come closer than Robert Owen and his successors did to practical grip* with such problems, it becomes clear how tremendous is the leap from capitalism's free enterprise to collectivism's planned economy...
...It was a cinch that one or the other would have to go...
...Plan...
...They are particularly worried about the type of propaganda to Italy...
...When they meet in solemn conclave, the NAM boys warn labor "to stop all strikes and boycotts...
...But let me pass on to Eddie the story of the man who lives across the road from me...
...The House voted against appropriations of $2,973,000 for payments to states for care of children of employed mothers...
...in which territorial issues were sidestepped, had brought positive results both to Poland and the United Nations...
...Willkie and every other politician knows that he has not too good a chance for an official Republican nomination in 1944...
...As for "boycotts," it is the government these days which decides the flow and origin of war materials...
...Rickenbacker was a leading America First-er...
...And it is natural for military men to think in terms of their training...
...Serbian and Polish Communists (Wanda Wassilevska, among others...
...One is that the struggle or the recent ousting of Eberstadt will have any effect on the war effort...
...And that made the conflict inevitable...
...Eddie has been listening to the National Association of Manufacturers, which has been setting down rules for labor...
...Propaganda Scored The visit of Archbishop Spellman to both Spain and the Vatican, after a conference with the White House...
...Hoosier Wendell Willkie declared for the G.O.P...
...The Congressmen simply decided to abandon much of the WMP work in mobilizing manpower for the war factories and the armed services...
...Various Slav conferences in Europe have been outgrowths of this conference, as was,, in its inauguration, the American Slav Congress created in Detroit on April 26...
...Although Russo-PpJish friction has recently been brought to the surface, there is as yet no indication of a break between Sikorski and Stalin, such as marks the relations between the Russians and the Yugoslavs over the Partisans and Diwja Mikhailovich (whose elimination would further the Kremlin's Slav cause...
...for instance, are better prepared psychologically, when the need is presented, to accept any change involving the running of America's industrial machine so long as it does not endanger the investment of banker capital nor cut off the flow of dollar dividends —and all the more readily if the new system of planned economy serves at the same time to decrease the element of risk to investment which always was inherent in the system of free enterprise...
...They take but poorly to tor notion that outsiders shall tell the man at the head of a plant when and how he shall run that business...
...Military organizations always have been run by Planned economy...
...nBut perhaps the alliance of a topflight New Dealer with a Wall Street banker and the miliary will not seem so strange when it te recalled *»t each of the three, for reasons of his •"n, is an advocate of planned economy...
...Fourth Term' Raises Havoc With Party Lines 'House Wreckers Rip Social Service Bills In Anti-FDR Rampage By EDWARD LORING Special to The New Leader WASHINGTON.—A political realignment, resulting: in the springing up of several new regional parties by the early months of 1944...
...Their earnest desire is to sea CMP and all other such controls on industry liquidated as soon as possible after the war...
...Erlich and Alter were known throughout the world as the courageous leaders of the Polish Labor and Jew ink Socialist movement...
...Just exactly what does that mean...
...AM for some it may be the cream of an historical jest that the plan by which American productiveness is learning to live under a planned economy fe the product not of some radical "df revolutionary but of a Wall Street Investment banker—Ferdinand Eberstadt...
...Putting aside for the moment the violent imposition of planned economies in the totalitarian states of Russia, Italy and Germany, it obviously is not enough, in a peaceful transition, to leave it all to a small group of government economists in Washington who would be the only ones to ( know what to do and how to do it, and simply have the people blindly follow their orders...
...Two issues have recently arrived here and their contents bear analysis...
...Anti-fascists here are restive concerning these possibilities which, they admit, have a large chance of success...
...have not always made clear in fine Mnt'tfactly how such planned economies could t...
...It is known that the Vatican fears social revolution in Italy and that "peace feelers" have already been extended by a group of industrialists and dissident fascists...
...Although that will not come as too great a shock to those who remember that the banking fraternity in Italy and Germany financed the ad-v«nt of planned economies in those countries...
...When he had recovered from the ordeal he went back to defense work, this time in a job in the heat-treating department which was commensurate with his strength...
...Supporting figures in this impending tragedy-are General Wladyslaw Sikorski, Polish Premier, who is backed by the Vatican, and Eduard Benes, President of Czecho-Slovakia, who leans towards Soviet Russia...
...This was shown in the magazine Slavianie (The Slavs), printed in Moscow and official organ of the All-Slav Committee organized in Russia...
...Most were—in the pure sense of the word—nonsense...
...And—in a democratic country—how much preliminary training — and education in practical operation under a planned economy is reqerired BJ the whole human structure of America's systems of production, transportation and distribution before that leap can be made...
...Apparently, too, Moscow is unwilling today to restore as much of Eastern Poland to the Poles as was tentatively agreed upon last summer...
...The rationalisation of industry along such lines is eomething that comes easy to their under-itaadiBg...
...Obviously, as long as the war is on the military are the boss-men in saying what they want, how much of it and when...
...Nobody hat and nobody will say them nay...
...Some White House strategists have even thrown hints out at James J. Farley and some of the opposition Democratic leaders to meet with the President and iron out old differences...
...3,182,900 for the pre-army training of...
...These are the Bigns of what is to came when America begins to discuss Mr...
...The aim of the magazine, according to an editorial in its first issue of June, 1942, is to enunciate "the struggle for national liberation on the part of the Slav peoples and also the liberating role of the Red Army...
...They cry a pox on "jurisdictional disputes...
...It does mean that the overwhelming official policy of preventing any criticism of Russia and of painting the Russian leaders in vast heroic terms has won the mass of union members over to the attitude that the Communists must be made welcome everywhere or the Red Army will be forced to fall back...
...Hopes for unity are built on the possibility of some kind of modus vivendi, but there are many difficulties in the way of any imminent rapprochement...
...He has mistaken an abstract code for a recommendation to the jury without bothering to listen to evidence which clearly acquits the accused...
...of many of the 32 high Labor commissioners and the possible control of the government by a Labor-dominated coalition...
...A thin fellow in his fifties, he has had little physical exercise in the * past ten years...
...it is merely a money-producer...
Vol. 26 • February 1943 • No. 9
