Capital Comment

...Browder...

...In the final sense, it was the victory of the Communist virus wearing down the resistance of the ALP body politic...

...This has been proven by eight years of genuine American Labor Party activity...

...That's a new song for Mr...

...Mikhailovitch rallied his courageous Chet-niks about him to battle the conquering Nazi hordes, Hitler had not yet invaded the Soviet Union, the Hitler-Stalin Pact was in effect and Communists throughout the world were sabotaging every effort to bring aid to the hard-pressed British...

...These men and women will seek a new political home and political activity...

...Against this background, diplomats this week were sharply scanning President Roosevelt's message of friendship to King Peter...

...The dodge is to tie ¦P unions and their officers in expensive and tiresome litigation before the courts and other official and semi-•Ocial bodies...

...The time is ripe for a new political movementl...

...Now that the Nazis have occupied Hungary, this precious secret—now useless—can be told...

...In an editorial last Sunday the Wathington Pott said apparently in casual fashion that "propaganda in Hungary has been monopolized by Goebbels" and that the people of Hungary "haven't known much about the American position...

...We have tens of thousands of men and women ready for action...

...As part of that picture, it is now the settled policy ¦ Many union-busting employers to demand new rep-j*s*ntation elections from the National Labor Relations ¦°wd each time a union contract expires and time "¦ws to renew it...

...There are 600,000 independently-minded voters in New York State...

...As, one by one, the other avenues of escape from the Middle European charnel house were cut .>ff, Hungary became the last remaining rescue route...

...Labor's political committees will arouse thousands who have never before been politically active...

...That declaration of war has never been rescinded...

...A new Labor Advisory Committee to the Inter-Agency Committee on Food for Workers has been set up...

...Until the Nazis performed their latest act of cannibalism and swallowed up their satellites the other day, Hungary was the only country in southeastern Europe •hose press had never been 'coordinated' to serve the wHl of Adolf Hitler...

...With their new experience and their sense/ of achievement, they too will seek independent political action...

...One of them was told by OWl Director Elmer Davis in a letter this week to the Editor of the Wathinglon Pott...

...The Communist ALP cannot meet these problems, for the Communists have adopted the program of Big Business...

...Johnston is well aware that Mi Murray also is president of the CIO...

...Johnston quietly handed the Senate Committee a written statement from the U. S. Chamber's board of directors, saying: "Organized labor, by its renewed demands for increases in wages, threatens to destroy the stabilization program If organized labor is successful, inflation will be unrestrained and labor will be the pnmipal sufferer...

...In Canada, the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation, a genuine progressive group which rejects Communist ideology, has demonstrated what an alert and active liberal party ran do...

...The fart is that Hungary for many nonths has willingly provided the route by which untold hundreds of Jewish and other refugees of the Nazi terror have been rescued...

...In New York we have the machinery...

...Now that, too, is rioted, and the fate W the victims of Hitler is finally completely hopeless...

...And that is accompanied by the tin eat that if labor il not satisfied with holding the present line, Big Business will begin a new price spiral...

...Under a program calling for far-reaching social change, they have enlisted the labor people, professionals, small farmers and small business men of Canada...

...To correct this widespread, but •rroneous impression, Elmer Davis wrote: "On the contrary, Hungary was the only country in southeastern Europe which permitted many of its newspapers to publish news from neutral and Allied sources...

...Coming as it did the same day that Prime Minister Churchill gushed on the radio about "the heroic Tito," who is' trying to wipe out Mikhailovitch and King Peter, Embassy Row was busy this week trying to read between the lines of President Roosevelt's message...

...But to answer the tvil, there will be a progressive surge...

...Over the country there are various stirrings which can leail to genuine, independent labor and liberal action...

...there are masses of people looking into the new vistas of progressivism and independent labor political action...

...J. Raymond Walsh, Russ Nixon...

...This is not a sob story or crying over spilt milk...

...Some Hungarian newspapers in recent months published at least as many items coming from neutral, British or American sources as from German sources, »nd often Allied news received better play than enemy Hems, i have seen Budapest newspapers in this office *ith the full texts of speeches of President Roosevelt, Vice-President Wallace and Wendell Willkie, and with excerpts from the speeches of other prominent Americans...

...they will not want to- remain ihe tail to any old party's kite...

...For a New Political Party...

...They have given them a hope and ambition, a way out of the cynical morass of the old party system...

...But the democratically-minded active political workers will not remain in that party...

...Its members include I. M. Ornburn, Miss Margaret Scattergood, and Miss Florence Thorne for AFL...

...For without that authority, all talk of cracking the Little Steel formula amounts to nothing more than conversation...

...The war has brought to the surface all the evil cancers of American life, all it* manifestations of racial prejudice, reaction and Bourhonism...

...In Yugoslavia on March 28, 1941, the Communists sabotaged Mikhailovitch's efforts to rally his countrymen against the Axis...

...Meed, it is possible that Hitler found it necessary tooeeopy Hungary by force, violence and fraud instead " °7 conjent simply because the Hungarians knew so ¦"«•> about the coming Allied victory in this war and ¦*»«•• they saw so clearly that Hitlerism was doomed...

...Johnston...

...WLI Seeks to Block Anti-Union Dodge The War Labor Board this week served notice that it does not propose to settle individual grievance cases arising under collective bargaining contracts and that it expects plants to have adequate machinery for settling auch individual disputes...

...But their victory was won by deceit and chicanery...

...But, for the most urgent reasons, it was impossible heretofore to make them public...

...They want a decent liberal party that will not follow the Communist line of supporting Big Business and "free enterprise," the Communist line of selling out labor'* gains and capitulating to Tory elements...

...The American Labor Party is no more...

