The Home Front

...I am willing to bet that the most turgid ones will not deceive him...

...He had read painfully onward with the vigorous use of finger and tongue as well as eyes—so he had literally changed the color of the text as he absorbed its meaning...

...Why not nationalization at* banks and insurance companies ?' In my answer I said that 'credit after the war must be nationally controlled by a series of priorities aa in wartime...

...T.B.R...

...The fault is with the organisation itself...

...4. De Lozada admits that there are many confusing elements, that there may have been pro-fascist influences which have wormed their way into the Nationalist movement that carried out the revolt...

...The five companies—Universal, Metro, Pathe, Paramount and Fox Movietone—cut shots of Negro troops in a scene showing President Roosevelt reviewing troops...

...Miscellany *T*HE radio industry is waiting to see what changes * Henry Luce will make in the Blue Network, where he has bought a strong interest...

...office...

...And a quote from M. J. ColdweU's article on p. i mis-lit fit intos the oases of the regimental papei Inside and Out By MURRAY EVERETT Thw Labor Scene STRONG CIO pressure is being exerted on Sidney Hillman to make some compromise in his fight against the present ALP leadership...

...It is rumored that he was charged with "working with anti-Soviet elements...

...The "star" columniat cannot be reached at the D.W...

...The address is Sergeant R. Gladnick 036602 12 C.T.R...

...And after the war, Russia will be our best business associate...

...But not Cannon-He ordered the Philly branch to throw the counter-revolutionist out...

...That is one of the rights of citizenship, and our organization would not think of denying to sny American the full exercise of all his rights as sn American citizen...

...They have a fundamental democratic outlook...

...Working people who don't follow slogans, who tm willing to look into meanings, can change the world...

...In their deletion of shots of Negro troops the companies sacrificed the best shot of President Roosevelt shown chatting with General Eisenhower, because colored soldiers were in the background...

...Row Moferiali Cartel *T*HE United States is moving towards a "permanent * war economy," one of whose chief plans is to control basic raw materials as stockpiles in case of trouble after the war...

...The corporal who's the editor went up to the colonel and wanted to know if it would be okay...

...Money must ge to those industries that will benefit the people of Canaan.' "This caused quite a stir in the outfit—but not on a pre and con basis...

...The old man said: 'It's a splendid idea.' So I became a political commentator...

...The friend of Stamm applied, stating thst he thought Trotsky was wrong on the "French Turn," but thst he would submit to discipline...

...For the best quote of all, though, turn to Max Eastman's "In My Opinion" elsewhere in this issue...

...The longest word will not scare him...

...But what attracted me was that this meet un-literary looking chap had an impressive volume open before him...

...Canadian Array Overseas...

...And I put the question: Should we try W) get our learned contributors to write in some sort of basic English...

...They can understand, for instance, how a man can start life milking cows, as I did, and wind up as President of General Motors, which I did not...

...What it was I aeon learned...

...Combination of the present radio staff with Timt-Lift't far-flung network of correspondents would make a' strong combination...

...Papers *TU|Y reply to him is going to be in I be next issue 'Recent elections,' I say, 'hsve proved thst the Canadian public is alive to the hi sum of the day and have shown it in the meaner they have cast their ballots.' I added the point that the soldiers are disfranchised and said that if this wen not the case the elections would have been even more surprising...

...C.M.F...

...As I looked at it I had the impression that the first two-thirds of it must have been printed on brown paper and the rest on white...

...Although I'll say this much against the C. C. F., In all the flood of newspapers that come into this outfit the C. C. F. literature is conspicuous by its absence...

...This John Armour may be a descendant of Longfellow's hero who "looked the whole world in the face...

...And now consider these lines from Leland Stowe, a grand correspondent, but one Whose emotions usually outrun his logic...

...Will you givs them my address and tell them to send me their papers...

...It was the first volume of Karl Marx's Capital in the fine-looking English edition...

...And Mike increased it by exclaiming: "I've read this far and, by golly, I'll r-rade it through if it kills me...

...Practically everybody agreed that national money is a good idea...

...I was used to teaching students who had to be driven to their books by threats of examinations...

...He was making use of the time of waiting by boning up on something or other...

...It's ss good as done...

...14, and runs along thus: "I was going to send you a copy of our regimental paper, for which I now conduct a page called Your Forum...

