The Home Front
BOHN, WILLIAM E.
The Home Front By WILLIAM E. BOHN ffolsoow la Hit <*«*». TYlK first state to respond to last week's mess of garden talk is Florida. letters from California have little to say on the subject....
...Her son, Archduke Otto, pretender to the non-existent Austrian throne, was the guest of Archibshop Spellmsn st St...
...In that state a sober recital of fart amounts to poetry...
...his chief opponent is Congressman Harry Sauthoff, a Progressive...
...Many of them, of course, may unconsciously have a philosophy of life and certain attitudes, bat they are unverbal ized and the men refuse to think about them...
...I have just walked back from the movie area, and the twenty-minute solitary walk along the lonely path allowed my critical faculties to play freely with the ball of emotional fire which has been running wild within me all day...
...Edgar Snow's article in the last issu* of the Saturday Evening Pott was the opening gun in this campaign • • * Miscellony Rm ABLE reports from Washington say thst Bernard Baruch and John M. Hancock have submitted their resignstions to War Mobilizer Byrnes in protest on government delays on reconversion...
...The war is throwing young Americana cheek by jowl...
...Leiserson will go to Johns Hopkins as Professor of Political Economy...
...But I kept quiet Not a word did I utter...
...The campaign may be the hottest the midwest has seen for years, with Republican, Progressive, Democratic, and Socialist candidates battling for office...
...Politics Dan HOAN, long-time Socialist Mayor of Milwaukee, has filed for Governor of Wisconsin on the Democratic ticket...
...Sectional differences are put down side by side at mess-table...
...the water gushes forth...
...This is an sstlllmg docusnent...
...The jeep, driven by the mail clerk, also included one of the boys who was anxious to visit an old buddy of his located in the headquarters area...
...Labor circles are bussing about George Bsldanzi's forthright attacks on Communists In the labor movement at the mass meeting of the Civil Rights Defense Committee last week...
...Thin hoy from Mew York is in New Guinea...
...and <b) Get it ever with ami g, heme...
...He will also make an exhaustive study of the government of labor unions, financed by a $90,000 grant from the Rockefeller Foundation...
...We have three pretty girls who urge the men on with cries of encouragement, but, alas, not a single gaudy bow displaying the colors of the spectrum...
...And very promptly the birds call a convention and get very gay dashing back and forth through the spray—all the colon of the rainbow in their plumage...
...Proa* Afrlco I HAVE left far too little apace for the report from Africa...
...The report from Florida is signed by George Goebel, ef Daytona Bench...
...The other guy chimed in once in a while, but moat of the noise emanated from the driver...
...The first phase is the whitewash of th* Communists...
...They represent those of the capitalists who understand that they can and must cooperate with labor and the fanners for victory and great postwar advances...
...The ' Communist Press, particularly their official organ The Canadian Tribune, have turned a full propaganda barrage against the CCF...
...Probably the ewimming pool takes all the available spare...
...and more coming...
...e Brewster flues SoME of those people outside—and inside—the labor movement who thought that Brewster Locsl 365 UAW and its leader Tom De Lorenzo would pass from the labor scene, because of the contract cancellation, are due for a shock...
...Isolationist Senator Gerald P. Nye is receiving ths strong support of the Railway Brotherhoods in his race against Usher Burdick____CIO war Relief Committee is making a bid for World War II Veterans by issuing a publication, Tht New Veteran, a vest-pocket sif* monthly magasine...
...This is a wide home front...
...We have plenty of birds with cheerful chatter and song, but no rainbowa...
...For the script writers had assigned to' Jack Benny's colored msid the well-worn imbecilic lines and the ridiculous mannerisms that maintain the stereotyped false image-pattern of the Negro race of ignorant or, rather, unaware and unsuspecting Americans...
...The eight simple words were: 'The only good nigger is a dead nigger.' If ever I've felt the killer instinct which is supposed to reside in all of us, this was the time...
...But one paragraph I must give you now...
