Washington and the Nation
STOUT, JONATHAN
Washington and the Nation By JONATHAN STOUT Psychological Warfare The week six. prominent labor leaders left for an Army-conducted tour of the French battlefront. The Party was made up of three...
...This miracle is accomplished simply by doing away with the price ceilinga...
...Jews were allowed to bring with them bundles of ptraoml necessities not weighing over 50 kilos...
...They refuted...
...Streamlined price control" for department stores, clothing stores, specialty shops and other retailer* (but ot food stores) i* being given serious attention in OPA...
...They are R. J. Thomas, president of the United Automobile Workers Union...
...The Party was made up of three CIO and three AFL official...
...Their task was the technical execution of the solution of the Jewish problem...
...The next decree ordered all Jews to live in ghettos...
...All the Jewish bank accounts were blocked and all ready cash over 3,000 pengs was to be given up...
...Under a Selective Service directive, conscientious objectors to war, are subject to compulsory work on Civilian Publie Service projects on private farm*, and their wage* are turned over to the Treasury Department...
...Finally, the War Dept...
...Colonel of the (iendarmei ia, Stefan Dagy...
...The scheme fixe* the year 1948 a* the base to which all future profit* during price control shall conform...
...A second decree soon arrived ordering the Jews to give over everything they had of gold, diamonds, precious stones and platinum...
...To execute this plan, they appointed as undersecretaries of the Ministry of the Interior, I.adislav ViLez Kndre, and the l.ieut...
...14 wm Byrnes, too, who showed the hand of the White House in arranging for the defeat of the Kilgora Bill and the victory of the George Bill in tha Senate last weak...
...Under the George Bill, such unemployment compensation is left entirely to the discretion of the states and at the present inadequate and variable standards which are now in force...
...The communique at-tes:,, "Dr...
...Upon their arrival the Germans requisitioned Jewish flats and villas, throwing the occupants out into the street...
...There they remained under the open sky until the end- of April, when they were packed into freight cars, seventy to a ear, and without food or water were aent further on...
...The War Dept...
...Sherman Dalrymple, president of the United Rubber Workers Union, and David McDonald, assistant president of the United Steelmakers of America—all CIO...
...Kamarash has given us the following report for the allied public: "Immediately after their arrival, the Germans began what they called the solution of the Jewish problem...
...The maulta of that campaign, of course, remain to be seen...
...and Frank Fenton, AFL Director of Organization...
...If it find* at the end of the month or year it baa collected more, OPA will say "Naughty, naughty...
...attorneys, has been disclosed specifically in the clothing and fish industries, among others...
...The report was received in Washington this week via Pleas Wireless n a lung communique from the headquarters of General Draja Mikhailovitrh...
...They came with a pre-arranged plan...
...It was learned later on that the greater part of the** wretched people were found dead in freight cans when they ware unhealed and that the survivor* war* killed ia lethal chambers...
...In Munkach, 25,000 Tews wer* P«cked into an insufficient number of barracks and several hundred died daily of hunger and disease...
...Then the maim factnrera can sell them to civilians at much higher price*—and profits...
...FDft and the Ki/gore Bill The role of the White House in the whole recon-»«r»ion picture has not escaped notice here...
...Koloman Kamarash has arrived at (iennral Mik hailovitch's staff headquarters...
...The next decree ordered all Jewish shops to be closed in the course of 24 hours...
...The activity of the Hungarian government in the first four months consisted mainly of issuing decrees against the Jews...
...Under tha Kjlgore Bill, workers left jobless by war contract terminations would have bean entitled to unemployment compensation ranging up to $S5 a week for a period of two years after the war, under a uniform federal standard throughout the nation...
...The new idea ia that each store (or each department of the atore) can collect the aame groaa profit on ita total business that it collected from consumers in the "base period...
...has disclosed...
...The plan proposed will make compliance easier for the stores, enforcement easier for OPA...
...Six concerns were asked by the government to manufacture field jackets for American troop* In Europe...
...Army and Navy ordera for a large variety of item*, ranging from work shirts to aheeta, have been so serioaaly curtailed by the racket that the services have aaked OPA to try to atop it...
...Murder of Hungarian Jews A FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT of the Nazi tenor against the Jews in Hungary is made available in a report by Dr...
...Labor Conscription for Conscientious Objectors . . . The Worker* Defense league urges the abolition of Civilian Public Service a* a "dangerous pattern of civilian labor conscription...
