The Home Front
BOHN, WILLIAM E.
The Home Front By WILLIAM E. BOHN "Strikes Are Something Terrible" THE other day I was rending · I stmlpy letter from an old friend X 'when iuddenly oat of the page of 1.iij? ?·"»» · couple of...
...Usually the newspapers concentrate on any little trouble that may occur...
...a * 4 • The Nationalist I'arly, organized h> ex-Senator Boh Reynolds, held a meeting in New York City laat'month...
...He has not lived on some far-off frontier isolated from the currents of public opinion...
...He is one of the best feHows you could imagine - a kindly, ^generous Christian...
...All these other things which I have done, teaching and lecturing and writing, seem to me of questionable value...
...Many years ago we read McGuffy's readers together in a really red schoolhou.se...
...So the papers, in lieu of a tale of head-breaking, enlarged upon the business losses that were involved...
...Literature distributed at the meeting included instructions for the formation of parly cells, and an advertisement for a booklet by Joseph kamp...
...Iteuther, UAW braintruater...
...M typical of successful midwest J??rmers...
...These elevator men peacefully pacing their block* were as noa-violent a* any followers of Gandhi...
...Meanwhile, Hearst news papers carried a signed story by Iva To guri (Tokyo Rose) of her role in Japanese propaganda...
...Other board members were equally blue...
...The latest atrocity from this bearer of enlightenment to backard peoples is the declaration that tl.c war "ended too soon because there are too many Nips left...
...Before the strike, during the strike and now after the strike the labor aide of the controversy ha* never been put across...
...i rat news was thai there were several of them...
...By ROBERT TOWNSENO...
...I knew some of the men who were out on 'he picket lines last week...
...And be tlnnks "these strikes are something terrible...
...On ** ?*« a man with a family simply live...
...whitewa ah of Stalin'» purge, with "unbedingt sehen" (see it by all means...
...I have often amused myself by writing in this column that I am a farmer at heart and that I should have continued the labors of my ancestors on the land...
...While-attending the Foreign Ministers Council in London, Molotov was invited to Clement Attlee's quiet home, Chequers...
...Rebellious members in Racine and Kenosha are up in arms about the decision to have the CIO board (Commie controlled) approve all candidate...
...They organized and JJBt on strike...
...Monroe Sweetland, former chieftain of CIO National War Relief, now loads the Red Cross on Okinawa...
...We have rediscovered each other...
...No one spread abroad the notion that those in authority, the Real Estate Board, the Mayor, the Governor, the War Labor Board, could have prevented the strike by listening to men's grievances...
...But—and you won't find this in the Neu Matte* or In Fact— Hitler heartily recommended Mittntm to Motcow, the Warnei Brna...
...But Uses and ront ribu-7*· ,0 the social security fund are ****t*d...
...couple of sentence* sud-^«if Joeped out atme: "These strikes ,r* feaMtUAf terrible, ud If it keep* tt 99 well bare to have government conical fale* Hither wages all the time, ,»d...
...Wslter Reuther was absent because of the death of hi« son When Id-other reappeared...
...Adde-wanted to go after Bendix first, but it was decided that Keuther's idea of coo-rent rating on one of the big three au'o firms wjlqld better set a national wale pattern, dually the idea was spilled lo the press and the membership, with front page national results...
...J?·» have gone through, he would *?"Te" lo sympathise with them and lack In their strike...
...J. Thomas opened the meeting by aaying that "the unlon'a going to hell and frankly, I don't know what to do about it...
...What broke the hack of the good clergyman's patience was the recent attack on President Shuster of Hunter College...
...He has earned lore than industrial workers earn, and I at has saved a lot of money for his old Ige, He doesn't know factory workers, aH no idea how they live or what theii problems are...
...Believe it or not—it starts not with A but with T, for Tito...
...tmltion of the United State...
...Mt satisfied...
...But he feeh .perfectly nine upiniom about them...
...He writes well end takes an interest in Hlblic .affairs...
...To catch up with the thinking of all the Charlies and their wives and children will take a prodigious effort...
...Chworowsky knows George Shuster and what he has done for liberalism, and resented the slanders spread about him...
...It isn't true that Tile Is a one-man dictator of Yugoslavia...
...He its regular listener to radio broadcasts...
...1'cglcr hm tlin-roverrd that the icon/ "Dago" really itn't instilling at all...
...He writes that the Ohio winters are too cold, and soon he will be settling close to the sea irt comfortable California...
