The Home Front
The Home Front $f WILLIAM E. BOHN LAST Saturday I had ataiiUiue ia the garden. Four dynamic boys were there to help or hinder ' my operations. The youngest aae three and the eldest eight years of...
...But their refusal to use it is meaningless...
...Things must be looked et in the large...
...several months ago party-liner Philip (Slim) Connelley resigned as secretary ef the Council and was replaced by a ateel man...
...8,080), Fred Searia, Jr...
...For about twenty minutes these energetic little demons would pitch in with the hoe or rake...
...aAkLTHOUGH the matter was not taken up openly at the recent CIO Executive Board meeting, insiders insist that Harry Bridges will be ousted as West Coast Director of CIO...
...The list of names to the Dewey Campaign Fund ia revealing...
...Then, when the bays are 18, they Mae them good-bye and send them off to life among the tanks and bombers and flame-throwers The whole business gees against the grain...
...And then—with those fear hide constantly la sight— I thought inevitably of the mothers af the world...
...Do you went to know who is behind Dewey...
...Iron—It Discipline VlCTOR SERGE in bis Moscow Diary, sections of which appear in the current issue of Pohtici, tells of some curious debates in the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party ia 1928-28...
...I kept Joy snd Boopie and Richard ead Jbande from falling off the reef ef the bora...
...The fantastic thing about the Bergson group is that they have no standing among Jews...
...Jeremiah MlUbaak of the Metropolitan Ufa Taaeraace Co, John Fester Dalles of the international law firm ef Sullivan end Cromwell, and George Whitney of the J. P. Morgan Co...
...e . , e faa Plaque From Palestine OvER the past months this column has been exposing a band of adventurers led by a man named Peter Bergson...
...Jay will be tt years old, Boopy will be 2a, Richard and Jimmy will be 28...
...The background to this expansion is Murray's fears af a postwar deflation in union membership...
...After a good deal of really democratic parley, they decided in favor of using the hose to create a delectably muddy wading pool...
...The men stated to take Bridges' plsce is Tim Flynn of the Steel Union who had been regional director of Texas...
...But the Lift article concerned itself especially with the new chemical bombs...
...The Central Committee debated the question of funeral rites, and Anally derided that there would be no national funeral, only a local one...
...It fa their business te plant and protect them...
...There are new forms of flame-throwers concocted of gasoline and nitrogen which kill Instantly by asphyxiation...
...Later Neres PrUL MURRAY'S plans for the expansion of the ateel union is proceeding...
...One may admire the courage of men like these, but one is mors terrified of the creation of such human monoliths...
...The ones who are interested hi creating, nurturing, protecting will fc, absent...
...His eyes glowed with pride ss he described the reach of the thing snd its overpowering weight of bombs...
...The next point of attack must be considered...
...As a prophet Mr...
...The youngest aae three and the eldest eight years of age...
...The helpless, sniveling creature was to hide in caves te escape the destruction that waa rained down on him...
...Three days later they came back and gsvc themselves up again...
...They have temporarily substituted "peaceful" rivalry for armed conflict...
...The last Steel convention also saw the revival of talk about merger with the United Auto Workers...
...There wss in the same camp," k easel writes, "a section for Communists...
...Farmers era on the aide of growing things...
...All this was to coma in I960...
...In rapid succession there was The Committee for a Jewish Army, Moral Proclamation of Stateless and Palestinian Jews, American League for a Free Palestine, Emergency Committee •to Save the Jews, etc...
...That• Psa.de Paoca Tables There never was a peace table...
...Last week, two hundred women met in Washington aad eemauded a place at the peats table...
...Wells hes proved not to be toe far out...
...Somehow, a few of them managed to escape...
...Politics is net organised that way...
...Steel people sre being placed in key CIO regional offices ever the country, snd it seems likely that Phli Murray will move into more active control of the Political Action Committee...
...Now this is a strange thing...
...Men have met and ended wars...
...The Weopae...
...The Germans are using it, snd so must the Allies...
...It took real diplomacy to divert my youth* division from e projected expedition to the roof of the earn...