...Andrew Biemiller, former ^Socialist Assemblyman and later with the Labor Division of WPB, is running for MacMurray's seat on the Democratic ticket This ticket of Hoan-MacMurray-Biemiller is the first major attempt by the Democrats to challenge the Progressives and Republicans in Wisconsin...
...It is not altogether bad...
...It was at the movie...
...It all started this afternoon...
...In the deal, Brewster Local promises to back up Kerrigan on all issues except the national leadership...
...I must think up an answer to that...
...It should serve to make clesr to people that the only objective of the Labor-Progressive Party at this time is to try and prevent the CCF from winning power at the next election...
...Tbe results of this juxtaposition win be port of our post-war picture...
...The pressure of this event, and several others, may, however, force a compromise between Reuther and Adits on a national scale...
...Fern Rives, author of Friday, Thank God, write* from Lee Angeles to say that she has no garden...
...they are now being called "agrarian democrats...
...Meanwhile a number of "inside" rumors are floating about on the "real" reasons for the Navy shutdown st Brewster...
...The first is from New Guipea, and the second from Africa...
...King...
...I wasn't paying much attention to what wag being so freely dished out...
...visa...
...Then all of a sudden I felt a. shock as if the brakes of the car had forced the jeep to a sudden stop...
...The statement declsred that "Canada owes a great debt to Mr...
...The mail clerk, a Kentuckian, was soon sounding off on various topics to the other guy, an Italian from Connecticut...
...In between times, I have put in a sprinkling system...
...Here's how...
...That is, to most of us, a fabulous land...
...I realise now with blinding clearness how relentlessly I must fight to stamp out the Ineendiary bombs of racial bigotry...
...Pacciardi has been under strong fire of the Communists because of his opposition to Badoglio...
...Over the past two years the plant has been operated by the Navy after the original management was forced to step aside...
...And when the picture was resumed, I realized that even the screen was shouting insult against the under-privileged 13,000,000 Negroes, one-tenth of the total population of our United States...
...But what knock* his mind over ia not the sights or sounds of thst jungle land...
...Had ever SOU fine, large lemons from our tree...
...I knew thai I couldn't budge that prejudiced mind...
...Congressman Howard MacMurray, who two years ago defeated arch-reactionary Lewis-Thill, is running for U. S. Senator...
...Our own boys, boys we know and like, are fighting and living and thinking their thought* around the world...
...Randolfo Pacciardi, who headed the Loyalist Garibaldi Brigade in Spain, is returning to Italy, having finally secured a State Dept...
...1 cannot answer him, for the only geographical designation st the head of his letter is, "Deep in the Heart ef New Guinea...
...It gives me hope that, with proper leadership, these boy* will do Some of the things which we are aiming to accomplish.'' Inside and Out By MURRAY EVERETT Communist hfasollioece hi Conodo The Communist P*rty of Canada, which masquerade* under the name of the "Labor-Progressive Party," has come out in full support of Mackenzie King, Canada's Big Business Premier, aad has denounced the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) for its opposition to King...
...And so, on the wsy back, I awakened once more to the reveille blasts of bitter reality...
...The Communists have attacked Hoan and Biemiller because they want to inject the New Deal issue into the campaign...
...Society columnists report that Ex-Empress Zita of Austria has arrived here on a mysterious visit...
...Intolerance of minority groups on the grounds of race, color, religion are the ideational standards of our hated opponents...
...Warfch CMmI We may see in China the recapitulstion of th* Mikhailovich-Tito picture, at least that is what the Communist press is trying to make it...
...Floridians don't need to boast...
...The Communist statement was issued after a meeting of the national executive committee of the party and said, in part: "The Liberals (Mackenzie King's party) . . . have worked to maintain the unity of Canada...
...De Lorenso has made a deal with Charles Kerrigan, the regional director, whereby his jurisdiction is extended to other areas...
...The incumbant, Goodland, is sn 80-yesr-old Republican...
...It starts thus: "I am sitting in battalion headquarters trying to channel my seething emotional currents between the bank* of passive, thoughtful analysis and sober realization...
