The Home Front
BOHN, WILLIAM E.
The Home Front By WILLIAM E. BOHN The l»4*1mtiaaml» Mr. Ives nPHE Honorable living M. Ives lives in the town of * Norwich and represents Chenango County in the New York State Assembly. You had...
...And) listen to this...
...I could raise objection*, but the heart of the thing 's sound...
...President Hoover is mentioned in connection with the Reconstruction Finance Corporation...
...Dean Roberts of Denver i St John's Cathedral warned his congregation: "Fascism starts in an innocent way, with public opinion mobilised against a small group unable to fight hack...
...It presents and contrasts three pictures of labor and industrial affairs in this country...
...Itwron'tdo It is perfectly all right to have supplements dealing with special conditions in the varietal areas af this country In fact most publishers of textbooks already provide auch materials...
...amendment to keep Japanese, even those who are citixens, from keying any Colorado land...
...nation...
...Governor Vivian of Colorado, prompted by the Denver Feet, had called the legislature into session two weeks ago to pass a constitutions...
...It is an excellent condensed account...
...Much of it, in fact, is just the kind of stuff which all progressive schools hare been trying to pat over...
...It ia understood that the wait union men have already approved the schema and agreed to serve...
...In Italy, the Badoglio-King forces are playing a shrewd game, seeking to win the support of the Communists...
...Nowadays I lack the time to keep in tench with such things...
...Soma times much election* gp...
...Then the New Deal measures are outlined as the nation's natural and justifiable effort to alleviate the depression, but President Roosevelt's name is not mentioned...
...Seldes reports with indignation that the "great" Italian leader Vittorio Vidali, who led an Italian brigade in Spain, is seeking to go back to Italy but has been denied a transit visa by the United States...
...The student is invited to see our life as it was at these dates so that he will get the feeling of a thing unfolding, inevitably changing...
...Most of them you never hear about and never want to...
...This is something...
...Tm authors have an excellent imaginative and pitatkal approach ta the problem of educating young itiriJiZ partkeipaUsw In this important part of our Ufa...
...These matters might have been introduced as examples of things to be avoided in labor relations...
...You might expect an old labor man like me to be against this whole business from the start A fellow is naturally on the alert for anti-labor tricks...
...One gets the impression that they are instituted for the benign purpose of improving labor relations...
...This covers the federal and New York State laws and administrative bodies dealing with labor...
...When Yugoslav regent Prince Peter anneoaeM) support of the Axis in 1940...
...For some six years he haa been steering the affairs of the Joint Legislative Committee on Industrial and Labor Conditions...
...Then suppose that an innocent child is taken from one to the ether...
...The definiteness of this plan is its great virtue...
...As ICN (Inter-Continent News) dispatch from Moses* slated that a dispatch from Berne heard a report Iran the Polish underground radio station kosciuscxko st January 18 that an underground convention is Poland in December had formed a Committee for Nathasl Liberation...
...A few months ago we had a fine controversy about the new social New York State textbook on Tha American Story •/ Induttrial and Labor Relmtxtmt...
...Imagine the confusion of the poor pupils who might be taught this year that trade unions are just dandy and next year that they are anathema to God and the state...
...You get snapshots of 1840,1890 and 19d0...
...Camouflaged in various ways these principles and ideals aro what We light about in political campaigns...
...There was an embarrassed pause, and then Churchill waved his cigar, coughed, and aaid: "You know, that's s strange coincidence...
...The story is this...
...You get a good bask account ef economic and social change...
...the British encouramd General Stasovich to e»ei throw the Tvetkovich csJIsl and install Peter as King...
...If it had been written by Profeseor Highbrow of Teachers College and published by MacMillan, Dutton and Ginn, I shanks never have had a qualm about it...
...Among the GPU crimes in Spain was the assassination of tlamillo Bernieri, the anarchist editor, and the disappearance of Mark Rein, the aon of Raphael Abramovitch, the international Socialist leader, the arrest and murder of the POUM leader Andres Nin — and hundreds of others who opposed GPU domination...