...There But for the Grace of God 1 MUST now let you into a secret which will explain what must seem my rather abnormal interest in Charlie's opinion of strikes and strikers...
...a a a • Admiral "Bull" Halsey has already made cultural history with his off-the-record rcninrk to newspapermen that if he met a pregnant Japanese woman, he would kick her in the belly...
...You see why 1 consider his ttatenient important...
...AH hia life he has '•lived prosperously on his large farm...
...The rules committee never permits amendments to motions, or minority reports, • » a • Dorothy Kaufman, pretty Commie stooge, is now secretary of the I'AC of the New York CIO Council...
...Now comes a report, carried by correspondents ami returning officers, that Tokyo Kose was really engaged in American counter espionage, that her broadcasts to American drops actually contained concealed information...
...There is no reason to believe that I would have been different from this kindly, prosperous man who sends me these long letters written with pencil on yellow paper...
...Nobody stressed the fact that the men have been underpaid for years...
...Then more miles and, more important, all sorts of experiences cut us off from each other...
...a- a * hVt $r»ry Thof ft Never Told Now.one of the strikes which roused twrrer tn Charlie's rural mind was that •f'tie New York elevator operators...
...In resigning from the post of Editorial Adviser to that famous anti-Catholic journal, The Protettant, the Reverend Karl Chworowsky, of the Flalbush Unitarian Church, let it be known that not in all the years during which his name appeared upon the masthead had he been railed upon to advise...
...The state (TO board is "rigged," with the UAW getting only 4 of the 21 board members although il has half the state membership...
...In this case there was no disturbance which could serve as a basis of a story Involving the police and the courts...
...His salary is ? 1!> a week gal, since hia aubeistence is one of the ?arouisilies of his-position, he is alile to ni...
...Unfavorably listed as hate-arousing productions ("Hetzfilms") were Watrh on the Khinr, The Moon In Pawi', and Five Graves to Cairo...
...Wfcsr, 1 tell yen somethiajg about the .jiher of these »forde you will begin to ?? «hy they made »?ch an impression on me...
...Glinteiikamp, Henrietta lluckmaster, William M. Sweets, Walter Pach, Leo Hiibeiman, Helen Tamiris, Krank Papp, Doris Humphrey, Man Hlitzstein, Lucky Roberts, Bob Russell, Robert L. Shayon, Roy LockwooiJ, Mrs...
...a a a • Yugoslavian News: A new primer for children hss been published In Belgrade...
...If my friend Charlie or »V ***** "wmal human being knew ?W the families of these under...
...When the pillow was liftrd, thrse eyes nearly popped...
...For some years now It has been manager of a dairy farm ami sting of 475 acres and supporting ? mi Ik ? ow...
...WOn * U"'0" agreement *Meh gave them a minimum of $25...
...His family stuck to the land...
...The newspapers which he bis read have been quite as good as Otase which furnish knowledge of cui-tpn...
...It is an exciting experience...
...If a man's pay is $30, he fata about $26 to spend...
...He and hit •piniom ore typical of u large part of the...
...intelligence is above the aveiage...
...As a result of great kui...
...The Tokyo Kose affair gets more mid mole complicated...
...We were supposed to horrified by the fact that business firms were incommoded to the tune of $40,000,000...
...But he has alt stopped earning...
...The" Commissar brought, with him a Russian chambermaid, who made up Molotov's bed under the critical eyes of the regular Chequers maid...
...From the start the main stream of public information ha* been on the other side...
...Hie name is Charlie, and he is a farmer out in Ohio...
...But then, too, I should almost certainly think that "these strikes are something terrible...
...events to most of our citizen...
...The police were on the alert but attended strictly to their lawful duties...
...Raising wheat and eorn Is an unquestionable good...
...Under the pillow U.v "a long, fal pi st al...
...A revolution is brewing in the Wis cousin CIO council which has just taken over the I'AC setup and is trying lo ram a top-rontrol policy down the throats of the CIO members in other parts of the state...
...Hut the harm they do is not lessened by that fact, * a * • Protests against Protestant...
...My family carried me away to a little town...
...Joint is that the workingman's story has never been put across to the millions of citizens who have no opportunity to see the thing for themselves...
...That country Is now ran by a triumvirate Tito, Kardelg, the Slovene ( ommuiu.l leader, and Kankoriteh, head of the o/.N \ or secret police...
...Now a few letter* have gen«'back and forth...
