Meeting of Workmen's Mutual Fire Insurance Soc.
Meeting of Workmen's Mutual Fire Insurance Soc. At the annual meeting of the Workmen's Mutual Fir* Insurance Society, a resolution was adopted expressing the members' grief at the death of Franklin...
...It is a measure of his accomplishment, however, that I want him to tell mom of all them people...
...After the bombing of Belgrade, and until June 22,1941, the Gestapo not only failed to persecute the Communists but collaborated with them, since the Soviet Union then was maintaining friendly relations with Germany...
...A distillery take* years to produce anything but hooch...
...Tito agreed...
...Held at freedom'Home, the exhibit lasted a month, thousands of people visited it, groups of high school students and member* of unions wem them given lectures on condition* in the occupied countries...
...The result of this action was the destruction, by the Germans, of General Mihailovich'* Montenegro force* and the capture of hi* commandant them, Major Djurislch—hardly the accepted treatment of collaborators...
...Major Huot came away impressed...
...British officers watched through binoculars how Chetniks collaborated with the Germans...
...The working staff is composed of competent people...
...Near-Great Canadian Novel from AnasUse to his fanatically Catholic eon, Marina, who is unwillingly caught in the dragnet of World War I and returns to become a sinister fascist poli tieiaa...
...S. Ingerman...
...This invaluable material attracts to the Institute studenta working on lsbor Probleme...
...As it is, he has been in too mach of a harry, and has bad to much ground to cover that thia book fails of real distinction...
...Matthew WoB is the president of the Institute...
...Ha never Action*l izes...
...Accordingly, even if Tito had been in Belgrade at that time, as the author states, he had no need to hide...
...But later when American newsmen tried to get in the country, Tito solemnly forgot the promise, which is underlined in the book...
...The Institute is being supported by labor and other friendly organization*, by annual memberships, by voluntary contributions and by grants for specific projects...
...The material of this department may be con...
...The Society, with headquarters at 227 East 84th St, New York City, is now in its 78rd successful year, the oldest cooperative in the fire insurance field...
...Despite, adverse wartime conditions, such as the great reduction in new homes, the Society wss able to announce a net gain of 1,201 members, twice the number gained in 1943...
...The resolution on Roosevelt's death read In part: "Resolved, that we, in common with all forward-looking peoples and our fellow citizens, express our sense of great loss and deep sorrow...
...The Institute has bean speewred by outstanding leaders and friends of labor such as William Green, Philip Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, John Dewey, Selig Periman...
...tralia, New Zealand, ate...
...In thia domain, its achievements am quite impressive...
...The American officers who traveled through Serbia brought back a large collection of pamphlets, newspapers and circulars in which Nedich and his propaganda machine angrily attacked Mihailovich...
...Th* aim of th* 1 nstitute is to eraoe* a coater wham material ? stated to the bartery of the labor moveaaent and the current activity of organized labor • a center has been very much felt in this country...
...aidered among the richest in this country, unique in scope And aim...
...Many individuals donated or bequeathed their archives to the Institute...
...underground' press from Nasi occupied Europe...
...Huot is not to blame—what he reports was probably true...
...He could then, in subsequent books,-bam gone on to Marias and Paul...
...the officers also ssw in the villages proclamations of tho executions of Mihailovich followers by Nedich men and police...
...Major Huot suggested to Tito that newsmsn be allowed to visit Yugoslavia and convince themselves of the true state of affaire, rather than aend propagandists to the United States, as Tito wanted to do...
...The mellbmtienai ehenasHe* of _„ l ers in this country leada to the inipolijj probtet* ef relatione between American labor and labor abroad...
...The Institute also files a great number of government pub lications dealing with various phases of labor...
...That was in May, 1942, during the famous Fifth Partisan Offensive, Hoot says...
...Being myself a refugee from Nasi Germany...
...It is a tribute not only to the author, but also to all other members of the various American missions, who are on the Job day and night But to anyone familiar with Yugoslavia's problems, the author will seem rather naive in accepting without question the many stories served him on a platter by hie Partisan friends...
...Its value is that it enn lender permanent services to labor no a whole and to its various bronchos, u wali as t* promote research in the field of labor...
...snd individuals in need of information about labor...
...The Institute organised last summer an exhibit Of its material on Underground Europ...
...The working quartern of the Institut* are at 7 East 15th Street, New York...
...Konviiz Lauded From HANS LAMM To the Editor: I EXCEEDINGLY xegrot that I have been prevented from telling you earlier how much I was impressed by the Milton Konvitz article, "Do Jews Seek Vengeance," in The New Loader of March 10th...
...But be has many of the qualities ef aa important writer...
