The Home Front
BOHN, WILLIAM E.
The Home Front By William E. Bohn JAMBS HUDSON MAURES was one of the mo»t effective, moet genuine, most native leaders of the American socialist movement. Put hiai with hii group and you...
...lateraotloaol Politics /"\NE of the reasons for the strained U. S. Free French relations, according to the Washington rumors, is the strong personal antipathy held by president Roosevelt towards General de Gaulle...
...This, of course, happened in Reading...
...He has not lived in vain...
...Mike Quill, Abram Flaxer, Blackie Myers, James Lostig aad other leading left wing unionists...
...ing en instructions from tho State Department, has accepted the invitation of the Franco Government to participate la an International Fair to be held in Barcelona in June 1944...
...He fought sgainst and detested a bill to extend tbt power of staks police He introduced bills to start tbt present system of social security Soma of these billi he got passed...
...On the pro de Gaulle side is Admiral Leahy, who had been accused of being pro Petam when be waa stationed at Vichy...
...A group which calls itself The Forum has been renting The City Center on the grounds they are non-partisan...
...Thimmee ran against Connelly severs...
...But he was master of a really basic vocabulary In his mouth common words could sesr and blister And the most terse and trenchant of them he poured out upon fellows who thought they knew all about Marx but lacked acquaintance with common people and their needs...
...Add up Poland, Badoglio, de Gaulle, King George of Greece, and you have a headache, not a policy...
...The organised workers of Pennsylvania knew well what this msn stood for, and they elected him over and over again...
...Memo to City Miters: Tho American Chamber of Commerce in Spain, 90 Broadway, N. Y. C. is srgaarskag the Amoriraa exhibits...
...When Jim's life came to an end last week he was exactly 80 years old...
...In tho reseat etoctiea...
...His fight to make organisation poasible and to make life decent led him iato every sort of privation and physical danger But he never quit Soon Jim just naturally found his way to Socialism In 1910 he was elected to the state legislature on the Socialist ticket...
...A column by the assistant editor of «t Local's paper waa dropped because ho defended the four stewards and called on tho anion to defend the men...
...Among the others there were smooth politicisns and plenty of gang 1 leaders who would not hesitate at violence...
...Striving in aty assail way to de sty bit toward making this a better world has bsea a glorious adventarr • By MURRAY EVERETT Inside and Out Hall oad foreign Policy 'THE conclusion seems inevitable that U. S. foreign policy has bogged down...
...Commie Motes FREDDIE WOLTMAN'S current series in tho WorU-Telegrmm ought to stir s hornet's nest in CIO...
...But when the score was added,, it totalled a •number of brave new promises...
...The labor unions and co-ops have done more for the betterment of man than all the do-gooders who ever existed...
...The state police were universally known as>eai workers as eossacka...
...and Bow C, composed of ex Trotakyitee and ssilitant eases elements...
...lie was saddened by much of what he saw in the world...
...Joe writes: "Jim was one of the old-time wage workers who made the Socialist Party a real wage worker's party...
...Always honest, he never glossed over the horrors of the war or the signs that we are going straight toward another period of nationalism and imperialism...
...This boy would not poll down his flag for anyone...
...He was soundly tied into the labor movement...
...Woltman disclosed an affidavit, signed by Timothy Holmes, for II years one of the top Negro functionaries of the Party, which tied in warn the CP...
...And in turn they trotted out "prominent men and women in the professional field" who support the Hillman Plan, including Lyman Bradley, Garibaldi Lapola, Gerald Shapiro, Annette T. Kubenstein...
...He was one of the old guard1 who advocated and helped to put through many' measures for the relief from the injustices borne by the working class...
...Concealment would have been temperamentally impossible...
...During his lot} "days, sitting, as he said, on the sidelines, he was able to writs in all modesty: , . "I have helped to take children eat ef factories, sweat sheas sad coal aslnaa aad place them to schools and playgrounds...
...By this time be was a machinist and bad gone into business for himself...
...Tho onion has divided iato three ffsoaos (based on tho election lino): Row A led by Tea de Lorenzo...
