A Less Ideological War
A Less Ideological War WlNSTON CHURCHILL should know, and he stated before the House of Commons a week ago that, "A* this war has progressed it has become less ideological in its character." He...
...Here is' a government which would have hurt ui if it had dared, which will hurt us later on if the opportunity offers...
...He indicated that in hia opinion the Franco government has been "less than satisfactory" as a neutral power...
...T • e 0 Ufa Trmt...
...Navy and Maritime Commission are now forcing these three war-contract-placing agencies to institaU deep cutbacks...
...Burnet R. Maybank (I)., S. C), James G. Sc rug ham (D., Kev...
...Early this week OPA put dollars-and-cents ceilings on cheeses which it estimated would save consumers two million dollars a year...
...Th* favorite weapon of the Milk Trust has been the strike in lorcinl' price increa.e...
...This problem will soon become one of the crucial points up for decision...
...bll_, .11lIunl of AMerleana to ,.t enou...
...The Stevens "•iry has been getting 14 cents a quart in the Maryland »unty, but waa getting 17 cents a quart for the same *'lk across the state line in Virginia...
...The New Leader has already stated its conviction with regard to it in connection with Russia...
...Nor, as things stand today, will the workers displaced in the aircraft and ordnance industries find h easy to get jobs elsewhere...
...1 expert...
...And the fewer dictators the world holds, the greater chance for peace and safety...
...Francis Maloney (D, Conn...
...The Spaniah Loyalista represent the great Majority of the people of Spain...
...FDIt loeb Fr •• 'orfs President ROOIIevelt indica ted thi...
...Expla inlnc the need of continued food rationioc "oil a nd on until t he war I. won/' the OWl r'port .tate...
...He naively confesses that the Franco government has not'done worse because Allied victories stalled Franco's plans...
...This is the first crippling amendment to the Price Control Act to be reported out by the Senate Banking and Currency Committee...
...Churchill's speech "an insult and injustice to the Spanish people...
...M* Tnitf Gees on Stria, f t Fare* Price) Rises There is every sign at hand that Chester Bowles may "Poet a battle royal from the Milk Trust...
...in establishing Free Port zones, where refugees could be sheltered immedia tely without visu , It was hinted about a month ago tha t t he Pretident might express public approval of the plan, whl,n the Wllr Refugee Boa rd let it quietly be known that dellpite Ita fea...
...George L. Radcliffe (D., V4-), D. Worth Clark (I)., Idaho), and Abe Murdock (IVUtah...
...1l11ou of A.erlea •• have loaM It poulWe to 1.erea .. their dietl • • . tltu...
...He cares little what happens to the Balkan states, to Poland, to the little nations of the Baltic...
...It fits in far too well...
...That's e subject on which Chester Bowles ought to ha the netion's No...
...Douglas Aircraft at Santa Monica announced lute hMs week that contract cut-backs would throw 8,000 ¦ea out of work.—Ed...
...wllat have bee...
...Now he has nothing but kind words for Franco, the man who sent a blue brigade to fight the Russians, ships war material to Germany, and has been on Hitler's side from the start...
...They are far away and trade with them will never be important...
...The reason given out was that opposition of labor and managsckent was too strong...
...But there is prospect of this extremely fruitful trade, so Mr...
...The Prime Minister's address justifies all the fears which Sumner Welles outlined a week earlier...
...Inquiries reveal, however, that it, wasn't labor-manIfesaett opposition that made the brass hats pull their Mm...
...It implies that as long as such a dictator does not actually start an attack you favor him, you do your best to strengthen htm and hold him on whatever shaky seat of power he happens to hold...
...J.), C. Douglass Buck <K., Del...
...Albert W. Hawkes <t,.N...
...Its terms art tantamount to, irresponsible interference in the internal affairs of Spain...
...The vote, as may be observed by studying the above enumeration, is a perfect example of how the Tories •eve managed to run the present Congress since 1942 • —ey coalition of the Republicans and the southern Democrats...
...The truth is much more interesting, and tfcrswi illumination on the honesty and real motives of the labor draft promoters...
