Secret Meetings Set Stage For Even More Intervention Moves
Secret Meetings Set Stage For Even More Intervention Moves A SERIES of closely guarded conferences attended by high administration officials appeared this week to be setting the stage for new and...
...A consequent FBI investigation revealed that more than haff of the land had changed hands at least once since the site location leaked out and that the land prices had skyrocketed to many times its value...
...Hiram Johnson, Califor- \ nia, author of the famed John- f son Act which forbids private lending to defaulted nations like Great Britain, denounced the undercover activity in Washington, exclaiming that barring a miracle, "there is no doubt the United States will go to war...
...Labor knows that if workers are to remain free men, and keep their choices, democracy —as a living faith, as a living reality—must be equipped to meet the threat of totalitarianism, within and without...
...The thesis that American peacetime aid to England would be more effective than open belligerence is now a "dead and dynamited fish," Murrow said, adding that such a belief was held only during the political campaign...
...If I'd had any sense I'd have known that's a habit in Philadelphia...
...Considerable attention was focused last week on Britain's plea for help in solving her shipping problem which has become increasingly serious in the face of Nazi U-boat and air attacks on merchant shipping...
...I Sen...
...We build largely for this limited group because the home-building industry has followed traditional practices and failed to keei up with progressive methods thai have enabled other industries tc extend their market to low-income groups...
...Rep...
...The FHA cancelled the project, speculators are left with the land, and the federal government has refused to cooperate with Camden until an entirely new local housing commission has been established...
...haps the most appalling offenders, i an investigation last week revealed...
...In Philadelphia, for instance, about 1,000 homes are need to i house workers in defense inelus-tries...
...He added that he did not "see how this nation can bear the tremendous burdens of carrying on a great war which, after all, is just as much to the benefit of America as for our own empire...
...And William R. Murrow, dean of the Columbia Broadcasting System staff in Europe, reported last week that Britain wants the United States to throw away its cloak of neutrality and declare war on the Axis powers...
...The Chinese credits included $50,000,000 in a commodity loan from the Export-Import Bank and participation up to $50,000,000 by the American Stabilization Fund in supporting the currency of China...
...Labor Pledges Top Production ForRearmament Unanimous adoption of a resolution pledging labor's whole-hearted cooperation in defense production was voted this week by the Labor Policy Advisory Committee, which is composed of 6 representatives of the Big Three of labor—AFL, CIO, and the Railroad Brotherhoods...
...The federal government asked the city to provide them, but Philadelphia's city administration wasn't interested...
...Significantly, the report points out that construction costs are highest in some cities where building trade wage rates are lowest, and where labor costs are highest...
...Morals of young men being called into military service are being debauched, Gen...
...Emerging from one of the more extended pow-wows, Jesse Jones, commerce secretary and federal loan administrator, tossed off the opinion that Great ! Britain was a "good risk" finan- \ daily and that ordinarily he fav- { ored lending money to a good I risk "when they need it for a | proper purpose...
...When things are propitious, from their standpoint, they will take the offense...
...On the basis of Heil's publicly expressed decisions at a series of budget hearings, the 1941-1943 executive budget will hit the $75,-000,000 mark—an amount nearly $4,000,000 in excess of the present budget, which was itself a record-breaker...
...Labor has been—and is—cooperating whole-heartedly throughout the entire defense effort...
...Record Breaking Budget For State Forecast Again Despite brand new promises of economy in the last campaign, Gov...
...Labor knows that it is the first to be trampled under the march of dictatorship...
...We are getting nearer and nearer every day...
...Those in command of us," he said, "are perfectly mad to get into the game...
...The report reveals that more than 9,000,000 American families with incomes below $1,500 neec new liQjjses, and that if we under took to build them, we would cure the depression to a "surprising ex tent" by "getting idle men back t< work" and "finding an outlet foi idle investment funds...
...I Meanwhile, the government announced it was making ?100,000j000 available to the Chiang-Kai-Chek government in China, and thereby established a precedent which will doubtless be invoked to support similar credits for Great Britain...
...Further e v i dence of manipu lation and profiteering were uncovered last weeh by Gen...
...out, "is that under the present set up the housing industry is gearec to provide homes primarily foi families earning $2,000 or more per year...
...Heil will recommend a record-breaking budget to the Wisconsin legislature next month, capitol reports revealed...
...Keep Cool Jackson Warns Against Catling Every Fire Sabotage A warning to the public agains being too quick in assuming tha every industrial fire or explosioi was the work of sabotjurs wai sounded last week by Robert H Jackson, attorney general of th< United States...
...Morris Llewellyn Cooke, noted management engineer and consultant to the l>efense Commission, contended after an intensive survey last week that the big corporations, which have been loading up with orders, "could not begin to satisfy the demand even on 24-hour operation...
...Industry is engaged in a grea and sudden speedup which result...
