It Happend Last Week

...Sincerely, THE EDITORS...

...The puppet government of Mussolini is helpless to control the situation, and the Nazis are considering appointment of a gauleiter to replace Mussolini...

...Four French parliamentarians of liberal and right-wing socialist tendencies were addads Queuille, Le Trocquer, Jacquinot, and Mendes-France...

...DeGaulle asked Fernand Grenier, communist, if he would enter the Cabinet...

...This "new* New Leaders' not a finished product...

...The Committee of Liberation was organised in Mexico City by representatives of Spain's Ave leading republican parties—from the liberals to the right-wing socialists, under the leadership of Prieto and Barrio...

...They will probably "combine to form a Fourth Republic, with strong Left tendencies...

...The Consultative Committee elected as chairman Felix Gouin, a socialist who had recently criticized i De Gaulle as having dictatorial ambitions...

...But The New Leader stories and articles deal more with ideas in action than merely event-reporting or after-the-fact opinion...

...This gives the republican unity committee the mass support of the vast majority of Spanish workers, in addition to middle-class liberals...

...And to those of you who have been accustomed to buying The New Leader on newsstands...

...While our subscriptions are flowing in at a higher rate than ever before, the tremendous costs of paper, composition, press-work, office and editorial expenses, the costs of changing over into our new dress has been very high...

...In other words, Browder wants the government to suppress all critics of totalitarian Russia in the name of "unity...

...Grenier referred the question to his Central i'ommittee, which replied the communists would join the Cabinet under Mated conditions...

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...He continued: "At a time when the Communist party in this country was sabotaging Russia's as well as America's interests by staging defense strikes and fighting our defense program, the American Federation of Labor was supporting without reservation the job of preparing for war against the Axis powers...

...i "So long as the United States permits the old Red baiting slander to circulate as a guiding national policy in American domestic life," said Earl Browdcr at a meeting last week,, "so long will it be impossible for our coun try to pursue fully and without distortion the foreign policy adopted at Teheran...

...Teamwork is necessary now, said Quinn, and will be important in the future of industry...

...The present leaders of the UGT are Santiago Carrillo, secretary, now in London, and Belarino Tomas, president, now in Mexico...

...As Edouurd Pfeiffer comments in the Amerirun Mercury, "De Gaulle's flirtation with Stalin can be under-atood as shrewd power politics...

...The only way we can keep going is by getting more and more subscriptions...

...The workers struck in protest against the wholesale shooting of hostages by the Nazis...

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...Instead w A want to take our readers into confidence...

...Military collaboration with Soviet Russia does not imply the necessity or obligation of collaborating with totalitarian trade unions...

...We are not complacent—and we want to emphasize that our readers dare not become complacent...

...Spanish Unions Support Committee of Liberation . . . The UGT (Spanish General Union of Workers) has given its endorsement and support to the recently-formed Spanish Committee of Liberation...

...are Rodriguez Vega, Ramon Gan-zales Pena, and Ramon Lamonera, all acting under the direction of Juan Negrin...

...J}eur Reader: In the last three months more subscriptions have come in to The New Leader than any other period in our history...

...Woll attacks Totalitarian Tactics . . . David Dubinsky, Matthew Woll, William Green, William L. Hutcheson, and John L. Lewis were castigated by the Kremlin's War and the Working CIuhm us reactionaries, disrupters of national and international unity, and enemies of the Soviet Union...

...De Gaulle did not capitulate...

...If Gaullism in a force, it is a heterogeneous force composed of antagonistic elements...

...Moscow should be the last one to talk about unity of labor," Mr...

...We do not have the money or the large staff to prepare complete dummy issues, run off sample copies, and do other experimenting outside the regular issues of the paper...

...We are willing to take the loss to get those subs...

...Italian Anti-Nail Strikes Swiss papers report numerous strikes in important northern Italian factories during November and December...

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...There was an exchange of letters with de Gaulle, in which, the Communists claim, de Gaulle successively offered the communists the Department of Production, the Department of Information, and the Department of Public Health...

...The communists believe in freedom of Speech—for themselves...

...Ford and Sloan Reject * Labor-Management Committees In the January 1, 1944, issue of Labor-Management News Theodore K. Quinn, director-general of the WPB's war production drive committee, calls upon Henry Ford and Alfred Sloan to get into step with other American industrialists who have found, despite their initial opposition, that labor-management (committees contribute to efficiency...

...This leaves only the Communist Party and its "socialist" splinter satellites out of the unity group, except for the Catholic Basques who are aloof but not hostile...

...The old style was that news columns dealt with events, editorials with opinions...

...That was the period of the Stalin-Hitler pact, when the Soviet Government was pursuing a policy inimical to the interests of Russia herself and of the anti-Allied cause...

...There is only one other such force in France — united, organized, and even more powerful—the Communist Party...

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...With this issue the newsstand price goes up to 10 cent* a copy...

...It has been en dorsed by the POUM, party of left-wing socialists, and the syndicalist CNT (National Confederation of Workers), although traditionally opposed to political action, and not part of the junta, gives its approval in principle...

...But only for a short time...

...The fight goes on...

...This amounted to an ultimatum to de Gaulle which, evidently, he found it impossible to accept—for the communists demanded too much power...

...We" are proud of the response,, we are thrilled with the warm words of praise that have accompanied the many letters enclosing pew subscriptions, renewals and subscriptions for friends...

...Today a third force has been interposed between Gaullism and Communism—Parliament...

...Woll said, "for its agents in all countries have done nothing but promote splits in organized labor for more than a quarter of a century, and they are still doing it right here in the United States...

...One idea we are tinkering with is the abolition of the formal editorial page...

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...A number of people have asked us to extend our offer of two dollars a year as the price for new subscriptions and for renewal of old ones...

...The puppets of the CP...

...There are several similar ideas that we have which will appear as the paper keeps on in this new form...

...However, the Communists succeeded, through their stooges Negri" and Del Vayo, in splitting both the UGT and the Socialist Party when they.ousted Largo Cabal-lero from the Loyalist Government during the civil war...

...Our experimenting must be done within the paper, and we are not ashamed of it...

...And that's where you, dear reader, have to do your part...

...American trade unions, Woll declared, have "backed to the full aid to Soviet Russia," despite their opposition to communism...

...They say that with the Christmas and New Years rush they've been too busy to go and get that bigoatch of subs they've promised...

...Florimond Bonte, editor of Liberie, communist paper in North Africa, cabled a story to the Daily Worker recounting the recent fight between de Gaulle and the Communists...

...We feel confident that »ur many than* , sands of readers who liked our old style will like this new, convenient format...

...To each proposal the communists made answer with a "war program" on which their acceptance was conditioned...

...Therefore, the editorials are being broken up and distributed in various parts of the paper, assuming the role of comment on ideas in action...

...Nearly 4,000 war plants in America and over 5,000 in Britain have set up labor - management committees, but Ford and General Motors still resist the idea* Quinn pointed out that the worst labor conditions are found in factories where there are no such committees—absenteeism, loafing, inefficiency, accidents, bad sanitary conditions, etc...

...Woll struck back in a Rigorous attack on Moscow's interference in American affairs, charging the Communists of pursuing their old tactics of "sowing confusion and dissension in the ranks of labor...