Washington and the Nation
Washington and the Nation CP. Kiss of Death ¦ IF President Roosevelt is defeated In November he may have'Earl Browder to thank for it. At the moment. White House circles are wishing that Mrs....
...Thomas assailed the attacks on PAC made by the Republicans as unfair, and defended labor participation in politics, but told Hillman he has become "one of the motley crew of bosses who control that extraordinary conglomeration of northern city political machines and aouthern bourbons, known as the Democratic Party...
...Insurance Lobby Opens Drive To Evade Anti-Trust Laws Liberal Party leaders this week pointed to the drive in Congress by powerful Insurance lobbyists to exempt insurance companies from Federal anti-trust laws as a preview of ths sort of "special interest reign" which may be expected if Dewey is elected President...
...Browder had been reversed by the Board of Appeals on Visa Cases despite the objections of the War Department, Navy Department and the FBI...
...its tactics have delayed rather than advanced intelligent labor action in the political field...
...Louis, went on record in favor of controlled competition in the insurance business 'wherever necessary' so that rata cutting and other highly competitive practices cannot weaken the financial soundness of the companies...
...You could have helped pave the way for an American equivalent to thet promising organization ef ell progressives, backed by the most enlightened sections of the farmers end industrial workers, the Csavadiaa Cooperative Commonwealth Federation...
...Norman Thomaa criticiied the CIO cynicism thst lesds to printing a picture of the Chicago massacre of 1937...
...A newsletter issued by a leading Insurance agency (White and Camby, Inc...
...The reason for it, however, remained moot until it was learned here authoritatively that the bone of contention again is the Balkans...
...But, in the natural •jurae of events, 25 years of assocation with Commu-wats would make a totalitarian out of a wooden Indian...
...Slaee It had been previously agreed thet ene knack ball be enough to bar the use ef the armed might of the world security organisation, the position taken by the Soviet delegation effectively Mew up all hopes ef working out a permanent peace setae in the naer future...
...A Chicago millionaire, William Bross Lloyd * '« many years been one of the financial angels •"d one of the important leaders of the Communist Party...
...A Modest Proposal GlJESS who advanced the following fascist formula *er dealing with strikers: . "They, especially the leaders, could be shot, but a human being ia too valuable a machine...
...Kelly's police, as if it had happened under a Republican Administration...
...The progressive development of this system waa favored and M> was the insurance- plank In the Republican platform that the exclusive power to regulate and control the business should be reserved in the states...
...And it was a situation made to order for Dewey, therefore, when the Scripps-Howard papers revealed this week that an order issued in 1940 by the Government for the deportation of Mrs...
...By inference Browder therefore appeared to designate the President as pro-Communist...
...the Atlantic Charter, by claiming Greece aad Yugoslavia aa part of the Balkan sphers...
...White House circles are beginning to wonder who Browder is really working for...
...The PAC, he commented, is less advanced than the AFL political committee, in that the AFL crosses party lines to endorse its "friends," while the PAC endorses only Democrats, including some reactionaries...
...in an open letter to Sidney Hillman, S.P...
...presidential candidate Norman Thomas called the CIO Political Action Committee (PAC) "a company union in politics...
...At present twenty-rive states exercise no control over fire insurance rates and they are only partially controlled in others, Insurance companies, when fighting state regulation, have insisted that insurance is interstate rather than local in character...
...He deplored the influence of the Communists in PAC, "because they hsve no principles except a desire for power...
...The best thing to ¦e with them is to put them in a bull pen without a *•*•> without ration cards or food packagea from out-aide until they return to work...
...cites Senator Pat McCar-ran's prediction that if the Bailey Bill, whose passsge is sought by the insurance lobby, gets to the Senate it will pass...
...And keep the leaders i Ml the last striker is working...
...ThERE ia gloom in Washington over the prospects of setting up a postwar world-security organisation on the basis of the three-power talks at Dumbarton Oaks...
