ALERT!
ALERT! Dedicated to an expose of all totalitanian enemies of democracy Dinner With Vito THE announcement had called for starting at seven. But it was oitfht . o'clock before the dinner...
...His has bean the voice In Congress of that viewpoint...
...How often wa parsons, especially we so-called 'liberal' parsons, are played for suckers...
...Dress optional...
...I hate Franco bitterly and always will...
...1 owa nothing except this suit and another one, both three years old...
...in his day they called then the mob," etc., etc...
...Mike, of course, has one fear and one inevitable subject...
...So long as he stays on this path we will back him," concluded Mike...
...in my day they called them hoodlums and gangsters...
...By this time, all those present hsd finished tha turkey ordered by the committee for this Friday night (meat at a New York political dinner...
...My friend with the fighting heart" from Senator Claude Pepper, and "I was delighted at his victory" from Henry Wallace...
...Its president, Jcseph Curran, after years of showing up at such affairs, was absent...
...Powell, i.e., Haxel Scott, and, of course, the great man himself, Vito Marcantonio...
...He could look back on the lime when he was a member of the «xei-utive committee of the New York County Committee of the ALP, in whose mime the dinner was given...
...Only a few tables were empty...
...And if Arnold Ames, cii 11> nt 1> \mrtrr suspension from the ItXiWU, mav lie said to represent that union, it, too, was represented...
...Si Garson, Komsomol crown to party functionary...
...In Brooklyn, the Reverend Karl M. Chworowsky of Flstbush Unitarian Church stated that he is "heartily tired of unwittingly playing bellhop for Joe Stalin...
...Powell, who presented, him with a rather long scroll...
...Michael Quill (American Peace Mobilization etc...
...Johannes steel was next...
...Strangely, Marcantonio was anti-climactic...
...Connolly was ssylng, "Vito Marcantonio la not only ons Congressman, ha has given leadership to others...
...Perhaps he was a bit enhappy...
...Also, Mrs...
...This meeting was to be no exception and got what every other Quill audience gets: attacks on red-baiters...
...Vito told the people to buy Johannes' new clip-sheet...
...There were also Samuel N«ul/erger, attorney for various Commy unions, and Hyman Blumberg of the State American Labor Party...
...I'm writing today to repudiate the merger...
...He gave a sort of left-over political campaign speech...
...Tha collection appeal was by Attorney Neuberger...
...his name will go down in history with Abraham Lincoln and F. D. Roosevelt," etc Then came Brother Blumberg, then Brother Powell...
...Maybe...
...As far as I am concerned," said Chworowsky, "both Fascism and Communism belong to the IPPF, l.e., the Internatio-al Political Polecat Family...
...Ham matt, "head of the Civil Rights Congress who has bstn head of so many causes...
...Perhaps, however, Brodsky was really looking after the interests of the many blanches of the International Workers Order represented...
...CALIFORNIA SINARCHISTS INCORPORATE • The Union Nacional Sinarquista, an organisation, of Mexicans and persons of Mexican descent, has recently filed incorporation papers in California ss s fraternal group The Sinarehlst movement in this country, active in the Southwest, is closely related to the Union Nacional Sinarquista of Mexico, which was original)* founded there aa the Centro Anti-Communista in 1936 by a German engineer named Sehreiter and two native lawyers, Zeremona and Urquixa...
...The top crowd of the American Communications Workers was there, as was the secretary of the National Maritime Union, Ferdinand Smith...
...Deepest respect" from Senator Glenn Taylor...
...He, was Introduced by Mr...
...Those who do not like peace don't Ilka him...
...By now it was getting late, but that didn't shorten Albert Deutsch...
...Said Miss Maxwell: "I hadn't the slightest idea I was even a sponsor...
...The Amalgamated Clothing Workers was there, too, with its counsel, John Abt, fitting with a few unhappy-looking pet runs...
...Since the merger was effected, fourteen sponsors have withdrawn...
...Connolly Introduced the assembled bigwigs...
...Judges Capazolli and McNally, Assemblymen Cioffi and Kaplan, and others...
...It was as though he thought the people of his own district were present and he had to tell them "I am proud to be a product of the tenements of east Harlem...
...Connolly, "probably not a union that is not represented here tonight...
...On the dais there sat such distinguished fellow-travelers as Pashiel) Hammelt (Civil Rights ^ongress, etc...
...I resent the attacks on the good people of my district...
...There is one way to light red-baiters and that is to stand up and be counted and tell them to go to hell...
...He la destined to have even greater leadership in the years to come...
...Religious and military In character, and dedicated to a corporative state, the Mexican Sinarehist movement requires unquestioning obedience to the supreme authority of Its Jefe (chief) who, it says, "is imposed by God...
...Much peering...
