It Happened Last Week
OAR, LISTON M.
It Happened Last Week By LISTON M.OAR The ILO Conference... The credentials committee of the International Labor Organisation decided in favor of seating delegate! named by the Yugoslavian...
...The Administrative Committee will «t...
...1I.,.·A_riCfl...
...He was arrested by the Japanese secret police, thrown into a cell called "the hole...
...But the real liberals in the tripartite representations are still fighting to remedy the ILO'% defects and make it a more effective labor parliament...
...But among the tpontort and organitere art tkrtt prominent Comtnunitte—Bert Brecht, Felix Botnheim, and Albert Schreiner...
...All of this story is true except for the words "Japan* and "Japanese...
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...Twelve hours a day were spent in the bull pen...
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...Iie.tion after...
...Laughlin has l<M the defense attorneys in the effort to Inject false racial and religious issues into the triaL O. John Rogge, prosecutor, denounced Laughjin's conduct as "contemptuous, contumacious, and obstructive...
...This is only one of many threatened splits in the Labor Party...
...he sought to purge all fascists and ultra-reactionaries from the army...
...The contempt proceedings compelled the court to dismiss the jurors selected and to start all over again, wasting two weeks of hard work...
...MISCELLANY THE W.r...
...Sir Walter Citrine and Walter ScheTenels and other workers' delegates accused the employers' delegates of practicing "delaying tactics" to prevent the conference from achieving its objectives particularly broadening the scope of its authority in the economic field...
...l"eo4., '.'peall_ i.poeect...
...the realities of power politics obstruct real cooperation, beginning with the refusal pf Russia to send delegates, and including the refusal of either the United States or Britain to taka the initiative and assume leadership...
...I'll, ,ati .. ~ will...
...Andre Le Troquer, a Socialist, followed the opposite policy as War Commissioner...
...Its declaration of principles and its program for postwar Germany are admirable...
...M -Ala...
...eed that tile Breakera Hetel ",ill M ret.,a...
...Most of the soldiers thought, however, that Germany should ultimately be part of the European family of nations...
...n DeeeaIMr 11...
...the li.ii would be the instrument of international collaboration in the field of economics and finance...
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...The confusion reigning in the world generally is reflected in the ILO conference...
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...The Council repudiates any unilateral settlement of European, problems and urges the inclusion of a democratic Germany within the framework of a united Europe—the application of the Atlantic Charter to Germany...
...What should be done with Germany after our victory ? This question wss put to G. I. Joe's by Chrietian Science Monitor correspondents...
...Sea article by Ruth Fischer on page 6.) Radelph kill, editor of the VMueitung...
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...It calls far re...
...No dear policy has emerged as to the role of the ILO within the post--war international organisation to be established by the United Nations, if any...
...A long list of eminent American liberals sponsors this Council, including John Dewey, William Agar, Reinhold Niebuhr, Robert Maclver, William Alan Neil-son, Frank P. Graham, Alvin Johnson, Emit Kieve, snd Justice Ferdinand Pecora...
...Jopameie Atrocity Story . . . Roger W. Axford was a Methodist minister in Japan...
...for the purging of all Nazis from German institutions...
...Febefllo* Im Iritis* Lobar Party .. . The top tenders ef the British Labor Party met ami moved to expel Aneurin Bevan for his rebellion over the Government edict severely penalising strike agitators...
...aided by the growing prestige of Russia and with the great , advantage of an international apparatus, will eventually dominate the Council, or, at least, exploit it for partisan purposes...
...Beach r_rt u • hos,itaL ••• Tlte Ar,entiH ,.per rreg...
...tempt to discipline the party members who h«ve oftea disagreed with the Labor Party leaders who srs is the coalition government A long battle may develop...
...wWe· IIpre.d ,.~Iie 1Ie ••• d that the Ar., coatiD.e ~ille the .",uk, .,.1...
...Nights were spent in a cell 5 by 8 feet...
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...He spoke aa a nationalist, he declared, not as a Communist For a strong France, national unity is necessary...
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...criUclaed the "tih...,h.a...
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...French Communist Against Fascist Purge .. . Fernand Grenier, Communist Commissioner for Air in the French Committee for National Liberation, stated to a New York Herald Tribune correspondent that there will be no further elimination of fascists and Vichyites from the French air force...
...It is opposed to Vansittartism - the dismemberment and enslavement of Germany...
...There is no information available as to the motivation of these Japanese-Americans—whether their refusal to submit to military discipline is due to racial persecution or to pro-Japanese convictions...
...Departa.at .ano...
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...The cartel is accused of suppressing an "everlasting match" that looks like a pencil and can be struck 1M times...
...This, said, Grenier, undermined confidence...
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...The various firms conspired to restrict production, keep up prices, and eliminate competition, the Department of Justice declared...
...But the Germans should not be allowed to rebuild a strong army...
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...Some had not seen the sun in six months...
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...C omrt • klorilml C on vie t Jopos.i* Xm.n.o., .,, Twenty-eight Japanese-American soldiers were placed in the stockade at Fort M'Clellan charged with refusing to take military training...
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...One of the mistakes of the pre-war Popular Front was to leave pro-fascists in army commands...
...The genuine liberals who initiated the Council, with sincere intentions, will once again go throegh the bitter experience of so msny "united fronts" which were captured by the Com-ntunist minority, Kats fears...