...The best of them I want to share with you...

...De Lozada has been in the United States for many years and was working for the Rockefeller Committee before taking his present post...

...A couple of weeks ago I was sergeant of the guard and the editor was corporal of the guard...

...What the world needs most is common sense...

...But de Lozada is vouched for by Waldo Frank, noted liberal who was beaten up by Argentine fascists last year, and by leading CIO officials...

...The Philadelphia local—a mass organisation of a few dozen members—welcomed him joyfully...

...U. S. Ambassador Pierre Boal has been friendly with the mine owners and defended their role in the Catavi massacres in 1942 which resulted in the sending down of an American commission headed by Calvert Magruder...

...He was a great, hulking red-beaded guy in bluish clothes which suggested the sea...

...With pride Mike exhibited the book: And I confess that there was one impressive feature about it...

...the Communists sre not joining the Republican Psrty . . . (but one psragrsph later) . . . When I say thst we are not entering parties or not endorsing parties, I do not mean we have any objections to our individual members registering in one or the other of the parties when their local community life calls for it and their associates and fellows are following that course...

...The government has apparently agreed to these conditions...

...His last letter is dated Italy, Dec...

...A friend of Stamm's in Philadelphia wss sent to make the test, on the basis of the old Bolshevik principle of "democratic centralism," i.e...

...The Stalinist Council for Pan-American Democracy attacks de Lozada "as a flhady character who was long in cahoots with pro-fascist elements in Bolivia...

...Over the last years, the few dozen members of the Stamm group dribbled away until Stamm wss left alone with a brother-in-law or someone...

...5. A luncheon of AFL-CIO leaders held last Friday decided to investigate the Bolivian situation, and it is probable thst Bernardo Ibanez, the head of the Chilean labor movement who is now in this country, will be asked to go down there and report...

...But the question, was this: Are the Canadians ready for it...

...Commie Quotes CARL BROWDER is the man whose speeches are *-* examples of hard-cut, crystal-clear logic...

...A meeting was held in R. J. Thomas's room Saturday night, at the Park Central Hotel, following the two-day conference of the CIO Political Action Committee, which included Walter Reuther of UAW, John Green of the Shipbuilders and Sam Wolchak of the Wholesale and Retail Grocery Clerks...

...Nationalization would mean only more money for the politicians to play round with,' Well, you should have heard the guys: 'Who's ignorant?' •Who's indifferent?' 'Why, the SOB...

...The majority of the fellows who approach me seem to have been influenced by the Canadian Commonwealth Federation victories beck home...

...they answer that he is in California...

...Five motion picture companies were accused last week of deleting from their newsreels scenes showing colored American soldiers in action overseas...

...Armour sends in $.1.00 for a subscription which was open to him at the rate of $2.00 and goes on to explain that the lower price would "demean the value of the paper which, like good wine, matures with age and is the leading paper in its class, first class...

...We sat up all night discussing the pros and cons of contemporary political life and how little the man who fights for democracy ' has to say about it...

...What we need is a good dictionary when we hit a word we don't know the meaning of...

...These progressive leaders told Hillman that the fight was hurting CIO nationally...

...Labor people say Alco is seeking to scale down the value of the plants, on which (hey have options, in order to pick them up cheaply after the wsr...

...But I have spent a lot of my time trying to figure out hew to get under their skin...

...It ia working men who resd the 2,000,000 copies of the Daily News which ate distributed every day...

...But he makes the point that Juan Antonio Arse, the leader of the PIR, the militantly anti-Nazi revolutionary party, has just been re-admitted into Bolivia and that Arze's judgments can be trusted...

...3. This is the first revolt in Bolivia in more than fifty years that was carried out against the three-man oligarchy—Mining Barons Aramayo, Hochschild and Patino—who have ruled Bolivia and whose income was greater than the combined revenues of the Bolivian state...

...Stowe was pro-Finnish in 1940 and was subjected to the most vehement denunciation by the party press...

...Sender Garland, it is said, has been absent from the Daily Worker office for two weeks...

...However, due to the fact that many names of places appear, I can't mail it to you for 'security reasons.' "We've had a paper in this regiment for almost two years, dealing mostly with slapstick...

...All of the answers have been negative...