...But it was oitfht . o'clock before the dinner honoring Congressman Vito Marcantonio got going...
...1 fought an honest fight in my campaign...
...There was Klixabeth Gurley Flynn, ex-syndicalist turned politician...
...by organizations which under the guise of some humanitarian and libertarian cause seek to further their own sinister purposes...
...Louis Post-Dispatch...
...Dorothy Parker (Spanish, etc...
...10.00...
...I was elected, by the mine masses who elected Lincoln...
...After this came singing, naturally furnished by Cafe Society and its Barney Josephson...
...The Democratic politicians didn't walk out -when the one-time Nasi fund-raiser said that "traditionally both Republican and Democratic parties have been controlled by tha same people at the top...
...This followed his withdrawal from the Action Committee to Free Spain following the merger with the Win the Peace Committee...
...Connolly now had telegrams...
...MARCANTONIO Royally Feted for Nit Oemecrafic' Activities Heard on the Front "WIN-THE-PEACE" FRONT LOSES SUPPORT • Norman Corwin, radio playwright, and Elsa Maxwell, party giver and columnist, stated that they had been listed without their knowledge as sponsors of the new merger of the Action Committee to Free Spain and the National Committee to Win the Peace, a party-line front organisation...
...He is that outfit's lii.t treasurer and current eoaneel...
...He was proud that his union, the New York Newspaper Guild, had backed Vito...
...But I don't believe he is a threat to world peace, and I don't want to see anything else in his place that would be worse...
...And, •f coarse, there were the party's two Councilman, Ben Davis and Peter Cacrhloae...
...The merger," said Corwin, "does not hsve my name...
...Almost f4,000 came in...
...More praise for Vito, but also tha added comment, "my being hare haa no political significance...
...T*e Prize Wort Stoppage * St...
...Irving Potash, top party man in Ben Gold's lur Workers Union, snd, of course, their lawyer, Jos: Brodsky...
...XhEN, at eleven-thirty, Vito himself...
...I" June, 1044, the Mexican Government suppressed tha organisation for having sue<r* Call to the Mexican army to strike...
...I don't like Communism i>ecause it's totalitarianism...
...There must have 1/cen a thousand altogether, right, center and left, but the greatest of these was left...
...It assumed its present name the following year...
...Donald Ogdcn Stewart (League of American Writers, etc...
...Certainly not a Communist one...
...He had <juietly dropped out when it became kmv.il that he wasn't a citixen...
...Then the "chairman of I'AC in New York, Mike Quill...
...Anyway, at a quarter to twelve the speech waa over and with it the testimonial dinner listed on the invitation as "A Tribute to his Consistent and Staunch Devotion to the Advancement of Social, Economic and Democratic Bights...
...and were ready for Mr...
...There was, Kdded Mr...
...Thia haa now become true again...
...Albert Deutsch (International [>al>«r Defense, PM, etc...
...Then, dear Dorothy Parker with the line "those who are against him (Vito) ars against progress...
...It all came back later...
...Next Congressman Arthur H. Klein, against whom Steel had run for Congress...
...Honor to our fighting Congressman" from Paul Robeson...
...Among the causes seemed to have been that of the Committee to Assist John Barleycorn, and it took a good deal of rambling before the Thin Man, with a gray thatch, could remember he was supposed to say something nice about Vito before he sat down, lie did manage to get in one sharp bite...
...Smith left early...
...The praise he heaped on Vito sounded as though he was looking in a mirror...
...We know, he has been for eloser friendship with the Soviet Union...
...This was a reference to • the newly-formed Americans for Democratic Action, ADA, which he smirkingly called "cousin Adolfc" Then he added that "I think Henry Wallace thought of that first...
...By that time all the comrades were mingled with the few honest unionists and Tammany politicians and members of Vito's clubs in their lenilollar-a-plate seats...
...First of all, I'm backing the United Nations...
...Saul Mills, Myron T. Sulsberger, Arthur Schutxcr, State ALP...
...Members wesr green shirts and armbands, march in military formation, and salute by plating the left arm -across the chest...
...Paul Rose (Bronx American Labor Party), A. Clayton Powell (People's Voice), and Eugene Connolly (everything), the chairman...
...It got five hundred each from Hammstt and Parker, one hundred from old APM chief Fred V. Field, and fifty dollars from "our good friend Lev Gleason" (Rtadsrt Scope...
...Just before he finished he added something about Labor's Number One Congressman...
...Johannes Steel (Johannes Steel, etc...
...Just • miiigh to make pointless Connolly's opening remarks about the "hundreds we could not seat here tonight...
...Hut most notable were the members •f the Communist Party...
...Maybe someone should tell the Congressman that the people of his district don't pay ten dollars a plate for dinners...
Vol. 30 • January 1947 • No. 3