...When the police fingerprinted him, they wrenched his wrist badly...
...In a defense filibuster, Laughlin introduced "irrelevant motions,'' seeking publicity and prejudicing prospective jurors...
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...But all agreed that the top leaders should be severely punished...
...Aa .~ ••• t betweea M.drid...
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...The Communists, with the support ef their loyal fellow-travelers and ef those who have "faith in Russia...
...The conflict of interests and policies of the workers' and employers' groups, on top of the sabotage of the ILO by Russia, threaten the success of the conference...
...Bevan denounced Ernest Bevin, Minuter ef Labor, for this edict, and flftoen other Laborites la Parliament agreed with him...
...areu .f ltal...
...The food waa revolting, but one had to eat it or starve...
...in4it.te tlaat Hoaeow haa.,,,_ oa .nr, polllt i. tIia,.te ever...
...t of J.etleo i'e,.rW to tt...
...The straw mattress literally crswled with bugs...
...The American firms control 83 per cent of the business...
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...A lot of oratory which adds up to nothing," was the cynical comment of one observer...
...In the "bull pen" he got acquainted with other prisoners, many of whom didn't know why they were there...
...The firms accused denied their guilt...
...The most frequent answer was, "Let Russia handle Germany...
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...to ita .w...
...Nineteen have bees already sentenced by courts martial to five to thirty years in prison...
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...A new Council for a Democratic Germany has beea launched...
...Many added that "most Germane didn't want to fight any mere than we did...
...char-a< trnics this Council as "unity between the bear and the mice," and predicta tbat the bear will swallow the mice...
...t. Ger ••• y. 1AacI .. o,poNd W .. hinl· ton...
...h .. · .plJeld the •• ,Ioyer...
...The late Ivor Kretiger, Swedish match king, was involved in tha organisation of the cartel...
...The Dep.rt...
...Roger Axford tells the story in the Ckrittian Century...
...There are also a number of >• tinges, fellow-travelers, and "friends of Soviet Russia" on the list—and liberals whose thinking is muddled by their will to-believe that Russia is really a democracy...
...The Provost-Marshal, in reviewing the sentences, should make the facts public...
...Caaicll far Democratic Germany Formed...
...Wkmt Da SaJaUars TMafc Aaavt tarntMy...
...lowyer » Antics Suspend Sedition Trial . . . The attempt of the defense counsel of the thirty accused of sedition to use the court as a platform from which to spread anti-Semitic, pro-fascist, anti-New Deal propaganda was checked when Judge Eicher cited James J. Laughlin for contempt of court...
...Laughlin made the trial a comic opera, and attacked the integrity of the court and of the U. S. Government...
...In this pen, 20 by 30 feet, eighteen men exercised...
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...This plan wenki make the ILO far more important than it ever waa nnder the old League of Nations...
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...n4 Waaliin,toa redacN Spain" nporta of wolfra...
...He said that past political errors will be forgiven and Vichyites will be judged not by what they did yesterday but by what they do tomorrow...
...When a small window was opened, the men crowded around it for a breath of fresh air...
...Ill* delegates of the United Ststes Government hsve submitted to the ILO a sweeping plan designed to srhieve worldwide social security, improved labor stsndsrds, snd full economic development It woaM promote free trade, including freedom of the air, and close scrutiny to see that signatory governments abide by its rulea...
...Meraorionol Match Cartel . . . The Department of Justice charged that there la a forty-three-year-old international cartel in tha match industry, made up of the Diamond Match Co...
...Two ,ro-a....veU S...
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...construction of vanquished Naxiland on a truly democratic basis...
...Farbenindustrie by which production in America of various chemicals waa abandoned, resulting in a grave shortage of certain products for mill* tary purposes when the war started...
...DeaMCl'MJ .. raiao eoatrt .. u...
...the prison air stank from the toilets in the small room...
...Bltlell Act .r tile 8ak1a.c-.u, .A..et...
...Additionally, there are divisions between big and little nations, which have hot thus far been reconciled...
...The Diamond Match Co...
...had an agreement with the German I.G...
...Some went "stir crsiy" from close confinement, brutality and worry...
...PM comments that Communists are excluded...
...jOt "iol.tM til...
...He charged that the trial is a "Jewish and Communist" plot to persecute the defendants, and engaged in all manner of courtroom antics...
...They were drafted, too...
...He is a conscientious objector, and his heinous crime was religious opposition to killing for any cause however noble...
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...iIonate th.t til' CIO P.litic •• Actio...
...atet 'al1.hip.entl to Ger...
...named by the Yugoslavian government-in-exiie headed by King Peter, rejecting the plea of proponents of Tito's Committee of National Liberation...
...T1Ie AFL .see_Un e-acil a",.iIM the p~ labor dr.ft act...
...rd .n4 ...t ta4ic:tery pon...
...erltKlaia, ce.;.ral lIaeAr,thar...
...It hsppened in.the U.S.A...
...Several defense lawyers disassociated themselves from his actions and statements...
...for political unity of all anti-Naii, democratic forces...
...and seven other American firms, a Swedish firm, two English concerns, one Canadian company...
...For these words substitute "Chicago1* snd "American...
...Tha policy of forgiving fascists who will now cooperate, for the sake of "national unity," will produce some new form of totalitarianism in which former fascists and Communists collaborate...
...erIa, ill tile Hber...
Vol. 27 • May 1944 • No. 19
