The Home Front
BOHN, WILLIAM E.
The Home Front By WILLIAM E. BOHN You Can Do More Than Talk I FEEL the Christmas feeling sneaking up on me. With it comes the notion of doing you s good turn. Robert 1a>uis Stephenson once...
...They are the International Rescue and Relief Committee and the Solidarity Committee...
...They write back—and you can write to them...
...Many of them are sick...
...It took time and work to gather the lists of names and make the arrangements for American sponsors to get the parcela started on their way...
...There are three ways you can help —aa your conscience dictates...
...The news flashed round the office that the first reply had been received from the other side, from a man In Franca who had received a box packed by a man in Brooklyn...
...These folks are of every kind and from every section of this country...
...Unless there is full employment in America, veterans as well as workers will suffer...
...until the end of the Naxi occupation and of the Fascist regime) and ceased to exist after this date will be resumed in the near future under the name of 'Labor Disciplinary Courts.' In view of the fact that all employes of the Bulgarian Railways are vrnder military orders any offense of importance will be tried and punished by military courts...
...if you like you ran put in a message...
...The man is named Otto Weinrieh, and his note came to W. T. Rose in the big borough across the East River...
...Then you make up a box...
...And the father has a record...
...These corporations will be established by the Full Production Finance Authority in those fields where private enterprise fails to make the investments which are needed to provide full employment and full production...
...I have seen all the horror pictures of corpses and graves, bat this kid who has never teen an orange gets under my skin...
...There were but a few words, but those of ua there in the office didn't talk very grfbly for a space after we had read it...
...Men and women who have risked everything in the fight against tyranny are stuck there now in misery...
...And so it goes...
...Some of them are famous...
...Out in Oregon the neighbors happened to see a woman packing a box, and soon the folks all around the block were doing it...
...Representatives of national labor groups and the National Conference of Union Legionnnaires ran up against a stone wall time and again when they sought definite action on such issues as full employment, unemployment compensation, superseniority and veterans' job rights...
...In several instances top men in the Legion's hierarchy refused to hear the proposals of union representatives even though the latter were Legion members...
...Most of them—but far from all — are in France...
...If yeu have a- bundle ef clothing, send it te the International Rescue and Relief Committee*, 130 Orchard Street, New York 2. If you want to make a financial contribution, send your check te The New Lewder and we will see that it is spent where it will do the most good (see the appeal on page It), And if you know of anti-Fascists in Europe who need aid, let us have their names and addresses...
...Now the Solidarity Committee* has long lists of these anti-Nazis...
...John Haynes Holmes, Maynard Krueger, Rev...
...There are ex-members of the French Parliament and of the German Reichstag...
...At any rate, when the parcel with the welcome food arrives, the people over there know who sent it...
...It has exact names and addresses, descriptions of individuals, age, sex, state of health, statement about anti-Nazi activities which led to present predicament...
...Among the sponsors of the bill are A. Philip Randolph, Martin Gerber, Percy Llewellyn, E. Benedict, Rev...
...The sponsors approve the Murray Full Employment bill's recognition that providing jobs it a legitimate concern of government and its provision for an annual job budget, but feel that positive action to implement this bill is needed...
...Both AFL President Green and CIO President Murray emphasized the unity of interest between returning servicemen and organised labor and condemned attempts to alienate the two...
...If j0U want to send a package to a particular individual or family, the Solidarity Committee, SOS Fourth Avenue, New York City, will give you all the details...
...Every kind of church, Quakers, Methodists, Congre-gationalists, Episcopalians, Community churches...
...The message went: "It it so impressive to read that there is anywhere anyone who is thinking about the problems of this continent, and who is really willing to help the anti-Fascists...
...I wonder how he would have felt were he alive now and, especially, if he pulled his chair to one of our heaped-up American tables — with pictures of starving children in all the papers...
...Many more received wounds in the underground resistance movement which have never been properly taken care of...
...Point number «¦¦»¦ is that the most neglected people, over there in Europe are the very ones who deserve well of us...
...The Full Production Authority bill guarantees the rights of collective bargaining, freedom from racial and other discrimination in employment and a proper level of minimum wages in the non-profit corporations it establishes...
...You don't just send money or food or clothes out into the void...
...The YMCA members are busy about it...
...LPA...
...A soldier Will recall the poor kid* ke saw in Italy and will ask for the address of someone in that country...
