LETTERS To the Editor
HABER, JAMES
LETTERS To the Editor Harry Bridges' Union, Communist Press, Scabbed on Montgomery Ward Strike From JAMES HABER To the Editor: For the sake of hone.it trade unionism (and honest CiOism), it ia...
...It is difficult to determine what kind vf morality—the "international" or any other one permits the Prince to compare the glorious armies of the great French Revolution to Hitler's hordes, and the youth of the United Nations fighting for liberty to the contemporary German youth dishonoring its country by so many acts of savage bestiality...
...They just sang in a different key...
...2. Dr...
...Expediency" (New Leader, April 15), Germany will once more pro---~----'---- —*¦ voke a world catastrophe...
...Killing all such "animals" in cold blood is out of the question...
...Up went the flags of ps11 mi ini¦ i again, the asme old flags of patriotism, sud the !>oys rallied 'round...
...l« serving of confidence They ai« never backward in representing a permanent dictatorship as the ideal form of democracy...
...The German 1-abor Delegation it an American organisation which has been in existence for six years - From the start its object haa been the overthrow of the Hitler regime and the reconstruction of democracy and of a fiee trade union movement in Germany The Delegation participated in the earliest negotiations looking toward the formation of a committee which would combine all really democratic forces...
...List of members of the German Labor Delegation in U.S.A.: 1. Max Brauer...
...Doesn't he know that (as it is revealed by Gerhart Seger in the same issue of The Xew Leader) a "last majority" of the Germsn prisoners of war detained in American camps are "impertinent Nexis...
...Jonathan Stout in Washington is interpreting that city's ways so well, too...
...I ask anybody to produce if he can, one tiny particle of concern, let alone indignation, during the long, trying period when the Retail and Wholesale Workers' union a prominent, substantial, member in good standing of bha CIO was fighting s clean light with ahis moat feudal of all business establiabmenta...
...Charges Prince Loewenstein Seeks "Greater Germany" After War From SAMSON M. soloveitchik To the Editor: 1 do not know whether the German government which will replace Hitler will succeed in preserving Germany's unity and territorial integrity...
...The same "international morality" asks for: 1) A special agreement between the U.S.A., Great Britain and Germany, ¦ concerning "the passage of American and British troops" into the countries of the "East...
...Without his articles I should feel deprived of the cream of my weekly reading...
...Obviously, the government meant to gat tough, snd the Commies couldn't be left standing in the ditch looking after Mr...
...How Germany, the industries of which were virtually intact, when the peace of Versailles was made, can dig up any such reparations as Prof...
...The 'silence cure" continued in most of the commie labor papers, and the allegedly "greatest of them all," the Daily Worker, went to careful pains to join hands with the tory press—which it now condemns—in vilifying the union...
...2) The punishment of the criminals guilty of all the innumerable crimes committed by the National Socialist government—4>y its party and its army...
...Be thst SS it msy...
...Frits Karsen, former professor at a Berlin university...
...8. Hedwig Wachenheim, former member of the Prussian I.andtag...
...Where the silence was broken ia the commie labor press, it wss m that greet patriot's paper, Harry Bridges' Dispatcher...
...And now a last question...
...at ructions from their official superiors...
...Pau Montgomery Ward atore...
...In fsct, the whole paper, as ever, is an inspiration—and a terrible revelation of what goes on underground throughout the world...
...6. Gerhart H. Seger, former member of the Reichstag...
...Pool's Montgomery Ward eatabliahmeat, which shewed its keen aeesc of wbst naisaiam means by literally thumbing its aese at the Chicago lecal'a recjaeat net to haatdle •rdcra transferred from the atrack Chicago plant...
...Its members withdrew from thit effort at a result of the decision of a preparatory Commission to extend membership tu Communists...
...Getting "blood from a stone" should be easy in comparison...
...members...
...I. Richard Hansen, former member of the provincial government of Schleswig-Holstein...
