FOOTNOTE ON FLOODS
Footnote On Floods THIS SPRINGTIME brought the usual reports of floods on the rampage in the Midwest. More than a dozen dead, thousands homeless, and many million dollars of property damage in...
...Totalitarian Intolerance THE growing intolerance of our "totalitarian Tories" is matched only by the mounting bigotry of our "totalitarian liberals...
...If to believe this is isolationist, then not only I, but I suspect the majority of Americans, are 'isolationists.' "Even if I had been 'isolationist,' that is no crime...
...It would be hard indeed to conceive of anything to make Dr...
...There is no mystery in the phenomenon...
...The valley is secure...
...In Colorado, it requires from 79,000 to 110,000...
...Goebbels' job of strengthening German morale any easier, and the hard-pressed propaganda minister is making the most of these gifts from the American hate cult...
...Fortunately, the officials of the University have a better grasp of the American principles of freedom and tolerance than does the clique which bosses the* CIO in Minneapolis, and Thomas not only talked, but talked to a much larger crowd than might have attended without the splash of publicity...
...The miracle has been achieved simply by the series of TVA dams, holding back the rain-swollen streams, and transforming potential ruin into kilowatt hours of electrical power...
...A citizen must pay for the privilege of voting...
...How The Poll Tax Works (From LABOR, organ of the Railroad Brotherhoods...
...It is time," shrieked these American apostles of the Nazi racial creeds, "to teach Germany and the German people the only lesson they apply to others, the only lesson they understand: Force...
...In practice, it bars an army of white men, too...
...More than a dozen dead, thousands homeless, and many million dollars of property damage in Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma...
...Something's wrong," you say...
...In a letter to the suppression-demanding CIO Council, Thomas made several noteworthy comments which we believe are worth passing on in these days when certain liberals are trying to match the traditional intolerance of reaction: "Your organization is in error concerning my views, being misled, perhaps, by the sort of misinformation diligently spread by the Communist Daily Worker of New York...
...In Georgia, on an average, 6,187 voters elect a Congressman...
...I enclose the official statement of the Post War World Council, of which I am chairman...
...When they do, as in the case of the National Opinion Research Center poll, they demonstrate the collective wisdom that has made democracy an indestructible way of life...
...The CIO Council of Minneapolis, said to be dominated by Communist elements, promptly demanded that Thomas be denied the opportunity to speak, ostensibly because he was an "isolationist" —whatever that is...
...Whatever the nature of my views, you will see that they are not and have not been 'isolationist,' unless, indeed, you give a peculiar and incorrect meaning to the term...
...Supporters of the system will tell you that it is designed to bar the black man from the ballot box...
...It was considered a "light vote...
...There was no overflow, no destruction in the vast area drained by the Tennessee River and its tributaries, which periodically until a decade ago was swept by seething waters...
...It is quite true that I do not wish my sons or my grandsons to fight to restore or maintain the French, Dutch, and British empires of the Far East, or to invade Europe merely to enable Moscow and London to Balkanize it...
...and it is contrary to the best American tradition and certainly to the best tradition and best interest of labor for your body to become a censor of free speech...
...I doubt if any man in America has done more to defend freedom of speech and organization for workers than I, often at some risk to myself...
...Unfortunately, the overwhelming majority of the American people, those who are paying in blood, cash, and tears for this war, those who have learned the hard way to know and understand the real causes of war, do not have the means of making their voices heard above the exhortations of the hate mongers...
...IN A SPECIAL ELECTION recently held in the First Colorado Congressional District, which is limited to the city of Denver, 79,854 voters went to the polls...
...On the other hand, in Georgia in 1942, in a general election, only 61,875 voters went to the polls, and that comparatively small army of voters selected 10 members of the National House of Representatives...
...A Gift For Goebbels IF EVER there were a dramatic demonstration of how alien the blood lust of the New York fang and claw set is to the peace aspirations of the American people, it was provided in the newspapers recently...
...Recently, the University of Minnesota scheduled a forum on foreign policy and invited a University of Chicago professor, a Canadian editor, and Norman Thomas, leader of the Socialist Party in America, to share the platform...
...In November, in that same district, the number will probably be increased to 110,000...
...Georgia is one of the "poll tax states...
...They should get their feet wet in Kansas...
...You will see that the statement expressly calls for functional cooperation between nations and a world federation...
...Sanctimoniously calling itself the "Society for the Prevention of World War III, Inc.," this new hate cult is attempting to whip up sentiment against a group of anti-Nazi German refugees in this country who want to form a council of democratic Germans to help in the restoration of a free Germany after the Nazi barbarians have been smashed...
...It will not help labor to try to deny it to those with whom a few of its leaders may not agree...
...I am the principal author of that statement which was approved by our representative nation-wide board which contains loyal and prominent members of the CIO...
...TVA itself, unhappily, is still subject to floods—floods of Congressional oratory by pettifoggers who still see TVA as a sort of super-boondoggle...
...But that great army of American citizens must be content to be represented by just one member in the National House of Representatives...
...Quite right...
...At the same time that the National Opinion Research Center was announcing the results of a nationwide poll showing that 63 per cent of the American people are opposed to dismemberment of Germany after the war, a new revenge organization, headed by the mystery story writer and Germanphobe, Rex Stout, was buying large hunks of space in the New York papers to announce its war-breeding program for the destruction of Germany and its people...
...It's largely the iniquitous poll tax...
Vol. 8 • May 1944 • No. 20