...The Board, described as a 'protector of American interests' against uncontrolled cartels and other combinations, would in effect place a firm hand on both sources and supplies of materials bssic to industrial activity around the globe...

...Here are some quotes from his famous speech outlining the new "Free Enterprise" line: "We are not in our new course entering any other party...

...Wanting to get back into political activity, Stamm decided to apply for admission into the present Cannon fsction of the Trotakyite group known as the Socialist Workers Party...

...Facts ond Fiction on fle/rvia OUT of the tangled mess of words on the Bolivian situation, certain facts ought to be kept in mind: 1. The delegate from the new Bolivian government, Enrique de Lozada, is highly recommended by trustworthy American liberals...

...2. De Lozada laid down five conditions for the new government, including the revocation of anti-Semitic laws and the sale of quinine stocks to the United States...

...What about money...

...To start the ball rolling, the C. of E. padre pitches me a honey of a question: 'After the last war the soldiers returned without any ideas about post-war Canadian reconstruction...

...The Communists sre not joining the Democratic Psrty...

...Then comes the reference to language: "Speaking as a common workingman (blacksmith), I don't want basic English, which to me means lazy thinking...

...It comes from John Armour, Methuen, Mass...

...The Sergeant Starts a Forum TPHIS column's star fighting correspondent is, as you * know, Sergeant Robert Gladnick, of the Canadian 'Army Overseas...

...wrote only about himself.' " • • • Wm*t C.CJ...

...His name, he told me, was Mike, and he actually was a seaman...

...This letter reminds me of the first time I ever went to make a Socialist speech...

...Alice in the Trotskyife Wonderland IN the Lexicon of the "Left," the "Stamm group" * was a bunch of fellows who split from the "Oehler group" after the latter had split from the-Trotskyites on the issue of the "French Turn" (i.e., the decision of the Trotskyites to disband and enter the Socialist Party in the hope of capturing it...

...Taking the Eighth Army News as a guide, we came to the conclusion that our regimental paper should tackle the problems which the soldier will run into after the war...

...I would like to know what are some of the plans of the soldiers for a reconstructed Canada.' I answered the question at length—basing myself on the desire of the returned men for jobs, homes and security—said that the old it pan t individualism must give way to national planning but not to bureaucracy etc...

...When we first appeared in our new format 1 expressed my concern about the danger that we go highbrow...

...We have had, first and last, a lot of fine symbols of human progress...

...I em certain you know some of the C. C. F. people in Canada...

...But when Mike pointed his big finger to a certain line on a certain page to show me just how far he had progressed in the pursuit of knowledge, I began to understand...

...When 1 climbed the dark stairway np to the first of the many, many humble "halls" in which I have tried to explain the things that are wrong with the world, I found a single member of the audience there before me...

...that differences of opinion were allowed only until a line wss laid down, then action had to he unanimous...

...They are just as stupid and just as bright, just as good and just as had as other folks...

...We approached him for his point of view, and he was most-enthusiastic about it...

...1 want to celebrate this workingman with the dictionary in his hand...

...It happened to be Sunday, and the brigade Church of England padre was conducting the service in our unit...

...In this war, however, we have had time to do a bit of thinking...

...One corporal wrote: To speak of nationalisation of industry or money is premature—when the average Canadian citizen is too ignorant and too indifferent even to take part in voting...

...But here is Stowe in a new vein, as quoted by the Richmond Timet' Diepatch: ". . . If the Russians are a little particular about where their eastern boundary should lie, it is because they have earned a place of power...

...The story from the paper's Washington bureau said: "Formation of sn international board for' policing the earth's wealth of raw materials after the war ia being carefully weighed by topmost officials in the government...

...The Aluminum Company of America will fare scrutiny as a result of the closing down of three government-owned but Alco-operated plants around New York...

...In the second issue one of the sergeant majors wrote: 'There's a lot of talk of nationalization of industry...

...The Wall Street Journal has run a number of stories outlining these plans...

...Ibanez will receive the support of the AFL Executive Council meeting in Miami...

...The latest, on January 13, indicates that we are planning a world cartel for the international control of raw materials...

...I said I wanted a paper that would bring John Dewey and the workingman together...

...Thinking of the students whom I had left behind, of all the books which they could read and didn't, 1 expressed my admiration...

...This means more than any of them...