ABOUT THE PROGRESSIVE
about The PROGRESSIVE ...and the people who make it THE Progressive's New Reader Campaign, now in its sixth week and still going full blast, has been a genuinely heartening experience for those of...
...More than a decade later, working closely with Chinese democratic forces at Shanghai, Howard dared to buck Nazi elements, and as a result of stern German pressure, he was fired as editor of China Press...
...Commenting on his deportation from Japan 23 years ago, Howard wrote recently : "It's just as well that I was deported...
...Mayer wrote us earlier from Seattle, "Everyone, literally everyone, in Seattle claims to be a subscriber to The Progressive...
...He was foreign correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor, and more recently served as deputy director for the Office of War Information for the Balkans...
...He wrote Men and Coal . . . LT...
...He grew up in Sparta, Wis...
...His liberal writings in Japan resulted in his expulsion from that country in 1922...
...Had I been there, I would probably have been murdered also—and not by accident...
...THIS month's profile is of HARRY PAXTON HOWARD, who has written frequently for The Progressive on Far Eastern affairs...
...Working under the auspices of Bomber Local 50, the UAW, of Willow Run, Reuther prepared a powerful statement on the urgent need of turning idle war plants to peacetime productive enterprises...
...Had I remained in Japan, I would probably have been in Tokyo during the earthquake the following year...
...During this period of confusion and martial law, the police took advantage of the occasion to murder a score of Japanese labor men and 'radicals'—including some of the finest men I have ever known...
...Reuther is merely continuing a course he launched before war broke out...
...C. S. SEELY, retired, is executive editor of Navy News and author of Russia and The Battle of Liberation . . . JAMES S. HAMILTON, a film expert, directs the National Board of Review, a citizens committee whose aim is better movies . . . JANE STAFFORD is the featured medical writer of Science Service, a non-profit agency...
...Thus, Howard was Hitler's first American victim—at a time when many American papers were saying pleasant things about Hitler & Co...
...OSWALD GARRISON VILLARD, the dean of America's liberal journalists, is nationally respected for his interpretation of domestic and foreign affairs . . . ERNEST L. MEYER, a former Wisconsin newspaperman, is on the foreign desk of the New York Daily News . . . WILLIAM B. HESSELTINE, professor of American history at the University of Wisconsin, is an authority on the Civil War...
...It tells you how to get your copy of the book by securing new subscriptions...
...Markham once edited a daily newspaper in Sofia—he is one of the few Americans who intimate knowledge of Bulgaria would make that possible...
...about The PROGRESSIVE ...and the people who make it THE Progressive's New Reader Campaign, now in its sixth week and still going full blast, has been a genuinely heartening experience for those of us on the firing line here at Madison...
...He has just left for England, where he is on a special educational assignment for the Army...
...The Reuther report is the first shot fired in that campaign...
...Subsequently personalized postcard reminders were sent out to a group of subscribers, and many of them acted promptly in response to this suggestion...
...The Editors of The Progressive are especially happy to have the article this week by Walter Reuther, vice president of the United Automobile Workers (CIO) and oipe of the nation's ablest and most forward-looking labor leaders...
...It isn't possible, as you can well understand, to give the books out for renewals—only for new subscriptions as we strive together to build The Progressive into an ever more useful force in the struggle for a genuinely progressive democracy...
...R. H. MARKHAM is one of the nation's foremost authorities on the Bal« kans, where he lived and worked for more than a quarter of a century...
...New subscriptions have poured in from every state in the nation, adding to the influence and strength of The Progressive in this critical period in American history...
...But the first victims of Japanese police and military brutality were Japanese...
...The statement, embodied in an attractive pamphlet, was released to the press, but with one or two distinguished exceptions, editors gave Reuther the silent, treatment...
...McALISTER COLEMAN, a reporter of serious subjects with a sense of humor, is hard at work on Martha's Vineyard on his book about the common man in American history...