...Ia the Stalin-Churchill deal ea the Balkans al-meet two years age, it waa agreed that Jygoaaony ever the Balkan* be given to Ruaaia aad hegemony ever the Mediterranean area be given to Britain It waa agreed that Greece aad Yugoslavia be regarded aa being la the Mediterranean area, with the rest of the Balkans remaining In Russia's sphere Of IllaweieaSfe It therefore burned Churchill ap when Stalin recently treated that agreement aa another mere scrap of paper, Juat as he treated...
...Browder and Earl would both go to Ruaaia and just forget to come back* First, Earl Browder went out and made a lot of votes for Governor Dewey laat week by attacking the Republican candidate aa antiCommunal...
...Up to the time of the Bolshevik revolution in'Russia, "oyd had been a Socialist and euch ideas as he now •epouaea were abhorrent to him...
...The Churcholl-Stalin Deal IT is no longer a secret that Churchill and Stalin are getting along poorly...
...The message said in part: Using every device and technicality, the well-financed ineurance lobby has waged a long fight to beat the antitrust laws which would regulate the industry, and to evade anti-trust Indictments against (Ire insurance companies in the Southeastern States...
...as a threat to world peace in the future, The torpedo that blew up postwar peace hopes waa the opposition of the Soviet delegates to the American* British proposal thst in esses of military aggression the aggressor nation be barred from votng on the question of guilt snd the decision ss to whether the armed might of the united nations be directed againat the aggressor...
...Whereas the Ruaaian position would, ia effect, enable It to institute aggresaive action aganst s peaceful neighbor and at ths same time bar other peacelovlng nations from going to the letter's aid...
...The newsletter adds that the fire and casualty-surety groups are "elated over this expression of opinion from an official who is the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman...
...If Congress passes legislation to remove insurance companies from terms of the anti-trust laws it will be giving a free reign to price-fixing and other monopolistic practices...
...The Socialist leader termed Harry Truman a "protege of the convict boss Pendcrgast...
...It is recognised here that the Ruaaans havs effectively torpedoed whatever chaneea there existed for preventing military aggression...
...Yon had a rare opportunity to start effective organisation of the workers on behalf of some new pohi irsI realignment baaed on principle...
...Diplomatic circles here are not alow ia pointing out that only s nation which had plana far future aggression roald possibly abject to the Amerlean-British proposal...
...That the ineurance companies look hopefully to a special interest reign favoring them if Dewey is elected is borne out by the same newsletter which reports: "Significantly, Governor Thomas E. Dewey's Governor's Conference in session recently at St...
...They could be drafted, but they lack the patriotism, intelligence and *>oral standards of good soldiers...
...The PAC is undemocratic—its meetings do not formulate policy, but execute plans dictated by Hillman...
...Louis recently...
...The President, with your approval, is preparing ihe way for future war by underwriting . . . the Balkanization of Europe and the maintenance of the French, Dutch, and British Empires," the Socialist candidate declared...
...Another speech, some figure, might elect Dewey...
...Washington and the Nation CP...
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...Norman Thomas Assails PAC And Hillman...
...Lloyd, in case you never heard of him, is one P the founders of the Communst Party of the United ¦wtae...
...Inasmuch as even Browder himself admitted in testifying last week before the House Committee investigating political expenditures that "98 per cent of the American people are anti-Communist," it it estimated that Browder's attack on Dewey as anti-Communist won the New York Governor the votes of thousands of on-t he fence citixens who hadn't yet been able to make up their minds...
...John L. Childa, state chairman, and Joseph V. O'Leary, state secretary, of the Liberal Party, the messsge cited a leading insurance agency newsletter which hailed the insurance plank in the Republican Party platform and the support given insurance company opposition to Federal regulation by Governor Thomas E. Dewey's Governor's Conference held in St...
...While contributions are "voluntary," CIO members feel that "it would be unhealthy" not to support PAC...
...where workers were victims of Mayor...
...Unity, under f As Stalinxat definition, u aftff a one-way street...
...These totalitarian vewa were expressed in a letter to »• Waihington Evening Star last Saturday by that peat champion of the working class, William Bross *Jeyd...
...i Dewey this week attacked the decision permittng the Communist leader'a wife to enter the United States legally and remain here as a political move in the election campaign...
Vol. 27 • September 1944 • No. 40