...They can strike out for a new party—call it the American Commonwealth Party, call it the American Liberal Party, or what you will—but • new political party that will stand squarely in the tradition of the great democratic movements of this country, the great social reform and forward looking movements, the tradition of Eugene Debt, the elder LaFollette and the early New Deal...

...ooieve/t Message to King Peter Resident Roosevelt this week started the Washing-diplomatic corps buzzing by sending a warm tele-***** or congratulations to King Peter of Yugoslavia Jj P third anniversary—on March 28—of the rallying * t»e heroic Yugoslavian* people under General Mikhailovitch against the conquering Nazis...

...Johnston said, doesn't want any increase in prices...

...This is a plain and simple statement of a problem that we all know and understand...

...These independent voters, too, will look for a new political horn...

...There is a vast progressive field to be) ploughed in America...

...Behind this is an old dodge by union-busting employes in a renewed anti-labor drive gathering momentum p spots throughout the country...

...They won by the demagogic appeal for unity, by raising a fal*e issue, by accusing the light wing of opposing Roosevelt, by utilizing the Hillman machine, by the hesitations and backsliding of Mayor LaGuardia, who seeks to be all things to all men...

...It doesn't have the authority...

...They know it for what it is...

...One line of action got under way this week when Philip Murray, president of the United Steel Workers, began presenting the case of his union in its demand for a wage increase...

...jf •«<¦•«* Wants fe Held «• UlO—Tft* Proflf UH« Earlier this week, Eric Johnston, the very able *«ident of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, showed Jswvous apprehension at he appeared before ths Banking Committee, which is considering legisUtiun to continue economic stabilization controls for another year...

...And other odd fads about this strangest of Axis satellites are (merging...

...Glenn R. Atkinson and Martin Miller for Railroad Brotherhoods and John J. Mates of UMW...

...Spread the word through the European underground, he told me, that Jews should be helped to get to Hungary...

...By that action Byrnes made sure that labor could sot threaten the fat margins of the war profiteers...

...How's that for unity, Mr...

...It was a surprise to many...

...Now the same Croats have joined the Communist Tito, whom the British under the terms of their deal with Stalin to cede the Balkans as a Soviet sphere of influence now recognize in preference to Mikhailovitch...

...The overwhelming bulk of these men and women are anti-Fascist and anti-Communist...

...What remains is a falsefront manipulated by the Communist Party, currently in alliance with Sidney., Hillman...

...The second line of attack gets under way next week when a special panel of the War Labor Board begins hearing spokesmen for the American Federation of Labor in their demand for revision of the Little Steel formula...

...That authority was taken away from the WLB last year by Assistant President James F. Byrnes of South Carolina by authorization of the President's Executive Order...

...They want a party that will fight hard for social reform and labor's rights, a party which will fight for a new New Deal and the curbing of monopoly power...

...Donald Montgomery and Leo Goodman for CIO...

...It was part of the deal between the Democratic tories of the South and the Republican reactionaries of the North who have controlled Capitol Hill since VMM...

...Ami then, just before he left, Mr...

...The U. S. Chamber of Commerce, Mr...

...This compact, disciplined minority, in alliance with Sidney Hillman, has captured a party...

...They can be rescued from there...

...The Croats declared their independence from Yugoslavia, joined the Axis and declared war on the United States...

...Hungarian publishers were Hrmitted to publish translations of current American •**», which were sold openly in Budapejt book stores...

...Labor Food Committee Set Up WASHINGTON—Organized labor is slated for more active participation in the government industrial feeding program, according to the Food Distribution Administration...

...The resolution asserted'that the Board expects that, even in the absence of established grievance procedures, •risvances will be settled through direct negotiation or voluntary arbitration...

...In their cultural and literary columns the pro-Allied P»P*rt in Hungary entirely ignored Germany and dis-«"**ed only Hungarian, French, British and American *riters, play* and music...

...Many persons said they were very glad to hear that the Big Business boys in the Chamber of Commerce Anally war* satisfied with prices...

...It was recalled that on March 28 three years ago when (ien...

...There are lome curious aspects to Hungary's alliance te the Axis...

...They will have nothing to do now with the Communist ALP...

...The decent, democratic elements in the old American Labor Party can lead the way...

...That threat was aimed not only at labor, but also at the War Labor Board and at the President...

...j After five years (and eight costly primary campaigns) the well-organized, well-financed, full-time drive of the Communist Party has succeeded in capturing the American Labor Party...

...The plain fact is that—even if it wanted to—the War Labor Board cannot grant wage increases above the 15% of the Little Steel formula...

...It was sort of a j»jief to hear it, if you know what I mean...

...The threat was intended to stop two actions which finally, after a year of struggle, give promise of breaking through the straitjarket of the Little Steel formula...

...What the A"FL is demanding is that the War Labor Boaid go to the President and obtain authority to change the Little Steel formula...

...He came, he'said, to plead for a hold-tks-lins policy...

...It is the established policy of the WLB," a resolute* by the Board stated, "to require that grievance which can be settled under the established procedures st" a collective bargaining agreement be settled in that ¦•nner without recourse to the procedures of the Beard...

...Not a word of this could have been mentioned before .. . as long as the rescue route was op?n and functioning...

...This strategy is calculated ,to dis-flV unions by encouraging jurisdictional conflicts, to • •**ed unions white'financially and to render them un-*t»Me...

...And Mr...

...If was almost a year ago that I got the exciting hint from a high government authority to pass along to certain persona engaged in refugee rescue work, a desperate and highly dangerous undertaking...

...With Big Business profits soaring anywhere from (00% to more than 3,000% above pie war levels, with the cost of living admittedly having far outstripped wages . . . Big Business is now content lo "bold ths line...

...yilK American Labor Party is no more...