...Apropos ef the recent Moocow moves for s puppet Polish government, recent dispatches clsim that Ik* 1 moves originated within Poland...
...But this committee is different, and I suspect that most of the drfference resides in the energetic and ambitious person of Assemblyman rvps...
...There may he a better book than this in the field, but I doubt it...
...You can imagine how ridiculous this policy might become if each ef the 48 states went in for it...
...What faith could he have in his elders...
...Robert E. Sherwood an* Carl Sandburg have bean hired by M-G-M *• * original scripts...
...Of the Six pages, only N ere devoted ta history...
...The principles in accordance with which we regulate them are tied in with our social ideals...
...I am agaiast official school books...
...ICN is, of course, a Communist sgesrj while Radio Koaciuacxko ia stationed in Russis• • ¦ • American Decaacy ¦ IK RE is a story about a man who deserves mom 1 sort ef Medal ef Honor...
...And there is s nasty bit of political trickery in the account af the New Deal...
...Or think of the 48 states, including Maine, Mississippi and New Mexico...
...But the nun**, provides fa* tha immamwts appointment of...
...The laker am are te he tike official leaders in this commonweal* el the AM...
...International Notes THE recent support of Tito by Genersl Dusan Simovich, according to diplomatic interpretation, is a move by the British to gain some influence in the Partisan movement British policy in South Earaju has always revolved about the Mediterranean ai i means of protecting the Empire lifeline through tht Sues...
...Throughout the whole labor and Socialist world SormentiContreras has been known as a heading GPU triggerman...
...Stalin leaned back, unperturbed, took his pip* out of his mouth and said: "You know, I had a dream too last night, but I don't remember appointing anyone to anything...
...The bans is to be atade up af two labor man, two indoatriamu and two most representing the state...
...Industrial and labor relations are at the root of our social life...
...This man is evidently on the make...
...Vidali-Sormenti-Contreras now seeks to go to Italy...
...When a committee of the legislature purposes te set up s new State school in such a Add as this one of labor relations, that is real news...
...The House killed the bill 00-1...
...The bill was aimed at LMO Nisei who had been dumped there by the Army sfter exclusion from the West Coast...
...No.no...
...But they really have no necessary place in the scheme of the book...
...The ideas underlying our labor hghlation are being carried over into institutional orrinj...
...New faff • New College 1*HB Ijswesli Mr...
...v The main part of the book, more than 200 pages, deals with Tht Unlet */ the Game...
...I should have recommended it to any social studies teacher...
...And hi Fact laments that he is being denied a transit visa...
...Ives and William B. Groat Jr., counsel to the Committee...
...All sorts of pedagogical materials and devices are suggested to bring the young people into castas with what hi going on in this vital field of activity...
...I had a dream too, and I dreamed that God had appointed me the Premier of the United Nations...
...And basically they must be national rather than regional...
...But every child born under our flag has a right to the best texts which the nation can produce...
...And the liberal press will follow suit, as when PM set up a howl that the Spanish people's leader Jesus Hernandes Tomaa had been denied a transit visa—without mentioning that Hernandex was the Spanish Communist chieftain...
...When the Axis forces sweat through Yugoslavia, Simovich fled to London, v/ktn he has been working closely with the British...
...In Spain, according to the charges of the ('NT, the anarchist trade union federation, Sormenti-Contreras directed the GPU brigades...
...The House seemed willing to pass the bill until three representatives banded together to fight it: em s Negro, the second whose brother was a Jap prisoner, the third a blind legislator...
...In this passage the smelly political hoof plainly appears...
...Tha election of a new administration might involve a revision of all the textbooks in the social stadias program...
...This project is publicised as being the joint brainchild of Mr...
...Industrial classes are to be represented rather than geographical sections...
...The scheme of the book is definite and dramatic...
...I haVe read, of course, some of the objections which have been raised...
...Notes by the Woy a NUMBER of prominent persons, including Fnvei* McMahon, have quietly resigned from the Emergency Committee to Save the Jews when they le*"*~, of its revisionist background...
...You had better bear the name in mind...
...John L. Le*1' United Mine Workers Journal this week reprinted* full William L. Hutcheson's opening shot for the GOP in the '44 campaign...