...LETTERS To the Editor Harry Bridges' Union, Communist Press, Scabbed on Montgomery Ward Strike From JAMES HABER To the Editor: For the sake of hone.it trade unionism (and honest CiOism), it ia your obligation to take the commies over the hurdles for their dirty display of "righteous wrath," their noticeably tardy indignation, directed against Sewell Avery and Montgomery Ward in the now famous case...
...Reparations would probably insure World War III...
...On May 8, 1»44, a atatement by the Council for a Democratic Germany was released which waa aigned by a tut „f American and German-American celebrities...
...These tilings are by-plays...
...Thus Bridges' local organised the St...
...There are other faaeta to this disgraceful incident: the attitude of the Commie ClO'era m Chicago, the recent convention of URWDSEA Local 65 m New York which didn't even give recognition to the battle its own International was having with Wards, etc...
...To shoot all members of the Naxi party would be to convert Europe into a slaughter house...
...I hope some one will give him his earned laurels...
...Was there any showing of the solidarity which workers must have for each other, of the so-called unity which the brethren are spending their days and nights shouting sbout ? Take a look at the labor papers—at the Dsily Worker...
...Not only did the sell-out commies refuse even to recognise that thia waa a legitimate and most important trade union dispute, the commie dominated unions completely ignored the rase...
...The German labor Delegation is ready, now aa always, to cooperate in an amalgamation of honest democratic forces...
...Even "fools" are supposed to "learn by experience...
...It consists of two parts: 1) An "understanding" between the "Western Powers" snd post-Hitler Germany, supplemented by a similar "understanding" between the latter and Poland...
...N. Y. Praises Articles By Chamberlin From JEAN PAINE HELM To the Editor: William Henry Chamberlin is earning the gratitude of all liberals—his clear, fair and interesting articles weekly on yodr last page, then in other magazines and even book reviews, all showing u» the true Russia and what we may expect from its present government...
...Rudolf Kati, former president of the city council of Altona...
...Sometimes it is chilling to realize how we lowly souls are volcano-hopping, even as we go about our humble ways...
...former member of the Reichstag...
...He is so convincing, calm and pleasant to read...
...3) A solution of the reparations problem "on an international acale"—in plain words, the payment by the Allies of a part of the indemnities due exclusively and entirely by Germany...
...9. Friedrich Wilhelm Wtgnes, former member of the Reichstag...
...But I am strongly convinced that if, in order to attain this goal, ii will follow the plan developed by Prince Hubertus zu Loewenstein-Wertheim-Freudenburg in his article "International Morality vs...
...Came the strike, which every decent, honest citizen of this rountiy justified on its merits...
...After 12 days of strike, when a barkto-work order from Sam Woichok or Phil Murray or Jim Carey, or any other (10 leader waa noticeable by iU absence, the government took over and the national press carried front page picturss of Sewell Avery being removed from the plsnt by two sheepish looking, anonymous soldiers...
...His lates, book on Russia was eatcerly read by my family and a dozen of my friends...
...6 Dr...
...Every • time I find an article of his in a new publication I rejoice...
...The important thing is the sabotaging, the kniftug and then the disgusting face-saving, all done in the name of the labor movement and most nauseating of all — natriotism...
...The publiafced declaration of the foanril ia net at all in ronliet with tha political principles which the German Labor Delegation has represented consistently from the beginning...
...Schenectady...
...The German army would finally "withdraw from the Eastern front"—kindly concedes the Prince—but only "as soon as their— the 'Eastern' cotintrieV--inJependerrce has been fully established...
...7. Friedrich Stampfer...
...Signed in the name of the German Isbor Delegation in U.S.A., Max Brauer, Chairman...
...However, to compel all Germans, including former members of the Social Democratic Party and other opponents of Nazism, to enslave themselves for generations to pay reparations to Russia or any other country would be the height of folly...
...They bscame the vigorous exponents of the Four Freedoms, the Bill of Rights, democracy, the Monroe-Doctrine, and freedom for India...