...Summed up Time, after citing the apprehensions of Arthur Krock, Dorothy Thompson, Anhe O'Hare McCormick, Walter Lippmann, William Philip Simms, and Samuel Grafton: "Wha| the columnists aad experts were ssying— all across, the board—was thst the continuing lack of an American foreign poliry Is now canse for the gfaveat alarm.'* Cofiarioits of this rising grotmdswell of criticism, Hull made indirect reply Tuesday night...
...He always had his tye on practical reforms which would immediately benefit the working class, but without forgetting the socialist ideal Jim Maurer—and these other men whom 1 hsve mentioned—hated big words and any sort of eshibitionism...
...The stat, was run by the Pennsylvania Hallway and tw exU, owners...
...trouble...
...In these days the Pennsylvania legislature was probably as corrupt as any we have ever had in this country, and Jim Maurer was only one among 207...
...Bow C dementi now charge that the Administrs-tion group has boon moving doner to Henry Kaiser S»« the company mapagtmoat to the detriment of tho entos...
...The Daily Worker the other day claimed that the liberals who were supporting the right-wing A.L.P...
...Ex-Ambassadsr Grew has been asked by the State* Department to stop making speeches on Japan...
...He scorned "theoreticians...
...He joined the Knights, became a Single Taxer and a worker in the People's Party...
...The Mo* Wh» Built Foundations ip0 youngsters whose memories extend back only to the beginning of the Roosevelt era this tribute from Joe Cold well may seem extravagant...
...And it isn't the "liberals" this time that are making the wry fares (and as for the Communists, Earl Browder last week published a letter in defense of Cordell Hull...
...All persona who want to get a living picture of how life has bean made better are strongly urged to read Jim Maurer's book...
...The man turned out to be one of the organisers of the Knights of Labor...
...For he had not spent his life talking about socialism...
...They said 'What of profit?' But he said 'What of man?' He lived to see many of the laws which he advocated become the law of the land...
...Grow has stated that Hirohito belongs to a liberal group that' opposes Tojo, a group that we can deal with and that Snintoism is a stabilizing force, . .. The...
...American Embassy in Madrid, act...
...Thay nay the fear stoworda wore djrspasd because » this policy...
...Efforts ore at ill being made to patch ap tat aght between do Urease of Bow A aad the Boo C hot at, Cooaatsslsts or tho Adetos-Frenkensiee...
...For long months he had been forced by illness to remain in his home considering the experiences of a life which went bar* to the Civil War...
...Pennsylvania was the very center ef political and business crookedness and aati-labor viciouaneaa...
...Every step in human progress has come through blood and tears and work...
...He never concealed his convictions...
...The questions are coming thick and fast from all sides of the political fence (when they are political fences there are always more than two sides...
...He had helped make definite advances...
...Since then the anti-CP...
...He belonged with Victor Berger, Daniel Hoan, Jasper McLevy and Meyer London, by virtue ef the fact that he was a goo< socialist without being cut off from the powerful main crurents of American life...
...I hove had a head in patting ea the Pennsylvania statute books relief far widows sod orphans, aad workmen's eomeea-satiee...
...Bow B , unit<<1 tnnt o! Addes eeeeht, Communists and n sprinkling of Coaghlinitos...
...Xassioa Imperialism "WHATEVER the Russian intention, it is difficult to escape the impression that Moscow's policy tendi to overstep the limits of a policy based on respect for its neighbor's independence...
...Bow C had been silled with Row A. Now fear shop stewards belonging at Bow C were trod by tho company on the ground that they had - talked- of a walkout-and the union mad* no protest...
...But it is soundly based on facta...
...But in the bitter struggles during the depression of 1892-94 be was boycotted by the employers and driven out of business...
...At 16 Jim was given a pamphlet by a fellow workman in the machine shop where he was serving his apprenticeship...
...21), a left-wing English weekly put out by the Aneurin Bevan-Strauss-Postgate -Cale-Lsski group...
...To his deep chagrin he finally acknowledged that he could not read...