...A state may be in the hands of New Dealers today and under the ministrations of reactionaries tomorrow...
...The history of trade unions comes In as a normal part of the development ef the country...
...Said Hill to the House: "I»» cautioned that I will be sorry (for my stand...
...An apfjroprtetieo of $10,000.00 is to merit, for preliminary planning...
...In judging a work like this, a fellow should take account of the purpose and scheme of the authors...
...Surely the Haymarket tragedy would find a place there...
...I sa just as willing to die a political death as I am to die in battle to preserve American freedom...
...And this idea— that life marches, thst changes must be made—is just about the most important notion that you can get in o a young person's head...
...Four other veteran groups—Veterans of Foreign Wars, Disabled Americsn Veterans, Military Order of Purple Heart and the Regular Veterans Association—wart that the Legion bill is "so broad and extravagant that it might jeopardise the entire structure of veteran* benefits...
...and CIO...
...A complaint is raised that the findings of the LaFollette Civil ' Liberties Committee have not been recorded...
...Smoking a cigarette after coffee, Roosevelt lesned back and casualty safcrr — " MYou know, I had a funny dream laat night 1 dreamt that God had appointed me President of the United Nations...
...By MURRAY EVERETT Inside and Out The Spirit of Teheran HERE is a story making the diplomatic rounds: Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin were having breakfast together st Teheran...
...Time deserves credit for breaking the story nitionnlly...
...Italian Communists granted visas by Badoglio is Ercoli, who has been directing Italian Communist activities from Moscow...
...Vidali has been better known by the aliases he haa used—Enea Sorroenti and Carlos Contreras...
...A student reading this tale will naturally think that unions are all right that it is normal to have them taking their part in what goes on...
...They call their volume, Tht Amariean Story af Industrial and Labor Relatione...
...af irustaos...
...one, way—sometimes another...
...lews has introduced into the ksra* la tare a Ml providing for a college of "Industry and labor rotation*" at Cornell...
...The Vidali story is part of a burgeoning publicity campaign to send a number of Communist agents to Italy The editors of L'Vnita del Popolo, the Italian Communist paper, have sought to obtain passports, and the Daily Worker is beginning a publicity campaign on their behalf...
...la fact aad a GPU Ag.at TTHE current issue of In Face, George Seldes's party line dope-sheet, runs sn item which may start a campaign in the whole party-line press...
...The employers' associations, I must confess, are rather whitewashed...
...Here I And expreseed in text, graphs snd pictures, just the sort of material which we have been teaching for years in the Rand School...
...Assemblyman Ives should hsve been too smart to be so partisan...
...af This look I* All ftif M THIS dees net mesa that thai beak produced by * the Ives Committee is net good...
...Among the...
...Perhaps the authors Bre themselves partially responsible foT some misunderstanding...
...Whether this plan goes through or not, it has syabolic importance...
...We have whole attics fail af such committees hanging round every state capital...
...Suppose each one indicts textbooks in accord with the intelligence and aspirations of the reigning clique...
...Actual eaUbUalusaat h to be postponed till altar the war...
...The man who turned the vote, though, was 26-yearold Representative Wayne Hill who had just been discharged from the Army...
...Over the past three years in Mexico X'ity, the GPU has been responsible for the murder of Leon Trotsky, of .Tina Modotti, a former CP agent in Spain, and* the reign of terror against Gorkin, Serge, Pivert, Regler and others in opposition to Bolshevism...
...But this is not exactly a story...
...It is not exactly that A complete story of the labor struggles in this country would have to contain much matter that has been omitted...
...On February 14 came the news of a new school of industrial and labor relations to be set up at Cornell University...
...Veterans' Shenanigans THE American Legion, with the aid of the Hearst press, is seeking, demagogically, to gain soldi" aupport by presenting an elaborate "GI Bill of Rights...
...It is said that such tragedies as the Haymarket affair have not been mentioned...
...But 1 must report that the only thing about this that I don't like is the idea ef having official textbooks published by the state...
Vol. 27 • February 1944 • No. 9