...He was still in Hungary on March lit...
...Koloman Kamarash, a leader of the Jewish community in Yugoslavia...
...A strike of three conscientious objectors at the Federal Prison at Petersburg, Va., against doing war work and against racial discrimination in the prison, has brought stricter censorship...
...Parallel with these arrests the 'Jewish Council' wss forced to send mmmona to other less prominent Jews to report at the building of the Jewish Seminary, which served as gathering place for those to be sent to camps...
...So their 194S profits, now to be made the "base" for purposes of price control, were just 1015% higher than their average profit* ia the years 1936-S9...
...The first decree ordered the Jews to wear yellow six-pointed stars and thus enabled a daily arrest of several hundred Jews in the streets...
...and the atere win have to lo-er some of Ita prices...
...A new profit grab racket, disclosed to the Capital Conveyor, Washington Newsletter ef the United \uio Worker*, this week by Amy and Navy offi rials, consists of deliberately manufacturing gooda on military order which fail to meet requirement* When inspected by procurement officers of the armed forcea they are rejected...
...What amounts to "virtual treachery," according to Justice Dept...
...The Yugoslav Jewa from Bachka were first gathered in an abandoned mill in Subotica, from where they were aent to Baja, without having received any food...
...There were no ghetto quarter* in Budapeat only hwaea* the government waa of the opinion that the city wo*rtd be spared Anglo-American bombing if the Jewish population lived dispersed all over the town...
...This new plan is the brain child of the American Retail Federation, super-lobby for the retailer...
...told them the jackets were "urgently needed...
...The tour is part of a psychological warfare compaign »J the heavy thinkers of the War Department...
...Their 1948 aalea were two-third* greater than in pro-war yean...
...Seventy-five per cent, that ia about 20,000 Budapest shops, were Jewish, and German trucks coi'ld be seen daily taking away wares from these shops until nothing was left...
...Strikes are also going on at the Lewisburg prison and at Dan-bury against discriminatory parole regulations and censorship...
...Until July 4 he was an eyewitness of the whole of Hungary...
...Kamarash bad sought shelter in Budapest from the persecution of Jews in occupied Yugoslavia...
...wat compelled to resort to the Selective Service Act—the first time it hat ever been invoked against any group of firm*—to force the six companies, with threat* of jail sentences and fines, to provide the badly needed jacket...
...At the same time, wealthy and prominent Jews began to be arrested according to lists previously drawn up...
...The worst ghettos were in the Carpathian regions, in Bachka and in Erdelj...
...These Jewish living quarters were situated in provinces and consisted of abandoned mills, barracks, brick kilns, gypsy houses, and in some towns of partially demolished houses...
...Profit Strikes Sabotaging Armed Forces, Home Front Documented evidence that some sections of American business are deliberately sabotaging both the armed forces and the home front has been mounting in official government files in recent weeks...
...Department and specialty stores in 1943 made oyer 10 cents on every $1 of aaiea, compared with 1 '/2 cents in pre-war years and 2J/2 cent* in 1940...
...The Gestapo immediately upon their arrival in Budapest suspended all the Jewish religious rommunties and established the so-called 'Jewish Council' which executed the orders of the Gestapo...
...The move »y Assistant President James F. Byrnes, South Carolyn Democrat, giving the WMC a manpower veto over »• Nelson plan and launching the OPA pricing blow jntntt resumption of any civilian production before w end of the war ia regarded here as highly ¦ificant...
...All the Jewish houses, of course, were plundered...
...At least six clothing manufacturer* have deliberately sabotaged American soldiers fighting in Europe, the War Dept...
...The June issue of Hradert' Digett was barred from the prison because it carried an article on race...
...They atill refuted...
...The disappearance of a million Jews in the course of four months can only be explained by the activity of these two men who had already been known for their blood-thirstiness...
...The Civilian Public Service Union (of conscientious objectors who work in CPS unit*), newly organized, is cooperating with thcwWDL in thi* fight...
...1944, when the Germans occupied that rountiy...
...The communique wss authorized by President Topolovitch, Socialist head of the Mikhai-lovitch (lovernment...
...WDL lawyers will test the constitutionality of CPS...
...Eric Peterson, vice-president of the International Association of Machinists, •ad A. L. Wagoner, assistant president oi the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers—all AFL...
Vol. 27 • August 1944 • No. 34