...Human nature being what it is, establishments for selling liqor are becoming increasingly active in the communities adjacent to the camps," Gen...
...The request was made hy his own board of regents composed in part of millionaire industrialists and power magnates...
...Draft Chief Denies Plan To Quit Soon Clarence A. Dykstra, president of the University of Wisconsin and administrator of national selective service, this week denied published reports that he hoped to leave his federal post "about Christmas or a week or so afterward...
...Marshall said, "and in some communities there has been an influx of persons of questionable reputation...
...So now John M. Carinody, federal_works administrator, has served notice that the houses for defense workers won't be constructed in Philadelphia at all...
...Vultures Prey On America's Defense Needs LAND speculators, politicians, liquor venders, people of ques-t tionable reputation — these are , some of the people who are trying to cash in on the national defense , .program...
...Giants Squeeze Small Plants, Stall Defense FRENZIED grabbing of all defense contracts by the giants of industry is not only depriving smaller plants of their share of defense production, but is seriously stalling the entire rearmament program, it was revealed in Washington this week...
...Marshall also declared...
...When I learned that politics was being played," Carmody said, "I recommended that the money ' be taken away from Philadelphia...
...Land owners and sharks are per...
...When the federal housing administration advanced $1,750,000 to Camden, local politicians, according to housing officials, "tipped off" insiders on the site of the construction...
...Secret Meetings Set Stage For Even More Intervention Moves A SERIES of closely guarded conferences attended by high administration officials appeared this week to be setting the stage for new and far more drastic interventionist moves which are still being characterized as "steps short of war...
...Moreover, many of the raw materials of the building industrj are concentrated in a few hands, with a controlled and inflexible pricing system...
...The situation must be brought under control before It grows more serious...
...Labor recognizes fully that if the democratic way of life is to be preserved, and enlarged, our country must prepare itself for total defense—morally and materially...
...I in accidents," Jackson pointed out "There have been many occur rences in which it will be difficul to determine whether they were sabotage or accidental...
...Thus, some of the biggest corporations of them all have been grabbing contracts they can't meet for several years in order to create a backlog of orders for themselves and prevent the smaller factories from breaking into the defense program...
...The draft chief said his tenure is "indefinite but certainly will last for months...
...Heil curtly rejected the plea of the state teachers' colleges for an budget increase of $754,467...
...Ae a result, he said: officers and trainees ' wishing to establish their families near them find it impossible to do so...
...B. J. Gehrmann, Wisconsin Progressive, complained vigorously this week over the whole situation, pointing out that Congress recognized the needs of small industry by making it possible for the government to advance money to them "the same as the large companies...
...Next day Hen- \ ry Morgenthau, Jr., secretary of | the treasury, chimed in with a | "me too...
...Cooke strongly recommended the "farming out" of contracts to the thousands of small plants which have the capacity and need the work...
...Ian Campbell Hannah, Conservative member of the British parliament, urged in a formal appeal to the United States "to help patrol trade routes of the Atlantic with her own navy...
...This step would not only speed defense preparations, he said, but would go a long way toward rehabilitating "ghost towns" which have been plagued for years by idle plants and idle men...
...Another serious attempt to hamstring the federal government has just been disclosed in Camden, N. J., where "get-rich-quick" land manipulation has all but wrecked a huge slum-clearance project...
...j While expenditures and production lag far behind, schedule, more than 7,5001 small factories, equipped with machinery and skilled labor, I are denied participation in the program primarily because the big boys don't want them built up during the emergency to remain as potential competitors later on...
...I was so naive that I didn't know ; for a long time that we were in that kind of crooked game...
...When the federal government then decided to build the homes, it ran into a wave of land speculation in which lo-c a 1 politicians were involved...
...Chief difficulty, the report point...
...In this time of world'crisis," the resolution declared, "American labor is awake to the crucial need for a strong defense program...
...George C Marshall, a r m > chief of staff, whe said local rentals near training camps had doubled and in some cases tripled...
...Despite recent explosions anc fires in powder plants and shipbuilding yards, the Justice Depart ment has uncovered no evidence of concerted or organized sabotage 9 Million Homes Needed By Low Income Families ASHARP reminder that rearmament is not the nation's onlj need "and not the nation's only wa> of putting men to work is contained in a detailed housing report re cently filed with 3en...
...In a comic-opera session with Frank C. Klode, director of the Republican-created welfare department, Heil declined to commit himself on the agency's $29,011,-307 budget...
...He is authorizing construction of them in convenient outlying sections of the city(> which means that Philadelphia business men are going to lose profitable trade...
...Joseph C O'Mahoney's Monopoly Investigat ing Committee...
...Heil went into a complete reverse on the University of Wisconsin last week when he agreed to its request for a $2,031,958 increase...
Vol. 4 • October 1940 • No. 50