...No elaborate price-setting machinery will be required and many of the bureaucratic wartime controls will be eliminated if the bill is passed...
...They know that they have friends over here in rich America...
...Hundreds of thousand's of them are far from their homes...
...There are two organizations which have made it easy for you to do your part toward feeding the people who most need to be fed...
...The most impossible things to get hare are .fruit and fruit juices...
...Then his buddies will bear about it and they will want to be counted in...
...The churches, as you would guess, are in the first row...
...The plan that is used by the Solidarity Committee has advantages over the UNRRA...
...One thing that started my blood running a little faster was a glance through the letters from men and women in this country who are taking the name* 'and sending the boxes...
...It makes all the difference in the world...
...I am convinced that the veterans themselves do not want anything like that...
...By dropping a card to the committee you can get the name of one of these fighters for democracy...
...I happened to be there at a dramatic moment...
...There is the 82-year old wife of the former editor of Sozial-istueke Mouatetkeft...
...Up in the Massachusetts General Hospital a group of conscientious objectors are taking care of 15 refugees...
...The point of all this is that 1 want to save you from this feeling of being a pig when you approach your Christmas dinner...
...And the lists are full of names of Spaniards who risked everything to fight against Franco...
...Many of them even now can't go home or don't want to go home or have no homes to go to...
...There are a lot of people who ara earning the right to a merry Christmas...
...The Full Production Authority bill would establish a Full Production Finance Authority U> put men to work by financing the establishment or expansion of cooperatives and non-profit public corporations...
...AMERICAN LEGION AND LABOR CHICAGO (LPA)— The American Legion, which has recently concluded its 27th annual convention here, proved that it is no more receptive to liberal ideas today than it was in the past...
...You row just what sort of people these are, what they have done in the great Struggle, and what they need...
...A lot of them are French, Spanish, Polish, Italian, German, Dutch, Belgian...
...Green, in his address, pointed out that, "In the long run, it would become a tragic mistake to place veterans in a unique class, separate and apart from their fellow cititens...
...This is partly because so many of the anti-Franco Spaniards are still banished to the France which cannot feed its own population...
...Caleb Smith, Mayor Jasper McLevy, Listen M. Oak, Mayor J. Henry Stump, John Rust, Aaron Levenstein, Willard Townsend, H. L. Mitchell, and Victor Reuther...
...They tell you just how to pack it ami address it...
...My son, Daniel, has never in his life seen an orange...
...He did more to fight the Naiia than anyone else except the soldiers who were actually at the front You should see some of the lists of persons who are still awaiting help...
...What the young men and women over there like specially to do is to secure help for fa Millies...
...Robert 1a>uis Stephenson once remarked that It is with a feeling of guilt that any good man draws in his chair to a good dinner...
...On the other hand, the genuine anti-Nazis have had— and are still having -ja devil of a time...
...James Myers, Israel Feinberg, Patrick Gorman, Sidney Hook, Dr...
...They were not specially jailed or robbed or harried about...
...RULGAR RAILROAD WORKERS TRIED RY MILITARY • After a conference with the top administrators of the Bulgarian state railways, the director general of the Bul-garitn Railways, Major General Vasil Markov, has announced that "the disciplinary courts which were in operation until September 9, 1944 (i.e...
...Committee to Back Full Employment Bill A FULL Production Authority bill to expand cooperatives and non-profit public corporations will soon be introduced in Congress under the sponsorship of the Committee for Full Employment, which has just been organized by a group of union and liberal leaders headed by Broadus Mitchell, noted economist and union research director...
...They are cooperating in doing a job that needs to be done and doing it in a way that is both humane and efficient...
...And wherever they are, they are hungry and no more than half clothed in the midst of a winter that denies people the wherewithal to feed stoves, or fireplaces, or furnaces...
...It gets them from the Socialist parties of the various countries, from trade unions, from refugee committees...
...The committee gives you the name and adress a man, or a woman, or a family...
...I looked over a lot of the descriptions of such displaced persons...
...Citizens of Germany or France or any other country who didn't have the nerve to stand up against the Nazis got along as well as anyone could in a land all torn up by war...
...They get far more than food and clothes...
...Over at the offices of the Solidarity Committee, at 303 Fourth Avenue, I found out a lot of things...
...The people that need help are of many nationalities...
Vol. 28 • December 1945 • No. 49