...Directors Alfred Anderson, Kurt Schuhmann, Ernst Conrad and Henry Zaage wem unanimously reelected for new three-year terms...
...Among the large number of current American labor publications the Institute Is receiving regularly about 400 different labor periodicals, with more coming in daily...
...He has verve, sympathy, eloquence...
...This collection is among the most important in this country...
...Ludwig Schmidt, president of the Society, presided...
...It is interesting to note that he (Nedich) defesda Mihailovich over Radio Belgrade...
...To them purely labor periodicals should be added an important number of periodicals published by various political groups which influence the labor movement in this country...
...His book is a rich mina I would like to see him draw out one conflict, and develop it for all it is worth...
...A great part of this menu-script material was donated to the In etitute by the Rand School of 'Social Science and the Social Democratic 'Federation...
...Controllers Hack Melhade and August Ganser reported that they had investigated 617 Am claims, 98 fewer than the 1948 number...
...At the close of 1944 it had obtained a membership of 70,102, the largest in its history...
...During the same year, it added about »5,000,000 of new insurance, bringing total policies outstanding to $08,416,150...
...labor periodicals from Canada, England, South America, India, Aut...
...He has ssany felicitous ? anient i* aad ' passages...
...He hews all the time to the task he has set himself, that of trying to express hi* sense of his Canadian World and of himself...
...His column, The Coming Dag, always points out most challenging situations and conditions, and he is making a splendid contribution to real democracy by writing it Labor Archives THE American Labor Archiv* and Research Institute was organised in 1942...
...Aa artist's brain,* he observes, "is like a distillery...
...and its director, Borta I. Nicolaevsky, ia widely kaown as director of a similar institution in Paris...
...Hi* owe brain baa produced mech move than hooch...
...Of special internet is the collection of manuscripts on the history of lsbor and socialist movements, some of them dated in the 1820s...
...publications of various emigre groups...
...But he didn't tell the whole story, and the incident above is typical of the numerous inaccurate impressions he gives throughout Gum for Tito will impress the resder with the great ability and efficiency of American officers in giving aid to their email allies...
...But his book is uneven...
...In old age Walt Whitman, who had devoted his whole life to the effort, observed that it is very difficult to add anything to literaturo...
...The Isatitm* set itaelf the teak of gathering lu.tenaj on.thia problem, *nd has orgeasA* department dealing with labor abroad The collection* include foreign languag, periodicals being published in this conn, try...
...It is probable that the purpose of that part of the story was to explain where Tito was when the National Movement under the leadership of General Mihailovich was already active in resistance...
...They am true characters, worthy of the painstaking explication that rmot** a lasting literary figure...
...At the annual meeting of the Workmen's Mutual Fir* Insurance Society, a resolution was adopted expressing the members' grief at the death of Franklin ' Delano Roosevelt...
...MacLennan doesn't know this yet He has an unusually sensitive understanding of the human heart He has observed much...
...It steadily deteriorates as it approaches the present time, not, I think, because be wearies from the effort, but because be lama the perspective that enabled him to am Anaataae Taliard distinctly...
...I am above the suspicion of any sympathies with the Hitler regime, but I share the bewilderment of Professor Konvits that we allow our justified horror to blind us and to make the problem of postwar Germany even more terrifying than it is presently...
...Students of labor problems are referred by public libraries and labor organizations to, the Labor Press Center- for publications not available elsewhere...
...To make this collection available to the general public, the Institute, in cooperation with the Meyer London Memorial Library, opened in this Library a Labor Press Center...
...labor organizations searching for information and services...
...Due to the wartime conditions, the work of the Institute has been mainly confined until now to the gathering of material...
...Aad a* if this second story wem net sufficient MacLeansn then traasfar* his attention, to Peul, the oa4t ef AnasUse's old age, who ia tern will be caught ia World War IL If instead ef this too large canvas he had concentrated on Tallard's fight to Indus trialize Saint-Marc, an effort opposed by Father Beau Man, who rallied to his cause all the French-Canadian prejudice* of th* district, be might have had a deeply interesting novel...
...No similar one exists in New York...
...The Whitewashing of Marshal Tito not become Prime Minister until after the coup d'etat of January ?, 1929, a full year following Tito's release from prison...
...I feel that the article—though unfortunately, I fear, a rather lone voice in the wilderness—represents the best tradition of Judaism and humanity, and I extend my sincere, though inadvertently belated, congratulations to the author...
...Among them the most important art those given by Algernon Lee (.embracing a period from 1886 to 1943 and containing more than 2,000 items), Lens Morrow-Lewis, Abraham Caban, and th* late Dr...
Vol. 28 • April 1945 • No. 17