...Later he was reported telling these CIO leaders thst Bridges will be removed...
...If you make exception of military men as a class, this business of killing people and destroying property runs directly counter to all our civilised ways and patterns of thought...
...Rumors of Addes dropping the Communists haa been current for some time, but he never took' the step...
...Bat it doeea't cease...
...Then off they would go* on their own devices...
...But whatever tbey did, they went at it top speed...
...Though he is aet a "candidate," Dewey'e campaign is organised under the name ef the "United Republican Finance Committee for Metropolitan New Yerh...
...Originally they were part of the "Revisionists," s group of ultra-nationalistic Jews...
...But recently the Bergson group was expelled from the official Revisionist group because of thei, extremism and their ties with terroristic elements in Palestine...
...Captain Victor Kravchenko, whose resignation from Die Russian Embassy staff with a. blast at the totalitarian terror in Russia, aroused nationwide comment, k writing a series of articles On his experiences which Will start in the next issue of Cosmopolitan...
...Thia committee, in* the three months ending Mny 81, received ei»s,iZ» In contributions...
...By 1964, all the belligerents will have bombers which can carry no end of Are or exploeives from any point on the earth's surface to any other point...
...The list is heeded by Winthrop Aldrich af the Chose Ns-tleunl Baa, followed by John D. Rockefeller...
...This was an inevitable thought there in the garden...
...Last Christmas an Army flying officer described te me the new B-29 bomber...
...The ead of the war ks aew elewly earning late sight Oae part of tt may aad ha Itdf end the ether ha 1940...
...I felt a slight glow of approval when I read that the British some years ago had completed designs for such a weapon but refused to oae it because it was obviously unse-lective, woald patently be used against helpless non-combatant populations...
...So while I considered whet was best to encourage the beans and tomatoes, I had also to guard the lives and limbs of the active rising generation...
...We mast whs it Wiaaiag it will give as aaether chance te build n civilised aad secare world...
...There is talk'in auto union circles that George Addea is seeking to drop the Communists out of his caucus, preparatory to a "peace talk" with Walter Reuther...
...In the esrly stages of the production program, Bunker was under fire as one ef the "business-as-ususl" boys, particularly in blocking aluminum expansion...
...Think ef them building, making, improving the world...
...I learned what the teachers ¦wan by the term, attention span...
...If it starts twenty years from now...
...The Steel Workers have absorbed the Aluminum Workers...
...Their soothers will guard them threngh sll the kittle dangers af childhood end acalescceee...
...He showed men snd women at the mercy of the machines which they have created...
...In fact, his time schedule seems to be e bit slow Much of what ha pre-flgured for 1960, countless human creatures are exposed to in 1944...
...The fronts raised money for full-page advertisements in newspapers which raised money for more ads, etc...
...Think of all that the trade unions have done to make homes secure, to protect their families against economic threats...
...they already have about 50,000 men who normally would be in the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, and are preparing to absorb that union and possibly the Shipyard Workers...
...A number of old revolutionists, dispirited by the turn towards dictatorship, were committing suicide...
...Yet, amazingly enough, the group continues to receive the editorial support of the Poll and several other liberal papers...
...One of my colleagues on The New Leader staff suggests with grim foresight that in World War III the disintegration bomb will be the great weapon...
...Bridges has already lost control of the California State CIO Council...
...The story is given more credence now because of the new Communist line, which is embarrassing to most CIO leaders...
...The Men Behind Dewer— A Lit* af Hit F.nonciol Backer...
...This incident highlights a story told by Joseph Kesstl in his new book, "Army of Shadows," describing th« resistance movements in France...
...who la in the White House as aa assistant to Jimmy Byrnes...
...Man waa to be negated...
...Puny human mites were to be terrorised by mightly lying monsters...
...The Germaa winged torpedo might be straight out of one af his books...
...The argument advanced by the "formalists" was: "Suicide, even when justified by an incurable disease, remains an undisciplined act" And an undisciplined act, of course, is a violation of the party loyalty...
...Then I began to think about what may happen to them in 1964...