...Even they realized how foolish they would **k trying to tell thousands of unemployed workers ™»t unless they go to work in war plants they will be •mfted...
...It is in much the same position as that of Hitlerite Germany in 1934...
...What '. hold in" up a('tion i. t he Pretident'l feeling that the United States .hould not . be alon...
...out of OP A. TH I trike of the Stevena Dairy i. round' one in the renewed battle between OPA and the Milk Trult...
...Bowles appeased their anger and suppressed the studies, saying, "We Have Got to Get Along With Industry") The question now is whether Chester Bowlt-s is just a one-round fighter, or whether he can keep swinging when the going gets tough, and how long he can keep nghting...
...He wants peace there—preferably with a continuation of whatever powers are now on top...
...But here in a democracy it is not necessary to give them ideological support, to pretend that they are something different from what they are...
...The next day the big Stevens Dairy in Maryland informed Its customers in one large Maryland county »»t It would no longer deliver milk...
...CIO President Philip Murray put an accurate finger en so*of the battles in a general letter to all CIO union officials...
...This squares nicely with our treatment of the dictatorial regime in the Argentine...
...Disclosure first by The New Leader, and subsequently by other publications, of the scandalous war profiteering shown by the OPA studies had violently angered the big business lobbyists...
...What he had on his mind was the safety of empire and prosperity of British industrialists...
...too tight for unemployed workers tet through...
...Senate Committee members who voted against the nefarious Bankhead amendment were: Senators Robert Wagner (D., N. Y.), Alben W. Barkeley (D., Ky...
...WPB limitation or Mr* make it impossible for a plant which has been ¦ehlag aircraft or ordnance to shift to making • •¦ythmg else...
...Another set of WPB limitstion ormake it impossible for newcomers to enter an Wastry as manufacturers...
...His whole outline of policies and attitudes was openly and honestly imperialist...
...note.] And that is the real tragedy behind the Brewster Aircraft Company case...
...Said Murray: "The Senate Banking and Cm - reney Committee now preparing a bill to renew the Price Control Act has voted by 12 to 6 to incorporate the Bankhead amendment in the renewal measure...
...I ••• eet "'qrta, .. oBly la relation to a ,reaU...
...The fact is that instead of labor shortages...
...John L. McClellan (D., Ark...
...Within a wetter of hours—or days at the most—they could have ¦ml jobs In other aircraft plants all over the country...
...They should express the same protest to their representatives, to head off similar proposals in the House...
...Workers are no longer in demand in the aircraft industry...
...Readers of The New Leader will remember the exclusive revelations in this column last Oct...
...That is the reason 5,500 fclwster workers staged a 24-hour sit-in when the Navy announce cancellation of the Brewster plane connects...
...With this example, there will he others, not only from the Senate Committee but also from the House Banking Committee which is simultaneously considering its version of the renewal bill...
...Aid if this strikes you as a strange situation on the mitt the great effort of assaulting the Nasi Westwafl, aVre not the only one, brother...
...Bowles hss been fraakly appeasing the demands of the big business lobbyists since he succeeded Prentiss Brown as OI'A Administrator last October...
...This amendment removes present price ceilings on Cotton textiles...
...Leaving the inference that User and management are both somewhat lacking in patriotism...
...America is faring mass suMsapleyment...
...Some areas he was frankly ready to abandon...
...Due to war-tJ.e laere...
...We do not need to start a war with every dictatorship...
...D.lry fca* or A Mem Mae* It WAS interesting tins week to find OP A Administrat e Chester Bowles attacking big business lobbyists as responsible for current congressional amendments H jbf Prjce Control Art, and charging that most of the changes "would result in not only encouraging but actually In forcing higher^rieee...
...A year ago—even eight months ago—those 5,500 ateewster workers would not have needed to "sit-in" to call the nation's attention to their plight...
...The only surprise in the picture on the •enkhead amendment was Senator Downey lining up with the Tory gang...
...Free and honest discussion of them will tend to undermine them, to give the people an added chance to change them...
...eountry, TW board laid f r ankly It wal l urpriHd a t the dearth of OPpo.ttlOll...