...The Progressive telephoned Reuther at Detroit, with the result that he has prepared especially for readers of this magazine his own interpretative analysis of the plan...
...Still youthful-appearing at 51, Howard blossomed out with a bit of a beard and mustache recently in order to look more mature on the lecture platform...
...FRED RODELL, a professor at the Yale Law School specializing in tax and labor law, is well known for his crackling articles in Life, Harper's, American Mercury, and, of course, The Progressive...
...The entire campaign was set up as a cooperative venture, with subscribers sharing in the success by receiving free copies of one of 2 immensely important books...
...Crawford has written 2 books, The Pressure Boys, an expose of lobbying, and Report on North Africa...
...Bomber Local 50, for which the study was made, is now virtually "a phantom union," to borrow from Tom Stokes, the Washington columnist...
...She wrote My Lives in Russia...
...As it was, I never suffered any physical maltreatment myself...
...I opposed them when the American Government and American financiers were . giving them diplomatic and financial support...
...Just as the first victims of the Nazi murderers in the concentration camps and torture chambers were democratic Germans...
...Clair reviews here . . . VARIAN FRY is the new editor of Common Sense and executive director of the American Labor Conference on International Affairs...
...The drive for new subscribers began with the mailing of a red-and-blue folder to all our subscribers urging them to send in new subscriptions...
...One American boy was murdered -—probably by accident...
...But what happened to some of my Japanese friends was unspeakable...
...If you've misplaced your red-and-blue folder, write the Circulation Department for one TODAY...
...Its members have been scattered far and wide as a result of the closing of Willow Run, but its alert leadership has dipped into the union's fund of $50,000 in war bonds to finance a campaign for the peacetime utilization of Willow Run...
...KENNETH L. CRAWFORD, in the thick of news in Washington, writes of the peace as one who has seen the war at close range in North Africa and Europe...
...He wrote Woe Unto You, Lawyers...
...But when it happened to some of our previously sheltered folks, they suddenly discovered what a "bes-t i a 1, sub-human' race" the 'vicious apes' belonged to...
...COMDR...
...Howard, who was "prematurely anti-Fascist," has the unique distinction of having been expelled and punished by both the German Nazis and the Japanese Imperialists...
...While they practiced it only on liberty-loving Japanese, few Americans knew or cared...
...Crawford, now associate editor of Newsweek, is a former president of the American Newspaper Guild and has written for Common Sense, PM, and the New Republic...
...The Japanese police include men as vicious and brutal as any in the world...
...Now, 6 years afterward, Reuther is in the vanguard of the struggle for an intelligent reconversion program—one which will provide useful, self-respecting employment for war workers and returning veterans by utilizing the enormous plant capacity built during the war with the public's money...
...He has been much in demand as a lecturer on China and Japan, and has spoken often at the Institutes on International Affairs sponsored annually by a number of American universities...
...Then, while industry was pooh-poohing the need for conversion to war production, Reuther introduced a plan designed to speed conversion and arm America with the latest weapons...
...MILTON MAYER, of the University of Chicago's staff, didn't go to Hollywood for a screen test...
...Do you really have 400,000 subscribers here...
...He lectured there as part of his West Coast lecture tour...
...LOUIS CLAIR, a young French writer now in New York City, "escaped" to America thanks to Varian Fry, whose exciting book Mr...
...She is married to Loui3 Fischer and has 2 sons in the Army-one of whom, by the way, has served in Russian zones and attended the Yalta Conference...
...I didn't wait until Pearl Harbor to become an active enemy of Japanese militarists—or the German Nazis either...
...MARKOOSHA FISHER writes of Russia with undisputed authority, since she was born there and lived and studied there for many years, coming to the United States in 1939...
...The Campaign is still very much in operation, so if you haven't had a chance to respond yet, let us hear from you soon...
...I don't like Red Fascism either -—whoever patronizes and subsidizes it...
Vol. 9 • July 1945 • No. 30