...The shock was caused by eight hate-stained words that left the lips of the mail clerk and burned my eardrums...
...We are not surpnsed," said Lewis, "by this public statement of their complete capitulation to the forces of Big Business in Canada...
...The jungle ef a Kentuckian* mind I* mare exciting to him...
...But this evening the hate blazed forth again...
...My buddies, or some of them, are infected with the same deadly virus that has afflicted our enemy...
...If you try to cause them to notice them, you are considered a queer duck...
...protest over me government's mishandling of the railway labor cases...
...Because you da not do what they do asm act aa they do, you are 'queer' and a 'nut' No, thorn ia no nines for an evangelist here...
...Patrick's Cathedral when a stranger threw eggi into the ssnctusry...
...Baldanst, the executive vice-president of th* Textile Workers Union, attacked their support of the Baruch Plan and their postwar no-strike pledge...
...This does not, as yet, mean a realignment in UAW politics...
...The hopelessness of counter-attack was overwhelming...
...The Communist statement was sharply scored by David Lewis, national secretory of the CCF, which previously had rejected the CP...
...It may force LaFollette to unite with the GOP...
...In this case, the interactional melting-pot threatens to Mow up...
...At certain critical moments, of course, it k possible to get an Inkling of what lie* underneath this veneer...
...And when he followed with, 'There'll never be a time when a nigger is as good as I am,' I had to clench my teeth and dig my nails into my hands to refrain from hitting hint with all my might...
...Insiders allege that th* motivation for the shutdown was political, part of a plot of certain greept to ruin the Brewster Corporation after they were unable to buy it...
...Listen: "With the exception of potatoes, we have not bought a vegetable during this past year...
...So the California Adams and Eve* still remain to be hoard from...
...Had the last grape fruit last week...
...The Home Front By WILLIAM E. BOHN ffolsoow la Hit...
...And our correspondent in the Pacific finds that our young citizens have benefited from no sea change as the result of transport across wide stretches of water...
...The resignations were first contemplated in mid-May, but Byrnes has been seeking to persuade them to stay...
...The garden grows not only melons and grape fruit but rainbowa...
...Wa were recently learning about it from Margaret Mead and other anthropologists...
...During one of the intermissions I overheard the fellow in front of me confide to his friend, 'You know, Jack Benny is a Kike!' Once again I was filled with murderous feelings...
...Chiang Kai-Shek is being cast in the Mikhailovich role and ths Communiat leaders (Hiu Teh and Mao Tse-tung in th* Tito role...
...Turn a vslve, snd le...
...It is now thought that the egf-throwing was directed not at the Archbishop but at Otto...
...Hoan is the only person running on sn "internationalist" platform...
...He is not boasting...
...William M. Lei-serson, one of th* foremost labor relations men in the country, has resigned as bead of the National Mediation Board in protest over the gov...
...Heart of New uVolaeo I HAVE two soldier letter* which I simply cannot keep from you...
...proposal of a united front...
...Enjoyed "papaya melon this morning...
...The fight against the Jsps and the Nssis is only one head of a two-pronged attack on barbarism...
...The day after the Hoan nomination was announced, tbe party-line secretary of the State CIO council denounced Hoan, stating thst the issue in the election "was not liberalism versus conservatism, but national unity...
...I had some special service matters to attend to that required my journeying a distance of ten miles to special service headquarters...
...It wiM serve ns a sort of antidote to the distress of our Maw Gumoa s*n-rwp»adewt This African soldier k, when he is st home, * psychologist He views the whok •cone with a sort of sciontfase detachment Hi* first paragraph i. abosrt the army miff: , •* The boys are not conscious of anything except: (a) Win the women...
...Ho said they "have forfeited their right to speak for the labor movement...
...That, dear friends, is life in the bathing-beauty state...
...De Lorenzo is pro-Reuther and Kerrigan is pro-Addes...
...Biemiller is being opposed by a leader of the Real Estate Board, who ia running with Communist support...
Vol. 27 • June 1944 • No. 25