...This rharaterization was carefully explained: "It attempts ^o deprive our countryman of their right to rsaquire freedom and democracy...
...It will greatly increase the cost of work clothes, house dresses, children's clothes, etc., in all the cheaper brackets...
...As Secretary Hull's plan for the new League of Nations goes into its phase of open discussion, this matter of our attitude toward dictatorships becomes more pressing...
...That makes the vicious *ele tight...
...and this is the truth that j"j»eed the brass hats to pull their horns in . . . and "duced the Senate Military Affairs Committee to dust P • Piece on the shelf for the Bailey-Brewster Labor Wjft Bill...
...Sheridan Downey <D., Calif...
...but it is typical of the whole campaign to impose military domination on a free people...
...He was heatedly ideological in the anti-appeasement days when he was criticising his amiable predecessor...
...The Spaniah Committee or Liberation, headed By inaiiino met*, termed Mr...
...28 that Chester Bowles' first official act in office was to suppress the OPA war profit studies...
...But he does care about Spain, about the whole Mediterranean area...
...la his radio address last Tueeday, Administrator gssles warned the American people against the hun|a»Js of "selfish*' lobbyists in Washington who are opaeeed -to price end rent control snd who are seeking •Maw* profits through pressure on government officials and Congressmen...
...This would be a most dangerous foundation stone for the constitution and policy of the new league...
...In ether "ord., f.n e.pl.,.enl J. e...
...And still a third set of WPB limitation orders make it impossible to inwease civilian production...
...Within the next two weeks there will be announcements of the beginning of a aeries ef eeatraet cancellations in Army ordnance and aircraft These cancellations will throw thousands of ¦m eat of work...
...Chamberlain used to spill in Hitler's direction...
...week that he was in favor 01 the Free Port Idea f or war refuffeel...
...Today, those 6,600 skilled aircraft workers can't get fcte another aircraft plant...
...Charles W. Tobey ( R „ N. H.), Robert A. Taft (R., Ohio), John Thomas (R., Idaho), Hugh Butler (R., Neb...
...Arthur Capper (R., Kans...
...Every CIO member and housewife should at once wire an urgent protest to their Senators against the Bankhead amendment...
...He was not thinking about freedom or justice or democracy...
...At the same time OPA declined to Merease price ceilings on delivered milk...
...President Roosevelt clearly disassociated our government from Churchill's blanket approval of the Spaniah fascists...
...I was able te eseertam from reliable government sources thst excessive estimate* originally made by the Army...
...The British Prime Minister clearly stated that as long as a dictator does not knock you down, he is a good dictator and you leave him alone...
...Senators who supported the war profiteering measure Were: John H. Bankhead (D., Ala...
...Inerelled ,.rehuln, ,.wer...
...of illeo.e alld f...
...It all fits in...
...lOOIIely ter.ed .heria...
...We may hav^ to live for,years with some of them...
...Capital Comment By JONATHAN STOUT Mass Unemployment Looms, Senate Drops Labor Draft I WASHINGTON, 0. C—The Senate Military Affairs Committee indicated this week that the Bailey-Brewster IP U headed for the shelf, alongside the Austin-Wadsworta bin and other similar labor draft legislation...
...And then he goes on to picture "increasingly gocd relations with Spain and extremely fruitful trade between Spain and this country...
...One virtue which no one can deny Winston Churchill is a disarming frankness...
...The squeeze is on...
...Thi» ia the picture...
...pr~ticaUy no oppo.lt lon to tIM plan had Men exprelled by anybody fn thi...
...The two biggest immediate fights faring the OPA Administrator are with the Cotton Trust and with the Dairy Trust...
...It's a dirty, snide inference...
...FI•I 'I' • • T' •• The inadequacies of the normal peace-time AmerieAn diet a re revealed obliquely b, a n OWl n port thi...
...It will be intereltinr to lee what kind of a .ta yer Bowles i. in a hot firM...
...Churchill has kind words for it—much like those which Mr...
Vol. 27 • June 1944 • No. 23