...me years ago most of these elector operators were working for $15 * 12· a week...
...bjo«( of it, Charlie, you see, is a successful farmer...
...It was announced at (he meeting that Upton Clo.se, radio commentator, was organizing another Nationalist I'arly...
...I, too, might have "all the money that I am likely to went to spend...
...At 'he present moment many of them *·* 'or weekly wages running from 7* to $4...
...At first only 30 miles divided us...
...There would be one advantage...
...My friend Charlie, born the same year as I, lived about a mil* down the mad...
...Meyer Adelmnn ami Emil Costello are kingpins in the state hierarchy...
...a • Hitler, Goebbels and gang were rabidly interested in Hollywood dims, kept meticulous tiles on Hitler's Chancellery stationary...
...He ami I are exactly the same age...
...THIS is a bedtime story—with a dif-ference^reported try Time...
...Adolph Dehn, Rockwell Kent, Count Hasie, Max Webber, Kenneth Spencer, Jerome Robhlns, Teddy Wilson, Irving Caesar, Doris Dalton, Leon Janiley Holiday, Richard Huey, Joan Alexander, Moses Soyer, Raphael Soyer, Theron liambeigi'i, Samson Rahpaelson, Alfred Kreyenborg, Fredie...
...All his life has bty) spent within a few miles of Cleve-land, Ohio...
...a * • Add to Ihr list of fellow travelers these artists, writers, actors, who support Communist Ben Davis for re-election to the New York City Council: Paul Robeson, Margaret Webster, Jose Ferrer, Lena Home, Olin Downes, Hazel Scott, Leonard Bernstein, Joan Tetzel, Howard Kast, Hilda Simms, Frederick O'Neal, Edward Chodorov, Betty Com-don, Adolph Green, Betty Garrett, Howard Hay, Muriel Draper, Fritz Mahlor, Howard da Silva, Mildred Biley, Irene Wicker, Arthur Tracy, Sono Osato, Paul Laurence, Anton Dolin, Canada lee...
...It is alleged Unit hIih received $2,000 for this...
...W cut brook I'rplcr, vow calumniating for Hearst, ??» conic In the de feme of racist Senator ilillio...
...So I have enjoyed picturing to myself what my life would hare been if I had remained in the fields among which I was born...
...brought forth the plan for a 30 percent increase drive: "Give them something to light for and they'll respond...
...The favorite moniker for Tito in Serbia la Tiller...
...But we have a lot of lost ground to make up...
...It is impossible to travel anywhere in Yago-slsvls without a permit—even from one village to another...
...The United Auto Workers Hoard waa in the doldrums, during the first three days of the recent Flint meeting, wandering alone and afraid in a world of wildcat strikes and mass layoffs...
...There is not we of then) who has anywhere near all the money he is likely to want to spend, "d I never heard of one who escaped hxxa the storms of our winters to the Nessant san of California...
...A principal apeaker was Colonel Eugene Nelson Sanctuary, -.edition indictee...
...In new textbooks in Tito's realm history begins with 1918...
...I know that some of the up-and-coming unions are putting on radio programs and issuing pamphlets and leaflets to remedy this defect in their technique...
...The Joe Louis-Max Srhmel-ing championship fight pictures were banned...
...President It...
...P. M?ns.-II, Donna Keath, J. Rosamond Johnson, Helen Hall, Will (leer, Rolierl Hastings Nichols, Kdward Lasker, Milton Avery, Hill Cropper, Richard O. Boyer...
...Washington, Lang ston Hughes, Alice Hughes, Crockett Johnson, Minerva Pious, Minna Harkavy, .lames Sloan, Jerry Wayne, Arthur Pollack, Dean Dixon, Joe Hush, Goddard Leibeison, II...
...Members of the I'AC board are to be appointed by regional directors and the state CIO-PAC to get 75 cents of every dollar raised locally...
...Some of these people have no sympathy with Communism, but are just poor benighted political suckers...
...But right ?w in Mew York there arc millions of **oo» who have no idea what is hack I 'k» strike and who go about making just like the one which I quoted ^ my friend in rural Ohio...
...What my life would have been had I become a usefu steady farmer is no longer left to my imagination...
...Her first job for the comrats was in the Workers Alliance hack in 1937 in Wl'A days...
...I never heard a word from him or he from me until about a month ago...
...A few years ago he ?old It, and he wrote to me once, "I have about all the money I will ever want to spend...
Vol. 28 • October 1945 • No. 40