...But they never yet have sat down to plan for peace...
...They were, as always, treated in a particularly appalling way...
...The party was aending them back to camp...
...I watched those four boys happily aplashing in the mud...
...All that we call culture and civilisation was te be ended...
...They had escaped without tht party's authorisation...
...Next, trooping through my mind, came all the workers...
...You see, only the party could decide who should escape, and these men were penalised for having taken the decision on themselves...
...We had te Ight this war...
...Wilson last week appointed Arthur Bunker ef the Metals and Minerals Section as director of the staff of the Production Executive Committee, and the general notion is that Wilson will retire this summer to be succeeded by Bunker...
...The trouble ia that I had been reading an article in the last number of Lift...
...At the moment of its impact, all matter within its rsnge will be reduced to its chemical constituents...
...Now we have seen it sweep proudly for thousands of miles, drop its load and return...
...AH signs paiat te the sort ef peace thai makes aaether great war the world's heat bet...
...These things—and others just as horrible—we have and use now...
...The question as to whether this or that should be transplanted or thinned out or hilled up is not lightly to be answered...
...We are aet ergaaimd to get it...
...Every farmer in the world has a feeling of horror at thought of this sort of ruthlessness...
...I could not help picturing all the tanks clanking over wheatfields, all the shells gouging out holes in orchards and barnyards...
...Alfred P. Sloan af General Motors (a contribution of 88,880...
...In any future war, much more formidable weapons will be generally employed...
...Actually the men and women of the world don't want war...
...There is one stuffed with phosphorous which brings certain death to all living things within a wide radius of its point of explosion...
...But when I took time out last Saturday, my mind jumped like those all-front radio reports which we get nowadays...
...Then consider what war does to homes...
...the official Republican National Committee collected ealy $44,815...
...I had kept them from falling off the roof...
...They spend anxious years protecting their beys against every scratch, every germ, every danger...
...A number of CIO lesders, including Textile's George Baldansi, Ship's John Green, Aluminum's Nick Zonarich and Retail's Samuel Wolchak, were primed to go to town on Bridges, but Phil Murray shunted the matter aside st the meeting...
...He wants to build, therefore, a powerful Metal Products Union which would have strength and money...
...One of those who took her own Hie was Eugenie Bogdanovs Bosh, one ef the great figures of the Revolution and the head of the Ukraininn Soviet...
...Now this band has created the Hebrew Committee for National Liberation and bought an "embassy" in Washington...
...If 1 had returned one or more of the youngsters lacking an eye er en ear, I should have been in big trouble...
...Even a scratch or a bee-sting was something to be guarded against...
...Bat we are probably going te lose the chance...
...It is the negation of what workers individually and collectively have striven for since they first hed the sense to organise...
...Both th* AFL aad the CIO have demanded a voice for bibs, But wa know right now that the woman and ergaaktaj labor will net be represented...
...They are of the generation which will be ready for World War III...
...Mfaceileay There are some more fights brewing in the War Production Board, one between Donald Nelson and the Army on the rate of resumption of civilian production, the other between Nelson and Chsries e. Wilson on personnel...
...By MUIR4T EVf fttTT - •ridaes aa Hio Wof Oaf...
...I had planned things so that they were safe and happy in the salubrious mud...
...Unerringly it covers its course end delivers its load of death...
...In the short space of a year, this fellow had bamboozled a number of "innocents"—Jewish and non-Jewish—to form a string of innocent fronts for fund-raising purposes...
...We thank sad talk aad yearn far aaa»tmeg better...
...A generation ago h. G. Wells gsve us a horrifying picture of The Shape of Things to Come...
...Filled with deadly explosives, it is aimed at a city hundreds af miles away...
...The Dewey contributors come off the top of the Social Register of New Yark...
...They will be healthy aad bright aad One and jest ready In tiasc for World War III...
...af World Wmr III GARDENING requires meditation...
...The group haa been repudiated by every responsible section of Jewish life and has been scored by such non-Jewish sympathisers of Zionism ss Senator Wsgner...
Vol. 27 • June 1944 • No. 26