...This week 20 Republican Congressmen who had been staunchly interventionist, who had voted for all lend-lease measures, addressed a letter to the State Department which stated: "In Europe and South America we are distressed to observe our foreign relations suffering impairment from a want of definition of American policy...
...After de Gaulle's recent speech demanding the recognition of the French Committee.on Liberation as a provisional government after, the invasion,of Francej Roosevelt was fit to be tied and was ready to break" relations with the tall General...
...It may be the logical development of the law of evolution...
...vote has grown larger, until today it was able to force Connelly's resignation...
...Because he had lived, life was better for the people of his state and his town, ? • » One Old Fighter to Another "THERE has come to me a tribute to James H. Maurer "from another old socialist stalwart, Joseph M. Cold-well...
...Jim Maurer, who was a faithful socialist every minute, served 18 years as President of the Pennsyl-vania State Federation of Labor...
...Holmes states that Quill, Flaxer, rf «/, reported to the party on all confidential' union matters, and that vital decisions as to whether a union should strike or not strike was not made by the will of the membership, hut by the decision of the Communist Party...
...Or when has the master class submitted to logic or surrendered to words...
...v in spirit and content The interference assumed more and more the character of that sort of pressure and intervention in which "imperialists' all over the world have been psit masters...
...I.h^i week Time magazine led off its issue with a two-page round-up of columnar comment on foreign affairs under the heading "Cause for Alarm...
...Jim not only had his convictions of the need of working class solidarity, but he also had the courage of his convictions...
...The above analysis is by the Editors of the London Tribune (Jan...
...The raw brutality with which the struggle against organised labor was carried on during those days it hi practically impossible for us to imagine now...
...years ago but was beaten badly...
...It was an anti-labor state, gut that Socialist who had learned to read m a nwehia* shop at the age of 16 stood op there and fought...
...The next day Tom King, this Knights of Labor organir.tr, aat down among the machines during the lunch period to teach this working-class American hey how to make words) out of letters and how to get the sense out of a printed page...
...Harry Bridges took his first real licking in (TO the other week when the California State CIO accepted the resignation of party-liner Philip (Slim) Connelly snd elected James G. Thimmes of the Steel Workers as president...
...Ever hear of any of these before...
...I bottled for years against great odds for eld-age siasistaa...
...But forum lecturers for the group include party-liners Walter Rauten-strauch, Clifford McAvoy, Vladimir Ka/evirh, Victor Yakhantoff, Harry F. Ward et al...
...tony take advantage of the ficht...
...It Can Be Dens, printed by the Rand School Press.' Plenty of work snd blood and tears went into' this struggle to raise the level of our life...
...Troable of Irewster DREWSTER Local 146, UAW, which had the repetition of being one of tho most militant and laser conscious locals in CIO, is being root apart by I actions...
...The people are entitled to some explanation of your puzxling silence...
...aad new I aee that becossiag a reality...
...That evening the boy agonised over the printed words...
...In she course of time this wprUngssos became the great leader of the social security movement in this key industrial, state...
...We had many like him who kept the party straight on proletarian lines...
...Socialism is not inevitable...
...But he had every right to take satisfaction in solid accomplishments of his own...
...Out of the jumbled, crazy-quilt patch of Europe, no discernible coherent, American poliry has emerged...
...Put hiai with hii group and you immediately clarify the meaning of his life and influence...
...Wanna bet that a file of CIO Executive Board minutes was turned over to the C.P...
...But when have peoples and governments been logical...
...wiufn a few years ho hod brought about important changes...
...were puny names (i.e., Hsrry Gideonse, John L. Childs, Reinhold Niebuhr, William Agar, etc...
...Other socialists fought ogsinst the labor movement or, at any rate, spent s good deal of energy in criticiam of it...
...This is no longer a matter of •interference in internal affairs through revolutionary propaganda.' Russian propaganda to Poland is now nationalist, Catholic and reaction...
...He was scorned and laughed art by the reactionaries of his early days...
Vol. 27 • March 1944 • No. 13