...So, they climbed aboard and attempted to take over the drivers seat...
...Their liptervice to democracy is no...
...Instead of reaching eet to aasiat their brother aad sister aaioaists, they wrsppsd themselves ia their phony cloak of pstristiam and wired the Preaidcnt that they weren't ea apeakiag terma with the Chicago scoundrels, aad that they, in the name •f Teheran, the Konrth Term, national aad ialsraatioaal unity, free ester - priae, and < hi< ken on Sunday, wars •ticking Is their jobs and renouncing the atrike...
...Putting them to work under armed guards in Russia and their own country repairing damage caused by war is combining punishment with rehabilitation...
...former mayor of Allona...
...The Daily Worker and the Commie labor press assumed the role of telling the world what a tottei Sewall Avery is and always has been...
...2) The continuation of the occupation of these countries by the German army until the estsblishment there of "democratically elected governments...
...Prince Hubertus xu Ix>ewensteinWertheim-Freudenburg's plan is extremely simple...
...With a banner headline and a lead atery, they bragged about their local ia 8t...
...Besides, there are not enough prisons or prison camps in Europe to accommodate Naxi and S.S...
...The Communists, as lepreaenlativea of a totalitarian state, are bounil by .I,, jn...
...All this is dictated by "international morality...
...Are these atrange omissions alao required by the "international morality"* Should Germans Be Used for Post-War "Forced Labor" From HERBERT M. MERRILL To the Editor: The mistakes of Versailles shouldn't be repeated by the peacemakers of World War II...
...Despite the fact that Prince Hubertus xu Loewenitein-Wertheim-Freudenburg's plan is developed very thoroughly, it is completely mute on two problems: 1) The disarmament of Germany...
...Varga proposes after its treatment by "blockbusters" is impossible to imagine...
...And the articles, explaining the Baltic States past and present, ar« interesting us...
...Another Bridges local at the ww plant ia Baltimore, sent its alobbering, pious pledges of allegiance to FDR...
...2) After Russia's isolation will be obtained and Germany's might restored through those "understandings"—a new "Rapallo...
...The Sternberg of thia Delegatioa ........t., it it,,,, duty to t ¦ plain to the Americas pabJic the motives" for thia abstention...
...4. Dr...
...it was a government employer fracas and they're government boys thane days...
...Of course, no credit went to the union involved 1-ocal 20 of URWDSKA-CIO for the coup d'etat...
...As to the policy of poetHitler Germany"—promises the Prince — "it would be based once more on the same friendly and cooperative lines initiated by the late Walter Rathensu in the Rapallo Treaty of 1922 and continued throughout the Weimar period...
...Doesn't this peculiar knight of "international morality" understand that it is rather premature (to put it mildly) to speak of the "undying glory" of the "Western world's youth" oh whatever side they may noir fight", when the bands of so many Germsn officers and soldiers are still stained with the blood of millions of defenseless people...
...Bat if the Communists no* appropriate thsse prinriplss and announce them as their ewe, ihia is nothing mors than an attempt by indirection Is aae democratic methods te achieve (he defeat ef democracy...
...A Declaration by German Labor The following otatement .. issued by the German Labor Delegation...
...The German Isbor Delegatioa requested its members aad friends U refrain from cooperation with this recently erganised Couacil...
...It must decline, however, to work wilh Communists...
...Avery's busmeas for him...
...Alfred Braunthal, former advuer to the Trade Union Executive Council...
...Aad Harry Bridges blssasd them.* * Editor's Note - Warehouse Worken have been the subject of a dispute be twcen Samuel Wolchok's United Whole ssle, Retail and Department Store Km ployecs and Harry Bridges' longshore men's Union, starting when Bridge: "raided" various warehouses...
...Past wssn't slons ia thst, either...
...Nevertheless there is a great deal of merit in suggestions recently made by Judge Jacob Panken...
...Your Mr...
Vol. 27 • May 1944 • No. 20
